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__label__cc	0.531077	0.468923	Elias Munshya, LL.M, MBA, M.DIV. law, theology, politics & culture Canadian Immigration About Elias Munshya Political Theology Cultura and Life Post-Africanism Toxic Roots: Why Zambians of Congolese Origin Hide their Heritage Posted on August 26, 2012 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV 45 comments By E. Munshya wa Munshya To treat a topic of this nature, a definition of terms is in order. Being of Congolese origin or heritage is a complex notion. However, in this article I use it to describe Zambian citizens with sufficient Congolese connections such as culture, tribe, family, and origins. I do not wish to use this term to describe the Luba-Lunda migrations, but to latter migrations of peoples at least after the 1950s. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa Two of Zambia’s neighbours have left an indelible mark on Zambian culture and national identity. These two countries are Malawi and Congo DR. In an earlier article, I had already pointed out the influence that Malawi and her diaspora has had on Zambian political and cultural life. It is time, therefore, for me to turn to the Congo. The Congo DR shares a 2000-kilometer border with Zambia. None of the other eight (or nine) neighbours comes close to this length. Additionally, over half of Zambia’s urban towns are within 200 kilometers of the Congolese border. Zambia shares more tribes with the Congo than any other neighbouring country. The ethnic groups that are found on both sides of the border stretch from Mwinilunga to Mwansabombwe. Among these ethnic groups are the Lunda, Luvale, Kaonde, Lamba, Lala, Ushi, and the Lunda (Kazembe). The Bemba language, spoken in more provinces of Zambia, is the staple language for much of the Congo’s Katanga province. In fact, Katanga’s major city “Lubumbashi wa Ntanshi” is a Bemba term. Historically, many Zambian tribes claim Congolese origin. That is most of them are descended from an ancient Luba-Lunda Kingdom. These tribes are as sparse as the Bemba in Northern Province to some Lozi speaking peoples within Western Province. However, in spite of all these realities, it is quite surprising that not many people in Zambia publicly admit to Congolese heritage, origin or connections. I will begin by taking politicians as an example. Frederick Jacob Titus CHILUBA When President Frederick Chiluba was running for the presidency in 1990, he was asked whether he had any Congolese connections. His answer was to the effect that his only Congolese connection was that of ancient African history, in which his people, the Chishinga migrated from the Luba-Lunda empire to their current location along the river Luapula. By giving this answer, Chiluba refused any modern Congolese connections. He instead used the same ancient argument that his only connections to the Congo belonged to the 1800s. Notwithstanding this position, however, any person who has been to Musangu or to Mwense cannot be surprised at just how close these places are to the Congolese border. And indeed, any serious student of history will discover that Chiluba’s refusal to be connected to the Congo is a serious inconsistency. Chiluba did have the Congolese connection which he refused to admit to. But why did he? This article seeks to provide part of that answer. President Levy Mwanawasa was born of a Lenje father and a Lamba mother (Mama Miriam Mokola). For many Zambians, they may need reminding that the Lamba people exist in both Zambia and the Congo. In fact, the Congo has more Lamba speaking peoples than Zambia. The Lambas occupy much of the Congolese pedicle and they stretch from Lubumbashi down through the pedicle to Sakania. In Zambia, the Lamba are mainly on the Copperbelt. In Amos Malupenga’s biography of President Levy Mwanawasa, he neglects to mention any Congolese connections that Mama Miriam Mokola had. The only Congolese reference that Malupenga alludes to in his book is that the young Levy was flown to Kinshasa for medical attention after a burning accident he suffered as a child. However, throughout his life, Levy Mwanawasa refused any Congolese connections. But I should here provide a few hints that may indicate that Mwanawasa too had clear connections to the Congo, which he refused to admit to. Mwanawasa’s mother lived in the Congo after she got divorced from Levy’s father. And he, as a student at Chiwala, did visit her on the other side of the border. Malupenga mentioned nearly all the places Mama Mokola lived in, except for one place. According to Malupenga, Mama Mokola lived in Ndola, Mufulira, Ndola rural and “another village which now has ceased to exist.” It is a village without a name. Malupenga conveniently, left out the name of this village, either because he was not told about it (it was hidden from him), or knew about it and chose not to mention it for some reason. I submit that this village has disappeared from Malupenga’s book because in reality it is on the other side of the border-it is in the Congo. This village should in all probability be between Mokambo and Sakania across the border. The reason why Malupenga did not mention the Congo is because the Congo is a toxic heritage. Many Zambians of Congolese origin simply refuse to be connected to the Congo. That is they do not want to admit to this heritage publicly. Additionally, the fact that the young Levy was flown to Kinshasa gives the idea that his family should have been connected to the Congo more than we are made to believe. No Zambian, without sufficient connections to Kinshasa would send their child to seek medical attention in Kinshasa in 1960. As such, Levy Mwanawasa did have sufficient Congolese connections. In the 2006 elections, the MMD featured two very interesting candidates. One is Jerry Mukonkela for Chingola and the other is Goodward Mulubwa for Matero. Mukonkela was more forthcoming about his “Congolese” accent. A Lunda with strong Congolese heritage, Mukonkela spent some time defending his “Swahili” accent and refusing any connections to the Congo. Goodward Mulubwa also faced the same situation. A successful businessman, he addressed the Congolese suspicions by refusing any link to the Congo. From his name, you could tell he is Ushi from Luapula Province. The above-mentioned denials typical of politicians are also true for many Zambians from different strata of society. But why do Zambians of Congolese origin or connections refuse Congolese identity. The answer is steeped in history and in the Kaunda Era demonization of everything Congolese. The following paragraphs provide part of the answer. The first reason is with the way imperialists partitioned Africa and the identity they fostered upon Africans. Armed with a stencil and a ruler, junior Belgian and British civil servants drew a map of Africa, and then demarcated it according to their wishes. They divided up families and did not care about how the new borders would impact on a nephew east of the Luapula River. In the modern geo-political states, this demarcation has caused a false sense of citizenship that has frequently led to African tribes perceiving their own tribesmen as foreigners simply because Queen Victoria and her counterpart King Leopold II decided so. This matter requires further exploration latter. The second reason has to do with what happened at independence. Zambia’s independence came at a time that the Congo was at war. Congo DR got her independence from Belgium in 1960. However, just months into her independence the Southern Province of Katanga seceded from the mainland, and declared independence. Katanga Governor Moise Tshombe’s military and political prowess provided a serious conundrum for Northern Rhodesian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda believed that Tshombe had recruited his soldiers from tribes that would constitute a future nation of Zambia. If left unchecked, this would bring instability for a newly independent Zambia. Additionally, Whites in Southern Rhodesia wanted to create a federation of three countries: Southern Rhodesia, Katanga and Barotseland. Kaunda was already dealing with the Barotseland crisis and did not want any further complications. Cleary in such a political set-up there was no way Kaunda was going to be friendly to Tshombe and his Katangese agenda. These political issues would create serious suspicions on Kaunda’s part for everything Katangese or Congolese. He became suspicious of his northern neighbour such that after Zambia’s independence, Kaunda’s government would treat the Congo as enemy number one. The third reason came as a consequence of Kaunda’s policy towards the Congo. He would treat the nation itself as an enemy. Ironically, he never extended this enmity to Malawi. Could it be that he was kinder to Malawi because they were his kith and kin? What should surprise most historians is that while KK was maintaining such animosity towards Congo, his Malawian counterpart was partnering with Apartheid South Africa. In spite of this partnership between Kamuzu Banda and the South African regime, not once did Kaunda treat Kamuzu or Malawi as an enemy. In promoting anti-Congo policies, Kaunda ostracised many Zambians of Congolese origin. Following the enactment of the 1966 National Registration Act, many Zambians of Malawian origin easily acquired green National Registration Cards. However, this was not the case for those Zambians with Congolese heritage. Additionally, Kaunda deployed an active army on the Congolese border. There were more soldiers at Konkola, Mokambo and Chembe than those stationed at Chirundu to fight Ian Smith’s incursions into Zambia. The National Registration Act of 1966 and its implications upon Zambians’ self-identity of citizenship should be the focus of another study. Suffice here to state that the Act itself got so misunderstood that even those who qualified to be citizens of Zambia could not do so because of this misconstruction. Zambians of Congolese heritage were the biggest casualties of this Act. It is therefore interesting to note that the Supreme Court used Chabala Kafupi’s testimony in the Lewanika v Chiluba to clarify the Act. In essence a Congolese born Chabala Kafupi who claimed to be Chiluba’s father qualified for Zambian citizenship not because of acquiring an NRC, but on the basis of his being present in Zambia at independence. It is quite unusual that Mr. Chabala Kafupi of clear Congolese heritage mustered enough strength to state this fact in the Supreme Court. But he is the exception. The fourth reason was that Kaunda enacted an economic embargo against the Congo and consequently against the Lambas, the Ushis, the Lalas and the Lundas and their relatives across the border. Instead of encouraging trade and commerce between the Congo and Zambia, Kaunda banned the export of goods to Lubumbashi. The only, way out for Zambians to profit from lucrative business between Congo and Zambia was by “smuggling through Bilanga.” This was a dangerous way of doing business as many Zambians got killed by Kaunda’s soldiers. It is for economists to calculate how much money Zambia could have made out of trade with Congo. It is only now that government is exploiting the Congo’s business potential. Fifth, Kaunda deployed a severe academic embargo upon Zambians. Children in Zambian schools were taught very little about Congo DR. In fact, some Zambians were shocked to learn in 1986 that some Congolese are Bemba speaking. This was when Zambia played Congo in a football match in which one of the Congo players was named Kasongo Kabwe – a typical Bemba name. It is no doubt that to date very few in Zambia know that Bemba is one of the Congo’s widely spoken local languages. In fact, only two radio stations in Africa broadcast in the Bemba language – ZNBC and Radio Congo. Kaunda’s academic embargo also manifested itself in William Banda’s testimony against Chiluba in the famous Lewanika and others v Chiluba case. Chiluba’s connection to the Congo may have been undeniable, but then Banda went for the overkill in the testimony. Banda told the Supreme Court that he had known Chiluba as a young man who hailed from Congo and spoke the Lingala language. Banda’s testimony was probably both true and false. He might have been right that Chiluba may have had sufficient Congolese connections, but by claiming that Chiluba then spoke Lingala, he fed into a false assumption that all Congolese speak Lingala or that all Congolese are “Kasais”. Indeed if Chiluba had those Congolese connections, they could have been derived from the Bemba speaking region of Katanga near the Luapula River and not anywhere near Kinshasa where Lingala is the staple language. But William Takere Banda is not alone in this misconception of everything Congolese. Here are some facts that might be helpful. The Bemba language is one of the widely spoken languages in Katanga. Bemba speaking peoples, however, have experienced serious problems in terms of political or cultural progression in the Congo. To date Lunda Bululu is the only Bemba speaking person to have ascended to the position of Prime Minister for the Congolese republic. In Katanga itself, Moise Katumbi is the first Bemba to be governor. Before, Katumbi, Bemba-speaking Kunda Kisenga Milundu served as Katanga deputy-governor in a power sharing government after the death of Laurent Kabila. It is now becoming a possibility that Katumbi might as well be the first Bemba-speaking President of the Congo DR. The sixth reason why Zambians of Congolese origins deny their heritage is purely as a result of prejudice and delusions. Some in Zambia characterize all Congolese as “Kasais”. Just how Bemba speaking or Lunda speaking Congolese came to be understood as Kasais in Zambia should deserve another historical analysis. However, it should be sufficient to note here that while in Zambia, some people mistake all Congolese as Kasais, Kasais in Katanga find it difficult to integrate among the Bemba and other Katangese tribes. Indeed, some Katangese people regard the Kasais as enemies and vultures. This idea is definitely repugnant. The anti-Kasai sentiments culminated in the 1990s when Katanga governor Kyungu wa Kumwanza, enacted the “Kubatelemusha” doctrine where the Kasais were ordered deported back to Kananga and Mbuji-Mayi. Many Kasai women and children lost their lives during this ethnic cleansing. Wa Kumwanza has to-date not answered for this crime. Some of the Katanga tribes with strong anti-Kasai sentiments are Bemba speaking. However, while some Bemba-speaking tribes are prejudiced against the Kasais in Katanga, when the same Bemba-speaking Congolese cross the border into Zambia, some Zambians do not differentiate between them and the Kasais. As such, the prejudice against the Kasai has been exported to Zambia, except that in Zambia, every one with sufficient Congolese had been for many years characterised as “Kasai”. It is this anti-Kasai sentiment from Katanga that got fed into Zambia. This characteristically led to Bemba speaking Zambians of Congolese origin to deny any Congolese heritage so that they are not characterized as “Kasai.” Munshya wa Munshya Let me digress here to address the issue of anti-Kasai sentiments in Katanga. Obviously, the Kasai people have strong ethnic patriotism. Even in Katanga they still look to their Kasai regions with nostalgia. Of all the tribes in Congo, the Luba-Kasai are the most travelled both within and outside the Congo. The Ba Yuda du Congo singing group paints the Kasai region as “the blessed land subdued with good rain.” The singing group also casts, in the Luba (Kasai) language, the Luba-Kasai as the “bantu ba bulayo”. Which means a people of promise. The extent to which this patriotism leads to anti-Kasai sentiments in Katanga deserves another analysis. However, it is interesting to note that in spite of the Congo’s instability, no Luba-Kasai has taken to arms to rebel against the government in Kinshasa. As such, the peaceful nature of the Kasai shouldn’t be doubted. Interestingly, of all the Congo’s warlords none is a Kasai. In fact, even when they had the numbers and the infrastructure to lead a successful rebellion in Kinshasa, no Luba-Kasai has ever exploited this channel. In the recent elections, the Kasai Ettiene Tshisekedi lost an unfair election to Joseph Kabila, and yet Tshisekedi never agitated for war or violence against Kabila. The challenge therefore for the Bemba speaking Congolese is to begin changing their attitudes towards their Kasai counterparts. As these attitudes in Katanga change for the better, this will get fed into Zambia as well. The people of Katanga shouldn’t give into the Wa Kumwanza ideology, not now and not ever. Back to Kaunda’s attitudes towards the Congo, by the time he had realised that he was too ruthless against the Congo it was too late. Zambians had lost faith in him. But in spite of the general negative against the Kasai, Zambians loved the music done by one of the Kasai’s most famous sons – Luambo Makiadi (aka Franco). It was in the waning years of his rule that Kaunda invited Luambo Makiadi to come and visit Zambia so that KK can benefit from Franco’s popularity. For his part, Luambo Makiadi did not disappoint. His dancing queens and princes penned a song for Kaunda in Swahili, asking Zambians to vote for KK. Franco sung, “President Kaunda, papa wa oliya” – the father of peace. After Kaunda left the presidency, President Frederick Chiluba succeeded him. Chiluba’s sufficient Congolese connections are obvious as testified to by a Mr. Kafupi (and by Mr. William Takere Banda. Mr. Kafupi claimed to have been Chiluba’s father and his resemblance with Chiluba was unusually striking. With this heritage, one would have expected a change in attitude towards the Congo. But Chiluba, in spite of his clear Congolese connections, refused to normalise relations with the Congo. It was still a toxic heritage. Psychologically then, Chiluba had internalised Kaunda’s aversion for the Congo such that he too started acting like Kaunda. First, Chiluba refused to admit to have ever been to the Congo. Second, he even rejected a Mr. Chabala Kafupi a Zambian of Congolese heritage who claimed to have been his father. Third, in spite of his village being just a few hundred meters from the Luapula River and consequently from the Congolese border, Chiluba refused to have ever seen or grown up in the Congo. Fourthly, Chiluba cleared the few Zambians of Congolese heritage still serving in Kaunda’s government. Chiluba, however, softened latter in his presidency towards the Congo. Moreover, the fact that he openly embraced current Katanga governor Moise Katumbi and granted him both asylum and a Zambian diplomatic passport goes to show that Chiluba was tired of hiding his Congolese heritage. The choice of Mwanawasa could have also played in this redeemed attitude. Chiluba as president had information about the full heritage of candidate Mwanawasa. He chose to go with it because Congolese heritage should not be despised any more. In the age of T.P. Mazembe Football Club and in the days of open business between Lubumbashi and Lusaka, attitudes towards the Congo are changing. Zambians of Congolese origin, who had been living in shadows and fear, have started to openly embrace their heritage. Indeed this is good for Zambia and for the identity of perhaps a million of her citizens. It shouldn’t hurt to be a Zambian of Congolese heritage. It has definitely stopped to hurt for a Zambian citizen to openly embrace those family members separated from her simply because King Leopold and Queen Victoria had so decided. Zambians can do nothing about the past, but for the future they are hurriedly affirming: toxic no more. tagged with Bemba, Congo, Congolese Heritage, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elias Munshya, Franco Luambo Makiadi, Frederick Chiluba, Joseph Kabila, Kenneth Kaunda, Lunda Bululu, Moise Katumbi, Pedicle, Zaire honoliverkapamba January 12, 2020 08:10 This is is what many young lads like me will never learn in School. In my view apart from focusing on the Zambian-Congo DR geo -politics, a lot of African Education History need to be rewritten Vardin And,that’s when am coming across this gotten knowledge from here thank you December 24, 2019 10:54 Mushiya wa mushiya kombe Richard musonda Wow a serious Paradox !!! Miselo February 7, 2019 14:18 Very interesting forZambian and DRC we are brothers, lets handsone August 19, 2018 08:35 First class bullshit! This is total gibberish! Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV Elo lwanya. Oszamwina The article is a combination of truth and fiction – authors imaginations. It is like reading Brown’s Da Vinci Code. Sounds convincing but he fails to mention one village in Congo were you find bemba speaking Congolese. Congolese speak a language called Lunda not Bemba. The Chitimukulu can confirm that fact.. MCharline March 1, 2018 13:33 Hello, is anybody here interested in online job? It’s simple survey filling. Even 10 bucks per survey (ten minutes of work). If you are interested, send me email to hans.orloski[at]gmail.com Kishiba February 25, 2018 09:22 A brilliant analysis about our Congolese connection .Can the author sheds some lights about his own Congolese connection . The way he has narrated things seems to suggest that he has a very strong connection with the DRC congo. Kishiba Diane: Uli wamulomo. Pingback: TOXIC ROOTS: WHY ZAMBIANS OF CONGOLESE ORIGIN HIDE THEIR HERITAGE - acloserlook FirstKirk November 12, 2017 22:43 I have noticed you don’t monetize your blog, don’t waste your traffic, you can earn extra bucks every month because you’ve got hi quality content. If you want to know how to make extra $$$, search for: Boorfe’s tips best adsense alternative nkaka msumba May 26, 2017 04:48 Really interesting article!!!! Mwetwa Mweemba Really good literature Mr Munshya shanao April 8, 2017 00:04 Thank you for this informative article. I come from a family with strong Congolese roots which were never shied away from so it’s good to get more details about it. Informative, educational, interesting. It is would be quite interesting to hear a little more about the Easterners of the Luba-Linda descent. How did they escape the stigma? I missed the Malawian article kindly email it to me please. Chewe Thank you ba Munshya wesu. You should send this well researched article to Lusaka Times Morris Chibamba Thank you wesu for information concerning out roots. Continue to trace our hidden past to embrace one another and ignore the artificial boundaries. Walasa wesu!! Pastor Chibamba. Harrison Musonda November 7, 2016 06:48 Brilliant.. I look forward to contributing on Zambians of Angola Heritage Zambia/Congo LAMBA August 9, 2016 08:18 This is one of the stories our young people need to know.Congolese try to extend their hand of friendship but we shun them. KK could have been abad man for sure. We can change history but let us change the future to embrase our brothers. Musonda one of the most interesting and informative reads. Thanks. K. Mumba October 28, 2015 02:40 Very informative article, especially for young generations who know little or nothing about their origins. I used to enjoy my history lessons and the biggest lesson I got is that history cannot be learned in isolation. We cannot talk about Zambian history at a ceratain time without talking about what happened in neighbouring lands at the taht same time. Events happening in one area will definitely influence other areas as countries are not islands. The same is true when we talk about globalization today. Business slowdown in China is affecting all world economies. Bravo to Mr Munshya for this wonderful article, there is more to learn about ourselves, our country, our continent and the world at large. We cannot shape our future from nothing, it is anchored on the past. lessons learned from this past will liberate our thinking, and our attitudes towards one another. Jules Mulya Brilliant analysis, Bro! Another prominent Bemba speaking Congolese leader was the late Augustin Katumba Mwanke who served as Katanga Governor under Laurent Kabila and later as Joseph Kabila closest adviser. It doesn’t seem to me that the anti-Kasai attitude that characterizes most people in Katanga including those sharing a common heritage with millions on the Zambian side of the border i.e Tabwas, Ushis, Lalas, Lambas, Kaondes, Chokwes, Lundas, Luvales, Ndembos….) has much to do the nature of Zambians’ traditional xenophobic attitude against their compatriots connected to Katanga. I think the causes are a combination of Kasaian chauvinism and Kaunda’s very well orchestrated manipulations, you so rightly identified, which became major obstacles for Zambians of Congolese to asserting themselves as a people and be fulfilled. Their resulting sense of frustration and insecurity have led to those sad documented examples of outright denial and biographical omissions (FT Chiluba and L Mwanawasa)….which could only further complicate things psychologically for victims of this situation.. Just a thought…How do you react when you referred to as Nigerian in US? Do you become defensive? Do you get upset? and why does most Americans think all Black Africans are Nigerians? Nkole September 12, 2015 09:59 Very interesting read indeed. I have one question. The Bemba spoken in DRC uses the “ki” instead of “chi” similar to Lunda and Kaonde. Did the Zambian Bembas adopt the “chi” from the Ngonis or other tribes they integrated with? I was quite surprised the first time I crossed into DRC at Milenge and discovered that there were Lambas across the Luapula river. Zambia has more in common with Katanga than we had been made to believe growing up. victor nyambe mukungu Powerful and well researched article. I just enjoy reading your blogs Elias. Its a pity that as African brothers and sisters,we allowed the imaginary and divisive borders drawn by the colonialists to break blood ties and look at our own as enemies just because they found themselves on the other side of the line during the demarcation. I must confess that I’ve learned more from this article,especially about Kaunda and the damage he caused over the Congo DR-Zambia relations. And its like Kaunda specialized in ‘academic load shading’ to hide certain truths from the people. He did it with the Barotseland agreement 1964,the issue is crookedly concealed from elementary caricullum. May God bless the people of Zambia and the Congo as they detoxify their relations and be at once proud of their roots. Good article indeed lwisha argent faciel July 30, 2015 00:07 Good article. I’m going through many of these issues as well.. Patrick Mfula June 9, 2015 12:46 Very interesting information Wow I love zambian history and I feel a lot has been deliberately left out … I guess its about time we learntthe truth coz im seriously tired of lies Bweleka Kasonso Informative, Educational, Entertaining, Scholarly, Eye opening and definitely well written. 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Mwanawasa was a cousin of Lunda Bululu Vincent de Paul the former prime minister of Zaire and the mother od Mwanawasa used to stay in Sakania at Lunda Bululu father’s house who was his big brother, when Mwanawasa as youngster got burnt, he was taken into Sakania Hospital to be treated and be near his mother-whom he loved very much- who too, was living Sakania., With the help of catholic missionaries as the Father of Lunda BULULU was teaching Catechism at the church mission,Mwanawasa was taken to Leopoldville(Kinshasa) General hospital for further treatments.,alongside with his mother who was recommended to one of her cousin Paul Mulubwa who was working in the public service there! Most of Mwanawasa primary and secondary school holidays were spent in Sakania . Lunda and Mwanawasa used to visit each other a lot. especially when Lunda was working in Libreville-Gabon as Secretary General of a Pan regional organisation of central Africa. prior to be appointed as prime Minister.of Zaire.The relationship went tepid when Mwanawasa started prosecuting Chiluba, act that Lunda Bululu took as Ingratitude and treason. Nevertheless Lunda Bululu with his wife and some members of the Congo family attended Mwanawasa funerals. at Heroes acres they were almost incognito save for few of us who shook hand with them and kept quiet! When Mwanawasa started to exercise his profession of a lawyer mostly in Ndola,notorious Congolese smugglers and most of Congolese of Copper belt province were using him in court cases as words went among Congolese that He was of one of them. All complaints from Congolese(Zairian)clients who could not speak Bemba or English,were handled by himself as he was fluent in swahili of Katanga ,thereafter He will dictate the interview to his secretary in english for court use, Congolese were aware that kaunda was always uneasy within his presence! I took several letters of him to his Congolese family and to my amazement one of his young cousin Longwa was my school play mate at my primary school in Rwashi- ;Lubumbashi! I used him for more than 5 times in lusaka courts for some commercial disputes, on recesses of courts we use to kill time in Ridge ways Hotel and mostly taking about Congo! Lovely now I understand April 10, 2013 15:34 Another top read from you. I wish you could add to this equation 2 other notions and qualify or dismiss theml 1. Congolese as crooked and otherwise untrust worthy. Zambian traders prefer to be paid in Kitwe or at the border because “Ba Kasai” will not pay you if they get to DRC 2. 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__label__cc	0.683193	0.316807	In “led them”, does 'them' include the leader himself? But the others wouldn't let Professor Quirrell keep Harry to himself. It took almost ten minutes to get away from them all. At last, Hagrid managed to make himself heard over the babble. "Must get on -- lots ter buy. Come on, Harry." Doris Crockford shook Harry's hand one last time, and Hagrid led them through the bar and out into a small, walled courtyard, where there was nothing but a trash can and a few weeds. I think 'them' in this context only includes Hagrid and Harry because no others have been mentioned in later context, but I might be wrong. If this is the case, why didn't it put: "led him"(Harry) instead. Or is it idiomatic to include the leader himself in such contexts? word-usage Unless something is explicitly stated, the referent of a pronoun can never be known with certainty (barring asking the composer of a sentence directly). – Jason Bassford Supports Monica Oct 4 '18 at 1:18 Compare led their way, where their can include the one who leads. – Tᴚoɯɐuo Oct 4 '18 at 12:42 When you break it down, it is a bad thing to do and really doesn't make sense. But she likely just quickly chose a word that was close enough and moved on, because when you read it quickly it works. – Jamie Clinton Oct 4 '18 at 17:16 In this case, "them" does refer to both Hagrid and Harry. "Lead" does not necessarily exclude the leader, as it can refer to a general course of action: lead (v): 1.1 [with object and adverbial of direction] Show (someone or something) the way to a destination by going in front of or beside them. For example, in the context of this story it would have been perfectly natural to have written: As they negotiated the dark and twisty turns of Diagon Alley, Harry stepped close to Hagrid and whispered, "Where are you leading us, Hagrid?" (Edit) Note that it would have been fine to write Where are you leading me, Hagrid? but the tone would have been significantly more mysterious, if not outright ominous. The collective "us" or "them" implies that, wherever they are going, they're going there together, but the singular "me" or "him" implies that, when they get to where they are going, Harry will have to face it alone. I do not know the context, but "A led B" does not normally mean that A led himself. So, it may be that Hagrid is leading Harry and one or more others. Alternatively, it may be that the author meant to say something "Hagrid took the lead through the bar and out into ..." The idiom of "take the lead" certainly assumes that the leader was on the trip. Jeff MorrowJeff Morrow but more later context seemingly only involved two persons, Hagrid and Harry. no others had been mentioned at all. – dan Oct 4 '18 at 1:26 As I said, the phrase "take the lead" certainly includes the leader. But, in its literal meaing, one person leads, and one or more others follow. However, as other answers have explained, the leader is certainly on the journey, and that can result in locutions like "where are you leading us," because the leader and followers are going together to the same destination. Nevertheless, if it was merely two people, one leader and one follower, it would certainly be clearer to say "led him." – Jeff Morrow Oct 4 '18 at 1:52 @dan The context doesn't say explicitly when other people might have "stopped" following Hagrid and Harry. When they realized H & H were going out of Diagon Alley, they would be unlikely to follow them any further. Stories often leave the reader to "fill in the gaps" between what is explicitly said, written, or shown visually (in a movie). – alephzero Oct 4 '18 at 9:18 @alephzero Even if other people kept following, Hagrid wasn't necessarily leading the other people (and in this context, definitely not). Btw, H&H were going into Diagon Alley in this scene (they go into the Leaky Tavern through the front, a bunch of people shake Harry's hand, then they go out the back of the Leaky Tavern here...after that they go through the magic portal from the back of the Leaky Tavern into Diagon Alley). – user3067860 Oct 4 '18 at 14:18 I disagree with the other answers here. "Led them" and Harry's questions about "leading us" can only mean "Hagrid was leading Harry and some other people" IMO. As a British English speaker (and a mathematician, so I'm familiar with weird logical ideas!) the notion that a person (i.e. Hagrid) can "lead himself" doesn't make any sense in English. The definition of "lead" in https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/lead is Cause (a person or animal) to go with one ... You can't "cause yourself to go with yourself". In Peter's answer, the idea that someone can make a fire to "keep himself (and other people) warm" is perfectly OK, but that is not analogous to "leading himself." To take a different example, if Harry had asked Hagrid "Why are you talking to us?" the word "us" can only mean that Hagrid was talking to Harry and some other people - not that Hagrid was talking to himself! Common sense would suggest that the crowd of people wanting to see Harry would naturally want to follow, wherever Hagrid was taking him. But the plot of the story is focussed on Harry and Hagrid, and what happens to the crowd of followers isn't important once they stop interacting with Harry - so Rowling just "forgets" about them. Describing what they did later would be "too much information", and only serve to slow the storytelling down. alephzeroalephzero I absolutely agree with what you're saying, but I think that in this case it does only refer to Hagrid and Harry, and is bad English. – Guy G Oct 4 '18 at 9:56 No. 'led him' sounds like Harry didn't know the way. 'Led them' simply means (in this context) that Hagrid went first, with Harry behind. – Strawberry Oct 4 '18 at 10:39 Being 'out of your mind' and 'beside yourself' don't make any sense in a related context but are still in use. Ms Rowling's use is quirky but not unheard of. She has a rather colloquial, writing-like-you-speak style. – mcalex Oct 4 '18 at 20:35 This answer assumes that only the first definition of "lead" is relevant. To my ear, this sentence sounds much closer to definition 3, "be in charge or command of". That is, there was a group consisting of two people (Hagrid and Harry), and Hagrid was acting as the leader of that group. – David Oct 4 '18 at 23:40 People can lead themselves. Why not? Judges "direct" themselves. bing.com/search?q=%22judge+directed+himself%22 – Ben Oct 5 '18 at 17:05 In your example means both Harry and Hagrid, the sentence has an implicit both led them (both) through the bar in the same way The fire he made, kept them (both) warm. which includes the person who made the fire. PeterPeter For me, whether the leader is included or not conveys the amount of authority or relevant knowledge. If a scout master leads his scouts (i.e. others) through the forest, it implies the scouts are clueless and helpless without his leadership. If a someone leads a team of researchers (i.e. is part of the team), it implies that all members are more or less equally competent, but the leader is directing their efforts. MrSparklyMrSparkly As others have pointed out, it's obvious (but only) from the subsequent context (not published above) that 'led' in this instance refers only to Hagrid and Harry, so yes, Hagrid 'led himself'. StrawberryStrawberry Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged word-usage or ask your own question. what is the difference between 'em and them Can I say: “during the visits he paid to them”? What's the right choice? “… the school (pays/provides/affords) them” Similar to them, the same as them, or something else? Is “None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window.” correct? Does “fastener” include “screw”? What does They're rare, them mean? Does “calling” include “trade and industry”? Does the “Future will ”and “Be going to” actually have a difference between them?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1246
__label__cc	0.613981	0.386019	Tag: metal Anchor Lane – Casino R7 Music Review by Paul Monkhouse Very few new bands come into the public eye with a fully formed and unique identity but it seems like Anchor Lane have just managed this very feat on “Casino”, their debut album. With a solid commitment to being road dogs, having supported the stellar likes of Cheap Trick, Tremonti and Eagles of Death Metal, alongside appearances at some very major festivals it’s obvious that these four young guys from Glasgow have the drive and work ethic to be in the big leagues. It also speaks volumes that, having worked with some of the best in the business, Wayward Sons/Little Angels/Gun/Waysted frontman and super producer Toby Jepson chose to make ‘Casino’ his next project and, with his brilliant ear for sonic enhancement and the bands songwriting skills, it’s a perfect match. Kicking off with the fuzzed up, lurching beat of ‘Blood & Irony’ Anchor Lane certainly distance themselves from the million and one other new hard rock outfits out there and this slightly unhinged opener promises something different. Listening to the track is akin to being in the ring with Muhammed Ali at his prime; the jabs come thick and fast with the occasional flooring blow to the solar plexus. They follow this with single ‘Fame Shame’, shifting the emphasis to a snotty glam metal vibe that is a wild eyed and lurid stomp through Sunset Strip, careening though the speakers like an out of control motorbike in a china shop and laughing like crazy whilst doing it. Another twist with the Louisiana swamp blues of ‘Voodoo’, a track as bewitching as its title, the track deftly mixing light touches with a chorus as thick as molasses. The titular ‘Casino’ is a heavy duty rocker that swings, making it impossible not to sway and move to, singer Conor Gaffney putting in a truly gritty and powerful vocal as guitarist Lawrence O’Brien lays down some truly funky licks and the rhythm section of Matthew Quigley and Scott Hanlon lock into a solid groove. The visceral modern blues of ‘Clocks’ once again highlights their great songwriting flair and versatility, marking them out as absorbers of ideas who mould them into something uniquely their own. Very rarely do you get a band this brave to push the envelope on a debut album and, whilst some might want to stick to a rigid formula, it speaks volumes that Anchor Lane show themselves to be true music fans, embracing these multiple influences. A lot of the success of the album is the sky-high production value that Jepson brings and he’s obviously a fan of the bands willingness to take risks, bringing a great guidance and cohesion to the whole. The bands magpie-like ability to pull in great music from everywhere is seldom better illustrated than on ‘Stone Cold Hearted’ as it opens with a Portishead ‘Glory Box’ style intro but soon transforms into a Led Zep meets Bad Company drama-filled monster of a track, soaking in dynamics. ‘Shell of Me’ is a much more laid-back number, showing their softer, more introspective side perfectly and ‘Flatline’ throbs with an electric current, its singalong chorus underpinned by gut wrenching bass and drums and the howling feedback of the guitar. Another frontman joins the fray in the shape of Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick, his voice giving extra weight to the gang vocals in the pounding ‘Dead Run’. The band really rip things up, led by O’Brien’s wild fretwork and this proves to be one of heaviest tracks on the album as it races towards its conclusion. The album closes on another slice of fresh and potent modern rock as ‘Honey’ glories in a jagged interplay between the vocals and guitar, its stop/start chorus certainly leaving an impression. Anchor Lane are certainly forging their own path and, with a debut as good as this, the sky is most certainly the limit. The arena tours beckon… 01. Blood & Irony 02. Fame Shame 03. Voodoo 04. Casino 05. Clocks 06. Stone Cold Hearted 07. Shell Of Me 08. Flatline 09. Dead Run 10. Honey https://www.facebook.com/anchorlaneofficial/ Tweets by AnchorLane https://www.instagram.com/anchorlaneofficial/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3FjgeETYrm0z34eh45RhA Disclaimer: This review is solely the property of Paul Monkhouse and Ever Metal. It is strictly forbidden to copy any part of this review, unless you have the strict permission of both parties. Failure to adhere to this will be treated as plagiarism and will be reported to the relevant authorities. Posted on December 15, 2019 Categories Album ReviewsTags Album Review, Anchor Lane, Casino, Casino ALbum Review, Hard Rock, metal, R7 Music, review, rockLeave a comment on Anchor Lane – Casino Def-Con-One – Warface Scarlet Records Review by Rick Tilley Hi Everyone. One of the previous places I wrote reviews for was US Radio Station Brutiful Metal Radio which closed its doors a while back and their website disappeared along with all the reviews I wrote! I thought it would be great if we could repost the reviews on Ever Metal so that they are not lost completely and, possibly, you can discover some great albums and bands you may have missed the first time around! Do bear in mind that line-ups may have changed and, in some cases, the bands may be no more but the albums created at that time are what is important so delve into the fairly recent path and have a read! This Def-Con-One review first appeared in 2013 2012 was a storming year for great albums, but when I first heard “Warface”, from the UK’s Def-Con-One, it went straight into my top ten releases of that year. If you want brutal groove then this is the band for you and quite simply I see them as a modern day Pantera. Put together by the severely underrated Antton Lant (one time Venom drummer) this is about as much fun as you can have, whilst systematically feeling that you have had your insides kicked out of you by a size 12 boot! Kicking off with an almost tribal drum rhythm, opener ‘Never Look Back’ sets the scene for what is an uncompromising fifty minutes of pure hardcore metal, with so much groove you will not be able to keep still. Apart from the staggering and heavy-as-shit drum patterns, from Antton, which pepper the album like a bad rash, Vocalist Davey Meikle is a real find. He screams and sings in equal measure with an evil ferocity that defies belief. Guitarist Johnny Hunter and Bassist Steve Miller cannot be overlooked. This is a real band, and one that requires all four members to collectively strip the skin from your face. March Of The Dead’, ‘Blood’, ’10 Bullets’, ‘In Death’ and the title track, the list is endless of tracks that deliver a hammer blow to your groin and with ‘Feeling Cold’ Def-Con-One have delivered one of the most hauntingly brilliant acoustic tracks I have heard for years. There is just not one dud on this album. Fantastically well produced by the band themselves, there really is no reason for you not to check these guys out. Having finally witnessed them live at Hammerfest V, where they literally blew the roof off of the venue, you might have guessed correctly that I rather like this band and predict huge things for them. With album number two in the pipeline and plenty of upcoming gigs throughout the year Def-Con-One could not be a better name for this awesome band from Newcastle and I defy you not to like them. 01. Never Look Back 02. March Of The Dead 03. Warface 05. Blood 06. Steeped In Pain 07. 10 Bullets 08. Feeling Cold 09. My Halo 10. Hit List 11. In Death 12. Give Me Strength https://www.facebook.com/defcononehq/ https://www.instagram.com/def.con.one.official/ https://www.youtube.com/user/skuzzy/featured Disclaimer: This review is solely the property of Richard Tilley and Ever Metal. It is strictly forbidden to copy any part of this review, unless you have the strict permission of both parties. Failure to adhere to this will be treated as plagiarism and will be reported to the relevant authorities. Posted on December 4, 2019 Categories Reviews Re-MasteredTags Album Review, Def-Con-One, Hardcore Metal, metal, review, Scarlet Records, UK Metal, Warface, Warface ReviewLeave a comment on Def-Con-One – Warface EMQ’s with LOLA BLACK Hi Everyone. Welcome to our new EMQ’s interview with Denver, Colorado based Hard Rock/Metal/Punk band Lola Black. Huge thanks to Lola for taking part! My name is Lola from Lola Black. (VOCALS)! It’s what I go by and also the band name. It was decided by Chris, Paige and myself (founding members). Due to the shifty nature of musicians it’s something that will stand the test of time just as long as I’m ticking the band is and music is something I will always be a part of. What country are you from and what is the Metal/Rock scene like there? America; Denver, Colorado to be exact! Where the word “scene” is apparently frowned upon but if it weren’t I would have to say the “scene” is most excellent. Our latest release was on November 1st, 2019 and is our spin on Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting (Vampire Song)” just in the key of Lola Black. The cover was a follow up from our full length album “Nothing’s Gonna Be Alright” which was released late fall of 2018. This question has always been a hard one for me because music in general influences me. I can find gems inside everything I hear. I have always been drawn to music. It is the focal point of all of my memories. I remember at a very young age listening to every word and every note of everything that played around me. It honestly doesn’t matter what type of music is on, my ears are just in tune to it and that’s always the first thing I pick up on. Since I’ve always said Chino Moreno in the past I’ll stick with him because I honestly dig all of his work. Probably The Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK because the Reading Festival is iconic! The talent on the line-ups over the years is insane! It would be an honour! It takes a lot for me to consider something weird. So, nothing out of “my” ordinary…! In the wise words of Bill and Ted “Be excellent to each other”! If you could bring one Metal/Rock star back from the dead, who would it be? I don’t know. I’ll just go to them. Love, Playing Music! Hate, social media! Don’t get me started. I can never decide or narrow it down. All-time favourite is a strong title to hold and I love too many. Plus it also depends on if I genuinely love all tracks on said album or just a few. I can’t commit. Sorry. I like it all. Anyway I can get the music to my ear holes will do. We did a string of festivals called the World’s Loudest Month some years ago and that entire experience was by far the best. We played with almost every band we love and respect at one stop or another that summer! I always wanted to be a homicide detective. I am a detective and justice seeker at heart and Joe Kenda is my hero. Dave Chappelle, Al Jourgensen, Rob Zombie, David Hasselhoff and Joan Jett! World domination! Download now- https://ffm.to/bloodlettingthevampiresong Social media links- www.lolablackmusic.com www.youtube.com/Lolablackmusic www.facebook.com/Lolablackmusic www.instagram.com/Lolablackmusic www.twitter.com/Lolablackmusic Jaffa Cakes! Are they a cake or a biscuit? I have no clue what that is but cake and biscuits are delicious. Nope. You are awesome and thank you for your time. Posted on November 21, 2019 Categories EMQ'sTags EMQ's, EMQ's with Lola Black, Interview, Lola Black, metal, Punk, US RockLeave a comment on EMQ’s with LOLA BLACK EMQ’s with DREAMS IN PERIL PART 2 Back in May we did an EMQ’s interview with Kansas City based Metal/Hardcore band Dreams In Peril but a few things have changed so they kindly completed a new one. Huge thanks to bassist Dalton Collins for taking part! My name is Dalton Collins and I play bass for Dreams In Peril. Dreams In Peril officially became a band In 2018 and we have had a bit of a ride since then. We have played alongside a lot of national bands including, but not limited to, Between The Buried And Me, Veil Of Maya, Born Of Osiris, The Acacia Strain, Upon A Burning Body, Volumes, ERRA, The Agony Scene, The Browning, Betraying The Martyrs and Many more! We won Headband for the Highway shortly after officially becoming a band and went on to play a show on the Summer Slaughter Tour, We have one album out entitled “Mephobia” and have released a Music Video for our Single ‘Neckties And Nostalgia’ in early 2019. We then went on to sign with Metal Coffee PR and our Management, Extreme Management Group, joining a roster of bands such as Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation, and Misery Index. Our band name is honestly how we were feeling before creating this band. We are all from different bands in the Kansas City Music Scene and we have all felt as if every band we have been in has failed and as if our Dreams were in peril individually. It seemed fitting to name this band just that, in an effort to mock our past musical failures. We are from the United States of America in Kansas City. The music Scene here has its ups and downs. There are times it is really strong and united and other times it’s as if bands are dropping like flies. Though, we are all very tight knit. We all know one another and have all played alongside each other many times in different bands. The fans here are hit and miss as well. Although the scene seems to be more active in the spring and summer time, it’s too cold here in the winter for people to want to get out to a show. Our latest release is our music video for our single ‘Neckties And Nostalgia’ off of our debut album “Mephobia” This Music Video also introduces our new Vocalist Mike Yeager. Individually it is very diverse and different. Though Collectively, to name a few… Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, The Acacia Strain, The Banner, Veil Of Maya, Oceano, Bury Your Dead, The Deftones. For me specifically, I remember taking a CD from my sister. The CD was a compilation called “The Hard And The Heavy” with bands such as Static X and Coal Chamber. I think I speak for all of us when I say ‘The Deftones’. Probably Download Festival. From seeing it in videos and watching over YouTube. IT’S HUGE! I think it would be an amazing experience being able to play such a huge Festival. Naked photos! Lol! Believe in yourself! Never let your failures and struggles stop you from succeeding. Dimebag from Pantera! I enjoy the atmosphere, being able to create something that people can relate to and enjoy! Music helps people in their day to day lives. It is truly an honour to see people enjoy what I have created. I hate how hard it is for bands to get recognition and to become successful. Bands have a hard time making any money and struggle with paying their own bills, let alone the expenses that a band requires to succeed. To go off of my last answer from the previous question! I would change it in a way that musicians profit more and are better funded without the blowbacks of having to pay things back. Bands need more financial backing! We need it! We are constantly struggling to make ends meet. Such a hard question to answer! I would say “Around The Fur” by the Deftones or even “The Dead Walk” by The Acacia Strain. In my opinion I like CD’s You get the full album art, the tracks, and you don’t have to rewind it like cassettes and it isn’t as big as Vinyl. The best Gig? That is hard to answer because we have had quite a few really good shows. One of our best shows was a house show. No kidding! The place was packed and the entire crowd went crazy… Then we had our first show with the Acacia Strain which was an amazing show… as well as our second showcase for summer slaughter when we had a packed crowd and what was so awesome is the crowd were singing the words to our songs right along with us. The show was a double show where there was an outdoor gig going on and an indoor show as well. The punk band the Cro-Mags were playing inside and as we got off the stage outside we were told that they loved our set and gave us tremendous complements. Probably art! I was an Art Student in high school. I Just like being creative! Samuel L. Jackson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Lewis Black, Louis C.K., Angelina Jolie! LOL I don’t know! We are currently about to take some down time to write the second album which will be called “The Garden Of Bones”. We are currently half way done writing it and after that we plan to do some more Dates in the US as well as hopefully booking something out of country. https://dreamsinperil.hearyoumusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/DreamsInPeril/ https://twitter.com/DreamsInPeril https://www.instagram.com/dreamsinperil/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/7osPUxIGcZ0DnoBIcn5Kuu https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYlEn-y95t8lnZ-h7SzXtoA https://music.apple.com/us/album/mephobia/1452481863 https://www.amazon.com/Mephobia-Dreams-Peril/dp/B07NLC5YXN https://www.deezer.com/us/album/87191182 https://us.napster.com/artist/dreams-in-peril/album/mephobia https://listen.tidal.com/album/103944259 https://www.reverbnation.com/dreamsinperil To be honest with you, I don’t know what a Jaffa Cake is! Haha! We have accomplished a lot within our two years of being a band, We are still on the rise and we look forward to playing in a town of city near you! Posted on November 19, 2019 Categories EMQ'sTags Dreams In Peril, EMQ's, EMQ's with Dreams In Peril, hardcore, Interview, metal, US MetalLeave a comment on EMQ’s with DREAMS IN PERIL PART 2 Wizard Rifle – Wizard Rifle Review by Alun Jones Right, about time I got back to business with these album reviews for my pals at Ever Metal. But how do you define the indefinable? ‘Cos that’s basically the issue I’ve had with this review (not writer’s block, honest)! Comparing Wizard Rifle to other bands in myopic, lazy journo style just doesn’t seem to cut it with these guys. There’s too much going on with Wizard Rifle’s self-titled album to accurately pin down a clumsy similarity to someone else. It’s a mixture of loud, obnoxious metal, post rock, screamy hardcore punk and grungy sludge; with waves of psychedelic beauty tying it together. Despite the unholy wall of noise that the band produce there are just two of them – guitarist/vocalist Max Dameron and drummer/vocalist Sam Ford. That’s a hell of a racket for just two people. They’re not short of ideas either, as the genre blending demonstrates. Maybe that’s an advantage of just two minds, rather than several – Dameron and Ford display some ingenious telepathy weaving their creations together. Loads of energy too – ‘Rocket To Hell’ (great title) is a glorious, shouty opener, and ‘Caveman Waltz’ is a possible contender for Riff of the Year. It chugs like a drug fuelled locomotive trying to jump the Grand Canyon. There are only five songs on this record, but as none of them are under seven minutes in length, there’s plenty of value for money. The guys have learnt to expand a song and explore its possibilities in a way that keeps the ear engaged. Like on the 12 minute epic ‘Funeral Of The Sun’, which stretches out hypnotically but loses none of its heavy intensity. Wizard Rifle are from the Portland, Oregon area – which as it’s the Pacific North West, must surely be Big Foot country. So, I’m gonna coin a lazy journo phrase and label this sound Big Foot Rock. Remember, you read it here first. And yes, when this band are huge and Big Foot Rock takes over Western Civilization, I’ll be claiming the royalties for inventing that label. Big Foot Rock T-shirt, sir? That’ll be £19.99. “Now That’s What I Call Bigfoot Rock, Vol 1” vinyl compilation? Just £27.99! Can I change a fifty? Oh, keep the change? Thank you very much! 01. Rocket To Hell 02. Caveman Waltz 03. Beneath The Spider 04. Funeral Of The Sun 05. V https://www.facebook.com/wizardrifle/ https://www.instagram.com/wizardrifle/ https://wizardrifle.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fbN5GpluBevEzrhObR97w Posted on November 17, 2019 Categories Album ReviewsTags grunge, hardcore, metal, Post Rock, Self Titled, Svart Records, Wizard RifleLeave a comment on Wizard Rifle – Wizard Rifle King Satan – I Want You To Worship Satan Inverse Records Welcome to the Netherworld, you obsidian questing souls of black. If you wish to follow the Left Hand Path, I am Dark Juan and I will be your guide as you descend the circles of hell to find your own special brand of damnation. Or I will in a short while as I am currently fighting off food induced lassitude and am lounging upon my Satanic sofa after consuming my own body weight in provender earlier this evening. “Bewildered and weak, yet with colossal chippy tea replete, I won’t be hungering for anything apart from copious quantities of fucking slamming industrial metal from Finland. And perhaps a very cheeky IPA that caught my eye in Shamansbury’s! Citrusy, bitter and fruity! Just how I like the keyboard players in fucking slamming Finnish industrial metal bands!” Well, that Cradle Of Filth quote went totally wrong, even if it was indeed factually accurate. Sorry, Dani. Tonight, for a change, boys and girls, we are going to just plunge into a record review instead of you all having to wade through pages of entirely 100% true stories of what occurs in my life. Never have I lied to you, my flock. Never… King Satan are from Tampere, Finland, which explains the fact that they are quite stupendously more bonkers than Evil Scarecrow, Nazi shitbiscuit, Varg Vikernes and an entire cheerleading squad off their tits on magic mushrooms dancing to Boney M songs on a mirrored revolving dancefloor. In space. Oh shit. I hate my imagination sometimes. Now the song has changed to Baccarat’s “Yes, Sir, I Can Boogie” and they are all wearing roller-skates. Fucking hell! FOCUS, DARK JUAN! Yes. King Satan. A band that sounds like nothing I have ever heard. Like Cubanate without the grimness and the iron greyness! Like Combichrist with sexy, molten dollops of metal guitar slathered all over Andy LaPlegua’s vigorous torso. Like Rob Zombie’s technicolour horror universe if he had discovered techno at a formative age. Like aggrotech, metal and hellektro met and had a frenzied, bloody three-way in a filthy Venetian back alley after meeting when wasted on PCP. All underpinned perfectly with the gut-wrenching roar of King Aleister Satan. This is violent shit, man. You’re losing limbs in a King Satan moshpit. We all know I am partial to a bit of industrial music now and again, and you’re probably all quite sick of me spouting on about aggrotech on a heavy metal website, but this is a bit fucking special. There’s everything in here. It’s schizophrenic musical promiscuity in its purest form! There’s utterly murderous industrial metal a la “Houses Of The Mole” era Ministry overlaid with the strident sonic warfare of Christ Analogue, then there’s waves of synth fuelled fury over 1980’s New Jack hip hop beats. This transcends mere metal, and welds it into a wholly different musical form. THIS is what terror EBM and metal have been threatening to do for years and their love child is frankly terrifying. Opening song ‘The Killing Of God’ sets the tone for the album in stunning style, with Ultraviolence style gabber keyboards over serrated, precise riffing – kind of like a slower, less intense, more musically minded Berzerker song. The throat ripping vocal style fits the violence in the music perfectly. The only other band I have heard in the industrial genre who is as musically diverse is one man French horror show Obszon Geschopf, and even they are not close to the level of savagery King Satan display. The amusingly (and accurately) titled second song is ‘Fuck Yoga’. Quite! Anyway, it kicks off with full on techno keys and beats before settling into an almost Rammstein sort of groove. But faster! The guitar work (and how it dovetails with the keyboards) on the whole record actually reminds me a lot of the work of Neue Deutsche Harte bands like Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Stahlmann and Megaherz. You know, the endless pursuit of perfection in the riff and the metronomic precision of the palm muting… Synth player Katherine Boss also shares vocal duties, and her demented cutesy little girl meets Mike Patton at his most insane when he was in Mr. Bungle voice adds another level of madness to an already clearly psychologically fucked up band. Peak “Oh shit, they are madder than a box full of tiny pissed Ozzy Osbourne’s next to an historic monument” moment hits three songs in on ‘Psychosadomasochism’ which can charitably be described as deranged. And that’s being nice to them because they are approaching the levels of insanity Dark Juan normally operates at. If you want a picture of what the inside of my head looks like, listen to this song and then run away. Save yourself… Oh, hang on. I thought they had finally purged the madness. This was not the case. They’ve gone completely off piste again. Just when sanity had temporarily restored itself with a most satisfying slab of industrial grind, they are back again with church organ overlaid with techno beats, one of the most incongruous guitar solos I have ever heard and yet more girlish babbling on ‘Fuck The World’. ‘The Antichristification’ is pure hardcore techno with fucking killer guitar – exactly how I imagine Cubanate picturing their acidic music when they were developing their sound. I fucking love this record. I’m on my third spin through the album already and I’m not losing interest. It’s vaudevillian, carnival music for demon hellspawn… It’s perfect music to flagellate your dogboy to. It’s filthy, dirty, musically slutty, coruscating, shockingly heavy and dense music. It is BDSM in musical form. It’s black latex covered in blood and sweat, unguents and lubricants. It is whip welts on alabaster flesh, livid scars over intricate tattoos of inverted pentagrams, a Chelsea smile on a beautiful girl’s face. It’s savage, violent, unpredictable and utterly impossible to resist. I can’t see how King Satan will ever top this. It’s absolutely fucking insane. If you are musically adventurous, you’ll love this. If you are like me and have a foot in both the camps of metal and EBM, you’ll fucking love this. If you appreciate demented humour, you’ll like this. If you’re a purist, you might not, but I beg all of my acolytes reading this nonsense, give this record a chance. If you listen to nothing else on my recommendation ever again, listen to King Satan. I truly do think they are that good. Holy fuck. Just… holy fuck. The Patented Dark Juan Blood Splat Rating System (Patentoitu Dark Juan Blood Splat-luokitusjarjestelma – there’s umlauts in there somewhere) is currently sitting silent in a darkened room wondering whether he should quit his Satanic ministry and just join King Satan instead, and awards 10/10 for the industrial record I always dreamed of. 01. The Killing Of God 02. Fuck Yoga 03. Psychosadomasochism 04. I Want You To Worship Satan 05. All Magick Is Chaos Magick 06. Fuck The World 07. The Antichristification (Is that even a real fucking word?) 08. Circus Of The Mind 09. Transgression 10. Raison D’Etre 11. The Portrait Of Darkness LINE-UP : King Satan are: fucking mental! King Aleister Satan – Vocals and programming Katherine Boss – Synths and vocals Jerry Rock ‘N’ Roll – Bass Pete Hellraiser – Drums Frater E.F. – Live guitars http://www.kingsatan.net/ https://www.facebook.com/kingsatan616/ https://www.instagram.com/kingsatanofficial/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_nV0hfri-8wi7wzmxWO3Q Posted on November 11, 2019 Categories Album ReviewsTags Album Review, I Want You To Worship Satan, I Want You To Worship Satan ALbum Review, Inverse Records, King Satan, metal, reviewLeave a comment on King Satan – I Want You To Worship Satan EMQ’s with ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN Hi Everyone. Welcome to our new EMQ’s interview with Alberta, Canada based Metal band Arrival Of Autumn! Huge thanks to vocalist Jamison Friesen for taking part! My name is Jamison Friesen, I’m the vocalist in Arrival Of Autumn. The band was formed in 2011 by Brendan (guitar), Ty (drums) and myself. We released an EP in 2012, an album in 2014. We eventually recruited our current bass player Kevin, and second guitar player Ryan. We got signed and released our new album on Nuclear Blast Records, it’s called “Harbinger” and it’s available now! Our drummer Ty brought the idea to us, it’s inspired by an Opeth song and we thought it was fitting. We’re from Canada, in the province of Alberta. We have a fantastic metal scene out here and lots of great bands. There are hardworking promoters in every city and a lot of talented bands. Our new album “Harbinger” was released earlier this year, on the same day we released a music video for the track ‘Better Off Without’ which can be found on Nuclear Blasts YouTube page. (Link Below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZWH6YM1oc Metallica is my number one, other major influences for me in my younger years were Demon Hunter, Linkin Park, & Bullet For My Valentine. As far back as I can remember I’ve enjoyed many genres of music. I was taken to my first live show at a young age and loved it. It would be James Hetfield, no doubt. Download Festival at Donington. There’s been so many legendary sets played there. Chicken & Waffles flavoured cereal, it was amazing. Create your own meaning in life, find something you enjoy and live for it. Cliff Burton. Being able to yell at people and call it art is pretty great! There’s a lot of self-doubt when dealing with song writing, it can be tough to stay positive when dealing with writers block. Let’s get back to real musicians making money. The Flaming Lips – “The Soft Bulletin”. I love being able to download an album as soon as it’s available, but I also enjoy buying vinyl copies of my favourite albums. We had a great set in San Diego recently, the energy was insane and we smashed it. Gaming a lot more. You wouldn’t know them, but they’re good people. We’re embarking on a 7 week tour of the USA & Canada with In Flames & Red this winter! We’re on all platforms as /arrivalofautumn or @arrivalofautumn. Listen to our music on Spotify, Apple, etc. http://www.arrivalofautumn.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ArrivalOfAutumn/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OLm78czd7Y80yrzwAb7FK Cakescuit for sure! Thanks for having me and thanks to all the readers checking this out! Make sure to listen to our new album “Harbinger” and catch us on tour in your city very soon! Posted on November 7, 2019 Categories EMQ'sTags Arrival of Autumn, Canadian Metal, EMQ's, EMQ's with Arrival of Autumn, Interview, metal, Tag PublicityLeave a comment on EMQ’s with ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN Cry For Mercy – Overload EP Review by Beth Jones Cry For Mercy first popped onto our radar as one of this year’s competing bands at the North Wales M2TM competition, and instantly had our eyes opened wider and glued to their performance! Sadly, they only reached the semis in this competition, but this was nothing to do with their talent – more to do with their fit in the preferred genre – i.e. they just aren’t metal. What they are is absolutely top-quality rock and blues. We were so glad when they announced that they would be releasing an EP and were even more glad that they sent it to us to have a listen to! So, to the EP!! Yes, yes, yes and more yes! It is top quality, good old fashioned RRrrockkk! Groovy as hell, with a good smattering of southern blues to boot. These three chaps know exactly what they want to sound like and capture it perfectly in four tracks, which are beautifully mixed and produced, and completely echo their polished and professional stage performance. The title track, ‘Overload’, starts things off. It is a good, fast paced classic rock toe tapper. It is simple and straightforward and doesn’t outstay its welcome. It reminds me in places of ZZ top and totally would not be out of place on one of those ‘Driving Songs’ compilation albums that I seem to have so many of! I could certainly see myself pumping it out in a big American convertible whilst heading off into the sunset on Route 66! (Yes, I am a queen of clichés, so what! Shoot me!). Next up is ‘Under Dark Skies’, bringing the pace down a little to full on groove level! It makes you pull that face that to you says ‘groove’, but to anyone looking in and not knowing what you are listening to says ‘gurning weirdo’! (Come on, you’ve all done that face at some point, and if you haven’t, you will when you listen to this EP!) In all seriousness, it is a superb track and shows off Bassist and Lead Vocalist Kev Plant’s superb voice and enviable range. Track three, ‘We Won’t Go Down’, is again a good solid anthem, with a particularly catchy chorus which will be stuck in my head for some time! This track also shows off the drumming skills of Steven Taylor, who gets to do a few more fills and hit cymbals lots! Again it doesn’t outstay its welcome and could be the soundtrack to a myriad of ‘deep south’ style cult films, when the good guys decide to smash the bad guys once and for all (‘From Dusk till Dawn’ was the first thing that popped into my head, but it would work for so many!) The final track, ‘I Don’t Know’, is probably the heaviest track on the album, but again is classic rock – starting with some solid and catchy guitar riffage from Andy Cutty, who also adds backing vocals to this track, and indeed the rest of the EP, creating some great harmonies and adding extra depth to the vocals, which makes it even better. I am really impressed with these guys and their first release – yes, its not metal, and yes there are little tweaks that could be made here and there, but that does not detract from the strength of this as their maiden voyage into the world of recorded material! I had a brief conversation with Powerzone’s Dani Maguire about it and he summed it up perfectly: “You know what I like about Cry For Mercy? They sound familiar. Like I’ve known them for decades. I mean, the sort of band you can slam on when you get in from a hard day at work, chug a cold one and just enjoy for what it is. Hard rocking, hardworking, skilful and comfortable with what they do, which puts me at ease as a listener. Nothing pretentious yet totally fresh.” I 100% echo Dani’s words and thoroughly recommend that you look these guys up and give this EP a spin. My most major criticism is that it is too short – I want more guys! Get back in that studio!! 01. Overload 02. Under Dark Skies 03. We Won’t Go Down 04. I Don’t Know https://www.cryformercy.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/cryformercyofficial/ Tweets by CryForMercy3 https://www.instagram.com/cryformercyofficial/ Disclaimer: This review is solely the property of Beth Jones and Ever Metal. It is strictly forbidden to copy any part of this review, unless you have the strict permission of both parties. Failure to adhere to this will be treated as plagiarism and will be reported to the relevant authorities. Posted on October 28, 2019 Categories Album ReviewsTags blues, Cry For Mercy, EP Review, metal, Overload EP, Overload EP Review, rock, Self Release, Self ReleasedLeave a comment on Cry For Mercy – Overload EP Dogbane – Idylls Of Woe Heaven and Hell Records Reviewed by Tammy Lomax Dogbane are a Metal/Rock/Doom band from North Carolina. Over a few jars they decided to form in 2010 and their first album “Residual Alcatraz” was released in 2011. The inspiration that drives them was their 70’s and 80’s upbringing, the time where it all began for metal music. They may not use any special tweaks to manipulate their sound, but that’s the whole point. It’s raw and it’s original. They have also suffered heartache, when their guitarist David Ellenburg tragically passed away after having a stroke back in 2012. During this time, Dogbane managed to release an official music video for ‘Ride The Serpent’ and then a year later, in 2013; Jeff Rinehart honourably took David’s place as lead guitarist. They then went on and played Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago with headliner Riot V in April 2014. Furthermore, they had the opportunity to appear on the Versailles Records release “Rock & Roll All Nite: A Tribute To Kiss”. Heaven and Hell Records then released “When Karma Comes Calling” which opened many doors of opportunity for Dogbane. In September 2016 they appeared at Thou Shall Rock, a 2-day festival supporting headliners Demon Eye and Salvación. Now we have their third full-length album “Idylls Of Woe” ‘The One I Was Warned Of’ opens “Idylls Of Woe” and takes me back to when I used to have a beer in a biker’s club years ago. It’s upbeat for sure. Jeff Neal’s vocals remind me a little of the late David Bowie. It is a great opener, although there are a few weak beats in the background! Next track ‘Devil’s Tramping Ground’ kicks in with some more force. I am fond of Dogbane’s doom edge mostly; they manage to slip in some guitar pig snorts and it tickles my fancy. The vocals are catchy, and the guitar solos work ok. Third track ‘Blood In The Snow’ has a great intro! It really made me giggle. There are some great tempos, guitar solos and drumming throughout this track. You feel like you are on a hunt. It’s simple but very effective. ‘Riddle Of Steel’ is next and YES!! More bass please! I salivate if a track opens with bass, my ears royally prick up and you get my attention straight away. Just like a meerkat! This track feels really doomy, like heavy and rusty old doom. I picture myself head banging to the rhythm of the beat and that sound is genuinely really cool. The odd switch throughout this track is well done and I like the dynamics. “Land Of Shadows” is definitely a slower version of early Metallica all the way. The guitar riffs and block beats of the drums are quite similar to Hetfield and co. It’s really good. I do feel the vocal fader doesn’t really work in this track, purely because it feels misfired and out of place with the real earthy chunky sound but then you are hit with that real doom vibe again, it’s so good, you forget about the fader. Next up is ‘Now You Know’. It begins in a very similar fashion to ‘Land Of Shadows’, it slips in those cheeky pig snorts again and then, bang, the guitar solo comes in. I like this track’s stability as it is much more steady and easy to follow. ‘Winter Of Man’s Demise’ is also a good track. There’s no mucking around with this track. It’s pretty cool. It has a real doom laden start, which these guys have got spot on. It’s probably my favourite part to their whole sound. The track is slow and steady, the vocals are spot on and it glues together well. It’s really basic but you flow with their pace. The strumming on the guitars is really strong and when the beat picks up it is great. It has an ‘80’s best dad guitar solos of all time’ vibe! ‘Sin Eater’ is a straight up classic Rock/Metal song and a good ending to “Idylls Of Woe”; although I am personally a little gutted they didn’t add more doom into this track though. In general, Dogbanes sound is good although, throughout the album, there are times when I feel they are trying to cram too much in at one time which gives the impression of it being a touch sloppy. Maybe some spacing out could have helped a little. This is not altogether my style of music but do you know what? Sod my opinionated ears! These guys have gone through a crazy journey and obviously enjoy what they are doing. They are keeping the original, core root, of metal alive and I wish Dogbane the best of luck in their future endeavours! 01. The One I Was Warned Of 02. Devils Tramping Ground 03. Blood In The Snow 04. Riddle Of Steel 05. Land Of Shadows 06. Now You Know 07. Winter Of Man’s Demise 08. Sin Eater https://www.facebook.com/Dogbane/ Tweets by dogbaneband https://dogbane1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZ0qg2G2rJYDKfHQnQ-mVQ Disclaimer: This review is solely the property of Tammy Lomax and Ever Metal. It is strictly forbidden to copy any part of this review, unless you have the strict permission of both parties. Failure to adhere to this will be treated as plagiarism and will be reported to the relevant authorities. Posted on October 1, 2019 October 1, 2019 Categories Album ReviewsTags Album Review, Dogbane, Dogbane Idylls Of Woe, doom, Heaven and Hell Records, Idylls of Woe Album Review, metal, rock, US MetalLeave a comment on Dogbane – Idylls Of Woe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1249
__label__wiki	0.680153	0.680153	DNA test predicts everything from longevity to whether you’ll get heart disease or cancer 6 months ago / 86 Views The good news is that I am seven years younger than my birth certificate claims. The other news — possibly less cheering, now that free TV licences for the over-75s are to be scrapped — is I’m likely to become a ‘super centenarian’, living to 110 or more. Welcome to epigenetic analysis, the latest spin on DNA science, which goes beyond revealing the genes you were born with to looking at how your lifestyle affects them. It can also predict your health prospects, giving you the chance to improve them. DNA — or deoxyribonucleic acid — is our chemical ‘blueprint’, and tests can already detect whether a person carries inherited genetic mutations that cause specific conditions. For example, certain mutations of three genes, BRCA1, BRCA2 and TP53, can increase a woman’s chance of breast or ovarian cancer and a man’s of prostate cancer. But environmental and lifestyle factors — such as pollution, smoking, sleeping, drinking and eating — leave telltale chemical marks, or ‘biomarkers’, on DNA that also affect how the cells act. ‘Fighting fit on the inside’: Jonathan basks in the good news This process, called methylation, can interfere with the instructions issued by DNA to cells, potentially triggering illnesses and fatal diseases. Until now, the science of epigenetics has been confined to research labs, but I was one of just a handful of people in the world to have a consumer version of an epigenetic DNA test. The test, including consultation with lifestyle experts, costs 12 monthly payments of £19.99 plus a one-off charge for the testing kit of £179 — a total of £418.88. The test was developed by Chronomics — founded by three Cambridge University PhD students — which claims to be the first company in the world to offer it to consumers. Age is not yet a pressing personal issue for the three scientists themselves: Tom Stubbs, whose field is epigenetics, is only 28, as is the company’s chief scientific officer, Daniel Herranz, who worked on software that helps researchers analyse biological data, while chief business development officer Toby Call, a biochemist, has just turned 30. The test they’ve devised involves simply spitting into a plastic vial, posting it in the pre-paid envelope and waiting for your password-protected results to pop up on the company’s site. But analysis of what’s happening at 20 million sites on your DNA is a painstaking process that can take up to eight weeks. Chronomics boils down the findings to three easy-to-grasp categories: your levels of smoke exposure, your metabolic status (how efficient your body’s vital chemical processes are, from digesting food to getting rid of waste) and your biological age. A lifetime non-smoker, my exposure to tobacco smoke measured at just 2 per cent. This is at the lower end of a typical range for non-smokers of 0 to ten and was rated ‘good’ — the best of three options including ‘normal’ and ‘needs improvement’. Smoking is a risk factor for stroke, heart disease and lung cancer and a typical smoker’s exposure is between 64 and 78 per cent. Next up was my metabolic status, assessed from 4,327 sites in my DNA and also rated ‘good’. According to Chronomics, I am ‘fighting fit on the inside’. Born in October 1955, I was due to celebrate my 64th birthday later this year — but not any more. According to Chronomics, inside I’m not a day over 56 But the result with bragging rights was my biological age. Born in October 1955, I was due to celebrate my 64th birthday later this year — but not any more. According to Chronomics, inside I’m not a day over 56. Please don’t tell the Department for Work and Pensions. But how dependable are such predictions? The potential for using epigenetics to predict lifespan and health prospects has been demonstrated by a number of studies, including one published in the journal Aging in 2016 involving more than 13,000 people. It concluded that measures of epigenetic age ‘were predictive of mortality, independent of chronological age’. Other studies have demonstrated that epigenetic biomarkers can predict diseases — and, as research continues, the list of specific lifestyle diseases that can be predicted by epigenetics is growing, and includes osteoarthritis, heart disease and cancer. Now, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have devised a method for analysing DNA biomarkers to predict how long you’ll live, when you’ll develop coronary heart disease or cancer, and even the age you’ll reach the menopause. They’ve called their ‘epigenetic clock’ GrimAge. How the warm weather affects your health. This week: Mood A 2013 study in Italy showed people walking in the sun without sunglasses quickly felt anger. When we squint into the sun, it triggers the same facial expression as frowning — which, in turn, triggers angry feelings in the brain, said Daniele Marzoli, a psychologist from D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy. Another reason for a drop in mood might be reverse seasonal affective disorder. The theory is that warm weather interferes with the temperature centre of the brain which also plays a role in the production of hormones As Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics at UCLA, explains, it ‘was named after the grim reaper for a good reason: it works remarkably well at predicting lifespan’. So far GrimAge is only available to fellow researchers. The epigenetic testing carried out by the researchers at UCLA and others has used DNA samples from blood, not saliva as Chronomics does. Many people, says Professor Horvath, are hopeful that the results based on blood testing might be repeated with saliva samples, but ‘I’m not yet aware of any publication that has shown that epigenetic biomarkers measured in saliva also predict lifespan’, he told Good Health. But Chronomics is adamant that the results with blood do translate to saliva. ‘Saliva is an emerging tissue in studies that measure methylation marks because it is very easy to collect non-invasively,’ says Dr Herranz. ‘Biological age biomarkers have been shown to work also in saliva in large populations.’ (Good Health has seen at least five papers that support this claim.) But what about the suggestion that at 56, my biological age (as distinct from my chronological age of 63) places me in the ‘biological age range of people living to 110 or more’? The evidence on which this is based was published in Aging in 2015 by U.S. and Italian researchers who looked at epigenetic biomarkers in 82 Italian ‘semi-supercentenarians’ — people who live to between 105 and 109. ‘Obviously, the sample size in this study is moderate — it is more difficult to recruit centenarians,’ concedes Dr Herranz, but ‘further studies should validate these conclusions’. But, in fact, if I were to live to anything like 110, I would be a medical marvel. A small but increasing number of people in the UK do live to celebrate their 100th birthday — in 2017 there were 14,430 centenarians, up by 85 per cent in just 15 years. But the international Gerontology Research Group, which keeps track of people who live to 110 or more, estimates that there are no more than 33 ‘supercentenarians’ in the world. All are women and none was born in the UK. Predictions of longevity aside, taking a one-off epigenetic test offers an insight into one’s state of health. But it is only a snapshot and, given my excellent results, there was little I could do other than keep doing more of the same — eating and sleeping well, as I do, limiting alcohol to a couple of drinks three times a week and exercising four days a week. Through the Chronomics website you can book online appointments experts, including a doctor specialising in lifestyle medicine and a nutritionist. There is little new in their advice: if you smoke, they’ll tell you not to; if you drink too much alcohol, you should cut down; if you’re overweight, they’ll recommend shedding some pounds. Chronomics says the way to make the most of the science is to take its test at yearly intervals to see exactly what progress, if any, you’ve made. And this, it adds, is the value of epigenetics. Until now, says Dr Herranz, ‘it has been difficult for people to assess if lifestyle interventions are having an overall positive effect. ‘Now we have a way of objectively measuring the impact of changes and predicting their impact on your future health.’ One of the largest studies (involving 4,500 people) proving that epigenetic markers can be used to measure improvements was published in Aging in February last year. It found that ‘the conventional wisdom’ of eating a high plant-based diet with lean meat, moderate alcohol intake and physical activity are key to the improvements. Predicting the risk of specific lifestyle-induced diseases, such as cancer or heart disease, is already theoretically possible with epigenetic testing, but ‘we don’t give out this information’, Dr Herranz told Good Health. ‘We have to make sure these modifiable risk estimates for specific diseases are really, really accurate. We’re considering the way people react to this information and looking to inspire positive behavioural change, not just scare people.’ For now, Chronomics’ clients will be presented only with an ‘aggregated measurement of risk’ — in other words, their biological age — rather than being told, for example, that they have a 10 per cent increased risk of cancer. Dr Herranz says the benefit of epigenetic testing is not only to individuals but to the entire healthcare system. As he explains: ‘If we can spot the risk of a disease ten or 20 years before it actually happens and do something about it, we can reduce exponentially the number of people who need super-expensive treatments.’ Robert Kennedy Jr says Donald Trump has discredited the American experiment Love Island star Mike Boateng ‘being investigated by Greater Manchester Police for improper conduct’ Katharine McPhee, 35, and husband David Foster, 70, joke about prenuptial agreement Dominic Cummings’ elegant ‘gazelle’ friend Cleo Watson	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1253
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__label__cc	0.714001	0.285999	← Three Ways to Use Research To Achieve More Successful Media Pitches MBA vs. Master’s — Which Is the Better Option for a PR Pro? → Reputation Is Built on Behavior Posted on September 30, 2010 by forrestandersonFebruary 4, 2015 We’ve seen a number of reputation crises in the past few years. Much of the discussion around these crises in the communications community focuses on how well the organization communicated in response to the crisis. Were they forthright and forthcoming. Did they get the best information they had to the media quickly? Sometimes, we see discussions of whether PR had a “seat at the table.” Was the senior communications executive involved in the initial decisions that led to the crisis? Did he or she see the potential for damage to the organization’s reputation and counsel against certain actions to help preserve the reputation. How did management respond? This is all well and good. It’s the kind of thing communications people think about and discuss. It’s what we think we do. But communication is really only the very tip of the reputation iceberg. THE REAL BASIS FOR REPUTATION Reputation is based far more on actions — the way an organization behaves. In this area, PR matters if it has a seat at the table, insight into the expectations stakeholders have for the organization’s behavior and the ability to influence others around the table. However, there are occasionally cases in which organizations simply behave badly. There frequently are potentially ameliorating circumstances for bad behavior. Did the whole organization behave badly, or just one or two individuals? Was this behavior condoned by management? Was the behavior intentional or a mistake? If the bad behavior was an aberration, then good behavior and communications probably can right the organization’s reputation in time. I believe that most organizations are run by honest people who want to treat their stakeholders and the community in which they operate fairly. I would put almost every CEO I’ve worked with in this category. What troubles me are the organizations like Enron, that apparently are genuinely corrupt at the top and intentionally try to game the system. Or those in which corporate greed is really that, and outweighs sensible precautions to protect the community that gives it license to operate and the environment in which that community lives. AL GOLIN’S “TRUST BANK” Al Golin coined the phrase “Trust Bank” years ago when trying to explain the following concept to McDonald’s. The idea is that if you build trust by making deposits in the “Trust Bank” (doing good) your stakeholders will let you make withdrawals in times of need, that is, they will give you the benefit of a doubt when things go against you. I think Toyota has benefited from a “Trust Bank” effect. It has seen a rough patch or two lately, but through the years it has acted like a responsible corporate citizen, produced high-quality cars and built a loyal customer base. THE BP CASE BP, on the other hand, seems to have dug itself into a hole. According to a well referenced and corroborated entry in Wikipedia: In September 1999, one of BP’s US subsidiaries, BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA), agreed to resolve charges related to the illegal dumping of hazardous wastes on the Alaska North Slope, for $22 million. In August 2006, BP shut down oil operations in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, due to corrosion in pipelines leading up to the Alaska Pipeline. …. BP had spilled over one million litres of oil in Alaska’s North Slope. On 16 October 2007 Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation officials reported a toxic spill of methanol (methyl alcohol) at the Prudhoe Bay oil field managed by BP PLC. Nearly 2,000 gallons of mostly methanol, mixed with some crude oil and water, spilled onto a frozen tundra pond as well as a gravel pad from a pipeline. Two weeks prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion BP admitted that malfunctioning equipment lead to the release of over 530,000 lbs of chemicals into the air of Texas City and surrounding areas from April 6 to May 16 [2010]. The leak included 17,000 pounds of benzene (a known carcinogen), 37,000 pounds of nitrogen oxides (which contribute to respiratory problems), and 186,000 pounds of carbon monoxide. These citations relate to BPs environmental record before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, and we all know about that disaster. The Wikipedia article also includes references to numerous safety, political and price manipulation offenses by BP. MANAGEMENT->POLICIES->CULTURE->BEHAVIOR According to an article in The Seattle Times, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, told BP executives in a September, 2006, hearing: “BP’s policies are as rusty as its pipelines. I’m even more concerned about BP’s corporate culture of seeming indifference to safety and environmental issues.” I believe Representative Barton’s concern is well founded. A consistent history, such as BPs, suggests a consistent culture from which that history has sprung. REBUILDING REPUTATION BP has a new CEO, who seems to be making changes. But will he be able to change a culture that has led to the consistent problems we’ve seen? Despite BP’s green advertising and green investments, I think we all would agree it does not have a green reputation today. Moreover, because it has communicated that it is green, while demonstrating that it is not, it has not presented itself as authentic; it says one thing and does another. This is not the way to build trust. I would argue BP’s reputation is a shambles not because of poor communication but because of poor behavior. And no matter how good BP’s PR team is, it cannot repair this reputation on the outside. This reputation must be repaired from within. Posted in authenticity, crisis communications, culture, reputation, trust permalink Reputation Is Built on Behavior — 3 Comments Rob Berick on October 5, 2010 at 9:10 am said: Great post. I think the same can be said from a corporate governance standpoint – policies are one thing, practices are quite another (and the activist investor is keenly aware how to exploit even the smallest of discrepancies between the two). I wish I felt more confident that communications folks would step forward and help manage this component of enterprise risk management. I’d welcome any thoughts you may have on what’s holding them back from doing so? Forrest W. Anderson on October 5, 2010 at 12:12 pm said: Rob, thanks for your comment. I couldn’t agree more. You, apparently, are in investor relations, which is one of the few PR disciplines in which its practitioners do tend to understand how businesses operate; IR targets investment analysts, who intimately understand business. For PR practitioners to step forward and help “manage this component of enterprise risk management,” they would need to be trusted advisors of senior management. In my mind, they have virtually no likelihood of being trusted advisors if they do not understand business and work to harness communications to help achieve business goals. The PR people I have known who have been trusted advisors to senior management, for example Al Golin, Harold Burson and Peter Chadlington (founder of Shandwick) have not only understood business but have created thriving businesses as well. IR is actually in a particularly strong position to take this role, because IR sees the impact poor reputation can have on share value. Moreover, if IR doesn’t have the ear of the CEO, it hopefully has the ear of the CFO, who does. Perhaps this is a big opportunity for IR. The Institute for Public Relations The Lean Communicator Market Development Group The Measurement Standard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1256
__label__cc	0.739512	0.260488	Glossary of Audio Term An amplifier is a device which increases the amplitude of an electrical signal. Amplitude represents the “strength” of a signal, so amplification effectively means increasing signal strength. Audio compression A method of reducing the dynamic range of a signal. All signal levels above the specified threshold are reduced by the specified ratio. Balanced Audio A type of audio signal which uses two inverted voltages as a way to prevent unwanted noise being picked up by cables. The pathway along which an electrical signal flows. For example, the output of a sound mixer is referred to as the master stereo bus. Describes a distortion free sound with few effects. Distortion of a signal by its being chopped off. An overload problem caused by pushing an amplifier beyond its capabilities. In general, it’s the sound too loud to distort. PS: while the “Clip” means the action of deforming a waveform during overload. Describes a good clean high midrange sound Decibel (dB) Logarithmic measurement of signal strength. 1/10 of a Bel. The process of adjusting various audio frequencies to correct or enhance the sound. A microphone’s frequency response pattern is shown using a chart like the one below and referred to as a frequency response curve. The x axis shows frequency in Hertz, the y axis shows response in decibels. A higher value means that frequency will be exaggerated, a lower value means the frequency is attenuated. An ideal “flat” frequency response means that the microphone is equally sensitive to all frequencies. In this case, no frequencies would be exaggerated or reduced (the chart above would show a flat line), resulting in a more accurate representation of the original sound. Frequency response is always quoted as a range between two figures. This is a simple way to see a microphone is capable of capturing which frequencies effectively. Condenser microphones generally have flatter frequency responses than dynamic. The amplification level of an audio signal. Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard of communication between musical instruments, controllers and computers. The highest level of strength of an audio signal. Often refers to an unacceptably high level, where the signal begins distorting. It is caused by a signal which is “too strong”. If an audio signal level is too high for a particular component to cope with, then parts of the signal will be lost. This results in the rasping distorted sound. Plausible Reason & Solution 1.Being too close to the mic. Try moving the mic further away from the noise source. 2.Volume or gain controls turned up suspiciously high. Just decrease volume or gain. 3.Speakers being driven too hard. Amplifier which is pushing the speakers beyond their design limits. 4.If the distortion is coming from occasional peaking, consider adding a compressor. Reverberation, the effect of sound waves bouncing off walls and other objects. An audio test signal used to adjust levels, test signal quality, identify signal pathways, etc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1262
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__label__cc	0.729877	0.270123	Edited Transcript of UCB.BR earnings conference call or presentation 25-Jul-19 12:00pm GMT Thomson Reuters StreetEvents August 2, 2019 Q2 2019 Ucb SA Earnings Call Brussels Aug 2, 2019 (Thomson StreetEvents) -- Edited Transcript of UCB SA earnings conference call or presentation Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 12:00:00pm GMT * Antje Witte UCB SA - VP of IR * Detlef Thielgen UCB SA - CFO & Executive VP * Emmanuel Caeymaex UCB SA - Executive VP & Head of Immunology Patient Value Unit * Jean-Christophe Tellier UCB SA - CEO & Executive Director * James Patrick Quigley JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division - Analyst * Jean-Jacques Le Fur Bryan Garnier & Co Ltd, Research Division - Analyst * Kerry Ann Holford Exane BNP Paribas, Research Division - Analyst * Laura Sutcliffe UBS Investment Bank, Research Division - Equity Research Analyst * Peter Verdult Citigroup Inc, Research Division - Director * Rushee Singh Jolly Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division - Research Analyst * Sandra Cauwenberghs KBC Securities NV, Research Division - Senior Financial Analyst * Trung Chuong Huynh Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the UCB Conference Call. For the first part of this call, let me remind you that all participants will be in listen-only mode and afterward there will be a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions). Please note that this conference call will be recorded and that a replay of the webcast will be available later today on the UCB's website, under the Investors section. I am pleased to present Mrs. Antje Witte, Head of Investor Relations, who will be the moderator of this conference. Mrs. Witte, the floor is yours. Antje Witte, UCB SA - VP of IR [2] Logan, thank you very much. Good afternoon, good morning from my side. Welcome to UCB's Half Year Results Conference Call with the capital markets participants. I like to remind you that this presentation, this call is covered with the disclaimer and safe harbor statement you'll find on page 2 of this presentation and I'd like you to take notice of that and read through those. On the first page of the presentation, you will find our today's agenda and the participants of this call. So first, Jean-Christophe Tellier, our CEO will give you an overview. Emmanuel Caeymaex, our Executive Vice President of the Patient Value Unit, Immunology, will introduce to you a little bit further to Cimzia and the future of our immunology division, meaning bimekizumab. And then we have Detlef Thielgen, our CFO, guiding you through the financials. After the concluding words from Jean-Christophe, we are all here for your questions. Thank you very much, and I'd like to hand over to Jean-Christophe. Jean-Christophe Tellier, UCB SA - CEO & Executive Director [3] Thank you, Antje. Good morning, good afternoon everyone. It's our pleasure to welcome you on our call for the first half result of the year 2019. We are very pleased with our results. As you have seen, we are building on our 5 years of continuous growth, and we are able to then continue and confirm this robust position that we have, which enables us to continue our investment into our future growth drivers. You see here, some of our first half of the year achievements. Our strategy, which is based on innovation and differentiations, allow us to maximize the numbers of lines that we can impact positively with our current core products on the markets, and you see here, that we are, in particular, pleased of our 2 blockbusters that have enjoyed a double-digit growth during the first half of the year. And all of this performance has been driven by strong end market events, which brings more different drugs to the patients, and enhance our patients to be relieved of their chronic disease. We are also pleased with the evolution of our portfolio, and as you see here, we have been able to continue to bring new indications or new product for new patients population. First and foremost, the product that we have in partnership with Amgen, Evenity, who have been approved now in U.S., Japan, South Korea, Canada and Australia. As these territories are territories lead by our partner Amgen, I will not comment on the performance of Evenity today because I will lead our partner Amgen to do that in a few days. You have seen also that we have been able to get an approval for Nayzilam. Nayzilam is a program that we have bought from Proximagen. It completes our portfolio in epilepsy and we got an approval in acute repetitive seizure. So you see that we have already 2 products approved this year, and not to mention the approval of Cimzia, nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, Emmanuel may comment a little bit more on that later on. But we are very pleased because with Cimzia we are the first and only products with an indication -- with such an indication. And then of course, we are also pleased with the evolution of the rest of our pipeline. We are expecting the results of Phase III of bimekizumab in the next quarter, but we have already been able to start 2 programs -- 2 new programs with bimekizumab for psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthropathies. At the same time, we have started a Phase III for padsevonil, our new antiepileptic drug and Phase III trials in myasthenia gravis as well as a proof-of-concept in CIDP, for rozanolixizumab. So you see that we are progressing as planned and we deliver as promised on our -- at the same times, growth drivers and the ability to move forward, our portfolio, that allow us to believe in our clear future. We have been doing that as planned, so that our R&D ratio increased to 24% for the first half of the year, but we are committed to go back to the rEBITDA revenue ratio in 2021 of 31%. I have mentioned our progress in the pipeline, and this is one of the messages I want to continue to deliver to you, we are very pleased with this progress that will allow us to launch potentially 6 products in the next 5 years. As I've said, Evenity is already on the market, and Nayzilam has already been approved. But rest of the portfolio, as you can see, can also demonstrate strong element of differentiation. Bimekizumab is our anti-IL-17, which able to interact at the same times with IL-17A and IL-17F and with this dual neutralizations, we are confident that they lead to more profound activities on inflammations and so a better clinical relief for the patient. Padsevonil has also a unique mechanism of action and the first time this unique mechanism of actions is able to target 2 receptors at the same time for the first time in epilepsy, and we are targeting refractory patients for this drug. And last but not least, rozanolixizumab is a novel program as you know, to treat IgG autoimmune diseases, and we are here also pleased to be able to develop a product that will provide patients an ability to be treated at home for this type of disease, which they need today to go to the hospital. The last one that you see here UCB-0107 is our anti-Tau antibody which is in Phase 1 and the Phase I is ongoing in PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy. All of these programs are progressing well and as planned, and so this is -- the important news that I wanted to share with you. The fact that the recruitment goes well, that we are on track on each of these trials and so these pipelines should mature, as planned. And with that, I would like to hand over to Emmanuel, that he will comment furthermore on the immunology franchise. Emmanuel Caeymaex, UCB SA - Executive VP & Head of Immunology Patient Value Unit [4] Thank you very much, Jean-Christophe, and greetings everyone. Indeed, we are pleased to share details of the strong performance of Cimzia in this first half, and this for a few reasons. Beyond delivering on our long-held promise of sustained Cimzia growth in a dynamic market, it demonstrates that differentiation does translate to increased demand. And so I'll briefly touch also on bimekizumab with the Phase III development milestones coming up soon in Q4, as scheduled, in the buoyant areas of psoriatic disease and spondyloarthropathy. So let me start with Cimzia, as you can see it grew at 10% at constant rates in H1. This was driven by multiple sources of growth, both geographically and in terms of patient populations. In the U.S. and Europe, growth was 8% and international markets grew by 32%. All of that growth is volume growth. In the U.S., the TNF market is soft. Yet Cimzia grows strongly and the drivers are first and foremost, the lyophilized formulation for in-office injection, and also within the prefilled syringe formulation, mostly the women of childbearing age label expansion in rheumatology as well as the psoriasis new indication. It's noteworthy given the context in the US, that the lyophilized formulation growth mostly comes from the Commercial Medical segment, meaning commercial insurances or the payer, and not Medicare Part B. Even though we've had growth as well in Medicare Part B, which now represents about 2/3 of our U.S. lyo sales. The pre-filled syringe clearly beats the TNF markets by quite a large margin, and you may wonder about nonradiographic axSpA, for which we obtained approval quite recently. It will contribute from the second half, as in Q2, we gained coverage with most plans and PBMs and we'll be in a very good position with their growth of first-line coverage starting this summer. Moving to Europe, despite biosimilars, Cimzia continued to grow. Mostly in the women of childbearing age segment, following the label update early 2018. So if I use Germany as a proxy for the rest of Europe, Cimzia's share in this population doubled to close to 30% of TNF inhibitors in this segment, or if you look at the total biologic markets, the share would be about 20%. So that's doubling essentially since we gained the label expansion. The biosimilars of other anti-TNFs have had a very limited impact on Cimzia net price as different (inaudible) Cimzia and basically as we had planned before. A quick word on the international markets, strong market share gains, where Cimzia grew 4 times the speed of the TNF market. You very recently read that we obtained approval for Cimzia in China. This went quickly; we enjoyed the priority review, which is linked to the inclusion of their treatment cradle data in our label. We are partnering with Cinkate, a well-established local rheumatology company, that has a very innovative digital platform connecting patients in rheumatology with their physicians, and this will enable us as part of our co-promotion agreement, to work in a very targeted way and hopefully to accelerate the uptake. Now you may also know that in China, we first need to get the biologics through a few steps, before it can actually be launched, so any contribution will start as of early next year. And I also want to stress that China is a long-term play as the market size today is still quite limited. Nevertheless, a very important long-term opportunity. So in summary, when it comes to Cimzia, the first-half reinforces the impact of our patient value strategy and of our differentiation with multiple sources of current and future growth, that will more than compensate the TNF by similar entries in the TNF class softness in general. So we're tracking well towards achieving our $1.7 billion peak sales guidance in the next few years. In the next 2 slides, we will briefly dive into both the psoriatic and the spondyloarthritis spectrum of disease. To provide further context, through the relevance of bimekizumab, and this ahead of our Phase III results for psoriasis. So first as a reminder, bimekizumab is an antibody, which potently and selectively inhibits both IL-17A and IL-17F as Jean-Christophe reminded us. When we look across studies with other biologics, we see best-in-disease efficacy in Phase II studies in psoriasis, in ankylosing spondylitis and in psoriatic arthritis. And the 1-year data were highlights at the American Academy of Dermatology and at the European Rheumatology Congress, EULAR. Now of course, we need to take all of this with a pinch of salt and we are waiting for the Phase III results for confirmation. We are actually investing in 8 large late-stage studies with bimekizumab, 3 pivotals in psoriasis and 1 Phase IIIb, 2 PsA studies, 1 in AS and 1 in nonradiographic axSpa and 4 out of the 8 studies have an active comparator arm, that includes the market leaders. So we should be in a good position for both health care providers and payers in terms of illustrating the differentiation we aim at. The point here, with this slide is that, we're talking about very prevalent conditions with significant intersection and progression across, and these are important factors when considering which treatment to choose for patients. So taken together, these 3 circles here that you see on this slide, affect close to 5% of the population is in the Western world and the evolving understanding of axSpA and PsA is that both of those conditions are actually more common than rheumatoid arthritis. And so the increased realization of the consequences of moderate to severe psoriasis left untreated, which commonly leads to psoriatic arthritis, to cardiovascular disease and even a shortened lifespan in severe cases. So about 40% of the patients that are captured here are moderate to severe patients, and therefore are eligible for biologics. Yet the treatment rates are still low, especially in nonradiographic axSpA and in psoriasis. So very significant growth potential. And you can also see that there are several interactions between psoriasis and PSA, between psoriatic arthritis and axSpA and that is due to the shared pathobiology of these systemic diseases that each affect several organ domains, the skin, the joints, the (inaudible), the eye, et cetera. And so this significant overlap and the progression highlights the need for drugs with excellent efficacy across these conditions, and the most commonly affected organ domains. So if Phase III and Phase IIIb data confirm the findings of Phase II, bimekizumab will come one step closer to being recognized as the most effective medicine in each one and across these indications, and therefore a highly attractive option across the spectra of psoriatic disease and SpAs. Now the next slide illustrates how sales in the G6 markets are forecast to grow in these indications, to $37 billion in 2027, and that is posed by similars in TNF inhibitors, and the growth is really driven by the IL-17 class and the IL-23 class. Now the way these drugs are expected to be used, actually varies across diseases. In psoriasis, the IL-17s and IL-23s will gain the majority of dollar share as more patients gain access to systemic treatments, and as the treatment goals evolve towards sustained, totally clear skin and resolution of inflammation as a means to prevent the comorbidities I mentioned earlier. Psoriatic arthritis will grow as fast as psoriasis. With TNF and IL-17s playing the central role, and IL-23s being affected, but potentially less compelling given the data seen in joints so far. Now, one study recently shown that a pretty potent IL-23 doesn't work in axial spondyloarthritis, which is why the higher share of IL-17s in axSpA is visible here, but it's also of importance, given the axial symptoms in psoriatic arthritis, where in fact about half of the patients are suffering from inflammatory back pain. And so these agents may also potentially be less suitable in psoriatic arthritis. So in summary, it seems that we are well on track towards achieving our guidance within the next year, with multiple growth drivers, including women of childbearing age psoriasis, nonradiographic axSpA and also geographic expansion, and the capabilities and the reputation that is being built with Cimzia are paving the way for bimekizumab success, based on a strong strategic rationale and the Phase III results come from Phase IIb results, bimekizumab will be well positioned to create significant value for patients suffering from psoriatic disease and spondyloarthropathy. So with this, I would now like to hand over to Detlef. Detlef Thielgen, UCB SA - CFO & Executive VP [5] Thank you, Emmanuel, and welcome to everybody. You know, we just talked about some of the real strong growth that we saw for Cimzia. We talked about some of the prospects, let's get back to today and to what I believe are strong financials, that we show for the first half year. When you look at the slides, I would like to say this is how good delivery looks like. We promised you that we would have some growth still to come, but it would be somewhat subdued. And here, we told you, it will be mainly also due to impact of FX, and that is the case. And we told you also that to achieve the growth for the future, we will have to invest into our promising programs, and the launch of our products. I'm very happy that we see that this money is well spent, by both, seeing the results in the marketplace in terms of volume growth, but also with 4 Phase 3 programs started and on their way and Jean-Christophe has mentioned that we are well on our way, that we are making good use of -- out of the money, that we have to take of the profitability. For the first half of the year, profitability is still strong, with 31%, you will not be surprised, it is a pattern that we have seen over the last few years, that the first half of the year is always significantly stronger, that fits also very well to the beginning and duration of the clinical trials throughout the year and therefore is, I think, in line with our expectations. I'm also happy to say that our tax rate is at 20%. I know that tax rates in my duration has been up and down, but it's exactly where we have guided, and it just shows that with us being more and more profitable, gaining more and more scale, as these things get also more normalized. When I look into underlying sales growth, net sales growth, it's important to say that while we look like 2% growing on real rate, the real underlying growth, if you take all the hedging in both years away and if you take all the divestments away, is 11%. That is driven mainly by our key products, Cimzia and Vimpat. But also all the other products are holding up well, taking in mind that we had a onetime dip in Keppra in Europe. Established brands, also very resilient, if you take out divestitures. So all in all, a very, very strong performance on the sales side. That brings me back to our guidance. As I mentioned, we are well on track for delivering our year-end guidance, and Jean-Christophe already mentioned, that we are also confirming our midterm guidance, both on the rEBITDA revenue ratio of 31% in 2021, and the peak sales for our products Emmanuel pointed especially out for Cimzia. With that, I can hand back to Jean-Christophe. Thank you, Detlef. So as you have seen, a strong performance in the first half of 2019. We delivered on our commitment and our promises. We have been able to see a good and strong in-demand market growth of our core products, that allow us to invest in our rich pipeline for sustained growth in the future. So as you know with that, we are -- we wanted to be able to reassure and treat more patients in the future. And you see here, the new patients population that we would like to reach in the future. In this context, as you know, we are continuously focusing on strengthening our operating model, in order to maximize our efficiency, and agility and to be able to meet our future growth expectations for the years ahead, and to continue to deliver on our patient value ambition. With the potential of these 5 launches in the next 5 years, that is for us unprecedented. As part of this evolution, we are also -- as you have seen in the press release this morning, we are also adapting our Executive Committee structure that will come in the coming months, which enhance and secure our ability to continue, to focus and to prioritize the company on our core value drivers. In this context, as we have said, we are starting the process of the transition of our CFO, and almost after 13 years in the role, Detlef, which has played -- plays a critical role in UCB successes, helping to lead the company through the different phases since the acquisition of Schwarz will transition in the coming year. I would of course like to thank deeply Detlef today, his dedications, loyalty, support and always having the best interest of the company in his heart and in his mind, has and is and has been an example for all of us. More personally, I feel really grateful and privileged to have been able to work with Detlef since I joined UCB. He always has been a perfect trusted sparring partner for me, and we have been working together very well, and I really appreciate that. We will of course continue to work closely together as -- in this new phase, to drive UCB and continue to deliver on our objective and ambition, and to ensure a smooth transition to his successor. And with that, I would like to open the call for your question, please? Thank you very much. Please enter your question. (Operator Instructions) And we have our first question from James Quigley from JPMorgan. James Patrick Quigley, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division - Analyst [2] First question on Cimzia, you mentioned that -- the EU biosimilars of Humira, and not having much impact on price. I mean growth was strong, but you mentioned that was predominantly the women of childbearing age. So in different segments of the market, are you seeing any volume impact at all, since those will be well appreciated. And second question, obviously we had some snippets of potential healthcare reform in the U.S. So could you let us know your Part D exposure, especially for some of the key products like Vimpat, and also your Part D and also your Part B exposure as well for some of your injectable products like Cimzia. And then finally on the CFO transition, in terms of the timing, what are the sort of key events in the next year or so that would require a fresh pair of eyes or a new perspective as you prepare for those launches and what are you looking for in a new CFO? Thank you, James. Emmanuel here. I will start with answering the first question. So in Europe, biosimilars of etanercept and adalimumab actually have an impact on market prices for anti-TNFs, and so within those molecules, we see net discounts going down to 50% to 80%, if we are adding the list price plus the extra discount or rebate that is being provided. However, as I mentioned, price erosion for Cimzia in the first half has been minimal, and that is because the product is essentially shielded from those biosimilars and those molecules through its differentiation. In terms of volume impacts, beyond women of childbearing age where Cimzia is growing fast. Of course, there is a decrease in other segments. But net-net, the brand is growing in a very healthy manner, volume wise, in Europe. In terms of yes -- I mean -- maybe that answers the question. I will perhaps let Detlef or Jean-Christophe answer the question around Part B and Part D across the portfolio. Yes. Thank you, Emmanuel. I can take the Part D, and part B across the portfolio. So I mean first of all, from a general standpoint, if you look at the evolution of the healthcare in the U.S. and you have seen their most recent changes in the proposal and in, particularly, the pullback of the rebate rule that was proposed earlier. We are disappointed by this, but for 2 reasons. The first reason is, we think that we need to evolve globally, also in the U.S., in an environment that recognized differentiations and bring the value at the level of the differentiations, and we saw that the previous model of the rebate rule removal was a good one to accelerate the ability for the senior to reduce the out-of-pocket money and making sure that part of the rebates would be able to pull through to the patient. We have seen recently, so these have been removed, so we will see what the future will give us. But in any case, what we see currently and the evolution of the Medicare potentially, so far, do not change anything in the competitiveness of our portfolio, which is an important one. Now in the most recent maybe your questions covered also the Senate Finance Committee package, on this one also we are disappointed of this because once again, the proposal changes and merger will not have any positive impact on the patients. And so the savings that will be done, will mainly go back to the government, and what we aim and what we are -- would like to contribute to engage government with, is the ability really to reduce the burden of disease for the patients and making sure that the affordability of the drugs continue to be at the patients. Now on the question on the Medicare Part B and the Medicare Part D; we are exposed with the impact mainly on Medicare Part D but that represents roughly 30% of our volume -- of our revenues and in -- for Cimzia, Emmanuel mentioned this. In terms of the CFO transition, the reason -- that's also the reason why we wanted to give you a heads up and being transparent about this process. We are just starting this process between now and 2020, and that's the reason why we wanted to give you a heads-up, and this is long transitions, but we are, as you know at UCB, we are planning to do this transition openly with you. The milestones that will come are mainly regulatory in the near future, and we are preparing these launches. So what I would like to see in the successor I would like to see -- I would like to find a brother of Detlef because I need to find again the same strong support, integrity, agility, ability to understand the business to secure the finance, in the phase to come, that will be leaded by a lot of new launches. But we will give you more informations in due time on that. We have another question from Jean-Jacques Le Fur from Bryan Garnier. Jean-Jacques Le Fur, Bryan Garnier & Co Ltd, Research Division - Analyst [6] I have 3 quick finance questions please. The first is on the -- in the other revenue line, and especially the contract manufacturing, which increased, I would say, quite significantly during H1. Is it the line which may continue to grow next in H2 and after that in the next years, this is the first question. So is it a sustainable growth we may have? Second is on cost of sales, pure cost of sales; you improved in percentage of sales, the cost of sales line in H1, is it a trend we may continue to see for full year? And lastly on the marketing and sales, if I well understood most of the key launches will be done -- or investment for launches will be done in 2019. So could we expect for the next 2 years before the next wave of new products, could we expect a slower growth of these marketing and selling expenses, I mean for 2020-2021 for example. Yes. Thank you for your questions. Concerning the other revenue, we are mainly talking about manufacturing income, and this is also related to some of the divestitures that we have recently made. It is quite common that you either produce for a long while or for a certain period and that is what this represents. So usually, that takes a little while before this is transferred. So we are going to see that for some time. But whether that will be sustainable forever, I cannot promise. In terms of the cost of sales yes, the product mix is positive and therefore you see also cost of sales improving. This should be also going in the same direction for the overall year, with differences between the first and second half of the year, might lead to small deviations. But the general trend is positive. It's also a scaling effect that we have seen in the years before. So in that regard, as bigger your products get, it gets smaller year-by-year, but the direction is still the same. And the last question was about marketing and selling expense, I would expect that we will see, still, some investments that we have to do in preparation of some of the launches. We also will have additional launches to come, that will be fully effective only late this year or early next year. So in that regard, it's difficult at this moment to say, how we will look at it. We will give an update at the annual analyst conference. We have another question from Peter Verdult from Citi. Peter Verdult, Citigroup Inc, Research Division - Director [9] Pete Verdult here from Citi. Apologies if there's any background noise. Just 2 questions to Jean-Christophe. Firstly, just want to better understand, what's driven you to change the executive committee or management team structure? You've articulated a very clear strategy over the last couple of years. You are trying to execute on that strategy. So just want to better understand, what's driven you to decide change is required? Maybe you could discuss some of the other executive changes that you are making? And then secondly believing in the UCB pipeline is critical to the investment case to the upside, so just wondering, when you talk internally as a team, what sort of peak sales potential do you put on the current UCB pipeline. I recognize that there are still proof-of-concept studies to read out, but marrying that with the fact that you do have a significant patent cliff and believing in the pipeline is pretty crucial to buying the investment case. Just wanted to get your thoughts as to what you think the potential of the pipeline is? Jean-Christophe Tellier, UCB SA - CEO & Executive Director [10] Thank you, Peter, for your question. You know on the first one on the evolution of the executive committee; as I said, it's an evolution. So it's by far neither a resolution nor a change of the strategy, as you have rightly said. We have defined our strategy 5 years ago and you have seen in the slide that we have moved -- we will move from grow and prepare to accelerate and expand. So we are progressing as planned in the execution of this strategy. So there is absolutely no link to a change of strategy. And it's also not because of any, any disappointment from a performance standpoint, as we have said and shared with you, we are in the fifth year in a row now of growth and we are delivering according to plan. It's more than you need to evolve constantly and sometimes this evolution that we are doing on a daily basis or at least on a regular basis, sometimes affects Executive Committee more than -- more than in other time. And that's what it is right now. So no particularly elements you should be concerned about. On the contrary, I think it's just an evolution and leveraging our strategy of differentiations and our position of strength to continue to evolve, to be more efficient for the future. As you can imagine, we have started the communications today, but I will not communicate more today on this, I hope you understand that. As well as, I hope you understand that I will not share with you what is our evaluation of our portfolio internally, what I just can share with you, is the fact that we are confident. As I've mentioned, our portfolio and our pipeline is either new mechanism of action, first in class or differentiated product, which is the consequences in the illustration of our strategy, and we do feel and think that today as well as tomorrow, clinical and meaningful differentiation for the patients will be able to be recognized by the environments, physicians, payers and insurers. And we think that this the best way for us to secure our sustainability on the long term. So of course, we have good proof-of-concept and good element of differentiation in Phase II. We have still to prove with the Phase III program that we have, that we will be able to deliver on these differentiation. But that's also the reason why and Emmanuel mentioned it, it's also the reason why we are doing an aggressive Phase III plan for bimekizumab for example, with comparison to standard-of-care with the aim and the objective to demonstrate superiority. And that for us is what differentiation means, and that's for us what clinical meaningful differentiation for patients mean. And that's what we have for our pipeline, and accelerating of this pipeline will ensure our ability to compensate the loss of exclusivity that will happen, first with the impact, it's a significant one in 2022 and then Cimzia in 2024. We have another question from Trung Huynh from Credit Suisse. Trung Chuong Huynh, Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division - Research Analyst [12] I've got 2 questions if I can. First one on Evenity Europe; so you've spoken previously that a key point of debate you've had with EMA has been how to characterize the CV risk. But given the mechanism of CV risk is unknown, how confident are you able to characterize this and get this through for approval in Europe? And then have you got any kind of time lines of potential submission or approval? And then second question, just following up on James' question on the Senate Bipartisan bill, if you do see that removal of the doughnut hole, have you done any analysis on the potential uplift to UCB sales and then also on potential IPI have you done any analysis on what that could mean to UCB? Thank you very much. So thank you for your question. So on Evenity Europe, as you have said, we have different analysis and different perspective on the products than the CHMP that have made a different opinion than other agencies, and up to now, as you have seen, we have -- we have had 5 positive outcome, and so CHMP is so far the only one that have been -- make a different outcome on the analysis of the data. There is no reason for us to believe that the cardiovascular elements, a numeric imbalance that we have seen, in one of our studies, leads to a particular link to Evenity. It's very difficult, as you know, to demonstrate if something is or is not linked. And so it's a matter of appreciation. We do feel and believe that we have a strong benefit of the patients suffering from fragility fracture, CHMP to know if they made a different conclusion. So yes, we are feeding off the decisions. We are asked for a reexamination, and the process should take roughly between 4 and 6 months. We continue to be very confident on the value of the product for the patients, and hope that we will be able to convince the CHMP through this new procedure. On the financing, that outcome, we are looking at that. As I said, the doughnut-hole for our Medicare patients may be an important one. So as you are right, we may have a certain uplift for this on IPI, which is the International Price Index. I think it's too early to say, what will be the magnitude, the measure, the ability to execute, and the timing. So internally we are modernizing a different potential impact, but it's too early to say what will be the reality. We do believe and think that from a legal standpoint, it will be very, very difficult, and from a more healthcare standpoint globally, I do believe also that it's not the best solution for the patients anyway because the security of the patients should remain the most and foremost important element for the environment to secure, and allowing like that different perspective, may be also dangerous. So the security of the patients and making sure that we will get a strong ability to get the right patients with the right drug should remain the priority number 1. And so the different proposals, such as the drug importations or pricing index and the ability to execute on that, we are looking at that very closely. So we have another question from Kerry Holford from Exane. Kerry Ann Holford, Exane BNP Paribas, Research Division - Analyst [15] I have 3 questions please. Firstly on Evenity, I know you said at the beginning that you were not able to comment on the sales in the quarter, but it seems there was no income within the other operating line here, and I just wonder if you can help us understand when we might expect Evenity to break-even through that line, and functionally is there a delay between you receiving income, such as when the sales were generated through your partners. Second question on tax, Detlef, you've guided us to 20% for 2019, but I wonder if you might comment on the outlook thereafter, is it prudent to assume that that may increase slightly over time. And then lastly on bimekizumab, you mentioned 4 of the ongoing 8 studies in Phase III versus an active comparator. Can you detail which drugs you're going head-to-head with in which disease? So in terms of Evenity, you know as you rightfully said, there is limited impact on the operating expense line. Detlef Thielgen, UCB SA - CFO & Executive VP [17] Your second question was around when will we get to breakeven. That is a bit of a tricky question because usually it takes a few years to get to breakeven. Here it's also a question, how we share that with partners. So it might be our breakeven at that moment in time. And as I am not able to comment on sales development, you know, it's very difficult for me to also argue about profit development because it would already give indications, which I would not like to do just for the same reason that Jean-Christophe said out of fairness to our partner. In general, I would stick to what I said, it will take usually a few years to get to profitability for the overall product, which means for us and for (inaudible). In terms of the tax rate, as we guided for 20%, we think that the tax rate for this year is around that number with a little deviation, that is not [claimable]. We think that in general terms in the -- the mid-term, we might have a benefit, and it will depend also on new products coming to market. In terms of the patent boxes, so there might be a slight decrease over time, depending on the profitability, our investment in R&D, et cetera, on the same time. So it's not easy to predict without having these different parameters. But I would say in general, more slightly down, and then -- that might move up a bit again, these are the normal waves between income and expenses that you have in these patent box units. I hope that we'll be giving you a good enough indication. Emmanuel Caeymaex, UCB SA - Executive VP & Head of Immunology Patient Value Unit [18] With regards to the bimekizumab comparative studies, we have 3 of those studies in psoriasis, compare -- comparing bimekizumab with Stelara, with Humira and with Cosentyx. And the first 2 studies, Humira and Stelara, will -- the results will become available in Q4 this year, they are pivotal studies. The study comparing bimekizumab with Cosentyx will result in Q2 2020. In addition, we have a Humira comparator in one of the psoriatic arthritis Phase 3 studies, for which results will become available in 2021. We have another question from Rushee Jolly from Bernstein. Rushee Singh Jolly, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division - Research Analyst [20] Rushee Jolly from Bernstein. 3 quick questions if I may; a follow-up question on cost, please? So we've seen a step up in R&D and SG&A in 1H so far this year? And could you provide a little bit more color on how we should think about these costs going forward, specifically on R&D whilst you've started the four new Phase IIIs you have been completing in psoriasis late this year, early next. And on SG&A, you know, to what degree could you use infrastructure from Cimzia, to commercialize bimekizumab, if successful? Second question on Cimzia, so consensus is currently forecasting sub EUR 1.6 billion peak sales in 2021-2022 compared to guidance. You know, from your perspective, what contents are missing here, and what's going to drive that incremental growth and how much is going to be coming from new indications? What else do you have to do to execute to get there? And finally a quick follow-up from Trung's question on Evenity, is Europe less of a focus for you, for Evenity and given that Prolia is losing exclusivity in 2022 versus and 2025 in the U.S., you know and that comes back to the point you're making previously about not becoming profitable for a couple of years. So I think the, on the cost question, you will see that -- what we have spent in the first half of the year is significantly still below our guidance that we have given for the full year. So that will answer your question, we expect this to go up and we expect to be within our guidance for the full year. For the future years, we will comment as usual, when we are going into our next year's guidance. But it is very clear, and we communicated that before that also for 2020, we expect to have significant R&D costs based on our late-stage program. In terms of the, the costs related to field operations with Cimzia and bimekizumab, I would say that in rheumatology, the current infrastructure will be able to be leveraged with bimekizumab and the time lines are nice, with projected 2023 entry of bimekizumab in axSpA and PsA. However, in dermatology, we are continuing to build our teams. Cimzia was a focused launch in psoriasis, and since initial results have been positive, we are expanding those teams and we will continue to expand in anticipation of the bimekizumab launch in a few years' time. Then your question around the delta between peak guidance and consensus, I think that -- the way I would look at it is, we're going to lose on some parts and we're going to gain more in others. And so the parts where we will definitely gain are psoriasis, non-radiographic axSpA U.S., further women of childbearing age market share gains, and potentially also we're working strongly on a better experience for patients, potentially leading to better adherence and compliance, through patient support programs and some benefit verification in the U.S., and I believe that this will be a source of growth as well. And so if you add all of that up, you come to a nice number. And my hope is that, we will lose far less than what this number will equate to. So that's why we're confident about our guidance of EUR 1.7 billion peak. And about your questions on Evenity, I will not comment on the Amgen portfolio and on Prolia. But what I will -- what I can share with you is that, as you know, UCB is the lead company for Evenity in Europe, and so that's -- that for us is a clear priority and we are putting everything we can, in order to have a positive outcome of the reexamination because we think that for the majority of the patients that are suffering from fragility fracture and Europe is one of the most important potential market from a patient standpoint there. It's important that we will continue to offer them a solution. As you know, there is no competitions between a product like Prolia and a product like Evenity, they complement each other, as Evenity is the first year of treatment as to fracture, because of this fast and impressive efficacy, while antiresorptive agents will be the follower of Evenity. We have another question from Laura Sutcliffe from UBS. Laura Sutcliffe, UBS Investment Bank, Research Division - Equity Research Analyst [25] Just on Cimzia, you said it was doing well in women of childbearing age. Could you just maybe tell us whether most of the new patients you see there are treatment-naive or whether they are switch patients? And if they are switch patients, where they are coming from? Secondly, could you maybe give us a bit of an update on how recruitment is going for your myasthenia gravis trial? Have you dosed your first patient yet? And lastly, have you yet made a decision on whether or not you will launch your intra-nasal midazolam in Europe? Yes, Laura. Thank you. I will take the first question. So the majority of women of childbearing age patients being prescribed Cimzia are biologic naive patients. Once a patient is controlled, it is unusual that they would be switched to another molecule. So on the clinical trial for myasthenia gravis, as I said, everything is doing well, recruitment is on track. So we are very pleased and we will come back to you as soon as the recruitment will be fully done, and we will be able to comment on that. And as you know, Nayzilam so far has been approved in the U.S. It was based, as I said, is an acquisition from Proximagen. Proximagen have done the development plan in the U.S. That's the reason why the product is planned to be launched in the U.S., and so far for this and coming time, we have no plan in our minds to register or develop in EU. We have another question from Sandra Cauwenberghs from KBC Securities. Sandra Cauwenberghs, KBC Securities NV, Research Division - Senior Financial Analyst [29] Just one small question, that's still on Cimzia, you're quite confident on the peak sales of EUR 1.7 billion, I was wondering if you can comment a little bit on the JAK space and how you see this for the RA segment in terms of market share. Do you think that there will be an impact on the Cimzia sales for that particular segment? Yes. Thank you, Sandra. Yes, indeed JAK inhibitors usage is increasing significantly in rheumatoid arthritis. I think that this already has an impact on Cimzia use in RA, but that impact is more than made up for, in spondyloarthritis, in psoriasis as well as in women of childbearing age. So in a way, my message would be, it's factored in already and it's a known trend already. Antje Witte, UCB SA - VP of IR [31] Do we have any further questions, please? No, we have no further question, madam. As we have used your time, thank you very much for being with us this afternoon, this morning. Thanks very much to the gentlemen from our Executive Committee, and please have a wonderful summer. If you have any further questions, you will know where you find the Investor Relation team of UCB. Thank you very much and have a great day. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for attending. 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Several EMIR obligations are implemented through Level 2 measures (Commission delegated acts and regulatory and implementing technical standards (RTS and ITS)) see "Final Level 2 material" tab below. Level 1: EMIR published in the Official Journal on 27 July 2012 and came into force on 16 August 2012. Article 89(1) of EMIR amended by Commission Delegated Regulation 2017/610 of 20 December 2016 in order to extend exemption from Article 4 clearing obligation for pensions schemes until August 2018. The EU regulation on securities financing transactions (SFTR) published in the Official Journal on 23 December 2015 and in force 12 January 2016 amends the definition of OTC derivatives in EMIR and creates a new procedure for assessing the equivalence of non-EU markets. There have been various amendments to EMIR, the most recent have been made by EMIR REFIT. See the EMIR Q&As. Level 2: Regulatory Technical Standards for G4 rates clearing obligation published on 1 December 2015 and came in to force on 21 December 2015. RTS for CDS clearing obligation published on 19 April 2016 and entered into force on 9 May 2016. Regulatory Technical Standards on margin for uncleared derivatives published on 15 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 January 2017. Phase 1 IM and VM and Phase 2 VM are in force. The Phase 3, 4, and 5 application dates for IM are 1 September 2018, 1 September 2019 and 1 September 2020 respectively. For all IM and VM phase-in dates see the EMIR timeline. Clearing obligation start dates and frontloading periods phased in for different counterparty categories: G4 rates clearing obligation starts G4 rates frontloading starts CDS clearing obligation starts CDS frontloading starts EEA clearing obligation starts EEA frontloading Category 1 firms 9 February 2017 9 October 2016 21 May 2016* 9 October 2016* 9 August 2017 9 October 2016 *Calculation dates for determining Category 2 status for G4 Rates CDS RTS and EEA rates are end of January 2016, February 2016 and March 2016). Following a report by ESMA (November 2016), on 16 March 2017, the Commission adopted amendments to the RTS delaying the application of the compliance dates for Category 3 firms for G4 rates, CDS RTS and EEA rates until 21 June 2019. The RTS were published in the Official Journal on 29 April 2017 and came into force on 19 May 2017. ESMA has also provided Q&A guidance on when firms are expected to start clearing transactions under EMIR and EMIR Refit, depending on their categorisation and whether or not they have calculated that they fall above or below a relevant clearing threshold. ESMA has recognised CCPs in several jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. A grace period during which firms can benefit from an intragroup exemption from the clearing obligation for cross-border transactions without the need for an equivalence decision for the non-EU jurisdiction is set to expire on 21 December 2018. The Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation extending this period by a further two years. A similar time-limited derogation from margining requirements for non-cleared OTC derivatives is due to expire on 4 January 2020. Further equivalence decisions with respect to CCPs in additional jurisdictions and the recognition of additional non-EU CCPS under EMIR are expected. In December 2017 the Joint Committee of the ESAs published draft RTS amending EMIR with regard to physically settled FX forwards. The Commission had three months from 18 December 2017 to decide whether to adopt them but has not yet done so. This is also expected to be clarified as part of EMIR Refit. EMIR has direct effect. However, it requires changes to some Member State legislation. For example, there have been amendments to the UK legislation, rules and regulations in connection with EMIR. EMIR REFIT On 28 May 2019 Regulation (EU) 2019/834 as regards the clearing obligation, the suspension of the clearing obligation, the reporting requirements, the risk-mitigation techniques for OTC derivative contracts not cleared by a central counterparty, the registration and supervision of trade repositories and the requirements for trade repositories was published in the Official Journal. The Regulation entered into force on 17 June 2019 and will apply from the the date of entry into force except for: provisions set out in points (10) and (11) of Article 1 as regards Articles 38(6) and (7) and 39(11) of EMIR, which shall apply from 18 December 2019; provisions set out in point (7)(b) of Article 1 as regards Article 9(1a) to (1d) of EMIR, which shall apply from 18 June 2020; and provisions set out in points (2)(b) and (20) of Article 1 as regards Articles 4(3a) and 78(9) and (10) of EMIR, which shall apply from 18 June 2021. 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__label__cc	0.558876	0.441124	All Signs for 2018 December 5th Week of December 5th, 2018 Play as a Spiritual Practice Here's a link to my free weekly email newsletter, featuring the Free Will Astrology horoscopes, plus a bunch of other stuff, including good news, lucky advice, and tender rants. It arrives every Tuesday morning. Read past issues of the newsletter. Sign up here for your free subscription. Once, as an adult, psychologist Carl Jung took a break from work to stroll on a beach. As he meandered, he was overcome with a spontaneous impulse to build things as he did when he was a kid. He gathered stones and sticks and used them to construct a miniature scene, including a church. As he finished, he was visited by a flood of novel insights about his life. He concluded that his childlike play had called forth these revelations from his unconscious mind. That might sometimes be a worthwhile strategy for you. To access important information that your deep mind has sequestered, go play a while. PLAYING EASILY IN THE DEEP is a French word that means “playing easily in the deep." LEARNING COMES FROM PLAYING "The ancient Greeks knew that learning comes from playing," writes Roger von Oech in his book "A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative." Their word for education, paideia, he says, was close to their word for play, "paidia." I ACCEPT HELP! If you would like to contribute to me and my ongoing work, please visit my Virtual Tip Jar at Paypal. You can also contribute to my well-being by buying the Expanded Audio Horoscopes I create. These forecasts are different in tone and content from the written horoscopes I provide here. They're four- to five-minute-long ruminations about the current chapter of your life story. MEDITATION AS PLAY "As a free deed, meditation is naturally individual, uniquely our own. It is where we most fully become ourselves. Its practice is also always individual. "There are no rules. Just as every potter will elaborate his or her own way of making pots, so every person who meditates will shape his or her own meditation. No two people will do a given meditation in exactly the same way. The same meditation practiced daily will be different every time. "Every meditation is experimental. One never knows what is going to happen. Improvisation is essential . . . Meditation is something to play with . . . There is no 'wrong' way of doing the meditation, except not doing it!" - Christopher Bamford, Start Now!: A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises WE ARE FULLY HUMAN WHILE PLAYING "We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word." -Rudolf Steiner HOW MUCH COURAGE IS NEEDED TO PLAY The research of the Beauty and Truth Lab is made possible in part by the largesse of Boris Pasternak's poem "Bacchanalia," which includes these words: "How much courage is needed to play forever, as the ravines play, as the river plays." YOU ARE A MUTANT DEITY You are a mutant deity in disguise—not a Buddha or a Christ exactly, but of the same lineage and conjured from the same fire. You have been around since the beginning of time and will be here after the end. Every day and in every way, you're getting better at playing the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed up together before the Big Bang bloomed. DISRUPTIVE PLAY Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture by Shepherd Siegel Description of the book: "In a world ruled by conflict and competition, non-competitive play is insurrection. "Mischief-makers and culture jammers have transformed society again and again, from ancient folkloric appearances of the Trickster as Raven and Èṣù-Elegba, to the twentieth century's dada and hippies, to contemporary social actors like the graffiti artist Banksy. "Original Play is the frolic and noncompetitive play that animals and human babies do in order to have fun and to keep on playing -- not to win or to lose. It is a substance of the universe that occurs in all life. It is the behavior by which love and belonging are expressed, given, and received. "When play moves into contest or other roles and rules, with winners and losers, it becomes Cultural Play. Issues of ego and narcissism are issues for Cultural Play, not for Original Play. "Disruptive Play occurs in the rare times when the rhythms of Original Play suddenly appear in a political or cultural setting, settings conventionally fraught with Cultural Play. Like driving a clown car across the field during an official NFL game. Or Raven tricking Chief into releasing the sun, the moon, and the stars into the sky. Or a surreptitious Banksy graffiti that invades a museum or the public commons. Tricking power into performing an act of love. "Disruptive Play: The Trickster In Politics and Culture connects knowledge from mythology, folklore, popular culture, art, politics, and play theory to make its case that to be playful means not taking power seriously. At critical mass, power collapses and leaves us swimming about in the waters of the amoral Trickster. New values emerge and could lead to some version of the dystopia that currently drenches popular culture. "Or, if people can discern between the authentic contact and exhilaration of play, and branded, mediated, alienated pleasure, then we just might stumble and frolic our way to the Play Society. "Disruptive Play is ideal for enthusiasts of the human condition and those who hold out for the vision, however slim, of the Play Society." Lila: The cosmos is a manifestation of the creative play of God and Goddess. Western science and religion have differing views on how the universe was created, but they agree that it happened a long time ago. The mystery schools of the West, on the other hand, assert that the universe is re-created anew in every moment through the divine erotic play of God and Goddess. They say that if we humans treat lovemaking as an experimental sacrament, we can attune ourselves to the union of the two primal deities and, in a sense, participate in the ongoing creation of the world. A STUDY OF THE PLAY ELEMENT IN CULTURE Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture I pray that all those who, like me, have been lucky enough to receive a multitude of life's blessings might express humble gratitude for their good fortune by summoning maximum levels of empathetic passion and compassionate zeal and campaigning for justice and sanctuary and beauty and love and financial security and health care for those who are less privileged than we are HALLOWED BE THY NAMES Our mother who art underfoot, hallowed be thy names. Thy seasons come, thy will be done, within us as around us. Thank you for our daily bread, our water, our air and our lives and so much beauty; lead us not into selfish craving and the destructions that are the hungers of the glutted, but deliver us from wanton consumption of thy vast but finite bounty. For thine is the only sphere of life we know, and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Mother's Prayer, adapted by Rebecca Solnit PRACTICAL MAGICK Adapted from Aleister Crowley and Jonathan Zap: 1. Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. 2. Every intentional act is a Magickal Act. 3. A person who is doing her True Will has the rhythm of the Universe to assist her. 4. Every force in the Universe is capable of being transformed into any other kind of force by using suitable Magick. There is thus an inexhaustible supply of any particular kind of force that we may need. 5. A person may attract to herself any force of the Universe by making herself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it, and arranging conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward her. 6. A person's sense of herself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to her conducting its currents. It insulates her. 7. The most important preliminary to any Magickal operation is to make sure that its object is not only harmonious with, but necessary to, your Great Work. Experiment: Say this to demons and trolls: "I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity." YOUR ILLUSIONS Some of your illusions seeped into you before you learned to talk. Others sneaked into you later, while you were busy figuring out how to become yourself. Eventually, you even made conscious choices to adopt certain illusions because they provided you with comfort and consolation. There's no need to be ashamed of this. It's a natural part of being a human being. Now here's the good news: You have the power to shed at least some of your illusions in ways that don't shatter your foundations. To begin the process, declare this intention at noon every Sunday for the next six months: "I am calling on all the power I have at my disposal, both conscious and unconscious, to dissolve my illusions." LOVING THE CHANGES? Whether you're a fan of a monotheistic God or a pluralistic Goddess, you've undoubtedly noticed a deeply rooted quirk about the Divine Temperament: an extreme fondness for change. The Creator really likes to keep things moving right along. Earlier in my life, I bore a grudge against this incorrigible inclination. But after repeatedly having my karma crumpled for resisting it, I realized I'd better get used to it. In recent years, I've come a long way in retraining myself to be cheerfully cooperative with the primal flux. As a reward, the Cackling Goddess (my current favorite name for the Sublime Mystery) has blessed me with a relentless series of opportunities to prove how well I've learned my lesson. She just keeps throwing changes my way, daring me to adjust with as much skill and grace as I can muster. Congratulations. Every cell in your perfect animal body is beginning to purr with luminous gratitude for the enormity of the riches you endlessly receive. You are becoming aware that each of your heart's beats originates as a gift of love directly from the Goddess herself. Any residues of hatred that had been tainting your libido are leaving you for good. You are becoming telepathically linked to the world's entire host of secret teachers, pacifist warriors, philosopher clowns, and bodhisattvas disguised as convenience store clerks. In other words, you're on the verge of détente with your evil twin. And you're ready to submit to a multiple-choice test, which goes like this: How does it make you feel when I urge you to confess profound secrets to people who are not particularly interested? Does it make you want to: a. cultivate a healthy erotic desire for a person you'd normally never be attracted to in a million years; b. stop helping your friends glamorize their pain; c. imitate a hurricane in the act of extinguishing a forest fire; d. visualize Buddha or Mother Teresa at the moment of orgasm; e. steal something that's already yours. The right answer, of course, is any answer you thought was correct. Congratulations. You're even smarter than you knew. GRATITUDE FESTIVAL Would you like to make yourself smarter and more beautiful? Are you interested in increasing your capacity for ecstasy and improving your health? Consider the possibility of celebrating regular Gratitude Festivals. During these orgies of appreciation, you could confer praise and respect on the creatures, both human and otherwise, that have played seminal roles in inspiring you to become yourself. You would devote yourself to invoking and expressing thanks. Who teaches and helps you? Who sees you for who you really are? Who nudges you in the direction of your fuller destiny and awakens you to your signature truths? Who loves you brilliantly? GRATITUDE FOR GRAVITY Have you said a prayer of gratitude any time recently for the fact that your feet remain steadily on the earth? Gravity is giving you the same gift it always does, pulling on you with neither too much nor too little force. You should be glad for its versatility, too. It's working for the heavenly bodies with the same tender attentiveness it bestows upon you. As all the other planets do, the Earth relies on gravity's genius to keep orbiting the sun in its ancient hallowed groove, thereby providing you with all of the favorable environmental conditions you need to live. Magicians of the Western Hermetic tradition say that gravity is actually a form of love -- the irresistible attraction that all things have for each other over even the vastest distances. Meanwhile, a trillion other facets of nature's ingenious design are expressing themselves as a skilled artist might. At the heart of the masterpiece are the plants. With relentless grace, they perform the everyday miracle of photosynthesis, using sunlight as a trigger to convert water and carbon dioxide into the fuel they need. If you're like me, you feel regular surges of adoration for this complex alchemy, which pours oxygen into the air for us to breathe and ultimately provides us with all of our food. GRATITUDE FOR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield espouses an interesting method for dealing with negative and unwanted thoughts. Don't let them possess you, he says, and don't assume you have to act them out. On the other hand, don't struggle mightily to suppress them, either. Instead, try this: Bow to the offending idea. Acknowledge and admire its power. Express your gratitude and respect to it for galvanizing so much of your psychic energy. WANT TO GET YOUR ASTROLOGICAL CHART READ? If you want your personal chart done, I recommend a colleague whose approach to reading astrology charts closely matches my own. She's my wife, RO LOUGHRAN. Her website is here. Ro utilizes a blend of well-trained intuition, emotional warmth, and technical proficiency in horoscope interpretation. She is skilled at exploring the mysteries of your life's purpose and nurturing your connection with your own inner wisdom. In addition to over 30 years of astrological experience, Ro has been a licensed psychotherapist for 17 years. She integrates psychological insight with astrology's cosmological perspective. Ro is based in California, but can do phone consultations and otherwise work with you regardless of geographic boundaries. Check out Ro's website. GRATITUDE FOR YOUR INTERESTING PROBLEMS What ignorance do you deserve to be forgiven for? How might you express gratitude for your most interesting problem? What could you do to love your body better? UNLEASH THE UNSPOKEN PRAISE AND GRATITUDE "I've been practicing radical authenticity lately," my friend Brandon told me. "I'm revealing the blunt truth about unmentionable subjects to everyone I know. It's been pretty hellish -- no one likes having the social masks stripped away—but it's been ultimately rewarding." "I admire your boldness in naming the currents flowing beneath the surface," I replied, "but I'm curious as to why you imply they're all negative. To practice radical authenticity, shouldn't you also express the raw truth about what's right, good, and beautiful? Shouldn't you unleash the praise and gratitude that normally go unspoken?" Brandon sneered. He thought my version of radical authenticity was wimpy. I hope you don't. As a budding pronoiac, you have a mandate to be honest in both ways. THE EMOTION CALLED "ECSTATIC GRATITUDE" is when you feel genuine thankfulness with such resplendent intensity that you generate a surge of endorphins in your body and slip into a full-scale outbreak of euphoria. GRATITUDE IS THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTIFUL ART "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." -Friedrich Nietzsche THE NUANCES OF GRATITUDE Pronoia is fueled by a drive to cultivate happiness and a determination to practice an aggressive form of gratitude that systematically identifies the things that are working well. But it is not a soothing diversion meant for timid Pollyannas strung out on optimistic delusions. It's not a feel-good New Age fantasy used to deny the harsh facts about existence. Those of us who perceive the world pronoiacally refuse to be polite shills for sentimental hopefulness. On the contrary, we build our optimism not through a repression of difficulty, but rather a vigorous engagement with it. We understand that the best way to attract blessings is to grapple with the knottiest enigmas. Each fresh puzzle is a potential source of future bliss—an exciting teaching that may usher us to our next breakthrough. Do you want to be a pronoiac player? Blend optimistic rebelliousness with open-hearted exuberance. Root your insurrectionary fervor in expansive joy instead of withering hatred. Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses that rip against the grain of comfortable ugliness. UNEXPECTED GRATITUDE Imagine you're with a team of explorers in Antarctica. You're climbing the 2,000-foot granite spire called Rakekniven that thrusts up out of the ice in Queen Maud Land. The temperature is 10 degrees below zero. There's not a plant or animal in sight. The blinding white emptiness of the wasteland beneath you fills you with desolate reverence, alienated awe, and soaring gratitude. You are far from everything that normally gives you comfort. Why do you feel so good? NEW ROSES AS AN ANTIDOTE TO NEUROSIS The phrase "new roses" can serve as an antidote to neurosis -- as a kind of magical spell. You might invoke it when you're in danger of getting undermined by either your own neurosis or someone else's. If you notice, for instance, that your subconscious mind is spiraling down into a sour fantasy stirred up by one of your habitual fears, you could mutter a cheerful round of "new roses, new roses, new roses." If your allies slip into the same compulsive behavior that they tend to get stuck in whenever stress overflows, you could chant "new roses, new roses, new roses" in a tuneful, affectionate tone. IF THE ANGEL DECIDES TO COME . . . "If the Angel decides to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner." - Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell BE SCARIER THAN YOUR FEARS EXPERIMENT: Be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops into your mind, bare your teeth and growl, "Get out of here or I will rip you to shreds!" If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a torch and sword, screaming "Begone, foul spirit, or I will burn your mangy ass!" Don't tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt-trip you. "I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated!" is what you could say, or "I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity!" DEVOTIONAL PRONOIA THERAPY Devotional Pronoia Therapy. Experiments and exercises in becoming a gracefully probing, erotically funny, shockingly friendly Master of Orgasmic Empathy 1. What causes happiness? Brainstorm about it. Map out the foundations of your personal science of joy. Get serious about defining what makes you feel good. To get you started, I'll name some experiences that might rouse your gratification: engaging in sensual pleasure; seeking the truth; being kind and moral; contemplating the meaning of life; escaping your routine; purging pent-up emotions. Do any of these work for you? Name at least ten more. 2. Are other people luckier than you? If so, psychologist Richard Wiseman says you can do something about it. His book The Luck Factor presents research that proves you can learn to be lucky. It's not a mystical force you're born with, he says, but a habit you can develop. How? For starters, be open to new experiences, trust your gut wisdom, expect good fortune, see the bright side of challenging events, and master the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities. Name three specific actions you'll try in order to improve your luck. 3. Dumb suffering is the kind of suffering you're compulsively drawn back to over and over again out of habit. It's familiar, and thus perversely comfortable. Smart suffering is the kind of pain that surprises you with valuable teachings and inspires you to see the world with new eyes. While stupid suffering is often born of fear, wise suffering is typically stirred up by love. The dumb, unproductive stuff comes from allowing yourself to be controlled by your early conditioning and from doing things that are out of harmony with your essence. The smart, useful variety arises out of an intention to approach life as an interesting work of art and uncanny game that's worthy of your curiosity. Come up with two more definitions about the difference between dumb suffering and smart suffering. 4. Write the following on a piece of red paper and keep it under your pillow. "I, [put your name here], do solemnly swear on this day, [put date here], that I will devote myself for a period of seven days to learning my most important desire. No other thought will be more uppermost in my mind. No other concern will divert me from tracking down every clue that might assist me in my drive to ascertain the one experience in this world that deserves my brilliant passion above all others." 5. The primary meaning of the word "healing" is "to cure what's diseased or broken." Medical practitioners focus on sick people. Philanthropists donate their money and social workers contribute their time to helping the underprivileged. Psychotherapists wrestle with their clients' traumas and neuroses. I'm in awe of them all. The level of one's spiritual wisdom, I believe, is more accurately measured by helping people in need than by meditation skills, shamanic shapeshifting, supernatural powers, or esoteric knowledge. But I also believe in a second kind of healing that is largely unrecognized: to supercharge what is already healthy; to lift up what's merely sufficient to a sublime state. Using this definition, describe two acts of healing: one you would enjoy performing on yourself and another you'd like to provide for someone you love. 6. Is the world a dangerous, chaotic place with no inherent purpose, running on automatic like a malfunctioning machine and fundamentally inimical to your drive to find meaning? Or are you surrounded by helpers in a friendly, enchanted universe that gives you challenges in order to make you smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier? Trick questions! The answers may depend, at least to some degree, on what you believe is true. Formulate a series of experiments that will allow you to objectively test the hypothesis that the universe is conspiring to help dissolve your ignorance and liberate you from your suffering. 7. Those who explore pronoia often find they have a growing capacity to help people laugh at themselves. While few arbiters of morality recognize this skill as a mark of high character, I put it near the top of my list. In my view, inducing people to take themselves less seriously is a supreme virtue. Do you have any interest in cultivating it? How might you go about it? 8. Computer programmer Garry Hamilton articulated the following "Game Rules." Give examples of how they have worked in your life. 1. If the game is rigged so you can't win, find another game or invent your own. 2. If you're not winning because you don't know the rules, learn the rules. 3. If you know the rules but aren't willing to follow them, there's either something wrong with the game or you need to change something in yourself. 4. Don't play the game in a half-baked way. Either get all the way in or all the way out. 5. It shouldn't be necessary for others to lose in order for you to win. If others have to lose, re-evaluate the game's goals. 9. "There are two ways for a person to look for adventure," said the Lone Ranger, an old TV character. "By tearing everything down, or building everything up." Give an example of each from your own life. DEEPEST SPIRITUAL ASPIRATIONS Here are three of our deepest spiritual aspirations, which we invite you to steal for your own use: 1. to develop the capacity to thrive in the midst of raging contradictions; 2. to be discerning as we protect ourselves from people's flaws while at the same time being generous as we celebrate their beauty; 3. to refrain from dividing the world into two groups, those who help and agree with us and those who don't "Nothing's going right in my life. I feel anxious and paranoid all the time. My relationships are a mess. Plus the whole world's going to hell!" In my line of work, people make confessions like that to me. My first response is usually something like this: "Do you habitually gobble junk food near bedtime, steal a paltry five hours of sleep per night, gulp two cups of coffee and no breakfast in the morning, then bolt to a workplace where you get no sunlight or exercise and sit in an uncomfortable chair?" They often reply, "You must be psychic! How did you know?!" My point is that many psychological troubles stem from our chronic failure to take good care of our physical needs. Can you think of three things you can do to promote pronoia in yourself by taking better care of your body? In her book Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes suggests that we all need to periodically go cheerfully and enthusiastically out of our minds. Make sure, she says, that at least one part of you always remains untamed, uncategorizable, and unsubjugated by routine. Be adamant in your determination to stay intimately connected to all that's inexplicable and mysterious about your life. At the same time, though, Estes believes you need to keep your unusual urges clear and ordered. Discipline your wildness, in other words, and don't let it degenerate into careless disorder.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1273
__label__wiki	0.59376	0.59376	Home Blog and Newsletters M2 106 Delivers 20% Increase in Fuel Economy for Mitlyng Bait Inc. M2 106 Delivers 20% Increase in Fuel Economy for Mitlyng Bait Inc. Severe Duty Newsletter "The fuel mileage is 20% better. I get 10 miles to the gallon, whereas previously I was getting eight miles to the gallon. We currently have more than 200,000 miles on a motor, and we’re planning to hit 500,000 miles." — Steve Mitlyng, Owner, Mitlyng Bait Inc. Medium duty trucks often travel long distances. Whether they’re hauling goods, foods and beverages, or in the case of Steve Mitlyng, live fish, one thing is for certain: spec’ing the right engine can make a world of difference. Mitlyng Bait Inc. raises, traps and hauls live fish all over the Midwest. Based in Watson, Minn., Mitlyng travels as far as 18 hours away, to Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. The company has been in business for more than 40 years, but owner Steve Mitlyng just purchased his first Freightliner truck two years ago. He chose a Freightliner M2 106 flat bed with tanks on the back to transport the live fish and bait in water. “I heard so many good things about the Cummins motor from friends in the trucking business, so when it was time to buy a new truck, I went with Freightliner,” said Mitlyng. His business doesn’t put a lot of stress on his trucks. They mostly drive on highways, but considering the long distances they have to travel, fuel mileage was an important factor. “The fuel mileage is 20% better,” said Mitlyng. “I get 10 miles to the gallon, whereas previously I was getting eight miles to the gallon. We currently have more than 200,000 miles on a motor, and we’re planning to hit 500,000 miles.” The M2 106 has the option of a Cummins ISB or ISL engine. The ISB is the lightest engine in its class, and the ISL has the largest power/torque ratings in the medium duty market. This truck is available with Eaton Fuller automated-manual transmissions, and Allison automatic transmissions. The Freightliner M2 product line also has the option to spec the Detroit DD5 medium duty engine, which was designed with environmental friendliness, economy and performance in mind. Learn more about Freightliner medium duty trucks here. Previous ArticleACT Expo Preview Medium Duty, Big ComfortNext Article	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1274
__label__cc	0.681211	0.318789	Research, Reference and Historical Study Impact ~ NEO; Near Earth Objects Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 template Next Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post Since underground nuclear explosions are conducted in specially constructed deep chambers, and thus representing the collapse of not only the chamber itself but the strata surrounding the chamber, can they be validly compared to craters created by surface impacts of non-explosive solid objects? Judging by the total lack of any response, apparently they cannot be validly compared. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Who is watching the watchers? G David Bock Speaking for myself, rather busy of late and limited time for all the threads, I remember seeing this and intending to respond. For the most part, impacts of solid objects usually tend to throw out material, ejecta, and/or produce raised rims. There's also materials at or just below the surface reflecting alteration from the heat of impact, something that seldom transfers up from underground nuke detonation. Also could be fracturing and shattering of strata layers evidence force and heat from above rather than below. But I'm not a geologists, so perhaps The Doctor would be better at chiming in. Comet ISON shaping up to be a spectacular display http://phys.org/news/2013-01-comet-i...ectacular.html Comet ISON is expected to be at its brightest in late November of this year, leading some to link it with the Star of Bethlehem which the Bible says led the three wise men to the newborn baby Jesus. Its perihelion – closest approach to the sun – is expected to occur on November 28 and the comet will likely be best viewed in the northern hemisphere. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-comet-i...cular.html#jCp Excitement is mounting for astronomers and star gazers the world over as word spreads that Comet ISON may go down in the history books as one of the flashiest ever. First discovered in September of last year by Russian astronomers, Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) has been drawing attention ever since. Talk about close! Asteroid to give Earth record-setting shave Close flyby comes on Feb. 15 — but NASA says it won't smash into our planet "" An asteroid half the size of a football field will give Earth the ultimate close shave this month, passing closer than many satellites when it whizzes by. But it won't hit the planet, NASA scientists say. The asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly by Earth on Feb. 15 and zip within 17,200 miles (27, 680 kilometers) of the planet during the cosmic close encounter. The asteroid will approach much closer to Earth than the moon, and well inside the paths of navigation and communications satellites. "This is a record-setting close approach," Don Yeomans, the head of NASA's asteroid-tracking program, said in a statement. ... "" http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50672151/n.../#.UQ6swfLheKw If it does hit, would be about like the Tunguska Blast of 1905. Pirate-Drakk Of course you can. A crater is a crater no matter how it is formed. Another interesting thing about the Barringer crater is the lack of debris field or "splotch" of ejecta around it. In the desert there is no vegetation to and little water to obscure such marks and this is a young impact. 3619478521_8c8159f573_z.jpg (170.5 KB, 48 views) Battles are dangerous affairs... Wang Hsi Hida Akechi I've been there. It's amazingly flat surrounding that crater. A stark reminder of just what can happen to our planet. The First Amendment applies to SMS, Emails, Blogs, online news, the Fourth applies to your cell phone, computer, and your car, but the Second only applies to muskets? GCoyote ACG Forums - canis administrationem Originally posted by Pirate-Drakk View Post ... Another interesting thing about the Barringer crater is the lack of debris field or "splotch" of ejecta around it. In the desert there is no vegetation to and little water to obscure such marks and this is a young impact. That is interesting. Any theories you like as to why that is? Any metaphor will tear if stretched over too much reality. Questions about our site? See the FAQ. Actually, at least in this article, there is a debris field: "Limestone blocks as massive as thirty tons were tossed outside the crater’s rim, and debris from the impact has been found over an area of 100 square miles." "Relatively large chunks of nickel-iron fragments, ranging from gravel size to blocks weighing up to 640 kilograms have been recovered from the debris field surrounding the crater." http://www.philipcoppens.com/meteorcrater.html It does look like there is no debris field, especially from simply looking at the pictures. I have never heard before that the area lacked a debris field. Originally posted by Hida Akechi View Post 100 square miles sounds like a lot but when you do the math, the furthest debris is only 5 miles from the crater and amounts to a few pebbles. When I think debris fields, they look like the fresh craters in the pics below. The first two are from Luna, the other two are from Mercury. hrp111.jpg (198.0 KB, 1 view) 04_07.jpg (377.2 KB, 1 view) mercury1.jpg (19.0 KB, 1 view) mercury%20craters.jpg (88.1 KB, 1 view) Ok, I understand then. But those are on worlds that don't have erosion or new soil laid down. Granted Meteor Crater is in the middle of a desolate nowhere, but those processes do happen in that area anyway. The article did mention much larger boulders thrown up from the impact. So it's more than just a few pebbles. But I'm not quibbling, I understand by what you mean now when you say "debris field". Utter ejection devastation. Like I said, I have been to the crater, I have seen ejecta laying about, but not on the scale of the pictures you present. And if it is an actual mystery as to why there isn't, at least, more debris, then I'm inclined to wonder why as well. Thanks for the brain-excercise! Your welcome, I also enjoy oddities I can't explain. Recall from this thread of mine: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forum...d.php?t=131466 "Simple craters generally have depth / diameter ratios of between 1/5 (0.2) and 1/3 (0.33) (Melosh, 1989)." http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/tutorials/meteor_craters If we take the numbers from the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater We get: 170m/1186m = 0.143 This does not fall into the range of a "normal" simple crater which this appears to be. So, we have a "crater" that does not fit the depth to diameter ratio, it lacks a significant debris field, and it is square instead of round. I would say this is not much of an impact crater based on the actual evidence and science behind cratering. However, it is indeed a crater. Here's a way to make craters of various types. From page 234 of this interesting document: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/...852629-81nrD8/ As you can see, all manner of ratios of diameter to depth ratios can be generated depending on the specifics of the blast parameters. The explosions don't require nukes. You will get the same result for the same amount of bang out of any explosive. All of the "mysteries" of the Barringer crater can be explained by an underground blast. The lack of radioactive debris in the area indicates it was not a nuclear explosion. This underground blast theory can explain the crater, but not the "who", "when", and "why" questions that would be related if it were true... 800px-Nuclear_explosion_craters_schema_1.png (56.8 KB, 47 views) New proof that asteroid impact dealt the dinosaurs a quick death blow Timing of an impact New findings using high-precision radiometric dating analysis of debris kicked up by the impact now suggest the K-T event and the Chicxulub collision happened no more than 33,000 years apart. In radiometric dating, scientists estimate the ages of samples based on the relative proportions of specific radioactive materials within them. [Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Mass Extinctions] "We've shown the impact and the mass extinction coincided as much as one can possibly demonstrate with existing dating techniques," researcher Paul Renne, a geochronologist and director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California, told LiveScience. http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/201...eath-blow?lite Some more on 2012 DA14, this article was handy for the link it provided; http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57...coming-friday/ which is this asteroid impact calculator; http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth And a more informative article (as to be expected) from space.com; http://www.space.com/19759-asteroid-...ving-tips.html Another addition: Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday's Earth Flyby http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...intcmp=related Last edited by G David Bock; 14 Feb 13, 21:05. PhilipLaos Lord Of The English Manor Maybe that large asteroid is bringing along some baby companions. From: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...91E05Z20130215 Reuters) - A powerful blast rocked the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday with bright objects, identified as possible meteorites, falling from the sky, emergency officials said. "It was definitely not a plane," an emergency official told Reuters, without elaborating. "We are gathering the bits of information and have no data on the casualties so far." No one was hurt in a meteor shower, an emergency official told RIA-Novosti. Local residents said they witnessed burning objects in the sky of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions. A Reuters witness in Chelyabinsk reported hearing a huge blast early in the morning and feeling a shockwave in a 19-storey building in the town center. The sounds of car alarms and breaking windows could be heard in the area, the witness said, and mobile phones were working intermittently. "Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite rain," an emergency official told RIA-Novosti. "We have information about a blast at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude. It is being verified." The trace from a falling object could be seen in Yekaterinburg, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Chelyabinsk, another Reuters witness said. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."— Bertrand Russell	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1278
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__label__wiki	0.81852	0.81852	Landcare Research > Databases > Fungi & micro-organisms > Fungal Guide Home > About Fungi Ngā Harore Genus (A-Z) Toothed fungi The tooth fungi include a diverse group of species, sharing a single feature - the spore-bearing surface, usually on the underside of the fruiting body, is covered with teeth. Included here are the mushroom-like Hydnum spp., crust fungi, and leathery bracket fungi. The highly gelatinous, rubbery Pseudophydnum, with an almlost translucent, pale grey fruiting body, is included with the jelly fungi. Biologically these fungi range from saprobes, to wood-rotters, to ectomycorrhizas. Name Image Description NZFungi Entry Antrodiella Polypore fungi forming bracket to crust-like basidiocarps, causing a white rot of dead wood. Five or six species have been reported from New Zealand, almost all apparently restricted to the North Island. One exception is a species referred to by G.H. Cunningham as Poria undata (an incorrectly applied Northern Hemisphere name); this has a curious distribuition with two centres, one... Hericium Known popularly as fungus icicles. Large, cascading masses of narrow, down-ward projecting, tapering white branches. Saprobic on wood. Distinguished from most fungi included in this group, because the branches of the fruiting body hang downwards. A single native New Zealand species. Hydnum Mushroom-like fruiting bodies with teeth rather than gills on underside, stalk often somewhat eccentric. Ectomycorrhizal under Nothofagus and tea-tree. Several subspecies have been described for H. crocidens which appear to be specialised with respect to substrate. Under tea-tree hosts are Hydnum crocidens var. badium (with a dark brown cap) and Hydnum croci... Sarcodon Dark brown, velvety caps, with dark brown stalks. Two species are recorded from New Zealand. Sarcodon thwaitesii is widespread in tropical Asia. The fact that it has been recorded to the very south of New Zealand suggests that a different species may be involved. Tropical species typically are restricted to more northern areas. S. ionides is recorded from Europe and New Zealand...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1287
__label__cc	0.515436	0.484564	A future of design Tesla's Javier Verdura reminds the audience why electric rather than gas-powered vehicles rule the world in 02025 Imagine that it is the year 2025 and the world of technology is anew: quantum computing is now common, 3D printing has become a cheap commodity, biological programming has redefined the concept of life, and sensors of every type are embedded in almost every manufactured product, fulfilling the promise of the Internet of things. But in 2025, the world continues to churn. Economies on every continent have gone bankrupt. Massive corporations have fallen, replaced by rapidly growing startups—and the average global temperature has risen 1.2°C... Such were the narrative elements informing an experiential scenario recently orchestrated by the 3D design software publisher Autodesk. In November 02012 in Las Vegas, the company hosted Autodesk University, its highly-produced annual gathering for industry trendwatching, training and networking purposes. In addition to the regular programming of classes and TED-esque mainstage presentations, on this occasion they decided to experiment with staging an experiential scenario for the future of design. And so, genial compere and friend-of-this-show Autodesk Fellow Tom Wujec MC'd a thirteen-years-hence edition of the "International Design Innovation Awards" -- a hypothetical event well suited to provoking thought and conversation around "how the masters create in 2025". The gala's winners -- which is to say, presenters from selected design-oriented organisations, ostensibly earning their respective gongs from among a trio of high-flying nominees -- were allowed 8 minutes of stage time (freakishly generous for an awards ceremony) enabling crafty in-world exposition, peppered with the genre's customary thankyous and shout-outs. The "awardees" included Intel's Brian David Johnson, Javier Verdura from Tesla Motors, Rex Grignon from Dreamworks, and my Arup colleague Alvise Simondetti (whose presentation incorporated ingenious imagery of post-climate-change London by Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones). Alvise Simondetti from Arup proudly accepts his award for the "Universal Popup Hotel", an outstanding built environment design -- a decade from now But in terms of experiential scenario craft, the clear standout was OCAD foresight student and budding experientialist Trevor Haldenby, reprising a role created for his transmedia theatre production ZED.TO last year. In-world, he was speaking as Chief Innovation Officer of ByoLogyc, a Toronto-based biotech company being honoured in the exciting category of Advances in Biological Design. This was among the most accomplished solo-performance scenarios I've ever seen, smoothly checking off some of the key criteria for doing experiential futures (or design fiction) work effectively.* 1. The tip of the iceberg, a.k.a. ‘reverse archaeology’. Archaeologists often dig up fragments of the past and try to deduce elements of social, cultural, economic and other context from these. An experiential scenario does the opposite, producing that handful of elements which will be most evocative of the world into which you want to invite the audience. This presentation made full use of the hybrid format provided (part acceptance speech, part corporate prospectus) as a window on a world of ubiquitous consumer biotech; with some great design assets -- slides touting ByoLogyc's deliciously creepy products -- woven in to tell the story. 2. The art of the double-take, i.e., Make us think twice. As per Dator’s second law of the future ('Any useful statement about the future should at first appear to be ridiculous') the scenario into which the audience was placed by the ByoLogyc presentation was edgy in content yet eerily plausible in form. Playing these levels off against each other helps an audience find its way into a narrative logic that may be challenging. 3. Don’t break the universe. Put us in-world, and keep us there. A recent evening of alternate reality gaming/theatre that I attended was set in the year 01984, yet the physical invitations that the organisers -- to be fair, undergraduate students just learning the ropes -- had gone to the trouble of producing included an email address at the bottom, and urged participants to RSVP to "The Game Runners". These sorts of anachronistic and non-diegetic gaffes break the universe. Avoiding such traps is about carefully attending to all the little details that either enable or interfere with the suspension of disbelief. Trevor had it covered, literally down to the fine print, with © 2025 ByoLogyc appearing in the bottom right corner of each slide. His opening remarks also incorporated an in-world anecdote about the venue; another detail corroborating the putative reality of the encounter. Pro stuff. 4. Make it fun! Challenging content (point two above) need not and should not mean dull and deadly earnest. Plenty of black humour here; pitch-perfect, tongue-in-cheek riffs on corporate rhetoric -- "for 32 years we've been borrowing chapters from the book of life that exists all around us in the world, to develop amazing new products". With craft and wit, this approach helped tell and sell the story, while simultaneously exercising satirical licence to play both sides of the question of desirability of ByoLogyc's formula; biotech meets human-centred design to "contribute to the creation of a better world". The embed link's declining to work, but video of the whole "Future of Design" awards session can be found at this link. It runs 1hr 15mins; Trevor Haldenby's speech is the final segment (starting at 1hr 1min 30sec). There were some other lovely touches throughout this immersive-performance exploration of what could become of design over the next decade and a bit; perhaps there were a few things that might have worked better as well, but it was an ingeniously setting-appropriate conceit for the audience's encounter with an intersection of futures and design. Hats off to the experimenters -- there are many other design futures out there to explore, so I hope we'll see much more of this sort of thing as time goes on. * For more on these design principles see The Futures of Everyday Life, pp. 189-207. > Why futures and design are getting married > Experiential scenarios at South by Southwest > Hawaii 2050 > Design fiction, emerging Labels: Autodesk, design, design fiction, experiential futures, performance, Trevor Haldenby	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1288
__label__wiki	0.555504	0.555504	An Experiential Futures Interview Unearthed from the archives... Professor John Robinson (University of Toronto) playing The Thing From The Future with teammates at Utrecht University's Experiential Futuring Summer School (Photo: Stuart Candy) For the past few days I've been in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Netherlands, for an 'Experiential Futuring Summer School' piloted by the Urban Futures Studio from Utrecht University. Last night we arrived in London, where the V&A Museum recently opened The Future Starts Here, a major exhibition that runs until November and showcases "more than 100 objects as a landscape of possibilities for the near future". Last week Jake Dunagan and I introduced city leaders from around the United States to futures practice, with a special Cities Edition of The Thing From The Future card game, in Boston at the annual US Conference of Mayors. (It followed a similar event we ran for American mayors at South by Southwest in March.) The weekend before last was spent with European civil servants in Brussels for the EC Joint Research Centre's conference FTA2018, who showed what seem to me unprecedented levels of interest in experimenting with design and games to support policymaking. Last month I gave the opening keynote at Primer, the second annual gathering drawing hybrid futures/design practitioners from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area, on the back of a burgeoning series of 'Speculative Futures' meetups. (The word speculative is redundant here: certainly not all speculation is about the future, but all futures thought is necessarily speculative.) Whatever it might be called, there's a flurry of activity at the intersection of futures and design. After many years of quiet gestation in mostly isolated pockets, and of bringing these ideas to the attention of countless previously uninitiated groups, it's exciting to find a growing number of folks experimenting and enthused; an increasingly networked awareness and momentum; a sense of emerging community. At these events we often also find some amount of grappling with terminology and framing, which takes me to how these areas have evolved over the dozen years since we started working in this space –– before we had so many instances to think with, let alone a vocabulary for it. I'm reminded of an exchange from 02012, when futurist Trevor Haldenby interviewed me via email as part of his Master of Design research project at OCAD University, with the working title 'Transmedia Narratives and Experiential Scenarios'. Our interview covered several topics that remain relevant, and seem useful to share given the growing interest in these spaces. A little context for the (lightly edited, links added) exchange below: this was the same year that Trevor and collaborators founded The Mission Business, with the focus of his MDes project – the final version is here – being their groundbreaking interactive theatre campaign ZED.TO. I didn't yet know that my next step would be to Toronto for a professorship at OCAD; at the time I was still heading up Foresight and Innovation for Arup in Australasia. The end of 02012 was two and a half years after The Futures of Everyday Life, and a year before Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby published Speculative Everything, at which point the frame of 'speculative design' really started entering currency. TH: How do you refer to your work? What is the history of the term? SC: I most often use the terms experiential futures and experiential scenarios. The former refers to the whole area of practice, as a methodology. The latter refers to particular projects or interventions based on specific stories. They bear a very similar relation to one another as do the terms sans 'experiential'; i.e., the second is a subset of the first. There are plenty of cognate terms currently floating in the same semantic cloud. The term 'tangible futures' is useful because it's intuitive. 'Immersive futures' also. 'Critical design' seems mainly to be about stretching the intellectual legitimacy and contributions of design, a worthwhile aspiration that is associated with some very interesting work (Dunne & Raby and their protégés). 'Design fiction' turns out to be a semantic honeypot luring design-minded folk into a worthy mode of experimentation, combining speculative story with a designerly interface to materiality; although to date, in practice it has been excessively tech- and object-focused. It has also by and large not yet escaped the techy subject-matter preoccupations of its cousin, science-fiction prototyping. The scope of futures needs to be far wider than gadgetry; the rub's in the manifold rippling consequences of change, especially in the complex ineffable and multifarious nontechnical facets of life as we experience it. Imaginings that start with technical objects seem too easily also to end there, indulging a desire to oversimplify, so I suggest there's a reductive thinking here that we need to challenge ourselves to surpass. In any case for that narrower purpose, the evocative (if bulky) term 'artifacts from the future', borrowed from Wired magazine, is the one I tend to use. There are also such polysyllabic options as 'object-oriented futuring' and 'diegetic prototyping', the former I've written about a bit and the latter having been picked up from David Kirby by #defi boffins Julian Bleecker and Bruce Sterling. To my mind, all of the above have their place while being less encompassing than 'experiential futures', which I prefer because a nascent practice - which is what I think this was when I was writing my doctorate on the subject; and in many ways still is - needs an overarching conceptual frame pulling it together. The reference to experience is a deliberate choice of an accommodating substrate or canvas incorporating designed objects, encounters in the flesh, etc. (I also appreciate and sometimes use other design terms like 'interaction design' and, even if it's much less common, 'situation design'.) But the choice of 'experience' is meant to include basically anything that you as a futures practitioner, artist or agent provocateur can cause or catalyse. It applies equally well to an object in hand, an advertisement in the newspaper, a role-playing game, a documentary snippet from the future, and more. I don't know when I started using the term experiential futures but it would probably have been in conversations with collaborator Jake Dunagan in around mid-02006, and then 'thinking aloud' at my blog, as those ideas developed. It was in fact the blog's tag cloud that progressively (and somewhat to my surprise) demonstrated that my set of interests were gravitating towards art and design. A 02009 guide to communicating climate change for laypersons included the term 'experiential scenarios' as a key communicative strategy for simultaneously addressing both heart and mind, and yet oddly that guide neither explained the term nor provided any examples of it in action. Which suggested to me that this was an intuitive enough concept to resonate, but one without a lot of substance or examples assembled behind it as yet, so reinforcing a leaning towards using it as a master concept in my dissertation and elsewhere. Who are you trying to reach with your work? Who is your intended audience? Broadly I am interested in experiential futures as a way of addressing the culture at large. It is time to make deeper, more visceral and grounded thoughts and feelings about possible futures accessible to audiences wider than those that most traditional futures work has aimed or managed to reach. That said, the answer really depends on the project. In a client relationship the client is generally the key audience (unless they are hiring you to try to reach some other constituency, and even then…). An intrapreneurial situation, ie where one is an internal change agent for a large organization, can probably be thought of as a special subset of the client-type relationship. For those more 'public' projects with broad access and impact as a goal, there might be a vaguer answer – 'whoever's open-minded or ready enough to notice'. In any event as the above suggests it may be useful to recognise that for any project there's often more than one audience, and by this I don't refer only to the obviously variable demo- and psychographics of individuals on the receiving end, but rather to contexts of encounter. E.g. In the case of guerrilla futures interventions, there are primary and secondary audiences (e.g. see The Futures of Everyday Life p. 245). The secondary audience, who hears about it later rather than experiencing it first hand, will likely be affected in quite a different way. It's not the direct experience, but the 'story of the story', so to speak, which can reach a much wider audience and thus indirectly propagate ideas about the future well beyond the experiential encounter. Also note that a big difference exists between an expected/solicited and unsolicited/unscripted encounter. My 'favourite' audience, or the context of encounter that I find most interesting, is probably the audience of the guerrilla futures intervention, i.e., those who stumble across an unsolicited experiential scenario. This is because it is both the largest and least thought about, and so seems at this point to harbour the greatest untapped potential. What effect do you hope your work will have on them? This is the more important question. The ideal impact is to "recalibrate their sense of reality", in the phrase of Steve Lambert describing the New York Times Special Edition. (See dissertation p. 205) In terms of the classic trio of possible, probable and preferable futures (popularised in and usually attributed to Amara's 01981 trio of articles, although it appeared in Toffler's Future Shock more than a decade before), the most basic, 101-level intervention is to challenge people's sense of the bounds of the possible. To catalyse or kindle within someone an inquiry into their own understandings about the future – what they consider to be possible, probable or preferable within the system in question – is the goal. To pluralise their perception of what can be, and nudge them towards questioning and then acting into the future(s) they prefer. A futures-activated person develops an optimism of the will (to borrow Gramsci's term from another context) as opposed to optimism of expectation. It is about engagement with possibility and rather than passive acceptance of 'the future' provided by their cultural context (whatever it may be). I don't presume that a single work or encounter can do that alone, but that's the current or course of development, individual and cultural, to which I'd like to contribute. Could you describe the design process associated with your work? I have done a brief diagram of it before (dissertation p. 170) but the reality is not necessarily as neat – a clean conceptual description is inevitably part wishful thinking. The goal of the process is to put people in circumstances whereby they're invited and enabled to think and feel into the potential and implications of a putative reality that does not (yet) exist. They do not have to buy it hook, line and sinker; the point is more commonly to invite them to test it out. So, creating those circumstances means alternating between the conceptualisation of your creation at several levels of abstraction: the logic of the scenario, and the accessibility and comprehensibility of the experience provided (part of which is furnished by the context of the encounter which you may not be able to fully control, but which you can certainly try to co-opt). Aspects of this process are captured well by a phrase of futurist Riel Miller which he uses to describe scenario production: 'rigorous imagining'. The rigour that you need to bring to the imagining is increased when you're trying to manifest it palpably in experience, rather than leaving it in the splendid abstractions of text or statistics, which are the most common modes of scenaric representation. When Jake Dunagan and I ran an experiential scenario co-creation process over three days for the Emerge event (at Arizona State University in March 02012), we used a typology of subject (theme), story (narrative and genre), situation (concrete experience, medium and encounter). By necessity this was hastily distilled for the event, based on six or more years of working together on similar projects over more generous timelines. We basically prepared a subject in advance: the experience was to be about a disruptive archaeological discovery in Phoenix, to do with the disappearance of the region's pre-Columbian inhabitants. We also had the rudiments of a situation organised; having secured permissions from the university to set up a (supposed) archeological dig on campus, in which some kind of monumental artifact (deliberately TBD) would be unearthed, and then turned into a video about that discovery. We didn't know what the story would be, however, or how it would tie the subject to the situation. We had some ideas (to do with paleogeoengineering, and previously undiscovered dimensions to the sophistication of the 'Hohokam' civilisation). But the process we went through during those three days proved a surprisingly successful compression of experiential scenario production, albeit one oriented at least as much to history as to the future, which for us was also a bit of an experiment. [Dunagan and I went on to describe this project, The People Who Vanished, at length in an article finally published last year in Futures journal, including the layered typology which evolved into the Experiential Futures Ladder. The movie development analogy below is also taken up there.] In film (at least Hollywood narrative feature film), there is generally a progression from general to specific through the following steps: treatment, story, script, film. Getting the story right generally means at some stage fairly early on writing out a treatment of some sort – but a statement of the state of the world, and how we got from here to there. I won't attempt here to map experiential scenario production on to this model exactly, but what it illuminates I think is that there's a nested series of increasingly detailed and reality-like (simulacral) representations, bridging the 'experiential gulf' so to speak (see dissertation Ch. 2), and the whole design involves a lot of running up and down the 'ladder of abstraction' (or across the bridge, perhaps?), tying the broad premise of the scenario to the details of the experience or interaction that they (the 'audience') have, and that you and your co-conspirators, the producers of the experience, can feasibly produce. I consider a fundamental trick as being to maintain the integrity of the world you are trying to recruit people into imagining. 'Don't break the universe', as we like to say. (See dissertation ch 4 on this, and also the 'tip of the iceberg' design principle.) What is the role of 'making' in your work? I'm not primarily a maker and that's not an aspect I emphasise, because I think the sense in which it's usually used is distinctly secondary in this work. In short, 'making' (like hacking) is generally about the adjacent possible, while 'experiential futures' are usually about the not yet possible. (Similarly; 'simulation' usually refers generically to something that could happen at any time in the present, like a natural disaster, or a plane ride; in contrast experiential scenarios speak from potential historical situations that are yet to unfold.) That said, aspects of the ethos of making – proactive experimentation through prototyping; action learning – are at the broadest level among the main reasons for producing experiential scenarios in the first place. Not to be too cute, but 'making' parts of possible futures to see what they feel like and what you can learn by doing so, is a central rationale for this whole strand of work. What is the role of 'story' in your work? Do you think that stories play a significant role in helping people understand possible futures? The role of story is critical in futures at large, but I think it is hugely undervalued. Many in the profession seem to be so keen to bolster their credentials in terms of analysis and plausibility (understandably, against the backdrop of a dominant scientific/managerial paradigm) that the fundamentally narrative and interpretive qualities of foresight work risk being sacrificed to these other concerns. The result is as simple as it is unfortunate: overwrought, poorly told, uninteresting and unimpactful storytelling – the fundamental problem with which is that it doesn't recognise itself as storytelling. There are fewer really good storytellers in the field than you might expect. To put it another way, I suspect one of the main reasons for the field's lack of mainstream impact is that it has not properly recognised and cultivated narrative craft, and as a result most scenarios are appallingly written/constrcted stories with correspondingly 'low yield' (a great term borrowed in this context from GBN cofounder Jay Ogilvy). Do you identify as a practitioner of any of the above? (design fiction, tangible futures, critical design) The language is unsettled: it's a newish thing, and that's the way newish things are. I have views about the terms some of which I've shared above, but the main thing I identify as is a futurist who is trying to extend or raise the rigour, creativity, visibility and impact that this strain of work can have. Whose work in your field do you particularly admire? Do you have any favourite projects or practitioners? Who has influenced your work? The chief advocate for futures-type work and design coming together has been Bruce Sterling. Bill McDonough and Bruce Mau have both influenced my uptake of 'design' as broadly construed by both of them. My favourite projects are the New York Times special edition, perhaps superseded by the post-revolution Tunisia project. The greatest influence of an academic futurist on my work has been Jim Dator. My most influential discussions with colleague collaborators have been with Jake Dunagan, and our sometime design collaborator Matthew Jensen (then Chief Creative Officer of Natron Baxter Applied Gaming). Erika Gregory (formerly of GBN), Jason Tester (formerly of IFTF) and Jane McGonigal (IFTF) have all done great work previously or concurrently to my own experiments into this area. I have enormous interest in the films of Neill Blomkamp (District 9 plus various amazing short films), Michael Winterbottom (Code 46, etc) and above all Peter Watkins (The War Game, Punishment Park, Gladiators etc) for their use of diegetic, documentary-like storytelling techniques evoking putative futures or alternate worlds as real. What do you see as the most significant challenges facing practitioners of strategic foresight, futures studies, and scenario planning today? The futures field has been around for about half a century, but in my view has not had the mainstream impact that it should have by now. In practical terms, I find it illuminating to consider the tensions between psychology of what often attracts people to work in the field (fascination with the new, in many cases) with the formation of an effective field, in terms of community or praxis (which requires some degree of interest in and patience with what has come before). The square wheel is constantly being reinvented by would-be futurists (Jake Dunagan's observation), which represents a vast amount of wasted effort; maverick thinkers seem to have a hard time pooling their efforts, acknowledging their predecessors and peers. And the same personality type produces independent practitioners whose efforts can get easily attenuated into ineffectiveness, because no one is equally good at all three of product, sales, and finance (to borrow a broader insight about business from Ernesto Sirolli). To come at it another way, these key functions and offers are most effectively marketed by people who necessarily don't do them well at the level of substance. Another challenge is that this is by definition hard work, but that's probably bleeding obvious. The work is by definition about leaning into the unorthodox, the unfamiliar, the unacceptable. Hence the perennial 'Futurist's Catch-22'. 'Life in futures work entails constant labour on the frontier of acceptability. Those whose thinking would benefit most from a plural futures perspective are sceptical or uninterested, while those predisposed to be aware and interested for that reason do not need it as much.' (dissertation p. 211) Breaking this cycle involves luring a wider audience into deeper contemplation of the future. This is a large part of the rationale for emphasising design and storytelling in futures work: make it compelling. Do you think it is more important for foresight and scenario planning practice to be defined by rigor, or vigor – controlled and scientific use of methods, or active freeform engagement with new audiences and stakeholder groups? You need the latter in order for the former to matter. > Quality in futures thinking > Designing Futures (Interview for Desktop magazine) > Impacting the Social (Interview for LEAP Dialogues) > A future of design (Talk from the future by Trevor Haldenby at Autodesk) > A history of experiential futures 2006-2031 (Paper co-authored with Trevor Haldenby) Labels: design fiction, experiential futures, interviews, speculative design, Trevor Haldenby A Time Traveller's Story This talk provides a short introduction to the experiential futures practice of designing and staging what I call Time Machines - immersive scenarios of possible worlds at 1:1 scale. I've now run the Time Machine as an assignment with many groups in cities around the world – Singapore, Mexico City, and Toronto, among others. A short piece which appeared in The Economist describes several Time Machines created in experiential futures courses. A longer article from The Futurist provides a bit more background, although there have been four more years of experience and iteration since then. Background to the talk: I spent last year as a visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and this presentation was given at the 40th edition of the city's PechaKucha Nights in March 02017. (As some readers may know, PechaKucha is a format in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each, advancing automatically, which keeps things nice and brisk.) Why am I blogging this now? I received this video months ago, but it had an audio issue that I finally had a chance to fix yesterday before posting. Background to the topic: Time Machines have their roots in the four parallel experiential scenarios which we created for the Hawaii 2050 kickoff back in 02006. The process was subsequently modularised through teaching, first via a guerrilla futures experiment with undergrads at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 02008, then projects in the Strategic Foresight course of the Design MBA at California College of the Arts in 02010 and 02011, and then a prototype assignment culminating the intensive futures course at National University of Singapore in 02012. In mid-02013, I contributed an assignment to a published collection about the cutting edge of art and design teaching, and first used the Time Machine framing there. Later that year, having started as a professor in OCAD University's Master of Design program in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, we introduced Time Machines as an end-of-semester studio project, where it became a staple. At SAIC last year, I ran two design/futures courses; one was on making documentary films from the future, and the other concluded with the 02016 election-related guerrilla futures project that's described in the talk (it went on to win an award from the Association of Professional Futurists last summer). I've had the privilege of being in something like 50 Time Machines to date, most recently at Carnegie Mellon School of Design during the academic year just ended. A proper effort to capture the practical lessons from all this for design and futures is on the way. Special thanks to PechaKucha Chicago organisers Peter Exley, Sharon Exley, and Thorsten Bösch. An alternative recording for the same talk, focusing on the slides, is at the official PechaKucha website. My previous PechaKucha talk, from 02012 in Melbourne, is posted here. > Build your own Time Machine > Time Machines in The Economist > American Futures > Future documentary > Travelling without moving Labels: experiential futures, immersive, PechaKucha, Time Machines, video	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1289
__label__cc	0.618663	0.381337	By Cheech Tremendous, September 30, 2008 in Sports Dobbs 3K 0 The Last Gang in Town Well, the problem is that they have a ton riding on a couple of young guys, in Yovani Gallardo and Manny Parra. Neither of them have ever pitched 200 innings in a season, so it's asking a lot for them to anchor the rotation. I think the Brewers hope they can make it to like July and still be in contention, and then make another starting pitching acquisition like last year, if needed. geniusMoment 0 How is losing your top two starters (one of whom gave you a historic performance in the second half of the season) while getting back an unproven rookie with potential not getting significantly worse? They'll have offense, but so what. The rangers had great offense but no pitching for years, hell, some years ago I watched some pretty good offenses on the reds lose tons of games. Pitching and defense wins period, offense only matters if you have pitching. EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Spreading chaos since just now! And they have the defense. Notice how Sabathia got significantly better when he had J.J. Hardy playing behind him? And I don't think they have the pitching. I guess we'll see. I'm not saying they don't have potential, but I'm not ready to count on the potential of their young starters yet, when they haven't proven themselves. Besides, I highly doubt starters with so little experience are going to come in and be world beaters, it does happen (Doc Gooden, Willis, Hamels) but it is pretty rare Cheech Tremendous 0 "Hot Pants" Location:Pacific NW Blue Jays acquired Matt Bush for a player to be named later. YourKock'sReallyGreat 0 Suckin' on dicks all the day long I heard a Bobby Abreu to the Mets rumor on WFan. Any news on it? Nope. I actually heard Abreu to the Angels myself. There were a couple of papers picking up on Abreu to the Angels. I guess the Angels FO didn't like those PECOTA projections too much and decided they might want to find a real hitter for their lineup. CanadianChris 0 I have less hope for the team this year than I have since Ricciardi was hired. Part of it is the three-headed monster on top of the division, but a lot of it is that the front office has done NOTHING. There were a couple of papers picking up on Abreu to the Angels. I guess they didn't like those PECOTA projections too much and decided they might want to find a real hitter for their lineup. I appeciated Abreu during his time with the Yankees the last 2 and a half years. You know at the start of the season you are going to get 280 plus hitting, 20 HR's, 100 Rbi's, 100 runs, 100 walks and 20 steals. His defense, arm and speed have all gone down the hill the last several years. My main problem with him was that he is never carried the team on his back. His numbers were also a product of the team. Here is the rumor about him to the Mets. That would be 1/4th of what he made last year. Ken Griffey Jr. is looking for a 1 year deal with a base pay between 5 and 6 million. According to the New York Daily News, "a Mets official did not rule out signing Bobby Abreu, but indicated that any contract likely would have to be for one year at less than $4 million." Last week there were reports that the White Sox offered Abreu a one-year, $8 million deal. Abreu is a poor defensive outfielder, but hit .296/.371/.471 with 20 homers, 22 steals, 100 RBI and 100 runs last season for his 11th straight year with an OPS above 800. How many teams in baseball have done something this off season? The Yankees went all out and signed the top dollar players and the Red Sox went all out and signed the potential biggest bang for the buck players. Blue Jays are going to have to pull a Rays and win the division via the draft. What were the PECOTA projections on Abreu? His numbers were also a product of the team. Umm, what? .282/.368/.436 The PECOTA joke was in reference to the Angels prediction of 79 wins. treble 0 Office Glen That's Matt fuckin' Bush. They should just put him in AAA for the fun of having him in Vegas. Great. See you in five years. Abreu, Angels close to deal strummer 0 yet another relatively cheap outfielder goes elsewhere. is Omar even paying attention? He actually believes Fernando Tatis is an everyday player? naiwf 0 NYC = New York Chokers Location:New York City I blame the Coupons. Ever since that Madoff stuff came to light they haven't really shown much of an inclination to improve the team. The Mets are a funny organization. I was wondering the other day what might have been if Doubleday had stayed or if Doubleday never pushed for the Piazza trade which coupon Fred was against. They broke the bank on Beltran, Wagner and Santana, took on Delgado's contract, and signed Francisco Rodriguez. To what lengths to Met fans want the team to spend? They also have $143 million committed for next year, which puts them in second place in spending by a good margin. And yet we have massive holes in the middle of the rotation, at C, 2B, LF & RF aka the positions they don't spend any money on. What exactly ARE they spending $143 million on? Smartly Pretty 0 Monster Themed High Sugar Breakfast Cereal Location:Vienna, Fingers Naiwf, will you shut the fuck up? What the fuck do you want Fred Wilpon to do? Sign Manny Ramirez, a player the Mets don't really need, to a contract they really shouldn't sign, with a barrel full of money that Fred Wilpon might want because he just got fucking scammed? The entire Mets infield makes a shitload; they just signed K-Rod. He spends more money than anyone in the National League. Fist yourself. A 1 year deal for Abreu wouldn't have broken the bank and would have given us our second best outfielder for relatively cheap. Or, they could make a play for Orlando Hudson and not let Castillo's retarded contract prevent them from fixing that huge problem in the field and in the lineup for the next 3 years. The Mets might spend more money than anyone else in the NL, but they're not exactly struggling to generate income. Between the new network and stadium, I don't think it's ridiculous to think they might upgrade some of the positions on the team that can be fixed with guys who aren't asking for 8 figure deals. yeah can't get on the Mets organization for not spending money. I'm talking about signing people (outfielders, 2b) on the cheap. I'm not asking for Manny or even Dunn, but Abreu would have been nice C, 2B and possibly both corner outfield positions look real weak. You can't have all stars at every position but penciling in Fernando Tatis as one of your corner outfielders is just scary No, dude, they are struggling to generate income. Peter Gammons just wrote an article on it. Not to mention Citi Group is being pressured to relieve naming rights to the stadium, which would be a fiscal disaster for the Mets. They can't afford to pay both Orlando Hudson and Luis Castillo. EDIT: Fernando Tatis is not the everyday left fielder, he's platooning with Daniel Murphy. If Murphy exceeds what's expected of him it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him take that spot completely. Also, guys, don't forget that Ryan Church was the best hitter on the Mets for a large portion of 2008. The corners are fine. Mike wanna be 0 Location:Rochester, NY I like how you argue a team doesn't need to improve their corner outfield play with Manny freakin' Ramirez while simultaneously citing that their "best hitter" was a Nationals castoff who a) spent half the season on the DL with a concussion and b) had the lowest OPS of his career in 2008. Maybe they steal a page from the Red Sox and deal Manny at the deadline for a swath of prospects to a fringe playoff team. Nationals castoff? On a team with David Wright, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and Carlos Delgado, Ryan Church outperformed everyone. He was a good hitter when he was healthy last year. It cost the Red Sox $7 million and two good prospects just to get rid of Manny. So now an ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar's has claimed he has full blown AIDS. Go To Topic Listing Sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1290
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__label__wiki	0.697405	0.697405	Italy \| About Us \| Jobs \| Contact Us \| Help You are here: Home Page > Arts & Humanities > Religion > Religious Studies > Alternative Belief Systems > Atheist Awakening Atheist Awakening Secular Activism and Community in America Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith Foreword by Martin Marty An original exploration of the emerging movement of atheism in America Draws on in-depth interviews with secularist and atheist leaders and activists Offers insight into the media storm generated by and surrounding American atheists Examines the growing presence of atheists in the American political sphere Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "none" box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith show how one segment of these "nones" have created a new, cohesive atheist identity through activism and the creation of communities. According to Cimino and Smith, the new upsurge of atheism is a reaction to the revival of religious fervor in American politics since 1980. Feeling overlooked and underrepresented in the public sphere, atheists have employed a wide variety of strategiessome evangelical, some based on identity politicsto defend and assert themselves against their ideological opponents. These strategies include building and maintaining communities, despite the absence of the kinds of shared rituals, texts, and laws that help to sustain organized religions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with self-identified atheist, secularist, and humanist leaders and activists, as well as extensive observations and analysis of secular gatherings and media, Cimino and Smith illustrate how atheists organize and align themselves toward common goals, and how mediaparticularly web-based mediahave proven invaluable in connecting atheists to create a powerful virtual community. Cimino and Smith show that, in addition to the Internet, secularists draw on new forms of ritual to build their burgeoning community. This groundbreaking study will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the growing atheist movement in America. Chapter 1- Organized Secularism Beyond the `Humanist 21st Century' Chapter 2- The New Atheism and the Revival of Secularism Chapter 3-Atheism Unbound-Moving to the Center, Speaking from the Margins Chapter 4- Rituals and Commemorations-Secularist Solidarity and Legitimization Richard Cimino, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University, and Christopher Smith, Independent Scholar Richard Cimino is founding editor of Religion Watch, a monthly publication reporting on trends and research in contemporary religion. He currently teaches sociology at the University of Richmond in Virginia and is the author of several books on religion, including The Most Scientific Religion, Trusting the Spirit, and co-author of Shopping for Faith. Christopher Smith is an independent researcher. His areas of interest include secularism and social theory. He holds an M.A. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. "Like many of my colleagues, I have long been impressed and influenced by Cimino and Smith's pioneering research on contemporary American unbelief. But Atheist Awakening goes beyond even what I might have hoped for. This meticulous, innovative, and engaging book is essential for understanding the New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, and political contexts." - Stephen Bullivant, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, St Mary's University, Twickenham "Scholars are just beginning to explore secularist, humanist, atheist, and free thought activism as a coherent social movement. At the forefront of that research are Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith. In Atheist Awakening, Cimino and Smith continue their previous work with new qualitative and quantitative data to provide a nuanced picture of this nascent social movement. Scholars interested in studying this movement should familiarize themselves with Cimino and Smith's influential body of work." - Ryan Cragun, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tampa "This insightful and comprehensive study of how secularists are attempting to form a collective identity and build community in contemporary America is a fine piece of sociology. The authors show a real understanding of the political dilemmas and possibilities this new demographic faces. They also provide a valuable analysis of the ways the new media environment is driving this social phenomenon." - Barry A. Kosmin, Research Professor, Public Policy & Law Program, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Atheism: A Very Short Introduction The Oxford Handbook of Atheism Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse Louise M. Antony Bridges between Worlds Corinne G. Dempsey Debating Gun Control David DeGrazia, Lester H. Hunt Purifying the Land of the Pure Farahnaz Ispahani Light Come Shining Andrew McCarron Shooting to Kill Seumas Miller Reluctant Witnesses Arlene Stein Fragmentation of a Sect David V. Barrett The Myth of the Cultural Jew Roberta Rosenthal Kwall Children of Lucifer Ruben van Luijk An Equal Place Scott L. Cummings The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism Catherine Wessinger The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements James R. Lewis, Inga B. Tollefsen Arts & Humanities > Religion > Religious Studies > Alternative Belief Systems Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Movements & Social Change Social Sciences > Sociology > Sociology of Religion	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1307
__label__cc	0.708516	0.291484	Gnomeville My language learning comic books and language musings Episode 1: Fashion African stories in simple French Episode 2 Launch Tomorrow! 31 May, 2017 My Comic Bookscomic books, comics, constrained writing, fantasy, French, French language, language acquisition, language learning, languages, music, vocabulary, writingSandra Bogerd I’m launching Episode 2 of my French language comic for beginners in the French language that have English as a first (or accomplished) language. The launch happens three years after Episode 1’s launch, and both are associated with concerts of my choir. I use appropriate choir concerts as a deadline for me to push myself to complete things. It works for me, although it does wreak havoc with my health in the short term. Last time it was a concert of music from France. This time it’s a fantasy-themed concert featuring a dragon. The concert is The Quest, an entertaining night of music interspersed with a fantasy narrative involving a dragon. Music from my second (La Potion des Pythons) and third (La Mission) comic books will be featured in the concert. The song La Mission is also available on my third album On the Rocks. Episode 2 (and Episode 1) will be available on the night in large format comic book, which is roughly a standard comic book size. Episode 1 is also available as an ebook from Amazon, and I’m running a special countdown deal starting on the day of the concert (Thursday 1st June), so Thursday is the best day to get your copy of Episode 1 for US$0.99. Episode 1 provides incidental repeated exposure to 12 of the most frequently occurring words in French, but also provides gloss support and explanations of the new word of the page at the bottom of the page. Episode 2 uses the remaining 8 of the 20 most frequently occurring words in French newspapers. All the rest of the words used in the story are French-English cognates, like “dragon”, or names, like “Jacques”. In Episode 2 the amount of text in the main story reaches a level that it starts to be possible to guess the meaning of the new word of the page before checking the meaning provided in the gloss. This is considered optimal for vocabulary acquisition. Have a look at the preview on Amazon and get ready to be entertained while reading the easiest French books you’ve seen. Then perhaps you’d like to read Episode 2. The Evolution of a Language Comic Book 16 May, 2017 My Comic Bookscomic books, comics, French, French easy readers, French for fun, French language, French reader, language, language acquisition, language learning, writingSandra Bogerd I sometimes reflect on the journey that led to me now having published a comic book in French as an eBook. Like many who studied languages in school, I realised that despite 5 years of French, I couldn’t understand a native speaker, and I struggled to read a book written for native speakers. This didn’t seem right. I had some reading books written for learners of French, but there still seemed to be a lot of vocabulary that I didn’t know. I started tinkering with the idea of a story that would only use words that English speakers already knew, plus one new word per page. The Taxi story in my comic was the first of these ideas. The Gnomeville story came later. In the early 2000s, I showed my scribbled draft to a near-native French speaker, who gave me excellent feedback on my French. In addition to picking up a few grammatical nuances, I learnt that I couldn’t trust my textbook or my French-English dictionary. Around this time I also showed the draft to an artist colleague who was an author of children’s books. She suggested inking over the sketches and sending it to a publisher. I started working on the artwork and really enjoyed it. While I did send to a couple of publishers, they were not interested, so I decided to self-publish. Feedback from other colleagues and friends led to the language summary section at the back of the comic, as well as page numbers. All the while I was learning more about language acquisition via reading, through my research in the field of computer-assisted language learning and computational linguistics. I learnt that 95% coverage is needed for comprehension (guessing of unknown words), and that glosses help with vocabulary acquisition, as do images. A subtlety I learnt more recently is that the best strategy for vocabulary retention is to first guess the word, and then look at the meaning. I attended the Alliance Française to improve my French language skills. I continued to work on the comic, and brought the latest draft along to one of my lessons and was please to hear chuckles from my classmates at some of the humour. A few more language issues were sorted out thanks to feedback from the teachers. Initially I was producing an A4 draft. This switched to A5 at some point. Then later I had the peculiar idea to make the comic fit into a DVD case, so the comic and CD could be sold together in a protective case. This became the default format for the comic that was released in 2014, at my choir’s La Musique de France concert. Feedback from someone at le forum led me to create a large format, which is roughly the size of a typical American comic book. So I ended up with many formats: small, small +CD in DVD case, large, large + CD. Finally, I now have it as an eBook as well. For my next issue I will be sticking with large format (and eBook), and make the audio a separate product. This reduces the number of ISBN numbers required, and the paperwork side of things. Tonight I received feedback on my draft of the second issue, and the language side of things is in pretty good shape, so I’m hoping to have the full issue finalised by the end of May. I’m keen to have some progress after all these years. Also, the more episodes I do, the more useful it is for learners. I can see future learners reading one issue per day to get maximum benefit, or at least one issue per week. 12 May, 2017 My Comic Books, Researchcomics, French, French easy reader, French for fun, French graded reader, French language, language, language acquisition, language learning, SLASandra Bogerd I came across this article recently while looking at on-line language learning groups and resources. Apparently there is a friction between those who understand the research on language acquisition and those who believe in language lessons. If one tries to learn or memorise language, it uses a different mental process to that used for communication, and doesn’t contribute to communication skill in the language, which explains a lot about people’s frustration with language education. One point raised in the article is that early stage language acquirers tend to focus on content words, and not absorb the surrounding function words. This agrees with the observation that it is often easier to remember concrete nouns than the words that connect them in sentences. How does this apply to my comic book? Well, my comic book attempts to make the input as comprehensible as possible for the complete novice. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this works. It also attempts to be as engaging as possible. Having heard chuckles from students of French when reading earlier drafts, I’d say that it does achieve that goal. Also, a recent customer said the following: “BTW, my 11yo read your book and I saw him giggling”. This makes me happy, as I was advised to develop this as a children’s reading resource. A French Comic Draft and a Realisation Function word frustrations German reading resources Contes Dramatiques… on Si Nous Lisions review Sandra Bogerd on Readability Zones Ford & Hicks… on Where’s the Quality? Ford & Hicks… on Recent French Reader Reads plu… Sandra Bogerd on Recent French Reader Reads plu… authorship attribution beginner french constrained writing extensive listening extensive reading French easy reader French easy readers French for fun French graded reader French reader lipograms oulipo stylistics tadoku upgoerfive word frequencies My Comic Books Follow Gnomeville on WordPress.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1311
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RussiaNovy Urengoy, Novy Urengoy Airport (NUX), RussiaNur-Sultan, Astana Airport (TSE), KazakhstanNuremberg, Nuremberg Airport (NUE), GermanyNuremberg, Nuremberg HBF Train Station (ZAQ), GermanyOdesa, Odesa Airport (ODS), UkraineOkinawa, Naha Airport (OKA), JapanOklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World Airport (OKC), United States of AmericaOmaha NE, Eppley Airfield (OMA), United States of AmericaOmsk, Tsentralny Airport (OMS), RussiaOrlando FL, Orlando Airport (MCO), United States of AmericaOsaka, Itami Airport (ITM), JapanOsaka, Kansai Airport (KIX), JapanOslo, Gardermoen Airport (OSL), NorwayOslo, Torp Sandefjord Airport (TRF), NorwayOstersund, Are Ostersund Airport (OSD), SwedenOttawa, Macdonald Cartier Airport (YOW), CanadaOzamiz City, Labo Airport (OZC), PhilippinesPadang, Minangkabau Airport (PDG), IndonesiaPalembang, Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin Airport (PLM), IndonesiaPalermo, Punta Raisi Airport (PMO), ItalyPalma Mallorca, Palma De Mallorca Airport (PMI), SpainParis, Charles De Gaulle 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KazakhstanValencia, Valencia Airport (VLC), SpainVancouver, Vancouver Airport (YVR), CanadaVenice, Marco Polo Airport (VCE), ItalyVerona, Villafranca Airport (VRN), ItalyVienna, Schwechat Airport (VIE), AustriaVientiane, Wattay Airport (VTE), LaosVilnius, Vilnius Airport (VNO), LithuaniaVolgograd, Volgograd Airport (VOG), RussiaVoronezh, Voronezh Airport (VOZ), RussiaWarsaw, Chopin Okecie Airport (WAW), PolandWashington DC, Dulles Airport (IAD), United States of AmericaWashington DC, Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), United States of AmericaWaterloo IA, Waterloo Airport (ALO), United States of AmericaWausau WI, Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA), United States of AmericaWellington, Wellington Airport (WLG), New ZealandWest Palm Beach FL, Palm Beach Airport (PBI), United States of AmericaWestchester County NY, Westchester County Airport (HPN), United States of AmericaWesterland, Sylt Airport (GWT), GermanyWichita KS, Mid Continent Airport (ICT), United States of AmericaWindhoek, Hosea 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__label__wiki	0.65553	0.65553	Top 10 Worst Cartoon Network Shows (Strider laughs darkly) (screaming) – [Strider] Good old Cartoon Network has given us some timeless cartoons over the last couple of decades. But they’ve also had their share of truly… BAD shows. Often, Cartoon Network frantically hid away these vile experiments gone wrong. Desperately attempting to draw all our attention away from them. Some of these shows are painfully pandering, incredibly BORING, or just plain ugly! So, we’re gonna check them out today. So let’s take a look at the Top 10 Worst Cartoon Network shows of all time. As always, if you do like these shows, that’s great. It’s nice that you can enjoy something that I just can’t. And in the end, it’s just my silly personal opinion. With that said, onto the countdown. Number ten… Uncle Grandpa. This cartoon seems to make its way into a lot of worst lists. And I can definitely see why! But I discovered it has a huge cult following, so it must have… something that I’m not seeing. The entire show is like seeing Rebecca Sugar’s hyperactive, psychotic brother on LSD. In case you don’t know the… stellar plot to this show, what essentially happens in each episode is, Uncle Grandpa goes around to children’s houses every day to… “check up” on them. He carries a fanny pack that talks to children and lives in his van. Am I the only one finding this concept really creepy? – I’m your Uncle Grandpa! – He’s not just YOUR Uncle Grandpa, he’s everyone in the world’s uncle and grandpa! And when he comes to visit, it’s sure to be a time you’ll never forget. – Blaaaargh… (arms popping) – [Strider] It doesn’t help that he already looks like he just escaped from the looney bin. Uncle Grandpa himself is not a pleasant character to watch. He’s INTENSELY aggrivating. And I think the only way I could laugh at him was if he was run over by a steamroller. They even did a crossover with Steven Universe at one point. as though mixing gold with sewage would make it slightly more tolerable. But Uncle Grandpa is so BAD that it managed to make Steven Universe actually bad. This is the ONLY Steven Universe episode I have not watched. I watched it for one minute and closed it. removing it from my library and never looking at it again. This cartoon is so astonishingly awful that it can manage to soil the record of one of my favorite cartoons of all time! Clearly, though, I’m in the minority, as this sewage pipe of a show has leaked out four more seasons. To be honest, this show is very high on the list because, as surreal and bad as it is, I like the good messages behind each episode. Personally, I don’t recommend this show. – How is this even possible?! – Don’t worry, bro, none of this is canon. But this is! (metal slamming) – [Strider] And for number nine… Supernoobs. Fortunately this show was cancelled after 13 episodes, and ya wonder why? Even the name of this show sounds like it’s trying to appeal to the younger generations. And the title of each show is a… “clever” “play” on the word “noob”. Except, it’s not clever! Who keeps greenlighting these pandering heaps of bile? And don’t forget, they’ve got… BATTLE BALLS to fight ALIEN NINJAS. Yeah… The word “noobie” had a kind of charm to it when I first heard it being tossed around in MMORPGs 13 years ago. [2002 at time of upload] It has now become a word that makes me want to pull my hair out in fury because of shows like this! – It’s a play on words. – [Strider] These kids are painfully-overdone stereotypes. You’ve got the jock, the nerd, the “coooool” kid… It’s just one big stereotype parade. Admittedly, this one is pretty high on the list because the animation is actually okay. Its CG isn’t too lazy and it’s pleasant enough to look at. But mostly, it’s a bland, tasteless cement mix of stereotypes, desperately trying to appeal to the young teen demographic. Number eight… Problem Solverz. The first thing you may notice about Problem Solverz is that its animation is incredibly ugly to look at. to the point where I lost my appetite just by watching the first episode. The only real plus I can give this cartoon is that its voice acting isn’t absolutely terrible. I mean, sure, it’s not GOOD, but it’s passable by… 1980’s anime dub standards. Our three main… people? They might be aliens. I can’t quite tell– go around solving surreal problems like a roller coaster that drives people forward in time. I admit that concept is kind of creative. But good god, how can I care when the show is so ugly? We have some sort of… Mud monster? A guy that looks like a fish-human hybrid, and by far the ugliest animation of a human I’ve ever seen. – I took my elementary school class to the weird amusement park. They all went on the roller coaster (rattling) and came back like this! (kids chattering) – [Horace] Jeez, they’re all like a hundred! – Were they on it 93 years? – NO!!! – [Strider] Something about those faces is just not right. I mean, look at this hideous thing! I can’t even concentrate on what they’re saying because I’m so revolted at the horrendous animation. Problem Solverz is just a mess. It’s tedious, it’s ugly, I’d definitely skip over it. Number seven… Johnny Test. Originally, this was going on my worst cartoons list, because this show REALLY annoys me. I mean, It is definitely the most forgettable, teen-pandering garbage we’ve ever been given on Cartoon Network. – Don’t worry, psycho sisters! (punching sounds) With my new ninja prowess, there’s no way Bling-Bling Boy can stop me! – [Strider] And at this point, that’s against some stiff competition. Everything about the annoying main character looks like it’s ticking some executive’s box, for appealing to the young crowd. (deepens voice) Fiery hair! Turbo-charged backpack! A talking dog! Sticking it to those stupid parental authority figures! A messy room! Yes, I hear those kids have messy rooms nowadays! (normal voice) That pretentious, self-entitled, overprivileged, smug, incredibly annoying smile, (Strider growls) I just wanna smack this kid, and he hasn’t even said anything yet! Did anyone else notice that the main theme is a blatant rip-off of Green Day’s “American Idiot”? ♪ A head of fiery hair and a turbo-charged backpack (electric guitar) ♪ (Johnny Test) ♪ His genius sisters use him like a lab rat ♪ (Johnny Test) – [Strider] Except much less pleasant to listen to. They could not even come up with their own original jingle! Even the TITLE of this show sounds like a ripoff of Cartoon Network’s Johnny Quest. Johnny himself, the main character, is an obnoxious, overprivileged, self-absorbed showoff. ‘Cuz you know, that’s relatable and charming! – [Johnny] …behind! Power poots, go! (flatulence) (fire hissing) – [Strider] And there’s now over 91 episodes of this show! So clearly they’re appealing to… under-seven-year-olds? Maybe they’re fascinated by the bright colors. I just don’t see how else this mindless, pandering junk could stay on the air so long. I recommend you keep yourself, and especially any younger viewers, far away from this show. It’s formulaic. It’s dull. It’s obnoxious. And it’s just meant to bring the “young, hip crowd” with no innovation whatsoever. Number six… Secret Mountains Fort Awesome. At least they’re trying to do something original in this ugly crash site of a cartoon. You remember that rancid load of bile that was Uncle Grandpa? Well, its “highly-acclaimed” creator made this as his original creation. Because, for some reason, an executive decided this show needed to be aired. If there’s any hope for humanity, that executive is now fired. What I didn’t realize that was, Uncle Grandpa was actually an IMPROVEMENT over this ugly tragedy of animation. If you manage to make a cartoon where Uncle Grandpa is actually a significant improvement, you know you should never work in animation again. This collection of doodles is just one big eyesore. The main characters consist of a… giant butt monster named Fart– I wish I was kidding– and a green thing covered in festering acne. And a half-naked purple… thing in its underwear. The voice acting in this one is ABYSMAL, and it made me question my grip on my sanity! – [Slog] Yeah, who am I?! – [Gweelok] D’oh… (cartoonish thunk) You Disgustoids turn down those awesome jams – Whoa. – and stop having fun! – [Strider] I THINK the cartoon is meant to be about these five monsters trying to live in the human world? The first episode mainly revolves around the toilet and pizza… (flatulence in rhythm with “speech”) – Butt butt? Butt? – Fart’s right– – [Strider] Ya get it? Because he IS a butt. And he said “butt”. Now he’s confused. I’ve seen people do reviews of this show and they never really seem like REVIEWS. They seem more like watching the viewers’ breakdown of disillusionment as they fall into a deep pit of despair about the sad state of public broadcasts! Secret Mountains Fort Awesome is ugly, lazy, and BORING. If you see this rancid trash bag of a cartoon, by all means, do not watch it. Number five… (thunder) King Star King. I’ve talked before about King Star King in my worst cartoons list, so I’ll try to keep it brief. It’s basically a grotesque, bizarre acid trip, and I do strongly suspect someone is gaining personal gratification from it. I mean, there’s lots of flopping lady parts that are about as sexy as getting a dental filling. It’s almost like the animators were having a psychotic breakdown as they made it. Every moment is someone being ripped apart or swallowed or vomited. It’s among the ugliest animation I’ve watched, as well as some of the most unpleasant. Every moment is nonsensical, hyper-sexualized ugly imagery. Personally, I’d avoid this one like the plague. And for number four… Teen Titans Go… At first when I heard about this show, I thought, “A sequel to Teen Titans? Oh come on, how bad could it be?” It’s a Teen Titans sequel! That show was awesome!” (record scratch) (Strider shouts) Oh god, I’m blind! The colors! They’re so blindingly bright! Remember that detailed, highly-stylized, and incredibly charming show on Cartoon Network called Teen Titans? Well, one day, those brilliant CN executives said, “Hey, let’s replace all the smart writing, and beautiful action scenes and clever jokes and human drama with painfully-annoying chibi characters in an incredibly corny, clumsy, anime-esque animation.” “Absolutely! In fact, let’s make three seasons of it!” You remember how Teen Titans had that brilliant, unique art style that was an amazing hybrid of Western and Japanese animation? That’s been replaced. With doodle CG drawings that look like they were done up in five minutes. – I’d drive across the country in a car that smelled like Cyborg’s BO for this sandwich! Ha ha! – Ain’t no mountain high enough to keep me away from this sandwich! – [Strider] Did they specifically say to the original voice actors, “we need you to talk more obnoxiously”? Was the voice director just recording the banter in the lunch cafeteria? The first episode is about how good Robin’s sandwiches are! We have gone from the exploration of a team member’s deep aggression and depression to… the joy of eating a sandwich. Did they just fire every original writer? And replace them with chimpanzees? Good god. This ten-minute episode just goes on and ON about how much they love these sandwiches! And I’m only 1 minute and 38 seconds in! And now they’re going on a quest to find the… ancient sandwich of power… This is just UNBELIEVABLY stupid. Now they’re fighting over who gets the first bite. Oh jeebus… (Titans arguing over each other) – [Strider] How about we make the NEXT episode about… (gasps) what will the Teen Titans get each other for Christmas! The more I watch these stupid plots, the more stupid I felt! The vapid dialogue, the horrible animation, the blindingly-bright colors, the… bad rapping? – [Cyborg] I want – [Beast Boy] Pie. When I say yummy, you say pie. – [Strider] Teen Titans Go didn’t just destroy a classic Cartoon Network show, it tore it up, spat on it, then shat on it. By all means I recommend Teen Titans original. However, do not watch Teen Titans Go. Number three… Mr. Pickles… I’ve already mentioned this one in my worst cartoons as well, so I won’t dedicate too much time to it. Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] was the genius behind this title. As well as it having some of the most ugly color schemes I’ve ever seen in a cartoon, the show itself is incredibly obnoxious, The entire cartoon itself is about on par with Family Guy’s worst moments. Shock humor is okay, but making 20 straight minutes of grossout animated violence just puzzles me. I mean, a person will die horribly and gruesomely or be painfully tortured to death and… that’s it? Where’s the punchline? What reaction is a person MEANT to have to these jokes? – Blood… -Eugh. – blood… MORE blood… – [Strider] The story is basically just about this satanic dog that just goes around… brutally murdering people. As well as that, the world this satanic dog lives in is nasty! The people and animals are all equally evil. It’s just, where’s the respite? Where is anything to LAUGH at in this horror? Mr. Pickles is nothing more than a cruel, grotesque, painful-to-watch experiment. An experiment that went horribly wrong. Number two… 12 Oz. Mouse. I originally thought Microsoft Paint was a program we only ever used when we were trying to kill five minutes. And just wanted to try out that cool spray paint function on a bunch of sticks and circles, but apparently, Cartoon Network now considers it a legitimate tool for animation. And boxes of cardboard are considered legitimate 3D. Which brings us to 12 Oz. Mouse. Just… Wow. This kind of animation could only make it onto [adult swim]. When they think absolutely no one is watching. I never pictured a professional animation studio could be this LAZY with their animation! With their everything. And the dialog actually manages to have less effort put into it than the animation! – Can I help you? – Can I help YOU. (clock ticking) – What do you do? – I do it all. (clock ticking) – Have a seat. – [Fitz] I will, because that’s something I can do. – Then do something. (clock ticking) – [Strider] And what’s worse is, I think it’s actually trying to be funny. I mean, they did include long, awkward silences. Clearly they thought something would get a laugh out of these… jokes? No, they’re not jokes. They’re just awkward dialog. There is no deeper meaning behind any of this. They were just being lazy and doing whatever popped into their head. And only a stoned executive would have greenlit this. Did the creators actually find this funny or even remotely interesting? More to the point, how did they expect fully-cognitively-functioning adults to not find this terrible? (Peanut Cop and Fitz laughing) – Ha ha ha! You so stoned, bruh, come here! (all laughing) – [Strider] Good god. It just keeps going! 12 Oz. Mouse is annoying, it’s pretentious, and more than anything else, it felt like zero effort was put into it. I can safely say, this is one of the most stupid shows I have ever seen. And I felt stupid for watching it! Don’t make the same mistake I did. I do not recommend this show. I thought that 12 Oz. Mouse was the worst, but it turns out there was one experiment by Cartoon Network that was even worse! But it was very quickly hidden away due to abysmally low ratings in the first few episodes. And believe it or not, it was designed for kids. And the number one worst Cartoon Network show of all time is… The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying Orange. – La la la la la! La la la la– (loud thudding) – [Orange] La la la la la la la! (Strider screams) – …the love of humanity, someone put me out of my misery! (loud thudding) I can’t stand it anymore! (loud thudding) I can’t stand it! – [Strider] Ugh… In case you don’t know about it, there’s this highly-annoying, painfully-popular channel on YouTube known as The Annoying Orange. Based on their views, a lot of people like this show. Somehow. But personally, I LOATHE it. The squealing voice, the uncanny, creepy mouths on the fruit, the laziness of the design. I despise it! So hey, our old favorite executive decided, “Let’s give the creator his own TV time slot on Cartoon Network.” Let me give you three seconds of the first pilot episode, to give you an idea of just how… unbelievably braindead this cartoon is. – I shall be merciful… – Merciful? I thought you said your name was Broccoli! (Orange laughing) – [Strider] I think it was meant to be a joke? I mean, he cackled inanely at the end. That probably means other people were expected to laugh? The only marginally tolerable part that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eyes out is the only human actor in the show. Probably because I was so horrified by the tongue-lolling abomination horror-fests in front of me. Nickelodeon may have given us Breadwinners, but this… This is in a league of its own aggrivating. You can watch ten frames and be disgusted! Every five seconds of the show is a new violation of my senses. Every time this… THING talks, I just want it to die! If at least one executive wasn’t fired for this show, there is no justice in this world. There is no justice in a world where this show is allowed to be on primetime TV. There’s a small section of YouTube that is made up of people who get a devastatingly, tragically large amount of views by screaming into their webcam. – WOO-HOOOOOOOOO!!! (glass breaking) – [Strider] I can safely say, these small parts of YouTube do not belong on public broadcast. This is a show I can watch for four seconds before his high-pitched squeal half-destroying my speakers forces me to close my browser in fury. The worst of Cartoon Network’s cartoons is better than this by far. At least there’s SOME creative consideration there, even if it’s bad. At least there’s original animation. But jeebus! I know there’s a crowd for this show, but I am certainly not in that crowd. And I just don’t personally understand how this show can appeal to people. Hearing this guy’s squealy voice gives me a migraine. It makes me want to destroy every orange I see after listening to this ear-piercing garbage. It’s hard even to track down any acknowledgements that Cartoon Network made this show. They made the show, and it bombed. Thank god. And they buried it away where they hoped no one would ever find it. And thank you, Internet. Thank you, WORLD for letting the Annoying Orange not extend its garbage beyond YouTube. (all screaming) I think I have a little more faith in humanity purely because this show bombed. It is the ugliest, most incredibly annoying, fury-inducing Cartoon Network show I have ever watched. It is an easy choice for the number one worst Cartoon Network show of all time. But fortunately, for MOST of these shows, Cartoon Network is clearly ashamed of them and tends to draw as little attention to them as possible. Most of these shows only have tiny time slots or are almost impossible to find. And honestly, there’s only a very small or very young dedicated crowd for these shows. Most of the time, Cartoon Network shows deserve a silver or gold medal as their shows continue to inspire me. – I’m all right. – [Strider] Do you think I missed a particularly bad one? I know there’s a couple of key bad ones that didn’t quite make the list, so feel free to let me know in the comments. And as always, thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time. 12 oz mouse and annoying orange Bad Cartoons cartoon network Controversial Cartoons Creepy Cartoons Johnny Test King Star King Mr Pickles Phantom phantom strider Phantom Strider 8 PhantomStrider PhantomStrider8 Problem Solverz Scary Cartoons Secret Mountains Fort Awesome Strider Supernoobs Teen Titans Go the this Uncle Grandpa Worst Cartoon Network Worst Cartoons 64 thoughts on “Top 10 Worst Cartoon Network Shows” Bonnie BunBuns says: I enjoyed Johnny Test as a kid, but now it's not my cup of tea. Bobby Hardy says: Well, there was a scene in The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Boredom where Uncle Grandpa's RV ran over him. Landon King says: WHAT IS WRONG WITH TEEN TITANS GO JUST ASKING! IT IS FOR KIDS NOT GROWN UPS???????????❌?? Mikara Coleman says: I actually lieu uncle grandpa 🙁 StrangeFunnyMan says: Teen titans go isn’t a good cartoon by any means, but I think it gets a lot of hate for being a remake. By itself, it’s not good. It’s bad. But I think it’s more of a 7 on the list. Also, some imagery in the show is really pleasing to the eye. But there’s too few and far apart. :/ The 200th episode was ok. Ange Zappia says: Not uncle Grampa plzzzz noooooooooooooo you monster hes my fav cartoon and I was going to go as him for book week Rosalind Wiseman says: I swear if TTG is on this list I HATE this guy My sister loves Johnny Test Number 4 TTG I'm CRYING MY EYES OUT OneF0r511 says: Pfft. All cartoon shows are sewage. Other than the legendary Adventure Time and Steven Universe. Silliest Raindear says: Ur just a hater on uncle grampa like if u agree Teen titins go is a bad show Eubrent Sabillo says: How can a middle age man that has no life,alone and lives on his moms basement know that about a kids cartoon "cough" johnny test "cough" is bad Iulia Wharton says: Lol i forgot uncle grandpa exsisted who else? Kill Team Charlie says: Steven Universe is hot garbage on its own. Uncle Chomo is just another turd piled on a turd. Anyone ever noticed that for someone to be an Uncle grandpa, they have to marry your aunt? Sounds like a subtle incest reference in a kids show Norbert Tollner says: Johnny Test was actually good, i really liked then? Nacmack VonStin says: Teen Titans Go is a horrible and i hate it because it ruined the Teen Titans dynasty because it's mentally retarded because all it's about is idiots ruining history and other things and dumb PLOTS SCREW YOU CARTOON NETWORK YOU CAN KISS MY BUTT YOU HAD A GOOD SHOW MURDERED SHAT ON IT PISSED ON IT AND REBUILT WITH THE BRAIN OF A RAT sorry i lost it and loved Teen Titans as a amazing show where theirs deep feeling, drama, and amazing fights Tim Castro says: 1st Comment: I Liked Johnny Test! 2nd Comment: [ same thing ] 3rd blah blah blah 4th JOHNNY TEST! but. I also liked Johnny test Thunder says: The only thing I hate of this video is teen titans go and johnny test Xlovergirl Nightcore X says: Ok no doubt but teen titans go is still in Cartoon Network .-. Carly Dibben says: Shows 12 oz mouse Me:I'm calling the FBI you mother fu- Shows super noobs Me:you mother fu-(rage flips table) I'm calling the FBI!!!!!!!!- Alexandros Martinez says: Total Drama without Chris McLean That doesn’t suck. At least Don never bullies contestants. Ree Gee says: I liked Johnny Test and loved The Annoying Orange Beverly Simmons says: Am I the only one who likes teen titans go and not the old one? Lil pnut says: Uncle grampa looks like a rapist stadios says: Power Puff Girls 2016 JelliDog says: One word. Superjail. Goldenfishyboy says: Blah blah blah I like Johnny Test, I’m just surprised that Teen Titans GO is number 4 on the list! Most people would just put it on number 1 because of how but- I mean disappointed of how they got rid of the original and replaced it with you-know-who…But then again, your opinion. MonsterManiac 4000 says: Some people get so annoyed when show start turning to the younger crowd but that’s because only young kids and adults actually watch while all kids over the age of 9 only play video games This list is so true! Steven Martinez says: I miss the 2000s cartoons shows like the original Teen titan,Total drama island and many more when i come home from school and now a full grown adult looking at the latest shows in 2019 shows my old childhood favorite as either remade into more childish friendly concept that makes no sense at all or making new shows that i wish they haven't made.If i was Cartoon network have a second channel like Nick Toon where they show some of there old childhood favorite like Rugrats and Hey Arnold but instead shows fans favorite shows but for Cartoon Network. I miss my childhood already:( i grown too fast. Zak Playk says: Ok, I'm only gonna include original programming Cartoon Network shows, cuz it's already a hard list to make. The only exception is #4, since I can't not mention it. My ranking: 10) Robotomy 9) Mixels 8) Squirrel Boy 7) Ben 10 2016 6) Apple & Onion 5) Sunday Pants 4) Teen Titans Go! 3) The Powerpuff Girls 2016 2) Secret Mountain Fort Awesome 1) The Problem Solverz Honorable mentions: Victor and Valentino, The Moxy Show, Craig of the Creek, Robot Jones, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Ben 10: Omniverse, Class of 3000 Those King Star King transitions, especially the one at 16:40, make me feel like I'm in an acid trip, even though they're just clips and I've never watched that show nor do I want to. Warioparty64 says: I am with Jonny about all of this. Lil Peace says: I do agree about your opinion on lazy and violent cartoon show, but cartoons about goofiness and stupidity are considered funny nowadays. So we can't blame about their decision. Harper Lynn says: Teen titans go is so bad it's good! Dany Osuna says: Even the worst cartoon networks shows are MUCH better than the average Nicks shows Cosxmics says: robin in teen titans go is such an annoying, agitating and painful to watch twink he's by far the worst one in the cartoon. butterpopcorn X says: Strider, the ug Steven universe crossover was meant to be stupid, so you shouldn't take it too seriously spicy mayonnaise says: Lots of my cousins like Teen titans go better than og teen titans I have lost my faith in humanity. Jt4pt_ tre says: This man on crack cocaine Hassan Nikooravan Rad says: Why did super noobs have to be there that used to be my fav show but no more cause i have seen all the episodes Hey! I like teen titans i love the comedy! Unsure # says: Ok you did not have to do that to Johnny test because it was actually good ??? LF SG says: uncle grandpa is one of the BEST CN shows pefore i watch any more off this i just want to say, dont u dare say clarence actualy the worst video on youtube dead pool says: No the wrost is mad Ultimate_Shot Z- Dragon Ball and More says: John Test was a good show but it’s your opinion Itqchi says: I actually liked Johnny test Haley Muelrath says: As a kid I liked Johnny Test, but now…. oof Elias Dalloul says: Before the top 10 list I saw the memorable show called Total Drama Island and why do u think it’s boring, in my opinion I love that show but Total Dramarama is horrible creeperboy 31 says: Welcome back to the worst PhantomStrider video's Gamer Cleo says: Why Supernoobs is worst i mean its the best Keya Bishnoi says: Hey I like teen titans go Cindy Dossanntod says: I hate some show IpodGaming282 says: you liar, teen titans go is better then the old trash Unicorn char 189 says: Is it wrong that I laughed at 12 oz mouse? xD Zubair Khan says: Johnny test ,uncle grandpa, teen titans go,are not bad ok Ox Time says: 12 oz mouse and Johnny Test didn't really deserve to be on this list, but that's just my opinion (which is total garbage). RoxyGigi says: Nice to hear that I ain't the only one who hates this Annoying Orange youtube series. Luckily it isn't on air in my country (yet…) Hobo The Henry says: I really like uncle Grandpa it’s just refreshing because it’s so trippy ISAIAH Johnson says: I like johnny test tbh it's really like a weird random made up ideas type of show which makes it cool 😀 but ur opinion and the whip sound makes the show more detailed if u ask me.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1314
__label__wiki	0.914026	0.914026	Craig Caudill as FM R IZ has delivered hours of diffuse and floating melodic electronic music in this release Chill Crate Rouge. Distant landscapes, from slow windswept wintry expanses to more urban clouds of rust, drifting orchestral tones sketching meandering harmonies. Gentle, slightly brooding, softly edgy at times, never static but changing constantly and slowly, it reminds me pleasantly of some of my early work (like Trances & Drones) but with its own personal sonic palette and an even more elongated sense of time. It could be a stimulating soundtrack to creative mental activities like reading, writing, or visual arts. Thumbs up. – Robert Rich FM R IZ (Ephemeris) is the brainchild of Craig Caudill, an artist and dabbler of all things creative. He is a former installation artist who turned author and electronic recording artist. He is most at home, concocting sounds to inspire his literary endeavors. His latest release is “Green Neon Nights”. To stay creative he quickly shifts from music to writing dark fantasy noir to avoid the creative blocks and pitfalls that stifle a creative person’s momentum. Recently he was made his radio playlist debut on Dice Radio on March 24th. This was a 90-minute’s playlist which was played four times in a row. In the early ’90’s Craig Caudill has been behind the scenes of art and literature. His first garage band was “Thought Lords” which finally grew into “Slughead”, which was an expanding project. In this project many members joined in when necessary, depending what instrument they were playing. But mainly the core band was Craig Caudill and Greg Willhelm-Olsen. DURING THE YEARS 1995-1999: He wrote screenplays and poetry unsuccessfully, nailed any film projects but he honed his chops to gear up for the next wave of serious creative work that was more concrete. After a failed attempt of making a short film, he later filmed large amounts of experimental video. These videos were to be mixed with music from electronic artists from all over the world, eventually giving him awards and gallery work. 2001-2005: Craig Caudill worked and toiled on making video installation pieces in rustic galleries and upscale electronic media festivals, both locally and in Germany and France. 2005 2014: He has focused on word and sound. 2013-2014: Craig Caudill as a home recording artist has created music on a simple app which he called the project “Red Wave” which slowly became “Stone Broxxa”. The latter was inspired by a hospital nightmare where he was being pecked from a ceramic tiled opening in his abdomen by a black bird. Briefly he was recording under the name “Cloned” in Brazil. After releasing five albums under his own name, “FM R IZ” was born.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1317
__label__cc	0.63328	0.36672	The Dictionary Has Offensive Entries, and It Should The latest uproar in LGBT-land is an offensive definition of “gay” in Apple’s dictionary. In a move right out of 1984, my fellow gays and allies are demanding that Apple remove the offensive definition from their dictionaries. They’re wrong, and an attempt to change a canonical source of language over an offensive definition is far more offensive than the definition itself. What’s a dictionary? To trot out a tired phrase, the dictionary defines dictionary as: a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage: What a dictionary isn’t is a normative look at what we desire words to mean. There are a LOT of offensive entries in the dictionary, and Apple isn’t the culprit. Not sure of their source, but I found the same definition of “gay” in the Oxford English Dictionary. But here’s one that’s worse. Check out some of the definitions for “woman“: a female worker or employee. a wife, girlfriend, or lover:he wondered whether Billy had his woman with him a female paid to clean someone’s house and carry out general domestic duties. a peremptory form of address to a woman: don’t be daft, woman So according to the dictionary, women are employees, girlfriends, possessions, maids, and often daft. I’m more offended by that than I am by the definition of “gay.” But let’s not shove those usages into the memory hole and pretend they don’t exist. Knowing they exist is an important part of our language. Pretending they don’t is a travesty. One Reply to “The Dictionary Has Offensive Entries, and It Should” gregspalmer says: Greetings Friend, I found this because my name is also Gregory Palmer and I was searching myself via the google+ find yourself in their security settings. This popped up and I had a read, Great New Years Resolution BTW, I made that a few years ago and it’s difficult to stick too. I am a little confused about the complaint about the “Gay” definition and you may be able to help me understand it’s offence, in dictionary terms I mean. To use the word “Gay” in the sense that Apple used it (assuming it was derived in that defined term from a negative view of homosexuals) may be an offencive remark with or without it’s usage even being known in it’s meaning. IE “This movie is Gay” is a saying that has been around for a long time and of course it is offencive, assuming again that the usage was modified / created because of a negative view of homosexuality. MY point is actually quite simple, it’s usage in that form is offencive and well understood…. at least understood to a portion of the population. Many say it without a clue of it’s negative origin and it’s implied offensive gesture. The point of the dictionary is to provide the reader with the information they are looking for, in it’s usage. To the point, a young person, ESL, someone who is exploring its usage, etc would NEED that definition in order to come to their own conclusion that it may be offencive. If my daughter heard “That movie was just Gay” from her friends after a movie and never heard it used in that phrase or from anyone else from her private school, she is more likely to look it up, and if she does not see THAT definition and concludes that her friends ment happy, or “lighthearted and carefree” and remain ignorant, even possibly using the term, without intended offence because she was unable to understand it’s intended usage. So I would suspect that it’s first definition “Homosexual” and then the definition you are talking about “informal “foolish; stupid” with a sentence example of ” Making students wait for the light is kind of a gay rule.” provides the necessary truth that people do inappropriately use the word and come to their own conclusion that it is offence. In my perspective someone who comes to the conclusion themselves, before being told that their usage of it was “taken” offencive or is improper, is necessary for critical thinking and development. Any other suggestion that it should be removed as if it doesn’t exist would only limit cultures growth, as he story does read it was found by a 15 year old Catholic school girl. It is actually less insulting (more informative) the a term “God”is used as “a myth about the god of war” for someone who is a viking…. Thanks for your help in enlightening me, when people go hog wild in labeling things improper and insulting it tends to go against them, like the church and Christianity vigorously fighting, prayer in school, evolution even dinosaurs. What they are fighting for, the fight itself works against them, BIG TIME.. Love in the Age of Technology Spend Locally and Abandon Amazon – My New Year’s Resolution	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1323
__label__wiki	0.62873	0.62873	Showing posts with label Roadtrips. Show all posts Giants Castle Nature Reserve - Central Drakensberg South A Scenic Drive Towards The Giants Castle Nature Reserve... Turning off from the Estcourt N3, winding through Wembezi ... Giant's Castle is a mountain peak in the southern African Drakensberg in KwaZulu Natal. Giants Castle offers visitors to the regions hiking opportunities with panoramic views. The Nature Reserve offers secluded accommodation, bushman rock art with easy access for everyone and about the best base to start a Drakensberg hiking experience. The area is one of many of South Africa's adventure areas, and plays host to the Giants Challenge MTB marathon in April each year. Lying at the southern end of the central Drakensberg Giant’s Castle, which gets its name from the outline of the peaks and escarpment that combine to resemble the profile of a sleeping giant, is essentially a grassy plateau that nestles among the deep valleys of this part of the Drakensberg.(Wikipedia) Giants Castle Game Reserve is considered the home of the eland as well as the bearded vulture. Another Giants Castle highlight is the superb bushman rock art at main caves which is easy to get to and well presented.(Wikipedia). Formerly the renowned Lammergeier Hide was open for visitors to watch bearded vultures and other endangered bird species. This facility has since fallen into disrepair. (Wikipedia) The Giants Castle Campsite and Chalets offer the best Base for all Eager Hikers and Climbers wishing to venture deeper into the Drakensberg Mountains. The Bushmans River can be fished for many Kilometers however only Fly Fishing is Allowed... Giants Castle Fly Fishing The iZimbali Restaurant provides delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners with comfort, cleanliness, warmth.... Drakensberg Hiking Trails from Giants Castle ... There are in excess of 25 walks in the Giant’s Castle Game Reserve. The 285 kilometres (177 mi) network of trails here includes 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to 30 kilometres (19 mi) hikes, spanning from 1 hour to overnight. There are currently 14 recognized escarpment passes in the region (listed north to south): Corner Pass Around the Corner Pass (variation route on Corner Pass with alternative summit) Judge Pass Gypaetus Pass (opened in September 2012) Bannerman Pass Thumb Pass North Hlubi Pass South Hlubi Pass Langalibalele Pass Bond Pass (opened in 2014) North Jarding/Jarateng Pass Central Jarding/Jarateng Pass South Jarding/Jarateng Pass Giant's Castle Pass... The Bushman’s River Trail is one of the most popular walks in the reserve. Points of interest along this route include Sandstone View and the historic Rock 75, where a cook from the 75th Regiment on Foot carved the figure 75 into a boulder during the Langalibalele rebellion in 1874. The highlight of this trail is the Main Caves, with one of the best known rock-art sites in South Africa... (wikipedia). Article by: GeoSol Earth Staff Contact us if you want to be featured on our Earth Blog - GeoSolEarth Contact On Other Blogs - Central Drakensberg Adventure Through Winterton A Gorgeous Drive through the Central Drakensberg - South Africa - Towards the Cayley Lodge Resort and Monks Cowl - Fishing can be done at Bell Park Dam as well as Drakensberg Sun - The Yummy Valley Bakery as well as the world famous Waffle Hut are must stops. Labels: Adventure, Africa, Drakensberg, National Parks, Photo Blog, Roadtrips, South Africa, Wildlife Location: Giant's Castle, Giants Castle Game Reserve, South Africa Central Drakensberg Adventure Through Winterton The Best Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Menu can be found at Drakensberg Sun. Other resorts include Champagne Sports Resort, Dragons Peak and Monks Cowl Campsites, Champagnes Castle Hotel, Gooderson Monks Cowl Golf Resort for Golf and Relaxation Sunsets - Cathedral Peak Hotel and the Didima Campsite. The World Famous Drakensberg Boys Choir lies En-route. Cathkin Estates allows investors to purchase a small piece of this paradise for the price of a body part. So if you can afford the home you will die a happy soul. The Monks Cowl Campsite allows hikers and climbers to venture deeper and higher into the Drakensberg Mountains. It is also the last of the Tar Road as 4x4s would now be required to progress further. Labels: Africa, Drakensberg, Heart of Africa, National Parks, Natural Park, Photo Blog, Roadtrips, South Africa, Wildlife, Zaheer Bux Location: R600, Central Drakensburg, Winterton, 3340, South Africa South Africa to India by Car. Adventurer - Traveler - A Sunday drive between 2 friends in a Toyota Fortuner that started from: South Africa - Mozambique - Malawi - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Kenya - Ethiopia - Sudan - Sinai - Egypt - Under the Suez - Jordan - Syria - Turkey - Georgia - Azerbaijan - Armenia - Iran - Pakistan -India - Nepal - Dubai And then back to South Africa. All with Minimum Visa. Facebook - Ayob Vawda By Frans van der Merwe Driving The World For Peace - an “impossible journey” which started off in July 2008 in KwaZulu-Natal is nearing its end after more than 75 000 km. Two South African adventurers, Ayob Vawda and Abdool Samath, stopped over in Louis Trichardt this week on the homeward leg of a journey, which they were told beforehand that it would be “impossible.” Their extraordinary trip, which brought them some incredible adventures, took them through the Eastern part of Africa, several hot spots in the Middle East - including Iran and Yemen - and right through to India. They were turned away from the border of China, even though their visas were in order. They have high praise for South Africa’s diplomatic missions in the countries they visited. “Everywhere we received a very special welcome,” said Abdool. The foreign media, including television stations, also celebrated the two South Africans’ extraordinary exploit. Apart from some tight situations at some borders (in Georgia they had to fake a medical emergency to convince the authorities to allow them through) and a shot-out back window of their vehicle, which is evidence of an attack by bandits in Kenya, they are enthusiastic and cheerful about their multi-facetted encounters and amazing experiences. In Louis Trichardt, where they stopped over for refreshments in Eltivillas, their odometer registered a completed journey of 75 340km. A large colour photo of Madiba on the side of their vehicle, worked “magic” when they were held up by bandits in Kenya. When Abdool politely requested an aggressive bandit to point the gun away from his face, the change in direction brought the picture of Madiba in full view. The bandit’s aggression changed into jubilant admiration, and the two adventurers were allowed to journey on! Soldiers of Fortuner Images and Article : Toyota Zone Almost 75000 km into the journey, there was a moment where it could have all gone terribly, horribly wrong. Ayob Vawda and Abdool Samath had been on the road for more than 20 months and, apart from a single puncture in Yemen, nothing had disrupted their wonderful odyssey that had begun far away in Cape Town, where anything seemed possible. “We were on our way back home, running through the mountainous region of Kenya, and were told that the road through was impassable because of heavy rains. So we waited, and waited some more, and every day the rains came again, making the situation worse,” Ayob Vawda recalls from the comfort of his Ladysmith home, where he’s still trying to wrestle the wanderlust bug out of his system. “The roads were bad alright. Soft thick mud with great big grooves carved out by trucks – which is what happens in the rainy season – threatened to bog us down. “Every so often we came across abandoned vehicles that hadn’t made it, and the only thing to do was to keep momentum going, slowly, gently and to drive around the stricken cars and trucks if necessary. I’m no 4X4 expert but after nearly two years away from home driving in these conditions I’d developed a feel for it. So it was first and second gear in low range, for many kilometres at a time. “All of a sudden, a little kid appeared on the side of the road flagging us down. We naturally slowed, wondering what the problem was, and as we came to a stop I heard these strange, sharp popping sounds. It took me a second or so to realise it was gunfire. “It’s strange how time seems to tick so slowly in those moments. I remember seeing the child running away, remember his face and I thought he couldn’t have been part of this set-up because he looked so frightened, so surprised. What I did was pure reaction. I just put my foot down and drove for my life. Our lives.” “The back window exploded from a shot, but all I could think of was to get away, and fortunately we got out of there. Later, when we got to the next town they said that the bandits in that area didn’t just take your car or your valuables, they took everything. They would strip you naked and leave you in that remote area to die.” Ayob and Abdool had dreamed of driving to China. They’d talked about it over and over again, but without making any real plans. Then Abdool bought a brand new Fortuner 3,0 D-4D 4×4 and convinced Ayob that the dream they’d talked about could actually become a reality. And so they set off – still without any plans, except to make it all the way to China. “We were both at loose ends, both single, our lives at a turning point. Abdool sold two of his properties and I sold my motor spares business on the South Coast, so we were self-funded. This was pure adventure.“After Abdool took delivery of the Fortuner from Dundee Toyota, we drove down from Glencoe, where he lives, to Cape Town. We were totally unprepared; na?ve I think is the word. We had a roof rack only, fitted just before we left South Africa in Nelspruit to take water containers and two spare wheels, and for the rest we packed our stuff into those black plastic containers you buy at supermarkets.” Over the next 22 months and 80000 km, they journeyed from Cape Town through Mozambique and then into Malawi.From there the route traversed Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Egypt and then over the Suez Canal into Jordan, then Syria, Turkey and finally to the northern most point of their journey, Georgia, which was part of the former Soviet Union. “We had no schedule, which meant we could explore each country as we liked. This is how we logged such a huge distance on the Toyota. For instance, in Sudan we must have covered close to 15000 km, criss-crossing that vast country, which is about the size of South Africa. They then made an excursion East, travelling through Pakistan into India, and then to Nepal. It was here that Ayob was struck down with typhoid fever and hospitalised in Kathmandu. “This part of our trip was another attempt to find a route through to China, but for various reasons this didn’t happen, including falling foul of a no-right-hand-drive ruling in some countries. “It would take a book to describe all the wonderful experiences we had, and that is one of our plans. We saw fantastic sites, the tourist must-do places like the Taj Mahal which just takes your breath away, where up to 20000 people a day visit. “For me, one of the most unusual experiences was a trip through the desert in Egypt where almost no-one goes. We latched onto a tour run by Pan Arabic. They take visitors to World War II sites where you can see the remains of Italian, German and English planes still quietly rusting away in the desert. “We saw many more wonderful places – sufi temples, and the wonderful shrine in the middle of Mackinnon Road in Pakistan. Here it is said that a saint called Sayyed Baghali Shah was working on a railway gang when the workers were threatened by a pride of lions. Baghali went out to confront the lions and befriended them, to the extent that they formed a protective laager around the railway gang so they could carry on with their work without fear of attack.” Later on when Baghali died and was buried the authorities tried to run the railroad through his grave, but each time they tried one of the workers died in mysterious circumstances. Thus the railway line that should have run straight at this point takes a mysterious kink, to circumnavigate Baghali’s burial site. “For our return trip we drove down pretty much the same way we’d come up Africa, except that we went through Zambia, not Mozambique. The roads are much better, but on the way up we had a duty to carry out for the Glencoe Relief Aid in Mozambique, gathering information that they would use to provide relief in the area against diseases such as TB and malaria. “When I set out I was an absolute novice in off-road driving, but after about 70000 km behind the wheel – Abdool did the rest – I felt like a master. We covered every hazard: soft sand, hard sand, rock, winding narrow tarmac, you name it. “The Fortuner was incredible. We had it serviced at major towns and cities every 10000 km, and I’m not kidding when I tell you that, apart from the one wheel we changed in Yemen, the Fortuner still has the original General tyres that came with the vehicle on delivery. Quite amazing. It is still running its original brake pads too. The only breakages we had were three shock absorbers – and the rear window. “Despite sometimes travelling for days on end in low range, we didn’t have one spot of mechanical trouble!”Ayob and Abdool found that the closer they got to home after nearly two years away, the faster they wanted the journey to end. But it was with mixed feelings that they arrived home as, apart from all the wonderful sights and experiences, it was the hospitality and generosity of the people they met that will stay with them. Abdool, at the age of 66 is taking a break for a while, but Ayob, at 54, is already raring to go – again. Ayob’s Travelling Tips TZ: What advice would you give to readers embarking on a similar trip?AV: Go where your heart takes you, it’s all about the experience, not the distance.TZ: What would you do differently?AV: Nothing, everything was like a magical dream. The spiritual aspect of meeting so many people was wonderful. On a practical sense, the route via Zambia and Zimbabwe is better than via Mozambique where the rough roads are a car-breaker.TZ: What vital pieces of equipment would you need?AV: We were so under-equipped. In our case, it was our Garmin GPS and a camera. Oh yes, and we drank bottled water whenever possible.TZ: Which countries were out of bounds?AV: Many for various reasons: conflict or car-elegibility issues in the case of Tibet, which prevented us from reaching China on our eastern leg.TZ: How difficult was it servicing the Fortuner in Africa and Asia?AV: No problem at all. The servicing in the major centres is as good as it is in South Africa.TZ: Would you do it again?AV: Coming home, I feel unsettled. I can’t wait to get on the road again. - See more at: Toyota Georgia Lewis Ayob Yusuf Vawda and Abdool Samath Samath's road trip makes the just-for-TV jaunt that Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman took for the Long Way Round series look like a leisurely afternoon ride. Ayob, 54, and his friend, Abdool, 66, set out from their homes in South Africa in July, 2008, to undertake an epic drive with a spot of voluntary charity work for Glencoe Islamic Mosque and Madrassa Trust along the way. Ayob sold his business, a motor parts shop, before setting off. They hoped their trip would culminate in making their pilgrimages at this year's Haj in Saudi Arabia, but they are stranded in Abu Dhabi awaiting their visas after encountering cumbersome bureaucracy at multiple embassies. While their heavily decorated Toyota Fortuner has not missed a beat on the 58,000km odyssey, the journey has been incident-packed. Apart from a large dent above the right rear wheel and minor dings and scratches elsewhere - "every dent on this car happened in India" - the car is in remarkably good shape, possibly because of two notices plastered across the rear door. One says "Driving - the world - for peace" and the other says "Visitor! May be lost. Please be patient". Ayob, a lively, wiry man, is quick to share his anecdotes as he recounts his journey with the aid of well-worn maps, which came in useful after their GPS was stolen in Tanzania. "That happened after going around Mount Kilimanjaro," says Ayob. "We were greeted by Masai tribesmen and had to inch our way through the crowd." After leaving South Africa, they did voluntary work for the charity trust in Mozambique and Malawi before taking on Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. It was after crossing the Gulf of Aqaba to get to Jordan that their real adventures began. "After Jordan, we drove on to Syria, saw Damascus and then went through Turkey and took the crusader route along the Black Sea and ended up in Georgia and Azerbaijan," he recalls. When they tried to get exit stamps for Georgia, the usually quiet Abdool used his acting skills. "He's an Oscar winner!" enthuses Ayob. After a 12-hour wait at a border crossing, where the Azerbaijani officials didn't want to let the right-hand-drive Fortuner pass through, Abdool pretended to have a heart problem and soon paramedics were on the scene, he received two injections "from a very pretty nurse" and spent a few days in a dilapidated Georgian hospital while Ayob took the two passports to the embassy in Tiblisi, Georgia's capital, to sort out exit visas. After Abdool was given the all-clear, they drove on to Armenia where they spent two weeks, eight hours of which was given over to extensive searches of the car by humourless Armenian and Russian officials. "Getting into Iran was the easiest border we encountered," says Ayob. "The man spoke perfect English, he was so helpful, he gave us maps and cash to boot." When they visited the South African embassy in Tehran, the officials were amazed. "They offered us tea and cigarettes and he says we were probably the first to ever drive to Tehran from South Africa. He thought we must have hired a car in Iran." An invitation to the embassy's African Unity Day celebrations ensued and that was the start of a series of generous offers of hospitality in Iran, aside from an incident where they were robbed. "Fake cops robbed us of some dollars - they pulled us over, searched the car and said they were looking out for fake dollars," says Ayob. One of the con men took a close look at one of Ayob's US notes and then asked to see the rest of his money and his wallet. "They took my wallet into the car and drove off - I flipped and tried to chase them." In the mountain town of Damavand, they had better luck when they slept for four nights in the loft above a kebab shop. Villagers near Khorramabad invited them to live with them in their goatskin tents. In Nasar, a local woman who seldom mixed with men in her village became their tour guide and cook. A chance encounter with a group of 36 tourists from South Africa, Australia, France and Switzerland in Esfehan led to them joining forces for a safe road crossing into Pakistan. Then it was a hair-raising journey from Bam to Quetta with a police escort the whole way. "But the Pakistanis were very good to us - in Dalbandin, we slept on the roof of the police station with American jets going to bomb Afghanistan flying over," says Ayob. "It's a crazy city, man," is Ayob's incredulous description of Quetta, a place just 40km from the Afghan border and divided by US and Pakistani soldiers, police and Taliban. "There are guys with machine guns and sandbags on every second corner." Ayob recalls a rather disturbing reason for local motorcyclists to be pulled over by the police. "If you are riding double on a motorbike, you will be stopped at every place because of target killings," he says. It has become a common practice between warring factions in the area to kill specific people from motorbikes with one person riding and the pillion passenger shooting. "I met the head of the anti-terrorist squad and he advised us not to use the car but instead to walk around, keep your mouth shut and go with local transport," he says. By blending in and being sensible, Ayob says he and Abdool gained access to a marketplace for weapons. "The market sold US rifles, uniforms, night vision goggles; and it was sold to the general public," says Ayob. "No city impacted on me like Quetta." After failing to get visas for China, Ayob and Abdool crossed the border into India at Amritsar and experienced upset stomachs and new dents in their car in between seeing the Taj Mahal at Agra and the city of Lucknow. In Nepal, Ayob contracted typhoid and, while he was in hospital, he received word that his mother in South Africa was unwell, so he flew home from Kathmandu. "She passed away and I missed the funeral - in Islam we bury the body very quickly - and Abdool waited for me for three weeks in Nepal while I recuperated in South Africa." After reuniting in Nepal with Abdool, they returned to Iran and crossed over with the car into the UAE by ferry from Bandar Abbas to Dubai. Now they are in Abu Dhabi hoping to hear from the Saudi Arabian embassy if they will receive their visas so they can make their Haj pilgrimage. "I am not too encouraged to go to Saudi now," says Ayob, reflecting on the difficulties they have experienced so far in trying to get visas. But he is quick to admit that, so far, the 16-month journey has provided him with many amazing experiences as well as the opportunity to help with charity projects. Indeed, as the photographer arrives, he has started riffing on his opinions of the war in Afghanistan and explaining how the gun smugglers operate on the Kenya-Tanzania border. McGregor and Boorman might have slick camera crews and A-list friends to celebrate with them at the TV series launch parties, but Ayob and Abdool have lived off their wits and the kindness of strangers when they took the seriously long way round to Abu Dhabi. glewis@thenational.ae Read more: The National Email Me - Ayob Vawda - Facebook Ayob Vawda Labels: #SouthAfrican, Adventure, Ayob Vawda, Exploration, Gorgeous, Ladysmith, Photo Blog, Roadtrips, South Africa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1337
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__label__wiki	0.87787	0.87787	Staff, 1915 births, November births, Male Staff Members Staff Bio Needed Signature Image Needed Gill Fox Gilbert Theodore Fox "Gill" Fox First publication Gilbert Theodore "Gill" Fox[1] (November 29, 1915[2][3] – May 15, 2004)[4] was an American political cartoonist, comic book artist and editor, and Animator. Fox began his career in animation at Max Fleischer's studio, but left due to labor unrest. He entered the comic book industry, working for a number of studios and companies, including DC Comics. Beginning in 1940, he was an editor and a cover artist for Quality Comics, with his work gracing the covers of such titles as Torchy and Plastic Man. In 1941, he wrote several weeks of continuity for the Spirit daily newspaper strip. A 1941 comic book written by Gil Fox described the bombing of Pearl Harbor in surprising detail, precisely one month before it happened.[5] He left his editorial position at Quality in 1943 to serve in World War II, where he worked for Stars and Stripes. Once discharged from military service, Fox freelanced for Quality Comics until the early 1950s. Fox later moved to advertising, working for the Johnstone and Cushing advertising agency. There he met Dik Browne, and assisted him on Browne's comic strip Hi and Lois. He also assisted/ghosted on several other strips as favors to friends. His daughter, Susan Fox, continued the tradition. She lettered several newspaper strips in the 1970s and 1980s, including Star Hawks, Annie, and Beetle Bailey. Fox later worked as a political cartoonist for the Connecticut newspapers The Fairfield Citizen and the Connecticut Post; he was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes.[4] He died in Redding Ridge, at age 88.[4] Professional History of Gill Fox is unknown. Gill Fox's Images as a Cover Artist Gill Fox/Editor Gill Fox/Writer Gill Fox/Penciler Gill Fox/Inker Gill Fox/Cover Artist Gill Fox/Letterer ↑ Gill Fox at the [[wikipedia:Lambiek Comiclopedia\|]] ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JBWR-2WB : accessed 25 Feb 2013), Gilbert T Fox, 15 May 2004; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). ↑ [[wikipedia:Comics Buyer's Guide\|]] #1636 (December 2007), p. 135. The New York Times (below) also gives 1915, although the Lambiek Comiclopedia (above) lists 1919. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Nash, Eric P. "Gill Fox, 88, Cartoonist on Early Comic Books", The New York Times, May 24, 2004 ↑ Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #167\|http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/08/07/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-167 Amash, Jim. "Quality Control: A Conversation with Gill Fox - Artist, Writer, and Editor (1940-43) of Quality Comics Group", Alter Ego vol. 3, #12, January 2002. WebCitation archive. Saxton, Brian."Famed cartoonist Gill Fox dead at 88", The News-Times (Danbury, Connecticut), May 21, 2004. http://www.webcitation.org/5uFMwZMxo WebCitation archive]. Name Fox, Gill Short description Artist Date of death 2004 Category:1915 births Category:2004 deaths Category:American comics artists Category:Comic book editors Category:Golden Age comics creators Category:American military personnel of World War II Retrieved from "https://heykidscomics.fandom.com/wiki/Gill_Fox?oldid=1577757" November births	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1347
__label__wiki	0.519733	0.519733	HiAbigail Cyber Security Researcher \| Founder of Cups of Content Abigail McAlpine Cyber Security Researcher at University of Huddersfield The Secure Societies Institute Abigail McAlpine is a PhD Cyber Security Researcher from The Secure Societies Institute at the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. She is also a freelance technical and cyber security writer as the founder of copywriter business Cups Of Content. My research examines the conditions around awareness and attitudes to the security and sharing of online data, particularly focusing on the opportunities and risks around children’s online data. I am currently in the second year of my PhD programme with The Secure Societies Institute at The University of Huddersfield. In 2018, I had the pleasure of being a Shortlisted Regional Finalist for Forward Ladies “Rising Star in STEM award” in Yorkshire, North East and Scotland for my research and projects in the field of cyber security. I recently published several chapters in a Bloomsbury Professional Publication by Helen Wong MBE called ‘Cyber Security: Law and Guidance“. My Chapters were written alongside a recognised name in cybersecurity education, Bob’s Business Founder and Speaker ‘Melanie Oldham’. The Cyber Security: Law and Guidance book aims provide an expansive overview and education of current research and work being conducted in the area of cyber security and data protection in the United Kingdom and the European Union. The chapters I worked on are around cyber security culture and an overview of threats and vulnerabilities to organisations. I have worked for Melanie Oldham curating content and copywriting for website content, course content and books for Bob’s Business, cyber security educators for many large organisations in the UK. I am currently writing my first book and online course on the topics of cybersecurity and private data online. This is alongside my studies and PhD at the University of Huddersfield. Follow me on Twitter @AbigailMcAlpine Tse, H. (2018). Cyber security (1st ed.). London: Bloomsbury Professional. (Chapter 1: Threats & Chapter 2 Vulnerabilities) – Co-written with Melanie Oldham of Bob’s Business. Technical copywriting and content creation around cyber security and related fields by Abigail McAlpine. A few Bob’s Business Guide – How to Use Public Wifi Safely Introducing the risks to using public wifi, precautions around hacking, VPN’s and Friendly Wifi. University of Huddersfield Spotlight – Equifax data hack affected 694,000 UK customers Examining the breach of Equifax data in 2017 that lead to access of over 143 million Equifax customer files. University of Huddersfield Spotlight – Uber Data Hack – 57 Million users affected Commenting on the international scrutiny that Uber was facing as a result of the news of a large data breach that affected over 57 million Uber users. University of Huddersfield Spotlight – Could the UK lead the way to creating safe and ethical AI? Covering the attendance of Prime Minister Theresa May attending the World Economic Forum in January 2018 and The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. University of Huddersfield Spotlight – How the KRACK attack destroys WiFi Security Discussing the KRACk attack and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) and the extent in which devices are exposed and vulnerable in the case of an attack. DataFloq – ‘There Is No Privacy Online, Get Over It’ Discussing the results of research conducted by the University of Surrey, Australia on 1600 respondents regarding their perceptions of privacy online. Are you looking for someone to write cyber security or technical blogs for your business or website? Or are you looking for a cyber security researcher to discuss ongoing research? You can contact me here or through my social media. You can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. HiAbigail, A WordPress.com Website.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1348
__label__wiki	0.708135	0.708135	A Foster For Philadelphia Coming soon? Rumors say Liberty Property Trust has something big planned for Comcast \| Photo/composite: Bradley Maule With production levels at an all time high, Philadelphia’s rumor mill might have just earned itself a prize: a Pritzker Prize. While rumors abound regarding Liberty Property Trust’s plans at 18th & Arch for the growing Comcast empire—and how big they plan to build it—one thing is for certain: if it’s built, its architect will be Foster + Partners. Based in London, Foster + Partners is helmed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, the 1999 recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The foremost of English architects, he designed the Millennium Bridge, Wembley Stadium, and 30 St Mary Axe (“The Gherkin”), all in London in the early 2000s. His firm also crafted the tallest bridge in the world, France’s Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004. Prior to that, his Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, opened 1997, was the tallest building in Europe for nearly a decade, and his HSBC Building was part of wave of skyscrapers that defined Hong Kong’s skyline when it opened in 1985. His Two World Trade Center, arguably the most attractive of the WTC replacement buildings in New York, is under construction. The last published rendering for the Comcast Center complex still included the smaller Two Pennsylvania plaza, at left \| Image: Robert A.M. Stern Architects In short, Foster is an enormous name to add to our own growing skyline and a big get for Liberty Property Trust, the company who has already redefined the Philly skyline twice. Then called Rouse & Associates, their One Liberty Place famously shattered the gentlemen’s agreement when it was announced in 1983 and handed William Penn his hat in 1987. Its Chrysler-esque blue chevrons, designed by Helmut Jahn, were then bested by Robert A.M. Stern’s Comcast Center, which Liberty opened in 2008. Five years later, its primary tenant needs more space. A lot of it. Comcast Center has been at full capacity almost since it opened, Comcast themselves have leased out space in other Center City buildings, and there’s that side item of Comcast’s purchase of NBCUniversal. Certainly no one expects NBC to leave 30 Rock or anyone to ever exclaim “live from Philadelphia, it’s Saturday night,” but as a growing conglomerate in both the creation and delivery of content, the need for office space is a definite. Six months after Comcast purchased the majority share in NBCUniversal in January 2011, Liberty Property Trust purchased the lot at 1800 Arch from Hill International. (Comcast completed their NBCU purchase in February of this year.) Liberty also owns the lot on the northwest corner of 19th & Arch, as well as the corner lot next to Comcast Center at 18th & JFK that’s long been a part of the Stern complex, a shorter building which mimics One Penn Center (Suburban Station). “Central Branch Y.W.C.A.” postcard published by P. Sander, Philadelphia & Atlantic City for Sander’s Art Series If completed, Foster + Partners’ Comcast building would bring the 1800 Arch site full circle. In 1892, with City Hall still under construction four blocks away, Philadelphia’s earliest steel frame building rose for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (later, Y.W.C.A.). The nine-story structure, designed by church architect Benjamin Price, stood until 1980, when it was demolished for the parking lot that remains today. Various proposals for the lot have come down the pike, including a parking garage, an eight-story mall, a Bower Lewis Thrower designed residential tower for Interpark, and most notably, Hill International’s American Commerce Center. Kohn Pederson Fox designed the city’s would-be tallest building, a mixed-use complex with a hotel, cinema, shops, and offices rising 1,500′ to a spire. When asked for comment, Foster + Partners referred all questions to Liberty Property Trust. Liberty, likewise, had no comment. Until they do speak and an official announcement is made, let the speculation continue. Tags: Comcast Comcast Center economic development Liberty Property Trust Philly Skyline real estate development skyscrapers Actually it’s Baron (Lord) Foster of Thames Bank. He hasn’t been a mere Knight (Sir) since 1999. Like that matters a sh*t. One of his buildings will be great for the city. Shame the traffic into it is a disaster. Bradley Maule says: Thanks Mark. Admittedly, I am not well versed on my British Order of Merit. This has been fixed. Veillantif says: Actually, life peers are often still referred to as \”Sir\” or \”Dame.\” Nothing inaccurate about that. Brad, love that you’re back on the Philly development scene. Maybe I’m reading the article wrong, but does Liberty have some agreement with F+P to ensure that they will design their next building? Simply put, how do you know that F+P will be the architect of potential building at 18th & JFK? Keep up the good work. Tim, I can’t speak to Liberty’s contract with Foster, but yes, it’s confirmed they’re involved. If this building is constructed do you think we will have more tax revenue from Comcast and its employees living in Philadelphia to keep programs like public education afloat? Or will that money just be a drop in the the bucket to be mismanaged? JakeL says: Assume a gain of 1,000 more employees, average wage of $60,000. 60% residing in the city, average property tax bill $1,500. Wage Tax: $2,251,440 Property Taxes: $900,000 Estimated New Resident Local Sales Tax Generated: $360,000 Property Sales Tax: $1,500,000 Total: $5,011,440 Completely back of the napkin estimates, does not factor in business side taxes, such as net receipts taxes. Not sure how these would shift for Comcast or what they would be. Next year\’s school budget is expected to increase by $55 million ( $48 mil for pension and healthcare obligations) over this year, so no. This won\’t even make a dent in the increase, let alone cover the current gap. TOM MORAN says: New topic…what\’s with all the backward slash \\apostrophe\\\’s? Tom Whatizface Marty McCabe says: +contractors +consultants Economic impact will be much larger than you estimate. Add in the central location benefits (rail, utilities, etc) and you have many positives for Phila and PA. And cut it out with the backslashes! \\\\\\\\\\ Nathaniel Popkin says: The backslash problem began occurring spontaneously (or so it seemed). We’re working on a fix (not as straightforward as you might think). –ed. NickFromGermantown says: My initial guess is that Magic Quotes somehow got turned on even though this CMS software shouldn\’t need them. Michael Penn says: Bradley Maule good job. The rest of you great big YAWN !!! Wow, this is fascinating. I can’t wait to see what happens. How is anything confirmed or certain? This just sounds like more grist for the rumor mill. Bejjy says: I hope they find a bigger lot and build more than one building. Philadelphia\’s skyline would be better served by building several skyscrapers (maybe around 600+ feet) than one massive boondoggle. Circleinasquare says: Love Foster\’s work, but starchitecture will not widen the 17th century street grid, or create user friendly 24 hour public transit. Philly doesn\’t need more density in Market West, or glamour buildings (however lovely they may be) it needs more intelligent land use for the city we actually have. Astralmilkman says: Whats wrong with LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA !!!! ? I\’m not saying NBC should move all their operation to Philly , But HEY ! We\’ve got many old theaters that could be renovated for say a new talk show or sitcom . It\’s probably cheaper here in Philly than NYC OR LA to produce a show. Why can\’t Comcast spread some of it around ? Jason Rackawack says: I hope it\’s a frigin tall one, I was not crazy about the design of the proposed American Commerce Center, but I was still bummed when I found out it was not going to happen. I\’m hoping Foster has a good looking design in the works….and make sure it includes a \”mini\” William Penn statue on the top to help the Phillies out again. The stupid curse is back on since the original \”Mini Will\” on comcast got stolen – Got to respect that Quaker What’s Up “Hidden City”? We’re back slash free, that’s what’s up. Thanks, Christian. –ed. Mr. Bob Dobalina says: Nice shout-out from Inga! So glad to have you back in Philly. Dolores Browne says: We at http://www.designreasons.com will welcome Norman Foster to Philadelphia. You can see our Norman Foster video when we went to Berlin. http://www.designreasons.com/blogs/news Click on the second Berlin Video. Leave a Reply to Astralmilkman Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1349
__label__cc	0.70228	0.29772	•November 14, 2012 •Patrick Lagreid •Cigars, Honduras, J. Fuego, Reviews J. Fuego Edición de Familia Belicoso Fino Jesus Fuego announced that he would be venturing into the ‘ultra-premium’ cigar market via a post on CigarBrief.com in March 2012, where he released the first details about the cigar. After occasional photos on Facebook and some samples that were stealthily given out during IPCPR provided a bit more detail, they have been released to one store and will soon be headed out to a select group of retailers in the very near future. While the cigar was expected to be on display at IPCPR, it wasn’t, as the inventory had already been sold out prior to the trade show in August. 150 stores across the country will get this cigar, with each store limited to five boxes of each cigar. Fox Cigar Bar in Gilbert, AZ was the first to receive the cigar, as Fuego appeared at their FoxToberfest event in late October and brought a significant amount of the Edición de Familia. Fuego said that the Edición de Familia will become a yearly release that will most likely use different wrapper and filler,and could utilize different vitolas from the three that are used for this new line’s debut: J. Fuego Edición de Familia Belicoso Fino (5 1/2 x 52) – $10.00 (Boxes of 10, $100.00) — 750 Boxes of 10 Cigars (7,500 Total Cigars) J. Fuego Edición de Familia Toro (6 1/2 x 54) – $10.00 (Boxes of 10, $100.00) — 750 Boxes of 10 Cigars (7,500 Total Cigars) J. Fuego Edición de Familia Robusto (4 7/8 x 49) – $10.00 (Boxes of 10, $100.00) — 750 Boxes of 10 Cigars (7,500 Total Cigars) Besides being the only non box-pressed size of the three, the Robusto is also unique in that it comes in a glass tube, while the others are packed without a tube or cellophane. Fuego says the wrapper is the youngest leaf used in the cigar, having been aged for 10 years. To further add to the aging component of this new release, the cigars were rested for a year prior to being released, six months in your typical aging room bundles, and then another six months in their boxes. Cigar Reviewed: J. Fuego Edición de Familia Belicoso Fino Country of Origin: Honduras Factory: Tabacos de Oriente Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sun Grown Sumatra Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Honduras & Nicaragua Size: 5 1/2 Inches Vitola: Belicoso Fino MSRP: $10.00 (Boxes of 10, $100.00) Date Released: October 27, 2012 Number of Cigars Released: 750 Boxes of 10 Cigars (7,500 Total Cigars) Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 The J. Fuego Edición de Familia has a fairly short and stout Belicoso head with a decent amount of variance between the cigars when you see them laying next to each other in the box. The wrapper is cocoa powder brown, smooth with minimal veins, and the box-press giving some fairly sharp corners. While it feels fairly light in the hand, a few squeezes reveals that the cigar seems to be packed pretty well. The pre-light is fragrant with sweet wood, some cinnamon, notes of red apple – almost mulling spices found around holiday time. The cold draw is fine from an air movement perspective; there is more spice here than in the nose, with tea notes, bright flavors, and that red apple bite that was picked up in the nose. The flame certainly doesn’t jump up to the foot of the Edición de Familia, and despite an even light, the burn line goes askew fairly quickly. The first third has an almost butterscotch sweetness tucked in there after the first inch or so. There are subtle shifts that evoke some notes of graham cracker, crème brûlée and butterscotch candies. Spice is minimal at best in the first two inches or so, though the amount varies from cigar to cigar, with the third stick showing a much more peppery side. What seems to become apparent in the first third is that the Edición de Familia is much more subtle than most of J. Fuego’s other cigars, with the age of the tobacco giving the leaves a mellower flavor that force you to pay attention to them instead of just smacking your palate with bold flavors. The second third brings a bit heartier flavor, with some medium-roast coffee notes entering the equation that start to bring on a more robust, almost earthier flavor. The changing build in flavor doesn’t last overly long or get too overpowering, as by the time the band needs to come off, the flavor has mellowed, with wheat bread leading the way. There are points in the second third where the Edición de Familia becomes dry, though not mouth-drying – the flavors just change texture a bit. In the final third, the Edición de Familia picks up a thicker, powdery texture before the ambient smoke develops a more traditional burning tobacco aroma – for lack of a better word, the smoke becomes smokier. The cigar finishes smooth but picks up just a faint tinge of harshness, which seems to stand out even more because of how smooth and relatively mild it had been up to this point. One of the most vivid memories I have of this cigar is Jesus Fuego having people smell the box for the first time. “You only get that smell once,” he said, beaming with excitement every time a customer purchased one. This is a function of the cigars being aged in their boxes for six months before shipping. Fuego had his mother and father at the IPCPR trade show this summer, as well as a number of employees from his factory. His father is a tobacco grower and supplies the bulk of the tobacco used in J. Fuego cigars, and it was clear that having such a large number of family with him at the show was a real point of pride. While Jesus Fuego is a relative newcomer onto the cigar making side of the business, his family has been growing tobacco since 1876 in Cuba and then Central America, hence the date on the box. One of the things I love about Jesus Fuego is his absolute lack of pretense. He’s one of the most approachable guys in the cigar business, and if you ever have the chance, I highly recommend you meet him. You can hear Jesus Fuego talk about the Edición de Familia in this video from StogieReview.com, which was shot in July at the Famous Smoke Shop Cigarnival. For his first foray into the ‘ultra premium’ portion of the cigar market, the presentation remains simple yet classy, something that doesn’t come as a surprise given my knowledge of Jesus Fuego. He once told me “I make cigars. Not boxes, not bands, cigars.” I love the 10–count boxes. It’s great to see more manufacturers embracing the idea of giving customers a way to purchase a box without forking over a ton of money or being committed to two dozen cigars. With the industry constantly producing more and more new cigars, this seems like a great response. I can’t recall seeing three vitola of the same cigar all come out with the same MSRP. Fox Cigar Bar in Gilbert, AZ was the first to get the cigar. The shipments to other retailers began on November 9. The list of retailers getting the Edición de Familia can be found on J. Fuego’s Facebook page. Final smoking time is about one hour and 50 minutes. 86 Overall Score The Edición de Familia is certainly a bit of a departure from Jesus Fuego's other cigars, not just in terms of price and quantity produced, but also in terms of flavor. His core lines tend to be a bit more upfront with their flavor, while this cigar asks you to sit and enjoy it, focusing on the mellower flavors it delivers thanks to the aging of the leaves used to create it. It has some very familiar notes that make you feel right at ease, but also forces you to pay attention to its subtle changes and quieter notes. Given the aging already done to these, I'm not sure they will be cigars for the long haul, meaning I'll be plucking one from the box every couple of months to see how it continues to mature and develop. Belicoso FinoHondurasIPCPR 2012J. FuegoJ. Fuego Edición de FamiliaJ. Fuego Edición de Familia Belicoso FinoJesus FuegoTabacaos de Oriente Patrick Lagreid I strive to capture the essence of a cigar and the people behind them in my work – every cigar you light up is the culmination of the work of countless people and often represents generations of struggle and stories. For me, it’s about so much more than the cigar – it’s about the story behind it, the experience of enjoying the work of artisans and the way that a good cigar can bring people together. In addition to my work with halfwheel, I’m the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks during spring training, as well as for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League. I also work in a number of roles for MLB.com, plus I'm a voice over artist. I previously covered the Phoenix and national cigar scene for Examiner.com, and was an editor for Cigar Snob magazine. News: J. Fuego Shows Off New Origen Maduro Original	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1352
__label__cc	0.719054	0.280946	Platform Solutions Pricing Knowledge Center Sign In Schedule Demo 5 Myths About No-Code Software Development by Tiffany Tao \| Apr 9, 2019 Blog, Tech Tips No-code software development platforms are third-party platforms that utilize pre-built components, aka app features such as geolocation, chat or forms, as a foundation for your project. Some high-quality platforms then enable further customization with additional code. Although no-code and low-code development is becoming more popular, deciding to use a no-code platform to build your app may still be met with skepticism, because the concept is relatively new. There are a number of common concerns with no-code options: Will the quality of the final product match the quality of a custom product? Will my app be customizable in the future? Will I have adequate support if something goes wrong with my project? With all of these uncertainties, employing an offshore developer or development agency may seem like a better route at first glance. But these options have their own pros and cons. Meanwhile, many of the initial worries about no-code development do not reflect the realities of using these platforms, especially if you pick the right one. In fact, good no-code platforms empower non-technical individuals to build their own software, while accelerating the entire development cycle. In this post, we’ll debunk five of the most common misconceptions about no-code software development to help you make an informed decision about the development of your project. Myth 1: No-code software development is only for smaller applications and has limited capacity to scale At first glance, “no-code” seems synonymous with simple, basic, minimal. As a result, it is easy to assume that no-code platforms only have the bandwidth to support smaller applications that do not have a large amount of data. However, this is actually a myth—according to a Forrester study, many big corporations do employ no- or low-code platforms to build complex, large enterprise applications. In fact, study participants said that the apps they built through no-code development were able to be scaled across multiple departments or for their entire company. Myth 2: No-code software can’t be customized Because no-code platforms leverage pre-built components to build your app, it’s easy to assume that projects created on these platforms are just compilations of existing elements, and therefore not customized. In reality though, high-quality no-code platforms can be tailored with custom code to match your unique needs—your app will likely grow beyond the pre-built components so that it can achieve the goals you have in mind. Plus, utilizing pre-built components reduces the time required to finish your app, since they streamline the entire development process. Myth 3: Apps built on no-code platforms don’t look as nice Another common assumption about apps built using no-code development platforms is that these projects will not have as elaborate or as beautiful of UI/UX designs as their entirely custom counterparts. But we just learned that it’s possible to incorporate custom code into no- and low-code platforms. It’s equally possible to add complex, aesthetically-pleasing UI and UX features into apps built with these platforms. Take a look at this event app that Hatch Apps designed—it has a dynamic user interface that was customized in a number of areas to match the Association of Marketers’ brand, colors and event. Good no-code app builders are very capable of generating high-quality, customized UI/UX designs for your project. If you’re interested in learning more about event applications and why you should create one, take a look at this blog post. Myth 4: No-code platforms are only for the “build” phase Because many no-code platforms emphasize how useful they can be for the development/build phase of a project (very useful!), it may seem like they stop providing services once your app has been deployed to the App Store. While this may be the case for certain platforms, most no-code options actually include features to help you manage the entire application lifecycle. Beyond putting together your app quickly and in a way that suits your needs, the high-quality no- and low-code platforms will provide support as the app deploys, after it’s been launched and when it needs to be updated. A report by IBM states, “in addition to visual development tools, [no-code platforms] typically include capabilities like social collaboration, agile project management, one-click deployment, application governance tools, end-user feedback loops, etc.” No-code development platforms improve the build phase, and so much more. Myth 5: Using a no-code platform means that you have to do it all by yourself No-code platforms make it easier for the average, non-technical user to build and update an application, but that doesn’t mean that you’ll be left all on your own. In fact, many no-code services, including Hatch Apps, are service-enabled, which means that we’ll work hand-in-hand to develop and deploy your custom software, from creating a prototype to making sure that you’re trained on the platform so that you can make future updates. No- and low-code development allow you to take the lead and be in control of your project without worry—there is a full support team behind you for the moments when you need guidance. Today, there are many options for building an application or any form of custom software, each with their own pros and cons. At first glance, no-code development platforms may seem robotic, unable to meet your project’s specialized needs. However, these debunked myths show that their automation and use of pre-built components can actually help you achieve your software goals in a more efficient, empowering way. IBM’s report writes, “No-code apps can be built with an extensive range of features and functionality—from simple tracking and reporting capabilities to automated workflows complete with notification triggers. Forms, reports, workflows, data structure, and other elements can all be updated in real-time, providing a level of business agility not previously possible.” If you want to get started with using a high-quality no-code platform to build your app, connect with an app specialist from the Hatch Apps team. Schedule a time here. 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__label__cc	0.647286	0.352714	Dr Vaibhav Vyas BDS Home > Meet the Heaton Moor Dental Team > Dr Vaibhav Vyas BDS The Heaton Moor Dental Team BDS (Manc), MJDF RCS (Lond), Dip. Restorative Dentistry (FGDP), Cert. Orthodontics (Univ. of Warwick) After graduating from the University of Manchester in 2003, Dr Vab Vyas worked in a busy General Practice in Essex and Hertfordshire for six years building his experience in a range of dental procedure including cosmetic dentistry. He is one of the Practice Principals at Heaton Moor Dental. He has continued to develop his clinical skills and knowledge completing the Diploma of Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties from the Royal College of Surgeons and post graduate certificates relating to teaching and mentoring in dentistry. His ethos is to provide the highest quality of dentistry with minimal biological cost using the latest techniques. His tenet to provide patients with better smiles using minimally invasive treatment led him to undertake a Diploma in Restorative Dentistry (FGDP Royal College of Surgeons) and an MSc in Orthodontics (University of Warwick), enabling him to develop systems where he can straighten teeth and improve the appearance of individual teeth. For orthodontic treatment, he uses a range of appliances to correct misaligned teeth from fixed metal and tooth coloured braces to removable invisible braces. He has also attended courses by the best in the field of cosmetic dentistry, on using tooth coloured restorations as an alternative to more invasive dental procedures. In addition, he has a passion for teaching and has worked as a clinical tutor at the University of Central Lancashire, helping to train undergraduate dental students. He has had the privilege to train new dental graduates as an Educational Supervisor for Health Education North West, since 2012. Dr Vab, like Dr Bal, has also been trained, by Harley Street Surgeons, to provide Facial Rejuvenation treatments. He is able to offer wrinkle smoothing treatments and plumping treatments. Away from this, his family including two boys and a girl help to keep him grounded. He also enjoys sports such as cricket and badminton and has played at local club level. GDC Registration No. 82250 To register with the practice please follow the link to be directed to our contact page or call 0161 637 4041	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1370
__label__wiki	0.744259	0.744259	Home » Growth » Frog Lake - Martin » Martin School District There was never a post office in the Martin District and Frog Lake was the address of the early settlers: later we were taken into the Heinsburg postal district. The name Martin originated in 1914 when Joseph Martin donated land on which to build a school. This was a portion of his homestead, location, N.E. 26-55-4-W4th. Men who worked on the building included George Newhouse, Knut Rinde, Will and Frank Franks. The first teacher we can recall is Mr. Townsend 1915; followed by Mrs. Isabel Holmes in 1916 and again in 1918. The school was closed for a period of time because of the shortage of teachers, caused by the first world war, and the children were transferred to the Frog Lake school. Miss Dorothy Tennyson came to teach in 1922 and in 1924 Mrs. Beth Colpitts, from New Brunswick, was hired by the school board. Mr. Jimmy Watt 1925; Mr. Harvey Fish, from Elk Point; Mr. and Mrs. T. Carmichael; Mr. Dean Colpitts, 1927; Mrs. Beth Colpitts again taught 1931 - 32. The school, like the other rural schools in the area, was operative from May until Christmas with a week or two holiday during the end of July. Each year the highlight was the Christmas concert, enjoyed by both children and parents. In 1928 the children from Heinsburg were transported by Mr. Tom Womacks in a horse drawn van. They attended Martin School until Christmas 1932. Mr. William Smith became teacher in 1932 until 1934 and in 1934 the school was moved by Grant Arnold to a new location, S.E. 1-56-4-W4th. Miss Clara Bowen taught from 1934-37 and boarded at Frank Franks while a new teacherage was being built on the new school site. The following teachers lived in the little teacherage- Miss Anne Andrishak, 1937-38; Miss Muriel Gardiner, 1938-40; Mr. Lawrence Modin, 194041; Miss Ruby Reishus 1941 and Mrs. William Smith until 1948 when the school was centralized in Heinsburg and the Martin children were bussed in. Our first telephone was a barb-wire line between a few neighbors. Then came the local telephone that joined all the Martin District together by phone. We supplied our own poles, usually spruce or poplar. Pete Bosvik bought the old 1885 telegraph wire from Dr. Miller of Elk Point. Dr. Miller had previously purchased, from the government, the portion of the old telegraph line between Lindberg and Frog Lake Post Office in order to keep in touch with the people of this area and Mrs. Harry Bowtell became telephone operator to Dr. Miller. It was a big, heavy wire and he let us have it for $95.00, including whatever poles we could salvage. By this time the A.G.T. had installed phones in Heinsburg which gave us telephone contact with the rest of the country. We purchased second-hand telephones and hardware, cross bars, insulators etc. from districts that had been contracted by the A.G.T. We put up the line and installed the phones ourselves. This was only a local party line, not connected with a central; each patron had his own ring and each was responsible for keeping a section of line in repair. These phones served us several years until the A.G.T. asked us to form a mutual and we joined the central at Heinsburg, still using the same old phones until they were replaced when the line was taken over by A.G.T. and replaced with underground wires. In 1975 extended flat rate to Elk Point was granted and in April 1976 Direct Distance Dialing will come into effect. The name Martin district is kept alive by the sign "Martin School" on the school bus and by the Martin Goodwill Club. However, as the bus signs wear out and are replaced, the district names are being discontinued.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1371
__label__cc	0.709129	0.290871	Design & Customization Custom Domains, Subdomains, and Subfolders for Campaigns Customizing Behavior With Events Customizing Facebook Features for Mobile Devices Learning CSS Lesson 1: CSS Syntax Lesson 2: The Box Model Lesson 3: IDs and Classes Lesson 4: Parent and Child Elements Lesson 5: Combo Selectors Lesson 6: Specificity Lesson 7: Declaration Properties Lesson 8: Using CSS in ShortStack Solutions to CSS Challenges CSS Defined CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a language used to customize the way a webpage looks. Think of it like a house: HTML is the frame and CSS is the paint, the granite countertops, and everything else that makes it "pretty." In this tutorial, we will go over the basic syntax of CSS, how it relates to HTML, and how it can be applied to ShortStack campaigns. At the end of most lessons, there will be a CSS challenge that gives you the opportunity to try out and challenge your knowledge. The solutions for these challenges will be at the end of the tutorial. Important: In order to fully grasp this tutorial and understand CSS, you'll need to have at least a basic understanding of HTML. If you're not familiar with HTML, this tutorial is a great way to start learning HTML. The CSS Editor All custom CSS should be input into the CSS Editor in the Campaign Builder. The CSS Editor can be accessed anytime by clicking the CSS link in the Style Panel. CSS is a collection of rules. It tells the browser how certain elements of a web page should look. Each CSS rule has two main parts: a selector, which is the element (or group of elements) you want to style, and one or more declarations, or the styles you want to apply to the selector. Here's the basic outline of every CSS rule: selector { declaration; } Selectors can be HTML elements, CSS IDs, or CSS classes (see Lesson 3 for CSS classes and IDs). Declarations have two parts: the property (what you want to change), and the value (what you change it to). The property always has a colon after it, and the value always ends with a semi-colon. Let's take a look at an example of CSS. If you wanted to make the text in all paragraphs white with bolded font, you can use the following CSS to accomplish this: p { color: white; font-weight: bold; } Let's go through this example piece by piece. First, you have the selector, which in this case is "p." This is the same as the paragraph tag in HTML without the angled brackets. Next, we have an open curly bracket. After that comes the declaration, which has one or more properties and values. Properties always end with a colon and the value immediately follows. Values always end with a semicolon, which indicates the end of the property-value pair. In this example, we have two properties: color, which changes the font color, and font-weight, which changes the weight of the font. Then, each property has a corresponding value: the font color will now be white, and the font weight will be changed to bold. Finally, we end the CSS rule with a closed curly bracket. Instead of writing CSS rules on a single line, you can create CSS blocks like this: selector { property: value; Which one should you use? The general rule of thumb is this: if your CSS statement has only one declaration, make it a single line; if your statement has two or more declarations, you'll want to make it multi-line. This is purely for readability. It would be very difficult to read a CSS statement with ten declarations on a single line: p { font-weight: bold; color: white; font-size: 12px; margin: 0 10px 15px 5px; } Placing these on multiple lines makes this a far more readable CSS statement: margin: 0 10px 15px 5px; What if you want to style more than one element in the same way? No worries - CSS makes this simple. You can use a class to group certain elements together (see Lesson 3), or you can create a CSS rule with multiple selectors which will apply the styles to all elements at the same time. For example, if we wanted level 3 headers to have the same styling as paragraphs, you could use the following CSS (take note of the selector): p, h3 { Adding the comma between the elements in the selector indicates that you want the styles to be applied to both. Forgetting to add a comma has an entirely different meaning (which we'll discuss in Lesson 5), so if you want to make sure that the style gets applied to both selectors, make sure you add a comma between each one. If this sounds complicated, don't worry - ShortStack's CSS Editor has a CSS Validator. Once you've written your CSS, just click the Validate button in the CSS Editor. Any errors will be pointed out with an explanation, allowing you to correct any errors found quickly and easily. Sometimes, you will need to add a special parameter at the end of your declaration statement to make it work. Because most ShortStack campaigns will have a fair amount of CSS applied to them by default, there will be times that you want to override the CSS that is already applied. This is where the !important property comes into play (notice the exclamation mark in front). !important will force a CSS declaration even if another CSS declaration would normally override it. Here's a simple example to show how this will look: p { font-weight: bold !important; } This CSS would turn all text in all paragraphs bold. Notice how !important goes before the semi-colon. The semi-colon goes at the very end of the declaration, and !important is part of the declaration statement. Additionally, notice how the value (bold) and !important have a space between them. You want to make sure that !important has a space between it and the value before it. Finally, let's talk about how to add comments to CSS. Comments allow you to add notes to your CSS explaining what you did and why you did it. This is very important; when you add a lot of CSS to your campaign's CSS Editor, things can start to get confusing. Adding comments to the CSS can turn it from confusing to awesome. To add a comment in CSS, start it with a forward slash an asterisk: /* and then end it with an asterisk and another forward slash: / / This is a single-line CSS Comment. The comment is contained on a single line. / / You can also create multi-line comments. This line is still a comment. Each line will remain a comment until you close it off like this: / When you add a comment to the CSS Editor in ShortStack, you'll see that the comment text turns a rusty red color. This is to help with debugging. It's easy to forget to close off a comment tag. If you see that all of the text in your CSS Editor is a rusty red color, it's likely that you forgot to close off a comment tag. You'll want to check the CSS in the CSS Editor for a comment that's missing the closing tag. Just scroll up in the CSS Editor until you see CSS that isn't the same color as a comment. The comment right below that functioning CSS is the culprit. Lesson 1 Challenge: Syntax, Schmintax For this first challenge, you're going to create a campaign and write some basic CSS to practice syntax. We will be using this campaign for the remainder of the CSS challenges. To create a new campaign, log into your ShortStack account. Next, click "Create Blank Campaign" toward the top. Name your campaign and click "Create Campaign". Once you've completed this, you're ready to start the challenge: Open the CSS Editor. Create a selector that would select all paragraphs on your campaign. Create a declaration statement that would turn the font color white. Add another declaration statement that turns the text bold. Make it so that the declaration statement you just created is forced (hint: make it !important). Add a single-line comment somewhere in the CSS Editor. You should see that the comment turns a rust red color. It doesn't matter what the comment says. Add a multi-line comment in the CSS Editor. Save and close out of the CSS Editor. See Lesson 1 Challenge Solution at the end of this tutorial for the solution. One of the more complicated concepts of CSS for first time users is the box model. Essentially, think of your web page as a big box. Inside that box is more boxes. In ShortStack, each widget is a box, and elements inside the widget have their own box as well. There is no limit as to how many boxes a web page can have. This will become very important when we start talking about the parent-child relationship (Lesson 4). Every box in CSS has four parts: the content which is the actual element that is displayed, the padding which is the space between the content and any border (which is the next part of the box) which surrounds the content, and the margin which is the distance between the box and other boxes. For a great visual of the box model as well as supplemental explanation, take a peek at this page. The box model is very important. It dictates how much space elements take in a web page. The total width and height of an element is always the combined widths and heights of the content, padding, border, and margin. For example, if a widget's content had a width of 500 pixels, a padding of 10 pixels, a 1 pixel border, and a 20 pixel margin, the total width of that widget would be 531 pixels (500 + 10 + 1 + 20). When talking about the box model, it's important to talk about DIVs. A DIV is just an empty box. Think of it like a container - it allows you to group elements together so that they can easily be styled. DIVs are used extensively in ShortStack, and the DIV tag was created specifically for CSS. Each widget in ShortStack has its own DIV, and most widgets have DIVs inside of them as well. For more information on DIV elements, take a look at this page. Lesson 2 Challenge: Boxes! Boxes Everywhere! In this challenge, you won't be writing any CSS. Instead, your knowledge of the box model will be tested. Try answering the following questions without referencing back to the material above. How many parts of a box are there? What are the names of the parts of the box? Going from the inner most to the outermost of the box, what is the order of these parts? What part of the box separates it from other boxes? What HTML element was created specifically for CSS and is essentially just an empty box? Sometimes, you'll want to style a group of elements that aren't alike, and other times, you'll want to style just a single piece of your campaign, such as a specific paragraph and not all paragraphs. This is where CSS IDs and classes come in. A CSS ID is an identifier that you give to a single element. The ID allows you to target that specific element. CSS Classes allow you to group elements that aren't alike so that they can be styled together. While you can use the multiple selector syntax covered above, it's much easier to include a single class and style all elements with one go. CSS IDs start with a hashtag whereas classes start with a period. With HTML, you would give an element an ID by adding ID="someID" in the HTML tag, and add class="someClass" in the tag to add a class. Here are some examples: <h2 id="headerID">This header has an ID of "#headerID"</h2> <h2 class="headerClass">This header has a class of ".headerClass"</h2> The CSS above would assign the top h2 element an ID of "headerID" and the bottom header with a class of "headerClass." If you wanted to refer to them with CSS, you would put a hashtag in front of the ID and a period in front of the class, like so: #headerID { .headerClass { font-weight: italic; The CSS above will make it so that the h2 element with the ID of "headerID" has a font color of white and a font weight of bold. The second CSS rule will make the font of all elements with the class of "headerClass" blue with a font weight of italic. This is the primary difference between IDs and classes: IDs target one specific element while classes target all elements with that class assigned. This brings us to the primary rule with CSS classes and IDs: a CSS ID can be assigned to one element only and an element can only have one ID, while the same CSS class can be assigned to multiple elements and each element can have multiple classes assigned to it. Lesson 3 Challenge: Show Me Your ID and Go to Class In this challenge, you're going to be given HTML (below) and you're going to write some CSS to style up those elements. Try completing this without going back and re-reading unless you get stuck. Here's a beginning hint: the CSS you add for steps 2 and 3 are most likely not going to work at first. Remember the !important property in Lesson 1? You'll want to use that here. To start this challenge, head to your campaign and add a Rich Text Widget. In the Rich Text Widget, on the menu bar, click the Source Code icon, and then copy/paste the following HTML: <div id="myDIV"> <p class="blue">This text needs to be blue!</p> <p class="red">This text needs to be red!</p> For the challenge: Target the DIV element and set the font weight to bold. Note: This won't actually change anything when you try this. The reason for this is because you need a combo selector that selects everything within the DIV. We'll discuss combo selectors in Lesson 5. For now, if you want to see this work, add a space after your DIV selector and add an asterisk ( ) before the opening curly brace. See the solution if you get stuck. Target the first paragraph with the class of "blue" and make its font color blue. Target the second paragraph with the class of "red" and make its font color red. Target all paragraphs and make their font smaller. (HINT: the declaration statement will be font-size: smaller;) Make the declaration statement you just made important (See Lesson 1 for a refresher on making a declaration important). This is where things get a little tricky. With HTML, there is a convention known as the Document Object Model (or DOM for short). The DOM is a way to represent an HTML document with parent and child elements. Think of it like a traditional family: there's the child, and the child has parents, and grandparents, and great grandparents, and so on. The same is true for the DOM: child elements have one direct parent, and that parent element most likely has a parent, and this goes on until you reach the most parent element which is the document itself. Take a look at the picture below. This is a snippet of the underlying HTML of a campaign in ShortStack using Google Chrome's Inspect Element tool (see Lesson 8 for more info on the Inspect Element tool). For this example, the top DIV element is the parent element. The DIV underneath it is indented - this indicates that it's a child of the element above it. You can see that the child DIV has children of its own as indicated by the indentation of the elements below it. This is the easiest way to see if an element is a child or a parent of another element. Why is this important? It has to do with something known as inheritance which is a very important part of CSS. Inheritance is a rule that says that certain styles will fall from the parent to the child elements automatically, even if they weren't explicitly declared. For example, take the following HTML: <p>What font size will this text have?</p> <a href="#">What about this link text?</a> Now, let's apply some CSS: div { font-size: 12px; } As you can see, the CSS is being applied to all DIVs in the document. In the HTML, the DIV is the parent element to both the paragraph and the link tags. Without inheritance, we would have to declare a font size for each of those elements, but because of inheritance and because font size is a property that can be inherited, the font size is passed down from the DIV to the paragraph and link tags automatically. Less work for you = success! There's another reason why the parent-child relationship is so important to understand. With CSS, you can create selectors that utilize the parent-child relationship. Let's take the last HTML example in Lesson 4: we have a parent DIV and two child elements - a paragraph and a link tag. What if we wanted to target only the paragraph that is a child of a DIV? Combo selectors to the rescue! div p { Recall in Lesson 1 when we said that the commas were very important to separate out elements when using multiple selectors? This is why. If you leave out a comma, as in the example above, it turns it into a combo selector. You can see that the first selector is 'div' and then a space, and then the paragraph selector. In English, this says "Target all paragraphs that are a child of a DIV element." When writing combo selectors, you always write it so that you have the parent on the left and the child on the right. Combo selectors can be used with IDs and classes as well. Take the following HTML as example: <div id="divID"> <p>This is a paragraph!</p> <div id="anotherDIV"> <p>This is another paragraph! Woo!</p> We have two DIVs here - one with an ID of "divID" and another one with an ID of "anotherDIV." What if we wanted to target only the paragraphs that are children of the DIV with the ID of "divID"? You guessed it - combo selectors! #divID p { font-family: Arial, Tahoma; Because we are using an ID as the parent, only the children of the DIV with the ID of "divID" will be styled. The paragraph in the other DIV will not have the styles applied to it. Combo selectors are a great way to target elements that do not have an applied ID or class. In ShortStack, this will almost never be the case. The Campaign Builder applies classes and an ID to almost every element in your campaign. As a result, we strongly recommend always using a class or an ID instead of using combo selectors. Combo selectors are inherently difficult to grasp and master. Using an ID is the easiest way to target a single element and we generally recommend using this method when starting out. The final topic to discuss with combo selectors is the idea of selector chaining. This allows you to target specific elements that meet certain criteria. Generally, this is done when you want to target a specific element that has a specific class assigned to it. Let's look at some more HTML as an example: <p class="someClass">This is a paragraph with an attached class.</p> <a href="#" class="someClass">This link has the same class!</a> With the CSS above, what if we wanted to target just the paragraph? We can't use the class "someClass" because it would target both the paragraph and the link elements. With selector chaining, you can use the element and the element's class to select it, like this: p.someClass { padding: 10px; } This CSS rule will target all paragraphs with the class of "someClass", meaning the link element above will not be targeted. Selector chaining can get very complex, so we generally recommend only using it when you absolutely need to. Again, we strongly recommend using Widget IDs when working with CSS unless you need to target very specific elements; even then, chances are the element you want to target will have an ID. Use that when you can. Certain CSS rules can be very tricky. CSS specificity is the bane of the novice CSS user. It is the single most common reason why your perfectly valid CSS simply doesn't work like you expect. While the CSS may be syntactically valid, CSS specificity rules may be the cause. Specificity states that certain CSS selectors have precedence over others. Generally, the order of precedence goes like this, from highest to lowest: in-line styles, IDs, classes, and then elements. This means that if you have two CSS rules, each targeting the same thing, the selector with the higher precedence wins. Let's take a look at some more HTML (hooray!): <div id="exampleID" class="exampleClass"> <p id="paragraphID">I love CSS!</p> As you can see, we have a parent DIV with a child paragraph. The DIV element has an ID as well as a class, and the paragraph has its own ID. Take the following CSS as an example: div { color: white; } .exampleClass { color: blue; } #exampleID { color: orange; } Given the CSS above, will the color of the text in the DIV be white, blue, or orange? If you guessed orange, you're correct! IDs have a higher precedence than classes and elements, so this is what gets applied. And, because of CSS inheritance (see above), the text color in the paragraph will also be orange as the parent will pass down the color attribute to its children. However, if we added the following CSS: #paragraphID { color: red; } What color will the paragraph with the ID of "paragraphID" be? You guessed it - red. Because we targeted the ID of the paragraph element, this will override any inherited values that the parent passes down. It's important to understand how specificity is calculated. While we could go over it here in this doc, there is a fantastic reference to it online that will serve the purpose. Read through this document for a better understanding of how CSS specificity works. Understanding this will reduce or eliminate frustrating situations in the future. If you've been following along with the example CSS, you've probably been wondering where the declaration properties are coming from, like color, font-weight, and font-size, along with their corresponding values. There is quite a list of available properties and values and, at first, it may feel like a lot to remember. Don't worry - most of the time, you will reuse a very small amount of the available properties; however, it is a very good idea to become familiar with the most common ones and, also, to know where to find the available CSS properties. As luck would have it, w3schools has a fantastic reference page that categorizes and goes over all available CSS properties and their corresponding values. We're going to go over the ones you will most likely use here in ShortStack. Clicking on the property link will take you to the w3schools page for that property. Box Properties margin: This allows you to set the top, right, bottom, and left margins of an element. You can use the shortcut style of setting margin wherein you set all four values in one line: margin: 10px 5px 15px 25px. This property would set the top margin at 10 pixels, the right margin at 5 pixels, the bottom margin at 15 pixels, and the left margin at 25 pixels. You can also set each margin individually using the margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, and margin-left properties. padding: Much like the margin property, this lets you set the top, right, bottom, and left padding of an element. The shortcut style of the padding property is exactly the same as the margin property going from the top and moving clockwise (to right, bottom, and left), or you can set each individually using the padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, and padding-left properties. width: This sets the width of an element. IMPORTANT: to keep your campaigns responsive on mobile devices, always set widths to percentages and not pixel values. height: This sets the height of an element. ShortStack campaigns automatically adjust their height based on the content, so there is no limit to the height you can set on each element. display: This sets the type of box you want to show. A value of "block" will add margin to the top and the bottom of the element giving it space (like a block). Setting this to "inline" will not add any margin or space around the element; it will sit inline with the rest of the content around it. position: This is a more advanced property. You can set this property to static, relative, absolute, and fixed. Click the property to find out more about this topic and how it affects the box model. visibility: This determines if the element is visible or not. You can set this property's value to visible, hidden, or collapse (collapse is only available on table elements). Widgets set to "starts hidden" initially have their visibility property set to "hidden". z-index: This sets the stacking order of elements on a page. With CSS, you can place multiple elements on top of one another. This can be problematic when some elements have background colors while others are transparent. Setting the z-index allows you to dictate which elements sit on top (or beneath) other widgets. The value is a number and the element with the higher number sits on top of the element with the lower number. Text Properties color: This sets the color of text. You can set this to a named color (e.g "orange"), a hex value, or an RGB value. text-align: This sets the horizontal alignment of the text. You can set the value to left, center, right, or justify (stretches each line so that they're equal widths). line-height: This sets the height of each line. You can set the value to a percentage of the current value, a number which is multiplied by the current value (e.g. 1.2 would be 120% of the current line height), or a length in px, pt, or cm (pixels, point, or centimeters). Text Decoration Properties text-decoration: This sets the decoration on the text. The value can be none, underline, overline, or line-through. text-shadow: This sets a shadow on the text. This is a multi-value property, starting with the horizontal shadow, then the vertical shadow, an optional blur distance, and then an optional color. An example would be text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, which would say make the text shadow's horizontal and vertical distance 1 pixel, give it a 2 pixel blur, and make the color black. Font Properties font: This is the shorthand property to set all font property values in one line. This is more advanced. Click the property name to get more information on this, or keep reading to see the individual font properties. font-family: This allows you to set the family of fonts you want to use. The first one listed is the primary font, and any other fonts listed are fallback fonts. Fallback fonts are important as some web browsers may not have the listed font. Fallback fonts ensure your users see a font you want them to see instead of the default browser font. Fonts are separated by a comma, and multiword fonts (e.g. "Times New Roman") must have double quotes around them. font-size: This sets the size of the font and corresponding text. You can set this to a relative size (e.g. "small", "medium", etc.) or you can set it to an exact value using percentages (as a percentage of the default value) or pixels/centimeters/em/etc. font-weight: This sets the weight of the font. The value can be set to a number from 100 to 900 (with 400 being equivalent to normal and 900 being equivalent to bold) or set with a: normal, bold, bolder, or lighter. @font-face: This is an advanced CSS rule that allows websites to download web fonts from external servers. If you want your users to ensure that they use your font, this rule will instruct the user's browser to download this font if it isn't available. This is used in conjunction with the font-family property. There are many other properties not covered here, but these are the primary properties and values that you will be using a majority of the time. Please see the URL referenced above to see all available CSS properties and values. So far, we've been going over general CSS that would apply to any web page. Let's start focusing on how you can apply this to your ShortStack campaigns. It's important that you become familiar with the CSS Editor in ShortStack. This is where you want to place all of the CSS changes you make to your campaign. You don't want to put any style tags in the CSS Editor - just place the raw CSS. To get to the CSS Editor, click the CSS link in the top-right corner of your Style Panel. Recall that every widget you add to your campaign will have a CSS ID assigned to it. This makes it simple if you want to make an adjustment to the entire widget. The IDs of the widgets will generally be predictable (e.g. the first Image Widget will have an ID of #image, the second one will have an ID of #image2, etc). If you want to know what the CSS ID of any widget is, just hover over the widget's name in the Edit Widgets Panel and the CSS ID will appear in a tooltip. What if you want to modify just a specific part of a widget and not the entire widget itself? While it's true that almost every element in your campaign will have an ID and/or a class assigned to it, how do you find out what that is? Introducing the Google Chrome Inspect Element tool! Chrome's Inspect Element tool allows you to right click your mouse on any part of a web page and see the underlying HTML, the HTML above and below it, any CSS applied to that element, as well as much more that is beyond the scope of this tutorial. When you right click on an element in Google Chrome, a toolbar will appear. If you click on "Inspect Element", this will bring up the Inspect Element tool at the bottom of your browser window. The main part of the window displays the HTML of the element as well as the HTML surrounding it. The panel on the right hand side shows the CSS that's applied to that element. Finally, if you hover your mouse cursor over the line HTML that is highlighted in the HTML panel, it will highlight the element on the web page and display its selector directly below it. In the HTML pane, you may see a triangle next to certain lines of HTML. If these arrows are pointing to the right, this means that there are child elements that are currently collapsed. Clicking this arrow will expand that section, and the arrow should now be pointing downward. This is very important if you want to target specific child elements and not the parent element itself. You'll see that, as described in Lesson 4, child elements will be indented. If you're using a ShortStack theme or template, there is a good chance that quite a bit of CSS will be pre-applied to your campaign. Recall in Lesson 1 where we talked about the !important property. This is where it becomes very important. There will undoubtedly be a time when you're adding CSS to the CSS Editor and the change you were expecting won't happen. Most of the time, this is due to the theme or template's CSS. In Lesson 6, we talked about specificity, and what is most likely happening when your CSS isn't working when it should is the template or theme CSS has a higher precedence (meaning it's more specific) than the CSS you added to the CSS Editor. We generally recommend that you try altering the CSS selector to make it work, but if you can't, try using the !important tag after each declaration statement to force the style. Lesson 1 Challenge Solution There are two ways to write the CSS and both are correct: p { color: white; font-weight: bold !important; } /* This is a comment! / font-weight: bold !important; / This is a multi-line comment / Note: You could have added your comment anywhere in the CSS Editor as long as it didn't interfere with the selector or declaration statement, and your comment could have said anything. It's more important that you understand how single- and multi-line comments work. Here are the questions and the answers for this challenge: How many parts of a box are there? - 4 What are the names of the parts of the box? - margin, padding, border, and content Going from the inner most to the outermost of the box, what is the order of these parts? - content, padding, border, margin What part of the box separates it from other boxes? - margin What HTML element was created specifically for CSS and is essentially just an empty box? - DIV For the first solution, the asterisk at the end of the selector means "all". This is known as the "wildcard" selector. The reason why this is required to make the CSS work is that when targeting DIVs, you also need to target the content within it for certain types of declarations (such as font-weight, color, and other decorative styles). #myDIV { /* Read the paragraph above to see why the asterisk was added after #myDIV */ .blue { color: blue !important; .red { font-size: smaller !important; Widget Styling Social Media Contest Rules [Includes Template]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1374
__label__wiki	0.886679	0.886679	Why was Caesar at the Rubicon? «Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος» (anerriphtho kybos, lit. Let the die be cast) was attributed by Suetonius to Caesar when it was reported that some legionaries cross the Rubicon. Why did Caesar move to the Rubicon and stop there? Was it because after that, a civil war would be unavoidable and Caesar wanted to avoid it? Was it just an excuse to start the war anyway? roman-republic caesar 1st-century Daniel says Reinstate Monica The Rubicon was on the way home from Gaul, but I can't find a reference that says he stopped at the Rubicon, so I can't answer your question as written. – mmyers Oct 12 '11 at 16:23 The Rubicon river marked the boundary between the province of Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper. Caesar, as a proconsul, held imperium (the right to command) within the provinces, but only a consul or praetor could hold imperium inside Italy. Generals were expected to lay down their command and re-enter Italy as private citizens; not doing so would be seen as a threat to Rome. According to Wikipedia, "Suetonius's account depicts Caesar as undecided as he approached the river, and attributes the crossing to a supernatural apparition", suggesting that he was unsure whether to provoke civil war at that time. His act of crossing the Rubicon leading fully armed soldiers immediately created a force in Italy in opposition to the Senate; thus, a civil war had begun. Wikipedia has a much more detailed (and better cited!) section on this very subject. LаngLаngС GauravGaurav Why Caesar crossed the Rubicon is a question none other than Caesar himself answered: 'They wanted it so. I, Gaius Caesar, in spite of such great deeds would have been condemned, had I not sought help from my army (hoc uoluerunt. tantis rebus gestis C. Caesar condemnatus essem nisi ab exercitu auxilium petissem).' (Suet. Dl 30.4; Plut. Caes. 46.1. ) That alludes to his successes on the one hand and his not only potentially dire legal situation. He made enemies, a lot of enemies, in the years leading up to this situation. But his actions of interior policy as consul in 59 went unpunished, in fact unpunishable, since he was holding office, or imperium. He was faced with laying down arms and office to return to Rome and hold a triumph, but face a trial for misdeeds afterwards. To avoid that he wanted the consulship for 48. North of the Rubico he had immunity, legal protection for holding imperium, that is command over the legions in Gallia, and the resulting immunity from that he alsocould enforce himself with military might if need be. Normally, he would have stand election for consulship in person, opening up all the legal pitfalls of being a private citizens without an army. His solution to that was trying to get elected to the position without being present. A clever move not unprecedented, as Pompeius was elected in absentia before. But allowing Caesar that would not only give him power again to behave in the same manner against the wishes of the optimates like he did in his first consulship. It would have also been the de facto submission of his enemies, equalling a public statement of 'no prosecution and no accusation' for his prior 'misdeeds'. For Caesar it was either holding office – any high office – or face complete downfall. Seeing the distribution of troops and commanders within Italy it was also the opportunity for action. At the beginning of the year 49 Caesar sent a letter in which he presented the old demands: he would either be entitled to apply for the consulate in absentia, or all troop commanders would have to be recalled. The Consul Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus did not even mention this. Instead, Caesar was now to be given a deadline by which to dismiss his army, otherwise he would be treated as a traitor. Now Caesar's tribune interceded; negotiations were still feverish behind the scenes, and Caesar even allowed himself to be negotiated down to Illyricum and only one legion, to which Pompeius, but not Cato, wanted to respond. This was the 'compromise' offered by Caesar as a way out of the stalemate situation in the Senate. But Caesar's proposal was not accepted and Antonius and Cassius blocked every other advance by their veto. Only the declaration of a state of emergency remained, with which Pompeius and other office holders were authorized to appropriate measures for the protection of the state. Antonius and Cassius, whose protection of immunity was precarious in a state of emergency, fled to Caesar, who was now able to write the defence of the people's tribune and thus of the people's rights of freedom on his flags. For these reasons every thing was done in a hasty and disorderly manner, and neither was time given to Caesar's relations to inform him [of the state of affairs] nor liberty to the tribunes of the people to deprecate their own danger, nor even to retain the last privilege, which Sylla had left them, the interposing their authority; but on the seventh day they were obliged to think of their own safety, which the most turbulent tribunes of the people were not accustomed to attend to, nor to fear being called to an account for their actions, till the eighth month. Recourse is had to that extreme and final decree of the senate (which was never resorted to even by daring proposers except when the city was in danger of being set on fire, or when the public safety was despaired of). "That the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people, and proconsuls in the city, should take care that the state received no injury." These decrees are dated the eighth day before the ides of January; therefore, in the first five days, on which the senate could meet, from the day on which Lentulus entered into his consulate, the two days of election excepted, the severest and most virulent decrees were passed against Caesar's government, and against those most illustrious characters, the tribunes of the people. The latter immediately made their escape from the city, and withdrew to Caesar, who was then at Ravenna, awaiting an answer to his moderate demands; [to see] if matters could be brought to a peaceful termination by any equitable act on the part of his enemies. –– Julius Caesar: "The Civil Wars", translated by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn The consequence for this was clear: on 10 January 49 he crossed the Rubico, the border river between his province Gallia Cisalpina and Italy, and thus opened the civil war. In defending his invasion of Italy to Lentulus Spinther, Caesar claims that one of the reasons he came out of his province was to assert the freedom of himself and the Roman people, who had been overwhelmed by the faction of the optimates; oppressum, though singular, surely qualifies se as well as populum Romanum (1.22.5). Indeed, Caelius reported in August 50 that Caesar was convinced that he could not survive (saluum esse, ap. Cic. Fam. 8.14.2) if he left his army; the reference must be to Caesar's political future. If, however, motivated by this political powerlessness, Caesar invaded Italy, it was imperative that he regularise his position as quickly as possible. Hence his (largely unsuccessful) efforts to persuade leading senators to remain in or return to Rome. An earlier action that showed Caesar's political weakness was the crossing of the Rubicon itself. It had been planned for some months. It revealed that Caesar was desperate to avoid prosecution. He had no remedy for the predicament he had created by his use of violence when consul in 59 apart from the further use of violence. –– GR Stanton: "Why Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 52, H. 1, 2003, pp. 67-94. (jstor) At the Rubico he reached the boundary for his imperium geographically and he reached the limits of his office term at the same time. He marched on Rome – as far as legal limits allowed and near enough to show force as well as at least feigning to be ready to compromise. His very brief stay at the river was stopping at barking but not biting, yet. Notice to people inclined to edit WP: the article on Cassius is only included here for convenience in looking up persons, but it is starkly misleading in the passages relating to these events above. It was much moire turbulent than WP would like to have it in the desired simplicity. – LаngLаngС Jun 27 '19 at 12:07 Short Answer: The perception was Caesar was at the Rubicon, with a single legion (1/10th of his available forces) to seek terms in his confrontation with his political rivals who controlled the Senate. That Caesar subsequently crossed the Rubicon, invading Rome reluctantly only after his moderate requirements for peace were refused. Another popular belief is that Caesar was at the Rubicon to pursue his life long ambition to invade and conquer Rome by force and that all his posturing and offering terms were a façade to make him appear weak in order to goad and embolden his political enemies to fool hardy action. Caesar wanted to be seen as being reluctant and forced to invade rather than be seen as the aggressor. Detailed Answer The first Triumvirate beginning in 60BC was an informal alliance between three great men of Rome. These men did not agree on political issues but rather agreed to support each other as each worked for his own benefit. The three men were: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Romes greatest war hero and general, (up to that point). Marcus Licinius Crassus, Rome's richest citizen. Gaius Julius Caesar, who was politically popular on the basis of his family's name, political support for popular reforms, and his office. Caesar at the time of the forming of this alliance was the chief priest of Rome (Pontifex Maximus) which gave him significant political influence. Caesar though was perceived to be the weakest of the three great men when the triumvirate was formed. Through the triumvirate alliance Pompeius remained in Rome solidifying his power and Crassus and Caesar would leave Rome to seek military fame and wealth as governors of remote unruly provinces. Crasus in Syria and Caesar in Gaul. The First Triumvirate Caesar was at the time very well connected with the Populares faction, which pushed for social reforms. He was moreover Pontifex Maximus—the chief priest in the Roman religion—and could significantly influence politics, notably through the interpretation of the auspices. Pompey was the greatest military leader of the time, having notably won the wars against Sertorius (80–72 BC), Mithridates (73–63 BC), and the Cilician Pirates (66 BC). Although he won the war against Spartacus (73–71 BC), Crassus was mostly known for his fabulous wealth, which he acquired through intense land speculation. Through this alliance Caesar acquired wealth and greatly enhanced his fame and military reputation as Governor of Gaul. Their alliance ended, when Marcus Crassus was killed in 53 BC. Plutarch thought that fear of Crassus had led Pompey and Caesar to be decent to each other and his death paved the way for the subsequent friction between these two men and the events that eventually led to civil war. Florus wrote: "Caesar's power now inspired the envy of Pompey, while Pompey's eminence was offensive to Caesar; Pompey could not brook an equal or Caesar a superior. Seneca wrote that with regard to Caesar, Pompey "would ill endure that anyone besides himself should become a great power in the state, and one who was likely to place a check upon his advancement, which he had regarded as onerous even when each gained by the other's rise: In 50 BC Cesar's former ally Pompey was now allied with the Roman Senate. They conspired to strip Caesar of his political immunity as governor of Gaul, prosecute him for "insubordination and treason". Governors of Roman provinces gained wealth by extortion and bootie from conquests. Caesar had not restricted his "franchise" to Gaul but had also raided into neighboring provinces. An offense his political enemies now wished to use against him. They hoped to strip him of his office and immunity, force him to accept banishment for some period of time. The Senate and Pompey hoped the scandal and subsequent disgrace would weaken Caesar politically. Crossing the Rubicon by a Roman Army was an act of aggression against Rome. Roman armies were raised and maintained by personal fortunes and benefited greatly financially from having successful aggressive leaders like Caesar. Thus their loyalty was to their commanders and not to the state / Rome. Caesars motivation for crossing the Rubicon, and invading Rome was perceived to be a response to the aggressive actions by the Senate and his former ally Pompey but their is another school of thought which proposes an alternative view. That Ceasar was a supremely ambitious guy, who saw himself in direct competition with Alexander the Great from a young age as the greatest conquer in history. That he always desired to invade and conquer Rome and that he was savvy enough politically to make it appear to be his opponents fault. Pompey received false reports that Caesar's troops were not loyal to him, and wished to support Pompey in his confrontation with Caesar. Reports which emboldened Pompey. Caesar also crossed the alps with but a single legion, his 13th Legion (6000 men) a relatively small force. Caesar had been granted command of 4 legions when he left for Gaul and the historian Livius says had 10 legions at his command in Gaul. Bringing only a single legion makes him appear weak and unprepared confrontation. Prior to crossing the Rubicon Caesar offered terms to the senate. Caesar offered to disband his legions and retain only two legions if offered governorship of the province of Illyricum. Later he reduced his requirements to only a single legion. If granted this position it would give him immunity from prosecution from his enemies and give him time to use his popularity and fortune to run for console. Makes Ceasar appear to prefer a political outcome rather than a military one. In part because of the perception of Ceasar's weakness, the Senate over reached. It declared the popular Caesar an enemy of the state, and seemingly forced his hand to invade Rome. The Senate and Pompey believed evidently weak Caesar would not cross the Rubicon with a single legion giving Pompey time raise forces to oppose him. Caesar however; attacked and his single legion of veterans from Gaul proved more than a match for Pompey's forces. From: Comments LangLangC But why 'schools', who are prominent members of these schools? (That also means: imo the 'Caesar mastermind' 'pole' is not impossible and offers a few interesting details & alternatives, but seems a rather unlikely variant in all these details. Too many variables, too long game…) You are not wrong. There is debate about Caesar's motivation in seeking peace. As I said two schools of thought. I believe the more supported belief by historians is Caesar invited Pompey's and the Senate's aggression. Making himself appear weak, reasonable and vulnerable to provoke them into conflict in which he was perceived to be their victim. This theme was first proposed by the Roman historian Suetonius in his Twelve Caesars and has widely held by historians. It was opposed by the respected historian Theodor Mommsen. The machinations and as you say, "long game" is why Julius Caesar goes down as not just one of the greatest military leaders of all time, but one of the greatest political strategists too. Caesar's Sincerity in Negotiating for Peace Given the fact that Caesar did make a number of attempts to negotiate a peaceful compromise with Pompey and the Senate both prior to and after the crossing of the Rubicon, it must now be determined whether these offers were indeed sincere. It has been observed that, before Mommsen, the great majority of historians accepted the opinion reported by Suetonius that Caesar had been determined to seek supreme power by force since his youth38. As such some historians - like Hardy - believed that Caesar's peace offers were made because «he knew that they would be refused. In other words, such offers were made for the purpose of deceiving public opinion and of creating disunity in the ranks of his opponents. Other historians - such as Schmidt - cited a letter by Cicero and were convinced that Caesar's various offers of peace were merely a ruse in so far as they were apt to delay military action on the part of his opponents. Mommsen, however, challenged these views by contending that all of Caesar's proposals were sincere and that it was only the folly and obstinacy of his opponents which made them reject these offers and so made a war to the bitter end inevitable. He was in turn supported by such historians as Meyer, Syme and Adcock. As can be seen, three different alternatives exist JMSJMS A fluent read. But why 'schools', who are prominent members of these schools? (That also means: imo the 'Caesar mastermind' 'pole' is not impossible and offers a few interesting details & alternatives, but seems a rather unlikely variant in all these details. Too many variables, too long game…) – LаngLаngС Jun 27 '19 at 22:42 @LangLangC, thank you for the comment. responded at the end of my answer. – JMS Jun 27 '19 at 23:45 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged roman-republic caesar 1st-century or ask your own question. Why do people still leave flowers at the Temple of Julius Caesar? 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__label__wiki	0.616173	0.616173	Brian Cushing’s History as a Suspected Steroid User There have been questions looming over Texans Linebacker, Brian Cushing, since he was in high school. During his time as a recruit and during his college years at USC, message boards and blogs would become flooded with comments about his alleged steroid use. People would claim to know about “the circles” that Cushing had been a part of before and during college, suggesting that he definitely had access to performance enhancing drugs. It now seems as though all of these rumors have finally come to light, as Brian Cushing has earned a four game ban for violating the NFL’s steroid policy. Many people aren’t surprised about the news, however, it is going to be interesting to see how all of Cushing’s backers will try and defend him now. While there were whispers about Cushing using steroids during his prep years, they were never widely discussed until he arrived at USC. Numerous people in his home town in New Jersey had seen him transform into a star college prospect, but most simply credited his work ethic and his trainer as of 2003, Joe DeFranco. While it is well known that DeFranco’s gym promotes an anti-steroid policy, critics of the linebacker still jumped at the opportunity to direct steroid related accusations toward both the gym and Cushing himself. The most popular ammunition used against Cushing during his time at USC was a side-by-side photo showing him looking both undersized at practice and freakishly huge after a workout. Supporters claimed that the picture’s portrayal of Cushing was unfair because of the necessary injury related rest he took as a freshman, and because of the simple fact that blood is pumped into your muscles making you appear much bigger after lifting weights. The pictures, accusations and the message board battles between his proponents and detractors earned a fair amount of negative attention, but NFL coaches couldn’t deny his talent and intensity on the field. During the NFL scouting combine in 2009, an article surfaced regarding both Cushing and his former teammate, Clay Matthews, that suggested both of these players had tested positive for steroids at the event. While this information turned out to be false, the rumor mill surrounding the potential first round draft pick’s involvement with performance enhancing drugs began to churn again. Negativity and controversy surrounded his name, but the Houston Texans decided to draft him in the first round anyway. After a stellar rookie season lining up next to DeMeco Ryans, Cushing had managed to solidify his spot as part of one of the best and most underrated “one-two punch” linebacker combinations in the NFL. Talk regarding the 262 pounder shifted from potential performance enhancing drug user to NFL superstar; until now. Unfortunately for the Texans, Cushing’s four game suspension comes during a stretch where they will play both the Colts and the Cowboys; games where Cushing will be sorely missed on defense. With the news of his potential use of steroids now coming from reputable media outlets, many critics that have followed Cushing since high school will no doubt be saying, “I told you so…” “DeFranco’s Training” “Houston Texans: Roster” Better Living Through Chemistry: Brian Cushing and the AP 18 Brian Cushing Wins NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in Re-Vote Impotent Hypocrisy : the Associated Press Limps Away from Brian Cushing When Truth Takes a Back Seat: Ignore Lance Armstrong's Possible Steroid History Lettuce Recalled Because of Suspected E. Coli Contamination Philip Markoff, Suspected 'Craigslist Killer,' Found Dead in Cell; Autopsy Ordered	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1390
__label__wiki	0.837916	0.837916	IC-IMPACTS researchers develop earthquake-resistant concrete A new seismic-resistant, fibre-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia will see its first real-life application this fall as part of the seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school. The material is engineered at the molecular scale to be strong, malleable, and ductile, similar to steel—capable of dramatically enhancing the earthquake resistance of a seismically vulnerable structure when applied as a thin coating on the surfaces. Researchers subjected the material, called eco-friendly ductile cementitious composite (EDCC), to earthquake simulation tests using intensities as high as the magnitude 9.0–9.1 earthquake that struck Tohoku, Japan in 2011. “We sprayed a number of walls with a 10 millimetre-thick layer of EDCC, which is sufficient to reinforce most interior walls against seismic shocks,” says Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, a PhD candidate in the department of civil engineering at UBC. “Then we subjected them to Tohoku-level quakes and other types and intensities of earthquakes—and we couldn’t break them.” EDCC has been added as an official retrofit option in B.C’s seismic retrofit program, and the team will be working with contractors in the next couple of months to upgrade Dr. Annie B. Jamieson Elementary School in Vancouver. “This UBC-developed technology has far-reaching impact and could save the lives of not only British Columbians, but citizens throughout the world,” said Advanced Education, Skills and Training Minister Melanie Mark. “The earthquake-resistant concrete is a great example of how applied research at our public universities is developing the next generation of agents of change. The innovation and entrepreneurship being advanced at all of our post-secondary institutions is leading to cutting-edge technologies and helping to create a dynamic, modern B.C. economy that benefits all of us.” EDCC combines cement with polymer-based fibres, flyash and other industrial additives, making it highly sustainable, according to UBC civil engineering professor Nemy Banthia, who supervised the work. “By replacing nearly 70 per cent of cement with flyash, an industrial byproduct, we can reduce the amount of cement used,” said Banthia. “This is quite an urgent requirement as one tonne of cement production releases almost a tonne of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and the cement industry produces close to seven per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.” The research was funded by the UBC-hosted Canada-India Research Centre of Excellence IC-IMPACTS, which promotes research collaboration between Canada and India. IC-IMPACTS will make EDCC available to retrofit a school in Roorkee in Uttarakhand, a highly seismic area in northern India. “This technology is gaining significant attention in India and will provide our Canadian companies a strong competitive edge in the growing global infrastructure market,” added Banthia, who also serves as IC-IMPACTS scientific director. Other EDCC applications include resilient homes for First Nations communities, pipelines, pavements, offshore platforms, blast-resistant structures, and industrial floors. This story was originally posted on UBC News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.502083	0.502083	CFP – 2019 (English) Linked movements: Technopolitical approaches Edited by José Candón Mena (Universidad de Sevilla) and Jesús Sabariego (Universidad de Sevilla and Centro de Estudos Sociais / Universidade de Coimbra) Submission period: 01/01/2019-15/06/2019 (Deadline extended) The revolution of the communicative technologies has provoked deep changes highlighting their uses by the so-called Recent Global Social Movements (Sabariego, 2017; Della Porta & Diani, 2006; Castells, 2009; Bennett, 2003; Sampedro, 2005; Candón-Mena, 2011; Calle, 2005; Juris, 2006; Tilly & Wood, 2009; Gerbaudo, 2017). The neozapatist experience was an initial milestone of the activist use of Internet (Cleaver, 1995 y 1998; Leetoy, Gómez y Vázquez Liñan, 2004), reinforced by the impact of the movement for an alternative globalisation which has consolidated the technopolitical practices (Della Porta, 2005 y 2007; Fleischman, 2004; Feixa, Pereira & Juris, 2009; López Martín, 2007; Haché, 2006). Considering also the common features shared the brand new movements played by digital natives (Prensky, 2011) as Spanish 15M (Candón-Mena, 2013) or the French Yellow Vests assembled by Internet Social Media (ISM). After the alterglobalism cycle, the global protests of 2010-2016 (Arab Spring, 15M, #Yosoy132, Geração à rasca, Occupy…) the institutionalisation of a part of these activists is changing the political system and the traditional parties. The preceding experiences of social mobilisation, the digital natives apparition in the institutional sphere and the emerging new anti-establishment parties of different political sign as Podemos in Spain or M5S in Italy or the influence in the traditional parties by persons as Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Acasio-Cortez in the Democratic Party of the USA or Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party of the UK is needed to take into account. At the same time, Big Data has increased substantially its role in the political campaigns in recent years reinforcing the strategic character of the Technopolitics. In this sense, the debates around the incidence of Internet in the citizenry, participation and democracy involved technoutopists (De Sola Pool, Negroponte, Castells, Rheingold…) and technopesimists (Murdock, Thompson, McChesney, Morozov…), drawing a black and white frontline without shades in many occasions. The complex of the technopolitical debates (Manovich, 2005) and its links with traditional media as a re-mediation process (Bolter y Grusin, 2000) and it convergence blur the lines between old and new media. A technopolitical critical approach requires an interdisciplinary perspective which invite us to a critical scepticism more than a celebration or a deterministic condemnation. The hypotheses must implied cultural, ideological, technological and political factors. The critical judgment must attend to the uses of ISM and ITC for the mobilisation, their means and ends to diverse actors and its inner contradictions. The accumulated experience suggest that ITC and ISM can be a strong tool for the democratisation of the public debate expanding the voices of the media, but can also impoverish it through manipulation (Sousa Santos, 2016) strengthen authoritarian organisations and increasing the emergence of populism. We are pleased to invite the academic community to debate around the complexity of Technopolitics, considering the mobilisation phenomena and also the institutional sphere with contributions of various and diverse disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities including praxis-based case-studies, general and theoretical reflections, suggesting issues as: Tactical uses of ITC and ISM by social movements studying tools and concrete uses of technology for protest, debate, decision making, organisation and coordination into the social movements. Their influence in the identity, cultural and cognitive framework of the movements, spreading their agenda in the public sphere and its impact in the public awareness. Risks and threats of ITC and ISM for activism through censure, surveillance or manipulation made by Big Data, algorithms and other control technologies. The influence of the social movements in the proper development of ITC and ISM through Social innovation and the disruptive uses of technology, the fight for neutrality in the Internet and technological sovereignty. The development of tools by hackers and free software communities. The complex link between old and new media, its convergence in the new media ecosystem and its implications for the debate and the reconfiguration of the public sphere, the risks and opportunities in this new stage for the deliberative democracy and its linked with contemporary and Recent Global Social Movements. The initiatives of digital democracy, open government, cybercampaigns in the elections and other means and uses of ITC and ISM in the institutional politics and their relations with the demands and proposal of the social movements. The link between youngsters and technology and the emergence of digital natives as a political subject with new identities and practices in the movements and their increasing influence in the institutional politics. The cultures in Internet and the symbolic mobilisations of popular culture, digital and mainstream, hackers and hacktivist cultures, cyberfreaks, cyberpunks and cyberfeminisms and the identifications of movements with ITC and ISM. Beside, we are pleased to invite to contribute with critical and interdisciplinary approaches around social movements, ITC, ISM and their links with traditional and mainstream media, the changes provoked in the international sphere, the debates about the influence of technology and the impact in the democracy of the digital culture. – Bennett, W. L. (2003). “Communicating Global Activism: Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Networked”. Information, Communication & Society, vol. 6(2), págs.143-68. – Bolter, Jay David & Grusin, Richard. (2000). Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. – Calle, Ángel. (2005). Los nuevos movimientos globales. Madrid: Popular. – Candón-Mena, José. (2011). Internet en movimiento: Nuevos movimientos sociales y nuevos medios en la sociedad de la información. Tesis Doctoral. Facultad de CC. de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (http://eprints.ucm.es/12085). – Candón-Mena, José. (2013). Toma la calle, toma las redes. El movimiento 15M en internet. Sevilla: Atrapasueños. – Cardoso, Gustavo. (2008). Los Medios de Comunicación en la Sociedad Red: Filtros, Escaparates y Noticias. Barcelona: UOC. – Castells, Manuel. (2009). Comunicación y Poder. Madrid: Alianza. – Cleaver, H. (1995). The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric. – Cleaver, H. (1998). The Zapatistas and the International Circulation Struggle: Lessons Suggested and Problems Raised. – Della Porta, D. (2005). “Making the Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in the Global Justice Movement”, Mobilization, vol. 10, no. 1, 2005b, pp. 73-94. – Della Porta, D. (ed.). (2007). The Global Justice Movement. Cross National and Transnational perspectives. Boulder CO: Paradigm. – Della Porta, D. & Diani, M. (2006). Social Movements. An introduction. MA: Blackwell Publishing. – Feixa, P., Juris, J. And Pereira, I.(2009). “Global citizenship and the ‘New, New’ social movements: Iberian connections”, Young 17:4 : 421–442. – Fleischman, Luciana (2004). Internet y movimientos sociales comunicación en los movimientos de resistencia global. IAMCR. – Gerbaudo, P. (2017). The Mask and the Flag. Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest. London: Hurst Publishers. – Haché, Alex. (2006). Le mouvement altermondialiste, versus les technologies de l’information et de la communication. Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail , Ecole doctorale TESC (Temps, Espace, Société, Culture) – Juris, J. (2006). “Movimientos sociales en red: movimientos globales por una justicia global”, en Castells, M. (2006). La Sociedad Red. Una visión Global. Madrid: Alianza. – Leetoy, Salvador; Gómez Suárez, Agueda y Vázquez Liñán, Miguel (2004). Guerrilla y comunicaciónla propaganda política del EZLN. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata. – López Martín, Sara (2007). “Jóvenes, Internet y Movimiento Antiglobalización: usos activistas de las Nuevas Tecnologías”, en Revista de estudios de juventud, Nº 76, marzo, págs: 183-199. – Manovich, L. (2005). El Lenguaje de los Nuevos Medios de Comunicación. La Imagen en la Era Digital. Barcelona: Paidós. – Prensky, M. (2001) “Digital natives, digital immigrants”, On the Horizon, 9 (5): 1-6. – Sabariego, J. (2017). “La Tecnopolítica de los Recientes Movimientos Sociales Globales”, Santos B. S./Mendes, J. M. Demodiversidad. Madrid: Akal, 345-369. – Sampedro Blanco, Víctor Fco. (2005). 13-M Multitudes On-line. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata. – Sousa Santos, B. (2016). La difícil democracia. Una mirada desde la periferia Europea. Madrid: Akal. – Tilly, Charles y Wood, Lesley J. (2009) Los movimientos sociales, 1768-2008. Desde sus orígenes a Facebook. Barcelona: Crítica.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1396
__label__cc	0.576918	0.423082	Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/enepol/v34y2006i9p1004-1014.html Valuing the attributes of renewable energy investments Bergmann, Ariel Hanley, Nick Wright, Robert Eric Ariel Bergmann Nick Hanley Robert E. Wright No abstract is available for this item. Bergmann, Ariel & Hanley, Nick & Wright, Robert, 2006. "Valuing the attributes of renewable energy investments," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(9), pages 1004-1014, June. Handle: RePEc:eee:enepol:v:34:y:2006:i:9:p:1004-1014 File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301-4215(04)00278-2 Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it. Alvarez-Farizo, Begona & Hanley, Nick, 2002. "Using conjoint analysis to quantify public preferences over the environmental impacts of wind farms. An example from Spain," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 107-116, January. Kelvin J. Lancaster, 1966. "A New Approach to Consumer Theory," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 74, pages 132-132. Hanley, Nick & Nevin, Ceara, 1999. "Appraising renewable energy developments in remote communities: the case of the North Assynt Estate, Scotland," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 27(9), pages 527-547, September. Louviere,Jordan J. & Hensher,David A. & Swait,Joffre D. With contributions by-Name:Adamowicz,Wiktor, 2000. "Stated Choice Methods," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521788304, December. Nick Hanley & Douglas MacMillan & Robert E. Wright & Craig Bullock & Ian Simpson & Dave Parsisson & Bob Crabtree, 1998. "Contingent Valuation Versus Choice Experiments: Estimating the Benefits of Environmentally Sensitive Areas in Scotland," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(1), pages 1-15, March. K. K. Lancaster, 2010. "A New Approach to Consumer Theory," Levine's Working Paper Archive 1385, David K. Levine. All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:enepol:v:34:y:2006:i:9:p:1004-1014. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc. For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Dana Niculescu). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/enpol .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1397
__label__cc	0.532379	0.467621	Why You Need Single Sign-On Microsoft Certified Gold Partner Contact Identity Experts Upskill Your Teams Go to What We Do Automate & Transform Processes Secure Your Organisation Consolidate & Manage Accounts Have You Had an Identity Assessment? Migrate To The Cloud Our Consultancy Approach In the News: What is Collection #1 and What Does it Mean for You? Home / News / In the News: What is Collection #1 and What Does it Mean for You? / Page 13 Why you need Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is an on-premises platform that will help to protect your organisation from multiple types of advanced targeted cyber attacks and inside threats. Cloud Security Principles – Part 1 – Data in Transit Protection Why Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) is a must when using Office 365 How Office 365 Can Help You to Meet Your GDPR Obligations How Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) will help you comply with GDPR What is a Cloud Access Security Broker? 1 2 … 12 13 14 15 16 The first major data breach of 2019 has hit the headlines, and it could well be the biggest yet. But with Brexit and political unrest hogging the spotlight this week, it likely flew under your radar. So, what is the ominously named Collection #1, and what happens next? Earlier this week, amongst reports of no confidence votes and opinion pieces on Brexit, news hit the internet of what is being dubbed the biggest data breach in history – or if you’re after something catchier, a Megabreach. What is Collection #1? Consisting of data jacked from numerous data breaches, a data dump known as Collection #1 became available for anybody to download. At a neat 87GB, and filled with 773 million unique emails and 21 million unique passwords, it’s no suprise the data trove has been christened ‘#1’. But the collection didn’t get its name from being impressive: according to cyber security buffs, it’s actually just the first cache in a series of ‘collections’ being peddled by a particularly prolific internet baddie. Not only does that make the collection older than initially reported (approximately 2-3 years old), but it means that the entire series of ‘collections’ – stolen credentials totalling nearly a terabyte – could do some serious damage. What’s the Harm? It may seem like an obvious question, but it needs to be asked regardless. Unfortunately, sharing passwords across different internet accounts – even when using different email addresses – is still a common practice, and Collection #1 proves the danger. In the wrong hands, the cache of emails and passwords can be cross-referenced, allowing accounts with the same or similar credentials to be accessed with ease, putting private information held on those accounts at risk. If you’ve been affected, wherever you’ve used those login details is now fair game. Businesses don’t get a free pass either. If employees have used their work emails to sign up to websites affected by a data breach, they’re at risk too. After all, even workplace giants like Adobe and LinkedIn have been breached in the past. This puts any private information held by the company on breached websites in the firing line, with devastating consequences if not properly addressed immediately. First things first, it’s time to get those passwords changed. Yes, it’s a tedious process, but it’s absolutely essential that any email associated with the breach – and any account associated with that email – is secured. Thankfully, cybersecurity guru Troy Hunt’s website Have I Been Pwned? can help. Simply type in your email address and Hunt’s system will check it against records of breaches. There’s also a list of websites which have been compromised if you want to check one specifically. Once that’s out of the way, it’s time to take your security to the next level. Where possible, initiate multi-factor authentication, ensuring that anybody attempting to hijack your account in the future is met with more barriers than they can overcome. Multi-factor authentication (or MFA) will demand multiple credentials when logging in, and most websites now offer at least two-step authentication – such as a password and a code sent to your phone or a recovery email. If MFA isn’t available on a website, use a secure password and change it regularly. For businesses, an organisation-wide briefing is a must, with instructions for employees to change all passwords regardless of if their email has been breached – better to stay one step ahead. It would also be prudent to make the most of solutions such as Microsoft Azure Authentication to secure your workplace. Unfortunately, the data breaches which came together to make Collection #1 possible continue to occur on a regular basis. That makes them an ongoing challenge, but not one which should impact your daily life with undue stress. Simply stay secure and vigilant, consider signing up for updates from Troy Hunt, and don’t share your password with anybody. For businesses, you’ll need to take extra steps and bring in new security measures, but with the right help, it’s easily achievable. Looking to implement MFA in your business? Our experts can help. Simply get in touch to find out more. 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__label__wiki	0.528071	0.528071	The second half began as the first finished, fast, frantic and highly intense. Cork came back in the second half with a few hammer blows and drew it level, Clare at that stage responded like a team of 27- or 28-year-olds with four All-Ireland medals in their back pocket, who knew how not to panic and knew how to close the deal. Yet that came from a bunch of young and relatively inexperienced hurlers. That to me was an extraordinary thing to be able to do. They have a confidence level that’s obviously been instilled in them. They have a confidence in their squad, in what they’re doing, in their system. They have a fundamental belief in their system and if they stick to it they’ll win. There was a moment with 11 minutes to go when Cork equalised again and you thought ‘could this be a hammer blow too much for them, could Cork now kick on?’ But I just thought it showed remarkable maturity from such a novice team to close it out the way they did. That moment of superb quality from Conor McGrath to score a goal just after Cork had equalized summed all this up. The system of hurling Clare play is a joy to watch and very hard to play against, when they’re playing very well it’s a brilliant set-up. And I just think that that was the difference between the sides, because when Clare needed to, they could score that bit easier than Cork. And when the game was open and in a fast and furious state, it looked like Clare used the space better whereas with Cork it tended to be a little bit more direct and a little bit more one-dimensional. When it was more fractured and stop-start at the end of the first half and start of the second half it actually suited the Rebels a bit more. But when there was fluency in the game, Clare were always better. The skill levels were absolutely huge, the first touch was brilliant, they ran at Cork and they hurt them. They had more options from a scoring point of view than the Leesiders. They changed their attack masterfully and got more players in near the goal to hurt Cork. Cork just didn’t have the same options that Clare did. The big question now is, how many can Clare win with this crop of young lads. This is an out of the ordinary young team. Fourteen of the panel played Under 21 this year , bringing home that All Ireland title aswel. When you’re 19, 20, 21, all you want to do is hurl and win. In the modern game today the top quality hurler is expected to carry onto his early thirties so another ten years is still left in the tank for the majority of these kids. Arguably their best days are ahead of them. The real challenges to these kids now is to stay grounded and handle the off field distractions that will come. The way the whole thing has gone now, the demands are incredible but Clare are in a good place from an age profile point of view. Whether they can go on and dominate it is open to debate; the age profile is there, the system is there, the ability is there… so it’s possible they could but others will be waiting for them next year. I think the key to breaking Clare’s threat at future domination is to deal with them tactically. Tactically it will be fascinating to see the likes of the Cats take them on. One thing is for sure Cork and Jimmy Barry-Murphy will be back and this year will have done them the world of good. They will come back better next year, as Cork is a proud hurling county. Brian Cody was in the stands no doubt taking notes and already planning for next year. Expect a massive push from the cats next year and Tipperary with Eamonn O’Shea in his second year in charge will demand improvement and will harbor high hopes of mounting a serious challenge on Clare. Throw into the mix provincial champions Limerick and Dublin, along with Galway , the forever nearly team and Waterford , high on the back of massive All-Ireland success in minor and with possibly the right man put in charge, I’m already licking my lips in anticipation for next year. But for now we must enjoy what has been a championship of the highest quality and excitement and congratulate worthy winners Clare on their fantastic achievement. Roll on 2014. Image courtesy of RTE.ie.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1402
__label__cc	0.631293	0.368707	Tag Archives: Philosophy of Culture A Journey into Elemental Innocence Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Freedom, Philosophy of Time, Plato, politics The Perfection of the West We know now what fully formed, perfectly realized western civilization looks like. We see the realization of the promises of monotheistic religion, professional scholarship and research, law, high art, professional journalism, mass media, popular culture, science, technology, industry and free market commerce. The final destiny of all these cultural treasures is fully on display in the 21st century USA, the America of Bush and Obama, in its acts as a nation: arrogant, brutally violent, contemptuous of law, treacherous, perfidious, fair of speech but foul of act, secret and covert, obsessed with weapons and intimidating force, internally celebrating a gloating dominance of the few super rich over the rest and expressing the same spirit externally by malevolent manipulation of outsiders, with an economy based on war, addictions, and financial industry profiteering on insider technology, insider knowledge, and rigged markets; operator of assassination drones, offshore and secret prisons, torture chambers. Here is the highest creation of human history so far, and surely it represents the ultimate failure of the threads of culture just mentioned. We know from this outcome that capitalist nation-states and their economies are controlled by crime families, since corporations and nation states such as the USA are blatantly acting out the crime family ethos. Nothing about this is difficult to observe. The most advanced and enlightened nation-states are exact expressions and projections of the forces controlling them, and who those forces are is written plainly in the actions of those nations. Ordinary citizens generally, people nurturing children, are certainly not enthusiastic about war, bullying, selective and arbitrary law enforcement, or casual murder, for example. The disappointing outcome is not a result of abuses of power by isolated rotten apples, by corrupt individuals, nor even a straightforward cabal, but rather it is the consequence of a culture which is broadly and deeply entrenched in the whole human interconnectedness. If cultural communities other than the Euro-American had specialized in harnessing the powers of nature through advancing science, the outcome would have been much the same, since all are similarly devoted to radical inequality, between men and women, for example. What of Culture has to Go, and What’s Left in Innocence In the course of the last several posts we have been able to swept away the personal identity definitions derived from culturally poisoned ethnic backgrounds, gender, nationality, personal economic function, competition results, trophies, and height in counterfeit meritocracies. We have swept away the warped ideals of alpha-trophy-looting masculinity, swept away tools of social control consisting of fables of disembodied-super-persons and fictitious personifications of collectives, swept away insignia, logos, mottoes, badges, titles, uniforms, and uniform postures and gestures. (Is this an adventure yet?) We have swept away the fiction that voting every four or five years is enough bottom-up political force to constitute effective sovereign power by the majority of voters. Now, having swept away so much that is sometimes stipulated as necessary for a happy and meaningful life, we are in a position to recognize that there is still lots to work with at a more elemental and pre-cultural (innocent) level of experience. Great swaths of poisoned culture are thus expendable without risking nihilism. We still have a set of features of individual intelligences, for example, including transcendent freedom. Transcendence and Worship Worship is not the appropriate response to the actual transcendence of ordinary intelligences. Worship looks like a desperate attempt to manage a powerful narcissist alpha-father transformed into a fable of cosmic force. It is begging for favour and mercy from the angry father figure. Sweep all that away. The appropriate response to the transcendent freedom of personal intelligence is the enjoyment of freedom. The cultural forms of externalized transcendence are forms of idolatry, a worship of fraudulent gods, false gods. Elemental Innocence What remains, the elements to recognize and live with, must include the transcendent interiority of individual intelligences, which is beyond the measuring instruments of science. The set that includes that could be called philosophical elements: nature (beautiful to an intelligent beholder, but relentlessly dislocating as determined in a way we might call entropy), embodied intelligences (each with an interiority without appearance), the interconnectedness of intelligences (straightforward communication and artifacts of culture being noticed, interpreted, and imitated), and culture. Nature, culture, and individual intelligences are not pure elements in themselves but more like elemental categories of reality. Each contains complexity. The Elemental Category: Intelligences The Interiority of Time Every individual has direct access to the basic elements of being in a life, such as time as a construct of non-actuality. Both philosophers and scientists are generally unhelpful and even hopeless on the issue of the relentless dislocation that is the experience of nature in time. That applies even to Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), who otherwise made admirable contributions to understanding the interiority of intelligence, for example in his phenomenology of caring in Being and Time (1927), notwithstanding that his focus on monistic Being inclined him toward legitimizing parasitic Nazism. Elemental Ontology of Time: The Non-Actuality of The Interiority of Intelligence, basis of Freedom The idea of the interiority of intelligence is required as a way to recognize some crucial non-actuality in the experience of time. For example, memory of the past is not an actual past (since the past does not actually exist, is categorically excluded from existing by the actuality of the present), but is instead a non-actual past in a bearing or orientation constructed by an intelligence. So, consideration of time in experience requires the idea of non-actuality in memory and in future aspiration. Intelligence is a force that actively adjusts a bearing with a self-constructed and non-actual past, and a future of mutable possibilities and probabilities, all non-actualities, which it is continuously building into a life. Since everything exterior to intelligences is the strictly measurable actuality of nature, the non-actuality in the experience of time requires the idea of an interiority of intelligence outside nature, defined by its non-actuality. (Some would call it idealist non-actuality.) It is the non-actuality of the interiority of intelligence which makes freedom possible and actual. Plato, Illusion, Time, and Non-Actuality Plato claimed that time is a realm of illusion (experienced in the futile strivings of appetites and competitive spirit), and the view of elemental innocence being presented here claims that the experience of time requires non-actuality of a kind peculiar to intelligences, so both views connect the experience of time with forms of non-actuality. This is an old philosophical idea. “Illusion” could be a prejudicial way of describing a non-actual construct of intelligence. Plato does not give individual intelligences credit for constructing the illusion, the non-actuality of temporal becoming (credit for constructing it, for example, from a power to escape the brute particularity of nature, to create freedom). Instead, for Plato, the realm of the illusion of becoming is a trap and a prison for intelligences, a trap constructed by a divine intelligence which Plato calls the Demiurge. So for Plato, the non-actuality of time is a trap or test originating from beyond the power of individual intelligences. Contrary to Plato, however, it is the non-actuality of the interiority of intelligence which makes freedom a reality, because it is not imposed on individual intelligences from some exterior power, but instead is constructed internally by every intelligence from a power and an intent to overcome the brute particularity of nature, to transcend nature by creating freedom. It seems that Plato was well aware that time is crucial for intelligence, but he equated the transcendence of intelligence with an escape from time into contemplation of unchanging eternity, that is with an escape from ordinary life. The Christian heaven/ afterlife is like Plato’s high contemplation in being presented as a higher realm of timeless eternity where the human essence is ultimately fulfilled. There certainly was direct influence from Plato to Christianity. However, we now recognize that the transcendence of intelligence is in the ordinary freedom of building a life in time, involving a transcendence that is normally obscured by cultural and political forces. Epicurean Mindfulness There is a lot in common between Plato’s conception of the fulfillment of human nature as escape from ordinary life (into a contemplation of unchanging “ideal” eternity) and the obsession of various religions with an imagined afterlife. Both reject ordinary life in the world of time as a lost cause of torment, confusion, and deception. In both cases the best human destiny is to deny life in the world as much as possible and fixate on some other “higher” condition to be achieved by a transitional process such as death, complete loss of self. Historically, Epicureans were the best at embracing the immediacy of living a life. They were in favour of enjoying physical comforts and joys as part of a sustainable and fulfilling life. They found the greatest pleasure in a sort of mindfulness that includes the context and consequences of any immediate action or life situation, and found that individuals make the most of their innate freedom by practicing that mindfulness of the transcendence of freedom. After Epicureanism, modern secularism is the most committed to embracing life in the world of time, and can no longer make much sense of a higher realm of eternity, but modern secularism lost recognition of the transcendence of intelligence, offering nothing better than the disenchantment of “natural selection” as the principle of survival. Freud’s Variation To illustrate the enduring influence of Plato’s vision of the interiority of intelligence, it is only necessary to recognize that Freud’s model of the id-ego-superego is a modern recapitulation. Plato’s contemplative rationality, outside time, at the top of the subjectivity pyramid, is replaced in Freud’s version by a psychological internalization of public models of propriety and authority, a considerable reduction of transcendence in the experience of individuals, reflecting the counter-revolutionary Victorian repression that was culturally supreme in Freud’s Europe, but more generally recognizing the heavy influence of ambient culture on every individual. Freud was, in his way, a continental rationalist who constructed a formal system of analysis for the forces of Romantic irrationality in the interiority of intelligences. Freud, a man of science, did not offer an analysis of time. The Elemental Category: Culture and History Human being is embodied intelligence, normally conditioned within portions of an elaborate culture constructed through a particular history by a multi-generational interconnectedness of embodied intelligences. Culture has been constructed in history by actions of human groups and individuals in increasingly remote past times. History has to be included as a dimension of culture since particular intelligences within particular geographical circumstances had such a profound force in creating history’s peculiarities, and the history created so haphazardly has profound influence on all newly arriving intelligences. Top-down human-on-human parasitism is elemental in history, although it is accidental, manifesting itself in an extreme and eccentric culture of masculinity provoking gender-culture conflict, social class plate tectonics, and externalized definitions of personal identity to legitimize radical inequality. Violence against women is normally an expression of top-down human-on-human parasitism of a most blatant kind. The culture of top-down human-on-human parasitism has exerted heroic efforts to perpetuate itself through creating a cultural appearance of legitimacy, a legitimizing explanation of itself. The elemental category of culture is consequently tainted, including a whole nexus of distortions of reality which connect to form a zombie reality and individual zombie shells through which people project a distorted representation of their intelligence. (Please review the legacies itemized in posting 57, March 21, 2013, Cartesian First Philosophy and The Elemental Hazmat Suit, and the distortions of reality itemized in posting 58, April 4, 2013, Living in Zombie-Land.) The interior self is being-as-intelligence, being-as-freedom, constructing a life in the nature of time. That interiority, in a condition of self-possession, is an effective hazmat suit for venturing out safely into the poisoned culture that plagues the human interconnectedness. The hazmat suit is inherent happiness from experience of the freedom of intelligences, or you could say the transcendence of intelligences, since transcendence and freedom are not separate. There is a certain happiness that comes of being in a world in which transcendence is experienced immediately at close hand, in the miracle of the non-actuality in time. The force of intelligences is such that the fabric of human being is not pre-determined as nature is. It can be re-created to express ever more of the transcendent freedom of intelligences. This is one way in which it becomes possible to think that war, slavery, and human-on-human parasitism in all its forms can be ended. Some knowledge is necessary for the elemental hazmat suit. Historical knowledge of the arc of human parasitism is a good example. So the innocence of pre-linguistic experiences of re-orienting to philosophical elements has to be combined with some knowledge of history. Also crucial is a new approach to engaging with human-to-human interconnectedness, based on both empathy and knowledge of the poisoned culture. Elemental orientation is political, partly because recognizing top-down parasitism, the root source of profound cultural distortions of reality, is always discouraged by agents and symbols of social, economic, and political hierarchy; and partly because elemental thinking transcends whatever identity, status, or social position has been assigned to you by an ambient culture riddled with (falsely) legitimized top-down parasitism. The political reason that individual freedom matters is that it includes freedom to live and think elementally. You are inherently free to re-make your self-definition and your relationships without practicing or excusing parasitism, to sweep away the great swaths of poisoned culture listed at the beginning of this posting. You are also free to recognize parasitism even in its legitimized and institutionalized forms. A sense of adventure comes with leaving behind the assumptions of resigned ordinariness crafted to suit the current regime of parasite culture. That sense of ordinariness inevitably sucks the wonder and joy from the human condition. There is a mystery to personal transcendence, a happiness, that is obscured by the ordinariness of life in zombie culture. The Elemental Category: Nature The existence of nature does not prove or require the existence of gods or a god. All that can be said about the cosmos as a whole, other than strictly scientific measurements, is something like this: Inexplicably, there is something instead of nothing, and it seems that the various features and complexities of that something constitute a single whole in some sense. The anomalous feature is a discontinuity between the wholeness of beautiful but unintelligent nature, brute, predetermined actuality, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the interiority of intelligences, each its own universe of non-actuality outside nature. In spite of that radical discontinuity, it is undeniable that actuality and those multitudes of non-actualities are profoundly entangled through the embodiment of intelligences. The non-actuality of intelligences is routinely projected onto the shapes of actuality, and brute actuality contains materials that unreliably sustain and restrict the intelligences, who are otherwise discontinuous interior universes. Elemental embodiment is brought into focus easily from experiences of work, as explored in the four postings focused on working. Posting 11, November 10, 2011, Nature: Ground and Sky Posting 33, June 14, 2012 Reality is Three Givens: Nature, Subjective Intelligences, and Culture Posting 45, November 21, 2012, Working Posting 10, November 8, 2011, Employment as a Force-Field of Distorted Reality Keep in mind that the zombie world does not want to be changed, is insulted by the very idea, and takes offence at any suggestion that reality is different from what is commonly believed. From within the zombie shells of culture-assigned identities, a comfort zone of thinking within a specific political correctness, it is very difficult to recognize the simple realities identified here, including the lack of sovereignty achieved by elections of party-offered candidates every four or five years and that the resulting vacuum of sovereignty is filled by a shifting confederacy of capitalist crime families expressing a value system of parasitic brutality. The brutal tools and forces of supra-personal sovereignty are all at the command of that semi-covert plutocracy of war-profiteers, so resisting must be done strategically. In any case, think this through for the wonder of elemental intelligence. Copyright © 2013 Sandy MacDonald. The moral right of the author is asserted.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1411
__label__wiki	0.784225	0.784225	City Council Hearing Spotlights New Libraries in Shaw & Elsewhere; Mt. Pleasant Controversy Aired By Anthony L. Harvey A relatively placid DC Public Library (DCPL) budget hearing on May 3, 2010 — only 14 of 44 public witness slated to testify before DC Council Committee Chair Harry (“Tommy”) Thomas’ Libraries, Parks and Recreation Committee appeared — was dramatically interrupted when Ward 8 ANC Commissioner Cardell Shelton electrified the proceedings with an angry blast at his absent DC Council and library committee member Marion Barry and an extension of his angry words in the direction of Chairman Thomas’ staff before launching a passionate plea for priority attention being placed by DC Council members on the need for vocational training and occupational opportunities for young people and returning veterans who reside in Wards 7 and 8, both east of the Anacostia River. Shelton, a still working, vigorous 85 year old senior, listed half-a-dozen job training areas in desperate, immediate need and called on libraries as well as parks and recreation resources to provide facilities for such — not just “buildings that stand there.” Chairman Thomas diplomatically reminded Commissioner Shelton that DCPL plans for the new Ward 8 Washington Highlands branch library building call for flexible, swing spaces and community meeting rooms; it is anticipated that the uses of these spaces will reflect expressed community needs and desires in conjunction with DCPL operational resources. Washington Highlands and Ward 1’s Mt. Pleasant branch libraries were the only subjects of specific branch library criticism. Silence or enthusiastic praise from public witnesses enveloped the other two-dozen DCPL library facilities. Testimony bitterly critical of DCPL administration and its pro-bono citizen Library Board of Trustees from Robin Diener and Chris Otten of the Ralph Nader Library Renaissance Project was countered by Chairman Thomas, especially when gently chiding Otten, who also serves as an Adams Morgan ANC commissioner, for refusing to take credit for the Nader project’s constructive contributions to DCPL’s already strikingly successful District-wide library rebuilding and modernization program. The Ward 2 Watha T. Daniel/Shaw branch library at 7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue, scheduled to open in handsome, brand new quarters in July, 2010, is a case in point. Community-desired glass panel walls, a vegetative green roof, flexible study and meeting rooms, and improved security plans are all at least partly, if not totally, reflective of community recommendations — which were further articulated and coordinated by the Nader library project. The new building is replacing the much-reviled, nearly windowless 1970s Brutalist-style structure in favor of an open and welcoming library building to meet today’s needs. (For images showing the architect’s rendering depicting how the new building’s exterior will appear along with a photo of the old building prior to its demolition, see “Shaw and Mt. Vernon Neighborhoods Finally to See Actual Ground-breaking for Long-Awaited, New Watha T. Daniel Branch Library Building,” Sep., 2008, page 1; available in the PDF at http://tinyurl.com/2aerals. So, too, the controversy surrounding plans that are underway to renovate and expand the facilities of Mt. Pleasant’s original 1925 Carnegie branch library building at Lamont and 16th Streets. Summits, surveys, strenuous community and ANC meetings and hearings and considerations by the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) and the Fine Arts Commission, together with staff review and National Capital Planning Commission review have all taken place. Recommendations from the Fine Arts Commission and the HPRB have been incorporated into the design, now known as “Design G,” superseding six previous designs and incorporating at least a fourth version of a new, American With Distabilities Act (ADA) conforming access ramp leading to a single, glass “hyphen” connecting structure between the historic structure and the relatively small two-story rear addition. This is planned to be the single main entrance to the library; it would be used by both handicapped and non-handicapped patrons. (For background, see “Mt. Pleasant Branch Library Expansion and Site Planning Actively Involving Affected Residents;” Apr. 2009, page 1 and “Ambitious Expansion Plans for Library in Mt. Pleasant Roils Community; Many Object to Design and Question Programs,” Oct. 2009, page 1, both available in the Current & Back Issues Archive at http://tinyurl.com/2v4repy. In a rare coming together of usually competing neighborhood antagonists, Historic Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. Pleasant ANC, and adjacent apartment building residents and their supporters, including the Kalorama Citizens Association, have continued to oppose DCPL’s new library plans. A first, and powerfully stated reason, is the fear engendered by the unsuccessful efforts by the DC fire department on the night of March 12, 2008 to control the fire at the Deauville apartment building on Mt. Pleasant Street resulting in the catastrophic destruction of that structure — leaving only portions of the outer walls – along with the fire, smoke, and water damage to the church building behind the Deauville facing 16th Street. The church building is said to be now ruined. Given the lack of an alley or courtyard in the long triangular space stretching several blocks from Lamont to Irving Streets and bounded by 16th and Mt. Pleasant Streets, the ANC and nearby residents, as well as the Nader library project, have seized on the occasion of the library’s planned expansion to plead for the use of the site’s rear and side yards for fire lanes that might provide fire and EMS vehicles with better access to the rears of nearby buildings. Historic Mt. Pleasant wants little or no expansion; rather, it supports an historic restoration program like that of DCPL’s widely heralded Takoma Park historic restoration — this in another of the three Carnegie-funded DC branch library buildings constructed in the early part of the last century. The Library Renaissance Project and its District Dynamos have joined the fray, attempting to further galvanize the community in opposition to DCPL’s Mt. Pleasant library plans, and are working with the ANCs of Adams Morgan and Mt. Pleasant in the production of coordinated, $3,000 consultant studies challenging DCPL’s ADA access plans, its overall design, and its asserted non-responsiveness to fire safety issues. The Adams Morgan consultant’s harshly negative findings regarding these issues were immediately challenged by the DCPL administration; the alleged ADA compliance failures were rebutted by Core Architectural Services, DCPL’s design contractor for the Mt. Pleasant library restoration, renovation, and expansion project and the report of the Core findings was released to the public. Mt. Pleasant ANC Commissioner Gregg Edwards, who currently chairs the commission, eloquently and with lawyerly precision expressed to Chairman Thomas his continuing outrage at what he perceives to be DCPL and other agencies flouting of the District’s public laws stipulating the requirement that “great weight” be given to ANC resolutions — in this matter, 13 resolutions with 183 particularities. Chairman Thomas again patiently reminded these three hostile witnesses that he is in constant communication with Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham regarding Mt. Pleasant library plans and with Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry concerning Washington Highlands — both wards are the only ones across the city that have just a single library to serve all of their residents. Ironically, the real budget issues affecting DCPL are the reductions in appropriations spelled out in the Mayor’s proposed 2011 budget and the negative affects these budget cuts would have an already reduced staffing, hours of operations, and services in an urban library system that is only now being brought back from the dead through the indefatigable efforts of DCPL administrators and staff led by Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper and the leadership provided by the Library’s Board of Trustees. Initial fruits of their labors include the restoration of services, collections, and facilities at the Martin Luther King, Jr. main library; the opening of two, stunningly attractive new modernist branch library buildings in Southeast — chock full of new books, DVDs, CDs, and state-of-the-art computers (both PCs and Macs) –- The Benning branch on Benning Road near Minnesota Avenue and the Anacostia branch at Good Hope Road and 18th Street. Also receiving positive community responses have been the interim libraries, both modular and storefront, provided during constructing the new buildings for Watha Daniel, Tenley in Friendship Heights, Benning and Anacostia, along with those serving users of the burned-out Georgetown library, responses to Takoma Park’s restoration, and the makeover of the Southeast branch building and site near Eastern Market. Other equally ambitious — large and small — DCPL projects are moving toward completion. All of them have materially benefited from the efforts of increasingly informed community residents, ANCs, and neighborhood activists. Chairman Thomas concluded his lengthy one-day hearing by affirming his continuing efforts to restore current 2010 budget cuts and those being proposed for 2011 and echoed Chief Librarian Cooper’s expression of DCPL and its Board of Trustees priorities of keeping libraries open as much as possible, minimizing any adverse budget affects on collections and services, and completing DCPL’s current library restoration and new building construction projects, whereupon DC could then look at gaps and inadequacies in current service areas.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1414
__label__wiki	0.690973	0.690973	Daily Archives for April 6, 2012 The India Social Summit 2012 – journalism is social ? tweet in 140 words !?! A print journo @ India Social SHRUTI CHAKRABORTY It’s THE media… or medium, depending upon how you look at it. It’s the future, though statistics assure me that it is not the only present. I can breathe a sigh of relief. Being a journalist who loves the print medium more than online (there… I’ve said it!), it was reassuring when it was collectively agreed upon by the experts of the New and Social Media domain in India, that print and long-form writing is not dead (yet… but then that’s a distant yet). I currently do not have to look at a career change. Yay! It’s not easy being part of the cusp generation that has grown up having seen the old-world print-centric journalism and is currently living among the New Age Twitter-savvy, information super-highway kids. My heart is in print, while it’s expected to be connected online. Especially so, if one is cooped up for two straight days in two rooms filled with mostly (and ironically) middle-aged media experts and amateurs who’re discussing the all-important future of media and this ubiquitous phenomenon, or even parallel universe if you please, that is social media. The India Social Summit 2012 in New Delhi was a conclave of people who live simultaneously in the virtual world. It’s the kind of place one would imagine a Marshall McLuhan or a Claude Shannon or a Warren Weaver, had they been alive today, sitting around much-less-fancier tables discussing the “hows” and “whys” of (social) communication media and methodology. Akin to most of those present—in the audience or part of the panel—they too probably wouldn’t have known where this Social Media was headed, how would it impact our lives—and by that virtue, the world—but they would have all agreed in unison that this proverbial change is definitely looming large… Honestly, put it in that perspective and one suddenly feels all important! I might have been in the presence of greatness! The questions, though, remain…in an economy-driven world, how do we monetize this social media? And, in a more sotto voce kind of a way, how do we manipulate people to our benefit? Although the first question was raised over and over again, just one (whom I managed to hear) actually went ahead and called out the elephant in the room by referring to the latter. The always-entertaining-yet-thought-provoking chief belief officer of the Future Group, Devdutt Pattanaik, went out and said it in a non-sugar-coated fashion: “Communication is manipulation”. Yes, indeed. No matter how many times everyone spoke about “being relevant”, “reaching out”, “engaging”, “conversing” with one’s audience/followers/fans, the bottom line was—how do I “manipulate” them to choose me over everyone else?! And, as a corollary, how do I make money out of that? So, quite unsurprisingly, the second-popular buzzword (phrase?) at the summit just had to be ROI. Return on Investment. “I know I have to put in money in this Thing. I know I can’t ignore it. But what do I get in return and how soon?” Commerce. Monetization. Simple. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s the way the world works. The interesting thing, though, was that after three days (of which I attended two) of intensive brainstorming by media experts, I don’t think anyone had quite figured out the answers to those questions. No one could say WHY Kolavari di had gone viral. No one could figure out HOW one Aakar Patel column could make four out of 10 words trend in India. No one could stand up and confidently say THIS IS HOW it’s to be done. No one knew WHERE this phenomenon called social (as the medium is called by the “cool” people) was headed. And every time anyone mentioned a social campaign or idea that they’d tried, the almost immediate question was: Have you monetized? If the answer was a rare yes, those around would just have this look of concealed envy as they mentally debated whether it would be inelegant to ask “how?”, or in the case of a more Proletarian “no”, everyone would just slowly drift away seeking those answers elsewhere. So, as a print journalist who had recently been introduced to this strange, intangible world, I tried desperately hard to crack this formula of how to make the “relevant” people “listen” (one’s editor did, after all, mention making it a criterion in the appraisal system of our integrated newsroom!). As I cluelessly wandered around a world where referring to each other by one’s Twitter handles rather than by one’s real-world name was more natural, trying to absorb everything that came my way, and live-tweeting (I actually went as far as downloading the Twitter app just for this) the event, at the end I still walked away with a general feeling reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s Multivac: Insufficient data for meaningful answer. Having said that, there were still quite a few quotable takeaways from the event. Here are a few: First, some good laughs: It used to be “You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours”. Now it’s “You like my Facebook page, and I’ll like yours”. — Rohan Jha, Sony Music Narad ke bina marketing nai kar sakte (Without the spirit of Narad, it’s hard to capture the essence of marketing). — Devdutt Pattanaik, Future Group Shopping malls exist to give us aukat (significance)…it’s a social service industry. — Devdutt Pattanaik Tata Nano…it’s the cheapest car for the poor people. I don’t earn money to be poor. Rs1 lakh to buy poverty!? — Devdutt Pattanaik On a serious note: Social media is almost like “The Opium” that makes you forget the crushing isolation of contemporary India. —Anisha Motwani, Max New York Life For a person engaging through social media, escaping and seeking cushion behind false identities gives a sense of empowerment to share his enlightened opinion to the world. 4Cs model for effective scale up in social media: content, conversations, community, commerce. You are not alone: A live event is a virtual stadium. — Sanjay Mehta, joint CEO, Social Wavelength No one can predict what will go viral, virality is relative. — Rohan Jha, Sony Music What works (in the social space)? Content that is honest, unexpected, original. — Rohan Jha Sponsored tweets are yet another form of advertising. — Samir Pitalwalla, Disney Communication is manipulation. — Devdutt Pattanaik The journey from I don’t care to I do care is what’s the story today. — Shivnath Thukral, Essar The future of reputation is all about listening and then engaging. — Shivnath Thukral If in social media you’re unidentifiable, unapproachable, unsociable, then why are you on social media at all? — Shivnath Thukral It’s not about how many people “like” your page. It’s about the FP (followers vs people who talk about you) ratio. An FP ratio of 0.03-0.05 is average, need to do better; 0.06-0.08 is decent, can do better; 0.09-0.3 mean you’ve done a good job; and if it’s 0.4 and above, I’d be interested in the brand! — Arun Nair, Mahindra Holidays A “like” is an opportunity. — Karthik Nagarajan, Group M If your idea’s good, people will share it. — Sandip Maiti, Experience Commerce Internet blurs the lines between amateurs and professionals in content dissemination. — Gautam K. John, Akshara Foundation There is democartization of content, and we have to reintegrate (strategy) according to that. — Madhavan Narayanan, Hindustan Times Content is king, but Attention will be empress. — Madhavan Narayanan A brand is really a brand, an inanimate object, until enough people start caring about it. — Gitanjali Sriram, Naked Communications Media (In the social space) invite interaction. Allow people to share control. Be brave! — Gitanjali Sriram Over time, media will be driven by technology and not by content…(which is) the biggest casualty of all this. — Suhel Seth, Counselage India Social Media is actually a chamber of hollow echoes. — Santosh Desai, Future Brands Social media amplifies and accentuates what traditional media puts out. — Santosh Desai April 6, 2012 by Media Laundry- @Dhobitalao Categories: Media Matters \| Tags: Business, Facebook, India, Isaac Asimov, Marshall McLuhan, Shivnath Thukral, Social Media, Twitter \| Leave a comment Life in a Rectangle: Believe me, your life will come full circle! Anurag Hira For someone who spent eight of his almost 25 colourful years at the very same 55B Mirza Ghalib Street that is the epicentre of Sujit Sanyal’s Life in a Rectangle, his candidly written memoir is a trot down the characteristic advertising grasslands of Calcutta’s yesteryear. An easy-going and highly entertaining book, it is about how Calcutta nurtured and shaped some of the finest minds of advertising and how those wonderful people then outgrew Calcutta. Some left the city for greener pastures, while others, sadly, left us for another paradise. Mr Sanyal’s book is largely anecdotal and the stories he so vividly captures are all about the good times and the bad, the really fun times and some, quite sad. early, he chose to make this a rambling all-over-the-place kind of book without a proper path in place, but at no point does it make the reader feel unstrung. A free-flowing string of entertaining stories, they have been told as any advertising person would when you catch up after a long time. It leaves you with a montage of images and a potpourri of memories, mostly nice. Clarion, though — as anyone knows — had more ups and downs than all of Free School Street’s and Ripon Street’s potholes put together! But that’s another long story for another time. Getting back to the crux of my piece, the truth is I heard about Life in a Rectangle from my brother Mohit, who was invited to walk the audience down Calcutta’s advertising journey at his book launch in Delhi — from his ‘Contract’ed, but unlimited point of view. Incidentally, Mohit, the last shishya of Subhas Ghosal, has seen a lot more of our largely-fun-but-lately-dirty advertising world than I have; he is one of the four pillars who gave my career a rather solid structure. I’m not sure what implications Life in a Rectangle holds for even a generation after me, but clearly it is a well-travelled, beautifully told series of short stories by one of the last few gentlemen in our business. I had to, quite unfortunately, give Mr Sanyal’s book launch and the panel discussion a miss, owing to work and social pressures (in that order), but snacking voraciously on it over the first few nights and having made a wholesome meal by the end of it, I have to admit that he has a vivid storytelling ability of a typical advertising man. This book is nothing but a hard-cover adda session that has every character of those days mentioned lovingly and realistically — something all of us do even now, whenever we meet old colleagues who have turned friends, over the years. Clients and some iconic brands, client-agency relationships way back then, the ethics of conducting business, encounters with legends and all those wonderful, real people who crafted such memorable communication in between living mad lives, are all strewn across in abundance. Clearly, through all his experiences, Mr Sanyal possesses the rubbed-off pedigree of Mr Ghosal and to an extent, professor Subroto Sengupta. Life in a Rectangle is a must-read for anyone from that bygone era and is, perhaps, the only ‘advertising reunion’ in print that I have laid my eyes and hands on. We all remember our beginnings and lovingly like reminiscing our glory days among wacky characters of rare talent, combined with a sense of acerbic wit and dry humour. It is a book that dwells on strong human relationships and lifetime bonds made while conducting business, above all. Advertising was, as Bill Cosby put it, the most fun you could have with your clothes on! So if you’ve been a part of the people’s business from the ’70s through to the ’90s, please pick up a copy of Life in a Rectangle. Believe me, your life will come full circle! (The author is the co-owner of One by One Design) HARD-COVER ADDA Sujit Sanyal at Crossword to launch his first book Life in a Rectangle: The World Around 55B Mirza Ghalib Street, in association with The Telegraph. Picture by Anindya Shankar Ray Crossword Bookstore on Elgin Road boomed with laughter on the evening of March 30 as the dadas and didis of Calcutta’s advertising world caught up with one another after years at the launch of Life in a Rectangle: The World Around 55B Mirza Ghalib Street (Fingerprint, Rs 395) by ad veteran Sujit Sanyal, held in association with The Telegraph. Oindrilla Dutt and veteran actor Jagannath Guha read excerpts from the book. “It is not an autobiography. It’s the Clarion story, the story of everyone who was a part of Calcutta in the 1970s and ’80s,” said the author, tall and energetic in a rich navy blue kurta. From adman Ram Ray to evenings at Oly [Olympia on Park Street], the book which was released by Dilip Chatterjee, former president of Advertising Club, Calcutta, gives the readers a sneak peek into the lives surrounding Clarion McCann Advertising since 1976, when Sanyal joined the firm as a trainee. “I just had to download those memories somewhere, and while sitting and staring at the laptop, the words came naturally to me,” laughed Sanyal. The event also saw Sabyasachi Ghosh, the current president of Advertising Club, join the bunch of ad people as they swapped memories of hilarious client presentations to the familiar last-moment adrenaline rush. “This is an insider’s book, but for people who are not insiders it gives rare glimpses into the circumstances in which the advertising world grew in Calcutta,” said Guha about the book, written by one of his first students at Bhawanipur College and later a friend. 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__label__cc	0.704563	0.295437	Tag Archives: unemployment 7 Year Rash Today is the 7th Anniversary of this blog. For a long time this year I considered making this one my last because, quite simply, The Stupid Have Inherited the Earth. Intelligence and Common Sense (let alone <gasp> Logic) are Politically Incorrect. Hell, some Leftists have decreed that just saying “politically incorrect” is Politically Incorrect. 😦 So instead I thought I’d revisit one of my favorites from the last 7 years. This also goes out the #NeverTrump -ers who are so mindlessly obsessed with hating Donald Trump that they are willing Hillary into the White House. Hate never felt so Right. 🙂 And a special shout out to the Sabotage Republicans (The Establishment ones and their followers) WHO ALSO want Hillary. The Generations (and possibly permanent) of damage you want to inflict on what’s LEFT of this country is so short-sighted you deserve her. It will be YOUR fault. To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! -George Orwell So with that in mind, cast your mindless adherence to January 21, 2012 and this Blog and see yourselves currently in it also. THE ZOMBIE HOARD They are just a zombie hoard. Remorseless. Merciless. Incapable of shame, morals or ethics. They want want what they want when they want it and because they want it and will do anything to get it. Relentlessly. And what they want is YOU. You to be either converted or cow-towed to their every whim. To do whatever they want when they want it. Evidence John King, the CNN Liberal Moderator of the South Carolina Debate. He opens the debate with a salicious question to Gingrich about his “open marriage” and Gingrich blows him to bits for it and the crowd goes wild. He did this to prove his “courage” to stand up to the evil “right wingers” and puff out his chest that he was “journalist” and was going to bravely confront the issue. Meanwhile, anything remotely damaging to President Obama is ignored with great speed and spin.🙂 2016: Just Like they do with Hillary. The Debate will be set up to show that Trump is grumpy, unstable and mean. The fact that Hillary is a congenital, sociopathica Liar has no bearing on the debates whatsover. Their will be more Candy Crowley moments than ever. And the Zombie hoard will eat it up like candy. “Brains…” “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.- George Orwell. And their has never been more deceit now than ever in American History and more mindless Zombie Hoards out to make sure “What difference does it make, anyways?” Rush Limbaugh (who I rarely get a chance to listen to because of my work schedule): Now, let me tell you one thing here, folks: You cannot shame the mainstream media. If any of you are thinking that the media learned a lesson — if any of you believe that the media finally had it handed to ’em, if you believe that the media had their eyes opened and they are fully awake now and they understand what they’re dealing with — forget it. John King is proud of what happened last night. John King is a hero in the Main Street media because he didn’t back down, because he continued to illustrate how it is that the media does really control the agenda. That was a demonstration of the power they hold over every public figure’s head, that they choose to hold like a guillotine. John King… There may even be some jealousy and envy within the journalist ranks (well, not journalists; within the Democrat Party ranks) because John King is a guy that got in Newt’s face, stared him down — and the fact that Newt told him off? It’s a badge of honor. If you are thinking that John King was embarrassed and ran away with his tail tucked between his legs and learned his lesson and it’ll never happen again? Ah, ah, ah, ah. You cannot shame the mainstream media. They are proud of this. They delight in their power to destroy candidates that they don’t like. And they don’t like anyone who doesn’t cow-tow to them. 2016: They made THEIR Choice. Now it’s you’re Zombie duty to vote for it or else. “At the end of the day the message to every conservative who hasn’t run for office is: “You want a piece of this? You want some of this? You want Brian Ross hounding you and your ex-wife and then you want me asking you about it on national TV the next night? Come on in. We’re ready.” That’s the message from John King and CNN last night, and do not doubt me on this.” 2016: look at the evidence, every time new “evidence” comes out about Hillary they bury it. Every time Trump even raises his voice or say one less than perfect political phrase they are on it like flies on shit and they stick to it like super glue and blow it up. So the alternative is to cow-tow. To live in fear of the Liberal wrath. 2016: To acquiesce. Given in, the Ministry of Truth has the system rigged. Hell, the Democrats got caught rigging the Primary, blatantly. No one really cared. The Zombie Hoard just went, “oh” and moved on. The Media covered it up. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was sacrificed. #2: Hillary is caught re-handed on the Email Scandal. The FBI even says so. But since Comey has connections to Clinton and doesn’t want to have a mysterious “accident” she is not prosecuted. Future Hillary Supreme Court Nominee Loretta Lynch, Attorney General and Clinton Cronie refuses to prosecute her. Other people not connected to Clinton aren’t so lucky. And the reaction from the Zombie Hoard, “Yawn”. Hillary is still leading in the Polls! The Food Police. The TSA. The EPA. The Justice Department. Homeland Security. The FCC. Because if they can’t make you a zombie, they can at least make you a peasant in fear of your Masters who will not challenge them or not have the power to challenge them. “[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.” ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War They’ll just turn your children into zombies instead. 12 years of Grade School and 4 years of College is a lot of Zombie Voodoo time after all. And “getting them while they are young” is entirely within the Zombie Liberal playbook. Make them a zombie before they even know what one is and then make them as immune as possible to any anti-virus and get them addicted to their own Kool-Aid. Feed it to them constantly through the Media and the Internet. 2016: They’ll DEMAND Segregation, “Safe Spaces”, “Diversity” and “Inclusion” mindlessly and will trample Free Speech because they don’t want to be “offended”. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY WAR (Class, Gender, Race, Religion) IS PEACE IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Hell, even white people getting a tan will set the little zombie off… What it does is illustrate that they can be dealt with. But you can’t beat ’em. They’re not gonna be shamed. They’re not going to be shamed into stopping the coverage of conservatives as they do it. It’s going to continue. No matter what kind of shame you think they suffer in a contest like that — no matter how much money they lose, no matter how many of them get fired, no matter how many magazines or TV stations or newspapers get shut down — they are not gonna change. They are hard-core, leftists” And as I have said over and over again, they are have no morals or ethics because they are governed not by logic and reason but by emotions, mostly the most basic of primitive emotions, Fear, Lust (for power), anger, jealousy, ENVY, etc. –Raw emotions. 2016: THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS! Which is why when you engage them they sound and act like an immature 5 year old. And as we all know from childhood development the child has to develop a sense of shame by have having boundaries and limitations and consequences. And if they don’t, they will grow up with little to no sense of shame. 2016: “Microaggressions” anyone? They are usually called sociopaths. I can call them Liberal Zombies. 2016: And the #Never Trumpers and Establishment RINOs. Liberals have no shame. They want what they want when they want it because they want it. “…one of the upsides that isn’t gonna happen is the media saying, “Gosh, we’ve been so mean to these people and so unfair. You know, maybe we ought to start being fair.” That’s not going to happen. Liberals talk about being “fair” which means you’re being unfair to them and should do what they want. Liberals talk about “compassion” but it’s to make you feel guilty, not them, and to do what they want. Liberals will talk about “bi-partisanship” but that just means you have to compromise your principles so they can do what they want. “Diversity” means you’re evil and need to do what they say to repent for your sins. 2016: “Inclusion” Means you include everything THEY say and do it without hesitation. They are a remorseless hoard. They want what they want when they want it and on their terms only. Give them everything they want or they’ll cry, scream, bitch, moan, pout and lash out at you. 2016: “White Privilege” anyone? That is their primitive zombie hoard mentality. And they want YOU. “Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.” “Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.” “Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.” ― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide “Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.” “I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.” “They feel no fear, why should you?”– Max Brooks “The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.” Get rid of one zombie, and 10 more will take it’s place. So you have to be ready to do battle constantly. Look at 2010. The Democrats suffered the worst defeat in 80 years. Does it look like they learned ANYTHING? As a matter of fact the zombie hoard is even tighter, even more determined than ever. They want it EVEN MORE. So if we defeat then in 2012 will they go away? HELL NO! 2016: They weren’t defeated. Even more hoards joined them. So if they are beat in 2016 will they finally be defeated and go away. They will just keep coming back like a remorseless zombie hoard until you are overwhelmed. Which is why you will have to fight them all of your days, your kids days and their kids days until the infection is wiped out. But like any good zombie plaque it only takes 1 to re-ignite it and spread it all over again. And these zombies have Media and Internet outlets! (and Europe!) “Looking back, I still can’t believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of ‘experts’ all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more ‘shocking’ and ‘in-depth’ than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.” “The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.” Fuckin’ A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.” The Democrat Party in a nutshell. FEAR IS HOPE! My own personal Fourth Orwellian Precept (which includes WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH). “If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining” “When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.” “. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they’re going to be okay.” “This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren’t just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don’t have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don’t have a common heritage, we don’t have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have…is what we want to be.” “…We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extinction and grateful only for tomorrow with perhaps a little less suffering than today. Was this the legacy we would leave our children, a level of anxiety and self-doubt not seen since our simian ancestors cowered in the tallest trees? What kind of world would they rebuild? Would they rebuild at all? Could they continue to progress, knowing that they would be powerless to reclaim their future? And what if that future saw another rise of the living dead? Would our descendants rise to meet them in battle, or simply crumple in meek surrender and accept what they believe to be their inevitable extinction? For this alone, we had to reclaim our planet. We had to prove to ourselves that we could do it, and leave that proof as this war’s greatest monument. The long, hard road back to humanity, or the regressive ennui of Earth’s once-proud primates. That was the choice, and it had to be made now.” The Future is yours. So is living through “The Walking Dead” and “1984” for real. Standard \| Posted in Conservatives, ObamaCare, Political Correctness, politics, Socialism, Uncategorized, white privilege \| Tagged #Blacklivesmatter, #NeverTrump, 2016, Affordable Care Act, Agenda, America, Amnesty, benefits, Benghazi, bi-partisan, big brother, bigot, black, border, Border security, budget, Bush, business, campaign, Cap & Trade, capitalism, children, choice, Citizens, Civil Rights, civility, class warfare, climate change, competition, compromise, Congress, Conservative, Constitution, control, crisis, cuts, debt, deficit, Democracy, democrats, dependency, DHS, discrimination, diversity, Donald Trump, doublespeak, economics, economy, Education, election, Entitlement, Entitlements, Environmentalists, EPA, Fairness, faith, fault, Fear, First Amendment, Food Stamps, Free Speech, freedom, Freedom is slavery, GDP, global warming, government, greed, Green, gun control, guns, hate, Health Care, health care reform, Hillary Clinton, Homeland security, Hope and Change, Ideology, Illegal Immigration, Illegals, inclusion, inflation, Insurance, Intimidation, Iran, IRS, islam, Jobs, Justice Department, labor, Language, Leadership, Left, left wing, leftist, Liberal, Liberal Media, Liberalism, Liberals, liberty, libya, lie, lies, lying, Mandate, Media, media bias, Medicaid, medicare, middle class, Ministry of Truth, money, MSM, MSNBC, Muslim, narcissism, Nazi, Newspeak, Obama, obamacare, Orwell, partisan, partisanship, pelosi, political, Political Correctness, Politically correct, politics, poor, Power, President, Progressive, Progressives, propaganda, public sector, Race, racism, Racist, Reality, recession, recovery, reform, regulations, religion, republican, Republicans, Responsibility, rich, security, Senate, social justice, social security, socialism, speech, spending, stimulus, stupid, Supreme Court, tax increases, tea party, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, Thought Police, truth, TSA, unemployment, unions, vote, We the People, Welfare, White House, zombie \| 0 comments Entitlement and Grievance “The moment we begin to believe that we are doing badly because someone else is doing well, that moment that aggrievement takes over, it’s not long before his twin brother comes behind, and that would be entitlement”-Condi Rice 2012 “We need people in Washington who believe, but who believe based on the right values — personal responsibility, fiscal discipline, care for one another, strength for our armed forces and a sense of this very special, exceptional country,” –Rice After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful economic and political experiment in human history. That is the true basis of American exceptionalism. You see, the essence of America, what really unites us, is not nationality or ethnicity or religion. It is an idea. And what an idea it is. That you can come from humble circumstances and you can do great things, that it does not matter where you came from, it matters where you are going. My fellow Americans, ours has never been a narrative of grievance and entitlement. We have never believed that I am doing poorly because you are doing well. We have never been jealous of one another and never envious of each others’ And we need to give parents greater choice, particularly, particularly poor parents whose kids, very often minorities, are trapped in failing neighborhood schools. This is the civil rights issue of our day. If we do anything less, we can damage generations to joblessness and hopelessness and life on the government dole. If we do anything less, we will endanger our global imperatives for competitiveness. And if we do anything less, we will tear apart the fabric of who we are and cement the turn toward entitlement and grievance.— Condileeza Rice 2012 “America has never had a narrative of grievance. We’ve never believed ‘I am doing poorly because you’re doing well,'” she said. “The moment we begin to believe that we are doing badly because someone else is doing well, that moment that aggrievement takes over, it’s not long before his twin brother comes behind, and that would be entitlement.”– Utah 2012, campaigning for another black female running against a male Democrat. Grace Williams explains how Black Americans need to stop acting like victims: It is a cry of many Black Americans that ,”We have not yet reached the Promised Land.” and “When will we reach our Promised Land.” Guess what? This is the 21st century and those mantras are tired and worn out. We Black Americans must create our Promised Land through high intellectual and academic achievement in addition to a prodigious work ethic. Sadly, many Black Americans believe that they need a savior to help them to achieve educational and socioeconomic parity. I heard that many Black Americans state that they voted for Barack Obama to be President of the United States solely because he is Black. A lot of Black Americans pinned all of their hopes and dreams on President Obama, praying and hoping that he would get them out of a hopelessly dire socioeconomic situation and into a more affluent lifestyle. Now many Black Americans are displeased with President Obama because they believed that he did not create for them the housing and jobs that he promised that he would create.Many Black Americans contend that they are blameless for the educational and socioeconomic morass they are in. This belief and ideology are not only prevalent among lower socioeconomic classes of Black Americans but also among a few middle and upper middle socioeconomic classes of Black Americans. For example, one maternal cousin once removed, who has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and is in a high-level administrative position, steadfastly maintain that “the man” is holding “us brother/sisters back”. Every Saturday morning in my area(Harlem) without fail, in a park opposite that of my apartment complex, there are a group of Black Americans led by the Reverend Al Sharpton shouting repeatedly, ” No justice, no peace!” as if only doing this will obtain them quality education, housing, and job equality. Many Black Americans want to be rescued. It seems that they are waiting for a Great Savior to come to Earth and make everything copacetic. Each time I go into the African-American section of Barnes & Nobles and any other book store, 75% of the books regarding the Black American cultural experience are about Black victimology and 25% of the books are about Black achievement, excellence, and self-empowerment. Many of the subjects pertaining to Black American culture on some Black-made DVDs and CDs stress Black victimology and how we are oppressed by the enemy. Seldom do I find any Black-made DVDs and CDs stressing Black education, achievement, empowerment and how to be socioeconomically successful. Finding a book on Black American culture that is not imbued with the victimization mentality is analogous to finding a needle in a haystack. Tom Burrell, Black American author of BRAINWASHED: CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF BLACK INFERIORITY asserted that Black American students are the worst students in the country. Many Black American leaders cited institutional racism and poor socioeconomic living conditions. According to the Education Trust, only a minute 12% of Black American fourth graders were reading at their grade level and beyond; however, an abysmal 61% of Black American fourth graders lacked rudimentary reading skills. Now let us look at the racism factor. To reiterate, yes there is institutionalized racism in this society not only against Blacks but all people of color. However, studies authenticate that Black students in Caribbean and African families outachieve Black American students in the academic arena. A second study showed that middle and upper middle class Black American high school students had similar SAT scores to lower socioeconomic class Caucasians. Regarding socioeconomic class, it has been substantiated that Asians in poor neighborhoods are high academic achievers and score high on SAT tests. So the variables of race and socioeconomic classes are declared invalid. Now, what is the underlying factor which is a determinant of the academic underachievement of the Black American student? Many Black students are told by their parents, relatives, and peers that they are performing well “as long as they pass the course.” In the Black American student milieu, they are told that education is for nerds and to “stay real/Black” and “not to act white” i.e. being a high academic achiever. In the Black American student milieu, the high achieving Black American student is often stigmatized, ostracized, and/or worse by the lower achieving Black American student. In many Black American families, intellectualism and academic achievement is not highly prized. Oh, look, A Secretary of State that was not only a woman, she was black, and not as corrupt and universe is wide…. since she’s a <<shudder>> CONSERVATIVE! She must be evil and forgotten… 🙂 Standard \| Posted in politics \| Tagged Agenda, America, America has never had a narrative of grievance. We've never believed 'I am doing poorly because you're doing well, Amnesty, bi-partisan, big brother, budget, Bush, campaign, choice, Citizens, class warfare, climate change, competition, compromise, condileeza rice, Congress, Constitution, debt, deficit, democrats, diversity, doublespeak, economics, economy, Education, election, Entitlement, Fairness, faith, Fear, fiscal discipline, freedom, global warming, government, greed, Homeland security, Ideology, Illegal Immigration, Illegals, Liberal, Liberals, liberty, Media, media bias, middle class, Ministry of Truth, My fellow Americans, Newspeak, Orwell, ours has never been a narrative of grievance and entitlement, partisan, personal responsibility, politics, poor, Power, Progressive, republican, socialism, speech, unemployment \| 0 comments The Angry Left Bernie Sanders is angry. Who is he angry at? Rich people. Why rich people? That’s not clear. But has been the mantra of The Left for a generation at least. A generation brought up on this garbage. Garbage in, garbage out. At Liberty University, Sanders complained about a small number of people who have “huge yachts, and jet planes and tens of billions” while others “are struggling to feed their families.” In Madison Wisconsin, Sanders called for a “political revolution against greed.” So what’s the connection between people who have “tens of billions” and people who are “struggling to feed their families”? For the most part it’s a positive one. In a capitalist system, people get rich by meeting other people’s needs. Because some people are rich, other people find it easier to feed their families. Take the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. When I was a student at Columbia in the 1970s, I remember a friend showing me a fantastic hand held device. It could add, subtract, divide and multiply. And it only cost $400. Today, I can sit in bed with my lap top, which in 1970 dollars cost less than $400. I can buy and sell goods on eBay, conduct personal banking, purchase airline tickets, book hotel rooms and even work the New York Times crossword puzzle – in large part because of Bill Gates. Take the world’s richest woman, JK Rowling. When she wrote the last Harry Potter book or helped on the last Harry Potter movie was she making anyone worse off? Was she taking food out of the mouths of babes? Or was she bringing entertainment and pleasure to millions of people? Is Bill Gates greedy? There’s no evidence of that. He is giving all his money away in ways that are curing diseases that kill children all over the world. More generally, I have never met a truly creative person who was motivated by greed. But even if greed were the motivation, we need more of it – as long as it’s meeting our needs. So what’s Sander’s complaint? Here are his own words: “99 percent of all new income today (is) going to the top 1 percent.” In 2007, “the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income,” which is “more than the entire bottom 50 percent.” “Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.” When Sam Walton was alive, he was one of the world’s richest men. Yet he wore blue jeans and drove a pickup truck. No one in Bentonville, Arkansas even knew he was rich until they read about it in Forbes. Is Walmart making it harder or easier for people to feed their families? You be the judge. As has been said many times, The Left is only interested in the Narrative, not the truth. Muslim kid brings homemade electronic device to school and the School system freaked out because of all the school violence. The Left doesn’t give a crap about that. It’s all about the fact that he’s a Muslim. Then it came out that it was all a setup by a Muslim “activist” father who set up the whole thing. The Left doesn’t care. It’s all about “racism” to them because that fits their Narrative and what THEY want to be true. Behind the rhetoric on the left, there is one persistent theme, always implicit, never explicit. Leftist rhetoric is designed to encourage people to believe that the reason they are poor are because other people are rich. And this kind of rhetoric is not confined to politicians who know nothing of basic economics. Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and other well-known economists are just as guilty. They invariably imply that “all property is theft,” a staple of barn yard Marxism. Yet, on rigorous examination, this idea is silly. Most of the people on the Forbes 400 list are self-made or next generation of self-made billionaires. But the truth doesn’t matter, to The Left. Writing in the Dallas Morning News, Cullen Godfrey asks: why do we demonize billionaires? And usually, not Democrat Million and Billionaires. Nor, say, NFL player millionaires, just the owners. They didn’t steal our money. They earned our money by providing us with the things that we want and that make our lives better. The Forbes 400 list includes names such as Oprah Winfrey, filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Phil Knight (Nike), Elon Musk (Tesla), Charles Schwab, Ralph Lauren and Michael Ilitch (Domino’s Pizza). Of course, there are those with inherited wealth, but the vast majority on the list are first-generation, self-made billionaires, and those with inherited wealth have, as a rule, been excellent stewards of their good fortune. Like Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labour Party leader in Britain, Bernie Sanders is appealing to our worst instincts. His is not the message of compassion and love. His is the message of resentment, jealousy and hate. The hallmarks of the Left. What would he do? Tax capital. He hasn’t given us a figure, but if he goes along with the 90 percent income tax rate favored by Paul Krugman or the 80 percent rate proposed by Thomas Piketty, Bill Gates may never have been able to start Microsoft. Sam Walton may never have given us Sam’s Club. I’m not sure The Left would care about that. As I wrote at Forbes earlier this week, the left is intellectually bankrupt. While appealing to our basest emotions, they have no real solutions to any real problems. In fact, their “solutions” would almost certainly make the poor more poor. But they make them “feel” empowered. Perception is not reality, but it works for them. There is, however, a proposal from the right of the political spectrum: tax consumption rather than saving, investment and capital accumulation. As I wrote previously: [W]hen Warren Buffett is consuming, he’s benefiting himself. When he’s saving and investing, he’s benefiting you and me. Every time Buffett forgoes personal consumption (a pricey dinner, a larger house, a huge yacht) and puts his money in the capital market instead, he’s doing an enormous favor for everyone else. A larger capital stock means higher productivity and that means everyone can have more income for the same amount of work. So it’s in our self-interest to have very low taxes on Buffett’s capital. In fact, capital taxes should be zero. That means no capital gains tax, no tax on dividends and profits — so long as the income is recycled back into the capital market. We should instead tax Buffett’s consumption. Tax him on what he takes out of the system, not what he puts into it. Tax him when he is benefiting himself, not when he is benefiting you and me. But the Left Politicians are only interested in Taxes that benefit THEM. Standard \| Posted in politics \| Tagged 2016, Agenda, America, bernie sanders, big brother, Bill Gates, billionaire, bomb, campaign, choice, Citizens, class warfare, climate change, clock, Congress, Constitution, consumption, democrats, diversity, doublespeak, economics, economy, Education, election, Envy, Fairness, faith, government, greed, Liberal, Liberals, liberty, marxism, middle class, millionaire, Ministry of Truth, Muslim, narrative, Orwell, partisan, politics, poor, Power, President, Progressive, Race, racism, Racist, Republicans, Responsibility, rich, school, socialism, speech, spending, taxes, tea party, unemployment, Warren Buffett, While appealing to our basest emotions \| 0 comments Soylent Green Snake Hillary Clinton has a new economic plan. In essence, government should get actively involved to make everyone’s wages higher. Government control of the means of production…hmmm…I’ve heard that somewhere before… 🙂 Paul Krugman, writing in The New York Times, endorses the idea. There was a time when Krugman dismissed rhetoric like Clinton’s as economic quackery. These days he’s trying to sell the same snake oil as the politicians. The Agenda is The Agenda. And Class Warfare is one of the great succors or The Left. They can’t conceive of life without it. Here is what economists know and it’s backed by mountains of research. Employees tend to get paid their marginal product – the value they add to final output. In a competitive market this is almost a truism. Wages are not a gift. They are not at one level, but could have been substantially higher or lower. They are what they are because of the employees’ skills and the market value of what they produce. Now suppose that were not the case. Suppose there was a firm that paid employees more than their marginal product. That would mean the firm is collecting less from customers at the margin than it is paying out in wages. The firm can try to raise prices to cover the deficit, but then it would lose sales to rivals whose costs are lower and it would eventually go out of business. Or it could cover the deficit with lower profits. But then the investors would fire the manager and hire someone who gets the wages right and provides a market rate of return. Suppose that there was a firm that paid employees less than their marginal product. In that case, rival firms would hire the employees away – since they are worth more than what they are being paid. To summarize: A firm that pays workers more than they are worth cannot survive because it cannot match the prices and the rate of return to investors of its rivals. A firm that pays workers less than what they are worth, cannot survive because it will not be able to retain its employees. Competition in the marketplace tends to determine wages; there is a definite logic to what people are paid; and it has nothing to do with miserliness or generosity. Therefore, Liberals want to eliminate competition thus everyone is equal and their are no winner and no losers. Just like the liberal version of youth sports where no one actually loses. Competition is evil. So it must be destroyed. Competition is “unfair” and full of nothing but “inequality”. Also, economists know there is no free lunch. Unless, they are Liberal adherents to The Agenda, then they are all about the perception of “the free lunch” or the “greedy” capitalist who is a Scrooge and miserly old white privilege asshole. If one person has a gain – in the absence of any increased production — someone else must endure a loss. And since that is “unfair” Liberals demand everyone to be equal which holy unrealistic, but then again so are Liberals. And we know a lot about those losses. For example, when government forces employers to pay higher wages, employers react by reducing other types of spending on their employees – less training and fewer fringe benefits, such as health insurance. Close down and move to Mexico…Offer less hours of work at that higher pay, say 29. 🙂 On balance it appears that employees are left worse off. After a survey of the literature, economist Richard McKenzie wrote: [I]f the minimum wage were raised to $10.10 an hour, for example, the estimated 16.5 million workers earning between $7.25 and $10.10 could lose non-monetary compensation more valuable than the $31 billion in additional wages they are expected to receive. But Liberal work on perception, not reality. So that shiny new toy in the window look good from the outside, but once you own it and start playing with it, you find out just how cheaply made it was and it begins to fall about. But don’t worry, The Liberal has that covered to! It’s called “victimization” where you are the victim of the evil, greedy capitalists! It’s not your fault you fell for their dog crap hook-line-and-sinker, it’s their fault! How amazing is that. You took a bite of the apple of socialism and it the snake bit you, but it’s still the snake’s fault! And all you need is for the Liberal to come in and tell you that it was the snake fault and that if you take another bite it will STILL be the snake’s fault so why not go ahead… In defense of Hillary, Krugman writes: [E]mployers always face a trade-off between low-wage and higher-wage strategies — between, say, the traditional Walmart model of paying as little as possible and accepting high turnover and low morale, and the Costco model of higher pay and benefits leading to a more stable work force. And there’s every reason to believe that public policy can, in a variety of ways — including making it easier for workers to organize — encourage more firms to choose the good-wage strategy. Liberalism a snake charmer, not a snake oil salesman, says the snake oil salesman. But here’s the thing. What works for Costco workers may not work for Walmart workers. And in any event does any rational person think that government should make decisions about these tradeoffs rather than competitors in the marketplace? Yes, Liberals. 🙂 The other day The New York Times had two contrasting editorials on its op ed page. One, by Paul Krugman, called for a higher minimum wage and other labor market interventions. The other, by the chairman of Starbucks and his wife, Howard and Sheri Schultz, noted that: [There are] 5.6 million people ages 16 to 24 in America who are not employed or in school. While some have lost hope in this population … we believe these young people represent a significant untapped resource of productivity and talent. With the right support and training, they can benefit our businesses and our communities. The Schultz’s have formed a foundation and with the aid of other foundations and high profile companies their goal is to “provide jobs, internships and apprenticeships to 100,000 young people over the next three years.” Although they don’t say so, their editorial clearly implies that the wage that is paid to these youths doesn’t really matter. What matters is they learn the life skills of showing up for work on time, following orders, conducting themselves in appropriate ways, etc. If they learn those skills, their wages will rise through time without any help from government. Krugman, Clinton and others on the left say there is no economic harm in raising the minimum wage and in adopting other polices that close off job opportunities for those at the bottom of the income ladder. In making this statement they are ignoring the social costs. The Schultz’s write: [T]he cost of youth disconnection — including health care, public assistance and incarceration — was $26.8 billion in 2013 alone. Quite literally, we can’t afford to do nothing. And then there are the personal costs, which do not easily lend themselves to calculation in terms of dollars and cents. I suspect these costs are not of much interest to either Krugman or Clinton. (John C Goodman) Snake Oil is how much a barrel? Let’s not forget that those who have their wage increased suddenly find themselves no longer “qualified” to receive governmental benefits and pay higher taxes out of that higher wage. We’ve already seen that where the “newly waged” want fewer hours so that they don’t lose their benefits. Which probably explains why they don’t understand the reasoning behind how a wage gets set. Secondarily, many unions tie their wages to the minimum wage level by some multiplier or other offset. Which means that costs will be going up in those businesses as well. Krugman and others are dishonest for continuing to promote wage pandering. But Liberals are never about the truth, but about what gains them power. And keeping people ignorant and jealous plays right into that. (Townhall) Keep them stupid, mad, and needy, that’s the Liberal plan. It keeps the Liberals pundits, advocates, and Politicians on their own gravy train. Liberal version of Soylent Green, just grind them up and feed them back to themselves and make them happy for you and made at everyone else. Standard \| Posted in politics \| Tagged Agenda, America, big brother, border, budget, campaign, choice, Citizens, class warfare, competition, Congress, debt, democrats, dishonest, diversity, doublespeak, economics, economy, Education, election, Fairness, faith, Fear, Food Stamps, freedom, government, greed, Ideology, Illegal Immigration, Insurance, jealousy, Jobs, Liberal, Liberals, liberty, marketplace, Media, media bias, medicare, middle class, minimum wage, Newspeak, Orwell, politics, Power, production, Progressive, Race, racism, Racist, regulations, rich, security, social security, socialism, speech, spending, taxes, unemployment, unions, We the People \| 0 comments Get over it! Officials at a Northern California private school are apologizing after a controversial lunch menu option to celebrate Black History Month. Students at Carondelet High School for Girls in Concord wanted to come up with ways to observe the occasion during a lunchtime celebration Friday. But when the school announced a menu of fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon, other students and parents became offended.KNTV-TV reports that school officials held an assembly on campus Wednesday to discuss the issue and also sent a letter apologizing to parents. Principal Nancy Libby wrote that the items were taken off of the menu and that the school doesn’t perpetrate racial stereotypes.Libby also wrote the school will hold a diversity assembly for students and faculty. ‘Nuff Said? 🙂 In the event that there are more “Vester Lee Flanagans” out there in the Untied States of The Overly Offended who’re ready to snap because the world won’t recognize them as God’s gift to humanity, and yet, you’re not completely sold on the murder/suicide option: herewith are six surefire points to move you back into reality and officially remove you from being The Mayor of Mangina-town and into the rarefied air of a combobulated human. He was the perfect model of the aggrieved and oppressed Progressive Liberal. I would think Liberal would canonize him. He’s everything they have worked for for generations. They built him. 1. Drop the “poor you” crap, especially, if you live in America. If you live in the USA you … are … not … suffering. So quit crying. Oh, and speaking of not crying here’s a big FYI to you: most employers I know don’t want some screecher who bleats about going over molehills in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, play the man if you truly wish to draw the attention of a company that’s worth its salt. And definitely don’t do videos, tweets or Facebook posts where you bray to the masses that you’re an unhinged, pitiful ass. 2. Get a vision. Visionaries who want to slay a dragon, save a nation and right a wrong are attractive. Solipsistic me-monkeys are repugnant to people of note. Look, God didn’t call you to be a navel gazer. So, go out into the desert and get aligned with your eternal purpose – and if for some reason your antenna isn’t picking up on God’s higher calling for you, there’s plenty of things currently bigger than your dipstick life to get involved with that’ll help God and country. Get lost in them and, even if you look like Napoleon Dynamite, your passion will make you magnetic. 3. If you really want a great job, then don’t be a jerk to everyone you come in contact with. Duh. Vester The Killer got crapped on, according to his multiple employers and his workmates, because he was an insufferable boor with a chip on his shoulder that was bigger than Rosie O’Donnell’s beer gut. If you want the stellar gig then forego being the company’s Costanza. 4. Instead of pining like a charter member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band, use that time to read books and start with the Classics. After you plow through the Classics read the awesome tome titled, How Not To Be A Pathetic & Murderous Punk. Also, read bios of people who went through true difficulties instead of imagined ones like you’re bemoaning and follow simple shampoo instructions, namely: lather, rinse and repeat their indefatigable spirit instead of rolling up in the fetal position and wetting your gigantic entitlement diaper. 5. Spend time with God. Get your identity from Him, not culture, and certainly not from some slick-haired grievance monger like Al Sharpton. 6. Embrace rejection and pain. That stuff Vester squealed about in his “manifesto” is an homage to the “poor little me” industry. Rejection and pain is the way of life, hombre. That’s why God created beer. Lastly, getting rebuffed by employers is the standard for young dorks. It’s the way of the jungle, Dinky. Get used to it and get busy bettering yourself and the planet … and do us all a favor and shut the %@&# up. (Doug Giles) Oh, and one more thing: LIFE ISN’T FAIR!!! “No one owes you a livin.” “living wage” or otherwise. NO ONE OWES YOU JACK! For the hyper easily offended Political Correct, grow the Man/Woman/Whatever the hell up! Oh, and one last thing: No one is more “equal” than anyone else. That’s what equality means. It doesn’t mean you get special treatment for some aggrieved wrong or perceived slight regardless. RACIST Unstable/Gun’s Fault Standard \| Posted in politics \| Tagged Agenda, America, big brother, Black History Month, choice, Citizens, class warfare, democrats, diversity, doublespeak, Entitlement, equality, Fairness, faith, Fear, Food Stamps, freedom, gay rights, government, homosexual, Ideology, Liberal, Liberals, liberty, Life isn't fair, me-monkeys, murder suicide, Newspeak, Orwell, pain, partisan, politics, poor, poor me, Power, Progressive, Race, racial, racism, Racist, rejection, Responsibility, rich, speech, Stereotypes, treatment, unemployment, Untied States of The Overly Offended, Vester Lee Flanagan, We the People \| 0 comments A new Rasmussen poll shows most Americans favor a wall on our southern border to stop uncontrolled immigration and that 80% want illegal alien felons deported. What about this do our elites not understand? They understand their Agenda. It’s you who don’t understand that THEIR Agenda and their narcissism is far more important to them than grubby little old smelly you. The 51% majority in favor of a wall broke down to 70% of Republicans, 57% of independents and a 30% plurality of Democrats. On illegal immigrant felons, 92% of Republicans, 69% of Democrats and 82% of independents want them sent home. So what? That’s not on The Agenda, so it doesn’t matter. These percentages represent sizable upticks in public support for the rule of law on immigration. Americans are tired of the law being ignored and city, state and federal officials collaborating in the law-breaking. But the one’s in power are not. They want them for Votes and cheap labor. That way it’s self-perpetuating power for them. With such poll numbers, getting behind the majority would seem a no-brainer for elected representatives. But the politicians, along with bureaucrats and nongovernment organizations, resist at every turn. Because that’s not on THEIR Agenda. Maybe that’s why sentiment has crystallized behind solutions such as walls and deportation. And why some eloquent cries for justice and democratic representation have been heard in unlikely places. All the way from the 710 freeway corridor in Los Angeles, a gritty industrial area with many black and Latino residents, a Compton man showed up in Arizona last month to tell thousands at a Donald Trump rally about his talented football-star son who was murdered by illegals in cold blood. Shortly afterward, citizens of nearby Huntington Park rose up against the nomination by one cynical councilman to city boards of two illegals who couldn’t even qualify for the DREAM Act. The mayor approved the appointments on the grounds there was no difference in the value of citizenship or immigrating illegally. The outrage in Huntington Park evoked last year’s revolt in middle-class Murrieta, Calif., where federal officials tried to sneak busloads of illegals into the community and dump them at local bus stops. The opposition there was also led by black, Latino and Middle Eastern residents, many of them legal immigrants. In both cases, residents were protesting against public officials who failed to respect the will of the people. But it’s the will of the Politicians and their own personal power that matters, right? 🙂 All this started in California in 1998, when a federal judge overturned Proposition 187 denying public services, including education, for illegals. Voters strongly opposed the court’s ruling, but Democrats let it stand after they took power in Sacramento. A floodgate of benefits has been open ever since. Along with education came “free” health care, college scholarships and special “centers” to attend to illegals’ special needs. Because some “citizens” are more equal than others. 🙂 In 2003, Gov. Gray Davis was thrown out of office by voters in a recall referendum for attempting to issue driver’s licenses to illegals. Today, despite continued public opposition, illegals get licenses for the asking, and the DMV has hired an extra thousand employees just to process all the askers. As for rule of law, forget it. This summer, two California women were murdered by illegals — one in broad daylight on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf and the other in a horrific home invasion in Santa Maria. Both suspects had the special protection of sanctuary cities where they needn’t worry about being deported. Evidence is now mounting that illegals are casting ballots in California elections, with highly suspicious voting drives noted in areas in which they dominate. In a little-covered move earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill allowing noncitizen “immigrants” to work at polling precincts to help process all the non-English speakers. (IBD) The Democrats want to welcome the new class of Welfare Democrat voters. They don’t care if there are murderers,rapists, or terrorists in with them. That’s justice the price to be paid by you for their power. It’s no big deal to them. It’s not like you matter. You’re sheep, and you’ll do as you are told. And if that doesn’t work then we’ll just remind you how heartless, mean, and racist you are for opposing us. 🙂 Standard \| Posted in politics \| Tagged A new Rasmussen poll shows most Americans favor a wall on our southern border to stop uncontrolled immigration, Agenda, America, Amnesty, Arizona, bi-partisan, big brother, border, campaign, choice, Citizens, class warfare, Congress, Constitution, democrats, diversity, Donald Trump, doublespeak, economics, economy, Education, election, Fairness, faith, Fear, Food Stamps, freedom, government, greed, Health Care, HHS, Homeland security, Ideology, Illegal Immigration, Illegals, Insurance, Iran Nuclear Deal, Jobs, Liberal, Liberals, liberty, medicare, Newspeak, Obama, obamacare, Orwell, partisan, politics, poor, Power, Progressive, Race, racism, Racist, re-election, reform, republican, Republicans, Responsibility, rich, security, social security, socialism, speech, tea party, terrorism, unemployment, We the People \| 0 comments Sowell Thoughts & More Random thoughts on the passing scene: Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. The stupid people are usually following the really brilliant one. President Obama’s “agreement” with Iran looks very much like “the emperor’s new clothes.” We are supposed to pretend that there is something there, when there is nothing there that will stop, or even slow down, Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb. But it accomplishes the Agenda and makes HIM and the stupid sheep that groupthink his talking points feel better. The endlessly repeated argument that most Americans are the descendants of immigrants ignores the fact that most Americans are NOT the descendants of ILLEGAL immigrants. Millions of immigrants from Europe had to stop at Ellis Island, and had to meet medical and other criteria before being allowed to go any further. And so what if violent crime is up because of them, at least they vote for Democrats… Governor Bobby Jindal: “I realize that the best way to make news is to mention Donald Trump. … So, I’ve decided to randomly put his name into my remarks at various points, thereby ensuring that the news media will cover what I have to say.” Governor Jindal’s outstanding record in Louisiana should have gotten him far more attention from the media than Trump’s bombast. Because the “unbiased” “journalist” in the media only want to cover the dark side of anyone who isn’t on the leftist agenda. Since July 14–when the first video from the Center for Medical Progress’ (CMP) undercover investigation was released–the networks had 243 hours and 30 minutes of morning and evening broadcasts. Total: 14,610 Minutes. so 23 minutes = .00157% of the news air time. So how much has been spent hyping and sniping at Donald Trump? 🙂 Of that number, only 1 minute and 13 seconds was devoted to the Planned Parenthood videos with the accompanying audio. Concerning any kind of coverage the CMP videos received from the Big Three, a total of 23 minutes and 32 seconds were devoted to the story from all three networks. CBS proved to be the network that gave the most time to the story, with 14 minutes and 59 seconds worth of general coverage. They only gave the audio/video a minute worth of airtime. Katie Yoder of the Media Research Center crunched the numbers: MRC Culture searched Nexis and watched news shows to count the time spent on Planned Parenthood. We included stories that the media connected to Planned Parenthood videos (for example, the Senate’s vote on Planned Parenthood). We did not include teasers.NBC total coverage of CMP videos: 6 minutes, 52 seconds 13 seconds playing actual CMP footage with audio ABC total coverage of CMP videos: 1 minute, 41 seconds 0 seconds playing actual CMP footage with audio CBS total coverage of CMP videos: 14 minutes, 59 seconds 1 minute playing actually CMP footage with audio GRAND TOTAL of network coverage of CMP videos: 23 minutes, 32 seconds GRAND TOTAL of CMP video content played with audio: 1 minute, 13 seconds Yoder also mentioned that in September of 2012, the Big Three devoted 88 minutes over the course of three days after Mitt Romney made his infamous “47 percent” remarks. Donald Sterling, former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and his secretly recorded remarks garnered 146 minutes worth of airtime from the networks. I guess the editorial boardrooms of ABC, NBC, and CBS still believe that possibly felonious human body parts sales are just the edited vignettes* of a rabid anti-abortion activist’s imagination. Or maybe they still think, like White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, that Planned Parenthood has a “high ethical standard,” so this must be a hack job. Earnest admitted that he didn’t really watch the videos. Hillary Clinton’s campaign said the former first lady hasn’t watched either. So, is this the same ole’ liberal media? Yeah, that’s probably the reason. It also explains why so many Americans haven’t heard about the CMP investigation. (Townhall) In her latest book, “Adios, America!” Ann Coulter says, “if Romney had won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, instead of 27 percent, he still would have lost. On the other hand, had he won just 4 percent more of the white vote, he would have won.” But white people are politically incorrect so you can’t target a campaign at them. You have to target it at people who have been conditioned over a lifetime to hate you instead! Despite an old saying that taxes are the price we pay for civilization, an absolute majority of the record-breaking tax money collected by the federal government today is simply transferred by politicians from people who are not likely to vote for them to people who are more likely to vote for them. And the government is STILL spending more than it takes in, and they are proud of it! They’ve “reduced” the deficit. Aka, they overspend less than they were. That’s because WE are paying more than we ever have!! Do the people who are always demanding that there be more “training” for police ever say that the hoodlums that the police have to deal with should have had more training by their parents, instead of being allowed to grow wild, like weeds? Discipline? Are nuts!! That’s cruel. Parents don’t want to have anything to do with it, and teaching people to be responsible for their actions, forget about it. Narcissism Rules! Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in. But at least ours vote for Democrats, right? 🙂 There are so many conservative Republican candidates for the party’s presidential nomination that they may once again split the conservative vote so many ways as to guarantee that the nomination will go to some mushy moderate. Or the Elites in the party will grant it to us. Barack Obama wrote a book titled “The Audacity of Hope.” His own career, however, might more accurately be titled “The Mendacity of Hype.” With all its staggering horrors and insanities, World War II may yet turn out to have been just a dress rehearsal for the ultimate catastrophe of a nuclear-armed terrorist nation like Iran. We seem oblivious to the possibility that we may be leaving our children and grandchildren at the mercy of people who have demonstrated repeatedly that they have no mercy. But at least they won’t have nuclear weapons… 🙂 No matter how many federal felony laws Hillary Clinton may have violated by using her own personal email account to do her work as Secretary of State, she is unlikely to face any legal consequences. President Obama can pardon her, as he can pardon Lois Lerner or the head of the Internal Revenue Service or others who may have violated federal laws during his administration. It’s not like she’s General Patreaus, or even Richard Nixon!! 🙂 When Jeb Bush allowed hecklers shouting “Black lives matter” to drive him off the stage in Las Vegas, he may have given us a clue as to what kind of president he would be. We ignored too many clues about Barack Obama before putting him in the White House. There is no excuse for ignoring clues about another candidate now. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan letting hecklers drive him off the stage? Nope. But Jeb Bush is the perfect squishy Elite RHINO for the job. Just enough nothing-there to make the Elites happy. Donald Trump has credited his political donations with getting Hillary Clinton to come to his wedding. What kind of man would want Hillary Clinton at his wedding, much less boast of having her there? A salute to Bill O’Reilly for being one of the very few people in the media to talk plain common sense about the disintegration of the black family, and the resulting social problems that followed. Ronald Reagan won two landslide victories with the help of “Reagan Democrats.” These were voters who usually voted for Democrats but were now voting for Reagan. He got these voters by winning them over to his policy agenda — not by adjusting his policy agenda to them, as the Republican establishment today seems to think is the way to expand their constituency. Appeasement doesn’t work. Period. Even on Democrats. 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__label__cc	0.649327	0.350673	from The Comedy Album by Kleenex Girl Wonder The Comedy Album, double LP "The Comedy Album" is the 13th and most epic Kleenex Girl Wonder record. 26 songs, covering a variety of genres, styles, and production methods, written and recorded over the course of two years, and now available on two slabs of strikingly coloured vinyl (some 'Comedy Blue,' some 'Bazooka Joke Pink'). Featuring guest production from Max Tundra, Saskrotch, and The Hood Internet, plus the usual suspects of Graham Smith, Matt LeMay and Thayer McClanahan. Includes unlimited streaming of The Comedy Album via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. What you took for a grapevine turned out, in the end, to be a straight line. Calm down, anything you want to say is fine. Wow. You may be wrong, and I may be right. Moby Dick was your Great White. Well, how'd that go for you? Alright? Careful where you go drawing fault lines. I have stared into the void; it's a salt mine. at the altar of the Crimpshrine. Let the locusts poke at your insides. Whoa – I never knew there could be blood like this. Can somebody catch me up on what I missed? What we have here is a goddamn shame. I mean I love you, but you're not that great. I mean I – fuck it, I could never explain. Blame it on the blues, it's the great white way. Caught a good glimpse of your tail lights, just never found an excuse to say “Hi.” Hi. I'm just here to watch the paint dry. Why? I couldn't say, it just feels right. Riiiiiight. Once bidden, twice shrived – take a liking to a lycanthrope, you're bound to get a bite. Who am I to howl at the sunrise? You had one job, one time. And I'm just a joke of a jester, yessir, yesterday I was swept away by the pressure. I guess I'll always be a little professor – that doesn't mean I'm not touched by the gesture. But what witch put wind to your sails? Fumble for the words but your metaphors fail... It's like you're trapped in a closet with a snake in the dark, or maybe it's a shower and a great white shark. from The Comedy Album, released October 28, 2016 pop r&b smooth jazz hypermelodic indie power pop rock verbose New York	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1438
__label__wiki	0.56075	0.56075	2017 Young Filmmakers Contest Festival of Books Game Groups Janeites Reading Trollope Reading/Film/Game Groups North Orange County Reading Group Pasadena Area Westside/405 Young Filmmakers Contest Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest Region Film Contest Recent Event Highlights Our June 2019 event at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens covered the theme “It’s All Relative: Relationships in Austen,” with mother-son duo Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman discussing the role of Austen’s maternal characters in the education of their children, followed by UCLA Emeritus Professor Charles Lynn Batten on marital relationships in Austen. Emma Approved Executive Producer Bernie Su, Joanna Sotomura (Emma Woodhouse), Brent Bailey (Alex Knightley), Dayeanne Hutton (Harriet Smith) and James Brent Isaacs (Robert “BMart” Martin) spoke at the Spring 2016 meeting. Author Collins Hemingway spoke on “Persuasion and the Art and Science of Austen’s Fiction” to a capacity crowd at the Fall 2018 meeting. JASNA Southwest members had the opportunity to attend sneak preview screenings of Whit Stillman’s 2016 film Love and Friendship, based on Austen’s Lady Susan. Our December 2018 event at Sony Pictures Studio on “Jane Austen in Hollywood” included presentations by Austen scholars Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield and fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell and a moderated conversation with Ashley Clements of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries “Historical, Cultural and Social Links from Jane Austen to Downton Abbey” was the theme of the Spring 2017 illustrated presentation by DiAnn Ellis. “WWJD: Who Would Jane Date?” was the subject of a lively and humorous presentation by Beth Parker on how Austen might approach dating today. Each spring, JASNA Southwest participates in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, with a booth that draws nearly 2,000 visitors. Jan Fahey and Terry Ryan explored the history of bathing, housekeeping and home remedies during the Regency era in “Spring Cleaning at Chawton” at our Spring 2018 meeting. Robert Rodi discussed his motivation and efforts to create his Bitch in a Bonnet blog and books, as well as his full-length comedy of manners based on Austen’s short story Edgar and Emma, at the Fall 2016 meeting. Frequent JASNA AGM speaker and founder of Juvenilia Press Juliet McMaster spoke and signed books at the Spring 2016 meeting. We hold our events at a variety of locations throughout our widespread region, and feature meals ranging from afternoon teas to sit-down or boxed lunches. Following are just a few highlights of recent JASNA Southwest meetings. For detailed recaps, photos, audio and video, check out our event archive. Andrew Davies, screenwriter of the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries with Colin Firth, Sense and Sensibility (2008), Northanger Abbey (2007), Emma (1996), War and Peace (2016), the original House of Cards and numerous acclaimed adaptations of such authors as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot—and the completion of Austen’s Sanditon, an eight-part miniseries airing in 2020 “Jane Austen in Hollywood,” including a day at Sony Pictures Studio with Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield (editors of Jane Austen in Hollywood) on “The Unfilmable Jane Austen: The Case of Northanger Abbey,” “The Modern Elizabeth Bennet: A Conversation with Ashley Clements, star of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries) and “Pride and Prejudice and Pelisses: Costuming Jane Austen,” with fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Austen scholars Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser sharing “What’s Next in Jane Austen?”—a day including the official launch of their 2020 issue of the journal Texas Studies in Literature and Language with the same theme, as well as discussions of their latest works, The Lost Books of Jane Austen (Barchas) and The Daily Jane Austen (Looser), plus a Regency photo booth, JASNA Southwest’s 40th anniversary celebration and a trivia contest “It’s All Relative: Relationships in Austen,” with attendees having the opportunity to explore on their own or take docent-led tours at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens after hearing presentations from mother-son duo Deborah Knuth Klenck (an Austen scholar) and Ted Scheinman (author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan) as well as UCLA Emeritus Professor Charles Lynn Batten, who discussed marital relationships in Austen’s novels “Jane Austen Meets Mary Shelley,” with talks by John Kessel (author of Pride and Prometheus, a mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein), UCLA Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor Anne Mellor (who spoke on the topic of “Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Genetic Engineering”) and Victoria Shorr (author of Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning) “200 Years of Persuasion,” with author Collins Hemingway’s presentation on “Persuasion and the Art and Science of Austen’s Fiction” and Austen scholar Lynda Hall and author Erika Kotite on “A Room of Anne’s Own: Homelessness and Female Spaces in Persuasion“ “Spring Cleaning at Chawton,” a down-and-dirty look at the history of bathing, housekeeping and home remedies during the Regency era, with JASNA Southwest board members Jan Fahey and Terry Ryan WWJD: Who Would Jane Date?, humorous insights on how Austen would approach online dating “From Hampshire to Hollywood,” featuring the use of Austen’s novels and their film adaptations to teach college students What Jane Saw creator Janine Barchas’ talk on Will and Jane, following the exhibition “Will and Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity,” which she co-curated for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. A sneak preview of Pride and Prejudice the Musical Kate Rorrick and Jay Bushman, the creative team behind Pemberley Digital and the Emmy Award-winning web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Robert Rodi, author of Edgar and Emma (which takes the three-page story Austen wrote in her teens and expands it into a full-length comedy of manners) and the Bitch in a Bonnet blog and books on Austen’s novels Juvenilia Press founder and renowned 19th century English literary scholar Juliet McMaster on the Austen family’s Naval service and the female experience at sea The cast and creative team behind the digital series Emma Approved A two-day super-regional conference on “Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen’s Problem Child?” that included visiting the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, and with a talk by Virginia Tech Professor Peter Graham, author of Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, about how nature and nurture interact in the character development of sibling groups in Sense and Sensibility A performance by Jane Austen Unscripted “In the Garden with Fanny Price,” including a keynote address by Kim Wilson, author of In the Garden with Jane Austen, UCLA Professor Anne Mellor on “Fanny Price and Slavery” and a docent-led tour of the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden “Pride and Prejudice: Characters We Love to Hate,” including a presentation by Sue Forgue, creator of The Regency Encyclopedia, that used contemporaneous prints and panels from the 1813 Horwood’s Map of London to locate Wickham and Lydia’s London hiding place UCLA Professor Michael Suk-Young Chwe on his book Jane Austen, Game Theorist A talk by Janine Barchas on the digital exhibit What Jane Saw and the Will & Jane exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library was a highlight of the Winter 2016 meeting. The Spring 2016 meeting was held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach. “What Would Elizabeth Bennet Do?” when it comes to dating and modern life was a topic at the Winter 2015 meeting. JASNA Southwest enjoyed a preview performance of songs and scenes from the new Pride and Prejudice musical at the Spring 2015 meeting. The cast of Jane Austen, Unscripted has performed for JASNA Southwest meetings on more than one occasion. The Winter 2014 meeting included a performance led by Diana Birchall and Syrie James featuring a backstage look at what really happened during the rehearsal of Lovers’ Vows at Mansfield Park. © 2020 JASNA Southwest	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1444
__label__wiki	0.709925	0.709925	Archive for the ‘MCU Timeline’ Category Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Part 2. Modern Day Posted: December 1, 2011 in Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU Timeline Tags: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Timeline of Marvel Cinematic Universe Modern Day/Opening Scene of Iron Man In Afghanistan, Tony Stark is kidnapped by the terrorist group the Ten Rings. He develops the Iron Man armor to escape. (Iron Man) Three months later: Tony returns to the United States and orders his company to stop making weapons. (Iron Man) Tony learns his associate, Obadiah Stane, secretly arms the Ten Rings, and in fact arranged Tony’s kidnapping, which actually was suppose to be an assassination. (The Ten Rings demanded ransom when they realized their target was Tony Stark) Stane develops his own Iron Monger suit and fights Iron Man in California. (Iron Man) That night Stark meets S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and give him his alibi to cover for being Iron Man, which of course he doesn’t follow. The S.H.I.E.L.D. division that covers up superhuman events is called Damage Control. (Iron Man; Fast Friends, exclusive digital comic on Marvel.com) The next day, Tony Stark holds a press conference. He does not follow script and reveals he is Iron Man. (Iron Man) That night Nick Fury visits Tony at home and talks about the “Avengers Initiative.” (Post Credit Scene, Iron Man) Anton Vanko watches Tony’s press conference on Russian TV and tells his son that (Iron Man) should have been you. He dies, but not before passing on his knowledge and documents to his son. (Iron Man 2) After Iron Man Agent Coulson single-handedly stops a rouge airman at a Shield Base. (Iron Man 2 Agent Coulsen, exclusive Digiital comic on Marvel.com) Agent Coulsen helps train a new S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, during which it’s revealed the Ten Rings group never attacked American soil. (Iron Man 2 Agent Coulsen, exclusive Digiital comic on Marvel.com) S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attack a ship in Yemen that has been commandeered by the Ten Rings group. Iron Man arrives unexpected and helps the S.H.I.E.L.D agents. It is revealed that Tony keeps tabs on Fury, just as Fury keeps tabs on him. (Iron Man 2 Nick Fury, exclusive Digital comic on Marvel.com) 6 months after the Tony reveals he is Iron Man Ivan Vanko (as Whiplash) and Justin Hammer conspire to kill Iron Man and destroy the Stark legacy. During which James Rhodes dons suit of armor to help his friend Tony, basically becoming War Machine.(Iron Man 2) Around this time, presumably 2011, the events of Thor occur. Thor is banished from Asgard as punishment for is arrogance and foolhardiness. He is separated from his hammer until he becomes worthy to hold it again. He then battles dark forces that threaten Asgard, and to some degree, Earth. (Thor) At some unknown time Nick Fury encounters Bruce Banner at a bar, and witnesses him transform into the Hulk. Hulk escapes. Fury determines Hulk is not the Super-solider they want, and orders S.H.I.E.L.D. not to pursue him any further. General Ross alone will pursue Banner. (Nick Fury: Director of Shield. Exclusive Digital Comic on Marvel.com) The Hulk fights the military at Culver University in Virginia, including the soldier Emil Blonsky. (HULK) (Note, the Hulk movie came out the same summer as the first Iron Man, two years before Iron Man 2. However, it takes place just after Iron Man 2. News footage from the Hulks Rampage at Culver University is shown at the end of Iron Man 2) Tony is offered an advisory position on the coming Avengers team. (Iron Man 2) Bruce Banner encounters Samuel Sterns in New York city. Stern attempts to cure Hulk, but his lab is raided by the military. Banner is captured, only to be released to fight Emil, who has turned to Abomination. Stern’s himself also appears to get infected with Gamma blood and Hulk escapes. (Hulk) After the Hulk fights Abomination, Ross drinks at an officer’s bar, distraught over losing Hulk again. Tony Stark arrives and tells him about a secret team being formed. (Hulk) 2012, one year after Thor and Iron Man 2: Thor, and Hulk, Captain America is found in the arctic and revived. (Captain America: The First Avenger). Just after Captain America is revived, he is recruited by SHIELD along with Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye to join the Avengers. Together they stop Loki from conquering Earth. After this adventure, which concludes in a battle in NYC, Thor takes Loki back to Asgard to face Asgardian justice, and Hulk, Captain America, and Iron Man are allowed to go their separate ways. During the battle of NYC, War Machine fights terrorist forces in Hong Kong who’ve acquired Stark and Hammer technology. (Iron Man 3 Prelude Comic) Christmas season 2012: A terrorist called the Mandarin launches terrorist attacks against the United States. The Mandarin is also involved with a scientific think thank called Advanced Idea Mechanics. They are soon defeated by Iron Man and War Machine/Iron Patriot. (Iron Man 3) Sometime after this the Dark Elves return to plunge the world into chaos and are stopped by Thor and the Asgardians. In the midst of this, Thor’s mother and Odin’s wife Frigga dies, and Loki is freed from the Asgardian Dungeon. (Thor: The Dark World) A documentary is produced about prisoner Trevor Slattery, in which it is hinted that Trevor may be in danger from the Ten Rings terrorist group. (Marvel One Shot, All Hail the King) Bucky Barnes is revealed to be alive and has the identity of the Winter Solider, and Captain America helps disband a HYDRA infested SHIELD. (Captain America: The Winter Solder) The newly formed Guardians of the Galaxy fight the Kree alien Ronnan the Accuser in outer space, after which the Nova Corps takes on the task of defending an Infinity Gem. (Guardians of the Galaxy A note on the time scale: Previously on this timeline I did not specify years for the events for these films. I presumed the MCU operated the same as the Marvel Comic book universe, in that it operates on a sliding time scale, meaning stories are always set in the present day. However, recent movies, specifically indicate that the movies, starting with Thor, take place in real time. The prologue to Iron Man 3 is set in 1999, which are later explicitly stated to be 13 years ago. Also during Avengers, it is stated that the events of Thor took place 1 year prior, and Iron Man 2, and Hulk take place around the same time. Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Part 1, Beginning to Pre-Modern Day (updated 3/10/13) 5000 Years Ago: The Dark Elves attempt to plunge the universe into darkness, but are stopped by the Asgardians, led by Odin’s father Bor. 975 AD: The Frost Giants attempt to conquer earth, but are stopped by Odin and the Asgardians. After a long war between the two, during which Odin loses an eye in battle, a fragile peace is declared. (Thor) 1480 Harbin Zemo stood alone against an invading horde armed only with a sword. He was elevated to nobility as a reward. He built Castle Zemo far into the Bavarian mountains of Europe. He attempted to uncover something buried in the mountains, something he heard in half remembered local legends called the Sleeper. He began excavation even as castle was constructed. Later the Third Baron Heller Zemo, found the Sleeper. Little else is known about subsequent Zemo’s except they slowly uncovered secrets from the Sleeper, and the 8th Zemo, Hillard, desired to educate the peasantry. (Captain America: Super Soldier, Video Game) 1930 September A young orphan, Steve Rogers, is attacked by bullies in Hell’s Kitchen New York. However, Rogers resiliency despite his small stature inspires a young Bucky Barnes to come to his aid and fight the bullies. The two become friends.(Captain America: First Vengeance, Digital Comic #1) 1934 February: Physicist Johann Schmidt meets Hitler at a Wagnerian Opera in Berlin., where he speculates magic may be “the oldest science ever known ” Hitler is intrigued by Schmidt’s ideas, but aid Ernst Kaufman is less impressed. Kaufman is head of Sturmabteilung’s special weapons division, which Schmidt says could supplant the German army with it’s advanced arsenal. Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufman’s unit, but is violently rejected. Himmler, head of the S.S. overhears the conversation, and takes Schmidt under his wing. (Captain America: First Vengeance, Digital Comic #3) June 30th: Hanselbauer Hotel Bad Weissee Bavaria, Schmidt kills Kaufman, and takes over the special weapons division. Schmidt says “You would be a “storm” trooper Kaufman. I will bring them thunder.” (Captain America: First Vengeance, Digital Comic #3) July 4th: Schmidt meets scientist Arim Zola, as a SA weapons testing grounds in Kummersdorf, 46 KM south of Berlin. Zola was working in Exo-skeleton technology, but Schmidt recruits him for his own projects. (Captain America First Vengeance, Digital Comic #4) September 14th, At the German/Swiss border, Dr. Erskine is captured by Schmidt while trying to escape Germany, and is forced to continue his biology research under Schmidt. (Captain America: First Vengeance comic book) 1937 Unbeknownst to Dr. Erskine, his wife and children die of Typhus at a camp near Dachau. February: In Los Angeles, after an attempted demonstration of the metal Vibranium, Howard Stark is recruited by Col. Phillips to help the allies in the upcoming war. (Captain America: First Vengeance comic book) November: 2 days after Schmidt has an accident with Erskine’s formula, which disfigures his face but gives him super-human abilities, Agent 13/Peggy Carter rescues Dr. Erskine and reveals that his family is dead. Together they escape to America. 1941 Howard Stark presents inventions at the Worlds Fair (Stark Expo Website) 1942 March The Red Skull finds the Tesseract, a cube of strange power, said to be the jewel of Odin’s treasure room, in Tonsberg Norway. (Captain America: The First Avenger) 1943 Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes attend the Worlds Fair, before Bucky goes off the the army. Steve, a 90 pound sickly man, enters the Super Soldier Project where he becomes a semi-superhuman physical specimen. Nazi spies destroy the lab before more soldiers can be made. He becomes a propaganda tool known as Captain America, appearing in comics and film. During the next few years, he leads a group of soldiers from the SSR, Strategic Scientific Reserve, to fight Hydra, the Nazi Deep Science Division. (Captain America: The First Avenger) 1944 April Captain America invades a castle in Nazi in the occupied Danish Straits . The castle is controlled by Nazi special weapons unit Hydra. Here Cap fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, as well as an arc powered tank. He and the Howling Commandos survive an attempt by Schmidt to destroy them using a mystical Viking rune stone. (Captain America: First Vengeance, Digital Comic) Also this year Captain America and his allies invade Castle Zemo in the Bavarian mountains. Here HYDRA attempts to unearth a Sleeper, a giant robotic like humanoid of unknown origin that is buried under the castle. Captain America defeats HYDRA and the castle is destroyed. Near End of WWII Captain America hijacks a Hydra super plane that was going to attack the United States. On board was the Tesseract, which falls to the ocean. Captain America crashes the ship into the arctic, where he is frozen in suspended animation until the next century. While searching for Cap, Howard Stark finds the Tesseract under the sea, which presumably is the basis for Arc reactor technology. (Captain America: The First Avenger) 1946 Agent Carter recovers the Zodiac, after which Howard Stark appoints her head of the new organization known as SHIELD. (Agent Carter One Shot short film, on Iron Man 3 Blue Ray) 1954 Howard Stark makes first Stark Expo at Flushings New York (Stark Expo Website) 1963 Anton Vanko Defects from the Soviet Union (Iron Man 2) Date Undertermined. Stark and Anton together develop arc reactor technology, but most of it is theoretical. However, they had an ideological disagreement. Anton wanted to use the researc to make money, and Howard wanted to help humanity with it. (Iron Man 2) 1967 Howard Stark took credit for all Arc Reactor research and Anton was deported back to the U.S.S.R. Because Anton couldn’t develop the technology on his own he’s sent to Siberia for 15 years. (Iron Man 2) 1969/1970 Tony Stark born. (It’s stated elsewhere Tony was 21 in 1991) 1973/74 Tony Stark builds his first circuit board at the age of four. (Iron Man) 1974 The last Stark Expo is held (Stark Expo website, Iron Man 2) 1975/76 Tony Stark at age 6 builds his first engine, apparently the first V-8.(Iron Man) Tony’s engine is reported in a science magazine, which includes the headline “Will Arc Reactor Save All Our Energy Needs. Later it is stated the arc reactor was not cost effective, and no breakthrough is made for 30 years. 1986/87 Tony Stark graduates Summa Cum Laude from M.I.T at age 17. (Iron Man) 1988 A young Peter Quill is abducted by aliens and never returns to Earth. (Guardians of the Galaxy) Early December 1991 Howard Stark and his wife are killed in a car accident. Tony Stark, at the age of 21, becomes CEO of Stark Industries. (Iron Man: A newspaper runs the story on 12/17) 1999 Tony Stark meets Maya Henson, a scientist who was developing Extremis, which was a treatment for crippling injuries. Stark also meets and embarrasses Aldrich Killian, a crippled scientist who has a scientific think thank called Advanced Idea Mechanics, or AIM. Date unknown: Harvard students Bruce Banner and Betty Ross volunteer for induced hallucination experiments. (Hulk) About 5 years ago (Possible date March 7th). General Ross, Betty Ross, and Bruce Banner attempt to re-activate the WWII super soldier program. An accident occurs and Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk. He becomes a fugitive from the military and seeks a cure. Various sighting and incidents occur in 2004 and 2006 (Hulk)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1453
__label__cc	0.57489	0.42511	Tag Archive \| fairy tale Participants: Jon, Nadine, Haim, Gili, Aaron, Yael, Nadine S Jon 53, Gili 35, Aaron 32, Haim 29 We hadn’t played this in a while, so it was first play for Aaron and Haim; Gili had played once a long while ago. It’s not the most exciting game but it’s not bad, I think. A little too much luck. Castles of Mad King Ludwig Nadine S 91, Yael 87, Jon 84, Haim 66 Second play for me, first play for everyone else. Like last time I played, I felt like I liked this less than Suburbia. Yes it has prettier tiles and none of the negative feedback, but it is less elegant and more fiddly. It requires more table space and the castles, especially the ones that stretch out thinly like the gerrymandered map of South Carolina, are fragile when you have to shift them over a few inches. This was only Nadine S’s second real Euro (after Alien Fronteirs and not counting Catan). She started off a little overwhelmed, and maybe a little bored, but she picked it up by mid-game and played very well to victory. She and I had no downstairs. I would have done a little better but Haim stole the only downstairs room that I wanted. Aaron 151, Gili 137, Nadine 124 First plays for Gili and Aaron. Everyone liked it. Jon, Nadine S, Yael, Haim We played a few rounds. This entry was posted on February 15, 2018, in Session Reports and tagged castles of mad king ludwig, clans of caledonia, crokinole, fairy tale. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, David, Nisan, Nadine, Binyamin G, Gili, Roman Nisan 54, Jon 48, David 40 David and Nisan arrived a little early, so I tried this on them with only the basic cards. Using only the basic cards is necessary in order to have a hope of obtaining combinations, but the game is a bit flat. The special cards make the game less flat, but make the combinations more difficult. Perhaps picking from 6 and playing 4 would be a better game experience (instead of picking from 5 and playing 3). First play for Nisan. Jon 154, Roman 135, David 131, Gili 113 First play for everyone except for Gili. Gili was slightly ahead of me and then slightly behind me until the final counting, whereupon both David and Roman shot ahead by finishing their last three missions. I shot ahead with bonuses in both buildings and jewels, as well as a strong island showing. Bora Bora seems, after one play, to be, like Caylus and Die Macher, a well-balanced game that works, but is too complicated for its own good. It’s one thing to have 5 or 6 different interlocking mechanics, but this one has upwards of 15 of them, and only some of them make any thematic sense. The goods and buildings mechanism is the most strange, and the forced arrangement of storing goods the most unnecessary. So is the division between people into men and women. A few other games inhabit spaces close to this, such as Agricola, but somehow Agricola’s tight, sensible theme and limited decision mechanics squeaks it through. In Bora Bora, you get 18 actions during the game plus any actions on the people you acquire (up to two, one man and one woman). The actions are three dice to assign to seven different action options in each of six rounds. The value of your action is the value of your die (so higher is better), but you can only use an action if your die is less than the value of any other die already place on that action (so lower is sometimes better). But “gods” (we called them “dogs”) you acquire can let you get around that, but only if you also have offering tokens to use with them, unless you got a free dog action by having the highest priest value last round …. etc. Forget it, it’s too complicated. It was fun, because the game worked, there were many strategic paths, and the decisions were harrowing. But it was painful, because every move by every other player locked away actions that you desperately needed, so you watched your plans crumble, sometimes before you got to take a single action. I suppose that is true for every worker placement game; and even in this game, there is sometimes (but not always) a way to do something the long way that you couldn’t do the short way. I’m not sure yet. Perhaps experience will soften the frustration. One more thing: as typical with dice rolls and card flips, just a bit too much of one’s ability to progress is determined by how the order of the card flips favors one player over another. Before my first turn, I decided to take the bonuses in buildings and jewels, and that’s what I did. In order to achieve this, I was required to take 5 people, build 6 island spaces, and place 3 priests. I fulfilled 7 missions. Gili was sure that fulfilling 9 missions was the way to go, and that is what she did in her previous 4 games. In this game, either through the odd order that people and missions turned up, or through fierce competition, she was thwarted in every direction. Roman collected several items to move him up in turn order, but he only achieved full success in that starting from mid-game. Update: It turns out we missed a scoring rule: you get 6 points for filling up your building space (with buildings or with goods) and ANOTHER 6 points for using all of your buildings. This means that using all of your buildings automatically nets you +12 points (since it also fills your building space). So I actually have 6 more points. Similarly (although this doesn’t apply to any of us for the game we played) you get 6 points for using all of your huts and 6 points for filling all of the spaces with people; if you did the latter, you had to have done the former. Nadine (56 75 102) 157, Binyamin G (63 69 104) 151, Nisan (53 59 88) 142 First play for Binyamin and Nisan, who foolishly asked Nadine to teach them El Grande. Nadine writes: Second number is just before second scoring to show I was ahead. Nisan took Score first place in all regions early on. Special scoring was taken most rounds, Intrigue was taken more often than I expected – these guys were willing to think. I scored first place in the three 5 regions twice with special scoring. Binyamin G was good at remembering what was in the Castillo, except the last round. They discussed card selection and move options extensively, partly because they were both new to the game. We placed all our Caballeros, except Binyamin G had one left. Nadine +, Binyamin G First play for Nadine. Nadine writes: Binyamin G taught this game, which is similar to Thunderstone but simpler. You start with 50 life points, and buy cards and attack. I had over 20 points when I killed him. It’s nice for a quick two-player game. This entry was posted on October 29, 2015, in Session Reports and tagged bora bora, el grande, fairy tale, star realms. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Nadine, Gili, Binyamin, Tikva Shira Nadine returned, as did Binyamin, giving us a more normal session than last week’s. As I noted on my blog, I will be moving to Raanana in August. The fate of the JSGC will be left in the hands of Nadine and Gili. Hopefully they will be able to keep it going while I’m gone (at least a year, maybe more). I saw that several of my cards were going to be worthless by the end of the game, so I was pretty sure I was going to lose. How did I win? Seven of the nine cards I scored averaged 6 points or so. Nadine and Gili had several cards that scored only 2 to 4 points each. Gili 70, Nadine 70, Binyamin 69, Tikva Shira 67, Jon 62 I requested this, since I loved it the one time I played it. Binyamin thoughtfully brought it. First play for everyone else except for Binyamin. I may love it, but I’m also bad at it, or at least I’m bad at the strategy; the tactics I can handle. I bought an early ship-building house and had essentially no income for the next fifteen turns. Everyone else had little houses or colonies and raked in 100+ income on markets; I pulled in 20 or 30, and I couldn’t afford to buy houses or colonies, which made is a catch-22. (Binyamin, with his extra sail action, swooped in and took the only colony I could have afforded.) I figured that this early mistake set me back about ten moves. And I barely even used that ship-building house during the game. By the end of the game, when everyone else was pulling 250+ or more from markets, I was finally pulling around 100. I scored as well as I did because, other than that early mistake, I get the tactics of games like this. I can focus on points in a game rich with intriguing mechanics that distract from the end-scoring. As I said, I love the game. I just have to figure out how to play my start-game correctly. T”S was the first to pull ahead in worker-building advancement, and Gili followed. Nadine had the most ships and the most blue disks. Binyamin had the most colonies. Jon 12, Tikva Shira 8, Nadine 4, Binyamin There wasn’t time for a full game, so we let T”S choose a short game. Binyamin would have gotten more points if he had been actually playing. Which is odd, since he’s pretty colorblind. Jon/Nadine 550, Binyamin/Tikva Shira 0 Three hands of Bridge. Nadine and I set them one trick in two hands, and we bid and made one game in the other. This entry was posted on June 23, 2011, in Session Reports and tagged bridge, fairy tale, navegador, set. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Gili, Nadine, Mace, Binyamin Once again I’m doing this without notes. Bleah. Gili 51, Jon 45, Nadine 36 Scores approximate. I tried a combination strategy only to discover on the first round that Gili, sitting in front of me in the passing order, was using the same strategy. I’m always scared to try the once that need specific cards from a smaller pool (such as 4, or even 1), because, with three players, it just seems unlikely that those cards are actually going to turn up. So I passed them all, and of course they did show up; luckily, no one else tried for them, either. The baseline seems to be 3 points a card. So when you can score more, you should do it. The 6/1 cards (flip, unflip) are marginally better than 3 points a card, and even better when you have ones to flip down when you must. The game is actually kind of interesting. I think I need to play it more often. Glory to Rome Mace +, Jon, Binyamin, Nadine, Gili First play for all of us, and we all liked the game. However, like Tigris and Euphrates, some of the basic mechanics, while seemingly simple for some of us, caused a lot of confusion again and again for others. I’m not sure why that happens, but sometimes a particular rule is just hard for an otherwise smart person to wrap his or her head around. I think I can teach the game better next time. GtR looks like shlock, and the “box” that the game comes in is less then shlock. But the game is really good, deep, and satisfying. The game is just a card game, but each card has five different uses: a)cas a role; b) as an extra action for a role whenever anyone plays the role; c) as a resource for building a building; d) as a building that gives you a bonus power when it is completed; or e) simply to tuck away for vp’s at the end of the game. once you get the hang of it, the cards make sense; however, they initially are very confusing, as the bonus power is foremost on the card and it isn’t active unless the card is played as a building and the building completed. On your turn you play a card as a role (a), and anyone else with the same role card can play it to also do the role (or can pick a card or cards, instead). So, like Puerto Rico, you benefit everyone else by what you choose to do, hopefully benefiting yourself more through the timing or the available resources to select first. On everyone else’s turn, you can play the same role card as they played or pick cards; in addition, everyone, the player whose turn it is and any other player, gets to play the role additional times for each “patron” they have previously played (b). The roles allow you to take patrons (b), take resources (c), play buildings (d) or add resources or cards to buildings (c/d), steal other players’ resources (c), or convert resources to victory points (c/e). You pretty much have to complete at least one decent building during the game, because, in addition to the points and special power you get from the building, your capacity for patrons and victory point cards increases according to the building’s points. Owing to the building powers, the game is wild and fun, with your strategy determined by the cards you have at any one time. But you can always choose to draw back up to a full hand (so you can dump or play cards pretty freely), and there are always a lot of options. The one negative … which I’m not sure is a negative … is that a few buildings can end the game with instant victory for a player, or simply end the game early. I’m not a big fan of that mechanic. I understand that this allows even a “losing” player the chance to win the game, but it makes all the other game play that occurred feel like a waste. In our game, mace won by completing a Forum, and the game ended like that. There are a number of possible responses to this move, but you MUST take them and prepare for them, which disrupts the game flow severely. On the other hand, this was our first game, so the idea of the “game flow” that I got from playing it once may have been illusory. We’ll see. In the Shadow of the Emperor Jon, Nadine, Binyamin, Mace I taught this to Binyamin and Mace and refreshed all of our memories at the same time. It took a long time to explain, and a long time to get through the first two rounds, at which point Binyamin had to call it quits. The game suffered in comparison to Glory to Rome which we had played just before; it’s actually a decent game, but not nearly as exciting. This entry was posted on March 4, 2011, in Session Reports and tagged fairy tale, glory to rome, in the shadow of the emperor. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Adam, Shira, Nadine, Gili, Elijah, Miriam, Abraham, Eitan Welcome to Shira for her first visit. Shira lives in walking distance and has previous Eurogame experience, and so is a welcome addition. Hopefully she will return. Adam also doesn’t usually come anymore, since he works on Wed evenings, but he was able to make it for a one-off. Shira (B)+, Adam Adam taught this to Shira, who picked it up quickly enough to win. Nadine 46, Jon 42, Gili 37, Elijah 22 We hadn’t played this in a while, and we needed something light for three players. Elijah walked in as I was dealing, so he joined, though he doesn’t particularly like the game. I thought I had kind of figured out some strategy for the game, but Nadine won anyway. She claimed that she played randomly, but I kind of doubt that. She just likes to say that when she wins. Abraham 42, Shira 39, Gili 38, Nadine 35 First play for Shira, and possibly first or second for Abraham. This is an otherwise decent game where I don’t particularly like the scoring system. Elijah+, Jon, Miriam, Adam Elijah always begs to play this, and I and Adam were willing, so I brought it out. First play for Miriam, whom we taught. First time teachings of this game in our house can result in disaster when the fanatics insist on adding multiple hidden powers, half the flare deck, weird destiny pile cards, and other such nonsense. I prefer to have the first game be quite limited: single revealed powers, 20 flares + the power flares, and that’s it. Edicts, Kickers, Reinforcements, and the rest of the exceptional card is quite enough for a first time play. As a result, the game went fairly straightforward (nobody drew the wild Schizoid flare that was in the deck). I played Symbiote, Miriam played Grief, Adam played Will, and Elijah played Visionary. Miriam 36+, Jon 36, Adam 34, Elijah 28, Eitan 24 First plays for Adam and Miriam. Another great game I don’t get to play often enough. It’s typically a long game, but the length usually occurs during the track laying and cube moving phases. For some reason, people took a really, really long time to figure out their role selection. As a result, the game took about three hours. Adam and Eitan commented that a five player game is more brutal, with much undercutting of track space and stealing cubes, apparently more so than with three or four players. In our games, we all crowded around the Connecticut coastal area before branching west. Adam and Elijah began building in the Canada area extending south, while I just continued north and central through Mass/NY. I was the first to start churning out victory points. Miriam went to 10 income which I though was kind of a waste, but somehow she had a nice central route and just managed to match my score at the very end, whereupon she won on the tie. Adam was frustrated at one point that train power could not exceed 6, as he had a few 7 link routes he wanted to run. In the end, we all had about 9 links. Abraham 35, Gili 31, Nadine 30 They played this to wrap up while we finished Steam. This entry was posted on June 24, 2010, in Session Reports and tagged cosmic encounter, fairy tale, lord of the rings the confrontation, louis xiv, san juan, steam. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Gadi, Hershel, Max, Nadine, Abraham, Gili, Claude Gadi is the guy who organized the Board Game Studies Colloquium in Israel a few weeks ago. He came to return my games that I had left for the colloquium members to play, to learn how to play Ark of the Covenant, which someone had left him, and to learn a little more about the game group. He is starting a Board Game Studies department within the folklore department of Hebrew U. He dropped by early, around 5:30. Claude is someone who spoke at the conference about four pretty wooden games that he developed – all abstract or word tiles – and which he is now trying to get manufactured. Turns out that he is also a friend of Gili’s. This was his first time enjoying games longer than a half an hour. Jon+, Gadi I’d never played this version of Carcassonne, but it took me only a few moments to learn the rules. It’s closer to Hunters and Gatherers than it is to regular Carc. The main changes are a) and ark piece you can move around when you have nothing better to do, and each time it passes a meeple that meeple gains a point; b) single-tile cloisters (or keeps or something) where the person with the most people on or adjacent to it when it is surrounded by tiles on all four sides gains 7 points; c) a double-scoring meeple that you can use once in a city; and d) unfinished items score at the end of the game: full points for roads, half points for cities and cloisters. On a few of the tiles it was unclear when a road ended or continued, and whether a road that was broken in two by rubble meant that the two sides of the road should be considered a single field or two distinct fields. I had no problem playing, having played versions of Carcassonne many times. Gadi played around half a game and didn’t quite figure out the strategy in that time. We stopped when many more people arrived. Jon, Abraham I enjoy Carcassonne but rarely get to play it with my group, but Abraham was willing to try this version. He had played other versions before. When scoring the end of the game, we removed meeples too quickly, and thus are not sure whether Abraham had control of a certain field or we both shared it. So I can’t tell you who won. Hershel+, Dvonn First play for both. I figured that the best first introduction for Claude would be an abstract. Nadine had borrowed Yinsh, so I gave them this. I think they both liked it, although it will of course take several more games to get a good feel for any sort of strategy. I saw the last few moves, and on the last move Hershel could have won with a complete victory (total elimination), but he missed it. Instead he won something like 20+ to 3. Hershel+, Claude Yes, Claude named (temporarily) one of his games Claude. It’s a pretty wooden game based on Crossword Squares, but each player places three dead spaces before the game starts, there is a limited supply of letter tiles, and you score only if an entire line (wall to dead space, or wall to wall) is a word, 1 point per word length. I enjoy Crossword Squares, so I enjoy this game, and the components are really nice. of course, it helps if you are fluid in English, which is not the case for Claude. Gili, Gadi Or Gadi. Nadine 50, Max 40, Gili 37, Gadi 33 This is a great gateway game. First play for Gadi, and probably not too many more for Max. I didn’t see the game progression. Gadi complimented me on it, afterward. Max 117, Nadine 111, Abraham 102, Hershel 101 It took a while to decide what to play next with newbies in the group, but a few jumped when I mentioned El Grande. Nadine usually wins, but she claims not so in four player games; she nearly won anyway, and anyway I don’t believe her. First play for Hershel and Abraham, I believe. Only second or third for Max. Max was slightly ahead after the first third, 35 to Nadine’s 34. By the second third, he was way ahead, 93 to 77. This gap closed considerably at the end, as you can see. But the order didn’t change throughout the game. Jon 10, Gadi 9, Gili 6, Claude 4 While they El Grande’d, I broke out the big guns for Gadi and Claude. Claude had some trepidations about a game that took longer than half an hour, but we assured him that that was because he wasn’t playing the right games, aka games that are actually fun to play the whole way through. Gili gave a lightning explanation all in Hebrew; apparently she’s done this for SoC many, many times. Both Claude and Gadi were suitably impressed by the game; for the first time this evening, Gadi actually came close to winning. On the last round he stole Longest Road from Claude and could have won if his development card was a VP, but it was only a soldier. Claude actually traded him the card he needed to steal Longest Road, much to his chagrin. I was guaranteed the win when Gadi finished, turning up a soldier to claim Longest Army. It was a crowded board, as it normally is with four players. As first player, I placed my second settlement in the second best remaining spot instead of the best one – the best one would have nearly entirely choked Claude off right from the start of the game, and I didn’t want his first game experience to be entirely frustrating. I think I make the right choice. I ended up forgoing Ore because of that, but I was able to trade for it when I needed it. Wheat was in short supply in the early game, but eventually I built cities and more settlements on the wheat hexes and pulled in 5 at a time. The robber also played a part – I blocked off Gadi’s 6 Ore hex several times, while the 8 didn’t roll when it was on my 8 Brick hex. So yeah, there was some luck. Gili+, Jon First play for Gili. I taught her how to play in about five minutes, and then I pulled a random bunch of cards from my commons collection; lots and lots of junk. I had to toss half of them just to get anything resembling playable cards. Then I tossed 15 lands and 25 cards to Gili (blue and green), took the same for me (red and white), and we played. We both had to struggle to come up with anything good to play, but eventually Gili got out a Craw Worm and an Illusionary Forces. I tried to Fissure the Worm, but Gili could Power Sink me for more than I could pay. I sacrificed a lot of little guys for a while, but eventually succumbed. I gave Gili the cards to take home. I think I need some more lands. If anyone has MtG lands lying around, I could use some extras (especially swamps). Abraham 45, Max 39, Nadine 37, Hershel 34 First play for Max, and possibly Hershel as well. Yeah, the game is pretty random in the end, but it’s still a quick and decent filler. This entry was posted on May 8, 2009, in Session Reports and tagged ark of the covenant, dvonn, el grande, fairy tale, it's alive, magic the gathering, settlers of catan. Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1454
__label__cc	0.619927	0.380073	Tag Archive \| slap deck J++, D Colin 311, Jon 228, David 177 David 154 Jon 121 Haim 109 Colin 86 1000+ to 70 Jon and Colin, David and Haim David: We had an amazing night. All the high cards were by us. Jon: 165 to 35, 265 to 35, 400 to 0, and then 200 to 0. 4 hands. – Jon 6/26 This entry was posted on August 13, 2019, in Session Reports and tagged lords of waterdeep, magic, slap deck, tichu. Leave a comment More abstracts than usual Nadine 35, Gili 33 Very pretty game, as billed. It’s abstract, with similarities to Azul, but much harder. It’s unlikely that you can play your last dice legally, much less get points. Sometimes the card actions can help. They didn’t help Gili much, I didn’t try them, which saved me 3 points so I won. I like the game because it’s relatively short, even if it gives me a headache. Elad 97, Moran 87, Jon 77 First play for Elad and his wife Moran. Elad 7, Moran 6 7, Jon 6 6 Jon said first time he’s lost to new players, but it was very close. Gili 142+, Haim 142, Nadine 128 Gili won the tie because she was ahead in the Senate. The game usually balances well, so I played poorly. Gili had tons of cards, for 18 points. The bonus tile both of us needed didn’t come out in the game, we would each have gotten 12 points with it. Haim had a lot of extra actions, which helped him. Jon, Elad, and Moran played several rounds. Elad 55, Jon 52, Moran 26 or so First play for Elad and Moran. This entry was posted on December 19, 2018, in Session Reports and tagged azul, sagrada, slap deck, tigris and euphrates, trajan, trias. Leave a comment Advanced Tichu Jon+, David+ in close games. David 126, Jon 105, Elana first play David won with all kahunas, and the boat and surfer bonus tile. Sara 16, Lorenzo 12, Nadine 11 Nadine 48, Sara 41, Lorenzo 38 First play for Lorenzo and Sara. Lorenzo said afterwards that he doesn’t like auction games. It was close, and they both made minor errors due to misunderstandings. The Hawaii crew played this while waiting for us to finish Amun Re. They all won at least one round, new to Elana. David/Nadine 1110, Jon/Elana 690 Elana would have bid and made a Tichu (all four aces and Dragon and Phoenix) but somehow Jon had 15 cards to my 13 so we called a misdeal. She should have called Grand, she had all but an Ace, and would have made it, and Jon had a good chance of going out second. I’ve never seen Jon have so many bad hands. On our first hand, I called Tichu, then Jon called it also. David said later that meant his hand was likely to be stronger than mine, which makes sense. David played an Ace, so I didn’t go over with my Dragon, though I had no idea what he was doing. David’s plan was to go out, and hope that I could go out second for 200 points, instead of risking losing the Tichu. David forced Jon to play 3 Aces over David’s 3 jacks, with one card left. I should have passed Jon’s lead to try to let David go out first instead of playing my Dragon, which Jon bombed with Kings, then went out. A whole new level of Tichu for me. David thought I made a mistake on another hand when I passed him the two, but he understood when I explained that I passed two fours and the two, though I ended up not being able to call Tichu. Elana plays well for a new player, though she’s not as new as she seems, I met her for the first time tonight, but she’s been coming for a while. This entry was posted on November 21, 2018, in Session Reports and tagged amun-re, hawaii, magic, slap deck, tichu. 1 Comment Participants: Jon, Haim S, Nadine, Gili, Aaron, Lorenzo, Klara Klara is a new attendee from Germany, volunteering in Israel. She is quite an experienced gamer. Nadine 47, Lorenzo 45, Aaron 34 First play for Aaron and Lorenzo. Nadine forgot a few rules, but in the end the only one she forgot entirely was that you can only use one time cube at a time. Nadine writes: Lorenzo used Archer well. I forgot or didn’t know that you can only use one time cube per turn. I think it only happened once: Aaron turned a white to three yellows, then added two to each cube. Lorenzo added two to each die several times, but I think he had only modified with flipping, which is allowed. Lorenzo had the worker bonus card, so he was using six or seven dice. I was down to four dice, until I replaced one of his on the last round, after which the event card where you have to pay for each worker in the yellow building came out, so he lost one less coin. The “lose two influence” card was in a effect for a few rounds, which made it hard to get workers to place on cards. Lorenzo used the Archer to good effect; it lets you roll dice to place cubes on any event cards. I fought the cards because that was my bonus. They both realized this, even though they didn’t know that I usually don’t fight cards. I got a lot of money once from a red card, with which I bought points on a yellow card (not the cost 15 one). Aaron also did this. They both understood the game, even though they said it’s a hard game. It took Aaron a bit longer. Klara 62, Haim 56, Jon 53, Gili 43 Second play for Haim, and second play in a long while for Gili and Klara who had to relearn the rules. I made one change in the rules: you MUST take a cube every round, even if you are using the Well. This made the game FAR better, in my opinion, since taking the Well does not any longer give free turns to other, random, people. I did a combination of Council/Market and dying, while Klara did a combination of Council/Market and Church, which turned out to be slightly better. Haim did travelling and church, earning no Market points. Aaron tried a relatively balanced strategy, a little of everything. Jon 50, Aaron 47, Haim, Klara First play for Klara. Haim and Klara ended up drawing all but one of the coffins, and Aaron drew the last one. I don’t remember Haim and Klara’s scores, but Aaron triggered the game ending and I won. Jon+, Haim+, Klara First plays for Klara. We played twice. Jon/Haim 1035, Nadine/Aaron 665 This game went on for far too long (until 2 am). It took some 16 or 17 hands. Haim and I had sucky hands. Once in a while Haim made what I thought was a questionable play, but in the end it was often the right one (or at least the only option he had). Finally I had one or two good hands near the end, including one where I called Tichu over Nadine’s Grand Tichu, and both Haim and I went out first (for a swing of 500 points). Then we got to 980, and then to 990, and finally the game. This entry was posted on November 18, 2017, in Session Reports and tagged it's alive, slap deck, tichu, troyes, village. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Haim, Nadine, Lorenzo, Noam, Chaya Bluma, Eli G First time attendance for Eli, a young lad who lives in Har Nof. Also first time for Lorenzo, although he came previously to my house to play on shabbat. Glen More Lorenzo 67, Jon 60, Haim 52, Nadine 39 First play for Haim, second for Lorenzo, second (and probably last) for Nadine. This is not Nadine’s kind of game, as all of the decisions are spatially based. Lorenzo enjoyed it, and I like the game a lot, although I admit it’s better after you have played a few times to get the feel of how it works. Haim took to it well, although he ended up taking too many tiles. Chaya Bluma+, Noam First play for both of them, both of them really enjoyed it. Noam+, Jon We played a game later in the evening. I started out winning. But my second disk removal gave him his first, and then he sneaked in two more, the last right before I would have taken off my third. Lorenzo 133, Nadine 125, CB 109, Haim 96 First play for all but Nadine. Nadine may have met her match, since Lorenzo is a nuclear physicist who seems pretty on the ball. On the other hand, Nadine claims that her winning streak is in five-player games [ed: not true]. Everyone enjoyed it. Jon, Noam, Eli First play for both of them. Eli arrived late and had to leave early, and I thought we could finish this in an hour, but they decided to try to scheme to see how to take me down (which I encouraged). They didn’t succeed at it, but Eli had to leave before the game was over, so we’ll never know. Part of the reason it took so long is that they kept trying to do things that the rules did not allow and then kept expressing a desire that the rules would be different to allow them to do these things. That’s the game! Jon+, Noam I had a shutout over Noam. Noam+++++, Jon Noam won five hands straight against me, earning a combined total of over 100 more points than I earned. This entry was posted on September 28, 2017, in Session Reports and tagged crokinole, el grande, glen more, slap deck, trias, yinsh. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, Yitzchak, Haim S, Aaron, David K, Nadine, Gili, Evan, Haim B, Josh Yitzchak is an old friend who is visiting Israel and comes once every few years. Evan is Nadine’s nephew, visiting from northern California. He just graduated Berkeley and will be moving to Seattle, where he plans to look for game groups. Haim B and Josh happened to be in Jerusalem, one visiting from LA, one from Tel Aviv. Jon, Aaron, Haim S, Yizchak I taught Yitzchak and Haim how to play. We played two quick games. Evan 22, Nadine 21, Aaron 20 First play for Evan. They played while waiting for Gili and a new player to arrive; when two new players showed up they split into two groups of three instead of playing Princes of Florence. Twists: +1 point per card. And something about paying minions to invent. Nadine 171, Aaron 149, Evan 149 Nadine writes: Aaron helped Evan analyze in Five Tribes. Evan had 10 yellows when the 3 point djinn came out. Aaron convinced him to bid 12, and didn’t overbid him, but it would have been worth bidding 18 for a move where he got two more yellows and could buy the djinn. I had 7 cards and some good board spots, though not the most. Aaron ran out of camels which ended the game, I had 3 left. The cards stalled when I had 7; Evan had 5. Aaron was second in yellows, I had 5 whites at the end. I took money twice, and bid low and went last a lot, though we mostly didn’t bid a lot. Haim B 61, Gili 47, Josh 46 First play for Haim and Josh. David++, Yitzchak+, Jon-, Chaim S– We played four rounds out of six. First plays for Chaim and Yitzchak, while David and I hadn’t played in a long time. Chaim got blindsided and wiped out when he lost a central city. This is a very punishing game that can wipe out your chance of winning if you are careless. Otherwise, you have to balance winning and losing. Early mines, which David had in plenty, are game-changing. Not surprisingly, the other person who had a fair shot of winning by the time we ended also had a good income. I had a very small income; although I understood the rules better and wasn’t entirely wiped out, I wasn’t doing anywhere near as well. All of us had a problem with the card turnover. Often six or seven of the cards are useless, which means taking a mildly useful or useless card simply reveals a good one for the next player. Worse, some basic actions that you need to stay competitive or at least climb out of your hole (or at least keep you from being bored for the last hour of the game) are simply unavailable. There MUST be a way to gain people, at least temporarily, if the cards don’t show up for it. We played around with a few suggestions for how to fix the card issue, and David’s seems best: put coins on unused cards (for some definition of unused. And always make buying people an option, I think. I will look online for some variants. Nadine: You should have believed me, and we should have checked our house rules: Pay one coin to replace all cards. Evan 35, Yitzchak 34, Gili 34, Haim S 34 First plays for Evan and Haim. Gili removed the expansion cards before playing. David/Jon 605, Nadine/Aaron 395 We ended early since it was getting late. A lot of bombs and some interesting hands. On one hand, I called Tichu after David was down to one card. I would have made it if a) Nadine didn’t have 2 bombs, and b) David didn’t decide to just go out after I ducked Nadine’s first high card play after her first bomb: I had three cards left: Dragon, 9, and Dog. I was waiting for her to play a single card lower than the 9. David thought I was stuck and could not go out. Unfortunately, even if he had not decided to go out, I still wouldn’t have made my Tichu because Nadine had her second bomb. I called and made a Grand Tichu on a round where Aaron also called Tichu (for some reason). And then he set David’s Grand Tichu on the following round. So we went up and down in score a lot. This entry was posted on May 25, 2017, in Session Reports and tagged five tribes, la citta, nefarious, notre dame, san juan, slap deck, tichu. Leave a comment Participants: Jon, David, Elad, Nadine, Gili, Daniel, Saarya First visit by Daniel, welcome. Saarya, my son, decided to join us for a game. David+++, Jon David and I drafted as usual. I actually didn’t draft a terrible deck, or, rather, my deck was not so terrible that I didn’t think it could compete with whatever terrible deck that David drafted. I had some larger spells and some X spells, so I added one more land than usual. However, I also had a pretty even distribution between my three colors RWG, rather than my usual 2 colors and a splash of a third. We played three games, and I drew only two of my three types of lands in all three of them (a different two each time). In the first two games I also drew far less mana than I usually do, which was strange. David didn’t draw a lot of mana in the first game either (despite having 20 lands out of 40 cards), but I also had color screw. But I lost all three games. Two-Player Cribbage David wanted to try this one again, and he handily won the single round we were able to play. David 63, Jon, Daniel, Elad First play for Daniel and possibly Elad. David toasted everyone. Age of Industry Jon 46, Daniel 45, David 43, Saarya 41 First play for Daniel and Saarya, second for David. I think it is one of the better games I got recently, being clean and somewhat elegant. I very much wanted to play this again. I was sure David would like it once he got to know it better. Unfortunately, it wasn’t too successful. Everyone thought there was too much calculation and downtime between turns. They didn’t feel that they could plan their turns while others took their turns. In addition, it took most of the game for people to remember the placement rules. The game rounds certainly went faster near the end, and people were planning their turns during other players’ turns near the end, but the damage was already done. Saarya took a coal monopoly on the US board. There was a bit of confusion about overbuilding ships and ships that come into play and resupplying the coal market. But I think we did okay. I still enjoy the game, but I’m not sure I will be able to get others to play it. Nadine and Gili think the game is too dry. Nadine 158, Elad 132, Gili 113 First play for Elad. Gili had the djinn that let her buy tiles with meeples on them. On the last turn, Elad got 32 points – 18 money with three servants, and 2 cards worth 20 points. And he went last. Gili 59, Nadine 49, Elad 47 First play for Elad. Gili went to Notre Dame twice on each of the last two rounds. Nadine was the only one there on the first round. Dixit Codenames many … Saarya was willing to play Codenames, but preferred the picture variety. We don’t have Codename Pictures, so we played with Dixit cards. These take up a large area on the table and they are a little hard to see upside down, so people kept coming to the other side of the tale to look. And it’s perhaps harder to make connections between the desired cards without overlapping the undesired cards since there is so much to say about each card. I gave some terrible clues, but everyone had a good time. This entry was posted on February 3, 2017, in Session Reports and tagged age of industry, codenames, cribbage, five tribes, magic the gathering, notre dame, slap deck. Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1455
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al-Filisṭīnī Abū ‘Umar al-Maghribī Abū ‘Umar al-Maqdisī Abū ‘Umar al-Sūrī Abū al ‘Abbās Abū al ‘Aynā’ al-Khurāsānī Abū al ‘Izz al-Najdī Abū al-Ḥasan Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥasanī Abū al-Ḥasan al-Janūbī Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sūdānī Abū al-Ṭayyīb al-Yam Abū al-Barā’ al-Madanī Abū al-Bushar al-Dakālī Abū al-Khayr Abū al-Miqdād Abū al-Muḥtasib al-Maqdisī (‘Abd Allah al-‘Ashqar) Abū al-Walīd al-Shuhrī Abū Anas al-Shāmī Abū Ḥamzah Abū Ḥamzah al-Ḥamawi Abū Ḥasān Abū Ḥusayn al-Qayrawānī Abū Bakr Abū Bakr al-Ḥaḍramī Abū Dhar al-Najdī Abū Dujānah al-Gharīb Abū Faḍl ‘Umar al-Ḥadūshī Abū Fāris Abū Gharīb al-Maṣrī Abū Ghaythmah al-Shinqīṭī Abū Ghāndī al-Lubnānī Abū Hurayrah al-Ṣana’ānī Abū Hājr Abū Hājr al-Ḥaḍramī Abū Ibrāhīm al-Sāḥilī Abū Labābah al-Filisṭīnī Abū Muṣ’ab al-Gharīb Abū Muṣ’ab al-Maṣrī Abū Muṣ’ab al-Maghribī Abū Muslim Abū Muslim al-Ḥaḍramī Abū Muslim al-Rāmī Abū Mālik al-Maqdisī Abū Mālik al-Shāmī Abū Mālik Ḥijāzī Abū Nadhir al-Lībī Abū Nūḥ Abū Qadāmah al-Muhājir Abū Rūwāḥah Abū Salīm al-Ṣūmālī Abū Shiddan Abū Shukrī Abū Sulaymān al-Anṣārī Abū Talḥah al-‘Almānī (Deso Dogg) Abū Talḥah al-Maqdisī Abū Usāmah al-Sūdānī Abū Yūsuf Abū Yūsuf al-Waqārī Abū Yāmin al-Madanī Abū Yāsir Abū Yāsir al-Yamanī Abū Zūbayr al-Yamanī Adam Gadahan al-Batār al-Filisṭīnī al-Batār al-Shabwānī al-Batār al-Shāmī al-Jabūrī al-Maqdisī al-Maqdām al-Maṣrī al-Muhind ash-Shāmī al-Munashid al-Mu’ataz al-Shībah al-Ḥamd Amal Arīj al-Jihād Asad al-Thaghūr Ashlā’ Qalam Ḥamzah Bin Usāmah Bin Lāden Ḥanān al-Alfī Ḥasan al-Wājdī Ḥādī al-Abāah Ḥāmid Mullāzādah (Maḥmūd) Ṣaqr Barqah Dr. Qāsim ‘Abbās al-Zahrāwī Ghālib Bāq’īṭī (Abū Hājr) Hajī Yūsuf Hubbah Allah al-Khālidī Ideologues Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman Mahad Warsamī Jabal Abū al-Barā’ al-Muhājir Abū ‘Adnān al-Shāmī Abū Sa’īd Muḥambal Abū ‘Ubaydah Shaykh al-Mu’taṣim Bi Allah al-Madanī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Tūnisī Abū Muḥammad al-Shāmī Qaswarah al-Shāmī Abū Qudāmah al-Ḥumṣī Umm ‘Umar al-Kinānīyah Shaykh Mawlāwī Nidā’ Muḥammad Ṣāḥib Milānūr Allah Nūrī Shaykh Rāmiz Abū al-Majid Mullā Khayr Allah Khayr Khawāh Abū Aḥmad al-Sha’alān Sharīḥ al-Himṣī ‘Adnān Ḥadīd Dr. Maẓhar al-Ways Abū ‘Abd al-Malik al-Anṣārī Dr. Ibrāhīm Shāshū Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Anṣārī Shaykh Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥanafī Shaykh Muḥammad al-Māz Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ Abū Dāwūd Maḥmūd Ḥibīsh al-Muhājirah al-Gharbīyah Rafīq al-Darab Ḥusayn ‘Awdah (Abū Malham al-Ghāzī) Ibn al-Gharīb ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Muhājir Shaykh Abū Yaḥyā al-Jazā’irī Abū Ḥafṣ al-al-Sūrī Ihāb ‘Awīdāt Jalīs al-Shuhadā’ Jarāḥ al-Anṣārī Jawād al-Jazā’irī Jihād Ṣāliḥ Juhaymān al-‘Utaybī Karīm al-Andalusī Khādim al-Khilāfah Khālid al-Zumur Khālid bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Husaynān [Abū Zayd al-Kūwaytī] Khālid Bin Sayf al ‘Adl Ma’mūn bin ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Ḥātim Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Shinqīṭī Maṣlaḥ al-Muhājir Mawlawī ‘Abd al-Hādī Mujāhid Mawlānā ‘Aṣām ‘Umar Mawlānā ‘Abd al-Ṣamad Mawlānā ‘Amār Khān Turangza’i Mawlānā Faḍl Allah Mawlānā Khubayb Mawlāwī Nīk Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Allah Midḥat bin al-Ḥasan Aal Farāj Movladi Udugov Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Hādī al-Maṣrī Muḥammad ‘Abd Allah al-Ḥassam Muḥammad Abū ‘Abd Allah Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shinqīṭī Muḥammad al-Amīn bin al-Shaykh bin Mazīd Muḥammad al-Dūsarī (Abū Talḥah al-Kūwaytī) Muḥammad al-Zahīrī Muḥammad Bilāl al-Qāhirī Muḥammad bin ‘Umar Muḥammad Karm ‘Alī Muḥammad Miqdād Muḥammad Suhayl Shaḥīn Muḥmmad ‘Abd al-Salām Farrag Muṣ’ab al-Anṣārī Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd Muẓaffir al-Makkī Muftī Abū Hashām Maṣ’ūd Muftī Ṣāḥib ‘Abd al-Hādī Mujāhid Manṣūr Mullā Muḥmmad (Manṣūrī) Mullā Muḥmmad Dāūd Muzamil Mūwaḥid al ‘Adnānī Mājid bin Maḥmūd al-Mājid Nāṣir al-Qā’idah Omar Hammami [Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī] Qārī ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm Qārī Sa’īd Khawstī Sa’d Allah al-Balūshī Sa’d bin ‘Āṭif al ‘Awlaqī Sa’īd Allah Sayf al ‘Adl Sayf Allah al-Muhājir Sayyid Qutb Sayyīd Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī Nadawī Sayyīd Imām al-Sharīf Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ṣamad Shaykh ‘Abd al-Jalīl Shaykh ‘Abd al-Malik bin Sīdī al-Shinqīṭī Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir Mū ‘min Shaykh ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Hindī Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahīm ‘Aṭwan Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razāq al-Mahdī Shaykh ‘Abd Allah al-Ḥussaynī Shaykh ‘Abd Allah al-Rashūd Shaykh ‘Abd Allah bin Aḥmad al-Bin al-Ḥussaynī Shaykh ‘Abd Ar-Raḥman bin Ḥasan ʼĀl al-Shaykh Shaykh ‘Ammār al ‘Amr Shaykh ‘Awaḍ Muḥammad Bā Najār Shaykh ‘Imrān Shaykh ‘Imrān Ṣadīqī (Hajī Walī Allah) Shaykh ‘Umar Rafā’ī Surūr Shaykh ‘Uthmān Aal Nāziḥ Shaykh ‘Uthmān bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Tamīmī Shaykh ‘Zakarayā’ Ḥamzah al-Hitār Shaykh ‘Ādal al-Jazār Shaykh Aḥmad ‘Asharī Shaykh Aḥmad ‘Ashushū Shaykh Aḥmad Salāmah Mabrūk Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Ilah Aḥmad Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Malik Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman ‘Alī al-Ṣihnājī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Ṣanhājī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Makkī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Tūnisī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah ‘Uthmān Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al ‘Utaybi Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Ghazī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Lībī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Mubārak Shaykh Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Shāmī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥman al-Batīrī Shaykh Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥman al-Shanqīṭī Shaykh Abū ‘Abdallah Al-Muhājir Shaykh Abū ‘Ubaydah al-Shinqīṭī Shaykh Abū ‘Ubaydah Yūsuf al ‘Anābiī Shaykh Abū ‘Uthmān al-Ghaymrāwī Shaykh Abū ‘Uzayr ‘Abd al-Ilah al-Ḥussaynī al-Jazā’irī Shaykh Abū Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jazā’irī Shaykh Abū Aḥmad al-Shāmī Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Filisṭīnī Shaykh Abū al-Barā’ al-Maqdisī (Ashraf bin Nimr Ṣabāḥ) Shaykh Abū al-Fataḥ al-Firghālī Shaykh Abū al-Majid al-Shāmī Shaykh Abū al-Mu’taṣim Bi-Allah al-Barqāwī Shaykh Abū al-Mundhir al-Shanqīṭī Shaykh Abū al-Tamīm al-Lībī Shaykh Abū al-Walīd al-Lībī Shaykh Abū al-Yamān al-Lībī Shaykh Abū al-Yaqẓān Shaykh Abū Ayman al-Maṣrī Shaykh Abū Ḥafṣ Sufyān al-Jazā’irī Shaykh Abū Ḥamzah al-Anṣārī Shaykh Abū Ḥayān ‘Aāṣim Shaykh Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Lībī Shaykh Abū Ṣalāḥ al-Uzbekī Shaykh Abū Ṭalāl al-Maqdisī Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Zayla’ī Shaykh Abū Basīr al-Ṭarṭūsī Shaykh Abū Basīr al-Muhājir Shaykh Abū Bishr Muḥammad Darāmah Shaykh Abū Dhar al-Shamhurī al-Yamānī Shaykh Abū Firās al-Sūrī Shaykh Abū Fāris al-Sūrī Shaykh Abū Himām al-Sūrī (Fārūq al-Sūrī) Shaykh Abū Idrīs al-Shamālī Shaykh Abū Ilyās ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Shaykh Abū Islām al-Ḥamawi Shaykh Abū Jarīr al-Shamālī Shaykh Abū Khadījah al-Muhājir Shaykh Abū Khaybar al-Anṣārī Shaykh Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Nāṣir Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-al-Shāmī Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī Shaykh Abū Muhannad al-Ḥalabī Shaykh Abū Mujāhid al-Maṣrī Shaykh Abū Muslim al-‘Andānī Shaykh Abū Mālik al-Talī Shaykh Abū Mālik al-Tamīmī (Anas al-Nashwān) Shaykh Abū Nāṣir al-Dīn Shaykh Abū Salmān Aṣ-Ṣūmālī Shaykh Abū Shams Shaykh Abū Shu’ayb Talḥah al-Musayr Shaykh Abū Sulaymān al ‘Utaybī Shaykh Abū Thamāmah al-Anṣārī Shaykh Abū Usāmah Shaykh Abū Wardah Shaykh Abū Yūsuf al-Gharīb Shaykh al-Ḥasan Rashīd al-Bulaydī Shaykh al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī Shaykh al-Mundhir al-Shāmī Shaykh al-Qādhī Abū Shams Shaykh Awāb Bin Ḥasan al-al-Ḥasanī Shaykh Ḥamadī al-Tha’labī [Abū Muḥammad al-Laḥjī] Shaykh Ḥasan ‘Umar Shaykh Ḥasan Qā’id (Abū Yūnus al-Ṣaḥrāwī) Shaykh Ḥasām ‘Abd al-R’uūf (‘Abd al-Hādī Muṣṭafā) Shaykh Ḥasān Ḥussayn (Abū Sulaymān al-Ṣūmālī) Shaykh Ḥudhayfah Shaykh Ḥussayn bin Maḥmūd Shaykh Ḥussām ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf Shaykh Ḥāmid Bin Ḥamūd al ‘Uthmān al-Tamīmī Shaykh Ḥāshī Shaykh Bilāl Khuraysāt (Abū Ḥudhayfah al-‘Urdunī) Shaykh Dr. Ayman Hārūsh Shaykh Dr. Maẓhur al-Uways Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Bannā Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh Shaykh Ismā’īl ‘Abd al-Rahīm Ḥamīd Shaykh Jalāl ad-Dīn Abū al-Fatuḥ Shaykh Kamāl Zarūq Shaykh Khamīs Bin ‘Alī Shaykh Khālid Ḥaqqānī Shaykh Khālid bin ‘Umar Bāṭarfī (Abū al-Miqdād al-Kanadī) Shaykh Maḥmūd al-Ḥubaysh Shaykh Maysarah al-Gharīb Shaykh Muḥammad Abū ‘Uthmān Shaykh Muḥammad Abū Khibzah Shaykh Muḥammad Abū Usmān al-Gimravy Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī Shaykh Muḥammad al-Majlisī Shaykh Muḥammad al-Tarhūnī Shaykh Muḥammad Bin ‘Atīq Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ṣāliḥ al-Muhājir Shaykh Muḥammad bin Maḥmūd al-Baḥṭīṭī (Abū Dujānah al-Bāshā) Shaykh Muḥārib al-Jabūrī Shaykh Muṣṭafā al-Mu’rāwī Shaykh Musā’d bin Bashīr bin ‘Alī Shaykh Mūlūd Abū Ḥāzim Shaykh Qutaybah Abū Nu’man al-Shinqīṭī Shaykh Rashād Shtawī Shaykh Yusrī bin Aṭīyyah Aal Ṣāliḥ Shaykh Zubayr al-Muhājir Sirāj ad-Dīn Zurayqāt Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ḥaqqānī Sufyān al-Muhājir Sufyān Balūsh Sulṭān Zābul al-Hindī Tak Dikenal Turkī bin Mubārak al-Bin’alī Umm ‘Abd al ‘Azīz Umm ‘Imārah al-Muhājirah Umm al-Ḥasan al-Muhājirah Umm Ḥussām Ustāẓ ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Ṣaḥrāwī Ustāẓ Aḥmad Fārūq Ustād ‘Abd al-Salām Muḥammadī Ustād Khawājah Maqṣūd Mukhliṣ Ustād Muḥammad Yāsir Ustādh Ḥamzah bin Muḥammad al-Bassām Waḥīd Wasaṭ al-Murtadīn Wajdī Ghanīm Ya’qūb al ‘Umrī Ya’qūb al-al-Ṣūmālī Yaḥyā Abū al-Himām Yaḥyā Ḥikmatī Zakarīā’ Būghrārah al-Maghribī Āmān al-Hitārī ‘Aṭīahllah Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥman ‘Abd al ‘Azīz Kāmil ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm Ḥasān (Abū ‘Amrū) ‘Abd al-Fataḥ Aḥmadī ‘Abd al-Ilah Shākr ‘Abd al-Karīm bin Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥamīd ‘Abd al-Matin al-‘Almānī ‘Abd al-Muḥsin ‘Abd Allah al-Shārikh (Sanāfī al-Nāṣir) ‘Abd al-Nāṣir Jawdah ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf Ḥikmat ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Jazā’irī ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin ‘Abd al ‘Azīz al-Sadīs ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin ‘Aqīl al-al-Ghazī ‘Abd al-Raḥman Usāmah ‘Abd Allah ‘Amād bin ‘Abd Allah al-Tūnisī ‘Abd Allah ‘Azzām ‘Abd Allah al-Jazā’irī ‘Abd Allah bin ‘Abd ar-Raḥman al-Shinqīṭī ‘Abd Allah Muḥammad Maḥmūd ‘Abd ar-Raḥman al-Muhājir ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Binhādī ‘Alī Abū Muḥammad al-Dagestanī ‘Awḍ Bānjār ‘Ubayd Allah al-Mujabbar ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Raḥman ‘Umar Bin Maṣ’ūd al-Ḥadūshī ‘Umar the al- Dā’īyyah al-Qa’qā’ al-Maṣrī ‘Āṣim Abū Ḥayān ‘Āmir al-Anṣārī Aḥlām al-Naṣr Aḥmad al-Qayrawānī Aḥmad Aymān ‘Alī Aḥmad Bawādī Aḥmad Fā’iz al-Ḥamṣī Aḥmad Imān ‘Alī Abu ‘Ubaydah al-Dagestanī Abu ‘Ubaydah al-Madanī Abu ‘Ubaydah al-Mūwaḥid Abū ‘Abd al-Malik al-Maṣrī Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Atharī Abū ‘Abd Allah al ‘Azdī Abū ‘Abd Allah Anīs Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥman al-Fātiḥ Abū ‘Abdullah al-Qaṣīmī Abū ‘Amār al-Nājī Abū ‘Aqabah al-Muhājir Abū ‘Azzām al-‘Almānī Abū ‘Imād al-Shāmī Abū ‘Ubaydah al-Jazā’irī Abū ‘Ubaydah al-Lubnānī Abū ‘Umar al-Anṣārī Abū ‘Umar al-Ḥalabī Abū ‘Umar Usāmah Abū ‘Umarū ‘Abd al-Ḥakīm Ḥasān (Mujān Sālim) Abū ‘Uthmān al ‘Umrī Abū ‘Āmir al-Muhājir Abū 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__label__wiki	0.886746	0.886746	Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (https://jjie.org/2012/07/19/states-react-hearings-orders-on-supreme-court-decision-on-juvenile-life-sentences/) States React with Hearings, Orders on U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Juvenile Life Sentences By Carl DeBeer \| July 19, 2012 Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad Just after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated some 2,400 life sentences given to juveniles nationwide, Iowa’s governor responded with commuting the 38 cases in his state to minimum 60-year sentences. The response was different in Pennsylvania, where the state Legislature is speeding to comply with the court’s Miller v. Alabama order for judicial discretion. “First degree murder is an intentional and premeditated crime and those who are found guilty are dangerous and should be kept off the streets and out of our communities,” reads a statement by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, issued Jul. 18. It came with his Executive Order commuting mandatory life without parole sentences handed to 38 Iowa juveniles to 60 mandatory years then a possibility of parole. The order is in reaction to the Supreme Court’s June ruling that juvenile murder defendants have to be allowed to present mitigating circumstances, especially age, to sentencing judges. That means automatic juvenile murder sentences are out in the federal courts plus the 28 states that have them, and judge’s discretion is in. But some of Iowa’s legislators want to make sure there’s still a floor for such sentences. Earlier this year in light of the imminent Miller decision, the state House passed House File 607. It said juveniles convicted of the most grave felonies would be given a mandatory term of between 30 and 45 years before a chance at parole, rather than a life sentence. The state Senate failed to act before the session ended. In Pennsylvania, where some 440 people are serving life without parole for juvenile crimes, the Legislature immediately started acting to give judges the discretion that Miller requires. Their state Senate Judiciary Committee has already started hearings that may end in a bill to replace the now-unconstitutional sentencing law with some other guideline. Pennsylvania activist Anita Colon said that it’s too soon to tell if the new bill will lean toward leniency or hard time. Her own brother was convicted as a 16-year-old for murder because he was the lookout for a drug deal that went bad and ended with an adult gang member murdering a woman. Colon expects life without parole to be totally “taken off the books” for cases like her brother’s, when the defendant was an accessory, not the actual killer. “We’re hoping to develop a sentencing structure that is cognizant of that (youth and other mitigating circumstances) but recognizes the level of safety we need in communities and also loss to victims’ families,” she said. Colon thinks the eventual new law will probably impose “very harsh sentences where warranted, but there will be a range” of punishments. The Pennsylvania state Legislature reconvenes in September. Colorado abolished its juvenile life without parole mandatory sentence in 2006. A pair of attorneys there think Miller will be deployed in cases where juveniles were not given life, but were given very long sentences like the ones Iowa’s governor wants. “I would think any attorney worth his salt would appeal a very long sentence meted out to a juvenile,” said attorney and state Rep. Daniel Kagan (D-Englewood), “on the grounds juveniles are different.” They’re more impulsive, their brains are still developing, he noted. Kagan thinks Miller seems to put both life and long-term sentences into question. But “whether it flies,” he said, will only be told by litigation. Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett agrees. “The (Supreme Court) holding is binding on Colorado,” he said. But the justices’ reasons are not. “The arguments may or may not be persuasive, but that’s always the case.” Meanwhile, there are still 48 Colorado inmates who were sentenced under the old juvenile life without parole sentence. It’s not yet clear where or how they will go through the appeals process now open to them under Miller, said Garnett. There are several possibilities including a visit to the Colorado Governor’s Juvenile Clemency Board. But, he added, DAs are concerned to find a way “that doesn’t put victims through a whole reprocessing of the case.” Photo from GOP Early Voters. House File 607 life without-parole for minors Miller v. Alabama Terry Branstad	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1457
__label__wiki	0.902912	0.902912	Home › News › Trade shows Pitti Uomo 95: menswear show set to surprise with new format and innovative projects Dominique Muret today Jan 7, 2019 “How would you define Pitti Uomo other than a giant, wonderful box of tricks? We want surprise to be the main feature of the show's 95th edition. The event is an ever-changing repository of constantly evolving content,” said Agostino Poletto, general manager of organiser Pitti Immagine, referring to the new edition’s theme, ‘The Pitti Box’, conjured up by prolific, talented designer Sergio Colantuono. The show’s January session, dedicated to the autumn/winter 2019-20 collections, will host 1,230 exhibitors - 542 of them from outside Italy - from Jan. 8-11, 2019. Pitti Uomo 95 will be heralding a return to classic, understated elegance - Pitti Immagine The Florentine event will open the menswear show season on Tuesday with a new layout, characterised by a series of different enclosures scattered around the nearly 60,000-square-metre area of the Fortezza da Basso venue, each of them designed to signpost the various steps of the visitors’ journey through the ancient fortress. Among them, the Infinity Box, a 40-metre-long gallery offering a “visual/energising/emotional experience,” showing videos by 12 international artists; the Silence Box, where visitors can decompress in absolute silence for five minutes; the Park Box recreational area and the amusing Show Box, a selfie station also used for mini conferences. The show’s structure has changed also as a result of the modifications introduced to some of its main sections. Starting from ‘Touch!’, the section for creative, avant-garde labels, which last year was relocated right at the show’s entrance. “We are completely revolutionising the section, using slightly brutalist, light-coloured minimalist materials, to create a genuine pool of quality brands, each distinct from the other but all of them slotting into a coherent whole,” said Poletto. The section’s design was commissioned to the Andrea Caputo Studio agency. ‘Touch!’ will feature a strong contingent of Japanese labels, with an area reserved to the six finalists of the Tokyo Fashion Award (Anei, Cinoh, Jieda, Nobuyuki Matsui, Postelegant and Rainmaker) and to the Japanese White Leather Project, presenting the collections of four labels specialised in the thousand-year-old white leather technique practised in Himeji, in Japan’s central Kansai region: Ed Robert Judson by Satoshi Ezaki, Kozaburo by Kozaburo Akasaka, Mary Al Terna by Ryuki Yamaka, and Midorikawa Ryo by Ryo Midorikawa. The highly coveted ‘Futuro Maschile’ section, dedicated to classic contemporary chic, will feature a “new and surprising” mix of labels. The ‘I Go Out’ section, dedicated to outdoor apparel, was first introduced last June to a resounding success, and Pitti organisers are keen to steer it more in the direction of urban fashion, while the ‘Unconventional’ section, home to alternative labels, is set to veer towards “high-end street style.” Streetwear specialist distributor Slam Jam will celebrate urban culture at Pitti Uomo 95 - Pitti Immagine After several editions in which colours and a fun, pop-inspired mood took centre-stage, Pitti Uomo 95 will focus on “a return to austerity, understated colours and a certain kind of elegance,” as shown by the black and white visuals which promote the event’s January session. The programme will strike a balance between designer brands, emerging labels and well-established ones, with a plethora of events held both inside and outside the walls of the Fortezza da Basso, in some of Florence’s iconic spots. Pitti Uomo 95 will open in style on Tuesday 8, when many of the special events scheduled for this winter session are scheduled. Among them, the section dedicated to Portuguese fashion, which will be inaugurated on the first day, the installation at the Marino Marini museum by Slam Jam, a long-standing Italian streetwear distributor and partner of many alternative labels, while on the same day Rossignol will unveil its collaboration with Philippe Model Paris, and the Gucci Garden museum will reveal its new interiors. On Wednesday 9, Canali - which is leaving Milan for Florence this season - will present its new collection at Palazzo Antinori, while the iconic Moon Boot will fête its 50th anniversary with a gala evening. Korean label Beyond Closet will show at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, and in the evening the spotlight will shine on Parisian label Y/Project and its Belgian designer Glenn Martens, the guest of honour at Pitti Uomo 95. On Thursday 10, the must-see event is the catwalk show at noon by Haculla, a streetwear label founded by Chinese artist, photographer, designer and entrepreneur Jon Koon, whose style is inspired by the work of New York street artist Harif Guzman. Also on the menu, the debut show of the new Fila Fjord line by young Danish designer Astrid Andersen and, at the end of the day, the show by former creative director of Cerruti 1881, Aldo Maria Camillo, who will be launching the first menswear collection for his new label Aldomariacamillo. Pitti Uomo is taking over Florence with a host of special events - Pitti Immagine This eclectic calendar of events is further bolstered by countless other initiatives, reflecting the multi-faceted identity of men’s fashion: from Barbour’s 125th anniversary to the Allegri-Cottweiler and Les Hommes-Sergio Tacchini collaborations, to the return of eco-sustainable label Ecoalf, with a capsule collection 100% made in Italy, and that of Ben Sherman. Other highlights are the launch of the Rewoolution activewear line by Reda, the launch of Vilebrequin Denim, John Varvatos’s first appearance at Pitti Uomo, and the installation/event by Woolrich. Finally, a collection to look out for is the one created by interesting British designer Eleanor McDonald, winner of the ITS competition for emerging designers in Trieste, Italy, last summer. Calendar unveiled for Paris Fashion Week Men's Shandong Ruyi sells 26% stake LIFE at LVMH: Antoine Arnault on the luxury giant’s new sustainability strategy Jason Basmajian to exit Cerruti 1881 Kenzo: Is Felipe Oliveira Baptista taking over as creative director? Paris Fashion Week Men’s striking line-up Ruyi Group partners with Singapore’s DBS bank to fund growth Chinese textile & apparel groups Fung, Ruyi sign major joint operations deal for Africa Fendi: A tearful farewell to Karl Lagerfeld Paris: A season of assemblage and authenticity Spring-Summer 2019 Paris Cerruti 1881: Men's show Autumn/Winter 2018/19 (with interview)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1458
__label__cc	0.693327	0.306673	Johnny Cox Music Johnny Cox Music – Welcome Page Bass Blog Homepage Johnny’s Bass Book Tag Archives: traids exercise Bass Blog Triads Exercise on Six String Bass – Bass Practice Diary 60 June 11, 2019 jccoxjazzbass Triads Exercise on Six String Bass – Bass Practice Diary – 11th June 2019 This is a triads exercise that I’ve adapted onto bass guitar from something that I saw the guitarist Pat Metheny play. The original version of the exercise came from this video. He doesn’t start playing the triads until about 3 minutes into the video. And it isn’t clear if he’s improvising or playing an exercise that he’s previously practiced. But I thought it sounded great and it looked like a great way to practice triads and their inversions. So I adapted a short section of what he played onto my six string bass and I’ve turned it into an exercise. Triads and their inversions A triad is a three note chord. The obvious way to arrange a triad in root position is root, third, fifth. Then you can play two inversions, third, fifth, root and fifth, root, third. But that’s not necessarily the best way to play them on fretted instruments like guitars and basses. In this exercise, when Metheny plays a root position triad, he skips the third and goes straight to the fifth. Then he plays the third up an octave, a tenth above the root note. So using this arrangement, the three inversions of the triads are root, fifth, third. Then third, root, fifth and finally fifth, third, root. Below is an Ab major triad and a Bb minor triad arranged in this way on four string bass. Ab major and Bb minor triads There are two other common types of triad, diminished and augmented. These are actually much simpler to play because they’re symmetrical. Meaning that they use the same interval over and over. Diminished arpeggios divide the octave up into four minor third intervals and augmented arpeggios divide the octave into three major third intervals. Which is why there are four inversions of the diminished triad below but only three of the augmented triad. B diminished and C augmented triads The Exercise This is the exercise. It mostly uses the major triads and the inversions. But there are a few minor and diminished triads. There are no augmented triads in this exercise. I’ve written the chords on top to help you keep track of which chord you’re playing. Triads Exercise on Six String Bass Bass guitarbass guitar chordsbass practice diarychords on bassfree bass lessonshow to learn chords on bassJohnny Cox BassistJohnny Cox Musiclearn chords on Basssix string basstraids exerciseTriads Bright Size Life on Fretless Bass and Guitar – Bass Practice Diary – 14th January 2020 One of my favourite albums is Bright Size Life by Pat Metheny. It was not only Metheny’s debut album as a band leader but it was also one of the earliest recordings of Jaco Pastorius. Pastorius went on to become arguably the most influential electric bass player of the 20th century, and Bright Size Life features some of his best jazz work. Metheny and Pastorius together on this album are two young jazz genius’ working together in the very stripped down context of a trio with drummer Bob Moses. The album features some of the best guitar and bass arrangements ever heard in the history of jazz and the title track is one of my personal favourites. This week I was reading through transcriptions of both Metheny’s and Jaco’s parts and I’ve tried to put them together. Admittedly, my playing in this video doesn’t live up to the genius of these two legends, but I was having fun so I put the camera on anyway. I hope you enjoy it. Sire Marcus Miller V7 Vintage Fretless The bass I’m using is a fretless Sire Marcus Miller V7 Vintage. I’ve done a video about the Sire V7’s before, and I think they’re brilliant. But I haven’t yet done a video about this fretless Vintage version. The thing with this Vintage version is that it’s clearly based on a 70’s fretless Fender Jazz Bass. So, even though it has Marcus Miller’s name on it, it makes me think of Jaco Pastorius. Bright Size Life on Fretless Bass and Guitar – Bass Practice Diary 91 January 14, 2020 jccoxjazzbass Happy New Year – New Year’s Eve Bass Practice Diary – 31st December 2019 Happy New Year! It’s New Year’s Eve and I want to thank everyone who has followed Johnny Cox Music in 2019. I have big plans moving forward into 2020, including a lot more free original bass content, so stay tuned! My second book is almost ready for publication and I’m planning to launch a dedicated teaching website for bass players in 2020. Here’s a video that I shot last year to help you usher in the new year with a bit of solo 6-string bass. I would have shot a new video this year, but unfortunately I don’t know any other New Year’s Eve song apart from Auld Lang Syne. So this is one of the very rare occasions where I’m recycling an old video. I hope you enjoy it! There are a number of ways you can approach harmonising this tune, and I didn’t spend very long coming up with this arrangement. I didn’t write the arrangement down, I just worked out a few things by ear before I hit record. The loose structure of the arrangement is as follows. I played the first half of the song solo, using simple I, IV, V harmony. I intentionally set it in a key where I could utilise the open strings as bass notes. Then I added some jazz chords and alterations in the second half and immediately overdubbed the melody for the second half of the tune. This was actually one of the quickest videos I’ve done. The shooting of it didn’t take more than five minutes. But I’m happy with the results. Sometimes playing something “off the cuff” is the best way rather than overthinking it. I hope you enjoy this bit of bassy mellowness, whether your New Year’s Eve is mellow like mine or a bit more exciting. And I hope that the coming year gives you many opportunities to play the bass! Happy New Year – New Year’s Eve Bass Practice Diary 89 December 31, 2019 jccoxjazzbass Carol of the Bells – Christmas Bass Practice Diary – 24th December 2019 Happy Christmas and thanks to everyone that’s been following my Bass Practice Diary videos this year. Here is my new Christmas bass video for 2019. I wanted to find something that I could arrange with a loop pedal and my 6-string bass. I immediately thought of Carol of the Bells. The arrangement of the song immediately lends itself to looping. The way that I’ve arranged it makes it possible to perform live with two loop pedals, one going into the other. However, I shot this video in two parts with one loop pedal. It’s much easier doing it that way rather than as one continuous take. I hope you enjoy the video, please check out my previous Christmas bass videos if you haven’t already. This one is from last Christmas and it’s Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow. And this on is The Christmas Song aka Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire. Stay tuned to Johnny Cox Music in 2020 for loads of new bass videos. I’ve completed 52 brand new and original bass videos in 2019 and I’ve got lots more planned for the future. Carol of the Bells – Christmas Bass Practice Diary 88 TC Electronic Vibraclone Rotary with 6-String Bass Guitar – Bass Practice Diary – 10th December 2019 This week I discovered the Vibraclone Rotary pedal from TC Electronic. They call it a Rotary Speaker Emulator, which to me means it sounds like playing through a Leslie speaker. I’ve never been particularly interested in effects pedals. I very rarely take any with me on gigs. But I do use them occasionally. And if I come across a pedal that sounds good for an affordable price, then I’ll definitely snap it up. The Vibraclone ticks all the boxes of being cheap, interesting and sounding good. How I use the Vibraclone The Vibraclone definitely has a retro sound. The Leslie speaker was invented in the 1940’s as an addition to the hammond organ. But it was used as an effect by guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. The terms Chorale and Tremolo are used on a switch on the Vibraclone to differentiate the slow and fast speed settings. These terms came from the Leslie speaker, which used the same terms for it’s slow and fast settings. I prefer playing with the slower mode for most situations. I find it a bit more subtle. Although I feel like maybe the faster setting sounds more authentically like a Leslie. Using effects pedals with bass Generally I don’t use effects when I’m playing the bass and I’m certainly not an expert on pedals. But the times when I find them useful are when I’m playing a lot of solos. If I’m doing a duo gig for example, I know I’ll be called on to play lots of solos. Having something that can change and add variety to my tonal palette can really add something. If you’re playing your third or fourth solo of the night then you usually need something to help you change it a bit. Effects loops When I’m using effects pedals, I prefer to put them through an effects loop rather than directly into the front of an amplifier. I want my pure bass tone to be as undiluted as possible, so I don’t want anything in my signal chain between my bass and the amp. How the effects loop works does depend on the individual amplifier. On my Ampeg GVT guitar amp I can activate and deactivate the effects loop with a foot switch. That is by far my favourite method of using an effects loop, because it means that when the effects loop is disabled I’m getting no potential discolouring of my sound from playing through a long chain of inactive pedals and patch cables. It’s a great system and I wish that I had a bass amp that worked like that. The effects loop on the back of the Markbass Little Mark III works slightly differently. It mixes the sound of the effects loop with the clean sound of your bass going into the front of the amp. So the impact of the effects is slightly more subtle as it isn’t impacting on all of the sound coming out the amp. I used a volume pedal on the effects loop to gradually bring in and fade out the effect. You could use the foot switch on the pedal to turn the effect on and off, but that would still leave the sound of your bass going through the pedal chain in the mix. Anything in your chain will colour your bass tone. 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__label__wiki	0.613666	0.613666	Columns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Criminal law March 18, 2019 March 17, 2019 How Trump Could Still Gut The Mueller Report Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on a significant potential barrier to the release of the Special Counsel report — once it is given by Robert Mueller to Attorney General Bill Barr. There is a striking contrast between the level of cooperation shown in relation to the Special Counsel investigation versus congressional investigation. In the latter context, the White House instructed witnesses not to answer questions on the basis that privilege might be claimed (an improper practice in my view). This would seem to suggest that the Trump team is treating communications with the Special Counsel as internal Executive Branch disclosures — and thus not a waiver of privilege. If that is the case, Barr could be heading into a world of difficulty. If the White House invokes, the Justice Department has traditionally defended those claims of executive privilege in court. That could mean a report that is heavily redacted. Unlike classified material which can be given to Congress under seal, grand jury information or executive privileged information cannot be given to Congress absent a court order or waiver, respectively. This weekend Trump said that he supported the vote of Congress to demand the public release of the report. He told his followers that he told members to vote for the resolution and “Play along with the game!” It is not clear what that game is given the blocking of vote in the Senate by Lindsey Graham. Moreover, it does not state that Trump will waive all executive privilege as discussed in this earlier column. Here is the column: President Donald Trump again wrote in all-caps this week, lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as “illegal & conflicted” and declaring “there should be no Mueller Report.” Of course, Mueller’s investigation is entirely legal. Moreover, as reflected in the 420-0 House vote this week, there is overwhelming, bipartisan support for making the report public. Indeed, everyone seems to want the report released: Democrats, Republicans, even Attorney General Bill Barr. The one person who may not be on board is Trump — and that could prove a very serious problem for Barr. Trump appears, again, to be dangerously taking his own counsel. While he seems genuinely infuriated about the investigation, he played the largest part in bringing it about. At the start of his administration, some of us opposed the appointment of a special counsel as unnecessary and unsupported by hard evidence. That changed with the firing of former FBI Director James Comey in the midst of the Russia investigation and Trump’s public attacks on the investigation. Trump’s advisers reportedly warned him this was a bone-headed, self-destructive act; the only holdout reportedly was son-in-law Jared Kushner, who thought it would shorten the investigation. The result was catastrophic and plunged the administration into the current quagmire. Trump could, once more, prolong this controversy by continuing to “counterpunch” himself into a deeper and deeper hole. There still is no compelling evidence of collusion. Moreover, everyone is telling him to release the report as fully and quickly as possible. This brings us to William Barr’s problem. During his confirmation hearing, Democrats repeatedly pressed him to guarantee that the report would be released. As I testified at his confirmation, Barr could not ethically give that guarantee; various laws governing classified evidence, grand jury information and privacy information require redactions. The biggest issue, however, could be executive privilege. The power to assert executive privilege rests primarily with the White House. It is the president’s privilege to assert, and the Justice Department’s obligation to defend such assertions. Two types of privilege can arise in this context. First, there is deliberative-process privilege governing the executive branch’s decision-making. This privilege, however, is routinely trumped in cases involving government abuse or misconduct. The more difficult privilege is “presidential communications.” Recognized in 1974 in United States v. Nixon, the Supreme Court noted that “the presidential communications privilege is more difficult to surmount.” Unlike the deliberative-process privilege that “disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct occurred,” the presidential communications privilege is harder to overcome, “even when there are allegations of misconduct by high-level officials.” The assumption of many is that executive privilege has been waived largely since the Trump administration allowed many current and former White House staff to speak with Mueller. To the extent that such information was shared with Congress, such a waiver may have occurred. However, the White House can argue that speaking with Mueller is not a waiver. Unlike earlier independent counsels like Kenneth Starr, Mueller is a special counsel — and, as such, he’s part of the Justice Department, which is part of the executive branch. In other words, having the White House counsel speak with the special counsel is basically the executive branch speaking to itself. Notably, while Trump allowed White House officials to speak freely with Mueller, the White House was far less free with Congress — including, inappropriately, having officials refuse to answer questions on the possibility of a later privilege assertion. Trump therefore could assert executive privilege over information derived from presidential communications. And that would put Barr in a very difficult spot. Indeed, a report without presidential communications could leave little more than a husk of the original. More importantly, it could leave Barr with little choice in the matter. With sketchy past opinions on the scope of these privileges, executive assertions can be difficult questions. Historically, the Justice Department has left such questions to the courts absent a compromise with Congress. The Obama administration made some very dubious privilege claims but the Justice Department defended those assertions in Congress and the courts. Absent a clear waiver, it would be a sharp departure from past practice for Barr to override a White House privilege assertion. If Trump asserts executive privilege to all communications with Mueller that were not also made to Congress, Barr likely will feel duty-bound to defend those assertions. Barr is no Sally Yates, who, as acting attorney general, refused to defend Trump’s first immigration order. It was a highly improper order and warranted her firing by Trump. Barr will defend a properly asserted presidential privilege, and he will comply with any order of a court on the merits of such an assertion. So where does that leave us? Option 1: Under federal law, Barr could confine his disclosure to a short summary. Thus, if no criminal acts by the president or his campaign were uncovered, Barr could describe the scope of the investigation and give the ultimate findings. After all, members of Congress widely condemned Comey for his public discussion of Hillary Clinton’s “grossly negligent” actions after he decided not to charge her. Barr could say he will not repeat Comey’s grandstanding. But Barr would be wrong in taking such a position. A special counsel investigation is not a criminal investigation; it has fact-finding and reporting components that are supposed to force transparency. Mueller was mandated to find the truth, not just chargeable offenses. The public has a right to see that evidence, since these allegations go to the very heart of our democratic process. Option 2: The most likely option will be to write a summary and attach the redacted report, or rewrite the report into a unified report from Barr to Congress that removes statutorily and constitutionally protected information. Barr also could give Congress a sealed version of the report containing classified information. However, he cannot give Congress a report with grand jury information (called Rule 6e material) without a court order. More importantly, he cannot disclose privileged information to Congress. The preference would be a redacted copy with blacked-out sections to show how much of the original report has been withheld. The only logistical question is whether Barr will issue a summary while the report is being scrubbed, or issue a summary pending the release of such a public report. There also is the question of whether Barr will allow the White House to submit a response with his submission to Congress — an accommodation (and possible delay) that would be best to avoid. The second option is the more likely for Barr, but much depends on Trump. Trump could move to higher ground by declaring that, while he still views the investigation as a “witch hunt,” he would waive all remaining privilege assertions for the purposes of this report so that the public can reach its own conclusions. If he did that, he could argue that, while he continually denounced the investigation and the investigators, he never actually took obstructive steps like firing Mueller, silencing witnesses or withholding the final report. That is not the approach of a counterpuncher — but it is the approach of a president. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley. Port Richey Mayor Arrested Just 20 Days After Previous Mayor Was Arrested Yabba Dabba Don’t: California Owner Of The “Flintstone House” Charged With Public Nuisance 158 thoughts on “How Trump Could Still Gut The Mueller Report” TRUMP’S HISTORY WITH DEUTSCHE BANK THEY KEPT LENDING DESPITE LAWSUITS AND FUDGED ASSETS Deutsche Bank officials have quietly argued to regulators, lawmakers and journalists that Mr. Trump was not a priority for the bank or its senior leaders and that the lending was the work of a single, obscure division. But interviews with more than 20 current and former Deutsche Bank executives and board members, most of them with direct knowledge of the Trump relationship, contradict the bank’s narrative. Over nearly two decades, Deutsche Bank’s leaders repeatedly saw red flags surrounding Mr. Trump. There was a disastrous bond sale, a promised loan that relied on a banker’s forged signature, wild exaggerations of Mr. Trump’s wealth, even a claim of an act of God. But Deutsche Bank had a ravenous appetite for risk and limited concern about its clients’ reputations. Time after time, with the support of two different chief executives, the bank handed money — a total of well over $2 billion — to a man whom nearly all other banks had deemed untouchable. In the late 1990s, Deutsche Bank, which is based in Germany, was trying to make a name for itself on Wall Street. Its investment-banking division went on a hiring binge. The bank recruited a handful of Goldman Sachs traders to lead a push into commercial real estate. One was Justin Kennedy, the son of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Another was Mike Offit, whose father was the writer Sidney Offit. At Deutsche Bank, Mr. Offit’s mandate was to lend money to big real estate developers, package the loans into securities and sell the resulting bonds to investors. He said in an interview that one way to stand out in a crowded market was to make loans that his rivals considered too risky. In 1998, a broker contacted him to see if he would consider lending to a Wall Street pariah: Mr. Trump, who was then a casino magnate whose bankruptcies had cost banks hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Offit took the meeting. A few days later, Mr. Offit’s secretary called him. “Donald Trump is in the conference room,” she whispered. Mr. Offit said he rushed in, expecting to find an entourage. Mr. Trump was alone. He was looking for a $125 million loan to pay for gut renovations of 40 Wall Street, his Art Deco tower in Lower Manhattan. Mr. Offit was impressed by the pitch, and the loan sailed through Deutsche Bank’s approval process. Mr. Trump seemed giddy with gratitude, Mr. Offit recalled. He took Mr. Offit golfing. He flew him by helicopter to Atlantic City for boxing matches. He wrote a grateful note to Sidney Offit for having “a great son!” Mr. Offit commissioned a detailed model of 40 Wall Street. A golden plaque on its pedestal bore the names and logos of Deutsche Bank and the Trump Organization. Mr. Offit gave one to Mr. Trump and kept another in his office. Mr. Trump soon came looking for $300 million for the construction of a skyscraper across from the United Nations headquarters. The loan was approved. He wanted hundreds of millions more for his Trump Marina casino in Atlantic City. Mr. Offit pledged to line up cash for that, too. Not long after, Edson Mitchell, a top bank executive, discovered that the signature of the credit officer who had approved the Trump Marina deal had been forged, Mr. Offit said. (Mr. Offit was never accused of forgery; the loan never went through.) Mr. Offit was fired months later. He said it was because Mr. Mitchell claimed that he was reckless, a charge Mr. Offit disputed. Over the next few years, the commercial real estate group, with Mr. Kennedy now in a senior role, kept lending to Mr. Trump, including to buy the General Motors building in Manhattan. Occasionally, Justice Kennedy stopped by Deutsche Bank’s offices to say hello to the team, executives recalled. At an annual pro-am golf tournament the bank hosted outside Boston in the early 2000s, Mr. Trump sat down for a recorded interview with the bank’s public relations staff, who asked about his experience with Deutsche Bank. “It’s great,” Mr. Trump exclaimed, according to a person who witnessed the interview. “They’re really fast!” In 2003, a Deutsche Bank team led by Richard Byrne — a former casino-industry analyst who had known Mr. Trump since the 1980s — was hired to sell bonds on behalf of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. Bank officials escorted Mr. Trump to meet institutional investors in New York and Boston, according to an executive who attended. The so-called roadshow seemed to go well. At every stop, Mr. Trump was greeted by large audiences of fund managers, executives and lower-level employees eager to see the famous mogul. The problem, as a Deutsche Bank executive would explain to Mr. Trump, was that few of them were willing to entrust money to him. Mr. Trump requested an audience with the bank’s bond salesmen. According to a Deutsche Bank executive who heard the remarks, Mr. Trump gave a pep talk. “Fellas, I know this isn’t the easiest thing you’ve had to sell,” the executive recalled Mr. Trump saying. “But if you get this done, you’ll all be my guests at Mar-a-Lago,” his private club in Palm Beach, Fla. The sales team managed to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bonds. Mr. Trump was pleased with the results when a Deutsche Bank executive called, according to a person who heard the conversation. “Don’t forget what you promised our guys,” the executive reminded him. Mr. Trump said he did not remember and that he doubted the salesmen actually expected to be taken to Mar-a-Lago. “That’s all they’ve talked about the past week,” the executive replied. Mr. Trump ultimately flew about 15 salesmen to Florida on his Boeing 727. They spent a weekend golfing with Mr. Trump, two participants said. A year later, in 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts defaulted on the bonds. Deutsche Bank’s clients suffered steep losses. This arm of the investment-banking division stopped doing business with Mr. Trump. Around that time, Mr. Trump returned to Deutsche Bank’s commercial real estate unit — which was housed in a separate part of the sprawling investment-banking division — for another loan. This one was to build a 92-story skyscraper in Chicago, the Trump International Hotel and Tower. Josef Ackermann, the bank’s chief executive, had publicly promised soaring profits, and with many of the company’s businesses sputtering, the investment-banking group was under intense pressure to grow. As Deutsche Bank considered making the loan, Mr. Trump wooed bankers with flights on his private plane, according to a person familiar with the pitch. In a Trump Tower meeting, he told Mr. Kennedy that his daughter Ivanka would be in charge of the Chicago project, a sign of the family’s commitment to its success. Mr. Trump told Deutsche Bank his net worth was about $3 billion, but when bank employees reviewed his finances, they concluded he was worth about $788 million, according to documents produced during a lawsuit Mr. Trump brought against the former New York Times journalist Timothy O’Brien. And a senior investment-banking executive said in an interview that he and others cautioned that Mr. Trump should be avoided because he had worked with people in the construction industry connected to organized crime. Nonetheless, Deutsche Bank agreed in 2005 to lend Mr. Trump more than $500 million for the project. He personally guaranteed $40 million of it, meaning the bank could come after his personal assets if he defaulted. By 2008, the riverside skyscraper, one of the tallest in America, was mostly built. But with the economy sagging, Mr. Trump struggled to sell hundreds of condominium units. The bulk of the loan was due that November. A provision in the loan let Mr. Trump partially off the hook in the event of a “force majeure,” essentially an act of God, like a natural disaster. The former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan had called the financial crisis a tsunami. And what was a tsunami if not a natural disaster? One of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Steven Schlesinger, told him the provision could be used against Deutsche Bank. “It’s brilliant!” Mr. Schlesinger recalled Mr. Trump responding. Days before the loan was due, Mr. Trump sued Deutsche Bank, citing the force majeure language and seeking $3 billion in damages. Deutsche Bank countersued and demanded payment of the $40 million that Mr. Trump had personally guaranteed. With the suits in court, senior investment-banking executives severed ties with Mr. Trump. CREDIT FOR ABOVE Edited from: “A Mar-A-Lago Weekend And An Acto God: Trump’s History With Deutsche Bank” THE NEW YORK TIMES, 3/18/19 THE ABOVE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE.. is lengthy read. Only about half of said story appears above. This section of the article ends with the lawsuit over Trump Tower Chicago. At that moment it seemed Deutsche Bank was finished with Donald Trump. But oddly the relationship was rekindled and Trump was getting loans from Deutsche right up until his presidential run. FishWings says: W. Barr will do anything he can to protect Trump, and he will fail in the end. What gets me is why are Trump supporters so worried? Trump has said he did nothing wrong, so why are you worried? “W. Barr will do anything he can to protect Trump” It is amazing how trashy some can be slandering and libeling one with an excellent reputation. I guess some don’t have the intellectual endowment to promote an idea without trashy methods. Mike Appleton says: I have refrained from commenting on columns relating to the Mueller investigation because I know as much about it as most of the posters on this site, which is to say, nothing. However, given the intense public interest in Mueller’s work and the overwhelming support for the release of his report, I believe it will find its way into the public domain one way or the other, regardless of efforts by the Administration or others to suppress all or any portion of it. I have refrained from commenting on columns relating to the Mueller investigation because I know as much about it as most of the posters on this site, which is to say, nothing. You know nothing about the paperwork crossing his desk. Only Lies4Breakfast knows anything about that. What you do know is that this investigation has been ongoing for 32 months and change (not counting the antecedent period when the FBI was running informants) and has produced nothing but contrived indictments on process crimes, a tax fraud / bank fraud / money laundering charge against Paul Manafort that the Dept. of Justice had previously passed on (and which concerned matters irrelevant to Trump) and a bloc of charges contra Michael Cohen relating to his taxi mediallions and other side businesses. The charges contra Manafort did not require a special counsel and the charges contra Cohen actually were handed off to the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York. Pretty interesting that a special counsel is appointed because the DoJ has a conflict of interest or something-or-other and then they hire Andrew Weissman off the cabal who’d been running the DoJ the last several years. You don’t know it’s all been a pantomime to disrupt investigations into malfeasance, misfeasance, and non-feasance by Sally Yates, Andrew McCabe, and a dozen others. But that’s what the smart money says. The Starr Whitewater Investigation started in January 1994 and the report was produced in Sept of 1998, so enjoy the ride. I know I am. Meanwhile, TIAX2 can’t get basic facts right – Cohen is going to jail for campaign law violations he and Individual #1 conspired on. Numerous campaign officials are either going to jail or still talking with Mueller and we have yet to see if the proven collusion in Trump Tower by the campaign manager and Trump’s son and son in law – both active in the campaign – with a Kremlin operative who offered “dirt on Hillary” rises to criminal conspiracy levels. The President concocting an untrue cover story for this meeting is not reassuring – well, it is to me I guess – nor is his lying about his activities in Moscow leading up to the election. Mike, you should be able to guess what the Mueller investigation will try to say based on a lack of any Trump collusion with the Russians. We are beginning to understand how the Steele Dossier was politically created and used by the FBI and how many have tried to engineer a soft coup of Trump. It didn’t happen but Mueller appears to be there to protect reputations whose owners might deserve jail sentences and that there was nepotism by Mueller in his hiring practices that led to members or associates of the FBI that were anti-Trump to be involved in the investigation. This is sort of crazy because the special counsel was supposed to be completely independent from the FBI. Mueller went in with specific interests that appear anti-Trump so an assumption that he will come out the same way is reasonable. If that happens he will slant all information to be anti-Trump, not neutral. Most people are too superficial to dig deep as we have already seen with such an attachment to the Steele dossier as legitimate. It will be Trump’s job to apply the opposite spin and I’ll bet a lot lose track of the fact that Trump was not involved in Russian collusion (the basis for the investigation) and that the whole investigation was a tremendous waste of time. The media will do its thing ranting against Trump, ommitting much of the important truth or sidelining it to page 27. I suspect it will also convert negative opinion of Trump into fact. The important thing for America is that what was done to Trump never be permitted to happen again. That probably involves more investigation by honest Americans. I’m not looking for convictions for those that were involved in illegal activities rather working to make our system of justice a lot better than we have recently seen. If criminal prosecution is needed in advancing that goal then I support it. At a minimum, Trump conspired with those who did collude with the Russians. He made up the cover story for the Trump Tower meeting with the Kremlin agent with “dirt on Hillary”: Anon, not only are you clueless with a lack of context and timing but you also don’t seem to know the difference between fact and opinion. You must be talking about Manaforte who had dealings with the Ukranians long before he was aligned with Trump who quickly got rid of him. That is not collusion. You keep harping about a Trump Tower meeting. Why don’t you provide your case in a cogent fashion along with evidence and proof two other items that seemingly escape your grasp. Once, walking from ta courthouse I saw vagrant begging alms. In a weak, thoughtless moment, I gave him some spare green. Later I read he went into a nearby restaurant that same day to buy something and assaulted a patron and was subsequently returned to jail. One wonders what my punishment should be for “conspiring” with him in this assault since my funding undoubtedly prompted him to venture into life away from the street and assault the innocent? Amazing that Allan does not know about the Trump Tower meeting which included Manafort, Don, Jr, and Kushner, i.e., all the senior inside players in the campaign. They eagerly met with a Kremlin operative who had promised “dirt on Hillary”. The President made up the cover story lie – the meeting was about “adoptions” I know about the Trump Tower meeting but there is also the Trump Tower complaint of Russian collusion that doesn’t exist. You live off of inaccurate generalities without regard to time, place, person etc. Even your sentence structure is poor. I looked at your comment as two different incidents. #1 “At a minimum, Trump conspired with those who did collude with the Russians.” The most frequent misnomer on this blog is collusion because of Manaforte’s meeting with the Ukranians. #2 “He made up the cover story for the Trump Tower meeting with the Kremlin agent with “dirt on Hillary”:” Trump Tower is associated with the idea of building a Trump Tower in Moscow or the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr. Who the “He” (“made up”) is is not clearly defined but left loose because you are unable to even provide an entire idea. Which cover story are you talking about? Many were created by the press and why should it be called a cover story? You put words together that you don’t fully understand and then draw conclusions that later you consider fact.. The “Kremlin agent” didn’t have “dirt on Hillary”. Anon, you would be better off hitting a nail with a hammer as you don’t seem to be able to mount a logical and defined argument on this blog. Allan’s ignorance of the Trump Tower meeting proves he watches Fox News only. “The Trump Tower meeting took place on June 9, 2016 in New York City between three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya…. Donald Trump Jr. made several misleading statements about the meeting……he admitted in a tweet that he had agreed to the meeting with the understanding that he would receive information damaging to Hillary Clinton…….. In early July 2017, it was reported that President Donald Trump himself drafted Trump Jr.’s initial misleading statement.[7] The report was later confirmed by the president’s attorneys.[8). ……Prior to the Trump Tower meeting, Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos met at least twice with a professor who said he had access to “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”. This occurred before the hacking of the DNC computers had become public knowledge. Papadopoulos later shared this information with at least two other people, including an Australian diplomat to Britain. ….” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_meeting Anon, I note how you are recognizing your inability to write complete sentences and therefore are copying from Wikipedia. That is an improvement. Next time read Wikipedia and see if you can’t construct your sentences in a better fashion. The only question is where didn’t I recognize that? I did, but you want to hide your ignorance and inabilities by saying stupid things that aren’t even logical. Go back to hammering nails. You are like a sprig (nail), all body no head. I’m sorry. Were you talking to me? I was busy following Devin Nunes Cow’s tweets. Anon, no need to apologize. We all know you get easily distracted and silly. TRUMP’S OBSESSION WITH ‘FAKE NEWS’.. MIRROR’S THAT OF PUTIN WHO IS IMPLEMENTING CRACKDOWN Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law which will allow the punishment of individuals and online media for spreading what Russia calls “fake news” and information which “disrespects” the state. The new rules allow prosecutors to direct complaints about material considered insulting to Russian officials to the government, which can then block websites publishing the information. Publications that repeatedly spread “unreliable” information which undermines social order, may face fines of up to $23,000, and repeat offenders could spend time in jail, according to The Washington Post. The laws will target online information that presents “clear disrespect for society, government, state symbols, the constitution and government institutions.” The Moscow Times reports, “Online news outlets and users that spread ‘fake news’ will face fines of up to 1.5 million rubles ($22,900) for repeat offenses. Insulting state symbols and the authorities, including Putin, will carry a fine of up to 300,000 rubles and 15 days in jail for repeat offenses. As is the case with other Russian laws, the fines are calculated based on whether the offender is a citizen, an official or a legal entity. More than 100 journalists and public figures, including human rights activist Zoya Svetova and popular writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, signed a petition opposing the laws, which they labeled ‘direct censorship.’ ” Article continues after sponsor message Last week Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to critics of the regulations. “No doubt, one can hardly agree with the opinion that this is some sort of censorship,” Peskov said, according to Russian state media. “This sphere – the sphere of fake news – insults and so on, is under strict regulation in many countries of the world, even in European states. This undoubtedly has to be done in our country.” Matthew Rojansky, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, told NPR the new laws in Russia are “politically significant” because the Internet “remained a relatively free space for political expression, including oppositional to the regime, even as the state media, and all other forms of media, be it print, or television, or radio, were largely shut down by the state, over the last 20 years.” Edited from: “Russia Criminalizes The Spread Of Online News Which Disrespects The Government” NPR, 3/18/19 TRUMP, LIKE PUTIN, WANTS FAKE NEWS TO STOP! Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Media, are sooo on the side of the Radical Left Democrats. But fear not, we will win anyway, just like we did before! #MAGA 18,266 replies 20,087 retweets 75,816 likes The Fake News Media has NEVER been more Dishonest or Corrupt than it is right now. There has never been a time like this in American History. Very exciting but also, very sad! Fake News is the absolute Enemy of the People and our Country itself! These are just ‘two’ of many Tweets Trump has post in the past three days railing against so-called ‘fake news’. It appears that the unanimous House vote demanding release of The Mueller Report combined with the Senate’s lack of support for Trump’s ‘border emergency’ has sent Trump into ballistic mode. “FAKE NEWS IS THE ABSOLUTE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY ITSELF! Look at what Fake News has done to Peter Shill and people like him. Fake News has made them into blithering idiots. Oky1 says: I shouldn’t laugh, all that fake news & this computer crap with it’s waste of time I sometimes think I’d be ahead throwing the PC under a semi truck TRUMP SAYS FOX NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE AND OUT COUNTRY ITSELF! “?????” . . . Fox News equals Fake News . . . “?????” Diane, the same offer goes to you as I have offered to other lefties that all declined. Is Fox News Fake News? No, unless you are a dithering idiot that doesn’t understand what Fake News is. Pick a show or two on Fox that you wish to demonstrate produces Fake News. We can tape those shows and then discuss the issue with the ability to refer back to the tape and see whether or not you are right. Based on lefties refusing to do so demonstrates that they are all talk and no action. Remember, there is a difference between news and commentary. The MSM seems to mix the two up so one doesn’t know when the news ends and commentary begins. That is a type of Fake News. The other type are outright lies of the MSM that have been demonstrated over and over again. You are a Stalinist coward so I don’t expect you with all your time available to actually agree to a neutral type discussion based on fact. Well it was a princple well established in the EU by various throughtcrimes such as “Incitement to racial hatred” and “holocaust denial” charges. In Germany if you wave the hand and some thinks you’re seig heiling that can land you in prison too. So the West outside the Anglosphere is pretty much on the same page as the Russians, anyhow, like the guy said. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/didnt-know-this-giving-the-nazi-salute-in-modern-day-germany-is-punishable-for-up-to-3yrs-in-prison.html/2 Another item for the ‘poseur or nitwit?” file Tabby, are we to believe that only ‘nitwits’ notice the parallels between Putin and Trump? Do you contend that only ‘smart’ people look beyond the similarities? Tabby, are we to believe that only ‘nitwits’ notice the parallels between Putin and Trump? Actually, I was referring to your inane attempt to treat as pathological the President’s jabs at the media, and to do so with a dopey analogy. There aren’t any parallels between Putin and Trump bar that they both have a certain patriotic-nationalist appeal. Excuse me while I gag ………. Say what? Trunp has a patriotic-nationalist appeal? Is it how he mocks our POWs, makes love to Lil Kim, denounces his own intelligence agencies while at a podium with the Moscow murderer, or when he made excuses for Putin by saying our hands are dirty with murder too? Which one of those gave you that feeling, and are you sure it wasn’t indigestion? Say what? Trunp has a patriotic-nationalist appeal? Most certainly does, and you can tell that by the rallies you’re ignoring. Is it how he mocks our POWs, He insulted John McCain, not POWs in general. Whether it was or was not apposite, McCain was an abrasive man who invited push-back. makes love to Lil Kim, He doesn’t do that except in your imagination. denounces his own intelligence agencies With good reason. Those same agencies employed the likes of Michael Scheuer, Valerie Plame, James Clapper, and John Brennan. Only an idiot equates criticism of those agencies with unpatriotic sentiments. while at a podium with the Moscow murderer, or when he made excuses for Putin by saying our hands are dirty with murder too? Putin’s a perfectly normal range political operator in this world. Trump said he liked guys who weren’t captured. Do you share that disdain for our POWs? Trump said he and Kim were in love and he bent over backwards to stroke this murdering tyrant. Are you bringing a NK flag to your next rally? So, you think being on a stage with Putin and saying you accept his version of events and not that of your intelligence agencies, which by the way employ thousands, some of whom risk their lives in the course of collecting the information we need, is patriotic? Are you Russian? So you like our President saying we are no better than Russia and and it’s scabrous and murdering leader Putin, and this makes you feel patriotic? Well, at least we know who we’re dealing with on this board now. We certainly do Anon. We know who you are and where you came from Jan F. What Trump Tweeted as excerpted from the article to which Turley linked in his original post for this thread: “So, if there was knowingly & acknowledged to be ‘zero’ crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary) and now disgraced Andrew McCabe (he & all stated no crime), then the Special Counsel should never have been appointed and there should be no Mueller Report,” Trump tweeted Friday morning. “This was an illegal & conflicted investigation in search of a crime. Russian Collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the Democrats for losing an Election that they thought they were going to win,” he continued. “THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!” Who Cares says: L4D is the town drunk of JT’s blog. Start your own blog & call it “Who Cares” Turley and his blawg hounds must be punished–daily, relentlessly, mercilessly punished. ‘ Start your own blog & call it “Who Cares”’ You first, wanker. The Speaking Indictment version of Mueller’s report; Gut this! (D’oh! It’s out already; too late): https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/24/mueller-report-court-records-donald-trump/ Feb 24, 2019 … Court records reveal a Mueller report right in plain view … WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was in full deflection mode. The Democrats had blamed ….. No, he said, he hadn’t made those requests of Kislyak. Days later in … I’m going to tell you something that you may not realize. Of course you will ignore it. Chatbots are an American invention. And not a new one. Using them to influence public opinion is not new either. As early as 2003 i had a a veteran explain to me what chatbots were and described information warfare operations in which a certain country’s armed forces had rooms full of people employing specialized software to set up dummy accounts and mass-post propaganda on the internet according to whatever the bullet points from on high were that particular day. I won’t say what country is but let’s just say it was not part of the old Warsaw pact and it wasn’t China either. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204021-the-rise-of-social-bots/fulltext A lot of the software tools that “online marketing specialists” use to manage multiple social media accounts have been out there a long time. A lot of software tools are invented by private people through the systemic genius of capitalism and then governments weaponize it. So if the Russians finally got around to using “chatbots” as influencers in their infomration warfare operations in 2016, well, they were really late to the game. It’s a Franenstein technology that was already long in play. An example of a related technology is the VPN– the seminal idea was the Onion router, invented by the US Naval Lab…. from wiki: ?The core principle of Tor, “onion routing”, was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997.[22][23][24][25][26][27] The alpha version of Tor, developed by Syverson and computer scientists Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson[20] and then called The Onion Routing project, or Tor project, launched on 20 September 2002.[1][28] The first public release occurred a year later.[29] On 13 August 2004, Syverson, Dingledine, and Mathewson presented “Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router” at the 13th USENIX Security Symposium.[30] In 2004, the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free license, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) began funding Dingledine and Mathewson to continue its development.[20]” When it comes to the media hand-wringing about Russian bots and so forth, “The lady doth protest too much, methink.” The Starr Investigation of Whitewater began in January 1994 and was completed in September of 1998. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/courts/news/2010/06/01/7909/executive-privilege-101/ Jun 1, 2010 … A Primer on Executive Privilege for the Kagan Nomination … The presidential communications privilege may also apply to communications … Excerpted from the article linked above: The stronger form is known as the “presidential communications privilege.” This relatively robust privilege applies to communications made directly to the president so long as those communications occur “in performance of [a president’s] responsibilities” and “in the process of shaping policies and making decisions.” The presidential communications privilege may also apply to communications “authored or solicited and received by those members of an immediate White House adviser’s staff who have broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given the President on the particular matter to which the communications relate.” Communications authored by agency officials—executive branch officials outside the White House—are not subject to the presidential communications privilege unless the documents were specifically solicited and received by the president or an appropriate White House advisor to the president. Also excerpted from the article linked above: The courts have consistently held that executive privilege is not absolute and can be “overcome by an adequate showing of need.” This is a flexible standard and does not lend itself to clear predictions about whether a particular assertion of executive privilege will be upheld, but the courts have provided some guidelines to govern claims of executive privilege. The Supreme Court held in United States v. Nixon, for example, that a claim of executive privilege will normally be defeated when the privileged information is needed to provide evidence in a criminal trial—although the strong presumption against revealing information that would jeopardize national security would control even in this instance. The courts have been much less eager to breach the privilege with respect to congressional hearings. Case law suggests that a claim of executive privilege may ultimately be defeated when the privileged documents are “demonstrably critical to the responsible fulfillment of [a congressional] Committee’s functions,” but courts generally encourage “negotiations” between Congress and the executive branch, and will only step into a dispute over privileged documents if the political branches fail to reach a compromise. Repeated for emphasis: “A claim of executive privilege may ultimately be defeated when the privileged documents are ‘demonstrably critical to the responsible fulfillment of [a congressional] Committee’s functions . . .” Gee. I wonder if that includes any House Committee conducting Impeachment Hearings on a sitting president? They say that The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Nixon had to turn over the tapes. Talk about “presidential communications privilege.” Those tapes had Nixon talking to Haldeman, Erlichman and a whole bunch of other close advisers. And The SCOTUS said the privilege did not apply to those tapes. Consider this: Trump had “presidential communications” with James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, Jeff Sessions, Don McGahn and Reince Priebus amongst many others. I mention those five people because each of them may have been a witness to Trump’s obstruction of justice by means of Trump’s “presidential communications” with those five people amongst many others. If the executive privilege over “presidential communications” is, as Turley argues, more difficult to overcome “even when there are allegations of misconduct by high-level officials,” then the executive privilege over “presidential communications” facilitates the commission of a crime; namely, obstruction of justice. If A POTUS, any POTUS, wants to obstruct justice, then all that POTUS has to do is have “presidential communications” with The Director of the FBI, The Attorney General, The Deputy Attorney General, The Chief White House Counsel and The Chief of Staff in order to facilitate the commission of the crime known as obstruction of justice. There’s a name for that result. You’ve read it before. You’re going to read again. Here it comes. FUBAR. FUBAR. FUBAR. FUBAR. FUBAR. Late4Yoga still pining her life hopes on Trump-Russia collusion? Is Late4Yoga also a flat-earther? Inquiring minds want to know! Where have you been, Purple Swallow? Eating bugs on the wing, again? BTW, I have an entire rookery of Sparrows at my house. They’re so mean and nasty that I haven’t seen a Purple Swallow in over thirty years, already. The Earth is obviously round. The question is whether Trump will get away scot free with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. The answer is still eeksie peeksie. Why else would Turley be yammering on and on about under-handed ways to suppress the Mueller report? Did I mention that The Earth is obviously round? You lefty loons laughed at Trump and treated him like a buffoon during the 2016 election. Then he went out and outworked/kicked the ass of your stay at home candidate. And now nearly three years later you treat him like some Dr. Evil mastermind who so far has gotten away with “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States”. You all still suck on the Trump-Russia pacifier that you so willingly bought into and in the meantime developed no game as is evidenced by weak-messaged and fake candidates like Beta O’Roarke. 2nd loser in 16 years the Electoral College saddled us with and a pig of a human being. You must be very proud. Dear Anon, Madam Hilary played the electoral college map game and lost. She counted those electoral votes in WI, MI and OH as being won without working for them. They both played the same game i.e. who gets the most electoral votes wins. Places like CA, NY and IL skew popular vote totals where Reps candidates don’t bother to campaign much. Yes I am proud of the way President Trump outworked your stay-at-home entitled candidate and I am proud of his conservative record to date. When you refer to “a pig of a human being” perhaps you are confusing President Trump with Madam Hilary’s husband who worked an intern with a cigar in oval office and received BJ’s. He did not even have the decency to return the favor and go down on her . Presidential Elections were not intended to be games where the guy with the least points wins. The Electoral College was another sick compromise demanded by the cancerous slave states, and nowhere are winner take all outcomes in the constitution. American voters rejected the indecent pig you follow as your leader and continue to do so in increasing numbers. Given the GOP’s loss of all popular votes for President since 1992 except for one, only a fool would assume their luck will hold out again. See you in 2020. “Presidential Elections were not intended to be games where the guy with the least points wins.” No, you are delusional – the guy with the MOST points wins and those points are called electoral votes. Any change to the game would require 3/4 approval by by House and Senate. Aint gonna happen. The system as-is forces candidates to pay attention to the whole country, state by state. If your beloved Madam Hilary Rodham Clinton were not such an arrogant biyatch then she would have picked herself up from her fainting spells and hit the pavement like Trump did in places like WI, MI, OH, & PA. You are now engaging in classic Loser Talk. Sure, it’s possible to come up with a royal flush two hands in a row. Good luck with the loser pig you call Daddy. she may have parkinson’s. stop making fun of people with disabilities! https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary+clinton+falls&oq=hillary+clinton+falls&aqs=chrome..69i57.12066j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Standard GOP BS talking point. Was it “paying attention” to the whole country that had both candidates ignore the 3 largest states? Think about what your lip syncing before you get on stage. “…..both candidates ignore the 3 largest states?” You make a comment like this without mentioning the “three largest states”. That would be CA, TX, FL which went to Clinton, Trump, Trump respectively. Seems to me none of these three states were ignored. Methinks the lady (Anon) has suffered brain damage from her Trump derangement syndrome and can no longer think straight or formulate a coherent comment. The issue was where the candidates went, not who won them, remember – of course you do. Nobody went to California or Texas or …. New York. My bad on Florida – I was thinking NY which is of course the 4th largest state, meaning this beautiful electoral college system which BM claims insures full campaigning does not cause candidates to cover the country. It causes them to ignore 3 of the 4 largest states by population. What you say about candidates ignoring the three or four biggest states is not accurate. Do a quick google check and you will see plenty of examples of Trump campaign rallies in all four and Clinton spending a lot of time raising $$ in CA and NY. Those four big states get plenty of attention, the problem with switching to popular vote is that the candidates might pay too much attention to those states and camp out there to chase single vote volumes and pay less attention to the rest of the country. The math is not there in congress to get to 3/4 in House and Senate required to change to popular vote anytime in the near future and certainly not before 2020 election. By the way, Obama used federal funds to give away free cell phones in Ohio in 2012 to help himself secure that state’s electoral votes. 2/3 vote, not 3/4. By the way, most Americans favor an end to the electoral college system, and if the GOP loses one of these with a popular candidate, you’ll be one of them. The site below tallies campaign visits by the 2 candidates in 2016. The only state of the 4 biggest that registers is Florida. Fund raisers don’t count as campaigning as they are usually done quietly, the peopple rich enough to attend may or may not represent any local issues. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trumps-campaigns-numbers/story?id=43356783 “The site below tallies campaign visits by the 2 candidates in 2016” I don’t normally pay much attention to this type of data which can be easily manipulated but since Anon brought it up I found some of the data of interest even if there is manipulation (this is a site favorable to Hillary) PLACES CAMPAIGNED: CLINTON: 37 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico TRUMP: 45 plus Washington, D.C. and Mexico and Scotland That tells us one of the rationals behind the electoral college. MONEY RAISED: CLINTON: $502 million TRUMP: $258 million (This doesn’t include entertainers that freely gave their workproduct to Hillary nor the press that was about 90% or more for Hillary) This tells us that money doesn’t always count, but we know the big money resides in only a few places leaving out most of America. The data on campaign visits conforms the fact that the electoral college does not encourage candidates to address all citizens, as neither Trump or Hillary spent any significant time in 3 of our 4 largest states during 2016. PS ABC News is not a Clinton favorable website as Allan falsely claims. Here’s some of the data: Days spent there since clinching nomination on May 26: OHIO: 17 PENNSYLVANIA: 14 NORTH CAROLINA: 15 NEVADA: 4 NEW HAMPSHIRE: 9 MICHIGAN: 7 IOWA: 6 COLORADO: 7 VIRGINIA: 10 ARIZONA: 4 MINNESOTA: 1 WISCONSIN: 5 Days spent there since clinching nomination on June 7: IOWA: 3 (+ 1 event on the Iowa/Illinois border) VIRGINIA: 2 GEORGIA: 0 Hail to the Chief, POTUS Donald J. Trump! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CajLXAM9nk MAKE AMERICA GRAT AGAIN! Acromion says: Such an obvious criminal. “The Electoral College was another sick compromise demanded by the cancerous slave states, and nowhere are winner take all outcomes in the constitution.” Pure ignorance of history and the founding of this nation. What more can one expect from the likes of Jan F. / Anon? ” saddled us with and a pig of a human being.” The irony is that this is said by Anon AKA Jan F. Jan F. was being barbequed for being one and ran away to adopt a new alias. Purple Swallow, I couldn’t help noticing that you totally avoided my question: Why else would Turley be yammering on and on about under-handed ways to suppress the Mueller report? For more than two years, already, you Trumpeters have been proclaiming Trump’s innocence, decrying the Witch Hunt based on a hoax, or worse, and demanding proof that a crime had been committed before Trump would answer all of Mueller’s questions, while denying that there had been probable cause to investigate Trump in the first place, even whilst demanding that Mueller should file his final report beginning last Summer and continuing repeatedly all the way to the present juncture, when you all start conniving under-handed ways to suppress Mueller’s report so that neither Congress nor the American people will be able to read a word of what you Trumpeters have been adamantly demanding the whole way through. Evidence that a crime may have been committed. And now you don’t want anybody to read about it? Who’s sucking on the “pacifier” now, Purple Swallow? “Bill Martin, I couldn’t help noticing that you totally avoided my question: Why else would Turley be yammering on and on about under-handed ways to suppress the Mueller report?” Because he is tired of being effing harassed about a hoax perpetuated by a dead senator, ex-president, ex-FBI director, ex-deputy FBI director, hack Dem congressmen, hack media, and conspiracy theorists such as yourself. It is understandable for anybody getting unfairly excessively harassed for any reason to be human and respond with F-off retorts. His counter-punching is an attractive trait for voters unlike Beta O’Roarke who ran for the hills when he got challenged about innocent and supportive comments he made about his wife Trump is supposed to be the President of the United States. The President of the United States is not supposed to be whiny cry-baby little school girl. Senator John McCain was laid to rest in the cold, cold ground more than three months ago. But the whiny cry-baby little school girl just can’t let go and move on to something higher and finer than speaking ill of the dead. Trump is low. Because low is what Trump does. If you think that you’re looking up to Trump the lowest of the low, what do you think that says about you and your perspective, Purple Swallow? Lower than the lowest of the low? Leave a Reply to Allan Cancel reply This is absurd x XV on A Leap or Perpetuating Evel? A… semcgowanjr on GAO Declares Trump’s Act… mespo727272 on A Leap or Perpetuating Evel? A…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1468
__label__cc	0.54156	0.45844	Dental implants in immunocompromised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis Fabian Duttenhoefer ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6452-75601, Marc Anton Fuessinger1, Yasmin Beckmann1, Rainer Schmelzeisen1, Knut A. Groetz2 & Martin Boeker3 Impaired health conditions and related lack of adequate host healing are among the most important conditions that account for dental implant failure. Today clinicians face an increasing number of immunocompromised patients requesting implant-based rehabilitation. To provide clinical evidence for prospective decision-making, the aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to analyse the influence of immunodeficiency on dental implant survival. The study was conducted according to the PRISMA Statement and the principles of the Cochrane Collaboration. MEDLINE and Web of Science were searched. Results were calculated by the pooled incidence of implant loss. Reported odds ratios (OR) from fully adjusted models were preferred. Distinct risk estimates were synthesised with 95% confidence intervals. A total of 62 publications including 1751 endosseous implants placed in immunocompromised patients were included. For the follow-up of 24 months and longer, the mean survival rate of implants in patients with HIV was 93.1%, chemotherapy was 98.8%, autoimmune disease was 88.75%, after organ transplantation was 100%. Crohn’s disease showed a significant effect on early implant failure and resulted in increased, however not significant, implant loss. No significant effect of immunocompromised conditions on implant survival was detectable. Implant-based therapy in immunocompromised patients should not aggravate the general morbidity and must not interfere in life-saving therapies. A careful risk stratification prior implant therapy is fundamental. To further decipher the role of immunosuppression on dental implantology, more data from controlled and randomised studies are needed. Implant-based dental rehabilitation is an expanding desire in our continuously growing and ageing society. Besides patient’s comfort and aesthetic recovery, the regeneration of the physiological function with dental implants could be directly linked to an improved overall health status and increased quality of life [1]. Still, it is undisputable that vice versa the medical status of the patient has great influence on the success rate of dental implants. Impaired health conditions and related lack of adequate host healing are among the most important conditions that account for implant failure [2, 3]. Today, clinicians are challenged by the conflicting demands of their edentulous patients and responsible decision-making according to their patient’s medical status and history, since implant-based dental rehabilitation remains an elective treatment. Accordingly, it is mandatory to identify and exclude patients with local or systemic contraindications to ensure successful implant therapy without jeopardising patients’ health [4]. Adequate function of the immune system is a prerequisite for any non-compulsory surgery. The immune system’s inflammatory response plays a pivotal role in targeting infections as well as in orchestrating healing processes [5, 6]. Besides post-operative wound healing, the osseointegration of the inserted implant is one of the foremost steps towards successful rehabilitation [7]. It was shown that osseointegration originates from the same mechanisms as bone fracture healing and is thus directly linked to an adequate immune response [8]. However, due to a constantly improving health care with greater life expectancy as well as new indications for immunosuppressive treatments, oral and maxillofacial surgeons face an increasing number of patients that are immunocompromised or exhibit immunosuppression in their medical record. In a cross-sectional analysis regarding self-reported immunosuppression among US adults, the prevalence was 2.7, 4.2% faced immunosuppression at some time and 2.8% were under continued immunosuppression [9]. Predominantly rising in westernised societies, the prevalence of autoimmune disorders in Europe and North America had an estimated increase up to 12.5% to date [10, 11]. Transitory alterations of the immune system, for example during pregnancy or after strong allergic reactions as well as transient immunosuppression such as the open-window phenomena following intense long-duration exercise with suppressed concentration and proliferation of lymphocytes, natural killer cell activity and reduced IgA secretion in saliva are often self-limiting [12, 13]. In clinical decision-making, it is always advisable to await the recovery of the immune system prior implant therapy if possible. Besides short-term impairment of the immune system, the general process of ageing is directly linked to an increased risk of infections, malignancy, and autoimmune disorders often referred to as immunosenescence [14, 15]. The management of continuously immunocompromised patients is an immense and complex medical field and thus impossible to cover exhaustively in a general review. Still, there is the need to address the option for implant therapy in the increasing population of patients under immunosuppressive therapy that prevents or mitigates common chronic diseases, treats HIV and cancer, or after transplantation. Given the broad range of indications for glucocorticoid therapy such as asthma, rheumatism, and connective tissue disorders, it is almost certain to encounter a patient under corticosteroid therapy who requests implant-based rehabilitation [16]. Consequently, the aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare treatment results of implant dentistry in immunocompromised patients with them in not immunocompromised patients. Particular attention was given to the cause of immunosuppression and the subsequent influence on implant survival to provide clinical evidence for prospective therapy decision-making. Databases and search strategy The central question of this study was designed after the PICOS template: “In patients after a therapy with dental implants (P) and suffering from different conditions of immunosuppression/immunodeficiency (I) can there be an increased risk of implant loss observed (O) compared with non-immunosuppressed patients (C), retro- and prospective clinical interventional studies, surveillance studies, cross-sectional studies, cohort studies and case series were included (S).” The aim was to answer this question by a systematic literature search based on the PRISMA Statement. Hence, this systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement [17] and the principles of the Cochrane Collaboration (Fig. 1) [18,19,20]. All steps were documented in a protocol prior to execution (not published). The conducted search strategy was created in close collaboration with an information scientist and used the following databases: MEDLINE via the search interface OvidSP (keyword search) and Web of Science by Thompsen (all core databases, i.e. Science Citation Index, MEDLINE, Biosis). For the detailed search history see Additional file 1. The search was conducted in November 2017. Prisma flow diagram Inclusion and exclusion of studies In order to limit the recorded entries to the relevant material, inclusion and exclusion criteria were specified in advance by the reviewers. The initial criteria were not subjected to any alterations throughout the study: The following inclusion criteria were applied: English or German language Human - retrospective and prospective clinical interventional and surveillance studies; cross-sectional studies, cohort studies and case series The following criteria lead to exclusion: In vitro studies Study selection and data extraction were performed by three independent reviewers. Ambiguities were discussed among the authors until consensus on inclusion/exclusion was reached. Information was extracted from each included study of the following data items and if applicable with the indicated values in brackets: (1) author, (2) publishing year, (3) study type, (4) medical condition (HIV infection, chemotherapy, transplantation, autoimmune disease, oral cancer/squamous cell carcinoma), (5) number of patients included in the study, (6) fraction of female and male patients, (7) age of the patients (median), (8) absolute number of placed implants, (9) absolute number of failed implants, (10) time of implantation after extraction, (11) time of loading, (11) maximum follow-up period, (12) survival rate of implants, (13) localisation (mandible, maxilla), (14) generic therapy term (antiretroviral therapy, steroid containing medication, chemotherapy, immunosuppressive drugs), (15) applied drug, (16) duration of the applied therapy at the time of implantation, (17) underlying disease (Crohn’s disease, oral lichen planus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Sjogren syndrome, dermato myositis, pemphigus vulgaris, polymyalgia rheumatica, systemic lupus erythematosus, oral cancer/squamous cell carcinoma), (18) CD4 cell count, (19) viral load, (20) prescribed antibiotic drug, (21) period in which the study was carried out, (22) type of effect estimate (relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk/excess risk, arcsine difference, standardised mean difference, weighted mean difference, hazard ratio), (23) value of effect estimate, (24) risk of bias assessment, (25) overall objectives of the study, (26) setting and/or place of study, (27) additional information. The authors of one study were contacted by mail to clarify missing, insufficient, inadequate, or controversial data. Studies with continuous unclear or incomplete data were excluded. All data are available in the Additional file 2. Risk of bias assessment within the studies All controlled studies were assessed for their risk of bias according to the tool of the Cochrane Collaboration adjusted to non-randomised studies [21]. The classifications were “low risk,” “high risk,” and “undetectable risk” of bias. Seven different categories were evaluated, including “random sequence generation,” “allocation concealment,” “blinding of participants and personnel,” “blinding of outcome assessment,” “incomplete outcome data,” “selective reporting,” and “other sources of bias.” Results of the risk of bias assessment are reported for each individual study Table 1. Table 1 Risk of bias assessment The risk of bias assessment was reported for each individual study and detected random sequence generation (Rand_seq_gen), allocation concealment (All_conceal), blinding of participants and personnel (Blind_per), blinding of outcome assessment (Blind_out), incomplete outcome data (Inc_data), selective reporting (Sel-report), and other sources of bias (Other_sources). The risk of bias was characterised as low risk, high risk, and undetectable risk (low, high, unclear). Qualitative synthesis Results were reported group-wise for the following medical conditions as extracted: HIV infection, chemotherapy, transplantation, autoimmune disease, oral cancer/squamous cell carcinoma. Means of survival rates were calculated for medical condition as extracted (see above) from the mean survival rates of individual studies weighted for included patients. Means were calculated for studies with follow-up shorter than 6 months and longer than 24 months. We employed the generic inverse variance method by using a random effects model to calculate the pooled incidence of implant loss [22]. Where available, the reported odds ratios (OR) from fully adjusted models were preferred. Distinct risk estimates were synthesised with 95% confidence intervals [22]. “R” was used for the conduction of all analysis and graphics (version 3.5.0) [23, 24]. A total of 2097 records were identified through the electronic database search. Twenty-six articles were found by manual search. A total of 1626 duplicate adjusted citations were selected. Of these, 1470 records were excluded after reviewing the abstracts because these papers did not meet the inclusion criteria. Of the remaining 156 citations, the full texts were examined in more detail. An additional 94 articles did not meet the inclusion criteria and were excluded. Sixty-two studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review. A total of 3 publications on implant therapy in immunosuppressed patients suffering from Morbus Crohn were eligible for meta-analysis (Fig. 1). A total of 16 studies with 578 implants were identified regarding implant-based rehabilitation in HIV and AIDS patients. In the four prospective studies, with one controlled study, none of the authors found significant correlations between HIV-related immunodeficiency and implant failure [25,26,27,28,29]. The highest survival rate of 100% was seen in the only controlled prospective study after a follow-up of 6 months, with no detectable difference between HIV-infected and uninfected patients regarding clinical response and osseointegration of the implants [25]. The lowest detected survival rate among the prospective studies was 90.91% with the longest follow-up of 60 months [26]. It is important to note that this was the only study included in this review which analysed implants placed exclusively in patients meeting the AIDS criteria according to the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention with a cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) count below 200 cells per microliter [26]. If information was available at all, the remaining studies enrolled only individuals with a stable disease based on CD4 count and HIV viral load as well as the absence of severe immunodeficiency with high recurrence of opportunistic infections, wasting disease, and disseminated malignancy in implant therapy. In the retrospective overview study by Malo et al. 2016 analysing long-term results of dental implants in patients with systemic disorders, five HIV-positive patients were enrolled of which 4 suffered from concurrent conditions such as smoking or cardiovascular disease. Of the 40 inserted implants, 2 failed due to unknown reasons over the follow-up of up to 9 years [30]. Similar results were seen in the retrospective study by Gay-Escoda et al. 2016 where nine patients received a total of 57 implants and a survival rate of 98.25% over 78-month follow-up [31]. Out of nine case reports from 1998 to 2016 and one controlled pilot study, there was no correlation between CD4 count (CD4 counts ranging from 150 to 1000 cells/μl) and implant failure [32,33,34,35,36,37]. The success rate in all but one case reports was 100% with follow-up times ranging from 6 to 122 months. Only one out of four implants was lost in one case after 4 months due to failed osseointegration, but could be replaced successfully [38]. The detected causes of implant failure were peri-implantitis, tilted implants, failed osseointegration, and early infection. For follow-up of 24 months and longer, the mean survival rate of implants in patients with HIV was 93.1% with an average follow-up of 31.7 months (n = 200, Table 2). Table 2 Pooled survival rates and medical conditions Mean of survival rates and follow-up (FU) for given groups of medical condition sorted by number of included patients. Only studies with follow-up longer than 24 months are included. Eight studies comprising a total of 144 implants were enrolled to show the influence of chemotherapy on the success rates of dental implants. The four retrospective studies [39,40,41] of which only one was controlled [42] and two prospective studies [43, 44] revealed no significant influence of chemotherapy on the success rate of dental implants. In the only available controlled study performed by Kovacs et al. 2001, there was no significant difference in the Kaplan-Meier life-table analysis (Log-Rank P = 0.2230) on cumulative survival of dental implants comparing groups with and without chemotherapy over a time period of up to 120 months. The groups comprised 17 patients receiving 54 implants in the control group and 30 patients receiving a total of 106 implants in the group that received chemotherapy (cisplatin or carboplatin and 5-fluorouracil). The function of prosthesis was comparable in both groups with a mean prosthetic loading of the implants of around 36 months (chemotherapy 35.8 ± 26.3 months, control 36.2 ± 29.7 months). The uncontrolled prospective and retrospective studies analysed implant success and associated risk factors in the patients’ medical records of which chemotherapy was one. The study by Moy et al. 2005 analysed 10 implants placed in 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy. One implant was lost due to unknown cause resulting in a success rate of 90% (RR = 63). There was neither information given on the applied type of chemotherapy nor the follow-up time [40]. In the case reports as well as the two studies by Alsaadi et al. 2007, 2008 and the retrospective study by Ihara et al. 1998, a total of 28 implants were inserted and showed no adverse effect of chemotherapy. The success rates were 100% in all studies with follow-up times between 3 and 28 months [39, 41, 43, 45, 46]. For follow-up of 24 months and longer, the mean survival rate of implants in patients after chemotherapy was 98.8% with an average follow-up of 112.5 months (n = 51, Table 2). Immunosuppression in autoimmune diseases A total of 19 studies, 11 case reports, 2 prospective, and 6 retrospective studies investigated the influence of autoimmune diseases and treatment modalities with steroid derivatives and immunosuppressant drugs on the survival rates of dental implants. A total of 596 inserted implants in 129 patients were examined between 6- and 156-month follow-up. Out of the patient collective, 68 were female and 1 male and in 60 cases, data on the sex of the patient was not available. In 13 investigations, the predominantly used drug to treat the underlying autoimmune disease was some sort of steroid medication [47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59]. One study applied an additional immunosuppressive drug [60]. Five studies did not mention the type of medication [30, 39, 43, 44, 61] and two studies reported the application of steroids but did not inform about the underlying autoimmune disease [39, 61]. In five studies, 9 patients that suffered from co-existing autoimmune disorders (rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and dermato myositis, oral lichen planus and Sjogren’s syndrome) received a total of 39 implants of which none was lost over a follow-up time ranging from 21 to 156 months [51, 54, 55, 58, 59]. In neither of the studies did the comorbidity of autoimmune diseases affect the implant survival. The study by Malo et al. 2016 showed a survival rate of 86.1% between year one and 7 and 80% in the following 2 years. Between 9 and 11 years, the survival rate dropped to 72%. There was no detailed information on the type of disease or the therapy targeting the rheumatological disorder of the patients. The dropout rate was estimated at 12% [30]. In the reviewed case reports comprising the autoimmune diseases polymyalgia rheumatica, pemphigus vulgaris, scleroderma, Sjogren’s syndrome, and systemic lupus erythematosus, the survival rate was 100% during follow-up periods ranging from 4 to 13 years. All patients received prednisone or cortisone therapy and no effect on implant survival of either the medication or the underlying autoimmune disease was detected. For follow-up of 24 months and longer, the mean survival rate of implants in patients with autoimmune disease was 88.75% with an average follow-up of 72.6 months (n = 100, Table 2). Three retrospective, one prospective, and four case reports analysed a total of 236 implants placed in 56 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis [39, 50, 51, 54, 58,59,60,61]. Seven patients were additionally diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome and one patient with dermato myositis [51, 54, 58, 59]. In the retrospective analysis, survival rates were 100%. Weinlaender et al. 2010 showed a survival rate of 100% of 83 implants inserted in 21 patients after a follow-up of 46 months [51]. Likewise, Krennmair et al. 2010 had no implant loss after 47.6-month follow-up in 25 patients that received a total of 95 implants [50]. In both studies, the patients received some form of corticosteroid therapy. Alsaadi et al. 2008 showed that no implant was lost in a study comprising 6 patients with 28 implants over a period of 24 months [39]. The only prospective study reported a survival rate of 92.9% with one out of 14 implants lost due to unknown reason [61]. No influence of rheumatoid arthritis on the overall survival rate of dental implants was detected. Four studies were included investigating the influence of Crohn’s disease. Two studies were prospective, published in 2002 and 2008, and two studies were conducted retrospectively, published in 2007 and 2008 [39, 43, 44, 61]. The highest survival rate of over 90% was found in a recent prospective study from 2008. Herein, the influence of systemic and local factors on the occurrence of early failures was investigated. Only one implant of a total of twelve implants with modified oxidised titanium surfaces was lost during an observation period of 6 months. Still, the Crohn’s disease is significantly related to early implant failure, as described by a GEE value of 0.02 and a fisher value of 0.21 [39]. However, the information on the exact number of patients is missing. In the prospective study by van Steenberghe et al. 2002, two of the three patients lost overall three out of ten implants according to an early implant failure up to abutment connection [44]. However, these patients presented also other risk factors in addition to the existing Crohn’s disease, among them claustrophobia, poor bone quality, and smoking more than ten cigarettes a day. A comparable survival rate is shown by a retrospective study with the longest observation period of 2 years. In addition to the early implant failure, the late failure after loading was investigated. During the 2-year period, three out of twelve implants were lost [39]. Crohn’s disease resulted in increased, however not significant, implant loss (OR = 10.09; 95% CI, [0.73, 139.79]; P value, 0.09). In the other retrospective study, patient data from1982 to 2003 were evaluated with regard to early implant failure associated with local and systemic risk factors [61]. A significant effect of Crohn’s disease on early implant failure was found (OR = 7.95; 95% CI, [3.47, 18.24]; P value, 0.001). The exact patient data, such as number of treated patients, as well as the exact number of placed and lost implants, was not provided. The aforementioned studies could be included in the only meta-analysis of this systematic review. The significant pooled OR is 8.12 with a 95% CI of [3.68, 17.92] (Fig. 2). Meta-analysis of two studies investigating the effect of Crohn’s disease on early implant failure There is a broad heterogeneity of available patient and implant information, with often missing information. Still, the investigated studies show increased implant loss in the presence of Crohn’s disease with a trend towards early implant failure. Immunosuppression after organ transplantation Dealing with implant-based rehabilitation and immunosuppression after organ transplantation, a total of 6 studies with 107 placed implants in 39 patients were included of which 2 were prospective studies without control and 4 case reports. The two prospective studies were published in 2012 and 2015 [62, 63]. The case reports were published in 2004, 2011, and 2014 [64,65,66,67]. The authors found no significant correlations between immunosuppression after organ transplantation and implant failure. All identified studies and case reports describe an implant survival rate of 100% with a follow-up of 58 months as mean (3–118 months) with no effect on clinical findings or on osseointegration of the implants. The loading time after implantation differs from 3 months for the maxilla up to 9 months of the mandible. In the prospective studies, 12 months after extraction of teeth implants were placed. Regarding the case reports, it differs from 1 to 5 months as waiting time between extraction and implant placement. As immunosuppressive drugs tacrolimus, sirolimus, cyclosporine, and mycophenolate were used, steroid prednisolone was applied. The indication for immunosuppression was a liver transplantation in 26 patients and a heart transplantation in 13 patients. Twenty-seven patients receive a prophylactic antibiotic therapy, like moxifloxacin, for 6 days or amoxicillin with clavulanic acid for 5–6 days. For follow-up of 24 months and longer, the mean survival rate of implants in patients after organ transplantation was 100% with an average follow-up of 47.8 months (n = 16, Table 2). To date, scientific evidence regarding the influence of primary and secondary immunodeficiency or immunosuppressive treatment modalities on survival rates of endosseous implants is yet vague and very heterogeneous. Thus, evidence-based decision-making whether or not to bestow implant-based dental rehabilitation upon immunocompromised patients is still impaired. To address this issue, the present systematic review analysed the available literature on the influence of different types of immunosuppression (HIV, chemotherapy, autoimmune disorders and steroid medication, organ transplantation) on the outcome of the applied implant-based therapies in terms of implant survival. HIV infection and subsequently AIDS as an epidemic with devastating debilitation of the patients evolved over the past 30 years into a stable yet chronic disease. Accordingly, there is a constantly increasing number of patients in different stages of disease that are requesting implant-based dental rehabilitation. Regarding HIV-seropositive patients with a CD4 count over 200 cells/μl, the present review did not find a significant failure rate compared with healthy patients. Several studies regarding healing response, general implant infection rates, or post-operative complications linked to immunological values could not show a significant difference to healthy patients [68,69,70]. Moreover, only few studies focused on patients in a severely immunocompromised state with a CD4 count lower than 200 cells/μl. These patients are prone to develop symptoms of AIDS, such as opportunistic infections and neoplasia. Still, there was no evidence regarding a direct relationship between the CD4 count and the risk of post-operative infections [25,26,27]. In a systematic overview by Ata-Ali et al. 2015, the administration of antibiotics was deciphered as among the main influencing factors when analysing the osseointegration of dental implants in HIV-positive patients [71]. Likewise, in 75% of the analysed studies, different forms of antibiotic treatments were applied upon implant surgery. The prophylactic application of antibiotics was shown to reduce the risk of implant failure, however not influencing the risk of post-operative infections [72, 73]. Accordingly, it is advisable to consider its application when treating HIV-seropositive patients. Chemotherapy is one of the fundamental pillars of cancer treatment. To date, a broad variety of antineoplastic drugs designed to target certain forms of cancer are available and their number is constantly increasing. Accordingly, it is impossible to comprehensively cover all mechanisms of biological actions of chemotherapies that may interfere with implant surgery. One of the foremost parameters of successful implant therapy, osseointegration, is not well elaborated with regard to chemotherapy. Although several animal studies have shown a negative effect on bone remodelling and fracture healing, information in humans are sparse [74, 75]. There is evidence that chemotherapy treatment may entail a multitude of negative effects on patients with pre-existing implants, such as mucositis and painful peri-implant infections as well as systemic effects such as fever and septicaemia. However, most of these reported side effects were seen on subperiosteal and blade implants, surpassed to date [76]. Contrary, it was shown that osseointegration is not necessarily impaired during the course of chemotherapy. In the case report of Steiner et al. 1995, the uncovering of two dental implants was performed uneventfully during chemotherapy to treat a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Sager et al. 1990 successfully inserted a total of four implants during the recovery period of melphalan chemotherapy cycles targeting a multiple myeloma. During the follow-up of 18 months with functional prosthesis, no implants were lost and no signs of peri-implant inflammation were seen [46]. Both authors were performing surgeries with regard to the patients’ white blood cell count and emphasised the importance of a close cooperation with the oncologists. In both case reports, the patients were set under antibiotic treatment until suture removal. In the only available controlled study by Kovacs at al. 2001 on patients with squamous cell carcinoma treated either with chemotherapy (cisplatin or carboplatin and 5-fluorouracil) or ablative surgery only, there was no statistically difference on implant survival. Patients receiving chemotherapy were subjected to implant surgery around 10 months after the last cycle. Implant success rates were over 98% in both groups during a follow-up of up to 120 months. The only available meta-analyses stated that implant failure rates were not affected by chemotherapy application (risk ratio 1.02, 95% confidence interval 0.56–1.85; P = 0.95); however, the performed statistic was substantially affected by the inconsistency of study designs [77]. Since chemotherapy is mostly administered in cycles, with alternating treatment and recovery periods, it seems advisable to await the completion of treatment before implant therapy. Moreover, an interdisciplinary approach in close cooperation with the responsible oncologists is preferable. The breakdown of immunologic tolerance towards self-molecules leads to an immune response that subsequently manifests in several forms of autoimmune diseases [78]. The initiation factors that start this autoimmune response are mostly unknown; still there is evidence that socioeconomic, genetic, and environmental factors as well as certain types of infections play a pivotal role. Over the last decade, there is increasing evidence for a steady rise in the frequency of autoimmune diseases [11]. Approximations on the prevalence of autoimmune disorders range from 3% in Europe and North America at the beginning of the century up to 12.5% to date [10, 11]. Autoimmune disorders are predominantly rising in westernised societies, those having access to hygiene and advanced health care [11]. Consequently, there is an increasing number of patients with autoimmune disorders requesting dental implants. The present study investigated a total of 596 inserted implants in 129 patients. With regard that information on the sex was not always available, the given information revealed a clear trend towards female patients that comprised 98% of the patients collective. It is known that autoimmune disorders predominantly occur in women. Today 75% of those suffering from autoimmune disorders are female [10]. Clinical investigations on the associations among autoimmune diseases revealed that these conditions, conventionally considered as distinct disorders, often co-exist in one patient. Typically patients are associated with an index disease and the occurrence of other autoimmune disorders is assessed within the index population [79]. Weng et al. found among others a significantly increased occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren disease [80]. This constellation of comorbidity was the most frequent in the assessed literature where 35 implants were inserted in 7 patients suffering from the burden of rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren’s syndrome. In the follow-up period ranging from 46 to 156 months, no implant was lost. In addition, no other constellation of co-existing autoimmune disorders showed a significant influence on implant survival. It is well documented that exogenous corticosteroids, including low-dose inhaled drugs, can suppress counterregulatory immune response to illness and tissue injury. Similar mechanisms are described in response to surgery and trauma where plasma ACTH and cortisol concentrations increase. Still there is a general patient-to-patient variability with regard to age, sex, and other influencing co-factors such as anaesthesia, opioids, or infections [16]. In the analysed studies, the predominant medication in patients suffering from autoimmune disorders is prednisone or cortisone therapy. In neither of the studies, a direct effect on implant survival of either the medication was detected. Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, which mainly affects the gastrointestinal tract. Antigen-antibody complexes lead to autoimmune inflammatory reactions which is why immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory drugs are part of the spectrum of therapy. Examining early implant failure, all three studies [43, 44, 61] concluded that Crohn’s disease is related to early implant failure. The studies of Alsaadi et al. from 2008 and 2007 substantiated this outcome statistically with significant P values of less than 0.001 in the study of 2007 and 0.02 in the study of 2008. The causes for the cumulative incidence of early implant failure are widely discussed. One theory implies that antigen-antibody complexes lead to autoimmune reactions in the area of the bone-implant contact, thus influencing the osseointegration of the implants [81]. Furthermore, the malnutrition, which often occurs in the course of Crohn’s disease, possibly results in a deficient bone healing around dental implants [82]. Only one study considered the late loss of implants [39]. The total observation period was 2 years. The P value of 0.09 is slightly above the significant value of 0.05. Yet, further studies are needed to examine more closely the late implant loss and to permit a general statement. In the study by van Steenberghe from 2002, patients showed other medical factors additionally to the existing Crohn’s disease, including claustrophobia, poor bone quality, and smoking. Also examining these factors, the authors concluded that patients suffering from claustrophobia had an increased failure rate. Likewise, the other two factors, poor bone quality and heavy smoking, led to a higher incidence of implant failure. Still, such heterogeneous and superficial results should be considered with caution [44]. The present study indicates a clear trend towards early implant failure, which, however, needs to be proven yet in larger scale controlled trials. With regard to late implant failure, further randomised controlled studies with longer observation periods are necessary to allow for final recommendations. Based on the fact that there is a growing number of solid organ transplant recipients, the dentists come face to face with the needs of dental rehabilitation of patients which endure a massive dental clearance before transplantation to decrease the rate of infectious diseases [83, 84]. Nevertheless, in 50% of the analysed studies, a prophylactic antibiotic treatment was administered [63, 64, 67]. Respectively, the application of antibiotics in case of dental implant placement could be advisable. Different post-transplantation protocols prefer different immunosuppression protocol. Taking into account the results of the presented review, the choice of immunosuppressive drugs had no detectable effect on the implant survival rate. Neither steroids nor immunomodulatory drugs increase the risk of implant failure. Negative aspects of the implant site connected to immunosuppression were not seen. To conclude, the evidence of included studies is limited due to the fact of missing randomised controlled trials, but regarding the results of the named studies, which are mainly case reports, no limitation for implantation of dental implants could be seen. The available studies rely on a small yet very heterogenous patient collective and are predominantly characterised by the lack of control groups and a low level of specificity. No randomised controlled studies on immunosuppression and dental implant rehabilitation were available. Further limitations were seen in the different methodological approaches of the analysed prospective and retrospective studies. Only few studies had a control group, usually the studies compared with healthy patients or provided no control group at all. Results were often summed up and not clearly identified or patient related, i.e. implant loss per patient. Furthermore, the exclusion of implant-related diseases such as peri-implantitis may be considered as a limitation. It remains unknown whether these factors are influenced by immunosuppression and may lead to implant failure at a time-point that exceeds the follow-up of the patient. Only studies in English or German language were considered accordingly data maybe missing. Such limited quality of primary studies leads to the urgent need for randomised controlled studies with more patients on the effects of immunosuppression on dental implants. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review which collected evidence for the influence of different immunodeficient conditions (HIV/AIDS, organ transplantation, autoimmune disease, and Morbus Crohn) on the survival of dental implants. The review was conducted according to the high standards of the Cochrane Collaboration and the PRISMA statement. There is only little evidence for deteriorating influences of immunodeficient conditions on the survival of dental implants. Regarding the analysed immunosuppressive conditions, only Crohn’s disease showed a significant effect on early implant failure and resulted in increased, however not significant, implant loss. There was no significant effect on implant survival in the remaining immunocompromised conditions detectable. However, the methodical quality of the included studies is generally low and the number of patients analysed is small. Therefore, these results should be interpreted with caution due to the low strength of evidence in case series as well as prospective and retrospective studies. Hence, there is no data-based final conclusion on whether or not to place dental implants in patients receiving immunosuppression or suffering from immunosuppressive conditions. 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Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany Fabian Duttenhoefer , Marc Anton Fuessinger , Yasmin Beckmann & Rainer Schmelzeisen Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, HELIOS Dr. Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken, Academic Teaching Hospital University Mainz, Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 100, 65199, Wiesbaden, Germany Knut A. Groetz Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Data Science, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Martin Boeker Search for Fabian Duttenhoefer in: Search for Marc Anton Fuessinger in: Search for Yasmin Beckmann in: Search for Rainer Schmelzeisen in: Search for Knut A. Groetz in: Search for Martin Boeker in: All authors contributed to this manuscript. FD planned the study, analysed the final data, and wrote this manuscript. MAF, KAG, and RS performed data acquisition and analysis. YB planned and executed the search strategy. MB performed the final statistics. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Fabian Duttenhoefer. Fabian Duttenhoefer, Marc Anton Fuessinger, Yasmin Beckmann, Rainer Schmelzeisen, Knut A. Groetz, and Martin Boeker declare that they have no competing interests. Additional file 1. Detailed search history. The conducted search strategy used the databases: MEDLINE via the search interface OvidSP (keyword search) and Web of Science by Thompsen (all core databases: Science Citation Index, MEDLINE, Biosis). Additional file 2. Detailed results table. (1) author, (2) publishing year, (3) study type, (4) medical condition (HIV infection, chemotherapy, transplantation, autoimmune disease, oral cancer / squamous cell carcinoma), (5) number of patients included in the study, (6) fraction of female and male patients, (7) age of the patients (median), (8) absolute number of placed implants, (9) absolute number of failed implants, (10) time of implantation after extraction, (11) time of loading, (11) maximum follow-up period, (12) survival rate of implants, (13) localization (mandible, maxilla), (14) generic therapy term (antiretroviral therapy, steroid containing medication, chemotherapy, immunosuppressive drugs), (15) applied drug, (16) duration of the applied therapy at the time of implantation, (17) underlying disease (Crohn’s disease, oral lichen planus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Sjogren syndrome, dermato myositis, pemphigus vulgaris, polymyalgia rheumatica, systemic lupus erythematosus, oral cancer / squamous cell carcinoma), (18) CD4 cell count, (19) viral load, (20) prescribed antibiotic drug, (21) period in which the study was carried out, (22) type of effect estimate (relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk/ excess risk, arcsine difference, standardized mean difference, weighted mean difference, hazard ratio), (23) value of effect estimate, (24) risk of bias assessment, (25) overall objectives of the study, (26) setting and/ or place of study, (27) additional information. 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__label__cc	0.551566	0.448434	Fernie Distillers made its first seasonal spirit Fernie Distillers has launched its first seasonal spirit by Zoë Dupley — June 06, 2019 Jillian Rutherford and Andrew Hayden, owners of Fernie Distillers, have released their first seasonal gin. — Photo courtesy birr Fernie Distillers, Fernie, B.C.’s only small-batch distillery, has launched its first limited release, seasonal product, 5th & Park Damson Gin. The gin features damson plums, picked within walking distance of the distillery, and was the brainchild of owner/distiller Jillian Rutherford, who was interested in removing fruit from local trees in an effort to minimize bear attractants in Fernie. “Having a fruit tree in bear country is a big responsibility,” said Rutherford. “Supporting local programs like the Fernie Apple Capture and WildsafeBC initiatives is important to us, and we are fortunate to be able to create a quality product too.” This seasonal release was produced in limited quantities and is available to taste and purchase at Fernie Distillers on 1st Avenue in Fernie, B.C. For more information about the limited release, visit Fernie Distillers' website. 5th & Park Damson Gin was named after the Fernie gardens from whence its plums came. — Photo courtesy birr Zoë Dupley hopes to share her love of storytelling, and properly communicate the passions of those she interviews. When she isn't hiking in the Rocky Mountains, she is working on her latest sewing project or reading The Lord of the Rings. View all of Zoë Dupley’s articles Business Beat, East Kootenay, West Kootenay Call for nominations for BC Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors BC Chamber of Commerce represents over 125 local chambers across the province, with a membership of over 36,000 small and medium-sized businesses January 2020 by Julie Matchett Business Beat, East Kootenay, West Kootenay, Financial, Mining Teck and Ridley Terminals ink agreement to increase shipments A new deal signed between Teck Resources Limited and Ridley Terminals Inc., will allow Teck to expand its steelmaking coal shipments to the B.C. coast Business Beat, East Kootenay, West Kootenay, Real Estate How does your 2020 property assessment compare with those of other Kootenay communities? The Kootenay Columbia region saw 2020 property assessments increase across all municipalities, ranging from one to 11 per cent.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1475
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__label__cc	0.649061	0.350939	Conversion Impact report Bazaarvoice offers a detailed, interactive Conversion Impact report (CIR) that reveals key information about the impact of Bazaarvoice content on your online business. The CIR describes the differences in behavior between visitors who interacted with Bazaarvoice content and those who did not. At a glance, you can see and evaluate the business impact of Bazaarvoice content on your visitors, conversions, and percent lift. You can also use the information in the report to measure other aspects of your business. The following examples describe ways in which the CIR might be helpful. A company recently started using Bazaarvoice products, and the digital marketing lead for the company wants to know how much of a return on investment the products provide. She consults the CIR and sees that the conversion rate of customers who interacted with Bazaarvoice content shows a 35% lift over the conversion rate of customers who did not. She infers that Bazaarvoice products helped drive higher conversion rates. A company maintains separate storefronts for different regions—an English site, a French site, and a German site. Each site uses Bazaarvoice Curations and displays user-generated content (UGC) in its native language. A marketing specialist looks at the CIR data for each site and sees that the French site has a much higher average order value lift than the English and German sites. He surmises that efforts to solicit French-language CGC are working exceptionally well and that the content is especially compelling. He directs his team to study the French-language marketing and content to see if any lessons can be learned and applied to the English and German sites. A company recently implemented the BV Pixel and wants to independently verify that it is working as they expect. The analytics lead for the company compares CIR data to data from her own internal sales reports. She notices that the CIR lists significantly fewer sales than her own data and contacts Bazaarvoice to determine why. She learns that her company’s implementation of the BV Pixel has issues and corrects them. Bazaarvoice offers two different versions of the CIR. The version you use depends on your reporting needs: e-Commerce Conversion Impact report—Available to e-commerce clients and offers new audience segments, category filtering, mobile and non-mobile views, currency normalization, and support for all Bazaarvoice products. This report provides a three-day attribution window of data, which attributes any conversion action that takes place within three days of the visitor’s initial visit to a visitor segment. To access this report: Log in to Bazaarvoice Workbench. Click e-Commerce under Conversion Impact in the Dashboards navigation menu. Non-Commerce Conversion Impact report—Preferable for all non-commerce clients and some e-commerce clients who want a one-day attribution window and flexibility over reporting date ranges. Click Non-Commerce under Conversion Impact in the Dashboards navigation menu. e-Commerce Conversion Impact report The e-Commerce Conversion Impact report (CIR) provides e-commerce reporting data only. Note: If you have not implemented the BV Pixel, the Conversion Impact report does not display report data. However, the page includes information and a link to help you get started with BV Pixel setup. The e-Commerce Impact tab shows how shopper purchasing behavior varies with the presence of and interaction with Bazaarvoice content. The Engagement Breakdown tab shows how purchasing behavior varies by shopper engagement level. The CIR allows you to segment your visitor data through the use of filters at the top of the report. Date Range—The month for which you wish to segment your CIR data. Bazaarvoice Solution—One or more Bazaarvoice solutions for which you want to view conversion data. Display Code—Deployment zones created during your Bazaarvoice implementation. You can create unique display codes for each locale that you support, which enables you to filter your CIR data by those locales (display codes). Device Type—The device category (mobile or desktop) that the visitor used to access your site. “Mobile Web” refers to browser traffic from mobile phones and tablets rather than a company’s native app. “Desktop” refers solely to desktop (non-mobile) traffic. Root Category—The top-level category of your products based on your product catalog. Sub Category—A category-level beneath the top-level category of your products based on your product catalog. This section provides definitions for the metrics and visitor segments found in the CIR. Active—Visitors who actively interacted with Bazaarvoice content by taking an action such as sorting, filtering, paginating, clicking, hovering, or highlighting within the Bazaarvoice container. Passive—Visitors who saw Bazaarvoice content on screen, but did not actively interact with any functionality. Note: On-screen content is detected by InView and ViewedUGC events. Engaged—Total number of visitors who actively or passively engaged with Bazaarvoice content. This includes visitors who actively interacted with Bazaarvoice content by taking an action such as sorting, filtering, paginating, clicking, hovering, or highlighting within the Bazaarvoice container and visitors who saw Bazaarvoice content on screen, but did not actively interact with any functionality. Did Not Engage—Visitors who reached a page where content was present, but did not passively or actively engage the content. No Content—Visitors loaded a page with Bazaarvoice code that had no content, such as a product page that does not have reviews yet. Visitors—Unique visitors detected across tracked pages during the specified date range. Tracked pages include any page that loaded Bazaarvoice analytics tagging, whether through the Bazaarvoice-hosted display or through the Analytics for API solution. Note: The monthly report calculates and displays monthly unique visitors. Selecting multiple months at a time will have the report display a summary of the visitors across each monthly report selected. Orders—The total number of orders placed, where each unique orderId sent by the BV Pixel transaction event counts as one order. Revenue—Total revenue from orders, defined by the total from each order sent by the BV Pixel transaction event. All revenue is converted to USD using the closing currency conversion rate for that day. Conversion Rate—Orders divide by visitors. Average Order Value—Revenue divided by orders. Revenue Per Visitor—Revenue divided by visitors. Attribution window When a visitor meets the criteria of one of the segments (No Content, Did Not Engage, Passive, or Active), the CIR associates conversions that occur within three days of meeting that criteria. The three days are known as the attribution window. For example, a customer might look at reviews for a product one day but not purchase the product until the following day. This purchase falls within the window of time when Bazaarvoice attributes the purchase to the reviews that were read by the customer. Since 90% of transactions in the Bazaarvoice network occur within three days of viewing a product, the default conversion attribution window is set to three days. The attribution window cannot be customized at this time. Report availability The e-Commerce CIR cannot generate a report for a given month until the three-day attribution window has passed. Then, it takes two full days to transform the raw data into the final report. For a monthly report, you can view the report at the end of the sixth day of the following month. For example, for April’s monthly report, the attribution window accounts for May 1-3, May 4-5 are required for calculations to create the final report, and the report becomes available May 6. Report processing begins 12:00 AM Pacific Time on May 4, so the report is typically available at the 11:59 PM of May 6. Note: The e-Commerce CIR contains data from July 1, 2016 to present, assuming you passed the required BV Pixel events during that period of time. The following image is an example of the period of time captured in a monthly report. Visitor segmentation The Conversion Impact Report assigns visitors, orders, and revenue to the segment of highest engagement that the visitor met the criteria for during the selected reporting window for each product category and sub-category. These segments are Active, Passive, Did Not Engage, and No Content, and are defined in the Definitions section. The reports are further separated by product categories to better understand how products in each category compare with one another. If, for example, a visitor named Skye browses multiple tracked pages in the same reporting window, but engages at a different level on each, the report will count her as only one visitor and assign her to the segment of highest engagement. So, if Skye passively engaged with Bazaarvoice content on March 15, and then actively engaged on March 19 (on a product in the same category), the monthly report for March would count her as one visitor in the Active segment. Example scenarios Day 1 (March 18, 12:08p): An online visitor, Jane, arrives at your site and browses the product page for the “SUPER Speed Running Shoes.” These shoes have Ratings & Reviews content. She scrolls down to read the content, but does not actively click on it (for example, she does not sort or filter the Ratings & Reviews). She decides to wait before making her purchase because she wants to do more research, so she does not place an order. Jane is considered a Passive visitor in the Shoes category because she did not actively interact with Bazaarvoice content. Day 1 (March 18, 2:23p): Later that day, Jane decides to browse a different product: “Formula Fresh Laundry Detergent.” This product also has Ratings & Reviews content. She notes the Rating Summary at the top of the page indicates the product has 721 reviews with a 4.5 average star rating. This information gives her the confidence to place an order without scrolling down to read or click on Ratings & Reviews. Jane is considered a visitor in the Did Not Engage segment in the Laundry category because there was content on the page, but she did not engage with it passively or actively. Day 1 (March 18, 6:39p): Later that evening, Jane decides to browse a third product, which also happens to be in the Laundry category: “Amazing Scent Fabric Softener.” This product does not yet have Ratings & Reviews content, but she decides to place an order for this product anyway, given the product requires a fairly low level of consideration. This action alone would put Jane in the No Content segment in the Laundry category. Day 4 (March 21, 9:32p): Three days later, Jane comes back to research the “SUPER Speed Running Shoes” again. She scrolls down to the Ratings & Reviews content and, unlike her previous visit to the page, actively filters for only the 4-star reviews. She now decides she has enough information to make her purchase decision and places an order for the shoes. Jane is now considered an Active visitor in the Shoes category. Day 7 (March 24, 7:28a): A second online visitor, Michael, reaches the site and browses the “XTREME Speed Running Shoes.” These shoes have Ratings & Reviews content. He scrolls down to read the Ratings & Reviews, but does not actively click or place an order. Michael is considered a Passive visitor in the Shoes category. Day 12 (March 29, 10:43a): Michael returns to the “XTREME Speed Running Shoes” page again. This time, he clicks to sort the reviews by Lowest Rated to Highest Rated, and then places the order. Michael is now considered an Active visitor in the Shoes category. Results and interpretation Report accessed on: April 14 Report selected: Monthly for March 2017 If you filter for the Shoes category: two visitors and two orders are added to the Active segment; zero visitors and zero orders added to Passive, Did Not Engage, and No Content. More detail: This is because the Conversion Impact Report gives credit to the action (segment) of highest engagement during that time frame. Even though Michael passively engaged on March 24, he then actively engaged on March 29 before he made his purchase. Engagement Trend This section in the Engagement Breakdown tab shows the conversion rate for each visitor segment over the course of the selected time frame. You can use this section to quickly spot anomalies that you want to investigate further using your own web analytics. Note: This section of the report is unaffected by the filters. Non-Commerce Conversion Impact report The Non-Commerce Conversion Impact report (CIR) provides e-commerce and non-commerce reporting data. Customize your current report view by making selections at the top of the report. You can adjust the following report filters. Date range—A range of dates for the data. By default, the report shows the past 30 days of data. If your Bazaarvoice implementation has been active for fewer than 30 days, the report shows all collected data. Use the Date range options to filter the dates. You can select a pre-configured option or set a custom range. Data is available from the first day Bazaarvoice collects data for your site through the current date. Measurement—Whether to show ROI data based on the first- or third-party cookie measurement, if you have enabled multiple types of measurement tracking. Some browsers block third-party cookies more frequently than others. If your site has a high third-party cookie rejection rate, then data from the first-party cookie typically is more accurate. If you have enabled both types of cookies, the report shows first-party cookie data by default. Product—The Bazaarvoice product whose impact you want to evaluate. Products include Ratings & Reviews, Questions & Answers, and Curations. By default, the report shows data for all Bazaarvoice products you have implemented. Display code—Whether to show conversion data overall or for a specific display code. By default, the report shows the overall view. However, clients who manage multiple locales with different display codes should select the display code for the locale they manage. Time zone—The report shows data for the time zone you select when you enable the report. By default, the report shows in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Note: If you want to change the time zone displayed in the report, submit a ticket to Bazaarvoice Client Care . The following data will help you understand and make the most out of your Conversion Impact report. Lift Percent change during the specified date range between visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Lift is calculated for Conversion Rate, Average Order Value, and Revenue Per Visitor. A positive lift indicates that the corresponding segment is higher among visitors who used Bazaarvoice. Used Bazaarvoice Visitors who viewed a page with at least one Bazaarvoice feature, such as a review, question, answer, or piece of social media content, and interacted with the consumer-generated content. Interacting includes bringing consumer-generated content into view, such as clicking the Reviews tab or scrolling down the page until reviews are visible, or accessing any functionality in the content display. Sorting, filtering, and clicking the “read all reviews” link are considered interactions. Did not use Bazaarvoice Visitors who viewed a page with at least one Bazaarvoice feature, such as a review, question, answer, or piece of social media content, and did not interact with the consumer-generated content. Interacting includes bringing consumer-generated content into view, such as clicking the Reviews tab or scrolling down the page until reviews are visible, or accessing any functionality in the content display. Sorting, filtering, and clicking the “read all reviews” link are considered interactions. Unique daily visitors detected across measured pages during the specified date range. Measured pages include those pages featuring any Bazaarvoice content. Bazaarvoice identifies unique visitors using analytics tagging. The report divides visitors into two categories: those who interacted with Bazaarvoice content and those who did not interact with Bazaarvoice content. Note: Unique visitors are registered only once every 24 hours, regardless of how many times they visit a page or how many pages within your site they visit. Orders Number of orders placed across measured pages during the specified date range, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Conversions Number of unique conversions as defined by your implementation, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. The CIR separates conversions into as many different types as your implementation defines. For example, a company might define making a purchase as one type of conversion and signing up for email updates as another kind of conversion. Each unique conversion is counted separately, even if it is performed by the same visitor. Conversion Rate Ratio of conversions to unique visitors, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Activities that constitute a conversion are defined by your implementation. Revenue Total revenue from orders across measured pages during the specified date range, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Average Order Value (AOV) Average amount of revenue per conversion during the specified date range, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Average amount of revenue per visitor during the specified date range, segmented by visitors who used Bazaarvoice and who did not use Bazaarvoice. Note: Bazaarvoice does not calculate revenue per visitor if your site accepts multiple currencies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1485
__label__cc	0.725983	0.274017	Size Choose an optionQuartGallon5 Gallons Clear SKU: N/A Category: For The Soil Neptune’s Harvest fish fertilizer is an organic fertilizer made from fresh North Atlantic fish. It is made by a unique cold process that protects the vitamins, amino acids, enzymes and growth hormones. It also contains all the micro and macro nutrients naturally found in fish. The nitrogen and other nutrients are chelated, so they are readily available for plants consumption. Unlike fish emulsions, Neptune’s Harvest retains the fish proteins and oils and has no unpleasant odor. University studies have shown Neptune’s Harvest to outperform chemical fertilizers. Application Rates: Directions: Shake well before using. Prepare for one application only. Do not store diluted fertilizer. House Plants: Use 1 tablespoon per gallon of water. Feed every 2-3 weeks. Do not over water. Outdoor Plants: Use 1/8 Cup (1 fl. Oz.- 1:128) per gallon of water. Feed vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs every 2-3 weeks. Apply until soil is saturated or as a foliar feed until leaves are wet, top & bottom. It is best to foliar feed early or late in the day. Lawns: Use 1 gallon concentrate mixed with sufficient water to cover 8000 sq. ft. Feed monthly during growing season and again in the fall. Compost Enhancer: Use ¼ Cup (2fl. Oz.) per gallon of water every 2-3 weeks. Seed Germination: Soak in solution of 1 teaspoon per cup of water. Caution: Keep out of reach of children. Do not take internally. Lahave River Berry Farm stocks Neptune’s Harvest Organic Fertilizer which is made from fresh caught North Atlantic fish. Unlike a fish emulsion, Neptune’s Harvest fertilizers are produced using a unique cold process “without cooking out all the good stuff”. Best of all, it works great on everything that grows! More about Neptune’s Harvest Neptune’s Harvest fish hydrolysate is an all organic, highly nutritional protein fertilizer, made utilizing naturally occurring enzymes present in fresh North Atlantic fish. We produce this using a cold process employing enzymes (natural biological catalysts) which break down fish, or fish frames (the part left after the fillet is removed for human consumption) to simpler protein complexes. This process is called Hydrolysis. No synthetic materials are mixed into the fish hydrolysate, and the only manipulation the product undergoes is grinding and hydrolysis. This process yields a stable, non-odorous, liquid fertilizer that is an easy to use, safe product. The nitrogen in Neptune’s Harvest fish fertilizer is derived from fish protein in the form of amino acids which when added to the soil, slowly break down into basic nitrogen compounds. While a percentage of nitrogen becomes soluble due to the nature of the manufacturing process, no inorganic nitrogen has been added. In the past, there have been advantages in using manufactured chemical fertilizers, however as we now realize, this has been at the expense of the environment and depletion of many soil elements. The continued application of only concentrated chemicals on the soil have reduced much of the biological life that contributes to the efficient utilization of many plant nutrients. Neptune’s Harvest hydrolyzed fish does no biological damage to the soil and will promote the growth of beneficial bacteria making the soil less compact and better able to drain, yet hold moisture better for future plant use as it is needed. With our cold process, the vitamins, amino acids, enzymes, and growth hormones are not damaged or destroyed. Because no oils or proteins are removed, the nutrients remain in the soil longer, and lower N-P-K rates can be used to meet or exceed the results obtained by chemicals with much higher rates. Some advantages to using hydrolyzed fish fertilizer are that it rebuilds soil, gives excellent plant growth with increased yields, and is made from a renewable aquatic resource. Our hydrolysate fertilizer is filtered through an 165 mesh screen as a first step, and then through a 150 micron screen before it is packaged. This ensures an ease of application with most irrigation sprayer systems that is second to none. This product is available in bulk sizes of 55 gallon drums, and 275 gallon totes. Contact us for details. (Source: neptunesharvest.com) Pint, Quart, Gallon, 5 Gallons Be the first to review “Fish Fertilizer 2-4-1” Cancel reply Myke Pro Nursery WPPREV$11.00 – $101.40 Seaweed Fertilizer 0-0-1NEXT$24.99 – $58.99 Rock Phosphate 0-3-0 is a naturally occurring mineral which has been ground to a fine dust. Myke Pro Nursery WP is a concentrated mycorrhizal inoculant in powder form used for liquid application (cuttings, seeding or repotting trees). Seaweed powder. Just mix with water and use it to fertilize. Saves on freight costs!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1492
__label__wiki	0.670148	0.670148	Tag Archives: Death Prefers Blondes New Releases: January 2019 January 2, 2019 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (8th) While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to rediscover her joy—so of course she runs into the woman who broke her heart. When Likotsi and Fabiola meet again on a stalled subway train months later, Fab asks for just one cup of tea. Likotsi, hoping to know why she was unceremoniously dumped, agrees. Tea and food soon leads to them exploring the city together, and their past, with Fab slowly revealing why she let Likotsi go, and both of them wondering if they can turn this second chance into a happily ever after. Buy it: Amazon \| iBooks Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (8th) In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She’s released eighteen years later and finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she goes searching for someone she left behind, but on the way, she meets and falls in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother. Together, they try to make a fresh start, but is that even possible in a town that refuses to change? Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a run for another life. Buy it: Amazon \| B&N The Whispers by Greg Howard (15th) Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective, Frank, to go over his witness statement time and time again. Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn’t realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever. Buy it: B&N \| Amazon Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen (15th) A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a work of daring invention about young life in Greenland. Through monologues, emails, and text exchanges, she brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five distinct characters: a woman who’s “gone off sausage” (men); her brother, in a secret affair with a powerful married man; a lesbian couple confronting an important transition; and the troubled young woman who forces them all to face their fears. With vibrant imagery and daring prose, Korneliussen writes honestly about finding yourself and growing into the person you were meant to be. Praised for creating “its own genre” (Politiken, Denmark), Last Night in Nuuk is a brave entrance onto the literary scene and establishes her as a voice that cannot be ignored. Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon (15th) From the author of You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel that examines the complicated aftermath of a kidney transplant between best friends. Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein would do anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who’s been on the kidney transplant list as long as she’s known him. Peter, a gifted pianist, is everything to Sophie: best friend, musical collaborator, secret crush. When she learns she’s a match, donating a kidney is an easy, obvious choice. She can’t help wondering if after the transplant, he’ll love her back the way she’s always wanted. But Peter’s life post-transplant isn’t what either of them expected. Though he once had feelings for Sophie too, he’s now drawn to Chase, the guitarist in a band that happens to be looking for a keyboardist. And while neglected parts of Sophie’s world are calling to her—dance opportunities, new friends, a sister and niece she barely knows—she longs for a now-distant Peter more than ever, growing increasingly bitter he doesn’t seem to feel the same connection. Peter fears he’ll forever be indebted to her. Sophie isn’t sure who she is without him. Then one blurry, heartbreaking night twists their relationship into something neither of them recognizes, leading them to question their past, their future, and whether their friendship is even worth fighting for. Firestarter by Tara Sim (15th) This is the third and final book in the Timekeeper series The crew of the Prometheus is intent on taking down the world’s clock towers so that time can run freely. Now captives, Colton, Daphne, and the others have a stark choice: join the Prometheus’s cause, or fight back in any small way they can and face the consequences. But Zavier, leader of the terrorists, has a bigger plan—to bring back the lost god of time. As new threats emerge, loyalties must shift. No matter where the Prometheus goes—Prague, Austria, India—nowhere is safe, and every second ticks closer toward the eleventh hour. Walking the line between villainy and heroism, each will have to choose what’s most important: saving those you love at the expense of the many, or making impossible sacrifices for the sake of a better world. Song of the Dead by Sarah Glenn Marsh (22nd) This is the second book in the Reign of the Fallen series Karthia is nothing like it used to be. The kingdom’s borders are open for the first time in nearly three hundred years, and raising the dead has been outlawed. Odessa is determined to explore the world beyond Karthia’s waters, hoping to heal a heart broken in more ways than she can count. But with Meredy joining the ocean voyage, vanquishing her sorrow will be a difficult task. Despite the daily reminder of the history they share, Odessa and Meredy are fascinated when their journey takes them to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets. Odessa can’t help being mesmerized by the new magic–and by the girl at her side. But just as she and Meredy are beginning to explore the new world, a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once. Growing political unrest on top of threats from foreign invaders means Odessa and Meredy are thrust back into the lives they tried to leave behind while specters from their past haunt their tenuous relationship. Gathering a force big enough to ward off enemies seems impossible, until one of Queen Valoria’s mages creates a weapon that could make them invincible. As danger continues to mount inside the palace, Odessa fears that without the Dead, even the greatest invention won’t be enough to save their fates. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan (29th) Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don’t know about. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech, where she can pursue her dream of becoming an engineer. But when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana’s plans fall apart. Her parents are devastated; being gay may as well be a death sentence in the Bengali community. They immediately whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. Only through reading her grandmother’s old diary is Rukhsana able to gain some much needed perspective. Rukhsana realizes she must find the courage to fight for her love, but can she do so without losing everyone and everything in her life? Bloom by Kevin Panetta/Savannah Ganucheau (29th) Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom . . . that is, if Ari doesn’t ruin everything. Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow. Buy it: Amazon \| B&N \| Powell’s Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig (29th) Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. By day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise, she’s in all the headlines. But then Margo’s personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a job to end all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she’s ever counted on is put at risk. Backs against the wall, the resourceful thieves must draw on their special skills to survive. But can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them — for good? Buy it: B&N * Amazon The Cerulean by Amy Ewing (29th) Sera has always felt as if she didn’t belong among her people, the Cerulean. She is curious about everything and can’t stop questioning her three mothers, her best friend, Leela, and even the High Priestess. Sera has longed for the day when the tether that connects her City Above the Sky to the earthly world below finally severs and sends the Cerulean to a new planet. But when Sera is chosen as the sacrifice to break the tether, she doesn’t know what to feel. To save her City, Sera must throw herself from its edge and end her own life. But something goes wrong and she survives the fall, landing in a place called Kaolin. She has heard tales about the humans there, and soon learns that the dangers her mothers warned her of are real. If Sera has any hope to return to her City, she’ll have to find the magic within herself to survive. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles (30th) Lord Alexander Pyne-ffoulkes is the younger son of the Duke of Ilvar, with a bitter grudge against his wealthy father. The Duke intends to give his Duchess a priceless diamond parure on their wedding anniversary—so Alec hires a pair of jewel thieves to steal it. The Duke’s remote castle is a difficult target, and Alec needs a way to get the thieves in. Soldier-turned-criminal Jerry Crozier has the answer: he’ll pose as a Society gentleman and become Alec’s new best friend. But Jerry is a dangerous man: controlling, remote, and devastating. He effortlessly teases out the lonely young nobleman’s most secret desires, and soon he’s got Alec in his bed—and the palm of his hand. Or maybe not. Because as the plot thickens, betrayals, secrets, new loves, and old evils come to light. Now the jewel thief and the aristocrat must keep up the pretence, find their way through a maze of privilege and deceit, and confront the truth of what’s between them…all without getting caught. AlgonquinAlyssa ColeAmy EwingAny Old DiamondsAvonBakeryBloomCaleb RoehrigContemporaryDeath Prefers BlondesFantasyFirestarterGayGraphic NovelGreenlandGreg HowardKevin PanettaKJ CharlesLast Night in NuukLesbianMesha MarenMGMuslimNiviaq KorneliussenOnce Ghosted Twice ShyPractically Ever AfterQPoCReluctant RoyalsSabina KhanSarah Glenn MarshSong of the DeadSugar RunTara SimThe CeruleanThe Love & Lies of Rukhsana AliThe WhispersYA TBRainbow Alert: Heists, Thrillers, and Mysteries November 30, 2018 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig (January 29th) But then Margo’s personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a job to end all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she’s ever counted on is put at risk. Backs against the wall, the resourceful thieves must draw on their special skills to survive. But can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them—for good? Immoral Code by Lillian Clark (February 19th) For Nari, aka Narioka Diane, aka hacker digital alter ego “d0l0s,” it’s college and then a career at “one of the big ones,” like Google or Apple. Keagan, her sweet, sensitive boyfriend, is happy to follow her wherever she may lead. Reese is an ace/aro visual artist with plans to travel the world. Santiago is off to Stanford on a diving scholarship, with very real Olympic hopes. And Bellamy? Physics genius Bellamy is admitted to MIT—but the student loan she’d been counting on is denied when it turns out her estranged father—one Robert Foster—is loaded. Nari isn’t about to let her friend’s dreams be squashed by a deadbeat billionaire, so she hatches a plan to steal just enough from Foster to allow Bellamy to achieve her goals. After the Eclipse by Fran Dorricott (March 5th) Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie – who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother – suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out Buy it: IndieBound \| B&N \| Amazon UK \| Amazon US Book Depository \| Chapters Indigo The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown (March 7th) Sydney’s dad is the only psychiatrist for miles around their small Ohio town. He is also unexpectedly dead. Is Sydney crazy, or is it kind of weird that her dad-a guy whose entire job revolved around other peoples’ secrets-crashed alone, with no explanation? And why is June Copeland, homecoming queen and the town’s golden child, at his funeral? As the two girls grow closer in the wake of the accident, it’s clear that not everyone is happy about their new friendship. But what is picture perfect June still hiding? And does Sydney even want to know? Buy it: Amazon US \| Amazon UK \| Waterstones \| Book Depository A Place For Wolves by Kosoko Jackson (April 2nd) James Mills isn’t sure he can forgive his parents for dragging him away from his life, not to mention his best friend and sister, Anna. He’s never felt so alone. Enter Tomas. Falling for Tomas is unexpected, but sometimes the best things in life are. Then their world splits apart. A war that has been brewing finally bursts forward, filled with violence, pain, and cruelty. James and Tomas can only rely on each other as they decide how far they are willing to go―and who they are willing to become―in order to make it back to their families. Buy it: East City Books \| Indiebound \| Amazon \| Barnes & Noble \| Book Depository Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan (May 7th) It’s been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac’s best friend Connor was the murderer’s final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he’s drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth. Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist (May 21st) With a touch, Lexi can sense how and when someone will die. Some say it’s a gift. But to Lexi it’s a curse—one that keeps her friendless and alone. All that changes when Lexi foresees the violent death of a young woman, Jane, outside a club. But Jane doesn’t go to the afterlife quietly. Her ghost remains behind, determined to hunt down her murderer, and she needs Lexi’s help. In life, Jane was everything Lexi is not—outgoing, happy, popular. But in death, all Jane wants is revenge. Lexi will do anything to help Jane, to make up for the fact that she didn’t—couldn’t—save Jane’s life, and to keep this beautiful ghost of a girl by her side for as long as possible. All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick (June 4th) PRIVATE NUMBER: Wouldn’t you look better without a cheater on your arm? AMANDA: Who is this? The daughter of small town social climbers, Amanda Kelly is deeply invested in her boyfriend, real estate heir Carter Shaw. He’s kind, ambitious, the town golden boy—but he’s far from perfect. Because behind Amanda’s back, Carter is also dating Rosalie. PRIVATE NUMBER: I’m watching you, Sweetheart. ROSALIE: Who IS this? Rosalie Bell is fighting to remain true to herself and her girlfriend—while concealing her identity from her Christian fundamentalist parents. After years spent in and out of conversion “therapy,” her own safety is her top priority. But maintaining a fake, straight relationship is killing her from the inside. When an anonymous texter ropes Amanda and Rosalie into a bid to take Carter down, the girls become collateral damage—and unlikely allies in a fight to unmask their stalker before Private uproots their lives. PRIVATE NUMBER: You shouldn’t have ignored me. Now look what you made me do… Buy it: B&N \| Amazon \| IndieBound Wilder Girls by Rory Power (July 9th) It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman (August 6th) On the run from the FBI. Targeted by a murderous cult. Labeled a cyber-terrorist by the media. Irritated texts from his best friend. Eye contact with a nice-looking guy on the train. Aidan has a lot to deal with, and he’s not quite sure which takes top priority. Finding himself alone in a posh New York City hotel room for the night, Aidan does what any red-blooded seventeen-year-old would do—he tries to hook up with someone new. But that lapse in judgement leads to him waking up next to a dead guy, which sparks an epic case of mistaken identity that puts Aidan on the run from everyone—faceless federal agents, his eccentric family, and, naturally, a cyber-terrorist group who will stop at nothing to find him. He soon realizes the only way to stop the chase is to deliver the object everyone wants, before he gets caught or killed. But for Aidan, the hardest part is knowing who he can trust not to betray him—including himself. 2019After the EclipseAll Eyes on UsaroacearomanticAsexualbisexualCaleb RoehrigContemporaryDeath Prefers BlondesDerek Milmanf/fFran DorricottGayHistoricalImmoral CodeKit FrickKosoko JacksonLillian ClarkPsychological ThrillersRory PowerSavannah BrownSwipe Right for MurderThe Truth About Keeping SecretsThrillersTom RyanWilder GirlsYA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1498
__label__cc	0.741754	0.258246	Perform Better Searches in Windows 8 with Explorer's Ribbon Filed to:windows tips Windows Explorer's new ribbon has gotten a lot of flak from people that prefer their traditional menus, but when it comes to search, Windows 8's ribbon gives you a ton of options you might not have otherwise seen. Windows search has never been the best, but Windows 8 makes it a lot easier to navigate. If you use the ribbon, you've probably seen its search tab pop up when you type something in Explorer's search bar, but if you minimize the ribbon for your day-to-day work, Windows Explorer won't focus that tab—you have to click on it. Make Windows Search a Million Times More Useful with These Simple Tweaks Windows 7's search function kind of sucks. You can only find what you're looking for half the time, So the next time you perform a search in Windows Explorer, click that Search tab along the top for a ton of extra options. It makes it easier to choose where you're searching, filter your results by type, size, and other features, as well as save your search for quick access later (plus a lot more). How to Do Smarter Searches in Windows 8 \| PCWorld	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1501
__label__cc	0.719462	0.280538	Album & Track Reviews Kryptonite Music Magazine Panic! At The Disco : Death of a Bachelor Posted on 01/29/2016 by sophiesandkannberg “Hallelujah” was the first song released from the new Panic! At The Disco album, Death of a Bachelor. After the first single being released on 4/20, I just knew that this was going to be a great album, high on anticipation lists. Panic! At The Disco began as a Las Vegas band in 2004. 12 years later, the lineup consists of the multitalented, beautiful Brendon Urie. It’s impossible to not fall in love with Urie’s numerous octave range and the sophisticated beats behind him. No matter how much the band has changed, Death of a Bachelor still holds nostalgia reminisce from A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005), Vices & Virtues (2011), and their second-latest album Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die (2013). Songs like “Crazy=Genius” and “LA Devotee” make me believe that Brendon Urie is truly a musical mastermind. Panic! At The Disco pull in an alternative vibe, rock chords, then some pop backtracks.This band I’ve devoted far too much of my life to pretty much have their own genre at this point. I have no idea to what this band holds in the future, but I know it’s going to be something great. iTunes \| Spotify Band Official Website \| Twitter \| Instagram \| Facebook Kryptonite Twitter \| Instagram \| Tumblr \| Facebook @sophiesandmusic (Photo by Philip Jenkins) This entry was posted in Album & Track Reviews, Uncategorized and tagged album review, death of a bachelor album review, Death of a Bachelor review, Deathe of a Bachelor, new album review, new music review, panic at the disco review, panic! at the disco, reiview. Bookmark the permalink. ← Interview – The Red Fuze Playlist : ‘February \\ 2016’ → New interview posted with Future Thieves! Catch them tonight at @thegrogshop ✌🏼 New interview with Christian from @itstimeforjuice about their Cleveland show and brand new EP, ‘you are simply magnificent’ out today!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1503
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__label__cc	0.617101	0.382899	LoveBreedsAccountability Social and political evolution from a conservatarian perspective February 9, 2016 February 5, 2017 dht3265 Super Bowl 50 & Beyonce’s Divisive Black Supremacy First and foremost, how about them Broncos!? More importantly – how about that Peyton Manning!?!? Did he have the game of his life? Maybe not by the numbers, but Peyton brings a certain kind of leadership to the field that inspires anyone who has the privilege of playing on his team. In fact, the only thing I liked about football in high school was partying with the football players – and by college the only things I really liked about football was partying with the football players, and losing money every weekend betting on NFL games. My buddies and I would huddle up all hungover on Sunday mornings, pass the USA Today around and make our picks…then call in to our bookies, place our bets, order some Myle’s pizza and spend the rest of the day in pure bliss just grazing on some good food and watching our bets unfold. I’m just a year younger than the NFL’s storied #18 and I’ll never forget the first time I heard about him. “Peyton Manning? What a perfect name for a star quarterback,” I thought. And the fact that he played for the “Tennessee Volunteers” was just too perfect. We watched some college ball here and there and I’d heard of the “Vols,” but never knew it was short for “Volunteers” and just like Manning’s name…I thought, “Freaking perfect!” So there’s me: A bit of a party guy who was thoughtful enough with a solid work ethic that had me usually working two jobs while managing school and everything else…not a huge football fan but friends with the players and enjoyed making some bets here and there just to keep it interesting with my buds. Then along comes “Peyton Manning, the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers” – and I was hooked. It’s hard to describe, but I had a whole new appreciation for every aspect of the game – including the grueling hours put in by all of those players I was friends with who worked so hard for so little recognition, other than their own love of the game. Peyton Manning exceptionalized the game for me, in it’s entirety, and I couldn’t wait to follow him and his career. A Cleveland boy born and raised, you’re not really allowed to like any player or team outside of Cleveland. So when I graduated college and moved back to Cleveland where I’d start my own career in business…I had to keep my appreciation for Peyton Manning buried. But it was there. I was thrilled that he ended up with the Indianapolis Colts because their team always struck me as a tried-and-true, salt-of-the-earth type of franchise. Something about Indiana in general always seemed very genuine to me. So I loved Manning and followed his career as enthusiastically as I could without being called a sellout by my hometown Cleveland peers, and then I met my wife. She’s Indiana born and raised and while yes lots of women claim to like football but – no offense, ladies – don’t, she was truly a diehard Colts and Peyton Manning fan. We dated seriously for several years but when we got married in 2013 it became official: I had married in to the privilege of being allowed to cheer for her teams as much as my own. That means even when Peyton went to Denver (a real arch nemesis for Cleveland fans), I was still allowed to be a fan. Neither my wife nor I really cared at all about the Broncos, we just loved Peyton and by default any team he ended up on. And that brings us to Sunday, February 7th 2016: Super Bowl 50! Peyton Manning had been through so much in his career to get to this point. What an incredible leader and example he is. His quiet faith which he prefers to express through his actions rather than his words, resilience in the face of adversity, humility, staunch professionalism and integrity – his simple love for the game and his complex appreciation as a student of it. In every sense of the word or phrase – be it “The Sheriff” or “The Field General” – Peyton Manning is a shining example of all that’s right in football. And Super Bowl 50 was to be, potentially, a great exclamation point on his already historic career. The Broncos won, led by their outstanding defense which – say what you will – I promise were in some meaningful way inspired over the last several seasons by having Peyton Manning on their team, leading by example even during the tough times. And when it was over and the Broncos emerged victorious, that’s really all I knew about Super Bowl 50. That, and that Cam Newton was getting too much heat for not handling his post-game press conference well enough. (He’s a kid and a competitor, cut him some slack!) I was pretty wrapped up in the game itself, and that’s kind of how it goes with me. During halftime my wife and I were putting finishing touches on some 2nd half snacks, moving between high-fives and fits of anxiety wondering what the 2nd half would bring… It wasn’t until the dust had settled and Monday came around that I finally heard about Beyonce’s “leadership” as expressed during the halftime show. I’ve never been a fan of Beyonce. I admittedly grew up on some Eazy E and other less-than-respectable music, but for my part: I started playing the violin at 5 years old, the guitar at 14 and the piano at 18…all self-taught, all by ear, all by passion for the actual music. Never for fame or recognition. Never for bragging rights. There were songs throughout my life that I loved so much that I had to learn to play them. When I was 5 fiddling with the fiddle it was Bach’s Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring. At 14 on the guitar it was – you guessed it – Stairway To Heaven, and a few years later Phish’s Divided Sky that each in their own way led to my amateur mastery of just enough guitar to be dangerous and enjoy the hell out of a good jam session. At 18 on the piano it was Canon In D, which I learned roughly overnight using masking tape, different colored markers and a series of numbers and letters all laid out on my parents’ piano which I never touched before that night/morning. Ten years later and that rough version of Canon in D had become my own 10 minute arrangement and I even now tease a bit of John Lennon’s “Imagine” in the middle because I’d heard it in my mind’s ear for years and finally was able to make it happen. All my rough edges and lack of acumen or accolades aside, I’m very much a musical person…and when I’d hear Beyonce, even without seeing her, I knew this was the reality: She’s a stripper pretending to be a musical artist. Not a “musician” mind you, but a musical artist. And not actually a “musical artist” mind you, but a stripper pretending to be one. And of course, as all but the stupid and politically correct will attest, I’m 100% right about that. The Super Bowl is notorious for ruining music with the halftime shows. Even great bands and performers are somewhat “less” by the time they’re ground up in the sausage-making medley that must be churned out for the single most commercialized production on the planet. Let’s put it this way: If great artists like Slash, The Who, Petty and The Stones leave a lot to be desired when hobbled by the confines of Super Bowl halftime degradation…then words elude what comes out the other side when trash like Beyonce is put in. But this time around, it wasn’t just Beyonce’s music that was trash. As is so often the case with artistic dropouts like her, just being total con artists more than musical artists isn’t enough: They need to over-compensate for their musical failures and evoke some kind of “narrative” to really drive home their uselessness. And for Beyonce, on the world stage at Super Bowl 50, that narrative amounted to this: Black supremacy is terrific. Dressed like the stripper she is, Beyonce was backed by dancers donned in black leather and berets intended to capture the essence of the racist Black Panther movement. (For more on the Black Panthers today, enjoy this clip of one of their leaders insisting that it’s incumbent on black people to “kill white babies.”) The song that 75 other people wrote and she performed was a nod to the racist “Black Lives Matter” movement which insists – wrongly – that black people are perpetually aggrieved by the police. (I’ve written about the bigoted ills of the left and black lives matter movement many times on this blog. You can read about their aggressive denial of math and statistical science here, their good intentions here, their identity supremacy here and their grievance-induced paralysis here.) For Beyonce to come out and make the Super Bowl halftime show all about her nod to such a destructive, racist, regressive movement was a real testament to her lack of leadership. I’d be willing to bet Peyton’s Super Bowl win that her wannabe pimp husband, Jay Z, saw a great marketing opportunity in the Black Lives Matter movement and wanted to capture their download dollars with the greatest advertisement anyone could ask for if your target market is halfwits who are highly impressionable: The Super Bowl halftime show. Beyonce doesn’t care one bit about “the struggle” that black people endure, and if she did and did so thoughtfully – then she, like most of us on the right, would tell them that they’re the only ones still judging people based on skin color…and worse, they’re only doing it because historically-consistent Democrats trick them in to thinking that they should and that it’s good. She’d tell them that the reason they experience more run-ins with the police, and greater disparities with income and education, is because they also experience greater disparities with broken homes. Having been raised her whole life by two committed, hard-working, responsible parents – Beyonce doesn’t know anything about that struggle. And whether it would’ve been as a sales professional in the pharmaceutical industry (that’s where hot girls land) or as a world-famous superstar, Beyonce capitalized on the love and support those parents gave her by going on to be a successful and — most importantly — likely happy adult. But crippled by the left’s seductive insistence on endless grievance and the martyrdom it allows for, Beyonce chooses to ignore the obvious even though she herself was blessed by it: When you have two parents who stick together and lead by example, honoring their commitments to each other and inspiring their kids with love, then those kids will have a better shot at life. When you lack any element of that equation, then a young person’s chances of more hopelessness and fewer opportunities go up exponentially. If Beyonce truly cared about the disparities that black people in America endure, then she’d be making that case. But instead, like so many others including Barack and Michelle Obama, she’s out there perpetuating the narrative that America is racist and that’s why black people have such a hard time. It’s not because Democrats promise blacks and others that their lives should be hopeless and thus create a self-fulfilling prophecy fraught with broken homes and disparity of all stripes. That’s not it. It’s because America is racist. It’s because of “whiteness.” It’s because people don’t think black lives matter. It’s because of any number of lies that serve only to make the problems worse by misappropriating the blame. That is the kind of “leader” Beyonce Knowles chose to be. And what did it inspire? Well, just more racism from her loyal dolts fans who were on Twitter enjoying “white tears” and celebrating their black supremacy. Just like all the other Democrats who claim to be “helping” black people who do endure very real disparity, Beyonce decided to cash in on their imaginary grievance by dismissing and thereby perpetuating the actual grievance(s). And of course she got the added benefit of express approval from Michelle Obama, who also donned in all black said before the game: “I got dressed for the halftime show,” continuing “I hope Beyonce likes what I’ve got in.” So the song salutes “Black Lives Matter” while the dancers are dressed like Black Panthers and the routine includes the construction of a human “X” paying homage to the black supremacist and segregationist Malcolm X – and the First Lady of the United States couldn’t be happier, because this debacle of regression and racism inspires her to gleefully “care deeply” about enjoying it. I can’t help but wish all I knew about Super Bowl 50 was that Peyton Manning, who has led by example tremendously, continued to do so and was graced with a victory to earn him yet more well-deserved, historic records. But unlike Beyonce fans and the joyfully segregated and (metaphorically at a minimum) enslaved supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement – and worse still the outwardly racist Black Panthers – I don’t live my life with blinders on, and so I noticed. The good news is that just as young women are roundly rejecting Hillary’s insistence that they should vote for her just because she’s a woman, I think more and more black and brown people are awaking to the bigoted, regressive tendencies of con artists like Beyonce and Michelle Obama who actually want black people to endure division, disparity and destruction – because it’s ultimately better for their own profit and power margins. Am I right? Only time will tell. But in the interim, Beyonce is earning her scorn while Peyton Manning is earning his praise and I couldn’t be happier about both. And I’d say #BoycottBeyonce but honestly, I don’t know a single person who actually likes her or has ever spent a penny on the pseudo music she strips to that dozens of other people write on her behalf. Obviously they’re out there. I’m not going to sit here and try to say that she doesn’t actually have fans, because she does. But I don’t know any of them, and I’m very cool with that also. The company you keep… Personal Inspired & Inspiring Previous Useless Conservative Media Hates Trump Next Bernie Sanders Is Insane Libby Stack (@ohnostudio) says: Peyton – my hero. Have been loving the guy for many years. Music. I ad mire you – I have no musical talent whatsoever. I tried piano, guitar. I even tried to pick up the guitar again a few years ago. Disaster. I’m just not that music minded I guess. Beyonce – she’s just a pig. Nuff said. 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__label__cc	0.610436	0.389564	AS Vol.7 No.3 , March 2016 Dairy Farming Systems’ Adaptation to Climate Change Author(s) Emiliana Silva1, Armando Brito Mendes2, Henrique José Duarte Rosa3 1 CEEAplA, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal. 2 CEEAplA, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. 3 CITAA, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal. The measure of climate change in dairy farms can be achieved by using the emissions of methane by the ruminants converted in CO2 equivalent (CO2-eq). In order to know the impact of future quotes of methane in the Azorean dairy milk farms, a decision model is built to the Azorean intensive grazing system of dairy farms. Some scenarios of methane levels reductions from 10 to 75% are considered and their impact is evaluated upon dairy farms income, level of CO2-eq emissions and intensity level of grazing system. The results have shown that any reduction of the methane level always implies a consequent decrease in income. If the CO2-eq has to be limited than there is the need to find alternative income activities for farmers in order to preserve economic sustainability. Climate Change, Dairy, Economic Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Received 28 January 2016; accepted 20 March 2016; published 23 March 2016 Agriculture is an important source of global emissions of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), mainly from ruminant production. The negative impact of animal production is due to two main factors: the atmospheric pollution (carbon dioxide―CO2― and methane―CH4― from enteric fermentation and manure management and nitrogen emission from soils and manure management) and water and soil pollution (nitrogen and phosphorus). The methane emissions are mainly due to ruminant farming as the ruminants emit methane as part of their digestive process (enteric fermentation), manure management and other processes. The agriculture is estimated to be responsible for 540 million tons of CO2-eq in GHG emissions [1] and in the European Union (EU) it represents 9.2% to 11% of its total emission [1] [2] being France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Italy the major contributors (60% of the total). According to [1] in EU, the majority of CO2-eq in GHG emissions is from methane and nitrous oxide (5% and 4.3% of total, respectively). In the EU, the GHG agricultural emission fell 6% from 1990 to 1995 being the main sources the N2O from agricultural soils (50%), CH4 from enteric fermentation (35%) and CH4 from manure management (15%) [3] . The contribution of Portugal for the total of EU 15, is 1.5% of enteric fermentation, 5.3% of manure management and 1.1% of agricultural soils [3] . The recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms have decreased the GHG level because of the increased productivity, the reduction of cattle stocks, the improved management practices and the new agricultural and environmental policies [4] . According to the various scenarios of agricultural policy mitigation proposed by [5] , in EU-27, between 1990 and 2008, the CO2-eq level would be reduced by 20.2%, the methane by 18.4% and the nitrous oxide by 21.5%. For instance, in the last scenario, which applied a livestock emission tax, would result in a substantial decrease of the methane, nitrous oxide and CO2-eq levels (28.8%, 25.6% and 27.1%, respectively) but would be the worst economic scenario to Portugal, with a negative impact on the farms income. Therefore, the main objectives of this research are to estimate the amount of GHG emission (converted as CO2 equivalent) in Azores dairy farms and, by integrating this data in an Azorean agricultural decision making linear programme developed previously by [6] , to build scenarios for economic and environmental impacts on dairy farms. The results of this research can be applied to other similar productions systems. This study was carried out in the Azores, Portugal, where the agriculture is the main sector of its economy and represents 2.1% of the Portuguese global economy. The Azores is a Portuguese Archipelago (9 islands) located in the middle of North Atlantic-latitude (extreme points) 39˚43'23''N and 36˚55'43''N and longitude (extreme points) East 24˚46'15'' WG and West 31˚16'24'' [7] . Its surface area is 2322 km2 equivalent to 2.6% of Portuguese territory [8] . The Azores has a temperate Atlantic climate with an annual mean temperature of 17.6˚C (max 26˚C; min 12.5˚C), an annual mean air humidity of 80% and an annual mean rainfall of 1300 mm, which is well distributed around the year [9] . In 2009, the utilized agricultural area was 112,054 hectares (3.23% of Portugal) and comprised 13,149 farms (4.8% of Portugal). In the Azores, the meadows and permanent grassland represent about 89% of the agricultural area and 65.5% of the holdings and the average agricultural area per farm, in 2009, was 8.52 hectares [10] . The Azores islands produce mainly cow’s milk which contributes for about 30% of Portugal milk production and about 35% of Portuguese cheese being 12 Protected Designation of Origin cheeses, of which two are from the Azores: S. Jorge and Pico [11] [12] . The dairy milk quota in Portugal (2011) was 2.02 million tons and in the Azores was about 548 tons [13] . Portugal had, in 2009, 1391 thousand of cattle heads, including 278 thousands of dairy cows. The Azores archipelago contributed with 245 thousand cattle heads, of which 92 thousands were dairy cows [11] . Presently, no data are available neither on GHG emission from the Azorean dairy farms nor on the consequent effects of EU mitigation policies upon the farms economic income. Seven production systems types of Azorean dairy farms were defined by [14] , according with the indicators: 1) Specialisation (total dairy and beef cows minus dairy cows per dairy cows) and 2) intensity level (total cows per hectare). This study analysed only the intensive dairy milk typology, Type I?intermediate grazing systems (1.4 to 2.4 cows per hectare) and the mixed system (specialization 0.33 to 0.66) as this is the most representative system in the Azores and presents the biggest impact on GHG (methane emissions) of the regional animal grazing systems. According to [14] the main features of this group of dairy farms were on average as follows: agricultural area of about 15.5 hectares, number of dairy cows of about 36, number of cows per hectare of 2.4, net income per cow of 830.00? dairy production per cow of 5990 litres, feeding cost per hectare of 236.93?and fertilizer cost per hectare of 181.06?span style='color:#31849B;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-themeshade: 191'> [14] . The data used in this model came from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for Portugal, a European database. A linear programming model (see Appendix) was built to the Azorean dairy farms in order to achieve the main impacts of decreasing of CO2-eq. The model was adjusted from [6] and [15] who develop the Azorean dairy farm programming model. In this model, the decision variables can assume any value of the feasible set, and this is defined by constrains of the systems (land, agronomic, feeding and labour requirements, grazing systems, risk profit), and the new constrain CO2-eq emissions-following the assumption, as has been explored earlier, that cattle represents an important source of methane [16] . The [6] programming model had 15 activities (crop and livestock) as belonging to the decision making processes of the Azorean dairy farms and involves: direct pasture cultivation high altitude (ha); direct pasture cultivation medium altitude (ha); direct pasture cultivation and silage medium altitude (ha); direct pasture cultivation and hay medium altitude (ha); direct pasture cultivation low altitude (ha); direct pasture cultivation low altitude silage (ha); direct pasture cultivation and hay low altitude (ha); maize cultivation medium altitude (ha); maize cultivation low altitude (ha); annual crop winter medium altitude (ha); annual crop winter low altitude (ha); annual crop winter medium altitude (ha); annual crop winter low altitude (ha); kilos of concentrated feed (Kg); and the number of dairy animals. The objective of the model was the profit maximization (euro) as an indicator of economic performance. The model constrains were: total cultivation area per altitude (high, medium, low); rotational and agronomic considerations, (20% of the area was improved by maize over five years); different labour requirements concerning six periods and specific activities; risk profit (thousands of euro) over seven years; operational constrain; concerning six periods feeding and animal requirements of energy (UFL), protein digested in small intestine (PDI), calcium (CA) and phosphor (P), dry matter intake; intensity grazing system [6] . Finally, a new constrain was added, i.e., the methane emissions, intended to convert it at CO2-eq level. The CO2 equivalent was estimated by Tier II method [16] , with higher level of complexity but including a more specific information to Azorean dairy farms (Holstein breed). In the Azorean dairy farms it reaches the value of 115.5 kg of methane per cow per year. To estimate the emissions of methane in the Azores the formula of [16] was used. The data was calculated based on the average dairy cow in the Azores (Holstein breed) considered having a live weight of 580 kg and producing18 kg milk/day (based on 5500 kg per year-305 days of lactation). To convert methane into CO2-eq, the conversion index of 1 ton of CH4 = 25 ton of CO2-eq [16] was used. It was necessary to estimate the emission factor (EF) and the Gross Energy intake (GE) (MJ/head/day). The energy requirements for maintenance and production were about 155 MJ Metabolize Energy/head/day and the need for dry matter intake was 14.5 kg/head/day (mix of: grass, grass and maize silage and concentrate). As a result: GE = 14.5 (need of kg dry matter/head/day) × 18.7 (mean gross energy concentration of diet-MJ/kg Dry Matter) = 271 MJ/head/day, and EF = [271 × (6.5/100 × 365)]/55.65 = 115.5 kg CH4/head/year The value found for total methane emissions per cow and year was 115.5 kg which is very close to the [16] estimation for dairy cows in the Occidental Europe by Tier method (level 1), which was 117 kg. The data of IPCC (1995) cited by [3] show that the emission factor (kg CH4/head/yr.) was 100 for the dairy cow and 48 for other cattle. The main results of the model showed that if no limitation is imposed on methane emission, than dairy farms can reach an income of 55721?per year, producing 5611 kg of methane, and supporting about 3.2 animals per hectare as the level of intensification-corresponding to approximately 49 animals in the farm. If the methane emission level is restricted to 50% (being the emission of methane in the model of 2505 kg) than the profit will decrease to 27241? the level of intensification will be approximately 1.5 animals per hectare (about 24 cows per farm) and the total agricultural area will be fully used. If that level is reduced by 75% (i.e. 1403 kg), than the income will drop drastically to 13366?with only approximately 14 animals in the farm and the level of the grazing intensity system would go down to 0.84 animals per hectare (Figure 1 and Table 1). This data show the negative economic impact of decreasing levels of methane emission, mainly due to the effect that the reduction in cattle heads has on farmers’ income. The CO2-eq emission found was 2.9 ton/head for the Type I, intermediate grazing system, although other studies have been shown different figures because the emissions are affected by a multitude of factors including Figure 1. Impact of methane emission on yearly income of Azorean dairy farms. Table 1. Methane and CO2-eq emissions and farms characteristics in the Azores. breed, nitrogen level in the soil, level of production and others. [17] found that the Jersey cow (oriented for cheese production) presented a lower impact then the Holstein (oriented for milk production) while [18] argues that fertility improvement will decrease the methane emissions. [19] and [20] using the efficiency ratio (i.e. kg dairy milk per cow) in a research comparison, observed that the most efficient dairy cows reduces the maintenance requirements, as well as the kg of CO2-eq from 3.66 (1944) to 1.35 (2007). The farm nitrogen appears as a good proxy for GHG emissions per unit of land area. According with the results of [21] , the GHG emissions increase from 3.0 ton CO2-eq/ha/year (with a level of 56 kg N/ha/year) to 15.9 ton CO2-eq/ha/year (with a level of 319 kg N/ha/year). [22] reported that a reduction of 1 g of nitrogen per kg of milk reduced the GHG emissions per kg of milk of approximately 29 g CO2-eq. In 1985, the average dairy farms in the Netherland emitted 2.16 kg CO2-eq per kg milk, but in 2002 the emissions were reduced by 32% to 1.47 CO2-eq per kg milk. [23] showed that the extensive system (sheep farming) causes higher emissions per kg of milk than the semi-intensive system: 5.45 and 2.99 kg of CO2-eq, respectively. GHG emissions were at the level of 14.3 - 18.3 ton CO2-eq per ton of live weight in French suckler farms and the livestock was the main driver of global warming potential [24] . In all the scenarios modelled, system adjustments designed to minimize the drop in income had a very limited impact on GHG emissions. Figure 2 and Table 1 show that when the level of intensification drops from 3.2 to 0.84 heads per hectare, the CO2-eq per cow slightly decreases from 2.9 to 2.6 tons but the income of farms falls deeply (from 55721 to 13366?. In opposition to data from [25] , which suggest that the decrease of intensification increases the methane emission (while in North America a milk production of 9000 kg/cow/year originates 1.3 kg CO2-eq/kg of Figure 2. Intensification level (livestock heads per hectare) and CO2-eq (ton) in the Azorean dairy farms. milk, in the South Asia a production of 1000 Kg/cow/year results in 5 kg CO2-eq/kg of milk), the results of the present study showed a decrease (although small) in CO2-eq with a decrease (large) of intensification. [19] and [22] found respectively, 1.35 and 1.46 kg of CO2-eq per kg of milk, a value clearly higher than the 0.53 Kg, found in this work (it was considered in Azorean case, the value of 2.9 tons CO2-eq and the milk produced per cow of 5500 kg, which means: 2.9/5500 × 1000 = 0.53 Kg of CO2-eq per kg of milk). In the EU-27, [5] showed that to achieve the goal of 20% decrease of GHG emission, a livestock tax of 229?per ton CO2 should be applied. This value can be considered as a reference value. In this way, it is important to study the implications of methane level (converted to CO2-eq) for the Azorean dairy farms. According to the present case study, the tax per cow would be 664.1?(229?× 2.9), below the mean for the EU (1000?per cow), but still considerably detrimental for the Azorean dairy farms economic sustainability. 4. Concluding Remarks The animal production in the Azores is mainly oriented to the dairy. Dairy cows appear as the main source of methane emission and consequently as the main source of GHG emissions. In this research, only the effect of enteric fermentation is considered. Further research is needed to clarify the effect of the grass impact in the model, as the animals feed mainly on pasture. There is a conflict between the methane emissions (environmental performance) and income (economic performance). Greater income implies higher methane emissions and animal intensification. Therefore, if the European Union decides for a very rigorous legislation, this can strongly affect the cow’s milk production in Portugal and mainly in the Azores. That decision will have a great impact on the economic activity of the Azorean farms and can negatively affect the economic sustainability of its animal farms as well as the jobs created by agricultural activities. In the Azores, the impact of CO2-eq is 2.9 ton per cow and year when the intensification level is high (3.23 animals per hectare). For the intensification level of 0.84 animals per hectare, the CO2-eq is reduced to 2.6 ton per cow and year. To reduce the emission of enteric methane, it is necessary to reduce livestock heads, to improve feed conversion efficiency, including efficiency of the rumen and increase animal productivity. To decrease the emission from manure management, it is necessary to reduce the animal number, to optimize the feed digestibility, to increase animal productivity and improve the efficiency of the manure management system, as suggested by [3] . The abatement costs are recognizably very important to determine the role that agriculture could play in the reduction of GHG emissions in the EU [26] . However, the present study showed that much care is needed in order to maintain the economic sustainability of the Azorean dairy farms. The decision variables selected as belonging to the decision making processes of dairy farms was: X1―direct pasture cultivation high area (ha); X2―direct pasture cultivation medium area (ha); X3―direct pasture cultivation medium area and silage (ha); X4―direct pasture cultivation medium area and hay (ha); X5―direct pasture cultivation low area (ha); X6―direct pasture cultivation low area silage (ha); X7―direct pasture cultivation low area hay (ha); X8―maize cultivation medium area (ha); X9―maize cultivation low area (ha); X10―Annual crop winter medium area (ha); X11―Annual crop winter low area (ha); X12―Annual crop winter medium area (ha); X13―Annual crop winter low area ( ha); X14―kilos of concentrated feed (Kg); X15―number of dairy animals. Objective: Profit maximization, MB (? Model constrains: 1-4: Total cultivation area per altitude (high, medium, low); 5-7: Rotational and agronomic considerations, (20% of the area was improved by maize over five years); 8: different labor requirements concerning 6 periods and specific activities, and the possibility of finding work in the exterior of farm; 9-10: Risk profit (euro) over 7 years; 11-17: Feed and animal requirements of energy (UFL), protein (PDIE and PDIN), calcium (CA) and phosphor (P), and dry matter intake; 18 to 19: Intensity grazing system; 20: methane emission; 21: Negativity constrains. MB = Gross margin, MO = Familiar labor; SA = High altitude area SM = Medium altitude area SB = Low altitude area ST = Total area UFL = Animal requirements of energy, PDIE and PDIN = Protein, CA = Calcium, P = Phosphor, MS = Dry matter. Corresponding author. Silva, E. , Brito Mendes, A. and Duarte Rosa, H. (2016) Dairy Farming Systems’ Adaptation to Climate Change. Agricultural Sciences, 7, 137-145. doi: 10.4236/as.2016.73013. [1] APRODEV (2012) EU CAP Reform 2013, CAP Lobby Brief 7. Mitigating GHG Emissions and Promoting Sustainable Agriculture, March 2012, 1-7. www.aprodev.eu [2] European Commission (2009) The Role of European Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation. Commission of the European Communities, Brussels. [3] Bates, J. (2001) Economic Evaluation of Emission Reductions of Nitrous Oxides and Methane in Agriculture in the EU. Bottom-Up Analysis, Final Report, Contribution to a Study for a DG Environment, European Commission by Ecofys, Energy and Environment, AEA, Technology Environment and National Technical University of Athens. [4] Silva, E.S. and Marta-Costa, A. (2013) Agricultural and Environmental Policies in the European Union. In: Marta-Costa, A. and Silva, E., Eds., Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems, Application in the European Context, Springer, 9-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5003-6 [5] Pérez Domingéz, P.I., Fellmann, T., Witzke, H.-P., Jansson, T. and Oudengag, D. (2012) Agricultural GHG Emissions in the EU: An Exploratory Economic Assessment of Mitigation Policy Options. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. [6] Silva, E.S. and Berbel, J. (2004) A Decision Support Model for Dairy Farms. In: Schiefer, G. and Rickert, U., Eds., Quality Assurance, Risk Management and Environmental Control in Agriculture and Food Supply Networks, Vol. B, Proceedings of the 82nd EAAE, Universitat Bonn-ILB, Germany, 583-592. http://uf.ilb.uni-bonn.de/eaae/abstracts.cfm [7] SREA (2010) Os Açores em Números. Secretaria Regional de Estatística dos Açores, Portugal. [8] Massot, A. ( 2015) The Agriculture of the Azores Islands, Submitted to European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on the Occasion of the Delegation to the Azores Islands. [9] SREA (2014) Anuário Estatístico dos Açores. Secretaria Regional de Estatística dos Açores, Portugal. [10] SREA (2011) Os Açores em Números. Secretaria Regional de Estatística dos Açores, Portugal. [11] INE (2011) Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Recenseamento Agrícola 2009, Análise dos Principais Resultados, Edição 2011. http://www.ine.pt/ [12] INE (2009) Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Estatísticas Agrícolas 2008. [13] IFAP (2012) Instituto de Financiamento da Agricultura e Pescas. http://www.ifap.min-agricultura.pt/portal/page/portal/ifap_publico/GC_quotleite [14] Silva, E.S. and Berbel, J. (2007) An Azorean Farms Typology. New Medit, VI, 51-54. [15] Silva, E.S. and Mendes, A.B. (2014) Um Modelo para a Produção de Leite nos Açores. In: Oliveira, R.C. and Ferreira, J.S., Eds., Investigação Operacional em Ação-Casos de Aplicação, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 1st Edition, 105-131. [16] IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) (2007) 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol4.html [17] Capper, J. and Cady, R. (2012) A Comparison of the Environmental Impact of Jersey vs Holstein Milk for Cheese Production. Journal of Dairy Science, 95,165-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2011-4360 [18] Garnsworthy, P. (2004) The Environmental Impact of Fertility in Dairy Cows: A Modeling Approach to Predict Methane and Ammonia Emissions. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 112, 211-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2003.10.011 [19] Capper, J. and Bauman, D. (2013) The Role of Productivity in Improving The Environmental Sustainability of ruminant Production Systems. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 1, 469-489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-031412-103727 [20] Capper, J. and Caddy, R.D.B. (2009) The Environmental Impact of Dairy Production: 1944 Compared with 2007. Journal of Animal Science, 87, 2160-2167. http://dx.doi.org/10.2527/jas.2009-1781 [21] Olesen, J.E., Schelde, K., Weiske, A., Weisbjerg, M.R., Asman, W.A.H. and Djurhuus, J. (2006) Modelling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from European Conventional and Organic Dairy farms. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 112, 207-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2005.08.022 [22] Schils, R., Verhagen, A., Aarts, H., Kuikman, P. and Sebek, L. (2006) Effect of Improved Nitrogen Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intensive Dairy Systems in the Netherlands. Global Change Biology, 12, 382-391. [23] Sintorini, A., Tsiboukas, K. and Zervas, G. (2013) Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the Sheep Farming Activity in Greece: A Whole-Farm Mathematical Programming Approach. In: Marta-Costa, A. and Silva, E., Eds., Methods and Procedures for Building Sustainable Farming Systems, Application in the European Context, Springer, Dordrecht, 219-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5003-6_15 [24] Veysset, P., Lherm, M. and Bébin, D. (2010) Energy Consumption, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Performance Assessments in French Charolaissuckler Cattle Farms: Model-Based Analysis and Forecast. Agricultural Systems, 103, 41-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2009.08.005 [25] Food Agri. Organ. UN (2010) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector: A Life Cycle Assessment. Food Agri. Organ., Rome. [26] Cara, S.M. and Houzé, P.J. (2005) Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture in the EU: A Spatial Assessment of Sources and Abatement Costs. 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__label__wiki	0.773451	0.773451	Married Biography / Biography / James Neal James Neal Bio (Hockey Player) Last Modified November 6, 2019 Facts of James Neal Whitby, Ontario Canada Peter Neal Deborah Neal All Saints Catholic Secondary School Taurus, Capricorn View more / View fewer Facts of James Neal Relationship Statistics of James Neal What is James Neal marital status ? (single, married, in relation or divorce): Is James Neal having any relationship affair ?: Is James Neal gay ?: He is currently in a relationship with his girlfriend, Melanie Collins. Melanie is an American television personality by profession and famously known for being a host for a golf channel. It was reported that the pair are dating since 2014. The couple is enjoying a happy and loving life with each other now. 1 Who is James Neal? 2 James Neal: Age, Family 3 James Neal: Education, School/College University 4 James Neal: Professional Life, Career 5 James Neal: Awards, Nominations 6 James Neal: Net Worth ($20 Million), Income, Salary 7 Body Measurements 8 Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Who is James Neal? James Neal is a Candian professional ice hockey player who currents plays for National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames as a winger. Besides playing for Calgary Flames, he has also played for Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, and Vegas Golden Knights where he was also an alternate captain for Vegas Golden Knights and occasionally leads the side. James Neal: Age, Family James Neal was born on September 3, 1987. His birthplace is Whitby, Ontario Canada. Neal’s mother’s name is Deborah Neal, and likely, his father’s name is Peter Neal. He holds a Canadian nationality. Besides him, there are three brothers in his family James, Nick, and Peter. He was initially trained by his father in developing hockey skills. His brother, James plays in NHL for Nashville Predators. He also has a sister named Rebecca. His favorite team during his childhood was the Maple Leafs. James Neal: Education, School/College University Neal attended the All Saints Catholic Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, where he was given the nickname “Whitby Wizard”. James Neal: Professional Life, Career He made his professional playing career debut with the NHL team, Dallas Stars in 2007 and after playing a couple of seasons with Dallas Stars, he later went to play for Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators. Neal was picked as part of the draft with the Vegas Golden Knights in 2017. He has also represented the Canadian national ice hockey team and lead his team to secure Gold medals at the World Junior Championship and silver medal in IIHF World Championship. James Neal: Awards, Nominations He has received different awards. In 2009, he received the award in YoungStars Game. And in All-Star Game, he receives the award in the year 2012, 2016, 2018. Likely, he was honored the best performers over the season with the name NHL All-Star Team in the years 2011 and 2012. James Neal: Net Worth ($20 Million), Income, Salary The thirty-one years old currently has an estimated net worth over $20 million. Currently, he is under the 5 years $28,750,000 contract with the Calgary Flames, including $28,750,000 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $5,750,000. He previously had a two-year contract that earned him $ 2.25 million in the first year that rose to $ 3.5 million the following year with Dallas Stars. Neal also signed a contract for 5 years worth $30 million with the annual salary of $ 5 million with the Pittsburg Penguins in 2012. James Neal stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs around 100 kg. And he has colored light brown hair and light green colored eyes. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter He is active on different social media networking sites. He is active on Instagram with over 87.7K followers. Likely, he also has his account on Twitter and has collected over 187K followers. Also get to know the bio, birth facts, career, awards, net worth, social media of various other players like Kyle Guy, Olivia Simmons, Jason Castro, Ronaldinho, Philippe Coutinho. Micheal Haley Photos of James Neal James Neal at west point with shoulder mounted RPG(source: pinterest) James Neal brings smiles to kids (source: smilezone) Calgary Flames' James Neal has teeth fly out of mouth after he's high-sticked (source: thepublicopinion) James Neal with Malenie Collins (source: pinsdaddy) Tags : Candian Ice hockey player NHL Related Posts on James Neal Update: Bisexual Anne Heche’s recently released movie ‘Armed Response’, her relationships, and her unhappy and sexually abused childhood! Matthew “Matt” Stajan Bob McKenzie Gustav Nyquist Lauren Cosgrove Steve Yzerman	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1544
__label__cc	0.643309	0.356691	Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator S. Affatato, G. Ferrari, J. Chevalier, O. Ruggeri, A. Toni Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli This study was aimed at characterizing the ceramic wear particles produced during tests on a hip joint wear simulator of up to 10 million cycles. Alumina and alumina-zirconia composites were studied as commercial or potential hip joint products respectively. No ceramic particles could be observed, even after a careful isolation procedure. This confirms the low wear rate found for these materials in previous works (of the order of tenths of milligrams per million cycles). Surface characterization was conducted by means of scanning electron microscopy. It confirms the low wear regime of ceramic pairings and allows ceramic wear debris morphology to be defined. The effect of microstructure on surface wear is discussed. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine https://doi.org/10.1243/095441102321032210 Wear of materials Ceramic debris Million cycles Particulate characterization Surface degradation Affatato, S., Ferrari, G., Chevalier, J., Ruggeri, O., & Toni, A. (2002). Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 216(6), 419-424. https://doi.org/10.1243/095441102321032210 Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator. / Affatato, S.; Ferrari, G.; Chevalier, J.; Ruggeri, O.; Toni, A. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, Vol. 216, No. 6, 2002, p. 419-424. Affatato, S, Ferrari, G, Chevalier, J, Ruggeri, O & Toni, A 2002, 'Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator', Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, vol. 216, no. 6, pp. 419-424. https://doi.org/10.1243/095441102321032210 Affatato S, Ferrari G, Chevalier J, Ruggeri O, Toni A. Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine. 2002;216(6):419-424. https://doi.org/10.1243/095441102321032210 Affatato, S. ; Ferrari, G. ; Chevalier, J. ; Ruggeri, O. ; Toni, A. / Surface characterization and debris analysis of ceramic pairings after ten million cycles on a hip joint simulator. 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__label__cc	0.712908	0.287092	Colorado Governor Signs Bill Protecting Hemp Growers' Rights to Water The bill protects hemp farmers using water from federal reservoirs. by Chris Moore \| news \| May 23, 2017 This weekend, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill to protect hemp farmers who are using water from federal reservoirs. Hemp cultivation has been legal in the state since 2014, but is still federally prohibited, which could pose serious problems for hemp farmers using water from federal lands. Republican state Senator Don Coram introduced Senate Bill 117, titled “Recognize Industrial Hemp Agricultural Product for Agricultural Water Right,” which grants Colorado water-right holders the right to use water from federal reservoirs as long as they are registered by the state to grow hemp for commercial or research purposes. The bill passed the state Senate 99-1, and has now been signed into law. “The facts are that Colorado water rights are owned under Colorado law, and they can be used to grow hemp, which the state legalized,” state Rep. Marc Catlin said. “The federal government saying they cannot is overreach.” Industrial hemp can be used to produce textiles, soaps, fuel, and many other products, and Gov. Hickenlooper believes it could become a valuable cash crop for the state. “Hemp is a very versatile product with a lot of uses, and it does not make sense why it’s [federally] illegal,” the governor said. “Having it grown and processed in the state could create a new niche market.” newsagricultureBusinesspoliticsLegislationcoloradoHemp	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1557
__label__wiki	0.757034	0.757034	Section 9. 1960-1975 "The Vietnam War" Those Marines who spent their lives and energies building an active combat support role for Marine Corps counterintelligence (CI) during the Vietnam War, developed into a aggressive group of individuals. From the early years of the Vietnam War until its conclusion Marine CI operated as small units or individually with other military allied services. To quote J.J. Flanagan; a former CI Marine "I believe we were then, and still remain, a closely knit brotherhood within the Marine Corps CI framework. Once a Marine - always a Marine ... as the saying goes." Events thoughout the Vietnam War where Marine CI was involved covered an extensive period of time (1960-1975). To document each and every event would fill many volumes. In order to present this historic period and place it in its proper prospective, only those significant events and those individuals who took part in them are depicted herein. At the initial onset of U.S. activities in Vietnam, Marine CI focused its attention on inserting its personnel within the Republic of South Vietnam to act as military advisors. Once the U.S. military buildup was in full swing, and up until the fall of Saigon, six Marine Corps CI teams had been deployed to support the war effort. Most journals, reports or plans pertaining CI operations were classified. In the past fifteen year, however, many of these records have been officially declassified. Where possible, many events involving Marine CI were extracted from official records, declassified reports, and open source information to improve the scope of this history. It is hoped that this period of CI History will tell the story of what the Counterintelligence field was like during the Vietnam War years... Unfortunately, many CI Teams Activity Reports, Command Chronologies and operational reports depicting Marine CI operations, etc., were destroyed or lost over the years. Without the help of these individuals who lived these events, this history would be incomplete. I would also like to give my special thanks to MSgt Terry Jesmore USMC (Ret.), who in the beginning of this period of CI history assisted me by providing many long hours collecting and recording many events where Marine Corps CI took an active role during the Vietnam War - "Thanks Terry." The period from 1960 through 1965 saw the deployment of Marine Corps Counterintelligence (CI) assets in support of both the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Haiti uprising, and the Dominican Republic Campaign. It was during this period that Marine CI enhanced its Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection capability and provided a direct combat support role to the Fleet Marine Force. Personnel assigned to Marine CI demonstrated an added benefit of direct involvement in combat operations and began to convince senior commanders that CI was more than a passive rear service unit; filling out individual clearance applications, conducting Physical Security Evaluation (PSE), and inspections to test a units secruity positure. In 1964, a number of CI Marines entered the Republic of South Vietnam (RVN). They served as advisors or where assigned to special assignments. In 1965, as the Marine Corps began deployment of its forces to South Vietnam, Marine CI were sent as attachments - in the same piece-meal manner that both line and aviation units filtered into the country. In many of its initial assignments, CI assets were hampered by an undefined set of operational rules or a mission. Too often this was the case, CI assets were relegated to Staff CI functions, physical security evaluations and various types of surveys. Additionally, not fully understanding the potential use of Marine CI, many commanders reverted to the traditional use of intelligence assets. However, as time went forward, many opportunities surfaced for CI to be used in a true combat support role. By 1967 the CI mission was further defined through staff work at the I Corps level. Marine CI conducted liaison with many agencies in and outside of South Vietnam. The Pacification Program presented Marine CI with a considerable challenge to which they were particularly suited for such a roles. Encouragement from CAS/CORDS advisors built support for the utilization of CI assets to provide intelligence on the shadow government of the Viet Cong Infrastructure. III Marine Amphibious Force (MAF), Staff CI author and published orders that set the priority and mission of how Marine CI assets were to be utilized; identify, locate and neutralize the Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI). Equally important was to use CI intelligence to aid in the recovery and accountability of both allied and Marine prisoners of war (POWs) or personnel missing in action (MIA's). Secondary to this mission was that CI would provide combat intelligence developed from low level sources in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN) intelligence agencies and to coordinated their operations with allied forces. This mission established a direct command reporting chain to III MAF that oftened bypassed local commands. In situations, a dual reporting structure was established to some commands. Wherever possible, CI assets provided assistance and carried out additional assignments as directed by the 3rd Marine Division. Basically, there were three reason why CI assets took on these additional roles. First, to aid tactical units in screening indigenous personnel. Second, to conduct field interrogation of enemy POWs which were of a CI interest and finally, to neutralize a specific CI target, by giving as much CI assistance as possible. In some cases, CI units were assigned to participate in an operation through message traffic from higher headquarters. At times, Marine CI developed enough information on a specific target to initiate a combat operation with the main focus of neutralizing a specific target. However, which was most often the case, CI personnel would heard of an operation in a particular area of interest and would requested permission to go into that area with a tactical unit so information couldbe obtained and assist in creating a data base file on the enemy. Theater control of intelligence sources resulted in the intermeshing of human intelligence (HUMINT) collections - low level sources developed by Marine CI was a result of a country wide collection program. Through the direction of the Office of the Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador in the Republic of South Vietnam, a system of operational interest and control of HUMINT assets began to be developed. This was reflected in a HUMINT control order initiated by I Corps and III MAF making low level agents recruitment by Marine CI subject to a theater operation of interest and development of a control registry. This established the flow of money and reporting requirements. It also caused Marine CI personnel to be attached as advisors to the Republic of South Vietnamese (RVN), Police Special Branch for close coordination and direction from the CAS/COORD advisors. This activity was most important in the establishment of the District Intelligence Operations Coordinations Centers (DIOCC) and Marine CI directly involvement in the "Phoenix Program" at all levels. Marine Corps Counterintelligence Involvement Prior to 1965 The Marine Corps operational involvement in the Vietnam War began some three years before the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed across Red Beach on March 1965 in the Bay of Da Nang. The Corps involvement actually began on 15 April 1962, when Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 362 arrived at Soc Trang in the Delta just south of Saigon with its UH-34 SIKORSKY helicopters. A week late, the squadron, which was called "Shu-fly," began lifting and deploying the Republic of South Vietnam Army (ARVN) units into the country-side to engage Viet Cong forces. In 1963, several CI Marines received orders to South Vietnam to assist the South Vietnamese Army in the role as military advisors. During the later part of July 1964, several members from the 5th CIT received temporary duty orders (TAD) for assignment with Army's 704th (CI) Detachment in the Republic of Vietnam. Figure 15. CWO2 McMakin with Gunnery Sergeant Carlson and Sergeants Curley and Lantz Figure 16. Marines Attached to the 704th CIC Receiving Awards On 4 August 1964, CWO2 John F. McMakin, along with GySgt Edgar M. Carlson, and SSgts Robert W. Curley and William C. Lantz reported for duty. The 704th mission was to provide CI support to the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) in their intelligence collection effort. In order not to cause a great deal of attention, CWO McMakin and the other CI Marines were issued South Vietnamese identification cards and passes. At the same time, the South Vietnamese Government was experiencing intense political unrest. Routinely, CWO McMakin and the other CI Marines would venture into the country-side collecting intelligence information on key individuals responsible for the unrest and demonstrations directed against the South Vietnamese Government. According to CWO McMakin, "During these demonstrations and protests against the South Vietnamese Government, many rolls of film were used to photograph and record these events. Once the film had been processed, the film would be analyzed by the 704th in order to develop the infrastructure of the Viet Cong, and create the so-called Black, Gary and White (BGW) List." On 5 October 1964, CWO McMakin and the others CI Marines departed Vietnam returning back to the 5th CI team space in the United States. Because of their outstanding contribtion to the 704th CI, a "Letter of Appreciation" noting their outstanding efforts was issued by Brigadier General C. A. Youngdale, Assistant Chief of Staff, J-2, MACV on 8 October 1964. Early in 1965, another group of Marine CI reported for temporary duty with the 704th CI. The temporary duty was for a period of 4-5 months. The group included, Captain Eugene Burlson, CWO2 Donald Lorentzson, and Sergeant B. Voronin. CWO2 Lorentzson remembered, "While in Vietnam working with the 704th, we all worked under civilian documentation and lived on the ecomony. These civilian documents were issued by the Vietnamese National Police and the Military Security Service (MMS)." From August 1964 until July 1967, the 2nd Counterintelligence Team, was administratively attached to 2nd Force Reconnaissance, and physically located at Camp Geiger, N.C. Sergeant Harry Manchester recalled that "one of the significant events during this period was a 60 day TDY assignment to a "covered" position overseas. Team members assigned to the 2nd CIT were: Capt William Gentry - Team Commander CWO J.C. Lord - Sub-team Commander 1stLt Joyner - Sub-team Commander 2ndLt Ed Kemmis - Sub-team Commander 2ndLt Russ Shroyer - Sub-team Commander MSgt Summers - Team Chief SSgt Floyd Jones - Team member Sgt Thomas H. Marino - Team member Sgt Harry Manchester - Team member GySgt Robinette - Team member SSgt Jack - Team member Counterintelligence Team Synopsis On 22 December 1964, Staff Sergeants Jack Stevenson and R. P. Brown - better known as "10 Fingers Brown" - were sent from the 3rd CIT to South Vietnam with the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB). Soon thereafter, they began conducting liaison visits with all U.S. Forces in Vietnam. The main purpose of these visits according to SSgt Brown, were "to determine what procedures would be followed pertaining to civilian control in and around the MEB's sector of responsibility." After setting up shop and running some preliminary intelligence missions, it was determined that the Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI) had placed the commanding general, along with the chief of staff of the MEB on their assassination list. During the latter part of February and into the early part of April 1965, Staff Sergeant R. P. Brown was sent to Phu Bai to establish a CI base camp. SSgt Stevenson remained with the 9th MEB at Da Nang until the remainder of the 3rd CIT arrived in country. At Phu Bai as SSgt Brown remembers, "CI really started to get underway. Liaison was reestablished with the local CAST unit - which was an advisor to the National Police in each province." Also according to SSgt Brown, "In one coordinated effort with a newly established Combined Action Company (CAC), CI along with the CAC went on an operation into one of the villages located south of Phu Bai where a suspected group of Viet Cong were conducting in a recruiting efforts." The main purpose of the operation was to capture and/or destroy the Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI) so CAC could step-up their programs. "As the operation began around dawn and just outside the village, the patrol began to receive small arms fire. Under orders, return fire was prohibited even though we knew where it was coming from," as SSgt Brown remembered. The S-3, who was also a member of the party, gave the order to break-off contact and return to the base camp at Phu Bai. Back at Phu Bai, a relationships with both the CAST representatives and the local Police Chief were developed. They began assisting Marine CI in gathering intelligence information on habitants within Phu Bai's tactical area of responsibility (TOAR). SSgt Brown noted "because of this coordinated effort, when Marine CI requested assistance in its operations, the chief of police would provide anywhere from 25 to 100 police officers to assist in capturing or destroying those VCI within the area." On one such occasion, Marine CI, along with over 100 police officers, raided a village and capturing a large group of suspected VCs. During one of the interrogations, it was confirmed that the majority of the village habitants were communist members of the Viet Cong National Liberation Front (VCNLF). Also, these interrogations produced a lot of good intelligence information that was subsequently passed to the National Police in Phu Bai. In late April 1965, SSgt Brown was promoted to Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt) and remained at Phu Bai until he rotated back to the United States. Two years later, Brown would return for a second tour to South Vietnam. March 1965, a Marine CI sub-team from 3rd CIT landed on Red Beach with the 1stMarine Brigade, The landing site was on the outskirts of Da Nang City. The sub-team's mission was to furnish CI combat support to the brigade. A short time thereafter, the remainder of the 3rd CI Team moved from its home base at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan and reported to South Vietnam. Members of the 3rd CIT were: Capt Don Davis - Team Commander Capt Schaffer - Staff CI, 3rd Div Dick Rhomas - Supply Myrza "Harry" Baig - Sub-team Cmdr CWO1 Robert A. Connly - Sub-team Cmdr CWO2 Kenneth Clem - Sub-team Commander Don Dunnagan - Acting Team Chief John Young - Team member Bruce Moulton - Team member Jack Baldwin - Team member Bob Karp - Team memeber ... Dean - Team member Don Finney - Team member O.W. Bledsoe - Team member Merle Reese - Team member Members assigned to the 3rd CIT during this period completed 9-11 month tours, while others completed a 13 month tour with the 13th CIT. CWO Connly and a CI Marine by the name of Jack Stepheson got caught up in an RVN flap with the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade under the command of General Davis..... which is not to be mentioned here !!! Several months later, the 7th CIT reported to South Vietnam. During late summer and around the close of 1966, the 1st CIT followed by both the 5th and 15th CIT landed in South Vietnam to setup and conduct CI operations. Members of the 1st CIT were: CWO2 Ken Clem CWO Jim Crum SSgt Jack Herse SSgt Lotz SSgt Howey Sgt Burton Sgt R. Jarvis Sgt Fitmaurice Joining the 1st CIT a short time later were: Otis Beldsoe Al Falcon Loyd Walker Charles Boles Bud Busko Other CI Marines who passed through the 1st CIT during this time frame were: Tom Cunningham Robert Varn S.E.Thomas Denver D. Scott 1st Division Staff Counterintelligence Yanochik Rhyme Garris Members of the 5th CIT were: Capt J. Hennessy - Team Commander Capt W. A. Burton - Sub-team Commander Capt D.F. Beggen - Sub-team Commander Capt C.L. Carpenter - Sub-team Cmdr lst Lt E.B. Burleson,Jr - Sub-team Cmdr CWO2. J.F. McMakin - Sub-team Cmdr MSgt L.Charles - Team Chief GySgt E.M. Carson - Team member GySgt R. Albritton - Team member GySgt J.E. Malstron - Team member GySgt W. Ferris - Team member GySgt R.E.Robinette - Team member GySgt W. Powell - Team member GySgt W.C. Lantz - Team member GySgt R.H.Gurley - Team member Sgt Woods - Team member Sgt J. Justice - Team member SSgt D.W. Lorentzson - Team member SSgt B.Voronin - Team member CWO4 H.Haught - Staff CI WO1 C.I. Handley - Staff CI GySgt C.L.Cline - Staff CI During this period Captain W.A. Burtson from the 5th CIT remarked that "team activities for this period generally centered on providing CI support to Headquarters, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific and to the 1st Marine Brigade." Support also included, conducting both security surveys and inspections; security lectures pertaining to Defense Against Mechanism Entry (DAME) and Defense Against Surperticious Entry (DASE); monitoring and collection of CI information on areas within Southeast Asia area; and monitor collection and classification of CI information. Captain Burton further noted that, "several mount-outs (Movement of personnel and equipment) in support of Joint Task Force 116 contingency plans were conducted and several teams members filled various line numbers during these tests." In order to enhance Marine Corps CI training, an group of enlisted CI Marines attend a eight week Military Assistant Training Advisors (MATA) course, at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort. Bragg, North Carolina. CI Marines attending this course were the first enlisted Marines to attend. Included were: SSgt Richard Shamrell GySgt Bob Johnson SSgt George Nemeth SSgt Gene Santee Other who attended the course afterwards were: 1stLt J. Guenther CWO2 M. Handly MSgt J. Foley The main focus of the course according to R. Shamrell, "was designed to assist and advise allied military organizations on how to conduct and perform military operations, etc." 31 December 1964 - January 1966 Once the course was completed, SSgt Shamrell and the other CI Marines received orders directing them to report to South Vietnam for duty. SSgt Gene Santee was assigned to the 525th Army Military Intelligence (MI) in Siagon. 1stLt John Guenther, CWO2 Mike Handley, MSgt Jerry Foley and SSgt Shamrell, were assigned to the Naval Advisory Detachment Security element, Special Operations Group (SOG) MACV in DaNang. These Marines were the first to complete a full 13 month tour of duty in South Vietnam; Others CI Marines prior to this time spent an average period of six months or less. Regimental Landing Team (RLT) 7, commanded by Colonel Peatross, deployed to the Republic of Vietnam, May 1965, along with half the deployable assets of the 1st Counterintelligence Team. Two CI sub-teams, mostly made up of volunteers, deployed with the Regimental Landing Team. CWO Clem,and Bledsoe (who really didn't have to go) Sergeants Falcon, Walker, Boles and a clerk loaded their equipment into a jeep and a 3/4 ton truck with trailer. In preparation for the movement, CWO Kenneth W. Clem noted that "Great pains were made to not only obliterate all tactical markings on vehicles, cargo and personnel equipment, but special attention was given to preclude the dissemination of our destination; what route we were to travel, etc., etc. Things went quite well while outloading from San Diego, California. The RLT didn't even know where the scheduled stop-overs would be enroute to an undisclosed destination in the Far East". When the RLT stopped in Hawaii, the newspapers had detailed accounts about RLT-7, its composition, and where it was headed, etc. It was later noted that information concerning RLT-7 had been released by the Public Information Office, Headquarters, FMFPAC to the press - the same command that instructed RLT-7 to execute maximum OPSEC. OPSEC? What OPSEC? On 5 June 1965, during the morning hours before dawn, the Marble Mountain Air Facility was hit by a Viet Cong ground attack by over 200 sappers. SSgt Shamrell, assigned to the Naval Air Detachment, remembered the events of the attack. He explained that "all the Viet Cong sappers (individuals carrying explosives next to their bodies), were in the nude, except for the loin cloths covering their private parts, in an effort to blend with the sand during darkness." The surrounding terrain as Shamrell continued "was like one big beach with tan colored sand. The Seabee Battalion across the roadway from the air facility was kept pinned down by a couple of .50 caliber machine guns throughout the attack." Shamrell further explains that "as the sappers reached and planted their explosives in and around the helicopters positioned on the flight-line, the explosions and the activity created by the Viet Cong could be heard and seen for many miles. It was the first real attack by the Viet Cong on U.S forces deployed around Da Nang City and showed just how vulnerable we were." The air facility location was south at one end of Dawning Peninsular road, while the Headquarters of the Naval Advisory Detachment (NAD) was at the other end and based at the foot of Monkey Mountain. About halfway between the two facilities was the village of My Khe, where both the Navy Seals and Marine Corps Reconnaissance units were camped. Soon after the attack had begun, the Commander of the Naval Advisory Detachment, Lieutenant Commander Fay, was about to drive his jeep to a camp site near the My Khe Village. SSgt Shamrell noted that he had often escorted the commander to the village. Prior to the commander's departure, he stopped by the security office and asked for Shamrell - he had wanted Shamrell to accompany him. CWO-2 Tony Cinnotti, who had relieved CWO Handley, told the commander that "Shamrell was positioning sailors around the perimeter of the Headquarters and would be back soon." In a rush, the commander departed towards the village unescorted. As the activity of the attack decreased, SSgt Shamrell recalled, "after the attack, the commander's jeep was found a couple miles from NAD Headquarters. He had been shot during the attack and subsequently died of wounds as he was heading for the camp site near My Khe. Due to the commander's impatience - not waiting for me - I might have been shot and become another statistic of the Vietnam War." In memory of the commander, the camp site was named after him. MSgt Foley recalled that "the commander really enjoyed the presence of having Marine CI attached to his Headquarter. He often referred to Marine CI as "Foley's bandits". Shamrell's assignment was the advisor to a company of Nungs, tasked with the security of the NAD Naval Base and portions of the Monkey Mountain peninsula. Shamrell had two 40 foot sea-going Junks assigned to him. Each Junk had a three man Vietnamese crew and a five-man Nung landing/boarding party. Each of the junks was equipped with a .50 caliber Machine Gun (MG) that mounted on the rear, a .30 caliber Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), and a variety of other small arms, grenades and pyrotechnics. Their mission was to keep fishermen from entering within 500 meters of the peninsula, board any suspicious craft and investigate anything that might cause suspicion ashore. Marine CI personnel often patrolled with the Junks. Shamrell said, "he usually thought of the comic strip "Terry and the Pirates" when he boarded the junk on patrol, especially when he wore his campaign hat. The old Chinese hands in the comic strip had nothing on the Nung crew." 1st CIT (Forward) with two sub-teams that had deployed with RLT 7 had been dropped off in Okinawa to replace the 3d CIT as it deployed with the 3rd Marine Division units into South Vietnam. In August 1965, these sub-teams in Okinawa departed for Da Nang aboard what was probably one of the oldest Landing Ship Transports (LSTs) in the naval service. After arriving, CWO2 Clem recalls that "we were still assigned to the 1st CIT and came under the operational controll of III MAF. This sure made things tough for us." CWO Clem further noted that "Capt Knepp the 3rd CIT Commander, had confiscated our vehicles as the 3rd CIT vehicles were essentially derelict. The Team Commander must have a vehicle to do his assigned mission was his remark for taking the vehicle. From then on a very bad taste soon developed between the 1st CI Detachment and the 3rd CIT. Captain Yanochik, Staff CI at III MAF was summoned to resolve the issue. A short time thereafter, 1stLt Otis W. Bledsoe, and recently joined GySgt Bill Lantz, were sent to Phu Bai to be with Jack Stephenson, who was scheduled to be rotated back to the States in November 1965. Around the same time GySgt William N. Brown Sr., was medevac'ed from Phu Bai after being diagnosed as possibly having Turburclosis. Due to enemy action throughout I Corps, Vic Congers and Charles Boles were sent to Chu Lai to work with the 7th Marines; Loyd Walker, Al Falcon and the clerk stayed at Da Nang." Also during this time frame, the 1st CIT was formed at Camp Pendleton, California and subsequently deployed with the 1st Marine Division in 1966. Other members assigned to the 3rd CIT were: MSgt Roy E. Abercrombie GySgt Charles J. Alderman Jr. SSgt Vic Conger SSgt Richard A. Conrad Sgt G. Deering Sgt Jurevich 1st Lt Linstrom CWO Kenneth W. Clem Otis Bledsoe Jack Stephenson Bill Lantz Al Falconi MSgt J. E. Malstrom - Staff CI CWO McClenithan - Staff CI CWO Hank Singer - Staff CI Captain William A. Burton reported to 3dBattalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. The Division's G-2, had him reassigned to 1st CI Team. The Staff CI at division at the time was 1stLt J. Gorman and GySgt A. W. Bromley. Most of the division had already deployed to the Republic of Vietnam. During this same period, Major P. X. Kelley - who was from the Marine Corps Development and Educational Command (MCDEC), Quantico, Virginia - was on Temporary Additional Duty (TAD) with III MAF. For some unexplainable reason, MSgt Lad Walker who was assigned to III MAF Staff CI, along with Major Kelly, went up on top of Walker's tent. While atop the tent and in some sort of conversation, Walker drew and discharged his .38 caliber pistol - going through the floor below them, scaring the hell out of both of them. Walker didn't realize at first what had just happened and looked at Kelly. It was eivdent that Walker was shaken. Kelly on the other hand, remained composed and offered Walker some advise "it does fire, that's nice to know"! Nothing of the incident was ever mentioned again. Elsewhere, CWO Clem received an urgent call to come to Da Nang from Phu Bai to provide technical services. Apparently someone had found a device in the G-3 Operations Area. Clem related that he laughed like mad when the device was described as being a transmitter built into a paper holer. The device was one that Clem had previously built on Okinawa in 1964-65 and used it to penetrate the SSO space of the division. After being used on Okinawa, Col Dutton, G-2 kept the device, it was the last time Clem had seen it until it showed up in the G-3 Operations Area. Major Kelley hearing of the incident phoned CWO Clem to ensure that the device didn't pose a threat, etc. Clem assured Kelly, that the device did not pose a threat and was only a dummy. In November 1965, Captain Jack E. Stephenson departed Phu Bai and CWO Clem took over as the sub-team commander. GySgt Lantz and SSgt Bledsoe were sent to the Phu Bai sub-team from Da Nang. SSgt Boles came up from one of the sub-teams in Chu Lai. CWO Hank Singer joined the sub-team at a later date. Prior to his departure; Captain Stephenson, 10 Fingers Brown, and a Naval Medical Officer constituted the 3rd Counter-Medical Team (Rein). The Navy Medical Officer had been banned from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines by the Executive Officer for some personal reasons. The Lieutenant, not questioning the reassignment, relied on both Stephenson for shelter from the elements and his contemporaries at the nearby "A" Med. Together, they "survived" in a sandbagged, mildew-ridden Command Post-45 (CP) tent that was situated near the airfield and next to the Prisoner of War (POW) Compound. Provost Marshals Office (PMO) was an additional duty for the CIT Det Officer. One of the sharper MP Marines at Phu Bia was a Corporal by the named of Toney Gribble - who later became a CI Marine. The detachment had several interpreters; an individual by the name of Hung, in his late 30s-40s, was regrouped from North Vietnam. It appeared that Hung, reportedly a previous Airborne Officer Candidate at Dalat, was caught up in a so-called 'mutiny' in the early 1960s. All the candidates were imprisoned on the island. Later as the story goes, Hung was used as a northern/central dialect and French interpreter in the GVN's dealing with the imprisoned Buddhist radical Thich Tri Quang and two other Thichs. It appeared that Hung could have walked up to Thich Tri Quang without any interference. However, Quang was whisked off to Hue City. Hung was a good interpreter from a HUMINT point of view. However, "he had to be watched carefully when he sensed that a suspect was lying to him - CI lost more mosquito net poles to Hung than to the rats" as Captain Stevenson recalled. Hung had a continuing skirmish with the Military Security Service (MSS) for some unexplained reason. CWO Clem noted that "the only time he saw Hung stymied was when CI was attempting to interrogate several villagers from the Co Bi-Thanh Tan area northwest of Hue." These people had not been out of their hamlet in over 500 years, and their language was separate and distinct and being situated into the hills. There seamed to have more contact with the hill people rather than with the cultured officials from Hue. CWO Clem also noted that "they collectively had more toes, thumbs and fingers than most other areas inhabitants in the northern provinces." Another South Vietnamese interpreter by the name of Phouc, of Cambodian extraction, was used when dealing with people in the country side. He did not have the French or Central dialect that Hung posed. Both interpreters stayed on with the CI in Phu Bai and later moved south in 1968 to the 1st CIT. CWO Clem recalled that "Hung was with Sam Moyers (7th CIT) at Dang Ha during 1969 and did one hell of a job. Without question, effective combat CI support was not only rendered here, but was respectfully appreciated by several tactical commanders and troops." Phu Bai, as a reality, to both CI and the VC was a separate war zone in itself. This fact was especially well-handled by both LtCol S. Vale, Commanding Officer of 3rd Battalion 4th Marines and LtCol Hannifin, Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. In the later stages, newly promoted LtCol P.X. Kelley, Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines and LtCol Van D. Bell, Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines were especially interested in CI acquisition of information along with those sources which were developed to assist them in offensive combat operations in there sector of responsibility. By far the most receptive commands that assisted in the HUMINT effort were the CACs and Combined Action Platoons (CAPs), under control of various officers, like Capt Mullin, 1stLt Paul Ekland, and 1stLT Denny Tomlin. A special role was played by Sgt Russell, the USMC member of a special Combined Action Company-5 (CAC) unit - originally belonging to Det 3rd CIT, Phu Bai. As the story goes, a Vietnamese unit leader, by the name of Le Chat - a 'notorious' individual of uncommon demeanor - one day walked into the CP with crossed bandoliers of ammo, two .45 cal pistols, and at least four hand grenades hanging from his ammo belt and suspenders. He was all alone and some of the Marines seeing him didn't exactly know what was going on. Finally, Hung, the interpreter confronted him and noted that Le Chat was looking for the CAC Unit leader, Capt Mullins. During the 66 Tet Offensive, it was reported that Le Chat had joined his family and relatives in village of Gia Le, and played cards with one of his cousin whom he knew was still participating with the Viet Cong. As the story continues, Le Chat casually informed his cousin that when the holiday period was over, he would come after him and kill him unless he rallied to the South Vietnamese side. Before a month had passed, Le Chat, participated in an ambush just southwest of the hospital near Gia Le. A short time thereafter a group of VCs appeared and walked into the ambush. The ambush site sprung its deadly trap with the VCs inside. Once the gunfire stopped, the victims checked and among the victims was Le Chat's cousin. Another victim was a former Viet Cong acquaintance that he had also known. There were two other Vietnamese of noted CI interest. The first was a Sgt Bao, a regular with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), and by some accounts was attached to the Huong Thuy District Headquarters or had worked for the Province Intelligence Section within the District. He generally operated in the Gia Le Village area and was instrumental in developing ralliers, etc. Reporting noted the "He was an exceptional source of intelligence and had a good number of VC kills' and according to those who saw him in action had his own form of entrapment to identify suspected or known VCs. On several occasions he would pose as a VC, seeking assistance in locating his unit - somewhere in the mountains - or would seek medical help. On one such occasion, he was introducted to a VC supporter. After confirming the individuals identity, he invariably would ensure their departure from their errant ways and life. The second individual of interest was a individual by the named of Wo Toan. Wo Toan was the Officer-in-Change of the Voice of Freedom transmitter site, located east of Gia Le Village. The 3rd CIT first encountered him as a causal source that Jack Stephenson had developed. However, when Wo Toan provided information, he would only talk to one of the CITs interpreters - Hung. After information had been exchanged, Wo Toan was provided gas for his 1947 green Ford pickup truck. From a CIT prospective, the exchange seemed to be a reasonable price. The information which Wo Toan provided was often quite accurate. Things progressed with exchange of information between Wo Toan and CI until the Buddhist uprising which occurred during March through April 1966 time frame. (Additional information presented later). In December 1965, the 2nd Battalion 1st Marines, under the leadership of LtCol Hannifin, relieved a sorely under strength 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, commanded by LtCol S.A. Vale. One of the first tasks carried out by LtCol Hannifin's battalion was the expansion of their combat patrol base from 1000 to 2000 meters around a combat outpost that was situated west of the Battalion Command Post (CP). On the very next day, a security patrol from the battalion overtook 3 VC moving north toward the Gia Le area. Two were killed and the third was wounded and captured. The captured POW was brought to CI for interrogation. General Louis Walt, who happened to be flying around the area, swooped in, took charge, collected all the recovered documents, and headed back to Da Nang. During the interrogation it was noted that the captured POW was a youth from one of the Gia Le Hamlets. Marine CI had previously interrogated his sister and a uncle under different circumstances - he was not a total stranger. It was discovered that, he was an escort for the VC chief of My Thuy District who went by the name of Thuong Van AI. Thuong Van AI, according to reports, was a well-respected and exceptionally capable VC politico with Viet Minh experience. After finding out AI was among the dead durning the ambush, CI began questioning the patrol in order to ascertain if they had seen a walking stick near or next to AI's body - the walking stick was usually present with AI. Also, CI was interested in the whereabouts of a carbine that a guide was supposedly carrying at the time of the ambush, noted earlier which Le Chat had paticipated in the previous month. Concerned about the carbine, CI requested that the patrol be sent back to the ambush site to try and located the weapon. The patrol went back to the site and eureka, "they not only recovered the carbine but found AI walking Stick along with a pouch containing documents that must have been thrown into the ditch when all hell broke loose," according to the investigation report. CWO Clem stated, "Once the documents were analyzed, it was time to get back on the horn to Da Nang and try to obtain the other documents that had been picked up by General Walt." After calling the division and notifying the G-2, the documents were returned to the Team. Everything started to fall into place. There had been reports on various villages were AI often stayed enroute to the Dong Hoa War Zone Headquarters of CI interest. Some of the documents found identified sereral North Vietnamese Intelligence Agents operationing in the area - one being killed at the ambush site. It was later ascertained that the dead NVA agent had been establishing contacts in Hue City. A short time thereafter, the District Police Chief for the provence got word that Marine CI had AI's body in their possession . A few hours later the body was turned over. Upon its arrival, a district official stated "that AI would be buried in the District". As the body was being turned over, CI personnel were not permitted to handle it as it was being removed from a jeep-trailer. Hung, the teams interpreter indicated, "that even in death, AI still had the respect of so many, and that his mother would have access to the grave site where AI would be placed to rest". After CI returned from the district, CWO Clem and GySgt Lantz decided to take possession of the walking stick and placed it up into the rafters of the team space. Upon rotating back to the States, CWO Clem and GySgt Lantz had apprently forgot about stick and as far as it was known, the stick remained in the rafters? According to CWO Clem, "I assumed that 1st CIT would eventually find the stick and dispose of it without knowing of its full significance. It was my understanding that when the 1st CIT replaced the 3rd CIT, the stick, along with important files collected concerning Phu Bai were destroyed. If the files were kept, the 1st CIT would have had a better understanding about what the war was all about at Phu Bai." The 1st CIT provided support to the remaining 1st Division units until it deployed on 14 January 1966, from Camp Pendleton, California to Okunawa, Japan. The 1st CIT had been reconstituted and had deployed with the 1st Marine Division Headquarters, along with Regimental Landing Team-5 (RLT-5) by surface ships. On 5 February 1966, after the Marines landed at White Beach on Okinawa and disembarked naval shipping, the 1st CIT moved to Camp Courtney and were attached to Fleet Marine Force Pacific/IMAC (Forward). Operational and administrative control of the Team was maintained by the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade. The team mission was to provide CI support to the remaining 3rd Marine Division and Wing units on the island. The mission also included; security inspections of the recently vacated 1stMarDiv Command Post; after hours inspection; security surveys; and liaison with other CI units on the island. According to Captain W. Burton, "the team also provided special training support to U.S. Army units at the intelligence school and Special Forces Military Intelligence Detachments on the island." Also to keep abreast of the situation in Vietnam, "several team members went On-the-Job Training (OJT) or conducted liaison trips to Vietnam to familiarize themselves and/or observe what was going on concerning CI Ops in the event that the Team was deployed in the future" as SSgt French recalled. In March 1966, Wo Toan mentioned earlier, came by the Team space in 3rd CIT at Phu Bai in order to obtain some gas - This was also around the start of the Buddhist uprising according to team records. This happened to be either the same day that Thich Tri Quang had flown into Phu Bai and the Division Chaplin had taken control of the 1st ARVN Division in the Citadel, or shortly thereafter. The CI's interpreter Hung had attended high school with Nguyen Cao Ky and was personally acquainted with Thich Tri Quang - they were in prison together at some time just off the South Vietnam coast. According to several personal accounts, Wo Toan needed gas to get back and forth into Hue. It was soon realized that Wo Toan had direct knowledge of what was going on in both Hue and other areas of the country. It was also noted that Wo Taon had met with General Thi and had dismantled some electronic components from the Hue Radio Broadcasting Station in order to exclude its use by the Buddhists. More importantly, Wo Toan kept Marine CI abreast of information which no one else had access to, according to the 3rd CIT Activity Reports. The information received by Wo Toan was passed to III MAF, Headquarters in Da Nang. Several days later a visitor from NAD dropped in at Phu Bai to inform the detachment that Wo Toan was also their source of information collection. Prior to the NAD departing, they informed the team that continued contacts with Wo Toan should be continued in light of the current situation. CI personnel liked, and appreciated, the manner of handling a potential operational control/interest source. On 7 April 1966, a sub-team from 1st CIT on Okinawa received orders for assignment with Marine Air Group (MAG)-15, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Iwakunia, Japan. The sub-team consisted of one officer and two enlisted and support to MAG-15 was directed by FMFPAC. The 7th CIT was already in country and attached to MAG-12. In February 1967, the remaider of the 7th CIT was transfered to the 1st Marine Division control in South Vietnam. Continuing on with the 1st CIT. CWO Clem related that "we were to follow the sub-team to South Vietnam - shortly after they had departed in April 1966. The remainder of the 1st CIT was to join a BLT that was to arrive on Okinawa at the end of April. They didn't arrive until June 66. The reason was that the BLT had just been combat reloaded and ready for immediate action due to the current situation. The 1st CIT went to Camp Courtney to close out the 3rd CIT. Many members from the 1st CIT questioned the manner in which 3d CIT had deployed leaving house keeping tasks for them to accomplish! The former Detachment of the 1st CIT's was due to rotate mid May 1966. However, due to the increased activity in South Vietnam they were delayed. They had been scheduled to rotate on 15 June. CWO Clem and SSgt Bledsoe were informed at 1230 hours, 21 June by 3rd CIT at Da Nang, that they were going home and had to be at the Air Freight Hanger in Da Nang at 1430 hours to catch a outbound flight at 1530 hours. After conducting a brief check with HMM-161 and Air America, they both got a ride on a Jolly Green Giant Helo - CH-47 - Chinook to Da Nang. Clem said that "he was filthy and cruddy from dirt and dust in Phu Bai and because of the time factor had no time to shower. After catching the flight out of Da Nang, they made a quick turn-around in Okinawa, - just time to pick up their baggage at Camp Hansen - and boarded a non-stop for Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California." As he disembarked from the aircraft, Clem met his wife and family, who almost disowned him because he still hadn't had time to shower or changed his camouflage utilities that reeked with the smell of Vietnam. In 1966, Sam Moyer along with Stew Duncan attended the Counterintelligence Course at Camp Holabird, Maryland. At the time Stew Duncan was a reserve CWO on active duty (5 year SWAG). Both had been stationed with the PMO Office at Camp Pendleton, when they received orders to attend the CI Course. They drove in Duncan's car across country to the school's site. During the four month course, they rented an apartment. Bob Connly was on the school's staff as an Instructor at the time. Other CI Marines who were there at the same time were either attending the Basic CI Course - like Moyer and Duncan - or attending one of the technical courses. Others attending the Basic CI Course were: Chuck Cofty (then a WO); Andy Anderson and Al Cedarquist. Sam Moyer noted that "Stew Duncan was an unusual character. Older than all of us, he had served in the Corps during the worst years of WW II and after the War returned to his job at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He stayed in the reserve and during the Korean War was called back to active duty. After the Korean War, and upon being released from active duty, he returned to the LAPD, where he eventually made Detective Sergeant. As a police officer, he had been seriously wounded in the line of duty. When he saw that Vietnam was going to be serious, he retired from the LAPD, and requested to go back on active duty." Once they had completed the CI Course, Duncan received orders to South Vietnam and Moyer returned back to Camp Pendleton. NOTE: A separate chapter entitled "Through These Eyes With Marine Corps Counterintelligence" has been set aside describing Sam Moyer's experience during and just after the Vietnam War. During the months of August through October 1966, the 15th CIT out of Camp Pendleton, California was administratively attached to the 5th Marine Division. The division was just forming and going through a extensive training period to ready itself for deployment to South Vietnam. Once the Division landed in South Vietnam,, it was assigned to the Dong Ha area within I Corps. The Team Commander at the time was Captain Billy Harris; other officers included 2nd Lieutenants Arthur Wilson, Bruce Moulton, A.J. Pavlick. Other team members were; Master Sergeants K. Smith (later killed in action at Cam Lo),Gunnery Sergeant Jim Krudwig, Staff Sergeant Harry Manchester and Sergeants Walter D. West and William Credon - who was subsequently wounded in action (WIA) at Dong Ha during one of the many rocket attacks. On 27 August 1966, one of the 1st CIT sub-teams was recalled to Okinawa from Iwakunia; Japan and a short time thereafter departed from the Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF), Futema, Okinawa to South Vietnam. On 30 August 1966, the remainder of the 1st CIT boarded three KC-130 aircraft and flew directly into Phu Bai, South Vietnam. At the time the teams strength was 5 officers and 9 enlisted CI Marines. Team members included: Capt. W. A. Burtson - Team Commander 2/Lt. C. I. Handley - OpsO/Sub-team Cdr 2/Lt. R. Y. Goodwin - Sub-team Cdr 2/Lt. R. L. Lord - Sub-team Cdr 2/Lt. C. L. Peterson - Sub-team Cdr GySgt. G. E. Anthony - Team Chief GySgt. G. F. Lotz - CI Asst. SSgt. R. R. Acuff - CI Asst. SSgt. J. J. Elliott - CI Asst. SSgt. D. R. French - CI Asst. SSgt. W. C. Howey Sgt. W. B. Lange LCpl C. E. Donoho Cpl. E. W. Jones Additional personnel joining the team after deployment to South Vietnam were: GySgt. Cummins GySgt. Mcloughlin Sgt. D. A. Braun Cpl. A. Gribble Sgt. T. K. MacKinney Upon the 1st CITs arrival in South Vietnam it was broken down into 4 two men sub-teams. From Phu Bai, one sub-team was assigned to Hue; a second assigned to the Troui Bridge; a third assigned to the Troui Bridge south to Phu Loc; and the last assigned and responsible for the Phu Bai Tactical Area Of Responsibility (TAOR). The three sub-teams operating outside of the Phu Bai TAOR were responsible in providing CI support to friendly units operating in the Divisions TAOR, to include the Phu Loc District. CI support mainly consisted of maintaining daily contact with the CAC unit, platoon and company size units operating in the areas. Additionally, CI support was also maintained with the District, Villages and Hamlet officials within the TAOR. Any time a friendly unit conducted a search and clear operation, a sweep of an area, a MedCap or any other type operation, a CI team was attached to that unit. During this support, Marine CI was mainly utilized in screening operations of the villagers and would provide those units operating in the area vital CI information. This included, a Black List to assist them in determining the possible number of Viet Cong operating in that particular area, along with current CI source reporting. During this time frame that the lst CIT had been in South Vietnam, they had participated in many operations. Also, the 1st CIT had assigned a sub-team to operate with the CAC unit and district officials in the Phu Loc area. This support was considered necessary due to the planned activation of forty CAPs within the Phu Loc District. Another sub-team was assigned in the so-called "Chinook Area" to assist in I Corps Operations. One member from the Team was assigned to the Special Branch of the National Police CAS Office in Hue City. Duties in the Hue/Phu Bai areas were initially in support of the 4th Marines area of operation (AO) that eventually became the 3rd Marine Divisions (Rear), with the 3rd Marine Division (Forward) deployed north in the Dong Ha/Kale San AO. In the early stages of the team's employment at these locations it developed its own methods of operations which were best suited to accomplish its support mission. Also, which was somewhat of a benefit was the fact that the team commander also served as the Staff CI Officer of the 3rd Marine Division. It was decided that the initial effort of support would be directed toward making the team a visible and viable asset to every command. The support was often accomplished which was dependent on the available of a sub-team. This goal was partially achieved, inasmuch as supporting and providing the division G-2 with timely Order of Battle (OOB) information obtained during the screening and interrogation process of those Viet Cong or suspected Viet Cong. Other CI tasks included the development of source files and the establishment of the Black, Gray and White (BGW) lists which were a ongoing project. CI support to the individual infantry units were furnished in sweeping and patrolling operations which often yielded various results of CI interest. Marine CI personnel - which was often-the-case - were deployed and conducted liaison with various CAPs operations, and various County Fair and Civic Action Programs. This participation of support offered the added opportunity to develop additional information of CI interest. Constant liaison with ARVN district level personnel were also developed and maintained. NOTE: During the period from November to December 1966, 2dLt R.Y. Goodwin, while temporarily assigned with the U.S. Advisory Unit at Phu Loc was involved in a jeep accident in the Hue area. The lieutenant suffered a serious head injury and was eventually Medevaced to the United States. 1967-1968 Counterintelligence Teams (TAOR) Marine Corps Counterintelligence units were assigned and located in various parts of South Vietnam. These locations and assignments were critical in order for the teams to accomplish their mission. These locations and assignment were: Team/Sub-Team Operational Base 15th CI Team 1 Officer (0210) 5 enlisted (0211) Detachment A 3 enlisted (0211)& 2 interpreters Detachment B 1 interpreter Detachment C 5 enlisted(0211) 3 ARVN interpreters 7th CI Team HQ Team Commander Target Officer Operations Officer Detachment U Detachment W GySgt & 4 enlisted (0211) Detachment X SSgt (0211) Detachment Y 2 SSGT (0211) Detachment Z HQ Dong Ha Combat Base (Home of 3rd MarDiv) Cam Lo District HQ Cua Viet River Operated out of 1st LVT Bn Team HQ Dong HA Quand Tri Combat Mai Linh District HQ Trisu Phong District HQ Hai Lang District HQ Quang Tri Province (Quang Tri Base City) Province HQ The 7th CI Team was the only team in South Vietnam at that time having a defined position and living in hard backs - wooden framed structures, utilizing tentage as the roof. The team had recently been re-located from Chu Lai to its new location in Da Nang. This was prompted by the deployment of Marine tactical units to the north and the need for additional CI coverage in the northern area. 1st CI Team Sub-team A 1 ARVN interpreter Sub-team B Phu Bai Combat Base (Task Force X-Ray) Huong Thuy District HQ Team HQ Phu Bai One of the members from sub-team B was positioned in Hue City and ne functioned as an Assistant Advisor to the National Police Special Branch. Sub-team C 2 Sgts (0211) Sub-team D 1 officer(0210) 3rd CI Team Phu Loc District HQ Operated out Team HQ Phu Bai Da Nang Air Base (Near 1stMarDiv) The 3rd CIT operated in support of 1st MarDiv units in the Da Nang TOAR, four of its sub-teams were deployed exclusively with tactical units. They operated with units from the 7th and 27th Marine Regiments. Four ARVN interpreter were also assigned to the 3rd CIT are assign to the team and one each were deployed with each sub-team. With the redeployment of the 1st CIT in September 1968, along with Marine tactical units, the 3rd CIT took over support provided tp the 1st Marine Regiment located south of Da Nang. The 1st CIT moved into the Northern Artillery Base in a area better known as "Elephant Valley". Additional support was provided to those units operating east of the Song Tuy Long River. 1st CIT took over 7th Marine assets on Hill 10; Heiu Duc District, along with supporting the 26th Marines north of the artillery cantonment. Both the 1st and 3rd CITs supported the Liberty Road LOC by providing one sub-team each, that was located at the An Hoa Combat Base. 5th CI Team - Hq Da Nang: (Adjacent to 2d CAG HQ) The 5th CIT consisted of four sub-teams, where one of its sub-teams was physically placed at Red Beach to support the Force Logistics Command (FLC), Headquarters. 5th CITs AOR and some of their responsibilities were some what unique. Because the 3rd CIT had insufficient manpower to support all elements of the 1st Marine Division, the 5th CIT shared a portion of the 3rd CITs responsibilities. The 5th CIT provided support to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 7th Engineers, 5 batteries from the 11th Marines and FLC. One of the sub-teams operation out of its Headquarters, supported the 1st and 3rd Military Police Battalions in and around Da Nang City, the 3rd Light Vehicle Track (LVT) Battalion and the 1st Ballation, 27th Marines positioned south of Marble Mountain. In addition to its already taxing responsibilities, the 5th CIT had to provide support to Marine Air Group-16, the III MAF Prisioner of War (POW) Compound and the Da Nang Chieu Hoi Center. Two things made the 5th CIT unique; First, it was responsible for debriefing Marine and Navy personnel who were captured and returned to U.S. control after having been in the hands of the enemy. Second, because of the 3rd CITs location near III MAF's, Force CI Office, became the heir apparent to perform many special projects. The 15th Counterintelligence Team, located in Dong Ha, was attached to the 3rd Maine Division. According to reports, the first 90 days of their assignment were not bad. However, during the month of April things changed, the North Vietnamese began an extensive artillery and rocket attack that lasted through December of 1967. According to Harry Manchester, a team member, remarked, "if it weren't for the Seebeas constructing reinforced bunkers along with CIs help, we might not have survived the continued bombardment that the North Vietnamese tossed at us." During this period, MSgt Jim Krudwig was assigned to Special Police Branch, Qunag Tri Province Headquarters. Also, one of the 15th CITs sub-team, commanded by 2nd Lieutenant Alfred Pavlick was assigned to Khe Sanh. Lt Pavlick remarked, "after thirteen months in Dong Ha, I can unequivocally state that our CI effort was responsible for killing or capturing literally hundreds of Viet Cong and North Vietnam Forces." During the latter part of September 1967, the 19th CI Predeployment Training Team was formed. As Lt. Bernie Voronin recalled, "During my tenure as the Team Commander, 1st CIT in Phu Bai late 1966 to 1 September 1967, we had problems with incoming CI personnel not being able to work right away, where several weeks were spent bring them up to speed as to how CI operations were carried while in Vietnam." To resolve this training deficiency, Lt. Voronin began to relay this problem and conducted liaison with both Captain John Walsh - CI Chief -and LtCol John Guenther, CI Branch Chief at HQMC. The discussion primarily centered on creating a special training program for CI Marines reporting for duty in Vietnam to be better prepared. The training period would be beyond that taught by Army CI. The main focus of this training would be directed towards "How to conduct Marine CI in a fast moving combat environment. Lt. Voronin further noted that, "The main objective was to shorten the break-in time spent after CI personnel had arrived in country so that they would be better prepared in carry-out the Corps CI mission". A short time thereafter - after many more discussions on the subject - LtCol Guenther agreed that a short course was needed and approved the proposed training. The course would to be setup at Camp Pendleton, CA. Since Lt. Voronin initiated the interest for such as course, HQMC assigned him to command the newly formed 19th CI Predeployment Training Team. However, as Lt. Voronin further remembered, "With only 10 days left prior to rotating back to the United States, the unexpected, happened, I was wounded and Medevaced in a body cast back to the US. I was hospitalized for several months at Camp Pendleton which delayed getting things developed for the new training course." During Voronins' hospitalization, he keep in close touch with HQMC. Upon his release, the original 19th CIT began preparing lesson plans, manuscripts, rehearsals, and rehashed over and over what would be taught during the two week training period. Beginning with the first class - scheduled for January 1968 - all CI Marine would go through the training course prior to deployment to Vietnam. What was to be taught in the course was pretty much left up to the 19th CIT. In order to provide the best training, Lt. Voronin contacted several of the other CI Team Commanders throughout Vietnam to get their input to better prepare CI personnel sent to Vietnam. The reason for these contacts, "were that Marine CI operations conducted in the northern area of South Vietnam were quite different in the South". Figure 17. Members of the 19th CI Training Team In January 1968, the first class was conducted. Eight CI Marines attended. Attending the first class were: Lt. Gould CWO Johnston GySgt Lee SSgt Johnson SSgt Kone SSgt Martinez SSgt McClain Sgt Brown The 19th CIT original instructors for the two-week CI Predeployment Course were: Lt. B. Voronin Lt. Pavlik Lt. Bromley CWO S. Duncan CWO S. Lorentzson GySgt Ham SSgt Bresemann SSgt Dietrich SSgt Lindell SSgt MacKinney Sgt Shea Cpl Madsen Pertaining to the 19th CIT composition, Lt. Voronin quoted that "The original 19th CIT of instructors worked hard and long hours to prepare the very best professional course that we were capable of doing. We put through a different class of various size every month until we were disbanded and integrated into the 13th CIT during the latter part of 1969. Between classes we were updating, dropping and adding new course materials, rewriting different sections,and conducting many rehearsals to ensure that everything presented was current. These updates etc., were necessary in order to provide real-time training and to reflected current CI operations that were conducted in Vietnam. A three day field exercise of what had been taught in the classroom was also part of the course. During the three day field exercise, a mock-up Vietnam village was set-up. Various staff members would act in a variety of roles -Vietnam National Police, Village Chief and POWs where the use of Interrogator/Translators were used. The field exercise was conducted as realistic as possible to convey those types of situations that would be encountered by CI personnel deployed to South Vietnam." One CI Marine attending the course remarked, "It put into proper prospective the associated problems that we would face conducting CI operations in Vietnam. 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__label__cc	0.575106	0.424894	Bryan Merrill Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, admitted Autumn 2015 MS, Brigham Young University, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (2015) BS, Brigham Young University, Molecular Biology (2014) bmerrill@stanford.edu Recovery of the Gut Microbiota after Antibiotics Depends on Host Diet, Community Context, and Environmental Reservoirs. Cell host & microbe Ng, K. M., Aranda-Díaz, A., Tropini, C., Frankel, M. R., Van Treuren, W., O'Laughlin, C. T., Merrill, B. D., Yu, F. B., Pruss, K. M., Oliveira, R. A., Higginbottom, S. K., Neff, N. F., Fischbach, M. A., Xavier, K. B., Sonnenburg, J. L., Huang, K. C. 2019; 26 (5): 650?65.e4 Antibiotics alter microbiota composition and increase infection susceptibility. However, the generalizable effects of antibiotics on and the contribution of environmental variables to gut commensals remain unclear. To address this, we tracked microbiota dynamics with high temporal and taxonomic resolution during antibiotic treatment in a controlled murine system by isolating variables such as diet, treatment history, and housing co-inhabitants. Human microbiotas were remarkably resilient and recovered during antibiotic treatment, with transient dominance of resistant Bacteroides and taxa-asymmetric diversity reduction. In certain cases, in vitro sensitivities were not predictive of in vivo responses, underscoring the significance of host and community context. A fiber-deficient diet exacerbated microbiota collapse and delayed recovery. Species replacement through cross housing after ciprofloxacin treatment established resilience to a second treatment. Single housing drastically disrupted recovery, highlighting the importance of environmental reservoirs. Our findings highlight deterministic microbiota adaptations to perturbations and the translational potential for modulating diet, sanitation, and microbiota composition during antibiotics. View details for DOI 10.1016/j.chom.2019.10.011 Bystander Phage Therapy: Inducing Host-Associated Bacteria to Produce Antimicrobial Toxins against the Pathogen Using Phages. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) Brady, T. S., Fajardo, C. P., Merrill, B. D., Hilton, J. A., Graves, K. A., Eggett, D. L., Hope, S. 2018; 7 (4) Brevibacillus laterosporus is often present in beehives, including presence in hives infected with the causative agent of American Foulbrood (AFB), Paenibacillus larvae. In this work, 12 B. laterosporus bacteriophages induced bactericidal products in their host. Results demonstrate that P. larvae is susceptible to antimicrobials induced from field isolates of the bystander, B. laterosporus. Bystander antimicrobial activity was specific against the pathogen and not other bacterial species, indicating that the production was likely due to natural competition between the two bacteria. Three B. laterosporus phages were combined in a cocktail to treat AFB. Healthy hives treated with B. laterosporus phages experienced no difference in brood generation compared to control hives over 8 weeks. Phage presence in bee larvae after treatment rose to 60.8 ± 3.6% and dropped to 0 ± 0.8% after 72 h. In infected hives the recovery rate was 75% when treated, however AFB spores were not susceptible to the antimicrobials as evidenced by recurrence of AFB. We posit that the effectiveness of this treatment is due to the production of the bactericidal products of B. laterosporus when infected with phages resulting in bystander-killing of P. larvae. Bystander phage therapy may provide a new avenue for antibacterial production and treatment of disease. A PCR-Based Method for Distinguishing between Two Common Beehive Bacteria, Paenibacillus larvae and Brevibacillus laterosporus APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY Berg, J. A., Merrill, B. D., Breakwell, D. P., Hope, S., Grose, J. H. 2018; 84 (22) View details for DOI 10.1128/AEM.01886-18 Complete Genome Sequences of 18 Paenibacillus larvae Phages from the Western United States. Microbiology resource announcements Merrill, B. D., Fajardo, C. P., Hilton, J. A., Payne, A. M., Ward, A. T., Walker, J. K., Dhalai, A., Imahara, C., Mangohig, J., Monk, J., Pascacio, C., Rai, P., Salisbury, A., Velez, K., Bloomfield, T. J., Buhler, B., Duncan, S. G., Fuhriman, D. A., George, J., Graves, K., Heaton, K., Hill, H. L., Kim, M., Knabe, B. K., Ririe, D. B., Rogers, S. L., Stamereilers, C., Stephenson, M. B., Usher, B. K., Ward, C. S., Withers, J. M., Wright, C. K., Breakwell, D. P., Grose, J. H., Hope, S., Tsourkas, P. K. 2018; 7 (13) We present here the complete genomes of 18 phages that infect Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood in honeybees. The phages were isolated between 2014 and 2016 as part of an undergraduate phage discovery course at Brigham Young University. The phages were isolated primarily from bee debris and lysogens. A PCR-BASED METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TWO COMMON BEEHIVE BACTERIA, PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE AND BREVIBACILLUS LATEROSPORUS. Applied and environmental microbiology Berg, J. A., Merrill, B. D., Breakwell, D. P., Hope, S., Grose, J. H. 2018 Paenibacillus larvae and Brevibacillus laterosporus are two bacteria that are members of the Paenibacillaceae family. Both are commonly found in beehives and have historically been difficult to distinguish from each other due to related genetic and phenotypic characteristics and a shared ecological niche. Herein, we discuss the likely mischaracterization of three 16S rRNA sequences previously published as P. larvae and provide the phylogenetic evidence that supported the GenBank re-assignment of the sequences as B. laterosporus We explore the issues that arise by only using 16S rRNA or other single gene analyses to distinguish between these bacteria. We also present three sets of molecular markers, two sets that distinguish P. larvae from B. laterosporus and other closely related species within the Paenibacillus genus, and a third set that distinguishes B. laterosporus from P. larvae and other closely related species within the Brevibacillus genus. These molecular markers provide a tool for proper identification of these oft-mistaken species.Importance 16S rRNA gene sequencing in bacteria has long been held as the gold standard for typing bacteria and, for the most part, is an excellent method of taxonomically identifying different bacterial species. However, the high level of 16S rRNA sequence similarity of some published strains of P. larvae and B. laterosporus, as well as possible horizontal gene transfer events within their shared ecological niche complicates the use of 16S rRNA sequence as an effective molecular marker for differentiating these two species. Additionally, shared characteristics of these bacteria limit the effectiveness of using traditional phenotypic identification assays, such as the catalase test. The results from this study provide PCR methods to quickly differentiate between these two genera and will be useful when studying Brevibacillus, Paenibacillus, and other disease-relevant bacteria commonly found in beehives. Transient Osmotic Perturbation Causes Long-Term Alteration to the Gut Microbiota. Cell Tropini, C., Moss, E. L., Merrill, B. D., Ng, K. M., Higginbottom, S. K., Casavant, E. P., Gonzalez, C. G., Fremin, B., Bouley, D. M., Elias, J. E., Bhatt, A. S., Huang, K. C., Sonnenburg, J. L. 2018; 173 (7): 1742 Osmotic diarrhea is a prevalent condition in humans caused by food intolerance, malabsorption, and widespread laxative use. Here, we assess the resilience of the gut ecosystem to osmotic perturbation at multiple length and timescales using mice as model hosts. Osmotic stress caused reproducible extinction of highly abundant taxa and expansion of less prevalent members in human and mouse microbiotas. Quantitative imaging revealed decimation of the mucus barrier during osmotic perturbation, followed by recovery. The immune system exhibited temporary changes in cytokine levels and a lasting IgG response against commensal bacteria. Increased osmolality prevented growth of commensal strains invitro, revealing one mechanism contributing to extinction. Environmental availability of microbiota members mitigated extinction events, demonstrating how species reintroduction can affect community resilience. Our findings (1) demonstrate that even mild osmotic diarrhea can cause lasting changes to the microbiota and host and (2) lay the foundation for interventions that increase system-wide resilience. Complete Genome Sequences of Paenibacillus larvae Phages BN12, Dragolir, Kiel007, Leyra, Likha, Pagassa, PBL1c, and Tadhana. Genome announcements Walker, J. K., Merrill, B. D., Berg, J. A., Dhalai, A., Dingman, D. W., Fajardo, C. P., Graves, K., Hill, H. L., Hilton, J. A., Imahara, C., Knabe, B. K., Mangohig, J., Monk, J., Mun, H., Payne, A. M., Salisbury, A., Stamereilers, C., Velez, K., Ward, A. T., Breakwell, D. P., Grose, J. H., Hope, S., Tsourkas, P. K. 2018; 6 (24) We present here the complete genomes of eight phages that infect Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood in honeybees. Phage PBL1c was originally isolated in 1984 from a P. larvae lysogen, while the remaining phages were isolated in 2014 from bee debris, honeycomb, and lysogens from three states in the USA. Genome Sequences of 19 Novel Erwinia amylovora Bacteriophages. Genome announcements Esplin, I. N., Berg, J. A., Sharma, R., Allen, R. C., Arens, D. K., Ashcroft, C. R., Bairett, S. R., Beatty, N. J., Bickmore, M., Bloomfield, T. J., Brady, T. S., Bybee, R. N., Carter, J. L., Choi, M. C., Duncan, S., Fajardo, C. P., Foy, B. B., Fuhriman, D. A., Gibby, P. D., Grossarth, S. E., Harbaugh, K., Harris, N., Hilton, J. A., Hurst, E., Hyde, J. R., Ingersoll, K., Jacobson, C. M., James, B. D., Jarvis, T. M., Jaen-Anieves, D., Jensen, G. L., Knabe, B. K., Kruger, J. L., Merrill, B. D., Pape, J. A., Payne Anderson, A. M., Payne, D. E., Peck, M. D., Pollock, S. V., Putnam, M. J., Ransom, E. K., Ririe, D. B., Robinson, D. M., Rogers, S. L., Russell, K. A., Schoenhals, J. E., Shurtleff, C. A., Simister, A. R., Smith, H. G., Stephenson, M. B., Staley, L. A., Stettler, J. M., Stratton, M. L., Tateoka, O. B., Tatlow, P. J., Taylor, A. S., Thompson, S. E., Townsend, M. H., Thurgood, T. L., Usher, B. K., Whitley, K. V., Ward, A. T., Ward, M. E., Webb, C. J., Wienclaw, T. M., Williamson, T. L., Wells, M. J., Wright, C. K., Breakwell, D. P., Hope, S., Grose, J. H. 2017; 5 (46) Erwinia amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight, a devastating disease affecting some plants of the Rosaceae family. We isolated bacteriophages from samples collected from infected apple and pear trees along the Wasatch Front in Utah. We announce 19 high-quality complete genome sequences of E.amylovora bacteriophages. Bacteriophages as an alternative to conventional antibiotic use for the prevention or treatment of Paenibacillus larvae in honeybee hives JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY Brady, T., Merrill, B. D., Hilton, J. A., Payne, A. M., Stephenson, M. B., Hope, S. 2017; 150: 94?100 American Foulbrood (AFB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria, Paenibacillus larvae. P. larvae phages were isolated and tested to determine each phages' host range amongst 59 field isolate strains of P. larvae. Three phages were selected to create a phage cocktail for the treatment of AFB infections according to the combined phages' ability to lyse all tested strains of bacteria. Studies were performed to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of the phage cocktail treatment as a replacement for traditional antibiotics for the prevention of AFB and the treatment of active infections. Safety verification studies confirmed that the phage cocktail did not adversely affect the rate of bee death even when administered as an overdose. In a comparative study of healthy hives, traditional prophylactic antibiotic treatment experienced a 38±0.7% decrease in overall hive health, which was statistically lower than hive health observed in control hives. Hives treated with phage cocktail decreased 19±0.8%, which was not statistically different than control hives, which decreased by 10±1.0%. In a study of beehives at-risk for a natural infection, 100±0.5% of phage-treated hives were protected from AFB infection, while 80±0.5% of untreated controls became infected. AFB infected hives began with an average Hitchcock score of 2.25 out of 4 and 100±0.5% of the hives recovered completely within two weeks of treatment with phage cocktail. While the n numbers for the latter two studies are small, the results for both the phage protection rate and the phage cure rate were statistically significant (?=0.05). These studies demonstrate the powerful potential of using a phage cocktail against AFB and establish phage therapy as a feasible treatment. DDX6 Represses Aberrant Activation of Interferon-Stimulated Genes. Cell reports Lumb, J. H., Li, Q., Popov, L. M., Ding, S., Keith, M. T., Merrill, B. D., Greenberg, H. B., Li, J. B., Carette, J. E. 2017; 20 (4): 819?31 The innate immune system tightly regulates activation of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) to avoid inappropriate expression. Pathological ISG activation resulting from aberrant nucleic acid metabolism has been implicated in autoimmune disease; however, the mechanisms governing ISG suppression are unknown. Through a genome-wide genetic screen, we identified DEAD-box helicase 6 (DDX6) as a suppressor of ISGs. Genetic ablation of DDX6 induced global upregulation of ISGs and other immune genes. ISG upregulation proved cell intrinsic, imposing an antiviral state and making cells refractory to divergent families of RNA viruses. Epistatic analysis revealed that ISG activation could not be overcome by deletion of canonical RNA sensors. However, DDX6 deficiency was suppressed by disrupting LSM1, a core component of mRNA degradation machinery, suggesting that dysregulation of RNA processing underlies ISG activation in the DDX6 mutant. DDX6 is distinct among DExD/H helicases that regulate the antiviral response in its singular ability to negatively regulate immunity. A gut bacterial pathway metabolizes aromatic amino acids into nine circulating metabolites. Nature Dodd, D., Spitzer, M. H., Van Treuren, W., Merrill, B. D., Hryckowian, A. J., Higginbottom, S. K., Le, A., Cowan, T. M., Nolan, G. P., Fischbach, M. A., Sonnenburg, J. L. 2017; 551 (7682): 648?52 The human gut microbiota produces dozens of metabolites that accumulate in the bloodstream, where they can have systemic effects on the host. Although these small molecules commonly reach concentrations similar to those achieved by pharmaceutical agents, remarkably little is known about the microbial metabolic pathways that produce them. Here we use a combination of genetics and metabolic profiling to characterize a pathway from the gut symbiont Clostridium sporogenes that generates aromatic amino acid metabolites. Our results reveal that this pathway produces twelve compounds, nine of which are known to accumulate in host serum. All three aromatic amino acids (tryptophan, phenylalanine and tyrosine) serve as substrates for the pathway, and it involves branching and alternative reductases for specific intermediates. By genetically manipulating C. sporogenes, we modulate serum levels of these metabolites in gnotobiotic mice, and show that in turn this affects intestinal permeability and systemic immunity. This work has the potential to provide the basis of a systematic effort to engineer the molecular output of the gut bacterial community. Software-based analysis of bacteriophage genomes, physical ends, and packaging strategies BMC GENOMICS Merrill, B. D., Ward, A. T., Grose, J. H., Hope, S. 2016; 17 Phage genome analysis is a rapidly growing field. Recurrent obstacles include software access and usability, as well as genome sequences that vary in sequence orientation and/or start position. Here we describe modifications to the phage comparative genomics software program, Phamerator, provide public access to the code, and include instructions for creating custom Phamerator databases. We further report genomic analysis techniques to determine phage packaging strategies and identification of the physical ends of phage genomes.The original Phamerator code can be successfully modified and custom databases can be generated using the instructions we provide. Results of genome map comparisons within a custom database reveal obstacles in performing the comparisons if a published genome has an incorrect complementarity or an incorrect location of the first base of the genome, which are common issues in GenBank-downloaded sequence files. To address these issues, we review phage packaging strategies and provide results that demonstrate identification of the genome start location and orientation using raw sequencing data and software programs such as PAUSE and Consed to establish the location of the physical ends of the genome. These results include determination of exact direct terminal repeats (DTRs) or cohesive ends, or whether phages may use a headful packaging strategy. Phylogenetic analysis using ClustalO and phamily circles in Phamerator demonstrate that the large terminase gene can be used to identify the phage packaging strategy and thereby aide in identifying the physical ends of the genome.Using available online code, the Phamerator program can be customized and utilized to generate databases with individually selected genomes. These databases can then provide fruitful information in the comparative analysis of phages. Researchers can identify packaging strategies and physical ends of phage genomes using raw data from high-throughput sequencing in conjunction with phylogenetic analyses of large terminase proteins and the use of custom Phamerator databases. We promote publication of phage genomes in an orientation consistent with the physical structure of the phage chromosome and provide guidance for determining this structure. Characterization of Five Novel Brevibacillus Bacteriophages and Genomic Comparison of Brevibacillus Phages PLOS ONE Berg, J. A., Merrill, B. D., Crockett, J. T., Esplin, K. P., Evans, M. R., Heaton, K. E., Hilton, J. A., Hyde, J. R., McBride, M. S., Schouten, J. T., Simister, A. R., Thurgood, T. L., Ward, A. T., Breakwell, D. P., Hope, S., Grose, J. H. 2016; 11 (6) Brevibacillus laterosporus is a spore-forming bacterium that causes a secondary infection in beehives following European Foulbrood disease. To better understand the contributions of Brevibacillus bacteriophages to the evolution of their hosts, five novel phages (Jenst, Osiris, Powder, SecTim467, and Sundance) were isolated and characterized. When compared with the five Brevibacillus phages currently in NCBI, these phages were assigned to clusters based on whole genome and proteome synteny. Powder and Osiris, both myoviruses, were assigned to the previously described Jimmer-like cluster. SecTim467 and Jenst, both siphoviruses, formed a novel phage cluster. Sundance, a siphovirus, was assigned as a singleton phage along with the previously isolated singleton, Emery. In addition to characterizing the basic relationships between these phages, several genomic features were observed. A motif repeated throughout phages Jenst and SecTim467 was frequently upstream of genes predicted to function in DNA replication, nucleotide metabolism, and transcription, suggesting transcriptional co-regulation. In addition, paralogous gene pairs that encode a putative transcriptional regulator were identified in four Brevibacillus phages. These paralogs likely evolved to bind different DNA sequences due to variation at amino acid residues predicted to bind specific nucleotides. Finally, a putative transposable element was identified in SecTim467 and Sundance that carries genes homologous to those found in Brevibacillus chromosomes. Remnants of this transposable element were also identified in phage Jenst. These discoveries provide a greater understanding of the diversity of phages, their behavior, and their evolutionary relationships to one another and to their host. In addition, they provide a foundation with which further Brevibacillus phages can be compared. Putative type 1 thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase as signature genes of a novel bastille-like group of phages in the subfamily Spounavirinae BMC GENOMICS Asare, P. T., Jeong, T., Ryu, S., Klumpp, J., Loessner, M. J., Merrill, B. D., Kim, K. 2015; 16 Spounavirinae viruses have received an increasing interest as tools for the control of harmful bacteria due to their relatively broad host range and strictly virulent phenotype.In this study, we collected and analyzed the complete genome sequences of 61 published phages, either ICTV-classified or candidate members of the Spounavirinae subfamily of the Myoviridae. A set of comparative analyses identified a distinct, recently proposed Bastille-like phage group within the Spounavirinae. More importantly, type 1 thymidylate synthase (TS1) and dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) genes were shown to be unique for the members of the proposed Bastille-like phage group, and are suitable as molecular markers. We also show that the members of this group encode beta-lactamase and/or sporulation-related SpoIIIE homologs, possibly questioning their suitability as biocontrol agents.We confirm the creation of a new genus--the "Bastille-like group"--in Spounavirinae, and propose that the presence of TS1- and DHFR-encoding genes could serve as signatures for the new Bastille-like group. In addition, the presence of metallo-beta-lactamase and/or SpoIIIE homologs in all members of Bastille-like group phages makes questionable their suitability for use in biocontrol. Genome Sequences of Five Additional Brevibacillus laterosporus Bacteriophages. Genome announcements Merrill, B. D., Berg, J. A., Graves, K. A., Ward, A. T., Hilton, J. A., Wake, B. N., Grose, J. H., Breakwell, D. P., Burnett, S. H. 2015; 3 (5) Brevibacillus laterosporus has been isolated from many different environments, including beehives, and produces compounds that are toxic to many organisms. Five B. laterosporus phages have been isolated previously. Here, we announce five additional phages that infect this bacterium, including the first B. laterosporus siphoviruses to be discovered. View details for DOI 10.1128/genomeA.01146-15 Correction for Sheflo et al., Complete Genome Sequences of Five Brevibacillus laterosporus Bacteriophages. Genome announcements Sheflo, M. A., Gardner, A. V., Merrill, B. D., Fisher, J. N., Lunt, B. L., Breakwell, D. P., Grose, J. H., Burnett, S. H. 2015; 3 (5) The Genomes, Proteomes, and Structures of Three Novel Phages That Infect the Bacillus cereus Group and Carry Putative Virulence Factors JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY Grose, J. H., Belnap, D. M., Jensen, J. D., Mathis, A. D., Prince, J. T., Merrill, B. D., Burnett, S. H., Breakwell, D. P. 2014; 88 (20): 11846-11860 This article reports the results of studying three novel bacteriophages, JL, Shanette, and Basilisk, which infect the pathogen Bacillus cereus and carry genes that may contribute to its pathogenesis. We analyzed host range and superinfection ability, mapped their genomes, and characterized phage structure by mass spectrometry and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The JL and Shanette genomes were 96% similar and contained 217 open reading frames (ORFs) and 220 ORFs, respectively, while Basilisk has an unrelated genome containing 138 ORFs. Mass spectrometry revealed 23 phage particle proteins for JL and 15 for Basilisk, while only 11 and 4, respectively, were predicted to be present by sequence analysis. Structural protein homology to well-characterized phages suggested that JL and Shanette were members of the family Myoviridae, which was confirmed by TEM. The third phage, Basilisk, was similar only to uncharacterized phages and is an unrelated siphovirus. Cryogenic electron microscopy of this novel phage revealed a T=9 icosahedral capsid structure with the major capsid protein (MCP) likely having the same fold as bacteriophage HK97 MCP despite the lack of sequence similarity. Several putative virulence factors were encoded by these phage genomes, including TerC and TerD involved in tellurium resistance. Host range analysis of all three phages supports genetic transfer of such factors within the B. cereus group, including B. cereus, B. anthracis, and B. thuringiensis. This study provides a basis for understanding these three phages and other related phages as well as their contributions to the pathogenicity of B. cereus group bacteria. Importance: The Bacillus cereus group of bacteria contains several human and plant pathogens, including B. cereus, B. anthracis, and B. thuringiensis. Phages are intimately linked to the evolution of their bacterial hosts and often provide virulence factors, making the study of B. cereus phages important to understanding the evolution of pathogenic strains. Herein we provide the results of detailed study of three novel B. cereus phages, two highly related myoviruses (JL and Shanette) and an unrelated siphovirus (Basilisk). The detailed characterization of host range and superinfection, together with results of genomic, proteomic, and structural analyses, reveal several putative virulence factors as well as the ability of these phages to infect different pathogenic species. View details for DOI 10.1128/JVI.01364-14 Characterization of Paenibacillus larvae bacteriophages and their genomic relationships to firmicute bacteriophages BMC GENOMICS Merrill, B. D., Grose, J. H., Breakwell, D. P., Burnett, S. H. 2014; 15 Paenibacillus larvae is a Firmicute bacterium that causes American Foulbrood, a lethal disease in honeybees and is a major source of global agricultural losses. Although P. larvae phages were isolated prior to 2013, no full genome sequences of P. larvae bacteriophages were published or analyzed. This report includes an in-depth analysis of the structure, genomes, and relatedness of P. larvae myoviruses Abouo, Davis, Emery, Jimmer1, Jimmer2, and siphovirus phiIBB_Pl23 to each other and to other known phages.P. larvae phages Abouo, Davies, Emery, Jimmer1, and Jimmer2 are myoviruses with ~50 kbp genomes. The six P. larvae phages form three distinct groups by dotplot analysis. An annotated linear genome map of these six phages displays important identifiable genes and demonstrates the relationship between phages. Sixty phage assembly or structural protein genes and 133 regulatory or other non-structural protein genes were identifiable among the six P. larvae phages. Jimmer1, Jimmer2, and Davies formed stable lysogens resistant to superinfection by genetically similar phages. The correlation between tape measure protein gene length and phage tail length allowed identification of co-isolated phages Emery and Abouo in electron micrographs. A Phamerator database was assembled with the P. larvae phage genomes and 107 genomes of Firmicute-infecting phages, including 71 Bacillus phages. Phamerator identified conserved domains in 1,501 of 6,181 phamilies (only 24.3%) encoded by genes in the database and revealed that P. larvae phage genomes shared at least one phamily with 72 of the 107 other phages. The phamily relationship of large terminase proteins was used to indicate putative DNA packaging strategies. Analyses from CoreGenes, Phamerator, and electron micrograph measurements indicated Jimmer1, Jimmer2, Abouo and Davies were related to phages phiC2, EJ-1, KC5a, and AQ113, which are small-genome myoviruses that infect Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, and Clostridium, respectively.This paper represents the first comparison of phage genomes in the Paenibacillus genus and the first organization of P. larvae phages based on sequence and structure. This analysis provides an important contribution to the field of bacteriophage genomics by serving as a foundation on which to build an understanding of the natural predators of P. larvae. View details for DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-15-745 Genome Sequences of Three Novel Bacillus cereus Bacteriophages. Genome announcements Grose, J. H., Jensen, J. D., Merrill, B. D., Fisher, J. N., Burnett, S. H., Breakwell, D. P. 2014; 2 (1) The Bacillus cereus group is an assemblage of highly related firmicute bacteria that cause a variety of diseases in animals, including insects and humans. We announce three high-quality, complete genome sequences of bacteriophages we isolated from soil samples taken at the bases of fruit trees in Utah County, Utah. While two of the phages (Shanette and JL) are highly related myoviruses, the bacteriophage Basilisk is a siphovirus. Genome sequences of five b1 subcluster mycobacteriophages. Genome announcements Breakwell, D. P., Barrus, E. Z., Benedict, A. B., Brighton, A. K., Fisher, J. N., Gardner, A. V., Kartchner, B. J., Ladle, K. C., Lunt, B. L., Merrill, B. D., Morrell, J. D., Burnett, S. H., Grose, J. H. 2013; 1 (6) Mycobacteriophages infect members of the Mycobacterium genus in the phylum Actinobacteria and exhibit remarkable diversity. Genome analysis groups the thousands of known mycobacteriophages into clusters, of which the B1 subcluster is currently the third most populous. We report the complete genome sequences of five additional members of the B1 subcluster. Complete Genome Sequences of Five Paenibacillus larvae Bacteriophages. Genome announcements Sheflo, M. A., Gardner, A. V., Merrill, B. D., Fisher, J. N., Lunt, B. L., Breakwell, D. P., Grose, J. H., Burnett, S. H. 2013; 1 (6) Paenibacillus larvae is a pathogen of honeybees that causes American foulbrood (AFB). We isolated bacteriophages from soil containing bee debris collected near beehives in Utah. We announce five high-quality complete genome sequences, which represent the first completed genome sequences submitted to GenBank for any P. larvae bacteriophage.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1566
__label__cc	0.64275	0.35725	Master P & Jeezy Announce They Will Be Dropping A Joint Album musiccargo \| March 2, 2019 \| E-News \| No Comments American rapper and song writer, Master P took some time to discuss his coming plans with with the online magazine, XXL some days ago. The discussion will be best brought back to life for the claim the No Limit maker made about his plans for a collaborative album with a fellow debut rapper, Jeezy. If you in any way doubt the assertion of the rapper, please have the following in mind: Master P has already concluded on a title for the album so there’s a hope he wont work in reverse, on this album. In the interview, he noted that the album titled will be named It’s Gonna Be a Cold Summer, he did the explanation without altering very much via character. He also while in the discussion claimed that he’s already finishing a number of songs with Jeezy, but they are not ready yet. He also said he has a variety of songs that are already done with. Master P also revealed that they have already made a video for the track, I Got the Hook Up 2 soundtrack. He then continued by saying; “So we got a lot of things in the works“. Read about the interview and watch the video on XXL. By any chance you’re not aware, I Got The Hook Up 2 is the movie album Master P hopes will feature DC Young Fly main billing in the Comedy industry. As the case may be in B-level joints rendered by Master P, John Witherspoon will have to choose a role of his wish, something he has earned after years of ball-busting comedy. For Jeezy’s project, though no release date has been revealed and not tracklist nor cover art, your guess am sure will be good as mine, as to whether the album will later show up, i certainly hope it will, our fingers should remain crossed, at least we should be happy to expect a new project from Jeezy. Tags:Album, Jeezy, Master P Nicki Minaj Surprised By History-Making Win, Asked “Was Someone Gonna Tell Me?” Birdman Says He Will Be “Forever In Business” With Drake No Comments \| Mar 2, 2019 DJ Khaled & Cardi B To Release New Song & Video Soon Female R. Kelly Fans Are Trying To Pay His Bond musiccargo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1570
__label__cc	0.688332	0.311668	Mwebantu.News Home Business RESIDENTIAL ZESCO BAND INCREASED FROM 100 TO 300 UNITS NO INCREASE ON... RESIDENTIAL ZESCO BAND INCREASED FROM 100 TO 300 UNITS NO INCREASE ON TARIFFS ZESCO utility company have increased the residential band from 100kWh to 300kWh units with the tariff remaining the same at 0.15. It is important to note that in accordance with the requirements of section 8 sub-section 2 of the Electricity Act CAP 433 of the Laws of Zambia, ZESCO propose to implement tariffs in two stages with the first stage being a 50% increase effective from 1 May 2017. The proposal DOES NOT affect the Metered Residential Tariff. It actually increases the band from 100kWh to 300kWh. The consumers under this tariff are classified as R1. It is only the R2 classification that will be subjected to the new proposed tariff. This includes consumption above 300kWh. Other consumer categories that will be subjected to the new proposed tariffs include; Commercial, Social Services, and Maximum Demand tariffs. The background to this development needs to be appreciated in the interest of: 1. Attracting new Power Investments The tariff was intended to attract a multi billion dollars portfolio of generation projects which are important to diversifying the generation mix to avoid the devastating effects of drought that is currently being experienced. The portfolio of new generation projects includes renewable energy, Solar Power plants, and Thermal (coal) power plants which are not affected by drought. This will greatly improve the security of supply in the medium to long term. Below is a list of some of the projects which are currently under construction/ commissioning or are to commence construction within the next twenty four (24) months. These plants are being developed by ZESCO: – EMCO Coal Fired Thermal Plant which has a capacity of 340MW at a cost of US$ 750 million – Kalungwishi Hydro-power Project with capacity of 247MW at a cost of US $700 million – Ndola Energy Heavy Fuel Oil Plant Phase 2; capacity of 55MW and cost of US $75 million. – Batoka Hydro-power Project with a very impressive capacity of 2400MW at a cost of US $6,000 million. – Kafue Gorge Lower with capacity of 750MW at a cost of US $2000 million – PV Solar Power Plant with capacity of 100MW at a cost of US $200 million. The above investments are projected to cost approximately US $9.7 billion and increase generation capacity by an additional 3,800 MW. The new tariffs will greatly enhanced the bank ability of the above projects, thus ensuring that finances are mobilised within reasonable time and that the projects are delivered as per scheduled time frames. Secondly, ZESCO has entered into Agreements for purchase of power from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) such as Maamba Collieries Ltd (300MW), Ndola Energy Company Ltd (105MW) and Itezhi Tezhi Power Company Ltd (120MW). The tariffs from these IPPs are significantly higher than ZESCOs prevailing bulk and retail tariffs. The new tariffs are intended to enable ZESCO meet its monthly billing obligations to the IPPswhich is crucial for the sustainability of both the IPPs and ZESCO. For the Electricity consumer, these developments are expected to translate into improved service delivery, availability and reliability of supply. We therefore urge citizens not to allow a section of society to mislead the nation in a bid of gaining political mileage at the expense of progressive, sustainable and equitable development for all. Why Didn’t Chitambala Defend ECL On Parentage The Way He Is Defending Hakainde? general news mwebantunews - January 15, 2020 Justice Minister, Lands Minister, Lungu’s daughter Tasila sue Diggers, EIA over Mukula smuggling exposé Court mwebantunews - January 15, 2020 Stop The Nonsense That Everyone Must Listen To You, Oscar Chavula Tells Off Laura... Two weeks after wedding, Imam discovers he married a man mwebantunews Contact us: info[at]mwebantu[dot]news © 2017 Mwebantu News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1572
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__label__wiki	0.568266	0.568266	Mivaaa's List Birthday: October 17 Join Date: December 11, 2012 Mivaaa by Mivaaa I hate it when I discover a series and I really wanna like it because of reasons other then how good it is. You can't force "like", it has to just appear and that is the thing with this kdrama. I really wanted to like it. The themes of the show is simple, easy breezy and short, all things that is lovable after watching a more serious show, but Unemployed Romance didn't hold up for me. And why? Firstly, the story. I liked the idea for this show. It seemed to be easy and not too dramatic.I was worried about the few episodes but I figured that this simple series didn't need more than that amount of episodes to be good. I was wrong. The story was not bad, the length was. They tried to cram so much story into that little space. We started out by not seeing our main male lead until episode 3 and after that we have 3 episodes of backstory. Because of the series mare 10 episodes I really think that was a bad move. We had 4 episodes to build up the present time drama and rekindling plus the side characters stories and romances. Too much for such a short time. There where love rivals too and nothing felt well executed because of all the things going on. The ending for me, without spoiling anything, left me stunned for a second, wondering wtf just happened and how much of everything that actually was real. I hate that kind of ending too because it feels like someone just opened my Kdrama central (brain) and F everything up in there. Secondly, the cast. Let me present to you why exactly I wanted to like this series, the actor Nam Goong Min. You may wonder why I wanted to like it because of him. Easy to answer. I hated him, and I mean HATED his character in My Secret Hotel. I felt "like" for the actor but because of the character that he played I couldn't like him at all. So I wanted to see him play the main love interest in a different show so that I could love him openly (Sounds wrong?) and that's the thing. Funny enough tho I really liked his character. Kim Jong Dae is really cute, especially when younger. I found Goong Min so much better as the funny, little dorky and romantic persona compared to the strict and rather boring character that is Jo Sung Gyoum. I'll have to continue looking for another series with him that I truly can enjoy. The Female lead is nothing special for me. Just around but still having funny moments. Not even in the 3 episode long flashback she stood out or made any special impression on me, and that is what the lead role is suppose to do. The love rival, and I'm talking about the male one, because the female love rival is so forgettable it stays deep in my head and I cant reach it. You can say one thing and that is - Seo Jun Yeong is adorable. Even when trying to look like a smart lawyer. I really liked him, however closer to the end he started to get on my nerves and I wanted him to just move on with his life. He had stayed still for too long in my P.O.V. The supporting cast is mediocre. As long as they stay supporting to our two main leads (Again because we have no time for any other storyline than the main romance) I have no problem with them. But as soon as they started to take up too much space I just wanted to put them back into their little "supporting characters" - box and put it in the dark corner of the Kdrama world. Stay put! The music was actually the good point. I noticed this when I either was confused or when I simply was bored. The music kept the mood going on in the scene. Not much more to say about this tho. Rewatch is close to zero for me. Ja, I did like Jong Dae and he was dorky and adorable, but it is by far not enough to make me rewatch the whole thing again. Sure it's only 10 episodes but because of the mediocre aftertaste of those 10 episodes I think I rather don't watch it again. NO I think not. Overall and lastly, however much I want to say that this show was cute and worth watching... I can't. It's not that good and to be honest, it's not that easy breezy and not undramatic either. If the writers just had left some of the things be and let other things take its place, the drama wold have been better. I know now that to much shit going on in one short drama is a bad idea in every single case. Short drama - little and simple story. Long drama - Bring on the arcs of storylines. Mivaaa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1574
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__label__wiki	0.869002	0.869002	MyNewsLA.com Breaking news for greater Los Angeles and Orange County Two Seriously Wounded in Hollywood Shooting Brush Fire Reported Contained at Borrego Springs Hiking Area Two Horses Die in Two Days at Santa Anita Escondido Police Report Missing Woman Has Been Found Thousands Attend OneLife LA Celebration Home » Hollywood » This Article Damages Claim Filed Against South Pasadena Over Police Shooting of Actress Posted by Contributing Editor on February 20, 2019 in Hollywood \| 54 Views \| Leave a response Attorneys for the mother of actress Vanessa Marquez, who had a recurring role on “ER” and was fatally shot by South Pasadena police during a confrontation last year, announced a damages claim against the city Wednesday. Marquez, 49, was fatally shot around midday Aug. 30, 2018, after police were called to her home in the 1100 block of Fremont Avenue to conduct a welfare check. According to sheriff’s officials, who assisted South Pasadena Police in the investigation, a county mental health clinician was with officers when they responded to the scene. Sheriff’s Sgt. Joe Mendoza said officers and the clinician spoke with Marquez “for over an hour and a half in an attempt to offer her medical care.” She then armed herself with a handgun and pointed it at the officers, who opened fire, Mendoza said. Mendoza said that after the shooting, “officers checked the weapon and they discovered it was a BB-type gun that resembled a semi-automatic handgun.” “She was suffering from some problems, eating disorder,” Mendoza told reporters at the scene. “When they (officers) arrived, she was suffering a seizure.” Attorneys for Marquez’s mother, Delia McElfresh, filed a claim against the city seeking $20 million in damages, alleging wrongful death, battery and other violations. A claim is a precursor to a lawsuit. Like this story? Don’t miss any breaking news from MyNewsLA.com. Sign up here for your free newsletter. The attorneys made the announcement outside South Pasadena City Hall, where friends of Marquez also gathered to show their support for her family. John Pope, spokesman for the city, confirmed that the claim had been received. “The officer-involved shooting is currently being investigated by two independent entities — the sheriff’s department and the L.A. District Attorney’s Office,” he said. “We will not be commenting until the results of the investigations are complete and made available to the public.” City Manager Stephanie DeWolfe said after the shooting the city welcomed the investigations. “We believe our officers acted appropriately under a tragic set of circumstances,” DeWolfe said. “… We look forward to hearing the results of the investigation. In the meantime, we are asking the public to be patient and wait until the facts of the case are confirmed before making judgments about the incident.” She added: “We believe the facts will show that our officers, along with a mental health professional, made every attempt to resolve the situation peacefully before the use of deadly force became necessary.” In addition to her role as nurse Wendy Goldman on “ER” from 1994-97, Marquez also appeared in the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver” and had guest roles on shows including “Wiseguy,” “Seinfeld,” “Nurses” and “Melrose Place.” She made headlines in 2017 when she took to Twitter to accuse former “ER” star George Clooney of blacklisting her from the show for speaking out about alleged harassment on the set. “Women who don’t play the game lose career. I did,” she wrote. She alleged she was racially and sexually harassed on the set. Clooney denied having her barred from the show, telling E! News he “had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted.” “I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show,” he said. “I had nothing to do with casting. I was an actor and only an actor.” Damages Claim Filed Against South Pasadena Over Police Shooting of Actress was last modified: February 20th, 2019 by Contributing Editor >> Want to read more stories like this? Get our Free Daily Newsletters Here! Posted in Hollywood \| Tagged Actress, Claim, damages, filed, Pasadena, police, Shooting, South Two Seriously Wounded in Hollywood Shooting→ Escondido Police Report Missing Woman Has Been Found→ Detectives Probe Shooting Death of Woman in Carson→ Fire Damages Apartment in Hawthorne→ Get The Latest News by Email! Sign up here for our free newsletters. We’ll send you the latest headlines every morning and every weekday afternoon. 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__label__wiki	0.558385	0.558385	Police work to break ‘us vs. them’ mindset This story was published on page A1 of The Advocate on July 29, 2012. It was the sixth part in the paper’s series ‘A Community at Risk’ which looks at why Baton Rouge is one of the nation’s most violent cities. This story examines the role law enforcement plays in the crime rate and how the community’s distrust of police hampers murder investigations. Fear of retaliation, distrust of police widespread BY ROBERT STEWART AND NAOMI MARTIN Gertrude Cobb still does not know who shot and killed her son more than two years ago. David Cobb, 16, was shot during a party at a BREC park on Woodpecker Street on March 27, 2010. A fight broke out and bullets started flying, one of which hit Cobb in his spine. He later died in a hospital. The party had attracted hundreds of people over several hours, Gertrude Cobb said. Despite the potential for eyewitnesses, the case has gone cold in the Baton Rouge Police Department’s file. “There were too many people out there not to know what happened,” Cobb said, her voice breaking. The silence surrounding David Cobb’s slaying illustrates a struggle common to many homicide investigations in Baton Rouge. Police say they need the public’s help in finding murder suspects, but the public, for various reasons, won’t always cooperate. Read more of this post Filed under News, The Advocate Survivor: ‘It’s all just so crazy’ This story was published on page A1 of The Advocate on July 30, 2012. Of all the movie theaters to pass on a road trip from Seattle to Baton Rouge, Bonnie Kate Pourciau and her best friend ended up in the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of the new Batman movie July 20, the night a gunman opened fire on the audience. Pourciau, who was shot in the knee, was one of 58 who were wounded. Twelve others died in the massacre. After flying home to Baton Rouge via air ambulance Thursday, Pourciau said she is preparing for a fourth surgery on her knee at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. Just 10 days ago, Pourciau and her best friend, Elizabeth Sumrall, were hiking at Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. Now, Pourciau said she knows it will be many months before she can walk again. “It’s all just so crazy,” said Pourciau, 18, as she lay Saturday in her hospital bed surrounded by flowers and cards. “I was passing through for one night and just happened to see a movie that should’ve been sold out in a town that I didn’t even know existed.” Read more of this post Filed under Features, The Advocate Baton Rouge women’s peaceful reststop in Aurora turns into setting of horror This story was published as a sidebar to the A1 story on July 24 which covered President Obama’s visit to one of the shooting victims from Baton Rouge. As Elizabeth Sumrall pored over a map a month ago in Seattle, planning her cross-country road trip home to Baton Rouge, she decided Aurora, Colo., would be a more peaceful place than nearby Denver for her and her best friend to spend the night. “I heard the parking was terrible in Denver,” Sumrall said Sunday. So last week, Sumrall, 23, and her best friend, Bonnie Kate Pourciau, 18, embarked on their road trip to Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore. After arriving at their Aurora hotel Thursday, their plans took a fateful turn when the women decided to go see the midnight screening of the latest Batman movie. Read more of this post Filed under Features, News, The Advocate President Obama visits Baton Rouge shooting victim in Colorado This story was published on page A1 of The Advocate on July 24, 2012. Here is the sidebar that details how the two Baton Rouge women ended up in Aurora on that fateful night. After a long day of surgery followed by visits from doctors, detectives and journalists, shooting victim Bonnie Kate Pourciau, of Baton Rouge, was recovering Sunday in her Colorado hospital bed when an unexpected visitor popped his head around her door. It was President Barack Obama. “Can I come in?” he asked her. “I was like, ‘Whoa, there’s the president!’ ” Pourciau said. “It was really cool. I felt so honored. I got to shake his hand and give him a hug. He was very friendly.” While standing next to Pourciau’s hospital bed, Obama told her the hardest part of his job is visiting Americans who have been wounded, both in wars and in tragedies. The president had just come from visiting others who were in worse shape than Pourciau, she said. “It has been traumatic. I still haven’t begun to process all that happened,” Pourciau said of the shooting. “And thinking about everything, it’s a terrible, terrible, awful thing, but God is holding us and he has us in control and we’re gonna be okay.” Obama told Pourciau she was an inspiration to him and he loved seeing her smile. He told her she was going to bounce back. “It was so special to be encouraged by him like that,” she said. Pourciau, 18, was shot in the knee early Friday during one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. Read more of this post Juvenile fugitives caught — police baffled by Jetson director’s claimed ‘chase’ This story was published in The Advocate on July 9, 2012. Authorities found and arrested two juvenile fugitives late Saturday, hours after the facility’s director was placed on administrative leave for engaging in a chase “on his own,” said a spokeswoman Sunday. Director Daron Brown The administrator left law enforcement agencies from Baton Rouge to New Orleans confused Sunday after he claimed to have chased an SUV Friday night thought to be carrying two juvenile escapees. Some authorities, however, questioned whether the two-hour, high-speed pursuit even happened. “Everything was unfounded,” said State Police spokesman Sgt. Len Marie. “We had units set up all over the interstate ready to intercept this vehicle as it came through, but it never came through. We don’t even know for a fact that this guy was ever actually involved in a chase.” Read more of this post « Jun Jan »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1590
__label__wiki	0.945574	0.945574	Zuma joins the Twitterverse Jenni Ogrady President Jacob Zuma began tweeting on Tuesday gathering over 600 followers within an hour of his first post. “Democracy is flourishing in South Africa, thanks to the active participation of all citizens. It’s wonderful. Vote 18 May!” read his first tweet, posted from an iPhone, from the account @SAPresident. His spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said: “Yes, it is the legitimate account for President Zuma. “[He] decided to join the world of Twitter to better communicate his activities and reach a wider audience both young and old, domestic and abroad.” The account was in his capacity as president of the country, said an aide Zanele Mngadi, who laughed when asked if someone had to teach the sexagenarian how to navigate the 140-character micro-blogging tool. Mngadi said the intention was to communicate brief excerpts of speeches or highlight something, as the presidency was already doing on Facebook and so, not every update would come directly from the president. “But, naturally, if he gets time at some point, he will do it.” she said. Zuma follows one account on Twitter, that of the presidency, at @PresidencyZA. It posted on Tuesday morning: “We would like to announce the creation of a Twitter account for President Zuma. Please follow the President on SAPresident”. The ANC, which Zuma heads, also has a Twitter account. He joins other South African politicians like the Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille and Cape Town mayoral candidate Patricia de Lille, as well as United States president Barack Obama who have also made Twitter a part of their communication strategy. — Sapa Biography coming soon. Search for author on Twitter Zaza - 17 Jan 2020 Three lawyers, two of them from corporates, have set up a firm offering legal and business advice	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1594
__label__cc	0.605342	0.394658	America / Politics / Thoughts Bernie Sanders: The Struggle Continues by Michael Konik · Published June 26, 2016 · Updated March 15, 2019 Pick your preferred metaphor: You can’t put the egg back in the shell. You can’t stuff the Genie back in the bottle. You can’t force Pandora to close her box. And you can’t stop the Progressive Movement that’s sweeping the United States of America. Bernie Sanders started it. The People will finish it. After listening to Senator Sanders speak on Wednesday, June 23, in New York City, we’re more certain than ever that righteousness will triumph over cynicism. Kindness will trump hatred. Justice for All will finally prevail. It’s Morning in America again. And this time a transformative political revolution is afoot. Nothing’s going back in the box. The Senator likes to stress that “it’s not about me, it’s about us.” True, and fair enough. But right now, while the Presidency of the USA is still an open question, the ongoing struggle is very much about Bernie Sanders. We can wait four years, or two, or maybe a fateful month for the political revolution to succeed. It will be much better for our country (and the world) for Bernie Sanders to lead now. He is by every measure of the term a genuine American Hero and a true patriot. His fearlessness in facing down an Establishment that despises him and a corporate media that ignores reality and instead dutifully dictates whatever their Establishment benefactors tell them – well, it’s hard for us regular folk to fully comprehend that level of courage. Try remaining calm while there’s a very nicely dressed enemy pointing a gun at your face. Bernie Sanders is a brave soul with a giant heart – and wouldn’t that be a lovely thing to say about our next President. We will not be voting for Donald Trump. We will not be voting for Hillary Clinton. We will be voting for Bernie Sanders. If for some reason his name is not on our ballot, we’re going to do what we’ve always done: vote for the candidate that most closely represents our values and ideals. (If everyone in this nation did exactly that – vote for the person who most closely represents their values and ideals – we’d be altogether better off.) Those who vote the lesser of two evils, or against someone, have truly wasted their vote. Reminder: despite the propaganda that millions of Democrats and Republicans still accept, there are more than two political parties in America, and more than two candidates for the highest office. In 2012 we did not vote for Barack Obama; we voted for Rocky Anderson, the candidate who most closely represented our values and ideals. In 2016, that candidate is Bernie Sanders. What he’s accomplished is so fantastic and heretofore unthinkable that almost no one thought it possible. Newsflash: It’s possible. Bernie is proof. The encyclopedic catalogue of lies told (and validated) by a system designed to protect the wealthy/powerful/entitled has been summarily refuted by the Sanders campaign, the greatest grassroots, bottom-up effort in the history of our country. Without a single dollar of corporate donations, without a SuperPAC, without the support of the Democratic Machine, Bernie Sanders has done what all the smug commentators from the chattering class said couldn’t be done: take on and beat the Establishment. He’s inspired hundreds-of-thousands of volunteers and organizers to work for real, substantive change that will benefit every person, not merely made members in the financial-military-political Mafia. The truth about America – that we are a plutocracy; that the law does not apply to every citizen equally; that our political system is thoroughly corrupted – has been revealed, and none of us will ever be the same, even those who can’t yet (or won’t yet) see the light. For all the neoliberals who have somehow convinced themselves that all is well just as it is, that someone who is the architect and implementer of global misery is somehow an acceptable choice to lead our republic, the clock is ticking. The clock is ticking not just on their favorite money launderer and bribe taker but on their debased values, as well. Let’s hope the alarm rings sooner than later. As Bernie Sanders noted in his landmark address, social justice – and racial justice and environmental justice and gender justice – doesn’t happen overnight. It takes persistent, courageous and determined work over years, sometimes decades, and, then, one day “overnight,” the impossible becomes possible. Women voting. Blacks leading. Gays marrying. Every utterly righteous cause always faces opposition that ranges from the steadfast bigotry of the hateful to the mild cowardice of the fearful. But, eventually, we Americans come to our senses and do the right thing – that thing that has been right from the very start. It just takes someone like Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King or Bernie Sanders to remind us of the better angels of our nature, to insist that we can make our highest ideals manifest. The struggle continues. And we are proud to join Bernie Sanders on the beautiful path. Tags: bernie sanderscultural analysiscultural criticismgrassroots organizingMichael Konikmichael konik essaypolitical revolutionpoliticsprogressivismsocial justicethe struggle continuesthought of the day The Human Rights Litmus Test by Michael Konik · Published March 2, 2014 · Last modified August 24, 2019 Apologizing for Murder by Michael Konik · Published March 1, 2005 · Last modified July 28, 2013 by Michael Konik · Published March 7, 2006 · Last modified December 4, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1596
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__label__cc	0.502208	0.497792	Maoism-Third Worldism Maoist Information Website Books by Jason Unruhe Books by Mason Steiner Remembering the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Mason D. Steiner / 2016 03 02 There’s a Valley in Spain called Jarama, It’s a place that we all know so well, It is there that we gave of our manhood, And so many of our brave comrades fell. The news of the last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade’s death came to me not to long ago. The death of Delmer Berg was quite, and thus nearly forgotten fighting force against fascism fades even more. In what seems like a forgotten time to the many younger generations, there was once a fight for Spain’s future. In the midst of the fight was the International Brigades. These were voluntary fighting brigades that had been organized to fight the outbreak of fascism in the Second Spanish Republic. The idea was put together by the Soviet Union, ComIntern and sponsored by various communist parties. According to History of the Three Internationals, a compilation of writings gathered by former CPUSA Chairman William Z Foster: “ComIntern proposed to the Second International that a world united front be established in behalf of the Republican Spain. Negotiations were held, but nothing came of them. The communist parties all over Europe and America called upon the workers to volunteer to fight in Spain. The International Brigades, thus raised, consisted not only of communists, but of left socialists and other fighters. They amounted to some 30,000 to 40,000 men.” It was also during this time communists and other freedom loving people like my great-cousin Carl Geiser joined the fight for an independent Spain. But the Capitalists wanted a fascist Spain, much like they wanted a fascist Germany. Whilst making legal agreements to not interfere with Spanish affairs was only a ploy to cut off support to the Republic. Most notably, my gracious Uncle Sam giving oil so the fascists could drive their tanks. It wouldn’t help that other “leftist” forces such as social-democrats went along with this treachery to the working class. It is noted that José Maria Doussinague, who served in the Spanish Foreign Ministry praised Yankee help for the Francoist army: “without American petroleum and American trucks, and American credit, we could never have won the Civil War.” Ergo the battles of the Lincoln Brigade were hard fought, vastly helping the people of Spain. Throughout the civil war they fought valiantly, most notably in Jarama Vally. It was here the Lincoln Brigade took heavy casualties and a six battalion fighting group was reduced to four battalions. But all things must end, and no invincible armies exist. Franco having the the support of every important bourgeois nation, and mindless Anarchists attacking a viable ally lead to the collapse of Madrid on March 28th 1939. But we should never forget those who fell in the fight against fascism. The many who fought for the idea of a free nation, able to have the right to self-determination. May we as communists take inspiration from these people who sacrificed themselves for the idea of a free nation! ¡Para la victoria final y el Socialismo, nada menos! 2016 03 02 in Guest Author, Imperialism, Soviet Union. Tags: Abraham Lincoln Brigade, ComIntern, Jarama, XV International Brigade The Black Book of Communism Debunked China is not Socialist: A Few Points Chinese Foreign Policy in the 1970s ← Oscar Amerikkkans: Racist Even When Denouncing Racism North Korea is Entering a New Stage of Anti-Imperialism → Latest News and Commentary US Bemoans European Refusal to Block INSTEX US & Saudi Moves Really Threatening Global War US Demands for Europe to Place Pressure on Iran are Failing Want to End Sex-Ed for Kids? Stop Needing it	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1611
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__label__wiki	0.557266	0.557266	Twitter testing tweet scheduling on the web Twitter is experimenting with a feature that lets users schedule Tweets natively on Twitter.com. The company has not confirmed how widespread the test is at this point.Tweet scheduling from Twitter’s TweetDeck is coming to Twitter.com.The test was confirmed by Twitter’s standalone app TweetDeck, which enables users to manage, sort, and schedule tweets across various Twitter accounts.Tweet scheduling on https://t.co/8FModRv1sl? Yes please! Starting today, we’re experimenting with bringing one of @TweetDeck’s handiest time-saving features into Twitter. Tell us what you think if you’re part of the experiment. pic.twitter.com/4pI9xrbPEP — TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) November 20, 2019Why we should care. The vast majority of Twitter users do not use TweetDeck or another third-party tool to manage their activities. Having scheduling capabilities available on Twitter.com will make it easier for more marketers, influencers and social media managers to write and schedule tweets from their desks or e… iPost adds Magento integration to connect customer data for more personalized email marketing Enterprise email and marketing automation provider iPost has announced a new integration with Adobe’s Magento commerce cloud. The integration will pass customer data stored in Magento to the iPost platform to help marketers create and deliver personalized messages and cross-channel campaigns.Transactional emails from Magento can also now be sent through the iPost platform. The integration will provide accessibility to Magento data in iPost including customers, orders, emails and forms. Magento data can also be applied to iPost’s automation engine that makes adjustments to individual customer journeys based on their past-purchase behavior and transactions.Why we should careEmail is one of the most popular channels preferred by consumers. Integrating Magento’s robust customer data into iPost’s email marketing and automation platform could allow marketers to experiment with — and optimize — different features like transactional behavior and personalization to create more engaging content… Google Ads intros ‘restricted data processing’ capability for CCPA compliance Google will offer restricted data processing to enable businesses to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the company announced Wednesday. With restricted data processing enabled, Google will act as an affected business’ (advertiser, publisher or partner) data processing service provider. Here we’ll look at what this means for advertisers.Restricted data processing, Google explained, will “restrict how it uses certain unique identifiers, and other data processed in the provision of services to you, to only undertake certain business purposes.”What is the CCPA? Similar to the EU’s General Data Regulation Protection (GDPR), the CCPA provides several data privacy protections for California state residents. It is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. Affected businesses must give California residents the ability to opt-out of the sale of their personal data on their website homepages. 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It follows the URLs of all active ads to the landing page and searches the landing page for a certain string of text, for example: “out of stock.” If the product is out of stock then the ads are paused and the ads should then be labeled with “Paused – Out of Stock.” The script also auto-enables ads that are back in stock. It reviews all ads that are labeled “Paused – Out… Meet the MarTech keynote speakers Exciting news, marketer: Nancy Duarte and Brian Solis are keynoting MarTech! Next April 15-17 in San Jose, they will tackle two of the biggest challenges in marketing…Challenge #1: Data DelugeWe marketers have access to more data than ever before. That’s swell… if you can derive value from it. Nancy’s keynote, Make Data Stick through Duarte DataStory™, delivers a framework for making sense of limitless data, and actionable tactics for using data to tell compelling, humanizing stories to your teams, stakeholders, and customers.Challenge #2: Digital NoiseDelivering consistently terrific customer experiences across digital channels is the Holy Grail of martech. But all those touchpoints create a ton of clutter. Brian’s keynote, The Distracted Customer: How to Connect the Dots Between Martech, Marketing Operations, and Customer Distractions to Deliver Clarity and Value, provides the insights that will help your organization break through the noise to serve customers in meaningful and genu… Optimizing for position zero: The future of voice search It’s still early days in the world of voice search, and yet already this new type of device and search engine use is – according to comScore – expected to account for up to 50 percent of the global search market next year. That’s a major shift in consumer behavior in only a few short years.Digital assistants are becoming increasingly prominent in our homes and on mobile devices, and their ubiquity will only increase.But where exactly is the brand play in voice search? How developed is the opportunity, and what specific strategies do brands need to apply to benefit from this trend? Let’s take a look at the current state of affairs and, more importantly, where things will go in the next few years.The current focus on position zeroWhen you hear marketers talk about voice search today, you probably hear a lot of talk about Position Zero, also known as the featured snippet. This is the content that Google offers in the top search results position in hopes of directly answering a search que… Gifter CX: How to make a play for gift givers this holiday shopping season It’s not uncommon to see brands dedicate 365 days of their customer experience strategies to their buyers’ consumer behavior. But to sustain impactful CX in our competitive digital age, brands this holiday season should be thinking about another type of consumer: the gifter.Making a play for gift-giversThere have been some brands in the past (as well as current) holiday shopping seasons who have put the suggestive power in their customers’ hands to enable their gifters’ shopping.Walmart and Target, for example, hold fast to the tried-and-true circulars aimed at the pre-media children of the household. For me, this is very nostalgic of the Toys “R” Us Big Book, and yet still strategic for the modern child with the absence of broadcast media to push content into the household through a mailer and let them engage… and ultimately ask.Even Amazon got on-board with this strategy for the 2019 Holiday Season and nailed it. 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The company said in 2017, shortly after its launch, that 80% of the brands were responding positively to its CPV model. (It hasn’t offered any data since that time.)SMB advertiser base tripled. Interestingly, the company explained that a substant… Stop managing your PPC campaigns the difficult way We recently wrote about how PPC managers are making keywordresearch a lot harder than it should be. If you’re seeing a pattern here, well done. It’s all about overcomplication. Overcomplication is a frustratingly irritating problem because you’re not doing anything wrong per se. The job will still get done, it just takes a lot more time and effort necessary to reach the finish line. Let’s say you’re decorating and the goal is to repaint a room a rather gorgeous shade of teal. Now, rather than use a regular roller, you decide to use fine art paintbrushes. It would be a lot more hard work and take days longer than it should. And for what? A patchier finish? What a pointless waste of time. That’s ultimately what you’re doing with your PPC campaigns when you manage them the hard way. Here are three ways you might be falling into the dreaded world of overcomplication… 1. Using the wrong metrics PPC management is nothing without data. Oh, that sweet glorious data. No more guesswork and bli… 20191121 ML Brief The post 20191121 ML Brief appeared first on Marketing Land. TripAdvisor launches self-service ad platform for SMBs TripAdvisor has launched a new self-service ad product: Media Manager. The tool is designed for small and medium businesses and agencies and is available globally to marketers on TripAdvisor’s platform.Simple ad creation and targeting. While the formats are graphical and include retargeting, the customer intent profile is more aligned with search marketing. It’s designed to reach high-intent, in-market travel customers or those doing research on particular travel destinations.The ad creation process is fairly simple. Marketers name their campaigns, select whether they want the ads to appear on desktop or mobile and select an audience targeting option.Marketers then set a budget, a start and end date for the campaign and a geographic targeting option. TripAdvisor says, “the less granular the destination,” the lower the CPM. The audience targeting options also include behavioral targeting and destination retargeting.Users can upload their own creative or use a wizard to build creative o… Commerce marketers: Take our Amazon Advertising survey, enter to win an SMX All-Access Pass If you’re an e-commerce marketer, we want to hear from you. Marketplace platforms like Amazon, eBay and Walmart/Jet are building their ad businesses, giving product advertisers a chance to target active shoppers as they make their purchase decisions. We’d like to quantify the impact of this shift by asking you (and your peers) a few questions about your or your clients’ spend on these platforms.For just 10 minutes of your time, you can opt-in a drawing to win an All-Access Pass to any Search Marketing Expo (SMX) event taking place in the U.S. over the next two years. We’ll also send you the results and will be sharing our analyses at SMX West 2020 in our digital commerce marketing track.Please click here to complete the brief Amazon Advertising survey!The post Commerce marketers: Take our Amazon Advertising survey, enter to win an SMX All-Access Pass appeared first on Marketing Land. Get More Value Out of Your First-Party Data First-party data is your most important advantage in today’s highly regulated marketing environment. And customer conversations have become your ultimate first-party data source. In fact, for marketers who work in industries that rely on phone calls to close sales, they’ve become a holy grail.But extracting value from first party data hasn’t been easy — until now. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now delivering smarter customer insights, resulting in more effective search, social and display ad campaigns. Join our data analytics experts as they show you how to use AI to analyze customer conversations, and scale those insights to boost conversion rates, optimize buying experiences and drive more revenue-generating calls. You’ll learn how to comb through the conversations you’re already having with your customers and discover more of what they are trying to tell you. Register today for “Get More Value Out of Your First-Party Data: Using AI to Connect the Online-to-Offline Buying Experien… Episerver boosts dynamic content personalization with Idio acquisition The digital experience platform Episerver has acquired Idio, a content intelligence and predictive analytics solution that helps companies deliver personalized content experiences. The acquisition will elevate Episerver’s existing predictive analytics capabilities with technology that determines the “next best step” in the customer journey, according to Episerver Chairman and acting CEO Adam Berger.While Episerver already had a predictive analytics component as part of its platform, Idio’s ability to automatically index, analyze and categorize unstructured content data into a “structured content hub” gives Episerver access to more sophisticated personalization capabilities.Berger called the acquisition part of Episerver’s roadmap for acceleration in the U.S.Why we should careMore marketing and customer experience teams are taking a step back to focus on the full customer journey. By leveraging Idio’s predictive analytics technology — built to predict which content will best serve the … iPost adds Magento integration to connect customer... Google Ads intros ‘restricted data processing’ cap... Pause out of stock products with this Google Ads S... 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__label__wiki	0.807043	0.807043	NYCO celebrates Argento at 90 with two tragicomic character portraits Fri Nov 10, 2017 at 5:19 pm By Eric C. Simpson Heather Buck performed “Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night” at New York City Opera’s 90th birthday concert for composer Dominick Argento Thursday night at Zankel Hall. Photo: Sarah Shatz The new incarnation of New York City Opera seems intent on flaunting its versatility. The company has performed in a variety of performance spaces in its two-year renaissance, and on Thursday added Zankel Hall to its growing list of venues, performing two one-act monodramas to honor the 90th birthday of the American composer Dominick Argento. Thursday’s Argento appreciation opened, appropriately, with a piece that began life as a NYCO commission, in a project conceived for Beverly Sills. Miss Havisham’s Fire, an operatic take on Great Expectations, was poorly received at its 1979 premiere, but the original kernel, an extended monologue for the mad spinster, survives on its own as Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night. Thursday performance used a spare but effective set design by Gil Rose, who also led the NYCO Orchestra from the pit (yes, Zankel has an orchestra pit). A writing desk, an overturned chair, a smallish floor clock, a sofa and side table, and crumpled papers everywhere—all with a generous layer of cobweb. We probably could have done without the cookie-cutter projections to the back of the stage, offering a background of still more cobwebs: something about the dusty corners of Miss Havisham’s brain, no doubt. Into this dreary reception room steps soprano Heather Buck, everything about her unkempt, from her wild hair to her tattered wedding gown. John Olon-Scrymgeour’s libretto reflects Miss Havisham’s scattered mind, as she relives her societal glory days with a bevy of imagined visitors (represented by cut-out silhouettes in Victorian costume projected onto the cobweb screen). Buck never broke from her complete investment in the role, letting hints of radiance shining through the decay—she blithely carried on when threads of her gown caught on the furniture, letting them tear, as though this were an everyday occurrence. Would that more of that dramatic presence had been carried through into her vocal performance. Though she has a few coloratura roles to her name, Buck’s voice on Thursday showed a rich lyric tone, which she employed to beautiful effect, all her phrases sculpted with care, her amber tone showing hardly a blemish. It was simply too perfect: as she snapped a command to her chambermaid or admonished a guest or frantically searched the many letters strewn across the floor, one wanted something a little more hot-blooded. Her vocal performance was in many ways a tour de force, but she left a good deal of room unexplored in marrying her dramatic and musical senses, not quite grasping the full depth of the character. The score for Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night is inventive, whimsical, often humorous. In places its thin orchestration feels drafty, frequently calling for just one or two voices at a time. Always keeping pace with Miss Havisham’s rapidly wandering thoughts, the score and its palette of dark, cold sounds strays from eerie to winsome in the blink of an eye. As she muses about the scandal she might cause if she were to limp down the aisle with just one shoe, there is a strain of what almost sounds like a Straussian (Johann, that is) waltz. Under Rose’s direction, the NYCO orchestra played with polish and style, producing an impressive volume of sound for such a small band. Given their respective subjects, one might have expected Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night to land with the more emotional weight of the two pieces—but it was A Water Bird Talk, with its earnestness, its goofiness, and its simple humanity that made the stronger impact. The libretto for this second monodrama, prepared by Argento himself, is adapted from Chekhov’s On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, with material drawn from Audubon’s famous illustrated Birds of America. Aaron Engebreth in Argento’s “A Water Bird Talk” at Zankel Hall. Photo: Sarah Shatz The scenario finds a local birding enthusiast giving a lecture at the village social club, showing slides of birds and frequently slipping into spectacularly awkward digressions about his domestic struggles. The setting, again by Rose, perfectly evokes the sun-lit lecture room of a suburban library: a podium, a club chair, an upright piano, a potted plant, and an antique slide projector, no more. Aaron Engebreth, a reedy but confident tenor, portrayed the Gentleman Lecturer in Edwardian day dress. Again, Argento’s score is full of imagination and charm. A short melodic figure serves as a theme that resurfaces in later “variations”, the beats of the scene that develop out of each bird in the lecture. Like Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night, much of the music here has a chamber feel, with just a few instruments in dialogue with each other. Strong characters come out of the pit, often representing the birds–a gorgeous, singing oboe melody for the Grebe, jolly, trudging footsteps of timpani for the Puffin. As evocative as the avian portraits are, even more affecting are the score’s comments on the lecturer’s inner thoughts. At one point, as he mentally tallies the windows in his house—and discovers to his horror that their number is, like every other number in his life, an ominous thirteen—a glockenspiel accompanies the beats of his finger and traces a sparkling tone row. At another moment, he sits down at the piano, tinkling out a lovely little meditation on a bird call. When he stands and laments that his wife has no love for music, we hear a romantic flourish from the orchestra that sounds for all the world like a lick from Salut d’Amour. The combination of staging, music, and text gave Engebreth fertile ground to craft an achingly endearing portrait of a local hack. He constantly stumbles over his own feet, and works himself up into an indecent fervor while describing the mating habits of cormorants. While discoursing on the Phalarope he stirs himself up to a gloriously anticlimactic “oops” as he realizes the slide is upside-down. Engebreth is a marvelous actor, capable of holding his character’s many facets and motivations in tension. As an audience we are totally charmed by his antics, so that his unguarded moments, his confessions of unhappiness—an emotionally abusive wife, six (or is it seven?) thankless daughters, a disappointing career—wound us deeply. Near the end of his lecture, he wanders over and sits down in an upholstered chair, and after a moment’s musing is nearly overcome by his quiet sadness: a small man crumpled into a chair, coming to terms with his mediocrity. In this moving, painfully human moment, we see the most powerful example of Argento’s particular gift: his ability to craft a musical portrait of a character that pulses with emotion.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1619
__label__wiki	0.891524	0.891524	President Trump Visits Affected Shooting Areas in Dayton and El Paso U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump disembark from Air Force One upon arrival at El Paso International Airport in El Paso, Texas, August 7, 2019, as he travels to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, following last weekends mass shootings. As happened earlier Wednesday in Dayton, Trump was greeted by protesters demanding gun-control reform and an end to caustic rhetoric - including some from the president - that is believed to be contributing to a culture of violence in America. In a visit earlier in the day to Dayton, Ohio, that was mostly out of public view, Mr Trump met shooting victims at Miami Valley Hospital, where the wounded were treated after nine people and the suspect were killed in a rampage early last Sunday. During Trump's first stop in OH, he met with medical workers at Miami Valley Hospital, posing for a group photo and grinning with two thumbs up. "A lot of people (who) own businesses in that district are not interested in the President being there", she said. Ahead of the USA president's arrival in El Paso, DW's Alexandra von Nahmen reports that many residents say Trump is "not welcome" in their city. "Tremendous enthusiasm & even Love". "I know that it's hard that this terrorist wrote the same words that he was coming to El Paso to kill Hispanics because of the 'invasion of Hispanics, '" Garcia shouted. Material from Reuters and The Associated Press was used in compiling this report. Mr Trump told them he was "with them", she said. In his State of the Union speech earlier this year, Trump called El Paso "one of our nation's most unsafe cities", something local press took severe issue with, as he appeared to link crime in the city predominantly to Latinos and immigrants. Some Democrats and residents of El Paso concurred with OH criticism of Mr Trump's inflammatory rhetoric, who argue that it has fostered the kind of anti-immigrant hatred that could have contributed to the weekend's attack. "I think he heard me", she said. An open letter to Trump on Wednesday the editor of the El Paso Times, Tim Archuleta, described the border city as having "a deep tradition of racial harmony" whose people came together after the tragedy. Patrick Crusius, 21, is charged with the shootings and faces a potential death penalty. He could also face protests on his first stop in Dayton. "The president can have a country divided by hate and racism or embrace every human being with the dignity they deserve", she told CNN. Emotions are still raw in both cities in the aftermath of the weekend shootings. "We are a mixing pot that makes our country great, and we welcome everyone". "He's going to create chaos around here", said Fernando Montoya, 45, who joined the protesters at a park in El Paso. "My critics are political people", Trump told reporters. "Somebody has been saying those words and those words ... were coming from the White House and the president of the United States". Trump headed to University Medical Center of El Paso to meet with more than two dozen people injured in the gun violence and with members of law enforcement. "So in that capacity, I will fulfill my obligations as mayor of El Paso to meet with the president and discuss whatever our needs are in this community". 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Police say the man then made his way out an emergency exit where a former firefighter held the man at gunpoint. Frontier Airlines giving away free flights to people named 'Green' or 'Greene' Refunds will be awarded to the original booking contact person on September 15, 2019. Return flights must arrive by 11:59 p.m. on August 20. Israel's Amos-17 satellite enroute to target orbit after SpaceX launch There's a significant financial incentive to recover and reuse payload fairings; each one costs about $6 million, Musk has said . A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an AMOS-17 communications satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday. Cronos Group Inc (NASDAQ:CRON) Shares Acquired by Commonwealth Equity Services LLC Gables Capital Management Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Cronos Group by 20.0% in the 1st quarter. (: CRON ) is now 3.1. Sell-side Wall Street analysts study companies and provide their opinions of where the stock might be going in the future. US sold wheat to China before tariff threats China's July exports to the United States fell 6.5 per cent year-on-year, while imports from America slumped 19.1 per cent. The tariffs against China, however, are paid by US importers - who then often pass on the cost to consumers. Look out for Temple of Nugdes! Ancient Fortunes: Zeus Here is one last upcoming game, this time from the prolific Microgaming. This is mixed with a whole bunch of bonus features and extras, making for what will be a very popular game once it goes live. Stay Ahead of Your Career with the CSM Course The company manages the separate position for the product owner and chooses the qualified candidates this position. Now, different range of institutions offers a professional course to people and help them to enhance the skill. How to Do Internet Payments Fast and Safe? The “secret” of blockchains is that they store data on thousands of computer at the same time and heavily encrypt it. Yes, they are securer than any e-wallet services out there because they completely eliminate the need for “humans”. England All-rounder David Willey Replaces Kedar Jadhav He has two centuries and seven half centuries to his name, which have come while playing in various T20 leagues across the world. With an experience of more than 140 T20 matches, David will prove out to be the Trump Card of Chennai Super Kings this season. Trump slams Federal Reserve again, calling for bigger and faster rate cuts Pokemon Sword & Shield will have new 'Galarian Forms' Best times to watch the 2019 Perseid meteor shower Misuse of land and agriculture is driving climate change Chelsea Accept Arsenal Bid for David Luiz Duke Johnson traded by Browns: Did they get enough in return? 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__label__wiki	0.979704	0.979704	Scotland National Museums Staff Go on a Week-Long Strike Henri Neuendorf, August 25, 2015 Staff from the National Gallery strike for pay rise and against privatization of museum services in central London on October 15, 2014. The dispute has been ongoing for one and a half years. Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images. Staff at the National Museums of Scotland have begun a week-long strike over a wage dispute. The industrial action will disrupt the program at Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland and the National War Museum, and coincides with the Edinburgh Festival, one of the city’s busiest period. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) announced that 120 members have joined the walkout after negotiations with National Museums Scotland (NMS) broke down. The trade union explained that staff were unhappy about the introduction by NMS of a two-tier weekend pay rate system. Under the new system staff employed before 2011 get a weekend allowance, whereas staff employed after 2011 do not. According to union officials, staff working without the weekend allowance earn between £2,000 to £3,000 less per year. “This has been an 18-month long dispute now and essentially it’s about fair pay,” PCS Scotland’s industrial officer Alan Brown told the BBC. “If someone was employed by the National Museum of Scotland in December 2010 and worked weekends then they earn between £2,000 and £3,000 more than a colleague working beside them if they joined in January 2011,” he added. A spokeswoman for National Museums Scotland confirmed that both the National Museum of Scotland and the National War Museum would be partially closed. The National Museum of Scotland was the most popular institution in the UK outside of London last year, attracting 1.6 million visitors. London’s National Gallery Staff On Indefinite Strike, Most Exhibitions Off-Limits to Visitors London National Gallery Strike to Escalate in August Staffing Crisis at London’s National Gallery Henri Neuendorf Specialist, Post-War and Contemporary Art Despite Austerity Fears, Creative Scotland Receives a Grant Boost From the Government By Naomi Rea , Dec 20, 2017 National Museum of Scotland Poaches Louvre-Lens Director Xavier Dectot By Lorena Muñoz-Alonso , Jan 8, 2016 13 Artists That Are Having More Fun Than You This Summer By , Aug 25, 2015 Argentina Will Return 4,000 Archaeological Artifacts to Ecuador and Peru	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1624
__label__wiki	0.597772	0.597772	BGFN MAGAZINE >> News >> Accessories >> Cara Delevingne & TAG Heuer: the It Girl and the It brand Cara Delevingne & TAG Heuer: the It Girl and the It brand by Veselka Petrova, 24 January, 2015 Paris, January 23, 2015 - Skate park or red carpet? Sneakers or stilettos? Ravishing smile or funny face? Difficult choices to make, which is why TAG Heuer (the Swiss Avant-Garde watchmaker since 1860) takes it all and chooses Cara Delevingne - the most disruptive It Girl of the moment - as its new feminine ambassador. She has a massive social media presence, is up for everything, and relishes freedom. Born under the sign of Leo in London in 1992, Cara is the new ruling queen of the media jungle, the It Girl spokesperson for the online generation, and the top fashion model of our day. What is most refreshing about her is the way she navigates so cooly through these high-pressure worlds, with her indomitable take-me-as-I-am élan. Before Cara, top models stared out from magazine covers and walked down catwalks. By just being herself, she doesn't just give us another pretty picture, but a whole, extraordinary, irreverent and gloriously gorgeous package. She is a true path-breaker, who, like TAG Heuer, pushes past conventions and limits with creativity and passion, and never cracks under pressure. She perfectly embodies the core values of the Swiss brand. TAG Heuer held Cara Delevingne's 'Welcome to the TAG Heuer Family' fête in the Salle Melpomène, the most beautiful room in the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris. After all, where other than Paris, on the eve of Fashion Week, could such a celebration be held? The catwalk princess was positively radiant and at her cheeky best as she charmed the 150 journalists and VIPs in attendance. The exhibition space, named after the Greek muse of tragedy, was magically transformed for the occasion into a theatre of antiquity, with the solemnity of a red carpet experience and the unexpected presence of wildness. Cara, unafraid of the muse's spell, showed her impish tomboy side as she strode boldly down the aisle, gliding around … a lion. Yes, lion, like the one tattooed on her index finger, her emblem - with floating mane and graceful gait perfectly matching Cara's. The audience was stunned into silence; no one had expected it, or seen anything like it. Who would dare pull such a stunt? TAG Heuer, of course. And who would dare accept it? Cara Delevingne, who else? Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of TAG Heuer and President of LVMH Watches Worldwide, greeted Cara Delevingne by offering her a TAG Heuer Formula One Steel and Black Ceramic Chronograph set with glittering diamonds - the perfect match for Cara's unique rock'n'roll glamour. 'I am delighted to welcome Cara into the TAG Heuer family,' said Mr. Biver. 'This is always a very solemn moment. The TAG Heuer family is not just an idea, it is a team, with true team spirit. We needed someone disruptive yet elegant like Cara to open our minds to the brashness and boldness of today's youth. TAG Heuer has set its sights on 'it-ness', and Cara is just the person to help us get there. Thank you for joining the team, Cara, and welcome aboard!' Photos & Information: image.net Author: Veselka Petrova Tags:Cara Delevingne, TAG Heuer, accessories, watches, face, lion, passion, catwalk, diamonds, glamour, youth, girl Veselka Petrova Veselka writes for the menswear section of Be Global Fashion Network. She has a passion for classic men`s elegance and she is keen on giving advices to men in order to look and feel better. She also has interest in the men`s fashion industry and sustainable fashion. 4 Rules to Finding the Best Web Development Agency How to Ramp Up Your Style when You Have to Wear a Uniform for Work What could gift cards do for your business? What you Must Know Before Buying the Tortuga Outbreaker Travel Backpack How to Choose the Best Barber for Wedding Prestigious watch brand Festina reedits its legendary 1948 Extra collection Spring-Summer 2017 Fashion trends: Key print directions in menswear The Smart Création Square at Première Vision Paris 2016 Celebrities' style: Jason Derulo Coral Herringbone - ISAIA Napoli Fall-Winter 2016/2017 collection USA Emmy Awards 2016: Celebrities dressed in ISAIA Custom clothing from Washington by Kings Gentlemen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1625
__label__wiki	0.520762	0.520762	NAB statement on paid leave for emergency service volunteers We recognise the critical contribution members of volunteer organisations make to our community. At NAB, we have a longstanding policy to provide our emergency service volunteers as much paid crisis leave as they require during emergencies, like the current bushfires. Crisis leave will be granted to employees who, as a member of a volunteer organisation such as the SES, CFA, RFS, are called to assist the local community during a declared emergency, or in other exceptional circumstances affecting the community. We are here to support all NAB customers, employees and the wider community and we urge anyone who needs assistance or advice to contact us so we can discuss their circumstances and work out the best way to help. The policy of indefinite paid leave for volunteers helping during emergencies has been in place for more than three years. In November, we enacted a disaster relief package for customers affected by the bushfires in NSW and QLD. More details can be found here: https://news.nab.com.au/news_room_posts/nab-announces-nsw-bushfire-relief-package/ Spokesperson: For all media enquiries, please contact the NAB Media Line on 03 8641 0180. emergency service volunteers paid leave volunteer leave	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1626
__label__cc	0.735385	0.264615	"King County" "Boston Celtics" "Social reform" "digital media - born digital" Athletes 1 Alameda County 1 William “Bill” Russell Oral History Interview Bill Russell, American, born 1934 University of San Francisco, American, founded 1855 National Basketball Association, American, founded 1946 Boston Celtics, American, founded 1946 Major League Baseball, American, founded 1869 Boston Red Sox, American, founded 1901 Louisiana, United States, North and Central America Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America The oral history consists of eleven digital files: 2011.174.88.1a, 2011.174.88.1b, 2011.174.88.1c, 2011.174.88.1d, 2011.174.88.1e, 2011.174.88.1f, 2011.174.88.1g, 2011.174.88.1h, 2011.174.88.1i, 2011.174.88.1j, and 2011.174.88.1k. Basketball player William "Bill" Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold medal and an NBA championship playing for the Boston Celtics, one of thirteen Russell would win, including eight in a row. Russell had a difficult relationship with the sports media in Boston, but a better one with his Celtics teammates. He defends the organization as progressive on racial matters (as opposed to the Red Sox) and describes a post-retirement reconciliation with Boston that resulted in considerable Red Sox support for his mentoring organization and a statue of him, erected in 2013. 2011.174.88.1a-k	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1629
__label__cc	0.589826	0.410174	"Amateur films" "Kelly Family" Airplanes 1 Beaches 1 Birthday parties 1 Cheerleading 1 Description and travel 1 Archival materials 1 Africa, West 1 Washington (D. C.) 1 Washington (D.C.) 1 Bonds, Antonia 1 Brittany Walters 1 Buffalo, Donita 1 Carla Brown 1 Davis, Donna 1 Evans, Dan 1 Evita Colon 1 Graham Family 1 Hill, Marrin 1 Hood, Tisha 1 Ifill, Adrena 1 Jordan, Pia 1 Kittrell, Marco 1 Lathan, Zora 1 LeBouef, Clayton 1 Mackins, Ayanna 1 Mangum, Lateef 1 McQueen, Nicolle 1 Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection smithsonian online virtual archive National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) WHUT Howard University Television Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of District of Columbia inclusive dates 1940 - Ongoing 2 sound recordings The Great Migration is a unique, ongoing digitization service program that partners the National Museum of African American History and Culture with individuals and organizations across the United States to preserve their important analog audiovisual media. While major motion picture film and television historically lacked diverse representation, black history was instinctively being preserved in everyday home movies. Today, these personal narratives serve as an invaluable tool for understanding and re-framing black moving image history, and provide a much needed visualization of African American history and culture. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Supported by the Robert Frederick Smith Fund of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Collection is available online for open research. The collection contains 39 digitized home movies, 41 digitized home videos, and 2 digitized audiotape recordings. However, as an ongoing project the scope of the collection will continue to increase over time. The scope will be updated as is appropriate. The content of the collection consists predominantly of amateur recordings created by families to document their lives. This includes major life events, such as birthdays, as well as family vacations and holidays. Additionally, the collection includes footage produced by professionals for broadcast on television. This particular footage entered the collection through partnerships with other memory institutions. 41 video recordings 39 motion picture films Amateur films	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1630
__label__wiki	0.791391	0.791391	Monarch urges youths to shun drug abuse, other social vices mohammed bababusu The Osuko of Obi Kingdom in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Dangiwa, has urged Nigerians, especially the youth, to shun drug abuse and other negative vices for societal development. Dangiwa gave the advice while speaking in an interview with newsmen in his palace in Obi, Obi Local Government Area of the state. He said that drug abuse and other social vices had affected the education of many Nigerian youths and the society negatively, hence the need for his call. Also, Remembrance Day:Northeast governors urge support for families of fallen heroes. The royal father called for collective fight to nip drug abuse in the bud in the interest of peace and for the overall development of the country. Dangiwa advised the authority concern to intensify efforts in the fight against the menace for the betterment of the society. On Ramadan, the Osuko of Obi called on Muslim faithful to use the Ramadan period to reflect on the lessons which include sacrifice, forgiveness and genuine love for neighbours. “I am using this opportunity to call on all Muslims and other Nigerians to pray for peace, progress of the country as well as to assist and support the less privileged ones so as to better their lives,’’ he said. He charged all ethnic groups in the state to ensure peaceful co-existence irrespective of their affiliations in the interest of development. “Peace is paramount, priceless and non-negotiable and it is the necessary requirement for the development of any nation. “No nation will achieve meaningful development in an atmosphere of rancour, confusion and violence. “It is in view of this that, I want to urge the people of the state and Nigerians to continue to live in peace and tolerate one another for development to thrive,” he added. The first class monarch restated his continued commitment to initiate peace building and other good policies and programmes that would have direct bearing on the lives of his subjects, the people of the state and Nigerians at large. Related Topics:drugs Bulgaria name former midfielder Balakov as coach Council boss inaugurates political appointees, warns against corruption	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1631
__label__wiki	0.728449	0.728449	Chattanooga Gunman’s Diary – Drugs, Alcohol And Religious Justification For Violence [VIDEO] TOPICS:AbdulazeezAlcoholDiaryDrugsIslamMartyrdomMuhammodSuicidalYoussef Muhammod Youssef Abdulazeez (image source: wishtv.com) Posted By: Jon Britton July 20, 2015 The 24 yr old gunman, Mohammod Abdulazeez, who killed five American troops in an attack on a Chattanooga recruitment center last week did online research for militant Islamist “guidance” to justify committing violence. He may have believed such a “religious act” would wipe away his sins on earth including drug and alcohol abuse, an arrest and a lost job, officials said on Monday. The Internet searches were discovered on electronic devices such as his smartphone analyzed over the weekend by the FBI Lab in Quantico, Virginia, several counter-terrorism officials confirmed. ISIS/ISIL is well-known for there online recruitment of militant jihadis, but there is no evidence so far that he was specifically inspired by or directed by ISIS to carry out the attack on U.S. military targets. Though it was exactly the type of attack that the Syria and Iraq-based terror group has publicly called for over the past year. “I don’t think that there is any evidence it was ISIL-inspired. He may have been seeking some religious guidance to conduct an act. He could readily find that anywhere online,” a senior official briefed on the investigation told ABC News. Some of Abdulazeez’s friends, who often partied with him and went shooting with him at local ranges, may have known he was seeking answers in his religion, but they do not appear to have been aware he was about to take lethal action or that he may have become convinced that such an act would earn him a place in Heaven, the officials said. “We may never know what his ultimate motivation was,” the senior official added. The Reuters news agency reported on Monday that some officials said Abdulazeez had been inspired by “general propaganda” by jihadists and not specifically by ISIS, al Qaeda or other militant groups. One friend James Petty, told ABC News that Abdulazeez actually loathed ISIS for its brutality “He believed that ISIS was not a group to go towards” and did not think that “ISIS was even Islamic” said Petty. Many jihadis who oppose killing innocent civilian “disbelievers” still view the military as a legitimate target. With more than 30 FBI agents arriving in Chattanooga to go through leads generated in the massive counter-terrorism investigation, a diary belonging to the gunman and FBI interviews with his parents may be the key to unlocking his motives. The diary and interviews paint a picture of a disturbed, suicidal young man using drugs, preparing for bankruptcy and facing an appearance in criminal court, according to a representative of the shooter’s family. Four days after the shooting, the FBI has not found any connection to overseas terrorist groups, but Mohammod Abdulazeez’s diary says that as far back as 2013, he wrote about having suicidal thoughts and “becoming a martyr” after losing his job due to his drug use, both prescription and non-prescription drugs, the family representative said. ABC US News \| World News Editorial Note: While reports so far seem to indicate a troubled young many faced with a rash of hardships and addictions, he is no different from many other Americans… With one glaring exception, Islam. Now, hold your Islamophobic comments for one second and hear me out. Martyrdom through murder is uniquely Islamic, although admittedly NOT the mainstream death in the in the course of waging jihad is considered a heroic act of a martyr by many. A Pew Research Poll of Islamic countries last year showed a significant percentage of Muslims felt that Suicides Bombings can “often/sometimes” be justified. While the opinion that something is “justified” does not necessarily lead to martyrdom, this violent path to martyrdom does exist within some sects of Islam. ISIS/ISIL, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and Hezbollah are just a few of the Islamic Extremist groups that hold such violent path to martyrdom views. Odds are that you have nothing to fear from your Muslim IT guy, college roommate or convenience store clerk, however it is naive to assume there is no threat at all. In the case of Mohammod Abdulazeez, it may have been nothing more than a suicidal young man seeking religious absolution and Paradise in the afterlife. Much like a Death Row inmate “finding religion” in their final moments before execution, but that simply makes it all the more dangerous and unpredictable. As long as there are those who preach and believe in martyrdom through murder, Islam will never be a “religion of peace.” Five families mourn their losses, another family prays for the recover of the injured police officer in the shooting and Mohammod Abdulazeez’s family is left with the guilt, shame and grief that their son delivered upon everyone in the name of “religion.” U.S. Forces Kill Top ISIS Leader [VIDEO] A team of U.S. Special Operation Forces took part in a raid in eastern Syria on… Hollywood's Michael Enright Joins Forces to Fight ISIS [VIDEO] Hollywood stars in today's day and age are known for falling on the more liberal… Man Grabs His Gun, Battles 3 Armed Intruders Pointing Gun To His Wife's Head - [VIDEO] This incident transpired back in March this year, but unfortunately did NOT receive the attention… ISIS Executes Over 300 Yazidi Captives Iraqi and Yazidi officials are reporting that 300 Yazidi captives were killed on Friday by Islamic… FBI Issued Warning Ahead Of Texas Attack It seems that FBI Director James Comey claims through a statement made Thursday, that his…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1632
__label__cc	0.650044	0.349956	Oct 16, 2011- 02:00PM - 03:30PM Big Cat - Little Cat Afternoon Educational outreach and fundraiser to benefit the Petaluma Animal Shelter Sonoma, Sheraton Sonoma County, 745 Baywood Drive, Petalum 10:00AM - 01:00PM Windsor Farmers Market Fresh local produce, shop for crafts and sample an array of al fresco cruisine. Sonoma, Windsor Town Green 09:00AM - 03:00PM Next Steps for Small Business Entrepreneurs professional development event features growth topics for Santa Rosa small businesses Marin, 07:00PM - 11:00PM SFCASA's Roaring Twenties Event SFCASA's 3rd Annual Hot October Nights event Other, One Leidesdorff Building 11:30AM - 02:30AM Design, Engineering and Construction Forum: Building California. What's Next? Join us for an afternoon of knowledge, resources and networking as the Building Industry Organizations join forces for the first time in Northern California. Our guest speakers will share their vision of the future of design and development in Northern CA Sonoma, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Connections: The Passionate Entrepreneur Series Achieving Life Work Balance: How Do We Meet Business Commitments & Take Care of Ourselves? Sonoma, Flamingo Hotel, 2777 4th St, Santa Rosa, CA 12:00AM - 12:00AM Petaluma International Film Festival Film Festival Sonoma, Boulevard Cinemas 11:00AM - 03:00PM THE 6th ANNUAL DSLC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TECH EXPO & MORE Featuring State of the Art Assistive Technology Sonoma, Grace Pavilion, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Be 03:00PM - 07:30PM Take Steps for Crohn's & Colitis Take Steps for Crohn's & Colitis is CCFA's largest fundraising event. Participants raise funds and awareness throughout the year and come together to celebrate the steps that have been taken towards a cure. Sonoma, Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404 01:00PM - 04:00PM Corks at Russian River Vineyards' "Swine and Wine" Celebrate the 2011 Harvest Season with Corks at Russian River Vineyards Sonoma, 5700 Highway 116 N, Forestville, CA 95436 08:00AM - 01:00PM Biotoxin Illness: the science behind accurate diagnosis and successful treatment Benefit Workshop Sonoma, Hyatt, Santa Rosa 06:00PM - 09:45PM Zuccardi Family Wine Dinner at Destino Zuccardi Family Wine Dinner at Destino Other, 12:00PM - 01:30PM Rohnert Park Ambassador's Meeting Ambassador Meeting Sonoma, 05:00PM - 07:00PM Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours Mixer Buesiness After Hours Mixer Sonoma, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 05:30PM - 07:00PM SEBASTOPOL BUSINESS AFTER FIVE MIXER Sepastopol Chamber of Commerce Marin, LAFAYETTE MASONIC CENTER 11:00AM - 04:00PM Fall Group Show Gallery Exhibit Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Coaching Skills for Management Leadership Use a coaching approach to help your people improve performance and to help you manage performance challenges Marin, Best Western Corte Madera 12:00PM - 06:00PM Birdies, Brews & BBQ's Golf, Beer & BBQ Sonoma, The Links at Bodega Harbour 09:00AM - 05:00PM Urban Vision Quest This is a two-day live experiential event for people who are ready to discover what they want to create next in their life and reclaim more of their own brilliance. It is designed for people ready to brighten their experience of living. Marin, Day of the Dead Free Family Day at the Sonoma County Museum! Sonoma, Sonoma County Museum 425 7th Street Santa Rosa, CA 11:00AM - 04:00PM Eastside Bunch Wineries present Bounty of Harvest Eastside Bunch Sonoma, 07:00PM - 11:00PM Santa Rosa Young Professionals Network Signature Event Santa Rosa Young Professionals Network Signature Event "A Night at the Movies" Sonoma, 4676 Mayette Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 10:00AM - 04:30PM Trefethen Haunted Winery Haunted Winery Napa, 1160 Oak Knoll Ave., Napa 09:00PM - 12:00AM River Rock Casino's Halloween Costume Contest Join us for our annual Halloween Costume Contest Sonoma, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Windsor Farmers Market fresh local produce, shop for crafts and sample an array of al fresco cuisine. Sonoma, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition CALL FOR ENTRIES This is the largest competition of American wines in the world! ENTRY DEADLINE NOVEMBER 20TH 2012 Entry Forms and Information at www.winejudging.com Marin, 05:30PM - 08:30PM ART. BEER. MUSIC The Art.Beer.Music event features the gypsy swing of Beso Negro and Shovelman's Mississippi blues, played on a shovel steel guitar. Sonoma, Lagunitas Beer Sanctuary, 1280 N. McDowell Blvd., 06:00PM - 09:00PM So You Want To Start A Business - Business Planning Business Planning workshop Sonoma, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Sonoma County Harvest Fair Celebrating the bounty of Sonoma County's agricultural community Sonoma, 06:00PM - 09:00PM F’n Good Time Cigar Social F’n Good Time Cigar Social Napa, 1018 1st Street, Downtown Napa 01:00PM - 04:00PM Hartford’s “Fun Friday” WINE, FOOD, & MUSIC PAIRING! 6 Wines - 3 Foods - and 1 singer-songwriter-pianist Gentry Bronson Sonoma, Hartford Family Winery 09:00AM - 05:00PM 19TH Annual Mac Computer Expo Apple technology-related conference. Sonoma, Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Pe 09:30AM - 03:30PM Bouverie Preserve Fall Guided Nature Walks Half-day Fall Guided Nature Walks at Bouverie Preserve explore the 535-acre, private, non-profit, nature preserve. Sonoma, Bouverie Preserve 05:30PM - 10:00PM Gary Farrell Winery Harvest Party 2012 Join us to celebrate our 2012 harvest! Sonoma, Gary Farrell Winery 09:00AM - 04:00PM BayWood Artists Celebrate The Pt. Reyes Seashore 50th Anniversary A Major Exibition of over 100 paintings to celebrate Pt. Reyes 50th and the BayWood Artists 15th Anniversaries Marin, Sausalito Bay Model Exhibition Hall, 2100 Bridgewa 06:00PM - 07:00PM MBA Information Session Attend our information session to learn more about the program Marin, Sonoma State University Stevenson Hall 2046 06:00PM - 09:00PM So You Want To Start A Business - Legal & Finance Business Networking Mixer Marin, 07:00PM - 08:30PM Google and YouTube for Small business a free seminar for small business Sonoma, 6 Petaluma Blvd N 05:30PM - 07:30PM Girl's Night Out Fashion, food, fun and friends Sonoma, Coddingtown Mall 03:00PM - 05:00PM REALTOR Exclusive Tour of the OHOME Showcase Exclusive tour for the Real Estate Industry of high performance, low cost housing that is ideal for secondary dwellings. Napa, 1230 Darling Street 12:00PM - 01:30PM Organization & Productivity: Managing Time & Production to Make More Money Do you find yourself overloaded with work? Feel so stretched to the limit you can't set priorities? Exhaust yourself daily without accomplishing your goals? Do you procrastinate on what really needs to get done? Sonoma, 576 B Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 12:00AM - 12:00AM Stacy London to Sign Copies of her New Book, The Truth About Style at Westfield San Francisco Centre First 150 people in line get a chance to meet Stacy London during her book signing of The Truth About Style, a memoir and style guide unveiling the personal style issues that many women face today Other, Westfield San Francisco Centre Level 2 (in front 12:00PM - 05:00PM Art Exhibit “Did It AnyWay!” The exhibit will showcase artwork made by local people with disabilities Sonoma, The Gallery of Sea and Heaven, 312 South A Street, 09:30AM - 02:00PM Fall Backyard Naturalist Program at Bouverie Preserve Highlights Sonoma’s Native Oaks Geared toward the adult amateur naturalist, these Saturday seminars include time in the classroom and on the trail. One to three mile hike on mildly- to moderately-strenuous terrain. Bring lunch and water. Sonoma, Bouverie Preserve, 13935 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen, CA 95 06:00PM - 09:00PM So You Want To Start A Business - Marketing 10:00AM - 03:00PM DSLC Tech Expo and More 2012 Showcasing the latest technology for people with disabilities and seniors Sonoma, Garrett Bldg, Sonoma County Fairgrounds Assistive Technology and services latest technology that enables people with disabilities and senior citizens to live and/or work independently Sonoma, Sonoma County Fairgrounds Garrett Bldg,1350 Bennet 05:00PM - 08:00PM Beyond Hunger Open House Nonprofit Open House Event Marin, 523 4th Street Suite 100 San Rafael, CA, 94901 08:30AM - 12:00AM Walk To End Alzheimer's Charity Walk Sonoma, 1450 Technolog Lane and Shollenberger Park, Petalu 06:00PM - 09:00PM Sensational Saturday Cigar Social at Baker Street Downtown You’re invited to a Sensational Saturday Night Cigar Social at Baker Street Downtown at 1018 1st Street in downtown Napa on Saturday October 20,2012 from 6 to 9 pm. Napa, 1018 1st Street in Downtown Napa 10:00AM - 04:30PM Pink Party Wine for Breast Care Benefit Sonoma, Graton Ridge Cellars 09:00AM - 04:00PM Pinot on the River 2012 More than 100 small-production artisanal Pinot Noir producers will join hundreds of serious Pinot Noir fanatics at the 2012 Pinot on the River Festival, held October 21, 2012 on the Healdsburg Plaza in downtown Healdsburg. Sonoma, 11:00AM - 02:00PM Soulstice Spa Open House & Mixer Massage, Brows & Bubbly! Sonoma, Soulstice Spa 01:00PM - 04:00PM Live Music & Wine at Hartford Family Winery for All! And Join the Club to Join the Members Party! Live music 1-4 PM by Un Deux Trois! Our Tasting Room will be open regular business hours, and all those who join the Wine Club that day are welcome to join the Members-only party (1-3 PM)! Sonoma, Share Exchange; 531 5th St., Santa Rosa, CA 95401 07:30AM - 10:00AM 'So whadda YOU do?' Better Prospecting with Cox Ferrall Everybody talks about networking but nobody really tells you how to do it. Learn 3 key tools for answering the question 'So Whadda YOU do?' Marin, McInnis Park Golf Center Restaurant, 350 Smith Ran 10:00AM - 05:00PM How to Create and Market a Children’s Book App One-Day Intensive Workshop one day intensive workshop for aspiring authors and illustrators seeking to successfully publish and market their own digital titles. Other, Citizen Space, San Francisco 11:00AM - 04:00PM Discovery Day Explore science, technology, and engineering with your family! Marin, 05:00PM - 10:00PM AIA Redwood Empire Design Awards Celebrate the architectural design in our community Sonoma, Kaiser Air Hanger 11:00AM - 04:00PM The Eastside Bunch Wineries present A Thoughtful Harvest A Thoughtful Harvest Wine/Food Event Sonoma, 02:00PM - 07:00PM Eat, Drink & Be Scary Trefethen Haunted Winery Napa, 1160 Oak Knoll Ave., Napa, CA 94558 12:00AM - 12:00AM Ancient Oak Cellars Grand Opening New Tasting Room Sonoma, Legal & Finance business workshop Sonoma, 04:00PM - 06:00PM Free Orientation : Asian Pacific American Youth Young Historians, Living Histories Sonoma, 07:00PM - 09:00PM Muralmaking and Placemaking: Todd Bressi Join us for the first in a series of informative presentations and discussions about how public art is shaping cities across the country Sonoma, 08:00PM - 11:45PM Pro Blues Jam: Jimmy Reed Night 06:00PM - 07:30PM Teacher Soirée and Open House! Please join us for a relaxing wine reception with refreshments and information about our education programs Sonoma, Sonoma County Museum, 425 Seventh Street, Santa Ro 12:00AM - 11:45PM The Good Project Campaign (Organized by Umpqua Bank) Umpqua Bank's The Good Project Napa, Umpqua Bank 10:00AM - 02:00PM Old Fashioned Harvest Stomp Stomp grapes in a wine barrel, test sugar levels, enjoy a catered lunch and of course, taste some wines! Napa, 06:15PM - 08:30AM Planning to Thrive Financially Before and After Retiring A Series Of Workshops Exclusively For Women Marin, Flamingo Resort and Spa 2777 4th Street Santa Rosa 07:00PM - 08:00PM Breaking Ground Series Revolution in Mexico Sonoma, 08:00PM - 11:45PM The Volker Strifler Band California-based guitarist stretches the blues envelope. Marin, A celebration of local wine, food and beer. Sonoma, 05:00PM - 08:00PM Blue Door Gallery First Anniversary The Blue Door Gallery in Guerneville invites you to help celebrate our first anniversary on First Friday -OCT 4 from 5-8PM Sonoma, Stomp grapes in a wine barrel, test sugar levels, enjoy a catered lunch and of course, some wine tasting! Napa, 01:00PM - 03:00PM OAEC Organic Garden Tour OAEC LAST TOUR OF THE YEAR!!! Sonoma, 08:00PM - 11:30PM Shana Morrison With unique, wide-ranging vocals and music that’s pop with a side of blues and a dose of rock. Marin, 11:00AM - 04:00PM Duet: Paintings by Jennifer Li and Nicholas Oberling Reception: Saturday, October 12, 4-6 pm; Artist talk at 5 pm Marin, 483 Magnolia Ave. 10:00AM - 03:00PM Sonoma State University’s Fifth Annual 5K Tour de Campus 5K fun run/walk around Sonoma State campus Marin, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Ave, Rohne 02:00PM - 08:00PM Courtney’s Pumpkin Patch Fundraiser for the Courtney Jade Davis Memorial Scholarship at the Cloverdale Oktoberfest Celebration. Sonoma, Cloverdale Plaza, Cloverdale 11:30AM - 02:30PM Collaboration Jazz Band Four cool dudes fusing a wide range of musical styles. Marin, 07:00AM - 03:30PM Breast Cancer Fund Peak Hike for Prevention Turn breast cancer awareness into action! Hit the trail to prevent breast cancer at Peak Hike for Prevention: http://bit.ly/15z7QCd Marin, Santos Meadow, Mt Tamalpais State Park, Santos Mea 06:30PM - 11:00PM Farzad Arjmand Persian Flamenco jazz that is perfect harmony between poem and music. Marin, 07:30PM - 09:00PM God Fights the Plague One-man play by teen playwright explores the nature of God, belief, and religion Sonoma, business networking, bring business cards Sonoma, 1201 Piner Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95403 07:00PM - 08:00PM Liberty in North Korea : Special Guest Nomads Join us for a special talk by nomads from Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) presenting a 30- minute documentary entitled Danny From North Korea. Sonoma, Sonoma County Musuem 08:00PM - 11:45PM Drew Harrison – In The Spirit of Lennon Celebrate the life and music of John Lennon on his birthday with this special tribute show. Marin, 05:30PM - 07:30PM Moving From Cost Center to Strategic Partner Learn to effectively leverage the financial and operational language of business to firmly establish a strategic leadership role. Marin, 06:00PM - 09:00PM Traditional Home's Second Annual Napa Valley Showhouse at Charles Krug Winery Design Showcase Napa, Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main Street, St. Helena, 08:00AM - 11:30AM Concierge Service Basics Concierge Service Sonoma, 07:00PM - 08:00PM Breaking Ground Series: Photography in Mexico Photography teacher Renata Breth will highlight several of the revolutionary photographers in the SFMOMA Photography in Mexico exhibition Sonoma, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Traditional Home's Second Annual Napa Valley Showhouse at Charles Krug Winery 08:00PM - 11:45PM Claudia Villela Band Nostalgic yet modern blend of Brazilian music, Samba, Bossa Nova and Free Jazz. Marin, 06:00PM - 10:00PM The Gorgeous & Green Gala The Green Gatsby Other, 05:00PM - 08:00PM Block Party for Street Art Projects Join SCM for a Block Party celebration of two new art installations Sonoma, 10:45AM - 02:30PM Vintner’s Lunch with Grgich Hills Vintner’s Lunch with Grgich Hills Marin, 05:00PM - 07:00PM LIVE MUSIC @ Ancient Oak Cellars Happy Hour EVERY FRIDAY Dulcet sounds, elegant Russian River wines and merriment to commence EVERY Friday @ 5:00 Sonoma, 08:00PM - 11:45PM The Zins Rock out to covers of good time rock, R&B, funk, and classic Americana. Marin, 01:00PM - 03:00PM Meet Designer Kenneth Cole at Nordstrom San Francisco Centre Meet Designer Kenneth Cole at Nordstrom San Francisco Centre Other, Nordstrom San Francisco Centre, Women's Shoes, Fir 06:30PM - 09:30PM Vineyard Dinner in J Tear Drop Vineyard Enjoy a unique farm-to-fork, vine-to-glass culinary experience . Sonoma, J Vineyards & Winery, 11447 Old Redwood Highway, H 11:30AM - 01:30PM Nancy Northrup Heartfelt singer-songwriter weaves stories of love, hope, despair and rebirth Marin, 06:00PM - 10:00PM College of Marin Benefit featuring Mel Martin The 20-piece College of Marin Jazz Band will share the stage with saxophone-master Mel Martin Marin, 11:00AM - 03:00PM Gordon Valley Car Show Hometown Car Show Napa, 6485 Gordon Valley Road 08:00AM - 11:30AM Insurance 101 - Managing Uncertainty Insurance 101 Sonoma, 12:00PM - 01:00PM History and the Supernatural from Down Under Great chance to meet new people during a Halloween theme lecture! Sonoma, 04:30PM - 06:30PM Modern Pioneers: A Quarterly Speaker Series The Changing Face of Napa Napa, 3022 St. Helena Highway, North, in St. Helena 04:00PM - 07:00PM Obamacare Business Solution for Small Business Owners Healthcare Compliance Inc invites you to our LAUNCH PARTY introducing our ACA Employer Guide. Napa, 1157 Division Street 06:00PM - 08:00PM David Marks, Tom Ribbecke and Larry Robinson: Celebrity Woodworkers & Music Join us for our Third Thursday special event celebrating Artistry in Wood: Rousing Music and Panel of Master Craftsmen Sonoma, 07:00PM - 11:45PM Shahyar Ghanbari & Farzad Arjmand An evening of modern Persian pop and Flamenco guitar. Marin, 05:30PM - 09:30PM Napa Valley Wine Train's Moonlight Escape Winery Tour Napa, 12:00PM - 04:00PM Figs and Pigs Fest October 19th Sonoma, 11:00AM - 04:00AM 5th Annual Pink Party Benefit to celebrate breast cancer awareness month Sonoma, 07:30PM - 09:30PM Michael Pollan & David Mas Masumoto Together in Point Reyes! A lively and wide-ranging conversation about food, farming, and cooking with two of the culinary world’s most thoughtful writers and activists. Marin, Toby's Feed Barn, Pt. Reyes Station 11:00AM - 04:30PM Amista Vineyards Wine and Chocolate Pairing Back By Popular Demand! Marin, Piano On The Edge SRJC Arts Collaborative Benefit Concert Supporting Students in the Arts Sonoma, Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa Campus 11:30AM - 02:00PM Wil Roberts Mix of R&B, coffee house, and adult contemporary pop. Marin, 07:30AM - 12:00PM Innovation Napa Valley Key Business Summit in Napa Napa, 500 First Street, Napa 04:00PM - 03:00PM OAEC Facilitation For Group Decision Making OAEC Facilitation Course Sonoma, 10:45AM - 02:30PM Vintner’s Lunch with Frank Family Vineyards Vintner’s Lunch with Frank Family Vineyards Napa, 05:00PM - 07:00PM One Year Anniversary Pinot and Pizza Party One Year Anniversary Pinot & Pizza Party Sonoma, 07:30PM - 12:00AM Jon Batiste and Stay Human jazz Sonoma, 08:00PM - 11:45PM Mari Mack & Livin' Like Kings Mari Mack and company belt out blues and bring a touch of California soul. Marin, 12:00PM - 04:00PM Fort Ross-Seaview Wine Festival - Luncheon & Wine Tasting Wine Festival Sonoma, Fort Ross - 19005 Coast Hwy. Jenner, CA 95405 03:00PM - 12:00AM The Takås Quartet string quartet Sonoma, 11:30AM - 02:00PM Ira Walker Grammy-nominated blues man enchants with his southern soul. Marin, Pinot on the River! Pinot On The River is a fun filled weekend of Pinot Noir, in the beautiful Russian River Valley town of Healdsburg, Ca. Marin, Healdsburg Plaza 12:00AM - 12:00AM The Silk Road Ensemble World Music Sonoma, 07:30AM - 10:00AM Forecasting the Future Economic Conference Economic Conference Marin, Embassy Suites, San Rafael 12:00AM - 12:00AM Think Pink for October! Win a His and Hers electra Townie 7D set! Help fight cancer! Pink for the cure Marin, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Lisa Valentine and The Unloveables Lisa Valentine writes soul songs that feel as if they have come from another era Marin, 05:00PM - 07:00PM Inherit: Latino Artists in California Opening Reception Opening Reception Napa, Napa Valley Museum-55 Presidents Circle, Yountvill 07:00PM - 12:00AM 3 Decades of Elvis at Sally Tomatoes Rick Lenzi & Roustabout Marin, 02:00PM - 04:00PM Michael Cooper Studio Tour Join us for private tour of artist Michael Cooper’s studio. Cooper will demonstrate his innovative woodworking techniques, show you his tools and talk about his works-in-progress. Transportation not included. Sonoma, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Revolver A special tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, plus more rockin’ sounds from the ‘ Marin, 02:00PM - 05:00PM Mexican American Vintners Wine Tasting Latino Heritage Month Napa, Napa Valley Museum 05:00PM - 08:00PM McEvoy Ranch ‘Wine + Red Piano’ Release Party & Dinner Featuring Celebrated Pianist Sarah Cahill on Wine + Red Piano Event at McEvoy Ranch Marin, 08:30AM - 09:00AM Hosted Pancake Breakfast Celebrating Williams-Sonoma Founder and Grand Re-opening at Sonoma Plaza, O Williams-Sonoma Re-opening in Sonoma, CA Marin, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Sitar Power Forerunner of Worldbeat brings North Indian flavor to Rock, Shuffle, and Boogie. Marin, Enjoy a Day in the Country with Beautiful Cars and Great People. Napa, 11:30AM - 01:00PM Julie Courtney TV personality turned musician effortlessly combines folk vocals with smooth jazz and blues. Marin, 01:00PM - 04:30PM Discovering Color with Dry Pastels: Two-Day Workshop October 7 & 14 You are invited to explore the art of dry pastels on Canson paper with artist Michelle Bottaro. The emphasis is on playfulness in this color-focused workshop. Marin, 10:00AM - 03:00PM annual DSLC 9th TECH EXPO & MORE This event will showcase the latest technology/services that enable people with disabilities and senior citizens to live/work independently. 60 + exhibitors will display assistive technology devices and educational materials along with service information Sonoma, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Garrett Bldg, 1350 Benn 08:00PM - 10:00PM Jesse Brewster & Darren Nelson Singer-songwriter and guitarist proves his depth with elements of folk, country, southern rock, and soul. Marin, 06:00PM - 11:00PM Global Green’s 10th Anniversary Celebration - Star Studded Gorgeous & Green Gala “Emerald City” Global Green's 10th Anniversary Celebration Other, The Bently Reserve 12:00AM - 12:00AM Inaugural Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco Presents Contemporary and Modern Art Fair on Columbus Day Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco's First Contemporary and Modern Art Fair Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Blind Scream Haunted House Haunted House Sonoma, Sonma Mountain Village Rohnert Park, 1500 Valley H 12:00AM - 12:00AM San Rafael Chamber of Commerce China Trip: 5-Star All-Inclusive Vacation to Beijing, Shanghai and more! Marin, Free Family Fun Day Napa, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Sultry chanteuse evokes a bygone era of sensuous Jazz queens with a modern, feminist twist. Marin, 11:00AM - 03:00PM Ragtime Romp at Jack's Place Piano Concert Sonoma, 07:00AM - 03:00PM Peak Hike for Prevention Join 400-500 other breast cancer survivors and supporters on Mt. Tam to prevent cancer before it can start. Marin, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, Santos Meadows, Mill Vly 11:00AM - 03:00PM STUDIO TOUR WITH ARTIST BRUCE JOHNSON Enjoy a day at Bruce Johnson’s studio in Cazadero. His property includes a sculpture garden, a poetry house for quiet contemplation, and his studio. Marin, 02:00PM - 03:00PM WOODTURNING BOWL DEMONSTRATION WITH KALIA KILBAN Enjoy an afternoon in our Artistry in Wood exhibition and watch Kalia Kilban turn a bowl on a lathe. She will discuss the materials and the process of woodturning. Sonoma, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Sherie Julianne & The Marcos Silva Quintet Embracing the essence of Bossa Nova, Julianne shines with her vocal style and ease. Marin, 11:30AM - 01:30PM Cynthia Lewis Cynthia Lewis Marin, 07:00PM - 09:30PM Fall Into The South: Prix Fixe Dinner Taste the bounty of the South and seasons changed. Marin, 06:30PM - 12:00AM Bruno Mars to Perform at The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Fifth Annual Benefit for Salesforce.com Foundation Presents Spectacular Concert to Support Kids’ Healthcare at Civic Center Plaza on Tuesday, October 14 Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Érase una vez: Bilingual Storytelling at Napa Valley Museum Érase una vez: Bilingual Storytelling at Napa Valley Museum Napa, 04:30PM - 09:30PM Annual Charity Texas Hold’Em Tournament & BBQ Sponsored by the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce. This year's event will benefit the Marin Builders Association Scholarship Fund. Marin, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Jules Leyhe Band At 23, Bay Area native Jules Leyhe is already an accomplished musician Marin, 08:00PM - 10:00PM The House Jacks Described as a "battery of sound," this a cappella group creates some face-melting rock 'n roll. Marin, 06:00PM - 12:00AM Will Rock For Food to Benefit Noah's Food Pantry Will Rock For Food Marin, 05:30PM - 05:30PM Halloween Bunco Tournament Bunco Tournament Marin, David Laflamme’s famous group moves effortlessly from folk and ethereal jazz to psychedelic and straight up rock & roll. Marin, 02:00PM - 06:00PM San Geronimo Fall Rock Festival Relaxed family friendly outdoor rock festival featuring New Monsoon and San Geronimo (the band). Marin, 06:30PM - 09:30PM J Fall Chef Cooking Series: Harvest J Fall Chef Cooking Series: Harvest Sonoma, 06:00PM - 09:00PM TLT's Second-Annual Fundraising Event- STRUTTIN' Sonoma County's Premiere Youth Talent Show Sonoma, Sonoma Country Day School 04:00PM - 06:00PM Attraction: New Paintings by Greg Ragland A new exhibition of artist Greg Ragland Marin, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Hunter And The Dirty Jacks LA-based roots rockers storm the stage with wailing guitars and bluesy rhythms. Marin, 11:30AM - 01:00PM Dallis Craft Dallis Craft Marin, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Laughing Tomato Comedy Series at Sally Tomatoes Sally Tomatoes Comedy Series Marin, 07:00PM - 09:00PM Mystery Writing in the Mausoleum Short story reading in 100 year old Mausoleum Marin, 06:00PM - 08:00PM COMMUNITY BUILDING IN ROSELAND: VINCE HARPER Vince Harper has worked in Santa Rosa neighborhoods engaging residents, schools, youth and organizations to improve the community for over 20 years. Much of his work has been concentrated on the Roseland neighborhood. Sonoma, 07:00PM - 10:00PM 300-hr Core Yoga Therapy Training/Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Comprehensive curriculum and leading experts in Yoga Therapy provide our students with the skills to treat of a variety of common ailments. Join us! Sonoma, Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa, 2777 4th St., 07:00PM - 11:00PM Johnny Tsunami & The Hurricanes Live music at Sally Tomatoes Marin, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Delta Wires Delta Wires Marin, 07:00PM - 08:30PM Introduction to BodyTalk BodyTalk is healthcare designed by your Body. Sonoma, Lomitas School House 08:00PM - 10:00PM Gypsy Soul Elevate and inspire your passion with memorable musical experiences of deep connection. Marin, 12:00PM - 04:00PM Halloween Bash – A Community Arcade Halloween, Technology and Makers Marin, Bon Air Center 12:00AM - 12:00AM Farzad Arjmand 07:00PM - 09:30PM Beatles vs. Stones - A Musical Shoot Out Nationally touring tribute show Other, 11:30AM - 01:30PM Good Karma Good Karma Marin, 07:30AM - 10:00AM Forecasting the Future Economic Conference 2014 The 11th Annual Forecasting the Future Economic Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites in San Rafael and will feature esteemed keynote and panel speakers discussing local, regional and global trends and issues that impact business in Marin County. Marin, 08:00PM - 10:30PM The 415s The 415s Marin, 08:30PM - 10:30PM The 85’s 6TH Annual “Thriller” Halloween Costume Bash Get spooky with this “totally rad” ’80s cover band. Marin, 06:00PM - 12:00AM Sally Tomatoes Annual Hallloween Party Halloween Party Marin, 05:00PM - 12:00AM Sally Tomatoes Halloween Party 11:00AM - 12:00AM Music at the Redwood Cafe Music After Dark Sonoma, Redwood Cafe 10:30AM - 05:00PM 2015 Sonoma County Harvest Fair Sonoma County Harvest Fair is a celebration of the local harvest featuring three full days of all-inclusive wine tasting with 150+ wineries, wine sales, food pairing, craft beer & cider tasting, marketplace, chef demonstrations and workshops and more. Sonoma, 07:00PM - 10:00PM Pink Elephant Sale - Bargains and Beers Shop & party with your friends at the Museum on October 2! Sonoma, 06:30PM - 10:00PM Masters Dinner with Charbay Artisan Distillery & Winery Join The Meritage Resort as we welcome Charbay Distillery & Winery to our Estate Cave on Friday, October 2. Napa, 02:00PM - 04:00PM Jack London Book Discussion Group 10:30AM - 05:00PM Rohnert Park Founder's Day Celebration Parade & Festival Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Rohnert Park Community Center Sonoma, 01:00PM - 04:00PM Smartphone & Tablet Moviemaking Made Easy Join the video revolution! Use your smartphone or tablet to make quality movies on a shoestring budget. Marin, Community Media Center of Marin 10:00AM - 03:00AM Marin County Color 5K Run First annual 5k color run for charity Marin, College of Marin Indian Valley Campus 04:00PM - 08:00PM River Awards Gala The River Awards will honor and highlight the people, businesses and farms that are leading the Russian River to a more climate resilient future. Sonoma, Shone Farm, 7450 Steve Olson Lane, Forestville 10:00AM - 03:00PM Oktoberfest Get out your lederhosen for the Napa Valley Museum Oktoberfest & Car Show, a fundraiser for the Museum. Napa, 01:00PM - 02:30PM Fall Poetry Reading Poetry Sonoma, 02:00PM - 04:00PM The 2015 Cinderella Royal Princess Ball The 2015 Cinderella Royal Princess Ball Sonoma, Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club, 333 Country Club D 03:00PM - 04:45AM Symphony Napa Valley: American Icons Symphony 20th Century American Composers Napa, Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Thea 10:00AM - 04:00PM Starting and Sustaining Intentional Communities Do you dream of establishing a land-based intentional community or education center? This course is designed to help you actualize that dream. Sonoma, 06:00PM - 08:00PM Professional MBA & Wine MBA Information Session Now more than ever the world needs leaders. Leaders to show enterprises and our economy the way forward. Meanwhile, your career has shown promise. Seize this moment to add the missing piece that will put your rising aspirations face-to-face with today's r Sonoma, TBD, Sonoma State University 1801 East Cotati Ave, 11:30AM - 01:00PM Manufacturing in the North Bay- a Conversation with California Senator Mike McGuire Chalanges and opportunities for strengthening manufacturing and technology in our area Sonoma, Vintner's Inn/John Ash, 4350 Barnes Rd., Santa Ros 10:00AM - 06:30PM YWCA/Mercedes-Benz Golf Tournament Join us October 5th in Sonoma Sonoma, Sonoma Golf Club 04:00PM - 06:30PM Nonprofit Financial Boot Camp This workshop valuable as a financial overview. Sonoma, 06:30PM - 08:00PM Laura Larque: Aztec Origins of Dia De Los Muertos Laura Larqué, History Professor at Santa Rosa Junior College will lecture on the Mesoamerican thought of duality: life and death and the concept of the spiritual world. Sonoma, 10:00AM - 03:00PM Disability Services & Legal Center DSLC annual 10th Tech Expo & More, showcasing the latest technology and services that enable people with disabilities and the aging community to live and/or work independently. Sonoma, 02:00PM - 04:00PM Free Family Fun Day: Dia De Los Muertos – Sugar Skull Decoration Napa Valley Museum Free Family Fun Day: Dia De Los Muertos – Sugar Skull Decoration Napa Valley Museum Napa, 08:00PM - 10:30PM Krishna Das Live in Concert Krishna Das layers traditional Hindu Kirtan touches the deepest chord in any listener Krishna Das has been called yoga's 'rock star'. Marin, Angelico Hall at Dominican College, 50 Acacia Ave, 09:00AM - 05:00PM Permaculture Design Course with Toby Hemenway The Daily Acts' Permaculture Design Course is taught by Toby Hemenway and an all start cast of guest instructors. Learn more at dailyacts.org Sonoma, Cavanagh Recreation Center, 426 8th Street, Petalu 05:30PM - 08:00PM MBA Alumni, Students, & Family Mixer The MBA Alumni Council will be hosting an get-together for MBA students, alumni, and family members at the Doubletree. Join us! Sonoma, Doubletree Hotel One Doubletree, Rohnert Park, CA 11:00AM - 01:30PM Ragtime Festival Music Festival Sonoma, 06:00PM - 08:00PM Opening Reception for Flexible Sculpture and Fiber: West Coast Fiber Artists Featuring a curated group exhibition of diverse fiber artists from the West Coast. Join us for an opening reception and meet some of the featured artists in the exhibition. Sonoma, 10:00AM - 07:00PM Grand Opening of Napa Valley's Byer California Store A celebration of the new Byer California store at Napa Premium Outlets. Napa, Napa Premium Outlets 12:00AM - 12:00AM Black Artists on Art: The Legacy Exhibit The Black Artists on Art exhibition will feature over 50 contemporary and legendary Black fine artists Sonoma, Petaluma Arts Center 230 Lakeville Street, Petalum Bring your family for an evening of mingling, food, and fun. Meet current MBA students and alumni. Sonoma, One Doubletree, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 06:30PM - 01:30AM Pink and Blue Party with a Purpose! Pink and Blue Party with a Purpose! Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer Awarenes Marin, Club Oasis (Treasure Island), 401 California Stree 10:00AM - 04:00PM Art & Construction Art Trails Open Studio with Local Artist Sargam Griffin Sonoma, Sargam Griffin Dry Creek Studio 12:00PM - 02:00PM Art, Lunch and Conversation: The Sculpted Fiber Gallery Talk, Box Lunch & Wine with the Artists Sonoma, 12:00PM - 03:00PM Pop-Up Jewish Marin Fun for all - with a side of Jewish Meet us in Larkspur for a fun-for-all activity with a Jewish twist! Visit us any time on Sunday, bring your kids, bring your friends! Marin, Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Cir, Lar 04:30PM - 08:30PM Into The Woods A night of unusual + perfectly poised vignettes at Headlands' campus w/Artist in Residence + drag artist Mica Sigourney (Vivvyanne ForeverMORE) Marin, 07:00PM - 09:00PM Desiree Holman with Derek Conrad Murray Interdisciplinary artist Desiree Holman (AIR '09, ANW '15) in conversation with art and visual culture critic and theorist Derek Conrad Murray. Marin, 05:30PM - 07:30PM Win-Win Conversations for Optimal Outcomes: HR Business Leader Series Learn new strategies to conduct win-win conversations with upper management, peers and staff. Marin, 10:00AM - 02:00PM PG&E and Sonoma Raceway Host Free Touch-A-Truck Event Race cars and bucket trucks are just some of the vehicles that will be on display during the Oct. 14 Touch-A-Truck event at Sonoma Raceway. Sonoma, 06:30PM - 08:00PM With Wakened Hands: James Krenov's Legacy Laura Mays will discuss his life, philosophy, work, and how he established the woodworking school at the College of the Redwoods Sonoma, 08:30AM - 10:30AM Fundraising Without Freaking Out The workshop will demystify the process Sonoma, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Facilitation for Group Decision Making Do you find yourself struggling with meetings, group process and decision-making? Are you frustrated by inefficiency, difficult power dynamics or organizational confusion? Do you want to increase your facilitation and general leadership skills? This weeke Sonoma, Petaluma International Film Festival Petaluma International Film Festival Sonoma, 07:00PM - 04:00PM Pinocchio ATFC presents PINOCCHIO, an adaptation of the classic tale of a woodcarver who want a son and the wooden puppet he creates who wants to be a real boy. Sonoma, Dohn Theater, Steele Lane Community Center, 415 St 01:00PM - 03:00PM Book Release Party New Book about Jack London Sonoma, 2400 London Ranch Road Glen Ellen, CA 05:00PM - 07:00PM Linked Local Marin Halloween Mixer Biz Mixer Marin, Rickey's in Novato 08:30AM - 10:00AM Practical Public Relations: Honing Your Message for Success Don’s workshop on practical public relations Sonoma, 07:00PM - 08:00PM 3rd Annual Mystery Writers in the Mausoleum 3rd Annual Mystery Writers in the Mausoleum Sonoma, 1900 Franklin Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 06:00PM - 09:00PM Bring Your Own DSLR You bring the camera. We'll show you how to use it. Marin, 08:30AM - 10:00AM Planned Giving Programs Estate Planning Sonoma, 06:00PM - 08:00PM W Inspire: Mayor Libby Schaff An innovative speakers series featuring some of the Bay Area’s most influential and dynamic female leaders. Marin, 08:30AM - 05:30PM CAPPA Childbirth Educator Training Become a Childbirth Educator! California Nurses earn 24 Continuing Ed Contact Hours. www.facebook.com/LuminaryBirth Sonoma, Soul Shine Family Chiropractic, 440 South E Street Hands-on Science Day for Families Sonoma, 11:00AM - 11:30AM Wine Executive MBA Program Information Brunch As the wine industry continues to grow and transform, California is also emerging as the global leader in research and education about the business of wine. With 21st century demand and production poised for continued growth, the need for practitioners wh Sonoma, Darwin Hall room 101, Sonoma State University 02:00PM - 12:00AM Dia De Los Muertos Celebracion! A traditional Dia de los Muertos celebration for families and everyone. Sonoma, 10:00AM - 05:00PM PlumpJackSport Winter Blow Out Sale http://patch.com/california/berkeley/plumpjacksport-winter-blow-out-sale-0 Other, MatrixFilmore, 3138 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA As the wine industry continues to grow and transform, Sonoma State University (SSU) has emerged as the global leader in research and education. SSU is the first U.S. institution of higher learning to offer undergraduate and advanced degrees in wine busine Marin, TBD in Napa, CA 05:00PM - 06:30PM Sunday Soup Join us to NOURISH Napa Valley with the creation of a micro-grant to support local artists Napa, 09:30AM - 01:00PM Hike into Fall Hike at Jack London State Park Sonoma, 12:00PM - 05:00PM Fall Open House at Headlands Come engage with Artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, see performances, hear readings, and eat in the Mess Hall. Marin, 08:30AM - 10:30AM The Whole World in Our Hands: How Mobile, Social and Technology is Changing Nonprofits Nonprofits for over 25 years providing advice, teaching seminars and writing articles. Sonoma, 05:00PM - 07:00PM Access to Capital Workshop Learn how to raise up to 500K for your business at this panel discussion featuring alternative lending experts. Sonoma, Lucchesi Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Pe 10:00AM - 02:00PM Art, Antique & Collectible Appraisal Day with Bonhams Napa Valley Museum invites you to an Art, Antiques and Collectable Appraisal event. Napa, 05:30PM - 06:30PM Mizuno Halloween Run Three mile family fun run with costume contest and pumpkin carving. Sonoma, 04:00PM - 08:00PM Heaven Hill Whiskey event at Americano Restaurant & Bar Join us for a special Whiskey night! Other, 06:00PM - 06:00PM DSLR Video Boot Camp Take advantage of your DSLR camera's filmmaking capability. Marin, 07:30AM - 10:00AM Forecasting the Future Marin Economic Conference Watershed 2016- The program agenda will feature the drought, upcoming elections and the economy. Marin, 08:30AM - 10:30AM Positive Performance Evaluations Workshop description coming soon. Sonoma, 07:30AM - 09:30AM Special Breakfast Event with Diana Nyad Renowned Swimmer, Journalist, and Motivational Speaker Sonoma, Hyatt in Santa Rsoa 07:00PM - 11:00PM 4- A Child Masquerade Ball CPI's annual fundraiser raises funds to support needed programs for children and families. Sonoma, Friedman Event Center 06:30PM - 10:00PM Masters Winemaker Dinner Series with Silver Oak and Twomey Cellars This unforgettable evening will bring together the culinary talents of both the chef from Silver Oak, Dominic Orsini, and culinary team from The Meritage Resort, as they pair dishes with award winning wines from Silver Oak and Twomey Cellars. Napa, 06:00PM - 08:00PM Opening Reception For: Journey To Fountaingrove: From Feudal Japan to California Utopia Join us for the opening reception of Journey to Fountaingrove: From Feudal Japan to California Utopia. With items from our collection, Paradise Ridge Winery, and from private collectors, this exhibit spans the large geographical and cultural distance tha Sonoma, 10:00AM - 11:30AM EMBA & MBA Information Session 06:30PM - 12:00AM Halloween Barn Party at Chanslor Ranch in Bodega Bay Oct. 31st BBQ & Live Music, Costume Contest Sonoma, 10:00AM - 06:00PM Meet, Greet, and Feed Elephants! Elephant meet & greet fundraiser Sonoma, 2017 Sonoma County Harvest Fair Wine Tasting and More! Sonoma, 07:00PM - 11:00PM Blind Scream Haunted House 2 terrifying Haunts in Rohnert Park, CarnEvil and the Slaughter Shack, open select nights Oct 6-31 Sonoma, 1500 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 12:00AM - 12:00AM Western Farm Center 50th Anniversary Western Farm Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary October 7 and 8. Sonoma, 21 W 7th St. Santa Rosa, CA 07:30AM - 12:00AM Sugarloaf Ridge 50k and Half Marathon The Half Marathon boasts nearly 4,000 ft of gain and tough, grinding climbs around the flanks and over the summit of Hood Mountain. Marin, 10:00AM - 06:00PM The Golden Age of Wine in Northern California The early wine trade in San Francisco & vicinity. Sonoma, Healdsburg Regional Library & Sonoma County Wine L Become a digital storyteller for Marin TV Marin, 06:30PM - 09:00PM Fresh Starts Chef Event: Ken Tominaga 10:00AM - 03:00PM 12th Annual Disability Services & Legal Center TECH EXPO & MORE Tech Expo & More will showcase the latest technology and services that enable people with disabilities and senior citizens to live/work independently and be an equal part of the community. Sonoma, Grace Pavilion, Sonoma County Fairgrounds 10:00AM - 12:00AM Hanna Boys Center 25th Golf Classic Golf tournament to benefit and support at-risk boys attending Hanna Boys Center Marin, Sonoma County Art Trails 2017 Get ready for Sonoma County Art Trails the second and third weekends in October! For over three decades Art Trails has been Sonoma County’s premiere juried open studio tour Sonoma, 12:00PM - 06:15PM 11th Annual Oktoberfest Cotati Chamber of Commerce event Sonoma, La Plaza Park 06:30PM - 09:00PM Dance in the Light A benefit for Belos Cavalos’ Trauma-informed Equine Experiential programs; serving foster children and at-risk youth in transition at Valley of the Moon Children’s Center and throughout Sonoma County. Sonoma, Belos Cavalos 687 Campagna Road Kenwood, CA 9545 06:30PM - 10:00PM Marin Alfresco Osher Marin JCC presents: MARIN ALFRESCO 8/14/17 - 6:30pm Ensuring scholarships for our wonderful programs http://www.marinjcc.org/alfresco Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM All Sonoma MBA Programs Information Webinar 12:30PM - 02:30PM Left Bank Brasserie Hosts Cooks with Books Event with Jacques Pépin Left Bank Brasserie Hosts Cooks with Books Event with Jacques Pépin Marin, Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur C 07:30PM - 09:00PM A Pairing; Wine and Song Jazz and more at Trek Winery Oct 21 Marin, 02:00PM - 04:30PM Dia de Muertos Family Day A fun activity for families or for grandparents to do with grandchildren. Learn about the festival of Dia de Muertos from exploring our exhibition. Sonoma, 05:00PM - 08:00PM Midnight at the Masquerade The Murder Mystery Company in San Jose Marin, 10:00AM - 04:00PM ReStyle Marketplace's "Under the Umbrellas" Craft Faire Local craft artisans and refreshments "Under the Umbrellas" inside Catholic Charities' Thrift Store, ReStyle Marketplace Sonoma, 1001 W College Ave Santa Rosa, Ca 95401 05:00PM - 07:00PM Siona Benjamin: Blue Like Me Siona Benjamin: Blue Like Me Artist Presentation & Film Screening @ Osher Marin JCC 8/29 start @ 5PM Marin, 09:00AM - 10:00AM Hybrid Sonoma EMBA in Wine Business Information Webinar Now more than ever, the world needs leaders who are able to adapt and innovate in order to move enterprises and our economy forward. Seize this moment to add that missing piece that aligns your personal and professional goals for success and leadership. Sonoma, 12:00PM - 04:00PM Halleck Vineyard 20th Anniversary Harvest Party! Live music, Gourmet Lunch, Oysters, Library Wines! Sonoma, Halleck Vineyard 03:00PM - 06:00PM Opening Reception for: From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds Join us on Oct. 6th, as we commorate the one year anniversary of the Firestorm of Oct. 2017, and mark the opening of our newest exhibitio, From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds. Sonoma, 02:00PM - 04:00PM SH\\\'MA: Stories in Silk The Osher Marin JCC is pleased to present a new exhibit of hand-dyed silk artworks by the textile artist, Catherine Stern. Marin, 11:00AM - 01:00PM Forum on the Road in Santa Rosa KQED\\\'s Forum returns to Santa Rosa\\\'s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts for a live broadcast on the one-year anniversary of the North Bay wildfires. Sonoma, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Santa Rosa, 50 06:30PM - 08:30PM Remembering Our Loved Ones: The Ancient Aztecs & Systems of Remembrance Professor Lopez will discuss how the Nashuas used pictograph writings to record their history and genealogies as well as Day of the Dead traditions. Sonoma, 07:00PM - 12:00AM Blind Scream Haunted House Blind Scream is waiting for you with two terrifying haunted houses. Open select nights Oct. 12- Oct 31. Sonoma, 10:00AM - 05:00PM Sonoma County Art Trails 145 juried professional artists invite you to EXPLORE Sonoma County, ENGAGE with the artists in their own studios, and COLLECT wonderful original art. Sonoma, Open House is a once-a-season opportunity to roam our campus, meet artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings and performances. Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Museum Round Table Creative Expression During and After Crises Join us for an evening of lively discussion as we talk about creative expression during and after the fires. Sonoma, 09:00AM - 04:00PM Managing Emotions in the Workplace Seminar Emotional Intelligence Marin, 10:00AM - 04:00PM Fall Harvest at Slide Ranch This special family day is one of our biggest fundraising events of the year. Join us for a festive Fall Harvest celebration on the coast. Marin, 01:00PM - 04:00PM Dia de Los Muertos Family Day and Opening Reception 06:30PM - 08:30PM Covering the Fires: A Newspaper\\\'s Odyssey Moderated by PD Columnist Chris Smith, This panel will discuss the PD\\\'s coverage of the fires of October 2017 Sonoma, 08:30AM - 04:00PM Advanced Communication Seminar Coaching and Communication Techniques Marin, 09:00AM - 05:30PM Marin Sustainable Enterprise Conference 2018 Marin’s largest business, nonprofit, gov\\\'t & academia gathering under 1 roof for 1 day, get tix now! Marin, Embassy Suites, 101 McInnis Parkway, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Moving through Together. Live Performance and film Screening SoCo Dance Theater responds to the wildfires of 2017. Sonoma, 04:00PM - 06:00PM Special Reception: Healing Through Art Join us for a special reception on the power of healing through art. Sonoma, 08:00PM - 10:00PM Rock of Ages: A Costume Party Extravaganza Back for their fourth year running, Murphy Productions and Famous4 are producing THE costume party of the season at the Osher Marin JCC. Marin, 04:00PM - 06:00PM Fall Project Space Reception Spend a Sunday afternoon at Headlands and see the realization of two months of creative work by Project Space artists Fiamma Montezemolo and Yaloo. Marin, Have dinner with us at our seasonal Sunday Supper, cooked by Headlands\\\' Chef Damon Little and served family style in our artist-renovated Mess Hall. Marin, 06:00PM - 09:00PM Members Dinner at Headlands Members Dinner is a once-a-season opportunity for our Members to savor a family-style meal in our Mess Hall, followed by studio visits. Marin, 06:00PM - 08:00PM Left Bank Brasserie in Larkspur to Host Duckhorn Vineyards “Field to Glass” Wine Dinner Left Bank Brasserie in Larkspur to Host Duckhorn Vineyards “Field to Glass” Wine Dinner Marin, 09:30AM - 01:30PM Family Farm Day: Bird Exploration We will explore what makes a bird a bird and the different types of birds that live at Slide Ranch including birds on the farm, wild and marine birds. Marin, 02:00PM - 04:00PM Mark Chatterley - A Visual Diary - Figurative Ceramic Sculpture Sculpturesite\\\'s sixth Solo exhibition of figurative sculptures by ceramic sculptor Mark Chatterley. Ceramic and bronze works included. Sonoma, Sculpturesite Gallery, 14301 Arnold Drive Suite 8, 12:00PM - 02:00PM Belle & Mrs. Potts Etiquette Tea Party Tea Party Sonoma, 04:00PM - 08:00PM Feast Above the River Feast Above the River includes some of Sonoma Countys best of the best chefs and world-class Sonoma County Wines. Ticket price is $150. Sonoma, The Guerneville Pedestrian Bridge, 16209 1st St., 05:30PM - 07:30PM Marin Green Drinks with Bioneers Come Join our business mixer with Bioneers. Marin, 704 Fourth Street San Rafael, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Parent Education: Janet Lansbury - Respectful Parenting Respectfully Parenting Your Toddler/Preschooler w/Janet Lansbury Marin, The Ross Preschool 08:00PM - 10:00PM Petaluma Shakespeare Company presents Macbeth An exciting new production of Macbeth with a cast of five actors promises to be the highlight of the North Bays autumn theatrical season! Sonoma, Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street, Petaluma Venture into 2 terrifying HAUNTED HOUSES for the scare of your life at BLIND SCREAM! 10/11-Halloween Sonoma, Formerly Sears Auto Center at 98 Santa Rosa Plaza 06:00PM - 09:00PM Day of the Girl 2019 An international celebration of girls, with music, stories, food and drink, and special artists Sonoma, Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park Hudson Street Wineries 428 Hudson Street Healdsbur 07:00PM - 10:00PM Nina Gerber & Chris Webster Concert This much-loved duo performs soulful ballads, jazzy tunes and sweet folk music. Sonoma, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Panel Discussion-Immigration Advocacy in Our Community Join us for an evening with a panel of dedicated and passionate professionals who are leading the efforts in Sonoma County to provide support,protection, and much needed legal service to migrants and their families. Sonoma, 06:30PM - 08:30PM Kitka & Hasmik Harutyunyan / Gorani: Love Songs to Lost Homelands Armenian folk singer Hasmik Harutyunyan joins Kitka Women\'s Vocal Ensemble in a concert of traditional songs from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Sonoma, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center, 1801 East Cota 05:00PM - 07:30PM Build a Bat Box Make a Home for Bats or Owls! Sonoma, 6791 Sebastopol Ave 06:30PM - 08:30PM THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM Novato Green Film Series Marin, 12:00AM - 12:00AM Analy Music Thanksgiving Pie Sale Analy High School Music Program Thanksgiving Pie Sale Sonoma, Analy High School 10:00AM - 04:00PM Fall Harvest at Slide Ranch - Oct 19 07:30PM - 09:30PM Sing The Beatles to Live Music from The Quarry Persons Bring the family & friends to Pub J for a fun evening singing along to everyones fave Beatles songs backed by live music from THE QUARRY PERSONS. Marin, Open House provides a once-a-season opportunity to meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. Marin, 01:00PM - 07:00PM Chops-Tastic Luncheon, Spirit of Demeo Award, live and silent auction! Sonoma, 11:30AM - 01:00PM Women Sharing Wisdom About Wealth Roundtable Talk Brown Bag Lunch Marin, 07:00PM - 10:00PM Learn to Dance Argentine Tango - Levels 1 & 2 An introduction to the social form of Argentine Tango as danced in Buenos Aires. Marin, 09:00AM - 03:00PM Marin Senior Fair The Marin Senior Fair hosts over 140 exhibits and activities of interest to the Senior Community, as well as four informative talks! Marin, Marin Center Exhibit Hall 06:30PM - 08:30PM Dia de los Muertos Exploring the History and Philosophy Behind the Holiday Santa Rosa Junior College History Profesor, Laura Larque will lead a discussion on altar building and important elements to include in a Day of the Dead altar. Sonoma, 09:00AM - 07:00PM 2019 Analy Band Wagon Fall Music Festival 2019 Analy Fall Music Festival Sonoma, 6950 Analy Avenue Sebastopol, CA 10:30AM - 09:00PM 4th Annual Santa Rosa CHP Golf Tournament 4th Annual Santa Rosa CHP Golf Tournament Sonoma, 06:30PM - 09:30PM Lifehouse Annual Community Awards Banquet Lifehouse to Celebrate Outstanding Employees, COmmunity Members & Supportive Businesses at Annual Awards Banquet, October 25th Marin, 101 McInnis Parkway 12:00AM - 12:00AM Friday Eve Wine and Song 12:00AM - 12:00AM Abstract International Juried Exhibition Sonoma, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High Street, 07:00PM - 11:00PM Dia de Los Muertos Milonga Alma del Tango invites you to a special October Milonga – Dia de los Muertos! Marin, Alma Del Tango Studio 07:30PM - 09:30PM Novato Theatre Company Presents Sweeney Todd Dark, witty and Tony Award-winning tale of love, murder and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th century London. Marin, Novato Theater Company, 5420 Nave Drive, Novato 07:00PM - 10:00PM FADO: A Night In Portugal with Ramana Riviera Ramana Vieira and her Ensemble take us on a journey to the world of Fado, often described as Portuguese blues. Sonoma, 10:00AM - 12:00PM Halloween Family Campout 07:30PM - 09:30PM JOHN LITHGOW In conversation On-Stage Live with Michael Krasny The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts & Copperfield\\\'s Books present JOHN LITHGOW In conversation On-Stage Live with Michael Krasny. Marin, Banking on Cannabis The Balance of Power A Trip to the Hardware Store Talk Dirty To Me Wine Country Events & Preserving Agriculture Alcohol Free Forces Gain Momentum Outrunning Cancer First Glass Amazons New Push Into Wine 2018 BEST Zinfandel: Seghesio Family Vineyards Click and Sip Sonoma Portworks: A Proven Original We Can Do Better 2017 BEST Contractor/Builder: Ghilotti Construction Company Helping People, Changing Lives A Perfect Place to Live if You’re a Salamander	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1639
__label__cc	0.645591	0.354409	Dublin Christ Church Cathedral Admission Ticket Tour operator: Christ Church Cathedral 60 minutes Travel method: Other / Non-Travel Region: Dublin Experience the beauty and history of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin in your own time by pre-purchasing your entrance ticket. Make your own way to the 1,000-year-old cathedral and explore independently at a time that suits you. Admire the neo-Gothic nave and roam the medieval crypt to see its historical treasures and artefacts, including a mummified cat and rat, and the country’s first copy of Magna Carta. Events & Tickets, History & Culture, Museums & Exhibitions What do I need to bring Note: Male visitors will have to take hats off Please note: Last admission is 45 minutes before closing. On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays during term time where the Cathedral Choir or the Girl Choristers are singing evensong the cathedral will have last entry at 17.15 in order to prepare. Partly wheelchair accessible. Christ Church Cathedral is right in the heart of medieval Dublin and close to other top attractions and next to Dublinia. By Bus: Christchurch Place is on many bus routes, including the 123, 13, 27, 40, 49, 77a and 77x - see Dublinbus.ie for further information. By Luas: The Luas, the Irish for speed, is Dublin’s light-rail transit service. It is a swift tram system crossing the city on two lines, one of which is the Red Line. Christ Church is served by the Luas Red Line. Get off at the Four Courts stop and cross the river on to Winetavern Street. Tickets for the Luas can be purchased at streetside vending machines near the stops. By Dart: Christ Church is located approximately 10 minutes walk from Tara Street Dart Station. By Train: Christ Church is located 15 minutes walk from Heuston and 20 minutes walk from Connolly Rail Stations, both of which are served by the number 90 bus which stops on both sides of the quays directly opposite the cathedral. Male visitors are asked to remove their hats upon entrance to the Cathedral. Please check www.christchurchcathedral.ie for Winter guided tour schedule (November - February). EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum 1+ h The Dublin Pass - 5 days Glasnevin Dead Interesting Tour	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0017.json.gz/line1640

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