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__label__cc	0.735795	0.264205	The Quick and the Really Dead - Two Toronto October Media Events Nuit Blanche - Yorkville gallery hires artist to body paint muscles on a living model. At Ontario Science Centre it's Body Worlds 3 exhibition strips skin and exposes muscles of dead models. FINAL: Two Toronto media events held in early October are strangely linked by the body's muscles and vital organs. A trendy Toronto art gallery paints them on a living model, while at the Ontario Science a traveling exhibition shows bodies with their skin removed, their muscles exposed and vital organs dangling from partial removed spinal cords. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche was held October 3rd, sunset to sunrise in downtown Toronto. The city's fourth annual Nuit Blanche engaged audiences in a massive participatory celebration of contemporary art. Two days prior the media was invited to attend a launch at Scotiabank's main branch for the massive art event. Reporters were given an extensive press kit which highlighted some of the more newsworthy "art" happenings that were to take place during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. One that caught my eye was an entry about the Liss Gallery in the Yorkville Art Gallery District. Mini-Digital Camera in hand I dropped by the gallery after midnight to watch Canada's edgiest new artist; Jonathon Ball, spray painting the bodies of a man and a woman, both who had the physique of bodybuilders. Ball painstakingly painted the man to look like his skin had been removed and his muscles,bones and organs were exposed to the air. It was a marvelous exercise in ultra-realism x-ray art. Over the course of an hour about 100 people stopped to gawk. I was the only "media" taking pictures. The gallery was happy for the traffic and were not slighted that the press took a pass on their midnight paint-in. Five days later I found myself attending another media event again involving exposed muscles and organs. The Ontario Science Centre held a press preview of Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 3: THE STORY OF THE HEART. exhibition. This is the second time that a Gunter von Hagen exhibition of sliced, diced and splayed bodies has come to Toronto's Science Centre. Three years ago the show was so popular that the building stayed open 24-hours a day, throughout the last weekend of the exhibition's run. I attended the first exhibition and came out again to this month's press launch. It is a different show this year and received a much different response from the reporters. Yes there are more than 200 authentic human specimens on display, including entire exposed bodies, as well as individual organs and transparent body slices. There is also a giraffe, thinly sliced from the tip of its head to its hooves, in the show. This time the popular exhibition (it has been seen by over 26-million people) strips back the flesh and muscle and looks at the human heart to show the effects of healthy lifestyle choices. The first time Body Worlds came to Toronto the exhibition was quite controversial(parts of the show were banned this year in Cologne). The Ontario Science Centre was accused of exhibiting desecrated bodies simply to make money. The negative comments didn't hurt the science museum, it was one of the most successful exhibitions in their 40-year history. This time around the Ontario Science Centre went to great pains to explain that Body Worlds 2 meets the Science Centre’s mission: “To delight, inform and challenge visitors through engaging and thought-provoking experiences in science and technology.” Gunther von Hagens’surgeon wife, Dr. Angelina Whalley came from Germany to speak at the media preview lecturing that all of the bodies on display were self-donations. The willing donors, most of them German (70 Canadians have already agreed to donate their bodies) were aware that their bodies would be stripped of skin, treated in plastic and twisted into life-like poses sans flesh to entertain and educated the masses. Judging from the reaction to the overflow media crowd (more attended this year than at the September 2005 launch), the explanations were unnecessary. The press understood what the show is all about. So did a group of students who also attended the media scrum - their questions during wrap-up Q&A were not about outrage or sacrilegious money making displays, or concerning indignities to the body, but instead were technical in nature - How Long Does It Take? Do family members know that their mothers and fathers are on display? So the city "gets it". The media still see it as a newsworthy show. I got "it" too, and I think that it should be compulsory viewing for science student in the province to see BodyWorlds 2 (you will never smoke again after seeing an exposed smoker's lung)here in Toronto. What has me scratching my head (with the skin still intact thank-you) is why was there no media turn-out for a living BodyWorlds style model standing in the window of a Yorkville gallery? Yet, there was a gaggle of photographers and reporters to on hand to see a display showing two skinless acrobats holding each other while their spines and vital organs are dangling out of their backs? In Yorkville the inner workings of the body were being exposed by a very talented Canadian artist working with two models who have also been sculpting their form for years. No one died to make this exhibit happen. At Body Worlds 3, the dissection of human bodies has become a major industry encompassing body harvesting, an Asian preparation factory and an aggressive German touring exhibition company which has already presented similar Body Worlds exhibitions this year in Buffalo, Waterloo, London, Philadelphia,and Cologne. This time, Science beat Art - thumbs literally down. CUTLINES: Above: Dr. Angelina Whalley at the Ontario Science Centre podium Top. Liss Gallery in Yorkville (Toronto, Ontario) hired models for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche all night art celebration. This man stood in the window for an hour being body painted by Canada's edgiest new artist; Jonathon Ball. Middle: BodyWorlds 3 female acrobat. Bottom: Photographers and cameramen wait for the press conference start oblivous to the skinless bodies locked in a final pas de deux. The body organs have been removed from the backs of the bodies; those are brains dangling from the exposed spines. The red barrels represent how much blood a human body pumps in one day. Labels: body spray painted, Body Worlds 3, BodyWorlds 2, Dr. Angelina Whalley, Gunter von Hagen, Johnathan Ball, Liss Gallery, Media Preview, Nuit Blanche, Ontario Science Centre, skin stripped The Quick and the Really Dead - Two Toronto Octobe...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line0
__label__wiki	0.555085	0.555085	Adam Bird Adam Bird - My Personal Blog The life and times of a football crazy husband and father, web developer and digital evangalist. Tales of travels, childhood memories and the occasional book review. This is my blog... From Princes Park to the Nou Camp » From Princes Park to the Nou Camp During my self-imposed blogging sabbatical I started writing several posts, all half-heartedly and never got around to finishing them. I had a look through to see if any were worth saving - then I came across this one. Oliver’s ninth birthday and a trip to the Nou Camp. Now a little out of date contextually, but all finally finished for the record. I’ve long held aspirations to mix two of my favourite things; travel and football. A wannabe tourist if you like of the beautiful game. But life as a Gills fan comes with restrictions, there are no European nights against the continent's finest. The closest we are ever likely to get to any form of foreign opposition is the odd pre-season game in northern France against a local side, which is treated as nothing more than a glorified training session. But last weekend I ticked a big box off of my footballing bucket list, namely a visit to the Nou Camp stadium, home of FC Barcelona. An experience far, far removed from the previous ground that Oliver and I attended just two weeks earlier. Oliver has been growing ever more competent in his goalkeeping, mainly in part to the work that he has been doing with Deren Ibrahim and the coaching staff at Dartford Football Club who have shown a lot of faith and encouragement in him. We felt that it would only be right and proper to show some support back, so with the Gills away in Shropshire playing against Shrewsbury we had a free footballing weekend. A perfect opportunity for me to revisit Princes Park and for Oliver to watch his coach in action against Whitehawk in the FA Trophy, a competition I'd never seen live before. Princes Park opened in 2006, shortly before Oliver was born, reuniting the football club with the town finally after a nomadic existence on the back of the financial fallout caused by a failed groundshare with Maidstone United in the early 1990’s. With a capacity of 4,100, there was plenty of room for the 601 hardy souls who stood on the freezing cold terraces being serenaded by the non-stop chanting of the Whitehawk Ultras. In fact, Oliver and I nearly became honorary Ultras for the day, albeit unsuspectedly. Standing behind Derens goal before the match, watching him go through his pre-match training routine Oliver and I found ourselves on an empty terrace. The opposite side of the ground was filling up quiet nicely and the Dartford colours and scarves were making themselves known. Feeling rather isolated and sticking out like two sore thumbs I felt slightly conspicuous and wondered how we were going to move into a more populated part of the ground without upsetting Oliver who was quite happy watching Deren being put through his paces. Whilst I was slowly formulating a plan of action, we were finally joined by other members of the human race, which was a blessing as it made me feel quite normal and part of something again. But these guys were a throwback to another age. With skin-heads, tattoos and Dr Martin boots, skinny jeans and tight leather jackets I was immediately transported to The Football Factory, ID or another one of the hooligan based movies whose stereotypes were visually now alive and representing “The Hawks” right in front of me. From feeling lonely, to normal, to slightly afraid in the space of thirty seconds I had found my escape route “Oliver, we are in the away end - we are going!” Far from the stereotypes as portrayed on screen, the Whitehawk fans were a credit to their club and the lower league game. Chanting, singing and banging their drum for the whole ninety minutes, the look of the football casual might still be alive in certain parts, but the menacing behaviour and attitude was long gone - and a firm reminder to me that one should never judge a book by its cover! The game didn’t go according to plan, with the Darts losing 2-1 and exiting the trophy at the first hurdle. The Darts looked fairly solid in the most part without much threat in the final third, but a defensive lack of judgement from the full-back conceding a soft and rather needless penalty for handball meant that the Darts had too big a mountain to climb. However, the highlight for us and certainly for Oliver, was a spectacular second half save from Deren which had everyone in the ground clapping, including the Ultras, drumming ever louder in support behind his goal. On the bus on the way home after the match, I asked Oliver if he had enjoyed himself. He looked up at me agreed that he had. “Barcelona up next mate”. I said, he smiled, the irony completely lost on him. Dartford: Ibrahim, Gardiner, Onyemah, Vint, McNaughton, Noble, Hayes, E Bradbrook, T Bradbrook (Simmons 65mins), Cogan (Pugh 79mins), Harris. Subs not used: Adams, Wynter, Burns. Whitehawk: Ross, Sessegnon, Braham-Barrett, Deering, Leacock, Lorraine (Gotta 71mins), Neilson (Stevens 79mins), Torres, Robinson, Mills, Martin (Mendy 53mins). Subs not used: Ijaha, Rose. Childrens birthdays don’t come cheap. If you want to arrange a party there is the expense of a venue, plus food, plus entertainment, party bags, cakes and decorations. There are ways to minimise costs, but even when you add everything up alongside presents it can easily equate to hundreds of pounds. As a way to highlight comparable value, I did some research. Looking up ticket prices to watch Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Juventus and Bayern Munich, plus adding up flight prices for two to each of those cities, I was staggered at how affordable it all was. When looking at hosting a party earlier in the year for Phoebe we had a quote for £300 for a women to arrive at the party and pretend to be a princess for two hours. Whereas Oliver and I could fly to Barcelona, watch a match and stay overnight for nearly a hundred pound less than that. So that’s what we did. We knew that it was only going to be a whistle-stop tour, in and out. Just as we do on Saturdays when we watch the Gills play away from home. I’ve been to all of the major cities in the UK, but I’ve not seen any of them. You arrive, watch a game and come home again. When Dad heard what I was planning, he wanted in too. Had it just been Dad and I we could have done it the same trip for less, with an early arrival on Saturday morning and even earlier departure on Sunday we’d have not bothered with the hotel room, but gone out, got drunk and slept off any alcohol at the airport. But with Oliver in tow we needed a base to drop our heads for a couple of hours. Which gave me a logistical challenge of finding somewhere that was central, near to the underground station so that we could get to and from the airport and also to the ground as efficiently as possible. With time being a premium the perfect place looked to be an Ibis neighbouring the Sagrada Familia. If we were going to see very little whilst we were in town, we may as well see the most iconic building of them all. In the end, it worked out perfectly. We didn’t bother with the underground from the airport, a taxi was an inexpensive option direct to the hotel where was able to see the city in the early morning light. From dropping our bags off at the Ibis, we took a short stroll around the corner via a Christmas market for a walk around Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece. It really is quite something. Work started on its construction in 1882 and it isn’t due for completion for another ten years - mind blowing when you think about everything that has happened in the intervening years. Oliver seemed fairly impressed, or at least the selfies say so. We brought our match tickets online from the clubs official website two weeks before (after much searching and anxiety that three seats were going to remain available!), but walking around tickets for the match vs Deportivo de La Coruña were readily available from street vendors and ticket offices around the city. If we ever go again, which I am sure that we will - I don’t think that I’ll bother with advance tickets and will get them whilst we are there, it’s what everyone else seemed to be doing, in fact I was quite taken by the frequent availability of last minute match-day tickets. A short stone's throw away from the hotel was an FC Barcelona exhibition which we came across completely by chance. We lucked out in our discovery as it was well worth a walk around, whetting our appetite for what was about to come. Pictures of teams past, players immortalised as legends and their role in the fabric of the club. Oliver had his photograph taken with Messi in action in the background as well as Koeman, Lineker, Xavi, Iniesta, Cruyff and Ronaldinho. If Oliver was unaware of just how big Barcelona is in world footballing terms, he certainly had his eyes opened to a few new things. Before making our way to the ground we stopped off for some lunch. It may well have been December, but the air was quite mild and we were able to sit outside in the streets dining al-fresco. We still needed our jackets on but we were more than comfortable, far removed from the temperatures of a freezing Princes Park and the smell of fried onions in the air. I knew that Oliver wouldn’t particularly fancy a series of tapas dishes so I played the safety first game and ordered him a chicken burger as you cannot possibly go wrong with a chicken burger. Or so I thought. When it arrived with a sesame seeded bun and fiery hot sauce and mustard Oliver’s first Spanish dining experience turned into a feast from his version of food hell. It didn’t get much better as the day progressed, with various levels of fussiness and turned up nostrils at perfectly edible fare that turned Dad into a grump and Oliver ever deeper into a hungry depression. Until we came across a churros stall where Oliver’s attitude changed and he devoured hungrily several donutty sticks oozing in chocolate. Spanish cuisine may well have left an indelible mark of negativity on his first real tourist experience but in time all will be forgiven, and forgotten - as the real treat of football at the Nou Camp was something to treasure. From the underground station at the edge of the city, with townhouse style buildings obscuring any views of the stadium the first glimpse of the mighty colosseum came as we walked around a bend and it stood before us imposingly like a giant concrete carpark. From the outside, the height, whilst visibly evident lacked the architectural wow factor that much smaller stadiums can sometimes convey. The grey, industrial blandness of the underside of the tiered rows stood like inverted stairways up to the Gods, promising little but a sense of anti-climax. If you hadn’t see inside of the stadium, or photographs of the birds-eye view you’d be wondering what the fuss was about and feel sympathy with the clubs plans to spend millions of euros on bringing the ground up to date with a new, modern synthetic skin. The stadium might well be showing its age from the outside, but entry was super-modern with tickets stored on my phone in my Wallet App, a few swipes and a flash of infra-red gained us entry into the stadium complex and the long walk up to our seats ahead. The concourses, on the outside of the building with a maze of staircases and levels dotted with retail outlets that were functional without offering anything meaningful. But once at our required level we walked through a cold concrete doorway and the vast expanse and sheer beauty of the Nou Camp await. Like the Whitehawk Ultras, the outside appearance told a contrasting story to what lay beneath and the Nou Camp stadium is undoubtedly a thing of mesmerising beauty. Vast, wide, tall and steep, over 90,000 people sat in an oval bowl watching a collection of the finest footballing talent in the world. Dad, Oliver and I all stood silently trying to take the magnitude of the views in and soaking up the alien atmosphere as cheers, claps and Spanish chants rang out under the roofless twilight skies. With the altitude, the open air stadium in a cooling December evening left us feeling ever more chilly but the sights of Messi, Suarez and Iniesta below gave us a warm glow. Neymar was injured, so we missed an opportunity to witness the famous trinity of goalscoring talent. But I could live with Neymars absence, it was Messi who I really wanted to see, another name added to the collection of players that I’d seen play live. I could now add Messi to Ronaldo, the two finest players of their generation. Messi scored one of his long-range trademark free kicks after 39 minutes and my weekend was complete. It was an otherwise uninteresting first half and Messi’s goal would have graced any match in any game in the world. But if Messi was the making the headlines it was Iniesta who drew my praise. Watching Iniesta was a thing of majesty, like Paul Scholes in his pomp, Iniesta made the game look easy. He had more time than anyone else on the pitch and his movement was unhurried, strolling around the park, receiving the ball and passing with pinpoint accuracy in one movement. It was a joy to watch and the backdrop of the Nou Camp was the perfect canvas to watch a real artist at work. Rakitic scored early in the second half and it seemed as if it was game over. But a down and dead Deportivo showed impressive fight and determination. They pulled a goal back through Perez after 77 minutes and the game came to life. A scattering of Deportivo fans at the opposite end of the stadium to us, high, high up in the Gods awoke at the same time as their team who rewarded them with a deserved equaliser after 86 minutes. The game was far from over as they attacked the Barcelona rear-guard and threatened a shock third. But it wasn’t to be. Darkness had descended over the Nou Camp and our footballing Odyssey had come to an end. It was a unique trip and for Oliver a special experience, if only to prove a point. The Spanish food might not have agreed with him, but the football certainly did. “Daddy, after I’ve played for Gillingham and then Liverpool, I want to play for Barcelona now” he said. True to form it was my Dad who had the last word “You won’t be able to Oliver, you’ll go hungry” Barcelona: Bravo, Dani Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba (Mathieuat 77mins), Rakitic (Sergi 72mins), Busquets, Iniesta, Messi, L Suárez, Ramírez (El Haddadi 68mins). Subs not used: ter Stegen, Bartra, Adriano, Vermaelen, Deportivo de La Coruña: Lux, Sanabria Ruiz, Arribas, da Silva Junior, Navarro Corbacho, Juanfran (Nunes Cardoso 70 mins), Bergantiños García, Fajr, Correia Pinto (Domínguez Lamasat 45mins), Rodríguez Portillo (Luis Alberto 58mins). Pérez Subs not used: Gracia Calmache, Medunjanin, Lopo, Fernández Muñiz Labels: barcelona, dartford, days out, family, football, oliver, personal experiences, stadiums Newer Posts » Older Posts » Home » Contact me: via Google+	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line9
__label__cc	0.737188	0.262812	Research and Developement Crowdfunding Blockchain Academies A whole series of new solar projects in Moldova, Georgia, Serbia and Tajikistan are going to be financed through crowdfunding campaigns. Citizens from these countries, but also from all round the world will have the opportunity to participate in solarization of this region! We will start with the youngest in Serbia. The future belongs to them and must be renewable so the city of Kragujevac will crowdfund for a PV installation on the roof of a kindergarten. Energy independence of the building will be done with the assistance of the first Serbian energy cooperative from the city of Šabac, under the Solar Mayors' Club Initiative. Education of children is an extra benefit of this kind of projects, and anothe... research-and-developement Blockchain Research and Developement Crowdfunding ©LvNL/Shutterstock.com Why UNDP, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and Islamic Solidarity Fund (ISF) are launching a programme to strengthen NGOs in 57 countries Many countries in the Muslim world face daunting development challenges. In the Arab region despite steady progress in reducing poverty and boosting health and education, political fragility, instability, and recurrent conflicts present immense stumbling blocks on the course to implementing the 2030 Agenda. Despite this, many Muslim countries have extended generous support to their neighbours; they represent eight of the top 12 refugee-hosting countries. How do we capitalize on such solidarity and grassroots networks to solve some of the most difficult development issues countries in the Islamic world... UNDP launches new initiative with mayors to boost solar energy Our results Blockchain Crowdfunding Research and Developement Mayors from eight countries have joined forces with UNDP on a new initiative to boost financing for solar energy. Lisbon, 18 March – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with mayors from eight countries - Moldova, Serbia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Croatia, Somalia, Lebanon and Portugal - today launched a new initiative to boost financing for solar energy in cities across the world. The Solar Mayors platform will connect cities around the topic of energy transition and production of solar energy in urban contexts. Functioning as an online community, the platform represents an opportunity for Mayors to learn about the latest trends in the industry, share best practices, and collectively promote citizen engagement. The platform encourages peer-to-peer learning and cooperation with the private sector and NGOs, two factors recognized ... 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A fair deal for Ecuadorian cocoa farmers Our results Blockchain Crowdfunding Photo: Charisse Kenion on Unsplash Who can imagine Valentine's Day without bon-bons, or Easter without chocolate eggs? Yet generations-old cocoa farming businesses are on the verge of collapse in the Amazon because cocoa farmers don't receive fair pay for their work. Using blockchain technology, the United Nations Development Programme in Ecuador , AltFinLab and Amsterdam's FairChain Foundation are developing one of the world's first blockchain shared-value chocolate bars. Best known as the technology behind cryptocurrencies, blockchain is still too new and cutting edge for many industries. However, as AltFinLab points out in its White Paper 'The Future is Decentralized ', blockchain can potentially revolutionize the food industry. Blockchain data cannot be man... 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The Future is Decentralised - Block chains, distributed ledgers & the future of sustainable development UNDP AltFinLab partnered with Blockchain.com, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Economic Forum (WEF) to explore how block chain technology works, but also how it is already being used to pursue conventional ends. The culmination of that partnership is in the form of a white paper titled, The Future is Decentralised. We're excited to share how this technology has brought new levels of efficiency and effectiveness to the fields of development aid, supply chain management, renewable energy, economic growth, and several others. The potential of block chains to disrupt industrial sectors, commercial processes, governmental structures or economic systems seems to know no bounds. We suggest that the transformative power of block chain techn... Can blockchain help us better assist refugees and migrants in transit? Technology can both empower and disempower. At a recent workshop on blockchain , we landed a challenge: how can we use it to facilitate refugee integration? I am an immediate misfit in the dynamic multiverse of people speaking in code. But at this USAID event led by the UNDP Alternative Finance Lab and AID:Tech , I wasn't the only one. My team, half tree-huggers and half tech gurus, started our brainstorming with this question: what do we have in common? The answer was a strong sense of identity. That fragile sense of self, inflated when our boss pats us on the back and shattered when somebody "swipes left". Displaced people often struggle with identity loss. It isn't just about that "blood and soil" sense of belongingness that disappears w... “From Russia to Tajikistan”: changing the way money moves Could blockchain-based payment systems make financial access easier for migrant workers sending remittance payments from abroad, make the transfer cheaper, faster and more secure ? Citizens of Tajikistan rely heavily on remittances . A lack of job opportunities means that up to 1 million (out of a population of 8 billion) migrate elsewhere for work, mostly Russia. Until 2014, the share of remittances made up around 43 percent of the national GDP, roughly US$4 billion a year , The global recession and the depreciation of the Russian and Tajik currencies against the US dollar has since caused a sharp decline in remittances. But its share is still significant at 20-25 percent, as labor migration continues to be attractive . When we vis... BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH We have recently started to work on the White Paper with Blockchain - the world's leading Bitcoin software company. Together we are working on better understanding the development space and evaluating how this technological innovation can bring about radical transparency & efficiency in the flow of aid.The paper is exploring six key sectors - trade finance, remittances, digital ID, development aid financing, property rights, and energy blockchain. We're cooperating with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (check out an impressive line up of people they've had for a discussion on distributed ledger technologies a few months back) on design of a challenge prize for social applications of blockchain that would (hopefully) ... TAJIKISTAN: SENDING REMITTANCES FROM RUSSIA TO TAJIKISTAN In Tajikistan, we are working with BitSPark on investigating possibilities to transfer remittances money from Tajikistan workers from Russia to Tajikistan using Bitcoins. Remittances are a growing and critical lifeline for many people and countries around the world, as demonstrated clearly by Tajikistan where 50% of the country GDP relies on remittance income. MOLDOVA - Testing use of Emercoin/Blockchain for Fleet Management In Moldova, we are testing to find out if Blockchain can provide a more effective way of managing the United Nations car fleet. On this project we cooperate with EmerCoin - a digital currency and blockchain service platform and with DeePlace company. The blockchain technology is to demonstrate the possibility of a more effective way of managing the UN car fleet in an emergency situation. Blockchain could provide a more effective way of transferring and tracking funds. SERBIA - SENDING REMITTANCES FROM SERBIAN DIASPORA TO THE CITY OF NIS BENEFICIARIES As remittances are an important part of the economic impact of migration, in Serbia we're working on designing a proof of concept for remittance transfers over blockchain. The program's goal is to find a cheaper cross-border transfer system which cuts out intermediaries such as Western Union, and targeted toward specific needs in Serbia. In this project, we are working together with AidTech - a blockchain startup, one among ten finalists of the European Commission 2016 Social Innovation Competition. UNDPCrowd – a New Kid on the Block? She is in her 30-ies, borderless, decentralised and the Master-Mind of "Governance 2.0", the BitNation. Her name is Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof and she shook the minds of #UNDPCrowd yesterday, as the Sun set down over Bosporus and the room was getting hot, powered by each person emitting 100 Watts worth of heat. 100×70=7kW heat. It is so hot I can't think. What the hack is BitNation? I'll quote them as that is the zest of their existence: „ BitNation does not care where in the world you are from, where you live, or what passport you hold. Everyone has the right to enjoy high-end, competitive governance services." 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__label__cc	0.68732	0.31268	On Saturday, 12/23/2006 At 7PM EST... Jon Gold Fri, 12/22/2006 - 11:01pm Jon Gold Truth Jihad Saturday evening, 12/23/2006 at 7pm EST, I will be on Kevin Barrett's RBN Live show called, "The Truth Jihad." You can listen to it online live here, and they also have archives that are usually up within an hour here... I hope some of you call up and say hi. That would be REALLY cool. The number is (800) 313-9443. Jon Gold's blog For posting this. The Time For Debate Is Over Jon Gold on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 9:28am. Who is the ugly guy with Who is the ugly guy with Barrett??? Somebigguy on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 9:31am. Can't you read? It's this week's guest Jon Gold. Duh. Show "A same sex couple" by JoMama2 (not verified) A same sex couple They sure look like they are meant for each other. JoMama2 (not verified) on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 4:06pm. Show "You certainly deserve each other." by Anonymous (not verified) -17 votes You certainly deserve each other. How pathetic. Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 9:42am. Make sure you listen... You might learn something. Show "Will there be something like..." by Anonymous (not verified) Will there be something like... 9/11 was an inside job? Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:01am. There will be plenty... Of information that points in that direction I'm sure. However, I prefer the phrase, "elements of our Government were complicit" as opposed to "9/11 was an inside job." Jon Gold on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:03am. Show "Complicit = inside job. No way around it." by Anonymous (not verified) Complicit = inside job. No way around it. Given Barrett\'s track record and your confusion, I am confident that neither of you will yet produce any evidence for your claims. After all, it has been 5 years and nothing remotely suggesting complicity has ever been presented. By objective standards, that is. Actually... com·plic·it adj. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. #1 You're the one that's confused. #2 It has been 5 years, and SO MUCH information has been revealed/obtained that indicates elements of our Goverment were complicit in the attacks. In regards to your lack of ability to process that information, I refer you to #1. Show "Try to read carefully for once." by Anonymous (not verified) Try to read carefully for once. Nothing by any objective standard has ever been produced suggesting complicity. Your beliefs, suggested anomalies, assertions, claims, and misrepresentation of factual evidence, and lies about evidence do not qualify in any way as objective standards. Just to make tonight's show something EXTRA SPECIAL... I've collected a few things I think will shed A LOT of light on the subject for a lot of people, and are a "debunkers" worst nightmare... Jon Gold on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 12:00pm. dont worry Jon, the shills are watching...... S. King said... Notice from Jon Gold: "Saturday evening, 12/23/2006 at 7pm EST, I will be on Kevin Barrett's RBN Live show called, "The Truth Jihad." http://911blogger.com/node/5216 That should be entertaining. (jesus man, they are obsessed with you over at that pisshole. funny to see ShillKing is still watching us.) Chris on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 12:02pm. Hahahahahaha, those jokers Hahahahahaha, those jokers can keep on dancing for us it's great entertainment. Dem Bruce Lee Styles on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 12:22pm. Show "The light was all shed on you years ago. You are exposed." by Anonymous (not verified) The light was all shed on you years ago. You are exposed. The 9/11 Truth Movement\\\'s worst nightmare: the evidence. DEBUNKARAMA! Tired of dumb people who think they\\\'re geniuses telling you 9/11 was an inside job? So am I. Here are the absolute best one-stop debunking sites on the web: http://www.911myths.com/ http://www.debunking911.com/ http://internetdetectives.biz/case/loose-change It\\\'s a good bet anything you hear a Truther say about 9/11 has been debunked from here to Gotham City. Somehow, the conspiracy folks don\\\'t much visit these sites. Or they dismiss them on some flimsy pretext. A few conspiracy nuts think they\\\'ve debunked these places--but as far as I can see their debunkings are double-talk. In my opinion, these three sites make the 9/11 Truth Movements\\\' smoking guns go up in smoke. On the other hand...if total annihilation of all conspiracist fantasies is your goal, here is my candidate for best in-depth debunking site on the web: Conspiracy Theories Section - at the James Randi Foundation Forum Here\\\'s where you can go for in-depth, expert, industrial-strength debunkings of all claims by members of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Created by former professional magician James Randi, The Randi Foundation Forum is a gathering place for skeptics--especially skeptics of the paranormal. (Randi is the guy with a zillion-dollar bet that no one can perform a paranormal feat under specified conditions.) The conspiracy section of the JREF forum hosts an international gathering of intrepid debunkers who have pretty much unravelled every conspiracy claim you can name. Most conspiraloons avoid JREF like the plague, as well they should. This jolly place is where I\\\'m hanging out these days. http://perrylogan.org/ Good advice that scares the pants off you 9/11 Truth Kiddies Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 12:37pm. to anonymous shut the hell up, you mossad/cia/isi/mi6 pieces of shi*! get a meaningful direction in life while you're at it, you f%^&in programmed lemming robot losers! karma is gonna get you very soon. frank luchesi (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 1:46pm. Show "Whadda ya smokin today?" by Anonymous (not verified) Whadda ya smokin today? Get a life, bunky. Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 2:52pm. Oops.. I crapped my pants! That list\of\sites to end all questions about 9/11... really has me running. I've got scare\shit all over my legs. "The truth shall make you free." Why not make the truth free? We live on a priceless blue pearl, awash in a universe of fire and ice. Cut the crap. Erin S. Myers on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 3:37pm. Show "You sure did." by Anonymous (not verified) You sure did. But you crap on the truth daily, so what is the difference? into the BATCAVE checked all those links and finally the "bat cave" — http://perrylogan.org/ — Response, simply put: "Angle is next." Nothing at any of those sites addresses the heart of the coup: Air Force One on the runway and airborne for over an hour with zero fighter cover (i.e. not one single fighter positioned in the air to protect it) while the nation was "under attack." And nothing at all discussing the "Angel is next" threat or the hot-line linkup with Putin. Your co-operatives may spin the stuff on the fringes, pull quotes from any dubious source (FBI, 911 Commission, MSM, et al) and generate copious smoke for the benefit of their plethora of mirrors, but they can produce nothing to contradict the documented activities at the heart of the coup. It can't be covered up. 911 was a coup d'etat by a rogue network in service to a warmongering faction of the global olicarcy...probably your own handlers; that is unless your version of agitprop is designed to elicit even stronger arguments in support of 911Truth — in this climate, could be anything...maybe just your idea of "a good time," as in, "For a good time, email perryloganclone@yahoo.com!" As for the bat cave: Threaten you?\!\?\!\who\d bother? You, if that's really you Perry-san, or whoever you really are, already have to live with yourself — what could be worse? And don't say, "living with you" — debunked by default: my wife loves it...and yours? Oh yeah, that would be genuinely incredible\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\for a good time, one more stroke and that Brittany Spears cheesecake gets you through the night. blog dog (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 12:34am. Anonymous said: "Your "Your beliefs, suggested anomalies, assertions, claims, and misrepresentation of factual evidence, and lies about evidence do not qualify in any way as objective standards." You must be talking about the government's story. Objectivity goes both ways. It is not objective to assume a priori that our government would never kill its own citizens, and to assume that the government's story is a truth that has to be rebutted. Of course, if the government's story made any sense, I would be less suspicious. That it does not make sense, and that there has been no investigation at all, raises my suspicions greatly. Ningen (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 5:57pm. Do you have evidence that the official story is correct? "Given Barrett\'s track record and your confusion, I am confident that neither of you will yet produce any evidence for your claims. After all, it has been 5 years and nothing remotely suggesting complicity has ever been presented." Hey you-that-can't-come-up-with-a-name.... It's been five years and nothing remotely near a "full and complete accounting" of the official theories has been forthcoming. You would think that the event that has been at the core of virtually everything that the current residents of the white house have done would be fully explained by now.... Oh.... I know they are TRIED to provide evidence but when we find out about all the ommissions of the 911 commission and find out that the the commissioners KNEW the pentagon was lying to them about the events of 911, it tends to give me pause.... Do YOU really believe the official story? If you have evidence that proves the official conspiracy theories, then lets see it! All aspects of the truth are consistent solar roller on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 12:19pm. The event of 9/11 impacted us SO MUCH... We've even got a period of time named after it... "The Post-9/11 World." And we're not supposed to question that world changing event, and those that lied to us about it? GIVE ME A _______ BREAK! Jon Gold on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 1:01pm. Show "I gave you a break, in fact many breaks." by Anonymous (not verified) I gave you a break, in fact many breaks. But you continue to lie about 9/11, Jon Gold. And now you\'ll join another liar tonight. Angel is next \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ no hiding \\\\\\\\\\ Angel is next \\\\\\\\\\\ keep stroking \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ blog dog (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 3:10pm. Since this is all baseless garbage, why are you wasting your time and energy posting here? We are all just a bunch of nutty conspiracy theorists...right? Possibly you are threatened by what is being discussed here. It seems to concern you. P.S. Say hi to the guys at the "office".......traitor. intheyearzero (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 2:26pm. Show "Pay attention." by Anonymous (not verified) I like going to the circus. There are many clowns here. Either you are threatened by what is being discussed here..... ......or you are being paid to post here. You don't even attempt to debate the issues, you only hurl chilldish insults. That is all you can do? Show "You must be a newbie." by Anonymous (not verified) You must be a newbie. Debate does not take place here. It never has, it never will. Assertions are made without evidence. Anyone who points out the assertions need evidence to back them up is a disinfo agent not adhering to The Party Line. Some of us try to wake them up to the real world of truth. You will soon understand that truth is a hate word here. Get used to reality and truth being turned upside down on 911Blogger.com. Yes, it IS bizarre. So perhaps YOU can answer my So perhaps YOU can answer my question anonymous-person- I -do-not-know: Where in the NIST report does it explain the mechanism for simultaneous, systematic, total structural failure that resulted in the near free fall collapse of WTC1, 2 & 3? Please include the exact page numbers in your response and a link. I eagerly await my awakening to the "real world of truth". olduser_01 on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 1:56am. Show "Begging the Question" by Anonymous (not verified) Look up the meaning, you poor fool. The look up and learn the definition of progressive collapse, already explained to you here. God, you 9/11 Truth Kiddies are dumb. Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 8:09am. The question specifies The question specifies "WHERE IN THE NIST REPORT"--not general info from bleeding Encyclopdia Britanica, et al. WHERE IN THE NIST REPORT--please. Thank you, "Ern-", I mean, anonymous-person-I-do-not-know. olduser_01 on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 3:14pm. Show "Try again. Pay attention this time." by Anonymous (not verified) Try again. Pay attention this time. You are begging the question. Look up the definition. Then read the NIST Report. WTC 1: Once the upper building section began to move downwards, the weakened structure in the impact and fire zone was not able to absorb the tremendous energy of the falling building section and global collapse ensued. - NIST NCSTAR 1, WTC Investigation, p. 145 The downward movement of this structural block was more than the damaged structure could resist, and the global collapse began. Then ook up and learn the definition of progressive collapse, already explained to you here. Perhaps, if you pay attention, you won\'t make a fool of yourself yet again, bubba Jenny with foot firmly stick in mouth. Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 4:42pm. "You are begging the "You are begging the question. Look up the definition." It is NIST's job to provide all relevant definitions in its report as most people reading it are not experts in the relevant feilds. So are you saying NIST believes it was a progressive collapse? If so, WHERE IN THE NIST REPORT do they state this mechanism then explain this mechanism? BTW "global collapse" is an environmental/ economic term, hence being misused in this context. Are you suggesting that NIST meant "structural collapse" when they said "global collapse"? If so, please provide a link where this is clairfied. Show "Try to pay attention." by Anonymous (not verified) Try to pay attention. It is dishonest for you to continue to beg the question. Now, read what NIST says. Good. Now what does NIST say? What does the article I linked to say? Do you mean to tell me that as a 9/11 Truther you have not even bothered to learn what is in the NIST Report? Need some more help? Here: http://www.implosionworld.com/wtc.htm Now, what do they all say in common? C\'mon, bubba Jenny, quit begging the question, dodging and try to muster up some integrity. WHERE in the NIST report do WHERE in the NIST report do they explain the mechanism for the near free fall collapse of WTC1, 2 &3 as progressive collapse? Because right now, you are saying the NIST report DOES NOT explain a mechanism for the collapse, progressive or otherwise--in which instance the NIST report is flawed. If the NIST report can't stand alone, then it CANNOT be used by debunkers as a Bible of the official story. BTW--the link you gave is garbage--it just leads back to 911Blogger. Now go back to your "totally awsome journal", 911Debunker. No, you know perfectly well. That NIST and everyone else says exactly the same thing. And you think you can evade it by begging the question? Are you that nuts? Let\'s try again, bubba, shall we? \"Local failure of one structural element may result in the failure of another structural element. Failure might thus progress throughout a major part or even all of the structure. After reviewing a couple of failure events, it is outlined why current probability based design codes are inadequate to prevent progressive collapse. It is discussed how these shortcomings might be overcome both within and outside a probabilistic framework. A pragmatic approach is suggested in which design according to current practice is complemented by additional design measures with particular regard to collapse resistance.\" \"Progressive collapse has played a role in such catastrophic events as the collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, 1995 and the World Trade Center towers, New York, 2001, but in a large number of less dramatic failures as well. Some failures out of recent years are described in [2], ranging from Ronan Point, a multi-story building in London, 1968, to the Sampoong Superstore, a department store in Seoul, 1995. Progressive collapse as partial cause is evident throughout the described failure events.\" \"In terms of tragedy and losses the above mentioned cases of failure were far exceeded by the collapse on September 11th, 2001 of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The impact of the airplane and the subsequent fire initiated local failures in the area of impact. The ensuing loss in vertical bearing capacity was limited to a few stories but extended over the complete cross section of the respective tower [9, 10]. The upper part of the structure started to move downwards and accumulated kinetic energy. The subsequent collision with the lower part of the structure, which was still intact, caused enormous impact forces which were far beyond the reserve capacities of the structure. This, in turn, led to the complete loss of vertical bearing capacity in the area of the impact. Failure progressed in this manner and led to a total collapse.\" \"Eventually, the integrity of these tubes was compromised to the point where they buckled under the weight of the higher floors, causing a gravitational chain reaction that continued until all of the floors were at ground level.\" http://www.sh.tu-harburg.de/starossek/Veroeffentlichungen/Dateien/Uwe%20... Now, bubba Jenny, do you want to continue with your crusade or will you finally admit that you begging the question and avoiding what we all know is just making you the laughing stock in the Real World and killing your \"movement?\" Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 10:42pm. But I asked what was in the But I asked what was in the NIST report; all this extra information may be relevant, BUT IT ISN'T IN THE NIST REPORT.(Or so it appears as there are no page numbers after the first two items which are from NIST) These links are not part of the NIST report--so they are irreleveant to my question which was clearly about the NIST report. You answers should ONLY reference the NIST report because it is the integrity of the NIST report that is in question. So you have confirmed the NIST report DOES NOT explain the mechanism of collapse. Thank you, anonymous-person-I do-not-know. "Bugger this; I want a better world." olduser_01 on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 4:05am. Yes, The NIST report is crystal clear. Don\'t be a fool, Jenny. As is every other report I posted supporting NIST. You are just making a fool of yourself pretending not to know it does and begging the question. As I always say, one can never underestimate the intelligence of you 9/11 Truth Kiddies. Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 9:43am. Sorry you can't read..... Your new nickname is "Cognitive Dissonance". Do you like it? intheyearzero (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 5:56am. One has to wonder What all you bozos did during school hours. anybody know anything about anybody know anything about an upcoming book by Barrett called "Truth Jihad"? he told me a couple of months ago to be on the lookout for it but i havent heard anything since then. Chris on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:08am. Show "Truth Jihad" by Anonymous (not verified) That is a first, admitting that there is a Jihad against the truth. You 9/11 Truth Kiddies are really over the top. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ no hiding \\\\\\\\\\ Angel is next \\\\\\\\\\\ arm getting tired? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ MEDIA WHORE!!! just kidding Jon.... go kick some butt JJJames (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:27am. Will... For all your efforts Thanks Jon,and be sure to tell Kevin thanks too from all of us here. WISDOM on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:45am. Jon Gold interview. I am listening to the interview right now and Jon is doing a fine job. He just mentioned this web site and all the trolls who come here and cause trouble. I think it is a great idea to have everyone log-in. No more of this anonymous crap. If a troll wants to post, fine with me but put up your e-mail address and IP number. Stop hiding behind your mouse and keyboard. I also liked Jon mentioning the time when Gypsy blew the whistle on 9/11 commission thugs. Gypsy was born in Russia and later moved to the States. She is more of a true American than most of the natural born ones. Joe six-pack should hang his head in shame. maddog on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 9:06pm. That's one of my favorite videos. Gypsy Video That is my favorite video also. I still watch it. Her, Carol and Janette are my favorite people in our group. It took a lot of courage to do what she did. I am not sure I could have done it myself. I would have been shaking in my boots. Those woman are true patriots. We men can learn a lot from them. I have always maintained that women like Gypsy will win this thing for us. maddog on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 10:39am. Good luck man! yo, john don't forget the dancing israelis found with explosives residue in their van, the fake art students at the wtc, the fake moving company, the dual israel-us citizenship for many involved with pnac and homeland security, the depleted uranium constantly used by our troops and israel's, the aipac whores, the same people who control the media also own the weapons defense industry aka mic, no-bid gov't contracts to those same people, on and on and on. it's not so hard to figure out, people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! isi/cia/mossad/mi6/kroll (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 1:57pm. Show "Too bad that RBN is also the" by Anonymous (not verified) Too bad that RBN is also the Too bad that RBN is also the host to people like grand master klansman DAVID DUKE, featured as a guest on the RBN shows of Michael Collins Piper. Here's a recent show description. I'll break it up a little to parse easier . . . Tue., December 19, 2006: Playlists: M3U \| RAM (Individual MP3: Click Here ) The special guest on the December 19 broadcast by Michael Collins Piper of his nightly call-in talk forum on the Republic Broadcasting Network (see the archives at rbnlive.com) was none other than former Louisiana State Rep. David Duke, who is, beyond any question, one of the most "controversial" public figures in the United States today. Piper and Duke were among the wide-ranging group of speakers at the recent international conference on the Holocaust convened in Tehran, Iran by Iranian President Ahmadenijad, and Duke joined Piper on rbnlive.com to discuss what really happened at the conference and to correct much of the misinformation and disinformation about the conference that has been conveyed in the print and broadcast mass media in the United States. Duke himself was the subject of particularly distorted coverage in English-language reports about the conference, but he had several opportunities, via interviews with media manipulators such as Wolf Blitzer, among others, to get out the truth, the heavy-handed hate-mongering and lying by Zionist elements notwithstanding. Duke's website, davidduke.com, received some 15,000 emails from around the world and about 80% of those emails were favorable, a direct consequence of audiences seeing through the mass media lies and responding favorably to Duke's articulate refutations of the media disinformation. In his book JEWISH SUPREMACISM ( which has been translated into some 14 languages), Duke has directly challenged the power of the Zionist elite and outlined the history of Zionist intrigue in well-written and carefully-documented fashion. http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Piper06.html scroll on for many more holocaust revisionist shows. RBN is very deeply involved in the efforts of the white supremacists to demonize Jews and non-whites. I don't support Zionism, but I also don't support white supremacism and racist hate speech, which is what David Duke, Michael Collins Piper, Barnes Review, etc are all about. The Barnes Review nominated Hitler for a Nobel Peace Prize. People will say, "well so what, we can't help what they're doing on OTHER shows on RBN." But you can also walk away from it and find someplace else. Reaching out to the Right and the Libertarians doesn't mean you have to support an openly racist venture such as this. All activists should reject venues featuring racist White Supremacists. Type "David Duke radio" into google and listen for a little while., or check out his website so you can understand. These are the people saying non-Europeans are bad, blacks and whites can't date, non-whites can't come across the Amurican borders, etc. It's sad to see people ignore this issue. I hope those of you who understand this stuff can speak out on here. There are other ways to reach out. Ben Hannity Chertoff is here ,again Wow , more espousing comments on how you are the grand know all truth master? as usual?...Ho Hum..Not! Way to go Jon, give Kevin My thanks if you could..and Chertoff you can listen in also....Oh I know, you will be...by the way why don't you check out Counterpunch March 9th article from Sam Karmilowicz. It's a good measure to read an article like this in their publication and refer to us as nutty conspirationalists. Shows inconsistency on their part. Mike Anti-Neo-Con on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 12:48am. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ no hiding \\\\\\\\\\ Angel is next \\\\\\\\\\\ keep stroking \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ its getting soft \\\\\\\\\\\\\\ arms going numb \\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 10 Minutes... well i'm listening sounds well i'm listening sounds good guys ryangpoker on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 8:11pm. I'd just like to say that I haven't been that nervous and thus dorky-sounding since I confronted Sen. John Thune at my cousin's wedding in South Dakota. Really. I'm usually quite a smooth talker. casseia on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 8:03pm. You did great. That's nice of you to say. Show "Japanese did 911!" by concrete man (not verified) Japanese did 911! Who controls the 911 truth movement? The Japanese ??? http://www.iamthewitness.com/video/FrenchConnection_2.wmv concrete man (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 8:56pm. It is over. Alarming 9/11 claim is found baseless. New report rips Curt Weldon and 9/11 Truth Movement Alarming 9/11 claim is found baseless A military analysts\' chart did not identify hijackers beforehand, senators report. By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has rejected as untrue one of the most disturbing claims about the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes — a congressman\'s contention that a team of military analysts identified Mohamed Atta or other hijackers before the attacks — according to a summary of the panel\'s investigation obtained by The Times. The conclusion contradicts assertions by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and a few military officers that U.S. national security officials ignored startling intelligence available in early 2001 that might have helped to prevent the attacks. In particular, Weldon and other officials have repeatedly claimed that the military analysts\' effort, known as Able Danger, produced a chart that included a picture of Atta and identified him as being tied to an Al Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, N.Y. Weldon has also said that the chart was shared with White House officials, including Stephen J. Hadley, then deputy national security advisor. But after a 16-month investigation, the Intelligence Committee has concluded that those assertions are unfounded. \"Able Danger did not identify Mohammed Atta or any other 9/11 hijacker at any time prior to Sept. 11, 2001,\" the committee determined, according to an eight-page letter sent last week to panel members by the top Republican and Democrat on the committee. Weldon, the focus of an unrelated Justice Department corruption probe, was defeated last month in his campaign for an 11th term in a suburban Philadelphia district that has a large GOP majority in voter registration. Attempts were unsuccessful Sunday to reach a Weldon spokesman and an attorney representing Weldon in the Justice Department investigation. The Senate panel began investigating Able Danger in August 2005, after Weldon and people close to the program went public with their claims. At the time, Weldon was the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. The recently completed probe also dismissed other assertions that have fueled conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. The panel said it found \"no evidence\" to support claims by military officers connected to Able Danger that Defense Department lawyers prevented the team\'s analysts from sharing their findings with FBI counter-terrorism officials before the attacks. Nor was the alleged chart or any information developed by Able Danger improperly destroyed at the direction of Pentagon lawyers, the panel concluded — a charge that had stoked claims of a cover-up. Though the committee concluded that claims about Able Danger were unfounded, two of the hijackers were known to the U.S. intelligence community before the Sept. 11 attacks. The two had been observed by the CIA attending a meeting with Al Qaeda operatives in Malaysia, but that information was not shared with other agencies in time to locate them after they had entered the United States and moved to San Diego. Able Danger was the unclassified name given to a program launched in 1999 by the U.S. Special Operations Command as part of an effort to develop military plans targeting the leadership ranks of Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks. Military analysts assigned to the effort did create charts with pictures of Al Qaeda operatives whose identities were known publicly at the time, the committee found. But the committee concluded that none of those charts depicted Atta, and that the claims of Weldon and others may have been caused by confusion. One of the charts, titled \"The Al Qaeda Network: Snapshots of Typical Operational Cells Associated With UBL [Usama bin Laden],\" was attached to the letter sent to committee members last week by Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and John D. \"Jay\" Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the panel\'s leaders. \"One of these individuals depicted on the chart arguably looked like Mohammed Atta,\" the committee concluded. \"In addition, the chart contained names of Al Qaeda associates that sound like Atta, as well as numerous variations of the common Arab name Mohammed.\" The committee also suggested that officials\' memories may have been clouded by the flurry of charts and photographs of Atta that surfaced after the attacks. The panel noted that a defense contractor that produced the chart at the center of the controversy subsequently created a follow-up chart, after the attacks, that did include Atta. Atta, an Egyptian-born Islamic radical, was the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks and pilot of one of the planes that struck the World Trade Center. In June 2005, Weldon generated controversy when he declared in a speech on the House floor and in a book released that month that he had met with Hadley at the White House shortly after the attacks and had given the national security official a copy of a chart showing that Atta had been identified by Able Danger. But the committee concluded that the chart \"was not a pre-9/11 chart\" and that \"at no time did Mr. Hadley ever see a chart with pre-9/11 data bearing Atta\'s picture or name as described by Congressman Weldon.\" The Senate Intelligence Committee noted in its report that its findings were consistent with those of a similar investigation of Able Danger by the Defense Department inspector general\'s office, released in September. Weldon has relished the role of calling attention to national security threats he believes are being ignored by others in government. At times he has carried around a replica of a suitcase-size nuclear bomb to highlight terrorist nuclear dangers. He has also accused Iran of hiding Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Weldon\'s rising legal troubles played a role in his reelection loss last month. It was disclosed last week that a federal grand jury had subpoenaed congressional records from Weldon\'s office as part of an FBI probe aimed at determining whether he traded his influence to get lobbying business for his daughter Karen and others. The House seat was won by Democrat Joe Sestak, a retired Navy vice admiral. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel25dec25,0,3149... Is there no mention of the 2.5 terabytes of information that was destroyed, or the fact that Dietrich Schnell was prohibited from testifying at Weldon's hearings, or the treatment that Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer received, and can we please see the chart in question? Jon Gold on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 11:05am. Never any answers from you. You were funny on Barrett\'s Sick and Demented Hour, Jon. Not a single piece of evidence from either one of you. Lot\'s of cover-ups, you claim, but you still refuse to demonstrate anything that would remotely lead one to conclude that elements of the government were complicit in pulling off 9/11. One has to wonder when you will come out from hiding and provide some answers. Given your historical performance, all you can do is argue from innuendo. If you only had a clue........ Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 11:31am. Too bad you bought into the nonsense of 9/11 Truthies. It is unfortunate that you never learned how to think rationally and critically. what?!?!?! first, why was what?!?!?! first, why was Sen. Thune at your cousins wedding? second, what exactly did you confront him about? third, good for you! Sen. Thune is a jackass. Chris on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 3:48pm. Cause she's a big S. Dakota mucketymuck as is her new husband. But believe me, I was completely shocked when I realized he was there. Anyway, I angled for a little face time with him, introduced him to my daughter who is extremely cute (playing the cute daughter card), and then told him that more and more Americans aren't satisfied with the Commission Report and that that kind of doubt about our great government is bad for our great nation. He did a great job of simulating concerned attention, sustained eye contact, and so forth, and thanked me for bringing the matter to his attention. Then I went in the bathroom and barfed up my piece of cake. (Not really.) casseia on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 8:12pm. haha, great job. did he have haha, great job. did he have anything at all of substance to say about your concerns with the Commission? or just the usual canned answers? personally i would have barfed, ive seen Thune speak on C-Span and stuff and hes the epitome of "politician". glad to see his white house hopes have dried up. Chris on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 11:46pm. To everyone that participated, and to everyone that listened. Sorry I forgot to say hi from 911Blogger.com... do you still think flight 77 do you still think flight 77 flew into the pentagon, master truther? Why do you refer to me as... "master truther?" Show "because your good Jon, now" by Anonymous (not verified) because your good Jon, now because your good Jon, now answer my question Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 12:00am. Answer this! Screw you, you evil bastard! btw way to go Jon. Daricus on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 12:05am. Excellent show! Kevin does a really impressive job of keeping the show rolling... very easy to listen to. Jon... You gave us at blogger plenty of props! The fact that you reccomend this site as a place for people to go to seek information from intelligent and informed people is very telling of your respect for us all..... well not all of us... "Anony" Going to try and make it to Phoenix..... Would give me some inspiration to finish many of research papers on the subject. JJJames (not verified) on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 9:13pm. The time flew by. Show "The Tale of Two Holocaust Tales" by Concrete man (not verified) The Tale of Two Holocaust Tales The Zionist Holocaust Story is a Hoax [The Tale of Two Holocaust Tales] By Patrick H. McNally The most interesting confrontation at the recent Teheran International Conference on the Holocaust was the shocking differences between two diametrically opposed Jewish Holocaust narratives. Six Nerutei Karta rabbis from England, Austria, and the USA attended the Conference to present the views of their rabbinate. Their prophecy-based holocaust narrative is light-years away from the hatemongering profiteering libels, lies, and slanders peddled by their Zionist co-tribalists. All these rabbis would be immediately arrested for doubting the existence of homicidal gas chambers if they were to set foot in France. Recently a tenured French university professor, Bruno Gollisch, got suspended for five years for merely suggesting that the gas chambers could be discussed. The relevant French law is called the Fabulous-Gas Act. So it turns out that these rabbis are unquestionably full throttle, belch fire revisionists and opponents of the Zionist Holocaust hoax. The differences between the rabbis` prophecy-based holocaust narrative and the Zionists` profit-seeking Hoaxoco$t lie are so great that the one word "holocaust" should not be applied to these totally opposed narratives. The differences between the rabbinical religious narrative and secular Zionist blood libel do not just relate to the uses, misuses, and abuses of the Holocaust stories. Of course, the rabbis correctly see the core abuse of the Zionist hoax as the indispensable excuse to create the Zionist JewState [of Jews, by Jews, and for Jews] and the chief alibi to justify any and all crimes of elite Jewry inside and outside of Palestine. Quite apart from the Zionist abuses of their own very different hoaxoco$t fairy tale, the central elements of the two narratives differ in the following ways: 1. The Zionists say that Hitler was the chief culprit, most responsible villain, and the main efficient cause. Recently when it turned out that nobody could find any documents whatsoever tracing responsibility to Hitler, the hoaxoco$ters had to revise their Hitler-lie. When Hitler could not be blamed, Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard`s heavyweight Holyhoax hatemonger, stepped into the breach to blame all the Germans whom he smeared as "Hitler`s willing executioners." However, Goldhagen himself is simply one of Alley the Weasel`s willing liars. The holyhoaxers really belong to the revision-of-the-month club as they are always changing their story under pressure from real researchers who then get smeared as "deniers." At any rate, for the Nerutei Karta Orthodox rabbis, Hitler is not the efficient cause but only one among many instrumental causes. Another important instrumental cause for the rabbis is the Zionists who actively cooperated with Hitler to deport the Jews out of Europe. The Zionists wanted young and healthy Jewish cannon fodder to sic on against the native Palestinians and elderly Jews to serve as victims to promote post-war Zionist demands for the founding of their new JewState [of Jews, by Jews, and for Jews]. The Zionists are always the ultimate Volksverhetzer [inciters of hatred of other peoples]. 2. The Zionists are wedded to the preposterous nonsense of the homicidal gas chambers. They have been jibbering and jabbering away too many decades to be able to gracefully and surreptiously jettison the gas chamber fiction from their SS Holocaust. The Goldhagen ruse of shifting the blame onto roving death squads of rabies-infected killer Krauts never got off the ground because his poison gas filled trial ballon immediately got shot full of holes. The Orthodox Rabbis could not care less about the homicidal gas chamber bologna. Their Chief Rabbi from England said, "What difference does it make if Jews died in gas chambers or from starving?" In Europe the Rabbi could not make such a statement without being arrested by Zionist holyhoaxotoxifiers and tarred and feathered by the jewsnews 3. The zio-holyhoaxers are dogmatically committed to the “into the valley of gas chambers marched the 6,000,000” myth and to their unique branch of mathematics known as “holocaust arithmetic” in which [6,000,000 – 3,000,000 = 6,000,000]. These Orthodox rabbis have a religious, metaphysical, and spiritual understanding of the Jewish deaths during World War II. They seem to contemptuously dismiss any and all bogus Zionist bean counting. 4. The zio-greed heads and hoaxoco$ters are very interested in money, money, and more money. Their shameless machinations have been hilariously documented in Norman Finkelsteins`s indispensable “The Holocaust Industry.” The way zio-holyhoaxers have milked their cash cow should be written up as a Harvard Business School case. The Orthodox rabbis not only do not demand money but will not ACCEPT any money for the deaths of their brethren in East Europe during the war which their Zionist co-tribalists played a big role in starting and promoting. 5. The zio-holocaustomaniacs have so successfully marketed their complaints that Edgar Man of Steel coined the phrase, “New Whine in Old Bottles.” Their bogus bull manure has replaced the Crucifixion of Christ as the central redemptive suffering in all of human history. Their marketing campaign has created the Church of the Holocaust as a new slave cult of watered down Jewdayism for cattle goyim and secular Jews. But the zio-hoaxocoughers supreme triumph has to have been the UN inauguration of an annual International Holocaust Day on January 27. According to Israel Shamir, Israel has only fulfilled one UN resolution: the one that condemned Zionism as a racism. However, it could be objected that Zionism actually never attained the relatively high moral level of a racism and remained on the primitive level of a mere tribalism. However the rabbis have no interest in shoving their Holocaust narrative down peoples` throats by using a Jewish Neo-Inquisition to prosecute, persecute, and pursue octogenarians and nonagenarians all over the face of the earth and even into villages and hamlets in South America, suburbs in the USA, and small towns in Europe. In fact, one rabbi stated that his group does not participate in Jewry-wide and secular celebrations but only commemorates the disappearance of their own particular community in Eastern Europe. 6. The Zionist hoaxoco$t is not only a shameless shakedown and extortion racket but is an accusation of premeditated murder. Let us not use that phony and already worn out neologism, “genocide,” which was coined by a zio-propagandist working on wartime black propaganda in Washington, D.C. in the early 1940s. The Zionists are not content with saying that Jews died or were killed. Their quasi-official definition includes the essentially different word, “murdered.” If someone dies or is killed, it can be a natural or accidental happening with nobody being guilty. Murder always involves guilt and the guilty party must pay some compensation. Enter the hapless Germans and the most to be pitied Palestinians as the first and most obvious victims of world history`s filthiest blood libel, the hoaxocough. But the holyhoax is not only the BIGGEST of big lies but the mother of many other lies, e.g. the 9-11 Lie foisted on a brain dead American public with no knowledge of high school chemistry or physics. The 9-11 Lie in turn led to the made-by-Jews WMD lie and the depleted uranium nuclear poisoning and massacre of the Iraqi people. Perhaps Asia has not yet been severely affected by the hoaxoco$t lie, but the entire post-Christian world has been brain poisoned and the Muslim world literally poisoned, savagely attacked, and threatened by it. The next poisonous fruit of the zio-hoaxocough might well be an attack on Iran for….well, for what else, but holocaust denial. After all, the Islamic Republic of Iran did invite in the Nerutei Karta rabbis and gave them a hearty welcome and a forum where they could present their views. In Iran the rabbis got more press coverage and TV time than they have been given in over 50 years in the “democratic and open free world.” In the 1940s and 50s people used to say right that 55,000,000 humans died in World War II including a few million Jews. Now the holocaustofried say that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered in a Holocaust along with a few million simple unchosen humans. Please! Let us all move onto solving some really important pan-human problems! Show's Up... Good to speak with you and Kevin, time flies when you're truthing! I look forward to seeing you in AZ in February. I hope that you and yours are well. LeftWright on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 10:55pm. Thanks for calling up! And thanks for the signs you make. Jon, thank you for the Jon, thank you for the links. Jason on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 3:47pm. Show "Jon, do you support these statements by Barrett?" by Mark Roberts Jon, do you support these statements by Barrett? I find it interesting that the first words on Kevin Barrett's website, MUJCA.com, are "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Yet despite being asked repeatedly, Barrett refuses to correct his egregious and deliberate misquoting of – and lies about – Larry Silverstein. Barrett says Silverstein is: A mass murderer. A traitor. An insurance fraudster. When I asked Barrett to present evidence of these alleged crimes, all he could say is that I was a traitor who would be joining Silverstein on the gallows, and that he was saving my emails to be used as evidence at my trial. Barrett continues to preach the importance of honesty, while spreading lies and hatred against a man who has done nothing wrong. I asked him if he really wants to live in a world in which baseless accusations are acceptable as evidence of a crime. He didn't reply. When he's politely asked to correct his deliberate errors, he refuses. He says his critics are traitors who will be executed. Are Barrett's actions those of a stable, rational person? So what's going on here, people? Why do you support this fraud and hypocrite, with his violent, unhinged fantasies? I'm genuinely interested to know. Mark Roberts on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 5:55am. Mark Roberts, obviously i can't answer your question, but, whilest youre 'in reach', i was wondering if you did some work (yet) on 'debunking' '911 press for truth'. I'd be interested to read your take on that... em7 on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 7:43am. Good angle! Noticed how Good angle! Noticed how he's ignored you... olduser_01 on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 4:00pm. Show "That is the $64,000 question." by Anonymous (not verified) That is the $64,000 question. Do not expect a rational answer from Jon or anyone else here. Well Mark... I'd be interested to see the emails. For 3 reasons. #1. I don't trust you. And please answer this question. Is the United States Government perpetrating a cover-up in regards to the attacks of 9/11? Jon Gold on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 9:19am. And Mark... If elements of our Government were complicit in the attacks of 9/11, and you're actively helping them get away with that crime... what does that make you? Show "Jon, you can read my emails" by Mark Roberts Jon, you can read my emails Jon, you can read my emails to Barrett and a summary of his replies here: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=71003 If you'll email me at nyctours@gmail.com, I'll forward Barrett's replies to you. As my summary indicates, they are brief. To answer your question, I have seen no evidence of LIHOP, MIHOP, or of a US government coverup of the cause of the 9/11 attacks. I'll be glad to review any evidence you have that I"m a traitor. Mark Roberts on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 10:02pm. It doesn't matter if it's a lowly anonymous minion, or the leader himself. None of you "debunkers" have the ability to recognize a yes or no question if it jumped up and bit you in the ass. I didn't ask you if they let it happen on purpose. I didn't ask you if they made it happen on purpose. Finally, I didn't ask you if the U.S. Government is covering up the cause of the 9/11 attacks. I'll ask again. Is the United States Government perpetrating a cover-up in regards to the attacks of 9/11? Period. Yes or no. It's amazing how you have to frame everything according to the "talking points" you're most comfortable talking about. As for evidence that you're a traitor. You actively oppose the 9/11 Truth Movement. The one "organization" that has always actively tried to help the first responders of 9/11. The heroes of 9/11. The people that are sick and dying as a result of the 9/11 environmental disaster. I don't need much more than that. From John Feal, First Responder... First I like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I believe today of all days we should be praying for those lost and those still suffering from 9/11 and its after math. I want to thank Jon Gold, and others for their continued and dedicated efforts on 9/11 issues. And to all individuals, organizations, groups, media, elected officials, etc... I have been advocating, and a prominent member in the 9/11 circle long enough to know that if you oppose the 9/11 truth movement, then you oppose the truth, and you oppose the answers we deserve, and you oppose how government is suppose to work for us. Responders, survivors, family members embrace the fact that this movement simply wants the truth, hence the name, "9/11 truth movement". 9/11 and it's aftermath have created so many issues, from government corruption, betrayal, denial, human suffering, financial hard ship, and believe me I can go on, but what is important is that everyone involved in any 9/11 group or organization is entitled to the truth of that day or the days leading up to it. How many more people have to still die, and how many more Christmas's must be spent in pain for us when all these people are trying to do is ask questions that many of you are afraid of. Shame on anyone who opposes the "TRUTH", and Merry Christmas to everyone that embraces the fact that 9/11 will be apart of every Christmas for us, the 9/11 responders, forever, or until we die from 9/11 exposure. God bless you all that are trying to make a difference. 9/11 responder/advocate FealGood Foundation Show "Jon, you said you didn't trust me" by Mark Roberts Jon, you said you didn't trust me I gave you my email address so I could share those Kevin Barrett emails with you. You know, the ones you don't think exist. Haven't heard back from you. Are you interested in the truth, or not? And you'll need to back up your claim that I've done something to harm first responders in any way. You're not a liar like Barrett, are you? Throwing around baseless accusations? I think you're more of a man than that. Then produce your evidence or retract your claim. That's what adults do. And so you know, there are many organizations that have helped and continue to help the first responders of 9/11 and their families. I know that because I've given them a lot of money. You should look into it, Jon. Mark Roberts on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 12:09am. I didn't say I thought they didn't exist. I said I'd like to see them because I don't trust you. I didn't say you "harmed first responders." I said , "You actively oppose the 9/11 Truth Movement. The one "organization" that has always actively tried to help the first responders of 9/11. The heroes of 9/11. The people that are sick and dying as a result of the 9/11 environmental disaster." Then I posted something from first responder John Feal that said. "Shame on anyone who opposes the "TRUTH" You ask if I'm interested in truth. You aggressively attempt to disrupt the movement I am apart of that tries to get a real investigation into the attacks of 9/11. That, and justice. For the murders of 2,973+ people. I should be the one asking you. Are you interested in the truth? If there are so many organizations helping first responders, then why aren't these organizations helping to hold those responsible for their sickness, accountable, and why are so many first responders living week to week, barely managing to get by, and why aren't the media outlets outside of New York covering their dilemma, and so on? I'm glad you say that you've given first responders a lot of money. As for Kevin Barrett... Originally I said I don't trust you. I still don't. The link you posted does not show Kevin Barrett's "side of the story", and I have no desire to correspond with you through email. That being said, I also have no desire to sit here, and debate with you the idea that Controlled Demolition took place. I would like, however, for you to act as an adult, and answer this one question I left for you. That requires a simple yes or no please. Jon Gold on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 9:15pm. Jon, what seems to be the trouble? You don't trust that I'm telling the truth about Kevin Barrett's bizarre lies and violent fantasies. You said you wanted to see his emails. I offered to send them to you and publicly printed my email address. Now you say you don't want to correspond with me. And you're asking ME to act like an adult? Interesting take you have on the truth, Jon. As for my interfering with "the truth" in some way, what I do is present verifiable facts to counter the demonstrable lies of the "Truth Movement." I have refuted dozens upon dozens of these lies,and cleared up many more misperceptions. If you think that deliberate lies like Kevin Barrett's somehow serve the victims of 9/11, I will always strongly disagree. I examine specific statements and put my replies in writing for all to read. Somehow to you that's a traitorous act. At Ground Zero I oppose people who think the FDNY was "in on it." I'm going to continue doing that. I will gladly change my position and apologize when they present evidence to back their claims. But they are unable to provide a single shred of evidence to counter my facts. They can go for hours and not say a single true thing to the public. When I ask them, not a single one of them has been able to tell me anything I've gotten wrong since I began going there in June. Anyone is free to point out what I have gotten wrong. I welcome correction. No one has done so. No one. What sort of truth is it that can only be supported by lies? I directly answered your question about a USG coverup in my reply of the 24th. Mark Roberts on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 9:59pm. You didn't. You said you have found no evidence that the Government let it happen on purpose. You said you have found no evidence that they made it happen on purpose, and you said you have found no evidence they are covering up the cause of the attacks. I'll ask you again. It requires a yes or a no. Jon Gold on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 10:09pm. Jon, I answered your question. Since I have seen no evidence of those things, obviously I don't have any reason to believe they are true. If I were "the United States Government," I could say, "Yes, I did that' or "No, I didn't." I'm not the United States Government, Jon. I judge by the available evidence. When do you plan to present your evidence of a LIHOP or MIHOP scenario? I'll be more than glad to look at it. And to stay on topic, should I assume that you do in fact support Kevin Barrett saying that Larry Silverstein is a mass murderer, a traitor, and an insurance fraudster? Please respond. The reason I posted here was to bring to your attention Barrett's hideous lies and violent fantasies of his critics' execution. You proudly participated in Barrett's "Truth Jihad." Do you support his statements or not? Mark Roberts on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 10:27pm. Are you really this stupid? The events of 9/11 cover a WIDE RANGE of topics. Some even go outside the realm of your "talking points." Tell me about the 28 redacted pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry, and tell me why that is not considered a "cover-up?" Tell me about transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and why withholding that information from the public is not considered a "cover-up." Tell me about the CIA Inspector General’s report entitled, “CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks”, and why withholding that information from the public is not considered a "cover-up?" That's just to name a few of the OBVIOUS cover-ups Mark. Why is ANY cover-up acceptable Mark? As for presenting "my" evidence... I have blogs as far as the eye can see on this site, and a 9/11 Truther Forum to boot. As for Kevin Barrett's statements regarding "Larry Silverstein is a mass murderer, a traitor, and an insurance fraudster...", I'd say we'd need a new investigation to find out. A new investigation into the events of September 11th, and this time, a truly bipartisan, global, with families invested from the beginning, middle, and throughout the end. Where is your evidence that creating a "stacked deck" commission that refused to investigate 70% of the questions put forward by the families is acceptable? Jon Gold on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 11:12pm. The very fact.... That you couldn't answer yes to my question, shows EXACTLY how "honest" you are in your efforts against the 9/11 Truth Movement. It also shows that you have an obvious agenda. So if I call Kevin Barrett a So if I call Kevin Barrett a mass murderer, a traitor, and an insurance fraudster, but do not produce a shred of evidence to back my claims against him, those claims should be investigated by the authorities, using our tax dollars? And he should have to spend his money defending his reputation? Throw the libel laws out the window? Is that the world you live in, Jon? Where baseless accusations are equivalent to facts in the presumption that a crime has been committed? Honestly, now, Is that how you'd like to see the District Attorney's office operate? The most absurd accusations should be investigated, without any reason to believe they are true? Let me ask you this: do you have any reason to believe that Larry Silverstein is a mass murderer? That he has committed treason? That he has committed insurance fraud? Have you seen the slightest shred of evidence of that? If so, present just one shred here and now. If you don't have any evidence, then why would you encourage official harrassment of this man? I'd really like to get this nailed down. I don't mean to pick on you. This came up when it was pointed out to me that folks were praising Barrett, and I had just had a very unpleasant exchange with him in which he said that I'd be standing on the gallows too. What concerns me, Jon, is just what kind of world you would like to live in. I've asked many conspiracy theorists the same question: why is it acceptable for you to presume guilt, but not acceptable for others? You said you didn't trust my statement about Barrett, and said you'd like to see those emails. But when I offered to send them to you, you declined. Why do you publlcly cast doubt on my statement, then refuse to look at the evidence? Does that strike you, or others reading this, as bizarre? I see this behavior a lot with conspiracy theorists, particularly at Ground Zero: a physical inablility to confront evidence that would disturb their fantasies. It is very, very disturbing. Please don't forget to post your evidence of any crime that Silverstein has committed. That's what rational adults do: back their claims with evidence. Mark Roberts on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 10:07am. Weren't you just owned, and exposed for being a dishonest individual with an agenda? Tell me Mark, what color is the sky in this fantasy world that you live in where the 9/11 Commission fulfilled its' mandate to give a "full and complete accounting" of the attacks of 9/11, and everyone in the Commission had nothing but the best of intentions, no conflicts of interest, and wanted nothing more than to give the families seeking closure what they rightfully deserved? In America, one is innocent until proven guilty. However, when information exists that would lead one to believe that someone is guilty of a crime, usually, an investigation takes place. If that someone is found to be guilty, then they are held to account for their crime. The investigation you cling to was performed by a commission that was "derelict in its' duties", and as a result, their report was a "hollow failure", and now anyone with a brain questions the "entire veracity of the 9/11 Commission's Report." I'm done "conversing" with you. You have refused to answer a single question of mine. Why on Earth would you think I would take the time to answer any of yours? Good day to you sir. Jon Gold on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 10:34am. Jon Gold has just go owned - again. We have just had another display by Jon Gold of Argument by Innuendo, that which Jon has always engaged in and for which he has been called on the carpet for months. Argument by Innuendo is defined as directing one\\\\\\\'s listeners to a particular, usually derogatory, conclusion, by a skillful choice of words or the careful arrangement of sentences, which implicitly suggests but does not assert that conclusion. The force of the fallacy lies in the impression created that some veiled claim is true, although no relevant evidence is presented to support such a view. http://www.esgs.org/uk/logic.htm Jon Gold has persistently argued this way and has been repeatedly chastised and exposed for doing so. Jon refuses to present actual evidence to ever support his claims that elements of the U.S. Government were complicit in the attacks of 9/11. Just look at the examples of his evasions in this thread where Mark Roberts has flushed Jon out. Jon, realizing he has just been owned by Mark Roberts, has not chickened out and is running away from the thread and the truth. How Jon Gold argues by innuendo Examples from Jon Gold in this thread: And please answer this question. Is the United States Government perpetrating a cover-up in regards to the attacks of 9/11? If elements of our Government were complicit in the attacks of 9/11, and you\\\\\\\'re actively helping them get away with that crime... what does that make you? It doesn\\\\\\\'t matter if it\\\\\\\'s a lowly anonymous minion, or the leader himself. None of you \\\\\\\"debunkers\\\\\\\" have the ability to recognize a yes or no question if it jumped up and bit you in the ass. It\\\\\\\'s amazing how you have to frame everything according to the \\\\\\\"talking points\\\\\\\" you\\\\\\\'re most comfortable talking about. As for evidence that you\\\\\\\'re a traitor. You actively oppose the 9/11 Truth Movement. The one \\\\\\\"organization\\\\\\\" that has always actively tried to help the first responders of 9/11. The heroes of 9/11. The people that are sick and dying as a result of the 9/11 environmental disaster. I don\\\\\\\'t need much more than that. I said , \\\\\\\"You actively oppose the 9/11 Truth Movement. The one \\\\\\\"organization\\\\\\\" that has always actively tried to help the first responders of 9/11. The heroes of 9/11. Then I posted something from first responder John Feal that said.\\\\\\\"Shame on anyone who opposes the \\\\\\\"TRUTH\\\\\\\". You ask if I\\\\\\\'m interested in truth. You aggressively attempt to disrupt the movement I am apart of that tries to get a real investigation into the attacks of 9/11. That, and justice. For the murders of 2,973+ people. You said you have found no evidence that the Government let it happen on purpose. You said you have found no evidence that they made it happen on purpose, and you said you have found no evidence they are covering up the cause of the attacks. I\\\\\\\'ll ask you again.It requires a yes or a no. Is the United States Government perpetrating a cover-up in regards to the attacks of 9/11? The events of 9/11 cover a WIDE RANGE of topics. Some even go outside the realm of your \\\\\\\"talking points.\\\\\\\" Tell me about the 28 redacted pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry, and tell me why that is not considered a \\\\\\\"cover-up?\\\\\\\" Tell me about transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and why withholding that information from the public is not considered a \\\\\\\"cover-up.\\\\\\\" Tell me about the CIA Inspector General’s report entitled, “CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks”, and why withholding that information from the public is not considered a \\\\\\\"cover-up?\\\\\\\" That\\\\\\\'s just to name a few of the OBVIOUS cover-ups Mark. Why is ANY cover-up acceptable Mark? As for presenting \\\\\\\"my\\\\\\\" evidence... I have blogs as far as the eye can see on this site, and a 9/11 Truther Forum to boot. Where is your evidence that creating a \\\\\\\"stacked deck\\\\\\\" commission that refused to investigate 70% of the questions put forward by the families is acceptable? That you couldn\\\\\\\'t answer yes to my question, shows EXACTLY how \\\\\\\"honest\\\\\\\" you are in your efforts against the 9/11 Truth Movement. It also shows that you have an obvious agenda. I\\\\\\\'m done \\\\\\\"conversing\\\\\\\" with you. You have refused to answer a single question of mine. Why on Earth would you think I would take the time to answer any of yours? This is classic Jon Gold evasion. As bad as it comes. Note that Jon does not bring anything to the table other than innuendo. Note that he demands that everyone else answer his questions. Note that his questions always imply through innuendo that something nefarious must have occurred that one should conclude the government must have been complicit in 9/11. But Jon Gold NEVER provides any evidence to support his claims Mark Roberts answered the question Jon Gold DEMANDED the only way anybody can: show us the evidence, Jon Gold. Congratulations to Mark Roberts for showing once again that Jon Gold has nothing to offer as evidence to support his own claims. Jon Gold has just go owned again. Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 1:02pm. No no no... My question required a yes or a no. Any idiot could see that. "My" evidence is plastered all over this site, and my site. I can't help it if you refuse to read it, and always have. I'll tell you what. You provide a court that comes equipped with a judge, and a jury, and I will be more than happy to present every piece of evidence I have. By the way. Roberts was the one that was owned. He was bitch slapped, and owned, and it felt GOOD. Jon Gold on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 2:39pm. It is too late to run, Jon Gold. I own you. You have no evidence. You\\\'ve demonstrated since day one. I just listed above how you intentionally use innuendo to hide the fact that you know you do not have any evidence. We have asked you for months for you to provide evidence to back up your claims. Every time, you refuse. You have yet to bring any evidence here or to point to any evidence on any other site. And you just admitted it again! Roberts, I, and others have owned Jon Gold for months. It is too late for you. And today, I own Jon Gold big time. And it all came from Jon Gold outing himself. Lucky for me... 99% of the individuals that post here know you're full of shit. They really know I have the truth. You do not fool anyone, Jon Gold. You displayed the cowardice again that has always marked your refusal to provide any evidence to back up your claims. We know you cannot back up your claims. You cannot even con 9/11 Truthers anymore. You are a fraud and a charlatan, Jon Gold. Jim? Jim Fetzer is that you? Jon Gold, Coward You have no place to hide, Jon Gold. Everyone here knows you cannot back up your claims. Who's hiding? Everyone here knows that when I do present evidence, you say it isn't evidence (even though "circumstantial evidence" IS evidence). Usually, I point out that you're the one that doesn't understand what evidence is. Then you go away and hide for a little while, only to return with the same accusations of the past. It's a sad, sorry little game you like to play. And you stink of fear. Too bad you still refuse to present any evidence. You have not presented evidence. You have not presented circumstantial evidence. You do not know what evidence constitutes, Jon Gold, as I have repeatedly demonstrated. Assertions and claims are not evidence. Argument by Innuendo is not evidence. Claiming to have presented evidence when none is presented is not evidence. As Mark Roberts responded to you directly: Jon, I answered your question. Since I have seen no evidence of those things, obviously I don\'t have any reason to believe they are true. If I were \"the United States Government,\" I could say, \"Yes, I did that\' or \"No, I didn\'t.\" I\'m not the United States Government, Jon. I judge by the available evidence. When do you plan to present your evidence of a LIHOP or MIHOP scenario? I\'ll be more than glad to look at it. But we know that you refuse> to present any credible evidence whatsoever, Jon Gold. Nothing. Nothing but more assertions and innuendo. Keep showing your cowardice, Jon, so more people can see how bad it is what you truly represent. For proving me right. ;) You proved you do not know what evidence is Once again, you demonstrate that you cannot provide any evidence to support your claims. It is on the record. Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 7:43am. Jon, I answered your question. Since I have seen no evidence of those things, obviously I don\\\'t have any reason to believe they are true. If I were \\\"the United States Government,\\\" I could say, \\\"Yes, I did that\\\' or \\\"No, I didn\\\'t.\\\" I\\\'m not the United States Government, Jon. I judge by the available evidence. When do you plan to present your evidence of a LIHOP or MIHOP scenario? I\\\'ll be more than glad to look at it. By the way Mark... I'm sure if you look hard enough on this site, you'll find someone willing to debate "Controlled Demolition", and whether or not Larry Silverstein is guilty of any crime with you. As I said, I have no desire. Jon Gold: I don't trust you! Jon Gold: I don't trust you! Show me the evidence! Mark Roberts: Sure, I'll send it right over. Jon Gold: Gah! You actually have evidence? Never mind. You still haven't answered the question, Jon. Why do you ask to see evidence, then refuse to look at it? And once again: do you want to live in a world in which accusations suffice as evidence of a crime? Will you speak out against Kevin Barrett's despicable behavior, or will you continue to support it? You have the power to take your "movement" in a positive direction by condemning the people who blatantly lie, who falsely accuse, and who promise violent death for people who ask that that behavior be corrected. Will you be an upright man and do so? Or does Kevin Barrett's apocalyptic revenge fantasy turn you on? Just asking questions and demanding answers, Jon. Mark Roberts on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 6:37am. Who are you again? Jon Gold on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 7:49am. you just got owned Mark. Chris on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 9:16am. Show "No, Jon Gold did himself in. We own him and you." by Anonymous (not verified) No, Jon Gold did himself in. We own him and you. And you fell for it, Chris. Such is the nature of fruitcakes of the 9/11 Denial Movement. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You stink of fear. Such a nervous laugh, Jon. You should be nervous. You revealed yourself for all to see and now you are trying to run away from the truth. In this one thread you demonstrated to everyone here what we have said for months: you cannot produce any evidence to back up your claims, Jon Gold. Everyone here can see why you have always refused to answer our questions about 9/11.Everyone here can see why you refuse to provide any evidence. You have shown yourself to be a coward and a fraud, Jon Gold. Check two posts below... Dipshit. It does not work that way in the real world. YOU provide evidence for YOUR claims. Quit your incessant evasions, little one. I'm assuming that's you? I provided evidence, and you were no where to be found. Why is that? Wow, and I even got 6 points for my posting of evidence. Go ahead, try. Squirm, Jon, squirm Jon, try to show what you quoted is evidence of anything that demonstrates that the US Government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. You know that you only made an assertion: That is a BLATANT cover-up, and one I would like uncovered. You already know that assertions are not evidence. Show "No." by Anonymous (not verified) Sibel Edmonds, an FBI "whistle-blower" the families fought for to be heard, testified before the 9/11 Commission for 3 hours, and received a footnote in the back of the 9/11 Report. This is a woman who has been quoted as saying: "once this issue [9/11] gets to be...investigated, you will be seeing certain [American] people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally" She is now the "most gagged person in American History." That is a BLATANT cover-up, and one I would like uncovered. One of MANY. So why don't you, and your little friend Mark, go back to thinking of ways to disrupt the 9/11 Truth Movement's efforts. Jon Gold on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 11:01am. You are doing a bang-up job yourself. If anyone should be held up as an example of disrupting and discrediting any effort at the truth, it is Jon Gold himself. Your example today in this thread clinched it, Jon. The evidence you provided is too damning. I'd better ignore it, and instead, insult you. Asserttions are not evidence. You are really squirming, Jon. Just because you claim there is a cover up, you are still required to provide real evidence. But we know you won\'t. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ no hiding \\\\\\\\\\ Angel is next \\\\\\\\\\\ keep stroking \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ that coronary is laying in wait \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Mark Roberts--member of Mark Roberts--member of 911Blogger for 1day, and 22hours, as of the time of this post. I wonder--yes, I wonder- why the King of Debunkers would waste his time at our blog? I mean, I'm not a member of any debunker sites--no point, see. I have to work for a living and my time's too bleeding valuable. So Mr. Roberts, what ARE you doing here? Found out you won't be able to post anonymously soon? But it's all gravy--I'm sure I can work with this. Be seeing you... Show "I stated the reason for my" by Mark Roberts I stated the reason for my I stated the reason for my presence here in my post about Barrett, with whom I had an email exchange a few days ago. Do you support his statements about Larry Silverstein? Do you support his reaction to people who bring factual errors to his attention? Do you agree with him that I should be executed? i for one dont support Barretts reaction. But, what is your point? See, i don't ask you if you support Bushs actions, do i? After all, you defend him on the 911 issue - as we do defend Barrett- so you agree on everythin? See.. its pointless. Now, let me ask again, where is your debunking of "911 press for truth" ? Please answer this question. I'd be interested to know if youre working on it... em7 on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 2:17am. I told one of your mates I told one of your mates that you were now a member of 911blogger, but I don't think he believes me. Well, maybe he's not really a mate and he's a little star-struck. As for your questions, assuming it is really you, I'll pass on the first two until I've got your angle. As for your last one, I have no reason to believe you should be executed, but I do have a reason to believe you should be arrested for stalking and harrasment. Word to the wise, sunbeam: when someone walks away from you, clearly willing to let an argument go because it serves no purpose AND YOU CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THEM TRYING TO START A FIGHT, you, sir, are behaving like a cowardly, bullying bitch. That makes you a threat to public safety, and no, I don't have to be nice to people who use their size to intimidate people. See him in action at: http://www.911blogger.com/node/4688 You are very lucky that wasn't me you were following around, prat. But then, it is easier to get away with bullying boys than girls these days, innit? Its supposed to be "okay, cause he a guy". Well, it's not okay and I'm not bloody well amused. But thank you for this lovely opportunity to sort you out. Now shape up, sunshine. And HOPE you never meet me face to face--I'll just call the coppers and have you carted off in cuffs; I've done it. I do not bluff. Impeachment. Accountability. A better world. Show "Come down to Ground Zero, Colonel Sparks" by Mark Roberts Come down to Ground Zero, Colonel Sparks And tell your lies. Refuse to listen to corrections. Refuse to even look at evidence. Display complete ignorance about everything related to 9/11. Fail to get a single fact right. Then tell me that you're proud of what you're doing. And I'll tell you exactly how I feel about creeps who do that, just as I did in that video. Interesting that you think I should be arrested for exercising the same right to free speech that the morons in ny911truth exercise. You people would choose to live in a country in which baseless accusations are admissible as evidence of guilt, and in which the Bill of Rights only applies to you. Think about it. Come down to Ground Zero and lie to the public, Jenny. When I ask you what you think of NIST's conclusions about the tower collapses, tell me you've never heard of NIST, although you know the "official version" is all wrong. And I'll tell you what I think of you. So you're saying you have no So you're saying you have no problem with being a cowardly bullying bitch? At least refreshingly honest for a sociopath. >>Come down to Ground Zero, Colonel Sparks<< Don't be daft. You know from viewing my profile I'm no where near New York, so that's a safe challenge for you, innit? Or do you really believe I'm a 106 year old woman made of electricity who can zap herself there in a tic? Because of you do you really ought to behave. And as for these odd quotes: "And tell your lies" "Then tell me that you're proud of what you're doing." "When I ask you what you think of NIST's conclusions about the tower collapses, tell me you've never heard of NIST, although you know the "official version" is all wrong." ...let me be the first to say, Huh? What ARE you on about? I've never had any conversations like this with you--or anyone for that matter. At least not using THOSE words. Only thing I've told you is don't be a threat to public safety...OH! I get it! You've been posting as Anonymous! Good Lord--I bet you're 911debunker... and THAT means you've been a bad boy! You're a TROLL! LOL! AND I bet you're getting real tetchy we're about to give all your anonymous sock-puppets the heave to! Well, you brought it on yourself. As for this invitation: "Come down to Ground Zero and lie to the public, Jenny." ..I'm going to have to decline. Not too inerested in lying to anyone, much less the public. Why you would want me to will, no doubt, remain a mystery. Last point of order: looming over people and preventing them from walking away from you IS NOT free speech--it's stalking. Git. Now BEHAVE. olduser_01 on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 2:49am. You outed yourself already, Bubba Jenny. You are one of the more confused imbeciles of the 9/11 Truth Kiddy Movement, bubba Jenny. Pathetic for a man of your age Really, trolling is for kids, Mark. Haven't you noticed we've moved on? This thread is cold--you're obsessed. Well, why else would you waste time with people you obviously don't like? See, we have jobs, lives--WE don't waste hours of our time posting on sites we don't like. Wonder why you do? Hold that thought--cause I'm pissing off. Cheery bye. PS: following someone after they have made it clear they just want to leave is STALKING and/or harrassment--depending on the details. STALKING is illegal. Learn to practice free speech without STALKING. Good God! How old is this Good God! How old is this guy? He reminds me of the rubber sheets bully from 6th grade. I'd love to meet him at GZ, but he'd call the playground monitor as soon as I started kicking his ass. If he isn't concripted to disrupt things here, he is so mired in an authoritarian world view that he is incapable of processing new information. John Dean wrote about these cretins in "Conservatives Without Conscience," which I highly recommend for understanding their box-o-hammers mindset. Let's stop feeding this pathetic creature -- maybe he'll go drop turds in some other sandbox. Jenny, can you do your TROLL ALERT! message whenever you catch him posting? He offers nothing. LEH on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 9:38pm. >Jenny, can you do your >Jenny, can you do your TROLL ALERT! message whenever you catch him posting? He offers nothing.< Your wish is my command! But feel free to sound the alarm if you catch him first. You should know part of his "challenge" might be a response to two challenges I've given trolls in the past--who are possibly his sock-puppets. Except in my case it was a response to "courage.com"; throwing foul shite around you'd never say face-to-face without provication. So I guess he missed the message about unprovoked shite but thinks he's got a reason "take it outside" anyway. Go figure. It would match with that authoritarian world view thing, tho. "Conservatives Without Conscience"; good book that--though he missed Condi in the line-up. olduser_01 on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 10:12pm. LEH, your paranoia is sadly LEH, your paranoia is sadly typical of 9/11 deniers. Why are you people so afraid of a few facts? And LEH, I'm a liberal and have never voted for a Republican in my life. Paranoia is not conducive to getting things right. And no, Jenny, I didn't know where you live. In my invitation to you I gave an example of the hideous ignorance that I actually confront at Ground Zero. Get it? Where's this fear coming from, Jenny? Why the obsession with me? TROLL ALERT! TROLL ALERT! Have you helped a first responder lately? olduser_01 on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 10:43pm. Col. Sparks, what say a few of us leftcoasters fly out to NYC and pay GZ a visit sometime this spring, maybe Mr. Roberts will even deign to show up and have a chat. I'm sure with enough warning we could even get Jon Gold to come up from Philly for the occasion. We should be able to work it in with some other 9/11 Truth meetings as well. I've been wanting to go there and meet the locals for some time, I also have a brother in NY I'd love to visit. What do you think? I know I'll have my video camera with me. I doubt he will show though, even on a Saturday, and I hear he rarely misses a Saturday at GZ. BTW -I don't believe in the death penalty, but I'm certain that there will be a whole new wing built at Leavenworth for all the 9/11 traitors. The truth shall set us free. (Well, those that aren't lying criminals, anyway) Love is the only way forward. LeftWright on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 12:51am. I might be interested--need I might be interested--need time to save up the cash ---super-heros don't get paid much! I'd want to liason with the local PD, amoung other things. It's a good idea--let's give it a think over the winter, eh mates? Oh, and don't tell him when--he's down there every Saturday, let him get surprised like he surprises other people! On a simular note, I've thought it might be good to get in contact with other members of 911Blogger where ever we live. Give the site a bit of grounding in the real world. olduser_01 on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 1:02am. Col. Sparks, I'm sure we here at NorCal9/11Truth Alliance can find some money to help with the airfare. Are you going to AZ for the conference, by chance? Yes, we need to kick alot of things around during the next month or so and then move into high gear, we've got them running now, it's time to close this out and move on. The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward. LeftWright on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 7:44am. No, not going to AZ. Email No, not going to AZ. Email me if you like--I've updated my contact info and have an account just for public contact--good or bad. No, Mark, this isn't an invite--unless you want your emails posted here. olduser_01 on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 5:02pm. LeftWright, I'll gladly meet LeftWright, I'll gladly meet with you or anyone else who comes to New York to discuss the events of 9/11. My email is nyctours@gmail.com. And you heard wrong. I do not go to Ground Zero on most Saturdays. >And you heard wrong. I do >And you heard wrong. I do not go to Ground Zero on most Saturdays.< Don't take his word on this, mates--he just wants to have warning to prepare. Anyone in NYC who could do some recon? olduser_01 on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 4:20pm. Your fear is almost Your fear is almost palpable, Jenny. I feel bad for you. Good to know that you will be glad to meet us and discuss the facts and science regarding the events of 9/11/01. I will ask that you bring a valid government id (NY state drivers license will do) with you to properly identify yourself. I will have my California state drivers license with me to reciprocate this courtesy. Mr. Roberts, I understand from your post over at another site (rinf) that you have recently received death threats from people you identify as being members of the UK Truth movement. I'm very sorry to hear this. Can you either elaborate on or substantiate this claim so that we in the US Truth movement can ferret these people out should they appear on our shores? Thank you for your assistance in this matter. And have him add And have him add documentation where he's contacted the proper authorities, prefereably with a contact number of the officer on the case in the police bureau or relevant office so we can liase with law enforcement. so Mark Roberts asks: "Do so Mark Roberts asks: "Do you agree with him that I should be executed?" gee, I wonder what Mark Roberts is doing here? dont fall for this traitorous douchebags ploy, its obvious(at least to me) why he is here. Chris on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 1:05pm. You are really scared, Chris That is what the Truth does when 9/11 Deniers like you are confronted with it. Things that speak volumes... You will need realplayer... Here is the press conference given by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, chair and vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission, on 9/11/2006 at the National Press Club. Here is the press conference given by Kyle Hence, Paul Thompson, Donna Marsh O'Connor, Cristina Kminek, and Michelle Little at the very same National Press Club, on the very same date. Do you notice a difference in the amount of press, and individuals attending the first instead of the latter? Why is that? Is that acceptable to you? Did you even know the latter took place? What would you do if you were aware of the latter? Another pyschic response With Jon Gold\'s inability to provide evidence of anything, he has to resort to psychic readings to try to figure out what is going on. Such is the nature of loony 9/11 Truth Kiddies. I hope everyone has a happy and a healthy. Jon Gold on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 6:51pm. Awwwwwww... thanks Awwwwwww... thanks Jonny!!!---and a great Yuletide season to you too!!! Why Condemning Israel is so important: Petras Why Condemning Israel and the Zionist Lobby is so Important “It’s no great secret why the Jewish agencies continue to trumpet support for the discredited policies of this failed administration. They see defense of Israel as their number-one goal, trumping all other items on the agenda. That single-mindedness binds them ever closer to a White House that has made combating Islamic terrorism its signature campaign. The campaign’s effects on the world have been catastrophic. But that is no concern of the Jewish agencies.” December 8, 2006 statement by JJ Goldberg, editor of Forward (the leading Jewish weekly in the United States) Many Jewish writers, including those who are somewhat critical of Israel, have raised pointed questions about our critique of the Zionist power configuration (ZPC) in the United States and what they wrongly claim are our singular harsh critique of the state of Israel. Some of these accusers claim to see signs of ‘latent anti-Semitism’, others, of a more ‘leftist’ coloration, deny the influential role of the ZPC arguing that US foreign policy is a product of ‘geo-politics or the interests of big oil. With the recent publication of several widely circulated texts, highly critical of the power of the Zionist ‘lobby’, several liberal pro-Israel publicists generously conceded that it is a topic that should be debated (and not automatically stigmatized and dismissed) and perhaps be ‘taken into account.’ ZPC Deniers: Phony Arguments for Fake Claims The main claims of ZPC deniers take several tacks: Some claim that the ZPC is just ‘another lobby’ like the Chamber of Commerce, the Sierra Club or the Society for the Protection of Goldfish. Others claim that by focusing mainly on Israel and by inference the ‘Lobby’, the critics of Zionism ignore the equally violent abuses of rulers, regimes and states elsewhere. This ‘exclusive focus’ on Israel, the deniers of ZPC argue, reveals a latent or overt anti-Semitism. They propose that human rights advocates condemn all human rights abusers everywhere (at the same time and with the same emphasis?). Others still argue that Israel is a democracy – at least outside of the Occupied Territories (OT) – and therefore is not as condemnable as other human rights violators and should be ‘credited’ for its civic virtues along with its human rights failings. Finally others still claim that, because of the Holocaust and ‘History-of-Two-Thousand-Years-of-Persecution’, criticism of Jewish-funded and led pro-Israel lobbies should be handled with great prudence, making it clear that one criticizes only specific abuses, investigates all charges – especially those from Arab/Palestinian/United Nations/European/Human Rights sources -- and recognizes that Israeli public opinion, the press and even the Courts or sectors of them may also be critical of regime policies. These objections to treating the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict and the activities of Zionist Lobbies as central to peace and war serve to dilute, dissipate and deflate criticism and organized political activity directed at the ZPC and its directors in Israel. The response of the critics of Israel and the ZPC to these attacks has been weak at best and cowardly at worst. Some critics have responded that their criticism is only directed toward a specific policy or leader, or to Israeli policies in the OT and that they recognize Israel is a democracy, that it requires secure borders, and that it is in the interests of the Israeli ‘people’ to lower their security barriers. Others argue that their criticism is directed at securing Israeli interests, influencing the Zionist Lobby or to opening a debate. They claim that the views of ‘most’ Jews’ in the US are not represented by the 52 organizations that make up the Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations of America, or the thousands of PACs, local federations, professional associations and weekly publications which speak with one voice as unconditional supporters of every twist and turn in the policy of the Zionist State. There are numerous similar lines of criticism, which basically avoid the fundamental issues raised by the Israeli state and the ZPC, and which we are obliged to address. The reason that criticism and action directed against Israel and the ZPC is of central importance today in any discussion of US foreign policy, especially (but not exclusively) of Middle East policy and US domestic policymaking is that they play a decisive role and have a world-historic impact on the present and future of world peace and social justice. We turn now to examine the ‘big questions’ facing Americans as a result of the power of Israel in the United States. The Big Questions Raised by the ZPC and Israeli Power in the USA: War or Peace: Critical study of the lead up to the US invasion of Iraq, US involvement in providing arms to Israel (cluster bombs, two-ton bunker buster bombs and satellite surveillance intelligence) prior to, during and after Israel’s abortive invasion of Lebanon, Washington’s backing of the starvation blockade of the Palestinian people and the White House and Congress’ demands for sanctions and war against Iran are directly linked to Israeli state policy and its Zionist policy-makers in the Executive branch and US Congress. One needs to look no further than the documents, testimony and reports of AIPAC and the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations to observe their claims of success in authoring legislation, providing (falsified) intelligence, engaging in espionage (AIPAC) and turning documents over to Israeli intelligence (now dubbed ‘free speech’ by liberal Zionists). If, as the overwhelming evidence indicates, the ZPC played a major role in the major wars of our time, wars capable of igniting new armed conflicts, then it ill behooves us to dilute the role of the Zionist/Jewish Lobby in promoting future US wars. Given Israel’s militarist-theocratic approach to territorial aggrandizement and its announced plans for future wars with Iran and Syria, and given the fact that the ZPC acts as an unquestioning and highly disciplined transmission belt for the Israeli state, then US citizens opposed to present and future US engagement in Middle East wars must confront the ZPC and its Israeli mentors. Moreover, given the extended links among the Islamic nations, the Israel/ZPC proposed ‘new wars’ with Iran will result in Global wars. Hence what is at stake in confronting the ZPC are questions which go beyond the Israeli-Palestine peace process, or even regional Middle East conflicts: it involves the big question of World Peace or War. Democracy or Authoritarianism Without the bluster and public hearings of former Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Jewish Lobby has systematically undermined the principal pillars of our fragile democracy. While the US Congress, media, academics, retired military and public figures are free to criticize the President, any criticism of Israel, much less the Jewish Lobby, is met with vicious attacks in all the op-ed pages of major newspapers by an army of pro-Israeli ‘expert’ propagandists, demands for firings, purges and expulsions of the critics from their positions or denial of promotions or new appointments. In the face of any prominent critic calling into question the Lobby’s role in shaping US policy to suit Israel’s interests, the entire apparatus (from local Jewish federations, AIPAC, the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations etc) go into action – smearing, insulting and stigmatizing the critics as ‘anti-Semites’. By denying free speech and public debate through campaigns of calumny and real and threatened repercussions the Jewish Lobby has denied Americans one of their more basic freedoms and constitutional rights. The massive, sustained and well-financed hate campaigns directed at any congressional candidate critical of Israel effectively eliminates free speech among the political elite. The overwhelming influence of wealthy Jewish contributors to both parties – but especially the Democrats – results in the effective screening out of any candidate who might question any part of the Lobby’s Israel agenda. The takeover of Democratic campaign finance by two ultra-Zionist zealots, Senator Charles Schumer and Israeli-American Congressman Rahm Emanuel ensured that every candidate was totally subordinated to the Lobby’s unconditional support of Israel. The result is that there is no Congressional debate, let alone investigation, over the key role of prominent Zionists in the Pentagon involved in fabricating reports on Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, and in designing and executing the war and the disastrous occupation policy. The Lobby’s ideologues posing as Middle East ‘experts’ dominate the op-ed and editorial pages of all the major newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post). In their pose as Middle East experts, they propagandize the Israeli line on the major television networks (CBS, NBC,ABC, Fox, and CNN) and their radio affiliates. The Lobby has played a prominent role in supporting and implementing highly repressive legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commission Act as well as modifying anti-corruption legislation to allow the Lobby to finance congressional ‘educational’ junkets to Israel. The head of Homeland Security with its over 150,000 functionaries and multi-billion dollar budget is none other than Zionist fanatic Michael Chertoff, head persecutor of Islamic charity organizations, Palestinian relief organizations and other ethnic Middle Eastern or Moslem constituencies in the US, which potentially might challenge the Lobby’s pro-Israel agenda. The biggest threat to democracy in its fullest sense of the word – the right to debate, to elect, to legislate free of coercion – is found in the organized efforts of the Zionist lobby, to repress public debate, control candidate selection and campaigning, direct repressive legislation and security agencies against electoral constituencies opposing the Lobby’s agenda for Israel. No other lobby or political action group has as much sustained and direct influence over the political process – including the media, congressional debate and voting, candidate selection and financing of congressional allocation of foreign aid and Middle East agendas as the organized Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) and its indirect spokespeople heading key Congressional positions. A first step toward reversing the erosion of our democratic freedoms is recognizing and publicly exposing the ZPC’s nefarious organizational and financial activities and moving forward toward neutralizing their efforts. Their Foreign Policy or Ours? Intimately and directly related to the loss of democratic freedoms and a direct consequence of the Jewish lobby’s influence over the political process is the making of US Middle East policy and who benefits from it. The entire political effort of the Lobby (its spending, ethnic baiting, censorship and travel junkets) is directed toward controlling US foreign policy and, through US power, to influence the policy of US allies, clients and adversaries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The Lobby’s systematic curtailment of our democratic freedoms is intimately related to our own inability to influence our nation’s foreign policy. Our majoritarian position against the Iraq War, the repudiation of the main executioner of the War (the White House) and our horror in the face of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and destruction of Gaza are totally neutralized by Zionist influence over Congressional and White House policymakers. The recently victorious Congressional Democrats repudiate their electorate and follow the advice and dictates of the pro-Zionist leadership (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rahm Emmanuel, Stephan Israel and others) by backing an escalation of troops and an increase in military spending for the war in Iraq. Bush follows the war policy against Iran proposed by the zealous Zionist fanatics in the American Enterprise Institute, repudiating the diplomatic proposals of the bi-partisan Baker Commission. Congress quadruples US arms stored in Israel (supposedly for dual use) in the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of Southern Lebanon with one million anti-personnel bomblets from cluster bombs in direct defiance of US electoral opinion. While hundreds of millions of undernourished women and children suffer and die in Africa, Latin America and Asia, the Lobby ensures that over half of US foreign aid goes to Israeli Jews with per capita incomes of over $22,000 USD. No other organized political action group or public relations firm acting on behalf of the Cuban and Venezuelan exiles or Arab, African, Chinese or European Union states comes remotely near the influence of the Zionist lobby in shaping US policy to serve the interest of Israel. While the Lobby speaks for less than 2% of the US electorate, its influence on foreign policy far exceeds the great majority who have neither comparable organizational nor financial muscle to impose their views. Never in the history of the US republic or empire has a powerful but tiny minority been able to wield so much influence in using out nation’s military and economic power and diplomatic arm-twisting in the service of a foreign government. Neither the Francophiles during the American Revolution, the Anglophiles in the Civil War and the German Bund in the run-up to World War Two, nor the (anti-China) Nationalist Taiwan Lobby possessed the organizational power and sustained political influence that the ZPC has on US foreign and domestic policy at the service of the State of Israel. Confronting the Lobby Matters The question of the power of the Lobby over US policies of war or peace, authoritarianism or democracy and over who defines the interests served by US foreign policy obviously go far beyond the politics of the Middle East, the Israeli-colonial land grabs in Palestine and even the savage occupation of Iraq. The playing out of Zionist influence over the greatest military power in the world, with the most far-reaching set of client states, military bases, deadly weapons and decisive voice in international bodies (IMF/World Bank/United Nations Security Council) means that the Lobby has a means to leverage its reach in most regions of the world. This leverage power extends over a range of issues, from defending the fortunes of murderous Russian-Jewish gangster oligarchs, to bludgeoning European allies of the US to complicity with Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The ZPC represents a basic threat to our existence as a sovereign state and our ability to influence whom we elect and what agendas and interests our representatives will pursue. Even worse, by serving Israeli interests, we are becoming complicit with a State whose Supreme Court legalizes political assassinations across national boundaries, torture, systematic violations of international law and a regime which repudiates United Nations resolutions and unilaterally invades and bombs its neighbors and practices military colonist expansionism. In a word Israel resonates and feeds into the most retrograde tendencies and brutal practices of contemporary American politics. In this sense the Lobby through its media, Congressional influence and think tanks is creating an Israeli look-alike. Like Israel, the US has established its own Pentagon assassination teams; like Israel, it invades and colonizes Iraq; like Israel, it violates and rejects any constitutional or international legal restraints and systematically tortures accused but untried prisoners. Because of these fundamental considerations, we cannot oblige our Jewish ‘progressive’ colleagues and compatriots and refrain from confronting the Zionist Lobby with force and urgency. Too many of our freedoms are at stake; too little time is left before they succeed in securing a greater military escalation; too little of our sovereignty remains in the face of the concerted effort by the Lobby and its Middle Eastern ‘expert-ideologues’ to push and shove us into a new and more devastating war with Iran at the behest of Israel’s pursuit of Middle East dominance. No other country, abuser or not, of human rights, with or without electoral systems, has the influence over our domestic and foreign policy as does the state of Israel. No other Lobby has the kind of financial power and organizational reach as the Jewish Lobby in eroding our domestic political freedoms or our war-making powers. For those reasons alone, it stands to reason, that we American have a necessity to put our fight against Israel and its Lobby at the very top of our political agenda. It is not because Israel has the worst human rights agenda in the world – other states have even worst democratic credentials – but because of its role in promoting its US supporters to degrade our democratic principles, robbing us of our freedom to debate and our sovereignty to decide our own interests. The Lobby puts the military and budgetary resources of the Empire at the service of Greater Israel – and that results in the worst human rights in the world. Democratic, just and peaceful responses to the Big Questions that face Americans, Europeans, Muslims, Jews and other peoples of the world passes through the defeat and dismantlement of the Israeli-directed Zionist Power Configuration in America. Nothing less will allow us to engage in an open debate on the alternatives to repression at home and imperialism abroad. Concrete man (not verified) on Sun, 12/24/2006 - 7:01pm. The Israeli Prime Minister's Connection to 911 Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, seems to be more popular and influential with European and American politicians than he is among his own constituents. After the disastrous and illegal invasion of Lebanon, which he foolishly provoked and prosecuted, an Israeli poll found that 63 per cent of Israelis wanted Olmert to resign. http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Olmert-22Dec2006.html Concrete man (not verified) on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 12:49am. You're welcome... Here's a Christmas Present. olduser_01 on Mon, 12/25/2006 - 2:33pm. Zelikow = FILTH Thank you, Mr. Gold, for being a true American patriot. You mentioned The Gypsy speaking up to Zelikow. Anyway, I believe it was you who told me about this. Well, here is the link to the google video of The Gypsy and others speaking up to Zelikow. I believe Zelikow was supposed to have a really pale and frightened look on his face when confronted. I personally did not see that. Everyone involved in the 9-11 truth movement should watch this 8-minute video, which is a patching together of different events where Zelikow was speaking and The Gypsy and others stood up and spoke out like the best kind of human beings on this planet would do. I do not know how to properly insert hyperlinks when on 911blogger, though I do know how in MS Word. Anyway, here's the link.... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8888742751442686831&q=the+gypsy... I was unable to watch the last couple of minutes of this short video because Zelikow is such FILTH. He is lying unAmerican traitor FILTH. He ought to be in prison for life at the very least, and if justice were truly served, he would be charged with mass murder and treason and given the death sentence. If you look into the face of this evil man, you will not see the visage of a human being with a conscience. You will see the face of evil. Those "escorts" at these meeting who took The Gyspy and the others by the arm and escorted them out are also good examples of disgusting unAmerican traitors. The Gypsy and others who stood up and spoke up are probably the greatest Americans and the greatest human beings many of us will ever have a chance to see in our lifetimes. It is not my practice to refer to any human being as FILTH, however, I am not at all sure that Zelikow belongs to the human race. Blessings from Dachsie in Austin. Dachsie on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 8:02am.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line22
__label__wiki	0.772654	0.772654	Don Henley with Billy Joel: 92Y Talks Episode 72 In this episode of 92Y Talks, American rock legends Don Henley and Billy Joel come together on one stage to discuss their esteemed careers and longtime friendship. The two exchange thoughts on songwriting, record do-overs, why Dolly Parton is a superhero, and Henley’s new solo album, Cass County. The conversation... Rod Stewart with Hoda Kotb: 92Y Talks Episode 71 Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart sits down with Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb for a conversation about his wild 5-decade career. The singer hilariously opens up about his wild early years, origins of his most famous songs, and his new album Another Country. The conversation was recorded on October 29,... Tom Wolfe and Preet Bharara with Thane Rosenbaum: 92Y Talks Episode 70 Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities made an indelible mark on literature and pop culture when it was published in 1987. In this episode of 92Y Talks, the esteemed author sits down with New York University's Forum on Law, Culture, & Society director Thane Rosenbaum and United States Attorney Preet Bharara to reflect on... David Spade with Colin Quinn: 92Y Talks Episode 69 From Tommy Boy to Black Sheep and Just Shoot Me, David Spade helped define comedy in the 90s. In this episode of 92Y Talks, he sits down with fellow comedian Colin Quinn to discuss his time on SNL, working with Chris Farley, and new memoir Almost Interesting. The conversation was recorded on October 25, 2015 in front of... Ted Koppel with Charlie Rose: 92Y Talks Episode 68 The ABC News veteran who’s won every significant TV award (including 42 Emmys) tells us that a major cyber attack on America’s power grid is not only possible, but likely. Scarier still is his revelation that the US is shockingly unprepared: the Department of Homeland Security has no plan for handling the aftermath...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line23
__label__wiki	0.6462	0.6462	Adapting buildings for a changing climate Learn more about the Resilient Buildings Lab's research on adapting buildings for climate change. Watch the Symposium: From Sandy to Snowvember The School of Architecture and Planning’s Resilient Buildings Lab is at the helm of new research on how buildings in New York State will need to adapt to the changing climate, an issue brought to the forefront by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and "Snowvember," the seven-foot lake effect snow event that hit parts of Buffalo in 2014. Led by Nicholas Rajkovich, PhD, AIA, assistant professor of architecture, and sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the two-year project is assessing climate change impacts and proposing adaptive strategies for the state’s building stock. “The buildings we’re building now will face a very different future. 100 years from now the climate in New York State is likely to have shifted dramatically,” says Rajkovich, who directs the Resilient Buildings Lab at UB. “People are thinking about how to reduce carbon emissions but they’re not necessarily thinking about how our structures should respond to a changing climate." The effects are many. Rising sea levels may flood coastal areas of New York. More heat waves may create the need for air conditioning high in the Adirondacks. Insect migration northward may result in more termites doing damage to the wood framed buildings of New York. All of this, researchers say, could significantly impact homes, schools and places of work and worship. Consider that weather events like the October Surprise Storm, which hit Western New York in 2006, caused significant damage because of the wet, heavy snow created by temperatures that hovered near the freezing point. “If you imagine that the winters are slowly getting warmer, over time you’re going to have more winters that are right on the edge of that wet, heavy snow," says Rajkovich. Research results from the Adapting Buildings for a Changing Climate project are due out this summer. A series of reports will address the climate change's existing and anticipated impacts on the state's building stock and the potential economic costs of those impacts. Through extensive consultation with the building industry, the team will recommend climate adaptation strategies for current buildings and more resilent design and building techniques moving forward. Findings will be widely disseminated to policy makers, builders, building managers and homeowners. Last November, Rajkovich and his team convened a symposium to present initial research findings. "From Sandy to Snowvember," held in UB's Hayes Hall, featured several guest speakers, including Rosetta Elkin, an assistant professor of landscape architecture in the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Terry Schwarz of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative; Brendan Kelly of L&S Energy Services; and Rachel Minnery of the American Institute of Architects. You can view the entire symposium by accessing the links in the right-hand sidebar. UB's Resilient Buildings Lab is leading research on adaptive design and building strategies for a changing climate. Led by architecture faculty member Nicholas Rajkovich, the research team recently convened professionals across the building industry to present initial findings and discuss strategies being employed across the state.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.55845	0.55845	Architype Review HomeProjectsMiami Art Museum Sign up for new issues View all issues Project 1 1 '); var timenext=false; var timeprev=false; jQuery('.jcarousel-prev').hover(function() { timeprev=setInterval(function(){carouselglob.prev();},700); // return false; },function(){ clearInterval(timeprev); }); jQuery('.jcarousel-next').hover(function() { timenext=setInterval(function(){carouselglob.next();},700); //return false; },function(){ clearInterval(timenext); }); }; ANOTHER ART MUSEUM? The Miami Art Museum finds itself at a crossroads. A mid-sized museum at the center of the Americas, MAM is poised to expand the scope of the institution and re-define its position. Every year Miami is the focus of international attention through its renowned art fair, making it one of the travelling capitals of the global art world. Currently, the museums of Miami are its important private collections. Miami needs a new MAM for the institution’s ability to organize the city’s art activities and make them accessible to a larger community. The new Miami Art Museum will be a vital public space for cultural exchange. MUSEUM PARK The new Miami Art Museum will be located in Museum Park, a redeveloped downtown waterfront facing Biscayne Bay and the MacArthur Causeway, a major freeway connecting mainland Miami with Miami Beach. The masterplan, by Cooper, Robertson & Partners, knits together a collection of attractions along the park’s urban edge, opening up greenspace along the waterfront. Planned for the north edge are two buildings: Miami Science Museum and Miami Art Museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The two museums are set on a raised platform and share a common plaza. The new MAM simultaneously orients its front facade toward the plaza, the park, the bay, and the city, and becomes a highly visible landmark amid Miami’s cityscape while part of a contemplative, quasi-natural context. The parking level is open, exposing it to light and fresh air, and usable as a storm water runoff. The design extends the park, bringing it into the Museum platform, and enhances its potential to create sustainable outdoor spaces. The canopy creates a habitable space over the entirety of the site, a public amenity welcoming all visitors to Museum Park. BUILDING, CLIMATE, VEGETATION An open structure of densely arranged columns supports a shading canopy over the entire site. Under this canopy the park is intensified, becoming a dense, multi-dimensional garden with a museum buried in its heart. Tropical plants, engulfing the museum, are deeply integrated into the structural system of columns and platforms. The combination of the canopy and the hanging garden allows for a microclimate on the museum platform. The goal is to make an “outdoor interior”, stabilizing a range of comfortable outdoor temperatures to make a cooler exterior space by natural means. Stairs as wide as the plot engage the platform to the bay and a waterfront promenade. Rather than the conventional notion of the museum as an isolated jewel in a park, the building and site will together comprise a continuous, open civic space, a comfortable public veranda where community, nature, architecture, and contemporary art are harmoniously conjoined. The new MAM will offer experience with gradual transition from the outside to the inside, from the warm to the cool, from the humid to the dry, from the street to the art. As well as creating an intermediate environment, the vegetation has the ecological benefit of reducing the energy load of the building. Minimizing the sun’s impact on the building’s envelope reduces the high cost of maintaining a controlled environment for artworks, as well as creating comfortable microclimates for outdoor public spaces. With the help of landscape architects Arquitectonica Geo together with artist and botanist Patrick Blanc, a range of plants are selected, based on their hardiness in terms of exposure to sun, wind, and hurricanes. The open structure of columns will adapt a series of advanced horticultural techniques for the integration of vegetation and structure. As in previous examples of Herzog & de Meuron’s work, such as the Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, the building’s environmental circumstances become central to its architectural concept. The expression of the building comes from the roof, structure, and the garden, giving the unique freedom to layout the interior according to its own optimal configuration. PLANTED CHAMBERS Bringing the natural elements of the park into the territory of the museum and intensifying them, the Planted Chambers provide a prolonged transition. A series of softer and increasingly ambiguous thresholds between the park, the platform, and the museum gradually brings the visitor indoors, until the museum is discovered from the inside. Like a plantation, the effects of certain plants are concentrated around specific areas, forming natural enclosures. These pockets within the vegetation are virtual chambers, almost like the galleries inside, that could be used for events and public activities. The chambers are also designed to complement programmatic adjacencies within the museum, providing outdoor environements for the lobby, theater, bistro, and classrooms. The classical juxtaposition of art & science, presented by the masterplan, is supplanted by the union of art & nature. CURATIONAL PLAN In collaboration with the Museum’s staff, a series of gallery typologies have been designed to fulfill the institution’s curatorial aims. Different gallery types embody strategies to both display and develop MAM’s growing collection. Different modes of display are deployed in a non-linear sequence, allowing the visitor to follow multiple directions through the museum’s collection, punctuated by specific pieces and spaces. The experience of art will be integrated into the entire building, including the garden and the garage. By presenting differentiated combinations of interior finishes in the exhibition spaces, as opposed to a traditional sequence of generic white cubes, MAM proposes a new model of collecting, curating, and experiencing art. EXPANDED MISSION In recent years, progressive contemporary museums have expanded their role in the social sphere, taking into account the multiple functions that support the art experience and the museum’s function as a catalyst of civic unity. These additional functions include spaces for community education, research facilities for arts professionals, and dining and event spaces. These functions are located at the periphery of the building, maximizing exposure to the “Veranda”, the Biscayne Bay and Museum Park, giving the community direct access to the site’s resources and natural assets. Project Status: Built Miami, Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Lighting: Arup Lighting Landscape: Arquitectonica Geo Featured in ArchitypeReview Architype Sign up for new issues ©2020 Architype Review Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service An online publication produced by RSM Design - Environmental Graphic Design Get updates and more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line32
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__label__cc	0.504654	0.495346	This film reel is made up of 6 smaller reels. Reel 1 is labeled "West Point, World's Fair New York 1939," and it contains scenes of men doing calisthenics, men boxing, men fencing and wrestling, men in uniform and marching, and scenes from the world's fair. Reel 2 is labeled "New York to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, June and July 1939," and it contains footage of New York City streets, a West Point gathering, and Puerto Rico. Reel 3 is labeled "July 1939, Trip to Clearwater with Jim Ryan and Ray Henderson 193[?]," and it contains views of children playing, a pilot climbing into a biplane, people with a captive bear cub, Hap Arnold's B-10 Bomber flight from Washington D.C. landing at Weeks Field and pilots in Fairbanks in August 1934, a military aircraft at Weeks Field, a boy's birthday cake, children playing in a garden, and a boat on the Tanana River traveling to the Delta Clearwater River. Reel 4 is labeled "July and August 1939, Plymouth, Washington D.C., Marengo, Black Hills, Seattle, Juneau, Fairbanks," and it contains footage of Washington D.C., people at home, people swimming, farm scenes, a man in a boat, a family gathering, Mt. Rushmore, Elkhorn Mountain, camping, a family eating watermelon along the roadside, Columbia River, boats and fishing, Juneau, and trucks on the Richardson Highway. Reel 5 is labeled "Fort Riley - Marengo," and it contains scenes of men in uniform, children playing, a family gathering, farm scenes, a waterfront and ships, totem poles, glaciers and icebergs, a car towing a trailer, travel along the Richardson Highway, a glacier, "Devil's Elbow," a family at Christmas, hay being loaded, and women getting into a car. Reel 6 is labeled "Bear, Sunset, Village of Ruby, Caribou, Mendenhall Glacier," and it contains footage of the Ruby waterfront, wildlife, the Black Rapids Glacier near Richardson Highway during its advance in the 1930s, and scenery. Film contains footage of the Ladd Field Post Cafeteria sign, a man and a woman walking together, a man welding, large machinery, boats on the Chena River, flooded areas in downtown Fairbanks, 1st Avenue Dress Shoppe, swimming pool, Wells Alaska Motors, flooding in a neighborhood, flooding around houses, flooding in the woods, men in a boat, men walking through flood waters, boating in flood waters, Northern Commercial Company power plant with a sternwheeler riverboat parked along bank, Samson Hardware and Mining Machinery, a sunrise in the woods, large pieces of mining equipment, a dredge, men working with hydraulic giants, men working a sluicebox, people around a campfire, people in the woods camping, large mining machinery, farmland (potatoes?), a large dredge bucket, a dragline, two men in a little yellow raft on the water, men walking on the Davidson Ditch pipe, Discovery Claim Felix Pedro sign, people gold panning, a group shot of people showing off goldpans with gold and gold nuggets in them, the landscape surrounding the mining area, KFAR building and tower, the Rapids Meals and Rooms building, Rapids Hunting Lodge (Black Rapids Roadhouse), a group of men on and around a truck, and a large building on fire. This film features what are likely relief efforts during the 1967 Fairbanks flood. A handwritten label on the film box says "Dan[?] airport, Kul[?], Church of God, Westgate, A67, Mom[?], Henry and High school, [?] Day, [?], Flood." These scenes from the 1969 North American Championship Sled Dog Races in Fairbanks, Alaska, filmed by Fairbanks photographer Richard L. Hansen, include: an Alaska Dog Mushers Association sign; a Sled Dog Races Sweepstakes sign; dogs in dog boxes on a truck; a truck with Malamak logos; a man removing dogs from dog boxes and placing dogs in harness; a race board with names including Lombard, Attla, Redington, Shepard, Taylor, Nayokpuk, McDougall, Lake, and Folger; a race announcer; a drum filled with slips of paper for a drawing; spectators watching as the race starts under snowy conditions; a variety of dogs in harnesses; spectators buying and eating cotton candy; close-up views of dogs; a close-up view of a Fairbanks Dog Mushers Association patch on a man’s coat; many people in colorful parkas and boots; dogs rolling in snow; a sign for George Attla sponsored by J.C. Penney Co.; mushers; a truck for Wright's Aurora Huskies; and dogs peeking out of dog boxes on a truck. This film contains news stories from 1971. Footage and stories include Larry Holmstrom interviewing tourists in a motorhome caravan and at Norlite Campground. Larry Carpenter presents a story on Manley Hot Springs that aired in July 1971. Footage includes the springs, the town, and several residents. Residents identified include Gus Benson, Bob Lee, and Bob "Whitey" Yule. Additional footage includes a report on a water project in Hamilton Acres in Fairbanks, a story about life in Mekoryuk village on Nunivak Island, and adult bicycle riding in Fairbanks in September 1971. People identified in the bicycle story include C.B. Bettisworth, Carol Bettisworth, Alexander Bettisworth, Amy Bettisworth, Andy Kleinfleld, Dr. William James, Geraldine James, Adam James, John James, and Mrs. James. Some segments of film contain audio, and others are silent. Specific dates and other information noted on the original film are given here in parentheses. Footage includes a man speaking to a large gathering of people (undated) (silent), a student named Michael being interviewed about being expelled from school because of his refusal to cut his hair (story titled "Breeze") (1971) (sound), a man working with a radio antenna, men looking at an Alaska map, a man describing the Geophysical Institute's Biomedical Program and explaining how medical aid stations in Alaska villages can get medical information over the radio network (December 6, 1971) (sound), a story about Eneput Children's Center, women cooking, children playing (December 4, 1971) (sound), a man being interviewed about construction delays at the new Yak Estates Apartments in Fairbanks (December 7, 1971) (sound), students standing outside on a cold day, Nanooks basketball game scenes (1971) (silent), a man being interviewed about an Alaska Supreme Court Case involving charges of incompetence and immorality against a school principal (undated) (sound), children posing in a Nativity scene at First Baptist Church (1971) (sound), a story about a new training program for carpenters and journeymen (undated) (sound), men in a meeting (undated) (silent), statuettes of a gold panner being handed out at a ceremony, a story about an Alaskaland celebration (undated) (sound), children lining up to see Santa at Alaskaland Civic Center (undated) (sound), a man being interviewed about a court case involving charges against a school principal (undated) (sound), men being interviewed about police training, Lathrop High School students being interviewed about a student trooper program (1971) (sound), people in a meeting (1971) (silent), a man being interviewed about MUS Power Plant operations as men work at a coal chute and control panel (undated) (sound), people decorating a Christmas tree, men working on the pipeline, the BP building, and a cook making a meal menu (story titled "Arctic Christmas") (undated) (silent). Footage includes mechanics (likely in Fairbanks) preparing snowmachines for Midnight Sun 600 racing, Brian Willner cleaning a snowmachine, motorhomes and support vehicles with snowmachine trailers (likely leaving Fairbanks for Anchorage), the distribution of race bibs in an auditorium in Anchorage, racers at the start line in Anchorage, Bob Hamme in a red helmet, crews picking up broken-down machines along the highway, a wrecked truck in a ditch, mechanics welding skis and rebuilding snowmachines in a shop (and possibly doing overnight repairs in Glennallen or Tok), snowmachines and racers at the start line for second-day start (possibly in Glennallen or Tok), individual racers heading out, racers on the highway, and racers returning to the finish area. This film features earth-moving equipment at work on dam construction as well as culverts filling with water. The film can is labeled “29th Annual North American 1974,” and the film contains footage of sled dog racing. Footage features small houses in Fairbanks during winter, cars idling along streets in ice fog, a man pointing out exhaust system modifications designed to decrease emissions, downtown Fairbanks with ice fog during a dark afternoon, and a model and artist's concept of the Noel Wien library. Footage includes aerial views of Yukon 800 riverboats starting on the Chena River in Fairbanks, aerial shots of boats racing along the river, Jim Movius being interviewed by Ted Lehne in Galena, the re-start of the race in Galena, and aerial views of Pike's Landing and boats at the finish line. This footage was filmed prior to and during the Yukon 800 riverboat race. Footage includes boats and spectators at Pike's Landing on the Chena River, racer Moe Samuelson being interviewed about boat construction and the race while showing different parts of his race boat (Slo-Mo's Kayak II) to reporter Ann Handley, spectators waiting for boats in Galena, boats arriving in Galena on 6/25/77, aerial views of the Tanana River, spectators in Tanana watching boats pass by, spectators and race boats at Pike's Landing on the Chena River, the airport and spectators in Tanana (?), Jim Movius crossing the finish line in the winning boat, and Jim Movius being interviewed about the race by reporter Chuck Benson. Footage includes 1982 Valdez Winter Carnival scenes including families on a sled hill, snowmachines, Valdez scenes, a man and woman being interviewed (silent), church, and more snowmachines. Valdez winter activities include scenes of people playing baseball on snowshoes, totem pole sculptures, the Valdez harbor, and people in costumes jumping off a boat and swimming. The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has film AAF-20,005 numbered as Bacon 1-01 and titled "Eskimo carver with old bold [bow] drill: WP [workprint]-100 feet." AAF-20,005 has not yet been digitized - it is the workprint for AAF-20,006, which the filmmaker's original labeling scheme has numbered as Bacon 1-02 and titled, "1988 ivory carver with drill in mouth: ECN [Eastman Color Negative]-100 feet." Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about these films is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: "Box 1 - 3 Small Reels, 1 Large Reel - Kotzebue, Nome, Original reels and Work Prints. BIMA is a floating dredge. Huge dredge was digging up gold bearing sand off Nome. Also other shots of Nome on same reel, ivory carver Pat, close up of head shots of dogs, dog team packed with dogs, tourists panning for gold and riding dog sleds, breakwater, tug and barge coming into channel, Front Street of Nome, ivory shop cut in to ivory carver, downtown Nome, the Nugget Inn on Front Street of Nome, Dredge 5 working." [Note that this description does not entirely match actual footage on reels - it is likely that portions of this description were meant for AAF-20,084]. The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has film AAF-20,008 numbered as Bacon 1-04 and titled "BIMA dredge: ECN,ECL-1,200 feet." Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about these films is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: "Box 1 - 3 Small Reels, 1 Large Reel - Kotzebue, Nome, Original reels and Work Prints. BIMA is a floating dredge. Huge dredge was digging up gold bearing sand off Nome. Also other shots of Nome on same reel, ivory carver Pat, close up of head shots of dogs, dog team packed with dogs, tourists panning for gold and riding dog sleds, breakwater, tug and barge coming into channel, Front Street of Nome, ivory shop cut in to ivory carver, downtown Nome, the Nugget Inn on Front Street of Nome, Dredge 5 working." [Note that this description does not entirely match actual footage on reels - it is likely that portions of this description were meant for AAF-20,084]. This film features Joanie Adler’s birthday with eight candles on the cake, Joe Crosson Jr. or Don Crosson at the party, Joanie Adler playing croquet with parents, Joanie Adler skiing with her parents and other children, Chena River break-up near the Cushman Street Bridge in Fairbanks, Chena River break-up with cars and trucks on streets (including Illinois Street), an overview of flooding as seen from a rooftop, coal bunkers in the background, Fairbanks Winter Carnival queen contestants, and an ice throne. Notes on the original film say “Terry Gordon, Baby ‘36, Xmas, Snow, Cabin, Flood, Carnival, Break-up ‘36, and Carnival ‘36.” This is the 1936 Winter Carnival in Fairbanks. This film contains footage of Joanie Adler with adults, Joanie riding a pony, Joanie at the zoo, Joanie riding a bike, an unidentified couple at a mining operation, Joanie Adler swimming, Joanie with her parents at a cabin, Joanie playing with Christmas toys, children in a parade in Fairbanks near the Cushman Street Bridge, aerial shots of mountains, break-up, a family camping and sawing wood, and more aerial shots of mountains. This film shows people skiing behind a truck as seen from the truck. This film includes scenes of the Dave and Mary Adler wedding party, Joanie Adler holding flowers and playing in a sprinkler, Joanie Adler's birthday party with seven or eight candles, Joanie Adler cooking in a kitchen with Joe Crosson, Jr., glacier and river scenery, Mrs. Adler carrying Joanie and Mr. Adler across a creek, Joanie Adler driving a small car built by Joe Crosson, Sr., Joe helping Don Crosson drive a car, Joanie Adler with puppies, Don Adler in uniform, people at an airport, Joanie and possibly Joe Crosson, Jr. gardening, dignitaries with Governor Ernest Gruening, a Grumman Goose airplane, Joanie Adler playing with dogs, and the Adler family canoeing. This film was labeled as follows: “Mary and Dave just got married; Little Joe and Joan cooking; Joan in car summer 1939..." This film contains scenes of men preparing gold for smelting into an ingot, caribou, and Joanie with Mrs. Adler. This film contains scenes of family activities that appear to be mostly outside the state of Alaska. Footage includes aerial views of Fairbanks, the pipeyard, pipeline construction, sections of pipeline arranged along the roadside, trucking on the Haul Road, and North Star terminals. This footage shows the aftermath of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Scenes include the severely damaged Government Hill Elementary School, businesses and homes, a yellow house sitting at an angle after the ground had fallen away, damage at the Alaska Sales and Service car dealership, and crushed cars. The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has AAF-20047 numbered as Bacon 11-01 and titled “Air Shots of Kotzebue 1981.” Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about the group of films that includes this film is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: “Chilkat dancers, carving on the largest totem pole - The Japanese were having a World’s Fair and they wanted to have the largest totem pole so they went to Haines to have it carved; it was huge - Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Nuke, Greenland in 1980, beluga hunting in Kotzebue - In the evening when the hunters bring in the whales they cut them up and hang them to dry - Nome inside shots of Omiak - When he went to Egg Island, big Omiak Eskimos climbed up the cliffs and got the bird eggs, puffin and seagull eggs - They get up there and drop the eggs down to a guy that catches them, and then he gives them to a guy in a boat where he has a basket with grass in it and they fill up the baskets - Bill got up the hill and it was so slippery from bird droppings that he kept slipping so he could not get down - They had to go around and climb up to the top and drop a rope down to him and pull him up - Says it was really embarrassing.” Notes on the film box are as follows: “Barrow Nulakatuk, ICC Meeting Inuvik NWT Canada 1960, ICC meeting Nuuk Greenland July 1, 1980, Eskimos going to ECC Island out from Nome 1950, Kotzebue beluga hunters return at night 1950” and “Reel 1: Original, Air shots of Kotzebue Oct. 31 1981.” This film is labeled “Alaska 1925,” “Alaska 25 - Kenai R. - Skilak Lake – Hunt,” and “Alaska Hunting II.” The film contains scenes of three men in a motor boat towing another boat, men rowing an open boat down a swift river, scenes from within the open boat as a man rows, faces of men in a boat, scenery along the shoreline, men standing by a log cabin, men hiking with packs, a porcupine running into the bushes, men setting up a canvas tent, men joking around in camp, men crossing a small stream, a man playing a flute, a hillside and inlet, and a man skinning a dead bear. This film is labeled “Alaska 1926” and “Alaska 26 Odds and Ends #4.” The film contains miscellaneous scenes of glaciers, a man with a rifle aboard a boat, a coastal community waterfront, activities aboard a ship, men climbing a snowy mountain, icy waters and glaciers, and various boats.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line35
__label__cc	0.612394	0.387606	NBA Pre-Draft Camp, Day Three The third day of the NBA pre-draft camp in Orlando saw many prospects break out of their shells and finally play up to their full potential. Players are settling into playing alongside each other and the games began to take on more resemblance of actual basketball. Gary Forbes 30 point outing and Mike Taylors 24 points were the highlights of the day. Again we started the day with drills from 9 AM to 11, giving us a chance to focus in on different parts of prospects skill-sets than we could see in the games. One player that stood out more than anyone else in the individual drills was D-League combo guard Mike Taylor, a phenomenal athlete blessed with terrific scoring instincts who was deadly creating his own shot in 1 on 1 settings. He got to the rack whenever he pleased and did a great job creating space from his defender with his jab-steps and pull-up moves. Also leaving a strong impression was the play of Oregon senior Bryce Taylor, who had a nice all-around showing playing strong defense, knocking down shots and looking very crafty in the isolation-based drills. Robert Vaden was excellent in everything regarding the shooting portion of the morning, not a surprise considering that he took over 10 hit over 40%. Still no sign of Jamar Butler, who is out with a hamstring injury. Joining the injured list is Ty Lawson, fresh off a breakout performance last nightwith a supposed hip pointer. Some NBA people we spoke with wondered whether hip pointer is actually code for first round promise, considering how well he played in the first day and how few point guards there are in this draft once you get past D.J. Augustin. Lets see if he comes out and plays in the final day. The Kansas duo Darnell Jackson and Sasha Kaun did a good job in the morning drills as well. Kaun with his feel for the game, agility and scrappiness around the basket, and Jackson with his improved mid-range jumper and the intensity he brings to the floor. Its not hard to see why Kansas was so good this year with those two manning the post alongside Darrell Arthur. Jacksons strong play definitely continued in the actual game, as he made some very quick and effective moves in the post, was constantly around the ball, knocked down his only shot and showed a lot of heart. The first game of the day pitted probably the most unselfish team in the camp (Lawsons group) against the team Jamar Butler was supposed to play for if he werent injured. The loss of the two point guards hurt the shooting percentages of the game and created some sloppy play, and also forced some unlikely candidates like Malik Hairston and Mark Tyndale to step up and man the point, which they did about as effectively as they could considering the circumstances. It was indeed Hairston that strung together his second straight impressive performance, not so much in terms of the boxscore (12 points, 8 rebounds, 5-11 FG, 2-6 FT) but more in terms of the talent, versatility and all-around feel for the game he displayed, putting him a cut above pretty much any other prospect in this game. He was again always around the ball, doing all the little things his team needed in order to come away with the victory, whether it was executing his teams half-court sets as the defacto point guard, posting up inside, creating his own shot from the perimeter, pulling up off the dribble and rebounding the ball extremely well. His ball-handling skills look a lot better than we may have given credit foras he was very effective facing the basket, making some powerful strides to the rim and using his excellent body to shield the ball from his defender. He had four turnovers in this game, a product of spending so many minutes at the point, but it was hard not to come away impressed with the way he played in this game and in the camp as a whole. Brian Roberts had a very strong performance as well (17 points, 5/7 FG, 1/1 3P), doing a great job mixing up his mid-range game with his dribble-drives, either finishing strong at the rim or getting to the free throw line (6-6 in this game). He seems to have significantly improved his ability to smoothly change speeds and keep his defender off-balance, which we just happened to watch him work on a few weeks back when we saw him with David Thorpe and co. at the Pro Training Center at IMG Academy. He did a solid job distributing the ball and playing under control as well, even though he didnt finish the game with even a single assist. His game is extremely text-book and attractive to the eye, and he surely helped himself with the way he played today. Wayne Ellington bounced back in a big way after his disastrous performance yesterday, starting off extremely hot on his way to a 7-13, 17 point outing in 20 minutes. His shot simply fell for him at a much better clip, as he did a great job moving off screens and being aggressive using fakes and utilizing his strong one-dribble pull-up. On the negative side, he again did not look very good putting the ball on the floor and making his way to the rim, not standing out that much in terms of his size, quickness, toughness at the rim or ball-handling skills. He still needs to have a strong showing in the last day of the camp if hes truly serious about making a run at the late first round. Pat Calathes wasnt quite as good as he was yesterday, but he continued his pattern of impressive play dating all the way back to Portsmouth where he showed a terrific ability to fit in quickly on a team and both make himself look good as well as others around him. He had some excellent plays putting the ball on the floor and even going coast to coast, and also knocked down an NBA 3-pointer. He finished with 10 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in 20 minutes. Shan Foster played slightly better than he did yesterday, shooting 4-10 from the field for 9 points, but still has some ground to make up tomorrow if hes going to end up helping himself here. James Gist had a worse stat-line today (6 points, 3-10 FG) than he did yesterday, but in our eyes played better this time around. He looked very active defensively in the passing lanes and did a great job getting out in transition, using his athleticism well around the rim and even knocking down a long-range perimeter jumper. The energy he brought to the floor was exactly what the doctor ordered for his draft stock. The 7 rebounds he pulled out in 20 minutes definitely stands out. Mark Tyndale stood out for the second straight game with the excellent versatility he brings to the floor. He can really do everything except shoot the ball effectively, whether its distribute, defend, get to the rim or play his typical energetic and heady style of basketball. He might not get drafted, but could have a chance to stick on some team as there is a lot to like about the way he plays the game. Last, but certainly not least, Joe Crawford again had another very strong game (15 points, 6-11 FG) as the go-to scoring option for his team. He got to the rim very effectively, shot the ball well from mid-range and long-range, was excellent coming off screens and played fairly well in transition. His defensive effort was good, particularly in terms of pressuring the ball, and he showed absolutely no hesitation in anything he does, which people here have to like. He needs to become a little bit more efficient with his ball-handling (he pounds the ball a little too much), but its hard not to like what he brought to the floor today. The second game turned into an up-tempo blast in your face high-scoring affair, finishing up 101-93 in favor of team 5. For the winners, Josh Duncan continued the trend of Portsmouth Invitational Tournament standouts who were able to translate their excellent performance from the all-senior pre-draft camp in April to this setting as wellscoring 20 points (5-8 FG, 9-10 FT) and pulling down 6 rebounds. Duncan knocked down a number of open shots from the perimeter, scored a bit in the post off good feeds from his guards Ramel Bradley and Jeremy Pargo, made some nice passes himself, and was extremely aggressive getting to the free throw line. His lack of athleticism was evident at times, particularly with his attempts to face-up and put the ball on the floor, and he struggled staying in front of quicker forwards defensively. He is a very good basketball player, though, there is no question about that. Although were still waiting for a true breakout performance from DeVon Hardin, today was another solid outing from the Cal senior. He was again aggressive with his post-moves, converting on two very nice moves, one a drop-step and another a hook shot, and also blocked two shots on the defensive end. He did show again his poor hands by bobbling a few passes and also blowing a dunk, which may have taken away a little bit from his performance. It was nice to see how aggressive he was, though, and you certainly cant argue with his NBA body or superb athleticism. Underclassman Jeremy Pargo had a stronger performance in game two (11 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 turnovers) than yesterdays outing, doing a fantastic job showing off his incredible physical tools and getting into the paint time after time. He showed nice footwork and a terrific first step, being extremely aggressive pushing the ball up the floor in transition, but also again being typically feast or famine in regards to his distribution skills. On one hand he is able to find his teammates with decent creativity, as evidenced by his five assists, but he also seems to struggle over-handling and trying to make very high degree of difficulty passes, which resulted in five turnovers. This is nothing new from Pargo. He does seem to be separating himself from most of the other point guards, though. Although he wasnt able to finish all of his moves, Bryce Taylor again had a solid outing (11 points, 4/9 FG, 17 minutes), showing more versatility than we may have given him credit for in college. He attacked the basket very aggressively, looking very quick off his feet elevating and trying to finish strong, and also looked pretty smooth shooting the ball and pulling up off the dribble from the perimeter. He doesnt look afraid in the least bit of trying new things here and has in turn emerged as a very effective scoring weapon for his team. For Team 2, the best player on the floor (and likely of the day) was clearly Gary Forbes, stringing together one of the best single-game performances (30 points, 7-16 FG, 15-16 FT, 26 minutes) weve seen in the last five years of the pre-draft camp. Forbes was incredibly aggressive putting the ball on the floor with either hand and making very strong moves to the basket, being very physical once there and in turn getting to the free throw line at will. His scoring instincts might be the best of any wing player at this camp, as he makes up for his lack of freakish athleticism with phenomenal footwork and body control, being able to quickly read and exploit angles, or move intelligently without the ball, in turn showing a very good basketball IQ that impressed many people here. Although his perimeter shot wasnt a huge part of his game once again, he knocked down one of his two attempts from NBA range, which leaves optimism in that regard. Hes making a strong push for consideration in the early second round or possibly higher. Richard Hendrix again did his best Paul Millsap impression, doing yeomens work on the offensive glass, picking up 6 rebounds on that end in just 22 minutes. He struggled to finish most of his shots inside, though, being unable to elevate quite high enough in traffic. He did have a nice move on the block in which he finished with a pretty jump-hook, and also did his typical work in transition and with simple finishes around the rim. Again he impressed with his passing ability and overall unselfishness, something that you rarely see out of any of the big men here. The last game of the evening was another up-tempo affair, even if it ended up being a blowout in favor of Team 6, 99-78 over Team 3. For the winners, Mike Taylor continues to help his stock by showing possibly the most athleticism of any guard in this camp. He was simply a blur in the open floor, weaving his way in and out of traffic being impossible to stay in front of even in the half-court, a looking relentlessly explosive finishing around the basket. He was a man on a mission today, making emphatic plays that clearly left a strong impression in the eyes of decision makers who had never seen him before. His perimeter shot comes better than advertised, as he displayed by pulling up off the dribble from mid-range and killing his defender for going underneath a screen, while also knocking down 2 of his 5 attempts from behind the NBA arc. He also made two very nice reads in the half-court, in back to back possessions, making good reads to slashing cutters moving off the ball for easy finishes. Hes clearly more of a shooting guard than a point, but seems to have the instincts for that not to be as much of a factor these days as it may have been a few years back. He needs to continue to be unselfish and maybe bring it up a notch on the defensive end, but you cant argue with how well hes played here so far. He definitely has a chance to get drafted. Sean Singletary also had a nice showing, displaying excellent creativity and court-vision distributing the ball, and also being very aggressive as a scorer, finishing the game with an impressive 15 points and 8 assists. He may have over-dribbled at times and is likely kicking himself for missing all three of his attempts from beyond the arc, but it was good for him to break out of his shell here finally. Davon Jefferson continued not to show the type of effort or fire you would expect to see from a player who is currently fighting for his professional future, after having prematurely hired an agent following an average freshman season. His conditioning looks poor, hes dribbling the ball excessively, and hes yet to make use of the terrific athletic ability that made him a prospect to start with. This is turning into a very disappointing pre-draft camp for him. Maarty Leunen is never going to stand out in a setting like this, as there will always be bigger, more athletic players to ooh and ah over, but he once again showed his toughness, smarts and terrific skill-level by knocking down the shots that were presented to him, running the floor hard, competing on the defensive end, doing an excellent job on the glass, and not making even a single mistake. He finished with 11 points and 9 rebounds in 20 minutes Duke senior Demarcus Nelson made a number of plays around the basket, again being extremely aggressive putting the ball on the floor and moving off the ball, taking it strong to the rim again and again and getting a good amount of calls in the process. He took mostly high percentage shots and converted at a solid rate, finishing the game with 22 points in 20 minutes. Lester Hudson had yet another uneven performance in game two, alternating between displaying fantastic scoring instincts and creativity and forcing the issues badly at times and making bad decisions. He clearly is an A+ shooter, both from the perimeter and especially creating separation from his defender with smooth body control from mid-range, but needs to show better patience deciding when to shoot. He can throw the ball in the rim from a variety of different angles, but has not been very judicious with his decision making. He finished the game with 13 points, 2 assists, 4 steals and 4 turnovers in 23 minutes. Plaisted struggled to make his impact felt on the court consistently, just floating up and down aimlessly at times and not using his athleticism to finish particularly strong around the basket. You cant ignore his physical tools, but at the same time, youd like to see him make more use of it on the glass or defensively. Hes in this draft for good, so he really would serve himself well to bring the intensity level up a notch and having a strong showing in the last day of the camp. Shaun Pruitt went back to his bread and butter in day two, throwing his body around in the paint and coming up with a camp-high 12 rebounds in 20 minutes, putting his length and strength to very good use. NBA Combine Competitive Action Recap: Day One Jonathan Givony, Mike Schmitz Recapping the six most impressive performances from day one of the competitive action at the NBA Combine, including Kyle Kuzma, Frank Mason, Rawle Alkins, Jordan Bell, Tyler Dorsey and Frank Jackson. 2017 NBA Draft Combine Measurements Analysis The measurements taken at the NBA Combine in Chicago, Illinois were released today. GSL Faros Gary Forbes SF Mike Taylor PG/SG Bryce Taylor SG/SF Robert Vaden SG/SF Ohio St Jamar Butler PG Ty Lawson PG D.J. Augustin PG Ostrow Wielkopolski Darnell Jackson PF/C Sasha Kaun C Darrell Arthur PF Fos-sur-Mer Malik Hairston SF Mark Tyndale SG Brian Roberts PG Wayne Ellington SG Pat Calathes SF/PF Shan Foster SG James Gist PF Joe Crawford SG Josh Duncan PF Jeremy Pargo PG DeVon Hardin C Richard Hendrix PF Paul Millsap PF Sean Singletary PG Davon Jefferson PF Maarty Leunen PF DeMarcus Nelson SG Lester Hudson PG/SG Shaun Pruitt PF/C	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line40
__label__wiki	0.938005	0.938005	Luke Lively's "A Questionable Life," the movie Now showing at My Book, The Movie: A Questionable Life by Luke Lively. The entry begins: My book, A Questionable Life, has been described as ideal for movie adaption, especially with the current economic and social conditions. Set against a backdrop of greed, deceit and corruption, the story follows a ruthless banker, Jack Oliver, as he attempts to climb to the top of the corporate ladder in Philadelphia. When his plans are derailed, Jack’s life begins an uncontrollable downward spiral. On the verge of losing everything he had worked to achieve, Jack’s best friend, John Helms connects him with an old, rural banker—Benjamin “Benny” Price. Benny helps Jack to change his greedy perspective by introducing Jack to a different kind of life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of rural Virginia—a life of giving. Director- With much of the movie connected to hiking and the outdoors, the ideal Director would be Robert Redford. Redford has already made excellent movies in rural surroundings (A River Runs Through It). In addition, Redford won an Oscar directing a movie where a family was destroyed by class consciousness and greed (Ordinary People). Also in his list of directing credits is an inspirational story of redemption and hope (The Legend of Bagger Vance). Benjamin “Benny” Price- Redford,...[read on] Read more about the book and author at the publisher's website and Luke Lively's website. My Book, The Movie: A Questionable Life. Ten best short-story collections of the noughties Coffee with a canine: Kim Werker & Cleo Pg. 99: Kelly Oliver's "Animal Lessons" Pg. 69: India Edghill's "Delilah" What is Susan Breen reading? 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__label__wiki	0.622212	0.622212	Anthropogenesis A Bi-Hemispheric and Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Human Origins Browse: Home » 2013 » October » 02 » Out-of-America at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference (October 17-19, 2013) Out-of-America at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference (October 17-19, 2013) October 2, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in out-of-America, Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference An email from Michael Waters, Director at the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, confirms that I’m going to be presenting at the upcoming Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These days, I rarely participate in conferences in either U.S. or Russia, so this is an important occasion for me. Also of note: Alvah (Pardner) Hicks, the long-standing proponent of out-of-America I, will be delivering a poster presentation “Interpreting Archaeological Signatures before Clovis” on Friday, October 18. I can’t wait to see my old friend and his family after a long hiatus. The full and final conference program and abstracts are available here. Plenty of exciting papers will be presented, as observers have been anticipating for more than a year. My own abstract and full presentation with references is below. The Demographic Isolation of Amerindians and Back Migrations to the Old World in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene: From the History of Ideas to Contemporary Scientific Realities At a time when archaeologists are increasingly seeking to define the pre-Clovis horizon (Dziebel 2000; Waters et al. 2011; Gugliotta 2013), the paper revisits early-to-mid 20th century ideas about human origins in the Americas (Florentino Ameghino) and back migrations from the Americas to the Old World across the Bering Strait (e.g., Franz Boas). Although these speculations have long receded to the fringes of science, the rapid accumulation of paleobiological, genetic, linguistic and ethnological data pertaining to the origins of modern humans in the past 20 years (see Dziebel 2007) asks for the reassessment of the role of the Americas not only as a recipient of modern human populations but also as a source of admixture in the Old World. The discovery of very low genetic diversity among Denisovans – the phenomenon only observed among Amerindians, among living human populations – casts the new light on Pleistocene demographies in Siberia. Mitochondrial DNA furnished evidence for the presence of some Amerindian markers (hgs A2, C1) in Siberia and Northern Europe (DerSarkissian 2011). Autosomal DNA studies (Patterson et al. 2012) have identified “Amerindian admixture” in Western European populations. Americanoid skulls have apparently survived in South Siberia and Central Asia into the Bronze Age (Okunev, Sopka, Chandman/Xiongnu) (Kozintsev et al. 1999; Schurr & Pipes 2011). Coupled with unusually high levels of linguistic diversity in the Americas (Campbell 1997) and some of the most conservative patterns of linguistic structure (Nichols 1992) and kinship organization (Dziebel 2007), this new multidisciplinary data suggests that archaeological research in the Americas and beyond can benefit from a more complex population exchange and isolation model connecting human populations on both sides of the Bering Strait throughout the Late Pleistocene and the early Holocene. Until just a few years ago, the science of human origins and dispersals seemed to have achieved the unprecedented clarity and simplicity regarding the origin of modern humans and the basic Pleistocene dispersals that led to the formation of present-day continental human populations. The Recent Out-of-Africa-Replacement-with-a-Serial-Founder Effect Model commanded support from archaeology, paleobiology and population genetics to show that modern humans originated in Africa some 200,000 years ago, dispersed out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and reached the New World by 12,000 years. In the course of this blitzkrieg modern humans replaced all pre-existing hominin populations including Neandertals in Europe and West Asia and Homo erectus in both East Asia and Africa. But in 2010 the world began to change. The improvement of ancient DNA sequencing practices and the availability of ancient and modern full genomes led to the discovery of Neandertal admixture in modern humans both in Africa and outside of it, admixture into modern humans from a previously-unknown hominin species now called Denisovans as well as admixture of both pre-modern African hominins and Eurasian humans into modern African populations including the most isolated Pygmy and Khoisan groups. Modern human morphology was reported at 100,000 years from China (Zhirendong chin) thwarting the 50,000 YBP-like dates for the founding dispersal of humans out of Africa, while behavioral modernity (as expressed in such traits as the use of bone technology, blade production, use of feathers and ochre as ornaments) once thought to have uniquely invented by anatomically modern humans either during the Middle Stone Age in Africa or on the way from Africa to Europe was now shown to have been present among European Neandertals at comparable time depths. A straightforward serial bottleneck model of human evolution and dispersals yielded to a more complex picture of Pleistocene genetic admixture between ancient hominins and modern humans, behavioral and potentially anatomical convergence between the various hominin groups as well as Neolithic admixture between human continental and subcontinental populations. The “peopling of the Americas,” too, has grown to become an increasingly complex problem. In addition to the puzzling presence of modern humans at Monte Verde in Chile at 12,500 YBP, the presence of a West Asian mtDNA X lineage in North America and the surprising diversity of New World languages, it has become clear that the earliest Paleoindian culture in the New World, namely Clovis, likely originated not in Alaska but in such southern provinces of North America as Texas (see the Buttermilk Complex; Waters et al. 2011a), that it competed with other technological complexes of similar antiquity such as the Western Stem Point tradition and that megafauna was hunted by humans using bone (and not lithic) technology almost 1000 years prior to Clovis (see the Manis site, Washington; Waters et al. 2011b). Claims for greater than you thought antiquity of man in the New World (e.g., Toca de Tira Peia at 22,000 YBP in Brazil) are now supported by robust dating methods (Lahaye et al. 2013). The range of potentially fruitful models for ancient human dispersals in the Old World and the New World has dramatically increased in the past decade. Depending on the genetic system in question, modern humans originated in South Africa, East Africa, Central and even West Africa and dispersed between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago using coastal or land route or both with an Arabian standstill or without it. Depending on the kind of evidence scholars look at, they may postulate a single migration to the New World, a dual-, triple- or multiple-migration scenarios mapped onto coastal or interior geographies, with or without a Beringian standstill originating in West Asia, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, South Siberia, the Amur Basin or Chukotka and occurring at 40,000, 20,000 or 15,000 years ago. What is strangely missing from this cornucopia of models representing nearly every single logical possibility is an overview of evidence supporting the opposite kind of population movement, namely out of America into the Old World. Only a particularly thorough dig into the deepest and most remote strata of the history of ideas would yield an early contention by a founding father of American democracy, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) that, considering the remarkable diversity of Amerindian tongues, Amerindians must have been present in America longer than Asians in Asia. At the end of the 19th century, Argentinian paleontologist Florentino Ameghino (1854-1911) postulated the origin of modern humans from New World primates. Finally, in the early 20th century, on the heels of the Jesup North-Pacific Expedition, Franz Boas spoke about a back-migration of Amerindians at the end of the most recent Ice Age that brought the so-called Paleoasiatic peoples (Chukchees, Koryaks, Itelmens, Nivkhs and others) to Siberia. Although these speculations have long receded to the fringes of science, it’s worth pointing out that Jefferson, Ameghino and Boas were no crackpots. A foremost rationalist and promulgator of Enlightenment, Jefferson was one of the first philologists to begin collecting specimens of American Indian languages in an effort to bring order to the baffling diversity and apparent exoticism of American Indian languages. Two decades later linguists continue to affirm the unique level of linguistic diversity in the Americas on a global scale (Campbell 1997). With language being a defining feature of behavioral modernity, 140-150 language stocks attested in the New World match the level of linguistic fragmentation observed in the Sahul (with the archaeological record for modern humans going back to 60-40,000 years there) and by far exceed the diversity of languages observed in Africa and Europe. And it’s precisely in the areas with highest linguistic diversity that typological linguists find the greatest grammatical trait conservatism. In the words of Johanna Nichols (1992, 281), “Thus our closest perspective on human language comes from the Pacific and the New World, areas relatively unaffected by the vast spreads in the Old World. The population profile of statistical propensities and diversity of these regions can justifiably be regarded as primordial, and the populations that most clearly show that profile….are our best models of human language.” Florentino Ameghino was a consummate vertebrate paleontologist and taxonomist. The Paleobiology Database still lists 320 genus names introduced by Ameghino (Novoa & Levine 2010, 100). While his out-of-America ideas were discredited by Ales Hrdlicka in the early decades of the 20th century, only in the past several years the actual human remains that Ameghino used as evidence for extreme antiquity of modern humans in the Argentine Pampas were properly dated and showed terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene provenance. This means that for nearly a century Hrdlicka’s verdict regarding the recent origin of Ameghino’s Plio-Pleistocene remains was a mere speculation (Politis et al. 2011). And Ameghino’s intuition may not have been completely off the mark considering that New World primates share with modern humans a whole host of behaviors (such as cooperative breeding, paternal care, pair-bonding as well as elements of articulate speech and even duet singing), which are critical to the evolution of genus Homo and which are thoroughly missing among African apes (see, e.g., Fernandez-Duque et al. 2009; Snowdon 1997). Finally, Franz Boas was the most meticulous collector of native languages, fish recipes and myths and the most sober theorist of tribal prehistory. As such he was the last person to entertain frivolous ideas. Nevertheless, the intrusive nature of Paleoasiatic languages and myths in Northeast Asia compelled him to identify a back-migration out-of-America as a distinct possibility. Interestingly, the hypothesis of a back-migration of a subset of the New World population into Asia entertained by Jefferson and Boas was based on “cultural” evidence, namely languages and folklore motifs. While typically overlooked as a source of information about ancient population migrations and contacts by the students of archaeology and genetics, this “cultural” evidence nevertheless shows surprising resilience oftentimes exhibiting patterns of unique trait sharing across vast distances (e.g., between Papua New Guinea, Sub-Saharan Africa and Amazonia) – sharing for which specific archaeological and genetic correlates may have gone missing. In the case of this relatively recent Boasian back-migration, there is mounting genetic evidence that specific Amerindian markers such as mitochondrial A2 and C1 haplotypes are indeed found in Siberia, both Eastern and Western. The principal Amerindian Y-DNA lineage Q1a3a1c is found in the Altai Mountains but with dramatically lower diversity values, again suggestive of a reverse migration. Physical anthropologists have described “Americanoid” skulls at South Siberian sites Okunev and Sopka and Central Asian sites (Chandman/Hunnu), all with Bronze Age dates (Kozintsev et al. 1999; Schurr & Pipes 2011). As Schurr & Pipes write, “…Western and Japanese scholars have also analyzed craniofacial metric traits in world populations (Fig. 7.3). They observed that the Mongolian Bronze Age Chandman and Mongol Hunnu (Xiongnu) appeared similar to modern Native Americans from the Great Lakes regions, as well as prehistoric Archaic Period individuals from North America (Brace et al 2001; Seguchi 2004).” As a parallel to this evidence from craniology, ancient DNA samples of Hunnu from Barköl, Xinjiang, China, turned up Y-DNA Q-M3 haplogroup (Kang et al. 2013), and Q-M3 is mostly found in Ket (Yeniseian) and Amerindian peoples, which is also consistent with Edward Vajda’s Dene-Yeniseian linguistic hypothesis. It is further noteworthy that, according to physical anthropologist Peter Brown, skulls with “Mongoloid” morphology – themselves not the earliest Paleoindian skulls, as we now know thanks to the research by Neves, Pucciarelli, Hubbe, Powell and others – have earlier dates in the New World and not in Asia. Consequently, Brown (1999, 120) was compelled to ask a Boasian question: “At present the earliest people with a generalised East Asian cranial morphology are probably found in the Americas. Is it a possibility that migration across the Bearing Straits went in two directions and the first morphological Mongoloids evolved in the Americas?” Considering the relatively recent, ostensibly intrusive and northerly nature of the “Mongoloid” phenotype in Asia, its origin from a Beringian or American source cannot be excluded. Ancient DNA and whole-genome sequencing have taken the possibility of a New World contribution to the Old World gene pool to another level. In 2012, the team of geneticists and computational biologists led by Nick Patterson (Patterson et al. 2012) reported the presence of “Amerindian-like admixture” in Western European populations. And, correspondingly, predominantly Amerindian C1 lineage of the mitochondria popped up not just among the modern populations of the Amur River Basin in Eastern Siberia but also in Mesolithic samples from Yuzhnyi Olenii Ostrov in northern Russia (Karelia) (Der Sarkissian 2011) as well as in modern populations from Iceland. Barring some wayward trans-Atlantic contacts in the case of Iceland, the most reasonable explanation for this unexpected distribution of genetic markers is the residual, refugial nature of Amerindian populations with respect to not just Siberia but Eurasia as a whole. This is consistent with Hubbe et al. (2011)’s interpretation of Amerindian craniological material as indicative of the fact that the differentiation of Amerindians into a separate continental population happened prior to the emergence of both Mongoloid and Caucasoid groups. While the low genetic diversity of Amerindian populations has made Amerindians the perfect antipode to Africans and the “peopling of the Americas” a model example of a well-documented colonization event secure enough to suggest a calibration point for molecular dating techniques applied to other regions, the paucity of archaeological signatures prior to 12,000 years and low genetic diversity may be consistent with not only a late colonization scenario but also with a particular system of ecological adaptation of an ancient, mid-Pleistocene relic. Notably, geneticists sometimes use Amerindian populations not as a model of recent colonization but as a model of archaic demographic structure. According to Lev Zhivotovsky (2001, 704–705), South American Indians is “a reference for microsatellite variation in an ancient African ancestor because their population size is low and might be compared with that estimated for an African ancestor.” As social anthropologists have consistently argued for decades, during their evolution human populations have experienced a relaxation of selective constraints on mating. Originally small and heavily structured populations bound by consanguineal bilateral cross-cousin marriages expanded and developed more panmictic mating behaviors. New World populations furnish some of the best examples of the earliest mating practices, while West Eurasian and African populations have experienced fundamental changes in mating practices (see Dziebel 2007). Notably, the whole genome sequencing of the South Siberian Denisovan hominin who apparently left genetic traces in modern human populations (Melanesians, out of all groups!) elucidated the extremely low genetic diversity of the Denisovan population. Among the modern human populations South American Karitiana furnished the closest parallel. Correspondingly, Denisovans’ physical reality has eluded archaeologists for decades. Represented only by a pinkie and two molars, the Denisovan population would have been impossible to detect without ancient DNA testing. The Denisovan individual provides a good cautionary tale addressed at those archaeologists who tend to interpret the absence of evidence of human habitation prior to 12,000 years as evidence of absence of modern humans in the Americas. In a similar fashion, an extensive ancient DNA study suggests that around 60,000 years ago there took place a major colonization of the Eurasian landmass by woolly mammoths originating in the New World (Palkopoulou et al. 2013) – something that paleontology has never been able to document. If mammoths spread across the Eurasian landmass from an American source, it would not be hard to imagine human hunters following in their footsteps. From this angle, the surprising discovery of the most basal B0006 lineage on human X chromosome at highest frequencies in the Americas (see Zietkiewicz et al. 2006) parallels the basal position of North American Clade I in the mammoth phylogeny. The current stage in human origins research is characterized by data explosion and the enrichment of the traditional archaeological and paleobiological perspectives with the perspectives derived from the large databases of linguistic, ethnological and population genetic traits. It is therefore important to keep an open mind for both classic and novel – even seemingly preposterous – models of human evolution and dispersals. Ultimately, a thorough, well-balanced and fully four-field anthropological approach will prevail over more parochial, single-discipline, ad hoc theories of how a particular part of the world was peopled. This approach will undoubtedly result in the inclusion of New World monkeys and humans into the complete story of primate and human physical and behavioral evolution characterized by forces of convergence, common descent and admixture. Campbell L. American Indian Languages. Oxford, 1997. Der Sarkissian C. Mitochondrial DNA in Ancient Human Populations of Europe. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Adelaide, 2011. Dziebel G. V. The Test of a Null Hypothesis for the Origin of American Indians. Current Research in the Pleistocene 17 (2000): 125-127. Dziebel G.V. The Genius of Kinship: The Phenomenon of Kinship and the Global Diversity of Kinship Terminologies. Youngstown, 2007. Fernandez-Duque, Eduardo, Claudia R. Valeggia, and Sally P. Mendoza. 2009. The Biology of Paternal Care in Human and Nonhuman Primates. Annual Review of Anthropology 38: 115-130 Gugliotta G. When Did Humans Come to the Americas? Smithsonian Magazine, February 2013. Hubbe, Mark, Katerina Harvati, and Walter Neves. 2011. Paleoamerican Morphology in the Context of European and East Asian Late Pleistocene Variation: Implications for human Dispersion into the New World. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144 (3): 442-453. Kang LL, TB. Jin, F. Wu, X. Ao, SQ. Wen, CC. Wang, YZ. Huang, XL. Li, H. Li. Y Chromosomes of Ancient Hunnu People and Its Implication on the Phylogeny of East Asian Linguistic Families. ASHG Meetings, 2013. Kozintsev A. et al. Collateral Relatives of American Indians among the Bronze Age Populations of Siberia. 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Estimating divergence time with the use of microsatellite genetics distances: Impacts of population growth and gene flow. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 (5): 700–709. Ziętkiewicz et al. Haplotypes in the Dystrophin DNA Segment Point to a Mosaic Origin of Modern Human Diversity. Am J Hum Genet 2003 November; 73 (5): 994–1015. Tags: Alvah Hicks, German Dziebel, Michael Waters, out-of-America, Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference JASMIN October 2, 2013 at 4:39 pm · Reply → Chandman is regarded as Caucasoid with less Asian admixture than the surrounding Pazyryk and Tuvinian cultures. Okunev, Sopka skulls had Asian brain case distinctions and a complex of facial angles approaching the Caucasian series. Certainly the result of some Afasevo leftovers who became absorbed by intruding brachycephal Siberians. Xiongnu were a mixture of turkomongol brachycephalics, combined with a during of course of the history decreasing number of high cheek boned, dolichocephalics with extremely low and receding foreheads, and some minor important Caucasian admixture. Sorry Sir, no Amerindians at all. German Dziebel October 2, 2013 at 11:37 pm · Reply → I don’t know who you are and where you are getting your ideas, as your name, credentials and references are missing. Please read the sources I provided. If they show that all the named Asian skulls cluster with Amerindians, this makes them Amerindian, doesn’t it? C. Quitoriano October 3, 2013 at 8:26 pm · Reply → Thank you for posting that info, I saw an announcement for that conference several months ago and forgot all about it. There will so many well respected researchers in attendance, it would be a great opportunity to attend. mark corbitt October 6, 2013 at 1:32 pm · Reply → Hello, German, Mark Corbitt here. I will be attending the conference, and will be driving from Valdosta Ga. and will be bringing a cache of artifacts which has small blades and blade cores, large blades and blade cores, epi-levallois flakes and tools, as well as cores, and lithic art mobiliere in the form of animal effigies made on rare botryoidal and druzy coral which came from a quarry nearby. Dr. waters would not allow me to display it for whatever reason(because i’m an avocational?, or because the artifacts don’t meet his paradigm?) I want to get together with you to discuss your research, and to allow you to evaluate these lithics. I will be staying at the Santa Fe Lodge and inn.cell # 229 415 4437. I look forward to meeting you. M German Dziebel October 15, 2013 at 12:59 am · Reply → Hi Mark, let’s definitely meet. I’m at Fairfield Inn from 16 through 19th. I’ll give you a call. I look forward to meeting you. Bones and Behaviours October 19, 2013 at 3:35 am · Reply → German, I’ll see if I can dig it up properly for you but I found an older paper demonstrating that early Mongolians from the Tamsagbulag site buried their dead in an unusual sitting position similar to the funerary practices of American peoples so there’s a cultural connection as well. I know the Russian anthros took an interest in Central Asia, can you tel me about these people? Especially their race, what were their skulls and teeth like? http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf31/31seferiades.pdf But I think Jasmin is referring to Matsamura, Tumen and Takai (1998) about the Chandman people. http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199910/000019991099A0156964.php German Dziebel October 19, 2013 at 6:04 am · Reply → Neat factoid, thanks. Matsamura et al. didn’t have Amerindians in their sample. Once they got included, things changed. Oh and the link to the full conference program and abstracts isn’t working, can you fix it? May I please copy this full text elsewhere, German? I fixed the link. Should work now. And yes you can re-post. Alvah Hicks July 23, 2014 at 5:14 pm · Reply → http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/odsy_posters/107.pdf This is a link to my Poster Presentation given at the Paleoindian Odyssey Conference. Thank you German for your comradeship. ← Reader Questions 1: In Search of Archaic Hominin Survivals in Eurasia. Tutkaul Culture Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference: Ancient Mal’ta DNA, Ice-Free Corridor, Back Migrations to the Old World, Craniofacial Diversity in the New World and Pre-Clovis → About Anthropogenesis German Dziebel German Dziebel’s Guest Blogging German Dziebel’s Selected Comments, Exchanges and Debates Human Origins Research as Anthropology New Fully Integrated Model of Modern Human Origins Out-of-America vs. Out-of-Africa Families of Hypotheses Responses to the Out-of-America Hypothesis Other Weblogs Covering Human Origins Research Alvah Hicks’s Human Origins Bibliography (WIP) Human Origins as Seen from the Americas At the time when both the old Out-of-Africa paradigm in human origins research and the Clovis-I paradigm in the study of the origin of American Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians) have failed to account for the rapidly growing body of data, this blog provides a unique and previously unrecognized solution to the puzzle of human origins and dispersals. Drawing on linguistics, kinship studies, ethnology, genetics, paleobiology and archaeology, it brings American Indian populations into the focus on modern human origins research, documents back-migrations of American Indians to the Old World and explores the possibility of modern human origins not in Africa but in America. Only scientific facts are used and only scientific method is employed to derive a theory radically different from mainstream academic and popular science. This said, the blog is not a simple advocacy for an Out-of-America theory but a holistic anthropological critique of Eurocentric, Old World-centric, reductionist, positivist, vulgar materialistic and monodisciplinary approaches to the origin of modern human anatomy, behavior, language and culture. It's my contention that the mainstream science of human origins is driven not only by theory building and data accumulation but also by cultural stereotypes rooted in pre-scientific worldviews. 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__label__wiki	0.55081	0.55081	A Kiss of Shade Shade Shaydra lounged awkwardly on the uncomfortable old bed, revolted by her circumstance, and looking forward to escaping it as quickly as possible. Even a poor set of battered, old leathers would have been vastly preferable to the silken scarlet dress, which was so sheer as to reveal far more skin than fit the codes of modesty. Not that Shade was particularly concerned with modesty. She simply detested the idea of exposing her flesh to the leering eyes of men. She hated being watched and weighed and measured, like a cut of meat destined for the spit. It would not last much longer though. Her work was nearly complete. “Has anyone ever told you that your eyes shine like the rarest of emeralds, my pretty?” Shade fought the urge to laugh at the Lordling’s pathetic and half-drunken attempt at charm. Holding on to her mask of practiced submissiveness, she smiled. “You’re too kind milord,” replied Shade sweetly. “I think that deserves a kiss. Come here, handsome.” It was not a complete lie. Oralon Vander was a handsome man, if perhaps a bit long through the nose. It was not his appearance that disgusted her, but the way his eyes seemed to linger just below her chin. That and the ornate, golden marriage band that he wore on his left hand. Shade had no illusions about her own, dubious moral character, but she did hold a few things sacred in the secret places of her heart. As the Lordling approached, she leaned forward with puckered lips and a false eagerness, allowing him to wrap his arms around her. She ignored the strong but surprisingly tender hands that ran along her body. All of her attention was focused on his lips. It was only when they locked with her own that she realized that he was trembling. Was it from fear or from desire? Neither seemed to fit Vander’s reputation for ruthlessness and heartlessness. Instead, she found that the softness of his touch reminded her of another man, from another time. For one brief moment, she was carried away in the currents of pleasant memories. The shape of the lips. The timid hesitance. It was all the same. No, she told herself firmly. I will not think of him. Not now. She counted off the seconds. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Certain that she had waited long enough, she bit down on his lip, just hard enough to draw blood. “Ack!” screamed the Lordling. “Ashes and embers that hurt!” “My apologies,” said Shade, less sweetly than before. She rolled away from him, crossed the room and began to shed the dress. She opened a pack, pulled out the simple and practical small clothes that she normally favoured and began to dress herself. “Wait!” shouted the Lordling. He sounded confused and almost frightened. Does he already understand what is happening to him? Shade wondered. Does he see how he’s been fatally duped? A moment later, he seemed to remember who he was, and his voice took on a stronger tone of command. “Get back here. We’re not finished, woman!” “I’m afraid we are,” replied Shade. “You more so than I. How are you feeling Sir Vander?” “A little warm,” he said. Beads of sweat were already forming on his brow and his eyes were glazing over. One hand came up to his bloodied lip and he took a deep breath. Shade watched him with distant, professional interest. By now, the poison would have reached his mind. How would he react? Everyone was different. Some people had hallucinations, while others would abruptly revert back to childhood, becoming little more than blubbering babies. Once, she had even seen a man overcome by an almost ecstatic trance. “Gandjai,” gasped the Lordling. “Hardly,” Shade snorted, pulling on her loose, leather trousers. “I work alone. Some of their methods are highly efficient, however.” Shade had never thought of herself as a particularly cruel woman, but she did feel a pang of disappointment at the man’s simple, uninteresting descent into his own, eternal slumber. The strength seemed to seep from his body, as though he were a wilting flower, sagging slowly to the ground until he finally collapsed and closed his eyes. A moment later, the last breath slipped across his blood red lips. Fully dressed now, Shade crossed small room and bent down beside the body, where she retrieved the Lordling’s signet ring. Cast from solid gold and inlaid with a number of precious stones, it would surely fetch a pretty price. But that was not the reason for Shade’s interest. While she was not opposed to a bit of opportune looting, the ring would serve as proof that the contract was complete, which in this particular case would be far more rewarding. She had just tucked the ring safely away when she heard a rattling at the door. A soft click told her that someone had easily undone the lock—though whether with a key or pick, she could not tell. Shade whirled, unsheathing the knife that she wore belted at her hip. As the door slowly swung open, she prepared to defend herself. And very nearly dropped the weapon when Sir Vander walked through the door. “Well done, my dear,” said the Lordling with an amused smile. There was no kindness in that smile, however, no trace of mirth in his hard, grey eyes. “It seems that you’ve lived up to all I’ve heard about you.” “Exactly who I appear to be. I’m afraid it was not to me that you gave such a deadly kiss. Look again.” Shade turned her gaze back onto the dead man. Laying there, he bore a vague resemblance to Vander, but not so much that she would have mistaken him for the minor lord. He was too young, too soft, too innocent. “A simple illusion, really,” said the Lordling. “A bit of Flame to bend a man’s appearance. The illusion is imperfect, of course, but is surprisingly effective in dim light.” Shade shifted her stance, measuring the distance between them and the weight of the knife in her hand. She had never killed the same man twice, and she would only get one chance. Sir Vander might only be a minor lord, but he was known to have more than his fair share of talent in the Flame. If she missed, he would surely kill her where she stood. “There’s no need for that, my dear,” he said. Reaching into the pocket of his fine, silver doublet, he withdrew a leather purse and tossed it toward her. Being careful to maintain her defensive posture, Shade quickly snatched it from the air. “You’ve fulfilled your commission admirably and earned every gold falcon your were promised. I believe the agreed sum was forty, was it not? You’ll find a bit more in there. Compensation for the shock, you understand.” “Wait,” Shade said. “It was you who hired me?” “Why of course. I needed to put you through a test.” “A test for what?” “To see if you were the right choice for a much greater assignment. And I’m pleased to say you surpassed all my expectations. Tell me, what do you know about Prince Jayslen?” Shade regarded the Lordling suspiciously. She had never been an overly trusting person—growing up as an orphan in the Stilt District of Relen’ayar could do that to a girl—but she had no idea what to make of this man who had hired her to kill himself. Or at least to kill a man with his own likeness. And what’s this about a test? And Prince Jayslen? It sounds like a whole lot more trouble than it could possibly be worth. “I know enough not to go sticking my nose in Royal business,” she said. “I have no interest in killing the prince.” “A patriot?” asked Vander. “Mere practicality. I don’t want the Queen and lackeys hunting me.” “Ah yes, the Queen. Terrifying isn’t she? What kind of woman orders her own husband to the gallows? Well no matter, I have no intention of sending you off to kill Jayslen. That, it seems, has already been done. I am far more interested in the one who did the killing.” “The Prince was assassinated?” “Perhaps, though I think not. I suspect that his death was much more provincial in nature.” “And you want me to find his killer? Some sort of vengeance?” “Nothing quite so dramatic, I’m afraid. I want you to find the killer and bring him to me, alive and largely unharmed—though a few bumps and bruises would be of little consequence. If you do this for me, I am prepared to offer you a very substantial sum.” “Would one thousand falcons be sufficient?” Shade very nearly choked on her own breath. A thousand falcons? With that much gold, she could easily live in luxury for the rest of her life. What could possibly drive Vander to offer such a ludicrous bounty? Is this killer dangerous? Will he be difficult to capture? Or is there some other motive at work here? Some other value that I don’t see? “And the catch?” she asked. “No questions,”replied the Lordling. “You do your job. Find him and bring him to me alive.” “That’s it? And if he dies along the way?” “See to it that he doesn’t. I’m afraid you would find that to be most unpleasant.” “Fine. I’ll bring him to you, but I’ll need a retainer first.” “Of course. Another forty then?” “Fifty.” “Very well. Fifty it is. Now, for the matter of transport. I will be leaving for the capital in the morning to attend the Queen’s Council. May I suggest that you don that lovely dress of yours and accompany me on the journey? All for show, you understand.” “If it’s all the same to you, I would prefer to travel in something a little less drafty.” “Such modesty,” Vander laughed. “As you wish. You may stay here for the remainder of the night. I will have the body removed and see to it that you are not disturbed.” Or that I don’t try to leave on my own terms, more likely. “My thanks,” said with a sincerity that she did not feel. “Oh, one last thing,” Vander said as he turned to leave. “Would you mind returning my signet ring. It was a gift from my first wife. I really would hate to lose it.” Wordlessly, Shade withdrew the gold ring and tossed it to the Lordling. “Ah, thank you. Have a wondrous evening my dear.” When she was sure that he was gone, she opened the small purse and quickly counted through the contents. True to the Lordling’s, word there were forty three gold falcons there, each so clean and unblemished that they appeared to have been freshly minted. One thousand falcons for one man. Ashes and Embers, Shaydra. What have you gotten yourself into this time? It was only as she was closing the purse again that something Sir Vander had said seemed to sink in. She was to accompany him to the Queen’s Council. In Relen’ayar. She was going home.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line50
__label__cc	0.682548	0.317452	42082: Rough Terrain Crane Technic Review Home » News » 42082: Rough Terrain Crane Technic Review Posted By Adam White on Aug 28, 2018 \| 18 comments It’s time for the final set review of the Summer Technic releases. The Rough Terrain Crane is the largest LEGO® Technic™ set released to date, which makes it one big build. So big in fact it’s taken me a while to get it built and it’s been a nightmare to photograph. But I’ve finally finished it and just about managed to get a few decent shots of the incredible looking new set. Construction vehicles featuring heavily in the Technic line as they lend themselves nicely to the Technic build system and inspire much of the functional abilities of sets. So let’s see if tackling the Rough Terrain Crane was worth all the hard work and take a closer look at some of the sets extensive functionality. Enjoy an immense build and play experience with the LEGO® Technic™ 42082 Rough Terrain Crane, our largest and tallest LEGO Technic crane to date, pre-August 2018. Activate the Power Functions and select upper or lower crane mode for complete control over an array of easy‑to‑operate, motorized functions. Lower the stabilizer legs, rotate the superstructure through 360°, operate the lifting winch or send the extendable boom a meter into the air. Manual functions include 4-wheel steering, 4-wheel drive, detailed V8 engine with moving pistons and fan, and adjustable wing mirrors, plus a detailed operator’s cab with an opening door. This amazing model also includes 2 opening compartments with tools, chains and a fire extinguisher, plus 4 outrigger landing plates and 4 LEGO Technic building sections that can be lifted and assembled. This 2‑in‑1 LEGO Technic set comes with a red and black color scheme and can be rebuilt to create a Mobile Pile Driver. Set Name: Rough Terrain Crane Set Number: 42082 Measurements: over 100cm high, 66cm long and 26cm wide in working position, and over 27cm high, 76cm long and 20cm wide in driving position. Availability: Exclusive to LEGO Brand Retail Stores & shop.LEGO.com Fuelled by a mixture of intrigue and dread, I cracked open the huge box to be greeted by seemingly endless bags of Technic pieces, two whopping instruction booklets and another smaller sealed box, also filled with even more bags of elements. As one of the largest Technic sets released to date, it was only expected that it would be heavy of parts, thankfully the bags are numbered. With so many bags, having them numbered is a really helpful feature, especially if you’re light in space to build. I know there are those who like the traditional method of non-numbered bags, but it’s just not practical with a set of this size. The entire set has five clear stages to the build, the base, the central platform, the crane boom arm, the cab and the partly build building walls. As with most Technic sets, the build begins with the inner workings of the base. There is a lot going on with the innards of the crane, all the workings for extending legs, steer system and engine are all built within the chassis of the crane, and all are linked together. Despite that, although I’ve not built many Technic sets, those I have can be a little tricky to build due to masses of gears and dials, this set isn’t that complex. Although there were a couple of instances where I missed steps or placed things incorrectly. This is more to do with the instructions, some sets I’ve built in past, have had the elements which need to be placed, highlighted within the build, something which would of been extremely useful with a set of this size. Once the base is complete, you then start on the central platform, which connects to the base via the large circular track built into the base. The platform looks a little sparse, but the majority of it is made up of the boom arm, operators cab and plate detail added on towards the end of the build. The set is far too big to detail all aspects of the build, we’d be here forever and to be far it would be a boring read, instead I’ll focus on the functional aspects of the set as they are the most fun parts. I will say that the build is fun and will keep you busy for a fair few hours. The Functionality At over 4000 pieces, you’d expect the set to have an array of functional elements and it doesn’t disappoint. There’s a number of manual functions along with an intricate but not complex Power Function-powered system of movement. On the manual side of things there is a basic steering system, which is controlled by a lonesome tyre on the very rear of the crane, this turns the both axels in opposite directions for easy turning of the chunky tires. When those big wheels turn, they also provide movement to the 8 cylinder engine. You can also access basic tools in little boxes inside compartments, located either side of the cranes central platform. These have a Technic plate, which can be opened to reveal a set of additional chains and tools. But the sets most impressive features are those that are powered. A large Power Functions motor provides the necessary juice to power a number of automated movements, many of which you’d expect a crane to do. One of the best of the best of the powered features is a set of four stabilizer legs. These are located on the large base chassis of the crane and can be deployed by a switch found on the side of the crane. With the motor running and the switch on the top of the crane set in the left direction, flicking the switch on the side, allows the four legs to extend at the same time. The motion of the legs slowly extending is great. Flicking the switch in the opposite direction, recalls the legs in an equally smooth motion. http://bricksfanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VID_20180819_164545.mp4 There are also four removable plates with four perfectly placed studs, there can be placed under each of the four extended legs. With those studs framing the feet of the legs. When not in use they are stored in the front section of the cranes base. They are a nice addition to the set, especially has they are not really necessary. But just like the additional tools and chains, the stability plates would be something the real world vehicle would have. There is another switch located on the opposite side of the leg extension switch, this allows the cranes central platform to rotate in a full 360° circle. Depending on how the crane arm is angled and extended, thanks to the sets immense size, the cranes turning circle can be impressively large. That central section is quite weighty, so the fact a single motor can rotate it with ease is quite impressive, not to mention its also a smooth motion. The final powered functions are the most complex, they are controlled by a series flick gear powered switches. These are best described as a gear box, like you’d find in a car. The Rough Terrain Crane version features a single switch handle and six gear notches. A ‘charge-over catch’ is mounted on a rod which sits above a trio of ‘gear shift connectors’, moving the switch causes the those connectors to move, which then causes various parts of the crane to move. It sounds complex and looks complex, but it wasn’t that complex to build, which I really liked. In fact it was so nice to put together, compared to other Technic sets I’ve built in the past, I thought I’d missed something as it didn’t look like what was there could power five different points of movement. As well as the the gear switch, you’ll also notice a second two-way switch, this flips the motors controls between the upper functions and the lower functions. So flipping it to the right, allows the boom functions to work. Switching to the left, allows the lower functions to work. All of which are clearly labelled via the power of stickers. A mixture of gears, pistons and thread combine to create the connection between the main body of the crane and the boom arm. The boom arm actually takes up quite a lot of the build. The central section of the boom is housed within a large stripe of flat panels. I accidentally put the end gear wheel on the wrong side which resulted in the stickered switches working in the opposite direction, thankfully it was easily to correct, unlike the gear issues I had with the original Volvo Wheel Loader set, which resulted in completely stripping the set back to the beginning. When building a Technic set make sure you double check every step you build. This will help in the long run, as you really don’t want to being taking the set apart for a missed pin or incorrectly set gear. The boom arm can be lowered and raised, the jib can also be extended to almost double the length of the boom. When LEGO say its the tallest and largest crane to date they aren’t joking. The hoist rope can also be lowered and raised, thanks to a series of gears built into the lower section of the boom, these link up with the main gear system in the base of the crane. The whole thing is basically a slightly simpler version of a real world crane, it’s has all the functions and movements of an actual crane, just built with LEGO elements instead of steel and iron. Which is what makes these large scale Technic sets so impressive. A crane needs things to lift and the set doesn’t disappoint. It includes four walls made from a mixture of Technic plates and beams. The walls can be connected together, although they can easily fall apart, but the main reason they are included is to give you something to lift. One of the walls has a chain connected to it, which allows you to connect it to the cranes hook and lift with ease. The whole thing is powered by a large motor and battery box, these are from the original Power Functions system and not the new Powered Up system. It will be intersting to see how the new powering system is integrated into the Technic range, especially due to Powered Up’s differing connections and app-connected control. Both the battery and motor is hidden beneath the black rear section of the main body, which flips up so you can easily change the batteries, I wish LEGO would introduce a rechargeable battery pack as standard, using 6 AA batteries can become an expensive game. I was expecting the set to take a while but I was also expecting it to be really complex and frustrating to build, it was none of those things. The gear system is a genius use of parts and engineering. The final model is a beast, it’s huge and has some amazing functional features. I still think the Volvo Concept Wheel Loader is my favourite Technic set I’ve built so far, but the Rough Terrain Crane is an extremely close second. As with other Technic builds the Rough Terrain Crane can be built into a second model, the Mobile Pile Driver. Instructions for this B-model can be found on the LEGO Technic website, where you can also watch a video detailing some of the main sets, impressive functions. This set was provided via The LEGO Group for the purposes of review. The thoughts and opinions of the set reflect those of BricksFanz and not that of the LEGO Group. Louis long Having finished the model all upper functions work but the turntable and the four legs do not work when the appropriate switch is deployed help ? Check you have the gear wheels the right way around, I had one the opposite way and it caused elements not to work correct, could be the issue Andrew dURRANT i built the pile driver but have lots of parts left over and my son got to them now missing some how many ports should there be left thanks It’s been so long since I built it I couldn’t say I afraid. Should only be a few small elements though Hi Adam, I am building this (first two stages done now). I wonder whether something is working correctly, perhaps you can tell me. The wheels are not yet installed, but the axles are. If I spin one “wheel” in one direction, the one on the other side spins the other way around. If I take both wheels on the front end in my hands and spin them in the same direction then all wheels do spin one direction. Do you have it too, that if you spin one wheel (either front or rear) in one direction that the other wheel spins in the other direction? Or have I made a mistake somewhere? Thanks. It’s been a while since I’ve built it but I think they are meant to spin in the same direction. I had that issue with the Volvo crane though and had made a slight error, so sounds like an element made be in the wrong way. Sorry I can’t be much more help Thanks for your quick response. I also got the feeling that something is wrong and it is better to restart building now than when it is entirely finished. Definitely I got to the end of the Volvo crane and the wheels spun in different directions. I had to complete strip it down as the gear system was in the chassis, this happened twice! Technic sets are great but unforgiving if you make a tiny mistake, which kinda makes them a little cooler. Let me know how you get on! Well, the thing with this one is that it does not ride itself and when I turn the wheels in one direction that does seem to work (not blocked), so it doesn’t seem to be an issue that would prevent its functioning. But it is still weird that spinning one wheel leads to the other wheel spinning the other way. I am guessing it may be ok. If I spin one wheel, the least resistance is the small cogs (in the differential), which are probably for being able to have the wheels spin at different speeds in corners. If I spin both wheels (front or rear) at the same time, the large cog (differential) is used. I can imagine that it is logical that the small ones have to do something different from the large one to enable the differential. https://images.app.goo.gl/VukiSwhy8mGQqTcR8 Great review, currently having some issues building this, when we try and raise the crane the ‘extenders’ just click and don’t seem to raise the crane, also there the switch for choosing the upper and lower functions, doesn’t seem to connect to anything, and find there is instead a switch on the side hidden by a panel, any advice, or is it a case of taking the upper part of a starting again …….. which would be fun but take a while. Yep its just a case of triple checking you have all gears and elements in the correct place and facing the correct way. Xavier Coutant My son is building the crane. He’ at the end of booklet 1 and found the crane can ‘t ride. I guess he wil have to dissassemble and start all over again. Or is that normal and the crane can only ride when motor driven? It’s been a while since I built it but I only tried the Power Functions when built. The wheels should move once the base is built but all the other functions require different parts of the crane. Great feed this one, my boy has similiar issues that James posted on the 11th September. The switch for choosing the upper and lower functions, doesn’t seem to connect to anything? Its the second two-way switch, this flips the motors controls between the upper functions and the lower functions. Everything else works apart from any lower functions. Any thoughts or do i tell my son to take the whole top section apart or is it the lower section where the problem could be? It’s a tricky one, it’s been so long since I built it. Once the while thing is built, you can go through in stages to see if there are any issues. It may mean taking some bits apart but not completely stripping it down. Hi Adam managed to resolve the top switch issue but the lower functions dont work. I notice that there is a post on here about this and you replied “Check you have the gear wheels the right way around, I had one the opposite way and it caused elements not to work correct, could be the issue”. Which section should i be looking at please mate as i am baffled. Looks like you are the person to talk to!!! It was the gears in the arm of the crane, the ones near the base of the crane if I can remember rightly. Just triple check with the instructions and also make sure they are clicked on fully	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line56
__label__cc	0.593448	0.406552	[Epub] ➛ Skuggspel ➜ A.C. Efverman – Buyprobolan50.co.uk Skuggspel A.C. Efverman10 on Skuggspel This Edition Is Out Of Print Sydney Is Hosting The Soccer World Cup In A Few Weeks Time, When Detective Sergeant Morgan Callaghan Is Assigned To Lead An Investigation Of Three Dead Women Who Have Been Found In Central Parts Of The City Morgan S Mother Is Dying, And His Family Is Less Than Understanding Of The Pressure That Morgan Has Been Placed Under By His Superiors And The FIFA Committee The Hunt For A Serial Killer Leads Morgan Into A Darkness He Has Never Experienced Before And In This Darkness He Ll Lose Than He Ever Thought Was PossibleThis Dark, Relentless Thriller Takes You On A Journey Through Sydney Where You Will Get To Know DS Morgan Callaghan And You Ll Also Gain A Rare Insight Into What It S Like To Work On A Murder Investigation In Australia Skuggspel The Swedish Edition Of GAME Was Bestseller On USA In November And Skuggspel Was Also Bestseller On Australia I March 10 thoughts on “Skuggspel” Brenda Brenda says: 3.5 sWhen the body of the latest young woman was discovered, Detective Sergeant Morgan Callaghan knew they had a serial killer on their hands With the World Cup soccer being hosted by Sydney in only a few short weeks, Morgan s bosses knew the murders had to be kept away from the press The public panic if they heard of a serial killer roaming the streets of Sydney would be catastrophic the investigative team would need to put this one as a top priority and find the killer fast.Though Morgan s team didn t hold as many members as he d hoped, he realised with the World Cup training on in Canberra, he was lucky with the men he had But Morgan was stressed this investigation was pulling him in every direction having to report to his superior who was supposedly on leave on a daily basis run his department handle interviews he had no time to look after himself Plus his mother was dying of cancer and though he tried to make time to see her, it was difficult Also his girlfriend Lisa was feeling neglected As bodies began turning up, the pressure from up high became intense with little evidence to point to anything positive, Morgan wondered how he could possibly split himself in any pieces Would he find the killer What would be the outcome of this horrific spree running through the streets of Sydney Game by Swedish crime writer turned Aussie author A.C Efverman is a dark and thrilling crime procedural which introduces DS Morgan to its readers The pace is fast, the read is quick But I found the writing to be a little stilted and Morgan came across to me as arrogant and bossy I do believe it may have something to do with the translation and also that it would benefit from having an editor go over it That said, Game is the author s debut novel and I have no hesitation in recommending it to lovers of the genre.With thanks to the author for my copy to read and leave an honest review. Emma Emma says: This was a good introduction to DS Morgan Callaghan, a detective whose private life can be described as turbulent, to say the very least The plot certainly has a darker tone and a thrillingly violent ending Yet, for me, the language lacked the flow necessary to support the story I understand that the author writes first in Swedish and I wish I could read that language because I think it loses something in translation However, I believe that this is something that will improve book by book.I really enjoyed the Sydney setting, especially as I lived in the city for three years and recognised most of the places It really took me back, though thankfully I never had to live through this type of murderous drama Following the process of Australian investigation was interesting and gives the book a fresh feel I m curious to see what happens in the follow up, Gone, when it comes out Many thanks to A.C Efverman for this copy in exchange for an honest review. Paula Adams Paula Adams says: This was a great read Set in Sydney, Australia The author does a great job of describing the city and it s landmarks, beaches, etc Made me wish I was there, at times I could picture myself there DS Morgan Callaghan has a lot going on in his life Not the least of which is that there is a serial killer on the loose and they are keeping it very quiet as the World Cup is coming soon and the powers that be wants it to stay that way as they don t want to lose the tourism business dollars This book was so hard to put down I wanted to know who the killer was I had no clue And when I found out near the very end of the book, it surprised the heck out of me It surprised the police that were looking for the killer too Now that s what I want in a crime murder mystery Looking forward for another one in the series. Pmalcpoet Pat Malcolm Pmalcpoet Pat Malcolm says: This is an unlikely entry into the field of Scandinavian noir It s a police procedural that takes us to Australia, and the realm of World Cup soccer And from there becomes a first rate thriller The author definitely shows her native Scandinavian aesthetic, and a dark view that translates well to the seemingly sunny land of down under If is the first entry in a new series, all I can say is, hang on for the ride A.C. Efverman A.C. Efverman says: Skuggspel was 1 Best Seller in Swedish Language Fiction on USA in November 2015 and was also 1 Best Seller in Swedish eBooks on Australia in March 2016 Written by Swedish crime fiction author A.C Efverman who has lived in Australia for nineteen years A dark, relentless thriller that takes you on a journey through Sydney where you will get to know Detective Sergeant Morgan Callaghan and you ll also gain a rare insight into what it feels like to work on a murder investigation in Australia This is a story of violence and murder, but also of love, relationships and the city of Sydney.Game is Nordic Noir with a difference the book reads like Swedish crime fiction but the story is set in Sydney and most characters are Australian with some Scandinavian exceptions. Nancy G Nancy G says: I enjoyed getting to know the troubled main character Morgan and it was interesting to follow the police investigation so closely There was an unusual unexpected twist at the end The story stayed in my mind for days after I finished reading the book and I m eagerly awaiting the next book in this series. Ken Fredette Ken Fredette says: Well I wasn t disappointed in A.C s book It followed a good path that was interesting and informative Morgan was interesting to follow through the whole story and A.C can write like nobody else can Hope we see a lot books by her. Therese Larsson Therese Larsson says: With my daughter at school and my one year old son finally asleep, I cuddle up on the couch under a blanket I have a steaming cup of peppermint tea ready and beside me a plate with crunchy cookies in the shape of the Star Wars characters R2 D2, Yoda and Darth Vader, the result of yesterday s baking with the kids Finally a moment to myself, a moment I intend to devote to reading a book instead of cleaning, washing or planning dinner.For me, reading a fiction book means relaxation and enjoyment Books about the heart s delights, horror, fantasy and crime novels are only a few of the books one can find in my overflowing bookcase Part of the pleasure of reading is to enter the imaginary world and lose oneself in the main character s life and living That is why it is important that a book has something special that captures you, and since I recently read A.C Efverman s crime novel Game , what better than to describe my love for books by reviewing her first book in the series about DS Callaghan, a book so aptly set in my hometown of Sydney If you are familiar with the Opera House in Sydney, you can just by looking at the cover of the book Game imagine that something nasty or dreadful will be set in one of Australia s most visited cities.Already after a few pages from the book Game I m drawn in The character design of DS Morgan Callaghan is personal without being excessive, and slowly one gets to know the man in charge of investigating several horrendous crimes against young women The character is struggling with several gruesome events over a short period of time and it feels as if you understand what he goes through, both at work and at a personal level Simultaneously as the characters in the book evolve, the story moves forward at a good pace and thrilling events are happening throughout the book It is hard to put the book down once you ve started but with children in the family one sadly must The sequence is well written, and given the level of detail and the incredibly vivid words it is confirmed what A.C Efverman said during my interview in one of my earlier blogs, that she uses her own experiences when she writes.The book takes you to several known and some less known parts of Sydney Often these places comes to life in my imagination, I can feel the smells and tastes or even imagine that I hear the sounds described, whether I personally have been there or not In my aforementioned interview A.C Efverman shared a passage from the book Game and I now intend to show you some other examples of what you might encounter in the book This particular passage describes a morgue, and when I read it I felt as if I myself were on the way to face the dreadful room of death They turn a corner and enter a corridor that is built wide for transports of gurneys and curls downwards At the bottom of the corridor, Demitriades disappears behind a pair of plastic doors and Ricketts holds one square of plastic open for Morgan A sharp smell of disinfectants is in their noses as they enter a cold room where unforgiving florescent light reveal every detail stainless steel gurneys are parked along the walls and small tables that hold sharp instruments, scales, bottles filled with clear liquid and small electrical saws stand next to each gurney The saw cords are plugged into wall sockets and create a graphic pattern of repeated thin black lines against the shiny white walls The green hoses that hang in chains from the ceiling remind Morgan of a carwash The author also evoked feelings that I personally never have experience myself thankfully , but because of the book s vivid narrative it still found its way into my body Specifically, I think of the horrible crimes committed and how upset I feel just to think about them For you to understand, I want to quote a few lines from her book Game They are inside the apartment before she can react, but by then it s too late he hits her in the back of the head with something hard and she falls moaning to the floor Blood drips onto her jacket He exhales and locks the door Then he opens his rucksack and takes out some rope and two scarfs When he has tied her hands and gagged her he sits back and waits for her to regain consciousness.When Cassandra opens her eyes his face is close to hers he is leaning over her No she thinks as her mind registers what is happening he is taking her knickers off I will write no further on the subject with the risk of spoiling someone s reading experience but I can say as much as this, this is just the beginning of some of the horrible crimes committed in the book Game will never be tedious or boring, and without stressing things A.C Efverman is successful at keeping the excitement going from one chapter to the next Something I personally love and hope in terms of crime novels, is to be able to draw my own conclusions in order to try to guess who the killer is, and I was not disappointed this time With a script where A.C Efverman provides the readers with just enough facts, no no less, and with small hints embedded in the story one gets room to form one s own opinion and to make own interpretations Though I ll be honest, I am always wrong Helena Halme Helena Halme says: DS Morgan Callaghan is a bit like Harry Hole of the Jo Nesbo crime thrillers He too has a stubbornness to solve the crime whatever the consequences, as well as an impulsive and defiant character With the addition of a few character flaws, DS Callaghan is easy to empathise with In Game Callaghan is faced with a serial killer, but due to the forthcoming large sports event in Sydney, he has to keep the case from leaking out into the media and the public, hence making his task to keep one step ahead of the killer impossible All the while his personal life seems to be imploding I loved the way Efverman entwined the two strands of the story together, with Morgan s own life reaching a critical point at the same time as the murder investigation I also liked the descriptions of Sydney, which were interspersed with very scary scenes while the killer is on the rampage I found Game hard to put down, and look forward to another installment in the series. Michael Peterson Michael Peterson says: I recognised many places in this book as it s set in Sydney It was filled with suspense and did not shy away from describing violence realistically, and the story kept me interested all the way through to the end Overall a very good entry from an author I had never heard of before and I look forward to reading books by.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line58
__label__cc	0.543509	0.456491	Food NetworkGuy Fieri brings his "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" show to Syracuse. As if we needed proof that Central New York has its share of diners, drive-ins and dives: Food Network host Guy Fieri is bringing his TV show of that name to town this weekend. The “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” star — famous for his spiky blonde hair and the red 1967 Chevy Camaro convertible he drives — will also be in town for an appearance at the state fair’s Chevy Court at 2 p.m. Wednesday. That show is free with fair admission. Before that, Fieri and his production crew will profile some local restaurants. One is Byblos, a Lebanese restaurant at 223 N. Clinton St. (just outside The Post-Standard’s back door). Word is Fieri will concentrate on Byblos’ Lebanese-style falafel, which was the subject of a 2010 Post-Standard story. Look for the film crew — and the red convertible — at Byblos on Saturday. Fieri himself is not expected there until Monday. Officially, however, the Food Network isn't talking. "Unfortunately we don’t confirm shoot locations in advance," said Seth Hyman, Food Network public relations manager. ← Syracuse's Downtown Dining Week(s) set for Feb. 15-29 A production company sets up for shooting for the Food Network at the Byblos restaurant on Clinton Street in Syracuse →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line60
__label__cc	0.589816	0.410184	#Changi2015 - Top 10 Destinations Image • Jan 27, 2016 10:00 +08 cofrrpsl.cziomnxmsdp@cizhanhngayianeirnopoffrtwj.cxjomti A record 55 million passengers for Changi Airport in 2015 Singapore Changi Airport capped a resilient performance in 2015 with new benchmarks for passenger traffic and aircraft movements, handling a record 55.4 million passengers and 346,330 landings and take-offs during the year. This represented an increase of 2.5% and 1.4% respectively. On the cargo front, airfreight movements remained stable at 1.85 million tonnes for the year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line62
__label__wiki	0.837369	0.837369	Pugmire announces candidacy for Cache County Executive Written by Press Release Logan, UT – Boyd Pugmire, a Republican and longtime resident of Cache County, announced his bid for Cache County Executive today. Pugmire will run for the open seat left by Lynn Lemon at the end of his term in January 2015. Former Utah Republican Party Chairman Thomas Wright and Cache Valley businessman Jack Nixon both have openly endorsed Boyd. “I am committed to sustaining a fiscally conservative county budget, and ensuring tax dollars are used efficiently. By keeping open communication and working with each department in the county, we can identify how to make improvements and spend wisely. I am also dedicated to addressing transportation and air quality concerns as our county’s population grows and expands,” says Pugmire. Boyd has served as Clarkston Land Use Development Chairman, Clarkston City Councilman, Clarkston Mayor, and as a member of the Cache Valley Regional Council. He has also been a member of the Cache County Republican Party Executive Committee serving as the Party Treasurer and Party Chairman. Currently Boyd serves as a member of the Utah Republican Party State Central Committee and Utah Republican Party State Executive Committee. Additionally, Boyd has served for thirty years on the Martin Harris Pageant Committee. As an employee of ATK for the past 35 years Boyd has held a number of managerial positions. Previously he was an Operations Supervisor and he is currently a Technical Team Supervisor. Boyd lives in North Logan with his wife, Jann. They are the parents of two children and six grandchildren. Posted in Local See Local Sale Circulars Copyright © 2010 - 2020 CacheValleyDaily.com LLC, all rights reserved Sunday Weekly Circular USU Local Prep Sports Local High School Basketball Schedule Calendar Menu CV Daily Calendar Cache Valley Classifieds Jobs Menu Cache Valley Jobs Obituaryies Menu Subscribe to News Email	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line74
__label__cc	0.748996	0.251004	'Posthumanisms and the "Terror" of (Bio)Technologies' Proposals by 1 June 2010 (M/MLA 2010-Chicago-Nov 4-7) 2010 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention; Chicago; Nov. 4-7 maryanne.p.r.h.laurico@queensu.ca This panel seeks to examine the tensions and intersections among postumanisms, technology/biotechnology, and the rhetoric of fear. Considering new technologies and biotechnologies, which have enabled us to create novel and never-before-seen forms of life - from genetically modified foods to biotic art - is non-human agency something to fear? How is such fear disseminated/consumed and how has it changed the relationship between technology and human or non-human agents? What can new (bio)technologies tell us about non-human agency? How have new technologies changed conceptualizations of "liberal humanism"? How are artists/writers responding to these questions? Please send 300 word proposals, for presentation at the 2010 M/MLA Convention in Chicago, to MaryAnne Laurico at maryanne.p.r.h.laurico@queensu.ca by 1 June 2010.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line75
__label__cc	0.719066	0.280934	PR: CCC Critical of New “Drugged Driving” Legislation CCC Critical of New “Drugged Driving” Legislation The Canadian cannabis community is concerned that federal government’s proposed drugged driving legislation seeks to test for “amount of cannabis” rather than test for actual impairment. Focusing on the amount of cannabis in one’s body or as proposed in the new legislation – in the glove compartment of the vehicle, rather than the level of impairment will inevitably allow some people impaired for other reasons (lack of sleep, prescription drugs, old age, too much caffeine etc.) to continue to drive impaired, while others who are found with cannabis in their system but who are not impaired will be wrongly prosecuted. Various published studies have concluded that: 1) “Cannabis alone, particularly in low doses, has little effect on the skills involved in automobile driving…” and that “cannabis leads to a more cautious style of driving.” (2002 Report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs Chapter 8: Driving under the influence of cannabis cannabislink.ca/gov/senatesumm.htm#chap8) 2) “The results to date of crash culpability studies have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes.” (G. Chesher and M. Longo, 2002. Cannabis and alcohol in motor vehicle accidents, Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential.) 3) “The THC-only drivers had a responsibility rate below that of the drug free drivers. While the difference was not statistically significant, there was no indication that cannabis by itself was a cause of fatal crashes.” (K. Terhune. 1992. The incidence and role of drugs in fatally injured drivers. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Report No. DOT HS 808 065. ) 4) “Another way THC seems to differ qualitatively from many other drugs is that the former users seem better able to compensate for its adverse effects while driving under the influence.” (H. Robbe. 1995. Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety. Marijuana’s effects on actual driving performance. Australia: HHMRC Road Research Unit.) 5) “Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight in their performance and will compensate, where they can, for example, by slowing down or increasing effort. As a consequence, THC’s adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small.” (1993 Marijuana and Actual Driving Performance U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Final Report, November 1993 (DOT HS 808 078).) Like the Canadian police forces and general public, the CCC is extremely concerned about impairment on our roadways, but we believe that federal policies should be evidence-based and designed to save lives. Roadside body-fluid testing is not a scientifically defendable means of testing for actual impairment, will inevitably lead to the arrest of innocent people, and will do nothing to protect the Canadian public. Other resources on cannabis and driving or the efficacy of impairment testing may be found at: Canadian Cannabis Coalition Forum -> Drugged Driving http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=25 http://cannabisculture.com/articles/4131.html David Malmo-Levine 604-842-7790 davidml@telus.net Boris St. Maurice 514-808-8682 boris@mapinc.org Alison Myrden 905-681-8287 alisonmyrden@cogeco.ca Russell Barth 613-248-9190 kegan23@sympatico.ca « News: Cannabis Users Confused News: Smoking Away Prohibition »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line79
__label__wiki	0.923778	0.923778	Hong Kong’s summer of rage now a war of attrition August 7, 2019 Written by Admin Two months after a summer of rage began on Hong Kong’s streets, pro-democracy protesters and the southern Chinese city’s leaders are digging in for a long war of attrition. What began as a mass display of focused opposition to a planned extradition bill has, over nine consecutive weekends of increasingly violent clashes with police, evolved into something deeper, wider and far angrier. The streets of the global financial hub have become frequent battlegrounds, filled with acrid clouds of tear gas and littered with rubber bullet casings. The protesters have adopted tactics and wider pro-democracy demands that present an unprecedented challenge to the city’s ultimate rulers in Beijing. Chinese authorities have responded with ever-stronger warnings, yet each time the protesters have simply doubled-down. They have stormed the Hong Kong legislature, laid siege to police stations, disrupted the transport network and staged multiple, simultaneous demonstrations that have stretched the capacity of the local police to its limits. “We have to keep hitting the streets, we have to keep fighting, we have no choice,” one protester, who gave her surname as Lo, told AFP as crowds pelted a police station with rocks on Monday night during the most widespread day of unrest since the crisis began. “None of our demands have been met, the government is refusing to listen to the people.” Revolutionary chants When brief clashes between police and protesters first erupted on June 9 after a huge, peaceful protest march, few could have predicted that a city renowned for safety and stability could unravel so quickly. Back then the protests were sparked by a hugely unpopular — and now postponed — plan to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland. The most commonly heard chant was “chit wui” (withdraw), a reference to the loathed bill. Now the most popular chant is a rallying cry first used by a now jailed independence activist: “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time!”. It is shouted outside courtrooms as protesters appear in the dock, during rallies and clashes with police. And it is sprayed onto walls across the city. Another popular graffiti tag is: “You taught us peaceful marches were useless”. City leader Carrie Lam — who was appointed by a pro-Beijing committee — has shown little appetite for compromise. Beyond agreeing to postpone the extradition bill, she has resisted calls for her resignation, an amnesty for those arrested or an independent inquiry. On Monday, in her most forceful comments yet, Lam condemned the protesters and said their new revolutionary chant showed they were “trying to destroy Hong Kong”. No end game With the violence escalating, Beijing has thrown its full-throated support behind Lam and the city’s police. In its harshest warning yet to the protesters, Beijing warned on Tuesday that “those who play with fire will perish by it”, and not to mistake its restraint so far for weakness. Analysts say further clashes are inevitable in the coming weeks and months. “The confrontation between protesters and police will escalate,” said Hong Kong-based political analyst Willy Lam, adding it was “difficult to anticipate the end game”. He said protests would likely end if Beijing either allowed Lam to make some concessions — such as an inquiry and her resignation — or sent in reinforcements, either mainland police officers or the military. But Chinese President Xi Jinping is hesitant to do either at the moment, both of which carry significant reputational risks. Either Xi is seen as weak for giving in to the protesters, or too violent for deploying mainland security forces. Those options are particularly unpalatable now as Xi does not want to take the shine off celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the People Republic of China in early October, according to Lam. Many believe Beijing is playing a waiting game, hoping the increasingly violent actions taken by more hardcore protesters will damage the movement. A similar wait-and-see tactic — accompanied by the pressure and intimidation of arresting leaders — worked during the two-month 2014 pro-democracy protests known as the “Umbrella Movement”. “As the movement lingered, a large portion of the population was against them as people’s everyday life was disrupted without any prospect of concessions from Beijing,” said Lam. But 2019’s protests feel more existential to many Hong Kong protesters, who say freedoms have slid even further since Beijing successfully faced down the Umbrella Movement. As the protester Lo made her way back home on Monday night, she was adamant the movement would not lose steam. “Days, weeks, months, if needs,” she said when asked how long she was willing to continue. “What choice to we have?”. A hard and perilous road ahead for SA Third time lucky for peace in Mozambique?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.615413	0.384587	The Christian Fantasy Review Discernment for Christian families Flamecaster, a Shattered Realms Novel, by Cinda Williams Chima, a review Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima, Shattered Realms #1, by Harper Teen: a review. This young adult author writes for the general market, not the Christian market. Since I love her work, I decided to review it here, with some caveats below for Christian parents. Ash, age 16, is son of the Queen of the Fells and her wizard husband. (The Fells is a Queendom, not a kingdom.) Being male, he’ll never be in line for the throne. Ash has magical powers like his father, and finds himself called to be a healer, rather than a warrior. When his father is murdered, Ash runs away to a school far away that has colleges for wizards, warriors, healers, and so on. It’s safe there–for a while. When things heat up for him there, he embarks on a quest to kill the evil king of the neighboring realm of Arden, the one who is responsible for his father’s death. Meanwhile, a girl named Jenna lives as an oppressed miner in Arden, disguising herself as a boy. She has gifts of a seer, not a wizard, and a mysterious mark on the back of her neck. When the empress from across the sea sends emissaries looking for her, things get bad for her very quickly. She ends up needing healing that only Ash can provide. The book continues on to a surprising ending. It’s a series of four books, and of course I’m going to read number two next! I find this book, and the previous series, to be tales I can’t put down. ***** Five stars Caveats for Christian parents: The author mentions the Maker from time to time, an apparent reference to God, so Ms. Chima’s world has a creator. Good guy characters have a moral compass. The protagonist’s desire to murder the king doesn’t pan out. There’s no moral ambiguity, at least none that lasts very long. However, there is a (non-explicit) sex scene involving unmarried teenagers. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged cinda chima, Fantasy, flamecaster, general market, phyllis wheeler, review on December 14, 2019 by Editor. The Shattered Vigil by Patrick W. Carr, a review The Shattered Vigil by Patrick W. Carr, Book 2 of The Darkwater Saga by Bethany House, 464 pages Genre: Clean medieval fantasy, suitable for teens and up This middle book of a trilogy, the Darkwater Saga, does a better job than many middle-of-trilogy books at keeping the reader’s interest without letting things seem to get hopeless. It’s got plenty of action, answers a couple of key questions for the reader, and leads well into the third and final novel, unpublished at the time of this writing. Willet Dura, age 30 or so, has received a gift in a world where gifted people become the nobility. Gifts can be intentionally bestowed as the giver dies, but sometimes in chaotic situations they “go free” and land on someone new. That is what happened to Willet at the beginning of Book 1. With this “domere” gift he can, with a touch, see into the mind of another, an experience that is overwhelming. The domere gift also, he discovers in this book, conveys a life span that is many times that of normal. One of the things he sometimes sees in the minds of others is a “vault,” a construction put there by an unknown evil enemy. The person is always someone who has been lured to the Darkwater Forest by night. The mental vault opens up at night, and the person becomes a zombie-like killer. These townspeople-turned-into-killers stand to wipe out Willet and the few other people with his gift, who call themselves the Vigil. Willet struggles to stay a step ahead of the killers, but no one can trust him, least of all himself. The problem? Willet too has a vault in his mind. Highly recommended. Can’t wait for the next book. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian, clean fiction, Fantasy, fiction, medieval fantasy, patrick w carr, phyllis wheeler, review, Shattered Vigil on December 3, 2019 by Editor. Kubo and the Two Strings, a review from a Christian mom Kubo and the Two Strings, a feature film released in 2016 I hour, 42 minutes Produced by Universal Studios, rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril I’d heard this anime-style tale praised by some in the industry, so I decided to watch it. My takeaway: for Christian family viewing, don’t let your children watch it without a discussion from you about the various non-Christian elements in the story. For example: identifying ancestor worship as a substitute for knowing and loving the real God. Kubo’s story is a hero tale, where a boy and two companions–a magical monkey and a human/cockroach–go on a quest to retrieve some charmed armor that is supposed to protect the boy from the awful sorcerer witches who are out to kill him. It doesn’t help that the witches are his aunts, and they’ve just killed his mother. His father vanished when he was very small. There’s a lot of magicking going on: On the part of the boy (who uses origami magic to tell stories). On the part of the terrifying aunts, who throw bolts of energy around and destroy the village where the boy’s friends live. On the part of his dying mother, who is somehow able to bring the boy’s monkey figurine to life. But not everyone can do magic. The villagers apparently can’t. There’s ancestor worship. As if they are deities, the ghosts of ancestors appear to loving families in the village, bring peace, give blessing, and then go away. Puzzling to a Christian child, surely. The quest is for magical armor to protect Kubo from his aunts. On the quest, the nagging monkey and the ditsy cockroach-guy do their committed best to help and protect Kubo, at total risk to their own lives. Finally, in a big battle, the two protectors succumb. His evil aunts reveal that the monkey was in fact the spirit of his mother, and the cockroach a transformed version of his father. No wonder the monkey and cockroach were so endearing with Kubo and with each other. But now, with no helpers, what can Kubo do? The magic armor doesn’t seem to be helping, so he throws it away. Kubo decides to use love instead. He strings his magical banjo with two strings he’d never thought to use before: from bracelets he has made of the hair of each of his loving parents. Behold, the blast of magical force from these two strings dispatches the evil aunts and also the evil grandfather. Love conquers. Kubo has, by himself, saved the day for him and his village. But he is lonely. Soon the ghosts of his parents appear and seem to comfort him. And then the real person of his grandfather shows up. Instead of an evil monster, he’s now just a forgetful old guy who can’t see very well. I found this ending puzzling. What is evil according to the writers of this tale? Something that morphs into harmlessness? I know Eastern religions think good and evil are two sides of the same coin, not really different from each other. Perhaps that is the point of this. A good thing to discuss with your kid. Is evil real? How do we know? This entry was posted in Film review, Reviews and tagged christian, christian fantasy review, Kubo and the two strings, phyllis wheeler, review on November 8, 2019 by Editor. The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima, a review The Demon King, book one of the Seven Realms series, by Cinda Williams Chima Published 2009 by Hyperion, 506 pages Genre: Young adult medieval fantasy, some very secular content This New York Times best-seller is written for the general market. It’s an engrossing story. Han is a teen who’s trying to escape his past as leader of a gang of thieves. He lives in the poor quarter of the queen’s city, but unlike everybody else in the quarter, he’s been partly raised by a clan in the high mountains nearby. For some reason he has silver cuffs on his wrists that nobody can explain. They grow with him, and they mark him. He just wants to be left alone to eek out the meager living of delivering moonshine to local taverns from his friend up in the mountains, supporting his mother and seven-year-old sister. Raisa, heir to the queendom, feels smothered by her mother the queen and all the expectations surrounding the fact that Raisa is coming of age. Suitors from all over the continent are sending her gifts and trying to get her attention. She just wants to put it all off as long as possible. These two lives intersect eventually in a surprising way. I had a lot of trouble putting this book down! I highly recommend it for those willing to venture into reading for the general market. (And, since Christian publishers are having difficulty finding their fantasy readers, the general market is where fantasy written by Christians typically ends up.) A warning, however, after having read Book 2: if you are shielding your teens from secular values, these are not the books for your family. Book 2 portrays casual unmarried sex (behind closed doors), as well as a gay relationship, both without apparent consequences. What, precisely, are the religious elements or lack of them? There is magic, used for good purposes as well as evil. There are wizards who tend to love power more than anything else. It’s a moral universe, with right and wrong easily distinguishable. There is a religion of “the maker” depicted, but it doesn’t seem to have any substance to it. The characters are not embarking on a faith journey, as far as I can tell. One more thing: it’s not a scary book for me the reader. This series has a lot of books in it, and I’m planning to check more of these books out of the library. Nice thing about a mainstream author and publisher: libraries carry these books. I give it 4.5 stars for a mature audience. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian, christian fantasy review, Cinda Williams Chima, phyllis wheeler, review, The Demon King on June 14, 2016 by Editor. King’s Folly by Jill Williamson, a review King’s Folly by Jill Williamson (Kinsman Chronicles #1) Published 2016 by Bethany House Genre: Christian medieval fantasy, young adult, readers 16 and up Jill Williamson is my favorite living author. She has an uncanny knack for drawing you into her story. So I was delighted to read this. This book is the first in a new prequel series to her popular Blood of Kings trilogy. This prequel series is ancient history, taking place hundreds of years before, maybe a thousand years. Two sons of the king, Prince Wilek and his younger brother Prince Trevn, struggle against the forces who have corrupted their father. Intrigues at court turn deadly, and Wilek must solve a murder: who did it and why? Meanwhile, natural disasters are becoming commonplace, and Wilek is tasked to travel to a ruined city and report back. The quest leads him on a dangerous journey to nearby realms. Could it be that an ancient prophecy of total disaster is near to fulfillment? I am so glad Jill has returned to writing about this story world. I really enjoyed this book and could hardly put it down. It’s a sprawling tale, with lots of point-of-view characters. So my only complaint is that I had some trouble keeping them all straight in my mind. Despite that, I highly recommend this book and look forward to the coming ones in the series. 4.5 stars. Warning: The book contains characters who are prostitutes and concubines, and royalty who have absolutely no sense of fidelity in marriage. There is plenty of idol worship as well, including child sacrifice. None of this is graphic. But it is strong stuff, based on the deplorable behavior of the nation of Israel before the exile. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged blood of kings, christian, enclave publishing, fiction, jill williamson, Kinsman Chronicles, phyllis wheeler, review on June 14, 2016 by Editor. Waking Beauty by Sarah E Morin, a review Waking Beauty by Sarah E Morin Published 2015 by Enclave Publishing, 467 pages Genre: Christian fantasy, suitable for 12 and up What if Sleeping Beauty refused to wake up? This book plays with that question. It fleshes out Sleeping Beauty as Princess Brierly, dreaming for 100 years, many of the dreams tainted by the presence of the evil fairy who lured her to the spindle. When Prince Arpien kisses her awake, she thinks he’s just another figment of the dream world. She’s reckless and heedless, actually downright rude. Besides, he looks just like his ancestor who was once her fiance. So she consistently calls him by the wrong name. It’s enough to make a guy give up. But Arpien, who has motivations of his own, doesn’t back down easily. What do I think? This book was a little hard for me to get into because a fairy tale re-imagined with humor just didn’t seem “true.” But then what fairy tale is true? After a little while I got into it though and enjoyed the story. I was able to empathize with these cardboard characters whom the author managed to bring to life. Four stars. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian, Christian fantasy, enclave publishing, fairy tale, fiction, Sarah Morin on May 31, 2016 by Editor. Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson, a review Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson Published by Bloomsbury, 2006, 415 pages Genre: Middle grade (ages 10-12) time travel fantasy, no Christian worldview I am reading books from the library written for tweens, and so I picked up this book because I like fantasy. Silver is a plucky 11-year-old whose parents and sister vanished four years ago. She’s being cared for by a selfish mean woman in the family mansion, Tanglewreck, one of those old English manor houses with a lot of mysteries to it. A lot of strange disturbances start happening. A wooly mammoth shows up on the banks of the Thames. A school bus full of children vanishes. Time seems to be going backwards and forwards. People are afraid. Something is clearly not right. When a mysterious alchemist invites Silver and her guardian to his house in London, she finds that he believes she is the person spoken of in a prophecy about a missing clock with power over time itself. He wants her to find the clock–and then hand it over to him. A lot of unexpected plot twists later, I can definitely say the author clearly is having a lot of fun with multiverse theory and quantum physics paradoxes, including Schroedinger’s Cat. I enjoyed many things about this story, especially the occasionally amusing bad guys and the heroine’s character journey. However, I don’t recommend that a Christian parent let their child read it without also having the parent read it and discuss it. While it’s quite possible to be a science booster and a Christian, this author isn’t. For example, the author attributes some evil actions and motives to a former pope or two (and leaves it at that, putting them on the side of the bad guys) and imbues objects, like a house and a clock, with powers that sound to me like they belong to divinity. I do wonder where the author thinks the prophecy about the heroine comes from. I guess it’s a random prophecy. For a Christian family, it’s probably too much. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian, Jeanette Winterson, middle grade fiction, phyllis wheeler, review, Tanglewreck on April 18, 2016 by Editor. The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr, a review The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr, Book 1 of The Darkwater Saga Published 2015 by Bethany House, 455 pages Willet Dura, age 30 or so, is a crime investigator for the king. It’s a world where the gifted are an elite. Gifts of uncanny physical strength, music, mental ability, and so on can be passed down in families–or can “go rogue” when the dying individual fails to pass it on properly. Such a rogue gift comes to Willet when he investigates a criminal attack on a stranger. This man grabs Willet’s head and speaks in an unknown tongue before dying. Soon Willet discovers he can see into the minds of people just by touching them. It’s a gift he doesn’t particularly want. The five others with the gift–The Vigil–don’t want him, either. They like nice, orderly gift succession to an apprentice. Not only that, they suspect Willet of being an unwitting stooge for the dark forces coming out of Darkwater Forest, because Willet spent a night in the enchanted forest. No one has ever returned from there without hidden corruption. Rather than killing him, they decide to let him do himself in through his natural bumbling recklessness. He’s making plenty of mistakes, and obstacles keep coming up to his planned marriage to the woman he loves. It seems she may never be his. How can he change that, if he lives to see the day? How can Willet sort out the gift he doesn’t want, the fellow gifted who don’t want him, and find an implacable enemy who kills in the dark? What do I think? Carr does a great job of building his characters, his world, and a strong plot. He’s a wonderful storyteller, as I have come to expect from reading his other trilogy, The Staff and Sword (see links below). Because of the nature of the major conflict at the heart of this book — disagreement over how to use gifts — it isn’t as high-action as some others of Carr’s books. That wasn’t a problem for me, but it could be for some. The Christian element to this story is in the background, with little mention of personal faith. I think this is a very appropriate way to reach out to the current secular culture–by including a few shining moments that give goosebumps and may cause a non-Christian to wonder what he or she is missing. In this book, there are two characters who might be angels. Cool. I love angels. Members of the Vigil credit Aer, or God, for bestowing the gift where he wants. But they also think there’s room for accident in the bestowal, so they think Willet isn’t supposed to have it. This makes me chuckle. How human they are! It’s a very good story that serves as a platform for further challenges for Willet, and I look forward to reading them. Check out what others are saying on the same blog tour: see links below. Good news! There’s a free prequel novella for this series, and here’s the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0112WVVBQ See my previous reviews of his work: Staff and Sword Book 1, Staff and Sword Book 2, Staff and Sword Book 3 In conjunction with the blog tour, I received a free copy from the publisher. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged bethany house, christian, christian fantasy review, Fantasy, patrick w carr, phyllis wheeler, review, The Shock of Night on December 7, 2015 by Editor. One Realm Beyond by Donita K. Paul, a Review One Realm Beyond, Book 1 of the Realm Walkers series Published 2014 by Zondervan, 414 pages Genre: Christian fantasy, suitable for ages 12 and up Cantor D’Ahma has grown into a young man. He leaves his elderly mentors and sets off to learn how to become a Realm Walker, using the gifts he was born with. His mentors don’t tell him much about what to expect, though. Just that the first thing he needs to do is find his dragon companion, and then he needs to locate the Realm Walkers Guild for training. Cantor stumbles immediately across a dragon, but this dragon is clumsy. Surely there’s another dragon out there better suited for realm walking, and he keeps looking. But trouble arrives fast, and it becomes apparent that he needs the help of this dragon, Bridger, as well as some other new friends to even get to the place where he’s able to learn realm walking. But the Realm Walkers Guild, he learns, is nearly all corrupted. They give him a teacher whom he trusts, but will his training mean anything? And will he and his friends be able to confront and change the guild? I really enjoyed reading this book, which is rich in unusual characters. They have unusual names, too, such as the female dragon Totobee-Rodolow. The book is delightful in many ways, letting us enjoy the quirks of its characters–Totobee-Rodolow’s love for shopping, and a princess who wears her whole wardrobe at the same time, re-arranging which dress is on top to suit the occasion. The story line is not high-action and occasionally lacks tension, but the richness of the characters more than make up for these. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian, christian fiction, donita k paul, dragon, Fantasy, middle grade, One Realm Beyond, Realm walkers, review, young adult on October 25, 2015 by Editor. Nameless by A.C. Williams, an amnesia story with plenty of twists Nameless by A.C. Williams, Book 1 in the Destiny trilogy Published 2014 by Crosshair Press, 401 pages Genre: Christian sci fi aimed at older teens. I’d give it a PG-13 rating for some sexiness, violence, and language. Maybe Xander is her name. It’s the name on the shirt she wore when she was found, sole survivor on a derelict spaceship. Or, maybe it’s not her name. She can’t remember. Xander has forgotten so much. Only tiny clues of her past surface in her mind from time to time. A salad made of apples with mayo? Chocolate chip cookies? Dumpster diving? All strange concepts to the people around her. Those people live on a variety of planets and moons, none of which seems to be Earth. It’s a jaded future universe where people don’t know the word “God,” and everybody does what is right in his own eyes. But Xander remembers God. When a motley group of bounty hunters rescue her from pursuit and take her on board their well-worn ship, she begins to feel more at home. But the problem of who she is and where she came from still consumes her. Why are there others out to capture her alive, at all costs? They seem to know more about her than she does herself. This book is hard to put down, well written, full of memorable characters. I find echoes in it of Star Wars, Twilight, and Wizard of Oz. Of course, being first in a trilogy, it doesn’t come to a ringing conclusion. The next book is coming out soon, I’m glad to hear! This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged A.C. Williams, amnesia, christian, Crosshair Press, Destiny Trilogy, fiction, Nameless, sci fi on October 3, 2015 by Editor. I am Phyllis Wheeler, Editor. For submission guidelines, see the About page . Film Streaming ITA su Tantifilm Gratis Senza Limiti. Deborah Lee on Kubo and the Two Strings, a review from a Christian mom Keanan Brand on The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr, a review Michelle R. Wood on The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr, a review Carol Gehringer on The Shock of Night by Patrick W. Carr, a review Janeen Ippolito on The Shock of Night by Patrick W. 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__label__wiki	0.506816	0.506816	Life and Death on the Durand Line Saleem Shahzad's book ("Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban", Pluto Press, 260 pages, available at Flipkart) is a must read for anyone who is concerned about Islamist terrorism and an eye opener for the student of the murky politics beyond our western border. Going beyond the wealth of information that it presents, what is most remarkable about the book is the frank, no-holds-barred candour with which he presents his point of view from a near first person perspective and had he not been killed after the publication it may have been difficult to believe all that he has said. But his unfortunate murder – in the hands of those whom he had talked about – puts a seal of authenticity on the events, dates and characters that are described in the text. Most of us in India believe that Islamist terrorism – from Kashmir to Mumbai and elsewhere – is the handiwork of the all powerful Inter Services Intelligence unit, the ISI, of Pakistan and is nurtured in and unleashed from terrorist camps located across the border. We also believe that if India were to have the guts to go across in “hot pursuit” or at least bomb them to smithreens then the problem would be solved to a large extent. But as Shahzad points out such an act of bravado will not solve the problem – it will make it the problem worse. Why ? Is Shahzad another pacifist or an apologist for Pakistan ? Not at all. In fact he is least interested in what is happening on Pakistan's eastern border and India enters his worldview as a small but interesting footnote in the a much larger story – and this is the chilling story of the Global Muslim Caliphate and the clash of civilisations that it implies in the “End of Time” battles that the Middle East religions all talk about. There are Muslims and there are Muslims – and then there are non-Muslims like us in India – but the Muslims that Shahzad talks about are of a kind who believe that they, and they alone, are the only true Muslims and the other Muslims are Muslims in name only. For example Muslims who love and appreciate qawali songs are not Muslims in this definition. To keep things simple, we will use the word Islamist – as distinct from Muslim – to distinguish between the two though neither Shazad nor the Islamists use this word in the sense that is being applied here. Prima facie, a Global Muslim Caliphate is not something to be greatly concerned about. We have the example of the Catholic Church based out of the Vatican that commands the loyalty of millions of Catholic Christians all around the world. In the past we have had the British Crown and the Communists in Russia wielding great influence over vast parts of the planet. But this Caliphate is a different kettle of fish altogether. To begin with it is based on monotheism – which may be still be fine for many though not quite so for others with a different world view – but the definition of monotheism will shock even traditional monotheists like Christians, Jews and of course Muslims. This Islamist monotheism is one that believes in the absolute supremacy of the entity that Muhammad refers to as god, to the exclusion of not only the gods of other religions but to every other source of authority. This means any form of social or political structure – democracy, monarchy, dictatorship and even the common sense wisdom of any collective like the family, a village, the bazaar, the municipality ... anything at all – is dismissed with vengeance and brutality. There is no scope for any discussion or debate on any topic because everything is frozen into a time-warp dictated by the norms and ideals of seventh century Arabia. This ultra narrow Islamist “monotheism” that excludes not only hapless “Hindus” like me but also Jews, Christians and most interestingly a vast majority of those who believe they are Muslims is the cornerstone and foundation of a political structure that is referred to as the Global Muslim Caliphate. This caliphate draws inspiration from the line of Caliphs that ruled the Muslim world in the Middle East right up to the First World War when last Caliph was deposed in Turkey and the concept of nation state – with its own laws – introduced not only Turkey but in a host of other nations like Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and even Saudi Arabia. The Global Muslim Caliphate as envisaged by the Islamists is supposed to supersede all such national, political and social constructs and create a gigantic transnational entity for the protection of Muslim rights and the glory of the Muslim god – and of course anyone who disagrees with must be killed ! This means that there is no space for democratic or any other kind of government in an Islamist state since any rule or law that is created for the administration of such an entity is immediately declared null and void since unless it is in complete congruence with Islamic law. Such grand plans of world domination have been around for a while from the time of the Mongols, through Napoleons right up Hitlers and Stalins but the troubling fact is that this Global Muslim Caliphate is something that is troubling us here and now – witness the bomb blasts in Mumbai as late as last week ! Now where does Af-Pak fit into this grand scheme of things ? Muhammad has stated that the world and its people will reach the state of perfect Islamist “monotheism” through a blaze of warfare that will commence in the East, in Khurassam – modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia – where Muslim armies will defeat the non-muslims ( infidels, kaffirs whatever ) and then march triumphantly westward to claim and rule Mecca and Jerusalem under the Caliph. ( Who chooses the Caliph ? Don't ask !) This process started around 1979 when (a) Islamists seized the main mosque at Mecca and tried to topple the Saudi regime and (b) the mujahedeen freedom fighters attacked the Soviet puppet government in Afghanistan. Do note that in the eyes of the Islamists, there is no difference between the atheist Soviet government and the Muslim ( though not Islamist) Saudi government. Both need to be overthrown with equal rancour because neither of them meet the “monotheistic” credentials of the Islamists. Who gives a concrete shape to this nebulous concept ? Many groups of people in different countries – for example, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt – have had this vision but the most well funded and best organised entity at the moment is Al Quaeda – a brainchild of the Egyptian Al Zawahiri and initially funded by Osama Bin Laden. Al Quaeda acts – or tries to act – like a holding company that has subsidiaries in many countries, each of which tries to implement this vision in their own local context. The most well known example is the (Orignal) Taliban in Afghanistan and the Pakistani Taliban in, well, where else Pakistan, plus similar outfits in Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and perhaps even in India. Fortunately for us this grand unified vision of networked terrorism is not yet a reality because the Al Quaeda has not been as successful in getting their act together to the extent that they have been able to in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That is the grand vision – but where does India fit into this scheme of things. Muhammad has apparently said “A group of you will conquer India, Allah will open for them [India] until they come with its kings chained, Allah having forgiven their sins. When they return back [ from India] they will find Ibn Maryam [Jesus] in Syria.” [ from Kanzul-Ummal, a collection of Muhammad's sayings quoted by Shahzad on page 201]. So India, thankfully is peripheral to this grand vision of the Global Muslim Caliphate except to the extent of sending our dear Prime Minister and his glorious Cabinet to Baghdad in chians BUT there is another angle to the whole story. We have our mini-Talibans in Kashmir ( and Aligarh, Kerala and possibly even distant Assam ) and state actors in Pakistan – which include the ISI and the Army – have been using these mini-Talibans to poke, prod and bleed India to avenge the humiliation of three successive wars. But of late there have been two factors which have reduced the intensity of the pin-pricks. First, thanks to 9/11 when Islamists shed American BLOOD on American SOIL ( how dare they :-) the US has been turning the screws on Pakistan to cease and desist from such behaviour. Secondly, 9/11 brought the US Army into Afghanistan and they in turn dragged the Pakistani Army by its ears, kicking and screaming, to fight along with them along the Durand Line. So now we have the clash of civilisations – the non-believers led by the US and the believers led by the Al Quaeda – in Kurassan ( that is Af-Pak) that the Islamists believe will herald the End of Time battles where the Islamist army will win and then march triumphantly westward to Jerusalem. But there is a fly in the ointment and that is the Pakistan Army. It has no intention of fighting the tough and ruthless Al Quaeda and wants to be left alone to loot the Pakistan exchequer and to poke and prod India so as to justify its own existence ! and India is something that Al Quaeda has really no interest in ! ISo now what ? Mumbai 26/11 : The Pakistani Army was proving to be too much of a trouble for the Al Quaeda because it was being goaded by the US to fight them in the no-mans-land between Pakistan and Afghanistan -- along the Durand Line. The Pakistani Army also had a rather timid, plan to do “something” in India and Al Quaeda thought of killing two birds with one stone. They hijacked the Pakistani plan and implemented it with their own brand of fearful ruthlessness in the hope that India will attack Pakistan and so giving the Pakistani army a good excuse to rush to the eastern border thus leaving the Americans in the lurch in the west ! This was a great plan but was unfortunately thwarted by a combination of American diplomacy or (as I would suspect ) Indian indecisiveness ! Shahzad's book has many such sub-stories that are built up and around the Al Quaeda's grand plans of a Global Muslim Caliphate and as stated by the author himself, it is like the Story of the Thousand and One Nights where Queen Scherazade spun a new yarn everynight and left it unfinished so as to achieve the main goal of saving her own life from the Caliph's misguided malevolence. Scherazade was apparently of Indian (Hindu ?) descent and she used her wits to get the better of the Caliph. India too should use her wits. Lock the borders, police our towns but do not make the mistake made by the US and step into the Af-Pak minefield in hot pursuit. Let the Islamists, Muslims and the People of the Book kill and fight each other from the Indus all the way to Jerusalem. Let us instead look east because that is where the sun rises everyday ! Labels: al-qaeda, politics, taliban	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line98
__label__cc	0.735114	0.264886	Fri, 22 March 2019 Episode 136 - Evil's Might Myron Rumsey and Phil Bova review two classic graphic novels from Green Lantern history in episode 136 of The Podcast of Oa. Phil leads a discussion on the three issue Elseworlds Green Lantern: Evil's Might series about a Green Lantern set in 19th century New York City where Kyle Rayner tries to come to terms with the social injustice and government corruption of the era while trying to get away from a life as a part of the street gangs preying on the innocent. Myron follows up with a conversation about the 2002 graphic novel Green Lantern Legacy: The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan, a book where Hal Jordan's closest friend, Tom Kalmaku, tries to come to terms with Hal's legacy and death while dealing with an unusual inheritance that draws the attention of everyone from the Justice League to Parallax to a Dark Lantern bent on destruction. Phil and Myron also have a number of listener emails that they respond to, giving some recommendations on other podcast and then trying to talk about the politicization of modern comics fandom without ticking anyone off. The LanternCast (http://www.lanterncast.com/) Creative Credit Podcast (http://www.lanterncast.com/category/creative-credit/) Raging Bullets Podcast (http://www.ragingbullets.com/) Fire and Water Podcast (http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/the-fire-and-water-podcast/) 00:11:42 Retro Review - Green Lantern: Evil's Might 00:27:08 Retro Review - Green Lantern Legacy: The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan Direct download: Episode_136_-_Evils_Might.mp3 Fri, 8 March 2019 Episode 135 - Darkstar at Zenith Episode 135 of The Podcast of Oa brings listeners up to date with all the recent Green Lantern news, from Ricky Whittle's conversation with Warner Brothers about appearing the Green Lantern Corps to this year's Mardi Gras Green Lantern float and everything in between. Co-hosts Phil Bova and Myron Rumsey then set their sights on The Green Lantern #5 and Hal Jordan's trial by blood to join the Blackstars. Worlds Finest Collection (https://worldsfinestcollection.com/) Direct download: Episode_135_-_Darkstar_at_Zenith.mp3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line99
__label__cc	0.639916	0.360084	(-) Mexico (-) Vietnam (-) Mexico (7) (-) Vietnam (6) Unlocking Competitiveness: Why Invest in Rural Vietnam? For investors seeking opportunities in Vietnam, the rural province of Dong Thap may not be the first location that comes to mind. Located in the southwest corner of Vietnam, Dong Thap is remote –… Christine Qiang, Abhishek Saurav \| July 09, 2018 Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Competitiveness Rethinking saving practices in the digital era 3-1-0 Three minutes to complete the online loan application, one second for approval and with zero human touch for SME loans. This is the marketing slogan used by Ant Financial, one of China’s… Margaret Miller \| October 28, 2017 Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector Leveraging start-up ecosystems for development “What can we do today to prepare students for the labor force in 20 years?” the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Finance, Shai Babad, asked. At an Annual Meetings event last Friday, Babad… Mutoni Karasanyi \| October 17, 2017 Digital Development, Competitiveness Economic marginalization of minorities: Do laws provide the needed protections? Never in recent history has anti-minorities rhetoric — anti-immigrants, anti-religious-minorities, anti-LGBTI — been so pronounced in so many countries around the world. Those groups, we are told… Elaine R.E. Panter \| May 01, 2017 Governance, Jobs & Development, Social Protection, Competitiveness, Digital Development Opening markets: Mexico uncovers and slashes local barriers to competition In the state of Chiapas, Mexico — where nearly 1 million people live in moderate to extreme poverty — bus fares have been too high, and the availability of buses has been limited. Over four years… Marialisa Motta, Martha Martinez Licetti \| September 13, 2016 Why does efficiency-seeking FDI matter? Today we face an interesting paradox. The number of people in the world living in extreme poverty has decreased dramatically in the past three decades. In 1981 half of the population in the… Cecile Fruman \| February 05, 2016 From Tirole to the WBG Twin Goals: Scaling up competition policies to reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity The role of policies that ensure and promote competition in the marketplace have moved to the forefront of economics and the development agenda. The Australian G20 presidency highlighted… Anabel Gonzalez, Martha Martinez Licetti, Tanja Goodwin \| July 10, 2015 Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Governance, Competitiveness, Digital Development It’s Heating Up: Industry Needs Climate-Friendly Policies to Keep Cool and Competitive Emiko Kashiwagi / Flickr Industries account for nearly one-third of direct and indirect global greenhouse-gas emissions, and they will be playing an increasingly important role in achieving the… Etienne Kechichian \| May 01, 2015 Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Competitiveness If you want to go far, go together A new global network of Climate Innovation Centers will support the most innovative private-sector solutions for climate change. Pop quiz: What does an organic leather wallet have in common with… Jana Malinska, Hillary Eason \| April 14, 2015 Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Digital Development, Competitiveness Newest private participation in infrastructure update shows growth and challenges In 2013, investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation declined by 24 percent from the previous year. It should be welcome news that the first half of 2014 (H1)… Clive Harris \| March 25, 2015 Energy, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Governance, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line101
__label__wiki	0.887296	0.887296	An international conspiracy against pure research? Conspiracy theory aside, here are three similar stories - from Canada, the U.K., and Australia The Conservative love affair with targeted research \| McLeans \| May 8, 2013 Gary Goodyear’s quest for commercialization continues. The minister of state for science and technology joined John McDougall, the president of the National Research Council of Canada, to tell the country that its premier research institution would, from now on, focus on “commercial value”—not basic research. The idea is that Canadian companies could use more help with research and development, and the NRC is best placed to provide that support. Each time the government announces such a shift, opposition critics and their allies lash out. They argue basic research produces innovation no one ever saw coming. Indeed, The Globe and Mail points to several such inventions produced by NRC researchers: the most accurate and stable atomic clock of its era, built in 1975; a “portable bomb sniffer,” built in the 1980s; and sophisticated computer animation, first developed in the 1960s. Yesterday, Kennedy Stewart took his turn pointing these things out to the government. The NDP’s science and technology critic wondered aloud during Question Period why Conservatives would “turn their back on important research.” Across the world, Australia's budget confirmed many previously announced cuts to higher education/universities Universities and students hit hard despite modest new spending \| Universities Australia \| May 14 The positive new higher education initiatives announced by the Government tonight have been welcomed by the university sector but are insufficient to offset the impact of the $3.8 billion worth of cuts to higher education expenditure announced by the Government over the past 6 months, according to the peak body representing Australian universities, Universities Australia."The Government has reaffirmed that it intends to go ahead with the cuts, making the university sector one of the hardest hit in this budget. These reductions will challenge the ability of universities to maintain the quality of education and research. And by compromising the role that universities play in lifting national productivity and securing long-term economic prosperity, they will also make it more difficult to put the nation's budget back in black," said Universities Australia Chief Executive, Belinda Robinson. "Every dollar that is lost to university investment represents a reduction in the long-term dividend to the nation" said Ms Robinson. "Highly skilled graduates to meet future labour market needs, world-class research, advanced technology, new knowledge frontiers, high technology industries and medical breakthroughs are the essential ingredients of successful nations - something that the countries in our region well understand and is the reason why they are investing heavily in their own higher education systems." La Nouvelle Trahison des Clercs: When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave \| George Monbiot \| May 14 ...I castigated the new chief scientist, Sir Mark Walport, for misinforming the public about risk, making unscientific and emotionally manipulative claims and indulging in scaremongering and wild exaggeration in defence of the government’s position(3). Since then I have seen his first speech in his new role, and realised that the problem runs deeper than I thought. Speaking at the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University, Walport maintained that scientific advisors had five main functions, and the first of these was “ensuring that scientific knowledge translates to economic growth”(4). No statement could more clearly reveal what Benda called the “assimilation” of the intellectual. As if to drive the point home, the press release summarising his speech revealed that the centre is sponsored, among others, by BAE Systems, BP and Lloyd’s(5). Last week, two days before CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million, Oxford University opened a new geoscience laboratory, named after its sponsor, Shell. Among its roles is helping to find and develop new sources of fossil fuel(6). This is one of many such collaborations. Last year, for example, BP announced that it will spend £60m on research at Manchester University, partly to help it drill deeper for oil(7). In the US and Canada universities go further: David Lynch, dean of engineering at the University of Alberta, appears in advertisements by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, whose purpose is to justify and normalise tar sands extraction(8). As the campaign group People and Planet points out, universities help provide fossil fuel corporations not only with expertise but also with a “social licence to operate”. The Monbiot column, in particular, deserves a full read (here) Posted by Scott Luft at 11:46 AM Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon dioxide,... Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels Renewable Energy Bill in Connecticut latest battle... Putting a Collar on Carbon Prices Why burn US trees in UK power stations? \| Europe's... EU household electricity bills jump once more Great Lakes region pins economic hopes on water Why I think we're wasting billions on global warmi... EU summit set to turn climate agenda upside down? Oilsands and airplanes, pots and kettles: are clim... Mulcair mired in mud: NDP leader needs to flip-flo... Hugging a Burning Tree An ill wind blows for Quebec taxpayers An international conspiracy against pure research?... Carbon pricing doesn’t work News might be bad for completing the entire Keysto...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line107
__label__cc	0.532541	0.467459	In Memoriam - Carol Bander Poster Session Proposals In Memoriam: Carol Bander On November 10, 2018, a strong advocate for CATESOL, Dr. Carol Bander, PhD, passed away. Carol was the 1999-2000 president of CATESOL and received the CATESOL Sadae Iwataki Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for her dedicated service to the organization. Before she became the president of CATESOL, she was on the CATESOL Executive Board as the secretary and president-elect. Carol was co-chair of the Plenary and Sunday Workshops with Lia Khami-Stein, co-chair of the Pre Conference Institute (PCI) with Karen Dennis and then with Stefan Frazier. In 2005 she was on the Nominating Committee. Her dedication to her local CATESOL Orange County (OC) chapter was exemplary whether she was serving as the Coordinator, Publicity chair, or general volunteer. She generously opened her home for yearly events and for board meetings. Seeking outstanding speakers for CATESOL was Carol’s passion. She had a quest for excellence and the ability to match a speaker to the conference theme or a hot issue in the field of language teaching. Carol and her long time friend, Susan Stern, were Publicity co-chairs and wrote CATESOL OC chapter articles and reviews for the CATESOL News for many years. There were emails from a vacation in Berlin in November of 2008 giving suggestions about speakers for an upcoming conference. Carol also formed a team consisting of Kathy Smith, Colleen Hildebrand, and herself, who presented at conferences in CA as well as in Mexico on grammar points. They have remained lifelong friends. With a PhD from USC in German, Carol became a professor of German and ESL and taught 39 years at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA. On November 14, family, friends, many CATESOL colleagues, and Susan Gaer, CATESOL’s President-elect, gathered to give their last respects to a beloved friend. At the graveside service, one of Carol’s deans spoke eloquently about her creativity, love of students, and the vital roles she played at Saddleback College. She was ESL Department chair and participated in the Academic Senate and served on countless committees, especially on those involving ESL curriculum and standards. Carol always enjoyed learning about other cultures as well as participating in new adventures with family and friends. She loved cooking and world travel, having visited over 100 countries. Carol’s family, CATESOL, colleagues, and friends mourn her passing. Myron, her husband, passed away in 2012. Carol is survived by her sister, Gabriele Libbey, of New York. Donate to the CATESOL Foundation in memory of Carol Bander	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line111
__label__wiki	0.587894	0.587894	Standard oil company historical site Vudogor, Author Supreme Court upheld the ruling. In a federal lawsuit against Standard Oil broke up the New Jersey trust. The process, which became standard practice in the refining industry, helped avert a gasoline shortage during World War I. Thank you for your feedback. In Rockefeller bought out Clark, and two years later he invited Henry M. The original book was a two-volume hardcover set. Flagler, with 1, shares; Samuel Andrews, with 1, shares; Stephen V. Standard Oil History, Monopoly, & Breakup Britannica Standard Oil Company Ohio History Central Standard Oil Trust Standard Oil Company Video: Standard oil company historical site STANDARD OIL 1938 HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF OHIO PIONEERS OF THE OHIO COUNTRY DOCUMENTARY 47274 Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company, and monopoly. Established in by John D. 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Gallery proofs are uploaded for proofreading purpose (not final versions) Serum Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 and -9 Levels in Disseminated Lyme Borreliosis with Special Reference to Arthritis P68-74 Original Research Anneli Lauhio, Jarmo Oksi, Taina Tervahartiala, Jukka Hytönen, Anne Pitkäranta, and Timo Sorsa* Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are involved in pathogenesis of Lyme borreliosis (LB). We studied serum levels of MMP-8 and MMP-9 in disseminated LB patients with special reference to arthritis. Serum MMP-8 and-9 levels were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay from 110 patients from our previous multicenter, prospective study. Serum samples were taken before betalactam antibiotic treatment at study entry and after antibiotic treatment, at 1 year follow-up. Among disseminated LB patients (n = 110) mean (± SEM) serum MMP-8 and -9 levels (ng/ml) at study entry were statistically significantly higher than at 1 year follow-up (28.0 ± 1.9 versus 23.1 ± 1.6, P = 0.0313 and 398.0 ± 22.7 vs. 334.3 ± 23.6, P = 0.0219, respectively). Among Lyme arthritis (LA) patients (n = 34) at study entry serum MMP-8, but not MMP-9, levels decreased significantly when compared to serum levels of those at 1 year follow-up (35.7 ± 4.4 vs. 22.4 ± 2.3, P = 0.0093 and 398.6 ± 44.1 vs. 297.8 ± 40.3, P = 0.0505, respectively). The mean (± SEM) serum levels (ng/ml) of MMP-8 were significantly higher after betalactam antibiotic treatment at 1 year follow-up among antibiotic resistant LA patients with poor response than among those LA patients who were totally recovered (32.8 ± 6.4 vs. 20.1 ± 2.3, P = 0.0376). In contrast, the mean (± SEM) serum levels (ng/ml) of MMP-9 of antibiotic resistant LA patients showed no statistical significant difference when compared to those LA patients who were totally recovered at 1 year follow-up (297.8 ± 40.3 vs. 396.8 ± 93.9, P = 0.80). In conclusion, our results suggest that serum MMP-8 levels are excessively upregulated in disseminated LB contributing to inflammatory response, and related to persistent joint symptoms. This novel finding may offer in the future new laboratory possibilities to diagnose patients with persistent symptoms after betalactam antibiotic treatment. In addition the present findings suggest that to improve the outcome of disseminated borreliosis, the therapy of disseminated LB should include MMP-8 inhibitor such as doxycycline, possibly in combination therapy such as a combination of ceftriaxone and doxycycline. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolated from Colombian Foods P61-67 Original Research María Consuelo Vanegas López, Jaime Enrique Moreno, Viviana Ramos Rueda, Juan Sebastián Chirivi, Angélica Garzón, Stefany Alejandra Arévalo, María Fernanda Martínez, Paula Andrea Gardeazábal and Cristian Baquero Abstract: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was identified as a nosocomial pathogen in the 1960s and it is associated with serious community-acquired and nosocomial diseases, particularly in immunocompromised patients. S. aureus also causes food poisoning and is the most important food-borne disease in Latin America. In Colombia, the Community acquired (CA-MRSA) increased by 4.4% between 2001 and 2006. However, the transmission of MRSA through food has not been well researched; its prevalence is unknown as is the risk of consumer exposure. It is important to determine the role of food in transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, taking into account that the prevalence of MRSA varies according to geographical location. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of MRSA in Colombian foods and to typify isolated strains by detecting antimicrobial resistance, clonal groups and Toxin A gene. Resistance of 149 S. aureus strains isolated from food was determined by disk diffusion with oxacillin (1μg) and cefoxitin (30μg), Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test (AST) and mecA gene amplification. Positive strains were genotyped using pulsed field electrophoresis (PFGE). 5 (3.35%) of the 149 strains resistant to oxacillin and cefoxitin, were positive to mecA gene, indicating the presence of the SCC cassette. The electrophoretic pattern obtained by PFGE for these strains revealed that 4 (80%) of the 5 strains belong to the Chilean clone, with 100% genetic similarity; this clone has been associated with 65% of infections associated with health care. Furthermore, none of the 5 strains were positive to Toxin A gene. This is the first evidence of the presence of MRSA in food in Colombia. It is necessary to continue this research by extending the sampling and collecting enough information to carry out risk analysis of the danger. Fluctuations of S Availability Affect Growth, S Reserves, 15N and34S Uptake in Brassica Napus L. P47-60 Original Research M. Abdallah, A. Ourry, and F. Meuriot* Abstract: Oilseed rape is sensitive to sulphur (S) limitation and is confronted to permanent changes of S availability, resulting from soil activity and S fertilization regimes, which may affect N and S uptake, storage and remobilization. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the influence of initial S status and mineral S availability on i) biomass production, ii) 15N and 34S uptake, iii) relative expression of genes encoding N or S transport systems and iv) 14N and32S remobilization. As a consequence, plants with High or Low Initial S status (HSi or LSi) were grown during 28 days either with High or Low S mineral availability (HS or LS). The results showed that with a low initial S status, plant were able under ample S supply to increase N and S uptake by de-repressing gene expression of their uptake systems, and reached similar growth as control plants. With high S reserves, mostly as sulphate, plants were yet able to compensate transient S limitation,by increasing S mobilization towards the roots, and reached similar growth as control plants. Only with low S initial status and low S availability (i.e. long term S limitation), plant growth was reduced while nitrate transporter gene expression was steadily down-regulated probably as a result of amino acid accumulation in the roots. Overall results showed that plants are able to cope with fluctuating S availability, through mobilization of S reserve when previously accumulated as sulphate, or alternatively, to increase S uptake. As a conclusion, our study supports that initial S reserves play a crucial role for oilseed rape adaptation to S limitation. Long Term Effect of Biodegradable Polymer on Oxidative Stress and Genotoxicity P37-46 Original Research Divya Surendran, Sarath Kumar R.S., Geetha C.S., and Mohanan P.V.* Abstract: Oxidative stress and genotoxicity induced by intraperitoneally implanted polycaprolactone (PCL) were evaluated in present study. In an effort to assess oxidative stress induced liver injury, we measured hematological indices, biochemical parameters of liver function and levels of oxidative stress biomarkers such as lipid peroxidation (LPO), 8-hydroxy-2’deoxy guanosine (8-OHdG), reduced glutathione(GSH) and glutathione reductase(GR) after three months as well as twelve months of implantation. Another objective of the study was to analyze chromosomal aberrations induced by the extract of polycaprolactone in human peripheral venous blood lymphocytes using GTG banding technique and karyotyping of human chromosomes. No significant changes were displayed by the experimental animals in the hematological parameters. Furthermore, liver function were normal as evidenced by the activities of aspartate amino transferase (AST), alanine amino transferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), serum bilirubin, cholesterol, triglyceride and albumin. Oxidative stress statuses were comparable with the control animals after 3 and 12 months of intraperitoneal implantation. Karyotype of human chromosomes were found to be normal indicating the nongenotoxic effects of polycaprolactone. Hence it can be concluded that polycaprolactone used for this study is non-toxic at the molecular level, under the environmental conditions monitored. Performance Evaluation of an Improved ARCHITECT LH Assay for the Quantitative Determination of Luteinizing Hormone in Human Serum and Plasma P27-36 Original Research Michael Oer, Christian Beckert, Boris Heinrich, Carsten Buenning and Hans-Peter Kapprell* Abstract: Determination of the concentration of human luteinizing hormone plays an important role for the prediction of ovulation, evaluation of infertility, diagnosis of pituitary and gonadal disorders and in the differential diagnosis of puberty disorders. The ARCHITECT LH chemiluminescent-immunoassay for the quantitative determination of luteinizing hormone in human serum and plasma serves this clinical utility. The assay was redesigned to improve robustness in terms of better lot-to-lot consistency, allowing users to discontinue current practice of matching reagent, calibrators and controls. The re-designed ARCHITECT LH assay was evaluated on the ARCHITECT instrument-platform and com-pared to the predicate device: the previously marketed ARCHITECT LH assay. Total imprecision of the assay was 2.4 - 8.9%CV across the claimed measuring interval (0.09 - 250.00 mIU/mL). Detection Limits were determined as Limit of Quantitation with 0.09 mIU/mL, Limit of Blank 0.01 mIU/mL and Limit of Detection 0.03 mIU/mL. Correlation slope to the predicate ARCHITECT LH assay was 1.04. Linearity was demonstrated in the claimed measuring interval. Mean recovery was determined to be 101.0%. Process capability indices demonstrated excellent (>6 Sigma) lot-to-lot reproducibility. The re-designed ARCHITECT LH assay showed excellent performance and good correlation to the predicate device. The high lot-to-lot reproducibility demonstrates excellent process capability and allows more flexibility in managing inventory for end-users. Matching of reagents, calibrators and controls is no longer required. The ARCHITECT LH assay is a valuable tool in clinical laboratories for the accurate and precise quantitation of human luteinizing hormone. Positive and Negative Cognate Amino Acid Bias Affects Compositions of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and Reflects Functional Constraints on Protein Structure P11-26 Original Research Herve Seligmann Abstract: By comparing phylogenetically related tRNA synthetases (enzymes that specifically aminoacylate tRNAs), a controlled natural experiment can reveal synthetases’ coevolution with their cognate amino acid substrate. Analyses of metabolic cost minimization confirm the existence of cognate avoidance in tRNA synthetase compositions. It is found that cognate avoidance increases and decreases, respectively, with proteomic amino acid usage in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. In E. coli, cognate avoidance did not decrease with cognate abundance in the colon, but decrease with tRNA synthetase editing sites and cognate impact on protein structure, revealing that hydrophobic interactions and beta-sheet formation constrain the folding of tRNA synthetase classes I and II, respectively. Analyses of cognate bias yield information on how proteins function in E. coli, because function constrains cognate bias. In B. subtilis, cognate avoidance occurred for rare and abundant amino acids in the soil, positive bias existed for cognates with intermediate abundances. Presumably, life history strategies (endosymbiont versus free living) and environmental compositions modulate cost minimization of amino acid usages. Avoidance of ‘expensive’ residues in tRNA synthetases is inversely proportional to cognate avoidance and protein size in E. coli, but not B. subtilis. In relation to cost minimization, E. coli’s predictable environment perhaps enabled to reach evolutionary (balancing) equilibrium between various factors affecting protein synthesis costs, where decreasing costs through one factor requires increasing other costs. Phylogenetically controlled comparisons can detect more statistically significant biases than similar analyses using randomly selected control proteins, stressing the power of carefully designed natural experiments. This work confirms the importance of biosynthetic cost minimization, and challenges neutralistic approaches of biomolecular evolution. &nbspGender Differences in Prevalence of Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes and Patient's Body Mass Index in Five Ukraine Regions with Diverse Historical Backgrounds P1-10 Original Research Mykola D. Khalangot*, Vitaliy G. Gurianov, and Alexander M. Vaiserman Abstract: Analysis of territorial diabetes mellitus registers of 2 Western and 3 Eastern Ukraine regions with diverse historical backgrounds was performed. Two western regions (Kherson and Crimea) were severely affected by Famine of 1932-33, Chernihiv region was less severely affected area, and Western-Ukraine regions (Volyn and Rivne) were not affected. Prevalence rates of diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in women are higher than in men in all birth cohorts studied except for the oldest ones. The female-to-male predominance is more pronounced for people with T2D residing in Eastern Ukraine regions. Female (but not male) persons with T2D residing in Eastern Ukraine have higher body mass index than those residing in Western Ukraine. Female predominance among persons with T2D in Ukraine may be due to the fact that women are more likely than men to be influenced by adverse early-life conditions. Home \| About \| BIO \| CheM \| Architectoni.ca \| Submit Manuscript \| Pay Open Access Fees \| Register \| Login Copyright 2010 © Canadian Centre of Academic Art and Science All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line115
__label__wiki	0.627382	0.627382	Yasti Ranjith Way too curious for her own good and obsessed with tea, good TV shows, mystery novels and cupcakes. If you want to find Yasti, she's probably holed up in her room trying to be productive. Stories By Yasti Ranjith It’s been a long time since I’ve heard a voice like Anna Moon’s grace the many playlists on my cellphone.... By Yasti RanjithOctober 26, 2019 An Interview With 80s-Inspired Band Dysplay On Their Single “Dream” Dysplay, a pop duo comprised of talented musicians Eric Scullin and Devin Hoffman, recently came out with a new song... Alice Gray Talks About Her Music Video For “Hell With You” And New Song “Indigo” Rising indie-pop artist Alice Gray had an eventful summer career-wise. To start off the tough but exciting metaphorical roadtrip of... By Yasti RanjithSeptember 22, 2019 Emily Hackett Talks About Songwriting And Her New EP, By The Moon What better way to start the weekend than by taking twenty minutes out of your day and listening to Emily... Spencer Ludwig Premieres “Brand New” Ahead Of Tommy Hilfiger Denim Fall Campaign Vocalist-instrumentalist Spencer Ludwig’s weekend is off to a fantastic start with the premiere and release of his latest single, “Brand... By Yasti RanjithAugust 30, 2019 Interview: Suitcase Runaway Talks About Their Newest Single, “Strike A Nerve”, And Dealing With Failure Suitcase Runaway, a rock/folk/alternative band from Cleveland, Ohio, recently came out with their new music video for their song “Strike... Chloé Caroline Dishes On Her New Music Video For “Messy” Chloé Caroline, a talented singer-songwriter working in Nashville and Los Angeles, recently released the music video for her new song... By Yasti RanjithAugust 5, 2019 An Interview With LGBTQ+ Role Model Bridesmen: New Single “Overwhelm” And Facing Your Fears For Kenton Chen, growing up wasn’t a walk in the park. As a second-generation Asian immigrant (who also happened to... By Yasti RanjithJuly 22, 2019 Belgian Producer Polar Youth Talks About Her New EP, Lost & Found Elisabeth Verstraete, better known by her stage name, Polar Youth, is an up-and-coming Belgian producer with a true passion for... Alternative/Pop Artist Leah Capelle Premieres Brand New Track ‘alder lake!’ Leah Capelle, an alternative rock/pop artist with a growing following, is kicking off her weekend with the premiere and release... IYVES Talks Her Luxuriously Lavish Music Video For “Gold” We’ve all been waiting for IYVES to release something new after her debut EP “Chromatic” dropped in 2018, and our... By Yasti RanjithJune 30, 2019 Eighty Ninety Is The Indie-Pop Duo You’ve Been Craving Eighty Ninety’s distinct indie-pop sound and lyricism are hard to ignore. Comprised of brothers Abner and Harper, Eighty Ninety has... Advertisement content/uploads/2015/09/flex300x250.jpg" />	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line131
__label__cc	0.706179	0.293821	Everyday, through our brands, Danone connects to over 900 million consumers in 140 countries, each of whom have their own needs, tastes and specific cultural approaches. Our ambition is to build strong purpose-driven and meaningful brands which help meet the health, social, environmental and economic needs of our consumers and the communities we serve. Every time we eat and drink we can vote for the world we want, and our brands can help our consumers vote for a healthier future. We believe in ‘citizen brands’ which are purposefully designed as a healthy and tasty way for consumers to act on health, social and environmental issues they care about. We’re proud of the iconic Danone brands which are already succeeding on this path. HAPPY FAMILY VILLA DEL SUR RESTOS DU COEUR Launched in 2006 by Shazi Visram and now a Danone brand, Happy Family is a ‘mom-founded’ and ‘mom–operated’ premium food company that offers parents organic, thoughtfully-made food for their babies. With its organic raw materials and nutriment-enriched recipes, the now Danone subsidiary aims to address the health issues linked to childhood nutrition. Villa del Sur, in Argentina, has made it the heart of its mission to support access to safe drinking water by installing water tanks in water-stressed regions. With the « Unidos for el agua » programme, for every litre of Villa del Sur that is purchased, the brand provides 10 liters of safe drinking water to 11 communities in the region of Tumbula Norte. Resto du Cœur is a French charity tackling food waste and food poverty by offering free meals to people in need. They also offer advice and support to improve social and economic wellbeing for those facing poverty. Since 2008, Danone, Carrefour and Restos du Cœur have implemented a partnership built around a welfare-to-work initiative. In early 2015, buying two Danone products at Carrefour stores would give away a free meal for Resto du Coeur.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line134
__label__cc	0.744165	0.255835	New article published Findings from the feasibility study at age 21-23 years have been published as part of an invited review of DASH DASH study findings presented at Kings College London Ethnic differences in childhood overweight and blood pressure could present risks for diabetes and vascular disease in adulthood. DASH reports educational success despite racism and deprivation Racism and deprivation is still a common experience for young people from ethnic minorities, yet despite this, high proportions are gaining a degree. DASH participants report racism as a common experience Earlier this year DASH researchers presented our findings on racism - what does this mean for mental health? To view more DASH news click here DASH newsletter 2014 Lancet Public Health Science conference Ethnicity, Religion and Language Moods and Feelings Questionnaires and measurements Participant Advisory Group Your views and comments Aims and themes Retention strategies Funded by the Medical Research Council (a government-funded but independent body) the overall aim of DASH is to examine social and biological influences on the health of adolescents from different ethnic backgrounds in London. In 2003, over 6,500 pupils aged 11-13 years took part in the study. In late 2005/early 2006, these pupils were followed-up to see whether their health and social circumstances had changed since the original study. Why DASH is important Some ethnic groups have above average levels of heart disease, high blood pressure and poor mental health in adulthood. For example, diabetes and high blood pressure are 2-3 times more common among Black Caribbean than among White people. We need to understand what causes these health differences in adulthood and at what age they begin to emerge. DASH examines how social (e.g. family life and school life) and biological (e.g. growth) factors influence the health (e.g. blood pressure, lung function, psychological well-being) of young people from different ethnic backgrounds. Click on the links below to find out more: Participants - Parents - Teachers - Researchers - Acknowledgements - News - Publications - Update your contact details Sitemap - Contact us - Credits Copyright © 2020 MRC SPHSU. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line141
__label__cc	0.661882	0.338118	Roxana Saberi Timeline & Updates May 16 - Roxana safe in Vienna with her Mom & Dad! April 30 Hostage Diplomacy: Roxana Saberi and the Three jailed Iranian Diplomats April 30NPR holds discussion on Roxana and Iran Timeline of The Saberi Case 31 January : Roxana Saberi is arrested. 1 March : The US public radio network NPR breaks the news of her arrest (after being alerted by her father on 10 February). 2 March : Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi says Saberi was working “illegally” in Iran. 3 March : Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi says she has been “arrested on the order of the Tehran revolutionary court and is being held in Evin prison.” 9 April : Saberi is charged with spying by deputy prosecutor Hassan Zare Dehnavi. This charge is often used by the Iranian authorities to arrest journalists and tighten the muzzle on freedom of expression. 13 April : Saberi is tried in a closed-door hearing on a charge of spying for the United States. 18 April : Saberi is sentenced to eight years in prison. 20 April : Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi announces that she will join the Saberi defence team. 21 April : Saberi begins her hunger strike. 25 April : Her lawyer files an appeal against her conviction. Officials in Iran need to know your concern for Roxana Saberi and your desire to return her home, and while she is in Iran to have a fair appeals process. His Excellency Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran New York, NY 1007 e-mail: iran@un.int To read samples of Roxana's reporting, click here. To contact the White House, use this link/URL: whitehouse.gov/contact/ Free Roxana Saberi Roxana Saberi Blogburst Blog Rally Tags: Roxana Saberi, Roxana Saberi Labels: Bloggers, Blogs, Life-Lessons, MainStreamMedia, politics, Pop Culture, Religion Around The Blogosphere 30 April 09 Pictures: Bloggers Miss Izzy and Geoffrey Philp! Who are YOUR five favorite bloggers? Not just favorites, but bloggers YOU would like to meet in person, maybe over coffee or a light dinner... Here are mine, in no particular order: 1 - Geoffrey Philp 2 - Wendy Cheng 3 - Isabella Chen 4 - Bobby Revell 5 - Michelle Malkin CHECK OUT: The Printed Blog-the first Daily Newspaper made entirely of blogs and other user-generated content. Check it out!!! Would you like to go visit the Sahara desert and read for children living in the refugee camps? Bubisher is a mobile library being driven across Western Sahara refugee camps. Renata Avila reports. Via MediaBistro: On Tuesday afternoon, we were lucky enough to catch a live performance of Soundcheck with John Schaefer at WNYC's new downtown performance space, The Greene Space. The show -- featuring a discussion between the host, Santi "Santigold" White, Lou Reed, and Mary Rowell from the string quartet Ethel -- and performances from the latter two artists -- was the first live broadcast in the room's history. It kicked off a 10-day festival celebrating the new venue, which got a nice write-up in The New York Times last week. Additional live radio shows in the near future include The Brian Lehrer Show (with guest Paul Krugman) and The Leonard Lopate Show. Prince on Tavis Smiley: Cured by Angels, Governed by Prophecy The Lilith Fair will return next year. Text and ye shall receive! Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is now tweeting as @AKGovSarahPalin Check out NY Mags' Twitter Approval Matrix Capital Region readers: An area bookstore needs our help! This may be a good place to visit this weekend! Jim Lesczynski blogs "Cannabis Shows Promise as Treatment for Swine Flu!" Possible swine flu in Albany, Schenectady counties Biden: Stay Off Subways During Swine Flu Panic! CBS News Interactive: Swine Flu Labels: Bloggers, Blogs, Capital Region, Celebrities, Citizen Journalism, Health, New York City, Twitter, YouTube I know we're going digital and all that, but I take some level of comfort in cassettes, VHS, phonograph records and old-school hardwired Bell System telephones. Yeah yeah digital is good but analog makes for a reliable back-up. I found a neat little device at a garage sale. I think of it as a sort of "anti-GPS" because it doesn't depend on a satellite. It cost me $2, and while it may lack complete accuracy due to the passage of time, I'm going to keep it in the glove compartment. This message is from a Virgin Mobile customer. Enjoy. Through The Past Darkly For those of us in the news business there,s no shortage of material. The infamous Zodiac Killer re-surfaces as a woman comes forward claiming to be his daughter. And the girlfriend of the Craig's List Killer pays him what one TV network called "her first and probably last visit to him in prison." If you've never done so, make it t point to watch a few eps of CBS tv's "Criminal Minds" which often tracks down fictional serial killers while offering authentic insight into why people do the things they do. (Except for former co-star of the series Mandy Patankin. No one can explain why he does the things he does!) No Wedding Bells for Craigslist Murder Suspect Mexiflu - Pandemic Phase 5 The WHO has raised the threat level for the new flu... Phase 6 is the highest level...while it is unfortunate that the virus "started" in Mexico, we must not blame the people there. A friend of mine believes the flu strain is on the second leg of its global tour. He suggests that entertainers Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died when the disease made its first pass through the USA. Makes you wonder, yeah? Dr. Margaret Chan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) is quoted on the WHO website saying: "On the positive side, the world is better prepared for an influenza pandemic than at any time in history. Preparedness measures undertaken because of the threat from H5N1 avian influenza were an investment, and we are now benefitting from this investment. For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time." Mexidemic The CDC confirmed the "first death" from the H1N1 Mexiflu virus. (Please don't call it swine flu, out of respect for the pork industry, and so as not to comfort Islamic militants.) Still, this flu is not half as scarey as Polio must have been for Americans before the Salk vaccine. My late uncle once told me how much he suffered in silence every summer, hoping and praying his kids would stay healthy. They never did, but a little girl on their street woke up one morning paralyzed. But I digress...keep an eye on flu and the economy. Keep an eye on government...that NY City flyover that scared thousands was done behind President Obama's back, which makes one wonder what else might be done without our leader's knowledge or approval. I almost drove off the side of the road when I heard this come across the car radio. Are we that bad off? We need a company to negotiate our payday loans? People, never ever ever take out a payday loan for any reason. Beg, borrow, steal and/or take charity, but please don't get a payday loan! WOLVERINE SAYS: GET YOUR FREE COMICS! Free comics, including stories of Wolverine and Green Lantern, will be available at comic book stores throughout the world on Saturday, May 2. Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman, encourages fans to visit local comic book stores in a YouTube video from Diamond Comics Distributors. "Now, we all know comic books are fun," Jackman says in the video. "But they're also a really fantastic way to captivate the attention of young readers, and send them off on a lifelong love of reading." These comic-book heroes don't just battle villains, they battle illiteracy. "Help join the fight against illiteracy, and recommend to kids to just go into a comic book store, and grab their free comic," Jackman says. The Comics Professional Retail Organization (ComicsPRO), the independent comic book retailers trade association, encourages readers of all ages to experience the diversity of entertainment found in comics by visiting a participating member store on Free Comic Book Day. About 2 million free comic books are expected to be given away at more than 2,000 participating locations. Comics to be given away include Disney/Pixar's Cars, Archie, Star Wars, and G.I. Joe. In the Hudson Valley, these comics can be found at: Main Street Comics 157 Dolson Ave Please check with them for more details about their Free Comic Book Day event! Labels: Books, Hudson Valley, Library, Pop Culture Pop Clips 28 April 09 +230498234 for Chuck telling Nate that instead of moving in with Blair to mark his territory, he should just "pee on her." Come on, best line of the night!!! Georgina Sparks returns to "Gossip Girl" in the best possible way: as a born-again Christian! Gawker's Richard Lawson deconstructs last night's Gossip Girl. Fashionistas were "super excited to see Serena van der Woodsen (played by the lovely Blake Lively) dressed in Vena Cava." May 11 is bound to be a really big day for our beloved Upper East Siders -- not only are they getting a potential spin-off starring Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter, but No Doubt (Snowed Out) is gracing the show! Grazia previously made Chace Crawford look like something of a fool on video when he said he thought beige was a dark color. Ed Westwick didn't fare much better when given a similar fashion quiz. Dallas Penn blogs War Is Insane… - The pandemic that America needs to fear is not the Swine Flu from Mexico, but the brain damage zombie-itis from the troops returning from Iraq. Are Newspapers going down in flames? Ambiome: I heart (♥) Velco Dojcinovski Snoop Dogg Testifizzles The rapper is being sued by a fan who was injured at a show near Seattle. Children can often be the most vulnerable members of refugee communities. The group Ancla2 is working to provide more opportunities to these children through a photography and creative writing workshop in a community called El Nula along the Venezuelan-Colombian border teaching them how to appreciate the details of daily life and to communicate that through images and text. More from Global Voices' Laura Vidal. Via Alas, a blog - Fox’s “Glee,” the stereotyping of fat black women, and making friends with the loser kid in the wheelchair. Lil Kim & Derek Hough Top 'Dancing' Leaderboard "Dancing With the Stars" produced one of its most drama-filled episodes on Monday... Exciting new technology. Video: Dr. Hibberd: Swine Flu: Doctors Up Against The Wall President Barack Obama takes in a deep breath of swine flu while in Mexico recently, just to show it who's boss. Sarah Smith: Our Democratic president, Barack Obama, is more popular than his policies, while the Republican leadership abounds with dull, unpleasant nitwits. [*article] Labels: Celebrities, Entertainment, Health, MainStreamMedia, politics, Pop Culture, Technology, TV, YouTube Interview: Dambisa Moyo Dambisa Moyo. Photo Credit: Geraint Lewis Monday WAMC aired my interview with Oxford-trained economist Dambisa Moyo, who says western aid is a waste of money because it has made Africa poorer. Dambisa is very engaging, and we chatted away on the phone pre and post interview as if we'd known one another for years. I would imagine after all the interviews she's given, she's just automatically comfortable discussing her book! At least one country is ready to scrap aid: Rwanda. Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa, 208 pages, Allen Lane. www.deadaid.org Related: Le Pangolin writes about Teriya Bugu, a model village on the Niger river, in Mali, “proof that Africa has every opportunity to advance so long as it invests in people, especially farmers. Hope is a value Africa should invest in” [Fr] BBC's Gavin Esler is joined by the Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of microcredit, Professor Muhammad Yunus, and by the economist Dr Dambisa Moyo author of Dead Aid, to debate the scope and benefits of micro finance. Last fall I interviewed Jessica Jackley Flannery co-founded kiva-dot-org with her husband Matt - the micro-loan organization took the globe by storm. In the same report I spoke with Neelam Mehta, a 1993 graduate of Emma Willard School (Troy, NY) who founded ClickAid in 2002. ClickAid is a nonprofit organization that collects and organizes obsolete and unwanted computer technology and donates the equipment to groups and charities in underdeveloped nations. Here's a local Zambian book review of "Dead Aid". Pp. 1 and 2. Pagescans courtesy Zambian Economist. In her book "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa", Dambisa Moyo cites entrepreneurship and job promotion as solutions toward a better way for Africa. An example of this is in Rwanda where two businesswomen who own salons have come together to start a beauty school to provide a vocation and a future for Rwandans. Go to this site to learn more about the school and how you can help get it opened www.rwandabeautyschool.org. The two entrepreneurs, Jeanne and Sylvie, are being helped by the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) - a New York based international network of business volunteers that help women entrepreneurs in post-conflict countries expand their businesses, create employment, and build a peaceful future for their communities. For more information on Bpeace, go to www.bpeace.org. Tags: Dambisa Moyo, Dead-Aid Labels: Activism, Africa, Books, Celebrities, Human Rights, Library, Life-Lessons, MainStreamMedia, Money, Personal Finance, politics, Pop Culture, Radio, Rip-off, Social Experiments CDCemergency on twitter America's newest scapegoat is "swine flu," so much so that it's a hot topic on twitter. Of course, the previous scapegoat "the economy" may still be invoked. The standard for blindless mindless blame was set by 911. Related: China: Tracking swine flu on Twitter Labels: Asia, China, Health Summer Night No, it's not quite summer yet, but the breeze tonight is magical, pregnant with promise that an interesting time is drawing near. Yes, there is that Mexiflu threat. But for those who can survive it and the accompanying global economic meltdown, there are wonders and treasures on the other side. Like the proverbial pot of gold, good things come to those who wait. I'm outdoors right now... This night reminds me of one a decade ago in North Africa.. I feel change in the air... I hope it's for good... Happy Birthday, Wendy! (To the "first lady of blogging" I say "enjoy your special day! The Blogosphere salutes you!") GE's micro-holographic technology is being hailed as "the next generation of low cost storage" - today I interviewed Brian Lawrence, who manages the optical polymers lab in Niskayuna and leads the holographic storage project. Imagine: 100 full-length movies on ONE DISK! Listen for my story later this week on WAMC. Radio Girl! Sixteen-year-old Keili Hamilton is the youngest D.J. in WFMU’s history. Her show, “Beastin’ the Airwaves!,” is broadcast live on Sundays at three in the morning. Don't show this to Kenny Rogers! Breaking news! The Herald-Sun has just figured out that "A blog -- contraction of the phrase "Web log" -- is a Web site regularly maintained by an individual ..." On TV Tonight Tavis Smiley welcomes Prince... And, of course, there's a new ep of Gossip Girl! Stay Tuned! Tags: XiaXue, XiaXue Labels: Bloggers, Blogs, Food, MainStreamMedia, Pop Culture, Radio, Technology, TV, Twitter Folks in the Capital Region can now dial 211 to access "human services" - United Way touts the service as a "referral center for callers" across 12 counties which will also allow for " quick dissemination of crisis preparedness information" during times of natural disaster or other emergencies. The call center will initially be open 9-5 Mon-Fri. It is operated by Family & Children's Service of the Capital Region. Labels: Capital Region, Technology Summerlike Monday Here in the Capital Region, our first taste of summer heat is supposed to last through tomorrow. I did the cookout thing on Sunday... the entire weekend was great! I'm looking forward to work today, hoping that my assignments will enable me to get out and roam. Looks like the big international story this week will be the "Mexiflu," national the economy, state the gay marriage issue and locally Albany politics. There's always a wild card or two - nothing set in stone - so, we'll see! Have a splendid day and remember there's a new Gossip Girl ep tonight! Labels: Capital Region, Health, MainStreamMedia Mexiflu Watching the TV news about the "swine flu outbreak" when someone asked me "what would be a place to avoid locally?" Before I opened my mouth to respond, CBS6 displayed footage of "fountain day" at UAlbany--- "there ya go," said I! Labels: Capital Region, Health A few URLS for your Sunday... GuyToons, a Guyanese cartoon blog, posts a series of funnies on the recently-concluded Summit of the Americas, while Trinbago Forever waits to see what benefits will be derived from the Summit and Mauvais Langue adds: “Instead of wasteful spending, use the money wisely and spend it to fight crime.” de cooler : soca news blogs about a new documentary on the life of legendary Trinbagonian singer, Calypso Rose. Video! The juxtaposition of these two seemingly disparate art mediums is quite surreal! Right Round! Robert Rodriguez is planning to bring his Grindhouse character Machete to the big screen. The first edition of the India Bloggers Directory, a pocket guide to Indian blogs, will be published soon. Michelle Trachtenberg talks about returning to Gossip Girl as evil Georgina. Labels: Bloggers, Blogs, Celebrities, Film, TV, YouTube Jim Tedisco's Mistake There's a lesson for all to be learned from the recent campaign for the open seat in the 20th CD. (Especially for politicians)... Answer all questions, even if you must give a nebulous answer, or one you may have to alter or even retract later. Some people, like the Clintons, are able to dance with you away from the question. But they don't hesitate to answer when pressed. Unanswered questions can lead to doubt. Don't go there! Moby X3 Let's see how smart you are. Without Googling or consulting any search engine or refernce book, name three bearing the first name "Moby" - people or things. The reclusive musician going by that name does not count. In case twitter stalled... I made an old-school mixtape using Yarah Bravo and Sade. Spent the rest of the day frolicing in 90 degree temperatures! From The Digital Frontier I chanced upon this during the week (while searching for something else, of course) - a great lesson which I hope will inspire you. To quote Joradan Carleo-Evangelist: "You know those moments in Road Runner cartoons when Wile E. Coyote gets clobbered by his own giant anvil? This is sort of like that." The story is about political websites, but it could be about ANY website or BLOG. Now, I'm not suggesting we all become cybervultures, but I am certain there are more than a few of you out there who would find this sort of thing right up your alley! Bye Bye Viewers - The first Nielsen rating report since WNYT’s firing of anchor Lydia Kulbida is a remarkable audience rejection of the station management’s move, as Ed Dague reports! Memo to WNYT: You shouldn't have messed with Lydia! Memo to B.E.T.: Don't mess with Lil' Kim! Tyson - James Toback's documentary will have you sympathetic, perplexed, appalled, and enthralled. Kuwait: Blackberry Lunches, Arab Sex Talk and Election Responsibility Plea From the censorship of video games to discussions about Kuwait's upcoming parliamentary elections on May 16, the Kuwaiti blogosphere offers a mixed bag this week. Also in this post, by Amer Al Hilal, a concern raised by a Kuwaiti female blogger about Arab women talking about sex in public. 7-Year Old Tattooed A 7-year-old boy was forced to get a gang tattoo, according to cops. Liz Benjamin: The Albany Project has a round-up of who stands where on gay marriage in the Senate... and Gov. David Paterson's gay marriage program bill has been introduced in both houses of the Legislature. NY Mag: Paterson-Kennedy Mess Not Over "Pimp This Bum" Helps Hard Luck Case Focus of PimpThisBum.com website turns his life around. Several news sites and blogs reported that Israeli oranges in Tehran's shops made many people surprised. Ilna, a semi official news agency, reported [fa] the Iranian authorities will stop the distribution of these oranges. Labels: Bloggers, Blogs, Capital Region, Celebrities, Entertainment, politics, Pop Culture, Sports, TV twitter eats world! On April 17, actor Ashton Kutcher beat CNN in a much-ballyhooed race to be the first Twitter account-holder to reach a million! (Photo credit: Larry King, CNN Live) The New England Patriots said Friday that they'll tweet their picks in the 2009 NFL Draft this weekend! twitterstats On the sign-in page it is written "Twitter is the telegraph system of Web 2.0" - and it is - and like the telegraph systems of old, twitter is often down, mostly when the Indians mess with the wires (just kiddin' - no offense!) ... so if you want to follow me on twitter (and mind you, I do NOT over-twitter!) I can be found here, and I am now tweetin' news stories via WAMC's twitter account! And during those weekends when twitter spurts, sputters and stalls, I do have the capability to post "tweet-like" messages to the blog here. You can tell them from regular posts as they have no subject or title line. Social Media! Should twitter be kept "free" or is it ripe for advertising? Are all of your tweetmates real people? Or are they bots? "March represented an especially big gain for twitter, as it added more than 5 million visitors versus the previous month," said Jack Flanagan, executive VP of comScore Media Metrix. "With numerous celebrities and media personalities - including Oprah - recently jumping on the twitter bandwagon, the site shows no signs of slowing." Others are quick to dismiss twitter as just another fad based on popularity... Disclosure: I borrowed the headline for this post from TechCrunch. Related: Tweetie! twitter Top Ten 1. Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) 2. Britney Spears (britneyspears) 3. Ellen DeGeneres (TheEllenShow) 4. Barack Obama (BarackObama) 5. Jimmy Fallon (jimmyfallon) 6. John Mayer (johnmayer) 7. Shaquille O'Neal (THE_REAL_SHAQ) 8. Lance Armstrong (lancearmstrong) 9. Demi Moore (mrskutcher) 10. Coldplay (coldplay) This morning comScore released its global numbers for March, 2009. Worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increased 95 percent in the month of March from 9.8 million to 19.1 million, according to its estimates. This compares to 9.3 million visitors in the U.S. alone. (more from TC) Even Soleil Moon Frye (the former Punky Brewster) is Twittering. Tags: twitter, twitter Labels: Pop Culture, Social Experiments, Social Networking, Twitter, web 2.0 Operate A Call Center From Your Home! You might consider a job (for up to $14 an hour) with a virtual call center, such as Willow CSN (www.willowcsn.com), West Corp. (www.west.com) or Alpine Access (www.alpineaccess.com). As an independent contractor (or an actual employee with benefits in some cases) for one of these virtual call centers, you will provide customer support for companies such as Office Depot, Sears, J.Crew and even the Internal Revenue Service. In most cases, you must provide your own computer, designated telephone line and high-speed Internet connection --and, in some cases, pay for your training to become a certified agent. But if you have the time, they need “operators standing by.” --Kiplinger's Here's a link to the full article . H/T Sharon! Labels: Money, Personal Finance A Chrysler Bankruptcy After getting bailout money? GM not far behind? Do you know what three factors have put the automakers a step away from ruin? First and foremost, consumers don't believe gasoline prices will stay around $2 a gallon. They are way past that. Second, everyone knows new hybrids and electrics are coming, and when they hit the showrooms in about 16 months, gas prices will go through the roof... $5 a gallon at least. Third, the greed in GM's past has undermined consumer trust. Everybody knows that GM crushed the wonderful EV1 electric cars and destroyed the blueprints so it could convert the factory into Hummer production. And there's one more thing motorists are concerned about... the so-called alternative fuel vehicles that run on hydrogen or propane. Consumers are wary that these vehicles won't be any different once the fuel suppliers begin hiking prices. The wallet will suffer. Remember the Yugo? We need to import some TaTa cars! Mexican Border Disease The latest bogeyman lying in wait to strike fear into the hearts of Americans comes in the form of a mysterious respiratory illness "that could become the next pandemic." Interestingly enough, the malady is "on the rise in border towns" which means "watch out America, you're really gonna get it." Whatever "it" is, keep one eye on "it" and the other eye on whatever else is going on, like a story I saw on BBC about a lull in solar activity that could indicate lower temperatures are on the way. So much for global warming. I have my own theory on that, which I call "Polar Warming." Perhaps I'll post on that next week! The idea of a book of microblogging "tweets" really bugs some people. Gawker's Nick Douglas, author of the forthcoming TwitterWit, already knows that. Now a New York Times columnist is feeling the hate. Upstart "toxic" bloggers like Nikki Finke and Sharon Waxman are back in the news... Albany Media Bias asks "Is our children learning in preschool?" Meanwhile, Dan Weaver questions media coverage of "student suicide." Matisyahu is inviting fans to visit him during rehearsals via Twitter Petro's Jotter explores the Ukrainian political Twitter-sphere, here and here. Siberian Light explains how to connect with Twitter users interested in Russia. In da buff checks out a "shirtless Obama"... via ypulse: Mythbusting WSJ's pro bloggers stats (in case you missed it, yesterday the Wall Street Journal came out with some numbers on "America's Newest Profession" that raised eyebrows and questions in the blogosphere. Columnist Mark Penn has since updated his piece with details on his sources and calculations) Geoffrey Philp posts about World Book and Copyright Day. NEW YORK has photos from the Tribeca Film Festival. This weekend,should twitter once again fail to update for me, I'll "tweet" (like this) directly to my blog (when I'm not posting via cellphone!)! Bookmark me NOW! 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__label__wiki	0.625433	0.625433	July 7, 2011 \| 12:27 PM \| By Elahe Izadi Why Everyone isn’t Connected in a Wired D.C. FILED UNDER: Media, American University Investigative Reporting Workshop, Digital Divide, Race and Class Declan Jewell / Flickr D.C.’s digital divide is no longer about lack of access to high-speed Internet — it’s about people not signing up, a new study finds. An American University Investigative Reporting Workshop study, published Thursday, shows that although nearly all of D.C. is wired for high-speed Internet access, there are entire neighborhoods with extremely low adoption rates, meaning very few households are signed up for service. John Dunbar, the study’s author, says the District’s “very deep” divide “absolutely has to do with wealth.” “If you have a low income, you just don’t subscribe,” he says. “If you look at the city, it’s an adoption divide. It’s really obvious and it’s really disturbing.” The study breaks down broadband adoption rates by Census tract, rating connectivity on an ascending scale of 1 to 5. An interactive map (see below) details connection rates, Internet providers and income levels for each Census tract: The least-connected D.C. neighborhoods are concentrated east of the Anacostia River, in low-income Census tracts. The adoption rates in some of those areas is rated at 1, meaning less than 200 per every 1,000 households were connected to high-speed Internet. Parts of Ward 1, 4 and 5 also have very low adoption rates. Computer ownership Dunbar says that although the data doesn’t show whether people aren’t signing up for Internet access because they don’t own computers, it’s likely a major factor. “Having a computer is critical. It’s definitely a barrier to access and it’s actually an interesting way to look at the access question,” he says. “[Computers] are a lot cheaper than they used to be, but that monthly cost [of Internet access] is the real backbreaker.” The metro region’s racial digital divide Even when adjusted for income, the Hispanic population in the metro-area adopted at lower rates than the black and white populations, and that could be due to marketing or education, Dunbar says. “Is the reason they’re not getting broadband service because they’re not educated? Or is the problem that ‘we don’t have broadband service and therefore I’m not getting educated’?” The government’s role About 95 percent of the U.S. is wired for broadband service, but only 65 percent of the population actually subscribes. And that spurs many policy questions over how much the government should intervene, Dunbar says: Should the government subsidize the cost of signing up? Should it force carriers to set lower-cost price points? The District has taken steps to make it easier for people to connect. Using federal stimulus money, city is installing fiber optic cables in under-served wards. The hope is that high-speed Internet carriers will then provide low-cost and faster service to residents and businesses. But whether people will actually subscribe may depend on just how cheap the service will be, Dunbar says. Race and Class Today is my last day as the senior reporter for DCentric. It’s been a little over a year since I started writing for this blog, and I’m blown away at just thinking about all of the interesting topics I’ve had … Read More view all Media posts Coolidge High School students sit in small groups as they prep for their Advanced Placement U.S. history exam. They’ll be expected to write essays on the materials they’ve learned. “How or why did the anti-slavery movement become more radical during … Read More Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Changes 'If I Was A Poor Black Kid:' Not That Simple view all Digital Divide posts Trapeze artists hovered above a crowd. A band played electronic music as green lasers flashed through the room. Nearby, people created silk-screened T-shirts, a video installation played against the wall and the crowd tossed a large, clear plastic bubble filled … Read More Five Facts About D.C.'s Gap Between Rich and Poor Why Retirement is Tougher for Blacks, Latinos view all Race and Class posts DCentric Picks: Evolution of the Go-Go Beat → ← How to Stretch Grocery Dollars Without a Stove	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line143
__label__wiki	0.566773	0.566773	Steve Bruce wants Newcastle response against Manchester United \| დესა Steve Bruce wants Newcastle response against Manchester United Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Caroline Wozniacki enrol at Harvard Business School Our 2019 Emmy-Nomination Predictions Steve Bruce admits Newcastle had theirbacksides kicked by Leicester but states playing in front of a complete home against Manchester United on Sunday would be an ideal way to bounce backagain. The Magpies were thrashed 5-0 in the King Power previous weekend, even collapsing after Isaac Haydens second-half red cardwith the consequence leaving them 19th from the Premier League table. Newcastle, who appeared in the summer after a limp screen at Norwich, will expect for one more answer if the facet of Gunnar Solskjaer is welcomed by them to St James Park, live on Sky Sports. Manchester United are also in poor shape having have left their worst start to a Premier League season. Bruce was in the center of the United side 30 decades ago, and thinks itsa terrific time to perform them. Whoever we are playing, it is about what we do. Especially after last week, he said. They might not be the Man United of the past but theyve still got some very good players. We are going to have to be in our best and also a good deal better than we had been last week. I hope we show a response to the fans because we allow everyone down last week. It is an excellent time to play them because itll be a complete house, reside on the TV. If we needed to bounce back from anybody, what better method than against them. Bruce has encouraged his players to reveala certain degree of pride about themselves after their heavy defeat at Leicester and isnt fazed by the extra scrutiny he has confronted personally in the past week. There should be a couple of words once you get as badly as we did, Bruce said. What we have to do is react and appear to another game to erase it. Enough has been said on it, were quite disappointed. We had our backsides kicked. Mud was thrown my way because I walked through the door, thats not going to change. The one thing which could change it is outcomes. Im decided, should I possibly can, to flip it around and take the club forward. Since I came, that has been my remit. Im a resilient so and so. You would not be human if you werent affected by it but you try and get on with the work as you can. These days you dont get the time that you want to have, you have to get results immediately. The flack constantly stops at the peak of the tree but that is the way in which the task is. This season youll be able to see Premier League highlights following the full time whistle for free and without being a Sky Sports subscriber. We are going to bring you highlights of every Premier League game on the Sky Sports website and app at full-time or from 5.15pm on Saturday afternoons. You will also have the ability to watch In-game goals from Sky Live matches on Twitter and catch Premier League emphasizes on our Sky Sports Football YouTube channel. Read more here: http://fans.xesstech.com/2019/10/19/cfb-betting-tips-from-pamela-maldonado-what-to-watch-in-week-1/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line144
__label__cc	0.516793	0.483207	Who has played? Team & History Buy the game DO-IT-YOURSELF (DIY) GUIDE Buy + Download Order READY-MADE KITS Required Materials (Game Rule Book, Life Journal & more) Expert Moderator Advice – Dr. Judy Cameron Expert Moderator Advice – Marientina Gotsis The brain architecture game helps people appreciate the impact of early childhood experiences on outcomes across the lifespan. “It wasn’t a fair game,” said one legislator after watching his brain collapse. “I got a lot of unlucky cards.” “Isn’t that the way it happens in real life?” replied the game facilitator. The Brain Architecture Game is a tabletop game experience that builds understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development– what promotes it, what derails it, with what consequences for society. The goal is to build a brain that is as tall as possible, which represents functionality, and as sturdy as possible, which represents the ability to withstand stresses. Groups of four to six players work together, drawing Life Experience cards to gain materials for brain building. Positive experiences earn a pipe cleaner and a straw for support. Negative experiences? Pipe cleaner, but no straw. After the initial period of early childhood brain development, weights must be hung from the structure of the brain when life hands out stressors. Will the foundation withstand these weights, or will it collapse? Afterward, groups use the notes in their Life Journals to discuss the experiences that strengthened, or weakened, the architecture of their developing brains. Since 2009, more than 12,000 people in groups around the world have played the Brain Architecture Game, gaining a memorable, compelling perspective on the lifelong impact of early childhood experiences. It is appropriate for use with community leaders, policymakers or government officials, health providers and educators. If your organization or community is embarking on a conversation about adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, or other early childhood issues, the game can be a valuable resource for creating a common understanding and a common language on these topics. Copyright © 2019 The Brain Architecture Game. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line145
__label__wiki	0.861176	0.861176	How the Vikings' lack of offensive balance led to victory 132dCourtney Cronin Offensive changes at heart of offseason storyline for Vikings 8dCourtney Cronin Vikings-49ers inactives: Who's in, who's out in NFC divisional round Vikings rest starters with playoffs on the horizon 21dCourtney Cronin Lions win despite loss, moving up to No. 3 in 2020 NFL draft 28dMichael Rothstein Packers see signs of life from tight ends, punt returner in lackluster win 42dRob Demovsky Bears keep (slim) playoff hopes alive with statement win over Cowboys 44dJeff Dickerson Packers, Aaron Rodgers take too long to put away hapless Giants Shortcomings exposed: Count the ways Packers are inferior to 49ers Jeff Driskel does just fine, but Lions' defense keeps faltering Clutch D, Dalvin Cook give huge boost to Vikings' playoff prospects Lions' defense will keep them from playoff contention Sizzling Vikings rip off fourth straight win behind efficient Kirk Cousins Vikings' offense finds its way back after big day from Cousins, Thielen Kirk Cousins looks solid against overmatched Raiders Cordarrelle Patterson zooms to 22.23 mph, fastest play in two years 126dJeff Dickerson Courtney CroninESPN Staff Writer Covered the 49ers, Raiders and Warriors for the San Jose Mercury News. She joined ESPN in 2017. MINNEAPOLIS -- The way the Minnesota Vikings composed their 28-12 victory over the Atlanta Falcons was hardly the way coach Mike Zimmer imagined, even with an offseason spent toiling over how to center the offense around their rushing attack. “I did not foresee us throwing the ball 10 times, but I’m happy we did,” Zimmer said. Minnesota called for a running play in Sunday’s win a whopping 77% of the time (36 of 47 plays, excluding kneel-downs), which was its highest rushing percentage in a game in the past 15 seasons, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. It resulted in running back Dalvin Cook notching his third career 100-yard rushing game and the second -- since the Vikings beat Miami last December -- in which he had multiple rushing TDs. Minnesota's three rushing touchdowns were its most in a game in the past five seasons. Aside from Cook’s two, quarterback Kirk Cousins also scored on a QB sneak as he played the role of game manager, attempting a career-low 10 passes but completing eight of those throws for 98 yards, a touchdown and no turnovers. “Throwing 10 times is really unique,” Cousins said. “Probably haven't had a game with that few attempts since literally Pop Warner. I probably threw 10 times or more in most high school games, too. It was what the game called for, and I have no problem with being conservative. As long as we win the football game, that's all that matters to me, and we found a way to get the win, so the approach was a great approach.” The last time Minnesota won with a quarterback attempting fewer than 10 throws was a 1977 victory over Green Bay in which quarterback Bob Lee’s final stat line was 5-of-8 passing for 68 yards and a touchdown. Dalvin Cook had 21 carries for 111 yards and two touchdowns in Minnesota's season-opening win over Atlanta. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images A year after rushing on 33% of plays, the fifth-lowest rate in the NFL, a refocused emphasis on the ground game came complete with a healthy Cook, who carved up Atlanta’s defense with his cutback runs. Still, the manner in which Minnesota defeated Atlanta teeters on the extreme. Zimmer has eluded to wanting a run-first mentality, but the approach the Vikings took against the Falcons was imbalanced. Now, is that a bad thing? Not if that’s what the game calls for and it leads to victory. But to infer this is going to be Minnesota’s identity on offense going forward isn't realistic. “When we got up 28-0, you didn’t need to throw the football so now we had to play to our strengths, which was the clock, and even though it looked boring at times and you’re just running the football, that’s what we had to do to win the game,” Zimmer said. “Now, if it was 14-7 it wouldn’t have looked like that. Each game is dictated a little bit differently, I really thought it was going to be a fourth-quarter game today because I know how talented they are offensively and defensively. So, it was good to get up there. But we had a lot of things go right for us today.” Best of NFL Nation • The 'best man' battle: LaFleur vs. Saleh • Baseball helped Titans' Brown blossom • Chiefs sound drained at facing Henry • Mostert riding wave as 49ers' X factor • What Browns are getting in Stefanski All of the Vikings' 28 points came off turnovers, and had they not been handed such ideal field position from their defense and special teams, chances are Cousins might have been forced into more passing situations. Zimmer wants the Vikings' identity to be based around a stout defense and dominant rushing game, but the success the Vikings had in the latter of those two areas isn’t something that automatically carries over week to week. Next Sunday, Minnesota faces the Green Bay Packers, who held the Chicago Bears to three points in the season opener. The Bears tried to run early, too, but abandoned that plan when the 10 runs they had in the first quarter failed to generate much output. Chicago ran five more times after that and finished with 46 yards on the ground. A year after the offense was criticized for being too pass-heavy, did the pendulum swing too far the other direction in Week 1? Yes, but not every defense Minnesota faces is going to allow 4.5 yards per rush. “Every game calls for something different,” Cousins said. “Don't be surprised if we have to win a game 52-51 this year. Coach Zimmer wouldn't be very happy about that, but every week is different. “It's very important you understand what kind of game we had to play today to win, and that's what we played. And when you consider through the lens of what was asked of us today, what type of game did we have to play to win, and then you can understand why the numbers and stats are what they are, but the No. 1 stat, the only stat that matters, is a win.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line146
__label__cc	0.677003	0.322997	Home IFPRI Publications nsspwp16 16 Demand characteristics for improved rice, cowpea, and maize seeds in Nigeria nsspwp16 16 Title Demand characteristics for improved rice, cowpea, and maize seeds in Nigeria Subtitle Policy implications and knowledge gaps Author Takeshima, Hiroyuki Oyekale, Abayomi Olatokun, Segun Salau, Sheu ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1761-408X Takeshima, Hiroyuki Abstract Despite recent studies on improved seed varieties estimating the adoption rates of maize in 1998 at 40 percent (Manyong et al. 2000) and rice at 60 percent (Larsson 2005), true adoption rates appear to be unknown. This knowledge gap exists due to the ambiguity surrounding what constitutes improved varieties in Nigeria, because they become mixed with traditional varieties once they are adopted and start being traded in the informal seed sector. Given existing evidence and the above caveat, it may be concluded that the rate at which the newly improved varieties of rice, cowpea, and maize are spread among farmers in Nigeria is significantly lower than expected. This slow adoption rate can be attributed to constraints on both the supply and demand sides. Supply side constraints have often been analyzed at various stages, including seed production, distribution, and certification. On the other hand, the constraints on the demand side have not been sufficiently analyzed and there is little systematic understanding of such constraints. Seed demand in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) exhibits distinctive characteristics which differ from the demand in the rest of the world. Diversity in seed demand behavior across farmers is particularly prominent in SSA. This diversity is due to (1) the large number of farmers using seed relative to the aggregate quantity of seed demanded; (2) farmers' inability to overcome their specific agro ecological and socioeconomic environments; and (3) poorly integrated markets. One key goal in characterizing Nigerian farmers' seed demand is improving the public sector's ability to predict which of them are likely to adopt new and improved varieties in the foreseeable future given their agro ecological and socioeconomic situations. This review focuses primarily on the demand for improved seeds of rice, cowpea, and maize. The key research questions addressed in this review are: (1) how has seed demand in SSA been generally characterized, (2) how does such characterization apply to Nigeria, (3) what are the knowledge gaps that, when filled, will allow the public sector to better target the farmers who are likely to adopt improved seeds in Nigeria in the foreseeable future? To that end, this review first describes determinant factors and diversity patterns of farmers' seed demand observed in Eastern and Southern Africa and reported by Minot et al (2007). The study then reviews relevant studies in Nigeria to assess (1) whether any empirical studies on Nigeria report evidence that the same patterns apply to Nigeria; and 2) how such characteristics lead to the demand for specific forms of support from the public sector. This review also discusses some of the unique characteristics of rice, cowpea, and maize, as well as the unique characteristics of Nigerian socioeconomic conditions relevant to the seed sector, in order to highlight how such uniqueness relates to country- and crop-specific characteristics of seed demand in Nigeria. This review contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it brings together the main studies in Nigeria which analyze farmers� seed demand behaviors and identifies the key knowledge gaps that should be filled by future empirical studies in Nigeria. Second, the review provides further evidence from Nigeria on the general characteristics of SSA farmers' seed demand compiled by Minot et al (2007) in Eastern and Southern Africa. Reported evidence generally supports the proposition that farmers' demand for seed is highly diverse, and is affected significantly by agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions. Such evidence suggests the need for a more systematic understanding of farmers' demand to assist seed sector policy formulation. Series Name NSSP Working Paper Previous Series Name NSSP Background Paper Place of publication Abuja, Nigeria Full citation Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Oyekale, Abayomi; Olatokun, Segun; and Salau, Sheu. 2010. Demand characteristics for improved rice, cowpea, and maize seeds in Nigeria: Policy implications and knowledge gaps. NSSP Working Paper 16. Abuja, Nigeria: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/4266 Record Type Working paper Subject - country location NIGERIA Subject - keywords rice Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) socioeconomic environments policy formulation agro-ecological conditions improved seeds Related Documents Brief http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/17755 IFPRI Web link http://www.ifpri.org/publication/demand-characteristics-improved-rice-cowpea-and-maize-seeds-nigeria Title nsspwp16 16 Add tags for nsspwp16 16 Post a Comment for nsspwp16 16 nsspwp16 1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line147
__label__cc	0.616648	0.383352	“Becoming people to each other”: How practice and meaning intersect in the delivery of aged care and disability support Banks, S, 'Becoming people to each other': How practice and meaning intersect in the delivery of aged care and disability support (2016) [PhD] This Australian research investigates how practice and meanings of care intersect in the delivery of support to people with disability and the frail aged. There is ambivalence surrounding ‘care’ in the literatures on ageing and disability: constructions of care differ between these fields. In the field of ageing, care tends to be understood as love and altruism, an extension of the self to give ease to another. For disabled people, care is associated with control, institutionalisation, cruelty, and abuse. Despite these differences, found in the literature, the provider organisations, physical practices, and even the individual workers in aged care and disability support frequently overlap. Furthermore, workers and clients from both fields share a sometimes stigmatised position, hidden in backstage settings, engaged in ‘dirty’ work, and socially and economically marginalised. The voices of workers are rare in the literature, as are studies that combine an empirical focus on meaning and practice. This study used interviews, observations and visual methods with aged care and disability support workers, and with clients. Participants worked or lived in residential facilities, in group and supported accommodation and in private houses. The thematic analysis explored presentation of self, worker and client practices, perceptions of the other and how these elements coalesce in the service encounter. The co-creation of a competent self was revealed as being central to the meaning and practice of care with emotion work enabling both participants to find ways to co-produce one another’s presentation of self. Such co-creation is only possible when the actors (workers and clients) recognise one another on the levels of love, rights and solidarity, and relies on emotion work. An ideal encounter between a support worker and a disabled person creates the possibility of (mutual) recognition. But interactions can also undermine individuals’ presentation of self and damage opportunities to experience recognition. I argue that all levels of recognition—love, rights and solidarity—must be present in a support interaction in order for the participants to experience enabling and satisfying working relationships. Further, recognition must be mutual. The research findings have implications for the wellbeing of workers and clients, the responsibilities of community and facility provider organisations, for future training of workers, and for policy. disability support, aged care, emotion work, recognition theory Public Health and Health Services Aged Health Care Health and Support Services Health and Support Services not elsewhere classified Banks, S (Ms Susan Banks)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line148
__label__cc	0.720508	0.279492	It’s a Monday, so what direction are markets moving? Yes, up, but only slightly so far. Below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW on the left, and a 5 minute chart of the S&P on the right: Both the dollar and bonds are down, oil and gold are up. There are no economic reports today and it is light on reports most of the week. Consumer Sentiment is released on Friday. Below is a good article on Greece’s hidden debt problem. Think they are the only country with that problem? Think again, and America is no exception. What went on to hide the debt and how American companies helped to hide it is simply disgusting, embarrassing, shameful, and far more importantly, dangerous: Greece's hidden debt soaring The Greek debt tragedy currently unfolding -- the country's on-balance-sheet debt is 13 times its gross domestic product -- may be just the tip of the iceberg. More troubling, according to a report out last week, is the off-balance-sheet debt owed by the country, and its fellow, over-indebted nations Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain, the so-called PIIGS, representing the five-nation acronym. The off-balance-sheet debt, where countries guarantee the debt of private developments, many of which had gone bust, could multiply the problem many times -- putting further pressure on the euro, the report said. Gordon Long, founder of a private venture-capital fund, said in an investor note that there is more than $600 trillion in notational value in the global derivative market, with $437 trillion of it tied to interest rate swaps. "Any credit event could trigger a cascading event," Long wrote in the report. "It does not have to be default; it could be a downgrade in swap contracts that would do the trick for a collateral call. Something is going to cause it to topple, whether it's a situation in Dubai, Greece or New Jersey." With this as a backdrop, is it any wonder that the US dollar has been on a strong run since last November against the euro and the British pound? Also, gold versus the euro has risen 16 percent in the same time frame. Major investors also have a record number of future bets that the euro will depreciate against the dollar over the short term. "The next 12 months could be very dramatic for the Eurozone," said Robert Chapman, publisher of "The International Forecaster." " I am seeing many sovereign defaults for the PIIGS as well as in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet satellite countries running into 2011," Chapman added. International finance-industry estimates have Dubai's sovereign debt load, thanks to the off-balance-sheet debt, exploding to nearly four times its originally reported $80 billion, as other government-backed projects have gone bad after Dubai World's default in late November. If the off-balance-sheet debt continues to come due, expect the euro to continue to fall in value and the US dollar to gain power. That will, in turn, hurt US companies looking to export goods. How Greece's off-balance-sheet problem grew is a tragedy in itself. For example: * In 2005, Greece wanted to develop a Mediterranean beachfront location for tourists but didn't want to float infrastructure bonds to pay for the development because its debt load was over the ceiling threshold set by the EU. So it brought in a Wall Street bank, like Goldman Sachs, which suggested it establish a Special Purpose Vehicle. * This SPV in essence allowed the public development company to finance the infrastructure project with the Greek government guaranteeing the debt. The project moved forward with no impact on Greece's credit rating -- until the housing economy went south and the developer declared bankruptcy. Greece now has to add the debt to its balance sheet. So when this scenario is played out a thousand times across the Eurozone, the bond ratings of the sovereign countries are lowered, thereby increasing their borrowing costs and eventually leading to a possible default. This is how the Greek debt has grown 12 times over the initial numbers it had on the books with the European Union. Iceland and Dubai are the test studies for how the Europeans may deal with the idea of socializing private debt through public funding. Dubai World's default, which had government backing, put the world on notice that sovereign credit-worthiness was a concern. And just yesterday, Icelanders overwhelmingly voted "no" in a referendum on a $5.3 billion deal to compensate Britain and the Netherlands for deposits lost in a collapsed Icelandic bank. With daily riots in Greece over government tax policy changes, this may end poorly. PIIG(ing) out Portugal, Italy, Ireland Greece and Spain are among the European nations suffering under large sovereign debt loads. * Countries took Wall St.’s advice and backed private construction debt for infrastructure projects. * After project contractors go bankrupt the debt burden falls to the guarantor, which is the country. *Country’s ability to borrow is constrained by higher loan costs due to increased debt limits. This shifting of massive undisclosed risk onto sovereign states is nothing but a crime against humanity, plain and simple. The people responsible are no better than gangsters, in fact are worse as they are creating far more damage to others. They are pushers of debt, and again, their damage is far more widespread and destructive than pushers of drugs. Of course the European Union has provisions against bailing out countries. Was that all show to build confidence in the new Euro? Of course it was. Will the central bankers who created it step in to keep their money machine in tact? Of course they will: March 8 (Bloomberg) -- European leaders are in talks to establish a lender of last resort and limits on credit-default swaps to bolster the euro area and prevent a repeat of the Greek financial crisis. Plans for what may become the European Monetary Fund and a German-French push to curb “speculators” using derivatives to bet against Greece’s debt are to be ready by June, officials in Berlin and Brussels said today. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble “believes we must learn from the crisis,” his spokesman Michael Offer told reporters in Berlin. Greece is “the trigger” for efforts to avoid similar crises in the future, he said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her fellow European leaders are shifting from rhetoric in support of Greece to regulation as they seek to defend the euro and rally behind coordinated measures in the wake of the global financial crisis. “Speculators and the markets should know that solidarity means something and that, if there’s a problem, we are there,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in Paris yesterday after talks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. “The sooner we say that and the more firmly we say that, the more rapidly we settle the problem.” More and more socialization built upon the back of debt for the profit of a few. Hey, the people of Iceland did the right thing, congratulations! Tell the central bankers to pound sand! CNN ran a good interview of Jim Chanos talking about China and what is going on over there in real estate. Worth a listen: Jim Chanos on China: Let’s talk about the markets. Unfortunately, I see a lot of people jumping the bull market gun. The RUT and the NASDAQ made new highs but yet the DOW, the S&P, the Transports, and the NDX have not. Yes, it possibly changes the outlook if they go onto new highs, BUT, what is happening with some making it and others not making it at the same time is called a divergence! This is exactly the type of divergence that occurs at or near major tops. A healthy market makes new highs together, and they do it on volume. This market reached EXTREME internal readings on Friday, and I am therefore issuing a warning to anyone who is long the market to be very protective. Here are just a few of the indications – the put/call ratio is at a place normally seen at tops, the VIX dove showing great complacency, the McClelland Oscillator is in extreme high readings normally associated with tops, the Advance/ Decline line is at extreme readings normally associated with tops, and finally, the number of 52 week highs on the NYSE reached 458 on Friday, an extreme reserved only for major tops. For comparison, the top in ’07 had 383 new highs, the top in January of this year had 316. We are close. The valuations are extreme, you have been warned. So, is this now such a “managed” economy that the markets can’t lose more than 10%? Is this a “new era?” An era where the vast majority of the market is owned by semi-government entangled entities who own so much of the market that there can be no serious sellers? Because that is what I am hearing, but I can assure you that a one way miracle market has NOT been created. Valuations do matter, the debt pushers' math does not work and their debt backed games are going to unravel. I’m just sitting back and watching history unfold. Only a fool would go long into the above statistics. Once again, I must share a passage of my book about the fifth bubble stage according to Hyman Minsky: Stage Five – Market Reversal/Insider Profit Taking: Some wise voices will stand up and say that the bubble can no longer continue. They argue that long run fundamentals, the ratios and measurements, defy sound economic practices. In the bubble, these arguments disappear within one over-riding fact – the price is still rising. The voices of the wise are ignored by the greedy who justify the now insane prices with the euphoric claim that the world has fundamentally changed and this new world means higher prices. Then along comes the cruelest lie of them all, “There will most likely be a ‘soft’ landing!” Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line151
__label__wiki	0.667463	0.667463	socialist-economics New UN data on international migrants highlights special responsibility for destination countries in the Global Compact for Migration [feedly] New UN data on international migrants highlights special responsibility for destination countries in the Global Compact for Migration https://www.epi.org/blog/new-un-data-on-international-migrants-highlights-special-responsibility-for-destination-countries-in-the-global-compact-for-migration/ Large movements of refugees and migrants around the world since 2015, many in response to humanitarian crises, have led to a global negotiation at the United Nations (UN) to create a new Global Compact for Migration (GCM). The GCM will be a non-binding international agreement to establish a new regime for cooperation on international migration that can maximize the benefits of migration and better protect migrants in vulnerable situations. While governments—minus the United States—continue to negotiate the GCM, it's important to step back and reflect on the lives at stake. The latest UN report and data on migration from the UN Population Division helps by providing a snapshot of migrants around the world. These data can assist policymakers who are currently negotiating the GCM's substantive provisions, who should remember to take into account their special responsibilities to protect the human rights of all migrants who live and work within their borders. The UN Population Division reported that there were 258 million international migrants worldwide in 2017, meaning that 3.4 percent of people had been living outside of their country-of-birth for at least one year. The number of international migrants rose by 10 million from 248 million in 2015, but was unchanged as a share of the global population. The number of migrants in 2017 is an increase of 50 percent from 173 million in 2000, rising 0.6 percent from 2.8 percent of the global share of the population in 2000. Almost 75 percent of international migrants are of prime working age, meaning between the ages of 20-64. Men were 52 percent of international migrants in 2017 and women 48 percent. By continent, Asia hosted 80 million international migrants, Europe 78 million, North America 58 million, Africa 25 million, Latin America 9.5 million, and Oceania 8.4 million. Europe's population would have declined between 2000 and 2015 had it not been for the arrival of international migrants. Most international migrants, some 146 million or 57 percent, are in the more developed countries (as defined by the UN) in Europe, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. The share of international migrants among residents of more developed countries rose from less than 10 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2017. A separate category devised by the UN distinguishes migrants in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. There were 165 million migrants in high-income countries, 64 percent of the total, including some in countries that are considered high income but are also considered less developed, like Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and many Gulf oil-exporting countries. Middle-income countries such as Mexico, Morocco, and Turkey had 32 percent of the world's migrants, and low-income countries from Bangladesh to Zimbabwe had four percent. Half of all international migrants were in 10 countries and two-thirds were in 20 countries. The United States hosts the most international migrants, 50 million, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all international migrants around the world (including five million Puerto Ricans the UN counts as international migrants who moved to the U.S. mainland). The United States is followed Saudi Arabia and Germany, each hosting 12.2 million, 11.6 million in Russia, 8.6 million in the United Kingdom, and 8.3 million in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 11 countries that each had at least six million international migrants hosted 53 percent of all international migrants, including France, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Italy. Three-fourths of the nearly 50 percent increase in the total number of international migrants since 2000 was in high-income countries, and half was in more-developed countries, highlighting the importance of distinguishing between high-income and more developed countries. The United States accounted for 18 percent of the increase in the migrant stock between 2000 and 2017, while Saudi Arabia accounted for eight percent of the increase. The highest shares of migrants among the national population were in Gulf oil-exporting countries such as the UAE, with 88 percent, Kuwait with 76 percent, and Qatar with 65 percent. 30 percent of Switzerland's population are migrants, Australia 29 percent, Canada 22 percent, and the United States 15 percent. Countries with fewer than one percent of migrants in the population include Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China. The latest UN data reveal that a small group of countries are hosting most of the international migrants around the world. 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__label__wiki	0.564788	0.564788	China Daily Reports Traditional Operas Leaderships Home > Top News The first encyclopedia of Mount Tai to be compiled (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2016-05-04 Shandong province has initiated the compilation of China's first encyclopedia about Mount Tai, according to the authorities of the Mount Tai scenic spot on April 26. Mount Tai is considered to be the most revered mountain out of the five famous mountains in China, enjoying UNESCO world heritage status. Specialists from domestic well-known universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shandong University are participating in compiling the works. Consisting of 120 volumes and 60 million words, the encyclopedia is expected to take three to five years to complete. The complete works will include a great number of historical literature and research achievements to present readers with various knowledge about Mount Tai, ranging from the climate, plants, animals, medicines to history, folk-custom, religion and art. "The spirit and culture of Mount Tai stands for the Chinese national spirit and traditional culture, and the encyclopedia will show people the charm of Mount Tai worldwide," said Yao Ting, the director of the Management Committee of Mount Tai scenic spot. The beautiful scenery of Mount Tai is regarded as the best of the five famous mountains in China. [Photo/Xinhua] Shandong takes Chinese New Year culture global Preserving Tai'an Shandong’s cultural heritage through camera lens Welcome to Zibo Shandong provincial department of culture The department is responsible for the draft of local laws and regulations in preservation of arts and relics, making and implementing relevant policies. Qingdao, China's sailing city Wonderland Yantai Mountain Taishan, China Copyright © 2015 China Daily. Sponsored by Shandong Provincial Department of Culture. Presented by China Daily.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line155
__label__wiki	0.534831	0.534831	A novel approach to using neural networks to predict the colour of fibre blends Hemingray, C and Westland, S (2016) A novel approach to using neural networks to predict the colour of fibre blends. Coloration Technology, 132 (4). pp. 297-303. ISSN 1472-3581 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cote.12220 This work is concerned with the colour prediction of viscose fibre blends, comparing two conventional prediction models (the Stearns–Noechel model and the Friele model) and two neural network models. A total of 333 blended samples were prepared from eight primary colours, including two-, three-, and four-colour mixtures. The performance of the prediction models was evaluated using 60 of the 333 blended samples. The other 273 samples were used to train the neural networks. It was found that the performance of both neural networks exceeded the performance of both conventional prediction models. When the neural networks were trained using the 273 training samples, the average CIELAB colour differences (between measured and predicted colour of blends) for the 60 samples in the test set were close to 1.0 for the neural network models. When the number of training samples was reduced to only 100, the performance of the neural networks degraded, but they still gave lower colour differences between measured and predicted colour than the conventional models. The first neural network was a conventional network similar to that which has been used by several other researchers; the second neural network was a novel application of a standard neural network where, rather than using a single network, a set of small neural networks was used, each of which predicted reflectance at a single wavelength. The single-wavelength neural network was shown to be more robust than the conventional neural network when the number of training examples was small. Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cote.12220 Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology > Art, Architecture and Design https://doi.org/10.1111/cote.12220 Polymers, 0904 Chemical Engineering, 0912 Materials Engineering, Depositing User (symplectic) Deposited by Hemingray, Caroline Accepted Version Note: this is the author's final manuscript and may differ from the published version which should be used for citation purposes. \| Preview RDF+XML BibTeX RIOXX2 XML RDF+N-Triples JSON Dublin Core Atom Simple Metadata Refer METS HTML Citation ASCII Citation OpenURL ContextObject EndNote OpenURL ContextObject in Span MODS MPEG-21 DIDL EP3 XML Reference Manager RDF+N3 Multiline CSV Read more research from the author(s): C Hemingray ORCID: 0000-0003-4075-4416 S Westland Additional statistics for this record View Item Details (must be logged in)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line159
__label__wiki	0.716906	0.716906	Search / Browse Documents Search Within: Clear All [x] Specific Document Date Range Working Paper (Numbered Series) (4) Policy Research Working Paper (3) Egypt, Arab Republic of (1) Disclosed (15) Display results in sets of Download To Excel Clear All Selected [x] Report No. Turkey - Universal health coverage for inclusive and sustainable development : country summary report (English) Turkey is an upper middle-income country that has seen rapid economic growth and development over the last decade. In a relatively short period, it has essentially achieved universal health insurance (UHI) coverage of the population, high levels of financial protection and equity, and high and rising levels of consumer satisfaction, while significantly improving health outcomes. ... See More + The universal health coverage (UHC) strategy, embedded in its Health Transformation Program (HTP), was initiated in 2003 to improve the effectiveness of the health system through improved governance, efficiency, and user and provider satisfaction. See Less - Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 91221 Document Date: SEP 01, 2014 Author: Aran, Meltem; Ozceli, Ece Amber Disclosure Status: Disclosed Turkey on the way of universal health coverage through the health transformation program (English) Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). ... See More + The progress of Turkeys health system has few if any parallels in scope and speed. Before the reforms, Turkeys aggregate health indicators lagged behind those of OECD member states and other middle-income countries. The health financing system was fragmented, with four separate insurance schemes and a Green Card program for the poor, each with distinct benefits packages and access rules. Both the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and Ministry of Health (MoH) were providers and financiers of the health system, and four different ministries were directly involved in public health care delivery. Turkeys reform efforts have impacted virtually all aspects of the countrys health system and have resulted in the rapid expansion of the proportion of the population covered and of the services to which they are entitled. At the same time, financial protection has improved. For example, (i) insurance coverage increased from 64 to 98 percent between 2002 and 2012; (ii) the share of pregnant women having four antenatal care visits increased from 54 to 82 percent between 2003 and 2010; and (iii) citizen satisfaction with health services increased from 39.5 to 75.9 percent between 2003 and 2011. Despite dramatic improvements there is still space for Turkey to continue to improve its citizens health outcomes, and challenges lie ahead for improving services beyond primary care. The main criticism to reform has so far come from health sector workers; the future sustainability of reform will rely not only on continued fiscal support to the health sector but also the maintanence of service provider satisfaction. See Less - Author: Bump, Jesse; Sparkes, Susan; Tatar, Mehtap; Celik, Yusuf; Aran, Meltem; Rokx, Claudia Disclosure Status: Disclosed Inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children (English) This paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The analysis uses severall tools, including comparison of the distributions of early risks and outcomes across circumstance groups; estimation of the human opportunity index; measurement of the relative contributions of circumstances to inequality of opportunity; and decomposition of changes in inequality of opportunity and factors driving them over time. ... See More + Egypt has made significant progress in the availability of and access to basic services for children and mothers, in some cases with an overall pro-poor effect. In particular, appreciable improvements have been made in healthcare utilization before and during pregnancy and immunizations. As a result, there has been a decline in inequality of opportunity over the past decade, largely attributable to increased coverage by basic services rather than through redistributive effects. However, there are areas of persistent and emerging concerns, including postnatal care utilization, nutrition, and schooling. Nutrition indicators have deteriorated during the 2000s, affecting a quarter of children regardless of their circumstances. Wide disparities in school enrollment persist, notably at the higher levels. Large regional disparities in access to basic infrastructure exist, with Upper Egypt and the Frontier Governorates lagging the rest of the country. Family background, especially parents' education and wealth, and geographic factors are key factors affecting child development outcomes in Egypt. While interventions targeted at the less advantaged circumstance groups may offer significant potential for enhancing overall equity in postnatal care utilization and schooling, a more inclusive approach would be needed to improve child nutrition outcomes. See Less - Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7026 Document Date: SEP 01, 2014 Author: Ersado, Lire; Aran, Meltem Disclosure Status: Disclosed Turkey on the way of universal health coverage through the health transportation program (2003-2013) (English) Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). ... See More + The progress of Turkeys health system has few, if any, parallels in scope and speed. Before the reforms, Turkeys aggregate health indicators lagged behind those of OECD member states and other middle-income countries. The health financing system was fragmented, with four separate insurance schemes and a Green Card program for the poor, each with distinct benefits packages and access rules. Both the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and Ministry of Health (MoH) were providers and financiers of the health system, and four different ministries were directly involved in public health care delivery. Turkeys reform efforts have impacted virtually all aspects of the countrys health system and have resulted in the rapid expansion of the proportion of the population covered and of the services to which they are entitled. At the same time, financial protection has improved. For example, (i) insurance coverage increased from 64 to 98 percent between 2002 and 2012; (ii) the share of pregnant women having four antenatal care visits increased from 54 to 82 percent between 2003 and 2010; and (iii) citizen satisfaction with health services increased from 39.5 to 75.9 percent between 2003 and 2011. Despite dramatic improvements there is still space for Turkey to continue to improve its citizens health outcomes, and challenges lie ahead for improving services beyond primary care. The main criticism to reform has so far come from health sector workers; the future sustainability of reform will rely not only on continued fiscal support to the health sector but also the maintenance of service provider satisfaction. See Less - Author: Aran, Meltem; Rokx, Claudia Disclosure Status: Disclosed Good jobs in Turkey (English) This joint study, by the World Bank and the Turkish Ministry of Development, explores the status and effects of good jobs in Turkeys current economy. ... See More + After a brief account of economic events, it examines the relationship between growth and employment in Turkey, with a particular regard to the participation of different social groups in the labor market, such as women and youth. It then analyzes where jobs are being created and which activities are the most productive for the Turkish economy, and assesses if jobs have moved to more productive activities in recent years. Finally, the report proceeds to measure the impact of different types of jobs on the welfare of an entire household and on the households relative position in the overall income distribution. See Less - Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 83818 Document Date: NOV 01, 2013 Author: Grun, Rebekka; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; Immervoll, Herwig; Capar, Sinem; Levin, Victoria; Aran, Meltem; Gruen, Carola; Tolga Cebeci, Levent Yener ve Document also available in: Turkish Disclosure Status: Disclosed Good jobs in Turkey : Turkiye de iyi isler (Turkish) Author: Grun, Rebekka; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; Immervoll, Herwig; Capar, Sinem; Levin, Victoria; Aran, Meltem; Gruen, Carola; Tolga Cebeci, Levent Yener ve Document also available in: English Disclosure Status: Disclosed Protection in good and bad times ? the Turkish green card health program (English) This paper evaluates the equity and financial protection implications of the expansion of the Green Card (Yesil Kart) non-contributory health insurance program in Turkey during the growth years from 2003 to 2008. ... See More + It also considers the program's protective impact during the economic crisis in 2009. The authors find that the rapid expansion of the program between 2003 and 2008 was highly progressive. It led to significant gains in coverage of the poor but offered limited financial protection as out-of-pocket expenditures even before the introduction of the program had been limited. Using a specialized welfare monitoring survey, fielded in 2009, the authors estimate the impact of the program on household level health care utilization during the first phase of the economic slowdown in Turkey. Using three different estimation techniques, they find that the Green Card program had a significantly positive impact on protecting health care utilization during the crisis. See Less - Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6178 Document Date: AUG 01, 2012 Author: Aran,Ayse Meltem; Hentschel,Jesko S. Disclosure Status: Disclosed Life chances in Turkey : expanding opportunities for the next generation (English) Life chances explore the state of equality of opportunities in Turkey. It builds on the concepts and ideas presented in the World Development Report 2006: equity and development. ... See More + The authors assess how today's distribution of wealth and the success of children in learning to read and write are shaped by the past, by factors predetermined at birth, factors over which today's children and families have no control: one's gender, parents' and grandparents' education, region and area of birth, or mother tongue. Some of the findings are stark, especially as they pertain to how the opportunities today's children have affect the future of the country: a girl born in a remote village to a poor family and parents with primary education degrees will very likely struggle in almost every area of her development. Compared with a boy born to well-off, highly educated parents in one of the urban centers in the country's west, that girl is four times as likely to suffer from low birth weight, one-third as likely to be immunized, and ten times as likely to have her growth stunted as a result of malnutrition. Similarly she has a one-in-five chance of completing high school, whereas the boy will likely finish school and move on to college. Life chances shows how investing in early childhood education has huge payoffs, for disadvantaged children as well as social and economic development at large. This book goes beyond tradeoffs between efficiency and equity. It shows that a focus on equity, equality of opportunities, can also lead to enhanced efficiency, once the productive capabilities of all citizens are nurtured to their fullest extent regardless of the luck of the draw at birth. See Less - Document Type: Publication Report No.: 56797 Document Date: JUN 16, 2010 Author: Hentschel, Jesko; Aran, Meltem; Can, Raif; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie; Uraz, Arzu Disclosure Status: Disclosed Recent trends in female labor force participation in Turkey (English) The female labor force participation level in Turkey is currently very low at 27 percent compared with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD and European Union, or EU-19 averages of 61 and 64 percent respectively. ... See More + This rate has been declining in the last 30 years from a level of 48 percent in 1980. This paper looks at the most recent trends and profiles of labor force participation of women in Turkey using three different household level data sources in available Turkey (HBS, LFS and TDHS) for the period 2003-2006. The paper also reports a multivatiate analysis on the probability of working for women, controlling for various characteristics. See Less - Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 75443 Document Date: MAR 01, 2010 Author: Uraz, Arzu; Aran, Meltem; Husamoglu, Muserref; Sanalmis, Dilek Okkaly Document also available in: Turkish Disclosure Status: Disclosed Inequality of economic opportunity in Turkey : an assessment using asset indicators and women's background variables (English) Using information on asset ownership, housing quality, and access to services to construct an indicator of household wealth, the author estimates the share of inequality among prime-age Turkish women that can be attributed to unequal opportunities. ... See More + Both parametric and non-parametric estimation methods are used, and robustness to some sample redefinitions is verified. The author find that at least one-third (one-fourth) of overall wealth (imputed consumption) inequality in Turkey is associated with morally irrelevant, pre-determined circumstances. The circumstances that account for the largest share of the variance are rural or urban birth area and father's education. Controlling for rural birth, parents' education, language spoken at home, and number of siblings, a three-way regional breakdown of birthplace is not an important predictor of wealth. An opportunity deprivation profile reveals that more than two thirds of the most deprived group in Turkey consists of women born in the rural areas of the Eastern region, from mothers with no formal education. See Less - Author: Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie; Aran, Meltem Document also available in: Turkish Disclosure Status: Disclosed Inequality of economic opportunity in Turkey : an assessment using asset indicators and women's background variables : Turkiye de ekonomik firsat esitsizligi : varlik gostergeleri ve kadinlarin altyapi degiskenleri kullanilarak yapilan bir degerlendirme (Turkish) Author: Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie; Aran, Meltem Document also available in: English Disclosure Status: Disclosed Recent trends in female labor force participation in Turkey : Turkiye'de kadinlarin isgucune katiliminda son donemde gozlenen egilimler (Turkish) Author: Uraz, Arzu; Aran, Meltem; Husamoglu, Muserref; Sanalmis, Dilek Okkaly Document also available in: English Disclosure Status: Disclosed Turkey - Expanding opportunities for the next generation : a report on life chances (English) This report is a part of larger welfare and social policy work agenda which the Turkish State Planning Organization and the World Bank are carrying out collaboratively. ... See More + The work agenda includes the preparation of a number of conceptualized, and in part of co-authored, analytical studies on topics ranging from examines the equity determinants to investigating the links between poverty, employment creation, and growth. Further, the work agenda comprises a number of human development dialogues for which we are inviting international experts and practioners to share their experiences about social policy reforms with the Turkish government and the wider academic and non-governmental public. This report examines life chances. Life chances for today Turkish people, most importantly future generation, today's children. The results presented in this report show that life chances differ in important dimensions today, and that Turkey could immensely improve its human and economic development potential by maximizing such opportunities. See Less - Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 48627 Document Date: FEB 01, 2010 Author: Hentschel, Jesco; Meltem, Aran; Can, Raif; Ferreira, Francisco; Gignoux, Jeremie; Yukseker, Elif Yonca; Uraz, Arzu Document also available in: Turkish Disclosure Status: Disclosed Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data : the case of Turkey (English) The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data limitations. This paper proposes two alternative approaches to circumventing the missing data problems in countries where a demographic and health survey and an ancillary household expenditure survey are available. ... See More + One method relies only on the demographic and health survey, and constructs a wealth index as a measure of economic advantage. The alternative method imputes consumption from the ancillary survey into the demographic and health survey. In both cases, the between-type share of overall inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are calculated for both methods, and the parametric approach is shown to yield preferable lower-bound measures. In an application to the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 percent) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index). See Less - Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5204 Document Date: FEB 01, 2010 Author: Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie; Aran, Meltem Disclosure Status: Disclosed Turkey - Expanding opportunities for the next generation : a report on life chances : Turkiye - Gelecek nesiller ycin fyrsatlaryn cogaltilmasi : 'yasam firsatlari' konulu rapor (Turkish) Author: Hentschel, Jesco; Meltem, Aran; Can, Raif; Ferreira, Francisco; Gignoux, Jeremie; Yukseker, Elif Yonca; Uraz, Arzu Document also available in: English Disclosure Status: Disclosed See More + SEP 01, 2014 91221 Working Paper See More + SEP 01, 2014 WPS7026 Policy Research Working Paper See More + NOV 01, 2013 83818 Working Paper Turkish See More + NOV 01, 2013 83818 Working Paper English See More + AUG 01, 2012 WPS6178 Policy Research Working Paper See More + JUN 16, 2010 56797 Publication See More + MAR 01, 2010 75443 Working Paper (Numbered Series) Turkish See More + MAR 01, 2010 75432 Working Paper (Numbered Series) English See More + FEB 01, 2010 48627 Working Paper Turkish See More + FEB 01, 2010 WPS5204 Policy Research Working Paper See More + FEB 01, 2010 48627 Working Paper English I cannot find the document I am looking for. 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__label__cc	0.716737	0.283263	The Executive Committee of the NGOs’ Coalition for the Adoption of a Facultative Protocol to IPESCR requests support in order to achieve the IPESCR Protocol. 8/26/2005 – Artemisa Noticias, ESCR-Net, RIMA. The NGOs’ Coalition for the Adoption of a Facultative Protocol to IPESCR, through the member persons and organizations, is confident in representing the voice of civil society in the promotion of the future facultative protocol. The NGO Coalition unequivocally supports the first option mentioned in the Chair’s Elements Paper – a comprehensive approach whereby all rights in the Covenant are subject to the procedures established by the Optional Protocol. The NGO Coalition believes that a comprehensive approach is an overarching fundamental requirement necessary for an effective Optional Protocol. The NGO Coalition considers that, as is the case in the Rules of Procedure for the OPCEDAW, the burden of proof should be on the State. Thus, if a State Party disputes the author’s contention that all available domestic remedies have been exhausted, the State Party shall give details of the remedies available in the particular circumstances. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Summary of the World Declaration on Higher Education. The Evolution of an Optional Protocol Complaints Mechanism Under the ICESCR. New mandate to start drafting! Statement of the NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR in Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and Romanian. Conferences and meetings in the protection of NGO... escrprotocolnow.org © 2009 All Rights Reserved. info@escrprotocolnow.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line168
__label__wiki	0.960801	0.960801	Funk, Soul & Outernational Vibes Year in Review 2005 By Joshua Ostroff Arular (XL) Backed by a blast of Rocky fanfare, genre-mashing agit-pop star M.I.A. entered 2005 as the champ to beat, even though her debut album Arular had yet to see a release. Her very first live performance, in fact, took place this February in the basement of Toronto's upscale hipster haunt, the Drake Hotel, to a small-but-stoked scenester crowd, all of whom already knew every last lyric. Despite, or more likely because of, the hype that had been arriving via broadband for months, childhood civil war survivor Maya Arulpragasm looked surprisingly scared onstage. Wearing a homemade silk pantsuit laced with lightening bolts and standing in front of her hand-drawn graphics of tanks and bombs, 28-year-old Maya clearly realised this was where her make-or-break year began though she likely didn't imagine it would end with her current arena tour alongside Gwen Stefani. But in the interim months, M.I.A refused to leave either the road or your iPod. She sung with Missy, blew off Kanye and toured with LCD Soundsystem. She signed with Interscope, sided with "terrorists" and sold out to Honda. She came through window, she came through the door, she busted down the big wall and sounded the horn. When informed that the raging editorial debate over Arular was not about what number it would rank, but rather what genre section it should fit in, M.I.A. simply says, "well, you're just going to have to invent a new one." After all, that's pretty much what she did mischievously connecting dots between West London grime and Southern crunk, NYC electro and Indian bhangra, Brazilian baile funk and Kingston dancehall, Public Enemy politics and Double Dutch nursery rhymes. "The thing that I'm doing is something else and it doesn't really connect with anything at the moment," she says. "In hip-hop people are opening up more and in indie music people are getting more beats. Influences are crossing over into each other's puddles. I just accept where I'm at, I accept where the world is at and I accept how we receive and digest information. I get that somebody in Tokyo is on the internet instant messaging, and someone in the [Brazilian shantytown] favelas is on the internet. Everybody seems to know a little bit about everything and that's how we process information now. This just reflects that." Not only did M.I.A. channel this brave new e-world, it's also where her career was born. This time last year she was still primarily a digital phenomenon. The London-raised refugee of a Sri Lankan "freedom fightin' dad" had made the leap from stencil artist to recording artist thanks to the second song she ever wrote the career-defining "Galang" with its "yeah yeah heys" heard round the world. But that debut twelve-inch only saw a 500-copy pressing until it was re-released last fall by XL Recordings to follow-up her insurgent anthem "Sunshowers" and its equally defiant boast "like PLO I won't surrend-o." But nobody buys singles this side of the pond so M.I.A.'s music spread via effusive music blogs, hipster soul-seekers, dance club DJs and her soon-to-be-boyfriend Diplo's brilliant no-samples-cleared mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism, which footnoted her influences by mashing M.I.A. up with Salt'n'Pepa, the Bangles and favela funk. After a brief delay caused by her jump from indie XL to mega-label Interscope, M.I.A. finally made it to record racks last March. Named after her father's guerrilla alias he's linked to Sri Lanka's controversial Tamil Tigers, a group seen by some as justified insurgents and by others as child soldier-recruiting terrorists Arular offered a potent mix of party minx and political firebrand. A performance in poverty-stricken Argentina, where the biggest crowd reaction came for "Pull Up the People," made her realise the power of her platform. "I can use music to shed light on the people that need to speak. But at the same time, it's difficult. I'm not preachy. I can't be because it doesn't work on me and I have to be open to that. You don't want to tell people what to do, you just want to indicate what's out there, that's all. I'm not a leader, I'm an agitator. I don't want to push anything down their throats. I just want to be the voice that raises some questions." But questions can be a double-edged sword and almost immediately music critics, academics and message board posters began doubting her authenticity, slamming her appropriation of regional styles, dismissing her as an art school grad and parsing her revolutionary subject matter. Though she's made clear her guerrilla lyrics are intended to add grey to Dubya's black and white world that the difference between freedom fighter and terrorist is often a matter of perspective she has a bit of concern over charges of appropriation. "It's a 50-50 thing. On the one side you think who the fuck am I to come into Brazil and say funk is cool?'" she says after "Bucky" became the first favela track on MTV. But she's also helping shed light on the scene and besides, favela funk was appropriated from Miami Bass anyway. More recently the backlash has concerned her sale of "Galang" for use in a Honda car commercial a decision she's been personally explaining to fans at gigs. Though she hoisted her own petard a bit with the "M.I.A." lyric "Don't sell out to be product pushers," Maya stands by her choice. "I still get pulled by the practical side of it. You get the money and then you buy 20 beggars on the street ten rickshaws so they can be taxi drivers and support their family. Or do you turn around and say my little 30 seconds of music is so fucking precious that no one is allowed to touch it, my credit as an artist is way more important. I don't have the luxury to turn something like that down," she notes. "How the fuck do I sustain myself when for every person that buys my CD, there are ten people who download it? I'm never going to make money from selling records. I don't come at it the way Gwen Stefani does." But all the overblown backlashes and critical deconstruction in the world can't diminish the reaction M.I.A. received in September during her third sold-out Toronto show of the year. The crowd was younger, more diverse and still ridiculously excited many had likely only recently discovered her and sang gloriously along while Maya herself had grown into her songs and finally learned how to properly wield her considerable charisma. Whether or not she'll parlay that into a solid sophomore effort remains to be seen though having Timbaland produce can't hurt. But regardless of what's next, all year long Arular's transglobal soundclash made it sound like the future had already arrived. "When you open doors like that in music," Maya says matter-of-factly, "you're going to get interesting things." 2. SHARON JONES and the DAP-KINGS Naturally (Daptone) Thank goodness Sharon Jones is finally getting some dap! From unaccredited back-up singer to Corrections Officer at Rykers, Georgia's Queen of Funk has seen it all and ain't afraid to tell it. Naturally is her second album and it's so damn good that you'd be hard pressed to go through the People Records back catalogue and find anything funkier. From songs like "How Long," "This Land is Your Land" and "Got A Thing On My Mind," you can feel the funk and soul coursing through your veins. The Dap-Kings keep it tight and seamless, and it all comes together with Sharon Jones at the helm. Like the soul sister number one says, "If you can't feel the music on this album then you must be a dead ass." Dalia Cohen 3. ROISON MURPHY Ruby Blue (Echo) Though Moloko were one of the more intriguing dance acts to break into the mainstream, you could always sense that Murphy was gonna make a run for it. Despite her old band's solid discography, Ruby Blue is easily the finest record she's been involved with. Thanks to producer and co-writer Matthew Herbert, who supplies Murphy with some awe-inspiring, shape-shifting rhythms and indescribable arrangements, this unique artist has found herself in a realm of synthetically futuristic funk and R&B that heralds her as a true innovator in a field so heavily reliant on the throwback. Cam Lindsay 4. CHEB I SABBAH La Kahena (Six Degrees) Celebrated Algerian-born, San Francisco-based DJ Cheb I Sabbah has become known for his deferential approach to remixing Arab/Indian music, but he has produced a near masterpiece with fourth album, La Kahena. Named after a 7th century Jewish/Berber woman who led a rebellion against Arab invasion, it is her rousing spirit that flutters across each of the eight tracks on the record. Given the ongoing conflict that persists in this part of the world, an homage to a female freedom fighter has never seemed more relevant. Sabbah has humbly captured the mostly-feminine voices of Maghreb with feather-light engineering that honours the art form of Sufi devotional hymns, Arabic and Berber chants, and traditional music. With North African ouds, violins, percussion and mystical harmonies, this is genuine trance music without Western additives.Lorena Dexter 5. QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA Pushin' On (Ubiquity) With his second release as a full-blown orchestra, young Will Holland continues to make music that almost seems too complex and grown-up for his tender age. Pushin' On easily slides in amongst dusty funk classics without missing a beat; Holland's live project blends uncontrollable soul rhythms with dashes of Afrobeat, all tied together with one of the greatest voices on the planet, thanks to Alice Russell. While Pushin' On gives a nod to vintage grooves it also advances the genre with the elegant use of a string section and Mr. Scruff renditions, just to snap you out of your throwback trance and keep you on your toes. Noel Dix 6. JAMIE LIDELL Multiply (Warp) Former Super_Collider member Jamie Lidell delivers an unexpected soul-sonic stunner with his solo debut set, Multiply, an album that pays tribute to the heroes of soul music's storied past and incorporates those influences into a wholly modern electronic sound. Stylistically, Lidell respectfully borrows from Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, '60s doo-wop, and even Morris Day-style synth-funk to form the base to which he adds a futuristic sheen of effects and processes that drag these classic styles into the present in a way that fully avoids the "knock-off" label. All of this is anchored by an incredibly rich and versatile vocal sensibility that bleeds and growls with inspired intensity.Kevin Jones 7. BOOZOO BAJOU Dust My Broom (!K7) With their second album as Boozoo Bajour, Nuremberg producers Peter Heider and Florian Seyberth have become one of the leading examples of a growing trend in world/groove music circles. Scouring popular music history for earthy sound bites and motifs, the duo patch together a healthy blues influence with country, ragga, jazz and Latin, and run the whole thing through a dose of dryly-textured studio dub. Dust My Broom is a foment of old and new, classic and obscure with moments of sheer bliss, like on "Take it Slow," where original deejay U-Roy meets New Zealand's soul reggae star Joe Dukie.Brent Hagerman 8. LOS PLENEROS DE LA 21 Para Todos Ustedes (Smithsonian Folkways) Although all eyes were on Puerto Rico this year because of their newest musical export, reggaeton, Los Pleneros De La 21 reminded everyone that Puerto Rico's musical history goes much deeper with this high-spirited album that weaves drums, singing and dancing with contemporary jazz and salsa rhythms. Reaching the true heart and soul of Puerto Rico through the traditional bomba rhythms found on tracks like "Campo/Yo Cantare Esta Bomba" and the call-and-response-style of the tropical plena found on tracks like "Angelito," Los Pleneros have created an energetic world fusion record that is as pure and authentic as it is new and exciting. Sergio Elmir 9. MEI TEI SHO Lo Ba (Jarring Effects) Hailing from Lyon, France, this five-piece rocked Montreal earlier this year. Fronted by the magnetic Jean Gomis, who sings in French, English and Wolof, Mei Tei Sho is a musical representation of the ethnic tensions that are currently engulfing France. Gomis is alternately pissed off, righteous and tender while letting loose over a bass-heavy amalgam of African impulses, hip-hop, rock, Balkan beats, and jazz. Lo Ba is their fourth album and finds everything seamlessly integrated into an uncategorisable whole. Lo Ba goes beyond drawing influences from various countries of origin; it is the trans-ethnic pop future of the new France. David Dacks 10. JOE BATAAN Call My Name (Vampisoul) Mr. New York is back with a powerful piece of Latin-soul-barrio-funk that was so authentic it had everyone wondering when this album really came out. Bataan's first album in over 20 years, Call My Name was recorded in 2004 with the help of Gabe Roth (of Sharon Jones and Antibalas fame) and it showed us that el Afro-Filipino hasn't lost a single step, with tracks like the energising dance floor burner "Chevere Que Chevere" or with the heartfelt ballad "Secret Girl, My Superfraud." Bataan brought back the spirit of 1970s East Harlem with this truly sizzling album that had both fans and critics working their hips.Sergio Elmir World Music Labels That Matter Possibly the world's best boutique label, they continue to put out beautifully packaged, fearless music. Major successes this year included Franco-Mali pop sensations Amadou & Mariam, the acoustic hoedown of Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, and the Kronos Quartet taking on R.D. Burman's Bollywood with his widow, the legendary Asha Bhosle. World Music Network / Riverboat There were a billion Rough Guide collections this year, ranging from the good to the brilliant (Balkan Gypsies, Sudan). Riverboat's single artist discs got a lot more adventurous with the urban gypsy sounds of the Shukar Collective, the Sudanese summit of oud player Abdel Gadir Salim and rapper Emmanuel Jal, and intrepid steel guitarist Bob Brozman's collaboration with the guitar bands of Papua New Guinea. Essay Recordings This is the best small label of the year. The Gypsy club beats of Shantel's Bucovina Club 2 were a sensation across Europe, and the debut by the self-explanatory Balkan Beat Box followed hard on its heels. Senor Coconut's Coconut FM was a survey of booty beats from across South America and the Caribbean, which kept the momentum going from the label's Rio Baile Funk compilation of last year. Crammed Discs Starting the year by winning the prestigious WOMEX award for excellence in world music, this label returned to Canadian distribution with several outstanding releases. Konono #1 (see page 46) was the most celebrated, but the hard grooving sounds of Gypsy amalgam Mahala Rai Banda and the pan-Brazilian celebration of DJ Dolores were other major successes. Vampisoul Madrid's Vampisoul is curating the ultimate Nuyorican catalogue of the 60s and 70s thanks to their reissues from the legendary Fania label. This year alone saw approximately ten CD reissues, as well as three Fania Allstars DVDs. However, their biggest success of the year was their issue of the first new album in more than 20 years by the King of Latin soul, Joe Bataan. Sublime Frequencies One of the most thought-provoking labels in the world, this outfit is best known for their radio collages. Best of all their many releases this year was the spellbinding Radio Sumatra, which purees hip-hop, country, saccharine pop and the Indonesian specialty known as Gambus rock. Other great discs included the Team America-esque Radio Pyongyang, the psychedelic Thai country grooves of Molam and the incredible DVD Niger: Magic and Ecstasy of the Sahel. You'll never hear this label at Starbucks. David Dacks More M.I.A. M.I.A. Drops Video for Unreleased Track "Reload" M.I.A. documentary Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. arrived earlier this year, and when the end credits rolled, fans were hit with a previously unrel... Belly Gets M.I.A., Meek Mill, the Weeknd for 'Immigrant' LP After announcing the effort early last month, Belly has now shared the rest of the details behind his Immigrant LP. Arriving tomorrow (Oc... The Trailer for 'Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.' Is Finally Here Six months after it debuted at Sundance, Stephen Loveridge's excellent M.I.A. documentary Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is finally set for a wide... Lauryn Hill Gets Dave Chappelle, Nas, M.I.A., A$AP Rocky, SZA, Big Boi as Tour Openers Lauryn Hill is set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with a tour later this summer, and she's just unveil... CUFF Docs: Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. Directed by Stephen Loveridge One shouldn't eulogize someone too early, and there's nothing more awkward than attempting to tell someone's life story while they're still...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line175
__label__wiki	0.524393	0.524393	Festival Jury Q&A Schedule College Tour 2012 AMP Music Festival All-Fest Pass About SDAFF THE SHEIK AND I Directed by Caveh Zahedi Asian American Panorama / United Arab Emirates, USA / 2012 / Comedy, Documentary / 107 mins / English / HD Official Selection, 2012 SXSW Film Festival Filmmaker Caveh Zehedi is not one to shy from the camera or from controversy. Known for his inventive, funny, and contentious first-person essay films that provoke both audiences and his cinematic subjects – films like I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore, in which he persuades his family to take Ecstasy with him in order to prove the existence of God, and I Am a Sex Addict, in which he chronicles his ten-year struggle to overcome an addiction to prostitutes – Zahedi is back to his antics with THE SHEIK AND I, and this time he’s commissioned to do it. Invited by a Middle Eastern Biennial to direct a film on the theme of “art as a subversive act,” Zehedi decides to make a film about making “art as a subversive act,” all while attempting to poke fun at the Sheik of Sharjah, the emirate’s ruler and financier of the Biennial. Not amused by Zahedi’s subversion, the Biennial bans the film for blasphemy and Zahedi is threatened with arrest and a fatwa. Amazingly, this is where Zahedi thrives as a filmmaker. Where most would count a shut-down as a loss, he revels in the obstacles and makes the friction – itself full of humor, irony, and performance – the content of the film itself. In lampooning its source of funding, THE SHEIK AND I becomes more than just a film about the making of a film, but rather the unmaking of it – and the unmaking of our assumptions about creation and correctness. –Joseph Mangat Co-presented by: KPBS, Nomads Theatre Company FOR A GOOD TIME CALL SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE THE WORLD BEFORE HER Added Friday Night Screenings: SHANGHAI CALLING, THE IRAN JOB, STARRY STARRY NIGHT, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE VIETTE-NAM: (H)annoyed No More, and the Sigh Gone FLYING SWORDS: OMG SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAAAAAY: PART 2 – HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Invisible Jam YELLOW FEVER: Please Don’t Bug Me. 2012 San Diego Asian Film Festival The official trailer of this year's festival! Website Copyright © San Diego Asian Film Festival 2012 & Gala Festival Engine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line183
__label__wiki	0.839163	0.839163	Dow's. 9-11 Dundas Street, Glasgow. G1 2AH.Tel: 014133279351. Dow's. 1991. This old established pub dates back to around 1875, however there has been licensed premises on this site since 1841, James Adams ran the Railway Tavern from here, he previously sold Confectionery goods from the premises. In 1843 his wife took over the licence until the middle of the 1800s. Mrs Walker then took control of the Railway Tavern and according to the Glasgow Post Office Directory she had Commercial Lodgings too. James Fraser was the next licensee, he changed the name to the Aberdeen Hotel in 1857, hoping to attract new customers from the granite city as they came off the station platform across the road. Peter Buchanan of Buchanan Scott & Co. 1880s. In 1862 it had another name change the Dundas Hotel, run by Fred Stiller. In 1875 Matthew Wylie took over by then it was a public house. Mr Wylie had other pubs in the city including Russell Street and Sauchiehall Street. In 1880 Buchanan Scott & Co took over, the name of the pub became the Strathendrick, senior partner Peter Buchanan was licensee, the firm had other pubs in the city The Blane Valley, Glassford Street, the Old Hay House, Canning Street now London Road, 18 Govan Street, Dumbarton Road now 1004 Argyle Street known as the Two Ways and Cowcaddens. In 1892 Buchanan Scott & Co, ceased to call the big draught of ale or porter a scooner, now entitled it s "tall Beer". A member of the Licensed Trade over-heard a tradesman who caused the barman to laugh when he asked for a glass of tall beer. It was however, explained to him that the "tall" referred to the measure and not the contents of the glass. Also see Dow's other establishments, Great Western Road, Mitchell Street, Nithsdale Road, Kilmarnock Road. Dow's October. 2005. Samuel Dow's. 1980s. Publicans Licence Holders. 1991 John Barbour. 1970 George Waters. 1960 William Russell. 1950 Robert McIntyre Buchanan for Buchanan Scott & Co. 1937 George Douglas Buchanan. 1899-1880 Peter Buchanan. Also see Dow's other premises. Great Western Road. Kilmarnock Road. Mitchell Street. Nithsdale Road.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line184
__label__cc	0.724083	0.275917	As the roundhouse turns. Other Maine Narrow Gauges (Historic & Preserved) » Monson Railroad » Monson Maine Slate Company plant Author Topic: Monson Maine Slate Company plant (Read 24763 times) Cliff Olson Baggageman The assets of Moosehead Manufacturing Co., including the former Monson Maine Slate Company buildings on the north side of the Monson Pond Quarry, will be auctioned off on January 21, 2010. For further information, including several photos of the plant, see keenanauction.com. « Last Edit: December 22, 2009, 03:16:06 PM by Cliff Olson » Re: Monson Maine Slate Company plant The auction of the former Moosehead Manufacturing Co. assets was cancelled yesterday when Tardy-Connors Group LLC, the current owners, filed for reorganization under Chapter 11. I hope the reorganization means that the quarry wil be reopened at some point. Monson Slate is well known around the U.S. There are a number of important places where it was used including President Kennedy's headstone at Arlington National Cemetary. Stewart, these companies are/were the manufacturers of Moosehead Furniture. Slate has not been produced at this plant since 1943, when the Monson Maine Slate Company went out of business. The furniture business began in the late 1940's in the former MMSC plant. Carl Vainio bought the remaining holdings of MMSC (mostly abandoned quarries)about 1985 and now operates a slate salvage business under the names Kennedy Slate and/or Monson Maine Slate. Most of his operations appear to be at the quarries that were on the Hebron Quarry Branch. The JFK headstone came from the Portland-Monson Slate Company (now part of Sheldon Slate), which still produces slate on a small scale south of town. Cliff, Thanks for the information it clears things up. According to the Bangor Daily this week, the Passamaquoddy Tribe is looking into purchasing the furniture plant. Suppose the main building is big enough for a casino? Doing way too much to list... Now wouldn't that be cool, arrive at the casino via 2 footer........... Moxie Bootlegger It's only about a half mile from the station on existing roadbed. Maybe the tribe would lease one of the buildings for a NG shop. The Tardy-Connors Group, LLC real estate, equipment and intangibles are going to auction again on August 31. Details plus photos on keenanauction.com. « Last Edit: August 06, 2010, 07:51:11 PM by Cliff Olson » The entire assets of the former Moosehead Manufacturing Co. were sold at auction today for $1, 050,000 to a group that owns two other mills in western Maine and apparently intends to produce furniture (and possibly wood pellets) in the existing Monson mill. Hi Cliff, Thought you'd like to see this story from today's PPH about the group that bought Moosehead Manufacturing. http://www.pressherald.com/news/where-theres-a-mill-theres-a-way.html Just dreaming, but wouldn't it be the greatest thing if we could complete a connection to Wiscasset and also have a rebirth industry on the line so that the WW&F would be reborn as a viable transportation link to the local economy. Thanks, Glenn. I saw that article on the newstand in Greenville today and was going to look it up online tonight. I have heard that Louise Jonaitis recently had a meeting with former Moosehead employees. Another setback for the Moosehead mill, according to today's Bangor Daily - - due to the presence of drums of furniture-making chemicals, Louise Jonaitis has backed away from purchasing the real estate. She has bought the logo and furniture-making equipment and may lease, rather than buy, the mill property in the future.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line185
__label__wiki	0.535962	0.535962	How to Actually Stick to Your New Year’s Fitness Resolutions Rob Gronkowski on Why Interval Training Is Key for His Post-NFL… New Research Suggests Green Tea Could Help You Live Longer Do HIIT Before You Lift 5 Self-Help Tips That Actually Work, According to Experts Watches of the Week: Luminox x Bear Grylls Collection The 7 Most Stylish Guys at the 77th Annual Golden Globes The Best Weatherproof Winter Coats for Outdoor Style and Function Last-Minute Fragrances for the Holiday Season How to Ask Your Barber for Aaron Paul’s Hairstyle Dr. Gundry’s Plant Paradox Debunked: 7 Science-Based Reasons It’s a Scam How Shan Used Bigger Leaner Stronger to Lose 14 Pounds and… Our Big Game Chili Lime Hot Wings Feed Big Appetites The Best Training Frequency for Building Muscle (According to 20 Studies) Last Day to Register for Obesity Webinar & New Stroke Risk… James Cracknell’s top 5 running tips Interview with 3000SC runner Ieuan Thomas Five beneficial mobilisation exercises for running How Iyengar Yoga helps benefit your running How to run a great 10K The Best Ways to Curb Hunger and Lose Weight Faster The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting Go Beyond Weight Loss, Study Shows The Boxing Competition Getting Bartenders in Shape The 1-Day ‘Cleanse’ That Won’t Make You Hangry Your Perfect Body Game Plan 2018 Die 7 größten Fitness-Mythen \| taff \| ProSieben FLIRTING W/ FITNESS MODELS @ LA FIT EXPO 2018! BEARD CARE, TRIMMING & VIKINGS STYLE \| Transformation Tutorial \| Lex… Funny Planet Fitness Lunk Alarm Commercials CHRISTY ANN FITNESS MUSIC VIDEO – PFV Performs "Throw It Back" Home Nutrition Dishonest Doctors \| NutritionFacts.org Dishonest Doctors \| NutritionFacts.org One of the critical questions to ask whenever reading a medical journal article is, “Who funded the study?” In most journals, researchers are required to identify their sources of funding, so what’s the problem? Well, researchers can obscure the true origin of financial support: They can hide it, disguise it, or even launder the money through a front group. A case in point is a study downplaying the risks of lung cancer that was funded in part by the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention, and Treatment. That doesn’t sound so bad until you realize it was underwritten by millions of dollars from a tobacco company. There’s no obligation to “disclose a funding source’s source of funding,” which allows “companies to evade financial disclosure requirements” and makes it harder to “follow the money trail.” As I discuss in my video Disclosing Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research, why does the funding source matter? Every single one of eight reviews covering over a thousand studies found that research funded by industry is more likely to make conclusions that are favorable to industry. For example, why do some review articles on the health effects of secondhand smoke reach different conclusions than others? The only factor found was whether an author was affiliated with the tobacco industry. “This is a disturbing finding. It suggests that, far from conflict of interest being unimportant in the objective and pure world of science…it is the main factor determining the result of studies.” Not that we’d even know, because 77 percent of authors failed to disclose the sources of funding. And that’s another problem: The responsibility to disclose funding sources is left entirely up to the authors. So, how many researchers divulge the truth? Evidently, a law was passed in Denmark requiring physicians to register any time they worked with industry, which allowed researchers to cross-reference the studies physicians published to see how honest they were. Forty-eight percent of the time, the conflicts of interest were not disclosed, “reinforc[ing] the perception that physicians simply don’t take conflict of interest seriously” (or at least Danish physicians don’t). What about the United States? Historically, there had been “no means of confirmation or verification” when an American doctor said they had no conflict of interest. Then in 2007, hip and knee replacement companies were forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for giving orthopedic surgeons illegal kickbacks. “[M]any orthopedic surgeons in [the] country made decisions predicated on how much money they could make—choosing which device to implant by going to the highest bidder….[W]e expect doctors to make decisions based on what is in the best interests of their patients,” said the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney of the District of New Jersey, “not the best interests of their bank accounts.” Part of the settlement was that the companies would have to make public all the payments they made to physicians. The release of those records offered a rare opportunity to see if physicians were telling the truth on disclosure forms. And, lo and behold, more than half of payments were not disclosed, totalling millions of dollars. That was for surgeons and medical device companies. What about doctors and drug companies? The same thing happened: Drug companies were forced to disclose who they were paying off. In looking at the publications of the doctors who got the most money—at least $100,000—the study found that they were worse than the surgeons. In 69 percent of the cases, they failed to disclose their industry ties. The problem is that we just assume researchers are going to be honest and tell the truth, but these “findings suggest that the accuracy and completeness of [conflict-of-interest] disclosures cannot be assumed.” So, even when a paper says no conflict of interest, who knows if it’s really true. A long-time editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote a scathing piece on drug companies and doctors who failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug companies like GlaxoSmithKline, which has been fined literally billions of dollars for activities such as bribing and suppressing data. When GSK got results that were “commercially unacceptable,” the company just buried them. Billions of dollars in fines get assessed, but for drug companies, that may just be the cost of doing business. “As reprehensible as many [drug] industry practices are…much of the medical profession is even more culpable.” We can expect drug companies to prioritize the bottom line, but maybe we should expect more from the healing profession. What else might your doctor not be telling you? See: Good examples of conflicts of interest include: Instead of just disclosing conflicts of interest, how about getting rid of them? That’s the subject of my video Eliminating Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research. 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__label__wiki	0.61754	0.61754	ANDREA ANASTASIO CAMPANA BROTHERS LUCA CIPELLETTI ANTON ALVAREZ PAOLO CANEVARI GIACOMO MOOR MAGLIANA PROJECT Pier Luigi Nervi Pavilion “Magliana Project” is the result of a complex period of research and gestation enthusiastically shared with one of the most influential and authoritative designers of the last two decades, Konstantin Grcic. Inspired by the building principles of Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian master architect and engineer, Konstantin Grcic’s project presents a corpus of limited edition furniture, consisting of a modular table with integrated seating and suspension lighting, all executed entirely in concrete according to the most innovative techniques developed from the latest studies on the material, and its small scale application. Grcic’s work has been launched in form of site-specific installation inside the emblematic building that inspired the project: the small masterpiece of engineering in ferro-concrete which is currently the only surviving pavilion from the larger campus of ready-made buildings that since the 1940s hosted the “Nervi&Bartoli” firm’s headquartered, in the Magliana area of Rome. Konstantin Grcic project is part of the series Privato Romano Interno, dedicated to contemporary design and curated by Emanuela Nobile Mino, who since 2011, has involved international designers in the production of new collections, executed with materials and techniques derived from Roman and Italian artisanal traditions, and presented within the historic building which identifies the architectural style that has most significantly impacted on the design process of each author’s project.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line200
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Come August 8 those ugly hashbangs will be a thing of the past! Millions complained and millions were heard! They’ve finally found a way to give their users much cleaner looking URLs without compromising the search engine optimization, something literally every other platform has been doing for years. I felt compelled to work this news into today’s article because (hashbangs aside) Wix is actually a really beautiful platform and now there’s no reason to not use it. Needless to say, I’m completely overjoyed. Now, back to the matter at hand. So you’ve registered your name and your website is finally up and running after months of work. What next? Contrary to popular belief, the work doesn’t end once the website is completed. In addition to consistently making updates you will have to find ways to drive traffic to your site and expand your network. There are a number of ways you can do this but keep in mind that, like most things, it will take time. Sure you can throw money at it by paying for likes/followers/subscribers but organic user engagement is always best. Spend time cultivating meaningful online connections. One way to do this is by blogging. While platforms like WordPress and Blogger are popular within Guyana’s literary community, our visual artists are yet to tap into this valuable resource. There is the widespread misconception that artists need not write since viewing their work should be good enough to satisfy any curious mind. This belief is the result of an education system that trains creative individuals to think that their strength lies primarily in their technical skill. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. I could get into that some more but that’s a topic for another day. What I will say is that blogging is a great way to keep viewers engaged with your work and it allows curators a glimpse into your thoughts and processes. Another way to drive traffic to your site is by linking it to all of your social media accounts. You can include a social media bar with icons to each account so that viewers can readily access your profiles, and in most cases you also have the option of auto-sharing your own posts to your various profiles with the click of a single button. It should go without saying that this feature makes life so much easier. By eliminating the need to update each account individually this feature not only cuts the time spent managing your online presence in half, but it allows you to expand your network by reaching out to persons who might have an account on one platform and not the other. Hashtags (not to be confused with hashbangs) are another great way of driving traffic to your website and social media accounts. What started as a feature unique to Twitter eventually became incorporated into almost every social media platform after developers realized how powerful they were. Hashtags are used when searching for specific content, particularly images related to their respective tags. Within the creative community it is often used to brand an individual’s artwork (for example, Jane Doe would use the hashtag #JaneDoe so that viewers who click on that tag would be able to see all of her work). This is a great way to discover works by artists and it’s an even greater way to be “discovered.” Now your website is functioning as it should, all of your social media accounts are connected and you’re starting to create a buzz, what else could you possibly need? The answer is pretty simple: sales. Imagine how great it would be if you were able to generate sales from your online accounts to help cover some of your expenses. At this stage you would’ve already gotten your Visa debit card and your PayPal account in order so this next step is fairly easy. You need to consider how you would want your online shop set up, keeping in mind the type of items you will have on sale. Most web development platforms would have an option for establishing an online shop in the menu of your website. Alternatively, you can set up shop with an online marketplace like Etsy and link it to your website. It makes sense to capitalize on this since Etsy has over 50 million registered users and potential buyers. In exchange for paying a few miscellaneous fees and a 3.5% commission from individual sales, you get access to a thriving market without the hassle of having to look for that market yourself. Not a bad deal if you ask me. You can also include Etsy buttons on most social media platforms to help drive even more traffic to your site. Of course, with an online shop you need to also consider which shipping company you will be using when the orders start to roll in. Take some time, do your research and a lot of ask questions before you commit to any one. Granted you could always switch companies if you’re not satisfied with their service, you would want to avoid having any bad experience that could possibly cost you a repeat customer. Those shipping companies will also have regulations that determine how your art product will be packaged and you should make it your duty to find out the best options for packing and shipping your items. Be sure to review their Terms and Conditions or any other legal documents to ensure that you understand what you’re signing up for and that you agree to avoid any difficult situations in the future. This brings me to the end of what I hope was a helpful guide to getting started online. There is so much more involved in creative disciplines than simply making work. The end of production only signals the beginning of a new and often exhausting process of moving the work out of the artist’s studio and into the public domain, both physical and virtual. Thankfully we live in an era where every question we could ever imagine is but a few clicks away from being answered. So whatever ground I failed to cover in this series could most definitely be covered with a little research. Good luck! 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__label__wiki	0.540477	0.540477	If he wrote it on two folios it is invalid; the All-merciful spoke of one 'book' and not of two or three books. If he wrote one letter and blotted it out [with the water of bitterness] and then wrote another letter and blotted it out1 it is invalid; for it is written: And the priest shall execute upon her all this law. Raba asked: How is it if he wrote two scrolls for two suspects and blotted them in one vessel of water? Do we only require that the writing should be expressly for each case? That we have here; or perhaps it is also necessary to have obliteration expressly for each case! If, furthermore, you conclude that we also require obliteration expressly for each case, how is it if he obliterated them in two vessels and then mixed them? Do we only require that the obliteration should be expressly for each case? That we have here; or perhaps each of the women does not drink the water prepared for her! If, furthermore, you conclude that [this renders the rite invalid because] each of the women does not drink the water prepared for her, how is it if he again divided the water into two parts [after having mixed it]? Is there or is there not a retrospective differentiation?2 — The questions remain unanswered. Raba asked: How is it if he made her drink through a straw or tube? Is that to be regarded as a mode of drinking or not? — The question remains unanswered. R. Ashi asked: How is it if some of the water was spilt or remained over? The question remains unanswered. R. Zera said in the name of Rab: Why are two oaths mentioned in connection with a suspected woman?3 One [was imposed] before [the writing on] the scroll was blotted out and the other after it was blotted out. Raba demurred: They are both written [in the Scriptural text] before [the inscription on] the scroll was obliterated! But, said Raba, with one oath a curse was connected4 and not with the other. What was the formula of the oath with which a curse was connected? — R. Amram said in the name of Rab: 'I make thee swear that thou hast not misconducted thyself, for if thou hast, may [the curses] befall thee.' Raba asked: [In this wording] the curse and the oath are distinct!5 But, said Raba, [the formula is], 'I make thee swear that if thou hast misconducted thyself, may [the curses] befall thee'.6 R. Ashi asked: [In this wording] there is a curse but no oath! But, said R. Ashi, [The formula is], 'I make thee swear that thou hast not misconducted thyself; and that if thou hast, may [the curses] befall thee'. MISHNAH. TO WHAT DOES SHE RESPOND 'AMEN, AMEN'? AN 'AMEN' OVER THE CURSE AND AN 'AMEN' OVER THE OATH; AN 'AMEN' WITH RESPECT TO THIS MAN7 AND AN 'AMEN' WITH RESPECT TO ANY OTHER MAN;8 AN 'AMEN' THAT I DID NOT GO ASTRAY AS A BETROTHED MAIDEN OR MARRIED WOMAN He did not write out the text in full before obliterating it. Bererah v. Glos. Do we regard the water now divided as being differentiated and identical with the original quantities of water? V. Num. V, 19, 21. Verse 21 where the phrase oath of cursing occurs. [The oath here is not connected with the curse, but relates to the wife's fidelity.] [The oath relates only to the wife's conduct and is not connected with the curse.] Who is the cause of the ordeal. With whom she may have associated without her husband's knowledge. OR [A CHILDLESS WIDOW] WAITING FOR MY BROTHER-IN-LAW'S [DECISION WHETHER HE WOULD MARRY ME] OR TAKEN TO HIS HOUSE,1 AND AN 'AMEN' THAT I HAVE NOT MISCONDUCTED MYSELF AND IF I HAVE MAY [THE CURSES] BEFALL ME. R. MEIR SAYS: ONE 'AMEN' IS THAT I HAVE NOT MISCONDUCTED MYSELF AND THE OTHER 'AMEN' THAT I WILL NOT MISCONDUCT MYSELF. ALL AGREE THAT A MAN CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER IN RESPECT OF THE TIME BEFORE SHE WAS BETROTHED2 OR AFTER SHE IS DIVORCED. IF SHE SECLUDES HERSELF WITH ANOTHER MAN3 AND MISCONDUCTS HERSELF AND SUBSEQUENTLY [HER HUSBAND] TAKES HER BACK, HE CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER [IN RESPECT OF THIS].4 THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE: HE CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER IN RESPECT OF ANY ACT OF COHABITATION WHICH DOES NOT RENDER HER PROHIBITED TO HIM. GEMARA. R. Hamnuna said: [A childless widow] waiting for her brother-in-law's [decision whether he would marry her] who acted immorally is forbidden to her levir.5 Whence is this? Since the Mishnah teaches: [A CHILDLESS WIDOW] WAITING FOR MY BROTHER-IN-LAW'S [DECISION WHETHER HE WOULD MARRY ME] OR TAKEN TO HIS HOUSE. This is quite right if you say that she is prohibited [to her brother-in-law] then he can make a stipulation with her;6 but if you say that she is not prohibited to him,7 how can he make a stipulation with her; for we have learnt: THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE: HE CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER IN RESPECT OF ANY ACT OF COHABITATION WHICH DOES NOT RENDER HER PROHIBITED TO HIM! In the West,8 however, they said: The legal decision is not in agreement with R. Hamnuna. But whose [then] is the teaching concerning [A CHILDLESS WIDOW] WAITING FOR HER BROTHER-IN-LAW OR TAKEN TO HIS HOUSE? — It is R. Akiba's; for he said: No betrothal can take effect in cases which are subject to a mere negative prohibition,9 and he regards her10 act as equal to an incestuous union.11 R. Jeremiah asked: Can he make a stipulation in connection with a first marriage12 or her marriage with his brother?13 — Come and hear: THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE: HE CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER IN RESPECT OF ANY ACT OF COHABITATION WHICH DOES NOT RENDER HER PROHIBITED TO HIM. Consequently when it would render her prohibited to him he can make a stipulation with her. Draw that conclusion.14 R. MEIR SAYS: ONE 'AMEN' IS THAT I HAVE NOT MISCONDUCTED MYSELF etc. It has been taught: When R. Meir declares, AND THE OTHER 'AMEN' THAT I WILL NOT MISCONDUCT MYSELF, it does not imply that if she in the future misconducts herself, the water affects her now; but should she later misconduct herself, the water will bestir and affect her. R. Ashi asked: Can a man make a stipulation with regard to remarriage?15 [Do we argue] that for the present she is not prohibited to him [and therefore he cannot make a stipulation with her], or that it may happen that he will divorce and remarry her [and therefore can make a stipulation]? — Come and hear: ALL AGREE THAT A MAN CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER IN RESPECT OF THE TIME BEFORE SHE WAS BETROTHED OR AFTER SHE IS DIVORCED. IF SHE SECLUDES HERSELF WITH ANOTHER MAN AND MISCONDUCTS HERSELF AND SUBSEQUENTLY [HER HUSBAND] TOOK HER BACK, HE CANNOT MAKE A STIPULATION WITH HER [IN RESPECT OF THIS]. Hence if he takes her back and she then misconducts herself, he can make a stipulation [in respect of this]. Draw that conclusion.16 Our Rabbis have taught: This is the law of jealousy17 — it teaches that a woman may drink [the water of bitterness] and do so again.18 R. Judah says: 'This'19 indicates that a woman does not drink and do so again. R. Judah said: It happened that Nehonia the welldigger20 testified before us that a woman had drunk [the water of bitterness] and had done so a second time. We accepted his testimony as relating to two husbands but not one husband. The Sages, however, declared that a woman does not drink and do so again, whether it be in respect of one husband or two husbands. But for the first Tanna [cited above] it is likewise written 'This'!21 And for the latter Rabbis [cited above] it is likewise written 'the law of!22 — Raba said: In the case of the same husband and the same paramour none differ that a woman does not drink and do so again, For the purpose of marriage, but before its consummation. That she had never acted immorally. After being divorced, and the divorce was not on account of misconduct because in that event there could be no re-marriage. In respect of what she may have done after the divorce. Because she is regarded as a wife who was unfaithful to her husband. In respect of her conduct before he married her; and if she was immoral, he may not marry her. For immorality before marriage. The Palestinian Schools. Without carrying with them the death penalty or of kareth. There is such a prohibition in connection with a childless widow's marriage (v. Deut. XXV, 5) v. Yeb. 10b. The childless widow who acted immorally. [And therefore forbidden to her brother-in-law just as a wife who misconducted herself is forbidden to her husband.] When he had remarried her after divorcing her can he make her swear that she had been faithful to him during their first marriage? After he had gone through the levirate-marriage with her, can he make her swear that she had not misconducted herself whilst living with his brother? In both of the contingencies mentioned immorality would render her prohibited; so he can make the stipulation. Since R. Meir interprets 'Amen' as referring to what may occur in the future, suppose a husband makes a condition that his wife shall not misconduct herself if he divorces her and remarries her, and after remarriage she is unfaithful? That such a stipulation is permissible. Num. V, 29. The text is literally 'law of jealousies', which is taken to mean: the law is to be applied in every instance of suspicion. If suspected a second time. The word has an exclusive meaning, and equals this is the only time the woman undergoes the ordeal. [V. B.K. (Sonc. ed.) p. 287. He however could not have testified before R. Judah who lived about 200 years later. The text must accordingly be connected with the parallel passage in J. Sotah II, where the reading is Nehemia of Shihin testified in the name of R. Akiba v. Hyman, A Toledoth, p. 924.] He permits a woman to drink a second time; why does he not interpret 'This' is an exclusive sense? 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__label__cc	0.671323	0.328677	The Forums! Order of the Hex GH Gear from CaféPress GH on Facebook GrogCast Feed Tuesday Newsday Order of Battle Pacific Pix and Pics Tuesday Screenshot Dragon’ Up The Past What’s Gus Playing Tracer Rounds GameTalk Battle Lab August 3, 2014 Featured Posts, Reviews 3 Comments GrogHeads Reviews Picket Duty Dive into this solitaire WWII game and stave off the attacks on your destroyer. Michael Eckenfels, 3 August 2014 Picket Duty is a solitaire board wargame that focuses on giving you ‘spiritual’ command over a Fletcher-class World War II destroyer during the Okinawa campaign. Your job is to guide the crew as it fends off wave after wave of Kamikaze and ‘special’ attacks while at its duty, or picket, station. Most Fletcher-class destroyers served in this ‘Picket Duty’ capacity to provide early warning to the larger and more valuable fleet targets, such as aircraft carriers, supply ships, and troop ships. So, of course, Kamikaze planes sometimes focused on these destroyers to pave the way for other Kamikazes to get a good shot at those targets. The game, unfortunately, focuses on little else other than Kamikaze and ‘special’ (or, normal) Japanese aircraft attacks. There is no surface-to-surface combat action, nor DD-vs.-submarine action, or any land-based fire support. Given the complexity and amount of work put into this title, though, it’s hardly a surprise. I just wish it might have done a little more. For the purpose of fighting off hordes of Kamikazes, if you want to feel like you’re the only ship in the American fleet and getting all the attention of these deadly attacks, you’ll very likely love this game. Overall, Picket Duty is a gorgeous game. It is well designed, has colorful graphics, tons of tracks and counters, and most important, has some beautiful counters that represent the Japanese planes attacking your destroyer. (Ed Note: we also have a gallery of the ‘unboxing’ of Picket Duty) Box. The box is thinner than ‘normal’ (that is to say, Avalon Hill-ish sized) wargame boxes. This is something of a pain, because once you finish playing and pack everything up, including your photocopies of all the pages you need copy in order to play, there’s probably a quarter of an inch to half an inch of overflow that makes it impossible to close the box. Maybe I’m just bad at packing, which is entirely possible. 22”x34” Map. This map is almost overwhelming to look at. The bottom half has a nice top-down view of a Fletcher-class destroyer, with gun mounts labeled (for placement of gun mount counters). There’s also eight ‘attack zones’ from which Kamikazes may attack, each labeled with a bearing (315, 180, etc.) and three altitudes – High, Medium, and Low. The top half of the map is a veritable cacophony of tracks, tracks, and more tracks…which record just about every bit of data you’d need to know, including ammo, fuel levels, compartment damage, flooding, and many others. The funny thing is, these are NOT all the tracks you’ll need to keep track of your ship. More on that later. 160 1.2” Game Counters. These are the Kamikaze planes, for the most part – as mentioned, very well done. One important thing to know about them is there is virtually no difference between any of them when it comes to attack, although some are marked with a ‘Special Attack’ marker, indicating it is an Ohka, or that it is making a regular torpedo or bomb run on the ship. 240 0.6” Game Counters. These are the various record-keeping markers, each well-designed and easy to tell apart. Player Aid Charts. These are actually record-keeping forms, which you’ll need to make copies of before you play as only one of each is provided. They’re well designed, but finding some information is an exercise in trial-and-error that will only breed familiarity through experience. Rulebook and Book of Charts. Hoo-boy, where do I begin. Well, regarding the rulebook; if you’re familiar at all with Picket Duty, there was quite an issue with the set of rules that were originally shipped with the game. Confusion apparently abounded with it, so the designer rewrote the rules; this unfortunately took many months. Since I knew a 2.0 rule book was in the works after I purchased my copy, I didn’t even touch the game nor look at the Version 1.0 rules, except a few times where 2.0 confused me and I needed to compare to see what I was missing. Yes, unfortunately, 2.0 isn’t entirely perfect, but it is apparently much better than the 1.0 rules. The Charts Book was changed as well along with the rules, and there are a LOT of charts in this game. More on all this later. Experiencing Picket Duty is like running an old PC game’s tutorial mission via the rule book. Remember those days? You’d play the game, but have the manual open in front of you, and the manual told you what to do – none of that in-game tutorial stuff, not for many years anyway. Picket Duty reminds me of that, as you’re constantly flipping from (a) the Sequence of Play to (b) the specific rules they cover to (c) the Charts and Tables book to make rolls that sometimes reference (d) other Charts and Tables. So, you not only have this game spread out in all its glory in front of you, but you also have a rules book cradled in one arm while flipping trying to locate the right chart to roll on in the other. Now, to be fair, that’s not surprising. There are plenty of solitaire games like that, such as B-17: Queen of the Skies (which is a game I constantly thought of while playing this). There were a lot of design components from B-17 that I thought would have improved the logistics of getting through a game of Picket Duty, such as color-coding sheets and printing the appropriate tables on them to make it easier to locate. This would have the added bonus of grouping tables together that are often rolled on one after the other (e.g., determining Japanese attack waves, then determining their number and direction they attack from). I’m not complaining about the heart of the game – just the logistics of it. And part of that is, in all honestly, learning a new game system and having to flip and flip and flip until you wear the pages and bend their corners in new and creative ways and finally start to have it all sink in. Then, you know where you need to go without referring to rules, or the sequence of play. However, since you still have to access these tables, I think the separate-page design (which you can easily do yourself, but of course it would have made more sense had they done it) would have made it much easier to navigate the labyrinths of this game. That all said, let’s take a look at what you do. The set-up is pretty simple, but there’s a few things that bear mentioning. One, you’ll need a large playing surface. While the map itself isn’t that big, you will need a big bowl/container to hold all the Kamikaze counters, and another (smaller) container to hold chits. Then you’ll need space for other markers, such as hit markers, damage markers, and others. Not to mention someplace convenient to put the rule book and chart book. There are not that many steps to setting up the game, except organizing all the pieces to it, which requires some storage-fu skills, but if you’re anal about that in the first place, it shouldn’t be a problem. Once set up, you decide if you want to play a scenario, of which there are eight, or a campaign, of which there are two. The scenarios are fairly short but give you a good grasp of the basics of the game, including dealing with attacks and repairing damage. The campaigns are, of course, longer; the Mini Campaign lasts either three or five days, whereas the Long Campaign consists of five, 5-day long mini-campaigns. Winning scenarios and campaigns usually involves survival, or at the very least, staying on station for the entire length without getting so badly damaged you have to return to port. The Long Campaign has an interesting victory condition in that it states “[h]istorically, eight (8) [destroyers] were sunk off of Okinawa during the campaign. If the player loses less than 8 ships, he is declared the winner.” If that might seem a tad bloody to you, you haven’t seen anything yet. Each game turn is made up of three phases – morning, midday, and night. In each phase, you’ll check for attacks on your lonely little destroyer. If you’re really (un)lucky, you’ll feel like you’re helming an Essex-class carrier with the number of attackers you get. According to one table, you can have as many as 18 attackers in one phase (I’ve not experienced that bad a roll yet, thankfully), or as few as zero, giving you a little bit of a breather and a step closer to survival and victory. The attacks are usually broken up into ‘waves’ which I assume was built-in to avoid a suicidal overwhelming attack. There’s only so many gun mounts to go around, after all. Fortunately, no attacks are a rare thing, and would of course ultimately make this game very boring if nothing happened. It seemed that on average, for me at least, I’d get four to five attackers in one or two waves. This function very much reminds me of how Luftwaffe aircraft were assigned to attacking a player’s B-17 in Queen of the Skies; tables tell you how many attackers, tables tell you from what direction and altitude they attack, and then you assign gun mounts and other assets to try to take them down. Your Fletcher-class has seventeen weapon mounts – five 5” gun mounts, five 40mm gun mounts, and seven 20mm gun mounts. All can only fire in finite directions – none are omni-directional, so there’s always some hard choices to make when it comes to assigning them to incoming attacks. And, these guns’ effectiveness can vary by attacker altitude, also. For example, 5” guns are pretty powerful if they hit, but they stink at hitting low-flying aircraft. Forty-millimeter guns are great at hitting low-flying aircraft, but stink at hitting high altitude aircraft. Twenty-millimeter guns are about 50/50 for low and medium aircraft, and can’t hit aircraft at high altitude at all. However, you have other assets, maybe, that can help – although they’re not very good at what they do. You can determine how much Air Fire Support (AFS) and Surface Fire Support (SFS) you get during each phase. SFS is more under-the-hood, as it affects how many attackers hit you in the first place. AFS on the other hand are actual counters you place with incoming Japanese attackers to attempt to physically shoot them down, but they don’t succeed unless you roll a 6 on a 6-sided die. Of course, if AFS shoots down an incoming enemy, your ship doesn’t get credit for the kill. This can impact the number of kills your ship’s individual gun mounts gets, of course, and if any one mount gets five or more kills, it gets ‘ace’ status and a +1 bonus thereafter when shooting at enemy planes. Other bonuses can come from crew members. You have six officers, including a Captain, XO, and Damage Control Officer, and three repair crews, each led by an NCO. Before you begin your game, you draw chits that have values from -2 to +2 on them, and write these down for each officer. These are your modifiers for when an officer performs a task suited to them, such as damage control, morale checks, or gunnery. These crew, including the officers, can die rather easily, as their bodies don’t react well to bullets, Kamikazes crashing into the space they’re in, or extra damage done by spilled fuel, bombs, torpedoes, and other fun flying-through-the-air stuff. In the basic rules, damage is simulated much more generally, and repair crews do not fix secondary spaces. Yep, extra damage. This was a little thing I missed in my first go-round, then I realized that when a Kamikaze manages to get through the gauntlet of air support and your ship’s plethora of weaponry – and trust me, this happens often – you roll not once, but twice, to determine how hosed you might get. Granted, even on the ‘Hit’ tables, there are ‘Miss’ results, which will make you breathe a sigh of relief as you can virtually visualize the plane just barely miss your ship and plow untouched into the sea. That’s fortunate, because when they do hit, they do damage. Sometimes, lots of it. There are spots on the ship called Primary Compartments (with somewhat important names as ‘Fuel Tanks’ and vaguely premonition-like names such as ‘Fire Room’). These Primary Compartments can take two, three, or four hits (depending on the space), and these can be destroyed or flood, both of which are detrimental to a healthy and happy destroyer. The ship itself has tracks to count up flooding results, maneuverability (which can take a hit from getting, say, your rudder blown up by a “near miss”), and other factors, all of which can make it much harder to make the ship defend itself or live long enough to see through to the end of the game. There’s also Secondary Compartments, which includes locales such as ‘Crew Head,’ ‘Storage 3,’ and ‘Ice Machine,’ among many others. These can be destroyed as well but do not seem to affect the ship much (beyond nebulous and not recorded morale detriments to losing ice or a place to potty efficiently). They can, however, be flooded, which – you guessed it – can sink your ship if it happens enough times. Like Primary Compartments, their Secondary cousins can either be above or below the waterline, and being below the waterline when interdicting a large airplane full of explosives and suicidal pilot(s) can, again, cause you problems. This all adds quite a level of realism, especially when you’re playing the longer scenarios or campaign games. The damage adds up, but in all honesty, beyond flooding and the possibility of blowing up spectacularly if one gets a lucky hit on your ship’s magazine, there’s little in the way of loss when ‘Fruit/Veg.’ gets destroyed. Certainly, it adds flavor. Certainly, in a freaky and non-fetish-for-destruction way it’s kind of cool. But it affects the game not a whit, if there’s no flooding involved. I understand that a generic ‘damage track’ that you filled in with each hit until your destroyer fails its saving throw vs. righteous IJN wrath (not a real thing in this game, sorry) is not nearly as flavorful as this, though – so I don’t mind it. It just seems off a bit to me. The ‘Advanced Rules’ are interspersed throughout, but are not entirely clear as to what is the Advanced Rule, nor how far it reaches. It’s rather jarring to read multiple pages of Advanced Rules to realize they don’t apply to the ‘Basic Game’ you’re desperately trying to play. It would have made much more sense to me to put all of the Basic Rules into one section, and then maybe make a note saying which Advanced Rule to refer to if you wish to have more challenge with that particular rule set. It’s too confusing to mix it all together, especially considering the state that the 1.0 rules were considered to be in. But this may be just me channeling my inner technical writer. I would have loved a chance to have a crack at these, to re-design and re-layout the rules. If your ship runs out of ammunition or fuel, or loses too many crew, or you feel your ship is too damaged to carry on effectively, you can retreat to replenish and repair. Certain times call for this to happen even if you don’t want to leave, including having both your engine rooms destroyed, having the hull integrity drop to zero, or any number of other causes – but if any of that happens, you lose the game. Repairs can take from one to four weeks (more table rollin’ goodness), or can be so badly damaged it can’t be repaired and has to return to Ulithi and then the United States. This counts as losing a ship and makes you, of course, continue with a new one. This is obviously more of a big deal in the Long Campaign game, although getting a break for repairs for a few weeks can push the campaign much further along. Time is your friend in that case (much like it is in the solitaire game RAF – if you survive, the enemy doesn’t win, in general). I might have sounded unappreciative of the dice rolling and table-referring scheme, but I’m not. I actually love that kind of thing (B-17 is a favorite of mine). The only thing that drove me mad was the constant page flipping; I might go design my own charts to make it easier to refer to them. Then again, I might not do any better. But I frustratingly feel that trying is necessary, because I really do want to love this game. What’s not to like? Excellent components, a good premise, and control over a Fletcher-class destroyer in the face of Japanese air attack. It just hasn’t felt entirely right in all my play-throughs, and that bothers me greatly, because as I said I want to love this game. I will keep trying, but I can’t quite get there yet. Discuss this review in our forums >> Board Games, Eckenfels, Naval Warfare, Pacific Theater, Solitaire, WWII 3 Responses to GrogHeads Reviews Picket Duty Mark Brownell says: Very good review. I now may wait until better rules are available before buying this game. Love the idea of the game! Robert B Makowsky says: I have and enjoy this game. I got the first edition rules and had no problems playing through. They were not complete hand holding rules but worked just fine. It is a fun simulation of this aspect of combat. I do find it interesting that your review of a game about destroyer picket bemoans the lack of surface or anti submarine combat. I think that negative comment early in the review is unhelpful. The game is only about this picket duty so should not try to vear off into ASW or surface actions. I found the game worked well to give me the feeling of the command of the guns and the damage control of these type of ships. Watching wave after wave come in and then hoping the leakers miss our ship or hit non vital areas kept the tension ratcheted up. With the follow along aspect of solitaire play this game is easy to play and it is simple to add the advanced rules which give a bit more granularity to the combat. Thanks for the review it had me wanting to put the map on table again. As you state the version two of the rules do clarify some things. GrogHeads Reviews Fleet Commander: Nimitz \| GrogHeads says: […] into tactical and weapons systems, you might better enjoy a game like Picket Duty (which I’ve reviewed previously for GrogHeads). 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__label__wiki	0.859735	0.859735	Home > Local History Society > Recent Talks & Visits > The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire > Local History Society How to Explore and Contribute to the Site Queries - can you help with answers? Introduction to Harpenden's History Street by Street Topics - from Archaeology to Wartime Teaching resources for Harpenden history The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire Simplified outcrop map of the Chalk formations exposed in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape, published by Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 2010 John Catt, centre, with colleagues, at Reed Pit (TL 359370), showing Glaciotectonic thrust slcie of Lewses Nodular Chalk Formation Hertfordshire Geology & Landscape, ed. John Catt, 2010 Talk by John Catt to April 2012 meeting of the Society Report by John Wassell John Catt was the general editor of Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape published in 2010 by the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. He noted that the book had been proposed in 1950 with each chapter written by a different author and pointed out that had only been the editor since 1973 and that the last chapter was received in 2010! The main features of the Hertfordshire landscape result from the sequence of sediments (Chalk, Reading Beds, London Clay), which were gently folded during the later geological periods. 50 million years of erosion removed most of the early Palaeogene deposits from northwestern parts of the county, leaving a thin veneer of Plateau Drift over the Chalk of the Chiltern Hills. About 0.5 million years ago a glacier invaded the Vale of St Albans, which had been the valley of the Thames since about 2.5 million years ago. This diverted the Thames into its present course through London. The local puddingstone was described (flint pebbles cemented by silica) and he noted that the precise origin of flint is not known although several theories exist. The coprolite deposits that are found in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and the northern edge of Hertfordshire are natural phosphates and not dinosaur droppings! Copies of the book Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape (2010, Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc.) were available for sale (£34) at the meeting. This page was added by Rosemary Ross on 05/06/2012. Recent Talks & Visits Childwickbury - a short history of the estate, the stud and its owners Childwickbury Stud From Arkwright to Mayor The First Battle of St Albans Maps in the last 300 years The College of Arms Explore the High Street and Harpenden Common with our Town Trails Harpenden History > http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line211
__label__wiki	0.935662	0.935662	Impossible Foods Makes International Debut In Hong Kong – Chef May Chow’s Little Bao and Happy Paradise will be among the first to serve the Impossible in Hong Kong, and with a local Cantonese twist – Chef Uwe Opocensky’s Beef & Liberty becomes the first burger chain outside the United States to serve the Impossible Burger – Impossible Foods will launch in additional markets throughout 2018 HONG KONG, April 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Impossible Foods is launching its award-winning plant-based meat in Hong Kong at some of the city’s most beloved restaurants: Little Bao, Happy Paradise, and Beef & Liberty. Chef May Chow with both Impossible builds Started in 2011 by Stanford biochemistry professor and former pediatrician Dr. Patrick O. Brown, Impossible Foods makes meat, fish and dairy directly from plants a�� with a much smaller environmental footprint than those from animals. The company uses modern science and technology to create wholesome food, restore natural ecosystems and sustainably feed a growing global population. Ranked one of the world’s top culinary hotspots by Conde Nast Traveler, Hong Kong is the first place outside of the United States to feature the Impossible Burger, which cooks, smells and tastes like ground beef from cows but is made entirely from plants. The Impossible Burger is served in more than 1,400 outlets in the United States — from award-winning restaurants to mom-and-pop diners to the nation’s original fast-food chain, White Castle. The vast majority of these restaurants serve the Impossible Burger on a bun with traditional condiments and sides. Starting tomorrow in Hong Kong, diners will be able to try the product as a traditional burger — and as the central filling of savory street food. "We’re humbled to launch with spectacular chefs in one of the world’s most dynamic restaurant hotspots," said Brown, CEO and Founder of Impossible Foods. "We’re confident that Hong Kong — Asia’s crossroads of ideas and influences, both modern and traditional — will be home to the most innovative Impossible recipes yet." TOP CHEFS IN WORLD-CLASS RESTAURANTS Chef May Chow, named Asia’s Best Female Chef in 2017 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, heads Little Bao and Happy Paradise — 21st century takes on traditional Cantonese diners. Chow is a Toronto native who trained and worked in Bangkok, Los Angeles and Boston. She gained fame in Hong Kong’s renowned street food markets and helped to transform Hong Kong into a foodie destination. Chow has also represented Hong Kong at food festivals such as "Omnivore" in Paris and Shanghai. Starting tomorrow at Little Bao, Chow and her team will serve the "Impossible Bao," a traditional sandwich made with Impossible meat, black pepper teriyaki sauce, salted lemon kombu salad, and fermented tofu sauce, between two house-made steamed buns — on menu for 118 HK$. The "Impossible XinJiang Hot Pocket" — another popular Chinese street snack — will debut at Happy Paradise, served with pickled daikon and XinJiang spices, for 88 HK$. "Hong Kongers demand to be on the bleeding edge of global culinary trends," Chow said. "The Impossible Burger is delicious, versatile and perfectly timed to take this city’s world-class restaurant scene by storm." Another award-winning chef in Hong Kong, Uwe Opocensky earned his culinary reputation working in restaurants such as Spain’s El Bulli, voted the best restaurant in the world. He recently spent a decade as Executive Chef at Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental — considered one of the city’s finest establishments — overseeing 10 restaurants and bars and collecting Michelin Stars in three of the venues. He left the hotel in 2016 to join Beef & Liberty as Group Executive Chef, now lauded as Hong Kong and Shanghai’s best hamburger, and is also chef at his own restaurant Uwe. The seven restaurant group is a modern homage to 18th century "beefsteak clubs," reincarnated for modern tastes with a focus on natural ingredients and sustainable operations. Popular with both natives and expats, Beef & Liberty uses only hormone- and antibiotic-free beef from the Scottish Highlands — ground in-house — and also purifies and carbonates its own drinking water to reduce the amount of water imported (and glass bottles wasted) into Hong Kong. Beef & Liberty will serve the "Impossible Thai Burger," with chilli, coriander, mint, basil, spring onion, soya mayonnaise, crispy shallots and garlic, for 135 HK$. The restaurant group will also feature "Impossible Chili Cheese Fries," with chili, cheddar cheese, spring onion and sour cream over their "Liberty" fries, for 62 HK$. "We are obsessed, in a good way, with burgers and doing what we can for the environment. We love the way that the Impossible Burger has created new excitement in the global burger scene and opportunities to be more sustainable," said Beef & Liberty’s Executive Chef, Uwe Opocensky. "We’re positive that our guests are going to love the Impossible and feel good about eating it at the same time." Starting today, the Impossible will be available in Hong Kong on a limited and exclusive basis through Classic Fine Foods — Asia’s leading importer and distributor of fine foods. The group specialises in sourcing, importation, storage, marketing and distribution, and has been operating throughout Asia and Europe since 2001. BIG TASTE, SMALL FOOTPRINT In development since 2011, the Impossible Burger debuted in July 2016 at Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi in Manhattan. The Impossible Burger is the only plant-based burger to win a 2017 Tasty Award and a 2018 Fabi Award from the National Restaurant Association. In addition to the American fast-food chain White Castle, The Impossible Burger is the only plant-based burger featured in America’s most beloved "better burger" concepts Fatburger, Umami Burger, Hopdoddy, The Counter, Gott’s and B Spot, the Midwest burger restaurant owned by Chef Michael Symon. The Impossible Burger is made from simple ingredients, including water, wheat protein, potato protein and coconut oil. One special ingredient a�� heme a�� contributes to the characteristic taste of meat and is the essential catalyst for all the other flavors when meat is cooked. Heme is an essential molecular building block of life, one of nature’s most ubiquitous molecules. Although it’s found in all living things and in virtually all the food we eat, it’s especially abundant in animal tissues. Impossible scientists discovered that it’s the abundance of heme in animal tissues that makes meat taste like meat. To satisfy the global demand for meat at a fraction of the environmental impact, Impossible Foods developed a far more sustainable, scalable and affordable way to make heme and therefore meat, without the catastrophic environmental impact of livestock. The company genetically engineers and ferments yeast to produce a heme protein naturally found in plants, called soy leghemoglobin. The heme in the Impossible Burger is identical to the essential heme humans have been consuming for hundreds of thousands of years in meat a�� and while it delivers all the craveable depth of beef, it uses far fewer resources. The Impossible Burger is produced without slaughterhouses, hormones, antibiotics, cholesterol or artificial flavors. It uses about 75% less water, generates about 87% fewer greenhouse gases, and requires around 95% less land than conventional ground beef from cows. ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE FOODS Based in Redwood City, California, Impossible Foods makes delicious, nutritious meat and dairy products directly from plants a�� with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals. The privately held company was founded in 2011 by Patrick O. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., formerly a biochemistry professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Stanford University. Investors include Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, UBS, Viking Global Investors, Temasek, Sailing Capital and Open Philanthropy Project. www.impossiblefoods.com www.twitter.com/impossiblefoods www.facebook.com/impossiblefoods www.instagram.com/impossible_foods Press kit: https://impossiblefoods.app.box.com/v/presskit International (English Contact): Ashley Geo, ashley.geo@impossiblefoods.com Hong Kong (Chinese Contact): Jessi Ng, jessi@stirpublicrelations.hk Impossible Foods: pr@impossiblefoods.com Other Inquiries: hello@impossiblefoods.com Chef Uwe Opocensky with both Impossible items Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/679085/Impossible_Foods___Chef_May_Chow.jpg Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/679084/Impossible_Foods___Chef_Uwe_Opocensky.jpg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line216
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Started in 1975, the tournament has reached new heights in every successive edition. The fact that the Cricket World Cup is played every four years makes it a rare event in the cricket calendar and in the career span of a cricketer. In the 2019 Cricket World Cup, there are a few legends who will have appeared in four or more World Cups. This tournament will surely be their last one, and could draw curtains on their illustrious careers. Let’s take a look at the journey of these legends across the many World Cups. 1. Chris Gayle Chris Gayle, the “Universe Boss,” is one of only two players in the 2019 World Cup to have played in the 2003 World Cup, and the only one to be playing in his 5th tournament. He made his World Cup debut in 2003 and has since been the West Indies’ icon in the World Cup tournament. He hasn’t always been able to put on great performances in past editions. He has just 2 centuries in world cup. The first came in 2003 and the second in 2015. His lack of form in World Cups is one of the reasons behind the Windies’ dismal performance. Since 2015 he has looked a completely different batsman. As the senior most player, he has batted more responsibly. In 2015 he averaged 57, his best in any World Cup. He was also involved in a world record partnership of 372 runs, in which he achieved his best ODI score of 215. Playing his last World Cup at the age of 39, Gayle has struck form at the right time. He was player of the series in the bilateral tournament against England and has said that he will entertain the fans in his last World Cup appearance. Although he has a fragile relationship with West Indies cricket board, he has always taken pride in flying the Windies cricket flag high. 2. MS Dhoni Dhoni has not made an official announcement about his retirement from ODI cricket, but there is no chance that he will play the next World Cup as he will turn 38 during the current tournament. Dhoni’s World Cup journey started at Indian cricket’s lowest point - losing to Bangladesh in 2007 and getting knocked out in group stage itself. Dhoni averaged below 10 in that tournament and was one of the players who was severely criticised, with some fans pelting stones at his house. By 2011, a lot had changed. Dhoni had won the 2007 World T20 for India as captain and Indians were hoping for the same in 2011. He rose to the occasion and brought the World Cup home after 28 years, finishing the campaign in style, with a six. He averaged 48 in the tournament, including his match-winning knock of 91* in the final, when India needed it the most. In 2015, Dhoni managed to take India to the semi-final. Dhoni has become a specialist as a finisher & wicketkeeper. He has peaked at the right time in the IPL. MS Dhoni’s finishing knocks will be required for India when chasing big totals. 3. Lasith Malinga Lasith Malinga has been a torchbearer for Sri Lankan cricket around the globe. His time at the World Cup started on a high in 2007. He was the 5th highest wicket taker in that edition, with 18 wickets from 8 matches. The highlight was 4 wickets in 4 balls against South Africa. He played a crucial role in helping Sri Lanka reach the final. In 2011, he took a hat-trick against Kenya to become the only bowler with two World Cup hat-tricks. He ended up with 13 wickets while being economical in the death overs, which helped the co-hosts once again reach the final. By 2015, Malinga had become a cult figure not only in Sri Lanka, but all across the globe. He led Sri Lanka’s bowling attack and played all seven matches, taking 12 wickets with an economy of 5.56. Since then, Malinga has had a contentious relationship with the Sri Lankan cricket board. He played in various T20 leagues across the globe, neglecting domestic tournaments in Sri Lanka. The board objected to this. However, as the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England approached, Sri Lanka’s abysmal performance in ODIs triggered Malinga’s return to national side. Malinga responded positively, flying back midway through his IPL campaign. Just 12 hours after landing, he took a career-best 7 wickets for Galle. Malinga has already expressed his desire to retire after the 2020 World T20. Thus, this is definitively the last time he will appear for Sri Lanka in the 50-over World Cup. 4. Mashrafe Mortaza From minnows to winning everyone’s hearts to World Cup dark horses- Bangladesh has evolved at every edition of the World Cup. Mashrafe started in 2003 and missed out on the 2011 World Cup, but he has been instrumental part of this journey. Although he hasn’t performed very well in this World Cup, his experience has always helped Bangladesh’s young players. He took more responsibility on his shoulders since 2010, when he was first named Bangladesh’s captain, and has been their regular captain since 2014. He bowls in the crucial death overs and also plays a part with a bat. Under his captaincy, Bangladesh managed to reach the semi-final of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which was also played in England. With 3 wins so far in the ongoing tournament, Bangladesh will fancy themselves to go even further this time and win the 2019 Cricket World Cup. 5. Ross Taylor The Kiwi batsman began his World Cup campaign in 2007, just one year after his international debut. His World Cup record has been inconsistent, poor one tournament and spectacular the next. He failed to make a mark in 2007, scoring only 107 runs at a meagre average of 17.83. By 2011, most of the other senior players had retired and Taylor was New Zealand’s most prolific batsman when they started their campaign. Rock solid in the middle order, he ended up as New Zealand’s highest run scorer, amassing 324 runs from 8 matches at an average of 64.80 with a remarkable innings of 131* against Pakistan. Although New Zealand lost against Sri Lanka in the semi-final, Taylor was their performer of the tournament. In 2015, New Zealand had their best chance of winning the World Cup. They reached the final but lost to arch-rivals Australia. Taylor’s form was a disappointment. As the other batsmen put runs on the board, Taylor averaged just 31. In the 2019 World Cup, Taylor is the most senior player in his team. Having played county cricket for Durham, he has plenty of experience playing in English conditions. It will be interesting to see if he gets into form like he did in 2011, which could take New Zealand all the way. A World Cup without Zimbabwe 5 times the Zing bails didn't fall in the 2019 World Cup An ardent Cricket follower \| Twitter- @okeamey.... Five moments to remember from ODI cricket in 2019 Surprise performers of the World Cup The HoldingWilley 2019 Cricket World Cup XI A preview of the 2016 World T20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line223
__label__wiki	0.693308	0.693308	About the IRLA IRLA Board IRLA Affiliates From the Secretary General United Nations Update Fides et Libertas IRLA Broadcasts World Congress Resources World Congress Videos PowerPoint from Carlos Ruz Saldivar PowerPoint from Ganoune Diop PowerPoint from John Graz PowerPoint from Carol Palmer PowerPoint from Cesar Garcia IRLA Meets to Honor its "Outstanding President" News June 2007 L to R: Bert Beach, Jan Paulsen, Denton Lotz, Janice Lotz, John Graz. Silver Spring, Maryland, USA… IRLA leaders met June 7 at an event also co-sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to honor IRLA president Denton Lotz. Lotz, who is also president of the Baptist World Alliance, has headed the IRLA for the past eight years, and is "an outstanding president," says John Graz, IRLA secretary-general. "Denton Lotz is a courageous advocate of religious freedom," Graz told those attending the meeting. "He is the world leader of million of Baptists, and as president of the IRLA has been elected four times. He chaired the IRLA World Congresses in Manila and Cape Town. He also chaired the Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions and maintained friendship with all despite spirited discussion. We want to express our thanks for your strong convictions and your intelligent way of sharing your faith." Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen added his welcome, saying that, "Once you step outside of your own faith community you can make wonderful discoveries-such as people like Denton Lotz. I have appreciated Denton's sharing of deep spiritual values, his loyalty to God, serving God with all his heart. For the past twenty-five years I have been delighted to know him and to share important moments together. Thanks for the friendship and fellowship." Responding, Lotz spoke of the importance of communication between different faiths, that they should know each other. "The IRLA is a wonderful forum for religious traditions to express themselves. Religious freedom has been a major emphasis for Baptists, beginning in 1609. Now Adventists and the IRLA have become champions of religious freedom in our day." "Christians need to be working for religious freedom-more Christians being killed today than in the past," he added. "The challenge of the IRLA in the 21st century is greater than ever before. I thank the Adventist church and the IRLA for providing a platform for defending religious freedom and for working together. As Jesus told his disciples, 'Put back your sword'--and we have seen the tragedy of history of religious wars. Today we see the clash of civilizations as religions compete with one another. The IRLA provides an opportunity for fellowship and interchange and better understanding between religious groups." Lotz continues as president of IRLA until the end of 2007. [IRLA News] Washington Report Common Resources ©Copyright 2020. All rights reserved worldwide.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line226
__label__cc	0.745791	0.254209	Search Industry News Daily Industry News Daily International Space Station To Commercialize Missions to Space By Shana Moorer on December 6, 2019 Recently, NASA made an important declaration regarding the commercial seat for different operations organized to the ISS (International Space Station) until 2024. The space agency will release RFPs (request for proposals) that shows any provider interested in proposing the program in the next year will have to announce the bid. The two important firms that will, for sure, participate in the prospect missions are Boeing and SpaceX, the same firms that are already associated with the ISS human spaceflight operations. The fact that NASA is offering seats for the private operations with the ISS is a part of the CCP (Commercial Crew Program). The dissimilarity between this mission and the other space operations is that the flying into space would be for almost 30 Days and a stay in the ISS. The ISS is the new goal for astronauts subsidized by the administration, and it is stationing people since 2000. The operations will be further than LEO (low-Earth orbit) and the ISS will orbit around altitude in kilometers. The ISS is the size of a football field and consists of research labs and space settings for various experiments. The lab gets funds for experiments in biology, physics, astronomy, and the nations that were dynamically volunteering in it are Russia, the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Nevertheless, the ISS had some issues related to the funds from the U.S government and they planned to close down the program in 2028. If the U.S. President Donald Trump government supports the ISS till 2024—how it publicized—then the space station can be taken by another firm or deconstructed. Similarly, the ISS was in news as Boeing is developing a taxi to the space station. NASA already has promised billions of dollars to buy regularly planned rides to and from the ISS from profitable space taxi operators—but now it asserts it is interested in purchasing short-term trips also. The planned arrangement is focused on giving a boost to the development of space missions in the LEO, as well as to NASA’s aim to send astronauts to the lunar surface by the end of 2024. Shana Moorer Author CONTENT WRITER At Industry News Daily After completion of BA Astronomy, Shana thought of shifting her interest towards content writing owing to her hobby of writing down factual stories. The writer’s education has only helped know more about the space and planets, and express them through her articles. Her experience in the current field is immense as well as a plus point for the Industry News Daily publication. The author’s massive amount of articles is a mirror of her dedication shana.m@industrynewsdaily.us Published in Science and Top Stories More from ScienceMore posts in Science » JAXA To Construct Lunar Rover To Use In NASA’s Artemis Moon Mission A Fireball Over Australia Might Be An Uncommon “Minimoon” More from Top StoriesMore posts in Top Stories » Nvidia Plans To Integrate Artificial Intelligence In The Healthcare Systems The U.S. Is In Trouble If Tech Titans Turned Away From The Pentagon: Bezos Obese Individuals Tend To Take More Time For Flu Recovery: Research T-Mobile Accuses Lemonade Of Using Its Trademarked Color By Sanford Stamey on December 9, 2019 MacBook Pro And iPad Pro Can Get Mini LED Screens In 2020 Firefox Receives PiP Video Playback For Windows copyright 2019. All Rights Reserved By Industry News Daily.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line234
__label__cc	0.679345	0.320655	Home/Infographic/The History and Evolution of the ATM [Infographic] The History and Evolution of the ATM [Infographic] NowSourcing Follow on Twitter February 21, 2013 Do you use the ATM to withdraw or deposit money? As we live in the digital world where convenience is highly valued, ATMs have become a part of daily life. The ATM you use today went through an evolution to become what it is now. The first attempt at mechanical banking technology was an automated cash deposit machine developed by Luther George Simjian in New York in 1962. If you use ATMs, you must have your own Personal Identification Number (PIN)—this was patented by James Goodfellow in 1966, and he earned a measly $15 from the patent. In 1967, the Bankomat in Sweden and the CHUBB MD2 in Great Britain would be able to handle plastic cards for cash dispensing purposes. In 1975, the IBM 3614/3624 would set the standard in online ATMs. The NCR 5070, developed in Scotland in 1984, was considered the first full-function machine that offered transfers, payments, printing of detailed statements and envelope deposits. To learn more about the history and evolution of the ATM, check out the infographic below presented by ATMmarketplace.com. Government Bullying: What's Next? [Infographic] 5 Ways To Help Keep Your Kids Lice Free World Animal Crossing Signs The Two Income Trap [Infographic] How Textually Active Are You? [Infographic] Bourbon Please, Hold The Rattlesnake Heads [Infographic] Prostate Cancer Treatment: Agressive Treatment isn’t Always the Best	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line240
__label__wiki	0.689916	0.689916	Iceland's Odinsdottir Revels In History-Making 2016 Written by John Crumlish for International Gymnast Magazine \| Saturday, 31 December 2016 15:08 International Gymnast Online's annual year-end tradition of holiday-themed features continues with this update from Iceland's Tinna Odinsdottir, whose results in 2016 gave her good reasons to celebrate. Although veteran Icelandic gymnast Tinna Odinsdottir made finals at two World Challenge Cup meets this year, her team's success at the Nordic Championships and European Championships count as her most satisfying achievements of 2016. Tinna Odinsdottir (Iceland) "My favorite moment of this season was winning the Nordic Championships with my team," said Odinsdottir, who turned 22 on November 3. "It was the first time ever for Team Iceland to win the senior team competition. It was such an honor to be a part of this great team. We all got into the finals and all got on the podium. It only got better when I got a silver medal on floor, something I really didn't expect. And 14th place at the European Championships in Bern was the best result ever for Team Iceland." Odinsdottir, who finished eighth on uneven bars at the World Challenge Cup of Ljubljana in April and seventh on floor exercise at the World Challenge Cup of Cottbus in November, said the milestones she achieved in 2016 have inspired her for the coming year. "This year was amazing and really reminded me why I do gymnastics," said Odinsdottir, who trains in Aarhus, Denmark, under Dutch coach Rene Poutsma. "There is nothing better then getting a good result after working so hard." As Odinsdottir aims for the major meets of 2017, she plans to upgrade her routines and make them consistent. "My biggest goals for next year are making it to the European Championships in Romania and World Championships in Canada, and having good competitions there," she said. "I'm upgrading my D-score on vault, bars and floor, and focusing on stabilization." Odinsdottir is celebrating Christmas and New Year's Eve in Denmark with her family and boyfriend, but noted the unusual holiday tradition of her native Iceland. "Normally people are used to having one Santa Claus, but in Iceland we have 13," she said. "One by one, they come from the mountains to town and put small presents in children's shoes. Every Santa Claus has a different name. ‘Kertasníkir' is a Santa that sometimes steals candles. Some children put a candle in their shoe as a present for him. Our Santas were considered to be thieves and thought to know magic. But through the years they have changed and started to give children small presents during the 13 days before Christmas." Improving her gymnastics is only one of Odinsdottir's ambitions for 2017. "I just want to do things that makes me happy, and be around people who make me happy," she said. "I'm going to do my very best in everything I do, and by that I will reach my goals." International Gymnast magazine's coverage of Icelandic gymnastics includes: "Icelandic Warm-up" - feature on IG's visit to Icelandic clubs (November 2012) "She's Keeping Her Cool" - Sigridur Bergthorsdottir profile (October 2012) To subscribe to the print and/or digital edition of International Gymnast magazine, or order back issues, click here. 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__label__cc	0.622101	0.377899	What Paul Johnson said after Georgia Tech football’s win over Pittsburgh Georgia Tech led Pittsburgh 17-14 at halftime, but was able to shut the Panthers out in the second half en route to a 31-17 win at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets improve their record to 2-1 overall and start their ACC campaign with a victory. Quadree Henderson’s 80-yard punt return for a touchdown tied the game at 14 with around eight minutes to play in the first half. The Yellow Jackets took the lead for good, though, on a short KirVonte Benson touchdown run with 51 seconds left before the break. The Panthers only managed a field goal the rest of the way as a Quaide Weimerskirch 19-yard run with 6:40 left in the 3rd made it 24-17, while Benson’s second TD run of the game – a 47-yarder – put Georgia Tech up 35-17 with 5:37 left in the game. Here’s part of Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson’s postgame remarks after the win: On the win itself overall: “It was great to start out with a conference win, especially with a division win. I thought that our defense played really, really well today. We had four times where we turned the ball over and all four times they went three and out. That was huge. Offensively, we looked like we hadn’t played in two weeks. All four turnovers came from the same position, which is disappointing. We’ve got to clean that up because against a good team, we won’t be able to survive.” On the mistakes his team made against the Panthers: “We kept just giving the ball away. To jump offsides as many times as we did…is inexcusable. “It just disappoints me, the sloppiness. The (fumble by Benson) on the goal line (in the 4th quarter) infuriates me…I told him he could be a really good player, but not if he fumbles the ball (two) times, because he won’t be out there.” On the defense’s performance in the second half: “We got a lot of negative plays (and) got good penetration. We brought the corner a great deal from the boundary today. I thought we tackled well in space. Our defensive staff had a good plan…Other than the first drive…we didn’t give up many big plays. When we don’t give up big plays and you get negative plays, it makes it hard for the offense to go.” Georgia Tech-Pitt: Live updates, scores, stats, analysis for Week 4 game (9/23/2017) Previous: Slovenian bank names new president \| News Next: Gold rush sees hedge funds seek profit from tools of trade Now you can partially disable Bixby button on Galaxy smartphones – Tech News Tech lure for murdered teen, court hears Tech companies will guide society in artificial intelligence age: Microsoft CEO Dramatically Redesigned 2018 Honda Accord Goes High-Tech – ConsumerReports.org Hard Brexit Seen Stinging U.K.’s Auto, Tech and Health Sectors Are you Human? 30x8=? Energy price cap on pre-payment meters tightened by Ofgem Commodities: A Solid Alternative to Diversify a Traditional Portfolio Why I Love Teck Resources Ltd \| Business Markets and Stocks News UK economy poised to rebound in 2018, forecasters predict – business live \| Business Collision Repair Market Worth $220bn by 2024; Global Market Insights, Inc. Concludes – FenderBender	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line243
__label__cc	0.592695	0.407305	Our Life's Work is the Life of the Well™ (Common Stock) Basic Energy Services The Basic Difference Well Servicing Snubbing Services California Well Services Midstream Services Water Logistics Saltwater Disposal Pumping Services Coil Tubing Frac Stac Water Solution Services Rental/Fishing Tools Info. Requests / IR Contacts Info. Requests / IR Contact Home \| Investor Relations \| Press Releases \| Basic Energy Services to Present at the 2011 UBS Leveraged Finance Conference Basic Energy Services to Present at the 2011 UBS Leveraged Finance Conference MIDLAND, Texas, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Basic Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: BAS) announced today that the Company will be presenting at the UBS Leveraged Finance Conference to be held in New York, New York on May 18 -19, 2011. Alan Krenek, Senior Vice President - Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, is scheduled to present on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at approximately 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time. A link to the listen-only live webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of Basic's website at www.basicenergyservices.com. Basic Energy Services provides well site services essential to maintaining production from the oil and gas wells within its operating area. The company employs more than 4,800 employees in more than 100 service points throughout the major oil and gas producing regions in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Kansas, and the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions. Additional information on Basic Energy Services is available on the Company's website at http://www.basicenergyservices.com. Safe Harbor Statement: Statements made in this press release and in the presentation may include forward-looking statements and projections made in reliance on the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Basic has made every reasonable effort to ensure that the information and assumptions on which these statements and projections are based are current, reasonable, and complete. However, a variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the projections, anticipated results or other expectations expressed in this release and the presentation, including our ability to successfully execute, manage and integrate acquisitions, reductions in our customers' capital budgets, our own capital budget, limitations on the availability of capital or higher costs of capital, and lower commodity prices. While Basic makes these statements and projections in good faith, neither Basic nor its management can guarantee that the transactions will be consummated or that anticipated future results will be achieved. Basic assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein or any other forward-looking statements made by Basic, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Alan Krenek, Chief Financial Officer Basic Energy Services, Inc. Jack Lascar/Sheila Stuewe DRG&L / 713-529-6600 SOURCE Basic Energy Services, Inc. Basic Energy Services © 2020 Website by: Axiom	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line244
__label__cc	0.599266	0.400734	More and more hotels, workforce is what also cut? The domestic hotel industry has been in the past five years technology upgrade process, reduce the dependence on artificial. November 20, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, promulgated by the State Council bulletin at the end of 2018 in the fourth national economic census data, the domestic hotel industry experts, huamei hotel consultant Zhao Huanyan found that compared with five years ago, the third national economic census data, domestic all accommodation industry rose 72.60%, the legal person units and workers, fell by 6.80%. Behind Zhao Huanyan analysis, the reason is that domestic full service hotel (mainly four five-star hotel), as well as the hotel intelligent level. National economic census data show that by the end of 2018, the national all accommodations industry provides temporary stay place, not including the main (monthly or yearly long-term rental housing residence) of the legal person units in 126000, up 72.60% than the end of 2013, and staff of 2.74 million people, was 6.80% lower than at the end of 2013.By the end of 2018, all accommodation industry assets totaled 1.9109 trillion yuan, more than five years ago, grew by 39.01%, business income is 542.83 billion yuan, rose by 24.43% in five years. All the different forms of accommodation of the lodging industry, staff number less than five years ago.Which hotel (star hotel or similar quality/level) as a legal person units rose 41.67% in five years, workers, fell by 18.26% in the five years;General hotel (do not have star hotel or similar quality/level) as a legal person units have risen by 83.33% in the five years, assets and revenues have risen sharply, mean five years has opened a new general hotel number increased significantly, while at the same time the employees 956000 people, has decreased by 19.35%.The rest have the business license of the home stay facility service and camping ground service, other accommodations industry is small. Increase in number in the hotel, from personnel of course of study is less than five years ago.Analysis of the industry that the two trends of the past five years, the domestic hotel industry makes artificial ratio significantly decreased in the hospitality industry. On the one hand, full service hotel is given priority to with four five-star hotels (catering, entertainment, sports and other full-service hotel). "National policy states that contain public consumption at the beginning of 2012, full service hotel, this is the most direct factor."Han month Xia Zifan hotel group vice President of interface, according to the news analysis "as the hotel investors pursuing rational and reasonable investment, and gradually reduce the full service hotel input, turn to the broader business people market." Prev:Next year's '51' five days of light 'message type travel' Next:The Chinese sports culture expo, China sports tourism fair opened in guangzhou Address: 666 Jichang Road (Jichang Lu)(666) Copyright © 2012 Jinhai Kaiyuan Mingdu Hotel Panzhihua, All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line263
__label__cc	0.669598	0.330402	Norwegian Bliss: a floating, 21st-century resort On a sea of bliss VOLANTE Jody Miller sets sail on Norwegian Cruise Lines’ “blissful” new endeavour From top: Previewing the Norwegian Bliss in Los Angeles. The bow of the new mega-ship. A stunning observation deck. Jody Miller is a correspondent for Lucire. Norwegian Cruise Lines is riding high on a wave of enthusiasm and exhilaration as Norwegian Bliss, the line’s highly anticipated Breakaway Class mega-ship, sets sail for the Alaska cruise season in June 2018 before heading to other ports of call around North America. At 167,800 gross tons and accommodating 4,000 guests, the boat is everything you imagined a 21st-century floating resort could be and everything your grandparents’ cruise ship is not. Worried about elbow-to-elbow long buffet lines, claustrophobic bathrooms, uninspired theatre productions, and limited culinary options? Times have changed, and your generation’s ship has come in. The boat is outfitted with nine specialty restaurants plus three plush main dining rooms, a 24-hour pub, and spacious buffet with international food stations and ocean views, all of it ensuring your refined palate is satisfied any time of the day or night. And for dessert, you’ve got a choice of a decadent chocolate café, a bake shop, gelato bar, and full-service Starbucks. Before or after you fill your tummy, you can sip premium cocktails at any one of eight bars and lounges. Notable stand-outs include the District Brew House, which features global craft beers including Seattle’s Red Hook and Elysian Brewery, and the Liverpool-themed Cavern Club where you can experience the British Invasion hits of the 1960s. If you prefer to slink into a leather sofa with your favourite whisky and cigar, float on down to Humidor. Entertainment and excitement await at every corner. A full Broadway production of the Tony-award winning Jersey Boys exceeds expectations. Comedians, hypnotists, and two exclusive adult-themed musicals have been created especially for Norwegian Bliss. And the fun is not limited to spectators. A two-level go-kart race track on top of Deck 19 is the largest of its kind at sea. Cruisers can also choose to be transported to an abandoned space station at the open-air laser tag course, or get their adrenaline rush at Aqua Park, which features two heart-pumping water slides, one with loops that extend over the ship’s edge. Top: A bedroom in the Haven. Above: Inside a courtyard penthouse. Cabins with glass enclosed showers with Vichy shower heads are a long-overdue cruise ship feature. The Mandara Spa is on par with any upscale resort spa; art-déco men’s and women’s salon areas, hot and cold plunge pools surrounded by heated stone lounge beds, and an aromatherapy steam room, salt room and snow room, all with ergonomic seating. 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__label__wiki	0.68027	0.68027	Home Civil Rights Greensboro Oral history interview with Lewis A. Brandon III by Eugene Pfaff Oral history interview with Lewis A. Brandon III by Eugene Pfaff GREENSBORO VOICES/GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWEE: Lewis A, Brandon III INTERVIEWER: Eugene E. Pfaff, Jr. [Begin Tape 1, Side A] EUGENE PFAFF: --Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program, I’m talking with Lewis A. Brandon the third, in the library on June 3, 1981, concerning the demonstrations in Greensboro. Mr. Brandon, I wonder if we could begin by--if you could provide me with a brief biographical background about yourself? LEWIS BRANDON: Yeah, Okay. I was born in Asheville, North Carolina. I don’t know if the date is important, but [in] 1939. I attended the public schools there, finished from Stevens Lee High School and came to Greensboro in 1957 to attend A&T College [North Carolina A&T State University]. I got my BS degree there. I went into [the] service; I returned to A&T in '66 and received my master’s in biology. So basically that’s my biographical background. EP: Had you been involved in any civil rights activity prior to coming to A&T? LB: Well we--I had, I wouldn’t--I hadn’t define it as being civil rights, but there are a number of kind of things that I was involved in, in high school, and even before we got into high school, that were interracial. A lot of that had to do with the Red Cross in Asheville. During the summers we had a group of us who worked on making favors for veteran hospitals. Also, there was the Interracial Youth Council--this was in 1953--that involved the high schools in Asheville, and each of the schools had representatives on this council. So there was a cross-fertilization--well, fertilization might not be the word, but there was an exchange of ideas among high school students. There was also an interracial youth group that was sponsored by the Christians and Jews, and I really don’t remember the name of the organization right now, but we met every Sunday at various churches in the community and talked about issues and the problems affecting youth in the community, and then we had some retreats. That was on a formal basis. On an informal basis, some of the fellows in my neighborhood--in fact we had organized into a semi-pro baseball team by the time we finished high school. But we integrated a lot of the baseball diamonds and parks and things, just by going, simply going in and playing and using those facilities. Wherever we could play baseball, we played baseball. And if we were with black groups, we’d play; if we were with white groups we would play. The tennis courts, the city tennis courts, we integrated those by just simply going in and playing. EP: It sounds to me almost as if Asheville integrated easier than Greensboro. LB: Well, yes, because by the time, by 1960 when the sit-ins first started, a gentleman that a lot of people are familiar with, James Ferguson, who was the attorney for [the] Wilmington Ten who was also from Asheville [bell sounds]. He and some fellows, students, came down to meet with the students here [Greensboro] to plan some activities in Asheville. Those of us that were active here at A&T, when we got home for that Easter break, had a meeting with the students from the local high school there, from Stevens Lee, and, I don’t know, that meeting where the information about--well, what was discussed in the meeting got back to people in the city and people began immediately to make plans to integrate. The city took to head off demonstrations, because Asheville was a tourist town and people did not want to affect the tourist trade. There was a local organization that I participated in during the summers where I was home; it was called A[S?]CORE--it was Asheville Congress of Racial Equality, and through the efforts of that organization, the mere presence of that organization forced a lot of the businesses to integrate. I don't think we picketed but one time, and that was at something like a Winn- Dixie [grocery] store— [audio equipment malfunction] LB: --power to use the facility, but since there were public funds being used, and at that point the city did not want a confrontation, the facility was integrated. EP: When you came--you say you first came [to Greensboro] in ’57. That was right about the time that Gillespie [Junior High School] was integrated here in Greensboro and Josephine Boyd was going to Grimsley [High School], and if I am not mistaken, about the time Dr. [George] Simkins and the other men were arrested at Gillepsie [Park] Golf Course. Were you involved in any of that? LB: Sort of on the periphery--I was interested in it. In fact, my first time really paying attention to Greensboro I think was in ‘55 when Simkins was arrested, I think. It was around that time. Sometime around ‘55--the golf course. And also, he and a man by the name of Charlie Herbin were the first to play in the city tennis tournament and they won that year. So, I mean, that kind of--my eyes kind of opened up. EP: Was there much activism on the campus? LB: There were a lot of discussions, discussion groups. I think all of us, you know, were interested because we were interested in what happened in Montgomery, and that was interesting, what happened in 1957 out in Oklahoma with the sit-ins out there at one of the Woolworth facilities [by the] NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] Youth Chapter. I have always been interested in following the works of the NAACP because, as a paperboy, one of the ladies in my neighborhood was president of the local organization. So I knew and I had a Youth membership. EP: How did you-- LB: King, well, I was going to say that during my first year here Martin Luther King came to visit and so there were a lot of political meetings and things I went to, even though I did not belong to any political organizations in Greensboro at that point. EP: You did not join the NAACP? LB: Not at that point, not until 1960. EP: How did you come to meet the four men that first sat in at Woolworth’s on February 1, LB: I guess just by going down and participating in the demonstrations. I think I joined the demonstration on the second or third day and began to attend the meetings, because right after the demonstrations the Student Executive Committee for Justice was organized. EP: Did you have an office in that? LB: I did not have an office, but I was a member of the Committee. I think that Pat Patterson and I joined about the same time. And so that was my introduction to Dave [Richmond] and Ezell [Blair, Jr.] and Richard and-- EP: Did you attend any of the negotiating sessions? LB: Yeah, some of the earlier sessions with Oscar Burnett and Dr. George Evans and I don’t know all of the other principles there but some of the meetings [were] held at the Red Cross building out on Church Street. I remember going out there. EP: This has been mentioned before and I’m not real sure of the time sequence. Was this '60 or later on when these meetings were held out at the Red Cross? LB: That was in 1960. EP: So, were they part of Ed Zane’s committee or was this a separate thing? LB: Possibly, I think it was probably the same committee. I'm not so sure that--if Bland Worley was a part of that group. There were a number of people who were meeting trying to resolve the issue. EP: What was their attitude? Do you think they were cooperative, do you think they were trying to stave off and do the minimum possible to end the demonstrations? LB: I think some of--you know, there was genuine concern about what was happening and I think people had different concerns. A lot of people were trying just to get the thing over with and wanted to get back to some sort of normalcy. Then there were people like Mr. Burnett, who I thought was very sincere in trying to change things. I was really impressed by him. I mean that’s why-- EP: More so than Ed Zane? LB: That's why I remember him [Burnett]. I don’t remember-- well, I remember Ed Zane’s name, but just to put a face. EP: Jibreel Khazan seemed to indicate that rather early on the students--the Greensboro Citizens Association acted as kind of a conduit of information between the Student Executive Committee for Justice and both the mayor’s committee and the store managers. Would you agree with that, and second, was there a certain amount of resentment on the part of the students for being one, or even two, steps removed from the direct negotiations? LB: I don’t say removed from direct negotiations because, in fact, I can remember the sessions that we had out at the Red Cross building, and there was some dialogue between and some cooperation between the Citizens Association and the student group. I think that is one of the major differences between the demonstrations of the sixties, and 1960, and the ones in '62 and ‘63, was that it was more student-oriented. EP: Nineteen-sixty was? LB: Yeah. The ones in '62 and '63 [were] more community-oriented, because we had more community people involved in all aspects of the demonstrations. EP: Were these meetings frequent and did you attend a lot of them or were they just infrequent, as demands and response to demands were [unclear]? LB: I don’t really remember a whole lot of meetings, and I think that it was because of the few meetings that we had that the picketing began, which was sort of drawn out, long and drawn out. EP: Was that one arrest of forty-five people at Kress’ [April 1, 1960] the only arrest? LB: No, because I had a roommate that was arrested for assault on one of the--but it was thrown out of court. But his name was Donald Lyons. He was arrested for assaulting one of the hecklers. What it amounted to was people being bumped into him or shoving him and then accused him of attacking them, so a warrant was served on him. I think there was one other attempt to arrest a guy for indecent exposure or something; I think it was merely tactics of harassment. EP: I heard that. Wasn’t it a professor at A&T? LB: No, it was a student. EP: Did you go down to Woolworth’s and Kress’s frequently? LB: Yeah, once the picketing started, I was there almost all day on the picket lines. EP: Were students--did they have things dumped on them and burned, harassed with lit cigarettes and pulled off stools, and that kind of thing? LB: Yeah, well, my roommate, Donald, I can remember him being burned with cigarettes. Other folk would have lighted cigarettes, you know, stuffed in their pockets, and there was some jostling and shoving. I can remember the day that--because there was a lot of that going on then, in the first two or three days. I can remember this Saturday morning when they closed the counters, things were very tense that day. And I was in Kress’s; we were standing around. And I remember looking up and all I could see were blue and gold football jackets. And some of the white bullies began to move, kind of move out because the football team had come down. And, you know, at that point we had some guys weighing as much as three hundred pounds--that was the Stanford brothers from Jersey, I remember them, there was three of them. And then we left there. One of my homeboys, Wilbur Matt, who was one of the centers, he and I left there and went up to Woolworth. And so as we went through, there was kind of jockeying for position, that kind of stuff. And then on our way back, when they announced that the counter was closed, we marched back to campus. And as we passed the King Cotton Hotel, people began to throw water and stuff out of the windows. EP: Jo Spivey says she remembers that some girl, I think--she didn’t know if she was an A&T or Bennett [College] student, got her teeth knocked out. Do you recall that? Right there at the King Cotton. LB: I can’t remember, but there was a lot of--there was some incidents right there. EP: Do you think that the police did a good job of separating the two groups, or not at all? LB: I thought they did---there was one police officer and I’ve been trying to remember what his name was. He had salt-and-pepper hair. He essentially played the role that Captain [William H.] Jackson played during these--and he had rank, and when we got back, he had lost his rank. I don’t know whether it was because he was too friendly, you know, he was too cooperative or what. But I can remember seeing him on the Square directing traffic. And I can’t remember his name. EP: So, you think that he might have gotten demoted because of his-- LB: Of his, yeah. He was awfully cooperative and his attitude was very good, quite positive. EP: As I understand the sequence of events, principally from Bill Chafe’s book [Civilities and Civil Rights] and newspaper accounts I’ve read, things kind of calmed down or quieted down when A&T and Bennett students went home and most of the continuing picketing was carried out by Bill Thomas and high school students from Dudley. LB: Yeah. One of the things that we--I guess, near when school was closing--you know I mentioned earlier about this basically being student-oriented, and really it was basically college students, because the people who were involved with all the picketing and demonstrating were people from Bennett and A&T, and there were really no high school students really participating. And at one of our meetings we discussed what was going to happen after we went home and who would be there to carry on the movement. So, I guess the four guys, myself--I can’t remember if Pat was with us or not--we went to Dudley and we had a meeting in Ezell’s father’s shop with some of the people: Bill Thomas, his sister Anthanette, Billy Joe Foster, Paula Jewell and some other people-- to discuss their taking over the movement once we left Greensboro. That was the first time that I met Bill Thomas was at that meeting. EP: What was your impression of him? LB: I liked him because he had been involved at some level with things in his community. His father had been very active in the NAACP, so there was some carry-over there. He was highly intelligent and we became the best of friends. In fact, I spent most of my time with his mother. She sort of took us in after the--during '61, '62, so I’ve been-- EP: Did you stay in town or did you go back to Asheville? LB: My first summer of staying here was the summer of ’61. EP: You don’t see anything in the newspapers after Kress and Woolworth’s announced that they were going to integrate [in July 1960]. LB: I know. What happened was that when we got back to Greensboro that fall, there wasn’t anything going on. Then there was a movie that came to town starring Pearl Bailey. What EP: Porgy and Bess? LB: Porgy and Bess, [January 1961]. Bill Thomas and myself, my roommate Donald Lyons, and Charles Alston, we went out to the theatre on Tate Street. EP: The Cinema? LB: Cinema. We went up and were refused tickets, so we began to picket the Cinema Theatre. We picketed it for several months, and we were joined by students from Guilford and Greensboro colleges. EP: Did you continually picket the Cinema or was it a one-time thing? LB: No, we picketed out there for, I guess, two months, then we moved from the Cinema to the downtown theatres. We picketed the National, which was on South Elm Street, and the Carolina Theatre. We picketed that until over into December, January of ’61. EP: Was this on a daily basis or just every now and then? LB: A nightly basis, and it was a lot of the fellows from my home town, including my brother, and some students from--some young ladies from Bennett carried it on, with people from Guilford and with people from Greensboro College. EP: Were you heckled or harassed? LB: Initially, there was some activity from the Klan. This was out at Tate Street. We didn’t have any problem once we got downtown. Folk were coming up with their robes and things and this was a guy named Dawson, who was later identified as being an FBI agent. But it was some of the people he had organized and it was kind of a joke. EP: Was there actually any confrontation? LB: No, we would walk along beside each other, laugh and talk. The only thing that they did that might seem provocative was taking license plate numbers, that kind of thing. But on the line, there was nothing. People just thought they were one big joke. EP: The idea of them taking license plates, I guess, was to give you the idea that they were going to come and get you later? LB: Yes. EP: Did any of that ever happen? LB: No, not to my knowledge. [pause in recording] EP: You were telling me about shifting from the Cinema to the downtown theatres about December or January of '61. LB: Sixty, and it went over into sixty-one. EP: Was this just an informal group of people? Obviously, it wasn't CORE [Congress of Racial Equality] yet. LB: Yeah, it was basically informal. My roommate, Donald Lyons, kind of headed up the group, and there was a counterpart on Bennett’s campus. And so we just kind of went EP: Would you meet on the campuses or was it private homes? LB: No, most of the meetings took place on Bennett’s campus during this period. EP: Did you have any overall purpose in mind? Was it right from the beginning total desegregation of Greensboro’s public facilities, or was it kind of a target-by-target thing? LB: Well, the focus at that point was just really on the movie theatres. The facilities downtown had already opened up, in terms of the lunch counters. And so the focal point there was nothing broader than that [the theatres] at that point. EP: Did you have any meetings with the Greensboro Community Fellowship? Specifically, people like John Taylor, Warren Ashby, McNeill Smith? LB: I knew them; I knew all of them. In fact, Warren Ashby and I were asked out of the King Cotton. [laughs] EP: Oh really? What happened? LB: We went in and asked for service. This was once the larger demonstrations had started. The meetings with John R. Taylor—Well, I attended some of the Fellowship meetings-- this was when they were being held out at the Holiday Inn South--and on occasion we would use the pond out at his [Taylor’s] house for retreats and little get-togethers. I really met him through a friend, a fellow we met while we were picketing on Tate Street, Dick Ramsey, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee. I don’t know if you’ve come across his name or not. EP: I saw of picture of him in the newspaper. LB: Dick was very active in CORE and he was very active when we were picketing against the theatres. He was one that was very instrumental in recruiting some of the students from Guilford and Greensboro [colleges], because he was the secretary of the College Committee for the Friends Service Committee, so he was working with a lot of college students at that point. EP: One think that interests me about Bill Chafe's book and other things is that Ed Zane seemed surprised when, after the lunch counters opened up, there were further demands for like the Garden Room and Meyer’s [Tea Room] to be opened up. LB: Yeah. EP: He [Ed Zane] says, “Now wait a minute. You said you wanted the lunch counters. Here you are.” He [Ed Zane] didn’t seem to understand that--well, Eric Goldman once said that it never was just a cup of coffee, but he [Ed Zane] seemed to think that that was as far as it went. Do you think that most of Greensboro didn’t perceive what the overall goals of the movement were? LB: Yes, because had they, then other things would have opened up about the same time. You see, if you look at most of the exclusive restaurants [in Greensboro], they didn’t make that move. The cafeterias didn’t make that move. We had to come back to them and, hence, the larger demonstrations. These were kind of the private domain, the supper clubs. They really weren’t that public. EP: Was this your goal from the beginning, to open all the areas of the public facilities? LB: Yes. Once we got into it, the thing was to go after all of the public facilities. See by that time--I need to get my dates right--well, over into '62--well, when CORE began to come into the area. EP: Can we get into that? How did CORE begin to come into the area? LB: There was a man by the name of Marion Jones, who was a United Church of Christ minister, and his nephew Wendell Scott. They were same members of the church that Cox, B. Elton Cox from High Point; Cox was then the Field Secretary for CORE, working primarily in the South. The freedom rides had already taken place, and CORE had a project then called Freedom Highways, which was basically going around to the Howard Johnsons throughout the South. So we began to meet at Hayes-Taylor [YMCA] to form a CORE chapter. And Wendell was sort of the first chairman that we had. Elections officially took place in the summer of '62 I tihnk. EP: You might be interested in that we got six reels of microfilm of the CORE papers relating to North Carolina here at the library. LB: I’d like that, is that the Corelator [CORE newsletter]? EP: We don’t have copies of the Corelator. These were just correspondence--mostly memos. Which is why I got into this--what I was going to get into. You mentioned B. Elton Cox and Wendell Scott and I had a few names of some people who were listed as early officers, including Evander Gilmer. LB: Yeah, he was our treasurer. EP: And you were listed as vice-president, I think. EP: Could you give me the sequence of these officers? I have kind of a rough idea from-- LB: After Wendell, after the initial organizing, Bill Thomas was elected the chairman, I was the first vice-chairman, Pat Patterson was the second [vice-chairman]. Betty Wall, who was the daughter of Marion Jones and cousin to Wendell Scott, was the secretary; Evander [Gilmer] was the treasurer. Those were the initial officers and I guess all of us remained officers through '63. EP: I notice that the names of Evander Gilmer, Wendell Scott, and Betty Wall disappeared kind of quickly. Did they leave CORE? LB: No, they stayed on. Betty--in fact, she is still in Greensboro. Evander lives in Washington, works for the Navy Department, I think. I talked to Wendell’s uncle a couple weeks ago and I think Wendell is somewhere in New Jersey, but he left Greensboro shortly after the formation of CORE and I think he went into the service, I’m not sure. But Evander stayed around as remained as the treasurer, he just--I don’t know-- because I was looking at some checks and I know he signed some checks as late as '63. EP: Did the officers--did the same people tend to get reelected every year? LB: Through the period--well, yeah, because--[pause in recording] We probably had just two EP: Sounds like a close type group. LB: Bill Thomas left during the summer of '63. I sort of chaired things, but I was finishing school at that point myself and was leaving. EP: I noticed in the paper that as a result of--or in connection with the Freedom Highways Project, Bennett sponsored a CORE training session and out of that-–or during this time came the picketing and desegregation of the Howard Johnsons, I believe. LB: Yes, because I know right after we formed our chapter we participated in a big demonstration in Durham. There’s a Howard Johnson between Durham and Chapel Hill. Is that [15-]501? I’m not sure. On the highway. EP: Who was responsible for getting the training session here at Bennett, do you know? LB: I don’t really know. EP: Were you in on the planning of that and the picketing of Howard Johnson? LB: No. The Howard Johnson--what do you mean? Here? EP: Here in Greensboro? Or Hot Shoppe, I guess it was. LB: No, that had taken place before the organization was formed by us. EP: I guess this is what sort of confuses me. I have certain dates and I understand this--what we’re talking about now took place in July of '62; does that sound right? LB: Yes. It might have been a little earlier. I have a couple photographs from that. That’s the only thing I have left over. EP: So you didn’t participate in the picketing of the Hot Shoppe? LB: No. EP: Did you have any dealings with Armistead Sapp? EP: Could you tell me about those? LB: The most vivid one was the debate that we had on A&T campus with him. EP: I read about that-- LB: On the merits of--we challenged him to a debate. Bill Thomas participated, Jesse Jackson, myself, a fellow by the name of Rodney Davis, [and] one of the Stanford brothers, one of the football players, I’m trying to remember--Carl Stanford. It took place in the library. He had made some remark about students, the mental level of black students or something, so we challenged him to this debate. A fellow by the name of Donald Addison, who was a professor of sociology, kind of prepared us for the debate. He gave us a short course in logic. A lot of people said that Sapp really didn’t believe all of the things that he said, that he was really a devil’s advocate. I’m not sure. EP: Do you think that he was just looking for publicity points? To get in the paper, being S&W’s attorney, and that sort of thing? LB: I'm not sure what his motives were. But I know he was--if you read some of the things he said, he really pushed the line of his client. One would just have to assume that a lot of what he said, he believed. I’m not sure. EP: I gather that there wasn’t a lot going on except some individual testing of different stores. Students and members of CORE were going up to different businesses and asking for service and being refused up until October of '62, when CORE started picketing in force of S&W [cafeteria]. Does that sound right? LB: Yes. The biggest thing up to that point was the arrest on Thanksgiving Day. That kind of exploded into something much larger because we branched out from there to the McDonald’s and the-- EP: How was that organized? LB: Which? EP: The arrest on Thanksgiving Day. LB: We decided that--well, we were looking for activities and some things to do. We were planning demonstrations and there was this ad in the newspaper: “Come to S&W for Thanksgiving Dinner, bring your family.” So we decided that we would go. We went in and got into the line and [were] arrested shortly after that for trespassing. EP: Did you get served and sit down or were you arrested in the line? LB: No, we were arrested in the line. EP: I understand Reverend Brown was arrested right around that same time for holding a--for praying on the street. LB: Yeah, right there by Belk’s. EP: And that was all part of the same [demonstrations]? LB: No, that was separate. That was on his own; it had nothing to do with CORE. EP: I kind of get the impression--and please correct me if I’m wrong--that there are these points of intense activity like the sit-ins in '60, Freedom Highway’s Project about '61 or '62, and then the Thanksgiving arrest. Were they periodic like that or was something going on in between these points? LB: There were meetings, small meetings of the organization. Well, you are probably correct about what happened in ‘60 and ’61, but from early spring of '62 on, that was planned. I mean people began to plan or plot course of action relative to attacking the problems with desegregation in the city. So then by the time we got to November [1962], the thing was to increase and to apply more pressure to the city and to the establishment owners by continuously picketing and demonstrating in front of their establishments. The other thing was to cover as much territory as we could with the forces that we had. EP: So you didn’t just focus on the downtown? LB: No. Well we did, because we expanded to McDonald’s and Biff Burger on Summit EP: Oh, I hadn’t heard about Biff Burgers. Was that successful or not? I know that McDonald’s agreed after about four days of demonstrations. LB: The Biff Burger fell in line shortly after that. They were about a block from each other, I gather. EP: What were the various alternatives as to the courses of action and long and short term goals suggested in CORE, specifically the Executive Committee? LB: The long term? The long range? Short? EP: Well, both the long and short term. LB: The short range [goal] was to have some immediate successes to build for other attacks within the city. EP: I suppose what I had in mind was I gather that opening of the facilities were sort of short term goals. Were there long term goals like better employment, better pay? LB: Yeah, okay. EP: Did these come later or were they right from the beginning? LB: I think that they came much later, because the immediate focus was to dwell on public accommodations, but, kind of viewing that at some point, we would be involved in employment. Because there was some picketing at Wachovia around their hiring--refusal to hire a [black] teller or something of that nature. Another thing was that once we got the public accommodations, if you did this then this would make it easier to get to the employment and jobs and wages. One of the things that we did immediately after returning to Greensboro in ‘63 after the March on Washington was to begin a massive voter registration project. EP: Had there been earlier--some of the other actions that I have notes on about the CORE being involved in were earlier voter registration drives and getting merchants to remove separate signs on water fountains and restrooms. LB: Yes. One other thing that I particularly worked on with [Bennett faculty] Dr. [Elizabeth] Laizner, which was really our focus that summer, in addition to the voter registration, was organizing--community organizing, and the target area at that point was the Gillespie Street area--Gillespie Street, Spencer Street and Gant Street--at that point. EP: Was this after the demonstrations? LB: Well, the demonstrations ended in the early part of the summer--the massive demonstrations with the sit-down at the--downtown, then there was a period of some negotiations, I guess, and then the March on Washington, people coming back to begin to participate in the voter registration drive, which was sponsored jointly by the NAACP, the [American] Friends Service Committee, and the Greensboro Citizens Association and some other folk. That planning took place earlier while the demonstrations were going on, because there were meetings to plan the summer project. But this was, here again, was spearheaded by Dick Ramsay through his College Committee. He was able to get folk to come in from around the country, recruit college students to participate. It was an interracial group that was housed at the Old St. Stephens Church on Gorrell Street. But--that also--with that taking place, we also began to meet-- and this is where I first met Reverend Frank Williams, because he had a little small church on--I can’t think of the street right now, it runs parallel to the cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery--but he had a small church there. We were using that facility to hold community meetings and we would meet with people from the city and the Redevelopment Commission to talk about street improvements--because all the streets at that point were dirt streets--improving the houses, bringing houses up to code, putting in streetlights, and the conversion of the city dump-- the land adjacent to the cemetery, which had been a city dump-- converting that into a city park, a park for the community. EP: Dr. Laizner indicated that CORE deliberately didn’t exactly get out--down-played its role once the neighborhood organization or the committee was organized because they wanted it to be a neighborhood thing rather than something run by CORE. Is this right? LB: Yes, basically that’s accurate. We did not identify ourselves as just CORE and the people who really took the lead in that particular community were people who lived in that community. Our chief role was to be facilitators and to be resource people in terms of getting the authorities to the meetings, that kind of thing. EP: If I could back up a little bit--were most of the decisions in CORE made within the Executive Committee? LB: Yeah. And then formalized by the larger body. EP: Were decisions of the Executive Committee always then taken to the full membership to be voted on, or were they sometimes put into practice just from the Executive Committee? LB: Both. And the Executive Committee had the authority to make decisions for-- EP: So not every question was brought before the membership? EP: How were decisions made as to strategy and targets and that sort of thing within the LB: Through long discussions, long debates about what would be the best and most logical way of producing change. For instance, the decision to sit-down [in the Square]--I mean that took almost two weeks. EP: I wouldn’t say there’s quite--for instance Pat Patterson said that he didn’t, he didn’t approve of that and as a matter of fact, that very day, he went to New York to take a job. Lois Lucas said that she was against it, too. LB: What, the sit-down? EP: --in the square. LB: The first one or the second one? EP: The second one. On the idea that by that time, a lot of the students who had been in the movement for several years and had experience-- [End of Tape 1, Side A--Begin Tape 1, Side B] EP: --were kids from Dudley and members of the community who hadn’t really had much experience in nonviolent direct action, and I think they indicated they were afraid that there was going to be some kind of violence. LB: Yes, well I think that might have been a legitimate concern of Lois and some other people. But here again, high school students--and I mentioned earlier that this was a community event; people from all walks of life were participating in the demonstrations, and there had been a lot of high school students all along who were participating and who were very active, who were very vocal in the meetings and who--there was a lot of leadership from the high schools that were participating in CORE and revolving around the Executive Committee, so I don’t think that--to me, that was not a real factor; the question was, was really whether some nut was going to do something that would hurt I mean I can remember some--that was one of the real questions, because see that was not the only thing people were considering. One of the things was being considered was flooding the stores like Belk’s and just having a massive sit-in in the stores. Another thing was to organize the students so that at a given signal, all of the school kids would walk out of the schools on that day. There were a lot of different kinds of things that were discussed. With me, and with some of the other people, the real question was if you did have the sit-down in the streets, how would you guard against somebody just driving through the crowd--not whether the people were high school students. EP: How would you guard against that? LB: In reality, there was no guard against that. I mean-- EP: Just assume that the police would-- LB: --would be there and protect, because you couldn’t really guard against that. EP: But there is always a risk, like up in Detroit when the minister was run over by the bulldozer. LB: Yeah, well see there was always a risk of anything happening with demonstrations. EP: There seemed to me, if I could get into several key changes in strategy--and, of course, one of them was going from picketing the theatres into going to McDonald’s and then broadening it to S&W and Mayfair in May of '63. LB: We had already been to S&W. EP: Right. Were you surprised at the turnout or was it planned that there be a massive turnout for the--when you went to McDonald’s? LB: Well I think--well, I think we had been building and so the thing at S&W was an impetus for building and for other people to come out and be involved. And so the more things that we could get people in--you know, we were out recruiting on campus, getting students involved. In fact, one of the nights--one of the first nights at McDonald’s, I had a group of people, I guess about ten people, who were new recruits, and we had some incidents. We had some rocks thrown, people were driving through campus that night afterwards to throw bottles and rocks at the dormitories and that kind of thing. EP: I’d like to get into that because the paper doesn’t touch on that at all. I kind of got ahead of myself a little bit--for instance Elizabeth Laizner mentions that after arrests of Thanksgiving [S&W demonstrations] the mayor’s committee asked CORE to suspend demonstrations while they came out with a report, which CORE agreed to. And subsequently the report did come out in February of '63, and in effect she says it all sounded good, they supported the concept of equal opportunity, equal access to public facilities until the last line, which said unfortunately we have not the power to demand these things or something, and the CORE geared up again. I guess what I wanted to ask is one, does that sound right, and two, how did the CORE decide to agree to the suspension of demonstrations in the late fall of '62? LB: Well see, one of the things is that we had always decided that--I mean, we have always done this. One, was to--I guess a part of the nonviolent technique is to give people a chance to resolve things and to give people an easy way out. So, we were consistently--I mean in the sixties there was always these moratoriums, when people asked to--for a time to, for cooling off and for giving them a chance to work things out. We constantly did that. That wasn’t inconsistent [with the way] we had operated in the past. But at some points you always kind of know in the back of your mind that nothing is really going to take the place, so you have to be ready to move beyond that point. EP: So this was a logical step in--saying, “All right, we made them aware of the core of the problem. They now know it is not going to go away and we’re going to give them a chance to do something.” Did you really think that something would come out of it? LB: Well, you know you kind of hope. But see, but in case that it doesn’t, you always have the picketing and the mass demonstrations to fall back on, and that was one of the things that we had going for us. I think one of the things that we did to try to move people off-center was when there was this lull and drag, that it was decided that Tony [Stanley] and Bill [Thomas] should be arrested to draw people back. EP: So they consciously made decisions about who was going to be arrested? LB: We--some of the members of the Executive Committee made that conscious decision that--I think that it was one Sunday morning we decided that--that there should be arrests, and that Bill and Tony, since they were the most visible people, should be arrested. EP: I gather that--Elizabeth Laizner said that there was a big meeting in early May, a called meeting, and she thinks it took place at Pfeiffer Hall on Bennett campus, and she said she can remember Bill Thomas leaning against a piano and saying, “All right, do we do something now or do we plan over the summer for something big in the fall?” And the decision was debated back and forth, and finally it was decided to do something at McDonald’s. Does this sound right? LB: I’m not--I vaguely remember meetings, because there were a lot of meetings at a lot of different places. Well I think that the real conscious effort to make a push was the arrest of Tony and Bill. I think that was when the decision was made to make the major push and to not let up. EP: But there were some people who wanted to wait until fall? LB: There may have been people. Because people--with a lot of--with students and with some adults, the theory was that we needed students for-- EP: Troops. LB: --for troops. And that’s what we needed [to do], to wait until the students get back. But given the fact that we had organized high school students, and people from the community would point out there was no real reason to wait until the fall-- EP: So with the local high school students, you didn’t worry about things falling off in the LB: No, because at this point we had begun to build to the point that we could get people out. EP: So CORE wasn’t really surprised when, like, after word of the arrests at McDonalds, students started flocking to the meetings. LB: No, we weren’t, we weren’t, because really we had, just in the CORE chapter itself, at one of our meetings, we could have in excess of a hundred people, just with members alone. So then as things began to snowball and students began to come out--the problem of recruiting to me was not really a major problem. EP: I gather that--were the targets pre-selected? I mean you had already been picketing S&W and the theatres. It seemed, just from reading the newspaper accounts, that there were-- usually the four places that were picketed were the Center, the Carolina, the S&W, and the Mayfair. Why were these four selected? LB: Well--the centralization of their location. It was easy to get people there. Most of the activities took place because downtown was very viable at that point, so people were coming downtown. You had much more protection in the downtown area than you would in an isolated area. Like going out--because I remember in '60 we did picket out at Clark’s when it was way out on Market Street and also there was a barbecue place out there that was owned by a black man, but it catered to whites, that we picketed. EP: Did they open up or did they remain closed? LB: They did not open up. Well, Clark’s didn’t open up until after when everybody else was opened up during '63-'64. EP: Was this idea that you just mentioned of protection the reason that you didn’t have a concerted campaign at places that were pretty far out? LB: Right. One reason--the problem of traffic and transportation, transporting people there, and then your defense or your protection was far less. EP: Its kind of interesting that this--what the paper calls--what usually they referred to as the Coordinating Committee, but I gather the full title was For Pro-Integration Groups. How did that come to be formed? LB: The Coordinating Committee? EP: Yes. LB: One of the things that we were concerned with [was] being able to draw upon all of the resources in the community. So all the organizations that were involved in civil rights in the community or involved with the problems of the community came together to try to facilitate the demonstrations. It was sort of a loose-knit kind of thing with Father Hicks being the chairman of it, initially. EP: I gather--correct me if I’m wrong again--it seemed to me that there was a kind of a mutual benefit, mutual need here: CORE wanted the support of the black adult community and the black adult community--at least that’s characterized by Bill Chafe’s book--had been pushing for a good twenty or thirty years at this point, and that, they said okay if we’re going to get these things we’ve been pushing for all these years, we have to join this movement of the students. We can’t let this die out. Does this sound fair? LB: I don’t know--I don’t know if I would make that assessment. I think that we needed--we needed, we really needed the support of the adult community because there is, when you have the backing of the ministerial group, there is a certain amount of legitimacy that you don’t have if you are outside of that group. EP: I remember you said that, you said you wouldn’t necessarily agree with that assessment. What was the part you wouldn’t agree with? LB: Chafe? The adult community using us to push-- EP: I’m still saying that, from my point of view, saying this would seem to be a reason for their participation. Am I right or wrong? LB: I was saying that--my thinking would be that people were genuinely concerned about eradicating segregation and everybody, all black people, had a vested interest. EP: You were going to mention Bill Chafe’s book. I gather there are a few points that you don’t agree with there. Would you like to go into that? LB: I didn’t think that I was mentioning his book, I was just trying--we were talking about the Coordinating Committee and why--but then you mentioned it. You referenced Chafe. EP: Right. Was there a close working relationship between CORE and the Coordinating LB: We were a member of the Coordinating Committee. EP: I guess what I had in mind was I remember Reverend [Otis] Hairston said that, “well, we agreed that we’d speak as one voice and so that there’d be unity and no possible misquoting or misunderstanding of the press.” But, I suppose what I have in mind is CORE was a separate entity and I would assume that they would say, “Now look, we are not going to get swallowed up by this. We’re participating in this, but we are keeping our options open.” LB: Well, the NAACP was a separate, autonomous organization. The Citizens Association was autonomous. The Pulpit Forum was autonomous. EP: Was there the feeling that, “We’ll participate, but if you do something that we don’t agree with, or we want to do something that you don’t agree with, then we’ll go our way and you go yours"? LB: Well I don’t think, I think that there was a concerted effort to work within the group and people did— EP: So there wasn’t a kind of rivalry there? LB: No, because I think--well really, the Coordinating Committee came about at the insistence of CORE. EP: So CORE actively sought the formation? LB: Right, initiated it. EP: Because that of course is not clear in the paper, but that is understandable why it wasn’t. LB: And really [the Coordinating Committee] did not actually try to control us because really, the chairman of the committee was a minister, who was then Hicks, Father Hicks, from the Church of the Redeemer. EP: Did CORE meet--of course the Coordinating Committee met on a regular basis; Did CORE also meet on a regular basis? LB: Yeah. We still had our on going meetings. In fact, at that point--well, after the Coordinating Committee was formed, we moved from Providence Baptist Church to Church of the Redeemer and actually set-up a full operation down there. We had an on-going operation there, which was manned almost twenty-four hours [a day]. EP: When the demonstrations took place, were they planned and carried out by CORE or the Coordinating Committee? LB: Now we did maintain control of the demonstrations and took chief responsibility for planning the demonstrations. EP: How? LB: --but we did touch base and apprised people of what it was that we were doing, and when the Coordinating Committee suggested that we have a moratorium, we agreed to that. EP: It seems for a while that--a number of people talk about this famous either Wednesday or Sunday march where the adults, for the first time, came out in large numbers. LB: It was a Sunday march, I think. Oh, what--okay, wait a minute now--march to where because there was a— EP: Just downtown. LB: Okay that was the-- EP: --it was separate-- LB: What do you mean separate? Which one? EP: From the students. LB: No, I don’t remember anything being separate from the students. We had large--we had a Sunday march down from the church--from the old Trinity Church downtown which was both students and adults, and all of the other marches I remember it being--involved adults as well as students. Because see, here again, CORE was not all students; McMillan was not a student, Laizner was not a student, Charles Davis, Reverend Julius Douglas, [Rev. James] Bush, [Rev. John] Hatchett, all of these people were members of the organization. And there were a number of adults who were involved, you know, in CORE, and participated in the activities and planning of-- EP: A lot of the structuring of my questions is coming from the interview I had with Dr. Laizner, who was one of the first people I interviewed. And she says that right after-- when they were--Bill Thomas and Reverend Hatchett, Reverend Bush--the four people who were arrested at--Pat Patterson I think--at McDonald’s, one of the ministers [Douglas] came and said, “Now, you’ve got something going here. Keep it going and I’ll have a mass meeting at my church and we’ll turn out the adult community.” And that there wasn’t much adult participation until that big march. This is the way she characterized it. Does this sound right or plausible, or is she forgetting something? LB: I’m not sure. EP: How about the decision to shift to the “jail, no bail"? Was that a controversial decision? Or was it pretty-- LB: I think it was a pretty unanimous kind of decision. I don’t remember any big discussion about that. I think students, you know, people who were arrested were kind of--that was the attitude, in fact, that was the attitude--I don’t know if it even started here, It might have started some place else and people picked up one it. EP: Was it a result of the mass arrests and of them saying: “Okay, if they are going to arrest us en masse, process us, immediately turn us loose, we are going to put pressure on them"? LB: Well the “jail, with no bail” thing started before the mass kind of thing, because I think that was the attitude of those of us that got arrested at S&W in the fall of '62. When our trial came up the thing was to refuse to leave. It’s just that the judge decided that he wasn’t going to lock us up, but we had already decided that we were going to refuse--if we were locked up, we were going to refuse bail. EP: So this wasn’t a brand new tactic? LB: No, it wasn’t, and it really did not start in Greensboro. If you go to the other areas where people were arrested, that was sort of the attitude. EP: Now Lois Lucas, in her interview, said she was against it unless the membership-- leadership also agreed to go down and get arrested and not come out. And that she felt that a lot of these particularly high school kids didn’t really understand it, that “after the initial enthusiasm wears off, we’re going to stay in jail,” and she sort of thought that you were against it too. Did she misunderstand? LB: I’m trying to think about what period you are talking about because see-- EP: This would have been like the second week of the demonstrations in May [1963] when everybody was first taken--you know they were locked up and finally they were taken that Saturday to the Polio Hospital? LB: Well, that Saturday-- EP: Now I may be misquoting her; I’m paraphrasing her. One thing I noticed how she characterized you was she said that Lewis Brandon was the kind of person that would say, “Now, wait a minute, don’t do something just to be doing something. Have a plan in mind." LB: Yes. I was opposed to going--well, yeah. One of the things was that there were a lot of people using arrest as a means of--well, I was just against being arrested for the sake of being arrested. But I don’t think that--because see there were a lot of people who, in other areas--not here--who were getting arrested and then they would be out and folk going around putting notches on their belts for the number of times that they’d been arrested. Those kind of arrests didn’t really mean anything. EP: So in effect, make the arrest mean something. LB: Yeah, that was my position on it and--but you see at the time of the mass arrests, there weren’t any--I won’t say any high school students [but] the bulk of those kids were college kids, Bennett and A&T students. I think the arrest of the high school kids came with the sit-ins in the streets, as opposed to being arrested off the picket lines. EP: I’d like to get to that, but first: when the A&T students were sent back to the campus on the governor’s orders, it looked at first like a defeat for CORE because they were staying in, [saying] “we’re going to keep the pressure on until they agree to serious negotiations at least,” and here’s the governor saying “I authorize you to take them back to campus.” And then, as I understand, the Coordinating Committee, that same evening, about one or two in the morning, had an emergency meeting and called mayor pro tem- LB: No, that was with the very first arrest. See, that was before that had taken place. The first night--the first time we had a mass arrest [was] when folk blocked off the whole downtown area and [police] first treated the students as criminals was when that meeting took place, at one or two o’clock in the morning at the Church of the Redeemer. That was where [William] Trotter, who was the mayor pro tem, decided that he would create this committee that became, eventually, the Human Relations Committee. EP: So you’re saying that was before the A&T students were taken back to the campus [from the Polio Hospital]? LB: Yes, that move to bring people back to campus was much later. Yeah. I don’t remember exactly when but it happened sometime after that meeting. EP: Okay, I got that wrong and I’m glad you straightened it out for me, because I thought the way the sequence was that they moved them out late at night, deliberately, and that word got back to the Coordinating Committee [that], “Hey, they’re turning the kids loose.” And they had a meeting and told Trotter, “All right, if you don’t want trouble--” You’re saying that’s not how it happened? LB: No, people were up because this was the first time that people really were treated as criminals. What they did, they took--the jail was over here, right? They blocked off the whole downtown area, brought buses in. Some folk were down viewing that and went back and called people together and said, “Look, we’re not going to stand for this kind of Now, I don’t remember the exact date when they brought--they began to dump students out because that particular night I was manning the headquarters. And Darwin Turner-- because, in fact, I took the call, a call from somebody, I don’t know who--the call came in, but called saying that there was a problem on campus, that lot of chaos because people were being brought back to campus and being let out, carloads of police were doing this. EP: The date that I have is the twenty-first or twenty-second, does that sound about right? LB: Of May? LB: Yeah. So the other meeting with Trotter took place much earlier. But Darwin Turner, who was chairman of the English department [at A&T], and I were both there because he had a little newsletter called the Candlelight. I don’t know if you’ve seen copies of that. EP: Can I borrow your--I’ve heard a reference to it but I haven’t seen it. LB: Well I have some copies of it. EP: I’d like to see it. LB: Okay. But anyway he was the one who was responsible for putting that together, editing it, and getting it circulated. There was a telephone committee and another committee that was responsible for circulating that paper. But anyway, he and I both left and went on campus. By the time we got there, I think Ezell [Blair] was there, Jesse [Jackson] was there, and Major High, who was an attorney, showed up. Dr. [Lewis] Dowdy [of A&T] was there; he had tried to talk to students, and the students wouldn’t listen. They didn’t listen to much of what anybody had to say. Jesse tried and Ezell tried, but Turner was the one who really took over and talked to the students and calmed them down and suggested that they go back to the dormitories and sleep on it, take hot showers and get a good night’s sleep. And that next day, people were back on the picket line getting arrested EP: The way Ezell told it, he mentioned--he said that Jesse Jackson was asked to speak by some people and, for some reason, either because he froze or he didn’t want to or whatever, he didn’t speak. And so he [Ezell] said he spoke, and he mentioned, was it Dr. Darwin Turner? EP: So he was on faculty? EP: The impression that I got from Ezell was that they said, “All right, we’ve proved our point. Exams and graduation’s coming up, parents are coming up for graduation; let’s calm it down instead of going right back to jail tonight.” Is that-- LB: Well, see, at one o’clock in the morning, you know, one, two o’clock in the morning, there wasn’t much to do. But we had massive demonstrations that next day and people-- most of the people were back in the lines because what we had was a booth here [at the theatres] and we sort of had a revolving picket line; people would go up and ask for tickets and continuously go up. So when you go up the police would pull people out and what they began to do then was take people and put them in the patrol car, drive around the block, and let them out. EP: [laugh] Oh really? LB: And people would simply come back. At one point, before they began to do that, they would--things were so massive they had gone out to set up facilities out at the coliseum to process people through the arrests. It was so massive [that] what they began to do was to pick people up, put them in the cars and drive them around the corner and let them out. And those people [would] just simply come back and get back in line. EP: But people were not taken en masse again to the--[Polio Hospital]? EP: So CORE didn’t view this returning students to campus as a defeat of their tactic of mass arrest? LB: No, because we--no, because we seized upon the opportunity and, in fact, people were back out there the next night. It happened so fast people really didn’t have time to react to it, because when we got the call it was early in the morning--one, two o’clock. EP: As I understand it, there was Wednesday of--for instance, the arrests at McDonald’s took place on the eleventh of May and about Wednesday, the fourteenth or fifteenth, was the first mass arrest. LB: Downtown. EP: Right. LB: Okay, and that is probably the time we met with Trotter. EP: And was it at that time that you agreed to set up the committee that was chaired by Dr. [George] Evans? EP: So this idea that I got in my head that the--he agreed to it as the students were being released did not take place? LB: No. You said the release came around May the twenty-- EP: Twenty-first or twenty-second. LB: So you are talking about a whole week. EP: Right. How did the--I understand that there was a moratorium or a “truce” from about May twenty-second ‘til June third. How did that come about? Was that to give Dr. Evans committee a chance to--? LB: His committee, and also, more than just Evans’ committee--that, and also to flush [Mayor David] Schenck out. See, we had not been able to do anything; I mean he was always unavailable. Even at--he was supposed to be out of town that night that Trotter came to the meeting. So the aim, really, was to force Schenck out and make him to take a position and meet with us to discuss and try to resolve the issue. EP: Forcing by the mass arrests or-- LB: Mass arrests, so and that was what the two sit-downs was attempting to do. That was the first time that he really agreed to sit down and talk was after the sit-ins. He had avoided any discussions up to that point. EP: Was Jesse Jackson’s role pretty much cosmetic? LB: Yes. Have you gotten that in any other discussions? EP: Yes. One thing that puzzles me is that Lisa Waits characterizes in the paper that the truce was in effect, had been started about May twenty-seventh. And then Jesse Jackson led a demonstration downtown about June third. When interviewed by reporters, he said, “Well, it’s true CORE has agreed to a truce, but CORE doesn’t speak for the whole community.” In effect, what he seemed to be saying was that he was doing this in defiance of CORE. LB: But it was still CORE; I mean we authorized it. EP: So he didn’t just lead a maverick group of students down, they had-- LB: In fact, in that demonstration there were the same people, most of adults and everybody else who had been involved in the demonstrations all along. EP: So what appeared in the paper, him rebelling against CORE wasn’t-- LB: He may have said that and he may have thought that he was, in fact, doing something, but we were not about to let any personality run the operation. EP: Was there points of friction between Jesse and some members of CORE, or did he understand that his role was cosmetic rather than genuine? LB: He had to, because was not a part of the Executive Committee, so he was not in on the planning sessions or planning of the activities. In fact-- EP: He wasn’t even a member of CORE was he? LB: He got involved very late. In fact, I insisted. It was because of a dare--well, dare is not the word--but in a discussion he and I had I told him to put up or shut up. One of those kinds of things. EP: Either join or get out? LB: No. Don’t criticize if you’re not going to be in on what you are criticizing. That was the kind of discussion that he and I had. So he decided to come and get involved at that point. You see, we had been demonstrating a long time and we had been doing things. EP: This is what Ezell said really, he said, “After all,” he said, “People really looked to the leadership, to people that had been in the movement since '60 and '61, and a lot of people didn’t even know who Jesse Jackson was until he ran for president [of the A&T student body].” LB: Yeah, well, his run for president came after his initial-- after his coming out. It was easier for him to run for office once he--well, Jesse and I had been friends all along. In fact, I was his campaign manager for student body president. One of the things, you know, was that if you [were] going to run, you [are] going have to be involved with other students and other students are out involved in demonstrations. So either you do or not do. It was that sort of thing. EP: The decision--the paper seems to indicate that things were really coming to a point, to a boil here. Reverend Tony Stanley was quoted in one meeting saying, “Now look, if something doesn’t happen by Monday”--meaning June third, I think--he said, “we’re going to go get arrested.” And the way he was quoted in the paper anyway was saying, “Let you radicals take over.” Was there that sense that things were really coming to a showdown one way or the other? That either there was going to be some compromise on the part of the city or there was going to be violence? LB: Well, I don’t think that people were talking about violence. There was something that was going to be dramatic, that there had to be a showdown, that we had to force Schenck out and make him take a stand. EP: Was there certain pressure because the semester was coming to a close and there wouldn’t be these thousands of students to call upon? LB: No, you see, because one of the things we were planning and one of the things, once you begin to read the Correlator--I mean not the Correlator, the Candlelight--we were recruiting families to house students over the summer. That was one of the things that Darwin Turner was actively involved in, getting people to house students to keep the demonstrations going. EP: Why was there the decision for Jesse to lead the students onto Greene Street and sit-down for the prayer? I assume that that was carefully planned rather than spontaneous. LB: Yeah, people had decided about that. Jesse just happened to be in the--and he, up to that point, had been the person doing all the praying and leading the prayers. There was one instance where he lead--and nominally, he was at the head of the group with the cross. On that particular day, he did not lead the march; there were two small young ladies-- EP: I’ve seen that picture. LB: --leading the march. It could have been anybody who got arrested that night because I remember Captain Jackson coming up to me and saying to me, “You’ve got five minutes to get--move people out of the way.” The only person that you really--since Jesse was the most visible person at that point, the decision to arrest him was the one that the city EP: I was talking to Bill Thomas on the phone and he said that Captain Jackson came up to him the next morning and asked him if he knew where Jesse was, and he said no, and then CORE found out that they [the police] wanted him for arrest. So what they did was they printed up these brochures [saying], “They Have Arrested Your Great Leader,” and they planned for when Jackson did arrest him. They had a camera and so-forth there. How was that set up? LB: Once we found out what the people wanted, we staged a media event; [that’s] what it turned out to be. There was a cameraman at Channel 2 that we had a very good rapport with. I don’t remember his name now, but we could always call him and he would be on the spot. But what we did, here again, we needed something to hit and to get people out and to really put more pressure on the city. And so the plan was to have a little rally in the chapel at the church there, with people in there getting ready to see Jesse go off to jail, and stage it so that it would be on the news by twelve o’clock so that people would see it, and that people would be out for the march. I called Jesse at Mr. Corbett’s house and told him what was going down, and folk went and got him and brought him back to the Church of the Redeemer. The leaflets had been prepared by that time, and the TV people had been called. In fact, Jesse got up and made a statement to the folk who were sitting in the chapel. Captain Jackson and his people had arrived by that time and would not come into the church. The pictures that you see of Jesse coming out shaking Jackson’s hand did not show friendship. That’s what people suggest, but Captain Jackson was really shocked. I mean, he knew that he had been set up, when he—because, see, the first thing when he did that, see, a man was on top of him with a TV camera. Now, you don’t see that in the picture, and you really see Jackson kind of pulling back, Captain Jackson and Jesse coming out. We had all kinds of people out in the street that night. EP: So it was a real shot in the arm? They made a really colossal blunder arresting him? LB: Oh, yes. EP: Did he really write “Letter from a Greensboro Jail?” EP: Do you know what happened to it? Any copies around? LB: You won’t find any copies of it. It was destroyed. EP: Was it released to the press or had things snow-balled by that point? LB: No, it wasn’t released. EP: Was that something [that] was CORE’s idea or his idea? LB: That was his thing. It had nothing to do with us. EP: To emulate King’s [”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”]— EP: Was the sit-down in the Square as carefully planned as the night before, or was that kind of spontaneous? LB: Kind of, I guess--well, there was some discussion about it. I think that it was inevitable that it was going to take place. We had been talking about it all long, and there was nothing else to do but to do it. EP: So this was really escalating it? LB: That was the climax. It had been building to the point that we had to do something very dramatic. EP: Was it as tense and potentially explosive as the paper indicates? Could something have [EP snaps fingers] set it off? LB: It was tense, but as to how explosive it was, I’m not sure, because the police had pretty well sealed off the area. EP: Was there a lot of discussion about this pro and con, as to whether this was a wise thing to do? LB: Yeah. In some of the earlier meetings in May, there was a real discussion--there was the Executive Committee along with [Floyd] McKissick. Something had to happen, something very dramatic had to happen to break the city. That’s when I mentioned the earlier [events] we were talking about. One was flooding the stores downtown to take them over with people sitting in the stores. The thing of trying to get the students out to move at all one time, to walk out of the schools. Something very dramatic. EP: So it had been discussed beforehand? It wasn’t like the morning of June sixth? LB: The sit-down at Greene Street probably was more spontaneous, because there was no real discussion about Greene Street. The discussion was always sitting down at the Square. The discussion was always centered around that, the pros and cons about that. EP: So actually there had been more discussion of the next night than the night that Jesse got LB: Yeah, the first night. Yeah, we were more concerned--yeah, I mean that was kind of spontaneous. But that one at the plaza, yeah, that was the one that was discussed. EP: Where were these people taken that were arrested? Were they, like you said, taken around the block and dropped off? LB: No, these people--people were jailed because some of these people were taken to High Point to jail. EP: But they weren’t put back in the Polio[Hospital]? [End of Tape 1, Side B--Begin Tape 2, Side A] EP: --arrested in the-- LB: No, we talked earlier about my views on arrests. And one of the things was that we had decided early on, particularly when Tony Stanley and Bill Thomas decided to get arrested, that we were not--all of the leadership would not be locked up. Some people would be left out in order to run the operation. And essentially that is what I did. I stayed back and did the leg work. EP: Could I get a sense of the various tactics that were employed. For instance, Bill Thomas and Elizabeth Laizner and a number of others told me that first of all they were marshals who were in charge of making sure that people got across intersections as a group, that there was order in the lines, that would keep things cool, and that people were assigned to specific targets such that--or else they followed their group leader and if their leader went to S&W, they went to S&W and another leader went to Carolina [Theatre]. Did they go to the targets simultaneously? LB: Well, it wasn’t all simultaneously because of the situation, how things were situated. So as you’re moving along you would go--people would leave and then people would go to wherever they were designated to go. So you were going, basically, at the same time, but, I mean, you would probably arrive at the points at different times because of the where things were situated. EP: Was it predetermined how many people would get arrested at a particular site? LB: No. That was-- EP: Just however many people felt-- LB: That was basically left up to you, because you could always get--when you asked to get out of line, [you could] get out. And a number of people who sat down in the streets when asked to move, moved, rather than getting arrested. That was a conscious effort on--I mean, that was a conscious decision on the part of the person as to whether they wanted to go to jail or not. We did not say people had to go, we did not try to force people to become arrested; that was your decision. EP: Was CORE here pretty autonomous from the national office [CORE] in New York? I know James Farmer came down a few times. LB: No organization that has a charter can be autonomous, because you really have to adhere to the guidelines of the parent organization. And a lot of the mandates--a lot of the things, types, decisions that you make are made within the framework and guidelines of the organization. EP: After the demonstrations, things, at least in the paper, wound down kind of quickly. The mayor issued a statement, he had a couple of meetings with some of the leading businessmen, the Human Relations Commission was set up under [Western Electric executive] W. O. Conrad, in which I believe Dr. Simkins, Reverend Stanley, and Reverend Hairston took part. And then there was periodic statements that so many places were desegregating. Did things fall into line that quickly? Were significant steps taken that quickly? LB: One of the things that we began doing after the demonstrations was to go around to the facilities to make sure that the people were complying. EP: Did a number of places open up? LB: Yeah, most of them opened up, in fact, right away. The only person that did not do that [were] the people at the Mayfair. In fact, they went out of business. EP: Did--one thing that struck me as odd is that there were reports in the newspaper that Bill Thomas and Reverend Stanley were dissatisfied with the lack of progress of the Human Relations Commission. What Conrad went around doing was saying, “Well, what you’ve got to do, instead of demonstrating, you’ve got to get blacks into vocational education, you’ve got to prepare them to be clerks in stores.” And this, that, and the other. What comes to my mind is kind of a suspicion. Was this kind of a smokescreen for not really doing that much right away? Was it just a new wrinkle of the “well you’ve got to move slow and wait and in the fullness of time” kind of argument, or do you think that Conrad and his Commission were sincere in trying to move ahead in some of the--not only opening the public facilities but getting better jobs, blacks getting in managerial positions and that kind of thing? LB: Well, I think that position would be reflective of people who were on the--on the Commission, particularly Simkins and other folk, were interested in people having jobs as clerks and cashiers and that kind of thing. I mean, the whole employment spectrum became important. At this point--because, in fact, I had mentioned the NAACP had already been involved in picketing against Wachovia to get people hired as tellers and EP: I guess one of the reasons I mentioned this is that I guess one of the witnesses who came before the Commission was [jewelry store owner] Arnold Schiffman, and they said “well, why don’t you have black salespeople in your store?” And he said, “well, they don’t deal with money that well and they don’t speak well enough for our patrons.” That sounded like the same old argument that had been used for about twenty or thirty years or more. But, you feel that Conrad was sincere in trying to overcome this? LB: I don’t know how much Conrad was sincere or how much other folk, but I’m saying that position probably was reflective of--you know, was a position of the black membership. EP: Did CORE’s influence decline after the demonstrations? LB: After the demonstrations, CORE’s role changed. There was no real need at that point for mass demonstrations, and hence, we changed our focus. And that was we began to center our activities around community organization. And I mentioned the Gillespie Street area, where we began--we conducted a survey of the community about the needs that people felt needed some attention. EP: What was the result of that? LB: Well, there was a community organization that was set up and people began to push for having the streets paved, houses brought up to standard, streetlights put in. There was a meeting with people from the Redevelopment Commission about the community; there was a push to get a park put there. And that--I mean, this is the point that--and that carried over not only in the summer but over into the fall and over into the spring of the following year, along with massive, again, massive voter registration--you see there was also voter education that we were involved in at that point--that summer, it was a summer project. And then in the spring of '64, there was another massive voter registration drive sponsored--well, under the sponsorship of the [American] Friends Service Committee, the NAACP, the YWCA; because students from all over the country came in to work on that drive. After that point, I can’t talk about much else that happened, because I left to go into the service in '64. EP: You went into the service in '64? EP: I was about to say that it seemed to me the leadership--within a year, the leadership that had carried through the demonstrations was gone. Bill Thomas was gone, you were gone, John Hatchett was gone, and [James] Bush was gone. LB: Right, Pat Bush was gone and I think Pat Patterson was gone. EP: Yeah, Pat Patterson was gone. What happened to CORE? LB: Bill’s brother [Alvin] maintained remnants of the structure for a while. EP: But membership fell off? LB: Yes, I guess. I don’t know because I really can’t speak to that because what happened after the summer of '64, I’m not sure. EP: I do want to bring this interview to a conclusion, rapidly, but there were two things that Elizabeth Laizner said that intrigued me. And again, it may have just been her impression because Lois Lucas expressed great promise for her but said she tended to, well, melodramatize [sic] things. But she [Laizner] said that Pat Patterson and Ralph Lee were up for nomination for the presidency and that this was kind of a split in CORE that they didn’t understand, that--well, supposedly, Ralph Lee said that if he had known Pat Patterson was going to be nominated, he never would have, you know, let his name be put in the nomination. She kind of felt that there was some ill-will or misunderstanding, or hurt feelings coming out of this. Did you know anything about this kind of rivalry? LB: Not really. I’m not sure. I don’t know how much of that was really created by Dr. Laizner and her push to have Ralph as the president [after Bill Thomas]. I don’t know. Did Ralph not become president? EP: This is what is hard for me to ascertain because the CORE records don’t show it and-- LB: Because I had, I really-- EP: Do you know who became president after Bill? LB: [pause] Ralph may have, I’m not sure. I had really forgotten about Ralph until you just mentioned him. But he could very well have become the president because at this point I was gone. EP: And I understand that Alvin Thomas became president at some point? LB: Yeah, I think he did. I am almost certain that he did. EP: Did it more or less dissolve by, say, ‘65, kind of similar to the parent national LB: Well, we ran it well--well, yeah, on paper we maintained an organization, because even when I got back out of service, I sort of maintained the organization on paper. There was no real effort as an organization to do anything because, here again, everything-- demonstrations, at this point, were not the way that people were doing things. Negotiations and other tactics were being used. EP: Dr. Laizner was arrested in Chapel Hill, and out of that I assume came charges that she was a communist, and-- LB: Charges by who? EP: She said that it was listed on her-- LB: Arrest record? EP: Right. And I’m not sure, and I think on her passport, she claims. Is this not true? LB: I’m not sure. I don’t know. I don’t remember. I was with her when she got arrested. EP: You were over at Chapel Hill? LB: We were all over--most of the CORE chapter was over at [the University of North Carolina at] Chapel Hill for that demonstration. We went over on a number of occasions to participate in the demonstrations with the people at Chapel Hill. EP: [Durham civil rights attorney] Clarence Malone kind of indicated two interesting things. One, that CORE nationally was kind of playing down the demonstrations because they said, “Look, we’ve got the test cases we want before the Supreme Court, we know the Civil Rights bill is coming out some time this year or next year at the latest.” They said there weren’t really that many blacks involved in the--at least, the leadership of CORE over there, that it was mostly white middle-class kids. Do you think that this is a fair assessment? This was kind of like the last dying gasp? LB: That was true of Chapel Hill, because basically the activists in and around Chapel Hill were white kids. So you saw a lot of white people involved. That was true of SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]; there were a lot of white kids involved in that up until the move by Stokeley [Carmichael] toward black power, and at that point they purged all of the white people from the organization. Those who left that created another organization called COFFO, C-O-F-F-O, and I ran into them down in southwest Georgia because I had a cousin living in Americus and they were having demonstrations there. I went up for one of the demonstrations and there were a lot of [white] people who had been in SNCC and who had been purged who were down there. But you found a lot of white students involved in the movement in Chapel Hill because there wasn’t really a large black population to draw from. EP: Mr. Malone indicated that the judge, Raymond Mallard, was--it was his [Malone’s] feelings and he said other peoples’ feelings that he [Mallard] was deliberately appointed by the powers that be in North Carolina to deliberately: one, humiliate people in court; two, hand out such stiff sentences that they’d be appealed and the appellant process would break the back of CORE financially. Did you feel this way? LB: This guy was--he was real bad as a judge. I mean this guy--I don’t know about breaking the back of CORE, but his sentencing was unbelievable. EP: Were you in court when these people were sentenced and handed down these six months and two year-- LB: No, because I think I was out of the area at that point. By the time the trials got around I wasn’t in the state. EP: Had you been arrested at Chapel Hill? LB: No, I didn’t get arrested in Chapel Hill, but we went up there for the demonstrations. There were a number of demonstrations--see that day, there were demonstrations all over the area, and I think that Dr. Laizner was arrested sitting on a highway. Our efforts were concentrated in the downtown area. EP: Have you read The Free Men [by John Ehle], which is a study of the Chapel Hill demonstrations? EP: By way of conclusion, you had said that you were going to talk about the positive and the negative things of the demonstrations. Would you care to elaborate on that? LB: What I meant was that I didn’t want to get into a lot what Dr. Laizner had assumed was going on in terms of politics of the organization, and whatever differences she thought may have occurred. What I was wanting to talk--would be willing to talk about was how effective the organization was in bringing about social change in Greensboro, and I think that’s what we did. EP: How effective was it? LB: Well, I think that it was effective to the point that we were able to desegregate public facilities in Greensboro. In terms of bringing about changes in social attitudes, we did not succeed in that. Really no organization, up to this point in Greensboro, has been able to do that. Greensboro still tends to be a very racist city, still tends to be controlled by the mill interests. Really to me it is still a mill town, for all practical purposes. EP: Controlled by a few very powerful economic-- LB: Economic individuals, yes. To that end, we were not successful. But in terms of our primary goals of desegregating public facilities, we did that. We were able to organize communities to do that--and I haven’t seen that done in Greensboro since--and set up networks for communicating, distributing, and disseminating information. EP: So you think that it takes certain crisis points like the sit-ins, the demonstrations, what happened down in A&T in '68 and '69 to make the city aware, to bring about these kind of ad hoc committees? LB: I have been in Greensboro since 1957 and I have not seen one change take place that was not the result of some direct action. I can think of nothing that occurred in Greensboro. EP: Do you think city council, the [Greensboro] Chamber of Commerce or was it just a few individuals [that] did an effective job of facilitating the institution of massive busing in '71 here in Greensboro, because there seems to be a minimum of the anticipated LB: I think that the chamber, through their leadership, decided there wasn’t going to be any violence. Where violence occurs, I think that’s a conscious decision on the part of the power structure that it should occur. It was not to the city’s advantage to have violence occurring around busing in Greensboro because there had been too much negative publicity already around what happened in '69 and some of the other, larger demonstrations that had taken place. The person who made me aware of that was a guy from South Carolina, and I could never get his name, he was a poet--his name was James McBride, James Dabbs McBride or James McBride Dabbs--but he was speaking to a group of us at Greensboro College during the initial phase of the '62 demonstrations. Here again, Dick Ramsey had invited him to come up to speak to a group of kids, and he was talking about what happens in Little Rock and what happens in the other places is that the decision as to whether people will attack or be violent or not is based on how the power structure wants people to move, and they have certain key phrases that they use to incite people to make those moves. EP: So it’s how you choose the language as to what happens? LB: Yeah, yes. EP: Do you consider the--what has been called the “November Third Incident” in 1979 to have been racist or not? LB: [pauses] EP: Of course, deciding--of course, blacks and communists have always been two of the targeted enemies of the Klan so maybe separating them is artificial. But, was it primarily a political thing against identified communists or do you think it was racial, in that it took place in a black neighborhood? LB: Well, it was both political and racial. It’s difficult at times to separate because racism is a political tool. And [like] when we were talking about it earlier, the powers-that-be decided that they wanted to play one race against the other. EP: Well, like in '60, '61, and '62, there was a concerted effort by the civil rights organizations to disassociate themselves, particularly from the communist and other left-wing groups. As a matter of fact-- LB: The Smiths. Who was it, the husband and wife team? EP: Jerome, [Progressive Labor activist] Alice Jerome? For example--But right now, correct me if I’m wrong, it seems that at least the most vocal activism is coming from such groups as the CWP [Communist Workers Party] or the RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party], not just left-wing groups, but avowedly identified as Communist. Does this do a real disservice for the continuing [civil rights] movement, because you know what that does to the general populous and the white power structure, it just turns them [snaps fingers] completely off. LB: What it does in some instances is it makes it easier for us to do work and make gains because [we can say]: “Who are you going to deal with? Are you going to deal with the Communists or the other folk?” EP: A-ha. LB: And so we have been able to meet and sit down and talk with people where before this, people had just sort of ignored us [saying] “We’re not going to talk to anybody.” But now, you know, we’re the lesser of two evils; you’re going to have to talk with somebody, so you’re going to talk with these other people here. EP: Would you essentially agree with the major points made in Bill Chafe’s book, Civilities and Civil Rights? LB: Yeah, I think that we’ve been discussing the book. In fact, Nelson and I, Nelson Johnson and I talked about it the other night. As an informational piece of material, it’s excellent; there’s a lot of history in it and something that people should read. But on the other hand, Claude Barnes, from a political scientist’s viewpoint, thinks it’s lacking in a lot of instances. He’s really critiqued the book. He thinks that it should be read and there’s a lot of information in it, he just takes issue with some of the conclusions and things that Bill makes. But most of the people that I have talked to think that it is a book that merits reading, that it’s really a good book simply because--for no other reason than the information that it provides. EP: It shows that the sit-ins [at Woolworth's] weren’t spontaneous, that they were building on other things. LB: In some of my talks and even before I talked to Bill Chafe, I do a thing showing how people arrive at a given point-- EP: Locally or nationally? LB: Basically, I show, using Greensboro, all the activities that led up--going back to '54--and showing all of the activities that occurred in Greensboro. But also--and show that, well, if you look at other areas sit-ins occurred, and they didn’t last very long. What was it about the nature of the students of A&T that sustained this kind of movement? So you have to know the history of the students at A&T-- EP: There is a history of activism? EP: There’s one-- LB: And--okay, and also their background: the rural areas that they came from, the kinds of programs that they were in like 4-H, and New Homemakers of America, and New Farmers of America--organizations that taught people to be--well, taught them the political process, that they were part of a system. So you had--you talked about parliamentary procedures, you talked about the political process so a lot of these people, when they came to A&T, were politically oriented. EP: Also used to organizational structure. LB: Yeah, that was a big thing. At the time that I arrived at A&T, since public accommodations weren’t opened up, everything, every state meeting that took place, took place on A&T’s campus. EP: I wanted to ask you about what was your attitude on Dr. Dowdy’s position of accepting the students back onto campus and issuing at least a surface call for dismissal if you continued to participate [in demonstrations]? LB: I don’t think that he made that statement. EP: Was he kind of caught between a rock and a hard place? LB: The statement that you made, where did that come from? EP: The newspapers. LB: Well I don’t think he said that. I talked to him that night. I was there when the students were coming in and I don’t remember him making that statement. He considered resigning rather than being pressured into doing something like that. EP: Several people said that look, his job was to get money for the college, it was our job to conduct the demonstrations. And Reverend Stanley said that when he was kind of humiliated by that state legislator-- LB: Yeah, Carr. EP: Right, Carr. He said that his response to that was most deliberately ambiguous answer, and he said deliberately so and he considered it a maskful statement by Dowdy. Treading this line of not cracking down on students but seeming to submit to the governor’s-- LB: Well there really wasn’t no real need for Dowdy to do that because Dowdy was not, in fact, the president of the school. [Samuel] Proctor was the president of the school, Dowdy was only acting. So he really didn’t have to-- EP: He could have refused? LB: Yeah. I mean, you know, the thing that was making him buy into pressure was, I mean, you know, he wasn’t the president, so he didn’t have to do that. And he didn’t as far as I’m concerned. I think people tried to force him to do that, but I think he was as surprised as anybody else about the move the governor made on that night. EP: Okay, I guess the reason I ask this is because the assistant attorney general is reported to having to come to Greensboro to more or less facilitate this, and I got the impression that they worked closely with Dowdy. But you’re saying that’s not really true, the governor just sort of went on his own. LB: Well, if you look at Chafe’s book, it sort of indicates that the governor went on his own. I don’t remember Chafe mentioning anything about the attorney general. EP: No, that’s something I got out of the newspaper. So, just to sum it up, you left the area in ‘64 and returned when? LB: September '66. EP: And by that time, CORE was just pretty much a paper organization? EP: And did it just sort of die away gradually? LB: Yeah, I suppose. There was no--when I got back, there weren’t any meetings or anything going on. There was an office still available, over on Gorrell Street, which was a joint office between the NAACP and CORE. [END OF INTERVIEW] Title Oral history interview with Lewis A. Brandon III by Eugene Pfaff Creator Brandon, Lewis A., III Contributors Pfaff, Eugene E. Biographical/historical note Lewis A. Brandon III was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1939. As a youth, he was involved with civil rights activities and interracial groups in Asheville, including the Red Cross and the Interracial Youth Council. In 1957, he graduated from Stevens Lee High School and moved to Greensboro to attend North Carolina A&T State University. Following the sit-in of the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter on February 1, 1960, Brandon joined demonstrations against segregated businesses downtown. That same year, he became a member of Greensboro chapters of CORE and NAACP, as well as the Student Executive Committee for Justice, a group formed on the campus of A&T . Brandon graduated from A&T with a BS degree in 1961. The following year, he participated in voter registration drives, served as vice-president of Greensboro CORE, and was a member of the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP). During this time, he was also part of a group that was arrested on Thanksgiving Day for demonstrating at the S&W Cafeteria in downtown Greensboro. In 1964, he resigned from CORE and joined the United States Army, where he served for two years. In 1966, he returned to Greensboro to seek a MS in biology from A&T. During this time, he again became active in civil rights activities in Greensboro. After graduating with his master’s degree, he taught science at J. C. Price Junior High School from 1968 to 1970. Brandon then joined the staff of GAPP. Subject headings Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960 Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century Topics Business desegregation and sit-ins, 1960 General perspectives on race relations Greensboro civic organizations Description In this transcript of a June 3, 1981, oral history interview conducted by Eugene Pfaff with Lewis A. Brandon III, Brandon discusses his experience in interracial groups and organizations, his memories of the sit-ins, and his involvement in the planning and coordination of various protests in Greensboro. This includes the history, strategies, and results of Greensboro CORE and other local organizations; the role of high school students, the local community, media, and Jesse Jackson in the movement; the disintegration of the movement; and the book Civilities and Civil Rights. Original format interviews Original publisher Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries Contributing institution Greensboro Public Library Source collection OH001 Greensboro Voices Collection Object ID OH001.013 Full text 1 GREENSBORO VOICES/GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEWEE: Lewis A, Brandon III INTERVIEWER: Eugene E. Pfaff, Jr. DATE: June 3, 1981 [Begin Tape 1, Side A] EUGENE PFAFF: --Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program, I’m talking with Lewis A. Brandon the third, in the library on June 3, 1981, concerning the demonstrations in Greensboro. Mr. Brandon, I wonder if we could begin by--if you could provide me with a brief biographical background about yourself? LEWIS BRANDON: Yeah, Okay. I was born in Asheville, North Carolina. I don’t know if the date is important, but [in] 1939. I attended the public schools there, finished from Stevens Lee High School and came to Greensboro in 1957 to attend A&T College [North Carolina A&T State University]. I got my BS degree there. I went into [the] service; I returned to A&T in '66 and received my master’s in biology. So basically that’s my biographical background. EP: Had you been involved in any civil rights activity prior to coming to A&T? LB: Well we--I had, I wouldn’t--I hadn’t define it as being civil rights, but there are a number of kind of things that I was involved in, in high school, and even before we got into high school, that were interracial. A lot of that had to do with the Red Cross in Asheville. During the summers we had a group of us who worked on making favors for veteran hospitals. Also, there was the Interracial Youth Council--this was in 1953--that involved the high schools in Asheville, and each of the schools had representatives on this council. So there was a cross-fertilization--well, fertilization might not be the word, but there was an exchange of ideas among high school students. There was also an interracial youth group that was sponsored by the Christians and Jews, and I really don’t remember the name of the organization right now, but we met every Sunday at various churches in the community and talked about issues and the problems affecting youth in the community, and then we had some retreats. 2 That was on a formal basis. On an informal basis, some of the fellows in my neighborhood--in fact we had organized into a semi-pro baseball team by the time we finished high school. But we integrated a lot of the baseball diamonds and parks and things, just by going, simply going in and playing and using those facilities. Wherever we could play baseball, we played baseball. And if we were with black groups, we’d play; if we were with white groups we would play. The tennis courts, the city tennis courts, we integrated those by just simply going in and playing. EP: It sounds to me almost as if Asheville integrated easier than Greensboro. LB: Well, yes, because by the time, by 1960 when the sit-ins first started, a gentleman that a lot of people are familiar with, James Ferguson, who was the attorney for [the] Wilmington Ten who was also from Asheville [bell sounds]. He and some fellows, students, came down to meet with the students here [Greensboro] to plan some activities in Asheville. Those of us that were active here at A&T, when we got home for that Easter break, had a meeting with the students from the local high school there, from Stevens Lee, and, I don’t know, that meeting where the information about--well, what was discussed in the meeting got back to people in the city and people began immediately to make plans to integrate. The city took to head off demonstrations, because Asheville was a tourist town and people did not want to affect the tourist trade. There was a local organization that I participated in during the summers where I was home; it was called A[S?]CORE--it was Asheville Congress of Racial Equality, and through the efforts of that organization, the mere presence of that organization forced a lot of the businesses to integrate. I don't think we picketed but one time, and that was at something like a Winn- Dixie [grocery] store— [audio equipment malfunction] LB: --power to use the facility, but since there were public funds being used, and at that point the city did not want a confrontation, the facility was integrated. EP: When you came--you say you first came [to Greensboro] in ’57. That was right about the time that Gillespie [Junior High School] was integrated here in Greensboro and Josephine Boyd was going to Grimsley [High School], and if I am not mistaken, about the time Dr. [George] Simkins and the other men were arrested at Gillepsie [Park] Golf Course. Were you involved in any of that? LB: Sort of on the periphery--I was interested in it. In fact, my first time really paying attention to Greensboro I think was in ‘55 when Simkins was arrested, I think. It was around that time. Sometime around ‘55--the golf course. And also, he and a man by the 3 name of Charlie Herbin were the first to play in the city tennis tournament and they won that year. So, I mean, that kind of--my eyes kind of opened up. EP: Was there much activism on the campus? LB: There were a lot of discussions, discussion groups. I think all of us, you know, were interested because we were interested in what happened in Montgomery, and that was interesting, what happened in 1957 out in Oklahoma with the sit-ins out there at one of the Woolworth facilities [by the] NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] Youth Chapter. I have always been interested in following the works of the NAACP because, as a paperboy, one of the ladies in my neighborhood was president of the local organization. So I knew and I had a Youth membership. EP: How did you-- LB: King, well, I was going to say that during my first year here Martin Luther King came to visit and so there were a lot of political meetings and things I went to, even though I did not belong to any political organizations in Greensboro at that point. EP: You did not join the NAACP? LB: Not at that point, not until 1960. EP: How did you come to meet the four men that first sat in at Woolworth’s on February 1, 1960? LB: I guess just by going down and participating in the demonstrations. I think I joined the demonstration on the second or third day and began to attend the meetings, because right after the demonstrations the Student Executive Committee for Justice was organized. EP: Did you have an office in that? LB: I did not have an office, but I was a member of the Committee. I think that Pat Patterson and I joined about the same time. And so that was my introduction to Dave [Richmond] and Ezell [Blair, Jr.] and Richard and-- EP: Did you attend any of the negotiating sessions? 4 LB: Yeah, some of the earlier sessions with Oscar Burnett and Dr. George Evans and I don’t know all of the other principles there but some of the meetings [were] held at the Red Cross building out on Church Street. I remember going out there. EP: This has been mentioned before and I’m not real sure of the time sequence. Was this '60 or later on when these meetings were held out at the Red Cross? LB: That was in 1960. EP: So, were they part of Ed Zane’s committee or was this a separate thing? LB: Possibly, I think it was probably the same committee. I'm not so sure that--if Bland Worley was a part of that group. There were a number of people who were meeting trying to resolve the issue. EP: What was their attitude? Do you think they were cooperative, do you think they were trying to stave off and do the minimum possible to end the demonstrations? LB: I think some of--you know, there was genuine concern about what was happening and I think people had different concerns. A lot of people were trying just to get the thing over with and wanted to get back to some sort of normalcy. Then there were people like Mr. Burnett, who I thought was very sincere in trying to change things. I was really impressed by him. I mean that’s why-- EP: More so than Ed Zane? LB: That's why I remember him [Burnett]. I don’t remember-- well, I remember Ed Zane’s name, but just to put a face. EP: Jibreel Khazan seemed to indicate that rather early on the students--the Greensboro Citizens Association acted as kind of a conduit of information between the Student Executive Committee for Justice and both the mayor’s committee and the store managers. Would you agree with that, and second, was there a certain amount of resentment on the part of the students for being one, or even two, steps removed from the direct negotiations? LB: I don’t say removed from direct negotiations because, in fact, I can remember the sessions that we had out at the Red Cross building, and there was some dialogue between and some cooperation between the Citizens Association and the student group. I think 5 that is one of the major differences between the demonstrations of the sixties, and 1960, and the ones in '62 and ‘63, was that it was more student-oriented. EP: Nineteen-sixty was? LB: Yeah. The ones in '62 and '63 [were] more community-oriented, because we had more community people involved in all aspects of the demonstrations. EP: Were these meetings frequent and did you attend a lot of them or were they just infrequent, as demands and response to demands were [unclear]? LB: I don’t really remember a whole lot of meetings, and I think that it was because of the few meetings that we had that the picketing began, which was sort of drawn out, long and drawn out. EP: Was that one arrest of forty-five people at Kress’ [April 1, 1960] the only arrest? LB: No, because I had a roommate that was arrested for assault on one of the--but it was thrown out of court. But his name was Donald Lyons. He was arrested for assaulting one of the hecklers. What it amounted to was people being bumped into him or shoving him and then accused him of attacking them, so a warrant was served on him. I think there was one other attempt to arrest a guy for indecent exposure or something; I think it was merely tactics of harassment. EP: I heard that. Wasn’t it a professor at A&T? LB: No, it was a student. EP: Did you go down to Woolworth’s and Kress’s frequently? LB: Yeah, once the picketing started, I was there almost all day on the picket lines. EP: Were students--did they have things dumped on them and burned, harassed with lit cigarettes and pulled off stools, and that kind of thing? LB: Yeah, well, my roommate, Donald, I can remember him being burned with cigarettes. Other folk would have lighted cigarettes, you know, stuffed in their pockets, and there was some jostling and shoving. I can remember the day that--because there was a lot of that going on then, in the first two or three days. I can remember this Saturday morning when they closed the counters, things were very tense that day. And I was in Kress’s; we 6 were standing around. And I remember looking up and all I could see were blue and gold football jackets. And some of the white bullies began to move, kind of move out because the football team had come down. And, you know, at that point we had some guys weighing as much as three hundred pounds--that was the Stanford brothers from Jersey, I remember them, there was three of them. And then we left there. One of my homeboys, Wilbur Matt, who was one of the centers, he and I left there and went up to Woolworth. And so as we went through, there was kind of jockeying for position, that kind of stuff. And then on our way back, when they announced that the counter was closed, we marched back to campus. And as we passed the King Cotton Hotel, people began to throw water and stuff out of the windows. EP: Jo Spivey says she remembers that some girl, I think--she didn’t know if she was an A&T or Bennett [College] student, got her teeth knocked out. Do you recall that? Right there at the King Cotton. LB: I can’t remember, but there was a lot of--there was some incidents right there. EP: Do you think that the police did a good job of separating the two groups, or not at all? LB: I thought they did---there was one police officer and I’ve been trying to remember what his name was. He had salt-and-pepper hair. He essentially played the role that Captain [William H.] Jackson played during these--and he had rank, and when we got back, he had lost his rank. I don’t know whether it was because he was too friendly, you know, he was too cooperative or what. But I can remember seeing him on the Square directing traffic. And I can’t remember his name. EP: So, you think that he might have gotten demoted because of his-- LB: Of his, yeah. He was awfully cooperative and his attitude was very good, quite positive. EP: As I understand the sequence of events, principally from Bill Chafe’s book [Civilities and Civil Rights] and newspaper accounts I’ve read, things kind of calmed down or quieted down when A&T and Bennett students went home and most of the continuing picketing was carried out by Bill Thomas and high school students from Dudley. LB: Yeah. One of the things that we--I guess, near when school was closing--you know I mentioned earlier about this basically being student-oriented, and really it was basically college students, because the people who were involved with all the picketing and demonstrating were people from Bennett and A&T, and there were really no high school 7 students really participating. And at one of our meetings we discussed what was going to happen after we went home and who would be there to carry on the movement. So, I guess the four guys, myself--I can’t remember if Pat was with us or not--we went to Dudley and we had a meeting in Ezell’s father’s shop with some of the people: Bill Thomas, his sister Anthanette, Billy Joe Foster, Paula Jewell and some other people-- to discuss their taking over the movement once we left Greensboro. That was the first time that I met Bill Thomas was at that meeting. EP: What was your impression of him? LB: I liked him because he had been involved at some level with things in his community. His father had been very active in the NAACP, so there was some carry-over there. He was highly intelligent and we became the best of friends. In fact, I spent most of my time with his mother. She sort of took us in after the--during '61, '62, so I’ve been-- EP: Did you stay in town or did you go back to Asheville? LB: My first summer of staying here was the summer of ’61. EP: You don’t see anything in the newspapers after Kress and Woolworth’s announced that they were going to integrate [in July 1960]. LB: I know. What happened was that when we got back to Greensboro that fall, there wasn’t anything going on. Then there was a movie that came to town starring Pearl Bailey. What was it? EP: Porgy and Bess? LB: Porgy and Bess, [January 1961]. Bill Thomas and myself, my roommate Donald Lyons, and Charles Alston, we went out to the theatre on Tate Street. EP: The Cinema? LB: Cinema. We went up and were refused tickets, so we began to picket the Cinema Theatre. We picketed it for several months, and we were joined by students from Guilford and Greensboro colleges. EP: Did you continually picket the Cinema or was it a one-time thing? 8 LB: No, we picketed out there for, I guess, two months, then we moved from the Cinema to the downtown theatres. We picketed the National, which was on South Elm Street, and the Carolina Theatre. We picketed that until over into December, January of ’61. EP: Was this on a daily basis or just every now and then? LB: A nightly basis, and it was a lot of the fellows from my home town, including my brother, and some students from--some young ladies from Bennett carried it on, with people from Guilford and with people from Greensboro College. EP: Were you heckled or harassed? LB: Initially, there was some activity from the Klan. This was out at Tate Street. We didn’t have any problem once we got downtown. Folk were coming up with their robes and things and this was a guy named Dawson, who was later identified as being an FBI agent. But it was some of the people he had organized and it was kind of a joke. EP: Was there actually any confrontation? LB: No, we would walk along beside each other, laugh and talk. The only thing that they did that might seem provocative was taking license plate numbers, that kind of thing. But on the line, there was nothing. People just thought they were one big joke. EP: The idea of them taking license plates, I guess, was to give you the idea that they were going to come and get you later? LB: Yes. EP: Did any of that ever happen? LB: No, not to my knowledge. [pause in recording] EP: You were telling me about shifting from the Cinema to the downtown theatres about December or January of '61. LB: Sixty, and it went over into sixty-one. 9 EP: Was this just an informal group of people? Obviously, it wasn't CORE [Congress of Racial Equality] yet. LB: Yeah, it was basically informal. My roommate, Donald Lyons, kind of headed up the group, and there was a counterpart on Bennett’s campus. And so we just kind of went along. EP: Would you meet on the campuses or was it private homes? LB: No, most of the meetings took place on Bennett’s campus during this period. EP: Did you have any overall purpose in mind? Was it right from the beginning total desegregation of Greensboro’s public facilities, or was it kind of a target-by-target thing? LB: Well, the focus at that point was just really on the movie theatres. The facilities downtown had already opened up, in terms of the lunch counters. And so the focal point there was nothing broader than that [the theatres] at that point. EP: Did you have any meetings with the Greensboro Community Fellowship? Specifically, people like John Taylor, Warren Ashby, McNeill Smith? LB: I knew them; I knew all of them. In fact, Warren Ashby and I were asked out of the King Cotton. [laughs] EP: Oh really? What happened? LB: We went in and asked for service. This was once the larger demonstrations had started. The meetings with John R. Taylor—Well, I attended some of the Fellowship meetings-- this was when they were being held out at the Holiday Inn South--and on occasion we would use the pond out at his [Taylor’s] house for retreats and little get-togethers. I really met him through a friend, a fellow we met while we were picketing on Tate Street, Dick Ramsey, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee. I don’t know if you’ve come across his name or not. EP: I saw of picture of him in the newspaper. LB: Dick was very active in CORE and he was very active when we were picketing against the theatres. He was one that was very instrumental in recruiting some of the students from Guilford and Greensboro [colleges], because he was the secretary of the College 10 Committee for the Friends Service Committee, so he was working with a lot of college students at that point. EP: One think that interests me about Bill Chafe's book and other things is that Ed Zane seemed surprised when, after the lunch counters opened up, there were further demands for like the Garden Room and Meyer’s [Tea Room] to be opened up. LB: Yeah. EP: He [Ed Zane] says, “Now wait a minute. You said you wanted the lunch counters. Here you are.” He [Ed Zane] didn’t seem to understand that--well, Eric Goldman once said that it never was just a cup of coffee, but he [Ed Zane] seemed to think that that was as far as it went. Do you think that most of Greensboro didn’t perceive what the overall goals of the movement were? LB: Yes, because had they, then other things would have opened up about the same time. You see, if you look at most of the exclusive restaurants [in Greensboro], they didn’t make that move. The cafeterias didn’t make that move. We had to come back to them and, hence, the larger demonstrations. These were kind of the private domain, the supper clubs. They really weren’t that public. EP: Was this your goal from the beginning, to open all the areas of the public facilities? LB: Yes. Once we got into it, the thing was to go after all of the public facilities. See by that time--I need to get my dates right--well, over into '62--well, when CORE began to come into the area. EP: Can we get into that? How did CORE begin to come into the area? LB: There was a man by the name of Marion Jones, who was a United Church of Christ minister, and his nephew Wendell Scott. They were same members of the church that Cox, B. Elton Cox from High Point; Cox was then the Field Secretary for CORE, working primarily in the South. The freedom rides had already taken place, and CORE had a project then called Freedom Highways, which was basically going around to the Howard Johnsons throughout the South. So we began to meet at Hayes-Taylor [YMCA] to form a CORE chapter. And Wendell was sort of the first chairman that we had. Elections officially took place in the summer of '62 I tihnk. EP: You might be interested in that we got six reels of microfilm of the CORE papers relating to North Carolina here at the library. 11 LB: I’d like that, is that the Corelator [CORE newsletter]? EP: We don’t have copies of the Corelator. These were just correspondence--mostly memos. Which is why I got into this--what I was going to get into. You mentioned B. Elton Cox and Wendell Scott and I had a few names of some people who were listed as early officers, including Evander Gilmer. LB: Yeah, he was our treasurer. EP: And you were listed as vice-president, I think. LB: Yeah. EP: Could you give me the sequence of these officers? I have kind of a rough idea from-- LB: After Wendell, after the initial organizing, Bill Thomas was elected the chairman, I was the first vice-chairman, Pat Patterson was the second [vice-chairman]. Betty Wall, who was the daughter of Marion Jones and cousin to Wendell Scott, was the secretary; Evander [Gilmer] was the treasurer. Those were the initial officers and I guess all of us remained officers through '63. EP: I notice that the names of Evander Gilmer, Wendell Scott, and Betty Wall disappeared kind of quickly. Did they leave CORE? LB: No, they stayed on. Betty--in fact, she is still in Greensboro. Evander lives in Washington, works for the Navy Department, I think. I talked to Wendell’s uncle a couple weeks ago and I think Wendell is somewhere in New Jersey, but he left Greensboro shortly after the formation of CORE and I think he went into the service, I’m not sure. But Evander stayed around as remained as the treasurer, he just--I don’t know-- because I was looking at some checks and I know he signed some checks as late as '63. EP: Did the officers--did the same people tend to get reelected every year? LB: Through the period--well, yeah, because--[pause in recording] We probably had just two elections. EP: Sounds like a close type group. 12 LB: Bill Thomas left during the summer of '63. I sort of chaired things, but I was finishing school at that point myself and was leaving. EP: I noticed in the paper that as a result of--or in connection with the Freedom Highways Project, Bennett sponsored a CORE training session and out of that-–or during this time came the picketing and desegregation of the Howard Johnsons, I believe. LB: Yes, because I know right after we formed our chapter we participated in a big demonstration in Durham. There’s a Howard Johnson between Durham and Chapel Hill. Is that [15-]501? I’m not sure. On the highway. EP: Who was responsible for getting the training session here at Bennett, do you know? LB: I don’t really know. EP: Were you in on the planning of that and the picketing of Howard Johnson? LB: No. The Howard Johnson--what do you mean? Here? EP: Here in Greensboro? Or Hot Shoppe, I guess it was. LB: No, that had taken place before the organization was formed by us. EP: I guess this is what sort of confuses me. I have certain dates and I understand this--what we’re talking about now took place in July of '62; does that sound right? LB: Yes. It might have been a little earlier. I have a couple photographs from that. That’s the only thing I have left over. EP: So you didn’t participate in the picketing of the Hot Shoppe? LB: No. EP: Did you have any dealings with Armistead Sapp? LB: Yes. EP: Could you tell me about those? LB: The most vivid one was the debate that we had on A&T campus with him. 13 EP: I read about that-- LB: On the merits of--we challenged him to a debate. Bill Thomas participated, Jesse Jackson, myself, a fellow by the name of Rodney Davis, [and] one of the Stanford brothers, one of the football players, I’m trying to remember--Carl Stanford. It took place in the library. He had made some remark about students, the mental level of black students or something, so we challenged him to this debate. A fellow by the name of Donald Addison, who was a professor of sociology, kind of prepared us for the debate. He gave us a short course in logic. A lot of people said that Sapp really didn’t believe all of the things that he said, that he was really a devil’s advocate. I’m not sure. EP: Do you think that he was just looking for publicity points? To get in the paper, being S&W’s attorney, and that sort of thing? LB: I'm not sure what his motives were. But I know he was--if you read some of the things he said, he really pushed the line of his client. One would just have to assume that a lot of what he said, he believed. I’m not sure. EP: I gather that there wasn’t a lot going on except some individual testing of different stores. Students and members of CORE were going up to different businesses and asking for service and being refused up until October of '62, when CORE started picketing in force of S&W [cafeteria]. Does that sound right? LB: Yes. The biggest thing up to that point was the arrest on Thanksgiving Day. That kind of exploded into something much larger because we branched out from there to the McDonald’s and the-- EP: How was that organized? LB: Which? EP: The arrest on Thanksgiving Day. LB: We decided that--well, we were looking for activities and some things to do. We were planning demonstrations and there was this ad in the newspaper: “Come to S&W for Thanksgiving Dinner, bring your family.” So we decided that we would go. We went in and got into the line and [were] arrested shortly after that for trespassing. EP: Did you get served and sit down or were you arrested in the line? 14 LB: No, we were arrested in the line. EP: I understand Reverend Brown was arrested right around that same time for holding a--for praying on the street. LB: Yeah, right there by Belk’s. EP: And that was all part of the same [demonstrations]? LB: No, that was separate. That was on his own; it had nothing to do with CORE. EP: I kind of get the impression--and please correct me if I’m wrong--that there are these points of intense activity like the sit-ins in '60, Freedom Highway’s Project about '61 or '62, and then the Thanksgiving arrest. Were they periodic like that or was something going on in between these points? LB: There were meetings, small meetings of the organization. Well, you are probably correct about what happened in ‘60 and ’61, but from early spring of '62 on, that was planned. I mean people began to plan or plot course of action relative to attacking the problems with desegregation in the city. So then by the time we got to November [1962], the thing was to increase and to apply more pressure to the city and to the establishment owners by continuously picketing and demonstrating in front of their establishments. The other thing was to cover as much territory as we could with the forces that we had. EP: So you didn’t just focus on the downtown? LB: No. Well we did, because we expanded to McDonald’s and Biff Burger on Summit Avenue. EP: Oh, I hadn’t heard about Biff Burgers. Was that successful or not? I know that McDonald’s agreed after about four days of demonstrations. LB: The Biff Burger fell in line shortly after that. They were about a block from each other, I gather. EP: What were the various alternatives as to the courses of action and long and short term goals suggested in CORE, specifically the Executive Committee? LB: The long term? The long range? Short? 15 EP: Well, both the long and short term. LB: The short range [goal] was to have some immediate successes to build for other attacks within the city. EP: I suppose what I had in mind was I gather that opening of the facilities were sort of short term goals. Were there long term goals like better employment, better pay? LB: Yeah, okay. EP: Did these come later or were they right from the beginning? LB: I think that they came much later, because the immediate focus was to dwell on public accommodations, but, kind of viewing that at some point, we would be involved in employment. Because there was some picketing at Wachovia around their hiring--refusal to hire a [black] teller or something of that nature. Another thing was that once we got the public accommodations, if you did this then this would make it easier to get to the employment and jobs and wages. One of the things that we did immediately after returning to Greensboro in ‘63 after the March on Washington was to begin a massive voter registration project. EP: Had there been earlier--some of the other actions that I have notes on about the CORE being involved in were earlier voter registration drives and getting merchants to remove separate signs on water fountains and restrooms. LB: Yes. One other thing that I particularly worked on with [Bennett faculty] Dr. [Elizabeth] Laizner, which was really our focus that summer, in addition to the voter registration, was organizing--community organizing, and the target area at that point was the Gillespie Street area--Gillespie Street, Spencer Street and Gant Street--at that point. EP: Was this after the demonstrations? LB: Well, the demonstrations ended in the early part of the summer--the massive demonstrations with the sit-down at the--downtown, then there was a period of some negotiations, I guess, and then the March on Washington, people coming back to begin to participate in the voter registration drive, which was sponsored jointly by the NAACP, the [American] Friends Service Committee, and the Greensboro Citizens Association and some other folk. That planning took place earlier while the demonstrations were going on, because there were meetings to plan the summer project. 16 But this was, here again, was spearheaded by Dick Ramsay through his College Committee. He was able to get folk to come in from around the country, recruit college students to participate. It was an interracial group that was housed at the Old St. Stephens Church on Gorrell Street. But--that also--with that taking place, we also began to meet-- and this is where I first met Reverend Frank Williams, because he had a little small church on--I can’t think of the street right now, it runs parallel to the cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery--but he had a small church there. We were using that facility to hold community meetings and we would meet with people from the city and the Redevelopment Commission to talk about street improvements--because all the streets at that point were dirt streets--improving the houses, bringing houses up to code, putting in streetlights, and the conversion of the city dump-- the land adjacent to the cemetery, which had been a city dump-- converting that into a city park, a park for the community. EP: Dr. Laizner indicated that CORE deliberately didn’t exactly get out--down-played its role once the neighborhood organization or the committee was organized because they wanted it to be a neighborhood thing rather than something run by CORE. Is this right? LB: Yes, basically that’s accurate. We did not identify ourselves as just CORE and the people who really took the lead in that particular community were people who lived in that community. Our chief role was to be facilitators and to be resource people in terms of getting the authorities to the meetings, that kind of thing. EP: If I could back up a little bit--were most of the decisions in CORE made within the Executive Committee? LB: Yeah. And then formalized by the larger body. EP: Were decisions of the Executive Committee always then taken to the full membership to be voted on, or were they sometimes put into practice just from the Executive Committee? LB: Both. And the Executive Committee had the authority to make decisions for-- EP: So not every question was brought before the membership? LB: No. EP: How were decisions made as to strategy and targets and that sort of thing within the Executive Committee? 17 LB: Through long discussions, long debates about what would be the best and most logical way of producing change. For instance, the decision to sit-down [in the Square]--I mean that took almost two weeks. EP: I wouldn’t say there’s quite--for instance Pat Patterson said that he didn’t, he didn’t approve of that and as a matter of fact, that very day, he went to New York to take a job. Lois Lucas said that she was against it, too. LB: What, the sit-down? EP: --in the square. LB: The first one or the second one? EP: The second one. On the idea that by that time, a lot of the students who had been in the movement for several years and had experience-- [End of Tape 1, Side A--Begin Tape 1, Side B] EP: --were kids from Dudley and members of the community who hadn’t really had much experience in nonviolent direct action, and I think they indicated they were afraid that there was going to be some kind of violence. LB: Yes, well I think that might have been a legitimate concern of Lois and some other people. But here again, high school students--and I mentioned earlier that this was a community event; people from all walks of life were participating in the demonstrations, and there had been a lot of high school students all along who were participating and who were very active, who were very vocal in the meetings and who--there was a lot of leadership from the high schools that were participating in CORE and revolving around the Executive Committee, so I don’t think that--to me, that was not a real factor; the question was, was really whether some nut was going to do something that would hurt anyone. I mean I can remember some--that was one of the real questions, because see that was not the only thing people were considering. One of the things was being considered was flooding the stores like Belk’s and just having a massive sit-in in the stores. Another thing was to organize the students so that at a given signal, all of the school kids would walk out of the schools on that day. There were a lot of different kinds of things that were discussed. With me, and with some of the other people, the real question was if you did have the sit-down in the streets, how would you guard against somebody just driving through the crowd--not whether the people were high school students. 18 EP: How would you guard against that? LB: In reality, there was no guard against that. I mean-- EP: Just assume that the police would-- LB: --would be there and protect, because you couldn’t really guard against that. EP: But there is always a risk, like up in Detroit when the minister was run over by the bulldozer. LB: Yeah, well see there was always a risk of anything happening with demonstrations. EP: There seemed to me, if I could get into several key changes in strategy--and, of course, one of them was going from picketing the theatres into going to McDonald’s and then broadening it to S&W and Mayfair in May of '63. LB: We had already been to S&W. EP: Right. Were you surprised at the turnout or was it planned that there be a massive turnout for the--when you went to McDonald’s? LB: Well I think--well, I think we had been building and so the thing at S&W was an impetus for building and for other people to come out and be involved. And so the more things that we could get people in--you know, we were out recruiting on campus, getting students involved. In fact, one of the nights--one of the first nights at McDonald’s, I had a group of people, I guess about ten people, who were new recruits, and we had some incidents. We had some rocks thrown, people were driving through campus that night afterwards to throw bottles and rocks at the dormitories and that kind of thing. EP: I’d like to get into that because the paper doesn’t touch on that at all. I kind of got ahead of myself a little bit--for instance Elizabeth Laizner mentions that after arrests of Thanksgiving [S&W demonstrations] the mayor’s committee asked CORE to suspend demonstrations while they came out with a report, which CORE agreed to. And subsequently the report did come out in February of '63, and in effect she says it all sounded good, they supported the concept of equal opportunity, equal access to public facilities until the last line, which said unfortunately we have not the power to demand these things or something, and the CORE geared up again. I guess what I wanted to ask is 19 one, does that sound right, and two, how did the CORE decide to agree to the suspension of demonstrations in the late fall of '62? LB: Well see, one of the things is that we had always decided that--I mean, we have always done this. One, was to--I guess a part of the nonviolent technique is to give people a chance to resolve things and to give people an easy way out. So, we were consistently--I mean in the sixties there was always these moratoriums, when people asked to--for a time to, for cooling off and for giving them a chance to work things out. We constantly did that. That wasn’t inconsistent [with the way] we had operated in the past. But at some points you always kind of know in the back of your mind that nothing is really going to take the place, so you have to be ready to move beyond that point. EP: So this was a logical step in--saying, “All right, we made them aware of the core of the problem. They now know it is not going to go away and we’re going to give them a chance to do something.” Did you really think that something would come out of it? LB: Well, you know you kind of hope. But see, but in case that it doesn’t, you always have the picketing and the mass demonstrations to fall back on, and that was one of the things that we had going for us. I think one of the things that we did to try to move people off-center was when there was this lull and drag, that it was decided that Tony [Stanley] and Bill [Thomas] should be arrested to draw people back. EP: So they consciously made decisions about who was going to be arrested? LB: We--some of the members of the Executive Committee made that conscious decision that--I think that it was one Sunday morning we decided that--that there should be arrests, and that Bill and Tony, since they were the most visible people, should be arrested. EP: I gather that--Elizabeth Laizner said that there was a big meeting in early May, a called meeting, and she thinks it took place at Pfeiffer Hall on Bennett campus, and she said she can remember Bill Thomas leaning against a piano and saying, “All right, do we do something now or do we plan over the summer for something big in the fall?” And the decision was debated back and forth, and finally it was decided to do something at McDonald’s. Does this sound right? LB: I’m not--I vaguely remember meetings, because there were a lot of meetings at a lot of different places. Well I think that the real conscious effort to make a push was the arrest of Tony and Bill. I think that was when the decision was made to make the major push and to not let up. 20 EP: But there were some people who wanted to wait until fall? LB: There may have been people. Because people--with a lot of--with students and with some adults, the theory was that we needed students for-- EP: Troops. LB: --for troops. And that’s what we needed [to do], to wait until the students get back. But given the fact that we had organized high school students, and people from the community would point out there was no real reason to wait until the fall-- EP: So with the local high school students, you didn’t worry about things falling off in the summer. LB: No, because at this point we had begun to build to the point that we could get people out. EP: So CORE wasn’t really surprised when, like, after word of the arrests at McDonalds, students started flocking to the meetings. LB: No, we weren’t, we weren’t, because really we had, just in the CORE chapter itself, at one of our meetings, we could have in excess of a hundred people, just with members alone. So then as things began to snowball and students began to come out--the problem of recruiting to me was not really a major problem. EP: I gather that--were the targets pre-selected? I mean you had already been picketing S&W and the theatres. It seemed, just from reading the newspaper accounts, that there were-- usually the four places that were picketed were the Center, the Carolina, the S&W, and the Mayfair. Why were these four selected? LB: Well--the centralization of their location. It was easy to get people there. Most of the activities took place because downtown was very viable at that point, so people were coming downtown. You had much more protection in the downtown area than you would in an isolated area. Like going out--because I remember in '60 we did picket out at Clark’s when it was way out on Market Street and also there was a barbecue place out there that was owned by a black man, but it catered to whites, that we picketed. EP: Did they open up or did they remain closed? LB: They did not open up. Well, Clark’s didn’t open up until after when everybody else was opened up during '63-'64. 21 EP: Was this idea that you just mentioned of protection the reason that you didn’t have a concerted campaign at places that were pretty far out? LB: Right. One reason--the problem of traffic and transportation, transporting people there, and then your defense or your protection was far less. EP: Its kind of interesting that this--what the paper calls--what usually they referred to as the Coordinating Committee, but I gather the full title was For Pro-Integration Groups. How did that come to be formed? LB: The Coordinating Committee? EP: Yes. LB: One of the things that we were concerned with [was] being able to draw upon all of the resources in the community. So all the organizations that were involved in civil rights in the community or involved with the problems of the community came together to try to facilitate the demonstrations. It was sort of a loose-knit kind of thing with Father Hicks being the chairman of it, initially. EP: I gather--correct me if I’m wrong again--it seemed to me that there was a kind of a mutual benefit, mutual need here: CORE wanted the support of the black adult community and the black adult community--at least that’s characterized by Bill Chafe’s book--had been pushing for a good twenty or thirty years at this point, and that, they said okay if we’re going to get these things we’ve been pushing for all these years, we have to join this movement of the students. We can’t let this die out. Does this sound fair? LB: I don’t know--I don’t know if I would make that assessment. I think that we needed--we needed, we really needed the support of the adult community because there is, when you have the backing of the ministerial group, there is a certain amount of legitimacy that you don’t have if you are outside of that group. EP: I remember you said that, you said you wouldn’t necessarily agree with that assessment. What was the part you wouldn’t agree with? LB: Chafe? The adult community using us to push-- EP: I’m still saying that, from my point of view, saying this would seem to be a reason for their participation. Am I right or wrong? 22 LB: I was saying that--my thinking would be that people were genuinely concerned about eradicating segregation and everybody, all black people, had a vested interest. EP: You were going to mention Bill Chafe’s book. I gather there are a few points that you don’t agree with there. Would you like to go into that? LB: I didn’t think that I was mentioning his book, I was just trying--we were talking about the Coordinating Committee and why--but then you mentioned it. You referenced Chafe. EP: Right. Was there a close working relationship between CORE and the Coordinating Committee? LB: We were a member of the Coordinating Committee. EP: I guess what I had in mind was I remember Reverend [Otis] Hairston said that, “well, we agreed that we’d speak as one voice and so that there’d be unity and no possible misquoting or misunderstanding of the press.” But, I suppose what I have in mind is CORE was a separate entity and I would assume that they would say, “Now look, we are not going to get swallowed up by this. We’re participating in this, but we are keeping our options open.” LB: Well, the NAACP was a separate, autonomous organization. The Citizens Association was autonomous. The Pulpit Forum was autonomous. EP: Was there the feeling that, “We’ll participate, but if you do something that we don’t agree with, or we want to do something that you don’t agree with, then we’ll go our way and you go yours"? LB: Well I don’t think, I think that there was a concerted effort to work within the group and people did— EP: So there wasn’t a kind of rivalry there? LB: No, because I think--well really, the Coordinating Committee came about at the insistence of CORE. EP: So CORE actively sought the formation? LB: Right, initiated it. 23 EP: Because that of course is not clear in the paper, but that is understandable why it wasn’t. LB: And really [the Coordinating Committee] did not actually try to control us because really, the chairman of the committee was a minister, who was then Hicks, Father Hicks, from the Church of the Redeemer. EP: Did CORE meet--of course the Coordinating Committee met on a regular basis; Did CORE also meet on a regular basis? LB: Yeah. We still had our on going meetings. In fact, at that point--well, after the Coordinating Committee was formed, we moved from Providence Baptist Church to Church of the Redeemer and actually set-up a full operation down there. We had an on-going operation there, which was manned almost twenty-four hours [a day]. EP: When the demonstrations took place, were they planned and carried out by CORE or the Coordinating Committee? LB: Now we did maintain control of the demonstrations and took chief responsibility for planning the demonstrations. EP: How? LB: --but we did touch base and apprised people of what it was that we were doing, and when the Coordinating Committee suggested that we have a moratorium, we agreed to that. EP: It seems for a while that--a number of people talk about this famous either Wednesday or Sunday march where the adults, for the first time, came out in large numbers. LB: It was a Sunday march, I think. Oh, what--okay, wait a minute now--march to where because there was a— EP: Just downtown. LB: Okay that was the-- EP: --it was separate-- LB: What do you mean separate? Which one? 24 EP: From the students. LB: No, I don’t remember anything being separate from the students. We had large--we had a Sunday march down from the church--from the old Trinity Church downtown which was both students and adults, and all of the other marches I remember it being--involved adults as well as students. Because see, here again, CORE was not all students; McMillan was not a student, Laizner was not a student, Charles Davis, Reverend Julius Douglas, [Rev. James] Bush, [Rev. John] Hatchett, all of these people were members of the organization. And there were a number of adults who were involved, you know, in CORE, and participated in the activities and planning of-- EP: A lot of the structuring of my questions is coming from the interview I had with Dr. Laizner, who was one of the first people I interviewed. And she says that right after-- when they were--Bill Thomas and Reverend Hatchett, Reverend Bush--the four people who were arrested at--Pat Patterson I think--at McDonald’s, one of the ministers [Douglas] came and said, “Now, you’ve got something going here. Keep it going and I’ll have a mass meeting at my church and we’ll turn out the adult community.” And that there wasn’t much adult participation until that big march. This is the way she characterized it. Does this sound right or plausible, or is she forgetting something? LB: I’m not sure. EP: How about the decision to shift to the “jail, no bail"? Was that a controversial decision? Or was it pretty-- LB: I think it was a pretty unanimous kind of decision. I don’t remember any big discussion about that. I think students, you know, people who were arrested were kind of--that was the attitude, in fact, that was the attitude--I don’t know if it even started here, It might have started some place else and people picked up one it. EP: Was it a result of the mass arrests and of them saying: “Okay, if they are going to arrest us en masse, process us, immediately turn us loose, we are going to put pressure on them"? LB: Well the “jail, with no bail” thing started before the mass kind of thing, because I think that was the attitude of those of us that got arrested at S&W in the fall of '62. When our trial came up the thing was to refuse to leave. It’s just that the judge decided that he wasn’t going to lock us up, but we had already decided that we were going to refuse--if we were locked up, we were going to refuse bail. 25 EP: So this wasn’t a brand new tactic? LB: No, it wasn’t, and it really did not start in Greensboro. If you go to the other areas where people were arrested, that was sort of the attitude. EP: Now Lois Lucas, in her interview, said she was against it unless the membership-- leadership also agreed to go down and get arrested and not come out. And that she felt that a lot of these particularly high school kids didn’t really understand it, that “after the initial enthusiasm wears off, we’re going to stay in jail,” and she sort of thought that you were against it too. Did she misunderstand? LB: I’m trying to think about what period you are talking about because see-- EP: This would have been like the second week of the demonstrations in May [1963] when everybody was first taken--you know they were locked up and finally they were taken that Saturday to the Polio Hospital? LB: Well, that Saturday-- EP: Now I may be misquoting her; I’m paraphrasing her. One thing I noticed how she characterized you was she said that Lewis Brandon was the kind of person that would say, “Now, wait a minute, don’t do something just to be doing something. Have a plan in mind." LB: Yes. I was opposed to going--well, yeah. One of the things was that there were a lot of people using arrest as a means of--well, I was just against being arrested for the sake of being arrested. But I don’t think that--because see there were a lot of people who, in other areas--not here--who were getting arrested and then they would be out and folk going around putting notches on their belts for the number of times that they’d been arrested. Those kind of arrests didn’t really mean anything. EP: So in effect, make the arrest mean something. LB: Yeah, that was my position on it and--but you see at the time of the mass arrests, there weren’t any--I won’t say any high school students [but] the bulk of those kids were college kids, Bennett and A&T students. I think the arrest of the high school kids came with the sit-ins in the streets, as opposed to being arrested off the picket lines. EP: I’d like to get to that, but first: when the A&T students were sent back to the campus on the governor’s orders, it looked at first like a defeat for CORE because they were staying 26 in, [saying] “we’re going to keep the pressure on until they agree to serious negotiations at least,” and here’s the governor saying “I authorize you to take them back to campus.” And then, as I understand, the Coordinating Committee, that same evening, about one or two in the morning, had an emergency meeting and called mayor pro tem- LB: No, that was with the very first arrest. See, that was before that had taken place. The first night--the first time we had a mass arrest [was] when folk blocked off the whole downtown area and [police] first treated the students as criminals was when that meeting took place, at one or two o’clock in the morning at the Church of the Redeemer. That was where [William] Trotter, who was the mayor pro tem, decided that he would create this committee that became, eventually, the Human Relations Committee. EP: So you’re saying that was before the A&T students were taken back to the campus [from the Polio Hospital]? LB: Yes, that move to bring people back to campus was much later. Yeah. I don’t remember exactly when but it happened sometime after that meeting. EP: Okay, I got that wrong and I’m glad you straightened it out for me, because I thought the way the sequence was that they moved them out late at night, deliberately, and that word got back to the Coordinating Committee [that], “Hey, they’re turning the kids loose.” And they had a meeting and told Trotter, “All right, if you don’t want trouble--” You’re saying that’s not how it happened? LB: No, people were up because this was the first time that people really were treated as criminals. What they did, they took--the jail was over here, right? They blocked off the whole downtown area, brought buses in. Some folk were down viewing that and went back and called people together and said, “Look, we’re not going to stand for this kind of thing.” Now, I don’t remember the exact date when they brought--they began to dump students out because that particular night I was manning the headquarters. And Darwin Turner-- because, in fact, I took the call, a call from somebody, I don’t know who--the call came in, but called saying that there was a problem on campus, that lot of chaos because people were being brought back to campus and being let out, carloads of police were doing this. EP: The date that I have is the twenty-first or twenty-second, does that sound about right? LB: Of May? EP: Yes. 27 LB: Yeah. So the other meeting with Trotter took place much earlier. But Darwin Turner, who was chairman of the English department [at A&T], and I were both there because he had a little newsletter called the Candlelight. I don’t know if you’ve seen copies of that. EP: Can I borrow your--I’ve heard a reference to it but I haven’t seen it. LB: Well I have some copies of it. EP: I’d like to see it. LB: Okay. But anyway he was the one who was responsible for putting that together, editing it, and getting it circulated. There was a telephone committee and another committee that was responsible for circulating that paper. But anyway, he and I both left and went on campus. By the time we got there, I think Ezell [Blair] was there, Jesse [Jackson] was there, and Major High, who was an attorney, showed up. Dr. [Lewis] Dowdy [of A&T] was there; he had tried to talk to students, and the students wouldn’t listen. They didn’t listen to much of what anybody had to say. Jesse tried and Ezell tried, but Turner was the one who really took over and talked to the students and calmed them down and suggested that they go back to the dormitories and sleep on it, take hot showers and get a good night’s sleep. And that next day, people were back on the picket line getting arrested again. EP: The way Ezell told it, he mentioned--he said that Jesse Jackson was asked to speak by some people and, for some reason, either because he froze or he didn’t want to or whatever, he didn’t speak. And so he [Ezell] said he spoke, and he mentioned, was it Dr. Darwin Turner? LB: Yeah. EP: So he was on faculty? LB: Yeah. EP: The impression that I got from Ezell was that they said, “All right, we’ve proved our point. Exams and graduation’s coming up, parents are coming up for graduation; let’s calm it down instead of going right back to jail tonight.” Is that-- LB: Well, see, at one o’clock in the morning, you know, one, two o’clock in the morning, there wasn’t much to do. But we had massive demonstrations that next day and people-- 28 most of the people were back in the lines because what we had was a booth here [at the theatres] and we sort of had a revolving picket line; people would go up and ask for tickets and continuously go up. So when you go up the police would pull people out and what they began to do then was take people and put them in the patrol car, drive around the block, and let them out. EP: [laugh] Oh really? LB: And people would simply come back. At one point, before they began to do that, they would--things were so massive they had gone out to set up facilities out at the coliseum to process people through the arrests. It was so massive [that] what they began to do was to pick people up, put them in the cars and drive them around the corner and let them out. And those people [would] just simply come back and get back in line. EP: But people were not taken en masse again to the--[Polio Hospital]? LB: No. EP: So CORE didn’t view this returning students to campus as a defeat of their tactic of mass arrest? LB: No, because we--no, because we seized upon the opportunity and, in fact, people were back out there the next night. It happened so fast people really didn’t have time to react to it, because when we got the call it was early in the morning--one, two o’clock. EP: As I understand it, there was Wednesday of--for instance, the arrests at McDonald’s took place on the eleventh of May and about Wednesday, the fourteenth or fifteenth, was the first mass arrest. LB: Downtown. EP: Right. LB: Okay, and that is probably the time we met with Trotter. EP: And was it at that time that you agreed to set up the committee that was chaired by Dr. [George] Evans? LB: Yes. 29 EP: So this idea that I got in my head that the--he agreed to it as the students were being released did not take place? LB: No. You said the release came around May the twenty-- EP: Twenty-first or twenty-second. LB: So you are talking about a whole week. EP: Right. How did the--I understand that there was a moratorium or a “truce” from about May twenty-second ‘til June third. How did that come about? Was that to give Dr. Evans committee a chance to--? LB: His committee, and also, more than just Evans’ committee--that, and also to flush [Mayor David] Schenck out. See, we had not been able to do anything; I mean he was always unavailable. Even at--he was supposed to be out of town that night that Trotter came to the meeting. So the aim, really, was to force Schenck out and make him to take a position and meet with us to discuss and try to resolve the issue. EP: Forcing by the mass arrests or-- LB: Mass arrests, so and that was what the two sit-downs was attempting to do. That was the first time that he really agreed to sit down and talk was after the sit-ins. He had avoided any discussions up to that point. EP: Was Jesse Jackson’s role pretty much cosmetic? LB: Yes. Have you gotten that in any other discussions? EP: Yes. One thing that puzzles me is that Lisa Waits characterizes in the paper that the truce was in effect, had been started about May twenty-seventh. And then Jesse Jackson led a demonstration downtown about June third. When interviewed by reporters, he said, “Well, it’s true CORE has agreed to a truce, but CORE doesn’t speak for the whole community.” In effect, what he seemed to be saying was that he was doing this in defiance of CORE. LB: But it was still CORE; I mean we authorized it. EP: So he didn’t just lead a maverick group of students down, they had-- 30 LB: In fact, in that demonstration there were the same people, most of adults and everybody else who had been involved in the demonstrations all along. EP: So what appeared in the paper, him rebelling against CORE wasn’t-- LB: He may have said that and he may have thought that he was, in fact, doing something, but we were not about to let any personality run the operation. EP: Was there points of friction between Jesse and some members of CORE, or did he understand that his role was cosmetic rather than genuine? LB: He had to, because was not a part of the Executive Committee, so he was not in on the planning sessions or planning of the activities. In fact-- EP: He wasn’t even a member of CORE was he? LB: He got involved very late. In fact, I insisted. It was because of a dare--well, dare is not the word--but in a discussion he and I had I told him to put up or shut up. One of those kinds of things. EP: Either join or get out? LB: No. Don’t criticize if you’re not going to be in on what you are criticizing. That was the kind of discussion that he and I had. So he decided to come and get involved at that point. You see, we had been demonstrating a long time and we had been doing things. EP: This is what Ezell said really, he said, “After all,” he said, “People really looked to the leadership, to people that had been in the movement since '60 and '61, and a lot of people didn’t even know who Jesse Jackson was until he ran for president [of the A&T student body].” LB: Yeah, well, his run for president came after his initial-- after his coming out. It was easier for him to run for office once he--well, Jesse and I had been friends all along. In fact, I was his campaign manager for student body president. One of the things, you know, was that if you [were] going to run, you [are] going have to be involved with other students and other students are out involved in demonstrations. So either you do or not do. It was that sort of thing. EP: The decision--the paper seems to indicate that things were really coming to a point, to a boil here. Reverend Tony Stanley was quoted in one meeting saying, “Now look, if 31 something doesn’t happen by Monday”--meaning June third, I think--he said, “we’re going to go get arrested.” And the way he was quoted in the paper anyway was saying, “Let you radicals take over.” Was there that sense that things were really coming to a showdown one way or the other? That either there was going to be some compromise on the part of the city or there was going to be violence? LB: Well, I don’t think that people were talking about violence. There was something that was going to be dramatic, that there had to be a showdown, that we had to force Schenck out and make him take a stand. EP: Was there certain pressure because the semester was coming to a close and there wouldn’t be these thousands of students to call upon? LB: No, you see, because one of the things we were planning and one of the things, once you begin to read the Correlator--I mean not the Correlator, the Candlelight--we were recruiting families to house students over the summer. That was one of the things that Darwin Turner was actively involved in, getting people to house students to keep the demonstrations going. EP: Why was there the decision for Jesse to lead the students onto Greene Street and sit-down for the prayer? I assume that that was carefully planned rather than spontaneous. LB: Yeah, people had decided about that. Jesse just happened to be in the--and he, up to that point, had been the person doing all the praying and leading the prayers. There was one instance where he lead--and nominally, he was at the head of the group with the cross. On that particular day, he did not lead the march; there were two small young ladies-- EP: I’ve seen that picture. LB: --leading the march. It could have been anybody who got arrested that night because I remember Captain Jackson coming up to me and saying to me, “You’ve got five minutes to get--move people out of the way.” The only person that you really--since Jesse was the most visible person at that point, the decision to arrest him was the one that the city made. EP: I was talking to Bill Thomas on the phone and he said that Captain Jackson came up to him the next morning and asked him if he knew where Jesse was, and he said no, and then CORE found out that they [the police] wanted him for arrest. So what they did was they printed up these brochures [saying], “They Have Arrested Your Great Leader,” and 32 they planned for when Jackson did arrest him. They had a camera and so-forth there. How was that set up? LB: Once we found out what the people wanted, we staged a media event; [that’s] what it turned out to be. There was a cameraman at Channel 2 that we had a very good rapport with. I don’t remember his name now, but we could always call him and he would be on the spot. But what we did, here again, we needed something to hit and to get people out and to really put more pressure on the city. And so the plan was to have a little rally in the chapel at the church there, with people in there getting ready to see Jesse go off to jail, and stage it so that it would be on the news by twelve o’clock so that people would see it, and that people would be out for the march. I called Jesse at Mr. Corbett’s house and told him what was going down, and folk went and got him and brought him back to the Church of the Redeemer. The leaflets had been prepared by that time, and the TV people had been called. In fact, Jesse got up and made a statement to the folk who were sitting in the chapel. Captain Jackson and his people had arrived by that time and would not come into the church. The pictures that you see of Jesse coming out shaking Jackson’s hand did not show friendship. That’s what people suggest, but Captain Jackson was really shocked. I mean, he knew that he had been set up, when he—because, see, the first thing when he did that, see, a man was on top of him with a TV camera. Now, you don’t see that in the picture, and you really see Jackson kind of pulling back, Captain Jackson and Jesse coming out. We had all kinds of people out in the street that night. EP: So it was a real shot in the arm? They made a really colossal blunder arresting him? LB: Oh, yes. EP: Did he really write “Letter from a Greensboro Jail?” LB: Yes. EP: Do you know what happened to it? Any copies around? LB: You won’t find any copies of it. It was destroyed. EP: Was it released to the press or had things snow-balled by that point? LB: No, it wasn’t released. EP: Was that something [that] was CORE’s idea or his idea? 33 LB: That was his thing. It had nothing to do with us. EP: To emulate King’s [”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”]— LB: Yes. EP: Was the sit-down in the Square as carefully planned as the night before, or was that kind of spontaneous? LB: Kind of, I guess--well, there was some discussion about it. I think that it was inevitable that it was going to take place. We had been talking about it all long, and there was nothing else to do but to do it. EP: So this was really escalating it? LB: That was the climax. It had been building to the point that we had to do something very dramatic. EP: Was it as tense and potentially explosive as the paper indicates? Could something have [EP snaps fingers] set it off? LB: It was tense, but as to how explosive it was, I’m not sure, because the police had pretty well sealed off the area. EP: Was there a lot of discussion about this pro and con, as to whether this was a wise thing to do? LB: Yeah. In some of the earlier meetings in May, there was a real discussion--there was the Executive Committee along with [Floyd] McKissick. Something had to happen, something very dramatic had to happen to break the city. That’s when I mentioned the earlier [events] we were talking about. One was flooding the stores downtown to take them over with people sitting in the stores. The thing of trying to get the students out to move at all one time, to walk out of the schools. Something very dramatic. EP: So it had been discussed beforehand? It wasn’t like the morning of June sixth? LB: The sit-down at Greene Street probably was more spontaneous, because there was no real discussion about Greene Street. The discussion was always sitting down at the Square. The discussion was always centered around that, the pros and cons about that. 34 EP: So actually there had been more discussion of the next night than the night that Jesse got arrested. LB: Yeah, the first night. Yeah, we were more concerned--yeah, I mean that was kind of spontaneous. But that one at the plaza, yeah, that was the one that was discussed. EP: Where were these people taken that were arrested? Were they, like you said, taken around the block and dropped off? LB: No, these people--people were jailed because some of these people were taken to High Point to jail. EP: But they weren’t put back in the Polio[Hospital]? [End of Tape 1, Side B--Begin Tape 2, Side A] EP: --arrested in the-- LB: No, we talked earlier about my views on arrests. And one of the things was that we had decided early on, particularly when Tony Stanley and Bill Thomas decided to get arrested, that we were not--all of the leadership would not be locked up. Some people would be left out in order to run the operation. And essentially that is what I did. I stayed back and did the leg work. EP: Could I get a sense of the various tactics that were employed. For instance, Bill Thomas and Elizabeth Laizner and a number of others told me that first of all they were marshals who were in charge of making sure that people got across intersections as a group, that there was order in the lines, that would keep things cool, and that people were assigned to specific targets such that--or else they followed their group leader and if their leader went to S&W, they went to S&W and another leader went to Carolina [Theatre]. Did they go to the targets simultaneously? LB: Well, it wasn’t all simultaneously because of the situation, how things were situated. So as you’re moving along you would go--people would leave and then people would go to wherever they were designated to go. So you were going, basically, at the same time, but, I mean, you would probably arrive at the points at different times because of the where things were situated. EP: Was it predetermined how many people would get arrested at a particular site? 35 LB: No. That was-- EP: Just however many people felt-- LB: That was basically left up to you, because you could always get--when you asked to get out of line, [you could] get out. And a number of people who sat down in the streets when asked to move, moved, rather than getting arrested. That was a conscious effort on--I mean, that was a conscious decision on the part of the person as to whether they wanted to go to jail or not. We did not say people had to go, we did not try to force people to become arrested; that was your decision. EP: Was CORE here pretty autonomous from the national office [CORE] in New York? I know James Farmer came down a few times. LB: No organization that has a charter can be autonomous, because you really have to adhere to the guidelines of the parent organization. And a lot of the mandates--a lot of the things, types, decisions that you make are made within the framework and guidelines of the organization. EP: After the demonstrations, things, at least in the paper, wound down kind of quickly. The mayor issued a statement, he had a couple of meetings with some of the leading businessmen, the Human Relations Commission was set up under [Western Electric executive] W. O. Conrad, in which I believe Dr. Simkins, Reverend Stanley, and Reverend Hairston took part. And then there was periodic statements that so many places were desegregating. Did things fall into line that quickly? Were significant steps taken that quickly? LB: One of the things that we began doing after the demonstrations was to go around to the facilities to make sure that the people were complying. EP: Did a number of places open up? LB: Yeah, most of them opened up, in fact, right away. The only person that did not do that [were] the people at the Mayfair. In fact, they went out of business. EP: Did--one thing that struck me as odd is that there were reports in the newspaper that Bill Thomas and Reverend Stanley were dissatisfied with the lack of progress of the Human Relations Commission. What Conrad went around doing was saying, “Well, what you’ve got to do, instead of demonstrating, you’ve got to get blacks into vocational education, 36 you’ve got to prepare them to be clerks in stores.” And this, that, and the other. What comes to my mind is kind of a suspicion. Was this kind of a smokescreen for not really doing that much right away? Was it just a new wrinkle of the “well you’ve got to move slow and wait and in the fullness of time” kind of argument, or do you think that Conrad and his Commission were sincere in trying to move ahead in some of the--not only opening the public facilities but getting better jobs, blacks getting in managerial positions and that kind of thing? LB: Well, I think that position would be reflective of people who were on the--on the Commission, particularly Simkins and other folk, were interested in people having jobs as clerks and cashiers and that kind of thing. I mean, the whole employment spectrum became important. At this point--because, in fact, I had mentioned the NAACP had already been involved in picketing against Wachovia to get people hired as tellers and things. EP: I guess one of the reasons I mentioned this is that I guess one of the witnesses who came before the Commission was [jewelry store owner] Arnold Schiffman, and they said “well, why don’t you have black salespeople in your store?” And he said, “well, they don’t deal with money that well and they don’t speak well enough for our patrons.” That sounded like the same old argument that had been used for about twenty or thirty years or more. But, you feel that Conrad was sincere in trying to overcome this? LB: I don’t know how much Conrad was sincere or how much other folk, but I’m saying that position probably was reflective of--you know, was a position of the black membership. EP: Did CORE’s influence decline after the demonstrations? LB: After the demonstrations, CORE’s role changed. There was no real need at that point for mass demonstrations, and hence, we changed our focus. And that was we began to center our activities around community organization. And I mentioned the Gillespie Street area, where we began--we conducted a survey of the community about the needs that people felt needed some attention. EP: What was the result of that? LB: Well, there was a community organization that was set up and people began to push for having the streets paved, houses brought up to standard, streetlights put in. There was a meeting with people from the Redevelopment Commission about the community; there was a push to get a park put there. 37 And that--I mean, this is the point that--and that carried over not only in the summer but over into the fall and over into the spring of the following year, along with massive, again, massive voter registration--you see there was also voter education that we were involved in at that point--that summer, it was a summer project. And then in the spring of '64, there was another massive voter registration drive sponsored--well, under the sponsorship of the [American] Friends Service Committee, the NAACP, the YWCA; because students from all over the country came in to work on that drive. After that point, I can’t talk about much else that happened, because I left to go into the service in '64. EP: You went into the service in '64? LB: Yes. EP: I was about to say that it seemed to me the leadership--within a year, the leadership that had carried through the demonstrations was gone. Bill Thomas was gone, you were gone, John Hatchett was gone, and [James] Bush was gone. LB: Right, Pat Bush was gone and I think Pat Patterson was gone. EP: Yeah, Pat Patterson was gone. What happened to CORE? LB: Bill’s brother [Alvin] maintained remnants of the structure for a while. EP: But membership fell off? LB: Yes, I guess. I don’t know because I really can’t speak to that because what happened after the summer of '64, I’m not sure. EP: I do want to bring this interview to a conclusion, rapidly, but there were two things that Elizabeth Laizner said that intrigued me. And again, it may have just been her impression because Lois Lucas expressed great promise for her but said she tended to, well, melodramatize [sic] things. But she [Laizner] said that Pat Patterson and Ralph Lee were up for nomination for the presidency and that this was kind of a split in CORE that they didn’t understand, that--well, supposedly, Ralph Lee said that if he had known Pat Patterson was going to be nominated, he never would have, you know, let his name be put in the nomination. She kind of felt that there was some ill-will or misunderstanding, or hurt feelings coming out of this. Did you know anything about this kind of rivalry? 38 LB: Not really. I’m not sure. I don’t know how much of that was really created by Dr. Laizner and her push to have Ralph as the president [after Bill Thomas]. I don’t know. Did Ralph not become president? EP: This is what is hard for me to ascertain because the CORE records don’t show it and-- LB: Because I had, I really-- EP: Do you know who became president after Bill? LB: [pause] Ralph may have, I’m not sure. I had really forgotten about Ralph until you just mentioned him. But he could very well have become the president because at this point I was gone. EP: And I understand that Alvin Thomas became president at some point? LB: Yeah, I think he did. I am almost certain that he did. EP: Did it more or less dissolve by, say, ‘65, kind of similar to the parent national organization? LB: Well, we ran it well--well, yeah, on paper we maintained an organization, because even when I got back out of service, I sort of maintained the organization on paper. There was no real effort as an organization to do anything because, here again, everything-- demonstrations, at this point, were not the way that people were doing things. Negotiations and other tactics were being used. EP: Dr. Laizner was arrested in Chapel Hill, and out of that I assume came charges that she was a communist, and-- LB: Charges by who? EP: She said that it was listed on her-- LB: Arrest record? EP: Right. And I’m not sure, and I think on her passport, she claims. Is this not true? LB: I’m not sure. I don’t know. I don’t remember. I was with her when she got arrested. 39 EP: You were over at Chapel Hill? LB: We were all over--most of the CORE chapter was over at [the University of North Carolina at] Chapel Hill for that demonstration. We went over on a number of occasions to participate in the demonstrations with the people at Chapel Hill. EP: [Durham civil rights attorney] Clarence Malone kind of indicated two interesting things. One, that CORE nationally was kind of playing down the demonstrations because they said, “Look, we’ve got the test cases we want before the Supreme Court, we know the Civil Rights bill is coming out some time this year or next year at the latest.” They said there weren’t really that many blacks involved in the--at least, the leadership of CORE over there, that it was mostly white middle-class kids. Do you think that this is a fair assessment? This was kind of like the last dying gasp? LB: That was true of Chapel Hill, because basically the activists in and around Chapel Hill were white kids. So you saw a lot of white people involved. That was true of SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]; there were a lot of white kids involved in that up until the move by Stokeley [Carmichael] toward black power, and at that point they purged all of the white people from the organization. Those who left that created another organization called COFFO, C-O-F-F-O, and I ran into them down in southwest Georgia because I had a cousin living in Americus and they were having demonstrations there. I went up for one of the demonstrations and there were a lot of [white] people who had been in SNCC and who had been purged who were down there. But you found a lot of white students involved in the movement in Chapel Hill because there wasn’t really a large black population to draw from. EP: Mr. Malone indicated that the judge, Raymond Mallard, was--it was his [Malone’s] feelings and he said other peoples’ feelings that he [Mallard] was deliberately appointed by the powers that be in North Carolina to deliberately: one, humiliate people in court; two, hand out such stiff sentences that they’d be appealed and the appellant process would break the back of CORE financially. Did you feel this way? LB: This guy was--he was real bad as a judge. I mean this guy--I don’t know about breaking the back of CORE, but his sentencing was unbelievable. EP: Were you in court when these people were sentenced and handed down these six months and two year-- LB: No, because I think I was out of the area at that point. By the time the trials got around I wasn’t in the state. 40 EP: Had you been arrested at Chapel Hill? LB: No, I didn’t get arrested in Chapel Hill, but we went up there for the demonstrations. There were a number of demonstrations--see that day, there were demonstrations all over the area, and I think that Dr. Laizner was arrested sitting on a highway. Our efforts were concentrated in the downtown area. EP: Have you read The Free Men [by John Ehle], which is a study of the Chapel Hill demonstrations? LB: No. EP: By way of conclusion, you had said that you were going to talk about the positive and the negative things of the demonstrations. Would you care to elaborate on that? LB: What I meant was that I didn’t want to get into a lot what Dr. Laizner had assumed was going on in terms of politics of the organization, and whatever differences she thought may have occurred. What I was wanting to talk--would be willing to talk about was how effective the organization was in bringing about social change in Greensboro, and I think that’s what we did. EP: How effective was it? LB: Well, I think that it was effective to the point that we were able to desegregate public facilities in Greensboro. In terms of bringing about changes in social attitudes, we did not succeed in that. Really no organization, up to this point in Greensboro, has been able to do that. Greensboro still tends to be a very racist city, still tends to be controlled by the mill interests. Really to me it is still a mill town, for all practical purposes. EP: Controlled by a few very powerful economic-- LB: Economic individuals, yes. To that end, we were not successful. But in terms of our primary goals of desegregating public facilities, we did that. We were able to organize communities to do that--and I haven’t seen that done in Greensboro since--and set up networks for communicating, distributing, and disseminating information. EP: So you think that it takes certain crisis points like the sit-ins, the demonstrations, what happened down in A&T in '68 and '69 to make the city aware, to bring about these kind of ad hoc committees? 41 LB: I have been in Greensboro since 1957 and I have not seen one change take place that was not the result of some direct action. I can think of nothing that occurred in Greensboro. EP: Do you think city council, the [Greensboro] Chamber of Commerce or was it just a few individuals [that] did an effective job of facilitating the institution of massive busing in '71 here in Greensboro, because there seems to be a minimum of the anticipated violence? LB: I think that the chamber, through their leadership, decided there wasn’t going to be any violence. Where violence occurs, I think that’s a conscious decision on the part of the power structure that it should occur. It was not to the city’s advantage to have violence occurring around busing in Greensboro because there had been too much negative publicity already around what happened in '69 and some of the other, larger demonstrations that had taken place. The person who made me aware of that was a guy from South Carolina, and I could never get his name, he was a poet--his name was James McBride, James Dabbs McBride or James McBride Dabbs--but he was speaking to a group of us at Greensboro College during the initial phase of the '62 demonstrations. Here again, Dick Ramsey had invited him to come up to speak to a group of kids, and he was talking about what happens in Little Rock and what happens in the other places is that the decision as to whether people will attack or be violent or not is based on how the power structure wants people to move, and they have certain key phrases that they use to incite people to make those moves. EP: So it’s how you choose the language as to what happens? LB: Yeah, yes. EP: Do you consider the--what has been called the “November Third Incident” in 1979 to have been racist or not? LB: [pauses] EP: Of course, deciding--of course, blacks and communists have always been two of the targeted enemies of the Klan so maybe separating them is artificial. But, was it primarily a political thing against identified communists or do you think it was racial, in that it took place in a black neighborhood? 42 LB: Well, it was both political and racial. It’s difficult at times to separate because racism is a political tool. And [like] when we were talking about it earlier, the powers-that-be decided that they wanted to play one race against the other. EP: Well, like in '60, '61, and '62, there was a concerted effort by the civil rights organizations to disassociate themselves, particularly from the communist and other left-wing groups. As a matter of fact-- LB: The Smiths. Who was it, the husband and wife team? EP: Jerome, [Progressive Labor activist] Alice Jerome? For example--But right now, correct me if I’m wrong, it seems that at least the most vocal activism is coming from such groups as the CWP [Communist Workers Party] or the RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party], not just left-wing groups, but avowedly identified as Communist. Does this do a real disservice for the continuing [civil rights] movement, because you know what that does to the general populous and the white power structure, it just turns them [snaps fingers] completely off. LB: What it does in some instances is it makes it easier for us to do work and make gains because [we can say]: “Who are you going to deal with? Are you going to deal with the Communists or the other folk?” EP: A-ha. LB: And so we have been able to meet and sit down and talk with people where before this, people had just sort of ignored us [saying] “We’re not going to talk to anybody.” But now, you know, we’re the lesser of two evils; you’re going to have to talk with somebody, so you’re going to talk with these other people here. EP: Would you essentially agree with the major points made in Bill Chafe’s book, Civilities and Civil Rights? LB: Yeah, I think that we’ve been discussing the book. In fact, Nelson and I, Nelson Johnson and I talked about it the other night. As an informational piece of material, it’s excellent; there’s a lot of history in it and something that people should read. But on the other hand, Claude Barnes, from a political scientist’s viewpoint, thinks it’s lacking in a lot of instances. He’s really critiqued the book. He thinks that it should be read and there’s a lot of information in it, he just takes issue with some of the conclusions and things that Bill makes. But most of the people that I have talked to think that it is a book that merits 43 reading, that it’s really a good book simply because--for no other reason than the information that it provides. EP: It shows that the sit-ins [at Woolworth's] weren’t spontaneous, that they were building on other things. LB: In some of my talks and even before I talked to Bill Chafe, I do a thing showing how people arrive at a given point-- EP: Locally or nationally? LB: Basically, I show, using Greensboro, all the activities that led up--going back to '54--and showing all of the activities that occurred in Greensboro. But also--and show that, well, if you look at other areas sit-ins occurred, and they didn’t last very long. What was it about the nature of the students of A&T that sustained this kind of movement? So you have to know the history of the students at A&T-- EP: There is a history of activism? LB: Yes. EP: There’s one-- LB: And--okay, and also their background: the rural areas that they came from, the kinds of programs that they were in like 4-H, and New Homemakers of America, and New Farmers of America--organizations that taught people to be--well, taught them the political process, that they were part of a system. So you had--you talked about parliamentary procedures, you talked about the political process so a lot of these people, when they came to A&T, were politically oriented. EP: Also used to organizational structure. LB: Yeah, that was a big thing. At the time that I arrived at A&T, since public accommodations weren’t opened up, everything, every state meeting that took place, took place on A&T’s campus. EP: I wanted to ask you about what was your attitude on Dr. Dowdy’s position of accepting the students back onto campus and issuing at least a surface call for dismissal if you continued to participate [in demonstrations]? 44 LB: I don’t think that he made that statement. EP: Was he kind of caught between a rock and a hard place? LB: The statement that you made, where did that come from? EP: The newspapers. LB: Well I don’t think he said that. I talked to him that night. I was there when the students were coming in and I don’t remember him making that statement. He considered resigning rather than being pressured into doing something like that. EP: Several people said that look, his job was to get money for the college, it was our job to conduct the demonstrations. And Reverend Stanley said that when he was kind of humiliated by that state legislator-- LB: Yeah, Carr. EP: Right, Carr. He said that his response to that was most deliberately ambiguous answer, and he said deliberately so and he considered it a maskful statement by Dowdy. Treading this line of not cracking down on students but seeming to submit to the governor’s-- LB: Well there really wasn’t no real need for Dowdy to do that because Dowdy was not, in fact, the president of the school. [Samuel] Proctor was the president of the school, Dowdy was only acting. So he really didn’t have to-- EP: He could have refused? LB: Yeah. I mean, you know, the thing that was making him buy into pressure was, I mean, you know, he wasn’t the president, so he didn’t have to do that. And he didn’t as far as I’m concerned. I think people tried to force him to do that, but I think he was as surprised as anybody else about the move the governor made on that night. EP: Okay, I guess the reason I ask this is because the assistant attorney general is reported to having to come to Greensboro to more or less facilitate this, and I got the impression that they worked closely with Dowdy. But you’re saying that’s not really true, the governor just sort of went on his own. LB: Well, if you look at Chafe’s book, it sort of indicates that the governor went on his own. I don’t remember Chafe mentioning anything about the attorney general. 45 EP: No, that’s something I got out of the newspaper. So, just to sum it up, you left the area in ‘64 and returned when? LB: September '66. EP: And by that time, CORE was just pretty much a paper organization? LB: Yes. EP: And did it just sort of die away gradually? LB: Yeah, I suppose. There was no--when I got back, there weren’t any meetings or anything going on. There was an office still available, over on Gorrell Street, which was a joint office between the NAACP and CORE. [END OF INTERVIEW]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line274
__label__cc	0.560023	0.439977	The Resource Crime and human rights, edited by Stephan Parmentier and Elmar G.M. Weitekamp Crime and human rights, edited by Stephan Parmentier and Elmar G.M. Weitekamp Weitekamp, Elmar G. M Parmentier, Stephan, 1960- Over the past decades, human rights have gained an increasing significance in law, politics and society, at the national and the international level. According to the American scholar Louis Henkin, human rights have become the paradigm of our time, thereby displacing previous paradigms such as religion and socialism. The criminal justice system has not been immune to this rapid rise of human rights. In the past two decades, considerable attention has been paid to the rules of due process for suspects and offenders, during criminal proceedings and in situations of detention. In recent years, the rights of victims have gained more weight in the criminal justice system, also in international tribunals and courts. Moreover, the principles and norms of human rights have received wide attention in conceptualizing crime and delinquency. Some crimes, e.g. trafficking in human beings or violence against women and children, are now defined in terms of human rights violations. The same is true with gross and systematic human rights violations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity. This volume wishes to address these major developments in a systematic way, from the perspective of criminology and sociology, by way of original contributions. In the first part, we look at several types of crimes, old and new, from the angle of human rights and human rights violations, while the second part sketches the influence of the human rights paradigm on some parts of the justice system in North America, Europe and elsewhere. This volume is addressed to students and researchers in criminology and criminal justice studies, and to professionals and policy-makers in the criminal justice system, primarily but not exclusively in North America and Europe Amsterdam \| London, Elsevier JAI, 2007 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) Introduction: On the Double Relationship of Crime and Human Rights Part I:Crime and Human Rights Human Rights in Europe and the Americas: Regional Protection Systems and the Process of Regional Integration 2. The Systems of Human Rights Protection in Europe and the Americas 3. Human Rights and Regional Integration Trafficking in Humans and Human Rights 2. The Emergence of Anti-Trafficking Policies Worldwide 3. The History of Problematizing Trafficking in Humans 4. Defining Trafficking: International Treaties, National Offence Statutes and Human Rights 5. Evidence on Trafficking in Humans 6. Problems of Enforcement Youth, Crime and Human Rights 2. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and other UN Guidelines and Rules on Juvenile Justice 3. The UN Approach to Children's Rights and Juvenile Justice 4. Issues for Further Debate Racism and Xenophobia and the Prevention of Bias Crimes in Germany: Results from a Nationwide Task Group 2. Setting the Scene 3. A Task Group for Germany 4. Main Results Political Crimes and Serious Violations of Human Rights: Towards a Criminology of International Crimes 2. Political Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations: In Search of a Conceptual Clarification 3. The Missing Link: Political Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations as Object of Criminological Research 4. Dealing with International Crimes in Transitional or Post-Conflict Situations 5. Concluding Remarks: Towards a Criminology of International Crimes Part II:Human Rights and Justice Human Rights and Police Discretion: Justice Served or Denied? 2. Policing Liberty and Human Rights 3. A Note on Non-Democratic Policing and Police Discretion 4. Police Discretion and Human Rights 5. What Does it Mean Use of Police Discretion in Support of Human Rights? 6. Police Culture and Organization as Impediments to Supporting Human Rights 7. Civil Policing Reconsidered 8. Using Police Discretion to Support Human Rights: An Alternative Perspective 9. A Concluding Note Restorative Justice and Human Rights 2. Rights that the Criminal Justice System Aims to Protect 3. Risks Encountered in Restorative Justice Processes 4. Broader Human Rights Issues 5. Protection of Rights in Non-State Forms of Justice 6. Standards Setting 7. Rights and Values 8. Broadening the Discourse Around Human Rights The Zwelethemba Model: Practicing Human Rights Through Dispute Resolution 2. Human Rights Discourse(s) 3. The Zwelethemba Model 4. Reconciling Universal Rights with Local Norms 5. R Crime and human rights edited by Stephan Parmentier and Elmar G.M. Weitekamp Criminals -- Civil rights Criminal justice, Administration of Crime -- Sociological aspects Sociology of crime, law, and deviance, v. 9 HV6028 .C75 2007eb Sociology of crime, law and deviance Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: On the Double Relationship of Crime and Human Rights -- Part I:Crime and Human Rights -- Human Rights in Europe and the Americas: Regional Protection Systems and the Process of Regional Integration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Systems of Human Rights Protection in Europe and the Americas -- 3. Human Rights and Regional Integration -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Trafficking in Humans and Human Rights -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Emergence of Anti-Trafficking Policies Worldwide -- 3. The History of Problematizing Trafficking in Humans -- 4. Defining Trafficking: International Treaties, National Offence Statutes and Human Rights -- 5. Evidence on Trafficking in Humans -- 6. Problems of Enforcement -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Youth, Crime and Human Rights -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and other UN Guidelines and Rules on Juvenile Justice -- 3. The UN Approach to Children's Rights and Juvenile Justice -- 4. Issues for Further Debate -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Racism and Xenophobia and the Prevention of Bias Crimes in Germany: Results from a Nationwide Task Group -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the Scene -- 3. A Task Group for Germany -- 4. Main Results -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Political Crimes and Serious Violations of Human Rights: Towards a Criminology of International Crimes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations: In Search of a Conceptual Clarification -- 3. The Missing Link: Political Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations as Object of Criminological Research -- 4. Dealing with International Crimes in Transitional or Post-Conflict Situations -- 5. Concluding Remarks: Towards a Criminology of International Crimes -- Sources of Information -- Part II:Human Rights and Justice -- Human Rights and Police Discretion: Justice Served or Denied? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Policing Liberty and Human Rights -- 3. A Note on Non-Democratic Policing and Police Discretion -- 4. Police Discretion and Human Rights -- 5. What Does it Mean -- Use of Police Discretion in Support of Human Rights? -- 6. Police Culture and Organization as Impediments to Supporting Human Rights -- 7. Civil Policing Reconsidered -- 8. Using Police Discretion to Support Human Rights: An Alternative Perspective -- 9. A Concluding Note -- Note -- References -- Restorative Justice and Human Rights -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rights that the Criminal Justice System Aims to Protect -- 3. Risks Encountered in Restorative Justice Processes -- 4. Broader Human Rights Issues -- 5. Protection of Rights in Non-State Forms of Justice -- 6. Standards Setting -- 7. Rights and Values -- 8. 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__label__wiki	0.834599	0.834599	Barracuda Networks Hit by SQL Injection Attack Tuesday Apr 12th 2011 by Kara Reeder The hacker, who called himself Fdf, used a SQL injection attack to access the database while the Barracuda Web Application Firewall had been taken offline for maintenance. According to PCWorld, a hacker has accessed a database belong to security vendor Barracuda Networks and obtained names and email addresses of some of the security company's employees, channel partners and sales leads. The hacker, who called himself Fdf, used a SQL injection attack to access the database while the Barracuda Web Application Firewall had been taken offline for maintenance. Michael Perone, Barracuda's executive vice president, says: The good news is the information compromised was essentially just names and email addresses, and no financial information is even stored in those databases. Barracuda is just the latest in a string of security firms to be breached this year. RSA's SecurID authentication tokens were put at risk following an "extremely sophisticated cyber attack." And Iranian hackers are believed to be behind a security breach of Comodo, a firm that issues Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line287
__label__wiki	0.549621	0.549621	Blog : Linden Hospital Management Committee reconstituted Linden Hospital Management Committee reconstituted « Provide space for youths to voice their opinions – UNICEF’s rep Local farmers urged to be competitive at Region 6 Agriculture and Commercial Expo » 2019上海最新夜上海论坛, 2019年杭州流感大爆发, 上海夜网GA, 上海夜网SA, 上海新龙凤419, 南京哪里夜生活最丰富, 南平楼凤, 四川桑拿, 夜上海论坛UP, 爱上海419白领, 爱上海EZ, 爱上海JB, 爱上海MM, 苏州哪家spa会所好玩, 阿拉善盟夜网 Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence on Wednesday officiated at the reconstitution of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) Management Committee, which consists of a total of 15 members.In addressing members of the committee, the minister shared her vision and expectations, and noted that the committee is expected to assist in the alleviation of issues which plague the institution.“We have been attempting to address many issues using the Band-Aid methodology, and that is not how I manage things. I expect that there will be reports, and we’ll be able to analyze those reports and make interventions very quickly,” the minister said. She added that there have been deficiencies from both the ministry and from Region 10, which have been recognised and are being addressed.The minister further said she is aware there are high expectations of the PublicMinister Volda Lawrence along with Dr Farouk Riyasat and Chairman of the Committee, Mortimer MingoHealth Ministry, but urged staff to work within their means and utilise what is available.“I want to say to the Committee that I expect that you would reach outside of Government to try to alleviate some of the issues which confront the health sector at the Linden Hospital Complex”, she said, even as she acknowledged that the Public Health Ministry does not have the physical capacity to, and cannot, do it alone.She urged Committee members to ensure they operate in a transparent manner, and that there is accountability and respect for the law.“Let us zero in on the issues, and let us look for ways in which we can alleviate those issues, and alleviate (them) in a long-term fashion…,” she said.Chairman of the Committee, Mortimer Mingo, in his remarks, thanked the Public Health Minister for reposing confidence and trust in him to lead the management team.CEO of the Linden Hospital Complex, Dr Riyasat, who also made brief remarks, thanked the minister for officiating at the reconstitution of the Committee, and pointed out the importance of having guidance in the management of the Linden Hospital Complex. He said the presence of the Committee would go a long way in achieving the hospital’s vision.In the Region for only three days, the minister said she would like to have more frequent and closer interaction with the hospital’s staff. Following this assignment, she conducted a tour of the hospital, including its Maternity Ward, Intensive Care Unit, and other departments, where she interacted with staff. She also met with nurses in Region 10.The members of the committee include Councillor and educator Denise Belgrave, LHC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Farouk Riyasat, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) Health Officer Dr Pansy Armstrong, former matron Naomi Cox, technician Patrick Hudson, and representatives from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LMTC), the Nurses Association Sub-Region 2, the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), the Linden Cancer Society, the religious community, and the People’s Progressive Party, whose members have not yet been named.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line288
__label__wiki	0.563644	0.563644	Darienne Driver - State of MPS Darienne Driver, Superintendent for Milwaukee Public Schools, spoke to Rotary about the state of MPS. See Dr. Driver's slides from the luncheon here. Kathleen Sebelius - Global Health Kathleen Sebelius, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, spoke on global health in a joint program with the Center for International Health as part of the Center’s Dr. John R. Petersen Annual Lectureship Series. Alan Perlstein - M-WERC Alan Perlstein, Executive Director of the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium (M-WERC), shared M-WERC’s vision of making the Midwest the leading region in the United States for the energy, power and control industries, known worldwide for its leading-edge research and technology development in these areas. M-WERC... Mayor Tom Barrett - State of the City One day after delivering his formal State of the City speech, Mayor Tom Barrett shared his thoughts on Milwaukee and its future. He discussed economic development successes, the plans for Milwaukee's streetcar, and how the City is addressing its most vexing challenges. Rob Henken - Milwaukee K-12 School System Rotarian Rob Henken, President of the Public Policy Forum, will discuss a pair of recently released Public Policy Forum reports on K-12 education in Milwaukee. The first provides a broad overview of Milwaukee’s education landscape, showing overall characteristics in terms of schools, students, teachers, types of...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line291
__label__wiki	0.89548	0.89548	This thingy has to be empti pwieshh The long-awaited return of Technologizer Hello! A tiny bit of introduction, since this is issue #1, which I'm sure will become a sought-after By Harry McCracken • Issue #1 • View online Hello! A tiny bit of introduction, since this is issue #1, which I’m sure will become a sought-after collectible. Almost ten years ago, I started a little website about personal technology called Technologizer. It later became part of Time.com and even had a print presence in dead-tree TIME. Since I joined Fast Company in 2014, however, it’s been largely dormant. Recently, though, I decided to start a newsletter–and quickly realized that the one I envisioned was pretty much Technologizer in email form. I plan to use this venue to share stuff that won’t fit into a tweet but doesn’t feel like a full-blown article; recommend reads around the web (including items by me and me Fast Company compatriots); and generally take advantage of a medium that’s more intimate than the web at large. What the natural cadence of these missives will be, I’m not yet sure, but I’m shooting for several times a week. If you received this issue, you already figured out that newsletter.technologizer.com includes my subscription form; it’s also where back issues will be archived. 188 of you signed up to get this sign unseen. I’m honored, and will try to earn my place in your inbox. The news in Revue I’ve been reading any enjoying Casey Newton’s newsletter The Interface for awhile. But it wasn’t until I edited a Fast Company story by JR Raphael that I learned about Revue, the Netherlands-based platform used by Casey and others to publish editorial-focused newsletters with a minimum of fuss. Here’s JR’s article, which inspired me to try Revue to put together the newsletter you’re reading now. Email—yes, email—is the next great media platform Editorial-focused newsletters are gaining momentum—and a small Dutch company is putting inbox-based publishing within everyone’s reach. www.fastcompany.com • Share So far, Revue has been great–except for the fact that its newsletter-creation tools are not 100% iPad friendly, an issue the company told me it’s working on. It's a Bird! It's a pain! It's everywhere! In recent weeks, as the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco have grown thick with electric scooters, it’s dawned on me that the companies responsible for them–Bird, Lime, and Spin–might be on the cusp of realizing the prophecy of city-changing personal transportation floated (but hardly fulfilled) by Dean Kamen’s Segway more than a decade and a half ago. Except that instead of involving a wildly new piece of transportation hardware, these startups’ vision is built around a mundane kid’s toy souped up with a motor and GPS. Just as with Uber and other on-demand services, the innovation is entirely software-based, and primarily logistical. So far, I have neither been on one of the scooters (note to self: try one this week) nor come close to being struck by anyone tooling down Second St. on one. Still, it does feel like the companies involved are imposing a social experiment on cities such as San Francisco without permission. Over at the Atlantic, Taylor Lorenz has a first-rate exploration of how Bird scooters get charged–by freelancers who round ‘em up, plug 'em in, and occasionally try to game the system. It’s the nuggets that make Lorenz’s story great: Some vigilante Bird chargers who will stop at nothing to retrieve lost Birds and claim the $20 rewards have been known to falsely act as official representatives of the company. When they see a person hoarding a scooter or group of scooters in their garage via the app, they’ll show up at the offender’s house and demand they release the Birds into their care. “This only really works sometimes,” says one charger. “If the person knows what’s up they can say, ‘Actually you’re trespassing on private property.’" Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan provides a less colorful–but still worthwhile– look at Lime’s logistics for accomplishing the same end result. Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control “Bird hunting” has become a pastime and a side hustle for teens and young professionals, but for some it’s a cutthroat business. Every afternoon around 4:00 p.m. www.theatlantic.com • Share Inside how a scooter-sharing startup navigates San Francisco - Recode Scooter companies have seen some backlash over where the electric scooters are placed — here’s how Lime’s process works. www.recode.net • Share Duplex wasn't ready for a demo Harry McCracken @harrymccracken Sundar Pichai w/obligatory self-aware intro: “We know the path ahead needs to be navigated carefully and deliberately. And we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right.” https://t.co/lgZ35M9ybC 7:10 AM - 8 May 2018 Confession time: At the I/O conference, when Google showed off Duplex–which will let the Google Assistant place phone calls and perform tasks, such as making appointments, using an uncannily human voice–I was so dazzled by its technical ingenuity that it took me 24 hours to be bothered by some of its implications. Since then, Duplex’s honeymoon has officially ended as coverage has raised troubling questions which Google has not exactly rushed to answer. It’s entirely possible that there was nothing fundamentally deceptive about the demo and that Duplex, when widely deployed, will disclose its automated nature in a responsible fashion. But Google could have given Duplex a far better introduction if it had been rigorous about working through the ethical issues related to simulating a human phone call before springing it on the world in the I/O keynote. As AI increasingly allows technology companies to rewrite the rules of man-machine interaction, their presentations will need to demonstrate an understanding of the gravity of that responsibility that go beyond platitudes. I wrote a bit more on this over at Fast Company. Maybe introducing Google Duplex at I/O wasn’t such a hot idea The demo was dazzling. But it also inspired questions that Google has not yet shown interest in answering. Certain aspects of writing for TIME magazine–which I did from 2010-2014–were spectacular. But it was the history and mystique that mattered as much as the day-to-day work, in part because Time Warner had pigeonholed the 21st-century Time Inc. as a print-media company in a way that was unhealthy for everyone involved. Though I never felt like I was employed by a concern that had figured out the internet, I loved working someplace that had mattered to so many people for so long. I’m just sorry that my TIME-obsessed Grandmother didn’t live to see my name on the masthead. The company I worked at no longer exists; Meredith acquired it in January, instantly pulled down the Time Inc. sign at headquarters, and is now in the process of auctioning off Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Money. But I still enjoy reading about the storied Time Inc. that I, as a tail-ender, never got to experience in the first place. And Sridhar Pappu and Jay Stone’s new oral history in the New York Times is a doozy full of details: Early on, I recall a very formal luncheon inside the Time Inc building with Fidel Castro. I don’t think he ate a single bite of food or took one sip of water, but he told some amazing tales. Equally memorable, many years later, was a visit from Steve Jobs, when he handed us each an astonishing new device – the Ipad – which felt, that day, like a preview of our future. All of the titles had the power to draw attention from newsmakers, so you never knew who to expect. I missed the era of Steve Jobs calling on TIME. But I did get to sit in on Tim Cook’s first visit. Like I said, working there could be spectacular. The photos in the Times piece may be even better than the actual oral history–I got a little chill from the one depicting Henry Luce and JFK striding through the Time & Life Building in 1960. The Last Days of Time Inc. It was once an empire. Now it is being sold for parts. Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden. www.nytimes.com • Share History department: The amazing Urbmobile The self-driving revolution now seems close enough to reality that I’d be shocked if it doesn’t change the world within a decade or two. But it’s worth remembering that people have repeatedly gotten prematurely giddy about visions of autonomous vehicles that never went anywhere. Take, for instance, the Urbmobile, which Popular Science reported on in its October 1967 issue and said might be a fundamental part of urban infrastructure by 1985. It was to be an electric car, possibly to be provided to citizens as part of a transportation-as-a-system service rather than as something consumers would buy from car dealers. Those parts sound familiar. But the Urbmobile’s defining feature was that you could drive one out of your garage, over surface streets, and onto an automated track, where it would drive itself with other Urbmobiles at a consistent 60 m.p.h. Once it had taken you to your office downtown, it would navigate its way to a parking lot on the outskirts of town; at quitting time, you’d call a phone number on your landline and punch in a special code to summon it back. PopSci’s story is a fascinating Mad Men-era artifact. It says that that the Urbmobile would be cheap to run and good for the environment, but is oddly disinterested in the possibility of the technology saving lives. And the cover illustration depicts a benefit of riding in a self-driving car which doesn’t come up much these days: It leaves a gentleman free to light a lady’s cigarette. I wrote about the Urbmobile and other proto-Waymos back in 2010. when Google had just announced its self-driving project and the world was still especially agog at the prospect. Look Ma, No Hands! A Brief History of Self-Driving Cars Less than two weeks ago, I attended a talk by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Schmidt spoke about a profoundly computer-augmented future, and said that there was no reason why super-safe self-driving cars couldn’t be built–in fact, he said he couldn’t understand why humans were allowed to drive automobiles at all.… www.technologizer.com • Share That’s it for this issue. Feel free to drop me a line if you have opinions on any of the above, or just want to say hi: harry@technologizer.com. Did you enjoy this issue? By Harry McCracken A roundup of technology-related stuff I'm writing, reading, and remembering. If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe here. 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__label__wiki	0.960996	0.960996	Business in Brief May. 19 2008 00:00 Severstal Buys WCI Steel SEATTLE -- Severstal, Russia's largest steelmaker, said Friday that it agreed to buy Ohio-based WCI Steel for $140 million in cash. The buy, at $3.29 a share, will add to earnings immediately, Severstal and WCI said Friday. The company, which emerged from bankruptcy in May 2006, expects the deal to be completed in the third quarter. Severstal will assume more than $230 million of debt and other obligations, WCI said. (Bloomberg) Troika to Add 500 Positions Troika Dialog, the country's oldest investment bank, will add 500 positions by the end of September, ahead of a possible IPO in 2010, chairman and chief executive Ruben Vardanyan said. "We are preparing ourselves for an IPO, which is becoming more and more visible," Vardanyan said Friday. "But we are not desperate to go public," he said. The hires would increase the bank's work force to 2,000. (Bloomberg) Kerimov Selling Polymetal? Shares of Polymetal, the country's top silver miner, jumped Friday on a report that majority owner Suleiman Kerimov planned to sell his stake. Vedomosti on Friday cited sources as saying Kerimov was looking for a buyer for the 74 percent stake in Polymetal, controlled by his investment company Nafta-Moskva. (Reuters) Kazimir Makes Polyus Offer Britain-based asset management company Kazimir Partners said Friday that it had offered Polyus Gold $350 million for some 2.5 percent of its shares. "Kazimir Partners … made an unsolicited offer to acquire approximately 2.5 percent of the outstanding equity capital of Polyus Gold in the form of ordinary shares … for a total consideration of $350 million in immediately available cash," the fund said. (Reuters) Evraz Quarterly Results Evraz Group, the country's largest steelmaker by domestic volume, had first-quarter revenue of $4.32 billion, according to an interim management statement released by the company Friday. Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization reached $1.39 billion, while the EBITDA margin was 32 percent, said the company, which is reporting its quarterly financial results for the first time. (Reuters) Gazprom has agreed to supply a proposed LNG import terminal in Canada that would provide for users in Ontario and Quebec. (Bloomberg) Gazprom won regulatory approval in Belgium to sell gas to businesses, De Tijd newspaper reported Saturday. (Bloomberg) Kalina, the country's top cosmetics maker, said Friday that it posted a 15.6 percent jump in first-quarter net profit to $8.8 million. (Reuters) Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov met with South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo on Friday and invited Korean companies to help tap his country's rich energy resources. (AP) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has again barred the government's bid to privatize the Odessa Port, a leading chemical plant, ahead of a scheduled May 20 sell-off. (Reuters) Kazakhstan will allow grain exports after a ban on them expires in September, Finance Minister Bolat Zhamishev said in Kiev on Sunday. (Bloomberg)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line318
__label__wiki	0.79824	0.79824	Convict Lives at Cascades Female Factory The lives and stories of 33 women who spent time at the Cascades Female Factory. Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory The stories of women who were sent to the first 'female factory" in the north of Tasmania. Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory The story of the female convicts who lived and worked at the Launceston Female Factory. Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory The stories of women convicts who served at the Ross Female Factory. Hobartdocious - a Tasmanian Tail The friendly dinosaur Hobartdocious comes to the rescue when the bridge spanning the River Derwent in Hobart is damaged and commuters are stranded. Miss Leake's Journal - Rosedale, Campbell Town, Midlands history Sarah Elizabeth Leake, Miss Leake, was mistress at Rosedale, her father's property, near Campbell Town in Tasmania's Midlands. Parenting the Next Generation A book that seeks to smooth the often bumpy road of parenthood for the next generation. Searching for Australian Minerals Keith Lancaster recalls his experiences searching for Australian minerals, particularly in Tasmania. The Historic Tamar Valley - its people, places & shipping 1798-1990 Northern Tasmania's Tamar Valley, Australia's third oldest European settlement, has its own natural splendours and a fascinating 200-year post-settlement history. Old settler families settled along the banks of the Tamar River and there they stayed. Artificial - the life and seasons of Tasmanian fly fishers Greg French's Artificial is a meditative, quirky and unique collection of true stories based on the life and seasons of Tasmanian fly fishers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line319
__label__cc	0.735236	0.264764	Use of alternative fuels in the UK road haulage industry Beresford, Anthony Kenneth Charles, Nieuwenhuis, Paul Andre Henri Francois, Pettit, Stephen John and Smith, Gregory 2003. Use of alternative fuels in the UK road haulage industry. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer 156 (1) , pp. 11-17. 10.1680/muen.2003.156.1.11 Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/muen.2003.156.1.11 The market share of alternative fuels in UK road freight transport is less than 1%, despite several promotional initiatives. However, the use of fuels other than diesel in heavy goods vehicles is potentially one of the key methods of improving the environmental performance of transport and therefore making it more sustainable. This paper investigates a number of factors that affect the actual and potential adoption of alternative fuel technologies within the UK road haulage industry. The study focuses on the political and commercial environment surrounding the uptake of alternative fuels and suggests how the distribution network structure may determine the level of penetration of alternative fuels into the road-based freight transport sector. UK policy initiatives such as Powershift are important in this context. Pollution; public health; transport management ICE Publishing Ltd. Cited 1 time in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line324
__label__cc	0.736617	0.263383	Creation-Live Embodied Activism Body Politics and Contact Improvisation Workshop with Chan Sze-Wei and Daniel Mang Saturday and Sunday 11 & 12 February 2017 Dance Nucleus, Singapore Our bodies are physical, but also social constructions. They carry relationships, norms, values, habits and questions. We offer a space where we can speak about bodies, be and move in our bodies, and start thinking about the politics of bodies. We will use contact improvisation and somatic movement practices, bodywork and verbal exchanges to explore issues of identity and belonging, body image, beauty and objectification, privilege and power. We will work with our relation to gravity and the physical contact between movers. We will learn about modulating tone, tuning our reflexes, waking up our sense of balance and sharing weight. We will explore touch and movement as relational practices: bonding and bounding, consent and collaboration, safer spaces and negotiation will be some of our themes. We will ask questions about the axes of oppression and privilege that traverse us and make us what we are. We hope to discover ways of undoing, unlearning, some of the internalised social norms, habits and ways of being that structure our physicality and affective life. We look forward to conversations about how the body is an important channel for different threads of activism. All levels of experience and all kinds of bodies are welcome. Sat 11 February 10am-5pm Sun 12 February 10am-5pm Dance Nucleus Goodman Arts Centre 90 Goodman Road Block M #02-53 Via Singapore bank transfer or Paypal 2-day workshop fee: $120 (full time income) $90 (student/artist) This arrangement can only work if each contributes according to their resources. If the cost is a barrier, please write to us. No one turned away for lack of funds. Contact improvisation has been my primary movement practice since 1986. I also do aikido and am strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais method, Body Mind Centering and ideokinesis. I have been teaching contact improvisation since 1990 - mostly in Europe, but also in South East Asia and Australia. My pedagogy is informed by my background as a professional bodyworker, my studies in physiotherapy and osteopathy, my experience with communication tools such as co-counselling, and by my politics. I see my interest in radical social theory and my love of contact improvisation as two aspects of the same desire. I am based in Sweden. Sze first started sharing weight when she was three, with all sorts of furniture. Today she is an improviser, creator, performer and contact dancer. She has shown her work and performed with dance and theatre productions in Singapore and internationally. Since 2012 she has facilitated and taught contact improvisation in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Her approaches to movement are influenced by contact improvisation, yoga, martial arts, Body-Mind Centering and the Radical Contact movement. She co-organised the Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur from 2012 to 2014 and currently facilitates the Independent Dance Southeast Asia and Contact Improv Southeast Asia networks. Sze oddpuppy.productions@gmail.com FB Event: Body Politics and Contact Improv Cover image by Christopher Liew.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line332
__label__wiki	0.692636	0.692636	Tags: race Showing Results: 1 to 10 of 38 Go to page: 1 2 3 4 › 4 Sapphire Looks at Arts Funding Cuts "The drums is hot now, the Asian girl moves back in the line. I move on out, dancing fast. One of the drummers has a jembe drum, I love its sound. And when they open up with sticks beating on the side of the big conga drum feeding in anoth...more diversity education advocacy artists Jul 31, 2011 • Views:7880 • Comments: 0 Students are Proud of Mixed Lineage Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above by Susan Saulny The New York Times January 29, 2011 "'I was always having to explain where my parents are from because just saying, 'I'm from Takoma Park, Maryland,' w...more diversity education advocacy Feb 2, 2011 • Views:10747 • Comments: 0 CPAC Keeps Life Colorful In 2006, Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC) formalized its commitment to “Broad-based Access, Diversity, and Outreach” as an objective on its strategy map and Balanced Scorecard. The plan articulated a vision that was be...more diversity education Jun 8, 2011 • Views:7994 • Comments: 0 TCG's American Theatre Magazine Focuses on Diversity In the midst of a year-long 50th anniversary celebration, Theatre Communications Group is celebrating four core values that they have identified as important to both the work of TCG and the theatre field: artistry, diversity, global citizenship and a...more diversity artists education advocacy Oct 16, 2011 • Views:21565 • Comments: 0 Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy releases A Philanthropy at Its Best® Report Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy by Holly Sidford "Funding Ar...more The Guthrie Reflects Today's Audiences... Or Does It? On April 16, 2012, the Guthrie Theater announced its 2012-2013 50th anniversary season, which has been greeted with mixed reactions. The Guthrie's stated mission is: an American center for theater performance, production, education and profess...more diversity artists education Apr 22, 2012 • Views:10079 • Comments: 1 Culture is Focus of TCG's American Theatre Magazine Among Theatre Communications Group's mission is to leverage the stories of the field to build greater public awareness of and appreciation for live theatre in America. The organization’s vision ranges from being the leader and innovator in ass...more diversity artists advocacy Nov 22, 2010 • Views:39228 • Comments: 0 Where Are All the Black Swans? May 6, 2007 by GIA KOURLAS IN 1933 Lincoln Kirstein wrote a passionate 16-page letter to his friend A. Everett Austin Jr., the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, introducing a man named George Balanchine and a dream: to rema...more diversity artists Apr 27, 2010 • Views:9549 • Comments: 0 Non-Traditional Casting: An Open Letter December 22, 1997 Dear Members of the American Theater We can continue to publish articles and special editions of magazines and write books; continue to have panel discussions, symposia, Colloquial and conferences; continue to air radio and te...more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line337
__label__cc	0.716817	0.283183	Metaphysics & Spirit Of Money & Power Things That Move NOW Back Then NOW Books Blog City Radical Happiness - Gina Lake Endless Satsang - Nirmala You Are What You Love - Vaishali The Body Knows – C. Sutherland Only Now - Leonard Jacobson Peter Hoddle - Q & A Janet Richmond is an author and personal coach on Higher Self information. Her own life is a testament to the amazing changes everyone is capable of bringing to their own lives... Read more... Jose Arquelles, the man who first introduced the date Dec. 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with "The Mayan Factor", shares a meditation of supreme importance to the Earth and humanity.. Read more... Vaishali is an Oprah & Friends XM, and author of Wisdom Rising and You Are What You Love. In her featured article, she shines the light on the spiritual side of Oscar Wilde. Read more... 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Gina Lake; with over 20 years experience as an astrologer, author & channeler, blogs on the essence of non-duality and being in the now. Read more... Vaishali is an Oprah & Friends XM, and author of Wisdom Rising and You Are What You Love. Her blog is replete with insights into life and relationships. NOW Sectors • coming soon • some people are we interview them NOW Fluoride Awareness Week - Join the Anti-Fluoride Movement Auto-Tune the News - 4 How to Protect & Detox from Fluorides Atherosclerosis and What You Can Do About It The Dying Economy - The Birth of the Amero? Feed me now Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away Post by NAC Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it. Doctor Claims All Wheat – Even Whole-Grain and Organic – Now Contains An Opiate Which Causes Obesity Post by Robin Doctor Advises We Avoid All Food Which Has Been Changed by Agribusiness Cardiologist William Davis tells CBS News that modern wheat is nothing like our grandparents ate. It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s. This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It's not gluten. I'm not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I'm talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year. The Power of RAW Cannabis 5 Ways to Detox Fluoride Post by Lisa Garber \| Natural Society It should be outrageous to think that the very water we drink is poisoned—but the water actually is. Although calcium fluoride is found naturally in underground and ocean water, the sodium fluoride added to the public water supply is virtually toxic, a wolf in the sheep's garb of improved dental health. (The West Virginia University Rural Health Research Center says that fluoride doesn't even prevent cavities; vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids are better allies for that.) Even the federal government is calling for lower levels of fluoride in public water after a Harvard study confirmed fluoride's lowers IQ. So needless to say, it is extremely important to know of fluoride treatment methods. Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling Senior American Spy: The U.S. Is Turning Into East Germany False Flag Hack Attacks Being Used to Bring About Control of the Free and Open Internet The Real Unemployment Rate Post by Elizabeth MacDonald \| Fox Business The latest jobs report is out, showing the economy added 114,000 jobs, beating estimates of 113,000. The unemployment rate fell to 7.8%, the Department of Labor reported, due to the addition of 873,000 people who self-identified as employed. That rate was a sharp drop from the 8.1% a month earlier. Those jobs were mostly part-time in nature. Also, the 7.8% jobless rate understates the problem of the underemployed. What would the unemployment rate be if all the people who want a job suddenly re-entered the workforce? Answer: 11.63%. For the math, see below. U.S. Army Characterizes People “Frustrated With Mainstream Ideologies” As Terrorists Post by Paul Joseph Watson \| Prison Planet A leaked U.S. Army document obtained by Wired Magazine characterizes people “frustrated with mainstream ideologies” as potential terrorists, while also framing those who “believe in government conspiracies” as violent radicals. "These are some warning signs that that you have turned into a terrorist who will soon kill your co-workers, according to the U.S. military. You've recently changed your "choices in entertainment." You have "peculiar discussions." You "complain about bias," you're "socially withdrawn" and you're frustrated with "mainstream ideologies," writes Spencer Ackerman. Google’s Self-Guided Car Could Drive the Next Wave of Unemployment Post by John Naughton \| The Guardian Advances such as the driverless car are no longer the stuff of sci-fi. They could soon make many human skills worthless Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on to his state's roads from 2015. Insofar as most people noticed this event at all, they probably sniffed derisively. For some, it'll be seen as an example of techno-hubris – "flags on the moon stuff" – as one of my acquaintances put it. For others, it will be seen as yet another confirmation of the proposition that the continental United States slopes gently from east to west, with the result that everything with a screw loose rolls into California. THE LATEST GENETIC “CHIMERA” JESSE VENTURA - Every War Starts With A False Flag Operation! 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__label__cc	0.710504	0.289496	In The Constitution Order Our Products Pamela Romney Openshaw, found her passion for the Constitution serving on President Carter’s White House Conference on Families in 1980. She is a BYU graduate who has created and operated several businesses, including consulting and construction firms. She has taught professionally in elementary school, high school, special education and for constitutional organizations. She is an experienced public speaker and former speaker for National Right to Life. The wife of a retired Air Force officer, she is the mother of eight children and grandmother of twenty-nine. She is currently at work on her third book. NEW PODCAST - Just Released Episodes! Nevada’s Cattle: The Rest of the Story I was in a meeting last night with Sheriff Richard Mack and heard the rest of the story on the Cliven Bundy matter i... George Washington's Eulogy Washington’s Eulogy George Washington was America’s greatest man. After hs death on December 14, 1799, he was eulogized across... Our American Republic: How Long Will It Last? When James Russell Lowell, U.S. lawyer, editor and diplomat in the mid-1800s, was asked, “How long will the American Republic last?” he re... The Women who Founded America: Martha Washington Our respect for our Founding Fathers extends to the women who stood with them. Martha Custis Washington is one of them; she quietly carri... BRT Will Put Us In A (Pot) Hole There is an uproar building in Utah County over BRT, the Bus Rapid Transit system being pushed — some say ... Modern Technology: Peter Pan’s Dream: "I'll Never Grow Up?" Peter Pan became a fantasy icon through his determination to never grow up. He was determined to remain a child fore... Liberal Logic 101 - Post #1 Logic? Pictures speak a thousand words! Feel free to leave your comment. The Perils of Gay Marriage via Americans are embroiled in emotional arguments for and against gay marriage. Some embrace the biblical Christian prohibitions ... What is Discrimination? It is Agency What is discrimination? Jog through several dictionaries — Webster’s 1828, 1942, 1962 and 2009 editions, for a start — and you find that, fo... Modern Slavery through the IRS If you thought slavery died 150 years ago, think again. You and I are slaves to the federal government and the IRS... Picture Window theme. Theme images by nicodemos. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line350
__label__wiki	0.529155	0.529155	Research & Collaboration home / publications / complete list of publications Select a category Author Publisher Study/project Year You have to enable javascript in your browser to use this website correctly 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| NEXT 51 TO 100 OF 275 RESULTS J. Fraillon, W. Schulz, J. Ainley International Computer and Information Literacy Study. Assessment framework DOWNLOAD PDF 2013 Amsterdam: IEA J. Fraillon, W. Schulz, T. Friedman, J. Ainley, E. Gebhardt ICILS 2013 Technical Report R.A. Garden, S. Lie, D.F. Robitaille, C. Angell, M.O. Martin, I.V.S. Mullis, P. Foy, A. Arora TIMSS Advanced 2008 Assessment Frameworks DOWNLOAD PDF 2006 Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College TIMSS Advanced 2008: Quadri di riferimento per la valutazione. [TIMSS Advanced 2008 Assessment Frameworks] DOWNLOAD PDF 2010 Frascati, Italy: INVALSI R.A. Garden Second IEA Mathematics Study. Sampling report DOWNLOAD PDF 1987 Washington, DC: Center for Education Statistics H.E. 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__label__cc	0.514129	0.485871	Fridays 9:00 PM on CBS Hawaii Five-0 News Hawaii Five-0 Reviews Hawaii Five-0 Watch Online Hawaii Five-0 Episode Guide Hawaii Five-0 Quotes Hawaii Five-0 Cast Hawaii Five-0 Pictures Hawaii Five-0 Videos Follow Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 Facebook Hawaii Five-0 Twitter Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 21 Review: Ua helele'i ka hoku (Fallen Star) Amanda Wolf at April 10, 2015 11:39 pm . Updated at April 13, 2015 5:32 pm . "Fallen Star" was a clever name for an hour that involved a convention full of Elvis impersonators and the reappearance of an old case. On Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 21 the team must solve the case of the death of an Elvis among many Elvi, who was unlucky enough to have more than one person interested in his death. To start this off, my favorite part of this hour had to be that Max and Jerry continued their bromance and attended a concert dressed as Elvis and his long time manager. The dynamic that didn't work was between Danny and Steve. It barely looked like they liked each other, and I swear Danny wasn't happy once. Instead of working with Danny, Steve had more screen time investigating the case with Grover. Judging by the comments made on Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 20, I suspect a lot of fans won't like this, even though I thought they actually worked well as a team. I was also very happy that it was mentioned that Grover went to Chicago to try and prove Clay's guilt, even though he wasn't very successful. Normally, when I get someone else's pants I don't go on a violent killing spree to get them back. Permalink: Normally, when I get someone else's pants I don't go on a violent killing spree to get them... Chin's problem with his brother-in-law was also revived and he was making demands of Chin about getting him off the island. His threat at the end was ominous and those pictures of Adam with an unidentified man were not at all what I suspected. I am really interested to see where this story line is going coming into the end of the season. The case this week had great comic relief. I enjoyed Steve and Danny both thinking they were on the trail of the murder and then discovering an entirely different case and murder. I also liked the attempt to tie it in with a past case. However, just like his brother a few episodes ago, this criminal was disposed of way to quickly as well. He appeared to threaten Barry and take his diamonds back and then died in under 10 minutes. At least he had a really cool scene where his gun came out of a guitar case, even though we all knew it was going to end one way. This installment made me a lot more excited for where the season will leave the team at the end. This season seems to be leaning toward everyone facing parts of their past. I suspect Kona and Adam may have to deal with the Yakuza again, and Chin is going to have to deal with his brother-in-law's demands, as well. Of course, we can't forget about Steve and how Joe has been making appearances and mentioned Doris. My favorite bits: Jerry as an Elvis fan Grover bringing pizzas in his bag Kono's face when Jerry was explaining his theory about why Lane was murdered The team interviewing the various impersonators What did you think about this hour? Did you enjoy the case of the week? Who do you think the man was in the pictures with Adam? Did you see that coming? What are you predictions for the end of the season? if you haven't seen it yet be sure to watch Hawaii Five-0 online via TV Fanatic! 23 Dreamiest Male Detectives Ua helele'i ka hoku (Fallen Star) Review Editor Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Tags: Hawaii Five-0, Reviews Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 21 Quotes Wow this guy has got it all. Ruffles, stage presence and the most important quality when it comes to impersonating Elvis. Swagger. Permalink: Wow this guy has got it all. Ruffles, stage presence and the most important quality when it... Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 21 Ua helele'i ka hoku (Fallen Star) Watch Hawaii Five-0 Season 5 Episode 21 Online	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line358
__label__wiki	0.729493	0.729493	About PortsToronto > Media Room > News > Santa’s Elves arriving at Billy Bishop Airport for ‘Operation HOHOHO’ SickKids Santa’s Elves arriving at Billy Bishop Airport for ‘Operation HOHOHO’ SickKids Toronto (December 11, 2013) – Instead of coming down the chimney this year, ‘Santa’s Elves’ will be flying into Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport with gifts for the Hospital of Sick Children (SickKids). Due to rooftop maintenance at SickKids Hospital, Toronto Port Authority with thanks to Porter Airlines for their assistance supported SickKids by opening their doors to allow safe landing and passage for ‘Santa’s Elves’.The Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) gave ‘Santa’s Elves’ a lift to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport via two CH 146 Griffon helicopters doing a flyby at 11.35am. The ‘Elves’ arriving by helicopter are then transferring gifts/toys to Military Escorted Vehicles, taking the BBTCA airport ferry for the delivery to the SickKids. SickKids’ annual Operation HOHOHO delivers gifts to patients and their families. The ‘Elves’, along with Canadian Forces personnel, will be delivering toys, books and other donated items received from communities in the Simcoe region and Greater Toronto Area. Joining them are children’s book author Evelyn ten Hagen, illustrator Michelle Hutchison and award winning Canadian family entertainer Marcus. About the Toronto Port Authority (www.torontoport.com) The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) owns and operates Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, the Port of Toronto (Terminals 51 and 52), and Toronto's Outer Harbour Marina. In addition to moving more than two million passengers through the airport in 2012, the Port Authority provides transportation, distribution, storage and container services to businesses at the Port, and owns and operates Toronto’s largest freshwater marina. The Toronto Port Authority was incorporated on June 8, 1999 as a government business enterprise under the Canada Marine Act as the successor to the Toronto Harbour Commissioners. Irene Quarcoo Tel: (416) 863-2075 or (647) 500-2095 (mobile) E-mail: communications@torontoport.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line360
__label__cc	0.644994	0.355006	Web Exclusive - January 2016 Tarping: How to Keep Your Sports Turf Crew Safe By Jeff Salmond, CSFM Sports turf management is an exciting field with many challenges and obstacles. A critical component of any athletic field manager' job is maintaining the safety of the sports turf crew. Dealing with unpredictable weather—such as summer storms, winter hail and torrential rainstorms—is a continual challenge for grounds crews. With short notice, it's important your employees are safe while performing their duty to protect the field. It's not fun to hear about tarping debacles making the evening sports highlight reels. Field managers are too often put in tough positions for the love of the game. Plastic tarps are a crucial weapon to combat Mother Nature and shield our fields from water or wind damage. The process of tarping a field is truly an art and requires a team effort from the entire staff. The Role of Communication Communication plays a large role when tarping a field. Eric Fasbender, assistant director of Athletic Facilities & Grounds at Louisiana State University (LSU) Athletics and member of the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA), constantly monitors the hourly, 15-day forecast and radar through the DTN Weather Sentry service. On non-game days, he updates coaches daily at 9 a.m., noon and at the beginning of practice. On game days, Fasbender's staff maintains close communication with LSU Event Management personnel and the head coach for the respective sport to assist in monitoring inclement weather and to collaborate with decision making. "Whether it's a home baseball, football or soccer game, the open line of communication makes sure all interested parties are in the loop and able to assist with the final decision on proceeding with the event or closing the field," Fasbender said. "After ensuring all communication channels have a clear and concise message, we begin the tarping process." The first step is folding. When doing so, Fasbender folds each tarp accordion style for easy deployment. If there is water on the tarp, he recommends dumping it off as they fold, as it can be very heavy to lift. It also saves his team substantial time as they are combining two steps into one. In college athletics, NCAA's inclement weather policy states that when lightning strikes eight miles from the field, the game must be suspended. "Although we will always stop the game with lightning eight miles away, we sometimes pull the tarp when it's 10 to 12 miles out in anticipation to increase the safety of our crew and players," said Nick McKenna, athletic fields foreman at Texas A&M University and a member of the STMA. "Safety is paramount to Texas A&M and its coaches, players and staff." McKenna also noted that constant communication with coaches is key to ensure all parties are on the same page. It's always better to err on the side of caution. Dealing with Mother Nature Tarping with snow in the forecast requires different field protocol. According to STMA member Tony Leonard, director of grounds at Lincoln Financial Field for the Philadelphia Eagles, his crew will paint the field prior to tarping. During the winter season, the grass is not growing in the Northeast so painting a few days in advance of a game is not an issue. Once the paint dries, his team installs the tarp and weighs it down with sand bags and equipment, if necessary. Weather and wind are also two factors to consider when tarping a natural grass surface. Policies and rules vary from professional teams to college programs when dealing with these challenges. For example, according to Leonard, tarping rules for the NFL mandate covering 24 hours prior to kick-off if any precipitation is forecasted. "If we feel the temperatures and humidity are too high that it would cause more harm than good, we can relay that to the League Office for permission not to tarp," Leonard said. "We tarp for rainfall on a case-by-case basis depending on time of year, moisture content in the field, amount of rain forecasted, timing of rain and atmospheric conditions." To help the grass grow through any tarping events, Leonard sprays fungicides to prevent disease in the event his team has to tarp, especially early in the season. Tarp Installation and Removal An important factor to remember is that tarps are heavy; the more crew members helping to remove a tarp, usually the better. Some tarps are heavier than others based on the materials they are made from. Many field managers will use stakes and bags, parking carts and other heavier equipment on the tarp to ensure that the tarp will stay down should high winds occur. There isn't a worse feeling than leaving a tarp down and secure and coming in the next morning to see all your hard work and preparation thwarted because the tarp blew off and the field is wet. Tarp Colors When a tarp is pulled onto the field, TV spectators and event attendees are immediately drawn to its color, although it also has a scientific benefit to natural grass surfaces. Studies conducted at Virginia Tech have shown lighter colored tarps (yellow, orange, red, white) had a better growth effect on the field grass in spring. Inversely, dark colors (black, blue, greens) had a stronger impact in fall. In the spring, light is more important, thus these colored tarps promote light wavelengths reflecting off the surface. In the fall, it's more important to monitor soil temperatures, so darker tarps help to regulate this. Various NFL teams, including the Philadelphia Eagles, have implemented seasonal color strategies into their tarping protocol—silver on one side, black on the other. The silver side goes up through October then the turf management team reverses the tarp through the end of the season. In Minor League Baseball, staff sizes are limited, so often it's not possible for the sports turf team to roll out tarp without the help of other departments. Sports turf managers sometimes even train front office staff on how to roll tarp, which provides insight into the day-to-day role of a sports turf manager. "Tarping is truly a team effort in Minor League Baseball," said Corey Russell, director of sports turf management at the Myrtle Beach Pelicans and STMA member. "Not only does my team roll tarp, but the entire front office lends a helping hand, so it's a completely different experience than in Major League Baseball." Ultimately, the mindset of event management, team officials and umpires needs to change for the safety of all parties involved with tarping, not just athletes. Ideally, they should monitor not only the lightning and storm data, but also the gust fronts of wind preceding a storm. Often the wind signals a bigger storm on the horizon, so it's important to stay ahead of the curve, and avoid the sail in the sky. Tarping is a time-tested practice that protects the safety and quality of natural grass fields. In all tarping, the safety of the crew should be the highest priority. Field managers need to be proactive and monitor all conditions when making tough decisions to protect the field and the crew. Jeff Salmond, Certified Sports Field Manager, is the director of Athletic Field Management at the University of Oklahoma and oversees the personnel and the management for all the athletic fields for OU Athletics. Additionally, he is president-elect for the Sports Turf Managers Association, a professional organization for 2,600 men and women who manage sports fields worldwide. Risk Management/Safety , Sports Facilities – Outdoor, Sports Facilities – Outdoor - Sports Fields Tampa Bay Rays Improve Weather Safety Web Exclusive - November 2019 In September 2018, the Tampa Bay Rays saw an impressive crowd showing up for a game with the New York Yankees, when a lightning strike led to a momentary loss of power. Now, real-time weather threats allow the stadium to better plan. Crowd Control & Security Strategies Feature Article - August 2019 When you have a crowd, you want to make sure everyone is safe as can be. Here, we take a look at modern strategies for managing crowds and maintaining security. Make Better Weather Decisions Web Exclusive - July 2019 Doppler radar is an important tool in evaluating weather conditions, but it�s important to understand it well before making weather-related decisions. Lightning Alerts for Sports Safety Guest Column - April 2019 Outdoor sporting events are fun for everyone, until the weather turns. It�s crucial when planning events of all kinds to be aware of the potential for lightning. Audits & Training Are Key to Waterpark Safety Supplement Feature - October 2018 Here, industry experts share their thoughts on the best practices in waterpark safety and resource management, as well as lifeguarding trends.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line367
__label__cc	0.69628	0.30372	Emerging Tools Reinventing the General Plan A Project of the California Planning Roundtable With support from the American Planning Association, California Chapter Blog » Recognizing the Potential: What the General Plan Can Do Recognizing the Potential: What the General Plan Can Do Sept. 16, 2010, 10:19 p.m. It's often easier to point out faults than to commend successes or praise potential. This is certainly true with the General Plan: many people are quick to air complaints and bemoan weaknesses about the Plan whenever it comes up for discussion. Yet to focus on the negative misses the fact that there are some really great things that are possible under current General Plan policy and process. To solve the problems we lament, we must first appreciate the possibilities already present. This is the first step in the Reinvention of the General Plan. CPR members have been sharing their thoughts about the General Plan's current strengths. Here are some of their ideas. What do you think? Please join the conversation in the comment box below. POTENTIAL FOR HOLISTIC, SHARED VISION In practice, the preparation of a general plan affords the opportunity for a community to “step back” from its focused project- and issue-specific agendas and engage in lively discussions about visions for the future correlated with the road map of policies and actions to get there. It provides a forum for real thinking about the community. There is potential for the General Plan process to be the foremost discussion of community identity and vision, as well as to set essential goals for sustainability, equity, and economic success. The use of visioning as a framework for general plan goals and policies. Provides avenue for public to participate in long term policy making as an alternative to project-by-project input Public engagement tools (visioning exercises, etc) that have been developed to be used as part of general plan preparation result in communities involving a wide range of stakeholders, including underserved communities. Because of the broader outreach and inclusion in long-term policy, local citizens buy into the General Plan and feel more ownership of it than they do most government documents. IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS California Law builds in an ongoing role for the General Plan: Zoning, capital improvement plans, and many other local polices must be consistent with the General Plan. STRUCTURED PROCESS, BUT ROOM FOR INNOVATION Mandated elements provide a structure. While fulfilling basic legislative requirements, a number of communities have innovated in general plan organization and content (e.g., Marin, Ontario, San Diego, Truckee, Sacramento) to enhance their readability, applicability to local issues and visions, correlation with broader authorities of municipal government, and, in general, create a document that can become a persuasive and respective tool in shaping the future of a community. PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability has become a cross-cutting and unifying theme in many recent general plan updates ACCOUNTABILITY/CONSISTENCY Adequacy and consistency requirements create accountability Requirements for vertical and horizontal consistency. REQUIRED REEVALUATIONS General Plans must be pulled down and reevaluated fairly frequently, opening up the possibility for communities to reassess issues and visions before they become stale.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line370
__label__wiki	0.868735	0.868735	WILDSTREET Announce CANADA & UK Tour Dates + Confirmed For ROCK FEST USA The Singles Club – 45 RPM Round Up The Claws – No Connections (Dead Beat Records) The Wildhearts, Janus Stark – Komedia, Bath 16/10/19 (1586) Guitars, Amps & Tech Talk with Steve Conte (1258) Michael Monroe – One Man Gang (Silver Lining Music) (1090) Alvin Gibbs Interview (1032) Andy McCoy – ‘21st Century Rocks’ (Ainoa Productions) (978) rpmonlinetcb@yahoo.com News Beauty In Chaos ft Rolan Bolan & Wayne Hussey release video Beauty In Chaos ft Rolan Bolan & Wayne Hussey release video The third video from ‘beauty re-envisioned’. This NEW version of the T. REX classic features the late Marc Bolan’s son, Rolan Bolan on lead vocals along with The Mission UK’s main-man Wayne Hussey. Rolan Bolan: lead vocals Wayne Hussey: guitar and harmony vocals Michael Ciravolo: guitar, vocals Tish Ciravolo: bass Michael Rozon: drums Scarlett Perry: piano LA-based collective Beauty in Chaos presents their new single ’20th Century Boy’ feat. Rolan Bolan and Wayne Hussey, with a fun-filled retro-inspired video, created by Industrialism Films and directed by Vicente Cordero. Here Bolan onoring the legacy of his father Marc Bolan, along with The Mission’s main-man and Beauty in Chaos mastermind Michael Ciravolo. This track is off the new Beauty in Chaos album ‘Beauty Re-Envisioned’. This rendition definitely sounds more like T.Rex than the industrial-fueled version featuring Ministry’s Al Jourgensen that appears on Beauty In Chaos’s debut ‘Finding Beauty in Chaos’. “Once Rolan (son of Marc Bolan and singer Gloria Jones) agreed to be part of this, I wanted to recut the track with much more of the sultry swagger from the original. We added a growly sax and some cool Mott the Hoople meets New Orleans honkey-tonk piano to enhance the vibe we wanted. I probably would not be playing electric guitar if it was not for Marc Bolan. This is my big thank you … and I have been blessed to be able to enlist some great company to help me say it,” says Michael Ciravolo. “Getting to record and perform this song with Marc’s son and Wayne Hussey is one of those oft-mentioned surreal moments in BIC.” Rolan Bolan explains his involvement in the project: “When Michael came to me about Beauty In Chaos and doing ‘20th Century Boy’ , I first thought ‘here we go again, another T. Rex cover, but once I heard the track and talked with him about the love and respect he has for my father’s music it just made sense. It was great timing for me as I was just beginning to get back into making music and we just clicked in the studio. My Dad was so influential to so many, and at times it’s been hard for me to understand what that really means. I’m really proud of what we’ve done here and I believe he would be too.” “It is, of course, a huge pleasure to be playing guitar and singing on ‘20th Century Boy’, one of Marc Bolan’s best-known songs. And a transcendent honour to be doing so behind Rolan Bolan, Marc’s son. When Michael Ciravolo told me that Rolan was going to be involved I virtually begged Michael to let me be involved in this project. Bless him, despite being more than capable of handling all the guitar parts himself Michael did deign to let me have a strum, and a yodel, along. There’s another one off my bucket list! Cheers, Michael. And Rolan,” says Wayne Hussey. Hussey’s love for T. Rex and Marc Bolan runs deep, as detailed in his recently released ‘Salad Daze’ autobiography, out now via Omnibus Press. “I was reborn. It was a Thursday evening, early January 1972, getting on for 8pm. I was 13 going on 14 years old. That evening the course of my life was changed irrevocably forever. I saw my destiny in a blinding flash of glitter, a touch of mascara and dark curls. From that moment I knew I was pre-ordained. I was gonna be a rock star. Well, somebody has to be, don’t they, so why not me? I had just watched Marc Bolan and T. Rex dazzle the nation on the institutional British TV show, Top Of The Pops. Miming to ‘Telegram Sam’, the new number one single in the charts, Bolan pranced and preened across our TV screens and straight into the hearts of teens, dividing the generations for perhaps the first time since The Beatles had done so almost ten years before. That was it for me. In one fell swoop I no longer wanted to be Kevin Keegan, I wanted to be Marc Bolan. Bolan had better hair than Keegan and was far prettier. It looked like a really good job to me, playing guitar and singing, being on TV and being screamed at by girls. And even some boys. And a darn sight more agreeable and easier than all the dedication, training and physical exercise required to become a professional footballer. Switching allegiances as easy as finding sand in a desert, down came my posters of Keegan, Ray Clemence, Tommy Smith (!) et al and up went centre page pull-outs from Jackie and Disco 45 of dear beloved Marc. Marc Bolan was my first and, still to this day, an enduring love. I was T. Rex crazy and, like a million other kids, I would pose in front of the mirror with a tennis racket, pretending to play guitar while singing along to Bolan. The first LP I ever bought was Electric Warrior, maybe a month or two later after saving up enough money from my paper round wages. Electric Warrior is a fantastic album and it’s still high on my list of best albums ever. I love the earthiness of its sound, the funkiness, the otherworldly mystical lyrics, the simplicity of the songs, the instrumentation, the guitar playing, the backing vocals of Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (better known as The Turtles), but most of all, it’s that voice, that extraordinarily fey, quivering, tactile Bolan voice that just oozes sexual exuberance.” Beauty in Chaos’ also involves numerous other music luminaries, including Simon Gallup (The Cure), Al Jourgensen (Ministry), Ashton Nyte (The Awakening), Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Pete Parada (The Offspring), dUg Pinnick (Kings X), ICE-T (Body Count), producer Tim Palmer, guitar icon Zakk Wylde, Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), Michael Aston (Gene Loves Jezebel), Michael Anthony (Van Halen), Paul Wiley (Marilyn Manson), Dirk Doucette (Gene Loves Jezebel), Pando (A Flock of Seagulls), Evi Vine, Johnny Indovina (Human Drama), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson), Betsy Martin (Caterwaul / Purr Machine), Marc Danzeisen (The Riverdogs), Kevin Kipnis (Purr Machine / Kommunity FK), Rudy Matchinga (Red Scare), and Tish Ciravolo (StunGun/ Daisy Rock Guitars). ‘Beauty Re-Envisioned’ is available on deluxe CD, limited-edition heavy-weight colored vinyl, and digitally, with a Spotify version to appear later. CDs and vinyl can be ordered directly from Beauty in Chaos at www.beautyinchaosmusic.com/music-store. Apart from the 14 core tracks, orders placed via the website also come with 11 bonus remixes. Al Jourgensen, Al Jourgensen (Ministry), and Tish Ciravolo (StunGun/ Daisy Rock Guitars)., Ashton Nyte (The Awakening), Beauty In Chaos, Betsy Martin (Caterwaul / Purr Machine), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails, Dirk Doucette (Gene Loves Jezebel), dUg Pinnick (Kings X), Evi Vine, guitar icon Zakk Wylde, ICE-T (Body Count), Industrialism Films, Johnny Indovina (Human Drama), Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus, Kevin Kipnis (Purr Machine / Kommunity FK), Love & Rockets, Marc Danzeisen (The Riverdogs), Marilyn Manson), Michael Anthony (Van Halen), Michael Aston (Gene Loves Jezebel), Michael Ciravolo, Michael Rozon, omnibus press, Pando (A Flock of Seagulls), Paul Wiley (Marilyn Manson), Pete Parada (The Offspring), producer Tim Palmer, Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Rolan Bolan, Rudy Matchinga (Red Scare), Scarlett Perry, Simon Gallup (The Cure), t rex, The Mission, Tish Ciravolo, Vicente Cordero, Wayne Hussey Total Post: 1236 A turbocharged Rock and Roll website. Fabienne Delsol – Four (Damaged Goods Records) Gerald’s Corner- A Beat Angels Celebration Rory Gallagher – Check Shirt Wizard: Live in ’77 Triple Vinyl Released Wonk Unit/Aerial Salad/Bottlekids – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach – 11th January 2020 Email: rpmonlinetcb@yahoo.com Copyright 2018 RPM Online	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line377
__label__cc	0.648229	0.351771	Our mystery mental health worker writes about difficulties in engaging people while meeting service targets. We heard last week that a former service user, Joe, is back in town. He has been seen wandering in and out of the local shops. Most people will view Joe as a typical homeless beggar, with his wild long hair, his beard and his multiple layers of clothing. But some members of our team nursed him years ago in our psychiatric hospital, when his appearance was very different. Back in the day Joe was successful, running a local business, with a ‘work hard – play hard’ attitude. It was the excessive use of alcohol and substances which led to increased admissions. This week Joe called to me as I walked through town, he seemed pleased to see me. We spoke about the different towns he visits and he wanted news of fellow patients he knew from his time on our wards. Now and then when his attention wandered he made an odd twitching movement with his head, he seemed to be spitting out half articulated swear words. I asked him if he needed anything; should I arrange for him to see a doctor? Joe said he was fine, no problems at all, and he certainly did not want any of our medication. Back at the office I wondered how to record this contact. Joe is closed on our electronic records and opening his case would trigger a possible breach in the Trust’s contract with commissioners. We would need to have an assessment recorded by a certain date and a care package agreed. Joe would come under Cluster 16, Dual Diagnosis. He should be offered interventions such as motivational interviewing, physical healthcare checks and treatment for psychosis. I had noticed, however, that his most pressing need was treatment for his feet. He was clearly in pain when he walked. One of our nurses mentioned a Podiatrist who sometimes treats patients in a room at a local drop-in. A referral would be needed via a G.P., but Joe had been taken off his last G.P.’s list when he caused ructions at the surgery; he is hard to manage when he is intoxicated. In handover we recalled that in the past Joe was popular with his outgoing personality and his tall stories. However, friends and family fell away as his drug and alcohol binges grew longer and his business suffered. But he had always played the fool and he treated detention under mental health law as just one big joke. In their talk team members were almost collusive, celebrating Joe’s skills in subverting the system, beating the tax man, making money for nothing and scamming his way out of trouble. For example, when he was told that he suffers from psychosis he used this to avoid prosecution for benefit fraud. He explained that his claims for multiple benefits, under different names, were a consequence of his delusional belief that he was several different people. When he was last in town Joe was denied support from mental health services. It was thought that he was inducing psychosis through this use of substances, or faking symptoms to gain advantage. He is not an easy man to help and if you do not give him space when he shouts he will hit you. But during a brief stretch in prison, his failure to manage led to him being treated and he accepted help. He was placed on discharge in Supported Accommodation. This time Joe was grateful, emotional even, and he cried when we put him back in contact with members of his family. Things went well until we helped him reinstate his benefit claim. A large back payment arrived and Joe could not resist returning to his party lifestyle. We have some targets to meet around physical health. If we take Joe onto our caseload we must record that he smokes and that we have offered him support in smoking cessation. We need to record his BMI and, while he is clearly stick-thin, if he were overweight we would need to record our efforts to promote healthy eating and regular exercise. These targets make sense somewhere in our management structures but they are not going to enable us to help Joe. This entry was posted in General items and news on July 3, 2014 by nfao_chat. ← Our mystery mental health worker writes about the difficulty of imposing treatment on people who do not want it Our mystery mental health worker writes about time management and complex team processes. →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line382
__label__cc	0.581108	0.418892	Rivers & Parks Planning & Dev. Police Dept. Parks & Rec. Monarch butterflies have been declining in numbers for the past twenty years, and because San Marcos is located on the I-35 corridor, our city is in the middle of the migration route for many species including monarch butterflies.That means our city has a direct impact on monarch populations as they move across the country each year. As a city facility dedicated to conservation the Discovery Center has implemented several programs to enhance monarch habitat across San Marcos. San Marcos is dedicated to earning the title of Monarch Champion City designated by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). By accomplishing a set of pledges created by the NWF, San Marcos will be considered a Monarch Champion CIty, a title given to only a handful of cities across North America. To learn more about these pledges go to the Mayoral Monarch Pledge tab on the left. “As monarch butterflies lose natural habitat as a result of development, they need substitute resources on their migration route. Monarchs fly across Texas every year, and the challenge is to make San Marcos a source of food and shelter as they make this journey to and from their wintering grounds in Mexico." - Melani Howard, Habitat Conservation Plan Manager for the City of San Marcos. Learning with Larvae Mayoral Monarch Pledge MiGreat Challenge Emergency Alert Sign-Up 630 E Hopkins Electric Emergency: 512-393-8313 Water/Wastewater Emergency: 512-393-8010 Interactive Agendas CDBG Mitigation Action Plan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line383
__label__cc	0.699496	0.300504	Don't Fear the Abyss (New RP!) Everything Else » Role-Playing » Pages: 1 ... 21 22 [23] 24 Author Topic: Don't Fear the Abyss (New RP!) (Read 19729 times) kristina-la A 1000 times I've failed still your mercy remains Re: Don't Fear the Abyss (New RP!) Lina knew she would not be any happier about the situation in the morning. She was too angry and upset to even think about sleeping, especially if that meant sharing a bed! "This is ridiculous," she grumbled to herself before reluctantly entering the room to check it out; maybe she would be fortunate enough to find a couch to sleep on. “No matter how filthy something gets, you can always clean it right up” GreyCaboose neeheehee Quote from: ChaoticRhymer on November 26, 2018, 08:07:53 AM "Yeah, I'm...was, in a band." He continues plucking at the strings. He'd never see them again. "Oh....Cool." Aphis wasn't sure how to respond. Offer condolences? Ask further? She decided in the end not to ask or pry, and instead opened a cupboard and found a pack of beetle cookies to snack on, which she did, finding a couch in the room that she figured all the rooms had, and flopping on it and eating her problems away. Quote from: Panzercrappitastica on November 26, 2018, 11:28:01 AM Milo blushed. “Is that just what humans’ hands feel like?” they asked apologetically. They hadn’t meant to say anything stupid. "Ah....Probably not." Orville nervously rubbed the back of his head. "My hands are just...dirty. Maybe I should shower?" He glanced towards the private bathroom he and Milo now had. Showering might be a good idea. (You all wanna have some more interactions here or shall we wrap up this scene and try to timeskip to the next morning?) ChaoticRhymer "I know." Abi grabbed a Large bottle of Coke and started chugging it, before finding some packages pastries. "You hungry?" "We had a gig planned. It would have let us play before bigger audiences." Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Blessed are the legend-makers, for they are not found within recorded time": J.R.R. Tolkien. "Damn." Aphis wasn't sure what he wanted her to say. "What do you want me to do, apologize for daring to be randomly matched with you, thus ruining your career? I was going to inherit my family's shop. I've been working all my life for it, just to have that shoved aside. It's tough all over." She emphasized the phrase with a loud crunch of a beetle cookie. She wasn't going to let Oz think she pitied him. Oz stood suddenly, glaring at her. "Shut up!" He screamed. I don't want to hear about your problems!" Aphis jolted, and then glared back at Oz. "What, so you're the only one allowed to be upset here?" She hissed. "I don't want to hear about your problems, but you're throwing yourself a pity party anyways!" Panzercrappitastica Westerforum Resident Exalt Milo’s blush only deepened. “I’m sorry,” they murmured. “I, uh, I like your hands, though!” (I’m okay to skip whenever 👍) Purple-handed peep Volger with a flash tattoo hoverboarding around the Lynx in the blue hour with adreneline coursing through his penguins while failing to own the sunset! In a hoop skirt. Pan the Imperial Bucket Holder "Early to bed, early to rise, early to plan the world's demise" - Catvomitsky same) Lina shook her head, "I don't think I could eat anything right now," she said "Alrighty." Abi began to eat. And eat. Oz glared at her, before lying down, facing away from her. (Ok.) "Ah...Yeah, I...like yours too!" Orville tried to make Milo feel better. "Um, but yeah. I'm gonna shower, and then probably...sleep, a lot." He headed to the washroom and contemplated whether Milo would or wouldn't want him to shut the door while disrobing. Don't couples...not care about privacy? Unsure, he slowly shut the door as much as he could to hide himself without 'technically' closing the door. Aphis glared back, and stuck out her tongue before lying down on the couch, not wanting to sleep anywhere near Oz. Clutching her bag of sweets, she tried to get herself to sleep. She deserved to sleep. It would probably be the only peace she'd feel for a while. The next morning was still dark. The blackness of the sky hadn't let up, but Aphis was awoken from her spot on...The floor. She must have rolled off of the couch. A loud knock rattled her from her grogginess. "I have breakfast for Mister Kylar and Miss Lycoda?" A muffled voice spoke through the door. Orville, who'd fallen into an uneasy sleep in the immensely comfortable bed offered after his shower, rubbed his eyes as a knocking on the door and a promise of breakfast rang through the door. "Uh...Coming." Orville muttered. Breakfast was served directly to the rooms? Huh. Other knocks and offers of serving breakfast were resounded in Kal and Kaia's rooms, as well as Abi and Lina's. Eraisuithiel Kal had slept on the floor, just like he said he would. It hadn't been too terribly uncomfortable, with all of the pillows he had managed to form into a makeshift bed. Plus it was far more comfortable than sharing a bed with someone he hardly knew. The knock on the door woke him from a deep sleep. He woke in a start, confused by how dark it was, before the memories of the previous day sunk in. Oh, right. He dragged himself out of his 'bed', yawning and stretching, and opened the door. Re: Don't Fear the Abyss (New RP! Milo slept through the knocking, lost in a dream full of bobblehead versions of everyone they knew, and only woke up when Orville shook the bed standing up. Milo grumbled and turned over to bury their face in the pillow. (We didn’t establish it but my thought was Milo and Orville shared the bed but like, on opposite sides, not all the way sleeping together) Mara-la Kaia pulled the covers over her head when Kal answered the door, as if it would somehow block out the circumstance she was in. Something did smell amazing though, so she peeked out a little bit, curious. Member since April 24th 2010. Author of "We All Come Home" Short story; pub. March 2018 in Scarborough Fair Magazine www.youtube.com/maragrace At some point in the night, Lina must have fallen asleep on the couch. For hours she had just lay on the couch crying into her pillow; her exhaustion won in the end. When morning came she was woken by the knocking and the glorious smell of food. She rolled off the couch and opened the door Abi's internal clock had woken her an hour before, and she used that time to go thru her morning workout. "Morning." She said as she rose from a stretch and followed Lina to the door, tail swinging side-to-side slowly.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line388
__label__wiki	0.832528	0.832528	Happy Birthday Charles Tanqueray! There are few historical figures that I celebrate on an annual basis, but Charles Tanqueray (born March 27, 1810) is one of them. Gin was the first spirit I fell in love with, and Tanqueray has always been my gold standard for London Drys. The following is an excerpt of an interview I did with Tom Nicol, Tanqueray’s previous master distiller. “Tanqueray was a genius” says Nicol, explaining that Charles was passionate about making things and he invented many items – other than gin – over the course of his life. Some examples include a formula for horse saddle polish and medicines for injured animals. It’s often reported that Charles rejected his father’s life in the church to distill gin, but there’s no evidence that Charles was on track to the clergy at any point. He was smart, to be sure, but Charles didn’t show any interest in attending university, and that was required for the pulpit. He sought to invent, to create, and to experiment. Charles eyed other successful British gin distillers Felix Booth and Alexander Gordon, and decided to create “a better gin than theirs,” says Nichol. In his early 20’s, Charles Tanqueray developed several gin recipes, but it was his London Dry recipe that proved unforgettable. Nichol says “Charles won the lottery with that one.” Charles Tanqueray reveled in his success. “He wasn’t the genius recluse like we sometimes see today, but Nicol recons that he was a genius who told everybody he was a genius. From his proud stature, to his knee-length frock coat, to his stately moustache and beard, Nichol says that “Charles liked to show off his success.” Though he was a proud man, Tanqueray’s personal life is strangely undocumented. This leaves us to wonder: was Tanqueray obsessed with his business, but absent from his family? Or was he just a very private man who sought to protect his loved ones? By any account, we know few details of his personal life, in fact, we’re not exactly sure how many children Charles had. The one child we do know of, though, is Charles Waugh Tanqueray, who took over his father’s distillery after his father died at 58. Tanqueray’s historians call Charles Waugh “an upright Christian gentleman of forceful character yet with social conscience,” and just like his father, Charles Waugh was a very young man when he began distilling. More of a businessman than an inventor, Charles’ son placed his attention on gin exclusively, resulting in Charles Waugh growing the Tanqueray brand much larger than his father, including his facilitating a merger with Gordon’s Gin—one of his father’s inspirations and competitors—in the late 1800’s. Charles Tanqueray really seems to have been a proud genius who both flaunted his talent and shrouded his family in mystery. Today, Tanqueray stands as one of the oldest and most successful gins in the history of the world. *Photo courtesy Diageo Archives. Walk the Line: Tanqueray Tanqueray Old Tom Gin Ransom Old Tom Gin The Gibson This entry was posted in education, gin, interview and tagged charles tanqueray, charles waugh tanqueray, gin, tanqueray, tanqueray gin, tanqueray history on March 27, 2017 by Greg. ← anCnoc Blas Hydro Flask Rocks Cup →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line390
__label__cc	0.594818	0.405182	TV / Your Music in Media Guide to the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards The nominations for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced yesterday and were – let’s face it – fairly predictable, and sorely lacking in noms for Community. Check out the nominees in the music categories below – including some streaming clips and tracks where I could get ‘em. Watch the broadcast on Sunday Aug 29 8pm ET / 5pm PT to see who wins… Outstanding Composition for A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score) The Pacific (Part 10) – Music by Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli and Hans Zimmer (HBO) When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (Hallmark Hall Of Fame Presentation) – Music by Lawrence Shragge (CBS) Temple Grandin – Music by Alex Wurman (HBO) You Don’t Know Jack – Music by Marcelo Zarvos (HBO) Blessed Is The Match – Music by Todd Boekelheide (PBS) Georgia O’Keeffe – Music by Jeff Beal (Lifetime) Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score) Batman: The Brave And The Bold “Mayhem Of The Music Meister” – Music by Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter, Lyrics by Michael Jelenic and James Tucker (Cartoon Network) Lost “The End” – Composer Michael Giacchino (ABC) FlashForward “No More Good Days” – Music by Ramin Djawadi (ABC) 24 “3:00 PM – 4:00 PM” – Music by Sean P. Callery (FOX) Psych “Mr. Yin Presents” – Music by Adam Cohen and John Robert Wood (USA) Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Warehouse 13 – Music by Edward Rogers (Syfy) “Warehouse 13” Main Title Theme (Edward Rogers) by tadpole of july Nurse Jackie – Music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman (Showtime) “Nurse Jackie” Main Title Theme (Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman) by tadpole of july Parks And Recreation – Music by Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones (NBC) Human Target – Music by Bear McCreary (FOX) Justified – Music by Oscar Owens and Jason Keaton (FX Networks) Outstanding Original Music & Lyrics Rescue Me “Disease” Song title: How Lovely To Be A Vegetable Music & Lyrics by Peter Tolan, Music by Brad Hatfield Treme “I’ll Fly Away” Song title: This City Music & Lyrics by Steve Earle Steve Earle – This City by tadpole of july Monk “Mr. Monk And The End Part II” Song title: When I’m Gone Randy Newman – When I’m Gone by tadpole of july Family Guy “Extra Large Medium” Song title: Down’s Syndrome Girl Music & Lyrics by Seth MacFarlane, Music by Walter Murphy Family Guy – Down Syndrome Girl Song by tadpole of july Saturday Night Live “Host: Blake Lively” Song title: Shy Ronnie Music by Aleric Banks, Lyrics by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone Rihanna & Shy Ronnie from Mathieu Carratier on Vimeo. How I Met Your Mother “Girls Vs. Suits” Song title: Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit Music & Lyrics by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas TA Mixtape / Music In Media: TV Dinner Music + Film / The Kinks "Schoolboys in Disgrace" as a Movie Musical Happy Birthday USA: Oh Say Can You See… Tags: 24, Batman: The Brave And The Bold, composition, Emmy, Family Guy, FlashForward, How I Met Your Mother, Human Target, Justified, Lost, main title, Monk, nominations, Nurse Jackie, opening, Parks and Recreation, Psych, Rescue Me, Saturday Night Live, score, theme song, Treme, Warehouse 13 « Music + Film / The Kinks "Schoolboys in Disgrace" as a Movie Musical TA Mixtape / Happy Birthday USA: Explosions in the Sky »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line402
__label__wiki	0.672359	0.672359	About T&G 120 Years Fresh T&G Fruitmark NZ Branches & Market Floors Customer & Grower Applications Worldwide Fruit Log Ins FirstPick™ ENZA Big Crunch The ENZA Big Crunch, to be held on 10 May, will see around 20,000 school children biting into a Jazz apple and, hopefully, entering the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records by successfully beating the record for the most people eating an apple at the same time. Global Marketing Manager Rosstan Mazey said the event was being organised as a fun and cheeky way to promote the availability of new season Jazz Apples, whilst also reinforcing a healthy eating message to parents and children. “We see this as a way to promote the healthy eating message, have some fun along the way and maybe even knock the Americans off their perch,” said Rosstan Mazey. The world record is currently held by a group of schools in Michigan, USA and stands at 9,329. ENZA have teamed up with children’s charity, Kidscan, who have endorsed the event as a way to publicise the plight of the thousands of school children who turn up to school each day without adequate lunches. Kidscan director Julie Chapman was delighted to be asked to be part of the event. “We distribute more than 22,000 lunches to more than 200 schools from Invercargill to Kaitaia. If being part of this initiative helps us to give our children a chance at a better start in life then we’re all for it,” said Julie Chapman. “The old adage that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is not just an old wives tale – it is supported by research showing our Jazz apples are high in fibre, have a low Glycaemic Index and contain anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals that aid learning and improve focus in school children, than most other apple varieties” said Rosstan Mazey. It is not the first Big Crunch to be organised in New Zealand. “We actually did a similar event back in 1992, with the late Sir Peter Blake providing the countdown over the radio to schools around the country. That event really grabbed people’s attention – and there wasn’t even a world record attempt involved,” said Mr Mazey. “This will be a fun day for kids and parents alike. I for one will be at my kid’s school on the day making sure they get stuck into to a crunchy Jazz Apple, and hopefully too, a number kids will go home as world record holders” said Mr Mazey View all jobs at T&G View Seasonal Jobs Email the Careers Team Buy from us; grow for us Login To Online Services Email: info@tandg.global communications@tandg.global T&G Investors: Follow T&G: By browsing this site you accept cookies used to improve and personalise our services and marketing, and for social activity. Read our updated privacy policy for more about what we do with your data, as well as your rights and choices.Agree	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line403
__label__cc	0.542806	0.457194	The best piece of news I got over the long Eid Holidays was the news tha t our men in Melati 2 and 5 has been released and have in fact reached our shores the day before. The fact that ransom was paid was secondary, that our men were released without harm and our vessels secured was a victory for our country in handling this crisis in what can be considered as a very short period, as some other hijacked vessels has gone for months without being released. Thus it disheartened me that some people are reacting to this by belittling the role our armed forces has played in the rescue of our sailors. Some has gone on to say that our men are gutless and are just ransom delivery men for not going in with guns blazing. I quote from a supposedly respectable blog that says "The story from Bernama (below) to Malaysian Defence seemed redundant. Since money was paid for the release of the hijacked sailors and tankers, the involvement of the armed forces, will always be looked upon as trivial despite the sacrifices of the individual soldiers and sailors." To this I reply that there are still many that do not consider this that way, and the proper response is to highlight the role that our armed forces has played to secure the safe passage and return of our vessels despite the ransom being paid, and that their involvement are no way trivial nor redundant. KD Lekiu Escorting Our Vessels Home (NST PIX) Thus I hereby quote the main role that our armed forces has played to secure the safe return of our MISC sailors from the same report, let no one then consider their roles as trivial nor redundant. "The armed forces assisted the MISC in executing the release plan and protocol. This was to ensure that the crew members were released as there have been reports that crew members of other ships were not released after ransoms had been paid."The special and secret operation entailed the use of frigates and aircraft, and swift action to control and take over the tankers before they could be seized by other pirate groups," she said. It should also be highlighted that such a role was successfully carried out in trying circumstance as again quoted herewith. “This is the first time the armed forces were involved in a rescue operation in the open sea, 7,000km from home. It posed a logistic challenge to the armed forces for a lengthy duration and the need to execute a military operation other than war.“Bad weather and choppy waters had made the operation difficult with the naval ships not being able to berth for almost one month,” she said. THUS I SAY WITH ALL DUE RESPECTS, BRAVO TO OUR BRAVE MEN IN THE ADEN GULF WHO MADE THIS MISSION A SUCCESS! WE CAN SHOW OUR COJONES THE NEXT TIME THEY TRY THEIR LUCK WITH OUR SHIPS!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line405
__label__cc	0.559389	0.440611	James Patterson Maxine Paetro James Patterson Maxine Paetro / Jan 19, 2020 Private The police can t help you Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe It is where you go when you need maximum force and ma Title: Private Author: James Patterson Maxine Paetro The police can t help you.Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily and his staff of investigators uses the world s most advanced forensThe police can t help you.Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily and his staff of investigators uses the world s most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.The press will destroy you.Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multi million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home his best friend s wife, Jack s former lover, has been killed It nearly pushes him over the edge Instead, Jack pushes back and devotes all of Private s resources to tracking down her killer.Only one place to turn Private.But Jack doesn t have to play by the rules As he closes in on the killer and chooses between revenge and justice, Morgan has to navigate a workplace love affair that threatens to blow the roof off his plans With a plot that moves at death defying speeds, Private is James Patterson s sleekest, most exciting thriller ever. [PDF] ✓ Unlimited ☆ Private : by James Patterson Maxine Paetro ✓ James Patterson Maxine Paetro 471 James Patterson Maxine Paetro Title: [PDF] ✓ Unlimited ☆ Private : by James Patterson Maxine Paetro ✓ Posted by:James Patterson Maxine Paetro About "James Patterson Maxine Paetro" Official US SiteOfficial UK SiteBookShotsJIMMY Patterson BooksOfficial Site for James Patterson s Middle School SeriesReadKiddoReadJames Patterson has created enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today with his Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women s Murder Club, Private, NYPD Red, Daniel X, Maximum Ride, and Middle School series As of January 2016, he has sold over 350 million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most 1 New York Times bestsellers In addition to writing the thriller novels for which he is best known, he also writes children s, middle grade, and young adult fiction and is also the first author to have 1 new titles simultaneously on the New York Times adult and children s bestsellers lists.The son of an insurance salesman and a schoolteacher, Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, and began casually writing at the age of nineteen In 1969, he graduated from Manhattan College He was given a full ride to Vanderbilt University s graduate program in English but dropped out after a year, knowing that he wouldn t be able to continue reading and writing for pleasure if he became a college professor.Instead, he moved to New York to become a junior copywriter for the advertising agency J Walter Thompson, eventually becoming CEO of its North American company.In 1976, while still working for J Walter Thompson, Patterson published his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, with Little, Brown and Company After being turned down by thirty one publishers, it won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel Patterson s 1993 novel, Along Came a Spider, his first novel to feature Alex Cross, was also his first New York Times bestseller in fiction.In 2001, Morgan Freeman starred as Alex Cross in a film adaptation of Along Came a Spider, and Tyler Perry also played the character in the 2012 film Alex Cross A film adaptation of Patterson s middle grade novel Middle School The Worst Years of My Life will be released in theaters in October 2016.For his initiatives to help kids become passionate readers and for his philanthropic efforts, Patterson was awarded the National Book Foundation s 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community James Patterson has donated than one million books to students, emphasizing some of the most under resourced schools and youth programs in the country In 2015, Patterson donated 1.75 million to school libraries throughout the United States, and 250,000 in holiday bonuses to individual bookstore employees He also gave 1 million to independent bookstores in 2014.Patterson has recently donated over 26 million to his and his wife s alma maters the University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Manhattan College and he has established over four hundred Teacher Education Scholarships at twenty four colleges and universities throughout the country Patterson has also donated over 650,000 books to U.S soldiers at home and overseas In May 2015, Patterson launched a new children s book imprint at Little, Brown, called JIMMY Patterson, that is unwaveringly focused on one goal turning kids into lifelong readers This imprint also provides resources, strategies, and programs to serve teachers, parents, librarians, and booksellers Patterson will be investing proceeds from the sales of JIMMY Patterson Books in pro reading initiatives Patterson has also founded ReadKiddoRead, a website designed to help parents, teachers, and librarians ignite a new generation s excitement for reading. Tulay Only good thing about this book that it was free. Listened while walking, typical James Patterson, last book I bought and read was more than ten years ago, that was the only book I paid. Short, short chapters, choppy. Murder, sex, NFL score fixing. Very good start and then it fizzles out.At this point, it is clear that the Patterson collaborations are 100% written by the second author. Nevertheless, Paetro has done a good job with some of the books on the Women's Murder Club series (though she has also delivered some duds in that one). As a result, I had mixed feelings about whether to give this series a chance or not. When I started reading this book, I was feeling like I had made a great decision.The set up for the story was very good, w [...] Not great literature but good James Patterson and, let's not forget, Maxine Paetro. Jack, an Afghanistan Marine veteran, has been asked by his father, in prison for life for extortion and murder, to visit him. His father wants him to resurrect his once lucrative and world renowned PI firm and tells him that he will be getting a package tomorrow containing dirt on all previous clients and access to 15 million dollars. So Jack decides to restart Private.The remainder of the book is a rollercoaster [...] Apparently the start of a 'male-led' Women's Murder Club series. While some of the story outlines were interesting too many to follow, making it hard to fucus on the central storyline. Pretty good. I enjoyed the characters and the plots. I think I will still read the Michael Bennett and Alex Cross series before continuing this series, but I will continue it. Love the character of Jack and his colleagues. My quick and simple overall: only takes a few hours to read this book and is interesting enough to keep you reading in one sitting. Private is a book written by James Patterson (and Maxine Paetro) who is a well known author of crime thriller novels. Wow. Sorry James, but this is a really crappy book. The story line is all over the place, the characters are completely undeveloped and the “reveal” at the end is totally predictable. This was the first time (that I know of) that I read a book that has a “ghost writer”. That’s right people, the person who you thought wrote the book (ie. The person’s name written in bi [...] Chelsey the crazy cat lady This was my first crime book that I have read and absolutely loved it. I have loved watching crime and thought I would give reading crime a go. From the first chapter I was hooked. Private are a great team and get the job done. In this book they were working three major cases. When reading reviews, particularly on , I’ve noticed a lot of complaints about how the Patterson books are written. As a reader, what I care about is the end result. I want a good story. Sometimes, Patterson’s formula works and sometimes it doesn’t. I enjoy The Women’s Murder Club series and the Alex Cross series (though I must admit, I’m behind on both series.) So far I’ve enjoyed the books written with (or some might say by) Maxine Paetro.I found Private to be a good story. At firs [...] Sebastien Castell This is a difficult novel for me to review because a lot of my criticisms may be completely irrelevant to people who enjoy this kind of book. This was the first James Patterson novel I've read, and I'm mindful of the fact that my own opinions on the book are kind of irrelevant – he's got a legion of fans and they've already made up their minds on what they love and what they don't. So I'm going to point out what worked and didn't work for me, but if you're reaction to it is, "you're focusing [...] Angie Dokos It was a good book. I enjoyed the story and liked the characters. It's not one of my favorite books, but it was worth reading. BeaCharmed Meh. Too long, too many story lines, not enough emotion. And who the heck puts an epilogue in then continues the story with more chapters? WTF Patterson? Another great book by James Patterson, "Private".Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily--and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gamblin [...] À medida que vou lendo mais livros de James Patterson, mais fico rendida à sua obra. Este é o segundo policial que leio e confesso ter gostado mais da personagem Jack do que propriamente do Alex Cross de outra série.Jack é um ex-fuzileiro que se dedica actualmente a investigar casos, estando ao comando da empresa Private - Agência Internacional de Investigação, herdada do pai, um antigo criminoso. Contrariamente ao pai, que tinha uma relação directa com o crime organizado e com a máfi [...] Allison ༻hikes the bookwoods༺ Private was offered for free from Audible this week so I decided to give it a go. Procedural thrillers are not my cup of tea and this one proved no different. aPriL does feral sometimes 'Private' is the first novel of a mystery series starring Jack Morgan, ex-Marine helicopter pilot, who now is the owner of a large private detective company with offices everywhere. Morgan guides a crack team of support staff - a scientist, a psychiatric profiler, a punk-styling computer expert, a pack of neurotic detectives - who work for mostly rich Los Angeles people, including movie stars and prosecutors. The office building in which he works has equipment and labs NASA would envy, enabling [...] This book was a thriller for sure. It was interesting, exciting, and best of all, it never was boring! Although this is made for more mature people, I would recommend this book to all people. Most anyone would love this book, it includes mysteries, murders, drama, and lots of action. READ THIS!!!!! Magpie67 Loved, simply loved this book! Loved the action and the fast pace of the office as the team worked three cases. Each character is brilliant in their own way and I look forward to meeting up with them as I continue this series. Stunning voice too. Mr. Peter Herman delivered the audio perfectly. He definitely could purr into my ear all day. First of all, look at the author names on the book cover. I guess Mr. Patterson was unhappy with his coauthor the day he approved the art, but her name is very subtle at the bottom of the book.Second, I think they have overdosed on Dirk Pitt, Stone Barrington and Secret Agent 007 with their depiction of Jack Morgan and his protection/private detective agency, Private. Resurrected from his worthless father's defunct company with $15,000,000 in stolen money dad gave Jack shortly before dying in pr [...] I thought this was an alright mystery novel. I liked the parelell stories and the cast of characters but felt that some of it was just so last generation.For instance: There's an implication in the Steam Cleaner(I listened to it as an audio book so I'm sure that it's spelled differently but I don't know how. I figure it's "SteamKleana" or something like that) story that all people who play violent video games want to commit terrible murders. This is annoying. I play a lot of games, some of them [...] Another quick, easy read from Patterson, although, I found this book a bit dull. The main character (Jack), felt like someone I would like to know, but never quite got there. It just seemed like very little character developement, which was a shame because he seemed to have so much "more to his story." The entire book felt a bit rushed to me, which is true of so many of Patterson's more recent works. I wish he would s-l-o-w down and tell us an indepth, well developed story, like he use to. Ruth Turner This is the second read for me and I enjoyed it just as much as the first.As to be expected, it’s well written with likeable characters that I enjoyed spending time with.The multiple storylines added to my interest, except for the Afghanistan flashbacks and dreams, which really did nothing for the story and seemed to be resolved a little too quicklyOverall, easy to read, fast paced and enjoyable. the book was very exciting, I was intrigued, and couldn't put it down the book, until i was hungry. then i would go and get food, and continue reading the book. it had the perfect balance of action, suspense, and a nice finishing. I enjoyed the book, but for relatively short book, it has a lot of storylines, a home invasion murder, a serial killer of school girls, an NFL cheating scandal, the mob, a death threat--and that got in the way of the pacing. The serial killer storyline overwhelmed the home invasion murder storyline and vice versa at times and NFL thread only received lip service. An enjoyable book but with pacing issues. Initial Reaction:LOVED it! One of my favorite Patterson books ever! THIS is the Patterson we know and love!! I really hope that this turns into a new series like Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club. I truly loved all the characters and the story was dynamite!About the Book:Jack Morgan is a former CIA Agent and Marine who inherited Private Investigations, a firm who does first-class investigations for the elite, the rich, and the famous. Private has top-of-the-line equipment, a plethora of staff m [...] Giovanni Gelati Not a fancy title, but sometimes less is more, and in this case I think we get more. I am not going to be giving anyone a news flash that is a regular follower of my rants here @ The Scoop. I like James Patterson’s work. I read almost all of his work from his graphic novels (see our archives), young adult (Daniel X), and just about all his regular material. I got excited when I saw that he had this new series coming out: Private.I really enjoyed this novel, I am not going to make any bones abo [...] Aivel The latest series of Patterson starring an ex-marine named Jack Morgan the leader of an ultra-high end private investigation firm. I gave this book 2 stars, it is an easy read with the plot going back and forth between three different cases and few personal situations. Now having three different cases in one novel can be a two edged sword, in one hand it will keep the readers form getting bored with every few pages showing a different story line but it can also and in the other it might keep the [...] Rick Fisher After many years of being an avid fan of Mr Patterson's Alex Cross novels, as well as his Murder Club series and then his wonderfully amazing Michael Bennet series, I wasnt sure if he could pull off another interesting series. Much to my surprise, he has. Private opens up a new series whereas Cross and Murder are becoming old and boring. I enjoyed the characters. I enjoyed the setting. I enjoyed the multiple ongoing investigations.Like all other Patterson novels, this one is quick and uncomplica [...] I am a big Patterson fan and read anything he writes but this book was a disappointment. Too many characters and subplots. Not up to his usual standard. Darchelle I wanted to like this so much because I really like James Patterson's books. This fell flat for me. I purchased it on sale on audible. Maybe it was because it was an audio version? It was my first James Patterson audible purchase so that could be it. I didn't think the cases were interesting. I was so bored most of the time I didn't find myself paying attention. It felt to me like he was trying to recreate the women's murder club, but a male version. To me, Jack just wasn't an interesting charac [...] Vfields Don't touch my happy! How is it possible that with all these books I've devoured, I've never read a James Patterson? Strange. Well, spur of the moment I picked up PRIVATE and I have to say I enjoyed it. I more than liked the way Patterson writes. It's was a good solid private eye mystery with a quick pace, lots of threads to follow, not just a single incident. I was really delighted with the overall story. 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__label__wiki	0.842516	0.842516	Tag: anti-gay Anti-Gay Westboro Leader Fred Phelps Has Extensive FBI File Fred Phelps, the founder of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, was no stranger to the FBI. In fact, The Hill reports that Phelps was “well known to the FBI,” according to his newly released 250-page bureau file. Phelps, who died in March 2014, first came on the FBI’s radar in 1967 when a confidential informant said Phelps was ““in need of psychiatric care” while he was leading Westboro. Between 1993 and 2006, Phelps gained the attention of the FBI virtually every year. In some cases, Phelps made claims that he was threatened by terrorists. “It would appear that Mr. Phelps is intentionally provoking these types of responses,” the FBI wrote to a U.S. district attorney in 1993 regarding reported death threats against Phelps. “Large amounts of money and investigative time can potentially be wasted investigating these threat letters. Historically, very few, if any, of these types of cases have been prosecuted in the District of Kansas.” “The FBI does have the responsibility to investigate and prevent potential violence against any person regardless of their religious or political views, however,” continued a supervisory senior agent, whose name is redacted. ATF Proposes Ban on Armor-Piercing Ammo for AR-15 Border Patrol Arrests Alleged Sex Offenders, Gang Members FBI Sets Up Shop With Police in ‘Battle Creek’ Show Border Patrol Test Body-Worn Cameras in El Paso Sector Hedge Fund Fights Back Against Federal Prosecutor Posted: February 27th, 2015 under News Story. Tags: anti-gay, church, FBI, files, Kansas DHS Employee Secretly Prepared for Race War And Operated Anti-White, Anti-Gay Web Site Steve Nealving By day, Ayo Kimathi works for Homeland Security, often procuring guns and ammunition. By night, the man known as “the Irritated Genie” prepares for a race war, the Atlantic reports. Turns out, Kimathi runs an anti-white, anti-gay site, War Is on the Horizon, the Atlantic wrote. Kimathi was exposed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate crimes. It’s safe to say Kimathi’s bosses aren’t happy. Saying she was “stunned,” Kimathi’s former supervisor said the DHS would never have allowed him to operate a hate site had the department known, the Atlantic reported. “To see the hate, to know that he is a federal employee, it bothered me,” his former supervisor said. Kimathi, it appears, isn’t a fan of some popular black people, including President Obama, whom he calls “a treasonous mulatto scum dweller.” His other enemies? Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Condoleeza Rice. When asked about the site, Kimathi dismissed it as entertainment and a way to sell concert and lecture videos. Posted: August 23rd, 2013 under News Story. Tags: anti-gay, anti-white, Avo Kimathi, Condoleeza Rice, DHS, hate site, Homeland Security, Irritate Genie, Oprah Winfrey, race war, southern poverty law center, War is on the Horizon, Whoopi Goldberg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line414
__label__wiki	0.827859	0.827859	Tag: U.S. Consulate Suspect in U.S. Consulate Attack Demands Lawyer During FBI Interrogation A suspect in custody in the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya said he wants his attorney present during FBI interrogations, the Associated Press reports. Tunisian Ali Harzi is “strongly suspected” of being involved in the assault by armed men in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the AP reported. That attack killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other American diplomats. Authorities believe Islamic extremists were behind the attack. Posted: December 6th, 2012 under FBI, News Story. Tags: FBI, interrogations, libya, suspect, U.S. Consulate FBI Delays Sending FBI Agents to Libya Because of Instability By Susan Candiotti and Arwa Damon FBI investigators probing the U.S. Consulate killings in Libya put off a visit there until conditions in the volatile region are safer. Agents hoped to arrive on Saturday but reconsidered because of the instability sweeping across Libya and throughout the region, federal law enforcement officials said. One source said there’s nothing to be gained by putting additional people in harm’s way when the situation on the ground remains volatile. It’s hard to say when the situation will become stable enough for the FBI to visit, the officials said. Posted: September 16th, 2012 under FBI, News Story. Tags: FBI, libya, U.S. Consulate DEA Helps Mexicans Capture Ex-Cop Suspected in 1,500 Killings With the help of information from the DEA, authorities in Mexico have captured a former cop-turned drug gang chieftan allegedly responsible for ordering the killings of 1,500 people, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez is also a suspect in last year’s slaying of a U.S. consulate employee near a border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, AP reported. AP reported that “Mexican President Felipe Calderon said through his Twitter account that Acosta’s capture is ‘the biggest blow’ to organized crime in Ciudad Juarez since he sent about 5,000 federal police to the city in April 2010 to try to curb violence in one of the world’s most dangerous cities.” Authorities said Acosta, 33, was caught Friday in the northern city of Chihuahua along with his bodyguard. FBI Helping Investigate Assaults on Women Near Michigan Campus (NY Times) FBI Lead Stirs DB Cooper Mania (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) FBI Arrests El Paso School Superintendent (Houston Chronicle) Author Says FBI Special Ops Helps Prevent Another 9/11 (CBS) Laptop Thefts Approach 1 Million a Year (Patriot Ledger) Justice Dept. Sues Ala. Over New Immigration Law (Wall Street Journal) Man Acquitted of Murder Confesses (Burlington Free Press) Thieves Stealing Air Conditioning Units (WLS) Posted: August 1st, 2011 under FBI, News Story. Tags: jose antonio acosta hernandez, Mexico, U.S. Consulate FBI Says Ranking Mexican Gang Member No Easy Find Eduardo Ravelo in 1998 photo/fbi photo The FBI knows Mexican gang member Eduardo Ravelo — who may have had a hand in the recent murders of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico — is no easy find. The Los Angeles Times reports that Ravelo — on the FBI’s Top Ten Fugitives — probably had his fingerprints altered and plastic surgery on his face. He is listed as a captain in the Barrio Azteca, a gang that carries out contract murders for the Juarez drug cartel, which is believed to be responsible for the spiraling murder rate in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. “Except for his dark eyes, federal officials doubt he looks anything like his 12-year-old FBI most wanted photo — round face, trim mustache and a scar along his cheek,” the Times wrote. The Times reports that the FBI believes the 42-year-old lives in Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, and regularly crosses into Texas. “He’s a butterfly, a moth,” Samantha Mikeska, an FBI special agent leading the hunt for Ravelo told the Los Angeles Times. “He takes care of his people and that keeps him under the radar.” Posted: April 5th, 2010 under FBI, News Story. Tags: Barrio Azteca, Ciudad Juarez, Eduardo Ravelo, gang, Mexico, U.S. Consulate 3 People Linked to U.S. Consulate in Mexico Killed in Drive-by Shooting WASHINGTON — The White House got another reminder this weekend of the impact drug-cartels have on the border towns of Mexico. CNN reports that a drive by shooting in the border town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday resulted in the deaths of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate. The network reported that one victim was an American employee at the consulate and that another victim was the husband of that employee. The third person was the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate. “The President is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez,” National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement Sunday. Tags: Ciudad Juarez, killed, Mexico, U.S. Consulate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line415
__label__cc	0.728427	0.271573	Tokyo Anime Center By tok_lhuga March 10th, 2006 @ 11:56 PM Anime Today, they announced the launch of ‘ Tokyo Anime Centre ‘ in Akihabara and held a ceremony. But, just wait for a while. Grand opening is next wednesday, 15 March 2006 .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line420
__label__wiki	0.785644	0.785644	TEDDY ROOSEVELT: GUILTY OF TREASON AND "COLLUSION" Subscribe to the Almost-Daily Anti-New York Times and Stay on Top of World Events NY Times: Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online The "Editorial Board" of The Anti-New York Times has always emphasized the fact that there's no history like original source history. Think about it. If you really want to get inside of the minds of the men who made history; then why rely on an endless, repetitious circle-jerk of academic ass-clowns when you can, in this day and age of Internet search engines, instantly access the actual writings and speeches of the history-makers themselves? Original source data is especially useful if the writing artifact is a private one. You see, communications intended for public consumption, don't always reveal the true man and his beliefs. But the stuff that a man inks for personal friends / co-conspirators or private diaries -- well, that reveals the true man. With that investigative maxim (a $10 word for a short statement expressing a general truth) always in mind, this story about the Library of Congress' recently added digital archive of many of Teddy Roosevelt's private papers and letters really got our investigative juices flowing. Just a few minutes into this article was all it took to learn something fascinating about Teddy Psycho that we -- in spite of having written a book on the Wretched Roosevelts - didn't know before. We thought we should share it with "youse guys." 1. Fake historians only know how to follow each other in an endless circle-jerk of orthodox groupthink. // 2. True investigative historians search for original source material, and then analyze every line for clues and patterns. // 3. Time to amend "The Real Roosevelts" with this new information? Among the historical files is a 1915 private letter in which TR criticizes President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of "neutrality" regarding World War I. Of course, regular readers of the ANYT should all know by now that Wilson's early "pacifism" was fake. Evidently, ex-President Teddy did not know at the time that Wilson's handlers were waiting until after the back-room Zionist-British verbal deal to steal Palestine was made -- and after Wilson's November 1916 re-election was completed -- to join the European bloodbath. In the letter, TR also reveals his contempt for the millions of German-Americans who sympathized with Germany in its purely, 100% defensive war (started in August, 1914) against the aggressive British-French-Russian alliance. Excerpted from the February 12, 1915 letter, which the Slimes' web version linked us to: "My dear Cecil. Do not feel too badly over things. I am bitterly humiliated over what this administration has done. I am not merely humiliated, but profoundly angered by the attitude of the professional German-Americans. But don't forget, there are lots of Americans of German descent who do not sympathize with these men..... who are emphatically against Germany in this fight and resent being called German-Americans. When a President misleads us as Wilson has done, some very good people tend to follow him." "Cecil" is Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice -- a diplomat who served as Britain's Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918. We learn from Establishment historians that "Cecil," in that capacity, was responsible for British efforts to end American neutrality and bring America into the First World War. And, get this -- he was not just a close friend of Psycho Teddy, he had actually served as his best man at his second wedding (TR's first wife had died) way back in 1886 when few people had even heard of TR -- the spoiled-rich law school dropout who, according to his own words, "rose like a rocket" from political obscurity to New York City Police Commissioner -- to Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy (he oversaw the USS Maine false flag) -- to phony "war hero" (he never even got a medal for his alleged "charge" up San Juan Hill) -- to Governor of New York State -- to Vice President (after the sudden and strange death of Garret Hobart) -- to U.S. President (after the assassination of William McKinley by a foreign-born Red) -- all within a span of just 5 years! 1. "I rose like a rocket," boasted Globalist puppet Roosevelt. One of TR's biographies is actually titled after that quote. // 2. After a convenient "heart attack" killed Vice President Hobart (a conservative), TR was forced upon McKinley (a conservative) as Vice President. // 3. After a convenient assassinated by a Red fanatic, TR became the first "progressive" president. 1. Ambassador to the U.S. Cecil Rice --- He and his buddy TR were upset with Wilson (Image 2) for not warmongering against Germany. // 3. Little did they know that Wilson's handlers were actually planning to join the war after his 1916 re-election -- a dishonest campaign which was based on Wilson's "achievement" of keeping America out of the war! This letter constitutes clear evidence that ex-President TR -- who was still influential within American elite circles -- was already treasonously "colluding" with foreign agents, for the purpose of dragging the U.S. into the grand war for Globalism -- a full two years before the U.S. officially entered the war. To cover his ass, the sneaky bastard purposely left his name off of the envelope sent to his best man -- "Cecil." From the very opening line of that same letter: "Dear Cecil, Your two letters have come. My letters to you will hereafter go in envelopes without my name on them, so as to attract as little attention as possible." (full letter, here) No names on the envelopes, eh? It doesn't get any more Deep Statish than that. Conspire much, Mr. President? But the real kicker for us was the date stamped on the letter -- February 12, 1915. That's three full months before Lord of the British Admiralty Winston Churchill set up the arms-smuggling Lusitania to be sunk by German U-boats. So, even before the phony pretext that served to turn public opinion away from innocent Germany, TR and his crowd were already anti-German and pro-war. That's no surprise to us, of course, but oh what a powerful argument it makes in contradiction of the fake history which holds that the U.S. government was originally neutral. No. Both the open-warmonger Roosevelt and the closet warmonger Wilson wanted to join the "The Great War" all along -- a war for both Globalism and Zionism which, ironically, broke TR's heart and may have led to his sudden death soon after the war's end. For it is said that he never recovered after his youngest son's death in the very war that he had so passionately agitated for. 1. The letter to "Cecil" proves that even before the Lusitania tragedy and other "incidents," TR's crowd was already hostile toward Germany and angling for ways to join the war in Europe. 2 & 3. Psycho dad's wished-for war got his own son, Quentin, killed in aerial combat in July, 1918. TR was broken by the news, and died in his sleep just 8 months later, at age 61. Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today that the Library of Congress is digitally publishing 1000's of documents and images from Teddy Roosevelt's collection. Boobus Americanus 2: Teddy Roosevelt was one of our most eloquent and intellectual presidents. St. Sugar: Intellectual my asss! He wass a sspoiled rich brat who dropped out of law sschool. Every position he ever held wass handed to him by the usual ssusspectss. Editor: The REAL Roosevelts totally exposes that wicked family -- here TomatoBubble does not sell advertising. We rely on reader support to bring you and new audiences this unique and important content. DONOR REWARDS Convenient, downloadable & printable pdf version Submit form below and we'll send you a donation invoice. (Check Spam too) * If paying by USA check / MO by postal mail, this step is not necessary. Refer to prices above and mailing instructions at bottom of page. 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__label__wiki	0.721754	0.721754	Peter Berkow & Friends - 1977 - Live at Cabo's Peter Berkow & Friends Live at Cabo's 01. Burger Love 6:24 02. Mandala 10:40 03. I've Got Time 7:04 04. French Hougnon Soup 7:30 05. Overjoiced 8:20 06. Spin The Globe 9:30 Backing Vocals – Charlie Haynes, Joe Hougnon Bass – Paul Abrahms Congas – Randy Mason Drums – Mark Williams Flute – Charlie Haynes Harmonica – Charlie Haynes (tracks: B3), Joe Hougnon (tracks: B3), Peter Berkow Lead Guitar – Joe Hougnon, Peter Berkow (tracks: B2) Lead Vocals – Joe Hougnon (tracks: A3), Peter Berkow Percussion – Mark Williams, Randy Mason Rhythm Guitar – Peter Berkow Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Haynes A nice curio private press from 1977 that one might still find on a good day of crate digging. PB&F were formed and survived off the 1970s university culture, in this case the University of Illinois. They were a full 6 piece jazz band who, like many in the day, fused elements of funk, rock and Latin styles into their distinct brew. Two guitarists, bass, drums, a dedicated conga player and the primary soloist doubles on both tenor sax and flute. A long album (close to 50 minutes), with 4 of the 6 tracks being entirely instrumental. It’s these compositions that make the album a success, with melodies that recall Ian Carr’s Nucleus and other melodic Brit-jazz combos, with plenty of room left for solos, which never bog down in tuneless noise. A true relic of the times, and worth exploring. Posted by Zen Archer at 11:43:00 PM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: Peter Berkow, USA Peter Berkow & Friends - 1976 - Faculty Recital Spiritual Rebate (For The Stoned Zen Pimp) 01 Part One (Instrumental Introduction) 4:26 02. Part Two (Vocals And Horn. Solos) 7:08 Halflife 03. Part One (Vocals) 2:51 04. Part Two (Powerplants) 2:44 05. Part Three (The Creek, Reprise) 3:44 06. Credit Card Blues 4:26 07. Liquid Smog 4:03 08. I Run Too 4:10 09. Coda: As The Planet Explodes 5:07 10. Sometimes My Life 0:57 11. Street Jam 2:47 Congas, Percussion – Randy Mason Drums, Percussion – Mark Williams Electric Guitar – Joe Hougnon Saxophone, Flute – Charlie Haynes, Ylonda Nickell Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Harmonica, Composed By – Peter Berkow This gorgeous album (released in 1976, recorded earlier) is a concept about the post-nuclear holocaust world and without doubt it's Peter Berkow's masterpiece, an album that I think should stand as one of the best progressive works from the United States in the seventies Berkow made a few albums in the early seventies. I will state right off the bat I don't recommend the other ones, which I've heard all. His singing is something that may be hard to get used to, being in the laryngeally thin Bob Dylan school. He is also one of those artists that recycled his compositions, reworking them from one record to the next. Thus the preceding album "Thesis" has most of the songs from this album and is very similar without being as pulled-together and conceptual. The last album, perversely called "Bootleg Demo (79)" recycled them yet again in an acoustic format, lacking the fusion that makes this installment exciting. On the other hand "Live at Cabo's (77)" is a fusion album beginning to end, but not a good one at all in my opinion being too meandering and lacking the brilliant prog moves and pleasant dead-head vibe. Moving on to the album in question, if you look closely at the back you'll notice the whole thing is divided into three parts. Side one has two parts, Spiritual Rebate for the Stoned Zen Pimp (which reappears on other albums both before and after), and was composed in transit to California (check what he says about it on the back), and Half-Life (referring to radioactive decomposition of course). The lyrics for the Stoned Zen Pimp are as idiotic as you'd expect, but very much a part of those times, as I understand them-- not having experienced them myself. Side 2 recorded in a different time and place contains mostly vocal acoustic songs though they do revolve around the same theme of nuclear holocaust, sometimes tenuously so though, with occasional reprises of themes from side one. It's obvious that Peter started as a university student (presumably bio based on his lyrics) but dropped out and managed to make music a full-time career. I'd be curious to know what happened to him after the seventies, if he burned out as so many others did on too many drugs or if he went on to shine in an academic setting? Anybody know? One more thing I can't as usual resist mentioning. Both paintings are by one Michael Fernandez. Please -- I beg you -- take the time to look at front and back and admire the surreal (acid-hazed?) images he came up with for this beautiful album. Incidentally the preceding album Thesis from 1975 also features a gorgeous cover painting. Peter Berkow & Friends - 1975 - Thesis 03. Do The Funky Laundry Part 2 1:17 04. Old Guitars 4:10 05. No Lines 4:28 06. Dorm Floor 3:16 07. Spiritual Rebate 4:14 09. Dialogues 4:26 Acoustic Guitar – Jim Fairs (tracks: B1, B2, B5) Backing Vocals – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B4) Bass – Kelly Sill (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B2), Peter Bailey (4) (tracks: B1. B3, B4, B5) Bass Clarinet – Ron Dewar (tracks: B2) Clarinet – Ron Dewar (tracks: A1) Congas – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B4) Cymbal – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B3) Drums – Bruce Doctor, Rocky Maffit (tracks: A3, B2, B5) Electric Guitar – Dan Fogelberg (tracks: A3), Jim Fairs (tracks: B1, B5) Fiddle – Henry The Fiddler (tracks: A5) Flute – Peter Swinnerton (tracks: B3, B4, B5) Guitar – Elliott Delman (tracks: A1, A3, A5), Peter Berkow Harmonica – Corky Siegel (tracks: A2, A3), Peter Berkow (tracks: A3), Peter Ruth (tracks: A1, A4) Maracas – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B1) Percussion – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B1, B3) Rototoms – Rocky Maffit (tracks: A3) Shaker – Jim Fairs (tracks: B1) Sitar – Jim Fairs (tracks: B1) Soprano Saxophone – Dennis Kita (tracks: B5) Tabla – Rocky Maffit (tracks: B1, B3) Tenor Saxophone – Ron Dewar (tracks: B2) Vocals – Peter Berkow, Peter Swinnerton (tracks: A2, B4) The Long Hello - 1983 - The Long Hello Volume 4 The Long Hello The Long Hello Volume 4 01. Holsworthy Market Place (2:01) 02. Trick or Treat (3:46) 03. Der Traum Von Julius (4:39) 04. The Rock of Riley (3:55) 05. The Caretakers's Wife (6:32) 06. The Wonderful Brothers (2:42) 07. Martha's Express Wishes (3:04) 08. Hamburg Station (2:34) 09. Solo Kabine (0:45) 10. The Finger Points (2:19) 11. Haben Sie Waffen Oder Funk Dabei (1:57) 12. Slow Slither Loop (2:58) 13. My Feet Are Freezing But My Knees Are Warm (3:49) CD Bonus: 14. The Rock of Riley (Slight Return) (1:25) 15. The Caretaker's Wife '92 (8:27) 16. Looking At You (6:42) NOTE: Guy Evans with Life Of Riley & David Jackson - Guy Evans / drums, percussion, tympani - David Jackson / saxes, flutes (1-5,13) - Giles Perring / guitars, piano (1-6,10) - Chris Kerridge / guitars (4,6,8,10,12,13) - Dave Sawyer / drums, percussion (2) - Dane Kranenburg / bass (1,2,14) - Harry Williamson / slithar, bass (5,7,8,12,13) - Paul Schubert / bass (4) Volume 4 of the 'Long Hello' series has always been my favourite. What Guy Evans does here with his drumming and various percussion is very interesting. Starring some members of Mother Gong's alumni, we have an amazing array of experimental pieces, sometimes jazzy and sometimes spacey. Too many tunes here for track-by-track breakdown, but highlights are : 'Der Traum von Julius' - a strange piece full of mysterious tones, courtesy of Mr Jaxon's sax playing, 'Martha's Express Wishes' - complete with fast paced drumming and nice bass-playing, 'The Finger Points' - a whimsical percussive arrangement with amusing guitaring and 'Haben Sie Waffen Oder Funk Dabei ?' - which reprises Martha's E.W. but this time around with Glissando guitar. Never a dull moment on this record, and whilst sounding different from Van Der Graaf Generator, the ghost of that spirit is still to be found here. Labels: David Jackson, Guy Evans, The Long Hello, UK, Van Der Graaf Generator 01. Jacko and the Pollar Bear (3:30) 02. Dr. Mop (4:48) 03. May Day, May Day (3:44) 04. Sogni d'Oro (7:50) 05. Stonewall Stands with Thomas Davies (4:15) 06. Sometimes I Do, Sometimes I Don't (4:04) 07. Range Change (4:58) 08. The Homing of Homer (5:47) - David Jackson / voice, whistles, saxes, flute, piano, synthesisers - Guy Evans / drums - Nic Graham / bass, 12 string guitar, percussion - Dave Anderson / bass, vibraslap - Chris Barnes / guitars - Peter Hammill / organ solo, keyboard sounds - John Clarke / electric drums - Jakko Jakszyk / voice, guitars, bass, synthesisers - Jacob Jackson (age 3) / voice The 'Long Hello' project was conceived back in 1973, where ex-VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR members could get together and have a bash and contribute some compositions which were otherwise overlooked by visionary PETER HAMMILL. It is a somewhat overlooked recording, not that it's a particularly bad one, but it's not the holy grail either. Actually, it's sax player DAVID JACKSON's project more than anything. 'Jaxon', as he is known to many, was also a crucial part of, not only one of the most incredible progressive bands known to humankind - VDGG, but also contributed to several side-projects including Hammill's solo work, 4 Long Hello volumes, Magic Mushroom Band's sensational 'Spaced Out' album, and even hooking up with R.P.I. legends OSANNA. The saxophonist is truly gifted, one of those amazing musicians who could play multiple saxes simultaneously along with The Blockhead's Davey Payne, a trick that only (to my limited knowledge) jazzer Roland Kirk had mastered. Options were open..... Recording took place between September '79 - November '81 and the resultant music reflected a good dose of experimental jazz-prog and New-Wave influences. Amongst the 'big names' we find Graham, Hammill, drummer Guy Evans, bassist Dave Anderson, and guitarist/vocalist Jakko Jakszyk (and others). Opening tune, 'Jacko and the Polar Bear', we find a folksy tune with vocalisings from Jaxon and his then baby son Jacob, leading into an odd-metred riff with Graham on bass and Evans on drums, and Hammill eventually joining in on some atonal organ stabs. Jaxon's whistles and sax work are superb. 'Dr. Mop' is a rather catchy tune featuring Graham on rhythm-box, Anderson on bass, Brian Evans on vox and Jaxon's usual grating sax work. The melody is simple, and it's in- keeping with the new-wave vibe of the time. 'Mayday Mayday' is the instrumental equivalent of the previous track, this time with Jaxon on rhythm-box (and you can't tell the difference ......!!). 'Sogni D'oro' is a longer piece, credited to Jaxon (saxes & keys) & Jakszyk (vox, guitars and bass), along with John Clarke on a Simmons electronic drum kit keeping a steady 4/4 beat. Again more new-wave inclinations along with some ethereal instrumental stretches. Flipside we get another instrumental, 'Stonewall Stands with Thomas Davies' - a more playful tune showcasing saxes and whistles, and rhythm- box. 'Sometimes I Do, Sometimes I Don't' is a cool, melodic tune with Jaxon's saxes leading the way and tasteful bass from Graham. 'Range Change' has some cheezy sounding keys, along with that bloomin' cheap-sounding rhythm-box and bass from Anderson. The saxes are the highlight. The finale of the album is 'The Honing Of Homer', a composition credited to Jackson and Hammill, even if the latter does not appear on the recording itself. Possibly the most exciting piece of the album. Sung by Jakszyk, the tune twists around from new-wave to distinctively weird, and back again. It isn't too far away to what one may find on Hammill's solo albums PH7 or A Black Box. Overall, a good-to-very good album, more of an obscurity for VDGG obsessives Labels: David Jackson, Guy Evans, Peter Hammill, The Long Hello, UK, Van Der Graaf Generator 01. Surfing with Isabelle (4:12) 02. Elsham Road (3:35) 03. Dolphins (3:56) 04. Carnival (2:55) 05. Broken Chain (2:35) 06. Hidden Drive (2:20) 07. Indian (4:06) 08. Zen (3:12) 09. Agua Blanca (4:13) 10. Welcombe Mouth (3:12) - Nic Potter / bass, keyboards, guitars - Guy Evans / drums, percussion, bamboo flute, synthesizers - Stuart Gordon / violin (11-13) - Huw Lloyd Langton / guitar (11-13) - Giles Perring / additional drums (6) With an enviable prog pedigree that saw bassist Nic Potter play with the genre's heaviest hitters -- Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill -- it was only a matter of time before his skills would be displayed in a somewhat different context. And rightly so; 1974's The Long Hello, was, in some circles, a prog rock masterpiece, and with a band also featuring fellow Van der Graafers Hugh Banton, David Jackson, and Guy Evans, it was essentially a de facto Generator release. Losing Banton and adding Giles Perring, Potter and Evans returned in 1981 with The Long Hello's offspring -- The Long Hello, Vol. 2. This second wholly instrumental album follows the same path as its predecessor, and while it's not always an easy listen, there are moments that really do shine -- "Dolphin," the hand drum-heavy "Hidden Drive," and the oddly timed "Agua Blanca." Neatly divided between experimental and more straightforward pieces ("Agua Blanca" falls firmly in the first camp), it's a never less than intriguing listen and, as a document of pure instrumental prog, The Long Hello, Vol. 2 succeeds admirably. Where it falls down, however, is that it lacks the vocals that were such an intrinsic part of the best of the era's prog, and often becomes little more than one long jazz-tinged noodle. But it remains an important record of the genre's growth. If you listened to what the papers said, 1981 had little room in which such dinosaurs could rest, and the album passed with little attention or fanfare. It deserved a lot more, however, and this welcome reissue provides it. Posted by Zen Archer at 9:18:00 PM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: David Jackson, Guy Evans, Nic Potter, The Long Hello, UK, Van Der Graaf Generator Track list on Butt (reversed side) 01. The Theme from (Plunge) (5:31) 02. The O Flat Session (5:32) 03. Morris to Cape Roth (6:33) 04. Brain Seizure (4:01) 05. Fairhazel Gardens (7:56) 07. I've Lost My Cat (8:28) Track list United Artists, Phillips 01. Fairhazel Gardens 02. Looking at you 03. I've lost my Cat 04. The theme from 'Plunge' 05. The Obsession 06. Morris to Cape Roth 07. Brain Seisure - David Jackson / assorted saxes, flutes, piano - Hugh Banton / all instruments on "Brain Seisure", bass "The Obsession" - Piero Messina / electric and acoustic guitar, piano - Ced Curtis / electric guitar, bass & basson on "Fairhazel Gardens" - Nic Potter / bass As Peter HAMMILL disbanded VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR after their epic album "Pawn Hearts", the rest of the group formed this project while still appearing on HAMMILL's solo albums ("Silent Corner and the Empty Stage", "In Camera", "Chameleon" etc.). This project was comprised of former VDGG members Guy Evans and David Jackson, along with bassist Nic Potter, and were sometimes joined by Hugh Banton (also ex-VDGG) who also produced the album. The music is completely different than what the average VDGG fan might expect, with the music being a relaxing form of jazzy-feel rock. As VDGG re-formed in 75, the project was put on hold until it was resumed in the eighties as VDGG finally broke down. The Long Hello comes to us as an instrumental side project of current and one-time Van der Graff Generator members David Jackson, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Nic Potter; however that is where the association with VdGG music stops. This is not a VdGG side project; the output bears no resemblance to the work of VdGG whatsoever; nor does it pretend to. Any expectations of a VdGG-style album based on knowing who the players are is all our own. That said, what have we got with this project? Some pretty cool grooves often in a jazzy style, at other times the feel is very Canterbury, then for moments here and there a symphonic sound comes to the fore. The musicianship is excellent - exactly what you would expect from this calibre of musician - although you may feel this group of prog heavyweights is playing well within itself. Overall the music is light and bright with very minimal dark soundscapes. Put simply 'The Long Hello' is very pleasant music. It is something that can be put on as a prog background to a dinner party where guests can enjoy the music or their conversation as takes their fancy, or equally enjoyable to break the silence while beavering away on the computer or reading a book. Is 'The Long Hello' essential to a collection? No. Am I happy to have this album in my collection? Yes. Is this an excellent addition to a collection? Yes, as long as you are not buying this album on the premise it as a VdGG wannabe. Labels: David Jackson, Guy Evans, Hugh Banton, Nic Potter, The Long Hello, UK, Van Der Graaf Generator 01. Aloft (6:55) 02. Alfa Berlina (6:39) 03. Room 1210 (6:47) 04. Forever Falling (5:37) * 05. Shikata Ga Nai (2:21) * 06. (Oh No, I Must Have Said) Yes (7:45) 07. Brought To Book (7:53) 08. Almost The Words (7:53) 09. Go (4:29) * Not on LP - Peter Hammill / lead vocals, guitars, pianos - Hugh Banton / organ, keyboards, bass, accordion, glockenspiel - Guy Evans / drums, percussion Is this VDGG's final act? I would be very surprised if this isn't their last studio album, especially with how reflective this album is and the lyrics seem to point to this. I think for me that's part of my faults with this record as it comes across almost like a dirge overall with the vocals being the focus much of the time. Some have said this is more like a Peter Hammill solo album which I can appreciate. On the final track "Go" Peter sings "Time to leave, close the door" and it ends with these final words "It's time to let go" and I have to say this is a sad record, it really is. Of course even the album's title and cover indicate retirement. David Jackson is not here so they're a trio like on the last album. They have added a lot of complex passages despite how reflective this often is which is why I picked this up in the first place, I was curious. "Present" was their first comeback album and by far my favourite of this last period of the band. I also have to say that there's a line in the song "Alfa Berlina" that for me sums up why so many bands from the golden era fail to make anything close to what they did when they were young and those words are "But when I think about the way it was we were recklessly alive." That fire and passion of youth and just starting out can't be bottled or bought and it's rare, really rare to see in an older band. "Aloft" and the next track are my two favourites. This starts out as one of those reflective songs as fragile vocals join the relaxed guitar and cymbal melody a minute in. A change though after 2 1/2 minutes as it picks up with organ, accordion, drums and vocals. A third theme arrives that's nastier and more passionate. That second theme is back at 4 1/2 minutes before the opening theme returns to end it at 6 1/2 minutes. An inventive tune. "Alfa Berlina" is experimental to start with lots of samples. Spoken vocals in atmosphere will take over before we get the main melody before 1 1/2 minutes. The lyrics are so meaningful. A change 4 minutes in as it turns experimental and sparse again and the spoken vocals return like earlier. Back to the main melody a minute later. "Room 1210" is mellow with piano, cymbals and reserved vocals. Accordion and drums join in as well. It kicks in before 1 1/2 minutes with a brighter mood. It continues to change though as it calms down after 3 1/2 minutes. "Forever Falling" is one I can't get into. A catchy beat to start as the vocals join in. The vocals are faster paced 2 minutes in as is the punchy instrumental work. Back to that opening theme before 4 minutes to the end. "Shikata Ga Nai" is almost haunting, kind of exotic too while a chamber music vibe is felt in this dark piece. "(Oh No! I Must Have Said)Yes" is one I can't get into with that abrasive sound with heavy drums. It changes though to a surprising jazzy motif before 3 minutes but then this abrasive guitar starts to come and go over top that I don't like. "Brought To Book" is mellow with a beat, piano and reserved vocals. Organ and drums arrive as it picks up around 2 minutes, vocals too. Back to the opening theme a minute later then it kicks in to a higher gear but the tempo will continue to shift. "Almost The Words" is a sad dirge-like tune with sad vocals, piano, percussion and atmosphere. A change at 4 1/2 minutes as fast paced keys and drums take over as multi-vocals come in over top. The organ kicks in before 6 1/2 minutes with prominent bass and drums. I want more of this last part because I feel that's what's missing here and these guys can deliver but I think it's more about the farewell. And speaking of farewell the final song is "Go" which opens with spacey organ and sounds before these fragile vocals join in around a minute. A sad and reflective album that doesn't scratch that itch for me but it comes across as being a must-have considering the circumstances. Labels: UK, Van Der Graaf Generator Van Der Graaf Generator - 2015 - Merlin Atmos Merlin Atmos 101. Flight (21:30) 102. Lifetime (5:11) 103. All That Before (7:46) 104. Bunsho (5:48) 105. A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers (24:05) 106. Gog (6:39) 201. Interference Patterns (4:28) 202. Over The Hill (12:36) 203. Your Time Starts Now (4:14) 204. Scorched Earth (10:14) 205. Meurglys III (15:24) 206. Man-Erg (11:40) 207. Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (12:37) - Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar and keyboards - Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and bass guitar Even though Van Der Graaf Generator have by now released quite a few live recordings, none of them has struck a chord with me like Merlin Atmos. Recorded during the band's 2013 European tour and featuring complete performances of Flight and A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers, the album is a mix of music taken from 1971 and onward. Featuring two tracks from Pawn Hearts, one from each of Godbluff/Still Life/World Record, two tracks from Peter Hammill's solo records and a total of six tracks from Trisector/A Grounding In Numbers. There is clearly something for every Van Der Graaf Generator fan to be enjoyed and some of the less familiar material might just surprise you! The opening 21-minute Flight was quite a surprise for me since I've only once previously heard it on Hammill's 1980 album A Black Box and this version is a much more modern sounding hence omitting the dated sounds of synthesizers and sequencers. Hammill's voice sounds older but it really doesn't bother me, in fact, some of the moments throughout the opening track actually sounds more potent with his nuanced vocal approach. The next three compositions are all taken from the current lineup's albums Trisector and A Grounding In Numbers. Lifetime has not been a favorite of mine from the studio recording but this live version has more power to the performance and engages me much more. Bunsho follows in the same suit while All That Before gives the album some much needed energy. A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers is considered by many to be one of the greatest Van Der Graaf Generator compositions, which is why it's surprising that this is the first complete live version of this 24-minute suite. The performance keeps most of the highlights in tact and organ layers actually manage to make up for the absence of David Jackson. Gog is another highlight since the track has always been considered an unofficial Van Der Graaf Generator classic, even though it was originally recorded as a Peter Hammill solo number. The so-called bonus disc adds quite a few great performances like the energetic version of Interference Patterns where Hammill clearly makes a strong effort in his vocal delivery. Over The Hill is another memorable Trisector number while the opening track from A Grounding In Numbers, Your Time Starts Now, makes much more sense on this setlist compared to it's role on the band's 2011 release. The album concludes with almost 50 minutes of classics from the '70s with a lovely performance of Scorched Earth, the slightly trimmed down version of Meurglys III still sounds a bit too excessive for my tastes, Man-Erg makes me wish that David Jackson was still in the lineup even though the keyboards do try to make up for his absence. Childlike Faith In Childhood's End sounds pretty much in line with the studio counterpart but somehow this version doesn't really do as much for me. As mentioned in the beginning of my review, none of the previous Van Der Graaf Generator live records have managed to grab my attention as much as Merlin Atmos. Yes, there are a few tracks that sound better on the studio recordings and some might even argue that a couple of these performances are overshadowed by the band's previous live offerings. Still, I'd definitely recommend you to give this one a go. Hopefully there will be a video release of these performances since we haven't got enough of those. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2015 - After The Flood - At The BBC 1968-1977 After The Flood - At The BBC 1968-1977 101. People You Were Going To (3:29) 102. Afterwards (4:41) 103. Necromancer (4:08) 104. Darkness (6:49) 105. After the Flood (10:56) 107. Theme One (2:56) 108. Vision (3:13) 111. W (5:08) 112. Killer (8:09) 201. Refugees (6:17) 202. Scorched Earth (9:40) 203. Sleepwalkers (9:59) 204. Still Life (7:19) 205. La Rossa (9:56) 206. When She Comes (8:09) 207. Masks (7:23) 208. Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (4:44) 209. The Sphinx in the Face (5:32) 210. (Fragments of) A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / Sleepwalkers (9:28) You get a real sense of how long ago Van Der Graaf Generator started with recordings going back to 1968. Considering I was born a year earlier, I actually have not had a chance to appreciate their body of work until my prog loving adulthood. The double disc has some of the best performances that you will ever hear from the band. It is so unfortunate that a few tracks suffer from poor sound quality, but they really improve as the years move along. Van Der Graaf Generator was so far ahead of its time, and this is an excellent showcase of their early catalog. I would call After the Flood an absolutely essential release for any fan of the band, and a non-studio album must purchase along with Vital. Van der Graaf Generator - 2012 - Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios Van der Graaf Generato Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios 101. Interference Patterns 102. Nutter Alert 103. Your Time Starts Now 104. Lemmings 105. Lifetime 106. Bunsho 107. Childlike Faith 201. Mr. Sands 202. Over The Hill 203. We Are Not Here 204. Man-Erg Drums – Guy Evans Organ – Hugh Banton Vocals, Guitar, Piano – Peter Hammill On the evening of December 18, 2010, 120 lucky Van Der Graaf Generator fans braved a blizzard to travel to West London's Metropolis Studios to take in a rare UK apearance by Peter Hamill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans. Among the most revered of the progressive rock groups to evolve in England during the late 60s and early 70s, VDGG performed songs from all stages of their career in an intimate atmosphere that was captured in a manner unlikely ever to be achieved again. Recorded and filmed on 18.12.2010 at special event at Metropolis Studios, West London Van der Graaf Generator's "Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London" is the latest live album from the wonderful eclectic prog legends, and it is everything a VDGG addict could hope for. The big three are here that have kept the dream alive for years; Peter Hammill is incredible on vocals, guitars, and keyboards, as is the indispensable darkened keyboard atmospheres of Hugh Banton, also on bass, and the incomparable drumming passion of Guy Evans seals the deal. This is a beautifully packaged 2 CD album, with stunning sound quality and an even more outstanding setlist. It opens with a terrific highlight from "Trisector", 'Interference Patterns' that gets the crowd warmed up and they seem impressed judging from the applause afterwards. One can never be disappointed with hearing a live version of 'Nutter Alert', and Hammill absolutely belts this out with as much passion and drive as on "Present". For the first time I was treated to a live version of a track from "A Grounding In Numbers", the passive thought provoking 'Your Time Starts Now', and it is wonderful. The live set includes some of the quintessential VDGG classics including, from the brilliant "Pawn Hearts", 'Lemmings', that clocks a mind bending 14:26. This is followed by "Trisector"'s 'Lifetime' , a song I had forgotten but as soon as it started I was delighted with the familiar melody. 'Bunsho' from "A Grounding In Numbers" follows and breezes by quickly, preparing us for the highlight of the album. 'Childlike Faith' is the popular gem from "Still Life" clocking 12:16. The piano is everpresent and a delightful augmentation of the overall texture, that resonates between dark and light with crashes of distorted chords. The tensions are subtle, releasing various musicians to take over and then holding back enough to let the music breathe. It is never overblown or pretentious due to the sincerity of blending Hammill's alienated vocals with Banton's keyboard finesse. The instrumental section is brilliant, sliding and swooping keyboards pouncing upon plunging guitar sweeps, creating a sense of isolation and intense abandonment in the icy wasteland. Disc Two is shorter at only 34:29, something I was not impressed with, as the whole thing only runs for about an hour and a half, but at least the concert is here to enjoy. It begins with 'Mr. Sands' from "A Grounding In Numbers". Then 'Over The Hill' running for 12:21, and 'We Are Not Here', both great tracks from "Trisector". 'Man-Erg' closes the album with an 11:50 version from the essential "Pawn Hearts" masterpiece. It is a sensational way to close the program, and the crowd offer their rapturous applause demonstrating their appreciation for a great concert experience. On the downside there is no sax because Jackson is absent and it is really missing the old VDGG magic without those blasting duel sax layers. Another thing is the band omit some songs that I would have been waiting with baited breath for if I had been at the concert, namely 'Killer', 'Darkness (11/11)', oh, and just a little bit of 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers', please fellers? Also unforgivably, nothing has been lifted from the grand trilogy "H To He Who Am The Only One", "The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other", or even "Godbluff". This is a mistake in my opinion as they could have easily injected another 4 or 5 songs, but I guess they are in the golden years now and not as spry as in the 70s years. One expects a decent length concert with the amount it costs to see a band these days so anything less than 2 hours is not really value for money. If this is the whole concert it feels a bit short for comfort. The other live albums were also quite short, though concerts generally were in the 70s, and we may recall that "Vital" from 1978 is about 90 minutes, "Maida Vale (BBC Sessions)" from the 70s is about 70 minutes, but "Real Time" recorded in 2007 is over 2 hours long! In any case the CD is exceptional quality, some great songs here and any excuse to revisit these songs given a live treatment is definitely worthwhile. It could have been better certainly, but overall this is excellent prog and proves there is life in the old generator yet! Van Der Graaf Generator - 2012 - Alt 01. Earlybird (4:01) 02. Extractus (1:39) 03. Sackbutt (1:54) 04. Colossus (6:33) 05. Batty Loop (1:11) 06. Splendid (3:46) 07. Repeat After Me (7:37) 08. Elsewhere (4:17) 09. Here's One I Made Earlier (5:41) 10. Midnite Or So (3:32) 11. D'Accord (2:25) 12. Mackarel Ate Them (4:47) 13. Tuesday, The Riff (2:42) 14. Dronus (10:37) - Peter Hammill / guitar - Hugh Banton / organ Only a short year after the rather average GIN album, the trio comes back with an uncharacteristic album, made for recent "odds and ends", improvs, soundchecks and other tidbits of the ilk. Of course, like everyone else, you're tempted to think of 05's Present's second "tedious" disc, and in some ways, you'd be absolutely right to think of it. But Alt is also rather more interesting a release; not least, because it is not overshadowed by a studio album with proper songs, like Present was. So the present (no big "P") album is made up of instrumental pieces that somehow found their ways into tapes or memory banks in the last six years ? none feature Jaxon's sax. And just like the improvised Present pieces from 05 were credited to all four members, all Alt tracks are credited to Evans, Banton & Hammill. The actual piecing/correcting and mixing of the material took place in a very inadapted place, modified by the band, as can be seen in the booklet's pictures. Opening with birds chirping away, the aptly-titled Early Bird is a slow dronal ambient, but occasionally tense pieces, (as will the closing 10-mins+ Dronus), and in some ways, you could think of some post-rock bands' soundscapes. Some other pieces are more Graafesque sonic-wise (Midnite, Batty Loop, Tuesday Or Extractus), but the conspicuous absence of vocals can somehow dismay the listener, but since we're never (or almost) in an actual "constructed song" context (probably even less so than on Present's disc 2), one should easily adapt and accept Alt for what it is: an anecdotic but instructive Graaf "archival" (not sure this is the right word for it) release. To call Alt an experimental album might just be overstating things (it's not revolutionary or groundbreaking) and yet it teaches us a few things about the band, and lets a different facet of the trio surface. More than in any other Graaf album, Alt lets you see (or hear, in this case) just how good Evans and Banton are on their respective tools. You'd tend to think that Jaxon's absence would be insurmountable on instrumentals like these, but it's just not the case: it forces Peter and Hugh to surpass themselves and be even more inventive. And there is no doubt that Hammill keeps getting better on keys and strings. Actually, Repeat After Me is a fairly good base to solid song, as it seems that it's only missing Peter's deep vocals and solemn lyrics. At times, the trio can get very Crimsonesque in their improvisations, like Elsewhere, Here's One, Colossus (where Banton deals with heavy-duty synth and loops), D'Accord and Mackerel. One more good point about Alt, is that it made me revisit Present's second disc with the improvisations, and I re-evaluated it (positively) in my book. Soooo, while not a normal studio album, Alt holds at least as much interest as some of the band's less inspired albums like World Record or the recent Grounding, but most likely for the average Graafhead, it will not get as much airplay in the long run, though I will probably be in the minority and come back to it occasionaly. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2011 - A Grounding In Numbers A Grounding In Numbers 01. Your Time Starts Now (4:14) 02. Mathematics (3:38) 03. Highly Strung (3:36) 04. Red Baron (2:23) 05. Bunsho (5:02) 06. Snake Oil (5:20) 07. Splink (2:37) 08. Embarrassing Kid (3:06) 09. Medusa (2:12) 10. Mr. Sands (5:22) 11. Smoke (2:30) 12. 5533 (2:42) 13. All Over The Place (6:03) - Peter Hammill / vocals, piano, guitar, bass (7) - Hugh Banton / organs, piano, glockenspiel, harpsichord, bass & 10-string bass, guitar (11) - Guy Evans / drums, percussion, guitar (12) Over two years after the release of the fabulous Trisector, VDGG returns with another batch of tracks written and recorded as a trio. Well after the excellent surprise of Trisector, the three compadres were going to have a tough time equalling or topping their previous effort, but then again the Generator always pull up aces from their sleeves when they need to. The least we can say is that A Grounding In Numbers is another worthy album despite the relatively (read too) sober artwork (well the vinyl features a cut-out) and the continued trend to avoid the famous logo. After a strong Your Time Starts Now (but not equalling the previous openers like Bloody Emperor and Interference Pattern), the album flips to the unofficial title track, dealing with an artificial (IMHO) concept about numbers and maths. Some might consider this "theme" a stroke of genius, but I can't help but thinking that Hammill might have had nothing stronger a thought to deliver to us at the time of writing and recording the album. Musically, the track is a small tour de force, but the weak lyrics bug me. Some tracks (a fair bit actually) are in the fairly basic (and disappointing) verse-chorus mode (well the usual VDGG complexity aside) with a short solo, like Highly Strung, which could've been AC/Roxy/DC-like with an almost tasteless chorus line, if you get my drift. Later on the album, Embarrassing Kid and Mr Sands are made from the same mould and Smoke has an almost new-wave/electro-pop sound (which I really don't think appropriate for them) and segues into another early-80's-ish track, 5533, which sounds a bit like the Talking Heads with a return to the math theme. There are some brilliant interludes (but not enough, IMHO), which allow for some breathing space, like the haunting instrumental Red Baron (Evans' awesome drumming), duly separating the violent Highly Strung from Bunsho, a quieter track, which seems to evolve from the Baron's descent, and where Peter deals out a decent guitar and very personal lyrics about his creation process. The challenging Snake Oil features a slow crescendo, some abrupt dynamics and then leaves the floor another instrumental interlude Splink, which is definitely not as successful and features some clunky harpsichord over those wild drums of Guy. The album closes on the longest (barely 6-mins) All Over The Place, with Hammill all over the harpsichord and the band finally unleashing mean solos to arouse our intellect. Too little too late, though. I'd love to have received as a bonus the non-album B-side instrumental piece to have taken the place of say that Embarrassing Kid song. Well if Trisector was quite a successful album that seemed to be over too quickly, I can't really say the same of AGIN, which tends to add up a bunch of fairly similar tracks (despite all having their own life), thus bringing a certain kind of fatigue around the 4/5th of the album. Indeed, what was clicking so well on the previous album was that the longer tracks provided breathing space and more instrumental interplay and moody ambiances. Here, the shorter song format (only four above the 5-mins mark) seems to hamper the song contents to deepen and explore their own soul to the fullest. Don't get me wrong, AGIN is still a very worthy Generator effort, but it won't retain its brilliance as long as its predecessor. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2009 - Live At The Paradiso Live At The Paradiso 01. Lemmings 02. A Place To Survive 03. Lifetime 04. (In The) Black Room 05. Every Bloody Emperor 06. All That Before 07. Gog 08. Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild 09. The Sleepwalkers 10. Man-Erg 11. Scorched Earth - Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar, pianos This show was held in my adoptive hometown, and it was one of the darkest most violent shows I have ever attended, the air was electric and menace was in the air, like a punk show in the early 80's... Memorable Night! This recording of a performance from pre-album touring for Trisector doesn't just show that the band would weather the loss of Jackson; it shows that, at this point, they were a vastly superior band without him. Lest someone accuse me of blasphemy, I'll emphasize the at this point in that sentence; it's impossible to imagine the 70s version of the band thriving and making a strong mark without Jackson's noisy woodwinds, especially given the relative lack of guitar on those albums. When the classic quartet reunited for Present and accompanying live performances (like the one on Real Time), though, they essentially became a touring museum piece, which wouldn't have been so problematic if Hammill's vocals didn't sound so out-of-place worn and old. When Jackson departed and the other three decided to carry on, this didn't just require them to find a new approach to take on any new studio material they might do; this required them to reinvent their performances of their classic material in a way that would still preserve their essence without exposing the potentially gaping void in the sound. This process of reinvention gives a spark and a life to these performances that I didn't expect coming in, and it helps make for a really enjoyable live album. Instrumentally, the main trick of the band is for Hammill's guitar to take a more central role than before, with his parts sometimes mimicking Jackson's old woodwind parts, and sometimes providing a level of noisy chaos that matches the general chaos Jackson's parts had provided. In terms of vocals, Hammill doesn't actually sound any better in tone and approach here than he does on Real Time, but the key here is to fill the setlist with material that doesn't require the kind of delicacy that he couldn't really provide in upper registers anymore. The only quiet ballads of the set are "Lifetime" (from Trisector) and "Every Bloody Emperor," and they're low-key enough (except for some angry moments near the end of the latter) and in a low enough register that there aren't any problems to deal with. The rest of the album consists of the kind of noisy material that is only helped by Peter's yelps and growls and half-singing. Plus, forcing Peter into a lower register has a major positive effect on one track: "Gog," from Peter's In Camera album, always seemed a little awkwardly pompous to me with Peter singing in the angelic higher range of his youth, but in a lower voice, the opening line of, "Some men have me Satan, others have me God..." suddenly becomes menacing as hell, and his voice generally gives a heft that wasn't present in the original. The album has a lot of good material, but the major highlights come from World Record. Both "Place to Survive" (10 minutes to 7 minutes) and "Meurglys III" (20+ minutes to 16) are slightly abbreviated from before, but the shortening isn't really noticable, and they both exemplify all of the best aspects of the "power trio" VDGG. Trust me, you won't miss the saxes; the guitars give a dirty and sloppy edge that had always been slightly present in the studio versions but now become one of the best parts of the songs. Look, this isn't one of the very best live albums I've ever heard (whatever weaknesses were in the studio versions of these tracks don't suddenly disappear completely), but it's definitely one of the most shockingly revelatory live albums I've ever heard. One thing I always hope for from a live album is for a few sonic surprises (which this album definitely has) and a few renditions of tracks that will make a case for being my favorite rendition of that track (aside from these being my preferred versions of the two World Record tracks, this also has my favorite "Lemmings" and my favorite "Scorched Earth"). If you're a fan of the band and you're not a diehard Jackson fan who refuses to acknowledge anything from after he left, you absolutely must get this album. More than anything else from this era, it cements late-period VDGG as having one of the very best late-period stages of any significant prog rock band. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2008 - Trisector 01. The Hurlyburly (4:34) 02. Interference Patterns (3:49) 03. The Final Reel (5:47) 04. Lifetime (4:43) 05. Drop Dead (4:44) 06. Only in a Whisper (6:43) 07. All That Before (6:26) 08. Over the Hill (12:26) 09. (We Are) Not Here (4:04) - Hugh Banton / organ, bass - Guy Evans / drums percussion Van Der Graaf Generator reformed for the second time to make Present in 2005, and since then Jackson has jumped ship for the second time. On the previous occasion that this happened VDGG recruited a violinist and welcomed erstwhile bassist Nic Potter back into the fold; the resulting album, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome was generally considered a disappointment when it was released but has stood the test of time rather well. This time around the core members have decided to continue as a trio, and the resulting album is perhaps less immediate but deeper and more coherent than Present. Trisector sees a number of changes for the band, some more obvious than others. The three piece VDGG has something of a keyboard dominated sound, although Hammill's distinctly non virtuoso guitar gets a more than adequate airing, and comparatively short songs are the order of the day. All but one of the nine tracks is credited to Banton/Evans/Hammill, the first time that group songwriting has dominated a VDGG album, and the overall mood and sound is relatively low key and gloomy, perhaps due to the church organ sound that Banton favours for many of the songs. They toured as a three piece before this was recorded, and they are clearly relaxed and confident in their stripped down format. But is it any good? The answer is a definite, though not unqualified, yes. The writing and arrangements are tight and focused, the musicians demonstrate a spellbinding interplay and the album's high points are well up to their extremely high standards. There are a few weak spots; the instrumental opener The Hurlyburly would have been twice as effective if it had been two minutes long instead of four and half, and there are passages where Hammill adds some lead guitar and the absence of Jackson's sax is really noticeable . On Drop Dead it sounds as though Hammill's old alter ego Rikki Nadir has briefly taken over the proceedings - it will probably work superbly in concert, but the clodhopping beat rather disrupts the flow of the album. The best tracks more than make up for the weaker moments, though. Only In a Whisper is a jazz tinged number featuring Hammill on Fender Rhodes and Banton on bass guitar, with splendidly restrained vocals and featherlight dumming. It's a beautifully understated performance from a band that has never shied away from the grand gesture, and all the more effective for it. All That Before is an uptempo rocker that really hits home, and Hammill's rhythm guitar playing beefs things up to great effect. The centrepiece of the album is the epic Over the Hill, which is everything an old school prog fan could wish for; time changes galore, constantly shifting moods and tempi and a bravura vocal performance of some suitably oblique lyrics which could refer the history of VDGG or Hammill's own existential turmoil. Prog rock doesn't get much better than this in any era or sub genre. Following the triumph of Present and the subsequent live shows it seemed that VDGG had nothing left to prove, but Trisector demonstrates that they've still got everything to play for. Banton and Evans have rarely sounded better, and they provide some of the best settings ever for Hammill's voice and lyrics. Trisector isn't Pawn Hearts or Godbluff, but it isn't trying to be, which is probably its greatest strength. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2007 - Real Time 101. The Undercover Man (8:29) 104. Every Bloody Emperor (7:36) 105. Lemmings (13:20) 106. (In The) Black Room (11:16) 107. Nutter Alert (6:05) 203. The Sleepwalkers (10:44) 206. Wondering (7:01) Total Time: 128:46 Recorded Live at The Royal Festival Hall, London, 6th May 2005 Bonus CD from 2007 Japanese edition: 301. Pilgrims (Live in Paris) 302. When She Comes (Live in Amsterdam) 303. Still Life (Live in Taormina) 304. Gibberish (Soundcheck in Amsterdam) - Peter Hammill / vocals, Meurglys III & DeArmond guitars, Yamaha DX7 Mk I (w/ GEM piano module) - Hugh Banton / Roland VR760 & VK7 (with virtual Hammond generators), Fx pedals, Leslie Speaker - David Jackson / saxophones, flute After the much-awaited studio return of the classic VDGG quartet (which turned out to be fine but not fabulous as we'd have hoped), this album is (a bit unknowingly) the second album that they will record in a few months. Indeed, this album was recorded on the opening night of their reunion tour, and does it ever show: you don't need to be watching films or videos, you can just feel the excitement and the tension of the event, just playing this CD in your living room. Although I understand the point of recording the opening night, I am a bit perplexed as to why release it as a live album, because obviously the night was technically imperfect. Generally the quality of the acoustics and the recording are not really at stakes here, but more the quartet's shaky start. For very understandable with such fan expectations, the pressure's weight must've incredibly perturbed them for their first night in almost 30 years as VDGG. Their coordination was clearly on shaky grounds at first (even if they started with the awesome but shortened Undercover Man, one of my favourites), especially with Jaxon, and at one point, you can almost feel that they will fall apart in Scorched Earth. But by the fourth track, after the early crowd favourite Refugees (also shortened, but well played), the quartet attacks a well-rehearsed track, the opening of their new album, Every Bloody Emperor (clearly the album's best track and one of the rare that stands up to the older tracks) and this was obviously a confidence booster. Lemmings was always a bit difficult for me, but I must say that this live version is completely baffling, but not necessarily positively: This version is utter chaos to my ears but this is where they unleash themselves, Jaxon's sax often over-saturating. Not really that familiar with Black Room, this "surprise" track makes almost the effect of a new (and superb) number that I have spun more often than the rest of this album, so far, and its dynamics are impressive. The first disc closes on an excellent (but shortened again) Darkness, where now the group has got all of its chops together and are starting to shine, Banton ruling on this one. Funnily enough, the Generator is only pumping out one excellent track every second number: after the excellent Black Room, Darkness and the outstanding Childhood's End and later the outstanding Man-Erg (even if Jaxon's sax is again not perfect), there are tracks that I find lesser or not that well rendered on that night: Masks and Sleepwalkers (still with the hated Cha-Cha-Cha) are not pleasers for this writer (even if the latter is impeccably played), but nevermind me. The always-excellent Killer comes in to break this alternating cycle and reversing it with the night ending in a questionable Wondering. (couldn't resist that one ;-) Again I must wonder about the choice of releasing the opening night's recordings, beyond of course the title's theme of Real Time; they give the time of start and the end of the concert as well as the exact longitude and latitude of the RFH on the booklet artwork, and Hammill's in-between songs presentations are all based on Time, as was the Present album they were promoting. But the rough start aside, this is a good testimony of VDGG's powerful presence on stage. Although one can discuss of the track list: only two (but two out of three's only excellent) tracks from Present, two from The Least (no surprises there), one only from H To He, two from Pawn Heart (but not the one I was hoping for ;-) is a good token that Hammill & Co, are now fully reconciled with their first period. However, I am a little disappointed that, with the unsurprising three tracks from Godbluff, there is only one from Still Life (but what a track it is, though), but two are from the rather average World Record (and not my choices either), but this is of relative minor importance. While the band is not really as tight as they could be (this is opening night after a 30-years holiday after all), this album is already a classic live Generator album that has its place alongside the fairly different Vital. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2005 - Present 102. Boleas Panic (6:50) 104. Abandon Ship! (5:07) 105. In Babelsberg (5:30) 106. On the Beach (6:48) IMPROVISATIONS: 201. Vulcan Meld (7:19) 202. Double Bass (6:34) 203. Slo Moves (6:24) 204. Architectural Hair (8:55) 205. Spanner (5:03) 206. Crux (5:50) 207. Manuelle (7:51) 208. 'Eavy Mate (3:51) 209. Homage to Teo (4:45) 210. The Price of Admission (8:49) - Peter Hammill / lead vocals, guitar, electric piano - Hugh Banton / Roland VR760 & Roland VK7 (with virtual Hammond generators), bass - David Jackson / saxophone, flute, Soundbeam Van der Graaf Generator returned with "Present", this 2005 album, that comes after the final studio album in 1977. It was a long hiatus and one may have been forgiven for assuming that the band would have become stale or lost their prog roots and ultimate weirdness, of course great bands like this will always provide something very special. They are definitely back and are as progressive as ever. The line up is such a nice surprise featuring of course visionary genius Peter Hammill on lead vocals, guitar and piano, and he is joined by the big three; Guy Evans on percussion, Hugh Banton on organs, piano, Mellotron, bass pedal/guitar, synthesizer and the biggest treasure for me, is the return of the extraordinary David Jackson on saxophone. The sax was absent on the last few studio releases so it was a terrific addition to include it here. 'Every Bloody Emperor' kicks it off well and sounds like vintage VDGG with that cool sax, and Hammill's vindictive serious vocals. Even the lyrics have that distinct VDGG style. This is followed by a wonderful dreamy sax and measured tempo on the instrumental 'Boleas Panic' that is kind of slow and haunting. A highlight is definitely 'Nutter Alert' that pretty well sums up this eclectic music. It has a moderate tempo sax driven time sig, and some Dracula organ, providing a trademark VDGG sound. The lyrics are typical Hammill such as "is it the pricking of the conscious, is it the itching of hair shirt, is it the dictionary definition, of a precipice to skirt?, It's the nutter alert." I love the instrumental break with grinding keyboards, and the time sig is a progger's delight. Jackson is delightful as he blasts out a sax inferno in the freak out of organ phrases and off sync percussion. Hammill sums it up beautifully, "You're a car crash in the making, head-on, that's a racing cert, It's the nutter alert". 'Abandon Ship!' is a lot of fun and has the same type of thematic content as 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers'. It has a scratchy raw guitar riff and this is joined by sax and organ blasts over the odd meter of drumming. The lyrics are the kind that can only be found on a VDGG album. Who the heck would use the words "Oh, the heptagenarians got behind the decks, while the skeleton crew went through the motions, it was only the medication that was keeping them erect, Yeah, the devil got the best tunes so god knows what comes next." The sig goes all over the place in a kind of jazz meltdown, with sax coming in impromptu outbursts and very bizarre drum beats over hectic keyboard phrases. This is a sheer delight, as quirky as the band gets; they certainly have not lost their quirkiness and unbridled charm. When Hammill yells "Abandon Ship!" he is not kidding! 'In Babelsberg' follows on, a rather messy track with too many Hammill vocals before we are finally released into some punked up guitar and off kilter sax and organ. Again I love the sax sound and the way the song builds into a steady pace with some hi hat work and cymbal splashes. It actually sounds as though two separate songs are being played together at one stage, with sax competing against the other instruments, but that's the way we love our VDGG; served up chilling and cold with unpredictable fractured signatures and arrangements. 'On the Beach' ends it with a 6:48 composition, that includes some studio banter that is kind of cool to hear in the intro; "a cross between cool jazz and surfing safari, it has that kind of sinister vibe". Hey, who's reviewing this album anyway? When the band shut up it moves into a minimal organ and a Hammillian piece of reflection, a nice part of the VDGG repertoire. The squeaky sax is nice and the lyrics "even the Silver Surfer agrees" is a cool touch for comic fans. A weird low key way to end this album but nevertheless a very pleasant journey. CD Two is VDGG 'IMPROVISATIONS' where we can listen for just over an hour to some of the studio improvs and sound check kanoodling of the band that ranges from okay to fair to awful, but it is only a bonus and if treated as such it is a nice way to spend an afternoon. Similar to the improvs unleased on "Time Vaults", there are some really weird oddities here including the sax and organ battle on 'Vulcan Meld' that clocks 7 minutes and features waves on the beach effects that are soothing to the senses and augment the music very well. There are lot of ideas scattered in the sound and it could be aptly described as swinging jazz math rock mixed with eclectic avant RIO. 'Double Bass' has a nice synth run and a funky bass with some spacey squelches and an incessant drum improv sig. I like the sax and the way it builds to a free form swing, the band obviously enjoying themselves with a few "ooh yeahs" thrown in. The melody kind of sounds familiar as though from "Godbluff" but I can't place it. 'Architectural Hair' is a heavy repetitive thing numbing your ears for about 9 minutes, if you can endure it. 'Eavy Mate' is kind of fun nonsense that fades up mid way through with sax squeaks and squawks and scattered percussion. It is just the band unleashing their instruments and occasionally it sounds as though they are melding together to form some semblance of a song. 'Spanner' is a drummer's paradise and has some chilling sax. 'Crux' is a slow tempo piece with a raw recording sound and delightful sax, and guitar strums. The sound is more together than other tracks and works as a pleasant instrumental. 'Manuelle' is grinding keyboards that irritate after a while but it is nice the way the drums and sax build over. It sounds a lot like 'Meurglys III' from "World Record" when this lineup was last heard. Once again it is too lengthy without any vocals and no actual melody to lock into. The absence of Hammill's vocals is not a very welcome aspect as it his vocals that carries most of the best VDGG songs. None of the tunes are memorable and feel like a very rushed afterthought, and only with tinges of inspirational genius. Tracks such as 'Slo Moves' that overstays its welcome by about 4 minutes are dull, and a lot of this music is really crying out for some kind of lyric or at the very least a melody. 'Homage To Teo' is another weird one with no meter and just a lot of sax and avant garde sounds; perhaps some may call this genius, bit I can't hear it without wanting it to end. 'The Price of Admission' is a 9 minutes snorefest of noisy avant RIO and capped off with waves crashing. It is more of a curio then a true document of the band at their best. I guess I feel more like a fly on the wall in a studio being privy to hearing the raw unfinished material, that perhaps should have never seen the light of day. But it is still interesting to hear what these genius's get up to at work while us mere mortals are occupying our time trying to make ends meet. This bonus CD was included on the special edition but not on others and comes across as unnecessary at times, and is one CD I won't return to often, however it is far superior to the latest 2012 "ALT" album that is all improvisation and sold off as an actual album, which is really unforgiveable. In any case "Present" is a satisfactory album that has been surpassed since by "A Grounding in Numbers", and it is well worth seeking out for VDGG addicts, of which I am one. It is great to see these visionary progenitors of prog back, recording new material when we were all under the impression they had finished long ago. Van Der Graaf Generator - 2000 - The Box Bless The Baby Born Today 107. White Hammer (8:16) 108. House With No Door (6:33) 110. Lost (11:09) The Tower Reels 201. Theme 1 (3:01) 203. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers (23:06) 204. (In the) Black Room/The Tower (11:47) One More Heaven Gained 302. Arrow (8:53) 304. My Room (7:29) 305. Sleepwalkers (10:26) 306. Pilgrims (7:11) Like Something Out Of Edgar Allen Poe 405. The Wave (3:15) 406. Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running) (4:49) 407. Chemical World (6:14) 408. Door (3:26) 409. Sci-Finance (6:16) - Guy Evans / drums, percussion, baliphones - Hugh Banton / keyboards, drum programmes - David Jackson / saxes, flutes, keyboards - Peter Hammill / vocals, piano - Chas Dickie / cello - Keith Ellis / bass and background vocals - Nick Potter / bass I am a fan of box sets, having acquired over the years box sets of many artists including King Crimson, Yes and Pink Floyd, however I was not sure whether a high price tag would be justified for a set of Van der Graaf Generator CDs. This set known iconically as "The Box", consists of many of the tracks already available on their studio albums and, as I already have all these albums, I was hesitant to buy. However it has been a long time since a VDGG purchase and there were enough live and alternative versions of tracks to peak my interest. CD1 is a collection of the early years of the band who need no introduction. Some unusual live versions from a BBC Top Gear session recorded in November 1968, starts off this wonderful compilation. The live tracks were new to me, including upbeat 'People You Were Going To', slow wondering 'Afterwards', and the drum-heavy 'Necromancer' that is even better than the version on the debut thanks to the staccato organ hammering. There is also a live track from BBC Peel Session recorded in December 1971, 'Refugees'. Fascinating compositions 'Darkness (11/11)', with some scintillating sax, and acoustic and organ-driven powerhouse 'After The Flood' are from BBC Top Gear January 1970, and all are agreeable versions; raw, low-fi and intense, but almost as good as the originals despite the hissing radio production. The CD does include some original studio tracks, the dark dynamic 'White Hammer' from "The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other", and from "H To He Who Am The Only One" the pensive reflections of 'House With No Door', 'Killer' and 'Lost'. 'Killer' is definitely indispensable and had to be included, but in place of some of the other tracks here perhaps 'Gog' or 'Octopus' would have been a better choice. In any case, it is a solid start showcasing the pioneering years of the band. CD2 has some unusual choices, as the band became prog legends during the 70s, such as BBC Black Sessions recording from June 1971 of the exuberant catchy 'Theme One' and for some strange reason the B-side of this single, the plodding 'W' is here, not a great song but I like the weird instrumental break. Quintessential VDGG is present with the extraordinary prog epic from "Pawn Hearts", 'A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers', all 23 glorious minutes of it. I cannot offer enough superlatives about this atmospheric beast, needless to say it is a masterpiece not to be missed. Then three live tracks recorded in Rimini 1975, the hypnotic raucous '(In The) Black Room/The Tower', the bludgeoning 16 minute 'Lemmings' and reflective odyssey 'Man-Erg', the latter two that are brilliant studio releases but still hold some power on the stage, and have some killer passages of mind blowing music that light up with a detonation of sax, organ, bass and drums. The live songs are bootleg quality but are nevertheless prime examples of the band exploring dynamics and jaw dropping freakouts of improvisation, and as such are well worth a listen. Overall, a great CD, especially for those who do not own "Pawn Hearts". CD3 features familiar VDGG material from the excellent "Still Life", such as 'La Rossa', the title track, 'Pilgrims', and 'Childlike Faith In Childhood's End', which are great but the edited version of 'My Room' is nothing worth pursuing. There is also an edit of 'Arrow' from "Godbluff" that ruined the original, fading up during the instrumental, but it was nice to hear 'Sleepwalkers' both from the wonderful "Godbluff". From the Rimni 1975 concert is the intense masterwork 'Scorched Earth', and it still sounds as powerful as the original. A decent CD but with some unfortunate cruel edits marring the work of the band. VDGG should never be edited no matter what, but this is what happens on box sets when producers try to cram as much as they can into the CDs, the same applied for King Crimsons box sets "21st Century Guide to King Crimson", and the edits are seldom welcome. CD4 encompasses the poorest era of the band and features the best of "World Record", 'Masks', 'When She Comes', 'Wondering' and an edit of the epic 'Muerglys III' that never did impress me in it's lengthy form either. That takes care of VDGG's worst album and then we move onto "Quiet Zone" with 'The Wave', and 'Chemical World' which are not too bad, though 'Cat's Eye/ Yellow Fever' is the best track on that album. This track is featured however as a live track from a 1974 BBC Peel Session, and it is quite appealing with violent violin serrations, deep bass and Hammill's anguished vocals. 'Door' is also here from Virgin Vault in 1977, and it is as good as the version that appears as a bonus track elsewhere. From the great live "Vital" album the choice is 'Sci-Finance' and the compilation concludes dramatically with 'The Sphinx In The Face' from BBC Peel Session 1977. The booklet is always a drawcard in these boxsets, where we learn about the making of albums, the lineup changes, the highs and lows of being involved with a strange eclectic prog band, scattered with interesting pictures, cuttings, headlines and information. The box is sturdy and looks great on the shelf, so if you are into the band this is certainly a worthy addition. On the other hand for those who only have one or two VDGG albums, I fully recommend this set as it features such a wide range of material, with some incredible live performances such as 'Lemmigs'. There is enough here to appreciate even if you have all the albums but even with the double ups of tracks, it is a good evening's listen culminating in a 5 hour marathon of the brilliant bizarre progenitors of prog, the almighty Van der Graaf Generator. Posted by Zen Archer at 3:31:00 AM 2 comments: Links to this post Van Der Graaf Generator - 1994 - Maida Vale Maida Vale (The BBC Radio One Sessions) 01. Darkness (7:21) 02. Man-Erg (11:08) 03. Scorched Earth (9:42) 04. Sleepwalkers (10:01) 05. Still Life (7:22) 06. La Rossa (10:01) 07. When She Comes (8:10) 08. Masks (7:24) - Peter Hammill / vocals, guitars, keyboards - Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and guitar - David Jackson / saxes, flutes Actually very few live recordings of VDGG exists because on the group's own admittance , they were horrible on 40% of their gigs and bearble on 30% of the others. This left only 30% of the gigs were they could've recorded (given that they knew in advance they would smoke and that conditions allowed the recording) and this explains that the only real live album was Vital under the VDG monicker. So are we thankfull that the Beeb existed. While not really live recordings per se , the sessions made that they played together some of those real classic tracks . Unfortunately most of the tracks are from the second era (I said unfortunately but I like that one better than the first) so the early stuff is not well represented here as well. I think the material from Pawnheart or The Least is most interesting to hear live. Nevertheless we have some kind of live recordings and it should please all unconditional fans. This is the closest thing we can get to a live VDGG album by the classic line-up of Hammill, Banton, Jackson, Evans (OK, there are live tracks at "The Box", but a box-set does not count as a live album - except King Crimson's "The Great Deceiver". In fact, as the songs here were culled from BBC Sessions, this is actually a "live in the studio" album. That said, let's face the facts: this is a great album, with a fantastic song selection and good recording quality (the first two tracks, recorded in 1971, are slightly poorer than the others in terms of recording). From 8 tracks, six comes from VDGG's "second generation" (two from each album recorded by the classic line-up during this period). So this album also serves as a satisfactory introduction to the second generation, but not to their full career. Another BBC sessions can be found at the aforementioned "The Box", and maybe this album should have been re-released as a 2-CD set to fans who cannot afford to the more expensive box set. Highlights: "Darkness", "Scorched Earth", "La Rossa" and "When She Comes" (the last two are actually better than the studio versions). Recommended to all VDGG fans and to all prog-rock lovers. Posted by Zen Archer at 3:05:00 AM 1 comment: Links to this post Van Der Graaf Generator - 2009 - Live At The Parad... Van Der Graaf Generator - 2011 - A Grounding In Nu... Van der Graaf Generator - 2012 - Live in Concert a... Van Der Graaf Generator - 2015 - After The Flood -...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line425
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Tooele City’s National Weather Service observer recorded a total snowfall for November that was 9.4 more inches more than normal, or 92.2% above average. The November snowfall totaled 19.6 inches in Tooele City. All of that snow fell between Nov. 25 and Nov. 29. Snowfall on Nov. 25 measured 5.1 inches. On Nov. 26 another half an inch of snow fell. Nov. 27 saw an inch of powder snow accumulated, followed by 9 inches of snow on Nov. 28. As the storm left Tooele, it dropped a final 4 inches of snow on Nov. 29, according to NWS weather observer Ned Bevan. The actual accumulation of snow at different locations throughout the city may have varied. Up in the mountains, the storm started out the new water year with a healthy accumulation of snow. The snow water equivalent, or the amount of water in the snow pack, for the Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin was 159% of the basin’s annual median value on Nov. 30, 2019. Last year, on the same day, the basin was reported at 87% of the median value, according to National Resource Conservation Service SNOTEL reports. There are three SNOTEL sites in the Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin: Rocky Basin-Settlement Canyon, Mining Fork, and Vernon Creek. They reported 6.1, 4.9 and 2.2 inches of snow water equivalent as of Nov. 30, respectively, for 142%, 175%, and 183% of the median value for Nov. 30. In Tooele City the average high temperature for November was 49.9 degrees with Nov. 6, 13 and 18 as the warmest days of the month with a daytime high temperature of 50 degrees. The coldest daytime temperature in November in the city was 30 degrees on Nov. 26. The lowest overnight temperature was 17 degrees, also on Nov. 26, with an average nightly low for the month of November of 29.2 degrees. While the snowpack in the mountains is holding more water than the median year, precipitation in the city is behind for the new water year. Bevan reported the total precipitation for the water year for Tooele City, which began Oct. 1, was at 2.48 inches on Nov. 30. Normal precipitation total for that time period in Tooele City is 3.5 inches, according to Bevan’s report. SNOTEL, or snow telemetry, are remote battery powered sites across western mountains that automatically measure and transmit information about snow depth, water content, rainfall, and air temperature. They are managed by the USDA’s National Resources and Conservation Service. The Rocky Basin-Settlement Canyon site is located at 8,704 feet near Rocky Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, the Mining Fork site is in South Willow Fork in the Stansbury Mountains at 8,295 feet, and the Vernon Creek site is at 7,401 feet in the Sheeprock Mountains. Editor at Tooele Transcript Bulletin Tim has been writing for the Transcript Bulletin since October 2017. In February 2019 he was named as editor. 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__label__cc	0.654176	0.345824	Profile of Nexy Recordsmith Show Pictures Show Buddies Messages - Nexy Recordsmith Creative Features / Re: Skill Doors using Scripts? Quote from: Liam B on May 22, 2015, 02:19:28 PM Is there anyway I can use a script like this but for all of the skills? Instead of Health >= 20, have something like Total >= 750. Total level and combat level are not recognized by the HasSkill command. I suggested for that to be changed a while back. There's a way to have a script check for combat level but it would take quite some time to write and an absurd amount of lines in that script lol Basically, that's about what it would look like: History [total level] [delete] [player] //repeat 2625 times to ensure the player doesn't have any total level history marks left XD HasSkill [health] [=] [1] History [total level] [player] Now that would have to be repeated for every level until 175 and then that would have to be repeated for every skill. At the end of the script, have it check if the player has at least 750 total level history marks and teleport them if they do. As you can see, this script would be many thousands of lines long Introductions / Re: xTokioBeatlex Introduction Hey TokioBeatle, welcome to the forums, where death himself could be waiting around any corner Introductions / Re: New member Welcome, RAINA. Ideas / Re: InvaderLord Invaderman is already regarded as one of the hardest avatars to unlock; the majority of people does not have it, and a portion of the people that do have it, unlocked it via illegitimate means. This isn't really a problem though, as a score of 20 000 is still within the range that most people can reach if they give it enough time. Most people that have Invaderman did not cheat for it. With an unlockable that requires over 40k score, the amount of people that unlock it legitimately would be far far lower than the amount of people who cheat it (I'm talking 99.9+%) and it would turn into an avatar that is viewed as "only unlockable through cheating", and the people who actually earn it would be regarded as cheaters. Yes, some might say that if you unlock it legimately, you will know that you earned it and what others think should not affect you blah blah xD, but of course you'd want to show off if you went through all the trouble of unlocking it (which would be many many hours of trying) and get recognition for it, which you won't get, because, as I said before, you will be called a cheater. TL,DR: Different unlock method please. Bug Reports [Processed] / Re: Combat level PvP glitch Quote from: Tyrael on May 17, 2015, 04:54:52 PM It may have something to do with it, but I know these players are level one because I have tested it with friends who are level one and they can still attack me For them, your skills are displayed as level 1, hence they can attack&damage you. I am pretty certain that this has to do with the "skills-not-displaying-correctly in-multiplayer-bug", and will be fixed in 2.21. Ideas / Re: Edit zones Yes, it was changed a while ago. A zone with less strict (edit, in this case) settings will take priority over a zone with stricter settings (no-edit) as long as it is fully contained within the stricter zone. Bug Reports [Processed] / Re: Items dropped on death I believe the OP is referring to a bug that causes items to still show in the player's hands after dying and losing their inventory. Ideas / Re: Idea for a Script I'm struggling to see a use for this that can not already be achieved with existing scripts. Bug Reports [Processed] / Re: Exiting worlds & rating Adventure permission is required for rating, so on those maps which do not allow you to rate, it is probably turned off	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line432

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