pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 133
994k
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.718214
| 0.281786
|
AWS Cost Management: 6 Tools IT Can Use
In the on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud world dominated by Amazon Web Services, it's easy for costs to spiral out of control. To help, here are 6 tools to help manage and monitor your AWS spending.
(Image: Kinsei-TGS/iStockphoto)
The promise of saving money is a major factor in the cloud's explosive growth. But the pay-as-you-go cloud world, which is currently dominated by Amazon Web Services, can easily and quickly end up costing you more than what you'd hoped to save by migrating in the first place.
Managing the AWS cloud bill gets to be a bigger headache every week for the IT manager in charge of controlling the cost of cloud computing. As use of the cloud grows, so does the complexity of the bill. There's precious little ability to extract the detailed information needed to see who drove the increase each month.
Yes, Amazon supplies some ability to set accounts using tags and consolidated billing. This capacity allows an IT manager to separate production cloud accounts from dev and test accounts. But it becomes daunting for the IT department to serve 10,000 employees.
If by the end of the year, most of those employees are in a business unit that wants its own account on EC2, the company will run out of tags long before it runs out of users.
With 37% of IT spending on servers, switches, and storage headed for one form or another of cloud computing, it's extremely likely that managing the cost is on the C-suite's radar.
Two major challenges facing IT managers charged with keeping tabs on the AWS bill: How to make cloud users more accountable and how to measure efficiency of cloud usage.
[See 6 Signs You Need a Multi-Cloud Strategy.]
Amazon Web Services recognizes the problem. First, it tried to ease the problem of ordering the correctly priced server by offering prospective users Trusted Advisor. The tool can take a user's specifications and recommend an instance configuration that's a match without building in much surplus capacity.
AWS describes its online adviser as a resource "to help you reduce cost [and] increase performance ..." What more could you ask? Perhaps more visibility, tracking, and feedback regarding the operation of what the Trusted Adviser set up.
Remember, the cost picture can be complicated by outside events, such as Britain's vote to exit the European Union. Microsoft announced in October that it will raise prices as of Jan. 1, 2017 on Azure cloud computing in Britain to make up for the decline of the British pound since the Brexit vote. Can Amazon be far behind?
Since then, AWS and several promising young third-parties, such as Cloudyn, CloudHealth, Cloud Checkr, Cloudability, Apptio, and Uptime Software, have come up with additional billing management and cloud cost-management offerings. Here's a look at six tools for cost accountability and management as the reliance on the cloud continues to grow.
All the tools highlighted have been tested by customers and most have won acceptance in the marketplace over the past two to three years. Each contains multiple cost management features, with at least one of particular strength that makes it worth considering by IT managers responsible for cloud operations.
Charlie Babcock,
11/3/2016 | 5:06:05 PM
Field of vision: Make it four tags deep
AWS allows a cloud user to define his instance with tags and the Amazon User Guidance illustrates the function using two tags. Cloudability has posted a blog, first published in Agust 2015, urging cloud users to define each instance with four: an environment, role, owner/creator and name tags. That gives a bill analysis system more information that just which group, role or individuals within the company are running up the bill. AWS tagging informations says each customer asset in the cloud may use up to 50 tags, probably enough.b
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2063
|
__label__cc
| 0.652024
| 0.347976
|
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball
Download Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball in HD for FREE
HQTV
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Director: Jeannine Dupuy, Lisa Rerrie, Nancy Eagles, P.J. Pesce
Actors: Autumn Reeser, Carrie Keagan, Ernie Hudson, Jason Schombing, Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael Parks, Tom Berenger, Tommy Flanagan, Vinnie Jones
Duration: 86
Keywords:123Movies Autumn Reeser Carrie Keagan Ernie Hudson Fmovies full Movie Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball Gomovies Jason Schombing Keegan Connor Tracy Michael Parks Movie25 Movie4k Primewire Putlockers Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball Online Solarmovie Tom Berenger Tommy Flanagan Vinnie Jones Xmovies8 Yesmovies
Barry is an asthmatic kid having trouble in life. He lives with his father, a computer programmer, in Texas. Barry is struggling to get by in life, dealing with his…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert…
Country: USA, Germany
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The Mark of Zorro
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop,…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they’ve been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception…
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his…
Country: Ireland,UK,USA
Smokin’ Aces
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state’s evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Blood Trap
Six criminals are tasked with kidnapping a young for ransom, but when they get locked inside her mansion, what they find is not what they expected.
Country: UK,USA
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Trailer: Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2064
|
__label__cc
| 0.563154
| 0.436846
|
Businesses, knife crime is also your business
Waltham Forest businesses can help promote the Mayor's #LondonNeedsYouAlive movement which is targeting young adults who are at risk of being involved in knife crime.
Knife crime has been substantially rising in the capital recently. London has already witnessed 29 knife crime-related deaths in 2018, with a large number of victims and offenders being in their 20s, as well as many more knife crime-related incidents.
The fact is more and more young people are carrying knives and more are becoming victims of such crimes. The #LondonNeedsYouAlive movement has received backing from the Mayor's office as a way of targeting young people, to come to an understanding of the issues of knife crime and its horrific consequences.
Businesses can be involved in this movement by displaying posters and helping to raise the awareness of knife crime to young people.
Download the kit for posters and leaflets which can be put around your store/venue helping to raise awareness of knife crime.
Help us shape our advice and guidance on adult care and support
The Mayor of London and Google Arts & Culture celebrate Waltham Forest as inaugural London Borough of Culture
Waltham Forest Cycle Parking Boost!
Countryside announced as delivery partner for ambitious Town Hall transformation
Waltham Forest the first Council to install the first permanent City Trees in London
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2067
|
__label__cc
| 0.531201
| 0.468799
|
warrenisweird
HORROR — WEIRD — MOVIE REVIEWS
SPECIAL REVIEW: “THE SKY HAS FALLEN”
One of the perks about writing about horror films is that occasionally, film makers will send me copies of their film to review – it’s not a paid gig, and I don’t expect it to be: I do it for the sheer entertainment of it. Whether it’s horror or otherwise, I’m always up for watching something to help someone get noticed in the film industry. It’s generally by email [where I get contacted through my contact page] and I’m asked if I’m willing to do a review, which I’m not one to turn down. It’s kind of like when I wrote the last film study, I was requested to write my thoughts on the info-graph and without hesitation, [because I thought it was interesting] I jumped at the opportunity. Same goes for movies, I’m not against reviewing every film I can, it’s just a matter of if I can get to each [and every] one of them, and having time.
One such movie I was asked if I was willing to review was called The Sky Has Fallen, and the request to review was coming straight from the director/writer. I had never heard of such a film, but armed with the knowledge that it won “Best Horror Feature” at the Horror Freak Show Festival in 2009, and that the director insisted on only using practical effects; I was sold already. I looked into it a little, [not the trailer though, I wanted to go into the film blind] and found out it started out on Kickstarter, and already had a ton of people praising either the film, or the fact that Mr. Roos [the writer/director] was using practical effects, which one fan even called “a dying art” – which I must agree with. Roos also seemed to be a reader of warrenisweird, because he had mentioned in his email that he had read my thoughts on [bad] CGI, and even agreed with me! I was beyond excited for this film. With this excitement [and free time] ahead of me: I dove into the horror award winner, known only to me as: The Sky Has Fallen.
for an indie film – these effects are flawless.
The movie begins with telling us that the world has [more or less] ended, and that within a couple of hours, a new disease has wiped nearly the entirety of humankind. Trying to avoid this “infection”, people have started to evacuate cities, fleeing to remote locations such as back woods, or by the river. Some survivors have also claimed that they have been seeing mysterious black figures carrying away the dead and actually experimenting on them. Now, our two “heroes”: Lance and Rachel, are determined to fight back and plan on killing The Leader of these creatures before the rest of humanity disappears: for good. As you can tell from the above picture, the practical effects I was told about are beyond what I expected; with an almost Sam Raimi feeling attached to them. This is a great thing, as I’m a huge fan of the original Evil Dead trilogy, and Raimi is a practical effects master! [as far as I’m concerned] I would have loved to see more of the make up effects though, because as the creatures show up, you could tell that there was great effort put into the detail, but as soon as you want to get a clear look, the camera either looks away, or pans to another scene. If I had to make a constructive criticism on one thing though, it’d be that the back woods they were walking through could have used more scenery. By this, I just mean that most – if not all – the film takes place with just trees as background. If we saw maybe some survivor huts, or some sort of structures to add more to the feeling of moving forward; giving the characters a feeling of traveling further into the woodlands.
The other thing is the acting. Overall, it’s mediocre at best, but as a lower budget flick; I’m not overly surprised. The dialogue, however, is where I have a slight complaint. It’s just how the actors deliver their lines: they’re almost over-dramatic bursts.. This can be overlooked thanks to the special effects and the story, but it’s something that sometimes feels out of place at times. My absolute favorite thing about this film [besides the use of practical effects] is that the story was not fully explained. Although that can sometimes be a downfall – especially in the horror genre – I like that other than talk of: a plague, some zombie-like beings, horrible and violent deaths, and something weird happening to humanity. That’s really the only explanation we’re given. It’s strange and obscure, but we never really know what’s actually going on or even why these two “heroes” were immune to.. whatever this virus really is: It’s subtlety at it’s finest.
Ultimately thought, in an age films are filled with CGI – which I absolutely detest – it’s so freeing to see that practical effects are still something people play with. It’s something we need more of, even if CGI can fix what practicality can’t, it’s the effort and the time that’s put into it that makes it feel so special. The Sky Has Fallen isn’t the most perfect film I’ve ever seen – but it’s great to look at visually, and for a low budget film; it’s brilliantly put together. It’s a great first [full length] film from Director Doug Roos, and I look forward to his next film[s] ! If you like zombies, swordplay, and violence – check out The Sky Has Fallen over here: it’s not free to watch, but it’s definitely a fun film to spend an hour and a bit on. Definitely Recommended.
If you found yourself to enjoy this review, please take a minute and follow me over on Facebook where you can click the “like” button on my Facebook page. By clicking “like”, you’ll see every post from warrenisweird the very moment it’s been posted. I also share links and pictures that will not be featured here on the blog. Every “like” helps a ton, so be sure to tell the horror enthusiast in your life to do the same, and share the page with family and friends!
remember, sharing is caring!
Posted in movies and tagged 2015, about, digital, film festival, horror, indie, long read, movie, movie review, The Sky Has Fallen, thoughts on June 22, 2015 by W ∀ R R E N. Leave a comment
← film study: DEADLIEST horror movie villains [ranked by KILL count!]
COME ONE, COME ALL TO: “Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival” [2015] →
let's talk about it! Cancel reply
follow by Email?
don't have a Wordpress account? NO WORRIES! just click here and new posts will get sent right to your email!
FRIDAY FUN FACT
real horror
Trailer Thoughts
Weirdo'ween
SUPPORT WARRENISWEIRD BY POSTING THIS BUTTON ON YOUR BLOG :
movie reviews :
WARRENISWEIRD ON TUMBLR :
WARRENISWEIRD On FLICKr :
©2014 by Warren Gow. All photos/art are the property of their original owners and are subject to copyright. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2070
|
__label__wiki
| 0.656366
| 0.656366
|
Search results for "Bulgaria"
Welcome to Acapulco
Video game designer Matt Booth has one shot to save his career by unveiling his biggest project yet at the Video Game Awards in New Mexico. But after running into…
Country: Bulgaria, Mexico, USA
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
We Die Young
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won’t follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into…
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of…
Country: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Romania
Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them…
The Wild Pear Tree
An aspiring writer returns to his native village in rural Turkey, where he becomes overwhelmed by his father’s debts.
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Republic of Macedonia, Sweden, Turkey
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.
In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
Genre: Action, Horror
Acts of Vengeance
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Loving Pablo
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world’s most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia’s most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a…
Country: Bulgaria, Spain
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to…
Country: Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Netherlands, USA
Boyka: Undisputed IV
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When…
In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Country: Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, USA
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone…
Country: Bulgaria, France, USA
After a fatal accident occurs, Nathan Perry is assigned to the Milwood facility for young adults. During his time at Milwood, Nathan becomes a victim of unforeseen terror and unusual…
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built – an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator…
The late 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a…
A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ…
All is Love
Rado, an orphan from a poor Sofia neighborhood, has been in and out of school for troubled youth for years. Although he is approaching adulthood, he is yet to finish…
Bookmark and share - 123MOVIEST.CO & WATCHSERIES.ROCKS :)
Powered By WatchSeriesRocks
watch series freewatch series rocks123movieswatch serieswatch tv shows freestream tv shows free
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2072
|
__label__cc
| 0.667022
| 0.332978
|
An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics
Anthony Watts / November 29, 2012
Published in the Financial Post today:
OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125 scientists.
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
First Avenue and East 44th Street, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Mr. Secretary-General:
On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 … This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.”
On November 13 you said at Yale: “The science is clear; we should waste no more time on that debate.”
The following day, in Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Webcast, you spoke of “more severe storms, harsher droughts, greater floods”, concluding: “Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States. A nation saw the reality of climate change. The recovery will cost tens of billions of dollars. The cost of inaction will be even higher. We must reduce our dependence on carbon emissions.”
We the undersigned, qualified in climate-related matters, wish to state that current scientific knowledge does not substantiate your assertions.
Read the full letter and signatories here
November 29, 2012 in Al Gore, Alarmism, extreme weather. Tags: Al Gore, Ban Ki-moon, Extreme weather, Secretary-General of the United Nations
U.N. leader: Sandy a lesson in climate change
HARRIS and KHANDEKAR: Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon blinks, responds to WUWT story
← Alice in Wonderland science
NOAA: ‘2012 was an active [hurricane] year, but not exceptionally so …10 busier years in the last three decades’ →
120 thoughts on “An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics”
There is a pervasive group of journalists, lobbyists, activists, NGO types, ‘scientists’, crony capitalists, bureaucrats and politicians who do so well out of climate alarmism that their only fear is that the music will someday stop.
This, for example, is why there is no legacy media criticism, or even mention, of the appalling waste represented by the Doha conference. Insiders are discussing ‘important’ matters with other insiders, and their profligacy is being covered up by more insiders. A genuine consensus.
They act like an occupying power of the colonial era; living high on the hog of resources that do not belong to them and doing everything in their power to suppress dissent and impose onerous regulations on the colonised communities.
Rhoda Ramirez says:
Nice theater but it’s not really about climate – it’s about a horse to get the UN in charge of the world.
nevket240 says:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/the-enduring-uncertainty-beyond-the-climate-basics/
is Revkin going ‘soft’ on deniers??
Do you sense the slight shift to a more scientific view and abandoning his faith based view??
clipe says:
Ties in with the Scotsman article.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/11/26/28gate-in-the-scotsman.html
Let the truth be spoken !
Are they asking for the IPCC to apologize and admit that their recommendations are bunk?
“The science is clear; we should waste no more time on that debate.”
They’ve been saying the “debate is over” from day one, before the debate could even get started. When are we actually going to have an honest debate on the subject of climate change? Scientists of the past, like Einstein, invited others to prove them wrong. Scientists of today seem to think it’s a waste of time to even engage in debate on their theories.
Patrick (adelaide) says:
Good letter. Concise, accurate, factual and, I think, respectful. It will not be welcomed, especially when one reads the list of signatories. There are some who will be regarded as controversial, including our host most probably but there’s no avoiding the credentials. Of course, arguing from authority is not liked on WUWT but, at least one can say. look, they are highly credentialed , go challenge *them* on the science.
Revkin’s Doha contribution:
29 Nov: NYT Dot Earth: Andrew C. Revkin: The Enduring Cloudiness in Climate and Coastal Forecasts
There are many reasons humanity is having a very hard time addressing the buildup of long-lived greenhouse gases contributing to global warming…
One big reason is that while the basics of greenhouse theory have been clear for decades, the most consequential aspects of human-driven climate change remain the least certain…
at that point he links to this 46-page pdf, and i stopped reading the rest of his column:
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Viewing the Future through a Warped Lens: Why Uncertainty Generates Hyperbolic Discounting
Thomas Epper, Helga Fehr-Duda and Adrian Bruhin
http://www.iew.uzh.ch/wp/iewwp510.pdf
John Bell says:
I think the Precautionary Principle should be invoked here, and warmists should have to walk and canoe to their meetings, to reduce greenhouse gasses, and help make (hopefully) positive change, by reducing the impact of climate change. (sarc off) There is a word that gets a lot of usage, “impact” in enviro-speak.
Niff says:
Absolutely superb. Come on somebody, call these people “deniers”?
I agree with the sentiments but I feel we are going to a Politics Gunfight with a Science Knife.
So nice to see actual climate scientists speak up. Thank you for posting!
r murphy says:
Feels like opening presents before Christmas. Are we nearing the tipping point where science trumps ideology?
kbray in california says:
Don’t forget this one:
Now up to 31,487 Skeptical American Scientists.
That’s about 50 times the number of “scientists” that are seriously involved in the United Nations IPCC process.
That would put the “scientists” promoting CO2 global warming at 2% of the combined groups.
trafamadore says:
I think I saw somewhere, I dont remember the exact numbers at all but, that of some 30,000 articles on climate only some 25 make an argument against AGW. So with 5 people per paper, think those 125 are the ones?
Somehow I doubt it…
I also heard in a talk earlier this evening (my stomach growling thru the whole thing) that 96% of all warming is due to humans, and almost 100% since 1970. My “Precautionary Principle” is we should do what we can to stop AGW, but it still wont be enuf.
ol;d construction worker says:
I wish I could sign the petition but I’m just an old construction worker who has been and still working outside in this weather/climate. I believe we are in a similar weather pattern that we had back in the late 60’s. A the weather pattern that made London Fog coats famous.
Published on Wednesday 23 June 2010 19:15
http://www.scotsman.com/news/gerald-warner-weathering-the-true-lies-of-global-warming-newspeak-1-1371106
Greg House says:
There is one thing I do not understand. Why on Earth did those 125 persons choose to write to the Secretary-General of the United Nations? This man has no political power. Who cares what he says about climate or anything else? I can not imagine that anybody does. He has no influence on political decisions.
Moderators, please use your judgment in releasing this comment. I mean no disrespect to anyone.
My apologies to the blog, however, I wondered what has been happening today in in the minds of those who are participants in Doha, Qatar with respect to this particularly powerful letter you know they have viewed.
As soon as I finished reading the list of those who signed the letter,,,, I thought of what crossed the minds of the organizing body.
I wonder what the participants are thinking right now too?
Neville says:
Even if every scientist on earth believed fanatically in CAGW there is zero that can be done about it.
See co2 emissions until 2035 from the EIA. The warmist should take their protest to China and India c.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/emissions.cfm The OECD will increase by 6% and the non OECD will increase by 73% by 2035.
Simple facts, simple maths and a simple graph, so what is it these fools don’t understand? The OECD could all retire to caves and it still wouldn’t make a jot of difference to climate or thr temp.
Meanwhile they’re quite happy to waste trillions $ until 2100 for a big fat zero return on their investment.
They are all completely barking mad with no logic and no reason.
No. Science holds the Aces. Global-warming is just a busted-flush, waiting to be called.
The problem is, some people will get cold while we wait for the game to end.
E.g. http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/energy-bill-sparks-protests/
Wayne Delbeke says:
**********************************************************************************************************************
The pen is mightier than the sword to use an old quote. Just look at the Arab spring and all that is happening in the world. Eventually the truth will prevail. Wrongheadedness will win for a time, but if it is wrong, it will fail.
No political power? Debatable. But there’s no question that The UN wants their leader, whoever that may be at the time, to have political power.
There are a lot of names signed to that letter that know what they are talking about. (What was all that talk about “The Consensus”?)
Dismiss this as a “PR shot” if you like…but it’s a shot it in the right direction even if you don’t aprove of the target.
Maybe the problem is this shot might be heard?
Dennis Nikols says:
You get your PR attention any way you can. The 125 are correct but they are still thinking the issue is one of science. It is not and never has been it is and always has been political and economic power stemming from faith and ideology.
jack hudson says:
Though this letter strikes a good cord, it will fall on deaf ears. The UN has an agenda to make national sovereignty a thing of the past. Empowered by a friendly media they can put their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la……la while they continue to use AGW as a sledgehammer toward their ends. The majority of Americans seem to be skeptics so it isn’t likely that legislative action is where the AGW agenda is advanced. It will come from the executive branch in new regs issued by various departments as well as executive orders straight from the president, which by the way, will make the UN very happy.
Gunga Din says: “But there’s no question that The UN wants their leader, whoever that may be at the time, to have political power.”
He is not a leader of the UN. There is no leader there.
“The 125 are correct but they are still thinking the issue is one of science. ”
Have you even read Dr. Ball’s articles? I doubt it, because you would know he has been fighting on both fronts for a long, long, time.
RobertInAz says:
” Why on Earth did those 125 persons choose to write to the Secretary-General of the United Nations?”
The IPCC is essentially part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Chartered and supported by same. http://unfccc.int/2860.php.
The nice thing to see with all of the “climate scientists” on the list is signing this letter is not seen as a career limiting move.
Judith is not on the list. She would’ve been right below Walter Cunningham.
Gunga Din says: “No political power? Debatable. But there’s no question that The UN wants their leader, whoever that may be at the time, to have political power….
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
But they want a Fuehrer.
CAGW is the current excuse to empower one.
Mark and two Cats says:
Whether any exists or not, I’m sure evidence can be found to indict the signatories of this letter as shills for Big Oil.
My conclusion is no.
His post concludes with: “Give a read and test your cultural filters by seeing how that conclusion makes you feel.” and a link to The Cultural Cognition Project. http://www.culturalcognition.net/
The cultural filters demonstrated by the project’s selection and description of cultural filters is a bit of a hoot.
While citing the most excellent analysis of the uncertainty of cloud models discussed here: http://judithcurry.com/2012/11/28/clouds-and-magic/. He falls back to the tried and true precautionary principle: “Uncertainty is the reason for acting in the near term, and that uncertainty cannot be used as a justification for doing nothing.” This even with flat temperatures.
Jim Clarke says:
Revkin recommends that we read a paper with this as its conclusion:
“Uncertainty is the reason for acting in the near term, and that uncertainty cannot be used as a justification for doing nothing.”
Is this what passes for wisdom? I am sure the same argument was used by ancient high priests to continue human sacrifices. I cannot believe that any intelligent or sane person would argue that ignorance (uncertainty) justifies action! The only things that ignorance justifies is education and insurance. Carbon mitigation, with its zero return on investment, is not insurance.
Jim Clarke says: “I cannot believe that any intelligent or sane person would argue that ignorance (uncertainty) justifies action!”
An evil intelligent person would. There are quite a few around.
Gunga Din says: “But they want a Fuehrer. CAGW is the current excuse to empower one.”
And this should be a reason to write to an irrelevant person?
If I misread your intent, sorry in advance.
Fear and intimidation are tools used by those not as nice as the rest of us. We read stories of a mother or a father killing their own children. We can’t imagine any parent doing such a thing. Yet a few do. There are Green Goons out there that would take pleasure or at least think it was “for the greater good” if they could get anyone who doesn’t tow the green line fired from their job or harmed in some way. I comment as “Gunga Din” for a reason. Where I work we had an envirionmental audit. I could be in less trouble if I showed up drunk than if I didn’t know where the recycle bin was. The people doing the audit were nice. But they report to someone higher up. Fortunately, such audits don’t happen often. It used to be they never happened. I do have EPA licenses for what I do and used to do. But they go back to before the EPA went “green”. The EPA then just wanted to protect the environment so it could be used by people then and for years to come. What I do is a job that, over time, became a “career”.
My name on such a list wouldn’t mean much. Wouldn’t mean anything really.
If people think that these guys are all retired and aren’t risking anything (other than the ire of Mann), there’s an “H” of alot of knowlege and experience in that list list that shouldn’t be dismissed lightly.
I looked at a few of your previous comments and realized that, yes, I did misread your intend. Sorry again. Cranial density does not improve with age.
philincalifornia says:
Oh no. That’s why he refuses to disappear into the sunset. No no, please not Gorebbels ….
…. please say it ain’t so.
November 29, 2012 at 6:21 pm | trafamadore says:
Tralfamadore, if you’re trolling here for sympathy for your ” precautionary principal ” you’d be better off at the SS site. There’s nothing that mankind can do to prevent any changes in climate whether cooling or warming … Mankind is nothing more more than the proverbial ant on an elephants rump.
Robert A. Taylor says:
The letter has:
The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction.
As a CAGW skeptic I wanted to have the exact quote from the report to use, and accessed the PDF document @NOAA.gov. For anyone else who wants it, the exact quote from pg 123 is:
”The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that an observed absence of warming of this duration is needed to create a discrepancy with the expected present-day warming rate.
This is under the pg 122 heading:
DO GLOBAL TEMPERATURE TRENDS OVER THE PAST DECADE FALSIFY CLIMATE PREDICTIONS?
Actually there are no page numbers on those two pages, and they are highlighted with a blue background rather than the normal white.
Phillip Bratby says:
I can hardly wait to see this reported by the BBC. They love to report everything about the UN.
The “irrelevant” person made a public statement to try and become relevant, and some other people made a public statement to try and ensure that he doesn’t become relevant. Don’t know how much easier it could be to understand….
Steve C says:
Congratulations to all involved: thousands of us amateurs agree, despite our lack of official “intellectual weight”. Whether shouting at the self-defined deaf has any effect is another matter, of course, given that their rationale has nothing to do with science. We might hope, too, that the FP will draw this letter to the attention of their peers and maximise its exposure.
John Wright says:
@Tom in Texas says:
I just left a word on her open thread to that effect.
RogerT says:
Pity they didn’t get 25 more signatures which would double number of scientists (out of 77) who are responsible for the “concensus” :)
mfo says:
Excellent letter. Well done to those who put their names to it. It’s brave to express your views about climate change openly as the NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers did recently. It demonstrates the lie about a consensus.
It shows that the vile holocaust comparison of using the term den**r is simply abuse due to a paucity of intellectual maturity on the part of CAGW activists including Mann (who should be ashamed considering his background).
As the letter relates to the UNFCCC bunfight at Doha it seems appropriate to send it to the UN Secretary General. But it is an open letter so it is naturally for everyone to see and sending it to Ban Ki-moon is more likely to get attention from the press for its main theme:
“There is no sound reason for the costly, restrictive public policy decisions proposed at the U.N. climate conference in Qatar. Rigorous analysis of unbiased observational data does not support the projections of future global warming predicted by computer models now proven to exaggerate warming and its effects.”
Ban Ki-moon will do nothing and no one expects him to. He is a pawn in the New Great Game which encompasses power structures and the CAGW scare. His ability to deal with corruption at the UN is suspect as Inga-Britt Ahlenius expressed to him in a letter in 2010.
Inga-Britt Ahlenius was a Swedish auditor and undersecretary general of the Office of Internal Oversight Services charged with combating corruption at the United Nations. She wrote to Ban-Ki Moon:
“There is no transparency, there is lack of accountability. Rather than supporting the internal oversight which is the sign of strong leadership and good governance, you have strived to control it which is to undermine its position. I do not see any signs of reform in the organisation.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/ssi/wpc/nations2.pdf
Sticky post?
Gail Combs says:
I think I saw somewhere, I dont remember the exact numbers at all but, that of some 30,000 articles on climate only some 25 make an argument against AGW. So with 5 people per paper, think those 125 are the ones?….
If you want that PhD, if you want Tenure, you do not rock the CAGW boat. There are lots and lots of paper around, I have read several, that have the “Get out of Peer-Review Free Card” “Although our research shows CAGW is a bunch of bunk, our research should not be used to trash CAGW because we do not want to look like we are ‘deniers’.”
So here is a list of papers that do not support CAGW although they may have that “Get out of Peer-Review Free Card” 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm
The fact that the “Get out of Peer-Review Free Card” is so common should make it clear to anyone who doesn’t have their mind cemented shut that CAGW is POLITICAL and not scientific. All it takes is ONE paper to disprove a theory and yet CAGW keeps coming back like a zombie from the “Night of the Living Dead ”
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” ~ Thomas Huxley
16 years of no warming in the face of continued rise in CO2 is that ugly fact. There are plenty more but all have been ignored in the pursuit of $$$$.
…..But they want a Fuehrer.
The globalists even say that. Pascal Lamy is the Director General for the World Trade Organization. Twenty years ago he was Chief of Staff to the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors.
9 November 2009: Lamy sees need for “right global governance” to meet global challenges
“The reality is that the end of the cold war caught everyone by surprise. It was the end of a bi-polar world. A new world order was being born. And yet there was not enough thinking and discussion about its governance structures. There was never a Bretton Woods Conference or a San Francisco Conference post 1989. As a result global governance structures did not adjust. And here lies the root of many of today’s problems. Global challenges need global solutions and these can only come with the right global governance, which today, twenty years later, remains too weak.” …he said:
” …the world is in a state of serious distress. We are in the midst of the worst ever economic crisis and the first to have a global reach. A crisis which has seen a decimation of employment. We are seeing our planet deteriorate due to global warming. With severe droughts and violent floods. With entire islands disappearing under water….”
…What do I mean by global governance? For me global governance describes the system we set up to assist human society to achieve its common purpose in a sustainable manner, that is, with equity and justice…
…governance needs to provide leadership, the incarnation of vision, of political energy, of drive.
It also needs to provide legitimacy, which is essential to ensure ownership over decisions which lead to change. Ownership to prevent the in-built bias towards resistance to modify the status quo.….
CAGW and the economic crash were ENGINEERED to provide legitimacy for ‘global governance.’
Just in case you do not think that national sovereignty is the target. Lamy is quite blunt in stating he thinks national sovereignty is passé. He holds the EU up as the direction the world should go. … on the question of efficiency, Europe scores in my view rather highly. Thanks to the primacy of EU law over national law…
And he restates it here:
…more than half a century ago that the Frenchman Jean Monet, one of the shapers of post-war Europe, said, “The sovereign nations of the past can no longer provide a framework for the resolution of our present problems. And the European Community itself is no more than a step towards the organizational forms of tomorrow’s world.” His assessment was as valid then as it is now….
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8216
And again here:
…Yet, with the world becoming ever more interconnected and challenges become truly global, governance remains to a large extent local. The discrepancy between the reality of today’s interdependence, the challenges resulting from it, and the capacity of governments to agree politically on how to deal with them is striking.
For the international system is founded on the principle and politics of national sovereignty: the Wesphalian order of 1648 remains very much alive in the international architecture today. In the absence of a truly global government, global governance results from the action of sovereign States. It is inter-national. Between nations. In other words, global governance is the globalization of local governance.
But it does not suffice to establish informal groupings or specialized international organizations, each of them being “Member driven”, to ensure a coherent and efficient approach to address the global problems of our time. In fact, the Wesphalian order is a challenge in itself. The recent crisis has demonstrated it brutally. Local politics has taken the upper hand over addressing global issues. Governments are too busy dealing with domestic issues to dedicate sufficient attention and energy to multilateral negotiations, be they trade negotiations or climate negotiations….
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl220_e.htm
Alan the Brit says:
I eagerly await such report also, but I won’t see it, unless it is tucked away a’la Interstella Highway planning application for the destruction of Earth in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxay, i.e. buried under heeps of paperwork!
Ban is a liar, a deciever, just part of the whole slime that is modern politics. They are not interested in the truth, accuracy of science, demonstrable oberservational emperical evidence, they only want that which they can use to chieve their objective, Socialist Control of the World & ALL its resources, for financial gain (they couldn’t possibly have achieved it without the Bankers et al, nor the Neo-Fuedalists who just want to retain their wealth & status quo), then proceed to execute the New World Order they have created, ration resources to who they see fit, enrich their slimey chums around the Third World, so that their peoples can be even more impoverished & deprived at the expense & enrichment of their friends & tribal buddies! They want revenge for creating wealth, happiness, freedom from tyranny (their of course), improvement of the mind, increased knowledge & understanding, all must be controlled under the NWO Godless Religeon! Depressing I know, but don’t expect a response just like a couple of years ago, the bastard didn’t bother then, why would he bother now, regardless of the order of magnitude increase in signatories to an excellent letter!
:-( AtB
observa says:
You’re walking down a dimly lit street and you’re aware there’s violence about and so naturally you’re uncertain about the next bloke you come across so WHACK!!
I was uncertain about him your Honour so I used the precautionary principle with great certainty.
And rightly so… case dismissed!
Alberta Slim says:
Well, a Canadian STARTED this CAGW fraud. Maurice Strong set up the WMO and then the IPCC.
“Bring down the capitalists” was his plan. I am now hoping another Canadian, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, will be influential in STOPPING this CAGW fraud.
I sent copies of the letter to the Prime Minister; the Energy Minister; the Environment Minister; the Finance Minister; my MP and a Senator.
Not that it will do any good. But every little bit may help.
BTW. I have numerous articles to these people over the last couple of years.
It is a noble effort, and addressing it to the UN Secretary-General is appropriate, if only for the reason that money from the developed nations is expected to fill the Green Climate Fund.
For example, 10% of PM Julia Gillard’s carbon tax goes to the UN.
Julie Bishop 3 minute mark, 30 sec.
I keep hearing claims of extreme weather on the rise but they never offer the mountains of evidence they paid for. On the other hand there is evidence to the contrary.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/climatic-phenomena-pages/extreme-weather-page/
From the letter:
The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations rose by nearly 9% to now constitute 0.039% of the atmosphere. Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.
I sometimes wonder who the real deniers are. After 16 years of continued upward rise in co2 global mean temp has been flat. Even IF temps started to fall Warmists would still insist that we must act now. Even 5 or 10 years of cooling and they would still cling onto “warming in the pipeline, we must act now”, while forgetting that (in the absence of major volcanic eruptions) the AGW theory, as it stands, would have been long falsified. Some say it already has at 15 years.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/bams-sotc/climate-assessment-2008-lo-rez.pdf
James Ard says:
Telling Moon the science doesn’t support his statements is an excercize in futility. Does anyone think he cares? These people will only be stopped by the likes of Chris Horner and the others, including Mr. FOI himself, who bring the rats into the light.
Tom Stone says:
In other words, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?
Andres Valencia says:
Thanks, Anthony, for helping bring attention to these brave scientists and what they have to say. Voices of reason.
The UN has this dream of world domination by unelected politicians.
Impressive list… but there are many well known skeptics that are missing… Lindzen, Christy, Spencer, McKitrick, McIntyre…
“Our times demand a new definition of leadership – global leadership. They demand a new constellation of international cooperation – governments, civil society and the private sector, working together for a collective global good.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Speech at World Economic Forum
Davos, Switzerland (29 January 2009)
It is easy to forget that the UN actually does its work through a whole host of agencies under its umbrella: for example WTO, WHO, UNICEF, ITU. IMF. There is CONSIDERABLE power, influence and cash within the UN and it will attempt to extend its power influence and wealth via the excuse of controlling the global environment. It will do so without any direct influence from the people nor with any scrutiny from independent bodies with the power to take action against UN corruption.
Thank you! I wanted to find it as well, but when I saw how long it was, I gave up.
So where are we now? With 15 years, we are 95% certain something is wrong. And according to Santer, if I have it right, at 17 years we are 100% certain something is wrong. And with RSS having 0 slope for 15 years and 10 months, we must be around 97% certain something is wrong.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
ClimateGate II didn’t even make it into the MSM. This did. That’s not shining light on the rats?
If the expectation was that he’d listen, maybe it was an exercise in futility. But he’s not the only one who heard what they said. Some who heard might even start to pay attention.
Albert Jacobs says:
Having been in this fight for well over a dozen years, I concluded some time ago that approaches like the one we just made to the UN S-G do not have a direct effect.
In fact no approaches of this sort make a direct impact by itself.
There are a number of participants in this fight:
UN world governance protagonists,
The Quisling scientists,
The media,
The politicians,
The public,
The immediate beneficiaries.
In this mix, the politicians listen only to what the polls say about the next election.
The media also gauges from which direction the wind is blowing and does not antagonize its readers and thereby its advertising revenue.
The public is not interested in science and becomes only slowly aware of the cost of it all to its collective pocketbook. That is where things are indeed slowly changing.
However, from the point of view of effective advocacy, the science, interesting as it is, is not going to win the day with the politicians who do indeed have the power to pull nations out of accords – as Canada did with Kyoto. Nor with the public.
To the average politician, scientific evidence is “just another opinion”. He seems to be impervious to your and my argument. Politics sets his course.
Letters like this one to Mr Ban serve a purpose, because they address public opinion.
Whether you like it or not, that’s where it has to start.
P. Solar says:
Many thanks for those who do know what they are talking about in this field for correcting Gen.Sec Bim-Bam-Boom’s ignorant comments.
Both this IPCC and UNFCCC (spot the UN in UNFCCC) are were created by the U.N.
The U.N. is, right now, trying to set up a $100bn PER YEAR ‘climate’ slush fund with no accountability and no legal oversight.
Damn sure he’s going to say anything he can to try to push through that little baby.
Got any links??
OK, I am going to mention the elephant in the room here and ask the question… how many of the names on that list are practicing climate scientists? And before you all jump down my throat, it is very relevant. While it is nice to have clever people support the cause, in terms of carrying any weight…. this is pretty much a container full of feathers.
richardscourtney says:
Your post at November 30, 2012 at 10:53 am is a nice try but a complete fail. It says
The signatories to the list have each conducted climate science and almost all have published on climate science in the peer reviewed literature. Their relationship to climate science is stated by the name of each of the signatories.
It is plain daft to assert that anything said about climate science is “pretty much a container full of feathers” when it is said by
1. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov, Dr. Sci., mathematician and astrophysicist, Head of the Selenometria project on the Russian segment of the ISS, Head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
2. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
3. Bjarne Andresen, Dr. Scient., physicist, published and presents on the impossibility of a “global temperature”, Professor, Niels Bohr Institute (physics (thermodynamics) and chemistry), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scottar says:
Man- Bear -Pig came out of his cave after the election and looked up at the sky. He shook his head exclaiming “Four more years of snow!” That pretty much sums up CAGW and the climate of politics.
Pretty much all of them if you bother to read the list. The container in this case appears to be your head.
@Gail Combs
Here you go Gail.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/13749-un-seeking-global-carbon-regime-at-climate-summit-in-doha
Also, please see the above video which documents the commitment of 10% the Carbon Tax in Australia to the UN – an amount which will increase over time.
Jenn Oates says:
The science might not be settled, but these people’s opinions are. Won’t make a bit of difference, unfortunately.
richardscourtney
Sorry I mean actual climate scientists… not scientists.
AFAICR it was on WUWT. re Durban meeting last year. All ministers signed ‘something’ but UN were doing their best to make sure no one knew what the text actually was. Proposed climate fund to be ‘managed’ by world bank. This is fundamentally what Durban was about. AFAICR they signed an agreedment that they would sign something legally binding by 2015.
An annual budget of that size would effectively be the treasury for their nacent world goverment. All in the hands of unelected beaurocrat politicians with the legal immunity of U.N.
What’s could possibly go wrong with such a system?
John Blake says:
In September 2009, two months before Climategate and three months before the notorious Copenhagen Conference that December, Ban Ki-moon as UN panhandler-in-chief called for an “emergency transfusion” of $10 trillion –repeat, $10-trillion– to kleptocratic transnational agencies, on the premise that absent this amazing sum Planet Earth would be transformed to baking desert by January 2010.
Even the most fulsomely besotted Warmist media stayed clear of BKM thereafter. Though Railroad Bill Pachauri continued to practice “voodoo science” in regard to Himalayan glaciers, and could in no wise be induced to retire from his IPCC perch to soft-core authors’ heaven, observers’ nigh-uncontrollable urge to laugh-out-loud was just too strong.
David A. Evans says:
A veritable who’s who with a name that stood out for me…
David Deming, PhD (Geophysics)
This is the man who Overpeck first approached to do the job that fell to the Mann.
DaveE.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Alas, while I had surmised that it was Simon’s head that was the container he suggested was full of feathers, it appears it they have been displaced as the elephant in the room was producing substantial quantities of dung, and it had to be stored somewhere.
Really Simon? You’re that obtuse? READ THE LIST THEY ALMOST ALL CLIMATE SCIENTISTS!
Simon trying to appeal to some higher authority in science like ‘climatologist’ or ‘climatology’ is like me and a few mates calling ourselves humanologists and forget all about those lower classes of medicos, shrinks, biologists, etc. It’s what these post normal pseudo scientists have done to cover for their lack of scientific rigour and stuffing cherry picked nonsense at times into computer models.
If a geologist says hang on a bit it’s in the rocks in the ground not the rocks in your heads, they immediately retreat back into the high priesthood of climatology. Same deal with a statistician challenging their statistical methods, etc. It’s what Big Climate and their IPCCs, Gores, etc does or haven’t you been keeping up?
But Simon, even if you believe in the hot Gospel of the self appointed high priests of Big Climate, how are they doing with their prescriptions and do they walk the talk mate? That might give you some clues about them even if you haven’t read a few of their internal emails and stuff.
Thanks Zeke. I hope you saw the article over at Jo Nova’s
Did Julia really say that? She’s here to help bankers “get their share”?
It seems more and more the elite are ‘coming out of the closet’ about their plans for the planet.
Simon says: “OK, I am going to mention the elephant in the room here and ask the question… how many of the names on that list are practicing climate scientists?”
Does it require a tailor to say that the emperor has no clothes?
Another thing is that the statement in the latter is actually rather weak. It is like saying that the (naked) emperor has no tie.
For anyone else who wants it, the exact quote from pg 123 is:
That should be page 23, in the middle column in the blue part. However since page 23 is not numbered, you have to go to page 24 and scroll back up a page.
polistra says:
Lots of retired guys.
Won’t matter until someone who is CURRENTLY EMPLOYED in a position where he has CONTROL OF GRANTS turns against the consensus.
And that is physically impossible. When you’re immersed in the cashflow, you are absolutely incapable of turning against the philosophy that pays you.
Bean says:
The science was settled when the sun and stars circled the earth in crystal spheres. The science was settled when Newtonian physics was accepted. The science was settled when Einstein proposed the theory of relativity …
Science is never settled. If it was settled, it wouldn’t be science, it would be dogma.
There was an Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its principles still apply.
Bravo to the signers, and may there be many more. They have shown great courage, or gumption, with no real upside, other than personal honor, with their reputations as scientists on the line. Those riding the CAGW gravy train, on the other hand…..
I think Simon has a point.
To be considered a genuine “climate scientist” one must be able to produce Hot Air.
The signers do not produce Hot Air so they are not qualified to speak no matter what their qualifications.
The only people qualified to disagree with one of Simon’s “climate scientist” are those that continue to agree with them.
Gail Combs says: “If you want that PhD, if you want Tenure, you do not rock the CAGW boat.”
So that explains the fuddy-duddy index of the signees: 21 emeritus and 9 others retired? Could.
Of the remainder, 11 Canadians and one from the Heartland Inst.
It’s an unlikely group that you would expect to meet at a science convention, thats for sure.
Your comments on Tenure are probably right, because you haf to get a grant and betting against AGW isnt going to get you one. The other trouble is that it’s hard to get scientifically sound evidence for preliminary results against AGW, and that also does not help in grant-land.
But, grad students, you underestimate. They dont need to be funded, they just need to be upstarts. Of course they do haf to prove or disprove a hypothesis, and unfortunately, AGW seems to not end up in the “disprove” category these days. But you never know, there is always next year!
“The other trouble is that it’s hard to get scientifically sound evidence for preliminary results against AGW”
Really? You cannot even use spell check and you expect to carry credibility on a statement like that?
D Böehm says:
“…it’s hard to get scientifically sound evidence for preliminary results against AGW…”
That is another example of how completely anti-science many academics are these days. trafamadore does not understand that scientific skeptics have nothing to prove. The onus is entirely on those promoting their evidence-free AGW conjecture. They are the ones who have the onus of providing scientifically sound, empirical, testable evidence showing that AGW exists — and of providing specific measurements of its effect. But as we know, there are no such measurements. An since AGW cannot be measured, it is only a conjecture.
Despite trafamadore’s attempt to turn the scientific method on its head, skeptics are not obligated to “disprove” a conjecture. There is no requirement for “preliminary results against AGW”, as trafamadore claims. That amounts to requiring that skeptics must prove a negative — a common fallacy prevalent among the climate alarmist crowd.
AGW is a conjecture. However, when there is no empirical, testable evidence, or any measurements showing a human signal in the climate record, AGW stops at the conjecture stage. AGW is neither a Hypothesis nor a Theory, since it is incapable of making any accurate or repeatable predictions.
There is a correlation between CO2 and temperature. But it is not the correlation that trafamadore wants. The only empirical measurements show that ∆CO2 follows ∆T. There are no measurements showing that ∆T causes ∆CO2. The fact that there has been no global warming for a decade and a half — as specifically predicted due to the rise in CO2 — casts serious doubt on the AGW conjecture.
AGW may exist. But if it does exist, it is so small an effect that it can and must be disregarded. Too much money has already been wasted chasing that elusive, unproven, speculative will o’ the wisp.
D Böehm: “Despite trafamadore’s attempt to turn the scientific method on its head, skeptics are not obligated to “disprove” a conjecture. There is no requirement for “preliminary results against AGW”, as trafamadore claims. That amounts to requiring that skeptics must prove a negative — a common fallacy prevalent among the climate alarmist crowd.”
Hmmm? Do you not know how the science business works? By disproving hypothesis, that’s our business model. Like Edison with his 2000 light bulbs that didnt work. (Only mathematicians really prove things.) When we actually say we “prove” something, usually what we should be saying is that we have disproved all of the other hypothesis we can think of.
So, in AGW terms, the solar hypothesis of sun variability has been disproved, etc, etc, until the only one left… the CO2 thing you love… has not been disproved. So it sits there until someone thinks of a way to disprove it.
Pretty simple actually. And not so mysterious, I bet bet when you are looking for your cat in the house, you use the scientific method, disproving the living room hypothesis, the kitchen hypothesis, etc, etc, until you find him curled up on your pillow in the bedroom. (Dont forget the various controls, finding control cats in each room, that it’s your cat you found, and that your glasses are okay.)
OK, I am going to mention the elephant in the room here and ask the question… how many of the names on that list are practicing climate scientists?
If you want to stick to a strict definition then let’s do so. Let’s try Dr. James Hansen or Dr. Michael Mann. You see, if Warmists claim physicists, astronomers, geologists, mathematicians and meteorologists capable of pronouncing on the climate then why not us?
I won’t even go into the theologian and failed politician Al Gore. ;)
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/about/cv.php
No trouble at all!
PDF document @NOAA.gov. For anyone else who wants it, the exact quote from pg 23 is:
Data sets with a o slope for at least 15 years:
1. HadCrut3: since April 1997 or 15 years, 7 months (goes to October)
2. Sea surface temperatures: since March 1997 or 15 years, 8 months (goes to October)
3. RSS: since January 1997 or 15 years, 10 months (goes to October)
See the graph below to show it all.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1997.25/trend/plot/rss/from:1997.0/trend/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1997.1/trend/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1997.25/plot/rss/from:1997.0/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1997.1
Further to my last comment if Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Michael Mann qualify as climate scientists then according to the list of signatories 70% qualify as climate scientists. Unless of course you with to disqualify Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Michael Mann. ;)
Tapdog says:
This group of 125 scientists is 60% larger than the infamous 78 (?) whose survey result gave us the “97% of climate scientists agree….” meme.
Some delectable corollaries here…..
“Almost two thirds of climate scientists agree that climate warming fears are overstated and not yet fully understood”
“The great majority of climate scientists agree that climate warming fears are overstated and not yet fully understood”
“Do you not know how the science business works? By disproving hypothesis, that’s our business model.”
OK, my hypothesis is that there are invisible faeries living in my garden. Go ahead, disprove that.
See, your problem is that there is no more real world, testable evidence for AGW than there is for garden faeries.
[Actually, the faerie example is only a conjecture — just like AGW.]
Because AGW is a conjecture, there is nothing to disprove. Find a way to make AGW a testable, measurable hypothesis, and we will falsify it if possible.
It is amazing how misunderstood the scientific method is among many academics. For trafamadore’s benefit I will propose a testable, falsifiable hypothesis:
At current and projected levels CO2 is harmless, and beneficial to the biosphere
To falsify my hypothesis, trafamadore only needs to show global damage or harm conclusively due to the rise in ACO2. Any such ‘global harm’ must be directly attributable to human CO2 emissions, and using the scientific method, prove that the rise in anthropogenic CO2 has specifically caused verifiable global harm. Replicable scientific evidence [raw data] is necessary; keep in mind that models are not evidence. Otherwise, no harm = “harmless”. [Upon request I will provide solid scientific evidence proving that more CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere.]
There is an example of an actual hypothesis, as opposed to a conjecture. Falsify it, if you can. You will be the first to do so, and on the short list for a [now worthless] Nobel Peace Prize.
With any luck trafamadore will now understand the difference between a conjecture [an opinion] and a testable hypothesis.
So, in AGW terms, the solar hypothesis of sun variability has been disproved
I would suggest that you view the hour long video:
More WUWT.TV: Interview and presentation with Dr. Sebastian Lüning
He wrote “Die Kalte Sonne” (The cold sun) with Dr. Franz Vahrenholt
Then you may wish to comment on that thread and set Dr. Sebastian Lüning straight.
trafamadore says: “So, in AGW terms, the solar hypothesis of sun variability has been disproved, etc, etc, until the only one left… the CO2 thing you love… has not been disproved. So it sits there until someone thinks of a way to disprove it.
Pretty simple actually. And not so mysterious, I bet bet when you are looking for your cat in the house, you use the scientific method, disproving the living room hypothesis, the kitchen hypothesis, etc, etc, until you find him curled up on your pillow in the bedroom.”
I have just looked for an elephant in my house using your scientific method. I searched all the rooms except the kitchen. No elephant found, hence it must be in the kitchen.
Wait, I have an idea, how you can easily get 1,000,000 dollar cash. Search for 1,000,000 dollar cash in every room in you house except the kitchen. Didn’t find anything? Congratulations, the cash is in the kitchen!
Back to “the CO2 thing you love”. The hypothesis about “greenhouse gases” allegedly warming the surface by their back radiation was indeed disproved 103 years ago by a simple experiment. It is so easy, you do not even need to make your hands dirty by using “greenhouse gases”(http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/wood_rw.1909.html). The experiment demonstrates that back radiation either does not work at all or it’s effect is negligible.
Wtf is “trafamadore”? I am familiar with Tralfamadore. Cannot spell, cannot get a reference correct, why is anyone even bothering with this clown?
D Böehm says: “OK, my hypothesis is that there are invisible faeries living in my garden. Go ahead, disprove that.”
Okay, you’re doing okay. Next, remember, H’s are answers to Q’s. So your question is, I think, “What lives in my qarden?” So you must have a whole family of H’s to test then (you know, for rabbits, moles, etc), and some of them will be testable. The faery one, not, unless you have a faery meter, and control faeries to test it with. (I am fairly sure faery meters will be developed when we get a god meter)
AGW? I would argue that we are in the sad process of asking the Q, “What happens if we double the amt of CO2 in the air?”, for better or worse, later in the century.
We should hit 400 ppm CO2 soon, maybe next summer.
David, He is correct. If you can not get funding for the project then you can not get the evidence. This is main way scientific results are controlled by the politicians.
Remember what happened to Dr. Jaworowski.
….Dr. Jaworowski has devoted much of his professional life to the study of the composition of the atmosphere, as part of his work to understand the consequences of radioactive fallout from nuclear-weapons testing and nuclear reactor accidents. After taking numerous ice samples over the course of a dozen field trips to glaciers in six continents, and studying how contaminants travel through ice over time, he came to realize how fraught with error ice-core samples were in reconstructing the atmosphere. The Chernobyl accident, whose contaminants he studied in the 1990s in a Scandinavian glacier, provided the most illumination.
“This ice contained extremely high radioactivity of cesium-137 from the Chernobyl fallout, more than a thousand times higher than that found in any glacier from nuclear-weapons fallout, and more than 100 times higher than found elsewhere from the Chernobyl fallout,” he explained. “This unique contamination of glacier ice revealed how particulate contaminants migrated, and also made sense of other discoveries I made during my other glacier expeditions. It convinced me that ice is not a closed system, suitable for an exact reconstruction of the composition of the past atmosphere.”
Because of the high importance of this realization, in 1994 Dr. Jaworowski, together with a team from the Norwegian Institute for Energy Technics, proposed a research project on the reliability of trace-gas determinations in the polar ice. The prospective sponsors of the research refused to fund it, claiming the research would be “immoral” if it served to undermine the foundations of climate research.
The refusal did not come as a surprise. Several years earlier, in a peer-reviewed article published by the Norwegian Polar Institute, Dr. Jaworowski criticized the methods by which CO2 levels were ascertained from ice cores, and cast doubt on the global-warming hypothesis. The institute’s director, while agreeing to publish his article, also warned Dr. Jaworowski that “this is not the way one gets research projects.” Once published, the institute came under fire, especially since the report soon sold out and was reprinted. Said one prominent critic, “this paper puts the Norsk Polarinstitutt in disrepute.” Although none of the critics faulted Dr. Jaworowski’s science, the institute nevertheless fired him to maintain its access to funding…
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=25526754-e53a-4899-84af-5d9089a5dcb6
Unfortunately this story has played out many many times when ever a honest scientist gets crosswise of $$$ or a political agenda. Lying and cheating pays, honesty gets you fired and ultimately blackballed. BTDT and have the T-shirt.
Greg House says: “I have just looked for an elephant in my house using your scientific method. I searched all the rooms except the kitchen. No elephant found, hence it must be in the kitchen.
Two examples of papers that dont get published because of incomplete experiments.
RACookPE1978 says:
CO2 was steady for 175 years, temperatures rose.
CO2 was steady for 25 years, temperatures dropped.
CO2 was steady for 25 years, temperatures increased.
CO2 was steady for 25 years, temperatures rose.
CO2 has increased about 10% over a 20 year period, temperatures dropped.
CO2 has increased about 10% over a 25 year period, temperatures increased.
CO2 has increased about 10% over a 15 year period, temperatures were steady.
So, CO2 increases to 400 ppm over the next 20 years, temperatures will either drop, be steady, or increase.
Why kill millions of people and force billions of innocents to live in abject poverty while trying uselessly to limit CO2?
You “religiously” try to force a “precautionary principle” on others (but not yourself!) which deliberately and maliciously kills innocents in order to “prevent” a “absolute and beneficial” increase in CO2 in order to “perhaps” prevent an inconsequential and meaningless increase in CO2 that “might” prevent a beneficial increase in temperature!
pax says:
Oliver the-sun-is-made-of-iron Manuel is one of the undersigned.
For the silent majority who read this site but never comment. I always try to keep in mind that WUWT has a large audience.
“trafamadore” is questioning my faery example by pointing out that I don’t have a faery meter: “…unless you have a faery meter, and control faeries to test it with.”
EXACTLY!! trafamadore might actually be starting to get it: we DO NOT HAVE an AGW meter. We have no verifiable, testable data showing that AGW exists. Therefore, AGW remains an evidence-free conjecture. It may or may not exist. If it does exist, it is clearly too small to bother with, since its effect is too minuscule to measure.
Unfortunately, ‘trafamadore’ shows that he is ruled by his emotions, not by facts, because he uses words like “for better or worse”, and “sad”. He is a frightened True Believer. His mind is made up, and closed air tight. Without any confirming evidence, he believes that AGW will be a global catastrophe.
trafamadore refuses to accept what the planet is plainly telling us: that CO2 is not causing the predicted harm. He will not even attempt to falsify my hypothesis that CO2 is harmless and beneficial. Because like any True Believer, trafamadore’s mind is already made up. Scientific facts only cause cognitive dissonance.
OTOH, regular WUWT readers know that these scares routinely come and go, and that there is always a technological fix if there is ever an actual problem. So far though, AGW is a non-problem. That is a fact, as the planet is demonstrating.
thingadonta says:
The reason there are periodic scares throughout history without much reference to any data, is the same reason as any other attempt to overthrow an existing order, to gain and control power and resources.
If any group wishes to re-model a society, their evidence and reasons have to be pretty darn good, but first and foremost they generally need the backing of the larger portion of society to do it.
Elements of the climate change movement have specifically targeted and attacked natural resources, in order to gain and control power and resources. Communists targeted economic resources, the old religions targeted social resources, and climate change alarmists target natural resources.
This tendancy to attack the existing order with threats or doom and gloom is so pervasive throughout history it has probably become ingrained into the collective consciousness, where dropouts and misfits instinctively resort to ‘end of the world is coming billboards’ regardless of the current situation or evidence; these people represent the lower end of the social tendancy, (whether at high levels and sophisticated, or at lower levels of the social stratum and rudimentary), of the constant Darwinian internal struggle for power and resources within societies and cultures. The important point to know, is that this tendancy to prophesise doom and gloom isn’t confined to the local village misfit or the daily spam email, it can even pervade high level science and other institutions, such as the world bank. And the people who seem the most prone to believing and promoting it, can be intelligent and otherwise worldly, but they are usually blissfully naive and unaware of the flaws in both human nature and the tendancy to this historic pattern, which makes it all the more likely for them to continmue to be deceived and to self-deceive themselves.
The climate change movement could be onto something true and relevant, if they adopted the methods of verifiable and reproducable empirical science , but their methodology and style reveal that some high level alarmists have abandoned science and prefer to tap into a deeper revolutionary social instinct that is mechanistic and therefore has little to do with external reality, to gain control of natural resources through prophecies of doom and collapse, in order to subvert the broader social system.
Call me paranoid, except that history and the local village misfit attests to it; it has always been the same, different age, different words, but the same underlying desire to fabricate information to control through fear and distortion.
D Böehm: from your “these scares routinely come and go”:
“The great crisis vanished when millions of horses were replaced by motor vehicles. This was possible because of the ingenuity of inventors and entrepreneurs such as Gottlieb Daimler and Henry Ford, and a system that gave them the freedom to put their ideas into practice.”
So, by analogy, you mean to suggest that carbon based energy might be replaced?
RACookPE1978 says: “Why kill millions of people and force billions of innocents to live in abject poverty while trying uselessly to limit CO2? You “religiously” try to force a “precautionary principle” on others.”
But aren’t you doing the same if you are wrong? Sorry, it works both ways. And you are the one betting against the scientists, not me.
So show that he is wrong. Should be easy.
Gail, with all due respect, that is not what he is saying. Read it again.
He is saying there is no science to go up against the AGW meme.
D Böehm says: @ December 1, 2012 at 3:35 pm
trafamadore refuses to accept what the planet is plainly telling us: that CO2 is not causing the predicted harm. He will not even attempt to falsify my hypothesis that CO2 is harmless and beneficial.
Co2 is not only beneficial, it is absolutely necessary for life on this planet. I have nightmares that someone will come up with a CO2 sequestering method that really works and the idiotic politicians will demand CO2 levels be lowered to 100 ppm.
Here is the most famous case of such idiocy
The Indiana Pi Bill, 1897
This is Indiana House Bill No. 246, 1897, known as the Indiana pi bill. Towards the end of section 2 it says plainly that “The ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four,” which means pi is 3.2. The section goes on the criticize (ungenerously, I’d say) past values of pi as “wholly wanting and misleading.”
Purdue Univ.
No. I was not making an analogy. I was pointing out the fact that you are alarmed by something that has no convincing supporting evidence. A self-serving climate witch doctor cult has you convinced that a tiny trace gas, which has failed to cause any global warming for a decade and a half, is about to cause runaway global warming and climate disruption. That is crazy.
“trafamadore” also responded to RA Cook, again incorrectly:
“…you are the one betting against the scientists, not me.”
Wrong again. There is no scientific “consensus” that CO2 will cause climate disruption and runaway global warming. There is a tiny but loud clique that uses that scare tactic to enrich itself by frightening scientifically illiterate true believers.
The real scientific consensus is reflected in the 31,400+ co-signers of the OISM Petition, which states in part:
The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
The climate alarmist clique has tried repeatedly to get more signatures on its many counter-petitions to the OISM Project. They have failed miserably, getting a total of only a small fraction of the OISM numbers [and many are duplicate signatures]. Thus, they are not the ‘consensus’. Most scientists know the truth: the catastrophic AGW scare is fueled by grant money and status, not by scientific evidence.
The OISM Petition co-signers are from the U.S. only; all have professional degrees, specifically in the hard sciences, and co-signers include more than 9,000 PhD’s. They are mainstream scientists who know and understand science and the scientific method. Furthermore, they did not have the option of emailing in their petition signatures; they had to download and print out their petition forms, sign them, pay the postage and mail them in. The fact that tens of thousands of American scientists went out of their way to take a stand — stating that CO2 is both harmless and beneficial — means more than all the evidence-free climate alarmist nonsense put together.
“trafamadore” is simply a sheltered Chicken Little in his academic ivory tower, who has mindlessly bought into the pseudo-scientific global warming scare. He gets no traction here at the internet’s “Best Science” site because WUWT readers are much more knowledgeable and educated than most blog readers. We have debated every aspect of AGW, and we know all the arguments inside-out. We know that Planet Earth is not cooperating with the relatively small climate alarmist clique, and we know that the planet doesn’t lie. Neither the planet, nor science, nor empirical observations support the catastrophic AGW scare. It is a false alarm. Those perpetuating that false alarm use name-calling and emotion, because they do not have the science or reasonable arguments to support their belief system.
Sixteen years, and counting…
What Did I Tell You!? says:
Those of you who are with the UN ASK YOURSELVES WHERE this CAME FROM that people in poor countries were going to be offered the opportunity to sterilize themselves.
Ask yourself what good comes from pretense that it is science teaching your children that there may be Magic Gas properties whereby some gases have heat handling characteristics that were never discovered in 50 years’ experience around the world with highly trained men in submarines where the CO2 levels rise and remain in the THOUSANDS of parts per million for YEARS. For DECADES: not ONE thermodynamical, mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, nuclear, electronic, not ONE engineer ever put ONE extra part on a submarine ventilation system due to CO2 heat handling.
Not ONE NOTE on a piece of PAPER or a JOURNAL of SCIENCE ANYWHERE from someone noting the HEAT HANDLING CHARACTERISTIC of CO2/water/methane as DIFFERENT from any other class of gas, associated with it’s spectral frequency resonance..
The ENTIRE INFRARED ASTRONOMY FIELD in it’s ENTIRE HISTORY has no record of it’s adherents taking photos through filters showing the amount of infrared in the atmosphere rising alongside ANY gas classes’ presence.
And there is NO WAY to CHECK THIS STORY?
This MAGIC GAS story has been CHECKED and CHECKED and ONLY the AUTHORITY of EMPLOYEES of the US and other governments, who make money on GRANTS, say they believe it is
CHECK the MAGICAL GAS STORY.
If you around the world value your grandchildren’s memories of you, you need to ask yourself which sly crimes based on fraud YOU want to be remembered for approving, because before these people ever got fully off the GROUND
they were PUTTING FORTH that PEOPLE
need to be STERILIZED.
You NEED to look at the PEOPLE who CLAIM they BELIEVE in the MAGIC GAS story meaning your tribe
has to all be sterilized
so the other tribes don’t get offended by you breathin.
mbw says:
One of the “scientists” who signed this letter is Anthony Watts. You guys crack me up.
stefanthedenier says:
Louis says: ”Scientists of the past, like Einstein, invited others to prove them wrong. Scientists of today seem to think it’s a waste of time to even engage in debate on their theories”
Louis, both camps prefer not to debate, what doesn’t suit them; because both cams are NOT confident in their theories. .I’ve challenged many of them, from both camps” ”to disprove my proofs, facts and formulas -> they run for cover – like cockroaches, when you turn the lights on.
Warmist are lying; there isn’t such a thing as GLOBAL warming. BUT, the ”Skeptics” bringing proofs as: 1] sunspots were monitored for 6000years (when UN has the day and company that made the filter, to see sunspots at 2005-6AD!!! 2] confusing the real / regular climatic changes with phony GLOBAL warmings is more prolific by the skeptics, than Warmist +++++++ = bureaucrats / politicians shouldn’t be blamed. When a ”Skeptic” compare present temp, against 12-13 century and pretend to know the difference in one hundredth of a degree… bureaucrats / politicians need to choose between two compulsive / chronic liars
That makes one of you. Maybe it’s time to have your head examined. Of course, your type found kids heads exploding because they didn’t toe the line on your Warmist religion, so that could explain it.
trafamadore
I congratulate you. Not once on this thread have you claimed that the globe is warming, or that the oceans are acidifying, or that the sky is falling. I feel much better about you.
“One of the ‘scientists’ who signed this letter is Anthony Watts. You guys crack me up.”
From my handy desktop dictionary:
scientist |ˈsīəntist|
n. a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.
Thus, Anthony Watts qualifies as a true scientist.
Pretty sure you’re not, though.
psion says:
“Once again, you pretend you know what you’re talking about. Are you a geospinologist with recent scientific publications, Mr. Watts regarding what makes the world go ’round? No?”
As a matter of fact, Anthony Watts is a published, peer reviewed author in the field of climatology. So thanx for the opportunity to expose your pathetic ignorance.
Run along now back to your thinly trafficked echo chamber alarmist blog. You need some new talking points, because it’s clear you can’t think for yourself.
Tom Harris says:
I describe the whole open letter project in “Behind the scenes – preparing the open letter to the U.N. Secretary General on his climate science mistakes” and answer the questions:
– Where did it come from?
– Who wrote it?
– Why are some of the best known climate skeptics not among the now 130+ endorsers?
– Why did most mainstream media not report on the letter?
There is nothing secret about all this so here are the answers to these questions:
http://www.fcpp.org/blog/behind-the-scenes-preparing-the-open-letter-to-the-u-n-secretary-general-on-his-climate-science-mistakes/
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2073
|
__label__wiki
| 0.926897
| 0.926897
|
716 Spotlight
Free Phone Friday
WBLK on Alexa
Join the WBLK Street Team
THE PEOPLE'S STATION
Yasmin Young
DJ Wire
Get WBLK on Your Alexa-Enabled Device
Become an MVP
Join Our WBLK Street Team
#TheNightShow With @DJBandanaBlack#TheNightShow With @DJBandanaBlack
Biggie to Be Inducted Into 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Well-deserved.
Trent Fitzgerald
The Notorious B.I.G.'s Legacy Celebrated With Mural in Atlanta
Biggie gets a life-size mural in Atlanta.
Biggie's Childhood Block Has Officially Been Named After Him
Here's the street's name.
The Notorious B.I.G. to Get His Own Street in Brooklyn
It was all a dream.
This Week in Hip Hop History – Week 10
March 5th - March 11th
DJ Ed-Nice
The 15 Best Notorious B.I.G. Songs
On the 21st anniversary of his death, The Boombox takes a look back at some of Biggie's best tracks.
Kathy Iandoli
A&E's Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur Documentaries Pushed Back
Fans will have to wait a little longer for Biggie and 2Pac docs.
Notorious B.I.G. to Posthumously Receive Founders Award at 2017 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music …
Biggie will be honored at the 2017 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards.
The Notorious B.I.G. Mural in Brooklyn Will Remain on Wall After Threat of Being Destroyed
The people have spoken.
Peter A. Berry
Wack 100 Thinks The Notorious B.I.G. Was Killed by Someone From Harlem
The Game's manager just made a major claim about the late rapper's 1997 murder.
Lindsey India
Dame Dash Claims Notorious B.I.G. Planned to Sign to Roc-A-Fella
"I think that’s why he did a double album. He was gonna do a triple album, and he was gonna be out his contract."
Justin Ivey
The Late Shawty Lo Releases "B.I.G." Featuring Boosie Badazz
The Late Shawty Lo has a new project on the way.
Christopher Hunter
Like WBLK
Follow WBLK
Tweets by @937WBLK
Find WBLK On...
We Up Next : 716 Spotlight - JohnBoy & WiiUs The Movement
The XXL Network
2020 Power 93.7 WBLK is part of the The XXL Network, Townsquare Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2074
|
__label__cc
| 0.740549
| 0.259451
|
USHE Student Safety Forum
College Access Advisors
State Aid Programs
Ensuring Affordability
Workforce Outcomes
Issue Briefs & Legislative Briefs
USHE Annual Reports
Board Meetings & Events
Regent Resources
Office of Commissioner
Commissioner & Staff
Institutional Resources
Capital Facilities
State Authorization (UT SARA)
Back to All Meetings
Board of Regents meeting
: March 30, 2018
Location: Dixie State University
View Agenda PDF
March 2018 Regents Meeting Agenda
STATE BOARD OF REGENTS
DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY, GARDNER CENTER & HOLLAND CENTENNIAL COMMONS FRIDAY MARCH 30, 2018
8:00 AM – 9:20 AM BREAKFAST MEETING – STATE BOARD OF REGENTS, DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, PRESIDENT WILLIAMS, COMMISSIONER BUHLER
Location: Cottam Room (Gardner Center)
9:20 AM – 9:30 AM TRANSITION BREAK
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM POLICY R208 TRAINING – REGENTS, COMMISSIONER AND PRESIDENTS
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM DISCUSSION – REGENTS, COMMISSIONER, AND PRESIDENTS
Topics: Space Utilization, Tuition and Fees
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM LUNCH
Location: Gardner Ballroom A (Gardner Center)
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PRESIDENT’S REPORT – PRESIDENT RICHARD B. WILLIAMS
Location: Zion Room (Holland Centennial Commons Rm 537)
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
1. Resolutions
2. General Consent Calendar TAB A
3. USHE – 2018 Legislative Session Report including Budget & Capital Update TAB B
4. USHE – Proposed Tuition Adjustments for 2018-2019 TAB C
5. USHE – Proposed Fee Adjustments for 2018-2019 TAB D
6. Revision of Policy R120, Bylaws of the State Board of Regents TAB E
7. Revision of Policy R203, Search Committee Appointment and Function, and Regents’ Selection of Presidents TAB F
8. Appointment of Interim President at Weber State University effective May 1, 2018
1. Updates from Working Groups
ACADEMIC AND STUDENT AFFAIRS
1. New Century and Regents’ Scholarship Award Amounts for 2018-19 College Academic Year TAB G
1. University of Utah – Series 2018 General Revenue Bond issue TAB H
2. University of Utah – Soccer and Lacrosse Field Non-State Funded Project TAB I
3. Utah State University – Swenson House Non-State Funded Project TAB J
4. Weber State University – Outdoor Recreation Center Non-State Funded Project TAB K
5. Adoption of Policy R751, Institutional Facilities Space Utilization TAB L
1. University of Utah – Student Housing Lease Update TAB M
2. Snow College – Capital Facility Funding Update TAB N
3. USHE – Regent Audit Subcommittee Annual Report TAB O
4. USHE – Review of 2017 Financial Statements TAB P
5. USHE – Debt Ratio Analysis TAB Q
6. USHE – Annual Money Management Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2017 TAB R
7. USHE – Fall 2017 & Spring 2018 Enrollment Report TAB S
8. USHE – USU Bond Final Details TAB T
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM TRANSITION BREAK
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM EXECUTIVE SESSION (if needed)
Location: Last Conference Room, Rm 535 (Holland Centennial Commons)
Projected times for the various meetings are estimates only. The Board Chair retains the right to take action at any time. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify ADA Coordinator, 60 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84180 (801-321-7124), at least three working days prior to the meeting. TDD # 801-321-7130.
View Minutes PDF
March 2018 Meeting Minutes
DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY, ST GEORGE, UTAH
GARDNER CENTER & HOLLAND CENTENNIAL COMMONS
Regents Present
Daniel W. Campbell, Chair
Harris Simmons, Vice Chair
Jesselie B. Anderson
Nina Barnes
Marlin K. Jensen
Ron Jibson
Patricia Jones
Robert S. Marquardt
Mark Stoddard
Teresa L. Theurer
Alex Trujillo
Joyce P. Valdez
Thomas E. Wright
Regents Absent
Wilford Clyde
Steven Lund
Robert W. Prince
Cristina Ortega
David L. Buhler, Commissioner of Higher Education
Kimberly L. Henrie, Associate Commissioner for Planning, Finance and Facilities
Elizabeth Hitch, Associate Commissioner of Academic Affairs
Institutional Presidents Present
President Pershing, University of Utah
Noelle Cockett, Utah State University
Scott L Wyatt, Southern Utah University
President Carlston, Snow College
Matthew S. Holland, Utah Valley University
Richard B. Williams, Dixie State University
Deneece G. Huftalin, Salt Lake Community College
Norm Tarbox, Weber State University
Other Commissioner’s Office and institutional personnel were also present. The signed role is on file in the Commissioner’s Office.
Discussion – Space Utilization, Tuition and Fees
A discussion regarding Policy R571, Institutional Facilities Space Utilization, USHE space inventory and classroom utilization. Also discussed was tuition and fees including tuition strategy, annual tuition and fee increases, regional comparisons, and how tuition relates to institutional cost.
Vice Chair Harris H Simmons called the Committee of Whole meeting to order at 12:35 p.m. He opened and turn the time over to President Williams for the President’s Report.
President Williams started by saying Dixie has been focused on their strategic plan which is focused on six goals, but noted today he would be talking about the two Regent initiatives which are Completion and Mental Health. Goal one of the strategic goal is promoting student success and as a new university they have focused a lot on building the right infrastructure. He stated it begins with recruitment and over the last several years Dixie has had the largest freshman class and they have record enrollment. They are working on communication and making sure Dixie is communicating with students on what happens when you attend Dixie. Last year they started a pilot program that provided a mentor for each freshman, and with this program maintained 72% of those students. They also recognized students want more activities and in doing so incorporated more internships and active learning.
Last year the Regents charged the intuitions with addressing mental health issues. Dixie has made progress by developing a health and counseling center and hired their first mental health counselor. The center’s utilization numbers are off the charts and not only are they meeting mental health needs but they are able to meet medical needs as well. Dixie students are also invested in addressing mental health needs and they approved a fee increase to help offset co-payments for students. Another program the students got involved with for this first the time is the HOPE squad. And lastly the students got involved with Camp Kesem, a national program that supports children through and beyond their parent’s cancer.
Goal two is completion. Last year Dixie offered seven new bachelorette programs. This year they have their first graduate degree program approved, which is a masters of accounting. The Human Performance Center is under construction; this helps with the mental health and physical health initiatives. They are also focusing on the science and technology building and said this is a completion initiative because they don’t currently have enough room for labs and other needs. They also have the Innovation Plaza which is the hub for K-12 pipeline for technology, and have started a new class called entrepreneurial practicum, which is basically how to launch a business; this is active learning at its finest. President Williams said the last thing he wants to share relates to their goal of diversity inclusion. 27% of students on campus are minorities so they have focused on having 20 diversity events throughout the year. Students, faculty and staff, and the community are enjoying these events. They have held multiple workshops on how to prevent micro-aggressions, addressing and utilizing the diversity on campus. They have set three goals: Women hired into leadership roles – the baseline was 25%, the goal was to reach 31% last year and they reached 35%. Minorities in administration – the baseline was 5%, the goal was to reach 10% this year and they reached 12%. Minorities in faculty and staff – the baseline was 7%, the goal was to reach 10% this year and they reached 13%. They are embracing diversity and are excited about the progress on campus.
Resolution for George Emert – Regent Theurer shared comments regarding the resolution for George Emert. Regent Theurer made a motion to approve the resolution; the motion was seconded by Regent Jibson and the motion carried.
Resolution for President Charles A. Wight – Regent Marquardt shared comments regarding the resolution for President Wight. Regent Marquardt made a motion to approve the resolution; the motion was seconded by Regent Anderson and the motion carried.
Resolution for President Matthew S. Holland – Regent Barnes shared comments regarding the resolution for President Holland. Regent Barnes made a motion to approve the resolution; the motion was seconded by Regent Trujillo and the motion carried.
Resolution for President David W. Pershing – Regent Campbell shared comments regarding the resolution for President Pershing. Regent Campbell made a motion to approve the resolution; the motion was seconded by Regent Wright and the motion carried.
Consent Calendar (TAB A)
On a motion by Regent Wright, and seconded by Regent Jensen, the following items were approved on the Regents’ General Consent Calendar:
A. Minutes – Minutes of the Board meeting January 18, 2018, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 19, 2018, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, February 9, 2018, Executive Committee Meeting, Board of Regents Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.
B. Grant Proposals
C. Awards
D. Academic items Received and Approved
E. Ratification of action taken by the Executive Committee on February 9, 2018 to approve revisions to Regent Policy R208, Resource and Review Teams, and Regent Policy R209, Evaluation of Presidents.
USHE – 2018 Legislative Session Report including Budget & Capital Update (TAB B)
Commissioner Buhler made note that Regents approved the budget in a new way this year; this allowed flexibility for presidents. Overall we received a 7.9% increase in ongoing funds and noted priority was on compensation for employees, workforce capacity, and growth. On the capital side it was a bit different. The priority was to fund projects approved last year by the legislature, and they did fully fund those projects. In addition they approved the second phase of Utah State’s Biology Building and funded a renovation for the football stadium at Snow College. They also provided intent language for the top Regent priorities. Also of significance is the approval of “Our Schools Now”.
Associate Commissioner Spencer Jenkins briefly highlighted a number of other bills including SB 104 – Talent Development and Retention Strategy, HB 370 – Suicide Prevention and Medical Examiner Provisions, SB 207 – Student Data protection Amendments, HB 349 – Higher Education Legacy Scholarship Amendments, SB 300 – Higher Education Modifications.
USHE – Proposed Tuition Adjustments for 2018-2019 (TAB C)
Commissioner Buhler noted we are proposing a first-tier tuition rate increase of 1.5 percent for all institutions. This reflects the compensation match from the legislature. Presidents may also bring forward a request for a second-tier increase; four institutions have proposed a second-tier increase. Associate Commissioner Kimberly Henrie noted Regents will be approving the first-tier and second-tier increase as one rate for each institution. She also noted there are five differential tuition increase requests being made, a removal of an earlier Board approved exception for Utah State University, and on online tuition and fees schedule for Dixie State University.
Vice Chair Simmons opened the floor for a public hearing on the proposed tuition increases. No comments were made and Vice Chair Simmons closed the public hearing.
Chair Campbell made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab C; the motion was seconded by Regent Jibson and the motion carried.
USHE – Proposed Fee Adjustments for 2018-2019 (TAB D)
Commissioner Buhler noted by Regent policy if a proposed fee increase exceeds the proposed first-tier tuition rate, institutions must provide evidence of student support; we have a number of these requests. Associate Commissioner Henrie stated she is confident that the processes were followed by the institutions and would recommend approval as outlined in Tab D. Regent Stoddard made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab D, including the amended adjustment to SUU fee’s schedule of an increase of $6 a year; the motion was seconded by Regent Wright and the motion carried.
Revision of Policy R120, Bylaws of the State Board of Regents (TAB E)
Commissioner Buhler noted as the legislature makes changes to statue, we need to update policy to comply with those changes. He also noted once a law is changed, we follow the law even if the policy has not been updated. There are no substantive changes. Regent Jensen made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab E; the motion was seconded by Regent Wright and the motion carried.
Revision of Policy R203, Search Committee Appointment and Function, and Regents’ Selection of Presidents (TAB F)
Commissioner Buhler noted that although we have already been following this law, this brings the policy in line with statue. The main change is the search committee is to be co-chaired by a Regent and the chair of the board of trustees, a candidate must have a two thirds vote from the committee to advance them to the Regents, and the Regents may only select a president from the finalists forwarded by the search committee. Regent Valdez made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab F; the motion was seconded by Regent Jones and the motion carried.
Appointment of Interim President at Weber State University effective May 1, 2018
Chair Campbell noted it is required that we appoint an interim president while the search for a new president of Weber State University continues. Chair Campbell moved to approve Norm Tarbox as the Interim President effective May 1, 2018; the motion was seconded by Regent Anderson and the motion carried.
Updates from Working Groups
Timely Completion: Regent Barnes noted they have continued to have presentations on campuses and are receiving tremendous feedback from students. They have identified barriers consistent across the campuses including: underprepared for college courses, financial, family life obligations, course scheduling, transfer difficulties, and failure to make a connection to the campus. They are looking at analytics and how they are implemented on campuses, guided pathways, graduation initiatives, peer-to-peer mentoring, incentive grants, and performance funding. They are looking at what the next steps should be and define what completion is.
Workforce and Research – Regent Marquardt noted the goal is to try and improve the services higher education provides to our growing economy. They have chosen to focus on two areas. The first is supply and demand. What are the degrees we are producing from each vocational area? Where are the jobs and where are the shortages? The second is developing pathways for students to get into the gap areas. This is a complicated mission that involves more than just higher education. The group had a presentation form the State Board of Education and learned they have a good system of beginning to involve students in public education, encouraging them to begin to think about career aptitude, interests, and start to get focused on a career. One of the biggest obstacles schools have is the ratio of counselors to students; the amount of time a student has with a counselor is very limited. One suggestion for the group is to focus on statewide transferability of stackable credentials. Building more partnerships with UTEC is another focus as well as reaching out to underrepresented groups.
Access & Affordability – Regent Jensen said the metric the group chose is to increase the percentage of Utahns who enroll in college within five years of high school graduation. They feel access is the larger topic; trying to get people to make the choice to enroll and succeed. With minority groups being the largest growing demographic in Utah, this makes affordability difficult. They have discussed discounts in the form of student aid and tuition waivers. Their time so far has been spent on affordability and the next meeting will be on access. They have identified barriers including: lack of career and college planning, difficulty navigating systems and processes in higher education, affordability, awareness and ability to apply for student aid. After their next meeting scheduled in April, they will identify one or two key initiatives that will be the most worth for the majority of students in the system. There may be a need to focus less on merit based aid and more on need based aid.
Chair Campbell asked for one, maybe two significant and measurable items be brought forward from the working groups at the May meeting.
New Century and Regents’ Scholarship Award Amounts for 2018-19 College Academic Year (TAB G)
Regent Theurer noted this is to approve amounts for the 2018-19 year. Julie Hartley, OCHE, noted these are both merit based awards and recommends they be approved at the full amount allowed by statue. For the New Century Scholarship it is $1,250 per semester for four semesters. The Regents’ Scholarship is a base award of $1000, if students meet the exemplary requirement they receive $1,250 per semester for four semesters. If they met the base award and contributed to a my529 savings account, they are eligible for up to an additional $400 in match per year. Regent Theurer made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab G; the motion was seconded by Regent Wright and the motion carried.
University of Utah – Series 2018 General Revenue Bond Issue (TAB H)
President Pershing noted this request is for the new housing facility, South Campus Student Housing and Dining Complex, and will provide 992 beds. This will be located on the main campus and is for up to $105,217,000 with an interest rate not to exceed 5.5%. Regent Jibson moved to approved as outlined in Tab H; the motion was seconded by Regent Jones and the motion carried.
University of Utah – Soccer and Lacrosse Field Non-State Funded Project (TAB I)
Robin Burr, Chief Design and Construction Officer University of Utah, noted the current soccer field is located at the proposed site for the new student housing and dining project. This provides the opportunity to move the soccer stadium to take advantage of space by the existing Dumke Softball Stadium. The work will take place in two phases and today’s request is for phase one, which is the relocation of the field, lights and infrastructure. The budget is $4,500,000 to be paid with non-state funds. Regent Wright made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab I; the motion was seconded by Regent Jensen and the motion carried.
Utah State University – Swenson House Non-State Funded Project (TAB J)
Dave Cowley, Vice President for Business and Finance Utah State University, noted this is to request approval to build the Swenson house, which is to honor May Swenson. May Swenson grew up in Logan, attended USU, and gain national recognition as a poet. The house will resemble Swenson’s childhood home. The house will serve the college of humanities and social sciences. The project is expected to cost $800,000 and will be paid using non-state funds. Regent Theurer moved to approve as outlined in Tab J; the motion was seconded by Regent Campbell and the motion carried.
Weber State University – Outdoor Recreation Center Non-State Funded Project (TAB K)
Norm Tarbox, Vice President for Administrative Services Weber State University, noted Weber is seeking authorization to construct a new Outdoor Recreation Building to accommodate student demand and provide a welcome center for prospective students. WSU has student support and this will not require a fee increase but will be funded with donations, current student fees and other non-appropriated funds. They are also seeking a 2 million dollar gift to complete the project. Regent Anderson made a motion to approve as outlined in Tab K; the motion was seconded by Regent Valdez and the motion carried.
Adoption of Policy R751, Institutional Facilities Space Utilization (TAB L)
Associate Commissioner Kimberly Henrie noted this item is dealing specifically with policy language. The recommendation is to delete the current policy in its entirety and advance the new R571 policy. There are four main elements: adopt a policy for annual reporting requirements; set standards with a caveat that they apply to fall and spring terms; continue to collect and monitor space utilization; and central scheduling. Regent Stoddard moved to delete the current Regent Policy R571, Capital Facilities Space Scheduling and Assignment and adopt Policy R571, Institutional Facilities Space Utilization in its place, effective immediately, with an additional clarification that the adopted utilization standards apply to Spring and Fall terms and main campuses; the motion was seconded by Regent Theurer and the motion carried.
University of Utah – Student Housing Lease Update (TAB M)
President Pershing noted this is to inform the Regents of a change in location. The new location is less than a block away located at 340 S 500 E. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
Snow College – Capital Facility Funding Update (TAB N)
President Carlston noted this is for 5 million to improve the football stadium. This will allow Snow College to address locker rooms, fitness classroom, and restrooms. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
USHE – Regent Audit Subcommittee Annual Report (TAB O)
Regent Marquardt noted that he, Regent Anderson, Barnes, and Jensen met with the audit chairs from each institution. This system is doing very well, each institution has an assessment tool to identify where their greatest risks are. These help determine which audits will take place in the next year. There has been a new trend in the last few years to increase or expand the risk assessment to include enterprise risk analysis. Several models are being develop to look at risk of shooters, environmental, and sexual harassment. In the past each institution has been a silo effort of people working independently and not having communication across institutions and that has changed. Now there are regular meetings with internal auditors from the institutions and they share best practices, problems, and concerns. The commissioner’s staff has implemented training for all institutions. Overall the system is working well. He noted the biggest concern for institutions is in the IT area. To address this, the chief information officers at each institution are meeting as a group and performing audits across the system, with each institution having an audit every other year. The team comes in and tries to hack into every system, finding the integrity of passwords and is having a positive result. President Huftalin asked about training for institutions and presidents. Associate Commissioner Henrie said OCHE is starting this training and has visited four of the eight institutions. OCHE is looking at additional ways to help institutions. Vice Chair Simmons said there are two types of problems, external and internal, and maybe this is something we should look into to. Commissioner Buhler indicated this may be something to address during the July combined Regent/Trustee meeting. Chair Campbell said we have requested funding from the legislature for years to increase data security and it has not been funded. He is interested in knowing from presidents how they are going to address this issue. President Pershing said he believes, for all presidents, this is the issue they need to grabble with. He said we are building beautiful buildings but inside those buildings are old switches and gears that in some cases are 20 years old and it needs to be addressed. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
USHE – Review of 2017 Financial Statements (TAB P)
Regent Stoddard noted as part of the ongoing review of the institutions fiscal health, the Finance and Facilities Committee reviewed the 2017 Annual Audited Financial Statements. Overall, the FY 2017 audited financials support the fact that USHE institutions are financially strong and are meeting industry standards for key financial ratios. They also met with the University of Utah for a budget deep dive. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
USHE – Debt Ratio Analysis (TAB Q)
Regent Stoddard noted staff provided the annual debt ratio report for the system institutions for FY 2017. Similar to last year, Snow College and Dixie State University had viability ratios below the expected standard. Both institutions are actively working on ways to improve their viability ratio for future reports. There were no other concerns or issued raised. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
USHE – Annual Money Management Report for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2017 (TAB R)
Regent Stoddard noted annually the Board is required to compile a summary report regarding all investment activities to the Governor and Legislature. This report meets that requirement. This is an information item only; no action was taken.
USHE – Fall 2017 & Spring 2018 Enrollment Report (TAB S)
Regent Stoddard noted the updated enrollment reports for Fall 2017 end-of-term and Spring 2018 third week were shared with the committee. Our system continues to grow as we expect and our student Headcount and FTE numbers are up in both Fall and Spring.
USHE – Utah State University Bond Final Details (TAB T)
Regent Stoddard noted as required by Regent Policy, USHE staff provided an update on the final bond issuance details for the USU industrial bond approved at the January Board meeting.
Regent Stoddard motioned to move into executive session for the sole purpose of discussing the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of individuals. The motion was seconded by Regent Valdez and the motion carried.
The meeting adjourned at 3:33 p.m.
Audio Recording of Committee of the Whole
DSU parking map
Institutional Facilities Space Utilization
Student Tuition and Fees
Twitter Linkedin-in
Utah System of Higher Education
Board of Regents Building
60 South 400 West
UtahFutures
UHEAA
© 2019 | Utah System of Higher Education
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2075
|
__label__wiki
| 0.762438
| 0.762438
|
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing...
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – Mixing of two or more solid polymers; mixing of solid...
Details Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing... Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing...
Wu, David (Department: 1796)
C525S437000, C525S445000, C525S440020, C525S446000, C525S449000, C525S453000, C525S454000
The present invention is directed to curable film-forming compositions comprising:(a) a polymeric binder comprising a polyester having hydroxyl functional groups; and(b) a curing agent comprising a polyisocyanate having at least three isocyanate functional groups. In certain embodiments, after application to a substrate as a coating and after curing, the compositions demonstrate a Fisher microhardness of at least 120 at ambient temperatures of 15 to 25° C. and a softening point greater than or equal to 35° C. Additionally, in certain embodiments, after application to a substrate as a coating and after curing, the compositions demonstrate a 20° gloss recovery of at least 75% when subjected to the DRY ABRASION TEST METHOD.
patent: 6387519 (2002-05-01), Anderson et al.
patent: 2004/0043152 (2004-03-01), Barsotti et al.
patent: 2004/0110895 (2004-06-01), Anderson et al.
patent: 2004/0161538 (2004-08-01), Boehme et al.
patent: 2005/0153139 (2005-07-01), Levitt et al.
patent: 2006/0188722 (2006-08-01), White et al.
patent: 2007/0196661 (2007-08-01), Mayo et al.
patent: 2006137967 (2006-12-01), None
Foringer Lyle L.
Kondos Constantine A.
Olson Kurt G.
Sadvary Richard J.
Simpson Dennis A.
Also associated with
Diaz Robert A.
Hays Steven W.
Jones, Jr. Robert
Meyers Diane R.
PPG Industries Ohio Inc.
Corporate Assignee
Say what you really think
Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.
Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating self-healing... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2694219
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2076
|
__label__cc
| 0.546138
| 0.453862
|
UWC ISAK Japan
Donate日本語 Menu Close
International boarding high school, grades 10-12
The UWC Movement
Guiding Statements
Founder Messages
Catalyst Supporter Messages
Leadership Education
Grade 10 (Pre-IB Year)
Grades 11-12 (IBDP)
Summer School (ages 13-14)
University Advising
The UWC Experience
Project Week
Sports & Student-Led Clubs
Apply for Grade 10 (Pre-IB)
Apply for Grade 11 (IBDP)
Apply for Summer School (ages 13-14)
Why Support Us
Scholarship Student Stories
Furusato Nozei
ISAK Founder, Lin Kobayashi, Named 2017 World Fellow at Yale University
Congratulations to Ms. Lin Kobayashi, ISAK Founder and Chair of the Board, for being named a 2017 World Fellow at Yale University. Ms. Kobayashi is one of only 16 people chosen for this prestigious global leadership program from a worldwide applicant pool of more than 2,000 individuals. World Fellows is an intensive, four-month academic enrichment and… [Read More]
Filed Under: ISAK Archives, Lin Kobayashi, School News
ISAK Founder, Lin Kobayashi, Receives Woman of the Year Award
Today Nikkei Woman announced its 2015 “Woman of the Year” award recipient, ISAK’s founder and Chair of the Board, Lin Kobayashi. Nikkei Woman is a publication widely read by working women in Japan. Since 1999, Nikkei Woman has presented this annual award to a woman who has made a difference with exceptional accomplishments in her field…. [Read More]
Filed Under: In the Media, Lin Kobayashi, School News
ISAK has been featured in Nikkei Asian Review!
ISAK has been specially featured in today’s edition of “Nikkei Asian Review,” a foreign media outlet that is run by the largest economic press in Japan! ISAK’s Founder and Chair of the Board Lin Kobayashi interviewed about what is special about ISAK as a school, as well as the type of leadership that is necessary… [Read More]
Lin Kobayashi to Speak at TEDxKyoto
ISAK Co-Founder and Chair of the Board Lin Kobayashi will be speaking at TEDxKyoto this upcoming Sunday, September 29th from 3-4 P.M. (Japan time). She will be sharing her story of how ISAK came to be, and she will express her thoughts and hopes for the education of the next generation of leaders.
Filed Under: Lin Kobayashi, School News
ISAK Featured on “News 23” National News Program
On July 22, ISAK was featured on the TBS news program “News 23″ in a two-part series on the future of education in Japan. The program included footage of the ISAK campus and Summer School classes, as well as interviews with Chair of the Board Lin Kobayashi and Head of School Rod Jemison. The program… [Read More]
Filed Under: Head of School News, In the Media, Lin Kobayashi, School News
Chair of the Board, Lin Kobayashi, Visits Myanmar
Earlier today, Lin Kobayashi, Chair of the Board at ISAK, took part in a discussion with high school and college students in Yangon, Myanmar. At the gathering, students talked about challenges in their eduction system, as well as new opportunities for young people and their dreams for the future. Lin is in Myanmar this week… [Read More]
Lin Kobayashi Selected for “Changemakers of the Year” Award
Today, Nikkei Business Online announced that Lin Kobayashi, Chair of the Board at ISAK, has been selected for its prestigious “Changemakers of the Year 2013″ award. The award is given to visionary leaders who are shaping the future of Japan, and are chosen by readers of Nikkei Business and Nikkei Business Online. (This year, approximately… [Read More]
Opinion Article by Lin Kobayashi in the Asahi Shimbun
On April 22, an article by Lin Kobayashi, Chair of the Board at ISAK, appeared on the Opinion page of the Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second largest newspaper. In the article, Lin discusses the three qualities needed by young people in an increasingly global and interconnected world. Here is an English translation of the article: —————– My… [Read More]
Filed Under: Leadership, Lin Kobayashi, School News
ISAK Administrative Team Visits Japan
Rod Jemison, ISAK’s Founding Head of School, and Janice Murabayashi, Head of the Administrative Office, recently visited Japan from San Diego, California to meet with ISAK team members and visit the ISAK campus. Rod and Janice normally interact with staff by email and Skype, so it was thrilling for everyone involved to be able to… [Read More]
Filed Under: Head of School News, ISAK Archives, Lin Kobayashi, School News
A Moment of Silence on 3/11
Today marks the second anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Thousands of lives were lost that day, and many survivors are still working to rebuild their lives under very difficult circumstances. We would like to take this time to pay our respects to those affected by the disaster, and send our prayers… [Read More]
Filed Under: Head of School News, Lin Kobayashi, School News
News Categories Select Category Academics Admission Advisory Alumni CAS Diversity & Inclusion Experience Japan Faculty Voices Guest Speakers Head of School News In the Media Innovation International Baccalaureate (IBDP) ISAK Archives Leadership Lin Kobayashi Outdoor Education Peace & Non Violence Project Week Scholarships School News Sports & Clubs Student Voices Summer School The Arts University Counseling UWC
Summer School FAQ
Catalyst Supporters
5827-136 Nagakura, Karuizawa, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano 389-0111
Applications Now Open - APPLY TODAY!
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2077
|
__label__cc
| 0.682719
| 0.317281
|
The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparisons in the Relationship Between Media Usage and Self-Objectification in Young Women
Vartanian, Lenny R.; Diedrichs, Phillippa C; Fardouly, Jasmine; Halliwell, Emma
Lenny R. Vartanian
Phillippa Diedrichs Phillippa.Diedrichs@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Psychology
Jasmine Fardouly
Emma Halliwell Emma.Halliwell@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Psychology
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The media’s portrayal of women is often sexually objectifying, and greater exposure to objectifying media is associated with higher levels of self-objectification among young women. One reason why media usage may be associated with self-objectification is because women may be comparing their appearance to others in the media. The present study examined (a) the relationship between the usage of different media types (online social media [Facebook], Internet, television, music videos, and magazines) and self-objectification among young women, (b) whether appearance comparison tendencies in general mediated any observed relationships, and (c) whether appearance comparisons to specific types of women on Facebook (self, family, close friends, distant peers, and celebrities) mediated any relationship between Facebook usage and self-objectification. Female participants (N = 150) aged 17–25 years completed questionnaires about their media usage, appearance comparison tendency in general, appearance comparisons to specific target groups on Facebook, and self-objectification. Results showed that Facebook usage and magazine usage were positively correlated with self-objectification and that these relationships were mediated by appearance comparisons in general. In addition, the relationship between Facebook usage and self-objectification was mediated by comparisons to one’s peers on Facebook. These findings suggest that appearance comparisons can play an important role in self-objectification among young women.
Journal Article Type
Psychology of Women Quarterly
SAGE Publications
Vartanian, L. R., Diedrichs, P. C., Fardouly, J., Diedrichs, P. C., Vartanian, L., & Halliwell, E. (2015). The Mediating Role of Appearance Comparisons in the Relationship Between Media Usage and Self-Objectification in Young Women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 39(4), 447-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684315581841
self-objectification, media usage, magazines, Facebook, appearance-related social comparisons, peers, body image
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684315581841
HAS Dept of Health & Social Sciences
Centre for Appearance Research
Mindful Eating - Conscious Living: An acceptability study (2019)
A randomized experimental evaluation of a yoga-based body image intervention (2019)
An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices (2017)
Costing the invisible: A review of the evidence examining the links between body image, aspirations, education and workplace confidence (2014)
Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals: Appearance and visual identities among bisexual women (2013)
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2078
|
__label__cc
| 0.712712
| 0.287288
|
Eat the Menu
New comic by author and UX consultant Dan Ward, in which he illustrates another UX 101 lesson.
Article No :1680 | May 11, 2017 | by Dan Ward
To learn more about UX design patterns and principles, as well as some tools and techniques for rapid innovation, check out FIRE and The Simplicity Cycle, available wherever books are sold.
The link to Laura Klein and Kate Rutter's "What is wrong with UX" podcast is here
Article No. 1 588 | March 14, 2016
The Comic Guide to the Simplicity Cycle
by Dan Ward
Author and UX consultant Dan Ward shares an illustrated interpretation of his book, "The Simplicity Cycle."
Dan Ward
Dan Ward is the author of F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation (HarperBusiness, 2014) and The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (HarperBusiness, 2015). Prior to launching Dan Ward Consulting, he served for more than 20 years as an acquisition officer in the US Air Force, where he specialized in leading high-speed, low-cost technology development programs and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. For more information please visit thedanward.com and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2079
|
__label__cc
| 0.500428
| 0.499572
|
Hello Ello, the Latest Social Network to Challenge Facebook, Twitter
Devin Connors
1 POSTED: 26 Sep 2014 16:30
Ello is simple, unfinished, definitely in beta, and wants to be Bizarro Facebook.
If you exist on any level in the GIF-laden Twitterverse, you might have heard about Ello in one way or another over the past week.
Ello is a new social networking service that first popped up in the spring, but didn't garner widespread attention until this month (really only in the last week or two). Its purpose, at least at the moment, is to offer an ad-free alternative to Facebook and Twitter, as it attempts to combine features that draw people to both of those established services.
Despite the chatter (and my headline), Ello strikes me as more of a competitor to Twitter than to Facebook. The friends relationship is one-way, like on Twitter -- you can follow someone, but they don't have to follow you back -- and everything is public, although privacy controls are coming soon. The site's most compelling feature is how it separates the wheat from the chaff. If you want a steady stream of updates on specific people, you add them as friends, while everyone else can be added to the Noise category. Noise breaks down posts from everyone into a bite-size grid, and it's separate from the feed populated by friends, and your own posts.
Ello also tracks how many people have seen your posts (which are editable, by the by), dumping the info next to the comments section beneath a post. If Ello survives beta and goes mainstream, public tracking of how your posts are viewed could become a powerful tool, especially since it's not hidden in some analytics tool somewhere, or governed by likes, favorites, or reposts.
Oh, but the most important feature? Posting GIFs. It's basically all I do on Ello (see: David Lee Roth up top).
Twitter is still finding itself, with promoted posts and a new analytics tool, and Facebook is dealing with a slew of its own problems. From stripping out the Messenger function into its own app, to drawing the ire of the LGBTQ communities, to the videos that automagically play as you scroll by, Facebook is a platform that, even ten years later, is still experiencing growing pains. So if there's a time for a new social network to carve out its own niche, this is probably it.
But what is the endgame here? It's a silly question to ask after only two days of use (for me, anyway), but that seems to be all anyone is talking about. In an interview with Engadget, Ello's founders and their venture capitalist backers aren't crazy about embracing the advertising model, nor do they plan on mining user data anytime soon. Ello does use a version of Google Analytics to track specific user behaviors, but the version of the tool they use anonymizes user IPs. Because of the anonymity, Ello claims the data gathered can help make a better site/product, while making the data useless to anyone interested in advertising.
While potential buyers could change the rules, the revenue model appears to be based on enhanced features, similar to LinkedIn. Engadget's example -- paying money to manage multiple accounts through one login -- would generate cash while keeping advertising away from user's eyes.
There's a lot to uncover with Ello. They champion privacy, but still use cookies for specific tasks. They are shunning advertising, but who knows if users will pay for premium features. And they preach an open, simple interface...that isn't quite done yet. If you enjoy drilling down into a beta, try to secure yourself an invite. Otherwise, it might be best to stay away until some additional features (private messaging, blocking, mobile apps/tweaking) are fleshed out.
Li Mu
I still find VK.com (Russian facebook) to be the best social network for me. Having the news stream split into tabs helps me to ignore 90% of the garbage I have to put up with on FB. Also, being able to watch streaming movies and music also helps.
I'm getting sick of seeing the feeds of friends of friends on FB. Why on earth would I care about somebody I don't even know tagging a friend in something. Sadly, most of my friends still use FB, otherwise I'd have dropped it ages ago.
This new Ello thing hasn't really grabbed my attention. But then, I never really got into Twitter. I don't care what people had for lunch, I care even less that they want to tell me and I also have nothing of major interest to inflict upon the world.
weirdee
I'm finding it really hard to believe that they're not going to have advertising at some point, because the money has to come from somewhere...
Jumwa
I like it so far, been on for a couple days. Assuming enough people adopt it, it'll make a nice medium between twitter and facebook, with a touch of Tumblr. Which is exactly what I want from a social media platform. But really I can't stand Facebook, and the way it decides for me what posts from my friends/readers I want to see, instead of letting me make that decision myself.
weirdee:
The article here doesn't do a good job of describing their plans.
They say their plans for the future are to add more site features on a freemium model. They say they're basing it off good F2P video games, where certain optional features added in the future will be pay-only. That and donations.
The F2P model can be pretty awful, but then there's Arenanet doing GW2 in a way that really pleases me. So depends on how it goes.
insaninater
Do we really need more social networks?
I mean the point of a social network is to bring everyone together, so having more of them defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Kindof just feels like a waste of time, effort, and money for everyone.
A business strategy that is being ad free!? In the era where programs like Ad-Block exist I doubt that people have any need of a service that is add free as default.
vallorn
Uhhh I'd suggest people avoid this for now there were reports of certain rather popular and slightly controversial hashtags being labeled "Hate Speech" and earning instabans on their service. A good example is #GamerGate. (Yes someone got banned from the service just for a message containing that, I don't think it matters what your stance or non stance on this is but banning people for a hashtag seems... wrong)
V da Mighty Taco
vallorn:
Yeah... things like that would kill it for me, if true. Blatant harassment and overt hostility are one thing, but the mere act of talking about a controversial subject should never result in bans and the like, regardless of the stance that they take.
Then again, I don't use social media much outside of the Escapist forums. Still, I'm too much of a free-speech advocate to get behind shenanigans like that. After all, that exact same shutdown of the discussion is what made GG such a shitstorm to begin with.
Captcha: "knock back"
10 POSTED: 27 Sep 2014 15:32
Oh good, another site for That One Friend (you know the one) to jump onto and be impossible to contact with by other means.
I drew the line in the sand with twitter, I'm not going to give in to this new kid on the block either.
Seriously, screw you Jeremy. "It's better to get a hold of me on twitter..." *grumble grumble*
Sidmen
Redlin5:
You know what I say to all the Jeremys of the world? "What's your email address?"
I got in but it's kind of crap right now. I only have myself and a bunch of other ravers though lol.
Nimcha
I always wonder about these things. If you read these forums you'd think there was a huge market for services that focus on 'privacy' (whatever that means on the internet) yet nothing ever comes of it.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2082
|
__label__wiki
| 0.888535
| 0.888535
|
Frederic Caudron Wins Ho Chi Minh City World Cup
With dazzling shots and consistent improvement throughout the event Belgium's Frederic Caudron topped the field of 149 players at the third UMB World Cup of 2016. Held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Caudron was one of three European players to reach the final four. Only Nguyen Quoc Nguyen of Vietnam remained to represent the large Asian contingent that began the event. With his win Caudron moves past Torbjorn Blomdahl to reclaim the number 1 spot in the UMB World 3-Cushion Billiards Rankings.
The Tournament Begins with 149 Entered
For the second year Ho Chi Minh City was host to a three cushion billiards World Cup event. And with its proximity to all the great billiard nations in Southeast Asia we just knew the players from the Asian federation would dominate the list of entries. With 149 players originally entered more than half were from the ACBC countries. The host country Vietnam was represented by 37, while South Korea sent the largest group of 52. Japan had 12 and Indonesia 2 to round out the ACBC group. In addition players from thirteen other countries sent players to the event: Turkey 12, Netherlands 6, Egypt 6, Spain 4, Belgium 4, Germany 3, Greece 2, France 2, and Finland, Italy, Jordan, Portugal and the United States 1 each.
The top 12 players on the UMB ranking list automatically are seeded in to the main event. Five wild card players from the host country and the other confederations around the world also receive an automatic entry. The tournament itself is run in two phases. Qualification rounds are held in the first three days yielding 15 players to join the 17 seeded. In the second phase known as the main tournament 32 players play in single elimination format to reach the final winner. And as with every World Cup the early rounds contained many surprises and talented play.
Click Here to View the Score Sheets and Results for the Main Tournament. Here are highlights from the event.
On Day Two Local Player Shows World Class
33-year-old Duc Anh Chien Nguyen from Ho Chi Minh City, number 278 of the world ranking, showed why Vietnam may one day soon advance to dominance in the sport. In his second match of the day against his countryman Dinh Phuoc Huynh, Duc Anh Chien went out in only eight innings, winning 30-3, and averaging an incredible 3.750. With the explosive and unexpected quality of such a previously unheralded player, the elite of 3-cushion should be carefully watching every player from this billiard loving country.
The Best Game of the Event Comes in a Pre-Qual Round
The incredible play during the pre-qualification rounds continued on the following day. 24- year old Korean Tae Jun Oh brought the arena to thundering cheers. The Korean had just treated the spectators to a match of 30 points in 6 innings and joined the group of players in the world who have averaged 5.000 in world class competition. The Vietnamese had won his qualification flight, beating the renowned opponents: young Korean Myung Woo Cho and feared Vietnamese Dinh Nai Ngo. Although he would succumb in later rounds for this moment his star shone brighter than all others.
In the QUALIFICATION Round the High Runs Keep Coming
The Korean champion Haeng-Jik Kim opened a match with an incredible run of 17 in his first inning. Later Korean star Hyun Min Seo topped that with a run of 19 to vie for high run honors. Other highlights in the qualification round included Lütfi Cenet's victory over Semih Saygıner and for US fans Pedro Piedrabuena's win to move on to the main event. The players who got knocked out included Eddy Leppens who was in a heartbreak the 16th man by just 1/10 average, Sayginer as noted, former world champion Sung Won Choi and Jeremy Bury who was not up to the level he showed in a recent French national tournament.
In The Main Event NicK 'Poly' Runs Out With 22 Against Sanchez
The World Cup tournament in Ho Chi Minh had already set records with the two Korean players making super high runs of 19 and 17 in the pre-qual rounds. But the best was yet to come! Nikos Polychronopoulos of Greece in his match against Dani Sánchez of Spain faced a daunting task. The 38-year-old Greek billiard room owner from Athens was down 26-18 when he entered his 11th turn at the table. Then, as play unfolded, the crowd was treated to an exhibition of shot-making and expert position play as Poly finished the match with a spectacular run of 22 to emerge victorious, The final score was 40-30 in 11 innings and his run of 22 would remain to take high run honors for the event.
Other highlights of the opening round included both Marco Zanetti and Lufti Cenet averaging over two, with Zanetti on top. Wins by Torbjörn Blomdahl (14 innings), Jung Han Heo and Quoc Nguyen Nguyen (16), Marco Zanetti and Dick Jaspers (17) also demonstrated some top play to advance. In addition to Sanchez and Cenet, the knockout group included Eddy Merckx, last year's winner Tayfun Tasdemir, Dong Koong Kang and Murat Naci Coklu. US player Pedro Piedrabuena was retired by Blomdahl. Frederic Caudron squeaked by Christian Rudolph in a slow start.
In the round of 16 players that followed Blomdahl posted his best game winning 40-13 in 13 innings over Hyung Kon Kim of Korea (3.076 avg). But Frederic Caudron took it one step further with the best game of the round at 40-24 in 12 against Anh Vu Duong to average 3.333. Others to advance were Marco Zanetti, Jae Ho Cho , Dick Jaspers and Nick Poly. Nguyen Quoc Nguyen began to show his strength beating Roland Forthomme.
The Quarter Final Round Was Pivotal
Torbjörn Blomdahl faced Marco Zanetti and with his worst game of the event Torbjorn was not only out, but he lost his status as world number 1 as well. The last Korean, Jae Ho Cho, was eliminated in that same round, by Frédéric Caudron (40-33 in 21). Dick Jaspers had beaten each Vietnamese player he faced in the earlier rounds: Vinh Ly The and Quang Hao Truong. He did the same here against Minh Cam Ma, but only after Ma equalized and the players when to the shootout from the break.
The Semi-Final Round pitted Marco Zanetti of Italy against Frederic Caudron of Belgium. These two have been both teammates and rivals for many years. And both are former World Cup winners and World Champions. As many fans know, Zanetti is an animated and emotional player who has been embroiled in controversy in the past. In the match against Caudron a controversial call by the ref (calling a miss) stunned Zanetti who refused to sit down. Even Caudron agreed the point was good. After minutes of tense discussion Zanetti was awarded the point and continued. From that moment on the tension was even greater, and Caudron seemed to have lost his touch as Zanetti took the lead. But with a stunning late run including shots that brought the crowd to its feet Caudron emerged on top 40-34 in 20.
Dick Jaspers playing a quiet and steady event once again faced a Vietnamese player. Nguyen Quoc Nguyen clearly showed why he was one of the top players in Vietnam and why he was such a favorite with the crowd. His personality, exuberance and outgoing manner are quite a change from what many at the top level of 3-Cushion Billiards exhibit during a match. But when he had to he could bear down and play with the best. But even though he had a run of 8. and averaged 2.142 he was no match for Jaspers who had a run of 9 and won 40-30 in 14 innings (2.857) to make the final.
When a player reaches the finals in a World Cup, he must exhibit determination and skill to best his opponents and overcome the whims and fancies of the table and the balls. But all that can change on a billiard table in a moment. That is how Torbjorn Blomdahl lost his match and number 1 ranking in an earlier round. And for Dick Jaspers the final match against Frederic Caudron was to be the same. Caudron shined with a run of 11 and 2.352 average, while Jaspers posted his weakest showing with a run of 7 but only 20 billiards in the 17 innings to average 1.176. And so with a final score of 40-20 in 17 Frederic Caudron won the 2016 UMB World Cup Ho Chi Minh City. By winning the event Caudron also picked up enough ranking points to move him in to the spot as the number 1 player in the world.
The awards ceremony also included the high run award to Nikos Polychronopoulos. Congratulations to Nikos and to the great Belgium champion and now world number 1 Frederic Caudron. Click Here to View the Score Sheets and Results for the Main Tournament.
Thanks to Kozoom for video coverage and photographs. Thanks to UMB for score sheets and entry information. All images copyright Kozoom.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2088
|
__label__cc
| 0.557338
| 0.442662
|
Create a 6PR account today!
You can now log in once to listen live, watch live, join competitions, enjoy exclusive 6PR content and other benefits.
To watch the live video stream, log in to 6PR or create a free account now. You will enjoy exclusive content, competition updates and other benefits as part of the 6PR community.
Thankyou for joining 6PR, we're glad you're with us.
The 6PR team
6PR is Perth's Best Talk Station
Overnights with Jon Lewis
Breakfast with Steve Mills and Basil Zempilas
Mornings with Gareth Parker
Afternoons with Simon Beaumont
Big Bash Cricket
Sportsday with Karl Langdon and Paul Hasleby
Is $76 Million enough to save Australian’s tourism?
The House of Wellness – Full Show Sunday 19th January, 2020
Weird and Wacky News of the Week
Prince Harry and Meghan’s UK home closing down
Talking Food – With Don Hancey
Win an Arcade Machine
Win Knight Financial Advisors (Knight) personal ‘Financial Health Check’.
The best things to do this Australia Day!
Don’t Miss Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet at His Majesty’s Theatre
Subiaco Continue the Dynasty in 2019
Sam Trusso
There is little doubt that Subiaco have created a dynasty in the last 6 years, highlighted by their premiership win in all three grades last season, and they are looking to continue that today against South Fremantle, with a chance to win their fourth premiership in 6 years. The Bulldogs enter the game as big underdogs, with only two players having played in a WAFL Grand Final before today, but they will enter with some confidence, having handed the Lions their only defeat of the last two seasons when they met earlier this year.
The West Perth Reserves claimed the first win of the day with a win over Claremont 9.6.60 to 9.12.66, but Claremont still walked away with a trophy, winning the Colts premiership by 5 points, defeating Peel Thunder 13.4.82 to 11.11.77
The main event sadly didn’t continue in the same vein, and while the other two fixtures were decided by less than a goal, the League match started as many expected, with the Lions getting out to a 3-goal lead at quarter time and never looking back.
While South Fremantle may have handed the Lions a loss earlier this year, Subiaco showed why they have been the dominant club of the last half a decade. Souths could only manage 1 point for the second term while Subi piled on another 5 goals, and it was all downhill skiing for the remainder of the game as they didn’t let up all afternoon.
18,941 patrons turned out on a beautiful day in Perth, with the great weather being mirrored by some great football from Subiaco, another dominating term in the third quarter, piling on another 4 goals to just 1 from South Fremantle. The Bulldogs are trying hard, but look outclassed today.
Subiaco win back-to-back premierships, showing their class all day and defeating South Fremantle 18.12.120 to 3.6.24. Ben Sokol has won The Simpson Medal, kicking 6.3 today in a powerful display. There were a handful of players that could have taken out the honour, including Sandover Medallist Lachlan Delahunty who had 27 touches and 29 hitouts, and Kyal Horsley, who in winning his 5th premiership at Subiaco, had 30 touches, 11 tackles and a goal.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2091
|
__label__cc
| 0.615492
| 0.384508
|
AACR Scholar-in-Training Awards: Other Conferences and Meetings
Scholar-in-Training Awards: Annual Meeting
Global Scholar-in-Training Awards: Annual Meeting
Women in Cancer Research Scholar Awards
Minority and Minority-serving Institution Faculty Scholar Awards
Minority Scholar Awards
Undergraduate Scholar Awards
Scholar-in-Training Awards: Other AACR Meetings
CSCO Young Investigator Travel Awards
The AACR offers Scholar-in-Training Awards to enhance the education and training of early career scientists by providing financial support for their attendance at AACR conferences and meetings. These awards are provided to offset a portion of the registration, travel, and subsistence expenses incurred in attending these programs. The number of awards available, award amounts, and application requirements vary by conference. Please visit the meetings and workshops calendar for a list of upcoming programs and details on financial support available.
All graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and physicians-in-training who submit abstracts may be considered for a Scholar-in-Training Award. To be considered for an award, applicants must also be AACR members in good standing. Visit the membership section of the AACR website to apply today.
Employees or subcontractors of private industry are not eligible.
Application procedures may vary by conference. Visit the meetings and workshops calendar for a list of upcoming programs and application details.
To be considered for an award, applicants must:
Submit an abstract for the conference and be listed as the presenter of the abstract.
Submit a letter of recommendation from their program supervisor or department head that describes the quality of their clinical and/or experimental work.
Selection and Notification
The conference co-chairpersons or Program Committee will select the award recipients based on the qualitative rating of the abstract and the letter of recommendation. Award applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Notices will be sent to all applicants approximately three (3) weeks after the application deadline with the status of their application. Award recipients will be required to complete a certification form confirming their eligibility.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2093
|
__label__cc
| 0.641317
| 0.358683
|
3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2016
+ Summary of findings
+ Australia's leading causes of death, 2016
Drug Induced Deaths in Australia
+ Intentional self-harm: key characteristics
Drug Induced Deaths Increase in 2016 (Media Release)
Cancer deaths in younger Australians - changes over 20 years
Summary of Findings
Causes of Death, Australia, 3303.0 focuses on the causes of the 158,504 deaths registered in 2016. This issue provides several articles on particular causes or topics (detailed below), as well as comprehensive data cubes covering all causes by key demographics
This article provides analysis on Australia's leading causes of death, including changes over time and differences for males and females. Information is also provided on the leading causes of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It also provides information on dementia and bowel cancer deaths.
Drug Induced Deaths in Australia, 2016
This article explores the characteristics of drug induced deaths in Australia in 2016. It includes information on deaths associated with prescription medications and illicit substances, demographic issues, drug groupings and international comparability in relation to drug induced deaths.
Understanding diabetes mortality in Australia
Diabetes is Australia's seventh leading cause of death, accounting for 3% of all deaths in 2016. However, diabetes was mentioned as a contributory factor in 10.4% of all deaths. This article provides information on deaths with diabetes as an underlying cause as well as deaths which might be considered diabetes related. It also provides information on diabetes deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Islander peoples.
Suicide deaths in Australia
Two articles are provided covering key characteristics of deaths due to intentional self-harm (including age and sex) and suicide deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Cancer deaths in younger Australians - changes over 20 years (release date 8 February, 2017)
This article provides details on cancer deaths in younger Australians (defined as those aged under 40 years), with consideration to how cancer mortality has changed in this demographic over the last 20 years.
Technical note: Causes of death revisions, 2014 Final Data (release date 21 March 2018)
The ABS undertakes a revisions process for coroner-certified deaths over a three year period. This enables the ABS to improve the specificity of causes for these deaths as additional information, including the findings of the coroner, becomes available. This technical note provides a summary of how the revisions process has changed data for the 2014 reference period.
Technical note: Causes of death revisions, 2015 Revised Data (release date 21 March 2018)
The release of 2015 cause of death data occurred approximately 6 months earlier than for previous reference periods. This technical note provides a summary of the impact of the revisions process on the 2015 data, focussing on any changes associated with the different processing schedule for this reference period.
Technical note: Updates to 2014 and 2015 suicide data (release date 21 March 2018)
This technical note presents final 2014 and revised 2015 suicide data, and explores how the revisions process has resulted in changes to suicide counts.
This page last updated 25 September 2018
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2098
|
__label__wiki
| 0.801051
| 0.801051
|
The Impatience (And Genius) Of Jobs: An Interview with Walter Isaacson
I never felt a particularly intense curiosity about the life and personality of Steve Jobs until the night he died. Oh sure, he was a sort of hip entrepreneur from the baby boom, so there was always a glimmer of interest — somewhat along the same lines as the vague interest I would have in the life of Richard Branson. But my tastes in favorite biographies would tend to the more extravagant; a Timothy Leary or a Keith Richards or an Antonin Artaud or a Salvador Dali (and I must confess to a taste for the occasional bio of a power mad dictator).  Entrepreneurs, however extravagant or autocratic in their realm, would come up short in terms of satisfying whatever perverse delights in abused privilege, eccentricity, cosmic ambition and/or mighty flame-out I might hope to find in my favorite biographies.
But on the night Jobs passed, I took a look around my home and realized that my world is intimately suffused with the ghost of Jobs’s creativity — all those beautifully designed complex and total-package mechanisms for communication and creation are deeply woven into the proverbial fabric of my life. Plus, he was one of those successful acidheads whose embrace psychedelic veterans like myself like to wave as a banner against the clichéd assumptions the mainstream has about those who have dipped their psyches in that font of lucid vision and/or sensory overload (depending).
I immediately contacted Walter Isaacson to find out if I could get a copy of his then-upcoming official Steve Jobs biography for Acceler8or and interview him about it.
The bio did not disappoint. While no one reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson would come away comparing Jobs’s excesses and temperament to, say, an original dadaist or a major 1960s rock god, by most lights, he had personality and artistic sensibility to spare — and his visionary sense of self and determined refusal to do anything any other way than his own — makes for a lively and compelling read.
Isaacson lets his own prose sparkle as never before — including a use of playful titles and subtitles. It’s fun.
I conversed with Walter Isaacson via email.
RU SIRIUS: At the halfway mark in reading the book, my most prominent thought is…. nobody could emulate this guy – his behaviors or even his business strategies and methods — and expect to succeed in business.  More likely, someone else would get punched in the head fairly frequently.  So I guess to formulate this as a question: what do you think about this observation…  and… is Jobs the most unique dude you’ve ever covered as a writer and journalist? Would you compare him to anybody?
WALTER ISAACSON: Steve is by far the most intense person I ever met, and he’s filled with contradictions. Who can I compare him to? Â NOBODY! He was more inspiring than anyone I ever met, and also the least filtered. “I’m a black-and-white kind of person,” he told me when urging me not to use a color picture of him on the cover of the book, and he even thought in black and white: You were a hero or a shithead. He could taste two similar avocados and proclaim one to be the best ever grown and the other to be inedible. Most of us have a filter, so that if our first reaction is that something sucks we pause or temper our words. Steve was brutally honest. That made him seem like an asshole at times. But it also ended up making him charismatic and someone who could create a loyal team.
RU. I’ve never seen Jobs’s acidhead hippie aspect foregrounded to this degree, particularly in the early part of the book.  It’s sort of a weird contradictory relationship to counterculture.  I have my own thoughts about this, but let’s start with yours.
WI: Steve represented the fusion of many strands. One was the hippie, counterculture, anti-authority, drugs, rock, rebel spirit of the late Sixties. Another was the hacker, wirehead, phone phreaker, geek hobbyist culture. You melded both of these when you launched Mondo 2000 in the 1980s. To these two cultural strands, Steve also added the entrepreneurial, startup, business mentality that was arising in the 1970s in Silicon Valley, especially after the advent of the microchip. He embodied a lot of contradictions. A seeker of Buddhist enlightenment who becomes a billionaire businessman. A misfit, acid-dropping, counterculture rebel who is a tough businessman. Someone with a new age and alternative spirit who also is a believer in technology and rational science. It all seems a bit weird, but it’s also kind of cool.
RU: Did you see any interest on his part in the political aspects of counterculture… aside from loving Joan Baez? Did he ever reference the antiwar movement or civil liberties struggles or environmental issues or even the war on drugs, to your knowledge?
WA:Â He didn’t seem all that interested in politics. His main interest was education reform. He really thought the school days should be longer; teachers should not have tenure, etc. He wanted to make ads for Obama in 2008, but wasn’t on the same wavelength as David Axelrod.
RU: One area where he contradicts most countercultural sensibilities was in his making Apple very much the opposite of open source and free software and all that. What intrigued me in the book was that he seems not to be motivated so much by greed as by artistic sensibility.  He saw himself as an artist and he was the director of these creations — almost like Hitchcock making a movie. It had to be just so.
WA: He really looked at himself as an artist. And he had the temperament of one. He was demanding, a perfectionist, and sometimes a control freak. He said he cared more about making beautiful products than about making a profit, and I believe him.
RU: For those of us who were around in the early days of digital culture, you could say Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in one breath… sort of like Lennon and McCartney. Â So was Wozniak a fluke? Â Did Jobs ever imply that he viewed it that way?
WA: Woz was not a fluke. Steve Jobs said he was 50 times better than any engineer he had ever met. He was particularly brilliant at a very specialized thing: designing circuit boards using the minimal number of chips. But the importance of that talent waned, and he did not care about the other aspects of Apple.
RU: Did he have a Sancho Panza… a partner outside of his family who sort of stuck by him?… or at least some career long accomplices about whom you could tell us a bit about their relationships?
WA: One of Steve Jobs’s longtime mentors was Mike Markkula, the first real investor in Apple. He became a mentor. He taught Jobs about focus and marketing and packaging. But he sided with John Sculley in the showdown of 1985, and when Steve returned in 1997 he asked Markkula to leave the Apple board.
RU: You were surprised that Steve asked you to write a biography and gave you free reign over it, given his love of privacy and control. Did he ever waiver? Any freak out moments when he tried to shut you down… or where you worried he might do that?
WI: The one thing I could never fully understand was why Steve Jobs did not insist on more control over the book. He kept saying he didn’t want to see it in advance. He said he knew I would write things that would make him mad, but he wanted me to be honest. He said he wanted to avoid any perception that it was an in-house book. He wanted it to feel independent. The only time he interfered was when he saw a proposed cover design and thought it was ugly. He asked for input into the cover. I agreed.
RU: What did you learn that surprised you most about his personal life as you researched the book?
WI: What most surprised me about his personal life was how it was connected to his professional life. He was intense and emotional in both. In both cases, he had a romantic new age side and a sensible, technological, rational, business side. These two sides ended up connecting in both his personal life and business life. In his personal life, the two strands connected in his marriage. It was both a romantic and rational marriage.
RU: I indicated at the beginning of this interview that Jobs was so unique that no budding entrepreneur could benefit from emulating him. But I wonder, what lessons are there in this bio for people who want to make world changing art or technology?
WI: The most important lesson is to have a passion for connecting art with technology. It was the lesson of the fusion of the hippie and tech geek of the early 1970s, as reflected in Mondo 2000, and it’s embodied in Steve’s life.
RU: Have you had any interesting responses to the book — for example, was anyone shocked or dismayed by the LSD references… or anything else?
WI:Â Some people responded to the book by focusing on, and being shocked by, his petulance. That misses the point. I tried to make the narrative a tale of how the petulant personality was connected to his passion for perfection — and how eventually he made that inspiring rather than off-putting.
RU: Do you think Apple can keep up the magic without Jobs?
WI:Â Apple has been infused with Steve’s belief in connecting art to technology. Tim Cook and Jony Ive get it. So do the other members of his top management team. They can make it work.
Tags: acidhead, Antonin Artuad, Apple, Apple Inc., counterculture, David Axelrod, director of these creations, free software, hip entrepreneur, Hippie, Joan Baez, Jony Ive, Keith Richards, late 60s, Lennon, LSD, McCartney, Mike Markkula, Mondo 2000, new age, Richard Branson, Salvador Dali, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Tim Cook, Timothy Leary, Walter Isaacson
Uncategorized | R.U. Sirius | 29 November 2011 |
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2099
|
__label__cc
| 0.684421
| 0.315579
|
Business Process Outsourcing: Call Centres
This is primarily an urban opportunity and targets an under-utilised labour resource in our provincial towns and cities. The formula is simple – presentation of an attractive package in what is a highly competitive market.
The opportunity as described in the Action Plan involves:
Growth. Double the size of the contact centre industry in the Manawatū-Whanganui region.
Earnings. Attract international operations and grow the volume of overseas earnings contributed to the New Zealand and regional economies.
Spill-over. Leverage spill-over business benefits in training and skill development and in digital and software developments.
Centre of excellence. Develop and add value to the current ‘Manawatū Contact Centre Cluster’ as an internationally recognised sector ‘Centre of Excellence’ and as the priority location for new contact centre investment.
Jobs. Secure new jobs, especially for secondary income, for a large base of families in the region.
The immediate priorities for this opportunity are:
Customer ‘lead generation’
This priority is about the ability to sustain, expand, support and generally contribute to the success of the marteing efforts of the ‘Lower North Island Contact Centre Cluster’. Recently Fairfax moved their call centre back to Palmerston North.
Growing talent pool
There is demand for an additional 150 FTEs a year in order to keep the region competitive for new centres as well as supplying the increasing demand from existing centres.
The Skills and Talent group are leading this action. Contact group chair Margaret Kouvelis for more information.
For detailed information on all priorities for Business Process Outsourcing: Call Centres please visit the Manawatū-Whanganui Economic Action Plan.
For an update on Action Plan Progress check out the latest Accelerate25 dashboard.
< Opportunity - Quality Care and lifestyle for older people
Opportunities Home
Opportunity - Business Process Outsourcing FoodHQ >
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2100
|
__label__cc
| 0.533014
| 0.466986
|
Recruit In The New
Current Country: Malaysia
BUILDING A LIQUID WORKFORCE
THE LIQUID WORKFORCE IN MALAYSIA
TECHNOLOGY VISION 2016 – MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVE
Liquid Workforce
Building the workforce for today’s digital demands
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT [PDF]
In January 2013, GE Appliances put together a small cross-functional team, gave them a limited budget, and challenged them to create a refrigerator for its high-end Monogram range. Less than a year later, the team delivered their product, built twice as fast and at half the cost—and it is selling twice as well as previous models.
The US-based electronics giant attributes the team’s success to FastWorks, an approach that involves doing away with rigid processes and allowing employees to make rapid changes to their projects, even switching directions when necessary. GE supports its employees by providing access to smart data and continuous training that enables them to keep up with the evolving demands of the project.
GE is not alone in embedding lean start-up practices into its workforce, allowing it to change faster and make smarter decisions. To keep up with the breakneck pace of technological advances, leaders around the globe are building workforces that can flex just as rapidly—in other words, a Liquid Workforce.
Employees in this nimble workforce are organised in working groups, moving easily from project to project, training on the go by tapping resources both within and outside the company. Some 80 percent of employers in this year’s survey believe that such a workforce will be a key competitive advantage for companies in the digital age, where disruption is a way of life.
To build this Liquid Workforce, companies must use digital technology to enable agility at three levels: skills, projects and the organisation as a whole.
Skills Development: To access the continuous stream of new technologies, continual training must become a core competency. Fortunately, there are a growing number of scalable training solutions to choose from including massive online open courses (MOOCs), boot camps, and even virtual reality training. Forward-thinking organisations are also developing in-house programmes and units to fill skills gaps. According to one study, companies that invest US$1,500 annually in training per employee will see average profit margins that are 24 percent higher than those that don’t.
Project Planning: At the project level, digital businesses need to leverage collaboration tools and cloud-based workflows to connect their workforce and empower anytime, anywhere working. They also need to be able to assemble the right people from inside and outside the organisation into optimal teams.
TechVision 2016 found that "deep expertise for the specialised task at hand" was only the fifth most important thing that digital employers looked for, with "ability to quickly learn," "ability to multitask" and "willingness to embrace change" ranking higher. As such, companies will need to source deep skills as needed, including contractors, freelancers, alliance partners and start-ups, and assemble them into optimal teams for different projects.
Organisational Structure: A skilled workforce and flexible project model will only flourish in an equally flexible organisation. This means more horizontal leadership structures, like at GE, where front-line employees, exposed to continual training and with data at their finger-tips, are empowered to make decisions.
As we move forward, a growing proportion of employees will be made up of Millennials, talent that has grown up as digital natives, and who adapt easily to the furious pace of technological change. This generation seeks more flexibility, less hierarchy, are keen to shape their own career paths, and are comfortable using digital tools to work anytime, from anywhere. In other words, a perfect fit for your Liquid Workforce.
Asia is in excellent stead to benefit from this trend—by 2020, the region will have 60 percent of the world’s millennial population.
When it comes to creating a Liquid Workforce in Malaysia, there has been uneven progress. At the skills level, large companies have their own internal learning centres, and tertiary institutions are updating their curriculums to reflect the new capabilities and competencies needed, especially in the areas of data science and analytics. Several companies in Malaysia are experimenting with “reverse mentoring,” or roping in younger employees to mentor senior leadership, including CEOs, on digital trends. The government has also been supportive with its Human Resources Development Fund that covers employee training costs, and other initiatives such as MaGIC, which runs free data science courses. However, on the projects level, the external or freelance market is not yet fully tapped due to concerns about data privacy and preserving competitive advantages. On the other hand, the uncertain economy means that many Millennials are seeking the security of full-time rather than freelance jobs. Organisational structures also remain largely hierarchical, although MNCs are leading the way in flattening their structures. We anticipate the move towards a more liquid workforce will gain momentum in the next 12 to 18 months as the economy improves, and also as the demand for talent outstrips supply. It will, we hope, be accompanied with the requisite cultural shift that will make innovation a part of organisational DNA, allowing great ideas to come to life. Technology alone will not propel organisations towards their new strategic objectives. People—empowered by technology to evolve, adapt and drive change—will.
Freelancer.com/oDesk
A growing number of job seekers in Malaysia are seeking more flexibility in their work life. Between 2009, when Malaysians started using Freelancer.com, and 2014, over 27,000 freelance jobs have been posted on the website, and over US$851,000 earned by its freelancers. Job seekers bid for jobs posted by employers, who then decide which candidate best meets their needs. A system built into the process ensures that the freelancer is paid for the job, with a team on hand to review disputes and award funds at “payment milestones.” Malaysia is also one of the fastest growing markets for global online marketplace oDesk.
WOBB
The last few years has seen the launch of a number of job hunting platforms targeted at Millennials, linking them with employers that share similar ideas in terms of working culture, office environment, team building, and other millennial priorities. Among them is WOBB, or Working On Bean Bags, launched in 2014. Job hunters logging onto wobb.my can find pictures of prospective workplaces, and get a closer look at the people they will be working with and an idea of the working culture before sending in their applications. Every three months, the WOBB team picks between 15 and 20 job seekers across Malaysia, based on their CVs and video cover letters, for an "Awesome Tour." To date, candidates have been taken to visit the offices and meet staff of Google, Maxis, Quintiq, Paypal, KFIT, Mind Valley and Nuffnang. A mobile app allows users to apply for jobs anywhere, anytime.
TribeHired
TribeHired is a social recruitment platform that curates a list of the top IT talents available for hire in the city each week, and presents them to the companies on its database. These companies view videos of the talents curated, and then compete to hire them by placing their bids and setting up three potential “dates.” At the end of the week, the talents decide on which three interview offers to accept. A new element at TribeHired is a “bootcamp,” essentially a stand-off between participants who present themselves and compete to be recognised among the top 10 talents of the week.
Address workforce disruptions today
Agile workforce = Agile business
Start your transformation in five key ways
Make training a core competency
Become more project oriented and agile
Empower collaboration and new ideas
Manage a distributed workforce
Create an organisation that is built to facilitate, not impede
Stay in touch with Twitter
Get bite-size insights on the latest in technology and business.
Tweets by @AccentureASEAN
Stay updated on our latest thinking on technology and business trends, as well as career opportunities.
Get the latest on Accenture in Malaysia.
Get the latest from our Digital ASEAN blog
Reflections on the big issues facing ASEAN’s business and government leaders in an era of disruption.
Read us on SlideShare
Read our latest reports on technology and business in Southeast Asia.
Technology Vision 2016 ASEAN: People first
Succeeding in today's digital world is a challenge that can't be solved simply by consuming more and more technology.
The essential new co-worker for the digital age
Platform Economy
Technology-driven business model innovation from the outside in
Predictable Disruption
Looking to digital ecosystems for the next waves of change
Digital Trust
Strengthening customer relationships through ethics and security
Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Privacy & Cookies (Bahasa) Terms of Use Site Map Careers
Privacy & Cookies (Bahasa)
Submitted comment may not display automatically.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2102
|
__label__cc
| 0.71167
| 0.28833
|
Fourth-order problems with Leray-Lions type operators in variable exponent spaces
DCDS-S Home
Navier-Stokes equations: Some questions related to the direction of the vorticity
April 2019, 12(2): 215-229. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019015
Classical solutions for the system $\bf {\text{curl}\, v = g}$, with vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions
Luigi C. Berselli , and Placido Longo
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 1/c, Pisa, I-56127, Italy
* Corresponding author: Luigi C. Berselli
Dedicated to Prof. Vicenţiu D. Rădulescu on the occasion of his 60 th birthday
Received June 2017 Revised November 2017 Published August 2018
We consider the boundary value problem associated to the curl operator, with vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove, under mild regularity of the data of the problem, existence of classical solutions.
Keywords: Curl and divergence equation, first order systems, classical solutions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 26B12; Secondary: 35C05, 35F15.
Citation: Luigi C. Berselli, Placido Longo. Classical solutions for the system $\bf {\text{curl}\, v = g}$, with vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2019, 12 (2) : 215-229. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019015
H. Beirão da Veiga, On the solutions in the large of the two-dimensional flow of a nonviscous incompressible fluid, J. Differential Equations, 54 (1984), 373–389. doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(84)90149-9. Google Scholar
H. Beirão da Veiga, Concerning the existence of classical solutions to the Stokes system. On the minimal assumptions problem, J. Math. Fluid Mech., 16 (2014), 539–550. doi: 10.1007/s00021-014-0170-9. Google Scholar
H. Beirão da Veiga, On some regularity results for the stationary Stokes system and the 2-D Euler equations, Port. Math., 72 (2015), 285–307. doi: 10.4171/PM/1969. Google Scholar
H. Beirão da Veiga, Elliptic boundary value problems in spaces of continuous functions, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S, 9 (2016), 43–52. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016.9.43. Google Scholar
L. C. Berselli and L. Bisconti, On the existence of almost-periodic solutions for the 2D dissipative Euler equations, Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 31 (2015), 267–290. doi: 10.4171/RMI/833. Google Scholar
L. C. Berselli and P. Longo, Classical solutions of the divergence equation with Dini-continuous datum, Tech. Report, arXiv (2017) URL http://arXiv.org/abs/1712.07917. Google Scholar
M. E. Bogovskiĭ, Solutions of some problems of vector analysis, associated with the operators div and grad, in Theory of Cubature Formulas and the Application of Functional Analysis to Problems of Mathematical Physics, vol. 1980 of Trudy Sem. S. L. Soboleva, No. 1, Akad. Nauk SSSR Sibirsk. Otdel., Inst. Mat., Novosibirsk, (1980), 5–40,149. Google Scholar
J. Bolik and W. von Wahl, Estimating $\nabla\textbf{u}$ in terms of ${\rm div}\, \textbf{u}$, ${\rm curl}\, \textbf{u}$ either $(ν, \textbf{u})$ or $ν×\textbf{u}$ and the topology, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 20 (1997), 737–744. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1476(199706)20:9<737::AID-MMA863>3.3.CO;2-9. Google Scholar
W. Borchers and H. Sohr, On the equations ${\rm rot}\, \textbf{v} = \textbf{g}$ and ${\rm div}\, \textbf{u} = f$ with zero boundary conditions, Hokkaido Math. J., 19 (1990), 67–87. doi: 10.14492/hokmj/1381517172. Google Scholar
J. Bourgain and H. Brezis, New estimates for elliptic equations and Hodge type systems, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS), 9 (2007), 277–315. doi: 10.4171/JEMS/80. Google Scholar
V. I. Burenkov, Sobolev Spaces on Domains, vol. 137 of Teubner-Texte zur Mathematik [Teubner Texts in Mathematics], B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart, 1998. doi: 10.1007/978-3-663-11374-4. Google Scholar
U. Dini, Fourier Series and Other Analytic Representations of Functions of one Real Variable. (Serie di Fourier ed Altre Rappresentazioni Analitiche Delle Funzioni Di Una Variabile Reale), Nistri, 1880. Google Scholar
U. Dini, Sur la méthode des approximations successives pour les équations aux derivées partielles du deuxième ordre, Acta Math., 25 (1902), 185–230. doi: 10.1007/BF02419026. Google Scholar
G. P. Galdi, An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations. Steady-state Problems, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2011. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-09620-9. Google Scholar
D. Gilbarg and N. S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Classics in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, Reprint of the 1998 edition. Google Scholar
R. Griesinger, Decompositions of $L^q$ and $H^{1, q}_0$ with respect to the operator ${\rm rot}$, Math. Ann., 288 (1990), 245–262. doi: 10.1007/BF01444533. Google Scholar
R. Griesinger, The boundary value problem ${\rm rot}\, u = f, \; u$ vanishing at the boundary and the related decompositions of $L^q$ and $H^{1, q}_0$: Existence, Ann. Univ. Ferrara Sez. VII (N. S.), 36 (1990), 15–43 (1991), URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02837204. Google Scholar
H. Helmholtz, Ueber die Theorie der Elektrodynamik. Zweite Abhandlung. Kritisches, J. Reine Angew. Math., 75 (1873), 35–66. doi: 10.1515/crll.1873.75.35. Google Scholar
H. Koch, Transport and instability for perfect fluids, Math. Ann., 323 (2002), 491–523. doi: 10.1007/s002080200312. Google Scholar
A. Korn, Über Minimalflächen, Deren Randkurven Wenig Von Ebenen Kurven Abweichen, Preuss Akad Wiss., 1909. Google Scholar
H. Kozono and T. Yanagisawa, $L^r$-variational inequality for vector fields and the HelmholtzWeyl decomposition in bounded domains, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 58 (2009), 1853–1920. doi: 10.1512/iumj.2009.58.3605. Google Scholar
S. L. Sobolev, On a theorem of functional analysis, Mat. Sbornik, English Transl. : Amer. Math. Soc. Transl., 34 (1963), 39–68. Google Scholar
S. L. Sobolev, Introduction to the Theory of Cubature Formulae, Nauka, 1974, (Russian). Google Scholar
W. von Wahl, On necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the equations ${\rm rot}\, u = γ$ and ${\rm div}\, u = \epsilon$ with u vanishing on the boundary, in The Navier-Stokes equations (Oberwolfach, 1988), vol. 1431 of Lecture Notes in Math., Springer, Berlin, 1990, 152–157. doi: 10.1007/BFb0086065. Google Scholar
H. Weyl, The method of orthogonal projection in potential theory, Duke Math. J., 7 (1940), 411–444. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-40-00725-6. Google Scholar
J. R. Ward. Periodic solutions of first order systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (1) : 381-389. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.381
Cédric M. Campos, Elisa Guzmán, Juan Carlos Marrero. Classical field theories of first order and Lagrangian submanifolds of premultisymplectic manifolds. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2012, 4 (1) : 1-26. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2012.4.1
Chungen Liu, Xiaofei Zhang. Subharmonic solutions and minimal periodic solutions of first-order Hamiltonian systems with anisotropic growth. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (3) : 1559-1574. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017064
Lars Olsen. First return times: multifractal spectra and divergence points. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2004, 10 (3) : 635-656. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.635
Juhi Jang, Ning Jiang. Acoustic limit of the Boltzmann equation: Classical solutions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2009, 25 (3) : 869-882. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.25.869
Hongjun Yu. Global classical solutions to the Boltzmann equation with external force. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2009, 8 (5) : 1647-1668. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2009.8.1647
Tatsien Li (Daqian Li). Global exact boundary controllability for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2010, 14 (4) : 1419-1432. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2010.14.1419
Xiangjin Xu. Sub-harmonics of first order Hamiltonian systems and their asymptotic behaviors. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2003, 3 (4) : 643-654. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2003.3.643
Juntao Sun, Jifeng Chu, Zhaosheng Feng. Homoclinic orbits for first order periodic Hamiltonian systems with spectrum point zero. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (8) : 3807-3824. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.3807
Nicolás Borda, Javier Fernández, Sergio Grillo. Discrete second order constrained Lagrangian systems: First results. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2013, 5 (4) : 381-397. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2013.5.381
Cyril Joel Batkam. Homoclinic orbits of first-order superquadratic Hamiltonian systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2014, 34 (9) : 3353-3369. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.3353
Kaili Zhuang, Tatsien Li, Bopeng Rao. Exact controllability for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with internal controls. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (2) : 1105-1124. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.1105
Bin Wang, Arieh Iserles. Dirichlet series for dynamical systems of first-order ordinary differential equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2014, 19 (1) : 281-298. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.281
Ahmed Y. Abdallah. Attractors for first order lattice systems with almost periodic nonlinear part. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2020, 25 (4) : 1241-1255. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019218
Ansgar Jüngel, Ingrid Violet. First-order entropies for the Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2007, 8 (4) : 861-877. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.8.861
Gang Meng. The optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the fourth order equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (12) : 6369-6382. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017276
Marie-Françoise Bidaut-Véron, Marta García-Huidobro, Cecilia Yarur. Large solutions of elliptic systems of second order and applications to the biharmonic equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (2) : 411-432. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.411
Gábor Kiss, Bernd Krauskopf. Stability implications of delay distribution for first-order and second-order systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2010, 13 (2) : 327-345. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.327
Raphaël Danchin, Piotr B. Mucha. Divergence. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2013, 6 (5) : 1163-1172. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.1163
M. S. Bruzón, M. L. Gandarias, J. C. Camacho. Classical and nonclassical symmetries and exact solutions for a generalized Benjamin equation. Conference Publications, 2015, 2015 (special) : 151-158. doi: 10.3934/proc.2015.0151
Luigi C. Berselli Placido Longo
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2106
|
__label__cc
| 0.732062
| 0.267938
|
WoBistDude
What have you been up to?
Creator Map
Interview: Cold Weather Company
Posted by sitecontributor on 11 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2019
Cold Weather Company is a New Jersey Based, Alternative- Folk band which just released its new album “Find Light”.
More information about the band can be found HERE
0:00 – Intro
0:20 – New Album, theme of working through internal conflict
2:45 – Balancing a diverse range of interests between band
5:27 – Expressing personal issues through music
8:44 – Love for the New Brunswick music scene (New Jersey)
9:45 – Touring in a school bus
11:45 – If you were given the chance, who would you want to
collaborate with?
13:58 – How has the band grown since 2014?
17:00 – Where can we find your music?
Cold weather company accounts:
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Cold Weather Company: ‘Steadily building their artistic style and audience for the past five years, New Jersey-based alternative folk band Cold Weather Company carries a diverse sound, rich with harmonies and instrumental builds. The band combines the various writing approaches and influences of its three members, Brian Curry, Jeff Petescia, and Steve Shimchick, to create unique arrangements and intricate layering. Their third full-length album, “Find Light,” was released on January 25th, 2019 and expands mightily on their core of three voices, two guitars, and a piano.’
artist interviewband interviewcold weather companyfolk musicfolk rockindie musicindie rockinterviewmusician interviewNew BrunswickNew Jersey MusicNew Jersey Musicianswobistdude
Previous Post #HomeSlice
Next Post Miriam on Interracial Dating, Anxiety and Hugging Trees – (WBDP 3)
Not Your Mother's Pork Belly
An Interview with Health Us Nepal
3rd Culture Kids, Burn Out & Sustainable Fashion|ft. Mandy Ho (WBDP 15)
Earthoholics | Interview with Smita Shirodkar
Interview w/ Alexander Watson of Open Forests
© Michael Du and Wobistdude, 2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Wobistdude with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Mike is originally from New Jersey but is now living in Germany. He is a fan of cooking/ eating, mma, denim button downs, movies, outdoor activities, sustainable entrepreneurship, singing in the shower and pulp in his OJ. Along with the help of a few friends, he created this website for your personal enjoyment.
Mike contributed:Ten Lil Tings About Taipei, Marsala & Ramen, A Tribute to Anthony Bourdain, Why You Should Get Your Ass Kicked
Bobby: “Having lived in New Jersey, Georgia, California, and Ireland, all in the past decade, I’m not really sure where I’m from anymore. What I do know is that I love music more than anything, movies after that, and I pretend to read more books than I actually do. Currently working in Sales for the tech company: Asana. You can usually find me watching trashy 90’s Japanese Gangster Films, listening to Thee Oh Sees on repeat, or drinking a pint around Dublin.”
Bobby Contributed: The State That I’m In, The Mystery Matinee, Cooling Tower
Chelsea is a graduate school student studying Sustainable Resource Management in Freising, Germany. She grew up with her father in the military, so she isn’t sure where she’s from and either says California or Missouri, occasionally Maine, depending on the person asking. When she isn’t working on finishing her degree she’s is hanging out with her very excitable dog, outside running, in the gym, babysitting, or cooking (vegan) food.
Chelsea Contributed:The Best Buffet in the World, Running Into Myself
Jason is an adventure lover from Bayonne, New Jersey. He is currently teaching English and living in Hanoi, Vietnam. He loves writing, riding motorbikes, backpacking, trying new foods and experiences. Jason writes in another blog called Definitely Not Missing.
Jason contributed: Choose Your Life
Ibby is a New Jersey entrepreneur in charge of the clothing company/ non-profit Ambitious Heights. He lives for fashion, hip-hop and the Denver Broncos. When he is not working you can find him chillin with friends and listening to music.
Ibby contributed: Interview: Ambitious Heights
Carl: “I spend my days writing code as a software developer in New Jersey, but every other moment I’m awake now is spent obsessing over trying to reach out to more people and raise awareness about issues I think need more visibility. I want to use my time and energy to give a voice to those that don’t have one. Why? Because I realize that all the opportunities I have in my life exist because I was given an avenue for success. I really believe that social media can be used as a tool to help so many. I believe that there is good in the world and we can spread it.”
You can find Carl’s Instagram @carlwearsprada
Carl Contributed: Culture, Travel & Human Connection, Finding Home
Franky is a young film maker and photographer from New Jersey who is currently living in Los Angeles. He is currently working as a production assistant for a show called “YOU” and another pilot called “God Friended Me“. When he isn’t working on films Franky is watching them and traveling.
Franky contributed: Interview: Franky Aguilar
Orrin
Orrin: is a med school student who is currently grinding it out on his arduous journey to become a doctor. When he isn’t hittin the books he enjoys cupcakes, chilling with friends, snowboarding and the company for a friendly kitty cat. Orrin is currently studying in Grenada but you can find him stateside in the near future.
Orrin contributed: Spice Island
Chris Bellizzi
Chris Bellizzi is a photographer, filmmaker, and survival-based cocktail craftsman. A perpetual fan of road trips and window seats, he recently embarked on a nine-month journey across thirteen countries capturing an episodic documentary on candid cultural perception. Back now in the great state of New Jersey editing this project, Chris is looking forward to making new connections and finding new perspectives to keep the creative juices flowing.
Chris Contributed: Steve Colombero Talks Food and Hospitality, Culture, Travel & Human Connection
Massimo is a recent graduate of Rutgers of University and a Fulbright Scholar for the English Teaching Assistantship in the Slovak Republic starting in September 2018. I am originally from New Jersey with deep family connections to Italy.
Massimo Contributed: Understanding What Happened Here, Why I Hate my Best Friend?
Aneesh
Aneesh: “For me ‘it’s all about myself’, but not in the self-centered way that this phrase is generally interpreted. I am in the pursuit of perfection, to develop myself beyond just the physical, and into the realms of the metaphysical. The word ‘spirituality’ is used quite a bit as a cliché, but beyond that, the depth of what it actually stands for, what the word ‘aum’ and its symbol ‘ॐ’ stand for, is where it all begins to take shape in understanding the cosmos and our significant insignificance in it. Hence, my writing is based on my experiences, thoughts, wishes, emotions, and most importantly my view from the audience, as the world takes stage.”
Aneesh Contributed: The Canvas of Life, A Song of Senses
Grishma
Grishma is a young Indian girl living in Germany, who is studying sustainability. She is an engineer, a full-time pop-culture enthusiast, part-time fitness enthusiast and a first-time blogger!
Grishma Contributed: It’s a festival… It’s a Bollywood movie… It’s an Indian wedding!
Jeny loves running, the ocean, hard cider and a good conversation. She grew up near Princeton NJ, has lived all over New Jersey and recently moved from Baltimore to the city of Philadelphia. Jeny also works in human resources and recruiting.
Jeny Contributed: Jeny vs The Boston Marathon
Diego -“Hallo with all! I am Diego, I am born and raised in Peru. I had the chance to do my B.Sc. in Australia and afterwards I returned to Peru to work in the wonderful Amazonian forest. I have been the last three years working in Peru until a foundation in Germany accepted to give me a full scholarship to start my master program in Munich. Currently I work in Rome, and I expected to remain here until the end of the year.”
Diego Contributed: An Idea, That Was All We Needed
Katie is a 26 year old living in New Jersey who is currently pursuing a career in Law Enforcement. She is a muay thai enthusiast and has trained for about 7 years now and competes on an amateur level. In her free time she enjoys traveling, movies, and hiking with her puppy.
Katie Contributed: Knuckles, Knees and Community
Bella – “My name is Isabella Sehringer, I am an American-Argentine media producer based out of New Jersey. I enjoy creating pieces related to identity, culture, and community building. I use film to inspire people, change normality, and encourage society to evolve. My work with Artifax Digital, however, is a whole different monster.”
Bella Contributed: Bella Talks: Blockchain Media, Latina Film-making, Goal Driven Spirit Sloths
Evan McIntyre
“I’m Evan McIntyre. I was born & raised in Central Jersey and I currently work at Forge Apollo – a video content agency outside of Philadelphia. I’ve always had a passion for storytelling through video & music and I’m stoked to be able to do both professionally. I’m a part of the band Torn Boots and I’m thankful for every day that I get to create with those dudes.”
Evan Contributed: The Pursuit
Lakim
“Aside from being an Industrial Engineer from Queens, NY and working in the Aerospace industry, Lakim is one of the few people I instantly became friends with upon meeting. When he takes a break from being handsome (never) he’s weight training (often) and traveling the world. Lakim is a walking hallmark card full of golden quotes about life philosophy—he’s the kind of guy you’d want your son to grow up to be.” – Michael
Lakim contributed: Lakim leads inner city students to STEM Field
Jacqueline Koppa
Jacqueline Koppa is a woman of many trades. A psychology graduate of the College of Charleston; she works as a therapist for children with autism as well as the Director of Public Relations for the lifestyle brand ELYSIIAN. Connect with her on LinkedIn!
Jacqueline Contributed: Fear
“ I recently left Boston after going to BU and working for 3 years. I am now looking to move to New York City and work there. I produce music under the name Channels” – Jesse
Jesse Contributed: Jesse Chan: a young musician’s production story
Arianne is a French Canadian girl currently doing her master at the Technical University of Munich. She speaks French, English and is currently learning German. She likes traveling, equality, sarcasm, shopping, real conversations, good food, self-awareness and generosity.
Arianne Contributed: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
Matt Wiltse
Matt Wiltse resides in Dallas, Texas where he acts as a Division Sales Manager for Sunoco LP and both manages/acquires accounts in the DFW area spanning all the way to Austin—one of Sunoco’s most challenging and profitable markets. Matt grew up in Montgomery, NJ before attending Villanova University on an athletic scholarship to play Division I soccer. Has remained a lifelong fan of the game; a die-hard Real Madrid supporter who can be found writing op-eds for Managing Madrid and occasionally co-hosting the MM podcast. As an additional interest, Matt has developed a passion for Real Estate Investing and personal finance. Though above all, Matt prioritizes family and loves spending time with girlfriend of four years and their puppy, Charlie-Bear. He can be found on the following platforms (twitter is primarily for soccer opinions): twitter, instagram , linkedin
Matt Contributed: Soccer in the Digital Age, Change is Inevitable, Embrace It!
“Born and raised in the German countryside, I developed an interest in all sorts of plants and animals very early. Consequently, I studied biology and I am now pursuing a Master’s degree in Sustainable Resource Management in Munich to make a positive impact on Earth. I am passionate about recycling, yoga and music. I am currently reading a book about the intelligence of octopuses – you should check it out!” – Miriam
Miriam Contributed: Podcast, Same, Same But Different
Sammi is a Brooklyn-based producer and comedy writer. She works for A+E Network’s digital in-house agency producing content for Snapchat and Facebook. When she isn’t working, she is curating Am I Write Ladies?, a quarterly show featuring women and gender non-conforming artists.
Sammi Contributed: Sneeze Louise
Steve Colombaro
“Growing up right next to the restaurant Mecca in NJ I was always intrigued with food and wine. We were always taught at a young age to do what you love. I love to eat and I love to drink, who doesn’t? With a day off here and there, I still find myself at restaurant eating, drinking and always learning. I’m an avid fan of the shore especially Asbury Park and cape May and always find my self 3 putting on a golf course.” — Steve Colombaro
Steve Contributed: Steve Colombero Talks Food and Hospitality
Justin Davey
Justin Davey is a self-taught filmmaker currently in San Francisco. He has a background in tech and politics. Check out Justin’s work.
Justin Contributed: Montana Divided: A Climate Change Story
” Hello, my name is Helen. I’m 29 and currently living in Berkeley, California. I recently completed my thesis in the Sustainable Resource Management master’s program at the Technical University of Munich. My main interest is wildlife management and habitat conservation.”
Helen Contributed: Monkeys and Hot Sauce
Marten is a business student from Berlin, Germany. He loves to discover different cultures, languages and sports.
Marten Contributed: From Berlin to Chongqing
Allie Dietzek
Allie Dietzek spent 10 years in customer experience innovation before founding reign_wala. She was born in New York, currently lives in India & NYC, and is an eternal student of the world.
Allie Contributed: May the Artisan Reign Supreme!
Jospeh lamb
Hi, I’m Jospeh lamb but you can Call me Joey! I live in Los Angeles where I just received my master in filmmaking. Right now my film is entering the film festival route where I hope it will get the right attention for me to fund my next project! A side from filmmaking I love hanging out with friends or chilling with my fat pit bull Rosie!
Joey Contributed: Coming Out: Overcoming Fear And A Directional Debut
Arielle Starkman
Arielle Starkman is a Special Education Teacher in Los Angeles. Originally from New Jersey, Arielle moved out west post college, in seek of year-round sunshine and palm trees. While in Los Angeles, she discovered her passion for urban education, and has taught in Title 1 schools for the past 7 years. Additionally, Arielle has also launched her own jewelry brand, spark+elle, and is an aerial yoga and fitness instructor in West Hollywood.
Arielle Contributed: Arielle Meets Education
Jeff is a sTEm maniac who empowers students and teachers to: wield potent culinary spells in the kitchen, program semi-autonomous robots to dance the Cha Cha, grow tomatoes of noble birth, track sea slugs and octopods in the wild, build electric speakers to bump Deadmaus….you know…the use!
Currently he is the Director of Training for the Nonprofit CA Math & Science Challenge which is dedicated to providing curriculum, teacher training, & ongoing professional development underserved communities who wish to create Early Learning Advantage™ robotics-based sTEm programs.
Jeff Contributed: California Math & Science Challenge
Priyanka: After a couple years working in sports media in New York, I started law school at Georgetown this past fall in hopes of working in sports and entertainment law upon graduation. I’ve been a lifelong TV and movie buff which led me to major in Communication at Wake Forest. Current obsessions include Amazon’s Homecoming, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, and perfecting the chocolate chip cookie.
Priyanka Contributed: Finding my Narrative
Eugenia lives and studies in Germany but she grew up in the colorful State of Oaxaca in Southern México. She comes from a very modest family of women entrepreneurs, and was always surrounded by a very rich culture, but also lots of poverty. Inspired by her family stories she has pursued a career in the fields of tourism and sustainability focusing in the role of women for development.
Eugenia Contributed: Eugenia in Action
Bolor Dorjderem
I’m Bolor Dorjderem and I’m 24 years old. I’m almost finished with a master’s program specializing in sustainability. I’ve Lived and studied in Russia, Germany, Mexico. Aside from studying, I am getting more into Youtube: I’m trying to reach more young people in Mongolia to share ideas about sustainability and climate science in a way that is easy-to-understand. At this moment I am trying to find my passion or focus since I love to try out so many different things. But no matter where, with whom, and on what job I will end up, will remain as a nomad girl from the vast and wild valleys of Mongolia.
Bolor has contributed: Travel and Study, Busy in Mexico
Azra is a creative writing Master’s student from Sydney. She’s spent the last couple years backpacking, but mostly getting lost because she can’t read a map. Catch her lying her way through a conversation about a T.V show she’s never seen, or suffocating under a pile of books she will find the time to read. She contributes to Junkee and Hostelworld. She also posts too many travel pics over on Instagram.
Azra Contributed: Our House is Falling Apart
Mischa is a young entrepreneur living outside of Munich, Germany. He is currently working on a plant-based, milk substitute. Mischa enjoys rock climbing, hiking and a variety of outdoor activities.
Mischa Contributed: Mischa’s Got Milk
James Boland
James Boland is a Student Physical Therapist studying at Temple University in Philadelphia to earn his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree (DPT). He believes that the profession of Physical Therapy will positively transform the nature of health care through exercise, education, and personalized plans of care (among others!). He firmly believes that impersonal care by health care providers and the “pharmaceutical culture” of health care today are detriments to a healthy society.
James Contributed: A New Fight For Physical Therapy
Stephen is a South African / British Engineer, passionate about new ideas and innovations. He enjoys any kind of adventure sports and the outdoors. Since 2016, he has been pursuing the goal to bring empty houses back into use, thus, bringing life back to communities, as the “empty house man”.
Stephen Contributed: Empty House Man
Sean Pollock
Sean Pollock is a multi-disciplinary writer, director, designer, and artist. Recent credits include: American Juggalo (Porterspace Residency/Vital Joint/The New Ohio) A Very…Scientology Pageant: In Concert (The Green Room 42 & 54Below), Laundryfest, The Bed Show, Super Short Site Specific Festival, Phantom of the Paradise (Secret Loft), Intimate Bar Plays, #serials (The Flea), I’m Smiling Because I’m Uncomfortable (NYC and Touring. Winner: “Outstanding Site-Specific Performance” San Diego Fringe 2018). Off-Broadway: Trump Rally (United Solo/Theatre Row). He currently serves as the Literary Associate for The Dirty Blondes and is a company member of Unattended Baggage. Training: Ithaca College, NTI, Directors Lab North, Directors Lab Chicago, Directors Lab West. www.seanpollock.net insta: @seanp_yo
Sean Contributed: American Juggalo
Nicholas is an HVAC tech, avid jiu jitsu practitioner, and a washed up folkstyle wrestler who is consistently pondering the nature of existence. He also plays video games and isn’t sure if he even likes them anymore. Storiesmydadmadeup.tumblr.com
Nicholas Contributed: This Polite and Sneaky Demon
Cold Weather Company
Cold Weather Company Contributed: Interview
Wade is a travel photographer turned grad student living in Munich. Having survived 5 years living out of a backpack, he now spends his time stressing out over his thesis and keeping geese from eating the world’s food supply
Wade Contributed: Monkeys, Scorpions, Chopsticks and Love
Brooke: Originally from the exotic land of corn and Lebron James, Brooke moved out of Ohio for the second time 6 months ago when she came to Amsterdam. When she’s not binging documentaries or vegan desserts (often at the same time) she loves to backpack and enjoy canalside coffees.
Jason grew up in New Jersey, went to college in Tennessee, and currently works in advertising in New York City. Outside of his passion for breakdancing and doing flips, Jason loves to travel and drag his girlfriend along his hiking trips. His most recent trip was to Tel Aviv, Israel, and he looks forward to exploring Italy next.”
Jason Contributed:From BreakDancing to Tricking, Jason’s Journey of Movement
Karen是個廚師，來自台灣。她熱衷於法式料理，在充滿壓力的廚房裡鍛鍊自己成為一個更厲害的廚師。現在她回到家族經營的餐廳學習管理，一切都必須重頭開始，但因為對餐飲的熱誠從不減少，使她能一直保持初衷走在餐飲業的道路上。
Karen is a chef from Taiwan . She is passionate in french cuisine and likes to spend most of her day in the kitchen.Recently,she went back to the restaurant of her family to help with management. Her passion towards the food industry has never stoped but grow stronger.
Karen Contributed: Karen’s Life in a Taiwanese Kitchen
“Hi. My name is Patrick Higgins and I am the founder and President of Team Beast. I created Team Beast to not only assist people get the technology and assistance they need to live a life they enjoy, but also inspire everyone to chase their dreams no matter the circumstances. I knew from a young age that I wanted to change people’s lives and mindsets but only recently did I feel like I could. Once I was sold into that idea, Team Beast took shape and now I just hope to make shit happen and change some lives. ”
Patrick has contributed: “TeamBeast”
André Bae
“Hi! My name is André Bae, I’m from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As my name, I am part Brazilian (mom) and part Korean (dad). Growing up in a city like Rio de Janeiro fueled my passion for the environment, reflected by my favorite sport (surfing) and career choice (oceanographer). Currently concluding my Masters in Energy Planning, focused on Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain in Brazil, and working in the O&G industry, where hopefully in a short future I’ll be able to merge both skills.”
André Bae has contributed: “The Millennial on an Oil Rig”
Ben is a 25 year-old student and writer based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel. His pieces have been published in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. To contact him, send an email to benrat93@gmail.com.
Ben has contributed: “Politics, Writing & Life in Tel Aviv”
Josi Reckling
Josi Reckling: I’m a 22 year old student from Dresden. I love traveling and currently I’m studying for a communications science bachelor at the Technical University of Dresden. I’m really open minded and I love talking – I talk quite a bit. I love playing volleyball also run press for BreakOut.
Radhika Dhingra
Radhika Dhingra – I’m pursuing my masters in environmental science from Germany. I’m keen on working in a developing country and creating an impact there. And thus, as soon as I got the opportunity, I decided to be back in India and work on my thesis here. I’m very much interested in Politics and so I’m just trying to figure out my ways to be a part of the political system and represent people and their problems.
Anum
Anum is an art and photography enthusiast based in Karachi, Pakistan.
Sarah is a multimedia journalist and storyteller based in Karachi, Pakistan.
SRM Talks
SRM Talks is an initiative from the students of the graduate programme “Sustainable Resource Management”, aimed at organising monthly talks under the motto “SRM talks challenges of the future”.
The topics of interest for this series gravitate around environmental issues and sustainable solutions such as nature conservation, green finance, renewable energy, waste management, etc.
Cecilia is a young biologist. She lives in Sweden where she is doing her PhD on wolf predation ecology. She spent part of the last 3 summers in the Norwegian tundra working as field assistant in a monitoring and conservation project on arctic foxes. She loves to film her adventures and tell stories about the animals she studies, from capuchin monkeys in Argentina, to arctic foxes in Norway and wolves in Sweden. When she is back home, in Rome, she sings, plays the accordion, and arranges little concerts with Sara, her best friend since childhood.
Anonymous: For our post titled “Caracas in Crisis” we conducted an interview with a young woman who chose to remain anonymous. She is a student living through the political turmoil that has drastically altered everyday life for the people of Venezuela.
Arianna Soldati
Arianna Soldati: is a Volcanologist and Science Communicator. Originally from Italy, she is currently based in Munich, Germany, but will happily go wherever her unusual career may bring her in the future. She only enjoys hiking “mountains” that have a crater on the top, and she will never tire to talk about them.
Alexander Watson
Alexander Watson: As a forest investment expert and a manager of several sustainable reforestation projects in Latin America and South East Asia, Alexander has a broad experience in implementing and promoting international forestry projects. To his academic merit, he holds a Bachelor in Forestry from the Technical University of Dresden in Germany and a Postgraduate Certificate in Social Banking and Social Finance from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
Morgan Randall
Morgan Randall: Morgan is an American data scientist working in a small town outside of Munich. He enjoys learning about the world through drawing the strangers around him with both his hands.
Health Us Nepal
Health Us Nepal:We are a small spanish NGO acting in Nepal. We provide health to Humla, the remotest and poorest region in Nepal. We can do that thanks to the heart of Marc, our doctor. He was adopted by a catalan family, and after he finished medicine studies, he decided to go back to his origins and start the project of his life.
Mandy Ho
Mandy Ho:Mandy is from Germany, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. A Third Culture Kid, she is currently living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but who knows how long it'll be until her next adventure. When she's not raising awareness about gender equality, climate crisis, and mental health, she loves to get out of her comfort zone and experience new things such as aerial and bungee dance classes and volunteering at TedX and hopefully the UEFA Euro 2020
Smita Shirodkar
Smita and Earthoholics:I am fascinated by the wonders of nature and find myself on this journey exploring beautiful minds, interesting cities, cultures and people.
I run a social enterprise in Mumbai, India named Earthoholics that helps people start their own kitchen gardens, provides training on urban farming and sustainable practices. Besides, I love to learn about different fields of study and currently pursuing Msc in Organic
WeBuilding
WeBuilding is a Berlin-based non-profit organization founded by an international group of architects, united by a common purpose: to help deprived communities through sustainable building projects. We serve as the support for the local NGOs, helping them to further develop their own projects. With our architectural background, we believe we can provide valuable technical expertise so that both the construction and the design can be done as efficiently as possible.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2109
|
__label__wiki
| 0.854882
| 0.854882
|
About Workplace Express
Express topics
More news - page 1739 of 1774
More shopfloor involvement in developing living wage claim
Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 8:50am
The process of deciding the shape of the ACTU's living wage claim will now involve the grassroots of the labour movement, after the Congress accepted an amendment from the floor.
Unions to begin call centre organising push
The ACTU and four unions are set to launch Call Central, a joint effort to organise the largely non-unionised call centre sector.
ACTU affiliation fees to rise more than 10%
ACTU Congress delegates have agreed to increase affiliation fees by more than 10% (excluding GST) in the 2001 calendar year, after three years without any increases.
ACTU launches Congress with call for delegates' rights
Monday, June 26, 2000, 2:09pm
In a reinforcement of its organising strategy, the ACTU has launched a charter of delegates' rights and called on affiliates to join a campaign to implement it through bargaining, award variations and legislative changes.
Non-union deal provides 8.6% over two years
Monday, June 26, 2000, 12:05am
The IRC has certified a non-union agreement for health fund HCF that provides 300 clerical and customer service employees a minimum pay increase of 8.6% over two years, with 6% of that paid upfront.
Inflation to leap ahead of wages: union leaders
Sunday, June 25, 2000, 11:33pm
Union leaders expect wage growth in both the enterprise bargaining sector and the whole economy to fall behind inflation by the end of this year, and for the situation to be sustained throughout 2001.
Security guard an employee, says full bench
An IRC full bench has ruled a security guard was an employee, after finding his employer exerted a great deal of control over him.
BHP workers say no again to collective offer
Friday, June 23, 2000, 7:58pm
A mass meeting at BHP's Port Hedland site in the Pilbara today has, as anticipated, again rejected the company's collective offer and a further meeting in Newman this afternoon is expected to yield the same result, putting the focus of the individual contracts dispute back on the Federal Court trial.
CPSU set to back tax deal
The threat of industrial action in the tax office coinciding with the introduction of the GST looks like being averted, with the CPSU forced to back away from its earlier position of rejecting the department's bargaining offer.
Freight drivers peg back safety net increases, while GST trouble continues
Thousands of freight drivers on award rates whose living wage increase was delayed last year will not have to wait a full 12 months before receiving this year's rise, following an IRC full bench decision.
Page 1739 of 1774 | Total articles: 17734
Go to page.. 1 18 35 52 69 86 103 120 137 154 171 188 205 222 239 256 273 290 307 324 341 358 375 392 409 426 443 460 477 494 511 528 545 562 579 596 613 630 647 664 681 698 715 732 749 766 783 800 817 834 851 868 885 902 919 936 953 970 987 1004 1021 1038 1055 1072 1089 1106 1123 1140 1157 1174 1191 1208 1225 1242 1259 1276 1293 1310 1327 1344 1361 1378 1395 1412 1429 1446 1463 1480 1497 1514 1531 1548 1565 1582 1599 1616 1633 1650 1667 1684 1701 1718 1735 1752 1769
Jurisdiction 16 NEW
Legal 16 NEW
Compliance 3 NEW
Termination of employment 3 NEW
Discrimination and equity 1 NEW
General protections and adverse action 1 NEW
Agreements and bargaining 6 NEW
Awards 2 NEW
Individual contracts
Industrial action/disputes 2 NEW
Registered organisations 4 NEW
Royal commissions, parliamentary inquiries, reviews
Pay and remuneration 3 NEW
Entitlements and standards 5 NEW
Working hours 1 NEW
Entry to workplaces
Workplace policy
Sector 8 NEW
Institutions, tribunals, courts 6 NEW
Federal workplace relations/IR ministers
Other 2 NEW
Latest News 17 NEW
HR Stream 3 NEW
Hot topics 2 NEW
Industrial Officer
Industrial Officer (Full Time)
Organiser Member Support Role (FT or PT, 4 days)
Wages & Modern Award Specialist
Umpire considering fast food deal opposed by renegade union
FWC refuses to backdate axing of McDonald's deal
FWC halts campaign of "coordinated" sickies
Court closes AWU official's reprisal case
Tensions rise between rival Workpac class actions
Slow FWC payment system blamed for late lodgement
Bench declines to trim hairdressers' penalty rates
Suspending action won't hasten new deal: FWC
"Assumptions" undermine deed duress claim
Costs against worker who claimed s-xual harassment
Constable's bullying claim against officer colleagues to proceed
Colleagues asked whether I was a prostitute, claims lawyer
Complainant rails against bid to stop "excessive communications"
Health risk cited as FWC issues "no yelling" anti-bullying orders
IR/HR jobs
Sign up to Workplace Express
Copyright © Workplace Express 2020. Workplace Express is a Specialist News Pty Ltd publication - ABN 33 093 580 413.
Associate publications - OHS Alert, Sponsorship News and Footprint
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2113
|
__label__wiki
| 0.888257
| 0.888257
|
Mexico’s Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs?
By Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2Aug. 30, 2011
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and his wife Margarita Zavala attend a ceremony outside the Casino Royale after a deadly assault, in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday Aug. 26, 2011. (Photo: Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP)
The central statistic of Mexico’s violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm us anymore. But what happened last Thursday, Aug. 25, in the northern business capital of Monterrey – 52 innocent people massacred after gangsters set fire to a casino, presumably in a drug-cartel extortion operation – left even President Felipe Calderón sounding distressed. So agitated, in fact, that drug-war analysts believe Calderón, in his speech the next day, signaled a change in philosophy and told the U.S. to think about legalizing drugs as a way of weakening vicious drug traffickers.
As Calderón often does during the lowest moments of the drug war – a conflict he intensified after taking office in 2006 by throwing his military at Mexico’s power drug mafias – he railed on Friday at the U.S. for its “insatiable” drug consumption and its refusal to ban the sale of assault weapons that too often get smuggled south of the border. But it was this part of his speech, which suggests Washington should pursue “market alternatives” in order to diminish the drug cartels’ $30 billion annual revenues, that has sparked speculation:
If [the Americans] are determined and resigned to consume drugs, then they should seek market alternatives in order to cancel the criminals’ stratospheric profits, or establish clear points of access [to drugs]. But this situation can’t go on.
The big question is whether “market alternatives” was Calderón code for drug legalization, at least the legalization of less harmful drugs like marijuana. Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the non-profit Drug Policy Alliance in New York, which calls for drug-policy reforms like legalization in part to help reduce drug crime, thinks Calderón was “saying the L word without actually using it. He was clearly putting a toe in the drug-legalization water.” Calderón’s military strategy has largely failed, Nadelmann argues, “so after last week he’s looking around and he realizes he’s got to get the U.S. to do something different regarding long-term strategies.” In Mexico, respected political analyst Sergio Sarmiento, in his column Jaque Mate (Checkmate), also asserted that “market alternatives” was “a way of referring to legalization.”
See “Four Decades Later, It’s Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War”
Even though Mexico in 2009 decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, the conservative Calderón has long opposed efforts like last year’s California ballot measure that would have legalized the sale and possession of small amounts of marijuana. (The measure failed.) But could the Monterrey casino massacre have been a breaking point that moved Calderón to at least be more open to legalization? If the U.S. refuses to reinstate its ban on assault weapons, he may reason, then perhaps it could help dry up the money the Mexican cartels use to buy those guns. And most drug-interdiction experts agree that if the U.S. were to legalize marijuana, it could deprive the cartels of up to half their “stratospheric” income.
Other factors could be persuading Calderón as well. One is the decidedly shifting attitude in Mexico, where Calderón’s two predecessors, former Presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox, have unequivocally come out for legalization. Another is this year’s conclusion by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a group that includes former Latin American heads of state like Zedillo, that a half-century of conventional drug-war interdiction has failed. Yet another, Nadelmann notes, is that Calderón is a disciple of orthodox free-marketeers like Milton Friedman, who is also a legalization proponent.
So if Calderón, one of Washington’s staunchest drug-war allies, really is moving toward support for legalization, where does that leave the U.S.? To its credit, the Obama Administration has acknowledged the large role that gringo drug consumption and guns play in Mexico’s tragedy. But while President Obama said this year that legalization is “an entirely legitimate topic for debate,” his Office of National Drug Control Policy dismissed the Global Commission’s recommendation to legalize marijuana. Now, if even Calderón is doing an about-face, the Administration may find itself with more leeway – or feel more pressure – to at least explore the issue.
But even if the U.S. eventually does legalize marijuana, that wouldn’t absolve Mexico of its own obligation to create modern police and judicial institutions for once. Even if the gangsters suddenly found their drug income vanishing, Mexico’s rule-of-law vacuum would still encourage them to terrorize the country through other criminal activities like kidnapping and extortion. In his Friday speech, Calderón also went after his nation’s Congress for moving too slowly on the judicial reforms that are Mexico’s only real long-term escape from their narco-tragedy. With 15 months left in his term (under Mexican law he cannot run for another), Calderón is struggling to secure a more positive legacy – and that may well include a shift in thinking that Washington itself needs to consider.
See “Mourning Monterrey: Drug Mafias Darken Mexico’s ‘Lighthouse'”
Tim Padgett @TimPadgett2
Padgett is a Miami-based journalist and TIME contributor
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2115
|
__label__wiki
| 0.842813
| 0.842813
|
Hope and Tension Both Run High as Zimbabwe Heads to the Polls
The iron-fisted Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for more than three decades. But as millions lined up to vote Wednesday, the authoritarian president has vowed to step down if he loses
JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / AFP / Getty Images
Voters in Epworth township queue to vote at a polling station during presidential elections in Zimbabwe on July 31, 2013.
The iron-fisted Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 33-year-strong president, is facing a familiar challenge at the ballot box. For the third time, prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai will attempt to take control from the authoritarian regime. But following on the heels of 2008’s bloody elections, Mugabe has vowed to step down if his Zanu-PF party loses. Critics remain skeptical about a free and fair election, but that didn’t stop millions from turning out to vote.
More Photography from Time
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest Israeli Draft Law
Brazil Kicks Off Carnival In A Blaze of Color
Venezuela’s Protests Against Maduro Government Continue
Crisis in Crimea: Unrest in Ukraine’s Russian Stronghold
How to Save Elephants
China’s Apocalyptic Hellscape
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2116
|
__label__wiki
| 0.603967
| 0.603967
|
USA 1-4 Brazil: Klinsmann delivers a new low for his USMNT [VIDEO]
Matt Lichtenstadter September 9, 2015 US, US National Team 1 Comment
If it seems like many soccer writers in this country have been recycling the same game recaps, features and columns about the US Men’s National Team recently, your eyes are not deceiving you. After another harrowing performance against a team of pedigree in the international game, there are more questions than answers going into one of the most important games in recent US Soccer history.
Many of these stories end up echoing similar themes and story arcs: Jurgen Klinsmann trots out a lineup where players with established strengths are put in positions where they cannot succeed (i.e. “testing their limits”), and it ends up backfiring for the German, in many cases catastrophically. Against Brazil, putting Alejandro Bedoya and Jermaine Jones together again in central midfield was a disaster. It didn’t work against Peru, but Ricardo Gareca’s men didn’t do almost anything with the ball to punish the broken midfield. Tonight however, Klinsmann’s experiment backfired so badly that Bedoya was substituted in the 36th minute.
Brazil was taking the US to the cleaners, and by the 60th minute the game was over and the US was humiliated. For argument’s sake, the back four seen tonight will in no way be anywhere near the back four that plays Mexico in October due to injuries and form over the next month. Still, there are no excuses for the basic errors that have cropped up again. The US conceded possession in midfield, let Brazil run the show with and without Danny Williams in the match, and it never looked like the US ever stuck even a toe in the door of the match.
Under Jurgen Klinsmann, the US has never been as bad as performances like this would indicate, nor have they been as good as wins in Italy, Mexico, Holland and Germany have indicated. The truth lies somewhere in the middle; a large grey area that has been left untapped and unexplored. Klinsmann has brought the pressure upon himself, proudly proclaiming that the team is making progress and needs to test itself against world powers, only to, in many instances, end up with egg on their face when it matters the most. Starting Geoff Cameron at fullback when he’s comfortable playing centerback at Stoke, then saying “we have other centerbacks we believe in” doesn’t help his case, among the host of other examples in the recent past.
He is also the manager that put the utmost of importance on qualifying for the Confederations Cup to earn that big match experience, as well as seeing success at youth level. The first 13 days of October will tell the soccer public plenty about the state of the game in this country. It is a crossroads, almost as it was the last time the US played Mexico at the Rose Bowl. But Klinsmann has no one to blame but himself for the pressure he’s now facing, although taking recent history into account, he probably will say everything is fine… just discount set pieces.
Pages 1 2
Matt Lichtenstadter
Smokey Bacon September 9, 2015
It’s gone from “I believe that we will win” to the Talking Heads’ “We’re on a road to nowhere” under Klinsmann. Nobody expected a win against Brazil but we got another terrible performance. Tactics, team selection all over the place again. One more month and it’s over, surely.
Azer on Where to find Liverpool vs. Man United on US TV and streaming
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2117
|
__label__wiki
| 0.931861
| 0.931861
|
From the MediaJor Vault: Rosario Dawson
Oscar winning director Danny Boyle earned his master status by never making the same film twice. In recent years, he’s been engaged by decidedly human tales with an edge of romance (“Slumdog Millionaire”) or harrowing survival (“127 Hours”). But what would audiences make of “Trance?” One word: Underrated.
Revisiting the moral grit that made “Shallow Grave” and “Trainspotting” two of his best films, “Trance” emerged as its own entity. An unforgettable, old school psychological thriller that is beautifully sleek and modern, “Trance,” at least to me solidified Boyle’s position as a filmmaker of great muscle and nerve. And, if any actor was born to be part of a Boyle Ensemble, it is the fearless Rosario Dawson.
While Dawson has been firing up the Marvel Cinematic Universe of late as Claire Temple in the Netflix series “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and the new “Luke Cage,” the bigger heat has been reserved for this year’s presidential election. A fervent supporter of Bernie Sanders, Dawson has garnered headlines for her commitment to Sanders’s “party of the people” agenda during the DNC. Earlier this year, she was among the protesters arrested in April during Democracy Spring in Washington, D.C. It is exactly this fervent desire for change and to continue the conversation of creating a civil and honest society that makes Dawson one of my favorite people to interview.
Whether it was on the set of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” in Vancouver or in a hotel ballroom in Santa Monica for “Unstoppable,” she has never wavered in terms of her candor, sense of humor, authenticity or grace. In this edition of “From the MediaJor Vault,” Dawson proved “entrancing” when she spoke about her role in the film during this interview from March, 2013 in Los Angeles.
(Interview produced by Jorge Carreon and edited by Sara Gordon Hilton.)
By iamjorgecarreónin 2013, 20th Century Fox, Actors, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, California, Celebrities, Change, Culture, Directors, Entertainment, Feature Story, Filmmakers, Films, Hollywood, Interviews, Latino, Latinos, Los Angeles, Media, MediaJor, Online, Politics, Pop Culture, Rosario Dawson, Uncategorized, Videos, YouTube September 5, 2016 September 5, 2016 314 WordsLeave a comment
From the MediaJor Vault: Sarah Paulson
The groundbreaking vision of AMERICAN HORROR STORY may not be to everyone’s taste, nor has it remained consistent. But AHS has its legion of fans for very specific reasons and that loyalty was cemented with its dark and unsettling second season, “Asylum.”
No one can deny that AHS features one of the strongest ensemble casts assembled for any screen — silver or otherwise. With careful precision, filmmaker and television powerhouse Ryan Murphy (“Glee,” “American Crime Story”) gathered a cast of players that not only committed themselves to the challenging, genre-driven material at hand, they elevated it to vertiginous heights. Next to the legendary Jessica Lange, no other AHS player proved themselves as fearless than Sarah Paulson.
As intrepid reporter Lana Winters in “Asylum,” Paulson brought a humanity and soul to the often soul crushing abuse she endures at the infamous Briarcliff asylum. What made Winters such an unforgettable character was Murphy and the series writers never allowing her to become a horror victim stereotype. Winters always has a plan, keeping her wits about her no matter how dire the circumstances. She may look like Mary Richards, but she possesses an edge and a survivor’s mettle that makes her all the more unique.
The contrast between Paulson’s contribution to the first season of AHS, where she played a moony psychic, to her role as a lesbian journalist in “Asylum” is a testament to her versatility and strength. While she also went full witch mode for “Coven,” she hasn’t been put on such vivid display in the subsequent installments of AHS. But, no fan will ever forget her steely control in the “Asylum” finale, when the last act of Ms. Winters’s harrowing journey proved to be appropriately mindblowing, indeed.
Being part of the Ryan Murphy Players has been quite good for Paulson, nabbing two Emmy nominations this year alone for her work on “AHS: Hotel” and for her searing turn as attorney Marcia Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” The Emmy voters may need to be sent to an “asylum” if they don’t finally award Paulson with one of those darned statues already. In the meantime, take a look back and out what Paulson had to say to me in January 2013, right before the infamous series finale aired in this edition of “From the MediaJor Vault.”
UPDATE: Congratulations on your long-deserved Emmy win for your leading role on “ACS!” Ms. Paulson!
(Interview produced by Jorge Carreón; edited by Sara Gordon Hilton for The MediaJor Channel.)
By iamjorgecarreónin 2013, 20th Century Fox, Actors, American Horror Story, Asylum, Celebrities, Entertainment, Feature Story, Gay, Hollywood, Interviews, LGBT, Los Angeles, Media, MediaJor, Politics, Pop Culture, Sarah Paulson, Television, Uncategorized, Videos, Web Series, WordPress, Writers, Writing, YouTube August 12, 2016 September 19, 2016 425 WordsLeave a comment
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2121
|
__label__wiki
| 0.797554
| 0.797554
|
Django Unchained complete soundtrack list with movie references
From The Quentin Tarantino Archives
Revision as of 18:45, 25 December 2012 by Pete (talk | contribs)
Back to: Django Unchained | Django Unchained Soundtrack
Further reading: Django Unchained Movie References guide
Information on this page compiled by Federico Mancosu. This is a complete list of all music used in Django Unchained taken from the official production notes, with remarks on movie references.
Django Theme Song (English Version) - Luis Bacalov (vocals by Rocky Roberts), from the film Django
The 1966 spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci (aka the Other Sergio) was as influential as Leone's films in that it introduced an even more brutal and abstract style to the genre.
The Braying Mule - Ennio Morricone, from the film Two Mules for Sister Sara
Directed by American Don Siegel, this film was in effect a partial response to Leone's popular Italian Westerns. It even features the iconic music of Leone's composer Ennio Morricone. Like he did with The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Morricone used the sounds of an animal, this time a mule to evoke a certain tone.
Rito Finale - Ennio Morricone, from the film Violent City
1970 Charles Bronson polizio thriller.
Lo Chiamavano King (Main Titles Theme Song) - Luis Bacalov, from the film His Name Is King
A spaghetti western starring Richard Harrison.
Norme con Ironie - Ennio Morricone, from the film Violent City
Town of Silence (2nd Version) - Luis Bacalov, from the film Django
Gavotte - Arranged by Grace Collins
Freedom - Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton (original song for Django Unchained)
Town of Silence - Luis Bacalov, from the film Django
La Corsa (2nd Version) - Luis Bacalov, from the film Django
Requiem (Verdi) - Prologue - Masamichi Amano, from the film Battle Royale
Kinji Fuksaku's 2002 teen survival film.
I Got a Name - Jim Croce
This AM Gold classic was first featured in the 1973 moonshiner/car racing film The Last American Hero starring Jeff Bridges.
I Giorni dell’Ira - Riz Ortolani, from Day of Anger
A 1967 Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii.
The Big Risk - Ennio Morricone, from the film Hornets’ Nest
Minacciosamente Lontano - Ennio Morricone, from The Hellbenders
A Sergio Corbucci spaghetti western.
100 Black Coffins - Rick Ross (original song for Django Unchained)
Tracker's Chant - Ted Neeley, Bruce Landon Yauger
Nicaragua - Jerry Goldsmith, from the film Under Fire
Sister Sara’s Theme - Ennio Morricone, from the film Two Mules for Sister Sara
Ancora Qui - Ennio Morricone feat. vocals by Elisa Toffoli (original song for Django Unchained)
Blue Dark Waltz - Luis Bacalov, from the film Django
Fur Elise - Arranged by Ashley Toman
Unchained (The Payback/Untouchable) - James Brown and Tupac (mixed by Claudio Cueni) - (remix)
Freedom - Richie Havens
Ain’t No Grave (Black Opium Remix) - Johnny Cash
Who Did That To You? - John Legend (original song for Django Unchained)
Too Old To Die Young - Brother Dege
Un Monumento - Ennio Morricone, from the film The Hellbenders
Dopo la Congiura - Ennio Morricone, from the film The Hellbenders
Trinity Titoli - Franco Micalizzi, from the film They Call Me Trinity
1970 classic spaghetti western directed by Enzo Barboni starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.
Ode to Django (The D is Silent) – RZA (original song for Django Unchained)
Incorporates dialogue from “I Giorni dell’Ira” (Day of Anger), “Django” and “The Bounty Killer” (The Ugly Ones)
Retrieved from "http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php?title=Django_Unchained_complete_soundtrack_list_with_movie_references&oldid=21881"
© Please read our copyright disclaimers for intellectual property information (DMCA, §UrhR).
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2123
|
__label__cc
| 0.683948
| 0.316052
|
Places/Parking lot/USA
< Places | Parking lot
Revision as of 04:03, 11 August 2016 by Karlcr9911 (Talk | contribs)
1 Parking Lots
1.1 Area or Point
1.1.1 The Parking Lot Point Place
1.2.1 On-premise Parking
1.2.2 Underground Parking Lots
1.3 Creating and editing Parking Lot Areas
1.3.1 Drawing
1.3.2 Naming
1.3.3 Operator
1.3.4 Locking Standards
1.4 The Interface - More info
1.5 What does not qualify as a PLA?
1.5.1 Rental-car return
The Parking Lot Area (PLA) Place marks a well-defined area constructed for off-street public or private parking, including parking structures and garages as well as at-grade lots. The parking lot feature in the app will recommend parking lots to Wazers navigating to a nearby destination. Lots within ⅔ of a mile will be recommended based on a Wazers destination and as the feature matures, it'll recommend the 'most popular' lots that other Wazers have chosen when navigating to the same destination.
Area or Point
Parking lots can ONLY be added as an area as of August 1st, 2016 and only with the singular category of Parking Lot.
The Parking Lot Point Place
As of this writing, you can no longer add Parking Lots as a point place.
Existing point places should be evaluated for inclusion and either converted to an area if applicable or deleted to solve the Map Problem (MP) report.
At this time, parking lot areas (PLA) should not be added to businesses like gas stations or businesses with small parking lots (less than 10 spaces). This guidance may change in the future as further enhancements are made to the parking lot UI. Start by adding parking lots to event venues, shopping centers, airports, public use lots, garages, multi-use parking lots, etc.
Shopping Center PLA Example
For a mall or large shopping center, break the parking lot up into multiple lots, as shown in the image to the right (use your discretion or discuss with your State Manager(s) or RC for official guidance if necessary.)
For underground garages it is hard to know the exact polygon, so try to estimate it based on your knowledge of the place. The accuracy of the entry point (Setting the stop point) is very important.
If a lot is stacked (underground + surface), map it as one place covering the footprint of the parking lot / garage. Future UI enhancements may allow for better modeling of these lots.
If a lot has different entrances serving different levels of a multi-level garage and you cannot drive from one level to another to park, but rather the levels are served independently by different entrances, then they should be mapped as multiple places.
Care must be taken that stacked areas like this do not obscure each other. You do not want two areas with identical boundaries stacked on top of each other as it will be hard to notice or select the right one for editing in WME.
As with all Area Places, a Parking-Lot Area Place's geometry nodes should not be allowed to "snap" to adjacent road segments or junctions while being adjusted. Doing so can make the Area Place, as well as the adjacent segments or junctions, more difficult to modify.
On-premise Parking
It is important to create 2 separate places - one for the complex / place, and one for its designated parking lot.
Multiple parking lots for one premise: Create separate parking lots so the best parking lot can be recommended.
Valet parking - Valet is a service attribute of a place but is also an attribute for a parking lot.
Multi-level lots should be created as single place with the shape of the overall parking surface outlined.
Underground Parking Lots
Create a polygon surrounding the parking lot’s estimated perimeter (if you know its boundaries) and locate the entrance point in the original location.
If parking lots overlap with a Place, do not add "Parking Lot" category to a Place. Create a separate Area polygon for the parking lot.
Creating and editing Parking Lot Areas
Outline building footprint only
The Parking Lot Area (PLA) Place should never be attached/snapped to roads. Places snapped to roads are difficult to edit.
For planned parking features to be announced later, it's important that the shape of the polygon be drawn as close as possible to the actual shape of the parking lot, including the entry/exit location. Keeping in mind that for multi-level garages, only the footprint of the structure should be outlined.
Like all Places, Parking Lot Area Places should be named.
If a parking facility or area has a documented identity, such as "Beach Street Garage", "18th Avenue/Geary Lot", "Lot 7 - <Stadium name>", "Short-Term Parking - <Airport name>", "Cell Phone Lot - <Airport name>", etc., its Place should reflect that name to facilitate searches. Generic park-and-ride lots should be named consistently according to local custom, for example as "Park & Ride".
If a Parking-Lot Area Place is contained within a larger Area Place, do not repeat the larger Area's full name. For example, if the Domestic Garage is contained within the "SFO San Francisco International Airport" Area Place boundaries, it need not be named "SFO San Francisco International Airport Domestic Garage"; "SFO Domestic Garage" is sufficient.
In rare cases, a municipality or district provides public parking distinct from any other Area Place but without any documented or signed identity. These can be named after the municipality or district, for example, "Redwood City Public Parking". Do not use completely generic names such as "Parking" or "Public Parking" for anonymous parking facilities.
A block range or specific address can be used to name a lot if a more specific / official name does not exist. (e.g., 1201 Conti lot; 2400 block Washington St garage). Check your local guidance for any variations.
As with all Area Places, do not use mapping abbreviations for any part of a Parking-Lot Place name.
When there is a recognized parking operator, select it from the list, otherwise, leave this field blank. If an Operator is missing from the list that you feel should be added, please send the information to your Regional Coordinator (RC).
Locking Standards
Due to this major shift in editing guidelines, it is recommended that once a parking lot area (PLA) has been added, that it be locked to 3 to avoid newer editors, or those not familiar with the change, from editing or deleting the PLA.
The Interface - More info
WME User Interface - More info tab
Opening hours - Hours lot is open. Set open times for the lot or select each day and the All day radio button for lots open 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
Cars can exit when lot is closed - Check if the lot or garage does not restrict egress after the lot is considered closed.
Cost determination should be made based on parking lot fees for other similar and nearby lots for the same type of venue.
Example #1: Adding / editing parking lots near an airport; terminal parking may be the most expensive at $25/day, express parking the next level down (moderate) at $15/day and remote parking the next best option at $5/day (low).
Example #2: Hotel parking; on-site $50/day (expensive), self-parking garage at $30/day (moderate), and off-site parking at $15/day (low)
Each lot within approximately ⅔ mile (1 KM) radius should be taken into consideration for PLA cost determination where appropriate.
Services (select services listed below)
Reservations - Lot accepts reservations or accepts pre-paid parking passes or permits.
Disabilty parking - Spaces exist for handicap parking / wheelchair accessible spaces.
Car wash - A car wash is on premises within the parking lot (some airports and other venues have amenities such as this for those parking within the lot).
Security - On-site security for the specific lot exists
Number of Spots
List the most accurate number of spots within the specified parking lot area polygon.
A link to the specific parking lot or vendor's site (if applicable) is permissible here.
The phone number to the main venue to which the parking lot belongs or to the parking lot vendor is permissible here.
What does not qualify as a PLA?
On-street parking should not be added at this time.
Rental-car return
With the availability of the "Car Rental" Place, rental car facilities and returns, including at airports, should be marked with that Place category. If the return location is a normal parking lot, then mark it with the parking lot category and the building as a separate place with the Car Rental category.
Retrieved from "https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/index.php?title=Places/Parking_lot/USA&oldid=149466"
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2124
|
__label__cc
| 0.713342
| 0.286658
|
Posted on March 25, 2009 by Will Wilkinson
I Am a Dysonite II
Dyson has great affection for coal and for one big reason: It is so inexpensive that most of the world can afford it. “There’s a lot of truth to the statement Greens are people who never had to worry about their grocery bills,” he says. (“Many of these people are my friends,” he will also tell you.) To Dyson, “the move of the populations of China and India from poverty to middle-class prosperity should be the great historic achievement of the century. Without coal it cannot happen.” That said, Dyson sees coal as the interim kindling of progress. In “roughly 50 years,” he predicts, solar energy will become cheap and abundant, and “there are many good reasons for preferring it to coal.”
I predict the transition to cheap solar will happen faster than that, but I would defer to Dyson.
CategoriesClimate
33 Replies to “I Am a Dysonite II”
alphie says:
Coal is just stored solar power.
jrshipley says:
I heard your commentary this morning and was disappointed. Coal is cheaper when and only when it receives the following massive subsidy: free disposal of waste. I thought folks of your economical and political leanings were supposed to oppose subsidies. To be sure, there are more direct and better ways to remove this subsidy than cap-n-trade, but that's not what you argued. In any case, a massive subsidy that defers costs to future generations and yields a burst of cheap energy certainly will goose an emerging economy. That really shouldn't be a surprise. It's like deficit spending. Indeed, you're right Keynesian about this. Finally, worrying about one's grocery bills is as much an impediment to concern for and time to study physics as it is climatology. So what? Knowledge can be a luxury item. I'm still inclined to favor decisions by those that have knowledge over decisions by those that don't, and what needs to be done is to consider the how great the costs are that are being deferred here. Why should anyone care what people that don't have the luxury to study the relevant science or the luxury of looking past their next meal have to say about climate policy?Finally (this time I mean it), the suggestion that all environmentalists are anti-humanist is scurrilous. A primary source of concern is regarding the impact of climate change on populations least economically equipped to adapt. The concern is precisely that changing climate will make worse famine, drought, and with those disease and war. To ignore that concern while painting greens as anti-humanist is a pathetic straw man.
Paul_G_Brown says:
Freeman Dyson is a serious man with a serious mind, and you need to take his ideas seriously. Yet for every Freeman Dyson saying “it won't be that bad”, or “the Polar Bears will be fine”, or “Most of the time in history the Arctic has been free of ice” there are a thousand equally serious people with equally serious minds who've arrived at contradictory conclusions (and in the case of Arctic Sea Ice, dispute his facts). What makes it harder is that I think he's correct about some things. There is a strain of unexamined pantheism that runs through some 'deep green' thinking. Cheap energy is necessary to human betterment. But that said, it's important to keep in mind that Dyson's made a life-long commitment to an anti-nuclear position. I can't help but connect his recent thinking and writing (the NYRB Essay being case in point) to his distaste for that option. It seems to me Dyson's facing a classic moment of cognitive dissonance. He is obliged either to accept that a self-defining emotional commitment he's held all his adult life (“Mushroom cloud bad!”) might be misplaced, or else that burning hydrocarbons is OK … we'll muddle through … polar bears will be fine …. and so on ….This kind of pattern? We've seen it before. A very smart, eminent (and typically aged) minority of scientists protest a new idea, often doing a tremendous service in the process. “Action at a distance is unnatural!” objections to Newton, 19th Century geologists objections to Darwin's common descent, the EPR paradox. In their own way, these critics all helped. They took the new science seriously, and were guided by their instincts to construct critiques.They were all, of course, wrong.Dyson's wrong too. He's making Will's point – that we can't ignore the aspirations of the vast mass of humanity struggling to keep the lights on. But in the judgment of the overwhelming majority of scientists, he's staying willfully ignorant of the consequences of burning hydrocarbons to achieve that goal.
odograph says:
I'm sure you know Will, that your dear wife should stay away from certain types of seafood, because of their mercury content, that comes in increasing part from coal. Swordfish is the prime example.Are you aware that the “bad fish” list grows each year, and are you genuinely ok with that?I'm more an environmentalist of the Ducks Unlimited type than the Vegan type. I respect the later, but I still think one good reason to keep a good and healthy nature … is that it's good to be able to kill it and eat it.Actually, I believe the current carrying capacity by the earth of humans is very much reliant on there being fish fit to eat.
I think maybe I buried my lede there.Many Poor Countries Will Suffer as Climate Change Damages FisheriesIt's not just the climate change of course. There are other environmental pressures on fish populations, including simply over-fishing. What that paper should show though is how much the poor are dependent on “environmental services” like good fisheries.
So I think I might be with you on the trade sanction thing. But if one were chiefly concerned about providing cheap power for developing countries wouldn't an American cap 'n trade system or carbon tax be a good idea (as it would basically be subsidizing carbon-based energy sources for countries without a carbon regime)? Its not the most efficient way to redistribute wealth to the developing world but politically its easier than just about any method I can think of.
bottomofthe9th says:
I'm much less convinced about cheap solar. I analyze the power market, and wind is a helluva lot cheaper per MW, plus it has a far superior capacity factor (30ish percent, versus sub-20 for solar). No matter how much costs come down, you can't make the sun shine more.
Notadenialist says:
How can one be skeptical of solar power in the long run? The point was made earlier but all our power essentially comes from it. As I understand it only the rate of technological progress is in question when it comes to solar power. As for the biosphere we are wether we like or not very much a part of it. How confident are you in the short term vs. long term cost and benifits. Most of our wealth lies in coastal cities would the short term gain from burning coal merit the later cost of massive flooding? This certainly needs to enter the calculation.
Paul G. Brown says:
“How can one be skeptical of solar power in the long run? “Because: 1. For practical purposes, the earth's tilt and seasonal variation makes reliable power generation in China and over much of the northern parts of Europe and America problematic. 2. Because waiting 250 million years for today's algae blooms and swamps to turn into coal is not really an option I'm going to take seriously. We are burning 5,000 years worth of solar energy inefficiently trapped in oil & coal every day (Note: I've not done this math in detail, but back of the envelope has us taking 200 years to burn 500,000,000 years of oil & coal, and the math is taught in 4th grade.)Solar is useful for peak summer power generation – air conditioners. fridges, harvesters. Winter? Heating? Spring? Ammonia for fertilizer? Less obvious. How confident are you in the short term vs. long term cost and benifits[sic]?Utterly lacking in confidence. Which brings me to my ultimate quarrel with the broader thrust of libertarian thought. . . . There are too many of us. Already. Yet our biology is hard-wired to Make More People. Now! He/She Looks cute! Such “externalities” are real. Call them “lemming truths”. The evidence we can learn from biology suggests no marginal cost tinkering will overcome them. Just one more rut. One more litter. Lust is the ultimate animal spirit. The only way for a culture, and more broadly a species, to deal with these biological realities — fucking is fun and food is finite — is to impose collective limits. Want to phrase it another way? Guvment, our super-ego, must say “No!”, or lots of people die. At this point, I become uncharitable. Forgive me. Our benighted blog host has committed himself, his life, to ideas which hold individual humanity as the point and purpose of it all. I personally share his prejudices. But I'm not, in my immediate circumstances, wedded to his institution, to his collective. I can champion his ideals but not his tribe. This makes me more pragmatic. Doubtless, he would see that as a flaw.
uknowbetter says:
I just hope environmentalists will do the right thing.1. Don' t have children.2. Kill yourselves.You are asking others to sacrifice so lead by example.
I have to give the French credit. At least they didn't let stupid hippies stop them from building nuclear power plants.
Energy from the sun is so abundant. Materials science is advancing at quite a clip these days thanks to nano-technology. Solar is getting cheaper each year as we devise better cells for absorption, better storage technologies, and better ways to transit the energy. I expect some sizable breakthroughs in the next 3-5 years.
The 'massive flooding' is going to take awhile.I'm less concerned about what happens 50-100 years and beyond; I'm more concerned we don't kill each other long before that happens. Full-scale nuclear war, bio weapons, nano-tech, etc. pose more of a medium-term threat than climate change.
WilsonF says:
If there is one thing we have learned about regulation, is that it is not very good at achieving its ends. This is what Will's piece is all about, but it's going to be even worse in other countries, especially when we start putting pressure on developing countries to cut back more. Those programs are likely to be a real mess. Even if we reduce the pace of our greenhouse gas output, we will do so in far less than an efficient fashion. In doing so we will destroy a lot of wealth, and I worry that we'll find ourselves with the same problems but we'll be a whole lot poorer and thus less prepared to deal with them.
For 2 months of a year, in late spring/early summer – a hummungus high pressure system typically parks itself over the northern 1/2 of the Unites States and southern Canada. Let's hold that “typically” for a moment. Let's say it does it once every 10 years. Like El Nino. No power, or almost no electricity, for 2 months. Anyone want to bet their manufacturing business? Their internet server farm? On that basis?
jeppen says:
Wind and solar might optimistically give us 25% of a grid's electricity. These sources are unreliable and can't be integrated at higher percentages, and will probably always be too expensive. Thus, the only real alternative to coal is nuclear energy, but I guess this realization still is a few decades away in most countries, which is a pity b/c of coal's environmental impact.
If there's one thing I've learned from working in software, it's that what the customer wants and what they ask for can be completely different things.It's my opinion that these computer generated climate models that the alarmist love to tout are a result not of giving the customer what they asked for, but rather what they want.Politically motivated studies serve one purpose, and that is to justify policy.Handing politicians complete control over our energy supplies is giving them absolute power over our lives.
“Politically motivated studies serve one purpose, and that is to justify policy.”What to make of all the “scientific” research funded by the oil and coal companies.Whenever I see an anti-climate change scientist or pundit discussing the topic, I just assume they're getting a monthly check from Exxon.In such an overwhelming pro-climate change scientific environment, it sure pays to be a contrarian.
alphie, there is way more money to be made on the pro-side. Mainstream climate research gets billions of dollars and euros in funding. If I was a biologist, say, and I wanted to maximize my funding and get mentioned in the science pages of newspapers, I would make sure to somehow include evidence for climate change or its catastrophic consequences in my studies, even if I was studying squirrels' mating habits.
Dr Ray Stantz: Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*. If you're a talented scientist, maybe, H.If you're a hack, though, pro-dirty energy is the way to make money.
newshutz says:
Solar cells seem to be on the same curve as integrated circuits. (Moore's Law)At some point, the exponential growth will make electricity generation from solar cells be the most efficient.
“Kill yourselves.”If radical environmentalists killed themselves, then they couldn't spread knowledge and consciousness anymore. If I thought that killing all humans was best for the Earth, I would want to make sure that the last ones were environmentalists. You know, just to make sure that they wouldn't start multiplying and restart the cancer.
That's just a rationalization.Even they don't believe in their cause.
Whereas alphie is pro-magic-wand and waving it around to make magic things happen.
True, Uknow.The magical invisible hand.
This is total nonsense. Have you any idea how much government and foundation money there is for studies which support AGW? And how hard it is for sceptics to get funding from those sources.The idea that industry research $$, which lacks credibility, is somehow an incentive to tow the line is just silly.
Exxon & Co. freely admit they fund “scientists” who are willing to take the pro climate change position, Craig.Consider whether anyone would care what Freeman Dyson had to say if he'd come out against climate change?I don't think so.
/sighThe amount of solar energy that reaches the planet each day has some fixed upper bound. Combine this upper bound with weather, and seasonal variation, and it means you have enormous variability in how much energy will reach those panels. There is a notion, in power generation, of something called “baseline”, which is the amount of energy that can be generated 'reliably' (on a dark, cold, still, desert night).In midwinter, you get about 1/4 the upper bound dailly solar energy. Consequently you will need to over-provision by a factor of 8-10, relative to mid-summer needs.But when ideology trumps science ….
lyca says:
The difference between academic research and industry-funded research is that while a university may have a vague leftish bias, a corporation has an explicit bias in favor of staying in business. The counterpart to Exxon funding a climate skeptic would be, say, a solar-power company funding a scientist who believed in AGW. Not Princeton funding Michael Oppenheimer. A university does not have a direct conflict of interest with the outcome of the research in the way that an oil company does.
lyca, I think your point could use some refinement. University research is largely funded by government grants, and those grants go predominantly to those whose biases reflect those in charge of choosing what research will get funding. For example, try getting funding to study to medical value of illegal drugs in the university. The funding process is incredibly ideological. Second, corporations often help finance university research. Many of the world's largest corporations, such as GE, and many of the “oil” companies, are now heavily in the alternative energy business, and actively seeking subsidies. That “solar-power company funding a scientist who believed in AGW” may well be a company like Shell.
That's true. I guess I was oversimplifying. I hear enough about the grant process to know there's a fair amount of ideology going into it. And yes, there's overlap between the oil business and the alternative-energy business.I was making a rough sort of point. When you're not in a position to judge the merits of a piece of scientific research, you may still want to have some way to distinguish a reliable scientist from a hack. Peer review and affiliation with elite universities is the best way we know to pick out the reliable people. Academia, while definitely influenced by biases in government and business, has some structures in place to prevent fudging, and those structures are loosened in industry. (Not that there hasn't been great industry-funded research: information theory was invented at Bell Labs, and one of its major theorems was proven by the founder of Qualcomm.)If somebody thinks most university scholars are in a conspiracy against the truth, I'm inclined to call him a hack until proven otherwise. Science is, of course, not done by consensus. But a non-expert's best guess at the truth is to look at the scientific consensus, and I think that means academic scientists. It's sort of a way of managing ignorance.
forkthis says:
To me, the alternative to “lots of people die” is “lots of people are never born.” I guess I'd rather bet the chips on humanity figuring it out than let Malthusian academics pick who gets to breed and how often.I also question your facts. Many industrialized nations are experiencing flat or negative population growth. Take Japan for example:http://www.indexmundi.com/japan/population_grow…
Previous PostPrevious I Am a Dysonite
Next PostNext Dani Rodrik on Simon Johnson
@kellyrader Of course. 1 hour ago
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2127
|
__label__cc
| 0.721435
| 0.278565
|
Barbara Larson
Staying Safe in the Shadow of the Dark Web
Source: This article was published prweb.com - Contributed by Member: Barbara Larson
An NYC area IT consultant and MSP reviews the dangers of the dark web and how to stay safe online in a new article from eMazzanti Technologies.
The informative article first clarifies common misconceptions about the dark web then lists steps to protect personal data and business assets. Readers are urged to work with data security professionals to achieve the best results.
“Understanding the dark web is helpful in protecting valuable business data,”
stated Jennifer Mazzanti, CEO, eMazzanti Technologies. “Modern cyber-security technology and best practices are designed to keep sensitive information from falling into the hands of the bad actors lurking there.”
Dark Web vs. Deep Web
“Contrary to some reports, the dark web does not include over 90 percent of the internet. This common misconception arises from confusion between two related terms. In reality, the internet includes several layers.”
“Deep web – Also known as the invisible web, this is by far the largest layer of the internet, with over 90 percent of all internet content. The bulk of this information involves perfectly legal content that is not indexed by the standard search engines. Your medical records, banking information and other member-only websites live here.”
“Dark web – Sites on the dark web are accessible only with special software that allows users to communicate and transact business anonymously. While this creates a haven for criminals, it also serves a legitimate purpose for whistleblowers, activists, and victims who need to remain anonymous.”
Identity Theft and the Dark Web
“If the dark web includes only about three percent of the internet, do I need to be concerned? Yes. Remember Equifax and Target? Whenever a website experiences a data breach involving personally identifiable information, that information will almost certainly appear for sale on the dark web, likely within hours.”
Navigate the Web with Expert Guides
Business leaders should keep in mind that a breach of company systems means not only data loss but also potentially a loss of reputation. To guard critical data, employ multi-layer security. For merchants, if EMV chip technology not already been implemented for point of sale (POS) systems, they should do that now.
As with any potentially dangerous territory, the internet is a much safer place when working with an experienced guide. The experts at eMazzanti build strategies to keep personal and business data safe. Whether implementing secure cloud solutions or tapping into eMazzanti’s considerable retail security expertise, business leaders can count on getting the protection they need.
About eMazzanti Technologies
eMazzanti’s team of trained, certified IT experts rapidly deliver retail and payment technology, digital marketing services, cloud and mobile solutions, multi-site implementations, 24×7 outsourced network management, remote monitoring and support to increase productivity, data security and revenue growth for clients ranging from law firms to high-end global retailers.
eMazzanti has made the Inc. 5000 list eight years running, is a 2015, 2013 and 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year, 2016 NJ Business of the Year, 5X WatchGuard Partner of the Year and one of the TOP 200 U.S. Microsoft Partners! Contact: 1-866-362-9926, info(at)emazzanti.net or http://www.emazzanti.net Twitter: @emazzanti Facebook: Facebook.com/emazzantitechnologies.
Categorized in Deep Web
Using Search Engines to Find Information on the Web
Search engines on the World Wide Web are remotely accessible programs that let you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. There are several types of search engines and searches may cover titles of documents, URL's, headers, or full text. Keep in mind that the results you get from one search engine may not match the results you get from another search engine. In fact, they are often different due to the way each search engine behaves. Therefore, it may actually be beneficial to use more than one search engine on a regular basis.
In this section, we briefly look at Google and Yahoo!. Web pages are often dynamic and can change at any time. As a result, you may find that if either site changes, your experience with JAWS may be different than what is described here.
EXERCISE: Use the link below to go to the Google Website and follow along with the instructions.
When you first go to the Google Website there is a blinking cursor in an edit box where you can type the word or phrase that you are interested in.
Google Instant is a search enhancement that shows results as you type. It is designed to predict a person's search by updating the page and showing results while you type. It is a time-saving feature. However, because the page is changing as you type this can sometimes cause problems for screen reader users. You may find a link on the page that reads "Screen reader users, click here to turn off Google Instant." If you choose this link it makes your searches using a screen reader much easier.
To change your preferences for Google you can do the following:
Press INSERT+F7 to open the JAWS list of links.
Choose the link Options, and then press ENTER. A links submenu opens on the Google site.
Press DOWN ARROW to move to the link Search Settings, and then press ENTER.
Beneath the heading Google Instant predictions is an On/Off slider bar. At the time of this writing, it does not read well with JAWS. Press ENTER on it to go into forms mode.
Press DOWN ARROW on this slider bar to turn the feature off.
Press NUM PAD PLUS to get out of forms mode.
Press B to move to the Save button at the bottom of the page, and then activate it by pressing ENTER.
To begin searching, for users of JAWS prior to version 10.0, the first thing you need to do is press the ENTER key to go into Forms Mode with JAWS. Once you are in Forms Mode, you can then type in keywords that will define your search.
If you are using JAWS 10.0 or later, forms mode comes on automatically when you get to a Web page which has the focus set to a blinking cursor in an edit box. If for some reason forms mode does not come on automatically on your computer, you can also press ENTER to go into forms mode, or you can press INSERT+F5 to open the Select a Form Field dialog box for JAWS.
MAGic Tip: MAGic users, just click into any edit box and forms mode comes on automatically for you.
JAWS Tip: New since JAWS 10, JAWS users who use a mouse can also click into edit boxes and forms mode comes on automatically.
After you have typed in some text, press ENTER to activate the Search button.
Google only returns Web pages that contain all of the words in your query. If you find that you get too many "hits" or Web pages that match your search, you can enter more words in your search query to narrow the choices.
Using good keywords gives you better results. Be as specific as you can. For example, a search for the keyword "musicians" will yield far more results than a search for the keywords "Elvis Presley." You do not need to include "and" between terms, but the order in which you type your keywords will affect the search results. You can also search for a specific phrase by including words in quotation marks. Google searches are not case sensitive.
You can also use the following items within your keywords for Google searches:
- (minus) sign. Causes Google to exclude a word from your search. For example, "JAWS" can refer to a screen reading software or a famous movie. You can exclude many of the movie-related hits by searching for "JAWS -movie." (Be sure to include a space before the minus sign and no spaces between the minus sign and the word "movie.") Searches for JAWS with different conditions yielded the following results:
JAWS, about 50,600,000 hits
JAWS windows -movie, about 8,600,000 hits
"JAWS screen reader" (in quotes) about 62,000
As you narrow your search and use better keywords, you get more relevant results.
Putting a phrase into quotes tells Google to look for the exact words in that exact order.
You can search for something within a specific website by typing the word or phrase followed by site:FreedomScientific.com (where the dot-com changes to whatever site you are searching.
The I'm Feeling Lucky™ button takes you directly to the first Web page Google returned for your query. You will not see the other search results at all. For example, to find the home page for Stanford University, simply enter "Stanford" into the search box and choose the I'm Feeling Lucky™ button. Google takes you directly to www.stanford.edu, the official homepage of Stanford University.
Try typing different things such as names, phone numbers, and more to find people or things.
Try a search for Freedom Scientific. Use this link to go to the Google Web site. On the results page, there are a couple of things you can do to get more information about the results of the search:
The statistics of your search are typically placed between the search edit box and the search results. You can press DOWN ARROW a few times to find this line, or you can use the JAWS find command CTRL+F to look for the word "Results," and then read that line. For example, when testing this, the search found, "About 86,400,000 for freedom scientific. (0.22 seconds)." This can be useful if you need to narrow the search.
Google uses a "main" region to guide you to the search results. You can press R to move from one region to another.
The items found as a result of your search are placed on the page as both links and headings. You can press the navigation quick key H to move quickly among the headings that match your search. Since they are also links, you can press ENTER to activate them and move to those Web pages of interest.
Below each heading (and link) that match your search is a short synopsis of what that page is about. After pressing H to move to a heading (link), just press DOWN ARROW to read the text below it for more information.
Remember, you can also press SHIFT+H to move backward.
There is also a good structure to the headings. The heading level one on the page is the Google logo and link that will take you back to the main Google page. The search results begin to be listed after a heading level two. The matches found for the search are all level three headings.
EXERCISE: Google uses regions to make navigation easier. Explore them by pressing R to move from region to region, and then press DOWN ARROW to move into the next section.
You can also read through the search results page using normal reading keys or use INSERT+F7 to open the list of links and see what related links were found. Use the Move to Link button in the links list ALT+M) to move to a particular link and then down arrow through the associated text to find out if this might be what you are looking for.
In addition to the information displayed on the initial results page, there are often links to more pages of information that meet your search criteria. These pages are reached by activating the link for the number of the page. Usually, you will find links for additional pages 2 through 10 near the bottom of each page. Each page beyond the first page also contains a number of items that match your search.
NOTE: Look for a region called "content information" to move to these links quickly.
Google Search Tools
Google also provides easy-to-use search tools. For example:
"Weather Chicago" yields the current weather in Chicago
"25 kilometers in miles" convert kilometers to miles
"Define screen magnification" yields definitions for screen magnification
"Seafood restaurants 33716" yields restaurants that serve seafood in or near that zip code
NOTE: For both the Google Website and the Yahoo! Website discussed in the next section, be sure to check out the other links on their sites for Advanced Search, Help topics, and more.
Yahoo!.com
Yahoo! is another search engine that many people use. The main Yahoo! the page also has more information on it, such as sports and news headlines, entertainment links, and links to many other items. This tends to cause the page to appear more cluttered than the Google site but may prove itself useful to you as well. As with Google, when you first go to the Yahoo! Website there is a blinking cursor in an edit box.
For users of JAWS prior to version 10.0, the first thing you need to do is press the ENTER key to go into Forms Mode with JAWS. Once you are in Forms Mode, you can then type in keywords that will define your search.
MAGic Tip: MAGic users, just click into any edit box, and forms mode comes on automatically for you.
Yahoo! behaves very much the same way as Google and displays a list of hits of matching items. These are links to further resources, and each link here also has a text description taken from that source that matches your query.
After a Yahoo! results page loads, press the letter H to move to the different headings on the page. Below the heading Search Results, you find the main links that match your search. Each contains a short text synopsis below it and a link for a cached version. Since the headings are also links, pressing ENTER on one takes you to the Web page indicated. Beneath each heading/link is text that describes a little bit about that page. Press INSERT+F7 to use the list of links to explore the links, or you can also press TAB to move from one link to another.
NOTE: Yahoo now also uses regions on search results pages. Look for the "main" region to guide you directly to the search results area.
To find the number of matches, use the JAWS Find and look for the word "results" without the quotes. You should hear something like the following: "50,300,911 results."
Yahoo! also has links to other results pages, just as Google does. These links show as numbers 2 through 10 and are located near the bottom of the page.
Going Beyond the Search Engine Results Page
OK, so what happens when you choose one of the links you find on a search engine page? What strategies do you use to find the information you were initially searching for on the resulting page?
ANSWER: All of the strategies you learned in this series of Surf's Up lessons, including:
Use N to jump past a series of links to move to the next block of text that has at least 25 characters without a link.
Use the list of links (INSERT+F7) to look for links that begin with specific words.
Use the list of headings (INSERT+F6) to look for structure in the headings on a page.
Use the JAWS Find to search for words or phrases on a Web page.
Look for regions.
Use the Adjust JAWS Options list to change things as needed such as:
Stoppage refreshes
Search for attributes, acronyms, abbreviations, and more.
Use the Custom Label feature of JAWS to label unlabeled links or unlabeled form fields on pages that you visit often.
Source: This article was published freedomscientific.com
Categorized in Search Engine
How to Introduce Your Kids to Internet Ethics
Co-authored by Lakshmi, a Mobicip blogger who is just as passionately opinionated about the juxtaposition of technology, parenting, and education.
There are some basic ethical values that transcend the mélange of cultures and peoples sizzling in the melting pot of the Internet, and many of the maxims that define human society hold good, perhaps even more so, in the virtual world. “Thou shall not steal,” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and the mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru apes that see, hear and speak no evil are three specific truths apt to this environment.
“Thou shall not steal” is a much clearer concept in the real world than in the virtual world. This is obvious; the real world deals with physical objects. It is easy to teach a child that stealing other people’s pencils, crayons — “stuff” — is unacceptable and, more importantly punishable. But in the online world, the idea of stealing becomes murky because there are no physical objects to steal. It is often not even clear what constitutes theft. 62 percent of online users were unaware of the legal status of movies, music, games or books they had downloaded. To complicate matters, the idea of punishments in online theft is vague - there are no virtual corners in which your child can be made to stand for downloading a movie without paying for it. A child must be taught that pirating is, as the name suggests, theft, although not quite as romantic as Hollywood makes it out to be, and is very much like walking into a video store and pocketing a DVD in stealth.
Pirate downloads are the more obvious of thefts. What is more subtle and almost invisible is theft of ideas and words. With the Internet becoming the veritable repository of almost all known human knowledge, A verbatim copy of a professional document, with claims of it being one’s own, starts with school homework reports copy-pasted from Wikipedia. Ctrl C, Ctrl V are probably the most widely misused shortcut keys in the history of the PC. Given the enormity of information available online, it is next to impossible to trace the theft without proper tools, but that does not legitimize it. Just as the child is taught that copying in an exam is wrong, she must also be taught the inconsonance of mindless copy-pasting of stuff from the net. It is also important to teach the child to offer credit where it is due, and the idea of referencing someone else’s work must be taught early on. This little lesson on acknowledgment is applicable to the big picture of life as well.
A child learns early, and sometimes painfully, that doing unto others what she does not want to be done unto her is not a wise move in the real world. However, the cushion of anonymity offered by Internet obviates this reciprocity clause. While the medium is virtual, its effect on reality is indubitable. The Internet allows us to live and interact across extensive physical spaces with no boundaries. Thus, while in the past, we shared our life with those geographically close to us, we are now part of, pardon the cliché, the Global Village, with unknown faces peeking into our lives.
While in the physical world, people who affected us were largely friends and family, in the online spaces that we inhabit, those who affect us are often people that we repeatedly observe without direct interactions —Stanley Milgram’s concept of Familiar Strangers could never be a better fit anywhere else. Thus, our ethics and belief systems are readily influenced by the strangers we “meet” online and in turn, we influence faceless people in ways we could not imagine. Anyone with a blog would have experienced at least once, trolls who topple their emotional balance. Contrary to the popular lore that words, unlike sticks and stones, need never hurt, they do, and this sentiment must be instilled in the child. Cyberbullying and anonymous harassment are actually crimes punishable by law, and the child must be aware of this, but beyond law enforcement, it is a basic human courtesy to “be nice” to people both on and off-line.
Of the three apes, the mizaru, the one that sees no evil, was probably created just for the Internet, either by fluke or with really far-sighted vision. The Internet is like a knife that can be used to cut that apple that keeps the doctor at bay or to inflict pain. The choice is not easy, even for an adult; it is hardly surprising that the child needs mentoring to use and not abuse the net. The net is the source of knowledge (if not wisdom), but not all knowledge is good. While we are still a long way from being consumed by “all the knowledge”, like Irina Spalko, age-inappropriate information can cause just as much damage to the child’s psych. The “good touch bad touch” talk to every child must necessarily be accompanied by the “good site, bad site” advice.
There are no generalized censors in the Internet, just as in real life. That, however, does not justify anarchy. While customs, beliefs and ethical laws may vary across geographic boundaries, there are some universal truths that are essential for order and balance. It is up to us to use the right tools and techniques to instill such a balance in our children.
Source: This article was published huffingtonpost.com By Suren Ramasubbu
2018 State of Social Report – Success with Live Video
Buffer has just released its State of Social 2018 report. It is based on interviews with over 1,700 social media marketers. The use of live video is growing year over year. The report features insights into why some social media managers reported success with live videos while others did not.
Live Video is a Growing Trend
Publishing the live video on social media platforms is not mainstream. However, the practice is growing. This is what Buffer says about it:
Live video hasn’t yet caught on (only 31 percent of marketers have broadcast live video)
In our last State of Social report, 26 percent of marketers said they had created live video content. In 2017, 31 percent of marketers said they had broadcast live content—just a 5 percent increase…
While a 5% increase may not sound like much of an increase, that’s still an upward trend. This is a new way of communicating with customers and potential customers, but the evidence is that it is becoming more and more mainstream.
How Effective is Live Video?
According to Facebook, live video is six times more effective at generating interactions than non-live videos. Buffer’s 2018 State of Social Report indicates that of those who used live videos 60% reported they found them effective, while only 10% found live videos ineffective. That’s a remarkable statistic.
That feedback doesn’t tell the whole story, however. If you dig down into the data and count up how effective live video was, you get a different picture.
As you can see, of those 60% that found live video effective, the majority, 36%, found it to be somewhat effective, while only 24% found it to be very effective. This may be a normal distribution of success as in any marketing activity. It could also be a reflection that live videos are more appropriate for certain industries than others.
Why is Live Video Ineffective for Some?
Of the 10% who reported who reported that live video was ineffective, fully 92% of them indicated that they only rarely used live video as part of their social media strategy. Social media managers who reported a lack of success were using live videos only once every few months. That might indicate that those who found it ineffective weren’t putting much effort into live videos.
How Often Should Live Videos be Published?
While 55% of those who found success published live videos on a regular basis, 45% of those who found success published live videos every few months. However, if we break down those numbers by daily, weekly, etc. we get a different picture entirely. It turns out that only 1% of successful live video creators published videos on a daily basis. Below is a graph showing that the biggest group of successful publishers are actually those who published live videos every few months. Below is a graph showing the breakdown of how often live videos were published by those who reported that live videos were effective.
Quality not Quantity of Live Videos?
What separates those who found success posting live videos every few months versus those who posted at a similar frequency but found them ineffective? The survey doesn’t tell us. One can guess however that the relevance to users and effective promotion may have something to do with the success of those who posted live videos every few months.
The takeaway is that how often live videos are posted isn’t a guarantee of success. Like anything else, the quality and relevance to the audience may play a role. It may be that success with live videos may be similar to pay per click advertising, where context, relevance and answering the question of “What’s in it for me?” works best.
The full State of Social 2018 report can be downloaded here as a Google Sheet.
Images by Shutterstock, modified by Author
Graphs and bar charts by Author
Source: This article was published searchenginejournal.com By Roger Montti
Categorized in Social
Protect Your Online Information: 5 Steps You Can Take Right Now
What would you do if your most private information was suddenly available online, for anyone to see? Just imagine: pictures, videos, financial information, emails...all accessible without your knowledge or consent to anyone who cares to look for it. We've probably all seen news items come out about various celebrities and political figures who have been less careful than they should be with information that was not meant for public consumption.
Without proper oversight of this sensitive information, it can become available to anyone with an Internet connection.
Keeping information safe and protected online is a growing concern for many people, not just political figures and celebrities. It's smart to consider what privacy precautions you might have in place for your own personal information: financial, legal, and personal. In this article, we're going to go over five practical ways you can start protecting your privacy while online to guard yourself against any potential leaks, avoid embarrassment, and keep your information safe and secure.
Create Unique Passwords and Usernames for Each Online Service
Many people use the same usernames and passwords across all their online services. After all, there are so many, and it can be difficult to keep track of a different login and password for all of them. If you're looking for a way to generate and keep track of multiple secure passwords, KeePass is a good option, plus it's free: "KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.
You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish)."
Don't Assume Services are Safeguarding Your Information
Online storage sites such as DropBox do a pretty good job of keeping your information safe and secure. However, if you're concerned that what you're uploading is especially sensitive, you should encrypt it - services like BoxCryptor will do that for you for free (tiered pricing levels do apply).
Be Careful Sharing Information Online
We're asked to fill out forms or log into a new service all the time on the Web. What is all this information used for? Companies make a lot of money analyzing and using the data that we are freely giving them. If you'd like to stay a little bit more private, you can use BugMeNot to avoid filling out unnecessary forms that ask for too much personal information and keep it for other uses.
Never Give Out Private Information
We should all know by now that giving out personal information (name, address, phone number, etc.) is a big no-no online. However, many people don't realize that the information that they are posting on forums and message boards and social media platforms can be put together piece by piece to create a complete picture. This practice is called "doxxing", and is becoming more of a problem, especially since many people use the same username across all of their online services.
In order to avoid this happening, be extremely cautious in how much information you're giving out, and make sure you don't use the same username across services (see the first paragraph in this article for a quick review!).
Log Out of Sites Often
Here's a scenario that happens all too often: John decides to take a break at work, and during that time, he decides to check his bank balance. He gets distracted and leaves the bank balance page up on his computer, leaving secure information out for anyone to see and use. This kind of thing happens all the time: financial information, social media logins, email, etc.
can all be compromised extremely easily. The best practice is to make sure you're on a secure computer (not public or work) when you're looking at personal information, and to log out of any site you might be using on a public computer so that other people who have access to that computer will not be able to access your information.
Prioritize Online Privacy
Let's face it: while we'd like to think that everyone we come in contact with has our best interests at heart, this is sadly not always the case — and especially applies when we're online. Use the tips in this article to protect yourself from unwanted leaks of your personal information on the web.
Source: This article was published lifewire.com By Jerri Collins
Internet Hacking
Google Advanced Search: Google Search Tricks for Ecommerce
Google advanced search lets you cut through internet clutter – and there’s no shortage of clutter on the internet – to zero in on exactly the search results you are looking for.
Google advanced search has applications for web users of all stripes, and especially for ecommerce entrepreneurs: Simple google search tricks make it easier to identify opportunities, scope out competitors, and understand how Google (and Google users) sees your store.
After all, you don’t always want Google to give you 5,010,371 pages to choose from. Sometimes you want to know something precise. For example, which websites are linking to your store. Or how easy it is to find products in your store. Or what your competitors are selling.
Now, not all advanced Google searches are relevant for ecommerce. For example, Google Search’s nifty “timer” feature – which opens up a timer if you type something like “15 minutes timer” – probably isn’t going to help you scale. But there are a number of Google advanced searches that will turn Google Search into your personal market research lab.
This post will go over the most useful advanced Google search features, and look at how you can use them to optimize your ecommerce business.
Post Contents [hide]
What is Google Advanced Search?
Exclusion Search
Price search
All In Title, All In Text, and All In URL
Missing Words
Bonus! Funny Google Advanced Searches
Google advanced search is a way to customize your Google searches with a set of special instructions. Known as operators and commands, these advanced Google search instructions tell Google that you don’t want to search the entire internet, front to back and top to bottom, and are instead interested in more specific queries.
Your parents probably wouldn’t ever use advanced Google search. A couple reasons why. First off, the commands that you have to feed Google are simple but not necessarily obvious; it would be hard to guess Google advanced search commands. Second, your parents probably wouldn’t need to use advanced Google search. These searches are designed to run very specific, particular queries.
This might all make more sense once we look at some examples, so let’s dive in.
What it is: Exact search is the most basic advanced Google search. (Your parents actually probably could pull this one off.) All you’re doing with this Google search trick is putting quotation marks around your search terms. This tells Google that you want results for exactly what’s inside the quotes. Google is already pretty good at mind-reading, but these quotes let you remove any confusion and ensure the most relevant results.
When to use it: Use this advanced Google search when you only want results that contain a precise phrase.
What it is: Using OR (it has to be upper-case!) lets you search for multiple separate search terms. Unlike the exact search, which narrows your results, this advanced Google search broadens your query to bring you more results.
When to use it: There are a couple scenarios where you might want to use this Google advanced search. First, it is great for when you are looking for information that might be found with multiple search terms, like “french press” and “cafetiere”. It’s also good if you don’t know the best phrase to find the info the info you’re looking for.
NOTE: If the OR isn’t upper-case, then Google might think you’re trying to figure out a linguistic question, like whether you should use towards or toward. This will bring up results explaining how British English and American English differ. So remember – OR!
What it is: This advanced Google search lets you exclude certain items from your search results. It’s like ordering a cheeseburger and telling the chef to hold the ketchup. This way you can conduct an internet-wide search but ignore results containing your excluded terms.
When to use it: This Google search trick is great for when a word has multiple meanings. If you want browse plants on Amazon, for instance, and don’t want Google to think that you are researching ecological diversity in the Amazon rainforest, then this is the Google advanced search to use.
What it is: This is an advanced Google search that lets you zero in on a specific website or domain. With site search, you are telling Google that you don’t want to search the entire web, but instead just a particular site.
When to use it: This is an awesome Google advanced search trick with multiple applications. Ecommerce entrepreneurs can use it to scope out competitors’ websites. Let’s say you’re in the yoga niche, and you want to know if your competitors over at yogastuff.com are selling a certain item. You can tell Google to search only that competitor’s website. You can also use this Google search trick to look for certain words and phrases on your own site. This is especially helpful if you want to search for potential duplicate products or content.
NOTE: Oh! This Google search trick has an opposite – instead of typing site:yogastuff.com, you type -site:yogastuff.com. Then you’ll be searching the entire web with the exception of that one site.
What it is: The related search advanced Google search lets you find websites that are similar to one another. When you do a related search, Google will spit out results for sites that are in the same ballpark as the one you have singled out.
When to use it: For ecommerce aficionados, related search is perfect for scoping out competition. You can plug in your site to a related search, and then Google will automatically pull up other sites on the web that are similar. This would let you do some market research on the products they are selling, prices, and more.
What it is: Price search is an advanced Google search command that lets you tell Google to find a specific product at a specific price. So instead of going to an online store to look for something, you can use Google to search the entirety of the web. You just type in a product, followed by a price (use a dollar sign to specify that you’re looking for a price).
When to use it: As an ecommerce store owner, you can use this Google advanced search to see how products in your niche are priced. If you are in the pet niche and you want to add a dog sweater to your store, then use the price search to find a range for dog sweater prices around the web.
NOTE: There’s a hack you can add to this advanced Google search: Make it a price range instead of an exact price. This price range Google search trick lets you dig a little deeper as you investigate how to price your products. To use a range instead of an exact number, simply add two periods between the prices in your price range. Like so: dog sweater $13..$17.
What it is: Unlike a normal search, where Google scours the web for certain terms, link search is an advanced Google search for finding links between websites. If any website links to the site in your search, you’ll see it in the search results.
When to use it: Use this advanced Google search when you want Google to know that you’re not interested in content, but rather the links contained within that content. So if you want to know, for example, which websites are linking to your website, use link search. You might also use it to look at which websites are linking to your competition so that you can reach out and get a link of your own.
All In Text, and All In URL
What it is: We’re lumping these three advanced Google search tricks together because they perform the same function – just on different parts of the page.
All in title lets you track down pages that have a specific set of words in the title, and discard pages that don’t have the magical text in the title. All in-text does the same, but instead of scanning titles, it’s an advanced Google search that scans the text of posts and pages. Finally, all in URL lets you-you guessed it. You can find pages that have certain terms in the URL.
When to use it: These advanced Google search tricks are awesome for determining the most common phrasing that your competition uses for certain products. You could try to outrank them on those same phrases, or you could combine advanced Google search results with keyword research to identify low-hanging fruit. For example, if you sell smartphone accessories, and you notice that there are thousands of titles, pages, and URLs that contain “smartphone case” but very few that contain “smartphone holder,” you might have just identified a micro-niche that is underserved.
What it looks like: (“allintitle” can be swapped out for “allintext” and “allinurl”)
NOTE: You can ditch the “all” in any of these advanced Google searches to combine search queries. For example, if you want to know whether “durable” is a big selling point for other stores selling iPhone cases, you could do a search like this: iphone cases intext:durable. That would give you a Google search for iPhone cases, and limit things to iPhone cases that are described in the text as being durable. You could do the same search but use intitle instead of intext, showing you which iPhone case providers think durability is important enough to mention in the title of a page.
What it is: Autocomplete – yes, that same autocomplete that we use to find song lyrics and movie titles – can be used as part of your advanced Google search arsenal. Google knows which terms and phrases people use in combination, and will fill in the blanks whether you are looking for elusive words to an early-90s chorus or doing market research for your ecommerce store.
When to use it: Ecommerce merchants can use autocomplete for a variety of functions. For example, you can compare products; determine which products often appear together; and figure out the keywords and phrases that Google most commonly associates with your products.
What it is: This is a more formal way of doing the same sort of thing that you’d do with autocomplete. Instead of starting a search query and then letting Google suggest ways to finish it, you tell Google exactly which piece of the puzzle you’re missing.
When to use it: If you want Google to fill in a blank for you, then you’ll want to use the missing words advanced Google search. This Google search trick is often used to finish a phrase. For example, cry over * milk.
Before we wrap things up, here are three goofy Google search tricks that will help you kill a minute or two.
Google “do a barrel roll” and the Google search page will literally spin in a circle.
Google “google in 1998” to see what Google search looked like a decade ago.
Google “define anagram” – which is a word or phrase created by moving around the letters from different words or phrases – and Google will ask, “Did you mean: nerd fame again”. Get it?
Source: This article was published oberlo.com By David Vranicar
How to detect spoof and phishing emails on a mobile device
As a follow up to our recent article on how to spot and stop phishing attempts, we’re now going to focus on the difficulty of recognising phishing and email spoofing attempts on mobile devices and how to overcome this.
img src="https://www.beaming.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/SamPhone1-370x312.png" alt="Email spoofing: Mobile spoof email can be hard to detect" width="432" height="364" srcset="https://www.beaming.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/SamPhone1-370x312.png 370w, /
Beware the email address
Sometimes a spoof email seems to be from someone famous or well known, to attract the attention of the recipient. Otherwise, it may be a trusted brand name. More sophisticated scams will appear to be from someone the user knows, usually through work. Email spoofing addresses tend to be a mixture of letters, numbers and meaningless words. Depending on the type of device and app you are using, this may be more difficult to spot on a mobile device as they often just display the sender’s “Friendly name” and the email address itself is more difficult to find.
To display the sender’s email address you’ll need to open the email. At the top, underneath the “From” and “To” lines, you should find a link entitled “Details” or “View detail.
img src="https://www.beaming.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Samphone2.png" alt="Email spoofing: How to view a sender's email address on mobile" width="236" height="430" srcset="https://www.beaming.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Samphone2.png 236w, /
Once clicked, this will expand the “From” and “To” details so that you may view the email address of the sender and details as to when the message was received.
Watch what they ask for and how they ask for it
Spoof emails will be asking for something from you, this may include money, passwords or sensitive information. Legitimate banks or companies will never ask for personal credentials over email so don’t give them up. High-end brands are extremely cautious with their spelling, punctuation, and grammar so if an email has many spelling mistakes, it’s likely that the email is trying to spoof you.
Treat all links as suspicious
Malware and ransomware can be spread when victims unwittingly click on an untoward download link. Phishers will also send links that take the user to a convincing looking corporate website where they are encouraged to enter personal information such as credit card details.
If you’re on a PC, you can use your mouse to hover over any link in an email to view the destination web address. As with the email address, if the destination web address is a random mixture of numbers and letters, be wary of it. Likewise, if the website address is mis-spelled this is a red-flag that can be easily missed eg http://www.micorsoft.com. On a mobile device, you won’t have a mouse, but you can still check the link by holding your finger down on it. Unlike a short tap, which would open the link, holding your finger on it will cause a new dialogue window to pop up, showing you what the destination web address is but without actually following the link.
As is always our advice, if you are in any doubt, check! Don’t put your personal details or business in jeopardy. By making sure that everyone is aware of tactics used in email spoofing and know how to verify the original source of an email, you can save wasted time, effort and resources in the future.
Source: This article was published beaming.co.uk By Beaming Support
Alleged CIA Hacking Techniques Lay Out Online Vulnerability
FILE - CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies before a Senate Intelligence hearing during his nomination process, in Washington, Jan. 12, 2017.
WASHINGTON — If this week’s WikiLeaks document dump is genuine, it includes a CIA list of the many and varied ways the electronic device in your hand, in your car, and in your home can be used to hack your life.
It’s simply more proof that, “it’s not a matter of if you’ll get hacked, but when you’ll get hacked.” That may be every security expert’s favorite quote, and unfortunately, they say it’s true. The WikiLeaks releases include confidential documents the group says exposes “the entire hacking capacity of the CIA.”
The CIA has refused to confirm the authenticity of the documents, which allege the agency has the tools to hack into smartphones and some televisions, allowing it to remotely spy on people through microphones on the devices.
Watch: New Generation of Hackable Internet Devices May Always Be Listening
WikiLeaks also claimed the CIA managed to compromise both Apple and Android smartphones, allowing their officers to bypass the encryption on popular services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.
For some of the regular tech users, news of the leaks and the hacking techniques just confirms what they already knew. When we’re wired 24-7, we are vulnerable.
“The expectation for privacy has been reduced, I think,” Chris Coletta said, “... in society, with things like WikiLeaks, the Snowden revelations ... I don’t know, maybe I’m cynical and just consider it to be inevitable, but that’s really the direction things are going.”
The problem is becoming even more dangerous as new, wired gadgets find their way into our homes, equipped with microphones and cameras that may always be listening and watching.
One of the WikiLeaks documents suggests the microphones in Samsung smart TV’s can be hacked and used to listen in on conversations, even when the TV is turned off.
Security experts say it is important to understand that in many cases, the growing number of wired devices in your home may be listening to all the time.
“We have sensors in our phones, in our televisions, in Amazon Echo devices, in our vehicles,” said Clifford Neuman, the director of the Center for Computer Systems Security, at the University of Southern California. “And really almost all of these attacks are things that are modifying the software that has access to those sensors so that the information is directed to other locations. Security practitioners have known that this is a problem for a long time.”
Neuman says hackers are using the things that make our tech so convenient against us.
“Certain pieces of software and certain pieces of hardware have been criticized because, for example, microphones might be always on,” he said. “But it is the kind of thing that we’re demanding as consumers, and we just need to be more aware that the information that is collected for one purpose can very easily be redirected for others.”
Tools of the espionage trade
The WikiLeaks release is especially damaging because it may have laid bare a number of U.S. surveillance techniques. The New York Times says the documents it examined layout programs called “Wrecking Crew” for instance, which “explains how to crash a targeted computer, and another tells how to steal passwords using the autocomplete function on Internet Explorer.”
Steve Grobman, chief of the Intel Security Group, says that’s bad not only because it can be done, but also because so-called “bad actors” now know it can be done. Soon enough, he warns, we could find our own espionage tools being used against us.
“We also do need to recognize the precedents we set, so, as offensive cyber capabilities are used ... they do give the blueprint for how that attack took place. And bad actors can then learn from that,” he said.
So how can tech-savvy consumers remain safe? Security experts say they can’t, and to remember the “it’s not if, but when” rule of hacking.
The best bet is to always be aware that if you’re online, you’re vulnerable.
Source: This article was published voanews.com By Kevin Enochs
Categorized in Online Research
internet techniques
Expert Security
The search engines you'll need for every type of question
Specific answers for specific needs.
When most of us have a question we want to research online, we run to Google for the answer. But it's not the only search engine out there. Venture off the beaten path, and you can find more specialized sites—like the self-proclaimed "computational search engine" Wolfram Alpha or the privacy-conscious DuckDuckGo—that will help you track down exactly what you're looking for. While the well-trained algorithms of Google or even Bing might be the best choice in some situations, to find what you're seeking more quickly, it helps to know which search engine is best for which task.
General interest, personal updates, and games: Google
Let's go ahead and talk about the elephant in the article: When it comes to general searches, Google crushes the competition. It has an extremely well-trained algorithm and offers the largest index of pages—a search for "Mars planet," for example, brings up 5.7 million Google results as opposed to 99,800 Bing ones. That means this search behemoth is still more likely to turn up an obscure blog post, forum message, or online document than any of its rivals, which makes it ideal for researching computer error messages or specialized scientific topics.
On top of its general-interest search chops, Google is great for looking up highly specialized information...about you. Because of the search engine ties in with its other services, such as Gmail and Google Photos, it can pull up your personal data while you're signed into your account. Search for "my flights" or "my trips," and Google will pull details from your booking confirmation emails. On a less fun note, type in "my bills," and Google will sort through your email reminders, using them to show you any upcoming payments you need to make. As for images, try looking up "my photos of Sydney" (replacing the Australian city with your latest vacation destination), or search for photos based on time and date with "my photos from last week or "my photos from July 2014."
Finally, Google makes a great search engine if you're searching for a distraction—specifically a browser-based game. For example, look up "Atari Breakout," switch to the Images tab, and use the cursor keys to control the ensuing action. Similarly, try entering "solitaire," "pac-man," or "tic tac toe" to bring up basic versions of those titles. In addition to games, Google incorporates apps that do serve a purpose: Type "flip a coin" or "roll a die" to do just that, or input "stopwatch," "timer," or "calculator" to display the relevant utilities on screen. Then operate these mini-apps right from their Google results pages.
Images and videos: Bing
Although Bing aims to compete with Google in general search results, one of its real advantages lies in its image and video search abilities. On these results pages, Bing has more filtering options, a better display interface, and excellent suggestions for related searches.
When you're hunting for a video, the results page displays clips in a well-formatted grid rather than a list, making it easier to quickly browse through thumbnails. Bing also triggers an auto-preview feature whenever you hover the mouse cursor over a clip.
As for images, Bing provides extra methods for filtering your results, methods that Google doesn't offer. For example, if you're looking for a particular person, you can focus on only pictures that show faces. It also lets you apply a larger set of image-rights filters.
Images that are free to reuse: Flickr
While Bing lets you filter images based on their rights—how non-owners are allowed to use them—it can't beat the free-image search power of Flickr. Specifically, you can limit your image search to images that photographers have released under Creative Commons licenses, which allow you to repost their work for free, albeit with certain restrictions.
To get started, enter what you're looking for—let's say "cats" for this example—and click Search. Right away, you can adjust the order in which pictures appear by clicking the Relevant drop-down list on the right: Flickr lets you sort pictures by relevance, date, or the "interesting" filter, which elevates pictures that have drawn more activity, such as comments, views, and likes. You can further narrow down your options by color, depth of field, or pattern.
Even once you've limited your list to images you like, not all of them will be free to use. However, images released under Creative Commons often are, although the exact rules governing their use do depend on the specific type of CC license. To see the license under which an image has been released, click the copyright symbol on the lower-right of its photo page. And to filter by license, click the Any license drop-down menu on the left of the search page and limit your results to images released under Creative Commons.
Science and media data: Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha focuses on answering more technical science and math queries. For example, you can balance a chemical equation with a search like "Al + O2 -> Al2O3," look up properties of compounds with "flash point methane, butane, octane," and answer earth science questions like "seismic travel times from San Francisco to Las Vegas." It's equally adept with math equations: Try "circle, diameter=2," to find the properties of that shape, or test out a more complicated figure like "annulus, inner radius=2, outer radius=5." Draw graphs from "plot sin x cos y" to "plot 3x2-2xy+y2=1" and fill out sequences by typing the first few figures: "1, 2, 4, 8, ..."
But while Wolfram Alpha started with math, it has expanded its scope to provide data on literature, music, movie, and TV shows. Hit it with queries like "how many words in Hamlet?" to answer all your technical questions. You can also compare two items, such as "Hamlet vs Macbeth," to see how their publication dates, lengths, number of characters mentioned, and other data stack up. You can also compare stats about movies and TV shows in a similar way. Even natural language searches—such as "movies starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro" or "movies with the longest running time"—are fair game.
Of course, the computational search engine manages to add technical information to the mix: Run a query like "first episode of Friends," and Wolfram Alpha will tell you not only when that episode aired, but also how many days ago that date fell and what its sunrise and sunset times were.
See if Wolfram Alpha can solve your science, math, and media problems.
Job listings: LinkedIn
Don't neglect the search engines built into the sites you visit every day—these will often lead you to information that's only accessible to users who have signed into the site. In other words, a public search from Google or Bing won't be able to scrape this data.
LinkedIn makes a good example. Next time you go job hunting, start your search by signing into your account. Then click on the search box at the top of the page and choose Jobs. Hit All filters to see all the ways you can limit your results, including by experience level and industry. Limit them further by entering a job title and location in the fields at the top. Finally, click Search, and you're on your way.
Looking for potential new connections on LinkedIn is just as straightforward. Click in the box at the top, choose People, and click All filters. Now you can browse by name, title, location, company, industry, and more. Review the tick boxes on the right to filter for people you know directly (click 1st) or people connected to your existing contacts (click 2nd or 3rd+).
Private questions: DuckDuckGo
There's one big problem with search engines: The companies behind them keep track of what you're looking for. If you'd prefer to keep your browsing history private, then you need DuckDuckGo. It doesn't keep records of your searches, won't feed you personalized results, and refuses to provide fodder for targeted ads. DuckDuckGo also preserves your privacy as you browse elsewhere—so a search for "smartphones" won't cause an endless series of phone advertisements to begin appearing as you bounce around other sites. It's almost as if you never ran that search.
Beyond its focus on privacy, DuckDuckGo acts as a fast and comprehensive search engine, letting you hunt for images and videos as well as websites. It also enables you to restrict results by country or by publication date. Finally, you can search individual sites through the DuckDuckGo interface using a tool it calls Bangs: Try entering "!amazon shoes" or "!Wikipedia apollo missions" into the search bar to see how they work.
There are two types of searches that really benefit from DuckDuckGo's enhanced privacy. First, there's the secret inquiries that you really don't want Google keeping track of (particularly if you share a computer with others). When you decide to look up that weird rash that you don't want anyone to know about, do it on DuckDuckGo. Second, you should use the privacy-conscious search if you're searching for a product but don't want to receive ads about it for the rest of your life.
Source: This article was published popsci.com By David Nield
An Undocumented Gmail Trick Search Emails by Date and Time
Gmail supports a plethora of search operators to help you instantly find that elusive email message buried in your mailbox. You have size search – like larger_than:5mb – to find the big messages in your account. File search – like has:attachment filename:doc – will locate email messages that contain file attachments of specific types. This graphic illustrates all the known search operators that work both on Gmail and Google Inbox.
Date Search in Gmail
Date search in Gmail helps you locate emails sent or received in a specific period. Here are some examples:
newer_than:7d from:me – Emails sent in the last 7 days
after:2016/12/01 to:me – Emails received in the month of December 2016
Specify Time Modifiers in Gmail Search
Gmail also supports time-based searches allowing you to find emails in the specific hour, minute or second. For instance, you can limit your Gmail search to emails that were received between Dec 10 8:15 PM and Dec 10, 2016 8:45 PM.
To get started, convert the date and time to Epoch time and then use the timestamp with the standard after or before search operator of Gmail.
For instance, the Epoch time for Dec 10, 2016 8:15 PM is 1481381100 and the Epoch time for Dec 10, 2016 8:45 PM is 1481382900. Use the search query after:1481381100 before:1481382900 and you’ll get a list of all emails received during that 30-minute period.
Epoch time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (UTC). Use the Epoch converter to represent a human readable date and time in Epoch and use that timestamp with the before or after search operator of Gmail to find that elusive email.
Source: This article was published labnol.org By Amit Agarwal
Search Emails
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2129
|
__label__wiki
| 0.797803
| 0.797803
|
Sell your face
Google paid people to scan their faces for Pixel 4 'field research'
The goal is to make the Pixel 4's face unlock as inclusive as possible.
Joe Maring
Google has confirmed that it paid people to scan their faces.
A report about this surfaced earlier this month.
Face unlock is being used as part of the Pixel 4's Motion Sense features.
Google threw the tech blogging world for another loop on July 29 when it shared a teaser video for the Pixel 4 to confirm two of its most-widely rumored features — air gestures and face unlock.
These features are part of something Google's calling "Motion Sense", and it's powered by the company's Soli chip. Face unlock has been present in tons of Android phones for years now, but Google's working to make its version the fastest and safest we've ever seen.
To make sure the Pixel 4's face unlock works as good as it can, however, Google's now confirmed that it had to conduct "field research" by going out on the streets and paying people with $5 gift cards to scan their faces. A report about this first surfaced earlier this month, but a Google spokesperson has now confirmed it.
Per an email sent to the The Verge:
Our goal is to build the feature with robust security and performance. We're also building it with inclusiveness in mind, so as many people as possible can benefit.
As for the security/privacy of how the field research works, Google says:
Although face samples inherently can't be anonymous, each participant is assigned an abstract identity number. We separately keep each participant's email address, in order to remove data upon request.
After 18 months have passed, Google will get rid of the face data it collected from these tests. Furthermore, while it still has the face scans, it's said that they're "encrypted and access restricted" with no connections to people's Google account if they have one.
It seems like Motion Sense will be one of the main selling points for the Pixel 4, so it's not surprising that Google wants to take its development seriously. How all of that research and scanning will pay off, however, remains to be seen.
Google Pixel 4: News, Leaks, Release Date, Specs, and Rumors!
I need more power
Extend your Pixel 4's battery life with these battery packs and cases
What do you do when your Pixel's battery starts to die halfway through your day? Grab a trusty power bank to keep it alive!
Answer This Call
Score 12GB of data for $15 a month with this limited-time promo
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2146
|
__label__cc
| 0.66409
| 0.33591
|
Today's Top Biotech Stories: Takeda, Eli Lilly, Immunomedics, and Pharmacyclics
Apr 8th 2014 9:21AM
Let's take a look at four stocks -- Takeda , Eli Lilly , Immunomedics , and Pharmacyclics -- which could make waves in the health care sector this morning.
Takeda and Eli Lilly ordered to pay $9 billion for Actos cancer risks
Takeda Pharmaceutical and Eli Lilly have just been ordered to pay a combined $9 billion in punitive damages, after a Louisiana court ruled that the companies intentionally hid the cancer risks of their diabetes drug, Actos. Takeda, the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan, was ordered to pay $6 billion, while Lilly was ordered to pay $3 billion.
This is not the first time Actos has run into legal problems in the U.S. Last year, juries in California and Maryland ordered Takeda to pay $8.2 million in damages to former Actos users, but both state judges eventually threw out the verdicts. Meanwhile, jurors in a Las Vegas trial rejected patient claims that Takeda failed to warn consumers about the risks of Actos.
Actos sales peaked in the fiscal year ending in March 2011 with $4.5 billion in annual sales. At the time, the drug accounted for 27% of Takeda's revenue. The drug has since gone off patent and faces generic competition from Ranbaxy Laboratories and other drugmakers.
Takeda and Lilly intend to appeal the ruling, but the $9 billion payment comes at a very bad time for both companies. Takeda's earnings have been weighed down by generic Actos, while Eli Lilly faces a daunting patent cliff with the loss of exclusivity for blockbuster drugs like Cymbalta, Evista, and Humalog. Those three drugs generated combined sales of $8.7 billion for Lilly in fiscal 2013.
Immunomedics reports positive data for its two ADCs
Meanwhile, Immunomedics may be in for a good morning after reporting results from preclinical studies of the company's two investigational SN-38-containing antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), IMMU-130 and IMMU-132. ADCs, commonly referred to as "cancer smart bombs," are monoclonal antibodies loaded with cytotoxins which seek and destroy cancer cells.
Immunomedics noted that both ADCs demonstrated a high therapeutic index during the studies. IMMU-130 is currently in a phase 2 trial for late-stage colorectal cancer. IMMU-132 is being valuated in a wider variety of cancers, including breast and lung cancers. Both drugs contain a cytotoxin, SN-38, linked to two different kinds of humanized monoclonal antibodies.
Doses of IMMU-130 and IMMU-132 below the maximum tolerated dose for mice were found to be effective in treating a variety of human solid cancers in animal models. Immunomedics stated that IMMU-132 compared favorably to irinotecan, a colon cancer drug.
Immunomedics does not have any approved products, and I'd like to remind everyone that these results were from preclinical studies in animals and don't necessarily indicate how the drug will behave in humans.
Pharmacyclics files a new sNDA for Imbruvica
Last but not least, Pharmacyclics just announced the submission of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to the FDA for Imbruvica. The sNDA was submitted based on data from a head-to-head phase 3 study of Imbruvica against ofatumumab (GlaxoSmithKline's Arzerra) for the treatment of patients with CLL or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who had received at least one prior therapy.
Interim data from RESONATE, released in January, revealed that patients treated with Imbruvica demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in progression free survival, the primary endpoint of the study. Patients in the Imbruvica arm also showed statistically significant improvement in overall survival rates, the key secondary endpoint of the trial. More data will be presented at the 50th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, from May 30 to June 3, 2014.
Imbruvica was approved for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) last November, and subsequently approved to treat CLL in February. Both indications were approved with accelerated approval from the FDA. Pharmacyclics is co-marketing Imbruvica with Johnson & Johnson , and expectations are high -- analysts expect the drug to generate peak sales between $6 billion and $9 billion. Imbruvica is Pharmacyclics' first approved product.
3 stocks poised to be multi-baggers -- watch for them this morning
The one sure way to get wealthy is to invest in a groundbreaking company that goes on to dominate a multibillion-dollar industry. Our analysts have found multi-bagger stocks time and again. And now they think they've done it again with three stock picks that they believe could generate the same type of phenomenal returns. They've revealed these picks in a new free report that you can download instantly by clicking here now.
The article Today's Top Biotech Stories: Takeda, Eli Lilly, Immunomedics, and Pharmacyclics originally appeared on Fool.com.
Leo Sun has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Johnson & Johnson. The Motley Fool owns shares of Johnson & Johnson. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Business-and-Finance
Diseases-and-Conditions
Health-and-Medicine
Pharmaceutical-Industry
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2149
|
__label__wiki
| 0.857311
| 0.857311
|
Silicon Systems proves Intel wrong
Randal Jackson (IDG News Service) 22 November, 2004 07:16
Bluechip Infotech
Wholesale IT
New Zealand company, Silicon Systems, recently proved a point to Intel with the first sale in Australasia of an Intel-based blade server solution.
Now, the market seems to be opening up for the product, with evaluation units at several government departments and scientific institutions. "We're also on the verge of another sale," sales and marketing director, Liam O'Keefe, said.
The first sale was to the New Zealand Stock Exchange, which bought two chassis, each with seven blades.
It nearly wasn't so. Although Silicon Systems had been an Intel premier partner for five years, Intel considered the company too small to provide blade solutions and was prepared to sell them out of Australia.
"We said we were really keen and they eventually agreed to us selling them here," O'Keefe said.
Silicon Systems invested heavily in the technology and was able to bid for the Stock Exchange business at lower prices than IBM or HP, O'Keefe said.
"The other important selling point was that we build the solutions from scratch, so we have a requirement for more intimate technical knowledge, and we provide local support," he said.
The eventual appointment of Silicon Systems by Intel to integrate and support blade servers follows a trend in the Asia-Pacific market toward locally produced and supported server solutions.
Blade servers provide a modular solution to the growing space and management issues created by rack servers. Based on a central chassis, they comprise single-board servers containing up to four processors, memory, local disk storage, network connectivity and SAN connectivity. They can be hot-swapped.
O'Keefe said the chassis was expensive but the blades themselves were relatively cheap.
He estimated the crossover threshhold on cost, compared to rack mounts, was four servers.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2150
|
__label__cc
| 0.749681
| 0.250319
|
Identifying Asbestos
Internal Walls and Ceiling Linings
Fires, Floods and Storm Damage
Soffits Fascia’s and Gables
Contaminated Land or Soil
Gaskets and Rope Seals
Removing & Reconstructing
Roof Sheeting
Fire Retardant Material
Down Pipes Drains and Gutters
Bonded Vinyl Floor Tiles
Laggings
Friable Vinyl Sheet Floor Covering
Asbestos Sampling & Testing
Monitoring Asbestos & Registers
Air Monitoring and Visual Inspection
Friable and Bonded Supervision
Asbestos Registers
Asbestos Management Plans
Home ARA Blog What is Asbestosis?
What is Asbestosis?
Asbestosis is a type of dust disease, also known as pneumoconiosis, caused by exposure to asbestos.
When asbestos fibres are inhaled, this can lead to inflammation of the lungs, resulting in scarring or fibrosis. Symptoms can take 10 to 20 years to become noticeable and there is currently no existing cure available for asbestosis so it can prove to be an incredibly harmful disease.
The first recorded case of asbestosis was in 1924 when an English textile worker died after prolonged exposure to asbestos. From 1929, asbestos-related lawsuits became increasingly commonplace and have cost businesses and individuals millions of dollars in settlements.
Today, the use and importing of asbestos is completely banned in Australia.
Although there is a ban in place, it does not affect asbestos materials that were in use prior to it being outlawed. However, safety measures have been put in place to ensure the safe handling and removal of asbestos from people’s homes and places of work.
Diagnosis of asbestosis is conducted by taking x-rays of the chest. This will usually display any signs of fibrosis which show up as small opaque spots in the base of the lungs.
Alternatively, asbestosis can be diagnosed by the presence of a croaking or crackling sound heard in the chest with a stethoscope.
Other symptoms of asbestosis include:
Loss of appetite;
Shortage of breath;
Tightness in the chest; and
Recurring dry coughs
If you have a history of exposure to asbestos, it would be wise to remain mindful of these symptoms and consult a physician to safeguard your future wellbeing and give you peace of mind.
Although no curative treatment of asbestosis exists at present, oxygen therapy can be used at home to alleviate any shortness of breath and hypoxia.
Nebulised medication can be prescribed to provide assistance with the removal of secretions in the lungs or to treat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease that may arise as a result of asbestosis. Respiratory physiotherapy can also be effective in reducing secretions by chest percussion and postural drainage.
Patients suffering from asbestosis will be particularly vulnerable to influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia so immunisations for these diseases will need to be regularly administered.
The best cure for any disease is prevention. If your home or office was built before the ban, get Asbestos Removals Australia to inspect the structure for the presence of this deadly material.
Enjoyed this post? Here's some more you may like
Asbestos Use Worldwide – How Different Countries Deal with Asbestos
The aftermath of the recent Perth Fires
© Asbestos Removals Australia 2020
Website by Lamb Agency
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2154
|
__label__cc
| 0.681091
| 0.318909
|
Asean Breaking News
Latest Stories from ASEAN and Around the World
You are here: Home / Archives for Big data band
Big data band
EV charging startup EVI Technologies investing big; aims 20,000 nodes across the country
· January 8, 2020 ·
By Shalini PriyaNew Delhi: Electric vehicle charging infrastructure provider EVI Technologies plans to invest around Rs 100 crore in the next 18-months, aiming 20,000 charging stations across the country, a senior company official said.Speaking to ETAuto, Rupesh Kumar, CEO, EVI Technologies said, "Lack of charging infrastructure creates huge range anxiety among users. If I am going to travel 300 km and there is no charging, so I will refrain from using the car but once there is a charging infrastructure after every 25 km or possibly 50 km, people will start buying cars automatically."Founded by IIT Delhi alumni, this EV charging startup has also developed a special charger, tailored for the Delhi government e-Mobility policy. Talking about these chargers, he said, "Since India is a temperate country with higher range of temperature, every 60 kilometer affects the performance of lithium-ion batteries. So, we have developed a charger which will automatically decide the charging rate, … [Read more...] about EV charging startup EVI Technologies investing big; aims 20,000 nodes across the country
Filed Under: Industry EVI Technologies, ev infra, EV charging startup, electric vehicles, E Mobility, BSNL, how to invest in startup companies, new cars under 20 000, ev charging stations, big country, ev charging, Advanced Technology Investment Company, big data technologies, Big Sky Country, top 20 country songs, western technology investment, Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, Big Data Technology, latest technologies in big data, green technology investments, aim technologies, big property investments, Mobile EV Charging, under 20 000 cars, under 20 000 suv, Next Big Technology, EV Technology, ev charge stations, aim investment trusts, aim investment market, Big Country Elementary School, Inveready Technology Investment Group, Statoil Technology Invest, ev charging station, EV charging system, free EV charging
New social media rules may make user ID verification mandatory
Earlier, there was a proposal to link social media accounts with Aadhaar to trail the real source of fake news, but the nodal agency for UIDAI shot down the proposal, saying Aadhaar is meant for distribution of government welfare benefits not catching culprits which is a policing job. … [Read more...] about New social media rules may make user ID verification mandatory
Filed Under: Uncategorized Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, IT Ministry, ID verification, fake news, data protection bill, UIDAI, Ravi Shankar Prasad, politician on social media, addressing negative comments social media, pinoys top social media users according to study, narrative about social media, expectations on social media, how burglars use social media, announcing new job on social media, athletes on social media, keeps asking for apple id verification, 411 social media rule, how social media can make you depressed, social media most active users, effective on social media, sorority social media rules, why canara bank user id locked, how to socialize on social media, unspoken rules of social media, irctc what user id, shirky how social media can make history, social media with most users, social media rules for employees, social media v social network, social media how many users, how social media can make history by clay shirky, how social media is making us less social, youth preferring making friends via social media essay, age group of social media users, wp_insert_user user id, anti social media social media club
A mega quantum technology mission is in the offing
Quantum technologies, he said, are strategically important and the inter-ministerial mission would involve ‘sensitive’ departments. China, the US and a few European countries are in the lead and India wants to join the scene in an era of highly damaging cyber attacks. … [Read more...] about A mega quantum technology mission is in the offing
Filed Under: Uncategorized National Mission on Quantum Technologies, Bengaluru, vision and mission of a company, mission of company, mission of the company, the mission of jesus, institution of engineering and technology, african university of science and technology, National Institute of Technology, the massachusetts institute of technology, beijing institute of technology, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, University of Science and Technology of China, mission of hope haiti, technology association of georgia, quantum technologies, 100th space mission of isro, the new jersey institute of technology, mission of hope, software technology parks of india, illinois institute of technology research institute, macao university of science and technology, Mission of Charity, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, information of technology, oklahoma state university institute of technology, quantum technology, utah college of applied technology, tennessee college of applied technology, colorado institute of technology, washington high school of information technology
In line with Tata’s personal style
· October 27, 2016 ·
Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya of the UK’s Warwick University, who is a Ratan Tata loyalist and was involved in the choice of Mr Mistry, told the Financial Times that he had been replaced as a result of a “lack of performance”. That echoed a critical article in The Economist on September 24 that contained a very detailed analysis of the group’s finances but arguably did not give Mr Mistry enough credit for trying to balance what it called being “socially responsible but financially disappointing”. … [Read more...] about In line with Tata’s personal style
Filed Under: Uncategorized Business news, business news India, India business news, Indian economy news, Indian financial news, Border Line Personality Disorder, personal style, acting lines for one person, bottom line personal, style line, Personal Lines, Develop your personal style, unsecured personal line of credit
பொங்கல் பண்டிகையின் போது ரூ. 605 கோடிக்கு மது விற்பனை.. திருச்சி முதலிடம்
Tell me if view on Savarkar is yours or that of Shiv Sena: Chavan on Raut’s comments
30 years of Kashmiri Pandits exodus; community awaits return to homeland
Photos: Alia Bhatt opts for a no-makeup look as he goes out and about in the city with mother Soni Razdan
Prince Harry, Meghan To Drop ‘Royal Highness’ Titles
TALK OF THE TOWN: Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood ‘turns up unannounced to his old Richmond mansion on Christmas’ – despite selling it to The Who’s Pete Townshend 23 years ago
TALK OF THE TOWN: The Crown’s young Prince Charles actor Josh O’Connor, 29, wants friends to stop teasing him about his big ears
TALK OF THE TOWN: My expert gatecrasher reveals the highlights and lowlights of Princess Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi’s engagement party
‘Pedo killed girl, 9, with chloroform while trying to sexually assault her in macabre home’, cops say
Disney’s stable of heroes dominates the big-screen galaxy
Copyright © 2020 Asean Breaking News. Power by Wordpress.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2155
|
__label__wiki
| 0.551273
| 0.551273
|
Bylaws & Constitution
Proceedings Archive
Officers & Councilors
The R. Bruce Merrifield Award
The Vincent du Vigneaud Award
The Murray Goodman Award
The Rao Makineni Lectureship Award
The APS Early Career Award
Young Investigator Award
Hirschmann Award
About the American Peptide Society
The American Peptide Society, APS, a nonprofit scientific and educational organization founded in 1990, provides a forum for advancing and promoting knowledge of the chemistry and biology of peptides. The approximately fifteen-hundred members of the Society come from North America and from more than forty-five other countries throughout the world. Establishment of the American Peptide Society was a result of the rapid worldwide growth that has occurred in peptide-related research, and of the increasing interaction of peptide scientists with virtually all fields of science.
Peptides are chains of amino acid residues with remarkable biological functions, ranging from hormonal regulation to antibiotic activities. Members of the American Peptide Society are involved in research in academia, industry, and government, covering all aspects of peptide chemistry, biology, and pharmaceutical science. Research topics include synthesis of biologically important targets, isolation and characterization of new products, structure-activity relationship studies, molecular diversity, de novo design, drug delivery, and the discovery of new pharmaceutical agents.
The American Peptide Society is a Sustaining Associate Member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, FASEB. Our affiliation with FASEB increases the visibility of our Society in the biomedical research community and allows our participation in any FASEB public affairs initiatives.
International Peptide Societies
Chinese Peptide Society
European Peptide Society
Indian Peptide Society
Japanese Peptide Society
Korean Peptide Society
Singapore Peptide Society
Other Peptide Related Links
British RSC Protein & Peptide Science Group
Boulder Peptide Symposium
PeptideLinks
Proteins in Hours
Advancements in the field of biopharmaceuticals and protein engineering necessitate the development of new methods for on-demand production of chemically modified proteins and peptides. Standard solid-phase...
Please join us for the 27th American Peptide Symposium to be held June 12-17, 2021 in the beautiful mountain town of Whistler, Canada. The meeting program will cover a broad range of peptide-related topics and provides an excellent opportunity to network and collaborate with scientists from around the world.
The American Peptide Society, APS, a nonprofit scientific and educational organization founded in 1990, provides a forum for advancing and promoting knowledge of the chemistry and biology of peptides.
Lauren Cline, Ph.D.
Association Manager
APSoffice17@gmail.com
2019 © American Peptide Society
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2159
|
__label__wiki
| 0.661455
| 0.661455
|
School Suspends Child For Having Bubble-Making “Gun”
A 5-year-old kindergarten student at Southeast Elementary in Brighton, Colo., was recently suspended for bringing a ‘fake weapon’ to school. The weapon: a transparent plastic gun with two Disney princesses adorning the side that blows bubbles with a trigger pull.
Southeast Elementary officials issued a statement defending the suspension, saying: “The bringing of weapons, real or facsimile, to our schools by students can not only create a potential safety concern but also cause a distraction for our students in the learning process.” The word "facsimile" can include any item that could reasonably be mistaken for a firearm, however it’s unclear how a Disney-branded bubble toy could be identified as such.
Similar incidents are why the National Rifle Association supports legislation to protect children and parents from misguided school officials, which can have lasting negative effects. As the kindergarten student’s mother stated, “It’s always going to be lingering there in her school file.”
D.C.’s ‘Good Reason’ Requirement Is Back … Temporarily
In a 2-to-1 vote, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the District of Columbia can continue to require residents to demonstrate a “good reason” to carry a firearm until it can hear further argument.
The federal court issued a stay on U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s temporary injunction, barring D.C. from requiring residents to demonstrate an extraordinary need to exercise a constitutional right. Judge Leon wrote that the requirement, which the city uses to create a de facto ban on carry, is “likely unconstitutional,” and that “the right to keep and bear arms includes the right to carry firearms for self-defense both inside and outside the home.”
Last week, resident Devin Watkins wrote in The Federalist that when he applied for his permit, D.C. police told him they had been ordered to ignore Leon’s injunction, and that his failure to fill out the “good reason” section would guarantee rejection of his application. The D.C. Attorney General’s office issued a clarification on May 27.
Donald Trump Reportedly Promises Answers On “Fast And Furious” To Victim’s Brother
Will we finally get some answers on “Fast and Furious”?
Kent Terry, the brother of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose murder was linked to guns smuggled to the Mexican drug cartels through the Justice Department’s disastrous Fast and Furious scheme, has tweeted that he met with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who “promised answers” about the gunrunning operation that—so far—has been shrouded in secrecy, obstruction and obfuscation, Ammoland reports.
“When I become president I will open the books on Fast and Furious and Brian,” Trump reportedly told Kent Terry, leading Terry to note, “First time in Brian’s death I honestly believe Mr. Trump will get answers.”
Such an investigation could prove costly to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As David Codrea wrote at Ammoland, it “could get honest investigative journalists asking what Hillary knew and when she knew it ... What was Hillary’s State Department doing while diplomatic channels were reportedly being bypassed and arms export laws were apparently being ignored ...?”
Chicago: Mayor’s Plea For Peace Goes Unheeded
The day after 20 people were shot over a span of 16 hours, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged residents to participate in his “Put The Guns Down” initiative last Friday. To support the effort, residents were encouraged to take part in citywide events that included barbecues, neighborhood clean-ups, prayer groups and youth sporting activities.
The mayor’s goal was to go a full 24 hours without any “gun violence”—more specifically, without any criminals shooting anybody. The mayor’s problem was that in his gun-controlled city, most of the citizens with guns are criminals. Thus, the sadly unsurprising holiday weekend tally totaled 69 people shot over 76 hours. That brings the yearly toll to 1,476 shooting victims—a pace well ahead of last year’s that ended with 2,988 victims.
In truth, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago doesn’t need any more gimmicky initiatives. What it does need is a leader who will fight for tougher prosecution and sentencing … and who will ultimately save lives.
Suppressor Measure Introduced In Illinois Legislature
Illinois legislators have introduced a measure that would legalize firearm sound suppressors in the state.
According to NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, this important pro-gun legislation will implement the full legalization of suppressors, allowing for their lawful possession and use, including for the taking of game. Suppressors provide numerous benefits to the hunters and sportsmen who choose to use them. Most importantly, suppressors decrease muzzle report to hearing-safe levels and reduce shooters’ risk of hearing damage, which can occur when discharging a firearm without the proper hearing protection. Additionally, suppressors help increase accuracy by reducing felt recoil and shot “flinch.”
Forty-two states currently allow for the sale, use and possession of firearm sound suppressors, while 38 of those states allow for their use while hunting. We’ll keep you posted as this measure is considered by the Illinois Legislature.
Armed Texas Man Stops NBA Player Who Broke Down His Door
A Dallas, Texas, man used his firearm to stop a man, later identified as an NBA player, who kicked down his front door and then tried to break into his bedroom as he slept.
According to local media reports, the man was sleeping early Saturday morning when he heard his apartment door being kicked open. After New Orleans Pelican guard Bryce Dejean-Jones busted the front door open and then kicked in the bedroom door, the man grabbed his gun and fired several shots, stopping the attack.
ESPN reported that the apartment complex sent an email to its residents Saturday morning, saying that Dejean-Jones was “believed to be breaking into the apartment of an estranged acquaintance (but) inadvertently broke into the wrong apartment.” Later reports indicate that Dejean-Jones apparently thought he was breaking down the door of his ex-girlfriend, who is the mother of his young daughter and lives in the same apartment complex.
A “Red-Flag Law” Horror Story
The RISE of the Woman Gun Owner
Why Democratic Leadership Wants Public Health Officials to Do Gun Research
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2160
|
__label__wiki
| 0.905065
| 0.905065
|
Now Reading Kentucky Downs Announces Additions to its Team for 2019
Kentucky Downs Announces Additions to its Team for 2019
Content provided by Blood-horse
Kentucky Downs announced several additions to its team including an expanded roster of broadcasters for its upcoming 2019 meet. (Eclipse Sportswire)
Rick Hammerle, among horse racing's most respected and innovative officials; popular New England sportscaster and former NBC racing analyst Bob Neumeier, and jockey Aaron Gryder are joining the Kentucky Downs team for America's most unique race meet.
Kentucky Downs runs Aug. 31 and Sept. 5, 7, 8 and 12. The all-turf meet offers America's largest field sizes, among the lowest overall takeout rates and the highest average daily purses in North America, Europe and Hong Kong at more than $2.3 million a day.
Aaron Gryder (Eclipse Sportswire)
Hammerle will serve as Kentucky Downs' director of horsemen's relations and racing operations, working closely with racing secretary Tyler Picklesimer and senior vice president and general manager Ted Nicholson.
Hammerle spent the past 16 years directing Santa Anita Park's racing program as racing secretary, including for a record seven Breeders' Cup championships. Hammerle earned a reputation as a strong conduit for communication between horsemen and management in Southern California and pioneered using email and texting services to give owners and trainers real-time information.
He has been a weekly guest on the online radio show "At the Races with Steve Byk" since the show's 2005 inception. Hammerle was a long-time member of the American Graded Stakes committee and the Breeders' Cup field selection committee.
"I'm a utility man; I'll do whatever they need," said Hammerle, who recently was also hired to be racing coordinator at Oaklawn Park's winter and spring meet. "I worked in California, obviously, and I've been in New Jersey, the East Coast and Florida. But the Midwest is new to me. And you know what? I love it. Because I'm going to meet some new people. I'm really excited to come out there. Whatever Tyler and Ted need, I'm in."
"Kentucky Downs is so fan friendly. It's what tracks should model themselves after. Between the Kentucky tracks and Oaklawn Park, they've got the formula. They love their racing, they love their horsemen and they love their fans -- and it shows."
Neumeier will be the guest paddock analyst along with Caton Bredar on Sept. 7, when Kentucky Downs will have five stakes (four graded) totaling $3.2 million, headed by the $1 million Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup and the $700,000 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint, a Challenge Series "Win and You're In" race for the $1 million, Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita. Neumeier is well-known to racing enthusiasts from his past work on NBC's Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup coverage.
Gryder will join Bredar doing on-air analysis on Sept. 5, 8 and 12 when he is not riding. A jockey for more than 30 years, Gryder has won almost 4,000 races around the globe and more than $122 million in purse earnings, including the Dubai World Cup on Well Armed in 2009. He has worked as a racing analyst when grounded by injuries.
In addition, Scott Jordan, the starter at Churchill Downs and Ellis Park, will oversee the loading of horses into the gate and the start of races at Kentucky Downs. Jordan, who became Churchill's head starter in 2006, assumes the Kentucky Downs position following the June 3 death of Robert "Spec" Alexander, who became an institution during almost 40 years of starting the races at Keeneland.
Kentucky Downs announced in November that Michael Wrona, long regarded among the world's premier announcers, will be the new voice of the track.
"We are always looking for ways to enhance the experience of Kentucky Downs racing for our on-track guests, which includes our horsemen, and those betting our races around the country," Nicholson said. "We're blessed to have among the very best in the business join the team for the fastest five days in horse racing. Rick Hammerle enhances any racing operation in which he's involved with his extensive contacts, experience at the sport's highest level, big-picture view and outgoing and unflappable personality.
"We know the racing public will enjoy watching Caton Bredar work with Bob Neumeier on Sept. 7, our biggest day of racing in track history. Neumie is personable and funny, but most importantly he's insightful and knowledgeable and an ideal complement to Caton, who is the gold standard for paddock analysts.
"Aaron Gryder, who has ridden and will continue to ride at Kentucky Downs, provides an insider's view of the most distinctive course in America as well as the perspective of someone who has been in 30,000 races around the world."
Also joining Kentucky Downs' all-star team:
David Loignan will oversee the broadcasting of Kentucky Downs' race meet. Loignan's television production company in Austin, Tex., is the event producer for Circuit of The Americas Grand Prix racing and works with ESPN Event Production on the X Games Austin and X Games Aspen. He has an extensive horse-racing background, serving as general manager for Churchill Downs Simulcast Productions for six years and working for TVG as supervising producer when that network was being launched.
Coady Photography, America's premier professionals for shooting racetrack pictures, takes over as Kentucky Downs' official track photographer, giving the company the contracts at all five thoroughbred tracks in the state. Brothers Kurtis, Kevin and Shawn Coady are third-generation track photographers with the company approaching 60 years in the game.
Swaps: A Well-Oiled Machine
2020 Lecomte Stakes at a Glance
SLIDESHOW: Meet the 2020 Pegasus World Cup Contenders
Santa Anita’s ‘Seabiscuit’ Retired to Serve as Hands-On Horse for Autistic Children
Tips for Finding the Right Reasons to Back a Live Longshot
2019 Kentucky Derby Cheat Sheet
Share · EN ESPAÑOL
Get to Know All 13 U.S. Triple Crown Winners
Authentic Romps in Eventful Sham Stakes Score
2020 Sham Stakes at a Glance
Making a Case: The Best Racetrack Categories at the Fan Choice Awards
Where to Watch/Listen During 2019 Woodbine Mile Week
From Presidential Tweet to Cultural Influence to Million-Dollar Racehorse: COVFEFE
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2161
|
__label__wiki
| 0.587106
| 0.587106
|
Browsing Alitalia.com, you accept the use of profiling cookies either ours or third-party ones. More information about cookies.
Select Country AlbaniaArgentinaAustraliaBelgiumBrazilCanadaChileDenmarkEgyptFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIsraelItalyJapanLebanonMexicoMoroccoNetherlandsPolandRussiaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSwitzerlandTunisiaUnited KingdomUnited States Select Language
Your Departure Your Departure, Int, Denmark (AAL)Aalesund, Aalesund Vigra Aereoporto, Norway (AES)Aberdeen (UK), Dyce, Great Britain (ABZ)Abha, Khamis Mushayat Airport, Saudi Arabia (AHB)Abidjan, Port Bouet Apt., Ivory Coast (ABJ)Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Itl., United Arab Emirates (AUH)Acapulco, General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport, Mexico (ACA)Accra, Kotoka, Ghana (ACC)Adana, Adana / Sakirpasa civil airport, Turkey (ADA)Addis Ababa, Bole, Ethiopia (ADD)Adelaide, International Airport, Australia (ADL)Adler, International Airport, Russia (AER)Aeroparque, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Argentina (AEP)Agadir, Al Massira, Morocco (AGA)Ajaccio, Campo dell'Oro, France (AJA)Al Ain, Al Ain Shuttle Bus, United Arab Emirates (AAN)Albany GA, Dougherty County, USA (ABY)Albany GAThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India (TRV)Albany NY, Albany NY, Albany County Airport, NY, USA (ALB)Albuquerque, International Airport, USA (ABQ)Alexandroupolis, Int., Greece (AXD)Alghero, Fertilia, Italy (AHO)Algiers, Houari Boumedienne, Algeria (ALG)Alicante, Alicante Elche, Spain (ALC)Allentown, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, USA (ABE)Almaty, Int, Kazakhstan (ALA)Amman, Queen Alia Itl., Jordan (AMM)Amritsar, RajaSansi Intl. Airport, India (ATQ)Amsterdam, Schiphol Intl., Netherlands (AMS)Ancona, Falconara, Italy (AOI)Ankara, Esenboğa Intl., Turkey (ESB)Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (ANK)Antalya, Havalimani Int., Turkey (AYT)Antananarivo, Int, Madagascar (TNR)Antwerp, Deurne, Belgium (ANR)Aqaba, Aqaba King Hussein Airport, Jordan (AQJ)Aracaju, Santa Maria, Brazil (AJU)Arkhangelsk, International Airport, Pakistan (ARH)Aruba, Queen Beatrix, Netherlands Antilles (AUA)Asheville, Asheville Regional Airport, USA (AVL)Astrakhan, International Airport, Russia (ASF)Asunción, Silvio Pettirossi Intl Airport, Paraguay (ASU)Aswan, Daraw, Egypt (ASW)Athens, Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece (ATH)Atlanta, Hartsfield Atlanta Itl., USA (ATL)Auckland, International Airport, New Zealand (AKL)Augusta, Bush Field, USA (AGS)Austin, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, USA (AUS)Avignon, Caumont, France (AVN)Bacău, International Airport, Romania (BCM)Bahia , Porto Seguro, Brazil (BPS)Bahrain, Int, Bahrain (BAH)Bahía Blanca, Bahia Blanca Comandante Espora, Argentina (BHI)Baia Mare, Tauti Magherusi, Romania (BAY)Baku, Heydar Aliyev Intl., Azerbaijan (GYD)Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan (BAK)Ballina, International Airport, Australia (BNK)Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International, USA (BWI)Baltra, Seymour, Ecuador (GPS)Bamako, Int, Mali (BKO)Bangalore, Bengaluru Intl., India (BLR)Bangkok, Int, Thailand (BKK)Bangui, Int, Central African Republic (BGF)Banja Luka, Banja Luka International Airport, Bosnia (BNX)Barcelona, El Prat, Spain (BCN)Bari, Palese, Italy (BRI)Bariloche, Teniente Luis Candelaria international Airport, Argentina (BRC)Barnaul, International Airport, Russia (BAX)Barranquilla, International Airport, Colombia (BAQ)Basel, EuroAirport, Switzerland (EAP)Basel, Basel EuroAirport, Switzerland (BSL)Bastia, Poretta Corsica, France (BIA)Beijing, Capital Intl. Airport, China (PEK)Beirut, Int, Lebanon (BEY)Belem, Val de Cans Intl. Airport, Brazil (BEL)Belfast, Belfast, Great Britain (BFS)Belfast City, Belfast City Airport, Great Britain (BHD)Belgrade, Surcin, Serbia (BEG)Belo Horizonte, Confins Pampulha, Brazil (PLU)Belo Horizonte, Tancredo Neves Int., Brazil (CNF)Belo Horizonte, Belohorizonte, Brazil (BHZ)Benghazi, Int, Libya (BEN)Bergamo, Orio al Serio, Italy (BGY)Bergen, Flesland, Norway (BGO)Berlin, Tegel, Germany (TXL)Berlin, Int. Airport, Germany (BER)Bhopal, Bhopal, India (BHO)Biarritz, Bayonne Anglet, France (BIQ)Bilbao, International Airport, Spain (BIO)Billund, Int, Denmark (BLL)Birmingham, Int, Great Britain (BHX)Birmingham, Seibels/Bryan Airport, USA (BHM)Bishkek, Int, Kyrgyzstan (FRU)Bodrum, Bodrum civil airport, Turkey (BJV)Bogotá, Int, Colombia (BOG)Boise, Boise Gowen Field Airport, USA (BOI)Bologna, G. Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. Airport, Japan (FUK)Funchal, Santa Catarina, Portugal (FNC)Fuzhou, International Airport , China (FOC)Gainesville, Jr Alison Municipal, USA (GNV)Gassim, Gassim International, Saudi Arabia (ELQ)Geneva, Cointrin, Switzerland (GVA)Genoa, C.Colombo, Italy (GOA)Giuba, Giuba, Sudan (JUB)Gizan, Jizan-Re Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (GIZ)Glasgow, Glasgow, Prestwick, Great Britain (PIK)Glasgow, Abbotsinch International, Great Britain (GLA)Goiânia, Santa Genoveva, Brazil (GYN)Goldcoast, International Airport, Australia (OOL)Gothenburg, Landvetter, Sweden (GOT)Goulimime, Goulimime civil airport, Morocco (GLN)Grand Cayman, International Airport, Cayman Islands (GCM)Grand Rapids, Kent County International Airport, USA (GRR)Graz, Graz, Austria (GRZ)Greensboro, Piedmont Triad Intl Airport, USA (GSO)Guadalajara, International Airport, Mexico (GDL)Guaranì, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT)Guayaquil, Simón Bolívar, Ecuador (GYE)Gulfport, Gulfport/Biloxi, USA (GPT)Ha'il, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (HAS)Halifax, Stanfield Intl. Airport, Canada (YHZ)Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Germany (HAM)Hanga Roa, Mataveri, Chile (IPC)Hangzhou, Int, China (HGH)Hanoi, Noi Bai Intl Apt, Vietnam (HAN)Hanover, Langenhagen, Germany (HAJ)Hartford, Bradley Intl., USA (BDL)Havana, José Martí, Cuba (HAV)Helsinki, Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland (HEL)Heraklion, Nikos Kazantakis, Greece (HER)Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan (HIJ)Ho Chi Minh, International Airport, Vietnam (SGN)Hobart, International Airport, Australia (HBA)Hong Kong, Int, China, Hong Kong (HKG)Honolulu, Honolulu Intl., USA (HNL)Horta, International Airport, Portugal (HOR)Houston, Houston Intercontinental, USA (IAH)Houston, Hobby Airport, USA (HOU)Huambo, Huambo-Albano Machado, Angola (NOV)Huatulco, International Airport, Mexico (HUX)Humberside, Int., Great Britain (HUY)Huntsville, Huntsville-Madison County Jetplex, USA (HSV)Iași, Civil Airport, Romania (IAS)Ibiza, Es Codolar, Spain (IBZ)Iguazu Falls, Cataratas, Brazil (IGU)Iguazú, Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport, Argentina (IGR)Ilheus, Jorge Amado, Brazil (IOS)Indianapolis, Indianapolis International Airport, USA (IND)Indore, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar , India (IDR)Inverness, International airport, Great Britain (INV)Irkutsk, International Airport, Russia (IKT)Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Intl., Pakistan (ISB)Islip, Long Island-MacArthur Airport, USA (ISP)Istambul, Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey (SAW)Istanbul, Ataturk, Turkey (IST)Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, International airport, Mexico (ZIH)Ixtepec, Ixtepec, Mexico (IZT)Izumo, Intl. Airport, Japan (IZO)Jackson, Allen C Thompson Field, USA (JAN)Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport, USA (JAX)Jaipur, Jaipur, India (JAI)Jakarta, All airports, Indonesia (JKT)Jakarta, Halim Perdanakusuma Intl., Indonesia (HLP)Jakarta, Soekarno Hatta Intl., Indonesia (CGK)Jeddah, King Abdulaziz Int., Saudi Arabia (JED)Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo, South Africa (JNB)Joinville, Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, Brazil (JOI)Juazeiro Do Norte, Orlando Bezerra De Menezes, Brazil (JDO)Jujuy, Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport El Cadillal, Argentina (JUJ)Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan (KOJ)Kahului, International Airport, USA (OGG)Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Airport, Russia (KGD)Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA (MKC)Kansas City, Kansas City Intl., USA (MCI)Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam Intl, Pakistan (KHI)Karlsruhe , Baden Baden Airport, Germany (FKB)Kauai Island, Lihue Municipal Airport, USA (LIH)Kavala, Int., Greece (KVA)Kazan, International Airport, Russia (KZN)Keflavik, International Airport, Iceland (KEF)Kelowna, Intl. Airport, Canada (YLW)Kemerovo, International Airport, Russia (KEJ)Keywest, International Airport, USA (EYW)Khabarovsk, Novy, Russia (KHV)Khartoum, Civil, Sudan (KRT)Kiev, Borispol, Ukraine (KBP)Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (IEV)Kigali, Int, Rwanda (KGL)Kilimanjaro, Int, Tanzania (JRO)Kingston, Norman Rogers Airport, Canada (YGK)Kinshasa, N'Djili, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIH)Knoxville, McGhee Tyson, USA (TYS)Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl. Apt, India (CCU)Komatsu, Kanazawa di Komatsu , Japan (KMQ)Kona, Keahole, USA (KOA)Kos, Int., Greece (KGS)Kosice, International Airport, Slovakia (KSC)Krakow, Jana Pawła II Intl., Poland (KRK)Krasnodar, Pashkovsky, Russia (KRR)Krasnoyarsk, KJA, Russia (KJA)Kristiansand, Kjevik, Norway (KRS)Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)Kuito, Bie Silva Porto, Angola (SVP)Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (KMJ)Kunming, Changshui Intl. Airport, China (KMG)Kuwait, Int, Kuwait (KWI)La Aurora, La Aurora Intl Airport, Guatemala (GUA)La Coruna, La Coruna Alvedro Airport, Spain (LCG)La Rioja, Capitán Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airpor, Argentina (IRJ)Lagos, Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria (LOS)Lahore, Allama Iqbal Intl., Pakistan (LHE)Lamezia Terme, S.Eufemia, Italy (SUF)Lampedusa, International Airport, Italy (LMP)Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain (ACE)Larnaca/Nicosia, Int. Airport, Cyprus (LCA)Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain (LPA)Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)Leeds, Bradford, Great Britain (LBA)Leipzig, Leipzig Int., Germany (LEJ)Leopoli, Leopoli Airport, Ukraine (LWO)Libreville, Int, Gabon (LBV)Liege, International Airport, Belgium (LGG)Lille, Lesquin, France (LIL)Lima, Jorge Chávez Itl., Peru (LIM)Linköping, Saab, Sweden (LPI)Lisbon, Portela de Sacavém, Portugal (LIS)Little Rock, Little Rock Regional Airport, USA (LIT)Liverpool, John Lennon Airport (Speke), Great Britain (LPL)Livingstone, Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Zambia (LVI)Ljubljana, Brnik, Slovenia (LJU)Lomé, Int, Togo (LFW)London, London, Great Britain (LON)London, Heathrow, Great Britain (LHR)London, London City, Great Britain (LCY)London, Ontario Canada, International Airport, Canada (YXU)Londrina, Gov. José Richa, Brazil (LDB)Lorient, Lann-Bihouet, France (LRT)Los Angeles, Int, USA (LAX)Louisville, Standiford Field, USA (SDF)Lourdes, Tarbes Intl., France (LDE)Luanda, Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola (LAD)Lubango, Lubango, Angola (SDD)Lublin, Lublin Airport, Poland (LUZ)Lucknow, Chaudhary Charan Singh, India (LKO)Luena, Luso di Luena, Angola (LUO)Lugano, Agno, Switzerland (LUG)Lumumbashi, Luano, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FBM)Lusaka, Lusaka International, Zambia (LUN)Luton, Luton, Great Britain (LTN)Luxembourg, Findel, Luxembourg (LUX)Luxor, Int, Egypt (LXR)Lynchburg, Municipal Airport, USA (LYH)Lyon, St. Exupéry, France (LYS)Lázaro Cárdenas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (LZC)Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands (MST)Maceió, Palmares, Brazil (MCZ)Macon, Lewis B Wilson, USA (MCN)Madrid, Barajas, Spain (MAD)Malabo, Saint Isabel, Equatorial Guinea (SSG)Malaga, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spain (AGP)Malindi, Int, Kenya (MYD)Malta, Luqa International, Malta (MLA)Malé, Ibrahim Nasir Intl, Maldives (MLE)Manaus, Eduardo Gomes Int., Brazil (MAO)Manchester, Itl., Great Britain (MAN)Manila, Ninoy Aquino Intl., Philippines (MNL)Manizales, La Nubia, Colombia (MZL)Mar del Plata, Astor Piazzolla international Airport, Argentina (MDQ)Maroochydore, International Airport, Australia (MCY)Marrakech, Menara, Morocco (RAK)Marseille, Provence, France (MRS)Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Japan (MYJ)Mauritius, Sir Seew. Ramgoolam Itl, Mauritius (MRU)Medellin, International Airport, Colombia (MDE)Melbourne, International Airport, Australia (MEL)Melbourne FL, Regional Airport, USA (MLB)Memphis, International Airport, USA (MEM)Mendoza, Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli International Airport El Plumerillo, Argentina (MDZ)Menongue, Menongue, Angola (SPP)Menorca, Aerop De Menorca, Spain (MAH)Merida, International Airport, Mexico (MID)Metz Nancy, Lorraine, France (ETZ)Mexico City, Benito Juarez Itl., Mexico (MEX)Miami, Int, USA (MIA)Milan, All airports, Italy (MIL)Milan, Malpensa, Italy (MXP)Milan, Linate, Italy (LIN)Milwaukee, General Mitchell Field, USA (MKE)Minneapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul Intl Airport, USA (MSP)Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (MSQ)Mobile, Mobile Municipal, USA (MOB)Mombasa, Moi International, Kenya (MBA)Moncton, Greater Moncton Intl. Airport, Canada (YQM)Monterrey, Escobedo, Mexico (MTY)Montgomery, Dannelly Field, USA (MGM)Montpellier, Fréjorgues, France (MPL)Montreal, Dorval, Canada (YUL)Montreal, Montreal, Mirabel, Canada (YMX)Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Russia (SVO)Moscow, Moscow Airport, Russia (MOW)Moscow, Domodedovo, Russia (DME)Mulhouse, Euroairport, France (MLH)Mumbai (Bombay), Int, India (BOM)Munich, Franz Josef Strauss, Germany (MUC)Murmansk, Civil Airport, Russia (MMK)Muscat, Seeb, Oman (MCT)Mykonos, Int., Greece (JMK)Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach International, USA (MYR)Mytilene, Int., Greece (MJT)N'Djamena, Int, Chad (NDJ)Nador, Taouima Airport, Morocco (NDR)Nagoya, Intl Airport Chūbu, Japan (NGO)Nairobi, Nairobi, Wilson Arpt, Kenya (WIL)Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Itl., Kenya (NBO)Nanjing, Lukou International Airport , China (NKG)Nantes, Château Bougon, France (NTE)Naples, Capodichino, Italy (NAP)Nashville, Nashville Metropolitan Airport, USA (BNA)Natal, Augusto Severo Int., Brazil (NAT)Navegantes, Ministro Victor Konder, Brazil (NVT)Ndola, Ndola, Zambia (NLA)Neuquén, Presidente Perón international Airport, Argentina (NQN)New Delhi, Int, India (DEL)New Orleans, New Orleans, USA (MSY)New York, NEW YORK, USA (NYC)New York, J.F.K., USA (JFK)Newcastle, Int, Great Britain (NCL)Niamey, Int, Niger (NIM)Nice, Côte d'Azur, France (NCE)Nizhniy, Nižnij Novgorod-Strighino Airport, Russia (GOJ)Norfolk, Norfolk International Airport, USA (ORF)North bay, Garland Airport, Canada (YYB)Norwich, Weather Centre, Great Britain (NWI)Nouakchott, Int, Mauritania (NKC)Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo, Russia (OVB)Nukus, G.nukus, Uzbekistan (NCU)Nuremberg, Int., Germany (NUE)Oakland, International Airport, USA (OAK)Oaxaca, International Airport, Mexico (OAX)Odessa, International Airport, Ukraine (ODS)Ohrid, St. Paul the Apostle Airport, Macedonia/FYROM (OHD)Okayama, Intl. Airport, Japan (OKJ)Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan (OKA)Oklahoma City, Will Rogers World Airport, USA (OKC)Olbia, Costa Smeralda, Italy (OLB)Omaha, Eppley Airfield, USA (OMA)Omsk, Civil Airport, Russia (OMS)Ongiva Pereira, Ongiva Pereira, Angola (VPE)Ontario, Ontario International, USA (ONT)Oporto, Francisco Sá Carneiro, Portugal (OPO)Oradea, International Airport, Romania (OMR)Oran, Es Senia Intl., Algeria (ORN)Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA (ORL)Orlando, Orlando Int. Apt., USA (MCO)Osaka, Osaka International, Japan (OSA)Osaka, Kansai, Japan (KIX)Osaka, Itami, Japan (ITM)Oslo, Gardermoen, Norway (OSL)Ostrava, International Airport, Czech Republic (OSR)Ottawa, Ottawa Intl Airport, Canada (YOW)Ouagadougou, Int, Burkina Faso (OUA)Ouarzazate, Taourirte Angads Airport, Morocco (OZZ)Oujda, Les Anglades Airport, Morocco (OUD)Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (OVD)Palermo, P. Raisi, Italy (PMO)Palma de Mallorca, Son San Juan, Spain (PMI)Panama City, PFN, USA (PFN)Panama City, Tocumen Intl, Panama (PTY)Pantelleria, Public and Military Airport, Italy (PNL)Papeete, Faaa, French Polynesia (PPT)Paraná, General Justo José de Urquiza Airport, Argentina (PRA)Paris, Paris, France (PAR)Paris, Orly, France (ORY)Paris, Charles de Gaulle, France (CDG)Parma, Giuseppe Verdi, Italy (PMF)Pau Pont Long, Uzein Pyrénées, France (PUF)Penang, Penang Int., Malaysia (PEN)Pensacola, Regional, USA (PNS)Pereira, Matecaña, Colombia (PEI)Perm, Civil Airport, Russia (PEE)Perpignan, Rivesaltes, France (PGF)Perth, Int, Australia (PER)Perugia, International Airport, Italy (PEG)Pescara, Liberi, Italy (PSR)Philadelphia, Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, USA (PNE)Philadelphia, Intl, USA (PHL)Phnom Penh, Pochentong, Cambodia (PNH)Phoenix, Sky Harbor International Airport, USA (PHX)Phuket, Int, Thailand (HKT)Pico Island, International Airport, Portugal (PIX)Pisa, Galileo Galilei, Italy (PSA)Pittsburg, Greater Pittsburgh, USA (PIT)Podgorica, Golubovci, Montenegro (TGD)Pohang, Pohang, Rep South Korea (KPO)Pointe Noire, Int, Congo (PNR)Pointe-à-Pitre, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe (PTP)Ponta Delgada, João Paulo II, Portugal (PDL)Port Harcourt, Int, Nigeria (PHC)Port-au-Prince, Toussaint Louverture, Haiti (PAP)Portland ME, Portland International Jetport, USA (PWM)Portland OR, Portland International Airport, USA (PDX)Porto Alegre, Salgado Filho Int., Brazil (POA)Porto Santo, Civil Airport, Portugal (PXO)Porto Velho , Porto Velho, Brazil (PVH)Posadas, Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, Argentina (PSS)Prague, Václav Havel Apt., Czech Republic (PRG)Praslin Island, PRI, Seychelles (PRI)Providence, T.F. Green State, USA (PVD)Puerto Escondido, International airport, Mexico (PXM)Puerto Vallarta, G.Diaz Ordaz Intl, Mexico (PVR)Pula, Pula International Airport, Croatia (PUY)Pune, Pune, India (PNQ)Punta Cana, Punta Cana Intl, Dominican Republic (PUJ)Pusan, Busan-Gimhae International Airport, Rep South Korea (PUS)Qingdao, International Airport, China (TAO)Quebec city, Jean-Lesage Intl., Canada (YQB)Queenstown, International airport, New Zealand (ZQN)Quimper, Pluguffan, France (UIP)Quito, Mariscal Sucre, Ecuador (UIO)Rabat, Salé, Morocco (RBA)Raleigh/Durham, Raleigh Durham International Arpt, USA (RDU)Recife, Guararapes Int. Apt., Brazil (REC)Reggio Calabria, Tito Minniti, Italy (REG)Regina, Regina Intl. Airport, Canada (YQR)Rennes, Saint Jacques, France (RNS)Resistencia, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (RES)Rhodes, Paradisi, Greece (RHO)Ribeirão Preto , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil (RAO)Richmond, Richmond Itl., USA (RIC)Riga, International Airport, Latvia (RIX)Rimini, Federico Fellini, Italy (RMI)Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto Airport, Argentina (RCU)Rio de Janeiro, Santos Dumont Intl. Airport, Brazil (SDU)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Airport, Brazil (RIO)Rio de Janeiro, Int, Brazil (GIG)Riyadh, King Khalid Int., Saudi Arabia (RUH)Roanoke, Roanoke Regional Airport, USA (ROA)Rochester, Monroe County, USA (ROC)Rome, Rome, Italy (ROM)Rome, Fiumicino, Italy (FCO)Rosario, Islas Malvinas international Airport, Argentina (ROS)Rostock , Laage-Rostock , Germany (RLG)Rostov, Rostov-na-Donu International Airport, Russia (ROV)Rotterdam, Zestienhoven, Netherlands (RTM)Río Gallegos, Río Gallegos Airport, Argentina (RGL)Río Grande, Hermes Quijada International Airport, Argentina (RGA)Río Hondo, Termas de Rio Hondo International Airport, Argentina (RHD)Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken Airport, Germany (SCN)Sacheon, Sacheon Air Base, Rep South Korea (HIN)Sacramento, Sacramento Intl., USA (SMF)Saint Denis de la Réunion, Roland Garros, Réunion (RUN)Saint john, Saint John Airport, Canada (YSJ)Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City International Arpt, USA (SLC)Salta, Martín Miguel de Güemes international Airport, Argentina (SLA)Salvador da Bahia, Airport Luis R. Magalhães, Brazil (SSA)Salzburg, W.A. Mozart, Austria (SZG)Samara, Kurumoch , Russia (KUF)Samarkand, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (SKD)Samos, Int., Greece (SMI)Samsun, Samsun, Turkey (SZF)San Andrés, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia (ADZ)San Antonio, San Antonio International, USA (SAT)San Diego, Lindbergh International Airport, USA (SAN)San Francisco, Int, USA (SFO)San Jose, International Airport, Costa Rica (SJO)San Juan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Airport Las Chacritas, Argentina (UAQ)San Juan, Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico (SJU)San Luis, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (LUQ)San Luis Potosi, Ponciano Arriaga Intl, Mexico (SLP)San Martín de los Andes, Aviador Carlos Campos Airport Chapelco, Argentina (CPC)San Rafael , Suboficial Ayudante Santiago Germano International Airport, Argentina (AFA)Sandefjord, Torf, Norway (TRF)Sanpedrosula, International Airport, Honduras (SAP)Santa Ana, John Wayne Airport, USA (SNA)Santa Cruz, El Trompillo, Bolivia (SRZ)Santa Fe, Sauce Viejo Airport, Argentina (SFN)Santa Marta, Simón Bolívar, Colombia (SMR)Santa Rosa , Santa Rosa La Pampa Airport, Argentina (RSA)Santiago de Chile, Comodoro A.M. Benitez, Chile (SCL)Santiago del Estero, Vicecomodoro Ángel de la Paz Aragonés Airport Mal Paso, Argentina (SDE)Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Las Américas, Dominican Republic (SDQ)Santorini, Int., Greece (JTR)Sao Luiz, Marechal Cunha Machado Int., Brazil (SLZ)Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil (SAO)Sao Paulo, Guarulhos, Brazil (GRU)Sao Paulo, Congonhas Airport, Brazil (CGH)Sao Paulo, Viracopos Campinas Airport, Brazil (VCP)Sapporo, International Airport, Japan (SPK)Sapporo, Chitose, Japan (CTS)Sarajevo, Butmir, Bosnia (SJJ)Sarasota, Sarasota-Bradenton, USA (SRQ)Sarnia, Chris Hadfield Airport, Canada (YZR)Saskatoon, John G. Diefenbaker Intl. Airport, Canada (YXE)Satu Mare, International Airport, Romania (SUJ)Sault ste. Marie, Intl. Airport, Canada (YAM)Saurimo, Saurimo, Angola (VHC)Savannah, Travis Field, USA (SAV)Seattle, Tacoma Itl., USA (SEA)Sendai, Sendai Airport, Japan (SDJ)Seoul, Gimpo International Airport, Rep South Korea (GMP)Seoul, Int. Airport, Rep South Korea (SEL)Seoul, Incheon Intl., Rep South Korea (ICN)Seville, San Pablo, Spain (SVQ)Seychelles, Seychelles Itl, Seychelles (SEZ)Shanghai, All airports, China (SHA)Shanghai, Pudong, China (PVG)Sharm El Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh International, Egypt (SSH)Shenyang, Taoxian International Airport, China (SHE)Shenzhen, Bao’an International Airport, China (SZX)Shreveport, Regional Airport, USA (SHV)Sibiu, International Airport, Romania (SBZ)Simferopol, International Airport, Ukraine (SIP)Singapore, Changi, Singapore (SIN)Skopje, Petrovec, Macedonia/FYROM (SKP)Smirne, Adnan Menderes International Airport, Turkey (ADB)Sofia, Int, Bulgaria (SOF)Southampton, Eastleigh, Great Britain (SOU)Soyo, Soyo, Angola (SZA)Split, Int. Airport, Croatia (SPU)Spokane, Spokane Intl., USA (GEG)St. John’s, St. John’s Intl. Airport, Canada (YYT)St. Louis, Lambert-St Louis Internatl, USA (STL)St. Maarten, Juliana, Netherlands Antilles (SXM)St. Petersburg, Pulkovo, Russia (LED)St. Thomas Island, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands (US) (STT)Stavanger, Sola, Norway (SVG)Stavropol, Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport, Russia (STW)Stettino, Goleniow Airport, Poland (SZZ)Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (STO)Stockholm, Stockholm, Bromma Arpt, Sweden (BMA)Stockholm, Arlanda, Sweden (ARN)Strasbourg, Int, France (SXB)Stuttgart, Echterdingen, Germany (STR)Suceava, International Airport, Romania (SCV)Sudbury, Greater Sudbury Airport, Canada (YSB)Sydney, JA Douglas McCurdy Airport, Canada (YQY)Sydney, Kingsford Smith, Australia (SYD)Syracuse, Hancock International Airport, USA (SYR)Syros Island, Int., Greece (JSY)Szczytno, Civil Airport, Poland (SZY)Taegu, Daegu International Airport, Rep South Korea (TAE)Taipei, Chiang Kai Shek Airport, China, Taiwan (TPE)Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Japan (TAK)Tallahassee, Tallahassee, TLH, FL, USA (TLH)Tallinn, Ülemiste, Estonia (TLL)Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico (CVM)Tampa, Int, USA (TPA)Tan Tan, Plage Blanche Airport, Morocco (TTA)Tangier, Boukhalef Souahel, Morocco (TNG)Tashkent, Int, Uzbekistan (TAS)Tbilisi, International Airport, Georgia (TBS)Teesside, Itl., Great Britain (MME)Tegucigalpa, International Airport, Honduras (TGU)Tehran, International Airport, Iran (THR)Tehran, Imam Khomeini Intl., Iran (IKA)Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion, Israel (TLV)Tenerife, Tenerife North Los Rodeos, Spain (TFN)Tenerife, International Airport, Spain (TCI)Tepic, Amado Nervo, Mexico (TPQ)Terceira Island, Base Aérea das Lajes, Portugal (TER)Thessaloniki, Makedonia, Greece (SKG)Thunder bay, Thunder Bay Intl., Canada (YQT)Tijuana, International Airport, Mexico (TIJ)Timișoara, Traian Vuia, Romania (TSR)Timmins, Victor M. Power Airport, Canada (YTS)Tirana, Rinas, Albania (TIA)Tokyo, Tokyo Airport, Japan (TYO)Tokyo, Narita, Japan (NRT)Tokyo, Haneda, Japan (HND)Toronto, Pearson Itl, Canada (YYZ)Toronto, Toronto Airport, Canada (YTO)Toulon, Hyères, France (TLN)Toulouse, Blagnac, France (TLS)Toyama, Toyama, Japan (TOY)Trapani, Birgi, Italy (TPS)Trebisonda, Trebisonda, Turkey (TZX)Trelew, Almirante Marcos A. Zar International Airport, Argentina (REL)Tri City, Municipal Tri-City Airport, USA (TRI)Trieste, R.Dei Legionari, Italy (TRS)Tripoli, Int, Libya (TIP)Trondheim, Trondheim-Vaernes, Norway (TRD)Tucson, Tucson Intl., USA (TUS)Tucumán , Tucumán Benjamín Matienzo International Airport, Argentina (TUC)Tulsa, Tulsa International, USA (TUL)Tunis, Carthage, Tunisia (TUN)Turaif, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (TIF)Turin, Caselle, Italy (TRN)Tuxtla Gutierrez, International Airport, Mexico (TGZ)Tyumen, Civil Airport, Russia (TJM)Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureș, Romania (TGM)Tétouan, Saniat Ramel Airport, Morocco (TTU)Udaipur, Maharana Pratap Airport, India (UDR)Ufa, Civil Airport, Russia (UFA)Ulsan, International Airport, Rep South Korea (USN)Urgench, Urgench International Airport, Uzbekistan (UGC)Ushuaia, Islas Malvinas Airport, Argentina (USH)Valdosta, Valdosta Regional, USA (VLD)Valencia, International Airport, Spain (VLC)Valparaiso, Fort Walton Beach, USA (VPS)Vancouver, Vancouver Intl., Canada (YVR)Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver Harbour Airport, Canada (CXH)Varadero, Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, Cuba (VRA)Varna, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (VAR)Venice, Marco Polo, Italy (VCE)Veracruz, International Airport, Mexico (VER)Verona, Villafranca Veronese, Italy (VRN)Victoria, Victoria Intl. Airport, Canada (YYJ)Viedma, Gobernador Edgardo Castello di Viedma Airport, Argentina (VDM)Vienna, Schwechat, Austria (VIE)Vigo, Peinador, Spain (VGO)Villahermosa, International Airport, Mexico (VSA)Viruviru, International Airport, Bolivia (VVI)Vitória, Eurico Salles, Brazil (VIX)Vladivostok, Knevichi, Russia (VVO)Volgograd, Volgograd-Gumrak, Russia (VOG)Warsaw, Chopin Airport, Poland (WAW)Washington, Washington, DC, USA (WAS)Washington, Dulles, USA (IAD)Washington, R. Reagan Washington Nat., USA (DCA)Wenzhou, International Airport, China (WNZ)West Palm Beach, International Airport, USA (PBI)Westchester County, Westchester County Airport, USA (HPN)Westerland, Sylt Airport, Germany (GWT)Wichita, Mid-Continent, USA (ICT)Wilmington, New Hanover County Airport, USA (ILM)Windsor, Windsor Intl. Airport, Canada (YQG)Winnipeg, Winnipeg Richardson Intl. Airport, Canada (YWG)Wuhan, Int, China (WUH)Xiamen, Int, China (XMN)Xianyang, International Airport, China (XIY)Yanbu, Prince Yanbu Abd al-Muhsin bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (YNB)Yaoundé Nsimalen, Nsimalen, Cameroon (NSI)Yeosu, Yeosu, Rep South Korea (RSU)Yerevan, Int, Armenia (EVN)Zagabria, Pleso, Croatia (ZAG)Zanzibar, Kisauni, Tanzania (ZNZ)Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport, China (CGO)Zielona Góra, Babimost Airport, Poland (IEG)Zurich, International Airport, Switzerland (ZRH)Čeljabinsk, Chelyabinsk Airport, Russia (CEK)Čeljabinsk, Int, Nigeria (ABV)
Your Destination Your Destination, Int, Denmark (AAL)Aalesund, Aalesund Vigra Aereoporto, Norway (AES)Aberdeen (UK), Dyce, Great Britain (ABZ)Abha, Khamis Mushayat Airport, Saudi Arabia (AHB)Abidjan, Port Bouet Apt., Ivory Coast (ABJ)Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Itl., United Arab Emirates (AUH)Acapulco, General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport, Mexico (ACA)Accra, Kotoka, Ghana (ACC)Adana, Adana / Sakirpasa civil airport, Turkey (ADA)Addis Ababa, Bole, Ethiopia (ADD)Adelaide, International Airport, Australia (ADL)Adler, International Airport, Russia (AER)Aeroparque, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Argentina (AEP)Agadir, Al Massira, Morocco (AGA)Ajaccio, Campo dell'Oro, France (AJA)Al Ain, Al Ain Shuttle Bus, United Arab Emirates (AAN)Albany GA, Dougherty County, USA (ABY)Albany GAThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India (TRV)Albany NY, Albany NY, Albany County Airport, NY, USA (ALB)Albuquerque, International Airport, USA (ABQ)Alexandroupolis, Int., Greece (AXD)Alghero, Fertilia, Italy (AHO)Algiers, Houari Boumedienne, Algeria (ALG)Alicante, Alicante Elche, Spain (ALC)Allentown, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, USA (ABE)Almaty, Int, Kazakhstan (ALA)Amman, Queen Alia Itl., Jordan (AMM)Amritsar, RajaSansi Intl. Airport, India (ATQ)Amsterdam, Schiphol Intl., Netherlands (AMS)Ancona, Falconara, Italy (AOI)Ankara, Esenboğa Intl., Turkey (ESB)Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (ANK)Antalya, Havalimani Int., Turkey (AYT)Antananarivo, Int, Madagascar (TNR)Antwerp, Deurne, Belgium (ANR)Aqaba, Aqaba King Hussein Airport, Jordan (AQJ)Aracaju, Santa Maria, Brazil (AJU)Arkhangelsk, International Airport, Pakistan (ARH)Aruba, Queen Beatrix, Netherlands Antilles (AUA)Asheville, Asheville Regional Airport, USA (AVL)Astrakhan, International Airport, Russia (ASF)Asunción, Silvio Pettirossi Intl Airport, Paraguay (ASU)Aswan, Daraw, Egypt (ASW)Atlanta, Hartsfield Atlanta Itl., USA (ATL)Auckland, International Airport, New Zealand (AKL)Augusta, Bush Field, USA (AGS)Austin, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, USA (AUS)Avignon, Caumont, France (AVN)Bacău, International Airport, Romania (BCM)Bahia , Porto Seguro, Brazil (BPS)Bahrain, Int, Bahrain (BAH)Bahía Blanca, Bahia Blanca Comandante Espora, Argentina (BHI)Baia Mare, Tauti Magherusi, Romania (BAY)Baku, Heydar Aliyev Intl., Azerbaijan (GYD)Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan (BAK)Ballina, International Airport, Australia (BNK)Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International, USA (BWI)Baltra, Seymour, Ecuador (GPS)Bamako, Int, Mali (BKO)Bangalore, Bengaluru Intl., India (BLR)Bangkok, Int, Thailand (BKK)Bangui, Int, Central African Republic (BGF)Banja Luka, Banja Luka International Airport, Bosnia (BNX)Barcelona, El Prat, Spain (BCN)Bari, Palese, Italy (BRI)Bariloche, Teniente Luis Candelaria international Airport, Argentina (BRC)Barnaul, International Airport, Russia (BAX)Barranquilla, International Airport, Colombia (BAQ)Basel, EuroAirport, Switzerland (EAP)Basel, Basel EuroAirport, Switzerland (BSL)Bastia, Poretta Corsica, France (BIA)Beijing, Capital Intl. Airport, China (PEK)Beirut, Int, Lebanon (BEY)Belem, Val de Cans Intl. Airport, Brazil (BEL)Belfast, Belfast, Great Britain (BFS)Belfast City, Belfast City Airport, Great Britain (BHD)Belgrade, Surcin, Serbia (BEG)Belo Horizonte, Confins Pampulha, Brazil (PLU)Belo Horizonte, Tancredo Neves Int., Brazil (CNF)Belo Horizonte, Belohorizonte, Brazil (BHZ)Benghazi, Int, Libya (BEN)Bergamo, Orio al Serio, Italy (BGY)Bergen, Flesland, Norway (BGO)Berlin, Tegel, Germany (TXL)Berlin, Int. Airport, Germany (BER)Bhopal, Bhopal, India (BHO)Biarritz, Bayonne Anglet, France (BIQ)Bilbao, International Airport, Spain (BIO)Billund, Int, Denmark (BLL)Birmingham, Int, Great Britain (BHX)Birmingham, Seibels/Bryan Airport, USA (BHM)Bishkek, Int, Kyrgyzstan (FRU)Bodrum, Bodrum civil airport, Turkey (BJV)Bogotá, Int, Colombia (BOG)Boise, Boise Gowen Field Airport, USA (BOI)Bologna, G. Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. Airport, Japan (FUK)Funchal, Santa Catarina, Portugal (FNC)Fuzhou, International Airport , China (FOC)Gainesville, Jr Alison Municipal, USA (GNV)Gassim, Gassim International, Saudi Arabia (ELQ)Geneva, Cointrin, Switzerland (GVA)Genoa, C.Colombo, Italy (GOA)Giuba, Giuba, Sudan (JUB)Gizan, Jizan-Re Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (GIZ)Glasgow, Glasgow, Prestwick, Great Britain (PIK)Glasgow, Abbotsinch International, Great Britain (GLA)Goiânia, Santa Genoveva, Brazil (GYN)Goldcoast, International Airport, Australia (OOL)Gothenburg, Landvetter, Sweden (GOT)Goulimime, Goulimime civil airport, Morocco (GLN)Grand Cayman, International Airport, Cayman Islands (GCM)Grand Rapids, Kent County International Airport, USA (GRR)Graz, Graz, Austria (GRZ)Greensboro, Piedmont Triad Intl Airport, USA (GSO)Guadalajara, International Airport, Mexico (GDL)Guaranì, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT)Guayaquil, Simón Bolívar, Ecuador (GYE)Gulfport, Gulfport/Biloxi, USA (GPT)Ha'il, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (HAS)Halifax, Stanfield Intl. Airport, Canada (YHZ)Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Germany (HAM)Hanga Roa, Mataveri, Chile (IPC)Hangzhou, Int, China (HGH)Hanoi, Noi Bai Intl Apt, Vietnam (HAN)Hanover, Langenhagen, Germany (HAJ)Hartford, Bradley Intl., USA (BDL)Havana, José Martí, Cuba (HAV)Helsinki, Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland (HEL)Heraklion, Nikos Kazantakis, Greece (HER)Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan (HIJ)Ho Chi Minh, International Airport, Vietnam (SGN)Hobart, International Airport, Australia (HBA)Hong Kong, Int, China, Hong Kong (HKG)Honolulu, Honolulu Intl., USA (HNL)Horta, International Airport, Portugal (HOR)Houston, Houston Intercontinental, USA (IAH)Houston, Hobby Airport, USA (HOU)Huambo, Huambo-Albano Machado, Angola (NOV)Huatulco, International Airport, Mexico (HUX)Humberside, Int., Great Britain (HUY)Huntsville, Huntsville-Madison County Jetplex, USA (HSV)Iași, Civil Airport, Romania (IAS)Ibiza, Es Codolar, Spain (IBZ)Iguazu Falls, Cataratas, Brazil (IGU)Iguazú, Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport, Argentina (IGR)Ilheus, Jorge Amado, Brazil (IOS)Indianapolis, Indianapolis International Airport, USA (IND)Indore, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar , India (IDR)Inverness, International airport, Great Britain (INV)Irkutsk, International Airport, Russia (IKT)Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Intl., Pakistan (ISB)Islip, Long Island-MacArthur Airport, USA (ISP)Istambul, Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey (SAW)Istanbul, Ataturk, Turkey (IST)Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, International airport, Mexico (ZIH)Ixtepec, Ixtepec, Mexico (IZT)Izumo, Intl. Airport, Japan (IZO)Jackson, Allen C Thompson Field, USA (JAN)Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport, USA (JAX)Jaipur, Jaipur, India (JAI)Jakarta, All airports, Indonesia (JKT)Jakarta, Halim Perdanakusuma Intl., Indonesia (HLP)Jakarta, Soekarno Hatta Intl., Indonesia (CGK)Jeddah, King Abdulaziz Int., Saudi Arabia (JED)Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo, South Africa (JNB)Joinville, Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, Brazil (JOI)Juazeiro Do Norte, Orlando Bezerra De Menezes, Brazil (JDO)Jujuy, Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport El Cadillal, Argentina (JUJ)Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan (KOJ)Kahului, International Airport, USA (OGG)Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Airport, Russia (KGD)Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA (MKC)Kansas City, Kansas City Intl., USA (MCI)Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam Intl, Pakistan (KHI)Karlsruhe , Baden Baden Airport, Germany (FKB)Kauai Island, Lihue Municipal Airport, USA (LIH)Kavala, Int., Greece (KVA)Kazan, International Airport, Russia (KZN)Keflavik, International Airport, Iceland (KEF)Kelowna, Intl. Airport, Canada (YLW)Kemerovo, International Airport, Russia (KEJ)Keywest, International Airport, USA (EYW)Khabarovsk, Novy, Russia (KHV)Khartoum, Civil, Sudan (KRT)Kiev, Borispol, Ukraine (KBP)Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (IEV)Kigali, Int, Rwanda (KGL)Kilimanjaro, Int, Tanzania (JRO)Kingston, Norman Rogers Airport, Canada (YGK)Kinshasa, N'Djili, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIH)Knoxville, McGhee Tyson, USA (TYS)Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl. Apt, India (CCU)Komatsu, Kanazawa di Komatsu , Japan (KMQ)Kona, Keahole, USA (KOA)Kos, Int., Greece (KGS)Kosice, International Airport, Slovakia (KSC)Krakow, Jana Pawła II Intl., Poland (KRK)Krasnodar, Pashkovsky, Russia (KRR)Krasnoyarsk, KJA, Russia (KJA)Kristiansand, Kjevik, Norway (KRS)Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)Kuito, Bie Silva Porto, Angola (SVP)Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (KMJ)Kunming, Changshui Intl. Airport, China (KMG)Kuwait, Int, Kuwait (KWI)La Aurora, La Aurora Intl Airport, Guatemala (GUA)La Coruna, La Coruna Alvedro Airport, Spain (LCG)La Rioja, Capitán Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airpor, Argentina (IRJ)Lagos, Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria (LOS)Lahore, Allama Iqbal Intl., Pakistan (LHE)Lamezia Terme, S.Eufemia, Italy (SUF)Lampedusa, International Airport, Italy (LMP)Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain (ACE)Larnaca/Nicosia, Int. Airport, Cyprus (LCA)Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain (LPA)Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)Leeds, Bradford, Great Britain (LBA)Leipzig, Leipzig Int., Germany (LEJ)Leopoli, Leopoli Airport, Ukraine (LWO)Libreville, Int, Gabon (LBV)Liege, International Airport, Belgium (LGG)Lille, Lesquin, France (LIL)Lima, Jorge Chávez Itl., Peru (LIM)Linköping, Saab, Sweden (LPI)Lisbon, Portela de Sacavém, Portugal (LIS)Little Rock, Little Rock Regional Airport, USA (LIT)Liverpool, John Lennon Airport (Speke), Great Britain (LPL)Livingstone, Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Zambia (LVI)Ljubljana, Brnik, Slovenia (LJU)Lomé, Int, Togo (LFW)London, London, Great Britain (LON)London, Heathrow, Great Britain (LHR)London, London City, Great Britain (LCY)London, Ontario Canada, International Airport, Canada (YXU)Londrina, Gov. José Richa, Brazil (LDB)Lorient, Lann-Bihouet, France (LRT)Los Angeles, Int, USA (LAX)Louisville, Standiford Field, USA (SDF)Lourdes, Tarbes Intl., France (LDE)Luanda, Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola (LAD)Lubango, Lubango, Angola (SDD)Lublin, Lublin Airport, Poland (LUZ)Lucknow, Chaudhary Charan Singh, India (LKO)Luena, Luso di Luena, Angola (LUO)Lugano, Agno, Switzerland (LUG)Lumumbashi, Luano, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FBM)Lusaka, Lusaka International, Zambia (LUN)Luton, Luton, Great Britain (LTN)Luxembourg, Findel, Luxembourg (LUX)Luxor, Int, Egypt (LXR)Lynchburg, Municipal Airport, USA (LYH)Lyon, St. Exupéry, France (LYS)Lázaro Cárdenas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (LZC)Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands (MST)Maceió, Palmares, Brazil (MCZ)Macon, Lewis B Wilson, USA (MCN)Madrid, Barajas, Spain (MAD)Malabo, Saint Isabel, Equatorial Guinea (SSG)Malaga, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spain (AGP)Malindi, Int, Kenya (MYD)Malta, Luqa International, Malta (MLA)Malé, Ibrahim Nasir Intl, Maldives (MLE)Manaus, Eduardo Gomes Int., Brazil (MAO)Manchester, Itl., Great Britain (MAN)Manila, Ninoy Aquino Intl., Philippines (MNL)Manizales, La Nubia, Colombia (MZL)Mar del Plata, Astor Piazzolla international Airport, Argentina (MDQ)Maroochydore, International Airport, Australia (MCY)Marrakech, Menara, Morocco (RAK)Marseille, Provence, France (MRS)Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Japan (MYJ)Mauritius, Sir Seew. Ramgoolam Itl, Mauritius (MRU)Medellin, International Airport, Colombia (MDE)Melbourne, International Airport, Australia (MEL)Melbourne FL, Regional Airport, USA (MLB)Memphis, International Airport, USA (MEM)Mendoza, Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli International Airport El Plumerillo, Argentina (MDZ)Menongue, Menongue, Angola (SPP)Menorca, Aerop De Menorca, Spain (MAH)Merida, International Airport, Mexico (MID)Metz Nancy, Lorraine, France (ETZ)Mexico City, Benito Juarez Itl., Mexico (MEX)Miami, Int, USA (MIA)Milan, All airports, Italy (MIL)Milan, Malpensa, Italy (MXP)Milan, Linate, Italy (LIN)Milwaukee, General Mitchell Field, USA (MKE)Minneapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul Intl Airport, USA (MSP)Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (MSQ)Mobile, Mobile Municipal, USA (MOB)Mombasa, Moi International, Kenya (MBA)Moncton, Greater Moncton Intl. Airport, Canada (YQM)Monterrey, Escobedo, Mexico (MTY)Montgomery, Dannelly Field, USA (MGM)Montpellier, Fréjorgues, France (MPL)Montreal, Dorval, Canada (YUL)Montreal, Montreal, Mirabel, Canada (YMX)Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Russia (SVO)Moscow, Moscow Airport, Russia (MOW)Moscow, Domodedovo, Russia (DME)Mulhouse, Euroairport, France (MLH)Mumbai (Bombay), Int, India (BOM)Munich, Franz Josef Strauss, Germany (MUC)Murmansk, Civil Airport, Russia (MMK)Muscat, Seeb, Oman (MCT)Mykonos, Int., Greece (JMK)Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach International, USA (MYR)Mytilene, Int., Greece (MJT)N'Djamena, Int, Chad (NDJ)Nador, Taouima Airport, Morocco (NDR)Nagoya, Intl Airport Chūbu, Japan (NGO)Nairobi, Nairobi, Wilson Arpt, Kenya (WIL)Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Itl., Kenya (NBO)Nanjing, Lukou International Airport , China (NKG)Nantes, Château Bougon, France (NTE)Naples, Capodichino, Italy (NAP)Nashville, Nashville Metropolitan Airport, USA (BNA)Natal, Augusto Severo Int., Brazil (NAT)Navegantes, Ministro Victor Konder, Brazil (NVT)Ndola, Ndola, Zambia (NLA)Neuquén, Presidente Perón international Airport, Argentina (NQN)New Delhi, Int, India (DEL)New Orleans, New Orleans, USA (MSY)New York, NEW YORK, USA (NYC)New York, J.F.K., USA (JFK)Newcastle, Int, Great Britain (NCL)Niamey, Int, Niger (NIM)Nice, Côte d'Azur, France (NCE)Nizhniy, Nižnij Novgorod-Strighino Airport, Russia (GOJ)Norfolk, Norfolk International Airport, USA (ORF)North bay, Garland Airport, Canada (YYB)Norwich, Weather Centre, Great Britain (NWI)Nouakchott, Int, Mauritania (NKC)Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo, Russia (OVB)Nukus, G.nukus, Uzbekistan (NCU)Nuremberg, Int., Germany (NUE)Oakland, International Airport, USA (OAK)Oaxaca, International Airport, Mexico (OAX)Odessa, International Airport, Ukraine (ODS)Ohrid, St. Paul the Apostle Airport, Macedonia/FYROM (OHD)Okayama, Intl. Airport, Japan (OKJ)Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan (OKA)Oklahoma City, Will Rogers World Airport, USA (OKC)Olbia, Costa Smeralda, Italy (OLB)Omaha, Eppley Airfield, USA (OMA)Omsk, Civil Airport, Russia (OMS)Ongiva Pereira, Ongiva Pereira, Angola (VPE)Ontario, Ontario International, USA (ONT)Oporto, Francisco Sá Carneiro, Portugal (OPO)Oradea, International Airport, Romania (OMR)Oran, Es Senia Intl., Algeria (ORN)Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA (ORL)Orlando, Orlando Int. Apt., USA (MCO)Osaka, Osaka International, Japan (OSA)Osaka, Kansai, Japan (KIX)Osaka, Itami, Japan (ITM)Oslo, Gardermoen, Norway (OSL)Ostrava, International Airport, Czech Republic (OSR)Ottawa, Ottawa Intl Airport, Canada (YOW)Ouagadougou, Int, Burkina Faso (OUA)Ouarzazate, Taourirte Angads Airport, Morocco (OZZ)Oujda, Les Anglades Airport, Morocco (OUD)Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (OVD)Palermo, P. Raisi, Italy (PMO)Palma de Mallorca, Son San Juan, Spain (PMI)Panama City, PFN, USA (PFN)Panama City, Tocumen Intl, Panama (PTY)Pantelleria, Public and Military Airport, Italy (PNL)Papeete, Faaa, French Polynesia (PPT)Paraná, General Justo José de Urquiza Airport, Argentina (PRA)Paris, Paris, France (PAR)Paris, Orly, France (ORY)Paris, Charles de Gaulle, France (CDG)Parma, Giuseppe Verdi, Italy (PMF)Pau Pont Long, Uzein Pyrénées, France (PUF)Penang, Penang Int., Malaysia (PEN)Pensacola, Regional, USA (PNS)Pereira, Matecaña, Colombia (PEI)Perm, Civil Airport, Russia (PEE)Perpignan, Rivesaltes, France (PGF)Perth, Int, Australia (PER)Perugia, International Airport, Italy (PEG)Pescara, Liberi, Italy (PSR)Philadelphia, Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, USA (PNE)Philadelphia, Intl, USA (PHL)Phnom Penh, Pochentong, Cambodia (PNH)Phoenix, Sky Harbor International Airport, USA (PHX)Phuket, Int, Thailand (HKT)Pico Island, International Airport, Portugal (PIX)Pisa, Galileo Galilei, Italy (PSA)Pittsburg, Greater Pittsburgh, USA (PIT)Podgorica, Golubovci, Montenegro (TGD)Pohang, Pohang, Rep South Korea (KPO)Pointe Noire, Int, Congo (PNR)Pointe-à-Pitre, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe (PTP)Ponta Delgada, João Paulo II, Portugal (PDL)Port Harcourt, Int, Nigeria (PHC)Port-au-Prince, Toussaint Louverture, Haiti (PAP)Portland ME, Portland International Jetport, USA (PWM)Portland OR, Portland International Airport, USA (PDX)Porto Alegre, Salgado Filho Int., Brazil (POA)Porto Santo, Civil Airport, Portugal (PXO)Porto Velho , Porto Velho, Brazil (PVH)Posadas, Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, Argentina (PSS)Prague, Václav Havel Apt., Czech Republic (PRG)Praslin Island, PRI, Seychelles (PRI)Providence, T.F. Green State, USA (PVD)Puerto Escondido, International airport, Mexico (PXM)Puerto Vallarta, G.Diaz Ordaz Intl, Mexico (PVR)Pula, Pula International Airport, Croatia (PUY)Pune, Pune, India (PNQ)Punta Cana, Punta Cana Intl, Dominican Republic (PUJ)Pusan, Busan-Gimhae International Airport, Rep South Korea (PUS)Qingdao, International Airport, China (TAO)Quebec city, Jean-Lesage Intl., Canada (YQB)Queenstown, International airport, New Zealand (ZQN)Quimper, Pluguffan, France (UIP)Quito, Mariscal Sucre, Ecuador (UIO)Rabat, Salé, Morocco (RBA)Raleigh/Durham, Raleigh Durham International Arpt, USA (RDU)Recife, Guararapes Int. Apt., Brazil (REC)Reggio Calabria, Tito Minniti, Italy (REG)Regina, Regina Intl. Airport, Canada (YQR)Rennes, Saint Jacques, France (RNS)Resistencia, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (RES)Rhodes, Paradisi, Greece (RHO)Ribeirão Preto , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil (RAO)Richmond, Richmond Itl., USA (RIC)Riga, International Airport, Latvia (RIX)Rimini, Federico Fellini, Italy (RMI)Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto Airport, Argentina (RCU)Rio de Janeiro, Santos Dumont Intl. Airport, Brazil (SDU)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Airport, Brazil (RIO)Rio de Janeiro, Int, Brazil (GIG)Riyadh, King Khalid Int., Saudi Arabia (RUH)Roanoke, Roanoke Regional Airport, USA (ROA)Rochester, Monroe County, USA (ROC)Rome, Rome, Italy (ROM)Rome, Fiumicino, Italy (FCO)Rosario, Islas Malvinas international Airport, Argentina (ROS)Rostock , Laage-Rostock , Germany (RLG)Rostov, Rostov-na-Donu International Airport, Russia (ROV)Rotterdam, Zestienhoven, Netherlands (RTM)Río Gallegos, Río Gallegos Airport, Argentina (RGL)Río Grande, Hermes Quijada International Airport, Argentina (RGA)Río Hondo, Termas de Rio Hondo International Airport, Argentina (RHD)Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken Airport, Germany (SCN)Sacheon, Sacheon Air Base, Rep South Korea (HIN)Sacramento, Sacramento Intl., USA (SMF)Saint Denis de la Réunion, Roland Garros, Réunion (RUN)Saint john, Saint John Airport, Canada (YSJ)Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City International Arpt, USA (SLC)Salta, Martín Miguel de Güemes international Airport, Argentina (SLA)Salvador da Bahia, Airport Luis R. Magalhães, Brazil (SSA)Salzburg, W.A. Mozart, Austria (SZG)Samara, Kurumoch , Russia (KUF)Samarkand, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (SKD)Samos, Int., Greece (SMI)Samsun, Samsun, Turkey (SZF)San Andrés, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia (ADZ)San Antonio, San Antonio International, USA (SAT)San Diego, Lindbergh International Airport, USA (SAN)San Francisco, Int, USA (SFO)San Jose, International Airport, Costa Rica (SJO)San Juan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Airport Las Chacritas, Argentina (UAQ)San Juan, Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico (SJU)San Luis, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (LUQ)San Luis Potosi, Ponciano Arriaga Intl, Mexico (SLP)San Martín de los Andes, Aviador Carlos Campos Airport Chapelco, Argentina (CPC)San Rafael , Suboficial Ayudante Santiago Germano International Airport, Argentina (AFA)Sandefjord, Torf, Norway (TRF)Sanpedrosula, International Airport, Honduras (SAP)Santa Ana, John Wayne Airport, USA (SNA)Santa Cruz, El Trompillo, Bolivia (SRZ)Santa Fe, Sauce Viejo Airport, Argentina (SFN)Santa Marta, Simón Bolívar, Colombia (SMR)Santa Rosa , Santa Rosa La Pampa Airport, Argentina (RSA)Santiago de Chile, Comodoro A.M. Benitez, Chile (SCL)Santiago del Estero, Vicecomodoro Ángel de la Paz Aragonés Airport Mal Paso, Argentina (SDE)Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Las Américas, Dominican Republic (SDQ)Santorini, Int., Greece (JTR)Sao Luiz, Marechal Cunha Machado Int., Brazil (SLZ)Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil (SAO)Sao Paulo, Guarulhos, Brazil (GRU)Sao Paulo, Congonhas Airport, Brazil (CGH)Sao Paulo, Viracopos Campinas Airport, Brazil (VCP)Sapporo, International Airport, Japan (SPK)Sapporo, Chitose, Japan (CTS)Sarajevo, Butmir, Bosnia (SJJ)Sarasota, Sarasota-Bradenton, USA (SRQ)Sarnia, Chris Hadfield Airport, Canada (YZR)Saskatoon, John G. Diefenbaker Intl. Airport, Canada (YXE)Satu Mare, International Airport, Romania (SUJ)Sault ste. Marie, Intl. Airport, Canada (YAM)Saurimo, Saurimo, Angola (VHC)Savannah, Travis Field, USA (SAV)Seattle, Tacoma Itl., USA (SEA)Sendai, Sendai Airport, Japan (SDJ)Seoul, Gimpo International Airport, Rep South Korea (GMP)Seoul, Int. Airport, Rep South Korea (SEL)Seoul, Incheon Intl., Rep South Korea (ICN)Seville, San Pablo, Spain (SVQ)Seychelles, Seychelles Itl, Seychelles (SEZ)Shanghai, All airports, China (SHA)Shanghai, Pudong, China (PVG)Sharm El Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh International, Egypt (SSH)Shenyang, Taoxian International Airport, China (SHE)Shenzhen, Bao’an International Airport, China (SZX)Shreveport, Regional Airport, USA (SHV)Sibiu, International Airport, Romania (SBZ)Simferopol, International Airport, Ukraine (SIP)Singapore, Changi, Singapore (SIN)Skopje, Petrovec, Macedonia/FYROM (SKP)Smirne, Adnan Menderes International Airport, Turkey (ADB)Sofia, Int, Bulgaria (SOF)Southampton, Eastleigh, Great Britain (SOU)Soyo, Soyo, Angola (SZA)Split, Int. Airport, Croatia (SPU)Spokane, Spokane Intl., USA (GEG)St. John’s, St. John’s Intl. Airport, Canada (YYT)St. Louis, Lambert-St Louis Internatl, USA (STL)St. Maarten, Juliana, Netherlands Antilles (SXM)St. Petersburg, Pulkovo, Russia (LED)St. Thomas Island, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands (US) (STT)Stavanger, Sola, Norway (SVG)Stavropol, Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport, Russia (STW)Stettino, Goleniow Airport, Poland (SZZ)Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (STO)Stockholm, Stockholm, Bromma Arpt, Sweden (BMA)Stockholm, Arlanda, Sweden (ARN)Strasbourg, Int, France (SXB)Stuttgart, Echterdingen, Germany (STR)Suceava, International Airport, Romania (SCV)Sudbury, Greater Sudbury Airport, Canada (YSB)Sydney, JA Douglas McCurdy Airport, Canada (YQY)Sydney, Kingsford Smith, Australia (SYD)Syracuse, Hancock International Airport, USA (SYR)Syros Island, Int., Greece (JSY)Szczytno, Civil Airport, Poland (SZY)Taegu, Daegu International Airport, Rep South Korea (TAE)Taipei, Chiang Kai Shek Airport, China, Taiwan (TPE)Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Japan (TAK)Tallahassee, Tallahassee, TLH, FL, USA (TLH)Tallinn, Ülemiste, Estonia (TLL)Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico (CVM)Tampa, Int, USA (TPA)Tan Tan, Plage Blanche Airport, Morocco (TTA)Tangier, Boukhalef Souahel, Morocco (TNG)Tashkent, Int, Uzbekistan (TAS)Tbilisi, International Airport, Georgia (TBS)Teesside, Itl., Great Britain (MME)Tegucigalpa, International Airport, Honduras (TGU)Tehran, International Airport, Iran (THR)Tehran, Imam Khomeini Intl., Iran (IKA)Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion, Israel (TLV)Tenerife, Tenerife North Los Rodeos, Spain (TFN)Tenerife, International Airport, Spain (TCI)Tepic, Amado Nervo, Mexico (TPQ)Terceira Island, Base Aérea das Lajes, Portugal (TER)Thessaloniki, Makedonia, Greece (SKG)Thunder bay, Thunder Bay Intl., Canada (YQT)Tijuana, International Airport, Mexico (TIJ)Timișoara, Traian Vuia, Romania (TSR)Timmins, Victor M. Power Airport, Canada (YTS)Tirana, Rinas, Albania (TIA)Tokyo, Tokyo Airport, Japan (TYO)Tokyo, Narita, Japan (NRT)Tokyo, Haneda, Japan (HND)Toronto, Pearson Itl, Canada (YYZ)Toronto, Toronto Airport, Canada (YTO)Toulon, Hyères, France (TLN)Toulouse, Blagnac, France (TLS)Toyama, Toyama, Japan (TOY)Trapani, Birgi, Italy (TPS)Trebisonda, Trebisonda, Turkey (TZX)Trelew, Almirante Marcos A. Zar International Airport, Argentina (REL)Tri City, Municipal Tri-City Airport, USA (TRI)Trieste, R.Dei Legionari, Italy (TRS)Tripoli, Int, Libya (TIP)Trondheim, Trondheim-Vaernes, Norway (TRD)Tucson, Tucson Intl., USA (TUS)Tucumán , Tucumán Benjamín Matienzo International Airport, Argentina (TUC)Tulsa, Tulsa International, USA (TUL)Tunis, Carthage, Tunisia (TUN)Turaif, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (TIF)Turin, Caselle, Italy (TRN)Tuxtla Gutierrez, International Airport, Mexico (TGZ)Tyumen, Civil Airport, Russia (TJM)Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureș, Romania (TGM)Tétouan, Saniat Ramel Airport, Morocco (TTU)Udaipur, Maharana Pratap Airport, India (UDR)Ufa, Civil Airport, Russia (UFA)Ulsan, International Airport, Rep South Korea (USN)Urgench, Urgench International Airport, Uzbekistan (UGC)Ushuaia, Islas Malvinas Airport, Argentina (USH)Valdosta, Valdosta Regional, USA (VLD)Valencia, International Airport, Spain (VLC)Valparaiso, Fort Walton Beach, USA (VPS)Vancouver, Vancouver Intl., Canada (YVR)Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver Harbour Airport, Canada (CXH)Varadero, Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, Cuba (VRA)Varna, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (VAR)Venice, Marco Polo, Italy (VCE)Veracruz, International Airport, Mexico (VER)Verona, Villafranca Veronese, Italy (VRN)Victoria, Victoria Intl. Airport, Canada (YYJ)Viedma, Gobernador Edgardo Castello di Viedma Airport, Argentina (VDM)Vienna, Schwechat, Austria (VIE)Vigo, Peinador, Spain (VGO)Villahermosa, International Airport, Mexico (VSA)Viruviru, International Airport, Bolivia (VVI)Vitória, Eurico Salles, Brazil (VIX)Vladivostok, Knevichi, Russia (VVO)Volgograd, Volgograd-Gumrak, Russia (VOG)Warsaw, Chopin Airport, Poland (WAW)Washington, Washington, DC, USA (WAS)Washington, Dulles, USA (IAD)Washington, R. Reagan Washington Nat., USA (DCA)Wenzhou, International Airport, China (WNZ)West Palm Beach, International Airport, USA (PBI)Westchester County, Westchester County Airport, USA (HPN)Westerland, Sylt Airport, Germany (GWT)Wichita, Mid-Continent, USA (ICT)Wilmington, New Hanover County Airport, USA (ILM)Windsor, Windsor Intl. Airport, Canada (YQG)Winnipeg, Winnipeg Richardson Intl. Airport, Canada (YWG)Wuhan, Int, China (WUH)Xiamen, Int, China (XMN)Xianyang, International Airport, China (XIY)Yanbu, Prince Yanbu Abd al-Muhsin bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (YNB)Yaoundé Nsimalen, Nsimalen, Cameroon (NSI)Yeosu, Yeosu, Rep South Korea (RSU)Yerevan, Int, Armenia (EVN)Zagabria, Pleso, Croatia (ZAG)Zanzibar, Kisauni, Tanzania (ZNZ)Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport, China (CGO)Zielona Góra, Babimost Airport, Poland (IEG)Zurich, International Airport, Switzerland (ZRH)Čeljabinsk, Chelyabinsk Airport, Russia (CEK)Čeljabinsk, Int, Nigeria (ABV)
Multiple Stopovers Award Ticket
Departure dd/mm/YYYY
Return dd/mm/YYYY
Adults 012345678
Child 2 - 11 Years Old 012345678
Infants 0-23 Months 012345678
Flights from Athens (ATH) to Naples (NAP)
Athens to Naples
Weather in Naples
12 °CSunday19/01/2020
11 °CMonday20/01/2020
12 °CTuesday21/01/2020
13 °CWednesday22/01/2020
14 °CThursday23/01/2020
15 °CFriday24/01/2020
13 °CSaturday25/01/2020
Flights from Athens
Flights to Naples
Flights from Countries to Cities
From Italy89 20 10
ALITALIA NEWSLETTER
Sign up and keep updated on the latest offers and news
Baggage assistance
Contacts and assistance
Tour and activities
Flights to Italy
Flights to Cagliari
Flights to Tirana
Flights to Palermo
Flights to Buenos Aires
From/To the airport
Exclusive Clubs
Miles with Alitalia
Miles with financial partners and insurance companies
Miles with other Partners
ALITALIA CORPORATE
ALITALIA CARGO
©2019 Alitalia P.IVA 13029381004 - Via A.Nassetti BLDG ALFA 00054 Fiumicino(RM)
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2168
|
__label__wiki
| 0.602004
| 0.602004
|
Home » News » Italy hit by wave of Pitchfork protests as austerity unites disparate groups
Italy hit by wave of Pitchfork protests as austerity unites disparate groups
posted by Alphacom News | December 13, 2013 | In News
Demonstrations point to frustration with traditional politics, with minister warning parliament of a country in ‘spiral of rebellion’
They blocked roads and stopped trains,occupied piazzas, clashed with police and closed shops. From Turin and Milan in the north to Puglia and Sicily in the south, Italy was hit this week by a wave of protests that brought together disparate groups and traditional foes in an angry show of opposition to austerity policies and the government.
“They [politicians] have brought us to hunger; have destroyed the identity of a country; have annihilated the future of entire generations,” read one poster from the “December 9 Committee”, an umbrella organisation urging Italians to rise up against the euro, Brussels, globalisation and, primarily, Enrico Letta’s government. “To rebel is a duty.”
In a loosely formed movement which has gone largely by the name of I Forconi (the Pitchforks), lorry drivers, farmers, small business owners, students and unemployed people staged protests venting their fury at a political class which they blame for Italy’s longest post-war recession and want to “send home”.
But they were not alone. Alongside them were anti-globalisation groups, members of the Veneto Independence movement, elements of the far right and – for good measure – football “ultras”. Among the sights “rarely seen before”, reported the Turin-based daily La Stampa, were supporters of arch-rivals Juventus and Torino standing “side by side”.
Although the protests had been publicised, especially on the internet, their scale and occasionally violent nature – particularly in Turin, a historic city of protest – appeared to take many by surprise.
In a country struggling to exit a two-year long recession, in which unemployment is at a record high of 12.5% and one in 10 children is thought to be living in absolute poverty, the causes of the unrest are hardly unfathomable.
But what has been made clear by the Pitchforks protests, say analysts, is not just the depth of anger on the streets but a feeling that traditional politics – even after the dramatic election breakthrough of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement – is not responding to their needs.
“These protests show Italy’s massive crisis of political representation,” said Duncan McDonnell, a political scientist at the European University Institute in Florence. “These people don’t feel that anyone’s actually listening to them … It really shows how there are big sections of Italian society that don’t feel represented by anyone – political parties, trade unions, interest groups or business.”
Beyond ousting the current coalition government, the protesters’ goals are unclear, even if popular targets include the euro, the banks, and Equitalia, Italy’s inland revenue.
For many observers, however, the tactics of a minority have overshadowed the movement’s wider aims. Property has been damaged, and some shopkeepers have complained of intimidation from protesters urging them to shut up shop and join in.
In the north-western town of Savona, the staff of a bookshop said protesters had burst into the store yelling: “Close the bookshop! Burn the books!”
The incidents prompted the leader of the original Pitchforks – which started several years ago as a group representing farmers in Sicily – to distance himself from “thuggish and violent” newcomers.
But the leaders of the movement’s various divisions have also provoked criticism. One, Andrea Zunino, while criticising the power that banks have over Italy, told La Repubblica on Friday: “It’s curious that five or six of the richest people in the world are Jews.”
Another, farmer Danilo Calvani, did not do himself or his cause any good after he was filmed jumping in the back of a friend’s waiting Jaguar.
Speaking before parliament on Thursday, interior minister Angelino Alfano warned that the protests could “lead to a spiral of rebellion against national and European institutions”.
But, while condemning the violence, he acknowledged the authorities’ duty to “resolve the problems of social hardship which are at the roots of the protest”.
On Friday, Letta announced that the government had agreed to abolish state funding of political parties, which he said was an important step for the “credibility of politics”.
If it is to have any chance of responding to the unrest, said sociologist Aldo Bonomi, Italy’s political class needs to move from “a debate which is often self-referential” to a “politics that is more in sync with the ways in which society is changing”.
Bonomi added: “This problem will not be resolved on talk shows. It will be resolved by the lowering of politics’ centre of mass to the level of social hardship.”
Lizzy Davies
theguardian.com © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Link to article: feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663879/s/34ca8d9f/sc/11/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cworld0C20A130Cdec0C130Citaly0Epitchfork0Eprotests0Eausterity0Eunites0Egroups/story01.htm
Tags:business,news
Alphacom News
Alphacom is a Digital Magazine with direct link for the best selected news in real time. The last news about Economics, Politics, Business, Society, Tourism, etc. Interviews and interesting articles. You can contact with us in the contact page. Thanks.
Time limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA. nine − = one
Catholic church will hand over sex abuse documents on Chicago priests
New methods and technology can make elections fairer
The internship: Generation i
Queensland solarium ban will save lives, Cancer Council says
Victoria’s Secret fashion show 2013: six talking points
A crucial week in the international markets
October 5, 2014 · 4 Comments
Mariano Pelizzari interviewed: Travelgenio’s goal has always been the customer satisfaction
Best Budget Friendly All-Inclusive Resorts
September 28, 2013 · 1 Comment
Zimbabwe opposition politician says he was illegally abducted from Zambia
August 10, 2018 · No Comments
Founders of Tinder, Rent the Runway and Waze to Appear on Panel at Tony Robbins’ Business Mastery Event
Ryanair cancellations: what are my rights?
Archives Select Month August 2018 (66) July 2018 (16) June 2018 (2) April 2018 (44) March 2018 (40) January 2018 (44) December 2017 (23) November 2017 (15) October 2017 (2) September 2017 (89) August 2017 (30) July 2017 (6) February 2017 (1) January 2017 (1) December 2016 (2) October 2016 (4) August 2016 (1) July 2016 (1) June 2016 (1) May 2016 (1) April 2016 (1) March 2016 (1) February 2016 (1) December 2015 (1) September 2015 (1) May 2015 (1) January 2015 (1) December 2014 (249) November 2014 (320) October 2014 (357) September 2014 (271) August 2014 (286) July 2014 (293) June 2014 (227) May 2014 (214) April 2014 (368) March 2014 (624) February 2014 (718) January 2014 (855) December 2013 (886) November 2013 (1152) October 2013 (1134) September 2013 (1050) August 2013 (160) December 2004 (2) November 2004 (4) May 2004 (2) February 2004 (1) December 1999 (8) November 1999 (1) October 1999 (1)
apuestas apuestas deportivas banco central europeo business casas de apuestas casinos cheap flight disco enterprise gestora de capitales gestora suiza india interview inversiones madrid Mariano Pelizzari Mariano Pelizzari Interview medidas de inversión mercado de divisas mostoles news Obama online travel agency opiniones reserva federal reunión napoles single love singles Startup Tourism Tourism and Travel Travel Travel2be Travelgenio travelgenio ceo Travelgenio Customer Service Travelgenio fees Travelgenio interview Travelgenio Opinion Travelgenio Phone travelgenio results Travelgenio Review Travelgenio Reviews Versus Versus Wealth Management
About “Alphacom”
Alphacom is a Digital Magazine with direct link for the best selected news in real time.
The last news about Economics, Politics, Technology, Business, Society, Tourism, etc. Interviews and interesting articles.
You can contact with us in the contact page.
A crucial week in the international markets October 5, 2014
Mariano Pelizzari interviewed: Travelgenio’s goal has always been the customer satisfaction September 4, 2013
Best Budget Friendly All-Inclusive Resorts September 28, 2013
Alphacom Copyright © 2013.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2172
|
__label__cc
| 0.633088
| 0.366912
|
Security consultancy
All aspects covered:
Closed circuit television including automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and digital recording
Transmission technology i.e. fibre, ADSL, wireless IP, (point to point and point to multipoint)
Access control including Smart Card and biometric technologies such as fingerprint and iris recognition
Concierge, intercom and public address systems
Internal and external intruder detection
Customer information systems and help points
Car parking control and payment systems
Control room design including integration of independent systems
Integration with IT infrastructures
Integration with Building Management Systems, i.e. fire alarm, lighting, heating
Electronic gates and automated barriers (pedestrian and vehicle)
Secured By Design is an initiative by UK Police to support one of the Government’s main planning objectives – the creation of secure places where people wish to live and work. Secured By Design accreditation is widely recognised and desired in the world of property development.
How is it achieved?
To be awarded Secured By Design a development has to have applied the principle of ‘designing out crime’ by the implementation of preventative security measures and security standards.
Careful consideration must be given to the locality of the site and its crime trends, what the development is to be used for and the design of any building, car parks and surrounding landscaping features.
One of the security consultancy services offered by Advanced Security Partners Ltd is to act as a central coordinator throughout a project to simplify the application of Secured By Design principles. We work with the Client, Design Team and the local Architectural Liaison Officers to ensure that all Secured By Design principles have been addressed during the design and applied during the construction phase of a project. Through this process we can assist in the qualification of Secured By Design status for the scheme and the subsequent award of the accreditation.
Secured By Design is achieved by meeting a number of key minimum requirements coupled with site specific enhancements agreed with a local Police Force Architectural Liaison Officer.
What do we manage and how?
implementation monitoring of the detailed designed Security, Telephony or IT system to ensure that it is installed in accordance with the specification.
Monitoring of the commisioning and handoverof the Security,Telephony or IT systems
Reviewing and advising with regards to the Security,Telephony or IT contractors operation and maintenace manuals including as built drawings and documentation.
Provision of information to the client as nessasary to enable them to carry out their respective duties.
Kirk House , 1 Kirkgate , Birstall , West Yorkshire. WF17 9HE
Finalist at the OSPA’s!
Peel L&P vision for best-in-breed security brings together a winning team
©2020 Advanced Security Partners Ltd. | Site by Speckled Egg | Privacy policy
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2174
|
__label__wiki
| 0.813467
| 0.813467
|
Paul Andersen: Climate and Christianity, a place to start
Paul Andersen
Getting to climate change through Genesis may seem like a far reach. What does the Bible’s creation story have to do with carbon emissions?
It may have a lot to do with it, and Christianity could become a sensible approach in making substantive change and inspiring action.
If common cause can be found among Christians, then climate change could become the next religious crusade. Coalescing belief systems over a moral cause is more important than ever as the world faces critical tipping points associated with climate.
Religion, for all the unity it should extoll, has been a divisive force and, throughout history, an underlying cause for genocide. But if Christianity can be identified by its compassionate roots through climate solutions, all that could change.
“I grew up in a Christian family with a science-teacher dad who taught us that science is the study of God’s creation,” wrote Katharine Hayhoe in an op-ed in last week’s New York Times. Hayhoe comes from two seemingly conflicting backgrounds — religion and science. Where they intersect is where she has found her mission, in both roles.
“If we truly believe that God created this amazing universe, bringing matter and energy to life out of a formless empty void, then how could studying his creation ever be in conflict with his written word?”
This confluence of science and faith is a promising example of enlightened thinking on climate change. Instead of shrill arguments over the definition of “dominion” in Genesis, Hayhoe describes a meeting of mind and heart that makes a sacred argument for scientific solutions.
“I chose what to study precisely because of my faith,” she writes, “because climate change disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable, those already most at risk today. To me, caring about and acting on climate was a way to live out my calling to love others as we’ve been loved ourselves by God.”
If Christians can accept this idea — that love for those who suffer most from climate change is a personal extension of the Christian doctrine — then taking a stand on climate means taking a stand for others who are less fortunate and therefore deserving.
A shift from fear to compassion must occur in the way we view the swelling number of climate refugees who are flooding to U.S. boarders in hopes of salvation from starvation, violence and homelessness — people who have played a minor role in climate change because their carbon footprints are so much smaller than ours.
Battling climate change to make the birth places of these migrants more livable would not only provide succor to their beleaguered nations, but could help ease border impasses. There are other reasons for today’s mass migrations, but climate change is becoming foremost among them.
To Hayhoe, helping those less fortunate is the Christian thing to do, and we live in a country that professes Christian virtues as founding principles.
“Climate change,” writes Hayhoe, “will strike hard against the very people we’re told to care for and love, amplifying hunger and poverty, and increasing risks of resource scarcity that can exacerbate political instability, and even create or worsen refugee crises.
“Then there’s pollution, biodiversity loss, habitat fragmentation, species extinction: climate change makes all those worse, too. In fact, if we truly believe we’ve been given responsibility for every living thing on this planet as it says in Genesis 1, then it isn’t only a matter of caring about climate change: We should be at the front of the line demanding action.”
Hayhoe separates her religious beliefs from the divisive and polarizing politics that are driving ideological wedges between people. She makes a crucial distinction between faith and politics, pointing out that putting political ideology over theology diminishes deeper Christian values.
“I am a theological evangelical, one of those who can be simply defined as someone who takes the Bible seriously,” Hayhoe writes. As such, she expresses the gospel of compassion through good acts for those who need them, and that means victims of climate change, no matter their religious or political backgrounds.
“Being concerned about climate change is a genuine expression of our faith,” Hayhoe concludes.
Paul Andersen’s column appears on Mondays. He may be reached at andersen@rof.net.
Elizabeth Milias: ‘Grab ’em by the Skippy!’
Tony Vagneur: Dog’s life goes too quick but leaves lasting memories
Roger Marolt: Paying now or paying later — either way it’s gonna hurt
Aspen Princess: Chasing The Aspen Idea through another ‘wellness’ run
Sean Beckwith: You can’t spell ESPN The Ocho without Aspen
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2175
|
__label__wiki
| 0.958615
| 0.958615
|
Tag: Attorney Ratings
Aaron’s Rent to Own Pays $425,000 to Settle Race Harassment Suit
Attorney Review Guide June 12, 2019 No Comment
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Aaron's, Inc., a nationwide chain of rent-to-own furniture stores, will pay $425,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit for
Los Angeles Doctor Found Guilty in $33 Million Medicare Fraud
A federal jury found a Los Angeles doctor and patient recruiter guilty today for their roles in a $33 million Medicare fraud scheme in which Medicare
CEO of Las Vegas Investment Company Sentenced
Attorney Review Guide May 28, 2019 No Comment
The former president and CEO of MRI International Inc. (MRI), a purported investment company and medical collections business located in Las Vegas,
Justice Department Honors Tennessee Firefighters
The Department of Justice announced today they have recognized two Tennessee-based firefighters who led a seven-hour search that led to the discovery
Leader of Nine Trey Gangsters Sentenced to Life in Prison
A Norfolk, Virginia, man was sentenced today to three consecutive life terms plus an additional 40 years in prison for his leadership role in a
Six Men Charged in Five-Year High-Yield Investment Fraud Scheme
Attorney Review Guide May 9, 2019 No Comment
Six men were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in a five-year high-yield investment fraud scheme according a
Greek Shipping Companies Illegally Discharged Oil Into Port Arthur
Two Greek shipping companies, Avin International LTD and Nicos I.V. Special Maritime Enterprises, were sentenced today in the Eastern District of
California Man Arrested in Terror Plot to Detonate Explosive Device
Attorney Review Guide April 29, 2019 No Comment
Mark Steven Domingo, 26, of Reseda, California, was arrested Friday night after he received what he thought was a live bomb, but in fact was an inert
Texas Couple Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Forced Labor
U.S. District Court Judge Reid O’Connor sentenced defendants Mohamed Toure, 58, and Denise Cros-Toure, 58, of Southlake, Texas, to seven years in
General Electric Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion Penalty
The Department of Justice announced that General Electric (GE) will pay a civil penalty of $1.5 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform,
WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy
Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested today in the United Kingdom pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, in connection
Former CFO at Publicly Traded Company Charged with $245 Million Securities Fraud
Attorney Review Guide April 4, 2019 No Comment
The former chief financial officer (CFO) of Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. (Roadrunner), a publicly traded transportation and trucking company
DOJ Alleges Alabama Men’s Prisons Conditions Violate the Constitution
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama today
Government Contractor Pleads Guilty for Retention Of Defense Materials
Attorney Review Guide March 28, 2019 No Comment
Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of willful retention of national defense
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas to Pay $75,000 for Discrimination Lawsuit
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS), a Dallas health care company, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination
Duke University Agrees to Pay U.S. $112.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Duke University has agreed to pay the government $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting
North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty for Role in Global Tech Support Scam
A Charlotte, North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to access a protected computer, for his role in an international “Tech Support
Former Defense Intelligence Officer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
The Department of Justice has announced today in a press release that Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense
ExxonMobil to Pay Civil Penalty & Take Measures to Resolve Clean Air Act
Attorney Review Guide March 8, 2019 No Comment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) & The Department of Justice announced a settlement with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation (ExxonMobil) today
New York Man Charged with Cryptocurrency Scheme
Attorney Review Guide February 27, 2019 No Comment
The founder and principal operator of My Big Coin Pay Inc. (My Big Coin), a purported cryptocurrency and virtual payment services company
Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks at George Mason Law Review
“Harder Better Faster Stronger”: Evaluating EDM as a Defense in Vertical Mergers Thank you Judge Ginsburg and thank you to the George Mason Law
Biodiesel Fuel Company Sentenced for 45,000 Gallons of Wastewater
Attorney Review Guide February 8, 2019 No Comment
The Department of Justice has announced that yesterday, an Elizabeth, New Jersey, biodiesel fuel company was sentenced for discharging more than
Two Men Convicted for Multi-Million Dollar Investment Fraud Scheme
The Department of Justice has announced that a federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina found two men guilty yesterday for their roles in a five-year
Three Kansas Men Sentenced to Prison for Bomb Plot
Attorney Review Guide January 25, 2019 No Comment
The Department of Justice has announced in a press release that three men from southwest Kansas were sentenced to 25, 26 and 30 years imprisonment on
Global Law Firm Registers as an Agent of a Foreign Principal
The Department of Justice announced in a press release that global Law Firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP has entered into a settlement
Southlake, Texas Couple Convicted Of Forced Labor
Southlake, Texas Couple Convicted Of Forced Labor In Their Home The Department of Justice announced in a press release that Defendants Mohamed Toure
5 Members of Mexican Human Trafficking Organization Sentenced in Court
Attorney Review Guide January 7, 2019 No Comment
5 Members of Mexican Human Trafficking Organization Sentenced in Court Prosecution Dismantled International Sex Trafficking Organization that Forced
Justice Department Recovers Over $2.8 Billion from False Claims Act Cases
Attorney Review Guide December 27, 2018 No Comment
Justice Department Recovers Over $2.8 Billion from False Claims Act Cases The Department of Justice announced in a press release that they have
Criminal Charges Filed Against 15 Websites Offering DDoS-For-Hire Services
Criminal Charges Filed Against 15 Websites Offering DDoS-For-Hire Services The Justice Department announced today the seizure of 15 internet domains
Washington, D.C. Man Sentenced for Attack Outside D.C. Courthouse
Washington, D.C. Man Sentenced for Attack Outside D.C. Courthouse The Department of Justice announced today in a press release that a Washington,
Miami-Area Woman Sentenced For $4.65 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Miami-Area Woman Sentenced For $4.65 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme A Miami, Florida-area woman was sentenced to 78 months in prison to be followed by
United States Sues Freight Companies for Overcharging of Shipments
United States Sues Freight Companies for Overcharging of Shipments The Departmen of Justice announced in a press release today that The United States
U.S. Customs & Border Protection Officer Indicted on Charges of Theft
U.S. Customs & Border Protection Officer Indicted on Charges of Theft & False Statements A federal grand jury sitting in the Southern
Congressional Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Election Crimes Scheme
Congressional Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Election Crimes Scheme The Department of Justice issued a press release today stating that a former
Walmart Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim
Walmart Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Store in Fort Wort, Texas The Justice Department today announced that it has reached
FTC Charges Executive Whose Company Owns New York Knicks & New York Rangers
Attorney Review Guide December 7, 2018 No Comment
FTC Charges Executive Whose Company Owns New York Knicks & New York Rangers The Federal Trade Commission has announced in a press release that
Drug Maker Actelion Agrees to Pay $360 Million to Resolve False Claims Act
Drug Maker Actelion Agrees to Pay $360 Million to Resolve False Claims Act The Department of Justice announced in a press release that Pharmaceutical
Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Statement On The National Day of Mourning
Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Statement On The National Day of Mourning The Department of Justice announced in a press release today that Today,
U.S. Soldier Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
U.S. Soldier Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison The Department of Justice announced in a press release that Ikaika Erik Kang, 35, a Sergeant First Class
$16.7 Million Awarded to Support Victims of Las Vegas Shooting
Attorney Review Guide November 30, 2018 No Comment
$16.7 Million Awarded to Support Victims of Las Vegas Shooting The Department of Justice announced in a press release today that the Office of
U.S. Customs & Border Protection Officer Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison
Former U.S. Customs & Border Protection Officer Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison For Obstruction of Justice The Department of Justice announced in a
Business Partner of U.S. Military Contractor Sentenced to Prison
Former Business Partner of U.S. Military Contractor Sentenced to Prison for Bribery Scheme The Department of Justice announced in a press release
Justice Dept Awards $56 Million to Support Law Enforcement Health
Department Of Justice Awards $56 Million to Support Law Enforcement Health & Safety The Department of Justice announced in a press release today
Dallas Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty In Tax Scheme
Dallas Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty In Federal Tax Return Scheme The U.S. Department of Justice announced today in a press release that a Dallas, Texas
Kroger Shooting Suspect Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
Kroger Shooting Suspect Charged With Federal Hate Crimes The Department of Justice announced in a press release that a suspected shooter at a Kroger
Houston Texas Man Convicted Of Tax Crimes
Houston Texas Man Convicted Of Tax Crimes & Money Laundering The U.S. Department of Justice announced today in a press release that a Houston,
Kevin Hart Settles Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
Attorney Review Guide November 9, 2018 No Comment
Kevin Hart Settles Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Celebrity Comedian and Actor Kevin Hart has settled an ongoing Trademark Infringement Lawsuit. The
Chris Cornell’s Family Files Lawsuit After Singers Death
Late Singer Of Soundgarden Chris Cornell's Family Files Lawsuit Over Singers Death The family of the late singer for Soundgarden and Audioslave known
Google’s Privacy Notice Divides The Supreme Court
Google's Privacy Notice Divides The United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States while discussing the case that involves
LAPD Assistant Chief Accused Of Inappropriate Sexual Conduct
LAPD Assistant Chief Accused Of Inappropriate Sexual Conduct Before Retirement Prior to his sudden retirement just last week, one of the top-ranking
Notorious Mobster “Whitey” Bulger Killed In Prison
Notorious Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger Killed In Prison While living a life of extortion, murder, breach of contract, snitching on mobsters, and
Ex-CEO of Barnes & Noble Countersued
Ex-CEO of Barnes & Noble Countersued On Tuesday, Barnes & Noble Inc. filed a lawsuit against a CEO they previously fired based on claims
Pittsburgh Synagogue Gunman Appears in Court
Attorney Review Guide October 31, 2018 No Comment
Pittsburgh Synagogue Suspect Appears in Court Pittsburgh shooting suspect, Robert Bowers, was pushed into the courthouse on a wheelchair on Monday
Kylie Jenner Sued For Trademark Infringement
Kylie Jenner Cosmetics Sued For Trademark Infringement Kylie Jenner is being sued for Trademark infringement by a makeup company, Sheree Cosmetics
Wells Fargo Executives Leave Amid Scandal
Wells Fargo Executives Leave Amid Legal Scandal Two top executives at Wells Fargo & Co. have been asked by the bank to go on leave and step back
Popular Vape Company JUUL Faces Lawsuit
Popular Vape Company JUUL Faces Lawsuit The Juul Vape is a trendy, sleek e-cigarette. A San Francisco- based company, recently valued at $15
What to Know About Child Support in Georgia
What to Know About Child Support in Georgia Child Support in Georgia is a periodic payment made by a particular parent on behalf of a child which is
What is a Citizen’s Arrest?
What is a Citizen's Arrest? Generally, it is expected that only sworn police officers or law enforcement officers are allowed to make arrests.
What You Should Know About The Texas Castle Law
What You Should Know About The Texas Castle Law or Castle Doctrine Ever heard of a castle law or perhaps a castle doctrine? If not, you are
Hiring A Personal Injury Attorney
Hiring A Personal Injury Lawyer Have been involved in a car accident lately? Did you slip and fall while shopping in a supermarket which resulted in
McDonald’s Pays $56K For Discrimination Lawsuit
A McDonald's Restaurant in Missouri refused to interview a deaf job applicant and is facing a Disability Discrimination by the EEOC. McDonald's
Understanding Child Support In Texas
Understanding Child Support In Texas Caring for the emotional and economic needs of a child as well as who takes custody of the child is one of the
Denton County Judgment in EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit
Attorney Review Guide October 7, 2018 No Comment
Denton County to Pay $115,000 After Judgment in EEOC Equal Pay Lawsuit EEOC announced in a press release that Denton County in Denton Texas will be
Whole Foods to Pay $65k to Settle EEOC Disability Lawsuit
Whole Foods to Pay $65k to Settle EEOC Disability Lawsuit Austin, Texas based Whole Foods Market, will pay $65,000 and provide other relief to
Texas Roadhouse To Pay $12 Million Settlement
Texas Roadhouse To Pay $12 Million To Settle EEOC Age Discrimination Lawsuit National Restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse has been ordered to pay $12
Applebee’s Settles Sex Discrimination & Retaliation Suit
Applebee’s Restaurant Franchisee to Pay $100,000 To Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination and Retaliation Suit National Restaurant Franchise Applebee's will
Salvation Army Sued For Disability Discrimination
The EEOC has announced in a press release that the Salvation Army is facing a lawsuit for refusing to hire a potential employee due to his
7-Eleven Faces Lawsuit For Disability Discrimination
The EEOC announced that an Oklahoma chain of 7-Eleven stores is facing a Discrimination Lawsuit for failing to makes accommodations for workers with
Diallo’s Of Houston Texas Sued For Disability Discrimination
The EEOC announced in a press release that Diallo's Of Houston a nightclub located in Houston, Texas is being sued for making an unlawful HIV medical
Mississippi Koch Foods Sued For Pay Discrimination
The EEOC announced today in a press release that Mississippi Koch Foods is being sued for failing to pay a female plant coordinator as much as a male
Grand Hyatt Sued For Disability Discrimination
Grand Hyatt Sued For Disability Discrimination International Hotel Chain the Grand Hyatt in New York has been sued by the EEOC for a Disability
When To Hire A Divorce Lawyer
When To Hire A Divorce Lawyer Divorces have almost become as common as marriages in the society hence it is important that they are done right. About
Doctor Convicted in $8.9 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
Doctor Convicted in $8.9 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme The Department Of Justice announced that a federal jury found a physician guilty
Texas Attorney General Office Launches New Crime Victims’ Compensation Portal
Texas Attorney General Office Launches New Crime Victims’ Compensation Portal The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced a new
Missouri Child Support
Missouri Child Support Missouri Child Support is a periodic payment made by a particular parent on behalf of a child which is needed at the breakdown
University Of Denver Settles Equal Pay Lawsuit
University Of Denver Settles Equal Pay Lawsuit The EEOC announced in a press release that the University of Denver female full professors at the
Kansas City Lab Owner Convicted Of Storing Hazardous Waste
Kansas City Lab Owner Convicted Of Storing Hazardous Waste The Department of Justice has announced that a federal judge found Ahmed el-Sherif, the
City Of Jacksonville Florida Settles Employment Discrimination Lawsuit
City Of Jacksonville Florida Settles Employment Discrimination Lawsuit The Department of Justice today announced that it has reached a settlement
Party City Faces Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Party City Faces Disability Discrimination Lawsuit National retailer for party supplies Party City is facing a disability discrimination lawsuit
Denver Law Firm To Settle EEOC Lawsuit
Denver's Bendinelli Law Firm to Pay $30,000 To Settle EEOC Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit A Denver law firm faces a lawsuit for Pregnancy
Operation Breaking Bad NYPD & FBI Take-down of Drug Dealers
Operation Breaking Bad NYPD & FBI Take-down of Drug Dealers The NYPD announced in a press release that officers from NYPD's narcotics borough,
Macy’s To Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Macy's To Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Macy's will pay a former long-term employee $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination
Brooklyn Man Arrested For Using Weapon of Mass Destruction
Brooklyn Man Arrested For Using Weapon of Mass Destruction Defendant Killed a Man in Queens with a Destructive Device in Plot to Target NYPD
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) 376 U.S. 254 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (No. 39) Argued: January 6, 1964 Decided: March 9,
Diverse Lynx Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit
IT Staffing Company Diverse Lynx Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit An official press release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Inmate Pleads Guilty To Over 2000 Carjackings
Federal Inmate Pleads Guilty To Over 2000 Carjackings, Kidnapping and Murder in Vermont The United States Department of Justice has announced in a
Bath and Body Works Sued By EEOC
Bath & Body Works EEOC Lawsuit Global retailer Bath & Body Works has been sued by the EEOC for refusing to reasonably accommodate an employee
Maryland and Texas Men Indicted for Alleged $364 Million Ponzi Scheme
Maryland and Texas Men Indicted for Alleged $364 Million Ponzi Scheme—One of the Largest Ever Charged in Maryland Scheme Believed to Have Over 400
Pain Management Physician Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison
Pain Management Physician Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison The U.S. Attorneys Office of The District of Maryland announced that Chief U.S.
Justice Department Files Net Neutrality Lawsuit Against State of California
Justice Department Files Net Neutrality Lawsuit Against State of California The Justice Department announced they have filed a lawsuit
Four-Time Baltimore Felon Sentenced to 19 Years in Federal Prison
Four-Time Baltimore Felon Sentenced to 19 Years in Federal Prison The U.S. Attorneys Office of The District of Maryland announced that U.S. District
New York Heroin Supplier Sentenced To 12 Years In Federal Prison
New York Heroin Supplier Sentenced To 12 Years In Federal Prison The U.S. Attorneys Office of The District of Maryland announced that U.S. District
Cheesecake Factory Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
The Cheesecake Factory Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit The EEOC announced in a press release that it has settled a disability
CVS Caremark & EEOC Settle Discrimination Charge
CVS Caremark & EEOC Settle Discrimination Charge The EEOC announced in a press release that it has reach an agreement with CVS Caremark in a
Dollar General Faces Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Dollar General Faces Sexual Harassment Lawsuit The EEOC announced in a press release that global discount retailer Dollar General is being sued by
Executive of $50 Million Mail Fraud Scheme Sentenced To Federal Prison
Executive of $50 Million Mail Fraud Scheme Sentenced To Federal Prison The U.S. Attorneys Office of The District of Maryland announced that Chief
22 People Charged With Smuggling Counterfeit Luxury Goods From China
22 People Charged With Smuggling Counterfeit Luxury Goods From China The Department of Justice announced that 22 people have been charged with
Royal Bank Of Scotland Pays $4.9 Billion Settlement
Royal Bank Of Scotland Pays $4.9 Billion Settlement The Department of Justice announced in a press release that the Royal Bank Of Scotland agrees
California Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions Against Syria
California Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions Against Syria The Department of Justice announced that Rasheed Al Jijakli, 57, a
Colorado Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Biodiesel Tax Credit
Colorado Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Biodiesel Tax Credit The Department of Justice announced in a press release that a Colorado business owner
Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging
Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging The Department of Justice announced that a Real estate investor Christopher Graeve pleaded guilty
Maryland Judiciary Case Search
What Is The Maryland Judiciary Case Search? The Maryland Judiciary Case Search provides online access to public information from Maryland case
Detroit Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Health Care Fraud
Detroit Doctor Sentenced To Prison for $8.9 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme A Detroit-area doctor was sentenced to 135 months in prison today for
FBI Report Shows Reduction In 2017 Violent Crimes
FBI Report Shows Reduction In 2017 Violent Crimes The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released the 2017 edition of its Crime in the United
Former Nazi Labor Camp Guard Jakiw Palij Removed to Germany
Former Nazi Labor Camp Guard Jakiw Palij Removed to Germany The Department of Justice announced in a press release that they have removed the 68th
Los Angeles Man Guilty Of Not Reporting Offshore Israeli Accounts
Los Angeles Man Guilty Of Not Reporting Offshore Israeli Accounts The Department of Justice announced in a press release that a Los Angeles man
Epidiolex Placed In Controlled Substances Act
FDA-Approved Drug Epidiolex Placed in Schedule V of Controlled Substances Act The Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Houston Attorney Charged In Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme
Houston Attorney Charged in Offshore Tax Evasion Scheme The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a press release that a Houston Attorney has been
Oil Executive Sentenced To Prison In Bribery Scandal
Oil Executive Sentenced To Prison In Bribery Scandal The Department of Justice in a press release announced that an Oil Executive was sentenced to
Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $2.09 Billion Penalty
Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $2.09 Billion Penalty for Allegedly Misrepresenting Quality of Loans Used in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities The
3M Company Settles Faulty Military Ear Plugs Allegations
3M Company Settles Faulty Military Ear Plugs Allegations The Department of Justice announced today that 3M Company (3M), headquartered in St. Paul,
Walmart Faces Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
Attorney Review Guide September 28, 2018 No Comment
Global Retail Giant Walmart Faces Religious Discrimination Lawsuit The EEOC has announced a law suit against global retail giant Walmart for
Why Should You Hire An Immigration Lawyer?
Guide To Hiring An Immigration Lawyer The whole process of immigration is hectic and includes a lot of paperwork. A layman cannot go through it
Where Do I Start When Charged With A Crime?
John Anthony Ross Jr September 16, 2018 No Comment
Have you been arrested or charged with a crime? In this article, we are going to discuss one of the basic things that everyone should immediately
When Do I Need an Attorney?
When Do I Need an Attorney? Almost everything we do—from making a purchase, to driving a car, to interacting with others—is affected
How To Find A Top Rated Attorney
Attorney Review Guide September 1, 2018 No Comment
How To Find A Top Rated Attorney If уоur lеgаl рrоblеm іѕ соmрlеx оr іnvоlvеѕ things such as business, criminal proceedings or financial situations,
What Is The Bar Association For Attorneys?
Attorney Review Guide August 23, 2018 No Comment
What Is The Bar Association For Attorneys? The Bar is a regulatory association for Attorneys practicing in the United States based on the State in
What Is An Attorney?
What is an Attorney? Outside of television shows or movies, you may have no knowledge of what lawyers are or what they do. While
Nine Trey Gang Memeber Sentenced to Life in Prison
Attorney Review Guide August 1, 2018 No Comment
Nine Trey Gang Memeber Sentenced to Life in Prison The Departmenf of Justice announced in a press release that a member of the Nine Trey Gangsters
How Do I Find a Attorney?
How Do I Find a Attorney? You’ve thought about it carefully, you’ve spoken to friends, and you’ve decided that you need to contact a
Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship is the simplest and most common structure chosen to start a business. It is an
California State Bar Attorney Search
Attorney Review Guide July 21, 2018 No Comment
California State Bar Attorney Search Guide The State Bar of California’s mission is to protect the public and includes the primary functions
How to Remove Profile From Corporation Wiki
How To Remove Public Information From Corporation Wiki Corporation Wiki is a website that details public inforation data on things such as a person
Attorney Review Guide July 3, 2018 No Comment
What is the Lincoln Lawyer? The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, the sixteenth by American crime writer Michael Connelly. It introduces Los Angeles
What Is The Average Lawyer Salary?
What Is The Average Salary For An Attorney? After attending undergraduate school and the educational expense associated with it, a potential Law
American Apparel Settles Disability Bias Lawsuit
American Apparel Settles Disability Bias Lawsuit The EEOC announced in a press release that American Apparel, Inc., a clothing manufacturer
Fox News Sued by EEOC for Retaliation
Fox News Sued by EEOC for Retaliation The EEOC announced in a press release that New York-based Fox News Network LLC, which owns and operates the Fox
L.A. Fire Department Settles Harassment & Retaliation Case
L.A. Fire Department Settles Harassment & Retaliation Case The EEOC announced in a press release that the Los Angeles City Fire Department will
UPS Sued For National Origin & Religious Harassment
UPS Sued For National Origin & Religious Harassment The EEOC announced in a press release that global shipping company UPS violated federal law
Abercrombie & Fitch Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuits
Abercrombie & Fitch Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuits The EEOC announced in a press release clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has
GE Oil & Gas to Pay EEOC $5,300 for Contempt
GE Oil & Gas to Pay EEOC $5,300 for Contempt The EEOC announced in a press release that a federal judge has ordered GE Oil & Gas, Inc., a
Bank of America Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Bank of America Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit The EEOC announced in a press release that Bank of America, N.A. will pay $30,000 and
Wynn Las Vegas Sued For Disability Discrimination
Wynn Las Vegas Sued For Disability Discrimination The EEOC announced in a press release that Wynn Las Vegas, LLC violated federal law when it
Former UVA Football Player Sentenced for $10 Million Fraud
Eight Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Conduit Campaign Contribution Case
119 Illegal Aliens Prosecuted For Stealing Identities of Americans
San Diego Man Sentenced for Politically Motivated Arsons
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2179
|
__label__cc
| 0.62649
| 0.37351
|
Amazing Grace - SLAVE-TRADE BEGINNINGS
1. AFRICA, BEFORE SLAVERS
2. SLAVE-TRADE BEGINNINGS
3. THE TRIANGLE TRADE
4. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE MYTH
5. MIDDLE PASSAGE REALITY
6. JOHN NEWTON, SLAVE TRADER
7. OLAUDAH EQUIANO
8. HUMANS: PROPERTY and AUCTIONS
9. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE
10. VOICE of a MOVEMENT
11. MASSIVE EXPLOITATION
12. THE FAMOUS SPEECH
13. CONVINCING the PUBLIC
14. SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED - FEBRUARY 23, 1807
15. MORE TRAGEDIES
16. AMAZING GRACE
In this image we see a trading post as it appeared in Angola between 1786-7. Slave captives were held in the ground-level enclosure until they could be processed and sold. The caption, in English translation, says: “Quibangua [a type of house] and the interior of a European trading post on the coast of Angola, in Africa.” To learn more about it, click on the top link in the “Media Stream” for this chapter.
Thomas Clarkson - who first thought about the evils of slave-trading when he was a student at Cambridge University's St. John's College - wrote an award-winning essay about the topic in 1785.
To better understand his subject, he conducted fact-finding trips. Traveling throughout Britain, on horseback, he obtained firsthand information about the slave-trade.
Later writing a history of slave-trading - an industry so massive that its scope can be compared to the modern housing industry - Clarkson relates (in Chapter 2 of his 1839 History) how European slave-trading began:
So early as in the year 1503, a few slaves had been sent from the Portuguese settlements in Africa into the Spanish colonies in America. In 1511, Ferdinand the Fifth, king of Spain, permitted them to be carried in great numbers. Ferdinand, however, must have been ignorant in these early times of the piratical manner in which the Portuguese had procured them.
Britain joined the slave-trade in 1562, during the reign of Elizabeth I:
The first importation of slaves from Africa, by our countrymen, was in the reign of Elizabeth, in the year 1562.
Clarkson notes the Queen was greatly concerned about these events:
She [Elizabeth I] seems to have been aware of the evils to which its continuance might lead, or that, if it were sanctioned, the most unjustifiable means might be made use of to procure the persons of the natives of Africa.
Summoning Captain John Hawkins, to brief her regarding his voyage to Africa, the Queen:
expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent, declaring that "it would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of heaven upon the undertakers."
Disregarding Her Majesty's directive, Hawkins commenced centuries of British slave-trade:
Captain Hawkins promised to comply with the injunctions of Elizabeth in this respect, but he did not keep his word; for when he went to Africa again, he seized many of the inhabitants and carried them off as slaves, which occasioned Hill, in the account ['Naval History'] he gives of his second voyage, to use these remarkable words: "Here began the horrid practice of forcing the Africans into slavery, an injustice and barbarity which, so sure as there is vengeance in heaven for the worst of crimes, will some time be the destruction of all who allow or encourage it."
During the ensuing centuries, 'injustice and barbarity' was inflicted on approximately 12 million Africans.
0 Question or Comment?
click to read or comment
3 Questions 2 Ponder
click to read and respond
0 It's Awesome!
vote for your favorite
Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D. 5190stories and lessons created
Original Release: Jan 01, 2007
Updated Last Revision: Feb 03, 2017
Bos, Carole "SLAVE-TRADE BEGINNINGS" AwesomeStories.com. Jan 01, 2007. Jan 19, 2020.
<http://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/SLAVE-TRADE-BEGINNINGS-Amazing-Grace>.
Academic Alignments Learning Tasks Questions to Ponder ? Media Stream
How Large Was the Slave-Trading Industry?
European Trading Post in Angola - Slave Trade
Portrait of Thomas Clarkson
Clopton Portrait of Queen Elizabeth
Captain John Hawkins
Slaves and Slave Owners
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2182
|
__label__wiki
| 0.555911
| 0.555911
|
Inside Arabia
Inside Bahrain
Re-Think
PR This Week
Bahrain This Week
HRH Premier hails Bahrain-Thai relations
Lewis Hamilton Wins FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX…
Black Tap shakes up late-night dining scene with extended weekend service…
The Fourth Edition of the Arabian Women Fashion Expo 2019 Kicks…
SEEF MALL ANNOUNCED AS VENUE SPONSOR FOR 7TH ANNUAL BAHRAIN …
AllContributorsSpotlight
The Musical Life of Acceptance & Love, Interview with Isa Najem
Dedicated to Bahrain with Passion, Interview with Dr. Fatima Albalooshi
Bahrain in the AI World, Interview with Dr. Shaikha Eshaa bint…
SWEET SUCCESS! Interview with Abdul Majeed Theruvath, Director of Jamal Showaiter…
AllInside ArabiaInside BahrainWhats On…
Bahrain committed to enhancing health care system
HRH the Crown Prince lays the foundation stone of the Bahrain…
Bahrain 2020 welcomed with Extravagant Celebrations and Spectacular Fireworks
Bahrain in A Decade
AllAct NowiGARe-Think
Muharraq’s ID Card Service Center Now Closed on Saturdays
Own a Public Transportation Business? Visit Bahrain.bh to speed up your…
eGoverment payment services are Rolled Out via SADAD *
Submit Your Sanitary Connections Request on Bahrain.bh
AllAll Eyes on YouPR This Week
Batelco Expands its Cloud Connect Solutions by Introducing Google Cloud Interconnect
BTEA participates in SATTE 2020 in India
NPRA holds awareness campaign
The Lakes Mosque inaugurated in Riffa Views
Festive Spirits at The Westin & Le Méridien City Centre Bahrain
The Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Lights Up in Pink
9 Flavours to Celebrate 89th Saudi National Day!
Bahrain Food: A Distinct Culmination of Tastes, Flavours and Traditions
Salt N Pepper Restaurant, Bahrain’s Favourite Dining Destination for Two Decades
HRH Premier hails Bahrain Thailand Solid Relations
His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has stressed that the economic field is among the aspects of the distinguished cooperation between Bahrain and friendly Thailand, highlighting the two countries’ shared keenness to bolster bilateral cooperation to serve their solid relations.
HRH Premier stressed the importance of the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in supporting the government’s efforts in various countries at the level of sustainable development, through their ability to generate more job opportunities for their citizens, as well to promote national products locally and externally.
HRH Premier made the statements while attending the Thai Expo SME One Fest in Bahrain 2019, organised by the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion at the Gulf Convention Hall, in cooperation with the Thai Embassy and the Thai Club in Bahrain.
Upon arrival, HRH the Prime Minister was welcomed by the Thai Ambassador Bahrain, Thanis Na Songkhla, and a number of senior state officials.
HRH Premier was briefed by the Thai Ambassador about the expo, and the Thai products showcased in it.
The Prime Minister also watched a musical show embodying Thai folk art.
Then, HRH Premier toured the expo, and was informed about the Thai products on display.
The Premier expressed admiration for the Thai products, in terms of quality and design, wishing the expo’s officials and participants every success in concluding commercial deals and partnerships that would strengthen the pillars of economic and trade cooperation between the two friendly countries.
The Prime Minister stressed that the Bahraini-Thai relations are progressing steadily across various sectors thanks to the deep-rooted strong bilateral relations that are based on shared belief that cooperation is the best means to achieve rapprochement among peoples.
HRH Premier called on businessmen and the private sector in the two countries to take advantage of the existing promising opportunities to build economic partnerships that would meet the common aspirations.
The Prime Minister lauded the organisation of the Thai Expo in Bahrain, stressing the importance of holding more specialised exhibitions in enhancing trade exchange and boosting joint investments.
The Thai Ambassador expressed sincere thanks and appreciation to HRH Premier for attending the Thai Expo, which, he said, reflects his keenness to develop the kingdom’s relations with Thailand.
He asserted that HRH Premier’s gracing the Thai Expo would contribute to achieving its goals of broadening trade relations between Bahrain Thailand through strengthening understanding and coordination between businessmen and merchants in the two countries.
Previous articleBahrain Pearling Revitalization Project wins Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Next articleBahrain Food: A Distinct Culmination of Tastes, Flavours and Traditions
The health care system in Bahrain has accomplished great achievements during the past decade and the government is fully committed to continue to enhance...
HRH the Crown Prince lays the foundation stone of the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre in Sakhir
His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, attended the foundation stone-laying ceremony...
The Kingdom of Bahrain celebrated the beginning of 2020 with a spectacular fireworks show as part of the New Year’s Eve celebratory event organized...
An overview of 20 news, the leaping steps of the Kingdom over a decade. 2010: l The United Nations, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, established The...
BTEA to Host New Year’s Eve Celebrations
The Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) will be hosting New Year’s Eve celebrations at The Park, The Avenues – Bahrain, on Tuesday, 31st...
Manama Named ‘Capital of Arab Tourism’ for 2020
Manama was named ‘Capital of Arab Tourism’ for 2020, it was announced during the 22nd session of the Arab Ministerial Council for Tourism, held...
Don’t hurt others’ Self-Esteem by Dhananjay Mahadev Datar
Once, on a holiday, one of our stores was more crowded than usual and there was a crowd in front of the billing counter....
Avoid these skin mistakes during Winter
Dry skin and winter season are quite the duo and there are mistakes that can make our skin worse. Here’s a guide to understand...
The doshas are biological energies found throughout the human body and mind. They govern all the physical and mental processes and provide a unique...
2020 predictions for AI trends by Dr. Jassim Haji
Artificial Intelligence has been the technology story in Bahrain and round the world during 2019 and it doesn’t look like the excitement is going...
Wheels and Gears
Mercedes-Benz unveils Vision AVTR, an Avatar-themed concept car with scales
Mercedes-Benz has just pulled the wraps off of a wild new concept car that was inspired by the 2009 movie Avatar called — what...
Introducing the ALL-New 2020 KIA Niro Hybrid in Bahrain
Bin Hindi Motors, the exclusive distributor of KIA MOTORS in Bahrain recently unveiled the enhanced New 2020 Niro Hybrid in the Kingdom. From every angle,...
Sports This Week
Sports services, projects in Northern Governorate discussed
Youth and Sports Affairs Minister, Ayman bin Tawfeeq Al-Moayyad, has stressed the importance of constant coordination with municipal councils to ensure the progress of...
If you’re living in Muharraq and were looking to visit the ID Card Service Center, heads up: the center is no longer opens on...
The Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs (NPRA) organised an awareness campaign for expatriate communities. The Labour and Social Development Ministry and the Labour Market...
Representatives Council and Tamkeen signs agreement to train 40 Bahrainis
The Representatives Council’s Secretariat-General and the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) signed an agreement. It is to train 40 Bahrainis to work at MPs’ offices temporarily. Secretary-General...
Sony Middle East & Africa adds Super-Large Sized TVs for its MASTER Series
Sony Middle East & Africa has upped its flagship MASTER Series in Bahrain with the launch of the new Z9G 8K LED and A9G...
Chairman of the Sunni Endowments Council, Dr. Shaikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al-Hajeri inaugurated the Lakes Mosque in Riffa Views. Dr. Al-Hajeri also visited the three...
For the first time since its establishment, the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) is participating in the 26th edition of South Asia's leading...
Batelco, the leading digital solutions provider in the Kingdom has expanded its cloud connect solutions portfolio with the introduction of Google Cloud Interconnect. The...
© GO ALIVE MEDIA
.td-post-category { padding: 0px!important }
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2184
|
__label__wiki
| 0.631967
| 0.631967
|
Broken Promises Flood Election Season
Broken Promises Flood Election Season Broken Promises Flood Election Season Check out this story on baxterbulletin.com: http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/opinion/2016/05/23/broken-promises-flood-election-season/84346638/
Published 11:42 a.m. CT May 23, 2016
In this photo taken Jan. 12, then Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Coralville, Iowa.(Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP)
It’s broken promises that have earned both Jeb Bush and Lindsay Graham a lack of respect from Republican voters.
Throughout social media, conservative anger toward Bush and Graham equals that of Roman Senator Cato the Elder who ended speeches with, “ … and Carthage must be destroyed.”
Today, conservatives begin and end their diatribes with “Bush and Graham must go,” or epithets to that extent.
Donald Trump is the nominee, and for those of us who supported other candidates (this writer supported Scott Walker, “a workhorse, not a show pony” and then Ted “I didn’t come to Wash-ington to make friends, I came to fight for limited government” Cruz), know this: Any cabinet built by “the bloviating hyperbolist” will do less damage to our country than “Crooked Hillary,” the scheming political profiteer.
This is one of the most important elections in recent history if for no other reason than we have three aging Supreme Court justices who will likely be replaced within the next presidential term.
Sure, there’s no guarantee Trump will nominate Constitution-respecting conservatives to the Supreme Court. But it’s certain Hillary won’t.
It’s the reason Jeb and Graham need to put on their big boy pants and help Trump win.
Anthony Kennedy is 79 years old, four months younger than the late Antonin Scalia.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83.
Stephen Breyer is 77.
Rick Jensen (Photo: Cagle Cartoons)
Antonin Scalia’s philosophy was to judge whether cases brought to the Supreme Court truly merited a review by the Supreme Court, or if those cases constitutionally belonged to the states or congress.
Liberal justices lean toward judging cases based upon their own perceptions of current social values.
Both Jeb and Graham pledged to support the eventual Republican nominee, figuring Trump would never be the candidate they’d be forced to back.
They were wrong, so now they break their promise, like Jeb’s dad when he promised, “no new taxes.”
In 2014, Americans sent Republicans to Congress to fight President Obama’s overreach and defund Obamacare, which is failing millions. They also promised to defund Obama’s executive amnesty and attach spending cuts to every increase in the debt ceiling.
They lied.
Last September at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Lindsey Graham confessed, “I’m tired of telling people things they want to hear that I know we can’t do.”
Trump’s success was built on the promises and lies of both parties, especially Republicans in the Class of 2014.
I have written about the dangers of Trump being truly liberal, and have not changed that opinion. He will be an “inside-the-beltway” president with a cabinet of insiders and insider advisers.
I’ll be surprised if any of his cabinet has no experience in a political realm.
Hillary, whose campaign is focused on the dangers of Trump, is more dangerous.
We have seen her sell out America as Secretary of State, especially in giving U.S. uranium production to Russia in exchange for Russia and other related foreign entities funneling millions into the Clinton Foundation.
Her Victory Fund fundraisers have “given” $61 million to state Democratic parties, only to require those state parties to give so much of that money to both DNC and her own campaign that it leaves only 1 percent with the states, according to estimates done by Politico
It’s a level of dishonesty that Democrats seem to be able to live with.
Obama has broken a litany of promises, such as closing Guantanamo, which he likely knew would never happen. He knew millions of Americans would lose their insurance policies, doctors and children’s specialists under Obamacare, but pushed it through anyway. How about his promises to create an “unprecedented level of openness” in his government and to promote “stimulus” as an agenda to repair infrastructure?
In fact, Obama has so many failed promises that popular website lists range from “Top Ten” to “Top 25,” Top 50,” and even a couple of sites that promote “1,202 well sourced examples of Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc.”
Maybe liberal Democrats are more readily forgive their candidates’ broken promises, thievery and lies.
Conservative Republicans don’t seem to forgive broken promises so easily.
© 2016 Rick Jensen
Read or Share this story: http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/opinion/2016/05/23/broken-promises-flood-election-season/84346638/
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2185
|
__label__wiki
| 0.895866
| 0.895866
|
Andy Murray: Can Briton reach Wimbledon summit?
By Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/23208488
Murray 'no regrets' over last final
And so, after a fortnight of illogical shocks and underdog upsets, the host nation will gather around its televisions, radios and laptops this weekend to pray for just one more.
This has been a Wimbledon where little has made sense, where champions have been dethroned by mere foot-soldiers and rock-solid wagers crumbled into dust. So it was again in Andy Murray's late-night semi-final on Friday, when the clubbing serve and forehands of the unheralded Jerzy Janowicz had the darling of the home crowd rolling on the ropes until the sun was down and the Centre Court lights up.
That he will walk out for Sunday's final as marginal outsider against Novak Djokovic is entirely logical. Djokovic has six Grand Slam titles, Murray one; he has taken this title before, Murray has not. But so too is the belief that this time, at last, the Briton can climb the final summit.
Can Murray become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936?
A year ago, when Murray became the first Briton in 74 years to reach the men's singles final here, there was delight in that achievement alone. Twelve months on, there has been a subtle yet significant change: aspiration replaced by expectation, both player and his raucous support with eyes on the ultimate prize from the very first Monday of the tournament.
Neither is this simply patriotic emotion at work. Murray is entirely deserving of his number two ranking, busting free of the stranglehold of the old big three over the past 18 months, albeit with the assistance of Roger Federer's advancing years and Rafael Nadal's arthritic knees.
The last time he played Djokovic in this old arena, in the semi-finals of last summer's Olympics, he sent him packing in straight sets. He has reached the final of the last four Grand Slam events he has contested.
It is a trajectory that has been aiming inexorably upwards ever since that first Wimbledon semi-final defeat back in 2009. Well beaten by Andy Roddick that day, he was dismantled by the superior Nadal a year later, took a set off the Spaniard in defeat in 2011 and then made it past Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a year ago.
Each year an improvement, each summer a little more belief.
"The biggest difference to the Murray of a few years ago is his experience," says four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman. "But physically and technically he is a better player as well.
"His game style is getting more and more aggressive. In 2009 he was still very reactive, not proactive, but now he is looking to dictate more, and when he gets that balance right he is as good as anyone."
Murray's route to the final
First round: Bt Benjamin Becker 6-4 6-3 6-2
Second round: Bt Yen-Hsun Lu 6-3 6-3 7-5
Third round: Bt Tommy Robredo 6-2 6-4 7-5
Fourth round: Bt Mikhail Youzhny 6-4 7-6 6-1
QF: Bt Fernando Verdasco 4-6 3-6 6-1 6-4 7-5
SF: Bt Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-3
That advance has not been powered by the classic grass-court engine of a blistering serve. Murray's average first-serve speed this summer is three miles per hour down on the 119mph he was clocking in 2010; his second serve has slowed up even more, from an average of 95 mph two years ago to 84 mph today. Placement and variety, not raw pace, are his weapons.
There is more beef on his forehand - an average speed of 72mph in these championships, well up on the 66mph of 2010 - but as important is his near-peerless return of serve. He has broken his opponents more than any other man in this tournament, his four-set defeat of Janowicz containing more breaks of serve in a single match than the Pole had conceded in his five previous matches put together.
The other great lesson of that often anxious semi-final triumph on Friday, just as it had been in the epic five-set win over Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals, was that the Murray of 2013 - augmented by the experience and ambition of coach Ivan Lendl - is stronger mentally than he has ever been before.
On both occasions he kept his belief even as others were rapidly losing theirs; in both contests he found a way to rouse himself from slumps that in previous years would have become fatal tail-spins. Just as brutal physical conditioning has carried him towards the pinnacle, so that Olympic gold medal and US Open triumph last season convinced him he belongs there.
Against any other man, Murray would be favourite with the bookmakers as well as the home crowd. But this is Djokovic, who has beaten him in two Australian Open finals, who is in his 11th Grand Slam final, who has reached more consecutive Slam semi-finals than Rod Laver, Andre Agassi or Bjorn Borg.
Murray v Djokovic head-to-head
Djokovic has won 11 of 18 matches.
Murray won only meeting on grass, beating the Serb in last year's Olympic semi-final.
Djokovic has won three of four Grand Slam encounters against the Briton.
All three of Djokovic's Grand Slam wins over Murray were at the Australian Open (2011, 2012, 2013)
There were times in his epic five-set victory over Juan Martin Del Potro when you wondered if he too was about to fall victim to the curse of the favourite at this Wimbledon, flushed down the gurgler just as Nadal and Federer had been in that tumultuous first week.
Should this give Murray greater hope? Even after the longest semi-final in Wimbledon history, Djokovic will have recovered physically by Sunday afternoon. But Del Potro blasted a few cracks in his previous flawless exterior, not just taking sets off him for the first time in these championships but leaving him rattled and angry when previously he has been serene.
Murray's supporters will be assailed by nerves between now and then nonetheless.
No matter that his achievements in making these successive finals are something that was once thought impossible and in a few short years might be looked back on as a wondrous golden period for the sport in this country.
This is the Wimbledon men's singles title, the lost ark of British sport, the national treasure stolen away overseas and thought gone for good.
With that unique allure comes unparalleled pressure.
A man who won his nation's first Grand Slam title in 76 years should never be thought of as a nearly man. But to lose a sixth Grand Slam final in seven and a second Wimbledon on the bounce would be the cruellest torment for a man who has worked so hard for so long.
Britain expects. It will be apprehensive, because of that history, and because Djokovic is at his peak. But it also hopes like never before. This year could be different. And if it is, none of us watching will ever forget it.
5 live tennis on Twitter
Read more on 5 live tennis on Twitter
Read more on Wimbledon
Read more on ATP World Tour
Read more on WTA
Read more on ITF
Read more on LTA
allplay tennis scheme
Read more on allplay tennis scheme
Read more on Order of play
Wimbledon weather
Read more on Wimbledon weather
BBC Radio commentaries
Read more on BBC Radio commentaries
Radio 5 live podcast
Read more on Radio 5 live podcast
BBC tennis on iPlayer
Read more on BBC tennis on iPlayer
5 live at Wimbledon
Read more on 5 live at Wimbledon
Murray prepares for second Wimbledon final
Read more on Andy Murray faces Novak Djokovic in second Wimbledon final
Murray delight at reaching final
Read more on Andy Murray delight at reaching second Wimbledon final
Murray wins to set up Djokovic final
Read more on Andy Murray beats Jerzy Janowicz in Wimbledon semi-final
I will be ready for final - Djokovic
Read more on Wimbledon 213: Novak Djokovic confident he will be fresh for final
Djokovic beats Del Potro in thriller
Read more on Novak Djokovic beats Del Potro to reach Wimbledon final
Men's semi-finals as they happened
Read more on Men's semi-finals as they happened
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2186
|
__label__cc
| 0.512565
| 0.487435
|
Journal of Dhaka Medical College
Assessment of Initial Stroke Severity by National Institute Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Score at Admission
Swapon Kumar Ghose Associate Professor of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Kazi Gias Uddin Ahmed Associate Professor of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Ahmed Hossian Chowdhury Associate Professor of Neurology , Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
ATM Hasibul Hasan Registrar (Neurology), Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Kanol Saha Associate Professor of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Reaz Mahmud Junior Consultant, Shorkari Kormojibi Hospital, Dhaka
Nazmul Islam Joy Junior Consultant, Shorkari Kormojibi Hospital, Dhaka
Rama Biswas Associate Consultant, Square Hospital, Dhaka
Md Sadekur Rahman Sarkar Assistant Professor (Current Charge), Sheikh Shahera Khatun Medical College, Gopalgonj
Md Mahabubur Rahman Assistant Registrar (Neurology), National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, Dhaka
Hashmi Sina Assistant Professor of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Md Arifuzzaman Assistant Professor of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Iftikher Alam Junior Consultant, Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
Mohammad Murad Hossain Associate Professor (Medicine), Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
ASM Rezaul Karim Senior Consultant (Medicine), Nilphamari Sadar Hospital, Nilphamari
Mansur Habib Professor & Head of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/jdmc.v26i2.38765
Background: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale or NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a widely used tool for assessing stroke severity. We conducted this study to determine the severity of stroke patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital.
Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted in Department of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital from April 2016 to October 2016 involving 91 acute stroke patients.
Result: About half (44%) of the patients were older than 60 years of age and mean age of the patients was 60.34(±16.1) years at onset and there is a slight female predominance (51.6%). Majority had hypertension (75.8%) followed by physical inactivity (67%), diabetes (37.4%), smoking (33%), obesity (23.1%), family H/O stroke (20.9%) and dyslipideamia (15.4%). Many patients were found to have hyperglycemia (14.3%) followed by hyperthermia (13.2%), hypotension (4.4%) and low oxygen saturation (3.3%) at the time of admission. Most of them had ischemic stroke (60%), followed by intracerebral hemorrhage (35%) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (5%). After leveling with NIHSS score more than half of the patients (51%) were found to be moderate grade on admission. Although, there was no association between risk factors of stroke and admission NIHSS score level, significant association was found between hypoxia and admission NIHSS score severity.
Conclusion: Acute stroke patients, mostly have moderate grade of NIHSS score on admission. Hypertension, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, obesity, family H/O stroke and dyslipideamia are common risk factors observed among the patients which have no significant association with admission stroke severity determined by NIHSS score. There is significant association between hypoxia and admission NIHSS score severity.
J Dhaka Medical College, Vol. 26, No.2, October, 2017, Page 90-93
Ghose, S., Ahmed, K. G., Chowdhury, A., Hasan, A., Saha, K., Mahmud, R., Joy, N., Biswas, R., Sarkar, M. S., Rahman, M. M., Sina, H., Arifuzzaman, M., Alam, I., Hossain, M. M., Karim, A., & Habib, M. (2018). Assessment of Initial Stroke Severity by National Institute Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Score at Admission. Journal of Dhaka Medical College, 26(2), 90-93. https://doi.org/10.3329/jdmc.v26i2.38765
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2194
|
__label__cc
| 0.676045
| 0.323955
|
Margate City, New Jersey
United States / New Jersey / Atlantic City-Hammonton Metro Area / Atlantic County / Margate City / Zip Codes
Best Places to Live in Margate City, New Jersey
Beach and resort city - Southern New Jersey shore. September, June and May are the most pleasant months in Margate City, while January and February are the least comfortable months.
-Entertainment
-Nearby beaches
-Favorable climate
-Tourist impact
-Cost of living
-Arts and culture
Local Listings in Margate City
8101 Amherst Ave
6 S Gilmar Cir
7 Dolphin Dr
What Bert Has To Say About Atlantic City-Hammonton Metro Area
Atlantic City lies on a barrier island on the south coast of New Jersey. Once a popular resort area for residents of New York and Philadelphia from the 1850’s, (the street names in the board game “Monopoly” are taken from downtown streets), the city went into decline after World War II as better travel and transportation services made other destinations accessible. The return to legalized gambling in the late 1970s was a partially successful attempt to revive the earlier prominence.
Read More about Margate City
Today the shore area thrives. The Boardwalk is both a historic gem and a good if somewhat crowded place to spend a morning or afternoon. The large high-rise casino properties rise abruptly on the other side of the “strip.” The economy depends almost entirely on tourism. Cost of living and housing are low on a New Jersey scale but high relative to incomes and U.S. averages. Areas along the coast to the south towards Ocean City and Cape May are more attractive, prosperous and livable and retain more of their historic feel.
Surrounding terrain is mainly flat and composed of tidal marshes and beach sand. Vegetation consists of scrub pine and low underbrush. The climate is principally continental in character. However, the moderating influence of the Atlantic Ocean is apparent throughout the year. As a result, summers are relatively cooler and winters milder than elsewhere at the same latitude. During the warm season, sea breezes in the late morning and afternoon keep temperatures in the 80’s. Precipitation is moderate and well distributed through the year. Tropical storms or hurricanes occasionally bring heavy rain. Most winter precipitation comes from coastal storms (“noreasters”) and creates a rain/snow mix. Large snow accumulations and ice storms are far less common than nearby inland locations. First freeze is late October, last is mid-April.
Best Neighborhoods In Margate City, New Jersey: Download the BestPlaces App
County: Atlantic County
Metro Area: Atlantic City-Hammonton Metro Area
Political Ideology: Leaning liberal
City: Margate City
Time zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Elevation: 10 ft above sea level
The unemployment rate in Margate City is 5.9% (U.S. avg. is 3.9%). Recent job growth is Positive. Margate City jobs have increased by 2.1%. More Economy
Compared to the rest of the country, Margate City's cost of living is 32.0% higher than the U.S. average. More Cost of Living or Compare Margate City's Cost of Living
September, June and May are the most pleasant months in Margate City, while January and February are the least comfortable months. Today's Weather | Climate Averages
Atlantic county voted Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections. More Voting Stats
Margate City's population is 6,200 people. Since 2010, it has had a population decline of 8.3%. Learn More...
The median home cost in Margate City is $481,100. Home appreciation the last 10 years has been 4.0%. Check out the homes in the area
Margate City public schools spend $29,497 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $12,383. There are about 9.9 students per teacher in Margate City. More Education
Best Places to Live in Margate City Rankings
#123 2005 Best Places to Live
#183 Best Green Cities
Housing Market in Margate City
It's a good time to buy in Margate City. Home Appreciation is up 4.0% in the last 12 months. Browse Margate City Real Estate
The median home price in Margate City is $481,100. Browse Homes in this Range.
Reviews for Margate City 0 Reviews
Start Your Review of Margate City
Compare Margate City, New Jersey to any other place in the USA.
MAPS OF MARGATE CITY, NEW JERSEY
ZIP CODES IN MARGATE CITY, NEW JERSEY
NEW LISTINGS IN MARGATE CITY
21 S Barclay Ave
8905 Ventnor Ave
10 S Andover Ave
411 N Nassau Ave
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2200
|
__label__cc
| 0.566777
| 0.433223
|
Oak Forest, Illinois
United States / Illinois / Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area / Cook County / Oak Forest / Zip Codes
Climate in Oak Forest, Illinois
Oak Forest, Illinois gets 39 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.
Oak Forest averages 31 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.
On average, there are 188 sunny days per year in Oak Forest. The US average is 205 sunny days.
Oak Forest gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 123 days per year. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. In order for precipitation to be counted you have to get at least .01 inches on the ground to measure.
Weather Highlights
Summer High: the July high is around 84 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 18
Rain: averages 39 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 31 inches of snow a year
BESTPLACES COMFORT INDEX
The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for Oak Forest is 7.0 (10=best), which means it is about average compared to other places in Illinois.
September, June and August are the most pleasant months in Oak Forest, while January and December are the least comfortable months.
Climate Averages
Oak Forest, Illinois United States
39.1 in. 38.1 in.
123.1 days 106.2 days
188 days 205 days
Avg. July High
84.1° 85.8°
Avg. Jan. Low
Comfort Index (higher=better)
673 ft. 2443 ft.
Many people confuse weather and climate but they are different. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere is over long periods of time.
Weather is how the atmosphere is behaving and its effects upon life and human activities. Weather can change from minute-to-minute. Most people think of weather in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure.
Climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a place. Climate can mean the average weather for a particular region and time period taken over 30 years. Climate is the average of weather over time.
July is the hottest month for Oak Forest with an average high temperature of 84.1°, which ranks it as cooler than most places in Illinois. In Oak Forest, there are 5 comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85°. The most pleasant months of the year for Oak Forest are June, September and August.
January has the coldest nighttime temperatures for Oak Forest with an average of 18.1°. This is warmer than most places in Illinois.
In Oak Forest, there are 15.2 days annually when the high temperature is over 90°, which is cooler than most places in Illinois.
In Oak Forest, there are 108.9 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below freezing, which is warmer than most places in Illinois.
In Oak Forest, there are 5.8 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below zero°, which is about average compared to other places in Illinois.
August is the wettest month in Oak Forest with 4.4 inches of rain, and the driest month is February with 1.8 inches. The wettest season is Autumn with 32% of yearly precipitation and 16% occurs in Spring, which is the driest season. The annual rainfall of 39.1 inches in Oak Forest means that it is about average compared to other places in Illinois.
May is the rainiest month in Oak Forest with 12.0 days of rain, and February is the driest month with only 8.4 rainy days. There are 123.1 rainy days annually in Oak Forest, which is one of the rainiest places in Illinois. The rainiest season is Summer when it rains 28% of the time and the driest is Winter with only a 24% chance of a rainy day.
An annual snowfall of 31.3 inches in Oak Forest means that it is snowier than most places in Illinois. January is the snowiest month in Oak Forest with 10.0 inches of snow, and 6 months of the year have significant snowfall.
Annual Rainfall (US Avg: 36.5")
Annual Snowfall (US Avg: 25")
Precipitation Days (US Avg: 100)
Sunny Days (US Avg: 205)
Avg. July High Temp (US Avg: 86.5)
Avg. January Low Temp (US Avg: 20.5)
Annual Rainfall
Annual Snowfall
Precipitation Days
July High Temp
January Low Temp
Reviews for Oak Forest 1 Reviews
Schools - 2/8/2012
We moved here originally from Chicago to find good schools. We have not been disappointed. The housing is less expensive than the surrounding areas but the schools are... Read More
Chester | Glenwood, IL | Reply | No Replies
Start Your Review of Oak Forest
Compare Oak Forest, Illinois to any other place in the USA.
MAPS OF OAK FOREST, ILLINOIS
ZIP CODES IN OAK FOREST, ILLINOIS
NEW LISTINGS IN OAK FOREST
15749 Arroyo Dr
6109 Heron Dr
15104 Spruce Ln
5244 Harcourt St
6038 Avalon Ave
4343 Henry St
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2201
|
__label__wiki
| 0.505276
| 0.505276
|
Fantasy Leagues
Crisis Aid Wings Program with Kyle and Elizabeth Gibson
Oct - Dec 2019
Join us to help feed 200 families in South St. Louis!
Help Puerto Rico After Deadly Earthquakes
In 2018, Kyle Gibson and his wife, Elizabeth, teamed up with St. Louis-based nonprofit Crisis Aid to help feed 100 families in St. Louis from January through May 2019. These families all have children who are in school and are mostly (98.2%) living below the poverty line. Each family receives enough food to supplement them for one month.
This year the Cardinals picked up where Kyle and Elizabeth left off and this is your chance, at the end of the year, to join the Gibsons in supporting families in your community who are striving to care for their children.
It costs $10,000 per month to support 200 families, so Kyle and Elizabeth are putting up a $20,000 match! You can join them by CLICKING HERE.
Feed 200 Families for Four Months
Join Kyle and Elizabeth Gibson is helping Crisis Aid of St. Louis feed 200 people through their Wings program. 10k sustains 200 families for a month.
Big League Impact Ballplayers and fans are making an impact, locally and globally. Join our campaigns to get prizes, win VIP experiences, and make a big difference in the world.
Official Fantasy Rules
© 2020 BIG LEAGUE IMPACT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2204
|
__label__wiki
| 0.668902
| 0.668902
|
Bungamati : A City Rising back from Ruins
January 12th, 2020- 9 min read
Everyday life at the 14th century old Bungamati city is quite peaceful. During the sunny days of winter, you can see the elderly basking in the sun as they watch their grandkids playing on the streets. You hear the continuous clanging of hammers into wood from a distance as traditional wood carvers prepare another piece of art.
Bungamati is believed to be the home of the God of Rain and Harvest, the Rato Machhindranath, also known as Bungadyo, literally meaning the God from Bungamati. As the legend goes, Bungadyo was brought to Kathmandu Valley to end a long drought that had tormented the city for decades. A king went on a journey with two escorts to bring the Bungadyo to Kathmandu Valley to end the drought. But after Bungadyo was brought to the valley, disputes occurred about which city the Bungadyo would reside in. Finally, it was decided that the Bungadyo would reside for six months in Bungamati and six months in Patan. Today, this ancient city is a prime example of Newari culture that has been preserved over the ages.
However, traces of the April 2015 earthquake have been left all over the city. Although the debris has been cleared up and houses are being rebuilt, what strikes a visitor as a grim reminder of the earthquake is the gaping empty space where the 16th Century Rato Machhindranath Temple once used to be. Bungamati was one of the worst hit regions during the earthquake. Around 30 people lost their lives and 853 houses were destroyed. Most of the houses had been built in traditional architectural style with elaborately carved wooden windows and doors, a specialty of the wood artisans of Bungamati. The earthquake had not only destroyed human life and properties but people feared the worst when the main temple had fallen. It is believed that if tragedy strikes the Bungadyo, the country will suffer from bad omen. Luckily, during the Jatra, the temple was empty as the Bungadyo had been shifted to the chariot for the Jatra processions.
Currently, the planning phase for the temple along with two other temples in the core area, the Bhairab Temple and the Manakamana Temple has been passed to begin the rebuilding process. The Sri Lankan government has pledged 4.5 crore for the restoration of the temples. “We need to rebuild the temples not just to preserve our heritage but also to restore hope in our people.” says Prem Bhakta Maharjan, a member of the Bungamati Renovation and Development Council. The temple which was built in Shikhara style and white washed will be restored in its original form. The project is planned to be completed within two years.
Since Bungamati suffered quite the damage, help has been flowing in since initial impact, with volunteers helping to remove the debris and the local people getting involved in safely tucking away the valuables found inside the temple. However, the compensation that the government had promised arrived late. Residents of Bungamati including Maharjan were forced to make temporary shelter in the rice fields because their houses were no longer safe to live in. But with the onset of monsoon season and the rodents in the fields, most of the people had no choice but to return to what was left of their homes before financial help arrived. But each household only received two lakhs out of the five lakhs that was promised. Either way, it was far too less to rebuild a traditional home. “The community has been very patient till now. But the government needs to act fast.” states Maharjan. Maharjan, who is also a resident of Bungamati, saw his two houses collapse during the earthquake where Maharjan and his brother’s family lived. Thankfully, none of his family members sustained serious injuries.
Despite the shortcomings, the people of Bungamati have not been shaken. The residents decided to establish the Bungamati Restoration and Development Council in order to help rebuild the city. “We told ourselves that what the earthquake brought us was an opportunity.” says Maharjan, “This is an opportunity to rebuild Bungamati better and more beautiful than it was.” he adds. Currently the Council has been busy bridging the gap between the community and the municipality to help provide soft loans to the people to rebuild their homes. The community is also acting to cut down costs for the victims to buy rebuilding items such as bricks and cement.
As for the future, the Bungamati Council is planning to expand their reach by involving more people from the community. They are also acting with unhabitat to reestablish Bungamati as a tourist destination. The city with its rich culture adorned with old styled houses and ponds seeks to bring back its value by adding homestays and eateries for tourists. The council has been motivated by the positive reaction from several institutions who want to support the cause. Many technical workshops are going on in Bungamati in order to help re-establish the skill set of the people.
One of the key assets of Bungamati is the large number of skilled wood carvers whose skills have been passed down from generations. The community seeks to restore the fallen temples and houses with their help. Even better, 9 wood artisans from Bungamati are provided with classes on traditional wood carving with a master artist right there in Bungamati. This project is being funded by Artists for Nepal, situated in Netherlands. Such efforts are helping the community get back on its feet.
Through the hurdles and challenges, the Bungamati community is trying their best to revive the old city. With continuous efforts made by the community and their vision for the better future of their city, Bungamati is definitely on the path to restoration. As for the Bungadyo, the Rain God is currently residing in Lalitpur in the temple at Tabahal. The Tabahal Temple did not sustain any damages so Bungadyo rests there safely awaiting the annual Rato Machhindranath Jatra in April.
Things to do in Bungamati
Bungamati and its neighboring town of Khokana are quite small so you can cover the entire cities within a day. This is a great place to spend a quiet afternoon wandering around the old alleys and ponds that give the vibes of a medieval era.
Bungamati-Khokana
How to go?
-Take a local bus from Jawalakhel- Ekantakuna bus stop. It will take about half an hour to reach the Bungamati bus stop.
-Stroll around Bungamati and Khokana
-Visit the Karyabinayak Temple and Shikali Mai Temple
- Visit the Rato Macchindranath Chowk and observe the rebuilding process after the earthquake
- Observe medieval Newari lifestyle
What to eat?
- Local Newari food, Samay baji and Thwo (Rice beer)
- Local wood artisan’s crafts to help support the traditional occupation of Bungamati
- Mustard seed oil in Khokana made in the same traditional method that has been passed down from generations
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2207
|
__label__cc
| 0.647088
| 0.352912
|
Human-Centric Approach to Lighting
08/08/2018 | By Matthew Blakeley
Since the inception of the Edison bulb, the two central ideas of lighting have been to improve the efficiency of the light source or to increase the quality of the light. Unfortunately for consumers, those ideas have generally opposed each other, resulting in a compromise toward efficiency.
Today, lighting upgrades in commercial buildings continue to focus on reducing energy usage, with a lesser emphasis on light quality.
With lighting accounting for more than one-third of the energy consumed in commercial facilities, and the increased adoption of energy efficiency programs and codes, it’s no surprise that energy efficiency has led in market adoption. However, at what expense?
Related: See the most innovative products of 2018
Whether new construction or remodel, it has long been the goal of architects and designers to create spaces for human comfort.
The needs of today’s workplaces are changing, from closed to open offices, private conference rooms to collaboration spaces and amenities that simulate home life. Designers are being tasked to create spaces to promote innovation and creativity, delivering thoughtfully designed environments that attract and retain top talent.
The technology explosion and digital age have yielded, now more than ever, more resources enabling designers to create spaces where people prefer to live and work. More specifically, advances in LED technology and constant improvements in efficacy have allowed more flexibility to enhance environments through higher quality light sources.
Advanced LED technology allows for the creation of more comfortable environments that humans prefer. Photo: Focal Point
Evolution of Light Sources
For a space to have a pleasant feel and for colors to appear natural, a light source must render colors in a manner comparable to that of a blackbody radiator, such as the sun. Humans have evolved knowing the sun and then fire as main light sources for millions of years, until the invention of the Edison bulb in the late 1800s.
The evolution of light sources and their perceived pleasance. Image from Focal Point.
The incandescent light bulb, consisting of a burning filament, mimics the warmth and high red content of those light sources. For this reason, spaces illuminated with incandescent light sources appear welcoming and generally quite pleasing.
With the invention of fluorescent lamps, incandescent light sources became comparatively inefficient. However, their light quality wasn’t perceived to be as pleasing as their predecessors. In the past few years, highly efficient LEDs have easily surpassed fluorescent lamps in efficacy.
But even with LEDs, the tradeoff between quality and efficacy has remained: to maximize efficacy, typical 80 CRI LEDs are oversaturated in the blue and green spectrums and undersaturated in the red spectrum.
Increase vibrancy of objects in a space with light quality that is preferred by humans. Photo: Focal Point
Advances in LED technology have diminished the efficacy gap, creating a market shift toward quality of light initiatives including circadian tuning, tunable white, warm dimming and spectral tuning. The movement toward quality of light is an opportunity for designers to create spaces that humans ultimately prefer.
Supporting More Human-Centric Environments
The latest research conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Pennsylvania State University (PSU) supports the idea that the type of light people prefer closely resembles that emitted by a black body radiator, with a greater saturation in red color. This indicates that the current, widely used 80 CRI LED is not ideal for human preference.
To support lighting designers, PNNL also used TM-30 to provide a suggested specification that can be used to target the most preferable light sources: Rf ≥ 75, Rg ≥ 98, 0% Rcs, h1 ≤ 8%. This is a shift from conventional 80 CRI and 90 CRI measurements, but can be used in the same way to define a light source.
Further strengthening the trend toward designing more human-centric spaces, new building standards have also emerged, such as the WELL Building Standard (WELL). Different from LEED, WELL focuses on human health and wellbeing over energy efficiency.
Often described as two sides of a coin, the two programs promote initiatives that enhance the human experience in spaces that are better for the inhabitants and for the planet.
Advances in LED technology, along with new evaluation tools and emerging research in human preference lighting, have enabled a path to specify a color spectrum that humans generally prefer. This preferred spectrum results in more natural skin tones, warmer wood tones and increased vibrancy of objects.
Use advanced LED technology to render more natural skin tones. Photo: Focal Point
Create a more pleasant and preferred visual experience with richer wood tones and more vibrant colors. Photo: Focal Point
Most importantly, it creates a sense of comfort that humans have learned to appreciate over millions of years. Many studies have confirmed that when humans feel comfortable in an environment, they tend to be more productive, supporting a more human-centric approach to lighting and interior architecture.
Future light sources will need to deliver more than efficiency. They will need to support those who live and work under them, to create comfortable and productive environments.
Matt Blakeley is the director of new product development for Focal Point LLC. Blakeley has spent the last 10 years focused on product development in both the lighting control and luminaire industries. Along with new luminaire product introductions, he is also leading Focal Point’s ongoing activities in “Quality of Light” and “Connected Lighting.”
Two hand-picked articles to read next:
Smart Grid Initiative: Financial Benefits for Building Owners
How to Pay for Energy Upgrades
Occupant-Centered Tech for Smart Buildings
3 Lighting Trends We Saw at LIGHTFAIR 2019
Editors’ Choice Money-Saver: Lighting Retrofit Kit
Why the Time is Now for Advanced Lighting Controls
Retrofit Kit with Indigo-Clean Technology: Editors’ Choice [Podcast]
Test Every Exit Sign with One Button (LIGHTFAIR 2019)
Set Up Outdoor Lighting with Smart Lighting Controls
Philadelphia Green Roof Embeds Charles Library Visitors in Nature
Products That Save You Money
How Hubbell’s Color-Tuning Technology Transformed a D.C. Law Office
BUILDINGS 2019 Year in Review
CRI, Color Temperature and New Lighting Quality Metrics
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2208
|
__label__wiki
| 0.55086
| 0.55086
|
What The April 2019 Full Moon Means For Your Love Life, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
By Mariella Mosthof
Andrew Zaeh/Bustle
The so-called "full pink moon" of April 2019 is already getting a lot of attention, given its unusual name, but astrologically speaking, what does the April 2019 full moon mean for your love life? Bustle spoke to the experts to find out. Unlike "blood moons," so named for their deep red hue, the pink moon won't actually be pink. According to People, The Old Farmer’s Almanac dubbed April's full moon a "pink moon" because it coincided with the first bloom of wild ground phlox, a pink wildflower that heralds the coming of spring.
Astrologically speaking, it's good to take note of which signs the sun and moon are in, because those will be the opposing forces we'll all be grappling with this full moon. Currently, the sun is in Aries, while the Apr. 19 full moon will be moving from Libra to Scorpio. Astrologer Rachel Lang tells Bustle:
Aries is the sign of the self, and when the sun is in Aries, you might feel more independent and self-directed. You want to follow your heart’s desire, and you might not want others to stand in the way. This can be healthy if you have any codependent tendencies. The moon in Libra challenges that Aries energy, and you could have a stronger desire to connect with your love or to meet a love if you’re single. You could also feel pulled between wanting your space and desiring connection.
Basically, think of this as the ideal time to conduct a romantic spring cleaning. "If you have been involved in an unhealthy dynamic with someone or if you’ve had ongoing issues in a relationship, now is the time to take action to resolve these issues," Lang adds. Clear out the cobwebs of your relationships and pave the way for the season to come. Here's what each of the signs can expect.
Tina Gong/Bustle
Don't be startled by a surge of synergistic energy this full moon, Aries. "This luminary will make you want to work out existing issues within current relationships and reconcile differences," astrologer Lisa Stardust tells Bustle. "Good or bad, you’re coming together." All the pieces will be falling into place for you, Aries.
"This full moon is huge for Aries' love life, as it points to a moment of reckoning with their present circumstances," Shakirah Tabourn, astrologer and founder of NFLUX Magazine tells Bustle. "All of the issues in their current relationships will be revealed, and they’ll have to make a decision on where to go next."
Take advantage of your energy surge, too. "You will have a new spring in your step and a renewed optimism," astrologer Cindy Mckean, of Kansas City Astrology adds. "This will make you feel more active, energetic, and will make you a good partner for anyone."
Taurus is poised for a much more thoughtful full moon, romantically speaking. Explains Mckean. "If you've been at a crossroads in your love life at this time, the full moon will help give you clarity."
You may feel the urge to play hooky with a significant other, too. "Knowing how to incorporate your romance into your daily routine will be hard, inclining you to spend more time alone with your beau and away from responsibilities," Stardust adds.
Geminis are poised to inhabit their most authentic selves this full moon, according to Tabourn. "When Gemini feels free and able to express themselves fully, their charisma radiates," she says. "Therefore, this could mean new prospects and flirty connections for Gemini in the near future."
Stardust agrees: "A flirtation with a friend can blossom into something more, if you let it. Deciding if you want to take this budding romance to the next level is your core focus of this full moon."
However, just because you're feeling extra-connected to yourself, Gemini, doesn't mean those around you are experiencing the same thing. "Be aware your partner or friend may be a little moody," says Mckean. "It's better to wait to start a major conversation about relationships."
Watery Cancer might be deep in their feels this full moon.
"This full moon heightens your sense of security," explains Stardust. "You may ask yourself if you feel safe in certain relationships. Do you see a future? Does this relationship elevate you? These are all questions you will be wrestling with."
Mckean also cautions that you may be feeling moodier than usual with the full moon moving into Scorpio, "but you'll also come out of it feeling refreshed and ready to love at 100%."
Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Leos are sun babies by nature, but the full moon has an impact on them all the same. "It's when you remember that the moon reflects the light of the glorious sun that you feel warm and cuddly," Mckean notes. "This feeling spills over into your love life."
Specifically, since this full moon happens to usher in a weekend, Leo will be extremely on their bullsh*t. "This full moon falls on a Friday, and you are ready to get your sexy on!" witch and psychic Renee Watt tells Bustle. "Take advantage of the full moon energy happening this weekend to flirt and connect with someone you’re attracted to."
Virgo (August 23 - September 23)
Remember that romantic cobweb-clearing sensation I mentioned earlier? This will be especially resonant for Virgos. "This is a perfect time for clearing up misunderstandings with partners or prospective partners and put it behind you," Mckean advises. "You'll feel like a weight was lifted off your chest."
"A Libra full moon asks us to look at what needs balancing in our lives," Watts adds. "For you, Virgo, this likely can be addressed through creating boundaries with people or situations that have left you feeling exhausted lately."
Libra (September 23 - October 22)
Libras have much to contend with this full moon. "This is their second full moon in a row, signifying completion of a major cycle," says Tabourn. "They’ll be invited to come to terms with their role in relationships. They may be just as much to blame for their problems as their partner. Any hidden resentments will come to the surface."
Mckean suggests being on the lookout for "an immediate change in your attitude towards your love life," which could bring about the balance Libra craves.
Of course, since this full moon does take place in your sign, don't be afraid to make it all about you this weekend. "You should be feeling a boost of energy from mother Luna this weekend, and she’s asking you to put yourself first," adds Watts.
Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)
This full moon, it's time for Scorpio to break through their infamous opacity and confront things with transparency. "Notorious for your elusive nature, this full moon may illuminate aspects of your love life you’d rather not confront," suggests Watts. "Whether it’s asking someone out, committing to a relationship, or initiating a breakup, it’s time to step into the light and face your fears."
If you're trying to shake off an old flame, however, there's good news for you this full moon. "It'll be a great time for you to put certain things in the past with ease," says Mckean. "With the ex out of the picture, off your mind and heart, new feelings of love can emerge."
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)
Sagittarius has a low-impact weekend ahead. "You'll bounce through this full moon unscathed," assures Mckean. "It's a perfect time for people watching during your daily commute."
Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)
Capricorns may benefit from asking their loved ones to be patient with them this full moon. "You may feel a little cranky (just a little), but you'll be happy with the results you get," says Mckean. "If you're single, it's a super time for focus on your work. If you're in a relationship, you'll find your partner in sync with your needs."
Aquarius (January 20 - February 19)
Single Aquarians would do well to take advantage of this full moon as a time for reflection, according to Mckean. "If you're in a relationship," she adds, "be open to new meanings and deeper emotional connections requested by your partner."
Pisces (February 20 - March 20)
Pisces may find themselves emotionally tumbling through the hours leading up to the full moon, "but you'll enjoy the surprises it has in store for your emotions and love life," says Mckean.
Hours after the full moon, the moon will oppose Uranus, which rules unexpected surprises and change. The sun will also join up with Uranus a few days later. Thus, Lang cautions that the effects of this full moon may be especially intense and last for awhile after the one-night event.
"I’d encourage you not to make a hasty or impulsive decision about leaving a relationship," she says in conclusion. "You could have awareness about what isn’t working for you, and if you do, bring it up in conversation. Be real with your significant other. Don’t hide or hold back."
On the other hand, anyone being pursued by someone they aren't interested in would do well to hold boundaries this full moon. "Give them the gift of your truth. Then, they can shift their focus and start the process of letting go," Lang says. "It’s a time to be honest with yourself and willing to face your fears of commitment or attachment."
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2212
|
__label__cc
| 0.652328
| 0.347672
|
Contact Us1.866.551.9090
See + Do
Experts + Insiders
Essentials + Advice
Lakes District
Go to Butterfield.com
Miavana:
Madagascar's Luxury
Madagascar Travel Expert
(and born-and-raised South African)
As a long-time B&R guide, trip planner and all-around globetrotting enthusiast, I’ve been lucky to have seen many spectacular, soul-stirring places throughout the world.
My recent visit to Miavana Madagascar, a luxury eco-resort on Nosy Ankao island, added another destination to my list. It also added a few more superlatives to my vocabulary. Like: utterly unique, phenomenal and jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
Here’s a snippet of what I experienced during my stay. And I hope from the depths of my stirred soul; you’ll get to experience, too.
Caressed by a patchwork of turquoise hues, Miavana sits on a virgin island, Nosy Ankao, located off of Madagascar’s northern tip: a location that allows guests to experience the country’s biodiversity, without the logistical challenges you would encounter on the main (is)land.
The resort makes it easy to explore the north using Miavana as a base. I hadn’t fully appreciated how easily accessible places like the Amber & Ankarana National Parks would be; destinations I could never consider during a stay on the mainland, due to the difficulty in getting there.
The Miavana is an excellent option for families, honeymooners or anyone looking for an exclusive resort off the coast of Africa or the Indian Ocean islands. You can consider it a year-round destination – but keep in mind the rainy season is January to April. April onwards is a safe bet in terms of weather.
In the latest addition to our Places on the Verge series, we’ve set our sites on Madagascar: one of the world’s oldest islands, whose diverse wildlife and dynamic landscapes we’ll see anew on an immersive, unique (and just plain!) fun adventure.
Madagascar’s Unparalleled Biodiversity
From the world’s tiniest chameleon to the Crowned Lemur conservation efforts and the many turtles in between, Miavana’s raison d’etre is clear, making this more than your average beach destination. During my visit, I gained a real appreciation of how special the environment and wildlife here is.
Of course, Madagascar’s unofficial mascot, the lemur, is a crucial part of any visit. Nosy Ankao is known for the endangered Crowned Lemur, which you can spot on a stroll through the island’s forests. For more lemur adventure, they offer treks on the mainland via a helicopter excursion.
I also had a brief swim with dolphins. They were hunting, but we got to be with them for a short while before they charged off. During whale season, whales can be seen breaching in front of the lodge, and you can catch whale sharks at various times throughout the year, too.
The Activities at Miavana
Kite-surfing, stand-up paddleboarding, snorkelling and scuba – the well-rounded activities at Miavana cover water, underwater, land and air.
You can set sail on fabulous boat excursions to other islands in the archipelago and snorkel at different sites, and anglers can cast their reels for some ocean fishing.
No matter what you choose, the lodge’s guides are passionate and engaging. The calibre of the staff here is truly beyond compare: they would probably go to the ends of the archipelago to please every guest. Plus, the naturalist guides are like walking encyclopedias!
The Accommodations
Villas with one, two or three bedrooms come with a lounge area, butler service, a stocked kitchenette and a private, sea-side pool. These guest sanctuaries are spacious, with the smallest coming in at a generous 450 square metres (4,843 square feet).
The decor is reflective of the beachy vibes that permeate the throughout the island: bright and fresh, with crisp whites, pops of blue and ocean views at nearly every turn.
For families and large groups, each villa has an additional bathroom along with a study which can be flipped into a kids room. Guests can navigate the resort and explore the island using the property’s complimentary bicycles or electric buggies.
Getting to Madagascar’s Miavana Luxury Resort
There are two ‘launching’ points from the mainland to Nosy Ankao. I flew from Johannesburg to Nosy Be, but the other option is to head to Diego Suarez from Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital.
From Diego Suarez or Nosy Be, the Miavana’s helicopters whisk you away. The helicopter ride was an unexpected highlight for me; I saw more of Madagascar’s diversity during the 1-hour flight from Nosy Be to Nosy Ankao than I did during my entire 15-day research trip last year!
The pilots give brilliant commentary as you swoop past points of interest. You gain a tremendous understanding of the country’s biodiversity as you fly over so many different landscapes – from sea to tsingy (karst mountain formations) to agriculture to seaweed farms, forest and mangroves.
The helicopter flights give you great insight to the northern region and the complexities of the island’s biodiversity, history and social-economic challenges.
Continue your travels in Africa
A retreat at Miavana works well as an add-on to either an East Africa or Southern Africa safari experience. Take a look at my trip portfolio for inspiration: I’d be delighted to speak with you about any of these destinations, too!
Miavana also works wonderfully as a stand-alone destination lodge. My suggestion is a 5 to a 7-night stay.
With its ample activities and serene setting, you can create your own adventure here that’s at once exhilarating and effortless.
Safari See + Do The Slow Road
Private Trip Designer Michele Harvey spent family holidays in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe before entering B&R history as our first-ever guide in South Africa in 1996. Today she designs incredible journeys (and writes spectacular blog posts) in and around her native South Africa.
Photos courtesy of Time and Time Africa.
MORE FROM Africa and Middle East
JOIN MORE THAN 70,000 FELLOW WANDERERS
The Blog of Butterfield & Robinson
Georgia Yuill Karen MacRae Kathy Stewart Lewis Evans Marya Valli Michele Harvey Nathan Lane Jerome Bore Veronika Macas Orsolya Kako Tom Abraham Dane Tredway
B&R: Fuel your Wanderlust. Join more than 70,000 fellow wanderers. Sign up for our newsletter to receive insights and advice from our travel experts.
I agree to*
I agree to
I agree to the Butterfield & Robinson Terms and Privacy Policy.
Terms & Conditions|Privacy Policy|
© 2020 Butterfield & Robinson Inc. All Rights Reserved
Contact Us 1.866.551.9090
Browse Our Trips
Fuel Your Wanderlust: Subscribe to The Slow Road
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2213
|
__label__cc
| 0.580429
| 0.419571
|
Tulipa Třebešín | Absolutní Bydlení Tulipa Třebešín | Absolutní Bydlení VILLA HOUSES APARTMENT BUILDINGS OTHER PROJECTS
Call toll-free 800 100 198
DESIGN: A WORD THAT PENETRATES EVERY SENTENCE…
Interior design combines not only original forms, colours and materials, but also functionality and effectiveness of spaces. The architects behind the Tulipa Třebešín project had all that in mind from the very start.
All of the apartment buildings are designed with the aim of making residents feel at home in them and providing them with ample space. The combination of a well-organized living area with lots of natural daylight and inspiring views into the distance is surely everyone’s idea of a perfect home. The Tulipa Třebešín project offers a wide-range of apartments with well-thought out layouts and adequate storage space, ranging from 1+kk (studio apartment) to 4+kk (3 bedrooms). Moreover, each of the apartments offers its own balcony or terrace and the ground-floor apartments have their own front gardens, so popular among the residents. There is a parking bay and basement storage room with each apartment. The standards of apartment buildings A and B are similar to those of the previous phases, with new features such as higher doors and the terraces on the top floors being fitted with an awning as standard.
We have managed to create a pleasant place to live in, with a pleasing setting where young people, families with children and their retired parents can coexist comfortably. Step by step, a natural community of people is formed where neighbours genuinely know each other.
A different architectural face can be seen on the first two buildings E1 and E2 of the first phase, which were completed in the spring of 2016 and are located at the end of Zvěřinova Street. The nursery school and the supermarket premises were finished together with the first phase. The subsequent two buildings marked C and D of the second phase were completed in the summer of 2018 and have also provided new retail outlets directly in Zvěřinova Street. Apartment building B has been under construction since January, while the fourth - final phase represented by apartment building A was started in September 2018. Having developed into a new quarter, the Tulipa Třebešín project will reach its conclusion at the turn of 2020 and 2021.
APARTMENT SELECTION
APARTMENT PRICE LIST
PARKING BAY PRICE LIST
BASEMENT STORAGE ROOM PRICE LIST
Created by: MENHART, © Tulipa Třebešín s.r.o., 2014-2020
Villa houses
Layout plan
Hide visualization
Show visualization
Choose your apartment: VILLA HOUSES| 1+KK Apartments – Prague 3| 2+KK Apartments – Prague 3| 3+KK Apartments – Prague 3| 4+KK Apartments – Prague 3| 1+KK Apartments – spatial options|
Terms and Conditions, Representations
This website uses cookies for better performance. By staying on this website and clicking on the “Confirm” button you agree with their use. More information here.CONFIRM
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2215
|
__label__wiki
| 0.986928
| 0.986928
|
Melt-down in Alan's bid for deputy spot
Geoff Harper
FORMER leader Councillor Alan Melton was soundly beaten this week in his bid to regain a senior position within the ruling Conservative group on Fenland District Council. After putting his name forward to become deputy leader, he was beaten by 23 votes to
FORMER leader Councillor Alan Melton was soundly beaten this week in his bid to regain a senior position within the ruling Conservative group on Fenland District Council.
After putting his name forward to become deputy leader, he was beaten by 23 votes to 10 on Tuesday night in favour of the current deputy leader, Councillor Fred Yeulett.
Council leader Councillor Geoff Harper, elected unopposed, said the first he heard of Cllr Melton's bid for the deputy leadership was on Sunday after his return from holiday.
Cllr Harper declined to comment on the race for the deputy leadership "since I would have concurred with the result either way".
He added: "That's democracy isn't it?"
Cllr Melton said after the meeting: "I shall, of course, continue to give 100 per cent support both to the leader and to the Conservative Party.
"I was the first to congratulate Cllr Yeulett on his re-election."
There will be few surprises in Cllr Harper's line-up for the coming year at Fenland Hall, except perhaps for inclusion into cabinet for the first time of Whittlesey's Councillor Ken Mayor.
Cllr Mayor, chairman of one of two overview and scrutiny panels, will take the cabinet portfolio previously held by former councillor Pop Jolley, that of quality organisation.
Cllr Harper has sidelined the other overview and scrutiny panel chairman, Councillor Jan French, and appointed Wisbech county and district councillor Simon King to chair the new overview and scrutiny committee.
Councillor Martin Curtis will remain chairman of the planning committee and, following a rule change, cabinet member Councillor Kit Owen will also now chair the licensing committee.
"There was a problem with the constitution which has now been altered so Cllr Owen can return to the licensing committee," said Cllr Harper.
Details of the changes were being announced last night to the annual meeting of the council.
They also include the setting up of five development groups to enable more back bench councillors to contribute to decision making and policy formulation.
"Backbenchers were in danger of having no serious input with our cabinet style of government," said Cllr Harper.
"This will go a long way to redress that situation."
He also expected the new groups would ensure controversial decisions, such as tourism or public conveniences, would be scrutinised more thoroughly before being made public.
Opposition councillors will have representatives on these groups "but since the Tories have 92 per cent of the seats on Fenland, there will be only one opposition member on each group", said Cllr Harper.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2218
|
__label__wiki
| 0.941659
| 0.941659
|
Indian Railway increases scope and tries again with tender for facial recognition network
The Indian Railway’s telecom arm RailTel has re-floated a tender for a CCTV network with biometric facial recognition after the…
Digital ID in Africa this week: banks issuing biometric ID, tracking miners and a Global Fund tender
The application of biometrics continues apace across Africa. Biometric-backed ID is to begin for workers in Uganda’s informal mining sector….
UK Home Office reviewing bids for biometric system management contract worth up to £300M
The UK Home Office is weighing supplier bids for a contract worth up to £300 million (US$388 million) for a…
Booz Allen wins contract to develop mobile biometric hardware for DoD
Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential five-year, $36.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a hand-held biometric…
City in Mexico issues tender for smart lamppost project
The City of Puebla in east-central Mexico has published a call for tenders to install a public lighting system with…
DHS seeks reach-back tech for fielded rapid DNA systems; ICAM on-the-fly
To enhance its multimodal biometric collection for enhanced border security and the prevention of human trafficking and smuggling, the Department…
FEMA seeks better way to identify disaster survivors
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is searching for a better way to verify the identity of disaster survivors…
Bulgaria issues tender for biometric ID system
Bulgaria’s interior ministry has opened a €121.8 million (US$139.1 million) tender for developing a system for issuing biometric identity documents,…
UK Ministry of Defence looks to replace its Biometric Data Capture System
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has issued a tender to replace the current Biometric Data Capture System, Government Computing…
UK Home Office issues tender for biometric testing and development services
The UK Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme has issued a tender for design and operation of its biometric performance test…
The inevitable collision of identity proofing and authentication
Biometrics-as-a-service: Making identity fraud prevention truly globally accessible
Explainer: Signature Recognition
A primer on voice biometrics
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2219
|
__label__wiki
| 0.896702
| 0.896702
|
Optical Coherence Tomography: Bio and beyond - OCT advance breaks barriers in imaging scale, cost
A research team representing commerce and academia has made a welcome breakthrough in optical coherence tomography (OCT): meter-scale OCT.
Barbara Gefvert
A research team representing commerce and academia has made a welcome breakthrough in optical coherence tomography (OCT): meter-scale OCT.1 (For more on OCT, see "Advances in functional OCT.") Not only does the achievement provide dramatically greater capability than before, it also portends high-performance, low-cost systems, with wide-ranging impact for industrial applications as well as biomedical.
It's no surprise that OCT has achieved its greatest success in ophthalmology, and shown the most promise for other uses (such as gastroenterology, cardiology, and dermatology) that benefit from endoscopy-enabled or superficial imaging, as it produces volume images with micron-scale resolution at high speed, at depths from the millimeter-to-centimeter range.
Macro-range OCT produced this full, 3D rendering of a life-size, chess-playing mannequin, consisting of 1000 × 1000 × 1000 A-scans before scan correction. It is based on 200 gigasamples (raw data) for a volume size of 0.98 m3 and dynamic range of 54 dB; for display, the researchers applied an intensity threshold of about 10 dB above the mean noise floor.
But with the researchers reporting high-speed 3D OCT imaging at cubic-meter volumes, that paradigm will change. According to James G. Fujimoto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA), whose lab invented OCT with collaborators in the 1990s, their new "long-range" or "macro-scale" OCT demonstrates "at least an order of magnitude larger depth range and volume compared to previous demonstrations of three-dimensional OCT."
All these years later, Fujimoto and collaborators are measuring objects of various sizes at 15 μm resolution over a 1.5 m region, and making it easy to imagine a host of new OCT applications, from enhanced medical imaging to process monitoring, nondestructive testing, and technical measurements.
Enabling the breakthrough
The new range of operation "requires extremely high-performance light sources, integrated optical receivers, and signal processing," Fujimoto says. The breakthrough comes from a tunable vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) source and a chip-based optical receiver designed for telecommunications applications. The researchers acknowledge that their work builds on impressive progress in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development, including waveguide integration, photodetectors, swept lasers, and chip-based OCT interferometers.
The VCSEL source, developed by Thorlabs (Newton, NJ) and Praevium Research (Santa Barbara, CA), uses a miniature microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device to perform swept-source OCT—that is, to quickly change the laser's wavelength over time. Ben Potsaid of MIT and Thorlabs, who coauthored the paper, explained that because their research showed the coherence length of the VCSEL source was orders of magnitude longer than other suitable swept-laser technologies, they saw the possibility of long-range applications.
However, the researchers struggled with difficulties in light detection and data acquisition until they recognized that a silicon photonics coherent optical receiver made by Acacia Communications (Maynard, MA) could overcome them. The discovery also meant the ability to replace several bulky OCT components with integrated optics on a tiny, low-cost, single-chip PIC. Importantly, the PIC receiver supports the very high electrical frequencies and wide range of optical wavelengths required for swept-source OCT while enabling quadrature detection, a technique that doubles the OCT imaging range for a given data-acquisition speed.
The researchers' tests indicated that performance has not reached the fundamental limits for either the VCSEL source or PIC receiver. Now, they are working to increase data acquisition and processing speeds, with a goal of real-time OCT using customized integrated-circuit chips. Paper coauthor Chris Doerr of Acacia Communications says it is realistic to "expect full OCT systems on a single chip within the next five years," and that such systems would be dramatically reduced not only in size, but also in cost.
Experiments and expectations
The researchers used a VCSEL tunable laser with a 1310 nm center wavelength, tuned over an 80 nm full-sweep range at a 100 kHz repetition rate. They showed that meter-range OCT can obtain a strong signal from surfaces of varying geometries and materials.
To demonstrate the new technology's ability to inspect and measure weakly scattering objects with complex shapes and surface profiles, they imaged a bicycle. To show its suitability for noncontact metrology, they quantitatively measured aluminum posts and steel gauge blocks from 1 m to 1 μm with a 65 dB dynamic range.
By imaging a human skull/brain model, they demonstrated meter-range OCT's application to macroscopic anatomical imaging—perhaps for surgical planning or guidance. The technique could also provide 3D measurements in laparoscopy or mapping structures such as the upper airway. (Because its penetration is limited to 1-2 mm in scattering samples, however, the researchers caution that macro-scale OCT will never replace true tomographic modalities such as MRI and CT.) With its ability to provide difficult-to-obtain information on material composition, subsurface structure, coatings, surface roughness and other properties, macro-range OCT is sure to find many new uses in industry, manufacturing, and medicine. Because it can image human-sized objects with high axial resolution, the advance may help solve computer-vision challenges such as 3D object recognition and surveillance.
The technique is analogous to frequency-modulated continuous-wave coherent radar but with orders of magnitude higher speeds. Compared with other 3D ranging technologies, such as lidar, laser trackers, and frequency-comb lasers, OCT is better suited for subsurface evaluation and imaging weakly scattering objects. Compared with other 3D subsurface imaging methods, such as modulated imaging, OCT has a higher axial resolution and is less sensitive to clutter or parasitic reflections—and can potentially provide information about properties such as composition, laminated structures, coatings, and surface roughness.
Yet more applications may emerge from exploration of contrast from polarization, motion, spectroscopy, and elastrography.
1. Z. Wang et al., Optica, 4, 10, 1496 (2016); doi:10.1364/optica.
Latest in Bioimaging
More in Bioimaging
Fluorescence monitors how protein aggregate present in Alzheimer's grows
Using a fluorescence method, researchers have found a way to track the formation of soluble amyloid beta peptide aggregates implicated in the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers applied artificial intelligence deep learning techniques to develop a more accurate and detailed method for analyzing optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the back of the eye.
Novel probe turns fluorescent dyes for bioimaging on and off—on demand
The research team developed a minimally modified probe that can be triggered by a broad range of visible light.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2220
|
__label__wiki
| 0.907489
| 0.907489
|
FOX Greenlights Tom Payne’s ‘Prodigal Son,’ Stephen Dorff’s ‘Deputy,’ AI Drama ‘neXt’ and More
Posted on May 9, 2019 | by Ray Flook | 0 Comment(s)
Continuing on with the May Upfronts parade, FOX has given series orders to four very diverse drama pilots. This round of greenlights include cop/serial killer drama Prodigal Son, starring Tom Payne and Michael Sheen; John Slattery’s AI drama neXt; police drama Deputy, headlined by True Detective‘s Stephen Dorff; and an Annie Weisman/Jason Katims sister drama, based on an Australian format. Soap opera-esque Kim Cattrall-starrer Filthy Rich remains in consideration as deals continue to be worked out.
Here’s a look at the four dramas:
DEPUTY: Stephen Dorff in DEPUTY, premiering on FOX. © 2019 FOX MEDIA LLC. Cr: Tyler Golden / FOX.
Deputy: A modern cop drama that blends the spirit of a classic Western with a modern-day attitude and gritty authenticity. When the Los Angeles County’s Sheriff dies, an arcane rule forged back in the Wild West thrusts the most unlikely man into the job: a fifth-generation lawman, more comfortable taking down bad guys than navigating a sea of politics. He leads a skilled team of ambitious and complicated human beings who won’t rest until justice is served.
Deputy stars Stephen Dorff (Bill Hollister), Yara Martinez (Dr. Paula Reyes), Brian Van Holt (Cade Walker), Siena Goines (Rachel Delgado), Bex Taylor-Klaus (Breanna Bishop), Shane Paul McGhie (Joseph Blair), and Mark Moses (Jerry London).
Written by Will Beall, directed by David Ayer, and executive produced by Beall, Ayer, Chris Long, and Barry Schindel. From eOne and FOX Entertainment, produced by Cedar Park.
NEXT: L-R: John Slattery, Fernanda Andrade and Jason Butler Harner in NEXT, premiering on FOX. © 2019 FOX MEDIA LLC. Cr: FOX.
neXt: A propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand. A Silicon Valley pioneer discovers that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. – might spell global catastrophe, and teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
neXt stars John Slattery (Paul LeBlanc), Fernanda Andrade (Shea Salazar), Michael Mosley (CM), Jason Butler Harner (Ted LeBlanc), Eve Harlowe (Gina), Aaron Moten (Ben), Gerardo Celasco (Ty Salazar), Elizabeth Cappucino (Abby), and Evan Whitten (Owen Salazar).
Written by Manny Coto, directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, and executive produced by Coto, Requa, Ficarra, and Charlie Gogolak. From 20th Century Fox Television/Zaftig Films and FOX Entertainment.
PRODIGAL SON: L-R: Tom Payne and Michael Sheen in PRODIGAL SON, premiering on FOX. © 2019 FOX MEDIA LLC. Cr: David Giesbrecht / FOX.
Prodigal Son: A fresh take on a crime franchise with a provocative and outrageous lead character and a darkly comedic tone. Malcolm Bright knows how killers think. Why? His father was one of the best, a notorious serial killer called “The Surgeon.” That’s why Bright is the best criminal psychologist around; murder is the family business. He uses his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes, while dealing with a somewhat manipulative mother, an annoyingly normal sister, a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son and his own constantly evolving neuroses.
Prodigal Son stars Tom Payne (Malcolm Bright), Michael Sheen (Dr. Martin Whitly), Bellamy Young (Jessica Whitly), Lou Diamond Phillips (Gil Arroyo), Halston Sage (Ainsley Whitly), Aurora Perrineau (Dani Powell), Frank Harts (JT Tarmel), and Keiko Agena (Edrisa Tanaka).
Written by Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, directed by Lee Toland Krieger, and executive produced by Fedak, Sklaver, Krieger, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schechter. From Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions, and FOX Entertainment
Untitled Annie Weisman and Jason Katims Drama: L-R: Emily Osment, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Brittany Snow in the Untitled Annie Weisman and Jason Katims Drama, premiering on FOX. © 2019 FOX MEDIA LLC. Cr: Linda Kallerus / FOX
Untitled Annie Weisman and Jason Katims Drama: A story of an unusual family formed through extreme odds, exploring such hot-button issues as identity, human connection and what it truly means to be a family. An only child finds her life turned upside down when her father reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children, including two new sisters. As these three young women slowly embrace their new reality, they will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family. Based on the original Endemol Shine Australia series, “Sisters,” from Jonathan Gavin and Imogen Banks.
Untitled Annie Weisman and Jason Katims Drama stars Brittany Snow (Julia Bechley), Megalyn Echikunwoke (Edie Palmer), Emily Osment (Roxy Doyle), Mustafa Elzein (Dr. Isaac Abadi), Mo McRae (Tim Moore), Victoria Cartagena (Amanda), and Timothy Hutton (Dr. Leon Bechley).
Written by Annie Weisman, directed by Leslye Headland (pilot), and executive produced by Weisman, Headland, Jason Katims, Jeni Mulein, Imogen Banks, and Sharon Levy. From Universal Television in association with Endemol Shine North America and FOX Entertainment
Posted in Fox, Preview, TV | Tagged ai, bleeding cool, cable, Deputy, drama, filthy rich, fox, john slattery, kim cattrall, michael sheen, Next, prodigal son, series, stephen dorff, streaming, television, Tom Payne, tv, Untitled Annie Weisman and Jason Katims Drama
Sony Shows Off New Riverbond Trailer During State Of Play
AWAY: The Survival Series Received a State Of Play Announcement Trailer
"The Watch": BBC America Releases Sir Terry Pratchett Adapt First-Look Images
"Killing Eve" Season 3: Love Is Worth The (3 Month) Wait [VIDEO]
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2222
|
__label__cc
| 0.660335
| 0.339665
|
Ellis G. Lands Inside and Outside the Banksy Film
April 23, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, Interview, Manhattan, NYC
BAM! The opening montage flies by with the raucous music and your pulse is quickening, spotting art and artists and graffers and wild creatures and you may be wondering where this is all going until it becomes clear — you have landed in Banksy world. He’ll let somebody else tell the time-twisting story inside a story, and then he’ll weigh in with acerbically insightful bonmots….much like the stuff he leaves on the street.
Ellis G. was doing backflips when he saw footage of himself in that opening sequence, and was stoked to be seeing it with a group of people directly related to the street art scene. As is customary for the Brooklyn street artist, Ellis G. had already traced with thick chalk the shadows outside the spot where the movie was previewed .
In a short time, he was doing it inside too.
Brooklyn Street Art: How did your work come off the sidewalk and into this theater?
Ellis G: Marc and Sara Schiller invited me out to a private screening of the film last week and I did a couple street pieces out in front of the venue and also in front of the afterparty for the screening. Banksy caught wind that I did those, and requested that I do work inside and outside of the Sunshine Theater for the New York premiere of the film.
Brooklyn Street Art: How would you describe what you do as an artist?
Ellis G. : My work is directly related to everyday life. The content and subject matter of my work are all items or objects we deal with on a daily basis consciously and subconsciously; Items and objects on the street outside as well as inside. Fortunately, my sources for subject matter are never-ending.
Light is everywhere, creating shadows from all types of different light sources. I capture and enhance it. Outside, it can be fleeting. Weather, pedestrian and vehicular traffic are considered. Building owners or maintenance hose it away with water. One minute it’s here, the next it’s gone. Inside is a whole different ball game. It becomes photography and screen prints. It becomes installation and sculpture. Most times there is a rhyme and reason behind which objects I work with. Sometimes I like to randomly choose objects, in random geographical locations when I am outside. It really depends on what is catching my eye at the moment. The light source comes into play, as does color, dry or wet streets, surface, backgrounds, architecture, chalk brand, location, and vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic.
Brooklyn Street Art: Since you are working with Banksy, does this mean you are going to start wearing a hood and talking like Darth Vader?
Ellis G.: No, I will not be rocking a hoodie and talking like Luke Skywalker’s father anytime soon.
Here is Ellis’s donation the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit:
See more pieces from the auction at http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetartnewyork/.
Learn more about the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit
Fresh Geezers in Brooklyn: London Police and Galo open tonight at Factory Fresh
Footage of the Police in Handcuffs! The World Premiere of full-length Galo Video! FRESH Canvasses paying tribute to NYC! Blowing northward along the coast from Miami's Art Basel like warm air from...
Brooklyn's New "99%" Will Serve Street Art Fans and Many More
Anyone in New York will tell you that the adage holds true if you are trying to get your dream to happen in this city– a band, a restaurant, a store, a website, a clothing line. It could be a genius ...
Now screening : 1. Gonzalo Borondo Matiére Noire 2. r1. on the corner of August House in Johannesburg 3. Banksy in Paris on FWTV 4. Joan Cabrer "Hot Pixel"
Banksy Genius Or Vandal? It's Up To You! Currently Playing In Moscow
They could have called it “Smoke & Mirrors”. Now you see him, now you don't. Instead the name of the new exhibition about the British Street Artist Banksy here in Moscow is posed by the organizer...
Top 10 Videos On "BSA Film Friday" From 2019
The videos that we present every week on BSA Film Friday give us as much inspiration as they do our readers, and we are honored to see the progression of artists and directors as they continue to...
"Exit Through the Gift Shop" Banksy Ellis G. Factory Fresh Free Arts NYC Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit Sunshine Theater
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2235
|
__label__wiki
| 0.874902
| 0.874902
|
Bedbugs! 15 Worst Cities
Back image_gallery.single.controls.next
image_gallery.single.controls.next
BedBugs, Yuck! 15 Worst Cities
Traveling across this great nation any time soon? You might want to think about the bedbug situation. According to experts, many of our cities are experiencing a huge surge in the blood suckers. Pest control company Terminix put together a list of the 15 worst hit cities as determined by call volume to their offices. Sleep tight.
7 Surefire Ways to Beat Bedbugs
Credit: Discovery/Animal Planet
15: Minneapolis, Minn.
Minneapolis may be the city of lakes, but it's swimming in bedbugs.
A January report from the Star Tribune says the city is buying up industrial-sized heat machines to blast the bugs out of its housing projects.
"People had been in the pest control business for 30 or 40 years and had never seen a bedbug, Greg Grabow, a sales rep for Thermal Remediation, the company that makes the machines, told the paper, "Now they're everywhere."
That's enough to grab the city the 15 spot.
Credit: istockphoto
14: Cleveland
Sure, Cleveland houses the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Terminix says the city is now getting rocked by bedbugs.
Rick Novickis, supervisor of environmental health services for the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, told Fox station WJW-TV that "bed bugs are double what they were last year."
Perhaps that's why the city has earned a proud place at number 14 on the list.
Credit: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow
13: Louisville, Ky.
Kentucky's biggest city has a big problem - and it's crawling on six legs. And according to one local new report, state agencies feel helpless against it.
"We won't be able to stop bedbugs in Kentucky just like the rest of the country won't be able to," Guy Delius, director of Kentucky's public health protection and safety agency, told WLKY.
12: Indianapolis
Indianapolis may be home to the Indy 500, but it is bedbugs that are racing into the city's sheets.
"They're here. They're here to stay. They're going to be transferred anywhere humans are," local exterminator Elia Levin exclaimed to local station WTHR.
In June, a coalition of education and health officials met to plan against a feared attack of the six-legged beasties in the public school system, according to TV station WXIN.
So far, so good, they said.
Credit: Getty Images/Gavin Lawrence
11: Boston
Perhaps Bean Town should be called Bug Town.
According to the Boston Herald, the nasty critters have invaded the city's most posh suburbs and the area's elite are trying to keep it hush-hush.
"Cleanup crews are instructed to show up in unmarked vans at off-peak hours," the paper reports.
Well, the secret's out now. Boston came in 11 on the list.
Credit: Jorge Salcedo
10: Los Angeles
Ordinarily, Los Angeles might happy to edge out perennial rival Boston. Only this time it's not the Lakers vs. the Celtics. It's blood-sucking bedbugs. LA comes in at number nine on the list of bedbug-infested cities, just one ahead of Boston. Talk about bad blood.
Credit: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
9: Washington, D.C.
Republicans and Democrats might not agree on much, but they probably agree that bedbugs should have no place in the nation's capital. Too bad Washington, D.C. comes in number nine on the list of bedbug-infested cities.
Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET
8: Dayton, Ohio
Residents of Dayton had better get used to all the bedbugs showing up in their community. "They are going to be here awhile until we learn how to control them," Montgomery County's director of environmental health, Mark Case, told the Dayton Daily News.
Dayton comes in number eight on the list of most bedbug-infested cities.
7: Columbus, Ohio
Planning a stay in Columbus? You can find gorillas, leopards, and Siberian tigers at the Columbus Zoo. No telling where you might see bedbugs. Recent infestations of the insects put Columbus number seven on the list of most bedbug-infested cities.
6: Denver
What's up in the Mile High City? The number of people calling exterminators about bedbugs. Instead of five to 10 calls a month, one local pest control expert said he was getting hundreds of calls, reported KWGN TV in Denver.
The bloodsuckers have made appearances at dozens of movie theaters and hotels, as well as many homes and apartment buildings.
5: Chicago
Bedbugs are making a comeback across Illinois, and Chicago is ground zero.
The state's public health director, Dr. Damon T. Arnold, is urging citizens to learn more about how the bugs operate. "To help reduce this problem, I encourage everyone to learn the signs of bed bug infestations, how the bugs spread, what you can do to prevent getting them and what to do if you find bed bugs," he said in a written statement.
4: Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio is crawling with bedbugs. Four cities in the Buckeye state showing up on the list of most bedbug-infested cities, and Cincinnati tops the list. The city's public library is among places where the bugs have been spotted, according to Cincinnati.com. Will bedbugs give bookworms a run for the money?
3: Detroit
Motown's population has been in decline, but as humans have moved out, bedbugs seem to be moving in. Detroit comes in at number three on list of most bedbug-infested cities.
Credit: Motown
2: Philadelphia
There's one thing the home of the Liberty Bell isn't free of: bedbugs. Reportedly enough of the creepy crawlies have taken root in the City of Brotherly Love to earn a vaunted number two slot on the list.
Credit: CBS/AP
1: New York City
Bedbugs have taken a big bite out of the Big Apple, and the bloodsuckers have shown up at some pretty tony places. Infestations have been reported at the Empire State Building, as well as Victoria's Secret, trendy clothing store Hollister and many hotels.
Even politicians are feeling the sting: Bedbugs have reportedly shown up in former President Clinton's office in Harlem.
Credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
Freaking out over bedbugs? We asked the experts how to keep the bedbugs at bay.
Here are 7 Surefire Ways to Beat Bedbugs
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2241
|
__label__cc
| 0.537228
| 0.462772
|
Chrysler ME Four-Twelve
2004 North American International Auto Show
The ME Four-Twelve idea came about last January after the 2003 Detroit show, when Chrysler chief operating officer Wolfgang Bernhard wondered what Chrysler could unveil at the '04 show to match the attention garnered by the Viper-powered Tomahawk motorcycle that wowed 2003’s show goers. According to Bernhard, he wanted something "exciting, motivational, and inspirational"—something "completely unexpected from Chrysler," yet also an "engineering feat." A mid-engined supercar was what he came up with. Bernhard then called his buddies at AMG to have an engine built—naturally, they obliged—and even contacted Pagani for guidance. From the start, Chrysler set out to beat—not match—performance figures from existing supercars, including the Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT, Pagani Zonda, McLaren F1, and Ford GT. According to Chrysler’s figures and estimates, they've done so. The ME’s mid-mounted 6.0-liter V-12 features four turbochargers, aluminum block and heads, a dry-sump lubrication system, and four intercoolers. It’s mated to a purpose-built seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission from racing-gearbox-maker Ricardo. Horsepower is rated at 850 at 6250 rpm, with 850 pound-feet of torque anywhere between 2500 and 4500 rpm. According to Chrysler, the ME goes from 0-60 in 2.9 seconds, 0-100 in 6.2, the quarter-mile in 10.6 at 142 mph, and a top speed of over 240 mph. A race-car-style dual-control-arm suspension, front and rear, with stainless steel pushrods and adjustable shocks helps the ME achieve 1.15 g on the skidpad. Utilizing a body and tub made from carbon-fiber and aluminum honeycomb sandwich, the ME weighs in at around 2900 pounds. Chrysler would not say if the ME is destined for production; only that it is a "prototype" and not a "concept."
More From Detroit Auto Show
Ford Shelby GT500 Coming in 2019 with 700-Plus HP
2019 Ford Edge: More Tech, Fewer Cylinders
2019 Ford Ranger HP, Torque, and Towing Revealed
A Kia Sorento Diesel Is Happening in the U.S. [Update: No, It's Not]
2018 Detroit Auto Show’s Exotic-Car Showcase
Ford Charging Up on Mustang Mach 1 Heritage
2018 Detroit Auto Show: 12 Must-See Highlights
China’s GAC Debuts EV Concept, Announces U.S. Sales in 2019
2019 Chevy, GMC Trucks Get Smarter Fuel-Saving Cylinder Deactivation
2019 Jeep Cherokee: Even More of a Baby Grand
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2246
|
__label__wiki
| 0.879959
| 0.879959
|
Research to turn CO2 emissions into green building materials
August 26, 2013 Newss11_admin Malavika Santhebennur
Alkane unearths high-grade gold after drilling delays
GR Engineering to penetrate United States with Hanlon acquisition
Rio Tinto boosts Amrun bauxite output as iron ore dips
Yancoal predicts coal volatility in 2020
Mineral Carbonation International (MCI) and Orica have announced a joint venture to trial a technology that transforms captured carbon dioxide emissions into solid carbonate rock for use as green building materials.
MCI received funding from Orica to set the research pilot plant up at the University of Newcastle and carry out further industrial research into mineral carbonation technology.
The research is looking an innovative way to permanently and safely dispose carbon from emissions of fossil fuel electricity generators and other industrial processes.
This would close the loop on carbon and prevent it from building up in the atmosphere.
The research pilot plant will look at whether it can scale-up and commercialise, including reusing captured carbon dioxide, in sustainable building products for the construction industry.
MCI’s project will run over four years on a budget of $9.12 million. It will receive $3.04 million each in funding from the Australian and NSW Governments, and Orica.
The mineral carbonation technology imitates and speeds up the Earth’s own carbon sink mechanism by combining carbon dioxide with low grade minerals to make inert carbonates.
This is similar to baking soda and has various uses like building materials like bricks and pavers.
“Orica views the MCi joint venture and research pilot plant project as providing a safe and sustainable solution in the future mitigation of CO2 emissions,” MCi said in a statement.
“Orica will provide its technical expertise and commitment to innovation to support the technology’s development to help reduce the environmental footprint of mining operations.”
The University of Newcastle, GreenMag Group and Orica have been conducting research for six years.
Orica managing director and CEO Ian Smith said the company viewed the project as a sustainability commitment.
Orica said its global carbon abatement activities were as effective as removing 150,000 cars from the road in the 2012 financial year.
While it is already capturing some of its carbon dioxide emissions at its Kooragang Island manufacturing facility in Newcastle, it is looking for an appropriate disposal technology solution for itself and the industry.
MCI CEO Marcus St. John Dawe believes the technology is ideal for NSW as it has large amounts of low grade mineral deposits that meet environmental criteria and do not compete with farm land.
He believes there is potential for job creation in NSW in a cleaner energy industry.
“The technology is proven in the lab and we now want to see if we can scale it to reduce the cost to be in line with a future carbon price,” he said.
“The major difference between this and geosequestration is that we are permanently transforming CO2, not just storing it underground.”
Handling the project will be a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, chemical and industrial engineers, led by Dr Geoff Brent from Orica and Professors Bogdan Dlugogorski and Eric Kennedy at the Priority Research Centre for Energy at UoN.
Brent said mineral carbonation was an exciting chance to develop a secure and potentially large-scale approach for carbon emissions and produce useful by-products.
New government funding supports coal emissions reduction
Sandfire threatens legal action against ANU
Australian resources key to combatting global poverty
Research into land owners and their mining rights
← Mine rescue teams gather for Illawarra competition GE enters agreement with Forge to provide electrical distribution solution →
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2254
|
__label__wiki
| 0.791227
| 0.791227
|
Transport investigations
Over the last few decades, Compassion has carried out and commissioned a number of investigations into the global trade in live animals. Take a look through some examples of these below. Please be aware - you may find some of the footage distressing.
UK to Continental Europe – 2019
Journey route: Southern Scotland to France and beyond
Animals transported: Calves
This investigation trailed one of the many exhausting journeys made by unweaned calves from Scotland to Continental Europe.
Filmed over three days, this investigation revealed the cramped and gruelling conditions animals are forced to endure during live exports.
The unweaned calves, only a few weeks old, cried loudly and tried to suckle the bars of the truck. It was heartbreaking to witness.
Europe to Israel – 2015
Journey route: Eastern Europe to Israel
Estimated distance: 2,500 miles
Estimated time: 7 days
The former Compassion Investigation Unit, in partnership with Animal Welfare Foundation and Tierschutzbund Zürich, gathered evidence which showed some of Europe’s most vulnerable animals exported thousands of kilometres to Israel in appalling conditions. Hungry and exhausted, young calves travel across the EU to be loaded onto rust-bucket livestock vessels. Those that die at sea are often carelessly tossed overboard, while others, weakened by their journey, die shortly afterwards in quarantine.
Please note the film contains scenes viewers may find upsetting
There are no official records for how many of Europe’s exported animals die at sea, but one Israeli news story reported that the bodies of 32 calves were found on board one vessel that arrived in Israel earlier this year. Figures obtained by our former Investigation Unit and Israeli group, Let the Animals Live, also show that calf deaths in quarantine facilities were routine for 8 out of 10 shipments arriving from the EU. In one case 21 cattle died. And the sad fact is that there will be many others that suffer terribly but survive.
At the end of all this suffering these creatures also face a cruel death. They’re taken to slaughterhouses in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank where our previous investigations have shown they can face brutal handling – treatment that would be illegal in the EU – and have their throats cut while they are fully conscious.
As I trailed young calves who were loaded straight onto a truck after 5 days at sea, I couldn’t escape the fear that their terrible journeys would ultimately have a brutal end: yanked by ropes to an inhumane death in a Gazan or Israeli slaughterhouse.
-Investigator
UK to France – 2013
Journey route: Northern England to Western France
Estimated distance: 630 miles
Estimated time: 18 hours
Animals transported: Sheep
In the summer of 2013 Compassion in World Farming undertook two investigations trailing sheep on their long journeys from the UK to France and Germany.
Sheep crammed together
“The sound of the sheep bleating woefully and the stench from the soiled truck were overwhelming. Hundreds of exhausted, sickly and stressed sheep crammed together, some panting heavily."
Transport lorry
“This was one of the animal transport lorries that we trailed during the investigation. Industrial transporters like these may carry as many as 650 sheep at a time."
Crowded sheep
"No animal should have to suffer like this. We simply have to end this ruthless trade.”
Fattening barn
“This is a ‘fattening’ barn – the sad fate that faces many British animals after they are exported. these animals will be kept indoors in this barn for up to a month before being sent for slaughter."
The sheep we trailed were transported an estimated 18 hours from the Sheffield area to the Deux-Sèvres region of France, where they were unloaded into dingy barns to live out the last month of their lives shut away from sunlight and grass.
The 500 sheep travelled a distance of almost 650 miles in July in temperatures in the high 20˚Cs. Animals were packed together so tightly that they could not all lie down at the same time. Philip adds:
The despicable irony is that these sheep must have gone past dozens of slaughterhouses on their journey. Sheffield alone has three slaughterhouses approved for sheep slaughter. Farm animals should be reared and slaughtered as close as possible to the farm on which they are born. Instead these sheep are taken hundreds of miles to a foreign country in very hot conditions to be fattened in sheds.
-Philip Lymbery, CEO
UK to Germany – 2013
Journey route: Southern England to Southern Germany
The sheep we trailed to Germany travelled for over 23 hours to reach their final destination – a slaughterhouse just south of Stuttgart in Germany.
“I will always remember this sheep. Her head hanging low and eyes closed up with conjunctivitis. She looked so alone and I wished I could have taken her away from that horrible situation."
Sheep looking up
“This sheep was coughing relentlessly, she just couldn’t seem to clear her chest. I wondered how long she’d been like this and how long she’d have to wait for a space to lie down and rest.”
We gathered the necessary evidence to show that the sheep travelled for so long without rest that the driver had broken EU laws on transporting livestock. However, no significant action was taken against the transporter by the competent authority. The sheep were crammed into trucks and showing visible signs of sickness and exhaustion during their journey. One sheep was seen coughing violently for minutes at a time. The vehicle’s water system was not working correctly – limiting the amount of water available to these animals, who were being transported at the height of summer.
UK to Spain – 2012
Journey route: West of England to Northern Spain
In late 2011 Compassion in World Farming initiated a series of investigations into the export of live farm animals from the UK. And, in early 2012, generous donations from Compassion supporters enabled our team to continue the campaign, trailing a lorry carrying calves from the UK, through France and into Spain – simply to be fattened for the veal trade.
These young calves were loaded on a farm in the west of England and transported, over a period of almost 60 hours, to a farm in northern Spain.
Please be aware this video contains scenes that some people may find upsetting.
This particular transporter was carrying 166 calves, but often there would be many more on board and conditions would be considerably more cramped. Even so, it looked like the calves were struggling for headroom. They were also trying to suckle each other – demonstrating how young and unprepared they were for this long journey.
I watch the calves being unloaded. They appear to be unsteady and confused, which is not surprising after such a long journey. I also saw one calf being yanked by its tail to get it into the barn.
We calculate these calves have been transported more than 1,100 miles, during a period of almost 60 hours. I am exhausted after this trail, and I simply cannot imagine what it has been like for these vulnerable young animals.
From the EU – 2012
Journey route: Hungary & Slovakia to Turkey and Lativa to Iraq
Estimated time: up to 13 days
Animals transported: Bulls
Every year, over 3 million animals are shipped live from the EU to countries outside the EU. These animals often travel in cramped conditions and can experience huge variations in temperature on their journeys, which makes suffering inevitable.
This film features scenes of animal suffering and may upset some viewers.
A massive trade
In the first 8 months of 2014 1,728,288 live cattle and sheep were exported from EU countries to Turkey and a whole range of countries in the Middle East and North Africa regions. Year on year this trade is growing. Inevitably, it means more and more suffering for animals.
Some of the major problems these animals face are:
Severe overcrowding; insufficient headroom during transport
Inadequate ventilation and extremes of temperature
Lack of water
Lengthy delays at border crossings and customs posts
Transport, handling and slaughter conditions that cause immense suffering and would be illegal in the EU.
Hungary & Slovakia to Turkey
Compassion’s investigators trailed consignments of slaughter bulls from Hungary and Slovakia to their final destinations in Turkey. In both cases the bulls were kept on the trucks for nearly 60 hours in very high temperatures throughout their journey.
For the first time, our investigators documented lengthy delays for European animals within Turkey. The Hungarian bulls were stopped at a customs post and with no facilities to unload or feed the animals here they remained on the truck for 20 hours. Failures in the automatic water system on board the truck and water troughs full of excrement led to the bulls being given water manually by the drivers using plastic crates. Using electric goads and poles, the drivers became aggressive to the bulls and it is far from clear whether all the bulls were able to access the water.
The unloading of the second truck was OK until the last bull came down onto the unloading ramp and collapsed; the bull was exhausted and simply could not stand... The bull was then made to walk down the narrow alleyway towards the lairage area of the slaughterhouse - after a few yards the bull collapsed again and could not stand. With this bull blocking the walkway it was not possible for the 3rd truck to unload, again the bull was given water and attempts were made to get it to stand but to no avail.
The man in charge of the slaughterhouse made some calls and a lorry with a crane and winch was brought into the premises. The drivers were asking the slaughterhouse to cut the animal’s throat and I was trying to get a veterinary official here to stop more suffering but the crane was used to drag the bull back out of the walkway by its rear legs and back to the unloading ramp. This was clearly causing undue suffering to the bull. Once they had winched the bull back to the ramp a worker cut the bull’s throat using a knife that was clearly unsuitable for the job.
Latvia to Iraq
In another alarming incident, documented by an Eyes on Animals/Animal Welfare Foundation team, a truck was transporting bulls from Latvia to Iraq. Having travelled over 2600km to reach the Bulgarian / Turkish border, the truck was delayed at for 6 days whilst the appropriate documentation was obtained from the authorities. Once the truck was granted permission to continue its journey through Turkey, it had a further journey of 2000km to travel in order to reach their destination in Iraq. The end these animals met is not known.
A cruel end
Our former investigators trailed the Hungarian bulls to a slaughterhouse and witnessed the brutal death of one of the bulls too weak to get up after collapsing on unloading. A crane and winch was brought in and the bull was dragged back to the ramp area by its rear legs where it had its throat cut – an inhumane death without stunning. It was then lifted to the slaughter area and butchered later that night.
You can read more about our investigations into inhumane slaughter here.
EU to Turkey – 2011
Journey route: EU to Turkey
Animals transported: Sheep and cattle
In 2011 we undertook three investigations at the Turkish border to highlight the plight of animals from European Member States being transported to Turkey. These often animals travelled in cramped conditions in temperatures sometimes reaching up to 58 degrees Celsius. They were often subject to long delays at the border, lasting hours or even days, and in some instances did not survive the journey.
In one case, two trucks carrying Greek sheep were stuck at the border for four days. In all, 14 of the sheep died as a result of this prolonged delay.
Out of 158 inspections, an alarming 67% broke the EU’s regulations on the welfare of animals in transport.
Some viewers may find parts of this film disturbing
The sheep and cattle, including tiny calves, come from a number of EU Member States including Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The trucks carrying the animals are from these countries but also from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania and Croatia.
Once the animals make it through the border, their ordeal is not over. Many face a further gruelling journey through Turkey to as far away as Erzurum in the east of the country, around 1,500 kilometres from the border.
Poland to Italy & the Netherlands – 2009
Journey route: Poland to Italy & the Netherlands
Estimated distance: over 1,000 miles
Estimated time: over 24 hours
Every year up to half a million male dairy calves are born in the UK, many to be transported long distances to intensive veal farms in Europe as they are often considered an unwanted by-product of the UK dairy industry. But the intensive veal industry also uses calves from other countries in Europe – which means millions more animals face the same cruelty.
In 2009, Compassion in World Farming’s former investigations unit went behind the scenes to document one of the biggest trades in live animals in mainland Europe: the long distance transport of hundreds of thousands of calves from Poland to Italy and The Netherlands, where they will be raised for veal in conditions already illegal in the UK.
In 2008, over 1.1 million calves were transported long distances across Europe to reach veal rearing units.
Investigations: our code of conduct
All Compassion investigators follow a code of conduct.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2268
|
__label__wiki
| 0.762396
| 0.762396
|
« Older: 101st Airborne Division Sabalauski Air Assault School changes Command Newer: #5 Tennessee Vols loses to Auburn, 84-80 »
APSU Softball hosts North Alabama, Sunday
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) softball team will open the home part of its 2019 regular-season schedule, 2:00pm Sunday, March 10th at Joe and Cathi Maynard Stadium-Cheryl Holt Field as they play host to North Alabama in a doubleheader.
Austin Peay Softball plays double header against North Alabama at Cheryl Holt Field, Sunday. (APSU Sports Information)
Not only will these games be the first this season at home for the Governors, they will also be the first games played at the stadium after the completion of its new bleachers and press box structure.
The Govs (11-10) come into the matchup versus the Lions having dropped its last two games, including a 7-2 mid-week final at Ole Miss on Wednesday.
Coming into the first home games of the season, the Govs offense is led by current Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week Danielle Liermann, who is hitting at a .375 clip, with two doubles, eight home runs and 20 RBIs.
She is followed by a trio of teammates also hitting .300-or-better, led by Kelsey Gross (.379, 1 HR, 7 RBI), Carly Mattson (.352, 5 HR, 18 RBI) and Kacy Acree (.301, 4 HR, 15 RBI).
In the circle, Morgan Rackel has been the workhorse of the Govs staff posting a 7-5 overall record with a 3.01 ERA in 76.2 innings of work, while striking out 86.
Kelly Mardones follows at 3-4, with a 4.32 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 45.1 innings pitched, while Gross rounds out the staff with a 1-1 record – with two saves — a 2.67 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 21 innings.
The Lions (10-5) are led offensively by Veronica Westfall (.422, 2 2B, 9 RBI), Lexie Harper (.316, 1 HR, 4 RBI) and Harley Stokes (.289, 5 HR, 11 RBI).
The UNA pitching staff is led by Sidney Revels (2-0, 0.89 ERA, 30 K’s) and Megan Garst (4-2, 1.05 ERA, 57 K’s).
APSU Governors Hit and Run
The matchup versus North Alabama is the first between the Govs and Lions since April 12th, 1990.
The home doubleheader ends a school-record stretch of 21 games played away from Clarksville to open a season.
Senior outfielder Kacy Acree needs to score one more run to move alone into second-place all-time in program history.
Senior outfielder Natalie Schilling has been successful in each of her last 26 stolen base attempts, dating back to April 6th, 2018.
The matchup versus North Alabama will be the second true doubleheader played by the Govs this year.
APSU, APSU Athletics, APSU Joe and Cathi Maynard Softball Stadium, APSU Softball, APSU Sports, APSU Women's Softball, Austin Peay State University, Carly Mattson, Cheryl Holt Field, Clarksville, Clarksville TN, Danielle Liermann, Kacy Acree, Kelly Mardones, Kelsey Gross, Lady Govs, Morgan Rackel, Natalie Schilling, Northern Albama, Ohio Valley Conference, OVC
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2273
|
__label__wiki
| 0.614398
| 0.614398
|
Helps to the Study of the Bible
« Prev B Next »
BAAL worshipped, Num. 22.41; Judg. 2.13; 8. 33; 1 Kin 16. 32; 18. 26; 2 Kin. 17. 16; 19.18; 21. 3; Jer. 2. 8; 7. 9; 12.16; 19. 5; 23.13; Hos. 2. 8; 13.1, &c.
his altars and priests destroyed by Gideon, Judg. 6. 25; by Elijah, 1 Kin. 18. 40; by Jehu, 2 Kin. 10. 18; by Jehoiada, 2 Kin. 11. 18; by Josiah, 2 Kin 23. 4; 2 Chr. 34. 4.
BAALIM, 2 Chr. 28.
BAAL-PEOR, the trespass of Israel concerning, Num. 25; Deut, 4. 3; Ps. 106. 28; Hos. 9.10.
BAAL-PERAZIM, David's victory over Philistines at, 2 Sam. 5. 20.
BAAL-ZEBUB, false god of Ekron, Ahaziah rebuked for sending to enquire of, 2 Kin. 1. 2.
BAANAH and Rechab, for murdering Ishbosheth, slain by David, 2 Sam. 4.
BAASHA, king of Israel, destroys the house of Jeroboam, 1 Kin. 15. 16, 27; Jehu's prophecy concerning him, 1 Kin. 16.1
BABEL, Nimrod king of, Gen. 10.10. confusion of tongues at the building of, Gen. 11.
BABES (as newborn), 1 Pet. 2. 2. slain at Bethlehem, Matt. 2.16.
BABYLON, Gen. 10. 10; 2 Kin. 17. 30. ambassadors from, to Hezekiah, 2 Kin. 20. 12; 2 Chr. 32. 31; Is. 39. Jewish captivity there, 2 Kin. 25; 2 Chr. 36;
Jer. 39; 52.
return from, Ezra 1; Neh. 2. greatness of, Dan. 4. 30. taken by the Medes, Dan. 5. 30. fall of, Is. 13.14; 21.2; 47; 48; Jer. 25.12; 50; 51. church in, 1 Pet. 5.13.
-------the Great, Rev. 14. 8; 17; 18.
BACA, valley of misery, Ps. 84. 6.
BACKBITING forbidden, Ps. 15. 3; Prov. 25. 23;
Rom. 1. 30; 2 Cor. 12. 20.
BACKSLIDING (turning from God), 1 Kin. 11. 9;
Matt. 18. 6; 2 Cor. 11. 3; Gal. 3.1; 5. 4. Israel,
Ex. 32; Jer. 2. 19; 3. 6, 11; 12: 14; 22; Is. 1;
Hos. 4. 16; 11. 7. Saul, 1 Sam. 15.11. Solomon, 1 Kin. 11.3,4. Peter, Matt. 26. 70-74; Gal. 2.14. God's displeasure at, Ps. 78. 57—59. punishment of, Prov. 14.14; Jer. 2.19. pardon for, promised, 2 Chr. 7. 14; Jer. 3.12; 31. 20; 36. 3, &c.; Hos. 14. 4. restoration from, Ps. 80. 3; 85. 4; Lam. 5. 21. healing of, Jer. 3. 22; Hos. 14. 4; 5.15.
BADGERS' SKINS used in the tabernacle, Ex. 25. 5; 26.14.
BALAAM, requested by Balak to curse Israel, is
forbidden, Num. 22.13. his anger, Num. 22. 27. blesses Israel, E um. 23.19; 24. his prophecies, Num. 23. 9, 24; 24.17. his wicked counsel, Num. 31. 16; Deut. 23. 4.
See Josh. 24. 9; Judg. 11. 25; Mic. 6. 5; 2 Pet. 2. 15; Jude 11: Rev. 2.14. slain, Num. 31. 8; Josh. 13. 22.
BALAK, king of Moab. See Balaam.
BALANCES and measures to be just, Lev. 19. 35;
Prov. 16.11. false, condemned, Prov. 11.1; Hos. 12. 7; Amos 8. 5; Mic. 6.11.
BALM of Gilead, Gen. 37. 25; used figuratively,
Jer. 8. 22; 46.11, &c.
BANNER, figuratively mentioned, Ps. 60.4; Cant. 2.4; 6.4.
BANQUET, royal, Est. 5; 7; Dan. 5.
BAPTISM, of John, Matt. 3. 6; Mark 1.4; Luke 3;
Johnl. 19; Acts 19. by disciples, not by Christ, Matt. 4. 2. form of, Matt. 28. i9. Pharisees' answer concerning, Matt. 21. 25; Mark 11.29; Luke 20. 4.
appointed by Christ, Matt. 28. 19; Mark 16. 15;
John 3. 22; 4.1.
its signification, Acts 2. 38; 19. 4; 22. 16; Rom. 6. 3; 1 Cor. 10. 2; 12.13; 15. 29; Gal. 3. 27; Col. 2. 12; Tit. 3. 5; 1 Pet. 3. 21.
instances of, Acts 8.12, 38; 9.18; 10. 48; 16.15, 33; ICor. 1. 16.
Crispus and Gaius baptized by Paul, 1 Cor. 1.14.
One bantism, Eph. 4. 5.
BARABBAS, a robber, released instead of Jesus,
Matt. 27.16; Mark 15. 6; Luke 23.18; John 18. 40.
BARAK delivers Israel from Sisera, Judg. 4. 5;
Heb. 11. 32.
BARBARIANS (foreigners), Rom. 1.14; 1 Cor. 14.
Paul kindly treated by, Acts 28.
BAR-JESUS (Elymas) smitten with blindness by
Paul, Acts 13. 6.
BAR-JONA (Simon), Matt. 16.17.
BARLEY mentioned, Ex. 9. 31; Ruth 1. 22, &c.;
John 6. 9; Rev. 6. 6.
BARNABAS, Levite of Cyprus, sells his lands, Acts 4. 36. preaches at Antioch, Acts 11. 22.
accompanies Paul, Acts 11. 30; 12. 25; 13; 14; , 15; ICor. 9. 6. his contention, Acts 15. 36. his error, Gal. 2.13.
BARRENNESS, of Sarah, Gen. 11. 30; 16.1; 18.1; 21. Rebekah, 25. 21. Rachel, 29. 31; 30. 1. Ma-
noah's wife, Judg. 13> Hannah, 1 Sam. 1. Shu-
nammite, 2 Kin. 4.14. Elisabeth, Luke 1. See
Ps. 113. 9; Is. 54.1; Gal. 4. 27.
BARTHOLOMEW, the Apostle, Matt. 10. 3;
Mark 3.18; Luke 6. 14; Acts 1. 13.
BARTIMIEUS blindness cured near Jericho,
Mark 10. 46.
BARUCH, receives Jeremiah's evidence, Jer. 32. 13; 36. discredited by Azariah, and carried into Egypt,
Jer. 43. 6.
God's message to, Jer. 45.
BARZILLAI'S loyalty to David, 2 Sam. 17. 27.
David's recognition of, 2 Sam. 19. 31; 1 Kin. 2. 7.
BASHAN conquered, Num. 21. 33; Deut. 3.1; Ps. 68. 15, 22; 135. 10; 136. 20.
BASTARDS to the tenth generation, not to enter
the congregation, Deut. 23. 2.
BATH, a measure, 1 Kin. 7. 26; 2 Chr. 2.10; Ezra 7. 22; Is. 5.10, &c.
BATH-SHEBA, wife of Uriah, taken by David, 2 Sam. 11; 12.
appeals to David for Solomon against Adonijah, 1 Kin 1.15.
intercedes with Solomon for Adonijah, 1 Kin. 2. 19.
BATTLE, directions about, Deut. 20.1. exemptions from, Deut. 20. 5—7. of srreat day of God, Rev. 16.14.
BATTLES of Israelites, &c. Gen. 14; Ex.17: Num. 31; Josh.8; 10; Judg.4; 7; 8;" 11; 20; lSam.4; 11; 14; 17; 31; 2Sam.2; 10; 18; 21.15; IKin. 20; 22; 2 Kin. 3; 1 Chr. 18-20; 2 Chr. 13; 14. 9; 20; 25.
BATTLEMENTS, Deut 22. 8.
BEARD, laws concerning, Lev. 19. 27; 2L 5. See 2 Sam 10. 4; Jer. 41. 5; Ezek. 5.1.
BEASTS, creation of, Gen. 1. 24.
power over, given to man. Gen. 1. 26,28; Ps. 8.7,
named by Adam, Gen. 2. 20.
saved from the flood, Gen. 7. 2.
ordinance concerning, Ex. 22.19.
clean and unclean, Lev. 11; Deut. 14. 4; Acts 10.12.
set apart for God, Ex. 13.12; Lev. 27. 9. subjects of God's care, Ps. 36. 6; 104.10,1L Daniel's vision of, Dan. 7. John's vision, Rev. 4. 7; 13, &c.
BEAUTIFUL gate of temple, Acts 3. 2.
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, instances: Rachel,Gen. 29. 17. Abigail, 1 Sam. 25.3. Bath-sheba, 2 Sam. 11.3.
Esther, Est. 2. 7.
BEAUTY, vanity of, Ps. 39.11; Prov. 6. 25; 31.30;
Is. 3. 24. danger of, Gen. 12. 11; 26. 7; 34; 2 Sam. 11; 13,
&c.
consumeth away, Ps. 39.11; 49.14.
BEAUTY AND BANDS, the two staves so called,
Zech. 11. 7.
BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, 1 Chr. 16. 29; 2 Chr. 20. 21; Ps. 110. 3.
BEDSTEAD of Og, king of Bashan, Deut. 3.11.
BEELZEBUB, prince of devils, Matt. 12.24; Mark 3.22; Luke 11. 15.
Christ's miracles ascribed to, Matt. 12. 24, &c.
BEER-SHEBA, Abraham dwells at, Gen. 21. 31; 22.19: 28. la
Hagar relieved at, Gen. 21.14. Jacob comforted at, Gen. 46.1.
Elijah flees to, 1 Kin. 19. 3.
BEGINNING, the, a name of Christ, Rev. 1. 8; 3.14. of time, Gen. 1.1; John 1.1.
of miracles, John 2.11.
BEHEMOTH, Jot) 40.15.
BEL, an idol, Is. 46.1; Jer. 50. 2.
BELIAL, men of. wicked men so called, Deut. 13.13; Judg. 19. 22.
sons of, 1 Sam. 10. 27.
BELLS upon the priest's ephod, Ex. 28. 33; 39. 25.
See Zech. 14. 20.
BELSHAZZAR'S profane feast, warning, and
death, Dan. 5.
BELTESHAZZAR, Daniel so named, Dan. 1. 7; 4. 8, &c.
BENAIAH, valiant acts of, 2 Sam. 23. 20; 1 Chr. 11. 22; 27.5.
proclaims Solomon king, 1 Kin. 1. 32.
slays Adonijah, Joab, and Shimei, 1 Kin."2. 25— 46.
BEN-HADAD, king of Syria, his league with Asa
against Baasha, 1 Kin. 15.18. -------wars with Ahab, 1 Kin. 20.
baffled by Elisha, 2 Kin. 6. 8.
besieges Samaria, 2 Kin. 6. 24; 7.
slain by Hazael, 2 Kin. 8. 7.
-------son of Hazael, wars with Israel, 2 Kin. 13. 3, 25. See Jer. 49. 27; Amos 1. 4.
BENJAMIN (first named Ben-oni, "son of my sorrow"), Patriarch, youngest son of Jacob, his birth at Beth-lehem, Gen. 35.16.
goes into Egypt, Gen. 43.15.
Joseph's stratagem to detain, Gen. 44.
Jacob's prophecy concerning, Gen. 49. 27.
His descendants, Gen. 46. 21; 1 Chr. 7. 6.
twice numbered, Num. 1. 36; 26. 38.
blessed by Moses, Deut. 33.12.
their inheritance, Josh. 18.11.
their wickedness chastised, Judg. 20; 21.
the first king chosen from, 1 Sam. 9; 10.
support the house of Saul, 2 Sam. 2.
afterwards adhere to that of David, 1 Kin. 12. 21; 1 Chr 11.
the tribe of Paul, Phil. 3. 5. See Ps. 68.27; Ezek. 48.32; Rev. 7. 8.
BERACHAH (blessing), valley of, why so named, 2 Chr 20. 26.
BEREA, city of Macedonia, Paul preaches at,
Acts 17.10.
people "more noble," Acts 17.11.
BETHABARA, place where John baptized, John 1 28
BETHANY visited by Christ, Matt. 21.17; 26. 6;
Mark 11.1; Luke 19.29; John 12.1. raising of Lazarus at, John 11. 18. ascension of Christ at, Luke 24. 50.
BETH-EL (Luz), city of Palestine, named Bethel by Jacob, Gen. 28.19; 31.13. altar built by Jacob at, Gen. 35.1. occupied by the house of Joseph, Judg. 1. 22. sons of prophets resident there, 2 Kin. 2. 2, 3; 17. 28.
the king's chapel, Amos 7.13. idolatry of Jeroboam at, 1 Kin. 12.28; 13.1. reformation by Josiah at, 2 Kin. 23.15.
BETHESDA, pool of, at Jerusalem, miracles
wrought at, John 5. 2.
BETH-HORON, Josh. 10.10.
BETH-LEHEM (originally Ephratah), Naomi and
Ruth return to, Ruth 1—4. David anointed at, 1 Sam. 16.13; 20. 6. well of, 2 Sam. 23.15; 1 Chr. 11.17. Christ's birth at, Matt. 2. 1; Luke 2. 4; John 7.42; predicted, Mic. 5. 2 (Ps. 132.5, 6). babes of, slain, Matt. 2.16.
BETHSAIDA of Galilee, native place of Philip,
Peter, and Andrew, Mark 6. 45; John 1. 44; 12. 21.
blind man cured at, Mark 8. 22. condemned for unbelief, Matt. 11. 21. Christ feeds the five thousand at, Luke 9. 10
BETH-SHEMESH, men of, punished for looking
into the ark, 1 Sam. 6.19.
great battle at, 2 Kin. 14.1L
BETROTHAL, laws concerning, Ex. 21. 8; Lev. 19.20; Deut. 20. 7.
BEZALEEL constructs the tabernacle, Ex. 31. 2; 35. 30; 36—38.
BIGTHAN and Teresh, their conspiracy against
Ahasuerus, Est. 2. 21.
BILDAD'S answers to Job, Job 8; 18; 25.
BILHAH, Jacob's children by, Gen. 30. 5.
BIRDS (see Fowls), Ps. 104. 17; Matt. 8. 20.
mentioned, Prov. 1. 17; 6. 5, &c. Jer. 12. 9; Amos 3. 5; Rev. 18. 2.
what to be used in sacrifices, Gen. 15. 9; Lev. 14. 4; Luke 2. 24.
what are abomination, Lev. 11.13; Deut. 14.12.
nests of, Deut. 22. 6.*.
BIRTHDAYS celebrated:—
of Pharaoh, Gen. 40. 20.
of Herod, Matt. 14. 6; Mark 6. 21.
BIRTHRIGHT, law concerning, Deut. 21.15.
despised by Esau, and obtained by Jacob, Gen. 25.31; Heb. 12.16.
lost by Reuben, 1 Chr. 5.1.
BIRTHS foretold:—
of Ishmael, Gen. 16.11.
of Isaac, Gen. 18.10.
of Samson, Judg. 13. 3.
of Samuel, 1 Sam. 1.11,17.
of Josiah, 1 Kin. 13. 2.
of Shunammite's son, 2 Kin. 4.16.
of John the Baptist, Luke 1.13.
of Messias, Gen. 3. 15; Is. 7. 14; Mic. 5; Luke
I. 31.
BISHOP, qualifications of, 1 Tim. 3. of souls (Christ), 1 Pet. 2. 25.
BISHOPS saluted, Phil. 1.1.
BITTER herbs eaten with the passover, Ex. 12. 8. water healed, Ex. 15. 23.
BLASPHEMY, Ex. 20.7; Ps. 74.18; Is. 52.5; Ezek. 20. 27: Matt. 15.19; Luke 22.65; Col. 3. 8; Rev. 2.9; 13.5,6; 16.9.
punishment of, death, Lev. 24.16; 1 Kin. 21.10. mercy for, 1 Tim. 1.13.
Christ accused of, Matt. 9. 3; 26. 65; Mark 2. 7; Luke 5. 21; John 10. 33.
others falsely accused of, and stoned: Naboth, 1 Kin. 21.13. Stephen, Acts 6.13; 7. 54. occasion to blaspheme given by David, 2 Sam. 12.14. See also 1 Tim. 5.14; 6.1. against Holy Ghost, Matt. 12. 31; Mark 3. 28; Luke 12.10; 1 John 5.16.
BLEMISH, priests to be without, Lev. 21.16. offerings free from, Ex. 12. 5, &c.; Lev. 1. 3, &c.; Deut. 17.1, &c. the church to be without, Eph. 5. 27.
-------Lamb without, Christ compared to, 1 Pet. 1.19.
BLESSED, Gen. 12. 3; Ps. 1.1; 65. 4; 84. 4, 5: 112. 1; Is. 30.18: Matt. 5. 4, 6; 25.34; Luke 6.21; 12. 37; 14. 15; Rom. 4. 6, 9.
those chosen, called, chastened by God, Ps. 65.4;
Eph. 1. 3, 4.—Is. 51. 2; Rev. 19. 9.—Ps. 94.12.
who trust, fear, delight in God, Ps. 2.12; 34. 8; 40. 4; 84.12; Jer. 17.7.—Ps. 128.1.4.-Ps. 112.1.
who hear and obey, Ps.119.2; Matt. 13.16; Luke II. 28; Jam. 1. 25; Rev.l. 3; 22. 7,14.
who know, believe, and suffer for Christ, Matt. 16. 16, 17.—Matt. 11. 6; Luke 1. 45; Gal. 3. 9.—
Luke 6. 22. who endure temptation, Jam. 1.12; watch against
sin, Rev. 16. 15; rebuke sinners, Prov. 24. 25;
die in the Lord, Rev. 14.13. the undefiled, pure, just, children of the just,
righteous, upright, faithful, poor in spirit, meek,
merciful, peacemakers, Ps. 119.1.—Matt. 5. 8.—
Ps. 106. 3; Prov. 10. 6—Prov. 20. 7.—Ps. 5.12.—
Ps. 112. 2.—Prov. 28. 20.—Matt. 5. 3.—Matt. 5. 5.
—Matt. 5.7.—Matt. 5. 9. the bountiful, Deut. 15.10; Ps. 41.1; Prov. 22. 9;
Luke 14.13,14.
sins forgiven, Ps. 32.1, 2; Rom. 4. 7. persons blessed: Jacob by Isaac, Gen. 27. 27.
Jacob by God, Gen. 48. 3. Joseph and his sons by Jacob, Gen. 48. 9, 14; the twelve tribes, by Moses, Deut. 33.
BLESSING and cursing the people, form of, Num. 6. 22; Deut. 11. 26; 27.15. &c. and glory, Rev. 5.12,13; 7.12.
BLIND, laws concerning the, Lev. 19. 14; Deut. 27 18
BLINDNESS inflicted on the men of Sodom, Gen. 19.11; on the Syrian army, 2 Kin. 6.18. on Saul of Tarsus, Acts 9. 8; on Elymas at Paphos, Acts 13.11.
healed by Christ, Matt. 9. 27; 12.22; 20. 30; Mark 8. 22; 10. 46; Luke 7. 21; John 9 (Is. 35. 5).
SPIRITUAL, Ps. 82. 5; Is. 56.10; 59. 9; Matt. 6. 23; 15.14; 23.16; John 1. 5; 3.19; 9. 39; 1 Cor. 2.14; 2. Pet. 1. 9; 1 John 2. 9; Rev. 3.17. judicially inflicted, Ps. 69. 23; Is. 6. 9: 44. 18; Matt. 13.13; John 12.40; Acts 28. 26; Rom. 11. 7; 2 Cor. 3.14; 4.4.
prayer for deliverance from, Ps. 13. 3; 119.18. removed by Christ, Is. 9. 2; 42. 7; Luke 4. 18; John. 8. 12; 9. 39; 2 Cor. 3.14; 4. 6; Eph. 5. 8; Col. 1.13; 1 Thess. 5. 4; 1 Pet. 2. 9.
BLOOD, eating of, forbidden to man after the flood, Gen. 9. 4. the Israelites under the law, Lev. 3.17; 17.10, 12,13; Deut. 12.16, 24; 1 Sam. 14. 32, 33. the Gentile Christians, Acts 15. 20, 29. water turned into, as a sign, Ex. 4. 30, with ver. 9; as a judgment, Ex. 7.17; Rev. 8. 8; 11. 6. law respecting, Lev. 7. 26; 19. 26; Deut. 12. 16; Ezek. 33. 25; Acts 15. 29; enforced by Saul, 1 Sam. 14. 32.
shedding of human, forbidden, Gen. 9. 5,6; Deut. 21. 1—9; Ps. 106. 38; Prov. 6. 16, 17; Is. 59. 3; Jer. 22.17; Ezek. 22. 4; Matt. 27. 6. of legal sacrifices, Ex. 23. 18; 29. 12; 30. 10; 34. 25; Lev. 4. 7; 17.11; Heb. 9.13,19-22; 10. 4.
-------(of the covenant), Ex. 24. 8; Zech. 9. 11;
Heb. 10. 29; 13. 20.
-------of Christ, 1 Cor. 10. 16; Eph. 2.13; Heb. 9.14; 1 Pet. 1.19; 1 John 1. 7. salvation by, Heb. 9. 12; 13.12; Rev. 1. 5. See Heb. 9. 22.
in the Lord's Supper, Matt. 26. 28; Mark 14. 24; Luke 22. 20; 1 Cor. 11. 25.
redemption by, Eph. 1. 7; Col. 1. 20; Heb. 10.19; 12. 24; 1 Pet. 1. 2; 1 John 1. 7; Rev. 1.5; 5. 9; 12.11. v
typified,—under tlite law, Ex. 12. 13; 29. 16; 30. 10; Lev. 1. 5; 4; 16.15; Heb. 9. 7, &c.
BOANERGES (sons of thunder), James and John
surnamed by Christ, Mark 3.17.
BOASTING, deprecated, 1 Kin. 20. 10; Ps. 49. 6; 52.1; 94. 4; Prov. 20. 14; 25. 14; 27. 1; Is. 10. 15; Rom. 1. 30; 11. 18; 2 Cor. 10; James 3. 5; 4. 16.
of Paul, 2 Cor. 7.14; 8. 24; 9. 3, 4; 11.10. excluded under the gospel, Rom. 3.27; Eph. 2. 9.
BOAZ, his conduct towards Ruth, Ruth 2; 3; 4. ancestor of David and Christ, Ruth 4. 17, 22; Matt. 1. 6,16; Luke 3. 23, 32.
-------and Jachin (strength and stability), pillars
of the temple, 2 Chr. 3.17.
BOCHIM, Israel rebuked by an angel at, Judg. 2. Israel repent at, Judg. 2. 4, 5.
BODY (human), not to be dishonoured, Lev. 19. 28; 21. 5; Deut. 14.1.
to be pure, Rom. 12.1; 1 Cor. 6.13; 1 Thess. 4. 4. of a Christian, the temple of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 3.16; 6.19; 2 Cor. 6.16. dead, laws concerning, Lev. 21.11 6; 19.11; Deut. 21. 23; Hag. 2.13. will be raised again, Matt. 22. 30; 1 Cor. 15.12; Phil. 3. 21. See Resurrection. Body of Christ, (Heb. 10.5); Luke 2.35; pierced by soldiers, John 19. 34; buried by Joseph, Matt. 27. 58; Mark 15.42; Luke 23. 50; John 19.38. the church so called, Rom. 12. 4; 1 Cor. 10. 17;
Num.5.2; 9.
12.12; Eph. 1. 22; 4.12; 5. 23; CoL 1.18; 2.19; 3. 15.
BOILS and blains, the plague of, Ex. 9.10; Rev. 16. 2. See 2 Kin. 20. 7; Job 2. 7.
BOLDNESS through faith, Prov. 28. 1; Is. 50. 7; Acts 5. 29; Eph. 3.12; Heb. 10.19; 1 John 4.17. exhortations to, Josh. 1. 7; 2 Chr. 19. 11; Jer. 1.8; Ezek. 3. 9; Heb. 4.16. of Peter and John, Acts 4. 13; 5. 29. Stephen, Acts 7. 51. Paul, Acts 9. 27; 19. 8; 2 Cor. 7. 4; Gal. 2.11. Apollos, Acts 18.26.
BOND, law of, Num. 30. of peace, Eph. 4. 3.
BONDAGE of Israel in Egypt, Ex. 1—12; Ps. 105 25 • Acts 7 6
in Babylon, 2 Kin! 25; Ezral; 9.7; Neh.l; Est. 3; Dan. 1. spiritual, John 8. 34; Acts 8. 23; Rom. 6. 16; 7. 23; 8. 2; Gal. 2. 4; 4. 3; 1 Tim. 3. 7; 2 Tim. 2. 26; Heb. 2.14; 2 Pet. 2.19.
deliverance by Christ, Is. 61.1; Luke 4.18; John 8. 36; Rom. 8. 2; Gal. 3.13.
BONDMAID, laws concerning, Lev. 19.20; 25. 44.
BONDMEN, laws concerning, Lev. 25. 39; Deut. 15.12.
BONDWOMAN cast out, Gen. 21.10; Gal. 4.23.
BONES (Gen. 2. 23).
Joseph's, Gen. 50. 25; Ex. 13.19; Heb. 11. 22. scattered as a judgment, 2 Kin. 23.14; Ps. 53.5; 141.7; Jer. 8.1; Ezek. 6. 5. of the paschal lamb not broken, Ex. 12. 46; also Christ's, John 19. 36. vision of the dry bones, Ezek. 37.
BONNETS of the priests, directions for making, Ex. 28.40; 29.9; 39.28; Ezek. 44.18. See Mitre.
BOOK of Life, Ex. 32. 32; Ps. 69. 28; Dan. 12.1; Phil. 4. 3; Rev. 3. 5; 13. 8; 17. 8; 21. 27; 22.19; opened, Rev. 20.12. — of the Law, Deut. 28. 61; 29. 27, &c.; Gal. 3.10; found and read, 2 Kin. 22. 8; 23.2; Neh. 8.8.
-------of Jasher (the upright), Josh. 10.13; 2 Sam. 1.18.
BOOKS, 1 Sam. 10. 25; Eccles. 12. 12; Dan. 9. 2; John 21. 25; 2 Tim. 4. 13.
of various persons, 1 Chr. 29. 29; 2 Chr. 9. 29; 12.15; 20.34.
of Solomon, 1 Kin. 4. 32; 11. 41. of judgment, Dan. 7.10; Rev. 20.12. burned at Ephesus, Acts 19.19.
BOOTHS, Lev. 23. 42; Neh. 8. 14.
BORDERS of the land determined, Num. 34; Josh. 1.4; Ezek. 47.13.
BORING of the ear, Ex. 21. 6.
BORN of GOD, Johna. 13; 3. 3; 1 Pet. 1. 23; 1 John 3. 9; 5.1.
BORROWING, Ex. 22.14; Deut. 15.1, &c. its evils, 2 Kin. 6. 5; Prov. 22. 7. of Israel from the Egyptians, Ex. 3. 22; 12. 35.
BOTTLE of water, Gen. 21.14.
BOTTLES of wine, Josh. 9. 4, 13; 1 Sam. 25. 18; Hos. 7. 5.
old and new, Job 32.19; Matt. 9.17; Mark 2. 22; Luke 5. 37, 38.
BOTTOMLESS pit, Rev. 9.1; 11. 7; 17. 8. Satan bound there, Rev. 20.1, 2.
BOUGHT with a price, 1 Cor. 6.10.
BOW in the cloud, sign of God's mercy, Gen. 9.13, &c.; Ezek. 1. 28. (weapon), Gen. 48. 22; Josh. 24.12; 1 Sam. 18. 4; 2 Sam 1. 18, 22; 2 Kin. 9. 24; Ps. 44. 6; 78. 57; Jer. 49.35; Hos. 7.16; Rev. 6.2.
BOWELS of mercies, Gen. 43. 30; Ps. 25. 6; Is. 63.15; Luke 1. 78; Phil. 1. 8; 2.1; Col. 3.12, &c.
BOWLS, &c. offered by the princes, Num. 7. See
Zech. 4. 2.
BOZRAH, prophecies concerning, Is. 34. 6; 63.1;
Jer. 48.24; 49.13; Amos 1.12.
BRAMBLE (and other trees), Jotham's parable
about, Judg. 9.14.
BRANCH (of the Lord), prophecies concerning,
Is. 4. 2; Jer. 23. 5; Zech. 3. 8; 6. 12; John 15. 5; Rom. 11. 16.
BRAND, as a, plucked from the fire, Amos 4.11;
Zech. 3. 2; Jude 23.
BRASS used in the tabernacle and temple, Ex. 25. 3; 26. 11; 1 Kin. 7. 14. altar of, Ex. 39. 39; 2 Kin. 16.14. mentioned, Lev. 26. 19; Job 6. 12; 1 Cor. 13. 1;
Rev. 1.15.
BREAD, Adam's curse, Gen. 3.19. rained from heaven (manna), Ex. 16. 4. miraculously supplied, 2 Kin. 4. 42; Johfi*6, &c. a type of Christ, John 6. 31; 1 Cor. 10.115. offered before the Lord, Ex. 25. 30; Lev. 8. 26; 24. 5. hallowed, David obtains from Ahimelech, 1 Sam. 21.4. used in the Lord's Supper, Luke 22. 19; 24. 30;
Acts 2. 42; 20. 7; 1 Cor. 10.16; 11. 23. unleavened, Gen. 19. 3; Ex. 12. 8; 1 Sam. 28. 24; 2 Kin. 23. 9.
figuratively used, 1 Cor. 5. 8.
BREASTPLATE of the high priest described, Ex. 28.15; 39. 8.
of righteousness, Eph. 6.14. of faith and love, 1 Thess. 5. 8.
BREATH (life) dependent upon God, Gen. 2. 7; 6. 17; Job 12.10; 33. 4; Ps. 104. 29; Ezek. 37. 5;
Dan. 5. 23; Acts 17. 25. -------of God, its power, 2 Sam. 22.16; Job 4. 6;
Ps. 33. 6; Is. 11. 4; 30.28.
BRETHREN, duty of, towards each other, Gen. 13. 8; Deut, 15. 7; 24. 14; Ps. 133; Matt. 5. 22; 18.15, 21; 25. 40; John 13. 34; 15.12, &c.; Rom. 12. 10; 1 Cor. 6; 8. 13; Gal. 6. 1; 1 Thess. 4. 9; 2 Thess. 3. 15; Heb. 13. 1; 1 Pet. 1. 22; 3. 8; 2 Pet. 1. 7; 1 John 2. 9; 3.17.
BRIBERY forbidden, Ex. 23. 2, 6; Deut. 16.19. denounced, Prov. 17. 23; 29. 4; Eccles. 7. 7; Is. 5. 23; 33.15; Ezek. 13.19; Amos 2. 6. of Delilah, Judg. 16. 5. of Samuel's sons, 1 Sam. 8. 3. of Judas, Matt. 26.14. of the soldiers, Matt. 28.12. punished, Job 15. 34.
BRICKS made, Ex. 1.14; 5.
BRIDE of Christ, the church, John 3. 29; Rev. 21. 2; 22.17.
BRIDEGROOM, Christ the heavenly, Matt. 9.15; 25.1; John 3. 29.
BRIMSTONE and fire, Sodom destroyed by, Gen. 19. 24. symbol of torment, Is. 30. 33; Rev. 9.17; 14.10; 19.20; 21.8.
BROIDERED work, Ezek. 16.10.
BROTHER, anger with, Matt. 5. 22.
BROTHER'S widow, law concerning, Deut. 25. 5;
Matt. 22 24.
BRUISED (Christ), for us, Is. 53. 5. reed, Is. 42. 3: Matt. 12. 20; Egypt so called, 2 Kin. 18. 21; Ezek. 29. 6, 7.
BUCKLER, the Divine, 2 Sam. 22. 31; Ps. 18. 2; 91. 4; Prov. 2. 7.
BUDDING of Aaron's rod, Num. 17.
BUILDING, the church compared to, 1 Cor. 3. 9;
Eph. 2. 21; Col. 2. 7.
BUNDLE of life, 1 Sam. 25. 29.
BURDEN, signifying prophecy, 2 Kin. 9. 25; Is. 13; 15; 17; 19; 21; 22; 23; Nan. 1.1. cast on the Lord, Ps. 55. 22. of affliction, Is. 58. 6; 2 Cor. 5. 4. of iniquities, Ps. 38. 4. of Christ, light, Matt. 11. 30;—Acts 15. 28; Rev. 2.24.
borne for others, Gal. 6. 2.
BURIAL, want of, a calamity, Deut. 28. 26: Ps. 79. 2; Eccles. 6. 3; Is. 14. 19; Jer. 7. 33; 16. 4; 25.33; 34.20.
of Sarah, Gen. 23.19. Abraham, Gen. 25.9. Isaac,
Gen. 35.29. Jacob, Gen. 50. Abner, 2Sam. 3.31,
32. Christ, Matt. 27. 57; Luke 23. 50. Stephen,
Acts 8. 2.
BURNING BUSH, the Lord appears to Moses in,
Ex. 3. 2: Mark 12. 26. Luke 20. 37; Acts 7. 35.
BURNT OFFERINGS, law concerning, Lev. 1.1; 6.8. illustrations of, Gen. 8. 20; 22. 13; Ex. 18. 12; 1 Sam. 7. 9; Ezra 3. 4; Job 1. 5. See Ps. 40. 6; 51.19; Is. 40.16; Heb. 10. the continual, Ex. 29. 38; Num. 28. 3; 1 Chr. 16.40; 2 Chr. 13. 11.
BURY, let the dead, Luke 9. 60. manner of Jews to, John 19. 40.
BUSY-BODIES censured, Prov. 20. 3; 26. 17 ; 1 Thess. 4. 11; 2 Thess. 3. 11; 1 Tim. 5. 13 ; 1 Pet. 4.15.
BUYER characterized, Prov. 20.14.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2275
|
__label__wiki
| 0.500648
| 0.500648
|
Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) (Compact Disc)
By Blake Crouch, Paul Michael Garcia (Read by)
This is book number 2 in the Wayward Pines series.
#1: Pines (Wayward Pines #1) (Paperback): $14.95
#3: The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) (Paperback): $14.95
The second book in the internationally bestselling series that inspired the Fox TV show.
Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amid picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.
None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. Some believe they are dead. Others think they're trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare face a terrifying surprise.
Ethan Burke has seen the world beyond. He's sheriff, and one of the few who knows the truth--Wayward Pines isn't just a town. And what lies on the other side of the fence is a nightmare beyond anyone's imagining.
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Series: Wayward Pines
Thrillers - General
Thrillers - Suspense
Paperback (September 17th, 2013): $14.95
Pre-Recorded Audio Player (August 2nd, 2015): $69.99
MP3 CD (June 30th, 2014): $9.99
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2280
|
__label__wiki
| 0.797319
| 0.797319
|
Judges put five in double figures, but Case prevails, 84-80
CWRU (9-8, 2-4 UAA) 45 39 84
Brandeis (8-9, 2-4 UAA) 44 36 80
John Powell '17 (photo by Sportspix.biz/Mike Broglio)
Pts: 2 Players (#11, #21) - 17
Reb: Eric Black - 10
Ast: Matt Clark - 6
Pts: John Powell - 16
Reb: Jordan Cooper - 9
Ast: Jordan Cooper - 4
WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University men's basketball team lost a heartbreaker tonight to Case Western Reserve University, 84-80. The Judges cut a 12-point deficit to three with less than a minute to go, but were whistled for an offensive foul with a chance to get even closer as the Spartans escaped with the University Athletic Association victory. Brandeis falls to 8-9 overall, 2-4 in the UAA, while CWRU improves to 9-8, 2-4 UAA.
HOW IT HAPPENED – FIRST HALF
The lead changed hands seven times in the first half and the score was tied four times.
After the teams traded early buckets, Case's full-court pressure spurred a 15-4 run that gave them a 21-12 lead on an Eric Black dunk with 12:26 to play.
Brandeis responded with a 10-1 run of their own, tying the game at 22-22 on a Brandon Lagos (Chino Hills, Calif./Damien) lay-up.
The Spartans scored five of the next six points, but Lagos converted a traditional three-point play at the 6:34 mark to keep the Spartans within reach.
The Judges eventually went back on top when junior Robinson Vilmont (Cambridge, Mass./Wilbraham and Monson) drove to the hoop for a lay-up as the shot clock expired, giving Brandeis a 40-38 lead with 2:22 remaining.
Case's Matt Clark answered with a lay-up and 1-of-2 from the line to put the visitors back ahead, 41-40.
Brandeis's Carlin Haymon (Boston, Mass./Rivers School) connected from downtown, but Clark answered from beyond the arc.
The squads traded single free throws in the last 20 seconds to make the score 45-44 in favor of the visitors at the break.
HOW IT HAPPENED - SECOND HALF
Case used a 15-7 run midway through the second half to take their biggest lead of the game at 12 points, 71-59, with 9:53 to go after a Colin Zucker 3-pointer.
The Spartans were still ahead by 10, 78-68, with 4:50 on the clock after a Clark jumper.
Brandeis junior John Powell (Ashland, Mass./Brimmer and May) cut into the CWRU lead with back-to-back lay-ups and an assist on a Jordan Cooper (Weston, Fla./Sagemont School) jumper that got Brandeis within 78-74 with 3:02 to go.
Clark and Cooper traded buckets to keep it a four-point game, and Haymon came up with a steal and called timeout with exactly 2:00 remaining.
The Spartans looked to put the game away when they stole a Brandeis entry pass and saw Javier Alvarez hit a corner 3-pointer with 1:37 to go to make it a seven-point game.
The Judges weren't done, however, as senior Colby Smith (No. Andover, Mass./No. Andover) converted a lay-up and Powell got a steal as Case tried to drive the lane on the other end.
Vilmont drew a foul with 57 seconds left and hit both free throws to make it an 83-80 Brandeis deficit.
The Judges used pressure on the ensuing Case possession, and Vilmont came up with a steal, but David Black was able to draw a charge as Vilmont went to the hoop. The call erased a bucket and potentially a three-point play that could have tied the game. The Spartans hit 1-of-2 from the line with just over 21 seconds left to secure the victory.
FOR BRANDEIS
All five starters scored in double figures for the Judges.
Powell led the way with 16 points on 6-of-7 from the field and 4-of-5 from the line. He also pulled down eight rebounds – four offensive.
Vilmont added 15 points, giving him double-digit scoring in 15 of 17 games this season.
Cooper and juniors Tim Reale (Mason, Ohio/St. Andrews School, R.I.) and Jack Fay (New Rochelle, N.Y. / Suffield Acad.) each finished with 11 points.
Cooper led the Judges with nine rebounds and four assists and added three steals.
Fay had all 11 of his points in the first half, while Reale scored nine in the second.
FOR CASE WESTERN RESERVE
Eric Black and Matt Clark tied for game-high honors with 17 points each.
They combined to hit 14-of-20 from the field. Clark was 7-for-9 overall and 2-for-2 from deep.
Black finished with a double-double as he led all players with 10 rebounds.
Clark also had game-highs with six assists and five steals while finishing second on the team with six boards.
Zucker added 12 points, mostly coming on three 3-pointers.
The Judges shot 54% (28-52), while the Spartans were at 49% (33-67) for the game.
After shooting just 44% (17-39) in the first, CWRU hit on 57% (16-28) in the second.
Brandeis outscored the visitors 20-7 from the free-throw line.
Case connected 11 times from 3-point range compared to just 4 for the Judges.
The Spartans' pressure converted 21 Brandeis turnovers into 26 points, while Brandeis had 15 points on 18 Spartan miscues.
The Judges take on Carnegie Mellon University on Sunday at 12 p.m., while Case Western Reserve is at NYU at the same time. CMU defeated the Violets, 85-80, tonight in New York.
For more information on Brandeis Athletics, please visit brandeisjudges.com or follow us on Twitter or Instagram @brandeisjudges, or follow us on Facebook.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2284
|
__label__cc
| 0.605741
| 0.394259
|
Ariege Chambres D'Hotes
Bed and Breakfasts Saint-Michel B&B - Vacation Rental Saint-Michel
Sort: Distance - Sort by - Price Ascending Price Descending Reviews Reserve Online
Domaine Thomson
Dun B&B & Gite
Domaine Thomson is a lovely guesthouse in the Ariege region of the Pyrenees, with ensuite bedrooms, huge swimming pool, outdoor terrace, free wifi, opportunities for walking, horseriding, cycling, cathar castles, wine tour. A 15 minute drive to Mirepoix, and only 1 hour from both Toulouse and Carcassonne airports.
From €61 / night
Landry
St Michel B&B
We offer you the comfort of our wooden chalet in our own forest of 85 ha . we have a small farm with lots of animals and a big vegetable garden we have an AFRICAN room for 2 persons you can bring your dog or cat and we do nt have problems with smokers We serve you a nice breakfast and diner with products from our own farm hope to see you soon at LANDRY
La Ferme du Bascou
Madière B&B
Located in the countryside of Madiere, La Ferme Du Bascou offers B&B accommodation in a working farm with several animals, including ducks and sheep. You can relax on the terrace, by the garden, and admire the Pyrenees view. The room at La Ferme Du Bascou has a balcony with garden view, an electric kettle and a bathroom with shower. A continental breakfast is included in the rate and served each morning in the dining room. Traditional dinners with locally-grown produce can also be enjoyed, upon prior reservation. Free private parking is possible on site and Pamiers is 13.5 km from the property. You can go for walks in the area or visit the medieval village of Carla-Bayle, which is 16 km from La Ferme Du Bascou.
Ferme Beauregard Les Pyrénées
Artigat B&B
Ferme Beauregard Les Pyrénées is a completely renovated farmhouse with 2 luxury gîtes and 4 B&B rooms with pool 6x12m. Great view of the Pyrenees and surrounding countryside. Tranquil area, but yet not too far from shops, restaurants, walking, skiing and the airport of Toulouse or Carcassonne. Tax-free shopping in Andorra!
Bajou B&B
Luxury accommodation in the heart of the Ariege - a haven of peace providing the perfect base for your holiday in our beautiful area. A warm welcome and a relaxing environment is guaranteed at La Roseraie. 20 minutes from Foix and 40 from Toulouse, in the heart of the touristic activities of the Ariege
Laytoure
St Victor Rouzaud B&B & Gite
Laytoure is a traditional Ariegeois farmhouse dating back to the 17th century. It has been lovingly updated to include high quality guest accommodation. We offer rooms on a bed and breakfast basis, or you can rent the whole house as a gite for up to 8 people. In a tranquil rural setting near the small village of St Victor Rouzaud, Laytoure is only 8 km from Pamiers which offers shops, markets, restaurants and all facilities, and about an hour's drive from the airports of Toulouse and Carcassonne. The Ariege is relatively unknown to tourists, but there are many places of interest nearby.
La Maire
Lesley and Dave Olver offer guests a warm welcome at their traditional French farmhouse nestling in over 3 acres of beautiful grounds with a 10m x 5m swimming pool in the heart of the rolling Ariege countryside with superb views of the Pyrenees. We are 20 mins from Foix and 1 hour from Toulouse. Watercolour classes are available at La Maire by Lesley, your host and professional watercolour artist
Pechine
Artigat B&B & Gite
Pechine is a renovated farmhouse, in a large garden, situated in rolling countryside on a ridge with south facing views over the Leze valley to the Pyrenees . It provides rural tranquillity but is well situated for easy access to the rest of the Ariege. Foix is a 20 minute drive and we are under 1 hr from Toulouse. You will get a warm welcome and a comfortable environment to relax in.
Gites Jean Luzent
Saint Bauzeil (varilhes B&B & Gite
3 Cozy country gites (self-catering) in former farm house (2 classified by Gites de France) between Pamiers and Varilhes, Pays de Foix. Discover from here the Ariege Dept. and Midi-Pyrenees region between Toulouse and Andorra, Carcassonne and Lourdes. capacity 2, 3, 4 persons, owners speak E, F, G
From €250 / week
Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2
Bonnac B&B & Gite
Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2 is situated in Bonnac. The accommodation is 46 km from Muret. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower. Foix is 26 km from the apartment, while Pamiers is 7 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 80 km from Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2.
Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2 2
Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2 2 is situated in Bonnac. The accommodation is 46 km from Muret. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower. Foix is 26 km from the apartment, while Pamiers is 7 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 80 km from Apartment Bonnac - 4 pers, 45 m2, 3/2 2.
Apartment Bonnac - 2 pers, 30 m2, 2/1 1 is set in Bonnac. The accommodation is 7 km from Pamiers. The apartment also offers a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a bath. Foix is 26 km from the apartment, while Castelnaudary is 42 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 80 km from Apartment Bonnac - 2 pers, 30 m2, 2/1 1.
Sancy
Artix B&B
No english description supplied.
Sleep In Pamiers T2 Coeur De Ville
Pamiers B&B & Gite
Situated in Pamiers, Sleep In Pamiers T2 Coeur De Ville features accommodation with a balcony and free WiFi. The apartment has city views and is 24 km from Mirepoix. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom. Foix is 20 km from the apartment, while Muret is 50 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 64 km from Sleep In Pamiers T2 Coeur De Ville.
appartement dans propriété de charme avec piscine
Le Fossat B&B & Gite
Appartement dans propriété de charme avec piscine is set in Le Fossat and offers a shared lounge and a terrace. The accommodation is 39 km from Muret, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The apartment offers a continental or à la carte breakfast. Staff speak English and French at the reception. Appartement dans propriété de charme avec piscine offers a children's playground. Guests can swim in the outdoor swimming pool, go hiking or fishing, or relax in the garden and use the barbecue facilities. Foix is 33 km from the accommodation, while Pamiers is 27 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 64 km from appartement dans propriété de charme avec piscine.
Studio Cosy Centre-Ville
Studio Cosy Centre-Ville is set in Pamiers. The accommodation is 24 km from Mirepoix. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Foix is 20 km from the apartment, while Muret is 50 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 81 km from Studio Cosy Centre-Ville.
Joli Appart / Centre-ville / Wifi / Calme
Joli Appart / Centre-ville / Wifi / Calme is situated in Pamiers. The apartment has city views and is 24 km from Mirepoix. This apartment has 1 bedroom, a kitchen with microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. Foix is 20 km from the apartment, while Muret is 50 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 81 km from Joli Appart / Centre-ville / Wifi / Calme.
Appart Pamiers Affaires & Loisirs avec Balcon et Garage
Appart Pamiers Affaires & Loisirs avec Balcon et Garage is set in Pamiers and offers a terrace. This property offers access to a balcony, free private parking and free WiFi. Boasting a Blu-ray player, the apartment has a kitchen with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge, a living room, a dining area, 1 bedroom, and 1 bathroom with a shower. A flat-screen TV and a DVD player are offered. Foix is 19 km from the apartment, while Mirepoix is 23 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne, 66 km from Appart Pamiers Affaires & Loisirs, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Appartement lumineux
Appartement lumineux is located in Pamiers. Guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. This apartment is equipped with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom. Foix is 19 km from the apartment, while Mirepoix is 23 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 81 km from Appartement lumineux.
La Caldamente
Rieux-de-Pelleport B&B
Offering a seasonal outdoor pool and views of the mountain, La Caldamente is set in Rieux-de-Pelleport, 15 km from Foix. The bed and breakfast has a barbecue and guests can enjoy a meal at the restaurant. Free WiFi is offered. Free private parking is available on site. Each room at this bed and breakfast is air conditioned and includes a kettle. Some rooms feature a seating area where you can relax. Each room includes a private bathroom fitted with a shower. For your comfort, you will find bathrobes, free toiletries and a hairdryer. Castelnaudary is 53 km from La Caldamente, while Ax-les-Thermes is 56 km away. Carcassonne Airport is 67 km from the property.
Escale vers les Pyrénées
Saverdun B&B
Situated in Saverdun, 34 km from Muret, Escale vers les Pyrénées features a garden and free WiFi. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or buffet breakfast. If you would like to discover the area, skiing and cycling are possible in the surroundings. Foix is 39 km from Escale vers les Pyrénées, while Pamiers is 16 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 55 km from the accommodation.
Domaine De Roudeille
Saverdun B&B & Gite
Located at the Gateway to the Ariège-Pyrenées, our lovely farmhouse is surrounded by gardens, fields and forest. The tranquillity and glorious nature of Domaine de Roudeille provide a wonderful environment for rest and relaxation. Depending on the time of year you choose to visit, you could enjoy the surrounding sunflower fields, prolific birdlife, and fresh fruits from our garden – cherries, figs, walnuts …
Studio au Coeur du Village avec Terrasse
Verniolle B&B & Gite
Situated in Verniolle, Studio au Coeur du Village avec Terrasse features accommodation with a patio and free WiFi. The property features garden views and is 20 km from Mirepoix. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchenette with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The apartment offers a terrace. Foix is 16 km from Studio au Coeur du Village avec, while Pamiers is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 71 km from the accommodation.
La Casou del Tirou
Cadarcet B&B
Set in Cadarcet, 11 km from Foix, La Casou del Tirou offers a restaurant and free WiFi. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and free toiletries. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. La Casou del Tirou offers a terrace. After a day of hiking or cycling, guests can relax in the garden or in the shared lounge area. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 96 km from the accommodation.
Chateau du Val Larbont
La Bastide-de-Sérou B&B
Situated in La Bastide-de-Sérou, 34 km from Pamiers, Chateau du Val Larbont features a garden and free WiFi. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the bed and breakfast. Chateau du Val Larbont provides a terrace. Saint-Lary is 50 km from the accommodation, while Foix is 19 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 100 km from Chateau du Val Larbont.
From €150 / night
Maison De Vacances Midi-pyrenées
The most beautiful holiday park in France, Résidence Château Cazalères, is situated in the département of the Ariège, at the foot of the Pyrenees. This area is an excellent place for an active and/or relaxed holiday enjoying the French sunshine.
La Ferme du Talus
Castex B&B
Situated in Castex, 45 km from Muret, La Ferme du Talus features a restaurant and free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the bed and breakfast. La Ferme du Talus offers a children's playground. The accommodation also provides a business centre and free private parking. After a day of hiking or cycling, guests can relax in the garden or in the shared lounge area. Foix is 40 km from La Ferme du Talus, while Pamiers is 38 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 70 km from the bed and breakfast.
Bedbreakfastbikespyrenees
Loubières B&B
Situated in Loubières, 17 km from Pamiers, Bedbreakfastbikespyrenees features a shared lounge and free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the bed and breakfast. Bedbreakfastbikespyrenees offers a terrace. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy cycling nearby, or make the most of the garden. Ax-les-Thermes is 49 km from Bedbreakfastbikespyrenees, while Foix is 7 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 82 km from the bed and breakfast.
La Bastide De Sérou B&B
Come to my house and stay in my rooms and learn about meditation and relaxation in a beautiful small village in the south of France
La Lampisterie
Le Carlaret B&B
you'll stay in the old station Carlaret in a quiet park, facing the Pyrenees. I have 5 bedrooms, can accommodate up to 15 people
Les Chambres De Bellevue
Mazères B&B
This house was formerly a typical “toulousaine” farm. Now, this is a charming guesthouse in the country.
chambre d'hôtes" Paule" château de Mailhol- SPA
Gaillac-Toulza B&B
Boasting a garden, an outdoor pool and garden views, chambre d'hôtes château de Mailhol is situated in Gaillac-Toulza. The accommodation is 47 km from Blagnac, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The bed and breakfast also features a TV, a seating area, washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower. The bed and breakfast offers a hot tub. Chambre d'hôtes château de Mailhol provides a terrace. Toulouse is 46 km from the accommodation, while Foix is 48 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 49 km from chambre d'hôtes château de Mailhol.
Suite familiale 3 chambres CHATEAU DE MAILHOL -SPA
Suite familiale 3 chambres is situated in Gaillac-Toulza and offers a seasonal outdoor swimming pool, a garden and a terrace. The accommodation is 47 km from Blagnac, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast consists of 3 separate bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a seating area. A flat-screen TV is available. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Suite familiale 3 chambres offers a range of wellness facilities including a hot tub and a sauna. Toulouse is 46 km from the accommodation, while Foix is 43 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 49 km from Suite familiale 3 chambres.
le relais des fees
Saint-Martin-de-Caralp B&B
Set in Saint-Martin-de-Caralp in the Midi-Pyrénées region, le relais des fees offers accommodation with free private parking. A microwave and fridge are also offered, as well as a kettle and a coffee machine. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or à la carte breakfast. Le relais des fees offers a sun terrace. There is a garden with a barbecue at this property and guests can go skiing and cycling nearby. Foix is 9 km from the accommodation. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 94 km from le relais des fees.
Cascaille Apartment
Dalou B&B & Gite
Cascaille Apartment is located in Dalou and offers a terrace. The accommodation is 28 km from Mirepoix, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. This apartment is equipped with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. A children's playground can be found at the apartment, along with a garden. Foix is 12 km from Cascaille Apartment, while Pamiers is 13 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 71 km from the accommodation.
La Maison Famille
Durban-sur-Arize B&B
Set in Durban-sur-Arize, 41 km from Pamiers, La Maison Famille offers a shared lounge and free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. La Maison Famille offers a terrace. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy skiing nearby, or make the most of the garden. Saint-Lary is 46 km from La Maison Famille, while Foix is 26 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 91 km from the bed and breakfast.
Les Cimes
Saint-Pierre-de-Rivière B&B
Located in Saint-Pierre-de-Rivière, 50 km from Pas de la Casa, Les Cimes features a barbecue, terrace and sun terrace. Free WiFi is offered throughout the property and free private parking is available on site. A flat-screen TV and DVD player, as well as a CD player are available in the shared living room. Certain rooms feature a seating area where you can relax. You will find a kettle in the room. The rooms have a private bathroom. For your comfort, you will find bath robes and a hair dryer. A TV is featured. There is a shared lounge at the property. Ax-les-Thermes is 37 km from Les Cimes, while Soldeu is 44 km away. The nearest airport is Blagnac Airport, 75 km from Les Cimes.
Chambres d'Hôtes La Ferme d'Abdon
Featuring free WiFi, Chambres d'Hôtes La Ferme d'Abdon offers accommodation in Mazères. Free private parking is available on site. The rooms are set in a 13th-century building and rooms feature views of the mountains or garden. Superior rooms include a spa bath or a hot tub. The owner produce foie gras and guests will be able to taste farm's produce during their stay. You can play darts outside weather permitting, and the area is popular for cycling and hiking. Toulouse is 43 km from Chambres d'Hôtes La Ferme d'Abdon, while Foix is 32 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 48 km from Chambres d'Hôtes La Ferme d'Abdon.
Chateau de Belespy
La Bastide-de-Besplas B&B
Chateau de Belespy in La Bastide-de-Besplas provides accommodation with a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and a garden of over three hectares. Free WiFi is available throughout the property and parking is provided. A continental breakfast is available daily at the property. Pilates and Yoga are available at the property in a climate control studio. Please contact Chateau-de-Belespy for further details. St Giron is 40 km from the bed and breakfast, while Foix is 35 km away. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is 53 km from the property.
La Ferme de Bellune
Situated in Mazères, 26 km from Pamiers, La Ferme de Bellune features a garden and free WiFi. All units comprise a seating area, a dining area, and a fully equipped kitchen with various cooking facilities, including a dishwasher, a microwave, a fridge and an oven. There is also a stovetop, toaster and a kettle. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. A terrace is available for guests to use at La Ferme de Bellune. Foix is 42 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 38 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 63 km from La Ferme de Bellune.
Mobil-home 32 m2
Mazères B&B & Gite
Mobil-home 32 m2 is situated in Mazères and offers a restaurant, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and a bar. The apartment has lake views and is 21 km from Pamiers. This air-conditioned apartment features 2 bedrooms, a satellite flat-screen TV, a dining area, and a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. The apartment offers a children's playground. Guests at Mobil-home 32 m2 can enjoy table tennis on site, or fishing in the surroundings. Foix is 38 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 71 km from Mobil-home 32 m2.
Le Petit Cap Vert
Cintegabelle B&B
Le Petit Cap Vert is set in Cintegabelle and offers a restaurant, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and a shared lounge. The accommodation is 45 km from Blagnac, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. A flat-screen TV is offered. Continental and à la carte breakfast options are available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Le Petit Cap Vert offers a sun terrace. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy table tennis on site, or cycling in the surroundings. Toulouse is 45 km from Le Petit Cap Vert, while Foix is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 48 km from the bed and breakfast.
Apartment Gîte de roques
Serres-sur-Arget B&B & Gite
Apartment Gîte de roques is situated in Serres-sur-Arget. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower and a bath. Foix is 11 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 96 km from Apartment Gîte de roques.
La maison d'Anna
Ganac B&B
Featuring free bikes, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool, and a garden, La maison d'Anna provides accommodation in Ganac with free WiFi and pool views. This property offers a private pool and free private parking. The bed and breakfast is equipped with 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchenette that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine and a stovetop. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. La maison d'Anna features a terrace. Ax-les-Thermes is 48 km from the accommodation, while Foix is 5 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 83 km from La maison d'Anna.
Bernard Frere
St Pierre De Riviere B&B
At 3.5 km from Foix in the Pyrenees, the residence is located due south, facing the mountain. Peaceful
Chateau De Benac
Bénac B&B
Providing garden views, Chateau De Benac in Bénac provides accommodation, a shared lounge, a garden and a terrace. The bed and breakfast features both WiFi and private parking free of charge. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. A continental breakfast is available daily at CHATEAU DE BENAC. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 94 km from the accommodation.
Apartment Gite des moulins
Foix B&B & Gite
Apartment Gite des moulins offers accommodation in Foix, 600 metres from Foix Castle. The apartment also includes a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a fridge, and 1 bathroom. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 78 km from the apartment.
Les Trois Lions
Located in Foix, Les Trois Lions features modern accommodation with free WiFi and free private parking. The apartments feature a furnished private terrace or balcony and BBQ facilities. There is a living area with a sofa, armchairs and a flat-screen TV. The kitchen is equipped with an oven, a dishwasher, a washing machine and a fridge/freezer. Tea and coffee making facilities are available. The rooms come with a private bathroom and a flat-screen TV. They have access to shared facilities including a kitchen, a dining area, a living room and a furnished terrace. A Continental breakfast is available daily. A garden and a terrace are provided at the accommodation. Pas de la Casa is 48 km from Les Trois Lions, while Ax-les-Thermes is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 67 km from the apartment.
La Ciboulette
Foix B&B
Providing free WiFi, La Ciboulette is situated on the outskirts of Foix, 2 km from the centre of the town. Featuring a restaurant, the property also has a terrace. Guests can enjoy garden views. At the bed and breakfast, each room has a wardrobe and a flat-screen TV. Rooms come with a private bathroom, while certain rooms have a garden view. Guests at La Ciboulette will be able to enjoy activities in and around Foix, like visiting the castle, fishing and mountaineering. Pas de la Casa is 48 km from the accommodation, while Ax-les-Thermes is 34 km from the property. Carcassonne Airport is 66 km away.
Les Chambres De L'arget
To 2km of Foix, and near her castle, at the edge of the river, our comfortable rooms accomodate you in family or in love. Near our pisciculture, the children will discover the fishing in our small lake. The evening, Patrick will make you taste its original receipts bases trout, or of other products of our area. Visit our site to discover your stay.
Featuring a garden, La Mirandole offers accommodation in Foix with free WiFi and garden views. The property features mountain views, and is less than 1 km from Foix Castle. The bed and breakfast is fitted with a flat-screen TV, 1 bedroom and a living room. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or à la carte breakfast. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 87 km from La Mirandole.
Le Saint Vincent
Located in Foix, Le Saint Vincent offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a restaurant and a bar. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a buffet breakfast. Le Saint Vincent offers a terrace. Foix Castle is 700 metres from the accommodation. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 86 km from Le Saint Vincent.
Petite maison lumineuse en plein centre-ville !
Petite maison lumineuse en plein centre-ville! is set in Foix. It is situated 700 metres from Foix Castle and features free WiFi plus a shared kitchen. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with fridge and oven, and 1 bathroom with a shower, free toiletries and a washing machine. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 78 km from the apartment.
Apartment La fount del fer
Camarade B&B & Gite
Apartment La fount del fer is situated in Camarade. The accommodation is 42 km from Pamiers. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a bath. Saint-Lary is 42 km from the apartment, while Foix is 41 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 96 km from Apartment La fount del fer.
Le Studio de Pawel
Located 2.4 km from Foix Castle, Le Studio de Pawel provides accommodation with a seasonal outdoor swimming pool, a garden and a 24-hour front desk for your convenience. Featuring free WiFi, the units have a washing machine and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. A microwave and fridge are also provided, as well as a kettle. A barbecue and a terrace are offered at the bed and breakfast. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 88 km from Le Studio de Pawel.
Tourné
Castelnau-Durban B&B
Surrounded by a 2-acre garden bordering the river Artillac, Tourné is a family-run B&B set in Tourné Manor House and situated 2 km from the village of Castelnau-Durbanand 16 km from Ariège Golf Club. This property offers free WiFi access in the guests rooms and in the library. Rooms feature a desk, a wardrobe and a private bathroom with a bath or shower. Evening meals made from fresh local produce are available. In fine weather, meals can be taken in the garden. This property has a library, shared lounge, and large gardens with river access. It is 23 km from the historic town of Foix and free private parking is available on site.
La maison d'Anna is a former farmhouse situated in Ganac, 3 km from Foix. Free WiFi is featured and free private parking is available on site. The rooms are equipped with a private bathroom fitted with a bath or shower. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. A flat-screen TV is offered. Guests have access to a shared summer kitchen and garden. Other facilities include an above-ground swimming pool and a swing. You can engage in various activities, such as skiing, fishing and hiking. Saint-Lary-Soulan is 46 km from la maison d'Anna, while Vielha is 22 km away. Toulouse is 92 km away. Tarbes - Lourdes Airport is 79 km from the property.
Cafe Vals
Vals B&B
With city views, Cafe Vals is set in Vals and has free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Foix is 25 km from Cafe Vals, while Castelnaudary is 44 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 60 km from the accommodation.
Apartment Loft de la villa caussou
Apartment Loft de la villa caussou is a property situated in Foix near Foix Castle. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Chambres D'hôtes Tipatou
Brassac B&B
At the heart of the valley of the Claudie and Yves Barguillere invite you to you closer to nature for a stay or a step-Ariège Pyrenees. Charming 2 Bedroom (for 2 / 3 persons) with private bathrooms and entrance in a house of character entirely restored by the owners. Breakfast on the terrace or in the garden garnd and flowers near the bamboo. Claude, and Yves mosaicist artist will share their passions.
MANOIR DE BOUYSSOU
MANOIR DE BOUYSSOU is set in Cintegabelle and offers a garden and a terrace. The accommodation is 50 km from Castelnaudary, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Toulouse is 46 km from MANOIR DE BOUYSSOU, while Blagnac is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 49 km from the accommodation.
Mareillagues
Gibel B&B
Offering a seasonal outdoor pool, barbecue and terrace, Mareillagues is set in the countryside in Gibel. Free private parking is available on site. Certain units include a seating area where you can relax. A terrace or balcony are featured in certain rooms. Mareillagues features free WiFi throughout the property. You can play table tennis at the property. The bed and breakfast also offers bike hire. Toulouse is 41 km from Mareillagues, while Foix is 37 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 46 km from Mareillagues.
Apartment Rue du Mont Valier - 2
Auterive B&B & Gite
Set in Auterive in the Midi-Pyrénées region, Apartment Rue du Mont Valier - 2 has a balcony. The accommodation is 34 km from Pamiers, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The apartment is fitted with 1 bedroom, a TV with satellite channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. An outdoor swimming pool and barbecue facilities are available for guests at the apartment to use. Toulouse is 39 km from Apartment Rue du Mont Valier - 2, while Blagnac is 40 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 42 km from the accommodation.
Villa Monplaisir
Latrape B&B
Located in Latrape just 40 km away from Toulouse, Villa Monplaisir offers bed and breakfast accommodations. Guests can enjoy the outdoor swimming pool, spa and sauna at the property. The rooms at Villa Monplaisir are individually decorated according to a theme and feature parquet floors and a balcony. Each room has a private bathroom with a shower. Every morning a continental breakfast is served and gluten-free breakfasts can also be prepared. Upon request, the hosts can prepare evening meals for guests featuring seasonal and regional products. The Carbonne Train Station is 8 km away and guests can visit a reconstruction of a Gallic village in Rieux just 7 km away. Guests with reduced mobility can be accommodated at the property and free private parking is available.
La Halte du Temps
Montesquieu-Volvestre B&B
Set in a 17th-century mansion located in the Haute-Garonne, La Halte du Temps is a B&B offering an outdoor swimming pool and a French garden, as well as wired Internet access. La Halte du Temps rooms are fitted with period furniture and four-poster beds and some have a fireplace. They all offer a seating area and a private bathroom. A continental breakfast is served and meals, featuring organic produce, can be shared at the owner’s table. On site, guests will also find a hot tub, a shared lounge with a TV and a shared kitchen. Cycling and hiking can be enjoyed in the surroundings. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is a 44-minute drive from this property, which offers free parking.
Belrepayre Airstream Retro
Manses B&B
Situated in Manses, 24 km from Pamiers, Belrepayre Airstream Retro features a garden and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast offers a barbecue. Guests at Belrepayre Airstream Retro can enjoy table tennis on site, or go hiking or cycling in the surroundings. Foix is 35 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 36 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 60 km from Belrepayre Airstream Retro.
Vermeille
Tourtrol B&B
Vermeille is and old stone farmhouse with a lovely park, hiil view, swimming pool, orchard, vegetable garden, parking place, and a lot of quiet.
Le Bezy Boutique B&B
Mézerville B&B
Set in Mézerville in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Le Bezy Boutique B&B offers accommodation with free private parking. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. A terrace can be found at Le Bezy Boutique B&B, along with a garden. Foix is 33 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 25 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 50 km from Le Bezy Boutique B&B.
Le Chalet du Pic
Montgaillard B&B
Located in Montgaillard in the Midi-Pyrénées region, Le Chalet du Pic has a terrace and mountain views. The accommodation is 40 km from Ax-les-Thermes, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. This bed and breakfast with city views features 1 bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 81 km from the bed and breakfast.
DOMAINE DE MARLAS - CHAMBRES D'HÔTES
Rieucros B&B
Located in Rieucros, 20 km from Pamiers, DOMAINE DE MARLAS - CHAMBRES D'HÔTES provides a garden and free WiFi. All units comprise a seating area with a sofa, a dining area, and a fully equipped kitchen with various cooking facilities, including a dishwasher, a microwave, a fridge and an oven. A stovetop and toaster are also featured, as well as a kettle and a coffee machine. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. Foix is 31 km from DOMAINE DE MARLAS - CHAMBRES D'HÔTE, while Castelnaudary is 46 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 54 km from the accommodation.
Domaine La Barre
Dun B&B
B&B in Ariege, near Foix, Montsegur, Rennes le Chateau, in the Cathars country. 4 luxuries bedrooms. Gite de France. Meals homemade.
Château De Mauvaisin
Mauvaisin B&B
Castle Mauvaisin will meet you at 37 km south of Toulouse in a two bed and breakfast of charm. You will enjoy the calm of the large park surrounding the house. During a stay in summer you can enjoy the private pool and shaded by trees. Meals and breakfasts are served, weather permitting, in the park or in the dining room overlooking the courtyard. You can choose to stroll in the countryside or join the regional capital in 40 minutes or more exploring the nearby Ariège.
Lo Barri
Montgeard B&B
Ideally situated in a small village, 20 mn from Toulouse and 35 minutes from Carcassonne, LO BARRI is a mansion of the 19th century entirely renovated with a park, overlooking the Pyrenees and the countryside Lauragaise. The three rooms with private bath and toilet are each decorated in a different atmosphere with the same attention to detail. Depending on the season, the gourmet breakfasts are served on the terrace or in the large living room with fireplace. Moments sports or relaxation, Lo Barri offers many activities and the possibility of a weekend "to measure".
Centre Sunset
Rimont B&B & Gite
Small gites ( 25 m2) , large swiming pool. Discover the beautiful and untouched nature of Ariege in Southern France near the Spanish border, not far from Andorra, about 95 kms south of Toulouse.
La Bienvenue
Tourtrol B&B & Gite
La Bienvenue is located in Tourtrol and offers a garden, barbecue facilities and a terrace. The accommodation is 17 km from Pamiers, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. Featuring a DVD player, the apartment has a kitchen with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge, a living room with a seating area and a dining area, 2 bedrooms, and 1 bathroom with a bidet and a shower. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. A bicycle rental service is available at the apartment. Foix is 28 km from La Bienvenue, while Castelnaudary is 42 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 50 km from the accommodation.
La Fount has two houses for rental both with wonderful original character, loads of comfort, spectacular views, peaceful and yet close to the intimate medieval city of Foix, the capital of the Ariege region. La Maison caters for 4/5 persons and La Grange is a haven for two people.
Caignac B&B
Set in Caignac, 39 km from Revel, Bordeneuve offers a restaurant and free WiFi. There is a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer in each unit, along with free toiletries. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or buffet breakfast. Guests can also relax in the garden, beside the outdoor swimming pool, on the sun terrace, or in the shared lounge area. Toulouse is 47 km from Bordeneuve, while Castelnaudary is 30 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 56 km from the accommodation.
Appartement Saint Laurent
Rieux B&B & Gite
Situated close to Rieux, Appartement Saint Laurent features accommodation in a renovated farm house with a seating area and flat-screen TV. Free private parking is available on site. All the apartments have a kitchen, and a private bathroom. One of the units has a dishwasher and mountain views. A continental breakfast can be served upon request and at an extra cost. Appartement Saint Laurent offers a barbecue. If you would like to discover the area, hiking is possible in the surroundings. Toulouse is 54 km from the accommodation. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 57 km from the property.
chambres et table d'hôtes du Péré
Boussenac B&B
Chambres et table d'hôtes du Péré is situated in Boussenac, 107 km from Andorra la Vella and 168 km from Baqueira-Beret. All rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV. You will find a coffee machine and a kettle in the room. Each room is fitted with a private bathroom equipped with a shower. For your comfort, you will find slippers and a hairdryer. You will find a shared lounge at the property. You can engage in various activities, such as skiing, horse riding and cycling. Ax-les-Thermes is 43 km from chambres et table d'hôtes du Péré, while Soldeu is 44 km from the property. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is 80 km away.
Apartment Petit gîte de la tour
Montoulieu B&B & Gite
Apartment Petit gîte de la tour is situated in Montoulieu. The apartment also features a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower and a bath. Ax-les-Thermes is 38 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 95 km from Apartment Petit gîte de la tour.
Location Vacances Grande Villa Ou Chambres D’hôtes En Pyrénées - Piscine
Contrazy B&B & Gite
Perched on a south facing plateau between St-Girons and Ste-Croix-Volvestre, in the unspoilt environnement of Béret with it's 10 ha of woods and meadows offering you soothing calm and execptionnal panoramic view of the majestic Pyrenees.
Infocus-Du-Sud
Soula B&B
A B&B located a 15-minute drive from Foix, in the small village of St-Cirac Soula, infocus-du-sud features mountain views, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and an infrared cabin. There is also a garden, terrace and barbecue facilities. There is free Wi-Fi in all types of accommodation, as well as a private shower room. The holiday home has an open-plan kitchen and a seating area. In the morning, a continental breakfast, including local produce is served. Upon request, gluten-free meals can be prepared. Guests can enjoy mountain biking and canyoning in Foix. The N20 road is reachable in 10 minutes by car. There is free parking at the property.
Roulotte la Souleillade
Saint-Sernin B&B
Located in the countryside in Saint-Sernin in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, 50 km from Carcassonne and Toulouse, Roulotte la Souleillade boasts a hot tub, a swimming pool and views of the lake. A barbecue and free private parking are available on site. You will find a kitchenette and a bathroom with a shower. Roulotte la Souleillade features air conditioning and free WiFi . Every morning, breakfast will be delivered in front of the wooden caravan door and packed lunches can be requested for an additional fee. You can play table tennis and billiards at the bed and breakfast. Pedalos and canoes can be provided and used in the private lake. Mirepoix is 23 km away and Castelnaudary is 22 km from Roulotte la Souleillade. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 50 km from the property.
B&B Las Trinquades
B&B Las Trinquades is situated in Boussenac, 80 km from Andorra la Vella. Free private parking is available on site. Certain rooms feature a seating area where you can relax. You will find a kettle in the room. All rooms are equipped with a private bathroom. You will find a shared kitchen at the property. Guests can enjoy various activities in the surroundings, including horse riding, cycling and fishing. Baqueira-Beret is 135 km from B&B Las Trinquades, while Pas de la Casa is 49 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 120 km from the property.
B&B Château de Fajac la Selve
Pech-Luna B&B
Located in Pech-Luna, Château de Fajac la Selve offers an outdoor swimming pool and a 4-hectare forest. Castelnaudry is 17 km away. All rooms feature a view of the park or courtyard, a wardrobe, wooden flooring and a desk. The en suite bathroom includes free toiletries. A continental breakfast serving honey, fresh ingredients from the garden is served every morning. Products from a local producer are are featured in the evening meals that can be enjoyed upon reservation 24 hours in advance. Mirepoix is a 25-minute drive away and Carcassonne is 40 km from the property.
B&B Château Bel Aspect
Salles-sur-l?Hers B&B
B&B Château Bel Aspect provides B&B accommodation set in the orangery next to the castle. Guests have access to free WiFi and free on-site parking. The property also includes a shared garden with an outside pool and BBQ facilities. The air-conditioned rooms have a seating area with a sofa and a TV. Additional features include a terrace and an outdoor seating area. The private bathrooms include either a bath or shower and a hairdryer. Dinner is served in the orangery's dining hall, and is available if reserved at least 48 hours in advance. Activities in the local area include cycling and hiking. This property also offers guests the free use of bicycles. Château Bel Aspect is 59 km from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport and 170 km from Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport.
Le clos de l'Ange
Le clos de l'Ange is situated in Rieux and offers a garden, barbecue facilities and a terrace. The apartment has garden views and is 28 km from Muret. The apartment also features a flat-screen TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a seating area, washing machine. A bathroom with a shower and a bath is located on the first floor. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 54 km from the apartment.
La Maison De Roquefort
Carla De Roquefort B&B & Gite
This former ancient mill house is situated at the junction of two of the most beautiful valleys in the Ariege – Plantaurel and Douctouye. Ideally placed for sightseeing and activities, it is central to four main towns of the Ariege – Foix, Pamiers, Lavelanet and Mirepoix. It is close to Montsegur and Roquefixade and within easy reach of Andorra and the Mediterranean coast.
Haras Picard du Sant
Lasserre B&B
Set in the village of Lasserre in the Natural Regional Ariège Pyrenees Park, Haras Picard Du Sant offers a garden and a terrace. The rooms all feature mountain views and free Wi-Fi. Some rooms are located in the attic, other have a south-facing balcony. The private bathroom offers a multi-jet shower. Every morning, a continental breakfast is prepared with a range of bread, jams and hot drinks. There are local restaurants serving local seasonal products in the area. An heliport is available on site. Upon request and at an extra cost, guests can enjoy a spa. Cazères-sur-Garonne and Boussels Train Station are 20 km away. Guests can enjoy hiking, cycling or horse riding facilities at an extra cost in the surroundings.
loft At Besset
Besset B&B & Gite
Loft At Besset is situated in Besset and offers a garden, barbecue facilities and a terrace. The property is 21 km from Pamiers, and complimentary private parking is available. This apartment includes 1 bedroom, a living room and a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a dining area, and 1 bathroom with a shower and a washing machine. Foix is 33 km from the apartment, while Castelnaudary is 38 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 54 km from loft At Besset.
Chambre D'hôte Et Gîtes - Chez Hélène Et Alexis, Nailloux Lauragais
Nailloux B&B & Gite
We receive you in the open country, near the a66 toll motorway and nailloux windmill. From 2 nights. We have a 2 persons bedroom, bathroom and wc adjoining and private, wifi. discount from the 2nd consecutive night.
Gites Des Camparros (moulin, Tournesols)
Gite T2 for 2-4 persons, 47 m2, in the open country, near the A66 toll motorway and Nailloux Windmill. From 2 nights. Also a gite T2 37m2 for 2-4 persons.
CHATEAU DE L'HERS
Situated in Salles-sur-l?Hers, CHATEAU DE L'HERS features accommodation with an outdoor pool, free WiFi, a restaurant and a shared lounge. The bed and breakfast offers a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with a hairdryer, free toiletries and shower. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. Guests at CHATEAU DE L'HERS can enjoy a buffet or a Full English/Irish breakfast. The accommodation offers a sun terrace. Guests at CHATEAU DE L'HERS can enjoy table tennis on site, or go hiking or cycling in the surroundings. Castelnaudary is 19 km from the bed and breakfast, while Revel is 37 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 59 km from CHATEAU DE L'HERS.
L'Ancienne Mairie, Lafage
Lafage B&B
L'Ancienne Mairie, Lafage is located in Lafage in the countryside, 40 km from Carcassonne. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. You will find a kettle in the room. L'Ancienne Mairie, Lafage features free WiFi throughout the property. A continental breakfast is included in the price. A set menu for evening meals with drinks included is available on site. Foix is 31 km from L'Ancienne Mairie, Lafage, while Castelnaudary is 18 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 36 km from L'Ancienne Mairie, Lafage.
Splendide vue Pyrénées, Rez de jardin 2 chambres
Montjoie-en-Couserans B&B & Gite
Boasting a garden, barbecue facilities, and a terrace, Splendide vue Pyrénées, Rez de jardin 2 chambres provides accommodation in Montjoie-en-Couserans with free WiFi and mountain views. Featuring free private parking, the apartment is in an area where guests can engage in activities such as hiking, fishing and canoeing. The apartment with a balcony and garden views features 2 bedrooms, a living room, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, and 1 bathroom with a shower. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. A children's playground is also available for guests at the apartment. Saint-Lary is 30 km from Splendide vue Pyrénées, Rez de jardin 2 chambres, while Foix is 41 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 95 km from the accommodation.
Château De Saint Michel De Lanes
Saint Michel De Lanes B&B
35 mn from Toulouse and 45 from Carcassonne discover the Catherine de Médicis and Aiceline Baroness bedrooms. Bed and breakfast, in a aristocratic place of the XVIIIth century. Large grounds in the heart of a medieval village. Tank with fountain, old roses and grass. Old church and gardens in St Michel de Lanes. Personal welcome by the owners for the success of your stay. Typical and nice restaurant in the medieval village. Nearby (5km) the Canal du Midi with remembrance of Thomas Jefferson. Possibal rental of boats (23 km) in the harbour of Castelnaudary (Blue Line) for a shiping on the Canal du Midi. 4 bedrooms, 8 people, from 129 € per night per bedroom breakfast included.
Domaine de la Terrasse
Carbonne B&B & Gite
Located in Carbonne, 48 km from Pamiers, Domaine de la Terrasse provides a restaurant and free WiFi. Each accommodation unit includes a seating area with a flat-screen TV, a kitchen with a dining area, and a private bathroom. A microwave, a fridge and stovetop are also provided, as well as a kettle. Toulouse is 46 km from the apartment, while Blagnac is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 50 km from Domaine de la Terrasse.
Base Calames B&b And Holiday Rental
Bedeilhac Et Aynat B&B
5 bedroom house sleeping 10/12 in the beautiful Saurat valley in the heart of the Ariege. Just 5 minutes out of Tarascon-sur-Ariege with a major walking route, rock climbing area and Tour de France 'Col' right on the doorstep we are perfectly located to enjoy this outstanding area. The house is recently decorated and furnished with a new fully equipped kitchen.
Gîte " Les Diligences "
Roquefixade B&B
Set in Roquefixade, Gîte " Les Diligences " offers accommodation with free WiFi and a terrace. There is also a fridge, toaster and a coffee machine. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a buffet breakfast. Guests at Gîte " Les Diligences " can enjoy hiking and cycling nearby, or make the most of the garden. Ax-les-Thermes is 50 km from the accommodation, while Foix is 19 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 70 km from Gîte " Les Diligences ".
Apartment Gîte mairie
Biert B&B & Gite
Apartment Gîte mairie is located in Biert. The apartment also provides a TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower and a bath. Saint-Lary is 50 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 118 km from Apartment Gîte mairie.
Demeure de la Carmine, hammam, piscine chauffée
Mirepoix B&B
Set in Mirepoix in the Midi-Pyrénées Region, 41 km from Carcassonne, Demeure de la Carmine features a seasonal outdoor pool and hammam. Guests can enjoy the on-site bar. Each room is fitted with a flat-screen TV and a seating area where you can relax. Certain rooms include views of the mountains or pool. Every room is fitted with a private bathroom. For your comfort, you will find bath robes, slippers and free toiletries. Demeure de la Carmine features free WiFi throughout the property. There is a a shared lounge, room service and shops at the property. Ax-les-Thermes is 41 km from Demeure de la Carmine, while Foix is 26 km from the property. The nearest airport is Blagnac Airport, 73 km from Demeure de la Carmine.
GITE LES GRANGES DE FLOLIE Gite EVA
Beauteville B&B & Gite
Boasting an outdoor pool and pool views, GITE LES GRANGES DE FLOLIE Gite EVA is set in Beauteville. The accommodation is 22 km from Castelnaudary, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The apartment has 3 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The apartment offers a barbecue. After a day of hiking, skiing or windsurfing, guests can relax in the garden or in the shared lounge area. Toulouse is 44 km from GITE LES GRANGES DE FLOLIE Gite, while Blagnac is 45 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 54 km from the accommodation.
Maison Esmeralda
Biert B&B
Situated at 600m altitude in the traditional mountain village of Biert, 5 minutes from Massat, and just 30 minutes from both St Girons and the beautiful historic town of Foix, Maison Esmeralda offers spacious rooms with beautiful views of the Massat valley. Standing on the bank of the river Arac, Esmeralda is an ideal location from which to explore the many activities and sights popular in the region. We are open all year round and speak English French & German
Le Patio
Le Patio is set in Mirepoix. The accommodation is 24 km from Pamiers, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast also offers a flat-screen TV, a seating area, washing machine and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. If you would like to discover the area, hiking, skiing and cycling are possible in the surroundings and Le Patio can arrange a bicycle rental service. Foix is 35 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 42 km from Le Patio.
Gîte de l'Autre Jardin
Mirepoix B&B & Gite
Boasting a restaurant, a garden, and a terrace, Gîte de l'Autre Jardin features accommodation in Mirepoix with free WiFi and garden views. The air-conditioned accommodation is 24 km from Pamiers. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. If you would like to discover the area, hiking, windsurfing and fishing are possible in the surroundings. Foix is 35 km from the apartment, while Castelnaudary is 34 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 50 km from Gîte de l'Autre Jardin.
Skymist Maison d'hôtes
Situated in Biert in the Occitan Region, 47 km from Andorra la Vella, Skymist boasts views of the mountain. Skymist offers free WiFi throughout the property. Free private parking is available on site. Certain rooms have a seating area where you can relax. Enjoy a cup of coffee or tea from your terrace or balcony, which provides a view of the mountain. Rooms have a shared bathroom and shower. For your comfort, you will find free toiletries and a hairdryer. There is a shared microwave oven and a shared lounge with a flat-screen TV at the property. Guests can enjoy various activities in the surroundings, including hiking, paragliding, biking and skiing. Baqueira-Beret is 39 km from Skymist, while Vielha is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 81 km from Skymist.
Located in Mirepoix, 24 km from Pamiers, Labyrinthe provides a restaurant and free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. A terrace can be found at Labyrinthe, along with a shared lounge. Foix is 35 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 51 km from Labyrinthe.
La Maison d'Anne-Do
Set in Mirepoix, 24 km from Pamiers, La Maison d'Anne-Do offers free bikes and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or buffet breakfast. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Foix is 35 km from La Maison d'Anne-Do, while Castelnaudary is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 42 km from the accommodation.
Located in Mirepoix, 24 km from Pamiers, No 15 provides a garden and free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Both a bicycle rental service and a car rental service are available at No 15, while skiing and cycling can be enjoyed nearby. Foix is 35 km from the accommodation, while Castelnaudary is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne, 50 km from No 15, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Seasonal Apartment Victor Hugo
Situated in Mirepoix in the Midi-Pyrénées region, Seasonal Apartment Victor Hugo has a balcony and city views. The property is 24 km from Pamiers and free private parking is available. This apartment includes 1 bedroom, a living room and a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dining area, and 1 bathroom with a bidet and a washing machine. Foix is 35 km from the apartment, while Castelnaudary is 34 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 50 km from Seasonal Apartment Victor Hugo.
Ô huis clos
Noé B&B
Situated in Noé in the Midi-Pyrénées region, Ô huis clos features a garden. The air-conditioned accommodation is 47 km from Saint Jean. The bed and breakfast with a patio and garden views has 1 bedroom, a living room, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, and 1 bathroom with a hot tub. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the bed and breakfast. Ô huis clos offers a hot tub. The accommodation features a terrace. Toulouse is 36 km from Ô huis clos, while Blagnac is 37 km from the property. The nearest airport is Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, 39 km from the bed and breakfast.
Terres De Barréjat
Cazals Des Bayles B&B
Come explore this protected mountain range at the heart of the home of Mirepoix, and enjoy quality accommodation and attentive service during your stay. In Barréjat, come discover genuine comfort all year round, be it for a weekend or for a summer holiday.
Douceur des couvets
Douceur des couvets is located in Mirepoix. The accommodation is 24 km from Pamiers. Foix is 35 km from the apartment, while Castelnaudary is 34 km away. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 42 km from Douceur des couvets.
Charmant studio centre ville Mirepoix
Charmant studio centre ville Mirepoix is situated in Mirepoix and offers a restaurant, free bikes and a terrace. The apartment has garden views and is 24 km from Pamiers. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom. A bicycle rental service is available at the apartment. Foix is 33 km from Mirepoix, while Castelnaudary is 34 km from the property. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 42 km from the accommodation.
Arignac
Arignac B&B & Gite
Situated in Arignac in the Midi-Pyrénées region, the apartment features a patio and mountain views. The property has garden views and is 30 km from Ax-les-Thermes. This apartment has 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom. For added convenience, the property can provide towels and bed linen for an extra charge. Arignac offers a terrace. There is an outdoor swimming pool and a barbecue at this property and guests can go hiking nearby. The nearest airport is Carcassonne Airport, 90 km from the accommodation.
St Christaud
Saint Christaud B&B
Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from A to B Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from C to E Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from F to G Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from I to L Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from M to P Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from Q to R Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from S to T Cities in Ariege Chambre D'Hote en France from U to V
Price From (€0)
Price To (€9999)
Animals Accepted
Apply updated filters » Cancel Clear Filters
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2286
|
__label__wiki
| 0.904401
| 0.904401
|
Only The Guilty Should Be Afraid, FG Replies Obasanjo
Mr Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has reacted to claims by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that it is plotting to silence him using false witnesses to indict and possibly arrest him.
Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed said in a statement on Friday that the allegations by the former President were frivolous and aimed at distracting the government.
Chief Obasanjo, an ally-turned critic of President Buhari, made the allegations against the government in a statement earlier on Friday.
According to a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, impeccable security sources have alleged that the former President’s name is on a watch list and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.
“The operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him,” the statement added.
READ ALSO: Obasanjo Raises Alarm Over Alleged Plot By FG To Arrest Him
Hours after the allegations, the Minister of Information and Culture said the Government was too busy try to fix the country and clear the mess created by past administration to think about framing anyone.
”This administration will never engage in a frame-up of innocent citizens. That is neither in the character of President Muhammadu Buhari nor in that of his administration,” a statement by the Special Adviser to the Minister, Segun Adeyemi, said.
Obasanjo had called on the Federal Government to uphold the principles of democracy and to stop trying to suppress opposing voices.
But the minister does not believe there is a need for that as the government is already operating democratically.
To him, only those with skeletons in their wardrobe have reason to be afraid.
“Only the guilty should be worried. To paraphrase an African proverb, a man who has no wife cannot lose an in-law to the cold hands of death,” he said.
”The administration is also strongly committed to the tenets of democracy, including freedom of speech and the right to dissent. But we understand that those who, in their time, were untethered to those principles would find it hard to believe.”
Furthermore, the minister suggested that the timing of the allegations and some others “were cleverly choreographed to divert attention from a widely-acclaimed presidential proclamation and to shore up support for a waning and egotistical cause”.
According to him, it is curious that the frame-up and witch-hunt allegations came a day after a major presidential proclamation reversing some past acts of injustice was made, to the relief and acclamation of a long-expectant nation.
”Apparently, the impact of this proclamation was too much to bear by those who, through acts of omission or commission, helped to deepen the wounds inflicted by the blow of injustice that followed an election that was widely acclaimed to be free, fair and credible, hence they felt the need for a red herring that will distract the nation,” he said.
”Added to that is the frustration brought about by the fact that the contraption they have so much hyped as a freeway to power has failed to gain traction. Faced with this double tragedy, even the strongest of men may begin to succumb to a figment of their imagination. They may start crying wolf where there is none.”
More on Headlines
Christmas: Buhari Asks Criminals, Looters To Retrace Their Steps
Pope Ushers In Christmas With Message Of ‘Unconditional Love’
UPDATED: Sambo Dasuki Released After Over Four Years In Detention
DSS Releases Omoyele Sowore
MORE FROM CHANNELS TV
FG Reopens Kara End Of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Infrastructure Development: FG Targets Funds From USIDFC
Gas Deal: FG To Appeal British Court Orders Over Seizure Of $9bn
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2287
|
__label__wiki
| 0.826976
| 0.826976
|
The Girl on the Train starring Emily Blunt has its London premiere. Get on board the hype train.
Author Paula Hawkins, director Tate Taylor with Emily Blunt, Luke Evans, Rebecca Ferguson & Haley Bennett
Girl on the Train Author Says
Emily Blunt Is "Too Beautiful" for the Main Role
I was struck this morning by the above headline in E News:
The piece goes on ...
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train, doesn't think Emily Blunt is a good fit for the movie adaptation of her novel.
Blunt, who stars as the titular character Rachel Watson, is too pretty to play the main character who is supposed to be an overweight divorcee with a bad drinking problem. "Oh, she's too beautiful to play Rachel," Hawkins told the Daily Mail. "They've done their best, I mean to sort of make her look a bit s--t, but you know..."
Despite her strong opinion about the casting of the movie, Hawkins admitted she did enjoy Blunt's work in The Devil Wears Prada and said she does an "extraordinary job" in this film.
Wow! Talk about twisting words. Here’s what Hawkins actually said to the Daily Mail. Note how the editing out of the first part of the sentence changes the entire meaning. Suddenly it sounds as though the opinion is Hawkins whereas she is actually talking about what ‘everybody’ else is saying.
‘Everybody moans about, ‘‘Oh, she's too beautiful to play Rachel’’ and she is [too beautiful]. But the thing about Rachel, you know the key part of her is her self-loathing and how bad she feels about herself.’
That position is one I took in my take on the book. While ENews describes Rachel as ‘an overweight divorcee’ I’ve felt from the start that the puffiness and weight gain that often accompanies alcoholism doesn’t mean Rachel would be overweight in a hugely obvious way. It is more likely that her once fashionable clothes would now be tight and ill-fitting, stretched to their limits, buttons and closures, once easily snapped shut, now strained, left open. The 5 to 10 pound brand of ‘overweight’. The ugliest thing about Rachel is the amount of self-loathing she feels.
Hawkins went ‘that the way the actress carries herself managed to capture the way her character feels ‘horrible’ about herself ‘amazingly’ well.
Blunt herself said: ‘I haven’t played a woman like Rachel before. Alcoholism is a brutal disease and it exacts a terrible cost on the people who suffer from this addiction and the people around them. It was a great challenge to play a very messy, broken character.’
The Girl on the Train which had its premiere in London this week also stars Justin Theroux, Luke Evans and Rebecca Ferguson.
Here's the latest ad for the film which makes its debut October 6th.
Emily Blunt Haley Bennett Justin Theroux Luke Evans Paula Hawkins Rebecca Ferguson The Girl on the Train
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2290
|
__label__wiki
| 0.505924
| 0.505924
|
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING ROOM
10:00 A.M. Temporary Alcoholic Beverages Licenses /Outside Special Exceptions
10:15 A.M. Alcoholic Beverage License New/Transfer Applications
1. Lisa Ann Shumaker, UNME, LLC, t/a Huntt’s Tavern, 6520 Bensville Road, Pomfret, Maryland 20675, for a transfer of a Class D – Beer, Wine & Liquor (on/off sale) alcoholic beverage license with Entertainment, from Kevin Kling, Line-X Effects, LLC, Huntt's Corner Tavern, 6520 Bennsville Rd., Pomfret, MD 20675.
10:30 A.M. Show Cause Hearings
1. Show Cause in the matter of the Class D -Beer, Wine & Liquor (on/off sale) alcoholic Beverage license issued to Alfred A. Jolliffe, Gilligan's Pier Restaurant, LLC, t/a Gilligan's Pier, 11535 Pope's Creek Rd., Newburg, MD 20664.
2. Show Cause in the matter of the Class B (Stadium) – Beer, Wine & Liquor (on sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to James Joseph Gorney, Darren Scott Hubbard, Nicholas Biello, V.S.I. of Maryland, Inc. t/a Centerplate, 5375 Piney Church Rd., Waldorf, MD 20602.
3. Show Cause in the matter of the Class A – Beer, Wine & Liquor (off sale only) Package Goods alcoholic beverage license issued to Edward J. Kim, Ki Ki Leung, EKM, Inc., t/a Angelo’s Liquors, 187 St. Patrick's Dr., Waldorf, MD 20603.
4. Show Cause in the matter of the Class D – Beer, Wine (on/off sale) Liquor (off sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to Amit N. Patel, Mae C. Wade, My Wayside Store, LLC, t/a Wayside Store, 13074 Rock Point Rd., Newburg, MD 20664.
1:30 P.M. Show Cause Hearings
5. Show Cause in the matter of the Class B/RB (Restaurant/Bar) Beer, Wine & Liquor (on sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to Walter Lee Nash, Margaret Hodo Nash, Lefty's Barbeque Unlimited, Inc., t/a Leftys BBQ, 2064 Crain Hwy, Waldorf, Md 20601.
6. Show Cause in the matter of the Class B/RB (Restaurant/Bar) Beer, Wine & Liquor (on sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to Asimina Louise Gressis, Ouzo's Greek & Regional Cuisine, Inc., t/a Galazio Restaurant, 6223 Crain Hwy, La Plata, MD 20646.
7. Show Cause in the matter of the Class B/R (Restaurant) Beer, Wine & Liquor (on sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to Scott Allen Sager, Twin K Venture, LLC, t/a Texas Ribs-Twin Kiss, 7415 Crain Hwy, La Plata, MD 20646.
8. Show Cause in the matter of the Class B/R (Restaurant) Beer, Wine & Liquor (on sale only) alcoholic beverage license issued to Cheong Chiu Cheng, t/a Golden Star Chinese Restaurant, 3109 Marshall Hall Road, Bryans Road, MD 20616.
9. Show Cause in the matter of the Class D – Beer, Wine & Liquor (on/off sale) alcoholic beverage license issued to Carla McDonnell, Ole McDonnell, LLC, t/a Ole McDonnell Country Store, 15486 Rock Point Rd., Newburg, MD 20664.
10. Show Cause in the matter of the Class D – Beer, Wine & Liquor (on/off sale) alcoholic beverage license issued to Brian Joseph Noel, Laura J. Noel, Atlantic Enterprises, Inc., t/a Joe's Groceries and Liquors, 8355 Marshall Corner Rd., Pomfret, MD 20675.
2:00 P.M. Other Business*
* PORTIONS OF THIS MEETING MAY BE IN CLOSED SESSION
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2293
|
__label__wiki
| 0.778853
| 0.778853
|
Message received: Zack Dobos heeds coach, pitches four-hitter to lift Lake Central past Chesterton
By Mike Hutton
Post-Tribune |
May 14, 2019 | 8:40 PM
Lake Central's Zack Dobos delivers a pitch against Chesterton during a game on Tuesday, March 14, 2019. (Kyle Telechan / Post-Tribune)
A couple of weeks ago, Lake Central coach Mike Swartzentruber had a heart-to-heart conversation with senior Zack Dobos.
The message was essentially two words.
Throw strikes.
The wake-up call was effective.
Dobos gave up just four hits and walked one Tuesday in the Indians’ 3-2 Duneland Athletic Conference victory over Chesterton.
[Most read] Some hospitals say using lead aprons for X-rays does more harm than good. Lurie will stop using the shields this spring. »
Both of the runs by the Trojans (12-9, 8-5) were unearned.
It was the second straight solid performance for Dobos (6-1). He shut out Michigan City on 86 pitches in his last start for Lake Central (18-6, 10-3).
Dobos said the pep talk from Swartzentruber was useful.
“I think it just helped me focus more,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing before he talked to me. After he said something, I started thinking about it.”
Swartzentruber said Dobos had been good, but not good enough.
[Most read] Column: The culture clash at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding signaled trouble ahead »
“He just wasn’t pitching the way we needed him to,” Swartzentruber said. “(Tuesday) he threw strikes and he had command of all of his pitches.”
The Indians are pitching well collectively.
Their hitting is another story.
Lake Central scored one run in the first inning on two singles and an error, one run in the second on a single, a walk and a wild pitch, and another in the sixth on two hits and error.
The Indians scratched out seven hits. All were singles.
Chesterton's Tyler Nelson pitches against Lake Central during a game on Tuesday, May 15, 2019. (Kyle Telechan / Post-Tribune)
Swartzentruber is pulling out his hair trying to figure out how to get his team to string some hits together.
“That was ugly,” he said. “We just can’t win games like that. Those runs were just gifts. We had opportunities to knock it open and we can’t get a hit.”
Swartzentruber said he thinks the Indians spend more time on hitting in practice than any team in the state.
“Maybe we just hit too much,” he said. “Maybe it gets in their heads.”
Chesterton had the same issue.
[Most read] Column: African Americans know Meghan Markle is black. Yet many whites want to call her something else. »
The Trojans hit a few balls hard, but they were long outs. They scored both of their runs in the sixth on two errors.
“We gave them three runs,” Chesterton coach Jack Campbell said. “You just can’t do that against good teams.”
Campbell also had to deal with arm issues with his first two pitchers.
Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020
‘That intimidates them’: Sophomore big man Landen Babusiak blocks seven shots and scores 18 points as Hanover Central shuts down Griffith
‘Not your average freshman’: Jamie Hodges scores 21 points, including six free throws in the final minute, to lead Michigan City past Valparaiso
Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020
‘She’s the head of the snake’: Chesterton senior guard Ashley Craycraft’s game-winning 3-pointer with seven seconds left against LaPorte caps her 19-point night
Tyler Nelson started, but he left the game after an inning with a sore bicep. Ben Collins pitched the second inning but left after he told Campbell he “couldn’t go anymore.”
Ray Keane and Chad Dzierba finished the game.
[Most read] Weed shortages are common after legalization but may continue in Illinois for a year or more »
Chesterton lost junior first basemen Jake Roof in the first inning with a dislocated elbow, according to Campbell. Roof, who was attempting to field a throw, was hurt when a runner slammed into his arm.
“That was not good,” Campbell said of the injury. “Emotionally, I think that might have hurt us.”
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2295
|
__label__wiki
| 0.77664
| 0.77664
|
Gone Girl IRL: Strip Club Bartender Fakes Her Own Abduction
By Laura Beck
This week in low-key Gone Girl news: A strip club bartender faked her own abduction so her husband wouldn't know she was out bar-hopping with another man.
Miami officials say that Karla Vasquez, a 32-year-old bartender, faked her own kidnapping so she could ditch her husband, Daniel Pacheco, and spend time with her lover. Yowza!
The New York Daily News reports that it all started 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, when Vasquez called Pacheco during his graveyard shift to tell them she needed help and to come home. Pacheco thought she was joking and hung up the phone. An hour later, he received a text from Vasquez asking for help. When he called her, she told him that she was inside the house and saw two people inside her parked car, which was sitting in the driveway.
He rushed home, and both Vasquez and the car were missing. Pacheco then called her and she told him that she'd been kidnapped. He alerted the police, who used the GPS system in her car and phone to track her down. She was found driving at 3 p.m. in the car she claimed to have been kidnapped in.
She was arrested her for falsely reporting an alleged crime.
In the police report, it's stated that Vasquez told the cops that she was never home and instead went to a bar where she met the other man and "decided to spend the night with him." The phone also contained photos of Vasquez smiling in various locations throughout the city.
The police were not pleased.
"Knowing that she was not in danger, [Vasquez] deliberately caused her husband to call the police and report a kidnapping," her arrest report read. "[Vasquez] at no point was in need of police assistance."
Follow Laura on Twitter.
Laura Beck Laura Beck is a Los Angeles-based TV writer and frequent contributor to Cosmopolitan.com — her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Jezebel, and the Village Voice.
Reminder: We Still Haven't Passed the ERA
Uh, Duh, Women Can Be President
Elizabeth Warren: Trump Has Failed to Keep Us Safe
Harvey Weinstein’s Survivors Just Want Justice
Disney Employees Say Park-Goers Are Groping Them
Black Women Led The Way to Impeachment
Yeah, so, Trump’s Birth Chart, Um, Explains a Lot
Amy Klobuchar Is in Her Second Saturn Return
Amy Klobuchar Isn’t Gonna Wait to Make Change
Elizabeth Warren’s Birth Chart Proves She Cares
4 Things Not to Say to a Female Bartender
9 Lazy-Girl Ways to Fake a Shower
Buff Bartenders and Naked Chefs
12 Things You Should Know Before Becoming a Bartender
Uber Driver Accused of Rape Had a Fake Permit
Blake Lively Might Fake Her Own Death for Purses
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2305
|
__label__wiki
| 0.955687
| 0.955687
|
In this July 21, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP VIA CP
President Donald Trump impeached by U.S. House on two charges
The historic vote split along party lines,
Lisa Mascaro And Mary Clare Jalonick
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanours.
The historic vote split along party lines, much the way it has divided the nation, over the charges that the 45th president abused the power of his office by enlisting a foreign government to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election. The House then approved a second charge, that he obstructed Congress in its investigation.
The articles of impeachment, the political equivalent of an indictment, now go to the Senate for trial. If Trump is acquitted by the Republican-led chamber, as expected, he would have to run for reelection carrying the enduring mark of impeachment on his purposely disruptive presidency.
Democrats led Wednesday night’s voting, framed in what many said was their duty to protect the Constitution and uphold the nation’s system of checks and balances. Republicans stood by their party’s leader, who has frequently tested the bounds of civic norms. Trump called the whole affair a “witch hunt,” a “hoax” and a “sham,” and sometimes all three.
The trial is expected to begin in January in the Senate, where a vote of two-thirds is necessary for conviction. While Democrats had the majority in the House to impeach Trump, Republicans control the Senate and few if any are expected to diverge from plans to acquit the president ahead of early state election-year primary voting.
Pelosi, once reluctant to lead Democrats into a partisan impeachment, now risks her majority and speakership to hold the president accountable.
“Today we are here to defend democracy for the people,” Pelosi said opening debate.
Trump, who began Wednesday tweeting his anger at the proceedings, then flew to Battle Creek, Michigan, for a political rally.
READ ALSO: House gets two Trump impeachment charges after Judiciary vote
He pumped his fist before an enthusiastic crowd, boasted of “tremendous support” in the Republican Party and said, “By the way it doesn’t feel like I’m being impeached.”
What Pelosi called a sad and solemn moment for the country, coming in the first year that Democrats swept control of the House, unfolded in a caustic daylong session that showcased the nation’s divisions — not only along party lines, but also by region, race and culture.
The House impeachment resolution laid out in stark terms the two articles of impeachment against Trump stemming from his July phone call when he asked the Ukraine president for a “favour” — to announce it was investigating Democrats ahead of the 2020 election. He also pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to probe unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Joe Biden, the former vice-president and 2020 White House contender.
At the time, Zelenskiy, a young comedian newly elected to politics, was seeking a coveted White House visit to show backing from the U.S. ally as it confronts a hostile Russia at its border. He was also counting on $391 million in military aid already approved by Congress. The White House delayed the funds, but Trump eventually released the money once Congress intervened.
Narrow in scope but broad in its charge, the resolution said the president “betrayed the nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections,” and then obstructed Congress’ oversight like “no president” in U.S. history.
“President Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office,” it said.
Republicans argued that Democrats are impeaching Trump because they can’t beat him in 2020.
“This vote is about one thing, and one thing only: They hate this president,” said Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah. “They want to take away my vote and throw it in the trash.”
But Democrats warned the country cannot wait for the next election to decide whether Trump should remain in office because he has shown a pattern of behaviour, particularly toward Russia, and will try to corrupt U.S. elections in 2020.
“The president and his men plot on,” said Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of the Intelligence Committee that led the inquiry. “The danger persists. The risk is real.”
The outcome brings the Trump presidency to a milestone moment that has building almost from the time the New York businessman-turned-reality-TV host unexpectedly won the White House in 2016 amid questions about Russian interference in the U.S. election —- and the rise of the “resistance.”
Democrats drew from history, the founders and their own experiences, as minorities, women and some immigrants to the U.S., seeking to honour their oath of office to uphold the constitution. Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., spoke in Spanish asking God to unite the nation. “In America,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., “no one is above the law.”
Republicans aired Trump-style grievances about what Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko called a “rigged” process.
“We face this horror because of this map,” said Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Ala., before a poster of red and blue states. “They call this Republican map flyover country, they call us deplorables, they fear our faith, they fear our strength, they fear our unity, they fear our vote, and they fear our president.”
The political fallout from the vote will reverberate across an already polarized country with divergent views of Trump’s July phone call when Trump asked Zelenskiy to investigate Democrats in the 2016 election, Biden and his son, Hunter, who worked on the board of a gas company in Ukraine while his father was the vice-president.
Trump has repeatedly implored Americans to read the transcript of the call he said was “perfect.” But the facts it revealed, and those in an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint that sparked the probe, are largely undisputed.
More than a dozen current and former White House officials and diplomats testified for hours. The open and closed sessions under oath revealed what one called the “irregular channel” of foreign policy run by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, which focused on investigating the Bidens and alternative theories of 2016 election interference.
The question for lawmakers was whether the revelations amounted to impeachable offences to be sent to the Senate for a trial.
Few lawmakers crossed party lines without consequence. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., who is considering changing parties over his opposition to impeachment, sat with Republicans. Rep. Justin Amash, the Michigan conservative who left the Republican party and became an independent over impeachment, said: “I come to this floor, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an American.”
Beyond the impeachments of Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton, this first impeachment of the 21st century is as much about what the president might do in the future as what he did in the past. And unlike investigation of Richard Nixon, who resigned rather than face the House vote over Watergate, the proceedings against Trump are playing out in an America already of mixed views over Trump.
Rank and file Democrats said they were willing to lose their jobs to protect the democracy from Trump. Some newly elected freshman remained in the chamber for hours during the debate.
“This is not about making history, this is about holding a lawless president accountable,” said Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I.
GOP Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia said of the Democrats: “You’ve been wanting to do this ever since the gentleman was elected.”
Top Republicans, including Rep. Devin Nunes on the Intelligence Committee, called the Ukraine probe little more than the low-budget sequel to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller spent two years investigating the potential links between Moscow and the Trump campaign, but testified in July that his team could not establish that Trump conspired or co-ordinated with Russia to throw the election. Mueller did say he could not exonerate Trump of trying to obstruct the investigation, but he left that for Congress to decide.
The next day, Trump called Ukraine. Not quite four months later, a week before Christmas, Trump was impeached.
Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman, Matthew Daly, Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor in Washington contributed to this report.
Health care industry is a prized target, experts say in wake of LifeLabs hack
Baby on board: Woman gives birth in bathroom of Alberta bus, driver helps out
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2307
|
__label__wiki
| 0.587954
| 0.587954
|
Messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ - A Speed Guide
Messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ - A Speed Guide amqpmessagingrabbitmq
With RabbitMQ being Compose's first messaging product, it's a good time to explain the concepts behind messaging and how they relate to Compose RabbitMQ.
What is messaging?
Messaging, or Enterprise Messaging as it is often referred to, is about moving away from a model where the connections between systems, servers and processes are rigid and hard coded into every application. The approach becomes one of a model where those interconnections which make up the glue of a modern distributed application can be software defined, routable, flexible, reliable and managed outside the scope of any one application component.
This means, practically, that rather than application A sending data to application B, application A produces messages containing that data to a messaging system and application B listens for those messages on the same system and processes them. This may seem like complexity for the sake of complexity, but now consider if you needed application C to take data from A. Without messaging, the chances are you'd have to modify application A and hard code in knowledge of application C and how to deliver data to it. With messaging you do pretty much nothing, just tell application C to listen to the messages from A.
It's not just simplicity of configuration that makes messaging so useful. A good messaging architecture can provide the components you need to ensure reliability. Without messaging, if our application A was producing data so quickly that application B couldn't cope with it, a developer might find relief in writing a data buffer process to take up the slack, sitting between A and B, but that's going to be a new moving part in the architecture.
With messaging, the connection between A and B is typically a queue which - by design - stores messages until they are ready to be processed, or consumed, by the receiving application. If there are multiple instances of application B running, then the load can be distributed between those instances using the messaging system's queues. There's also publish/subscribe mechanisms which can distribute messages to many consumers and various pattern matching techniques for ensuring messages only get delivered to interested parties.
All of this amplifies the "loose coupling" between the applications and services using the messaging system. This makes scaling and rearchitecting simpler, isolates the complexity of communications to a manageable service and reduces the need to redevelop applications when other applications come online.
What is AMQP?
As you might be able to tell, messaging is a great idea and lots of people had similar ideas such that there were a number of enterprise messaging systems. Many of those were closed proprietary specifications, but among them were some open designs. AMQP was one such open design coming out of the finance industry. Rather than define the infrastructure, the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol focussed predominantly on the protocol that AMQP implementations would use to communicate.
There were two landmark points in the development of AMQP. The first was the version 0.9.1 specification (PDF) in 2008 which saw many companies and developers come together in general agreement over not just the protocol but also the language of exchanges, queues and bindings. The other was the 2011 announcement of AMQP 1.0 by the OASIS standards group – this was a significantly different beast to 0.9.1 because of a change of scope to how interoperability was defined. This meant that some vendors stuck with the 0.9.1 specification of AMQP or other intermediate versions. One of the implementations that took its own path after AMQP 0.9.1 was RabbitMQ.
What is RabbitMQ?
RabbitMQ is an Erlang based message broker that natively speaks AMQP 0.9.1. It first appeared in 2007 and has been steadily and regularly maturing since then. It implements all the AMQP 0.9.1 concepts of messages, queues, exchanges, bindings, virtual hosts, producers and consumers within the broker application.
In short, a broker can be divided up into virtual hosts (mainly for administrative simplicity). Each one of these virtual hosts can have a number of queues and exchanges associated with it and bindings can be used to attach an exchange to a queue or queues. Those exchanges can be direct exchanges (passing a message on to a bound queue determined by a routing key), fanout exchanges (sending all messages onto all bound queues) or header exchanges (sending messages onwards based on matching fields in the header).
The developers have added their own set of extensions to the RabbitMQ mix though. Exchanges can be bound to other exchanges to create richer routing, improved mechanisms for tracking message delivery, time-to-live settings for queues and messages and more, with a focus on being an efficient, balanced messaging platform. Add to that the RabbitMQ implementation which gives you control of the performance/reliability ratio, clustering with high availability queues, a web-based Admin UI and a plugin extension system for protocols and other functionality.
What is Compose RabbitMQ?
We've taken RabbitMQ and created a Compose deployment of it which delivers the best of RabbitMQ for most users. Using three nodes, clustered together and operating in a high availability mode as a single logical broker; each node mirrors the cluster's configuration. Access to the cluster is, as with all Compose offerings, managed through a pair of haproxy TCP portals which are whitelisting and SSL supported. With Compose RabbitMQ you can move your interapplication connection infrastructure to the cloud where your applications live without having to add it to the services you directly manage and maintain.
Compose RabbitMQ is currently in beta. If you want to check it out now and don't have a Compose account just sign up for a Compose account and select RabbitMQ as your first service. If you already have a Compose account, go to the Compose Console and select "Create Deployment" and RabbitMQ to get your own RabbitMQ on Compose.
Dj Walker-Morgan was Compose's resident Content Curator, and has been both a developer and writer since Apples came in II flavors and Commodores had Pets. Love this article? Head over to Dj Walker-Morgan’s author page to keep reading.
Conquer the Data Layer
Spend your time developing apps, not managing databases.
Try Compose for Free for 30 Days
RabbitMQ 3.7.5 available at Compose
Today, we're pleased to announce that RabbitMQ 3.7.5 is now available on the Compose platform. This release also marks the st…
Dj Walker-Morgan
Compose Notes: A new location and an updated RabbitMQ
Compose's database deployments are now available in a new datacenter in Europe, we've got an upgrade for RabbitMQ users and t…
Compose for MySQL and Compose for ScyllaDB: the new Compose databases on Bluemix
Since we made Compose-hosted databases for Bluemix available, we've seen Bluemix users opening up the catalog to the benefits…
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2309
|
__label__cc
| 0.732007
| 0.267993
|
Otros sitios web
Sitio web del Grupo Servicios online Reportes Financieros
Acerca de Coface
Coface en México
Nuestra red local
Coface no realiza pagos ni ventas vía redes sociales
Grupo Coface
Nuestro propósito: lo que nos mueve
Lider mundial
Datos Financieros
Una Potente Estructura Internacional
Al Servicio de las Empresas
Coface en América Latina
Trabajar en Coface
Expertos en 66 países
Súmate a nuestro equipo
Preguntas Frecuentes RGPD
Conferencia Riesgo País México 2018
Asegurar sus ventas
Acerca del Seguro de Crédito
TradeLiner
Cofanet Essentials
CofaMove
TopLiner
Coface Dashboard
Analizar oportunidades de negocio
Análisis y Evaluaciones de Riesgo
Publicaciones Coface
Conferencias Riesgo País
Snapshot Report
Opiniones de Crédito
Recuperación de facturas vencidas
Coface Debt Collection
GDP 48,555 US$
Irán (República Islámica)
Libia, República Árabe
Corea, República Popular Democrática
Macedonia, Antigua República Yugoslava
Papúa-Nueva Guinea
Eslovaquia (República Eslovaca)
0 country seleccionado
Means of payment and collection methods
Insolvency trend
Locate the country Imprimir
Budget balance (% GDP) 0.0 1.2 1.1 1.1
Current account balance (% GDP) 8.1 10.5 10.8 10.4
Port activity (Rotterdam is Europe’s number-one port)
Dense network of SMEs working with large groups
Diversified exports and external accounts in surplus
Attractive: high quality infrastructure and good living standards
Exposure to the European economy: exports to the United Kingdom generate 4% of the country’s value added
Household wealth concentrated in housing and pension funds, which are not very liquid
Banks dependent on wholesale financing (loans/deposits = 136%) and the real estate sector
Ageing population; second pillar of the pension system under pressure
Labour market duality: prevalence of precarious work, especially among young people, and part-time work
Growth driven by consumption and expansionary fiscal policy
Growth will be down but still robust in 2019, with consumption the main contributor, ahead of investment. Household consumption (44% of GDP) will increase again, but at a slower pace. On the one hand, unemployment is expected to fall further (to 3.6%) while disposable income will rise more rapidly, following more favourable collective bargaining agreements and lower income taxes. On the other hand, inflation will be boosted by the hike in the reduced VAT rate from 6% to 9% on January 1, 2019 and the increase in energy taxation. The wealth effect linked to home values is set to fade as price increases moderate. Public consumption (24% of GDP) will continue to grow vigorously, supported by the expansionary fiscal policy contained in the agenda of the coalition government formed in September 2017. The health, education, and defence sectors will be the primary beneficiaries. Investment (21% of GDP) could lose some of its spark. Companies, although still benefiting from favourable financial conditions and facing high capacity utilisation rates, are feeling less confident.
The same is true for households, which could translate into reduced interest in house purchases. House prices have risen sharply since the low point of 2013, significantly outpacing income growth, and are above the peak of 2008. However, the increase is currently concentrated in the largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague) and is mainly due to the shortage of new and social housing, the rent ceiling, and tax incentives to purchase. Household debt, although still high (200% of net disposable income as of November 2018 according to Eurostat), has declined, particularly in terms of its real estate share.
All sectors are expected to remain on a positive trend, except gas development, which is causing earthquakes in the north and is set to end in 2030. The favourable macroeconomic environment is reflected in the low number of business failures, including in trade and construction. However, Coface expects a 2% increase in failures in 2019.
Government balance and current account in surplus
With trade in goods and services accounting for more than 150% of GDP, the Dutch economy is very open. It mainly supplies agri-food products (plants, flowers, dairy products, meat, vegetables), chemicals, medicines and medical equipment, refined petroleum, aluminium, packaging and turbines. Services, including transport, logistics and tourism, make up one quarter of exports. Although import growth could exceed export growth, the trade surplus is still expected to reach 9% of GDP in 2019. However, a hard Brexit would be likely to affect performances, as exports to the United Kingdom account for 8% of the total. Industry – but also wholesale trade and transport, through re-export – would be affected. Re-exporting, linked to the country’s role as Western Europe’s maritime gateway, accounts for two-fifths of the surplus. This activity focuses mainly on petroleum products, as well as electronic and computer equipment. With other items close to equilibrium, the trade surplus shapes the current account balance. The balance of the financial account moves erratically, but is typically negative due to Dutch investments abroad allowed by the recurring current account surplus. Reflecting this, the country has a net external asset position equivalent to about 60% of GDP.
Despite the country’s accommodative and somewhat pro-cyclical fiscal policy, the small overall fiscal surplus will continue. The revenue generated by growth is used to offset the reduction in gas royalties, reduce the tax burden and increase expenditure. However, when adjusted for the favourable impact of the economic situation, the deficit is just balanced out. Nevertheless, this is sufficient to obtain debt relief.
A four-party centre-right coalition with a narrow majority
Seven months after the parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Mark Rutte was successfully able to form his third government in October 2017. This coalition is comprised of his own Liberal Party, the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, the progressive Democraten 66 Party and two Christian parties: the centrist Christen-Democratisch Appèl Party and the more conservative Christenunie Party. The coalition has a majority of just one seat in each of the two chambers of Parliament. It could be challenged in the Senate, which will be renewed at the end of May 2019 based on voting by the provincial assemblies, whose own members will appointed by direct elections held in March 2019.
In the Netherlands, bank transfers are by far the most common payment method for both domestic and export business-to-business transactions. All Dutch banks are linked to the SWIFT electronic network, which provides low-cost, flexible and rapid processing of international payments. Direct debit and different centralised local cashing systems are also widely used. Online sales are increasingly popular and most companies now use digital banking software. Cash payments are gradually disappearing and other payment methods, like cheques and bills of exchange are rarely used.
A debt collection process usually begins and ends by sending the debtor a (sometimes registered) collection letter. Sending letters (only) by email is becoming more and more customary. Besides the principal claim amount, the collection letter usually also includes a demand to pay accrued interest and extrajudicial costs. If the interest rates and/or costs have not been agreed by contract, Dutch law regulates the limits for both. If amicable actions, which include reminders by phone and possibly a debtor visit, do not result in full payment, the creditor can initiate legal action, in accordance with Dutch civil law.
Fast-track procedures
In urgent cases, claims can be submitted for a fast track procedure (kort geding). These proceedings resemble those of the regular civil court but, if convinced of the plaintiff’s arguments, the judge (ruled by the President of the district court) delivers a verdict within a very short period of time – usually between two to four weeks. During this somewhat simplified procedure, the judge often makes a temporary or provisional ruling for more urgent matters. If, subsequent to this provisional decision, the parties do not reach a final settlement on all issues, they then need to obtain a final judgement in a “regular” civil suit (bodemprocedure). The fast track procedure in the Netherlands differs from the (European) payment order procedure used in many other European states. It always requires the assistance of a lawyer and personal appearances by all parties before the judge. As this makes the fast track procedure rather expensive, it is not often used in regular collection cases.
The regular civil court procedure, held in one of the eleven district courts (Rechtbank), is the most frequently used recourse of action. Claims of €25,000 or less are heard by a judge of the cantonal sector of the district court (kantonrechter), while claims in excess of €25,000 are presented before the civil law sector. The main difference in the civil law sector is that both the plaintiff and the debtor have to be represented by a lawyer, whereas in the cantonal sector parties are permitted to argue their own cases. Both types of procedures begin with a bailiff serving the debtor with a writ of summons. In many cases, debtors do not contest the claim or appear in court. This results in a judgment by default being given, usually within six to eight weeks. If the debtor does appear in court, the judge sets a date for them or their lawyer to prepare a written statement of defence (conclusie van antwoord). However, when appearing before a cantonal sector judge, debtors can represent themselves and plead their cases verbally. After the first plea, it is standard procedure for the judge to schedule personal appearances by both parties to obtain more information and to see if a settlement is possible (comparitie van partijen). If not, the court can either pass judgement immediately or, in more complex cases, give the plaintiff the opportunity to deliver a replication (conclusie van repliek). The defendant can then reply by rejoinder (conclusie van dupliek). These proceedings take, on average, six to twelve months.
Winding-up proceedings
A third and often effective procedure for collecting payments is by filing a winding-up petition at the district court. This type of petition must be filed by a lawyer and the applicant needs to submit evidence of a payment default on an undisputed debt and of the existence of at least one other creditor having an undisputed claim of any kind (for example, commercial debt, outstanding alimony or taxes). The debtor is then formally notified by a bailiff that a winding-up petition has been filed. To avoid bankruptcy, the debtor can choose to appear in court to dispute the claim (or the fact that there are other creditors) or propose an out of court settlement. As most debtors try to reach a settlement, these proceedings are often cancelled before the date of the court hearing. Otherwise, and if there is sufficient evidence, the debtor is then declared bankrupt. Approximately 95% of all bankruptcies result in no payment being received by non-preferential creditors.
Retention of title and right of reclamation
Besides initiating legal action or claiming retention of title (if stipulated), sellers of goods can often exercise their right of reclamation (recht van reclame) for unpaid goods. This entails sending the debtor a registered letter which invokes this right. The contract is thus terminated and by law, ownership of the goods returns to the creditor. However, this recourse of action does require the goods to be in their original state. The registered letter must be sent within 6 weeks of the claim being due and within 60 days of the goods being delivered.
If a debtor does not voluntarily comply with a court decision, the creditor can initiate actions to enforce the judge’s ruling. As most court decisions become effective immediately, creditors do not need to wait for the three month period of appeal to expire. Enforcement laws lay down statutory rules on coercive measures and how these measures can be applied. In the Netherlands, only bailiffs are authorised to levy enforcements and are instructed by the creditor. Two conditions need to be met before coercive measures begin. The bailiff must be in possession of a writ of execution (an original and enforceable judgment) and the party on which the enforcement will be levied must have prior official notification of the writ.
Court decisions rendered by other EU countries benefit from specific enforcement mechanisms, including the EU payment Order and the European Small Claims procedure. Decisions issued by non-EU countries can be recognised and enforced on a reciprocal basis, provided that the issuing country is part of a bilateral or multilateral agreement with the Netherlands. In the absence of such an agreement, an exequatur procedure can be carried out in the Dutch courts.
Restructuring proceedings
Corporate debt restructuring entails using the suspension of payments (surseance van betaling) procedure. The debtor is granted temporary relief from creditors, in order to allow them to reorganise, continue with business operations and ultimately satisfy their creditors’ claims, all under the supervision of a court-appointed administrator. A plan is proposed and must be approved by two-thirds of the creditors representing three-quarters of the total outstanding debt.
Bankruptcy proceedings
The debtor’s assets are liquidated by the court-appointed trustee. This procedure commences when the debtor has ceased payments and the District court has declared the debtor bankrupt. If a creditor makes a request for the debtor to be declared bankrupt, there must be at least two creditors with overdue claims. However, when liquidation is requested by the debtor, evidence of additional creditors is not mandatory.
The trustee establishes a list of creditors, the debtor’s assets are auctioned and the proceeds then distributed between the creditors.
Aviso de privacidad Coface Seguro de Crédito México
Aviso de privacidad Coface Servicios México
Aviso de privacidad Laboral Coface México
Documentación Contractual TradeLiner
Documentación Contractual Globalliance 2
Documentación Contractual Comprador Único
Documentación Contractual Globalliance 2.1
Panel de gestión de cookies
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2315
|
__label__wiki
| 0.718489
| 0.718489
|
Sri Lankan Buddhists Demand Demolition Of Mosque
By deccanchronicle –
Dozens of Buddhists led by monks joined a demonstration on Monday urging Sri Lanka’s government to proceed with plans to dismantle a mosque located in a sacred Buddhist area.
The protesters marched peacefully through Kalutara town, south of Colombo. Last month, thousands of Buddhist monks and lay supporters stormed the mosque in the central town of Dambulla, saying it was constructed illegally.
But residents say it has been there for nearly half a century, long before the area was declared a sacred zone. The government announced that the mosque and a Hindu temple would be demolished and relocated.
Muslim clerics and politicians have strongly opposed the decision. An organiser of today’s protest, Asoka Menikkgoda, said the government should safeguard Buddhism, the state religion, and not yield to Muslim pressure.
Hate Has No Place In Sri Lanka: “Rally For Unity” Goes Matara
The Cockeyed & Absurd Claims About Ranil’s Economic Expertise
Where Majoritarian Part Subsumes The Whole: The Ideological Foundation Of Sinhala Extremism
Leveson’s Chief Inquisitor Calls UK Press ‘Most Unruly And Irreverent In World’
Fifty Years Ago King Had A Beautiful Dream
« Flogging The Tamil Eelam Issue
Sri Lanka Arrests Over 36,400 Army Deserters Following War »
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2317
|
__label__wiki
| 0.96519
| 0.96519
|
Up next: 'Al Qaeda in Palestine'?
A new report by a pro-Israel think tank warns that radical groups in Gaza may execute a major attack to secure an alliance with Al Qaeda. But a full-blown franchise is unlikely.
Said Khatib/AFP/Newscom/File
Gunmen from the Palestinian Islamist group Jund Ansar Allah ('Soldiers of the Companions of God') walked near a mosque after the Friday prayers in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on August 14, 2009. The group says that Hamas has betrayed its Islamist ideals.
Rich Clabaugh/Staff
By Erin Cunningham Correspondent
Gaza City, Gaza
Militant Islamist groups in Gaza seeking an alliance with Al Qaeda may be planning to carry out a large-scale attack in order to boost their credentials, warns a report released today by the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).
“Al Qaeda-inspired groups in Gaza ‘think big’ and are regularly plotting large-scale attacks,” says the report, coauthored by a former deputy director of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service. It also quotes an anonymous member of one of these groups as saying his operatives are “waiting to carry out a big jihadist operation dedicated to Sheikh Osama Bin Laden."
Mr. Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization, now believed to be hiding along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, has long used the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a cause célèbre for their fight against the West. But it has yet to establish authoritative operations in either the West Bank or Gaza, where both Hamas – the Islamist organization that rules the coastal territory – and its militant rivals are focused more on Israel than the vision of global jihad symbolized by Bin Laden.
While the existence of a global terrorist network under Al Qaeda's control is a matter of debate, the formation of an "Al Qaeda in Palestine" would be a propaganda coup for both the Al Qaeda brand and local militants that share its ideology, analysts say. But for the Gaza-based groups, such an alliance could severely compromise their capabilities and long-term survivability.
“The biggest beneficiary of any recognition would be Al Qaeda itself,” says Scott Sandford, a Washington-based researcher on militant Islam and contributor to Jihadica, an online clearinghouse for materials from jihadist websites. “But I don’t think Al Qaeda could offer them a whole lot in terms of logistics. Because if it [recognition from Al Qaeda] were to happen, Hamas would attack that particular group aligned with Al Qaeda immediately.”
The WINEP report said that an Al Qaeda in Palestinian affiliate is unlikely to form because most Palestinians committed to violent resistance put national interests ahead of religion – keeping them focused on Israel rather than a broader fight.
Salafists: Hamas has gone soft
Hamas, an Islamist nationalist movement, limits its activities to the Palestinian arena, preferring to attack Israel and rejecting Al Qaeda-style calls for global jihad against the West. It has cracked down heavily on the territory’s growing extremist organizations since taking control of Gaza in 2007.
The new groups, of which there are about half a dozen, claim to practice what is known as “Salafism,” or the observance of Islam in the manner of the Prophet Mohammad in the seventh century. Local Salafis say Hamas, which limits its militant activities to Israel and has so far failed to implement strict Islamic law in Gaza, has betrayed its Islamist credentials.
Salafi groups have grown in strength in recent years amid rising poverty and a crippling Israeli siege on Gaza.
August clash between Hamas, Salafists
In August last year, an organization calling itself Jund Ansar Allah (“Soldiers of the Companions of God”) openly challenged Hamas by declaring an Islamic emirate from a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. A nightlong gun battle between the two groups resulted in approximately 30 dead, including a number of Hamas security forces.
Since then, Salafis have largely been in hiding – and threats to retaliate against Hamas have yet to crystallize.
“The Salafi groups in Gaza very much went underground after the shoot-out. There were a number of threats that they would seek revenge for the attack, but none of them were actually implemented,” says Mukhamair Abusaada, a Gaza-based political analyst and professor at Al-Azhar University. “My assumption is that Hamas sent a very strong message when it attacked their mosque in Rafah: that if you challenge their rule, they will deal with it in a very massive, bloody way.”
But the threat remains, analysts say. And while these groups have yet to establish official ties with Al Qaeda – the WINEP report claims Al Qaeda itself is skeptical of their abilities and sustainability – it doesn’t mean they aren’t inspired to carry out dramatic attacks, particularly against Israel, says Mr. Sanford.
“If these groups could carry out an attack, they would do it,” Sanford says. “But it’s a matter of getting past the security measures the Israelis have put in place, as well as Hamas surveillance.”
“They have had successful operations in the past – they kidnapped Alan Johnston and helped capture [Israeli soldier] Gilad Shalit. So they definitely have the military training to carry out a spectacular attack.”
Growing threat to Hamas: Gazans who think it has sold out
Global News Blog Hamas fights back Al-Qaeda-inspired militants in Gaza
Gaza: Hamas tightens, then backs off, Islamic social strictures
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2321
|
__label__cc
| 0.545473
| 0.454527
|
Ascocid
All Medical Conditions
Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Exercise-induced breathlessness
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Ascocid (vitamin)
EIB prevention in Adults with Asthma
EVIDENCE | POORLY TESTED - 3 studies with 40 adults
EFFECTIVENESS | UNCLEAR
SAFETY | SAFE
Treatment with Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid tablets). Unclear benefits. May relief symptoms according to 3 poor quality studies with only 40 adults. More research is needed. Seems safe.
Vitamin C for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of Pregnancy in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention of EIB in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages With Asthma
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of Common Cold in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of Exercise-induced breathlessness in All Ages
Treatments for Prevention and Treatment of Charcot Marie Tooth disease in All Ages
Treatments for Prevention of EIB in All Ages
Treatments for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages With Asthma
Treatments (Vitamin) for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. As a supplement it is used to treat and prevent scurvy. Evidence does not support use in the general population for the prevention of the common cold. It may be taken by mouth or by injection. It is generally well tolerated. Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928, and first made in 1933. (source)
C-Time for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
L-ascorbic acid for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of EIA in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of Exercise-induced Asthma in All Ages
L-Ascorbate for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
AA for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of Exercise-induced Bronchoconstriction in All Ages
Ascocid for Prevention and Treatment of E.I.A. in All Ages
Ascot for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
L-Xyloascorbic Acid for Prevention and Treatment of EIB in All Ages
Big Pharma as Organized Crime
Dr. Peter Gøtzsche, Co-founder of The Cochrane Collaboration
The Opioids Epidemic
How it causes a decline in life expectancy in the USA, and how to protect yourself against it.
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
A methodology that supports better decision making in healthcare
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime / Peter Gotzsche
How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2322
|
__label__cc
| 0.672722
| 0.327278
|
CyberHeart presents a publishing competition
CyberHeart is proud to collaborate with Cureus on the first publishing competition of its kind: Advanced Retrospective Studies for the Investigational Use of Non-invasive Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Cardiac Arrhythmia and Other Cardiovascular Conditions. We are seeking the following article submissions:
Case reports documenting clinical rationale, details, and outcomes
Technical reports focused on related radiation planning and motion management
Original articles analyzing cardiac radiobiology
Review articles analyzing cardiac radiosurgery applications and considerations
Cardiac arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, can be treated effectively with catheter ablation (CA). However, many patients fail or cannot undergo CA due to inaccessible substrate or comorbidities. Non-invasive stereotactic radiosurgery is being investigated for safety and effectiveness in targeting and ablating the left superior and inferior pulmonary veins. In limited feasibility clinical trials, preliminary outcomes under an IRB / FDA approved trial have observed early positive subject outcomes with no procedural complications. Investigational studies are ongoing.
This competition was designed to promote continued scientific discovery and knowledge sharing for this potential new frontier in the area of radiobiology for cardiac arrhythmia. All articles published as part of this competition will be indexed in PubMed Central and distributed to large communities of relevant clinicians around the globe. We encourage you to contribute!
Unrestricted educational grants for this competition have been provided by CyberHeart.
The entry period is now closed. Competition entries appear below as they are published. Now is your chance to score and discuss these articles. Remember, a lone prize of $3,000 will be awarded to the highest-scoring article!
Competition entry and article submission is entirely free. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. Eligible entries include case reports, technical reports, review articles and original articles focusing on the continued scientific discovery of investigational cardiac radiosurgery.
All articles must be submitted and formatted via the template-driven, self-publishing Cureus platform. Authors are encouraged to include supporting animations and videos within their article submissions. Reference limits vary by article type. For additional information on publishing with Cureus, please refer to our Author Guide.
Other Stipulations
All clinical studies must be compliant with applicable regulatory, ethics / IRB, and other rules governing protection of human subjects.
All non-clinical studies must be compliant with applicable AAUC, AAALAC, and other related regulations.
This program is not intended to promote or otherwise encourage unapproved, un-cleared use of products or any product for unapproved new use.
This program in no way promotes or purports to encourage any research that is not in compliance with any local, federal, or other applicable governing laws.
A single $3,000 USD monetary prize will be awarded to the published article that receives the highest Cureus SIQ™ (Scholarly Impact Quotient™) score.
SIQ is Cureus’ unique crowdsourced, post-publication peer-review process. In addition to measuring engagement, SIQ allows the community-at-large to rate the quality of individual articles. Reviewers assign scores from 1 to 10 on criteria including clarity and rationale, clinical importance, study design and methods, data analysis, novelty of conclusions and quality of presentation.
Aggregated community SIQ scores allow clinicians and researchers to quickly assess quality in a manner similar to that of Amazon® and Yelp® community reviews.
As engagement and scoring is critical to winning, authors are highly encouraged to share their published articles via social media and email.
We’ve assembled a world-class peer review panel to review all submitted articles. Click on a reviewer name to learn more.
Article analysis and commentary performed by the peer review panel are strictly independent of the sponsor.
Billy W. Loo Jr.
Associate Professor, M.D., Ph.D. | Radiation Oncology
Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine | Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jiunn-Lee Lin
Ph.D. | Cardiology
Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital
Paul Zei
M.D., Ph.D. | Cardiology
Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Georg A. Weidlich
Ph.D., M.Sc. | Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology, National Medical Physics and Dosimetry Company, Palo Alto, USA
Steve Axelrod
Ph.D. | Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology
Executive Management, G-Tech Medical
M.D. | Cardiology
Medical Safety, Boston Scientific
Cliff Robinson
M.D. | Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 – Competition begins; articles may now be submitted.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 – Article submission deadline @ 5:00 pm PT.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 – Peer review of all eligible articles concludes @ 5:00 pm PT.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 – Community post-publication review (SIQ) ends @ 5:00 pm PT.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 – Winning articles announced; the winning author(s) will be contacted and formally announced on the Cureus website.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2323
|
__label__wiki
| 0.882329
| 0.882329
|
Kashmir interlocutor: Why Modi government is shooting in the dark
Former IB chief Dineshwar Sharma will represent government for dialogue in J&K.
Meetu Jain
@meetujain
In the early 1990s, when terrorism was at its peak in the Kashmir Valley, Dineshwar Sharma, a young IPS officer on his first stint, got his initial taste of the violence. Late one night, his Gupkar Road residence was caught in the crossfire. Sharma watched the panicked firing by the security guards for a while and then decided to venture out. Ever the policeman, he wanted to tell his men not to waste ammunition and to fire only when they saw their quarry.
As Sharma now ventures out into the Valley once again as central interlocutor, the question is, does the NDA government have its quarry in sight or is it shooting in the dark?
All indications so far hint at the latter.
In fact, a paper accessed by this author tries to put out the Centre's rationale behind starting a dialogue process three-and-a-half years into the government's tenure. "The current initiative is a manifestation of the government of India's sensitive approach to resolve long standing Kashmir issue [sic]," the paper piously says.
But in the same paper, one of the "stakeholders" in the peace process are described as "nothing but a handful of Pakistani stooges" who have been holding “peace loving people to ransom".
While that might well be the case, in its choice of words about what it thinks of the Hurriyat Conference, the BJP isn’t helping its own cause.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh with former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma.
To add to it are the theatrics of it all. Union home minister Rajnath Singh making a grand announcement, at a hurriedly called press conference, that the solution to Kashmir is not through "goli" or "gaali".
If the government was really serious, it should have gone about its business quietly and done some groundwork before making the process public, say experts.
And even before the home minister had finished, another Union minister was at hand to draw the “Laxman rekha” for the so called peace process. Minister for personnel Jitendra Singh told reporters, “How can you speak to people who indulge in violence and hawala transactions?”
That statement is meant to indicate that it leaves the Hurriyat out as well as the stone-pelters out. "So whom do you talk to," asks former commodore Uday Bhaskar. "The entire exercise is a put on for the western world that the Modi government is willing to find a political solution and talk to all stakeholders, he adds. Sure enough US secretary of state Tillerson arrives in India late Tuesday night.
JNU professor and Kashmir watcher, Happymon Jacob, says the course correction is welcome but "it's a bit too late in the day for it to make any real impact... Also, appointing a former DIB is a bad idea. The government should have selected a senior politician to reach out to the Kashmiris."
The Centre's hawkish approach to Kashmir does have its upside. The Hurriyat leadership stands exposed with the NIA (and an India Today sting operation) exposing the funding and hawala deals, especially of the second-rung leadership.
But the government has also allowed the political process to wither away. The nadir being the two per cent polling that declared Farooq Abdullah the winner in the Srinagar bypoll. Democracy has abdicated the Valley. "Perhaps it’s time that the Modi government admit that the policies it has followed in the past three and a half years have failed," says Track II expert and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar.
But Sushant Sarin of the right-wing Vivekananda Foundation says, "It’s too early to read the tea leaves. Let’s wait for the former DIB to at least make his first visit to the Valley before we allow the naysayers to take over."
Already questions are being asked as to whom Sharma will talk to. The stone-pelters don’t listen to the Hurriyat (successive bandh calls post the NIA arrests of the Hurriyat leadership have led to a tepid response each time); the elected PDP government doesn’t have much heft either at the Centre or even within the state. The boat men and the opposition are anyway on board.
Clearly, as far as the government is concerned, this isn’t about the quarry being in sight. Sharma might advise the platoon not to waste ammunition, but then is anyone really listening.
Also read: Newton holds a mirror to our detached and flawed sense of India
#Rajnath Singh, #Dineshwar Sharma, #Hurriyat Conference, #Kashmir
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of DailyO.in or the India Today Group. The writers are solely responsible for any claims arising out of the contents of this article.
Meetu Jain @meetujain
The author is an executive editor at India Today
More from Meetu Jain |
POLITICS|
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2327
|
__label__cc
| 0.727071
| 0.272929
|
By Nick Hubble
Emission-Free Oil from Norway…Sort of
The Norwegian oil giant Equinor, formerly known as Statoil, has come up with emission-free oil.
That is, the production of the oil will be free from emissions…the oil itself will be just as polluting as ever.
Under their plans to become emissions neutral by 2050, Equinor will try and connect their offshore oil production facilities to their mainland electricity grid. A grid which runs overwhelmingly on green energy.
You might think this is a pathetic and hypocritical virtue signalling act for an oil company. But it’s actually quite wise. Equinor knows that regulation which punishes emissions financially is coming. Offsetting or minimising your emissions from production will be part of the cost of production for oil companies soon. Going emissions neutral in production will give Equinor a cost advantage.
But will oil even be around that long? I’m not so sure. Not because of green energy and batteries, but because of what I’m going to call ‘new oil’. Next week, I’ll reveal what it is. But for now, all you need to know is that it’s free from emissions when you use it to power something. But actually making the stuff requires a lot of electricity and that’s the catch.
Back to that next week. First, let’s explore exactly why we need this new oil.
Batteries and renewable energy may well be the killer combo of the next decade. If you can generate power cleanly and store enough of it, you resolve the emissions problem.
(Never mind climate change. Pollution gives me hayfever.)
The question thus becomes how can we generate the power we need from renewables? And how can we improve battery technology to store enough of that power?
Both of those questions come down to cost. It’s not like we can’t generate the power and store it already. But can the combination of renewables and batteries provide what the economy needs at the right cost?
Well, that’s not a static matter, pun intended. We’ve made extraordinary progress on both counts — batteries and renewables.
But my contention today is that this is not the silver bullet you might think. We need a new oil that won’t upset climate change campaigners. A type of energy source that batteries and renewable energy cannot replace anytime soon.
What is that energy source — the new oil? Don’t be impatient, I’ll reveal it next week.
What makes the new oil so different to batteries and renewable energy is simple. It’s just like oil in the ways that matter.
The oil infrastructure we’ve built up is extraordinary. The power of oil allows that level of infrastructure to be worth it. Using a power source that is similar to oil in many ways will prove an enormous advantage because so much of the same infrastructure can still function in much the same way.
The electricity grid is similar. Which is why green energy looked like a solution. But power isn’t transportable and storable like oil.
Also, the grid wasn’t designed with decentralised power generation and batteries in mind. It’s a one-way system. Solar panels on rooftops create remarkable problems.
As you might recall from an earlier Daily Reckoning, the power went out in Alice Springs after a cloud passed overhead…
There were many lessons to be learned, alongside the laughs to be had. One of the lessons is that generating too much solar power in one place is dangerous to the grid.
When the cloud passed over, the solar panels on people’s homes stopped producing power at the same moment as the local solar power station did too. The supply of power on people’s roofs triggered a demand spike from their homes, just when the solar station lost its own ability to supply. The combination is a shocker, pun intended again.
The battery required in this scenario is rather large. Or there’s the need for alternative power sources which can come online very quickly. But then the cost and emissions equation goes haywire. Solar might look good, even if you include the battery cost, but when you add in having to keep the gas power plant ready for action in case of cloud cover, the whole thing looks very different.
Adding a huge amount of electricity demand to the existing equation exacerbates the problem. Electric cars, trains, boats, and planes will create such a need for large amounts of renewable power and batteries that the current equations don’t take into account.
If a cloud causes a problem in Alice Springs before the town is using electricity to power everything from water heaters to cattle trucks, imagine the problem when everything does run on electricity.
Green energy is famously unpredictable and it produces power at precisely the wrong times too. More on that next week, because it’s key to why the new oil will be so successful.
Diversification of your energy sources is one of those ideas which makes everyone nod their head. Environmentalists, nationalists, and everyone in between is happy to agree.
The modern variety of this idea is to generate power from a variety of renewable sources. If you’re French, nuclear is included in the mix. If you’re Australian, suggesting this is un-Australian.
But is making everything run on electricity really diversification? Doesn’t sound like it to me…
So, when it comes to our energy, we’re going to need something else. And my bet is that it’ll resemble oil closely. Hence calling it the ‘new oil’.
The real question left to resolve for the new oil is quite similar to the one renewables and batteries face — cost. Can we make and store the new oil in a cost-efficient way?
Yep, we can. Sort of. Thanks to green energy, strangely enough.
I’ll reveal what I mean and what the new oil is next week.
Nick Hubble,
For The Daily Reckoning Australia
Home » Oil & Energy » Emission-Free Oil from Norway…Sort of
About Nick Hubble:
Nick Hubble is a feature Editor of The Daily Reckoning Australia . Nick has spent the last three years discovering lots of new, exciting and surprisingly simple ways to generate money for retirement.
If you're already a subscriber to these publications, or want to follow Nick's financial world view more closely, then we recommend you join him on Google+. It's where he shares investment research, commentary and ideas that he can't always fit into his regular Daily Reckoning emails.
Climate Sceptics Should Buy Carbon Credits
New BY Nick Hubble POSTED 1 day ago
If green energy fails to live up to its silver bullet hopes, will carbon offsetting become the investor paradise as a result?
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2328
|
__label__wiki
| 0.88764
| 0.88764
|
Mikel Arteta has been backed to strengthen Arsenal's mental backbone as he gets down to work as the club's successor to Unai Emery.
Former Chelsea striker Tony Cascarino is a big fan of the Spaniard and can see him trying to invoke the same resilient mentality that has made Barcelona so successful in recent years.
Arteta, who was Pep guardiola's No.2 at Manchester City until he was poached by Arsenal, was in the stands to watch the Gunners grind out a 0-0 draw away to Everton on Saturday.
And Cascarino thinks the 37-year-old will have a clear idea of they type of player he will look to recruit in order to get Arsenal back to winning ways.
Mikel Arteta gave Arsenal players pep talk in dressing room at Goodison Park
Arsenal's Mesut Ozil accused of faking injury by Martin Keown as he misses Everton draw
“I’m very pro-Arteta. I’m a big fan,” he said of the former Rangers, Paris St-Germain and Everton midfielder.
“He will know the type of player he wants that will improve Arsenal, they’ve got to be good technically, with great energy, despite and a great approach mentally to football.
“That was the big stand-out feature at Barcelona. We talk about Barcelona over the last two decades, the mentality of their great sides was being proud of the club, all on the same hymn sheet, all working in the same direction for everyone to pull together.”
Cascarino was scathing Arsenal's current form which has seen them win just once in 13 games.
Arsenal fans clash outside Goodison Park after chanting "Arsenal Fan TV get out of my club"
But he does believe that Arteta will get more out of the players that interim manager Freddie Ljungberg and his predecessor Emery was able to.
“In all my time as a player, I can’t remember Arsenal having a very average team,” he added.
“You could argue Bruce Rioch’s team didn’t do that well, but that wasn’t an average team, they had a lot of good players.
“But this is a very average team, and I think Arteta will get a lot more from them. His reputation in the game is second to none as a coach and these arsenal players need a coach.
Mikel Arteta warns Arsenal players he will watch everything from Everton stands
Arsenal Technical Director Edu chatted to Mikel Arteta before the bore draw at Goodison Park
“It’s evident Matteo Guendouzi is a good player, Lucas Torreira is a good player, Nicolas Pepe is a good player, Ainsley Maitland-Niles had huge potential, but they all need coaching.
“The same way Leroy Sane needed coaching, Raheem Sterling needed coaching and Gabriel Jesus, and Arteta was part of that at Manchester City.
“I think they’ve made a big decision to give him his first job, but there are no guarantees with any manager and the way he talks is exactly what Arsenal need.
Latest Arsenal news
Lacazette boost for Arsenal
Ljungberg in line for Arsenal job
Arsenal chief backs Emery over Ozil row
Emery hints at Tierney Prem debut
“He needs to get rid of this soft image and set them up right – that’s not what we’ve seen over the last few years.
“Arteta has got a lot of challenges, whether it’s David Luiz, Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Shkodran Mustafi, he’s got a number of issues around the park.
“But he’s also got some very talented young players. Gabriel Martinelli is a talent, Joe Willock, will he become a talent? Arsenal have got five or six youngsters who need to be coached, and Arteta can do that.”
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2330
|
__label__cc
| 0.61017
| 0.38983
|
Tag: slone partners
August 15, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 issue
One of the nation’s largest private pathology group practices completed a successful recapitalization, thus ensuring its independence for another five to seven years. On August 1, PathGroup, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn., announced an investment by Pritzker Group Private Capital and Vesey Street Capital Partners. It was in January 2010, that PathGroup had completed a $100 million
Newsmaker Interview: Adam Slone, Tara Kochis
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XX No. 13 - September 30, 2013 issue
“When it comes to hiring senior leaders, labs today are more diligent in recruiting and interviewing candidates for key executive and management positions. One reason for this change is the shrinking financial margins at most labs.”
—Adam Slone, Founder, Slone Partners
CEO SUMMARY: There is a clear shift in the hiring practices of clinical labs and pathology
Solstas Lab Partners, DNA Direct, Pathology, Inc., Slone Partners, PAML
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVIII No. 2 - February 7, 2011 issue
SPECTRUM-CARILION NOW WILL BE CALLED SOLSTAS LAB PARTNERS
IT IS THE NEXT STEP IN THE INTEGRATION of Spectrum Laboratory Network and Carilion Laboratories. Effective February 1, 2011, their combined businesses will use the name Solstas Lab Partners.
Both Spectrum Lab Network, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Carilion, based in Roanoke, Virginia, were acquired by Welsh, Carson,
Lab Manager Training Program Coming to Four Cities This Fall
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII No. 12 August 23, 2010 issue
WHEN IT COMES TO PREPARING the next generation of laboratory managers to assume leadership roles, pathologists and lab administrators have few options. That is about to change.
This fall, in four different cities, workshops will be conducted specifically to provide your laboratory’s most promising management talent with the knowledge and tools they need to step up
March 8, 2010 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII No. 4 - March 8, 2010 issue
On March 1, Omnyx, LLC, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, licensed certain virtual microscopy and digital pathology patents from Olympus America, Inc. Omnyx is a joint venture between GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) that was created to develop and market digital pathology systems. The agreement grants Omnyx a non-exclusive worldwide license and
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2332
|
__label__wiki
| 0.966768
| 0.966768
|
Hal Pomeranz
SANS Institute Faculty Fellow
Wendy Cohen
Expedient Solutions, Inc.
Dan McKenzie
RBC Bank
Alexis Castellani
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , Governance , Incident & Breach Response
Equifax: US Breach Victim Tally Stands at 146.6 Million
Unpatched Struts Implementations Remain Widespread, Researcher Warns Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 8, 2018
Data broker Equifax continues to field queries from lawmakers about the full extent of its massive 2017 data breach (see Equifax Discloses 2.4 Million More Mega-Breach Victims).
Equifax said on Friday that in response to requests for additional information, it's shared more breach details with several U.S. Congressional committees. Notably, the data broker said that its breach investigators found that consumers had uploaded images of various government-issued identity documents that were exposed in the attack, including 38,000 driver's licenses, 12,000 Social Security or taxpayer ID cards, and 3,200 passports.
Thankfully, the data broker hasn't revised its breach tally, which for U.S. consumers stands at 146.6 million individuals.
"Equifax is confident that the additional detail about the 2017 cybersecurity incident does not identify new stolen data or newly impacted consumers and does not require additional consumer notification," the company says in a statement. "Equifax is committed to working with Congress and providing accurate information about the cybersecurity incident."
Breach Victim Tally
Data stolen in the 2017 Equifax data breach. Note: Some consumers had multiple personal details stolen. (Source: Equifax)
On Monday, Equifax reported via an 8-K filing and statement for the record submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its tally of U.S. breach victims is approximate, owing, in part, to different database tables having elements that were "were not consistently labeled."
Equifax's statement explains: "For example, not every database table contained a field for driver's license number, and for more common elements like first name, one table may have labeled the column containing first name as 'FIRSTNAME,' another may have used 'USER_FIRST_NAME,' and a third may have used 'FIRST_NM.'"
But the company says it believes that it's now identified all consumers whose personal details were exposed. "With assistance from Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, forensic investigators were able to standardize certain data elements for further analysis to determine the impacted consumers and Equifax's notification obligations," it says, adding that all U.S. victims have been notified.
Equifax's current tally of breach victims includes:
143 million U.S. consumers whose names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and - in some instances - driver's license numbers were exposed.
182,000 U.S. consumers for whom "certain dispute documents with personal identifying information" were exposed.
15 million U.K. consumers, of which about 860,000 are at risk of identity theft.
8,000 Canadian consumers.
New CISO Creates Fusion Center
Equifax's breach led to the departure of CEO Richard Smith and CSO Susan Mauldin, among others.
Following the breach, the company in February hired Home Depot veteran Jamil Farshchi as its new CISO.
Farshchi last week told the Wall Street Journal that he's been overhauling Equifax's approach to cybersecurity as well as disaster response. He's created a so-called fusion center - blending information security, physical security and crisis management, and aimed at facilitating better information sharing - inside Equifax that's modeled on how some public sector entities handle emergency response.
"Especially coming out of a breach, there are a tremendous number of demands from a security standpoint because everything becomes priority one," Farshchi told the Wall Street Journal.
Equifax Failed to Patch Struts
Now-former Equifax CEO Smith blamed the breach on a single employee having failed to patch the company's Apache Struts web application implementation after an emergency patch was issued for Struts (see Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures).
Last October, Smith told a Congressional committee that Equifax issued an internal alert on March 9, 2017, instructing all administrators to update Struts. But he said that at least one Struts application wasn't patched, or caught by March 15 scans looking for vulnerable implementations.
Equifax said an attacker targeted and exploited the Struts flaw to gain access to its systems on March 10. Later, it said, the attacker exfiltrated massive amounts of data over a three-month period.
Unpatched Struts Implementations Abound
Equifax's failure to patch or catch the vulnerable Struts implementation had consequences that are now well known. But the company is far from the only organization that has been using Struts and failing to keep it fully patched.
"Equifax was not alone," says Derek E. Weeks, a DevOps advocate at cybersecurity startup Sonatype, which tracks code used by software developers.
From March 2017 through February 2018, nearly 11,000 organizations downloaded a version of Apache Struts that included known flaws, Weeks said in a presentation at last month's RSA Conference in San Francisco titled "We Are All Equifax."
In "We Are All Equifax," an RSA Conference 2018 presentation in San Francisco on April 16, Sonatype's Derek Weeks describes the degree to which developers use software components that have known flaws.
According to a list posted by Weeks on Monday, many more organizations than Equifax appear to have been breached via attackers who exploited known, unpatched flaws in their Struts implementations.
"Everyone knows the Equifax story, but for folks like me who have been paying closer attention, the story also includes the Canadian Revenue Agency, Okinawa Power, the Japanese Post, the India Post, AADHAAR, Apple, University of Delaware, and the GMO Payment Gateway," he says.
Cryptocurrency Miners Exploit Widespread Drupal Flaw
NY AG Schneiderman Quits: What's Next for Enforcement?
https://www.databreachtoday.com/equifax-us-breach-victim-tally-stands-at-1466-million-a-10985
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2333
|
__label__wiki
| 0.752296
| 0.752296
|
Design>Power and Cooling
Angstrom: Computer In A Fish Tank
Angstrom Microsystems sank a computer in a fish tank to illustrate its liquid cooling technologies.
Rich Miller | Nov 21, 2007
Liquid cooling is one of the hot-button issues in the data center world. Some see it as essential to cooling the data center of the future, while others recoil in horror at the potential that a mishap will damage equipment. Ed Burnette of ZDNet has a cool example of how one liquid cooling vendor is addressing the "hydrophobia" issue.
Angstrom Microsystems is a long-time player in the high performance computing industry, specializing in AMD solutions for use by companies like Pixar and Akamai (AKAM). Last year Angstrom introduced liquid-cooled blade servers, which use a non-conducive fluid. At the recent SuperComputing 2007 conference, Angstrom sank a working computer and monitor into a fish tank filled with the solution used in its LiquiBlade products. "Yes, that's a real computer and a monitor submerged in a fish tank, with the power on," Ed writes of his photo of the display. "It has not been photoshopped." Ed has high-resolution versions available via his blog.
Angstrom says LiquiBlade can provide a 25 percent energy savings, and is positioning the product as a way to extend the life of existing data centers.
LiquiBlade is the latest offering in Angstrom's AMS LiquiCool line of products, which were introduced last November. The company says its cooling fluid is "non-conductive, non-flammable, non-toxic and environmentally friendly" and approved under the Kyoto treaty.
"Angstrom is providing exciting, disruptive technology that strikes at the heart of our customers' air-conditioning and power concerns," said Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems. "With our patent-pending cooling solutions, Angstrom enables scaling of high volume deployments with the most current processors the market has to offer."
"LiquiBlade servers are an example of the kind of Green computing that can provide customers with low-cost high-performance solutions designed to operate in challenging environments," said Ben Williams, director of Server and Workstation Marketing at AMD.
Top Ten things Every Data Center Manager Should Know About Power
Alternating Phase, A New Look at 3-Phase Power Distribution
TMGcore Pitches Liquid-Cooled Data Center in a Box for Compute-Heavy Workloads
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2334
|
__label__wiki
| 0.550553
| 0.550553
|
June 22, 2012 Study: Average SSD Prices Almost Halved Over Last 12 Months
Solid state drive prices have fallen by as much as 65 percent in the last 12 months, according to data. Research by The Tech Report finds that, in contrast to flooding in Thailand affecting standard hard drive production and causing price hikes, the price of SSDs is continuing to drop, with an average price drop of 46 percent -- almost half -- compared to the same point last year.
Graphs for the period show a hefty price drop for most models from April onwards, when a rumored price war between Kingston
March 16, 2012 Hard Drive Shortage Easing; Price Hikes Could Reverse
The great hard-disk drive shortage seems to be nearing completion.
BlueFin Research analyst Paul Peterson asserts in a note this morning that the supply imbalance in hard drives that was triggered by last year's flooding in Thailand is not as dire as originally feared, which is good news for PC manufacturers that had been struggling to buy enough drives at reasonable cost. One contributing factor, he notes, is that PC demand remains sluggish. Seasonally slow demand is allowing a rapid recovery in HDD inventories, he asserts.
January 19, 2012 Despite Hard Drive Shortage, Expect Few Surprises From Intel
Sales of PCs and servers fell during the last few months of 2011, mainly because there weren't enough hard drives to go around, as a result of the flooding situation in Thailand.
This fact caused chipmaker Intel to slash its sales forecast for the quarter by $1 billion, to $13.7 billion plus or minus $300 million. Today we'll see just how bad the damage was, and how bad it's going to be going forward, as the company reports its results after the close of markets today.
December 12, 2011 The Global Supply Chain: So Very Fragile
Manufacturers have spent years building low-cost global supply chains. Natural disasters are showing them just how delicate those networks really are.
The image is almost surreal: It shows part of a Honda auto factory in central Thailand, one of the largest in Southeast Asia, swamped under 15 feet of water, brand-new cars floating in the currents. The devastating November flooding in Thailand, which killed more than 600 people, also knocked out some of Honda's key suppliers, including electronics component maker Rohm & Co., forcing production delays in plants as far away as Ohio.
December 2, 2011 SnapAV Promises No DVR Surcharge Due to Flooding
SnapAV has promised the customers of its surveillance DVR products will not face a surcharge due to the worldwide hard drive shortage caused by recent flooding in Thailand.
December 1, 2011 WD Resumes Hard Drive Production After Thailand Floods
Western Digital, one of the world's biggest storage companies, said today that it has resumed hard drive production in Thailand as flood waters recede in that country. But shortages will likely still happen in the current and future quarters.
The Irvine, Calif.-based company said in a statement today that the restoration of the company's factories in Thailand had progressed better than expected and that production has resumed this week. One-time charges will be about $225 million to $275 million for the December quarter, and the company is going to make a business insurance claim of $50 million
Samsung Accidentally Leaks New Products in App Update
Galaxy Wearable app
Mattera
First RTI Dealer of the Year: Mattera Design Inc.
Mattera Design Inc.
BrandSource Holds Convention in Las Vegas, Celebrates "Another Great Year"
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2336
|
__label__cc
| 0.661316
| 0.338684
|
Debbie Sagorin
Last revised: December 9, 2019
Your privacy is very important to us. This Site is hosted by Constellation Web Solutions, Inc. DBA Market Leader or one of its affiliates (collectively, “Constellation”) on behalf of one of its real estate industry customers (the “Company,” “we” or “us”). The Company is the data controller and its full name and contact details are set out on the Site. Constellation and the Company are independent contractors and are not partners or otherwise engaged in any joint venture in delivering the Site. Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall have the effect of making Constellation a sole or joint data controller. This Privacy Policy has been prepared to explain how we collect, use, protect, and share information and data when you use this Web site (the “Site”), including information and data that we share with our service providers such as Constellation. Constellation hosts multiple Web sites (together with this Site, the “Sites”) on behalf of realtors (“Realtors”) including the Realtor associated with this Site (“Your Realtor”).
By visiting or using all or any part of this Site, you consent to this Privacy Policy.
This Site links to this Privacy Policy because Constellation collects, uses, and retains all information, including Personal Information and Usage Data, that users share with or otherwise make available via the Site. For example, when you provide your contact information, this information is collected and stored by Constellation under the terms of Your Realtor’s agreement with Constellation, is used by Constellation to provide services to, at the direction of or for the benefit of Your Realtor under that agreement and is shared with Your Realtor. Similarly, at some point, Realtors may require users to register on the Sites. Such registration information would be collected, stored and used, to provide services to, at the direction of, or for the benefit of Your Realtor by Constellation and shared with the applicable Realtor. This Privacy Policy, however, only covers Constellation’s information privacy practices with respect to the information Constellation collects via the Site. Realtors may have different privacy policies and practices, but are required to have practices no less protective than the terms of this Privacy Policy. Realtors are required to take certain affirmative steps to protect Personal Information collected via the Site and to comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. However, Constellation does not control Realtors and is not responsible for their actions, including their compliance with privacy laws.
Managing Your Information Preferences
You can always review, correct, update, or change your Personal Information, or opt out of direct marketing efforts, by updating your Email Settings or you can contact Constellation at info@marketleader.com. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at info@marketleader.com.
Personal Information. Constellation collects information that personally identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“Personal Information”). In particular, the Site has collected the following categories of Personal Information from its consumers within the past twelve (12) months:
Category Examples Collected
A. Identifiers. A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. Yes
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. (Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.) Yes
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). Yes
D. Commercial information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. Yes
E. Biometric information. Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. No
F. Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. Yes
G. Geolocation data. Physical location or movements. No
H. Sensory data Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. No
I. Professional or employment-related information. Current or past job history or performance evaluations. No
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. No
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. No
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” does not include:
Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
Information excluded from “Personal Information” like:
health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
Constellation collects Personal Information only if you choose to share it (for example, by inserting our information into forms you complete), and only at the direction of Your Realtor pursuant to Constellation’s Agreement with Your Realtor. The decision to provide this information is optional. However, if you choose not to provide the requested information, you may not be able to use certain features of the Sites.
Anonymous Usage Data. The site automatically collects anonymous usage information that does not identify an individual user (“Usage Data”). For example, each time you use the Site, it automatically collect the type of Web browser you use, your operating system, your Internet Service Provider, your IP address, the pages you view, and the time and duration of your visits. Constellation uses this information to help understand how people use the Sites, and to enhance the services Constellation offers.
Cookies and Web Beacons. The site may use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and browser) and Web beacons (an electronic file placed on a Web site that monitors usage). These technologies may be used in connection with the Sites. Constellation uses cookies and Web beacons to improve the quality of the Sites. Constellation does not use cookies or Web beacons to collect Personal Information. Most Web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies, though either of those actions may affect your use of the Site.
How We Use Information and When We May Share and Disclose Information
Generally. Constellation uses Personal Information only at the direction and for the benefit of Your Realtor for internal purposes, such as to provide you with the Sites, to enable Constellation or Your Realtor to notify you of new products or services, and to otherwise communicate with you about your use of the Site or Your Realtor. Constellation will disclose your Personal Information to Your Realtor in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Constellation will not disclose Personal Information to third parties without your consent, including for their direct marketing purposes, except as explained in this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers. From time to time, Constellation or Your Realtor may establish a business relationship with other businesses whom Constellation or Your Realtor believes is trustworthy and who we have asked to confirm that their privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”). For example, Constellation may contract with Service Providers to provide certain services, such as hosting and maintenance, data storage and management, or marketing and promotions. Constellation only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary or helpful for them to perform these services on Constellation’s behalf. Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information involved, in order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than for the purpose for which such information was provided or as authorized by you.
Advertising. We may work with third-party advertisers, search providers and ad networks (“Advertisers”). These companies may collect and use information about your use of the Sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. These companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer or use other technologies such as Web beacons. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that an Ad Network may collect from you.
Standard Analytics Information. Constellation may use, and disclose to Realtors and third parties, certain Usage Data regarding the Sites. However, in such cases, your Usage Data is aggregated with the Usage Data of others and does not identify you individually.
Other Transfers. Constellation may share Personal Information and Usage Data with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with it. If Constellation is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of Constellation’s assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information and Usage Data in connection with such transaction.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement. Constellation cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. C onstellation may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in its discretion, it believes it is necessary or appropriate for any of the following reasons: (a) to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas); (b) to protect the safety, property, or rights of Constellation, any Realtor or any third party; (c) to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; or (d) to comply with the law.
Be Careful When You Share Information with Others. Please be aware that whenever you send messages, make postings, or otherwise post or transmit any information or content on this Site or any other of the Sites or any public forum available on or through the Sites, that information or content may be accessed by others. n addition, when you share information or any other communications with third parties, that information may be passed along or made public by others. This means that anyone with access to such information can potentially use it for any purpose, including sending unsolicited communications.
Constellation is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your Personal Information. Constellation employs reasonable physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Constellation strives to protect information transmitted on or through the Sites, Constellation cannot and does not guarantee the security of any information you upload, store, share, transmit, or provide on or through any Site and you do so at your own risk.
The Sites may contain links to other Web sites, or allow others to send you such links. A link to a third party’s Web site does not mean that Constellation or Your Realtor endorses it or that we are affiliated with it. Constellation dos not exercise control over third-party Web sites. You access such third-party Web sites or content at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a third-party Web site before providing any information to the Web site.
Constellation does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If Constellation becomes aware that a user is under the age of 13, Constellation will terminate any account that user may have with it. If Constellation becomes aware that it has inadvertently received Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, Constellation will delete such information from its records.
Processing in the United States
Please be aware that your Personal Information may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, or country. If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store all information in the United States. The laws in the United States may not be as protective of your privacy as those in your location. By using the Sites, you agree that the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of your Personal Information will be governed by the applicable laws in the United States.
From time to time, this Privacy Policy may be changed. If this Privacy Policy is changed, you will be informed by posting of the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Those changes will go into effect on the Revision Date shown in the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Sites constitutes your consent to the revised Privacy Policy.
FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS ONLY:
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended from time to time, applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California. The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a California resident, this section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data PortabilityRights. You have the right to request that Constellation disclose certain information to you about its collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. confirms your verifiable consumer request, it will disclose to you:
The categories of Personal Information it collected about you.
The categories of sources for the Personal Information it collected about you.
Its business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
The categories of third parties with whom it shares that Personal Information.
The specific pieces of Personal Information it collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If Constellation sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
Sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights. You have the right to request that Constellation delete any of your Personal Information that it has collected from you and retained, subject to certain exemptions. Once Constellation receives and confirms your verifiable consumer request, Constellation will delete (and direct its service provider(s) to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exemption applies.
Constellation may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Constellation or its service provider(s) to:
Complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of its ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546, et seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with Constellation.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights. To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to Constellation by either:
Calling us at (877) 450-0088
Email us at info@marketleader.com
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows Constellation to reasonably verify you are the person about whom Constellation collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows Constellation to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
Constellation cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if it cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with Constellation. Constellation will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format. Constellation endeavors to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If more time is required (up to 90 days), you will be informed of the reason and extension period in writing by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures Constellation provides will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response Constellation provide will also explain the reasons it cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, Constellation will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Constellation does not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If Constellation determines that the request warrants a fee, it will tell you why that decision was made and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Other California Privacy Rights. California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code § 1798.83) permits users of the Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding Constellation’s disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to ccpa@marketleader.com or write us at 3363 136th Place SE, Bellevue, WA 98006.
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 6833 Quail Hill Pkwy , Irvine, CA 92603 O: 949.552.2000
CalDRE#: 01411020
6833 Quail Hill Pkwy
© 2020 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act . Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.
CalDRE# - 00616212. Greater Los Angeles Company: 9300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 273-3113; Orange County and Desert Resorts: 5161 California Ave Ste 250, Irvine, CA 92617 (949) 385-8900; San Diego Company 13520 Evening Creek Drive North, Suite 430A, San Diego, CA 92128 (858) 755-0500
© 2020 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Terms of Use Privacy Policy Fair Housing Accessibility Statement Site Map Admin Login
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2337
|
__label__cc
| 0.693305
| 0.306695
|
« Lessons from Demonland, Part Two
Kevin MacDonald & Greg Johnson to Speak in Stockholm »
Russians are Not #Ourguys
With the recent firing of James Comey, the Trump-driven media cycle is complete and the inability of the Alt Right to grasp geopolitical leadership has become apparent.
In this article, I will put forward why I think the Syrian missile strike was A Good Thing, and why the Alt Right reaction was not merely self-defeating, but actually exposed critical flaws within the movement. The extreme negativity in response to the Syria strike was, at its peak, ridiculous, and showed a brittle inability to compromise with reality.
Trump has always been a one-way man-crush for the Alternative Right. Like a beta orbiter fuming in his bedroom that a girl who is only dimly aware of him has “betrayed” him by acting on her own initiative and taking someone else to the prom, the “Honeymoon is definitely over” (Mike Enoch’s phrase) is only of the Alt Right’s volition. The Honeymoon is only over insofar as the Alt Right has read motivations into Trump’s Syria strike that are purely speculative and likely do not exist. The Alt Right can only remain TrumpTrain passengers, able to pile on weight to increase momentum, but not much else. So why bail now, so early into his Presidency?
The one-way, ideologically blinkered rationale that Trump has bent the knee to the “kikes” is an allegation born of circumstance. However, Trump cannot afford ideology. He is the President of the United States, and Richard Spencer is an otherwise unemployed activist. Trump has responsibilities that are formalized by holding office, and the figures of the Alt Right are able to freewheel and dispense speculation and ideology as they please. Trump was elected to MAGA, not to immediately force through an isolationist agenda because it suits the Alt Right’s prejudices and one-track thinking. Trump, according to TRS, Spencer, and Counter-Currents (I don’t keep up with the Stormer) has betrayed his loyal fans and acquiesced to Israeli influence. I don’t believe he has done any such thing, and now that the last debris of the last Hebrew Hammers has been swept away, I think it is clear that the Alt Right’s hysterics have been totally premature and unjustified.
Let us consider some geopolitical realities. The United States is a maritime power whose strength is primarily projected through its allies. The only reason it can rack up trillions of dollars in debt is because of the strength of the petrodollar, which BRICS and those in their spheres of influence have been gradually building the infrastructure and alliances to circumvent. The dollar and the stability of NATO and North America as an economic whole is constantly under direct threat of being knocked off the perch of world leadership by a multipolar alliance. The Alternative Right is also blinkered to the point of idiocy if it believes that the subsequent economic stagnation and eventual collapse would be to its benefit. Should the West’s standing on the world stage diminish to the point of dollar and euro irrelevance – two currencies wedded on a multi-tier cake of military adventurism, arms sales, and technical innovation – the Alt Right would likely succumb to retrograde paramilitary, revolutionary fanatics, and get utterly smashed in a failed stab against “ZOG.” For those that read the Saker, who rail against “AngloZionists,” the good news is that we are the AngloZionists. The only reason a few of us are able to support ourselves through Web readership and Alt Right pursuits is because military dominance keeps the lights on.
I subscribe strongly to the narrative that Syrian intervention is “another pipeline war” based on securing Middle Eastern real estate to allow for a Qatari-Turkish natural gas pipeline to be built through western Syria that would in turn feed central Europe and the UK. The UK produces roughly half its own natural gas, with about forty percent coming from Europe. Russia, in turn, supplies Europe with between thirty to forty percent of its natural gas. It’s a big chunk. From 2010 until 2015, we (Brits) had a string of very hard winters that pushed us almost to the point of the gas running out entirely. Only about a fifth of our gas comes through liquefied natural gas tankers due to the prohibitive cost, likely chiefly from Qatar, the world’s top LNG exporter. This is a measure of necessity to stop our pensioners freezing to death in the winter months. The cost and supply of energy is critical to geopolitical independence and quality of life for anyone in the world, and especially Brits and Scots. Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners appears as a pledge in every UK political party manifesto.
Access to Qatari gas is a very real concern in the UK as it breaks a dependence on Russian supplies – a country that has struck at Europe’s heart before, and considers Eastern European states to be de facto Russian property by virtue of its military reach and former colonization. This aside, UK arms sales are essential to retaining the industrial capacity needed to maintain the ability to project power worldwide. Guns, aircraft, and aircraft maintenance and expertise go to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and understandably they want pipeline access to the European gas market in return. These sales sustain the US-UK coalition of arms manufacture that would otherwise be overtaken by Sino-Russian cooperation.
Trump is pursuing this and making deals. He is bringing billions to the US and protecting Western European coalition partners, and getting the Saudis their pipeline, or at least encouraging them to think so, which is essential to closing arms deals. Aside from expensive planes, the United States, at least until Trump brings back Apple manufacturing, makes . . . nothing. Without these arms sales, the human capital in the industry dissipates and doesn’t come back, by which time our nations would be even further behind than we already are in the critical game of electronic warfare.
Investment in future platforms for conventional and emerging fifth-generation warfare should be seen as critical. Demographic warfare is not the only warfare, and the Alt Right needs to understand that should our nations find themselves unable to fight a conventional war against longstanding rivals, then whites in the West will be jeopardized. The relative financial security of the West is not a given and comes at the expense of alliance-building and military investment.
The Qatari pipeline was stumped by Assad, which triggered the flow of both lethal and non-lethal aid from Western powers into Syria in support of “moderate rebels,” including ISIS’ iconic Toyota Hilux trucks (distributed through NGO cover groups), satellite phones, medical supplies, and wire-guided TOW missiles – a real pick-and-mix of goodies for the organ-munching Syrian opposition. Obama allowed the Russians to play him and removed the “chemical weapons” pretext for intervention by making a deal with Assad, and the UN supervised the destruction of the Syrian stockpiles, thus illustrating that he cared little for the blood and treasure that had been spent in Iraq to secure US-UK stability in years to come.
At this point, readers are probably disgusted with me for being sympathetic to multi-billion dollar/pound arms companies and their (our) strategic partners in the Middle East. But consider.
Before the Tomahawk strike was launched, the White House was in confusion about what their policy on Syria was, and it was generally agreed that the United States would abandon its strategic interests and slink away, allowing Russia to militarize Syria and escalate its sales of air defense systems off the back of that, and bring those around it – China, Iran, and India – deeper into cooperation.
Having shown that the US lacked the will to fight, applying pressure on China to cooperate on trade would be a non-starter. The Chinese Premier was present for the strikes for the specific reason of showing that Trump would no longer allow Russian expansionism and creating a stranglehold on the European gas market.
A Syria led by Assad that has defeated ISIS and settled into peace is also no friend to the West, having established military independence through cooperation with Moscow and become a no-fly zone to it. And what to do with the literally millions of “refugees” who have travelled through the region to arrive on Europe’s doorstep? There is no reason to think that Assad would welcome these people back, given that they opted to Syrexit. He could simply refuse to take them. Then where would these displaced peoples go? And in what way could he be made to accept them?
The “red line” in the region has nothing to do with chemical weapons. It’s the red line where Russian expansion sabotages trade deals that could otherwise be negotiated. Assad has been put under enormous pressure by Putin to remain stable and refuse the West, otherwise Russia’s economic mainstay would suffer. Yes, Russian and Iranian gas might be cheaper, and yes, the Turks might be trying their damned best to demographically destroy us, even as they fund our aerospace industry by enlisting the UK to develop their planes. But the Turks don’t supply the Taliban with IEDs to blow up British soldiers. Russia does.
The Alt Right, especially its American mainstay, is in a malaise. Since the Syria strikes, its intellectual leaders have been licking their wounds and feeling sorry for themselves that Trump would (seemingly) listen to The Jew (((Kushner))) instead of their unrealistic, principles-first American isolationism policy.
I have every sympathy for those who want peace. But there is nothing I detest more than peaceniks – those who refuse to acknowledge that life is a struggle, and that sometimes war is necessary to secure future prosperity, or even basic survival. Without Middle Eastern wars on the neocon hitlist, American hegemony is threatened, and our “way of life” – read: First World luxury – is directly threatened. There is a reason these wars are waged, and that reason isn’t simply “the Jews.” A tangential, correlating benefit does not translate into a direct cause. To imply that (((ethnocentric networking))) is responsible for all our military adventurism and interventionism is to flatly deny that we have any autonomy at all, and to reason oneself into a position of revolutionary fervor. There is no way a collapse of our energy security or arms industries helps us. The Alt Right has been throwing a tantrum over principles of non-interventionism, and the death of Syrian brown people who are alleged not to matter to us anyway.
Trump, exploiting a shock-horror video produced for this explicit purpose, undid the legacy of Obama’s weakness and willingness to make a losing compromise in the face of determined opposition. The cost of the Tomahawk missiles that were launched is nothing in comparison to the money saved by securing a multi-billion dollar arms deal by checking Russian advancement in the region. Through a single decisive act, Trump has set America back on a course for military dominance through being agile, volatile, and assertive in our interests. He has brought jobs to America, restored American hegemony, and shored up the normie vote. This has all been accomplished without putting a single white American soldier in the Middle East or committing to a quagmire and eventual meat grinder of “bringing democracy” through occupation. Trump has capitalized on this win and swiftly pursued greater gains by leaning on North Korea, and the Chinese are now applying pressure to the Norks independently to end their nuclear program, all by using assets the US already has, and all with the minimum loss of life.
It is probably in Trump’s interest to distance himself from the Alt Right and collaborate with the deep state and media agencies to a degree to end the continual media hounding that threatens to make his a one-term Presidency. The same news agencies that were breathlessly reporting on a Tomahawk strike against a Russian ally a few weeks ago are now trying to revive their Russian Connection narrative. While not yet humiliated, they are floundering and on the back foot. The deep state, enlisted in the Tomahawk strike, probably thought they could count on Trump as one of their own. But Comey’s firing puts them on the back foot also, and proves that they have not assimilated him. Those in Camp Clinton are probably looking over their shoulders, as the possibility remains that they can now be fired without warning. The stage for this was set with the Syria strike, a firm statement that he is acting in America’s interest, not Russia’s.
The Alt Right grew from recognizing demographic realities. But there are geopolitical realities that cannot be simply ignored or dismissed as Jewish manipulation. As a politically immature movement, the Alt Right bailed on Trump before the results of the strike had shaken out. Political leadership and international bullying to ensure compliance requires constant camouflage, shapeshifting, deal-cutting, and pressing tactical advantages.
Plenty of ink has been spilled about how the United States has reduced Europe to “vassal states,” but the Alt Right is an Anglospherian entity, cross-pollinated and in cooperation with the European New Right. This is who we are. Our culture is parallel to our international cooperation.
When Richard Spencer took to the streets with a megaphone to protest against Trump, he betrayed a political animal who has done more than anyone else to make America aware of Richard Spencer. He also painted himself into a corner as a peacenik, someone on the cultural fringe with an anti-state ideology who is prepared to sacrifice America’s interests for his own sensibilities. When Mike Enoch knee-jerkingly reacted that the Alt Right’s tenure in Trumpian politics was “fucking over,” he signaled to TRS listeners that the Alt Right is not prepared to compromise with reality, not prepared to deal with, enter, or negotiate with existing power structures, existing alliances, or really existing facts on the ground about who the hell buys American products, and what has to be done to deliver the trade deals, the winning, and the great quality of life that he promised.
Trump is now in a position to accelerate his brand of implicitly white civic nationalism, with acquiescence from the deep state that he is not going to compromise the vital national security interest whilst doing so. Like the MOAB (Mother of All Blessings), the Tomahawk strike flattened the opposition – domestically and internationally. Trump has set policy, set leadership, and established dominance with effectively zero cost. The Syria strike was a win, and America is winning again.
Published: May 12, 2017 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged 2017 Syria strike, Alt Right and geopolitics, arms sales, Bain Dewitt, Bashar al-Assad, China, Donald Trump, James Comey firing, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, Qatari pipeline, Russia, Syrian Civil War. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Is there anyone at all that is #OurGuys?
Matt Crawford
Wrong, dead wrong, and absolutely WRONG! Wrong because it does not recognize that nation states are dead and ethno-nationalism is the only policy that can save the White Genome. Our Race Is Our Nation. PERIOD. The Russians are the best hope for a resurgent White race. Geo-politics upon the model in the article is based upon merely contemporary concerns – all of which are survivable by a White middle class once it realizes the U.S. is its enemy. We are the niggers now! The death of this nation is the only means by which we can attain political autonomy and take back what our Forefathers created. Depression, civil war, environmental havoc, international war – even a nuclear winter- ALL are preferable to the slow destruction of our communities and the enticement of our women to miscegenation. Whatever havoc ensues, we have within us the capacity to remake our civilization in two generations. Liberalism will die the moment our women and children are hungry. Our manliness will return. Necessity is the mother of invention – and considering the power of the Zog establishment and our social weakness it is only when the power turns off and the country is in shreds that we as a people will rise anew.
The least thing we can afford is to retreat and revert back to the banal, shopworn, repeatedly tried and failed idea under the banner of maintaining “national interest”, “American hegemony”, “our life style” and so on that have drained and atrophied the Western White men to the breaking point in the last thirty years. Such a thing only served the oligarchic and Jewish Interest (Israeli and the diaspora Jews) but somehow remains persistently and hauntingly deceptive and attractive to some susceptible and superficial minds of ostensibly White Nationalist elements. This article that looks indubitably and diametrically opposed to the theme of CC but was nonetheless accepted and published on great website, thanks to the kind generosity of Dr. Johnson in showing an as broad range of varied voices as possible from the White Nationalist camp, is a telling example. Mr. Dewitt sang high praises of Trump’s missile attack on Assad, calls for a more confrontational stance against Syria, Iran and Russia, and argues exactly for more foreign wars of interventionism and more imperial endeavors to “advance the Anglo and American geopolitical interest” in the Middle East and to clench arms and pipeline deals, indeed an unabashed and flagrant brandishing of the lurid and jaw-dropping neocon imperial war and Israel-First ideology and apology. For all conceivable denial of the author, it is factually so.
How is civic nationalism different from wiggers? You cannot paint a nigger white and say that he is European. America is already a Congo country of quadroons (Jeff Sessions) and twerking sheboons. It is too late. You are already Brazil.
76daze
The author makes a cargory error, I believe, in criticizing Enoch and Spencer while defending Trump. He correctly indentifies Trump as a political entity without also indentifiying Enoch and Spencer as ideological entites. It is the function of, even the duty of ideologues to push political actors as close as possible to ideological consistency. The left understands this well; we should too! If we can’t dream our future, who in hell will ever follow us?
Also, it does not follow that becuase Spencer and Enoch protest the Syria strike that they are painted into a corer as “peaceniks” forever. Does the author honestly believe that there are no circumstances under which these two would call to arms or themselves fight? I invite him to use his imagination.
Peter J
Crazy how the neo-con stuff takes its moral light from the “Winter Fuel Allowance”….
Imperialism is just “bad”…we simply need to stop it. We have the people and resources to defend ourselves (if we wish) and to lead a prosperous existence. That’s all we need….
Spencer Quinn
I’m reminded of Samuel Huntington’s list of great civilizations in his great work Clash of Civilizations. In it, the civilizations were largely delimited by race or religion (in the case of Islam). One exception was the European West (Western/Central Europe, the US, Canada, Australia/NZ) vs Russia. Russia was its own civilization despite being as white as the European West.
I wasn’t sold on that, and I am still not. But Bain’s post shook that belief a little bit, suggesting that perhaps the Russians, as Asiatic white people always looking as much to the east as to the west, are indeed different enough from the rest of us to have significantly differing political priorities.
As an amateur Russophile, I *hope* that’s not true, but I really don’t know enough about it to opine further.
The only thing in Dewitt’s article that indicates that is the title. The rest is just standard boomer conservative apologism for supporting the present system.
Vejour
Woooow… Such a level of cuckoldry is beyond imagination !
I think Counter Currents has been attacked by a professional troll of the NewYorkTimes… I want to believe it at least.
Juston
Probably the worst article I’ve ever read on CC. This is Colin Liddell tier utter condescending shit. If you’re so concerned about US/UK military hegemony and defense industry jobs for the little White ppl, then suit up and go fight your White economic jihad yourself. FYI, we do have uniformed troops on the ground in Syria. Trump sent a Marine Expeditionary Unit ashore in Syria. This is an obvious violation of commonly held international law as the Syrian gov’t has not invited nor approved of such an invasion by armed US troops. What happens when some of these US Marines are attacked and killed by our Judeo-Wahabi allies…derrr I mean brutal dictator Assad’s forces? Well, obviously tough guy Trump will have to play some more multi-dimensional chess and prove to the world and the (((press))) that he’s not a weakling like Obama and lead us into another unwinnable war for Israel. But hey, wave that flag goy and be grateful for your factory job machining that tiny metal gizmo in order that we don’t lose our military dominance vis a vis the BRIC countries.
Also, wasn’t it possible for Trump to simply hold to his 2013 position of not attacking Syria over a highly suspicious alleged gas attack? Couldn’t he have simply told the press that he would wait for an investigation to determine the origin of the supposed gas attack and then bring those responsible to justice? Wouldn’t that have sent a message to China et al that Trump is firm in his convictions and not prone to political pandering and catering to special lobby groups? The author seems to believe that this wasn’t possible and/or desirable from our perspective and based on our interests. The US/UK defense and energy industries would have carried on as usual. Trump’s attack on Syria may not have been a nation-building war for muh democracy etc but it was absolutely a betrayal of his campaign promises and his base of supporters. If he is willing to do a 180 on this…what next? Glad to see that virtually no one in our camp is buying this bullshit….Mr. DeWitt not withstanding.
Trump’s ratings went up after the strike. China lifts decade long ban on US beef, resulting in many happy gweilo farmer. This is how these things work.
I mostly disagree with you Bain, although I appreciate your contrarian take.
You are correct in saying that Trump has betrayed no one, since he was never an Alt-Righter. Also, the idea that TRS and others have floated according to which the Alt-Right played a crucial role in his election is simply false.
It does not really matter, since only extreme naïvité could await radical change from the new President. Ever since his cabinet was anounced (which was far, far worse news that the Syria strike), I was convinced that Trump is basically the new Reagan. The only difference is that, unlike Reagan, Trump is probably smart and does have some ideas, based on those newspaper ads he paid for in the past, and his record of public statements.
But his Administration will probably follow the Reagan path: tax cuts for the rich, lots of military spending and debt, some wars (which might be fought through proxies, just like Reagan did) and plenty of symbolic gestures that ultimately mean nothing. A new narrative will be put together by the emerging (alt-lite) right-wing media similar to the on-going canonization of Reagan, but at the end of the day the chances that something really changed are slim. The immigration question will be the real test.
The problem with your article Brian, is that you fall for the usual conservative tropes, such as Obama’s “weakness”. Give me a break. Obama has ruled as a moderate Republican of the past, which is also why Dems lost the 2016 run: why bother with the copy when you can get the original?
All in all, your piece strongly reminds me of the Spengler articles from David P. Goldman, in which he often demands American investment in war technology to keep an edge over Russia and China. You also display a lot of that crude geopolitical realism he is known for.
But at the end of the day, what are you? A civic-nationalist-cum-American-exceptionalist like Goldman or a white nationalist?
One of the most frustating things within this community is to see how close to the jingoism of old many people still are. You end your piece stating that “America is winning”. It is not, the American Empire might be winning, but not America. Just like the British Empire won WW1 and Britain lost the war. All your countrymen, sadly, died for nothing. That’s why your derision about Spencer being a “peacenik” rings so hollow.
Any nation loses the moment it becomes an empire.
Ken Cox
FWIW, the landing of Marines on foreign soil does not violate international law in the conventional or common sense use of the phrase. However, the landing of Marines may constitute a private criminal act on the part of the respective head of state who ordered the Marines to land on foreign soil. The landing of Army soldiers corresponds to an act of war; whereas, the landing of Marines may correspond to a police action, an embassy rescue, a private criminal act by a head of state, etc, etc. In that light, then, the attempt to rescue the American hostages held by Iran during the Carter administration constituted an act of war, since it utilized elements from the Army, Air Force and Navy, in addition to Marines. Had the rescue effort utilized only Marines, it would have fallen short of an act of war and would then have constituted a criminal act by President Carter, had anyone sought to press charges. The American presidents have used US Marines many times in the past as an extension of foreign policy, short of war; notably Panama and the various islands of the Caribbean in the 1920’s and ’30’s. Moral, ethical? Probably not. Violation of international law? Arguably not. Now, something illegal and unconstitutional did happen in Syria by the act of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a four star Marine Corps General) physically visiting Syria and giving direct orders to Marine commanders in the field. THAT violated US law. If the American republic still existed (it died in 1913), someone should have brought criminal charges against both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President (then Obama). But the landing of Marines on foreign soil? Defensible. Not ethical or moral, but legally defensible under international law and the law of the high seas.
Since when did neocons start writing for counter currents?
Since the alt-right forgot they are meant to represent the material interests of whites, instead of a bunch of abstract principles like isolationalism, international law and campaign promises.
Not “the material interests of whites.” The racial interests of whites. Putting material interests first can easily lead to the destruction of whites and their culture. Which is exactly what has been happening.
Being duped into putting “material interests” is how we got Jewed.
You’ve said it all. That’s the great Anglo blind spot.
Why do you conflate white interests with those of US empire?
DrewTexan
Bain is conflating white supremacy with white nationalism. Actually the alt-right should thank him for doing so since it is about time to have this debate. The western elite are really white supremacists. They are whiter than the general populations they lead, and they mostly aim to keep the elite demographics as they are. Bain expects alt-right whites to take existential pride (Hinduism btw is all about this) in that the elites that “are winning” will be more white, and have always been more white (He rightly counts Jews in this group, since they intermarried long ago and many are crypto), even as the system decimates the non-elite populations the world over, including non-elite whites.
American Empire must be destroyed if Europe, the West and the white race are to survive. Unless you really think Trump is God-Emperor.
1RW
Assad did call for Syrians to come home. He probably needs the cannon fodder to finish the reconquest of the country he is president of. And you know, a tax base for when things settle down. So at least one assertion incorrect.
Russia views the east European countries as its property – this challenges the US elite’s view that they are in fact US property. No thought is spared for the why – Russia, based on experience, wishes to have some strategic depth vis-a-vis Western Europe, which tends to strike at the heart of Russia before the inevitable Russian counter-strike at the heart of Europe. Honestly, can’t we figure this out already? It never ends well.
Finally, did a boomer cuck write this? Is the only principle a comfortable existence? Is there no ability to connect events with the past? Somehow Russia’s action to shore up a longtime ally is expansionism. Trump’s act of unprovoked military aggression against another country which posed no threat to the US has no perceived downside. Of course the downside is there, Trump basically did a 180 on his Syria position – which was one of the reasons I supported him. Not sure how it played on the geopolitical side, Russians didn’t seem too impressed. Not sure what the Chinese got out of it.
I know Greg Johnson is a Russophobe, but is that an excuse for publishing NeoCon screed?
nineofclubs
‘Without Middle East wars on the neo-con hitlist … our … ‘First World luxury’ is directly threatened.’
A fairly mainstream perspective, but I wonder how accurate it is. In my view, the supreme threat to national hegemony in Australia, the US and most of Europe is the globalist system of corporate capitalism as practiced since about 1975.
Back in the 1980’s Australia’s neo-cons were frothing at the mouth about the threat of communism as represented by the Soviet Union. Outside of some influence over the trade union movement, there is no evidence to suggest that the USSR had any interest in influencing Australian politics or undermining our sovereignty, other than to counteract the unquestionable (and far greater) American influence that was being exerted here at the time.
This collective hysteria about Communism enabled an environment where global corporate finance got the free pass it needed to open borders, disposses native workers and transfer wealth from the nation to international big business. The boomer Right was comfortable with all of this, because there weren’t Soviet tanks in the streets of Melbourne.
But here’s a thought. Perhaps the banking and finance systems that we’ve taken for granted since WW2 – and especially since the 70’s – pose a far greater threat to our sovereignty AND our first world lifestyles than Russia or all the secular Arabic dictatorships put together.
Perhaps, too, the notion that Middle East wars are necessary for prosperity is based on an assumed dependency on imported oil that’s already looking less likely as technology advances.
If Western nations were to throw off the yoke of money created by corporate banks as interest bearing debt, our first world lifestyles could be protected and even advanced without foreign wars for oil. Those who argue otherwise are – in my opinion – either ignorant of the greater forces that shape our collective futures, or a part of those very forces.
Just another Brit who can’t get over empire, and has no understanding of America as already being a post-white society.
Limp men with grey hairs living in the past. You see this time and time again.
“Without Middle Eastern wars on the neocon hitlist, American hegemony is threatened, and our “way of life” – read: First World luxury – is directly threatened.”
Oy vey, my boomer shekels are threatened!!! Oh my Gawd, if the economy goes to shit, those nasty nawtzies might rise to power again, just like they did after the great depression!
I think Dewitt is a pseudonym for Brzezinski. Same effect: decent enough writing to make you consider the proposition that American hegemony is good, but ultimately spiritually hollow and evil for whites.
We need less money and more discomfort if we are to change course as a society. I for one embrace economic depression as a opportunity for change, though personally I wouldn’t benefit.
The author misses the point entirely that the Alt-Right is not interested in bolstering unsustainable boomer lifestyles and Brazil style plantation white affluence. All of these geo-political intrigues are very much the province of the people my 70 year old father talks and listens to. They are just the kind of thing that the nice white country we all want to see someday needs to take several steps back from.
“But the Turks don’t supply the Taliban with IEDs to blow up British soldiers. Russia does.” Where did the author get this bit of intelligence? Even the mainstream media has been careful to say that Russia “may” be supporting the Taliban, without giving details of this supposed aid. And the Taliban probably need no help in making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to kill Tommy Atkinses or anyone else in Afghanistan.
If perpetual war or arms spending justification/market cultivation is what you desire (or to give Dewitt the benefit of doubt is your best case scenario) then you’d want to arm your enemies sufficiently so as to be able to point to them as a credible threat, no?
Michael L.Woodbridge
Pleased to see Bain Dewitt’s thought provoking contribution on Counter Currents.
There’s a danger for us old cynics to see everything in terms of Jewish manipulation. For one thing such thinking tends to be self-defeating because it leads to our regarding Jewish influence as invincible, besides which Aryan interests are powerless. Furthermore, it’s just not true to judge all Jews as inimically opposed to our Aryan race and culture. Most of us could cite examples of individual Jews who stand out, heroically in some cases, against the main stream.
If we’re to make an informed political choice it’s vitally important we leave our comfort zones of political or religious bias and make distinctions based on present day reality. This is what Bain Dewitt has tried to do. Although not sufficiently knowledgeable to give a conclusive opinion on Donald Trump’s Presidency, I would caution against throwing the “baby out with the bath water” because of Trumps dubious attack on Syria. It’s quite possible we haven’t heard the end of this particular story.
Thanks for your support Mike. I think reading through the comments here can justify my concern that opposition to ‘the system’ can be so strong as to lead WN’s to support impoverishment of whites and abandoning fighting for our own interests.
The “interests” you speak of are really just “comfort.” If the entire system were to fall apart tomorrow, it would be very uncomfortable, for sure, but it would be more in our long term interests. It won’t necessarily lead to a failed alt right insurrection. Systemic collapse opens up multiple possibilities and paths, I’m sure.
It would probably imperil your pension, sorry to say.
If the system fell apart tomorrow, whites would simply try to rebuild it exactly as it was.
What do you mean by ‘Aryan race’? The Brits have been meddling in the Middle East long before oil pipelines and by Brits I mean fronts for jewish finance interests. It is crazy for Britain to be pouring millions into wind power and hollering about Russian oil/gas. i suppose there are geopolitical angles, but i am sure this is more about pouring money into elite pockets. the jews might refer to whites as aryans, gentiles or goyim, but white encompasses the european diaspora.
Dear Hibiscus,
I use the term Aryan Race in much the same way that the word Albion is used as a poetic term for Britain, or Hibernia is used as a poetic name for Ireland. Aryan epitomises the noble and aspirational aspect of our bloodline and is not meant to be a scientific definition. As I understand it this is the same way that the word Aryan was understood in National Socialist Germany. Hope this answers your question Hibiscus, although I owe Bain an apology for digressing from his subject.
US good….Russia bad bullshit
Anti-Cadre
Is **Jared Kushner** mentioned once in this verbose, inexplicably defensive article? Is this Counter-Currents’ first attempt at clickbait?
I’ll re-read tomorrow with a slow-burning Padron, but surely the author is tossing chum for knee-jerk bites. In the run-up to the Syria strike, which wasn’t so much a “run-up” as winkingly telegraphed Zionism Rising, Ivanka Trump (Yael Kushner) and Jared (Yoel Chaim) were filling champagne glasses with media limelight. Suddenly, Ivanka was officially part of the admin, and tweeting about foreign policy in Syria (wtf?), as Kushner was in Iraq, in a meme-ready metro-hipster photo-op, then photographed in a helicopter. This was no accident. It reeked of NYC Jew media optics. Which Trump is a Wizard of ZOG at. He invested decades into shaping and reshaping Ivanka into her final form, via plastic surgery and media surgery.
The Syria strike and “JaVanka” push occurred at the same time that Steve Bannon was being pushed, no, shoved out. Now, one could say it was simply wishful bullshit on behalf the media to drum up this Kushner vs Bannon narrative. But Trump actually **denied knowing Bannon** prior to the campaign, to the MSM. His statement made national headlines. It was a Comey-drama-tier quote. And shortly before, NY Mag and the (((rest))) were boldly presenting Kushner as the Zuckerberg-esque mysterious mastermind of the campaign, with Bannon reduced to the overrated, pompous drunkard (re: White, racist America Firster). The subtext was that elite Jews in Trump’s family/cabinet (and by proxy, NeoCons in the White House / Knesset) had the upperhand over the alt-right, the “fly-over whites” and the Pat Buchanans.
The alt-right’s stingers were launched at Trump during the Syria strike due to what I stated above. But they weren’t so much gunning at Trump, as at Trump’s self-pleased, unabashed anointing of JaVanka.
Millennials matured in the shadow of the traitorous Neocon Iraq occupation. We were told it was about 9/11 and anthrax. Then WMDs. Then “freedom.” Then, “muh US oil hegemony.” It was about Zionism. It was about Greater Israel. Just as ousting Assad from Syria, leveling Iran, broadcasting Gaddafi’s murder live on CNN, accepting wildcard Muslim immigrants into the US, is about, ding ding ding: Greater Israel. (A much larger fuss was raised when Obama and Kerry tried to invade Syria in 2013, for the same *muh chem weapons tragedy.* Joe Rogan went as apeshit on his podcast in 2013 as most 4channers did this time.)
To argue that the alt-right was premature, or silly, or wrong to spitfire at Trump, in real time via social media and 4chan, during the Syria strike is incredulous. #FireKushner trended on Twitter, thanks to us. Big whup? Everyone noticed. Donald Jr definitely noticed (he let slip that Ivanka was responsible for Daddy’s temper tantrum at Assad; Donald Jr is a media addict like his dad). Kushner, being le kewl Zionist Hackerman, certainly noticed. He’s been laying relatively low since.
Not only did the alt-right keep Bannon in the White House, we sent a message to ZOG. For the first time ever, ever, the cool kids are able to call out Neocons and Zionists as traitorous kikes with a Greater Israel/Israel First agenda. And do it with frog cartoons. Jared Kushner wants Greater Israel to occur in his lifetime. We want MAGA to occur ASAP. One or the other can happen. Kushner has Trump’s daughter in his bed (and Bibi), under Rothschild ltd edition sheets. We have the internet in mom’s basement and enough money for tendies and Death Squad tshirts. The Syria strike was Kushner lifting his demonic leg on the world. So we potty trained the dead-eyed SOB. For now.
John Q
I agree with a lot of what you say, but this “cool kids” mantra some in the Alt-Right seem to be interposing into their discussions reeks of adolescent posturing.
In my mind, the desire to pat oneself on the back and proclaim one’s group to be “the cool kids” smacks of exactly the attitude the author speaks of.
Let’s all become like the feminists and wrap ourselves in our comfy little perspective, toot our own bleating horns, and smugly watch while the Alt-Right falls to dust.
“I told you so!” (Well… at least we were the cool ones…)
Aren’t we sick of ‘compromising with reality’? This is more snake oil but it is pleasing to see this level of concern trolling, tbh.
Sam Cru
We cannot allow the boomer lifestyle to be threatened! No price is to great to accomplish this most noble objective!
This idiotic article appears to contain at least two conspiracies. The stupid Austrian school dollar-oil-military explanation of US foreign policy, and pipeline silliness (debunked here: http://russia-insider.com/en/us-war-against-syrian-state-not-pipeline-war-its-much-worse/ri16602).
The war against Syria may have some tangential benefits for the Washington Borg, but the central cause is Israel’s coldwar with Iran . This is the opinion of Col Pat Lang over at Sic Semper Tyranis, and has served at high levels within the US mil/sec apparatus.
None of these imperial endevours for Israel keep the lights on for us – white Anglo Saxons/Celts. They keep the lights on for our elites who are committed to our replacement. Moreover, the decadent bourgeois ‘way of life’ you are keen to support is precisely what has anesthetized Western man. The Fascists, for example, came to power during times of economic distress. Likewise, contemporary right wing parties in Europe do better when the capitalist cookie machine is malfunctioning. In your vision, ‘we’ stay on top by continuing to buy into a system that will abolish said ‘we’.
As for 5th gen warfare, cash strapped Russia is slowly but surely acquiring those capabilities even as the US spends 1 trillion to create such platforms in the Air Force. The enormous cost of these weapons in the West is thanks to oligarchical private weapons manufacturers. In Russia, most arms companies are state owned or controlled. We don’t need the goddam Saudis to fund our military industrial sector.
Lastly, the main geopolitical competitor of the future will be China. I’d rather like the Rus, a fellow European people, on our side so the slants are flanked by the Russian army to the north and the US navy to the south. Like all Great Powers, Russia will have her sphere of influence. In fact, i think that’s a more stable vision of the future, because a Europe in which all the little countries receive absolute autonomy could easily descend into conflict (consider ‘Greater Hungary’, and ‘Greater Romania’). The tone of this article implies Russia is planning to march into Poland if given half a chance, but Russia only rolls in when ethnic Russians or culturally aligned groups like the Armenians are under threat. The bounds of Russian intervention are thus firmly delimited, even if you disagree with Russian policy on Ukraine.
There aren’t any fascists to come to power regardless of how much economic distress you want to pile on.
That was just one example, dealing with one historical manifestation of the right. The principle in general holds that when a sense of affluence wanes, whatever rightist forces there are wax.
Aitch.
Thanks for tipping me off to Col.Lang. I hadn’t heard of him until now, and his site looks interesting. So do his novels, the first of which I’ll soon be buying.
K R Bolton
The only thing about this article that is agreeable is the rejection of it by CC readers. It’s like being in the 1930s and jumping on a pro-war bandwagon against the Axis, and accepting all the cliches for doing so. The Right blundered during the Cold War with the same banal rhetoric about ‘our way of life’, the excrescence of which was – and still is – avidly dumped over the world in the name of democracy, as per Ty’s allusion to Ralph Peters’ epistles. Now it’s Cold War II and Mr DeWitt seems to be suggesting a re-run.
HOW such a disgusting piece of “Kosher Konservative” GARBAGE was ever allowed to be published on “Counter-Currents”??!! The sheer stupidity of this article is simply amazing! As a White European, I prefer A THOUSAND TIMES Russia and the Russian People over America, and its terminally degenerated, mongrel population! Racially speaking, the USA is about the same as Brazil now(I traveled to Brazilian Amazonia recently, and was very surprised to see that the population there was at least about 30 percent White!…), and has for all practical purpose lost its previous, culturally White caracter… Fact is: America today is now the NUMBER ONE ENNEMY of the White Race! The sooner America’s disgusting geopolitical and cultural hegemony is gone, the better!…
I am sure this perspective will go down well with the majority of white Americans.
White Nationalists want a homeland for white people. They don’t necessarily care much – or at all – for muh flag, muh constitution, muh patriotism, muh USA, and many would happily see it all burn to achieve that goal.
If white nationalists remain unsympathetic to the masses, then the masses will remain unsympathetic to white nationalists.
These aren’t the peaceful, prosperous and racially homogenous post-war decades anymore, when one could still have the luxury of political apathy. The white masses are turning WN/racialist in droves at this very moment for the simple reason they don’t have anywhere else to go, because they realize that “the system” – your vaunted US empire – is actively working against the interests of its founding peoples.
LOL. That is EXACTLY the argument that the Jews have been using for decades to, successfully, turn the Republican party into an anti-white tool of Jewish interests.
“Minority outreach.” “Anti-racism.” “The ‘conservative’ case for gay ‘marriage.'” “Amnesty.” All of these anti-white policies are sold on the basis of that sly Jewish mantra, “We need to make ourselves more ‘inclusive.'” And the result has been entirely predictable: A fully cucked “right-wing” party that’s just as much Leftist and anti-white, culturally, as the Democrats.
Rufis Maximum
Didn’t Evola say something about appealing to the masses? This article is profoundly misguided. Neocon wars in the Middle East, for material interests, directly harm Europe, through the flow of refugees. In effect, the author is an advocate for further damage to Europe, and since Russian nationalists aren’t advocating such a thing, I tend to think it may actually be Americans who are /notourguys/ over here on the mother continent. By all means, pursue your ((( interests ))) but all you’re doing is increasing our sympathy to Moscow’s position, which is already huge in France, Italy, and elsewhere. Richard Spencer is right on this issue. You are wrong.
“When Richard Spencer took to the streets with a megaphone to protest against Trump, he betrayed a political animal who has done more than anyone else to make America aware of Richard Spencer. He also painted himself into a corner as a peacenik, someone on the cultural fringe with an anti-state ideology who is prepared to sacrifice America’s interests for his own sensibilities.”
With all do respect Mr. Dewitt, one can say that you are willing to sacrifice the future just to stay a warm for a few months. Just saying.
That which is not expanding is being overtaken. Retreating from defending our interests is just that, retreating. It serves no purpose. Speculation about Jewish control is hearsay, but a multi-billion arms deal is concrete. Frankly, it’s laughable that a bunch of alleged White Nationalists would want to throw away the last remaining real industry of the UK & US. It isn’t Jews making those planes, it’s blue collar white guys.
Jewish control is Speculation? Look at the names, pal.
When you say “defending our interests,” you are talking about the interest of the American globalist system, not about white interests.
As for military material being the only industry we have left….yea…that’s because our JEWED system sent the rest of our industry overseas. Yet you want to preserve this system!
Well, writing as an “alleged White nationalist,” I wouldn’t surprised if, as was argued by the late Chalmers Johnson, the arms industry is actually a net drain on the economy, diverting and squandering resources that would be better used elsewhere. That means that this “real industry” is positively harmful to the interests of the nation and its people. It may create employment for a few, but it may also create unemployment for many through its large-scale malinvestment of resources. (Indeed, it is fitting that the illustration at the top of this article is of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an aircraft that exemplifies everything that’s wrong with the military-industrial-congressional complex. It’s way behind schedule, way over budget, way over-sold, and way under-performing. One wonders if the “joint strike” in its name means “double whammy.”)
It would make sense to divert much or most of the money spent on “defense” (actually, armed forces that are never used to defend national interests) into rebuilding industries. But such a policy may be so common-sensical as to be “laughable.”
Cobbett
Supplying sand niggers with weapons is one thing…taking sides in their civil wars is another. And “we” ain’t the Anglo-Zionists(I’m English and I detest America)
This comes across as something a Boomer conservative would write for The Weekly Standard.
He is basically trying to argue that we somehow benefit from the current system of international finance and Zionist foreign policy being preserved and perpetuated.
Mr. Dewitt, fuck our “lifestyle” if it means that this system must go on. As for Assad not taking back the migrants…well….most of them
aren’t even Syrian! Why should he? They should just be returned to the Mediterranean.
@Michael Bell
I gave him the benefit of the doubt, because that is obviously a radioactive opinion to come into counter-currents with; but yeah, it does sound conservative-boomery. Our lifestyle has made us all existentially miserable, propping it up can’t last forever. As for Syria, you are absolutely correct: most of the “migrants” are about as “Syrian” as James Brown.
Edgardo de la Vega
Hmm… just about every Syrian I’ve personally encountered were Arabanid Caucasoids. Most of those refugees were actually sub-Saharan & mulatto types. Anyway, I found the above article to be excessively materialistic at the expense of obviously higher concerns. That’s all I have to say about it.
Looks like the comments hit on most of the flaws in this article. I would just say this about one point the author makes among the plethora of justifications he has thrown against the wall without enough substance to make them stick. He mentions preserving “a way of life”. Yes, this is usually a legitimate reason to go to war, whether offensive or defensive. But the author forgets or dismisses, just as neoconservatives and neoliberals do and did in this election to their detriment, that this phrase is describing part of a social contract between the mass of people and the elites that lead them. It follows, we take from others to live the way we do here. Well okay. But someone needs to tell this author that the way many Trump voters/working class/Alt-right live here is difficult and altogether unsustainable. There is no shame is stating this group, we, are the economic and cultural losers, and the consequence of this losing is devastation to each loser’s standard of living. We are losers in this system, and yes it is radicalizing us (according to the Saint Louis Fed, 22% of middle age Americans with a college degree are millionaires. They’re not in the Alt-right to be sure). I say all this so as to head off any appeal to ego or attempt to shame.
And I am sure this author’s response without missing a beat would be basically “you don’t know how bad it can get”. Well thanks dad, but believe it or not there is a point when rational adults are willing to fight and possibly lose all that’s left because they do not see it as worth much anymore. They may be wrong, but that’s where we stand today.
Rod Horner
I doubt very much the alt-right would have throw their hands up in such a fashion had Trump been delivering on other implicitly white goods from his campaign. What you saw was a reaction from people who might or might not appreciate the geopolitical angle, but are far more concerned about the fact of their demographic erasure while their tax dollars and vulnerable children pay for the process in spades.
Answers to the question of foreign policy are not uniform in the alt-right. Even TRS is home to those who supported the Syrian intervention and mock the idea that Russia is anything but self-interested. The question has always been one of demographics and the related culture war. So if the Empire continues to neglect white interests, they can only expect white advocates to ignore the interests of the Empire in turn.
Gary G
The United States is struggling to develop export market for its own LNG from fracking wells. Replacing US exports with Qatari exports of gas only hobbles America.
BroncoColorado
For a moment the article appeared to be an attempt at sarcasm of the neocon ways of thought, but no, Bain Dewitt appears to be serious. We are expected to believe that British governments care about the welfare of their pensioners and would be distressed to see them die of cold owing to an interruption of natural gas supplies! Mr Dewitt, what color is the sky of the Zio planet you hail from? I have news for you, all Western governments couldn’t give a shit about their White unemployed and pensioners, they want them off the planet asap and replaced by more ‘diversity’.
As far as “geopolitical imperatives” go, I’ll only say that Jews were conquered for thousands of years, yet persisted as an ethnicity. Whites meanwhile conquered everyone, yet are at the doorstep of being completely extinct, as with many a glorious people in the past. I’d rather we choose the other path.
Eh, this article reeks of arm chair warrior hysteria and neocon drivel. I can’t help but think of the various “experts” on fox news calling for war and other people to die reading this, the oil pipeline theory leaves out greater Israel.
A British person trying to get Americans to use American blood and American treasure to secure British interests…who could have imagined or predicted such a thing?
What interests might these be?
You seem to ignore the fact that every one of these foreign adventures since 9-11 have been failures. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria have all fallen into chaos which in turn has led directly to the never ending waves of brown hordes washing up on Europe’s shores. If it was mainly about these pipelines, the neocons would have replaced these regimes with another secularish strongmen who were more amendable to their plans but of course they haven’t done that. How is creating Thunderdome in these areas going to make it easier to lay down and maintain these pipelines? Also, it seems you think that the deep state is going to eventually send these invaders back? They’ll never do that of their own volition. Finally, the Syria strikes are not the only thing the Alt-Right is upset about. What about all the cucka doodle dooing Trump has done since then? Should we get back to the 4-d mahjong in regards to that as well?
Most people in this sphere think racially/ethnically, that is why they want better relations with Russia. The system you are describing is viewed as the one most likely to erase our race. Most in this sphere want the entire system you’ve described to go away. I think you are coming at this from the standard conservative viewpoint, while the Alt-Righters want a completely new paradigm and a multipolar world- that would actually be a real ‘struggle’ to create, maintaining the status quo is a lot less of a struggle. Also, lobbing missiles from far away and bombing bomberless peoples does not show willingness to fight; it shows weakness, to most folks at least.
The ‘multipolar world’ is a smokescreen phrase used to describe the economic and military overtaking of primarily America, UK, France and Germany by Russ-China and allied powers. Through a process never properly explained or described, this is allegedly going to convert a lot of people to the mission of creating a new ethnostate. Hordes of refugees didn’t make things bad enough, damnit, if only our whole financial system collasped!
Being against ‘the system’ is a worse-is-better thinking, but worse is just worse. A white man without a job can’t buy a house and start a family. The economic decline of the West does not make people automatically racist. If Islamic trucks of peace aren’t generating Islamophobia, why would empty shelves make people White Nationalists? These are assumptions that need to be challenged. More often than not, they are wishful thinking that somehow a crisis will turn out in our favour.
News Flash: A white man [or enough people in the nearly extinct ‘middle class’] without an [adequate] job can’t buy a house and start a family. Check out the data. Then tell us more about how that is just the basket of deplorables’ and pitiable losers’ own fault, and not the result of an intentional function of ‘the system’.
I don’t know that Mr. DeWitt has considered that continuing this system will lead to less and less family formation among the people who would be instrumental in propping it up. It already has had that effect. In essence, it is multiculturalism.
PuerCalide
Though I hate to use Newspeak, the alt-right is not “monolithic.” There are a great many of us who do not care a damn for American hegemony nor for our “way of life.” If anything, I pity those in the third world who are faced with the prospect of joining America’s sphere of influence. Inevitably they will trade their traditions and value sets for those of (((Hollywood))) – “liberated” women, transgenders, effeminate men, and pervasive materialism and secularism.
Embracing pragmatism and compromising on rightist principles does not seem to me a good plan. That is precisely how the alt-right could fizzle out and become another Tea Party: edgy cucks in other words.
Your analysis is very interesting and certainly more geopolitically astute than most others I’ve seen from the Alt Right. However, with all due respect, your conclusions are just as speculative as everyone else’s. The strike may have been carried out for the reasons you suggest. Or it may really be that Trump simply thought it would boost his flagging popularity ratings, or that he was persuaded by Kushner’s urgings or the photos of beautiful dead babies. The fact that there were persistent rumors at the time that Steve Bannon, who can hardly be called nothing more than a naive idealist, was considering resigning further suggests to me that Trump is flirting with neocondom. The True Right is established on a set of principles. We are indeed idealists; that’s why people are interested in us, since we don’t just offer up the usual rhetoric they find in the mainstream media. So when Trump did something that violated our non-interventionist beliefs, we had to call bullshit on it, since we only have the facts that are available to us to pass judgments. Everything else is speculation. Maybe this really was all about arms and pipeline deals. Or maybe it was the first step towards Trump becoming George Bush III and an invasion of Syria and/or Iran is in the offing. We have to call things as we see them, in keeping with our principles. If Trump does something in the future that is worthy of our praise, I will be the first to give it, but we can’t just become his cheerleaders in the faith that everything he’s doing has some deeper, unseen purpose.
Also, I think YOU are the one who is being naive if you think that the future of Western civilization is dependent on us maintaining the current (unsustainable in any eventuality) lifestyle that we enjoy to the extent that we do. I see your point about the importance of maintaining the resources and weapons we need to avoid being pushed around by others. But when it comes to lifestyle, the decadent lifestyle our peoples lead now is to a large extent what led to our current predicament in the first place. Personally, I am not fighting to maintain civilization as it is. I want to see our people reborn as something more than just the sort of people who frequent shopping malls, which is what the West has become.
I was also baffled by this line: “[Obama] illustrat[ed] that he cared little for the blood and treasure that had been spent in Iraq to secure US-UK stability in years to come.” Are you seriously suggesting that the Iraq War was about securing stability? And even if we believe the neocons on that score, quite obviously the effect of the war has been quite the reverse – aside from all the senseless losses the participating countries took during the Iraq War itself, we’re nearly 15 years on from the invasion and the country still can’t stand on its two feet without massive aid from the West, and might have succumbed to ISIS in 2014. Besides which the ultimate outcome of the war was to put Iraq firmly into Iran’s camp, which, if I understand your general geopolitical outlook correctly, isn’t something you’d call a good thing. I don’t believe that those of us on the True Right should ally ourselves with the neocons by buying into their ideas about what needs to be done to maintain Western power. In that case we might as well all just become mainstream conservatives.
Great comment John. This lifestyle of our civilization is the real problem, maintaining it will only make it more difficult to maintain it later. I don’t know that mestizos and mulattoes will care to do so. Also, the furtherance of it practically guarantees the continuance of the soft communism we are under. This analysis above, while interesting and making sense from the post-1789 point of view, is just a few notches better than Col. Ralph Peters’ articles. As for the phrase “sometimes war is necessary,” well, the people who say that tend to this “sometimes” means constantly, and only if the wars are done with electronics and distance bombings only (and only if they do nothing to bolster the numbers or the position of Caucasians, only). The USA has been at war almost constantly from its inception, most of those elective. No, my dear Mr. De Witt, sometimes peace is necessary.
By WHERE IS OUR STANDARD? | Drumpf Shit 360° on May 21, 2017 at 11:33 am
[…] Well, it doesn’t work; the only result is endless disagreement and uncoordination. Are those immigrants really invading our lands, or improving our economy? Should we defend our people, or does sacrificing them constitute a defence of our values? Should we get irate over white girls cavorting with blacks, when they are just worthless sluts anyway? Are foreign neocon wars an outrageous waste of our blood and treasure, or are they protecting the inviolable First World luxuries of white conservative boomers? […]
By WHERE IS OUR STANDARD? on May 21, 2017 at 10:33 am
Post a Reply to Ike Cancel reply
Comments are moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. If approved, it will appear here soon. Do not post your comment a second time.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2341
|
__label__wiki
| 0.783264
| 0.783264
|
Country Walkers VBT Bicycling Vacations
Africa View All
Botswana Morocco South Africa Zambia
Asia & South Pacific View All
Australia Japan New Zealand
Europe View All
Austria Croatia Czech Republic England Finland France Germany Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Portugal Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland
North America View All
South America View All
Flex-Guided
A guided vacation with independent exploration.
Fully-Guided
An exclusive, curated adventure with likeminded travelers.
Private travel with freedom and peace of mind.
Compare Tour Types & Activity Levels
Search CW
Header Item 1
On a Country Walkers Adventure, our local insight and insider perspective will show you…
…where to escape the crowds on the famed Great Ocean Walk in Australia.
…that no meal is complete without a serving of sachertorte (dark chocolate cake layered with fresh apricot jam) in Austria.
…what it’s like to wake up with elephants outside of your lodge in Botswana.
…how to identify edible plants and traditional medicines used by First Nations people in Canada.
…how to mix, bottle, and label your own custom wine blend in Chile.
…where to find the best views of Dubrovnik in Croatia atop the city’s medieval walls.
…that the best time to visit the Charles Bridge in Prague is at dawn, where you can watch the sunrise over the city in the Czech Republic.
…that there’s no better way to fuel up for a walk in the Cotswolds or Lake District of England than with a full English breakfast.
…where to find the munkki—cardamom doughnuts—at Helsinki’s Market Square in Finland.
…how to gain a deeper appreciation for history on the beaches of Normandy in France.
…why white asparagus really is tastier in Germany, where Spargelzeit—asparagus season—is a time for celebration.
…where to find the best thermal spas in Hungary.
…how to pronounce “Borgarfjörður” when you visit the region in Iceland.
…which pubs have the best traditional music (and best local brews) in Ireland.
…how to make pasta from scratch in Italy.
…the secrets of the mysterious Yamabushi monks in Japan.
…how to not get lost in the medinas of Marrakesh in Morocco.
…why New Zealand wines are in high demand around the world.
…why Peru is gaining a reputation as a must-visit culinary destination.
…where to catch an authentic fado performance in Portugal.
…how to dance along at a cèilidh in Scotland.
…which regional beers go best with your dinner in Slovakia.
…that the best way to experience Lake Bled in Slovenia is via traditional pletna boat.
…why barbecue (or braai as locals call it) is a way of life in South Africa.
…where to find an authentic flamenco performance in Spain.
…that fika is more than a coffee break in Sweden, it’s a state of mind.
…how to properly enjoy fondue without dropping the bread in the caquelon in Switzerland.
…where to go to escape the National Park crowds in the United States.
…the true meaning of sundowners in Zambia.
…how to track game like a pro in Zimbabwe.
On a walking adventure, you’ll experience the true nature of a place. It’s the vacation of a lifetime— and a journey unlike any other.
Country Walkers
426 Industrial Ave, Suite 120
Talk with a Country Walkers Consultant:
About Country Walkers
Encore Loyalty Program
Refer a Friend and Save
Partner Savings
More Guest Benefits
© 2020 Country Walkers. All Right Reserved.
Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information ADA Policy
Xanterra Travel Collection | A World of Unforgettable Experiences
National Parks:
Cedar Creek Lodge
The Oasis at Death Valley
Cedar Creek Lodge - Just Outside Glacier National Park
The Grand Hotel at the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon National Park – South Rim
Resorts, Cruise, Train & Travel:
Grand Canyon Railway & Hotel
Holiday Vacations
Affiliated Properties:
American Railway Explorer
The Broadmoor
Tours Selected
Add a Tour to Compare
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2342
|
__label__cc
| 0.577651
| 0.422349
|
Local runner and dog rescue each other
Struggling to qualify for marathons, local runner Elizabeth Morgan turned to a rescue dog to help her. The Harrison High School and University of Southern Indiana product chronicled her story in Women’s Running magazine.
Local runner and dog rescue each other Struggling to qualify for marathons, local runner Elizabeth Morgan turned to a rescue dog to help her. The Harrison High School and University of Southern Indiana product chronicled her story in Women’s Running magazine. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/2017/05/19/local-runner-and-dog-rescue-each-other/101886692/
Evansville Published 2:53 p.m. CT May 19, 2017 | Updated 3:05 p.m. CT May 19, 2017
Elizabeth Morgan(Photo: Submitted)
Struggling to qualify for marathons, local runner Elizabeth Morgan turned to a rescue dog to help her. The Harrison High School and University of Southern Indiana product chronicled her story in Women’s Running magazine. Morgan began running 15 years ago and started to focus on qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
“After several failed qualifiers and numerous injuries, I became somewhat tired and disillusioned,” Morgan said.
She was second in line to adopt a black lab full of energy and excitement named Bella at Vanderburgh Humane Society, but the previous application fell through and she and Bella became running partners. Gradually increasing distances, Bella has run five half-marathons. Due to Bella’s energy level, VHS told her that she probably would have been euthanized.
New York couple finds puppy love in Evansville
Hoarded Vanderburgh County dogs finding new homes
'Cardio for Canines' proves to be popular with canines, community
“I look back on that day I met her in the Humane Society and I am so thankful Bella and I rescued each other,” said Morgan, who has run nine marathons, one ultra-marathon and 25 half-marathons. But she has not yet run in the Boston Marathon.
Purple Aces 'doing everything we can' to win again
Bosse's Powell tweaks knee; Funches on fire
Warriors advance to SIAC championship
Niehaus guides Castle to SIAC Tournament title
Castle, Memorial to meet again in championship
Insider: One good half, one bad. Aces' skid continues.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2343
|
__label__wiki
| 0.520117
| 0.520117
|
Caesna Mirror Grapefruit Spoon
Purchase now and we'll ship when it's available. Estimated in mid February.Postal Code
(4.9) out of 5 stars442 Reviews
Designed by Robert Welch Designs in the English Cotswolds, this classically styled pattern with well-balanced, comfortable heft and a beautiful, bright mirror finish is a much-anticipated addition to our Caesna collection of individual specialty serving pieces.
View all Robert Welch products
Robert Welch and other Wedding Registry offers
Caesna Mirror Grapefruit Spoon. 5.75"H
Designed by Robert Welch
18/10 stainless steel
Dishwasher safe; avoid citrus-scented detergents
Add an Accessory
Add MAAS ® Polishing Gloves
MAAS ® Polishing Gloves + CAD 19.95(opens modal dialog)
More Caesna Mirror Flatware
Meet Designer
Robert Welch’s career got off to a humble start in the beautiful English Cotswolds, in a tiny dorm-style room with a bed and a drawing board in an old silk mill in the market town of Chipping Campden. The British designer was greatly influenced by the functionality and clean lines of Scandinavian modernism during his years at the Royal College of Arts in the mid 1950s, and Welch went on to become an iconic name for thoughtfully designed, affordable stainless steel flatware. His designs have been collected by major museums around the world.
After Robert Welch’s death in 2000, two of his children, Rupert and Alice, took the reins of the company, which now occupies the entire top floor of that same 200-year-old stone building. Today, even as Robert Welch designers work in a setting steeped in history, they use new technology such as 3D printers to carefully hone their product designs. With a miniscule adjustment to a curve here or a handle thickness there, they create elegant utensils with just the right weight and balance to feel perfectly natural in the hand. “Design was a part of every day when Rupert and I were little,” says Alice Welch. “Dad used to bring home prototypes for us to test and review; you never knew what was going to appear next.”
See all Robert Welch’s products
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2345
|
__label__wiki
| 0.951964
| 0.951964
|
Four Comics for People Missing Marvel’s Netflix Shows
By Dave Richards
Dave Richards suggests comic books for fans of Marvel’s Netflix Shows, some of which are being pulled from Netflix or canceled.
Marvel Comics prides itself as being “the world outside your window,” which means it’s a place where the grittiness of the real world collides with the fantastic elements, like superpowers. It’s especially interesting at the street level where super-powered heroes deal with hardcore and career criminals. That’s something long-time fans of Marvel Comics already knew, and something that television viewers started to discover in 2015 with the premiere of Daredevil, the first Marvel inspired Netflix show.
Over the course of now three seasons, viewers of Daredevil watched the titular costumed vigilante balance a career as a lawyer while using his super senses and martial art skills to battle both street and organized crime. Other Marvel Netflix shows gave fans different cocktails of fantastic crime fiction like Jessica Jones, which combined the P.I. archetype with superpowers; Luke Cage showed viewers what kind of trouble a bulletproof blaxploitation style hero could get into while cleaning up the streets of Harlem; and The Punisher took a look at the classic archetype of the highly trained vigilante soldier. Some elements of those shows worked better than others, and some Marvel Netflix shows didn’t work at all (I’m looking at you Iron Fist and The Defenders. You know what you did!), but there’s no denying that these shows created some real interest in their title characters.
Sadly though, the Marvel Netflix shows appear to be an endangered species. The first casualty was Iron Fist, which was canceled after an improved (but still flawed) second season. Luke Cage was next to get the axe, and then to the surprise of many, Daredevil was canceled by Netflix after an amazing third season. The second season of The Punisher is set to bow on January 18th, but Netflix is hardly promoting it at all. After The Punisher airs, the only upcoming Marvel Netflix series will be the premiere of the third season of Jessica Jones.
Read More on Daredevil Season 3
It’s believed that Disney’s (Marvel’s parent company) decision to launch their own streaming service is the reason behind Netflix purging it’s original Marvel inspired shows. There hasn’t been any news about the Marvel Netflix shows relocating to the Disney streaming service though. So soon fans of these characters won’t have a place to see any new adventures.
I have some good news though! The stars of Marvel’s Netflix shows have decades worth of comic adventures! And they’re all out there waiting for you to discover. We’re here to help by giving you some fun places to start.
Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev Ultimate Collection-Book 1; published by Marvel
A variety of creative teams have had stellar runs on Daredevil, but this book is the kick off to one of my favorite runs ever. You’ll get plenty of court room action as well as lots of stories featuring the comic counterparts of many prominent Daredevil TV characters like Wilson Fisk. You’ll also get the added bonus of seeing Matt Murdock react to his secret identity being outed to the public and plenty of familiar characters.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics
Jessica Jones: Blind Spot by Kelly Thompson; art by Mattia de Iulis; published by Marvel
Jessica Jones was introduced in 2001 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos, and since then the world-weary superpowered private eye’s adventures were written exclusively by her creator. That changed last year when Bendis left Marvel for DC. Before he left though he chose writer Kelly Thompson as his handpicked successor for writing Jessica’s adventures. Jessica couldn’t be in better hands either! Thompson loves both the character and the P.I. genre, and it shows! Plus her collaborator, Mattia de Iulis, brings her story to life in a fantastic way.
Blindspot, Thompson and de Iulis’ first Jessica Jones story, is available in collected edition now and you only need minimal background information to jump right in: the comic book version of Jess is a little older and managed to find a bit of happiness by marrying Luke Cage, and she started a family with him. The two have an adorable baby daughter named Danielle. She’s still the same snarky P.I. fans know and love though, and having a family means her cases often become more personal and the stakes are often higher.
Luke Cage and Iron Fist
Power Man & Iron Fist Volume 1: The Boys Are Back In Town by David Walker; art by Sanford Greene; published by Marvel
The only time Netflix’s version of Danny Rand ever clicked with me was the one episode of Luke Cage Season Two where he and Luke teamed up. That episode and Cage and Rand’s comic history together as friends had fans hoping for a Power Man (the comic book incarnation of Cage’s old identity) and Iron Fist TV show. I would have liked to have seen it. It could have been a lot of fun.
If you want to see how enjoyable it could have been there are a lot of Power Man & Iron Fist comics out there. A good place to start would be the most recent and sadly short-lived series by the creative dream team of David Walker and Sanford Greene. In The Boys Are Back In Town, the kickoff story to that series, Cage and Rand decide to work together for the first time in a long time. They then become embroiled in a fantastic and fun action-comedy that involves colorful organized crime figures (many of who will be familiar to fans of the Luke Cage Netflix series) and a blaxploitation style supernatural artifact known as the Supersoul Stone.
Punisher MAX Volume 1: In the Beginning written by Garth Ennis; art by Lewis Larosa; published by Marvel
The first season of Netflix’s Punisher show focused on trauma and how much of an unrelenting bad-ass Frank Castle is. So fans of the show will certainly want to take a look at the comic adventures of the Punisher that were written by Garth Ennis. Ennis’ early work on the character was pretty much a dark comedy. It was a lot of fun, but I’m guessing show fans will prefer the work he did that was a little more serious and hard-edged.
The best place to start for that is the graphic novel Punisher MAX Volume 1: In the Beginning. In that book, Ennis and his fantastic collaborator Lewis Larosa kick off a series that follows the exploits of an older Castle whose been waging a one-man war against crime since he returned home from Vietnam. The book was published by Marvel Comics’ MAX imprint, which is for mature readers. So the stories are brutal, violent, and incredibly powerful. The series exists in its own universe which means the Punisher doesn’t interact with any other Marvel heroes, but fans of the Netflix show will recognize some familiar faces like this world’s version of Linus Lieberman (AKA Microchip).
Filed Under: ComicsDaredevilDave RichardsIron FistJessica JonesMarvelNetflixPunisherTV
Dave Richards
Laurent Latulippe
Great recommendations, I love comics.
Supernatural, the Final Season (Spoilers and Predictions Ahead)
Here is my not-so-secret secret guilty pleasure: I love the television show Supernatural. In 2013, our older daughter was home on holiday break from college, and one night she wondered if I’d like to stay up and watch a show I’d never heard of—Supernatural—though by then the show had been on television for eight years.…
The Ten Best Scooby-Doo Monsters
By Tara Laskowski
One of my and my husband’s favorite things about being parents is getting to introduce our child to all our beloved TV shows and movies. We started watching Scooby-Doo several years ago, when our son Dash was around 3, and he immediately loved it. How can you not, really? Even though it’s weirdly illogical and…
Alex Segura on Bringing Pete Fernandez’s P.I. Journey to a Close in Miami Midnight
Most private detectives in crime fiction are established ones. So, it’s easy to think that their journey towards being a gumshoe was one of forward progression. Sometimes finding your calling is a messy business though where you take two steps forward and one step back. That’s certainly been the case for Alex Segura‘s Pete Fernandez.…
Book Review: Murderabilia by Carl Vonderau
In Murderabilia by Carl Vonderau, William MacNary is the son of a serial killer who dismembered and photographed his victims. Decades after his father’s crimes, William is linked to a copycat murder, forcing him to confront the man he’s spent decades trying to forget. Crime fiction is rife with stories of serial killers. These monstrous…
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2346
|
__label__wiki
| 0.707505
| 0.707505
|
If these mice could speak
Gene ExpressionBy Razib KhanMay 29, 2009 12:01 AM
Nick Wade in The New York Times reports on new research where they inserted human FOXP2 genes into the mouse genome. Here are some of the findings:
Despite the mammalian body's dependence on having its two FOXP2 genes work just right, Dr. Enard's team found that the human version of FOXP2 seemed to substitute perfectly for the mouse version in all the mouse's tissues except for the brain. In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure and produced less dopamine, a chemical that transmits signals from one neuron to another. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Discovering that humanized mice whistle differently may seem a long way from understanding how language evolved. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives.
It isn't a surprise that FOXP2 has a lot of effects. Additionally it probably isn't that surprising that the "language gene" as it is sometimes hyperbolically termed changes the way mice vocalize, it seems to have evolved in songbirds as well as the lineage leading up to humans. Mice are obviously more similar genetically to humans than birds so it shouldn't been that surprising. The original paper is in Cell, A Humanized Version of Foxp2 Affects Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuits in Mice:
It has been proposed that two amino acid substitutions in the transcription factor FOXP2 have been positively selected during human evolution due to effects on aspects of speech and language. Here, we introduce these substitutions into the endogenous Foxp2 gene of mice. Although these mice are generally healthy, they have qualitatively different ultrasonic vocalizations, decreased exploratory behavior and decreased dopamine concentrations in the brain suggesting that the humanized Foxp2 allele affects basal ganglia. In the striatum, a part of the basal ganglia affected in humans with a speech deficit due to a nonfunctional FOXP2 allele, we find that medium spiny neurons have increased dendrite lengths and increased synaptic plasticity. Since mice carrying one nonfunctional Foxp2 allele show opposite effects, this suggests that alterations in cortico-basal ganglia circuits might have been important for the evolution of speech and language in humans.For a video summary of this article, see thePaperFlickfile available with the online Supplemental Data.
Here's the discussion & the most important figure in relation to vocalization:
The fact that Foxp2^hum influences ultrasonic vocalization of pups in a specific and reproducible way is of obvious interest. However, it is important to note that this influence is subtle and within the range of normal variation among mice. A relevant question is also to what extent mouse vocalization can be compared to human speech. All terrestrial mammals produce their vocalizations by an air stream from the lungs that passes the larynx and generates sounds. In most animals, oscillations of the vocal folds and/or specific structures of the vocal folds generate the sound through oscillations...Ultrasonic vocalizations in rodents are also produced by the larynx...but they are thought to derive from an aerodynamic whistle rather than vibrations of vocal cords...Nevertheless, the basic neurological and muscular systems necessary for vocalizations probably overlap to a large degree in mice and humans...Indeed, some neural circuits important for vocalization are even conserved in fish...Hence, the fact that Foxp2hum influences the structure of isolation calls in the mouse, especially since this effect is not accompanied by physiological effects outside the brain, supports the hypothesis that the two amino acid substitutions that occurred during human evolution affect aspects of speech and/or language. ... The fact that Foxp2hum affects dopamine levels, dendrite morphology, gene expression and synaptic plasticity of medium spiny neurons indicates that it impacts cortico-basal ganglia circuits where medium spiny neurons in the striatum receive contextual information from the cortex and reward signals from dopaminergic neurons and send integrated signals to brain stem structures and the cortex...Several lines of evidence indicate that cortico-basal ganglia circuits could be relevant for speech and language...For example, reduced dopamine release in the striatum is positively correlated with speed and accuracy of phonological processing...activation of a part of the striatum plays a crucial role in lexical-semantic control...and patients with Huntington's disease show - dependent on the striatal subregions affected - impairments in the retrieval of lexical information and the application of combinatorial rules...Furthermore, cortico-basal ganglia circuits and their dopaminergic modulations are crucial for song learning in birds, which is thought to resemble aspects of vocal learning in humans...This is supported by the recent finding that when FoxP2 expression is knocked down in basal ganglia of songbirds, vocal imitation is impaired...Furthermore, individuals heterozygous for a nonfunctional FOXP2 allele show structural effects and functional impairments in the striatum...supporting a role for FOXP2 in cortico-basal ganglia circuits with respect to speech and language.
(B) Plots of acoustic parameters differing between genotypes. Measurements are averaged across days and individuals (SEM). The peak frequency (PF) refers to the frequency with the maximum amplitude in each analyzed time window of 0.21ms. Asterisks indicate significant differences between genotypes (: < 0.01; : < 0.001).Update: My choice of terms elided some important nuance, as was brought up in the comments.
The SciencesWhat does it take to succeed in science?
HealthDo Artificial Sweeteners Actually Help With Weight Loss?
The SciencesAstronomers Find Four Strange New Objects in the Center of the Milky Way
HealthMy Long and Arduous Journey Across the Frontiers of Fertility Technology
HealthMarijuana Might Impair Driving Abilities Even After the High Wears Off
MindFun and Games with Neuroscience
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2347
|
__label__wiki
| 0.556358
| 0.556358
|
Snake bites increase during rainy years, study finds
Looks like rain showers bring more than just flowers. A study done in California shows that snake bites occur more frequently when it's rainy.
The research team, led by Caleb Phillips of University of Colorado Boulder and Grant Lipman of the Stanford University School of Medicine, looked at 20 years of snakebite data in California. They found that with every 10% increase in rainfall over the previous year and a half, cases of snake bites in California’s 58 counties spiked by 3.9%.
The researchers believe that a snake's food — mice and other rodents — flourish during rainy years, allowing snakes to flourish as well. Flourishing snakes means more snake bites.
Phillips, an avid trail runner a trained wilderness first responder and emergency medical technician had some advice if you come into contact with a snake.
“If you encounter a rattlesnake, don’t pick a fight with it, and it won’t pick a fight with you,” Phillips said in a statement.
Doorbell camera video shows 5-foot snake biting Oklahoma man's face
The moon is shrinking and experiencing 'moonquakes' — so what does it mean for us?
Watch out: Wasps are capable of logical thinking, according to this study
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2348
|
__label__wiki
| 0.641385
| 0.641385
|
Chocolate à la czarist St. Pete's
By John Henderson | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2007 at 1:47 pm | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 9:43 pm
St. Petersburg, Russia – Some people visit St. Petersburg to tour palaces and drink vodka. I came here to tour a chocolate factory.
St. Petersburg isn’t just home of the czars and palaces so garish you wonder what took the Russian Revolution so long. It’s also home to the best chocolate in the world.
It’s true. I know. I’m somewhat of a pseudo-chocolate expert. My father was a wholesaler who purchased goods from manufacturers and sold them to stores. His chief products were tobacco, beer and chocolate. OK, so it wasn’t the healthiest of life pursuits. Don’t laugh. Mars bars helped pay my way through college.
I also developed an unhealthy appetite for chocolate and have tried it in all 77 countries I’ve visited. And Russia, particularly St. Petersburg, has the Chateaubriand of chocolate products. It’s called BLOK. It’s made by a small, independent St. Petersburg company called Wawi-Neva and sold only in the Russian supermarket, Lenta.
I tried it two years ago on my first visit and became hopelessly hooked.
I nervously await regular shipments in sort of a weird reverse post-communist smuggling operation.
Russian chocolate is primarily dark chocolate and BLOK is black as a Russian winter night. It’s rich with a deep chocolate taste that melts down your throat. Russians eat chocolate with green tea. I like BLOK with a big glass of cold milk, particularly at 4 a.m. at my kitchen table, preferably buck naked. I call it my 4 a.m. feeding. As I said, it’s truly an ugly addiction.
Russian chocolate has the best pure, simple taste I’ve ever had, much healthier than the trough of preservatives and gooey garbage in American chocolate. Knowing this, I thought BLOK would like a little publicity from the biggest newspaper in the Mountain Time Zone. A Russian friend called to set up a factory tour and was told by a woman, after viewing our website, that The Post looked too small, “like a little local paper.” She said she’d have to see.
I chalked this up to a lack of public relations savvy lingering from the old Soviet Union and that the Wawi-Neva secretary was a raging shrew.
After all, the tradition of Russian chocolate dates back to the early days of the czars. It has always been a Russian tradition to give girls chocolate – and not just on Valentine’s Day. A box of chocolate and a bottle of champagne was the way to a Russian woman’s heart. With so few commodities under communism, Russians often used chocolate as bribes for everything from theater tickets to hotel rooms.
The good aspect of communism is the quality remained consistent. Lee Avrashov is a Russian translator who grew up in St. Petersburg until moving to Maryland in high school in 1977. He consulted with the USDA and from 1993-95 helped Babaevsky, one of Russia’s biggest chocolate companies, obtain its first shipment of almonds from Blue Diamond.
What communist factories had going, he told me, were rules.
“They had this thing called GOST,” Ashramov said. “It’s a very rigid system of standards for anything, from chopped meat to chocolates to missiles. You name it.”
The tradition remains. I remember once taking a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg. A round babushka woman in a dress that looked like someone’s quilt walked around the station’s dusty waiting room carrying a basket full of big chocolate bricks. I waved her over and found these beautifully wrapped chocolate bars selling for 50 cents each. I bought two and didn’t have a craving for a week.
This month I walked into Lenta and found an entire section filled with five rows of chocolate. They look more like artwork than candy. The wrappings are bright, colorful pictures of a backlit Bolshoi Theatre, the Winter Palace, the czarist getaway of Petrodvorets and, of course, the Kremlin, looking as foreboding as candy can.
One 25-gram monster called Expedition features pine nuts and the slogan “For real men.” Trying not to become emasculated by a candy bar, I couldn’t help wondering about a dangerous recent trend. In the last few years, foreign companies have taken advantage of Russia’s new democracy and bought up some Russian chocolate factories. Until 1986, the USSR didn’t have milk chocolate. Even the czars didn’t have additives. But foreign companies are substituting cheaper soy for cocoa beans.
You can tell the sad difference. Fortunately, BLOK and its simple silver and blue wrapper has stuck to its Kalashnikov rifles. I still wanted a tour.
However, a Russian businessman warned me that BLOK may want to fly under the radar. The new Russian bureaucracy is often incompetent and bulky, and it may not have noticed BLOK enough to tax it.
Oh, the shrew just had a bad day, I said. I called back and she told me a tour was impossible, that the president was out of town and wouldn’t return until I left Russia.
“No problem,” I said. “Can I just call him next week?”
“No,” the shrew said. “Thank you for your interest in our company. Have a nice day. Goodbye.”
Staff writer John Henderson covers sports and writes about the food he eats on the road. He can be reached at 303-954-1299 or jhenderson@denverpost.com.
Rodeo 101: Traditions, superstitions and essential lingo to make you sound like a pro
Strap on your spurs and learn these five rodeo terms so you can sound like a pro.
Lift revenue is flat across Vail Resorts, even with fewer skier visits
Skier visits dropped 7.8% at Vail Resorts' North American properties.
Ask Amy: Homeowners go nuts over squirrels
Dear Amy: We have just moved into a new semi-detached home and have not yet met the neighbor in the adjoining house.
Disney princesses, Wil Wheaton, Ninja Turtles co-creator coming to Denver Pop Culture Con
Could Chris Evans -- who has played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- also be on the roster this year?
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2354
|
__label__cc
| 0.747075
| 0.252925
|
Serena Dorf 6 November 2018
Categories Advertising, Ecommerce, Email & eCRM
How to Rock Emojis in Your Email Marketing
When was the last time an email made you 😅? You’ve been getting so many 💩 messages that you learned how to ignore them. Well your audience does the same thing! It’s time to make your email marketing campaign more successful, so you’ll get their attention. Emojis can help with that!
How many email messages does an average user receive per day? - Plenty!
According to the Email Statistics Report by The Radicati Group, an average office worker receives 97 emails per day. The average number of legitimate emails is 83, and the rest of it is spam. Your promotional emails may be considered legitimate by your audience. But even if that’s the case, do you think an email user will go through all these messages on a daily basis?
They filter out, so they won’t spend hours of their day being stuck with messages.
So if you want your email marketing campaign to deliver results, you gotta make it stand out.
If your messages are fun, they will get attention. Otherwise, people will just ignore them.
So this is the point when we come down to emojis. They are so cute! They help you deliver a message quickly and effectively when you text your friends, but did you know that they were also great for email marketing?
Needless to say, there’s a right way to use them. If you go too far, they will make your messages look fake. We don’t want that, do we?
Emojis in the Subject Line
We’re talking about standing out in the crowd, so subject lines are clearly in the focus of discussion.
If your subject line is cool enough, the recipients will be curious to see what’s in the message. The problem is: people rarely even read the subject lines before deleting messages, since there are so many of them in the Promotions folder. A simple emoji has a visual appeal among all that text. That’s why it can be so effective.
Take these two messages as an example from an inbox:
Screenshot 1 (attached as thumbnail)
Your eye is naturally drawn towards the Christmas tree, simply because it stands out.
So how do you use emojis in the subject line? There are the most important tips to follow:
Keep them relevant!
First and foremost, it’s important to know your content. If it has serious character, 💩(pile of poo) and 😍(smiling face with heart-shaped eyes) won’t leave a good impression.
In such case, it’s still okay to use an emoji as long as it’s an appropriate one. 🙌(celebration), ✊(raised fist) or 🙏 (namaste) might be okay. More conventional emojis, such as an envelope, the trademark symbol, and the copyright symbol will also be a good choice.
But if you’re aiming at younger generations and you have a relaxed message to spread, feel free to spice up your emoji game.
Your goal is to convey emotions
What’s an emoji? It’s just a small image that represents an emotion. That’s its main purpose. When you use emoticons the right way, you’re able to set the emotional tone of your message.
Is it love, fun, excitement, or sadness? Find the emoji that sets the right tone. If you’re not sure what a particular emoji means, don’t use it before you find its meaning in Emojipedia.
Represent the idea
Is it about a discount? Is it about books? Makeup? Fitness? There are proper emojis to convey the idea of your message.
Be Extra Careful When Using Emojis in the Body
Of course you can use emojis beyond the subject line, but should you?
“Emojis in the subject line work like a charm,” - says Maurice Mayers, part of the marketing team at EssayOnTime. “I’ve seen our email campaign results skyrocket since we started using them. But when it comes to the body of the message, the strategy can easily go wrong. I don’t recommend replacing words with emojis and making the message look like a rebus.”
It’s okay to use an emoji or two to highlight the most important points of your message or throw a bit of fun in it. But don’t overdo it!
Test!
You always have to test!
First of all, it’s important to see how your email subject line will appear in different inboxes and on different devices. Maybe the emoji won’t even show up? TestSubject by ZURB is a nice tool that shows how your message will look when seen on different mobile devices.
Is that where the tests will stop? No.
It’s important to see what effect the emojis have on your email marketing campaign. Maybe you introduced them too suddenly?
Try changing solely that factor in your campaign and compare the before and after click-through rates. Do you see a positive change?
Introduce them gradually. Use A/B tests to see if your campaign performs better with or without them.
Emojis Are Great, But You Need to Use Them Well
If emojis were so easy to use, we’d see them all over the inbox. But we don’t. We see witty, effective use of this technique only occasionally. When it works, it works really well.
You should definitely consider introducing them in your email marketing campaign. But you have to do that gradually and choose the right emojis to achieve the effect you aim for.
Should Direct To Consumer (D2C) Brands Sell Their Products on Amazon?
Katie atkinson 13 January 2020
How Does Website Speed Affect Your Inbound Marketing Efforts? (And How to Make it Work)
Natasha Lane 10 January 2020
What Are The Benefits of Proximity Marketing?
andison flores 9 January 2020
Let's Make 2020 The Year We Discover The True Meaning Of Innovation
Rob Pellow 9 January 2020
Follow Serena on
Serena Dorf is a social media savvy Los Angeles-based content writer. She is interested in marketing, psychology, innovations, and public speaking. In her free time, she is reading classic American literature and learning Swedish.
This user has not entered their Skills
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0018.json.gz/line2357
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.