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__label__cc	0.51558	0.48442	AFL NSW/ACT and the AFL recognises the importance of education as a key driver to shifting attitudes and behaviours, and to achieving better club environments and club culture. AFL NSW/ACT offer community sessions designed to target key social issues, using players and club officials love for football to creative positive change. The AFL has highly trained presenters available to come out to your club to present to the players, coaches and volunteers about creating a strong club culture and shifting the attitudes and behaviours within the club. AFL is passionate about education as it allows clubs to set the highest standards within the community. Sessions available to clubs include: Vilification and Discrimination – Aims to change the language within our clubs so that clubs are inclusive of every background and culture. Respect and Responsibility – Raises awareness and defines the causes and common misconceptions associated with violence against women. The program educates clubs on ways to make people feel safe, to be treated with respect, to be valued and feel accepted for who they are Cyber Bullying and Social Media – Educate and raise awareness of the affects of social media whilst informing of the social responsibilities and the benefits social media can play. Anti- Doping (ASADA) – Provide guidance on what players can and cannot take in relation to WADA/ASADA guidelines. Not just an issue for elite sport, a player from any level of football can be sanctioned, even if they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong. Drugs and Alcohol – Designed to educate on the issues of alcohol and binge drinking and the dangers of illicit drugs use (provided by endorsed service provider). Depression – Educate and raise awareness of the prevalence and impact, casual factors and categories of mental illness that exist across the community. To build the capacity of the AFL industry to recognise the signs, activate early intervention and support those that may be suffering a mental illness (provided by endorsed service provider). Sessions are interactive, engaging and are available to clubs every year. Sessions will be modified for Senior and Youth clubs. To register for a session please email Jacinta Houston at jacinta.houston@afl.com.au with 3 alternate dates and times, the program/s you would like covered and a venue.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1
__label__wiki	0.942771	0.942771	<< 10th December 200812th December 2008 >> Dark Knight Dvd Sales Leads To Blu-ray Boom The DVD release of The Dark Knight has seen a spike in the popularity of Blu-Ray, industry experts have confirmed.The Batman Begins sequel hit the... 11th December 2008 1:06 The Things They Say 10520 "AMY WINEHOUSE, if she ever straightens herself out. I hope she does, because she's a great singer." Veteran singer TOM JONES would love to... Scherzinger 'Insecure' About Figure PUSSYCAT DOLLS star NICOLE SCHERZINGER sticks to a strict exercise regime to shed excess weight - because she refuses to give up her beloved junk... Mccoy Has Baby Fever After Bronx' Birth GYM CLASS HEROES frontman TRAVIS MCCOY has been struck with baby fever since rocker pal PETE WENTZ named him godfather of his newborn son. MCCoy and... Buckley's Posthumous Bid For Number One Fans of late rocker JEFF BUCKLEY are campaigning to take one of his songs to the top of the U.K. charts this Christmas (08). Devotees of the star -... Hanson Star Welcomes Fourth Child Singer TAYLOR HANSON's brood has just got bigger - the rocker and his wife NATALIE have welcome their fourth child. The Hanson frontman, 25, and his... Simpson-wentz Boasts About New Baby ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ has opened up about her new role as mum - weeks after giving birth to her first son with rocker PETE WENTZ. The couple welcomed... Tv On The Radio Top Rolling Stone's Best Album Poll New York indie band TV ON THE RADIO has beat icon BOB DYLAN and rockers COLDPLAY to top ROLLING STONE magazine's Best Albums of 2008 poll. The... Schneider Appeals For Dogs' Return DUKES OF HAZZARD star JOHN SCHNEIDER is appealing for the safe return of two puppies stolen with his car from a California shopping mall. The... Garrison Sued By Parents Of Boy Killed In Drink Driving Accident The parents of a boy who was killed in a tragic drink driving accident involving PRISON BREAK star LANE GARRISON are suing the incarcerated actor for... Fascinating Fact 6524 MILEY CYRUS, MADONNA and BATMAN movie THE DARK KNIGHT were among the most sought-after items on auction website eBay.com in 2008. Alternative singer ALANIS MORISSETTE has amped up her ink - after tattooing a tiger overlay on the script that reads 'gentle' on her left forearm. "VALENTINO loves to sleep. I call him Mr. Peace and Love because he's so chill and serene. MATTEO is more alert and active. He was up at 3am the... "When I got the part, people were like, 'Why you?' And I just remember seeing a L'Oreal advert, and coming out with an American accent, 'Because I'm... "I like wisdom that comes with age. I wouldn't trade it for youth any day." Hollywood actor BRAD PITT is looking forward to turning 45 on 18 December... 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Wentz Baby To Hit The Road Rocker PETE WENTZ is determined to show his newborn baby the world - by taking his son BRONX MOWGLI on tour with him. Wentz and his pop star wife... Scherzinger 'Isolated' In First Band PUSSYCAT DOLL NICOLE SCHERZINGER cried herself to sleep in her early days as a performer - because she couldn't stand the tension between her former... Williams Would 'Love' To Come Back To Take That ROBBIE WILLIAMS has fuelled speculation of a TAKE THAT reunion after announcing he would "love" to perform with his former bandmates again. The... Spears' Circus Tour Will Depict Breakdown BRITNEY SPEARS will dramatise her public meltdown and subsequent recovery in a three-part stage show on her forthcoming world tour, according to a... Adams Almost Ruined Proposal AMY ADAMS came close to sabotaging her fiance's marriage proposal - because she was in a bad mood. The actress announced her engagement to her... Wood Set For Broadway's Spider-man? EVAN RACHEL WOOD is headed for the Broadway stage after reportedly landing the leading lady role in the musical adaptation of box-office smash... Former Ruffalo Suspect Was Hairdresser's Client The woman who was arrested and released in connection with the death of MARK RUFFALO's brother SCOTT was a client of the hairdresser, it has... Singer RIHANNA is set to thrill fans by appearing on the finale of SIMON COWELL's U.K. talent show THE X FACTOR to perform with boyband contestants... "Every time I see my son, it looks like he's landing on the moon and discovering new rocks and stuff. I mean, every time he looks at his hand, it's... Minogue Set For Bollywood Movie? Australian pop star KYLIE MINOGUE is poised to make her Bollywood film debut after reportedly landing a role in the forthcoming movie BLUE. The... "You should wear happy colours!" Millionaire heiress PARIS HILTON offers a plan to fix the current global economic crisis. 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I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I have two records, I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living... Goldie Lookin' Chain Confirm 2009 UK Tour Dates Welsh rap collective Goldie Lookin' Chain have revealed the details of their 2009 UK tour.The Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do stars will take to... Nicole And Hugh Grace Red Carpet At Australia Premiere Antipodean actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman hit the red carpet in London last night for the premiere of their new film Australia.The stars were... Specials Founder Says Reunion Tour Is "A Takeover" Jerry Dammers, one of the founding members of the Specials, has slammed his former bandmates' upcoming reunion tour.The Ska legends recently... Josh Hartnett Accepts £20k Damages Over Daily Mirror Claims Editors 'Inspired By Movies' THE EDITORS have been discussing their forthcoming album, claiming to have been inspired by movie soundtracks.Frontman Tom Smith revealed the band... Coldplay Talk Girls Support COLDPLAY have been discussing their decision to have GIRLS ALOUD support them next year.It was recently announced that the hugely-popular girlband... Robbie Williams: I'd Love To Be In Take That Again Former boyband member Robbie Williams has admitted he is delighted at Take That's current success and would "love" to rejoin the group.Williams left... 50 Cent: 'I'm A Success Junkie' 50 CENT is addicted to making his mark as a music mogul - insisting he is a success "junkie". The In Da Club hitmaker has proved his entrepreneurial... Houston Denies Remarriage To Brown WHITNEY HOUSTON has denied reports she's planning to remarry ex-husband BOBBY BROWN. The couple ended their 15-year union in 2007, but recent... Corgan: 'We Will Quit Making Albums' SMASHING PUMPKINS have vowed never to make another album - because frontman BILLY CORGAN is sick of fans only listening to their favourite tracks. ... Carey Fuels Pregnancy Reports With 'Cancelled Tour' MARIAH CAREY's pregnancy rumours refuse to go away - she has reportedly scrapped plans for a forthcoming tour to prepare for her first child. The... Dammers Accuses The Specials Of 'Driving Him Out' Of Reunion Legendary musician JERRY DAMMERS has slammed his former THE SPECIALS bandmates' 2009 reunion plans - insisting he has been "driven out" of their... Dicaprio Warns Young Stars To Keep Acting Actor LEONARDO DiCAPRIO has warned the next generation of movie stars to ignore the hype and focus on their careers - as fame can quickly fade. The... Aniston Jokes About 'Insane' Relationship With Jolie/pitt JENNIFER ANISTON has poked fun at the constant media interest in her relationship with ex-husband BRAD PITT and his new partner ANGELINA JOLIE -... Paltrow Plans U.k. Christmas 'To Save Marriage' GWYNETH PALTROW will snub Christmas in her native America for the sake of her marriage to COLDPLAY rocker CHRIS MARTIN, according to U.S. reports. ... Hartnett Accepts Libel Damages Over Newspaper's Lies Hollywood actor JOSH HARTNETT has accepted libel damages of $30,000 (GBP20,000) from a British newspaper over an untrue story of a "sexual dalliance"... RUSSELL SIMMONS is selling jewellery to help raise money for the development and empowerment of Africans. Proceeds from the sales of his Green... Former PULP star JARVIS COCKER is to guest edit revered BBC Radio 4 show Today between Christmas (08) and the New Year. Rocker RYAN ADAMS has been promoted to staff writer on America's BlackBook magazine after he completed a internship at the fashion and culture... Wonder To Come Dancing? Blind soul superstar STEVIE WONDER is in talks to dance with the stars! The Sir Duke hitmaker has been approached to become the first blind... "If he asked me I would say yes." Socialite KIM KARDASHIAN is hoping for a Christmas engagement to American footballer REGGIE BUSH. Carrey Learnt Korean For New Film Hollywood actor JIM CARREY mastered basic Korean for his new movie YES MAN. The funnyman had to converse in Korean with a bridal saleswoman for a... Streep Scared To Take New Roles Hollywood star MERYL STREEP still gets insecure when she takes on a new movie role. The veteran actress has been nominated for an Academy Award 14... Animated Film Wins Prestigious Award WALL-E has become the first animated movie to be named Best Film of The Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics. The futuristic robot in space film... Wilson Was Desperate To Befriend Aniston OWEN WILSON felt under pressure meeting his MARLEY + ME co-star JENNIFER ANISTON - because he was so desperate for her to like him. The Wedding... Lewis Honoured With Humanitarian Oscar Veteran comedian JERRY LEWIS will be honoured with an Academy Award for his humanitarian work at next year's (09) Oscars ceremony. The 82 year old... Rowling Ends Twilight Writer's Reign At The Top Of U.s. Book Chart HARRY POTTER creator J.K. ROWLING has ended TWILIGHT writer STEPHENIE MEYER's stranglehold on the top of the U.S. book charts. The Tales of Beedle... "We got pretty naked. That was kind of a good day of filming. That's where I got to say, 'It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it'." OWEN... "Never say no, but I don't think it's gonna happen, and besides, I'm dead." KEANU REEVES can't imagine another MATRIX movie. "Sam was always using my eyeliner pencils. He always had a lot of make-up on. He would spend hours longer in the make-up room than me." SCARLETT... Heath Ledger Nominated For Posthumous Golden Globe His iconic portrayal of The Joker has earned the late Heath Ledger a posthumous nomination for a Golden Globe award.More follows11/12/2008 13:49:16 Frost/nixon And Benjamin Button Up For Five Golden Globes Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are the frontrunners for the 2009 Golden Globes, with five nominations each.Both films are named... Ledger Leads Golden Globe Nominations Late actor HEATH LEDGER has earned a posthumous nomination for his role as The Joker in BATMAN movie THE DARK KNIGHT at the 2009 Golden Globe... In Treatment + Recount Lead Golden Globe Tv Nominations Acclaimed psychotherapy drama IN TREATMENT and election thriller RECOUNT lead the TV nominations for the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. Both shows... Mgmt Beat Glasvegas And Kings Of Leon In Best Album Poll Brooklyn duo MGMT's debut album has been voted the best of 2008 in a music magazine poll.Oracular Spectacular topped NME's list of the top ten albums... Bon Jovi Never Used Accused Lawyer In an article headlined "Bon Jovis Former Lawyer Arrested For Fraud", we reported claims that Marc Dreier, a New York attorney currently under... Madonna + Ritchie Still Battling Over Children MADONNA and her ex-husband GUY RITCHIE are still locked in a fierce custody battle over their children, according to U.K. reports. The couple... Bon Jovi Land 2008'S Highest Grossing Tour Rockers BON JOVI have beaten out competition from BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and MADONNA to secure the highest grossing tour of 2008. The Livin' On A Prayer... Lavigne Fires Her Manager Pop star AVRIL LAVIGNE has reportedly fired her management company in a bid to revive her flagging career. The Canadian singer's last album, 2007's... Wentz In 'Struggle To Sell' Baby Snaps ASHLEE SIMPSON-WENTZ and her rocker husband PETE WENTZ are reportedly struggling to entice U.S. celebrity magazines to buy snaps of their newborn... Belafonte Removes 'Wrongly Acquired' Luther King Documents From Auction Singer/actor HARRY BELAFONTE has withdrawn rare documents linked to MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. from an auction after the civil rights leader's estate... Culkin's Sister Dead HOME ALONE star MACAULAY CULKIN's sister has died after she was hit by a car. Dakota Culkin, 29, was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after the... Late actor HEATH LEDGER has earned a posthumous Golden Globe nomination for his role as The Joker in BATMAN movie THE DARK KNIGHT. The Australian... R+B singer MONICA is launching her own line of children's clothes, named Regions of Rock. Britney Goes Blond? Designers PHILLIPPE and DAVID BLOND are set for a Christmas bonus - BRITNEY SPEARS is considering signing them up as the official costumers for her... "I'm not enamoured with youth. There isn't wisdom in youth. I'm not particularly vain, I get ready in five minutes. I'm not always looking in the... Springer: 'I'm Talentless' JERRY SPRINGER is amazed his career is a success - because he has "no talent" for entertaining. The TV host started out in politics before moving to... Stone Plans Chavez Documentary Film maker OLIVER STONE's next movie will be a documentary about Venezuelan president HUGO CHAVEZ. Fresh from the release of his biopic of U.S.... Aniston Strips Nude JENNIFER ANISTON shows she still looks fabulous on the brink of 40, by stripping naked for the front cover of U.S. men's magazine GQ. The former... Carrey Plays Cool Over Movie Set Accident Hollywood star JIM CARREY was more concerned with looking cool than getting medical treatment when he broke three ribs on the set of new movie YES... Aniston: 'Jolie Interview Confirmed My Suspicions' JENNIFER ANISTON has hit out at ANGELINA JOLIE's announcement she fell in love with BRAD PITT on the set of MRS + MRS SMITH - insisting the actress'... Usher Welcomes Second Baby R+B star USHER has become a dad for the second time with wife TAMEKA FOSTER. The couple - who married in 2007 - welcomed a baby boy on Wednesday... Hdtv Sales Keep Up Record Pace Outpacing the recent growth of almost every other consumer technology, high-definition TV sets had been purchased by nearly a quarter of all... Rivals Happy About Leno's Move Some of NBC's rivals expressed confidence Wednesday that NBC's decision to devote its 10 00 p.m. hour to Jay Leno will benefit them. Turner... Networks Paid More To Cover Obama Than Mccain The news media spent a third more on travel during Barack Obama's presidential campaign than it did during John McCain's, according to a study of... Rather Regards Cbs Lawsuit As A Big Story Dan Rather has suggested that he regards his lawsuit against CBS as the story of a lifetime. "There's nothing professionally I like better than... Arab Poetry Contestants Stand To Win $1.4 Millioin Abu Dhabi television launched the third season of Million's Poet Wednesday night, a kind of American Idol for writers of Nabati poetry in which... Sag Strike Vote Due In January The Screen Actors Guild said Wednesday that it plans to hold a strike authorization vote next month, with ballots going out on January 2 and counted... Golden Globe Nominees Announced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , in which Brad Pitt portrays a man who ages backwards, tied for the most Golden Globe nominations today... Milk Wins Ny Film Critics Circe Award The New York Film Critics Circle has named Milk best picture of the year and stars Sean Penn and Josh Brolin best actor and supporting actor... Spears' Holiday Greeting Ruined By Son's Burp BRITNEY SPEARS recorded a Christmas video for all of her fans - but her holiday message was interrupted when her son JAYDEN JAMES accidentally... T-boz' Home In Foreclosure Former TLC singer T-BOZ is the latest star to reportedly face eviction from her home. The $530,000 (GBP355,705) Georgia property owned by the R+B... Sick Minnelli Scraps Broadway Performance LIZA MINNELLI has cancelled a performance of her critically-acclaimed Broadway show "due to health reasons and doctor's orders," according to a... Golf-mad Scarface Loves To Play A Round Rapper SCARFACE has an unlikely new hobby - he's addicted to golf. The star, real name Brad Jordan, fell in love with the genteel game after he... Quo's Uncool Christmas Tune Rockers STATUS QUO are competing for Britain's Christmas number one single with the "uncoolest" song of their 40-year career. The Rockin' All Over... Simmons Slams Tardy Rock Stars KISS star GENE SIMMONS has launched a scathing attack on rock stars who turn up late to their own gigs - as tardiness is disrespectful to the fans. ... Blur: 'Reunion Is Not About Money' The members of newly reformed British band BLUR have denied they only scheduled a reunion tour to boost their bank balances. The Britpop pioneers... Ruffalo Puts Film Career On Hold Hollywood actor MARK RUFFALO has dropped out of his latest movie project following the tragic death of his brother SCOTT. Scott Ruffalo, 39, was... Veteran Ordered To Stay Away From Cruise An Iraq war veteran has been ordered to stay away from TOM CRUISE after allegedly escaping a mental health facility to visit the actor. Edward Kyle... A Christmas charity gig is to be held in London on 21 December (08) to celebrate the life of late THE CLASH frontman JOE STRUMMER. Acts scheduled to... HANNAH MONTANA star MILEY CYRUS is now legal to drive - if she's accompanied by a licensed driver over the age of 25. The 16-year-old passed her... Connor Cruise In Will Smith's New Movie TOM CRUISE's son CONNOR makes an appearance in WILL SMITH's new movie SEVEN POUNDS. The Independence Day star suggested the idea while his movie... Aniston Eyes 30 Rock Slot JENNIFER ANISTON would love to make her guest spot on hit comedy 30 ROCK permanent - she would definitely consider a regular role if she was asked. ... Woodward Returns To Work PAUL NEWMAN's widow JOANNE WOODWARD is coming out of acting retirement, two months after the death of her husband of 50 years. According to the... "I always have shepherd's pie. And the English breakfast. And fish and chips. And I go back with an upset stomach." TV host JERRY SPRINGER loves... "I'm so glad for him! I think it's ironic, all the work that he does (and) that's what he gets nominated for. I think he's done tremendous work so I... "When I got a phone call early this morning, my heart dropped because I thought my nanny was calling in sick!" BROTHERS AND SISTERS actress RACHEL... Mortensen Struggles With Germans And Germany LORD OF THE RINGS star VIGGO MORTENSEN hated playing a Nazi author in controversial new movie GOOD - because he has never been fond of Germans or... Batman Discs Flying Off Shelves Three million copies of Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight were sold on Tuesday, the first day of its DVD and Blu-ray release, Warner Home Video announced... Trade Review Valkyrie Will Be "Modest Success" Despite numerous predictions that the Tom Cruise historical drama Valkyrie , about the plot to assassinate Hitler during World War II, would become a... Jolie + Pitt Get Double Golden Globe Nods BRAD PITT and partner ANGELINA JOLIE have something more to celebrate this holiday season - the pair have issued thanks for their 2009 Golden Globe... Dark Knight Dvd Breaks New Record THE DARK KNIGHT has broken a new record after DVD sales soared to nearly 3 million in the U.S., Canada and Britain - three days after its release. ... Minogue Duets With Fan Pop star KYLIE MINOGUE made a young fan's dreams come true by inviting an Australian girl onstage to sing a duet during the launch of her new... Cowell Urges Williams Not To Rejoin Take That Music mogul SIMON COWELL has advised ROBBIE WILLIAMS not to rejoin his former bandmates in TAKE THAT. The pop star - who quit the group in 1995 -... Pearl Jam To Re-release Hit Debut Album Rockers PEARL JAM are re-releasing their debut album TEN next year (09), 18 years after the band helped pioneer the grunge music scene. The LP has... Nine Inch Nails Plan Hiatus Rockers NINE INCH NAILS' current tour will be their last set of live performances "for the foreseeable future", frontman TRENT REZNOR has revealed. ... Usher Names Baby Boy Naviyd R+B star USHER and his wife TAMEKA FOSTER have named their newborn baby boy NAVIYD ELY RAYMOND The couple welcomed their second son into the world... "Honestly, I had no clue that these things were today. I was in dead sleep. I heard voices on my answering machine. I thought 'That's weird, somebody... Malkovich To Play Serial Killer In Austrian Play JOHN MALKOVICH is gearing up to play a real-life Austrian serial-killer in an experimental new musical play. According to reports, the actor will... Somers Sued Over Restaurant Venture Actress SUZANNE SOMERS is facing a $400,000 (GBP267,000) lawsuit filed by a former business partner over a restaurant venture that went sour. John... Johansson And Caine Preach Peace At Nobel Concert Hollywood stars SCARLETT JOHANSSON and SIR MICHAEL CAINE used their appearances at the Nobel Peace Concert in Norway on Thursday (11Dec08) to appeal...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line12
__label__wiki	0.843025	0.843025	Follow The White Album The White Album Quick Links News Video Press RSS The White Album Quick Links News Video Press RSS A Week In Music - The Cribs Look Back Over A Decade, Palma Violets Cause A Stir, Adam Ant's Awkward Return, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hitting The Road By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 28 January 2013 The Cribs Palma Violets Shout Out Louds Bastille Matthew Herbert The White Album The Joy Formidable Adam Ant Sinkane Darwin Deez Yeah Yeah Yeahs Selena Gomez Beyonce Knowles A Week in Video... Wakefield’s indie rockers The Cribs release ‘Leather Jacket Love Song,’ a nostalgic look back at their last decade of existence as a band. The video inter-splices archive footage of one of the brothers’ early gigs at Ossett Town Hall in Yorkshire, with the Cribs circa 2013 observing their younger selves. The Cribs’ sounds hasn’t altered a great deal over time, but their popularity seems to show no signs of wavering; their commitment to their DIY roots remains strong and even with Ryan breaking out with his new band Exclamation Pony, we reckon there’s a few years left in The Cribs yet. Palma Violets have been causing a stir, with their accessible, psych-tinged garage rock. The video for ‘Step Up For The Cool Cats’ is a vaguely trippy, home-video style shoot; footage of the band playing is mixed with footage of them driving around in a car together, looking like it’s being played back on an old TV set. The band have gained a lot of attention since playing recent slots with London based Savages. It looks like 2013 could well be their year. Continue reading: A Week In Music - The Cribs Look Back Over A Decade, Palma Violets Cause A Stir, Adam Ant's Awkward Return, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hitting The Road 'The White Album' Announce Arrival With 'Season's End' (Video) By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 24 January 2013 We’re still not sure how Danes 'The White Album' managed to get their moniker past the Bad Band Names committee, but there we go. The group are becoming known for their sweeping, melodic rock – as well, obviously, for deciding to call themselves directly after a Beatles album - and today they revealed the new video for their track ‘Seasons End’. Have a look at it below. The song’s called ‘Seasons End’ plural, but there’s only one time of the year that this is set in; a deepest darkest Scandinavian winter. In it, one of the band is walking around the seemingly shut theme park at night time, possibly in reminiscence of when it was open. There flashback shots to a bright colourful time when the stalls were open and he could buy popcorn, throw balls at objects to win prizes and generally lark about. Continue reading: 'The White Album' Announce Arrival With 'Season's End' (Video) The White Album - Seasons Denmark folk outfit The White Album can now present to you the melancholy video to their wintry track 'Seasons End' which has been taken from their debut six-track EP 'Conquistador' released in September 2012 through Popular Recordings/Tri-Tone. It's a particularly well designed and gripping video featuring actors Henrik Jongdahl and Dines Vesterkaer Slavensky as the man and the boy respectively. Produced by one of the band members Claus Arvad and his filmmaker friends Jakob Nimb Jensen and Thomas Lund, the video features a man walking through a snow covered deserted amusement park and imagining the lights all being on and even buying popcorn at a refreshment kiosk. He also keeps imagining the figure of a young boy playing at the park which is the Brakken amusement park near Copenhagen. The filming is all in slow motion suiting the down-tempo sombreness of the track. The haunting vocals and echoing guitar melody is truly enchanting to the ear and perfect for the wintry season. The idea of the video was a deep mix of emotional contrast as Claus points out, 'There is a fantastic contrast in the warmth of the lights VS the cold and ghost-town like feel of the deserted, dark and snow covered amusement park.' Bands Index: 0 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line13
__label__cc	0.599322	0.400678	Posted on September 30, 2014 by awfblog On the broadcast today we had Dr Ruth Tarantine,with Eldercare Navigators LLC, and she talked about her book:Against All Odds: How to Move from Provider-Centered Care to Patient-Centered Care! Our second guest was William Gary, Executive Vice President of Cuyahoga Community College’s Workforce and Economic Development Division, and he talked about Northeast Ohio’s Economy and How to Build it! http://www.awfradio.com/september14/AWF09-30-14.mp3 On the broadcast today we had John D Baker, Assistant General Organizer of the International Longshoremen’s Association(ILA), AFL-CIO, President Emeritus of the Great Lakes District Council of the ILA,and he talked about the Port of Cleveland and Ocean Ships and Containers, Automation, and the St. Lawrence Seaway! On the radio program today we had Professor Sherry Linkon, Working Class Perspectives Blog, and she talked about 3 recent Blogs that dealt with Work and Politics!Our second guest was Stan Johnson, International Secretary-Treasurer of The United Steelworkers Union(USW), and he talked about the USW’s latest Passenger and Light Truck Tire case against Chinese Imports! On the radio broadcast today we had Bill Samuel, Director of Government Affairs for the AFL-CIO, and he talked about What to Expect in The “Lame Duck” and The 114th Congress! Our second guest was Lou Dubose, Editor of The Washington Spectator, and he Talked about Voter Suppression In Georgia! On the broadcast today we had Mark Naymik, Political Columnist for NEO Media Group, and he talked about how a Candidate gets Endorsed by The Plain Dealer and he talked about Political Races in Ohio! Our second guest was Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing(AMM), and he talked about the Future of U.S. Manufacturing! On the Radio show today we had Jeffrey Stoffer, Managing Editor of the American Legion Magazine, and he talked about the October issue and some of the stories being covered including the use of our Military to Fight the Wild Fires out West and Veterans Command Crisis Centers! Our second guest was Al Mixon, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 507, and he talked about Mid Term Elections! On the broadcast today we Dan Troy, Lake County Commissioner, and he talked about several topics including the Transfer of Lost Nation Airport from the City of Willoughby, and the amount of Spending in Local elections but not enough people participating! Our second guest was Larry Willis, Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department of AFL-CIO,and he talked about the Norwegian Air International Decision and AMTRAK Re-authorization! On the broadcast today we had 3 guests!!! Our first guest was Ken Green, CEO and Founder of Union Track, and he talked about their company and how they help Unions Streamline their every-day work load! Our second guest was Jeff Richey. with VFW Post 7647, and he talked about their fued with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine! Our third guest was Andy Douglas, Retired Supreme Court Justice, and he talked more about VFW American Legion Charitable Games Vs The State of Ohio! On the broadcast today we had Steve Fought, Assistant to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, and he talked about Unionizing Fast Food Workers! Our second guest was Jerome Greer Chandler, Author with VFW Magazine, and he talked about Today’s G.I. Bill! On the radio show today we had Dave Jamieson, with the Huffington Post, and he talked about Anti-Union Meetings and Fed Ex opposition to the Union! Our second guest was Matt Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive Magazine, and he talked about several stories including Economic Inequality, President Obama, and Governor Scott Walker!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line15
__label__cc	0.645748	0.354252	Kaiser, major union form not-for-profit for workforce development Kaiser Permanente and a union representing 57,000 of its employees jointly announced on Wednesday a new organization focused on growing the number of certified healthcare workers in California. The not-for-profit group, called Futuro Health, has received $130 million from Kaiser to increase those qualified for skilled healthcare jobs such as medical coders, medical assistants and care coordinators, which face shortages. The new organization was created in response to a four-year agreement Kaiser came to with the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West union in October that included Kaiser establishing a $130 million workforce development program. Futuro Health, which is independent from Kaiser and the union, aims to graduate 10,000 new licensed healthcare workers by 2024. Members of SEIU-UHW are going to help Futuro recruit potential new workers by holding career fairs in California communities, said Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro. She most recently served as executive vice chancellor of workforce and digital futures of California Community Colleges, which includes 115 institutions. Ton-Quinlivan said Futuro wants to raise awareness about the different career options available in healthcare. People are often unaware that there are well-paying healthcare jobs available other than being a physician or nurse. “Around the dinner table there is little discussion … about lab (technicians) or medical scribes,” she said. “The work we have to do is raise the general level of career awareness that these good jobs and good careers” exist. Cost of education to receive certification in these jobs can be a barrier, so the bulk of the $130 million investment from Kaiser will go towards helping students pay for their education, Ton-Quinlivan said. Futuro Health has also partnered with Western Governors University to provide students with competency-based options to make their education more affordable. In addition to building the workforce, Futuro will also focus on helping those currently in skilled healthcare positions advance their careers with additional training and credentialing opportunities. Ton-Quinlivan said Futuro hopes to expand its services to other states in the future. “Initially, Futuro Health will focus on California but we know the shortages are nationwide … so our intent is to do the work here first, to gain experience, and then if we do it right, open the doors to others outside of California,” she said. Juul’s greatest threat isn’t Trump Arizona now has misgivings about Purdue opioid settlement Obamacare is stronger than ever — and a Trump-backed lawsuit could destroy it. What are Medicare and Medicaid? US rejects Idaho Medicaid expansion waiver request White House abruptly cancels meeting with vaping advocates Bay Area hospital that split with Sutter rebrands as MarinHealth	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line17
__label__cc	0.626127	0.373873	Industry Shows NRA Products Shot Show Products Rifle Gallery Guns and Accessories AR Parts Kit Pistol Gallery Suppressor Gallery Holster Gallery Grips Gallery Women and Guns Wyoming Hunting Property Just Plinking Hollywood & Pop Tactics & Tips Gun Show Calendar Precision Long Range Shooting and the Coriolis Effect You may not be taking this into Account in Precision Long Range Shooting If you’re into long range shooting, its important to understand how the “Coriolis effect” affects your shot at 1000 yards or greater. The Coriolis effect is the rotation of the earth and the movement of a target downrange from the shooter. This is another element that a long distance shooter has to consider for along with wind, rain, snow, distance, elevation and a many other factors. Accounting for all these factors signifies the skill sets needed for precision long range shooting. Below highlighted is the simple layman’s term and explanation from Jeremy Winters of Gunwerks, he also demonstrates taking a shot from 1000 yards out to the west and easterly direction. “if you’re shooting West, your target’s gonna rotate up and towards us, which is gonna cause the bullets to hit lower.” “if you’re facing east, the target’s going to be dropping and slightly moving away, which is gonna cause the hits to be higher.” Jeremy points out these small errors can cause huge misses at greater distances than 1000 yards if you don’t pay attention to. It is one more element that a long distance shooter has to account for along with wind, rain, snow, distance, elevation and a myriad of other factors. Hi I’m Jeremy Winters, Product specialist here at GunWerks. Today we’re going to go over one of the common issues guys have when collecting data to either build a drop chart, or build a ballistic compensator like we use on our systems. We field hundreds of calls a month where guys cannot re-verify their data once they’ve shot one day and go out and try to return the same data -let’s say- a week later. And one of the common issues is -that we see- is the Coriolis effect, and what guys are not doing is taking into account the effect that this can have on your shooting at longer ranges. Now real quick, let’s explain the Coriolis effect in laymen’s terms: The Coriolis effect that when the bullet leaves from the gun, it is actually leaving the surface of the earth, so as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, the Earth is still rotating, and the bullet is not rotating with the Earth, so the Earth will actually rotate from out the underneath of the bullet while it is in flight. So as the Earth rotates, it actually rotates from the West to the East. So what that’s gonna do to our targets is, is if you’re shooting west, your target’s gonna rotate up and towards us, which is gonna cause the bullets to hit lower. And if you’re facing east, the target’s going to be dropping and slightly moving away, which is gonna cause the hits to be higher. Now why this is important is, out to a thousand yards, you could have almost a full minute of correction due to Coriolis effect, depending on which direction you sighted in your zero. Now to show you guys just how much effect there’s going to be, we’re going to put on a little shooting demonstration here, I’ve got targets West and East of us, exactly 1000 yards in each direction. So what we’re going to do to prove this Coriolis effect on our rifle here, is we’re going to shoot it out to a thousand to the west, and we’re gonna shoot it out to a thousand on the east, and we’re gonna measure the difference in those group centers. And hopefully it’s gonna show you guys that this kind of error can lead to bigger errors in your drop data. [Shooting] Alright, got three hits on the steel down there, we’re gonna switch directions, switch the bench over, and we’re gonna shoot East now. Alright, we got three more hits on this steel down here, now we’re gonna rack up all our gear and we’re gonna check these out, measure ’em up, show you the results. Alright, we made it down to our target that we shot at the west, this is our west target here. As you can see, they’ve all dropped down quite low. We’ve got eight inches from center to the center of the group, which is a little lower than we expected, but we were dealing with some pretty stiff mirage, so we’ve got a nice little group here, we’re gonna pack up this target and head down to our target that we shot to the east, and we’ll compare the two groups, and show you the difference of just switching directions. That’s all we did. We switched from West to East. Alright, we’ve made it down to our target on the East target, now, and as you can see, they’re not quite too high, we’ve got about three inches, maybe three-and-a-half to the center of the group above bulls-eye, so if we compare this to our other target, we’re three inches high here, we’re eight inches low there, that’s eleven inches, just over a minute of difference between just shooting from the west to the east. Now how does this affect you and your data? One minute with this seven LRM that we’re shooting, at a thousand yards, is worth 70 feet per second if you were trying to develop drop data, and that could make huge differences in your drop data and your custom turret if you were actually to figure the data shooting east and west. So the tip today is, always do the data either North and South, that will eliminate Coriolis up and down, or know how much effect that has on it, and take that into account on your ballistic data. 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__label__wiki	0.687735	0.687735	Tickets / Sponsorship Patrick Daniel Patrick Daniel held the position of President and CEO of Enbridge Inc from January 2001 to October 2012. Pat's energy experience spans over 40 years. His background includes process engineering, information technology, business development, and corporate planning with Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas and Enbridge (and its predecessor companies). He was responsible for the start-up of Enbridge's technology and consulting business unit, its international division, and its expansion into the Natural Gas business. As CEO, Patrick led Enbridge's entry in wind, solar and geothermal energy. During his tenure as CEO, Enbridge was named Canada's most sustainable corporation and always among the Top 100 in sustainability in the world. Pat is currently the Chair of Cenovus Energy Inc. and Director at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Capital Power. He also chairs the North American Review Board of Air Liquide. Pat is an active industry and community volunteer. He chairs the Daniel Family Foundation, a philanthropic charitable organization and volunteers with the Light Up the World charity. He has travelled to three continents on projects to bring energy to those who cannot afford it. The Daniel Family Foundation supports the Perimeter Institute, University of Calgary Psychosocial Oncology, Outward Bound Canada, Servants Anonymous, University of Alberta, and students at the University of British Columbia and McGill University. In 2007, Pat was named Canadian Energy person of the year by the Energy Council of Canada. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Business Leader Award from the University of Calgary and the Chamber of Commerce. Patrick was named 2010 Resource Person of the Year by the Alberta Chamber of Resources. In 2011, he was awarded Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year Award as chosen by an independent national advisory board. In 2013, he was named Canadian Business Leader of the Year as awarded by the University of Alberta. Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science Alberta Business Hall of Fame - Southern Alberta Laureates Aldred, P. John Anderson, James Carl Beddoe, Clive J. Bell, Max Bissett, David Brawn, Bob Burns, Patrick Cobbe, Murray Cross, Alfred Ernest Cumming, Geoff Daniel, Patrick D. Dielwart, John Donald, Jack C. Donadeo, Lorenzo Fong, Chen Forzani, John M. Galvin, Edward Gallagher, John E. P. George, Rick Grad, Stan Harvie, Eric L. Haskayne, Richard Francis Hotchkiss, Harley Johnson, David Kahanoff, Sydney Kvisle, Hal Libin, Alvin G. MacPhail, Keith Mannix, Fredderick Charles Markin, Allan McCaig, J.R. (Bud) McNally, Edward Mitchell, David E. O’Brien, David Palmer, James Ramsay, Doug Rozsa, Theodore Riddell, Clayton (Clay) Scurfield, Ralph T. Seaman, Daryl K (Doc) Shaw, JR Shouldice, S.P. Southern, Margaret Southern, Ronald D. Stollery, Gordon Taylor, Donald Van Wielingen, Mac Wenzel, Cal Werklund, David P. West, Suzanne Westman, Jay Woitas, Clayton Wood, Gerry Yuill, Bill Copyright © 2020 Alberta Business Hall of Fame - Southern Alberta. All Rights Reserved. Developed by Blue Ocean Interactive	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line31
__label__wiki	0.536523	0.536523	What is Quantum Mechanics? Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics; it was developed between 1900 and 1930, and it explains the behavior of sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules and nuclei. Attempts to combine it with the general and special theory of relativity leads to new and revolutionary types of theories. Experimental evidence forced the creation of new concepts, like the particle properties of radiation, the wave properties of matter, the quantization of physical properties, or the idea that one can no longer know exactly where a single particle such as an electron is at any one moment. Some of the basic insights of quantum mechanics. Short timeline of the discoveries. The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves. (Particle/wave dualism) Energy is not continuous, but quantized: it comes in small but discrete units. Particle movement is inherently random, and can only be described by a probability wave function. Uncertainty principle: It is physically impossible to know the location and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The quantum world is extremely different from the world we live in. See also the following articles: Quantum Nonlocality 1901 Planck Blackbody radiation 1905 Einstein Photoelectric effect 1913 Bohr Spectra theory 1922 Compton Photon scattering 1924 Pauli Exclusion principle 1925 de Broglie Matter waves 1926 Schroedinger Wave equation 1927 Heisenberg Uncertainty principle 1927 Davison & Wave properties of Germer electrons 1927 Born Interpretation of the wavefunction Interactive guide to quantum mechanics, Kansas State University Qubit News: News and information for the quantum community Quantum teleportation research, IBM Quantum mechanics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New Scientist, Quantum World Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics Stephen Hawking’s explanation of creation of matter and energy Higgs Boson – How Particles Acquire Mass Vacuum Fluctuations	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line37
__label__wiki	0.74243	0.74243	The Tall Man Darren Dale Tony Krawitz Feature Documentary (84 mins) Blackfella Films Pty Ltd Press Kit: Watch on DocPlay Festival Screenings When Cameron Doomadgee was found dead in the Palm Island police station, his injuries were like those of someone who’d been in a fatal car crash. The police claimed he had tripped on a step. The Palm Islanders rioted and burnt down the police station. The subsequent trial of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley – who had been decorated for his work in Aboriginal communities – made headlines day after day, shadowed by Queensland police threatening to strike. THE TALL MAN tells the gripping story of the trial, of the complex Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, and of the Doomadgee family as they struggle to understand what happened to their brother. Atmospheric, gritty and original, The Tall Man takes the viewer into the courtroom, into the once notorious Queensland police force, and into the Indigenous community of Palm Island of Australia’s Far North – places where people live lives like no others, have a relationship with the land like no others, and a history, culture and a catastrophic present like no others. This is Australia, but an Australia few of us have seen. Based on the book The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper. Wednesday 2nd March 2011 AWGIE Awards 2011 WINNER AWGIE Award for Best Documentary, Public Broadcast AACTA Awards 2011 NOMINATED Award for Best Feature Length Documentary NOMINATED Award for Best Direction in a Documentary NOMINATED Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary NOMINATED Award for Best Editing in a Documentary ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival 2011 WINNER Award for Best Documentary Walkley Awards 2011 WINNER Inaugural Award for Long-form Journalism: Documentary Australian Writers Guild Awards 2011 NOMINATED Award for Best Public Broadcast Documentary Category Adelaide Film Festival (2011) Toronto International Film Festival (2011) International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (2011) Palm Springs Film Festival (2012) ImagineNative Film Festival (2011) Brisbane International Film Festival (2011) For access to bonus online features including video extras and further information on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody please visit www.sbs.com.au/shows/thetallman ATOM Study Guide Enhance TV A fearless Indigenous senator, barely weeks into her political career in Canberra, and betrayed at the highest level, must seek redemption and settle a score against the party, and the Prime Minister of Australia. HOW ‘MAD’ ARE YOU? Ten Australians spend a week together. Five have a history of mental illness. Five do not. The question is – Who’s Who? FILTHY RICH & HOMELESS 2 Five high profile Australians swap their privileged lives to discover what life is like for the nation’s 116,000 people who are experiencing homelessness. Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstaking but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives. FILTHY RICH & HOMELESS Five wealthy Australians give up their lavish lifestyles for ten days to discover what life is like for the nation’s 105,000 homeless people. FIRST CONTACT 2 28 days. Six well-known Aussies. One life-changing journey. Deep Water: The Real Story Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s a murderous epidemic grips Sydney. A Thriller in Four Chapters, Inspired by True Events. DNA Nation Who are we? And where do we come from? Ready For This A story of six teenagers, all elite in within their own field, who have come to live at Arcadia House to pursue their dreams. site by the solid state	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line39
__label__wiki	0.704428	0.704428	9d4b21c6-35a8-4ce7-97b5-772a310620b6 Credit (GSO) Hedge Fund Solutions (BAAM) Tactical Opportunities Blackstone Charitable Foundation Why Blackstone LP Login Transparency & Disclosure Japan Disclaimer Blackstone Charitable Foundation Announces 2016 Innovation Grant Recipients Feb 8, 2016, 22:24 PM by Paul Wang The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $2 million to non-profit organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and support promising entrepreneurs. Now in its fourth year, the Blackstone Innovation Grants program supports innovative regional initiatives and events that foster entrepreneurship. Thirteen Organizations Awarded $2 Million to Support Entrepreneurship and Innovation New York, February 8, 2016 – The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $2 million to non-profit organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and support promising entrepreneurs. Now in its fourth year, the Blackstone Innovation Grants program supports innovative regional initiatives and events that foster entrepreneurship. Through these grants, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is helping outstanding organizations pilot, expand or replicate programs and convene high-impact events that will catalyze the growth of successful businesses, industries, and communities in their regions. As part of this program, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is working to create a global network of entrepreneurship-focused organizations across sectors in which participants can share best practices, methodologies and intellectual capital. “Over the past four years, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is proud to support a diverse set of dynamic organizations that complement the work of our Entrepreneurship Initiative and build momentum around entrepreneurship in their regions,” said Amy Stursberg, Executive Director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. “This year’s cohort of Blackstone Innovation Grant recipients have already helped hundreds of companies and entrepreneurs to create over 9,000 jobs – we couldn’t be more excited to support them as they continue that work in the year ahead.” For the 2016 grants, more than four hundred and fifty organizations submitted proposals through a Request for Proposals (RFP) process established by the Foundation for both program and event-focused grants. The reach of the grantees’ programs and events extend across eight U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom, and the entrepreneurs supported by these programs represent communities from across the globe. The grant recipients are: 4.0 Schools (New Orleans, LA and New York, NY), $200,000 – Our grant will support expansion of 4.0's Communities of Innovation program to 10 local ecosystems across the US and expand capacity and diversity of 4.0's entrepreneurship training program for leaders creating breakthrough schools, learning spaces and ed tech companies. Ashoka (London, England), $75,000 – Our grant will fund Ashoka’s Change Maker Summit in November 2016, which convenes world class social entrepreneurs for a two day conference in the UK to share best practices, showcase entrepreneurs global impact and strengthen the Ashoka community of social entrepreneurs and supporters. Coalition for Queens (Queens, NY), $175,000 – Our grant will help catalyze low-income entrepreneurship by funding a product development track within Access Code, a program to teach low income, diverse participants how to develop their own custom-built mobile apps. Idea Village (New Orleans, LA), $100,000 – Our grant will fund Idea Village’s New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week in March 2016, a unique festival experience that celebrates and elevates the New Orleans entrepreneurial ecosystem through a week of entrepreneurship focused programming. Iowa Startup Accelerator (Cedar Rapids, IA), $150,000 – Our grant will fund the next iteration of Iowa Startup Accelerator, an intensive program that matches tech-based startups, with world-class mentors, Midwestern work ethic, seed funding, and development expertise to take entrepreneurs from concept to successful launch in 90 days. Launch Tennessee (Nashville, TN), $75,000 – Our grant will fund Launch Tennessee’s 36 \| 86 conference in June 2016, which brings together top talent from across the south to further the conversation about entrepreneurship, investment and culture, and to identify and highlight some of the top early stage companies throughout a 12 state SE region. Mass Challenge (Boston, MA), $75,000 – Our grant will support the MassChallenge Awards in November 2016, an event which brings together key stakeholders and top entrepreneurs at the conclusion of the 4-month accelerator program to share best practices and pitch their companies for $1.5 million in no-equity cash awards. Rising Tide (Trenton, New Jersey), $200,000 – Our grant will fund the programming and expansion of the Start Something Challenge – a statewide initiative across New Jersey that teaches entrepreneurship to business owners through a yearlong interactive program focused on the power of technology, social media and marketing. Social Capital Markets (San Francisco, CA), $100,000 – Our grant will fund Social Capital Markets’ SOCAP 2016 Conference in September 2016, which convenes a global community to share best practices in entrepreneurship, social enterprise and impact investing. Social Innovation Summit (Washington, DC), $75,000 – Our grant will fund the Social Innovation Summit in June 2016, which brings together cross-sector entrepreneurs and leaders to come together to investigate solutions for the world’s most pressing problems and to catalyze inspired partnerships. TEDWomen (San Francisco, CA), $200,000 – Our grant will fund TEDWomen in October 2016, which will gather some of the world’s most insightful and influential women to celebrate the vital ideas percolating through their dynamic and diverse communities. Through the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s support, TEDWomen 2016 will offer structured opportunities for female entrepreneurs and game-changers to meet, learn and share. Penn Medicine and DreamIt Ventures (Philadelphia, PA), $325,000 – Our grant will fund the Dreamit Health Philadelphia 2016 program. In this cohort, Dreamit will partner with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross to reimagine and expand a world class health care entrepreneurship program. Village Capital (Houston, TX), $250,000 – Our grant will fund the Village Capital Energy: US 2016 program, a three month venture development program that will find, train, and fund US-based entrepreneurs solving major energy problems nationally and globally through a unique peer-selection methodology. About the Blackstone Charitable Foundation The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was founded at the time of Blackstone’s IPO in 2007 with substantial commitments from the Firm’s employees. Influenced by the enterprising heritage of the firm and its founders, The Blackstone Charitable Foundation is directing its resources and applying the intellectual capital of the firm to foster entrepreneurship in areas nationwide and globally. Through its investment expertise across several asset classes and geographies, Blackstone has a unique perspective on the global economy and a heightened understanding of how entrepreneurial activity is often the crucial catalyst in the growth of successful businesses, industries and communities. For more information, see http://www.blackstone.com/foundation. 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__label__cc	0.638092	0.361908	Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, WA Home Inspector (King of the House) Steven L. Smith King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. 1609 East Maplewood Ave, Bellingham, WA, 98225 http://www.activerain.com The Sixties: Kirk Wilde at KPUG Radio, Bellingham, WA Kirk Wilde inset photo. KPUG studios, 1949-1999, located on Sunset Dr. I spent nearly 30 years in radio. My first career was working as a disc jockey, newscaster, program director, operations manager, general manager and a radio station owner. Friends and acquaintances have asked me what factors influenced my decision to enter broadcasting. The personal story told here answers that question. In 1966, Bellingham was a small town with a population of about 27,000. One of my favorite pastimes, being a 14 year old, was biking or walking downtown. Usually, I tied my travels into buying a 19 cent burger and fries at The Shack--an early drive-in, across the street from Bellingham High School, on Cornwall Avenue. The Shack, 1960s, photo credit to Sue Hilton Downtown Bellingham was the hub of the county’s business district; this was 22 years before Bellis Fair Mall was built. Cornwall Avenue, then and now, runs through the center of downtown and it is still one of the most popular streets for retailers. Back then, four anchor stores––J.J. Newberry, J.C. Penney, F.W. Woolworth and the 88 Cent Store—were all situated near one another on Cornwall. During the annual Blossom Time Festival, now known as Ski to Sea, that part of Cornwall would be closed and the carnival would set up rides. Carnival rides on Cornwall Ave, 1964 photo One afternoon in February 1966, I was walking downtown on Cornwall. Music was coming from a loudspeaker on the sidewalk outside Newberry's. The local rock 'n' roll radio station was broadcasting live: a fundraiser for the March of Dimes. I looked in the storefront window and discovered KPUG "live guy" Kirk Wilde behind the microphone. Kirk Wilde, KPUG promotional photo, 1966 In my youth, I seldom listened to the radio or music--but watching Wilde work that day piqued my interest. In junior high school, I was doing well in speech classes and my older Canadian cousin was a successful announcer at a Calgary radio station. After observing Wilde for a half hour, I went home and tuned my radio to KPUG. From that day forward, Kirk's show became my afternoon entertainment. Once, on a weekend, I walked out Sunset Drive to the KPUG studio. Wilde and another deejay, Gary Shannon, were friendly and they explained to this 14 year old kid how he might prepare to someday obtain a radio job. Obviously, Kirk Wilde was a major influence in my decision to enter broadcasting--which took place four years later when I was 18. Happening upon that downtown remote was a fortuitous moment for me, although it was probably predictable since KPUG did more live broadcasts than the other local stations. In those days, KPUG would transport turntables and a microphone to a retail store and a disc jockey (almost all jocks were male back then) would broadcast his show live from that location. 1960s "remote" at Newberry's. KPUG's Dick Stark at the mic Kirk Wilde was a great example of what "top 40 radio" could be. He was one of the most popular and memorable air personalities ever to work in Bellingham. Kirk was high energy, with a fast paced delivery--everything happened with rapid-fire precision. He was funny sometimes, but humor was not his primary focus. Wilde’s occasional on-the-air sidekick was a recording named Julius Funkley. Mainly Julius would belt out, in a high pitched screech, "That's RIGHT." But once, during a student body election at Bellingham High School, Kirk promoted Julius as a write-in candidate for president. The fictional character won, but somehow he was never inducted. In previous blogs, over many years, I have shared a few of my memories of listening to Kirk Wilde. Kirk Wilde, 1973, at KDKO, Denver/Littleton, CO In Bellingham, Wilde's radio show on KPUG was a big deal. We had one rock station in town and, in 1966, AM radio was king. A 50 year old radio survey confirms the audience dominance that Wilde commanded in the local ratings. This was in spite of clear signals that reached the market from other rock stations in Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. During his show, the share of the audience (red circle) was double or better that of all of the competition (percentages displayed in the two right side columns). Barr survey, 1966. Today a dominant station is lucky to achieve even a 7% share Wilde's interest in radio developed in the early 1960s, when he was a student at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. His professional career began at stations in Oregon and Washington. Kirk arrived at KPUG in 1964, but left that same year to work radio jobs in Klamath Falls and Corvallis. Wilde came back to Bellingham, as KPUG’s afternoon deejay and music director, in 1965. In the capacity of music director, Wilde recognized the talent of The Unusuals--a popular Pacific Northwest band. Babe It's Me, their 1966 single, spent several weeks at #1 on the KPUG chart. Kathi McDonald, the group's gutsy female vocalist, became a world-renowned blues and rock singer. After exiting KPUG for the final time in 1966, Kirk was hired by other prominent stations including Everett's KRKO, Seattle's KOL, KSND and KING. His career was mainly spent working top 40 rock formats, but Wilde is very proud of smoothly transitioning into R&B music--he was readily accepted by the predominantly African-American listening audience at KDKO in Denver. Caricature of Kirk Wilde. KDKO, Denver promotional survey Kirk Wilde left radio in 1975, choosing instead to work as a school bus driver. The change in direction provided job security and benefits that were rarely offered at radio stations of that era. Today he is retired and still living in Denver. Kirk keeps up with musical innovations and shares with friends, who belong to an Email group, his knowledge and reviews of both current and older music. At the present time, any of Wilde's original airchecks are unavailable. Therefore, to commemorate the impact he had on my career decision, I have created a custom video montage. It features the top hits from late February 1966--when I first heard Kirk Wilde on the radio. The mid-sixties were interesting times; the British Invasion was upon us and the Beatles, the Stones, Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury hippies, flower power, and psychedelics pervaded popular culture. The hit music of that era was difficult to classify, ranging from teen-oriented pop to soul, country, a patriotic ballad and even mariachi brass. KPUG survey, 1960s flower power art theme Everyone is pressed for time these days, so two short video montages are included here. The first 5 minute quickie counts down the Top 20 hits at KPUG the first time I ever heard Kirk Wilde on the radio. The lower video is shorter still: In 3 minutes it counts down the Top 10 hits only. If you were around in 1966, either one of these videos will be a blast from the past. And, if you're too young to remember the 1960s, you will see and hear some important cultural context. The videos feature photos of Kirk Wilde, the KPUG studio and a KPUG jingle that was aired in 1966. Montage: Top 20 Hits in Five Minutes Salute to '60s DJ Kirk Wilde: 20 KPUG Oldies In Five Minutes from Steven L. Smith on Vimeo. Montage: Top 10 Hits in Three Minutes Salute to '60s DJ Kirk Wilde: 10 KPUG Oldies In Three Minutes from Steven L. Smith on Vimeo. If you enjoy nostalgia and music of yesteryear, click on Elvis' gold record to visit This Day In History. To explore The Stories Behind The Music blog posts click on the electric guitar. 10 comments • Steven L. Smith • November 16 2016 07:38PM What a wonderful tribute. I'm glad you had someone inspire you in such a profound way. Posted by Lauren Williams, CPO, Professional Organizer: Puget Sound homes (Casual Uncluttering LLC) about 3 years ago Thanks Lauren. I enjoyed putting it together. Posted by Steven L. Smith, Bellingham WA Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc.) about 3 years ago I never knew this side of you Steven L. Smith. I too was in radio broadcasting before I got drafted for a very short period. I went to Clover Park Voc. Tech's broadcasting school. Then KLAY for a very short period... Gary Shannon did make it to the Seattle market place and was big for a long time... Posted by Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS, Tacoma Washington Agent/Broker & Market Authority! (RE/MAX Northwest.) about 3 years ago Several other well-known Seattle radio personalities were at Kpug in the mid-sixties. That includes not only Gary but Charlie Brown, then called Harvey Brown; Norm Gregory; and Steve West. Later on in the seventies, Randy Evans from up here changed his name to Ichabod Caine. Pat O'Day at KJR imported all those guys into Seattle. Several announcers who worked at my station, which was country, ended up in radio or TV in larger markets. Best known in Seattle was probably Stubbs, Lorraine in real life, at Kmps. Well written, as usual. Well put together, as usual. A great history, as your history blogs are, as usual. What more can be said!? Posted by Jay Markanich, Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia (Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC) about 3 years ago Jay....thanks for the comments. It was fun to write that, delve into local history that was personal to me. I started writing this when I got sick in April. I am much better now. Sorry if I have not responded to some your past comments, but I had not been getting notifications from AR. I am now. Bruce, had it not been for my stumbling on that "Milk, Motorcycles and Rock N Roll" post of yours more than five years ago, I never would have connected with Kirk. I had tried to figure out where he was prior to that, but your post was the link I needed. Then you had him put me on his music feature and critique list. Since then, with various online content we have added, he comes up quite nicely in the search engines. And that is much deserved, he was good. No luck yet on getting the dust off his old airchecks, but he has indicated that he will try to get to that. He is an excellent writer. I had him check the piece for accuracy and he had great suggestions as to edits and streamlining content. Do checkout the videos, I put lots of effort into those...in some cases editing together bits and pieces of raw internet footage to make complete 30 sec snippets. In most cases, for better quality and lip sync, I stripped the music tracks and replaced or repositioned them. There is even a Kpug jingle there, it was aired from 1966 to 1967. There was a comment problem for a while for everyone I think. It seems to be resolved. Glad you're better. I had a procedure yesterday and it seems to have been fine. No ill effects. In high school in the 60's DJs were like gods to us. Also, living in Oklahoma, at midnight I would turn the transistor radio on becasue I could hear Wolfman Jack broacasting from Del Rio Texas with the transmitter on the Mexican side and outside US jurisdiction. Slways wanted a color photo of jesus Christ, suitable for framin' as the Wolfman used to say. Posted by Joe Pryor, REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties (The Virtual Real Estate Team) about 3 years ago Radio was really fun back then, I got into radio in 1970 and it was still fun for many more years. It was getting sterile by mid eighties. The way it is today, I think I would say no thank you to the career opportunity. Wolfman was a one of a kind legend. He has a biography out, written before Bob Smith (real name as I recall, passed. You should read it...entertaining as heck. Post © 2020 Steven L. Smith, Bellingham WA Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc.). Design © 2020 ActiveRain, Inc. All rights reserved, Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.585518	0.414482	Articles Posted in the " the skin I live in " Category Top 10 Films Named After Songs By Florence Vincent on May 06, 2013 0 comment Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Los Amantes Pasajeros, or I’m So Excited to us English-speaking jerks, is officially out in cinemas everyone! It’s obviously going to be totally weird because it’s by Pedro Almodóvar. Did you guys see that movie, The Skin I Live In? WHAT WAS THAT? Anyway, this film is more or less The Skin I Live In On a Plane. More importantly, though, the film shares its English title with a very famous song by The Pointer Sisters, which got us thinking: what other films out there have famous songs for titles? Turns out, loads. Because nothing in this wretched world is original. Almodóvar to try his hand at sci-fi By Florence Vincent on November 20, 2012 0 comment You know it’s going to be weird. Midnight in Paris and The Descendants triumph at WGA Awards By John Underwood on February 20, 2012 0 comment SO MANY GUILDS The Artist wins all the BAFTAs ever Would you like Steven Spielberg to come over there and lick your toes clean, Michel Hazanavicius? That’s probably the only accolade left. Cheat Sheet: Antonio Banderas By John Underwood on December 06, 2011 0 comment Antonio Banderas is back on our screens in a big way this year, starring in a Pedro Almodóvar film for the first time in two decades and voicing his Shrek character Puss in Boots in a high-profile spin-off. But how much do you know about his winery? EXACTLY. Thank God for you we’ve just written a Cheat Sheet… Nominations announced for 2011 Moët British Independent Film Awards By John Underwood on October 31, 2011 0 comment GO ON GARY Save our independents: Why it’s time to give up on Multiplexes By Duncan Vicat-Brown on September 20, 2011 1 comment Perhaps you’d noticed, but multiplex cinemas are starting to get really, really pricey. This would be fine if the experience was improving, but it’s not. It’s getting worse. After one too many sub-par screenings, maybe it’s time to find somewhere else to get our fix.. Top 5 London Summer Film Events By John Underwood on July 13, 2011 0 comment What do you mean, you haven’t meticulously planned your summer around the amazing film events which are going on all over London? You’re not right, mate. Fortunately, we definitely have organised our getting-burnt-in-the-park sessions so they work around the special screenings we just can’t miss – and if you’re nice, you can peek in our diary. Films to see in August 2011 So after a wet and blustery June and a less than tropical July, it looks like August is going to be no better. So, rather than delay the inevitable, best face facts now: that barbeque is staying in the shed, you’re not going to get a chance to wear that bikini and picnic food tastes rubbish when it’s covered in rain. However, last time we checked cinemas are all rain free! Huzzah! Here’s your pick of what’s to come next month! Second trailer for The Skin I Live In (it still makes no sense) By Natasha Hodgson on June 21, 2011 0 comment Almodovar is a right minx.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.638043	0.361957	FC Hradec Kralove U19 (@1.36) vs 1. FK Pribram U19 (@5.5) FC Hradec Kralove U19 will win FC Hradec Kralove U19 vs 1. FK Pribram U19 FC Hradec Kralove U19 – 1. FK Pribram U19 Match Prediction \| 22-09-2019 05:00 In 15 (88.24%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Zlin U19 average scored 1.37 goals per match in season 2019. Below the text is a list of the direct games. Teams Hradec Kralove U19 Zlin U19 played so far 2 matches.Hradec Kralove U19 won 0 direct matches. In 13 (76.47%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 5.00 goals per Match.Hradec Kralove U19 in actual season average scored 2.15 goals per match. 0 matches ended in a draw. In 13 (76.47%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. In 17 (100.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. 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You can watch Hradec Kralove U19 vs. For the last 15 matches, Hradec Kralove U19 got 9 win, 3 lost and 3 draw with 25 Goals For and 13 Goals Against. The match of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19 in Czech Youth League is started at 2019-5-25 17:03. The average of Goals For is 1.4 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.3 per match. For the last 15 matches, FK Pribram U19 got 7 win, 5 lost and 3 draw with 21 Goals For and 19 Goals Against. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 40%; The rate of win is 47%; The average of corners is 6.8 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -. Hradec Kralove U19 got 2 win, 0 draw and 3 lost with 5 Goals For and 6 Goals Against. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Hradec Kralove U190.0; The initial Goals Odds is 3.0. 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Hradec Kralove U19 got 2 win, 0 draw and 3 lost with 6 Goals For and 7 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 2.7 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.5 per match. For the last 15 matches, FK Pribram U19 got 4 win, 8 lost and 3 draw with 19 Goals For and 29 Goals Against. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 73%; The rate of win is 60%; The average of corners is 6.2 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -. For the last 15 matches, Hradec Kralove U19 got 9 win, 3 lost and 3 draw with 40 Goals For and 23 Goals Against. Everton / Wolves Prediction Slovan Bratislava / Besiktas Prediction Arsenal / Tottenham Prediction Liverpool / Newcastle Prediction Man Utd / Leicester Prediction	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line45
__label__cc	0.547354	0.452646	Issue: Jul, 1962 Tags: environment 3 Comments on BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP (Jul, 1962) BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP (Jul, 1962) BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP By Volta Torrey We use 320 billion gallons of water a day but by 1970 pollutants may cut our ration NOT LONG AGO, a woman in Long Island, N.Y., was filling a cooking pot with water from her kitchen tap. Suddenly the pot foamed over with crisp, white suds. These suds, she knew, were caused by synthetic detergents that had drifted over from neighborhood septic tanks and were adulterating her well. Since the sudsy water is distasteful, she uses tap water only for cooking and washing. She buys drinking water in bottles in another town for herself and her family. Some months earlier, another housewife found that detergents were corroding metal parts in her automatic washing machine. This corrosion of parts, and sudsing of tap water, are among the first signs a community has that something is happening to its water supply. This something is so widespread that some washer manufacturers are finding it necessary to forestall corrosion by using plastic or stainless steel parts. Automatic garbage disposers have been affected, too. While a heavy stream of cold water usually will flush the stuff out, one maker now puts a polypropylene lining into his disposers to cut servicing costs. These annoying occurrences in homes and to appliances, however, are only signs of a grave crisis in store for our water supply by 1970, if something is not done. This crisis is developing, say experts, because we have to reuse our water more rapidly as our population grows. Many of our facilities for restoring water to reusable purity are not up to the job, and, for another reason, we have not yet learned to deal with many beneficial chemical inventions such as detergents which, unfortunately, can cause harm when disposed as waste into our water supply. In many areas, the fight, at least for the present, seems lost as suds come billowing out of streams that once were pure, or flow out of control into a neighborhood’s wells. The basic problem is that synthetic detergents (syndets) defy both nature’s and man’s standard methods of purifying water. Soap, the kind your mother used, was made from animal fats on which bacteria and other micro-organisms fed and thrived. Soap’s molecules consist largely of long chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached to them. After soap goes down the drain with waste water and into cesspools, sewage-treatment plants or surface streams, the bacteria destroys the chains of molecules and effectively disposes of the waste. Synthetic detergents were invented during World War I, because Germany’s supply of soap was cut off. Dr. Fritz Gunther devised a detergent that could be made from coal tar. But it and other detergents that have since come on the market are not considered good eating by the bacteria and micro-organisms which thrive on animal-fat soaps. And because the syndets are not eaten by bacteria, they tend to remain in the water system and escape destruction by standard water purification techniques. Syndets have long chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached and, in addition, they often have a benzene ring hooked to an atom of carbon. It is this ring which makes it more difficult for the micro-organisms to break up the stuff after it has been consigned to the sewage-treatment plant. This was not a serious problem 25 years ago when there were few detergent manufacturers. Today there are more than 250 in the U.S. alone, and detergents outsell soaps two to one. Housewives like syndets because they lift and disperse many kinds of dirt liable to be found on dishes, in clothing or other things washed with water. Detergents lower surface tension and make things soluble that ordinarily are not. When water is hard, as in many parts of the Middle West, natural soaps tend to leave a “bathtub ring.” Synthetic detergents create suds and work better than natural soaps in such water. According to the U.S. Public Health Service, four billion pounds of syndets are produced each year and each pound ends up as waste in water. Manufacturers use an inexpensive product of crude oil and many of their detergents also contain the foam-maker, alkyl-benzene sulfonate, or ABS. This is the stuff that is creating mounds of slippery foam in some city sewage treatment plants, and by its foaming presence, is revealing the extent of the pollution problem. ABS is not the only fly in the otherwise beneficial detergent ointment, however. Some types of detergent also carry phosphate compounds that promote the growth of scum and other unattractive by-products. ABS, however, attracts attention because very small concentrations of it—a few pounds per million gallons—will make water foam. Consequently ABS is easily detected and serves as the tattletale which has put the experts on guard. If a town puts syndets into a river near the headwaters, it can carry some of them to the next town downstream. This town’s water may not be affected seriously, but when it adds syndets to the river in its waste, the third town may get too many in its water. This cycle may be repeated from five to ten times along the river and towns near the river’s mouth may receive waste overburdened with syndets. We apparently can consume such small concentrations of ABS as have been put in our water so far, without becoming ill. But the consequences of continued consumption of such water for long periods of time are not yet known. It is probable, however, that water containing enough ABS to be harmful is likely to be so unattractive that we would object to drinking it. ABS, though, isn’t the only chemical that may be harmful. A standard reference book, used by filtration engineers, states that a wide range of chemicals goes into the complex compositions we know as synthetic detergents. Any one of these individual chemicals may be an irritant. The book further points out that the early synthetics touched off a large number of cases of contact dermatitis. Although considerable progress has been made in removing the irritants, the incidence of dermatitis of the hands is considerably higher than* it was before the synthetics took over the market. A postscript to this information is added by Edward J. Zimmer, director of Chicago’s Plumbing Testing Laboratory: “If it’s rough on the tough hides of hands, what do you think it does to the delicate interior plumbing of the human being?” Syndets also can get into ground as well as surface water and they may remain there undetected until they are so concentrated that costly removal methods or new sources of water are needed. In one Long Island, N. Y., development that has four to five homes per acre, syndets recently were found to have penetrated a third of the wells. In other suburban communities even deepening the wells has failed to yield water free of syndets. What can be done to remove ABS from water? One way to do the job is to run water through activated carbon. This is an added expense, but authorities at the Department of Health, Nassau County, N. Y., where the technique has been tried, urge further study of its use both with water from private wells and in large water-treatment plants. Foam fractionation is another possible way of combating syndet contamination. This process has been known for years, but was not considered seriously in connection with water pollution until recently. In foam fractionation, a gas (usually air) is put into the polluted water to create a stream of rising bubbles. Since the chemicals usually flock to points where air and water meet, they cluster around these bubbles and ride them to the surface. The resulting foam then can be skimmed off like the head on a glass of beer. In small-scale tests, researchers of the Esso Company have demonstrated that 90 percent of the detergents can be removed from sewage-plant affluent this way. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has contracted for further study of this technique. The federal government also is supporting studies of possible dumping places for troublesome chemicals and investigations of ways of making discarded materials useful again. Businessmen have become concerned, too, and both university and industrial laboratories are tackling the pollution problem’s many aspects. The Midwestern Research Institute in Kansas City, for example, is seeking more fundamental knowledge of the washing process by using a vibrating jet method to study the surface tension at the surface of freshly formed detergent solution. Prof. Rolf Eliassen, Stanford University, has challenged the chemical inventors to come up with a solution to the problem their products have created. “It should not be difficult,” he says, “for the chemical industry to develop a different series of compounds, and produce some which could be broken down by bacteria and still be relatively inexpensive.” Sugary Detergents? Detergents that bacteria can destroy after they’ve been used can now be made from sugar-based materials. These are said to be biologically soft detergents, and efforts are under way in many laboratories to develop soft detergents that can be competitive in cost and popularity with the hard ones. Hard detergents still could be used in coastal communities where waste water is discharged into the sea, and soft detergents where that water must soon be used again in some other community. People with soft water might also be encouraged to go back to using soap. Finding ways to change or oust the pollutants is a problem that is not restricted to American’s back yards. The problem is a worldwide one that has already arisen in England, West Germany and Russia. Manufacturers have cooperated with government authorities in England to place only certain kinds of detergent on sale in some areas, and in West Germany legislative action has been taken. Even the Russians have not yet claimed to have invented a solution. Their public health journal, Hygiene and Sanitation, reports that new combinations of sewage and waste are causing so much pollution in the U.S.S.R. that it constitutes a threat to the “entire national economy.,, The U.S. Public Health Service has set a limit on the detergent level permissible in the water of interstate carriers. Few water supplies have syndet levels anywhere near that maximum now, but more public awareness of the problem, research, and engineering know-how is needed to stop the suds from rising. “The problem has not yet been solved,” says Dr. James M. Symons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department, “but I have every confidence that an intensive research effort will bring an adequate solution within the next few years.” There are signs already that research on the problem is paying off. For example, Continental Oil Company recently announced that it is building a $10,000,000 plant to turn our “straight-chain” industrial alcohols from petroleum. These new alcohols are expected to be used in detergents. Because they are much simpler in chemical composition than existing compounds, they probably will be much easier to “break down” at the time they have done their job and must be destroyed. The detergent manufacturers themselves, for 10 years, have been working toward a solution of the problem (though they deny that the problem, basically, is one of detergents). The Soap and Detergent Association, in a statement to Popular Mechanics says: “First of all, the residues of detergents, as present in waste water, have been shown to be nontoxic. While they may be a cause of froth in some situations, they are not a cause of taste and odor; but rather are indicators of concurrent, invisible sewage pollution which causes such taste and odor. “In areas of high population density, there is agreement that no lasting solution to this problem exists short of public water and sewer services. In modern sewage-treatment plants, the present surface-active material in detergents is broken down as much as 50 to 70 percent; it’s not indestructible, but is one of a number of persistent or ‘refractory’ organic wastes, all of which must be dealt with in such treatment in the future. “Today, research is proceeding along two lines: Companies in our industry are seeking individual product improvements which will increase their amenability to treatment while maintaining cleaning efficiency and low cost. At the same time, the U. S. Public Health Service and others are seeking improvement of treatment processes which will deal successfully with all the new and persistent waste material.” That’s the problem, to date. And a bubbling, seething problem it is, for it will affect the palatability—and safety—of your drinking water. Your shirts may be whiter these days, because the syndets are highly efficient at wiping away dirt. But the syndets themselves are stubbornly refusing to vanish. Wonder Warehouse 1962? (Nov, 1956) Trouble Busters (Apr, 1947) 10,000 Miles of Trouble (Sep, 1949) TROUBLE LAMP FITS FINGER (Jan, 1929) “Bubble” Top Auto (Apr, 1946) John Savard says: November 28, 20111:08 pm Of course, this problem was addressed by banning phosphates from detergents. I’m surprised. I thought they banned phosphates, but a web search shows that never happened, because no adequate substitute was ever found. But the phosphate binder caused eutrophication – algae blooms and the like. It was the surfactant, alkyl benzene sulfonate, that was causing streams to suds up – and that was replaced – with biodegradable linear alkyl sulfonates. tampopo says: November 29, 201111:58 am Of course the solution of all problems of the humanity is “banning”. 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__label__cc	0.562289	0.437711	Development in Floodplains The City of Johnston participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and has adopted regulations to manage development in floodplains. The floodplain regulations adopted by the City of Johnston establishes a flood fringe (FF) overlay district and a flood way (FW) overlay district. The regulations are found in Chapter 169 of the Zoning Ordinance, which outline permissible development in those areas. A floodplain development permit is required. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issues floodplain development permit also and a permit may also be required from them based upon the type of construction proposed. To determine if your property is within the floodplain, review the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps. Copies are available at Johnston City Hall for review. Electronic copies of the maps are also available from FEMA. Floodplain Regulations Because of the city's floodplain regulations, residents in the city are eligible to purchase flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program, please contact your insurance agent about flood insurance or review this link for more information. For additional floodplain information, please contact the Community Development Department at 515-727-7778 or by email. Preliminary FEMA Maps Released The current FIRM maps regulating properties within Johnston were adopted on July 19, 2000. However, over the last couple of years FEMA has been working to update all FIRM maps within Johnston based upon: Re-delineation of flood hazard areas using updated topographic information, affecting all flood hazard areas within Johnston. The 2000 FIRM maps were prepared using 10 foot topographic contour data, while the preliminary maps use 2 foot topographic contour data. Updated hydrologic and hydraulic analysis of portions of Little Beaver Creek, affecting flood hazard areas generally north of NW 70th Avenue and east of NW 86th Street; and, As a result of this work, FEMA has published updated FIRM maps and an FIS for Johnston dated February 1, 2019. To continue participating in the NFIP, the City is required to officially adopt these updated maps as presented by FEMA and update our existing floodplain development regulations and Zoning Ordinance Overlay Districts prior to that date. In order to move forward with the required City approvals resulting from the proposed FEMA maps, we have set Public Hearing dates as follows: Planning and Zoning Commission, Monday, October 29, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. City Council, Monday, November 5, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Both of the above noted meetings will be held at Johnston City Hall, 6221 Merle Hay Road. 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Draft Ordinance 1001, which would adopted the new FIRM Maps, amend the Johnston Floodplain Management Ordinances as required by the Iowa DNR/FEMA and amend the Official Zoning Map to reflect the updated Floodway and Floodway Fringe Overlay Districts; Ordinance 1001 (PDF) Draft Chapter 174, Floodplain Management; Chapter 174 Floodplain Management (PDF) Draft Zoning Map (PDF), updated to reflect the proposed Floodway and Floodway Fringe Overlay Districts A link to the Proposed FIRM Map and Flood Study for Johnston dated February 1, 2019; Preliminary Flood Study for Polk County – Volume 1 INSERT FILE 19153CV001A (PDF) Panel 19153C0160F (PDF) Panel 19153C0186F (PDF Document) A Summary of Actions pertaining to previously approved Letters of Map Revisions (LOMR) or Letters of Map Amendments (LOMA). LOMR and LOMA’s are property specific studies prepared to show that the property and/or structures on the property are located above the flood designated areas shown the FIRM maps. 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__label__cc	0.746324	0.253676	Finding Each Other on the Road to Emmaus as preached at First Parish Church, Ashby, MA, April 1, 2018 It is good to see you all this morning. Last night I was with many of you for the seder the congregation hosted. It was lovely. The company was excellent. The food was delicious. And the afikomen was found quickly. It was also a nice reminder that as Unitarian Universalists we celebrate and draw all of the religious traditions in the world. Indeed, many of us come from interfaith families or have multiple religious identities. My own family background is Jewish and Christian. My parents raised us Unitarian Universalist because they felt Unitarian Universalism was a religious community in which both of their religious traditions would be honored. And I think that the confluence of Passover and Easter this year has been a nice reminder that they were right. We can authentically celebrate both, in part because we have both people of Jewish and Christian identity in our community. We recognize that religion begins with personal experiences of awe and wonder at the great mystery that is life. We all interpret those experiences from different perspectives and different cultural backgrounds. And so while last night we hosted a seder, this morning we are offering an Easter service. Since it is an Easter service, I thought it appropriate that we take our readings from the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament. The two I picked are traditionally paired together during the Easter season. From all of that text I want to focus on a sentence fragment found at Luke 24:16. We read it as "but their eyes were kept from recognizing him." I want us to use a slightly different translation. It runs, "but something prevented them from recognizing him." The fragment comes from a longer passage known as the Road to Emmaus. In the text, we find two of Jesus's disciples hustling towards a village called Emmaus. It is Easter Sunday, the first Easter Sunday. They are discussing Jesus's execution, the empty tomb, and all that has happened in the past months. Well, actually, they are not having a discussion. They are having an argument. And they are not out for a casual afternoon stroll. The text suggests that they are fleeing Jerusalem. They are part of a revolutionary movement on the verge of collapse. The movement's leader has been executed. Its members are scared and confused. They had been expecting victory and experienced defeat. "But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel," the text explains. Into this hot mess steps Jesus. As the two disciples hasten along bickering about, I suspect, everything, up walks Jesus and asks what is going on, "but something prevented them from recognizing him." In that whole story this is the verse I want us to linger upon, "something prevented them from recognizing him." Wrestling with the text we can imagine all kinds of reasons why the two disciples were prevented from recognizing Jesus. The Catholic priest and antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan took a fairly literal approach. Berrigan suggested that Jesus's disciples failed to recognize him because his body was broken. Jesus appeared as he was, the victim of torture: bloodied, bruised and swollen. Another interpretation suggests that it was the sexism, the misogyny, of the disciples that prevented them from recognizing Jesus. The initial eyewitnesses to the empty tomb were women. In the verses immediately before our passage, Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, along with some number of unidentified women, try to convince the rest of the apostles that the tomb is empty. The male disciples do not believe them, call their story an "idle tale" or "nonsense." Recognizing Jesus might have required these disciples to recognize their own sexism. It would have required them to acknowledge that the women they had chosen not to believe were telling the truth. Whatever the case, the text tells us this: there were two people traveling a path together; they were joined by a third; and they did not recognize him for who he truly was. This is an all too human story. It is too often my story. I imagine you are familiar with it too. Think about it. How often do you encounter someone and fail to fully recognize them? Let us start with the mundane. Have you had the experience of thinking you are near a friend when you are actually in the vicinity of a stranger? More frequently than I would like to admit I have my made way across a crowded room to greet someone I know. When I arrive I discover someone who merely resembles my friend. They have the same haircut, a similar tattoo, or are wearing a shirt that looks exactly my friend's favorite shirt. But beyond the short dark bob, double hammer neck tattoo, or long sleeves with black and white stripes is a stranger. Such encounters are embarrassing. Blessedly, they usually last a fleeting moment and then are gone. Other failures of recognition carry with them much greater freight than mistaken identity. For another kind of failure of recognition is the failure to recognize the human in each other. And that can carry with it lethal consequences. When police officers murder people with brown and black bodies they fail to recognize the human in the person who they shoot, choke, or beat. The police officer who shot Mike Brown said the young man looked "like a demon." That is certainly an apt description of failing to recognize someone as human. Reflecting on the murder of Trayvon Martin, theologian Kelly Brown Douglas has written we "must recognize the face of Jesus in Trayvon." She challenges us to consider that Jesus was not all that different from Trayvon. They both belonged to communities targeted by violent structures of power composed of or endorsed by the state. Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Korryn Gaines, and just last week Stephon Clark, the list goes on and on. What would it mean if their killers had recognized the human in each of them? What was it that prevented police officers from recognizing the human in 313 people they have killed thus far in 2018? I want to let that unpleasant question linger. Let us return to our text. It contains an encounter with the holy. Our two disciples were on the road to Emmaus. They discovered the divine. But they did not realize the divine was amongst them until it was too late, until Jesus disappeared. One of the principal theologians of our Unitarian Universalist tradition is William Ellery Channing. He taught that each of us contains within "the likeness to God." Jesus, Channing believed, was someone who had unlocked the image of God within. He did this by seeing the divine in everything, "from the frail flower to the everlasting stars." Channing might be labelled by more conventional Christians as a gnostic. The gnostics believed that Jesus came not to offer a sacrifice to atone for the sins of the world but to teach us how to shatter earthly illusions and find enlightenment. This suggests a reading of our text that focuses not on the resurrection of Jesus in the body but the resurrection of Jesus in the spirit. Remember, on the road to Emmaus Jesus appeared from seemingly nowhere. The disciples were walking and there he was. Remember, he disappeared immediately, as soon as the bread was broken. Maybe what happened was this: as our two disciples debated, and argued, and bickered as they fled down the road to Emmaus they finally understood Jesus's teachings. As they recounted what had happened, the divine became palpable to amongst them. And when they broke bread together they felt the divine stirring within. It was the same feeling they had when they were with Jesus before his execution. They felt Jesus still with them when they recognized the divine in each other. They found each other on the road to Emmaus. Understood this way, the story is not about what prevents our two disciples from recognizing Jesus. It is about what prevents them from recognizing each other. What was it? What is it that prevents us from recognizing the human in each other? Let me suggest that failing to recognize the human in each other is an unpleasantly enduring feature in many of our professional lives. As many of you know, in addition to being a minister, I am also an academic. So, let me share some observations from that context. Perhaps they will be familiar to you. A regular feature of academic life is the question and answer sessions that follow presentations and lectures. These sessions have a scripted dynamic. Someone from the audience asks a question, the presenter responds. Harmless enough, such exchanges further the collective project of the intellectual community. Except... these exchanges sometimes include failure of recognition. Have you witnessed any of the following: the individual who asks the same question no matter the subject of the lecture; or the person who aggressively repeats someone else's query as their own; or the comment in the form of a question? Each of these comes from a failure to listen. Failures to listen are failures of recognition. They often come from failing to imagine someone else as a conversation partner, as an equal, as another person with whom we are engaged in a shared project. If we lift the curtain behind failures to listen we will frequently find insidious cultural dynamics, corrupting structure of power. I have seen, over and over again, an older male colleague restate a younger female colleague's question as his own. I have seen white academics ignore the words of people of color or try to co-opt their work. I have seen graduate students comment on each other's work not in the spirit of inquiry but in the spirit of currying favor with their faculty. To be honest, I have done some of these things myself. When I commit them I am locked in my own anxieties, my need to appear smart, my desire to impress, even my longing to be a hero. Instead of listening to what someone is saying, I focus on my own words. And so, I miss the conversation. I do not fully recognize who or what is around me. Have you ever done something similar? How often are we, like our disciples on the road to Emmaus, oblivious to the holy? Recognizing the human and the divine in each other is hard. Let us think about race. Race is a social construct. Race is a belief. White supremacy is a belief system. It requires that there are people "who believe that they are white," in Ta-Nehisi Coates's memorable words, and that those people act in certain ways and believe particular things. Most people who believe they are white believe in white normativity. This is the idea that an institution or community is primarily for or of white people. The assumption is that normal people in the institution are white and that other people are somehow aberrations. Religious communities are not immune to this. The theologian Thandeka came up with a test for white normativity. It is called the "Race Game." The game is straightforward. It has one rule. For a whole week you use the ascriptive word white every time you refer to a European American. For example, when you go home today you might tell a friend: "I went to church this morning. The preacher was an articulate white man. He brought with him his eleven-year old son. That little white boy sure is cute!" The "Race Game" can be uncomfortable. It can bring up feelings of shame. Thandeka reports that in the late 1990s she repeatedly challenged her primarily white lecture and workshop audiences to play the game for a day and write her a letter or an email describing their experiences. She received one letter. According to Thandeka, the white women who authored it, "wrote apologetically," she could not complete the game, "though she hoped someday to have the courage to do so." It might seem a little absurd to play the “Race Game” in a community like Ashby that, according to the last census, is 97% white. But, on some level, that is precise the point. We risk failing to recognize each other when we assume that our own experiences are normal and that the experiences of others are aberrations. Does it require courage to recognize the human and the divine in each other? What was it that prevented our two disciples from recognizing Jesus? What assumptions do each of us hold about what is normal and is not that prevent us from recognizing each other? We could play variations of the Race Game as a test. The Gender Game: "The preacher was a cis-gendered straight presenting man." The Social Class Game: "He was an upper middle-class professional." The Ableism Game: "The able-bodied man with no noticeable neurodiversity." Such games might be difficult to play. They reveal the social constructs that prevent us from recognizing each other. But something prevented them from recognizing him. But something prevented them from recognizing each other. But something prevented us from recognizing each other. What must we do to recognize each other? Again, I turn to the text for an answer. Recall that our disciples were part of a revolutionary movement. Remember, they had given themselves over to a liberating struggle, a common project. Two thousand years ago they did not accept the status quo of the Roman Empire. Today, we can recognize the divine when we join in struggle against the world's powers and principalities. Last week’s March for Our Lives could be interpreted as a cry that we, collectively, as a country learn to recognize the human in every person. It was a statement that human lives must come before the right to own highpower firearms. The Black Lives Matter movement of recent years can be understood as an attempt to prompt our historically white supremacist culture to recognize the human in people of color. The Women’s Marches of the past two years are part of an effort to dismantle patriarchal power and, in doing so, create a society that fully recognizes the human in people of all genders. The first year of the current President’s regime has been been a sickening reminder of what is at stake when we fail to recognize the human. The afflicted are not comforted. The comfortable are not afflicted. The brokenhearted do not have their wounds bound. The stranger is not welcomed. People die from the violence of white supremacy, from the violence of military action, from the violence of state sponsored poverty. Our disciples finally recognized Jesus because they were part of a revolutionary movement that was committed to welcoming the stranger into its midst. A movement that bound wounds, healed spirits, and denounced violence. But more than that, it challenged people to find the divine amid and amongst themselves. For as Jesus said, "You cannot tell by observation when the kingdom of God comes. You cannot say, "Look, here it is," or "There it is! "For the kingdom of God is among you!" It is the poets who sum this sermon best. T. S. Eliot: "Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman --But who is that on the other side of you?" Jimmy Santiago Baca: "the essence of our strength, each of us a warm fragment, broken off from the greater ornament of the unseen, then rejoined as dust, to all this is." denise levertov: "Lord, not you, it is I who am absent" Let us join together in a closing prayer. Heart's hunger, holy mystery, spark that leaps each to each, source of being that in our human language so many us of name God, stir our hearts so that we may have the courage to uncover all that prevents us from recognizing and the divine that travels amid our mortal community. Grant us the strength, and the compassion, that we need to go together down the revolutionary road, liberating the human within each of us, binding the wounds of the broken, welcoming the stranger, afflicting comfortable, comforting the afflicted, renouncing violence, and encountering the truth, the holy is never absent when we join together in struggle. May we, like our two disciples, find each other on the road to Emmaus. 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__label__wiki	0.665411	0.665411	Progress! Creating Safe Routes to Common Ground and a More Connected West Rock Neighborhood by Joel Tolman, Director of Impact & Engagement Starting August 26th, CT Transit buses will loop through the West Rock neighborhood, passing by Common Ground on their way to and from downtown New Haven. Great news: After concerted organizing by members of the Common Ground community and our neighbors in West Rock, CT Transit has committed to significantly improved bus service to our school and neighborhood! Starting on August 26th — in time for the next school year — city buses will loop past Common Ground on their way to and from downtown. This means Common Ground students will be dropped off and picked right at our site, rather than choosing between an extra 15-20 minutes on the bus or braving two dangerous intersections and a bridge with no sidewalks in order to get to school. Just as importantly, this route change is a big win for West Rock Residents. Students at the federal Job Corps Center and residents at Westville Manor — just up the street from Common Ground — will be able to ride directly to and from downtown for school and work. Because the city bus will now loop through the West Rock neighborhood, people will be able to travel between their homes in New Haven Housing developments, the new West Rock branch of Hill Health Center and the corner store next door, Common Ground, and the programs at the Brennan Rogers Family Resource Center, Solar Youth, and the Boys and Girls Club. We are making progress on other fronts, as well. At the same community meeting that CT Transit announced these route changes, Traffic, Transportation & Parking Director Doug Hausladen announced that the City of New Haven was ready to take a number of steps toward making a safer, more connected community: Installing schools safety zone signage, and potentially other traffic calming measures, around Common Ground’s campus. Placing flashing “your speed” sign coming down the hill toward Common Ground from Job Corps. Building speed bumps on Level Street, where drivers between Hamden and New Haven often violate speed limits. Creating bus shelters in the housing developments north of Common Ground’s campus. Pursuing funding to close the big sidewalk gap in the West Rock neighborhood — seeking to connect Common Ground, Southern Connecticut State University, residents in public housing, and other community resources. Meadeshia Mitchell (SCSU grad student & community health leader), Ms. Lensley Gay (head of the Brennan Rogers Family Resource Center), and Makia Richardson (neighborhood resident & community health leader) kick off a community meeting. This progress is possible because of lots of work by lots of people! For years, West Rock residents and community organizations have been getting organized to improve our neighborhood. Ms. Lensley Gay — head of the Family Resource Center at Brennan Rogers School — has created a space where children and adults can come together to connect with each other and the supports they deserve. Young people and adults have rallied when acts of violence threaten our community. Community anchors like Solar Youth, Common Ground, and New Haven Job Corps have stepped up to support residents and share their own concerns. Staff from the New Haven Housing Authority and Alder Michelle Sepulveda have stepped forward to support these neighborhood-driven efforts. The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (now housed at Southern Connecticut State University’s School of Public health) stepped up to support this neighborhood organizing — facilitating focus groups related to transportation and economic opportunities, helping to lay the groundwork for community meetings, and supporting a year of work by two neighborhood health leaders: Westville Manor Resident Makia Richardson and SCSU grad student Meadeshia Mitchell. Last summer — when Common Ground’s farm director was struck and injured while riding her bike to Common Ground — we got organized around a Complete Streets Proposal to improve safety and connectivity in our neighborhood. Common Ground student Elliot Faulkner collected more than 150 signatures on a petition, and parent Montreal Johnson has collected hundreds more. Parents and community members reached out to CT Transit demanding action. The President and other key leaders at Southern Connecticut State University, and members of the West River Watershed Coalition, sent letters of support. Mayor Toni Harp shares how city departments can respond to resident concerns in West Rock. This winter and spring, neighborhood residents and community stakeholders showed up in force to a series of community meetings to share their concerns and develop solutions. They met first to identify community priorities and identify spokespeople. At a second meeting, Mayor Toni Harp and members of her leadership staff, along with Transportation commissioner Douglas Solensky and members of his team, showed up to hear our neighborhood’s concerns. And, earlier this spring, residents gathered a third time to hear the commitments that city and CT Transit were ready to make in response to these demands! Bigger moves in the neighborhood — again, the result of neighborhood organizing and problem-solving by local agencies — have also allowed for this progress. After decades of division, the last stretch of fence separating the New Haven public housing developments up the street from their neighbors in Hamden came down this spring. The removal of the fence allows for busses to loop through the Brookside and Rockview developments for the first time — and, more importantly, for residents to travel freely to and from their neighborhood. We aren’t done! We need to keep organizing and problem-solving to make sure our students and neighbors are safe and connected. And we need to keep building a stronger, more connected community, ready to face any challenge that heads our way. Right now, we need to keep following up with City Hall to make sure they move quickly on their commitment to install school zone signs — while also advocating for other traffic calming measures that will slow down traffic around Common Ground’s campus. YOU can help by signing this petition, or by reaching out to Mayor Toni Harp and Doug Hausladen at the City to express your support for speedy action to improve safety and connectivity in West Rock. joeltolman 2018-06-20T11:10:13-05:00 Three Reasons to Attend the CG Farm & Garden Conference How Might Common Ground Be The Right School for Me? Or for Someone I Care About? Spending Time In Nature Is Good For You Common Ground Board of Directors Minutes: Nov. 25, 2019 Common Ground is Seeking a Part-Time Math/Science Support Educator	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line73
__label__wiki	0.771195	0.771195	Paul Turner After months of research listening to countless number of Cds, we knew we had to find a composer with the versatility of doing music across genres. For Mel, an emotionally frozen hedonist in search of the next high, electronic music, with it’s stark, controlled rhythms was an appropriate choice to reflect his inability to connect with his feelings. The distinctive metallic sounds somehow seemed to reverberate in his cold hard surrounding. For his more tender love scenes with Todd, we decided upon jazz for its deep, sexy and sophisticated late night atmosphere. As for Ash, apart from the Chinese songs we selected, the Latino flavour appeared to resonate for his character- tango for it’s passion, mambo for it’s quirkiness and samba for it’s colourful and camp vibrancy. On top of being able to produce all that, we also needed a composer who could create cutting edge dance music for the club scenes, cheesy 80’s hi-energy disco for the flashbacks and convincing and evocative Chinese music for Ash’s love scenes. A very tall order indeed for any musician. Paul is essentially the heart of NUDE MUSIC. A classically trained pianist, he started his working life with Opera North, Northern Ballet and The Really Usefully Theatre Company. He has scored several feature films and soundtracks including “Case 603” for the acclaimed American director Teddy Hayes and he wrote and produced music for Bafta award winning director Eddie Joffe on the film “Treason”, due to be released in 2005. He wrote and produced work for the epic Russian film “The Romanovs” and is set to score a remake of the classic Charles Bronson film “Hard Times” later this year. He has composed numerous television programmes including Resurrection Queen X and Paramount Comedy. Recent commercial work include campaigns for Warburton’s, Virgin Music Awards, Green Flag, Conqueror, The Telegraph, GMTV Weather and Clairol Herbal Essence. Paul is also a trained film and television editor, which as a music composer gives him a unique insight into scoring music to picture. With his experience, ability, flexibility and patience Paul has been invaluable in helping us find the right notes to flesh out the comedy, emotions and nuances of each scene. The score has been enhanced with contribution from Liu Xiao Hu, a London based Chinese musician using a variety of Chinese wind instruments. To listen to the CUT SLEEVE BOYS theme song on our iPod - click here! Chinese Holiday After a dim sum lunch one day with Richard Tay, an old friend of Chowee’s, we adjourned to his flat to listen to some music. Richard, the owner of Sepia Records (www.sepiarecords.com), has an extensive collection of records by old Chinese Divas dating back several decades. After several hours sifting through his collection and picking out many fantastic songs, we suddenly fell silent. The haunting voice of Bai Kwong – the Chinese Billie Holiday, wafted through the air, lamenting the loss of youth and halcyon days. The song was perfect for the character of Ash. It revealed his traditional romantic idealism with melodramatic effect. Ghost of Past Dreams Withering blossoms, fading spring, Only the sorrowful East Wind is blowing. Cherry blossoms, morning dew, Only fills me with melancholy. Lost youth will never return, Not to be found for eternity. Flying swallows and dancing butterflies Only remind me of days gone by. The rose-like beauty and the nightingale sweet voice Battered by the ruthless passing of time. Ahhh, I am haunted by the ghost of my past dreams. What remains is a heart filled with despair. Even though you search the end of the world. Left alone in the autumn years, Last night I danced with the ghost of my past dreams. We knew we had to have these songs in the film but there was a major problem. With hardly any budget for music clearance, we could barely afford the copyright for one song! But luck is on our side. Richard knew some of these divas personally and made enquiries for us. Negotiations were instigated with EMI to clear the usage of Bai Kwong’s Ghost of Past Dreams and Richard came back and told us that Rebecca Pan, now an art house actress herself was willing to help an independent production. And luck strikes twice as one of my oldest and best friends, Regina Szeto happens to be her niece. Regina kindly agreed to negotiate for us and the deal is sealed. Miss Pan will allow us the use of her songs for no charge. A few of her songs were already high on our wish list, so we jumped on her generous offer. Sizzling Pan!! 1957, Hong Kong Ceasar Palace Night Club. A Shanghainese girl, Pan Wan Ching was recommended by a friend to temporarily step into the shoes of a singer who was leaving. After rehearsing with the band for three weeks, Rebecca Pan entered the limelight and was on her way to stardom. With her ability to sing in several languages, she started her voyage around the world and became 60’s Hong Kong’s biggest music export. From England, Israel, France, Spain, India, Australia to America her voice could be heard everywhere. Media around the world hailed her as “The Travelling Star”! Enriched by her adventures and experiences overseas, Pan returned with new and daring ideas which brought her many ‘firsts’ in Hong Kong’s music history. Rebecca Pan was the first singer in Hong Kong to have a fan club. In the 60’s, fan clubs were a western notion and there were none in Hong Kong no matter how popular a singer was. Diamond Records, a Portuguese company where Pan was contracted, decided to form a fan club for her. ‘Nie Nie, Wo, Wo’, was specially written for Pan and became a big hit and the fan club’s anthem. In Cut Sleeve Boys, this cute and sweet love ditty is used in the scenes when Ash dresses up as a woman before meeting and later, visiting Ross, the man of his dreams. NEE NEE WOR WOR Nee Nee….wonderful, Wor wor….I love you, No matter what I do dear, I always think of you dear, But never know if you think of me. I always dream about you, I just can’t live without you, But never know if you’re in love with me. Whenever you need me, I hurry come to you I won’t be late, But next time you need me, I’ll say I have another date. Next time I’ll be clever, and let you wait forever, And then I’ll know if you’re in love with me When Pan first came to Hong Kong from Shanghai in the 50’s, she loved nothing better than to sit next to the radio learning to sing English songs. One day, she heard a jazz number and fell in love with it immediately. From then on, she became strongly inspired and influenced by the style. In 1957 she studied jazz under Lee Bao Suen and had a song especially written for her – ‘Love Market’, also featured in ‘Cut Sleeve Boys’. However, in that era, Hong Kong was not ready for Jazz and the cynical lyrics- ‘when they say love is forever, it’s only a cheque that’s bounced’- was far too bitter for the romantic and sentimental Hong Kong public. Love Market Love is like a trade, don’t take it seriously. Don’t squander your money and choose the right buyer. A lot of people trade sand for gold. Some lovers are a dime a dozen. Some are fake and some are real, Think carefully about the going price, And never believe what the buyers say. When they say love is forever, It’s only a cheque that’s bounced. To be troubled by love is silly, To kill yourself for love is stupid, Love is a game, don’t take it seriously If you don’t like the goods, Move on to the next store. For the love market never closes! Pan’s other great love is Broadway musicals. She dreamt of performing in an all Mandarin musical. So in 1972, she invested her life savings to produce the first Mandarin Broadway Musical, “Pai Niang Niang-The Legend of the White Snake”. This East meets West musical was controversial from it’s first performance. Some critics felt the show was ground-breaking, a successful fusion of Eastern and Western cultures but others called it ‘Chinese wine in a Western Bottle’. ‘ If Loving You Means Hurting You’, the most successful song from the musical is featured in Cut Sleeve Boys following Ash’s discovery of Ross’s dark secret. If Loving You Means Harming You I’ve no hatred, I only have love, why do I end up harming you? If loving you means harming you, I would never have loved. After ‘Pai Niang Niang’, Pan performed her swansong in Singapore before retiring. Though she stopped performing for seven years, music never left her heart. In 1980, China opened up to the West and Shanghai became a hot spot of the world. Hong Kong and Singapore held ‘Shanghai Nights’ themed events. But where could they find a Shanghainese star? The answer was obvious: Rebecca Pan. She epitomised a Shanghai woman – elegant, sophisticated, fun-loving, westernised and ambitious. This image so strongly associated with her that director Wong Kar Wai invited Pan to star in his international breakthrough movie ‘Days of Being Wild’. Pan played an ageing Shanghainese courtesan, the stepmother of Leslie Cheung’s character. The role won her both the Golden Horse Award (the Chinese Oscars) and the Asian Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1990. With her new career as an actress, Pan starred in several internationally successful art-house films notably “In The Mood For Love” and “Flowers of Shanghai”. At the age of 70 she continues touring and recording, always pushing herself to the limit and never afraid to be adventurous. Not one to conform, Rebecca Pan is unique and a legend in every sense! The producers of Cut Sleeve Boys would like to extend their gratitude and thanks to the sizzling Ms Pan for her generosity in allowing the use of her songs in the film.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line76
__label__cc	0.610208	0.389792	rehan October 19, 2019 Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA). The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) was established in 1959, and is located 156 kilometers west of Arusha. Ngorongoro Crater is within NCA. The NCA is not a National Park, it is a Protected Area. “Protected areas” means areas entrance allowed by permit only including National Parks, Game Reserves and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) covers some 8300 square kilometers. It boasts of the finest blend of Mountains landscapes shaped by rifts and volcanoes, wildlife, people and archaeological sites in Africa. The concept of multiple land use in a Conservation perspective is a deviation from a Traditional approach (National Parks & Game Reserves) of regarding conservation as complete absenteeism of human Interference. It becomes one of the first Program in the World to pioneering experiment in multiple land use for the benefits of both Maasai people and Wildlife in Natural traditional setting. The multiple land use philosophy in the area is to maintain the co-existence of human (with social and economic factors) and Wildlife in a natural tradition setting. Pastoralism, conservation of natural resources and Tourism are the three Components that are considered to be compatible in the area. NCA is often called ‘African Eden’ and the ‘Eight Wonder of the Natural World’. Traditional African pastoralists Co-operate with Tanzania’s government bodies to help preserve the natural resources of the area and to ensure a fantastic experience for Tourists. NCA has more intrinsic and aesthetic values than what is needed by Tourists. One Researcher said “They can not know that they need it until they have it” It means unless you visit NCA, you can’t know its beauty and marvels. It has more diversity and stunning features than any protected area (National Park, Game Reserve) in the World. Ngorongoro is the World Heritage Site and has also been declared an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. This is due to its outstanding Wildlife and Cultural values. NCA has many Fascinating featuresexplains to you in detail 2 most outstanding among other features. (i) NGORONGORO CRATER (ii) OLDUVAI GORGE. (i) NGORONGORO CRATER. Ngorongoro is the largest/huge unbroken caldera in the World. It is also known as collapsed volcano, this natural amphitheatre have 250 square kilometers and 23 km wide. The Crater has very steep walls of an average depth of 600 meters. It’s at the altitude of 2,286 m above sea level. The crater alone has over 20,000 large animals (half of them zebra & wildebeest). This includes some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Animals are free to leave or enter the crater but most them stay because of the plentiful water and food available in the crater floor throughout the year. There are also gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog. Such vast numbers attract predators a plenty, mainly lion and hyena but also cheetah and leopard. More than 100 species of birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted here. Countless flamingos form a pink blanket over the soda lakes. For the best viewing and photography, approach the animals slowly and quietly and stay on the official tracks. Our Driver Guide will show you the Best of Game viewing. (ii) OLDUPAI (OLDUVAI) GORGE; It was here that Dr. Louis Leakey discovered the remains of Homo hablis or “handy man” regarded as mankind’s first step on the ladder of human evolution. Humans have being part of the Ngorongoro’s landscape for millions of years. The earliest sign of mankind in the conservation area is at LAETOLI, where hominid foot prints are preserved in volcanic rock 3,600,000 years old. The story continues at Olduvai (Olduvai) Gorge a river canyon cut 100 meters deep through the volcanic soils of the Serengeti plains. Buried in the layers are the remains of animals and hominids that lived and died around a shallow lake amid grass plains and woodlands, from 2,000,000 years ago to the present. The four different kinds of hominids found there show a gradual increase in brain size and in the complexity of their stone tools. But many more fossils have been discovered here including those of prehistoric elephants, giant horned sheep and enormous ostriches. Visitors can learn more details of this fascinating story by visiting the gorge where guides will give on site interpretation of the gorge. Oldupai Museum at the gorge is also very useful for information and education. Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) has a number of other stunning features. These are shifting sands, Nasera Rock, Olkarien Gorge, Empakai Crater, Olmoti Crater, Active Oldonyo Lengai, Grassland, Lake Makat, Swamps, Lerai Forest; Acacia Woodlands and Complex Forests. SHIFTING SANDS, North of Oldupai Gorge– a little black sand dune marches across the plains, covering 17 metres a year. Blown by a Strong steady wind it somehow maintains its size and somehow maintains its size and elegant shape. GEOLOGY. Most of Rocks here are of Volcanic origin. PEOPLE AND LIVESTOCK. In the past few thousands of years, a succession of cattle herding people colonized this area from the North. The most numerous and recent are the Maasai who arrived about 200 years ago. Their strong insistence on their Traditional custom and costume interests many visitors. Today there is over 42,000 Maasai pastoralists living in the area with their cattle, goats and sheep Visitors are welcome to learn about the culture of the Maasai and buy their handcrafts only in designated bomas commonly known as “Cultural Bomas”. Apart from commonly Wildlife Safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro and Meru climbing, game viewing Adventures and Beach Holidays, one can plan this extra ordinary adventure in lifetime. This extra ordinary Adventure is walking in the Ngorongoro. Walking in the Ngorongoro Wilderness is both adventurous and rewarding. Great opportunities are now available for long walking Safaris and short hikes. Enquiries are invited for walking from Olmoti areas where Visitors could walk includes the Northern Highland Forest reserve, the Eastern Serengeti plains that are Nasera Rock, Gol Mountains and Olkarien Gorge. There are different detailed itineraries for Walking Safaris to the following points. Oldonyo Lengai Oldoinyo Lengai is the only active Sodium Carbonite Volcano in the world. This trip will take you to LakeNatron to view the flamingo breeding centre as well as taking you to the summit of this amazing volcano. This trip is 4 days long and is perfect to take either before or after a Kilimanjaro Climb. Lake Natron Flamingos breeding in the harsh soda lake conditions. Encircled by the Great Rift walls broken by the beautiful gorge of the Engaresero River. Ngorongoro Highland Trekking The Ngorongoro Highland Trek is a full on walking safari adventure. This 10 day trip takes you hiking round Ngorongoro crater and the surrounding area and also includes a climb of Oldoinyo Lengai. Ngorongoro Crater Trek The Ngorongoro Crater Trek is the baby brother of the Ngorongoro Highland trek. It is a 7 day adventure which covers slightly less ground than the Highland trek but also includes a climb of Oldonyo Lengai. Perfect as and on to a Kilimanjaro Climb. This is just few to mention but when you arrive in Ngorongoro Conservation area, you won’t be exhausted. There are so many places to Visit. There is unlimited information and we have revealed this Piece of Information to the public so that to awake the Spirit of Searching more about Ngorongoro Crater. Our advice is that Visiting Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the ideal way to know the physical Nature and so be proud to be well informed about the 8th Wonder of the Natural World. PerfectPlaces.com has 1000+ Florida vacation rental homes, Florida holiday rental villas, and condos. Adventure Travel Guides – OuterQuest.com OuterQuest.com is the leading resource for adventure travel planning and outdoor recreation. We are a direct marketing company that uses our products, services, & events to promote your adventure travel programs. Our partners are dedicated to enhancing our communities by bringing together individuals and groups in adventure recreation Travel tips, safari informations,kilimandscharo and helpful information about Tanzania. Activities like climbing kilimanjaro, safaris, wildlife safari and beach holidays in Tanzania	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line77
__label__cc	0.573394	0.426606	Cycling in Cities Research Program safety & travel mode safety, cycling, helmet laws safety & route type injury circumstances & severity evidence-based training Motivating Cycling preferred route types mapping bikeability cycling & bikeway proximity Study Publications Brochures, Letters, Media Our goal is to make research from the Cycling in Cities program, and elsewhere, into tools that are useful for policy-makers, planners, and the public. We received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project with two components: an evidence-based audit of education materials related to cycling; and a tool to allow cities and citizens to evaluate the bikeability of their neighborhoods. Creating bikeability maps A large body of research has focused on walkability, and there are now popular online tools that allow individuals to calculate a “Walk Score” for their neighbourhood. However, there has been little effort to define and map “bikeability”. There are important differences between walkability and bikeability. For example, whereas sidewalks are important to walking, our research has shown that bike routes (especially those separated from traffic) and flat terrain are key factors to encourage cycling. Given that determinants of walking and cycling are different, and cycling is an increasingly popular travel choice, we created a measure of bikeability to add to the transportation planning toolbox. The components of bikeability are based on the results of our research on cycling motivators and deterrents. Our bikeability measure was piloted in the Vancouver area (“bikeability heat map” shown above). We teamed with the Seattle-based company that developed Walk Score to create Bike Score based in part on our bikeability research. Environmental factors important to cyclists are used to calculate Bike Score: cycling infrastructure (separated bike lanes and bike paths, local street bikeways, painted bike lanes) topography (hilliness) desirable amenities (grocery stores, restaurants, schools, etc.) and road connectivity (both are components of Walk Score, which was used to capture these elements within Bike Score) Bike Score is calculated for each location in a city, then mapped. The score can range from a low of 0 (deep red) to a high of 100 (dark green). By examining the “heat maps” of Bike Score for their city, municipal planners can locate neighbourhoods that are currently underserved and target them for improvements. The maps can be separated into their component parts (bike lanes, hills, destinations) to allow planners to determine which components contribute to a lower or higher score in a neighborhood. Individuals can use the maps to choose areas to live or cycle in. Sample Bike Score Heat Map for Calgary In May 2013 Bike Score was extended to include 12 Canadian cities and ~ 150 US cities. The graph below shows data for the initial 10 Canadian cities (May 2012). In cities with a higher average Bike Score, more people cycle to work (2011 Census). Of the 10 Canadian cities, the highest average scores were for Victoria, Vancouver and Montreal, and these three also had the highest % of commute trips by bike (from 3.2 to 10.6% of trips). It is important to note that there is lots of room to improve, since Bike Score averages for Canadian cities are all below 75. And cycling in most Canadian cities pales in comparison to cities in northern Europe with 10 to 40% of commute trips by bike. Average Bike Score for 10 Canadian Cities vs. % of Commute Trips by Bike We also examined the relationship between Bike Score and % of commute trips by bike in 24 US and Canadian cities, at the census tract level. The association was not strong and differed by city, but on average census tracts with Bike Scores over 90 had 4% more commute trips by bike than those with Bike Scores of 25 or lower. Last updated on March 30, 2019 @9:08 am “Bike Score” Summary We partnered with Walk Score, to create Bike Score. Heat maps are now available for 12 Canadian cities and ~ 150 American cities, based on our bikeability methods and our motivators and deterrents research. This mapping tool allows neighbourhoods to be compared by individuals who want to decide where to live or cycle, and by planners who want to decide where and how to improve cycling conditions in their cities. We presented this at Velo-City Global 2012: Bike Score: Applying research to build web-based tools to promote cycling [pdf] We also examined the utility of Bike Score as a potential predictor of cycling to work mode share. [pdf] 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada School of Population and Public Health 2206 East Mall, Emergency Procedures \| Accessibility \| Contact UBC \|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.751417	0.751417	To rejoice in thy strength Byrd O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Palestrina Kyrie from Missa brevis Byrd Justorum animae Palestrina Gloria from Missa brevis Byrd Laetentur coeli Palestrina Credo from Missa brevis Byrd Sing joyfully Sweelinck Unter der Linden Grüne (WN organ) Palestrina Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa brevis Byrd Miserere mei Palestrina Agnus Dei from Missa brevis Byrd O quam gloriosum Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), primarily a prolific composer of masses and motets, was one of the towering figures of late sixteenth-century music; at the time of his death he was considered by some to be the finest musician in the world. Despite its title, the Missa brevis of 1570 is one of the most substantial and sonorous of all Palestrina’s four-part mass-settings. The music has a strong character with the motif of a falling minor third, usually followed by upward movement by step, appearing not only at the beginning of most movements but frequently during them, for instance in the remarkable sequence in all the parts of the ‘Amen’ in the Credo. The second, exquisite Agnus Dei expands to SSATB, with the ascending scale at the beginning of the first Agnus inverted at the start of the second. William Byrd (1539-1623), a pupil of Thomas Tallis, was the most prodigiously talented and prolific English composer of his time. He became Organist and Master of the Choristers at Lincoln Cathedral in 1563, where he produced English works for Anglican services, before moving to the Chapel Royal in London in 1572. There he worked jointly with Tallis, and in 1575 they secured a royal patent for the printing and distribution of part-music. During the 1580s and 1590s Byrd’s Catholicism became the driving force for his music; he wrote and openly published motets and masses, almost certainly composed for small chapel gatherings. O Lord, let thy servant Elizabeth was written during Byrd’s time at the Chapel Royal. Its text comes from Psalm 21, customized to address the queen by name. A relatively sober composition for SAATTB, it ends in an expansive Amen. The offertory Justorum animae, for the feast of All Saints and from the Gradualia of 1605, is a serene reminder that those who have died lie in the peace of God. Set for five voices (SSATB), it evokes a mood of tender confidence and faith, with gradual and subtle transitions between homophony and polyphony, harmonic dissonances and suspensions becoming apparent as the piece unfolds. The five-part (SSATB) Laetentur caeli and its seconda pars Orietur in diebus tuis come from the Cantiones Sacrae of 1589. A setting of the Processional Respond for Advent Sunday, they characterised by a virtuosic command of florid, imitative counterpoint. The six-part Sing Joyfully, for SSAATB and with words from Psalm 81, is Byrd’s most popular and arguably best anthem. There is some marvellous madrigalean word-painting, especially at ‘Blow the trumpet in the new moon’. Published in his 1589 Cantiones Sacrae, the elaborate and penitential motet Ne irascaris, Domine, along with its seconda pars Civitas sancti tui, is one of Byrd’s masterpieces and must be one of his most forceful acts of protest against the persecution of English Catholics. The setting is of verses from Isaiah 64. The atmosphere is of quiet polyphonic contemplation, with the melody contained within the range of a fourth, before the stark homophony of ‘Sion deserta facta est’. The final phrase is a moving lament for Jerusalem – a metaphor for the Catholic Church in England – in which the poignant words ‘desolata est’ are heard a remarkable 54 times. The five-part Miserere mei, for SATBB, is from the second Cantiones Sacrae of 1591 and is a quiet prayer: a clear homophonic plea for mercy moves quickly into beautiful imitation, with especially powerful settings of ‘iniquitatem’ and ‘misericordiam’. O quam gloriosum and its seconda pars Benedictio et claritas also come from the 1589 Cantiones Sacrae. The texts used in the two sections had liturgical links with the Office texts for the Feast of All Saints, although Byrd’s publication of it was as a ‘sacred song’ rather than a liturgical piece. The text of the first section is derived from the Magnificat antiphon ‘O how glorious is the kingdom’, with that of the second from the service of None, ‘Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever’ (Revelation 7:12). The atmosphere gleams with lucid major triads and an even, suffused light. The Netherlands composer, organist and teacher Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was one of the most important musical figures of his time: a renowned player, one of the first major keyboard composers of Europe and a sought-after teacher. Calvinist practice prohibited the performance of organ music during the service and Sweelinck held a civic position, performing concerts at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. His compositions include many variation sets on both sacred and secular tunes, including the set of four variations on the folk-tune Oonder een linde groen (Under the green linden tree).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line79
__label__cc	0.611723	0.388277	Baltimore Cops: Man Injured in Transport CALL THE MEDIC Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died this weekend a week after his arrest, was taken into custody "without force or incident," according to the police report. "During transport to Western District via wagon transport the defendant suffered a medical emergency and was immediately transported to Shock Trauma via medic," the officer wrote. At a press conference on Monday, the police commissioner said that Gray had asked for medical attention but did not receive it. The van was taken to Western District and then a medic was called to attend to Gray, who underwent extensive surgery and died on Sunday. Read it at The Baltimore Sun	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.730537	0.269463	Google Places (Maps & Local), Local Search, Loci - Important Articles for the Year Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009 January 11, 2010 Mike Blumenthal 5 Comments It seems to me that the two most important developments in local search during 2009 both came from Google. I suppose that’s not much of a surprise in the current local environment, is it? Here’s my top two: Google Shows Local/Map Results on Generic Queries — you wrote about this on your blog, I wrote about it on Search Engine Land, and many others wrote about it, too. I called it a game changer. It’s huge because all of a sudden you have local business listings showing up prominently for thousands of keywords/phrases that they never appeared on before. It excused lazy search behavior. More importantly, it opened up a whole spectrum of exposure opportunity for small businesses. All of a sudden it was possible to rank on generic terms like “insurance agent” and “italian restaurant.” Huge development, and no surprise that both Bing and Yahoo had followed suit by the end of the year. Google Launches Place Pages — I was in the middle of a two-month travelogue when this hit, and didn’t really appreciate it until much later when I got home and had time to see what it was all about. I think this will become a game changer, too. This idea of a single URL for “every place in the world,” as Google said (with typical hubris), is really compelling. It’s Google doing what the Yelps and Citysearches and IYP sites have been doing, so it’s kinda of a catch-up move in one sense … but Google has so much traffic and so much interest from business owners who want to be found. This can’t help but be big. I mean, Google’s already using place pages to show real estate listings; what else can they use them for? And I’m shocked that Google isn’t indexing these pages. I suspect they will at some point. The URLs are already fairly SEO-friendly and some of the pages have really good content. Why not index them? So what if they’re already available in the 7-pack listings; why would Google include business listings from Citysearch or Yelp that may have less content and offer a poorer user experience, when it could show a Google place page in the organic search results? (The flip side of all this Google talk, of course, is the ongoing saga of Google’s terrible support for small/local business owners. Miriam Ellis wrote a marvelous article about that. And no one’s done a better job of writing about Google’s ongoing problems with spam, hijacked listings, and general technical incompetence than you. So Google’s local track record is far from perfect … still.) Some other things that stand out for me from 2009: David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors remains the de facto standard for information about local SEO, and I could retire if I had a dollar for every time I’ve suggested a small biz owner read it. I continue to love and be fascinated by the convergence of local search and social media. Small business owners were especially creative with Twitter last year, and I think that’s just the start of things. Twitter itself has made no secret of its plans to reach out to small businesses with formal services and tools, and they’ve said that local is an important part of their plans, so it should be interesting to see what develops in 2010. And I think we collectively tend to under-report on Bing Maps and Local. I’ve always received a lot of traffic to my blog from people looking to learn how to get listed on MSN/Bing maps, how to optimize for it, etc. I documented some of that in this post, showing that eight of the top 50 keywords that send traffic to my blog are about Bing/MSN local, and only four of the top 50 are related to Google maps/local. I suspect that means something, though it might just be that you’re getting all the Google traffic. 🙂 Matt’s Bio: Matt McGee is the Assignment Editor at Search Engine Land, and offers SEO consulting and training to small business owners (and sometimes big business owners, too). He blogs regularly at Small Business Search Marketing and Hyperlocal Blogger. Loci2009: Matt McGee's Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009 by Mike Blumenthal Previous PostWebmaster.FM InterviewNext PostLoci2009: Seb Provencher’s Inspirational Local Developments in 2009 and Predictions for 2010 5 thoughts on “Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009” With a bunch of small local business websites, one has been strong enough to rank highly and get that “generic” query traffic for years. This year, the big difference out of google, was during the periods when the 7pac was showing (with the business ranked #1 through most of the geography) and the high generic rankings co-incided Not only was there a ton of traffic….BUT….coversions just SOARED!!!!! The visibility of a map coinciding w/ a search w/ probable local intent…but no local geo modifier is actually a tremendous boon for local businesses, and of course a dagger into the hearts of all the directories, IYP’s, vertical directories, etc…..that now sit way below the 7pac. A very big deal, indeed, for the local search industry!!! Matt (57 comments) says: Earlpearl, if you managed to get a client to rank on page one for terms like “insurance agent” and “italian restaurant” years ago, you’re a much better SEO than me. 🙂 Dan (39 comments) says: thanks for a great read 🙂 Jimmy (6 comments) says: While google are showing local listings on generic search terms it does seem to be quite random as to what words trigger it, I am not sure if this is to do with words that they deem should trigger these searches or if its more that they dont have a “local” supplier of x in which case we will see more and more instance of this. 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__label__cc	0.680616	0.319384	Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse Thread: Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse 5 March Washington Post - Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse by Shankar Vedantam. ...Two political scientists recently examined 250 asymmetrical conflicts, starting with the Peninsular War. Although great powers are vastly more powerful today than in the 19th century, the analysis showed they have become far less likely to win asymmetrical wars. More surprising, the analysis showed that the odds of a powerful nation winning an asymmetrical war decrease as that nation becomes more powerful. The analysis by Jason Lyall at Princeton University and Lt. Col. Isaiah Wilson III at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point shows that the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003. The same trend was evident when the researchers studied only asymmetrical conflicts involving the United States. The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war. Essentially, what Lyall and Wilson are saying is that if you want to catch a mouse, you need a cat. If you hire a lion to do the job because it is bigger and stronger, the very strength and size of the lion can get in the way of getting the job done... More at the link. TROUFION Four quotes from the Vedantam article: "...the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003." "The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war." "The rise of nationalism over the past two centuries and the revulsion that colonialism now inspires might also explain the declining ability of major powers to subjugate weaker nations." "While the findings are of immediate interest because of the situation in Iraq, the social scientists are really trying to address a systemic issue: America has gotten stuck in the Hollywood notion that a military with ever more powerful armaments is a more effective military." I would love to get a full copy of the report this article is based on. It opens up many questions. Least of all what has been the effect of the communications and transportation advancements: the speed of horse and sail 1800-1850 to the speed of airplanes, radios and digital sat com. Also what role has the change in sensabilities had on these operations (particularly to the US and Western Powers). For instance: In 1800 a white male could own slaves, and generally treat them worse than draft animals, a ships captain was omnipotent holding the right to life and death at sea, orders from the President to an Expeditionary force would cover six month blocks of time or more. Further the average in-country tour was measured in years not months. Colonialism, manifest destiny, superior races, civilizing effects, were all considered normal practice and accepted while genocide was not even heard of. The world was a fundamentally different place. The thesis analogies are good to work with but they sound more like excuses as to why we (US) are not 'winning' today. Does the actual report offer anything remotely resembling a solution to the stated problem? While I fully believe there is no cookie cutter answer to small wars, there are trends. There are successful tactical-operational and strategic actions that can bring about victory in small wars regardless of the size-strength and capability of a nation. But again as I have not seen the actual thesis yet I withold any further comment. Need Report I'd like to see the full report. I'd like to make my own determination that the correlation drawn is meaningful rather than accidental (or to use Aristotelian terms, "essential" rather than accidental, or part of the actual essence of being a large armed forces). In other words, the size and technological superiority may nothing whatsoever to do with winning or losing small wars. The author may have landed on something that is uncorrelated to the outcome, and thus the thesis may be unsubstantiated. Interesting article, but who knows unless we see the report? Difference of sensibilities Just to add a period note to reinforce the changing times-changing means, here is a note from the Boxer Rebellion, in other words why what worked in the past doesn't always translate too well today: Tientsin: Allied Proclamation to the Inhabitants To the Inhabitants of the City of Tientsin: In bombarding the city of Tientsin the allied forces only replied to the attack made by the rebels on the foreign settlements. At present, as your authorities, forgetting their duties, have deserted their posts, the allied forces consider it their duty to establish in the city a temporary administration, which you all have to obey. This administration will protect everyone wishing to deal in a friendly manner with foreigners, but will punish without mercy everyone who causes trouble. Let the bad people tremble, but the good people should feel reassured and quietly return to their houses and begin their usual work. Thus peace will be restored. Respect this. Tientsin, the 16th July, 1900. Allemagne: Von Usedom, Capitaine de Navire. Autriche Hongrie: J. Tudrak, Lieutenant de Vaisseau. États Unis d'Amérique: Colonel Meade, American Marines. France: De Pelacol, Colonel. Grande-Bretagne: Le Général Dorward, Captain Bayly. Italie: G. Sirianni, Lieutenant de Vaisseau. Japon: Le Général Fukushima. Russie: Vice-Amiral Alexieff. Well, this isn't quite the whole report - its a pdf of a draft on the subject that was to be presented at the 2006 Annual American Political Science Association Conference held last August: The American Way of War and Peace in Comparative Perspective Why do states lose to weaker foes in so-called “small” wars? The United States, for example, enjoys a reputation for unmatched tactical proficiency on the battlefield yet has witnessed a post-1945 decline in its ability to secure its political aims in war. Using a new dataset of small wars and insurgencies (1800-2003), we argue the paradox of tactical success but strategic failure has afflicted all states since 1900. While crude indicators of military and economic power are an excellent predictor of war outcomes in the nineteenth century, such variables are no longer tied to political victory after 1900. Indeed, we argue that as states embrace the “modern” way of warfare – typified by mechanized warfare that uses rapid decisive operations (RDO) to strike an adversary’s center of gravity – they become less capable of winning small wars and insurgencies. Two variables serve to lock states onto this suboptimal path: (1) the process of industrialization and the rise of market-based economies and (2) a cultural understanding of modern warfare as appropriate, indeed, required, for civilized states. The paper uses a nested research design that pairs large-N statistical test (including fractal pooling) with a within-case comparison of American operations in Iraq (2003-06). John T. Fishel Rancho La Espada, Blanchard, OK 250 cases - what are they? Interesting article in the Post and thanks to Jed for the full draft article. I scanned the article for a list of the cases - haven't had time to read the whole thing yet - but could not find a list. That,alone, gives mepause.When Max Manwaring and I wrote our origninal piece in Small Wars and Insurgencies, wepublished the entire list of 43 cases. So, I wonder what the cases are. For example, do the authors address every single Indian War in the US beginning with 1800? I should note that the outcome, despite some significant setbacks for the US Army such as the Little Bighorn, was victory in every case! In all the post-WWII insurgencies in Latin America, there have only been 2 victories for the insurgents - Castro in Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (1979). So, the definition of victory and defeat is of importance as well. The track record of insurgents is simply not very good. So, at a minimum, caution is indicated when we read the paper in its entirety. goesh Good point about the Indian wars, John T. From 1777 - 1787, in Kentucky alone, just over 1,000 settlers were killed or captured. The Shawnee were one of the main opponents in this phase of expansion yet by 1800, their power was pretty much negated. The likes of George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, experts in COIN at the time, saw to it. To give an example of their daring and ability, in 1789, Clark sent 3 scouts deep into Shawnee territory, Chillocothe to be exact, their principal village. That would be the equivilant of sending 3 men up to Fallujah during the initial invasion of Iraq to do some scouting/recon. They were that confident of their ability and that willing to take necessary, unexpected risks. Boonesborough and Franks Fort had been repeatedly hit in force and there was considerable marauding and Boone and Clark got wind of another force massing to the north and sent 3 men on a recon mission. Now that's classic, affective COIN doing the unexpected, high risk with the potential for real success. What Shawnee war leader would expect 3 white men to come snoopin' and poopin' deep into their turf? The mission was both a success and failure as Clark didn't expect his scouts to disobey ROE. They got up there, did their recon then took some Shawnee horses. Talk about balls, huh? Anyway, this apparently made the Shawnees more angry than the simple fact of scouting them. They gave chase, captured Kenton and killed my ancestrol Grandfather, Alexander Montgomery, at the Ohio river but the third man, whose name slips my mind, got away and returnd to his CO with the Intel. Typical of the asymentrical warfare our nation has had to engage in and the opponents we have had to face, the Shawnees repeatedly slapped Kenton's face with Grandpa's scalp ( at least they didn't put Grandpa's underwear on his head) held Kenton captive and frequently tortured him before he was able to escape. He ran the gauntlet 3 times. They didn't do beheadings back then, they burned people at the stake instead. There are lots of details and particulars left out in reports such as this that essentially claim failure of our Nation but there is an accumulation of lessons learned, there is collective imprinting that becomes self-sustaining, creative and proactive in and of itself from lessons learned. It endures the test of time and that's what counts. Reports such as this may well cite the battle of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn as failures, but do they address the change of tactics needed for successful COIN? Following the defeats in the summer of 1876, the hostile were finally pursued in the winter. The troops were issued buffalo coats and winter logistics were put in place. In the spring of 77', Crazy Horse and Gall were done fighting and only Sitting Bull held out but was spending most of his time in Grandmother's Land (Canada). Some of the world's best light cavalry were done fighting by the summer of 1877, one year after two major defeats. Tom Odom DeRidder LA 43 Cases Originally Posted by John T. Fishel Can you provide a list of your 43 cases? I wonder how many of the Africa cold wars show up? This paper has several implications for the study of warfare and its practice. It is clear, for example, that there is no uniform logic to warfare: states that excel at Type I war are precisely those states most at risk for suffering political defeat in so-called small wars. This points to both the need to bound our theories of conflict to specific types of conflict as well as to engage in fractal pooling to capture how variables’ significance change temporally. The results presented here do, however, point to the fact that leading explanations – both power-based realist theories and regime type accounts – are inadequate for explaining war outcomes outside of conventional conflicts. What we need now are better measures of more qualitative variables such as force employment and command climate at the unit level in order to capture how culture and economics interact to shape patterns of warfare. The paper’s findings also shed some light into current debates about US force restructuring. In particular, the paper raises the question of whether the current “Revolution in Military Affairs” is not, in fact, locking the US even further into a suboptimal path of war-fighting. To be sure, modular force restructuring and other technological innovations promise to deliver devastating amounts of firepower at the tactical level. Yet such practices may simply exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, the problems facing mechanized modern forces in Type II and III wars. An appreciation of how armies in the nineteenth century fared and, in particular, their use of local intelligence, foraging practices, and sustained interaction with the local populace over lengthy deployments, may lead to more successful tactics and outcomes. Interestingly, the paper suggests that the real revolution in warfare may not be RDO-type operations post-1918 but the opposite: the embrace of asymmetric tactics and methods by weaker opponents at the turn of the century. Devolution may, in fact, be the revolution in warfare. In sum, the paper’s findings, if still tentative, suggest that there is profit in rethinking the links between the political economy of war, market-based principles, and the way states (and militaries) conceptualize why and how fight. What I did not see in my quick read of the paper is an adequate examination of the leap of faith made regarding common military practices in the Age of Colonial Imperialism and how those practices--foraging to pick one--might play out in the 21st Century. The closest they come to this is in lightly discussing differences between the 101st and 4thID. Interestingly, distance is highly significant and positively correlated with victory. This is a surprising result, for it suggests that states fighting insurgencies are more likely to win the greater the distance from their home capitals. By contrast, this result disappears and turns slightly negative in the 1900-2003 era. In effect, states in the nineteenth century appear to have had better power projection capabilities – if measured in terms of victories, and not quantities of material and men – than their twentieth century counterparts. Here too is another weakpoint: the authors came up with the factor of "distance" as a physical measure and then to my mind misinterpret their own findings: that 19th Century States had great power projection than 20th Century states. What is missed is that the key variable in the equation was communications and what Dave Dillegge has talked about on here as strategic compression. All of that said, however, I do have great empathy for the argument that our classic warfighting is defined by our own cultural parameters and we change only incrementally--usually at great cost. We go back to what we are most comfortable with and our arguments to support that position take on "10 Commandments-like" qualities. Last edited by Tom Odom; 03-06-2007 at 02:22 PM. Tom and others, The full cite is "Insurgency & counterinsurgency: Toward a New Analytical Approach" in SMALL WARS & INSURGENCIES, Vol 3 No 3 winter 1992, Frank Cass, London. "43 Internal Conflicts Involving Western Powers 1945 -1983" 1. Chinese Revolution Ph V 1945 -49 2. Vietnamese War for Independence 1945 -54 3. Israel War for Independence 1945 - 49 4. Indonesian War for Independence 1945 - 47 5. Algerian Troubles 1945 6. Greek Civil War 1945 - 49 7. Madagascar Uprising 1947 8. Malaya 1948 - 60 9. Huk Rebellion 1948 - 54 10. Colombia (La Violencia) 1948 - 53 11. Mau Mau 1952 - 56 12. Shifta Insurgency Eritrea 1946 - 52 13. Morocco Indepandence 1952 -56 14. Cyprus 1955 -59 15. Guatemalan Coup 1954 16. Algeria 1954 - 62 17. Vietnames Reunification Ph I 1954 - 62 18. Cameroon Civil War 1960 - 61 19. Cuba 1956 - 59 20. Spanish Morocco 1957 - 58 21. Muscat-Oman 1957 -59 22. Togoland 1957 23. Jordan 1958 24. Angola 1960 - 75 25. Venezuela 1961 -64 26. Bay of Pigs 1961 27. Vietnamese Reunification Ph II 1962 - 73 28. Brunei 1962 29. Guinea Bissau Ind Ph I 1962 -66 30. Oman 1965 - 75 31. Aden 1964 -67 32. Rafdan 1964 33. Mozambique 1964 - 74 34. Aden Crisis 1966 - 67 35. Guatemala 1966 -68 36. Bolivia 1967 37. Equatorial Africa 1969 38. Argentina 1970 -80 39. Moros 1972 -83 40. Uruguay 1972 - 80 41. Namibia Ph I 1973 - 80 42. Nicaragua 1972 - 79 43. Central African Empire 1979 Although there can be some argument, my count of these has 14 cases where the Western Power was on the losing end of the conflict. 14 of 43 (33%). Congo/Zaire Wars and Angola I would add the following to the list: Congo 1960-1963: Belgium, US, UN: Government and UN "win" Subset Katangan Secession: Belgium versus Congo, US, and UN: Congo win Congo 1963-1965 US, Belgium, Congo versus Simbas with some later PRC assistance: Congo win Angola 1975-1977(?) US, Holden Roberto (FNLA), Zaire versus MPLA, Cuba, USSR: MPLA "win" Zaire 1977-1978 (Shaba 1 and 2) France, Belgium, US, Morocco, Zaire versus East Germany, Angola; Zaire win That would make the total 47 with 15 cases where the Western power lost. J Wolfsberger Also from Shankar Vedantam's article: Originally Posted by SWJED The Peninsular War interests us because it is one of the earliest examples of an asymmetrical war -- Spanish insurgents faced down the powerful French army by using stealth, deception and the support of civilians. Wasn't a gentleman named Wellington, commanding a few British troops, somehow involved? John Wolfsberger, Jr. An unruffled person with some useful skills. At the time, he was merely Arthur Wellesley (sp?! Yea, verily! I'd submit that Wellesley and the British were nowhere near as critical to the defeat of the French in Spain as the Spanish and Portuguese insurgents, and that British victories in Spain were largely made possible because of the actions of the insurgency. The g's did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been fighting the allies. The allies did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been suppressing the g's. The French would, IMO, have been successful against either alone, but failed against the combination. Thus, the author's generality, that the g's won outright by themselves, struck me as false. Classic support for partisans The Peninsula campaign is a classic example of Great Power support to partisans in a secodary theater of war. In this respect, it is not dissimilar to the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the Philippines supported by the US.Another example is the partisans in Yugoslavia supported by the UK, US, and USSR or the maquis in France before D-Day. In any event, if Great Powers are involved on opposite sides, the case is much more complex than a simple insurgency with carefully limited support from one Great Power or another. It is for this reason that I noted that someone else might break out the winners and losers among the Western Power supporters/participants differently than I did among out 43 cases. slapout9 John, Tom Odom posted this paper on compound warfare awhile back and it has a great section on this subject and the theory of compund warfare in general. http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/downlo...nd_warfare.pdf Huber book Thanks Slapout. Tom Huber is an old friend from Leavenworth days but I didn't know about that book. To Tom Odom: thanks for the other cases. Huber, Lewis, Yates Welcome. Tom Huber, Sam Lewis, Spike Yates, and I used to do pizza and movie on Sundays at Leavenworth in the mid-1980s. Tom-- I don't know if you knew that Larry has retired. His book (vol 1) on Panama is due out from CMH. Yep I heard that Spike had hung it up. Sam retired 3? years ago (we roomed together for nearly 3 years). Huber is one of the handful left. 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__label__cc	0.656877	0.343123	Desenvolupament de metodologia analítica per la determinació de neurotòxics i els seus metabòlits en sang de ratolí per cromatografia http://dugi.udg.edu/item/http:@@@@hdl.handle.net@@10256@@11866 The IDPN is an ototoxic nitrile that kills the vestibular cells of experimental animals. These cells are related to motor skills like balance, visual stabilization and body acceleration as has been observed in mice that were administered with this substance. It is believed that the increase in neurodegenerative diseases and the loss of these skills with aging could be related with the increasingly presence of nitriles on the environment. Currently the metabolic pathway that follows the IDPN in the body is unknown, although several hypotheses have been described which result in three metabolites: BAPN, β-alanine and cyanoacetic acid as these compounds have been detected in urine of rats. In the development of animal models to study the relationship of nitriles with neurodegenerative diseases it is essential to develop analytical methodologies for detecting and quantifying these compounds on biological samples that will be able to establish a direct relationship between their presence in the experimental animal bodies, which causes motor diseases, and their effects on the vestibular system that leads to vestibular cells death. For this reason, the objective of the present study is to develop an analytical method by liquid chromatography for detecting and quantifying them in blood samples. In this study, we have determined the experimental conditions for each stage of the analytical method: detection and determination of IDPN and its possible metabolites, treatment of blood samples, derivatisation of the samples, chromatographic conditions, calibration and recoveries. The method has been applied to the analysis of mice’s blood samples after administration of 24mg / kg dose of IDPN for several days. We have also analyzed the relationship between the concentrations of its metabolites, 3-aminopropionitril (BAPN) and β-alanine, in plasma with behavioural and vestibular immunohistologic studies of the same group of mices. The results indicate an inverse relationship between the concentrations of metabolites in blood and the vestibular damage caused by IDPN Eroles Navarro, MarEroles Navarro, Mar Manager: Salvadó Martín, Victòria Other contributions: Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Ciències Author: Eroles Navarro, Mar Date: 2015 September Abstract: The IDPN is an ototoxic nitrile that kills the vestibular cells of experimental animals. These cells are related to motor skills like balance, visual stabilization and body acceleration as has been observed in mice that were administered with this substance. It is believed that the increase in neurodegenerative diseases and the loss of these skills with aging could be related with the increasingly presence of nitriles on the environment. Currently the metabolic pathway that follows the IDPN in the body is unknown, although several hypotheses have been described which result in three metabolites: BAPN, β-alanine and cyanoacetic acid as these compounds have been detected in urine of rats. In the development of animal models to study the relationship of nitriles with neurodegenerative diseases it is essential to develop analytical methodologies for detecting and quantifying these compounds on biological samples that will be able to establish a direct relationship between their presence in the experimental animal bodies, which causes motor diseases, and their effects on the vestibular system that leads to vestibular cells death. For this reason, the objective of the present study is to develop an analytical method by liquid chromatography for detecting and quantifying them in blood samples. In this study, we have determined the experimental conditions for each stage of the analytical method: detection and determination of IDPN and its possible metabolites, treatment of blood samples, derivatisation of the samples, chromatographic conditions, calibration and recoveries. The method has been applied to the analysis of mice’s blood samples after administration of 24mg / kg dose of IDPN for several days. We have also analyzed the relationship between the concentrations of its metabolites, 3-aminopropionitril (BAPN) and β-alanine, in plasma with behavioural and vestibular immunohistologic studies of the same group of mices. The results indicate an inverse relationship between the concentrations of metabolites in blood and the vestibular damage caused by IDPN Format: application/pdf Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/11866 Collection: Biotecnologia (TFG) Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ Subject: Neurotoxicologia Neurotoxines Metabòlits Rates (Animals de laboratori) Nitrils Neurotoxicology Neurotoxic agents Chromatographic analysis Mice as laboratory animals Title: Desenvolupament de metodologia analítica per la determinació de neurotòxics i els seus metabòlits en sang de ratolí per cromatografia Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis Repository: DUGiDocs Dret català -- Congressos Programari lliure Vehicles submergibles Introduced organisms Informació -- Sistemes d’emmagatzematge i recuperació -- Geografia -- Congressos Information storage and retrieval systems -- Geography -- Congresses Ensenyament -- Innovacions Ferrater Mora, José Universitat de Girona. 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__label__cc	0.741961	0.258039	Review: A Love To Call Her Own by Marilyn Pappano Posted October 27, 2014 by Sophia Rose in Reviews / 5 Comments Tags: A Love To Call Her Own, Contemporary Romance, Tallgrass I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A Love To Call Her Own by Marilyn Pappano Series: #3 Tallgrass Published by Forever I had the opportunity to read a Christmas anthology last year and one of the novellas was be this author and from this series. I loved the story because I loved the idea of a series of books built around a group of women who call themselves The Margarita Club with the only qualification for membership being that they are a military widow. The series explores each of their circumstances, their individual journey through their grief and a second chance at happiness. I was enchanted and wanted more so I saw this one- which, incidentally is the third book- and dove in. The author has a deft hand and nailed it with the proper balance. She is able to engage the reader in what these people are suffering without falling over the edge into dreary or depressing. There is hope even in the dark times. There are even bittersweet moments of fighting off the bad thoughts, but there is also humor and heartwarming moments. Oh and don’t think there wasn’t a bit of spice going on between the hot, hard-bodied cowboy who is a military widower (yes, that was an interesting dynamic) and the lovely little red-headed lady and latest member of the Margarita Club to get her story, who takes a chance that this time around will last. There was a bit of the feeling that I was catching some events awkwardly because I didn’t start from the beginning and apparently the main romantic pair in this one had begun their story earlier. However, I really had no trouble diving into this third book. I was engaged from the beginning and experienced no confusion along the way though I do hope that some of the things introduced in this one will be pursued in the next because I have a powerful curiosity about a half a dozen things that were left hanging which is by the way, my only niggle. I totally want to go back for the other two previous stories and I definitely want to continue with the series. The story opens with Jessy Lawrence realizing that her life is pathetic and she really has to do something drastic to wrest back the reins. She has been living a lie for so long even her Margarita Club sisters, the people she considers her only family in the world, don’t know the half of it. She has hit an absolute rock-bottom low after getting fired and waking up hungover three days later. Drinking blots out all the regrets. But now she wants to change and she sets out to do that very thing. And lo and behold, she is given a second chance with a man who knows grief and loneliness well. Rancher Dalton Smith has mourned his dead wife for several years, but his grief is twisted by the anger and pain that for some reason she would rather die than come home to him. He has kept her secret that none of her family or his knows- his wife survived the bomb and then killed herself. And she’s not the first person to leave him since his identical twin took off years ago from the family ranch with no explanation and took Dalton’s girlfriend with him. Now, he realizes in small ways starting from that time he spent with Jessy when they were both drunk that he is ready to rejoin the living and he wants to see Jessy again. Dalton has his issues and he knows that Jessy does too so they start over again and tentatively give what is between them a try. I was struck by the difference in reading a full-length novel in the series after reading the novella. The novella was pretty insular in that it focused primarily on the couple finding their romance. While this one had the room to expand so that it felt more like the life story of the group of ladies and not just the main one getting her hero and their romance. I love that style of storytelling in a series when it’s done right. I loved the family feel and the camaraderie. I loved the scenes away from the romance because it enhanced instead of detracted from it. The characters from the previous books are very much present in several scenes and their story threads even push forward a bit with Dane and Carly’s wedding, Therese and Logan moving toward theres, Ilena going through the last weeks of pregnancy and obviously Lucy helping the new widow and her estranged family. Jessy is the character with the growing to do. She really has a poor self-image so its hard reading her bashing herself and her thoughts on herself are worse. But it was worth it to see her blossom in Dalton’s care and open up and trust everyone with those secrets and bad thoughts she was carrying around. It didn’t happen all at once and it really was baby steps, but she did it. Although watching her heal was difficult, there was no moment when I was irritated or didn’t like her. She fought her demons hard and that’s all I could ask for. She never lost her sass and love for the simple things in her life- her killer shoes, animals, her gals and her hot cowboy. Dalton grows too, but he is almost finished by the time he reaches out to Jessy. I liked the point Jessy made when she tentatively invited Dalton to join the Margarita Club. There is an expectation that is different on women and men when it comes to dealing with grief and what support there is for it. Dalton had his family, but yet people in general just expected him to buck up and deal. He dealt with the expectation by isolating himself on his ranch and assuming an attitude when people came near him. He came through it, but he pretty much did it alone. Considering he had lived all his life there an nobody reached out was my proof that expectations were different. I felt very tender toward this especially since the wife he grieved made him feel he had done something wrong or wasn’t good enough because she didn’t want to come back to him disabled. Suicide is so hard on the survivors, but again, he didn’t let it bury him and it was Jessy that brought joy back into his life and helped him reconnect with his friends and family. Now the other couple, Lucy and Ben, are just getting started, but what scenes there were was as riveting as Dalton and Jessy’s story. I hope their book is next. Lucy used an addiction like Jessy to battle grief, but her choice was food. She now tries to fight that and fight the voice in her head that makes her think poorly of herself. She is such a treasure the way she bravely helps a new widow through all that she must do- funeral arrangements, bringing her husband’s body home from the plane with military honor guard, and the added twist of seeing children that she ditched when she started her new life. Lucy connects with the son, Ben. Ben has her eager to try for a new relationship again, but she doubts a successful, big-city surgeon would be interested in her. Ben reluctantly came because a kind woman on the phone told him something about regret that enabled him to set aside the hurt and anger he has nursed for twenty years long enough to be there for the woman who abandoned her family for the man she is grieving. It is Lucy- sweet, kind Lucy- that is his lifeline through all of it. Oh please, oh please, let this be the story that is picked up next. So, all in all, this was a deep, emotional read that grabbed me up and carried me along to Tallgrass, Oklahoma with a posse of courageous ladies and the men who love them and help them heal. I would recommend this book/series to Contemporary Romance fans who don’t mind a pinch of spice or a lot of poignant feels to go along with a character-driven romance. My thanks to Net Galley for the opportunity to read this one in exchange for my honest review. Tallgrass Series Review: Loving Him Off the Field by Jean Review: The One You Can’t Forget b The Girl From Summer Hill by Jude Devera Review: Last Chance Book Club by Hope Ra Review: Against the Cage by Sidney Halst A Chance of a Lifetime by Marilyn Pappan A Summer to Remember by Marilyn Pappano Review: A Christmas to Remember by Jill A Promise of Forever by Marilyn Pappano Review: Simmer by Deborah Grace Staley Review: After the Fall by L.A. Witt Review: Southern Fried Blues by Jamie Fa Anything But Mine by Taryn Elliott #Revi Review Reboot: Loving Him Off the Field Lover Of Romance Great review hun!! I do love emotional reads though! So I think I would like to try it out, despite the negative heroine. Oh, I think she’ll win lots of people over even though she’s so hard on herself b/c she is a work in progress and it was great to be along for that. But don’t do what I did, Renee and start in the middle. Haha! Try the series with book one. 😉 Oh wow Sophia. Would not have gotten that from the cover at all. It sounds like a wonderful series. That’s really great she was able to find that balance and keep such a hard start from being too heavy. I didn’t know about the series either until I read the novella in the Christmas antho last year. It took me nearly a year to get to the series and try it, but I really liked what she did and I want to get the other gal’s stories. Oh, and the cover is really cool b/c the porch swing and the dog play strong roles in the story.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line105
__label__wiki	0.921399	0.921399	This very special live show follows the release of ‘Soundtrack from Electric Black’ For the past 30 years, the James Taylor Quartet has set the standard for the coolest sounds in funky acid jazz. On dozens of mighty albums and at their legendary gigs at home and around the world, they’ve quietly become a byword for distinguished British creativity. ‘Soundtrack from Electric Black’ is, however, the culmination of over thirty years of holding onto a musical vision that has developed within Taylor since he was a small child growing up in 1970s Britain. This vision began to find expression with the JTQ’s debut album ‘Mission Impossible’ and, since then, relentlessly gigging, recording, listening, studying and composing tunes with a view to raising the bar in the UK music scene. Taking his inspiration from the truly great film composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Lalo Schifrin, Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones and John Barry, Taylor wanted to make exciting, cinematic orchestral music. Taylor has always lamented never being able to convince a record label to fully commit to making the record he always wanted to make – or, more accurately, needed to make: “Labels would usually go halfway, give me some budget for a big horn section or a decent studio. But I guess, ultimately, they didn’t share my vision, so the record never got made - until now.” Realising it takes a substantial musical education to create orchestral music, Taylor applied to study composition and orchestration at various music colleges but was rejected. As a result, to familiarise himself with how musical scores look and work, he joined a local choir. Taylor eventually gained the confidence to compose and score out his own Mass using a four part choir, which led to composing for string quartets and, finally, full orchestral scores. Now armed with the creative tools, Taylor needed to find the money to fulfil his lifelong musical ambition. Having increasingly been making production music albums for various major labels, Taylor began to notice Audio Network - a global music company working in partnership with known and emerging artists to market and release their music across digital service providers as well as providing an opportunity in music for video. Audio Network gives artists the freedom to create the music they love, and then provides exposure to a large global customer base all backed by significant investment and support from a skilled music and production team. “Audio Network are one of the biggest bookers of Abbey Road studios and of orchestras and live musicians in the country, so I set about persuading them to let me record this album for them with a full orchestra in Abbey Rd Studio Two, The Beatles Studio,” explains Taylor. “This was a big ask, but ultimately Audio Network have been very supportive.” ‘Soundtrack from Electric Black’ was originally intended for production use only, but the vibe in the studio was ecstatic. Taylor says, “At the end of the session the orchestra applauded the compositions, which took Audio Network by surprise – me too! One of Abbey Road’s engineers said it was the best thing he’d recorded there in 20 years.” With that, enthusiasm began to grow within Audio Network to put ‘Soundtrack from Electric Black’ forward for a proper commercial release. Such a decision increases Taylor’s senses that the commercial music business as he knows it is becoming more aligned with music for video. He said, “Audio Network are pulling the cream of the British jazz scene together - Tim Garland and Jason Rebello, for example - and getting them to write and record together in a kind of family way like how classic old labels such as Motown and Stax used to. It feels very fresh and exciting.” Taylor says the last time saw so many big names under the same roof was at the start of the Acid Jazz boom in 1989, when Polydor Records started signing all the main players. “It feels like the real creative powerbase in the British music scene has relocated, and there is a healthy vibrant energy rising Phoenix-like from the ashes of the old music biz – and from the production music, of all places.” It’s this shift which has finally allowed Taylor to compose, orchestrate, record and release commercially ‘Soundtrack from Electric Black’, which, Taylor says “wouldn’t get past the front door of the average major label, which is good news for British music. James Taylor Quartet and Orchestra Rock, Pop & World Music Tiered Seating Due to circumstances beyond our control the decision has been made to cancel this performance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. All bookers will be contacted by box office with regards to a full refund. Many thanks Fri 13 Mar 19:30 Bombay Bicycle Club 23rd Jan Paul Carrack 31st Jan Suron Ki Mehfil 16th Feb Fisherman's Friends 24th Feb Bryan Ferry 9th Mar Michael Kiwanuka SOLD OUT 10th Mar The Boys Are Back 11th Mar Boyzlife 20th Mar The King Is Back 28th Mar Sam Fender SOLD OUT 30th Mar Sartaaj Live 4th Apr Shaan 12th Apr Elbow SOLD OUT 23rd Apr The Sensational 60s Experience 25th Apr Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott SOLD OUT 26th Apr Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets 2nd May The Robert Cray Band 2020 12th May Anything For Love 14th May James McVinnie 29th May The Illegal Eagles 6th Jun The Real Thing 12th Jun A Country Night In Nashville 2020 12th Sep Go West and Paul Young 15th Sep Jason Donovan 22nd Sep Billy Ocean 23rd Sep Eddi Reader 29th Sep Jethro Tull 1st Oct Dionne Warwick 3rd Oct Collabro 7th Oct RUSH 15th Oct John Lydon 16th Oct The Hollies 18th Oct David Essex 21st Oct Sixties Gold - The Ultimate Line Up 23rd Oct Katie Melua 21st Nov Gabrielle 23rd Nov Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited 27th Nov Status Quo 28th Nov	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line106
__label__wiki	0.527831	0.527831	Alvenrad - Habitat My love of folk metal started back when I first heard Moonsorrow. Since that time I have just embraced the genre with open arms. Lately, though, it seems that the genre has become saturated with bands that just don't bring that much to the table that hasn't already been brought by bands like Moonsorrow, Borknagar, Vintersorg, Finntroll, etc. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this Dutch trio calling themselves Alvenrad. This is the most refreshing thing that has happened to folk metal and heavy metal in general in a long time. Part Borknagar, part Jethro Tull, part classic prog rock, part traditional heavy metal, this band is just an all around enjoyable band. This band actually plays some of the best metal riffs I've heard in a while, all the while adding some classic sounding keyboards that give it that 70s prog rock feeling. The vocals are mostly clean but do have some black metal vocals placed sparsely here and there as well as some female vocals. They sing in their native Dutch so I'm not sure what they are saying but I would give my paycheck that it has something to do with nature. The opener, "Woudakoestiek," is a diverse song with crushing riffs and catchy melodies but with some hooks as well. This is one of the songs that includes the black metal vocals. The main riff is what's truly catchy about this song. It's a fast number in places but very melodic as well. The keyboards are used perfectly here to give this that aforementioned 70s feel. The second song, "Zwatwildernis," is another song that uses that keyboard sound as well as catchy riffs. The melodies are so good you would want to actually learn Dutch so you can sing along. Then in the middle of the song, they change it up, slow it down and make it sound like something straight out of the 70s. That keyboard sound is prominent on "Foreest in Tweelicht" as well but adding a black metal element along with some absolutely godly solos. I've never heard anything like this before and I am really liking this. The production on this album is absolutely brilliant as each instrument shines on it's own. Nothing is overdone or drowned out by the other. It's clean and clear making this album that much more enjoyable. "Verweven Klauwen" sounds like it's part Jethro Tull and part Lumsk with some Vintersorg metal throw in with some crushing solos. "O Patrones" has a main piano part that sounds a lot like "Till Fjalls" by Vintersorg without ripping it off by adding it's own twists to it. They really know how to mix it up and keep you interested. If you would have asked me years ago if this formula would have worked I would have thought you were crazy...but it fucking works! "1911" is the most black metal sounding track on the album starting off with some crushing tremolo riffs, blasts, and black metal vocals. They mix it up as well with some great solos and keyboard melodies that has this song. This is a complex number that has many parts that fit together to make it an epic song even if it falls just under four and a half minutes. There is so much diversity going on with these songs but they don't come off as pretentious or to proggy. Instead the parts fall into place to keep the flow of the songs intact. The title track is just that type of song and coming in at just under six and a half minutes is the longest song on the album. There are so many elements to this song but it doesn't make you feel like you can't keep up. And the album closer, "Ondermaans,"..FINALLY a good metal ballad. I was beginning to think that metal bands forgot how to write good ballads. Beautiful acoustic guitars with some flute thrown in and an awesome solo. These guys are just great songwriters. So here we have a debut album that does not sound like a debut album. This band has a sound all it's own and they sound like they have been doing this for years. I'm really interested in seeing what's next for this band. This band has a magic that I've not seen in a very long time. The sky's the limit for this band. Posted by The Elitist Metalhead at 1:14 AM Labels: 2014, 9/10, Album Reviews, Alvenrad, Folk Metal, Netherlands The Elitist Metalhead Mortalicum - Tears from the Grave Helstar - This Wicked Nest Edguy - Space Police - Defenders of the Crown Sanity's Rage - You Are What You Swallow Terrifier - Metal or Death EP Anubis Gate - Horizons Below - Across the Dark River Skogen - I Döden Argus - Beyond the Martyrs Edge of Thorns - Insomnia Hatriot - Dawn of the New Centurion Disfigurement - Soul Rot (EP) Sinbreed - Shadows Ranger - Knights of Darkness (EP) Visigoth - Final Spell (EP) Fellow Metalheads Arson Café Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II The Crypt – Odal (2019) / 87% Skull Fracturing Metal Zine SKULL FRACTURING METAL HAS MOVED!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line114
__label__wiki	0.586619	0.586619	■ What impression does Bei Yang leave you in an era when people and IP are paid too much attention? Is it the minister of Beiyang in the Opium War, the beiyang fleet who shocked the world, the heroic Beiyang navy division, the dark and violent Beiyang government, or the Beiyang warlord who split up the tangled warfare? Bei Yang is not only a geographical mark bred along the coast of Bohai and Huang, but also a brand product that blends feudalism with the changes of the new era. Although the symbol Beiyang was full of pains of seeking new things and changes in history, it is undeniable that they also became the most influential representatives at that time. Through the gloomy days, what is Bei Yang in the new era? Some people say it is a regional logo, some people say it is a spirit of change, and some people say it is a brand … Maybe these are not enough to reflect a real Beiyang people’s design. In this way, we may as well refresh our understanding of Bei Yang IP in the context of new China through the story of a state-owned enterprise named “Bei Yang Group” with Chinese characters. Science and Technology Perceive the World and Build for 100 Years! Over the past 30 years, Bei Yang has always taken this as its mission, continuously innovating on the road of science and technology, and promoting China’s prestige. In 1991, the first domestic thermal print head (TPH) […] ■ What impression does Bei Yang leave you in an era when people and IP are paid too much attention? Is it the minister of Beiyang in the Opium War, the beiyang fleet who shocked the world, the heroic Beiyang navy division, the dark and violent Beiyang government, or the Beiyang warlord who split up the tangled warfare? Bei Yang is not only a geographical mark bred along the coast of Bohai and Huang, but also a brand product that blends feudalism with the changes of the new era. Although the symbol Beiyang was full of pains of seeking new things and changes in history, it is undeniable that they also became the most influential representatives at that time. Through the gloomy days, what is Bei Yang in the new era? Some people say it is a regional logo, some people say it is a spirit of change, and some people say it is a brand … Maybe these are not enough to reflect a real Beiyang people’s design. In this way, we may as well refresh our understanding of Bei Yang IP in the context of new China through the story of a state-owned enterprise named “Bei Yang Group” with Chinese characters. Science and Technology Perceive the World and Build for 100 Years! Over the past 30 years, Bei Yang has always taken this as its mission, continuously innovating on the road of science and technology, and promoting China’s prestige. In 1991, the first domestic thermal print head (TPH) was developed, breaking Japan’s technological blockade and filling the domestic gap. In 1997, the “first domestic thermal transfer printer” broke the situation that foreign models occupied China, reducing costs and saving energy for China’s railway system. There are countless such stories. Flying with Phoenix, must be a handsome bird Walking with tigers and wolves must be a beast Independence and self-reliance represent the Chinese spirit of an era. In the 1990s after the reform and opening up, Beiyang Group joined hands with Samsung Electronics, mitsubishi electric, Itochu and other top 500 companies in the world to create Weihai Electronic Information Industry Cluster, which was later formed by many outstanding enterprises such as Shandong Samsung, New Beiyang, Valin Electronics and Valin Optronics. Today, with SAP Qi Fei, the world’s software giant and the world’s top 500 enterprise, we are heading for the digital management era…… Today, Bei Yang’s personnel and IP have become a technological pioneer around cloud computing, smart cities, Internet of Things (optical fiber sensing), incubators, and electronic manufacturing. Born on the bank of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, he was born with the extraordinary bearing and strength of facing the ocean and having a heart full of rivers. Bei Yang in the new era, a new round of reforms. On November 6, the successful holding of the “Beiyang Digital Smart Enterprise Construction and SAP Cloud ERP Project Launch Conference” once again opened a new chapter for Bei yang in the new era! The kick-off meeting was presided over by Fei Weijun, general manager of Beiyang Group. He introduced the three representatives attending the meeting and the three topics of the kick-off meeting. At the same time, he warmly welcomed the arrival of SAP and the company’s network team. According to his own practice, SAP B1&BYD’s sales general manager for Greater China, Chen Fei, shared with everyone how SAP’s strategic layout of “in China, for China” landed in Shandong, how to establish a “Smart Enterprise Empowerment Center in North China” and formally set up a Shandong branch. Speaking of Beiyang project, he hopes to make it a benchmark for state-owned enterprises in Shandong and even the northern market. Wang Qi, Director of Shexiang Network Project, explained the “Beiyang SAP Project Implementation Objectives and Plans” in detail for the guests and key users attending the meeting. This paper analyzes Beiyang Group’s current situation and future demands from the background of technological development’s promotion of enterprise management, and makes a detailed sharing in terms of implementation objectives, implementation strategies and success guarantee. Chen fuxu, chairman of Beiyang group and secretary of the party Committee, mobilized the whole group, conveying the determination of the whole group to build a digital management platform. Sharing the reasons for choosing SAP, emphasizing that it can help build up the IT application framework of the group quickly and with low risks, enabling enterprise management to take a new step. At last, I put forward four requirements for all the members of the project team and encouraged Beiyang people to achieve the set goals through one year’s efforts. Many people in the industry can’t help but wonder: Why do you want to go to SAP’s cloud even though Beiyang has its own cloud computing? Beiyang Group’s senior officials said: there are specialties in the technical field. Only with the digital economy era, with the world’s leading SAP, and with advanced management ideas and future technological trends, can we win. Flying with the Phoenix must be a handsome bird; walking with a tiger and a wolf must be a beast! How far you can go depends on who you go with. Bei Yang has proved with time and practice that, with SAP, with Acloudear, with future trends, Informatization of Bei Yang, will build a brand-new era! This article "Flying with Phoenix, must be a brilliant bird, Walking with Acloudear, writing a new chapter for Beiyang" by AcloudEAR. We focus on business applications such as cloud ERP. Previous: New Energy, New Management, Acloudear Helps Jin Heng Start a New Way of Development	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line116
__label__wiki	0.50178	0.50178	Phosphorus cycling in the North and South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyres Mather, R. L., Reynolds, S. E., Wolff, G. A., Williams, R. G., Torres-Valdes, S., Woodward, E. M. S., Landolfi, Angela, Pan, X., Sanders, R. and Achterberg, Eric P. (2008) Phosphorus cycling in the North and South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyres Nature Geoscience, 1 (7). pp. 439-443. DOI 10.1038/ngeo232. ngeo232.pdf - Published Version Download (475Kb) \| Contact Despite similar physical properties, the Northern and Southern Atlantic subtropical gyres have different biogeochemical regimes. The Northern subtropical gyre, which is subject to iron deposition from Saharan dust1, is depleted in the nutrient phosphate, possibly as a result of iron-enhanced nitrogen fixation2. Although phosphate depleted, rates of carbon fixation in the euphotic zone of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre are comparable to those of the South Atlantic subtropical gyre3, which is not phosphate limited. Here we use the activity of the phosphorus-specific enzyme alkaline phosphatase to show potentially enhanced utilization of dissolved organic phosphorus occurring over much of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. We find that during the boreal spring up to 30% of primary production in the North Atlantic gyre is supported by dissolved organic phosphorus. Our diagnostics and composite map of the surface distribution of dissolved organic phosphorus in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean reveal shorter residence times in the North Atlantic gyre than the South Atlantic gyre. We interpret the asymmetry of dissolved organic phosphorus cycling in the two gyres as a consequence of enhanced nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic Ocean4, which forces the system towards phosphorus limitation. We suggest that dissolved organic phosphorus utilization may contribute to primary production in other phosphorus-limited ocean settings as well. OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-BM Biogeochemical Modeling 10.1038/ngeo232 http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/id/eprint/9082	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line121
__label__wiki	0.725485	0.725485	Lamb The Brixton Academy, London UK - May 9, 2003 If eclecticism goes over the top, it runs the danger of becoming embarrassing. But British duo Lamb, consisting of the ethereally beautiful... This third effort from the pairing of Andy Barlow and Louise Rhodes could be seen as a bit of a turning point and a rebirth for the duo. Aft... Lamb Rebirth of Cool The pairing of Louise Rhodes and Andy Barlow have attracted many admirers, and these fans of the duo were waiting anxiously for some noise t... Lamb Little Things Mean A Lot Lamb's Louise Rhodes has no problem with sharing. "I suddenly find myself on stage now, in our first few gigs with the new material, being s...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line127
__label__cc	0.502221	0.497779	Board index ‹ The Bigger Picture ‹ International Rugby leinsterfans.com Forum for the discussion of all International Rugby Re: RWC 2019 by Ruckedtobits » November 2nd, 2019, 6:37 pm As somebody who always belived that 6N is Ireland's natural hunting ground, I've also come to the (my) conclusion that the RWC requires only about 18 months focus i.e. Summer Tour, Autumn Internationals and World Cup preparation. Key learnings for me: * No coach can "play" players into form ; * Always pick players in form; * Don't bring anybody to RWC who is not fit to play; * Treat every opponent as equal, unless proven otherwise; * The players available to you should determine your Game Plan & Tactics. I reject the widespread criticism of Schmidt but acknowledge that his management approach may not suit a Tournament with a knock-out format. From my perspective, his mistakes were not selecting Toner and Marmion (Klyne & McGrath were not adequate replacements) and bringing Henshaw who was never close to his potential. I'll never know if Murray, Carbery or Sexton were fully fit. none of them appeared to be capable of playing to their best form - except for 20 minutes against Scotland. Kearney is our best full-back, but a very limited counter-attacker. Stockdale's form fell off a cliff; We must use Ringrose to attack at every opportunity; Earls is a world class finisher, but don't pick him if we can't use him in that role; No other outhalf is close to Sexton at present, but he is now an injury liability; Murray's form as an attacking scrum-half has been terrible. Marmion immediately; Healy still the best but Kilcoyne worth 40 mins every match - sometimes as starter; Cronin a great impact forward but throwing & scrum work rule him out as a starter; Furlong has lost form and cannot trade on memory. More carries & offloads needed; We missed Leavy & SO'B more than anyone is prepared to admit; PO'M is an excellent line-out operator & little else; Ruddock is an excellent all-round No 6 and forward leader. Give him the role; CJ. Is a hard-carrying forward that makes you wish for a Vermuelon; JVdF will work for ever, without hurting a single opponent - forward or back. International rugby is a blood sport determined by collisions or outrageous skill. A team like Wales can excel by superior fitness dotted with occasional outrageous talent. For Ireland to succeed in such competitions we must tactically outplay our opponents on at least three occasions by an unexpected Gameplan or Tactics and by consistent excellence in skills. The big 4/5. (NZ,SA Fr, Eng & Aus) will always beat us unless we surprise them - again and again. We'll never catch them unprepared for a RWC, unlike a Summer Tour, so we must prepare like Japan and have a menu of tactics to beat the different opponents. Ruckedtobits Shane Horgan Joined: April 10th, 2011, 10:23 am by Pilotman123 » November 2nd, 2019, 6:39 pm Ruckedtobits wrote: As somebody who always belived that 6N is Ireland's natural hunting ground, I've also come to the (my) conclusion that the RWC requires only about 18 months focus i.e. Summer Tour, Autumn Internationals and World Cup preparation. POM is also excellent at the breakdown , he’s very good at poaching and a good leader, POM is better than Ruddock and a better leader, he captained the Lions, it’s a bit silly to be comparing Ruddock to POM, I get it you’re a biased Leinster fan. We wouldn’t of beaten NZ in 2018 if POM wasn’t on the pitch Pilotman123 Joined: July 9th, 2019, 12:45 pm by neiliog93 » November 2nd, 2019, 6:53 pm POM isn't a good leader, he occasionally grabs opponents by the scruff of the neck and makes the famous angry face, so people assume he must have leadership skills. He doesn't. He was a poor captain of the Lions in the first test, in a game they lost comprehensively, before being dropped from the match-day squad entirely, from where the Lions went on to win one and draw one test match. POM's stats as a back row are awful. Consistently a very low tackle count (often still with some missed), and few if any impact tackles. Low carry count for low amount of metres. His breakdown work is reasonably good, he sometimes gets turnovers, but is still nowhere near world class. He is good in the line out, but his relative lack of height (6'3") impacts his ceiling and makes him quite ineffective against world class line outs like South Africa. He also consistently gives away too many stupid penalties. Lastly, and most importantly, he has also been off form for over a year and is now 30 years old. All in all, he doesn't deserve to be there any more, at least until when (or if) his form improves. "This is breathless stuff.....it's on again. Contepomi out to Hickie,D'Arcy,Hickie.......................HICKIE FOR THE CORNER! THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! neiliog93 Brian O'Driscoll by blockhead » November 2nd, 2019, 7:18 pm Pilotman123 wrote: Flushed out! Well done RTBs You know I'm going to lose, And gambling's for fools, But that's the way I like it baby, I don't want to live FOREVER! Shane Jennings Location: Bastardstown, Co. Wexford blockhead wrote: What does RTBs mean? by Oldschoolsocks » November 2nd, 2019, 7:19 pm Cork it is I just wanted to see Gordon D'Arcy get a 'back, sack and crack wax' Oldschoolsocks Isa Nacewa Joined: January 4th, 2015, 11:36 am Location: Stepping out of the Supernova Oldschoolsocks wrote: Cork it is Would explain the grammar. No one in D4 uses the word RTBs haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWEw7PlQ44 Post match from rugbypass. Lots of swearing so .... ye be warned! by Twist » November 3rd, 2019, 3:39 pm But we’ve already beaten France and Oz in the RWC? by Ruckedtobits » November 3rd, 2019, 4:59 pm And we surprised them both, which proves it's possible. by neiliog93 » November 3rd, 2019, 5:02 pm Ruckedtobits wrote: And we surprised them both, which proves it's possible. We were favourites to beat France in 2015, and ended up winning comfortably despite a raft of injuries. Wasn't really a surprise. by Twist » November 4th, 2019, 12:59 am I dont think either was surprised by what we brought to those matches by Oldschool » November 4th, 2019, 6:26 pm A curiosity question. How good a job do punters think Eddie Jones did coaching England to a RWC final. Personally, it's going to be interesting to see haw many of his RWC squad he retains for the 6Ns. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall who's the greatest player of them all? It is Drico your majesty. Rob Kearney by Twist » November 5th, 2019, 2:23 pm I don't think he did that well. He's got the biggest/second biggest (depending on how you measure) selection of players to choose from He inherited a good squad with a massive point to prove His key players were all healthy for the tournament - and he didn't look at all great during the period without them in 2017-18 His key players were all in fantastic form and accustomed to playing together, thanks to Salarycens illegal activities His path to the semis was eased considerably by Lavanini's red, the cancelled game and Australia's naivety The whole world knew what SA were going to do in the final, and he seemed to have no plan for it He took too long to bring on Kruis Against that, he got a brilliant performance out of England in the semi. One for the ages. He went on that 18 game winning streak when he took over first So yeah he did well, but no more than that. With their resources, England should average a World Cup final roughly every three or four tournaments. A far less talented England team came far closer to winning in 2007. by leinsterforever » November 5th, 2019, 2:43 pm Oldschool wrote: A curiosity question. Excellent. Lancaster - knocked out in pool stages in 2015. Johnson - knocked out in quarters in 2011. Ashton - made final in 2007, but seems to have been like France in 2011 with players revolting and taking control. They play amazing rugby too. leinsterforever by jimbobjoe » November 5th, 2019, 2:47 pm Mostly agree with Twist - To add to that, Curry and Underhill fell into his lap at the right time as they had poor backrows before that. Robshaw the best but not dynamic enough and underpowered. Haskell, Hughes and the beardy kiwi never convinced at international level. I'll die before I surrender, Tim. jimbobjoe by LeRouxIsPHat » November 5th, 2019, 3:15 pm I think that's harsh. He didn't have to play Underhill and Curry together, made brave decisions around Ford/Farrell, brought in two new coaches when things needed to change, and tactically England were fine in the final, it was the execution that was the problem. LeRouxIsPHat Leo Cullen Joined: January 22nd, 2009, 8:49 pm by fourthirtythree » November 5th, 2019, 3:21 pm I was pretty surprised that the Torygraph gave Elliot Daly 7/10 for the tournament and the Grauniad gave him 6/10 for the final - had an Irish full back over the past few years (bar Henshaw obviously, because he did) delivered such an inept performance the papers would have been calling for his and the coaches head. Jones was up and dwon. Rode the dead cat bounce well, fell off the horse but did really well to get back up again. Key was, I thought, certain players delivering. Right at the end those players seemed to be completely out of puff and you have to ask did he, actually, overplay the Vunipolas etc? There's no magic balance and we got it badly wrong, but he doesn't seem to have got it right either. But he got to a final so that is successful. Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract What the thunder said to Brian Lenihan fourthirtythree Cian Healy Location: Eight miles high LeRouxIsPHat wrote: I think that's harsh. He didn't have to play Underhill and Curry together, made brave decisions around Ford/Farrell, brought in two new coaches when things needed to change, and tactically England were fine in the final, it was the execution that was the problem. England's back row production has been shockingly poor since the mid-00s, looks like they've finally got a trio to build something around. 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__label__cc	0.695502	0.304498	Home Forums > MMAjunkie.com Forums > MMA Wagering > K-1 Kickboxing? Discussion in 'MMA Wagering' started by Norm, Dec 1, 2008. Does anyone know if Bodog posts odds for these types of events? In case anyone was wondering this weekend on HDNet they will be airing an 8 man Grand Prix starting at 3am on "sat" morning until 7:30am EST. Norm, Dec 1, 2008 K-1 WORLD GP 2008 Quarter Final - Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Japan - December 5th 3AM EST Both must fight for action. Errol Zimmerman -250 vs. Ewerton Teixeira +170 Gokhan Saki -200 vs. Ruslan Karaev +160 Remy Bonjasky -165 vs. Jerome Le Banner +135 Peter Aerts -150 vs. Badr Hari+120 beneathtrees Does anyone see any value on this card? I'm afraid I don't know enough about the fighters to put money down at this point. I'd like to, though. beneathtrees, Dec 5, 2008 beneathtrees said: I'll be honest, I know very little about K1 and it's competitors. But with those odds it would indicate that any of the eight fighters could potentially win the Tournament. Aerts has won a couple of GP's in the past, but is on the downside of his career. Badr, Aerts opponent is on the upside. Lebanner and Bonjasky are both "name" guys that have been around for awhile. It seems like with the bracket pairings the winners of these two fights would probably have had a battle on their hands, which could make it difficult for one of them to make the tournament. It's kind of an irrelevant point though, because AFAIK, bodog has only posted individual fight odds. If you've got some extra scratch in your account, that you're itching to wager, then make a fun night of it as the fights will be aired at 3am EST "sat" morning. Badr seems to be the "sexy" underdog pick here. Aerts is the "safe" bet, but wager at your own risk or perhaps do some research online to get a better idea of what each fighter brings to the table along with other's general opinion. osubuckeye4 Sports Idol Champion - Movie Idol Runner Up I know nothing about K-1 and I strongly recommend not betting on events that you don't really know a whole lot about despite what you might hear from others. osubuckeye4, Dec 5, 2008 Sockbat i really like a lot of the K-1ers but sadly i have nowhere to watch the fight. and it's not pirated like mma is. don't know why. and bookmaker often puts k-1 fights up as does 5dimes i'm sure. Sockbat, Dec 8, 2008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line135
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__label__wiki	0.587489	0.587489	Barbara Dickson Joins The Pars Supporters Trust One of Dunfermline’s most famous daughters, Barbara Dickson OBE, interrupted the preparations for her show at Rothes Halls, Glenrothes on Thursday evening in order to accept her membership certificate of the Pars Supporters’ Trust (PST). The singer had earlier donated money towards the campaign to help save her hometown football club, Dunfermline Athletic and representatives from the PST took the opportunity to meet with her ahead of the sell out performance to thank her personally for the contribution. Barbara recalled fondly, her father taking her along to matches at East End Park as a youngster from their home in Rosyth. She said “I’m honoured to become a member of the Pars Supporters’ Trust and I’m delighted that the fans have been successful in buying the Club”. Although she no longer lives in the area, Barbara is still kept up to date with the goings on in Dunfermline by relatives in neighbouring Limekilns. The Fife concert marked the midway point of a 25 date UK tour which began in Harlow on October 9th and culminates in Birmingham on November 10th. THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: David Bedford - Sad an... John Lodge and Patrick Moraz on Good Morning Brita... Michael Des Barres Band - Hot N Sticky Live - This... Hawkwind review Rick Wakeman Extends Journey Tour GONZO PEOPLE: John Hughes The Michael Des Barres Show – 10-24-13 Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, Royal Festival Hall, rev... Chris Squire – Best of YES for Bass GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Alan Davey The future is u... Roy Wood: "I was in such agony I could barely stan... In One of his Final Interviews, Frank Zappa Pronou... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Van der Graaf Generato... Robert Fripp On Meeting Jimi Hendrix Review: Steve Hackett at Newcastle City Hall GONZO WEEKLY MAGAZINE #49 (I forgot to post this u... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hell on the Surface - ... ‘I keep going back and adding things’: Greg Lake’s... Classical review: Zappa piece is full of symphonic... The Artie Lange Show - Eric Burdon and The Animals... Bev Bevan guests at Sheldon school’s 60th bash Lou Reed at Rock's Backpages GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Velvet Underground - '... THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Lou Reed (1942-2013) CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: "This scenario from my ima... TOP 10 YES SONGS OF THE ’70S Visiting Chris Squire and Steve Howe to check out ... NOTIFICATIONS WOT WE HAVE MISSED CRASS’S PENNY RIMBAUD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT URBAN OUT... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Small Faces - Lazy... Jon Anderson in Florida Steve Hackett carries the Genesis torch HAWKIND REVIEW THE DECADENT MARQUIS Letter From L.A.: The Philharmonic Checks In, 200 ... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Galahad: Empires Never... THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Gypie Mayo (1951-2013) THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Asphalt Orchestra Tac... MICK FARREN MEMORIAL NIGHT WHAT CAROL IS DOING THIS WEEKEND THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Amor Prohibido - The M... Is Disney Hall Ready For an Evening of Uncensored ... ‘I said: Of course, yes’: Even with few details, P... VANGELIS - Title from the serie TV COSMOS Live review: Crosby, Stills & Nash, Royal Albert H... THREE NEW SONGS FROM MIKE DAVIS A welcome feeling of déjà vu as legends carry on MICHAEL DES BARRES STARS IN ZAPPA CLASSIC Grace Slick – An American Treasure THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: John Shuttleworth - "S... A conversation with pioneer of rock culture Eric B... JUST IN CASE YOU WONDERED WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING T... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Miss Crystal Grenade -... Steve Hackett interview A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: John Mayall-Bluesbreak... KING CRIMSON VET PETER SINFIELD SUFFERS HEART ATTA... ‘One of the best shows Yes ever did’: The threat o... MICK FARREN MEMORIAL NIGHT - Featuring THE DEVIANT... Crystal Grenade Releases Debut Album this Month Bruce Dickinson and Rick Wakeman to honor Jon Lord... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Showaddywaddy - Hey Ro... Paul Mccartney Going Underground: McCartney, The B... Guitarist Steve Hackett: The genesis of an artisti... Crosby, Stills & Nash, Royal Albert Hall - Review MICHAEL ON THE RADIO Legendary Singer/Songwriter Jon Anderson To Play F... ‘This sounds terribly extravagant’: Greg Lake on b... Sound Check: Zappa Plays Zappa in all of its intri... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Manassas - Bound To Fa... VANGELIS TECHIE ON THE RADIO YES keyboardist Rick Wakeman had to choose between... FAIRPORT CONVENTION: Winter Tour Dates Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels Comes to Life in Green Um... THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: It's alright ma	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line147
__label__wiki	0.528938	0.528938	Coffee and epistasis: a scientific story of sips and SNPs Finding fresh mutations Unequal divisions of death Nested CRISPR for cloning-free fluorescent tags Drosophila development in the drink Marisa Wexler Science Writing and Communications Intern, Genetics Society of America. Image by scyrene via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) license A fruit fly model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder reveals a Cyclin E-centric network modifies developmental sensitivity. Alcohol exposure in utero can lead to a wide range of developmental problems, even causing fetal death in some cases. But since this exposure doesn’t always have the same outcome, is it more likely to be a problem for some than others? Exploring the genetic factors that influence susceptibility to fetal alcohol effects is extremely challenging in humans because both exposure levels and the spectrum of phenotypic outcomes are inherently difficult to quantify. In a report in G3: Genes\|Genomes\|Genetics, Morozova et al. turned to fruit flies to investigate genes that might be involved in prenatal sensitivity to alcohol. Alcohol is a familiar hazard to the rotten-fruit-loving fly. However, like humans, fruit flies are susceptible to the effects of too much booze, especially during development. When fly larvae are exposed to alcohol, the outcome can be developmental delays and even death. Morozova et al. looked for genes that influence the developmental response to alcohol by using a population of over 200 wild-derived inbred fly lines called the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP). The DGRP lines capture a great deal of genetic diversity while also allowing for replication within a line, and the lines have fully-sequenced, well-annotated genomes. The authors compared the effects of alcohol exposure on viability (how many of the flies survived) and development time (how long it takes for flies to reach adulthood) in the DGRP lines. They also examined how ethanol exposure affected locomotion in a subset of the lines. Unsurprisingly, ethanol exposure in this experiment increased development time, decreased viability, and impaired locomotion in most of the lines tested. However, there was a lot of variation between lines, and a few lines actually developed faster when reared on ethanol-supplemented food. The authors performed genome-wide association analyses to identify the genetic variants associated with different sensitivities to alcohol exposure. The genes identified were involved in a wide range of biological processes, including cytoskeleton organization, egg laying, and mitosis regulation. The authors validated the function of a number of these genes using RNAi-mediated knockdown or transposon-tagged mutational insertions. They then constructed an interaction network using the genes associated with viability and development time, revealing that Cyclin E (CycE) was a highly connected hub gene. Since CycE is associated with cell cycle regulation and is highly expressed in Drosophila ovaries, it makes sense that it might play a key role in determining an organism’s sensitivity to developmental alcohol exposure. Their results may one day help researchers narrow the search for human gene variants that influence fetal sensitivity to this most common of drugs. A Cyclin E Centered Genetic Network Contributes to Alcohol-Induced Variation in Drosophila Development Tatiana V. Morozova, Yasmeen Hussain, Lenovia J. McCoy, Eugenea V. Zhirnov, Morgan R. Davis, Victoria A. Pray, Rachel A. Lyman, Laura H. Duncan, Anna McMillen, Aiden Jones, Trudy F. C. Mackay, R. H. Anholt G3: GENES\|GENOMES\|GENETICS August 2018 8: 2643-2653; https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200260 http://www.g3journal.org/content/8/8/2643 Midnight munchers: starved worms can’t sleep BioinformaticsDevelopmentDrosophilaG3 JournalHuman Disease	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line149
__label__cc	0.736435	0.263565	Frank DelPidio WeBet: Fun prop bets made easy. An in development mobile app that allows friends to send prop bets to one another. Created with MeteorJS and packaged into an iOS app using the Cordova library. My role in the project was to learn MongoDB and develop the backend for our application. I was responsible to figure out and understand Meteor's publish-subscribe pattern to transfer the correct information from our database to the front end. Codecademy Learn SQL: As a Curriculum Engineer I created Codecademy's Intro To SQL course. I was responsible for designing the course, writing the content, and helping to build the learning environment. I also wrote tests for each of the exercises using Bats, a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. Rulers On Rails: A Ruby MVC web framework built from the ground up. The purpose of this project was to gain a better understanding of the Ruby on Rails framework. Rulers on Rails is designed to work as a simpler version of Rails. By using similar design patterns found in the Rails framework, I now have a better understanding about how a lot of Rails "magic" works, and why it works the way it does. CodeSnaps: A social network using symmetric relationship model. Created with Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, Devise, and PostgreSQL. It is currently hosted on Heroku. The purpose of this project was to become familiar with the symmetric relationship model used in social networks such as Facebook. I also wanted to build a social network that my students and I could use after our class ended. Twitter Clone: Web application built with Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. This project was built following Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial. The purpose of this project was to learn more about the Rails framework. In this tutorial I wrote a user authentication system from scratch, learned about Rails security features, set up Amazon hosting for images, and practiced TDD. DBC Overflow: Web application built with Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. Allows DBC students to signup, login, post and answer questions, as well as upvote or downvote answers and questions. This project was built in 3 days by myself and 4 other Dev Bootcamp Students using Test Driven Development. My main role was to develop the Questions index page and implement testing using Rspec. I also contributed to connecting Answers and refactoring code. Hacker News Clone: Web application built with Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. This app allows users to login, create posts, create comments, and upvote posts and comments. The purpose of this application was to learn how to configure an Angular-Rails application. This was my first experience working with Angular and I learned a lot about services, templates, Angular controllers, and Angular routing. I was able to successfully implment several angular-rails gems, installed Angular using Bower, and used Devise for UserAuth. Bar Roulette: Hackathon project built in 24 hours using Rails, MongoDB, YelpAPI, and UberAPI. Bar Roulette is an application to make bar hopping easier and more fun. It takes your current location and using the YelpAPI randomly returns a bar within a 5 mile radius. Using the UberAPI you can then arrange to have a car come pick you up with the click of a button, or you can search again to return a different bar. My role was to help configure Rails using MongoDB as our database, and set up the YelpAPI and UberAPI. © 2016 Frank DelPidio.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line150
__label__cc	0.654397	0.345603	Alterna-kids Hazel • FT • Comics/young avengers • 4 comments • 1,198 views Marvel comics exist as part of a very extensive meta-verse, a plethora of multiplicities which, in canon, play out many scenarios and worlds. It’s extensive, pervasive mechanic to the way things work in the comics, affecting technologist and magic-using superheroes alike, I know it’s by no means unique to Marvel but there is something fantastic about a fictional multiverse that embraces its own multiplicity, which throws itself wholesale upon the principle that every event is a branching, that there must be thousands of variants on every element of minutiae. It’s partly interesting to me because it makes fanfiction meta-canon and partly interesting because it gives creatives an excuse to go apeshit fucking ball-crazy. Warning: some little spoilers for Young Avengers #8 ahead Apeshit fucking ball-crazy isn’t quite what I mean, actually. One of the amazing things about the many worlds theory, as a bit of quantum physics, is that it’s basically an excuse for all the whimsical stuff you can’t even conceive of to be considered valid and maybe viable. Also for all the things that flutter on the edge of your consciousness, which you know couldn’t possibly be in this particular world but must be out there, somewhere. Hopefully without a method of transfer. The thing about lots of universes (and this is something that, at its convenience and without any enormous mind for physics, Marvel does a lot) is that not all of them will actually be an ongoing concern- sometimes, the Schroedinger’s cat is dead. Sometimes they’re fully formed worlds with hundreds of comics about them, sometimes they’re a half-mention in a dodgy old Excalibur comic (“If you use this as an opportunity to bang on endlessly about Excalibur, yer fired” -Editor Sat-yr-9) and sometimes they’re a playful what if. They’re a playground and an opportunity and a feast, a collapsible pocket of hell or a sustained companion piece. I have been, as you can imagine, fairly excited by the fact that there seemed to be a decent amount of cross-dimensional capability in the current Young Avengers line up. When they kicked off with a little interdimensional wrongcockery and some rescue mission through space-time my interest was somewhat piqued and it’s all massively paid off with the absolute motherlode of multiversal roadtripping this issue. This issue was the Young Avengers as a team unit- it’s partly because they’ve had time to get used to punching each other properly but also a steady development, in terms of the way they appear, from each issue to the next. There were five or six beautiful team panels in #7 but in this issue, they were all together all the time. Huddle formation. They’re looking at each other, now, looking to each other and staying close in. Thousands of dimensions away, without even Noh-Varr’s ship full of dreams, this is a thousand gritty realities and probably a fair number where even the absence of grit is deeply uncanny. There’s a late teenage lurch from family to found-family that’s been a central mechanic to Young Avengers all the way back to the start of volume one but this closeness in the vastness is about control of variables. In the way that young lovers want to stay together forever (and sometimes do) and friends get tattoos together when they’re leaving for university, at moments of young flux and decision making you cling to people having to make parallel decisions with you. Which only becomes more essential when the parallel universes those choices spark might be where you eat next. Together forever no matter how hard it seems, no matter how much they punch each other. Especially when it’s just to make sure they’re really there. To breeze through a sufficient number of worlds in this issue to show where they’d been, while giving a sense of what the worlds are and creating a coherent flow from portal to portal was always going to be a challenge and to keep it witty and touching while doing so isn’t just a case of drawing some things in a row. I’ve been meaning to talk about Jamie McKelvie’s beautiful art for this series since I started writing these things and somehow ended up mostly sidetracked onto splurging feelings about characters. Most of my feelings are deeply linked to the art, of course but even so, I wanted to explicitly talk about how fucking amazing the art has been. McKelvie’s well known for being a very detailed, expressive artist but to say he knocked it out of the ballpark and probably into a frightening dimension where it got chewed up and we don’t want to go and ask for it back from this issue would be an understatement. There are so many panels here that are made emotive pauses by the way he’s drawn the characters- take Kate hiding from Noh-Spidarr up above, capable-looking but visibly ill-at-ease, shaken in the way that someone who’s seen too much to be particularly shocked but still doesn’t like what they’re seeing right now is. The panel’s great anyway, because spider-head Technoh-Varr is awesome but Kate’s positioning and expression make it a pause, a distinct world. Then there’s this- First thing you see is the Asgardian skeletons, the emblem of the enthroned, shattered Mjolnir and slumped over Lorelei (Sigyn? Not sure, they both had armbands) and of course, Loki’s tears. It’s an obviously bleak scene, a failed world and you could almost leave it at that except that because of where this issue is, thematically, Jamie’s packed another two characters in. Wiccan- horrified and fascinated, terrified and unleashing his inner Norse nerd and dear gods that sliver of America. This is a character we haven’t seen do much apart from be indestuctibly badass. Even when they faced certain doom against Mother, Chavez was going down without a whimper. But that little strip of her face is not exactly naked fear -in fact, kind of the opposite- a complete drop of her ballsy self-assurance to a guarded alert. That tiny bit of her face has more expression in than things I’ve spent weeks on- I’m both disgustingly jealous of McKelvie’s talent and doing a little bit of a drool. Expressions are important where the content is fantastical- there’s a whole set of incredibly talented artists at Marvel at the minute, many of whom stand out for their ability to create astounding emotive moments through aesthetic (Dalibor Talijic, Frazer Irving, Filipe Andrades, Francesco Francavilla to name a few) and astoundingly detailed expressions (Valerio Schiti, Sara Picheli, Stuart Immonen, Chris Bachalo) and Jamie has brought the best of his own gorgeous, clean stylised lines and an ambitious superheroic chemistry to this. The striking double-page spreads in each issue have been terrific and there aren’t any of them I wouldn’t extremely gladly buy as a print but with the time/space scope of issue #8 being so enormous, it’s the incredible detail put into each panel here that makes it work as narrative. The panel to the left here is my favourite. Maybe of anything. It’s Kate’s ‘good-god-what-now’ expression, Noh-Varr’s look of genuine guilt mixed with some sort of back-of-the-mind appreciation that hey, that’s a lot of empires and also fond recognition of the inevitable horrible that’s attacking them at the time. This is the shouted conversation of people who know each other close enough to be able to rub each other any number of ways, a clear evolution from their affectionate-but-distant exchanges even two issues ago, when Noh-Varr was still calling her Kate Bishop of Earth, even playfully. (I guess the question now would be ‘which Earth?’) I have to confess to not actually understanding exactly the relationship between artist and inker (I am from the manga, m’lud, I assume they are the same person) but assuming Matthew Wilson is doing all the colours for this then he also deserves a colossal pat on the back for issue #8; each new world has a distinct palette and tone, even the one where the point kind of is that it doesn’t have one and the decisions about when to use eye-popping boldness and when to fade into muted solemnity, each creating a dramatic tension, are perfectly executed. As to what actually goes on, beyond the dimension hopping; I’m hopeful that the next six months are going to see a lot of smooching, even more punching and quite a lot of traumatic tentacle horror. And maybe the rabbits, we haven’t actually had a chance to get a look at those yet. Performing some very fashionable dance moves Andrew Farrell † on 31 Jul 2013 # I’ve been wondering for some time – what do you actually think the many-worlds theory is? And how many is many? Hazel on 31 Jul 2013 # Incalculable. I can’t seem to paste a link in here but basically Hugh Everett’s principle that each branch in each world spawns infinite new worlds, each performing other outcome possibilities. I don’t know it it was him who determined there must also be failed instances but on a quantum evolutionary level it seems certain there must be, if you subscribe to reality as nonlinear or multilinear. I’m probably not explaining this very well but I do honestly know what it is, it’s my favourite bit of comforting science. I know it’s normally applied to quantum behaviour as an actual principle that means something more than handwave-y but on a fictional level I like this broader strokes form. Mog unlogged † on 31 Jul 2013 # Humm. I have got angsty about whether I’m applying the physics wrong, now. I don’t think I am, though- I’m talking about it here as something abstracted to metaphor, rather than as a lecture. Obviously the Many Worlds Interpretation is much more vast and precise than Marvel’s occasional ventures into theoretical branching. The MWI works on the principle that there are ever constantly expanding worlds created within a universe, folding out concertina-d and collapsing in again (if they simultaneously reach a fail point) and all of this happening as a fractal from the subatomic (and indeed, sub-sub-atomic) level onwards. A world could be a brief and extinguished flash of particles, one particle, one not-even-really-a-particle or it could be a whole apparent system of galaxies, according to the MWI and all of them are as branchable and collapsible from their fractal origin. (The fractal origin being one of the great mysteries of science but like, let’s assume it’s a previous collapse point) The way that Marvel applies that is goofy, not hard-scientific but it’s also not directly contradictory, the travel between worlds aside. I don’t mean that the Siege Perilous is a beautiful illustration of the apex of modern quantum theory because obviously that would be nonsense but the replicating, conflicting riot of tiny or extensive worlds and the fact they’re called worlds (well, earths, which is different but at least not ‘universes’) is all kind of pleasingly close to the mark on a philosophical level. I like the idea of unfolding concertina universes represented as lots of stacking, endlessly generating panels- billions per second, like a flickbook CERN couldn’t hope to see the page edge on. But that’s just visual whimsy. (Something I nearly decided to talk about here but cut for leaning too hard on the ‘this is actual physics’ not ‘this is a beautiful and awesome illustration of physics’ was that America’s ability to travel between other worlds via that stamp could be seen as representative of the ‘weak coupling’ theory for inter-world travel, whereby localized gravity could push things together. Like, if she has the ability to borrow mass from a star through those glowing markings so that she could temporarily curve space enough to break through. This is obviously into like, hyper-stupid overinterpretations since the weak coupling idea would be that maybe a small amount of energy could pass through, not a whole superhero team but HEY several of these people can fly let’s not think about it too hard) If anyone wants to know more about MWI from a serious scientific perspective then this is a pretty good, thorough site: http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm Kit † on 31 Jul 2013 # “I have to confess to not actually understanding exactly the relationship between artist and inker (I am from the manga, m’lud, I assume they are the same person)” If you’re from the manga, they’re more likely to be a dozen people, uncredited! Everyone Should Try It Beamslingers The House Always Wins Kid Loki and the Braek Haerts Young and vengeful Modally young ancient vengeance It Was Fifty Years Ago Today Sgt Loki Taught The Band To Play How to be Awesome, by Diplomatic Ensign Noh-Varr age 23 1/3 (possibly) Let’s talk about Kate “Last night I was on a podium, waving my shirt around my head and a sudden thought came to me”; youth underemployment today “We didn’t want to be actors, we wanted to be HARDXCORE” #no filter Cheers for three sweet Avengers Young hearts run free All Our Friends: The Marvel Tumblrwave Honestly trying to be less of a bile-spewing hate machine these days. The Jubilee Stuff 1 Jun 2002 1 The weather matters. Saturday 1st June: 8pm, and the sky out of my window is still fading pale blue, weightless, benevolent. A jubilee weekend of rain would be a symbolic down: but then, we are long used to finding a meaning in the rain. Not just we aesthetes (‘I’m happy when it rains’; ‘You’re […] stick with the beasts we got plz #1 3 Mar 2005 stick with the beasts we got plz #1: the CENTAUR centaurs are classically portrayed as noble and amazing (if occasionally super-horny): but i have always found em ANNOYING!! i. look at them they are top-heavy at the front = when they gallop they will fall on their faces ii. they have TOO MANY LIMBS = […] BAND AID – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” 4 Sep 2009 #543, 15th December 1984, video “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is significant in one way, and insignificant in another. First, it raised a lot of awareness and money and established the pop single as an excellent mechanism for doing those things. This was significant. Gargantuan “supergroups” like this fell out of favour but charity records […] I Want To Know What Love Is – Eighties Revisionism 2 Jan 2001 On Skykicking last week, Tim touched, popwise, on the continuing cultural battle over what the eighties were or are or mean or meant. The story of mainstream rock and politics in the 1990s was among other things the story of a similar battle, that time over the sixties. On the one hand you had the […] My Own Private Record Club* 10 Mar 2015 This is a post listing the records I’m listening to for my YEAR OF ROCKISM**, as outlined here (cut and pasted from Tumblr): I’m going to listen to one album on a once-a-day basis for a week, a different one each week. Not in order to write about them or anything, unless I decide I […] In search of Squirrel – Part two 3 Oct 2004 In search of Squirrel – Part two (warning, contains graphic images) Some of you may remember this article I wrote some time ago about my “failure” as a vegetarian and my quest for the different. Well, I’ve done it. Squirrel had become a bit of an obsession, I’d chased up all sorts of alleys (Julian […] Films about films (no-one has seen) 20 Jun 2005 Last week saw the release of not one, but two films about previous films. And I don’t mean Batman Begins (which should be retitled Batman Starts for Essex). Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of and the effect of notorious porn film Deep Throat. And Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles film about the making […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line151
__label__cc	0.747841	0.252159	Happy Equinox and Sun in Libra! The link below is an audio file of one of the FOI co-founders, Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, speaking on the constellation of Libra and the Justice of Maat during a past rite: Click to Listen - Autumnal Equinox - Libra (mp3 / 1:05min / 255kb) Audio transcript: "Companions on the quest for Truth and Justice, know that in many ancient lands the constellation of Libra, when in the House of the Autumnal Equinox, was revered as portraying Justice, through the equal balancing of day and night, summer and winter. In Egypt, the Goddess Maat was depicted presiding over the weighing of the Heart on the Scales of Justice. The Heart was balanced in the Northern pan against Her Ostrich Feather of Truth, whose every frond responds to the Breath of Spirit." Here also is an excerpt from Lawrence's book, "Juno Covella, Perpetual Calendar of the Fellowship of Isis": Autumnal Equinox. Sun enters Libra (tropical). Greek: DEMETER and PERSEPHONE; Roman: CERES and PROSERPINA; The Greater Eleusinian Mysteries, First Day. (Lempriere, Dict.) "Eleusinia . . This festival (i.e. the Greater) was observed in the month Boedromion or September, and continued nine days from the 15th to the 23rd". (Kerenyi, Eleusis, p. 8) According to this author's reckoning the 15th of Boedromion is taken as corresponding to September 23rd or 24th. (Julian, Hymn to the Mother of the Gods, 173A) "I was saying that we ought not to suppose that the ancients appointed the season of the rites irrationally, but rather as far as possible with plausible and true grounds of reason; and indeed a proof of this is that the Goddess herself chose as her province the cycle of the Equinox. For the most holy and secret Mysteries of Deo and the Maiden (Kore) are celebrated when the sun is in the sign of Libra, and this is quite natural". (©: Shrine of Libra photo by Minette Quick; photo of Lawrence from the Occult Experience video, created with permission; audio by the FOI Homepage Archive: all copyrights reserved.) www.fellowshipofisis.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line159
__label__wiki	0.693834	0.693834	Oh hai ai March 6, San Francisco Introductory AI conference from the leaders in the field. This conference is targeted at practitioners who need to get a grasp of AI through code. We are adding new, world-class, invited speakers weekly to fully build the schedule by 1/31. Creator of deeplearning4j Adam Gibson is an entrepreneur and computer scientist. He co-founded the artificial intelligence/machine learning company Skymind.io and the open source frameworks Deeplearning4j and ND4J, or n-dimensional arrays for Java. He is also advisor to the data science master's program at GalvanizeU in San Francisco. Xin Wei Ngiam Director of Corporate Strategy, Grab Director of Corporate Strategy, Grab, and Regional Head, GrabHitch, for Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Jakarta (Indonesia) Chris Fregly Research Scientist at PipelineIO Chris is a regular speaker at many conferences and Meetups throughout the world. He’s also an Apache Spark Contributor, Netflix Open Source Committer, and Founder of the Global Advanced Spark and TensorFlow Meetup, and Author of the upcoming O'Reilly Video Series on Deploying and Scaling Distributed TensorFlow in Production. Previously, Chris was a Distributed Systems Engineer at Netflix, Data Solutions Engineer at Databricks, and a Founding Member of the IBM Spark Technology Center. Vitaly Gordon VP, Data Science and Engineering at Salesforce Prior to Salesforce, Vitaly was a data science lead at LinkedIn, founded the data science team at LivePerson and worked in the elite 8200 unit, leading a team of researchers in developing algorithms to fight terrorism. His contributions have been recognized through a number of awards including the “Life Source” award, an award given each year deemed most high-impact in saving lives. Vitaly holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and an MBA from the Israeli Institute of Technology. Mike Tamir Chief Data Science Officer, Takt Mike serves as Takt Chief Data Science Officer, is part of the UC Berkeley iSchool DS faculty, and sits as DS advisor for several Machine Learning projects including Corvana, Skymind/DL4J, and InterTrust. Mike has led several teams of Data Scientists in the bay area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale/Sears, and Chief Science Officer for Galvanize where he oversaw Galvanize’s transformation into the premier Data Science immersive education institution and founded the galvanizeU-UNH accredited MS in DS degree. Lukas Biewald Founder, Chief Data Scientist at CrowdFlower He has worked as a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft, and also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Mathematics and a MS in Computer Science. Data Scientist, Stitch Fix Caltech - Astrostats - PhD supercomputing. Now data labs @stitchfix coding up word2vec, Gaussian Processes, t-SNE, tensors, Factorization Machines, RNNs, & VI Stephen Merity Senior Research Scientist, Salesforce Stephen Merity is a senior research scientist at MetaMind, part of Salesforce Research, where he works on researching and implementing deep learning models for vision and text, with a focus on memory networks and neural attention mechanisms for computer vision and natural language processing tasks. Sara Asher Director of Product at Salesforce Einstein Sara is a Director of Product Management for Salesforce Einstein, where she creates products that let people build smarter applications with Salesforce and advanced AI. Prior to Salesforce, Sara worked at Alpine Data where she was chief product manager and founding director of Alpine Labs. Sara holds an AB in mathematics from Princeton University and a PhD in mathematics from Northwestern University. Arno Candel H2O.ai, Chief Architect Dr. Arno Candel is the CTO at H2O.ai, the makers of the distributed and scalable open-source machine-learning platform H2O. Arno is also the main author of H2O’s Deep Learning and key contributor to H2O's GBM and DRF algorithms. Arno spent the last 5+ years designing and implementing high-performance machine-learning algorithms. Daniel Golden Arterys Inc.,Senior Image Scientist Dan is the Director of Machine Learning at Arterys, a startup focused on streamlining the practice of medical image interpretation and post-processing. After receiving a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, he stuck around for a postdoc, focusing on using machine learning to predict outcomes and disease characteristics in cancer patients. Joel Horwitz IBM, Vice President Joel Horwitz is the Vice President, Ecosystem and Partnership Development, IBM. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Masters in Nanotechnology with a focus in Molecular Electronics. He also hails from the University of Pittsburgh with an International MBA in Product Marketing and Financial Management. Leon Katsnelson IBM, Director & CTO I am a serial Intrepreneur with a number of very successful projects to my credit. My responsibility is to push frontiers of technology to create next generation products in the area of Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Science. A technologist at heart, I focus on value creation using technology rather than technology itself. Feynman Liang Gigster, Engineering Manager Feynman is the engineering manager at Gigster and a statistics PhD student at UC Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection between industry and academia, focusing on distributed machine learning and practical systems for deploying machine learning in production. He is a contributor to Apache Spark and a recreational producer of electronic music. Michael Ludden IBM Watson Developer Labs Program Director Michael Ludden is the IBM Watson Developer Labs Program Director and Senior Product Manager. Previously, Michael was Lead Developer Marketing Manager at Google, Head of Developer Marketing at Samsung, a Developer Evangelist at HTC, Global Director of Developer Relations at startups Quixey & Nexmo, and was involved at various times in development, product marketing, co-founding startups, tech show hosting, and even cruise-ship singing (don’t ask). Gabor Melli Senior Director of Machine Learning at Sony Interactive Entertainment Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia Domino Data Lab, Chief Data Scientist in Residence Eduardo Arino de la Rubia is Chief Data Scientist at Domino Data Lab. Eduardo is a lifelong technologist with a passion for data science who thrives on effectively communicating data-driven insights throughout an organization. He is a graduate of the MTSU Computer Science department, General Assembly’s Data Science program, and the Johns Hopkins Coursera Data Science specialization. Introductory AI conference from the leaders in the field. AI 101 What is Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI How they relate to each other What are the key algorithms Follow-along tutorials for the key approaches Deep Learning finally explained deeply Series of conferences AI By The Bay 2017 AI Vision You're saving $100 off the total with each additional day as a package. 601 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94107 www.thepearlsf.com 2016 ByTheBay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line165
__label__cc	0.691007	0.308993	We support Kiva.org Photos, Texts & Copyright Our bikes: Santos Travelmaster with Rohloff Carinthia Sleeping bags & Down jacket Santos Travelmaster Outdoordacht Jacobsons & Ortlieb WorldNomads insurance Gecko & Carinthia Mario Wolff & Vertical ElephantDrive De Vakantiefietser Online cycling gear stores discounts T-shirts & stuff Our Favorite cycling Books Cycling = Art ExposedPlanet.com: fine art & posters Ivana´s Blog 1000 Americans Gear & stuff Latest tripreport. Jump for joy: a review of 2010 and looking ahead to 2011 Ivana's jump for joy in the Salar de Uyuni With Ivanas jump for joy on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, I want to wish everybody who reads this blog a wonderful 2011. Regular readers and subscriber will have noticed that the blog ‘stopped’ in Belize and the photos in Panama. The updated South America Map shows what/where we have cycled and travelled past year, even though we have written no updates about them yet. In this post, which will also be published on my photoblog ExposedPlanet, I will give a small update about what we have been doing past year and the plans for... Previous post.. Intermezzo: Interview with Ivana & Harry for Examiner Nancy Vogel Sathre is not only cycling from Alaska – Ushuaia as well, she is doing it with her husband and two kids, homeschooling them all the way! They can be followed on http://familyonbikes.org She also writes for Examiner.com and recently asked us for an interview. I might as well post it here, not just to help out other biketravellers, but also so you know some things we are doing when we are not writing updates or cycling (The original interview was published here) ———– start of interview ——— Ø Would you please explain a tad bit about where... And just before that... Day 393-401, 8-16 Aug 09: The Islas Bonitas of Belize: chillin on San Pedro & Cay Caulker "Tropical the island Breeze, all of nature wild and free, this is where I long to be, la isla Bonita…" Madonna already sang it over 20 years ago: ‘I used to dream of San Pedro…’. San Pedro is the town on Ambergris Caye, better known as La Isla Bonita from Madonna’s hit-single. But that was in the 80-s when San Pedro probably still was the paradise she sang about. Since then it has been invaded by US tourists, many of which have bought a piece of land and/or built a house. The palms are still there and though there are no real beaches, the water is clear and the fish... This is old news by now :) Day 384-393, 30jul-8 Aug 09: Animals, Jungle, Ruins, Boats & Buses: interior & Northern Belize It was great to see my only sister Margriet and her daughter/my niece Dawn again, as it had been over a year since we had said goodbye in The Netherlands. She always wanted to go to Belize and as she was tied to my niece’s vacation schedule, we were lucky that we could plan a few weeks together. Her entry into Belize was not so easy as the airport personnel was so rude and aggressive that she was crying when she came out of the airport building. On top of that their luggage was delayed, so we had to spend an extra night in Jorge’s place. We spent the extra day in Belize City by visiting the... Ancient history.... Day 380-383, 26-29 July: The Northern Highway and shady Belize City, into Belize! After crossing the bridge that separated Mexico from Belize, we still had to do some formalities. I could just ride my bike into the office and get a free stamp, valid for 4 weeks, but Ivana had to pay. Sometimes being an Argentine helps dodging costs: for some unknown reason she does not have to pay for visa for for example turkey & India, whereas I do. But in order to enter Belize, she needed to pay B$100, 100 Belize Dollars, equalling USD $50! It must have something to do with the old ties to the Argentine archenemies, the Brits (Islas Malvinas, anyone?). We also had to state where we wanted... Our favourite cycling books: 1000 Americans: Matt & Rita, San Luis Obispo Matt & Rita are avid cycle tourists, having toured by bicycle in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia and the US. They actively promote... »»» 1000 Americans: Victor Antonio, peacemaker Victor, originally from Puerto Rico, though he grew up in San Antonia, Texas, has been on the road for a while, walking to promote peace through Marijuana. This... »»» 1000 Americans: Rose, Diego & Ximena, Pacific Grove Rose, Diego & Ximena are housemates in Pacific Grove, adjacent to Monterey, California. All are active environmentalists, preferring the bike over... »»» More Go Green Posts Day 325-331, 1-7 June 2009: highland magic in Morelia We were dropped off in the morning at our favourite pick-up spot: the tollbooth of the quota. For once we were not the only persons there without a car,... »»» Day 322-324, 29-31 May 2009: Hospitals, drunk rides and beach camps 29th May 2009: Boca de Apisa – Maruata: 30km cycling, 2 rides, 3 hospitals, free breakfast, lunch and campsite on the beach Ivana has a problem with... »»» 1000 Americans: Tom & Sandy Hubbard, Vancouver, WA When I found out that Tom Hubbard and his wife Sandy were living on our path, I wanted to meet them. As a photographer, it is a pleasure to talk to Tom,... »»» All Tips & Tricks 1000 Americans: Rico Novelo, Caye Caulker, Belize Rico is one of the few inhabitants of Caye Caulker, that was born and raised there. After a hurricane destroyed most of his fishing gear, he changed to... »»» 1000 Americans: Mr Marin, Caye Caulker, Belize Where other restaurant owners would be busy around lunch-time, Mr Marin took his time to read his newspaper in his restaurant on ‘Go Slow’ Caye Caulker,... »»» 1000 Americans: Nathalie, Sarteneja, Belize Nathalie is one of the many new Belizeans: originally European, but she has since emigrated to Belize. First to study, but later she enjoyed the more... »»» More 1000 Americans Posts Day -1: Amsterdam to Fairbanks After all the planning, we were anxious to get on the plane. Romke again suffered sleep deprivation because of our trip and woke up with us and took our... »»» Day -x: Preparations: making a mess and saying goodbye We are now several days on the road and have some time to write some proper reports. 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__label__wiki	0.69954	0.69954	a shout-out to john and ken Ken Hoffman relives his painful showdown with tennis icon John McEnroe Frosting It Forward CultureMap unwraps a tasty taco giveaway for busy Rice Village diners Houston having a blast See where Houston ranks among the most fun cities in America Houston works hard, but plays hard, too, at places like Axelrad. Photo by Jamaal Vince Photography We know the Bayou City offers a nearly unmatched quality of life for its value, with its urban green spaces; winning pro sports teams (some of them, anyway); and bustling nightlife. But just how fun is it? Personal finance site WalletHub released the results of its new report, an investigation to uncover the 2018 Most Fun Cities in America because, as they explain, "everyone likes to have fun." In order to quantify fun, a process which seems inherently not fun, thus negating the fun study, the researchers looked at 80 U.S. cities based on 65 relevant metrics. According to WalletHub, Americans spend nearly $3,000 on entertainment each year, so this fun study is actually about money. In Texas, Houston ranks second-most fun city, behind our hip, millennial sibling, Austin, and No. 18 nationally. Austin landed at No. 14 among U.S. cities — up four spots from 2017 — and took the No. 1 spot among Texas cities. Nationally, Houston ranked No. 31 for "Entertainment & Recreation" and No. 29 in the "Costs" rank. H-Town scored highest in "Nightlife & Parties" at a respectable No. 14 — just behind party town Austin. Back in the Lone State State, other party towns are San Antonio (No. 22) and Dallas (No. 27). Fort Worth, El Paso, and Arlington are medium levels of fun at Nos. 56, 73, and 86, respectively. Sadly, at No. 170, Brownsville wears the tiny sad crown as the least fun place in Texas. Strange news for Capital City: Austin did not land among the top five cities for festivals. Instead, that honor went to Honolulu. No disrespect to Honolulu, but seriously? Austin hosted a festival entirely for cats, and we didn't even get an honorable mention? That's just ridiculous. So where is the ultimate fun city in the U.S.? That precious honor was bestowed upon Las Vegas. Orlando, Florida, and New York City round out the top three spots. As for us, we suggest raising a glass of something to our city that works hard and plays hard, since we're the Southern capital of cool and all. New mega-gaming and indoor go-karting playhouse speeds into Katy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line186
__label__wiki	0.50639	0.50639	Editing Can Kill an Idiot: A Short Memoir by Michael Kroft Told with humorous candor and enough self-defecation to require a double flush, Michael Kroft utilizes 28,000 words to quickly detail his five days leading up to the heart of the story, his then first-time ten-day stay in a hospital. With the actual situations almost too surreal to be called non-fiction, the memoir’s many anecdotes are presented in such an easy-to-read manner and with such a Devil-may-care attitude that it can only be told by a man so humbled by his years that he is forthcoming regarding his ignorance. From first noticing a pain in his neck and as it grows, denying its dangerous potential and then trying to ignore it as he performs his final edit on his second novel while not being able to physically swallow and almost not being able to speak, Kroft walks us through his sometimes broken reasoning, his first aborted attempt at the Emergency Department, his first night at the hospital under the care of the nurse from Hell, the language tension lingering between a semi-monolingual Anglophone within a primarily Francophone hospital, waking up during his surgery, being hit on by an attractive female patient who just so happens to be..., and much more. The story will entertain, educate and perhaps even frighten. Bob S. -Kroft’s best friend. Michael Kroft Michael Kroft is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and now resides in Montreal, Quebec. An eclectic reading addict of fiction and nonfiction with a passion for writing short stories spanning various genres, On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew And The Goy Boy is his debut novel, and his second, Still On Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death, was released early November, 2014. His third novel with the working title of Not On Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue is expected out by June of 2015. Other Books By Michael Kroft On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew an Still on Herring Cove Road: Hick Editing Can Kill an Idiot: A Sho	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line189
__label__wiki	0.515657	0.515657	Cabot Microelectronics Contact Us \| myCMC Login Investor Relations Overview Annual Meeting/Proxy Working at CMC Home → Investor Relations → Press Releases → Cabot Microelectronics In The News \| CCMP Press Releases Cabot Microelectronics to Present at the CIBC World Markets Communication and Technology Conference AURORA, Ill., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Nasdaq: CCMP), the leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries to the semiconductor industry, announced today that it will make a presentation at the CIBC World Markets Communication and Technology Conference at 1:30 p.m., Eastern time on Tuesday, June 8, 2004. Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed during the presentation. The presentation will be available to all interested parties via webcast from the company's site at http://www.cabotcmp.com . For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a copy of the presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company's website at http://www.cabotcmp.com . About Cabot Microelectronics Cabot Microelectronics, headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, is the leading supplier of CMP slurries for polishing various materials used in semiconductor manufacturing processes. The company's products play a critical role in the production of the most advanced semiconductor devices, enabling the manufacture of smaller, faster and more complex devices by its customers. For more information about Cabot Microelectronics, visit http://www.cabotcmp.com or call 630-499-2600. This news release may include statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities regulations. These forward-looking statements include statements related to future sales and operating results, company and industry growth and trends, growth of this market, international events, product performance, new product introductions and development of new products and technologies by Cabot Microelectronics. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including those described from time to time in Cabot Microelectronics' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described by these forward-looking statements. In particular, see "Risks Relating to Our Business" in Management's Discussion and Analysis in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2004, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, both filed with the SEC. Cabot Microelectronics Corporation assumes no obligation to update this forward-looking information. David H. Li Cabot Microelectronics Corporation SOURCE Cabot Microelectronics Corp. -0- 06/01/2004 /CONTACT: David H. Li, Director, Investor Relations of Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, +1-630-499-2600/ /Web site: http://www.cabotcmp.com / (CCMP) CO: Cabot Microelectronics Corp.; CIBC World Markets Communication and ST: Illinois IN: CPR CHM SEM HRD ECP SU: CCA TDS AM-JS -- CGTU036 -- 2795 06/01/2004 12:47 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com KMG Acquisition (Common Stock) Connect with Cabot Microelectronics 870 N. Commons Drive myCMC Copyright © Cabot Microelectronics \| Site Map \| Site Terms and Conditions \| Privacy Policy \| California Supply Chains Act	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line192
__label__cc	0.743827	0.256173	Category: Hidden History I generally resist sharing anything that could be misconstrued as being negative. I also tend to share only those items that are relatively easy to digest so posting a link to a three hour talk about something of the darker aspects of our modern world bucks this trend somewhat. That said, this lovely man, a sober individual with an impeccable attitude to research and truth seeking has a message to share that we would do well to heed… it feels like a moral duty to include this link on this blog. The people who recorded this interview, Tragedy and Hope, are an amazing organisation who have educated me in many ways. Their youtube channel is a constant source of inspiration as is their Tragedy and Hope Magazine channel which, in particular, features one of the most informative interviews I’ve ever seen: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto. Author ugboy23Posted on 16th September 2015 19th March 2019 Categories being the change, Hidden HistoryTags agenda 21, interview, john taylor gatto, patrick wood, shadow government, technocracy, technocracy rising, tragedy and hope, tragedy and hope magazine, trilateral commission The Peaceful Majority The salty tears of history Have largely washed away The memories of atrocities By religious and political ideologies. Yet what remains Are figures like stains. The peaceful majority in Germany Failed to prevent 60 million deaths Continue reading “The Peaceful Majority” Author ugboy23Posted on 21st January 2015 Categories being the change, Hidden History, poetryTags dark corridor, genocide, ian h powell, irrepressable urge, millions dead, peaceful majority, political ideologies, stand out, time to stand up, violence An Omission from The Imitation Game? A little known story, sadly omitted from the recent telling of Alan Turing’s life surrounds the details of his death which was caused by the ingestion of cyanide. There is some disagreement about the facts but there is a believable version of events that points to his applying the poison to an apple with a syringe. His body was discovered with a half eaten apple by his side. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were, not surprisingly, enormous fans of Alan Turing who was the father of computing. For many years a highly believable myth has circulated in technological circles that the Apple logo was a direct homage to Alan Turing which Steve Jobs famously denied. Who will ever know for sure? Author ugboy23Posted on 20th January 2015 Categories films, Hidden HistoryTags alan turing, apple logo, cause of death, code breaking, cryptography, cyanide, enigma, father of computer, imitation game, omission, poisoned apple, steve jobs, turing machine Who Cares About Jesus and the Winter Solstice? The first thing I’d like to say is that I do care, very much… in ways that may not be obvious. This festival is more about stars and mushrooms than fisherman and kings. It’s the time of year when social media will be awash with alternative xmas messages and yet there’s still a couple of points that seem to be rarely made. Hopefully most people now realise the astrological origins of the age-old myth adopted by Christianity… the 12 disciples corresponding to the 12 signs of the zodiac pre-dating Ancient Egypt… Continue reading “Who Cares About Jesus and the Winter Solstice?” Author ugboy23Posted on 13th December 2014 Categories community, Hidden HistoryTags astrology and christmas, astrotheology, dead sea scrolls, disciples zodiac, egyptian, fishermen and kings, horus and jesus, ian h powell, john allegro, sacred mushroom and the cross, star wars, true story of xmas, who cares about jesus, winter solstice The Suppressed Spirituality of the West One of my mentors, Paul Levy, inspired me not to overlook Western metaphysics, he investigated Buddhism and meditation in early life but later discovered Rudolf Steiner and the like. This is another inspiring man, Thomas Sheridan with a reminder to value our own heritage. http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.ie/2014/04/the-aeon-of-horus-is-ending-and-elites.html Author ugboy23Posted on 20th April 2014 Categories Hidden History, SpiritualityTags autonomy, cult of normality, european, hidden history, ian h powell, indigenous, new age, paul levy, Rudolf Steiner, Rudolph Steiner, thomas sheridan, Western metaphysics, Western philosophy, western spirituality Hitler didn’t die in a bunker but retired to Argentina I love it when the narrative of accepted history must be rewritten. We have been so thoroughly lied to this century. http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/fbi-opens-files-proving-hitler-went-to-argentina Author ugboy23Posted on 18th April 2014 Categories Hidden HistoryTags adolph hitler, cult of normality, didn't die, escape in submarine, eva braun, faked deaths, fbi, hidden history, hitler, ian h powell, mind control, no suicide, retired to argentina, secret services1 Comment on Hitler didn’t die in a bunker but retired to Argentina	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line194
__label__wiki	0.935624	0.935624	Iggy Azalea “Started” Music Video By admin on May 3, 2019 under Photos, Videos Music Videos > Screen Captures > Started Iggy Azalea performs ‘Sally Walker’ on Jimmy Kimmel live By admin on Apr 9, 2019 under Videos Iggy Azalea’s “Sally Walker” debuts at #62 on Billboard Hot 100 chart By admin on Mar 27, 2019 under News “Sally Walker” becomes the artist’s thirteenth Hot 100 entry. Powered by solid opening week numbers, Iggy Azalea’s “Sally Walker” debuts on the Billboard Hot 100. The song starts at #62 on this week’s chart, which ranks songs from all genres based on sales, streams and radio airplay. “Sally Walker” fared particularly well on the sales front, spending a solid portion of its opening week in the Top 10 on the US iTunes chart. It also attracted a healthy number of streams on its official music video. “Sally Walker” becomes Azalea’s thirteenth career Hot 100 entry — and her highest-peaking hit since 2016’s “Team” (#42). Source: Headline Planet Iggy Azalea “Sally Walker” Music Video By admin on Mar 15, 2019 under Photos, Videos Music Videos > Screen Captures > Sally Walker Iggy Azalea announces release date for new single ‘Sally Walker’ By admin on Mar 7, 2019 under News Iggy Azalea is gearing up to debut her long-awaited sophomore studio album, In My Defense, this year, and she took to social media to tease the project’s first single “Sally Walker” with a photo on Thursday (Feb. 28) announcing the song’s March 15 release date. The photo depicts a Barbie-esque look for the Australian rapper in front of a blood-orange background, with dramatic cobalt-blue eye makeup and a bold red lip, as the words “Sally Walker” in a cross shape hang over her head. Below her are the words “A Celebration of Life” and the 3.15.19 release date. “Rest In Peace you whores!,” Azalea wrote in the caption. Who’s dying and who is Sally Walker? That all remains to be seen. “Sally Walker” is slated to debut on March 15. See Azalea’s tweet below. Rest In Peace you whores! ⚰️ pic.twitter.com/J4qRxScMQR — IGGY AZALEA ⚰️ (@IGGYAZALEA) February 28, 2019 Iggy Azalea previews new track “In My Defense” By admin on Feb 18, 2019 under Videos Iggy Azalea readies new album ‘In My Defense’ By admin on Jan 27, 2019 under News After parting ways with Island Records last year and signing a $2.7 million deal with EMPIRE, the Aussie rapper is hard at work on her next album, which seems to be titled In My Defense. Taking to Twitter, Iggy teased the project. “#InMyDefense really is that album that’s gonna make you wanna say fuck you to your own reflection for ever doubting you,” she tweeted. #InMyDefense really is that album that’s gonna make you wanna say fuck you to your own reflection for ever doubting you. — IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) January 25, 2019 Late last year, she moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta to record the album, which she says is better than most of her previous work. “I’m really proud of my album,” she wrote earlier this month. “It shits on 95% of everything I’ve ever made & its only half done.” I’m really proud of my album. It shits on 95% of everything I’ve ever made & its only half done. #InMyDefense — IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) January 8, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line195
__label__wiki	0.602283	0.602283	You are here: Home Our Actions Whaling Issue Joint Statement We Demand the Government of Japan to Revoke NEWREP-NP! Joint Statement We Demand the Government of Japan to Revoke NEWREP-NP! We Demand the Government of Japan to Revoke NEWREP-NP! TO: Prime Minister Sinzo Abe TO:Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Yuji Yamamoto TO Director-General of Fisheries Agency Kazuo Sato On November 8th, the Japanese government submitted the new Scientific Whale Research Program for the western North Pacific (NEWREP-NP) to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee (IWC-SC). This plan not only undermines the resolution adopted by the IWC but also it is clearly incongruous to the “sustainable use” that Japan has been claiming their practice to be. We hereby demand the Japanese government immediately revoke the program. Stop the hunt of 100 minke whales off the coasts of Japan and 47 minke whales of the rare J-stock in Okhotsk seas, and the 27 minke whales to be taken directly by the whaling fleet. Stop NEWREP-NP’s planned hunt of 140 sei whales. At the 65th IWC meeting in 2014, Japan’s request for taking 17 minke whales from the Pacific waters off Japan, supposedly based on the RMP calculation, was voted down. This catch quota was the biggest figure discussed at the time. Now, the new plan is to extract 174 minke whales. This is a blatant derision of the RMP. The basis for taking 47 minke whales from the Okhotsk, which in the past the government prohibited the hunt of, due to their threatened status, provided in the plan is based on the observation which “suggests a possible recovery of J stock common minke whales and an ensuing increased ‘spill over’ from the Sea of Japan to the Pacific side of Japan” and they claim “Further investigation is necessary to confirm this.” The recovery is only a possibility, and clearly should not serve as a foundation for granting the permit. J-Stock population is already facing threats of fixed nets set up by Japan and Korea, with many reported by-catch incidents every year. It has become an international concern. Moreover, the planned research area is in proximity to Shiretoko World Heritage Site, where the whale-watching industry is thriving. The possible effects of whaling on the local whale population is disconcerting, as this population is currently being sustainably utilized by the tourism industry. In the plan, there is a mention of elucidating the influence of the global warming. However, looking at the coastal research program on the Pacific side, only 16 were caught in the spring and 21 in the fall, against the 101-minke quota. It is doubtful that the sample size of 100 (+27) whales will be able to unravel the global problem. Sei whale is listed as Endangered by IUCN, and its trade is prohibited by CITES. Japan currently has a reservation on trade of minke and fin whales but not on the western North Pacific population of sei whales. Since the beginning of sei whale catch in 2002, under the category of Introduction From the Sea (IFS) the government and the fisheries agency have been granting catch and introduction permits for sei whales, which only involves a one-state transaction. Some international law scholars criticize it as a violation of CITES regulations. This new plan does not seem to take into consideration the ruling handed down by the Court of Justice on JARPAII. It also disregards the resolution adopted at the 65th IWC meeting in 2014 to discuss the research plan based on advice from Scientific Committee. The government has been appealing that Japan laid the foundation for a dialogue between contracting governments on research whaling and established a working group, contributing to IWC’s consensus making. We think this new plan can only hinder future dialogue. We demand that the government cease the research whaling program immediately. * Government of Japan. Proposed Research Plan for New Scientific Whale Research Program in the western North Pacific (NEWREP-NP). 2016. http://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/j/whale/attach/pdf/index-3.pdf [Signed] (ALIVE)A Life in Viable Environment(ALIVE) Choices For Tomorrow(CFT) NPO Animal Rights Center Iruka & Kujira (Dolphin & Whale) Action Network Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution Japan Environmental Layers Federation Greenpeace Japan Shizen-Tuushin(Nature Information News) Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund Biodiversity Information Box Association to protect Northernmost Dugong Put an End to Animal Cruelty and Exploitation(PEACE) Japan Wildlife Conservation Society Voice for Zoo Animals Japan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line197
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__label__wiki	0.911015	0.911015	Telecom NewsView in App Part relief for telcos from 2-year spectrum moratorium but more measures needed: Analysts The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved giving Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Ltd and Reliance Jio an option to avail a two-year moratorium on payments they were supposed to make in yearly installments for the spectrum boug... By PTI \| Nov 21, 2019, 01.49 PM IST NEW DELHI: The government's decision to grant two-year moratorium on spectrum payments to telecom companies will provide near-term cash flow relief, especially to Vodafone Idea, but the move by itself may not be enough to address leverage concerns of the troubled telcos, leading analysts said. "We await clarity on whether this is the extent of relief that the government is willing to offer or whether there could be more measures forthcoming," Citi said in its latest report. It said that while the deferment of spectrum auction payments for two years, that is 2020-21 and 2021-22, will offer some much-needed cash flow relief, particularly to Vodafone Idea, that "by itself may not be sufficient to address leverage concerns of the companies". Credit Suisse in its report on Thursday said that while deferment of spectrum auction payment is in line with its expectations, "no decision on license fees reduction is clearly negative". "On AGR, we believe the telcos are likely to approach Supreme Court for relief," it said. Goldman Sachs Equity Research estimated that with the two-year moratorium on such payments (in FY21 and FY22), Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea can potentially save USD 2 billion (about Rs 14,200 crore) and USD 3.3 billion (about Rs 23,400 crore), respectively, over this period, amounting to 41 per cent and 52 per cent of their respective AGR-related liability. "While this moratorium helps near-term liquidity for telcos, especially VIL (Vodafone Idea Ltd), we do not see this improving balance sheet leverage of the company, which stood at 20x (net-debt-to-EBITDA) as of Sept 2019. For Bharti, this moratorium will help better meet any potential AGR related liability, in our view," the report said. The government on Wednesday doled out a Rs 42,000 crore relief to debt-laden telecom companies after it agreed not to take any payments for spectrum they use for the next two years. The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved giving Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Ltd and Reliance Jio an option to avail a two-year moratorium on payments they were supposed to make in yearly installments for the spectrum bought in auctions. While the move will give Rs 42,000 crore relief to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio, the government is unlikely to intervene in the Supreme Court mandated statutory payments, top sources have said. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and other telecom operators have to pay Rs 1.4 lakh crore in outstanding statutory dues following a Supreme Court order on October 24 that sent shock waves through an industry already grappling with billions of dollars in debt and an intense tariff war to retain customers. The top court last month upheld the government's position on including revenue from non-telecommunication businesses in calculating the annual adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of telecom companies, a share of which is paid as licence and spectrum fees to the exchequer. Start a SIP with as low as ₹500 with ET Money App! The Economic Times News App for Quarterly Results, Latest News in ITR, Business, Share Market, Live Sensex News & More. avail \|Jio \|Narendra Modi \|Goldman Sachs \|Credit Suisse \|bharti airtel \|Vodafone Older telcos back consumer choice on moving users to 4G from 2G Business News › Industry › Telecom › Telecom News › Part relief for telcos from 2-year spectrum moratorium but more measures needed: Analysts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line218
__label__wiki	0.571508	0.571508	What's new Search Latin D Search Latin D Latin Culture Is it really dead? Thread starter unlibrobrujo Iohannes Aurum dixit: There's Esperanto as well. However, it did not attract mainstream attention. Two million "native" speakers is far from mainstream. Esperanto only has a thousand or so native speakers, but two million people can speak it. I speak Esperanto, too, but it's far from being as good as Latin. It's a mix of the languages of Europe, Dr Zamenhof took the largest languages of the most wide-spread language families (Romance: Italian, French, Spanish; Germanic: German, English; Slavic: Russian) and mixed them together to something as easy to learn and master as possible. There are other constructed languages designed for international communication and to be easy to learn, like Volapük, Interlingua, Communicationssprache, Wede and Lidepla. All of them didn't have any success. Most of them are from the time around 1900 AD, when French as language of diplomacy had already declined while English hadn't taken off yet. Volapük was based on European languages too, especially English but also much of French, German and Latin. It was to hard to learn because most words consisted of just one short syllable so they basically sounded the same, which made them hard to remember. And they were changed beyond recognation. "Volapük" means "worldspeech", vol is derived from English "world" and pük from "speak"... yes, I'm serious. Also, the inventor, Dr Schleyer, was very possesive and saw Volapük as his property where he was the boss. Interlingua is a mix of the Romance languages and sounds like a poor man's version of Latin. No need for that, or? It's creator was once was an Esperantist and even gave Dr Zamenhof advice. But the evolution of Esperanto didn't go the way he wanted so he just started his own project. Communicationsprache was a butchered-up version of French, because it's from a time when French was the lingua franca of Europe. So... I don't get it why somebody thought it was a good idea to create a new version of French instead of continuing to use regular French, I mean, where's the difference? And why was the name "Communicationssprache" in German (communication language)? Wede was created by Imperial Germany because they thought they were going to win World War I and become the foremost global superpower. Of all conlangs it was the least creative one because it's inventor just took Standard German and dumbed it down a bit. Why? Did he think people would be too dumb to master the original? Lidepla ("lingwa de planeta", which means "language of the planet") is being worked on at a Russian university since 2006 and is based on the dozen most widely spoken languages on Earth. Basically, it's Esperanto 2.0. There are short-stories, poems and songs in this language and a few dozen people speak it. Civis Illustris Pollux dixit: Esperanto only has a thousand or so native speakers grammaticissima In Esperantia. Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. (Eccl. 1:2) Etaoin Shrdlu dixit: Everywhere on the world, but mostly in Europe. Again, where? Quasus Well, as far as I know that was one reason which triggered the decline of Latin because during the Renaissance period, the humanists made people use the Classical Latin of Cicero and Caesar instead the established Middle Latin from the Medieval Ages. One can argue with that. You can check the following paper: http://www.renaessanceforum.dk/10_2016/02_helander_neologisms.pdf Godmy A Monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers The native Esperanto speakers are possibly the only reason a linguist could [professionally] pay attention to or care about Esperanto (because it's creolization/nativization in the real time, all the changes/evolution that the conlang undergoes suddenly etc.)... otherwise I always thought the language is incredibly unappealing (my apologies to all Esperanto enthusiasts - that's also some of my friends). But native speakers of some conlang is an interesting issue because it's also a model situation how could a possible "Latin" child look like (although I'm not quite sure now I'd like any parents to do that anymore). Fully Digital Forcellini + Attico-Latin / Lat-Att. dictionaries Live Latin Chat - Latin IRC channel POST·NVBILA·PHOEBVS Hemo Rusticus J. Wellington Wimpy One can argue with that. 'One' can argue with anything. I know him, he's insane. otherwise I always thought the language is incredibly But I'm 100% behind the idea, & also Nostratic, while we're at it. It's just too cool: what's the point in stopping? सूनृतो मङ्गलवारे संनेषा ते मासद्यतनीयम् । I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Imperfacundus Reprobatissimus Esperanto is a crime against language and, by extension, all of humanity. Pseudonym99 dixit: Could it imply a sublime official Rainbow, in a sense? Not in a literal translation, but in a Poetic fashion. Reactions: Godmy and Etaoin Shrdlu Terry S. Imperfacundus dixit: If you ever catch me posting something in Latin, of your charity, please check and correct it. “The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Reactions: Bestiola tim05000 LatinProf dixit: You might find this interesting. The bank machines inside of Vatican City include Latin, Italian, English , Spanish, French, and maybe German to guide you on your way to get some Euros. And how many people actually use the Latin option? My friend works at McDonalds and although they offer salads now almost no one ever orders one. Latin’s a dead language. It does give you a better understanding of the world we live in though. That’s why I feel the dead/alive dichotomy might be a bit misleading; Latin is alive as a cultural language, which isn’t a bad thing. Matthaeus Vemortuicida strenuus Actually it's more of a zombie-like language, dead to the world, to be sure, but still alive in a way. Nulla enim res melius occupat totum hominis animum quam studia. Iohannes Aurum Technicus Auxiliarius tim05000 dixit: My friend works at McDonalds and although they offer salads now almost no one ever orders one. McDonald's (and other major burger joints) serve salad not because it's profitable, but because they can deflect lawsuits against them for claims of promoting unhealthy diets (and the salads served there aren't exactly healthy, given how much sodium and fat are in the dressing). I even consider unsalted fries in McDonald's to be healthier, ironically enough. Latin is an official language of the Vatican. TE SALVTO. AVGVSTVS SVM, IMPERATOR ET PONTIFEX MAXIMVS ROMÆ. SI TV ES ROMÆ AMICVS ES GRATVS. Please write your translation request properly. Here is how. Please do not post the output of online translators. Google Translate is not your friend. If you find our translations helpful, please consider making a donation. It goes a long way to keeping the website alive for you and many others. Even if you donate a little, it works wonders. Vergilius Amanuensis I'm no scholar, more an enthusiast hoping to make a living in it (I hope someone caught my pun, and the relative absurdity of it ). I can read portions of Catullus, Cicero, and so on, I can hear the Tridentine Liturgy and understand quite a bit, but Latin, in a sense, requires even more commitment than the vernaculars. If I just stuck entirely to the minimalistic set of courses my college provides the results would be ludicrous. Old Church Slavonic, Old Norse, and Syriac are other cases of the same ill. Entirely [to my knowledge] now confined to textual script at most, honestly I'm surprised anyone still knows them at all. They've never seen near the amount of care that Latin, Greek, or Hebrew have. Reactions: Godmy Contact Latin D Latin D	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line228
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__label__wiki	0.67436	0.67436	Juvenile & Young Adult / Tales / Fairy Tales & Folklore Advanced reader (11) HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks (24) Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (22) Simon Pulse (15) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (13) eBookIt.com (11) Dover Publications (11) Baby Professor (10) The History Press (7) Atheneum Books for Young Readers (7) Sky Pony (6) Dancing Unicorn Books (5) Results : 1 - 50 of 250 Sorted by : Release Date Catalog Date Best Selling Title A - Z Title Z - A Publisher Collection The Thief and the Beanstalk by P. W. Catanese – Aladdin (May 11, 2010) Jack traded his cow for magic beans, climbed a beanstalk, and got rich. Will the next person to try it, be as fortunate? Or just fortunate enough to survive? Everyone knows the story of Jack and his beanstalk,... Legends, Myths, ... 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Cool Mint In Chocolate Dreams, Cocoa the Chocolate Fairy is blamed for the missing chocolate eggs—but really it’s the sour troll Mogu who stole them! Can Cocoa save the chocolate eggs and restore the balance of Sugar... Snow White and Other Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – Dover Publications (July 25, 2013) Eleven timeless tales recount the adventures of "The Brave Little Tailor," "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "Jorinda and Joringel," "The Fisherman and His Wife," and more. History by country by Cameron Dokey – Simon Pulse (June 08, 2010) After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two... Divines, Beauties from classical mythology by Guillaume Lebigot, - Rosalys & Fleur D. – Univers partagés editions (January 24, 2014) Of great goddesses who created such a rich world, Of nymphs who looked after nature and mores, Of Heroines who wrote history with nobleness, Accept their invitation, explore the values of their heart. Let... 20 at a time Caramel Moon by Helen Perelman & Erica-Jane Waters – Aladdin (August 10, 2010) All the fairies expect to eat candy corn at the Harvest Festival, but the crop of candy corns is shrinking! Is someone playing a trick? Mellie the Caramel Fairy discovers that the Chuchies are back and have been... Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale by Charles de Lint & Charles Vess – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (February 04, 2014) This full-color, illustrated companion novel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest includes "beautiful bookmaking, lovely storytelling, and wondrous illustrations....Readers will be enchanted" (Kirkus Reviews, starred... 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__label__cc	0.606752	0.393248	Home AboutFAQLinksShop Trouble at Benson Tech by Steve Buel, September 15th, 2007 Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Steve Buel (not to be confused with me, whose name also happens to be Steve). For more on this story, see today’s Oregonian. Something is amiss at Benson Tech. Benson has the reputation of being one of the best technological high schools in the country. Surely, you would think, the school board would want to protect and hone this reputation, particularly in a city where there is such widespread criticism of the way it educates its lower economic neighborhood students. But that does not seem to be the case. When I was a teacher at Lane Middle School in the far out SE, which was loaded with struggling students, Benson High School was one of the bright spots in the future education of many of these kids. It was a legitimate first step in getting out of poverty and making something of themselves. It was also a great path for those kids who wanted an avenue to success outside of a purely academic road. But you just couldn’t up and go to Benson. You had to earn it. You needed a teachers recommendation and enough academic skills to write an essay stating why you wanted to go there. This did two things. It helped weed out the kids who were not interested in putting in the effort required in Benson’s programs and put pressure on the kids to do well in middle school. A great help in teaching kids what it takes to get along in the world. But the school district, in their infantile wisdom, eliminated these requirements and also has refused to fund Benson at the level necessary to maintain all the programs it had developed and to upgrade the school and its programs in the manner such an outstanding school deserves. Yes, it costs more to have a school such as Benson in your district but it is worth it to make sure you have genuine opportunities for the students Benson helps. Of course, there are undoubtedly few Benson kids from parents in Stand for Children (SFC) or the Portland Schools Foundation (PFS), who run Portland Public Schools and control the board, so I guess it is not surprising this is the direction the district has gone. But you have to ask yourself what is really amiss. This district treats its lower economic neighborhood students like they are outsiders, and it has demonstrated this over and over. Is this just another example of what is happening in PPS and America today, the rich and powerful making sure they are taken care of first and foremost, more nonsense from SFC and PSF, or is something else at work here? I think it is legitimate to explore if institutionalized racism is rearing its ugly head again. I hope not. Steve Buel is in his 41st year of teaching, presently in the Evergreen School District in Vancouver. He is a former PPS school board member and has followed PPS politics since 1975. Posted in Economics, Politics, Portland, Public Schools \| 4 Comments » The way I see it... Ms. R: You were a single dad raising your family? I think maybe your wife took care of the babies while you banged on... A.P. Gwiazdowska: http://howhockeysavedtheworld. blogspot.com/2017/02/hockey-wo mens-hockey-saved-world-and.ht ml... Courtney Scott: I would like to live in the past, say around 2008 when the bond measure passed and the former zoo... Tony D.: He lived like a Spartan but partied like a Bacchanalian. He often did not have a car and would rent a room... tricia: you are very welcome. thanks for the song and the stories above. 2019, my musical year in review That night half the band met a “record producer” in jail Rebranding the SUB Stand up, walk out: how to deal with Trumpism Beach biking the Oregon coast Making the public private, courtesy Neil Goldschmidt, Inc. Third wave espresso sucks Nutria-henge-quinox, autumn 2015 And the sun went down Ultimate Philip Glass Fanboi Election '08 (40) Eulogies (8) Friday's Feast (3) Gentrification (11) Jefferson High (9) Military Recruiting (6) OHSHL (1) Pioneers (2) PSU Hockey (2) Public Schools (102) Ship Spotting (7) stranger than fiction (27) Tualatin River Diaries (5) Winter Hawks (40) Visit the Left Coast Hockey League Team Store for More Hockey Less War t-shirts, stickers, sweatshirts, messenger bags and more. Wacky Mommy My better half Links galore People-Powered Publishing by New Deal Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line250
__label__wiki	0.679599	0.679599	Posted on January 31, 2013 May 5, 2015 by Fritzi Kramer The White Rose (1923) A Silent Film Review Child neglect, single moms, personal crisis… Just another day D.W. Griffith-land. Mae Marsh is Teazie, a young orphan who flirts as way to get much-needed attention. Ivor Novello is Joseph, a freshly ordained minister who mistakes her flirtations for an immoral character. What follows can best be described as Way Down East meets The Scarlet Letter. Note: I am also reviewing the 2007 Turkish drama Bliss. Click here to skip to the talkie. Forgotten Griffith D.W. Griffith’s later career is a long, sad tale of declining box office receipts and an eventual descent into irrelevance. Oh, there were hits here and there but not of a caliber to resurrect his career and lift it back to the heights that he had enjoyed in the ‘teens. However, it must be emphasized, just because many of Griffith’s later films did not catch fire with the ticket-buying public does not mean that they should be ignored. The White Rose was Griffith’s second completed feature after parting ways with Lillian Gish, his most famous leading lady. Hoping to catch some of the old Biograph magic, he cast Mae Marsh (whom he had not directed since 1916’s Intolerance and Hoodoo Ann) in the lead role of The White Rose. It turned out to be an excellent move. The story really involves a sort of Southern love square. Poor boy John (Neil Hamilton) loves rich girl Marie (Carol Dempster), who has been expected to marry wealthy minister Joseph (Ivor Novello) since childhood, but his heart has been stolen by Teazie (Mae Marsh), an orphan who is known as a sort of virginal strumpet. (We’re in very Victorian territory.) So, no one is with the person they really want and that creates the bulk of the film’s tension. Looks naughty, is really nice. Although Griffith claims in his introduction to the film that it is about characters, not melodrama, don’t believe him. Melodrama all the way. Illegitimate babies, attempted suicide, dying of a broken heart, it’s all there. Fortunately, melodrama is exactly what Griffith excels at. Teazie doesn’t mean to be a bad girl. She is just a lonely orphan. Her flirtatious nature stems from her need for love and acceptance. Her boss encourages the behavior since a coquette waitress brings in more money. Even though she still as pure as the virgin blah blah blah, her behavior has earned her a bad reputation. Teazie regrets Joseph is a priggish minister, freshly ordained. He is off to see the world so that he can save it. He is immediately drawn to Teazie though he is contemptuous of her flirty nature. A local lothario encourages Joseph to sow his wild oats with Teazie. Believing that other men have had her (why not him?) Joseph seduces her and leaves town the next day. Meanwhile, Joseph’s childhood sweetheart, Marie, is secretly pining over the dirt-poor John. Hoping to win the hand of the rich Marie, John sets off to the city to seek his fortune as an author. The newly-ordained minister is entertaining some decidedly impure thoughts about Teazie. The illicit lovers do not fare as well. Joseph is stricken with a guilty conscience and the knowledge that he really did love Teazie. Teazie has it even worse. She gives birth to Joseph’s son and is thrown out into the streets. Will love conquer all and so forth? The White Rose is an enjoyable trifle made much better by Mae Marsh’s sensitive performance. Her transformation from child to vamp to terrified mother is believable and tragic. The requisite scenes where she must look for a job, baby on her hip, are heart-rending. Trying to get another waitressing job, she only has references from her orphanage. No enough for employers to overlook the formula of woman-husband+baby=unemployable. Marsh’s despair and piteous hope that someone will help her is thoroughly convincing. Teazie loves Joseph even though she knows she will lose him. British idol Ivor Novello’s only performance with Griffith is a good one though he does descend into hysterics a bit. He’s best known to modern audiences as the title character in The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock’s first real Hitchcock film. In both that film and this one, Novello is at his best when he is intense, in despair, filled with regret, etc. He doesn’t handle “happy” quite as well. All in all, however, he matches Mae Marsh in intelligence and sensitivity. Carol Dempster is a little harder to accept. As the goody two shoes of the film, she really has nothing more to do than be supportive of the two men in her life. Unfortunately, Dempster has an irritating, jerky manner of moving. Her fluttering about, meant to be charming, dainty and Gishy, made me want to shout at the screen, “For Pete’s sake, Carol, stand still!” When she actually does stand in one place for a moment without twitching, she is quite effective. But such moments are few and far between. Marie has her own romantic woes Spoiler for this paragraph: Kudos to Miss Dempster, however, for the climactic scene where she watches the man she is supposed to marry reunite with his lover and son. Sorrow, relief and just a dab of jealousy pass across her face. Well done! What really stops The White Rose from finding a wider audience are the racial stereotypes that Griffith unfortunately felt the need to include. White actors in blackface makeup play the servants and townsfolk. The portrayals range from offensive to clueless. It’s a pity since the role of Auntie Easter, the only character who has the guts to take poor Teazie in, was a juicy one. If only Griffith had seen fit to cast a more appropriate performer in the role! Marie and Auntie Easter comfort the gravely ill Teazie. So, in the end, The White Rose represents a wasted opportunity. It is a good little tear jerker but it could have been much more. Some of the problems can be traced to a script with too many main characters (the second love story could have been jettisoned with few consequences) but most of it can be put down to a general lack of originality. The story is essentially Way Down East meets The Scarlet Letter. A better script and more sensitivity in racial matters might have made The White Rose one of Griffith’s better potboilers. Don’t expect a masterpiece and you will find an enjoyable film but not a great one. This movie is available as a low-quality, blurry and overpriced DVD release from Classic Movie Streams. The budget disc outfit, Alpha, has also released their version of the film . It’s not a huge jump in quality but at least the price is reasonable. (You can usually get discounted copies of Alpha films for as little as $2.) Sometimes movies can improve when paired with one another. In this case, The White Rose and Bliss. One is a forgotten 1923 work from an American master. The other is a critically acclaimed 2007 Turkish film. Both deal with questions of female purity, male guilt and how far society can go to claim its honor. Bliss (2007) Modern American society is a hundred miles away from the world portrayed in The White Rose but in some parts of the world, a woman is still judged by her perceived virtue. Remaining pure is literally a matter of life and death. In rural Turkey, 17-year old Meryam (Özgü Namal) is suspected of losing her virginity. She refuses to name her partner or to explain suspicious circumstances that led to the accusation. The only answer to the blight on the family name is to perform an honor killing. Since Meryam will not go through with suicide, her uncle, a rich factory owner, wants the business done quickly and quietly as honor killings are illegal in the eyes of the secular Turkish government. Meryam’s distant cousin Cemal (Murat Han) is the eldest son in the clan and he is given the mission of taking Meryam to Istanbul where she can be killed without suspicion. Cemal is an army verteran with a bad case of post traumatic stress from combat with Kurdish seperatists. He is also in love with Meryam, though he won’t even admit it to himself. When the time comes, though, he can’t bring himself to harm her. The pair know they cannot return to their village and that they will be pursued. They go on the run. By chance, they befriend Irfan (Talat Bulut), a college professor who is running away for different reasons. Meryam (Özgü Namal) reveals her secret to Cemal (Murat Han). The unlikely trio sail along the Turkish coast in Irfan’s yacht. All three are carrying emotional scars. Meryam’s sense of self-worth is in tatters and she is struggling with her love for Cemal. Cemal is seething with jealousy over Meryam’s supposed lover and is unable to outwardly express any emotion except anger. Irfan is running from a life he considers empty and a wife he does not love. Will three lost souls find peace or is it beyond their reach? Both films deal with the hypocrisy and double standards that are so often present in society. However, Bliss handles its subject matter in a more imaginative and compelling way. This superiority of plot and character have nothing to do with the time that has passed between the two films (the story itself is timeless) and everything to do with the care with which Bliss was assembled. Meryam is expected to kill herself in order to restore the family honor. While there is a central mystery in Bliss (did Meryam have a lover, was she a willing participant and if not, who was her attacker?) it is not nearly as important as the people. The character studies are absolutely enthralling. Further, the movie is stunningly shot. As Meryam gradually regains her sense of self-worth, the movie goes from drab khaki tones to vibrant jeweled hues. Like The White Rose, Bliss is fortunate in its leading lady. Özgü Namal, a decade older than her character, perfectly captures the final shades of girlhood in Meryam and shows her emerge as a confident adult before our eyes. Irfan (Talat Bulut) views Meryam as a daughter. As Irfan, Talat Bulut is the opposite. In spite of his intellect and sophistication, he is a man-child who still takes innocent delight in running away from the world. He is also the very person needed to heal Cemal and Meryam, both of whom have had to grow up far too fast. The most difficult part belongs to Murat Han as Cemal. If the horrible practice of honor killings turns daughters into victims, it turns sons into killers. Cemal is caught between his need for his father’s approval and his own conscience that tells him that whatever Meryam is accused of, killing her is wrong. Cemal is no saint, however. He is violently jealous and is uncertain whether he did the right thing in saving Meryam’s life. In short, a very intriguing character. The bittersweet love between Meryam and Cemal is one of the great strengths of Bliss. While The White Rose is a pleasant enough melodrama, Bliss is a fully realized, beautiful piece of cinematic art. However, watching both films side by side can illustrate the progress (or lack thereof) for women’s rights. The similarities in content of the two films will keep your mind active looking for parallels in two films separated by decades and continents. Availability: Bliss has been released on DVD . 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__label__wiki	0.554724	0.554724	Royal Alliances Acquires the Automated Presort Division of Wolverine Solutions Group Wolverine dedicates their full focus on industry-leading print & mail capabilities while Royal Alliances scales into Presort with their revolutionary software platform and unparalleled operational expertise Royal Alliances (RA) reaches an agreement with long-time partner, Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG), to acquire Wolverine Automated Mailing Services (WAMS), a division of Wolverine Solutions Group. RA will create a stand-alone automated presort company named Royal Alliances Presort Detroit (RAPD). This agreement allows RAPD to leverage the infrastructure of the WSG presort division with an industry leading software platform and modernized service offering. The partnership is built on the trusted relationship WSG has maintained with RA for several years. “We are confident that the combination of leadership, industry knowledge, hardware and technology will provide a world class presort offering that customers will immediately appreciate,” said Darryl English, President of WSG. “We are excited to operate the first presort facility that provides the tremendous benefits of the Royal Alliances software platform to all customers,” remarked Tracey Evans, President of Royal Alliances. “We will gain considerable operating efficiencies as a result of our proprietary software as well.” Wolverine has over 40 years of experience as a leading provider of business-critical communication services. Robert Tokar, CEO of WSG shared, “The decision to sell our Presort operation did not come easily. My father started the presort business within Wolverine over 25 years ago and its been a successful part of our business ever since. Ultimately, we elected to move forward with a sale to Royal Alliances because of our trust in them to provide a superior service offering to our longtime customers. As a standalone presort company, I expect RAPD to thrive in this competitive Detroit market.” Historically a software provider to existing presort companies across the country, this if the first entry for Royal Alliances into owning and operating a presort facility. “We built the software platform over the last seven years to an industryleading standard,” said Jerry Lammons, COO & Co-Founder of Royal Alliances. “We are going to demonstrate the overall value the platform can bring to customers and presort facilities alike, while continuing to work closely with our valued partners across the country.” RAPD will instantly be part of a nation-wide network of presort mailers that leverage the RA technology to maintain a completely transparent relationship with presort clients. The transition will officially take effect on January 2, 2020. About Royal Alliances: Royal Alliances is at the forefront of revolutionizing the mail industry by combining systems and business procedures from large and small print, fulfillment, presort, and logistics businesses on a free, easy to use, webbased software platform. The RA software is fully approved by the US Postal Service and makes presort business operations easier and more profitable. RA’s platform enables increased revenue and cost reductions at the newly formed RA presort location in Detroit, and at RA partner firms nationwide. About Wolverine Solutions Group: Wolverine’s core business is to provide solutions that support strategic growth. Their clients utilize their deep knowledge and experience in business-critical communications to connect with their target market – whether business-to-business or business-to-consumer. They simplify processes to create efficient exchanges between their client and the target. They accomplish this by supporting their communications strategy to create, maintain, or expand the consumer relationship. They are an integrated provider of high-value services to organizations seeking to reach consumers or other businesses by collaborating and architecting quality solutions that deliver results. Wolverine leverages vast knowledge and experience in cross media communications to satisfy, inform and educate their clients. They provide on-time, flawless execution that yields compelling value. Wolverine’s integrity, commitment and personal service set the benchmark for target market expansion and retention across a range of industries. Company Name: Royal Alliances Contact Person: Media Manager Website: https://royalalliances.com/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line254
__label__wiki	0.669671	0.669671	Making ‘environment-plus’ the future of conservation Assoc Prof Audrey Chia from the Dept of Management and Organisation at NUS Business School opined that for pro-environment collaboration to succeed, there must be thinking across sectors and disciplines to address environmental challenges holistically. Survey: Nearly half of grandparents allow their grandchildren to use mobile phones, tablets during meals The Ministry of Health, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health found in a study of 396 local grandparents that more than half of them believed they have pivotal influence over the diet of grandchildren under their care, but in reality, their knowledge, experience and attitude needed improvement. Using big data to document local Chinese community network Prof Kenneth Dean, Head of the Dept of Chinese Studies at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow Dr Hue Guan Thye from the same department, are leading a research to establish a database of prominent Chinese personalities and the contributions they made to early Singapore from the 19th to 21st centuries. The research also documents a network of Chinese community leaders and low- and middle-level social personalities through the use of big data. Leaping out of a new Cold War trap in the new year Dr Guo Liangping, Senior Research Fellow from the East Asian Institute at NUS, opined that in the era of globalisation, a war between the top powers would be devastating to all. Dr Guo added that if any party blindly emphasises or exaggerates the hostility of the other party, deliberately opposing the universal values and refusing to improve, the war of attrition may be inevitable. 05 January 2020 \| Education Nurturing tech-savvy thinkers Dr Esther Tan, chief of the NUS Institute of Systems Science’s Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA) programme highlighted that companies that hire GDipSA graduates get trained and motivated individuals with the ability to use technology to solve problems, bringing with them fresh perspectives and increased diversity. Prof Zhang Louxin, Academic Director of the Master of Science (MSc) in Data Science and Machine Learning Programme, discussed how the programme will help students gain an edge in our data-driven world. Enabler of dreams Mr David Low Jia Wei shared how the NUS Institute of Systems Science’s Master of Technology (MTech) in Knowledge Engineering (now known as MTech in Intelligent Systems) put him on the right track in setting up his own business. Double Triumph Ms Alice Tan shared that attaining the Master of Science in Real Estate degree from NUS School of Design and Environment armed her with valuable skills which allowed her to make a successful switch from the construction industry to real estate research and consultancy. 05 January 2020 \| Research, General News Married women here have less sex than desired: Study A study by Asst Prof Tan Poh Lin from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS found that married women in their peak child-bearing age in Singapore have a lot less sex than they desire, thwarted by stress and fatigue. This independent research is the first here to examine the coital frequency of married women at their peak child-bearing ages, and to understand the effects of stress and fatigue on their sex lives. The Sunday Times, Tamil Murasu Popular places for retirement in Asia Assoc Prof Thang Leng Leng from the Dept of Japanese Studies at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences discussed the popular retirement places in Asia, and whether Singapore’s high cost of living which dissuades the average Westerner from retiring here would also encourage Singaporeans to look to places in Asia for retirement.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line255
__label__wiki	0.931727	0.931727	More info on Poppy Morgan Poppy Morgan: Map Categories: People from Kingston upon Hull > Living people > 1983 births > Female directors of pornographic films > British pornographic film directors > Female pornographic film actors > English pornographic film actors Poppy Morgan (born February 17, 1983) is a English award winning erotic actress, model and director, born in Hull . Morgan worked as a trainee chef at London 's "Blakes" restaurant. While on a smoke break she was approached by a photographer asking if she was interested in modelling. She has a twin sister who is not involved in the industry. The Wedding (produced by "Poppy Morgan Productions") documents her actual marriage to Darren Morgan (including a "hen night" orgy and promiscuity during the honeymoon). Morgan operates her own company called 'Poppy Morgan Productions' along with her ex-husband which has produced several pornography productions. Morgan is a regular on the television show Porn Week on Bravo TV, which is Bravo's number one show in the United Kingdom and is available on demand in Canada . In 2009 Morgan moved into directing alongside Taryn Thomas. Poppy Morgan has been the most featured model for Harmony Films and has worked with award winning director Tanya Hyde. 2006 Euro eLine Award – Best Starlet 2006 Medien eLine Award – Best Actress – International 2006 UK Adult Film and Television Awards – Best Female Actress Of The Year 2008 AVN Award for Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production, for a 10-person group scene in Furious Fuckers Final Race List of British pornographic actors Poppy Morgan.com Official Site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line262
__label__cc	0.576498	0.423502	Marion Cotillard: “On February 16, 2007, I appeared on a late night French television program,’Paris Dernière.’ In the last 48 hours, my statements on that program have been taken completely out of context and been crafted into a story that has no merit. The conversation on the talk show included a dialogue about conspiracy theories. At no point did I intend to contest the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most tragic days in all of history. Nonetheless, I sincerely regret if my comments offended or hurt anyone.” Publicist Bastien Duval to The Times (we don’t know the cues that prompted these answers, nor do we know whether this is all Mr. Duval said): Marion is “still in shock” at the angry reaction to her comments in the United States. Mr Duval said that the interview was filmed after a broadcast on Coluche, a French comedian killed in a motorcycle accident in 1986, and she had simply made clear that she intended to form her own opinion about the events of September 11 rather than follow the official version, that it was a terrorist attack led by al-Qaeda. “This reportage has been taken out of context and one can only condemn such practices. Marion deplores that. She is currently filming in Chicago and has a lot of work. She is in an ocean of happiness and voila, this row blows up. It’s rather strange. It’s an old report, not at all current. Why bring it out now? I talked three times to Marion overnight. This is worrying her. She is still in shock and does not really know how to react. She doesn’t have to apologise for a badly presented and badly interpreted reportage. She hopes that the Americans will have enough distance to understand, but her career is not just American. She can make films everywhere.” Leslie Unger, Spokeswoman for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: “The opinions expressed by Academy Award winners are solely their own. Ms Cotillard is free to express whatever views she has, but they have nothing to do with the Academy or the Academy Awards. Oscars are not revoked in light of any expressions of opinion. The Oscar is recognition of work done in film; nothing more and nothing less.” Cotillard superstar 39 Comments on “Official statements” When you read the transcript MC does not say anywhere that she believes these conspiracy theories to be fully and literally true. My interpretation is that she says that conspiracy theories exist and they make her think about the “truths” that we are told by our governments. Good for her! I’m glad she’s not one of those poor sheep who believe everything they read in the newspapers or that their governments tell them. She doesn’t actually say anywhere that she thinks the US government destroyed the twin towers or that man never walked on the moon – she’s saying these theories exist and they should make us think about what people would like us to believe. I really really hope that she doesn’t formally apologise for this episode – it’ll make her look like a hypocrite to those of us who think she has done nothing wrong!! Marion Cotillard : J’ai tendance à être plutôt souvent de l’avis de la théorie du complot. Xavier de Moulins : Un peu parano ? M. C. : Pas parano, non c’est pas parano parce que je pense qu’on nous ment sur énormément de choses : Coluche, le 11 septembre. On peut voir sur internet tous les films du 11 septembre sur la théorie du complot. C’est passionnant, c’est addictif, même. X. de M. : Sur le 11 septembre par exemple, toi, qu’est-ce qui t’a le plus troublée, concrètement ? M. C. : On te montre d’autres tours du même genre ayant pris des avions, ayant brûlé… il y a une tour, je crois que c’est en Espagne, qui a brûlé pendant 24 heures. X. de M. : Avant de s’effondrer ? M. C. : Elle ne s’est jamais effondrée ! Aucune de ces tours ne s’effondre. Et là, en quelques minutes, le truc s’effondre. Et puis après, on peut en parler longuement… Parce que c’était bourré d’or les tours du 11 septembre. Et puis c’était un gouffre à thunes parce qu’elles ont été terminées, il me semble, en 1973 et pour recâbler tout ça, pour le mettre à l’heure de toute la technologie et tout, c’était beaucoup plus cher de faire des travaux etc. que de les détruire… [A ce stade, il semble que le reste de sa tirade ait été coupé au montage, pour en arriver à la conclusion :] Est-ce que l’homme a vraiment marché sur la lune ? J’ai vu pas mal de documentaires là-dessus et ça, vraiment je m’interroge. Et en tout cas je ne crois pas tout ce qu’on me dit, ça c’est sûr. I agree with you Fifi but I’ve just read the article on the Times website and I think what Marion’s agent, Bastien Duval said is not going to help, he declared: Marion can make movies elsewhere! to which hundreds of readers replied: “fine, she can go back to France, they deserve her + she’s not welcome here!” + lots of other xenophobic comments…. Not many people wrote to support her and the few who defend her are mostly European. I don’t know how Marion is going to manage during the shooting of Public enemies in Chicago. It’s a horrible situation. Well let’s hope that by the time Public Enemies is released (what an ironic title that film now seems to have!) all of this nonsense will have died down and the easily offended elements of the American public will be pissed off with someone else!! We don’t know what the producers of Public Enemies make of all this – they might actually LIKE the controversy – after all, there is that old saying that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”!! MC has charmed Hollywood so far and hopefully they’ll understand that MC was not making a personal attack on Americans as a whole. And if they don’t, well she’ll just have to settle for good old Europe ……………….. Poor Marion. I do think this will blow over soon but it’s really sad how people are using this as another reason to hate on France. But American/British actors say much worse stuff than she did (and theirs doesn’t even have to be taken out of context) and it blows over for them. In the US, at least I haven’t heard of this outside of the internet fanatics. I just feel bad for her that her joy has turned to worry over something so stupid. HEY! DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT!!! THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN THE STATES IS MAKING UP THIS SUPPOSED “OUTRAGE”. I’M IN THE STATES. I PERSONALLY THINK WE WERE LIED TO ABOUT 9/11 (THAT’S MY OPINION — I’M NOT SAYING IT’S YOUR OPINION). LOTS AND LOTS OF US CITIZENS ARE WAKING UP TO THIS. IT’S THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT’S EITHER OUT OF TOUCH OR TRYING TO SUPPRESS OUR VOICES. WILLIE NELSON JUST CAME OUT AND SAID THE SAME THING. THE MEDIA WON’T EVEN REPORT IT. WHY? BECAUSE HOW COULD THEY GET AWAY WITH SLANDERING AN AMERICAN ICON AND SPINNING WHAT HE SAID? EVERYONE HERE LOVES HIM. SO THEY JUST DIDN’T REPORT IT. ANYWAY, WHAT’S WRONG WITH TRYING TO DISCUSS IT? THAT MAKES ME THINK YOU’RE AN INTELLIGENT PERSON. As a resident of New York and a big fan of MC I feel as if the American public has truly over reacted to this interview. Most Americans don’t research facts and truths about stories. The Media only feeds the people the info to create a story. On the other hand it is important for her to keep a low profile for awhile and answer back to the American public as much as possible. She has the potential to be a big star in this country if it is important to her. Her PR staff should be doing its job. This will blow over. But she must face the media one on one. Hollywood is where the money is like it or not. For me it doesn’t matter. She is still a great Actress. 9/11 is still a very sensitive topic and to say”I made a mistake”would go a long way!! Zosia says: Poor Marion! 🙁 It’s sad when people make fuss out of nothing, and you become the world’s biggest enemy (well, that’s what it seems like after reading some people’s comments!). She’s a very talented actress and a sweetheart and it would be a shame if people boycotted her work just because some newspaper published her statement without giving a context to it, which changes the meaning of her words 🙁 Fay says: Where is the freedom of opinion in the U.S.A.?! She just told her opinion. Milions of people and scientists agree with her views. Why does the U.S. – Media attack her for her outlook. Thats totally wrong & doting. They are overreacting. She is just an actress who explained her views to a magazine. I like Marion even more since this interview. Go Marion! I admire her for not retracting her statements. There is nothing to retract. Nowhere in that interview has she disrespected the lives lost in that attack. She only questioned the official report issued by the government. This incident is getting unnecessary mileage. I think, for the most part, people don’t really care. It’s just the media that keeps fanning the flames and using sensitive 9/11 feelings to pit the American public against her by using sensational headings and picking and choosing her quotes for their convenience. Have you guys read what TMZ wrote about her and the comments that were received? I try to remind myself that these people do not represent the whole population. Let me be the first to say I have always admired MC. I think she is the wonderful actress, so much so, that I own several of her films. While Marion certainly has the right to speak her mind, and yes I do believe the article is making a bigger deal of it than it is. We must remember that while you or I may not have lost anyone when those towers collapsed. There are thousands of families out there that did, and it still is difficult for them. And we must respect that. Just as much as we respect someone’s freedom of speech. Hopefully her career isn’t harmed by this but I do agree with Sissy what her agent said isn’t going to help matters at all. Visitors: 7 Users Online	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line264
__label__cc	0.634227	0.365773	Course Schedule and School Fees Student Handbook and School Calendar Certificate in International English Preparatory Course for Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) Preparatory Course for International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Preparatory Course for Admission to Government Schools Preparatory Course for Test of English as A Foreign Language (TOEFL) Preparatory Course for Diploma In Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Preparatory Course for Singapore Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) Spoken Chinese Basic Japanese School and Government Joining a Course Getting a Student’s Pass Studying in NYU Transfers, Withdrawals and Deferrals Dispute Resolution Policy & Procedure Spoken Chinese is designed for adults who wish to learn the Chinese language, especially spoken Chinese, to meet the needs of social and business interaction in daily life. This course is designed for those who have little knowledge of the Chinese language and also for those who speak Chinese dialects only. The course teaches Chinese phonetics in Hanyu Pinyin. Students will learn the simple, compound, nasal and head-compound vowels, the labial, dental, guttural, palatal, retroflex and dental sibilant consonants , and the semi-vowels and unit syllables. The conversational part of the course deals with basic words, expressions and sentences, presented in the form of dialogues about everyday communicative situations, e.g. making telephone calls, asking for directions and enquiring about public transport. Students will be able to practise conversations on topics like meals, marketing, entertainment and travel. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to pronounce any Chinese word with the aid of Hanyu Pinyin, and will have learned about 1,500 commonly-used words and expressions. They will then be able to engage in simple conversations. © NYU Language School 2010. All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line272
__label__cc	0.655717	0.344283	What is this page? This page provides a structured representation (serialized as HTML+RDFa) of the description of the entity denoted ("referred to") by the hyperlink that anchors the About: <Entity Label> text at the top. The data is presented here in the form of a collection of Entity->Attribute->Value (EAV) or Subject->Predicate->Object (SPO) relations. In conformance with core Web Architecture, the same description data may also be retrieved in a variety of other negotiable serialization formats, which currently include CSV, HTML+Microdata, (X)HTML+RDFa, N-Triples, Turtle, N3, RDF/JSON, JSON-LD, RDF/XML, Atom, and CXML. Why is this page important? This page and its neighbors provide 5-Star Linked Data URIs (Web Super Keys) for HTTP-accessible data. These URIs are powerful starting points for serendipitous data discovery using the Web's "follow your nose" pattern, as well as a key ingredient for SPARQL queries over HTTP, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, or XMLA connections. A single link from this page can be the seed of a powerful Web traversal, en route to discovery and exploitation of unimagined insights, using existing tools such as browsers, spreadsheets, business intelligence and analytics packages, basic report writers, presentation generators, project management packages, and many others. How can I discover more structured data like this? A variety of discovery pointers are available to users and user agents (software programs) that include: <link /> relations embedded within the <head /> section of each description page "Link:" response headers included as part of HTTP response metadata. Can I expose my own Web resources this way? Yes! Simply include entries, based on the example below, in the <head/> section of your (X)HTML page, whether static or dynamically generated -- <link rel="related" title="My Data in Linked Data form" href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<scheme-part-of-url>/<host-part-of-url>/<path-part-of-url>" The scheme part is the first bit of a URI, up to but not including the first colon (":"). The host part includes the port, if any, and is found between the double solidus ("//") following the first colon, and the first solidus ("/") thereafter. The path part is everything thereafter (possibly including a query part or fragment identifier part). For example, if your original page were at -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data -- the scheme part is "http", the host part is "en.wikipedia.org", and the path part is "wiki/Linked_Data". You could therefore provide access to a Linked Data graph rendition by including a <head/> entry like this -- <link rel="related" title="Linked data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - in Linked Data form" href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data" URIBurner.com -- a live service that produces pages like this OpenLink Data Explorer (ODE) -- a browser plug-in that enables you to browse and bookmark Linked Data pages via additions to the browser menus, both main and contextual ODE usage examples (Read-only view - Sponging disallowed) About: Embedded JSONLD-in-HTML Statement 37 An Entity of Type : Statement, from Data Source : https://www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/, described as follows: % of enabled meta-cartridges called: Meta-cartridge [execution time]: Subject of Relation Object of Relation Statementhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Statement https://www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/http://ods-qa.openlinksw.com:8896/about/id/https/www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/ nodeID://b732484nodeID://b732484 retrieved byhttp://purl.org/net/provenance/ns#retrievedBy https://www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/#rdf_load_jsonhttps://www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/#rdf_load_json container of Partners - MarkLogichttp://ods-qa.openlinksw.com:8896/about/id/entity/https/www.marklogic.com/community/company-partners/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line273
__label__wiki	0.879578	0.879578	GUIDEBOOK \| Manchester: The Complete Guide Out Now Jonathan Schofield's new book available here Read more from Joan You are here: Manchester Confidential › Culture. See How They Run, The Opera House, Reviewed Joan Davies enjoys the comedy reimagined by Warwick Davis and the actors of the Reduced Height Theatre Company Written by Joan Davies. Published on April 30th 2014. THE CLASSIC FARCE, See How They Run, is given a warm and punchy performance at the Opera House. The star the audience has come to see is undoubtedly Warwick Davis but the rest of the cast are an equal match. It is the first theatre company made up of entirely short actors – all in the cast are under four feet tall. Warwick Davis, the most successful short actor in Britain, used his success to found the company with the aim of offering a range of roles to some seriously talented actors. See How They Run, written by Philip King towards the end of WW2 is highly entertaining. Recent revivals have demonstrated how easily we can take ourselves back to a time before crystal-meth reverends and acceptable pre-marital ‘relations’. Built on stock characters: virginal gossipy spinsters, camp actors, cheeky maids and blustering bishops, the action soon becomes a tour-de-force of cupboard-hiding be-trousered vicars and apparently meaningless chases covered up by English middle-class good manners and tea, or eventually brandy. The Reduced Height Theatre Company Francesca Mills, as Ida the maid, is consistently superb delivering a warm, endearing, and slightly scatty character whose speeding around the stage and through doors suggests hidden roller skates. Francesca Papagno, disguised with tweeds and a plum-in-the-mouth voice, makes the most of her scenes as a gossip and unintentional drunk. There are strong performances too from Jamie John as a visiting vicar and Jon Key as The Bishop of Lax. Phil Holden is a delightful Lance Corporal Clive Winton, a former actor now in uniform, and Rachel Denning as a former actress and now unlikely vicar’s wife is a strong and entertaining presence. Warwick Davis as Reverend Lionel Toop is a lynch-pin, with a wonderful resonant voice. Warwick Davis as Reverend Lionel Toop Design and costumes reflect the 1940s setting and traditional presentation of drama of the period. The audience has come to see Warwick Davis with his new company, the Reduced Height Theatre Company. It is the first theatre company made up of entirely short actors – all in the cast are under four feet tall. Warwick Davies, the most successful short actor in Britain, used his success to found the company with the aim of offering a range of roles to some seriously talented actors. He’s succeeded. The cast are strong indeed and a short speech, full of short, small jokes, given by Warwick at the curtain call drew a loud and committed applause for his venture. There’s no tokenism here and cast and audience were delighted at the opportunity to see such fine actors in these roles. There are two ways to play farce. One way is to underplay it in the early stages, treating everything as natural and behaving with impeccable manners until chaos is unleashed. That’s my preferred option. The other way, popular with many, is to play for laughs from the start, pointing up potentialities and exaggerating the double entendres. As Eric Potts of local pantomime fame directs this production, it will be no surprise to see the second strategy employed. The danger here is that it can become rather laboured and just appear silly and repetitive. But the laughs are for real in the second act. This is Warwick’s first venture as a theatre producer and he says, “The formation of The Reduced Height Theatre Company is a dream realised for me. As a short actor, I am not always afforded the same professional opportunities as my taller colleagues. This new venture will tip the balance in favour of myself and the other talented short actors in the UK. In these times of equality and diversity, this will be a unique, bold and empowering journey.” Objective, so far, achieved. Thanks Warwick. See How They Run, Tuesday 29 April – Saturday 3 May Opera House Manchester Aadil Khan I enjoyed reading your articles it’s give me valuable information dvdplayerwindows10.com… thanks… I am an antique post authority and I now and then perused some new articles in the event that I… Depends on the arse. There are no excuses for arse-kissing.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line277
__label__cc	0.69735	0.30265	Podcast 139 - Whales and Birds Suck The gang discusses two papers on suction feeding among tetrapods, the process by which animals take in water to pull food into their mouths. Specifically they look at two papers showing suction feeding strategies in fossil whales and in modern auks. Meanwhile, Amanda finds new ways to become ill, James finds new things to get angry about, and Curt makes new, very unfortunate deviant art searches. The group look at two papers that deal with animals that suck. The first paper is looking at how animals with hair that live in the place where water can not be drunk got big. One of the thing that these really big animals share is that they eat lots of little food all at once by pushing it through a brush, and it is thought that they got big because they could push so much food through their brush at once that they could eat lots and lots. The study looks at the hard parts of a really old hair covered water animal that got very big, but it does not have the brush and so could not eat lots of small food. Instead, it seems like the animal would have got its food by sucking, and ate lots of food that was not too big but not too small instead by sucking it into their mouth and then pushing the water out. This shows that these animals could get big without pushing lots of small food through a brush, and that the brush pushing eating might have come from sucking first. The second paper takes small animals that can fly and live on the big water that you can not drink and sees how they ate. These animals eat very small animals as their food and people have looked inside them and found out that they would need to eat a lot of these small animals in order to live. It was said that these flying animals must have eaten lots of small animals at once by pushing them through a small space like a brush like the really big animals that live if the big water you can not drink do, however no one has ever seen these flying animals eat. The study takes some of these flying animals and keeps them in a room with lots of water for a while that is full of their food and watches how they eat. It turns out that these flying animals suck too, and they suck up their small food by seeing them and sucking them in one or a few at a time. This sucking is just like the sucking that the old really big animal with hair and no legs would have done. This also suggests that the flying animals do not need to eat quite as much as the people that looked inside them thought. Enstipp, Manfred R., et al. "Almost like a whale–First evidence of suction-feeding in a seabird." Journal of Experimental Biology (2018): jeb-182170. Fordyce, R. Ewan, and Felix G. Marx. "Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution." Current Biology(2018). Direct download: Podcast_139_-_Whales_and_Birds_Suck.mp3 Podcast 138 - Cambrian Food The gang discuss two papers that use various lines of evidence to try to determine what Cambrian animals (particularly trilobites) might have eaten. Which of these animals were detritivores or coprophagous, and which animals might have been active predators? Meanwhile, James tries to keep a schedule, Amanda finds a way to time travel 10 minutes, and Curt fights against nature. Today our friends talk about very old things with no inside hard bits that ate shit and also how stomachs grow in cute round hard animals with lots of parts. The papers look at very old times and how all things are put together living in the same place and how they all work together in this place and time. At first our friends talk about pieces of shit that show how very old things with no inside hard bits ate food and how that means they fit into this place and time. The shit is found in the ends of where the very old things with no inside hard bits lived. There are other animals found with the shit that might be eating the shit or also might be part of the shit, meaning that the very old things with no inside hard bits ate them. They also say that these pieces of shit that have a different kind of animal that has not been well known until not long ago means that these different animals were more like a good-to-eat animal than a not-good-to-eat animal. One of our friends falls asleep but it is not because the paper is not fun. Then our friends talk about how the head-stomach gets bigger in these cute round animals with lots of parts. They think a bigger head-stomach means that these cute round animals with lots of parts ate other animals and not just stuff on the ground. Lerosey‐Aubril, Rudy, and John S. Peel. "Gut evolution in early Cambrian trilobites and the origin of predation on infaunal macroinvertebrates: evidence from muscle scars in Mesolenellus." Palaeontology (2018). Kimmig, Julien, and Brian R. Pratt. "Coprolites in the Ravens Throat River LAGERSTÄTTE of Northwestern Canada: Implications for the Middle Cambrian Food Web." Palaios 33.4 (2018): 125-140. Direct download: Podcast_138_-_Cambrian_Food.mp3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line283
__label__wiki	0.553415	0.553415	View Privicy Policy iANSYST PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS AND POLITICIANS PROTECTING CHILDREN WITH ILLNESS AND / OR DISABILITIES ("parents-protecting-children.org.uk") was formed in October 2001 at the time of the House of Lords Debate on False Accusations of Child Abuse led by Earl Frederick Howe assisted by Lord Tim Clement Jones CBE. "parents-protecting-children.org.uk" is a membership organisation open to all parents of children with illness and or disabilities, all concerned and supportive professionals and politicians and others who would like to help. The core group of "parents-protecting-children.org.uk" are a loose alliance of parents, professionals and politicians working mainly by e-mail to raise relevant issues in Parliament and in the media and where possible to support families wrongly accused of over anxious parenting or similar forms of supposed child abuse. Our support for families has often been through helping parents to realise that they are not alone and in supplying documents for parents to show to officials in order to show that their cases are not unique and that these issues are of concern in Parliament and elsewhere. We hope that our website will make such information more widely available to enable more families to help themselves and each other If you wish to get in touch with us then please see the contact page for our details. You can view the page here. Membership of PPPC is free and open to everyone concerned as a victim of false accusation of MSBP or FII, or a supporter of those wrongly accused. We welcome donations of £5 (or more if you can afford it) to help with the costs of postage, stationery, telephone or maintenance of the website. Please write giving your name, address, e-mail, phone etc and a couple of paragraphs describing your reasons for becoming involved. Please include your donation if you are able to make one. We would also be grateful for any offers of help e.g. secretarial assistance, research skills, press monitoring, telephone support time and skills, availability to speak to press etc etc Our address can be found on the contact page. How to Donate of Become a Sponsor PPPPC desperately needs sponsorship and donations to maintain and develop this website (possibly to include a discussion board) and to enable us to provide better support to affected families and better information (possibly including training) to Politicians, Academic Researchers, Lawyers, Medical, Educational and Social Work Professionals, Journalists et al. If you or your company or organisation is able to provide us with money or with services or materials in kind please contact our chairman Revd John Alan Cox via the website or at Finchley & Whetstone United Reform Church, St Margaret's, Victoria Avenue, London N3 1BD. For specific offers to sponsor the website please contact Jan Loxley Blount (financial terms) and/or our Webmaster Steven Day (use of company logos, links to associated websites etc).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.778198	0.778198	Review: ‘Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent’ By Pat Mullen • Published September 7th, 2017Comments Courtesy of TIFF Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent (Pakistan, 85 min.) Dir. Sabiha Sumar Programme: TIFF Docs (North American Premiere) The personal is political for Sabiha Sumar. The Pakistani filmmaker embarks on a daunting task to interrogate the complex relationship and divide between India and her native country. Her journey yields both challenges and rewards as she reflects upon the currents that shape national identity and collective consciousness and, in turn, shape the lives of all the inhabitants within a nation’s borders. Sumar admirably covers all her bases while tackling the Indo-Pakistani divide in all its complexity. At home, she visits her countrymen from different classes and regions. Candid interviews and conversations over dinner, events during which she is often the lone woman at the table, yield a range of perspectives and experiences. The concepts of “Pakistan” and “Pakistani” are fluid, while ripples of fundamentalism signal that shifts of conservatism aren’t unique to Britain and the USA. Similarly, Sumar encounters Hindu fundamentalism on the rise in India. The director receives aid from her friend, Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin, to serve as her guide, peer, and ally while learning about the neighbouring state. More conversations and interviews ensue as the pair takes the cultural pulse with men, women, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and then some. Azmaish favours a journalistic approach that leaves something to be desired stylistically with its lengthy interviews and filmmaker voiceover. While it might be better suited for a feature 60 Minutes than for sixty minutes on the big screen, one cannot deny the significance of the effort and the merit to Sumar’s approach. This inclusive film puts every hue of green and saffron into the film that Sumar can find. The range of answers yields a difficult commonality between the two nations, namely that both Pakistanis and Indians recognize a decline in secularism, as rise in the mingling of church and state, and an upswing in conservatism that gives pause for thought. Sumar certainly has lots to consider and she offers her observations in voiceover narrative. These reflections outline how one person must situate her or his own beliefs within those of a larger cultural consciousness. They invite our own musing and search for meaning in an increasingly frantic world. Visit the POV TIFF Hub for more coverage from this year’s festival. Pat Mullen is POV’s Online Co-editor, etc. He covers film at Cinemablographer.com, and has contributed to The Canadian Encyclopedia, Paste, BeatRoute, That Shelf and other outlets and is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society. You can reach him at @cinemablogrpher View all articles by Pat Mullen » Review: ‘A Suitable Girl’ #tbt Tahani Rached’s ‘Doctors with Heart’ Review: ‘The Judge’ Review: ‘Snowbirds’ and ‘Eviction Notice’ The POV #TIFF17 Hub!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line285
__label__wiki	0.986847	0.986847	Yours Until Tomorrow (Gerry Goffin - Carole King) #26 Melbourne Single on Festival, March 1969, by Melbourne band that became The New Dream. Single on Atco, Cher's first on that label. Also on the 1969 album 3614 Jackson Highway. THE ACCENTS Single on RCA. THE FLYING COLORS Can't date this one. Late 60s? Single on Toronto label Barry. #34 UK Single on Stateside (UK). PAULA WAYNE Single on Colgems label. Single on Epic label. FLORENCE BALLARD Recorded by foundation member of The Supremes for unreleased album on ABC label, You Don't Have To. The album was included on the 2002 Spectrum (UK) CD The Supreme Florence Ballard: Essential Original Recordings. Unreleased June 1967 recording for the album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd, produced by Chip Douglas. Details at Recording Sessions For Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Recorded in the sessions that produced Irma Thomas's three singles for Chess, but Yours Until Tomorrow remained unreleased until around 1990. Another, later recording by Irma Thomas was released in 1986 (see below). Thanks to honeydhont via The Originals Problemsolving Forum. Single on Studio 1 label, B-side of Miss Highty Tighty by The Westmorlites. See label shot at Johnny Spencer's website. BABY RAY Single on Imperial label by Ray Eddlemon. Single on RCA by British ballad singer whose biggest hits in the UK were May I Have The Next Dream With You (1968, #8) and Love Is All (1969, #12). ALAN PRICE SET Single by former Animals keyboardist, B-side of Willow Weep For Me. See the Alan Price discography at the official site. On his first album, Release Me. DEE DEE WARWICK Single on Mercury by sister of Dionne Warwick. See also this post at my blog, PopArchives: The Blog. PYRAMID FEATURING ERL DALBY Let Me Be Yours Until Tomorrow Single on du Monde, B-side of Can't Wait For September (Goerge Vanda-Harry Young, #15 Sydney). Erl Dalby fronted Wollongong band Erl's Court who broke up after recording Can't Wait For September. Dalby finalised the recording with Sydney band Pyramid. References: 1. Ian McFarlane, The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock & Pop (1999), p.157. 2. Noel McGrath, Australian Encyclopaedia of Australian Rock & Pop (1978), p. 269. JOHNNY MAESTRO Single on Buddah label. Johnny Maestro was lead singer of two popular groups, a decade apart: The Crests (16 Candles, 1958, #2 USA) and Brooklyn Bridge (The Worst That Could Happen, 1969, #3 USA, a Jimmy Webb composition). BETTYE SWANN Single on Atlantic label. This was on Irma's 1986 album on Rounder, The New Rules. Previously recorded by Irma Thomas in 1967, when she recorded three singles and other material for Chess. The singles were released, but Yours Until Tomorrow remained unreleased until around 1990.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line292
__label__wiki	0.508333	0.508333	JOHNNY YOUNG & KOMPANY When Will I Be Loved (Phil Everly) #6 Sydney #6 Melbourne #5 Brisbane #8 Adelaide #6 Perth Double-sided hit with Kiss Me Now. Johnny Young: Western Australian singer, songwriter, radio announcer and TV compere, real name John De Jong. In later years he became best known for his long-running youth variety show Young Talent Time and the associated talent school, but his greatest claim to pop fame is for having written the Russell Morris classic The Real Thing. #8 USA #4 UK #24 Sydney #5 Melbourne #27 Brisbane #5 Adelaide #3 Perth Double-sided hit with Be-Bop-a-Lula in some places. #2 USA #32 Brisbane #21 NZ BRUCE MILLAR From the album Children Of The Rain (circa 1976?), also a single, by singer, actor and radio presenter born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). See his biography at the Rhodesian Music Website. Thanks to Lourens Fourie.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line293
__label__cc	0.544749	0.455251	The National Association of PeriAnesthesia Nurses formed as a corporation officially in 2002 with the inclusion of 4 provinces and one territory at its inception. The Steering Committee who worked towards the creation of this association became the first Executive of the association in 2002. Laura Van Loon became the association's first President, commencing her term officially as President in 2002, and handing the gavel on to Diane Buckley from Ontario in 2003. Past Presidents include: Laura Van Loon, Chair of Steering Committee, Saskatoon, SK, 2001 Laura Van Loon Saskatoon, SK 2002-3 Diane Buckley Hamilton, ON 2003-5 Joan Toms Winnipeg, MB 2005-7 Laura Van Loon Saskatoon , SK 2007-9 Paula Ferguson Toronto, ON 2009-11 Other members of the NAPANc Executive have worked very hard in establishing the association and ensuring it's recognition and growth, and must all be credited with the vision and creativity that is now the National Association of PeriAnesthesia Nurses of Canada. To get involved, please review the section, "Getting Involved" in the menu under "About NAPANc" and continue to peruse this website for further information.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.689499	0.689499	About Rashid Table of Article Titles United Panther Movement You are here: Home › Articles › US Prison Practices Would Disgrace a Nation of Savages: Texas—A Case on Record (2013) ← Texas Prison Officials and Medical Staff Kill Prisoners and Move to Silence Witnesses Demand Medical Care for Kevin “Rashid” Johnson! → US Prison Practices Would Disgrace a Nation of Savages: Texas—A Case on Record (2013) May 6, 2014 \| Filed under: Articles and tagged with: Texas Prison Conditions For the Nonbelievers How a society treats its prisoners not only reflects its level of civilization, but also reveals the true character and workings of its overall political system, despite how its proponents might portray it–which is certainly true of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). Here in the US, where mass brainwash has been developed to levels unsurpassed by any other society in history, few dare to question what the government says in praise of itself or in criticism of others. All the average person needs to hear is that some anonymous “government official said . . . ,“ and they faithfully accept whatever follows. But let one criticize this system, and they must produce a mountain of evidence and ‘credible’ sources in support, if they’re to be given even passing consideration. This is why this article, which follows many that I’ve written bearing witness to the foul nature of US prisons, will be based on documented government findings and records. The focus of this discussion will be on the TDCJ, where I’ve found myself recently confined and was sent by Virginia and Oregon prison officials in undeniable revenge for my various exposés of and involvement in struggles against abusive conditions and practices in their prison systems, where I was previously confined. It’s All on Record The record on which I will rely arose in a federal lawsuit that has spanned over 40 years and was first titled David Ruiz v. W. J. Estelle (Ruiz).1 I will often quote directly from the court’s findings in that case showing the heinous conditions and abuses in the TDCJ, which continue and which I’ve personally witnessed and experienced since being here. To Silence Those Who Expose When I first arrived in the TDCJ on June 14, 2013, officials acknowledged knowing my history of writing to expose prison abuses and litigating against and otherwise challenging such conditions. In turn on that very date, I was attacked three separate times by TDCJ officials while handcuffed, and assured that I’ll be broken or killed. They destroyed my address book, targeting my lines of communication to the outside, and have made repeated efforts to provoke reactions from me that will in turn speciously justify their escalating further violence against me, with the intent of acting out their threats on my life. I’ve never taken the bait, however. In just my first two weeks in the TDCJ, I witnessed and endured all manner of lawless abuses, which were the subject of my earlier article titled, “The Texas Department of Cowboy Justice: A Case of Lawless Law Enforcement.”2 Then by chance I discovered the Ruiz case, and, on reading its series of published rulings, came to realize that I was witnessing a long established and system-wide culture of open abuse, racism and terrorism, practiced by TDCJ officials against their prisoners, with approval from the highest levels of power in the Texas government. It also gave recorded proof that Virginia and Oregon officials had indeed deliberately chosen to send me to a prison system where officials were notoriously known and already inclined to openly use the most extreme abuses against dissenters, the object being to silence me. All of which reflect today’s general practice of US officials persecuting and terrorizing any and all who dare publicly reveal their lies and crimes, by making targeted examples of whistleblowers like Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and the unprecedented numbers of US intelligence agents who’ve been criminalized under the Obama administration for exposing official crimes. Not to mention the multitudes of non-imbedded independent journalists and news agencies that were killed and bombed by US forces and their allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, where US war crimes have been the order of the day. What they fear is exposure. Exposure that reveals the lies, hypocrisy and illegitimacy of this system and discredits them. Exposure that has proven to spark mass awakening and upsurges that challenge and overthrow that power. This is why Confucius (a shrewd advisor to oppressive monarchs) recognized that the one thing a ruler must maintain at all costs to retain his power is the trust and confidence of the people he rules over. Which proves equally true today, where discredited governments have everywhere been facing mass uprisings that have seen them overthrown or fighting their own populations in efforts to hold on to their discredited power. “My Enemies are the Nudists,” Says the Naked Emperor If US officials ever got their hands on foreign government records revealing abuses of the sort Ruiz found in the TDCJ, especially if it were an avowed enemy like the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, the world would have never heard the end of it. Certainly one recalls the wide publicity given (by the US and Co.) to Aleksandar Solzhenitsyn’s famous book The Gulag Archipelago, which appeared in many editions worldwide (he also won the Nobel Peace Prize). A book which has since been exposed as an item of false propaganda against the former Soviet Union based largely on rumors; Solzhenitsyn never tested the credibility of his sources and knowingly peddled sums of false information including about himself. Also the book was penned by others than just himself. That his life and works were largely manufactured and fabricated have been exposed in a thoroughly documented and detailed study.3 But Ruiz Isn’t Fiction Yet neither the world nor the US public knows anything about Ruiz and cases like it. However, US officials are quick to denounce anyone who’d claim US forces abuse prisoners they hold abroad, and dares one to even imagine that they might mistreat their own prisoners at home. But Ruiz blows the lid off this can of lies! Indeed the horror of TDCJ conditions and abuses were found to be so deplorable that the Ruiz court stated: “It is impossible for a written opinion to convey the pernicious conditions and the pain and degradation which ordinary individuals suffer in TDCJ prison walls. . . .” Ruiz—the Case David Ruiz filed his federal lawsuit in 1972 against the then TDCJ director W.J. Estelle (after whom the notoriously abusive Estelle Unit prison was named). The lawsuit challenged severe overcrowding (where prisoners under Third World-like conditions were made to live literally packed together into tiny cells and dormitories like sardines); lack of mental health and medical care (the vast majority of TDCJ prisoners–some 68%–suffer mental illness yet received no care, and medical care was substandard to nonexistent, leaving prisoners to suffer with untreated diseases, broken bones, etc.; in fact untrained prisoners often acted as medical staff); systemic beatings by guards and predatory violence and rapes of prisoners by other prisoners (at such epidemic levels that a climate of “violence and terror reigned”4 ); officials obstructing prisoners efforts to use the courts to protect their basic rights (including by beating and harassing them, obstructing attorney-client contacts, filing bogus disciplinary reports against them, etc.); abusive and arbitrary solitary confinement and disciplinary practices; torturous conditions of confinement in segregation; severe understaffing and use of prisoners (known as “Building Tenders”) to violently run the prison housing units in lieu of guards; lack of adequate food; and overall failure to provide safe confinement conditions for TDCJ prisoners, etc. That the prisoners were able to challenge the TDCJ’s barbaric conditions at all was uncommon, and turned on the fact that the Texas federal courts were suddenly willing to expend the necessary resources to accommodate hearing such a case, and appointed a judge from an entirely different district to preside over it, namely Judge William Wayne Justice. The court’s actions were part of the US government’s panicked response to mass uprisings fueled by exposures of its criminal practices at home and abroad that officials admitted nearly toppled the US government. US prisoners were a significant driving force in this movement, and were exposing to a horrified public the cruel reality of the US prison system, and the role of prisons in countering such mass movement. In response and in efforts to rechannel this energy, the federal courts began hurriedly opening their doors to prisoner lawsuits, reversing their decades-old “hands-off” policy towards prisoner litigation. After much stonewalling and maneuvering to sabotage the case by TDCJ officials and their attorneys (the Texas Attorney General’s office among them), the trial began in 1978 and “lasted longer than any prison case—and perhaps any civil rights case—in the history of American jurisprudence.” At its conclusion, Justice found TDCJ officials guilty of every charged violation and criticized the fact that they’d lied throughout the proceedings to the bitter end, “refus[ing] to concede that any aspect of their operations were unconstitutional, and vigorously contested the allegations of the inmate class on every issue.” ((Ruiz v. Estelle, 503 F supp 1265, 1390 (S.D. Tex. 1980).)) Justice was to observe that this “epic trial in 1978 and 1979. . . offered a rare glimpse behind the walls that so conveniently shielded free world society from the barbaric living conditions of many of the approximately 25,000 individuals then incarcerated in the TDC prison system. . . [from which he found a] staggering magnitude of constitutional violations.”5 Terrorists in Government Throughout the proceedings the TDCJ acted at every turn to terrorize the prisoner plaintiffs and their witnesses off the case. From brutal beatings, to malicious transfers and hounding them at every TDCJ prison they went to, to throwing them into the hole on fabricated disciplinary charges, to harassing those who tried to use the law libraries, etc. In one case, they had one of the prisoner plaintiff’s throat cut to “scare him off the Ruiz case.”6 Terrorizing the prisoner participants was so persistent that the court issued 5 separate orders against the TDCJ, trying to protect the prisoners and ordering the abuses to stop. The orders went ignored, and the Texas Attorney General, in cahoots with it all, appealed to the 5th Circuit Appeals Court attempting to have them overturned, which the Appeals Court declined to do, finding the prisoners were suffering “threats, intimidation, coercion, punishment, and discrimination, all in the face of protective orders to the contrary by the district court and our long standing rule that the right of a prisoner to have access to the courts to complain of conditions to his confinement shall not be abridged. . . . In light of TDCJ’s past record and evidence of continuing unwillingness to respect plaintiffs’ fundamental right to meaningful, unimpeded access to the courts, a detailed order for relief in this area will be required, and it will be necessary that TDCJ’s compliance be closely monitored.”7 Yet the abuses continued to such a degree that at the conclusion of the trial on September 20, 1979, the court ordered that all willing prisoner participants were to be removed from the TDCJ to serve out the remainder of the sentences in federal custody. “Eighty-one inmates subsequently elected to transfer, and all transfers had been accomplished by November 20, 1979.”8 On April 20 and May 1, 1981, judgments were entered granting broad injunctive relief requiring the TDCJ to reduce overcrowding, increase its security and support staff, provide adequate medical and mental health care, bring living and working conditions into compliance with state health and safety standards, etc., and a court monitor was appointed to supervise compliance with the orders. The Appeals Court made some modifications to the relief but upheld the judgment. But the state continually fought the case through a series of motions and appeals, and protracted negotiations that went on through the 1980’s. Finally, in March 1990, the court ordered the parties to negotiate a final resolution of all remedial issues, which took until July 1992, although the TDCJ had a motion filed in 1991 before the court (the US government jumped sides to join in the motion since the insurgent political climate of the 1960’s-70’s was long past), seeking to avoid any further remedial actions from the court, since they claimed drastic improvements had been made throughout the TDCJ, and that no serious claims of continuing unconstitutional conditions could be said to exist. The motion was denied. And in December 1992 after an evidentiary hearing, the negotiated agreement (consent decree) was accepted by the court. Ruiz—Round Two The state of Texas never stopped trying to end the Ruiz case to invalidate the consent decree. In 1996, they moved to vacate the consent decree lyingly claiming full compliance. A few months later, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act into law, which provided them with another avenue of seeking to overturn Ruiz. The PLRA alongside rulings like Turner v. Safley,9 was enacted to turn the clock back to the days of the old “hands off” treatment of prisoner lawsuits; since opening the courthouse doors produced a flood of prisoner litigation seeking judicial protection against abusive conditions endemic to US prisons nationwide. Part of the PLRA allowed prison officials to get courts to terminate consent decrees against prison conditions unless the prisoners could show ongoing unconstitutional conditions on a systemwide level.10 So TDCJ filed a motion to terminate Ruiz under the PLRA; necessitating another trial in 1999 to determine if unconstitutional abuses persisted throughout the TDCJ. The court again found that systemwide barbaric conditions still existed, especially in the areas of guards frequently and gratuitously beating prisoners (usually while restrained in handcuffs), prisoner-on-prisoner violence caused by conditions in the TDCJ, and psychological torture caused by conditions in the administrative segregation units. Up through trial TDCJ officials and their attorneys again acted at every turn to frustrate the progress of the case, refusing to cooperate with discovery and maneuvering to block the prisoners’ lawyers and experts from entering TDCJ prisons. The courts overruled these efforts. The conditions found to continue to exist in the TDCJ were again horrifying. The prisoners’ experts who observed and investigated the conditions in the units included Dr. Craig Haney, Ph. D., J.D., Dr. Dennis M Jurczak, M.D. and long-time court monitor Allen Breed. All of whom were highly credentialed in their fields of expertise and had extensive experience in monitoring and reporting on conditions in prisons, particularly in the areas of mental health care, conditions of administrative segregation and uses of force by guards. Each of them found conditions and abuses in these areas in the TDCJ to be among the worst they’d ever seen. Just Beat ‘Em Conditions with respect to guard assaults on prisoners and ad-seg were especially appalling. In describing the conditions the court found, I’ll largely quote the court itself: “The Texas prison system, having grown to incarcerate approximately 140,000 inmates in over 100 penal institutions, has instituted a complex web of policies and regulations designed to alleviate many, if not all, of the problems.”11 Yet in the 1999 proceedings: “the court was reacquainted with the culture of sadistic and malicious violence that continues to pervade the Texas prison system [and] violates contemporary standards of decency. . . .”12 “As with the conditions of inmate safety, the abuse of force has resulted not from deficient policies, but from the seeming inability of correctional officers to keep their hands off prisoners.”13 “Plaintiffs presented this court with a collage of inmates’ injuries—broken jaws, bruised faces, and broken bones, among others. These injuries were shown to be the results of wholly unnecessary physical aggression by prison employees. Unfortunately, the pattern of uncalled for ‘slamming,’ hitting, and kicking by corrections officers in the cellblocks of TDCJ-ID is so prevalent as to implicate the Constitution.”14 “Plaintiffs’ experts testified to the institution’s reliance on force or threat of force for the control of people. . . .They cited examples of force being used simply to punish or hurt inmates, and frequent pushing, shoving, and other unnecessary physical contact. . . . Plaintiffs’ expert Allen Breed, who had monitored the use of force in several other states, found Texas to be worse, in quantity and degree, than any other system he had seen. . . .Evidence demonstrated that inmates are being struck by officers with their fists—a practice deemed inappropriate by defendants’ expert witness Gary DeLand; and that they suffer other injuries from officer actions. . . . Monitoring, supervision, grievance, and investigations processes were found to be inadequate to curb the excessive use of force. . . .The court determined that in numerous examples brought before it, no justification for use of force by TDCJ-ID officers existed, or the force used was disproportionate to the circumstances. The prevalence of excessive use of force was held to be cruel and unusual punishment.15 “It is notable that in almost every prison and jail civil action which [Allen F.] Breed was appointed by state and federal courts, he was responsible for monitoring excessive use of force. This makes all the more alarming the fact that Breed found in Texas more excessive force, in quantity and degree, than in any other state system he has seen.”16 And the entire supervisory, grievance, and investigation processes within the TDCJ serve only to condone and continue such abuses. The court found that prisoners’ properly filed grievances on specific matter “were neither investigated nor thoroughly reviewed. The responses were often nothing more than standard stock responses [such as]. . . ‘your allegations were denied’; ‘no evidence could be found to support your claim’; ‘This office will take no further action in this matter at this time.’17 “Evidence shows that prison officials abdicated their responsibility in the area of supervision of use of force. Prison officials permit officers to submit overly general incident reports, which do not always accurately reflect the gravity of the injury to inmates. Officials turn a blind eye to serious injuries that are unexplained or suspiciously explained. It is notable that defendants never acknowledged that there was a genuine problem to address. The extent to which excessive force is used in TDCJ, combined with the inability or failure of the prison system to control use of force incidents, reflects what can only be described as an affirmative management strategy to permit the use of excessive force for both punishment and deterrence. It is clear that while [the Internal Affairs Division] goes through the motions of filing paperwork on cases, it seldom finds officer misconduct. The result is to send a clear message to line staff that excessive force will be tolerated.”18 As set out in my article on “The Texas Department of Cowboy Justice,” I’ve experienced this sadistic culture of official violence as both witness and victim. It should be noted that the proceedings in 1999 and subsequently were not undertaken to alleviate the ongoing unlawful conditions, but only to determine if systematic abuses still existed at the level that required Ruiz to remain active and the 1992 consent decree to remain in effect, even though it was proven ineffective in eliminating the culture of violent abuse and ad seg torture, which continues to this day. Amerika Definitely Does Torture Alongside this the courts found TDCJ’s ad-seg units to constitute “incubators of psychoses,” due to the conditions of acute mental torture inflicted in them. “Texas’ administrative segregation units are virtual incubators of psychoses—seeding illness in otherwise healthy inmates and exacerbating illness in those already suffering from mental infirmities. . . .”19 “The administrative segregation units of the Texas prison system deprives inmates of the minimum necessities of civilized life. . . . Texas administrative segregation units violate [prisoners’ constitutional] rights through extreme deprivations which cause profound pain and suffering.”20 “The most compelling testimony on the appalling world of ad-seg came from Dr. Haney [,who] is perhaps the nation’s leading expert in the area of penal institution psychology.”21 “Based on his inspections at Eastham, Beto and the high security unit at Estelle, Dr. Haney found ‘high numbers of prisoners were living in psychological distress and pain’ and that these inmates live under a ‘high risk of psychological harm. . . . ’”22 “According to Dr. Haney, of the perhaps dozens of prisons he has visited and studied in his career, Texas’ ad-seg units were ‘as bad or worse than any I’ve ever seen.’”23 “Dr. Haney reported one instance in which he happened to see a man removed from his cell after having cut the veins in his arms and ankles. Again, Dr. Haney was told by prison employees that such occurrences happened regularly. . . . According to Dr. Haney, ‘the level of desperation and despair in that particular facility as I saw it on the day I was there was unparalleled in my experience.’”24 “Dr. Haney also testified to the circular self-fulfilling purpose of ad-seg. Inmates in ad-seg are suffering such psychological desperation, he testified, that their behavior becomes worse and they become less able to conform to prison rules.”25 The court found Dr. Haney’s description of prisoners’ suffering in TDCJ ad-seg units “harrowing.” Here is some of what Dr. Haney described: “The bedlam which ensued each time I walked out into one of those units, the number of people who were screaming, who were begging for help, for attention, the number of people who were smeared in feces, the intensity of the noise as people began to shout and ask, Please come over here. Please talk to me. Please help me. It was shattering. And as I discussed this atmosphere with the people who worked here, I was told that this was an everyday occurrence, and that there was nothing at all unusual about what I was seeing.”26 The court also noted Dr. Jurczak’s observations “that administrated segregation [in TDCJ] is being used to warehouse mentally ill inmates in need for medical attention, and that the repressive conditions of administrative segregation activity actually harm such inmates.27 “. . . Dr. Jurczak testified that the ad-seg system is destructive to all its occupants. ‘I think it’s a very destructive system. And I’ve been in many, many systems. . . and I’ve never seen one as repressive as I have seen in the TDCJ.’”28 In conclusion the court found: “The level of deprivation of basic mental health needs marked by extreme social isolation and reduced environmental stimulation were determined to violate the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society. . . . Similarly, the defendants’ deliberate indifference to the risks posed by subjecting mentally ill inmates to extended periods of confinement in administrative segregation was held to be constitutionally infirm.”29 In another recent article, “Wasted Minds: An Insider’s Look at the Torturous Effects of U.S. Solitary Confinement,” I discuss the mentally damaging effects of solitary confinement on prisoners and give an account of Ellery Oliver, a TDCJ prisoner who has broken down psychologically under its conditions, and how his resultant behaviors negatively impact him and those around him. Since being in the TDCJ I have witnessed already five beatings of prisoners: namely, on June 28, 2013, Joe Laws #553289 was brutally beaten by a group of riot armored guards and literally had his teeth kicked out as he lay on a cell floor defenseless at Estelle Unit; on August 7, 2013, at Estelle Unit, Dante Roberts #698422 was beaten at length while unconscious and with tape over his mouth by a group of riot armored guards (several of them the same guards who beat Laws), he did not regain consciousness for nearly an hour and awoke bloody and covered in bruises and cuts with both eyes swollen closed and black; on August 14, 2013, at Clements Unit, Reidie Jackson #1164177 was tackled and repeatedly punched in the face and head by prison guard Matthew Snead while handcuffed (Snead also dug his fingers into Jackson’s eyes attempting to gouge them out); on August 22, 2013, at Clements Unit, Kendall Currenton #1562220 was sprayed with excessive quantities of OC gas then beaten by a group of riot armored guards during a cell extraction as Lieutenant Antonious Flanagan used his body to block a portable audio-video camera from recording the beating, leaving Currenton with a bloody face; on September 10, 2013 at Clements Unit, after being starved for nearly a week—being denied his meals—an obviously mentally disturbed prisoner, last name Recio, was slammed to the floor by Sergeant Andrew Gratz who jumped on Recio’s head/neck with his knees. I have also lived amid the exact sort of daily bedlam in ad-seg at Estelle and Clements Units that Dr. Haney described witnessing in the Ruiz case. I’ve witnessed at least a dozen suicide attempts, several where the prisoners cut themselves open with razor blades—just as Dr. Haney observed. One prisoner, Allen Haynes, sliced his throat open on July 6, 2013, at Estelle Unit and was merely patched up and put right back into the same ad-seg wing. He then just two days later sliced the veins in his arms open and had to be rushed, bloody and unconscious, from the unit on a gurney, only to be patched up once again and brought right back to ad-seg. The Same Ol’ Same Ol’ Nothing has changed in the TDCJ with respect to pervasive guard assaults on prisoners and the torturous ad-seg conditions and its use to inflict mental suffering and injury, and to warehouse the mentally disabled. The ad-seg units are literally saturated with prisoners on psychotropic medications. Thus the same inadequate method of “treating” these prisoners still exists as the Ruiz court denounced over 40 years ago, namely by administering frequent doses of controlled, behavior-altering drugs. And there is, as I have noted, the same “large number of inmates [who] resort to self-mutilations and suicide attempts, as dramatic cries for help” who only go “ignored or punished.”30 Another revealing article on the torturous conditions and effects of the TDCJs ad-seg units was written recently by TDCJ prisoner Kenneth “Haramia” Foster, titled “The Shock Doctrine in Texas Prisons.”31 Despite the ongoing savage conditions in the TDCJ, prison officials have incessantly tried to end the Ruiz case. Indeed, they appealed the 1999 decision finding ongoing systemwide constitutional violation. On that appeal, the very judge, Reynoldo Garza, who first appointed Judge Justice to the Ruiz case in the 1970’s implored Justice to finally close the case. The political climate of the 1970’s was gone, and he didn’t care about the indescribable sufferings of the prisoners. In a separate opinion in that 2001 appeal decision, Garza wrote to Justice: “I write separately to urge Judge W. Justice to put an end to this case. I am sure that the conditions that existed when the consent decree was entered no longer exist, and I am sure many of those affected at the time are long gone from the penitentiary. If any of the present prisoners have need for some kind of help, they can file another lawsuit against the Texas Prison System, but this case has to be ended. I urge my good friend Judge W. Wayne Justice to do so if at all possible.”32) But Justice was not moved. He’d seen too much. In spite of the limits on his power to rein in the culture of abuse in Texas prisons, Justice refused to close the case. He found “new relief must. . . be fashioned to correct the continuing violations of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.” And in answer to Garza’s appeals to friendship to end the case, Justice wrote, “So long as those conditions persist, the civil action will remain alive.”33 And while the vile conditions indeed live on, I’m told that Justice has since died. So when I hear and read US officials denouncing others as torturers, terrorists, and human rights violators, while promoting the US as a so-called model democracy which the world should follow and a leader of civilized principles, I merely look around me with eyes wide open. And often I think of Frederick Douglass’s bitter rebuke of the US in 1852 when he was asked to give a July 4th commemoration speech celebrating so-called Independence Day when for his own brutally enslaved people, that holiday meant nothing but hypocrisy, where tyranny was pretentiously denounced, and the “shouts of liberty and equality [were but] hollow mockery,” where their “prayers and hymns,” “sermons and thanksgiving with all your parade and solemnity, are to [us slaves] mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy,” and all nothing but a “thin veil” to conceal practices “that would disgrace a nation of savages.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. Dare to Struggle Dare to Win! All Power to the People! Ruiz v. Estelle, Civil Action No. H-78-787 [↩] http://rashidmod.com/?p+856 [↩] Aleksandr V. Ostrovskii, Solzhenitsyn: Proshchanie s Miform (“Solzhenitsyn: Farewell to the Myth”) Moscow: I Auza (2004). [↩] Ruiz v. Estelle, 503 F supp 1265, 1303 (S.D. Tex. 1980). [↩] Ruiz v. Johnson, 37 F supp. 2d 855, 860 (S.D. Tex. 1999) [↩] Op cit. note 4, pp. 1295, 1369 n 60 [↩] Ibid. pp. 1372-73. quoting, Ruiz v. Estelle, 550 F. 2d 238, 239 (5th cir 1977) [↩] Ibid p. 1276 n. 4 [↩] Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987) [↩] 18 United States Cod, Section 3626 [↩] Op. cit. note 6 p. 860 [↩] Ruiz v. Johnson, 154 F Supp. 2d 975, 986 (S.D. Tex. 2001) [↩] Ibid. [↩] Op. cit. n. 6 p. 979 [↩] Op. cit. note 13 p. 986 [↩] Ibid. p. 922 n. 112 [↩] Ibid. pp. 939-40 [↩] Ibid. p. 907 [↩] Ibid. p.910 [↩] Ibid [↩] Op. cit note 4 p. 1334 [↩] http://socialistworker.org/2013/03/21/shock-doctrine-in-texas-prisons [↩] Ruiz v. 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In addition to medication, there are things you can do at home to ease your symptoms, like applying a warm compress to your outbreak for 30 minutes every 3 hours to ease the pain. Do you send exciting and timely information to your special emailing group? How about joining the Rumor Mill News Yahoo Group and start sending RMN your emails? Click to join RUMORMILLNEWS. Most people with the virus don’t have symptoms. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Van Valkenburg , nude model stage name Locke Valentine, from Los Angeleas CA, is a rainbow-haired narcissist feminazi, shitty video game developer, a popular item on the menu at the fast food chain restaurant Five Guys Burgers & Fries, and internet whore who sleeps with indie developers & video game news journalists behind her (ex) boyfriend's back in exchange. As outlined in an article. This can make it difficult or impossible for her to get pregnant later on. Sep 24, 2019 · Herpes keratitis is the most common form of eye herpes and is a viral corneal infection. Bri x Chaun Recommended for. It’s only been a couple of weeks. Just sayin'. nope thought I have roids but after these pics not sure what I have, they are white in color,one is about an inch long the other about a half an inch in length both are away from anal hole by about an inch they itch like crazy and prep h or witch hazel are not helping, actually thought it was something that appeared after I got a strong dose of poison oak that blistered and blood stream got. "What am I going to do?" The nurse tried in vain to console me: patting my hand, then giving me an awkward hug. It says herpes is a disease of the gentiles. Apr 16, 2012 · My risks are likely even lower; I got genital herpes from oral sex, and HSV-1 is even harder to transmit to a partner’s genital region. Not only are you faced with a condition you have to tell your sexual partners about, but you may be awash in feelings of guilt, anger, shame, sadness, anxiety, or fear that you simply cannot shake. Here are three Home remedies which will help you to remove scars on your Face-: 1. When someone has a first outbreak of herpes, symptoms can be severe and may include fever, body aches, swollen glands, a discharge (women), burning with urination, a painful open sore, and so on. Ebola scare: Government shuts down U. To treat herpes, visit your doctor so they can diagnose you and prescribe you the appropriate medication, which may be an oral or topical antiviral medication. (On occasion, herpes simplex type 1, which causes oral cold sores, can be the source for a sore in the genital area. News Talk 980 CKNW \| Vancouver's News. They are the result of damage to the skin that has caused a discoloration of the skin or a loss of pigment. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is an infectious disease that causes the brain to degenerate. Nov 27, 2019 · Washington (AFP) – A pair of storms packing heavy snow and hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc Wednesday for Americans on the move for the Thanksgiving holiday. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. The 21 year old girl stayed with her friends family and she ended up fucking the 12 year old cousin. They also occur more often in men who shave their beards. This time it's Health Risks of Walking Barefoot Through Airport Security. If you talk about dating someone who shows acute symptoms of herpes it is that person who should refrain from dating, and not you, and wait the week until the symptoms wear off. The class action suit claims the "Summer Fruit" version of the. I honestly belie. It used to, particularly when I suffered from it nearly 35 years ago. Maybe they will say "okay," maybe they will nay no, or maybe they'll even be so eager that you'll wonder if they are reckless decision makers. Herpes zoster (also known as shingles; a reactivation infection of the chickenpox virus) In this case, the type of herpes in question is the genital type of herpes simplex. Just keep watching the pink coloured scar turn into perfectly healthy skin in about 2-3 weeks. I also tested negative for HIV and this is where I’m worrying. Mar 24, 2017 · Causes of an infected ingrown hair. 3k voters 19. Oct 07, 2018 · Tea tree oil is one of the most popular (and profitable) fads around right now. Relationships. Though our physical clinic has closed as of April 15th, 2016, we continue to offer services in our area of expertise, genital and oral herpes infections. While Brown hasn't commented on her health scare, she posted to her Instagram account on Sunday - after reports say she was released from hospital - to show off her "glam ready" bejewelled, leopard-print nails ahead of a dress rehearsal for the Spice Girls' 2019 European tour, which kicks off in. Although it does not look like an STD such as herpes. (my older sister’s experiences probably clued her into syphilis and herpes slideshows I’d be shown). STD scare? Just take your phone to the loo As rates of STDs among young people in the UK continue to rise every year, health officials are developing a computer chip that can diagnose herpes. Don't have sex with anyone during a herpes outbreak, because that's when it spreads most easily. Oct 11, 2019 · Influenza surveillance reports and methods in the United States - CDC Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Dec 21, 2014 · "The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough. When someone has a first outbreak of herpes, symptoms can be severe and may include fever, body aches, swollen glands, a discharge (women), burning with urination, a painful open sore, and so on. uk) (definitely don’t Google and scare yourself). Buy and sell electronics, cars, fashion apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras, baby items, coupons, and everything else on eBay, the world's online marketplace. How Long Do Herpes Outbreaks Last With Medication? Depending on the health of the patient and the type of outbreaks (primary or recurrent), untreated outbreaks can last from 1 to 6 weeks. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms confusion, disorientation, forgetfulness and headache including Medication reaction or side-effect, Alzheimer's disease, and Insulin reaction (hypoglycemia). Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. We bring you the list of the 10 worst job interview stories that have ever happened to hiring managers. Sometimes men write to ISNA, saying that they have a line down the underside of their penis, all the way to the anus, and they wonder if this is evidence of some sort of intersex condition. Last weekend; roughly 5 days ago, I had protected sex with a female who told me she had genital herpes but that she did not have an outbreak at. In light of the vape scare, what are some of the dangers that consumers do not have to worry about with PodTones? Unless it’s discovered that pot itself is toxic, there’s not going to be anything to worry about with our products. The core benefit of ART is preventing and breaking up dense scar tissue, also called adhesions. For a place that keeps your hair style on record and so convenient, they really got it wrong this time. Sep 16, 2015 · Ryan points out (and this is confirmed by the CDC) that condoms aren't 100 percent guaranteed to prevent a herpes infection because herpes is spread through skin-to-skin contact rather than through bodily fluids. Source: joydick. They're the ones we listen to - not corporate suits on Wall St. While we often think of celibacy as a religious choice, there are plenty of people who undertake it for secular reasons — as a lifestyle choice. In other words, 90% of people who have genital herpes don’t know they have it unless they get tested. "Collagen is the skin's structural fiber," dermatologist Dennis Gross said in O Magazine. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. Jun 03, 2013 · http://KATG. Of course, this is speculative as further study is necessary. Mar 04, 2009 · You are having your first sex with a man with whom you want to build a serious relationship. You can consume coconut. Dating with herpes is still as full of mismatches and red flags, or romance and serendipity, as it is without. Strangely enough, there are certain rules for the first night spent together. Sky News delivers breaking news, headlines and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide. As outlined in an article. Welcome to the Rick and Morty Wiki! Season 4 Rick and Morty are back on November 10, 2019! Pocket Mortys Gotta snag'em all! Now with multiplayer online! Characters Meet the Smith family and all the other weird rickdiculous characters. 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AskMen is the No. Aug 03, 2017 · Genital herpes; Genital warts; MRSA (staph) infection; Scabies; Scarlet fever; Syphilis; Lyme disease; Rubella; Impetigo; Bleeding disorders; Lupus; Kawasaki’s Disease; Ramsay Hunt Syndrome; Tiny Red Dots on Skin not Itchy Pictures. Does the doctor help or should i abstain from all sex for a year to fix this. It’s only been a couple of weeks. Circumcision is one of the most common and historic surgical procedures in the world, dating as far back as ancient Egypt. STD scare? Just take your phone to the loo As rates of STDs among young people in the UK continue to rise every year, health officials are developing a computer chip that can diagnose herpes. my kid: mommy will you sing me a lullaby? me: sure sweetie me:. Dec 21, 2008 · Katie Holmes health scare. This is a photo of a patient I saw today, who was applying Neosporin on his wound. It’s a skin rash not something that will compromise your immune system and lead to a painful death. Discover and Share the best GIFs on Tenor. I had no way of being sure. yekaterina petrovna zamolodchikova but your dad just calls me katya i’m the bright red scare with the long blonde hair always keep ‘em coming back for more you’re a basic ass hoe and it’s your time to go so bitch let me show you the door cause it’s me whose getting laid and i’m always getting paid;. autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN. If you are interested in a prescription product, Hims will assist in setting up a visit for you with an independent physician who will evaluate whether or not you are an appropriate candidate for the prescription product and if appropriate, may write you a prescription for the product which you can fill at the pharmacy of your choice. Like any medical procedure, there can be serious risks involved which are often overlooked given the innumerable rate of success. Jul 27, 2017 · 5 Ways To Protect Yourself Against Herpes Whilst there are a number of STD and infections we should be wary of, unfortunately some are more common and are therefore more contagious than others. Jun 10, 2008 · For contrast, the national average for genital herpes infection is 19%. The Alex Jones Show, "The Age Of Men Has Returned", October 2016; I'm never a lesser of two evils person, but with Hillary, there's not even the same universe. The virus causes painful sores on your lips, gums, tongue , roof of your mouth , and inside your cheeks. A new report from the CDC shows rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are at an all-time high. On top of the Herpes scare, the Health Department says they received more than 65,000 reports of sexually transmitted infections in 2007 (including gonorrhea, chlamydia, and infectious syphilis. Apply the paste directly to the areas of the face, chest or back where you suffer from acne and have scarring. According to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, …. Jul 09, 2010 · Liver Pain Treatment Treating liver pain is possible only by initiating with elimination of the possible causes of the disease. Jun 22, 2018 · The Herpes Bible. GirlsAskGuys is the digital community of trusted and anonymous friends where girls and guys help each other by sharing their experiences and opinions. Daily news about movie stars, music, fashion trends, beauty tips, recipes, lifestyle and updates about the world's royals families. That's especially true after its inventor, the late Dr. Why Should It Bother You? Getting diagnosed with an STI, even an incurable one, was never going to be the end of my life as I know it. Just when you have planted a beautiful lawn, you notice lawn ridges that ruin your picturesque setting. Many of my patients wonder why I only recommend Vaseline after surgical procedures. So in similar sense to a leukemia or lymphoma scare, visit your doctor pronto if you feel a hard lump showing no sign of dwindling in size or departing. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. For most people, being diagnosed with a horrible disease is one of the worst things imaginable. Predator Urine Scare Tactic. The interesting thing about herpes is that of the people who have it, only 1 out of 10 will have noticeable symptoms which won’t be very pleasant at all. May 08, 2019 · I’ve had herpes now for nearly 2 years which also means I’ve not had sex that whole time I miss sex so so much, but every guy I’ve ever told about it who wanted to have sex beforehand had suddenly lost all interest in me which I honestly understand not my fault if they don’t wanna fuck someone with a disease. The Internet is bursting with health claims for just about every malady known to mankind. Only in Florida does the government's solution to an ecosystem-threatening invasive species — Good Ol Boys versus giant pythons — sound like something straight out of a Syfy Original Movie. The role of human papillomavirus and herpes simplex virus in the etiology of intraepithelial neoplasia is discussed in this 1987 study.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.658729	0.658729	Latest shelter news from Glendale, Ozone Park, Maspeth & Ridgewood From the Queens Chronicle: No one is saying for certain, but it appears that the on-again, off-again proposal to build a men’s homeless shelter at a vacant factory building on Cooper Avenue in Glendale is on hold, according to Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), who addressed a packed house at the Juniper Park Civic Association’s meeting on Sept. 20. Holden said he received confirmation in July that negotiations were underway for a plan to erect a shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave. The facility could house up to 200 beds, he said, the maximum number permitted by the city’s Department of Homeless Services. At the time, according to Holden, DHS Commissioner Steven Banks told him that no contracts had been signed. As things stand, Holden said Banks is open to discussing other possible locations for the shelter, leaving the Cooper Avenue site available for other purposes. “I’m confident,” he told the estimated 150 concerned area residents in attendance. But, he added, “It’s not a definite. We have people who are ready to protest.” He promised to “work out the political end on my part.” “We’re getting close” to making a school happen, Holden said. “They just have to go through the [Department of Education]; they have to talk to other people.” A school, he said, “seems more likely now, it’s safe to say, than a homeless shelter.” The comment elicited widespread applause from the crowd. From QNS: Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan said that rumors about a new homeless shelter in Maspeth has been confirmed to her office from an unknown source. Nolan told QNS on Friday afternoon that the shelter could be placed at P.S. 9 on 57th Street — but other activists and politicians are holding their tongues. The assemblywoman also declined to disclose the identity of the source. Although city officials have yet to confirm this, Nolan worries the de Blasio administration could act fast to divert students – many of whom are bused in – and place “hundreds” of homeless people in the building. “I don’t want to see a homeless shelter on 57th Street, it’s an absolutely terrible location,” Nolan said. “The city hasn’t [followed through] on anything they said and we have homeless people in all the hotels in Long Island City on a small rotating basis. How many more area we going to take? I want to work with Councilman Holden, Assemblymen Barnwell and Miller… and I’m hoping we can all work together.” In Maspeth, 57th Street only runs for about a block and a half between Flushing and Grand Avenues and is mostly lined with warehouses, about five row-houses as well as P.S. 9. “When the city moves, it moves very quickly, and I don’t want to wake up next week and find beds in P. 9,” Nolan continued. Nolan also spoke of concern about a potential shelter at Summerfield Street and Wyckoff Avenue in Ridgewood. Ozone Park activist Sam Esposito made a Facebook post on Sunday evening in which he claimed a tentative victory in the Ozone Park Block Association’s crusade against the homeless shelter being constructed at the former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church on 101st Avenue and 86th street. The shelter is being constructed to house 113 men with mental illness. Esposito claimed that major work had stopped and that a change in plans by the city will be made public soon. “In closing, nothing official has been announced yet, but all indications point to the fact that we are NOT getting the 113 men, and the whole idea of a shelter, in that location, right now, is up in the air,” the post says in part. “I sent out 2 letters, again, to the owners’ wives this week and I hope they will find it in their hearts to convince their husbands, to do something else with this site.” Isaac McGinn of the Department of Homeless Services, however, said the city is going ahead with its plans to turn the church into a homeless shelter. Labels: banks, Bill DeBlasio, Bob Holden, cathy nolan, department of homeless services, factory, Glendale, homeless, Maspeth, Ozone Park, Ridgewood, schools Well this is the first time I've ever heard the city propose a shelter at a school building. What the hell? And how did Cathy Nolan find out about it before Bob Holden did? (Or did he just keep his mouth shut about it?) Has he released a statement? I saw him on NY1 about the Glendale site but there was no mention of this one. Ridgewood: vibrant! diverse! hipsterified! let's put a shelter there! That shelter in Ozone Park is happening regardless. de Faustio and his cult are only competent in the practice of lip service. Diblassio still blames the state and the feds for NYCHA's problems. WHAT A DICK !! What did you expect when you elected Holden? You thought DHS and the mayor would let this go unpunished? They will build this to make a point. If this gets built under Holden's term and not Crowley's then they hurt him. I am sure they have not forgotten the protests and things that were said. Get ready for Atlas Mall to be a homeless hell and watch the district go south after the homeowners begin selling in mass. Atlas Mall is near where Holden is arranging to have a school built. The Maspeth proposal he has no comment on for some reason. In the End, you are getting a shelter. Hope Holden didn't sell out Maspeth to save Glendale. With so many children in District 24 and overcrowded schools, I find it hard to believe the city would give up a school with seats to be converted to a homeless shelter. Maspeth already has 100 or so homeless men at the Holiday Inn. I don't get it? Is PS9 a school building that is not in use? It seems the city is building and adding on to schools everywhere,after all isn't our district the most overcrowded in the city.So how can PS be sacrificed for a homeless shelter? NYC has a homeless crisis with over 70,000 people,much more than any other major city.People are coming here from all over the country because they can't be turned down and we have the best benefits.There must be residency requirements or the homeless problem will kill the city. It was just reported that over 100,000 students are homeless or have been living in shelters for years. So it seems like they can kill two birds here by having a school and a shelter. Like the Gentrification Industrial Complex's plan to build towers with jails and apartments How odd it is to start seeing black homeless folk in middle village the last few months..... Please look at the online comments and ratings for this school, its not a gem to the neighborhood for sure. In addition this school is almost into Williamsburg at the border of Maspeth in an industrial area. Yes, it's great to say no to every location but they are coming no matter how we feel. Where are our local politicians with their list of acceptable locations, why hasn't the puplic seen these list so we can fight to have those locations approved instead of fighting after the city selects a location. Saying no we don't want a shelter isn't working, unless we as citizens sue the city to stop the right to shelter laws altogether and build no new shelters period. No neighborhood wants one, in a good area or a bad area period. To the last comment - I've noticed more homeless as well in Middle Village, Glendale and Forest Hills Glendale. I think even the homeless are moving out of the city and looking for areas where their numbers are less. on 71st ave by gotta get a bagel there was a homeless man with his pants down either peeing or wiping his poop up against the wall, at 3 in the afternoon on a Sunday. I'm just happy my kids were looking away and didn't notice. Traveling to work in the morning by the LIE entrance by queens mall to brooklyn there is a group of about 5-6 white hipster like 25-35 year old adults with 2 dogs living in tents and sleeping bags every morning. We see them waking up every morning and cleaning up the site. It's as if they are living a gypsy / carnival life and this is a campground. You see them eating and smoking and chatting - a real community. Cops have stopped and talked with them but i don't think they've been forced to move along even with the no trespassing signs. We are indeed becoming more and more like San Fransisco. The school is being MOVED, not closed, so the "online ratings" (which I find hilarious that people would look up for a special ed school where the parents usually have issues along with the kids) will follow it to Glendale. The point is that the DOE is begging for school space. They most certainly can't afford to give away a site they already own, no matter how unpleasing the neighborhood aesthetics are! Maspeth is going to get it. We are the dumping ground here. Makes me laugh the city accessed the homes here for a million dollars. Property taxes creeping up 6,000 and climbing. A neighbor of mine said he is gonna go homeless so he could just live here and as he said he has been paying into this so why not? As he said his taxes. He was serious about it. What next for Maspeth? 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__label__cc	0.716685	0.283315	Guest Info & Links: Robyn Spizman, Author Summary: Whether it's complimenting the cashier at the grocery store on her earrings or saying thank you to your restaurant server, verbalizing your recognition of someone else can be very powerful. Guest Bio: Robyn Spizman, Author Robyn Spizman is the author of Loving Out Loud. She is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and popular keynote speaker who has appeared in the media for over three decades, including NBC’s Today show more than 30 times. She lives in Atlanta. Book Title: Loving Out Loud Guest Website: Robyn Spizman Guest Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/robyn.spizman.7 Guest Twitter Account: @RobynSpizman What does it mean to "love out loud"? It's much more than simply saying "I love you." Robyn Spizman describes loving out loud as harnessing the power of a kind word. Whether it's complimenting the cashier at the grocery store on her earrings or saying thank you to your restaurant server, verbalizing your recognition of someone else can be very powerful -- for both the recipient and you. Her book, Loving Out Loud: The Power of a Kind Word, explains why you have the power to make a positive impact on someone’s day, every day -- and that it isn’t nearly as hard as you may think. It also helps improve your own negative self-talk. Listen as Robyn joins host Lisa Davis to share insights from the book, tips for loving out loud, and how you can be an active participant in a movement toward a kinder, more engaged community. Improving Vaginal Health for Postpartum, Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women Through Non-Invasive, At-Home SolutionsTBTCE: Living a Healthy Lifestyle with Oscar Winner Alan Arkin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line313
__label__wiki	0.574841	0.574841	HJH Libraries for All Program lwbubc: Hester J. Hodgdon Libraries for All Program is a Colorado-based, tax-exempt, charitable foundation established in 2003 to support the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca and to promote lending libraries in Central America. In addition to its ongoing work in San Juan del Sur, the program has developed a variety of protocols and materials for new libraries, and its “library in a box” program has helped service groups, church groups, and individuals to establish more than 27 new lending libraries in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. The significance of these efforts lies in the fact that historically libraries in Central America do not loan their books and there is little or no access to books and information for any but the very wealthy. paintedetc: Public Interfacial Gesture Salon, O Tannenbaum, Berlin (DE) by Constant Dullaart Using the online Google Docs Platform, a free web app usually reserved for spreadsheets and flowcharts, Cris Collins and 4 artists (Louis Doulas, Francoise Gamma, Micah Schippa, Laura Brothers.) from across the globe will collaborate in realtime on a single digital drawing. The progress will be projected on a screen in O Tannenabum, where spectators will be encouraged to purchase the current state of the piece at any time. This single-edition “snapshot” will be printed, packaged and ready to take home by the end of the night. After 30-45 minutes, the drawing will be deleted, its only remnants the individually-purchased prints. 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To our loyal users and fans, we cannot thank you enough for your patronage, support, and feedback (good and bad) over the years. Warmest regards, The drop.io Team An important update on the future of drop.io \| Drop.io Blog austinkleon: Game Controller Family Tree by Steve Cable Whilst playing my Super Nintendo the other day I noticed there were a lot of similarities between it’s controller and the latest xbox 360 controller. I wondered how these interfaces, that so many people use, have developed over time. So I did a bit of research and created an infographic that illustrates the key design changes and innovation SotC Movie Makers Want Film To Be More Wall-E, Less Scott Pilgrim fuckyeahsotc: Influences from Wall-E and advice from Scott Pilgrim are being incorporated into the making of the SotC film? What, what, what are they doing? I’m not entirely sure myself, but you can click through to read more! Based on some of the cutest and most endangered animals on Earth, Xeko Pals is the plush line starring the most popular characters from the Xeko eco-adventure game. Made with soy and certified organic cotton “fur” and soy-based stuffing, Xeko Pals are soft, cuddly, and Earth-friendly. Each toy includes a Mission Code that allows kids to join the online adventure at xeko.com. Hairy-Eared Dwarf Lemur – Xeko Pal Plush Soy Stuffed Animal : Xeko Shop – Xeko Cards, Starter Sets, Booster Packs, and Single Cards It’s an odd notion that to get the feeling of authenticity, you’re purchasing a mass-produced artisanal item. I’m still trying to wrap my head around that. Letterpress was a commercial art in the past, and now is rather twee and nostalgic, while also requiring the use of metal, oil, ink, and power. A Close Look at Apple’s Letterpress Cards – Boing Boing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line314
__label__cc	0.727275	0.272725	Articles from Academic Databases Scopus 2011-2015 Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/dspace/handle/123456789/32802 Title: DHA analysis in different types of egg yolks: Its possibility of being a DHA source for boar semen cryopreservation Authors: Kampon Kaeoket Panida Chanapiwat Mahidol University Keywords: Veterinary Issue Date: 1-Mar-2013 Citation: Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine. Vol.43, No.1 (2013), 119-123 Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the concentrations of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in DHA enriched hen egg yolk (H-DHA) in comparison with egg yolk from chicken, duck, quail, ostrich and crocodile in order to find a source of DHA for boar semen cryopreservation. A pool (10 eggs in each) of DHA enriched hen egg yolk and egg yolks from chicken, duck, quail, ostrich and crocodile were analyzed for fatty acids profile at the Nutrition Laboratory, Mahidol University. Comparing all egg yolks, the highest DHA concentration in egg yolk was found in H-DHA egg yolk (3.7% of total fatty acid) and the lowest was found in ostrich egg yolk (0.4% of total fatty acid). Comparing DHA concentration in all egg yolks (not including H-DHA egg yolk), the highest DHA concentrations were found in duck egg yolk (1.8% of total fatty acid) and quail egg yolk (1.5% of total fatty acid), respectively. In conclusion, H-DHA, duck and quail egg yolks can be an abundant source of DHA for boar semen cryopreservation. URI: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84876959597&origin=inward http://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/dspace/handle/123456789/32802 Appears in Collections: Scopus 2011-2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line321
__label__cc	0.68962	0.31038	Ladislav Prokop - violinmaker home about me my philosophy gallery family history testimonial contact Ladislav Prokop violinmaker. I just wanted to say how happy I am with the work you have done on my cello. The tone has greatly improved and I received lots of compliments in a quartet gig yesterday. Very many thanks for your excellent work, Best wishes David Robinson Just to let you know that I practised for an hour this morning and the violin felt so much better. Thank you so much! The tone is much more even and it feels much easier to play. You are a genius! JOANNA WEST Ladislav prokop is a genius luthier living in Edmonton, north London. His ability to set up and tonally adjust instruments is matched only by the playability and versatility of his own extremely affordable violins, violas and cellos. I cannot recommend him more highly. The bow is transformed! I had been struggling with it for sometime but I had not realised quite how much. It feels very different and the wobble 2/3 up has almost gone. I can now play with a flat hair in that place the stick does not fall to the side. I'm very pleased! Best, Juliet JULIET SNELL - LATYMER SCHOOL Thanks so much for the work you did on the viola. It's sounding really good, and is much easier to play (and looks a lot better)! PHILIP DARCY When I tried Ladislav Prokops violins I wasn't looking for a new instrument. After 20 minutes of playing the instrument I knew I had to buy it and this was when the instrument was just a few weeks old.It is continuing to go from strength to strength and I have been delighted with my very decision. The sound, resonance and responsiveness of the instrument in my opinion is down to his expert craftsmanship and expertise in violin making. GILLIAN AUSTIN When I first tried my own Prokop, I thought, 'This is the violin for me!' After a lifetime of playing indifferent instruments, Ladislav Prokop's violin came as a revelation, so responsive was it, so powerful and full the tone, so sweet and brilliant in the upper registers. These qualities in a new instrument were remarkable enough [it was then only two months old], but now, after several years of playing, I continue to discover new depths to the sound, and further nuances possible between string and bow. Anyone who has heard me play on this instrument has commented on its remarkable sound, and I have no doubt that I shall be playing on it for many years to come. ROBIN RICHARDS My congratulations to Prokop for his latest viola. I think it's a real 'cracker'. It has a complexity of sound rarely found in an instrument that is only a few weeks old. It is open, yet there is a resistance which shows to me that it has a future development which will be very exciting. Right from the start it had a sound that carries, and yet depth and presence which inspires a player! A great instrument !!!!! EDDIE VANDESBAR I have spent many years searching out the best modern instrument makers, and I am extremely pleased to have found Ladislav Prokop, who has brought something very special to the art of instrument making. His passion, years of dedication and deep research into the old methods of making have paid off, and he is now producing the finest results. His latest viola feels and plays like an old instrument, where you draw a big sound out and the instrument sings, rather than having to use a lot of bow pressure, as with most modern instruments. It has a wonderful tone and is even across all strings, yet plenty of character and carries well in a large hall. Tone and pitch stability are excellent throughout, so I don't need to take care of particular notes or registers. That leaves me free to play as I would like, and to explore the colours in the sound, which is why I use it for all my recording work. This viola is by far the best modern instrument I have ever played. PETER LALE Absolutely great service. Ladislav Prokop provides the best re-hair and he is always very kind and friendly. It is pleasure to come to his workshop. Thank you NAZRIN RASHIDOVA 2020 © Ladislav Prokop home about me my philosophy gallery family history testimonial contact // admin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line325
__label__wiki	0.549711	0.549711	RacingRacing NASCAR HomeNASCAR Home IndyCarIndyCar DriversDrivers F1F1 ESPNF1 HomeESPNF1 Home Schedule & ResultsSchedule J. Force extends record with 150th Funny Car win NFL conference championship best bets: Numbers we like on each game 2dESPN Betting Insiders KENT, Wash. -- John Force raced to his record-extending 150th Funny Car victory Sunday in the NHRA Northwest Nationals. The 70-year-old Force won for the first time since the Colorado event last year, beating Ron Capps in the final with a 3.971-second run at 320.58 mph in the Peak Auto Lighting Chevrolet. "It's been 25 races, since Denver last year," Force said. "[Crew chief Brian] Corradi and Daniel Hood and [Tim] Fabrisi have had to put up with me all year, not happy with the way the car steered, how I sat in it, not happy with so many things. And then I got the monkey on my back and it drives you nuts. You go to bed every night, but the monkey taught me so much, that you need to focus on your car if you want to do good. "I'm just doing stuff all the time and I don't even know my car. And you know Corradi and Coil said, 'You've got to get to know your car. You've got to live it, you've got to love it. You've got to study the drivers.' I said I do all that, but I wasn't. So sometimes you need a slap in the face. And that was the monkey that made me focus." The 16-time season champion won for the ninth time at Pacific Raceways. "Give me a good race car, I can race," Force said. "I may not be as young as these kids and a hot shot on that tree, but I can still get it done. I'm glad it's over and I can calm down now and not live with that, thinking you'd never get it. I know I've only got a few years left. I want to enjoy it. I want to have fun. And when you can't win ... I've been trained to win and it's just not fun." Force's first career win came June 28, 1987, in Montreal -- exactly 700 Funny Car races ago. Austin Prock won in Top Fuel, and Matt Hartford topped the Pro Stock field. Prock won for the first time in his career, beating points leader Steve Torrence in the final with a 3.875 at 307.86. Hartford denied Greg Anderson's bid to sweep the Western Swing, going 6.606 at 209.33 in the final round in a Camaro.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line326
__label__wiki	0.635504	0.635504	OSA Publishing > Biomedical Optics Express > Volume 4 > Issue 10 > Page 1978 Christoph Hitzenberger, Editor-in-Chief Volumetric imaging and quantification of cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture with intrinsic scattering contrast Conor Leahy, Harsha Radhakrishnan, and Vivek J. Srinivasan Conor Leahy, Harsha Radhakrishnan, and Vivek J. Srinivasan* Biomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA *Corresponding author: vjsriniv@ucdavis.edu C Leahy H Radhakrishnan V Srinivasan Issue 10, •https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.4.001978 Conor Leahy, Harsha Radhakrishnan, and Vivek J. Srinivasan, "Volumetric imaging and quantification of cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture with intrinsic scattering contrast," Biomed. Opt. Express 4, 1978-1990 (2013) Second harmonic generation Optical coherence tomography (110.4500) Microscopy (170.0180) Medical and biological imaging (170.3880) Three-dimensional microscopy (170.6900) Backscattering (290.1350) Original Manuscript: June 17, 2013 Revised Manuscript: August 21, 2013 Manuscript Accepted: August 22, 2013 Biomedical Optics Express Novel Techniques in Microscopy (2013) Suppl. Mat. (2) We present volumetric imaging and computational techniques to quantify neuronal and myelin architecture with intrinsic scattering contrast. Using spectral / Fourier domain Optical Coherence Microscopy (OCM) and software focus-tracking we validate imaging of neuronal cytoarchitecture and demonstrate quantification in the rodent cortex in vivo. Additionally, by ex vivo imaging in conjunction with optical clearing techniques, we demonstrate that intrinsic scattering contrast is preserved in the brain, even after sacrifice and fixation. We volumetrically image cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture ex vivo across the entire depth of the rodent cortex. Cellular-level imaging up to the working distance of our objective (~3 mm) is demonstrated ex vivo. Architectonic features show the expected laminar characteristics; moreover, changes in contrast after the application of acetic acid suggest that entire neuronal cell bodies are responsible for the “negative contrast” present in the images. Clearing and imaging techniques that preserve tissue architectural integrity have the potential to enable non-invasive studies of the brain during development, disease, and remodeling, even in samples where exogenous labeling is impractical. Optical coherence microscopy for deep tissue imaging of the cerebral cortex with intrinsic contrast Vivek J. Srinivasan, Harsha Radhakrishnan, James Y. Jiang, Scott Barry, and Alex E. 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Imaging was performed in an optically cleared brain, via the intact cortical surface (a), or via a cut coronal plane (b). The mouse brain for this figure was rendered using Brain Explorer 2 software (http://mouse.brain-map.org/static/brainexplorer). (OBJ – objective lens) Fig. 2 OCM performs quantitative neuromorphometry in vivo. (a) Two-photon microscopy, after co-labeling with OGB-1 (green) and SR-101 (red), depicts neuronal cell bodies as green spherical regions labeled with OGB-1 but not SR-101. Astrocytes are labeled with both OGB-1 and SR-101 and hence appear orange. (b) Co-registered OCM of the same brain shows approximate correspondence between low scattering regions in OCM images and neuronal cell bodies. (c) Automated software segmentation and rendering of cell bodies from OCM data reveals three-dimensional neuronal architecture. (d) OCM cell density compared with TPM neuron and astrocyte density profiles, showing better agreement with neuron density profile. (e) Cell density and spacing profiles computed from OCM data. Unlike conventional histology, these profiles are obtained directly from three-dimensional data, and do not require stereological assumptions. (See Media 1). Fig. 3 OCM, when combined with ex vivo optical clearing techniques, depicts laminar cortical cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture in three-dimensions, over the entire cortical depth and beyond. The imaging geometry is shown in Fig. 1(a). (a) Cytoarchitecture is visualized with a minimum intensity projection. (b) Myeloarchitecture is visualized with a maximum intensity projection and displayed on an inverted colorscale. (c-h) Individual en face images in the transverse plane show the expected trends in cytoarchitecture and myeloarchitecture, with myelination increasing with cortical depth until the white matter (wm) is reached. (i) Quantification of cortical en face myelin content vs. depth confirms the trend of increasing myelination with depth as well as the cortical myelination in layer I (c). (Media 2) Fig. 4 Contrast mechanisms were investigated by application of acetic acid. (a) Image of a cleared mouse cortex cut along a coronal plane, imaged via the coronal surface (as shown in Fig. 1(b)). (b) Comparable image after application of acetic acid show highly scattering centers corresponding to the cell nuclei. Registration between (a) and (b) was not preserved due to tissue volume swelling after acetic acid application. (c) Zoom of boxed region in (b) reveals punctate scattering centers, resembling nuclei, surrounded by hyporeflective regions, resembling soma. These results are consistent with the assertion that OCM, without the application of acetic acid, selectively visualizes the neuronal soma. Fig. 5 (a) OCM contrast, derived from optical backscattering, is sensitive to imaging geometry. Imaging via a cut coronal plane (as shown in Fig. 1(b)) reveals vertically oriented cortical myelin fibers, as compared with Fig. 3, obtained by imaging via the cortical surface (as shown in Fig. 1(a)), which visualizes horizontally oriented myelin fibers. (b) Example image of a Gallyas myelin stain, taken from the same brain region. Retrieved from the Mouse Brain Architecture Project (http://brainarchitecture.org/mouse/), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Fig. 6 A comparison of in vivo OCM without clearing and ex vivo OCM after clearing suggests that the clearing procedure reduces signal attenuation and blur. (a) In vivo axial signal profile around the focus demonstrates attenuation as the focus moves deeper in tissue. (b) With increasing focus depth, OCM after fixation and clearing reveals less attenuation of signal from the focus than in vivo OCM. (c) In vivo normalized axial signal profile demonstrates broadening as the focus moves deeper in tissue. (d) With increasing focus depth, OCM after fixation and clearing reveals less broadening of the axial signal profile than in vivo OCM. A broad axial signal profile is a possible indicator of detected multiple forward scattered light, which degrades image contrast. (e-f) In agreement with these observations, in vivo OCM contrast degraded at depths of ~1 mm, whereas ex vivo OCM with clearing revealed contrast at depths of ~3 mm (the maximum depth allowed by the working distance of our objective). Maximum intensity projection (MIP) images are shown to highlight myelinated axons. The imaging geometry is shown in Fig. 1(a). Fig. 7 (a) The lipid-rich myelin sheath has a higher refractive index than the cylindrical axon, leading to directional scattering properties. (b-c) If the axon is oriented in the plane perpendicular to the optic axis, backscattered light is detected along the optic axis (thick red arrow). (d) However, if the axon is oriented at an oblique angle, the amount of light that is backscattered and detected is reduced. (1) A ^ (x,y, d brain )= ∑ i w[ z( d brain , Z i )− z focus ( x,y, Z i ) ] A[ x,y,z( d brain , Z i ), Z i ] (2) M pqr = ∭ x p y q z r f( x,y,z ) dxdydz (3) { x ¯ , y ¯ , z ¯ }={ M 100 M 000 , M 010 M 000 , M 001 M 000 }	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line327
__label__cc	0.722123	0.277877	Princess Stephanie of Windisch Graetz (1939-2019) HSH Princess Stéphanie Marie Eva of Windisch-Graetz died on July 12 at St. Pierre Hospital in Brussels. She was 79 year old. Stéphanie was born at Brussels on July 17, 1939, the elder of two children of Prince Franz Josef of Windisch-Graetz (1904-1981) and Countess Ghislaine d'Arschot Schoonhaven (1912-1997). She was the granddaughter of Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1883-1963) and Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz (1873-1952.) This marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1948 and Erzi, as she was known to her family, married Austrian Socialist politician Leopold Petznek shortly after her divorce. Due to her left wing leanings, Erzi was known as the Red Archduchess. Thus, Stephanie was a great-granddaughter of Archduke Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium and a great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and King Leopold II of the Belgians. Her engagement to Dermot Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell, a Captain in the Grenadier Guards (1935-2009), was announced on October 3, 1966. They were married in London on February 16, 1967 and were divorced in 1973. (Dermot married for a second time to Sally Leigh (nee Creer) on March 11, 1976). Princess Stéphanie is survived by her two sons, Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (and his wife, Lisa Abadjian) and Alexander Windisch-Graetz (and his wife, Ann Charlotte Le Sellier de Chezelles), five grandchildren, Eléonore and Bryan Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell and Elisabeth-Marie, Otto and Hermine Windisch-Graetz. In 2011, Alexander changed his surname to Windisch-Graetz. Princess Stephanie was a gifted photographer who often shot her portraits using candle light. https://www.lalibre.be/lifestyle/people/cousine-d-albert-ii-la-princesse-stephanie-de-windisch-graetz-est-decedee-5d2b79b6f20d5a58a82b7d27 https://www.google.com/search?q=princesse+stephanie+de+windisch+graetz&sa=N&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS659US659&biw=942&bih=891&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=R3orWNiajdM4aM%253A%252CzBMHweT9p1SJeM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTlCjjOuE8IEdE__DnE0-NdazEWmQ&ved=2ahUKEwiTq4OLx7fjAhVYaM0KHfWmAQ84ChD1ATABegQIBhAG#imgrc=wcKt_jv_xw2RzM:&vet=1 Posted by Marlene Eilers Koenig at Monday, July 15, 2019 A sad occasion. Princess Stephanie was a gifted painter as well as a photographer. Her paintings of animals were quite exquisite Very,very sad. Go in peace my dear friend and paint the horses of the paradise... Danays Potolinca di Sperlinga said... Go in peace my dear friend and paint the horses of paradise... Danays & Dorin Potolinca di Sperlinga Debrett's moves online Buckingham Palace stands up for Chips The death announcement of Georg Friedrich Duke of ... A lovely Mail call Missing from Twitter The Death of the Duke of Hohenberg Remembering HRH the Dowager Duchess of Croy The Prince of Bismarck is dead Grand Duke Michael leaves estate at $371,515 Prince George turns 6 A summer photo shoot Exclusive: The cutest little Prince Princess Auguste, younger sister of Danish queen i... Olga and Paul arrive in London for a private visit... Shots fired at Archduke Franz Ferdinand Happy 74th birthday Crown Prince Alexander Georg Friedrich seeks right to live in Cecilienhof... Crown Princess Victoria celebrates her 42nd birthd... Two missing princesses .. in the Vatican The Queen in Cambridge & Duchess of Gloucester in ... Meanwhile in Norway the Royal Box at Wimbledon An overload of cuteness A Royal visit to Gotha Margaret Rutherfurd marries Prince Charles Murat Count Tono gets life for three murders Archie's baptism Details about Archie's baptism The reason for the murder -- a dumbwaiter? 50th anniversary of the Investiture of the Prince ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line335
__label__wiki	0.806437	0.806437	Scrawl Space Omitted Scenes ← TV Review: Agents of SHIELD Season 4 – “LMD” It feels easy, almost cheap, to say that Wonder Woman is the first truly good movie of the DC Extended Universe. But not only is that statement true, it also undersells just how great a superhero movie Wonder Woman is in its own right. Remember that brief, 2-minute spark of excitement you felt when Wonder Woman sprang into action in the otherwise moribund Batman v Superman? This movie takes that spark, fans it into a flame, and lets it roar for 2 hours. Wonder Woman understands how incredibly gratifying it is to finally see a sorely needed female superhero like Diana step onto the big screen. Much of the credit for this goes to director Patty Jenkins. A huge factor in Wonder Woman‘s success is not just having a woman as the lead, but also having a female director lending her vision and giving this movie an authentic, unique voice. It’s primarily that voice that makes a largely straightforward superhero origin story feel like a such breath of fresh air. Beyond that, Jenkins also delivers truly memorable action scenes with impeccable skill. Most notable is a big action centrepiece halfway through the movie that gave me goosebumps and stands among the best the genre has to offer. Jenkins revels in the sight of Wonder Woman and the Amazons going into battle just as much as the audience does. The humour in this movie is another strength, and it’s here that Wonder Woman benefits from the great chemistry between Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. They bounce off each other with comfortable ease and keep the energy going even as the action slows. It’s a welcome shift away from the humourless tone of the last few DC movies. Comparisons with Wonder Woman‘s DC siblings are inevitable. Take, for example, the overbearing muted colour palette of the previous 3 DC films. Wonder Woman doesn’t abandon the bleak filter entirely, but it limits it to the war-torn “world of men”. Diana’s home of Themyscira, on the other hand, is the complete opposite, full of vibrant, eye-popping natural colours. This is not only a welcome change, but also one that creates a nice contrast between the bleak nature of World War I and the beauty of Paradise Island. Similarly, there are slow motion shots a-plenty in Wonder Woman—admittedly a little too much for my taste. But where in the other DCEU films they felt self-indulgent and ostentatious, here they serve to highlight the action and the women at the center of it. It brings to life the the panel-to-panel feel of reading a comic book. Wonder Woman loses just a little bit of its footing towards the third act. The rush to the climax gets a little messy, and the final boss fight is effects-heavy and somewhat chaotic. But it still works, and does nothing to diminish the whole. Wonder Woman had a lot riding on it. On one hand, it’s the first major female-led superhero movie, helmed by a female director to boot. On the other, it carries the burden of a DC Extended Universe that desperately needed a win. And I’m happy to report that it is a success on both counts. It gives me hope for more representation in superhero movies, in front of and behind the camera. And it rights the DCEU ship, renewing excitement I had thought long extinguished. June 4, 2017 by Louis Leave a Comment: Cancel reply Like Scrawl Space on Facebook \| Follow me on Twitter \| Follow me on Tumblr \| Contact me by email \| Subscribe via RSS This work by Louis Ghanem is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. © Louis Ghanem, 2013-2015. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Louis Ghanem with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Powered by WordPress \| Theme: Mog by hndr	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line343
__label__wiki	0.760431	0.760431	Search for: [Keywords = Cerium mixture] The Effect of Aluminium on Graphitization of Cast Iron Treated with Cerium Mixture P. Kordas M.S. Soiński A. Jakubus K. Skurka Keywords Cast iron Aluminium Graphitization Cerium mixture The work determined the influence of aluminium in the amount from about 0.6% to about 8% on graphitization of cast iron with relatively high silicon content (3.4%-3.9%) and low manganese content (about 0.1%). The cast iron was spheroidized with cerium mixture and graphitized with ferrosilicon. It was found that the degree of graphitization increases with an increase in aluminium content in cast iron up to 2.8%, then decreases. Nodular and vermicular graphite precipitates were found after the applied treatment in cast iron containing aluminium in the amount from about 1.9% to about 8%. The Fe3AlCx carbides, increasing brittleness and deteriorating the machinability of cast iron, were not found in cast iron containing up to about 6.8% Al. These carbides were revealed only in cast iron containing about 8% Al.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line344
__label__cc	0.633919	0.366081	Countdown To Crowning RPDR Season 11 Winner…And, The Big... Heather Strange is….”Ruthless” May 21, 2019 Comments Off on STG’s 19/20 Season Includes LGBTQ Art From Taylor Mac, Dani Tirrell, Mapplethorpe & More Views: 597 Seattle Musicland, Seattle Theaterland, *SGS Recommends, Arts, Arts & Entertainment, Arts News, Dance, Gay 101, Legends, Music, News, Performance Art, Queer Arts, Queer Music, Queer Theater, Stage STG’s 19/20 Season Includes LGBTQ Art From Taylor Mac, Dani Tirrell, Mapplethorpe & More Taylor Mac returns to Seattle for the 2019 holidays! Photo credit: Little Fang Photograph There are all sorts of goodies, LGBTQ and otherwise, in the just released schedule for Seattle Theatre Group’s 2019/2020 Performing Arts Season. STG operates The Paramount, The Moore and The Neptune theaters in Seattle as well as teaming up with other venues to present a wide variety of performing arts throughout the year. And, you should note that this is their Performing Arts season of events that Seattle Theatre Group curates themselves to bring these artists and events to town…doesn’t include the many, many shows that rent the STG theaters for their local performances. One of the biggest announcements is that STG is teaming up with arts group On the Boards to present shows that are too big for OtB’s Lower Queen Anne theater. All three of the STG/OtB partnerships offer up amazing LGBTQ artists/subjects starting with Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), happening October 9, 2019 at The Moore, “which highlights the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe by blending his controversial images with live music from vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith” That’s followed by the return of rising theater superstar TAYLOR MAC who returns to Seattle on Dec 19 and 20, 2019 (at The Moore) with Holiday Sauce an unconventional holiday themed live music concert starring Mac with an onstage band offering up skewed queer versions of your favorite holiday standards. Taylor Mac shows are an unique experience (hint: Mac likes to make audiences interact…) so if that ain’t your thing… The cast of Dani Tirrell – Black Bois will perform February 14, 2020 at The Moore Theatre. Photo credit: Naomi Ishisaka The third On the Boards collaboration is with another rising star, this one local…it’s choreographer Dani Tirrell’s Black Bois which has been staged at On the Boards to great acclaim but returns to the much larger Moore on February 14, 2020. More on the show: Enter a world where Black bodies tell their own stories. Where Black love and Black expression prevail. A world where Black stories heal, grow, and transform the lives they touch. Featuring live music, collaboration with a large cast of local artists/performers, and installations, this performance project celebrates Black bodies in space and an emotional engagement with movement. Black Bois is a love letter to Black bodies, minds, and spirits. Kate Wallich + The YC x Perfume Genius The Sun Still Burns Here at The Moore on October 4 & 5, 2019. Photo credit: Agustin Hernandez There’s other fascinating productions scheduled as well including The Sun Still Burns Here–a dance and music collaboration between Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich and her company The YC and out musician/composer Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius happening on October 4 and 5, 2019 at The Moore. There’s also three interesting theater pieces coming to town: In the world of theatre, Tim Robbins’ company The Actors’ Gang performs The New Colossus, (Feb 20-22, 2020 at The Moore) a play featuring 12 actors telling their ancestors’ stories in 12 different languages and 12 different eras in a single narrative about escaping an oppressive homeland. New Zealand’s Indian Ink Theatre Company brings Mrs. Krishnan’s Party, (Nov 15-24, 2-19 at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway on Capitol Hill) a play that bridges cultures and expands boundaries by bringing the audience around the dining table and into an Indian-run convenience store to celebrate the Hindu holiday Onam. Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein (April 1, 2020 at The Moore) provides an immersive visual spin on the classic tale, combining shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, music and sound. Manual Cinema presents their version of Frankenstein on April 1, 2020 at The Moore. Photo Credit: Michael-Brosilow And, rest assured that popular annual series and events will return for 19/20 including Silent Movie Mondays, Seattle Rock Orchestra, DANCE This, Global Party, More Music @ The Moore plus the holiday return of ” The Hip Hop Nutcracker–featuring MC Kurtis Blow–followed by Mark Morris Dance Group‘s run of The Hard Nut, Morris’ lavish, gender-bent love letter to Tchaikovsky’s classic. ” You can only buy tickets to these shows as part of a season package at this point but they have DIFFERENT sized packages, so you don’t have to buy a 20 show pass so you can see the 2 events you HAVE to go see. Go HERE to create your STG Season Pass Package. If you don’t want to commit to a season pass, then you can sign up on individual event pages to be alerted when single tickets go on sale to the public! ABOUT SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP (STG) Seattle Theatre Group (STG) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization whose mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of the region’s cultural identity while keeping three historic venues, The Paramount, Moore and Neptune, alive and vibrant. STG presents a range of performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and jazz, to comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows – at these three iconic theatres in Seattle and venues throughout the Puget Sound region and in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit stgpresents.org. STG Education and Community Programs extend beyond the Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatre stages and into the lives of the greater Seattle community. Each season, STG offers over 260 education programs impacting over 55,000 students and community members from diverse ages and backgrounds. These programs deepen significance to performances through opportunities to engage with artists, inspire youth and local artists through training and performance opportunities, and provide exposure to the arts through access initiatives. For more information visit stgpresents.org/education. Tags: Black Bois, Dani Tirrell, Holiday Sauce, Kate Wallich, Mike Hadreas, Perfume Genius, Seattle Theatre Group, STG, STG Performing Arts Season, Taylor Mac, The Moore, The Paramount, The Sun Still Burns Here, Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) Get Saucy With Taylor Mac This Week Nothing Compares To Sinéad O’Conner Coming To Seattle Reminder: Bianca Del Rio Starts U.S. Tour…Comes to... Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors” Comes to The...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line350
__label__cc	0.54719	0.45281	The Voice of Virtue In 1759 Adam Smith wrote in his book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, “All the members of human society stand in need of each other’s assistance, and are likewise exposed to mutual injuries. Where necessary assistance is reciprocally afforded from love, from gratitude, from friendship, and esteem; the society flourished and is happy. All the different members of it are bound together by the agreeable bands of love and affection, and are, as it were, drawn to one common centre of mutual good offices….” Two and one-half centuries later this statement remains a profound truth. Repossessing Virtue is part of ongoing series produced by Speaking of Faith exploring the moral, spiritual, and practical aspects of the economic downturn. We've been contacting familiar voices of wisdom and insight, and asking them a series of questions about the current economic climate. Here is an excerpt from the journal of Krista Tippett as she reflects on her conversation with Parker Palmer. As the indicators by which we've measured our collective well-being in recent years continued to plummet, I found a story of Parker Palmer echoing in my head. He and I spoke years ago about his mid-life experience of clinical depression, about which he has written searchingly and made rich sense in later life. He told me about a psychiatrist who helped him move to a new level of healing by asking him, "Could you begin to imagine your depression not as an enemy that is crushing you — but as a friend pressing you down to ground on which it is safe to stand?" His description of the unrealistically elevated heights of ego and freneticism that preceded his psychological depression — an unsustainable, inflated sense of what is normal — was startlingly analogous with our economic present. And of the "economic terrors that now engulf us." Parker makes this plain but startling observation: "At some level most of us knew they were coming." We know that we can't live forever beyond our means, that unregulated greed cannot end well, that a cycle of prosperity that brings unparalleled wealth while simultaneously impoverishing an ever wider population will eventually yield to that imbalance. In recent years many of us have suspended this knowledge in favor of optimism and opportunities based on facts and figures — "the numbers," as my colleagues at Marketplace say — that presented themselves and that we have collectively accepted as a harder, surer reality. The knowledge we need to reckon morally and spiritually with the place we're in now — the commonplace knowledge that might have shielded us from some of the human wreckage that is being wrought — comes, Parker Palmer says, "from a place deeper than our intellects." During a bull market, such talk might sound sentimental, fanciful, and irrelevant. Yet as the numbers betrayed us, the talk even among economists was of a loss of "faith" in the market. We are given to realize anew that even in the realm of commerce and finance — as in fact science has been detailing in biochemical terms for years — human emotion and desire shapes our most concrete endeavors. The emotion of greed, the emotion of fear, are some of the drivers we can discern behind the Narnia-like illusions behind hedge funds, subprime mortgages, and derivatives that we accepted, for a time, as the contour of solid economic reality. This kind of truth telling — this correction, if you will — is sobering, but it is also good news. The numbers don't become irrelevant now, but we can see them more clearly, with their limits, and give due attention to other modes of analysis that complete and anchor our humanity. We can tap more seriously into the practical resources of vocabulary and practice that religious and spiritual traditions have mined for centuries. They offer language, as Parker Palmer displays this hour, that can invigorate and refresh our common reflection — thinking about abundance and scarcity in non-material terms, about violence and nonviolence in everyday life, and teachings about acknowledging fear but not being consumed and guided by it. Here are four questions which focus the engagement of this loving inquiry into our life together: 1. Are you experiencing this economic moment as a moral or spiritual crisis as well? 2. Do concepts of trust, of living in community, of what sustains you have relevance in new tangible ways as you face changed economic realities? 3. What qualities of human nature do you want to cultivate in yourself or your children? 4. Who will we be for each other? Servant-Leader Associates 510 Westminster Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081 610.544.1031 servantleader1 at me.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line351
__label__wiki	0.641338	0.641338	By Precision Into Power: A Bicentennial History of D. Napier by Alan Vessey “Essentially, this book sets out to reveal and describe the outstanding influence of the personalities and products of the Napier Company over two centuries, in as much detail as our factual knowledge and space permit.” Depending on your interests, Napier means many things to many people. From fast and luxurious road and racing cars to some of the storied aircraft engines, this venerable British company also made printing presses, coin weighing and stamp perforating machines, a centrifuge for sugar manufacturing, lathes and drills, ammunition-making equipment, and all sorts of choice bits of precision engineering. Engine folks, whether auto, truck, aero, rail or ship will be able to rattle off any number of history-making powerplants at the drop of a hat. Several factories, several generations of Napiers, fame, fortune, records, 20,000 employees—all gone today except for a small spinoff that produces turbochargers for the marine, power, and rail industries. Obviously a story worth preserving and knowing. Alan Vessey is a lifelong Napierian, having started as an apprentice in 1952 and spending his entire working life there and later as archivist of the Napier Power Heritage Trust. He has written several books on this important company but none of the scope of this one. Begun in 1990 and delayed more than once by the discovery of more and more archival material, its very detail may cause some readers’ eyes to glaze over but, really, thoroughness ought never to be thought a demerit. Founded in 1808, Napier’s activities predate those of other firms by so much that the book will surely be an eye-opener to those readers more familiar with Napier’s rivals and peers. Rolls-Royce, a similarly storied and important company, needs to be particularly considered in this regard. Vessey’s comprehensive history covers all this so we will here only focus on a few points that shed a different light on matters pertaining to aero and car engines to which are devoted two of the ten chapters: All previous documentation indicted that Arthur Rowledge, who later moved on to Rolls-Royce after a dispute, was responsible for the Lion aero engine’s design, the engine that won the Schneider Trophy for Britain. Although Vessey credits Rowledge with much of the development, he accords most of the credit to Montague Napier—this came as a surprise to this reviewer. The Lion also powered many land speed record cars (the ultimate being the Railton Special driven by John Cobb to a world speed record in 1947, a record that held until the mid 1960s) and speedboats. In 1931 both Napier and Rolls-Royce were in a bidding war for the bankrupt Bentley Motors and the dubious means by which Rolls-Royce captured control is briefly covered; reading between the lines one cannot help wondering how different the three companies would have fared if Napier had been the successful bidder. Moreover, and ironically, when Napier picked up the challenge of developing aero gas turbines in the immediate postwar years with limited success it was Rolls-Royce that took over the surviving programs. As an aside, George Eyston’s Thunderbolt LSR car is described as being powered by the R-R Merlin when it really was an “R” engine. The early 1930s are the Halford era in which Frank Halford acted as a consultant and designed the Rapier, Dagger, and Sabre engines. Having spent all of his career with Napier it is perhaps understandable that the author did not go into great detail about the Sabre’s woes and glosses over the assistance that Bristol gave (was forced to give?) for Sabre sleeve production. Development of a two-stage intercooled Sabre driving contra-rotating propellers offers fascinating insight as to where technology was heading. Of course this did not happen; instead Rolls-Royce developed their version known as the Eagle 22. Postwar developments include the incredible Deltic two-stroke Diesel. Although never intended for aircraft propulsion it was built to aircraft standards with regard to precision and light weight. Nonstarters, such as the Nomad turbo compounded two-stroke aircraft Diesel, are also described. Entering the gas turbine field late in the game made it a tough chore for Napier to catch up even though the company produced some excellent engines. Reading between the lines it appears that the slow decline started after about the late 1950s. It was somewhat reminiscent of the decline of Wright Aeronautical. Finally in 1974 the name Napier disappeared and sadly these days few people have even heard of the name. Appended are 33 pages of detailed listings of Napier products from 1815 to 1983. Index. This book is an excellent read and highly recommended. Copyright 2013, Graham White/Mike Jolley (speedreaders.info). The History Press Ltd., 2007, 2010 256 pages, 124 b/w illustrations, softcover By Precision Into Power: A Bicentennial History of D. Napier (Paperback) Posted Under: Technology \| Author: Graham White \| No comments yet Rolls-Royce 17EX, a Fabulous Destiny/ein Stück Geschichte » « Talbot-Lago Grand Sport: The Car From Paris	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line357
__label__wiki	0.905892	0.905892	2019 INSPIRATION GUIDE Costner, who made his way onto the film scene with Silverado in 1985, has been a Hollywood fixture ever since. Over the span of his career, the Oscarwinning actor has been lauded for his performance in films such as Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and The Bodyguard - then later gaining attention with The History Channel's miniseries, Hatfield & McCoys. He currently stars in the hit series Yellowstone. Costner lives in the area with his wife and three youngest children. (He keeps family close - his two older daughters live in Ojai and work in Ventura.) We caught up with the local actor about the place he calls home. "I could live a lot of places - I choose to live here," he says. "It's the perfect earth pushed right up against the mountain shoved against the ocean - it's just smashed right in here and it's our little paradise. The town has never outgrown itself. There's still a charm to Ventura. When you look at the hills, they've really held back development and I hope they continue to do that." Costner's appreciation of the area makes it clear that he's watched the landscape change and evolve over time. He's observed efforts to change it and encouraged efforts to protect it. "Our farmland is what is really the treasure and we're building over the top of it," he says. "We've got to figure out how to build up if we're going to build. What makes this beautiful is the thing that developers covet - flat land that they can build on - but really, this area has fed people for centuries. Centuries. And now it feeds people around the world commercially." It's not just the land that calls to him. The Channel Islands National Park, that epic natural conservatory just offshore, is a regular visit. "I take advantage of that ecosystem; I go out and dive, I go out and fish. I like to take people out there and share. The visibility is 60, 70, 80 feet - maybe more - and it's just spectacular. It's not like the water you get along the shoreline. There it's pristine and as beautiful as you'd ever want to see." And to think that these natural offerings are so close to a metropolis like Los Angeles. When asked about living just outside of the Hollywood mix, he notes Ventura's easy access: "It almost takes longer to get to Malibu from Hollywood as it takes to drive from Hollywood to where I live. When I first moved up here, I thought, how am I going to do my business? And there hasn't been anybody in the industry of Hollywood that wasn't willing to take the drive and see me," he says. "Once you get to Seaward and off the freeway - the 101 - and you start looking out to the left, it's a world class drive up to Santa Barbara," he adds. While Costner appreciates the spaciousness (and anonymity, no doubt) of Ventura's more natural surroundings, he often finds himself in town. "Nobody likes to get up early on a Saturday except my boys, so the perfect day would be me taking them to the Ventura Pier, letting them fish, then meeting their mom and their little sister for lunch. Then maybe heading off to Patagonia - they all have fun inside that store. I also enjoy all the different parks. I go watch them play the same way my parents watched me." When the Thomas Fire roared through Ventura in December 2017, Costner was at the ready to help. "You know, communities pull together for a moment," he says, "the reason you do that is for people to know that they're not in it alone, even though they're going through it alone." One such effort: the Thomas Fire Benefit Festival in February, 2018, with a concert that featured well-known musical acts like Super Duper Kyle, Olivia Newton John, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Colbie Caillat, and Costner's own band, Kevin Costner & Modern West, to help raise money for fire victims. "The hard work, the tragedy - the loss - never goes away for people," he says, adding "There are people who would like to help in whatever way that they can. Ventura came together and did that."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line361
__label__cc	0.703533	0.296467	Privacy and Cookies Policies Jack Sarfatti's Blog Blog (Full Text Display) Weird Desk Science News (2010) Weird Desk (2010) UFO Sightings Map Privacy, Cookies and Terms You are here: Home News Science The Navy's Secretive And Revolutionary Program To Project False Fleets From Drone Swarms The Navy's Secretive And Revolutionary Program To Project False Fleets From Drone Swarms The U.S. Navy has been quietly developing what could be one of the most important, transformative, and fascinating advances in naval combat, and warfare in general, in years. This new electronic warfare "system of systems" has been clandestinely refined over the last five years and judging from the Navy's own budgetary documents, it may be operational soon, if it isn't already. This secretive new electronic warfare "ecosystem" is known as Netted Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against Integrated Sensors, or NEMESIS. NEMESIS is not just some 'paper program.' From publicly available, but obscure documents we've collected, it's clear that, for years, the Navy has been developing and integrating multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and communication technologies to give it the ability to project what is, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and submarines. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above and below the ocean's surface. As a result, this networked and cooperative electronic warfare concept brings an unprecedented level of guileful fidelity to the fight. It's not just about disrupting the enemy's capabilities or confusing them at a command and control level, but also about making their sensors tell them the same falsehoods across large swathes of the battlespace. Written by Kim Burrafato	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line363
__label__wiki	0.842667	0.842667	Free the Chief Justice Written by Herman Tiu Laurel Monday Free the Chief Justice Written by Herman Tiu Laurel Since the gates opened on the jockeying for the position of Philippine Supreme Court (SC) chief justice (CJ), the horses that have entered the race have reached ridiculous numbers. That was the prevailing sentiment we got over lunch with some media men and politicos, where one top editor of a major daily even exclaimed, “How many are now in the race? Sixty? The noise in the jostling for the CJ post is now like a market place!” It happened just a day after lawyers Bono Adaza and Alan Paguia, along with Jojo Borja and myself, filed a petition before the SC — at the height of last week’s rains — for it to issue a “Certiorari and Prohibition with a Prayer for a TRO, Writ of Preliminary versus President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III and the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)” to stop the continuing malpractice of the presidential appointment of the chief magistrate, which debases and subjugates the highest judicial official of the land and the supposedly independent body he or she leads. Sadly, there were no press or media people who covered the filing last Tuesday, partly due to the heavy rains and widespread flooding. The chief of reporters of Destiny Cable’s Global News Network (GNN), for instance, texted that his people were constrained from covering the event as they were assigned to various flood relief centers. And while the same must have been true for the other media outfits, we decided to bring the campaign to the media kapihans in order to better inform the public on the issues involved. At the Friday Rembrandt media forum, both Adaza and Paguia presented the case while I distributed a press statement announcing the launching of the Movement for Chief Justice Independence (MCJI), a campaign to generate public awareness and support for freeing the Chief Justice from presidential influence and control through the current malpractice of presidential appointment. While the petition was jumpstarted when a number of volunteers pitched in for the cost of its filing, the media support was even more impressive. In all the forums we pitched this proposal to, we never failed to elicit the support of all those in attendance. On the legal question, Adaza and Paguia presented indisputable evidence by first citing the provisions of the Constitution and then asking any doubters to point to any statement assigning to the JBC the power to nominate and to the President the power to appoint the CJ. As Paguia repeatedly stresses, since it is a question of fact, all the legal doubters need to do is point to any constitutional proviso that grants such powers — when, in fact, there is absolutely none. Thus, Adaza writes, “The reason why other Presidents got away with violating the Constitution is due to the fact that no citizen had questioned their authority. Now, there are citizens who are concerned with the rape of the Constitution by public officials and the drift of the rule of law in this country, that there is need to stop this unconstitutional practice in the national interest.” To this writer’s surprise, some newspapers carried the item last Friday suggesting that our petition was dismissed, with some even saying “one down, two to go,” referring to the three petitions questioning the current conduct of the nominations by the JBC. If that were true, it would only indicate uncharacteristic haste and, therefore, betray a fear of something in our petition — for how could it be dismissed in three days when the SC justices hardly have enough time to study the many petitions pending before them for close to six months? Thankfully, a careful reading indicates that only the petition of a certain Famela Dulay, whose arguments do not coincide with ours, has been dismissed, which means that our fight goes on. Ever since we aired our appeal for support, many more have come to our aid. In addition to all those we acknowledged in a previous column, our heartfelt thanks also go out to Mr. Poem Gratela, as well as a doctor and a rural banker who requested not to be named. We also thank this donor from Bicol who thoughtfully sent us delicacies from his native province. Rest assured that your being part of this movement fuels us to continue pursuing this case. And as we await official action, we will never be deterred by any attempt at misinformation or disinformation. The logic of ending the malpractice of the President appointing the CJ must prevail if we are to uphold the independence of the Judiciary and the principles of “separation of powers” and “checks-and-balance.” Only then can we begin to enhance the dream of an authentic democracy for our nation. Even so, there are other advocacies that we must take the cudgels for, such as the water issue. Last Saturday, we heard the presentation of Gloria Dalida and Rodolfo Javellana Jr. of Water for All Refund Movement (Warm) on their petition vs Manny Pangilinan, the Consunji Group, and a long list of respondents on the scam in our privatized water services, which is as huge a scam as that in the power sector. Hopefully, we’ll have them on our GNN show in the coming days to link them up with all our fellow electricity advocates. So as we jostle in the legal arena, there must be similar action in other fronts to make for a holistic and authentic democratic order. Our nation must unite against the exploitation and oppression of the local and global oligarchs, who conspire to squeeze the people into abject poverty and helpless prostration. We must not wait any longer. (Watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., this week with senatorial candidate Joey de Venecia; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com) (Reprinted with permission from Ka Mentong) URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1287-free-the-chief-justice Mining the miners The still unseen Palace executive order (EO) on the mining industry is several things to different interests. To mining companies, the EO is long-delayed that resulted in the stunting of growth in an industry that has the potential of earning for the country hundreds of billions of dollars. To those opposed to harsh effects of big-scale mining, the time it took for Noynoy to finally come up with the EO is testament that it will be greatly watered down when it is finally unveiled to the public. The EO fleshes out the policy of the administration of Noynoy for an industry that has long been a paradox for many past administrations. The influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the crafting of any policy on mining is a given and interest groups, legitimate or otherwise, run to the prelates to have their voices heard by the government on issues related to mining operations. Mining companies, which mostly have giant world prospectors as partners, believe that they are sitting on a literal trove of mineral riches that are unequaled in any part of the world..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/1291-mining-the-miners Show of force: Syria conducts major drills amid Western pressure (VIDEO) Syria`s military has launched a series of large-scale exercises starting with naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. The move is thought to be targeted at the West to demonstrate Syria`s capacity to defend its borders. On Saturday Syria`s naval forces engaged in a military exercise whereby they repelled an aggressive attack at sea. The warships in tandem with launch vehicles fired several missiles, all of which hit their targets with high precision, the country`s SANA agency reports. The exercise was attended by high profile military officials, including Syria`s Defense Minister Gen. Dawood Rajha. Air and ground forces are also expected to join the exercise, which will continue over the next few days..... MORE URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-major-military-exercise-674/ Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solution - Annan (w/ Video) Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solution - Annan Kofi Annan said on Saturday that despite Washington’s harsh rhetoric, there was ‘no alternative’ to Russia’s participation in a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis. He also said Iran was ‘an actor that cannot be ignored’. In an interview with Le Monde on Saturday, UN special Syrian Envoy Kofi Annan said that the “evidence suggests his plans for peace had not yet succeeded”, and that there was “no guarantee” that negotiations would ever be successful. He also, however, stressed that there was no other alternative besides cooperation on a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the crisis..... MORE URL: http://www.rt.com/news/russia-iran-syria-annan-664/ Deadly mix at Smokey Mountain Written by Jonathan de la Cruz Instead of the promised multibillion-peso redevelopment of that sorry blot called Smokey Mountain after Edsa I, what we have is a monument to folly. Far from being transformed into a dynamic enclave of the empowered dis-possessed, it has turned for the worse. Instead of just hosting a “mountain of garbage,” it now also hosts a “coal mountain” as Agham party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones exposed recently. Worse, the residents of the unfinished model community now have to contend with paying exorbitant fees for their basic utilities like power and water courtesy of the concessionaires which were only too happy to “re-connect” the families to the basics at the cost of an arm and a leg. It appears that only the contractor/developer — the Reghis Romero Group of Companies — not the residents has its fortunes turn for the better. Such has been the sad turn of events that the Romero Group has been able to parlay that original contract into multibillion-peso other joint ventures with government including, by some magical arrangement, putting up a coal yard at its reclaimed Harbour Centre despite the existing Writ of Kalikasan issued by the Supreme Court on such undertakings within the Manila Bay influenced areas..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1288-deadly-mix-at-smokey-mountain Crying for justice Written by Charlie V. Manalo Tuesday, 10 July 2012 Crying for justice Written by Charlie V. Manalo Just when they thought they had finally claimed justice, compensated for the long years of work they had rendered the now defunct Pantranco, union members of the Pantanco Employees Association (PEA) and the Pantranco Retrenched Employees Association (PANREA) suffered another stab in the back, ironically coming from the very institution supposed to protect them: the government of the republic. Last May 21, after almost three decades of trying to claim their separation pay from the defunct bus line, members of the PEA and the PANREA were finally able to dispose of Pantranco’s 489 expired bus franchises which they had acquired a payment for their claims from the company sequestered by the government during the term of President Noynoy Aquino’s late mother, Cory Aquino, to several bus companies, owned by the Hernandez family. However, as the sale of the expired franchises had time and again, since 1993, been denied by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), the latest of which was in Jan. 5 this year, the sale had been questioned, prompting Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas to enter the picture and blocked the sale. Reportedly, Roxas blocked the sale of the expired bus franchises based on the provisions of the law prohibiting the trade of franchises commercially. Again, legal minds are one in saying franchise is merely a privilege and not a commodity..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1338-crying-for-justice Watering down the Milk Code By CHERYLL D. FIEL DAVAO CITY — The phrase “breast milk is still best for babies” has become a byword in commercials and labels on infant formula milk thanks to the Milk Code which mandates this marking on the packaging of formula milk. The Milk Code, known as Executive Order 51, is now on its 25th year. The Code encourages the practice of breastfeeding for infants. A study shows that four of 10 mothers provide their infants breast milk, a practice that health experts cite to have reduced infant mortality and increased protection from illnesses. The Code also limits marketing and commercials of formula milk to children aged three and up. But these labels might soon be erased as House Bill 3396 seeks among others to amend restrictions in the Code and allow aggressive marketing of infant formula milk catering to infants as young as six months. The amendments have breastfeeding advocates in Davao fighting to stop the bill. Mommy Sense, a Davao-based breastfeeding support group gathered last June 16 to point out that the bill may erode the gains in the advocacy on breastfeeding and add burden to Filipino families to put up with the cost of formula milk. The draft bill, “An Act Promoting Comprehensive Program on Breastfeeding Practices and Regulating the Trade, Marketing and Promotions of Certain foods for Infants and Children,” has the following amendments: • removing marketing restrictions on formula milk products • removing the mandated labels on milk products that promote breast milk and cite the dangers of formula feeding • disentitle working mothers in which their salaries will be deducted due to lactation breaks of 40 minutes per day • allow direct advertising or giving of samples or supplies in hospitals and other health institutions, or mother-baby events. Alexandria Hao and Lyn Tan, co-founders of Mommy Sense, said these amendments undermine the benefits of breast milk which are far and wide..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/06/watering-down-the-milk-code/ Arman: caring brother, conscientious activist, defender of the oppressed Ka Arman: caring brother, conscientious activist, defender of the oppressed Arman Albarillo dedicated his life to caring for his family, but the extrajudicial killing of his parents by soldiers led to his political awakening, which made him embrace an extended family: the oppressed. MANILA – Nanay Pacing, a petite woman in her 50s, broke into tears as though she lost a son. “It is difficult to accept that we have lost him,” the old woman said at the wake of Arman Albarillo, former secretary-general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Southern Tagalog (Bayan-ST) and in 2009, a New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla who died in an encounter last June 30 in San Andres, Quezon, south of Manila. “It is because of him that we still have a roof above our heads,” Nanay Pacing, one of the residents of sitio Kabute in Real, Calamba, Laguna, said during the tribute for Arman in a church in Quezon City. She narrated how they met. It was during the early part of January 2008 when the houses of some 100 families were demolished. They sought temporary shelter at the nearby covered court. “Not one among the barangay or municipal officials offered us help. One day, while we were at the City Hall, Ka Arman saw some of us crying. He went to us, inquired about our situation and started organizing us,” Nanay Pacing related. At that time, Arman was secretary general of Bayan-ST. “Four years passed by and despite the harassment by soldiers encamped inside our community, we stayed put because of what Ka Arman taught us –that we have rights, too,” Nanay Pacing said. It is not surprising how Arman was able to win the hearts of the poor. He knew poverty like the palm of his hands. A caring brother Before becoming an activist, Arman was an ordinary worker. Born from a peasant family in San Teodoro, Mindoro Oriental, Arman had helped augment the family income since he was 17. Together with his eldest brother, Arman worked as a construction worker in Makati. “He would go home only during special occasions,” Bonsai, one of Arman’s four sisters, said. He has three brothers. Like a typical big brother, Bonsai said, Arman was “quite strict” especially with the way his sisters dress. “He was so conservative; he did not want us to wear sleeveless, short skirts or any of that kind. We were only able to put lipstick when he was not around,” Bonsai said, smiling. “Whenever we had problems and we turned to him, he would not mince words to warn us against making wrong decisions,” Bonsai said. “Yet, after scolding us, he would also make us laugh.” Bonsai said she would not forget what her kuya (older brother) did on her wedding day. She was crying so hard minutes before the ceremony because the hair stylist cut her hair short. “Kuya Arman went to me and said, ‘Ne, stop crying. It’s okay’ and he carried me on his arms until I stopped crying,” Bonsai recalled. She was 24..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/08/ka-arman-caring-brother-conscientious-activist-defender-of-the-oppressed/ Aquino allies revive Cha-cha Written by Angie M. Rosales NO EFFORT TO AMEND CONSTITUTION WITHOUT NOY BACKING — JOKER Efforts to tinker with the Constitution have been resurrected and a meeting between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte has been scheduled to discuss possible changes that can be introduced in the 1987 Charter, Sen. Joker Arroyo said. Arroyo added the move is gaining ground in the Senate, with him acceding to proposals to introduce changes in Constitution. Arroyo also perceives Malacañang as being behind the revived discussions on the possibility of initiating moves for Charter change (Cha-cha) to take off when Congress reopens its third regular session this month. The senator, however, appeared amenable in revisiting not only the economic provisions but also the present structure of government “where the President is more powerful now than (under) the previous constitutions.” “For 25 years, this 1987 Constitution, we have not touched it. By every reasoning, we should change it. The Constitution (was amended) in 1986 (because) it was in response to the difficulties we had during the martial law,” Arroyo said..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1322-aquino-allies-revive-cha-cha Groups blast mining EO as rehash of old policies Tribune photo Even before the Palace releases today the details of the Executive Order (EO) on mining signed by President Aquino last Thursday, various groups assailed it as being no different from previous policies that do not address the root of the conflict between mining operations and the communities where the projects are located. Instead, the new mining policy could make conflict caused by the industry even worse, Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes said, adding the new EO on mining is no different from other past policies. Bastes said the new EO is expected to create more division between the local stakeholders and the government. According to Aquino’s deputy spokesman Abigail Valte, small-scale mining operations and revenue sharing between the national and local governments will be the highlights of the signed EO that is seen to define the national policy in an industry from where the government gets significant part of its total annual revenue. Valte described the new mining EO as a product of consultations with stakeholders of the mining sector. She added that the EO has had a number of revisions during the period in which it was being drafted by the environment cluster created by the President to solicit inputs from various sectors which have something to do with the mining industry, whether they be pro or against it..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1320-groups-blast-mining-eo-as-rehash-of-old-policies Palace imposes news blackout on China row Written by Mario J. Mallari Malacañang is keeping its lips sealed tightly over the details of the executive session President Aquino called last Thursday that included the entire Cabinet and two top senators to supposedly formulate plans to address the deadlock between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. For now, we’re taking it under wraps, Aquino’s deputy spokesman Abigail Valte said on media queries about the result of the top-level meeting. Valte said that the public can deduce what transpired at the meeting through the moves that the Aquino administration will now take to address the dispute. “Well, people will always speculate. But it is best if we just wait until concrete steps are being taken. That I suppose will be the time that we can talk about it,” Valte said. “What we’re saying is that the public would eventually see what transpired at the executive session and learn of the government decision on the China conflict. Of course, that will be talked about. But as of the moment, everything is under wraps,” Valte reiterated. A Palace critic in the Senate supported the virtual news blackout and President Aquino’s order for his underlings to refrain from making statements that may aggravate the country’s territorial dispute with China, adding that the Executive should instead use quiet diplomacy to resolve the tension. “It’s good that President Aquino zipped up the lips of his officials. Everybody is talkative. Everybody is an expert in diplomacy. Matters like this, require quiet diplomacy, restraint,” Sen. Joker Arroyo said...... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/1319-palace-imposes-news-blackout-on-china-row RP airports on alert vs mystery Cambodian disease Written by AFP and PNA The Philippines has stepped up screening of airport arrivals to prevent the entry of a mysterious disease that has killed 60 children in Cambodia since April, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said on Saturday. “We are more vigilant in screening passengers at the country’s international airports because of this latest news and there will be no let-up until this has been contained,” Ona told reporters. He stressed that there were no travel restrictions to Cambodia despite the alert. The unidentified disease has killed 60 young children in Cambodia in three months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said earlier this week as it raced to identify the cause. The symptoms include high fever and severe chest disease symptoms with some children showing signs of “neurological involvement,” the WHO said..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/1313-rp-airports-on-alert-vs-mystery-cambodian-disease Two million eel fingerlings bound for HK seized at NAIA Written by Conrado Ching The Bureau of Customs (BoC) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confiscated some two million eel fingerlings bound for Hong Kong at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. BFAR Director Asis Perez said the shipment of 46 boxes containing the elvers was brought to the Miascor Cargo early Sunday morning for shipment to Hong Kong on board a Cathay Pacific flight. The cargo forwarders, identified as Expertrans Philippines Inc., abandoned the shipment at the warehouse after receiving reports that they lacked import permits. Customs examiners got suspicious about the cargoes, which were all labelled as “perishable items-foodstuff,” forcing them to inspect the contents..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1277-two-million-eel-fingerlings-bound-for-hk-seized-at-naia QC gov’t regulates use of plastic bags all over city Written by Arlie O. Calalo The administration of Quezon City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista has stepped up the no-nonsense implementation of an ordinance that calls for the regulation on the use of plastic bags all over the city. Determined to inculcate in the minds of the residents the need to follow the measure to the letter, city officials led by Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte hosted last Friday a forum aimed primarily at informing the public of how to reduce the city’s production of plastic waste. “This is Quezon City’s commitment in building a truly green and sustainable city,” said the vice mayor who was accompanied by key city officials in welcoming the forum participants at the QC Hall Bulwagan. Compared to other cities adopting a total ban on plastic use, Belmonte said the city government has just favored to regulate the use of plastics to give residents ample time to integrate the system in their behavior or attitude. “Going green must not only be lip service. There has to be attitude and behavioral change,” Belmonte said. Councilor Dorothy Delarmente, author of ordinances SP-2140, otherwise known as the “QC Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance” and SP-2103, and the city’s task force on plastic bag reduction have joined efforts to mount the forum which highlights the local government’s determined effort to regulate the use of plastic bags in the city, especially in QC-based business establishments..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1279-qc-gov%E2%80%99t-regulates-use-of-plastic-bags-all-over-city NPC head lambasts order evicting two press corps from DoJ building The National Press Club (NPC) has condemned the decision of the Department of Justice (DoJ) to evict from its building premises the two recognized press corps based on an alleged report by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) that members of the press have become a “security threat” to its officials. “We find the DoJ’s action suspicious; this is a ‘cloaked censorship’ aimed at restraining the media from gathering information, especially from officials and personalities who are connected with the office of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima,” NPC president Benny Antiporda said. He noted the two press corps at the DoJ main building, Jucra (Justice and Court Reporters Association) and Juror (Justice Reporters Organization), have been staying on the same floor where the office of De Lima is located so they can immediately gather news on important issues that need the immediate reaction of the justice secretary. The Jucra has been holding office at the DoJ since 1977 while the Juror has also been given accommodation by the department since the 1980s, during the time of President Corazon Aquino..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1276-npc-head-lambasts-order-evicting-two-press-corps-from-doj-building Another suspect in assassination try on Tribune’s reporter falls in Pasig Another gunman behind the slay try on the Daily Tribune reporter Fernan Angeles last March was arrested but not by the task force created to go after the newsman’s assailants but by the lowly cops assigned to the community precinct. Junior Ambor, also known as Junior Buang and Junior Praning, was arrested with several other individuals following a call complaining against a group of armed men along Baltazar Street in Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City bullying residents, extorting money from people and poking guns at those who refused to give. Angeles, who has resumed writing for the Tribune since May, was advised by community precinct commander Senior Insp. Cesario Tubog to come to the police station to identify one of the suspects they arrested. As it turned out, one of their hauls was positively identified as the one who fired the second shot that hit Angeles in the back. Tubog personally led the team that went to arrest Ambor and his gang. Seized from Ambor was a short firearm of unknown caliber..... MORE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/1275-another-suspect-in-assassination-try-on-tribune%E2%80%99s-reporter-falls-in-pasig Free the Chief Justice Written by Herman Tiu... Show of force: Syria conducts major drills amid We... Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solution... Crying for justice Written by Charlie V. Man... Arman: caring brother, conscientious activist, def... Two million eel fingerlings bound for HK seized at... QC gov’t regulates use of plastic bags all over ci... NPC head lambasts order evicting two press corps f... Another suspect in assassination try on Tribune’s ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line373
__label__wiki	0.51663	0.51663	Frank + Helena 07.01.20 – northern shore trike tour January 10, 2020 /in Gallery /by Kat Our passengers are from Perth, WA and Frank wanted to surprise his wife. He decided the northern shore trike tour would show them the sights they wanted to see. One of our trike riders, Craig, picked Frank and Helena up at their accommodation in Sussex Street, in the CBD. Iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge Firstly, they rode through the city and over the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. We always tell our passengers to look up and enjoy the unique view. The rivets are so interesting and the arch is so iconic. Kirribilli House and Admiralty House Next, after riding across the Harbour Bridge was riding past Kirribilli House and Admiralty House. Kirribilli House is the secondary official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia. Admiralty House is the Sydney official residence of the Governor-General of Australia. After that, they rode around the corner to Jeffrey Street Wharf. From here, the views across Sydney Harbour towards the Sydney Opera House and the CBD are magnificent. In addition, it also has an up-close view of the side and underneath of the bridge. They stopped for photos and even though it is all smoke and no blue sky, it is still amazing to see. Middle Harbour They continued on through the lower north shore suburbs of Cremorne, Mosman to lovely posh Balmoral Beach. Crossing the Spit Bridge is always fun, with lovely views of Middle Harbour and hundreds of yachts. Riding further up the hill to the Seaforth viewing point, where they stopped for more photos. Dobroyd Headland Then it was to Tanya Park at Dobroyd Headland. The views here are wonderful across Sydney Harbour towards both North and South Heads and out towards the South Pacific Ocean. However, time was almost up. So Craig rode past the inner northern beaches of Clontarf before returning the passengers to their hotel. In conclusion, the northern shore trike tour was a big success, as you can see by their smiles. http://trolltours.com.au/product/design-your-own-ride/ http://trolltours.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Harley-north-shore-trike-tour-HelFra1.jpg 511 681 Kat http://trolltours.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/logo.png Kat2020-01-10 16:03:112020-01-11 19:01:59Frank + Helena 07.01.20 - northern shore trike tour Cooper + Rod 06.01.20 – Christmas present trike tour Mr + Mrs Nityanand 08.01.20 – Harley tour through Sydney	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line380
__label__wiki	0.585537	0.585537	Tag: human rights September 5, 2018 News 0Comments Keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive in Macedonia The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) and The Holocaust Fund of Macedonia have launched a strategic partnership and joint Holocaust Memory Initiative. The Initiative will aim to preserve the remembrance of the Holocaust in Macedonia and to promote the traditions and cultures of the Macedonian Jewish community. It will further strengthen the fight against anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination while promoting democracy,… January 13, 2018 News 0Comments European Court Again Rules Against Bulgaria for Violating Rights of its Macedonian Citizens Once again, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Sofia, underscoring Bulgaria’s blatant disregard for the European Convention on Human Rights only a few days after it took over the EU’s rotating presidency. The three cases (United Macedonian Organization Ilinden and Others v. Bulgaria (no.3) (no. 29496/16), Yordan Ivanov and Others v. Bulgaria (no. 70502/13), and Kiril Ivanov v.… May 14, 2013 News 0Comments Religious Freedom Advocates/UMD Call on Secretary Kerry to Put Abuses in Greece on Agenda Last month, the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) spearheaded, through the informal International Religious Freedom Roundtable, a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signed by 14 organizations/individuals expressing deep concern about longstanding, serious violations of religious freedom in Greece. The informal group of human rights advocates and religious leaders strongly urged Secretary Kerry to call upon Greece to ratify… March 7, 2013 News 0Comments UMD Completes Visit to Brussels and Macedonia/ECME Participates in 2013 NPLD Conference The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) President Metodija A. Koloski traveled to Belgium and Macedonia February 11-27, 2013. While in Brussels, Koloski was joined by UMD Stuttgart, Germany Representative Goce Peroski, UMD Greece Representative Eugenia Natsoulidou, and UMD Netherlands Representative Filip Altiparmakovski. UMD strongly believes that investing in engaging in high-level diplomacy yields valuable insights and productive outcomes in support of… January 9, 2013 News 0Comments UMD Rep. Receives Death Threats, Files Lawsuit Against Greek Media As the United Macedonian Diaspora’s (UMD) human rights advocacy work expanded in 2012 on behalf of human rights for the native Macedonian community in Aegean Macedonia (modern day Northern Greece), the UMD Greece Representative Eugenia Natsoulidou recently became the target of death threats, and has been publically slandered by a major Greek newspaper – Proto Thema. In response, legal action… December 13, 2012 News 0Comments UMD: EU Council on Macedonia Undermines EU Enlargement Credibility On December 11, 2012, the EU Council put the nationalist agendas of Bulgaria and Greece before EU enlargement, damaged regional stability in the Western Balkans, and undermined the credibility of the EU enlargement process. The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) believes that the EU should be the bridge that unites Europe; instead it has become the divider that deepens inter-regional differences,… UMD Commemorates 64th International Human Rights Day The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) joins human rights advocates worldwide in commemorating the anniversary of December 10, 1948, when Eleanor Roosevelt stood before the United Nations General Assembly and declared “this Universal Declaration of Human Rights may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.” On this day, UMD calls upon the United Nations and the European… July 18, 2011 News 0Comments U.S. Secretary of State Clinton Visits Greece July 17, 2011 – Washington, D.C. – The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) released a July 15, 2011 letter it sent to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a result of her current visit to Greece, concluding on July 18, 2011. UMD urged Secretary Clinton to act upon several points of concern of the Macedonian-American community when meeting with representatives… Washington, D.C. – The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) would like to draw attention to International Human Rights Day (10th December) as an important event for everyone to take note of and make a stand against the many human rights violations across the world. For Macedonians, this is especially significant. Macedonians in Southeast Europe find themselves, in a situation where they… December 7, 2006 News 0Comments Macedonian Parliament Preparing Declaration for Support of Macedonians in Bulgaria Source: MIC The Macedonian Parliament is preparing to adopt a declaration on the rights of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, at the initiative of DOM parliamentarian Liljana Popovska. Even though the opposition criticized the Government for not reacting to this problem on time, this document will most probably receive broad political support in the Assembly, Utrinski Vesnik reports. A few… November 21, 2006 News 0Comments FACT SHEET: Macedonian Minority in Bulgaria FACT SHEET: 5 Answers to issues raised by Bulgarian officials and press on the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria Bulgarian Government Claim: No Macedonian minority exists within Bulgaria’s borders. According to the 2001 Bulgarian census (www.nsi.bg/census/ethnos.htm), 5,071 citizens declared themselves as ethnic Macedonians. Regardless of this highly under representative figure, the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute contradicts the claims of the Bulgarian…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line383
__label__cc	0.6323	0.3677	Balaam's Ass Books & Book Reviews Fiction Articles Fresno-Clovis General Social Issues Offbeat & Odd Things Oil & The Presidency Old Journal Entries Politics-In-General The Bush Regime The Decline of America The Man Who Would Be President The U.S. & The World The War President ← Our Changing World Anti-Terrified → The Predator Class Posted by Rick · November 20th, 2003 · No Comments Bob Marcotte sends this link under the heading “Blog Worthy?” Dick Meyer, author of the above-linked story, notes: There have always been scandals and crooks in the history of American money, but our predator class is a distinct creation of the late 20th century. Meyer, The Predator Class (Nov. 19, 2003) CBSNews.com. Meyer also states, Despite assurances from game-theorists and anthropologists that the criminal cadre in the species remains a constant percentage over time, I believe today’s mainstream, sanitized, and institutionally sanctioned financial crime rackets are being run by a new breed of crook. — Meyer, The Predator Class (Nov. 19, 2003) CBSNews.com. Anyone who has read The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod, however, is not the least bit surprised. Axelrod’s book was written after experiments (conducted worldwide as a “contest”) among programmers who developed programs to compete within a virtual environment. Axelrod himself says, “My original interest in game theory arose from a concern with international politics and especially the risk of nuclear war.” I haven’t read the book in years, but my recollection is that one of Axelrod’s goals was to explain how the evolution of cooperation was possible in a Darwinian world. Social scientists have often pondered the apparent incongruity of a world in which the reigning paradigm involves the adaptation of species via mechanisms of intra- and interspecies competition for resources, stochastic drift, etc. somehow “naturally” giving rise to cooperative mechanisms. Axelrod used game theory and encouraged worldwide participation in a contest based on the non-zero-sum game known as The Prisoner’s Dilemma. His book was a discussion of the game, the particular rules of the contest and the results. The thing that always intrigued me about this — and again recall that I’m going off memory here (a link appears at the end of this article for ordering this book) — was that Axelrod’s theory works well only for small populations where the Predators are controllable because, if they do manage to thrive, they will eventually eliminate Prey and be forced to turn upon one another. In a smaller population, Prey are more aware of the presence and methods of Predators and so have more control; where they fail, Predators control one another (more on that below). In other words, the survival of a “healthy” — to put a perverse twist on that term — Predator class would require very large populations because the Predator class would at the least be self-limiting otherwise. No surprise, then, that my reaction was one of wryly amused interest when Meyer wrote, I believe there is no way the counter-class made up of regulators, watchdogs and do-gooders and hack columnists can match wits with the predator class. Today’s piles of money are so huge, great fortunes can be amassed by swiping the tiniest of slices in the wiliest of ways long before picked pockets are discovered. — Meyer, The Predator Class (Nov. 19, 2003) CBSNews.com. Meyer thinks the game-theorists are wrong and expresses pessimism that this situation will self-correct. On that count, he is both right and wrong; or, I suppose I should say, wrong and right. The game-theorists — at least on my reading of Axelrod — are right. And the situation will not self-correct. The reason is that the current population of the world now numbers in the billions. The percentage of the overall population that then constitutes the Predator class is relatively small in comparison. The Predator class typically feeds off of the Prey, although it is not opposed to going after other members of its own class under the right conditions. It might seem that it would make more sense for a Predator to go after another Predator. After all, taking down a Predator would theoretically bring a larger cache and (one would erroneously think) be easier than taking down many members of the Prey class. An aside is necessary here: Contrary to popular opinion, not all the Rich would fall into the Predator class. However, it is highly unlikely that any true member of the Prey class would be Rich; in other words, a member of the Predator class would not likely be a member of the so-called “lower” classes — neither the not-entirely-appropriately-named “Middle Class” and especially not of the Poor, both of which constitute the Prey class. Intelligent Prey may rise to the level of Predator, but in doing so they will shed the economic skin they wore as Prey; in becoming a member of the Predator class, they will almost certainly become Rich. But there is nothing to stop any member of the species from either inheriting or building Riches while refusing to become a Predator. It may possibly require even more intelligence than Predators normally need to maintain a position as Rich, but it’s doable for one with enough Luck, Skill and/or Intelligence. It might even happen by somehow wheedling a position wherein one is needed by some group of Predators so that they ensure survival to the one in that position. At any rate, as noted, Predators may have a larger stock of Riches. This might on the surface make it seem that a Predator would do better to go after another Predator. And sometimes a less-than-intelligent Predator does this. But it is very unwise. Consider the lowly Tyrannosaurus rex. Now there was a Predator! But the same thing that made T. rex a great Predator — teeth, strength, experience in fighting Prey that did not want to die — also made it dangerous to other members of its own species. So although T. rex might have been larger than the Prey T. rexes might normally pursue, it was imminently more dangerous. (There is some argument about whether T. rex was actually a Predator. The outcome of that argument does not alter the point of mine.) In addition, the Predator class itself is a small, somewhat self-contained population. And no doubt Predators transitioning from Prey to Predator have to be more careful than established Predators. Nevertheless, the Predator class still follows the pattern discussed in Axelrod’s book; as long as the population is small, cooperation — if only in the form of an uneasy truce — will exist even among Predators. So how does it feel to be Prey? Books On This Topic Categories: greed Tags: · class, economics, evolution, game theory, greed, Predator, Prey Facebook Arguments, or, Why Americans Can’t Compromise1.12 Doomsday & The Internet4.17 The Friendship Balloon6.27 FTW6.2 Extinction, Greed & The Need for Regulation5.30 Meltdown & Revival5.28 RFIDs for Everyone!2.21 Tikkun Olam1.1 How Stupid Are We?12.22 Let Safety Ring12.14 Visit the archives for more! 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__label__wiki	0.550613	0.550613	The Blogazette Weekly Bulletin #3, April 17–23, 2011 This week’s bulletin is a 1 day late. I should have blogged yesterday but I was too busy celebrating the birthday of my brother Ikechukwu. He turned 62 yesterday and my family drove out to Purley to eat and drink and glorify God. Goodluck has it, surely. On Saturday the 16th of April, Nigeria voted and it is clear now whom they voted for, and INEC is expected to announce Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the president-elect who would lead the country over the next 4 years. People are, expectedly, divided over the reasons he has won. There are clusters of people who believe he won because people voted for him as a person and not for his party the PDP whose record in the country’s leadership is abysmally poor. Some believe he has won because he was the easier to swallow choice, especially as opposed to Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler of the country. The man has won and it really does not matter why people voted for him and if those reasons are objective or not, including considerations of his religious affiliation and ethnic background. Hell, I actually cast a virtual vote for him purely on the basis of his set of names, which I turned into a prayer in My Virtual Vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. This is the time Nigerians everywhere must begin to make demands on their new leader. With free access to Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and other media, everyone must speak out loud about what they want from the incoming leadership for Nigeria. All must also rally round the new president and support him, and fortify him with prayers and goodwill. It is not going to be easy, but together Nigeria can actually have victory. Welcome Big Rommy’s Pluggin’ Zone Every week, I mention products and services I have interests in that may also interest you. The Sentinel Champions Privilege Club At Sentinel Poetry Movement, we have just launched the Sentinel Champions Privilege Club. This is a free-to-join club for writers and publishers. Every quarter, we send every member a free Sentinel Champions eBook stuffed with short stories, poems, interviews, and soon, articles geared at training the creative writer which should prove useful to both the established and the upcoming writer. Every month, all members receive the Sentinel Champions Privilege Club E-mail Newsletter. This newsletter will carry information on all new or forthcoming writing competitions organised by Sentinel Poetry Movement and other organisations. It will also announce new books published by members of the privilege club, or by SPM Publications - the publishing arm of Sentinel Poetry Movement. OK, so you get a free magazine every quarter, you get an e-mail newsletter every month, you get a chance to sell your books to other members, and you can unsubscribe from the club at any time. I can't think of any reason why you should not join. Can you? I didn't think so. Join the Privilege Club now. SWALE LIFE POETRY COMPETITION (APRIL 2011) Closing date: 20th April 2011 This competition will drop off from The Blogazette Weekly Bulletin after this week as it ends on Wednesday. There is still time to enter the competition for previously unpublished poems in English Language, in any style, on any subject, up to 40 lines long. This competition is part of the Excel for Charity series run by Eastern Light EPM International to reward literary excellence whilst raising money for charities. Prizes: £100, £50, £30, 2 x £10 Commendation Prizes Fees: £3 per poem, or £12 for 5. Judge: Claire Askew, award-winning author of The Mermaid and the Sailors Enter online or download Entry Form and Rules for postal entries now. LUPUS UK INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION Closing date: 31st May, 2011 For previously unpublished poems in English Language, in any style, on any subject, up to 40 lines long. Prizes: 1st - £150; 2nd - £75; 3rd - £40 plus two Highly Commended Awards of £10 each. All winning & commended poems will be published in Excel for Charity website: www.easternlightepm.com/excelforcharity Entry fees: £4.00 for 1 poem, £7.50 for 2 poems, £10.50 for 3 poems, £12.50 for 4 poems and £14.00 for 5 poems. (5-poem entrants receive a FREE Sentinel Champions eBook courtesy of Sentinel Poetry Movement.) Judge: JIM BENNETT, Managing Editor of The Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org), award-winning author of The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds. SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY SHORT STORY COMPETITION (JULY 2011) Closing date: 20th June, 2011 For previously unpublished short stories in English Language, on any subject, in any style, up to 1,500 words long. Stories must not have been posted to a website or blog, and must not be under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere. Prizes: First Prize - £150.00, Second Prize - £75.00, Third Prize - £50.00. Also, 3 Highly Commended Entries receive £10.00 each. All Winners and Commended works will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions Magazine #9. Entry Fees: £5.00 for 1 story, £9.00 for 2 stories, £12.00 for 3 stories (3-story entrants receive a FREE Sentinel Champions #5 eBook) Results: 31st July 2011 in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine www.sentinelquarterly.com Judge: Kachi A. Ozumba - Prize-winning author of Shadow of a Smile. Enter online now or download & print out competition details and Entry Form for postal entries at www.sentinelquarterly.com/short-story-competition-july-2011 Cheques/Postal Orders in GB£ only payable to: SENTINEL POETRY MOVEMENT sent to: Sentinel Poetry Movement, Unit 136, 113-115 George Lane, South Woodford, London E18 1AB E-mail enquiries: competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk www.sentinelquarterly.com SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY POETRY COMPETITION (JULY 2011) For previously unpublished poems in English Language, on any subject, in any style, up to 40 lines long. Poems must not have been posted to a website or blog, and must not be under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere. Entry Fees: £3.00 for 1 poem, £12.00 for 5 poems (5-poem entrants receive a FREE Sentinel Champions #5 eBook) Judge: Bob Beagrie – author of Gothic Horror and Masque: The Art of The Vampyre http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/poetry-competition-july-2011/ THE FAKE PROPHET CINEMA RUN You are invited to step out to the cinema in May to see The Fake Prophet - an important film by Teco Benson produced by Stepping Stones Nigeria and TFP Global Network that spotlights the plight of the so-called witch children in Nigeria. The great thing about this film is that it manages to sell a good message without becoming an advertorial. It is a very entertaining film with some well-developed and memorable characters. Starring Charles Okafor, Big Fred Ezimmadu, Grace Amah and Samuel Ajibola, this is a must-see. Thursday, 19th May 2011 @ 7pm Friday & Saturday, 20th & 21st May @ 10.45pm Tickets now on sale online: £10, £12.50 & £20 Brought to you by Nollywood Focus \| Stepping Stones Nigeria \| TFP Global Network \| Screen Nation Managed by Nnorom Azuonye Entertainment Projects www.nollywoodfocus.com Call Nnorom 07723 904 913, 07812 755 751 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nnorom.azuonye Twitter: http://twitter.com/nnoromazuonye Fear not, you are a God-protected child. Could your poem(s) help stop Lupus in its tracks? Killing for Treasures of the Earth From a village boy to Nigeria’s most powerful The Blogazette Weekly Bulletin #3, April 17–23, 20... My Virtual Vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Weekly Bulletin: What’s that Big Rommy chap pluggi... WHAT'S THAT BIG ROMMY CHAP PLUGGIN' THIS WEEK #1? ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line394
__label__wiki	0.822115	0.822115	To commemorate the 20th year since the release of the first ONE PIECE theatrical feature, Toei has given fans a treasure to thank them for their decades of love and support of the title. In that spirit, LMD has handed over the critical reins to our consultant and new TDR contributor, our own King of the ONE PIECE fans, Mr. Derek Ng, to give us his take on ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE. For its 20th anniversary movie, Toei Animation has delivered to the ONE PIECE fans, ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE. We are introduced to and welcomed by our main protagonist Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, as they make their way to the Pirate Festival. The sinister Buena Festa invites pirates from all across the Four Blues to his Pirate Festival, where there’s a chance to acquire an ancient relic known as an Eternal Log Pose, belonging to the Gol D. Roger, aka the Pirate King. Luffy and his crew of Straw Hat Pirates attend this event, reuniting with numerous friends and foes from earlier installments in the series, including Buggy the Clown, Luffy’s rebel brother, Sabo, as well as other characters that may surprise ONE PIECE fans. Beneath all festivities and the rush to obtain Roger’s relic, we are introduced to our protagonist and villain of the movie, Bullet. He was a former member of Roger’s crew, who was driven to insanity by his obsession for strength and of the hope of becoming the strongest pirate of the seas – the new Pirate King. He imposes his ideology of self-reliance – that people, as well as pirates, should only rely on themselves for strength, which stirs Luffy up, and an all-out fight erupts among the Straw Hats. Bullet is revealed to have the overwhelming power to absorb and transmute his surroundings, protecting himself; and when he morphs into a gargantuan monster, Luffy and his team must do whatever it takes to defeat him… and acquire the Eternal Log Pose, of course! ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE encompasses and incorporates many of the characters from past generations of the previous series installments to attract and satisfy the fans. Its generic plot was somewhat of an excuse to throw in a mashup of a ton of never-ending action, eye-popping explosions and animations, explosive fist fights, and a vast collection of diverse abilities from different characters. It also features a beautiful soundtrack. Director Otsuka Takeshi combined all these elements into an all-out slugfest of colors and exciting special effects that may warm the hearts of the ONE PIECE fans, but may exhaust the average, uninitiated moviegoer. As a loyal fan, I loved every second of ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE, as it upholds a lot of the values that we, ONE PIECE fans, enjoy and believe in. The electrifying action and adventure, and themes of friendship really warmed my heart and made me proud to be a ONE PIECE fan. However, the plot did not meet the level of the action as I believed it would. Though the plot may not have lived up to my expectations, overall, ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE is a rollercoaster of emotions worth riding! ~ Derek Ng For The Diva Review Sept. 26th, 2019 Stills Courtesy of Toei/FUNimation Do Your Bit for Fabulosity. Don’t hesitate, just donate.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line400
__label__cc	0.588848	0.411152	The Institute for Science and Policy Tag Archives: epa Policy, Politics What will America look like a year into a Trump Presidency? Houston Wade, Executive Director While many are calling for the public to “give the Trump administration a chance” the Institute for Science and Policy has been working hard to foresee what will be the result of his presidency. Our outlook is very pessimistic for all the reasons which are outlined below. As president-elect Trump has already begun to build his administration around the worst possible fears of his opponents. He is appointing white nationalists to key positions in his administration, he is seeking to register religious minorities, and roll back the finally realized rights and protections so many of our citizens have earned and deserve. We expect: A failed economy rife with fraud and the loss of publicly owned infrastructure Global war and the collapse of traditional allegiances Increased white nationalism, hate crimes, and paramilitary involvement in domestic matters Significant roll backs of civil rights and liberties Persecution of the free press and limited access to information Trump family enrichment through governmental power and influence Environmental collapse in the Mountain West A drift toward authoritarianism and fascism The chances of military coup inside the United States has never been greater Jobs, Graft, Nepotism, Kleptocracy, and the Economy What is readily apparent and troubling is the hurried pace at which Donald Trump is seeking to enrich himself via the power of the presidency. Trump is hardly the first wealthy man to hold the most powerful office in the land, but he is by far the wealthiest of them all, and the first to refuse to put his vast holdings into a blind trust. Trump is still the chair of his privately held conglomerate. His children will be running the day-to-day business operations, but at the same time he seeks to give his children top secret clearance and have them hold key positions in his administration as advisers. The Trump Family opens its newest hotel in Washington DC, a former post office leased from the US government. Trump is about to become his own landlord. It has already been reported that diplomats, dignitaries, and heads of state will be flocking to the Trump Hotel just blocks from the White House to pay $20,000 a night to stay in the most premium rooms. One Asian diplomat stated it as such, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’ ” Reports are already coming out that he is using his new position to enrich himself via graft from other heads of state. This is the key: enrich. Trump cares about money. Money will be first and foremost in a Trump administration. Trump admires Russian President Vladimir Putin. He admires his authoritarian rule, he admires his business acumen. What is Putin’s business acumen, you ask? Amassing some $200 billion in wealth as the head of state. In America presidents are expected to forego their dreams of wealth and riches until after they have served their country. Donald Trump will not do this. The country will serve Donald Trump. Trump will mire us financially. His tax policy will suck hundreds of billions out of the treasury every year as he slashes corporate taxes, and invites a loophole for the highest paid executives to become “consultants” and pay 15% tax on their wealth rather than 35% on their salaries. The wall he wants to build is estimated to cost $25 billion, but we think that is under estimating the costs by about $200 billion. Constructing a light rail line in Seattle costs $10 billion. The largest concrete project in human history is going to be a logistical nightmare as it eminent domains land, fights legal battles, claws for raw material, experiences delays, costs overruns, shoddy workmanship, protests, etc… Trump’s plan for deporting immigrants would cost up to $600 billion just to enforce and deport, and another $1.5 trillion in economic loss to our economy! His base wants jobs. They voted for Trump believing that jobs will come to them. They won’t. The jobs these people had years and years ago, are not coming back. In 1973 the United States produced 137 million metric tons of steel and employed 605,000 people (226.4 tons per worker). In 2013 steel production was down to 87 million tons and 147,000 employees (591.8 tons per employee). It is thought that production has been growing since 2013 due to construction and manufacturing being on the rise, but even if we had the peak steel production of 1973 replicated today, there would still be 373,503 fewer workers producing said steel. Only inefficiency will bring back those jobs. In coal country the prospects are even more grim. West Virginia overwhelmingly has put their faith into Donald Trump to bring back coal jobs. Overall yearly coal production in West Virginia is down about 60 million tons per year since the peak of 1997, yet the number of workers mining coal is higher than ever! In 1997 20,542 people worked in the coal industry in West Virginia and mined 181 million tons. By 2013 that total was 52,213 people mining 120 million tons. Why? It became harder to get permits to blow the tops off of mountains and open pit coal mines. Open pits require a fraction of the work force to obtain a higher yield, it is also incredibly destructive to the environment. Today, coal is harder to mine, more labor intensive, and employs more people now than it has for 30 years and is comparable to coal employment over peaks of the past century. So, why is West Virginia hurting? For the same reason it has always been hurting: too many people, not enough industry. West Virginia has no sea ports, no interesting landmarks or tourist stops, not enough flat ground, and a poorly educated population. No corporations of worth want to be there, only corporations who have to be there. The majority of its employed population work in hospitals and pharmacies, and for Walmart or Krogers. It is almost entirely an economy built upon a dying population. Donald Trump is not going to make West Virginia more appealing, he is not going to get more people to work in coal. If West Virginia was worth the investment, Trump would have invested in it by now. Coal production is just not efficient in West Virginia and will vanish entirely in the near future. Wyoming produces 255 million more tons of coal than WV and does so with only 6,646 employees. Even Wyoming coal is feeling the pinch as natural gas becomes a much cheaper, cleaner-burning alternative for traditional coal fire power plants. How would Trump bring coal jobs back? He would have to make natural gas expensive again, which would kill the natural gas market and put many of the 170,000 jobs tied to gas exploration and production at risk. Trump’s only option at this point is to capitulate and make one of these industries really angry, or artificially boost the coal market and create an unsustainable bubble. With regards to Wall Street and big banks, Trump wants to see regulations be purged from the markets. History has shown that when Republicans control all three branches of government the economy collapses: 1929, 2008… 2017? Since 1981 there have been four recessions, all of which happened during a Republican administration. We are about to see a complete reversal in policy towards the markets and expect to see a housing bubble part II. When markets get deregulated, and banks are allowed to invest savings into the markets at will one should expect fantastic, quick gains; but this is inevitably unsustainable. As long as traders are allowed to insure their investments with credit default swaps, there will be artificial inflation of securities and commodities, as many will no doubt bet against the market and stand to make fortunes. Trump plays with other people’s money and seldom has stake in the game. He has defaulted on billions of dollars in loans since the 1970s and now receives most of his investment from overseas. An undisclosed amount of loans possibly totaling $1 billion from the Bank of China, his debts also include over $350 million from Deutsche bank, and an unsettling amount of money from Russian oligarchs tied to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle for overseas Trump projects, which… …Brings us back to Vladimir Putin and Trump’s ties to him. While Trump denies any connection with Putin, the money and personal trail is deep. Trump’s daughter Ivanka is good friends with Putin’s girlfriend, Wendi Deng, and went on vacation with her to Croatia this past summer (if this alone is not enough to warrant a rejection for security clearance, we don’t know what is). Putin’s M.O. for the past decade has been to install his surrogates and allies as the heads of states in the former Soviet Bloc via invasion or questionable elections. This tactic has become more global than regional as of late with the election of Duterte in the Philippines and, some would say, Trump. Ivanka Trump on Vacation with Vladimir Putin’s girlfriend Wendi Deng During the campaign, Donald Trump made some very troubling comments about NATO, the allegiance that has kept the Russian Bear at bay for almost 70 years. The prime directive is that the attack of any one NATO member is an attack on all. While being a Cold War necessity, this doctrine is very recently relevant as Russia has begun overthrowing its former Soviet subjects making many former Iron Curtain nations nervous enough to jump at the opportunity of NATO membership. Just this week Estonia has a new Prime Minister in Juri Ratas who has deep ties to Vladimir Putin. Russia has been amassing military personnel and armament along the border with Estonia since last year. Lithuania is so fearful of Russian invasion that they have been running nation-wide drills with its citizenry and preparing its troops for an imminent war. We expect that during Trump’s term that Russia will invade one, or all, of the Baltic states and challenge NATO’s allegiances and prime directive. We expect Russia to assume that the Trump administration will look the other way al la Chamberlain with regards to the Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. This will plunge Europe into war without its largest, most important ally, the USA. In other words World War III. In Asia Trump will ignore allegiances with traditional partners like Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, and Taiwan; and will let die recent ties with Vietnam. Trump has said that he wants these nations to have more of a role in their security and for the US to pull out. This plays directly into the hands of Chinese and Russian interests. Japanese President Shinzo Abe is a hawk unlike any leader since the end of WWII. China will begin to exert more dominance in East Asia and make its neighbors nervous of invasion of their borders and infiltration of their governments. This action will lead to military buildups by previously weakly armed governments. North Korea will go largely ignored and will continue development of weapons systems and will become a belligerent threat to its immediate neighbors. The Korean Peninsula has never been closer to all out war since the cease fire. Result? World War III. Only worse than the European side as allegiances will have become much more muddled and the US will not have a strong policy for its position. The Middle East, while at the moment is the most pressing concern, will largely fall by the wayside as Trump let’s Putin control policy and action in Syria and Turkey. As the rest of the planet falls into posturing and war, our Middle East policy will largely be forgotten anywhere that does not sell oil. We expect to see internal strife similar or worse than the Arab Spring arise in multiple nations as soon as the US government becomes preoccupied with skirmishes across the globe. Our outlook with regards to international relations is not good. We have never been closer to nuclear annihilation than we are about to become in the period since the Cuban Missile Crisis. On Meanwhile on the domestic front, new Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions will see law and order unravel as the Justice Department’s attention does a 180 degree turn. Sessions’ ties to white nationalists, and his overt racism, cost him a federal judgeship. Expect to see any federal law enforcement operations following white nationalist groups like the KKK, Neo Nazis, Aryan Brotherhood, Odinists, the Alt Right, paramilitary militia organizations, and Sovereign Citizens to all but vanish. White Nationalist groups will use this period as an opportunity to become the defacto “Brown Shirts” of the Trump administration as they see Trump’s ascendancy a sign that their race war is near. Hate crimes against ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, and LGBTQ peoples will continue to increase with impunity. The Justice Department will double down on the War on Drugs. Expect the DEA to return focus on state-legal pot operations. Very few users and purveyors of legal marijuana voted for Trump; this will be an opportunity to clear out the opposition. It will also be a financial boon for the private prison industry and wreak havoc on the the economies of West Coast. The EPA will become toothless. Should Myron Ebell take over as head of the Environmental Protection Agency he will gut it. He will make life for the bureaucrats and scientists who have worked at the EPA for decades so miserable that many will quit or retire. He will do one of two things: let the agency operate understaffed, or fill any openings with climate denial underlings who will keep the agency inept for generations. This means that violators of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act will likely go unpunished. Pipeline construction out of the Bakken oil fields will crisscross the continent and any spills or explosions will receive little to no attention from the federal agency. Expect air and water quality to continue to denigrate during the Trump administration as more lands are opened to fraking and energy exploration. Myron Ebell was satirically wanted by environmentalists at the Paris Climate Summit, now he is in charge of the agency which regulates our environment. For years Republicans in Congress have been trying to unload federal lands. Now that Republicans control all three branches of government, there is a higher than likely chance there will be a push for such a liquidation. Federal lands generate trillions of dollars to the US economy and provide recreation for millions as well as much of our potable water. The ultimate goal is to unload the lands onto the individual states who are not financially equipped to maintain such large tracts. The states will subsequently be forced to sell to the highest bidder; generally mining, ranching, and logging operations. Once these lands are out of the control of the state and federal governments it will be a free-for-all. Combine this with the future impotence of the EPA and we will see environmental degradation the likes of which the North American continent has never seen. With Trump’s appointee(s) to the Supreme Court the future of Roe v Wade and Marriage Equality are certainly doomed. Trump may say he has the backs of the LGBTQ community, but his selection of Mike Pence as his Vice President is proof that this is not the case. Lip service to the LGBTQ community will not matter to a man like Pence who believes in gay conversion therapy and the Orwellian named “religious freedom” legislation which allows the open discrimination of Americans by businesses based on religious grounds. We are in uncharted territory with never having had an Evangelical with as much power as Pence has. Further degradation of voting rights will occur as individual states make it harder and harder for minorities to vote. This will lead to more consolidation of power for Republican legislatures and Congress. States like Alabama recently required identification to vote and then closed 31 of its 67 DMVs to make it nearly impossible for millions of its citizens to obtain a valid ID. There is a direct connection that voter disenfranchisement won Trump the presidency and Republicans Congress in 2016. Donald Trump does not like native tribes. He blames Indian casinos for the collapse of his gambling interests in Atlantic City. He will seek revenge on them especially if tribes do not let him build his wall along the Mexico border, or readily construct pipelines through the nation’s heartland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjUQf8G2X4 National infrastructure may finally get the upgrades and maintenance it so desperately needs but it will come at a cost: ownership of almost all vital infrastructure. Trump’s stated plan for upgrading the nation’s vast networks of roads, ports, bridges, and sanitation networks involves using private capital rather than public bonds and taxes. Today when improvements are made, or new projects financed, the government sells low interest bonds to investors and pays back the loan via tax dollars. Trump wants to have private contractors use higher interest bank loans to rebuild infrastructure and in return the federal government will give the newly renovated infrastructure to the private company to run and profit from. This would turn hundreds of thousands of miles of roads into toll roads. Imagine paying a dollar a mile to cross the United States by highway. This will collapse the economy alone. Couple this with the ineptitude with which private industry runs public infrastructure and we will have a double whammy of projects which cost several times more than usual, and are rife with violations of federal law, questionable financials, and poor management. Who will ultimately own all this infrastructure should private industry default on the loans? Banks, of course! If you thought the housing bubble was big, just wait for the securities derivatives market to crash with trillions of dollars of what was publicly owned projects. It will cost us twice; once when we give away public property, and again when we bail out the banks and do not receive ownership of the infrastructure in return. At least when the bond market collapses the government can buy back the bonds and forgive its own debt. Information and the Media The consolidation of media distribution and communications companies is a real threat to not only the access Americans have to information, but to the economy as a whole. Net Neutrality is one of the strongest drivers of the economy giving all people equal access to the Internet and its services. Large telecom companies want to throttle back this access and create a market for high speed broadband access for users as well as distributors of content. A Trump FCC and Supreme Court will allow for the death of Net Neutrality. This will raise costs for consumers for substandard access to the Internet and media. It will bankrupt entire industries who cannot pay for their customers to access their content on the preferred networks of telecom giants like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. Trump has made no secret of his willingness to crush the free press. Should telecoms and ISPs be able to restrict access to the Internet for news sources and social media this could greatly impede the ability of the public to make informed decisions. Trump would like to see the press corps dissolve, and go about his administrative functions as the head of state for the most powerful nation on Earth unchecked. Outside of puff pieces, Trump does not want journalists reporting on him. We do not want to mince words. Trump will ruin the economy in the long term for short term gains. An economy is defined by the movement of goods, capital, services, people, and information. His infrastructure plan will impede the movement of people, goods and services. His media and communications plane will impede the movement of information. With the collapse of four of the five tenets of an economy the newly unregulated capital will also vanish. Which brings us to a very important topic… The Safety Net The Republicans in Congress want to privatize everything. Absolutely everything. They want to invest Medicare and Social Security into the stock market. This would increase the amount brokers and hedge fund managers would make on trades and gains on the market, with no skin in the game themselves, as 250 million Americans are compelled to pay into the gambles and whims of Wall Street suits. Today, should the market collapse, the last bastion of financial sanctuary for Americans is Social Security and Medicare. If the Republicans have their way, and invest Social Security and Medicare into the precarious market of a Trump administration, then should the market crash, then the populace of the entire nation also collapses. The Great Depression will have nothing on the ruin this act will wrought. This is Murphy’s Law 101. Trump, time and again, says that he wants to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. It has been two years and he has not stated what he would replace it with. Should Congress successfully repeal the ACA and 20 million Americans go back to being uninsured the political fallout for Trump would be very large. The President-elect also has plans to abolish the Veterans Affairs and privatize the VA hospitals. As it stands today, the VA, Medicare, and Medicaid are the three most effective and efficient providers of healthcare in the United States. The VA also enjoys the highest patient satisfaction of any hospital system in the nation. What the federal government provides in healthcare for one to two cents on the dollar, private industry does for 30 cents on the dollar. Under a Trump administration costs will skyrocket and care will vanish. When the past 8 years of growth the nation has experienced comes crashing down there will be no safety net for the populace since all of the reinvested Social Security capital will have vanished as well. We expect the military budget to explode. The continued privatization of military functions; the further closure of bases and consolidation leading to both lucrative construction contracts and pennies-on-the-dollar acquisitions of prime government real estate; and the rampant purchasing of non-effective military hardware will all contribute to the runaway military budget. Trump’s backing among infantry is unquestioned. His backing by commanders who control the nuclear arsenal is unclear. Considering Trump’s blasé attitude toward the use of nuclear arms terrifies those who manage such weapons, there is a real possibility Trump could order a first strike nuclear launch and those orders would be refused. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. What we will end up with in the near future is a bloated military budget, and a pentagon preoccupied with moving personnel from bases around the world and consolidating them here at home while international relations fall apart elsewhere on the planet. A tenuous situation to say the least. Trump’s impending incompetence, stripping of civil rights, and weakening of US military dominance around the globe, when combined with an impending economic collapse, means the overthrow of our government by a military faction to be a stronger than ever possibility. Authoritarianism and Fascism It is no small measure than many are concerned with Trump’s rhetoric with regards to his administration becoming authoritarian or even fascist. During the debates Trump said he would jail his opponent, he repeatedly quoted white nationalists and fascists on social media, and he wants even greater policing authority. Combine these attributes with his attitude toward a free press, satire and free expression, and his love affair with Hitler’s speeches, and we have a very real possibility that his narcissistic personality disorder could lead to an authoritarian crack down on dissent. We have never elected someone as dangerous as Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. He becomes bored with the details of the job, he is an admitted sexual predator, a fraud, and is interested in his own financial gain. Trump has been contemplating a run for the presidency for decades; he has thought about exactly how he will do this. The Institute for Science and Policy feels that a Trump Presidency has the very real possibility to seeing the end of Democracy, Liberty, and Rights in the United States. We do not want to mince words; he is a danger to us all. If even one of these outcomes were come true it would spell disaster for our nation and would be an historic failure of our system of government. Our goal is to not just spout doom and gloom, but to find solutions to these dangers as soon as possible. -Houston Wade, Executive Director, The Institute for Science and Policy alt rightaryan brotherhoodauthoritarianismbrown shirtscivil rightscoalcollapsedepressionDonald Trumpdoomeconomyepaestoniaexpectationsfascismfreedomhatehitlerinfrastructureivankalgbtqlibertylithuaniamilitary coupmilitiasminingnatural gasnazisnorth koreanuclear weaponspredictionsprivatizationracismrussiasciencesocial securitySteve Bannontheresistancevladimir putinwendi dengwest virginiawhite nationalismworld war threeWWIII Progress through research. The Overwhelming Evidence that Trump is an Agent of Russia, Part III The Circumstantial Evidence that Trump is an Agent for Russia, Part II The Circumstantial Evidence that Trump is an Agent for Russia A new method for fighting hate. 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__label__cc	0.669576	0.330424	Oregon Festival of American Music The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz. The Emerald City Jazz Kings The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis. Shedd Classical The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c. Shedd Theatricals Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s. Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah! Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know! The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more. Shedd Presents Shedd Presents offers a fascinating mix of special projects by top local artists. It regularly premieres projects that subsequently become permanent ongoing features in the Shedd mix. Shedd Welcomes Each year The Shedd Institute welcomes a wide range of concerts and special events presented by other community cultural, educational and social institutions. Shedd Music School Home The Shedd Community Music School's home page is the place to start for newcomers to get oriented on what we have to offer currently and throughout the year. Private Lessons at The Shedd Interested in private lessons? Over 40 Shedd faculty members offer private lessons in a variety of musical instruments, voice and dance and in different styles. All ages are welcome and lessons can begin any time. Current Classes & Camps Music and dance classes are offered on a term-by-term basis and most can be joined in-progress. Also don't miss our summer camps. Follow this link for a list of current and future terms. Music School Faculty The Shedd Community Music School's 40+ faculty members offer private lessons, workshops, and classes in a wide variety of musical genres and related genres. Follow this link to a listing of this term's active faculty. Open Auditions - February 16 (10 am - 4 pm Performance: Doin' The Raccoon Previous: Broadway Melody \| Next: I'd Rather Be Blue Over You In A Mist Bix Beiderbecke (m) Heard at The Shedd... Apr 24-30 Doin' The Raccoon Oct 6-15 Bixology The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts (The Shedd) E. Broadway & High Street, Eugene \| PO Box 1497, Eugene OR 97440-1497 \| Phone 541.687.6526 \| Tickets: 541.434.7000 \| Email: info@theshedd.net Copyright © 1991-2017 The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. All rights reserved. Shedd Institute Reviews Google+	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line407
__label__wiki	0.758097	0.758097	Portraits of a city's people, today Visual artist and set designer, WERKTANK (1976) Can you describe what you do? I’m a visual artist based in Batiment A; and co-partner at WERKTANK, a factory for both old and new media. My artistic journey crosses over into the visual arts, design, performance and a diverse range of working contexts. I live in Mollendaal, a small village in the countryside five miles away from Leuven. How do you perceive Leuven? Leuven is a medium-sized city, although it has been growing rapidly these previous years. A lot of buildings, squares and organisations have been created top-down by the city during the last eight years. At the same time, from my point of view, an immense amount of bottom-up initiatives is rising up, too. Leuven is transforming and growing rapidly. What would you say is Leuven’s main appeal as a city? What gives it its edge? Its small scale and strong local character, in combination with its international institutions and companies. Between 2011 and 2013, I was cultural ambassador for the City of Leuven. This gave me the opportunity to learn and experiment with what it actually means to create in and within a public space. How has Leuven contributed to making you who you are today? What role has the city played in shaping your outlook and career? Between 2011 and 2013, I was cultural ambassador for the City of Leuven. This gave me the opportunity to learn and experiment with what it actually means to create in and within a public space. It was a difficult and challenging journey, but it also allowed me to obtain an art practice which now responds to my imagination better. On a personal level, what would you like to see more of in the city? What could it do better? Although its cultural scene is growing rapidly, Leuven still lacks a broad and living art scene, like art galleries. If you had to take out-of-towners to one place that truly symbolises the city, what would it be? Of course, a visit to the city centre with its incredible Town Hall is a must-see, alongside the Oude and Grote Markt squares. Besides this, some of my favourite highlights are the M-Museum, climbing up the tower of the University Library and taking a break at the Keizersberg Abbey Park where you’ll have a splendid view overlooking Leuven. It’s just behind OPEK at the Vaartkom; where you can also have lunch and coffee, or attend a performance or theatre play. iefspincemaille.com ropeblog.net werktank.org Rope Making (c) Ief Spincemaille Related people → Bisser Sarah De Vos Sammy Ben Yakoub Hans Geyens Beatrijs Albers Rinus Van de Velde Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh Steven Vandervelden Eva Wittocx	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line411
__label__wiki	0.686868	0.686868	TODAY'S THINKING THINK POLITICS THINK CULTURE THINK BUSINESS Battle Of Britain latest – the Harris Tweed skirmish by Steve Sayers article from Tuesday 13, November, 2018 LAST WEEK the Scottish nationalist preoccupation with "flegs" waved its weary head above the parapets again, this time in Inverness. The stooshie revolved around a new shop in Inverness. (I won't name it here, as it’s probably still licking it's wounds and bemused after discovering this small but vocal prickly side of a minority of its local customers). The shop had the temerity of attaching priced sales tags emblazoned with the Union Jack (that flag that includes the Saltire) and the words “British Tweed” to some Harris Tweed products – probably made overseas, which is where much of the post-weaving product manufacturing of Harris Tweed takes place. You could be forgiven for thinking this true yet innocuous event wasn't of any consequence, sadly not. Some very vocal small minded anti-British Scottish nationalists spotted the, in their eyes, offending tags. Social media mayhem ensued along with about six Scottish mainstream news outlets (if you count The National as mainstream) stirring up the stooshie. They claimed The Harris Tweed Authority (HTA) had rapidly intervened and “instructed” the villainous shop to remove the offending price tags. (The Times, Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, Herald and National ). Here is some background (from the HTA website): HTA is the body tasked with protecting the unique qualities and brand of Harris tweed worldwide. Not only does it have a board and a CEO in Stornoway buy it has it's own British Act Of Parliament to help it - “The passing of an Act of Parliament in 1993 brought into being the Harris Tweed Authority, a new statutory body replacing the original Harris Tweed Association set up in 1909. The fundamental role of the organisation was to undertake responsibility for promoting and maintaining the authenticity, standard and reputation of the world famous HARRIS TWEED cloth. The Authority oversees the production and inspection of the cloth from start to finish and only when satisfied that the article is genuinely deserving of our historic Orb will we brand the cloth with the mark. The mark of the Orb, pressed onto every length of cloth and seen on the traditional label affixed to finished items, guarantees the highest quality tweed, dyed, spun and handwoven by islanders of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in their homes to the laws outlined in the Harris Tweed Act of Parliament.” The definition of HARRIS TWEED contained in the Harris Tweed Act of 1993 clearly defines HARRIS TWEED as follows: “Handwoven by the islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides.” "The Act ensures that all cloth certified with the HARRIS TWEED Orb symbol complies with this definition and is genuine HARRIS TWEED, the world’s only commercially produced handwoven tweed. The legislation and organisation allows the safeguarding of the HARRIS TWEED name, quality and reputation of HARRIS TWEED ensuring that every metre of the world famous cloth conforms to the same exacting standards and gives legal powers to address imitation and counterfeiting of the cloth worldwide.” You will have noticed that this amazing British protection for a Highlands and Islands product is unique, the only product protected this way for over 100 years, however, anyone in the world can buy Harris Tweed, and make it into products. (The kilt bag, photographed above, was hand made in Orkney.) It is only these products that can use the HTA proprietary branding with its wording and logo. In fact the HTA has just recently won a court-case and damages for an Edinburgh outlet incorrectly using Harris Tweed branding on its facade. Factually, Harris Tweed is a British product protected by a British Act of Parliament enforced by the HTA, which sees the people and community it protects and serves as benefiting immensely from its British protection. The tweed is undeniably Scottish, but equally undeniably it is British. Here’s an example of how being British and Scottish works to everyone’s advantage: Japan is one of Harris Tweed’s biggest markets and Britain helps it as much as it can with embassy promotion; July 2018 – “Two iconic Isle of Harris brands are to showcase their wares on a trip to Japan this week. “The Isle of Harris Gin and Harris Tweed will be showcased at a reception at the British Embassy in Tokyo where Fiona Hyslop MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, will promote Scotland as a home for Japanese investment. “Delegates will be offered the Isle of Harris Gin as a welcome drink before being given the opportunity to view Harris Tweed garments and accessories which will include a quirky ‘Hello Kitty’, the fictional character created by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu, clad in the textile. “The purpose of the visit is to build relations with the community of investors, trade partners, Scottish companies and intermediaries in Japan; while showcasing the best of Scotland on a global stage”. Likewise, the wee Inverness shop did nothing wrong at all – and contrary to the storm “in a British tea cup” the media had attempted to stir up – the HTA did NOT instruct or request the sales tags to be removed, they simply tweeted a four part twitter thread outlining their remit in an attempt to take the heat out the situation. It didn't work, the stooshie continued to cause embarrassment. The final part of the thread was very clear that NO action by HTA had been taken; “The union jack & any other labelling on a product made using HT fabric is branding ADDED by an independent retailer or manufacturer who has bought HT & manufactured it into finished goods. The union jack labels/tags were NOT produced by us, or by any of the HT mills. (4/4)” This did not suit the mob of howling social media nationalists, who kept on insisting they had somehow won the battle and that the HTA had delivered their killer blow for them. I'm fairly active on twitter and I like things to be reasonably fact-based and this fleg nonsense irked me (I have a blog on another Flag stooshie but that's a different fight), so I asked the HTA directly about their involvement; Me: “As reported in the press, did you instruct/ask the retailer to remove the British sales tags?” HTA: “Thank you Steve for contacting us. You're absolutely correct. The HTA has not instructed the removal of the ‘British Tweed’ sales tags”. Pretty damned clear to me. The actual skirmish and vocal stooshie was between a wee shop in Inverness (being intimidated to remove sales tags) and some petty and intimidatory vocal Scottish nationalists. There's probably only one response to this nonsense, which is to say to these shoulder-chipped and blinkered, flag-obsessed nationalists – get a life, stop interfering with a brilliant Scottish brand and doing potential harm to Scottish jobs. Or do these same woad-wearing Saltire wavers want Britain to stop protecting and promoting this iconic Scottish product which contributes squillions to Scottish GDP and protects the jobs and community lifestyle of the Highlands and Islands? Recent Today’s Thinking Jill Stephenson The Flat Earth Society is alive and well in Scotland Andrew Coventry Filling the vacuum increasingly left by Scotland's Conservatives Scottish Conservatives: a dearth of energy imagination and courage? Stands Scotland where it did? Dr Sutherland MacNeill BREXIT'S ALIVE! 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__label__cc	0.547058	0.452942	About VoyageLA VoyageLA FAQs East LA Mid-Wilshire South LA LA’s Most Inspiring Stories Hidden Gems: Local Businesses & Creatives You Should Know Portraits of the Valley Portraits of Hollywood A Tale of Two Friends Journey of a Lifetime The Quest to Empower Women How LA Foodies Get in Shape Check out Elizabeth Orleans’s Artwork Today we’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth Orleans. Elizabeth, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist. I was born in Philadelphia, PA. My mother received her master’s degree in interior architecture and design when I was very young and my great- grandfather, grandfather and father were all builders. I earned an MFA in ceramics at California College of the Arts and a BFA at Tulane University. I have taught since 1995 at various institutions including Alameda, Richmond and Merritt Colleges. In 2004 I created a site-specific installation of thousands of ceramic elements at the MOCA in Santa Rosa, CA and was awarded a grant from Bank of America to create the work. It was featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine and was shown at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in SF, CA and at the West Hollywood Library in LA, CA. Living in Venice Beach, CA, alongside the tradition of Southern California ceramic artists I pursue innovation in clay. I maintain a ceramic studio and open up to the community one night a week to teach a Ceramic Social class. We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work? I make hand built ceramic installations and sculptures. I am interested in altering pre-existing spaces by creating architectural interventions that penetrate boundaries and explore movement, change, and the infinite possibility of time. I enjoy changing a volume whether it’s a small square or the walls of a room. 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__label__wiki	0.532212	0.532212	Difference between revisions of "Guide to Evagrius Ponticus" GabrielBodard (Talk \| contribs) (categories and structure) TomElliott (Talk \| contribs) (added Joel Kalvesmaki as editor) * http://evagriusponticus.net/ ==Editor== * Joel Kalvesmaki ==Description== http://evagriusponticus.net/ Joel Kalvesmaki Digital-only, peer-reviewed reference work about the fourth-century monastic theologian Evagrius Ponticus (ca. 345-399). Updated quarterly, it provides definitive, integrated lists of Evagrius's works, of editions and translations of those works, and of studies related to his life and thought. The Guide also includes a sourcebook of key ancient testimonies to Evagrius and his reception, in English translation, as well as a checklist of images from the ancient world. The Guide takes relatively new approaches to open-access academic publishing in the digital humanities, and so is anticipated to develop over the coming years. Future editions will include a manuscript checklist, images of manuscripts, transcriptions of those manuscripts, and open-source critical editions of Evagrius's writings. Retrieved from ‘http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/index.php?title=Guide_to_Evagrius_Ponticus&oldid=5953’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line426

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