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__label__wiki	0.722857	0.722857	Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics Find In this Encyclopedia Edited by: Kerric Harvey DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452244723 Subject: Political Communications, Political Communication, Social Media LessMore information > Print ISBN: 9781452244716 \| Online ISBN: 9781452244723 Online Publication Date: March 3, 2014 Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc. \| Print Purchase Options The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics and the amazing transformations that social media use is rendering in other political systems heretofore resistant to democratization and change. In a time when social media are revolutionizing and galvanizing politics in the United States and around the world, this encyclopedia is a must-have reference. It reflects the changing landscape of politics where old modes and methods of political communication from elites to the masses (top down) and from the masses to elites (bottom up) are being ... Pub. Year: 2014 \| Online Pub. Date: March 3, 2014 \| DOI: 10.4135/9781452244723 \| Online ISBN: 9781452244723 \| Harvey, K. (Ed.) (2014). Encyclopedia of social media and politics (Vols. 1-3). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781452244723 Harvey, Kerric, ed. Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781452244723. Harvey, K (ed.) 2014, Encyclopedia of social media and politics, vol. 3, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, viewed 19 January 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781452244723. Harvey, Kerric, ed. Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 19 Jan. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781452244723. Celebrities and Pioneers in Social Media and Politics Actors and Social Media in Politics Antibullying Campaigns Antislavery Campaign and Social Media Artists and Social Media in Politics Musicians and Social Media in Politics Pioneers in Social Media and Politics Television Personalities and Social Media in Politics Writers and Social Media in Politics Zuckerberg, Mark Congressional Social Media Usage (Most Active Members) Bachmann, Michele Boehner, John Cantor, Eric Chaffetz, Jason Clinton, Hillary Coburn, Tom Cornyn, John DeMint, Jim Durbin, Richard J. Ellison, Keith Ellmers, Renee Forbes, J. Randy Franken, Al Gillibrand, Kirsten Grassley, Chuck Gutiérrez, Luis V. Hagan, Kay Hatch, Orrin Hoyer, Steny Inouye, Dan Issa, Darrell Lieberman, Joe McCarthy, Kevin McCaskill, Claire McConnell, Mitch McCotter, Thaddeus Menendez, Robert Pelosi, Nancy Polis, Jared Portman, Rob Price, Tom Ryan, Paul Sanders, Bernie Schumer, Charles Thune, John Udall, Mark Vitter, David Warner, Mark West, Allen Measuring Social Media's Political Impact Clickable Calls to Action Click-Through Rate CNN Effect Dragonfly Effect, The Fiscal Cliff Crisis Geo-Locational Enabling Googlearchy and Politics Inferring Sentiment Influence on Elections Innocence of Muslims, The Klout Score Long-Tail Nano-Targeting Meme Mapping Microtargeting MoveOn Effect, The Myth of Digital Democracy Network Influentials Pew Internet and American Life Project Polarization, Political Proxy Measurements Psychographics Search Engine Bias/“Google Bias” Snowball Effect Social Authority Social Media Political Gaming Voter Demographics Misuse of Social Media in the Political Arena: Issues and Ethics Al Gore's Penguin Army Cyber-Vigilantism Decoy Campaign Web Sites Ethics of Social Media in Politics Hate Speech, Online and Social Media Online Smear Campaigns Phishing, Political Pornography, Revenge Push Polling Social Media Career Wreckers Sockpuppets Truthy Research Project Vote Different Wikipedia Misuse Social Media, Candidates, and Campaigns 140ELECT.com Blog for America Campaigns, 2012 Campaigns, Congressional (2000) Campaigns, Digital Campaigns, E-Mail Campaigns, Grassroots Campaigns, Organizing Campaigns, Presidential (2000) Campaigns, Virtual Candidate Image Candidates, Political Branding of Coattail Effect ContractfromAmerica.org DemocracyforAmerica.com FightTheSmears.com Forecasting Elections Fundly Negative Campaigning Obama for America iPhone Application Palin Phenomenon Political Base Political Information Opportunity Structures Social Media Strategies and Tactics VoteBuilder.com VoterVault.com YouTube Politics Channel Social Media, Politics, and Culture 100Reporters Whistleblower Alley 38Degrees.org.uk Addiction, Social Media Advocacy Groups, Political Branding of Alpha Blogger Blogs, Role in Politics Catholic Church and Social Media Center for Democracy and Technology Colbert Report, The Digerati Domestic Surveillance and Social Media Evolution of Social Media Faith-Based Social Change Hard Place Theater I Am Gonna Be Your Friend Campaign i-Docs.org Information Abundance International Examples of Political Parties and Social Media International Online Communities International Social Media and Politics Islam and Social Media Judaism and Social Media Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Mobile Connectivity, Trends in Politics and Monarchies, Social Media, and Politics Networks, Political Open.Dems OpenLeaks Personal Democracy Media Petraeus, David PolitiFact.com Professional Bloggers Race/Ethnicity and Social Media Radical Decentralization Secondhand Political Engagement Television and Social Media Twindex Twitter Archiving Project, Library of Congress Twitter Diplomacy United Nations Global Pulse Initiative and Big Data USAID Impact Blog Voter Privacy Voting, Global Electronic Weiner, Anthony West Wing Week Social Media and Networking Web Sites Bambuser.com BlackPlanet.com Cloud Tiger Media Delicious.com EdgeRank HeadCount.org Moblog.net OpenCongress.org OpenGovernment.org RightOnline.com Social Networking Web Sites Trendrr TwitVid.com Wikis and Collaborative Project Web Sites Social Media and Political Unrest 18DaysinEgypt.com Cyber-Jihad Cynicism, Political Demonstrations, Organizing Developing Nations Estrada, Joseph Fax Machines and Tiananmen Square Crisis Flash Mobs as a Political Tactic GetUp.org.au Idlenomore.ca International Unrest and Revolution Internet Gathering Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Mamfakinch Mosireen.org Near-Me Tabs and Political Protests OpenTunisia.org Piccadilly Riots, London Quebec, Canada, 2012 Student Protests Seattle 1999 WTO Protests Speak2Tweet Third Palestinian Intifada TuniLeaks.org Voter Apathy Wikileaks/Arab Spring WikiScanner and Political Spin Doctoring YouTube War Social Media and Social Issues, Activism, and Movements Activists and Activism, Digital Africa, North American Debt Crisis and Twitter Antiwar Protesting Blood Sport Campaigns Bottom-Up Campaigns Cause-Marketing Campaigns Clicktivism ColorofChange.org Conflict Resolution, Social Media and Digital Diplomacy Digital Due Process Coalition Documentaries, Social Media, and Social Change Economic and Social Justice Education, Issues in Feb 17 voices Get Out the Vote Drives Global Center for Journalism and Democracy Homophily HopeLab I Am Second Movement Immersive Journalism Indexoncensorship.org Interactive Advertising Bureau International Intervention Internet Society, The Islam, Nation of Liberation Technology London School of Economics Public Policy Group Membership Communications Project Microfinance Initiatives Military–Industrial Complex MIT Center for Civic Media Nation of Islam Movement National Center for Digital Government National Press Club Open Source Politics Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Project Vote Smart Robin Hood Foundation Schools4All Shot@Life Campaign Social Issues Advocacy, Netroots Driven Social Issues and Augmented Reality Social Media Research Foundation Spanish 15M Movement Special Interest Campaigns Spending and Debt, Government Stanford Center for Internet and Society Twestival Web Mapping and Online Politics World Can't Wait World Internet Project World Press Freedom Index World Without Oil Social Media Concepts and Theories Al Jazeera Effect Algorithmic Authority Attention Crash Audience Fragmentation/Segmentation Blog Storm Bounce Back Effect Buzz Creation Cognitive Surplus Constituencies, Social Media Influence on Cyclical Message Strategy Demand Progress Downstream Liability, Political Implications of Echo Chamber Phenomenon Framing Theory, Social Media and Friend-to-Friend Strategies Gate Keeping Theory and Social Media Honeycomb Framework Legacy Media/Old Media Minimal Effects Theory Morozov Principle Multiple Leveraging Opinion Leader Theory Opposition Videographer Outparty Innovation Incentives Persuasion Niche and Political Messaging Primacy Effect Real-Time Communication Nodes Recency Effect Remix, Political Rich Media Ad Search Engine Data (Use in Social Media Campaigning) Selective Exposure Shirky Principle, The Sleeper Effect Social Media Noise Social Media, Adoption of Social Media, Alternatives to Commercial Social Media, Definition and Classes of Social Network Analysis Streisand Effect Strong-Tie Social Connections Versus Weak-Tie Social Connections Superconnected Technological Relativism Technology Diffusion Paradigm Topology of Social Networks Tweet Insurance Viral Seed/Viral Lift Social Media Regulation, Public Policy, and Actual Practice Adbusters Media Foundation Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life Anonoblog Apple v. Does Association of Internet Researchers Berkman Center Blog Syndication Blogger Rights and Responsibilities CAN-SPAM Act 2003 Center for Communication and Civic Engagement Center for Information Technology and Society Center for Innovative Media Center for International Media Assistance Center for Internet Studies Center for Social Media Center on Public Diplomacy Change.gov Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Media Guidelines Cloud Protesting Content Communities Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act Department of Homeland Security Social Media Monitoring Initiative Digital Cultures Research Center Dooced Engagement Advertising Engagement Features E-Voter Institute Federal Privacy Act Federal Shield Law, Bloggers and Freedom of the Press and National Security Ghost Blogging Google AdWords/AdSense in Campaign Strategy Information Aggregation Informationalized Nations Versus Industrialized Nations Instant Messengers, IRC and ICQ Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication Institutional Cabling Interactive Documentary James K. Batten Award John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award Media and Communication Policy Mobile Media User Data Collection and Privacy Protection Mobile/Smartphone Messaging Moblogging Nongovernmental Organizations Office of Government Information Services Open Source Governance Oxford Internet Institute Pentagon Digital Engagement Team Presidential Policy Directive 20 Press Freedom and Online/Social Media Security Pretty Good Privacy Public Intellectual Redalert.com Search and Scrape Capability Search and Seizure Law and Policy Social Computing and Social Information Processing Social Media and Freedom of Information Act Social Media Sharing, P2P, Bit Torrent Social Worlds Splogs U.S. Pentagon Social Media in Strategic Communications Program Video Privacy Protection Act Virtual Environment Technology, Immersive Web Metrics World Wide Web, History of the Entries by Letter: [0-9] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z View Copyright Page [Page iv] Copyright © 2014 by SAGE Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. FOR INFORMATION: SAGE Publications, Inc. E-mail: order@sagepub.com SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd. B 1/I 1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 044 SAGE Publications Ltd. 1 Oliver's Yard London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd. #10-04 Samsung Hub A catalog record of this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4522-4471-6 (cloth) 14 15 16 17 18 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Senior Editor: Jim Brace-Thompson Cover Designer: Bryan Fishman Reference Systems Manager: Leticia Gutierrez Reference Systems Coordinators: Laura Notion Anna Villasenor Marketing Manager: Carmel Schrire Golson Media President and Editor: J. Geoffrey Golson Director, Author Management: Lisbeth Rogers Production Director: Mary Jo Scibetta Layout Editor: Oona Patrick Copyeditor: Mary Le Rouge Production Editor: TLK Editing Services Proofreaders: Rebecca Kuzins, Mary Le Rouge Indexer: Jayne Ste Marie [Page vii] A-List Bloggers. See [Page viii] CAN-SPAM Act (2003) Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org) Cloud Computing and Citizen Privacy Countries Banning Social Media for Political Reasons Cyclical Message Strategies Deception in Political Social Media [Page ix] [Page x] Institution for Social and Policy Studies [Page xi] [Page xii] Recombinant Media. See Shadow Site. See [Page xiii] Underbloggers. See Ushahidi [Page xiv] [Page xv] [Page xvi] [Page xvii] [Page xviii] [Page xix] [Page xx] [Page xxi] Social Media Types, Innovation, and Technology [Page xxii] [Page xxiii] A tenured associate professor and the Associate Director of the Center for Innovative Media in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, Dr. Kerric Harvey is also a working playwright and multimedia producer who explores intercultural conflict in a wide variety of periods and places, including real-world, online, and social media landscapes. She also writes about the media arts and cultural archetypes in the public imagination, the anthropological effects of new media technologies, digital storytelling, and the relationship between new media narratives and political identity. In 1995 she was appointed as one of 33 participants who constituted a National Science Foundation task force charged by the Clinton White House with setting a 21st-century national research agenda for Internet issues from the anthropological perspective. Her research and policy development work during the formative stages of the Internet era continued with a two-year stint on the Smithsonian Institution's Curriculum Initiative Program National Advisory Board. Her work in new technologies and society continues through her appointment as a 2012 visiting scholar at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, by a host of publications ranging from books to juried academic articles, and by her many international academic presentations including recent talks at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the British Museum. An award-winning teacher, she has been on the George Washington University faculty for just over 20 years. Harvey worked as a reporter in Native American print journalism; in research, script development, and production for educational film; in production and operations in public access television; and with the International Documentary unit of the Seattle public television affiliate station. Harvey balances her academic career with international theater, multimedia, and documentary productions in both physical and virtual spaces. She has had her original dramatic work produced professionally in Scotland; Ireland; New York; Pennsylvania; Vancouver, Canada; and Washington, D.C.; as well as having original radio drama aired on Canadian public radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and on RTE-One, Ireland's premiere public radio station, which broadcast her 2001 Driving in Ireland as a Play of the Week. She is a member of the University Film and Video Association, the Irish Film Institute, and the Dramatists Guild of America, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. [Page xxiv] [Page xxv] Natalia Abuin Vences Tony E. Adams Jason Michael Adams Alisa Agozzino Sadiya Akram Gordon Alley-Young Kingsborough Community College Ines Amaral Instituto Superior Miguel Torga Reynaldo Anderson Harris-Stowe University R. Bruce Anderson LaKesha Anderson Janelle Applequist Catherine Aquilina Judith Aston Robert K. Avery Hakan Aydogan Lázaro M. Bacallao-Pino CH-CIALC, National Autonomous University of Mexico Ingrid Bachmann Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Credence Baker Stijn Bannier Maastricht University Soumia Bardhan St. Cloud State University Boris Barkanov Michael J. Beatty Ralph Beliveau Carole V. Bell Anat Ben-David Josh Bendickson Roy Bendor Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska University of Gdansk, Poland and SISSA, Italy Rebecca Bishop Independent Scholar [Page xxvi] Rena Bivens Jason Edward Black David Bobbitt Wesleyan College Samuel Boerboom Montana State University–Billings Dieter Bögenhold Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt Grant David Bollmer Bradley J. Bond Howard University School of Education Stephanie E. Bor Sarah Boslaugh Keenesaw State University Johannes Botes Melanie Bourdaa Université Bordeaux 3 Ryan Branson Swati Jaywant Rao Bute Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Dehli Francisco Sierra Caballero University of Seville Romina Cachia Steven J. Campbell University of South Carolina, Lancaster Gordon S. Carlson Pilar Carrera Catherine Cassara Pablo Castagno Universidad Nacional de La Matanza Jeanette Castillo Leslie Caughell Virginia Wesleyan College Jacquelyn Chinn Sujin Choi Kookmin University Chandra D. Clark David E. Clementson Deborah Elizabeth Cohen Sogang University Yosem Companys Richard S. Conley Earl Conteh-Morgan Gary Copeland Tina Cota-Robles Brett J. Craig Nazarbayev University Shirley M. Crawley Western Connecticut State University Andrew Jared Critchfield Communication and Culture Consulting Francis Dalisay University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Emirhan Darcan Amber Davisson Emiliana De Blasio CMCS Luiss Antonio de Velasco Carla De Ycaza David DeIuliis Jeffrey Delbert Wendy Dent Benjamin W. L. Derhy Kurtz Tiffany Derville Gallicano [Page xxvii] Philip Di Salvo Larry Diamond Michael Dick Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou John Dolan Aziz Douai University of Ontario Sarah A. Downey Delia Dumitrica Catherine Easton Jennifer Edwards Anthony C. Edwards el-Sayed el-Aswad United Arab Emirates University Jennifer Epley Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Ben Epstein Daniel C. Faltesek Paul Falzone Anna Feigenbaum Eran Fisher Katherine R. Fleck Courtney V. (Vail) Fletcher University of Portland Jaime R. S. Fonseca Technical University of Lisbon Sean D. Foreman Lucas G. Freire Mike Friedrichsen Stuttgart Media University Janie Fritz MacKenzie Gailey Deborah Gambs Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York Bradley A. Gangnon Arts Institutes International Alberto Garcia Garcia Complutense University of Madrid Dustin Garlitz Charlotte Lucy Garraway Carolyn Garrity Sherice Gearhart Matthew Geras Paolo Gerbaudo Hannah Gifford Homero Gil de Zúñiga Mark J. Glantz Debra Glassco Simon Gottschalk Tommaso Gravante Matthew J. Gritter Tracy Groenewegen Anastasiia Grynko National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy Darin Gully Chao Guo Indiana University Purdue University–Indianapolis [Page xxviii] Justin D. Hackett Alem Hailu Howard University College of Arts and Sciences Ernest A. Hakanen Kyle A. Hammock Josh Hanan Univeristy of Denver Jason Hannan Summer Harlow Kandace Harris Clark-Atlanta University Dominique Harrison William Hart Val Hartouni Jason A. Helfer Marion Jeanette Herbert Brian Heslop Arne Hintz R. Lance Holbert Daniel Holgado Departamento de Psicología Social Universidad de Sevilla Mohammed Ibahrine Brandon M. Inabinet Ece Inan Girne American University Chris Ingraham Isidro Maya Jariego J. Jacob Jenkins Manel Jiménez-Morales Janet Johnson Wilson R. Kaiser David A. Karpf Kelly Kaufhold Anandam Kavoori Chun-Sik Kim Spencer H. Kimball Emerson College Jeremy Kleidosty Jon Klos Randolph Kluver Anna Klyueva La Loria Konata Piotr Konieczny Tetiana Kostiuchenko National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Bill Kte'pi University of Lodz Chenjerai Kumanyika Matthew J. Kushin Shepherd University Jennifer L. Lambe Patricia G. Lange [Page xxix] Karla Lant Mark C. Lashley Regina Lawrence University of Texas–Austin Danielle Lawson J. Roselyn Lee Megan A. Lee Jooyeon Lee Lara Lengel Cathy Leogrande Le Moyne University Christopher Leslie Polytechnic Institute of New York University Koen Leurs Jenifer L. Lewis Eric Liguori Darren G. Lilleker Min Liu Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Kim Lorber Sarah Maben Kristen L. Majocha University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Steven Malcic Rick Malleus Francisco Paulo Jamil Almeida Marques Terry Marsh Marcienne Martin Université de La Réunion Tamara Martsenyuk Ryan McGrady Kelly A. McHugh Heather McIntosh Stefania Milan William J. Miller Diane M. Monahan Aaron J. Moore Mel Moore Jessica L. Moore Butler University Marco Morini Yvonne Mulhern Paul Murschetz Siho Nam Heather Nance Sorin Nastasia Meredith Neville-Shepard Ryan Neville-Shepard Indiana University–Purdue University Columbus Joyce Neys Konrad Ng Gage Nicholas Gwendelyn S. Nisbett Safiya Umoja Noble José-Manuel Noguera-Vivo Catholic University of San Antonio [Page xxx] Alison N. Novak Eric J. Novotny Patricia Núñez Complutense University Pamela C. O'Brien Timothy J. O'Neill Jonathan A. Obar Magdalena Olszanowski Sule Yüksel Özmen Karadeniz Technical University Jeremy Packer Yong Jin Park Han Woo Park Sung Gwan Park Justin Paulette Shayne Pepper Kaitlyn Pettet Alexander E. Pichugin Georgia Piggot Mihaela Popescu Colin Porlezza Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter Mark A. Rademacher Veena V. Raman Leslie Regan Shade Marie-Eve Reny Leslie Reynard Jennifer J. Richardson Southern Vermont College LaChrystal Ricke Michelle Rodino-Colocino Leocadia Díaz Romero Devan Rosen Nathaniel T. Rosenberg Rafal Rybak Magdalena Saldana Sergei Samoilenko Eric C. Sands Kim Sawchuk Lisa Saye Dan Schill Hans C. Schmidt Pennsylvania State University–Brandywine Jason Schmitt Green Mountain College Stephen T. Schroth Gilson Schwartz Sónia Pedro Sebastião ISCSP, Technical University of Lisbon Marc-David L. Seidel Donatella Selva Luiss University of Rome Emily Shaw Thomas College Fei Shen Tamara Shepherd Kaia N. Shivers [Page xxxi] Carlos Nunes Silva Maria Anne Simone Jörgen Skågeby University of Stockholm Alexandra Nutter Smith University of Washington–Tacoma Melissa M. Smith Mississippi University for Women Latisha Smith Christina M. Smith California State University, Channel Islands Nicole E. Snell Bentley University Meghan R. Sobel Hanna Söderbaum David Spiegel Ralf Spiller Macromedia University for Media and Communication Carmen Stavrositu University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Keri K. Stephens Maria G. Stover Ingrid Sturgis Jennifer Summary Chit Cheung Matthew Sung Molly Swiger Saman Talib Rhon Teruelle Doug Tewksbury Neal Thomas University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill David B. Tindall Catalina L. Toma Chiara Valentini Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences Sebastián Valenzuela Damien Van Puyvelde Karrin Vasby Anderson Andreas Veglis Anastasia Veneti Daniela Vicherat-Mattar Leiden University College, The Hague Raquel Vinader Segura Cindy S. Vincent Beth M. Waggenspack Don J. Waisanen Camille Walfall Jefferson Walker Jennifer Ware Ann Warmuth Christine Rose Warne Yael Warshel Andrew J. Waskey Dalton State College Brian E. Weeks Adele Weiner Metropolitan College of New York Jeremy Weinstein [Page xxxii] Jennifer Whitmer Terry Winograd Tony E. Wohlers John R. Wood Todd Woodlan Rhonda Louise Wrzenski Indiana University, Southeast Shuang Iris Xia Masahiro Yamamoto University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Qingjiang Yao Jina Yoo University of Missouri, St. Louis William Lafi Youmans Dzmitry Yuran Yuliya Zabyelina Lorenzo Zamponi Jason Zenor State University of New York, Oswego Weiwu Zhang Pei Zheng [Page xxxiii] “Politics,” it has been said, “is a practical art.” In the early years of the 21st century, it is also a technological one. The explosion of “social media” into the American political process began with the Internet's entrance on the voting scene around 2004, when Facebook debuted on American campuses as a kind of “cruising and schmoozing” network, and Howard Dean ramped up his earlier success at Internet fund-raising to a fever pitch. Now, in late 2013, social media of many types are exploding across the political landscape, with unforeseen and, to some extent, still unknown eventual effects. Their impact on the political process has eclipsed even that of the Internet, if one measures in terms of the sheer volume of messaging they carry, and they have achieved this prominence in a much shorter time than the 30 years it took the Internet itself to rise to its current status as a taken-for-granted tool in mainstream politics. Electronic voting, Internet campaigning, proliferating political use of tweeting and texting, blogging and vlogging, online polling and Facebook “friends” all hawking their favorite candidate, issue, or policy point: For better and for worse, electronica has infiltrated the American political process in a way that, some argue, actually re-shapes it. This is the case despite three bedrock realities about the political use of social media, which are that (1) it gets more sophisticated, nuanced, and potentially invasive almost constantly; (2) it is increasingly ubiquitous; and (3) we do not know nearly as much about it as we would like. But in the short time since the Internet opened to commercial exploitation, the modifier industrialized itself has lessened in relevance as a useful criterion for sorting nation-states into their traditional First, Second, and Third World categories. This taxonomy depends, increasingly, on what I call a nation's relative degree of “informationalization” instead—the ability to collect, generate, store, transmit, interpret, share, and/or hoard data per se. A second important signature trait, as a signifier of First World status, is the capability to build, acquire, maintain, and deploy the technology that is required to manage, mine, and maximize information, including but not limited to “Big Data” sets. In the era of “Big Data” and the information industries, it makes much more sense to divide the world into “informationalized,” “emerging,” “hybrid industrial/informational societies,” and “noninformationalized” sectors instead of relying exclusively on the old standards related to manufacturing and industrialization. The changes implicit in this paradigm shift are indicative of just how profound a societal transformation has resulted from the combined effects of social media and contiguous digital, mobile, and online technologies. This new way of thinking about “data” as a harvestable crop has profound implications for all aspects of collective life, even if they are not the [Page xxxiv]implications one might expect or predict. It could be argued that the most significant anthropological paradigm shift of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is the changing relationship between human beings and the electronic devices designed to serve them. This is especially true of communications and media electronica, beginning with the Internet's transition to a public entity in 1996 and continuing through to the near ubiquitous presence of today's mobile personal communications like cell phones, BlackBerries, and tablets, and the social media they both spawn and support. New media pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, famous as one of the founding members of MIT's 1980s Media Lab, captured the enormity of this paradigm shift when he wrote: “Computers are not about computing any more. They are about life.” In much the same way, “personal” media are not about personal life any more. They are about the tensions between cultural, social, and economic change and stability, stretching all the way from the small crises and triumphs of suburban households to the mammoth ambitions of collective governance. They are about people and institutions connecting with each other in virtual ways, with the side effect of dodging each other in the flesh. They are about reinventing the workplace, redefining journalism, revolutionizing commerce, education, medicine, and consumer identity. They challenge conventional ways of teaching, learning, parenting, dating, filing taxes, staying well, planning travel, finding a plumber, understanding the world, governing the country. They have changed, and continue to change, the practice, the process, the philosophy, and perhaps the very nature of politics. This encyclopedia is an attempt to capture, describe, and contextualize the elusive leading edge of this phenomenon, which has already demonstrated its ability to generate very concrete effects on 21st century self-governance. Some of the challenges it faces in achieving that goal reflect the unique nature of the social media themselves. Defining “Social Media” in the Political Sphere Defining the “social media” is not nearly as cut-and-dried as may first appear, and depends, in part, on cultural geography. Europeans approach several of these issues very differently than do North Americans, and even within this continent alone, regional distinctions can complicate any simple answer. “True” social media success depends on who and how many people retrieve what one sends out, not on pre-identifying at whom one aims a particular message. “Aims” in the technical, not the functional, sense of that word: Twitter users may not actually address their messages to specific receivers, but they do go to enormous lengths and great pains to craft the kind of regular tweet stream content and Twitter profile that will draw the attention of the kind of person they want to reach. In this way, some of the social media replicate the audience attraction model employed by broadcast television and radio, while they actually invert the “known caller” principle of person-to-person technologies like the telephone. Once we start digging, it becomes easy to see why there is a lot of debate about what actually constitutes the social media. Does e-mail count? How about reposting modalities, which do not add anything new to the actual content but which enjoy an aura of personal endorsement by the simple fact that someone found it worthy of sending forward to his or her followers? How about sites like Reddit, that connect candidates and voters in a kind of large-scale electronic conversation? Or Tumblr, or Pinterest, and other similar “pastiche platforms,” which can provide a highly textured portrait of a public figure's preferences in music, art, theater, food, literature, current fads and fashions, as well as his or her informal commentary on assorted political topics of the day? What about YouTube? Texting? Even blogging, a new media format that has already seen heavy action as a vehicle for political expression, exploration, and opinion-sharing? Signature Traits of the Social Media Given the challenges involved with defining social media according to their technical design and/or functionality, it might be useful to approach the question from the other direction, and to describe the social media in terms of their characteristics as experienced by users within the new media mix, especially as those user impressions might relate to political activity. I would like to suggest that social media, per se, exhibit the following specific characteristics, in varying degrees and with different applications, depending on the use context in which they are situated. [Page xxxv] Social media are technologically organized as one-to-many transmissions but are experienced as one-to-one, peer-to-peer communications. Social media feel personal, even if they are not. Social media proliferate organically according to their salience for social network users and their perceived relevance to topics of the day. Social media proliferation can also be the result of institutional (and sometime individual) manipulation via the use of social media optimization tools, search engine optimization strategies, and wikis. Social media messages are short, to the point, usually personal, and often extremist. Social media encourage a communication context in which the usual rules do not apply. Social media appear to level the political playing field, even if they do not. Social media content travels. Social media create a sense of community. Social media are instantaneous, and thus seemingly spontaneous, expressions of belief, opinion, observation or experience. Social media are fun. Social media can be dangerous. Social Media and Candidate Politics: Game-Changers and Go-Getters In the days when the Internet was a fairly recent post-Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) phenomenon, the idea of using it for any type of buying or selling was faintly heretical; it was perceived as a way for scholars and researchers to collaborate across time and space rather than as any sort of “public highway” or shared social space. Only during the halcyon days following the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in its own right represented a radical reversal of the notion of telecommunications, per se, as a public resource more than a private enterprise, did the privatization of the Internet and its companion activities really take off. In the online land rush that followed, spectrum space and technical resources were obtained and positioned by private interests such as cell phone service providers and the emerging personal computer industries, opening the door to the barrage of social media inventions and applications that followed. Turning points in this journey include 1991, when the Internet expanded into the World Wide Web as a free public resource; the 1992 Clinton-Gore and the 1996 Bob Dole campaigns’ use of the Internet as voter outreach tools; the 1999 decision by the Federal Elections Commission enabling online credit card donations to qualify for federal matching funds; John MCain's and Howard Dean's early successes at online fund-raising in 2000 and 2003 to 2004, respectively; Barack Obama's now-legendary 2008 and his more recent 2012 presidential victories, both watershed events for using social media as ways to enhance—and in some cases, reinvent—virtually every aspect of running for office; and the crucial role played by social media in establishing the Tea Party, as it morphed from a loosely connected group of disaffected voters into a serious political entity capable of challenging the Republican Party for the loyalty of a coalition of unhappy conservative voters, as well as some disaffected “independents” and a smattering of restless Democrats. The 2012 race for the White House saw social media grandmaster Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both capitalizing on every type of social media outlet, channel, venue, and platform available, from Pinterest to YouTube to brand new virtual campaign applications that gave them access to the full spectrum of voters' online behaviors and preferences, allowing political strategists to microtarget potential supporters with the same efficiency—and privacy intrusion—as, say, commercial interests such as http://Amazon.com or Walmart. Measuring Social Media Political Impact A unique and ubiquitous aspect of the social media/politics relationship is the degree to which theory is vastly outstripped by practice. There is not complete academic consensus about social media's impact in the political sphere and the best ways of measuring it—but by the time this encyclopedia hits the bookshelves (or the spectrum), there might be. Trying to get a clear look at social media's “real” impact on the sociocultural infrastructure is like trying to nail down water—as impossible to achieve as it is frustrating [Page xxxvi]to attempt. And yet, attempt it we must, if for no other reason than to get traction on its palpable effect on the permanent gears of social machinery—like voting, for instance. We must find ways to see it clearly, even if the ability to capture it in accurate numbers and meaningful measurements might elude us. Although it is a natural candidate for ethnography, quantitative material about the social media is more highly prized because it is the most immediately useful for those who study and who deploy them in the political arena, for the simple reason that the stakes involved in social media political deployment always come bundled in quantitative form, like what something costs in terms of dollars and what it might yield in the number of added votes it might garner. On a slightly different note, the modern-day Tea Party, a splinter group within the Republican Party which erupted onto the national political landscape in 2008 and moved into mainstream status with the 2010 midterm election, relied very heavily on Twitter, Facebook, and related social media as they deliberately distanced themselves from traditional conservatives and formed their own political agenda and developed the party organization to promote it effectively. Measuring social media's political impact, then, is clearly just as much of an art as it may be a science, whether that “measurement” comes couched as actual numbers, or is assessed in terms of the likely result of specific political dynamics in which the social media may have figured. Pursuing and refining accurate and usable social media measurement techniques will no doubt rank high on the “to-do list” of political managers and activists in the days, and in the elections, and in the public debates yet to come. Contemporary Issues: Social Media in a Political Context In light of everything we have discussed about the mercurial and elusive nature of the social media throughout this essay, it seems fitting to frame the issues surrounding their current incarnation as points of salient inquiry rather than as statements of permanent fact. If there is one constant attribute shared by all of them, it is the penchant for change, a feature that suggests the issues surrounding their deployment in the political atmosphere will change as well. A “good answer” is only valid as long as the context surrounding it remains stable, but a “good question,” to paraphrase the tagline of the diamond industry, is forever. This, then, is a kind of “20 questions” laundry list of some main questions and concerns, debates and discussions about the political role, nature, impact, and future of social media in the current American political environment: Do the social media really level the political playing field? Do social media favor incumbents or challengers? How does this play out in particularly close elections? Will the social media replace, augment, or operate independently of traditional media in the political process? How do we know which of the social media are a passing fad and which are here to stay? Will the social media literally transform the political process? What demographics most accurately characterize different social media constituencies, and to what degree do these correspond to conventional political constituencies? How can social media impact be measured in the political arena? Do people actually trust social media as a source of political information? To what degree, if any, will social media replace face-to-face political discourse, dialogue, and action? What privacy issues are involved with the harvesting and mining of personal information when using social media for campaigns or in social issues initiatives? How do the social media compare with legacy media in affecting public opinion? Whose voice(s) dominate the social media landscape, why is that so, and what does it mean? Are the social media capable of actually creating new political relationships and attitudes, or do they merely reinforce and/or reconfigure existing ones? Do the social media contribute to political polarization? Do different types of people respond to and/or use, create, and deploy social media [Page xxxvii]political content in different ways and for different purposes? Do the social media really empower grassroots organizations and political entities, and, if so, what are the most effective strategies for capitalizing on that? What codes of best practices should and/or could be developed for social media campaigning, outreach, and voter education, and who should be liable when breaches occur? How are the social media changing the fund-raising process in political action and candidate politics? Do the social media make possible some forms of political action, expression, organization and public influence that simply could not otherwise exist? Is that a good thing across the board, or should the social media be somehow licensed and/or regulated, as was the case with earlier forms of electronic media, and, if so, who should do this? In October 2012, the much-respected Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project reported that 60 percent of adult Americans use at least one type of social media, and that of that 60 percent, approximately 66 percent have widened their everyday use to include political activity, ranging from low-investment action like using social media as a platform for sharing their own political opinions and listening to others, all the way to forming groups and organizations that take civic action in the physical world, an expression of the kind of deep commitment to political matters that was debated so hotly in the Malcolm Gladwell–Clay Shirky discussions. These statistics about increased public use of social media as a political resource become even more significant when they are contextualized within the escalating use of social media, in general. Social media alpha-blogger Cara Pring noted in February 2012 that “Social networking is still the fastest-growing active social media behavior online,” an observation made politically important by the Pew Internet and American Life (2012) finding that “35 percent of social media users have the tools to encourage [other] people to vote … and 34 percent [of social media users] have used the tools to post their own thoughts or comments on political and social issues.” “Smart phone users now spend as much time using social networking apps such as Twitter and Facebook as they do playing games,” Pring also reports, a use change that will factor heavily in upcoming American politics if another social media expert, Tomi Ahonen, is right in his prediction about the mobile industry becoming the dominant player on the global scene. At first glance this seems like an extreme and somewhat exaggerated bit of technological crystal ball gazing, until one realizes the base numbers from which Ahonen's prediction is made. Almost 6 billion active mobile phone accounts already exist worldwide, although once they are parsed for people with more than one account, that figure reduces to something like 4 billion unique mobile phone users, still a stunning number when one considers that the world's 2013 population is only around 7 billion. As has been the case historically, the world's population keeps increasing, but what is new on the historical scene is that the proportion of that population that is hooked to social media keeps increasing as well. Social media's continuing trajectory into the heart of American politics is not just about mobile telephony. A November 2012 Pew report revealed that “55 percent of registered voters have watched political videos online this election season, and 52 percent have had others recommend political videos for them to watch online” (November 2, 2012), and that around 10 percent of people who donated money to the 2012 presidential candidates did so via a text message or cell phone “app.” The people who run campaigns are not waiting for the academy to make up its mind about the efficacy of social media in getting their candidates into office. They are just going out there and doing it, and they are doing it at warp speed. Certainly, they dial into academic research on the topic, and often commission their own studies on preferred ways and means, but they are willing to leap into a kind of raging torrent of best guesses about the best practices for using the social media to win political contests at all levels of governance. And that means that this encyclopedia and other reference works like it are best understood [Page xxxviii]as compasses rather than as maps in the social media journey. Inspired by CQ Researcher (http://www.cqresearcher.com), another product in the SAGE family of publications, we even undertook our own research for the table of 2013 Congressional Social Media Use. The table, which contains material that is unavailable anywhere else because we actually generated it, illustrates the particulars of how our national leaders use different types of social media as part of their work on Capitol Hill. In 1995, I had the very great honor and the singular experience of being part of a National Science Foundation Task Force convened by the Clinton White House. We were handed the Herculean task of developing an anthropological research agenda on Internet issues for the next 100 years. That was our mandate, almost verbatim, and we took it very seriously, especially since we only had three days in which to do it. After being locked in the basement of the St. James, a Washington “grand dame,” we eventually consumed enough coffee and donuts to come up with an agenda for, at least, kicking off that mammoth undertaking. (There is, of course, both a federal report and a scholarly publication attesting to this.) But we thought the tidal wave of cultural change we saw coming was all about the Internet, and that was engulfing enough. No one had a clue that something even more totalizing was just around the virtual corner … and not a one of us would have predicted how very quickly that technological torrent would froth over into all aspects of American life. In the course of my own research on new technology, culture, and the political process, it has recently come to my attention that the U.S. Library of Congress now archives Twitter. The rationale behind this is that Twitter represents a one-of-a-kind cultural resource. The library press release announcing the project explained the thinking behind this seemingly quixotic decision: “The Twitter digital archive has extraordinary potential for research into our contemporary way of life,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “This information provides detailed evidence about how technology based social networks form and evolve over time. The collection also documents a remarkable range of social trends.” Every public tweet since Twitter's launch in March 2006 has been carefully preserved in a digital collection now numbering in the billions, which is not surprising since, according to TechCrunch, in 2013 “we see a billion tweets every 2.5 days.” In acquiring the entire public Twitter record since the medium's inception, the library has in one bold stroke rewritten the seriousness with which residents of today's digital era will perceive this most notoriously trivial social media modality. Of course, Twitter was moving toward acquiring an impressive amount of political gravitas anyway, as it became more and more of a central presence in sequential rounds of national elections. But to have a world-class institution like the Library of Congress acclaim a medium named after “inconsequential chatter” as a “unique record of our time,” as Bill Lefurgy, the library's digital initiatives program manager, told the Federal News Radio Network, sends a signal that is cultural as much as it is political. The message is simple, and stunning, and it pushes social media per se into a new class of cultural significance from which it will now never retreat. The message is this: Even the most light-footed of today's social media modalities carries enough political clout and contains enough social and cultural value to take its place in the American archive of record, a public resource of global as well as national excellence, which has at its core the personal library of U.S. political icon and former president Thomas Jefferson. Because it is Jefferson's own collection that formed the nucleus of the Library of Congress, when he willed his beloved cache of personal books to the fledgling nation as a lasting legacy. And now that cache will share digital shelf space with Twitter. One cannot help but wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have to say about that. Could he express it adequately in only 140 characters? But it is still a good question, the kind of question that might elicit brief enough answers that they could eventually find their way into the American Twitter archive at the Library of Congress. Even better yet, the question itself might be provocative enough, intriguing enough, quixotic enough, and most of all, short enough … to go viral. And what, I wonder, would Thomas Jefferson make of that? KerricHarvey, Editor [Page xxxix] 1945: In his essay “As We May Think,” published in the Atlantic Monthly, Vannevar Bush argues for creation of a collective memory, which he called the memex, to facilitate and augment the powers of human thought by storing and organizing information; this essay is often cited as the first to suggest the properties later realized through hypertext. 1946: AT&T establishes the first mobile telephone network, making mobile telephone calls possible, although the equipment required was so cumbersome that it was only practical if installed in a vehicle (a truck driver placed the first mobile phone call on June 17, 1946). 1962: J. C. R. Licklider articulates the basic concepts behind the Internet in a memo in which he discusses the possibilities of what he calls the “Intergalactic Computer Network.” 1965: AT&T launches an improved mobile phone system, transmitting signals over radio channels. Demand for the service far exceeds the capacity of the channels to carry signals. 1967: Jef Raskin coins the term QuickDraw in his Penn State University doctoral thesis on the GUI (graphical user interface). 1969: The ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet, transmits a message from computers at Bolt Beranek Newman in Massachusetts to computers at Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in California. 1969: CompuServe becomes the first major commercial Internet service provider in the United States, using dial-up technology; it remains a dominant player in the field through the 1980s. 1971: Ray Tomlinson develops the first network e-mail program, and specifies the “@” symbol to indicate the Web address. 1972: Two information services, Dialog (Lockheed) and the Don Jones-Bunker Ramos News Retrieval Service, go online. 1973: The ARPANET establishes connections with computers in the United Kingdom and Norway. 1973: Motorola produces a prototype handheld mobile phone; previous mobile systems were so large they had to be used in vehicles. 1973: The Xerox Alto, a computer intended for personal use, is developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; among its innovations are the [Page xl]graphical user interface (GUI) and the computer mouse. 1974: The first chat room is created at the University of Illinois by Doug Brown and David Roolley. 1974: In a conference paper, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kuhn become the first to use the term Internet. 1974: Theodore George Paraskevakos, a Greek immigrant to the United States, is granted a patent for an “apparatus for generating and transmitting digital information,” laying the groundwork for the smartphone. 1976: Before there was even an Internet, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain sent her first e-mail as part of a network technology demonstration put on by the British military and research community. It was sent over ARPANET. She is reputedly the first head of state to use the medium. 1976: Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter and his potential vice president, Walter Mondale, use e-mail to coordinate campaign event planning. 1978: The Advanced Mobile Phone System, an analog cellular system, is introduced in the United States. 1978: In February, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess create the first public bulletin board system (BBS), allowing users to make online postings. 1978: The first virtual world, Multi-User Dungeon (MUD1), is created at Essex University in the United Kingdom. 1979: In Tokyo, Japan, the first commercial automated cell telephone network begins operation. 1980: The Usenet begins operation; it allows users to post messages to online newsgroups organized around different topics. 1981: The IBM PC (personal computer) is introduced. 1983: The domain name system (DNS) is developed at the University of Wisconsin, including the use of familiar extensions such as .com, .org, .edu, and .mil. 1983: The DynaTAC mobile phone, created by Ameritech, becomes available in the United States. The first world's first commercial portable handset cell phone, the device was developed by the now-defunct Ameritech and sold by Motorola for $3,995 per phone. 1983: The ARPANET divides into two networks: MILNET (to serve military purposes) and ARPANET (to serve research purposes). 1984: The AT&T Bell telephone system, a government sanctioned monopoly since 1913, is broken up into seven regional holding companies (Baby Bells), in accordance with the 1982 U.S. District Court decision in the antitrust case United States v. AT&T. 1984: The Prodigy online service begins operation; by 1990 it becomes the second-largest U.S. Internet service provider, second only to CompuServe. 1985: Quantum Computer Services launches Q-Link, an online service; the company renames itself America Online (AOL) in 1991. 1985: The WELL (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), an early virtual Internet community, is created by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. 1985: Lloyd Bentsen coins the term astroturfing to refer to organized political campaigns that attempt to hide the sources of their funding and present themselves as grassroots efforts. 1987: Apple Computer includes HyperCard, originally called WildCard, an early hypermedia system, on all new Macintosh computers. 1988: An Internet “worm” created by Robert Tappan Morris infects an estimated 10 percent of Internet hosts; Morris became the first person convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 1989: Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), [Page xli]proposes the protocol for distributing information that is eventually used in the World Wide Web. 1989: Quantum Computing Services, later America Online (AOL), launches the first instant messaging service, also introducing the familiar greeting “You've got mail!” 1990: Tim Berners-Lee, along with Robert Cailliau, present the protocol for distributing information eventually used to create the World Wide Web in a paper. 1990: The first Web page was “served.” 1991: The space shuttle Atlantis sends the first e-mail message from space. 1991: The first users outside of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) joined the network. 1992: Delphi becomes the first commercial provider of Internet access service. 1993: CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) announces that the World Wide Web would be freely available for anyone to use. 1993: Over 3 million Americans subscribe to online services. 1993: Mosaic, the first graphical browser, is developed at the University of Illinois, facilitating the development of Web pages. 1993: Howard Rheingold publishes The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, a book about virtual communities, including the early online virtual community The WELL. 1993–94: The White House first goes online and uses the Internet. 1994: In February, Jerry Yang and David Filo begin developing an index to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet; it is originally called “Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web,” but the title is later changed to Yahoo!; by the fall of 1994, it receives over 1 million hits on a single day. 1994: A forerunner to the smartphone, the IBM Simon Personal Communicator is introduced to the U.S. market. It includes a mobile phone, touchscreen (used by tapping with a stylus), and features such as a calculator, address book, and calendar; can send e-mails, faxes, and text messages, as well as phone calls; and carries a retail price of approximately $899. 1994: America Online (AOL) begins selling advertisements and grows to 1 million members. 1994: GeoCities, a virtual community that allows users to create their own Web site, and which was organized around the concept of “cities” based on common interests, is launched in California as BHI (Beverly Hills Internet). 1994: The world's first blog is created by Justin Hall, a college student; he continues publishing “Justin's Links From the Underground” for 11 years. 1995: Clifford Stoll publishes an article in Newsweek with the headline “The Internet? Bah!” and the subhead “Hype Alert: Why Cyberspace Isn't, and Will Never Be, Nirvana.” 1996: America Online (AOL) grows to 5 million members. 1996: The search engine http://Ask.com lets users type in queries using natural language rather than key words. 1996: Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin create a search engine known as BackRub, with the goal of organizing the huge amount of information available on the World Wide Web; they later rename this project Google. 1997: The term Weblog is coined by Jorn Barger. 1997: One million sites exist on the World Wide Web. [Page xlii]1997: America Online (AOL) introduces the stand-alone software Instant Messenger, allowing users to chat over the Internet. 1997: Matt Drudge founds the Drudge Report online; the site becomes famous when, in January 1998, Drudge publishes information about an alleged affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on his Web site http://DrudgeReport.com. 1998: Open Diary, an online community that allows users to create online journals without needing to know HTML (hypertext markup language), begins operation. 1999: The BlackBerry 850, a two-way pager (not a telephone), is introduced. 1999: Blogger and LiveJournal begin operation; like Open Diary, they allow individuals without technical expertise to create online journals or blogs. 1999: Jon Stewart becomes host of The Daily Show, a satirical television program on Comedy Central that becomes famous for criticizing the mainstream news media as well as politicians, and becomes an important source of news for many young adult viewers. 1999: The Federal Election Commission rules that online credit card contributions to candidates in the presidential election are eligible for federal matching funds. 2000: Seventy million computers are connected to the Internet. 2000: Google introduces AdWords, an online advertising program whose revenues will reach $28 billion by 2010. 2000: Advertising for the Swedish company Ericsson refers to its R380 mobile phone, a flip phone using the Symbian operating system, as a smartphone. 2000: Jef Raskin publishes The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, arguing that current interfaces are inefficient and make it difficult for people to use computers effectively. 2000: Senator John McCain raises over $6 million online over the course of his presidential campaign. 2000: The policy advocacy group http://MoveOn.org launches an Internet discussion forum. 2000: AOL acquires MapQuest and merges with Time Warner. 2000: Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Nupedia, the prescurser to Wikipedia, as a forum to publish articles by experts in their field as free content. 2000: Josh Marshall founds the political Web site http://talkingpointsmemo.com. 2000: The http://dot.com bubble bursts. 2000: In December, the Pew Research Center announces results from a study showing that one-third of Americans who were online got news about the campaign online, for a total of 18 percent of Americans getting news about the election online (as compared to 4 percent in the 1996 election). 2001: In January, Filipinos take part in a mass demonstration against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, organized in large part by forwarded text messages; a large crowd gathers within a few hours, and grows to over a million in a few days. 2001: Wikipedia, the first online, user-created, open source encyclopedia, begins as a side project of Nupedia. The domain name is registered in January, and over 20,000 entries are created in the first year alone. 2001:http://Meetup.com, a Web site that helps people arrange in-person group meetings based around common interests, begins operation. 2001: StumbleUpon, a Web site that allows users to vote on content they find compelling, begins operation. [Page xliii]2001: Google buys http://Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, including about 500 million archived Usenet discussions; the service is improved and relaunched as Google Groups. 2002: Markos Moulitsas founds the political blog Daily Kos. 2002: AOL has 34 million members. 2002: The social network site Friendster begins operation and later becomes the first social networking site to attract over 1 million users. 2002: LinkedIn, a professional social networking site, begins operation. 2003: The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act creates national standards for commercial e-mail but is viewed as largely ineffective in terms of actually controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail. 2002: In December, Trent Lott, then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, makes racially charged remarks at the 100th birthday celebration of Senator Strom Thurmond; the remarks are not covered by the mainstream media until after they are published online by several bloggers, and attract sufficient attention that Lott resigned his post, an event often cited as an early demonstration of the political power then held by bloggers. 2003: In January, a survey by the Pew Research Center shows that about 10 percent of online Americans used the Internet as a principal source of campaign news; the Internet remains a relatively minor player, however, as half of those surveyed listed television as their principal source for campaign news. 2003: Google introduces site-targeted advertising, where ads are placed on Web sites based on matches on keywords, domain names, and so forth. 2003: Wordpress, a free, open source content management system, begins operation. 2003: Linden Lab creates Second Life, an Internet virtual world. 2003: Myspace, a social networking site, begins operation; over 1 million people join in the first month. 2004: Almost one-third of Americans (over 60 million people) reported seeing a political documentary in 2004, according to a study released in January 2005 by the Pew Research Center; in contrast, only 7 percent said they attended a campaign rally, and 16 percent said they read a book about politics in 2004. 2004: Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean demonstrates that it is possible to raise large amounts of money for a political campaign over the Internet, raising more than $25 million by September. 2004: Digg, an Internet social news-sharing site, begins operation. 2004: Gawker Media founds Wonkette, a satirical online political magazine. 2004: Google reports that its index includes 6 billion items, including 880 million images and 4.28 billion Web pages. 2004: Harvard college student Mark Zuckerberg launches http://TheFacebook.com, a social networking site originally restricted to students from a few elite colleges. 2004: In October, a study released by the Pew Research Center found that the Internet was a minor player in terms of political advertising during the presidential campaign, with $330 million spent on television ads versus $2.66 million on Internet ads between January and August 2004. 2004: Flickr, an Internet photo hosting and sharing site, begins operation. 2004: Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini found Ning, which grows by 2012 to become the world's largest platform for creating social media Web sites. 2005: Myspace is purchased by News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's global media company. [Page xliv]2005: In February, Google announces that it has over 1 billion images indexed in Image Search. 2005: In March, the Pew Research Center releases a report stating that 61 percent of Americans who use the Internet (37 percent of the adult population) used the Internet in connection with politics; specific instances of use include contributing to candidates, volunteering for a political campaign, discussing candidates and issues through e-mail, and getting news and information about politics. 2005: In May, Google releases Blogger Mobile, a service that allows bloggers to post and send photos to their blogs from mobile phones. 2005: Arianna Huffington founds the Huffington Post, a news aggregation Web site and blog; the site is sold to AOL in 2010. 2005: YouTube, an Internet video-sharing platform, created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, begins operation. 2006: In April, Michelle Malkin founds the political Web site http://HotAir.com. 2006: In August, a video of Senator George Allen (R-VA) referring to a young man of Indian descent as “macaca” is widely distributed and damages Allen's re-election bid. 2006: Google announces it has indexed over 25 billion Web pages and 1.3 billion images and receives 400 million queries per day. 2006: In September, the Pew Research Center releases a report stating that 19 percent of adult Internet users (about 26 million Americans) used the Internet to get information or news about politics and the upcoming midterm elections. 2006: In September, Facebook allows anyone 13 and older to register (i.e., a *.edu e-mail address is no longer required). 2006: In November, Google purchases YouTube. 2006: Twitter begins operation, allowing users to send messages of 140 characters or less. 2006: Spotify, a music streaming and playlistsharing tool, begins operation. 2006: In December, the Pew Research Center releases a study showing that 64 percent of registered voters reported having received robo-calls (recorded telephone messages) during the 2006 midterm election campaign; in contrast, only 24 percent reported receiving campaign phone calls from live callers and 18 percent reported receiving home visitations in connection with the campaign. 2007: In January, the Pew Research Center releases a study showing that 15 percent of American adults used the Internet to get most of their information about the 2006 midterm election; of those who used the Internet for political purposes, 23 percent report creating or forwarding political commentary or videos. 2007: In February, presidential candidate Barack Obama meets with Marc Andreessen to discuss using social media as part of his presidential campaign. 2007: Facebook begins the Beacon advertising system, using information about user purchases to post targeted advertisements to users; the Beacon system is abandoned in 2009, in part due to objections that it violated user privacy. 2007: Brave New Films, founded by Robert Greenwald, releases its first films, The Real Rudy (about Rudy Giuliani) and Fox Attacks (about the Fox News Channel). 2007: The social networking, photo-sharing, and short-form blogging site Tumblr begins operation. 2007: In June, Apple releases the iPhone, which features a touch screen and allows the user to make phone calls, browse the Internet, and take digital photographs. 2007: In July, Facebook announces it has 30 million users. 2007: The political Web site http://Change.org begins operation; it attracts 20 million users by 2012. [Page xlv]2008: In January, the Pew Research Center releases a report stating that 42 percent of Americans age 18 to 29, and 24 percent of adult Americans overall, say they use the Internet to find political information. 2008: Nate Silver founds http://FiveThirtyEight.com, a blog specializing in statistical analysis of political topics (the name refers to the number of members in the electoral college); the blog became an online feature of the New York Times in 2010, and became famous in 2012 by combining and weighting polling data to correctly predict the outcome of the presidential election in 49 of 50 states. 2008: Apple introduces the App Store, a distribution platform for applications for the iPhone and iPad; by 2012, the App Store offered over 700,000 mobile applications, and over 25 billion apps have been downloaded. 2008: Clay Shirky publishes Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, a book that argues that social media tools allow individuals to organize themselves and act collectively in ways formerly only possible within organizations. 2008: Google is the most visited Web site in both the United States and the United Kingdom. 2009: Foursquare, a location-based social networking site, begins operation. 2008: In October, Google introduces the Android operating system and it quickly becomes the dominant operating system for mobile phones. 2009: GeoCities, a California-based Web site that facilitated creation of Web pages by nontechnical users, ceases operation except in Japan; it had 38 million Web pages at the time it ceased U.S. operations. 2009: In April, activists in Moldova use social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal, to organize protests against their government. 2009: In April, the Internet fund-raising platform Kickstarter begins operation; it allows people to pledge money to support other people's projects, in a manner similar to pledge drives conducted by public radio. 2009: In April, the Pew Research Center releases a study showing that over half (55 percent) of adult Americans used the Internet in 2008 to get information about the election or to become involved in politics, and about one-third used the Internet to share political content. 2009: In June, the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on a cell phone; this video (and links to it) rapidly spreads around the world on social media, including Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, circumventing Iranian censorship. 2009: Facebook becomes the world's largest social network, with over 200 million users. 2009: Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger is forced to land a commercial flight in the Hudson River in New York City after the aircraft struck a flock of geese. The first notice of this event is posted on Twitter by a user who saw the event from a ferry. 2010: Crowdrise, a Web site founded by actor Edward Norton, film producer Shauna Robertson, and online retailers Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe, begins operation; it allows users to create fund-raising pages for free and provides prizes to be distributed among those who contribute to charitable causes. 2010: Apple introduces the iPad, and it becomes the dominant tablet computer. 2010: The term app (as in “mobile application”) is chosen as “word of the year” by the American Dialect Society. 2010: Clay Shirky publishes Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, a book in which he posits that online tools allow people to use their leisure time more creatively and productively than was true in the past. 2010: Facebook has over 400 million users. [Page xlvi]2010: The Democratic National Committee hires a manager to oversee President Barack Obama's social media accounts. 2010: An estimated 1.97 billion people worldwide use the Internet, amounting to almost 30 percent of the world's population. 2010: The Pew Internet and American Life Project announces that more Americans get news on the Internet than from newspapers. 2010: Pinterest, an Internet social scrapbooking site, begins operation, and acquires 10 million users faster than any other stand-alone site in history. 2010: Dan Savage and Terry Miller found the It Gets Better Project to encourage gay and lesbian young people. Savage and Miller posted a video on YouTube discussing their early lives and how their adult lives were much better than they could have imagined when they were being bullied and harassed as children, and encouraged others to do the same; the project grew so large that it now has its own Web site, http://www.itgetsbetter.org, which included over 50,000 videos (as of November 2012) and had been viewed over 50 million times. 2010: In December, a study released by the Pew Research Center indicates that 26 percent of American adults used their cell phone in connection with the 2010 midterm elections, either to get information or to participate in some other way, for instance to tell people they had voted (14 percent) or to pass along information about conditions at their local polling place on election day (6 percent). 2010: In December, video of Tunisian protester Mohammed Bouazizi setting fire to himself is captured by amateur videographers and posted on YouTube, inciting protests that eventually lead to the January 14, 2011, abdication of Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. 2010–11: Social media plays a key role in a popular uprising in north Africa and the Middle East known as the “Arab Spring,” although experts debate whether social media acted as an instigator or merely facilitated the uprisings. 2011: In January, President Barack Obama becomes the first speaker in the YouTube World View speaker series; after his State of the Union address, the president answers questions from citizens. 2011: In January, the Pew Research Center releases a study showing that 73 percent of American adults who use the Internet got news or information online about the 2010 midterm elections and 22 percent used Twitter or social networking sites to connect to a campaign or to the election. 2011: The professional social networking site LinkedIn reports that it has 100 million users. 2011: The Pew Research Center releases a report stating that adults who use the Internet are also more likely to be involved in offline group activities, contradicting the stereotype of Internet users as isolated loners. 2011: Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta found the Born This Way Foundation to work with the Berkman Foundation at Harvard University to promote social tolerance, fight against bullying, and encourage young people to build strong communities. 2011: Android becomes the predominant operating system for smartphones, surpassing Symbian. 2011: In May, U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) sends a sexually suggestive photograph of himself over Twitter; he resigns in June as a result of the outcry from this incident. 2011: In July, Ning claims that it is the world's largest social media Web site, with over 90,000 customers in 223 countries, and 65 million unique monthly visitors. 2012: In March, KONY 2012, a short film about Uganda warlord Joseph Kony, is released; it spreads rapidly over the Internet, attracting over 93 million viewers on YouTube alone. 2012: In May, Facebook announces that it has 901 million users worldwide; at this point, if [Page xlvii]Facebook were a country, it would be the third-largest in the world in terms of population. 2012: In June, the Federal Election Commission rules that political campaigns may accept contributions by way of text messages. 2012: In September, the Pew Research Center releases a study revealing that one-quarter or more of those who use social networking sites say they are important for political activities—for instance, 36 percent say social networking sites are an important way they keep up with political news, 26 percent say they are important in recruiting people to political causes, and 25 percent say they are an important way to discuss political issues. 2012: In September, a randomized controlled study published in Nature and based on the midterm elections in November 2010 indicates that messages delivered to Facebook users on election day resulted in a small but measurable increase in voter turnout. 2012: In October, the Pew Research Center releases a study indicating that 60 percent of American adults use social networking sites and that two-thirds of those have used social media for political or civic activities. 2012: In October, the Pew Research Center releases a study indicating that 10 percent of those who contributed to one of the candidates in the presidential campaign did so via a cell phone app or by text message. 2012: In November, a picture of President Barack Obama embracing his wife Michelle became the most retweeted and most-liked post in history; posted early in the morning of November 7, when it became clear that Obama had the state of Ohio and thus had won re-election, it was retweeted almost 700,000 times on that day alone, and a posting on Facebook received over 3.23 million “likes” and over 400,000 shares. 2012: In November, over 31 million tweets related to the U.S. presidential election are sent on November 7 (election day) alone, making it the most tweeted about event in history. 2012: In November, the Pew Research Center releases a study indicating that over half (55 percent) of registered voters had watched at least one political video online in the period leading up to the election; video news reports were the most common type of video reported (48 percent), followed by recorded speeches, conferences, or debates (40 percent), and issue-oriented informational videos (39 percent). 2013: On January 11, Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. Swartz, who was active in developing the social Web site Reddit, the organization Creative Commons, and the Web feed format RSS, was facing charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act due to his use of an MIT computer in 2011 to download large numbers of journal articles from the digital library JSTOR. 2013: On July 23, the Web site http://thedirty.com releases pictures and sexting messages sent by New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner under the alias “Carlos Danger;” although Weiner remains in the campaign, his candidacy is severely damaged by the scandal, and he came in fifth place in the vote. 2013: On August 20, The Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network launches a new television channel, Al Jazeera America, with headquarters in New York City and 12 bureaus located throughout the United States. SarahBoslaugh, Kennesaw State University [Page xlviii] Find in Bibliography Show Hide Page Numbers Page Num. [Page 1423] Above the fold: On a Web page, content that can be seen without scrolling. Absolute URL: Also called an absolute link, an Internet address that takes a user to the exact location of a file on the Internet. Active time: Also known as engagement time, the amount of time a visitor to a Web site spends interacting with the page, for example, by clicking, scrolling, or hovering. Ad banner: A type of Internet ad appearing on the top or bottom of a Web page. Ad pages sold: The number of page views sold to an advertiser by an Internet advertising firm. Adobe Acrobat: Software that allows users to create and read files in portable document format (PDF), a format that allows them to be shared, but prevents them from being changed. AdWords: An advertising program created by Google that allows Web site owners to earn revenue by displaying ads next to their online content; the ads are selected to match audience interests, and the Web site owner earns money when a user clicks on an ad. Aid Still Required (http://www.aidstillrequired.org): An organization founded by Andrea Herz Payne to bring continued awareness to issues (e.g., the conditions in a country months after a natural disaster) that may have fallen out of the news spotlight, but for which charitable support is still needed. AIDA: Attention, interest, desire, and action—a traditional model for how advertising works, by moving a person from attention through interest and desire to action. Alert: A media tool such as Google Alerts or Social Mention that sends notifications to a user when particular words or phrases (e.g., a company name or personal name) are mentioned on the Internet. Amplification: One of the three components of a Klout score, amplification refers to how many people to act on messages posted by an individual. App: A limited-use computer application that can be downloaded from the Internet. Banner exchange: A type of Internet advertising in which different Web sites display each other's banner ads. Blind link: A link on a Web page that does not indicate to the user where clicking on it will take them. Blawg: A blog about the law. Blog: A journal kept on the Internet for personal or other purposes; a contraction of “Web log.” Blogroll: A list of blogs recommended on a blog or other Web page, typically on topics related to the Web page and carried as a vertical list on one side of the Web page. Born This Way Foundation: A foundation created in 2011 by pop singer Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, to help create a society tolerant of individual differences, particularly but not exclusively around gender and sexuality, and in which young people feel empowered to build a better world. Bounce: A visit to a Web site in which the user views only one page. Bounce rate: The number of bounces divided by the number of visits to a Web site. Button ad: A small advertisement on a Web page, usually a small circular or rectangular ad at the bottom of the page. Buzz: A rough measure of the number of people talking or tweeting about a product or candidate; campaigns may aim at “creating buzz,” meaning a goal to increase the number of people aware of something and talking about it. Call to action: The part of an advertisement that asks the reader to do something specific. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart): an anticomment spam feature that requires users to type in the characters appearing in a window (often in distorted form, to defeat optical character recognition) before posting. Chiclet: A type of computer keyboard in which the keys are raised and separated by spaces, so the keys look like pieces of Chiclets gum. Alternatively, the small, square graphics appearing on Web and social media screens that display the logos of various RSS feeds and social media providers, such as the now-famous symbols for Twitter and Facebook. They are used on Web pages and social media apps to help providers track content as it moves around the digital universe, and to improve interconnectivity among different types of platforms. Churn rate: The proportion of subscribers who leave a service (e.g., a mobile phone company). Also, the period of time it takes for a specific piece of hardware or software to become obsolete because of changes in regulatory policy, changes in technical standards and/or technology, or by corporate fiat on the part of the technology provider (e.g., discontinuing support for a particular platform or storage device). Click path: The sequence of clicks that a visitor follows on a particular Web site. Comment spam: Spam posted in the comments section of a blog, often posted by spambots; the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart): system was developed to try to prevent comment spam. Content provider: In the context of the Internet, an individual or company that provides content, such as text and graphics, to be posted on a Web site. Contextual advertising: Advertising matched to the hosting Web page, usually by using keywords. Conversion: When a reader takes a desired action, such as making a contribution, after viewing a web page or clicking on an ad. Conversion rate: The number of conversions divided by the number of page views or clicks. CPM: Cost per thousand, a method of paying for advertisements in terms of the number of impressions made on an ad, for example, $5 per 1,000 impressions. CRM: Customer relationship management, a model that uses technology to manage the [Page 1425]interactions between a company and its customers, prospects, and so forth. CTR: Click-through rate, the number of people who, after reading an ad, click on it. CU-SeeMe: A free videoconferencing program that allows individuals to use a video camera and Internet connection to exchange live video. http://DailyKos.com: A popular political Web site founded and published by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga in May 2002; as of 2012, the site had a quarter of a million registered users and 2.5 million unique visitors each month. Deliverability: In the context of e-mail, the ability to deliver e-mail to the intended recipients. Delivery rate: The percentage of e-mails in a marketing campaign that are received in the recipient's inbox, rather than their spam folder. Digital divide: A term referring to differences in Internet access (or broadband access) among people of different races, genders, social classes, and so forth. Increasingly refers in a more generalized way to one's degree of access to the full range of mobile and online technology and resources. Direct traffic: Users that come to a Web site by entering the URL. Dooced: Being fired for something done on the Internet; the term was coined in 2002 by Heather Armstrong, who wrote about her job on her blog http://Dooce.com. EMS: Electronic meeting system, a platform to facilitate group meetings over the Internet. Event blog: A blog created to promote an event, or to otherwise present content about a specific event. Exit percentage: The total number of exits (people leaving a Web page) divided by the number of pageviews. Expert influencer: Someone who exerts influence on others because he or she is recognized as an authority, even if he or she is not personally known to the person who is influenced. Facebook: A social networking site created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, now the largest social networking site on the Internet. FeedReader: A news aggregation program that allows readers to collect news feeds and access them from the Internet or a mobile device; more generally, a “feedreader” or “feed reader” is any program providing this type of capability. Flame: posting a hostile comment in response to an online article or blog post; flames are often-based on personal attack, rather than engagement with the issues. Follower: In the context of Twitter, a subscriber to the tweets of another person or organization. Following: In the context of Twitter, choosing to “follow” someone means that one will receive their tweets (Twitter messages). Forum: An online discussion site where people can post messages and reply to other messages; also known as a message board. Forums are usually organized into topics, and the messages are archived. Friending function: On Facebook and similar social networks, sending an invitation to another Facebook user, inviting them to be a “friend,” or giving them the choice to accept, decline, or defer. For example, it is possible to limit Facebook posts or other activities like sharing music to only friends. Geolocation: The ability to identify the geographic location of an object. Geolocational enabling: Turning on the function (e.g., on a mobile phone or computer) that allows software to deduce its location, for instance, so it can suggest restaurants in the vicinity. Geotargeting: Choosing which content or advertising will be displayed to a user, based on his or her geographic location. Google Groups: A social media service provided by Google to help readers find discussion groups related to their interests; it began as Deja News in 1995. Haloscan: An early blog comment hosting service, founded in 2002, and renamed Echo in 2009. Hashtag: A word or phrase (with no spaces) preceded by the # symbol, such as #ivoted; hashtags are used on Twitter to make it easy for users to find related content. Hat tip: Acknowledgement of another's assistance; for instance, in providing the original idea for a blog post. High consideration purchase: A purchase involving a relatively large amount of money, and hence relatively high risk; for instance, a new car. Hit: A request to a Web server for a file to be uploaded. Hotspot: A picture or icon that is hyperlinked. Also refers to particularly useful social media points at which to gather user or viewer metrics, as well as to places in the physical environment where wireless Internet service is available. HTML: Hypertext markup language, a coding language used on the Internet to create Web pages. HTTP: Hypertext transfer protocol, a set of rules allowing communication among computers connected to the Internet. Hyperlink: On the Internet, a reference to another Web site or other data (e.g., a document) that can be accessed by clicking on the link. ICQ: “I seek you,” an instant messenger service that can be used online or with a smartphone. Impression: In Internet advertising, a single display of an advertisement on a Web page. Inbound links: Links from other sites on the Internet to your Web site; a high number of inbound links is one of the factors that may give a Web site a high ranking for search engines. Infoglut: A mass of poorly organized information that is difficult to productively use. Interstitial advertising: A type of Internet ad that appears during the transition from one Web page to another. IPTV: Internet protocol television, a method of delivering television programs to viewers over the Internet. Joined-up marketing: Creating a consistent brand strategy across all the different ways a customer may become aware of or interact with a company, including e-mail marketing, direct mail marketing, Internet advertising, or a Facebook app. Keyword density: The ratio of a particular keyword to the total number of words on a Web page. Keyword stuffing: A practice in which a keyword is inserted many times into a page in order to increase the page's keyword density. Klout: A measure of social influence, ranging from 1 to 100, with higher scores indicating stronger influence and ability to cause others to take action. A Klout score is made up of three parts: true reach, amplification, and network impact. Landing page: The Web page first shown to a visitor who arrives from another site; landing pages are usually specific to a given referring link. Like function: On Facebook, the ability for a user to click a button on a Web site to indicate that they “like” a posting or a site, that is, are a fan of the item; however, “like” fraud is also possible, because the like button may be linked to a different Web site than the one where the button resides. List cleaning: Also known as list scrubbing or list pruning, removing e-mails (or postal mail addresses) that are incorrect, undeliverable, or duplicated. Liveblogging: Providing an ongoing series of blog posts during an event (e.g., an election or sporting event) to provide news coverage and commentary. Low consideration purchase: A purchase involving relatively little money and relatively little risk; for instance, toothpaste. Lurking: Reading content on an online forum or e-mail list without posting to the discussions. Malware: Malicious software that may be installed on a user's computer without his or her knowledge, such as spyware. Meetup: A social networking portal intended to help people meet others with like interests in their geographical area and organize group meetings. Metadata: Literally data about data; 15 elements were defined as essential metadata for resource description at a workshop held in Dublin in 1995, and are known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. Microblog: A blog that limits file size, for instance, limiting a post to single images or short text messages. Twitter is a form of microblog. Mobile application: An application designed for a mobile device, such as a smartphone. MP3: A compression and playback standard for digital audio files. Narrowcasting: Delivering a message to a specific group of people. Netroots: Political activism organized through online social media, such as wikis and blogs; the term was coined in 2002 by Jerome Armstrong, an American political strategist. Network impact: One of the three components of a Klout score, network impact refers to how often key influencers respond to content. News reader: An Internet application on Usenet that allows readers to download, read, and post to Usenet groups. NPTech: Information related to nonprofits and technology. Open rate: In the context of an e-mail marketing campaign, the percentage of message or advertising e-mails actually opened by the people who receive them. Opt-in: Features such as e-mails that are only provided to individuals who indicate that they want to receive them. Organic search results: Site listings resulting from a user performing a search, as opposed to clicking on an ad. Over-building: Building more computer capacity than is expected to be needed, so that necessary capacity will be available, even if there are failures of hardware or software. Page depth: Also know as page views per session, the average number of page views by a visitor during a session. Page tagging: Placing a piece of JavaScript code on a Web page to collect information about people who visit that page. Pageview: A unit of measurement referring to one person looking at one Web page. Peer influencer: See Positional influencer. Permalink: A permanent URL linking to a Web page, document, and so forth, that will remain valid even if the original location of the Web page is moved. Person finder: A Google Web application built in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti to help people locate friends and relatives after that and similar disasters. Phishing: Using fraudulent means to obtain confidential information such as usernames and passwords, for example, by sending an e-mail purportedly from an individual's bank and asking for their account information in order to “restore service.” Ping: A message sent by a blog to a server when a new entry is posted or updated. Poke: On Facebook, to send a message to attract the attention of someone, analogous to physically poking them. Pop-under ads: Also known as pop-behind ads, ads that automatically appear in a new window behind the current window when a user visits a Web site or clicks on an ad. Pop-up ads: Ads that automatically appear in a new Web window on top of the current window when a user visits a Web site or clicks on an ad. Positional influencer: Someone who exerts influence through their relationship with the individual being influenced; for example, by being a member of the same family or a close friend. Also known as peer influencers. Posting: To send a message to an Internet forum, blog, or in a section devoted to comments on news or other Web pages. Power user: Someone who is unusually good at using a computer program and can use advanced features of the program. PPC advertising: Pay-per-click advertising, a type of advertising in which the advertiser only pays when a visitor actually clicks on an ad. Product placement: Arranging for a product to be seen or mentioned on a Web site or in a film or television show, appearing to be a normal part of the story, but in fact as a means of advertising the product. PSA: Public service announcement, an announcement usually run at no cost because it is considered to be in the public interest. Real World: A reality television program running on MTV beginning in 1992; one of the first of many reality shows, it followed a group of strangers who live together in a house and depicts many issues relevant to young adults, such as sexuality and drug use. Reblog: Reposting content written by someone else, with the notice that it originated elsewhere; reblogging has become an indicator of the popularity of posts on social media sites. Recency: The number of days passed since a given user has visited a given Web site. Red-lining: Also known as “weblining,” a method of grading customers and allocating resources toward them. Alternatively, the act of omitting entire populations from the list of those slated to receive infrastructural improvements related to new technologies (such as high-speed fiber optical cable replacing in-ground copper wiring) by simply crossing them out on the relevant lists in policymaker and/or provider development activities. Often determined by geographical location, economic status, “need for service,” and/or “perceived ability to pay” criteria. Redundancy: In Internet terms, having a secondary system to back up service in case of a failure in the primary service. Referent influencer: Someone who exerts influence on people who he or she knows, whether in person or through the use of social media. Referring site: A Web site that sends a user to another site. Repeat visitor: A user who makes at least two visits to a given Web site. Retweet: Forwarding or posting someone else's tweet (Twitter message). ROI: Return on investment, a measure of evaluating the effectiveness of an advertising campaign or other business decision; ROI is calculated by dividing the return (e.g., contributions received) by the cost of whatever is evaluated. Search engine: A tool to find information on the Internet by entering search terms; major search engines include Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Secure mobile phone messaging: Using software to encrypt SMS text messages sent via mobile phone. SEO: Search engine optimization, a method of manipulating content on a Web site in order to have that site rank more highly in searches and thus become more visible. Session: A theoretically uninterrupted visit by a user to a Web site, during which time the user does not go to any other Web site, and there is not a gap of 30 minutes or longer between pageviews. Signal blocking: Blocking a wireless signal by electronic (i.e., jamming) or physical (i.e., wallpaper with metallic ink) means. SIM: Social influence marketing, that is, using social media in a marketing campaign. Single: A visit to a Web site during which a user views only one Web page. Skyscraper ad: A vertical display ad, usually appearing on one side of a Web page. Sleeper effect: An observed psychological effect in which a message paired with a discrediting cue (e.g., the information comes from a disreputable source) becomes more, rather than less, persuasive in a person's memory over time. SMS: Short messaging service, a method to send short text messages using a mobile phone, the Internet, and so forth. http://Snoball.com: A Web site to encourage people to donate to charities; users choose from a number of charities (1.7 million as of November 2012) and make specific pledges based on their behavior (e.g., contributing a set amount to a charity each time they patronize a particular coffee shop) or external event (e.g., making a specific donation each time a particular sports team wins). Social blogs: Blogs created to share personal information about the blogger. Social conversation: A type of social marketing in which a brand engages in a direct conversation with customers or potential customers through social media such as Twitter or Facebook. Social influencers: People who have an unusually strong influence on their peers, in matters ranging from consumer choices (e.g., what brand of clothing they favor or what television programs they watch) to casting a vote in an election. Social network: A Web site that facilitates users connecting with each other and sharing information; Facebook is currently the largest social network in the world. Social news service: Also called a social bookmarking service, a service that facilitates sharing of Web pages with friends. Spam: E-mail that is neither requested nor desired by a user; much spam carries unsolicited advertising, hence the alternate name unwanted commercial e-mail (UCE). Splog: A spam blog, that is, a blog created solely to make money from advertisers by garnering pageviews from users coming from search engines; the articles in splogs are often made up primarily of search terms in order to attract more clicks. Spyware: Malware (malicious software) that captures information from a computer without the user's knowledge. Super-user: A system administrator granted privileges to make changes in the systems beyond what ordinary users are allowed to do. Tablet: A small mobile personal computer with a touch screen and a virtual keyboard. Tag cloud: A graphical display of tags or important words in a document, with terms used more often presented in larger type. Tags: Keywords assigned to documents or images on the Internet, so that the Web pages can be more easily found by search engines. Technology steward: A person who understands the technology needs of a community and has sufficient expertise to address them. Often plays a gatekeeper role for technologically unsophisticated populations Thread: On a message board, the sequence of messages in response to an initial post. Tiananmen Square tank video: Video of the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China, in 1989, including a man facing down Chinese tanks; the video was widely viewed internationally. Trackback: A method of notifying an Internet author when someone links to a document created by him or her. Troll: On the Internet, someone who disrupts an online community by posting off-topic or inflammatory messages. True reach: One of the three components of a Klout score, true reach represents the number of people influenced by one person. Tweeps: In the context of Twitter, people who follow someone else's tweets. Tweet: Text messages sent on Twitter; they must be 140 characters or fewer. TweetReach: A company specializing in analyzing the impact of Twitter campaigns. Tweetup: An in-person meeting by people who usually communicate over Twitter. Twitter: A social messaging tool that allows users to post brief text messages (140 characters or fewer) called tweets. Unconnected: People who do not have ready access to high-speed Internet and/or mobile and social media resources, or who elect not to use those resources even if they are available. Unique visitor: In Web analytics, a person who visits a Web site at least once in a given period of time; a unique visitor is counted only once, even if they visit the Web site multiple times during the given time period. Unsubscribe/opt-out: Choosing to not be part of an e-mail list. URL: Uniform resource locator, a character string identifying a Web site. Viral: In the Internet context, to become extremely popular in a short period of time; a video or Web page that is viewed by many people (sometimes millions) in a short period of time is said to have “gone viral.” Typically, content must migrate from its original distribution platform to other communication modalities in order to achieve viral status. Virtual world: An online community formed around a computer-simulated environment, such as that typical of multiplayer fantasy games. VOIP: Voice over internet protocol, a method of transmitting voice communications, faxes, etc., over the Internet rather than over phone lines. VPN: Virtual private network, a private network transmitted over the Internet. Warm traffic: In terms of marketing, people who know in general what they want, but do not know that your product will solve their problem. Web analytics: The analysis of data collected from the Internet, often done to optimize a Web site. 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ThomasWalzer There is no doubt that social media has generated a new era in political communication, especially among representative lawmakers and their constituents. But how far the social media phenomenon has developed can only be seen on a case-by-case basis as presented in the following statistics. Seeing the kind of editorial research done at SAGE's sister publication, CQ Researcher (http://www.cqresearcher.com), this encyclopedia's editors undertook the challenge of determining exactly what U.S. Congresspersons were up to on the social media front. Using CQ Researcher as a starting point to contact office managers, administrative heads, or communication managers for each Congressperson, we created the following appendix detailing individual representatives' number of Facebook “likes,” average Facebook post frequency, number of tweets, number of Twitter followers, YouTube usage, and number of videos posted, among other social media uses. The appendix was researched in October 2013, at the latest possible date prior to the encyclopedia's to-press deadline in early November. The results of the research clearly indicate Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is among the leaders of the pack with 862,382 Facebook “likes,” 1,817,626 Twitter followers, and 603 videos posted on YouTube. Yet McCain does not have an RSS feed. Closer to the lower end of the spectrum in the U.S. House of Representative, there is Representative C. W. Bill Young (R-Florida) with 33 Facebook “likes” and no Twitter account. We included the birth date and age of the Congressperson to see if there was any correlation between social media activity and age. We leave that to the reader to deduce. Sources: CQ Researcher; U.S. Senate at http://www.senate.gov; U.S. House of Representatives at http://www.house.gov; Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. VOLUME 1 ©Laureen E. Smith: xxiii; Flickr: 66; Flickr: 80 (Steve Rhodes), 83 (Philip McMaster), 95, 114 (Steve Rhodes), 130 (Adam Fagen), 159, 180, 191, 202, 230 (Gage Skidmore), 384 (Asterio Tecson), 392 (New America Foundation), 363 (Daniel Sieradski), 370 (Joe Lustri), 408 (Public Citizen/Bridgette Blair), 421 (Steve Rhodes), 468 (Adam Lau), 485; White House photos by Pete Souza: 188, 424; Center on Public Diplomacy: 255; USAID: 258, 276 (The Capacity Project), 400 (Alex Araujo), 40, 436 (Worldview/Ed Owles); Center for American Progress: 457; U.S. Army: 122 (Jerome Howard); U.S. Navy: 97 (John F. Williams); YouTube: 284; Texas State Library and Archives Commission: 318; U.S. Department of Defense: 344 (Chad J. McNeeley); Daniel Pearl Foundation: 347; World Economic Forum: 355 (Christof Sonderegger); CIMMYT: 377 (M. DeFreese); FEMA: 404 (David Fine); Argonne National Laboratory: 451 (Wes Agresta); World Economic Forum: 47 (Remy Steinegger); University of Texas College of Communication: 53; U.S. Department of Defense: 471 (Helene C. Stikkel); Wikimedia: 6, 9 (Daniel Latorre), 12 (Sage Ross), 16 (Luke Vargas), 21 (Jonathan Mclntosh), 29 (Derzsi Elekes Andor), 33 (Ahmed Abd El-Fatah), 57 (Vincent Diamante), 72 (Essam Sharaf), 100 (Gage Skidmore), 107 (Al Jazeera English), 136 (Gage Skidmore), 141 (Jimmy Johansson), 148 (River Bissonnette), 154, 199, 206, 210, 219, 239, 267, 293, 297, 307, 326, 334, 431 (Equality Michigan), 441 (Hossam el-Hamalawy), 480. VOLUME 2 Flickr: 491 (Steve Rhodes), 501 (Robert Croma), 502 (Collin David Anderson), 508 (Capsun Poe), 515 (Geoff Livingston), 518 (Ted Eytan), 523 (Radio Nederland Wereldomroep), 543 (Nan Palmero), 548, 563 (Jayel Aheram), 568 (Digital Democracy), 573, 582 (Phillip Steams), 589 (Erik E. Thorkildsen), 601 (Robert Scoble), 617 (Daniel Sieradski), 634 (Paul Wilkinson), 640 (Jens Schott Knudsen), 645 (Javad Sharban), 674 (Steve Rhodes), 691 (Sarah Stierch), 709 (ICRC), 716 (Erik Hersman), 724 (Eser Karadag), 732 (Steve Rhodes), 748 (Terissa Schor), 758 (Adam Jones), 818, 823 (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee), 853 (Mosireen), 872 (Simon Ingram), 877 (Steve Rhodes), 889, 893 (David Biene), 916, 923 (New America Foundation), 1021 (Mark Taylor), 1031 (©Ann Harkness); Wikimedia: 552, 623 (Chris Durham), 656 (Quinn Dombrowski), 664 (Karen Eliot), 668 (Nilanjana Roy), 687, 694 (Sage Ross), 705 (James M. Thome), 763 (Pete Gene), 769 (William Murphy), 800 (Gage Skidmore), 997, 834 (One Laptop Per Child), 841 (Al Jazeera English), 862, 904 (David Shank-bone), 940, 929 (Andreas Gaufer), 934 (James Currie), 965, 980 (Brandon Harper), 988, 1026; U.S. Navy: 530 (Tiffini Jones Vanderwyst), 535 (Decan Barnes), 772 (Joshua Treadwell), 829, 1076, (Chad J. McNeeley), 1094 (Ernesto Hernandez Fonte); U.S. Army: 494 (Darrick Noah), 1005; FEMA: 598 (Patsy Lynch), 1083 (Andrea Booher); White House photos by Pete Souza: 629, 810, 950; World Bank: 738 (Bill Lyons); Obama for America: 783 (Tyler Driscoll); Department of Defense: 794 (Aaron Hostutler); Department of Health and Human Services: 806 (Chris Smith); World Economic Forum: 849 (Andy Mettler); DFID: 909 (Russell Watkins); U.S. House of Representatives: 945, 959; U.S. Mission to Geneva: 1009. VOLUME 3 Flickr: 1053 (Knight Foundation), 1069 (Reporters Without Borders), 1103 (West Midlands Police), 1112, 1126 (Melissa Hillier), 1141 (Robert S. Donovan), 1146, 1154 (Joe Shlabotnik), 1160 (R. L. Morgan) 1165 (Max Morse), 1172 (Rowan Peter), 1178 (Steve Bott), 1189 (Fifth World Art), 1194 (Adolfo Senabre), 1233 (Asterio Tecson), 1242 (Katrina E. Bowman), 1304 (Steve Rhodes), 1315 (Erik Hersman), 1338 (Rochelle Hartman), 1351 (Kelley Minars), 1356 (José Cruz), 1374, 1383 (Scott Beale), 1408 (Adam Scotti); Wikimedia: 1048 (Justin Ling), 1063, 1088 (Tony Alter), 1218 (UK Department for International Development), 1223, 1264 (S. Eyre), 1268 (Fibonacci Blue), 1274, 1277, 1321 (Mateusz Opasinski), 1329, 1363 (http://Water.Org), 1368 (Jeff Warren), 1378 (Gage Skidmore), 1391 (Ben Schumin), 1396 (Andrew Adams), 1405 (Cathi Bond), 1415; White House photos by Pete Souza: 1285; U.S. Army: 1310; Department of Defense: 1099 (Glenn Fawcett); California Coastal Records Project: 1212; U.S. Department of State: 1289; National Renewable Energy Laboratory: 1295 (Dennis Schroeder); Library of Congress: 1342; Obama for America: 1420 (Christopher Dilts). Hybrid Politics: Media and Participation State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. 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Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter Last updated on January 2, 2020, at 5:17 p.m. ET Posted on January 2, 2020, at 1:43 p.m. ET Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans to bar sales of flavored e-cigarette cartridges, except for menthol and tobacco flavors. “The United States has never seen an epidemic of substance use arise as quickly as our current epidemic of youth use of e-cigarettes,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement about the change, which goes into effect in 30 days. The FDA released its statement announcing the new policy on Thursday, saying the move was not a “ban” but an announcement prioritizing the agency’s law enforcement powers against tobacco products. The agency “has attempted to balance the public health concerns,” the statement said. The move would exclude refillable vaporizer liquid flavors also sold in vape shops. Unlike the cartridges, which are commonly used in e-cigarette devices like Juul, the exempt liquids are used in vaping devices that come with a refillable reservoir tank. The partial flavor “enforcement policy” comes as a retreat from the president first saying he would ban all flavored vapes in early September. Last month, Trump signed the federal spending bill that raised the age to buy both tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes to 21, up from 18 nationwide. That age increase covers flavored nicotine liquids sold to refill larger vaporizers, which are exempted from the new ban. “We’re going to protect our families, we’re going to protect our children, and we’re going to protect the industry,” said President Donald Trump on New Year’s Eve. “People have died from this.” In November, survey results reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that more than 1 in 4 high school students (more than 5 million teens nationwide) now use flavored e-cigarettes monthly, a significant increase from last year that alarmed public health officials. Mint was the most popular flavor among high school students, according to the surveys, followed by mango. Jose Luis Magana / Getty Images In October, the e-cigarette giant Juul announced the suspension of US sales of mango, creme, fruit, and cucumber flavors, but not mint and menthol flavors. The company added mint to its suspended list in November, following the release of the JAMA results about teens’ use of flavored e-cigarettes. Fifty-nine percent of the students surveyed reported using Juul, by far the leading brand used among high schoolers. Much of the furor over e-cigarettes has sprung from a nationwide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries that peaked in September, now at more than 2,500 cases nationwide, with at least 55 deaths. Although those cases largely appear to be related to vaping of illicit THC-containing liquids in refillable devices, pressure has increased on public officials to stem use among teens of e-cigarettes amid the outbreak. At a November face-off between cigarette firms and public health officials, Trump expressed worry that a full flavor ban would drive both kids and adults to the illicit market and lead to more deaths. The FDA’s top tobacco official, Mitch Zeller, had suggested in December that legally the administration couldn’t exempt vape shops from a ban in congressional testimony. On Thursday, he told reporters “the immediate actions are expected to have minimal impact on vape shops” in a telephone briefing for reporters on the announcement. The newly announced ban and its exemptions, discussed this week by Trump and administration officials ahead of its official release, displeased both sides of the debate over banning flavored vapes. “It’s become a very big industry. We’re going to take care of the industry.” – @realDonaldTrump There is no better way to describe the policy. The Trump Administration decided to protect the e-cigarette industry instead of America’s kids. Our statement ⬇️ https://t.co/tmVcl7anKT 04:06 PM – 02 Jan 2020 E-cigarette advocates called the Trump administration’s announcement only a partial victory. In May, the FDA will require shops to prove the exempted flavored liquids pass a costly public health review process to remain on the market. “President Trump will get the blame if America’s vape shops are forced to close their doors in May,” American Vaping Association President Gregory Conley told BuzzFeed News in an email. On the phone briefing, Zeller said the agency would “facilitate” public health review of vape shop liquids — Juul has already submitted materials for review — but the agency faced a court-ordered May 12 deadline for such reviews. Conley also argued that the ban could drive former smokers back to cigarettes. More than 10 million US adults vape e-cigarettes regularly, while more than 34 million smoke cigarettes. “The reality is that banning flavors in closed systems [cartridges] will result in more adults smoking,” Conley said. A study released on Monday suggested that users of refillable tank vaporizers are more than twice as likely to relapse to tobacco cigarettes than e-cigarette smokers are. Public health experts decried the ban’s exemptions for menthol flavors and refillable tank liquids, with a coalition of health organizations such as the American Heart Association and Parents Against Vaping E-Cigs protesting the announcement on Thursday as a capitulation to the tobacco industry. “This isn’t solving the problem — it’s prolonging it,” the American Lung Association’s Erika Sward told BuzzFeed News. “Keeping menthol-flavored cartridges and flavors sold in vape shops on the market will keep kids addicted.” In September, the CDC’s Anne Schuchat had testified at a House of Representatives hearing that a ban that didn’t include menthol would be ineffective. “I am deeply disappointed that President Trump ignored the advice of medical experts,” said Rep. 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__label__cc	0.696279	0.303721	8: Successor by Degulus on February 19, 2019 at 12:00 am So, given that I added it in the middle of last week, I’d like to call attention again to the new Lore Codex that I’ll be expanding over the course of the comic. It’s bare bones now, but I’ll be updating it along side the comic to provide insight and information as the story progresses. WELL DANG, Arrie’s leveled up, if I’m reading this right! Thoughhhh she’s spent a lot of time alone in a room… I wonder if she’s up to the interpersonal and negotiatory aspects of the job… Also, poor Solstice. :c Guess you can’t win it in every universe…I wonder what happened to her though? Yukitty I can’t really say if Arrie actually got a promotion, since she previously was the princess. She’s pretty much been demoted to a magical copyist. As far as Solstice is concerned, who knows. From what Narron is saying, it seems like Solstice was still intended to be the SS representative but she’s not here. Also… Narron is like… Solstice’s father…? What…? Narron went on this thing about children and it not working out. And he has this picture of Solstice. Context clues are pointing me in this direction. Or Solstice is just out for lunch and she just shows up next page. It is lunch break and some people probably clocked out and such. /shrug Oh yes, I mean she’s gotten a promotion with regards to THIS timeline. Also, wasn’t Solstice like, an orphan last timeline? If that carried over, maybe Narron helped look after her in this one. shrug Or she’s just out for lunch. And Narron has poor object permanence and decided that because she’s not in the room, then logically she must be dead and so he has to give the job to someone else. (Also, out of curiosity, how much of the future events of this comic do you actually know? I know you came up with a lot of the characters originally/talk to Degulus a lot, so I always wonder like…how much of this is a surprise to you as well. XD) Yukitty is playing dumb in this case. I don’t run every single plot point past her, but she knows most stuff. She’s seen the script for this section of the story, and even wrote her own draft at one point (which was very helpful at the time). But I only occasionally show her finished pages before they go up. I do surprise her from time to time with things she didn’t see coming, but she hears about those moments before they become pages. She’s particularly an expert on the matter of Solstice. In fact, originally she had linked some fan/concept art of young Solstice but the site ate it. Rather than approve that version of her comment after the fact, I might as well link it myself: (Edit: Oh and to further elaborate on what Yukitty says in her comment under this one… yeah, much of the info she’s working with is outdated or inaccurate because I change my mind on the finer details far more often than mention them. Nothing is canon until it shows up in a page.) The best bet is to assume that I know nothing or I’m working off of old information. Rather than help with the plotting, I assist with characterization. So I probably know some of the beats in the character progression itself but not how they’re arranged or what order they’re written in and right now they’re fairly consistent to the previous iteration. I also won’t lie too much. I actually wrote a draft of this office sequence when Dante had very little known personality. I knew the type of person he was, but not who he is in specific moments so it required some workshopping. Originally, he had no spoken lines but that didn’t seem right. A huge throughline with Suppression was all about lineage and inheritance and Thal’nasia is all about that. Even more than Maxwell wanting Merry to take over and doing everything in his power to keep her from making a reckless decision and jeopardizing it. Dante specifically is Kevin’s father and Kevin himself is very vocal about his opinions and viewpoints and impose his presence in to a space. Kevin had to have acquired those personality trait somehow. If it’s not a trait from his mother who also has a really overbearing personality, it’s from Dante who he has just as strong an impression of. It makes no sense for Dante to just sit back and do nothing. Ahhh, ok! Good to know, I was just curious about it all, lol. I also really appreciate the themes of inheritance- I think it ends up creating a lot of interesting dynamics between different characters. :3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line383
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These outstanding boulders are an unusual geological phenomenon that have been millions and millions of years in the making. Now famous, they have entertained countless travelers and have been playfully dubbed the “Bowling Balls of the Giants,” “Alien’s Brains,” “Dinosaur Eggs,” and the “Stonehenge of New Zealand.” The biggest of the boulders at Koekohe Beach, New Zealand, weigh up to seven tonnes. The Moeraki Boulders of New Zealand reach up to two meters in diameter. Each boulder is adorned with unique geometrical patterns like the reptilian scales of a dragon. For hundreds of years, they have ignited the imaginations of many sightseers who have come to this otherwise solitary stretch of New Zealand coastline. There are 50 boulders remaining in Koekohe Beach, which are now protected by New Zealand law. Since 1971, laws in New Zealand were passed to ensure that the unique Moeraki Boulders be protected, just like other national treasures including us Hooker’s sea lions. 2020-01-15 91 閲覧数 The Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord: Norwegian Wonderlands Norway is home to more than 1,000 fjords, each a unique, intricate network of winding crescent-shaped inlets that meander through towering sheer cliffs. Molded over thousands of years by the tremendous forces of melting glacial ice, these magnificent fjords must be one of Mother Earth’s most glorious works of art. On July 14, 2005, two fjords in Western Norway became inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: the Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord. As the listing states: “The two fjords, among the world’s longest and deepest, are considered as archetypical fjord landscapes and among the most scenically outstanding anywhere.’’ The Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord are situated in the Vestlandet region of southwestern Norway, which is notable for its prolific beauty and is a spectacular example of the phenomenal creative power of nature. Xinjiang Tianshan: The Awe-Inspiring Heavenly Mountains Tianshan, also known as the Heavenly Mountains, is touted as one of the world’s largest mountain ranges. The Tianshan Mountains span through four countries: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. From east to west, the mountain range is 1,553 miles long. Xinjiang Tianshan, spanning more than 600,000 hectares in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwest China, is a giant of exceptional beauty within the Tianshan mountain system. The Heavenly Mountains in Xinjiang is home to spectacular snowy mountains with glacier-capped peaks, peaceful forests and meadows, clear waters, red bed canyons, as well as desolate desert. The ongoing biological and ecological evolutionary processes further add a unique and mysterious feature to the site. 2019-10-16 259 閲覧数 Little Liuqiu: A Coral Island Paradise, Part 4 of 4 (INT) When you visit Little Liuqiu, the chance of seeing the green sea turtles is higher than not seeing them. Usually, the visitors see them. The biggest difference from many places around the world is , in some places, you have to dive in order to see them; some are only visible during specific seasons. However, here in Little Liuqiu, you can see them all year-round. We should realize that it was not easy for such a precious thing to become so common and easy to access. But thanks to the government’s efforts, the non-governmental organizations’ support, the local residents’ recognition, and tourists’ assistance, we have these precious landscape that we can appreciate. It all depends on everybody’s efforts. My home, Little Liuqiu, is a gorgeous coral island. Situated off the southwestern coast of Taiwan, or Formosa, it is part of Pingtung County. The Taiwanese (Formosan) Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan has launched a number of efforts to safeguard Little Liuqiu. Beginning in 2019, a two-year plan called Plastic Reduction & Zero-Plastic was implemented. Recently, little Liuqiu promoted beach cleaning through a creative beach currency created out of weathered glass scraps. CEO Chen Ren-ping of HiiN Studio and artist Lin Pei-yu tell how this wonderful idea works. Little Liuqiu is our only offshore coral reef island in Taiwan (Formosa). It is home to the growth of algae, and the water temperature is warm. Therefore, the green sea turtles naturally find this place attractive to stay for lengthy periods. As one slowly grows into maturity, it will become herbivorous, shifting its diet to marine plants like algae and seagrass. If we all have an environmentally friendly attitude, the environment for the sea turtles will be preserved, and it will also have the opportunity to grow and breed the next generation. Little Liuqiu is one of the few isolated isles that is completely made up of coral reefs. So, when you arrive by boat from Taiwan (Formosa), you’ll find that the colors of the sea change, with about three or four colors. Upon arrival, the water is so clear you can see the bottom of the ocean. That is because this is a coral reef island. It nurtures abundant marine life. In recent years, the rich biological scenery in the intertidal zone has attracted lots of tourists. They come to visit the intertidal zone. This whole area has become more environmentally friendly, with more and more green sea turtles inhabiting Little Liuqiu. Þingvellir National Park: The Birthplace of Iceland A unique gem and celebrated place of Icelandic pride, the Pingvellir National Park. Blessed with historical and cultural significance, geological uniqueness, natural beauty, and abundant flora and fauna. Many Icelanders consider Pingvellir a sacred place. Every summer, people from all around Iceland would travel to Pingvellir primarily for the assembly. With the Alping being created on the principles of democracy, unity, freedom, and peace, for centuries, Pingvellir has brought people together. 2019-05-29 3954 閲覧数 Nature’s Splendid Gift: Exploring the Majestic Alps The majestic Alps are one of the largest and highest mountain ranges in the world. An impressive natural wonder, they are home to sensitive ecosystems, amazing plant and animal life, and awe-inspiring landscapes. The region is also a settlement area to more than 14,200,000 residents, and is a popular tourist destination. It stretches approximately 190,700 square kilometers across eight European countries, including France, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. The mountains were formed 70 million years ago when the African and Eurasian tectonic plates merged. Exploring the Marvelous Primeval Białowieża Forest It is one of the last and largest remnants of immense primeval forests that once covered much of northeastern Europe. The Bialowieża Forest was designated a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage site in 1979. The Bialowieża Forest spans 141,885 hectares across the edge of Poland and Belarus. The entire Belarusian area is known as the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, while the Polish side and inner core of the forest is strictly protected as The Bialowieża National Park. Sacred Mountain of Mongolia: The Burkhan Khaldun, Part 2 of 2 Burkhan Khaldun Mountain was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) IN 2015. When the Burkhan Khaldun Mountain was registered as a World Heritage Site, it did not only register the mountain. All of the flora and fauna, the whole ecosystem that covered 415,012 square kilometers, was registered together for the World Heritage List. As for the ecosystem of this area, it is uniquely considered as a two-ocean basin. The Kherlen and Onon rivers are Pacific Ocean basins, and the Zakhar, Ninjin and Tuul rivers are basins of the Arctic Ocean. The Burkhan Khaldun Mountain is a important part of Mongolian history, “The Secret History of the Mongols” and other historical texts said that this site is where the history of our ancestors begins. There are many stories about Lord Genghis Khan and Burkhan Khaldun Mountain. He escaped from the merged tribe and was hiding at Burkhan Khaldun Mountain for nine days. While there, Lord Genghis Khan took off His girdle strap, loosened it from His clothes, and put it around his neck. Symbolically by this act, He abandoned His Mongolian pride and expressed His submission to the gods. The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands: A Pristine Haven of Life One of the remotest sites on Earth, these are the Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand, pristine wonderlands full of unique beauty and rare species. New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands attained World Heritage Listing status in 1998. The five island groups and accompanying territorial waters are administered by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation, which upholds strict legislations to ensure the safety and longevity of the land’s diverse and unique array of flora and fauna. More recently, the islands have become the center of diverse scientific interest, including the collection of vital weather data to various geological assessments. More importantly, the conservation of unique species of flora and fauna. Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng: Paradise of Wildlife in Thailand The day UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, declared the sanctuaries as a World Heritage Site back in 1991. And is home to nearly all the forest types of continental Southeast Asia. And I love seeing all the different kinds of animals roaming around. It’s like a real Eden on Earth! Just by being vegan, you are helping to keep the planet cool. Supreme Master Ching Hai, loves animals. She is wholeheartedly trying to save all the beings on Earth. The Seub Nakhasathien Foundation objectives are to protect natural sanctuaries and the sacred beings inhabiting them. Maloti-Drakensberg Park: Mountain Splendor of Southern Africa The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is renowned spectacle of nature, adorned with beautiful rock arches, cliffs, pillars, and rock pools. This site is well-known for its and rock-shelters, housing an amazingly concentrated number of ancient cave paintings that give a glimpse into the spiritual lives of the indigenous San tribe, who resided in the area four millennia ago. This national park is also endowed with great biological diversity, important floral species, and a large variety of animal wildlife that includes endangered species. Los Glaciares National Park: A Majestic Wonderland Nestled in the stunning and remote mountain landscape of the Patagonian Andes is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Los Glaciares National Park is located in the Southwest of Santa Cruz Province in Argentina and borders neighboring Chile. The 2,807-square-mile reserve covers 600,000 hectares and is the largest national park in Argentina. Established in 1937, Los Glaciares is famous for its enormous ice caps, which are smaller in size only to those in Antarctica and Greenland. Kumgang Mountains: Glorious Peaks of the Korean Land Kumgang Mountains means “Diamond Mountain.” Like it’s name, the granite peaks and hillsides glitter magnificently in the sunlight. Located on the eastern coast of Guangwon Province in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, the Kumgang Mountains has been much loved by Koreans since ancient times. Mountain Kumgang is part of the Baekdudaegan, which is the largest and longest mountain range in Korea, forming the spine of the peninsula along the eastern coastline. The mountain’s highest peak, Birobong, rises 1639 meters above sea level. Great Barrier Reef: Nature’s Fragile Wonders The Great Barrier Reef named as one of seven natural wonders of the world, larger than the Great Wall fo China! It is now estimated that less than 10% of the Great Barrier Reef remains in pristine condition, untainted by the bleaching desolation. As a direct result of rising sea temperatures, as well as the pollution now circulating through the ocean’s complex current systems. In the light of climate change Supreme Master Ching Hai has reminded of the noble responsibilities and steps we must take to protect our home and all of its unique creatures of flora and fauna. “Just no meat anymore and then we are saved!” Singapore Botanic Gardens: Wetland Reborn as World Heritage Sanctuary Singapore Botanic Gardens has emerged as the first, and essentially the only, tropical botanic garden on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Tucked in the heart of the city, the more than 150-year-old gardens were originally designed as an English pleasure garden. The romantic nature of the Gardens is preserved in its historic buildings and diverse display of delicate, lush plants. It has played a key role in past and present agriculture, science, and conservation around the world, holding "Outstanding Universal Value". Greenland’s Magnificent Beauty and the Consequences of Global Warming Greenland is a land of exquisite beauty and life, but unfortunately, it is facing the tolls of global warming which threatens not only polar bears, but all life on Earth. ホーム私達についてお問い合わせ関連リンクアプリこのウェブサイトはGoogle Chrome、Microsoft Edge、FireFox、SafariまたはOperaと互換性があります。ベジエリートスプリームマスターチンハイ:デザイン＆芸術著名人からのメッセージ気候変動スプリームマスターチンハイの言葉世界のベジレストラン世界のベジ食品サプライヤー世界の殺処分をしない動物シェルター・・・各宗教においてより良く暮らす禁止することの利点・・・ドキュメンタリー予告映像平和を創るベジトレンドニュースビーガンになろうもう一つの生き方寸劇集公共サービス広告	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line384
__label__wiki	0.673904	0.673904	Home >> Bands >> Archiv >> Booze Control Forgotten Lands BOOZE CONTROL Gates Of Hell Records On their Gates Of Hell Records debut “Forgotten Lands”, Germany’s BOOZE CONTROL continue to evolve into classic metal songsmiths with tracks that adopt a more serious tone than previous efforts. Formed in 2009 in Braunschweig, Germany, BOOZE CONTROL came together at the spur of the moment when guitarist/vocalist David Kuri, bassist Steffen Kurth and drummer Lauritz “Lord” Jilge, were asked to assemble a band for a local event. The trio quickly gathered in a local rehearsal room to write songs in preparation for the show, thinking all along the band would be short-lived. But, to their surprise, more gigs followed, as did second guitarist Jendrik Seiler. BOOZE CONTROL started to enjoy their new compositions, which, in comparison to the more technical nature of their previous outfits, was welcome. Soon, their debut EP, “Wanted”, was released in 2009, followed up by 2011’s “Don’t Touch While Running”. However, leading up to the creation of their 2013 album "Heavy Metal", Kuri and Jilge had a revelation while watching Iron Maiden’s “Beast Over Hammersmith” live video. The conviction in which Bruce Dickinson sings, the energy of the band and the charisma they displayed while on stage needed to be followed in BOOZE CONTROL. Prior, BOOZE CONTROL was riding the somewhat clichéd boozed-out rock band angle a bit too hard with their first releases. While the songs were there, the delivery wasn’t, so the band made a concerted effort to improve their songwriting and stage presentation for Heavy Metal. They succeeded in doing so, setting them on a path for the ensuing 2016 “The Lizard Rider” album and their latest and first LP for Gates of Hell Records, “Forgotten Lands”. Recorded in October 2017 at Overlodge Recording Studio in Harz Mountains, Germany, with Martin Schnella handling engineering duties, “Forgotten Lands” finds BOOZE CONTROL successfully bridging the gap between NWOBHM and old-school American and European metal. The band also parlays more serious lyrical content into songs that are filled with spiraling melodies, driving rhythms and catchy vocal lines from Kuri. The band’s songwriting diversity is on display with “Of the Deep” as well as “Attack of the Axeman,” songs that peddle an epic flair with a classic metal foundation. Now ten years into their career, BOOZE CONTROL has already gone well beyond their humble origins and party-time ethos. BOOZE CONTROL invites you to take part in their continued evolution on “Forgotten Lands”. 1. Forgotten Lands 2. Attack Of The Axemen 3. The Nameless 4. Of The Deep 5. Spellbound 6. Slaying Mantis 8. Thanatos 9. Doom Of Sargoth 10. Cydonian Sands David Kuri - Guitar / Vocals Steffen Kurth - Bass Jendrik Seiler - Guitar Lauritz Jilge - Drums Wanted (Independent, 2009) Don’t Touch While Running (Independent, 2011) Heavy Metal (Independent, 2013) The Lizard Rider (Inferno Records, 2016) Forgotten Lands (Gates Of Hell Records, 2019) Download 300dpi printable (1,4 MB)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line385
__label__wiki	0.783302	0.783302	Surgex Sports Surgex Videos Sleepers of the Week Team Surgex Fantasy Football 2014 draft prep: Chicago Bears August 11, 2014 Alex Pappas Leave a comment 2014 NFL Season Preview: Veteran Additions: WR Domenik Hixon, WR Josh Morgan, C Brian De La Puente, DE Jared Allen, DE Lamarr Houston, DE Willie Young, DE Trevor Scott, OLB Jordan Senn, S Adrian Wilson, S M.D. Jennings, S Ryan Mundy, S Danny McCray. Early Draft Picks: CB/S Kyle Fuller, DT Ego Ferguson, DT Will Sutton, RB Ka’Deem Carey, S Brock Vereen. Offseason Losses: QB Josh McCown, RB Michael Bush, WR Earl Bennett, DE Julius Peppers, DE Corey Wootton, DT Henry Melton, OLB James Anderson, CB Zackary Bowman, S Major Wright, P Adam Podlesh, KR Devin Hester. 2014 Chicago Bears Offense: The Bears had one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL this past season. They averaged 27.8 points per game despite the fact that their starting quarterback was out for a quarter of the year. There’s only one thing that could potentially prevent the team from matching its great offensive output, and that would be another injury to Jay Cutler. Chicago was very fortunate to have Josh McCown available in 2013; otherwise, its season would’ve gone up in flames. The Bears ultimately missed the playoffs, but they were highly competitive until the very end. McCown is gone now, however, so all the team has as an alternative to Cutler is Jordan Palmer, David Fales and Jimmy Clausen. This wouldn’t be a huge problem if Cutler weren’t so injury-prone. Cutler hasn’t played a full 16-game slate since 2009; he’s missed 12 contests in the past three seasons. It’s likely that he’ll be out for at least a couple of games, so Chicago will probably struggle in his absence, despite Marc Trestman’s best efforts. The coaching staff needs to make sure Cutler is protected as well as possible to avoid using one of those three aforementioned backup scrubs. For that to happen, the Bears need to have their young linemen block better. This is mainly pointing at right tackle Jordan Mills, who struggled mightily as a rookie. Mills couldn’t pass block to save his life for most of the year, though he did improve toward the end. The team’s other rookie, Kyle Long, was much better at right guard, but still was pretty inconsistent. He was a first-round choice, so he has potential and should improve as a consequence. The left side of the offensive line is much better. Jermon Bushrod held up well at left tackle, save for an embarrassing matchup against Robert Quinn in the middle of the season. Left guard Matt Slauson was the best blocker on the team this past season, while center Roberto Garza was solid as well. If Cutler can stay on his feet, he should be able to post monstrous numbers. He has two All-Pro-caliber receivers to throw to, after all. He and Brandon Marshall have great chemistry, and now defenses can’t completely focus on Marshall because Alshon Jeffery has emerged. Jeffery actually posted more receiving yards than Marshall (1,421 to 1,295), and he’s just 24, so the sky is the limit for him. Cutler will also be able to target Martellus Bennett once again; the big tight end hauled in 65 passes for 759 yards in 2013. The running game was also extremely effective. Matt Forte rushed for 1,339 yards and nine touchdowns on a 4.6 YPC clip. He also logged 74 receptions out of the backfield, which was a seasonal career-high for him. Trestman promised to have Forte more involved on offense, so that would explain why his catch count increased by 30. 2014 Chicago Bears Defense: As good as Chicago’s offense was, the defense was even worse. The unit ranked last or close to it in almost every major category, surrendering 29.9 points per contest. Wholesale changes had to be made, but it doesn’t appear as though the front office did enough. The Bears spent most of the offseason signing defensive ends. They brought in four of them: Jared Allen, Lamarr Houston, Willie Young and Trevor Scott. However, this isn’t as impressive as it sounds, given that the team lost Julius Peppers and Corey Wootton in the process. Peppers showed major signs of decline this past season, but the same could be said for Allen, who figures to start across from Houston; the former Raider had a terrific 2013 season. Young and Scott will provide quality depth. The interior of the defensive line is more of an issue. The Bears spent a couple of second-day selections on the interior, taking Ego Ferguson and Will Sutton. However, Ferguson is raw, while Sutton is more of a situational pass-rusher. Otherwise, Chicago didn’t do anything to improve this area. Jay Ratliff and Stephen Paea will be back, but neither played very well this past season. Chicago didn’t bring in anyone to help with what was a very weak linebacking corps this past season. Lance Briggs, the top player in that group, was in the lineup for just nine games in 2013 because of a shoulder injury. He’ll be back, but the concern with him is that he’ll turn 34 in November. He’ll probably decline, but even if he does, he’s still much better than what Chicago had this past season, which includes rookies Jon Bostic and Khaseem Greene, both of whom struggled. At least one will have to improve. Meanwhile, bust defensive end Shea McClellin will be moving to strongside linebacker in an attempt to spark his career. That move probably won’t pan out. Speaking of rookies, Chicago used its first-round selection this May on Kyle Fuller, an explosive, 6-foot defensive back. Fuller can basically play anywhere in the secondary. He might eventually be used at safety, but it sounds like he’ll be utilized at outside cornerback across from Charles Tillman, with Tim Jennings moving inside to nickel. Tillman struggled this past season, but he played through injury, so he might be able to rebound. Jennings will at least perform well, so it’s sounding like Chicago’s cornerback group should be better in 2014. The same, however, can’t be said for the safeties. The top five players at the position are the anemic Chris Conte, the awful M.D. Jennings, the decrepit Adrian Wilson, journeyman backup Ryan Mundy and fourth-round rookie Brock Vereen. Unless Vereen proves to be a pleasant surprise right away, the Bears will surrender tons of deep passing plays once again this season. 2014 Chicago Bears Schedule and Intangibles: There surprisingly hasn’t been much of a disparity between Chicago’s home and road records recently. Over the past four seasons, the Bears are 21-13 as hosts and 17-15 as visitors. Chicago’s special teams usually rank among the league’s elite, but Devin Hester won’t be returning kickoffs or punts for them for the first time since 2005. On the bright side, the Bears defend the opposition very well. Robbie Gould definitely deserves the 4-year, $15 million contract he received in December. He went 26-of-29 in 2013, and he’s 11-of-12 from 50-plus the past three seasons. Adam Podlesh was one of the league’s worst punters in 2013, which would explain why Chicago spent a sixth-round pick on Miami’s Pat O’Donnell. The Bears have a mixed schedule. They have to deal with tough opponents like the 49ers, Saints, Patriots and Packers twice. However, they also get the Bills, Jets, Dolphins, Panthers, Cowboys and Vikings twice. 2014 Chicago Bears Analysis: The Bears will once again be competitive, and they will have a chance to claim the NFC North. However, they won’t have the luxury of both having a capable backup for when Jay Cutler gets hurt and seeing Aaron Rodgers go down for half the season. Considering the state of its defense, Chicago will probably have to enter the playoffs via the wild-card route. Projection: 10-6 (2nd in NFC North) About Alex Pappas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line386
__label__wiki	0.751564	0.751564	About This Mag Why Women? Active Tolerance Women Writing for a Free WorldThoughtsOnLiberty Beyond Econ Non-Political Rational Irrationality Why All Colleges Should Adopt Affirmative Consent By Kelli Gulite on October 6, 2014 in What's Happening I think pretty much everyone can agree at this point: America’s universities and colleges stink at handling sexual assault on campus. Currently, the Department of Education is investigating 76 colleges and universities for their possible mismanagement of sexual assault cases under the existing standards of Title IX. The Obama Administration launched a campaign to end sexual assault on campus earlier this month. Although there have been few, if any, decent studies quantifying the number of sexual assaults that occur on campus, even conservative estimates suggest that sexual assault is pervasive at school. Following the federal government’s call for action, Governor Jerry Brown signed bill SB967, which stipulated that California colleges and universities must adopt an “affirmative consent” standard in their school policy on sexual assault in order to receive state funding or benefits. With this, California became the first state to adopt affirmative consent, commonly referred to as the “yes means yes” standard, in state policy. The media’s reaction to the new law has been divided, and both sides have failed recognize valid opposing arguments. Reason Magazine called the affirmative consent standard “dangerous” and an unnecessary government intervention into the bedroom of co-eds but failed to address the problematic ambiguity of the existing consent standards. Meanwhile, proponents of affirmative consent quickly dismissed the legitimate concerns of civil libertarians as “idiotic” without much to substantiate their claims. Despite the hypnotic controversy, the reality of the situation is clear. Affirmative consent is a necessary standard that should be adopted by all universities. However, in order for the affirmative consent standard to be fairly investigated and adjudicated, universities have to step up their game. What is Affirmative Consent? Opposed to the “no means no” mantra that has defined public perception of sexual consent for decades, the “yes means yes” standard requires that sexual partners consciously and voluntarily agree to engage in sexual activity through verbal or non-verbal cues. Specifically, under the affirmative consent standard, silence does not establish consent, hopefully to correct the problem of “misunderstandings” that happen because the victim was too scared or shocked to say no. Much of the backlash to the affirmative consent standard as laid out in the California bill has been in response to outright mischaracterizations of the bill’s content. This is a summary of the actual text of the bill: The bill defines affirmative consent as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” “Enthusiastic consent” is not in the bill. The bill specifically states that consent is defined by “a reasonable person’s standards.” Mundane or common sexual acts like taking off your partner’s pants without expressed consent do not fall under the scope of the standard. Dirty Sanchezing someone without their permission, however, would. Similarly, a sexual partner is expected to know the other’s level of alcohol or drug influence based upon what a reasonable person would know about intoxication. These carve-outs clearly allow for fair discretion under the standard. Why Affirmative Consent Is Necessary The best way to show why affirmative consent is a better standard than previous standards is through an example. Two students agree to have vaginal intercourse, but without warning or asking permission, the male student begins to have anal intercourse. Of course, the female could say no immediately after taking a few seconds to register what happened and the male could oblige. However, the sexual assault has already occurred. Under the affirmative consent standard, the victim has recourse. Without it, she does not. Put simply, previous consent standards don’t take into account the very many scenarios in which a person can be sexually violated or assaulted. The best way to combat this is to change the way sexual consent is defined in society, and for this change to be reflected in law and policy. Caroline K. Gorman asserts that the bill “reverses the presumption of innocence.” However, the affirmative consent standard does not necessarily burden the accused to show proof of innocence. To decide the case, the accuser still has to prove that a “yes” did not, in fact, occur. Of course, when it comes down to matters of consent, “he-said/she-said” scenarios can always become muddled. Nevertheless, this problem has always been the case. The ambiguity of the evidence is no reason to disapprove of the new bill. Why Schools Should Continue to Investigate and Adjudicate Sexual Assault Cases Although some question universities’ involvement in sexual assault cases at all, the act should absolutely be included in all universities student codes of conduct in order to foster a safe academic environment. Emma Sulkowicz has famously illustrated the emotional struggle she endures on a regular basis having to live on campus with her alleged rapist. Her story cannot be uncommon given that 75% of total disciplinary actions taken against students found of sexual assault crimes by universities were only minor sanctions. Colleges should certainly expect its students to maintain a certain code of conduct and have the grounds to discipline students who do threaten the overall well-being of the student body. First, university adjudication does not replace the criminal justice process regarding sex crimes. The university consent standards are not legal precedents, but rather part of the rules that govern university life and student conduct. Under the new California law, university codes of conduct regarding sexual assaults should not and could not foreseeably play a defining role in the criminal justice system. University adjudication is a separate, but parallel, process to the criminal justice system. Furthermore, universities can fill in the gaps left open by a lacking criminal justice system. And to be clear, the criminal justice system needs all the help it can get when it comes to sexual assault investigations. In their role as first-responders, university police can collect evidence or gather witness accounts sooner rather than later. They can immediately provide and test for rape kits as soon as possible, especially when states are backlogged. Or, when the state is unable prosecute an offender because there is only circumstantial evidence, universities at least have the recourse to remove the offender from campus. Given the severity of the sexual assault problem, we shouldn’t be choosy about where help comes from. Opponents of the bill claim, “While campus administrators are in many cases doing their best, they are neither qualified nor equipped to respond properly to sexual assault allegations.” Given the current state of affairs, that may very well be true. But this doesn’t mean we ignore the potential role universities can play in ending sexual assaults; it means we should demand that universities provide better services. Ways to Better University Investigation and Adjudication of Sexual Assaults In fact, there are several steps that universities can and should take toward making their disciplinary and investigatory proceedings of sexual assault cases under the affirmative consent standard fair and balanced. While the California bill implements many new university procedures concerning investigation and adjudication of sexual assault, it is imperative that the changes below are also put into effect: Resources: Currently, most schools do not have the investigatory resources they need to obtain the necessary evidence need in school disciplinary hearings of this serious nature. While Title IX requires that disciplinary committees ruling over sexual assault cases attend a training session on sexual assault policy and Title IX standards, schools would benefit tremendously if University Police were also required to go through extensive training. Rather than fumbling witness reports or destroying evidence, the University Police could actually become a very useful source in combating sexual assault on campus. Allow For A Legal Defense: As it stands now, most schools will not allow attorneys into school disciplinary hearings, even in cases of alleged sexual assault. Given the complexity of sexual assault cases, it is necessary that all schools allow lawyers to argue cases in front of the college tribunal rather than force students to make arguments for themselves. Obviously, if lawyers were allowed to argue cases, students are much less likely to implicate themselves accidentally or be ransacked by a kangaroo court. Regular Title IX Investigations and Oversight: Although the federal government recently launched a large investigation into possible Title IX violations, this is not a regular practice. Senator Gillibrand’s office estimated that 63% Title IX violations are dismissed due to lack of federal oversight. Many effective procedures for handling sexual assault are implemented by Title IX, but it is likely that this investigation will show that not all schools follow these procedures to the “t.” Regular oversight could ensure that schools actually follow through with standard procedures. Yes, the adoption of the affirmative consent standard will lay the groundwork for preventing and ending sexual assaults on campus. But the government–and universities–should match action with their promises. Improvements, like the ones I’ve listed above, must be made to the way universities conduct investigations and adjudicate sexual assault. Universities are going to have to dedicate resources, ensure that investigations are well-conducted, and that academic punishments are doled out fairly and expediently if we are going to see any serious decreases in sexual assault on campuses–SB967 and “yes means yes” is only a start. Tagsaffirmative consentblogcalifornia collegescalifornia yes means yescollege rapeKelli Guliteno means noSB967university rapeyes means yesyes means yes rape The Science of Catcalling The Top 20 Libertarian Feminist Resources Kelli Gulite Kelli Gulite is a South Jersey transplant currently working as a paralegal in Washington, DC. She recently graduated cum laude from The George Washington University’s Honors Program with degrees in Political Science and Criminal Justice. During her time at school, she served as the GW Liberty Society’s president and worked closely with the DC Forum for Freedom in addition to Students for Liberty. She is an active member of Toastmasters International. Her dream job is to be a litigator for the ACLU and her dream in life is to be a DC Rollergirl. She adores hardcore rap, irreverent stand-up comedy, horror movies, and her mom. No, You Don’t Get Moral High Ground over Third Party Voters By Gina Luttrell Ah, election season. If it happened more... 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__label__wiki	0.863379	0.863379	Tennessee State University Newsroom Tag Archives: Hillsboro High School College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts, FACULTY, FEATURED, Featured, GRANTS, NEWS, RESEARCH, Research and Sponsored Programs, SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, Uncategorized TSU-Apple Coding Initiative Introduces Girls To Coding and STEM November 21, 2019 Michael McLendon NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University recently partnered with Apple, Inc. to teach middle and high school girls how to code, as well as consider careers in STEM. Youth from ages 6 to 19 from various schools, including McKissack Middle School and HIllsboro High School, had the opportunity to experience coding at a free camp on Nov. 2, 9 and 16 in TSU’s Farrell Westbrook Complex (The Barn) on the main campus. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted about the camp: “We’re proud to team up with @TSUedu and @nc100bwinc to show girls in Nashville how coding can help them realize their dreams. Can’t wait to see where your imaginations take you! “ Dr. Robbie Melton, TSU’s dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, serves as the program director for the coding initiative. “We were able to introduce these girls to coding in a very fun, active and stimulating way,” she said. “The students were only supposed to pick one Saturday, but some of the girls came back every Saturday.” During the camp, participants moved around to different stations where they learned basic coding principles, and “actually coded drones and robots to move and function.” Melton said because of the success of the camp, her office has received requests from local high schools, as well as schools in Memphis, Clarksville and Shelbyville that hope to explore coding. “The students went back to their schools and talked to their teachers, and because of that we are now having special sessions for schools,” Melton said. “We got a call from Hillsboro High School’s parent community where we went on Monday to do ‘Everyone Can Code. Everyone Can Create.’ Antioch is also on board. These are schools that have reached out because of their students to say, ‘Hey, can we have more? Can we bring students to you, or can you all come to us?” Students from various schools in Nashville gather for photo following a free coding camp held in TSU’s Farrell Westbrook Complex. (Submitted Photo) In July, TSU launched HBCU C2 “Everyone Can Code and Create,” a national initiative supported by Apple, which seeks to bring coding experiences to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and underserved communities. The initiative is part of TSU’s newly established National Center for Smart Technology Innovations, created through the HBCU C2 Presidential Academy. The girls coding camp is an extension of the initiative. Dr. Veronica Johnson is president of the Metro Nashville Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., which partnered with TSU and Apple. She said black women and girls are “vastly underrepresented” in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as performing arts. “By exposing STEM projects at an early age, it could help increase their chances of exploring these fields, as they pursue academic degrees and seek future career opportunities,” Johnson said. “Having access to develop needed skill sets to survive in the 21st digital landscape will be critical to the economic impact of the future of black communities.” Eleven-year-old Genesis Wells, who attends Cresswell Middle Prep School of the Arts, said she found out about the camp from her mother, Ariel Wells, who works at TSU. Genesis Laniah Wells, a student at Cressell Middle Prep School of the Arts, attended the girls’ coding camp with her mom Ariel Wells, who works at TSU. (Submitted Photo) “I enjoyed playing in Swift Playgrounds the most and GarageBand,” she said. “I enjoyed Swift Playgrounds because you get to control a character named Bright and make him collect coins, and it makes your brain think a little bit. I enjoyed GarageBand because I got to make beats and I love music, so that’s just a dream for me.” Wells, who aspires to be a singer, actor and dancer, said she is also considering a career as a pediatrician. Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, dean of TSU’s College of Engineering, said the camp was also beneficial to the participants’ parents, or guardians. “The program also informs parents and adults about the digital world of information technology, and how as individuals you can take control of your learning and knowledge based on your own needs and career goals,” said Hargrove. “The ability to manage information and make data-driven decisions will continue to be a major skill for today and tomorrow’s workforce” TSU has been charged with strengthening the collaboration by offering the company’s coding curriculum to new audiences. That expansion also includes providing TSU alums the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of app design and app development for free. To date, TSU has impacted 32 HBCUs with the HBCU C2 Initiative, including visiting every HBCU in Arkansas and meeting with a representative from each HBCU located in Louisiana. Melton said in April 2020 Apple will establish an HBCU Appstore, where HBCUs can share the various apps they have created. “If you can dream it, we can design it and we can code it. Everyone is not going to be a coder, but everyone can think and create.,” she said. “We leave every academy with apps that they have designed to address a community, an education or a workforce need.” Also in July, TSU launched the first community “Everyone Can Code and Create” initiative for youth on its Avon Williams Campus. The initiative is also part of the National Center for Smart Technology Innovations. For more information about the girls coding camp, contact ablack1@tnstate.edu, or call 615-963-7269. Department of Media Relations 3500 John Merritt Boulevard About Tennessee State University Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University is Nashville’s only public university, and is a premier, historically black university and land-grant institution offering 38 bachelor’s degree programs, 24 master’s degree programs, and seven doctoral degrees. TSU is a comprehensive research intensive institution with a R-2 Carnegie designation, and has a graduate school on its downtown Avon Williams Campus, along with the Otis Floyd Nursery Research Center in McMinnville, Tennessee. With a commitment to excellence, Tennessee State University provides students with a quality education in a nurturing and innovative environment that prepares them as alumni to be global leaders in every facet of society. Visit the University online at tnstate.edu. AppleIncDr. Robbie MeltonDr. S. Keith HargroveDr.RobbieMeltonFarrell Westbrook BuildingGraduate SchoolHBCUC2Hillsboro High SchoolMcKissack Middle SchoolTim Cook Alumni, Athletics, College of Engineering, EVENTS, FACULTY, FEATURED, Featured, NEWS, RESEARCH, Research and Sponsored Programs, SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 31 High Achieving Students from Hillsboro High School Interact with TSU’s Best and Brightest During Honors Week March 5, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The Tennessee State University Honors College recently hosted 31 high achieving students from Nashville’s Hillsboro High School as part of TSU Honors Week celebration. Dr. Frances Williams, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, holds a discussion with visiting Hillsboro High School students. (Submitted Photo) The Honors College and Hillsboro High are partners in a two-year exceptional student acceleration program called IBDP, or Academy of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, that nurtures students to excel in higher education. Participants in IBDP are top juniors and seniors who take advanced placement and honors courses in the 9th and 10 grades to prepare them for IB-level classes in the 11th and 12th grades. Dr. Coreen Jackson, interim dean of the Honors College, said the visit of the high school students allowed them to interact and exchange notes with TSU Honors students, as well as expose the visitors to the university’s programs and offerings. “We are delighted to have these top students from Hillsboro High visit our campus and to interact with the best among our students,” said Jackson, who also serves on the advisory board of the Hillsboro High School IB program. “I think having many more partnerships like this with more high schools in the city would help to create a pipeline for increased enrollment into the myriad of majors at TSU.” Visiting Hillsboro High School students take part in an exercise. (Submitted Photo) Among activities for the day was “Real Talk,” a panel discussion about college life and advanced learning. “Do you all have tutoring and personal help here?” a Hillsboro High student, who wants to major in biology, asked. Another was concerned about how honors students fit in and how they are viewed on campus. They were informed about the many tutoring and mentoring programs available to students, and the friendly learning environment on campus. “I am from India, and even though it was a huge cultural shock, Tennessee State University has made me feel more than welcome,” said Abhilasha Vishwanath, a senior psychology major and Honors student with a 4.0 grade point average. “I play tennis for the university, work in the bookstore, I am part of several organizations, serve on the Honors Council, and I’ve never felt out of place.” Following the panel discussion, the students were divided into groups according to their academic career interest and dialogued with faculty and staff from engineering, business, liberal arts, education, and life and physical sciences disciplines. Everett Jolly, TSU director of recruitment; Kristin Gray, director of the First-Year Experience; and Barbara Kannard, coordinator for Student Success Initiative, also met and spoke with the visitors. Barbara Kannard, TSU Coordinator of Student Success Initiative, talks to Hillsboro High School students about opportunities at the university. (Submitted Photo) Dr. Kenyae L. Reese, Academy principal at Hillsboro High, who accompanied the students, said the visit was very rewarding. “The faculty and staff of the Hillsboro High School Academy of International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is delighted to partner with the TSU Honors College in creating exceptional experiences for advanced academic students,” Reese said. “The experiential learning trip to celebrate Honors College Week at TSU was both informative and inspiring in scope. The students reported being most excited to learn from the Honors College students and professors and other professionals who provided valuable advice.” Earlier, TSU Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. John Robinson, joined Jackson to welcome the Hillsboro High School students. “This is our time to change the narrative, assist our recruiters, and utilize our high achieving students to tell our story that TSU is truly the place to be,” Jackson said. On March 26, TSU will celebrate its best and brightest students when the university holds its annual Honors Day Convocation in Kean Hall. For more information on the TSU Honors College, go to http://www.tnstate.edu/honors/about/welcome_page.aspx With more than 7,000 students, Tennessee State University is Nashville’s only public university, and is a comprehensive, urban, co-educational, land-grant university offering 38 bachelor’s degree programs, 24 master’s degree programs and seven doctoral degrees. TSU has earned a top 20 ranking for Historically Black Colleges and Universities according to U.S. News and World Report, and rated as one of the top universities in the country by Washington Monthly for social mobility, research and community service. Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University celebrated 100 years in Nashville during 2012. Visit the University online at tnstate.edu. Abhilasha ViswanathAIBDPDr. Coreen JacksonDr. Frances WilliamsDr. Kenyae ReeseEmmanuel S. FreemanHillsboro High Schoolhonors college More Than 700 Student Volunteers Participate in MLK, Jr. Day of Service Future Dentist Says TSU Has Made Her A Better Leader TSU students, officials believe FUTURE Act long overdue for HBCUs, and will provide much needed boost for sustainability TSU celebrates legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with ‘Day of Service,’ convocation featuring MSNBC political analyst Joy-Ann Reid TSU President Glover Encourages Community to ‘Stand Strong’ at 8th Presidential Prayer Service Receive TSU news straight to your inbox! Research and Sponsored Programs Women of Legend and Merit Awards Dinner Aristocrat of Bands Avon Williams Campus Christion Abercrombie Dean of Students Frank Stevenson Department of Communications Dr. Chandra Reddy Dr. Curtis Johnson Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover Dr. Glenda Glover Dr. S. Keith Hargrove Emmanuel S. 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__label__wiki	0.590693	0.590693	Celebrity Miitomo Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Game of the Month Tetris Effect – Game of the Month TSG Asks: Who will win the Game Awards? Red Dead Redemption 2 – Game of the Month Game of the Month Recap: Shadow of the Colossus (Feb 2018) We try out new cooperative game Deru and discuss what makes a good puzzle game TSG Asks TSG Asks: Which Video Game Character Are You? in TSG Asks by TSG Staff November 22, 2015, 8:24 pm 505 Views Video Games have a way to not only make one feel connected to the characters on screen, but also to make one feel that they are the characters. Just the simple opportunity to have control is almost enough to pull a gamer’s mind into a subconcious and imaginary state where what ever is happening on screen is also happening within themselves. This mindset helps gamers relate to the characters they play on screen and sometimes even with the characters they only interact with. Like with television shows and movies, it isn’t difficult to relate to characters in video games and identify their story and/or traits as your own. The Top Shelf Gaming staff took on this idea and dug into their imaginations with this week’s question: Dig into your own imaginations and comment below with who you are! I can relate to Link from Legend of Zelda, if not, at least to the idea of Link. In the game, Link starts off unassuming, but as the story progresses, he traverses through dungeons and amasses a new set of skills and equipment. This concept aligns with my own personal expectations. For every chapter of my life, which so far have been dictated by the semester system, I strive to improve myself in four different areas: Mental, Physical, Emotional and Musical. I see these as their own separate tools, like Link’s boomerang, that lie in their own separate dungeons that I must pass in order to obtain them. The only difference is that in my life the dungeons never end and the tools are never perfect. I don’t know if I identify with him too closely anymore but I always admired and even emulated Mr. Moneybags from Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage. I was a bit miserly as a child and was always trying to amass wealth in any way I could. I think I remember even pretending to be Mr. Moneybags and trying to fine my brother for ridiculous things such as eating or walking in certain rooms, usually unsuccessfully. This is richly ironic, because now my bank account looks nothing like that of Mr. Moneybags’, I assure you. Moral of the story: greed doesn’t pay, kid. Here’s my response for the week…and it does not involve either Skyrim or Fire Emblem (shocker)! As bizarre as it may sound, I most identify with Chibi Robo -the “pint-sized hero with a big heart”. Chibi is arguably one of the most helpful PC’s out there. Rather than seeking to destroy everything in his path, this little robot just wants to clean and bring families together. I’ve always loved Chibi (but sadly, not the sequels to the original game) and the particular ethos he stands for: service and community. I identify with him not just because I’m passionate about those things, but also because he sends a great message (although he doesn’t talk) -anyone, no matter how small, can change the world. 🙂 The video game character I relate to most, by far, is the Diamond Dog soldier from MGSV:The Phantom Pain who wants nothing more than to experience the awesomeness of a puppy’s paw pads. Sure, he may have been recruited into a rogue mercenary army led by a legendary soldier against his will by being knocked unconscious by a falling box of ammunition and then tied to a balloon, fighting giant nuclear robots with squirt guns and a nearly naked lady who drinks through her skin, running from the corpses of enemies reanimated by some floating kid whose jacket is way too large for him but somehow managed to find a gas mask just his size, all because some guy with robot legs may or may not have planned an attack with what appears to be a rejected Fallout ghoul, after he may or may not have done some shady business involving “cake” and a giant trash can with the AI mind of the even MORE legendary soldier who trained (but was killed by) the legendary soldier who recruited him (he has one arm by the way, have I mentioned that?) inside of it, all the while making sure he doesn’t get too far ahead in his Rosetta Stone courses before he gets sent off to steal some boxes of flashlights from enemy camps… amongst all of this, he keeps his priorities straight and simple: He just wants to pet a dog (or is it a wolf?). I’d say that I see a lot of myself in Simon Jarett from Frictional Games’s existential horror title Soma. Mind you, I don’t say this out of any shared personality traits, background, or experiences, but because no game has ever done a better job at putting me in a character’s shoes than Soma did. Simon is a patient with a cranial injury that volunteers to get his brain scanned for an experimental treatment. He awakens in an abandoned underwater lab with no memory of how he got there. It turns out that over a century has passed since his scan, and subsequent death, and a copy of his consciousness has been downloaded onto a cybernetically-outfitted cadaver. Just like the player is controlling Simon’s life via controller input and watching a monitor, all of Simon’s senses are simulated, such as implanted cameras that provide his vision. Like Simon, I was initially revolted by this discovery, and it even made me flippant about the bloodthirsty monsters that roamed the complex. After all, If this isn’t my body, then it really isn’t me, and death wouldn’t matter at that point. Over the course of Simon’s journey, however, both he and I came to realize that true identity comes from the mind, and is defined by personality. After all, what is a single body when technology can allow the same person to inhabit millions of different forms? The true Simon is in his mind, and that is worth protecting at all costs. At the end of the game, Simon is given the same survey that he received earlier in the story, and my Simon’s answers regarding how he perceives and defines himself, and me by extension, were markedly different than the start of the adventure. It was a story, and character, that I had become more invested and absorbed by than any other, and that’s what sticks with me the most about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXodfGw0CQ I think I identify a lot with Joel from The Last of Us, mostly because he has an innate sense of responsibility to protect those he really cares about, as do I. If I put myself into the situations that Joel was put in, I feel like I would act similarly, putting the protection of those I was with in priority. Written by TSG Staff Top Shelf Gaming is a platform where gamers can share their unique stories and perspectives in a welcoming environment. If you would like to submit an article to us or join our staff, please send an email to submit@topshelfgaming.net. [g1_socials_user user="31" icon_size="28" icon_color="text"] in Podcast Archive The Podcast Formerly Known as Trust Sircle on the rocks! Trust Sircle Podcast Ep. 24: How do you share the things you love with the people you love? 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TSG Asks: What is your favorite video game to watch? by TSG Staff October 8, 2018, 8:00 am Samsung Releases Its VR Headset Open-world games like Fallout 4 will be the death of me Game of the Month Supportive Technology for Survivors of Stroke - Aging Life Network on Bandit’s Shark Showdown Aids Stroke Survivors Análisis de Bury me, my Love para Nintendo Switch on Bury Me, My Love: The story behind the text Why you should care about video games: Celeste \| Top Shelf Gaming on A Way Out represents the future of video games Game of the Month Recap: Celeste (Jan 2018) \| Top Shelf Gaming on Celeste – Game of the Month Red Dead Redemption 2 - Game of the Month \| Top Shelf Gaming on What Red Dead Redemption 2 understands about open-world games that Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey doesn’t	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line396
__label__wiki	0.801539	0.801539	England and Wales: Population tables 2 1911 Census of England and Wales, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, giving details of Areas, Houses, Families or separate occupiers, and Population:- Registration Areas, Table 5 : " Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911". List for top level List for Cheshire AdmC click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics Area in Statute Acres (Land and Inland Water) Families or Separate Occupiers Institutions, Large Establishments, Vessels, etc. Wirral RD Total 36,655 2,661 3,833 13,905 19,022 8,778 10,244 34 1,027 Burton CP/AP 1,963 48 65 222 264 135 129 0 0 Gayton Tn/CP 707 35 46 180 238 101 137 0 0 Heswall Cum Oldfield AP/CP 1,330 455 696 2,167 3,616 1,691 1,925 6 467 Ness Tn/CP 1,434 76 108 355 451 219 232 0 0 Puddington Tn/CP 1,391 32 50 126 205 111 94 0 0 Raby CP/Tn 1,758 57 70 350 351 168 183 0 0 Thornton Hough Tn/CP 1,536 107 129 547 602 268 334 1 17 Willaston Tn/CP 1,994 119 167 597 806 385 421 0 0 Childer Thornton Tn/CP 746 142 153 685 688 319 369 0 0 Eastham AP/CP 1,608 177 241 913 1,084 530 554 7 35 Great Sutton Tn/CP 1,151 68 81 397 414 195 219 0 0 Hooton Tn/CP 1,194 36 39 200 226 112 114 0 0 Ledsham Tn/CP 825 14 32 82 152 83 69 2 3 Little Sutton Tn/CP 1,130 233 273 1,109 1,327 626 701 2 18 Brimstage Tn/CP 1,019 32 35 181 189 98 91 0 0 Higher Bebington Tn/CP 699 312 357 1,540 1,689 781 908 1 20 Poulton Cum Spital Tn/CP 856 51 48 487 551 266 285 2 286 Storeton CP/Tn 1,372 47 50 263 280 148 132 0 0 Arrowe Tn/CP 758 23 22 121 111 56 55 0 0 Barnston Tn/CP 1,108 110 144 522 641 318 323 0 0 Caldy Tn/CP 754 32 38 202 183 75 108 1 17 Frankby Tn/CP 571 42 52 248 270 117 153 1 1 Grange Tn/CP 1,388 54 99 299 445 206 239 2 30 Greasby CP/Tn 809 57 103 290 476 241 235 4 5 Irby Tn/CP 842 33 34 146 161 79 82 1 1 Landican Tn/CP 626 14 16 71 80 37 43 0 0 Moreton Tn/CP 1,202 115 206 597 970 474 496 0 0 Pensby CP/Tn 354 10 16 48 74 32 42 1 6 Prenton Tn/CP 640 66 255 412 1,303 470 833 1 19 Saughall Massie Tn/CP 942 32 41 186 210 103 107 0 0 Thingwall Tn/CP 377 34 38 156 200 100 100 0 0 Thurstaston CP/AP 946 28 29 141 138 69 69 0 0 Upton By Birkenhead CP/AP 943 131 203 788 1,006 412 594 2 105 Woodchurch AP/CP 338 29 28 140 138 67 71 0 0 Bidston Cum Ford AP/CP 1,713 88 186 465 969 396 573 1 17 Noctorum Tn/CP 330 34 40 212 203 71 132 0 0 The following notes to the table appeared in the original report. 1 Registration Districts are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions or Parishes of the same names with the exception of the Registration Districts of [details depend on Division]. 2 Where the name of the Administrative County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the Registration County, the name of the former is added in italics in Column 1; the differences between Registration Counties and Administrative Counties are shown in Table 7. 3 In all Counties, Districts, Sub-Districts and Civil Parishes marked + changes were made in boundaries between the Census of 1901 and that of 1911. 4 The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are localities having no defined boundaries such as hamlets, villages, &c. In many cases names applied to localities serve also as the names of Ecclesiastical Parishes, Wards, &c. In many cases of alterations of boundary between the Census of 1901 and 1911, the figures both for 1901 and 1911 relate to the new areas. Particulars of alterations in Registration Districts are given in Table 6, and of alterations in Civil Parishes in Table 13, Vol. I. For particulars of alterations in Registration Sub-Districts reference should be made to the Registrar-General's Annual Reports. 5 The figures in Column 11 represent the population enumerated:- In Military and Naval Barracks, Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, Prisons, and Certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools (see Tables 17 and 20, Vol. I). In other Establishments, including private households, of which the number of inmates exceeded 15. On board Vessels (see Table 21, Vol. I). In Barns, Sheds, Caravans, &c., or in the Open Air (see Table 22, Vol. I). 6 The figures in Columns 4, 5 and 10 correspond to the total number of schedules collected. If the entries in Columns 10 and 11 be deducted from those in Columns 5 and 7 respectively, the resultant figures, relating, as they do, exclusively to families each containing no more than 15 persons may be taken as a rough indication of the number of private families and of persons comprising such families. A closer approximation to the number of private families in the larger areas will be found in the Tables relating to Tenements, to be published in a later volume. 7 In the Report on the Census of 1901, the corresponding Table is numbered 12 in the several County Volumes. Click on the triangles for all about a particular number. This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked. The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line403
__label__wiki	0.633407	0.633407	The reality of the war The initial martial enthusiasm was short-lived, as the campaign was neither short nor heroic. Soldiers were consigned to life in horrendous trenches where hygiene was poor, supplies were lacking, and disease and illness were rife. Long periods of boredom, rain and cold were interspersed with lethal frontal assaults on the enemy entrenchments, which did little to move the stagnated front lines. In addition, new weapons such as machine guns were being introduced, along with new forms of combat involving tanks, aircraft and poison gas. 1916 saw waves of dissatisfaction sweeping through the troops on both sides. Some soldiers allowed themselves to be captured, deliberately wounded themselves or simply deserted. Southern Jutlanders granted leave found it tempting to attempt to flee to neutral Denmark, and 2,400 of them were successful in doing so. However, this made it tougher for other Southern Jutlanders to get leave. During the four years that hostilities lasted, a sense of camaraderie developed between soldiers with German and Danish sympathies. Everyone wanted to make it through the conflict with life and limb intact, and everyone longed to return to their homes and families – and to live in peace. Museum Sønderjylland - Sønderborg Slot - Kolofon © 2013 Designing for Cavemen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line405
__label__cc	0.686432	0.313568	the Rock Band Witness-Rocks.com Witness 80's The Official Witness Website ! This Site is Dedicated to Witness, it's members, and it's loyal following ! ...Formed in the late 70's, Witness entertained hundreds of thousands (if not millions!) of loyal fans before their final curtain call in the early 90's. ... "Final" may however be too strong a word judging by the success of our April 2007 Reunion Party, Witness is back! This site is growing from our past and present memories, photos, and artifacts which have survived the ravages of time! ...I served as Lighting and Special effects designer / director for the band from 1979 to 1986. I am happy to say that the original members are not only alive today, but some are downright thriving! With their help, we are trying to give the new generation a peak a what a great time we had back then, as well as provide a cyber scrapbook to our members and loyal fans. (And, by the looks of things, a live show every now and then!) ...Rather than produce a site with emotionless pictures, we have tried to capture some of the feel for what it was like to experience Witness. We now have over 600 pictures in our galleries. Also, there are over 120 YouTube videos linked to some of the pages. Most are from live shows or TV appearances, some of them are from our "Past 4 Years" crew tape and are quite funny / entertaining.. We now have a few as well from our Reunion Party. Please check out some of the original songs on the bottom of our last Audio / Video page... ...Many of the old band members have joined in this project and are contributing "stuff" that should make this a pretty cool site to visit. You will also run into them from time to time on our Shoutbox! Mitch has been working with our MySpace portal. Don't forget to check that out as well ! Enjoy ! - JD Suggestions: If you are new to the site, Start with The Witness Story, If you are a return Visitor, Click for latest Site Updates ! The Photo Galleries ! Band Members & Crew Our Collection of Promo Stuff Audio / Video files Links to Witness related Sites This site is under always construction! If you have come across it and you have some information or old pictures, Please let us know Remember These? >> If you would like to reactivate your membership in the Witness fan club, or become a new member, click the card! We don't give the list out (never have) but would email you if something major like another reunion party Happens! Judging by our April 2007 party, it will! If you get lost, every page has a link to this! >>> Site Map	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line407
__label__wiki	0.690444	0.690444	Predictions For This Season Written By Chris C-Ford ---- Monday, December 26, 2011 Last season the Wizards won 23 out of 82 games. That is 28% of their games. A terrible, awful, terrible, awful, terrible season. Converting that type of winning clip into the new 66 game season would give the Wizards around 18 wins for the season. That will be the starting point for my season prediction. I asked myself 5 questions to figure out my answer... 1. Do the Wizards have better new players this season? YES-ISH Gone are the D-League players and random guys found off of the street like Alonzo Gee, Lester Hudson, Othyus Jeffers, and Mustafa Shakur. Last season when I saw those names on the back of jerseys I couldn't believe my eyes. This season those guys have been replaced with 3 rookies. Jan Vesely who could be worse than all those guys, and Shelvin Mack & Chris Singleton who at least have shown that they can play in big time games in their college days. 2. Will the players who moved elsewhere this offseason effect the team? Josh Howard & Al Thornton are gone, but they didn't really do much while they were here. Howard would have been injured anyway so I'm not saying losing him makes them worse off than last season. Thornton would have been OK but the Wiz need to develop some of these rookies. 3. Are the Wizards injured this season? John Wall seems to be back to 100% after saying he was playing last season at around 80% (i can't remember the number he said on Comcast). At the start of the season the only injury concern is Jan Vesely which I believe effects the Wizards either 0% or positively. 4. Is John Wall better? The other key players? NOT SURE, DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT The key to the Wizards success starts with John Wall. He was a great player last year, but he turned the ball over and took many poor shots. This season he will be surrounded by the same group of players so if he didn't get any better or improve, he will still be a great player but the team will have a similar record. As for the 3 Stooges; Nick Young, JaVale McGee, & Andray Blatche, I don't think they are any better than they were last year despite claims from each of them and the coaching staff. Rashard Lewis may also be digressing each game as he gets older. 5. Are the Wizards good this season? Despite having some interesting new players, less injuries, and a returning group of "key" players, the Wiz are in a similar situation as last year. The current players may work better together this year but that wouldn't account for maybe a few more wins. I don't know why, but I'm going to give the Wizards a higher winning percentage than last season, but not by much. PREDICTION: 23-43 And in case you haven't seen them yet: Bullets Forever has a panel of people who picked the Wiz to win between 21 to 30 games. Someone wake me up in 5 years!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line408
__label__cc	0.718707	0.281293	THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS Drinking the love from her Holy Grail « Israel Shifts Rightward While Obama Just Shifts All Hail Michael “The Real Deal” Steele » From Chicago to Israel–Election Dissection Like the nation of Israel, the Tygrrrr Express will be moving rightward today. The Tygrrrr Express is Chicago bound for some business meetings. For those of you who have never been to Chicago in February, be thankful. We could talk about why the stock market crashed yesterday, but the fact is the day to day machinations of the market only lead to madness. I am waiting and seeing like the rest of “experts.” Anyway, today is about Israel. It is time for some election dissection. For fantastic coverage, scroll down to the bottom of the link below. http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2009/02/israel_election_live_blog_livni_netanyahu.html This next link is a guy who detests Benjamin Netanyahu. I included the column only because the guy lists the very reasons I love Bibi. When detractors prove my case, it saves me time. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-nightmare-of-netanyahu-returns-1547608.html This was a right wing shellacking of the left. Forget Kadima. They are not even the true leftists, although they are far from the strong party forge by Ariel Sharon. The true leftist party in Israel is Labor (not counting fringe parties like Meretz), and they are on the verge of joining the fringe. While Kadima candidate Tzipi Livni was slightly ahead, this was a clear victory for the right. They picked up 64-65 seats in the Knesset, more than enough for a majority. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu claimed victory, and he may even pull ahead of Livni on a stand alone basis. The military ballots have not been counted yet. Like democrats in America, Kadima is delusional if they think the military will support them based on recent history. Military people vote for republicans in America and Likud in Israel by overwhelming margins. The thing about Israel is that nobody ever gets a majority because of the multi-party system. This means there will be plenty of horse trading and jockeying. Let’s be honest. There will be bribery. Perhaps Tzipi Livni should consult democrats in America, since she will have to steal this election to become Prime Minister. In Israel, even leftists would not dare try to throw out military ballots. The right won, and they won big. The message is simple. Israelis want security first, and only when there is security, can peace be achieved. Bibi will need to erase the ghosts of his past term as Prime Minister from 1996 to 1999. He got elected as a hard liner and governed as a pragmatist dealmaker. Perhaps he has learned. After all, people are usually screwed more in politics by their friends than by their enemies. The bottom line is that with George W. Bush no longer in the White House, Israel will not be able to depend on the United States. There is no evidence that President Obama is anti-Israel, but he is a completely blank slate. Also, given the current climate in America, Israel may have to take unilateral actions with at most tacit support. There is always a chance that back door machinations could deny Bibi the Premiership, but any government not led by him would collapse in short order. The numbers for stability are not there. Lastly, from a public relations standpoint, Bibi is the only person to lead. He speaks perfect English. Americans, fairly or not, do not like hearing “Heblish.” They want crisp diction. They don’t want to hear people like Shimon Peres talk about the “p*ss process.” Bibi is an effective communicator. The election process will support itself out, but Avi Lieberman (far right candidate) will quickly fall in line the same way losers in primaires rally around their nominee in America. Congratulations Mr. Netanyahu. Make that Prime Minister Netanyahu. The world just became a safer place already. Well done Israel. This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 4:14 am and is filed under POLITICS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 5 Responses to “From Chicago to Israel–Election Dissection” Laree says: Imus had on Tom Rose who used to write for the Jerusalem Post. I don’t see the podcast up yet. He was discussing this election. Michael Graham and Camille Paglia agree the first few weeks of this new Obama administration has been awful. http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/michael-graham-969-wttk- Dav Lev says: Reading the Los Angeles Palestina Times today, I wonder where this newspaper, now on the skids, charging 40% more per edition to keep from bankruptcy (it’s owned by a mogul in Chicago), having reduced it’s editors and op-eds these past 2 years, and seeing a continuing decline in advertising revenue, it (understandibly) writes it’s columns and allows op-eds to appear to it’s Hipanic, Jewish, black and Arab purchasers (minorities now make up over 75% of Los Angeles Country. I read today that one of Obama’s more important appointees has gone before Congress fostering detention, without a time frame, for release, of enemy combatants. Duh, I thought Obama campaigned on three pillars: closing down GITMO ASAP and trying detainees in civilian courts, giving tax credits to the middle class, lower class (even those people who don’t pay taxes/get the Earned Income credit and other breaks), downsizing and completely pulling our troops out of Iraq within 16 months (from the beginning of his presential term, not from the date he started campaigning-how could he?). Well, so far he has picked Clinton people (from the center and right of the Democratic Party/Republicans such as Mr. Gates from the middle Republican Party. His idea of CHANGE means rewinding back to Bill Clinton. Former General Zinni, the guy who said we (USA) should completely disregard Israelis who believe in holding onto so-called Palestinian territory taken (back) in 1967, according to Divine Law, to dismiss G-d in all this. But you know, even w/o G-d’s intervention, I was led to believe that under the Balfour Declaration which allowed for a Jewish homeland in all of the British Mandate of Palestine (land taken by Britain in WW1 from the Turks) certainly all of Israel was to be for a Jewish state. Britian reneged and lopped off most of Palestine to satisfy a branch of Islam. In fact, the Arabs are occupying the Jewish land, not the reverse, my Arab-Muslim and their supporter friends. Zunni has gotten upset over Obama’s offering him the ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia. He wants more power and influence over M.E. US policy. Here we go again. The last time, Zunni wrote a book on his dismay at the US pro-Israel lobby’s influence…as if Saudi Arabia doesn’t have influence. Oh me oh my. I guess Arabia isn’t rich enough for him, with it’s 350 billion dollar petro dollars yearly. (While it doesn’t allow Christians to be Christians on it’s shores). So now Bibi Netanyahu may become Israel’s next Prime Minister, with a backing he never had the first time around. BTW, Bibi, does speak perfect English, even better than our President Bush, and on a par with Hillary and Obama..and has lots more experience. I mean when did Obama lead a group of soldiers..ever was a commando, had a brother who died at Entebbe, did anything but serve as a community organizer in a safe neighborhood? Hmmm. Obama’s half brother is a criminal in Kenya, while Bibi’s brother was his idol, killed, rescuing his fellow Jews in Israel from that African moron. For those who don’t know, Bibi did negotiate the Wye Agreement, which would have given the Palis land for reciprocity..we give, you don’t, we give, you make war. He even for awhile positioned Jews and Arabs on joint patrols, that is until the Arabs used their weapons on, guess who, their Jewish partners. The mistake Bibi did make however was to remove Israeli troops from Jericho, a city in the West Bank, still having faith in his negotiating partners. Looking back, in my opinion, that was pre-mature and foolish..showing Bibi’s naivety about Arab intentions..land for peace with Israel, then more land, then more land, then war. Jersey McJones says: For Netanyahu to make a coalition it would have to be with the fringe Right and that would bring a very unstable government. For the sake of stability, Livni and Kadmina would make for a much better coalition leader. Likud will seriously regret it if tey get in bed wit the fringe rightist nationalists. I can’t find the podcast but here is the synopsis of Tom Rose interview this morning. http://www.imus.com/article/tom_rose_feb_11_09.html kishorejets says: Bibi has a game plan for sure. Forget the two-state crap and fix the Palestenian economy. That should shake-off the illusions that have bubbled up with Obamania. Stir the pot, Bibi. 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__label__wiki	0.503844	0.503844	ABOUT UBRICA Vision, Mission, Purpose Ubrica Health Services Ubrica Pharma Ubrica One UBRICA FAQ MEMBERS LOGIN ▼ Ustawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa UBRICA NEWS 2016 UIA-Public Health Group Annual Seminar & ... 2016 UIA-Public Health Group Annual Seminar & Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA) Meeting Ubrica One Seminar Massachusetts UBRICA Co-operative Society by UBRICA ONE - Thursday, 19 May 2016, 6:44 PM Home > UIA-PHG CALL FOR PAPERS UIA-PHG + GUPHA CALL FOR PAPERS Dear Colleague, Ustawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa (UBRICA) joins forces with the International Union of Architects - Public Health Group (UIA-PHG), and the Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA) to create a world class health care conference in Nairobi, slated for October 12 – 16, 2016. Announcement below contains the call for papers to this important landmark event in global health. Radisson Blu, Elgon Road, Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, October 12, 2016, to Sunday, October 16, 2016 Call for Presentations/Papers Globalization of Health: Building Sustainable One-Health Communities to Conquer Grand Challenges in Global Health The International Union of Architects Public Health Group (UIA-PHG) cordially invites you to submit an abstract for a paper or poster presentation to the 2016 UIA-PHG Annual Seminar. The theme of the seminar is “Globalization of Health: Building Sustainable One-Health Communities to Conquer Grand Challenges in Global Health.” This seminar will take place in Nairobi Kenya, in conjunction with the Ubrica Nairobi Summit and Expo. A Grand Challenge A grand challenge is an ambitious but achievable goal that harnesses science, technology, and innovation to solve important problems. Some grand challenges are important problems related to energy, health, education, environment, global security, and global human development. Solutions to grand challenges expand the frontiers of human knowledge to create industries and jobs of the future. This conference addresses the question: How can we use design to address grand challenges in global health? A Grand Challenge in Global Health We define global health as the health of every individual in the world. The World Health Organization defined a grand challenge in global health as “a specific critical barrier that if removed would help to solve an important public health problem. Solution(s) to a grand challenge is/are highly innovative and, if implemented, is/are highly feasible and successful. A solution to a grand challenge in global health is holistic and distinctly different from the traditional practices of addressing global health problems that deal with only one disease (such as malaria, TB, HIV), or reaction to epidemics and pandemics. A solution to grand challenges in global health must address: · physical features of an entity that can produce health in every individual in the world, and therefore global health. This aspect recognizes that human beings know things only by their physical features. Important questions to consider: o What are the physical features of the object that the term global health represents? What does global health look like to the naked eye? How can we design a physical form of global health? o What is the design form for harnessing creativity, energy and resources for generating knowledge about health of every individual in the world? o What is the role of collaboration in creating such a form to fit the function of producing global health? This seminar intends to explore the grand challenge of discovery of a robust design for health production that can ascertain production of health of individual everywhere in the world, therefore global health. Recent work by the Fellows the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University indicates that a sustainable design for health production in global health has four major elements: Element 1: design for humans (human centered design) Element 2: design for animals (animal centered design) Element 3: design for the environment (environment centered design) Element 4: design for economic development (economic centered design) Research in global health has so far helped to identify economic deprivation as the single most powerful force in the emergence, spread and entrenchment of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and their attendant resulting disability, complications and death. This research indicates that economic development is by far the greatest cause of improvement in health. The emerging design for a sustainable health of every individual is one that combines all the elements of the sustainability theory (the triple economic, environmental and social bottom lines) and all the elements of one health theory (human health, animal health, and environmental health), to create Sustainable One-Health Communities. A sustainable One-Health Community recognizes the role of the animals, the economy and the environment in human health. Indeed, sustainable production of health in an individual is a function of a system that integrates simultaneous operation of human health, animal health, environmental health and economic health. The four modes of production of health (i.e., production of health of humans, production of health of animals, production of health of the environment, and production of health of the economy) must work together, jointly and simultaneously as one entity. To try to produce the health of one element, without the other three leads to failure, in a typical fixes-that-fail systems archetype. The four modes of health production rely on one another to operate effectively to create joint meaning of global health as a comprehensive entity in one. A sustainable One-Health Community has an afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) component. The afferent component gathers data about emergent health problems in the community, and transmits that data to a central analytical unit. The efferent component responds appropriately to the transmitted data. The sensory action by the by the afferent component collects data from family members through an electronic mobile device using a mobile application. The mobile device transmits point data to a data aggregation system from different communities leading to detection of disease in the community. The data analytical unit red-flags incidents and transmits them to members of clinical intervention team. The efferent component responds to the reported incident by sending a clinical intervention team to the site to investigate, treat and contain the incident condition. Overarching question: How do we, as planners, urban designers, architects, interior designers, engineers, health and other related professionals, fulfil the mission to build sustainable one-health communities that would ensure health of people all over the world? 1. This conference will address the four elements of the physical structure of a sustainable one-health community. In your presentation please explain how you address any or all the four elements of a sustainable one-health community: a. Element 1: design for humans (human centered design) b. Element 2: design for animals (animal centered design) c. Element 3: design for the environment (environment centered design) d. Element 4: design for economic development (economic centered design) Address how your design ties all the four elements together to create a sustainable one-health community 2. GUPHA Meeting: news updates and innovative approaches in healthcare architecture education. The GUPHA Meeting welcomes all universities in the world that teach design for health and healthcare facilities to (1) update what they are doing and (2) share their innovative approaches and teaching methods. The conference abstract should include: 1. The title 2. The topic (listed above) that it fits into 3. Presenter(s)’s Name(s) and contact information (i.e., email and phone number) 4. Presenter(s)’s organization(s) 5. Project/study details, including but not limited to, introduction, description, method, analysis, results/outcomes, discussion and conclusion Project/study details are expected not to exceed 500 words. July 15, 2016, abstract submission deadline August 15, 2016, abstract acceptance notification October 1, 2016, paper submission deadline** * Submissions will be closed at 11:59 PM U.S. Central Time ** Selected papers will be published in the conference proceeding and the Journal of Global Health Care Systems Please submit your abstract to the link below: with "UIA-PHG Abstract" in the subject line http://ubrica.com/summit/index.php/ubricasummit/ubricasummit1/author/submit?requiresAuthor=1 Macharia Waruingi, MD DHA Chief Executive Officer, UBRICA Faculty Fellow, Center for Health Systems & Design Visiting Scholar, College of Architecture 3137 TAMU, 333 Spence St Scoates Hall, Room 125 Email: macharia.waruingi@ubrica.com On or before September 1, 2016: US$ 250 After September 1, 2016: US$ 350 Registration fee will cover lunches, passes for the UIA-PHG + GUPHA conference and the UBRICA ONE Summit & Expo, and conference materials. Registration is open. Click on the link below to register: http://ubrica.com/summit/index.php/ubricasummit/ubricasummit1/schedConf/registration www.uia-phg.org UIA-PHG The UIA-PHG is one of the working bodies of the UIA, the Union International des Architects or International Union of Architects. It was founded in1955 and represents members and guests from all continents and a growing participation from over 60 countries. Within the context of the UIA philosophy, it is the vision of the UIA-PHG that world public health can profit by the dedication of architects to provide efficient, safe and aesthetic health care buildings and an environment that can contribute to a more rapid healing of the patients as well as an improvement in staff operations and satisfaction. To accomplish this vision, the UIA-PHG shares its knowledge and experience not only within the group but also with other architects, engineers and consultants, health care managers and providers, health care organizations and governments, as well as to the general public. It should also initiate research projects that contribute to better health care buildings and environments. The Director of UIA-PHG is Adjunct Professor Warren Kerr (w.kerr@hamessharley.com.au) based in Perth, Western Australia. GUPHA The Global University Program in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA) is a subgroup of UIA-PHG. It is dedicated to promoting international exchange, collaboration and knowledge dissemination between educators involved in teaching and research, along with UIA member practitioners and representatives of academic institutions, governmental and non-governmental agencies with an interest in architectural education and academic research in the area of healthcare architecture. Since founded in 2000, GUPHA has grown to include 25 member institutions. The Chair of GUPHA is Professor David Allison (adavid@clemson.edu) from Clemson University, in the United States of America. Ustawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa (UBRICA) Ustawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa (UBRICA) is a life science and health care company (LSHC). It sponsors investments in life science comprising pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and health care comprising clinics and hospitals in the frontier market. In addition, UBRICA sponsors investments in specialized real estate for life science and health care. The primary focus is African countries. UBRICA is keen on in building Sustainable One Health Communities ("SOHCs"), designed to overcome the grand challenge of global health. 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__label__wiki	0.572797	0.572797	Please respond to this misleading article by e.mail to Bill Zlatos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Local educators learn about Islam on trip to Egypt By Bill Zlatos TRIBUNE-REVIEW "The idea is most Americans don't know much about Islam except what you see in the headlines, which is all violence and oppression of women," said Rebecca Denova, visiting lecturer in religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "The purpose of the program is we need to teach more about Islam, starting in high school and in colleges." Denova was one of 12 teachers who went to Egypt from June 24 to July 22 as part of the Fulbright-Hays Program under the U.S. Department of Education. They eventually will hold workshops to train high school teachers about Islam, which has about 1.3 billion adherents, second behind Christianity, which has about 2 billion followers. Others on the trip were Elaine Linn of Pitt; Christina Michelmore, Charlotte Lott and Deborah Rubin of Chatham University; Tracey-Ann Flynn of Hickory High School in Hermitage, Mercer County; Tony Gaskew of Pitt-Bradford; Fran Leap of Seton Hill University; Michale McKale of St. Francis University; Richard Saccone of St. Vincent College; Eric Tuten of Slippery Rock University; and Michael Yoder of Northside Urban Pathways Charter School, Downtown. Leap said she came away from the trip with a deeper respect for Muslims and how fervently they practice their religion. "To see, for instance, the young man at the Internet cafe pick up his prayer rug and quietly and unobtrusively slip out the door and attend to his midday prayer and return five (or) 10 minutes later was very inspiring," Leap said. On the trip, the teachers saw a blend of religion, culture and politics. They visited a mosque of the mystical Sufi sect of Islam and a Coptic church at which Christians, like Muslims, leave their shoes outside. Another highlight for participants was meeting members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the leading opposition group in Egypt to President Hosni Mubarak. Yoder, a history and Spanish teacher, plans to use his experience to develop a class on world religions. "We generally think of Muslims as radicals or extremists, and I would like to present a case of moderate Islam that has a deep desire to get along with Christians and Jews," he said. "Egypt is a good example of a place where Christians and Muslims have gotten along for centuries." Tuten, an assistant professor of history at Slippery Rock, said many Muslims and Islamic scholars told him they oppose the radical view of their religion expounded by some. "That complicates my role as a teacher in trying to help students understand that Islam is much more than the extremist interpretation that some are willing to put forward," he said. Bill Zlatos can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (412) 320-7828	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line416
__label__wiki	0.572435	0.572435	Home / Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto 09 July 2019 Michal Grynberg 10 Outlive English French Dictionary WordReference Word Of The Day Wrong Grate Publicits Signalez Une Publicit Qui Vous Semble Abusive Devenez Parrain De WordReference Pour Voir Le Site Sans Publicits Outlive Synonyms, Outlive Antonyms Thesaurus Never Mind, Tom Bear On Bravely, Lad, And You Ll Outlive Vexation They Did Not Outlive Their Own Poetic Sense Of The Wonder And Mystery Of The WorldWords To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts FromNot Retrouvez Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts From The Warsaw Ghetto Et Des Millions De Livres En Stock SurAchetez Neuf Ou D Occasion Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts From The WarsawThey Truly Are Words To Outlive Us I Have Been Lately Somewhat Obsessed With The Tragedy Of The Warsaw Ghetto I Have Read Several Books About The Time, And The Plight Of The Jews There This One Gives Such Powerful Details, Organized Around Around Different Subjects These Are The Words Of The People Who Lived It Words To Outlive Us EBook DeRakuten Kobo Words To Outlive Us EBook DeRakuten Kobo Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts From The Eyewitness Accounts From The Warsaw Ghetto, Words To Outlive Us, Philip Boehm, Metropolitan Books Des Milliers De Livres Avec La Livraison Chez Vous Enjour Ou En Magasin Avec % De Rduction Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts From The In Michal Grynberg S Mindblowing Work Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts Of The Warsaw Ghetto, He Presents The Reader With A Disturbing Collection Of Testimonies Written By Jews During The Infamous Days Of Nazi Occupied Poland Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts From The They Truly Are Words To Outlive Us I Have Been Lately Somewhat Obsessed With The Tragedy Of The Warsaw Ghetto I Have Read Several Books About The Time, And The Plight Of The Jews There This One Gives Such Powerful Details, Organized Around Around Different Subjects These Are The Words Of The People Who Lived It Outlive Definition Of Outlive By The Free Dictionary Men Outlive Their Love, But They Don T Outlive The Consequences Of Their Recklessness View In Context A Ruddy And Lusty Old Dame, Who Delights In All Weathers And Outlive Definition Of Outlive At Dictionary No Love Could Stand The Test By Which Mine Was Now Tried Nor Outlive The Shock Which It Had Just Sustained Tales Of My Time, Vol II OfWilliam Pitt Scargill On The Other Hand, The War Was Is a well-known author, some of his books are a fascination for readers like in the Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto book, this is one of the most wanted Michal Grynberg author readers around the world. Michal Grynberg 10 thoughts on “Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto” Kriegslok Kriegslok says: [KINDLE] ❆ Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto By Michal Grynberg – Webcamtopladies.info A harrowing but excellent collection of contemporary accounts of the struggle for survival in the face of a genocidal enemy Many of the diaries people from all walks of life caught in a single nightmare presented are the only record left of those who were slaughtered in the death camps or who were murdered in Warsaw The collection captures on a very human level the sense of despair and helplessness, it also records some of the best and worst in humanity It brings to life the terror of living under a permenant shadow of death These few voices speak for the millions who never had an opportunity to speak and were murdered en masse This is an important record of a period now fading out of living memory and which is increasingly subject to revisionists with their own power games to pursue This book is vital contribution to keeping the memory alive and essential reading for anyone wanting to begin to understand the post WWII world and the world today. Meaghan Meaghan says: This is a fine collection of accounts, most of which have never been previously published, that really gave me the sense of what it was like to live and fight and die in the Warsaw ghetto The writers were a wide variety of people mostly Jews of course, but there were some gentiles, and even one young child and there were biographical sketches revealing details of each person s life and fate, if known Recommended for scholarly Holocaust collections. Inknscroll Inknscroll says: This book was recommended by author Gwen Edelman in her article, The Jews and the Second World War A Reading List , on the Jewishbookcouncil.org This author recommends a list of books the most powerful the most meaningful on the fate on the Jews during the Second World War Here is the link. Ginger Miller Ginger Miller says: Slightly deceptive.NOT typical stories of the Warsaw ghetto It centers on individuals and not a people or the resistance Some of these accounts show great bravery while others just make one wonder just what the heck was going on.The women seem to be very brave and tough while several of the men wring their hands and wonder what to do.At one point a man sits on a sofa sobbing and pulling his hair out because he doesn t have a pair of pants.Extremely childish considering he could have been in a cattle car on his way to Treblinka As for the children in the ghettoPerhaps the parents should have made contact with Irena Sendler who was constantly taking children out of the Warsaw ghetto.Known by her code name Jolanta she was available at no charge StillThe horrors of the ghetto are heartwrenching and difficult to read.I judge no one No one should because unless you were there no can understand the choices people were forced to make. Sara Whear Sara Whear says: This book took me quite a while to finish because the accounts were quite scattered and the pages were large and thin It wasn t always gripping, but it was always the first hand real experiences of Jewish people who lived in and around Warsaw during WWII and that s a heavy enough topic for anyone. Madeleine Sargent Madeleine Sargent says: Incredibly harrowing and sobering read about life in Warsaw during WWII As a bit of a WWII history nut, it still never ceases to amaze me just how much evil occurred during the war. Nicole Nicole says: I don t know how to rate this book It s based on personal accounts of events during the holocaust How can you feel good after reading this You can t. Kaitlin Kaitlin says: A haunting narrative of life in a Jewish ghetto, by some known authors and some anonymous whose voices tell of the horrors that humans can survive but also the voices of those who perished. Ness Ness says: a harrowing and heartbreaking read in parts The title has a lot of truth in itwords to outlive us and which should never be forgotten Victoria Grace Victoria Grace says: In Michal Grynberg s mindblowing work Words To Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto , he presents the reader with a disturbing collection of testimonies written by Jews during the infamous days of Nazi occupied Poland.The stories collected here are all true and written by Jewish people, both survivor and victim, bearing witness to the tragedies inflicted upon their community by the vicious Nazi regime.Ripped out of their homes, nearly all of their possessions, including furniture, clothes, and jewelry stolen from them the Jews of Warsaw were forced to live in an unbearingly crowded and filthy section of the city, referred to by everyone as the ghetto.Completely unprepared for the horrors the Nazis had in store for them, many Jewish families kept hoping that the inevitable was untrue some still felt that the Germans couldn t possibly slaughter innocent people But account after heartbreaking account testifies that that was exactly what they did Men, women, the elderly, and even young children and babies were massacred in the most brutal of ways Mothers had their children shot in front of their very eyes and whole families were sent to their deaths from a train station called Umschlangplatz to the dreaded Treblinka and other concentration camps.The stories collected in this volume were written by Jewish people who before the war, came from a wide variety of professions and family backgrounds, but because of the Nazis, were joined with each other in a common struggle amidst the starvation and terror that was the Warsaw ghetto From a young woman hiding in a bunker during the raging years of the war, trying to allay her misery with the written word and satire in the form of a weekly newsletter , to a haunted father distraught over the loss of his beloved wife and daughter to the death camps, these stories have been written by a people that witnessed the worst bestiality of modern times and determined throughout their struggle, to put down their experiences on paper for the world to one day see.Unlike sweeping histories of World War II and the Holocaust, this book reveals very specifically the day to day life of an average ghetto resident Completely stripped of their rights, the Jews of Warsaw were desperate for any work at all and proper documentation in order that their lives would be spared Factories were set up to benefit the German war cause that employed the Jews of the ghetto, and the stories tell of the desperation of the average Jewish person to find at least, a fairly decent factory to work in, that as the Nazis routinely said, would spare them from the feared deportations.Lie after lie would be told to the Jews by the Nazis, that they would be resettled to a different region and would work peacefully until the end of the war This would always result in being transported to the death camps In just one example such as the Hotel Polski disaster, Jews were put up at a local hotel and given papers to safe countries to emigrate to, such as Latin America, France, and even America Overjoyed at what they thought was a chance to escape, they rapidly discovered all too late that these promises were nothing but ploys to send them unknowingly to their deaths in the concentration camps.The Jews of the ghetto quickly learned never to believe the false promises of their German oppressors, and the vast majority began to build underground bunkers and various hiding places A good deal of them even managed to escape beyond their confines to what was called the Aryan side and live under assumed identities.These compelling accounts tell, however, that not all of the Jews decided to escape In April of 1943, Jewish fighting groups banded together for an uprising against the Nazis Determined to die defending themselves, they put up a valiant fight that lasted several months and killed many Germans This revolt ultimately failed however, and soon thereafter, the Nazis decided to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto.Reduced to smoking piles of ashes, the city lay in ruins There were Jews that survived however, in their cleverly built underground hiding places and who, on January 15th of 1945, lived to see the day of liberation by the Soviet army and Polish fighting forces.I felt when reading this book, that it was especially heart breaking to know the names and personal histories of the Jews who experienced this unbelievable slaughter These were mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, and wives who saw first hand the virulent evil human beings can perpetrate against each other Their lives are inspirational and tragic both terrifying and victorious For the common thread these people had, both survivor and victim alike, was a special spirit within them that even through the fiercest of oppression could never be snuffed out.Their words 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__label__wiki	0.947647	0.947647	ISSUE 2: September 12, 2019 Noh theater group to premiere ‘Gettysburg’ at Charity Randall Theatre An American story told through the ancient Japanese theatrical form of “noh” will be one of the first productions in the newly reopened Charity Randall Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial on Pitt’s campus. “Gettysburg: An American Noh” will have its world premiere at the newly renovated theater at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14, sponsored by the Pitt Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. It will be performed by Theatre Nohgaku, which was founded by Ohio-born Richard Emmert and a group of English-speaking performers to bring the art of Noh to contemporary audiences. Noh, which originated in the 14th century, combines highly stylized dance, chant, music, masks and costume with intense inner concentration and physical discipline for a retelling of a story, instead of a re-enacting. According to Asia for Educators at Columbia University, “A Noh play portrays one all-encompassing emotion dominating the main character, the shite (she-tay). Whether jealousy, rage, or sorrow, all music, gesture, dance, and recitation are used to build the emotion to its final climax at the close of the play. Often the plays depict the return of a historical personage, in spirit — or “ghostly” — form, to the site of a significant event in his or her life.” “Gettysburg” imagines the meeting between the ghost of Confederate Gen. Lewis Armistead and a 21st-century descendant of his friend, Union Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, whose troops killed Armistead at the Battle of Gettysburg during Pickett’s Charge. The story of Hancock and Armistead’s friendship is told, including their roles on opposite sides of the conflict. Choral concert music and poetic dialogue is accompanied by violin, harmonica and the drums of Noh. There have been several pre-performance “Noh Before You Go” lectures at local libraries this month, and there will be a symposium on Sept. 13 and 14 at Pitt bringing together scholars, writers and practitioners to discuss the play as Noh, as drama, and as performance of memory. On Sept. 13, the symposium will be at the Gettysburg Room at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with topics such as “Battles, Loss, and Enacting the Past” and “Gettysburg: War, Memory, and Trauma,” and a keynote address by Yamanaka Reiko, director of the Nogami Memorial Center for Nohgaku Studies at Hosei University in Tokyo. Sessions on Sept. 14 will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Croghan Schenley Room, Cathedral of Learning, Room 156, and include a roundtable discussion with members of Theatre Nohgaku and others. Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. performance on Sept. 14 are $15; $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased online or at the door. For more information contact Elizabeth Oyler, associate professor of premodern Japanese literature and performance, at eaoyler@pitt.edu. — Susan Jones 11 projects selected for db-SERC awards Affinity groups become Pitt Communities but goals the same All of Us PA ready to enroll more people at new Forbes Avenue storefront ASK THE UTIMES: What’s the meaning of the sculpture in Posvar Hall? Confused by your medications? There’s a free service on campus to help with that. 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__label__wiki	0.898257	0.898257	Home News Film News Manish Pandey ties knot with actress Ashrita Shetty Manish Pandey ties knot with actress Ashrita Shetty Hours after leading Karnataka to the title in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Sunday, India batsman Manish Pandey headed to Mumbai to get married to Ashrita Shetty. 26-year-old Ashrita is an actress in southern films, who made her debut in the 2012 Tulu film, “Telikada Bolli”. Manish in fact made the news known at the post-match presentation ceremony on Sunday when he said that ahead of the test that awaits in the limited-overs series against West Indies, he had the marriage test on Monday. “Looking forward to the India series, but before that there is another important series for me, I am getting married tomorrow,” he smiled. Manish played a key role in the final against Tamil Nadu and hit a 45-ball 60 to help Karnataka post 180. Tamil Nadu fell 1 run short in the chase. As for Ashrita, she has worked in four other films over the past seven years – “Udhayam NH4”, “Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum”, “Indrajith” and the unreleased “Naan Than Shiva”. Before her film debut, Ashrita participated in a beauty contest aimed at selecting a fresh face for a cosmetic care brand in 2010. She won the contest, which opened up doors for a stint in TV commercials. Around this time, she was signed up to play a lead role in Manimaran’s 2013 Tamil romantic thriller “Udhayam NH4”, opposite Siddharth. The film featured Kay Kay Menon in a pivotal role. She was last seen in the 2017 Tamil action drama “Indrajith” that had Gautam Karthik in the title role. India batsman Manish Pandey headed to Mumbai to get married to Ashrita Shetty Previous articleCops suggest do’s and don’ts to women! Next articleBoyapati replacing his team!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line433
__label__wiki	0.684087	0.684087	Melodic.Net Written by Kaj Roth Ohio based Temple 8 feat. the multi instrumentalist Kurt Tischer and drummer David Clark must be huge fans of Rush and Dream Theater because "Enter the temple" sounds a lot like Dream Theater's first album "When dream and day unite" mixed with the early era of Rush. The musicianship is amazing and it's a pleasure to hear those Rush-like harmonies and song structures but the production is too sharp and the garage sounding snaredrum just gets annoying after a while, the normal vocals from Tischer is also a bit low in the mix. The dark narrator voice messes up the good music of "Confessions of an old soul" and who wants to hear a phone voice throughout the whole song like in "Turn left"?! I like "Ideas of the mind" where Tischer actually sounds like Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys and the Pink Floyd-esque track "Hope" is another nice thing along with the instrumental title track that opens the album. Go for Dave Gastambide's "Immovable mover" instead if you want a great Rush sounding progrock album, this one's only ok. Source: http://www.melodic.net/reviewsOne.asp?revnr=5166	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line434
__label__wiki	0.526251	0.526251	Teresa Goatham's Family History My family tree and history Blogging my progress contact me – send a message Goatham One Name Study About this study Aims of this study and website Benefit from this site My ONS blog Origins and locations Gotham / Goatham as a middle name Daisy Eliza Gotham (JOHNSON / MARTIN) Double-barrelled Gothams Data and media Wills and other probate documents Six generations On this (or any) day Copyright – Legal Notice Granddad (Henry Bailey, 1899-1984) For a living William Bartlett Hambling, bellfounder Goathams at Salter’s Platt The 1614 Indenture Thomas Becon: a Reformation Theologian Thomas Becon – Biographical Notice A Royal Tuck Shop Portelli Guest House The rest of life Records of the Exchequer Tithes on wood in Warehorne Smyth step family dispute in Charleton A dispute between the Becon family and Margaret Steed A dispute between William Grigsby senior and junior Siblings in conflict over John Vogwill’s will Halke Family Elizabeth Halke’s inheritance Family dispute over the will of Richard Symons Medway marriages list of wills Devon wills (South Hams) The will of James Baker (c.1754 – 1837) The will of William Bastard (1722-1771) The will of Matthew Bellamy (d. 1782) The will of John Bellamy (d. 1785) The will of Jane Bellamy (née Harris) (d. 1788) Champernoun The will and inventory of Francis Champernoun (d. 1632) Hambling wills The will of William Bartlett Hambling (1787 – 1864) The will of Charles George Hambling (1820 – 1878) The will of James Hambling (c.1762 – 1837) The will of John Hele (d. 1571) Issell The will of John Issell (c.1753 – 1829) The will of Susanna Efford née Issell (c.1758 – 1842) The will of Thomas Efford (abt. 1768* – 1835) The will of William Pike Issell (1822 – 1893) The will of Thomas Efford Issell (1798 – 1874) Kellond The will of John Kellond (1747 – 1829) The will of Robert Kellond (c.1796 – 1863) The will of Tryphena Issell (née Kellond) (1823 – 1909) Knowling The will of Anstis Knowling ( -1692) The will of George Knowling (1617-1675) The will of William Pike (c.1761 – 1837) Skirrett Trant The will of Elizabeth Trant (née Foal) (c.1744 – 1822) The will of John Wright Trant (1809 – 1849) The Will of Walter Wotton (1631-1691) Baylie Devon wills (straddling Dartmoor) Lavers Narramore / Northmore The will of Richard Narramore (d. 1654) The will of Walter Narramore (c.1560* – 1659) The will of John Narramore (1664/5-c.1699) Spurrell The will of Benjamin Spurrell (c.1763 – 1833) Vogwell The will of John Vogwell (1783-1852) The will of John Vogwell (c.1753 – 1845) The will of George Vogwill (1752-1826) Kent wills The will of Anthony Becon (c.1595-1628) The will of Basil Becon (1663 – 1739) The will of Theodore Becon (abt. 1556 – 1619/20) The will of Thomas Becon (c.1512 – 1567) The will of Thomas Becon (1596 – 1659) The will of William Beacon (abt. 1692 – 1721) The will of George Young (1620-1680) (son of Rachel Becon) The will of Basil Terry (d. 1704) (son of Maria Becon) The will of Thomas Terry (1584-1653) (husband of Maria Becon) The will of John Bigg (1602-1643) (husband of Sybilla Becon) The will of William Burr (d. 1612) The will of Rachel Burr née Beale (d. 1614) The will of William Burr (1585/6-1628/9) Charrosin The will of John Charrosin (c.1737 – 1762) The will of Mary (Marie) Charrosin (1718 – 1793) de Farvaques The will of Mary de Farvaques (née Wantier) (d. 1685) Goatham The will of Richard Goatham (d. 1585) The will of John Goatham (c.1566 – 1622) The will of William Goatham (pos. 1651 – c.1693) The will of Michael Goatham (c.1674/5 – c.1707) The will of Robert Goatham (1736 – 1813) Grigsby The will of John Grigsby (d. 1600) The will of Joane Grigsby née King (d. 1635) The will of William Grigsby (1606/7 – 1661/2) The will of John Halke (d. 1492) The will of Alice Halke (d. 1512) The will of Christopher Halke (d. c. 1515) The will of Richard Halke (d. 1546) The will of William Halke (d. 1558) The will of Christopher HALKE (d. 1599) The will of Sampson Halke ( – 1601/2) The will of Stephen Halke (d.1607) The will of Elizabeth Halke (d. 1611) The will of the Rev. William Halke (c.1565-1615) The will of Jane Halke (d.c. 1618) The will of Thomas Harvey (husband of Joane Halke) (1549-1623) The will of Richard Halke (d. 1624/25) The will of William Halke (c.1575-1641/2) The will of the Rev. Michael Halke (1589-1660) The will of the Rev. John Halke (1601-1678) The will of Richard Halke (c. 1607-1681) The will of William Halke (1652-1715) The will of William Lyster (d. 1599) The will of Michael Rickson (est. 1630 – 1721) The will of Susanna Rickson (née Homersham) ( – 1681) The will of Mary Rickson ( – 1697) The will of Adam Baty ( – 1694/5) (husband of Abigail, subsequently Rickson) The will of Judith Rickson née Macaré ( – 1727/8) The will of Thomas Mason ( – 1727/8) (husband of Mary Rickson) The will of John Rose (d. 1505) The will of Thomas Rose (d. 1527) Serlys The will of Edward Springfield (c.1707 – 1781) Sussex wills The will of James Hockham [Hacom] (1727-1812) The inventory of William Burr (1606 – 1629/30) The Inventory of Mary de Farvaques née Wantier (d. 1684/5) The Inventory of Richard Halke (d. 1624/25) Names and origins of particular interest Becon / Beacon Becon Arms? Becon pedigree submitted to the College of Arms Halke or Hawke Straddling Dartmoor Alice BASTARD – my gateway ancestor Through the gate – the gentry ancestors on my tree The Inmans: a family of characters Where they lived My South Hams Ancestry Durham and Northumberland The Isle of Thanet North Kent: betwixt Swale, sea and downs Bredgar Bapchild Tonge Murston Along the North Downs Wormshill Along and around the Elham Valley Bishopsbourne Ickham The Weald Old Buckenham Can you help to identify? Unknown photos: Mum’s side Probably Baileys or Robinsons or related families (couples) select by surname select by place Ann GALE 1814 - Yes, date unknown Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree. Personal Information \| Event Map \| All Name Ann GALE Relationship with Andrew GOTHAM Baptised 13 Feb 1814 St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 10 Aug 2018) Person ID I5562 Gothams Father William GALE, b. Abt 1782, Teignmouth, Devon, England , d. Mar Q 1865, Newton Abbot Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 83 years) Mother Elizabeth BAKER, b. Abt 1786, bur. 23 Jan 1821, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England (Age ~ 35 years) Banns of marriage From 12 Oct 1806 to 26 Oct 1806 St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England Married 16 Nov 1806 St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England Did William marry once or two or three times? The picture is unclear. Certainly a 34 year old Elizabeth Gale was buried in West Teignmouth on 23 Jan 1821, and who would threfore have been about 5 years younger than William and about 20 when they married. It seems likely she was William's wife, especially as when a child of William was baptised in December that year the mother was named as Mary. All six earlier children had the mother's name given as Elizabeth. The 1841 census also names William's wife as Mary (or at least, the woman in the same house of a similar age was Mary Gale - of course this could, in theory, have been a sister or cousin). Whilst this seems straightforward I have not found a marriage for a William and Mary in 1821 that could be theirs, and the 1851 census names William's wife as Elizabeth. Was this a third wife? I can't find a death registration or burial of a Mary between 1841 and 1851 (the Mary Ann who death was registered in Newton Abbot RD in 1846 was aged only 27). William was buried in West Teignmouth churchyard so we might expect his wife would have been too, but the only likely Mary was buried there in 1857, aged 78 i.e. the same age as the 'Elizabeth' who was with William at the time of the 1851 census. William was a widower in 1861 so 'Elizabeth' had died, but there is no death registration or burial of an Elizabeth between 1851 and 1861 that fits. Hence I don't think William was married 3 times, I think that 'Elizabeth' in 1851 was the same woman who was elsewhere recorded as Mary. But now the question is was 'Elizabeth' a mistake, or was she actually Mary Elizabeth (or Elizabeth Mary)? She would have been born about 1776, when two Christian names was uncommon (apart from Mary Ann). 'Mary's son was given the middle name Baker, the maiden name of William's first wife, and so could indicate she was still his wife. On the other hand, if Elizabeth had died then William and Mary got together pretty quickly after the death. The most likely explanation for such a quick relationship is that a sister moved in to keep house and look after the children. If the sister was Elizabeth's then her maiden name would also be Baker, and hence it would be natural to use that name for her son. I think William probably married twice, but will look for baptism evidence of sisters Mary and Elizabeth or of a Mary Elizabeth / Elizabeth Mary. 1. John GALE, c. 3 Jun 1810, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England , bur. 23 Dec 1818, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England (Age ~ 8 years) 2. William GALE, c. 10 Dec 1812, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England , bur. 4 Mar 1813, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England (Age ~ 0 years) 3. Thomas GALE, c. 13 Feb 1814, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown 4. Ann GALE, c. 13 Feb 1814, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown 5. Charles GALE, c. 14 Apr 1816, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown 6. Mary Elizabeth GALE, b. Abt 1819, East Teignmouth, Devon, England , d. 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__label__cc	0.523133	0.476867	Abortion — What is it? VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 05/31/2012 Abortion — What is it? This article — together with the two following others — is especially and ardently dedicated to those who are performing abortions, as well as those who are assiduously moving and decidedly promoting the passage of the notorious “Reproductive Health Bill.” The only reason behind this article and the two hereafter coming, is one and the same: Do not say that you have not been told, have not been warned. Say not wherefore that you do not know that the said bill — which is a population control legislative priority of no less than the Commander-in-Chief — does not include abortion, considering that some contraceptive pills are also abortive in content and finality. So it is than when contraception fails, abortion takes over eventually to also lessen people. Question: What is abortion? In plain and direct language, abortion is the deliberate killing of an unborn human being while still in the maternal womb and herein growing moment by moment, day by day. Abortion is a deliberate killing — knowingly, willingly, intentionally — of a yet unborn child. Abortion is the purposeful slaughter of a human being when still in the mother’s womb and where the same stays from the conception to his or her joyful and triumphant birthday..... MORE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line436
__label__wiki	0.970423	0.970423	David, the underdog, slew Goliath EDITORIAL 04/10/2012 David, the underdog, slew Goliath Outside of the monoliths, Liberal Party (LP) and Nacionalista Party (NP), few other political parties had made a lasting impression in terms of fielding reliable bets for the periodic polls and those political groups that mount a challenge against such parties were parties usually formed by the incumbent. Thus, it was the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) for former President Ferdinand Marcos for a long time. Cory Aquino won under the banner of the United Democratic Opposition (Unido) coalition which she quickly dropped after she made use of the Unido vehicle and allied herself with the Laban ng Democratiko Pilipino, which she also dropped when she endorsed Fidel Ramos, who came to power through the Lakas-Kampi-CMD. Joseph Estrada has his own Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) when he overwhelmingly won the presidency in the 1998 elections. Now, the tables are turned as a non-incumbent formed a coalition outside of the two giant parties and is now expected to pose a challenge to the dominant LP..... MORE Psy-war resumes FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/10/2012 Psy-war resumes The Lenten break still wasn’t over, but there went the prosecution team and its spokesmen already firing their guns again at the Chief Justice and his defense team, claiming that they have been reinvigorated, are more focused and driven to prove their case against the chief magistrate, Renato Corona. Say what? Prove its case against the CJ? But the prosecution has already rested its case long before the Senate took a six-week recess. It is now the defense’s turn to disprove the charges leveled against its client. But the prosecution appears to think that it is its psy-war tactics and trial by publicity that will make its case win..... MORE Iran: ‘No preconditions’ to nuclear talks will be accepted Iran has slammed world powers for imposing preconditions ahead of Saturday’s nuclear talks. The foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, stressed on Monday that “setting conditions before the meeting means drawing conclusions before negotiations.” "None of the parties will accept conditions set before the talks," Iran’s PressTV quoted Ali Akbar Salehi as saying, adding that Salehi branded the demands as “completely meaningless.” The US insists that Tehran should suspend uranium enrichment, which they consider just a few steps from weapons grade, according to leaked reports. Washington also wants Iran to close its underground nuclear facility at Fordo near the holy city of Qom..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/iran-nuclear-talks-meaningless-pre-conditions-610/ War on drugs? 110k active US troops 'on prescribed meds' Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders. Over 110,000 American service personnel took prescribed medications in 2011 to battle through everyday military routine. The Times recently disclosed that nearly 8 per cent of active-duty American servicemen and women take sedatives and over 6 per cent are on antidepressants, a tremendous eightfold increase since 2005, when two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in full swing..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/us-army-medicine-drugs-580/ The economic policeman speaks AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 04/10/2012 The economic policeman speaks Ever since independence in 1946, Philippine economic policy has been dictated by foreigners. First — and as a condition of that so-called “independence” — the USA called the tune, to the extent of stationing “advisers” in government departments. The aim, of course, was to ensure that formal independence would not endanger US economic interests; or, as US Sen. Millard Tydings bluntly described the purpose of the Bell Trade Act, to “keep the Philippines economically though we lose them politically.” Those US interests, by the way, have evolved over time, and it is interesting in this regard to compare the National Security Council’s “Statement of Policy” toward the Philippines of April 5, 1954, with that of June 4, 1958. While the 1954 policy stated that the Philippines was “important to the United States and the free world” due to its strategic location, its role as a model for other Asians, and because “it is our principal source of copra and hemp, and an important source of sugar and chrome,” the 1958 document reversed the priority of the first two points and amended the third to read that “the Philippines is one of the most important areas of US commercial activity in Asia, both as a market and as a field of investment.” Thus, by the late 1950s US capital had moved from seeing the Philippines as a source of raw materials to viewing it as a destination for capital..... MORE Many summers ago NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 04/10/2012 Many summers ago I was 11 years old on April 9, 1942, when this was broadcast on radio: “Bataan has fallen. The Philippine-American troops on this war-ravaged and bloodstained peninsula have laid down their arms. With heads bloody but unbowed, they have yielded to the superior force and numbers of the enemy. “The world will long remember the epic struggle that Filipino and American soldiers put up in the jungle fastness and along the rugged coast of Bataan. They have stood up uncomplaining under the constant and grueling fire of the enemy for more than three months. Besieged on land and blockaded by sea, cut off from all sources of help in the Philippines and in America, the intrepid fighters have done all that human endurance could bear..... MORE Expensive power deals sealed; Summit only for show — solon By Charlie V. Manalo 04/10/2012 Expensive power deals sealed; Summit only for show — solon President Aquino’s convening of the Mindanao Power Summit this Friday will only be for show as agreements to jack up power rates in Mindanao and put up environmentally-hazardous coal plants were already sealed during a pre-summit meeting organized by the Department of Energy last week, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño said. Casiño aired his apprehension upon learning that in an April 4 pre-summit meeting in Davao, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras ordered Mindanao electric cooperatives to buy expensive power from privatized power barges at P14 kilowatt hour (kWh), with government shouldering the P9 per kWh diesel cost. Almendras also reportedly ordered local government officials to immediately approve the environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) for at least two new coal fired power plants in Mindanao..... MORE North Korea rocket installed on launch pad 04/10/2012 North Korea rocket installed on launch pad TONGCHANG-RI SPACE CENTER — North Korea’s long-range rocket is on its launch platform, Agence France Presse reporters said, as the regime again insisted it was to send a peaceful satellite and not a missile. The usually secretive North organized an unprecedented visit for foreign reporters to Tongchang-ri space center in an effort to show its Unha-3 rocket is not a disguised ballistic missile, as claimed by the US and its allies. Communist North Korea says it will launch the satellite for peaceful scientific research between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung. His birthday was on April 15..... MORE NPC, NP, LDP ‘open’ to 2013 alliances By Gerry Baldo and Charlie V. Manalo 04/10/2012 LP CLAIMS NOT THREATENED BY ERAP-BINAY’S UNA NPC, NP, LDP ‘open’ to 2013 alliances By Gerry Baldo and Charlie V. Manalo 04/10/2012 Liberal Party (LP) stalwarts claim that it is not threatened by the formation of an Erap-Binay coalition under the umbrella of United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), but three other Philippine political parties appear to be interested in forging an alliance with UNA for the 2013 elections. The political parties reportedly interested in an alliance with UNA are the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), the Nacionalista Party (NP) and the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP). The LP, for its part, has stated that at this time, the dominant political party is not interested in forming coalitions with other parties, but could do so, as long as these parties interested in forging an alliance with the LP, would follow its “reform agenda,” with LP stalwart Florencio “Butch” Abad saying that the LP can go it alone in 2013..... MORE Planas plea for TRO on EO 2 denied By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/10/2012 Planas plea for TRO on EO 2 denied The Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled against the suit of former Nayong Pilipino executive director Charito Planas seeking to stop to the implementation of President Aquino’s Executive Order 2 on her supposed midnight appointment in 2010. In a six-page resolution promulgated last March 16, the 12th division of the appellate court denied her motion seeking the issuance of a status quo ante order against EO 2 that had been rendered moot and academic by the expiration of her term last March 9. The CA will still rule on the merits of the petition and resolve legal questions raised by the former official against EO 2..... MORE AFP raids fail to rescue kidnapped Zambo mayor By Mario J. Mallari 04/10/2012 AFP raids fail to rescue kidnapped Zambo mayor A series of raids conducted by combined military and police operatives to rescue kidnapped Salug, Zamboanga del Norte Mayor Jeffrey Lim in some parts of the Zamboanga region have yielded negative results, a ranking military official said yesterday. Army 1st Infantry Division (ID) chief Brig. Gen. Rainier Cruz said at least four operations were launched since Lim was abducted by unidentified armed men last April 2 in Poblacion, Salug. “Negative so far,” said Cruz of the results of the series of raids staged by government troops..... MORE Urban poor to call for Noy’s resignation over demolitions By Pat C. Santos 04/10/2012 Urban poor to call for Noy’s resignation over demolitions By Pat C. Santos 04/10/2012 Urban-poor groups under the Alyansa Kontra Demolisyon (Alliance Against Demolition) will launch today a campaign to gather one million signatures for the repeal of the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) or Republic Act 7279. In a statement, they said the petition calls on the House of the Representatives to expedite the passage of House Bill 5443 filed by Anakpawis party-list Rafael Mariano, which repeals the UDHA which the poorest representative in the Lower House claimed has paved the way for the massive demolition of urban-poor communities nationwide in favor of the capitalists. Alyansa Kontra Demolisyon, an assemblage of not less than 80 urban-poor groups mostly based in Metro Manila, had also filed a case asking the Supreme Court (SC) to declare some anti-poor provisions in the UDHA as unconstitutional..... MORE David, the underdog, slew Goliath EDITORIAL 04/1... Psy-war resumes FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04... Iran: ‘No preconditions’ to nuclear talks will be ... War on drugs? 110k active US troops 'on prescribed... The economic policeman speaks AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ke... Many summers ago NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Re... Expensive power deals sealed; Summit only for show... North Korea rocket installed on launch pad 04/10/... NPC, NP, LDP ‘open’ to 2013 alliances By Gerry Bal... Planas plea for TRO on EO 2 denied By Benjamin B. ... AFP raids fail to rescue kidnapped Zambo mayor By ... Urban poor to call for Noy’s resignation over demo...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line437
__label__cc	0.721062	0.278938	Tim Heinecke Home/Tim Heinecke About Tim Heinecke Tim Heinecke is Australia’s number one student engagement guru. Being a father to four school-aged children as well as having been a school teacher for more than 20 years gives him insights into better ways to inspire young people. Tim is the founder of the Student Engagement Institute and he has shown thousands of teachers and parents how to better engage children in their own educational journey. Helping our children to be better sports By Tim Heinecke\| 2016-11-15T15:08:04+00:00 November 15th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\|Tags: 3P Learning, Australia\| Play, games and sport have so many benefits for our children. Through them they learn the importance of winning and losing, as well as working together as a team and respecting both their team members and the opposition. When everyone follows the Helping Our Kids to Fail By Tim Heinecke\| 2017-09-06T20:54:14+00:00 October 27th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\|Tags: Australia, failure, persistance\| There is nothing more heartbreaking than watching your child’s hopes and dreams being dashed. The first time your child comes home from school in tears or with a heavy heart is an unforgettable moment. It might be because they have failed the By Tim Heinecke\| 2017-09-06T20:52:52+00:00 October 21st, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\| What would you do if I promised, just by reading this article, I would give you $1,440 to spend today and then each and every day after? What would you do with that money? Would you go out and buy something that By Tim Heinecke\| 2017-09-06T20:52:31+00:00 October 12th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\| Life would be a dream if it worked out how it’s supposed to! Surely it’s not too much for any of us to expect things could start to go our way for once, right? Well there is a way for this to Bouncing back: Helping our children develop resilience By Tim Heinecke\| 2017-09-06T20:52:09+00:00 October 5th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\|Tags: Australia, Resilience\| I get knocked down but I get up again and again and again… There’s a never ending list of things that keeps parents awake at night. For new parents it is the nightly feeds and nappy changes, however it doesn’t end Is Your Child Reaching The Right Benchmarks? By Tim Heinecke\| 2016-09-27T14:06:39+00:00 August 29th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\|Tags: Australia\| From the moment our children are born, their development is measured and analysed. Right at the very start of life they are observed and given a ranking according to how well they take their first breaths and this sets the scene Help! My child’s homework is giving me a headache! By Tim Heinecke\| 2016-09-27T14:03:06+00:00 July 26th, 2016\|Categories: 3P Learning News\|Tags: Australia\| Do you find yourself battling it out most nights of the week trying to get your children to complete their homework? Is there a constant battle to get your kids to sit and complete assignments on time? Conflict over homework tasks I’m too busy – I need to outsource my outsourcing… We live in the most fascinating time. Never before in the history of human existence has technology evolved so rapidly. While it is exciting, it also creates a crazed and frantic pace in our lives. In order to get through the	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line439
__label__wiki	0.829835	0.829835	Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival Unveils 2019 Lineup with Half Moon Run, Alan Doyle, USS Once again, Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is returning to the nation's capital, and organizers have just revealed the 2019 lineup. The fest — which is entirely free — will take place from June 20 to 23 at Mooney's Bay on the Rideau Carleton Casino Hillside Stage. Headliners for the 2019 event include Half Moon Run (June 20), Alan Doyle (June 21), Jess Moskaluke (June 22) and USS (June 23). Joining the headliners will be the likes of Jacquie Neville, Vile Bodies, Jane's Party, Basic White, Sacha, the Dill, Dubé and Trails. Besides all the music, other activities include Chinese Lion Dancers, RCAF Pipes and Drums, an obstacle course, axe throwing, volleyball, tai chi and more. To learn more about the Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, check out the event's website. The detailed night-by-night breakdown can be found below. 2019 LINEUP: Rideau Carleton Casino Hillside Stage: 9:30 Half Moon Run 8:00 Jacquie Neville 6:30 Vile Bodies 9:30 Alan Doyle 8:00 Jane's Party 6:30 Basic White 9:30 Jess Moskaluke 8:00 Sacha 6:30 The Dill 8:30 USS 7:00 Dubé 5:30 Trails OTTAWA DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL More Half Moon Run More USS More Alan Doyle More Jess Moskaluke Jan 19 @ 8:00PM - Half Moon Run Saskatoon @ Coors Event Centre (formerly O'Brians Event Centre) Jan 21 @ 8:00PM - Half Moon Run Winnipeg @ Burton Cummings Theatre for the Performing Arts Half Moon Run \| Taylor Janzen Jan 28 @ 7:00PM - Half Moon Run London @ London Music Hall Jan 30 @ 7:00PM - Half Moon Run Toronto @ REBEL Jan 31 @ 7:00PM - Half Moon Run Ottawa @ TD Place Arena Jan 26 @ 6:45PM - Alan Doyle Halifax @ The Marquee Ballroom Feb 19 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Moose Jaw @ Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Feb 20 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Regina @ Conexus Arts Centre Feb 21 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Winnipeg @ Burton Cummings Theatre for the Performing Arts Feb 22 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Saskatoon @ TCU Place Feb 23 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Brandon @ Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium Feb 25 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Lethbridge @ Yates Memorial Centre Feb 26 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Medicine Hat @ Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre Feb 27 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Red Deer @ Red Deer Memorial Centre Feb 28 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Calgary @ Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Feb 29 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Edmonton @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Mar 01 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Lloydminster @ Vic Juba Community Theatre Mar 03 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Fort McMurray @ Keyano Theatre Mar 05 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Prince George @ PG Playhouse Mar 06 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Chilliwack @ Chilliwack Cultural Centre Mar 07 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Vernon @ Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Mar 08 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Vancouver @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mar 26 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Kitchener @ Centre In The Square Mar 28 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Ottawa @ National Arts Centre (Southam Hall) Mar 29 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Montreal @ L'Olympia Mar 31 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Kingston @ Grand Theatre Apr 01 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle London @ Centennial Hall Apr 02 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Hamilton @ FirstOntario Centre Apr 03 @ 7:00PM - Alan Doyle Toronto @ Danforth Music Hall Apr 05 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Quebec City @ Impérial Bell Apr 08 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Moncton @ Casino New Brunswick Apr 09 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Halifax @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium Apr 11 @ 7:30PM - Alan Doyle Fredericton @ The Playhouse Apr 12 @ 8:00PM - Alan Doyle Saint John @ Imperial Theatre Half Moon Run A Blemish in the Great Light At first listen, Half Moon Run's latest album, A Blemish in the Great Light, is inoffensive. The record sounds much like what the indie rock... Half Moon Run Share Steamy New Video for "Favourite Boy" After announcing plans for their next studio album A Blemish in the Great Light, Montreal outfit Half Moon Run have shared a new single call... Half Moon Run Unveil New Album 'A Blemish in the Great Light' Half Moon Run have revealed plans for their next studio album. The record is called A Blemish in the Great Light, and it's due out November... Half Moon Run The Exchange, Regina SK, July 16 Over the course of their Regina set, Half Moon Run demonstrated why they have a reputation for technical prowess. Conner Molander moved from... Calgary Folk Music Festival Reveals Full 2019 Lineup with Belle & Sebastian, Rheostatics, the Strumbellas After teasing 2019's lineup last month, the Calgary Folk Music Festival has revealed the full list of performers at this year's event. B... Mariposa Folk Festival Reveals 2018 Lineup Ontario's long-running Mariposa Folk Festival is set to return to Orillia for another year, and ahead of the July event, organizers have rev... Howard Shore, Daniel Lanois, Rodney Graham Appointed to the Order of Canada A wide range of individuals were appointed to the Order of Canada during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa today, including a number of co... Jess Moskaluke Past the Past Jess Moskaluke is a JUNO award winner and platinum-selling artist. Her newest EP, Past the Past, is genre-defying, pushing boundaries by tak...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line451
__label__cc	0.655906	0.344094	Home General News CCH Nurse Kellie Fuquay Earns National Recognition For Superior Care CCH Nurse Kellie Fuquay Earns National Recognition For Superior Care Central Carolina Hospital Nurse Kellie Fuquay has been recognized by the DAISY Foundation for exceptional patient care. Kellie is an RN in the OB Department at the hospital and was recently nominated by a first-time mother who appreciated the extra effort that Kellie made to help her patient feel comfortable and confident during the birthing process. The nominating patient said she felt an immediate connection with Kellie and appreciated Kellie’s willingness to go above and beyond the norm. At one point when the patient was having difficulty eating, Katie even brought her a pizza! The DAISY Foundation and DAISY Award are associated with over 1,000 hospitals nationwide and honor the outstanding work that nurses do. Honorees are nominated by patients or their families, in recognition of their remarkable care, clinical skills and compassion. The foundation was created in 2000 in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died of a rare immune system disease at the age of 33. As an added bonus, the nominating patient and her new born child were in attendance to help celebrate Kellie at Central Carolina Hospital’s recognition event on November 5. WTSNews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line454
__label__wiki	0.587568	0.587568	Liam Hemsworth Responds To ‘Fake Quote’ He Gave About His Breakup With Miley Cyrus By Anastasia There have been reports that both Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus have spoken out for the first time since rumors about their divorce were confirmed. However, the middle Hemsworth brother is now claiming that he has in fact, not spoken to any reporters about the matter. The celebrity couple has had their fair share of ups and downs since meeting while filming “The Last Song” back in 2010. Since then, they have been on and off throughout the years until they got married last December. In the days following the announcement of the breakup, Liam has been staying with his older brother Chris Hemsworth. It was reported that the 29-year-old actor broke his silence and spoke with reporters. He was reported to have said to the Daily Mail Australia: “You don’t understand what it’s like. I don’t want to talk about it mate.” But then later, he took to Instagram and posted that “the reported quotes” were false: Hi all Just a quick note to say that Miley and I have recently separated and I wish her nothing but health and happiness going forward. This is a private matter and I have not made, nor will I be making, any comments to any journalists or media outlets. Any reported quotes attributed to me are false. Peace and Love. A post shared by Liam Hemsworth (@liamhemsworth) on Aug 12, 2019 at 8:41pm PDT It is reported that he is heartbroken after pictures emerged of Cyrus kissing Kaitlynn Carter while on holiday in Lake Como – however, it has yet to be confirmed whether or not that was a catalyst to the split. The singer has been active on her Instagram with plenty of scenic pictures and emotional captions such as “change is inevitable” and it’s useless to fight nature. Don’t fight evolution, because you will never win. Like the mountain I am standing on top of , which was once under water , connected with Africa , change is inevitable. The Dolomites were not created over night, it was over millions of years that this magnificent beauty was formed. My dad always told me “ Nature never hurries but it is always on time”…. it fills my heart with peace and hope KNOWING that is true. I was taught to respect the planet and its process and I am committed to doing the same with my own …. ? Cyrus says in her first post not to fight evolution, “because you will never win. Like the mountain I am standing on top of, which was once underwater, connected with Africa, change is inevitable. The Dolomites were not created overnight, it was over millions of years that this magnificent beauty was formed.” Her Instagram posted added, “My dad always told me: ‘Nature never hurries but it is always on time’… it fills my heart with peace and hope knowing that is true. I was taught to respect the planet and its process and I am committed to doing the same with my own.” New day. New adventure. ? A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Aug 11, 2019 at 12:20pm PDT Life’s a climb… but the view is great. All of her subsequent posts have all featured similar backgrounds, however, the captions vary between clichés like “New day. New adventure” and “Life’s a climb… but the view is great.” There are some that think the climbing post is a reference to her song “The Climb” from “Hannah Montana: The Movie.” The lyrics from the chorus in “The Climb” are as follows: “There’s always gonna be another mountain, I’m always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be an uphill battle, Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose, Ain’t about how fast I get there, Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side, It’s the climb.” People reported that reps for both Hemsworth and Cyrus have released a statement saying, “Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers.” In addition, the statement said, “They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart. Please respect their process and privacy.” Kelly Ripa says her daughter altered her prom dress without her knowledge 3 Dogs Tragically Die Within Hours Of Playing In Toxic Algae Pond Sarah Hyland ditched the Spanx and let ‘kidney bump’ show in recent appearance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line455
__label__wiki	0.692906	0.692906	White House Correspondents Insider Behind the scenes of one of the most powerful clubs in America. WHC Brunch HHS Secretary Alex Azar Addresses Family Separations at Washington Post Health Event June 21, 2018 By WHC Insider HHS Secretary speaks with Paige Winfield Cunningham at the Washington Post Health 202 Live event The Trump administration policy forcing asylum seekers entering to US to split up with their children has sparked outrage around the world. As part of the Washington Post’s Health 202 Live event, health policy reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham spoke to HHS Secretary Alex Azar about his role in shaping the president’s policies, including immigration and child separation, as well as lowering insurance costs, and Medicare reform on Wednesday, June 20th. On the controversial issue Azar said, “Nobody has ever desired to separate children from their families but, just like you or me, if you are arrested, your kids aren’t going to be with you. If you want to remain with your children, don’t come across the border illegally… Present yourself at a legal border crossing.” Azar added, “Once members of Congress—the one who have actually visited facilities and toured it as opposed to those who are just talking about it—I think have been impressed. We take the mission quite seriously.” Filed Under: DC, Event Coverage, News, News Media, The White House, TV, Uncategorized, Washington Events Gary Cohn Talks Life After the White House, Addresses Peter Navarro Comments at Washington Post Live June 14, 2018 By Tammy Haddad Live now: Gary Cohn sits down w/ @washingtonpost’s @damianpaletta for a wide-ranging interview #PostLive https://t.co/Ak8OZBJpGK — Washington Post Live (@postlive) June 14, 2018 Gary Cohn, the former economic advisor to Donald Trump, spoke with Washington Post White House economic policy reporter Damian Paletta on Thursday, June 14th to discuss the legacy of his tax reform bill, Peter Navarro’s explosive comments at the G7, trade, infrastructure, and what’s next for the former Goldman Sachs CEO. Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan kicked off the discussion saying “Gary Cohn has had a remarkable career and has stepped down from his position at the pinnacle of wall street and government finance to answer the call of government service.” Gary Cohn says that the chance to serve in the White House was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” On his signature achievement at the White House, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, he said, “There was a moment every day where we thought this was going to fail.” .@damianpaletta asks Gary Cohn: Looking back on your time in the White House, what would you change if you could? #PostLive pic.twitter.com/q0vlMVhA9C When asked by Paletta whether or not he thought the bill will eventually be revenue neutral, Cohn answered, saying “I’m going to make a bit on news here: It won’t be revenue neutral,” and suggesting that it would be either positive or negative depending on how the economy performs. Paletta asked Cohn for his response to Peter Navarro’s incendiary comments suggesting there was a “special place in hell” for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by saying, “It was inappropriate and uncalled for. And it’s not his job.” .@damianpaletta asks Gary Cohn about Peter Navarro’s comment suggesting that “there is a special place in hell” for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Cohn calls Navarro’s comments “inappropriate and uncalled for.” pic.twitter.com/n3PvDl4OP3 On his time in the White House alongside fellow advisors Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Cohn said, “Last year was the best year of my life.” When asked if the facts always won out in the Oval Office, Cohn replied, “I may not comment on that!” Paletta asked Cohn if he could see himself coming back to work in this administration in a different role. Cohn said, “I can see myself coming back to Washington,” prompting cheers from the crowd. Other highlights included Cohn thinking his nickname, “Globalist Gary” was “kind of a flattering name,” and suggesting that he knew of some CEOs that would make for great presidents. He also claimed that Trump’s tweets “100 percent” affect investment markets. As for his plans going forward, Cohn plans to spend more time with his family and also that, “At this stage of my life I’d like to go and do something more unique.” Filed Under: DC, Entertainment, Event Coverage, News, News Media, Washington Events Washington Celebrates Bret Baier at Three Days in Moscow Book Party May 16, 2018 By Tammy Haddad Bret Baier’s newest book is already creating buzz. On Monday evening, an A-list of Washington politicos descended on the Marriott Marquis at the invitation of co-hosts David & Carrie Marriott and Ande & Mae Grennan for a reception celebrating Fox News Anchor Bret Baier’s new book, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Union. Bret and Amy Baier were joined by Kellyanne Conway, Attorney-General Jeff Sessions and Mary Sessions, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Hilary Ross, and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. Marriott Executive Chairman Bill Marriott and wife Donna entertained guests alongside their son and daughter-in-law in the hotel’s Liberty Ballroom. Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace mingled with National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow before Baier gave his remarks. He discussed key moments in the book and told previously unheard stories about the Reagan family, including a humorous account of Nancy Reagan saving longtime White House Correspondent Helen Thomas from a flash mob in Moscow. When Secret Service agents formed a protective circle around the First Lady, she spotted Helen in the crowd, pointed to her, and exclaimed, “She’s with us!” The reception kicked-off a two-week national book tour, which concludes just before the author heads to Singapore to cover the much-anticipated U.S.-North Korea summit. Guests included Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Azerbaijani Ambassador Elin & LaLa Suleymanov, Jordanian Ambassador Dina Kawar, Kuwaiti Ambassador Salem & Rima Al-Sabah, Barbara Allbritton, Heather Podesta, Kay Kendall and Jack Davies, Janet Donovan, Willie and Finlay Lewis, and Ryan Williams. Filed Under: DC, Entertainment, Event Coverage, News Media, Uncategorized, Washington Events Tammy Haddad interviews Ronan Farrow for Washington Insider Podcast May 9, 2018 By WHC Insider Ronan Farrow appeared Friday, May 4th at Cafe Milano in an event hosted by Franco Nuschese, Kathy O’Hearn, Hilary Rosen, and Tammy Haddad to discuss his new book War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence and his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal. Tammy Haddad interviewed Ronan during the event as part of the Washington Insider podcast. You can listen and subscribe here. Farrow’s book charts the militarization of diplomacy, and he interviewed every living Secretary of State, including Rex Tillerson in his final days in office, who for the first time expressed regret that he did not fully familiarize himself with the inner workings of the State Department before agreeing to take the job. Ronan Farrow and Franco Nushcese Fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner and New Yorker colleague Jane Mayer joined Ronan for a toast to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting. He spoke with Tammy Haddad about the experience of writing these complex stories, “The stories needed to be bulletproof. They needed to account for every counterargument…I try to tell the stories that have staying power and reach an incredibly high level of seriousness…you owe it to all the parties to interrogate the claims as skeptical and rigorously as possible.” Filed Under: DC, News, News Media, Washington Events Washington Media Women Toast Tina Brown December 15, 2017 By WHC Insider Time Warner’s Carol Melton and Gail MacKinnon from the Motion Picture Association lead a toast to Superstar editor and author Tina Brown at The Jefferson Hotel in Washington DC. Photo courtesy Haddad Media Journalist, entrepreneur and author Tina Brown delighted the crowd gathered at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington Tuesday evening, dishing about her experiences as a magazine editor-in-chief, highlighted in her newest book, The Vanity Fair Diaries. Connie Milstein, Carol Melton, Andrea Mitchell, Hilary Rosen, Gail MacKinnon, Rachel Pearson and Kathy O’Hearn hosted the book party. The biggest applause of the evening came during the Q&A session led by Tammy Haddad, where she was asked her working around men accused of sexually harassing women, including Harvey Weinstein. “The answer to creepy men is to kind of be the boss, right?… [T]he more women in power, the more women who are leading, the more women on that team, the less of these creepy, stalking harassers you’re going to encounter… I’ve been hassled in other ways, in terms of feeling like so many women feel: cut out of the action that I wanted to be in or underestimated or demeaned or whatever. I’ve had a lot of that in my career,” Brown responded. Guests included Chris and Lorraine Wallace, former House member Jane Harman, Mac McLarty, Kevin Baron, Megan Smith, Craig Gordon, John Coale, Martha Slagle, Peter Baca, Lloyd Hand, John Phillips, Linda Douglass, Robin Sproul, and Jordanian Ambassador Dina Kawar. “You’ll all be in my next ‘Diaries,’” she toasted party attendees near the end of the evening. “So watch out!” You can read more about Tina’s book and the event in the Washington Post’s write-up of the celebration here. Brown’s newest book, The Vanity Fair Diaries, was named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, Amazon and The Guardian. It is available in print, Kindle or audiobook on Amazon. Filed Under: Art, Books, DC, Entertainment, Event Coverage, Uncategorized, Washington Events Journalists Express Mixed Feelings On Attending White House Christmas Party December 1, 2017 By Tim Vickey Photo courtesy the White House Following CNN’s announcement they will not attend the annual White House Christmas party for the media, other reporters have expressed mixed responses and reservations over socializing with an administration that often lambastes mainstream journalists as “fake news.” For example, New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi wrote in an email to Politico that: “While I don’t think it’s improper to attend social events with the president per se, I personally am uncomfortable with the idea of being a guest in this White House for a party (if I would not be covering the party), given Donald Trump’s stated threats to the First Amendment and general lack of understanding or interest in its importance. For that reason, my personal feelings are that it sends the wrong message to schmooze under mistletoe while our freedoms are under attack. That said, I don’t judge colleagues who arrive at a different conclusion.” Another White House correspondent, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on the record about this topic, said that he would attend the holiday event. “I do get bothered [by the attacks on the press]. But I don’t view it as our role to engage in a fight with the president. I think that it’s our role to keep doing our jobs reporting the news and not treat it like we’re two warring institutions of American democracy. We don’t need to reciprocate that attitude.” CNN announced earlier this week it would not be accepting the White House invitation, although they would send a reporting team to the event and report on any relevant news that may come out of the party. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded by posting on Twitter that “Christmas comes early!” because of CNN’s decision. Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN. https://t.co/3GeJysIol3 — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) November 29, 2017 The White House Christmas party is held annually, and is normally a casual event where reporters mingle off-the-record with administration officials and staff. Filed Under: Correspondents, DC, Donald Trump, Event Coverage, Free Press, News Media, Press Secretaries, The White House, Washington Events, White House Staff Cafe Milano’s 25th Anniversary Bash November 11, 2017 By Tim Vickey Photo courtesy Haddad Media Cafe Milano, the legendary DC restaurant famous for being the haunt of politicians, dignitaries, celebrities, and the media elite, celebrated 25 years in the spotlight Friday evening with a fantastic fete. Maureen Dowd and Michael Jordan. Photo courtesy Ryan Williams Cheers to 25 years from the Cafe Milano staff! Thank you for 25 years of amazing work. #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/0SU19DzFpz — Cafe Milano (@CafeMilanoDC) November 10, 2017 Scores of politicians, dignitaries and celebrities joined in the celebrations at Café Milano, with the massive gathering shutting down an entire block of Georgetown. Well-wishers and guests throughout the evening include Maureen Dowd, Michael Jordan, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton, Maureen Scalia, Wolf and Lynn Blitzer, Sally Quinn, Mark and Sally Ein, Bob Johnson, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Susan Rice, Betsy Fischer Martin and Jonathan Martin, Buffy Cafritz, Heather Lauer, Vernon Jordan and Kathleen Biden, Ret. Gen. Jim Jones, Raul Fernandez, Hilary Rosen, Kelley McCormick, Tammy Haddad, Jack Evans, Coach Kathy Kemper, Carl Hulse, Anne Brady Perron, Rick Powell, Robyn Bash, Bret and Amy Baier, Steve Clemons, Patrick Steel, Fred Ryan, Kevin Cirilli, Ryan Williams, Howard Fineman, Teresa Davis, Greta Van Susteren and John Coale, Amb. Yousef Al Otaiba, Lyndon Boozer, Dr. Tony Fauci, Tim and Anita McBride, Connie Milstein, Melissa Sowerwine, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Friends of Cafe Milano suprirsed Nuschese with a 13-minute tribute video, including cameos by Hillary Clinton, Greta Van Susteren, Bob Woodward, Ellen Tauscher, Tucker Carlson, Bret Baier, Newt, Sally Quinn, Charlie Rose, Terry McAuliffe, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Norah O’Donnell, Dave Chappelle, and Bo Derek. We are extremely honored to join countless Washington diners and visitors from around the globe in congratulating Café Milano on 25 years of food, friendship, and comfort. Our heartfelt wishes for many, many more! #CafeMilano25 UPDATE: Please check the event coverage from the Washington Post’s Roxanne Roberts! .@CafeMilanoDC’s Franco Nuschese gets ready to kick off tonight’s #CafeMilano25 festivities on the red carpet! pic.twitter.com/TJ3zZwWGsf — White House Insider (@whcinsider) November 10, 2017 Famous restaurant in DC has its 25th anniversary and check out the #tbt pic #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/QF0IkdH1rv — Greta Van Susteren (@greta) November 9, 2017 DC Mayor @MurielBowser reads the city’s proclamation congratulating@CafeMilanoDC on a fantastic 25th anniversary. #CafeMilano25 https://t.co/Owy7aOfWe6 .@CafeMilanoDC opened its doors during my freshman year at #Georgetown and I’ve enjoyed many wonderful meals there over the years. Last night’s party was a blast! #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/8acbLZwwX3 — Heather Lauer (@HeatherLauer) November 11, 2017 .@wolfblitzer arrives for tonight’s celebration at @CafeMilanoDC #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/wsnqWLc3AM Happy 25th #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/zdqOjjiLlI — Omer Er (@OmerEr) November 11, 2017 Getting ready for #cafemilano25 !@haddadmedia @CafeMilanoDC pic.twitter.com/EAeTDqZxVg — Hilary Rosen (@hilaryr) November 10, 2017 With dear friend Franco Nuschese of @CafeMilanoDC #TBT. Congrats on 25 years of success. #CafeMilano25 pic.twitter.com/sswGDPKOOD — Hilary Rosen (@hilaryr) November 9, 2017 Filed Under: Art, DC, Event Coverage, Honors, Uncategorized, Washington Events Throwback Thursday: Café Milano Celebrates 25 Years as DC Institution November 9, 2017 By Tim Vickey Photo courtesy Cafe Milano Washington’s landmark eatery Café Milano is celebrating 25 years as an oasis for politicians, dignitaries, celebrities and the media. Franco Nuschese first opened his doors welcoming Washington to dine at Café Milano on November 3, 1992 — the same day Bill Clinton was first elected President of the United States. Since that time, both Bill and Hillary Clinton have regularly visited the landmark restaurant, even hosting the former Secretary of State’s 70th birthday earlier this year. Café Milano serves over 3,750 authentic Italian meals every month, going through 50 pounds of tomatoes and 40 pounds of pasta every single day. Their fabulous dishes are pure delights using fresh, authentic ingredients largely hand-crafted and flown in multiple times a week from local producers in Italy. The restaurant’s tomatoes are hand-bottled in glass jars in a small farm located in the Campania region, while their olive oil is produced in Tuscany with antique cold-press techniques. The delicate burrata cheese is imported twice weekly from Puglia, where the butter-like delight was born. Even the restaurant’s fantastic wines are brought in directly from Italy, crafted in both the southern Campania and central Toscana regions. Restaurant owner Franco Nuschese shows incredible pride in his food, focusing on fresh and simple dishes that create smells and tastes similar to those from his home on the Amalfi Coast. One of Nuschese’s favorite meals is a simple pasta al Pomodoro, a pasta with tomatoes, olive oil and fresh basil. Scores of politicians, dignitaries and celebrities have dined at Café Milano over the past quarter century, including Michael Jordan, Alex Ovechkin, Yogi Berra, Danny DeVito, Sophia Loren, Quincy Jones, Catherine Zeta Jones, Bradley Cooper, Jon Voight, Eva Longoria, Morgan Freeman, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Renee Zellweger, John Kerry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Matthews, Nancy Pelosi, Colin Powell, Valerie Jarrett, Newt Gingrich, Vice President Joe and Dr. Jill Biden, and Wolf Blitzer. The restaurant also has served its delicious cuisine to the enjoyment of two popes – Benedict XVI when visiting the Washington, and Francis at the Vatican. We are extremely honored and proud to join countless Washington diners and visitors from around the globe in congratulating Café Milano on 25 years of food, friendship, and comfort. Our heartfelt wishes the upcoming quarter century are as fantastic and memorable as the past. Friends of Franco Nuschese put together a surprise tribute video to celebrate 25 Years of Cafe Milano! Filed Under: Art, DC, Honors, Uncategorized, Washington Events, Washington Insider AXIOS’S MIKE ALLEN Wins the Facebook Booking War: Lands Sheryl Sandberg October 10, 2017 By Tim Vickey Mike Allen, Tammy Haddad and Daniel Lippman. Photo courtesy Haddad Media. Mike Allen scored one of the most significant interviews of the cycle, announcing this morning Axios will host a series of exclusive interviews with notable influencers at Facebook. Starting the series this Thursday, Allen will talk with COO Sheryl Sandberg. You can watch the interview on Axios’ Facebook page or Axios.com. Throughout the series, Axios editors and reporters will delve into important aspects and dimensions with the social media giant — including technology, politics, economics and privacy. Axios notes it will strive to focus on the collision of these topics, and will control both the questions asked and the coverage itself. Interviews will be on-the-record, and available on Axios’s Facebook page as a Facebook Live video, as well as on Axios’ website itself. Facebook will also make the interviews reachable through their Hard Questions blog, which explores areas facing their global community. Filed Under: Correspondents, Free Press, Media Strategy, News, Washington Events Halcyon Dialogue and AAAS Partner for Robotics Showcase September 29, 2017 By Tim Vickey Photo courtesy Halcyon. Georgetown startup incubator Halcyon, in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), hosted a VIP event Thursday, September 28th to celebrate and discuss innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence. The event, led by industry experts, congressional leaders, technology companies, policymakers and media weighed in on the opportunities that this new technology will provide in the near future. Speakers at the event included Axios Science Editor Alison Snyder, The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons, AAAS CEO Dr. Rush Holt, former White House CTO Megan Smith, Roomba inventor Helen Greiner, Microsoft’s Fred Humphries, and Congressman Will Hurd. Also notable, Hitachi’s EMIEW3 robot made it’s U.S. debut at the discussion, accompanied by newly-crowned Miss America, Cara Mund. .@MissAmerica and Halcyon’s CEO @goodallkate with #EMIEW3 at #HalcyonRobot 👍👍 pic.twitter.com/ni3Orf1Ez3 — Hitachi U.S.A (@Hitachi_US) September 28, 2017 Emerging Robotics Technology: Living with Robots In the first panel of the Halcyon Dialogue Robotics Showcase, “Emerging Robotics Technology: Living with Robots,” Axios Science Editor Alison Snyder dove into current robotics technology and exciting future trends. Screen grab courtesy Halcyon. “We’re going to soon have fully autonomous vehicles, package delivery drones, robot caregivers,” Snyder said launching into the first panel discussion. “And so the question I think is: there’s rapid progress in artificial intelligence and robotics that makes it sort of easy to imagine in this world where they’re amongst us and interacting among us every day. But how close are we to that vision?… And are we fully ready to relinquish that control?” The panel also featured iRobot Corporation’s co-founder and CTO of CyPhy Works Helen Greiner, a revolutionary robotics entrepreneur who has been on the cutting edge of robotics and AI since she was 11 years old. Greiner discussed how the robotics industry and development were breaking into the mainstream American economy affecting millions of people every day, along with the critical funding and investments that allow for future development starting to really step into this arena. “We’ve come a huge way. There’s lots of robots out there. But we’re not R2-D2 yet… There’s so much more that robots and drones can do and I’m inspired to be part of the next ones as well,” Greiner explained. “It does surprise me there aren’t many more. It’s driven by not just the technology and other fields… but it also is coming from the investment, having… a successful acquisition drives investment. Now you see… billions of dollars going into robot startups, which is another signal how we’re going to get through those technological and regulatory and policy hurdles.” Also on stage in the second panel, former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, who is currently CEO and founder of the startup shift7. “The thing that i also love is it’s the beginning of these tools democratizing. So the ability for anyone… to get ahold of some of these tools and actually make their own stuff is also really promising,” Smith said. “To Dr. Kuno’s creativity, the more we have more of us engaged in making and creating, this technology is better. Because we don’t want just one group of people making all the stuff for everybody else. We want everyone thinking about what they’re passionate about solving in the world and how might they apply whatever tools are available including robotics and AI to solve that problem.” Policy Opportunities in the Robotics Age The second discussion, titled “Policy Opportunities in the Robotics Age,” discussed ethical and policy implications of this emerging and evolving field, as well as the many ways that developments in these areas influence developments in robotics, whether federal and state regulations would help nurture the future of robotics or build barriers to success. Moderated by Washington editor-at-large at The Atlantic Steve Clemons, top experts on robotics and AI policy discussed ways to achieve public trust and legislative action without stifling innovation. Clemons started out talking about the challenges between public policy advocates and technology development thinking and working on completely different levels of thought. “I was at a dinner with Larry Page from Google and a bunch of other high tech other types,” Clemons said. “And the topic of conversation was the end of death. They’re trying to end death as we know it. And a couple Washington people said ‘oh my gosh, what would happen to entitlements? It would go through the roof.’” Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), a former undercover CIA officer and senior cybersecurity advisor, discussed some of the challenges with robotics in public policy. Hurd emphasized his thoughts that government’s role largely should be to allow the industry to thrive, innovate and grow smartly. “Ultimately,” said Hurd, “our role is to stay out of the way of innovation and don’t stifle it. The technological change we’re going to see in the next 20 years is going to make the last 20 years look really insignificant. And one of the problems you have when you look at legislators or regulators not understanding where technology is going, …people are afraid of change. We have to embrace it. And I think where Congress should be having this conversation is how do you facility industry having a conversation on a code of ethics when it comes to artificial intelligence? What are some of the elements in the federal government that could benefit from artificial intelligence?… Congress can play a role in our oversight function in making sure our various agencies are integrating that technology in the way that it should.” Rounding out the second panel was Fred Humphres, corporate vice president for U.S. government affairs at Microsoft, who talked about the corporate responsibility of technology firms to educate, inform public policy makers understand where robotics and AI development is heading, and help them integrate these developments into our public lives smartly, without stifling innovation. “We have a responsibility to make sure we’re getting up there and educating Members [of Congress] on the different issues. Because it’s complex,” Humphres agreed. “[T]here are some challenges up on Capitol Hill… learning this complex area. So we have a responsibility as companies, we need to get up there and be honest brokers in advocacy and not spinning and not just positioning for our products. Because when you think of AI, it’s complex. Robotics, it’s complex. It’s not black and white, it’s very nuanced. And there’s a lot of anxiety about it.” Robot Demos Throughout the event, several robot demonstrations were on display, including Hitachi’s U.S. debut of their EMIEW3 robot, showing how it can offer services in a variety of scenarios. Meet #EMIEW3, our customer & guidance service robot at @HalcyonInspires#Robotics Showcase 9/28-9/29! #HalcyonRobotpic.twitter.com/J04fR7lodY Additionally, a display from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab offered videos and artifacts from their robotics / AI lab. Senior robotics engineer Dr. Edward W. Tunstel of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, discussed how those working in both technological development and public policy are optimistic about the future. “Robotics has a lot of different meanings to a lot of different people,” Tunstel said. “You’ve got a segment of our society that is in some ways afraid, apprehensive. We’ve certainly got a number of movies that might inject some of those thoughts. In many cases one will find through dialogs like this that it’s not that scary at all.” Microsoft provided access to their Perceptive Pixel (PPI) 55” Touch Device, also known as the Magic Wall. Participants and guests alike were all welcomed and encouraged to answer questions on robotics to be shared with the public. .@HalcyonInspires#halcyonrobot@Microsoft magic wall watch at 1:30 https://t.co/zD1wJIWzaEpic.twitter.com/hvNo7bypPY — Tammy Haddad (@haddadmedia) September 28, 2017 The event was held at Halcyon’s headquarters in Washington, DC and was hosted alongside partners Axios, Science Robotics (AAAS) and Washington Ideas. Sponsors for the discussion included Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Microsoft, Honeywell, X, and Daikin. You can watch the full livestream of the Halcyon Discussion online here. Filed Under: DC, Event Coverage, News, Uncategorized, Washington Events About White House Correspondents Insider Exploring “behind the scenes” of the most powerful reporters and editors in the world, the Washington press corps. We track the White House Correspondents’ weekend and all the activities around it from journalists and media companies to the White House and politicos. Tammy Haddad is Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of WHC Insider and she hosts the Washington Insider podcast. White House Correspondents Insider is not affiliated with or approved by the White House Correspondents Association which is a registered trademark of the WHCA. 2020 WHC Weekend Countdown Garden Brunch 2019 Search WHCInsider Washington Insider Podcast GANG of 600: Washington’s top power players who influence politics, policy, journalism and technology Tweets from https://twitter.com/whcinsider/gang-of-600 Copyright © White House Correspondents Insider	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line456
__label__wiki	0.56834	0.56834	Sign up here to edit wiki Michael Kot o‎ > ‎10‎ > ‎ Bizarre Insights From Big Data By Quentin Hardy March 28, 2012 8:17 pm March 28, 2012 8:17 pm Sometimes unexpected data sources offer big insights. On Sunday, The New York Times ran my article about Gilad Elbaz, who made a fortune helping Google map the Internet. He is now building a company called Factual, which he hopes will be one of the world’s largest and most accurate repositories of facts. The idea is to have a lot of data of all kinds on hand, because sometimes unexpected combinations of information can lead to valuable insights. For example, if you buy a used car, your best bet is an orange one. Data scientists at Kaggle, a pattern recognition start-up in which Mr. Elbaz has invested, have matched previously separate data sets on buyers, colors and after-purchase problems. They figured out that if a car’s original owner chose an odd color, the car was most likely a means of self-expression. That self-identification raises the odds that the owner cared more than usual for the vehicle. In a similar way, says the Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom, the best way to tell if a person is likely to make their flight is if he or she has preordered a vegetarian meal. The psychology of making that trip personal, by knowing your meal is on it, makes you more likely to get to the plane on time. One more piece of nonobvious information from Kaggle: Smart specialists do not always win. “Every company is bending over backwards to hire a pedigreed Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. to unlock their data,” Mr. Goldbloom says. “The physicists and electrical engineers are better at it a lot of the time. They are grounded in real things, and they don’t obsess over which regression model they should use.” Indeed, a Singaporean actuary is currently leading a Kaggle competition to predict biological responses from molecular information. Researchers at a San Francisco nonprofit called the Global Virus Forecasting Initiative look at things like blogs and traditional news outlets for clues to disease outbreaks. In the future, the founders say, information from mobile phones might prove useful. A few years ago I was speaking with the founder of an African mobile phone company, called CellTel. He told me that his company realized that they could predict the location of impending massacres in the Congo, because there were spikes in the sale of prepaid phone cards. At first the company researchers thought that this was because there were more calls around the planning or fleeing of the massacre. In fact, the reason was that the prepaid cards were denominated in dollars, not the local currency. People, sensing impending chaos, wanted to have something valuable they could carry with them that was protected against local inflation. We will probably see more strange corollaries start to pop up, as more behavior is stored in online databases. Here are some other unusual insights, courtesy of Kaggle: – Traffic jams tend to propagate forward as well as backward. There is still no idea why this should be true. – In the Eurovision Song Contest, it is a pretty safe bet that Israel will vote disproportionately for Belarus. There was a mass migration from that area under the Soviet Union, and its people still apparently get sentimental for home. – If you watch a movie that ends in a number, you will probably think less of it than if it had a different title. Numbers usually indicate sequels, and most sequels are bad. – You can generally predict the quality of online photos by the words in their captions. Higher-rated photos had the words Peru, Cambodia, Michigan, tombs, trails and boats. The photo captions most likely to signify an uninspiring photo are San Jose, mommy, graduation and C.E.O. On second thought, sometimes the data will yield insights that are not so surprising. Sorry, San Jose. Subpages (1): c	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line457
__label__cc	0.712602	0.287398	Deacons Calendar IMPACT Missions Program IMPACT 2017 Peru Updates and Photos Aisquith Internet Ministries IMPACT Trip Donations Form Silent Auction Donations Terms of Use and Privacy Policies Home » Audio Sermons Sharing the Gospel (Galatians 6:6-10) Robert E. Bell, 11/21/2004 Part of the - series, presented at a Sunday Morning service Tags: Giving http://www.aisquith.org/audio-sermons/?show&file_name=11212004.MP3 Download « By Grace None The Triumph of a Just Cause » 6Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. (KJV) About Robert E. Bell: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bob grew up in Rhode Island where his father pastored the same church for almost 50 years. The oldest of five sons, Bob attended Philadelphia College of Bible and graduated with a B.S. degree in Bible and Christian Education in 1973. He earned his M.A. in Christian Ministry from Wheaton College Graduate School in 1974. After marrying, Bob and his wife Melody moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first full-time church ministry was at Westminster Presbyterian Church where he served as the assistant-to-the-pastor and later as an elder. Daughter Alison arrived in July 1977 and son Andrew in March of 1981. In August of 1981 the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri where Bob enrolled in Covenant Theological Seminary and graduated with his M.Div. degree in 1984. While in seminary he served as the Church Administrator while their church was without a pastor and then worked as an Admissions Counselor for the Seminary. Their son Aaron was born soon after graduation. Bob has since served churches in Ruston, Louisiana and St. Peters, Missouri. He has been the pastor of Aisquith since December 1994. His two oldest children are married and live in the Baltimore area. He and Melody have seven grandchildren. 7515 Harford Rd. Latest Sermon & Worship Bulletin Transforming Love (Hosea 3:1-5) by Robert E. Bell on 01/19/2020. O. T. Commentary - Judges 19:16-30 (Judges 19:16-30) by Robert E. Bell on 01/19/2020. The National Christian Choir’s 2nd Edition Congregational Meeting & Coffee Hour Worship Service is cancelled Impact 2018 Reports are available! Online Silent Auction	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line458
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__label__wiki	0.809237	0.809237	Bhatkallys.com News portal from Coastal Karnataka About Bhatkallys About Bhatkal About Nawayath Bhatkal Community News Juma Khutbat Dars-E-Quran Hamd-O-Naat Kids Rhyme Naity Kalam Tanz-O-Mazah Urdu Kalam Bhatkal Heritage Bhatkal Port Jali Beach Streets of Bhatkal Abul Hasan Academy Shams School Moulana Abul Hassan Nadvi Books Naity Books Hamd O Naat Bhatkal Community Naity Shairy Tanz O Mazah Urdu Speeches Home / World / Indian H1B visa holders rally outside White House demanding immigration law reforms Indian H1B visa holders rally outside White House demanding immigration law reforms A group of mostly Indians on H1B visas held a rally outside the White House on Sunday afternoon, demanding immigration law reforms to benefit those in the country legally. The rally, organized by the Republican Hindu Coalition (RHC), which describes itself as an organization that seeks to provide a voice for the Hindu American community, involved some 200-300 people, as per The Hindu’s estimates. Among the demands of the group was that the Green Card backlog be cleared with a period of 1-5 years. The wait time, at present, can run into decades for employment based Green Cards for Indians. The group is also pushing for legal childhood arrivals (LCAs) to receive any benefits that individuals brought illegally to the U.S. as minors (a group often referred to as “Dreamers”) might receive. Nearly 700,000 such individuals have been protected by a Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Trump administration has sought to end this program, and the issue is currently in court. The status of Dreamers, has, in parallel, also been part of the discussions to re-open parts of the federal government following the shutdown and to keep it open past February 15. “Age 21 is a fear factor for H1B parents whose kids are on a H4,” said Jyotsna Sharma, a tech worker and TV host and one of those leading the rally on Sunday. H1B visa holders, whose children and spouses get H4-dependent visas, are asking that H4 children be given Green Cards straight away, so they can remain in the U.S. after they turn 21 without having to switch to another visa category, such as a student visa or an H1B visa or having to self-deport. “Their future should not be held at stake, they are the future citizens of the world , they have done everything right,” she added. Placards at Sunday’s rally included ones that read, “DALCA [DACA for LCAs] kids deserve better”, “Stop Abusing Legal Immigrants” and “We are Not Displacing American Jobs”. One placard even said $25 billion could be raised from Green Card fees to build U.S. President’s controversial border wall. “What we are suggesting to them [lawmakers and the Trump administration] is to include DALCA in DACA. We have nothing against DACA, that’s fine, but just because you came here legally you should not be prohibited from DACA benefits,” Shalabh Kumar, founder of RHC and donor to Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, said. “These are some of the brightest kids, they should not be thrown out of the country when they become 21,” Mr. Kumar said. “Being on an H4 means, if I cannot obtain a Green Card by the time I turn 21, I will be kicked out of the country…In addition to being separated from my family, I will be made to feel like an outcast or a misfit, in a country that I grew up in for my whole life [sic],” Akshita, a high-school student, told the assembled crowd over a megaphone. Country caps for Green Card allotments The third demand of those rallying was to remove the country caps for Green Card allotments. Currently no country may be allocated more than 7% (around 9,800) of the total number of Green Cards granted each year. India, which sends a relatively large number of skilled workers to the U.S. each year – over 70% of all H1B visas in fiscal year 2018 went to Indians – inevitably uses up all the Green Cards allocated to it. China, Vietnam and the Philippines are other examples, though the excess demand for immigrant visas is far less in these countries. Just under 307,000 Indians (compared to some 67,000 Chinese citizens) were waiting for Green Cards in May 2018, according to US Citizenship and Information Services (USCIS) data. These numbers do not include dependent spouses and children whose Green Cards, when granted, also count against the overall cap. In 2017, H.R. 392, a bill introduced in the 115th Congress, sought to end the per country cap. Several groups including the American Hospital Association, National Iranian American Council and Canadian Bar Association had raised objections to this, concerned that it would crowd out applications from other countries. Nevertheless, similar bills have been introduced in the 116th Congress this year. Democratic Senator Kamala Harris and Republican Senator Mike Lee introduced the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 which will eliminate country caps for employment-based Green Cards and increase the caps from 7% to 15% for family-based Green Cards. A similar bill has been introduced by Zoe Lofgren, a Representative from California in the House of Representatives. Not far away from the Sunday’s rally was another group – a handful of American tech workers protesting against the rally, carrying placards that read, “U.S Tech Workers, your companies think you are expensive, undeserving and expendable.” At least one of them was from an organization called Progressives for Immigration Reform, a non-profit that seeks to “educate the public on the unintended consequences of mass migration”. The struggle for H1B workers and families may go on for a while yet. Hours before Sunday’s H1B rally, news had broken that the discussions between lawmakers and the President to avert another shutdown had broken down over disagreements over border security funding. 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__label__wiki	0.886225	0.886225	man&wood iphone x wooden case - sabbia SKU: EN-B10388 EE has also revealed how much it'll charge for the new Apple devices. The 16GB iPhone 6S will be £50 upfront on a two-year, £50 per month contract with 4GB of data. EE will waive the upfront charge for existing customers. The 6S Plus is £55 per month, with £70 upfront or £50 for existing customers. More details are available at EE's site. Vodafone, O2 and Virgin Media have all confirmed they'll be stocking the phone, although none of them have yet announced their pricing. Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World have also said they'll stock the phone in their high street stores. We'll update this article when we hear more prices from the other networks. So what do you get for such a large amount of money? The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus remains much the same in terms of design, except for the addition of a pink option, but there are some changes under the hood to take note of, 3D Touch -- the new name given to Force Touch, which we've seen on man&wood iphone x wooden case - sabbia the Apple Watch -- lets you press hard on the screen to perform different tasks than simply tapping an icon, Think of it as right-clicking on a desktop PC, The camera has been given a boost to 12 megapixels, which Apple reckons will give even better image quality, It also shoots video in 4K resolution, The front camera is now a 5-megapixel affair, An upgraded processor -- the A9 chip -- is inside, which Apple promises will provide more grunt for gaming.. At its launch event in San Francisco, Apple also took the wraps off a new larger iPad Pro, with a 12.9-inch high-resolution display, a physical keyboard attachment and a stylus. It will be on sale in the UK in November, with prices yet to be announced, but likely to start at around £549. A new version of Apple TV, with Siri-enabled voice search and a new remote with a touch panel was also shown off. You'll find that on sale in October, again with UK prices yet to be announced, but expected to start from around £100. See man&wood iphone x wooden case - sabbia all of Apple's launch news, Update Monday 14 September: Added Three and EE pricing, Apple's new phones can be pre-ordered from 12 September and will cost no more than their predecessors did, Apple has taken the wraps off its latest crop of super phones, the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus, Both phones will be available to preorder on 12 September and available to buy directly from Apple in the UK on 25 September, They keep the same prices as the existing 6 and 6 Plus -- starting at £539 for the 16GB 6S and £619 for the 16GB 6S Plus.. The new program will allow customers to upgrade to a new iPhone every year for a monthly fee, the company announced at its event in San Francisco on Wednesday. This is the first time that Apple has offered a device upgrade program. "You get a new iPhone every year; you choose your carrier; it's an unlocked phone," said Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple. "It starts at just $32 a month. It's a 24-month installment, but you can get a new iPhone every single year."The new program, which was only announced for the US as yet, comes as wireless operators are moving away from traditional two-year contracts and the device subsidies that come with those plans, and instead are requiring customers to pay full price for devices. T-Mobile was the first major US carrier to abandon contracts more than two years ago. Verizon recently announced it is doing away with the two-year contract for new customers. AT&T and Sprint still offer the option to subscribe to a two-year contract, but they also offer device financing and leasing programs. cheap ballet flats outlet online ballet flats reddit black vintage used, distressed pointe shoes, balerina shoes, ballet shoes, shabby chic, brocante, boudoir style, french chic, gu truck art ballet flats (khussa) tiny sequin - starlight malibu blue ballet slipper flats shoes iphone x case ebay iphone screen protector optus harry in blue suit iphone case olixar xduo iphone 8 case - carbon fibre metallic grey reviews winter wolf iphone case iphone xs / x rose gold karat case Copyright © 2020 www.balloonsworldstore.it. All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line473
__label__cc	0.61618	0.38382	Civil Liberties / International Affairs / Miscellaneous by Brian · 20 May, 2005 According to an article by Jonathan Green in the Financial Times’s excellent weekend magazine, there’s a sign over the entrance to Camp Delta, the American ‘detention’ centre for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, that reads: “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’. Can the irony in this be intentional? Were those who ordered this sign displayed really unconscious of its terrible echo: ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’? O Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name! [1] Letters in the newspapers I wish I had written: In the Guardian of 19 May 05, Richard Newson of Whitton, Middlesex, pointed out that it’s not identity cards as such that are objectionable: it’s the huge computer data-base supporting them, with files on every one of us “designed to allow the state to observe and log almost everything we do”, that’s open to the most fervent objection. Knowledge is power, and such immense power in the hands of the state is certain to be abused sooner or later, if not by this government then by some future régime even less deserving of trust. Apart from the unconscionable snooping involved, how much confidence can we have that the information held on these secret files will be accurate, or capable of being amended if not? Or that the giant computer system, (under-)estimated already to cost £5.5 billion, will work at all, given the farcical record of most government computer systems? Perhaps, though, the best hope for the protection of our privacy will depend on the system not working. From the waspish Guardian ‘Diary’ column of 19 May: ”Had we not ceased dwelling on New Labour ironies in about 1999, we may have found ourselves vaguely confused by the PM’s latest obsession with respect.” ”Having contacted a notable transport expert to pick his brains about rail privatisation, Andrew [Adonis] suggested they discussed it over dinner at Shepherds…” ”Were this not torture enough, … the real hokey cokey began with the arrival of the bill.” (My emphasis.) A session on the conditional and subjunctive moods of English verbs would seem to be indicated. (OK, you could just about make a case for the last one.) It’s pleasant to be able to recommend an unpretentious, thoroughly enjoyable, undemanding film: A Good Woman, based fairly closely on Oscar Wilde’s comedy-drama Lady Windermere’s Fan, transposed to the Amalfi coast in Italy and the characters transformed into Americans (thus Mrs, not Lady, Windermere). That might suggest the dumbing-down or sentimentalising of a classic, but the director, Mike Barker, avoids either temptation. The film is beautiful to look at, both for its Italian location and some splendid interiors. And if that’s not enough to tempt you to go and see it, bear in mind that it stars that excellent actress Holly Hunt, and that ubiquitous, gorgeous young woman Scarlett Johansson. Tom Wilkinson is another genuine attraction. No violence, no sex, no nudity – but in spite of those shortcomings, excellent entertainment (and plenty of delightful, if already familiar, Wildeisms). Few television programmes have been as relentlessly and enthusiastically plugged in advance by the BBC as the new political satire series, The Thick of It, which began with the first of three half-hour slots on BBC4 (yes, there is a BBC4) on 19 May. So one wondered whether it would live up to the expectations aroused, not only by the BBC’s trailings but also by the many previews in the national press. Happily, it satisfied expectations handsomely: funny, scathing, close to the bone, and convincingly acted. Comparisons with the brilliant Yes Minister, whose immense influence I have argued elsewhere has done great harm, are of course inevitable, and few would claim that The Thick of It is destined to become such an opinion-forming classic. But its commentary on the way Downing Street and Whitehall work (if that’s the right word for what happens), and on the treatment of ministers by special advisers, spin doctors and prime ministerial hatchet-men, seems just as harshly revealing as anything in the more genteel Butler Report. Two interesting points about it: first, the programme’s political adviser is Martin Sixsmith, the former journalist turned government information officer, who was at the centre of the immense row involving Stephen Byers and Jo Moore in February 2002 that resulted ultimately in the sackings or resignations of all three – so Sixsmith will have been an adviser who knew what he was talking about; and secondly, The Thick of It is currently going out on BBC4, a channel available only to digital television viewers, although it will later also be broadcast on the BBC’s thinking man’s terrestrial channel, BBC2. Now I wonder what the BBC meant by doing it like that (to adapt the famous remark probably made by, probably, Metternich, about the death of Talleyrand, or by Talleyrand about the death of the Turkish ambassador, or – oh, never mind)? [1] O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom! – Mme Roland, before her execution on the guillotine, November 8, 1793 Mme Roland: O Liberty…! http://www.barder.com/brian/ Urban Chick says: 7 June, 2005 at 10:25 pm oooh yes, i LOVED ‘the thick of it’ – like you, have some previous experience of this environment and found it spookily accurate in many respects giggled when i saw martin sixsmith was a script editor – he he From Peter Harvey. < < A session on the conditional and subjunctive moods of English verbs would seem to be indicated. (OK, you could just about make a case for the last one.) >> My comments are below, numbered as the examples. 1) “Had we not ceased dwelling on New Labour ironies in about 1999, we may have found ourselves vaguely confused by the PMâ€™s latest obsession with respect.” 2) “Having contacted a notable transport expert to pick his brains about rail privatisation, Andrew [Adonis] suggested they discussed it over dinner at Shepherds…” 3) “Were this not torture enough, … the real hokey cokey began with the arrival of the bill.” 1) It really isn’t difficult to tell the grammatical present from the past and professional writers ought to be able to do so. The writer would certainly have written ‘would have found’ rather than ‘will have found’, so why ‘may have’ rather than ‘might have’? The answer to that question is presumably that it is not a preference; almost certainly the writer sees no difference between the two. 2) You are implying that it should be ‘discuss’. Yes it should, but the English subjunctive mood is notorious for its shadowy, or perhaps occasional, existence. It has lost its inflections to the extent that it is almost impossible to use effectively, at least in sentences such as the one quoted. When I compare English with the highly-inflected nature of Spanish verbs (which seem to have superfluity of subjunctive forms) I appreciate the problem. The simple answer is to use a modal auxiliary verb to make the subjunctive mood: ‘â€¦suggested they should / might discuss itâ€¦’ The confusion arises, I think, from the identical form of the finite form and the infinitive form ‘discuss’, which is a consequence of the loss of inflections that I have mentioned, compounded by a mistaken understanding of the sequence of tenses: ‘He said they discussed it,’ is perfectly correct. 3) I see no problem with this, as quoted elliptically. 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__label__cc	0.610469	0.389531	Blue Jasmine (2013) Dir. Woody Allen Jasmine Francis (Cate Blanchett) is depressed. She's a long way from the world of wealth and privilege she enjoyed as the wife of Hal Francis (Alec Baldwin), a New York financial scion whose crooked dealings land him in jail. She's lost her money and most of her possessions to the Feds. She'd lost Hal to his philandering during their marriage and loses him permanently when he hangs himself in prison. And, in her mind, she's lost her dignity the day she moves in with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) and her two young boys in their working-class San Francisco flat. You can see the trainwreck coming from the opening scene, as Jasmine unloads the detailed shambles of her life to a stranger on an airplane in the same chatty tone she used to reserve for her tony Manhattan brunch dates. Blue Jasmine could have been just another Woody Allen fish-out-of-water dramedy about a suffering intellectual. Instead, Allen creates a character of fascinating complexity in Jasmine, helped in large part by Blanchett's tour de force performance. Jasmine initially engenders a sort of face-palming pity as we watch her pretentious bubble burst by the setbacks of day to day life as a vulgar, clock-punching plebeian. Then, as her story is fleshed out by flashbacks to her pampered past, we see her self-delusion in context. Her patrician facade masks a deep pain that's visible in the taut lines of her face, as well as a simmering resentment hidden in the breaths she takes before delivering her condescending remarks. As such, Blanchett delivers one of the more subtle onscreen representations of mental illness. It's assumed by the other characters to be a symptom of her previous lifestyle, not a pattern of avoidance behavior cultivated over many years of "looking the other way." Blanchett's performance almost feels too big for the movie it's in. Allen tries to parallel Jasmine's troubles in Ginger's own problems with men, revolving around the trifecta of her doltish boyfriend (Bobby Cannavale), an awkwardly charming new suitor (Louis C.K.), and her prideful ex-husband (Andrew Dice Clay). The fact that the subplot doesn't play out quite as you'd expect - in addition to the melancholy tone of Jasmine's story - invites the "Serious Woody" label upon the film. That said, even Serious Woody enjoys plot contrivances and a general sense of flakiness that sometimes undercuts Blanchett's tremendous work: a scene where Jasmine repels the sexual advances of a creepy dentist (Michael Stuhlbarg) is played for ill-advised, uncomfortable laughs. Still, Blue Jasmine is not unlike Francis Ha in its honest and mostly sympathetic portrait of a conventionally "difficult" female, torn apart by a world that won't acknowledge a woman's right to be as much of a troubled fuckup as the somesuch men making her life even harder. Posted by Eric Ambler at 3:45 PM Labels: Blue Jasmine, reviews, Woody Allen Follow @AmblerAmblog Blue Caprice Hell Baby	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line479
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Global Mıce Sektörü Ace Of M.I.C.E... 22-24 Ocak 2020 tarihlerinde İstanbul Kongre Merkezinde kongre, toplantı ve etkinlik sektörü profesyonelleri ACE of MICE kapsamında 7. Kez bir araya geliyor. Kanserde Öncü Türk Bilim İnsanları... 14-17 Kasım 2019’da Antalya’da, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Samur anısına düzenlenen Onkolojide İz Bırakanlar Zirvesi’nde dünyanın dört bir yanından kanser alanında öncü çalışmalara imza atmış Türk Bilim İnsanları bir araya geliyor. Antalya Kongre Bürosu Yönetim Kuru... Antalya Kongre Bürosu Yönetim Kurulu Toplantısı’na katılan ATSO ve Antalya Kongre Bürosu Başkanı Davut Çetin, Antalya’ya yeni açılan Nest Kongre ve Fuar Merkezi’nin kent için büyük bir kazanım olduğuna dikkat çekti. Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort & SPA... Antalya Kongre Bürosu üyesi Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort &SPA, World Travel Awards 2019 Avrupa Seramonisi kapsamında üç (3) farklı kategoride ödüle layık görüldü. Mirage Park Resort Otel ‘Glutensiz... Antalya Kemer’de bulunan beş yıldızlı Mirage Park Resort Otel, Türkiye’de bir ilke imza atarak hayata geçirdiği Sağlık Bakanlığı Onaylı Glutensiz Mutfak Projesi, ‘Glutensiz Mutfak Hizmet Uygunluk Belgesi’ aldı. Achievement Award Goes to the Chai... The Chairwoman of Antalya Publicity Foundation (ATAV) Yeliz Gül Ege has received ACE of M.I.C.E. Awards 2019 Achievement Award within the scope of ACE of M.I.C.E Awards 2019, which is recognized as the Oscar of M.I.C.E. industry. Türkan Şoray Kültür Merkezi ACB üy... Antalya Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası (ATSO) himayesinde Antalya Tanıtım Vakfı (ATAV) çatısı altında yer alan Antalya Kongre Bürosu'na (ACB) üye olan Türkan Şoray Kültür Merkezi'ne, ACB plaketi verildi. Antalya Convention Bureau attended... Antalya Convention Bureau had 300sq mt stand together with its members and potential members. AquaMICE – member of Antalya Conve... AquaMICE – member of Antalya Convention Bureau - participated in MCE Central and Eastern Europe which was organised by Europe Congress for the 9th year in Prague between the dates of 17-19 February. Outcomes of the ICCA Mediterranean... Set in sunny Antalya, overlooking the Mediterranean sea, the ICCA Mediterranean chapter's annual meeting took place during February 17th -19th. Antalya is hosting almost 75 perce... Antalya Promotion Foundation has been working day and night to promote and market Antalya in the very best way. We spoke with their president Yeliz Gül Ege on MICE industry and the destination. Canada Pearson International Airpo... 23-million people will travel through the airport on the way to their destinations. Can a chair become a bridge betwee... Take Your Seat’s photographic expedition to Antalya discovers that one chair can. "The Ministry of Culture and Touri... The Antalya Convention Bureau took place at one of the most prestigious fairs of the MICE sector, the IBTM World Fair. Mausoleum of first woman mayor une... The mausoleum of Plancia Magna, a figure believed to have been the first-ever female mayor and a name frequently mentioned on the inscriptions of Antalya's ancient city of Perge, is currently being unearthed Turkey sees 30 percent rise in num... The number of tourists visiting Turkey in the first half of 2018 surged 30 percent year-on-year, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister said on July 27. Turkey’s hotel room revenues incre... The revenue per available room in Turkey’s hotels rose significantly in June as the country’s tourism sector has been enjoying a considerable rebound, data from a leading sector association has shown. 'We have become guardians': Turkey... Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal moved into the forests of Antalya to get away from it all. They wanted a natural, peaceful life free of capitalism, consumer culture, social media, the internet, even electricity. Fate had other plans. Discovering the wonders of Yivli M... Many local and foreign tourists every year visit eight-century-old Yivli Minare Mosque, the Alaaddin Mosque, for its architecture. Built by Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I, the mosque is one of the most visited historical monuments in Antalya province. LYCIAN WAY & JEJU OLLE FRIENDSHIP ... The Culture Routes Society organized “Friendship Trails Event” on June 15-16th at Demre with the participation of South Korean group of seven representatives from Jeju Olle Trail including the founder Myung Sook and Jeju Environment Conservation Bureau representatives Kang Myeng-gyun and Lee Kyung-a. Paths for cultural fraternity betw... Located on South Korea's Jeju island, the 400 kilometer-long Jeju Olle Trail is probably the country's most popular hiking trail, with more than 1 million visitors every year. Now, it has officially become a "sister route" to Turkey's most popular path the Lycian Way. Paris Hilton praises Turkish hospi... American fashion designer Paris Hilton praised Turkey for its warmth and hospitality during a fashion show in the country's southern city of Antalya. 3rd Eurasian Conference on Languag... Daugavpils University, Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay Kunanbayev, University of Roehampton and Yenilikci Adimlar Dernegi kindly invite you to participate in the 3rd Eurasian Conference on Language and Social Sciences (ECLSS 2018). ATAV honors sponsors of ancient co... A ceremony has been held by the Antalya Promotion Foundation (ATAV) for donor companies and institutions that sponsored the restoration of columns in the ancient city of Perge in the Mediterranean province of Antalya. LEONARDO DA VINCI EXHIBITION THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE "LEONARDO DA VINCI EXHIBITION" IN THE WORLD WITH 200 ITEMS WILL MEET WITH ART-LOVERS AT AGORA SHOPPING CENTRE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANTALYA International Congress of Social S... International Congress of Social Sciences and Innovation, which took place on 11-13 May 2018 in Antalya, hosted by Fırat University. Antalya 9th International Theater ... The 9th Antalya International Theater Festival will start on May 17. The festival will run through May 27 at the Haşim İşcan Culture Center. Antalya welcomes summer in Perge A “welcome summer” party and a concert was organized on May 10 in the ancient city of Perge. The event was declared as part of the “Year of Perge” in the southern touristic province of Antalya. Antalya’s Lyrboton Kome ready to o... The 2,200-year-old ancient city of Lyrboton Kome in the southern province of Antalya, a stone’s throw away from contemporary life, is ready to host visitors. 30th HotelEquipment and 26th FoodP... Antalya's brand fairs 30th HotelEquipment and 26th FoodProduct are going to open doors at the Antalya Fair and Congress Center between 16-19 January 2019 both at the same time The 3rd International MICE & Weddi... The 3rd International MICE & Wedding Forum - IMWF to be held in Titanic Deluxe Golf Belek between May 28 and June 01, 2018will host the CEOs and senior managers of the largest 450+ MICE and wedding agencies in 70+ countries within the scope of this event by breaking the new grounds in the relevant field across the Globe. Luxury cruise ships start docking ... Most of the leading cruise operators have announced they are returning to Turkey’s ports, with tourism representatives expecting a complete rebound in 2019 and 2020 Antalya to host international aero... The Eurasia Airshow will be held in the Mediterranean city of Antalya on 25-29 April. The event - held under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency and with Turkey’s national flag carrier Turkish Airlines as its main sponsor - will bring together major players of the global aerospace industry, according to data compiled by state-run Anadolu Agency. Volunteers around the world keep l... There are 21 Caretta caretta nesting spots in the Aegean province of Muğla and the Mediterranean provinces of Antalya, Mersin, Adana, and Hatay; 10th International Congress on Psy... 10th International Congress on Psychopharmacology & 6th International Symposium on Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology with the theme of “Psychiatry and Therapeutics Across the Lifespan” will be held on April 25-29, 2018 in Gloria Congress Venue, Antalya, Turkey. 27th International Congress on Edu... 27th International Congress on Educational Sciences (ICES/UEBK-2018) which will be held on 18-22 April, 2018 in Antalya. Campaign for Perge’s columns kicke... A campaign has been launched to restore columns in the ancient city of Perge in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, which has named 2018 “the Year of Perge.” Paris Hilton to walk the runway in... Paris Hilton will walk the runway in Antalya, Turkey's southern resort city, in June. Global MICE Professionals from 40 ... Turkey has proven that it offers a great opportunity and inspiration to congresses, meetings and events industry as the region’s most extentive B2B event, ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition by Turkish Airlines(AME) has completed it’s fifth edition where a high volume of business contacts are being carried out in global MICE sector. SunExpress introduces digital and ... SunExpress is to introduce “Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) Class II”, Portable EFB system, securing its place in the digitalized world. The new EFB system tested with the first flight on February 15 and will be actively used on all SunExpress flights as of March 5th with the first flight performed in Antalya. World Health, Sport, Tourism Congr... Hestourex Congress & Exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Turkey. Kaleiçi, Antalya’s gate to past The capital of Turkey’s summer tourism, Antalya, takes its visitors on a journey to the past in its old town of Kaleiçi, which is home to Hadrian’s Gate, the Yivli Minaret, the Kesik Minaret, ramparts, Sufi dervish lodge, old houses and narrow streets. Lost tablet of Seljuk Sultan Kayqu... One of the lost tablets of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum Kayqubad I has been found inside the walls of a two-story house in Turkey's southern Antalya province, reports said. Turkey's Saklıkent: Golden pass fo... Antalya on Turkey's Mediterranean coast is a major summer destination that also attracts tourists in the winter thanks to the Saklikent ski resort. Turkey expects 12M tourists to vis... Turkey expects 12 million tourists will visit the country's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya in 2018. Restoration works on 5,000-year-ol... Restoration works for the 7,000-person ancient theater located in the 5,000-year-old ancient city of Perga in Turkey's southern Antalya province will soon be launched, Antalya Relief and Monument Director Cemil Karabayram said Wednesday. TOUR OF ANTALYA powered by AKRA “TOUR OF ANTALYA powered by AKRA” which is in the UCI Road Cycling Calendar as class 2.2 and consisting of 4 stages will be held in Antalya, Turkey's leading tourism center, between 22-25 February 2018. Are You Ready For Inspiration? The... Recognized as the region’s most extentive B2B event, ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition by Turkish Airlines(AME) is to celebrate it’s 5th birthday on February 21-23, 2018 in Istanbul - the city where continents meet-with a new motto: “Everything You Need For Your Meetings & Events Organization Is At ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition!” Is it possible for a man to be a f... The Antalya Women Museum’s “Woman of the Year Award” for 2017 was given to Şahika Ercümen with a ceremony on Feb. 1. The award from the “virtual museum” (www.antalyawomenmuseum.com) is handed out in the name of Jale İnan, Turkey’s first female archeologist who led the unearthing of the Ancient Hellenistic city of Perge, 15 kilometers east of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya. It is awarded every year on İnan’s birthday to women who have contributed to the culture of the Antalya and its region. Carya, National golf clubs in Bele... Two of the finest courses in Turkey’s popular golf resort Belek in the Mediterranean province of Antalya will this week host another major event. New season of Indian weddings kick... Antalya, Turkey's tourism capital, has picked up where it left off in 2017 as a favorite destination for Indian couples seeking to tie the knot. The southern resort city saw its first Indian wedding of the year this Monday at a luxury hotel in the Belek district. Milestone sign of unknown ancient ... Ancient settlement in Antalya tobe... The Kepez Municipality in the southern province of Antalya, will restructure Lyrboton Kome, an ancient settlement in Antalya’s Varsak, into an archeological park. Mediterranean ski resort: Saklıken... Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, already a major destination with its stunning beaches and sunny skies, attracts now attracts winter visitors with its Saklıkent ski resort. Smuggled artifacts from Antalya sh... The Antalya Promotion Foundation (ATAV) has prepared calendar in three languages to draw attention to historical artifacts from Antalya that have been smuggled abroad. Mirage Park Resort 2018 The hotel that is the meeting point of professionals is situated between the legendary Taurus Mountains and the Sparkling Turquoise Mediterranean in Kemer, Antalya Explore Antalya at Ace of M.I.C.E.... Antalya Convention Bureau (ACB) will attend the Ace of M.I.C.E. Exhibition, the world’s third largest exhibition for meetings, conventions and incentives to press, buyers, meeting and event decision-makers at Istanbul Congress Center (21 – 23 February). Antalya to host EuroHockey Indoor ... EuroHockey Indoor Hockey Championships, organized as part of Turkey Hockey Federation's effort to declare 2018 as "a year of success and mobilization for hockey," hosts its Second Division games in Alanya, Antalya. The Sublime and Intimate Delights ... An international tourism destination, Antalya is a city of national wonders and contrasts. The eighth largest city in Turkey, it resembles Monet's pastel-colored paintings. Here is The First Look At 2018 ACB... Our foundation, which seeks to highlight the cultural and natural wealth of our country, has deliberately chosen the topic of “Homecomers and those still waiting for return“ as the theme of the now 11th calendar of the “Homeland Antalya”series. Congress Tourism in Antalya CORNELIA DIAMOND CONGRESS CENTRE IS BEING CONSTRUCTED BY ALACALI CONSTRUCTION AND IT WILL FUNCTION AS SPORTS AND CONGRESS CENTRE IN ANTALYA, BELEK WHICH IS KNOWN FOR ITS CONGRESS TOURISM. Over 70 pct of 5,000-year-old Perg... Around 70 percent of the 5,000-year-old ancient city of Perga in Turkey's southern Antalya province remains underground to be discovered, as archaeologists continue excavations to reveal its hidden beauties. Turkey's Ryder Cup Fikret Öztürk I... Dubbed Turkey's "Ryder Cup," the fourth edition of the Fikret Öztürk Inter-club Golf Championship was held in Antalya on Dec. 14-17. Antalya Convention Bureau Launched... The "Meeting & Incentive Guide 2018" catalog, which is published every year by the Antalya Convention Bureau and is a main document to introduce Antalya at International Meeting Exhibitons, was introduced. Everything You Need For Your Meeti... Recognized as the region’s most extentive B2B event, ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition by Turkish Airlines(AME) is to celebrate it’s 5th birthday on February 21-23, 2018 in Istanbul - the city where continents meet-with a new motto: “Everything You Need For Your Meetings & Events Organizastion Is At ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition!”. Maxx Royal Cup: 20 destinations, 2... Montgomerie Maxx Royal in Belek, Antalya, is the first course in Turkey to host the European Tour's Turkish Airlines Open. For three years in a row, it has successfully organized the event that hosted top golfers, including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson. Southern Turkey’s Antalya seeks $1... Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya aims to earn over 100 million euros ($117 million) from sports tourism in the first three months of 2018, according to an industry expert. Culture Routes Society unveils wal... Turkish Culture Routes Society (CRS) unveiled the first walking route map from Europe to Turkey, which goes through seven different countries and 12 cities, including France, Switzerland, Italy, Albania and Greece whereas the ending point is the town of Demre in Turkey's southern Antalya province. Locals enjoy snow in tropical Anta... Located in southern Turkey, Antalya — the country's tourism hub — is famous for its beaches and warm weather, making it a hot spot for vacationers. 24th INTERNATIONAL PRO-LICENCE COA... UEFA Pro Licence Coach Development Seminar orginized by TUFAD (Turkish Football Coaches Association) in cooperation with TFF (Turkish Football Federation) is to take place in Belek/ Antalya during 8-10th of January 2018, half-time of Turkish Football Leagues. Count down for the 29th Hotel Equi... The 29th International Hospitality Industry Equipments Exhibition and the 25th International Trade Exhibition for Food and Beverage, brand exhibitions of Antalya organized by ANFAŞ – Exhibition Management and Investing Inc. for more than 25 years prepares to open its doors simultaneously between January 17 and 20, 2018 14 New Flights From SunExpress to ... SunExpress, a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, adds 14 new flights to its flight network between Anatolian cities and Europe in the summer season of 2018. SunExpress, the first and only airline to offer the highest number of direct connections between Anatolian and European cities, will enter 2018 summer season with a capacity increase of 24 percent compared to 2017 summer season. SunExpress is strengthening its position as the leading airline with the most direct flights from Anatolia with new connections. Explore Antalya at IBTM World Barc... Antalya Convention Bureau (ACB) will attend the IBTM Barcelona, one of the world’s top shows for meetings, conventions and incentives to press, buyers, meeting and event decision-makers at Gran Via Venue (28 - 30 November). 2nd International Congress On Heal... The main theme of the 2nd Conference of Health Informatics and Information Security which was held in Antalya between 8-11 November was; Information Systems in Health, Cyber Security, Protection of Personal Data and Secure Data Reporting. Turkish Airlines Open On The Up Organized for the fifth time in Turkey, the Turkish Airlines Open was part of the European Tour's Rolex series this year. The tournament, held between Nov. 2 and Nov. 5 at the Regnum Carya Golf Club in Belek, Antalya, saw English golfer Justin Rose clinch the title and $1.17 million in prize money Four Turkish Cities Among 100 Most... Turkish cities Istanbul, Antalya, Edirne and Artvin were listed among the most visited 100 cities of the world. Popular Bollywood actor John Abrah... Famous Bollywood actor and producer John Abraham said he wants to promote Antalya after visiting the southern Turkish province, reports said Monday. IFRC elects Kerem Kınık as vice pr... The world's largest humanitarian organization the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Monday elected Kerem Kınık, President of the Turkish Red Crescent, as its new vice president responsible for operations in Europe for the next four years. Ancient Lycian Sepulcher Discovere... A 2,400-year-old Lycian sepulcher was discovered during excavations in Turkey's southern Antalya province, near the home of Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Santa Claus. Justin Rose wins Turkish Airlines ... The 2017 Turkish Airlines Open golf tournament held as part of the European Tour Rolex Series ended on Sunday in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city Antalya. MICE's Oscar Is More Artsy On It’s... ACE of M.I.C.E. Congress, Meeting and Event Awards is the first and only organization that aims to direct the sustainable growth of congress, meeting and event activities, to create more desire to achieve excellence in institutions and organization operating in the sector, bring together M.I.C.E. industry companies and companies receiving services from the sector by the award ceremony and increase the awareness of the Turkish congress, meeting and event sector on a global scale. More Than An Exhibition… The world’s third largest MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Congress, Event) exhibition ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition by Turkish Airlines will take place on February 21-23, 2018 for the fifth time at Istanbul Congress Center – ICC on a 5.000 sqm net stant area with the motto of previous year: “MICE Industry Convenes With All of Its Colors! “ Antalya Piano Festival Kicks Off The 18th International Antalya Piano Festival kicked off on Nov. 1 with a concert by Manolo Carrasco. The event will feature 468 musicians performing in 10 concerts until Dec. 2 in the southern province of Antalya. Chinese Film Wins Best Film at Ant... The 54th Antalya International Film Festival closed with a ceremony on Oct. 27. The Chinese film “Angels Wear White” won the award for best film. Monument of roads on way to UNESCO The Patara Monument of Roads, 46 blocks of which were unearthed after a fire in the ancient city of Patara in 1993, is set to be restored and become a nominee to join the UNESCO World Heritage list. 5.Turkish Airlines Open is set to ... World's top golfers gear up for the 2017 Turkish Airlines Open in Antalya. Ottoman Cannons See Light of Day A... At world-renowned Konyaaltı Beach located in the southern province of Antalya, a group of underwater archaeologists brought up eight sunken cannons that remained from the Ottoman period from the depths of the Mediterranean. Multidimensional Cooperation at Ce... Strengthening and expanding cooperation discussed during this year’s Turkish-Russian Media Forum in Antalya, which brought together nearly 150 journalists from Turkish and Russian media. EndoBridge Celebrates Fifth Year i... The fifth annual EndoBridge meeting, co-hosted by the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey, the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology, came to an end in Antalya, Turkey. Turkish Airlines Open 2017 Turkish Airlines Open 2017 will take place in Belek, Antalya with the participation of famous golfers, on 02-05 November 2017! Why Antalya? Antalya is once again becoming a ground for the exchange of cultures. Turkey’s first meze festival was recently organized by the Akra Barut Hotel, hosting 25 restaurants from Turkey, Lebanon and Greece, bringing together chefs sharing their amazing variety of mezes. 7th International Resort Tourism C... 7th International Resort Tourism Congress with main theme “Tourism of the Future, Future of Tourism” will be held in Antalya between 29-30 November 2017. Antalya Once Again The Capital Of ... The International Antalya Film Festival, one of the longest-running art events in Turkey, will open on Oct. 21 in the southern province of Antalya, presenting more than 30 movies until Oct. 27. 6 Ancient Tombs Unearthed in Antal... A total of six ancient tombs and a water tunnel were discovered on 14th October 2017 during construction works in southern Turkey's Antalya province. Palestinian Director Heads Antalya... The 54th International Antalya Film Festival continues to strengthen its "identity of an international brand" with a jury of world-famous professionals in film. New Species of Antalya Aquarium Antalya Aquarium is fascinating visitors with thousands of creatures from different kinds in its dreamy and unique ambience. It is the most preferred attraction place by underwater lovers from all ages because of the special activities that opens the gates of mysterious underwater world. Mosaics Uncovered in Ancient city ... Mosaics dating back 1,600 years ago, which were discovered in 1976 during excavations in the ancient city of İdyrus in the southern province of Antalya’s Kemer district and then covered, have been uncovered once again. Leaders of Energy Sector Convene A... The leaders of the energy industry in Turkey are scheduled to meet on Oct. 10-11 in Turkey's world-renowned holiday resort of Antalya at the Eighth Energy Summit with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak in attendance. IRONMAN – The World´s Most Prestig... Gloria IRONMAN 70.3 Turkey is taking place for the third time in Belek/Antalya – on the 15 October 2017 – as one of the world´s most important athletic events. Registrations for the competition are already open since 4th of January 2017. European Club Cup 2017 Started In... The European Chess Club Cup 2017 started in Avantgarde Resort Hotel in Antalya, Turkey and will be held from 7th to 15th of October. Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort To ... This November, Regnum Golf & Spa Resort in Antalya, is set to host the Turkish Airlines Open Golf Tournament for the second year running on the award winning 18 hole Carya Golf Course. Taking place from 2nd - 5th November, this is the sixth tournament out of eight in the European Tour’s Rolex Series, the premium category of the European Tours. $1.4 Bilion Football Economy To Be... FIFEX International Football Industry Forum and Exhibition will take place on 8-10 January in Antalya, Belek by bringing together all the components of the football industry which is a huge economy on its own right. Santa Claus' untouched grave may b... Archaeologists may have become a step closer to finding the grave of St. Nicholas, more popularly known as Santa Claus, as they discovered what may be the actual grave of the Christmas saint below the surface of a church in Turkey's southern Antalya province, reports said Monday. Brazil's Leonardo Named New Antaly... Ambitious Turkish top flight side Antalyaspor, which boasts a star-studded line up including Samuel Eto'o and Samir Nasri, on Thursday named Brazilian Leonardo as its new manager. Antalya gets included in World Ral... The World Motor Sport Council has included Turkey, Antalya in the World Rally Championship (WRC)'s 2018 calendar. TransTaurus: Epic Mountain Bike Ex... TransTaurus event brings a fresh breath to mountain bike races in Turkey, Antalya as one of the first events in stage race format which will be folded on 03 - 04 - 05 November 2017. M.V.K TURKISH AMATEUR OPEN CHAMPIO... 16th MVK Turkısh Amateur Open will be played with 91 amateur golfers in Gloria Golf Club, Antalya this year. Players are from 20 different countries with 64 men and 27 ladies. Nymphaeum Undergoing Restoration i... Restoration and conversation is set to start again at the Monumental Fountain (Nymphaeum) in the ancient city of Side in the southern province of Antalya’s Manavgat district. Roman Sarcophagus of Hercules at A... The Roman sarcophagus of Hercules, which recently returned to Turkey from Switzerland after it had been smuggled abroad some 50 years ago, has begun welcoming visitors at its home in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya. Ruins of Ancient Villa Found in An... Excavations in the ancient city of Arykanda in the southern province of Antalya’s Finike district, have unearthed the ruins of a 1,700 year-old villa. 2,350-year-old goods unearthed in ... Excavations conducted in the ancient city of Patara in Antalya province have revealed more than 200 objects, including a bronze mirror frame, forks, bowls and coins, giving hints about the daily practices of the civilization that lived in the ancient city. Sarcophagus of Hercules Set in Pla... The sarcophagus of Hercules brought from Zurich to Istanbul is now placed at its enclosure in Antalya Museum and will be open for public after a ceremony attended by Culture Minister on September 24, 2017. Red Bull Sea to Sky 2017 Red Bull Sea to Sky – Edition 8 of the “most enjoyable Extreme Enduro” will take place on September 28 – 30, 2017 in Kemer, Antalya - Turkey. Turkey: Hercules returns home Fifty years after being stolen from Turkey, a sarcophagus of the mythical warrior Hercules was returned home, Antalya. 3 ancient statues of senior civil ... Three unique ancient statues from the third century A.D. have been discovered during archaeological excavations in Turkey's southwestern Antalya province. Turkish health tourism to generate... Turkey stands out as an appealing health tourism spot thanks to the significant places in Istanbul and Antalya provinces in world health tourism and the presence of international pharmaceutical companies in the country. 54th International Antalya Film Fe... As Turkey’s first and most well established festival, International Antalya Film Festival, continues developing further as a leader of the Turkey’s festival culture. Two-story building discovered at e... Archaeologists have unearthed a multi-level building after two years of excavation work around the Saint Nicholas Memorial Museum, Turkey's southern Antalya province. 53rd Presidential Cycling Tour of ... October 10-15, Turkey, Road - WorldTour...Counting Down The Days..Less than a month is left for 53rd Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2017. Signature Turkish Dishes on Displa... The 8th Local Food Fair, known as YÖREX, opened to visitors yesterday at Antalya Expected to host 200,000 visitors this year, YÖREX which will run until Sunday, Sept. 17 features thousands of local foods unique to 70 provinces of Turkey. Ancient ‘Sarcophagus of Heracles’ ... The Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry announced Sunday that the sarcophagus of Heracles has been handed over to Turkish officials by Swiss authorities in Geneva and will be returned to its homeland Antalya in Turkey on 13th September. TAFI Convention to be held from Oc... The Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) announced Antalya, Turkey as the venue for TAFI 2017 Convention. Antalya to host 7th Int'l Resort T... The 7th International Resort Tourism Congress, which will be organized by the Mediterranean Touristic Hoteliers Association (AKTOB), is set to take place in Antalya on Nov. 29-30. Two millennium old shops found in ... Two-thousand-year old shops and warehouses were revealed at an excavation site of the ancient Aspendos city, located in the Serik district of Turkey's touristic Antalya province. Opera and ballet festival at Antal... The 24th International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival will be held at the Aspendos Ancient Theater in Antalya, beginning at the end of this month Renowned British actor Larry Lamb ... The world-renowned British actor and radio presenter Larry Lamb and his son, radio and television presenter George Lamb, will introduce Turkish history, archeology and culture on a TV show, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. Get your hands dirty this summer w... Those who come to ecological farms in Antalya spend their holidays herding goats and working the fields instead of staying in five-star hotels. Hercules to come to Turkey, Antaly... The Roman sarcophagus of Hercules, which was ruled to return to Turkey, Antalya by a Swiss court in 2015, will return to its home in Turkey in September. A Better You in AKRA Thirty Minutes From Antalya Airport, Five-Star AKRA Turns Holidays Into An Experience You Wish To Repeat With It's Central Location And Breathtaking View. Explore The Gloria World ! Gloria Hotels&Resorts is situated in Belek, Antalya in the midst of pine forests and at the seaside along Acisu River, in a region which embodies all natural beauties of the Mediterranean. Golf greens, exquisite beaches, spa and thalasso centers and, conference and entertainment facilities.. Seals from Cuba become latest attr... The latest habitants to join the Antalya Aquarium, three cute seals brought from Cuba, have drawn tourists’ attention in the southern province of Antalya. Giant 350,000-year-old animal foss... Archeologists have unearthed the bones of a gigantic 350,000-year-old animal during excavations at Karain Cave in Turkey's southern Antalya province. ‘City of sorrows’ Wait For Visitor... The ancient city of Xanthos in the southern province of Antalya’s Kaş district, known as the “city of sorrows,” opens the door of a different world to its visitors both with its sad history and ruins that defy time. Palestinian Director Jury Presiden... Set to run between Oct. 21 and 27 this year, the 54th International Antalya Film Festival will have award-winning Palestinian director Elia Suleiman as the jury president. Sunken City in Kekova, Antalya May... Kekova,Antalya is one of the world’s most important diving spots in the southern province of Antalya’s Demre district and is home to an underwater ancient city. Antalya, the city of flowers, bloo... Antalya,a tourism paradise visited by millions of tourists every year, is not just about sea, sand and sun. Loved for its nature, historical monuments, plateaus and diving areas, the city has also made a name for itself with its flower production. World's 'oldest brand' discovered ... A team of researchers in Turkey's southern Antalya province have found what may have been the first example of a brand, inscribed on a number of ancient mosaics and terracottas dating over 2,000 years old. Antalya exports luxury yachts worl... Companies in the Antalya Free Zone, which has become a world brand in luxury yacht production, receive orders from dozens of countries such as Italy, the U.K., U.S., Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Antalya’s Köprülü Canyon set to we... Antalya’s Köprülü Canyon, one of the world’s easiest rafting tracks, is set to welcome nearly 700,000 tourists this year, according to tour organizers in the region. 1,800-year-old Mosaic Found in Anc... Perge excavations head and Antalya Museum Director Mustafa Demirel said a new mosaic was unearthed when the archeological team was working to open a shop in the west wing of the site. 54th Antalya Film Festival Ready t... Head of the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Menderes Türel has announced that the Antalya International Film Festival, which will be held for the 54th time this year, will be organized under the single theme of "international films." Four seasons of Antalya, Turkey's ... Organized by the Antalya Governorate and Anadolu Agency (AA), Antalya's history, culture, beaches and nature will be featured, shedding light on Turkey's tourism capital under the auspices of a new project. Phaselis: Unique Combination of Hi... Turkey's antique city of Phaselis in Antalya's Kemer district attracts both local and overseas tourists with its historical ruins, stunning beach and natural beauty. Xanthos - Letoon in UNESCO's World... Made up of two neighboring settlements located in the southwestern part of Anatolia, respectively within the boundaries of Antalya and Muğla Provinces, Xanthos-Letoon is a remarkable archaeological complex. Buika Took the Stage in Antalya,Tu... Spanish singer Buika performed in the southern province of Antalya on July 7 as part of an ongoing world tour. Gloria IRONMAN the World´s Most Pr... Gloria IRONMAN 70.3 Turkey is taking place for the third time in Belek/Antalya – on the15 October 2017 – as one of the world´s most important athletic events. Registrations for the competition are already open since 4th of January 2017. Searching for Stars, Turkey's Fest... Astronomy enthusiasts will be convening at festivals held in Antalya thiS summer, while there will also be special summer camps for kids. Lycian Way: Hike through the best ... British expats who came to Turkey after retiring in the ‘80s and ‘90s, brought their love of long walks along with them and one of these expats, Kate Clow, provided a guide for hikers who aimed to finish the Lycian Way The first “Real Madrid Foundation ... This summer, the Real Madrid Foundation is set to kick off its first ever series of football clinics in Turkey, launching exclusively at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort in Antalya. Orange fest: A juicy, sweet event ... The Finike Orange Festival, held for the second time in Antalya's Finike district, which is famous for its delicious oranges, kicked off with a parade yesterday. Ancient Road Found in Termessos An... A 2,300-year-old ancient road has been unearthed in the ancient city of Termessos in the southern province of Antalya. The ancient city is known as one of the cities that Alexander the Great failed to conquer. Turkey Fest in Moscow was visited... Turkey has signed an important promotional organization in a Moscow Park “Krasnaya Presnya”. The Turkey Festival, which took place in Moscow between 16 - 17 - 18 June 2017, attracted over 200,000 visitors. Antalya Blue Flag Record Holder In the end of the “Blue Flag 2017” working program, which was carried out in coordination with the Turkish Foundation for Environmental Education (TÜRÇEV), 454 beaches, with 22 marinas and 13 yachts were given Blue Flags and Turkey ranked third in the blue flag rankings. Come experience the Real Madrid Fo... Real Madrid Foundation Clinic Turkey will be held at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort between June 19th - September 8th,2017 The presentation of the "Andriake... Antalya Promotion Foundation (ATAV), made the first publicity of "Andriake Synagogue” which was brought to light in excavations made in 2010 in Demre District. 24th Aspendos International Opera ... 24th Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival will be held between 23 August - 04 September, 2017 at Aspendos Ancient Theatre. Adriana Lima at Dosso Dossi show i... Adriana Lima was chosen to close the Dosso Dossi show in Antalya, Turkey on Friday night, joining fellow famous face Ana Beatriz Barros on the runway. Exploring Turkey’s tourism capital... Once known as Pamphylia, modern day Antalya is now dubbed ‘Turkey’s tourism capital’. Its sun drenched turquoise coastline, mountainous backdrops, and ancient history attract visitors in their millions. It offers high contrast and variety; from the sublime, to the hairless. The World Culinary Olympics in Ant... Mr. Zeki Açıköz, the President of TAFED –Turkish Cooks Federation acclaimed the new projects for HotelEquipment and FoodProduct to be organized under single roof simultaneously this year in Antalya. ANFAŞ Climbs to the Top With New P... The gate of Antalya that leads to the world, ANFAŞ has set on the road with its two new exhibitions which are Jewelry Expo and Well Life. Gloria Offers Even More With All I... Guests at Gloria Hotels & Resorts can now add extra layers of enjoyment and even more variety to their stay at the fabulous five-star resort as part of their new concept: All In One. Antalya Hosts New Grass-Court Tour... The Antalya Open, a new ATP World Tour 250 tournament, is part of the enhanced grass-court swing and will be staged the week before Wimbledon. Indian, Russian, Ukranian, Turkish... Representatives from the wedding and Meeting, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) industries from India, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will meet at the Inventum Global workshop which kicks off today at the Rixos Premium Hotel in the Antalya Belek Tourism Center. Expert guide to the Turquoise Coas... The stretch of Turquoise Coast running south and west of the gateway city of Antalya, known in ancient times as Lycia, is one of the most refreshingly undeveloped in the Mediterranean. Turkey’s Antalya, Miami sign siste... Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel and his Miami counterpart Tomas Regalado signed a Sister City agreement Wednesday. Antalya to host International Medi... The International Media Forum will be held from May 22-23 in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya. Turkey-Africa First Agriculture Mi... Turkey and six African countries signed cooperation deals in agriculture, fisheries and livestock in the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya. 8th International Antalya Theatre ... The 8th Antalya International Theater Festival will start on May 17. The festival will run through May 27 at the Haşim İşcan Culture Center. - Visit Antalya Convention Bureau to... Antalya Convention Bureau (ACB) will attend the IMEX Frankfurt, one of the world’s top shows for meetings, conventions and incentives to press, buyers, meeting and event decision-makers at Messe Frankfurt (16 – 18 May). As ACB, we will be at your service to meet and represent new rising value of MICE sector and would like to offer Turkish Coffee and present you car fragrances inspired by lemon, orange, bergamot smells which are most identified with citrus city Antalya at IMEX Frankfurt in Turkey stand E400. History Can Not Be Purchased The sale of the "Stargazer" sculpture, which was smuggled from Anatolia, is against the rules of the UNESCO Agreement of 1970. Çamlıca Down Olympos - 4 “ÇAMLICA DOWN OLYMPOS - 4” ENDURO MOUNTAIN BIKE BATTLE IS GOING INTERNATIONAL THIS YEAR BETWEEN 12TH AND 14TH OF MAY IN KEMER / ANTALYA ! Turkish-German Friendship Raised T... FC ADLER, the football team of the German Consulate in Antalya, travelled to Germany with sponsorship from the Gloria Sports Arena to participate in a friendly match. The Queens of Golf Unite In This T... Gloria Hotels & Resorts welcomes talented female golfers to "Gloria Ladies Open Week" – a golf tournament featured as part of the 20th Anniversary celebration for a Resort where nature's perfect beauty meets luxury and comfort. Resort town Antalya to launch play... The team at the Antalya City Theater of the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality is working on plays in English to entertain tourists in the city. Unforgettable dining experience in... Organized for the first time in Antalya, the "Dinner in the Sky" event not only entertained the visiting diners but also the people on the ground. The myth of the Anatolian small to... Take a trip through the foothills rising above Antalya. If you follow the winding roads, you will soon find yourselves in the town of Elmalı. What you will find is much more than what you might expect from a small Anatolian town. The depth of knowledge, wisdom and life here is astounding Perga mosaics showing Oceanus and ... Tombs decorated with well-preserved mosaics showing Oceanus and Medusa of the Greek mythology found during excavations in 2003 in the ancient city of Perga will be put on display soon. Antalya becomes new favorite venue... Antalya has become the new favorite destination for Indian couples seeking to tie the knot, where millions of dollars are spent on wedding ceremonies. T Turkish Dance Groups "Fire of Anat... Synthesizing Anatolian dances with ballet and modern dance, the Fire of Anatolia presents shows on stages across the world. The troupe’s 120 dancers worked throughout the winter to stage 3,000 folk dance figures perfectly. Mermaids, Atatürk, tanks: Odd mix ... Antalya's traditional Sand Sculpture Festival hosts a diverse array of works of 20 artists from 12 countries this year. Patara, Antalya,Turkey: Secret Sea... By Terry Richardson, destination expert: At 11 miles, unspoilt Patara is Turkey’s longest beach. The Telegraph: Cirali & Patara fro... The best unsung beach holiday resorts in Europe: Cirali and Patara in Antalya, Turkey Floating through Anatolia: The Ult... Körpülü River, otherwise known as the Köprüçay River, is a favorite for rafting enthusiasts in Turkey. Innovation and Global Issues in So... Innovation and Global Issues in Social Sciences 2017 Congress is for people, who want to participate in a major international forum, get published, network with colleagues from many countries and sharing similar or complementary interests, and to have fun in PATARA, the living memory of the first democracy in The World! Turkey Opens Doors to India’s Even... Event and Entertainment Management Association (EEMA), India’s apex association of the events and experiential marketing industry yesterday announced a major tie-up with Turkey’s largest MICE operator, Inventum Global to open the doors to Antalya for the hosting of Indian outbound events, weddings and corporate meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions. British ambassador:UK encourages i... We say, 'Please come to Turkey. Typically, tourist do not experience any problem during their holidays in Turkey. You will have a lot of fun, but please be aware of some issues.' We encourage our citizens to come to Turkey. African ministers to gather in Ant... The Turkey-Africa First Agriculture Ministers Meeting and Agribusiness Forum will be held on Thursday and Friday in the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya. Turkish Airlines Challenge Tournam... The Turkish Airlines Challenge dates back to 2014 when Ollie Farr claimed a maiden Challenge Tour victory at National Golf Club, though the tournament has since moved to the neighbouring Belek course of Gloria Golf Club. Turkey new favorite in Far Eastern... Hotels in Antalya started hosting Indian weddings as well as those in Istanbul and that they will launch activities for the Indian market in Antalya in May. Indians prefer Turkey for splendid... Indians, who invented and developed the concept of wedding tourism, are holding thousands of weddings abroad and have a major share in the global wedding market. Tourism professionals in Antalya are aiming to attract wedding tourists from India to Turkey Chinese tourists attracted to hist... The Chinese tourists continue to choose Turkey as a holiday destination not only for recreational purposes, but because they are attracted to its wide variety of historical sites. Total water volume of the aquariums inside Antalya Aquarium is almost 7.5 million liters and there are thousands of interesting underwater creature inside these aquariums. Sports Physicians Meet at Gloria S... Hosted by the Gloria Sports Arena, the 16th National Sports Medicine Congress opened with a speech by Ms. Elif Ozdemir, the Gloria Sports Arena Project Manager and a Board Member of the National Olympics Committee. Nexa M.I.C.E. With our experience in designing, producing and managing events, you are in safe hands. Antalya’s Patara Beach draws touri... Patara Beach on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast is drawing great interest from tourists for its sand dunes that have provided opportunities for local tourism operators to launch horse and camel tours. Dosso Dossi Fashion Show to host A... The Dosso Dossi Fashion Show which is held annually in Antalya is getting ready to host Brazilian top model and Victoria Secret angel Adriana Lima. HESTOUREX -World Health, Sport, To... Hestourex - World Health, Sport, Tourism Congress & Exhibition, is going to be held in Antalya, Turkey between 06th and 09th of April 2017. 7.ANTALYA CITY EXPO FAIR Antalya City Expo Fair, bringing a new aspect to the city planning, hosts mayors, municipal projects and companies supplying municipal equipment. Moving on to be the biggest city planning fair of Turkey, 7th Antalya City Expo Fair will take place from 23 to 26 March 2017 in Antalya Expo Center. An attractive Village - Sarıhacıla... Akseki district, which is 170 kilometers away from Antalya city center,known for its specific traditional houses and Sarıhacılar Mosque and attracts tourists from all around Europe especially from Germany and France. Antalya: heir of centuries-old tas... Antalya welcomes millions of tourists every year not just with its five-star hotels, but also with some world-class restaurants. The city hosts a large selection of eateries that offer everything from local delicacies to flavors from different cultures. Akra Women Project by Antalya Wome... Antalya Women Museum organized different celebration this year by cooperating with AKRA for International Women's Day. The Biggest Tunnel Aquarium of the... Antalya Aquarium is one of the biggest aquarium complexes in the world. Nexa Travel Forays into Indian Tra... Nexa Travel Forays into Indian Travel & MICE Markets through SATTE 2017, OTM 2017 and meeting travel trade partners. Turkey awarded for touristic promo... Turkey's "Turkuaz" (Home of Turquoise) has been awarded Best Tourism Introduction Film by the International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals (CIFFT). The introduction film, which won a total of 11 awards at the festivals held in 2016, won the grand prize at the award ceremony in Vienna. Woman of the year - Prof. Dr. Jale... The presentation of the "Antalya Woman of the Year" award took place on the first of February at the Akra Hotel in Antalya. BBC journalist Michael Buerk: Can... Michael Buerk, a senior journalist and anchorman for the BBC, said he feels more secure in Turkey than in London, and he can't wait to visit Turkey's coasts in April, as he has done for the past 25 years. 24th International Anfas Food Prod... Anfas Food Product 24th International Food Specialization Fair, the most comprehensive and largest food fair ever held in Turkey, as well as the "Anfas Bevex" Beverage Specialization Fair will be held simultaneously between February 15 - 18, 2017 at Antalya Expo Center AEC. Antalya Convention Bureau attends ... Antalya Convention Bureau (ACB) will attend the Ace of M.I.C.E. Exhibition, the world’s third largest exhibition for meetings, conventions and incentives to press, buyers, meeting and event decision-makers at Istanbul Congress Center (22 – 24 February). ACB will take place at D/55. ACB offers a wide range of services and solutions for meeting planners! Santa Claus sanctuary home to bird... The Noel Baba (Santa Claus) Bird Sanctuary in the southern province of Antalya’s Demre district is one of the leading wetlands in Turkey, providing a home to 149 bird species. Diving in Antalya Antalya is another hot spot for scuba divers and is going to be one of the best places to go Scuba Diving in the future. A Turkish Climbing Delight - Antal... With its warm winter climate and perfect limestone, Turkey - Antalya is becoming the holiday destination of choice for the rain-washed European climber. Ski Resort in Antalya One of Turkey's favourite ski resorts, Antalya-Saklıkent is known to be one of the ski resorts closest to the equator. Winter climbing routes for adventu... When winter rolls around, climbers get ready to head to challenging mountainous regions and take their skills further. Although challenging, mountain climbing is an excellent opportunity to enjoy winter while doing some extreme adventure sports. Mountaineers can discover Antalya's climbing routes and snow-laden winter landscapes using ropes, axes and helmets. 28th International Hospitality Ind... Members of the Hospitality Industry Around The World Come Together On The 28th Anfas Hotel Equipment Exhibition in Antalya at Antalya Expo Center between 18-21 January 2017. The world’s biggest tunnel aquarium is in Antalya Aquarium, with a length of 131 meters and width of 3,5 meters inside the main tank with a capacity of more than 5 million liters. Please remember to take a look at the story of the aircraft wreck at full-scale that will confront you at the very beginning. Antalya's mountainous forest home ... The enormous trees located on the foothills of Kızlar Sivrisi Mountain in the Elmalı district of Antalya are popular among mountaineers and continue to arouse interest. Excitement Reaches a Peak for the ... The most ambitious golf club in the Belek region, Montgomerie Maxx Royal bears the footprints of legendary golfers. Preparations are underway as Montgomerie Maxx Royal heats up for yet another excitement-filled golf tournament in the coming days together with Europe’s most prestigious golf clubs. Turkey's Drone League Launches in ... Turkey-based "Drone Flight Sports Club" and "Drone Owners and Pilots Association" set to organize Turkey's very own "Drone Competition League 2017. Congress, Meeting and Event Indust... The world's third-largest MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Congress, Events) exhibition ACE of M.I.C.E. Congress, Meeting and Event Industry Exhibition will take place in February 22-24 in 2017 for the fourth time at Istanbul Congress Center - ICC sponsored by Turkish Airlines. 10th edition of EEMA's annual conv... Sabbas Joseph, President of EEMA (Event and Entertainment Management Association), announced that the tenth edition of the association's annual convention EEMAGINE will be held in Antaly in the first quarter of 2017. The saint who inspired Santa Claus... The Orthodox faithful from Turkey and other countries remembered St. Nicholas, the saint who is less known than the commercialized figure of Santa Claus he inspired, in his hometown in Turkey's southern resort city of Antalya. Perge sculptures open to visitors ... An opening ceremony of 12 sculptures that were unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya was held on Nov. 25 at the Antalya Archaeology Museum. Holiday meets nature's green The largest sports arena with more than 50 sports and the largest golf course of Turkey with 45-holes, exquisite accommodation and the deep affinity to nature combined with offers for holistic well-being – with its holiday concept, focusing more and more on sustainability, Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek, Turkey want to set a new trend with their 5-star facilities in matters of environmental awareness among Turkish hoteliers. Imagine a region with an ancient city approximately every 20 kilometres, with peaks of up to 3,000 m height in the immediate vicinity of the sea, a landscape with a diverse flora and numerous endemic flowers and plants, as well as 183 butterfly pecies – this is our „Homeland Antalya“, which we introduce to you with our thematic calendars since 10 years. Golf's New Favourite: Antalya Antalya is already known as the most popular touristic destination in Turkey, especially in summer, and in recent years has created a new attraction in golf. Now attracting many golf enthusiasts from all over the world – in addition to travels – thanks to a selection of excellent courses, the district of Belek has become a golfer’s European paradise in just 20 years. Caretta Kids Run 2016 Children will test their limits on a race course at an upcoming running event to promote the preservation of loggerhead sea turtles, also known as caretta carettas, in Antalya, Güver Uçurumu on Dec. 24. The Caretta Kids Run will gather children aged between 3 and 10 at the race course, where they will compete with each other in different categories. - Condé Nast Johansens announce the UK, Ireland, European and The Mediterranean winners from Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence 2017. The Newest Attraction Center: Anta... Antalya Aquarium; besides having the world's biggest tunnel aquarium and four seasons snow place Snow World; is the newest attraction center or you and your family, with its gift shop, cafes and restaurants, open every day of the week from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Best of the best: 10 surprising tr... Antalya, Turkey's majestic southern Mediterranean province truly has it all. From beautiful beaches to impressive peaks, endangered species, natural wonders, the country's best outdoor sports and a plethora of tourist sites, it is no surprise that Antalya offers the best of the best of these experiences in Turkey. Button houses a popular touristic ... An architectural richness, historical button houses in Antalya's Akseki district attract about 50,000 tourists to the region each year. International Resort Tourism Congr... As the main tourism market of Turkey, Germany’s strong travel institution Germany Travel Association’s (DRV) DRV Congress, which was formerly planned to be held in Kuşadası, however was cancelled due to insufficient turnout, will be carried out with a different format on the “Turkey-Germany Day” 6th International Tourism Congress will organize on its first day, November 24th. Antalya Convention Bureau (ACB) will attend the IBTM World Barcelona, one of the world’s top shows for meetings, conventions and incentives to press, buyers, meeting and event decision-makers at Gran Via Venue (29 November – 01 December). ACB will take place in Turkey stand E30. Olesen claims Turkish Airlines Ope... The 92nd-ranked Dane overcame a spirited challenge from David Horsey to claim his fourth European Tour victory in the Turkish Airlines Open at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort, Antalya Culinary Master - Class in Kiev A culinary master-class sponsored by "AquaMICE" DMC,"Rixos Hotels" and Ukrainian MICE agency "BTL" for leading corporate companies of different segments, was organized in the gastronomic studio “Kartata Potata” on October 27, 2016 in Kiev. Amelie’s Audrey Tautou to attend A... Audrey Tautou, star of cult movie Amelie, is due to attend the Antalya Film Festival, held October 16-23 in Turkey's southern resort city of Antalya. French actor Gerard Depardieu to a... Legendary actor and director Gerard Depardieu will be a guest at the 53rd Antalya Film Festival, which will bring together international artists from the world of cinema between Oct. 16 and Oct. 23 53rd Antalya Film Festival to be h... The 53rd Antalya International Film Festival will be held this year between Oct. 16 and 23. $1.3 million worth solar yacht bui... A $1.3 illion worth of luxury yacht built in southern Antalya province, which can solely operate on solar power, was handed over to its Australian owner on Wednesday. Turkish teacher discovers 15 milli... A Turkish geography teacher has discovered 15 million-years-old marine fossils in southern Antalya province's Manavgat district. Turkey's first bike-friendly hotel... Tourists opting for a bike vacation can use their time off to get more on two wheels and a bike hotel in Antalya's resort Belek town unites the love of cycling with the holiday option. World's Best Golfers at Turkish Ai... One of the World's most prestigious tournament, the 4th Turkish Airlines Open will take place in Antalya between 3rd and 6th November with the attendance of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Glorious Gloria Gains Top-Five Sta... The rise and rise of Gloria Hotels & Resorts has continued with the confirmation that Golf World has rated the five-star Belek destination as the fifth best golf resort in continental Europe. Discover Antalya in Winter Antalya Expo Center invites any and all people, who wish to experience the business and tourism at the same time, to Antalya, where there are unique riches ranging from the history to the nature. Elton John to take the stage at Ex... English pianist, singer, songwriter and composer Elton John will be at Expo 2016 Antalya on September 9, 2016. In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single for Lady Di "Candle in the Wind" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has won six Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. Phaselis offers history and nature The ancient city of Phaselis in the southern province of Antalya’s Kemer district is among the most popular places for local and foreign tourists thanks to its beautiful coasts mingled with history and nature. Tiger Woods to appear at the Turki... This year the players will be competing over the new layout of the beautiful Carya Golf Club. The Belek region in Antalya is renowned for its golf courses and breath taking surroundings along the Mediterranean coastline. National Day of Kazakhstan celebra... The National Day of Kazakhstan was celebrated at EXPO-2016, a gardening fair held in the Turkish city of Antalya. "The main aim of the National Day was for visitors of the event and people in Turkey to learn more about the Republic of Kazakhstan, its unique culture and, of course, its biodiversity," said Gulnara Sitpayeva, Commissioner for Kazakhstan's Pavilion, before the start of the event. Rare set of ancient dinnerware fou... Turkish archeologists have discovered a rare set of submerged ancient plates off the coast of Adrasan village, southwestern Antalya province. The discovery follows work initiated by Antalya Museum Director Mustafa Demirel and academics from Dokuz Eylül University and Selçuk University's Marine Sciences Institute and Underwater Archeology Departments, respectively. The Lycian Way Ultra Marathon The first ultra-marathon of Turkey, Lycian Way Ultra Marathon is an international high challenge sports event. The marathon covers approximately 250 kilometers of the 509 kilometers antique Lycian Way. Thus the race course has its unique place among the primary ultra-marathon destinations of the world with its difficulty level and natural and historical beauties. Each day one stage is completed in the 6 stage race. Elderly get ready for internationa... Living in an a retirement home in Antalya's Muratpaşa district, senior residents over 50 are working hard for the upcoming World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) Senior II Standard Dance Championship that will run from Oct. 14 to Oct. 16 in the city. Combine vacation with cycling: Ant... The fifth edition of Antalya-Kemer International Cycling Festival is a combination of camping and biking experience. The region which has hot, dry summers offers a cool retreat in fall for cyclists in a serene environment. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, the festival's main lineup will begin in Tekirova, a coastal neighborhood in Antalya's Kemer district which features Blue Flag beaches. Enrique Iglesias to take the stage... Having opened its doors with the motto: "A green world for future generations," EXPO 2016 Antalya will host Spanish singer, record producer and actor Enrique Iglesias. Antalya: A 640-kilometer paradise ... King Attalus’s majestic paradise, Antalya, with its unique nature and glorious history, is considered the capital of Turkish tourism. With its mountains, plateaus, rivers, canyons, majestic memorial trees, national parks, uniquely beautiful hiking trails, Antalya, a true center of nature-based tourism, also hosts numerous bays and beaches. Antalya's Land of Legends offers f... Turkey's largest life and amusement center, the Land of Legends Theme Park, opened in Antalya this month and promises to fully satisfying vacations for families with sports activities Applications open for Antalya Film... Applications have opened for the 53rd International Antalya Film Festival, which will be held from Oct. 16 to 23 this year. The deadline for the national competition, short film selection and the Antalya Film Support Fund is Aug. 19 and the deadline for the international competition is Aug. 26. World's only single-piece 2nd cent... Archeologists in Turkey's southern Antalya province discovered what is allegedly the only one-piece statue of Second Century Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, also referred to as 'Caracalla.' Four reasons to make Belek the des... For recent years golf in Belek has moved forward like an unstoppable tourism juggernaut and here is why we think you should make Belek's Golf Riviera your next destination. Tourism For Freedom We have really difficult times, not only here in Turkey, but in many countries of the world. The attack in a train in Germany yesterday, the attacks in Nice and Istanbul, Paris or Bruxelles - dramatic, sad and impossible to understand. Say no to junk food at Antalya chi... Stretching over 16,000 square meters, a giant children's village under construction in the coastal city of Antalya is scheduled to open its doors in August. With an TL 8 million ($2.756 million) investment, the children's village, "Teneffüs Park," will prohibit junk food and fizzy drinks and encourage children to eat healthier. T Legendary rock band Deep Purple to... Legendary rock band Deep Purple met their fans in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya on July 5 as part of their European tour. Into the deep: Diving spots in and... A number of natural diving spots in and around the coastal city of Antalya are underwater escapes for divers with submerged battleships and aircraft wrecks Head to Antalya to spend summer va... More travelers are looking for summer vacations that will be memorable, and the luxury theme hotels in the popular resort city of Antalya are where they can find facilities inspired by famous historical landmarks or periods accompanied by specific menus and themed events Turkey's new theme park, Land of L... Turkey's largest life and entertainment center, The Land of Legends Theme Park, opened in the country's tourism capital Antalya in early July. Obama sends thank you letter to ho... U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a thank you letter to the hotel where he stayed during the G-20 Summit in the southern resort province of Antalya between Nov. 15 and Nov. 16, 2015. Kaş: A town scented with jasmine f... Once an unspoiled fishing village, Kaş is now a relatively unspoiled tourist town on the southern bulge of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, a two hours’ drive southeast of Fethiye and three hours’ drive southwest of Antalya. Antalya's Mount Tahtalı a hotspot ... With a height of almost 2,500 meters, Mount Tahtalı in coastal Antalya province's Kemer district has become a hotspot for adventure sports, mostly for bungee jumping and paragliding. Tahtalı Run to Sky Tahtalı Run to Sky will take place on May 20 – 22, 2016 in Olympos/Çıralı. 7th Antalya International Theater ... 7th Antalya International Theater Festival to be held between May 17 and 27 in Antalya. World-famous stars at EXPO 2016 An... The concert marathon kicked off with Jose Carreras on May 07, followed by musicians and bands including Stomp, Emma Chaplin, Bruut! and Level 42. Antalya's historic Kaleiçi on its ... Kaleiçi, the historic city center in the southern province of Antalya’s Muratpaşa district, will be submitted to UNESCO in May for inclusion on the World Heritage List. The historic district has a rich history, from the Pergamon Kingdom through the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods. Antalya to offer art feast alongsi... Welcoming tourists from around the world who flock to its beautiful coasts and natural attractions in the summer, Antalya is now hosting a spectacular pop art exhibition that features the work of iconic artist Andy Warhol until Sept. 25 Europes Top Golf-League once again... The Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek at the Turkish Riviera is one of the leading destinations for golfers and athletes from all over the world. International stars have competed regularly on the largest golf course of Turkey with 45-holes. Once again the Gloria Golf Club is the venue for one of the most important European golf events: from 5th to 08th May 2016 the European Challenge Tour run by the European Tour is carried out with the support of Turkish Airlines. The Turkish Airlines European Challenge Tour has a total prize fund of 175.000 Euros. Turkey's Antalya hosts gaudy three... Kamal Gupta, the son of Ajay Gupta, one of the richest businessman in India and the world, booked a whole hotel for his wedding in the touristic Antalya district between April 23 and 26. The traditional Indian wedding, which is happening at Mardan Palace Hotel, is to last for three days and three nights. Turkey’s first botanical expo open... The 2016 World Botanical EXPO, one of the largest horticultural shows in the world, opened its doors with an official ceremony on April 22 in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya. Turkey's newest, largest congress ... Turkey's newest and largest congress center has been built in the southern province of Antalya, the host city of EXPO 2016, which starts on April 22. Situated in the EXPO 2016 complex, the congress center has a main hall with a capacity of more than 5,000-seats and two seminar rooms for 750 and 550 people, respectively. The congress center has 12 halls with a capacity of 6,500 seats. Nexa Travel - Assists West Medite... Mr Alaattin Özyürek (Antalya Investment Support Office Expert) from West Mediterranen Development Agency of Turkey (WMDAT) visited New Delhi & the City of Mumbai to meet prominent Destination Wedding Planners and Golf Tourism Organisers for cooperation for wedding tourism and golf tourism to Antalya from India. Nexa Travel introduced the above initiatives to the Indian Travel fraternity during their participation at SATTE 2016 in New Delhi along with enthusiastic proposition of Expo Antalya 2016 to be combined with packages. Post SATTE 2016, Nexa also visited various Travel Trade & MICE partners in the city of Delhi, Noida & Gurgaon. Millennium Holiday Group is the leading DMC in Antalya, Kuşadası, Van and Istanbul, as well as an incoming and outgoing TO in Dubai since 1996. Having our head-quarter in Antalya, it is particularly advantageous being within a very easy reach of our guests, thus enabling us to deal with all their requirements and to make sure our operations continue smoothly. Full customer satisfaction among our guests coming from 17 different countries with more than 45 tour operators proves us the quality of our services. Nexa Travel Intoduces – “Turkish T... Nexa Travel as a DMC has been known in the Turkish & Middle Eastern markets since 2013 as a company which offers Packages, MICE, Conventions and all travel requirements with understanding the needs from the clients’ perspective and their budget parameters. G20 host hotel presents tournament... Held at the G20-hosting hotel, Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort, for the second time this year, Fikret Öztürk Clubs' Golf Tournament brought together important names from the sport at the world-renowned golfing resort in Belek Turkey's best culinary culture to ... Turkish culinary culture will be introduced at EXPO 2016 Antalya, which will be held in April. A special space will be allocated where different houses featuring architectural characteristics specific to each Turkish region will offer Turkish cuisine. Golf trick show from David Edwards... For Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek at the Turkish Riviera world-famous entertainment shows are standard in the event program. Thus, the Gloria Golf Club with its largest 45-hole golf facility of Turkey and being the official winter base of the PGA of Germany, was once again venue of an amusing new years´ golf show on 1st January 2016. Women's museum in Antalya set to r... The Antalya Women’s Museum is set to become Turkey’s third women’s museum following ones in Istanbul and İzmir, having already launched a virtual museum online. World Tourism Forum Mediterranean ... World tourism leaders defining the future of tourism are coming together within the scope of the World Tourism Forum in Antalya. The World Tourism Forum Mediterranean Meeting will be held on December 10, 2015 at Belek Antalya, Maxx Royal Resort Hotel. The agenda of the events will include topics on the future of world tourism. Five-Star Business Luxury at The M... The Congress and Convention Centre at the all suites Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort is the new meeting place for professionals from around the world. Offering five-star conference, meeting and event facilities with extraordinary design and large spacious areas, the Congress and Convention Centre accommodates guests whilst becoming a centre for business. AquaMICE company annually particip... AquaMICE company annually participates in IBTM exhibition as it considers this event an important part of MICE market. The Antalya Film Festival delivers... The International Antalya Film Festival handed out the Golden Orange Awards for the 52nd time in two separate award ceremonies on Saturday and Sunday. Turkish production "Sarmaşık" by Tolga Karaçelik won four Golden Oranges including the Best Film in the National Feature Film Competition and won the star of the closing ceremony Antalya Now has a Pera Museum of i... Art overs in Antalya met with the Antalya Culture and Arts Center this summer for the first time. Creating a platform in which national and international exhibitions will be presented to the public, the Antalya Culture and Arts Center aims to bring both local and foreign tourists together to share their love of arts. Indian couple marries in Antalya w... An Indian couple has married in Antalya with a Bollywood-style wedding in the resort city of Antalya. Coming from two of India's most prominent families, bride Sonali Ahlawat and groom Sumeet Aggarwal had a four-day wedding at Mardan Palace Hotel. International Antalya Film Festiva... Turkey's oldest and longest running film festival, the International Antalya Film Festival, kicked off its 52nd edition on Nov 29 in the southern province of Antalya. Piano Melodies from Antalya Organized by Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, The 16th International Antalya Piano Festival offers a busy schedule for music fans November 17 to 29. Deneuve guest of honor in Antalya The Lifetime Achievement Award of the 52nd International Antalya Film Festival will be presented to a legendary actress in cinematic history, Catherine Deneuve. World Amateur Golfers Championship... Belek/Frankfurt, XX. October 2015 (primo PR). The worldwide largest amateur golf championship – the World Amateur Golfers Championship – will hold its 21st World Final in the Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek from 28th November to 5th December 2015. Teams,from over 40 countries will be competing in this year’s Championship and Invitational. Understanding the G-20 Summit in 1... Over the last few months, Turkey has been preparing to host the much anticipated G-20 Summit 2015 for its first time at Antalya's Belek resort on Nov. 15 and 16. What G-20 means, who will attend the summit and which topics will be on agenda in the guide below collected in 12 points. Extra security measures taken for ... World leaders and others will enjoy full security and comfort during next weekWs G-20 Summit that will be held in the Belek resort of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast, a presidential spokesman has said. Antalya hotels to host world leade... Turkey’s Mediterranean city of Antalya is ready to host the world leaders during the G20 Leaders’ Summit that takes place on November 15 and 16. United States President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Saudi Arabia King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among the leaders that will be in Antalya. Turkey’s first underwater museum o... Turkey's and Europe's first underwater museum has officially opened in Antalya. The museum displays 110 sculptures in five different themes The legends of football met in Ant... In cooperation with Antalya Metropolitan Municipality and Antalya Consulate of Germany, Legends Cup Soccer Tournament was held for Turkish-German friendship. The tournament was full of joys and Hannover 96 won the cup. World Civil Aviation meets in Anta... Held annually by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Civil Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) are taking place in Turkey for the second time. This will be the first time that Turkey, which has become a country that flies to most countries in the world as part of mutual aviation agreements, will host a global organization that brings together the aviation and tourism industries. 57th FIJET 2015 Congress in Antaly... World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers Congress has begun with the speech of Federation’s President Mr. Tijani Haddad this morning an Belconti Resort Hotel in Belek. This year’s opening speech was focused on global terrorism and its effects on World tourism. Antalya to host World's Leaders du... Turkey will be hosting the world leaders during the 2015 G-20 summit taking place in the heavenly golf and MICE destination of Belek, Antalya. Taking place on 15 - 16 November 2015 the G-20 summit will be participated by the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, India, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and the European Union as well as Turkey. As the current chair of the 2015 G-20, Turkey will be hosting a number of important meetings during the year, including the Leaders' Summit to be held in Antalya in November. World Award to Antalya Antalya won award of "Five Blooms Gold Community" in the international competition "Communities in Bloom" in which participated a city for the first time from Turkey. Antalya, the capital of tourism, got to the finals with two cities from Canada, one city from the Czech Republic and one city from South Korea. Meet Our Latest Member: Nexa Trave... Nexa DMC is the specialized Destination Manager in Turkey and offering package tours that is tailored to your needs and budget. Let give us the chance to assist you find what you really need for a good vacation in Turkey. The 6th edition of Red Bull Sea to Sky will take place on October 02 – 04, 2015, in Kemer, Turkey. Antalya Culture Center opens with ... The former Antalya Trade and Industrial Chamber (ATSO) building in the center of the southern city has been turned into a culture center. The opening of the Antalya Culture and Arts Center (AKS) was made with original paintings by Picasso on Sept. 16, while another opening exhibition displays works from famous Turkish photography artist Ara Güler. IMEX in Frankfurt 2015 will be big... Show opens on Tuesday 19 May IMEX in Frankfurt 2015, the worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events, will be the biggest since its launch in 2003 when it opens its doors next week. 51st Presidential Cycling Tour is ... Lluis Mas Bonet caught the sprinters by surprise with a late attack to win the final stage of the Tour of Turkey. Mark Cavendish (Etixx-QuickStep) had the Spaniard in his sights with 50 metres to go but Mas Bonet held on for the biggest win of his career, while his teammate Carlos Barbero finished third. Sand sculptures to reflect Seven W... The ninth Antalya Sand Sculpture Festival will be organized this year around the theme of the Seven Wonders of the World and mythology. NATO foreign ministers meeting set... Foreign affairs ministers will meet in Turkey's southern province of Antalya this week, hosted by the Foreign Ministry, to discuss regional developments and assess the challenges NATO is facing. The 2015 Turkish Ladies Open This year will be hosted by the Carya Golf Club the first and only floodlit course in Turkey and Europe. The Tournament will be played between the 17th & 20th May. The Ladies European Tour is a worldwide organisation with members from more than 40 countries, playing 23 tournaments this year in 23 Australia, New Zealand, China, Morocco, Turkey, Netherlands, England, Scotland, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Japan, Dubai, Spain, & Italy. Antalya to welcome world’s best ph... Antalya will switch gears in April to welcome the Photo Antalya International Press Photo Days, which will bring together some of the world’s most famous photojournalists to the city. The best-known names in both global and Turkish photojournalism will come together in the southern province of Antalya during the Photo Antalya International Press Photo Days. Antalya continues to grow as winte... With mid-season breaks for football leagues around the world comes a healthy influx of clubs into Turkey's resort town of Antalya, which remains one of the top destinations for football training camps, especially during winter. 6th International Tourism Cartoon ... Rumenian illustrator Pavel Gabriel Virgil is the first award winner at 6th International Tourism Cartoon Competition... Antalya top convention tourism des... Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya, an international tourism destination with numerous facilities, has become the country’s leading convention tourism city, according to a sector representative. Some 24.3 percent of convention and event managing companies pick Antalya, said Volkan Ataman, the general manager of Turizm Medya Grubu, at the ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition in Istanbul last week. Presidential Cycling Tour of Turke... The Presidential Tour of Turkey has announced the course for its 51st edition, to be held April 26-May 3. The race opens with a stage starting and ending in the beach resort of Alanya, which should result in a bunch sprint. The second stage runs from Alanya to Antalya, another coastline and sprint stage. Stage three brings climbing, with a finish at the natural mountain-top amphitheater at Elmali, followed by a sprint stage from Fethiye to Marmaris. Sports Stadium with the biggest so... Being built on 124.360 yards of terrain with capacity of 33.000 spectator, indoor sports arena with capacity of 10.000 spectator and swimming pool up to 3.000 people... Exhibitors pleased with ITB Berlin... ITB Berlin 2015 took place from March 4 to March 9 in Berlin, Germany. It is the world’s largest specialist convention for the travel and tourism industry, and the exhibitors who participated this year were quite satisfied with the event. Here’s what a few of them had to say: International Tourism and Hospital... The International Tourism and Hospitality Management Conference (ITHMC 2015) which will be held from September 30 to October 04, 2015 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Conference is organized by Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Akdeniz University and Zenith Group Sarajevo. ICCA Congress attendees break reco... On average 10-20 percent of delegates at a conference or tradeshow are active on Twitter. In contrast, almost 60 percent of delegates were active on the platform before, during or after the 53rd ICCA Congress Nov. 1-5 in Antalya, Turkey. Turkish Airlines Open to be held i... Europe's finest golfers and many of the world's greatest are heading back to Turkey for the "Turkish Airlines Open" which will be held at Montgomerie Maxx Royal in Antalya, Belek on 13-16 November 2014. Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort is... Opened in April ’14, Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort is hosting Russia’s most read women’s magazine Cosmopolitan. A team of 45 people from Russia checked-in at the hotel for this amazing event that will be held on 11-14 October. Records set at ICCA 2014 The 2014 ICCA Congress taking place 01-05 November in Antalya, Turkey looks set to break several records.To-date the conference has passed 800 registrations. International meetings industry suppliers from 71 countries have registered for the Congress, already an all-time record. ACE of M.I.C.E. EXHIBITION 2015 Turkey’s most Professional and unique MICE industry event“ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition”will be held on 26 – 28 February 2015 at Istanbul Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey.Organised for the first time in 2014 “ACE of M.I.C.E. Exhibition” is the leading regional event for the meetings, incentives, conferences, events and business travel industry which brought MICE industry professionals from Turkey and all around the globe. A traditional Gloria triumph: TUI ... Once again the Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek at the Turkish Riviera are among the top of the tops of the international holiday resorts: That was determined once more by 500.000 TUI guests at the largest customer survey of the German tourism industry on the occasion of granting with the TUI Holly Awards 2014. Tourism is developing in Turkey and the world rapidly. Currently defined as travel industry, the tourism sector has ability to create highest synergy in social and economic life thanks to its framework. The rapid change in this area require close pursuit of the improvements in every area and at every level. For this reason, it’s vital to evaluate current situation of travel industry and make predictions for the future probabilities about it. "The International Resort Tourism Congress" was born as a voice of this. Handan Boyce runs for ICCA Preside... From November 1st until 5th, the 53rd ICCA Conference and General Assembly will take place in Antalya, Turkey. This year, the General Assembly will vote for a new President of ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) since Arnaldo Nardone will step down after having completed his four-year term. Handan Boyce, General Manager of the Halic Congress Center and former General Manager of the Istanbul Convention & Visitors Bureau, will stand for the Presidential election. Huge Five Thousand Seat Hall Plan ... General Secretary of Expo 2016 Agency Selami Gülay said “We have been planning to built up a congress center in Kemer with five thousand seat capacity only in main hall of it. It will be a huge contribution for tourism in Turkey.” ICCA Central European Chapter Summ... The International Congress and Convention Association(ICCA) Central European Chapter Summer Meeting was held in Belgrad,Serbia 27-29 August,with more than 80 delegates including ICCA CEC members,international speakers and sponsors. THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURIS... Offering the opportunity to have a holiday surrounded by spectacular nature, Gloria Verde Resort was awarded with the "Certificate of Environment-Friendly Accommodation Facility", also known as the 'Green Star' by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for its respect and awareness towards nature. Antalya and 53rd ICCA Congress Thr... For some Antalya means only full of sunshine and four seasons in one place at the same time while Antalya is ‘California’ of Turkey for the others referring to costal beauties and its call to live a charming life with its all historical and natural richness. Antalya has more than these as being 6th. biggest city of Turkey. Program of Antalya Piano Fest anno... The program of the 15th International Antalya Piano Festival, which was the topic of a recent conversation after the resignation of Fazıl Say, has been announced. Under the art directorship of Gürer Aykal, the festival will be held between November 07-29. Along with the young talents’ concerts, Doruk Görkem Tokur and Giovanni Nesi’s Mediterranean premier, 19 concerts will be performed during the festival. One of every three tourists coming... One of every three tourists coming to Antalya is from Russia, as over 6.7 million foreign travelers flocked to the city in the first seven months of the year. Cornelia Golf Club has a new Event... Cornelia Golf Club just opened a new event area of 1.000Sqm Green Area in front of the Golf Club Building with the amazing lake view which suitable for all kind of events. Air Arabia touches down in Antalya... Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, announced the start of its non-stop services to the city of Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast, in the South West of Turkey. Where The Jet Set Tees Off When it comes to glowing holidays, Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek at the Turkish Riviera are the right choice for golfers. Best in Europe for the last four y... Turkish Airlines has been chosen "Best Airline in Europe", "Best Airline in Southern Europe" and awarded "Best Business Class Onboard Catering", "Best Business Class Lounge Dining" in 2014 Skytrax World Airline Awards. Cookbook Gifted By Nizamettin Şen ... Nizamettin Şen President of Antalya Promotion Foundation which published a cookbook entitled From Taurus to Mediterranean Tastes of Antalya has been presented to well known head cooks who own the most prestigious award of Michelin Star of gastronomy world while they were about to present their foremost cooks and recipes at Aska Lara Hotel. Deputy Chair Role Changes in Medit... Sinan İnan, General Manager of Antalya Convention Bureau has been approved as Deputy Chair at ICCA Mediterranean Chapter. Sinan İnan has been working for ACB more than four years and takes the duty from Ms. Elif Füsun Balcıoğlu former ICCA Mediterranean Chapter Chairperson. From 180 countries being invited t... Of the 180 invitation letters signed by the Turkish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Mr Mehmet Mehdi Eker, so far over 40 countries send their response, with 17 countries declaring their participation, stated Mr Gülay, Secretay of the Expo 2016 Antalya Agency. Golf Academy Opened at Wolrd of Su... 2 of June 2014 in World of Sunrise Hotels, situated in Side Manavgat tourism area, was opened Golf Academy which added a new item in Side sport facilities. In Starlight Convention Center Thalasso & Spa and Sunrise Park Resort & Spa with its sport opportunities the Gold Academy gives the possibility to take classes for professionals and amateurs during the holiday. ICCA President’s Call To 53rd ICCA... ICCA President Arnaldo Nardone invites you to the upcoming ICCA General Assembly in Antalya which will be held on 1-5 November. As Nardone points out that Antalya and its surrounding area is one of the most important and strategic region for civilizations for more than a millennium of Mediterranean basin and Antalya is on the way to become a top quality congress and meeting destination where the people from all over the world come together. Gloria Verde Resort in Belek spark... After the renovation of the golf courses last year, now the worldwide favoured Five-Star Gloria Verde Resort has been modernized and extended with a new center for physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Applied Probability Workshop on Ta... The International Workshop in Applied Probability will be held in Antalya, Turkey, from June 16–19. It is intended for scientists in applied probability and stochastic modeling. Expected to attend are scientists with diverse backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, statistical physics, biophysics, financial engineering, and econophysics. ICCA reports 2013 Top 20 Rankings ... ICCA, which is the most global meetings industry association and the leader in the international association meetings sector, released the 2013 Top 20 Rankings for countries and cities. Antalya leads in Green hotels By the end of May 2014, number of environmental friendly establishments which received Green Star certificate from Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry reached 80. Successful premiere at Maritim Pin... The first Judo Festival organized by the EJU (European Judo Federation) was held in Antalya between 12-21st of May,2014. From Buddha Bar to Turkish stars a... The summer season at the Gloria Hotels & Resorts once more goes flat out with a diversified entertainment and music program: with well-known musicians from Turkey, worldwide famous DJs, hot party nights, unique meetings and more. Antalya hosts 3rd stage in World A... Turkish Airlines, the official airline of World Archery, has announced a two-year extension of its sponsorship of the federation and its events. The Turkish Airlines World Golf Cu... The Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup is an amateur golf event on a global scale. The format of play is individual stroke play and players will be split into two categories based on their handicaps. This series will also feature Nearest the Pin competitions with separate prizes for men and ladies. The winner of each category will then progress to play in the Grand Finals, which will be held in Belek, Turkey from November 9th-16th. Nizamettin Şen: Joy of Getting Tog... Turkey showed up herself with 46 participants in 400 square meters at IMEX-Frankfurt which was the largest and biggest stand among other countries. Aces of world congresses were happy to get together in Germany. ACB's Attendance IMEX-Frankfurt Antalya Convention Bureau attended 12th Frankfurt IMEX on 20-22 May in Germany. Nizamettin Şen, President of Antalya Promotion Foundation and Sinan İnan, General Director of ACB welcomed various hosted buyers from all over the world. Sportaccord Convention 2014 Conclu... BELEK / ANTALYA, Turkey - The 12th annual SportAccord Convention concluded in Belek/Antalya, Turkey, having attracted 1636 attendees representing 78 nationalities from around the world. An impressive proportion of one fourth of all the delegates to the world sport summit, held from April 6-11 at the Susesi Luxury Resort Convention Centre, were newcomers to the event with 410 participants attending the Convention for the first time. The Wings for Life World Run The Wings for Life World Run is an entirely new type of event never before seen or undertaken in either running or any other sporting field. Why? Because it is a truly global adventure, encompassing up to forty locations, in which everyone runs at the very same time all over the world! THK-Corendon Jet Fest Getting louder the masses on the ground with mind-blowing maneuvers and incredible visual shows since 2012, International THK-Corendon Jet Fest will attract the people and aviation enthusiasts for the third time on 18 May. Keeping the tension on top notch in the skies, replica models of the modern jets can reach 300 km/h using the current type of fuel, kerosene. 50th. Presidential Cycling Tour of... Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey (TUR) started in 1963 with the name of "Marmara Tour", gained international status in 1965 for the first time and was taken under the auspices of Presidential authority in 1966. The competition on its 50th year anniversary will be held in April 27-May 4, 2014 in 8 stages starting from Alanya, proceeding along the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts and ending in Istanbul. Butterfly Paradise of Antalya 183 species of 410 well known butterflies live in Antalya region. Turkey has important prosperity in terms of butterfly population… Meeting with ICCA Members in Turke... ACB hosted the local Turkish ICCA members in Belek at Susesi Luxury Hotel on 28 April. Nizamettin Şen, president of Antalya Promotion Foundation and Vice President of ACB and Sinan İnan, Director of ACB... Find ACB at IMEX-Frankfurt! Find ACB at IMEX-Frankfurt on 20-22 May! Term of “Boutique Hotel Congresses... As it is known Antalya Convention Bureau has been putting all of its effort to organize national & international conventions and to increase the current ones. According to ICCA standards %90 of about 12.000 meetings taking place in the world annually consist of congresses below 1.000 people. Even if congresses of above 1.000 people attract mostly in the world, minor ones have much density and getting unusual attentions. Gloria Hotels & Resorts in Belek f... Turkish Airlines Selects Thales’ ... Record Breaking numbers 12 Million 66 thousand foreign tourists came to Antalya in 2013. The Turkish tourism sector hosted 34.910.098 foreign tourists in 2013 with an icrease of 9.8%. The number of tourists to Antalya in 2013 increased by 7,5% as against the previous year reaching 12 million 66 thousand, which is the highest number ever in Turkey's Republican history. Russian tourists came in first place as the biggest group to have arrived in Antalya, followed by Germans and the Dutch. Football Teams are in Antalya Football Teams from Turkey , Europe and Asia have come to Antalya to prepare for the second part of the season and get some vacation time. Proffessional football leagues in Turkey, Europe and Asia have finished the first part of the season as of December. Teams are now camping to prepare for the second part of the season. There are 380 butterfly species in... 177 species have been detected in Antalya and 3 of them are endemic. The founder of Antalya Butterfly Observation Group, Prof. Dr. Olcay Yeğin declared that they have determined 177 butterfly species around the city. VI Antalya International Choir Fes... The organizing commitee has made a special program. This year, it is planning to organise a big concert performance of “9th Symphony” with the mixed choirs selected from festival attendants and Antalya State Symphony Orchestra together on the name of brotherhood and piece all over the world. At least 120 chorists and 80 professional orchestral musicians will be perfoming on the stage. World of Sunrise Starlight Convention Center Thalasso & SPA welcomes international football stars on his professional football pitches all through winter 2014. 53rd ICCA Congress The 53rd ICCA Congress will be held in Antalya, Turkey from 1-5 November 2014 For thousands of years, throughout philosophy was of great importance for Antalya and its surroundings and tradition continue even today with its activity in the tourism sector.Antalya, which hosts millions of tourists ever year, both Turkish and international, has became one of the most prominent touristic regions in the Mediterranean.Antalya is not only a sun, sea and sand destination but has also earned an important place in the meetings and incentive industry. The International Antalya Hospital... We are pleased to announce the International Antalya Hospitality, Tourism and Travel Research Conference that will be held in Porto Bello Hotel, Antalya, Turkey between December 9 and December 12, 2014. Meetings at the Taurus More than sun and sand for meetings!!!Belek is said to be a mecca for holidaymakers and golfers. However the popular destination on the Turkish Riviera offers much more than sun and beaches. Especially the Gloria Hotels & Resorts make a mark as a MICE-destination. Numerous international congresses take place here. Renowned companies such as Nike Europa, Unilever or Amnesty International are convinced of the accessibility and hotel offer. 9th International ÖGER Antalya Mar... RUNTALYA International Marathon is in its 9th year running. The RUNTALYA Marathon has become a tradition and will take place on March 02, 2014. Marine Biology Museum opened in An... Marine Biology Museum of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality where approximately 500 species of marine animals will be exhibited opened in Antalya on 16 january. Antalya Marine Biology Museum is Turkey’s first sea creatures museum. 47th World Outdoor Archery Champi... The Turkish Archery Federation, which previously organised the 37th World Outdoor Archery Championships in Antalya in 1993, will host another world championship after 20 years. The 47th World Outdoor Archery Championships will be held between 29 September - 06 October in Belek, Antalya ANTALYA TO HOST 2014 SPORTACCORD C... SportAccord Convention announced that the 2014 edition of the Convention will take place at the Susesi Resort in Belek in the Antalya region of Turkey from April 6-11, 2014. The venue for the 12th annual edition of SportAccord Convention is one of the biggest and most modern congress centres in the Mediterranean. Antalya , Promotions Video Program of Antalya Piano Fest announced <<< Go Back The festival will open on November 07 with a concert by the Antalya state Symphony Orchestra. The concert will also host El Sistema Istanbul. Başar Can Kıvrak, Cem Babacan, Alexander Lonquich, Christian Zacharias and Tord Gustavsen will be among the other guests during the festival’s first week. The second week’s guests will include French singer Adila Sedraia, known as Indila, and continue with Emir Gamsızoğlu, Hüseyin Sermet, Paul Lewis, Eliane Elias, Herbert Schuch and Gülru Ensari. The final week of the festival will present the Mediterranean Philharmonic Festival. Successful pianist Freddy Kempf will be the soloist of the concert. Fahir Atakoğlu and Ara Dinkjiyan, Kandemir Basmacıoğlu will be among the other guests of the festival. The closing of the festival will be made by The 5 Browns, which is made up of two brothers and three sisters, on Nov. 29. 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__label__cc	0.618311	0.381689	About ASCE Gala Celebration Centennial Publication Centerpiece Competition 2008 ASCE National Conference D'App Memorial Cartwright Memorial YMF YMF Events YMF Leadership YMF Photo Gallery Younger Member Awards YMF Membership Architectural Engineering Institute AEI Events CI Events Environmental and Water Resources Institute EWRI Events Geotechnical Institute Geo Institute Events Structural Engineering Institute SEI Events Transportation and Development Institute TDI Events Sustainability at the Section Sustainability Committee PE/EIT Review Continuing Education Made Easy Article Series Officer Nominations Student Awards Foundation SAF Donations Report Card for America's Infrastructure Join ASCE Rocks Roads Ripples N'At: Pittsburgh's Civil Engineering News Blog << First < Prev ... 14 15 16 17 18 Next > Last >> CANstruction 2014 03 Oct 2014 6:29 PM \| Djuna Gulliver (Administrator) For the third year in a row, the Pittsburgh Younger Member Forum teamed up with the Keystone-Mountain-Lakes Carpenter’s Union to enter the annual CANstruction Pittsburgh competition. This year’s entry “Send Hunger to the Land of Make Believe” was a replica of King Friday the Thirteenth’s castle from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and was our most ambitious design yet. Constructed over the course of six hours by Karen Mueser, Linda Kaplan, Paroma Saha and Nicholle Piper of the YMF and Rick Okraszewski and Dave Plutt of the Carpenter’s Union, the castle was eight feet wide, seven feet deep and eight feet tall. The castle was comprised of a black bean curtain wall, a keep made of great northern beans, and towers comprised of pinto beans, garbanzo beans, and chicken and vegetable broth had battlements of sauerkraut and tuna fish - sure to keep out invaders if by the smell alone! Perhaps the best part of CANstruction is the cause. All of the cans used in the structure were donated to our food bank partner, The Brashear Association, which is located in Pittsburgh’s Southside. With more than 2,500 cans of food weighing over 2,200 pounds, the castle will provide many meals for the families of Pittsburgh and we are pleased to be donating so much good food to the members of our community that need it. While CANstruction is ultimately a food charity, there is a healthy dose of competition between the teams and six awards from the ‘Best Use of Labels’ to ‘Fan Favorite’ were up for grabs. This year, “Send Hunger to the Land of Make Believe” won the 2014 award for “Best Meal” for our suggested recipe of a Tuna Salad Sandwich and Four Bean Soup. We would like to extend a special thanks to everyone that donated to the project including: friends, family, and members of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section, Giant Eagle Parkway Center, Massaro Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Greater Pennsylvania Regional Carpenters Unions, DiGioia Gray & Associates, and American Geotechnical and Environmental Services, Inc. For more information on CANstruction please contact team captain Karen Mueser at Karen.mueser@lrkimball.com. You can also check out the CANstruction Pittsburgh website at Pittsburgh.canstruction.org Read more • Comments (1) National Steel Day Tour: Scott Hall Construction Site, CMU 30 Sep 2014 5:01 PM \| Djuna Gulliver (Administrator) To celebrate AISC’s National Steel Day the Pittsburgh SEI Chapter hosted a construction site tour of the Scott Hall project on Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) campus. When finished, this 100K SF building will house wet and dry laboratories, collaborative and office spaces, a cafe, and a 10K SF cleanroom facility. This impacted the design of the building significantly as vibration requirements for the cleanroom and laboratory spaces were very strict. Preceding the tour, a brief overview of the project was presented as well as a look at some of the more unique structural design challenges. The project site sits in the back of CMU’s campus on a steep hillside leading down to active railroad tracks. The building is cantilevered out over the hillside and supported on diagonally splayed steel columns. Each column is outfitted with multiple strain gages to allow for continual monitoring of the building. Building floor plans had to be designed as trusses in order to resolve all forces from the columns, resulting in unusual framing and connection designs. The structure is designed to tie into four other campus buildings, creating a connecting hub for many of CMU’s engineering departments. To accomplish this, a portion of the building is being constructed under the main campus level in a previous service entrance area. Main campus walkways will then extend over this portion of the structure creating new green roof space. The cleanrooms will be housed in the area under the green roof. Construction is expected to be completed Winter 2015. Project manager Max Dorosa led the tour with the assistance of project structural engineers Matt Larson and Daniel Brodkin from Arup USA. For more information on the project, final design renderings, and up-to-date progress photos check out the project website at http://www.cmu.edu/cdfd/scott-hall/. For more information on SEI Pittsburgh Activities, contact Sonya Flournoy, at Sonya.Flournoy@lrkimball.com Read more • Add comment WOTUS: Waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act Identifying streams and wetlands protected under the Clean Water Act became confusing and complex following the Supreme Court decisions of 2001 and 2006. For nearly a decade, members of Congress, state and local officials, industry, agriculture, environmental groups, and the public have asked for rulemaking to provide clarity. The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a proposed new rule on April 21, 2014, defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act as WOTUS, or the Waters of the US in the Federal Register. The proposed rule can be reviewed at: http://www2.epa.gov/uswaters/definition-waters-united-states-under-clean-water-act. Specifically, the proposed rule clarifies that under the Clean Water Act: • Most seasonal and rain-dependent streams are protected. • Wetlands near rivers and streams are protected. • Other types of waters may have more uncertain connections with downstream water and protection will be evaluated through a case specific analysis of whether the connection is or is not significant. However, to provide more certainty, the proposal requests comment on options protecting similarly situated waters in certain geographic areas or adding to the categories of waters protected without case specific analysis. The proposed rule is consistent with the Supreme Court's more narrow reading of Clean Water Act jurisdiction and also regulates groundwater. It does not protect any new types of waters that have not historically been covered under the Clean Water Act. It also proposes to reduce jurisdiction and exclude certain ephemeral and intermittent ditches. EPA estimates the proposed rule would annually provide $388 million to $514 million of benefits to the public, including flood reduction, pollution filtration, provisions for wildlife habitat, hunting and fishing support, and groundwater recharge. Public benefits significantly outweigh the annual costs of about $162 million to $278 million for stream/wetland mitigation and waterway pollution reduction. The public comment period on the proposed rule will close on Monday, October 20, 2014. ASCE strongly urges its members to submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880 by one of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Email: ow-docket@epa.gov. Include EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880 in the subject line of the message. Mail: Send the original and three copies of your comments to: Water Docket, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880. Hand Delivery/Courier: Deliver your comments to EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880. Such deliveries are accepted only during the Docket's normal hours of operation, which are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. The telephone number for the Water Docket is 202-566-2426. Welcome to the ASCE-PGH News Blog Welcome to the new ASCE-Pittsburgh News Blog-Rocks Roads Ripples n’At. On September 4th, 2014, the ASCE-Pittsburgh Board of Directors voted to convert the monthly newsletter to a weekly blog format. This move is part of a continuing effort to make important information readily accessible, searchable, and interactive for current and future Pittsburgh Section ASCE members, public policy makers, news media, and advertisers. Rocks Roads Ripples n’At will convey the usual newsletter information, as well as additional event photos and personal member profiles. The blog format will allow frequent updates on government relations, legislative developments, and other areas of interest to our members. The format encourages comments and discussion on new and archived articles. Newsletters will continue to be printed until the end of December, 2014. The transition from newsletter to blog format is expected to encounter some challenges. 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__label__wiki	0.838719	0.838719	September 13th-Olympic champion in New York stacked show in Japan! This coming Friday is a really notable one, with a lot of exciting action, even with the biggest bout of the weekend, for us, being cancelled. The bout that was cancelled, would have seen the unified Super Bantamweight champion Daniel Roman (27-2-1, 10) defending his WBA "super" and IBF titles against fast rising Uzbek amateur standout Murodjon Akhmadaliev (6-0, 5). Sadly this was called off due to an injury to Roman, however the plan seems to be to reschedule the bout for when Roman is 100%. Despite the main bout being called off the card will still feature 2016 Olympic gold medal winner Daniyar Yeleussinov (7-0, 3), who has promised a lot but is yet to truly shine as a professional. The unbeaten Kazakh will be up against unbeaten American Reshard Hicks (12-0-1, 6). On paper this looks a good test for the Kazakh but in reality he shouldn't struggle with Hicks, if he's as good as many hoped he'd be. Due to the world title fight being called off in the US, the best card appears to be in Japan where we see a former world champion, a Japanese title fight, a Japanese youth title fight and a Japanese title eliminator. The main event will see former WBO Super Featherweight world champion Masayuki Ito (25-2-1, 13) fight for the first time since losing his belt to Jamel Herring. The talented Ito will be up against Indonesian foe Ruben Manakane (25-18-1, 14), who despite only being 26 will be fighting in his 45th pro bout. This is expected to be an easy win for Ito, who is flirting with the Lightweight division, but it's clear there is a lot to work on given before he returns to facing world class opposition, at least based on his performance against Herring. Despite this being a pretty obvious mismatch Manakane does enter as the Indonesian champion and is 7-1 in his last 8. Despite the main event being a mismatch the supporting card is solid with the best of the bouts being a Japanese Featherweight title bout, with Reiya Abe (19-1-2, 9) and Ryo Sagawa (7-1, 4) battling for the title that Taiki Minamoto vacated earlier in the year. This has the hall marks of a very, very special bout with both fighters being very highly skilled but having different styles and mentalities. Abe is the more pure counter puncher, a sharp shooting, back foot fighter, whilst Sagawa is a more offensively minded boxer-puncher. These style really should gel and the two fighters will both be looking for their most significant win to date. This could be one of the most thrilling bouts of the month. Our preview of this bout is available to read here Abe and Sagawa battle to crown new Japanese Featherweight champion! In what looks likely to be an exciting brawl we'll see Gakuya Furuhashi (25-8-1, 14) and Ryoichi Tamura (12-4-1, 6) battle in a JBC Super Bantamweight eliminator. The experienced Furuhashi is trying to secure a third Japanese title fight but will be the under-dog here against Tamura, who held the title earlier this year. Furuhashi is a solid national contender but he has been in tough bouts through his career and it's hard to know what he has left in the tank. On the other hand Tamura's last 2 bouts have been really hard wars, with his last bout being a brutal war with Yusaku Kuga, and they may well have added a lot of miles to his clock. A preview of this bout can be read here Tamura and Furuhashi to battle in eliminator! A second title fight will see fast rising youngsters Rikito Shiba (3-0, 2) and Shisui Kawabata (2-0, 2) battle for the JBC Youth Light Flyweight title. Both of these youngsters are tipped for big things, and in fact Shiba is pencilled in for a Japanese title eliminator later in the year, so to see them clash at this point is rather surprising, despite the Youth title. So far Shiba has looked the better fighter, and he really does look the goods, however Kawabata has sparred with Naoya Inoue among others and is very highly regarded. This could be another thriller. Our preview of this contest is here Shiba and Kawabata face off for Japanese youth title! The rest of the card is full of small but still interesting bouts. These include a battle between Japanese ranked fighters, as Kanehiro Nakagawa (7-6, 4) looks to build on a career best win against Seiichi Okada as he takes on Ryuto Araya (13-7-1, 4). Other smaller bouts on this card include Satoru Goto (4-4-2) taking on the unbeaten Ryugo Ushijima (3-0-1, 2) and the debuting Taison Morishita (0-0) battling Kojiro Nishikawa (5-1, 2) in a tough 6 round debut. Another notable fighter pencilled in for the day is former world title challenger Muhammad Waseem (8-1, 6), who will be in action in Dubai. Sadly at the time of writing his opponent hasn't yet been announced. May 25th-Ito and Herring headline a good looking Saturday! Our attention turns to Florida this Saturday where two Asian fighters will be involved in a notable Top Rank card. The main bout will see Japan's Masayuki Ito (25-1-1, 13) make his second defense of the WBO Super Featherweight title, as he takes on American challenger Jamel Herring (19-2, 10). Originally the WBO stated this bout wouldn't take place for their title, though it appears the organisation quickly back tracked, and in fairness it is a really interesting match up. The champion, who won the title last year when he beat Christopher Diaz in his US debut, looked solid in December, when he made a mandatory defense, but this looks likely to be a much tougher bout. Herring, a 2012 Olympian, has lost 2 of his last 6 but those losses were at Lightweight and he looks much better suited to Super Featherweight. This is an interesting match up, but one where the champion should be regarded as the favourite. A full preview of this bout is available here Ito returns to the US to take on Herring! The other bout with an Asian fighter will see former WBA "interim" Flyweight champion Koki Eto (24-4-1, 19) take on 2-time Olympian Jeyvier Cintron (10-0, 5) in a WBO Super Flyweight world title eliminator. Those who have seen Eto will know what to expect from him. He's a wild, fighter who could probably be knockdown shadow boxing, but he's fun to watch, aggressive and has been involved in some incredible bouts during his career, which began in 2008. Cintron, on the other hand, is a talented former amateur standout who turned pro in 2014 and looks like he is on the fast track to success. Cintron looks like he has all the tools to deal with Eto, but the Japanese fighter does have incredible will to win and will not go down without a fight. We've previewed this bout here Eto makes US debut, takes on unbeaten Cintron Staying in the US fans will also be able to see 2016 Olympic gold medal winner Daniyar Yeleussinov (6-0, 3) battle against limited veteran Miguel Zamudio (43-12-1, 27), who has previously lost to Shakhram Giyasov, the man Yeleussinov beat in the Olympic final. It's hard to see anything but a win for the unbeaten Kazakh here. As well as the action in the US there is also a fight of some minor note in Australia. The bout here sees unbeaten prospect Conor Wallace (5-0, 4) take on limited Indonesian visitor Marco Tuhumury (13-23-2, 5). The Indonesian has lost his last 6, and will likely pick up another loss here. Wallace is a decent prospect, but a win over Tuhumury will prove little, and it seems his team are aware of this with another bout for the prospect looking like it's already been arranged for July. Pyeongtaek, South Korea There will also be a small 7 rookie card in Korea. This isn't part of Battle Royale tournament but is being sold as a Boxing M 4 round Parade show with 7 bouts, all between novices, set to compete on the card. December 30th-Japanese triple header The final two days of 2018 are set to be huge for Asian combat sports, with several major shows. For us it's the boxing that is key and this coming Sunday we'll see a triple header being shown on Fuji TV. Technically the main event of the show will see WBO Super Featherweight champion Masayuki Ito (24-1-1, 12) make his first defense, as he takes on unbeaten mandatory challenger Evgeny Chuprakov (20-0, 10). The talented Ito won the title earlier this year in the USA, defeating the touted Christopher Diaz, and now looks to build on that win. The unbeaten Chuprakov didn't look great last time out, being pushed very hard by Ernie Sanchez, but is a good fighter and should make for an interesting first defense by the popular Japanese fighter. This is a really good bout on paper, but one where we suspect the champion has to be favoured. Our full in depth preview of this bout can be read here - Masayuki Ito faces mandatory Evgeny Chuprakov The second champion defending their title on this show is WBC Light Flyweight champion Kenshiro (14-0, 8), who will be looking to make his 5th defense of the title. The talented champion will be up against Mexican foe Saul Juarez (24-8-2, 13). On paper this isn't an awful bout, especially given that Juarez is proven at world level, but is 1-4-1 in his last 6 bouts, dating back more than 2 years. Kenshiro has been one of Japanese's boxing big success stories of the last few years, and looked sensational in beating Milan Melindo earlier this year. If Kenshiro can put on a similar performance here to the one he put on against Melindo he has to be in the running for the Asian Fighter of the Year. A preview of this bout can be read here Kenshiro seeks 5th defense, takes on Baby Juarez The third bout of note on this card will see unbeaten fighters collide, as Takuma Inoue (12-0, 3) battles Petch Sor Chitpattana (48-0, 33), who is also known as Petch CP Freshmart and Tasana Salapat, for the WBC "Interim" Bantamweight title. Inoue, the younger brother of Naoya Inoue, is well know in Asian boxing circles and has a number of good wins, beating the likes of Tatsuya Fukuhara, Fahlan Sakkreerin Jr, Rene Dacquel, Froilan Saludar, Hiroyuki Kudaka and Mark John Yap already in his short career. Petch on the other hand has one of the longest unbeaten records in the sport, but totally lacks in terms of quality, with his best wins coming against Jestoni Autida and Jeson Umbal. A preview of this bout can be read here - Petch Sor Chitpattana and Takuma Inoue clash for WBC interim title! July 28th-Ito Vs Diaz and Akhmedov looks for win #5! This coming Saturday our attention turns to the US as we get the chance to see a Japanese fighter compete for the WBO Super Featherweight title in Florida. The match up in question will see former OPBF and WBO Asia Pacific Super Featherweight champion Masayuki Ito (23-1-1, 12) take on the unbeaten Christopher Diaz (23-0, 15) in what looks like an excellent match up to fill the void left when Vasyl Lomachenko moved up in weight. The 27 year old Ito has been waiting a while for a shot at a world title, and although his last couple of fights have been stay busy contests he does hold good wins against the likes of Shinto Eto, Takuya Watanabe and Lorenzo Villanueva. This will however by Ito's first bout outside of Japan. At 23 years old Diaz is the younger fighter and also the bigger puncher but his competition has been slightly softer than that of Ito and he's yet to prove he can go 10 rounds, something that Ito has done in the past. This really could be one of the highlights of the month. Another title bout Stateside of note will take place in Kentucky, as Uzbek born Russian based Batyr Akhmedov (4-0, 3) defends his WBA Inter-Continental Light Welterweight title against the heavy handed Ismael Barroso (20-2-2, 19). This is another tough test, on paper at least, for Akhmedov but he has shone since making his debut in February 2017 and looks like one of the most exciting prospects in world boxing. Barroso was highly touted a few years ago, and claimed the WBA "interim" Lightweight title with a win over Kevin Mitchell. Since then however he has gone 1-2 and is an old 35 year old. Staying in the US there will also be a couple of bouts of note in Texas. One of those will see Kyrgyzstan born Kazakh fighter Ali Baloyev (5-0, 4) battle against American foe Richard Urquizo (3-4-2, 1) for the lightly regarded NABF Junior Cruiserweight title. It's hard to imagine anything but a Baloyev win here, especially given his power and 3 stoppage losses that Urquizo has suffered in his 4 losses. Another Kazakh in action on this show is Askhat Zhantursynov (0-0), who will be making his debut against American Michael Coronado (1-1-1). Hard to say too much about this bout, but we have been informed that Zhantursynov was a former kick boxer and could end up being the next guy to switch codes with some genuine success. March 3rd-Bivol, Japanese title double, Ito and more! This coming Saturday we get a world title in the West and we'll also see two very interesting and notable Japanese cards, both taking place in the Kanto region of Japan. The world title bout is one of a trio of bouts at Madison Square Garden to feature Asian fighters, in what should be a great chance for a number of fighters to shine. The world title bout will see Kyrgyzstan born Russian based Light Heavyweight Dmitry Bivol (12-0, 10) defending his title against once beaten Cuban Sullivan Barrera (21-1, 14). For both men the bout is a major step forward for their career with Bivol facing his most notable opponent to date and Barrera really fighting in a must win, against his second most significant opponent to date,only behind Andre Ward who beat him 2 years ago. The bout pits two top Light Heavyweights against each other, and could well be a very special bout. This card will also feature a pair of Kazakh hopefuls. One of those is Meiirim Nursultanov (5-0, 4), who risks his unbeaten record against Alejandro Torres (9-3-2, 4). Nulrsultanov has looked really good since his debut in late 2016 and will be looking to launch himself up towards the world rankings by the end of 2018, with Torres being his first bout of the year. As for Torres the Mexican 24 year old has proven to be tough and should serve a good test for the Kazakh, who will be hunting his 5th straight stoppage. The other Kazakh on this show will be Madiyar Ashkeyev (8-0, 4), who faces live under-dog Jose Antonio Abreu (13-3, 8). The Kazakh isn't as touted as his aforementioned countryman but is a skilled operator who will be looking to make up for lost time after having fought just once in 2017. Abreu, from the Dominican Republic, has lost 3 of his last 4, all in the US, and will likely come up short again here, though has been matched hard in those losses and is certainly no push over. On a separate US card in New York, fans will see Kazakh hopeful Shyngyskhan Tazhibay (5-0, 2) risk his unbeaten record. At the time of writing his opponent hasn't been announced, but it's unlikely to be too much of a step up in class for the unbeaten man. Kanagawa, Japan On paper the Japanese card with the best single bouts take place in Kanagawa on a Kawasaki Nitta promoted card where fans will get two Japanese title fights and another solid support bout. The main event of the card is a Japanese Flyweight title bout between defending champion Masayuki Kuroda (28-7-3, 16) and mandatory challenger Katsunori Nagamine (14-1-1, 10), who meet in a Champion Carnival bout. The champion will be seeking his second defense of the title, and will be expecting a much tougher bout than his last defense, which saw him dominate the limited but entertaining Mako Matsuyama. Nagamine on the other hand will be getting his first title bout, and, on paper, his toughest bout since his sole loss to Ken Shiro. The other title bout is likely to be even better and will see teak tough Japanese Middleweight champion Hikaru Nishida (17-8-1, 8) take on the explosive Kazuto Takesako (7-0, 7) in another of the 2018 Champion Carnival bouts. Nishida has held the title for almost 2 years, but has only managed a single defense, due to an out of the ring accident which forced him out of the ring for a while. Despite the lack of defenses he's a tough, aggressive and exciting champion with a solid mentality and style. Takesako is a talented slugger, and should take the fight to Nishida in a potential war. We are expecting this bout to be a potential Japanese fight of the year and something very special. Also on this card will be the always fun to watch Gakuya Furuhashi (20-8-1, 9), who faces Masashi Kamon (7-2-1, 4) in an 8 rounder. Furuhashi has long been one of the fringe contenders on the domestic scene, and is far better than his record suggests, despite 3 losses in his last 6. Kamon on the other hand began his career 1-2 but has gone on a good run, going 6-0-1 in his last 7. Despite being on a good run Kamon is taking a notable step up in class here. The other Japanese card will be televised on G+ and despite being higher profile in it's coverage it's arguably a lesser card, despite having a number of notable fighters on it. The main event here will see WBO #1 ranked Super Featherweight contender Masayuki Ito (22-1-1, 11) take on under-rated Filipino Vergil Puton (17-9, 8), in a bout which appears to be a world title prelude for Ito. The talented Japanese fighter, a former OPBF and WBO Asia Pacific champion, will be expected to easily over-come Puton but the visitor is no push over, and has asked genuine questions to the likes of Paul Fleming, Ibraham Balla, Shuya Masaki and Ye Joon Kim. Ito should win, but this will be much tough than a public spar for the Japanese fighter. In a really good chief support bout fans will see former Japanese Super Flyweight champion Yohei Tobe (12-2-1, 8) take on Hajime Nagai (15-9-2, 5), with both men risking JBC rankings. Coming into this Tobe is ranked #7 by the JBC and Nagai is ranked #10. Tobe is riding a 4 fight winning run since losing the Japanese title to Sho Ishida, in a very competitive bout back in 2014, and despite issues with activity he is still a top domestic talent. Nagai on the other hand has lost 2 of his last 3, bith technical decisions,but does have under-rated skills, as he's shown against the likes of Yuji Shimizu back in 2016. This should be Tobe's to lose, but is a very good test on paper for the Misako gym fighter. Another support bout will see the often fun to watch Koki Eto (21-4-1, 16) take on Filipino journeyman Marzon Cabilla (16-15-1, 5). Eto is currently riding a 4 fight winning run, albeit against limited competition, since his 2015 loss to Carlos Cuadras. Despite his low level of competition the Japanese fighter is a fringe world class talent, and is well known for his thrilling bouts against the likes of Kompayak Porpramook, Yodmongol Vor Saengthep and Ardin Diale. Cabilla enters this bout in the form of his career, riding a 7 fight winning run, but is stepping back up in class here and is likely to see that run of success come to an end. One other bout of note will see Japanese ranked Light Flyweight Kenji Ono (11-2-1, 6) take on former Japanese Minimumweight contender Masashi Tada (11-5-2, 7). Ono is best known for his up-and-down war with Jun Takigawa from 2016, and has gone 1-1-1 since that bout, suffering an opening round loss to Seigo Yuri Akui in late 2016. He needs a win if he's to move into a title bout. As for Tada he has gone 0-2-1 in his last 3, and over 4 years removed from his last win, however at the age of 28 he does still have time to rebuild his career and a win here would see him move into the JBC rankings. September 2nd-Masayuki Ito headlines at the Korakuen Hall The main show for us this coming Saturday is a televised card from the Korakuen Hall, which will be covered live by G+. The main event of the card will see talented Super Featherweight contender Masayuki Ito (21-1-1, 10) take on Filipino foe Glenn Enterina (11-2-1, 8) in what is expected to be one of Ito's final bouts before a potential world title clash. The talented Japanese fighter, who unified the WBO Asia Pacific and OPBF titles at the end of 2016 is regarded as top 15 fighter by 3 of the alphabet organisations and will be seeking a title fight sooner rather than later. In his way will be the big punching Enterina, who will be seeking his first win outside of the Philippines, but will be regarded as a huge under-dog against the highly schooled Japanese hopeful. Arguably the best bout on this card will see the touted Sho Nakazawa (10-1, 4) take on Ryo Hino (10-1-1, 6) in a very even looking match up on paper. Nakazawa was once seen as a top prospect in Japan but a loss last year to Teiru Atsumi put the breaks on that and two subsequent wins have scarcely excited the fans who seem to know that he is talented, but isn't quite as exciting as they had first hoped. As for Hino he's a bit of an unknown, though he did give Reiya Abe a tough bout a couple of years ago and has stopped his last 4. This could be skills against power, and should be the best bout on the card. Another competitive looking contest will see the Japanese ranked Yuta Horiike (12-5-3, 3) take on Kyosuke Sawada (7-2-1, 4) in what should be a good supporting contest, just like the bout between Yosuke Fujihara (16-5, 4) and Keita Nakano (14-11-6, 4), which is likely to be much better than it looks on paper. Both of these bouts will be over 8 rounds and could be very interesting contests for fans watching at the venue and on TV. In Osaka we'll see the unbeaten Takuya Uehara (12-0, 7) look to extend his unbeaten record as he takes on a Thai visitor in an 8 rounder. Uehara, the WBC Youth Featherweight champion, will not be risking his belt here but shouldn't have any problems beating the Thai, who we have been informed is naturally smaller and is typically fighting as a Super Bantamweight. Ansan, South Korea There will also be a show in Ansan, South Korea, with this show being part of the rising Boxing M series of shows. The theme of the show is that it's the last 8 of a Korean Lightweight tournament, however those bouts are joined by an interesting 6 rounder between Jae Woo Lee (4-2, 4) and Young Hwan Jun (3-3-1, 1), who we believe will be fighting for the right to challenge for a Korean title. April 13th-Big show at the Korakuen Hall! Next Thursday we see another notable card from the Korakuen Hall, and this one really is a rather exciting one with a number of notable names features. The main event of the card will see the criminally under-rated Masayuki Ito (20-1-1, 8) defending his WBO Asia Pacific Super Featherweight title against big punching Filipino title challenger Lorenzo Villanueva (32-2-0-1, 28). For Ito the bout will be his first defense, since he claimed the title at the very end of 2016, and he should be looking to extend a current 4 winning run which which includes really good wins over Shingo Eto and Takuya Watanabe. For the Filipino the bout is his first outside of the Philippines since his thrilling 2012 loss to Daud Yordan in Singapore. The challenger will have the big edge in power, but he's up against a very talented boxer, and will need to show more than just brute force to over-come Ito. In a major supporting bout we'll see former world title challenger Keita Obara (16-2-1, 15) take on Indonesian Larry Siwu (24-7, 20) in a Welterweight bout. For Obara the contest will be his first since losing in a world title bout to Eduard Troyanovsky last September. The talented Obara is taking off the shackles of making Light Welterweight and it seems likely that he will be continuing his career at 147lbs going forward. Although Siwu is a decent fighter he really shouldn't have anything to really test Obara, who will be looking to shake some ring rust and make a statement. Arguably the most intriguing match up on the card will see former Japanese and OPBF Lightweight champion Yoshitaka Kato (30-7-2, 9) take on touted former amateur standout Shuichiro Yoshino (3-0, 2) in what looks like a must win for the veteran and a potential coming out party for the novice. Although now a faded force Kato, who is more than 2 years removed from a win of note, is tough, skilled and a nightmare for fighters who look to have a war. If Yoshino can avoid a war and rely on his amateur skills then he could announce himself as a serious play on the Japanese scene at 135lbs, but this is a huge step up for the 25 year old. Another former champion on this card is former 2-time Japanese Bantamweight champion Kentaro Masuda (26-7, 14), who vacated his title around the start of the year. The world ranked Masuda will be up against Filipino visitor Romel Oliveros (8-3-1, 3), who is fighting in Japan for the third time. The talented Masuda is hunting a world title bout later in the year and this is clearly a stay busy bout for him, but one that should help him get some rounds under his belt. Oliveros has been stopped in 2 of his last 3 bouts, being stopped in 2 rounds by Daigo Higa and in 5 rounds by Jonas Sultan, and it's hard to see him lasting the distance here against Masuda. Yoshino isn't the only touted novice on this card as former amateur star Motoki Osanai (1-0) returns to the ring for his second professional outing, and takes on fellow unbeaten Takeshi Kaneko (4-0-1). The talented Osanai turned professional last year, along with Hiroto Kyoguchi and Masataka Taniguchi, but has failed to shine like those two and will be looking to make up for lost time here. As for Kaneko he is unbeaten, but his 0 has certainly come under challenger during his career and it'd take a career best performance to keep that 0 here. December 31st-End of Year Extravaganza part 2 The final day of 2016 is one of the most notable on the boxing calendar as Japanese TV promoters, and TV channels put on a number of shows. This year we get three shows, each with multi-ple title bouts and notable prospects. The most notable of the three shows takes place in Kyoto and will be aired on TBS as part of their huge end of year celebrations. The headline bout here will see the WBA regular and interim titles at Flyweight being unified. The bout sees regular champion Kazuto Ioka (20-1, 12) battle with unbeaten interim champion Stamp Kiatniwat (15-0, 6) from Thailand. The bout is an interesting match up with Stamp's team showing confidence in their man, who seemed to believe he was travelling to Japan to stop the champion. The experience Ioka will be looking to show that experience is key here and will likely be looking to prove he's the best Flyweight on the planet in 2017, after getting this mandatory defense out of the way. A second world title fight on this card will see IBF Super Bantamweight chamion Jonathan Guzman (22-0-0-1, 22) defending his title for the first time. The heavy handed Dominican will be up against once beaten Japanese challenger Yukinori Oguni (18-1-1, 7), who is looking to add a world title to his collection which already includes a Japanese and OPBF title. Guzman, who won the title in Japan with a stoppage win over Shingo Wake, has looked relaxed but some have felt that he is over-looking Oguni who has started to find his own power in recent bouts. Sadly an IBF Bantamweight title bout between Lee Haskins (34-3, 14) and Shohei Omori (17-1, 12) was cancelled in the weeks leading up to the bout, as Haskins suffered an injury that forced him out. Omori's team, who are promoting the show, managed to find their man a solid late replacement in the former of multi-time world title challenger Rocky Fuentes (32-8-2, 20). The bout isn't a bad one given the short notice but it should be noted that Fuentes is best known for his run at Flyweight and will be dwarfed by Omori who is around 5” taller than the Filipino. Another bout pitting a Japanese fighter against a Thai will see the unbeaten, and world ranked, Sho Ishida (22-0, 11) up against the hapless Petchnamnung Sor Thiebkhun (0-10). The Thai has been stopped 8 times in his 10 defeats and will be unlikely to test Ishida who has made it clear that he's wanting world title fights in 2017. A bout like this won't prepare him for world class opposition but serves the task of keeping him busy and ticking him over whilst looking for a big fight. Another Ioka gym hopeful on this under card is the unbeaten, and exciting, Super Flyweight Masayoshi Hashizume (11-0, 8). Hashizume won the Rookie of the Year in 2014 and although we had hoped to see him in notable fights since he actually this year facing unknown Thai Chatpetch Saithonggym (0-0). Hopefully 2017 will be a better year for the Osaka man who hasn't progressed like some had hoped. Another notable multi-title show will come from Tokyo and be promoted by Watanabe promotions, who continue their association with TV Tokyo. The headline bout of this is the “revenge or repeat” bout between Panama's tricky Jezreel Corrales (20-1-1, 8) and Takashi Uchiyama (24-1-1, 20). Earlier this year Corrales blitzed Uchiyama in 2 rounds to give “KO Dynamite” his first professional defeat and to claim the WBA Super Featherweight “super” title and shocked the boxing world. Now the champion will be looking to repeat the feat as he returns to a Japanese ring whilst Uchiyama will be looking to prove the result was an anomaly. At 37 years old however the view is that Uchiyama is several years removed from his prime and will likely be over-whelmed by the speed and movement of Corrales once again. The second of the world title bouts on this card will see WBA Light Flyweight champion Ryoichi Taguchi (25-2-1, 11) defending his belt against unbeaten Venezuelan puncher Carlos Canizales (16-0, 13). On paper this looks like a good defense for Taguchi but in fairness Canizales hasn't yet fought anyone of any name recognition and it's hard to know how good he really is. He could be the next gem of a talent from Venezuela or he could be a crude domestic fighter, as the footage suggests, either way we'll see questions answered about him, even if we don't learn anythign new about Taguchi. Arguably the most interesting bout of the whole day is an OPBF / WBO Asia Pacific Super Featherweight title unification bout as the once beaten Masayuki Ito (19-1-1, 9), the current OPBF champion, takes on the teak tough and criminally under-rated Takuya Watanabe (30-6-1, 16), the current WBO Asia Pacific title holder. This bout is one for the hardcore but is something we expect to actually leave the fans the happiest with. Both men are incredibly talented, have under-rated power and skills and the winner really does deserve some other major bouts in 2017. We think Ito is the more proven but Watanabe is always a handful and appears to be getting better with every fight. One of the hottest young talents in Japanese boxing will be looking to secure his 5th straight stoppage win. That is the wonderfully aggressive Hiroto Kyoguchi (4-0, 4), who will be up against Filipino visitor Junuel Lacar (7-3-3, 5). The bout should be a test for Kyoguchi but the reality is that he has made supposed tests, like Kenichi Miyazaki and Michael Camelion, look poor courtesy of his speed and power. A win here could see Kyoguchi begin to fight for titles in 2017. Another fast rising prospect on this card is the really exciting Masataka Taniguchi (5-0, 4), who is looking to build on his recent win over Dexter Alimento as he takes on Vicent Bautista (5-5-3, 1) in what looks like a straight forward bout for the much fancied Taniguchi. It's thought that 2017 will see Taniguchi battle for titles and this could be his final bout before he gets to wear his first strap. For those interested in final 3 bouts mentioned here they will be features on tape delay as part of the Boxingraise service. Gifu, Japan A third show, in fact the first of the three, takes place in Gifu where Hatanaka will be promoting a card. The main event of this will have a legal stream broadcast world wide for fans interested. The main event of this card will see former WBO Minimumweight champions collide as Kosei Tanaka (7-0, 4) takes on Moises Fuentes (24-2-1, 13) for the vacant WBO Light Flyweight. For Tanaka this is a huge chance to match Naoya Inoue's Japanese record of becoming a 2-weight world champion in 8 bouts however it's a tough bout against a very talented Mexican who many feel should should have scored a win a win over Donnie Nietes in his first bout with the talented Filipino. On paper this is probably the most interesting of the bouts from the day, at least at world title level. At Japanese title level we'll see Shota Hayashi (28-5-1, 17), making his first defense of the Japanese Featherweight title, taking on former world champion Akifumi Shimoda (31-5-2, 14). For Hayashi, who won the title back in September, a win here would legitimise his reign and prove him to be a worthy champion. For Shimoda this is a second shot at this title following a narrow loss to Satoshi Hosono last year. In a supporting bout we'll see former Japanese Bantamweight title contender Yushi Tanaka (18-1-3, 12) face off with Takuya Taniguchi (6-9-2, 1). For Tanaka this is a chance to record a third straight win following his March loss to Kentaro Masuda for the Japanese title. The little known Taniguchi will be looking to score his biggest win, though he has gone just 1-3 in his last 4 bouts dating back more than a year. Another supporting bout will see Kento Hatanaka (1-0, 1), the son of former former world champion Kiyohi Hatanaka, battle against Yukihiro Asahara (2-4, 1). The 18 year old Hatanaka will be seeking to score his second win in the space of just 5 weeks! On his debut Hatanaka score a quick blow out over an over-matched foe and will be looking to do the same again here. July 28th-Ito looks to defend OPBF title! The only show this Thursday is an interesting one from the Korakuen Hall. In the main event fight fans will see OPBF Super Featherweight champion Masayuki Ito (18-1-1, 8) defending his title against Filipino foe Ernie Sanchez (15-7-1, 6). The talented, yet criminally under-rated Ito, will be making the second defense of his title and looking to make a successful ring return following a hand injury, that already scuppered and arranged bout with Sanchez. For Sanchez the bout is an undeserved opportunity given he has gone 1-4-1 over the last 3 years but he has mixed with some very good fighters like Oscar Valdez, Sergey Lipinets and Rey Vargas. In a supporting bout we see the wonderfully fun to watch Katsunori Nagamine (11-1, 7) take on the very credible Yuki Yonaha (7-2, 5), who enters the bout with an OPBF rating and the hunger to move forward with his own career. For fans this is the sort of match up that makes Japanese boxing so brilliant, there is no waiting for either Nagamine, who comes in following two tough bouts, or Yanaha to get on with securing themselves a big fight and the winner of this could well move in to the mix for a title bout. Another man looking to move to a title fight is the unbeaten 21 year old Tsubasa Koura (7-0, 4), who claimed the Rookie of the Year crown last year. The unbeaten youngster will be taking on his most experienced foe to date, Bimbo Nacionales (14-11-1, 3). The experienced Filipino is nothing special but should be a good test for the hotly tipped Japanese youngster. Talking about fighters looking for titles there is also a former Japanese national champion on this card, that's former Japanese Super Flyweight, and current WBA International, champion Yohei Tobe (10-2-1, 6), who takes on the limited Masaya Kohama (6-4-1, 3). For Tobe this bout will be his first since his excellent win over Luzuko Siyo and should see him scoring a third successive win. For Kohama it's hard to see him winning but he'll get a chance to face a notable opponent. December 14th- Two Super Featherweight title fights, a solid undercard, it's Dangan 148! This coming week kicks off in great fashion as the Korakuen Hall plays host to a really fantastic card courtesy of reason promotions who, once again, who just how good boxing can be when fighters want to prove themselves and match makers have foresight to put the fans first. One of two main events will see Japanese Super Featherweight champion Rikki Naito (13-0, 5) defending his title against the big punching Kenichi Ogawa (16-1, 14). Coming in to this one Naito is, on paper at least, on a great run with wins over the likes of Kento Mastushita, Shingo Eto, Masayuki Ito and Nihito Arakawa. Whilst that is a great run it should be noted that the fights were all close, much closer than the cards suggest, and Naito has had some questions raised about just how far he really can go. Ogawa comes in to this as a man who has beaten everyone he has faced, avenging his sole loss in just 134 seconds. Coming into this the challenger is riding an 8 fight T/KO run and full of confidence in his skills and his power. This really will be speed Vs power and could be a brilliant way to kick off a few weeks of insanely good action in Tokyo. The other main event sees two former Naito foes going head to head as Masayuki Ito (17-1-1, 8) takes on Shingo Eto (17-3-1, 9) in the first defense of Ito's OPBF Super Featherweight title. Of the two fighters it's Ito who has impressed us the most so far, however this is a tough test for the 24 year old, who won the title stopping Dai Iwai in August. Eto is an under-rated fighter but may have the toughness and stamina to really push Eto all the way. Interestingly all 4 men in the main bouts here are between 24 and 27 and are part of the new wave of Japanese Super Featherweights. It's hoped a unification will happen in 2016 though with fighters like Masao Nakamura waiting in the wings, it's fair to say there are other options in a very competitive division. The main events are both great, but so to is the under-card which features several notable bouts, One of those will see former Japanese Super Flyweight champion Yohei Tobe (8-2-1, 5) taking on Filipino visitor Ryan Bito (22-15-3, 8). The bout will be Tobe's first since he lost the Japanese title, in August 2014 to Sho Ishida, and he'll be hoping to avoid back-to-back defeats, however 16 months of inactivity will certainly not help him here. Bito will be coming into this one with a lack of former, including 7 losses in his last 8, however he will know what to expect from Tobe, with this being a rematch of their 2012 encounter, which Tobe won via unanimous decision. Tobe will be favoured but Bito will feel he has a point to prove and a great chance to avenge one of his losses. Another undercard bout of note will see Japanese ranked Shuji Hamada (13-6-4, 2) battle against the once beaten Hiroaki Teshigawara (9-1-2, 4) in a brilliantly matched 8 round supporting match up. Last time out Teshigawara fought to a controversial draw with Hideo Sakamoto and is riding a 5 fight unbeaten run since his sole loss, more than 3 years ago. Hamada is 1-1-1 in his last 3, though those have been to capable fighters with his win coming last time out against Yota Hori, a win that got him his Japanese ranking. This really is a finely matched bout with the winner likely in the running for a Japanese title fight by the end of 2016. Also on the under-card for this brilliant show is Shuichiro Yoshino (0-0) who makes his debut against Petchjah Sithphasean (0-4) in a 6 rounder. Yoshino was an amateur standout who is tipped to be the next star of the Misako gym. Whilst this bout isn't a tough one, especially not due to typical Misako standards, we are excited to see the 24 year old Welterweight kick off his life in the professional ranks.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line486
__label__cc	0.614671	0.385329	The Lope: Ah, That Smell Ah, That Smell July 4 - that special day when we shell out hard-earned bucks in exchange for cheaply made and semi-reliable explosives made by Chinese workers of questionable age. When men of the USA are united in our manifest destiny to blow up stuff. We here at The Lope embrace this destiny, and perhaps even as you read this, will be setting punk to fuse and savoring that acrid sulphurous smell. We'll be thinking not only of our forefathers but of their pop-cultured fiberglass descendants. ...and of all the delights of the blue highways that make us love our country - despite its flaws - every single star-spangled, oil-stained, character-filled, over-hyphenated mile. Happy 4th of July everyone! picture locations - Fireworks are vended in Clinton, OK, June 21, 2007 along Route 66. We were there for the Route 66 Festival (I'm still editing and writing that post). One of Ace's friends in a place where fireworks are illegal, July 4, 2006. That's not to say we used them. You can't prove that and anyone who says they can is a stinkin' liar. Ace celebrates...uhh...somewhere (we ain't sayin' where), July 4, 2006. Fiberglass Uncle Sam atop the Great American Car Wash in Terre Haute, Indiana, July 1, 2006. Lauterbach Tire's lumberjack "muffler man" carries a flag in Springfield, Illinois, July 9, 2006, on Route 66. See our previous 4th of July stuff here and here. Route 66 Miniature Golf Rolla, MO - Stonehenge and Hillbillies on Route 66... Go Fly a Kite? Fair Atlanta Route 66 Summerfest in Rolla, MO A Sacred Grove on Route 66	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line487
__label__cc	0.737096	0.262904	ROTUINFO FacebookInstagramTwitterYouTubeEmail Some statistical differences in LH & SH Dutch Shepherds Home/In English, Rotu ja jalostus/Some statistical differences in LH & SH Dutch Shepherds Sanna2019-01-15T17:43:24+02:00 For a few years now, I’ve published some basic statistics on the differences of short and longhaired Dutch Shepherds. All of this info is in Finnish, so this time, to allow any interested non Finnish-speaking parties to be able to enjoy them as well I thought to write a little more in-depth thoughts about them in English. Generally, I think viewing the breed in the light of statistics can be a good way to see some of the basic differences apart from people’s individual experiences, but at the same time we should always be careful how to interpret them. I’ll do a little bit of this here as well, but anyone can form their own opinions based on the data! I updated each section at the start of 2019 just before beginning the work on this post. For now the different sections look at health (hips & lumbar transitional vertebra), longevity & causes of death, and character qualities revealed by the Finnish Character test and the MH mental description (mentalbeskrivning hund, this test originated in Sweden but is in use in several nordic countries now). The data comes from any imaginable but at the same time trustworthy source: kennel club or breed club databases, official documents, owners etc. Individual entries may in some cases have errors, but since the data set is so large, a very good overall picture of the reality can still be achieved. This data set currently includes ~1300 longhairs and ~3300 shorthairs all over the world. For scoring, the difference between two letters of evaluation (ie. A to B) is worth one points. A dog with HD A will have an individual score of 5.0. I’ll use the scores when talking about the differences in results for each country. Below an actual graph showing the situation over the years: The vertical bar is the incidence of hip dysplasia by percent of the examined dogs, the horizontal bar is for birth years (2-year increments). Shorthairs on the left, longhairs on the right. Suomi = Finland, Kaikki = world-wide What this seems to tell us is that the incidence of hip dysplasia is considerably higher in the longhairs, considerably higher in Finland, but that both varieties have made some improvements (dogs born 2000-2009 incidence 8% in SH and 18% in LH, dogs born after 2009 incidence is 6% in SH and 15% in LH). Not that long ago, in the 70’s and 80’s longhair was still in a situation where a good number of breeding animals were dysplatic. Improvement has definitely been made since those times, but there is still a lot to do. But can we talk about how on earth it is possible that Finland has so much hip dysplasia compared to the rest of the world? To better answer this question we need to look at the scoring systems in each country, and this is something I want to do very carefully and respectfully. The fact remains that we have massive differences in our scoring systems: in some countries your vet will score the hips on the spot, in other countries it is the vet selected by the breed club, and in some, it is the vet selected by the kennel club. Something as simple as sedation can create differences as well, not to talk about other factors. I calculate hip indices with the BLUP (best linear unbiased prediction) system for personal use, and this kind of calculation will give us a lot of useful data on how “reliable” or how much positive or negative deviation each country’s own system has from the average. Negative deviation means the scores in that country are worse than average, which translates to stricter evaluation practices and/or sicker dogs. Positive deviation means the scores are better than breed average, which again can mean the evaluation in that country is looser, or that their dogs are better. For a hip index calculation this means that good results from the countries with negative deviations will weigh more, will be more valuable, and vice versa: HD A from a country that barely issues anything else will not be weighed as positively. Looking at the countries with more than 100 dogs scored, Sweden and Finland have significant negative deviations, around a third of a full point. This makes sense; these two countries have very similar rules, their evaluation systems are similar and they even use some of the same people evaluating images. The home country of the breed, the Netherlands will also have a negative deviation, but unless their scores are adjusted to match FCI Norberg rules it will not be by much. For a foreigner, it is recommended to look at Norberg values on Dutch dogs, since they can affect the score more in other countries. Norway, Switzerland and Germany stand at the average. Their dogs and evaluation systems represent the breed average most accurately. Somewhat positive deviation can be found in Czechia, a bigger one in France, and an ever bigger one from Austria. The difference between the averages of the two extremes, Sweden & Austria is more than half a point. I want to note that some of these countries (Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, Austria) do not have a kennel organization-managed database publishing all official results. This can mean a good portion of their dysplatic evaluations are hidden to statistics like this, since it is all up to the owners to publish this info. For example, if we found out now there were a 100 “new” HD C/D/E results in Czechia never publicly seen before, this would massively improve the international reliability of any hip score from this country. For now I have mainly talked about these differences as some kind of measure of strictness between the different countries and their evaluation systems. Can it really be that an Austrian HD A is not always as good as a Swedish HD A? Isn’t it more likely that some countries just have bad breeding practices producing more dysplatic dogs? To answer this I looked again at Finnish statistics. When I compared the Finnish average score of 4.31 to dogs that were born in other countries but evaluated in Finland, I discovered it isn’t any better, it is actually a bit worse at 4.29. This means the same pedigrees and families that will get significantly better scores in their home countries will on average score at least as bad as Finnish-born dogs in Finland. The same in Sweden: Average of all dogs was 4.38, average of imports 4.27. We all work with the same material and our health results might look the same, but they can mean very different things. Transitional lumbar vertebra LTV or LÜW in German-speaking countries is a difficult subject to put into statistics, because we simply don’t have that much information on it yet. What we do know is that it is a deformation that has been a part of the breed for a very long time. Unfortunately you can’t get official evaluations in many countries yet, and the evaluations can be made with different rules. For example Germany evaluates the sacrum with grades from 0-3, where as Finland evaluates it with grades 0-4. Otherwise the systems are pretty similar, except Finland will give LTV4 to a dog with too few or too many lumbar vertebrae (in belief that it is another form of the same disease), where as Germany does not take this into account. So far I have about 520 dogs in this data set, slightly over 200 of them from Finland. Official Finnish evaluations SH) No anomalies (LTV0): 84% SH) No anomalies or only a mild anomaly (LTV0-1): 90% SH) Transitional vertebra (LTV2-3): 6% SH) 6 or 8 lumbar vertebrae (LTV4): 4% LH) No anomalies (LTV0): 91% LH) No anomalies or only a mild anomaly (LTV0-1): 97% LH) Transitional vertebra (LTV2-3): 3% LH) 6 or 8 lumbar vertebrae (LTV4): no occurence World-wide evaluations, official & unofficial SH) Transitional vertebra (LTV2-3): 12% LH) 6 or 8 lumbar vertebrae (LTV4): 1% This is pretty straightforward. Overall the situation is good, but the shorthair currently seems to have more LTV than the longhair. This has also been the case before official evaluations, where shorthairs with this problem were reported regurlarly but much less in longhairs. Some cases in longhairs could have escaped notice simply because of lack of x-ray: it has always been slightly more common to x-ray shorthairs for spondylosis than the longhairs. In the future when these two varieties mix more, it is likely the numbers will even out as well. Hopefully also in hips. Lifespans and causes of death Currently the data set has ~1500 dates of death and ~800 causes of death. SH) Average age of death: 95 months = 7.9 years SH) Median age of death: 8.2 years SH) Lived to over 4 years old: 75% SH) Lived to over 10 years old: 40% LH) Average age of death: 106 months = 8.9 years LH) Median age of death: 9.8 years LH) Lived to over 4 years old: 85% LH) Lived to over 10 years old: 49% The first time I put this data together it was a bit surprising to me shorthairs seemed to live shorter lives than the longhair. For someone who is into population genetics and preservation programs, it is clear that a more inbred population will often also have shorter lives. So why is the longhair, being much more inbred than the shorthair, not actually dying years before the other variety? Hopefully the causes of death will shed some light on this. Following, 10 of the most common cause of death categories along with the average ages in parentheses. Shorthairs: Longhairs: 17% Accident or wildlife damage (3.0) 16% Tumor or cancer (8.3) 12% Euthanized due to behavioural issue (4.3) 12% Old age, natural or euthanized (14.3) 8% Spinal disease (7.5) 5% Bone and joint disease (5.9) 5% Died or euthanized without diagnosis (6.7) 4% Liver or gastric system illness (5.9) 3% Neurological illness (4.6) 3% Heart disease (6.6) 9% Urinary and reproductive system disease (6.5) 4% Euthanized due to behavioural issue (3.9) 3% Neurological illness (10.9) What the causes of death will reveal is that more shorthairs die to accidents (17 vs. 13%), are euthanized due to behavioural issues (12% vs. 4%) and suffer from spinal diseases (8 vs. 5%) than longhairs, and these are all factors that will regularly take younger dogs. Even if shorthairs – as previously presented – have better hip scores, they seem to have a bigger percentage of debilitating stages of hip dysplasia, that will prevent them from work or sport and will lead their owners to euthanize them. Since longhairs are more often just active pets, they might live a full life even with worse hips. The bigger chunks of behavioural issues and accidents can be attributed to character as well: shorthaired Dutch Shepherd is more often than not a more demanding, high-temperament dog that needs more effort to educate and is more prone to accidents. It is good to note 1/3 of all longhairs die to cancers. They also have a significantly higher percentage of dogs suffering from kidney problems than shorthairs. But what about “old age”? Old age is a category present in the Finnish kennel club database, but it is sometimes interchangeable to “died or euthanized without diagnosis”: People can say their dog died to old age if it had various smaller or larger troubles without viable treatment options, or if they suddenly fell ill and no diagnosis was made. Because only Finnish kennel club uses this category, in my files I moved any dog who lived 15+ years with no other cause of death to “old age”. This will show the average age of old age shorthairs is much higher than with the longhairs. Survivorship curves with males (blue) and females (red) separated show the differences by gender. Shorthairs on the left, longhairs on the right. What can be read from this, is that in both varieties males tend to die younger, in shorthairs even significantly younger. Both genders are pretty equal until 1 year of age, and after that males will have a somewhat higher rate of death for a while. This is the time when many demanding males are put down due to behavioural issues, or end up going out in stupid accidents. Good to note is that of shorthaired females 10% is still alive after 14 years of age, but in longhairs the number is lower. Looking at direct statistics, 2.9% of shorthairs lived to be 15 years old. The number is only 1.8% for longhairs. The largest number of deaths in the two different varieties come in different parts of their lives as well: longhairs have a big spike of deaths at 10-12 years of age, where about 1/4 of all dogs die. Shorthairs almost have no spike at all, but die evenly at all ages. The highest spike is at 12-14 years, where 2% of dogs die. What to take from this? It looks like shorthairs will live clearly longer lives and become beautiful old dogs if they have good character and no back issues, and if their owner is able to keep them from accidents. Longhair will more likely have various smaller health problems that might not alone be life-threatening, but they get old sooner. And this portrays perfectly the effect of inbreeding to a small population as well. It is a good remainder not to believe everything statistics say without taking another look first. Finnish character test (LT) and Mental beskrivning (MH) These two tests are very different, but both measure certain character traits our dogs have. LT has been used in Finland ever since first Dutch Shepherds were imported, and so far we have about 640 dogs tested. MH is originally a Swedish test, but in addition to Sweden dogs have been tested in Norway and nowadays more and more in Finland as well: there are about 420 MH results available. Last year I wrote a post (in Finnish) about the possible correlations between similar sections these two tests measure, and generally there was close to none. Knowing this individual tests should be taken with a giant grain of salt, but for the overall image of the breed they will do just fine. The main difference between these tests is that LT will evaluate and score the dog between -300 to +300 points, and the end result will be accepted or rejected, where as MH will for each part of the test use a scale of 1-5 (1 for smallest reaction, 5 for strongest reaction) that can be used to create visual mentality profiles, but will not comment on how good the dog did. They are very different tools, LT giving a more straightforward evaluation of the dog’s qualities, MH just giving the information and leaving the interpretation to the viewer. Both tests can be discontinued if the judge or the owner feels that the dog is in too much mental stress to handle the situation without damage. I want to point out that the data sets have some very different dogs tested by these 2 different tests, so there can be some conflicting results. The tests are very different and fill different roles as well. Hopefully they will still be able to give you some hints of the typical qualities in our two varieties. LT results SH) Average/median of points: 143/144 LH) Average/median of points: 131/142 SH) Accepted: 81% SH) Rejected: 15% SH) Discontinued: 4% LH) Accepted: 72% LH) Rejected: 26% LH) Discontinued: 1% Even if the average, and especially the median points do not differ too much from one variety to another, longhairs get a lot more disqualified results than the shorthairs. Reasons for disqualification in LT can be unacceptable aggressive behavior, weak nerves, lacking sociability, fear of shooting and too low final score (minimum of 75 points are required to pass, with no negative points in the other mentioned areas). Shorthairs are mostly rejected due to low end score, then due to weak nerves or shooting. Longhairs are by far most rejected due to shooting. Slightly bigger portion of shorthairs are rejected due to unacceptable aggressive behavior or lacking sociability than longhairs. Some of the most important evaluations this test gives are the scores for functional capacity (courage under pressure, but also independence), nerve structure (a dog that gets more agitated as the test goes on will have weaker nerves than a dog who starts every section in the same stable state as the first one) and accessibility (sociability, acceptance of strangers). At the end of the test the dog will have to hear a few shots from a starting gun. The current averages are (the higher the better): SH) Functional capacity: 0.83 SH) Nerve structure: 0.92 SH) Accessibility: 2.60 SH) Shooting: 1.40 LH) Functional capacity: 0.54 LH) Nerve structure: 0.86 LH) Accessibility: 2.62 LH) Shooting: 0.99 Here is a graph of the development of these same important traits (sans shooting) during the years in the shorthair (left) and the longhair (right). Functional capacity is blue, nerves is red, accessibility is green. Currently, the functional capacity is clearly higher in shorthair than in longhair. During the years the trend for the longhair has unfortunately always been down, in the last years a little less steeply than before. There are more and more dogs lacking courage. Shorthairs had their biggest dip before 2010’s started, before much new blood was imported to the country. More working-oriented dogs have done much to improve the courage in shorthairs. Nerve structure has not seen too much change over the years. Both short and longhairs have always been dogs with a nerve structure typical to most shepherd breeds, with outliers to both positive and negative direction. Recently both varieties have improved their scores a bit, which is definitely a promising direction. Accessibility is the only trait where longhairs beat the scores of shorthairs slightly. Trend also shows that shorthairs are currently losing sociability, and longhairs have evened out on a pretty good level. Both varieties seem to have their good points, with the shorthair beginning to have quite a strong character and the longhair having more traits suitable to a fun family dog. Unfortunately the scores for shooting have a difference of 0.5 points and almost 20% of all tested longhairs have a disqualifying score from shooting. It is arguable how important this trait is for the variety, but it is definitely creating a divide between people who think an old working dog should not be afraid of shooting, and people who think it does not matter for a pet. MH results SH) Discontinued: 1% We’ll use a couple of the basic composite scores from MH in this section. These scores come from combining individual “moments” in the test and forming a score based on the individual scores in them. This way individual moments that might be hard to evaluate on their own can be translated into a scoring system not much different than what the LT has. The parts most commonly observed are sociability, courage/curiosity, playfulness, interest in prey, and aggression Playfulness has moments with chasing, grabbing and tugging a sturdy toy together with the test leader, and interest in prey concentrates on chasing and grabbing a moving lure. Aggression is the tendency to show aggressive signs when threatened, thus having a higher score does not mean the dog is dangerous. This test will also have a section for shooting, where the most reactive dogs score higher and fearful ones highest. I cannot say “the higher the better” here because MH does not score dogs like this. It is up to the viewer to decide if more sociability or more reaction to shooting is better or worse. SH) Avg of Sociability: 3.5 SH) Avg of Courage/curiosity: 4.0 SH) Avg of Playfulness: 4.1 SH) Avg of Interest in prey: 3.1 SH) Avg of Aggression: 1.8 SH) Avg of Reaction to shooting: 1.5 LH) Avg of Sociability: 3.4 LH) Avg of Courage/curiosity: 3.4 LH) Avg of Playfulness: 3.4 LH) Avg of Interest in prey: 2.5 LH) Avg of Aggression: 1.5 LH) Avg of Reaction to shooting: 3.0 Below is a simple graph giving more information. The vertical axis stands for the number of dogs, and the horizontal for score. Blue = sociability, red = courage/curiosity, green = playfulness. Shorthairs on the left and longhairs on the right. Shorthairs score significantly higher in all areas, meaning they have more of every quality: they are more playful, more interested in chasing, more aggressive and more courageous than longhairs. This is typical for more working-oriented breeds. The visual graph shows that most longhairs are average in their sociability, and shorthairs have a spike both in the average and at the more sociable end. Most shorthairs are positioned at the high end of courage, with a small bump of average curiosity in the middle. Longhairs mostly test at average, but some in the higher areas as well. Playfulness shows a big difference as well: the vast majority of shorthairs have a very high play behaviour, and longhairs are again much more towards the middle. One more way to look at MH results is to point out the percentage of dogs that score at the very low or high end of each section. This means dogs that scored on average <1.5 or >4.5. Because shooting is not a composite score but a score on it’s own, for shooting it means dogs that scored either a 1 (no reaction) or 5 (fearful reaction). SH) Sociability low-high %: 0.2 – 1.5 SH) Courage/curiosity low-high %: 0 – 22.4 SH) Playfulness low-high %: 0.5 – 25.8 SH) Interest in prey low-high %: 14.3 – 1.2 SH) Aggression low-high %: 32.9 – 1.2 SH) Reaction to shooting low-high %: 72.2 – 4.2 LH) Sociability low-high %: 0 – 2.0 LH) Courage/curiosity low-high %: 1.0 – 5.1 LH) Playfulness low-high %: 0 – 1.0 LH) Interest in prey low-high %: 26.5 – 0 LH) Aggression low-high %: 57.1 – 0 LH) Reaction to shooting low-high %: 19.4 – 20.4 The low extreme in sociability is a dog that growls and does not allow touching, the high extreme is a dog that cannot calm down due to being so excited about the stranger. There are a few low end shorthairs but no longhairs at all, and a very few high end dogs in either variety. Almost a quarter of all shorthairs have scored very high in courage, but much less so in longhairs. There are also a few low courage extremes in longhairs. The situation is similar with playfulness: 1/4 of shorthairs score very high, but only 1% of longhairs do the same. Typically it is common for dogs not to chase the prey in MH test, because they are under the influence of their owner. There are still some differences in this as well: differing numbers of low extremes in both varieties, no high extremes in longhair and very few in the shorthair. The exact same goes for aggression. The reaction sensitivity to sounds for the longhair continues the story the LT results started: the sensitivity is double in longhairs. There are more dogs in the fearful extreme than in the secure extreme. For shorthairs it is different: 72% of dogs are described not to care about shooting at all, and only 4% are fearful. Hopefully you found this post informative! Did the data match your own experiences of these varieties? What do you think are the strength and weaknesses of each variety? What kind of people might be a good fit with each of these types of dogs? I also really hope I was able to portray the data in a manner that made sense and was easy to read, even if I skipped making the graphs again in another language. How to use COI as a useful tool in breeding MH vs. LT korrelaatioita etsimässä 2018 alkupuolen tilastoja ja mietteitä Dustin Wiggins 03-09-2019 at 00:25 - Reply Very good article, It is interesting to read how the personalities in these two varieties vary. Could it be that some of these characteristics could be heavily influenced by their social environment? Many SH are used for Military or military style sports which I think would intentionally train for many of these traits. Sanna 05-09-2019 at 19:05 Yes, I definitely think it’s the case. MH is a test for young dogs (1-2 years) and LT a test for adult dogs (2+ years), so the “rawest” data comes from the MH in my opinion (less environmental effect). But even there the dogs that have already been through a lot of training (especially working dog sports) will make different choices in different moments of the test when compared to dogs that mainly lived at home as pets. I would never claim it makes all the difference, but I have seen it in my own litters as well. By the time they take their first test, their experiences will have molded them so so much. You will never see an extremely well-scoring dog in these tests that never did anything in their life. But if you do, at least then you can be sure it’s the genes, not the environment! Blogia kirjoittaa ihan tavallinen koiraharrastaja, jonka suurimpana intohimona on koiranjalostus. 2011 Nitro x Jadi pentuepäiväkirja (2) 2012 Glen x Malta pentuepäiväkirja (2) 2014 Geb x Jadi pentuepäiväkirja (1) 2016 Dakota x Brimi pentuepäiväkirja (2) 2018 Messi x Pants pentuepäiväkirja (12) 2019 Cosmo x Ruusa pentuepäiväkirja (11) 2019 Riddick x Sindi pentuepäiväkirja (10) In English (2) Kuulumiset (16) Pentuepäiväkirjat (40) Rotu ja jalostus (5) Astutus: Roadtrip vm 2012 Yes, I definitely think it's the case. 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__label__cc	0.733975	0.266025	Matthew J. Sekits Shareholder-in-Charge, Seattle Office matthew.sekits@bullivant.com Washington, 1996 University of Washington, School of Law - J.D. University of California, Berkeley - B.A., with honors Matt Sekits is on the Board of Directors and is the Shareholder-in-Charge of the firm's Seattle office. Matt is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on defending and prosecuting cases on behalf of corporate clients in complex commercial litigation, including class action lawsuits. He has significant experience as lead counsel in a wide range of multi-million dollar cases involving liability and property insurance, business torts, shareholder disputes, and catastrophic personal injury. Matt has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict. Matt recently prevailed in the trial and appellate courts where his clients were awarded nearly $1.4 million. 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__label__wiki	0.978395	0.978395	086 Phil 153 : April 1950 - Philipppine Supreme Court Decisions April 1950 - Philippine Supreme Court Decisions/Resolutions Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1950 > April 1950 Decisions > G.R. No. L-2205 April 20, 1950 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ANASTACIO REYES 086 Phil 153: [G.R. No. L-2205. April 20, 1950.] THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ANASTACIO REYES, Defendant-Appellant. P.A. Revilla and N. Y. Fuentes for Appellant. First Assistant Solicitor General Roberto A. Gianzon and Solicitor Jose P. Alejandro for Appellee. 1. CRIMINAL LAW; TREASON; EVIDENCE; ALIBI AS A DEFENSE. — The accused puts up the defense of alibi, claiming that during the whole year of 1942, he was employed in the carriage factory of his employer and the latter was introduced as a defense witness to support said theory, Held: That said defense should be rejected not only because the witnesses for the prosecution assured the court that they had seen the accused acting as a member of the Japanese Military Police and helping said organization in the apprehension of Filipino guerrillas, but also because said witness for the defense in his statement stated that when the Japanese occupied Pasig, the accused left the factory and joined the Japanese Kempei Tai and even demanded the surrender of and confiscated the pistol kept by his employer. MONTEMAYOR, J.: In the People’s Court Anastacio Reyes was accused of treason under four counts. During the trial the prosecution presented evidence only on counts 1 and 3. After trial, he was found guilty only of count No. 3 and was sentenced to reclusión perpetua, to pay a fine of P10,000, and to pay the costs. He is appealing from that decision. Before the war Anastacio Reyes joined the Sakdal party which was later converted into the Ganap party. When the Japanese forces arrived in Rizal province, he joined the Japanese Kempei Tai or military police, wore blue denim as a uniform together with his fellow Filipino soldiers who had joined the Japanese military police, carried a revolver and used to accompany Japanese patrols and raiding parties. In open court he admitted that he was then and is now a Filipino citizen. For purposes of reference we are reproducing the third count:red:chanrobles.com.ph "3. — In or about July 1942, in Taytay, Rizal, said accused did then and there cooperate in the capture of Santiago Morales, Antonio Candelaria, Antonio La Torre, Benjamin Santos, Agustin Andres, Rosendo Marcelo, Santos Francisco and the killing of Teofilo Molano for guerrilla activities.." Although the People’s Court found that the accused participated in the arrest of Santiago Morales, Antonio Candelaria, Antonio La Torre, Benjamin Santos, Agustin Andres, Rosendo Marcelo and Santos Francisco, we are inclined to agree with the Solicitor General in his contention that there is no sufficient proof of the participation of the accused in the arrest of the seven persons abovementioned, with the exception of Rosendo Marcelo and Santos Francisco, and that, furthermore, complying with the two-witness rule in treason cases, the arrest of Rosendo Marcelo only, can be charged against the appellant. Santos Francisco was the only witness who testified as to his own arrest, which was effected by four Japanese soldiers and seven Filipinos, including appellant Reyes, belonging to the United Nippon, an association organized to aid the Japanese. The raiding party took Santos Francisco to the house of Rosendo Marcelo, for the latter was also arrested by the same raiding party. This arrest of Rosendo Marcelo was testified to by both Santos Francisco and Rosendo Marcelo, thereby complying with the two-witness rule. Francisco and Marcelo were taken to the municipal building of Taytay, where they found other prisoners, the five men already mentioned, namely: Santiago Morales, Antonio Candelaria, Antonio La Torre, Benjamin Santos and Agustin Andres. From the presidencia of Taytay the seven prisoners were taken in a truck to the Kempei Tai Headquarters in Pasig and later to the municipal jail where they were kept; and it is said that for about a week they were given no food. After about two months confinement the seven prisoners were taken to the barrio of Munson, to a place where a big hole had already been dug. There, five of the prisoners were executed by the Japanese by gunfire. Only Santos Francisco and Rosendo Marcelo were spared and, after being lectured to and threatened that if they did not keep away from the guerrillas, they would suffer the same fate as their fellow prisoners, they were released. But there is no proof that the accused was present and formed part of the Japanese force that did the killing. There is no question that Santos and Marcelo were arrested because they were then guerrillas and suspected if not known as such. Previous to their arrest, a Japanese patrol had a skirmish with guerrilla forces and the Japanese were able to confiscate a list of guerrilla members, where the names of Santos and Marcelo appeared. There is also evidence to show that sometime in July, 1942, about thirty Filipino soldiers, including defendant Reyes, all members of the United Nippon, went to the barrio of Bangyad, Taytay, to arrest some guerrillas who were supposed to be buying fish. They were surrounded but one named Teofilo Molano tried to escape. He was fired upon and killed. The killing of Molano was fully established by several witnesses but the presence of the accused on that occasion is established only by a written statement (Exhibit G) given before the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) of the United States Army, wherein he stated that he formed part of the patrol and that they fired at Molano because he was trying to escape. The office of the Solicitor General claims that although this does not satisfy the two-witness rule, nevertheless, it should be considered inasmuch as this does not in fact prove treason but only serves to aggravate the commission thereof. The accused puts up the defense of alibi, claiming that during the whole year of 1942, he was employed in the carriage factory of his employer Latino Guevarra and the latter was introduced to support said theory. The People’s Court rightly rejected this claim not only because the witnesses for the prosecution assured the court that they had seen the accused acting as a member of the Japanese Military Police and helping said organization in the apprehension of Filipino guerrillas, but also because witness Guevarra himself in his statement (Exhibit H) stated therein that when the Japanese occupied Pasig, the accused left the factory and joined the Japanese Kempei Tai and even demanded the surrender of and confiscated the pistol which Guevarra kept. Furthermore, some of the very witnesses presented by the defense partly corroborated the theory of the prosecution about appellant’s adherence to the Japanese and his part in apprehending guerrillas. Juan Antonio, a major in the Marking Fil-American Guerrilla, testifying for the defense, said that appellant Reyes was a Makapili, and Serafin Hernandez, a First Lieutenant of the ROTC Hunters of the underground movement, said that he (Hernandez) being a guerrilla, avoided the accused because he feared him. In conclusion, we find the guilt of the accused established beyond reasonable doubt. Although the Solicitor General recommends the imposition of the death penalty, we agree with the People’s Court that said accused will be sufficiently punished with the penalty of reclusión perpetua imposed upon him. The decision appealed from is hereby affirmed, with costs. Moran, C.J., Ozaeta, Pablo, Bengzon, Tuason and Reyes, JJ., concur. MORAN, C. J. : . Mr. Justice Paras and Mr. Justice Padilla voted for affirmance. Judgment affirmed. April-1950 Jurisprudence G.R. No. L-2265 April 1, 1950 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. DOMINGO RAFALLO, ET AL 086 Phil 22 G.R. 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__label__wiki	0.617396	0.617396	Chefelf.com Night Life: Darth Father - Chefelf.com Night Life Darth Father ...was lucas planning the twist while writing ANH? #31 Moyale Country:Nothing Selected Hi, can I join in? "Back to the Future" was not an art house film, but in that movie we have a mother with the hots for her own kid. Nobody freaked out about that, weird as it is. I agree with everyone that Lucas decided to make Luke and Leia siblings much later on, but even if he had decided that in Empire, there's no reason he wouldn't have them kiss before we and they knew about it. Wasn't there supposed to be some tension and a question about which of them she might choose? I disagree with Johnny Cancer though about audiences thinking Han and Leia made a better couple. Luke was in love with Leia from the start, Han never really cared. I think everybody assumed Luke was the hero and Han was the cool pirate, the kind of guy who shows up and helps and then disappears again kind of like Clint Eastwood or whoever. Yeah, you get over that (sigh). #33 Cyzyk The first time I read that, Despondent, I saw "off" instead of "over". It really changes the implications of the statement. Tolerance is another word for Apathy #34 johnnycancer Nobody freaked out about that because Marty McFly's reaction to this is basically disgust, which is a culturally acceptable response. If Marty McFly had sex with his mom and loved it and saw nothing wrong with it, I'm pretty sure people would have freaked out. All I'm saying with Star Wars is that it's a weird element to include in the movies, especially with no sort of follow-up and no real justification for it; Luke and Leia being brother and sister only serves two purposes; 1) it resolves the Luke-Leia-Han love triangle; and 2) it allows Yoda to say that there is another Skywalker. But neither of these are particularly important for the overall story since Leia being the other hope for the Jedi doesn't really matter in the OT and the Luke-Leia-Han thing could have been resolved any number of ways. Actually I wouldn't disagree with that statement; I was just trying to think of some reason that might have prompted Lucas to make Luke and Leia related. Sorry, it just seemed for a moment that there was a glimmer of actual planning in Star Wars and depth of plot There is an element of planning and depth to Star Wars, it's just not very well executed all the time. I think that the basic conceit of the PT is really fascinating: that there's this one guy who's going to bring balance to the force, except the Jedi don't know instead of killing off the Sith, he's going to reduce the ranks of the Jedi to just two people; and there's only two Sith; so balance is brought to the force because now the numbers are equal, but that's not how people interpreted the prophecy. That's some dramatic irony there, and it seems like there'd be plenty of room for complexity and subtlety in the way the plot is advanced; sadly, that's not the case. Do the movies leave a lot of room for speculation? Sure, go look at the Shmi Skywalker thread on the Episode I forum or the "Vader/Tatooine Connection" in the Episode IV forum. And Luke and Leia being brother and sister probably is in there as an allusion to certain literary traditions, although I would venture a guess that Lucas was thinking more along the lines of Greek tragedies as opposed to Roman poetry. But it's still a dumb element to have if you're not going to follow up on it at all; I'm pretty sure Luke would have mixed feelings about being sexually attracted to his sister; and I doubt that Leia would have been just fine with it either. Surely a couple of minutes could be shaved off the ewok battle to let the characters at least have a line or two to address this. Again, the basic conceit sounds kick-ass: brother and sister fall in love while plotting to kill their father and gain control of a galactic empire. Throw in Leia's attraction to Han and Luke having to complete his Jedi training and you've got some good stuff there. But the execution of this concept manages to dillute some of the core concepts enough where you begin to wonder why they were included in the first place. johnnycancer Welcome to the forum Moyale! This post has been edited by johnnycancer: 03 January 2007 - 08:02 PM #35 Casual Fan I never liked the plot twist that Vader was Luke's father. Its the main reason why ESB is not my favorite "Star Wars" movie. The original movie was pretty much about a ragtag group of rebels fighting off an evil empire, and one rebel, in particular, discovering himself in the process. That sounds simplistic, but there are a lot of Westerns which are basically about how the law abiding townspeople/ sheriff fight off the bad guys. After the revelation that Vader was Luke's father, the series became mainly about the Skywalker's, how Vader turned, and Vader's relationship with Luke. Probably the ragtag rebels fighting the evil empire theme had run its course, but the Skywalker saga was simply not enough to sustain more than one movie at the most, and of course it was the main focus of the prequels. Even Lucas has more or less admitted that he had to stretch the material to cover three movies. I think some of the problems with "Return of the Jedi" stem from this. I'm not sure what theme could have been used instead, but I don't think the Vader turning to the dark side, then turning back worked well to provide material for four and a half movies. The twist also introduced major, probably unfixable plot problems. Why did Obi Wan lie to Luke? Why did he hide Luke on Vader's home planet? Why did Anakin Skywalker give his lightsaber to an infant? There is also the problem of how can a "good man" join the empire (which we have to take mostly on faith that its evil, the empire isn't painted in the OT with much complexity). Its hard to criticize this plot development, since it pretty much became the theme for about 40% of the OT, and is the thing people remember about "Empire Strikes Back". However, it can't be a good idea to throw into a sequel something that contradicts much of the original movie, and completely changes the direction of the series, without putting more thought into it. #36 civilian_number_two Canada's Next Top Model. Group: Head Moderator Location:In Your Dreams Interests:I like stuff. QUOTE (johnnycancer @ Jan 3 2007, 08:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed of course that Leia being the other hope for the Jedi never amounts to anything, which is of course what makes it lame. Yoda for the record said there was "another" to Ben's "That boy is our only hope." As in, there is another in whom we can place our hope. Syntactically even, the suggestion is "another boy," but some fans at the time all speculated that the other hope, presumably a Jedi or Jedi potential, might be a woman. Anyway, Yoda never said "another Skywalker." Making Leia the other hope is about the weakest thing he did with any of his films ever, and in that assessment I'm including casting Jaek Lloyd as Darth Vader. What is weakest about Yoda's comment is that Luke refers to it in the third movie as though he heard it, and of course he was taking off from Dagobah at the time, with his helmet on and the roar of the engines and whatnot, while Yoda and Ben were sharing some private misgivings that he could never have overheard (please nobody say "The Force"). Actually no, that's not what's weakest about it. What is weakest about it, like the revelation of Luke's parentage, is that the promise is made of some big changes - if there's another hope, Luke might die or turn to the dark side. The later revelation ("I am your father") promises that Luke may need to kill his father, or die trying. ESB set up some big expectations for its sequel, and there was really no payoff. Luke didn't face Vader in a finale showdown; Luke faced the Emperor and Vader stepped in and killed him for him. We were then asked to forgive the mass murderer because Lucas thought that was the sort of thing you could forgive, even though later he'd say Han shooting Greedo would have been a bad thing had Greedo not shot first. The "other" hope never emerged as anything, drawing screaming attention to the fact that Lucas made the series up as he went along, all the while pretending that he'd researched myths and Greek Tragedies. etc etc. I don't want to stir up all this stuff again, but Lucas scuttled his fun adventure films by promising that they'd be more than that, and then not paying off. But hey, he promises that the next Indiana Jones movie will be "really cool." Remember, this is the guy who had Jones exchanging relics for diamonds in the sequel, and running around with comic-relief sidekicks. I'm looking forward to it the way you look forward to the dentist. "I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197). QUOTE (civilian_number_two @ Jan 4 2007, 01:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for pointing that out actually. I'm the one usually going on about looking at exactly what the dialogue is, so, I probably should have researched that better before I posted it. But, this goes back to the point I'm making about the depth of the movies; there's a lot of speculation you can do; but eventually they kind of smack you in the head with a storyline and there's only so much you can really read into it. Though Star Wars was a one-off movie, albeit with the possibility of a sequel, The Empire Strikes Back was clearly part of a two part enterprise. Therefore, it is hard to believe that the script was written without any thought given to how to resolve the questions posed. Is Vader really Luke's father, who or what is the other hope, and what is going to happen to Han. I cannot belive that Lucas didn't have at least a general idea as to the plot of Return of the Jedi. And, unless there was going to be some new character suddenly introduced in the last installment who was going to solve everything, the last hope could only really be Leia. I mean, was Yoda about to say, "if Luke fails, I can always call up Joe the Super-Jedi. I haven't mentioned him before, but I'm pretty sure he can sort it all out." The problem is that while Star Wars made a ton of cash, most of it didn't go to Lucas. Empire was made from Lucas's own money, and was still a risky investment for him. It had to be solid, and had to lead to the final episode. However, Empire proved that anything Star Wars was going to make money, and for the next film I don't think he really cared any more. Get the rescue of Han out of the way, introduce some new action figures (Jabba's palace) for the older toy buyers, introduce some teddy bears for the kids, and don't spend any more money on the final film than the bare minimum. Millions of dollars will pour in no matter what. I think that is why from Jedi onwards, nothing makes any sense. QUOTE (Moyale @ Jan 5 2007, 12:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I appreciate that you can't accept it, as it does seem crazy, but there you have it. Lucas had no idea what he was going to do with the "other hope" promise, and the proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. Leia did nothing in the third film to indicate her "other hope" -iness, and that's a fact. If by "there is another hope for the Jedi" Yoda meant "Luke, who is a goddamned prodigy even though I said he was too old, may fail, but if that happens we can also look up his sister, the exact same age and with no apparent Force talents ... " Well, I'll start over: if that's what Lucas says Yoda meant, then Lucas is a big fat-necked liar. Meanwhile, Vader's turn "back" to the good side is so hamfisted it stinks of last-minute: am I really to believe that Vader redeemed himself by murdering the man he had plotted to murder in the second film? And with the help of his son, no less, the son he'd tried to include in his treachery? The son having to kill the father, let's be honest, would have been a more interesting ending, with or without all the teddy bear crosscutting. Yeesh, I reel just thinking about it. Lucas had in mind when he made EMPIRE that he would make an ongoing series of sequels, with no number in mind and no long plot. By the time EMPIRE was released he came up with this fiction of three trilogies, a fiction he later altered. Pray he doesn't alter it further. #40 Vesuvius Location:The Crossroads Pray he doesn't alter it further. Best friggin' thing I've heard yet on this extensively drawn out thread! I mean, was Yoda about to say, "if Luke fails, I can always call up Joe the Super-Jedi. I haven't mentioned him before, but I'm pretty sure he can sort it all out." Oh that just makes me happy for some reason. Again, welcome to the forums Moyale. #42 Gerhard Location:Lisbon, Portugal Country:Portugal QUOTE (Moyale @ Jan 5 2007, 05:42 AM) In the DVD documentary there is the information Disney turned down BTTF because of that mother/son plot device. They did not found it appropriate for a family Disney Movie. I cannot believe that Lucas didn't have at least a general idea as to the plot of Return of the Jedi. And, unless there was going to be some new character suddenly introduced in the last installment who was going to solve everything, the last hope could only really be Leia. I mean, was Yoda about to say, "if Luke fails, I can always call up Joe the Super-Jedi. I haven't mentioned him before, but I'm pretty sure he can sort it all out." Don't underestimate Lucas capacity to make it as he goes along, during production for Attack of the Clones, the ILM team showed Lucas some demos of a CGI Yoda, (this is in the AOTC Extras DVD) so at that time (pre-production?) one would expect that the script was already written, but if it was decided not to make Yoda CGI, he could never fight with Docku and Palpatine (in ROTS), that would be pretty major changes in both scripts. And the apparent changes between ROTJ and ESB don't surprise me at all, everything was rushed to close the story there. At shotting time of ESB there were plans for an entire movie (the next one) with Luke looking for his sister. I think the sister idea was always there (the twins concept was there from the very early drafts of SW) but the Luke-Leia connection was apparently forced for ROTJ to end the trilogy. #43 KurganX While Lucas claims the twins concept was "always there" I don't see any evidence for it myself. The early scripts all posit a group of BROTHERS (boys), not twin siblings one boy one girl, who both have the Force and are the children of the bad guy who turns good (Vader and Anakin being the same person). Lucas is full of hot air, and he made it up as he went along... Meatgrinder Jedi Academy Server (208.43.15.76:29070) #44 Bond Group: Limited Members Location:Her Majesty's Secret Service Interests:James Bond, Star Wars, Harry Potter "Dark Father" is a load of bollocks. George Lucas called his villain (who, in the first draft, was a toadying, non-Sith henchman similar to Motti in the final film) "Darth Vader" simply because, in his high school in Modesto, one of the jocks who bullied him was named Gary Vader. You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. --Ian Fleming #45 georgelucas4greedo I's more powerful than Darth Vapor! It seems like everyone is over the nitpicking. Too bad.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line506
__label__wiki	0.877517	0.877517	Grand design for pianist’s house Architect designs a stunning house in Exeter to accommodate two pianos Submitted by: Neil McKim An architect has created a dream house in a former city garden for a pianist and her two grand pianos. The pianist, who sold her previous home to fund the replacement of a lean-to in her garden, commissioned David Sheppard Architects to create a stunning new building, called ‘Chimes’, which uses curved spaces to help with the acoustics. ‘The owner is a superb pianist,’ says Sheppard. ‘And the principle objective was to have one space with room for two pianos, and a small house for minimal living. Within that brief I had carte blanche to come up with this design.’ The architect approached the design ‘almost like a sculptor, carving the space out of a square block’. He used curved walls, in and outside the building, which are lined with beech plywood panels and striking narrow slot windows to bring in light and maintain privacy for the pianist. And the two grand pianos take pride of place in the building’s top floor. Sheppard also drew on the ideas of ‘eurythmy’, which looks at the expression of movement in art and music, as devised by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The construction lasted 15 months and cost £284,000. View more pictures of the house here. Photos © Joakim Boren Three more spectacular music-inspired buildings Piano House, Huainan, China This extraordinary building is shaped like a grand piano with a transparent violin leaning against it. Designed by architectural students at Hefey University of Technology in conjunction with a local decoration company, the Piano House is constructed from black and transparent glass. With a scale of 50:1 it has an entrance is the giant violin and it has escalators leading up to the main grand piano-shaped area. Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic Resembling something from a cartoon animation, the bizarre Dancing House in Prague is built in the constructivist architectural style. It sits in a square of 18th- and 19th-century buildings and is supported by 99 concrete pillars. Designed by architects Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, the latter named the house ‘Fred and Ginger’ after the Hollywood dancing legends Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Grand Guitar, Tennesssee, US The Grand Guitar Museum in Bristol, Tennessee, has perhaps the most eye-catching publicity possible: a building shaped like a giant guitar. ‘You are invited to see how it feels to be inside a grand guitar’ boasts the museum. The giant guitar construction is 70-feet long and three stories tall with windows placed along the fret board. Inside are hundreds of instruments, including ukuleles, banjos and dulcimers. And it even houses its own historic radio station. • Archimusic • Neglected piano scores Article Type: \| News \| Alpesh Chauhan announced as CBSO’s new assistant conductor British Composer Awards shortlists announced The best living female conductors	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line511
__label__cc	0.745127	0.254873	Cape & Islands Summit Taunton Summit 2019 Statewide Summit North Andover Summit Worcester Summit Pittsfield Summit Newton Summit Acton Summit This old coal plant is now a solar farm, thanks to pressure from local activists (Fast Company 1/3/19) For more than half a century, a coal plant in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts spewed pollution into the air. Now, the plant is closed, and 17,000 solar panels and a battery storage system–the largest in the state–send clean power to the grid. Later this year, as the coal plant’s smokestacks come down, the rest of the site will be developed for new industry. It’s a transition that was driven by the economic collapse of coal and accelerated by local activists who were concerned about the area’s high asthma rates, twice as high as the rest of the state. “We know the things that come out of a smokestack are major triggers and contributors to respiratory issues,” says Claire Müller, lead community organizer for the Toxics Action Center, which partnered with Neighbor to Neighbor, a local Latinx-led organization, to pressure the company that owned the coal plant to shut it down–and to help workers at the coal plant make the shift fairly. (read more) Sierra Club® and "Explore, enjoy and protect the planet"® are registered trademarks of the Sierra Club. © Sierra Club 2017. The Sierra Club Seal is a registered copyright, service mark, and trademark of the Sierra Club.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line512
__label__wiki	0.571083	0.571083	Consultants to public companies, brokers, attorneys, regulators and OTC Markets Group, Inc. Luke Zouvas' Goose Is Finally Cooked! Initially Posted: July 16, 2018 5:10 p.m. PDT Last Updated: July 17, 2018 1:00 p.m. PDT Luke and Leena Zouvas Obviously in better times Among the filthiest of the filthy attorneys that infest the penny stock markets is San Diego's own Luke Zouvas. A former partner of disgraced attorneys Louis Carrillo and Wade Huettel who were knee deep in the Awesome Penny Stocks scandals, Zouvas has finally made it big on his own. In fact, he was deemed worthy of something that even Carillio and Huettel couldn't muster: an indictment. On July 11th, Luke was arrested on a Grand Jury indictment for laundering the proceeds of securities fraud. While this particular charge came as a surprise to me, Luke was long due for a stint in the federal pokey and my guess is that the SEC/FBI took what they could get. He posted $50,000 bail the next day and is free pending prosecution of the case. Of course this is just a small sampling of Luke's work and he was an indspensible cog in several pump and dump schemes, including tickers DRNK, APHD, CUBV, HMNC, VCPS, and the very dirty Stock Castle promotion, USGT, just to name a few. His CPA brother, Mark Zouvas, was usually attached to Luke's schemes, and more than once, fellow San Diego barrister, Steve Lucero, was found nearby as well. Luke's connection to USGT is undeniable as he paid me shut-up money in advance not to sue US Gaphite, Inc. At the time, I had a policy of suing the subjects of Stock Castle promotions for violations of spam email statutes. Those lawsuits, which were announced with a press release, always had a devastating effect on the promotion, and quickly cut the scheme short. Zouvas figured that by paying me off in advance, he could get me to lay off the company. When I was in Luke's office, he introduced me to Mark, who was obviously full well apprised of why I was there. What Luke didn't know is that I knew that you can't settle a case in advance of the criminal activity. After receiving a check for $17,500, I sued US Graphite anyway, and was granted a judgment against the company and its nominee CEO, Wayne Yamamoto. Not surprisingly, Steve Lucero represented Zouvas' nominee CEO during the discussions of the payoff of the judgement. This is hardly Zouvas' first encounter with the SEC. On April 25, 2016 Luke was charged for obfuscating the control position of Christopher Larson in Crown Dynamics Corp. (CDYY). Zouvas was also accused of participating in manipulative trades in his own account to create the appearance of buying interest in the stock. Shares of CDYY were the subject of promotion campaigns during 2012, after which the company's name and symbol were changed to the current Airway Labs Corp. (AIRW) and promoted anew. Among the several wrongdoings by Zouvas as alleged in that complaint, he created several false stock purchase agreements including one in which he purportedly purchased 87,500 shares of AIRW for $2,000. According to the SEC, Zouvas never paid for those shares nor did he receive them under the phony purchase agreement. The purported seller of the shares never communicated with Zouvas or actually owned the shares, but found her signature forged on a stock certificate anyway. Zouvas himself directed the Transfer Agent to transfer those shares to his name. Within his instruction letter to the TA, Zouvas wrote, “We certify that these shares have been validly purchased by the following parties,” which included himself. The statement was a lie because Zouvas did not purchase the shares referred to in the letter, and the stated owner did not sell the shares. Zouvas eventually realized over $10,000 in gains from the sales of the stock in addition to his legal fees and other payments. Luke Zouvas has a healthy reputation for screwing over his clients. In one of many examples, PrimeGen Energy (PGNE) retained a New York law firm to commence litigation against Zouvas and his then partner, Marc Applbaun, for dissemination of untruthful, false and misleading information to shareholders. On May 24, 2013, Zouvas was sued by an insurance company who had been paid to indemnify his legal practice. Shortly after the acquisition of the policy, the insurance company agreed to provide a defense in a malpractice suit against him brought by a former client. After forking out about $250K in legal costs, the insurance company came to the realization that the actions for which Zouvas claimed coverage had at least partially occurred prior to the coverage period, thereby relieving them of responsibility to cover him. They sued Zouvas for recovery of the expended costs. In the underlying case, which was attached as Exhibit A to the insurance company's complaint, the former client had sued Zouvas for failing to act on the adverse party's discovery demands, and for failing to disclose a settlement proposal made by the adverse party. The former client alleged that Zouvas' negligence had cost him no less than $750K. Now instead of only footing the bill for his defense in the litigation brought by the former client, Zouvas was faced with an action to recover a bunch of money from him by the insurance company. Suspiciously, on June 14, 2013, just two days before Zouvas filed for bankruptcy, an undisclosed settlement was entered in the case brought by the former client. One might suspect that the former client was held hostage under the threat of the pending bankruptcy, forcing him to capitulate to a discounted settlements. The bankruptcy enabled Zouvas to get the litigation brought by the insurance company, stayed. Zouvas, who lives a fancy shmancy lifestyle, driving hundred thousand dollar cars and living in multi-million dollar homes, while wearing designer suits, listed $63K in bank and credit card debt as the only other unsecured creditors. It will be interesting to see how Luke's wife, Leena Spahr Zouvas, reacts to the prospect of losing everything she has, and facing the fact that she has a pending convict for a husband. Grand Jury Indictment ~ George Labels: airw, aphd, cdyy, cubv, drnk, hnmn, leena zouvas, luke zouvas, mark zouvas, steve lucero, usgt, vcps Copyright 2013-2019 © Clipper Corporate Partners, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Any investment or legal opinion appearing on this site is strictly the opinion of Clipper Corporate Partners, Inc. and/or George Sharp who are not licensed brokers or investment advisors. George Sharp is not licensed to practice law and therefore cannot offer legal advice. 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__label__wiki	0.858661	0.858661	B.C. rules out more sanctuaries for feral rabbits at Richmond Auto Mall (with video) By Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun October 24, 2012 For several years people have left their unwanted pet rabbits in a wooded area near the Richmond Auto Mall. METRO VANCOUVER - Feral rabbits in Richmond can be humanely killed, adopted as pets or exported to rabbit sanctuaries in the U.S. but not allowed to live out their lives in sanctuaries in B.C., according a wildlife biologist with the provincial government. Brent Gurd said once rabbits are released by pet owners in B.C., they’re considered feral animals — non-native invasive species. Gurd considers the sanctuary established to solve the rabbit problem at the University of Victoria in 2009 to be a one-off solution. “We’re not looking to run large number of sanctuaries for large numbers of rabbits,” he said. In Richmond, feral rabbits remain a nuisance at the city’s auto mall, which wants to find new homes for about 300 rabbits. View more photos of the fuzzy invaders here Gurd said if the auto mall is willing to pledge financial support for the rabbits in a sanctuary, the ministry might consider looking at that option. But he said the ministry hasn’t had any discussion with Richmond Auto Mall about supporting a sanctuary. Gail Terry, the mall’s general manager, said what the mall wants to do is catch the rabbits, spay them and contain them in a secure home where they can’t escape. But she feels she’s come up against a brick wall with the provincial government and its refusal to allow the rabbits to be caught and sent to a sanctuary, as was done with the rabbits in Victoria. “I’m an animal lover and animal welfare advocate and I’m trying to do the right thing,” she said. “There is no way I could ever be the one to give the word to an extermination company to round up all these guys. That is what the provincial government would like us do — unequivocally. “They can’t stay in the auto mall — they’re getting run over. It’s just not the right place for anyone’s pet to hang around.” Not only do the rabbits eat plants on the manicured grounds, they get killed by cars as they cross Jacombs Road into the wooded Richmond Nature Park near Westminster Highway. Terry said the auto mall is willing to contribute toward covering the cost of spaying and neutering and help develop rabbit habitats, or “rabbitats,” to house the animals. “This is not back in the early 1900s where we didn’t have the knowledge of other ways to come up with solutions,” she said. “Let’s make it happen and do the right thing for animals.” Gurd said running a sanctuary is a huge financial undertaking.The sanctuary in Coombs on Vancouver Island hasn’t been without its problems, he said. Some rabbits have escaped into the wild and neighbours have complained. Gurd said running a sanctuary is a huge, long-term undertaking. Although people try to take on the burden, they often don’t have the resources to look after them, he said. “It is expensive and often there isn’t the money available,” said Gurd, who works in the resource management branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. “People want to take it on but don’t have the resources to look after them.” The organization the Richmond Auto Mall wants to work with in solving the feral rabbit problem is Rabbitats Rabbit Rescue operated by Sorelle Saidman. Based on a sanctuary that a friend of Saidman’s ran in Maine in the U.S. called Rabbitats for Humanity, Saidman proposes a bulk rescue idea for 50 to 80 rabbits at a time. She said if the provincial government was willing to allow the sanctuaries on agricultural land, she would be able to operate them on sites already offered in Surrey, Delta and Maple Ridge. Susan Vickery runs the Earth Animal Rights or EAR sanctuary at Coombs located west of Parksville. It’s home to about 600 rabbits that used to roam at the University of Victoria. After EAR raised about $80,000, the rabbits were captured and spayed and taken to the sanctuary starting in 2009. Vickery said the province did make her jump through a lot of hoops to set up the sanctuary. She said that was necessary to make sure the rabbits have a long-term home. “You you have to have the animals sterilized, secure sanctuary. You have to show sustainable support. They’re not going to have you house them someplace and starve them to death.” Vickery said she didn’t have any objections to the ministry’s guidelines on setting up her sanctuary. “They’re absolutely good,” she said. “The ministry has a huge interest in seeing these projects are successful and that these animals don’t suffer.” kevingriffin@vancouversun.com © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun Original source article: B.C. rules out more sanctuaries for feral rabbits at Richmond Auto Mall (with video) Photos: Rabbits take over Richmond Auto Mall B.C. municipalities demand controls on rabbits Edmonton rabbit hoarder fined $8,500, banned from owning pets Feral rabbits enjoy the nice grassy areas of Richmond Auto Mall in Richmond on April 9, 2012. They are becoming a problem. Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost, PNG Photos: Leonard Cohen honoured... Leonard Cohen is honoured at the Glenn Gould Prize... Gallery: Italian cruise ship disaster... 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__label__cc	0.645994	0.354006	Home About us Issues Search Submission Subscribe Contact Login An interdisciplinary journal exploring linkages between society, environment and development SPECIAL SECTION: RATIONAL ACTOR LEGACY From Community Conservation to the Lone (Forest) Ranger: Accumulation by Conservation in a Mexican Forest Molly Doane University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL This paper explores the paradigm shift from 1990s models of community conservation that encoded environmentalist praxis within legal and cadastral frameworks, to recent attempts to encode environmentalist principles and goals within individual practice. Using the case of Chimalapas, Mexico, I look at how community-based conservation was abandoned after being deemed 'too political' to implement, and how new models of conservation not dependent on community consent emerged. Environmental services models of conservation pay individuals for forest ranger services, for reforestation, and for access to waterways and for water use. These models commodify land and labor in new ways, and join carbon markets as an important new avenue for what I call "accumulation by conservation." They also institutionalise conservation practices designed for private property regimes, despite the fact that the world's well-preserved forests are located principally on indigenous, communally-organised territories. Doane M market ideology Chimalapas All articles in Conservation and Society, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License © Conservation and Society Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow and supported by the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, on behalf of an informal alliance of natural & social scientists New site online since 25th June, 2009	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line521
__label__wiki	0.607632	0.607632	Diablo Magazine / Best of the East Bay 2016: Shops An eco-minded fabric shop; handblown glassware in Berkeley. by Katie Henry, LeeAnne Jones, Lou Fancher, Peter Crooks, Rachelle Cihonski, Susan Safipour Car Wash: Lafayette Car Wash and Detail Center Perennial Winner When the California drought forced residents to cut water use, Lafayette Car Wash and Detail Center offered to host community fund-raisers. The car wash, which recycles more than 60 percent of its water, never turns down fundraising requests. “The answer is always yes,” says co-owner Blake Wellen, whose father opened the car wash in 1990. 3319 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, (925) 283-1190, lafayettecarwash.com. —Rachelle Cihonski Mechanic: Walnut Creek Automotive Old Kid, New Block Walnut Creek Automotive’s father-son team, William and Jeff Boaman, has more than 90 years of combined experience, so you can rest assured your car is in capable hands. The shop moved from its longtime Walnut Creek location to Pleasant Hill in March. “A lot of our customers say Walnut Creek is so congested that this new location is easier to get to,” says Jeff. 1855 Contra Costa Blvd., Pleasant Hill, (925) 849-6440, wcauto.mechanicnet.com. —R.C. Home Decor Store: Misto Lino East Bay Europhiles love this shop’s upscale bedding, kitchen items, and home accessories. Misto Lino’s brand manager has been taking trips to Italy to build relationships with artisans and vendors, so her customers can custom order goods straight from the Old Country. 704 Sycamore Valley Rd. W., Danville, (925) 837-6575; 3585 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, (925) 284-6565, mistolino.com. —Peter Crooks Plant Nursery: Orchard Nursery and Florist Year after year, Diablo readers support this independently owned nursery in Lafayette, which stocks everything from houseplants to drought-tolerant natives. Orchard also offers know-how: Its expert staff can provide tips on proper mulching and lawn replacement alternatives, which can significantly reduce a homeowner’s water bill. 4010 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, (925) 284-4474, orchardnursery.com. —Lou Fancher Indie Bookstore: Rakestraw Books Danville’s Rakestraw Books has earned high praise from such bibliophiles as local author Michael Chabon, who says Rakestraw is “a gem” and that owner Michael Barnard may be “the best bookseller in the Bay Area.” Look for innovative programming: summer day camp for adults (August 11) and a fall lineup of authors likely to include Jodi Picoult; Cal Peternell, with his second cookbook; and Diana Nyad. 3 Railroad Ave., Danville, (925) 837-7337, rakestrawbooks.com. —L.F. Eyeglasses Shop: Broadway Eyeworks Optometry Walnut Creek’s Broadway Eyeworks has a huge selection of eyeglasses, including Kate Spade, Tory Burch, and Chanel. I fell for a pair of Pradas. “Oh, you got new glasses,” my friends said, always in a tone that was more matter of fact than complimentary. Finally, a friend fessed up: “Those glasses are too much for your face.” On my next visit, I told my eye doctor I didn’t love my new glasses, thinking she would commiserate with me. Instead, she immediately started looking for new frames. Broadway Eyeworks let me exchange the Pradas, and now I wear a pair of Oliver Peoples that I—and my friends—adore. 1389 N. Broadway, Walnut Creek, (925) 930-7484, broadwayeyeworksoptometry.com. —Susan Safipour Bike Shop: Livermore Cyclery Editor Pick Steve Howard was 21 when he opened his first cycling shop in Livermore. He had been working at a bike shop, when a space down the street opened up. “There was an opportunity to do it better,” says Howard, “but I wasn’t thinking 40 years out.” Now, Livermore Cyclery has locations in Alamo and Dublin. Four generations of the family have worked in the stores—from Howard’s parents, who invested in the business and worked on weekends, to his five-year-old granddaughter, who helps around the shop. 180 Alamo Plaza, Alamo, (925) 718-8100; 7214 San Ramon Rd., Dublin, (925) 829-4310; 2752 First St., Livermore, (925) 455-8090, livermorecyclery.com. —R.C. Design Your Own Glassware: Glassybaby Editor Pick Glassybaby brought gorgeous glass to Berkeley in October. At this hot shop and retail studio, you can purchase an already-made candle votive or drinking glass, or design your own. Professional blowers handcraft creations while you watch in awe. 745 Heinz St., Berkeley, (510) 725-4832, glassybaby.com. —R.C. Succulent Shop: Succiko Editor Pick With a variety of succulents, air plants, and indoor houseplants, Castro Valley’s Succiko is a destination for drought-tolerant-greenery aficionados. But plants aren’t the only offerings: Succiko features a “composition lab,” where guests create plant designs and get care advice. 19577 Center St., Castro Valley, (650) 892-3042, succiko.com.—Katie Henry Landscaper: Suma Landscaping Reader’s Quote “Suma has been our landscaper for more than 12 years. We love their focus on details and attention to client communications,” says Piedmont’s David Saenz. “We frequently marvel at what they built out of a yard overgrown with ivy and weeds.” Locations in Oakland and San Ramon, sumalandscaping.com. Party Store: Boswell’s Party Supplies Big Number: 54 Total number of balloon colors, including pearlized and jewel toned, at Boswell’s Party Supplies. Locations in Danville and Lafayette, boswells-party.com. —R.C. Long Story Short: Eco-Minded Fabrics Green Goods: Monaluna Editor Pick When Jennifer Moore expanded her online fabric shop Monaluna into a brick-and-mortar boutique in Walnut Creek, in late 2015, it became a trove for all kinds of earth-friendly treasures. Inside, the walls are lined with bolts of Moore’s fabric designs: colorful Scandinavian-style patterns of flowers, fruit, and critters. She releases six collections a year printed on 100 percent organic cotton. Displayed on reclaimed wood shelves and old electrical spools are items that echo Moore’s design aesthetic and sustainable philosophy, including repurposed wood trays and bowls, handmade jewelry, and bath products—and tote bags, pillows, and infinity scarves made with her fabric. In a studio space at the back of the store, Moore designs upcoming collections and manages wholesale accounts. With this setup, there are many interruptions, but Moore—who used to design children’s clothes for Target and decor for Pottery Barn Kids—wouldn’t have it any other way: “I really love talking to my customers.” 2061 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek, (925) 448-8055, monaluna.com. —LeeAnne Jones Wine and Whiskers Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) hosted more than 400 guests (and many adoptable cats and dogs) for its sold-out 16th annual fundraiser at its headquarters in Walnut Creek. Those in attendance enjoyed delicious food, fine wines, and craft beers and learned all about ARF’s lifesaving mission, which focuses on taking in animals who have exceeded their time at public shelters and finding them forever homes with humans in need of furry companions. ARF raised a total of $115,000 at the event; all earnings help the organization’s programs for both pets and people. Livermore Valley Wine Auction The Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation and the Wente Foundation for Arts Education garnered $500,000 to improve the quality of life for local children in need at their 25th charity fundraiser. Over the years, the event has brought in more than $5 million to support this cause. Attendees enjoyed wine tasting, appetizers, silent and live auctions, live music, and dancing. Monte Vista Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony In celebration of its inaugural Hall of Fame class—which consists of seven student athletes, two sports teams, three coaches, and a former principal who greatly supported the athletic program—Danville’s Monte Vista High School held its induction ceremony at Round Hill Country Club in Alamo. Those honored were recognized for bringing excellence to the school along with their athletic achievements. The evening also included a buffet dinner and live auction. Asian Health Services 45th Anniversary Annual Gala At the Oakland Marriott City Center, the Asian Health Services team held their yearly event to sustain the organization’s Pediatric and Family Care Center, which serves 8,000 children and families by providing medical, dental, and mental health care to underserved patients. Honorees included producer Janet Yang and Ninez Ponce, M.D., the director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Pledge to Humanity Gala In order to finance service projects for child and teenage changemakers, Pledge to Humanity raised more than $300,000 at its sold-out 10-year anniversary gala at Alamo’s Round Hill Country Club. The foundation empowers young volunteers who wish to take on new philanthropic opportunities. JDRF Summer Classic Active Charity joined forces with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and brought together volunteers and members of the community for a day of golfing and an after-party consisting of cocktails, dinner, silent and live auctions, music, and dancing at Wente Vineyards. All proceeds benefited JDRF and went toward research for type 1 diabetes. Moonlight on the Mountain Save Mount Diablo’s 18th annual fundraising gala, which took place in September in Mount Diablo State Park, was a tremendous success. Guests were taken up the mountain slopes for the evening; there, they enjoyed a three-course meal, live music, silent and live auctions, and amazing views along the China Wall. With about 480 community members and elected officials in attendance, the organization raised more than $516,000, which will allow it to continue its mission to preserve, restore, and defend the natural lands and wildlife habitats that are currently at risk. LLS Charity Event The Pivot Agency and Round Hill Country Club presented the 2019 Pivot LLS Tennis Tournament, a men’s and women’s doubles competition for country club members. (Nonmembers also donated to the cause.) All funds supported the Bay Area chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Tails at Twilight In an effort to continue to eliminate animal cruelty and provide educational programs, the East Bay SPCA hosted a fundraiser that featured an appearance by former KTVU news anchor Diane Dwyer, lots of food, premium wines and craft beers, a silent auction, casino games, facility tours, and the opportunity to meet shelter animals. The participating wineries and breweries included Calicraft Brewing Co. and Wood Family Vineyards. Champions Gala The Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California, a nonprofit medical facility located in Oakland, held its 11th yearly gala at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. The organization, which has provided free on-site health-care services to the East Bay’s uninsured and low-income residents since 2008, has a volunteer staff of over 50 physicians and nurses. This sold-out charity function was about recognizing these generous volunteers, giving moral support to the cause, and raising funds so the clinic can continue its lifesaving work. World Diabetes Day Event On October 10, Neiman Marcus in Walnut Creek hosted a panel that spoke about diabetes awareness and gave information about new technology and prevention tips. Attendees enjoyed wine from Wente Vineyards and food, which was provided by the Neiman Marcus Cafe. Diablo Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line525
__label__cc	0.607588	0.392412	Digger Daily Archive \| Pets & Animals RSS feed for this section Angry Cockatoo Throws A Tantrum When Asked To Return To Her Cage! March 1, 2016 Comments Adult language warning! Sometimes our kids overhear some language that they shouldn’t. Usually, it results in them repeating it over and over no matter how hard we try to get them to stop saying it. Pets & Animals, Pranks Super Noisy Cat Eats Corn Like There’s No Tomorrow! They say it is best not to try to get between a cat and its food, and this video surely helps to show how much cat will cling to their meal! Funny Stuff, Pets & Animals Watch How This Dog Earns His Well Deserved Treats! Incredible! February 28, 2016 Comments Spy training can cover many forms, but for spy dogs, it starts with learning how to speak like the enemy: cats. OK, so maybe there are no spy dogs, but if there were, this dog would be all set up to be the premier secret agent in the battle against the cats. Mom Saw A Deer On The Other Side Of The Fence, What Happened Seconds Later Dropped My Jaw There are some joys that city dwellers just will never know. Seeing a wild animal is a thrilling experience, but when you live in the country, sometimes you’re lucky enough to not only see wild animals, but get to build a real relationship with them. Mom Thinks Her Dog Loves The Carrots, But Seconds Later, I Fell Down Laughing! Broccoli, carrots, and other vegetables are the arch-enemy of children, especially if you believe the movies and TV. But you may think you’ve seen kids take some extreme measures before to not eat vegetables, but nothing will top this. Puppy Tries To Jump On The Chair, But See What The Cat Does! If you ever wondered who would win in a game of “King of the Hill”, a cat or a dog, the answer may surprise you. Brave Diver Spots A Massive Shark, When He Gets Closer? OMG The Smithsonian does more than just run some of the premier museums in the world. This Dog Is The Best Dancer You’ll Ever See! You know that moment when you realize that a dog has better dance moves than you? Well get ready to experience it, because this dog can really cut a rug. He Puts A Heating Pad In The Garage, But In The Morning, THIS Happens! You probably already know that birds get to do what many of us dream about, and fly south every winter. She Set Up A Hidden Camera To See What Her Dogs Do When She Leaves. 10 Seconds Later… Many of us have heard of separation anxiety in dogs, but because it happens while we are gone, most of us don’t really know what it looks like. Mom Goes Out For A Walk, But See Who Joins Her! OMG! Search Your Name © 2020 Digger Daily. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line526
__label__wiki	0.989006	0.989006	Boston Globe, April 20, 1984 From The Elvis Costello Wiki 74 75 76 1977 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 UK & Ireland music weeklies UK & Ireland magazines UK & Ireland newspapers US rock magazines US music magazines US alternative weeklies European magazines Canada • Mexico Australia • New Zealand Asia • Africa, South America Online publications • Blogs 1977 December 12 1982 August 24 1983 August 4 1986 October 17 1989 April 3 Massachusetts publications Attleboro Sun Chronicle Berkshire Eagle Daily Hampshire Gazette Lowell Sun Springfield Republican Wilmington Town Crier Worcester Telegram Gazette Boston College Heights Boston College Sub Turri Boston Univ. Daily Free Press Brandeis University Justice Fitchburg State Univ. Strobe Mass. Daily Collegian MIT Tech Mount Holyoke Choragos Springfield College Student Tufts University Daily UMass Amherst Index Williams College Record Magazines and alt. weeklies Boston Phoenix Boston Rock Boston's Weekly Dig Improper Bostonian Real Paper US publications by state AL • AK • AR • AZ • CA CO • CT • DC • DE • FL GA • HA • IA • ID • IL IN • KS • KY • LA • MA MD • ME • MI • MN • MO MS • MT • NC • ND • NE NH • NJ • NM • NV • NY OH • OK • OR • PA • RI SC • SD • TN • TX • UT VA • VT • WA • WI • WY Solo Costello reveals the power of his songs An evening with Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett at the Orpheum Theater Elvis Costello has long been regarded as a penetrating wordsmith, a songwriter who creates minutely detailed conflicts and uncommonly fleshed-out characters. In concert, however, the words haven't always carried the weight they could. In fact, the last time Costello played the area, with the Attractions and a horn section at Cape Cod Coliseum. the show was bogged down by muddy sound and trivializing, showbizzy arrangements that made the rock 'n' roll flaccid and Costello's lyrical acumen nearly moot. At the Orpheum Wednesday night, a sellout audience got a rare chance to see Costello up close and hear songs stripped to the emotional core. It was rock 'n' roll played without a rock 'n' roll band. 34 songs that stood tall and proud without full instrumentation. Costello utilized four main instruments, an acoustic Marlin guitar, an electric Telecaster, a grand piano and an electric organ, and put the focus on mood and lyrics. Many songs — "Clowntime Is Over," "New Amsterdam" and "Riot Act" in particular — took on more melancholic, haunted, pained qualities. Those qualities were always there, of course, but with a band it was easier to listen to the beat, the uptempo flow, and let Costello's words drift to the side. There was no dodging Costello's visions Wednesday. He followed the ever-quick and clever T Bone Burnett with a long, splendid set. The music simultaneously felt like a caress and a frontal attack. Beginning with the apologetic "Accidents Will Happen" and closing with a new song, the bitterly ironic. "Peace In Our Time," Costello took the audience on an intense, emotional jag. Yet, between songs he was warm, witty and modest, a friendly host who easily stepped into the role of emotional singer-songwriter. What came through most strikingly was Costello's careful attention to phrasing and nuance. On both guitar and voice, he'd move songs from a whisper to a scream. Another side also came front and center: Elvis the soul shouter, a singer who throws himself into stark songs with from-the-gut feeling. "Just a Memory," an emotional song about fighting off emotion, was magnificent as was the new "Home Truth," where Costello sang "I'd put back the pieces but I don't know where to start." Although relatively unadorned, the music had visceral, as well as intellectual, impact. The set ranged from restrained menace ("Green Shirt") to heartfelt passion (a new, stirring "I love you!, I love you!" coda to "Alison"), and included encores that skewered colonial politics of America ("Peace In Our Time") and Britain ("Shipbuilding"). Costello played a batch of obscure covers — songs by Bob Dylan, June Tabor, Jerry Dammers, Charley Pride and others — and six songs from the upcoming album, Goodbye Cruel World. Rest assured: Costello's back with the Attractions for the album and will tour with them after its release. This 15-date tour is just a side trip. But if Wednesday's performance was typical, it's been some kind of journey. Tags: Orpheum Theatre • Boston • Cape Cod Coliseum • Clowntime Is Over • New Amsterdam • Riot Act • T Bone Burnett • Accidents Will Happen • Peace In Our Time • Just A Memory • Home Truth • Green Shirt • Alison • Shipbuilding • Bob Dylan • June Tabor • Jerry Dammers • Goodbye Cruel World The Boston Globe, April 20, 1984 Jim Sullivan reviews Elvis Costello, solo, Wednesday, April 18, 1984, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. Page scan. BostonGlobe.com Wikipedia: The Boston Globe Retrieved from "http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Boston_Globe,_April_20,_1984&oldid=17411265" Bibliography 1984 1984 concert reviews 1984 US Solo Tour Look Now Gigography About The Elvis Costello Wiki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line536
__label__cc	0.710819	0.289181	Heartsong Healing Arts Heartsong Healing Arts (HHA) is run by, Rev. Sarah Heartsong, MA, who has studied religions all over the world and is the Main Sanctuary Servant of The Tree of Life Interfaith Sanctuary (currently being formed). HHA specializes in meeting interfaith spiritual needs with services, such as Spiritual Tutoring/Life Coaching, Ceremony Work (weddings, funerals, blessings and “cleansings”) as well as Teachings shared in classes and workshops. We make products such as drums, altars, crowns, altar tools and sacred staffs, and sometimes resell vintage spiritual items. Sar ah Heartsong dedicated herself to the study of Nature-Centered spiritualities in Tacoma in 1992. She was ordained in 1994 by her community in Olympia after graduating with a degree in Religion/Global Studies from Pacific Lutheran University and continued to be friends of various groups/traditions including the Aquarian Tabernacle Church, ChaliceHart and Sylvan Grove (among others). Sarah practices an eclectic, Nature-Centered spirituality and has been a “Sovereign High Priestess” for a long time (solitary serving community). She is a Master/Teacher of Reiki, a Shamanic Healer and Spiritual Advisor. She is a trickster, occasionally embodying the sacred Clown with her distinctive loving laughter. Sarah moved back to Shelton, WA where she and her partner, Karl Feret, have a spiritual tool-making business and land. HHA’s Work promotes personal empowerment and social change through the following: Spiritual Life Coaching Religious/Spiritual Tutoring and Classes Ceremonies (weddings, blessings and other rites of passage) Laying on of hands healing & teaching of Sacred Touch. Creating and teaching how to use Spiritual Tools and Sacred Art. The production of events and festivals that will honor the Spirit of Nature and bring like-minded people together. Networking with others in alignment with Heartsong Healing Arts mission and spiritual direction. https://heartsonghealingarts.net/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line538
__label__cc	0.687196	0.312804	CultFlicks.net Bad Movie Reviews and More! Review of Santa Sangre Drama Comments Off on Review of Santa Sangre I don’t think Santa Sangre was meant to be as weird as it is. Some movies try so hard to be odd, and it often comes across as phony or self-parody. Santa Sangre is the most non-intentionally weird move ever devised. It has nothing to do with Santa Claus (at least I don’t think) and more to do with talking fish and circuses. Santa Sangre utilized the flash-forward before Lost made it cool, and takes advantage of Down Syndrome illness more than any other film. The film is also intensely violent and absurd beyond any sort of literal understanding. Santa Sangre may be a huge metaophor for child abuse, but it also has enough circus tricks to fit in a Cirque De Soleil script. You can’t come to terms with the film’s oddities any more than you can understand why your mom insists on Santa Claus being real even in your twenties. Reason to Watch Jesus makes a cameo appearance. The real Jesus, so that is pretty cool or whatever. italy and Mexico don’t usually deprive such entertainment, more known for their stuffiness and their illegal immigrants respectively, but for one reason or another, Santa Sangre just sort of works, even if it isn’t really saying anything at all about anything we can understand. Most Memorable Quote(s) Concha: Without me you are nothing. No one sees you and no one notices you. Just like your stupid hero. Concha: It’s always roosters or swans! You never see anything else in your ridiculous hallucinations. What You Need to Get Through This Movie Let’s just be honest here and nothing except shrooms and an Amazon frog can really make you come to sense and preparation for this thing. As a tribute to Mexican horror films, Santa Sangre includes a scene with masked wrestlers and a “superwoman” named La Santa. The line spoken during the death of the elephant (The Elephant is Dying) is used as the opening line of “What’s up with You” – a song by Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson, of all combinations You cannot atone for your sins by asking politely and sacrificing an animal When a character hallucinates, even the smallest trivial problem is insurmountable Justification for Rating If senselessness is directly proportional to quality, a 7 will do perfectly here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVdBqvIUnyw Tags: Action, creepy, cult, thriller, violent, why did they make that Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Horror Comments Off on Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre A gang of young kids driving through Texas in a van hear stories of killings in the area… feeling invincible they continue on until they pick up a hitchiker who is obsessed with telling them the killing methods they use at the slaughterhouse he works at. After the hitchiker slashes his hands, sets shit on fire and demands money, they kick him out of the van, but not before he cuts the hand of wheelchair riding Franklin. They run out of gas after kickin’ out the hitchslasher and Kirk, the driver, heads for an old house and becomes the first to meet Leatherface and his mallet. Kirks girlfriend Pam comes after him only to end up fatality number 2, this time with a pretty little hook shoved through her back. Jerry, rings in at number 3, falling victim to the mallet. The only ones left now are Franklin and his sister Sally… after nobody comes back to the van they figure it’s time to go find them. Franklin, obviously easy prey, is next as Leatherface takes him down. Sally is now left all alone and leads Leatherface on a long chase that ends with her being held up in Leatherface’s house with him and his fucked up family. Between the furniture being made out of human bones and the hitchslasher from earlier being one of the family members, Sally, being the bright girl she is in this movie, realizes she should probably get the hell out there. She manages to escape, gives chase again… this time leaving Leatherface behind. Next weeks dinner ideas. Made “presumably” on true events and had a much larger impact on audiences in 1974 than it would now. Not a lot of gore and blood, but a nice sense of terror for the most port. “My family’s always been in” meat” “That’s the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up” “I just can’t take no pleasure in killing. There’s just some things you gotta do. Don’t mean you have to like it” A couple of napkins and some of that home made chili from the old smelly couple down the street. Despite the implications of the film’s title, only one victim is killed by a chainsaw (Franklin). The financing for this film came from profits made off Deep Throat (1972). Uncredited and then unknown John Larroquette provided the narration Never pick up hitchhikers, never trust a man who uses human skin as a facial mask, and never eat chili in Texas. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-73BUDHcCCc Tags: blood, cannibalism, creepy, gross, Horror Review of Dirty Dancing Romance Comments Off on Review of Dirty Dancing Dr. Houseman takes his family back to upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains for yet another, exclusive vacation surrounded by people who are paid to kiss their ass. “Baby”, daddy’s little girl, happens upon a little shing-ding the staff is throwing and trys to get accepted into the tribe. Johnny, the head dance instructor, wants nothing to do with the little brat and tries to send her away. Well, spoiled girls aren’t use to being told no, so she keeps coming back. His dancing partner gets knocked up by the bus boy and they find themselves in a pickle. His partner convinces him to give baby a chance and helps teach her a routine they need to perform. Johnny falls for Baby until Baby’s dad finds out about the side action and forbids her to see him again assuming he is the one who knocked up his dancing partner. At the last dinner of the trip, Johnny comes and takes Baby out of the corner daddy made her sit in, daddy finds out it WASN’T him who knocked up his partner, they dance and all is right in the world again. Highly recommended for High School teachers trying to convince their student the feelings they have towards each other are natural and age should not matter. Made during a time when EVERYBODY was screwing underage girls, so it was okay. Nobody puts baby in a corner Go back to your playpen baby Johnny is always in dark clothing while Baby is always wearing light colors. They spray painted the trees green because it wasn’t really summer. The importance of using a CLEAN hanger when performing an abortion in the back room. There are no negative numbers, so I had to go with 0. Tags: creepy, sexy, WTF Review of Hellraiser Horror Comments Off on Review of Hellraiser The movie starts with a quick introduction of Frank – a sadist looking for the ultimate pleasure. He buys this puzzle from this dude and while messing around with it opens the doors to a world of wonder and joy, filled with chains, hooks and random body parts. Forward ahead several years… Franks brother Larry along with his new wife Julia and daughter Kirsty move into Franks abandoned house. When Larry bust open a vein and spills some blood on the attic floor Frank is magically resurrected, with a catch. His body is only half intact and to get back into shape he needs more blood. Frank reaches out to Julia, who he use to have vicious, hard-core romps in the sack with before his disappearance. Julia, who never stopped craving Frank to begin with starts whoring herself out to get Frank some dinner. Kirsty, who has already moved out to get away from the bitch, starts wondering just wth her mommy dearest is up to and follows her, watches her bring home her latest trist and comes face to face with the not-quite-completed Frank. She escapes with the box and wakes up in the hospital. After piddle-fucking around with it she solves it, summoning a great group of guys called the Cenobites. They come to claim her body and soul until she tells them she can give them Frank – who they were pretty peeved with. They agree, Kirsty goes hoem to retrieve Frank for her new friends and find he has taken over her dad’s body. The Cenobites welcome Frank back with open arms and Kirsty is off the hook.. If for no other reason, you gotta watch to see Julia lay one on Franks adorable face. Unique story line for it’s time. Original, sadistic and gruesome without being to cheesy. “We have such sights to show you” “No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering” “Welcome to the worst nightmare of all… reality!” The film’s original title was “Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave” The budget for this film was $1 million dollars The film is based on Clive Barker’s book “The Hellbound Heart” The school systems would do good to replace traditional sex-ed classes with this film. I gave it a 10 based on originality, the creepy factor, and I love seeing people hit in the head with hammers. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAx34IZ8bTk Tags: creepy, Horror Review of Dawn of the Dead, 1978 Horror Comments Off on Review of Dawn of the Dead, 1978 George A. Romero’s epic sequel to his genre-defining Night of the Living Dead is arguably superior to its ground-breaking predecessor. As a zombie plague engulfs the planet, four survivors – TV girl Fran, her helicopter pilot boyfriend Stephen and two soldiers Peter and Roger – take refuge in a sprawling shopping mall, sealing the doors and creating a zombie-free hideout. In time they find their lives dull and empty inside their consumers’ paradise until their peace is destroyed by a marauding biker gang. The ensuing battle against both the bikers and the undead provides more opportunity for some wonderful gore. The film is wonderfully written and directed and is full of satire, sub-text, allegory and clever imagery. The characters are well developed and reasonably played and the dialogue is both believable and economic enough to ensure a well-paced film. This all means that you can watch, completely guilt-free, an array of wonderfully produced gory effects (god bless Tom Savini) – screwdrivers through the ear, a rotor-blade scalping, bullet induced head explosions, machete decapitations and a liberal sprinkling of gut-munching. On a personal note, Romero is the “Daddy” of the zombie genre and all the subsequent fast moving zombie goons really need to be bitch-slapped with a copy of the DVD, preferably prior to removing from the player. The film is simply one of the best horror films ever made. Can be watched simply to revel in the violence or gore (of which there certainly is plenty) or can be appreciated as multi-faceted piece of cinematic art. Made in 1978 a full ten years after the first in the series. The delay, in part, was due to Romeros desire not to become overly identified with the horror genre. The delay didn’t work out too well for old George as whilst the film was a huge critical and financial success it certainly had him positively hog-tied to the zombie genre. Most Memorable Quotes “They’re us, that’s all, when there’s no more room in hell.” “Who the hell cares! Let’s go shopping!” To some extent this depends on what you want to take from the movie and also which version you are watching. If you are planning to have a beer-soaked gore and violence fest then the remote may come in handy, especially if you are watching the rather-slower paced 140 minute extended version. Despite being a sequel this is the first Romero film in which the zombies were actually called zombies. Simon Pegg, star and co-writer of Shaun of the Dead, is a huge fan of the film and the work of Romero generally and is hence staunchly against the seeming modern move towards faster moving zombies. Zombies move slowly! To kill a zombie their brain must be destroyed. Even well-lit malls can be really scary. Surviving a zombie apocalypse is pretty tricky and we should all have our plans in place. Zombies may be slow and clumsy but you have to admire their tenacity. It would have got 10 out of 10 but some of the acting could have been a little better. Tags: classic, creepy, George A Romero, Horror, Tom Savini, undead, zombie What we’re doing now! We don't do a lot with Cultflicks anymore, but we try. 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__label__cc	0.694816	0.305184	The photograph collections of the Association have been assembled mainly by gift or bequest since the early years of the organisation. The collection totals almost 30,000 images which give good coverage of the area, particularly since 1950, but supplemented by the important Pattinson Collection which records much of West Cumberland as it was in the 1930s. Subjects include trains, locomotives, stations, and rail-served industry. The Association is engaged in a programme of scanning the collection to create digital images which will improve access to the collection and ensure long-term preservation of fragile material. An improved catalogue is also being created to aid image retrieval. Details are given below of sections of the collection for which new listings have been produced. Searches for particular subjects and locations can be undertaken. Additional photographs for the Association's collection are always welcome. To email for information or enquiries please click HERE. General notes about the lists Most of the data in the lists will be readily understood. For the last four columns the following notes will help: "Date": usually shown in order of yyyymmdd. This is to enable sorting of the database. "Source": the initials of the photographer, or in some instances "copy". "Status": the degree of confidence in the identification of location. "V" - high confidence of identity "Q" - doubtful identification "U" - identity not known. Any information on this gratefully received. "Quality": a subjective assessment on a scale of a to d. Note that pdf photolist files are fully searchable. Conditions of Supply and Ordering Prints Click HERE to read "Copyright and Conditions of Supply". Click HERE to download a Photo Order Form with prices. Photographs are printed to order using a Canon printer and Canon Photogloss II paper. Matt paper may be available by request. All photographs are printed 'as is'; they are not cropped or altered in anyway. Most people prefer this as they do not lose any definition or detail. This may mean that they do not fill the full printable area and/or they might have marks and defects shown, or are lighter or darker than they otherwise would be if they had been altered using a photo processing programme. If you require 'perfect' prints then as an alternative you may purchase digital images and edit them to your requirements. A large number of photographs are available to view on our photograph site at Zenfolio where copies of prints can be purchased directly. Ainley Collection This collection was acquired by the CRA in the 1980s and mainly cover the Lancaster & Carlisle and Settle & Carlisle lines and branches. Taken during the early 1960s its subjects are mainly locomotives and trains. Click HERE to download the pdf list (190 images listed on 4 pages). Dendy Collection Walter Dendy was Goods Manager at Workington with British Railways in the early 1950s. The collection covers lines in West Cumberland as well as some interesting images of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Click HERE to download the pdf list (169 images listed on 6 pages). Hughes Collection Kevin Hughes lived all his life in Kendal working for the Post Office and later BT. After early retirement he and his wife ran a guest house in Milnthorpe Road but Kevin also became a Railway Chaplain travelling widely throughout the North West. This collection includes many images of the railway and its infrastructure, rather than trains, and mostly post-dates the steam era. Mostly monochrome with some colour images identified with a "C" suffix. Click HERE to download the pdf list (700 images listed on 22 pages). Lancaster, Morecambe & Heysham Collection Scanned mainly from Midland and British Railways official photos, showing construction works in the early 20th century, and two generations of electric trains for this small network. A selection of these is shown on our Zenfolio photo website. Click HERE to download the pdf list (161 images listed on 7 pages). Lens of Sutton Collection - available ONLY from Len's. This is a list of Cumbrian images, mainly stations, which are available from this collection. For details of prices, how to purchase and so on, go to the Lens page at Warwickshire Railways. Click HERE to download the pdf list (over 250 images listed on 8 pages). Mayor Collection Alec Mayor and his father were Kendal-based and worked for the Westmorland Gazette. The collection of negatives and prints was donated to the CRA after Alec's death and concentrate on the Lancaster & Carlisle and Settle & Carlisle lines, with good and rare coverage of the Windermere branch. Mostly monochrome with a small number of colour images which have a "C" suffix. Click HERE to download the pdf list (over 500 images listed on 13 pages). Pattinson Collection This was the first collection acquired by the Association in the late 1970s, taken by Richard L Pattinson whose father had been chairman of the Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway. Taken during the 1930s, mainly in West Cumberland, most of the views are of rolling stock, station buildings and the general railway infrastructure of the period, then little changed from pre-grouping years. Locomotives and trains feature, but not prominently and some are copies from earlier photographs. Click HERE to download the pdf listing (1360 images listed on 37 pages). Pearsall Collection This contains the work of the brothers Ian and Alan Pearsall. They were most active as photographers from about 1947 to the death of Ian in 1982. There are over 13,000 images of railways and shipping, mainly in the UK but including some European subjects. Also listed in this database is a small collection from the work of the Rev John Jackson, a close friend of the Pearsalls. As well as the Cumbrian and North Lancashire railway scene the collection has important specialisms in East Anglia, Scotland, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. he lists currently available cover only a fraction of the material in this extensive collection. More will be added in the near future. CRA Pearsall Hincaster Branch. Click HERE to download the PDF listing (46 images listed on 2 pages). CRA Pearsall Lancaster-Morecambe ex LNWR lines. Click HERE to download the PDF listing (over 800 images listed on 41 pages). CRA Pearsall Lancaster-Morecambe ex MR lines. Click HERE to download the PDF listing (over 240 images listed on 12 pages). CRA Pearsall NWR Wennington-Lancaster. Click HERE to download the PDF listing (54 images listed on 3 pages). 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__label__cc	0.602339	0.397661	May 27, 2014, - 5:37 pm Famous Actress/ObamaFan Has Armed Police Bodyguard @ College Graduation to Avoid Little People Fellow Grads A famous actress gazillionaire Obamanik was afraid of being approached by fellow classmate “little people” at her college graduation, so she had an armed bodyguard. And you paid the tab to guard this spoiled brat. Obamabot Snob Emma Watson w/ Her Armed Cop Bodyguard Actress Emma Watson, who says Barack Obama is her hero and “a hero to the world,” showed us that she has an Obama-esque attitude toward the “little people” at her graduation from Brown University, this past weekend. Yup, her snobbery is so great that even her fellow rich kid classmates at Brown are the “little people” from whom she felt she must separate herself. Watson had a tax-paid plain clothed, armed police officer–yup, that’s right! a real life “evil” gun–protecting her from the fellow rich and privileged and their parents, lest they might approach her and ruin the oxygen flow in her sphere. Um, why? Miss Watson’s high-security approach to her graduation ceremony at Brown University is a marked contrast with her stated aim of having a ‘normal’ experience as a student at the elite US college. In the past, the 24-year-old has played down her celebrity status, claiming to have never been asked for an autograph on campus – a sign, she said, of her normality. . . . But as she picked up her degree in English Literature alongside 2,000 other graduates on Sunday, she remained in constant sight of the undercover officer. Lots of celebs went to and graduated from Brown, from JFK, Jr. to Bruce Willis’/Demi Moore’s daughter, and none of ’em had armed, tax-funded police following them around like lapdogs. Remember when Brooke Shields–who was far more famous at that time than Watson is now–graduated from Princeton? She didn’t have a bodyguard. And here’s a tip: nobody really cares about Emma Watson. She ain’t that big a deal. Not even close. Reader Lisa: Hello . . . she’s not that famous. Its Harry Potter, not Star Wars, lol!!! Oh please, the Unabomber lived in the same Rooming house as my Dad at Harvard and he was a celebrity, haha! Ok, he wasnt a celebrity at that point, lol . . . . Alot of celebrities go to Ivy League schools and they make a big deal about wanting to “blend in” and be quiet about it. Emma, you aren’t that famous. But, hey, she thinks she’s that famous. And she also thinks Barack Obama is a “hero.” So she’s zero for two. Oh, and by the way, she’s one of the many mindless celebs who did that silly #bringbackourgirls Twitter crap. Judging by the photo, apparently Brown grads are so gifted and worldly that they don’t know how to make a hashtag or number sign. Um, Emma, #bringbackyourhumility. Assuming you ever had any. And that’s debatable. Funny that someone who pretends to care about some poor kidnapped Nigerians is actually more concerned with the trappings of the ultra-vulgar rich. Exit question: has crime really been eradicated in Providence, Rhode Island . . . or should that city’s cops be doing something more important than serving as undercover little-people-blocker for B-list movie stars? Tags: Emma Watson, Emma Watson Brown, Emma Watson Brown graduation, Emma Watson graduation, Emma Watson undercover cop Posted in Blog Posts, Movies & Entertainment / Celebrities I thought that Watson didn’t even do her own “hash tag” poster, which is why she didn’t get the hash tag right. skzion on May 27, 2014 at 5:51 pm LOL – I think she did it just not to be associated with your average ordinary #bringbackourgirls lumpenproletariat. She’s a little bit more difficult to put in the box. Frankz on May 27, 2014 at 8:29 pm She should offer herself as a hostage replacement. That would impress me. 😉 worry01 on May 27, 2014 at 11:30 pm I wonder if her sorority house was called “Gryffindor West.” Joaquin Closet on May 27, 2014 at 6:06 pm I don’t know – she sounds more like a Slytherin alum. ConcernedPatriot on May 27, 2014 at 11:34 pm Yes, Brown is notorious for its catering and affirmative action policies towards children of celebrities, or celebrities (loosely defined) themselves. Academic standards are drastically relaxed for these individuals. Brown is also notorious for its Sex Week capers. I wonder how Watson reacted to her classmates during Sex Week. Little Al on May 27, 2014 at 6:23 pm And of course the idea is to increase the university’s endowment. Celebrities live in their own mental ghetto. My place in flyover country hasn’t witnessed a murder in over 60 years and the streets are safe to walk at night. Heck you don’t even need to lock the doors in some places in this country! Emma Watson hasn’t gotten a clue about America. And us riff-raff have lived our entire lives without needing to be followed around by an armed bodyguard. NormanF on May 27, 2014 at 6:31 pm I wonder if this woman who got an armed guard believes in strict gun control for the little people? (Just like Mayor Bloomberg, Howard Stern, Rosie O’Donnell, Dead Ted Kennedy, and countless other celebutards). Jonathan E. Grant on May 27, 2014 at 6:58 pm This is why Debbie remains our queen. DS_ROCKS! on May 27, 2014 at 7:02 pm The average American has never even heard of Brown – but it’s still a disgrace that that dump even got ADMITTED there, let alone that she graduated. Sickening to think of the good students who get passed over every year to make room for mouth-breathers like Emma Watson. Of course, the real question is why the good students would want to be around people like that in the first place. U.N. Owen on May 27, 2014 at 7:03 pm I’m ashamed of myself for even knowing this, but Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton, not Brown. I’m lost. How was she able to employ a police officer for a personal affair and charge it to the tax payer? Here in Cali, if you need cops for a funeral escort, or cops for a nightclub venue, the individual has to pay. How did she pull this off? Or did she pay this from her own pocket, if she did, then its not a big deal. Btw I dont know who this girl is. Big D on May 27, 2014 at 7:07 pm Why didn’t a She pay for her own security? MominMinnesota on May 27, 2014 at 8:59 pm Why didn’t she pay for her own security? Lots of off duty cops do security duty as a way of “moonlighting” and yes, the private party pays so that needs to be clarified here. For my first marriage, there was lots of loot in the house and we’d had a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood. I suspected neighbor kids who were semi-squatters, so I got my mom to hire an off duty, but WE PAID, M: They are not allowed to use their badges for that. Her badge is being used. DS Meira on May 28, 2014 at 5:09 am Hmm, ok. I was under the impression that off duty cops always had their badges and guns. Meira on May 28, 2014 at 2:01 pm I have another question people,Sans politics, take politics completely out the picture, is it a bad thing to declare the president your hero, is he a bad man, or is it you are a conservative/repub and hate him politically? I mean he graduated college, married, two kids, blah blah blah, seems normal to me. As for me, no human alive or dead is my hero. If he lived next door to me, was a VP at John Hancock, I wouldnt think he’s a bad guy , I’d probably like playing ball with him on Sunday mornings, certainly no hero……but, Big D, he’s the President, his policies affect my life, he sucks as a leader…. HK on May 27, 2014 at 7:37 pm Big D to be honest without politics what is Obama? A black guy in the White House – that’s all. Sorry, that’s the way I see it. I don’t dislike Obama because he’s a prominent black man Big D OK? Do you always have to ask the same type of question every time somebody gets flak who racist conservatives are supposed hate because they’re racist? Do you not notice everybody getting flak here? What do you want me to tell you? Last time it was Oprah. Next time it will be the next guy. Frankz on May 28, 2014 at 12:23 am If she was sitting next to me, with or without the guard I wouldnt have known who she was. Looks like there aren’t very many Harry Potter fans around here. Me, I’ve never read the books, as I don’t like juvenile works, but I watched one of the movies, and it SUCKED. In fairness to Miss Watson, at least she’s not a high school dropout. I just realized (not being a tweeter) that the content of the hashtag isn’t correct, as there should be no imbedded blanks. Miss Watson must have paid one of the Affirmative Action undergrads to do the sign for her, as I expect she knows better. But Miss Watson had to get the “serious face” holding the sign done quickly, so no chance to get a better sign made. Yeah D Your so much better and above us.His policy are ruining America and leaving a dangerous space on the world stage.All you have to do to be not a bad man is marry,have kids and graduate.None of those accomplishments make one good(They are good things like brushing your teeth is).Then you go with the cliche your to cool to have a hero after your catty outburst at feeling your man has been slighted. Did Mommy and Daddy till you how wonderful you were today are have they left you alone in there basement. gordito on May 27, 2014 at 8:39 pm gordito: You hit the nail of the head with your rebuttal to Big D(ummy) (http://ivvvi.net/50-300.jpg) Big Dummy is a classic product of soft-racism: over-praised and congratulated for minimal “accomplishments” and has an unrealistic appraisal of his own intellect as evidenced by his repeated attempts to match wits with some of the regulars here and his accompanying lack of shame. Gordito tu estas bendejo tambien. kayete lo sico and vete aqui a la verga. Now waddle upstairs and go tell your Mom that.She’ll give you another cookie. Your so stereotypical of our generation it’s not even funny.You can give it but you can’t take it Gordito tu estas bendejo tambien. kayete lo sico and vete aqui a la verga. “[g]ordito you are [sic] a dumb-ass [sic] too. Shut [sic] your mouth [sic] go here [sic] suck my di<#." Was that some type of Spanish-Ebonics? nadie on May 27, 2014 at 10:40 pm That little rant looks more like Spangish-Ebonics to me. Mario on May 28, 2014 at 12:08 am Big D, I did not like Bush nor Obama, as they both ran up the debt to record numbers with nothing to show for it. They have both driven business overseas, and weakened our military. Obama puts welfare before work. Obama is anti-Israel and since his first day in office has been a mouthpiece for Islam. His administration will prosecute those who his Attorney General labels racist if the alleged perp is white, but he never prosecutes black racists for civil rights violations. His administration has tailed and investigated reporters, used the IRS as a weapon, sent weapons to drug dealers in Mexico, has raised taxes on the working people, and set a medical plan in place that will cripple business. He also badmouths America outside of the country. He is not only a bad person, he is a rotten f.ck. Good enough for you? I never met an intelligent person that went to Brown. halevi on May 27, 2014 at 9:17 pm “…is he a bad man?” Yes, Marxists always are. “…graduated college”? He did? How are we supposed to know without seeing any of his transcripts? That can’t happen because we’d all see he was in college as a foreign student. “…married” To the daughter of a Chicago ward boss. She had a $300,000 a year no-show job. Wouldn’t be where she is but for affirmative action. “…married” Legally to his beard Michelle, between trips to Chicago bathhouses. “…two kids” WGAF? Lots of gay black dudes on the “down low” have kids. “…blah blah blah” Forged Selective Service registration (a story broken by Debbie). Invalid Social Security number. He’s an identity thief, and hence, yes, a criminal and an evil man. CornCoLeo on May 27, 2014 at 10:33 pm It is amazing that Providence sprung for this security detail. She is more than capable of paying for that nonsense herself. Leftist are quite often the most grotesque elitists. Emma is a mediocre actress with an outsized ego. Brown University was also the place where then-NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (speaking of Mayor Bloomberg) planned late last year to give a talk about fighting crime and terrorism in big cities such as New York – and was shouted down and heckled by the jackbooted thugs-in-training (a.k.a. “college students,” all of whom effectively ran interference for violent criminals, drug dealers and gangbangers on one side and HAMAS, al Qaeda and Hezbollah on the other) to the point where he ended up cancelling. That, plus Brandeis University’s pulling the rug from Ayaan Hirsi Ali amidst “protests” from HAMAS supporters and Condoleezza Rice’s (a.k.a. “Condi Clueless” amongst followers of this site) cancelling a Rutgers University commencement speech after herself coming up against the anti-free speech thugs who likewise are euphemistically called “college students,” are yet more examples of why allowing 18-to-20 year olds to continue to vote is extremely dangerous for America’s continued survival and very future. But back to Brown, in that context obviously Ms. Watson fit in perfectly like a glove (O.J. Simpson’s, perhaps?), given that snotty attitude. Unfortunately, many of these students, young adults away from home for the first time, are going through an identity crisis. And certain professors are more than happy to refashion their identity — to get them to feel they are Making a Difference. This is why so many college students are radicalized. It makes them feel engaged with the world. Some will grow out of this; unfortunately, others won’t. Primetime on May 27, 2014 at 11:37 pm There’s a good reason why 18 year old’s are the target of military enlistment, TV ads, etc… I’d prefer they be allowed to drink alcohol than vote. theShadow on May 31, 2014 at 10:23 pm Debbie, reading about Emma Watson’s liberalism and its hypocrisy that goes with it is not news. What really got my eyebrows up is that she has an armed POLICE guard not a security guard aka rent-a-cop, mall cop. That means that the city is paying a big chunk of change since I am assuming, from California rules, that the police woman is being paid her going salary, plus overtime, and of course her benefits are added to the cost. I would like to know how did Ms. Watson was able to get a police officer at taxpayer’s expense? I would not be surprised that the Mayor of Providence and the President of Brown Univirsity have some cronism going on in providing this bodyguard. Incredible that people still think that the liberals and especially the entertainers really care about them. See at least J.E.Grant gives an intelligeable answer. Thorough and complete. A person can actually glean something from him. Unlike this Gordito moron. @ DS Rocks. No one asked for your foolish response. @ Frankz. You put words in my mouth. I asked how come he couldn’t be considered a hero? Mr.Grant answered quite intelligently. A very clear concise answer. Poignant. Many like yourself and DS Rocks could learn from that man. BigD on May 28, 2014 at 1:58 am @Big D No, you were really asking why people would deride Emma Watson for being an Obamanik – anyone who follows you on a regular basis knows you’re going to ignore the substance of the disagreement and point out the accomplishments of the person you’re defending. You always do this. With Oprah it was hey look how successful she so don’t hate on her. With Obama you kind of struggled to find something not related to politics so you pointed out what he has common with millions avergage people. BTW a big part of thinking that “Obama is her hero and a hero to the world” is going along with Obama politically obviously. She wouldn’t very likely think that if he was running on a conservative platform would she? Because aside from politics he’s done very little heroic except as you said, “graduated college, married, two kids, blah blah blah”. Doesn’t exactly qualify him for “blah blah” world hero status does it? It’s poignant Grant has patience for this crapola but sorry not me. how successful she is @ Nadie Your translation is horrible. I’d never disrespect another man by telling him that. That’s foolishness. I told him to get the f out of here, had nothing to do with oral sex. That’s why many of you on here need to stay quiet when adults are talking. Looks like you are projecting, Big D. Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 2:56 am Did Brown hold their graduation in Detroit? ender on May 28, 2014 at 2:58 am Slight correction: Brooke Shields went to Princeton. LF: You’re right. Fixed. Thanks, DS LindaF on May 28, 2014 at 5:53 am Disappointed in the “limousine liberal” hypocrisy. :-/ Esser Agaroth on May 28, 2014 at 6:27 am She chose to go to BROWN university to further verify her Follywood left leaning political correctness. HK on May 28, 2014 at 9:27 am She hardly even attended Brown. She I believe went and did some studying in Europe. I guess it is normal and received lots of credit for it. However, she did NOT actually spend four years on campus. In fact it took her five years to graduate. In NY there was an article sheer she demanded her room mate sign dome non disclosure agreement. Another spoiled rotten Limey who thinks her s**t dies nit stink. I hope her room mate told her where she could stick that agreement. Supposedly she did not even like Brown and wanted to leave. She probably pissed a lot if students off. Glen Benjamin on May 28, 2014 at 3:49 pm The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges by Daniel Golden, scathingly attacks Brown. Celebrities, and kids of celebrities, are lavishly welcomed instead of far more deserving students. Golden says that Brown is the worst offender in this very corrupt game. Nicole on May 28, 2014 at 5:18 pm It figures that not only is Emma Watson a stuck up loon but she’s the typical liberal in love with Obummer loon. I will admit though that I watched the first Harry Potter movie were Hermione was the annoying no it all that you just wanted to hit upside the head with your magic wand. I couldn’t rad the books as they just aren’t my cup of tea. I do have a question for Emma and the other idiots that inhabit Hollyweird. What is up with the love for Obama. I for one just can’t understand the love for a man who has been an absolute FAILURE as president. Everything that the man has touched has turned to stinky mud. The Obamanation also has more scandals than the last democrat weasel to being the White House. Odimwit has also used the government to punish his enemies in a way that would make Nixon blush. Brown must be so proud to have another empty headed libdunce to graduate from its hallowed halls. Ken b on May 28, 2014 at 6:14 pm So disgusted with the cult of personality around that guy and his pals. This is why he’s got away with so much horrible scandals. Blind morons trying to a part of something terribly historical. samurai on May 28, 2014 at 10:20 pm English major. Nuff said. Occam's Tool on September 24, 2014 at 12:51 am Leave a Reply for Little Al	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line548
__label__wiki	0.836282	0.836282	Ed Sheeran's Divide \| His Best Yet? It's been a long time since I did a fully fledged album review on here! I usually find them a bit boring to write if I'm honest but when I listened to Ed Sheeran's latest release - Divide, I wanted to type endlessly and rave about how good it is. I have loved Ed Sheeran's music since his first album, + in 2011 and have purchased them as soon as they come out ever since. X is one of my favourite albums ever and was so unsure whether he was going to actually be able to release something to better it. But you know what? I think he may have done just that. The album begins with Eraser and this was such a shock for the first track of the album. Not that it's not the perfect opener (it's amazing) but it's also daring, exciting and has his more rap sound to it - remember Take It Back from X? One of my favourites from that album, and this has that similar sound to it, a strong beat and basically rapped verses. It is followed by Castle On A Hill which I'm sure you already know. It's a complete contrast to Eraser, showing how versatile Ed's music is. Shape Of You is still one of my favourites on the album - that track is still number one as I write this. How many weeks has it been now? It's catchy, infectious and I am so happy it's been such a hit, it really deserves to. Shape of You is sandwiched between what I like to think of as two of Ed Sheeran's classic love songs, Dive and Perfect. Dive is sung to an acoustic guitar and a strong beat and is so chilled. Perfect's lyrics are well, 'perfect', for lack of a better word. It's the Thinking Out Loud of Divide, you may think (Ed even thinks so himself, as he said on The One Show last week). And then we come to Galway Girl. You know when you get a new album and you want to get to know all the songs but there's just that one that you keep going back to? That's Galway Girl for me. That's the one I quickly go to straight away. It's got a real Irish vibe to it which makes it quirky and fun. It's full of personality and exactly why I love Ed's music - it's not just classic love songs like Thinking Out Loud which some people seem to presume, but he also produces amazing tunes like this. Galway Girl is followed by Happier. If I'm honest, Happier is my least listened to so far. It's beautiful yes, but it's not the type I can just sit and listen to because it's a little on the boring side. Which is why it is so cleverly followed by New Man. New Man has a similar story to Happier - his ex-girlfriend found a new guy who she prefers - but it's told in a different way, it's snappier, more fast paced and instantly one of my favourites. Hearts Don't Break Around Here and How Do You Feel (Paean) are two more wonderful Ed Sheeran lovey tunes. How Do You Feel has a beautiful piano accompaniment to it, something I always love, and Hearts Don't Break Around Here is positive and uplifting. What I Know is a good singalong track, challenging the politics of today (love could change the world in a moment, but what do I know?). Then we get to my favourite little part of the album, consisting of Barcelona, Bibia Be Ye Ye and Nancy Mulligan. All of them are upbeat, Barcelona being my favourite of the three, it really makes me want to go and dance around the streets of Barcelona - Ed, you've really sold that city to me! Bibia Be Ye Ye isn't a standout track but it's fun and dancey. Nancy Mulligan is about his grandparents and what is sweeter than that? But of course, it's an Ed Sheeran album so there's bound to be a couple of songs on there that will make you tear up a little. These come in the form of 'Supermarket Flowers' and 'Save Myself'. Supermarket Flowers is so sad about his grandmother and it guaranteed to make you feel emotional. Save Myself is so honest about needing to put yourself first sometimes and has such an important message. If I had to choose a favourite... either Barcelona, Galway Girl or Shape Of You! You can tell I love his upbeat songs best, although I do have a soft spot for Supermarket Flowers. Make sure you listen to those in particular, although the whole album is one you need to hear. Is Divide his best yet? I have to admit that it is. Good luck topping this one Ed, it's certainly going to be difficult! Have you listened to Divide yet? album ed sheeran music review Kate Rose xo 10 March 2017 at 19:39 I love how you broke down the album. My favourites are Supermarket flowers, Nancy Muligan and New man, but the whole albums is incredible! X Kate// itskaterose.com Thank you! Same, I love all of them but particularly Supermarket Flowers, such a beautiful song x It's so hard to pick a fave from his album but if I really had to it would be Barcelona! Always on repeat now haha Kathy x Alongcamekathy I have to agree!! It's so uplifting x Clare Louise 10 March 2017 at 21:49 It's so interesting to read your review as I posted one myself earlier today! I totally agree with you though that this is definitely Ed's best album yet, I don't know how he does it! Galway Girl is one of my faves too and I love Supermarket Flowers but my fave is What Do I Know, I love the message. Great post and I loved your photos too! x - Clare \| stereo-clare.blogspot.co.uk I just read your review too and I felt like I could relate to it so much! I agree that the message in What Do I Know is really great and important. Thank you! x Honestly so offended that you're not a fan of Happier, it's such a touching song. In al seriousness though, I'm a pretty big fan of all of them. I've loved him ever since my cousin introduced me to Lego House when it first came out, and I've seen him live twice. God, I love him so much. I was scared that this wouldn't live up to expectations, and at first it didn't, but I've gotten used to the new style and I love it so much. Some of my favourites are definitely Galway Girl, Eraser, Nancy Mulligan and What Do I Know, but most of all I love Save Myself and Supermarket Flowers (although I can't listen to them in public, they make me cry so much). I just love them all so much! theamandaway.blogspot.com Oh no I do like Happier don't get me wrong I love every song off Divide it's just my least listened to at the moment! I'm so jealous you've seen him live twice, he's the one person I haven't seen live and want to so bad! I have to agree that Galway Girl is one of my favourites and I do love Save Myself and Supermarket Flowers so much too, definitely make me cry a lot too! x Nikita Rajkumar 11 March 2017 at 16:03 His whole album is so good, I couldn't pick just one favourite! Love the way you've done this post Erin! xx Nikita BLOG//Jasmine Loves Morgs 11 March 2017 at 16:49 Supermarket flowers is my absolute fave atm! Your photography for this post was gorgeous by the way Erin xx Morgan // www.justmorgs.com Thank you so much Morgan! That means a lot x Grace Kate 12 March 2017 at 16:43 I have not listened to Divide yet, though it is something I need to do! Shape of you is such a good song! Grace xx http://gracexkate.blogspot.co.uk/ You definitely do!! I love Shape Of You x I love this album to absolute pieces and I can't wait to buy it for when I can drive! Loved this post x (lifeofablonde.co.uk) Thank you Lauryn!x I love this album so much, it's been on repeat in the car since it came out (I feel sorry for everyone while I'm stuck in traffic having to listen to my muffled singing along through the windows hahaha). I think Galway Girl is my favourite, it's so catchy and up beat. But I love Supermarket Flowers too! Maddie x \| thatplacecalledhere.blogspot.co.uk Haha same! That's exactly why I love Galway Girl and Supermarket Flowers is just so emotional and beautiful! x The Drugstore Pink Eye - With NYX's Lid Lingerie Why It's Important To Take A Break Two New MAC Lipsticks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line558
__label__wiki	0.684778	0.684778	Posts filed under 'Wrongful Executions' 1889: Louisa Collins, the last woman hanged in New South Wales Add comment January 8th, 2020 Headsman The last woman hanged in New South Wales, Australia was the “Botany Murderess” Louisa Collins, on this date in 1889. A transport convict’s daughter from near Merriwa, Collins was accused in the courts and the common run of opinion of murdering both her husbands with arsenic — first Charles Andrews, 13 years her senior and father to nine of her 10 children* — and then Michael Collins, the lover with whom she scandalously fell into bed while husband’s body was still warm, and indeed before: desperate to relieve the financial pressure of their large family, Charles and Louisa had taken in boarders, of whom Michael Collins was one — at least until Charles threw him out for getting too familiar with the lady of the house. The fact that this adulterous couple immediately shacked up (and, as our principal’s surname will have signaled, shortly thereafter wed) after a stomach ailment felled the husband set tongues a-wag and eyebrows a-cock. The subsequent death of Michael and Louisa’s only child together,** and then of Michael himself, could not but appear confirmation of the very worst. Although accused, she was only convicted once over the course of four trials. Where murder is concerned, any one will do for the law no matter the conviction ratio. But the chain obviously smacks of an unseemly jury-shopping, facilitated by the first three panels’ failure to reach any verdict rather than acquit outright and cinched by the Crown’s convincing the court to admit at her last trial previously-barred testimony. The hard evidence remained stubbornly circumstantial as usual with arsenic cases: her paramour and an insurance policy on her husband supplied a motive that was positive but far from dispositive, and the alleged means was nothing more than a commercial pest controller called Rough On Rats whose presence in the house would have incriminated half of Australia.† (Arsenic was also used in the sheepskin tanning industry where both of Louisa’s late men sweated their daily bread.) Neighbors fleshed out these bare bones with eye-of-the-beholder judgments against Louisa’s comportment, such as the insufficient-mourning canard that’s still a staple of wrongful convictions. Moreover, Louisa Collins’s case became enmeshed in the era’s web of gender politics: the campaign soliciting clemency on grounds of femininity overlapped but also contradicted the simultaneous campaign for women’s suffrage, goring oxes left and right. That gore still spatters latter-day observers of this still-fascinating affair, who in recent years have enjoyed two different volumes illuminating the respective silhouette-halves that Louisa Collins presents posterity: a woman railroaded (Last Woman Hanged, by Caroline Overington (author interview)); and, cold-blooded murderess (Black Widow: The true story of Australia’s first female serial killer, by Carol Baxter (author interview)). There’s also a recent historical novel, The Killing Of Louisa, by Janet Lee (author interiew). Two things that all parties can agree on: first, that her quadruple prosecution makes for a troubling legal spectacle — “a collusion between the prosecution and the state and the judiciary to keep her going to trial until the desired result,” as Baxter put it; and second, that Collins’s eventual hanging at Darlinghurst was a ghastly botch. The next day’s Sydney Morning Herald reported how The executioner signalled to his assistant to pull the lever, but the handle refused to move. It could be seen that pressure was applied, and also that the pin which held the handle in its place was fast in its slot. The assistant endeavoured to remove the pin, but failed, and in a few seconds a mallet was used. Four or five blows were applied Mrs Collins meanwhile standing perfectly upright and motionless-before the pin gave way. The delay caused could not have been short of one minute, when the lever moved and the body fell through in a slightly curved position. After one swing to the side and in a moment it was suspended perpendicularly, with the face towards the yard. There was a slight spurt of blood, followed by a thin stream which ran down the dress and spotted the floor beneath. Nearer examination showed that the strain of the drop had so far opened the neck as to completely sever the windpipe, and that the body was hanging by the vertebra. Slowly the body turned round on the rope until the front part faced the doorway, and there it remained stationary until lowered by the executioner on to a wicker bier. Death was instantaneous. After hanging for 20 minutes the corpse was conveyed to the inquest room, and again given over to the female warders. Poor service: hangman Robert Rice Howard, aka “Nosey Bob” after a distinctive disfigurement of that appendage courtesy of a horse’s backheel. * Seven of these nine children by Charles Andrews survived infancy. At the time of the alleged murders, five of these children still shared the house with their parents. ** The possible murder of the infant Collins child wasn’t on Louisa’s charge sheet but remains an understandable suspicion. † As a brand name for arsenic, Rough On Rats became a ready resource for numerous aspiring suicides and homicides. 1795: Franz Hebenstreit, Wiener Jakobiner - 2019 1999: Dobie Gillis Williams - 2018 1878: Gauchito Gil, Argentina folk saint - 2017 1932: Asbury Respus, North Carolina serial killer - 2016 1900: The private, decent, and humane execution of a human being named George Smiley - 2015 1690: Andrei Ilyich Bezobrazov, stolnik - 2014 1813: The Yorkshire Luddites, for murdering William Horsfall - 2013 1908: John Boyd, by John Radclive - 2012 Themed Set: 2010 - 2011 2010: Jeong Dae-Sung and Lee Ok-Geum, for escaping North Korea - 2011 1603: Not Tommaso Campanella - 2010 1864: Two Dodds, as two spies, in two states, and twice botched - 2009 1697: Thomas Aikenhead - 2008 1887: Ellen Thomson and John Harrison, lovers 1834: Catherine Snow, the last hanged in Newfoundland 1873: Elizabeth Woolcock, the only woman hanged in South Australia 1909: Martha Rendell 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre 1862: Mary Timney, the last woman publicly hanged in Scotland 1834: Eliza Joyce, confessed poisoner Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Australia,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Milestones,Murder,Women,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1880s, 1889, arsenic, charles andrews, january 8, louisa collins, love triangle, michael collins, nosey bob, poison, poisoner 2016: Nimr al-Nimr, Shiite cleric Add comment January 2nd, 2020 Headsman On this date in 2016, Saudi Arabia beheaded Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr (familiarly known as Sheikh Nimr) — one of 47 executions carried out in 12 cities throughout the kingdom that included at least four political prisoners (one of them al-Nimr) as well as two foreign nationals. A prominent dissident who became an emblem of resistance in his predominantly Shiite province of Al-Awamiyah, al-Nimr had been arrested several times before without blunting his sharp tongue. “People must rejoice at his death,” he offered in June 2012, about the death of militant Wahhabist crown prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. “He will be eaten by worms and will suffer the torments of Hell in his grave.” But here in the terrestrial sphere, Nayef’s death made Salman the crown prince … and queued up Salman’s son, Mohammad bin Salman to become the de facto ruler of the kingdom. Al-Nimr was seized in July 2012, during crackdowns* on the 2011-2012 “Arab Spring” protests — shot in the leg during the course of his arrest and beaten bloody by his captors. This arrest itself brought thousands into the streets, at least two of whom were shot dead in their own turn as al-Nimr went on hunger strike. By the time al-Nimr was put up on charges in 2014, the aforementioned Mohammad bin Salman — “MbS” of dread popular parlance, infamous for his bonesaws — was well along his rise to power in Saudi Arabia as the hand and the heir who transacted the business of a dementia-addled prince. Al-Nimr’s October 2014 death sentence for “seeking ‘foreign meddling’ in the kingdom, ‘disobeying’ its rulers and taking up arms against the security forces” drew worldwide condemnation and protests over the ensuing year, a year coinciding with MbS’s overt conquest of political power in Saudi Arabia. The execution sparked global outrage of varying hues, most sharply from Shiite Iran, where angry protesters attacked the Saudi embassy: not the decisive event but emblematic of Saudi Arabia’s growing enmity with Iran that shapes regional conflicts from Yemen to Iraq to Syria. * Adjacent to the similarly restive Sunni-ruled, Shiite-majority Gulf monarchy of Bahrain. ** Al-Nimr’s nephew, Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, is still under a death sentence today that could be ratified by the sovereign at any time. He was arrested in February 2012 for anti-regime protests, when he was only 17 years old. 1959: Joaquin Casillas Lumpuy, Batista regime soldier - 2019 1588: Two Nuremberg highwaymen - 2018 1823: Robert Hartley, on Penenden Heath - 2017 1863: William Ockold, the last hanged at Worcester - 2016 1477: Gerolamo Olgiati, ducal assassin - 2015 1997: Eight foes of Qaddafi - 2014 1946: Franz Strasser - 2013 10 executions that defined the 1990s - 2012 1916: Sergeant John Robins, before evacuating Gallipoli - 2012 1981: Cipriano, Eugenio, and Ventura García-Marín Thompson - 2011 1645: John Hotham the Younger - 2010 Daily Double: John Hothams - 2010 1994: Mansour Kikhia? - 2009 1663: Illiam Dhone - 2008 1687: The first of the Martyrs of Eperjes 1822: The audacious Denmark Vesey 1927: Father Miguel Pro, “Viva Cristo Rey!” 1952: Night of the Murdered Poets Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews 1716: Banda Singh Bahadur 1570: Ivan Viskovaty among hundreds on Red Square during the Oprichnina Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Activists,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Famous,History,Martyrs,Mass Executions,Power,Public Executions,Religious Figures,Ripped from the Headlines,Saudi Arabia,Torture,Treason,Wrongful Executions Tags: 2010s, 2016, geopolitics, islam, january 2, mohammad bin salman, nimr al-nimr 1810: Metta Fock, embroiderer Add comment November 7th, 2019 Headsman Metta Fock was beheaded in Sweden on this date in 1810. Fock (English Wikipedia entry \| Swedish), daughter to the just-hanging-on lesser nobility, got her surname from an impecunious dullard of a sergeant with whom she shared a small farm in Västergötland. At least, she did until Johan Fock and two of her four children suddenly got violently ill and died within days of one another in 1802. Well might one imagine the rumors that swirled around the widow Fock in these days; she was already suspected of having a lover, so the inference of a libidinous deployment of arsenic was nigh irresistible. She said her family had been stricken by a measles outbreak. Her contemporaries were as uncertain of the conclusion as is posterity; she was thrown in Carlsten Fortress but spared a death verdict absent a confession — an unusual legal artifact at the time that might have permitted her to live out decades in a dungeon with sufficient obstinacy. Although she finally buckled and made that confession — under who knows what extremes of misery and resignation; she vainly attempted to retract it later — the most evocative judgment has always been the manifesto of innocence that she embroidered onto 27 strips of linen in 1805, complaining of her unfair treatment. (More conventional writing instruments were being withheld from her.) It’s given Metta Fock a permanent purchase on later sympathies. There’s a recent historical novel by Ann Rosman, Mercurium, which also casts Fock as a railroaded innocent. 1707: Bartellemy Pichon dit La Roze, the first executed in Fort Detroit - 2018 1873: Captain Joseph Fry and 36 crew of the Virginius - 2017 1941: Francisc Panet - 2016 1765: Alexander Provan, half-handed - 2015 1898: Sokong, Lavari, and Kruba of the Imperri - 2014 1918: Louis Harris and Ernest Jackson, the last British soldiers shot at dawn - 2013 1864: Retaliatory executions by John Mosby - 2012 1823: Rafael Riego, Spanish liberal - 2011 1817: The Pentrich Rebellion leaders - 2010 1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland - 2009 1944: Hannah Szenes, who gambled on what mattered most - 2008 1944: Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki - 2007 1599: Beatrice Cenci and her family, for parricide 1879: Takahashi Oden, dokufu and she-demon 1551: Alice Arden, husband killer 1676: Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers 1868: Priscilla Biggadike, exonerated Stickney murderess 1824: Johann Christian Woyzeck, non compos mentis? 1725: Maria Romberg, her lover, her maid, and her witch Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arts and Literature,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Murder,Sex,Sweden,Women,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1810, 1810s, metta fock, november 7, poison, poisoner, wrongful confessions 1890: Tom Woolfolk, “Bloody Wolfolk” Add comment October 29th, 2019 Headsman Try to resist this riveting true crime hook from Murder By Gaslight, who’s been seen guest-blogging in these parts from time to time as well: In the early hours of August 6, 1887, nine members of the Woolfolk family of Bibb County, Georgia — ranging in age from 18 months to 84 years — were hacked to death in their home. The only surviving member of the household was 27-year-old Tom Woolfolk who quickly became the prime suspect. The press called him “Bloody Woolfolk” and it was all the sheriff could do to keep him out of the hands of a lynch mob. But when the trap sprung on Tom Woolfolk’s legal hanging, had the State of Georgia finished the work of the real killer? 1965: Eighteen prison rioters from Pulau Senang - 2018 1915: Mrs. Chippy, safe return doubtful - 2017 1543: Pietro Fatinelli, betrayed by Lando - 2016 1936: Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Falangist - 2015 1792: Three of the H.M.S. Bounty mutineers - 2014 1927: Baldomero Rodrigues, and then Baldomero Rodrigues again - 2013 1812: Claude-Francois de Malet and his conspirators - 2012 1935: Del Fontaine, punch drunk boxer - 2011 1268: Conradin of Swabia - 2010 1901: Leon Czolgosz, William McKinley's assassin - 2009 1618: Walter Raleigh, age of exploration adventurer - 2008 1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody 1887: William Jackson Marion, who’d be pardoned 100 years later 1882: William Heilwagner, onion weeder 1881: A day in the death penalty around the U.S. 1806: Polly Barclay, accessory in the murder of her husband 1915: Leo Frank lynched Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Georgia,Hanged,Murder,USA,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1890, 1890s, family, october 29, tom woolfolk 1578: Jacob Hessels, “to the gallows, to the gallows!” Add comment October 4th, 2019 Headsman Flanders magistrate Jacob Hessels (Dutch link, as are most that follow) was hanged on this date in 1578. He was a feared hanging judge — the story about him is that he would drift to sleep at the bench and awake with a start exclaiming, “to the gallows, to the gallows!” — who by profession and disposition was ideally suited for the so-called “Council of Blood” that would be seated in 1567 to help the Spanish Duke of Alba suppress the emerging revolt of the Low Countries against Habsburg sovereignty. In this 1616 engraving by Simon Frisius, the cadaverous Duke of Alba presides over his Council of Troubles or Council of Blood. He’s credited in particular with drafting the infamous sentence against Counts Egmont and Hoorn, but these were only highlights among a prolific career that earned him the hatred of the parties that chafed under imperial domination. This was bad news for Hessels when one of those parties, Calvinists, mounted a coup d’etat that took control of Ghent in late 1577. We have in these pages previously encountered this period, in the form of the Calvinists’ persecution of Catholic monks; they also in the course of things imprisoned a number of secular officials associated with Habsburg/Catholic rule. Most of these would in time be ransomed unharmed; however, one of the principal leaders of the short-lived Calvinist Republic was Francois van Ryhove, who considered Hessels and another captive state’s attorney named Visch to be personal enemies and resolved upon their destruction. Without color of any law or juridical proceeding, according to this Dutch-language history, On October 4, 1578, he took the two prisoners out of their dungeon and had them carried outside of the gate in an armed carriage. Not far from town, the carriage stopped at Ryhove’s order, the prisoners were made to climb down, and Ryhove announced that they would be hung on a nearby tree immediately. He then mocked the old Hessels in a shameful way, and he went so far as to mistreat him viciously by grabbing his beard and pulling out a fistful of gray hair, which he put on his hat like a feather as an insignia of his revenge! His companions followed the mocking example of their unworthy leader; then the two unfortunates were hung to the tree. Hessels and Visch, but especially the former, undoubtedly deserved death, and if that punishment had been imposed on them as a result of a legal judgment, few would have complained. But now they fell as the victims of a shameful, personal vengeance. Ryhove, the head of the Ghent party of revolution, the friend of Orange, had killed them without trial and his crime remained unpunished, for the prince had not power enough to make him feel his displeasure. Was it a miracle that the malcontents were crying out for revenge, that they were using the horrific crime committed by that one man as a pretext to also justify on their part to such atrocities against the Protestants, and that the angry Gentenaars in their turn again took revenge by assaulting the Catholic priests and looting the monasteries? 1564: Fabricius - 2018 1938: Two anti-Nazi spies - 2017 1793: The slave Nell - 2016 1872: John Barclay - 2015 1925: Shi Congbin, grievance - 2014 1648: Alice Bishop - 2013 1570: Rev. John Kello, the Parson of Spott - 2012 1843: Allen Mair, irate - 2011 1689: Quirinus Kuhlmann, mystic poet - 2010 1917: Jesse Robart Short, Etaples mutineer - 2009 1621: Not Katharina Kepler, thanks to her son Johannes - 2008 1572: The Martyrs of Gorkum 1525: Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor 1942: The village of Lidice, for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 1996: Dr. Mohammad Najibullah 1992: 42 Iraqi merchants 1591: Barnabe Brisson, at the hands of the Sixteen 1957: Larbi Ben M’Hidi, in the Battle of Algiers Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Borderline "Executions",Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Execution,Habsburg Realm,Hanged,History,Judges,Lawyers,Netherlands,No Formal Charge,Spain,Summary Executions,Wartime Executions,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1570s, 1578, calvinism, dutch revolt, egmont, francois van ryhove, ghent, hoorne, jacob hessels, october 4 1948: Shafiq Ades Add comment September 23rd, 2019 Headsman Iraq’s June 1948 elections hard in the wake of the humiliating defeat of Iraq’s expeditionary by the infant state of Israel ushered in a ferociously anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish government. A frightening persecution unfolded that summer. In mid-July, both houses of the Iraqi parliament ratified a bill amending Law No. 51 of the 1938 Criminal Code. Under the 1938 law, communist or anarchist activity was defined as a criminal offence for which the punishment ranged from seven years’ imprisonment, to death. The new amendment included Zionist activity in the category of criminal activity. It stipulated that the sworn testimony of two Moslem witnesses would suffice to incriminate any Jew, whatever his standing. Under the amended law, numerous Jews, and particularly the prosperous, were arrested. The detention of rich Jews in particular and others as well, was now an everyday occurrence, initiated by government officials, judges and the police, with the aim of extorting money from them. On 10 August 1948, the Iraqi government announced that all Jews who had left the country for Palestine since 1939 and had not returned, would henceforth be considered criminals who had defected to the enemy and would be tried in absentia by a military tribunal … the government issued a stringent edict dismissing all Jewish employees of government offices on the grounds that official secrecy must be protected … Young Jews who had completed their university studies encountered difficulties in finding employment. Jewish physicians were no longer accepted into government service nor were they granted licences for private practice. Various restrictions were imposed on entry of Jewish students into high schools and universities. (The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951, by Moshe Gat) Driven by such incentives, no small portion of Iraq’s Jewry began to contemplate flight abroad — an inclination that an Israel hungry for settlers keenly supported. And the piece de resistance in those terrible months was the September 23 hanging of the businessman Shafiq Ades. Wealthy and well-connected, Ades could have done for the poster child of Jewish assimilation in Iraq — a fact that made him exceptionally well-suited to become the unwilling star of a show trial. (Ades realized it too late, spurning advice to flee the country in the mistaken belief that he had too much pull for the fate that befell him.) Ades had his fortune by virtue of an arrangement to act as the Ford Motor Company agent in Iraq, but his prosecution was based on a different business deal he’d done for remaindered British army equipment after World War II. Some of this stuff he had sold onward to Italy; he’d be charged with having used the pretense of export to clandestinely supply it to the Israeli Zionists who had in turn deployed it against Ades’s own countrymen in the late war. Since it was a military court that delivered this verdict it would have been unthinkably dangerous for Iraq’s regent, ‘Abd al-Ilah, to exercise his theoretical prerogative of mercy. And so Shafiq Ades hanged in front of his own Basra mansion on September 23, 1948, before a jubilant mob, the body gibbeted for hours thereafter. Despite the atmosphere of genera persecution, Ades appears to be the only Iraq Jew actually executed during this dangerous moment; directly post-Ades, the official heat on this community was dialed back noticeably, albeit not entirely. The on-brand site IraqJews.org provides us a comment of the judge asserting a perspective of what one might call utilitarian philanthropy in his unjust sentence upon Ades: “I have ruled for the death sentence, since I was aware that the Iraqi people were seeking a sacrifice. If Ades were not hanged, pogroms would have taken place against the Jews, and who knows how many people would have been killed. By hanging Ades, I have saved the Jews from a massacre” 1730: Cathrine M'Canna, mother's daughter - 2018 1831: Slaves of Sussex County, for Nat Turner's rebellion - 2017 1675: Katharina Paldauff, the Flower Witch - 2016 1923: Jesus Saleta and Pascal Aguirre, Terrassa anarchists - 2015 1603: Marco Tulio Catizone, the false Dom Sebastian - 2014 1884: Two Pennsylvania murderers - 2013 782: 4,500 Saxons by order of Charlemagne - 2012 1921: Jake Martin and Putnam Ponsell - 2011 1947: Nikola Petkov, "a dog's death" - 2010 1864: Six of Mosby's Rangers - 2009 1994: Johannes van Damme, heroin smuggler - 2008 1952: Yosef Basri and Shalom Salah, Jewish bombers? 1814: Six slaves in Guyana 1871: The Paris Commune falls 1678: William Staley, “the prologue to the bloody tragedy” 1944: A Dutch Kapo named Raphaelson 1741: John Hughson, Sarah Hughson and Peggy Kerry, “so abandoned to confederate with Slaves” Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Businessmen,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,History,Iraq,Jews,Public Executions,Treason,Wrongful Executions Tags: 'abd al-ilah, 1940s, 1948, basra, september 23, shafiq ades 1630: Guglielmo Piazza and Giangiacomo Mora, colonna d’infamia Add comment August 1st, 2019 Headsman On this date in 1630, a ludicrous disease panic sent two innocent men to the scaffold in Milan. Terrified as their family and neighbors dropped dead around them of a raging bubonic plague outbreak, the surviving Milanese sprouted buboes on their brains. 1630 illustration of the plague-wracked Milanese doing the bring-out-your-dead thing. Just days before the executions marked in this post, a city official named Guglielmo Piazza was noticed by some busybodies “strolling down the street writing from an ink-horn at his belt and wiping his ink-stained fingers on the walls of a house.” They promptly reported him not for misdemeanor property damage but for spreading plague poison, whatever that would be. Investigators to their shame gave this accusation enough credence to interrogate Piazza under torture, a decision which obviously was tantamount to the execution itself. He broke he sealed his own fate when he broke and confessed, and sealed same for a misfortunate barber named Giangiacomo Mora whom Piazza was made to accuse. Milan was proud enough of this obvious injustice to stand up an colonna d’infamia (“column of infamy”) denouncing both “poisoners” until a storm finally knocked the lying marble down in 1788. It read, Here, where this plot of ground extends, formerly stood the shop of the barber Giangiacomo Mora, who had conspired with Guglielmo Piazza, Commissary of the Public Health, and with others, while a frightful plague exercised its ravages, by means of deadly ointments spread on all sides, to hurl many citizens to a cruel death. For this, the Senate, having declared them both to be enemies of their country, decreed that, placed on an elevated car, their flesh should be torn with red-hot pincers, their right hands be cut off, and their bones be broken; that they should be extended on the wheel, and at the end of six hours be put to death, and burnt. Then, and that there might remain no trace of these guilty men, their possessions should be sold at public sale, their ashes thrown into the river, and to perpetuate the memory of their deed the Senate wills that the house in which the crime was projected shall be razed to the ground, shall never be rebuilt, and that in its place a column shall be erected which shall be called Infamous. Keep afar off, then, afar off, good citizens, lest this accursed ground should pollute you with its infamy. August, 1630. Prior to the column’s overturning, the Milanese Enlightenment intellectual Pietro Verri wrote a meditation upon it titled Sulla tortura e singolarmente sugli effetti che produsse all’occasione delle unzioni malefiche, alle quale si attribui la pestilenza che devasto Milano l’anno 1630. Italian speakers can enjoy it here. 1938: Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet naval commander - 2018 1766: James Annin and James M'Kinzy - 2017 1595: Gabriel de Espinosa, the confectioner of Madrigal - 2016 1831: John Bell, age 14 - 2015 1548: Seraphin d'Argences - 2014 1556: Joan Waste, in Windmill Pit - 2013 1924: Felix McMullen, bank robber - 2012 1946: Andrei Vlasov, turncoat Soviet general - 2011 Feast Day of the Holy Maccabees - 2010 1997: Norio Nagayama, spree killer and author - 2009 1917: Frank Little of the IWW lynched - 2008 1476: Israel, the last execution of the Trent blood libel trial 1669: Roux de Marsilly, employer of the Man in the Iron Mask? 1327: Adso’s lover in The Name of the Rose 1897: Five Barcelona anarchists 1536: Sebastiano de Montecuccoli, poisoner of the heir? 1477: Gerolamo Olgiati, ducal assassin Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Broken on the Wheel,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Gruesome Methods,History,Innocent Bystanders,Italy,Milan,Murder,Public Executions,Terrorists,Torture,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1630, 1630s, august 1, black plague, giangiacomo mora, guglielmo piazza, milan, poisoner 1567: Captain William Blackadder, Darnley patsy Add comment June 24th, 2019 Headsman On this date in 1567, the Scottish soldier Captain William Blackadder (or “Blacketer”) died a scapegoat at Edinburgh. Being dragged on a hurdle to Mercat Cross where he was hanged and quartered, and his remains nailed up in Scotland’s principal cities, was undoubtedly the worst thing that ever happened to Captain Blackadder but posterity finds his severed tendons and ruined viscera only a lesser subplot in the psychodrama of that august future Executed Today fixture Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary’s famously terrible marriage to the monstrous Lord Darnley produced the eventual King James VI and I, at the cost of utterly ruining Mary’s reign. Please reference the great many more learned and erudite sources that will dwell on the innumerable faults of this grasping English lord who immediately upon achieving wedlock began maneuvering against his wife for power in Scotland. He’s notorious as a drunk, a lech, a murderer, and in general an obnoxious and arrogant shit. Until, 18 months and change into the marriage, a huge explosion rocked Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh … and when the debris cleared, there lay the bodies of the obnoxious consort and his servant. Strangely they were dead in a nearby orchard, suspiciously unsinged by the Gunpowder Plot-like pyrotechnics. Drawing of the crime scene made for the English Secretary of State William Cecil The particulars of Darnley’s murder have puzzled posterity for the ensuing 450 years, precipitating as it did Mary’s own fall from her throne — a moment manifested by Mary’s humiliating surrender when her dwindling and dispirited supporters melted away instead of fighting at the “Battle” of Carberry Hill. Mary had the humiliation in that June of 1567 of being led through Edinburgh by rebel lords to imprisonment, under the jeers of a hostile crowd. But since these rebels were rising against Mary’s post-Darnley fling, putatively in the name of Mary herself, they also proceeded to conduct a disingenuous search for Darnley’s assassins in these days, landing on this luckless son of a declining house who had presented himself under Mary’s colors at Carberry Hill. Nobody since and probably nobody then really thought he had “art and part” in Darnley’s death; nevertheless, the diarist Birrel noted, “the 24 day of Junij Captane Villiam Blacketer was drawn backward, in ane cairte, from ie Tolbuith to the Crosse, and ther wes hangit and quartred, for being on the King’s Murther.” We could not in good conscience miss the opportunity afforded by this distinctive name to cite topical-to-us content from the BBC sitcom Blackadder. 1931: Xiang Zhongfa, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party - 2018 1794: Rosalie Filleul, painter - 2017 1884: Field executions during the Bac Le ambush - 2016 1718: Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich condemned and fatally knouted - 2015 1340: Nicholas Behuchet, Battle of Sluys naval commander - 2014 1890: A quadruple hanging in Jim Crow America - 2013 1575: The intrepid Torii Suneemon - 2012 1986: Jerome Bowden - 2011 1908: Two Persian constitutionalists - 2010 2008: Tseng Fu-wen, drug dealer - 2009 1953: Dmytro Bilinchuk, Company 67 of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - 2008 1600: The corpses of John and Alexander Ruthven, for the Gowrie conspiracy 1306: Simon Fraser, William Wallace comrade in arms 1323: Andrew Harclay, too chummy with the Scots 1591: Brian O’Rourke, Irish lord 1563: Jean de Poltrot, assassin of the Duke of Guise 1584: Samuel Zborowski, dangerous precedent Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Drawn and Quartered,Execution,Gruesome Methods,History,Murder,Nobility,Public Executions,Scotland,Soldiers,Wartime Executions,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1560s, 1567, edinburgh, henry stuart, mary queen of scots, william blackadder 1884: Seven anarchists of La Mano Negra On this date in 1884, seven alleged terrorists of the Black Hand* were garroted in Jerez (Xeres), Spain. This frightening organization was announced to the public via Spanish police discovery of documents purporting to outline their murderous perfidy and conveniently justifying a crackdown on restive Andalusia, then plagued (so the crown saw it) with a burgeoning labor movement. Whether La Mano Negra (English Wikipedia entry \| Spanish) truly existed as an organization has been subject to debate from that day to this, but anarchist worker militants had undoubtedly moved in 1881-82 towards overtly violent confrontation with landowners — bread riots during an agricultural crisis paired with robbery and arson. It was by no means merely adventurism. A Madrid newspaper reporting the sack of a bakery saw for the starving looters only three options: “O la limosna, o el robo, o la muerte” … alms, theft, or death. Three thousand or more of protesting workers would be arrested in those months, and bound over to be used at the discretion of torturers; in the main, they affiliated to the labor union FTRE rather than anything so exotic as a Black Hand. But several murders that took place during or at least proximate to the Andalusian labor disturbances would be attributed to that sinister appendage and bring seven men controversially to execution in Jerez’s market squae on June 14, 1884. As for others made to prefer alms or theft, hundreds were burdened with judicial penalties of various sorts and deported to Spanish colonies. A successful clemency campaign in the early 1900s reversed a number of those sentences, finally permitting these anarchists or “anarchists” to return to Spanish soil. * This fell moniker refers to a number of distinct movements with a violent cast of mind sufficient to expose them to the predations of this very blog — notably, the Serbian terrorists who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand The successors of the Jerez Black Hand that is the subject of this post also paid their own subsequent notable visit to the scaffold in the 1890s. 1797: Thomas Starr, penknife murderer - 2018 Feast Day of Rufinus and Valerius - 2017 1816: Philip Street - 2016 1662: Sir Henry Vane, Commonwealth parliamentarian - 2015 1972: Sanong Phobang, Thanoochai Montriwat, and Jumnian Jantra - 2014 1897: Choka Ebin, by his own relatives - 2013 2001: Jay Scott, trend-setter - 2012 1381: Simon of Sudbury and Robert Hales during Wat Tyler's peasant rebellion - 2011 1441: Corrado Trinci, Lord of Foligno - 2010 2008: Anandrao Sainu Koram, Naxalite informer - 2009 1856: Dr. William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner - 2008 1887: Parsons, Spies, Fischer and Engel, the Haymarket Martyrs 1761: Gabriel Malagrida, Jesuit nutter 1844: Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, “Placido” 1897: The Bicol martyrs of Philippines independence Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Garrote,History,Martyrs,Mass Executions,Murder,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Spain,Strangled,Terrorists,Torture,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1880s, 1884, anarchism, anarchists, black hand, jerez, june 14, labor 1952: Jan Bula, Czechoslovakian priest Add comment May 20th, 2019 Headsman Catholic priest Jan Bula was hanged on this date in 1952 at Jihlava A Rokytnice pastor, Bula (English Wikipedia entry \| the more detailed Czech and German) put himself in the gunsights of the postwar Communist state by defying its strictures on proselytization and commenting publicly against them. Although perhaps a gadfly from the state’s perspective he was by no means a dissident consequential enough to have merited his eventual treatment; however, he was cruelly rolled into a notorious 1951 show trial called the Babice Case. Occasioned by a fatal raid launched by anti-Communist terrorists, the Babice trials targeted a huge number of ideological enemies and eventually resulted in 107 convictions and 11 death sentences.* Bula was among them, speciously condemned a traitor for complicity in the attack — a move that also opportunistically accelerated a case that state agents had for some time been attempting with little success to construct by means of entrapment. “We human beings do not love God enough,” he wrote in a letter to his parents before his hanging. “That is the only thing for which we must ask forgiveness.” The Catholic Church is currently considering this modern martyr for beatification. * After the Cold War these sentences were retrospectively overturned or reduced, and a judge in the Babice case, Pavel Vitek, was prosecuted for his role in it. 2001: An adult actress stoned to death in Evin prison - 2013 1966: Sayyid Qutb 1539: Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury 1950: Milada Horáková, democrat and feminist 1859: John Brown’s body starts a-moulderin’ in the grave 1537: Robert Aske, for the Pilgrimage of Grace 1685: Robert Pollack and Robert Millar, Covenanters Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Activists,Capital Punishment,Czechoslovakia,Death Penalty,Execution,God,Hanged,History,Martyrs,Power,Religious Figures,Treason,Wrongful Executions Tags: 1950s, 1952, catholicism, cold war, communism, jan bula, jihlava, may 20, priests	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line559
__label__wiki	0.64385	0.64385	Director of Coaching - Steve Connolly Hall of Fame Coach, Steve Connolly, will be developing our Coaching Team. Coach Connolly has built successful lacrosse programs at every level of the game. He has helped Youth, High School, College, and Professional players to reach their full potential. Coach Steve Connolly Bio New England Lacrosse Hall of Fame Massachusetts Lacrosse Hall of Fame (Inaugural member) "Man of the Year" - 3X Award winner - U.S. Lacrosse Association "Coach of the Year" - 2X Award winner - U.S. Lacrosse Association Boston Blazers - Coach - Professional Indoor Lacrosse Team University of Massachusetts (Lowell) - Head Coach -Holds University record for the most wins Billerica Lacrosse - Founder of High School and youth programs North Andover Lacrosse - Founder of High School and youth programs "Peak Performance" Lacrosse Camp (instructional camp) - Founder and Head Coach "Peak 200" - Premier College Recruiting Camp in New England - Field Director Defensive Coach- Hanna Gleason Clarkson University Defensive MVP Hanna is a college lacrosse rockstar. Defensive MVP, Rookie of the year, 2 x Captain (2015 & 2016), winner of the coveted “Sayer Memorial Award” an honor which recognizes an individuals compassion for their teammates, indelible work ethic, passion for their sport and an appreciation of the intricacies and importance of teamwork. Clarkson A.D. had this to say “ Hanna Gleason served as our emotional and vocal leader throughout practices and games, offering her teammates encouragement to get better each day. In addition to her leadership and prowess on the field, Hanna was named to the leagues all- Academic team posting a 3.875 GPA, earned the Presidential Scholar honors while majoring in Biology with minors in both Chemistry and Psychology.” Vocal leader, smart, compassionate teammate, strong work ethic. Hanna is not only a great lacrosse player, she is also a young woman who will be a great role model for our girls.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line562
__label__wiki	0.665673	0.665673	Koreshi Chronicles - Chapter VII : Useful Deviants... Koreshi Chronicles - Chapter VII: The Annunciation... Heavy Type - The Jolly Rogers: Shiver my guns! Cha... Heavy Type - The Jolly Rogers Heavy Type - Lloyd Doug "Jesster" Jessee Heavy Type - Manshoba Heavy Type - Lleyrew Heavy Type - Bernard Nova Heavy Type - You're Better or You're Dead Heavy Type - B. Lee Kendall by Bernard Nova The Jolly Rogers Singapore's First Heavy Gear Unit Established 1997 02 19 REGULAR ROSTER Galahad "DOOMFIST" Lips (Squad Leader) Ivy "REPINS" Imanaya Ec'Senave (Sniper) Siegfried Kampf Hunter (Heavy Weapons Specialist) Pierre Esquire (Commando) Johnny Ogilvy (Grunt) Ray Vahn (Grunt) UNIT FORMATION HISTORY The unit was formed in late '96 when the first Heavy Gear rule book came in mid '96. It reached full operational status in early '97 when the team's members decided their various aspects of warfare they will be dedicated in. The Jolly Rogers is mostly made up dishonored Heavy Gear pilots and hired guns. However, that does mean they are scumbags or some trigger-happy jerks who pissed-off everybody they meet. They have honor, integrity, and a sense of justice, it's just that by pure dumb bad luck they were discharged by the military. In order to support themselves, they band together and formed a mercenary group. Special warfare or Navy SEAL style ops are their raison d'etre. Galahad Lips is an ardent fan of Dick Marcinko; a Navy SEAL who makes Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible" looked like a weenie. Marcinko's spec war law includes "thou lead from the front not from the back" is just some of Lips personal credo. In addition, he 's quite a pyromaniac. He just loves thing going apart with bang and a mushroom cloud! Up to date, the 'Rogers have completed two missions. One in the Badlands and another in the Skavaran emirate. They are currently in the Vahallan campaign.... PLAYER CHARACTER PROFILES Name: Galahad "Doomfist" Lips Vehicle: Pilot of the Fire Dragon Strider Rank: Squad Leader of the Jolly Rogers Galahad is the son of Arthur Lips, a tycoon that made his fortune as a shipping magnate of Terra-Nova. Not willing to laze around and idle his life away, he joined the AST MILICIA for a life adventure in the military. He found Heavy Gears particularly fascinating; he enlisted as Gear pilot but was rejected due to his gargantuan built (1.8m). So he found an alternative job as a Strider pilot. During the War of the Alliance, he singlehandedly pushed a GREL infantry assault out off AST lines. Though successful, his Strider was reduced to junk and he took an AGM in the cockpit. The two soldats survived with minimal injuries but he got his face scarred and lost an arm as a result. The injury prevented him from participating for the rest of the war. The AST discharged Galahad out of the MILICIA. Consequently, the two fellow soldats felt he had gotten the raw end of the deal and decided to pull off a daring plan: steal a Strider and spirit Galahad into the Badlands. Well, they did it. Galahad's battered body had a least half of a dozen cybernetic system implanted in it. That includes an arm and a steel skull cap, the metal cap made him looked like the phantom of the opera in some ways; a constant source of joke among the 'Rogers. Name: Ivy "Repins" Imanaya @ En'senave Vehicle: Snakeye Black Mamba Rank: Sniper-marksman Of The Jolly Rogers Ivy Imanaya is the MILICIA's Legion Noire's deadliest sniper in her time. Then 16 year old teen when she was first spotted by an SRID agent at a trideo game fair playing " Mamba Strike". Her uncanny accuracy, the ability to shoot through the thickest cover and firing on the moving platform made the crowd stare in awe of her. Smug with her handiwork, she strutted out smiling like the Cheshire cat. Only to be stopped by a trio of shadowy agents, they are asked her weather if she would "play" a lifetime of "Mamba Strike". Being a naïve and adventurous girl, she said yes without giving a second thought. So the bane of the Northern Guard was created. At first, skirmishes between both sides ended with the victory of the Southern MILICIA once too often. Commanders leading small forces were stopped dead in their tracks by an extremely accurate laser shot into the Gear’s head, this is followed by several leg or arm shots onto the other Gears; disabling them or leaving them immobilized in the heat of the battle. Then as the conflict escalated, command posts and company commanders became her prime targets. She was able to halt a massive enemy force advance by just using the Mamba’s sniper laser only; she calmly picked off the senior commander and subsequently the junior commanders. That move threw the invading force into chaos. Needless to say they were routed. She was too prominent a figure both in the Northern Guard and the Southern MILICIA. An elaborate plan was formed by her enemies to trap and destroy this thorn which was been on their side for too long. They first purposely broadcast a false message of a visiting general to a base named "Geria" at the borders of Saragossa. The MILICIA high command bit the bait and send her to eliminate this general. Upon arriving the site, she was jumped by a horde of Grizzly Heavy Gears. Two hip shots from her Black Mamba stopped two of the Grizzlies. She weaved and swerved like a real snake, striking the opposition in their weakest positions. Though they were beaten, her Gear was shot to pieces. With a barely functional engine and a destroyed onboard computer, there wasn’t much of the Gear to make it home, she thought, "This is it." But her career as ace sniper is not going to an end, a passing air transport spotted her and picked her up. The transport is a Gear carrier belonging to the mercenary group called "The Jolly Rogers". Name: Siegfried Kamf Hunter Vehicle: Razorback Rank: Heavy Weapons Specialist Siegfried is basically a failure of a man. Rejected by his boss as too gruff and ostracized by his friends as a "clod", he soon found his place in the world of warfare. He signed up in the Northern Guard as an infantry man. Posted to the borders of the UMF after basic training, he at first complained about being "watchman" of a backwater outpost then things started get a bit of interesting. Skirmishes between MILICIA at the borders began to intensify from gun battles to a full-blown assault in a matter of five days. Artillery pounded the outpost like a hailstorm, reducing it to rubble in matter of minutes. The worst is yet to come. A wave of Southern infantry advanced with a cry, "Yaaaah!". The surviving Northern troops fled for their lives, but not Siegfried. He coolly searched for a machinegun among the shattered hulks. His mates urged him to make a run for it, he merely glanced at them foolishly and continued looking for the machinegun. Thinking he was driven mad by the earlier artillery barrage, they abandoned him; leaving old "Sic" to the hands of the incoming forces. When he found it, the massive infantry column was meters away from him. He cocked, took aim nonchalantly and fired. The familiar rat-tat-tat of the machinegun soon developed into roar as men were cut down left and right. The advancing troops almost immediately stopped in their tracks as their ranks were savagely mowed down. Siegfried guffawed with pleasure, "Hahaha! Come on! Come on! Keep them coming!" The enemy’s rank swiftly became disorganized and were routed in a twinkling of an eye. Siegfried was eventually awarded the Northern Star medal for extreme (if not insane) bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Since then, his rise of position in the Northern Guard became meteoric. From a lowly infantry man to a much revered Heavy Gear pilot. He left service eights years later to go freelance with his trusty Heavy Gear, the Peacemaker Razorback. "Peacemaker? More like Warbringer!" he once remarked. "This jerk brought down more bogies than a man could squish the amount of ants in his entire lifetime!" he quipped. During the period of freelancing, he worked as a security escort for a convoy, personal bodyguard to several CEOs of big companies and a hired gun for a small nation. The pay was good but his reputation as a one man army scared would-be aggressors so much that when they saw his trademark (that humongous six barreled cannon slung under his Gear’s left arm), they turned and ran like rabbits. "Boring job when those thugs see me and they disappear like magic...." Sic mumbled. One day, he saw an advertisement: "Jolly Rogers -- Shiver me guns! Hired gun needed . If you got a man with a big gun and all, Contact Lips at xxx-xxxx. Or just turn up for an interview at Doghouse Junkyard at 0900 hrs." Sic pondered for awhile and without delay, he turned up at the place . . . in his Heavy Gear, "Rock and Roll". "Hey! Tough guy, you want big guns? You got it, sir! Yes, sir!" The gear ‘demonstrated’ by blasting a nearby derelict to pieces in a matter of three seconds. Needless to say, the Rogers were impressed. Lips asked his mechanic, "Mac. Is my jaw down or on the floor?" Siegfried came out of this looking as pleased as punch and smiling like the Cheshire cat. "Soldier! You are hired!" Lips howled. Name: Pierre Esquire Vehicle: Panther (Stealth Jaguar) Rank: Commando Pierre was a member of the elite 1st Battalion of the Legion Noire. They, like their old Eurogerman counterpart, Skorzeny’s Commandos, are a daring lot. There was nothing they would not dare: assassination of high level officials, sabotage and infiltration of ultra-secret facilities. You name it, they probably done it before.... It wasn’t until he found out about the "Stridor" project. The "Stridor" project is the construction of a device that could turn an average run-of the-mill soldier into a frothing psycho-killer. Using a series of highly potent combat drugs and subliminal indoctrinations, the "Stridor" machine could churn out a company of super soldiers whose morale and bravery rivals that of a GREL. Unfortunately, it had a side effect; the poor soul would lapse into a coma and slowly waste away. But the high command had no qualms on using it, the tactical value was overwhelming. Their best unit could even take on a Heavy Gear company with their bare hands and come out the victor. His unit was the first to be tested on. For that 5 minutes, Pierre fought with himself. Should he follow as ordered or rebel? No. I will not end myself this way. With these words, he deserted the Legion. Two weeks later, he infiltrated the "Stridor" facility in a stolen Panther stealth Gear. Inside, he saw with his quivering eyes how his former team became crazed berserkers when they entered a machine that resembled a pea plant with it’s pods suspended from the central stem. With a heavy heart, he tore himself away from the hideous scene and loaded a fresh clip into his machinepistol, cocked it. Taking a deep breath and a silent prayer to the poor souls he’s about to release from eternal madness, he swung in to action. Two hours later, the facility was left a burning hulk with Pierre in his gear speeding into the setting sun. The high command was furious about the event, who was the culprit? No one knew. Those who knew and saw him were dead. Pierre met Galahad Lips and John Ogilvy in a bar, he overheard of their plans to found a mercenary unit. "Excuse me.... Mind if i join in?" he said in his heavily German accented English. The duo opened their eyes as big as a beer mug as they sized him up. "Oh.... Please," said Pierre as he opened his leather jacket to reveal a hefty looking pistol with the words, "Legion Noire: Ein Kampfschwader." With that, he was recruited as the Jolly Rogers’ jack-of-all-trades; master of sabotage, lord of espionage, number two sniper, and resident tactical advisor to Galahad. Pierre is best described as a Germanophile; he wears a monocle over his right eye, smokes expensive Terran-made Cuban cigars, and dresses up like a German officer of World War II. Even his Heavy Gear resembles a German soldier: head unit with sloped neck guard, grenades made to look like stick grenades at his insistence, the Gear’s main weapon: a medium autocannon modified into a shape of the MP-44 German assault rifle and finally a shade of German grey and an Iron Cross emblazoned on the Heavy Gear’s left shoulder plate. Name: John Ogilvy Vehicle: Jaguarundi Rank: Grunt John Ogilvy, or Johnny as he wanted others to call him, is the son of a high ranking official in the Northern Lights Confederacy, Winston Ogilvy. The Ogilvys, whose roots traced back to old Terran Earth, served in the courts of English rulers for generations and were proud people who prided and reveled in their assigned jobs. John from youth had always dreamt of heroic deeds in the military whether spearheading an assault force or defending an objective from a determined foe. He got the chance when he was 18. John enlisted himself as a pilot in the Norlight forces, but, due to his color-blind condition, he was subsequently rejected and assigned to be a Heavy Gear pilot. During his training period, John placed his mind, soul, and heart into the effort. His instructors think much of him and recommend him highly for transfer to the Valeria Officer Cadet School for furthering his training as a Heavy Gear pilot. John is often aware of what others think of him; he tries not to be too snobbish of his abilities. His father taught him from a young age: remember son, "pride goeth before a fall." Many a time, he offered help to those who were not up to the Norlight forces standard and brought them on par to the set standard. Upon finishing his basic Heavy Gear pilot training, he was sent to the Valeria Officer School. There he was in his natural element: bold, innovative and an open mind for new tactics. "I could have sworn I have see no one like John Ogilvy. This man is the personification of Heavy Gear warfare itself!" remarked Lieutenant Gunther von Falkenhein, John’s instructor. Just before his commissioning, he approached by two members of the famed Gear unit, "Terror Tigers" to command a Heavy Gear squad. Which Valerian have not heard of the "Terror Tigers ?" they were capable of many feats which an average gear pilot would go green with envy; they could make their Gears roll, tumble, and bound like it is a part of their bodies. John agreed to join them. To his surprise on commissioning day, he was given the rank of Captain, the highest rank in his cadre. His stint in the "Terror Tigers" took him to many places: the humid jungles of the Southern Territories, the blistering desert of the Badlands, the freezing North Pole, and the murky depths of the subterranean rivers. He had a stormy love affair with the infamous, now renegade, "Desert Vikings" officer, Lieutenant Anna Matthews. John fought with her back to back at the Siege of Gumstein when his company was whittled down to a handful of men, and Anna, isolated from her squad, was cornered by rebel forces. Later, his unit was given the dreadful task of hunting the "Desert Vikings" down. The Vikings’ commander, Viktor Tykane has turned renegade, along with a large of portion of the unit. It was heart-wrenching battle to be as fellow soldiers fought each other with sense of deja-vu. For they knew what the other was going to do. In the end, the remnants of the rebel forces was cornered. Tykane was about annihilated by John’s guns until suddenly Anna appeared. She shoved herself between John and Tykane just as he fired his rapid-fire bazooka. A fusillade of rocket shells slammed onto her Jaguar like hailstones on a scarecrow; John’s mind went blank as he mumbled: "What have I done?" Using that moment, Tykane and his men made his escape. After the battle, John resigned his position in the Norlight forces. He became a changed man; boozing, wallowing in self-pity, and muttering to himself incoherently. His former comrades often visited him, consoled him, and tried to talk him out of his pathetic stupor. But it was all for naught, he turned violent, behaved like a wild beast, shutting out his ears, and closing his eyes tightly as if never to accept the reality. One day, his forays at the bar had him bumped on what looked like a huge man. This man was nearly made of up cybernetic implants. With a booming voice: "John!" John looked up and saw Galahad Lips. He and Lips had seen some actions during the War of the Alliance. Lips was looking for suitable candidates for establishing his own mercenary group, he asked John if he’s interested. " I left my skills behind a long time ago. It was my skills that i have brought such misery upon myself," he lamented. " I am fully aware of the Tykane business. It’s useless to sigh to oneself and do nothing about one’s problem," Lips said. Then he grabbed John, looked at him in the eye and said: " John Ogilvy. Snap out it!" with this words, he hauled John in to the toilet. What happened inside nobody knows, but one thing’s sure for that matter. The old John Ogilvy was back. Now he seeks for greater feats of heroism to wipe the stain of cowardice away. Evidently, John was "Jolly Rogered". --GameThug Name: Ray Vahn Ray Vahn was a character shrouded with air of mystery around him. It seems that he lived only to fight and challenge others. From his teens, he had mastered the art of wargaming. Even the most seasoned wargamers could not stand up to his skill. Cool and nearly emotionless, he utilizes a unique combinations of psychological warfare and maneuvering the onboard units. Many opponents were convinced he had throughly controlled the game whenever he made such move. He was also John Ogilvy’s buddy in the Valeria Officer School. After commissioning, he was posted to the Northern Guard Command HQ when his talents was fully used. Not eager to a " desktop commander" , he often ventures out to field to lead the troops in his Heavy Gear, a shimmering green Jaguarundi known to all as the "Viper". Ray Vahn slowly savoured the art of Gear combat like a man drooling over a haunch of beef, it became his new focus. From the art of wargaming to the art of fighting, he never felt so much challenged before! Towards the end of the war, something happened. A GREL patrol stumbled onto the command post behind the Norlight lines. Ray was amongst the command staff when a grenade was tossed into the post. It was destroyed instantly. Ray survived the explosion but it left him several crippling injuries. He had to walk with pronounced limp on his right leg, his facial nerves were severed so he could not exhibit facial expression and severe internal injuries caused him to cough uncontrollably sometimes. Because of that, he was honorably discharged from the Norlight forces after the war. He tried to assimilate into civilian life but his condition made him somewhat hard. "Stone face", "reptile", and "sicko" were some of the unkindly remarks made by many to his condition. He went back to his old hobby of wargaming soon after. Ray never looked for any jobs. He had amassed a sizable amount of fortune in the war and now is using them to maintain the "happy times" as he called it. His skills remained as razor-sharp as ever. Ray Vahn’s crippled condition made him even infamous as the "Crippled General." The "Crippled General" on one evening after his one of his wargaming sessions hobbled home when he met two figures waiting at his apartment. One tall and brawny like a Teutonic knight, the other a head shorter with shiny black hair . Ray narrowed his eyes with caution as he drew his pistol. "I have no business with the government anymore," he hissed. An ominous ‘click-clack’ sound is heard. "Ray Vahn. It’s me, John Ogilvy." "John ? How did you find me?" Ray asked. "Eh.... It’s a long story," John sighed as his wiped his brow with his sleeve. John asked if Ray is interested in joining a merc unit. He pondered and said, "What could I possibly be of use to you people ? I am already a Cripple." Galahad Lips interrupted with an "Ahem. Well, I can make arrangements for your leg to be well and your coughing to be stopped...forever." Lips made his point clear by pointing at his cybernetic implants. "Okay. Then count me into the team," Ray declared. [Bernard Nova] [Heavy Type] The above article was archived from Heavy Type: A Heavy Gear Fan Fiction Website as part of the Hermes 72 Archive Project. It has been edited from its original form and is used without permission. Posted by Game Thug at 16:01 Labels: archive , heavy type	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line568
__label__cc	0.606152	0.393848	Metabolic Imaging Research Opportunities BBC science video - what is fat? The Metabolic and Molecular Imaging Group in the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London at Hammersmith Hospital runs a multidisciplinary research programme that integrates biochemical, molecular biology, physiology and magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques for translational science to study metabolism, eating behaviour and obesity. We have use of dedicated research MRI facilities in the clinical Robert Steiner MRI Unit (1.5T and 3T scanners) and pre-clinical Biological Imaging Centre (4.7T and 9.4T, PET scanner) that enable us to study body composition and fat distribution, brown adipose tissue function, and neuronal activity with a particular focus on hypothalamic, brainstem and reward systems. Using these MR techniques, in combination with hormone and metabolite measurements, genetic analysis, psychological and appetite assessments we study: (i) the effects of regional fat distribution (visceral, subcutaneous, liver and muscle) on metabolic risk and biomarkers in obesity and diabetes, and their response to therapy; (ii) how eating behaviour and appetite is altered in obesity, by gut hormones and anti-obesity therapies, including bariatric surgery, using pre-clinical manganese-enhanced MRI and clinical BOLD functional MRI; (iii) the influence(s) of specific environmental factors such as diet, exercise, early-life events, ethnicity and candidate genes on these pathophysiological processes. For further information see: www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/Research/Groups/GMC/MolecularImaging In collaboration with the Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Imperial College London at Hammersmith Hospital, we also study how pituitary dysfunction after traumatic brain injury, particularly growth hormone deficiency, impacts on neurocognitive and psychological processes, brain structure and function using diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI. Research opportunities are available for clinicians, scientists, and nutritionists to join our research programme. We have an excellent track record in obtaining Research Council and charitable Clinical Research Training Fellowships. If interested, please contact Dr. Tony Goldstone on 020 3313 5856 or tony.goldstone@imperial.ac.uk.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line574
__label__cc	0.581382	0.418618	How to deal with the packing box after opening the express delivery? While online shopping brings great convenience to people's lives, it also causes serious pollution of express package garbage. It is estimated that in 2015, China consumed 9.922 billion boxes, 16.985 billion meters of tape and 8.268 billion plastic bags, of which the length of the tape can circle the earth's equator 425 times. This is only a few years ago about China's statistics, so what about the world? The community after "Double Eleven" has undoubtedly become a centralized place to collect express delivery. A courier packaging that may include waybills, envelopes, cartons, plastic bags, woven bags, tapes and cushions, etc., and a brain is thrown into the trash, may not be the best solution-the recycling value of the carton, but the recycling process of carton covered with tape is more complicated, and plastic tape needs hundreds of years to degrade naturally in nature. When harvesting the joy of buying and buying, we also need to think about how to throw away a large number of express packaging correctly and recycle them efficiently without putting more pressure on the environment. The emergence of "intelligent recycling machine" solved the problem. Residents classified waste paper, waste plastics, waste textiles and other domestic wastes and put them into the recycling station by themselves. After weighing them in real-time, the mobile phone can receive the recycling rebate and support cash withdrawal or supermarket shopping offset. This intelligent and novel recycling method attracted many citizens to participate in the competition for a time. This garbage sorting intelligent recycling station is independently developed by Incom Recycling Co., Ltd. to build an all-round recycling system of "all categories, all regions, integration + public services" in an all-round way, and to cultivate and facilitate residents to actively participate in garbage sorting and recycling. With the increasing efforts to improve the ecology and protect the environment, the domestic community waste classification work is also vigorously promoted and achieved initial results. Guiding and educating residents on garbage classification, improving garbage recycling facilities and marking are the key and difficult points in the community to promote garbage classification and recycling. The intelligent recycling station can guide residents to sort according to their needs and cooperate with the publicity and guidance of the community in the early stage. Residents can also get rebates as rewards after recycling, which solves the key problems in the process of community garbage classification. The above is shared by the Touch Screen Vending Machine Factory. Previous: None Next: Smart Garbage Recycling Makes Garbage Classification A Habit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line576
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__label__wiki	0.821491	0.821491	Keep me signed in Create New Account Sign up using Google Continue with Google IAP Home Statements Statements Statements Overview News and e-Bulletin Forgot Your Login Information InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) Observers http://www.ianas.org c/o Academia Mexicana de Ciencias "Casa Tlalpan" Km 23.5 Carretera Federal México-Cuernavaca, Col. San Andrés Totoltepec Tlalpan, Mexico City 14400 Mexico Phone 1 +52 58495522 Contacts2 Updates0 Founded2004 Juan Asenjo Co chair Adriana De La Cruz Molina IANAS is a regional network of Academies of Sciences created to support cooperation towards the strengthening of science and technology as a tool for advancing research and development, prosperity and equity in the Americas. Founded in the spirit of IAP in May 2004, the main objectives of the network are: (a) to assist in the building of national scientific capacities by strengthening science and technology relationships among the countries of the Americas, as a tool for societal development; (b) to cooperate in building capacities of the Academies of the region, through exchange of information and experience; (c) to aid in the creation of new Academies in those countries of the Americas desiring assistance in the establishment of a Science Academy; and (d) to influence the scientific decision-making processes in the Americas, with the goal of promoting prosperity and equity in the hemisphere. Linking and strengthening the scientific community in the hemisphere, IANAS plays a major role in contributing to the promotion of scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in the Americas. Young Women Scientists - A bright future for the Americas: Discover why and how these young women decided to become scientists Authoring Institution IANAS, the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences, produced this magazine in the hope that the careers profiled will encourage more young women to consider a career in science. Some may feel that it is an impossible dream, that the obstacles are too overwhelming and that too much must be ... Jóvenes científicas - Un futuro brillante para las Américas: Descubre por qué y cómo estas jóvenes mujeres decidieron ser científicas This is the Spanish version of the IANAS’ magazine which was produced in the hope that the careers profiled will encourage more young women to consider a career in science. Some may feel that it is an impossible dream, that the obstacles are too overwhelming and that too much must be sacrificed to ... Guide Towards a Sustainable Energy Future for the Americas The Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) initiated an Energy Programme to chart the path to a sustainable future in the Americas. Thanks to the commitment of the 21 Energy of Focal Points, experts appointed by the member academies of IANAS, and the support of other people and ... The IAP-Policy Secretariat is hosted by: The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Washington, DC 20001, United States The IAP-S and IAP-H Secretariat is hosted by: The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) ICTP Campus, c/o TWAS Strada Costiera 11 iap@twas.org tstoepler@nas.edu nward@nas.edu About Governance Secretariat Activities Projects Calendar News Follow Us Subscribe Powered by MILIU KM. Digital by DIAMAX	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line582
__label__cc	0.738903	0.261097	Teaching Irish History in Australia About Rebekah's Site Murals as Resources: Londonderry/Derry Murals as Resources: Belfast Easter Rising Resources Battle of the Boyne Newgrange and Neolithic Ireland Travel Tour Reviews Other Irish History Images Interviews: Derry Michael Collins: Resources Irish History Links Lesson Plans and Programs Speaking and Tutoring (Accomodation, Tours, Providers, Reviews!) Horse and Jockey Hotel, Thurles It may indeed be a long way to Tipperary, but after driving it, pulling into the Horse and Jockey, near Thurles, was a massive relief. It had been a decent drive in pouring rain, so stopping was just what was needed. The hotel has a long and impressive history; It has been an inn for over 250 years, standing at one of the great crossroads of Ireland- about halfway between Cork and Dublin, the 'unofficial' and 'official' capitals of the nation. It boasts a leisure centre, spa and giftshop, as well as a cafe and dining room. It's apparently very popular as a location for conferences- Coca Cola were clearly having a session there on the day I departed, and the conference facilities, according to what I glimpsed, were impressive and well equipped. It also boasts a proud Irish history- Wolfe Tone and his United Irishmen met there in the 1700s and a copy of the Belfast Agreement is near the cafe, which I admit served a very nice latte. It also served various cakes and teas that looked nice, had I not been so tired! A wander through the little giftshop on the grounds was a pleasure- a lot of the items weren't really my thing, horse related and so forth, but they were very cute. There was nice jewellery and a few scarves, in addition to cups, plates, and gardening equipment. The 'Bakery' in the foyer also sold gourmet items that were tasty looking, as well as fresh rolls and pastries. Had a small meal and settled in for the evening, watching a little TV- easy to work, which some aren't. Comfortable bed, but what I suspect was a generator outside hummed until very late- keeping me awake and ensuring that I had to keep the window shut. I believe it may have been something to do with being located near the kitchen, but it was irritating, especially when one likes fresh air. I'm very much not one for sitting in a stuffy room (something which drives people at work insane- just as the demand to have the heater on drives me mad) so this didn't sit well. Breakfast the next morning was very nice- some fresh fruit wouldn't have gone astray but the service was friendly and warm, the coffee nice and the selection impressive. A nice hotel if passing through or holding a meeting, but I needed sleep. I would return, but would ask for a room away from the carpack. For those not after the history, but wanting the details for their own planning- this is where to find reviews of Rebekah's accomodation and travel!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line583
__label__cc	0.747226	0.252774	ITALIANS IN LONDON Home > Learning English: English levels English levels What's your level of knowledge? How good are you at speaking William Shakespeare's language? Answering right this questions is essential when deciding the kind of course to attend. Try to be honest about your level! To help you, there are a lot of free on-line tests, you only need to suf the Internet. Students can be classified according to plenty of criteria, all involving some of the following levels: Absolute Beginner: a person who has never studied English; Beginner: a person who knows a few words and verbs, usually the ones learnt watching TV or listening to the radio; Elementary: a person who can say very elementary sentences, limited to basic verbs and words; Upper Elementary: when in known environments, he/she can understands the meaning of some sentences, in addition to speaking simple sentences, the same as the previous step; Lower Intermediate: he/she can speak English by using an essential dictionary and a limited range of verbs, when in known environments. Words and verbs are often not the right ones; also grammar is far to be acceptable. Intermediate: in spite of the fact that speaking barriers are not completely removed and words and verbs are not properly used, his/her level of understanding is acceptable. In addition, he/she can better use the language in known environments; Upper Intermediate: although the use of general English can still be a problem, its use in specific environments, for example, the one where he/she works, tend to be good enough. Pre-Advanced: better understanding and fluency, mistakes are less common; Advanced: English can be used in formal and informal situations. He/she knows a lot of idioms and phrasal verbs and can manage new situations; Proficient: very high level of knowledge, almost the one of an Englishman/woman. Visiting \| Shopping \| Working \| Studying \| Eating & Drinking \| Accommodation \| Life \| Transport \| Events \| Practical information \| Images \| Days out Site map \| Contact us \| Legal \| © 2006 www.italiansinlondon.co.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line586
__label__wiki	0.614157	0.614157	Julia Davis News Writer Julia Davis ABOUT JULIA DAVIS ARTICLES DEBUNKING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ARTICLES ABOUT UKRAINE ARTICLES ABOUT RUSSIA ARTICLES ABOUT RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ARTICLES ABOUT TERRORISM ARTICLES ABOUT GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION ARTICLES ABOUT PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE Julia Davis News on Twitter Tweets by @JuliaDavisNews Cops swap nude photos of female arrestees and dead victims as a ‘game’ On October 23, 2014, Contra Costa, CA prosecutors held a meeting to discuss possible felony computer theft charges against 35-year-old California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Sean Harrington, who admitted accessing nude photos of a DUI suspect and covertly sending them from her cellphone to his own. In additional court documents, obtained by San Jose Mercury News on October 24, 2014, Martinez confessed to stealing explicit photos from the cellphone of another Contra Costa County DUI suspect in August 2014. He forwarded those images to at least two CHP colleagues and called it a “game” among officers. Harrington told investigators he had done the same thing to female arrestees a “half dozen times in the last several years.” He sent bikini shots of a 19-year-old female DUI crash victim to another CHP Officer, Robert Hazelwood, while the woman was at a hospital to have X-rays taken after the crash. Accompanying text message said: “Taken from the phone of my 10-15x while she’s in X-rays. Enjoy buddy!!!” Disappointed recipient texted: “No f—— nudes?” Shortly thereafter, Harrington sent the same photos to another CHP officer, Dion Simmons. Simmons texted back “Nice” and “Hahahaaaa.” In response, Harrington asked that Simmons return a “favor down the road.” These twisted “games” are indeed not new. For example, in 1993, Buffy Rice Donohue disappeared. On May 24, 1995, her bones were discovered in the mountains near Norwood, Colorado. The autopsy confirmed that she had been murdered. Local police not only botched an investigation into her case, but also seized nude photos, taken during Buffy’s honeymoon with her husband. Lieutenant Chinn of the Montrose Police Department kept them in an unlocked drawer in his desk and admitted to showing them to numerous other policemen. Police Officer Steve Keep, whose office was near Lieutenant Chinn’s, testified that he once overheard Chinn and others in his office laughing. When he went in to see what was going on, he saw Buffy’s nude photos lying on Lieutenant Chinn’s desk. Another woman, Crystal Black, who worked at the Montrose County Sheriff’s Department, saw police officers holding up several nude photographs of Buffy, laughing and making crude comments about them, as well as making disparaging remarks about the deceased victim’s character. The courts have thrown out the lawsuit brought against the police by the victim’s family. In 2008, Nathan Newhard was arrested in Culpeper, Virginia. Police seized the cell phone of his girlfriend, Jessie Casella, which she loaned to him. The phone contained nude photos of Ms. Casella in “sexually compromising positions.” Court records state that “Sergeant Matt Borders eventually gained possession of the phone … then announced over the Town of Culpeper radio system to several additional unnamed officers, county deputies, and members of the public “that the private pictures were available for their viewing and enjoyment” … several officers who were unassociated with Newhard’s arrest, as well as an acquaintance unassociated with the police department, traveled to police headquarters and viewed the pictures.” After this incident was made public, Newhard lost his job as an elementary school teacher. Newhard and Casella brought a civil suit against law enforcement for the invasion of privacy, but the court dismissed the suit, finding that there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in the photographs. The problem lies not only with the so-called “game” of law enforcement officers, swapping nude photos of arrestees and victims (dead or alive). A bigger issue is the fact that accountability for such egregious violations of public trust is rarely dispensed by the courts or the authorities. [UPDATE] Authorities say that Sean Harrington, former California Highway Patrol Officer, has been charged with two felonies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line590
__label__wiki	0.698265	0.698265	Creative Crossroads support Wilhelm and Groener In the frame of the Creative Crossroad activity, the duo Wilhelm & Gröner was selected by Uferstudios Berlin to receive a 2 years structural support by the LLB network to work on their productions "33 Skizzen" and "“Anatomie. Evolution. Anfang. Ende…” This support includes support by Uferstudios Berlin, a co-production and a residency by ICI-CCN, a residency at NDA Slovenia and a stay at STUK Leuven. Support by Uferstudios Berlin: WILHELM GROENER are the artists-duo Uferstudios chosen as outgoing artists. The choice was made due to the strong involvement of WILHELM GROENER with the Uferstudios, but especially because WIHELM GROENER have developed a very unique artistic language oscillating between choreographic praxis, dance and visual arts. Their development of work evolves very organically from one process to the other, picking up lines of thoughts and enquiries from former works. They have been present in the Berlin dance scene for more than 10 years, and represent a very special stream of artistic approach that reaches beyond the main stream artistic output in the city. Yet, with their early approach towards genre-crossing of dance and visual arts, they were pioneers of an aesthetic discourse that in the last years has gained much more visibility. As stable and outstanding their career in Berlin was, WILHELM GROENER never really made their way into a stronger international standing. In order to push that line of career building of the duo, the Creative Crossroads format offers perfect chances to establish connections to other European venues and organizations. WILHELM GROENER entered Creative Crossroads with following interests: to continue their work of trilogy on different notions of reality and body, evolving into works like D.R.A.G, 33 Skizzen and A.E. And to enter stronger into questioning the concept of archive in performing arts, especially within and around their own oeuvre. For both issues the matching with partner institutions of LLB evolved organically and resulted in quite perfect connections. ICI Montpellier offered them a residency with the opportunity to work on their new project A.E., premiering in November 2019 in Berlin (Tieranatomisches Institut) with a student from EXERCE and to install a showing of a in-progress version of 33 Skizzen at ICI. NDA Slovenia will invite them to exchange and practice thoughts on archiving, one of the main streams of concern of NDA Slovenia. The exchange of expertise from both sides is planned for spring 2020. In the same context, Uferstudios agreed to coproduce the catalogue reflecting and documenting the last trilogy of WILHELM GROENER, to be published in 2020. Simone Willeit, as general manager of the Life Long Burning project, has continuously kept contact with WILHELM GROENER, with suggestions of outreach towards the other LLB partners, exploring what matches could be most fruitful, but also in advising them on how to build an international network beyond the LLB partners. At the same time Simone Willeit gave further support to Wilhelm Groener in general questions of administration, freelance working procedures, PR work and touring. In general, the action “Creative Crossroads” allows the network of LLB to establish a stronger connection to the chosen artists, and to follow and support their career building on a more substantial level then with some of the other one-off actions of the project. It gives more sustainability in the connections build and offers the artists a necessary anchorage within the independent artistic scene. Nevertheless, the amount of offers from the partners flowing towards the artists within the 2-year period is a little to low for them to really gain spin. Another shortcoming that should be addressed in the future, is to establish formats and opportunities to nourish the exchange and meeting between all chosen artists of the network. Residency at ICI-CCN: The Creative Crossroad artists Günther Wilhelm and Mariola Gröner are on a residency at ICI-CCN Montpellier to work on their latest production "33 SKIZZEN". The production is followed by a work-in-progress presentation on October 11 at 18:00 in Atelier Buffard at ICI-CCN. Report by Wilhelm & Gröner: Our residency at the ICI Montpellier was the first work stay with one of the partners of the network »Life Long Burning«, to which we belong from 2019-2020 as artist duo WILHELM GROENER. This first residency within the network was a great start. Here it was confirmed in the most beautiful way how much one can profit in an artistic process from the generous working structures of an institution, if one breaks away from the usual structures and moves into new, unknown realms. Some fortunate circumstances came together here for us. The building, the location, the team, the studio, the city, the surroundings were always a joyful enrichment, inspiration and support. We were able to research and rehearse for our new performance »A.E« with the dancer Oliver Connew, who had just started his master's degree at the local Exerce Program, wich is located in the same building. Parallel we worked on a new edition for our long-standing performance project »33 SKIZZEN« which was presented to the audience at the end of our residency at 10 October 2019. «33 SKIZZEN» is an ongoing performance project which takes the spatial and contextual situation as a starting point. The Montpellier edition of «33 SKIZZEN – ici/hier» was on the one hand an interplay with the given working space during our residency at ICI. On the other hand it reflected the momentary research for our above mentioned new creation «A.E.» (premiere 6 Nov. at Veterinary Anatomy Theatre Berlin) which circumscribes scenarios of origin and visions of progress. Some echos of this research were evident in «33 SKIZZEN – ici/hier». The audience was free to explore different perspectives and became witness to the performers spatial, anatomical and acoustical explorations. In summary, we can say that our residency at the ICI was a perfect start for the opportunities which »Life Long Burning« can offer for artistic processes. View the evening sheet of “Anatomie. Evolution. Anfang. Ende…” in the Gallery below. Residency Wilhelm and Groener at ICI-CCN ICI-CCN Montpellier, France LLB_wilhelmGroener_evening_program.pdf	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line595
__label__cc	0.691161	0.308839	The Vesuvius Isotope Sample The Death Row Complex Sample Ask Katrina The Buried Books of Herculaneum Part 5 Maria Carolina of Austria Excavations at Herculaneum were forcibly halted in favor of ongoing efforts at Pompeii, and so the secrets contained within the Villa would once again be forced to wait. Charles’ mother Elisabetta, the woman who had first initiated the work, died... Part 4 of this series continues the story of the excavations of Herculaneum, as we seek to unravel the answer to the Novel Travelist mystery: Why was the Villa dei Papyri never fully excavated? Here we continue this story. Despite the recent lack of interest in Herculaneum, one man remained enthusiastic about the papyrus scrolls recovered from the ash. Vatican calligrapher priest Padre Piaggio was the first to attempt unwinding the scrolls from the Villa dei Papiri without destroying them. Piaggio's device, Naples Archeological Museum Piaggio’s infinite patience and sense of innovation produced a mechanical device, now located in the Naples Archeological Museum, that could at long last unwind the scrolls, at a rate of one half-inch per day. It is this device that first appeared in Part 1 of this series. Slowly and painstakingly, Padre Piaggio eventually succeeded in being the first to unroll one papyrus document from beneath the ruins of Herculaneum. This single act took four years. Piaggio continued unrolling additional scrolls and he set to diligently copying their text. The former Vatican calligrapher produced remarkably faithful reproductions of the text despite its condition, and also despite the fact that he neither spoke nor read modern, let alone ancient, Greek. Translation of the content was equally difficult. The papyrus was in such terrible condition, and so many pieces had been lost, that much of the author information and content was either missing or misunderstood. Indeed, several entire scrolls were literally translated backward in their entirety, and it was only many, many years later that this mistake was even recognized as such. Flattened papyrus scroll from Herculaneum King Charles III's son Ferdinand came of age in 1767 and became the arrogant, ignorant boy-king of Naples - an event that would no doubt have represented the final nail in the coffin of Herculaneum and the Villa dei Papiri had it not been for one unlikely variable. Her name was Maria Carolina, and she would become Ferdinand’s queen despite her loudly voiced opinion on the matter: “You might as well cast me into the sea.” Maria Carolina was the elder sister of a girl who would become known to history as Marie Antoinette, and whose notorious fate would only intensify Maria Carolina’s hatred of all things French. Maria Carolina became a close friend of Padre Piaggio. She safeguarded the papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum throughout the extensive fallout in Naples from the French Revolution, and she successfully kept them from the hands of the pillaging Napoleon Bonaparte – for a while. To be continued in Part 6 of The Buried Books of Herculaneum This blog post explores a non-fictional theme or locale that is incorporated in The Vesuvius Isotope, a new novel by Kristen Elise. Buy The Vesuvius Isotope on Amazon. When her Nobel laureate husband is murdered, biologist Katrina Stone can no longer ignore the secrecy that increasingly pervaded his behavior in recent weeks. Her search for answers leads to a two-thousand-year-old medical mystery and the esoteric life of one of history’s most enigmatic women. Following the trail forged by her late husband, Katrina must separate truth from legend as she chases medicine from ancient Italy and Egypt to a clandestine modern-day war. Her quest will reveal a legacy of greed and murder and resurrect an ancient plague, introducing it into the twenty-first century. Kristen Elise, Ph.D. is a drug discovery biologist and the author of The Vesuvius Isotope. She lives in San Diego, California. Posted by Kris at 2:24 PM No comments: Labels: Italy, Pompeii and Herculaneum, The ancient world, The Enlightenment, The Vesuvius Isotope Click the Book and it's Free! Subscribe for monthly updates, events, and advance copies of the next Kristen Elise novel In and About the Novels The Vesuvius Isotope (54) The Death Row Complex (11) Work in progress (4) Pompeii and Herculaneum (12) Science and medicine (18) The ancient world (21) The Middle Ages (1) The modern world (11) The Renaissance (2) Settings and Locations News, Events, and Fun Ask Katrina (6) Bloopers (1) Deleted scenes (1) Excerpts (8) Join the Murder Lab Community What Would Katrina Do? 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__label__wiki	0.704522	0.704522	Post Tagged with: "blais" Putting the Internet at the Centre: Taking Stock of Jean-Pierre Blais’ Term as CRTC Chair Barring a last minute extension, CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais’ term will come to an end this week. For those new to the CRTC, it is difficult to overstate just how much changed both procedurally and substantively during his five years as chair. For some context, consider a 2006 invitation I received to participate on a panel at the Telecommunications Invitational Summit, a by-invitation-only event that brought together many in the industry for off-the-record, Chatham House Rules discussions on issues of the day. I was grateful for the invitation – I was there to defend the then-emerging issue of net neutrality – but recall being shocked walking into the venue to see senior telecom executives shooting billiards and having a drink with CRTC commissioners. It is fair to say that those off-the-record bonding-style events between the regulator and the regulated became a thing of the past under Blais. In fact, weeks after he was named chair of the CRTC, I was called into his office in one of several meetings he had with consumer and public interest voices as his first order of business. I had a mixed history with Blais to that point (he was the lead on copyright policy at Canadian Heritage for many years), but he left no doubt that bringing a public interest voice and perspective to the CRTC was his top priority. June 12, 2017 — 9 comments — News Can Cancon Compete?: A Response to the WGC on The Future of Canadian TV Production My post this week on the recent CRTC’s television licensing decision elicited a strongly worded response yesterday from the Writers Guild of Canada. My original post made two key points. First, responding to Kate Taylor’s assertion that CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais has offered no consistent strategy to the challenges facing the Canadian television production industry, I noted that over the course of the past five years, Blais has charted a very clear path toward making Canadian policy and regulation relevant in the digital age by promoting a competitive marketplace for Canadian creators, consumers, broadcasters, and broadcast distributors. Second, I defended the recent CRTC decision on several grounds, including the need to address the gap between regulated and unregulated services (such as Netflix), the already-significant public support for Canadian content creation, the incentives for Canadian broadcasters to invest in original content, and the fact that Canadian broadcasters contribute a very small slice of the overall financing of domestic fictional programming which suggests that the harm to the sector from a further reduction is overstated. May 25, 2017 — 10 comments — News Canadian TV in the Netflix Age: In Defence of the CRTC Television Licensing Decision Last week’s CRTC decision on group licensing for the major Canadian broadcasters has the creative community in a panic, claiming that it could “mean the devastation of Canadian domestic [television] production.” The decision, which set a uniform spending requirement of 5 percent on programs of national interest (PNI, which includes dramas, documentaries, some children’s programming, and some award shows), means a reduction in spending requirements for some broadcasters. The Writers Guild of Canada fears that the decision could lead to a reduction in spending on PNI of $200 million over five years. Groups have heaped criticism on CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais, whose term ends next month. The WGC labels him a “Harper appointee”, while Kate Taylor says “he doesn’t leave much of a legacy for himself” and that “his piecemeal approach offers no consistent strategy to address the challenges facing Canadian television production in the Netflix age.” Blais may have his faults, but claiming that he has not had a strategic vision for the digital age is not one of them. He recognized that the advent of the digital networks, an abundance of consumer choice, and the effective removal of longstanding analog protections for Canadian creators would gradually reduce the relevance of the regulator and leave it with two choices. The first – favoured by the creator groups – was to temporarily prolong the protections by extending Cancon regulations to Internet services and increasing regulatory costs on broadcasters. The second was to jump on the digital bandwagon, gradually removing the safeguards and creating a regulatory environment premised on competition at all levels – creators, broadcasters, and broadcast distributors. Anyone following the CRTC broadcast and telecom decisions in recent years knows that he chose the latter. May 23, 2017 — 7 comments — News CRTC Chair Blais Calls Out Telcos For Double-Talk on Internet Fibre Investment CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais participated in a fascinating question-and-answer session at MIT this week in which he bluntly spoke out on a wide range of topics including cultural issues, copyright, and Internet policy. I’ll have a future post on his culture comments (his copyright remarks noted that the zero rating decision may help solidify ISPs’ status as common carriers), but his frank response on Internet investment was particularly noteworthy. Readers of this blog may recall one of my posts from June 2016 in which I noted that Bell told the CRTC and the government that requirements to share fibre networks could reduce their investment in the sector, but that a top executive told investors that it was going to continue to build fibre networks since they were critical to the company’s future, offering significant cost savings and higher revenues. It would appear that the CRTC took note of the same contradictions. When asked about the CRTC fibre decision at roughly the 34 minute mark, Blais responded: April 26, 2017 — 8 comments — News Intervening at the CRTC: Nothing Encourages Participation Like Background Checks and Legally Mandated Undertakings The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s hearing on basic telecommunications services launched earlier this week with the Commission continuing its effort to engage the public with an open discussion forum that will allow for comments to placed on the record (comments outside of the CRTC universe – op-eds, blog posts or social media comments do not count). While CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais has emphasized his interest in hearing from Canadians, the recent experience of Concordia University professor Fenwick McKelvey highlights how more work is needed to remove barriers that may inhibit independent experts from participating in the process. McKelvey told me he was very happy to participate, yet consider the barriers faced by academics or other independent experts seeking to contribute to the CRTC process. First, McKelvey (along with other academic intervenors) faced questions from Telus about their background, expertise, and funding. Telus demanded that each answer the following questions:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line612
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__label__wiki	0.679246	0.679246	Breaking Now! The hot scoop The Pit Bull's Daily Briefing Mike's Take - NASCAR In-depth More The Pit Bull's Daily Briefing Articles Greg Zipadelli ponders his new role, and how to reshape Tony Stewart's operation The 2013s: Who holds the edge? Expect a lot more testing.... The man who created 'Penske-perfect' is about to win the NASCAR championship, at long last NASCAR lets Jeff Gordon off the hook...and what's this Keselowski fine really for? Crashing and fighting in Phoenix, just good ol' fashion NASCAR racing, old-school style at the finish Brad vs Jimmie, Round 9, but Kyle Busch may crash their party Politics and NASCAR..... Oh, that wild and crazy Bruton Smith: what's he up to next? Again Brad Keselowski surprises. But Jimmie Johnson is back atop the championship standings and looking as powerful as ever Jimmie Johnson looking to gain on Brad Keselowski in Sunday's Martinsville 500, and Five-Time is on the pole, BradK only 32nd State of the Sport? Uh, and Daytona officials are blaming the drivers? Posted Feb 5th, 2013 And Daytona executives are blaming drivers for being too critical of these 200-mph crashes? Maybe they should strap in themselves (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) By Mike Mulhern mikemulhern.net Watch out, Tony. Looks like NASCAR doesn't want to hear any complaints from drivers. The Daytona mantra this season: Shut up and drive. Does anyone remember the days when Richard Petty and Junior Johnson and Bobby Allison would go nose-to-nose with NASCAR boss Bill France Jr.? Sometimes it seems like NASCAR officials are doing their best to emasculate the men who should be this sport's big stars. Star Power? Remember when Tony Stewart, after a crash-filled Talladega race last spring, was critical of the maddening bumper-to-bumper 200-mph racing? The fans, he said deadpan, didn't get their money's worth, because there were still cars running at the end of the race. And he added a line about maybe Figure 8 racing would be a better option. Now Daytona execs are trying to pin some of this sport's problems on such complaints. Drivers' complaining about tight racing at Daytona and Talladega, with those restrictor plates, is nothing new. However there appears no easy solution to how to race modern stock cars on 1960s race tracks. So drivers will crash and complain in one race, and then they'll all have almost an informal pact for the next race not to do anything outlandish until the last few laps. Not that such strategy works, as Stewart and Michael Waltrip showed at Talladega last fall. Whether anyone in Daytona is even bothering to talk with these drivers about all this is unclear. Maybe the new 2013 models will change the dynamics, maybe not. The state of the sport, as Daytona's SpeedWeeks approaches? One view comes from Daytona execs themselves, who are, naturally, under pressure to produce more butts in the stands and more fans on the couches in front of TVs this season. However listening to these execs, it appears there is still a huge disconnect between the men in suits in the corporate suites and the men down in the trenches. The suits sometimes sound too much like the blind men trying to describe an elephant. And these execs, in last week's International Speedway Corp (ISC) call with Wall Street analysts, made these points: -- Stock car racing fans, the core group, are still hurting economically, particularly in the Talladega market area. There is "concern" about those fans, and that NASCAR demographic is described as "extremely volatile," whatever that means. -- Sponsors, on the other hand, are not just hanging in, but some, like Toyota and Kelloggs, are "stepping up with very sizeable in-market activation." -- What these execs describe as "negative storylines" have had impact on fans. -- One Daytona exec, curiously, even calls two-car push-drafting at Daytona and Talladega as "pathetic," trying to blame weak crowds and lackluster TV audiences on this type of racing, (even though NASCAR officials essentially banned that, with a series of rules that have had drivers watching their engine temperatures more than their competitors). -- Casino gambling at Watkins Glen International? Daytona execs are watching that prospect "very carefully," with New York state politicians considering gaming options for upstate. -- Brad Keselowski Tweeting from his car in the Daytona 500, according to ISC boss Lesa France Kennedy, was good for the sport. (And then why did her brother Brian France, the NASCAR boss, turned around last November and fined Keselowski $25,000 for Tweeting?) Keselowski at 20, she says, is one of the sport's primary demographic markets. And 'social media' is now very big for this sport (more so with the collapse of the U.S. newspaper world, once a communications staple for NASCAR.) -- The new 2013 NASCAR stocker is a major marketing gambit for the sport (coming after six painful years of the disliked car-of-tomorrow, which may be one of the big reasons for the decline in popularity of this sport over that same span). It is being billed as the 'Gen-Six,' an catchy marketing tag. The key is to reestablish brand identity with Detroit, at Detroit's behest it should be pointed out, and coming with Dodge/Chrysler's abrupt withdrawal from the sport. -- Ticket sales at ISC tracks was down five percent in 2012, better than the 10 percent decline for 2011. Analysts point to the continued "lack of spending power" among NASCAR fans as a major worry. On the plus side, Fox' new eight-year contract will be about $2.4 billion over that period, significantly higher than the $1.75 billion Fox is paying under its current eight-year contract. Analysts project that if NASCAR plays negotiations right, the next eight-year TV package overall could jump from today's $4.5 billion (Fox/ESPN/Turner) to more than $6 billion. On a yearly basis, that could pump up the sport's TV income from $560 million today to $750 million in the next period. How about ISC itself? Despite the U.S.' economic mess, ISC has earned $450 million in free cash flow over the last five years; this season the company should generate $65 million (even though some analysts say Kansas' Hollywood Casino is "lagging" expectations). More on the overall positive side: -- This sport has virtually no significant competition in its niche. It is second only to the National Football League in TV numbers. Its events are a prized 'live' commodity. -- Fan interest, at the tracks and on the couches, appears to be stabilizing. On the negative side: -- Hotel prices, typically outrageous for sports weekends, are still all-but unaddressed by the sport. -- Rainouts continue to be a major drag (California's rainout last spring was a classic case); Texas Motor Speedway's Eddie Gossage may have hit upon a logical answer, by offering discounted tickets to the next similar event, in case of rainout. However no one else has jumped on board. -- Downright bad racing, too much follow-the-leader stuff, and no caution periods to bunch up the fields, continues to be a drag. -- No 'star power' any more. This sport's "personalities" have been too often hit by NASCAR penalties and threats of penalties at anyone who dares criticize. The concept of drivers as "too vanilla" has become a major drag on the sport. And that problem has been exacerbated by NASCAR officials themselves by hitting drivers and others with hefty penalties for speaking their minds. To hear the recent reaction from Daytona execs to driver complaints would seem to add to that problem, with the not so subtle threat to drivers just to 'shut up and drive.' -- No great "rivalries" any more. No Petty-versus-Allison, no Allison-versus-Yarborough, no Pearson-versus-Petty, no Earnhardt-versus-the-world. -- TV ratings have steadily declined since 2006, with NASCAR execs only now finally looking to address the issues with something other than platitudes. All that does not bode well for NASCAR's next round of TV contract negotiations....unless the early weeks and months of the 2013 season are jammin'. Tony Stewart. Wonder how this three-time NASCAR champion will take Daytona's new edict to shut up and drive? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) Submitted by Richard Newon on Tue 02/05/2013 - 12:29. Nothing is really being addressed. Let's just take qualifying. That's a wasted day with no one in the stands. Why not do it F1 style? Even Indy car would be an improvement. If they won't address this then they won't deal with anything. F1 was in a similar situation a few years back and they made real changes. Now the ratings are up, The NASCAR suits are blind. Really, NASCAR? Submitted by Fireball Roberts on Tue 02/05/2013 - 20:25. Let me get this straight. We have a rules package for Daytona/Talladega that restricts the engines to where it bunches all 43 cars together (when they aren't riding around intentionally to stay at the back), and it's the driver's faults when the slightest bobble or bonehead move takes out 20+ cars? Instead of shrinking the engines at these tracks or doing something else so that they can run unrestricted and spread out a little, they keep this package because they think the "fans love it". I just want to see the drivers actually be able to race on these tracks, and not have to ride around in a pack for 3 hours because they can't get away even when their car is faster. I hope NASCAR will not throw random caution flags to bunch the field back up because the cars get spread out. It's like ref calling holding several times in football to keep the score closer in the football game when one team is clearly better. Or the umpire deciding that he's going to allow a few batters to walk so the other team can catch up because they are behind. If NASCAR wants to have pre-determined caution flags for breaks, then I'm okay with that. But quit manipulating the races by throwing caution flags when there is no reason to and saying that there is "debris" on the track. Chewing gum is not debris. Anything laying out of the racing groove is not "debris". Let the races play out as they should without any interference from the tower. low attendance Submitted by paul on Tue 02/05/2013 - 22:03. If nascar wants to appeal to the other fans [non jr fans] they need to wake up and smell the gasoline. nascar.com is the very worst at 'everyone loves jr' threads. If they have a article on sponsorship, then its a picture of jr's car. If they have a article like today's brand names being on the windshield of the cars we have a pic of jr's. Every yr nascar.com has to write a article about 'this yr is jr's yr' or 'he has his swagger back' or his hat on backwards or he's his own man now [not quite sure on who he was before? Man, they need mike over there to actually write some good stuff instead of dusting off the yrs before jr thread changing the date and reposting it. Nascar.com has lost it way.They need to fire half those goons over there and hire mike and some other to get that site going again. They need to read this site and see what reporting is all about! State of the Sport? Submitted by Grumpy on Wed 02/06/2013 - 09:04. "...drivers will crash and complain in one race, and then they'll all have almost an informal pact for the next race not to do anything outlandish until the last few laps." "Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass.” ― Dale Earnhardt Nuff' said. bruton smith Submitted by paul watson on Wed 02/06/2013 - 12:50. Seems Bruton and Nascar have again lost their way. Did both forget where Nascar came from, or racing in general? People love racing because they can connect with it. Seeing Richard Petty at a stop light in Charlotte is like seeing the second coming for some. Petty connects with everything racing because he is still one of us. The Wood brothers are the same way. Leonard Wood eats at the Hardees I eat at some on his way to Charlotte. He comes in, sits down and eats his breakfast. He always is as nice as they come. People here don't crowd around the table. He is one of us. Both Jon Wood and Adam Petty raced karts with us. people didn't bug Eddie while he was watching Jon race. Kyle came to Liberty to watch Adam race. Same thing. Some of the Cup drivers come in and run karts with and against us. There is no fan line or autograph because they are one of us. Now I say that to actually say this 'Bruton and Nascar, don't forget your roots. The Woods haven't, and neither have the Pettys. They came from hard work and dedication, in a time when the most money didn't buy the best toys. Tommy Baldwin is a prime example of the Nascar hard work and dedication process. He didn't come from money. He and his team are working hard to be just a blip on Nascar's radar, and building a team when sponsorship is at its worst time in the sport. He is taking old rcr cars and redoing them to try and be competitive. He wasn't at barrett jackson spending millions on his toy collection. He was out trying to hustle enough money to get to show up and try and race. Now for his effort in trying to build a team that can actually have a chance at a top 15 or 20, Bruton and Nascar see fit to dock some of the start and park cars. Yes, some teams do it and make money, but Baldwin is trying, and for that he gets his pay cut if he doesn't have enough to run a whole race that weekend. Nascar, we don't need another formula 1 series, where only the rich elite can compete. That's not the way racers roll and fans alike. You see, Nascar, we are the Woods and Pettys and proud of it. We don't drink wine and dine. We drink pop and beer, and we still cheer for the little man and the underdog like Alan Kulwicki, who took nothing and made a lot. There is a reason the fans are not in the stands, but Bruton and Nascar can't see it. We are the Woods and the Pettys. Nascar, who are you now days? Shut up & Drive Submitted by Earner on Wed 02/06/2013 - 12:59. Drivers not free to speak is choking the sport as most actually are that politically correct pretty boys (silver spoon etc) who would'nt know a wheel bearing from a timing belt.. (excludes Tony & others of the same go Brad)...If I want to see the JJ's & Jeffy's of the world I'll go watch sitcoms where every one ends up happy..As a Note Tandem Racing = No Thanks Driver's blamed! Submitted by jerseygirl on Wed 02/06/2013 - 13:38. Well, I see NASCAR is back to its old tricks. Blame the drivers for the fans not being interested and spending their $, rather than putting the blame where it really should be - directly onto NASCAR and the poor business decisions it has made. Along with the poor TV coverage, NASCAR's refusal to do anything about the ugly car for so many years resulted in a lack of interest from the fans. Let's not forget the chase and the many 10 race trophies won by the 48 team which drove most fans (unless you were a fan of the 48) into the land of "who cares?" which resulted in less eyes on the TV set or at the track. Then you have the high number of snoozer races where it is a 4 hr parade, followed by a trumped up double-file restart or multi-car pile up to "create excitement". Poor TV coverage by all the networks. Fox has the Waltrip Brothers show and even with one of the best PXP guys in Mike Joy, he's not allowed to speak because Waltrip is flapping his gums ALL the time; TNT has - well, I don't know what they are doing because Adam Alexander is the most boring PXP person EVER; and then there is ESPN with it's "scripted broadcasts" and even if there is a race going on and A Bestwick is calling it, the cameras will only stay focused on whoever is "relevant" to the chase. I can't blame the drivers for staying silent, NASCAR has shown a willingness to punish everyone who has a different opinion from their party line. I'm sure if they could find a way to penalize the fans, they would. Instead, the fans have voted with their $ and their remotes. If I had to guess, it isn't spending power that's the issue, it's lack of interest in spending hard earned money on such boring events. We have steadily made the choice to cut back on the number of races we attend - and it is a choice. NASCAR nees to wake up and smell the coffee. I make my choice on how to spend my money based on what I see on the track or on TV, not because of anything a driver or group of drivers say. They could all join hands (and have for heaven's sakes) and sing the praises of the car, the racing, the chase, etc. and since I don't believe it based on my own experience, it's all just smoke and mirrors. plain vanilla Submitted by robert coffey on Wed 02/06/2013 - 15:58. well, nascar /grand am is home of the plain vanilla car!! the daytona prototype killed the grand am series (ugly as hell!!!) as did the COT (shoebox with a driver compartment). guess there just following protocol and making the drivers the same way. yes sir, no sir, keep mouth shut, drive car!!! oh yea, and do it so its entertaining!!! they should have let clint bowyer open up a can of wup ass on gordon last year! now that would be entertainment!!! © 2010-2011 www.mikemulhern.net All rights reserved. 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The South Korean won edged higher after falling in five of the past six sessions, and the Turkish lira is consolidating after yesterday's drubbing. Gold and oil are modestly lower. Contrary to some reports, Japan and South Korea are not engaged in a trade war. Prime Minister Abe requires the new licenses are needed by South Korean companies to purchase three essential materials required for the fabrication of semiconductors and the new screens for mobile phones and tablets. Reports suggest the license may take up to 90-days to process. This is a work slowdown. Japanese producers of materials will suffer, and like the US threatening to cut Huawei out of the updates to the mobile operating systems, it will be a card that can be played one. A consumer boycott against Japanese goods may also be spurred. South Korea must become less dependent on Japan-based inputs and must eye with suspicions those companies that have set-up plants within its country and in China. It is not a trade war between Japan and South Korea, and the US has not triggered a global trade war yet (note too EU's new trade deal with Mercosur and Vietnam), but there are some troubling if arguable, similarities. Japan actions are driven by one man, the move appears likely to hurt its own economy, the use of trade as a weapon to express displeasure at a non-trade issue. Working-level talks between the two countries are expected to be held in Tokyo this week. Japan's labor cash earnings fell 0.2% in May from a year ago. It has fallen every month this year for at an average pace of -0.6%. In the first five months of 2018, it rose at an average pace of 1.0%. Nevertheless, the weakness in labor cash earnings is not the only source of household income, such as bonuses and capital income from stocks. Note that even though Japan has negative interest rates, the dividend yield of Japan's Topix is 2.4% compared with a little less than 1.90% of the S&P 500. In any case, the point that the decline in cash wages has not curbed consumption. Household spending rose 4% in May year-over-year, the strongest pace in four years. The biggest sell-off in Australian stocks in five weeks appears to weigh on the Australian dollar, which is trading near 2.5-week lows. It is the fourth consecutive losing session, losing around 1.5% cumulatively. The next support is seen near $0.6915, though a potential double top suggests near-term potential extends toward $0.6880. Meanwhile, the dollar has taken out last month's high in the yen and is edging closer to formidable resistance near JPY109. There is an $850 mln option struck that that expires today. A break above there would lift the technical tone and suggest the next immediate target of JPY109.60, which is the (50%) retracement of the dollar's loss from the year's high in late April. A potential head and shoulders formation (with a neckline near JPY109) has a measuring objective of near JPY111.00. Sterling may find greater support is an amendment submitted by Grieve is accepted. It would effectively block the threat that the next prime minister, likely Johnson, would facilitate the dissolution of Parliament to push through a no-deal exit. The amendment requires Parliament to be in session on September 4, October 9 and every two weeks until December 16. If the amendment is accepted by the Speaker, a vote could be held later today. The prospect of a no-deal exit, which some try to re-spin as an exit to the WTO, has weighed on sterling. It is the weakest of the major currencies, losing about 4.5% over the past three months. The data calendar is light for Europe today, and the main feature was a disappointing 0.7% decline in Italy's May retail sales. It is the largest monthly decline this year, which has averaged a 0.12% decline. In the first five months of 2018, the average was a gain of the same magnitude. The euro has been pushed through $1.12 for the first time since June 19. A break below $1.1180 warns of a re-test on the year's lows seen in April and May near $1.1100. Ideas that the ECB will ease before or more extensive than the Fed is weighing on the single currency. Resistance is seen in the $1.1220-$1.1240 band. On an intraday basis, the euro is overextended, and early North American dealers may buy back the euro sold yesterday and look to re-set on a bounce today. Sterling is trading at its lowest level since January's flash crash (~$1.2440). Sterling had forged a base near $1.20 in Q4 16 and Q1 17, and there is beginning to be some thoughts of a retest. Meanwhile, the euro-sterling cross continues to be capped near GBP0.9000. Note that the correlation between sterling and the euro (percentage change, rolling 60 days) stands near 0.65, which is twice as high as prevailed for most of Q2. While strategists and analysts are spilling (proverbial) ink over last week's comments by Trump seemingly implicitly threatening intervention, the market seems to have paid it no heed. What is generally not appreciated is that the Federal Reserve's real broad trade-weighted dollar index fell almost 0.9% in H1 19. A greater response may be spurred by Bank of Canada Governor Poloz after tomorrow's meeting. Only two currencies in the world have appreciated more than the Canadian dollar's 4.0% appreciation against the US dollar, the Russian ruble (9.5%) and the Thai baht (5.8%). With most other central banks with easing biases, the Bank of Canada stands out as staying neutral. The risk then maybe for more Canadian dollar appreciation, which theoretically could short the recovery that appears underway as trade and investments picks up some of the slack of the softer household. Poloz could be more tactful that Trump and emphasize the risks to the economy from the global headwinds (slowing world trade, China's attempt to punish Canada for possibly cooperating with the US on extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou). The US JOLTS data is more for economists than traders who may look for hints today of Powell's testimony before Congress over the next two sessions. Powell and Quarles speak today on the stress tests, while regional presidents Bullard and Bostic speak in St. Louis. Canada reports housing starts and permits figures, which are overshadowed by the Bank of Canada meeting tomorrow. Mexico reports June inflation figures, and although a dip back into the central bank's range (below 4%) is expected, price pressures are still seen as too high to give officials the latitude to cut rates. However, the high real and nominal rates are weighing on the economy, and Friday's industrial production report is expected to show that the contraction on a year-over-year basis has extended for the seventh consecutive month. For the past three sessions, the US dollar has carved out a little shelf in the CAD1.3040-CAD1.3050 range. The upper end of the range is seen near CAD1.3150. The daily technical indicators (MACD and Slow Stochastics) suggest the risk in the days ahead is for a stronger US dollar. The US dollar is steadying against the Mexican peso after falling to its lowest level since May 1 yesterday (~MXN18.86). During what we anticipate to be a short consolidation period, the dollar may test resistance now seen near MXN19.10. The Dollar Index consolidated the gains scored in response to the pre-weekend employment data yesterday but is extended the move today by punching through the 97.50 area. The next target is last month's high (97.75-97.80). 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__label__cc	0.722385	0.277615	Business and Administrative studies Level: University Degree Subject: Business and Administrative studies View my saved documents Submit similar document The harmful effects of advertising to children Introduction and Thesis Statement Advertising aimed at children is nothing new - remember "Trix are for kids"? Extracts from this document... Reading, Writing and Retailing: The harmful effects of advertising to children Introduction and Thesis Statement Advertising aimed at children is nothing new-remember "Trix are for kids"? But in today's society, the under-thirteen age group is being seduced into consumer culture in increasingly harmful yet subtle ways. Marketers easily influence children's values by stressing the importance of brand name awareness, which in turn promotes status craze. The theory of conspicuous consumption and the subsequent rise of consumerism can be applied to understand the influence advertising has on young people, and in particular, the creation of "the nag factor". The advertiser, like a parent or teacher, can influence the entire process by which a child learns to establish consumption-related values and aspirations. Like an unseen presence, advertising is always there, invisibly guiding the child in these critical, formative years. Spending billions of dollars a year on products, children are becoming not only the world's greatest consumers but also the world's most targeted individuals for marketing purposes. Marketing to children is an insidious form of advertising as it creates false needs and encourages the culture of consumerism. Kid Consumers Children represent a valuable demographic to marketers because "they have their own purchasing power, they influence their parents' buying decisions and they are the adult consumers of the future" (Media Awareness Network [MAN] "How Marketers Target Kids", 2004). On average, kids between six and fourteen years of age are exposed to an astonishing 40,000 advertisements per year (Strasburger, 2001). Industry spending on advertising to children has increased from $100 million in 1990 to over $2 billion in 2000 (MAN, "How Marketers Target Kids", 2004). This is money well spent in the eyes of the company owners. Each year, Canadian children aged six to eight spend $100 million of their own money, while nine to fourteen year olds spend $1.7 billion. Along with that, those age groups influence almost $15 billion in family purchases each year, from food and toothpaste to cars and cellphones (Reich, 2003). ...read more. Kid's consumer culture "takes an intimate thing-the realization and expression of self-and fuses it with a distant system-the production of goods, services and media in an impersonal market" (Cook, 2001). Since advertising creates and sustains an ideology of consumption, it is a social force that must be analyzed for impact and influence. Consumerism encourages a cult of individualism by focusing on the needs-real or artificial-of the consumer and, in doing so, diverts attention from larger societal concerns. For instance, physical fitness levels are declining as child obesity rates soar. "Boys are sacrificing social skills and school scores in pursuit of manual dexterity with the latest PlayStation, and girls are struggling with the contrast between the fashion industry's definition of beauty and their reflections in the mirror" (Graydon, 2003). Children's culture has become virtually indistinguishable from consumer culture over the course of the last century (Cook, 2001). The cultural marketplace is now an important place for "the formation of the sense of self and of peer relationships, so much so that parents often are stuck between giving into a kid's purchase demands or risking their child becoming an outcast on the playground" (Cook, 2001). Advertisers are fully aware of this and infuse their pitches with messages that prey upon the emotional weaknesses and insecurities of children (Ruskin, 1999). In Ruskin's article, he interviews Nancy Shalek who is the president of an advertising company. She admits that: Advertising at its best is making people feel that without their product, you're a loser. Kids are very sensitive to that. If you tell them to buy something, they are resistant. But if you tell them that they'll be a dork if they don't, you've got their attention. You open up emotional vulnerabilities, and it's very easy to do with kids because they're emotionally vulnerable (1999). Advertising encourages children to overvalue the material world. It sells the belief that happiness lies in possessing and consuming material goods. ...read more. Parents also play a large part in helping their children become media-aware. Parents should talk to their kids about consumerism and encourage them to challenge advertisers' claims about their products. They should spend more time with children, not money for consumer goods. Children should be educated about global consumption, and how the world's resources are distributed very unevenly among the world's population. Above all, children should be taught that happiness, health and self esteem cannot be purchased at a store. Summary It is clear to see that advertising can and does affect children in harmful ways. They learn from what they watch on television, in movies, in video games, and in music videos. However, they are unable to comprehend the insidious tactics employed by marketers. They are sought after by advertisers because of their influence over their parents' money, their willingness to spend their own, and their na�vete about consumer culture. In today's society, children are walking around with images of beautiful homes, designer clothes, electronic gadgets, unlimited toys and fun foods in their minds. However, many of the ideals, dreams and aspirations linked to the sale and advertising of products, contradict the social definition of need as was once understood. When so much of the world is still without electricity or clean drinking water, how important is it to have a DVD player in a minivan so that kids can be entertained on the road? Conclusion and Further Discussion Like Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, much of society is being transformed into the leisure class, where the main idea is to consume and be seen consuming. Ultimately, it is only through education and support from family, teachers and the government, that children will be protected from unhealthy media influences. For further research, both child and family variables could be examined. For example, one could analyze how gender and socioeconomic status affect the relation between advertising exposure, consumerism, and parent-child conflict. The responsibility of governments and the accountability of the media industry itself should also be examined. ...read more. The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our University Degree Marketing section. Found what you're looking for? Start learning 29% faster today 150,000+ documents available Just £6.99 a month Not the one? Search for your essay title... 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__label__wiki	0.62057	0.62057	Filter by APML Subscribe Mega Bears Fan From my mind to your mind. << A long-time survival horror fan's tips for surviving Resident Evil 2 \| How Gathering Storm is changing how I play Civilization VI >> A broken knife in REmake 2 fundamentally breaks a classic game in Video Gaming \| Game Reviews by MegaBearsFan Maintains horror atmosphere and pacing, despite RE4 shooter design Some legitimate "oh shit!" jump scare moments that may or may not have been scripted Seamless exploration Constantly escalating threat Resources feel very scarce Knife is mapped to its own button More believable environments and puzzles Improved inventory management More informative map system WHAT I DON'T LIKE Hardcore doubling as hard mode undercuts the attrition and tension of save system Knife durability can leave player with ZERO damage potential Frequent cheap hits Not enough overlap and interaction between scenarios No chase cam? Can't manually activate flashlight No burning corpses to prevent Crimson Heads? Audio balancing is terrible Cannot stream, share, or capture footage if HDR is enabled Overall Impression : C+ / B- Standard mode is playable, but hardcore is only barely so PC (via Steam), PlayStation 4 < (via retail disc or PSN digital download), XBox One (via retail disc or XBox Live digital download). (< indicates platform I played for review) MSRP: $60 USD Original release date: ESRB Rating: M (for Mature 17+) for: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Player(s): residentevil2.com/ Getting started with this game was rough. First of all, streaming the game initially seemed to be blocked by Capcom, which sent me down an internet rabbit hole of trying to find a work-around. If I couldn't stream or capture gameplay, then it would be awfully hard for me to get decent screenshots -- let alone any video for possible YouTube content. I even Tweeted @AskPlaystation whether I could get a refund, so that I could instead purchase the game on Steam (where I knew I'd be able to record footage). @AskPlaystation never responded. It was moot anyway, since the next day, I found that the problem was only associated with having High Dynamic Range (HDR) enabled in the PS4's settings. After disabling HDR, I was able to stream the game and capture video footage as normal. Of course, the game's colors didn't look so good -- but whatever, I could live with it. I guess this is a glitch. Maybe Capcom will fix the HDR streaming issue at some point in the future? I can't imagine that they deliberately disabled streaming with HDR, but left it enabled when HDR isn't being used. You'll need to disable High Dynamic Range (HDR) on the PS4 if you want to stream REmake 2. But even when I got the streaming and capture functionality working, I lost another night having to troubleshoot my PS4's network connectivity. I kept getting a DNS error. My PS4 has had internet connectivity issues off and on for years, so it might just have a bad network card. Or maybe my ISP is throttling it? It's hard to tell. The console regularly connects to the router and obtains an IP, but then fails to connect to the internet. Or it can connect to the internet, but fails to connect to PSN. After several hours of troubleshooting, I had to manually enter the DNS addresses of my router's second and third DNS as the PS4's primary and secondary DNS, then sign out of the PSN, then boot up the PS4 in safe mode, then run a database rebuild (which took a few minutes), then reconnect to the PSN. That seems to have worked ... for now. We'll see how long the fix lasts... In any case, these streaming and network issues cost me the first full weekend with the game. I'd have to play it on weeknights after work instead. Hopefully the game's quality would make up for these early frustrations... I have adapted much of this review into a video critique on YouTube, if you'd prefer to watch a video. The failure of REmake2's "hardcore" save system Years ago, in the early years of this blog, I wrote an opinion piece called "The Genius of Resident Evil's classic save system". In that blog post, I wrote about how the way in which classic survival horror games (and Resident Evil in particular) limited the player's ability to save actually helped to amplify the horror atmosphere, while simultaneously facilitating open-ended exploration and creating the genre's trademark resource-management gameplay. I love the old Ink Ribbon method of saving, and I was thrilled that the brilliant REmake maintained these old systems to excellent effect. Other games like RE7 and Alien: Isolation also brought back more traditional survival horror save systems, but without the added complexity tying it to a consumable item (at least not by default). Unfortunately, REmake 2's save system doesn't fare so well. By default, the game apparently uses autosaves and checkpoints, and you can manually save at typewriters without an Ink Ribbon. It all works similar to RE7. However, you can play on "hardcore" mode (which is available by default) to get an experience more similar to the original save system. Except, it doesn't work as well. In fact, it seems to be fundamentally broken. It would be nice if the game would use Ink Ribbons from the item box, rather than having to put it in your inventory, then put it back in the item box after you save. Part of the reason for this is that the "hardcore" mode also doubles as the game's "hard" difficulty. On the "hardcore" mode, there are no autosaves or checkpoints, and you must consume an Ink Ribbon to save at the typewriters (just as in the original release). However, enemies also have more health and deal more damage, and resources are more scarce (Ink Ribbons apparently replace ammo pickups in certain places). This screws with the balance of the game such that the manual save system becomes less viable for a first-time playthrough. See, part of what made me like the original save system so much is that it shifted the challenge of the game away from aiming and shooting, and onto more cerebral challenges of resource management, strategic pathfinding, and the puzzles. The enemies were generally slow, easy to avoid, and dealt relatively little damage. Jill, Chris, Leon, and Claire could take three or four bites from a zombie before they would die, and the first Resident Evil had only a two insta-death traps that I can remember, both of which are signposted fairly clearly. Aside from bosses, you would never go from full health to dead in a single encounter or room, as long as you were playing with even a bare minimum of competency and care. RE included herb mixing [LEFT], that incentivized the player to save up green herbs till you find a red herb, and Silent Hill 2 [RIGHT] used your frugality with healing items as a trigger for a depressing ending. Instead, you would take a little bit of damage here and there, and the challenge was derived from having to decide whether a particular monster was worth the bullets it would cost to kill it, when to use the healing items to top off your health, when to retreat to the safety of a safe room, or when to push forward and press your luck. Resident Evil might have become more popular than other games in this genre because it was particularly good in this aspect, since it featured risk / reward nuances like herb mixing, which encouraged you to save up your green herbs until you found red and yellow herbs to mix them with. Do I use a green herb now to bring me from "Danger" to "Caution"? Or should I wait for a red herb, so I can go all the way up to "Fine"? Silent Hill 2 even subverted the desire to conserve healing items into a trigger for one of its genius endings! Thus, the challenge of these games wasn't the combat; it was the management of resources. Difficulty and the fallacy of sunk cost Resource management is not the principle challenge in REmake 2. The game has shifted to a behind-the-back, third-person shooter (a la Resident Evil 4), turning aiming and shooting into the principle challenge. The zombies in REmake 2 shamble and are generally slower and easier to hit than the sludge monsters of RE7, but these zombies are exceptionally good at lunging and biting the player if you get anywhere close to them. If you lack the bullets to take them down, you can't reliably run past them. You may think you have enough room to run by, but you don't! They will lunge and bite you! These zombies are crazy-good at lunging and grabbing you as you try to run past. Because the "hardcore" mode also doubles as the game's "hard" mode, the zombies hit harder, and I die in just two bites from a grunt zombie. This means that every individual encounter can bring me from full health to dead with just a single slip up or two. This wouldn't be so bad if the zombies weren't so uncannily precise at lunging and grabbing the character as I try to run by, and forcing me to take cheap hits if I'm low on ammo. There's actually significantly fewer zombies in this game compared to the original. Rooms that had 5 zombies in the original game, now only have two -- maybe three. But they are so much harder to kill, and virtually impossible to run past unscathed. I don't know, maybe Capcom is expecting me to shoot the zombies once or twice to stagger them, then run past? But ammo is in such short supply that if I spend a single bullet, the fallacy of sunk cost kicks in, and I want to finish the zombie off. This is especially true on "hardcore", where it might take four shots to the leg to knock a zombie down. At that point, you might as well try taking four or five shots at the head and try to take the zombie out permanently! Part of what made the REmake of the first game so successful is the introduction of the Crimson Head mechanic. If you didn't burn a dead zombie's body, it would come back as a faster and more dangerous form. You didn't have enough lighter fuel to burn every zombie, so you had to be judicious about which ones you burned. Because killing a zombie and not being able to burn it was more of a liability, I would use a bullet or two to stagger a zombie and run past in that game. Not so in REmake 2. Why didn't the Crimson Head mechanic return from REmake? The Crimson Heads was a brilliant addition to REmake, so why wasn't it ported into REmake 2? The closest this game gets to a similar mechanic is the ability to use planks to board up windows and prevent more zombies from pouring in later in the game. This, I guess, reinforces the idea that you're in a city that's overrun by zombies, and you can be overwhelmed with them if you aren't careful. Boarding windows is a nice mechanic, but the Crimson Head mechanic is better. Crimson Heads and lighter fluid would have been a better mechanic for "hardcore" mode than simply turning every enemy into a bullet sponge. In any case, the frequent cheap hits and low character health mean that I cannot afford to take a second hit, so I have to top off my health whenever I am able. This completely undermines the element of attrition and strategy that made the original save systems work and allowed it to so effectively build tension over long stretches of the game. The original games (and REmake and RE7) were fairly generous about how much punishment I can take; thus, allowing me a few screwups before killing me. On "Hardcore" mode, even grunt zombies will kill you in 2 bites! REmake2's "hardcore" mode will kill you at the drop of a hat, no matter how carefully you manage your supplies and resources. Then it's back to the last save point for you. That harsh punishment for dying worked well 20 years ago, when you could take a few hits and then decide whether you wanted to risk pushing forward, or retreating to the safety of a safe room, or to backtrack to find more healing supplies. If you got yourself killed and lost an hour or more of progress, that was on you! Dying and losing progress isn't on the player any more in REmake 2. Death doesn't come about as a result of inefficient exploration or poor resource management. It comes because you walked into a hallway with two zombies, missed the headshot, and got bit to death, despite having been at full health when you entered the hall. In the originals, you could take a bit of punishment before dying. Now, players who want that old experience of playing a game of careful, deliberate exploration, logistics, and resource management (an experience that RE7 successfully translated, despite being in first person!) are stuck having to be perfect when it comes to aiming and shooting too. "Hardcore" mode, and the difficulty level should have been two separate settings! I should be able to chose to play the game on the standard difficulty (with zombies having standard health and dealing standard damage), with the Ink Ribbon save system enabled. If, on the other hand, you want to say that "hardcore" mode is supposed to be for repeat playthroughs, well then that completely defeats the purpose of the save system! Having limited saves only builds anxiety and tension if the path ahead is unknown. If you have already beat the game, understand the map, understand the enemies, know when boss fights are coming, know where valuable items and supplies are, and know how to avoid conflicts, then you're under less pressure to save. You know what's coming, so you can plan out when to save in order to optimally use your resources, or create easy points of return if you end up having to save scum. In hindsight, maybe I should have been more harsh on RE7 for its cassette saves. That game unlocked a similar "madhouse" difficulty after you beat the game. That difficulty introduced consumable cassette tapes that were used to save (as a stand-in for Ink Ribbons). A similar complaint can be levied against that game: once you've beat the game, the limited save system is less meaningful (if not completely moot). Both RE7 and REmake 2 do mix things up a bit in a repeat playthrough in order to mess with your sense of security, but I still feel like you'd have too much knowledge of the game for the consumable save items to have the fullest impact. RE7 did have a "madhouse" difficulty that included cassettes as a stand-in for Ink Ribbons. RE7, however, relegated its "madhouse" difficulty to replays only, so it was clear that the standard mode (with checkpoints and autosaves) was the intended way to play. REmake 2 makes its "hardcore" mode available from the start, which muddies which of the two modes is the way that the developers intend you to play. RE7 also has the benefit of being a totally new game (even though it pays homage to the original), so it can get away with changing up its save and checkpoint system more easily. REmake 2 is a remake (d'uh!) of a classic game. That classic game had Ink Ribbon saves as a fundamental component of its design, so the remake should be played with Ink Ribbons as well. Either "hardcore" saving needs to be independent of the difficulty level, or there needs to be a difficulty between standard and "hardcore" that introduces the Ink Ribbons (which also reduces ammo availability), but which doesn't mess much with damage or hit point balances. Kobayashi Maru The real killer here is that even the standard mode is fundamentally broken. Unlike in the previous games (and other good survival horror games), REmake 2 allows you to back yourself into a corner in which it is literally impossible to proceed. If you ran out of ammo in the older RE games, you could always go back and get your knife. Despite the fact that you could blow through all of your ammo and healing items, the original Resident Evil games (and also games like Silent Hill) never allowed the player to put yourself in a position in which it is impossible to damage enemies. Yes, it could be possible (in Resident Evil) to put yourself in a position in which you do not have enough ammo to kill a boss on this particular life, and therefore have to die. But you could always go back to the most recent save, pull the trusty old combat knife out of the item box, and tank the boss with melee. It might be prohibitively difficult to beat a boss with the combat knife, but with enough practice, it was possible. This is not true in REmake 2. The combat knife in this game has a durability meter, and when its durability reaches zero, it breaks and disappears from your inventory. So not only can you run out of bullets in REmake 2, but you can also destroy or lose your knife, which leaves you with zero damage potential. This isn't something that going back to an earlier save can fix. The combat knife in REmake 2 can break, leaving the player with no offensive capabilities at all. I could not get past the first G-Man boss fight in my first playthrough (which happened to be in "hardcore" mode). I went into the fight with only six shotgun shells to my name. My combat knife had long since been lost. And I had only 1 green herb and 1 flashbang. But I still had four Ink Ribbons! My six shotgun shells (combined with the three boxes of handgun bullets, the measly 2 extra shells, and 2 frag grenades found in the G-Man arena) were not enough to get through the boss. I played the fight seven times over two evenings, and could not deal enough damage to finish him off. I tried to conserve all my bullets so that I would only shoot the giant eye, and I threw both frag grenades at him when the eye was exposed. I got him down to critical health (the eye turned red and bloodshot), but ran out of bullets before I could deal the killing blow every time, and did not have access to a knife. No additional ammunition spawns in the arena, and I did not have a melee weapon (or even a punch) with which to deal damage. It was impossible for me to get past this fight. I ran out of ammo before killing G-Man every time. Save-scumming should not be mandatory! Now maybe the 3 boxes of bullets, 2 shotgun shells, and 2 frag grenades found in the arena is actually enough to kill this monster -- if you land a bullseye with every shot and every grenade throw. But I'm not perfect. I don't know anybody who is. Yeah sure, maybe I could have gone back to an earlier save and conserved more ammunition. But that doesn't matter. I shouldn't have to. The game's designers should not have set up the rules so that the player can ever be stuck in a situation in which you cannot defeat an enemy that blocks progress! They should never set up a situation in which you have to save scum. That is a fundamental flaw, and I cannot make excuses for it. Say all you want about how bad the original's save system, tank controls, combat, or voice acting was. At least its designers were smart enough to ensure that the game is beatable. I was stuck. I had to restart the game from the beginning -- this time on the "standard" difficulty and with Claire. My first Leon play was at an impasse, and I had to restart (on standard mode) as Claire. But I had to do so with the realization that, even on standard mode, running out of damage potential is a possibility. Even on standard mode, it is possible to blow through all your ammo, lose or break your knife, and be left with no way to possibly deal damage to the inevitable boss. I mean, you'd have to play extremely terribly in order for this to happen, but it is possible. So be sure to stagger your saves, so that you don't have to restart the whole game! The first REmake separated the regular combat knife from defensive "daggers". This is probably the exact reason why the first REmake had two different knife items: the regular combat knife, and the defensive daggers. By trying to roll both these concepts into one item, Capcom has effectively broken the game. And there's really no way around it. Even if Capcom removes the knife's durability (or allows it to still be used after its durability reaches zero), you could still run into a situation in which you defensively stab it into a zombie, but then don't have the ammo to kill the zombie and recover it. Again, you'd be stuck with no ammo, and no knife, and having zero damage potential. If you don't require players to kill a zombie to retrieve the knife, then the knife would allow you to always escape zombies without taking damage, and would break the game in the opposite direction. Short of giving the characters a punch or pistol whip, I'm not sure if there's any resolution to this conundrum. I would say that the fact that the knife is generally weak, and the fact that it takes up an inventory slot, means that it probably doesn't need durability at all. Maybe instead of using it like the defensive daggers of the first REmake, Capcom could have set up a kind of "parry" or "counter" window with the knife that allows you to stab or slash lunging zombies to push them away with minimal damage to yourself -- and without stabbing the knife into the zombie and losing it from your inventory. You temporarily lose the knife if you stab it defensively. And no, the knife durability, and the need to conserve ammo is not "realistic". In real life, if I run out of ammo and break my knife, I'd throw the gun at G-Man's big squishy eye. Or I'd grab a pipe and try to bludgeon him. I mean, he gets a pipe! Why can't I have one?! Or I'd push him over the railing (which is what happens if you beat him anyway). Or I'd try climbing out of the arena and back to safety. Failing all else, I'd punch, kick, scratch, and claw to preserve my life as long as possible. I wouldn't just give up and say "Welp, I'm out of bullets. Guess you have to just kill me now." The little things it gets right... Armed with the knowledge that the game could be rendered unplayable if I wasn't more judicious with my supplies, how did standard mode turn out? The rest of the game's design is pretty good. Despite shifting away from the static cameras of the original (and of REmake), and utilizing an over-the-shoulder camera similar to Resident Evil 4, REmake 2 maintains the horror atmosphere and more deliberate gameplay of the original. In fact, some masochists might even say it's even more deliberate (and somehow better designed) because you can now back yourself into an unwinnable corner. I do not fall into that camp. Hard is one thing. I'm fine with hard. Impossible is another thing entirely, and that is unacceptable. The knife is mapped to its own button, eliminating a lot of tedious inventory juggling. Even though the knife is the source of the game's single most fundamental flaw, the fact that it is mapped to its own button (even though it still takes up an inventory slot) is an excellent design change that mitigates some otherwise annoying inventory juggling. This is perhaps the single, greatest innovation from Resident Evil 4, and I was disappointed that the first REmake didn't work this way. I even like the idea of the risk/reward element of stabbing the knife into a zombie defensively and temporarily losing access to it. If only the durability issue and lack of alternative melee damage potential didn't undercut these otherwise good ideas... The inventory in general has also been upgraded with multiple ease-of-use improvements. Most notably, you can now combine an item that you pick off the ground with an item already in your inventory, or swap the new item with an old item in your inventory. This means that if your inventory is full, you can still pick up a new item if it's more valuable to you than another item in your inventory. If you're hanging onto a green herb, and you find a red herb, you can immediately combine them, even if your inventory was full before you picked up the red herb. This definitely falls under the category of "It's about damned time!" I was dumbfounded that this simple improvement was not implemented in REmake, so I'm glad to finally see it here. There aren't any decoy items (like the broken shotgun or fake key in REmake), so this feature isn't played to its full potential. You can now immediately mix an item off the ground with an item in your inventory, even if the inventory is full. It's too bad that you can't examine an item before putting it into your inventory. Capcom also didn't bother to remove the annoying Ink Ribbon juggling at item boxes. I love the Ink Ribbons, but I really wish the game would just let me consume an Ink Ribbon directly from an item box if I'm at a typewriter next to an item box. That way, I don't have to waste time pulling the Ink Ribbons out of the item box, saving at the typewriter, then putting them back into the item box, and also remembering to drop them off if I reload the game from that save point. I guess they had to leave some improvements for REmake 3, eh? The map is also improved. Just like in the first REmake, rooms are colored in red if you haven't found every item of interest yet. But this map goes one step further by also using icons to mark the locations of door locks (including which key is needed to unlock it), uncompleted puzzles, and even items that haven't been picked up. Hovering over the icon brings up a tooltip that tells you exactly what the item, puzzle, or lock is, so even if you have a smaller TV and can't read the icons clearly, you'll still know what they mean. This finally brings Resident Evil's maps up to being on par with the brilliant maps of the first four Silent Hill games! Congratulations Capcom! REmake 2's map is on par with the brilliant maps of the original Silent Hill tetralogy. Though, this improved map does create a few minor problems. Just walking by an item or puzzle is enough for it to be marked on your map, so everything in a room gets labeled by simply entering the room and walking (or running) around a bit. Once you realize this, you don't really have to search rooms ever again. It's not like the original games, where you press X to examine every pixel, looking for puzzles, items, or clues. I do wish that the map would require you to interact with something before it labels it on the map. Escalating threat There's also a nice sense of escalating threat throughout the first two-thirds of the game. The unstoppable Tyrant Mr. X got the jump on me a few times before I figured out some of his behavior patterns. In the meantime, however, he provided some of the best jump-out-of-my-seat "Oh Shit!" moments of the entire game -- and maybe even of any horror game I've ever played. His relentless pursuit manages to provide a nice kick in the pants to keep you moving for a large chunk of the middle of the game, and makes exploration much more tense. Mr. X's relentless pursuit lights one heck of a fire under your butt! Mr. X actually [sort of] solves one of the few small hiccups in the first REmake's design: Mr. X block certain routes, and force you to take an alternative route, which may cause you to run through rooms or halls with un-killed zombies, or in which a Licker has since spawned. And with Mr. X bearing down on you, you may not have the time or space to make precision attacks against the enemies in the room. You'll have to improvise! This is something that, even with its Crimson Head mechanic, the first REmake was never able to accomplish. There was no threat or pressure forcing you to take dangerous paths, and you could always take paths that you knew were safe. I also like that the first encounter with a Licker is deferred until later in your exploration of the police station. In the original game, the first Licker is in the first hallway of the police station. REmake 2 teases at the Licker's existence in this same hallway, but you don't actually see or fight one until later on. This helps to build some more anticipation and tension. But then again, the original game also had an extra half-hour or so of exploring the city streets and fighting or running from zombies before you even get to the police station. So maybe it balances out in the end? The first encounter with a Licker is deferred till much later in the police station. Also, you have access to much better weapons by this point, so that first Licker actually ends up being easier to deal with. So ... eh? In general, this game does a fantastic job of building and maintaining tension. Part of that is the severely limited ammunition and health items. Part of it is the legitimately tough enemies. And part of it is a well-constructed atmosphere and sense that threats can come from anywhere, at any time. Scripted, gimmicky jump scares are few and far between, but legitimate "Oh shit!" jump scare moments (which may or may not be scripted) also happen from time to time. All the dumb block-pushing puzzles are gone! In general, the atmosphere is helped by the fact that the environments seem to be less whimsical. This is the opposite of the approach taken in the REmake of the first game, which further "gamified" some rooms and puzzles of the Spencer Mansion. REmake 2 replaces some of the more "game-y" set pieces and puzzles from the original with more believable locks and barriers. Sure, the crests and secret door under the station are still here, but the annoying block or statue-pushing puzzles are gone. ... The little things it gets wrong But these genuine improvements are offset by yet more poor design choices or omissions. These aren't fundamental problems like the save system, difficulty settings, and knife durability, but the are things that I'm surprised weren't caught in play-testing and addressed. Or maybe play-testers did bring them up, but Capcom didn't care? The biggest "small" problem is that, despite all the running away that you're forced to do, there is no chase camera. You can click the right stick to re-center the camera. This is useful, but I'd much rather that holding the right stick in would reverse the camera angle so that I could see the monstrosities that are pursuing me. The inability to easily look over your shoulder is most noticably unbearable during boss fights (which always involve you running around a small, confined space with the boss breathing down your neck), and during the large chunk of the middle of both scenarios in which you're being pursued by Mr. X. There's a lot of other, smaller chase sequences scattered throughout the game as well, and I can't easily see how close the pursuer is or whether I have enough lead to turn around and take a shot. It sure would be nice if I could see the monster that's chasing me! Yes, you can rotate the camera around to see behind you, but doing so is slow and cumbersome. In the tight hallways and claustrophobic rooms, you really don't have the time or space to be maneuvering the camera like that -- especially when dealing with relatively fast-moving enemies like Lickers, G-Man, or Mr. X. The original games' static camera angle generally gave the player a decent view of what's going on around the player character, so these chase sequences were probably a lot easier in the original -- assuming you were decent with the tank controls. The Mr. X sequences are made more frustrating by the fact that I couldn't seem to damage or slow him down at all. I shot him in the face with a grenade, and it didn't seem to phase him at all. In rooms where you need to search for items or solve a puzzle (like the sliding bookcases in the library), the ability to slow him down or stun him would be a godsend. Instead, you have to kite him into areas where you have enough room to get around and behind him (the library is actually a great place for doing this), but that process can be tedious. Even a flame round to the face did not seem to slow down Mr. X. Apparently you can stun him. I reloaded an old save to test it. It takes a lot of bullets or two flame rounds (on standard mode). That's a pretty ridiculous ammo requirement! What was even more annoying was the fact that the game doesn't give me any real indication of where, exactly, Mr. X is. You can hear him stomping around when he's nearby, but there's no indication of where the sound is coming from. Is he on the other side of the wall? On the floor above me? Right around the corner? I don't know. Because of this, I spend an inordinate amount of time hunkered down in the safe room waiting for him to go away. Then I pop open the door, step out, and he pops up from around the corner, so I duck back into the safe room. And once he finally does wander off (because he apparently thinks that I traveled to another part of the police station through the magic portal inside the item box), I only have a minute or two to get anything done before he shows up again. The tension, fear, and apprehension that he creates quickly gives way to annoyance and frustration, since I couldn't get him off my back long enough to get anything meaningful done. On a more technical level, I also found the audio balancing to be a bit off. In the early cutscenes, in particular, it was very hard for me to hear or understand the dialogue, since the dialogue was drowned out by sound effects. I had to reduce the sound and music volume by 50% (leaving voice volume at max), but that didn't even seem to do anything. Do these settings even work? The audio got better as the game went on, and I had an easier time hearing and understanding dialogue during most of the rest of the game. An uncooperative cooperative game? The story itself is also full of cliches and contrivances -- especially where the Sherry character is involved. I also have some minor complaints with some of the game's characterizations and writing. I'm willing to hand-wave those away because: a.) this is Resident Evil, and I'm not here for the quality writing; and b.) I never played through the entirety of the original, so I don't know (or remember) if this is worse writing, better writing, or if it's trying to stay true to original characterizations. That being said, a better-written story is an effective way of pulling the player into the horror, and this game just flat-out doesn't do that. Why exactly are we going to the police station? Why exactly are we staying in the police station after we find out it's overrun with zombies? Why is the little girl locked in a room in which the obvious route of escape is secured by nothing but duct tape? Who is Mr. X, and why is he so determined to kill Leon and Claire? Lazy writing like this doesn't exactly keep me invested in the story or the characters. Leon and Claire don't interact at all, except for one brief (awkwardly flirty) conversation. I was also disappointed that there wasn't more interaction between Leon and Claire. They meet at the beginning of the game (and talk as if they're old chums), then they meet up one more time mid-way through the police station (and Claire gets awkwardly flirty), and then they don't see any trace of each other at all until the very end of the game. I never played through the entirety of the original games -- I think I escaped the police station in Leon's A scenario and got eaten by an angry sewer alligator, but that was as far as I got -- so I can't be sure if this lack of interaction is a case of the remake sticking too close to the original game, or if Capcom actually took some interaction between the characters out. I was expecting more interaction between Leon and Claire. I know this is a survival horror game, and that whole genre usually works best by creating and maintaining a sense of isolation and claustrophobia. Having a companion negates those feelings. But at the same time, giving you a helpful companion, and then taking that companion away can also create a feeling of isolation and helplessness. Having to part with your hard-earned supplies to give them to the other character would also be a great way of making the player feel dis-empowered. I was hoping to see Leon and Claire meet up more often, and have more distinct scenarios. Each character has a unique side quest for most of the middle of the game, but then their scenarios converge again. Other than that, both characters' scenarios follow virtually the same path. They both explore the entirety of the police station, solve the same puzzles, and end up in the same lab. In fact, up until the first boss encounter with the G-Man, their scenarios are virtually identical! There's even a bit of discontinuity, as several occasions in the B scenario requires you to re-solve a puzzle that the other character should have already solved in the A scenario. I expected that characters would be meeting up more often and handing off equipment and weapons to each other. I expected supplies left behind by one character to be accessible to the other character. I expected that each character would explore areas of the police station and town that the other never even sees. I expected them to maybe cooperate to solve a few puzzles, or maybe even bail each other out of a life-threatening situation (a la "Jill-sandwhich"). I expected there to be more exploration of the city. I expected that the Crimson Head mechanic would return in some form, such that zombies that aren't bunt in scenario A show up as Crimson Heads in scenario B. None of that happens. I wish there was more gameplay out in the city streets. Heck, I was expecting that we might see some clever and creative co-op multiplayer mode, in which two players play each character's scenario in parallel. You'd meet up for some critical plot points, puzzles, or boss fights, but would otherwise be completely isolated from each other (unlike Resident Evil 5, where you play the whole game together). But decisions that one player makes would affect the other. Like if I kill some zombies in an area that the other player will visit later, those zombies are dead when they get there (or they turned in to Crimson Heads because I neglected to burn them). Or weapons or supplies that I don't pick up would be available to the other player. Or if I make some loud noise in one part of the map, it might lure Lickers and Mr. X away from other parts of the map, which may free up the other player to more freely explore without those threats. Stuff like that. Capcom would have to come up with some clever way of handling the death of one player or the other (would it send both players back to the last checkpoint or save game?). They'd have to come up with some system for gating one player's progress while waiting for the other player to catch up. Maybe the leading player can watch the other player through security cameras, and maybe even give them hints over an intercom? There would have to be some drop-in / drop-out mechanic, and an A.I. to play the other character if no human player is available or willing. But it could all be doable with a little creativity and a solid creative vision. Resident Evil 5 did most of this stuff almost ten years ago! And games like Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne have completely redefined how multiplayer games can work. Heck, even Dead Space 3 (as bad as it was) had some interesting ideas for asymmetrical multiplayer (even though the experience was completely synchronous). Being able to play REmake 2 together with a friend would have been welcome. I was surprised there isn't some kind of indirect multiplayer campaign. A classic marred by poor design choices After beating Claire's A scenario on the standard mode, I tried Leon's B scenario on "hardcore". I thought that maybe, now that I was familiar with the game and better understood how "hardcore" works, I would enjoy it more and could forgive Capcom for frustrating me so much earlier. The game completely skips over Leon wandering through the streets to get to the police station and begins with the awkwardly flirty scene of Leon and Claire meeting through the gate after the helicopter crash. When that cutscene is over, the game gives you control within arms' reach of a zombie. If you do not immediately b-line away, you'll get grabbed. So it looks like the B scenario is going to continue the trend of doling out cheap hits. After letting the zombies kill me so that I could restart and try to get through this opening segment without damage, I found the early exploration of the police station to be problematic. There were zombies in every direction that I went, with the narrow corridors making it virtually impossible to run past them unless I could first kite them into a more open area. To make matters worse, Mr. X is introduced almost right away as being already somewhere in the building. It was certainly tense! Leon's B scenario gave me control with Leon already in arms' reach of a zombie. Knowing that I couldn't waste a single bullet, and that I had to preserve my knife's durability so that it would be available for any future boss fight -- but not knowing how many spare bullets I would need to save -- I found myself feeling paralyzed, and unwilling (or unable) to even use the resources that I did have at my disposal. My problem isn't that the game is hard. My problem is that the design constraints make the difficulty feel artificial. The moment that I started feeling compelled to use cheese tactics (like popping in and out of a safe room to reset the aggro of zombies in the adjoining hall), I realized that I almost certainly was not going to enjoy this "hardcore" playthrough any more than I enjoyed the first one that I had to abandon. But I powered through. I did a little save-scumming to experiment with routes and weapon efficacies -- which I probably should have done from the start, but it honestly never occurred to me that headshots weren't worth more damage until after I had completed Claire's standard scenario. I cleared out the zombies in the hallway outside the Dark Room, but avoided shooting any other zombies (except to take the legs out of one zombie at the top of the third floor stairs). And I was able to beat the first boss encounter and progress beyond that first blocking point. It cost me 40 bullets, 10 shotgun shells, 2 grenades, and a flashbang (way more than what was provided in the arena!), but I did it. It pains me to have to give this game a grade any lower than an A. After how well REmake and RE7 turned out, I was expecting to be blown away by this game. It's a good game, but the bungling of "hardcore" mode and the fundamental design flaw of the knife's durability are inexcusably poor design decisions that I just cannot let slide. b46ccf26-8b91-4d4c-8bea-6508764790d3\|6\|2.0 Tags:Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, remake, Resident Evil 4, Capcom, Sony, PlayStation 4, Steam, PC, Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, zombie, fallacy of sunk cost, autosave, save system, ink ribbon, typewriter, Mr. X, Tyrant, YouTube Other Game Reviews I've Published on Mega Bears Fan Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs Among the Sleep Axis Football 18 Axis Football 2019 Back to the Future Episode One Backbreaker Football Bloodborne: the Old Hunters Call of Duty World War II Cities Skylines: After Dark Cities Skylines: Campus Cities Skylines: Green Cities Cities Skylines: Industries Cities Skylines: Mass Transit Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters Cities Skylines: Parklife Cities Skylines: Snowfall Cities: Skylines: Match Day & ver. 1.4 CitiesXL & Cities XXL Dark Souls Artorias of the Abyss DLC Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel Dark Souls III: the Ringed City DmC (Devil May Cry) F.T.L. 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Maybe it would have been better if the knife was indestructible, but you could still lose it during a bout of self-defense. But I also think that if you're having to rely on a knife in a boss fight, you've backed yourself into a corner too deep to get out of. And that's not the fault of the game's design. Also, I think it's completely the point that Mr. X. is hard to stop. It would take a lot away from the game if he could be stunned more easily, and once you figure him out, he's quite manageable. It's all about that initial shock, and seeing your weapons fail against him, that make him so intimidating on your first scenario or two. I can agree with some of your points - there could be a bit more variation in the scenarios, there are some contrivances to the plot, there are some cheap hits, and the ink ribbon saves should have been an option apart from difficulty. 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__label__wiki	0.741412	0.741412	Home \| About us \| Editorial board \| Search \| Early Online \| Current issue \| Archives\| Submit article \| Instructions \| Subscribe \| Advertise \| Contact us \| Login Correlation of cytomorphological patterns and acid-fast Bacilli positivity in tuberculous lymphadenitis in a rural population of southern India Suresh Masilamani, P Arul, C Akshatha Department of Pathology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital, Siruvachur, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, India Date of Web Publication 28-Sep-2015 Dr. P Arul Department of Pathology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital, Siruvachur, Perambalur - 621 113, Tamil Nadu Background: One of the most common causes of lymphadenopathy in India is tuberculosis. It can be diagnosed by a minimally invasive procedure known as fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), and thereby unnecessary surgical interventions are avoided. Aim: This study was undertaken to evaluate cytomorphological patterns of tuberculous lymphadenitis including human immunodeficiency virus-positive cases, to correlate the acid-fast Bacilli (AFB) positivity with cytomorphological patterns and also to find out overall AFB positivity. Materials and Methods: In this study, a total of 212 cases of cytologically proven tuberculous lymphadenitis were retrieved and analyzed retrospectively between March 2012 and March 2015 for three different cytomorphological patterns (epithelioid granuloma without necrosis [pattern A], epithelioid granuloma with necrosis [pattern B], and necrosis without epithelioid granuloma [pattern C]) and bacillary loads on Ziehl-Neelsen stain (ZN) for AFB. Results: Pattern A through C was observed in 40 (18.9%), 102 (48.1%), and 70 (33%) cases, respectively. AFB positivity was found in 2 (5%) cases of pattern A, 62 (60.8%) cases of pattern B, and 54 (77.1%) cases of pattern C. The highest percentage of AFB positivity (64.7%) was observed in aspirate containing purulent/pus and caseous/cheesy material. The overall AFB positivity was seen in 55.7% (118/212) cases. On grading of AFB positivity, Grade 1+ was observed in 29.7%, Grade 2+ was observed in 28.8%, and Grade 3+ was observed in 41.5% cases. Conclusion: FNAC is a sensitive, simple, convenient, safe, minimally invasive procedure to diagnose tuberculous lymphadenitis. Study of both cytomorphological patterns and ZN staining for AFB can improve the diagnostic yield. Regardless of the presence of granuloma, ZN stain must be employed whenever infective pathology is suspected. Keywords: Cytomorphological patterns, fine needle aspiration cytology, tuberculous lymphadenitis, Ziehl-Neelsen stain Masilamani S, Arul P, Akshatha C. Correlation of cytomorphological patterns and acid-fast Bacilli positivity in tuberculous lymphadenitis in a rural population of southern India. J Nat Sc Biol Med 2015;6, Suppl S1:134-8 Masilamani S, Arul P, Akshatha C. Correlation of cytomorphological patterns and acid-fast Bacilli positivity in tuberculous lymphadenitis in a rural population of southern India. J Nat Sc Biol Med [serial online] 2015 [cited 2020 Jan 19];6, Suppl S1:134-8. Available from: http://www.jnsbm.org/text.asp?2015/6/3/134/166121 Tuberculosis (TB) is thought to be one of the oldest human diseases and the history is almost as old as mankind. [1] The European kings of the middle ages imparted the royal touch to cure the "King's evil" to which mycobacterial lymphadenitis referred. [2] India has the highest TB burden accounting for one-fifth of the global incidence and nearly 40% of the Indian population is infected with the TB bacillus. [3] Since the mid-1980s, both in developing and developed countries, there is increasing incidence of extrapulmonary TB has been noted. [4] In India, extrapulmonary TB accounting 20% of all TB cases and its prevalence in the country varies between 8.3% and 13.1% in different districts according to cohort analysis by the Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2002. [5] In India and other developing countries, TB lymphadenitis is the most common form of extrapulmonary TB and it comprises 35% of cases. [6] Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is associated with an increased frequency of both pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB especially lymphadenitis. [7],[8] TB lymphadenitis is usually more common in females and in younger age groups in contrast to pulmonary TB which is more common in males and in the older age group and a peak age of onset of 20-40 years. [9],[10] There are various diagnostic modalities available for the diagnosis of TB lymphadenitis viz fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), histopathological examination excised lymph nodes, culture, Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining for acid fast Bacilli (AFB), imaging studies, and molecular tests. Even though culture is considered as gold standard for the diagnosis, FNAC to be used as the initial diagnostic test in suspected cases of TB as it has excellent sensitivity and specificity, and also it is a simple and less expensive outpatient diagnostic procedure. [11] The present study was undertaken to evaluate cytomorphological patterns of tuberculous lymphadenitis including HIV/AIDS positive cases, to correlate the AFB positivity with cytomorphological patterns and also to find out overall AFB positivity. Overview of study design The present retrospective study was undertaken at Department of Pathology in our institution, a tertiary care center, conducted over the period of 3 years from March 2012 to March 2015, after obtaining approval from the Institutional Ethical Committee. A total of 212 cases with cytologically proven tuberculous lymphadenitis were included in the present study. Patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial infections such as mycobacterium scrofulaceum, mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex and mycobacterium kansasii, Pulmonary Koch's, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination causing lymphadenitis, and periodic acid-schiff positive organisms in FNAC smears were also excluded from this study. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections were excluded by identification of only microabscesses, ill-defined granulomas, noncaseating granulomas and a small numbers of giant cells, [12] and Pulmonary Koch's, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination causing lymphadenitis were excluded by detailed clinical history collected from medical records. Clinical data such as site of aspiration, number lymph nodes involved, nature of aspirates (blood mixed material, purulent/pus, caseous, or cheesy) were obtained from patient medical records. Cytological evaluation May-Grunwald Giemsa and Hematoxylin and Eosin stained smears were studied for pattern analysis. According to the Das et al. study, [13] cytology smears revealing cytomorphological features of tuberculous lymphadenitis were grouped into three categories: Pattern A: Epithelioid granuloma without necrosis [Figure 1]a, pattern B: Epithelioid granuloma with necrosis [Figure 1]b, and pattern C: Necrosis without epithelioid granuloma [Figure 1]c. Figure 1: (a) Pattern A: Epithelioid granuloma without necrosis (May-Grunwald Giemsa, ×400). (b) Pattern B: Epithelioid granuloma with necrosis (H and E, ×400). (c) Pattern C: Necrosis without epithelioid granuloma (May-Grunwald Giemsa, ×400). (d) Grade 3+ acid fast Bacilli positivity (Ziehl-Neelsen, ×1000) ZN stained smears were used for screening of AFB and grading. These positive smears were categorized into three grades; 1+: Smears with occasional Bacilli, 2+: Smears with singly scattered AFB, 3+: Smears with a large number of Bacilli arranged in bundles detected under ×10 [Figure 1]d. [14] All the statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows (version 20.0, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York, USA). Correlation between various cytomorphological patterns and AFB positivity was assessed using Chi-square test. The P ≤ 0.05 was considered for statistical significance. Out of 212 cases, 118 were AFB positive cases and remaining 94 was AFB negative, but showed cytological features of tuberculous lymphadenitis. Site and number of lymph node involvement In the present study, the most common site of involved lymph nodes was cervical lymph nodes in 206 (97.2%) followed by axillary lymph nodes in 4 (1.9%) and inguinal lymph nodes in 2 (0.9%) cases. The most common presentation was single palpable cervical lymphadenopathy in 177 (83.5%) cases followed by multiple unilateral palpable cervical lymphadenopathy in 31 (14.6%) and multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy in 4 (1.9%) cases. Nature of aspirate On the basis of appearance of aspirate, blood mixed aspirate were noted more commonly in 179 (84.4%) cases followed by purulent/pus material in 26 (12.3%) cases and caseous or cheesy material in 7 (3.3%) cases. Blood mixed aspirate was predominantly seen in pattern A and B and purulent/pus and caseous or cheesy material were predominantly seen in pattern C. Cytomorphological pattern, acid-fast Bacilli positivity and grading Of these 212 cases, pattern A was observed in 40 (18.9%) cases, pattern B was observed in 102 (48.1%) cases, and pattern C was observed in 70 (33%) cases. AFB positivity was found in 2 (5%) cases of pattern A, 62 (60.8%) cases of pattern B, and 54 (77.1%) cases of pattern C. The highest percentage of AFB positivity (64.7%) was observed in aspirate containing purulent/pus and caseous/cheesy material. The overall AFB positivity was seen in 55.7% (118/212) cases. On grading of AFB positivity, Grade 1+ observed in 29.7%, Grade 2+ observed in 28.8% 2, and Grade 3+ observed in 41.5% cases. HIV positive cases of 10 were included in this study. All the HIV-positive cases showed pattern C and Grade 3+ AFB positivity. The present study showed significant statistical difference between AFB positivity and cytomorphological patterns (P < 0.0001). On clinical examination, cervical lymph nodes (97.2%) were more commonly involved and inguinal lymph nodes were least commonly involved in the present study similar to most of the recently published studies. [15],[16],[17],[18] This is because, the organism usually gains access to the cervical lymph nodes through the tonsillar lymphoid tissue. In this study, most common presentation was single palpable cervical lymphadenopathy in 83.5% cases comparable to Chand et al. (81.6%) study, [16] and higher than Nidhi et al. (63.3%) study. [15] We observed multiple unilateral palpable cervical lymphadenopathy in 14.6% cases and multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy in 1.9% cases, which were almost comparable to Nidhi et al. study. [15] Due to various initiatives by governmental and nongovernmental agencies, the awareness regarding TB has been increased. This might explain the high number of cases presenting with single lymph node enlargement. According to gross nature of aspirate, blood mixed aspirates were noted in 84.4% followed by purulent/pus material in 12.3% and caseous or cheesy material in 3.3% cases in the current study, whereas, Hemalatha et al.[19] observed blood mixed aspirates in 87.3% and purulent to cheesy materials in 12.7% cases. Pattern A and B were predominantly observed in blood mixed aspirate, whereas pattern C was predominantly observed in purulent/pus and caseous or cheesy aspirates in the present study similar to Hemalatha et al. study. [19] Cytomorphological pictures of tuberculous lymphadenitis was described by various authors with minor modifications with different names viz patterns or category. [19],[20] We described cytomorphological pictures in our study as patterns. In our study, most common cytomorphological pattern observed was pattern B (48.1%) similar to Hemalatha et al. and Gupta et al. studies, [19],[21] and it was higher than studies done by Nidhi et al., [15] and Chand et al.[16] (16.4% and 21.8%, respectively). In the current study, pattern C and pattern A were noted in 33% and 18.9% cases, respectively. This findings were comparable to studies done by Nidhi et al. and Hemalatha et al. [15],[19] The formation of granuloma is dependent on a fairly good immune system within the host. In immunocompromised situations, the immunological interplay between lymphocytes, macrophages, the organism, and various interleukins/cytokines may not be efficient to result in granuloma formation. Hence, when AFB positivity is observed without granuloma formation, other comorbid immunodeficient states should be thought of. Similar to few Indian studies, [13],[15],[19] we observed more number of AFB positivity in pattern C (77.1%) followed by pattern B (60.8%) in the current study. Pattern A showed 5% AFB positivity in our study, whereas Nidhi et al.[15] and Chand et al.[16] studies noted 3.25% and 2.56% AFB positivity, respectively. We found maximum percentage of AFB positivity (64.7%) in aspirate containing purulent/pus and caseous/cheesy material similar to studies done by various authors. [15],[19],[22] If the purulent material is aspirated, slides should be stained for ZN staining to rule out tuberculous lymphadenitis, because it can mimic as acute suppurative lesions. [19] The present study showed overall AFB positivity in 55.7% cases comparable to most of the published studies, [16],[17],[19] and lower than Nidhi et al.[15] and Ergete and Bekele [20] studies. Varying AFB positivity has been found by many authors ranging from 35.6% to 55.2%. [19] Slides can be decolorized for ZN staining if cytological features of TB and necrosis present; this may increase the AFB positivity. [15] Yield of AFB positivity can be further increased by doing repeat FNAC of a lymph node. [23] Clinical correlation and microbiological assessment should be done in AFB negative cases showing only epithelioid granulomas without necrosis. Microbiological assessment is necessary in AFB negative cases to confirm the diagnosis of TB as approximately 10,000-100,000 mycobacterial organism/ml of the sample should be present for smear AFB positivity. [15] In the present study, all the HIV positive cases (n = 10) showed pattern C with Grade 3+ AFB positivity, whereas Hemalatha et al. study, [19] included 4 HIV positive cases, of theses 3 cases showed numerous macrophages with 3+ AFB positivity and 1 case showed pattern B with 1+ AFB positivity. On grading of AFB positivity, 29.7% cases showed Grade 1+, 28.8% cases showed Grade 2+, and 41.5% cases showed Grade 3+ positivity in the present study. Hence, it can be argued that the bacterial load in the rural population affected by TB seems to be high. There was significant statistical difference between AFB positivity and cytomorphological patterns (P < 0.0001) similar to Hemalatha et al. study. [19] Comparison of patterns of tuberculous lymphadenitis and overall AFB positivity in the present study with other studies is shown in [Table 1]. Table 1: Comparison of patterns of tuberculous lymphadenitis and overall AFB positivity in the present study with other studies FNAC is a sensitive, simple, convenient, safe, minimally invasive procedure to diagnose tuberculous lymphadenitis. Study of both cytomorphological patterns and ZN staining for AFB can improve the diagnostic yield. 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__label__cc	0.502767	0.497233	John Hemmer Archive Screenings & Downloads Meet John Hemmer Meet the Entertainers The History of an Era Posts tagged oral histories Remembering Manhattan nightclubs Over the years the New York City area has had its fill of nightclubs and supper clubs. Brooklyn had Ben Maksik’s Town and Country. By the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey was Bill Miller’s Riviera. There was the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. The Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel and the Maisonette at… continue reading › Category: 1940s 1950s 1960s Lou Walters' World Famous Latin Quarter Midcentury Nightclub Era Oral Histories Performing Arts Tags: Ben Maksik’s Town and Country, Bill Miller’s Riviera, Copacabana, cultural history, dance, Hawaiian Room, latin quarter, Lou Walters' World Famous Latin Quarter, Maisonette, Manhattan, New York City, New York City history, nightcub era, oral histories, performing arts, Persian Room, St. Regis, Stork Club, Teak Lewis, The Plaza Hotel, variety acts, Versailles, Waldorf Astoria Broadway history Lou Walters World Famous Latin Quarter Lou Walters' World Famous Latin Quarter New York history Nightclub Era The History of An Era is part of a more expansive project that is John Hemmer Archive. The seed of the archive is the story of singer/performer, John Hemmer, his community and collection of memorabilia. He and his cohort entertained during the midcentury nightclub era in New York City and beyond. The project centers around a documentary, John Hemmer & the Showgirls and additional documentation of performer experiences. These recollections are captured in the film, oral history videos, the digitizing and cataloging of personal materials and written articles. These histories are also expressed through live panel discussions taking place at libraries, museums and festivals. The John Hemmer Archive seeks to become part of a formal institutional collection. Its mission is to make available to future generations, the opportunity to learn and celebrate mid-20th century live entertainment and the performers who delighted thousands of patrons before popular culture changed the nightlife society landscape forever. Clips Gallery on Vimeo © 2020 Kirstenstudio, LLC. 76 queries in 0.721 seconds. http://www.johnhemmerarchive.org/feed/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line633
__label__wiki	0.500501	0.500501	HomeAbout UsContact Us David Kakabadze BiographyGallerytexts on art Kirill Zdanevich BiographyGalleryArticlesAutobiography Sigizmund Valishevsky BiographyGalleryArticles Ilya Zdanevich BiographyGalleryArticlesPoemsLetters Lado Gudiashvili Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi BiographyGallery Micheil Chiaureli Dimitri Shevardnadze Alexander Bajbeuk-Melikian Alexander Shervashidze Beno Gordeziani Irakli Gamrekeli Shalva Kikodze BiographyGalleryLetters Petre Otskheli Ketevan Magalashvili Micheil Gotsiridze Irina Stenberg Klara Kvess Emma Lalaeva Avant-garde booksPostersManifestsJournals/Newspapers Literary magazine "Golden Fleece", 1913 NN 1-5Literary magazine "Tsinsvlis Emblema" (“Emblem of Headway”), 1918 N2 H2SO4 editionsTbilisi Artistic Cafes About KimerioniArgonaut's Boat Heritage and modernism About the heritageIliazd and Georgian Heritage Books, letters, lectures Kakabadze PhotosLado Gudiashvili sketchesAbout Niko Pirosmanashvili Texts about Art Visual historiesCinema/SoundHow and when was done with georgian modernismBibliography Home Modernists Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi Biography Valerian Sidamon Eristavi Modernist artist, graphic artist, caricaturist, art director and stage designer. He was born in Kvareli, Georgia in 1889. In 1909-1915 he studies at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1915 he returns to Georgia. In 1915-1916 he collaborates with the newspaper “Sakartvelo” which is published under the editorship of S. Shanshiashvili, creates caricatures and sketches on everyday-life and allegorical themes. At the same time he works in the sphere of book design as well. In 1917 he travels in Erzrum and creates the sketches of types and everyday scenes. During these years Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi creates the paintings of historical genre - “Queen Tamar” (1917), “Krtsanisi Battle” (1919), “Erekle II Battle with the Lezghins” (19921-22), etc. and continues this way the thematic traditions of the Georgian painting at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. It is remarked that his paintings come close to the Russian historical painting of the same period. However, the contextual difference is obvious: unlike the Russian one he has no intention to reflect social conflict on one hand, and on the other hand his creative works are not based upon the ambition of the religious or national glorification. With Sidamon-Eristavi the context is overtly national-historical which might be connected with the lost state independence of the country and the process of historical and cultural-self-identity under the circumstances of new European orientation. According to the artistic point of view his paintings during these years are the bearers of postimpressionist and fauvist features. Sidamon-Eristavi is the best portraitist. IN the 1920es his paintings are expressionist, often too dramatic, even tragic, and metaphorical, or utterly grotesque – “Attack of the Red Cavalry”, 1921; “Children in the Garden”, 1920es; “Red Sowers”, 1920es; “Old Tbilisi. A Militiaman”; 1930es. The expressionist grotesque of his is revealed in the art design of the film “My Grandmother”. Though Irakli Gamrekeli’s function in this film is the special-constructional arrangement of a still image, it is the types of Sidamon-Eristavi that create the acute grotesque. He works in the Georgian theatre and cinematography and collaborates with Kote Marjanishvili. In 1922 he designs the following performances at the Rustaveli Theatre: “The Sheep’s Spring”, “The Sun Eclipse in Georgia”. In 1923 he is the designer of the first stage production of Paliashvili’s opera “Daisi” (“The Sunset”) at the Opera and Ballet House in Tbilisi while in 1924 – of the Arakishvili’s opera “Shota Rustaveli”. From 1922 to 1935 he works as an art director. He is the art director of about 35 films including Amo Bek-Nazarov’s film “Patricide” (1923); Kote Marjanishvili’s films “The Gadfly” (1928) and “The Communard’s Pipe” (1928); Kote Mikaberidze’s film “My Grandmother” – together with Irakli Gamrekeli (1929); Mikheil Chiaureli’s “The Last Masquerade” (1934). From the second half of the 1930es he is mostly engaged in humble pedagogical activities. He died in 1943.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line635
__label__wiki	0.775462	0.775462	2016 UDFA Patriots Draft Resources 2015 Patriots Draft Contacts 2015 Patriots NFL Draft Picks 2014 Patriots Draft Picks NFL Draft Trade Value Chart Draft Sites Network NEPD on FB Follow NEPD on Twitter About NEPD « Open Thread: Patriots Training Camp New England Patriots at Philadelphia Eagles: Preseason Week 1 Observations » New England Patriots at Philadelphia Eagles: Ten Keys to Preseason Week 1 Rookie tight end Zach Sudfeld has impressed onlookers thus far; will he continue to do so tonight? (Photo: US Presswire) NEPD Editor: Matthew Jones The New England Patriots begin the preseason tonight with an exhibition against Chip Kelly’s Philadelphia Eagles; read on for ten keys to the preseason opener. 1. How will the overall offensive tempo affect defensive performance? One of the most intriguing elements of New England’s preseason opener at Philadelphia is how both defensive units will handle what should ultimately be the two fastest offenses in the league in terms of game tempo. In 2012, New England led the league in plays from scrimmage (1,191), while Philadelphia ranked sixth (1,079 snaps) and figure to finish even higher in 2013 as a consequence of hiring former Oregon Ducks head coach Chip Kelly to succeed Andy Reid. To date, the biggest mystery regarding Kelly’s initial pro campaign has been how he will adapt his collegiate offense to meet the demands of the pro game, as the Ducks were wildly successful over the course of Kelly’s tenure as head coach by utilizing a blazing no-huddle which prized snap volume but which most closely resembles New England’s more pro-style no-huddle. Although Kelly appears willing to deviate from the specific details of his Ducks offense, it appears to be a safe bet that his overall football philosophy will manifest itself via a more pro-style scheme which nonetheless retains the same underlying principles which have made him such a prized commodity. That figures to limit the variety of personnel groupings possible on defense as well as challenge New England’s defensive communication. 2. How much have New England’s backup quarterbacks developed? Patriots fans are already well-acquainted with Tom Brady, but how New England’s other quarterbacks perform will be one of the most-scrutinized aspects of the game, with both Ryan Mallett and Tim Tebow projected to receive significant playing time. For Mallett, the preseason is his most substantial opportunity to convince teams that he represents a legitimate starting option at the pro level, while Tebow is fighting to make the roster at this point and needs to show that his ability to conduct both pre-and-post-snap reads has developed to the point where he is not a complete liability at the position. Mallett figures to work as New England’s second-team quarterback, where his best opportunity to increase his value is by showing tighter footwork and, in what could perhaps be considered a byproduct of that, improved accuracy. Some speculation has centered around whether Tebow will be worked into New England’s offense in any ways other than as a traditional quarterback, although it seems unlikely that the Patriots will ruin any potential surprises by employing Tebow in an unorthodox manner during the preseason. For now, the team may be better served by exploring his skills as a passer. 3. How will New England’s new receiving corps perform? Among all of New England’s personnel groupings, the wide receiver position is probably the most fluid at this point, with eight players possessing a realistic chance at earning one of the five or six spots available on the final roster: Kamar Aiken, Danny Amendola, Josh Boyce, Aaron Dobson, Julian Edelman, Michael Jenkins, Matthew Slater, and Kenbrell Thompkins. At this point, it would come as a surprise if Amendola (due to New England’s $28.5 million investment in him back in March), Dobson (a 2013 second-round pick), Boyce (a 2013 fourth-round pick), or Slater (New England’s special teams captain) were left off the roster. Therefore, the final spot or two will be pursued by Aiken, Edelman, Jenkins, and Thompkins. Thus far in training camp, Thompkins, an undrafted free agent, appears to have the inside track on a roster spot, while Edelman’s versatility on offense as well as on special teams could push him ahead of a strict receiving option such as Jenkins or a strict special teams option such as Aiken. However, the preseason should be a factor in dictating not only the players on the final roster, but also New England’s depth chart at the position, which remains unresolved as well. 4. What will New England’s offensive personnel groupings look like? Without Rob Gronkowski or Aaron Hernandez, it remains to be seen how the Patriots will operate offensively. It’s possible that the team’s two-tight end sets will remain with different personnel, in which case the offense should be stylistically similar,if not as efficient. Among the players currently on roster, undrafted free agent Zach Sudfeld has drawn the most praise for his work during practice; at this point, he appears likely to make the final roster and could even end up as a starter thanks to his comparatively superior athleticism. Daniel Fells and Michael Hoomanawanui return from last season, while Jake Ballard, claimed last year when subjected to waivers by the New York Giants, intrigues for the receiving acumen he displayed before undergoing serious knee surgeries (ACL reconstruction and microfracture surgery.) Brandon Ford also possesses an outside shot at a roster spot. If the Patriots opt to get as many of their most appealing weapons onto the field as possible, however, we could see a variety of three-receiver sets, in which New England floods the field with receiving options. This may ultimately be the case, as the most salient characteristic of New England’s offensive philosophy under Bill Belichick has been a willingness to adapt the team’s schemes to best take advantage of personnel. Keep in mind that New England did not become heavily reliant on two-tight end formations until Gronkowski and Hernandez originally joined the team, so there may not be a significant inclination towards those particular offensive looks. 5. Can any of New England’s reserve offensive linemen impress? Currently, New England’s depth along the offensive line is limited at best, especially in light of the team’s recent decision to cut swing reserve Nick McDonald; this figures to create opportunities for an underdog candidate or two to make the final roster. At this point, five players can be considered safe bets to make the team: left tackle Nate Solder, left guard Logan Mankins, center Ryan Wendell, right guard/right tackle Marcus Cannon, and right tackle Sebastian Vollmer; two-year starter Dan Connolly could also factor into the starting mix at right guard or provide a versatile reserve with the capacity to play any of the three interior positions in a pinch. However, Connolly has missed time during training camp while recovering from a shoulder surgery and could potentially be jettisoned in favor of one of the various reserves on roster, a list which includes Tyronne Green, Markus Zusevics, and Chris McDonald (brother of Nick.) Green could be the most talented player listed, and would allow the Patriots to save additional money by leaving Connolly off of the final roster. The line should be rounded out by swing tackle Will Svitek, who projects as New England’s primary backup tackle this year but has recently been worked in at guard as well. Philadelphia’s deep rotation of linemen and linebackers, a list which includes talent such as Fletcher Cox, Trent Cole, Connor Barwin, Brandon Graham, and Vinny Curry, should make protecting their quarterbacks difficult for New England’s offensive linemen. Continue to Page: 1 2 Tags: New England Patriots, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, Ten Keys This entry is filed under the category: NFL, Patriots. Both comments and pings are currently closed. <? /* hiding left sidebar <div class="leftrail"> Early, Top 100 NCAAF Players Going Into The 2018-19 Season Why we should be excited about Derek Rivers & 4 Teams That Could Surpass Expectations In 2018 The Patriots 5 Biggest Threats To Another Superbowl Appearence. 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__label__cc	0.707121	0.292879	Deplorables for the Defense: Starr, Dershowitz, Bondi and Ray Trump Attorney Falsely Claims Abuse of Power Is Not Impeachable How to Worship Trump: Rick Wilson’s Rules for the GOP Cult Trump Economy Tag: Trump Economy Americans’ Confidence in Economy Falling August 21, 2019 Buck Banks A new CNN poll finds 65% of Americans say current economic conditions are good, but that’s down since May, representing the first significant decline in public perception of the economy during Donald Trump’s presidency. Leave a commentEnumeratiRecession, Trump Economy, Trumponomics RV Sales Are Another Leading Recession Indicator Wall Street Journal: “Shipments of recreational vehicles to dealers have fallen about 20% so far this year, after a 4.1% drop last year, according to data from the RV Industry Association. Multiyear drops in shipments have preceded the last three recessions.” Leave a commentEnumeratieconomic indicators, Recession, Trump Economy Economy Grew But Seems to Be Slowing June 28, 2019 Buck Banks “The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.1% rate in the first three months of this year, but signs are mounting that growth has slowed sharply in the current quarter amid slower global growth and a confidence-shaking trade battle between the United States and China,” the AP reports. Leave a commentEnumeratieconomic growth, Trump Economy, Trumponomics Sorry, Rich People – Obama Was Better for the S&P Than Trump June 6, 2019 Jon Ponder From Fortune: When it comes to talking himself up, Trump in particular has compared himself to Barack Obama. So, how do the two presidents measure up in terms of growth in major indexes, measured between their inauguration and May 31 of their third year in office? The short answer is that Trump has quite a way to go. Under Obama, the S&P 500 grew by 56.4%. The Dow Jones Industrials Average was up 50.6% and the Nasdaq, 92.9%. The numbers under Trump were 21.4% for the S&P 500, 25.2% for the Dow, and 34.2% for Nasdaq. Leave a commentNews & CommentPres. Obama, S&P, Trump Economy Idiot-In-Chief Buck Banks \| Jan. 13, 2020 His instances of idiocy are as frequent as they are egregious, But with his Iranian adventure his stupidity’s turned grievous. Trump’s a world-class lie-teller, Though not much of a speller — When asked what his middle initial J stood for, he said, “Genius.” “One thing you have to remember when you work for President Trump is that you don’t make the waves. He makes the waves. Your job is to surf the wave as best as you can every day. And you have to always smile and have a sense of humor with it, because he’s the one who’s got the instinct.” — Jared Kushner, quoted by Time. “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the President. I have no intent, I have no reason to speak to any of these officials.” — Lev Parnas broke his silence in an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. “There is an effort to limit the press …. I’m going to vote against that, if I’m allowed to vote. U.S. senators are grown women and grown men. If they don’t want to make a comment, they know how to say ‘no comment.” — Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) distanced himself from proposed restrictions on reporters covering the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, calling it a “huge mistake,” The Hill reports. “I presume I’ll be voting in favor of hearing from John Bolton.” — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), quoted by The Hill, on calling witnesses for the Senate impeachment trial. “Since he began running for president, Donald Trump has been lying about health care in general, and protections for patients with preexisting conditions in particular. Trump’s long-standing lie is that he has a plan to help people with preexisting conditions afford insurance, or will shortly unveil such a plan. His most recent version of this lie goes even farther. Trump is now saying that he actually created the protection for preexisting conditions, and that Democrats are trying to take it away. … This is the literal polar opposite of reality.” — Jonathan Chait Numerati A new Marquette Law poll in Wisconsin finds very close general election matchups between Trump and four Democratic candidates. Joe Biden would beat Trump 49% to 45%, while Bernie Sander would top him 47% to 46%. However, Trump would beat Elizabeth Warren 48% to 45%, and would top Pete Buttigieg 46% to 44%. Commentt »> “Virginia moved to the brink of becoming the crucial 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on Wednesday, a momentous victory for many women’s rights advocates even though it is far from certain the measure will ever be added to the U.S. Constitution,” the AP reports. “A week before Germany, France and Britain accused Iran of breaching the 2015 nuclear deal, the Trump administration privately threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on European automobiles if they didn’t, according to U.S. and European officials,” the Washington Post reports. “The U.S. effort to coerce European foreign policy through tariffs represents a new level of hardball tactics with America’s oldest allies and could result in the reimposition of sanctions against Iran.” “Four Republicans have agreed to vote with Democrats in support of the measure, according to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who wrote the legislation that seeks to prevent President Trump from further escalating hostilities with Iran,” the Washington Post reports. Tom Steyer surged to third place in the Morning Consult tracker of the four early primary and caucus states, his best showing in the poll since he launched his presidential campaign. Joe Biden leads with 27%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 19%, Steyer at 15%, Elizabeth Warren at 12% and Pete Buttigieg at 9%.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line662
__label__wiki	0.699407	0.699407	Entries from April 2010 Death Notices - Topics from April, 2010 Maylin Renee Ryan in Death Notices Tuesday, April 27. 2010 Amber Mullins of Newnan and Josh Ryan of Zebulon announce the birth of their daughter Maylin Renee Ryan at 3:35 p.m. Monday, March 29, 2010, at Newnan Piedmont Hospital. [Full story »] Friday, April 23. 2010 Homer Lindsey Capel, 85, of Molena, died Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at Upson Regional Medical Center. Services were held Thursday, April 15, at 2 p.m. in Molena City Cemetery. Albert Bennett Turner, 83, of Concord died Saturday, April 17. Services will be held Tuesday, April 20, at 3 p.m. at Friendship Presbyterian Church in Concord. [Full story »] Brenda Brake Garrard 63, of Molena, died April 16, 2010. Visitation was at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel Sunday, April 18, from 2-4 p.m. Service were Monday, April 19, at Union Chapel United Methodist Church at 11 a.m. [Full story »] Joseph Douglas “Jimmy” Wesley Jr., 76, of Meansville, died April 17, 2010. Services will be held Tuesday, April 20, at 2 p.m. in the Fincher Chapel at Life Springs United Methodist Church in Meansville. [Full story »] Martha Lee Means Connell, 68, of Greenville, Texas, passed away peacefully at her home on April 10, 2010. Services will be held at 2 p.m.at Peters Funeral Home Visitation is from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. [Full story »] Friday, April 9. 2010 Gordon Webb, 88, of Williamson died April 8, 2010. Services will be held Monday, April 12 at 2 p.m. at Moody Funeral Home. Friends may visit the family Monday from 12-2 p.m. at the funeral home. He was a founder and lifetime member of Pike County Kiwanis Club. A WWII bomber pilot who went to work for Delta Air Lines as an executive rising to Director of Properties, he supervised the building of terminals in Cincinnati and Orlando for Delta. He retired with over 32 years of service. [Full story »] Lydia Jane Allen Tuesday, April 6. 2010 David and Jennifer Allen announce the birth of their daughter Lydia Jane Allen at 3:16 p.m. Thursday, March 25, 2010, at Southern Regional Medical Center. [Full story »] Bobby O’neal, 77, of Molena, died April 5, 2010. Services will be held Thursday, April 8 at 2 p.m. at Moody Funeral Home. Friends may visit the family on Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. [Full story »] Doyle Junior Proctor, 66, of Meansville, died April 1, 2010. Friends will visit the family Friday from 6-8 p.m. at Moody Funeral Home. Services will be held Saturday, April 3 at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. [Full story »] James Leroy Thomas, 73, of Concord, formerly of Fayetteville, died March 30, 2010. Services will be held Friday, April 2, at 2 p.m. at Mowell Funeral Home in Fayetteville. The family will received friends Thursday from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home. [Full story »] Johnny Jackson Jr., 56, of Meansville died Friday, March 26, 2010. Services were held Tuesday, March, 30, at 2 p.m. at Conner-Westbury Funeral Home. Friends visited the family Monday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. [Full story »] First Time Users Sign Up HERE! Brenda Turner about Pike couple, two kids killed in plane crash Mon, Apr 17, 2017 - 10:45 PM Just horrible. Sheila Tolley about DRIVEN: Maddie to drive for NASCAR’s Rev Racing Thu, Feb 02, 2017 - 04:48 AM This beautiful young lady is such a success story.Congratulations Maddie! Michael Singleton about Strong start for Pirates Sun, Sep 18, 2016 - 08:00 PM Pike County Pirates defeated the Fayette County Tigers 11-8!!! WTG Pirates!!!!! Lady Pirates basketball starts season strong Friday, January 17 2020 Oscar Purvis, Jr. Pirates wrestlers earn second in Area Championship, head to state Animal shelter funds presented to county Our Christmas miracle and the sweatshirt reminder Copyright © 2008-2012 The Pike County Journal-Reporter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line667
__label__wiki	0.731016	0.731016	In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the Northwest Herald newspaper will not be published January 20. Breaking news and information will be updated on NWHerald.com. Marengo native, Parsons grad wins design award for hand-sequined gown By Lindsay Weber - • editorial@nwherald.com Anthony Galante stands with a model wearing his navy hand-sequined silk georgette gown, which won the top prize of a $5,000 grant from Norell and a two-page spread featuring the gown for purchase in the 2017 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. Designer Anthony Thomas Galante The navy hand-sequined silk georgette gown by Anthony Thomas Galante for Norell New York is modeled by Alli Grims. As a young boy, Anthony Galante knew when his mother had an occasion. He watched in fascination as his mother transitioned her look from day to night. “I would watch my mom get ready for functions,” Galante said. “I was fascinated by her putting on makeup, picking out clothes and getting glammed up.” Down the line, this fascination turned to inspiration. In May, Galante, 31, graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City and the same day won Parsons’ first Norman Norell couture design award. Galante took a spring course sponsored by a partnership between Parsons, the Norell brand and Neiman Marcus focused on designer Norman Norell. Norell was the first American designer to use couture techniques in his design as well as the first to have a fragrance, Norell, as part of his brand. Norell was known for his elegant gowns and tailored silhouettes, and was known for dressing many Hollywood starlets, such as Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. Students of the class were tasked to design a collection for the next generation of Norell, their final challenge to create one look. Galante’s navy, hand-sequined, silk georgette gown took home the top prize of a $5,000 grant from Norell and a two-page spread featuring the gown for purchase in the 2017 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. “The show-stopping part of the gown is the sequins I applied by hand. It took about 150 hours,” Galante said. Before picking up a needle and thread, the former Marengo resident and Marian Central Catholic High School graduate started out forging a path down the corporate line versus the runway. In 2011, Galante moved to New York, political science degree in hand from DePaul University of Chicago. After a stint in the corporate world, Galante felt he was missing something. “I had started a career track in fundraising and strategic development but never felt I could express myself creatively,” Galante said. “I decided to take a sewing class at Mood. I got so hooked that I started to explore the fashion industry and went back to school.” Inspired by designers Michael Kors and Tom Ford, Galante soon found his style, which he refers to as elevated day and evening wear. “By elevated I mean there’s something special about it,” Galante said. “So it’s not just a blouse. It is made of fine silk and has a classic silhouette. My most recent design has a lot of hand sequin work, which takes a lot of time. It makes the pieces special and one-of-a-kind and couture, because they are done by hand.” Galante said he considers himself a women’s wear designer and wants women to feel beautiful. “I’m inspired by someone putting on a dress and feeling so strong and confident in the power that clothing has for them,” Galante said. “We make decisions about what we wear, and it says something about who we are. I want to make women feel confident, strong and sexy at times. For me, fashion is just the epitome of self-expression. I want them to feel beautiful.” Currently living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn with his husband, Alex Foard, Galante is busy overseeing the production of his gown and looking for design positions. He hopes his winning gown, to be sold at a $2,500 price point, will conjure new opportunities for him to work under his Anthony Thomas Galante brand. “I hope that this partnership with Neiman Marcus and Norell is the start of it all for me,” Galante said. “My dream is to see someone wearing my garments outside of a photoshoot, to see someone wearing my clothes in person, to know someone likes it enough to buy it and feel beautiful in it. That would be really special.” For information on the Anthony Thomas Galante brand, visit http://anthonythomasgalante.com. your pet could be voted january's cutest pet Now-Jan. 20, submit a photo of your adorable pet for a chance at being named McHenry County's Cutest Pet for January! Voting is Jan. 21-27. 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__label__cc	0.671376	0.328624	A year after Louise Bourgeois's death, 45 000 people have visited her exhibition at Proa Louise Bourgeois contemplating Germinal, 1967. Photography: Studio Fotográfico I. Bessi Carrara. On May 31th, Fundación Proa commemorates Louise Bourgeois' death first anniversary: free admission for all visitors from 11AM to 7PM. The date coincides with the presentation at Proa of the artist's largest exhibition in Latin America, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed. Since its opening on March 19th, more than 45 000 people have visited the show. Maman, Bourgeois' giant spider installed in Proa's esplanade, continues to attract crowds, from locals to tourists, students, passers-by and neighbors. In occasion of this anniversary, Proa will upload in its website an audio guide of the exhibition by its curator, Philip Larratt-Smith, in English and Spanish. In addition, on Tuesday at 4PM, Proa's Auditorium will screen the documentary film Chère Louise by Brigitte Cornand: a journey into an unclassifiable artist. With the support of Tenaris / Techint	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line677
__label__cc	0.727986	0.272014	You are here: Home » Newsdesk » ALL LATEST NEWS » INCIDENT: BUILDING COLLAPSE INVESTIGATION INCIDENT: BUILDING COLLAPSE INVESTIGATION Witnesses speak of a ‘miracle’ there were no deaths on collapse It has been reported by the Sheffield Telegraph (ST) that an investigation has been launched into the collapse of a building in Sheffield city centre. Witnesses told the ST that it was a ‘miracle’ no one was killed. Residents fled the building after bricks and building materials began falling around them and one man was briefly trapped and taken to hospital. Some 30 people were checked by paramedics at the scene. HSE inspectors were called out and a spokesman confirmed an official investigation has been launched. Fire Station Station manager Ian French said: “Our report was of a structural collapse. It did look very dramatic. The first crew secured the scene, we did have a report of a person trapped but he’d managed to get himself out. We used a camera to make sure that there was no one left inside the property so that everyone was accounted for.” This article was posted on 26th March 2013 in ALL LATEST NEWS, INCIDENTS, STRUCTURAL SAFETY. « HSE UPDATE ON CONSTRUCTION FATALITIES 2012-13 TOO MANY LONDON REFURB PROJECT BELOW PAR »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line680
__label__cc	0.538613	0.461387	Radical Socialist Our Stand National Situation Fourth International Marxist Theory Socialist and Peoples' History Mehnatkash Home » Articles » Statements » News Appeal Issued by Little Magazines to Governor concerning Kanishka Chowdhury and others Published on Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:03 Written by Radical Socialist The following appeal has been launched by a group of little magazines, who saw the arrest of Kanishka Chowdhury, rightly, as a serious attack on the freedom of expresson, especially of the non-corporate sections of the media. Though on 28 July the Court granted bail to Chowdhury and his two co-accused, the rest of the appeal still stands. We publish this in the interest of democracy, and urge other little magazines to join this drive. Every sector of civil society should stand up for democratic rights, instead of assuming that the struggle for democratic rights is the prerogative of organisations particularly identified as democratic rights/human rights groups. Appeal Issued by Little Magazines to Governor Mr A K Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal. We, on behalf of the little magazines of West Bengal would like to appeal to you as follows: Recently, one of the little magazine activists from Kolkata, Kanishka Chowdhury has been arrested on charges of being at Lalgarh along with two other intellectuals on 15/06/2010. The journalists held with them were later released but the trio was produced to court on framed-up charges. No FIR was done even two hours after their arrest thus violating the law. They were initially informed that they would be released after interrogations. No copy of the FIR was given to them or their advocate even while being produced at the court for the second time. Neither were they handed over a list of articles seized from their bag. Even Kanishka Chowdhury’s wife was not allowed in the court room under the pretext of “no space” while the hearing was on. These socially conscious intellectuals accompanied some New Delhi based journalists to Lalgarh in order to be aware of and witness the condition after a year of operation of the joint forces against the Maoists in the Jungle Mahal area. It is pertinent to note that Kanishka Chowdhury has done similar field studies in the past for his research. He had been to Singur, Nandigram and other places on similar The police informed the court that they have confiscated a digital camera, a small voice recorder, two ball-point pens, some writing papers and more than Rs. 4,000 worth of cash. In spite of not being able to prove anything more, they have been arrested under charges of Collecting arms, etc, Waging, or attempting to wage war, Sedition, Distribution of Banned Literature, etc. We are aware that IPC section 144 has been clamped for the last one year at the place where they were arrested which prohibits assembly of five or more persons, holding of public meetings, and carrying of firearms. Even if we consider that the arrested trio had violated this act, the rest of the charges are false, unsubstantiated and sans preuve. Kanishka Chowdhury is a school-teacher by profession. He is quite renowned in the little-magazine circles and his writings and poetries have been published in various little-magazines like Anushtup and others. He has contributed several articles and translations in various publications. Some of them are as follows: 1. Notun Shatak Patrika, October 2007 issue - ‘Sankrityayan O Bangali Guru’ (Sankrityayan and Bengali God-men). 2. Notun Shatak Patrika, August, 2008 issue – ‘Ekti Somporker Sondhane : Bongiyo Guru o Rajniti’ (In search of a relationship : Bengali god-men and politics). 3. Notun Shatak Patrika, November, 2009 – Translation of a lecture on Henry Louis Derozio delivered by Walter Madge in 1904. 4. Sharodiya Sunrito Patrika, 2009, - ‘Henry Louis Derozio –Samayer Agei Janma Neoa Manush’ (Henry Louis Derozio – A man born before the time) 5. Ajker Yubachetana, February 2009 issue, Civil Society : Prathamik Ruprekha (Civil Society : Primary Outlines) 6. Sociologia Indica, June-July issue, a research note ‘Syncretism in the cult of Loknath Brahmachari.’ Apart from these, his anthology of poems was published in 2007 and at the Kolkata Book Fair his book ‘Civil Society Europe Bharate’(Civil Society in Europe India). He was currently working on the translation of a long article on Tripura by James Long and was also translating the Arundhati Ray’s recent speech at a seminar in the city. He was also working on a collection on Derozio by Anchalik Darpan. He was invited as speaker to numerous seminars and symposiums. He spoke at Uttarpara Ganabhaban on April 25, 2009 at seminar on “200 years of Derozio” organized by Shahartali magazine. We are pained by the state terror and the politics of individual assassination at Lalgarh and we would like to see its end. We, on behalf of the little magazines, would like to appeal that Kanishka Chowdhury, Manik Mondal, Nisha Biswas and all others who are being held without sufficient proof be released after due defense at the court. We would request your intervention for the withdrawal of unsubstantiated charges against them and their early release. cc: Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Minister-in-charge, Department of Information and Culture, Government of West Bengal. cc: The Secretary, Department of Home, Government of West Bengal. 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__label__cc	0.675004	0.324996	Rent Top Apartments Barcelona \| January 19, 2020 Barcelona apartments for rent – Rent Top Apartment Gastronomy in Barcelona DHUB, the design hub in Barcelona AlbertoBarbieri http://www.renttopapartments.com The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (DHUB) conserves huge holdings – more than 70,000 objects – the result of merging the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Museum of Ceramics, the Museum of Textile and Clothing and the Graphic Arts Cabinet. The Museu del Disseny is located on the new Disseny Hub Barcelona building on Plaça de les Glories and it is scheduled to open its doors to public in spring 2014. Formerly housed at different sites and following different trajectories, the four collections – the cornerstone of the Museum – have now been brought together in a permanent home in a new building located in the modern district named 22@ in Barcelona, close to the famous Agbar Tower. 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__label__wiki	0.51132	0.51132	Home >> September 2019 Edition >> A Conversation With Lee Smith A Conversation With Lee Smith Business Development Manager, Thermal Insulation, Web Industries As Web Industries’ Business Development Manager for Thermal Insulation, Lee Smith introduces leaders in the medical and space fields to the advantages of automated production for thermal insulation materials and how they can successfully co-source their MLI blankets. Smith’s industry experience with cryogenics materials includes tenure as program manager for a NASA SBIR stage I & II. The mission addressed the development of a film/fabric laminate which could be fabricated into balloons used as a platform for automated sensing on the Saturn moon, Titan. Titan is covered with a sea of methane which has a temperature of minus 179 C and is considered a perfect lab for observing a primordial Earth. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Rutgers University. Mr. Smith, would you please tell us how you came to Web Industries? Lee Smith (LS) About four years ago, Web Industries committed to supporting the growing space sector by providing space and satellite companies with the design and production of multi-layer insulation [MLI] materials and blankets. At the time, I was working for a supplier of specialty films used in space and cryogenic applications and had developed a close business relationship with Web. My sales background and space-related expertise seemed a good match with Web’s new MLI initiative. I subsequently joined the company and was soon asked to take over sales responsibilities for Web’s multi-layer insulation product line. When did Web Industries decide to enter the aerospace market and to then add a focus on satellites? Web Industries has long specialized in the precision converting and formatting of technically advanced flexible materials, including composite materials. We began ply cutting and kitting composites for the aerospace market in 2013 with the acquisition of CAD Cut. Since then, we’ve broadened our offerings and now supply formatted materials for virtually every aerospace and space application that uses composites. What are your company’s material management services and how do they assist your customers? Vendor managed inventory is the company’s primary material management service. We can oversee all aspects of customer inventory, including tracking materials, freight in and freight out. The customer only has to issue one purchase order to Web instead of multiple POs to different vendors. This simplifies material management and lowers customer costs. On the composite side, customers ship us chemically active, pre-impregnated carbon fiber materials that in many cases must be stored frozen before and after processing. We have an enormous freezer at many of our facilities that store these materials at the correct temperature before processing and while the formatted materials are waiting to be shipped to the end-user. How does the company manage costs, specifically in the design and production of MLI blankets? Web mainly controls costs by automating the process at every stage, from the initial blanket design through production planning via ERP software to the computer-controlled cutting equipment. The cutting equipment, for example, can rapidly produce multiple MLI pieces in one cutting pass. This is in contrast to many MLI operations, which remain manual and labor-intensive. Our shape nesting software delivers the most yield for a given piece of material. Consider an MLI blanket shaped like a half moon. Normally, there would be a lot of wasted material around the edges, and the material can cost as much as $200 per yard. However, our production software’s shape nesting capability, combined with our material handling expertise, minimizes waste, which reduces costs for customers. Where do you see Web Industries heading over the next year or two? There are several exciting developments affecting our space and aerospace customers. For example, we’re enlarging our Denton, Texas, facility to greatly increase its MLI production capacity. In the aerospace area, Web recently announced its intent to purchase 12 acres of land for a new manufacturing facility in Marysville, Washington, directly in the middle of the Pacific Northwest aerospace hub. The factory will house Web’s proprietary composites slitting and winding technologies, ply cutting and kitting operations, and feature 9,000 square feet of refrigerated warehouse to properly store the raw and formatted composite materials. Web Industries’ automated cutting processes produce precision-cut MLI blankets. We also have news from Europe: In early 2019, Web acquired France-based Atlantique and Omega Systèmes Aquitane, companies that specialize in formatting advanced materials for aerospace and other applications. Their production sites are in Nantes and Bordeaux, France. This acquisition supports large space, defense and commercial aerospace programs in Europe. Would you tell our readers about your company’s successful projects within the satellite environs? I’ll point to our successful evolution and growing capabilities in the satellite area, especially involving MLI blankets. We started by supplying cryogenic materials to customers. Then we made partially finished blankets, which customers completed on site. Finally, we transitioned to making finished blankets complete with grommets, fasteners and snaps. Today, we produce totally finished blankets and can send them direct to the launch pad, eliminating unnecessary customer work. How would you describe Web Industries’ satellite insulation competence? Satellite insulation is part of Web’s broad aerospace and space-related expertise. This expertise includes formatting advanced thermoplastic and other composite materials for use in next-generation aircraft designs. These materials are fabricated into structural and semi-structural aerospace components such as wings and fuselages. The composite materials also find use in rocket and satellite applications, in such areas as payload fairings, internal bracings and propellant and oxidizer tanks. Our MLI blankets and CAD Cut Cryokits® provide thermal management solutions that ease installation. These can accommodate complex geometries and odd shapes and be shipped in a single kit direct to the production facility or launch site. Why is insulation an essential component of any satellite? Satellites and other spacecraft face daunting temperature conditions while in orbit. They are exposed to extremes of heat and cold as they move from direct sunlight to total darkness within a single orbit. The wide temperature gradients pose a significant thermal radiation risk to the spacecraft’s delicate electronics. To deal with temperature variations, engineers can use either active methods, such as on-board heaters, or passive methods, like metal reflectors or MLI insulation. The designers weigh each method’s effectiveness versus its cost and reliability. MLI blankets’ high effectiveness and light weight make them a cost-effective solution in many satellite applications. What is multi-layer insulation (MLI) and why is it generally used in satellites? MLI is a lightweight insulation that reflects radiated heat energy. It consists of multiple layers of plastic films or foils, coated on one or both sides with an aluminized reflective material. A mesh fabric separates the layers and prevents conduction between them. There can be 20 or more layers in MLI blankets designed for space applications. The layers are usually stacked and sewn together at the edges. Grommets, fasteners, grounding straps or hook-and-loop fasteners secure the MLI blankets to space vehicles. Web Industries’ uses shape nesting software to maximize yields. In the vacuum of space, MLI blankets work like this: The outer blanket layer reflects more than 90 percent of radiated heat. The next layer reflects more than 90 percent of the remaining radiated heat, and so on with each successive layer. The idea is to block a certain percentage of thermal radiation with each layer, and you can add layers to the design to reduce the radiated heat to virtually zero. How effective is MLI insulation? Let’s compare MLI to insulation we’re familiar with on Earth, say, the pink insulation you might have in your attic. About a foot-thick piece of that insulation provides an R value (used to measure thermal insulation efficiency) of 24 to 30. That’s more than enough insulation for year-round usage. In contrast, MLI materials are not designed to deal with the common modes of heat transfer on Earth: conduction and convection. But in the tight vacuum of space, where radiated heat is more prevalent, MLI materials really shine. In that environment, when NASA scientists test MLI blankets using a calorimeter, they get an R value of approximately 10,000! That’s exceptional insulating performance. At what point in the satellite design stage should engineers first consider the type of insulation needed for their space vehicle? Web Industries’ MLI-precision shape repetition process. An engineering maxim states that 80 percent of a project’s cost is determined in the initial design stage, so, you might think, the sooner the better. But the reality is that the cost and weight of MLI blankets are negligible compared with those of the satellite’s antennas, transponders, batteries, gyroscopes and fuel thrusters The project engineer’s focus is to get maximum performance from all those components. Only after that’s been optimized is there time to design in the MLI blankets to fit and attach around the satellite’s components. Our customers tell us that even though MLI is vital to the satellite’s survival, it’s viewed as the wrapping on the Christmas present rather than the present itself. The MLI design stage often comes shortly before the launch window. If you have to go from drawing to making a template to hand cutting materials at that point, it can really cause delays. Web’s automated design and manufacturing process can help companies meet those expedited schedules. It also reduces the cycle time on every iteration. Once a satellite has been launched, telemetry data gives an indication of whether the MLI materials are performing as expected. Based on the data, changes in the MLI blankets can be made for subsequent launches such as adding or subtracting a blanket layer or inserting a grommet here or there. The changes can be made quickly through our computerized process. Can you provide generic examples of ways in which Web Industries has solved insulation challenges for the firm’s satellite OEM and Tier 1 customers? Certainly. Sometimes we are supplied with 3D models of what needs to be covered. With our expertise, we can convert them easily into flat patterns, which reduces engineering cycle time. Also, some MLI blankets require Kapton-based films or laminates. The lead time for ordering these materials can be many months. In such cases, we inventory the materials for quick customer turnarounds. Web Industries uses automated cutting process to produce MLI blankets. Probably the biggest benefit we provide to customers is reducing blanket installation time. We can supply a kit complete with everything needed for installation, which speeds the process and cuts labor costs. Any predictions as to the future of MLI blanket design and production? The future will see more coordination between spacecraft and satellite manufacturers and MLI blanket suppliers in order to meet increased activity and demand. Look for in-house blanket shops and outside suppliers to develop co-sourcing arrangements and partner closely on many aspects of blanket design and production. This will free manufacturers’ engineering staffs for more pressing tasks, and help the companies cope with increasingly demanding flight schedules and maintain the competitive edge of their intellectual property. Looking back on your career, can you tell us about a project that truly brought a smile to your face? In the satellite industry, when a launch is approaching, it’s all hands on deck. In one case, a company faced a tight launch window and had not yet placed a crucial MLI blanket order. We were able to produce entirely crafted MLI blankets for three communications satellites in less than a week. That really saved the launch and added years to the satellites’ operational lifespan. www.webindustries.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line694
__label__wiki	0.703008	0.703008	support Pharaoh Overlord author RUB date 10/10/19 venue Train, Århus, DEN My initial gateway to Sleep was through High on Fire and their guitarist Matt Pike, as he mans the axe in both bands. What once was his & bassist Al Cisneros’ first brainchild together, has since transformed into some sort of supergroup, given that each members also plays in another band nowadays. With Cisneros on the bass and vocals in Om (which he formed with original Sleep drummer Chris Hakius), newest member Jason Roeder manning the drums for Neurosis, and, as just mentioned, Pike wielding the guitar and handling vocals in High on Fire, the three musicians have all moved on from the stoner/doom mastodon that is Sleep. Luckily, back in 2009, they thought the time was right to reunite and not only tour, but also release new material. And while from all of the bands just mentioned my favourite is still High on Fire, after revisiting both Sleep’s older material and their newest opus “The Sciences”, it is with great anticipation of what is to come that I enter the Train venue in Århus just in time to catch the supporting act. All photos courtesy of Sebastian Dammark I wouldn’t colour myself that surprised with the turnout here, given that Sleep are without a doubt revered in their genre, but more people have showed up on this rainy Thursday than I had expected. We are first treated to a warm-up set by the Finns in Pharaoh Overlord, and I’m initially surprised by how upbeat the music is, when taking tonight’s headliner into consideration. Yet as the songs progress, you notice how heavy and even droning the music can also be. And even though the tone of the duo’s music strikes me as jollier than Sleep, a stoner band such a Torche still springs to mind. The two musicians on stage have a very minimalistic setup; the drum set only consists of a snare, a hi-hat, a single cymbal, and equipment to control the backing tracks and electronic beats -- that’s it. But these beats actually contribute a lot to the droning vibes; more than I would’ve thought. This makes me think of Kraftwerk (on drugs maybe?), and a friend of mine even makes a comparison between Pharaoh Overlord and Hawkwind (if they were a duo). Needless to say, the duo’s sound has me quite intrigued. They utilize these electronic elements together with plenty of strobe and some strange, dramatic role-play in between the songs, which helps them keep to a common thread, come across as consistent, and introduce flow into the show throughout. The sound isn’t too high — only slightly above 100 dB — but the bass on the other hand is already pounding hard, warming up the crowd nicely for Sleep, which, if past shows are anything to go by, will probably be even louder and heavier than this. But back to the Finns… I find the combination of genres they incorporate into their music rather strange. During the third track I even get a Night Flight Orchestra-vibe, thanks to that easily distinguishable ‘80s sound the keys take on. This is mixed with various screams, growls and freaky noises from vocalist Jussi Lehtisalo, which again underlines the band’s unique, albeit strange sound and mix of genres, and although I probably wouldn’t straight-up call myself a new fan, I’m still very much interested in checking these guys out further. It’s quite bizarre stuff, but to be honest, I like it. During the last track Lehtisalo starts pounding his stomach to the droning drum beat, engages in perplexing dance moves, and even gives the drummer a back rub during the long outro — yes, that kind of weirdness. I can definitely recommend anyone to check them out. After the familiar, lengthy intro “The Moon Landing Radio Transmission” and a slight delay of 15 minutes, Sleep finally take the stage. The music is obviously very heavy, and already from the first song, the crowd unleash their massive expectations for this act through physical movement. Every head is banging in heavy unison and the band also seems willing and ready for the task at hand. As energetic as a band within this genre can be, and within the limitations and boundaries set by the music, the three musicians deliver the music with plenty of flare, passion and in fact energy. Matt Pike, who only has to rely on his guitar in this outfit, in particular delivers his performance with plenty of vigor in that he noticeably feels every single stroke he makes. And even drummer Jason Roeder puts every bit of energy he has into the pounding of his drum skins. It might seem unfair that Cisneros isn’t mentioned here in such light, as every member deserves to be highlighted, as each in their own manner, they showcase their musical prowess in their own respective field to such an extent that there can be very little doubt as to whether you’re witnessing something unique and spectacular. Al Cisneros of Sleep The thing I like about good stoner and doom metal is that even though the beat and tempo of the music can be quite droning and constant, it’s still sort of ever-changing and evolving. The devil is in the details, so you have to pay attention — as shown, for instance, by how magical and wondrous a rhythm can truly be. Take “Marijuanaut’s Theme”: the track is filled with groovy greatness and the melody hits you like sonic waves, with every stroke carefully orchestrated. And when the music does make a progression, it just hits all the right notes and makes your head bang even more. What also strikes me with Sleep, and especially their latest opus “The Sciences”, of which half of tonight’s setlist is made up, is how you can hear the influence every band member has brought into it from his respective band and genre. It’s all thrown into a single pot and mixed with plenty of down-tuned, slow, heavy, and distorted riffs. And, as seen during the final track of the night with “Dragonaut”, people are still very much alive, quickly moving further towards the front of the stage. They want a last taste of the stoner action and start banging their heads even more, as well as casting themselves into energetic movement with jumping and even a moshpit (never thought I’d see that at a Sleep show!) during this final song. And after roughly and hour and a half, the band leaves the stage with huge grins on their faces. Perhaps they also knew how good this gig has actually been. And that’s the exceptional thing about watching this music, and this band live. The live performance gives so much more vibrant energy, flow and feeling to the songs; music like this is given a whole different level of heavy intensity, and coupled with the presence of a couple of hundred headbangers, this is truly a spectacle to witness. Take the word from a guy that only likes, not loves Sleep on record: in a live environment they are godlike and without a doubt living legends. 01. Intro: The Moon Landing Radio Transmission 02. Marijuanaut’s Theme 03. Holy Mountain 04. The Clarity 05. 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__label__wiki	0.810797	0.810797	The first Angry Birds mobile game in augmented reality is now available for free in the Google Play Store Angry Birds fans, rejoice! The popular mobile augmented reality (AR) game by Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO) and Resolution Games, Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs, is available starting today in the Google Play Store. Now fans can join Red, Chuck, Bomb and the Blues to save the stolen eggs from the greedy green pigs on Android devices! The game - previously released on iOS - allows fans to mix realities of their physical environment and that of the world of Angry Birds, taking the power of the Angry Birds slingshot into their hands like never before. The game debuts on Android with 78 levels of gameplay, allowing players to see the incredibly realistic characters and entire game overlaid onto a player’s actual environment. Through the power of AR, players can physically walk around structures overlaid onto objects in their own environment to find weak elements and identify different angles for the best accuracy, as well as uncover hidden surprises in order to take on the green pigs, earn more points and unlock more content. Players can even make the game large or small to fit their space and customize their experience. In the gameplay, players make their way up to party city through the island’s jungle, desert, and frosty hideout, destroying their structures in the most spectacular way to earn maximum stars and retrieve the stolen eggs. Sami Ronkainen, Creative Director, Extended Reality at Rovio Entertainment, commented: "In this special 10th anniversary year for Angry Birds, it's awesome that we can offer fans novel ways to enjoy our classic slingshot gameplay. We're delighted to now make this game available for Android users." “Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs really illustrates the beauty of AR, allowing players to bring their favorite feathered friends into their own environments,” said Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games. “Whether they’re at home on a rainy day or at the park or bus stop, players can take the Angry Birds with them wherever they go.” The game can be downloaded here and is now supported on Android for Google ARCore compatible devices as well as iOS Apple ARKit compatible devices. For more information, follow Rovio on Facebook and Twitter and Resolution Games on Facebook and Twitter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line704
__label__wiki	0.572831	0.572831	San Luis Obispo: (805) 541-2368 \| Pismo Beach: (805) 481-1368 Researchers continue to look for help for children and parents of children who suffer from the most common type of ear infection, called middle ear infection or otitis media (OM). About 62 percent of children in developed countries will have their first episode of OM by the age of one, more than 80 percent by their third birthday, and nearly 100 percent will have at least one episode by age five. In the U.S. alone, this illness accounts for 25 million office visits annually with direct costs for treatment estimated at $3 billion. Health economists add that when lost wages for parents are included, the total cost of estimated treatments mount to $6 billion. This is a big problem. The usual treatment options for children with middle ear infections include 1) antibiotics; and 2) surgical insertion of pressure equalizing tubes in the ears. While studies have shown that antibiotics can be helpful in certain cases, excessive use can lead to bacterial resistance, making infections more difficult to treat. Tubes sometimes do not equalize pressure enough or may need reinsertion over time. What about vaccines? A vaccine is a preparation administered to stimulate the body's own defense system to combat specific bacteria or viruses. The first vaccine was introduced in the 18th century for the prevention of smallpox. Today, each vaccine is designed to resemble a particular virus or bacteria (or group of viruses and bacteria). When administered, the vaccine triggers the defense system without actually causing illness. This helps the body to develop a defense (antibodies) against the virus or bacteria so that if they enter the body, you will not get sick. Today, vaccines exist to combat a wide range of viruses and some bacteria. One of the most common and potentially serious bacteria to cause ear and sinus infections and pneumonia and meningitis is the pneumococcus. Recently a vaccine was developed that is effective against several common strains of pneumococcus. Your child's physician will advise you on appropriate vaccines for your child. If the pneumococcal vaccine is offered to your child, you may want to know: The conjugate pneumococcal vaccine: This latest advance in pediatric healthcare prevents diseases caused by seven of the most common types of pneumococcal bacteria. It is safe and effective. It protects against serious forms of the disease up to 97 percent of the time, depending on the person. The vaccine is given by a needle. The side effects, which are usually minor and temporary, include some redness, swelling or tenderness from the injection, and a mild fever. Serious side effects, including allergic reactions, are quite rare. It can be given to infants, and there is no other vaccine to prevent pneumococcal disease in children less than two years of age. In 2002 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended the vaccine for infants and toddlers under the age of five. See http://www.cdc.gov/nip for more information. Conjugate vaccines are effective against otitis media in children under the age of five because they have a polysaccharide component linked to a protein component that an infant's immature defense system can recognize. Children older than five, whose defense systems have matured, may receive a pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine without the protein component. How does this relate to otitis media? Here are issues to consider. Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria (commonly known as pneumococcus) are thought to cause 50 to 60 percent of cases of otitis media. Before this vaccine was available, each pneumococcal infection caused: about five million ear infections; more than 700 cases of meningitis; 13,000 blood infections (septicemia); and other health problems including pneumonia, deafness, and brain damage. Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and Moraxella catarrhalis vaccine Two other common bacteria that cause ear and sinus infections are nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and Moraxella catarrhalis. Recently, the National Institutes of Health has issued a license for the first clinical trials for a nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) vaccine. Vaccines to prevent viral infections like the flu that can eventually lead to ear infections should be considered for children with recurring ear infections. These vaccines are usually administered in the fall. Información de Salud en Español Diábolos Estudio acerca de causas y opciones terapéuticas Doctor? ¿Por Qué a Mi Hijo Le Duele El Oído? Doctor? ¿Qué Causa El Ruido En El Oído? El Humo del Tabaco Ambiental y los Niños La pérdida de la audición Otitis Media Crónica (Infección del Oído Medio) e Hipocusia Perfóracion Timpánica Qué Debe Saber Acerca de la Otoesclerosis Screening de Audición en Niños Rinitis alérgica, sinusitis y rinosinusitis ¿Tengo sinusitis? Cera en los oídos Reflujo Gastroesofágico (ERGE) Nódulos, pólipos y quistes Glosario para una buena salud del oído San Luis Obispo Office: 895 Aerovista Place, Suite 103 Pismo Beach Office: 901 Oak Park Blvd #202 San Luis Obispo, Ear Nose & Throat Specialists, Inc, San Luis Obispo CA, 93401 (805) 541-2368 x22	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line714
__label__cc	0.67169	0.32831	Sociocide Forums Brexit? Yay or Nay? Thread: Brexit? Yay or Nay? 11th November 15 #1 Dr. Socially Liberal Fiscally Conservative Vermin Dining with Daemons Leaving the European Union could cost Britain £224bn while other EU nations would suffer only minor economic losses if it withdrew, according to a major new study. Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, found that the UK economy would grow more slowly after losing the benefits of trading with its EU partners. The first study of the impact of “Brexit” (British exit) for the EU as a whole predicted “long-term negative consequences” for the UK but a “significantly smaller” economic effect for the rest of the 28-nation bloc. In Britain, the sectors worst hit by losing the link with the EU’s single market would include chemicals, financial services, automative and mechanical engineering. The study looked at three scenarios for 2030 after “Brexit” in 2018. In the most favourable case, the UK would win a status similar to Switzerland and a trade agreement with its former EU partners. In the worst scenario, Britain would lose its free trade agreements. The loss in gross domestic product (GDP) per head would range from 0.6 to 3 per cent, with the worst case scenario costing the UK economy £224bn. Full Indy article And from a perspective close to my own concerns... A British exit from the EU would be catastrophic for universities and scientific research, leading academics and scientists say, warning it would cost tens of millions of pounds in funding and leave prestigious UK institutions struggling to compete on the world stage. Scientists from fields as diverse as neuroscience, astronomy, robotics, immunology, particle physics, sustainable agriculture, molecular biology, nanotechnology, cancer and photon therapy say a “Brexit” would lead to funding cuts, make recruiting and retaining top academic talent harder, and – crucially – cripple the cross-border collaboration on which research thrives. Smith, an international relations theorist, said “all the evidence in the world” shows that “the best research is done by people working internationally”. He added: “The most successful knowledge economy is where people publish together with people in other countries. EU membership makes that immeasurably easier.” By this yardstick the UK does “unbelievably well”, Smith said. In 1981, 84% of UK research was published bearing just a UK address; by last year, the figure was 48%. In the US, it remains 67%. That fact alone – that a higher proportion of UK than US research is authored by scientists of more than one nationality – explained why Britain, which represents just 0.9% of the global population, 3.2% of research and development expenditure and 4.1% of researchers, now accounted for 15.9% of the world’s most highly-cited scientific research articles, Smith said – a score that put it in first position globally, ahead of the US. Full Guardian article So should the UK jump ship (show your working)? Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH21LEmfbQ Originally Posted by Cullion Trump can't actually win an election.. can he ? Originally Posted by MerkinMuffly Short answer is no. I think you're right here. Üser Friendly My ballsack is half full A Brexit could benefit Ireland as it would be the only native English speaking country in the EU, and would thus attract the UKs share of US investment The down side could be less trade between UK and RoI, but I'm sure a treaty could be agreed to limit import/export duties die dümmsten Bauern haben die dicksten Kartoffeln Although Ireland is growing less reliant on the UK - it is still our primary market. Ireland exports 16 percent of all manufactured goods - and 19 percent of our services to British markets. This rises to 40 percent of all Ireland's food and drink exports. Ireland also imports 34 percent of its goods from Britain - and 18 percent of its services. Given Ireland's exposure as a small open economy - and our strong reliance on the British market - disruption to this trade will involve significant costs for the Irish economy. If the UK leaves the EU and fails to agree an open trade deal - trading between the UK and Ireland would be subject to new tariffs. Given the amount of trade even minimal tariffs would be very costly to Irish businesses. Irish companies would also be hit by new border costs as a new customs border is created between Ireland and the UK - leading to new administrative costs. From: News Talk article - Three reasons why Ireland should fear the UK leaving the EU That's a significant amount of trade. Trade between the two states will not cease just because the UK leaves the EU RoI trades with many states outside the EU The advantage of trading within the EU is mainly the absence of trade tarrifs A pragmatic solution will be found So are you in favour of the UK leaving the EU? NoBowie œœœ™ I think all of the leftist Brits and religious zealot Brits should leave the globe. "NoB's acquisitiveness is Zanshin like" - Dougie "USA is 50 separate countries" - doof (tadpole farmer extraordinaire) "I actually believe, nay, know that NoB's ass and innards are spotless." - Lilith MerkinMuffly So the left and the right. Think irony Originally Posted by Kitty Saurencyde So the left and a large percentage of the right. Originally Posted by Dr. Meat Servo I am neutral, but I don't think the brits have the balls to go it alone. After all the Empire is but a distant opium dream As we speak the civil servants are feverishly trying to work out a way to stay in 11th November 15 #10 Cullion If I die before I wake.. I'm not saying that leaving the EU is definitely the right thing to do, but it's a false premise to claim that leaving the EU means you cannot trade with it. The article doesn't really address what happens in the 'switzerland' like case (which was included in the study), and it seems to ignore the fact that being outside the EU leaves us free to increase our trade with other nations (including commonwealth nations and the US). Last edited by Cullion; 11th November 15 at 03:26 PM. Originally Posted by Danno i got nothing, you win again. Originally Posted by resolve I trust God more than I trust you. And that will never change. I've always viewed you as kind of a snake. No biblical connotations need apply, just the regular ones. You're wise. You're really intelligent. But you're also conniving and have this way of getting what you want when you want it. The sickness I was talking about was your propensity to kind of reach in and grasp on to something to define someone here. You harangue them about it and manipulate it in to conversations. You do that with every single poster here. You do this until they see things your way. The "correct way". It's vile. Quick Navigation Ground Zero Top Movies, Music, and Mayhem Funkyzeit The Duhpartment of Motard Vehicles SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS Videos and MP3 Bullshido.net Forums bratwurst for the masses, crookteeth ahoy!, cullion <3 trump, cullion is deluded, exit the globe ya twat, huzzah for cullion!, let them eat bratwurst, the retard returns -- Sociocide Nova -- Default Mobile Style Sociocide: Pop Culture in its Stupid Face Powered by vBulletin Version Copyright ©2000 - 2020, Jelsoft Enterprises (C) Creative Combat S9 Nova \| Dark Professional Premium Theme ◮ Top	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line719
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__label__cc	0.717176	0.282824	An Epiphany Festival of Lessons… January 5 It’s the first Apostle of… December 30 Meet St. Paul’s Vestry & Leadership Location, Directions, Parking & Accessibility In the pew What is an Episcopalian? Beyond the pew The Apostle A living heritage A very brief parish history Use for events Renaissance Child Care Center Forest Home Cemetery Home > Sermons > Page 32 Sermons (Page 32) September 18, 2011: How Fair Do We Want God to Be? The Rev. Dr. C. Steven Teague, Rector Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost After the service, a parishioner offered his unsolicited feedback to my sermon: “What do you know about running a business anyway? Paying workers that way is not fair. Just stick to religion and preaching, but not preaching about business.” He’s right. Pay a person a full-day wage for an hour of work, and you’ll be out of business in no time. Next time the unemployed see you drive the bus up, guess how many pass and wait for the day’s last bus? The problem with Jesus’ story – It’s not fair. You don’t reward people who don’t pull their own load. September 11, 2011: Forgiveness Leads to Reconciliation viagra sale/steveteague1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″ />Sermon Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Ever tried to swim in opposite directions at the same time? Looks like most are smart enough not to try that. Many churches will make an attempt today. One direction is celebration. We celebrate the return from summer, the church program year beginning, and the onset of fall. The opposite direction is less than joyful – somber and reflective. We hold in our souls events of this day ten years ago. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news – then came numbness, shock, a surreal feeling? We soon realized our world is forever changed. August 28, 2001: Peter’s Resistance Movement Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Crowds rush Jesus wanting to make him their king. Jesus runs the other direction to escape them. Peter agrees with the crowd, and says Jesus is King in waiting, the Messiah. For saying Jesus and Messiah in the same breath, Peter wins a new name – Rock, and Jesus hands him a set of keys for the new kingdom. August 21, 2011: Right Confession – What’s It Mean? Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Late one afternoon my favorite Rabbi rang me up: “Get over here now.” “Why, what’s up?” John tells me a large Christian body has just voted and declared open season on Jews. “What do you mean?” He said, “They want to convert us to your side. A TV news reporter is on the way to interview me. You’ve got to come and say not all Christians are like this.” So, I went to the synagogue. I told the reporter, “Not all Christians believe Jesus sends us to tell Jews or anyone to ‘turn or burn.’ Jesus sends us to love others and reconcile people, not divide and conquer with fear and guilt.” At least that seemed to be the spirit of the Jesus I had come to know. August 14, 2011: Chance or Providence? Buy Cheap Cialis Soft/steveteague1-150×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”150″ />Sermon Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Two different worlds are about to collide. In Jacob’s word, a famine bears down on the land. He hears Egypt has storehouses aplenty and loaded with food; plus no national debt, and AAA+ rated Egyptian treasury notes. Since their economy booms, Jacob sends his sons for help. Keep in mind this is not a run to the corner grocery store for milk and eggs. It’s long and treacherous journey. They’ll need more than food for a week – food for children, children’s children, flocks and servants. July 31, 2011: Nighttime Rumble Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Two wives, two handmaids – eleven kids, a stout “stock” portfolio (this stock is sheep not shares), twenty years later Jacob packs up to go home. Like a thief in the night, he slips out taking all he has acquired and a little more. Uncle Laban goes looking for Jacob, intending to kill him. But one night on the trail, the Lord drops in through a dream and tells Laban, “You’d better not touch a hair on Jacob’s head.” So, when Laban catches him, instead of killing Jacob, Laban whines: “I can’t believe you would leave without kisses and good-byes, or let me throw a farewell party, and YOU STOLE MY GODS! I want them back.” After Laban searches and cannot find his missing idols with Jacob’s tribe – don’t you hate it when you lose your gods – (Rachel secretly stole and packed them in her saddle) they all kiss, say goodbye, and make a covenant not to harm each other. July 24, 2011: Laban’s Newlywed Game Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Remember last week – Jacob’s on the lam – running for his life from his brother who wants to kill him. He’s deceived his brother and his father. Now he’s running – to find a wife. Jacob retires after a long day, goes to sleep, and meets the Lord in a dream who tells him he’s given the Promise. The next morning he’s so excited he makes an outdoor chapel. Finally, He finally arrives in Haran, hometown for his mom, Rebekah – and his destination. What follows is a Yogi-ism: “It’s déjà vu all over again,” from whom we also have: “When you come to a fork in the road…take it.” That’s Yogi Berra, a poet, wise sage, and former major league baseball player. July 17, 2011: Keeping and Scattering the Promise Last week Isaac and Rebekah are newlyweds. Twenty years later, today, they are childless. Isaac keeps hoping. They keep trying, until the day he applies for Medicare only to find pediatrics is not covered. When our options have been exhausted – we’ve tried everything, what then do we do? We pray. “Lord, the clock’s ticking. We still have no child,” Before he ends the prayer, the narrator says Rebekah is with child. What’s been the problem? Was the Lord just waiting to be asked? June 19, 2011: Trinity Sunday You’d think with four priests, I wouldn’t have to preach Trinity Sunday five straight years. But I did. Trust me – explaining what the Trinity means is not as easy as it sounds. God in three persons; three in one, one in three – in a world where for many God isn’t even one – it’s pretty interesting territory. June 5, 2011: Arisen Again Seventh Sunday of Easter “Alleluia. Christ is risen – again!” Did you know Jesus is twice risen? Easter and then forty days later his apostles watch him lift off and rise through the clouds to be with the Father in heaven, where ever that is. It’s called the Ascension. It rates little more than a yawn in the church. Try finding a Happy Ascension Day card at Hallmark to send a friend. It’s a tough story to explain in a world where about all that rises is the cost of gas and taxes. Become children of God The Dream of Joseph One who is more powerful than I 914 East Knapp Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 © 2020 St. Paul's Church.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line727
__label__wiki	0.583773	0.583773	Perin, Dolores Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University DOLORES PERIN is associate professor of psychology and education, coordinator of the Reading Specialist Program, and senior researcher at the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include policy, curriculum, and instruction for academically underprepared adolescent and adult students. Her publications include �Institutional Decision-Making for Increasing Academic Preparedness in Community Colleges� (2005) and �Effects of Text, Domain and Learner Variables on the Academic Writing of Developmental Reading Students� (2003; A. Keselman and M. Monopoli, coauthors). Can Community Colleges Protect Both Access and Standards? The Problem of Remediation Dolores Perin - 2006 A large number of community college students have difficulty with postsecondary-level reading, writing, and math demands, necessitating remedial education. This often leads to a struggle between the access mission of the traditionally open-door community college and the drive to protect educational standards. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part I: Introduction Case material from a study of curriculum and pedagogy for integrated instruction in seven community colleges across the U.S. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part II: Linked Courses at Sigma Community College The second in a series of nine articles reporting on case studies of the integration of academic and occupational courses in community colleges. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part III: Linked Courses at Alpha Community College An examination of linked academic and occupational courses in a community college. The third in a series of nine articles reporting on case studies of the integration of academic and occupational courses in community colleges. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part IV: Learning Community at Epsilon Community College An examination of a learning community for pre-nursing students at a community college. The fourth in a series of nine articles reporting on case studies of the integration of academic and occupational courses in community colleges. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part V: Infused Occupational Courses at Gamma Community College A look at infused occupational courses in a community college. The fifth in a series of nine articles reporting on case studies of the integration of academic and occupational courses in community colleges. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part VI: Infused Occupational Courses at Omega Community College The case of integrating writing-across-the-curriculum into occupational courses at a community college. The sixth in a series of nine articles reporting on case studies of the integration of academic and occupational courses in community colleges. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part VII: Infused Academic Courses at Lambda and Rho Community Colleges A look at two infused academic courses, ESL for Allied Health and Communications II. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part VIII: Classroom Techniques for Integrating Literacy Instruction An examination of the wide variety of activities used by community college instructors to contextualize reading and writing for occupational students. Curriculum and Pedagogy for Academic-Occupational Integration in Community Colleges: Illustrations from an Instrumental Case Study - Part IX: Conclusions and Recommendations The conclusion to the nine-part series. Academic-Occupational Integration as a Reform Strategy for the Community College: Classroom Perspectives A case study examines the integration of academic and occupational education in community colleges. Consideration of benefits and obstacles suggests that this reform has potential for improving both general and career-related education.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line733
__label__cc	0.741754	0.258246	Shad - "Rose Garden" f. Lisa Lobsinger x "A Good Name" x "Call Waiting" One of hip hop's better kept secrets hails from our neighbor to the north. I first heard Canadian-raised Shadrach Kabango when he opened for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in New York a couple years back. Based on his incredible live set, I immediately copped his 2010 album TSOL and haven't been disappointed by what I've heard from Shad since. The son of Rwandan immigrants, Shad is a natural storyteller who uses playful lyrics to convey at times deep, powerful messages over a classic golden age sound. Despite some of the deeper songs, he never comes across as preachy and is one of my favorite Canadian emcees along with Saukrates. Of these three, "A Good Name" is probably my favorite. It sees Shad take pride in his origins, tracing his given name back to the Biblical Shadrach (Saved by a faith stronger than flame/ If I'm half as brave, then I'll honor my name) before tracing his surname back to Rwanda and his own father. It's a great song off a great album. If you like what you here, make sure to cop TSOL and be on the look out for his follow-up, Flying Colours, set to be released sometime later this year. Enjoy. "Rose Garden" "A Good Name" "Call Waiting" Labels: Canada, Lisa Lobsinger, Shad The Physics - "Coronas On Madrona" Nas - "Be Worried" (prod. Swizz Beatz) J. Cole - "N***az Know" Wale - "Sight Of The Sun" (feat. Fun.) Curren$y - "Address (feat. Stalley)" Blue Scholars - "The Long March" Common Market - "Tobacco Road" Living Legends - "Nothing Less" (feat. Slug) Big K.R.I.T. - "If I Fall" (f. Melanie Fiona) x "C... Logic - Welcome To Forever [Review] J. Cole, Big K.R.I.T. & Kendrick Lamar - "They Rea... FUPM - "Alright, Alright" x "Dope Out My Window" Champagne Champagne - Champagne Mixtape Champagne Champagne - "The Breaks" x "Four Horseme... Dumbfoundead & DJ Zo - "Zonin" x "No Strings Attac... Clinton Sparks - "Gold Rush" (feat. Macklemore, 2 ... Black Moon - "What Would U Do" (feat. Sean Price) Shad - "Rose Garden" f. Lisa Lobsinger x "A Good N... The-Dream - "IV Play" J. Cole - Born Sinner Artwork x "Shook" KnowMads - "Happy Simples" x "Who Are You?" Kidz In The Hall - "Wheelz Fall Off" x "Day By Day... Sam Lachow presents..."Young Seattle Pt. 2" OutKast - "Last Call" (feat. Slimm Calhoun, Lil' J... 206ness 2013: A Celebration of Seattle Hip Hop [Br... Sol - "Stage Dive" Dyme Def - "Intro-Ducing" x "Conscience" x "DontEv... Childish Gambino - "Sunrise" GMK - "Music Swinger" Khingz - "Southend's Finest" Nissim/D. Black - "Welcome To The Life" (feat. Dym... Introducing... ThisIsTheCarver Fleeta Partee - "Sincerely Yours" (prod. BeanOne) R. Kelly - "Sadie" Common Market - "Certitude" (feat. Chev) Fences - "The Same Tattoos" (Sabzi Remix) Cam'Ron - "Hey Ma" (feat. Juelz Santana) Nas - "My War" feat. Wu-Tang Clan? [Unreleased] Kanye West - The Prerequisite [Unreleased 2001 Dem... J. Cole - "Return of Simba" x Truly Yours The Clipse - "Mama I'm Sorry" x "Mr. Me Too" (feat... Gilbere Forte' - "PRAY" x "Nolita" (feat. Active C... Big Boi, Killer Mike, BlackOwned, C-Bone & Rock D ... Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Make History A-1 - "Summertime Sadness" Snoop Dogg - "Imagine" (feat. Dr. Dre & D'Angelo) Fearce & BeanOne - "I Want It All" Self Scientific - "Leftside" x "Deeper Roots" Nas - "What Goes Around" (feat. Keon Bryce) Blue Scholars - "Second Chapter"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line736
__label__cc	0.571362	0.428638	Dickinson's Real Deal Showells (Talk \| contribs) (→Broadcast) Current revision as of 18:10, 11 June 2019 (view source) Iweaver (Talk \| contribs) (→Trivia) (4 intermediate revisions not shown) == Broadcast == RDF for ITV1, 6 November 2006 to present RDF Television for ITV1, 6 November 2006 to present Christ on a bike, if there was an award for Most Cobbled Together Format of the Year, this is it. Punters arrive at your local town hall, a la the ''Antiques Roadshow''. The objects are quite cheap with personal stories attached, and these are discussed with the valuers a la ''Flog It!''. The antiques dealer makes an offer and the seller has to work out whether to take the money or go to auction, a la [[Take Your Pick]] if you like. The result comes up on a graphic marked "DEAL" or "NO DEAL", a la... yup, [[Deal or No Deal]]. Punters arrive at your local town hall, a la the ''Antiques Roadshow''. The objects are quite cheap with personal stories attached, and these are discussed with the valuers a la ''Flog It!''. The antique dealer makes an offer and the seller has to work out whether to take the money or go to auction, a la [[Take Your Pick]] if you like. The result comes up on a graphic marked "DEAL" or "NO DEAL", a la... yup, [[Deal or No Deal]]. The list of missed opportunities to inject some fun into the format is really quite staggering: 1) Many of the objects are well under £100, so the losses and gains are not very big.<br> #Many of the objects are well under £100, so the losses and gains are not very big.<br> 2) The dealers have to tell the truth to the sellers, so there's no chance of the dealers trying to bluff the contestants in any way.<br> #The dealers have to tell the truth to the sellers, so there's no chance of the dealers trying to bluff the contestants in any way.<br> 3) If the dealers do try to offer a low price, Dickinson comes over and sticks his oar in, thus ruining any decision making process the 'contestants' have to make.<br> #If the dealers do try to offer a low price, Dickinson comes over and sticks his oar in, thus ruining any decision-making process the 'contestants' have to make.<br> 4) The dealers hardly ever offer too much, so it's rare for people to 'lose out' by going to auction. After all, dealers are buying at wholesale prices.<br> #The dealers hardly ever offer too much, so it's rare for people to 'lose out' by going to auction. After all, dealers are buying at wholesale prices.<br> 5) If the item is sold to the dealer, it's not put through an auction or a shop anyway so we never know whether they got a good deal or not. Only a brief occasional snatch of Dickinson's voiceover gives us any indication of whether the price was fair.<br> #If the item is sold to the dealer, it's not put through an auction or a shop anyway so we never know whether they got a good deal or not. Only a brief occasional snatch of Dickinson's voiceover (from series 2, Claire Harman's) gives us any indication of whether the price was fair.<br> 6) If they do decide to go to auction, they can put a reserve price on it so it's virtually impossible for there to be a big loss.<br> #If they do decide to go to auction, they can put a reserve price on it so it's virtually impossible for there to be a big loss.<br> 7) After the end of the auction, the TV company are so stingy they won't even pay for the punters' auction fees + VAT, so David has to take that off manually later which complicates the calculations and makes the game harder to understand (as well as make RDF look like cheapskates). #After the end of the auction, the TV company are so stingy they won't even pay for the punters' auction fees + VAT, so David has to take that off manually later which complicates the calculations and makes the game harder to understand (as well as make RDF look like cheapskates). Also, the on-screen graphics are often wrong and have clearly been added in a rush in the edit. Thanks to David Dickinson's highly watchable on-screen persona and consummate professionalism, the show is not an out-and-out disaster. But it clearly needs to develop its own personality... fast. ''Addendum:'' Fair play to the producers for straightening out a number of the above flaws in series 2. More valuable stuff is used, independent valuations appear on screen, and there's a round-up of what happened to the dealer-bought artefacts at the end of the show. And, in the celebrity programmes at least, the auctioneers donate their pound of flesh to a nominated charity. RDF, please send your consultancy fee to the usual address. ''Addendum:'' Fair play to the producers for straightening out a number of the above flaws in series 2. More valuable stuff is used, independent valuations appear on screen, and there's a round-up of what happened to the dealer-bought artifacts at the end of the show. And, in the celebrity programmes at least, the auctioneers donate their pound of flesh to a nominated charity. RDF, please send your consultancy fee to the usual address. [[Category:Antiques]] [[Category:RDF Productions]] [[Category:Long-Running]] [[Category:Current]] Current revision as of 18:10, 11 June 2019 Voiceover: Claire Harman (2007-) Punters arrive at your local town hall, a la the Antiques Roadshow. The objects are quite cheap with personal stories attached, and these are discussed with the valuers a la Flog It!. The antique dealer makes an offer and the seller has to work out whether to take the money or go to auction, a la Take Your Pick if you like. The result comes up on a graphic marked "DEAL" or "NO DEAL", a la... yup, Deal or No Deal. Many of the objects are well under £100, so the losses and gains are not very big. The dealers have to tell the truth to the sellers, so there's no chance of the dealers trying to bluff the contestants in any way. If the dealers do try to offer a low price, Dickinson comes over and sticks his oar in, thus ruining any decision-making process the 'contestants' have to make. The dealers hardly ever offer too much, so it's rare for people to 'lose out' by going to auction. After all, dealers are buying at wholesale prices. If the item is sold to the dealer, it's not put through an auction or a shop anyway so we never know whether they got a good deal or not. Only a brief occasional snatch of Dickinson's voiceover (from series 2, Claire Harman's) gives us any indication of whether the price was fair. If they do decide to go to auction, they can put a reserve price on it so it's virtually impossible for there to be a big loss. After the end of the auction, the TV company are so stingy they won't even pay for the punters' auction fees + VAT, so David has to take that off manually later which complicates the calculations and makes the game harder to understand (as well as make RDF look like cheapskates). Addendum: Fair play to the producers for straightening out a number of the above flaws in series 2. More valuable stuff is used, independent valuations appear on screen, and there's a round-up of what happened to the dealer-bought artifacts at the end of the show. And, in the celebrity programmes at least, the auctioneers donate their pound of flesh to a nominated charity. RDF, please send your consultancy fee to the usual address. Curiously, several ITV trailers advertised this in the plural: "Dickinson's Real Deals". Whether this is due to ITV's staff being incompetent or the lawyers of Mr. Endemol (owner of a daytime show with some rather similar elements) breathing down their neck is not known. Some four years after it first aired, the programme got the primetime nod from 16 April 2010, airing 30 minute episodes in the not entirely plum Friday 8pm slot opposite EastEnders. Retrieved from "http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Dickinson%27s_Real_Deal" Categories: Antiques \| RDF Productions \| Long-Running \| Current	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0024.json.gz/line744

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