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__label__cc	0.651806	0.348194	« Readers’ wildlife photos It’s Khorana’s birthday! » WaPo: Oprah not good presidential timber The lead story on the NBC Evening News last night—the lead story—was the widespread call for Oprah to run for President in 2020. I was appalled: that’s the news I usually watch, and why should that be the most important story of the day. Indeed, the network issued this tweet, and then deleted it after pushback, saying that it was posted by a “third party”: And there’s this: Oprah for president? She’s got my vote. — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) January 8, 2018 Clearly the readers of this site don’t agree (yes, I know this isn’t a random sample of people, much less of readers). As of 6:30 this morning, these are the results of yesterday’s poll: 80% are on the “unenthusiastic” side, compared to only 9% “enthusiastic”. Frankly, I can’t understand those who are at all excited about Oprah’s running on the basis of a speech that, in retrospect, was not very original, getting approbation because it preached to the choir, and even called up the specter of Rosa Parks. (Can we let that poor woman rest instead of becoming a symbol for every form of social justice?) I hasten to add that, if the election were today and these were the candidates, I’d vote to Oprah over Trump and nearly all Republicans. But we can do better. For example, we could run someone who has political experience. Further, I’ve become a lot less enthusiastic about Oprah’s candidacy (I never was enthusiastic and voted “very unenthusiastic”) after several readers reminded us of Oprah’s history of endorsing dubious science, like that pushed by Dr. Oz, her promotion of the unctuous Dr. Phil, her hosting of anti-vaxer Jenny McCarthy, her pushing of the numinous “The Secret” (see below), and other antiscience or odious stunts she’s pulled. She has a weakness for woo, and that doesn’t bode well for a President. And the WaPo has weighed in on our side in a new article by Paul Waldman called “Get a grip, people, Oprah should not run for President.” A few quotes: If you watched her Golden Globes speech and said “She should run,” then the 2016 election and the first year of the Trump presidency have addled your brain. That’s not to say Oprah didn’t give a great speech, because she did, and speech-making is indeed part of running for and serving as president. Oprah has spent a career talking on television and connecting with audiences, and she’s very good at it. On the other hand, I could argue that she should be disqualified simply on the basis of her promotion of “The Secret,” a multimedia juggernaut that claimed that the entire universe and every moment of human experience are governed by “the law of attraction.” This is the idea that if you wish really hard for something — say, washboard abs or a new Birkin bag — it will, through the magical power created by your thoughts, find its way to you. With Oprah’s help, and because America produces an endless supply of gullible nincompoops, “The Secret” was a gigantic hit. Politics has never been immune to other brands of magical thinking, and there are few more powerful ideas among voters than the notion that there’s really nothing to being an officeholder, whether it’s a member of Congress or the president. An election never goes by without a healthy number of candidates claiming that they’re the best person for the job because they have no relevant experience and know nothing about it. “I’m a businessman, not a politician,” they declare, to the nods of their future constituents. If you needed a new roof put on your house and somebody came to you saying, “I’m a computer programmer, not a roofer,” going on to explain that the roofing business is a mess and all you need is some outside-the-box thinking to make your roof better than ever, you’d be a fool to hire him. Yet somehow the same logic doesn’t seem to apply when people think about whom they should elect. . . . It’s true that Democrats have underappreciated the importance of charisma in presidential politics. But the answer to those electoral failures isn’t to stop caring about substance. It’s to find candidates who are both charismatic and serious, who would be able both to win and to do the job once they took office. Guess what: Democrats have done this before! Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were fantastically compelling candidates who could also talk your ear off about policy. They knew how to work the political system, and they also knew how to sell. And it isn’t as though Democrats are going to have any shortage of choices in 2020. There will likely be at least a dozen people running, and if you’re a Democrat you’re probably going to like at least some of them. I hope so! I’m curious to see who will come to the fore among the Democrats. As I’m writing this listening to the morning local news, there was just a big segment on the local CBS affiliate talking about Oprah’s potential bid, and not mentioning anybody’s reservations. Waldman finishes this way: It’s a free country, and Oprah can run if she wants. If she does, she’ll have the chance to make her best argument for why she should be president. But if she runs, the idea of a Trump-Oprah throwdown will make the news media positively vibrate with glee. There’s a strong possibility that, just as Trump did in the 2016 primaries, she could suck up every ounce of media attention, limiting the ability of the more experienced and serious candidates to make their case to primary voters. Obama’s route to the presidency started with a great speech, too. But over the ensuing years, he proved he was worthy of the outsize expectations that had been placed upon him. It’s possible Oprah could prove herself worthy of the attention being put on the idea of her running for president. But she certainly hasn’t done it yet, and we should all be extremely skeptical unless and until she shows us why, beyond just being rich and famous, she’d actually make a good president. This movement is embarrassing to all progressives. It shows how desperate we are to seize on anybody with a public presence, regardless of whether they’d be a good person to lead our country. h/t: Grania This entry was written by whyevolutionistrue and posted on January 9, 2018 at 9:45 am and filed under politics. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. Davide Spinello Posted January 9, 2018 at 9:53 am \| Permalink And it confirms one more time that science denial and wo(o)rshipping is not exclusive of a specific political side. Curt Nelson This is false equivalency. The existence of woo on both sides is not the same as both sides having the same bad attitude about science. Republicans practically brag about their disrespect for science. They’re much worse than Democrats. I’ll add that some Republicans don’t merely brag about their anti-science attitudes, they run on them. Really? Can you explain to me the difference between climate change denial and anti vaccination? Or the difference between denial of evolution and denial of evolved brain differences between genders? By the way: differences to be understood at the population level with overlapping between distributions, just to avoid conflating statistical regularities with their means. A couple of comments. There is no difference in the percentage of Republican who are anti-vaxxers and the percentage of Democrats who are (12% vs 11%). There is a large difference in the percentage of Republicans who deny AGW vs Democrats who deny it (78% vs 36%) Therefore, both in percentage and impact (90% of each party are pro-vaccine, for example) there is a difference between between the parties from their respective anti-science nonsense. At least for these two issues. citations available upon request. The difference is that the anti-science causes are actually taken up and trumpeted by Republican leaders who say that not only is science just one way of knowing things but that it should be viewed especially skeptically because scientists tend to be liberal. Of course unscientific ideas are everywhere but they’re institutionalized in the Republican party. The difference is that the anti-science causes are actually taken up and trumpeted by Republican leaders who say that not only is science just one way of knowing things but that it should be viewed especially skeptically because scientists tend to be liberal. Few replacements and you get the following equally true statement: The difference is that the anti-science causes are actually taken up and trumpeted by academic leaders who say that not only is science just one way of knowing things but that it should be viewed especially skeptically because scientists use science to oppress minorities and enforce white supremacy and patriarchy. P.S.: I am in academia, I am not trying to attack academia as republicans often do. “Progressive” has become a pejorative for many of the same reasons “liberal” did. We who are need to take it back before it’s too late. It is my impression (I can’t prove this) that liberals are now not so reluctant to call themselves such. For the last 20 years or so the right has played the left like a fiddle. Proving themselves incompetent politicians, the left offered almost no resistance when the right demonized them. They all magically morphed into centrists. Bill Clinton played his role in this development by practicing the politics of “triangulation.” Bernie Sanders has led the charge for a reinvigorated liberalism. Whether this approach will electorally succeed for liberals and Democrats remains to be seen. But, could the left do any worse than what they have done recently? I doubt it. I agree. “Liberal” isn’t as much of an insult as it was in, say, the early 1990s. I’m not so sure the word has been rehabilitated solely by the machinations of the likes of the Clintons as it is by exhaustion of a label. Liberals never really deserved to be the butt of those insults; it was craziness of the kind we are seeing with today’s Regressives that drove much of the stereotype. Over time many people could see that we weren’t all that bad and the insult became tired. I don’t discount the re-reclamation work done by the centrists, though. That was necessary in some ways, though ugly to behold. Saner progressives need to take back control of the optics before it’s too late though I also agree that guys like Sanders help to mitigate the damage. remember “triangulating”? – one of the reasons I despised Clinton, but voted for him anyway. Bernie Sanders has also gone a long way to resurrect “socialism” as worthy of debate. In what ways, exactly? I don’t see that at all. By endorsing Linda Sarsour. Keith Douglas Especially in American terms, I would be labeled “liberal”. However, I don’t use the term because it is very vague as to what it actually involves. I am certainly not a Liberal in the Canadian political party sense. It is nothing more than knee-jerk reaction. Personally, I don’t think Trump will be around for 3 more years to run against and as was stated many times, there will be many other possible candidates for the democrats. If for some chance, Oprah was to attempt a run, I do not think she would get far. All of the many crazy ideas she has had in the past would be front and center. Trump was a terrible idea and is doing great damage on a daily basis, but this is not the answer. moleatthecounter I too dislike her for her love and constant promotion of the mystical, mythical and mysterious. As an aside… There are several photos of Oprah at (what I assume to be) previous Awards events, where she is clearly cosying up with Harvey Weinstein. That said, she is very powerful isn’t she.. perhaps she is one of the few that felt she could stand up to him. (Whilst kissing him on the cheek…) That ‘aside’ is at the core of what makes me vomit about that speech. She knew about Weinstein when cosying up to him. As for her praise for the press; sickening. She knows damned well how little regard for truth the press has. This #metoo movement is as cynical as hell. There is a concerted effort to limit it to being a gendered issue, an issue of women being persecuted by men. There are people trying very hard to keep Corey Feldman out of the picture because he can open up a can of worms that people don’t want opened. John Yarzagaray An op ed contributor at the NYT by the name of Thomas Chatterton Williams agrees with you and WaPo (and me!). Hopefully this idea won’t pick up any more steam than it already has. harrync If the poll question had been “How do you feel about having a President Oprah?” I would have voted “very unenthusiastic”. But the question was about her running for office. I think an Oprah campaign has the potential of bringing along a lot of down-ticket Democrats. If she could bring along a filibuster-proof Senate, it might be worth the cost of having a President Oprah. Not sure about this, so I voted “neutral”. Kevin Henderson I think you are right. An Oprah campaign would be positive, even if scientifically uninformed. Pragmatically, her feelings would overwhelm the direction of her decisions. I fear too that she is so emotionally driven, logic and ethics, too, would be shamefully compromised. I agree, and voted neutral for the same reason. Of all the things Oprah has done, it was her support of Deepak Chopra that put me off her. She launched him onto the world stage and was the reason he’s so successful at parting people from their money. She’s also had some ignorant stuff to say about atheists. I’m heartily sick of the attitude towards atheism in the US electorate. There’s a certain dot.com billionaire who’s suddenly reclaiming his Jewish roots and denying his atheism now he looks to be running for political office too. Joseph McClain Americans seem determined to establish a permanent ruling class based entirely on celebrity. I’ve seen the “Hollywood is America’s royal family” thing done a few times … There were periods of months for both Obama and Bush that went by and I did not hear their respective names spoken. I did not know what they were doing and they never told me they were geniuses. I want that back. Oprah and her ilk are the antithesis of that. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams Arthur C. Clarke expressed that same point once or twice also. For example in his novelization of Songs of Distant Earth. There was also something in the book about the more someone wants to be president, the less suitable they are for the job. I always wonder that Zaohod Beeblebrox isn’t brought up when discussing Trump, but then I’ve never written about the comparison myself either. Diana MacPherson Posted January 9, 2018 at 12:06 pm \| Permalink There is this article that many have been discussing as of late. Good article. I had a boss I would love to have sent this to! OMG. Zaphod Beeblebrox. It never occurred to me. Perfect. Or Prefect. 😀 musical beef John Frum Adams could certainly come up with the best names that could sound as if they should be rude such as Slartibartfast. He had said that for Slartibartfast he wrote down all the rude words he knew and then jumbled them up. HAha. I didn’t know that but I’m not surprised. T. Pynchon’s no slouch in the denominating department either. Farcelot Peniksfanker for the next president! So far, I’ve heard Kid Rock (some musician/rapper)saying he would run, people hoping that Dwayne Johnson “The Rock” would run, and now hoping for Oprah to save us all. All America wants is a rich- or perceived rich(DJT)- celebrity to be president. And don’t expect that to carry over to voting for senators and congress in those off years. XCellKen Kid Rock is supposed to run for Senator from Michigan…as a REPUBLICAN Hey, don’t count him out as a Presidential* prospect. We have gone from the reverential tones of “Now, anyone can become President,” referring to President Obama to the incredulous “Now, ANYONE can become President!” with our current one. chris moffatt “Now, anyone can become President”. Said many times of Ronald Reagan, the epitome of the american “dream” – “in America anybody can grow up to be president”. It’s a national tragedy of epic proportions that the last “good” president the USA had was Jimmy Carter. Maybe he was the last not completely a prisoner of the MIC. Charisma + Liberal Values + Vision + Intelligence + Experience + Public Service = Barack Obama. Certainly not a perfect president, but perhaps one of the best. Surely we can find someone out there (other than Oprah) with a similar combination of traits to get this country back on the rails? Not surprising that in this celebrity obsessed age where meaty, thoughtful, contemplation is so eagerly passed over in favour of sugary, snacky distraction that Oprah and Trump could be the best a political system can offer. What started as reality TV and gossipy web sites has become main stream news and politics. Scary. Sad. Disappointing. Just imagine the debates. Good grief. Craw At least they wouldn’t squabble over who has the bigger schlong. Rosie O’Donnell would FFS. No she wouldn’t. Or does a woman have to fit your particular stereotype for her to get any respect from you? I apologize if that was just a weak attempt at a joke and I’ve got you wrong. However, just making the joke in a forum like this says a lot. At least learn to pick your audience. I guess you didn’t hear what Rosie O’Donnell said to Ben Shapiro a few days ago ??? Speaking of stereotypes, sorry if my comment about something Rosie ODonnell ACTUALLY SAID offends you. After all, I’m a White Cishet Male from Texas. You know how we all are … Oprah and Trump aren’t the best the system has to offer. If the DNC hadn’t rigged the game Bernie Sanders would have been the democrat candidate and most likely would have won. Look up the report “the democratic party in crisis” a post mortem on the 2016 elections and see how much the democratic party elite have not learned. As for good candidates? Tulsi Gabbard for one if she doesn’t quit in disillusion. No doubt there are better candidates but they didn’t get put out there. The political system chose these duds instead. I understand the concerns, and while I really don’t want her as president, if she has the best chance of breaking the Republicans down, I am sorely tempted. Give me someone who reads books over someone who won’t even look at a one page summary. “Obama’s route to the presidency started with a great speech, too.” Yeah, Barry’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was quite a speech, as speechifying goes. But all that stuff about “purple states” and there not being “a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America”? Pretty to think so, but, at bottom, bullshit. We are a deeply divided nation with a two-party system that (unlike parliamentary systems) does not lend itself to coalition governing. Rights of all individuals must be held inviolate, but the key to governing this nation is for the less-dangerous Party to get to 50%-plus-1-vote and to set national policy. The decent Republicans have been in the “never Trump” camp from the get-go. There’s a chance to make common cause with them, and with the 10% or so of the American electorate that voted for Trump out of pure frustration. But the rest of the GOP is made up of hard-right wingnuts — Trump’s original, hardcore, bigoted, xenophobic, dead-end base — and the establishment tools who folded up like the cheap empty suits that they are in the face of the dead-enders’ early pro-Trump fervor. The rest of us must take pains to see that they never prevail electorally again. Give me a competent technocrat to lead the way in that fight over a celebrity any day of the week. When we have a good percentage of the red party, in and out of congress and a national television station who do not give a damn about Soviet interference with what little is left of our democracy, I do not see or hear of any one person who can fix this. Also, half the people or more do not even vote regardless of how critical the condition is and what and who they vote for seems not to matter. Good luck with that technocrat, whoever it is. You are quite right about Obama’s 2004 speech – very inspiring, but pure crap. However, I think he may very well have believed his rhetoric about “one America.” In my estimation, the greatest failure of his presidency was his delusion that he could actually work with Republicans. Not until late in his presidency did he finally wake up. I blame him in part for the disastrous mid-term elections of 2010. It just wasn’t in his nature to attack the Republicans with the vigor they deserved I agree. He kept trying to work with Republicans for far too long, even after McConnell’s speech that their primary goal was to make him a one-term president. So much for governing the country. Yeah, one image I kept hearing was “it’s like watching a boxing match where one opponent just blocks and never throws a punch”. Or something to that effect. It was great when he finally started carrying a big stick, but it was too little too late. If Oprah really wants to help she should move to Texas or some other powerful red state and run for a Senate seat. I think she would be a horrible POTUS, but she might make a great seat-flipping Senator. Oops…this was supposed to be a stand-alone post. I think she should run for senate too. And then if she turns out to be good at that, she can then think about the presidency. It’s a good idea to be an, ahem, Apprentice, before you go for the top job. You’d think someone else might have learnt that too over the years. “We are a deeply divided nation with a two-party system” And that folks is exactly the problem. There is nothing in the constitution that mandates a two party system. It is obvious that a third centrist party is needed and there are probably enough discontented people to form one. But nobody bothers to get involved. As Ariana Huffington pointed out long ago politics is not a spectator sport. And don’t bother with fringe groups like the greens and the libertarians which will never amount to much of anything. But as long as all most people will do is sit around idle, voting every few years when they feel like it (if they haven’t been illegally disenfranchised by one party or the other)and complaining about the outcome, nothing wil change. The entrenched beneficiaries are not going to destroy the ssystem “deep sigh” was the comment… The comedian Peter Cook said in the sixties “The Americans have a two party system very like our own British system. They have the Republican Party on one side which is very like our Conservative Party and on the other they have the Democratic Party which is very like our Conservative Party” I lived in Italy for 25 years and they have a REALLY multiparty system with proportional representation. Coalitions are the norm and I think the average life of a coalition (before Berlusconi) was about eleven months. They don’t have a new election at this point: they just shuffle alliances around and form a different coalition. They often talk of changing to “first past the post” which might favour a polarised big party system. I suppose, the two party system tends to be more stable (given the state of the US and UK governments, I had to bite my tongue to say that!) “I suppose, the two party system tends to be more stable” But if the stable situation you have is persistent, dysfunctional and toxic, that is NOT an advantage. That’s why I had to bite my tongue: a stable, long term system, if it has solid majority support COULD be a good thing. I suppose that is the basic hope of democracy. That it can actually be decisive and get things done. Decisive is actually a critical word: the US system with an executive president places decisive power in one individual (more than the UK or Italian systems). It can be quick acting and decisive. As we are learning this can also be a mixed blessing: a poisoned chalice or a shot in the foot. However, the current US system seems to have lobotomised itself. The EU has a bunch of countries each with its own political system and language and it’s HOPELESS at making collective decisions (not that I don’t love it just the same!). Any system can be “persistent, dysfunctional and toxic”, there’s the rub. The ‘first past the post’ voting system, which elects just one candidate from each constituency, strongly favours the establishment and perpetuation of a two-party system. Since few people want to ‘waste’ their vote on a candidate from a minor party who doesn’t stand a chance of getting elected. Some kind of proportional representation is the only fix for that, I think. That’s the Italian system: the President is not really executive either. The PM is more significant (like the UK system). You can’t have the PM from one party and the parliament from another (like the US system). Maybe that would be a good solution for the US: elect the two houses and the President is the head of the winning party. More effective, since the senate can’t stymie the president that way. The Italians don’t seem very happy with their system, in general. The other man’s grass….. The Berlusconi period was a bit like Trump except it went on for about 15 years. Permanent legal prosecutions. They said that he spent over a hundred million euros in legal costs over the years. Claimed the judiciary had a communist agenda (against him naturally). Some of his personal lawyers were also elected into parliament. If you think not having to deal with coalitions is a plus, then you should be able to get the best of both worlds with a voting system like choice voting or score voting. In the end, only one person is chosen, but you can vote for as many people as you like. Then people could vote for third parties without “wasting” their vote. I swear, a small change to our voting system (“pick some” instead of “pick one”) would have huge benefits for this country. Probably never happen, though… “But all that stuff about “purple states” and there not being ‘a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America’? Pretty to think so, but, at bottom, bullshit.” And yet, it worked. He ran his campaign on the same sentiment. I noted in the last Oprah post that, while policy will always be divisive, politics does not have to be. Obama ran a campaign convincing many Americans that it was possible to work as a country toward something better. Bill Clinton didn’t run divisive campaigns, nor did GWB. In fact, most campaigns for President weren’t built on candidates trying to portray the other side as evil until recently. Just as much of the GOP base is made up of wingnuts, a good portion of the Dems’ base is made up of people who consider anyone who doesn’t agree with them part of the “basket of deplorables.” But it doesn’t have to be this way. After four years of Trump, there’s a good chance that all but the 30% of die-hard Trump supporters who vote Republican will be sick of divisiveness, like most other people. It’s time to start running again on the idea of building a better country together, rather than sticking it to the other side. Richard Bond After the way in which she stood up to Trump, and after her polite but expert demolition of Ted Cruz, I would like to see Sally Yates as a candidate. (Of course I do not count, as I am from the UK, but I will stop commenting on USA elections when USAians stop referring to the POTUS as “the leader of the free world”.) What happens in the US effects all of us. Though we can’t vote in the US elections in the rest of the world, we have a right to express an opinion and I for one am not going to stop! Carry on Heather! 🙂 Please don’t stop expressing your opinion! I, for one, take comfort in the fact that the rest of world thinks we have gone quite mad. As I agree with them. You go, girl. Nobody puts Heather in a corner. 🙂 We Yanks give the rest of the world so much free entertainment with our politics, the least you can do is continue to share your insights with us. I like the knocks on people who actually think “I have no experience in politics and I’m proud of it” makes them good political material. But I think I can do one better. I’ve long held that the official slogan of the Republicans ought to be “Government sucks, and if you don’t believe me, put me in charge of government and I’ll prove it!” It always amazes me that people think a party that thinks government is such a bad thing would be any good at running it. The way the GOP presents itself as so anti-government is not the way similar parties do in the rest of the democratic world. Well they’re not are they? Look at their record since 1981. A litany of disaster. “The way the GOP presents itself as so anti-government is not the way similar parties do in the rest of the democratic world.” In fact it is, on occasion. I can recall election campaigns based on ‘cutting Government down to size’. Yes, though to me that;s not the same thing. sedgequeen I truly respect Oprah. (Not her deplorable lack of appreciation for science rather than wishful thinking, but no one’s perfect.) I admire her success in a business that uses women a lot, but in which women rarely succeed as she did. But success in one field does not equal success in all fields. I’m less impressed http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455255/oprah-winfrey-pseudoscience-and-new-age She’s woo, feels, and snake-oil. She’s a better huckster than Trump, and a politer one, but still a hornswoggler. As I’ve noted before, she doesn’t lack an appreciation of science. She’s smart enough to know that the woo she’s sold to make herself billions of dollars is BS. She has promoted dangerous misinformation and quack “medicine” to line her pockets and with no care for the consequences on public health and knowledge, preying on and increasing the ignorance of the public. If, in the future, there is an outbreak of disease that was previously prevented by vaccinations, she’ll have played a part in it. I think that you are overestimating her intelligence. I hope she runs and wins so that she can pair with Justin “shirtless” Trudeau and finally give the world the hope that it deserves. Their dreamy message of hope along with the universally accepted “your truth” paradigm will get North Corea and China on board. Chick Corea has a brother? He plays keyboards, too? 🙂 If boy-King “shirtless” Trudeau the second gives you hope, you haven’t been paying attention. I suspect Mr Spinello posted that with his tongue firmly in cheek. Damien McLeod Hey,If I had to vote for her or the Orange Sociopath, I’d vote for her, but very, very un-enthusiastically. Lorna Salzman Nominating Oprah Winfrey for president by the Democratic Party will simply repeat their error in nominating Hillary Clinton because it will assume that a woman of color can win the presidency with support only from blacks and women. Hillary’s loss proves that this is a fatal misconception. Winfrey will never get the white middle America votes that went to Trump. Let’s be realistic and stop thinking that voting based on morality never won elections. Beating Trump requires someone who can regain the support and votes of the workers and others who disliked or distrusted Clinton and might well have supported Sanders. Politically Correct voting based on race or gender is not only dumb but fatal. Let’s hope the Democrats regain their mental faculties before the next presidential campaign. I disagree. Most Whites do NOT see Oprah as Black. Kinda like Michael Jordan in that regard Prolly cause neither talks much/at all about Racial topics You mean the way Pino told Mookie in Do the Right Thing that black celebrities aren’t “really black. I mean, they’re black, but they’re more than black”?: You make several questionable assertions. 1) Democrats need white middle class votes to win the presidency. Of course, candidates try to win over as many constituencies as they can. But, regarding the 2020 election, the Democratic candidate (whomever it may be) does not require a greater percentage of white votes that Clinton received in 2016. This is because the states that Trump narrowly won and gave him the presidency (the rust belt states) will demographically see a rise in minorities. This in combination with a more attractive candidate than Clinton as well as greater voter turnout among minorities could easily tip these states into the Democratic camp. If Trump should be the Republican candidate in 2020, this will also help. 2) As I have stated previously, identity politics is the American way and is as old as the Republic. The Republicans have been masters in duping the public to believe that when blacks and other minorities vote in their perceived interests, this is bad identity politics, but when whites vote for racially motivated reasons, they are actually voting for some greater good and regarding them, the words “identity politics” must never be mentioned. I suppose the good white citizens of Alabama have never let the word “race” be a factor in who they vote for. I am not endorsing Oprah. This story will be quickly forgotten in a week. I just hope that people on the left do not fall into the trap of swallowing the right wing crap about the evils of identity politics. Thoughtful Republicans (what’s left of ’em) realize this, too. After Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential loss, the GOP commissioned an “autopsy” report that strongly suggested the Party start an outreach to minority and young and women voters. The Party then promptly defenestrated the report just as soon as Donald Trump and his hoard of ravaging barbarians arrived on the scene. The demographic handwriting is on the wall for the Republican Party. If it continues on its current course of appealing to an ever-shrinking base of disaffected older white voters in the South and rural America, it will doom itself to permanent minority-party status (although I fully expect that Donald Trump will tear apart the GOP as we know it before that day ever comes). That’s “horde” and the link should close after “report.” Criminy! This all sounds so convincing and you make good arguments. But I’ve heard it all before – how the Republican’s hold on power is crumbling and it will become a permanent minority party. I heard it during the Clinton years. I heard during the Obama years. I heard it early in the 2016 election year when no one thought Trump could actually win. This is the party that in much of the nation has a huge majority of seats in every political office from dog-catcher up to congress. I hope fervently that you and Historian are right, Ken. But I’m not placing any bets. Donald Trump won the presidency with just 46% of the popular vote, and despite 11 million more Americans voting for other candidates. This is a feat never pulled off before since the rise of our modern two-party system — an outlier unlikely to be duplicated anytime soon. Democrats often win more total votes for the Senate and House of Representatives yet end up the minority party in one or both houses, due to the nonproportional nature of Senate representation and to the ruthless Republican gerrymandering of House districts. There’s not much that can be done about the Senate (which the Democrats are within two seats of controlling anyway), but the Supreme Court will, let us hope, soon put an end to the House gerrymandering and to Republican voter-suppression strategies. The entire current Republican congressional agenda comes down to clinging fiercely to political power despite an ever-shrinking demographic base of support. This cannot succeed over the long-haul, particularly with the damage Donald Trump is doing to the Republican brand. The Republican party is expert at disenfranchising voters and getting them kicked off the lists. Also expert at screaming “Voter Fraud!” where none exists. All they have to do is “win.” How does not matter to them. I disagree with your definition of “identity politics”. What you describe is simply groups (who have some identity, of course) voting their interests. The kind of identity politics represented by Democrats, that Trump voters railed against, was the idea that our priority should be to help certain disadvantaged groups. Trump voters’ response was “What about us? Shouldn’t we be the priority?” “The kind of identity politics represented by Democrats, that Trump voters railed against, was the idea that our priority should be to help certain disadvantaged groups.” You may have a point here. Democrats want to help disadvantaged groups. Republicans want to help advantaged groups. Much of American history has revolved around these competing visions. Is my statement simplistic? Yes, but its essence is true. Statements like this awake my little inner devil that for a few minutes is happy that Trump won. I do not think that the flyover-land white working class, with their disappearing jobs and rising mortality, ara advantaged. To their concerns, Democrats replied with advice to check their white privilege (by the admission of some Democrats after the elections). Seems to me that identity politics centers on the idea that you are to considered (rewarded, punished, listened to, promoted, celebrated, etc.) based on the group you belong to, rather than on your personal merits, experience, talents, attitudes, morality, creativity, drive, sense of aesthetics, grit, persistence, and achievements. That idea will never appeal to me. And it cuts both ways, of course. I respect your attitude. But, in the real world rewards are often handed out by group membership. For example, a person of mediocre ability belonging to an upper middle class or upper class white family (think Donald Trump) will have all the advantages over a minority person raised in a deprived environment who is inherently talented. Indeed, but this is not what the game played by the current incarnation of the Democratic party is about. Kevin Lawson Not always. Trump would not have won against Obama in 2008. DT had his advantages by accident of history: His Dad had money. (He chose his parents well.) Now, he certainly had advantages in the attitudes of others towards him as a white male USian (as did I). I am fully in favor of offering equal opportunity to all and non-discrimination. But identity politics, as currently promoted and practiced by the Left, seems the opposite of this. It seems to specifically, explicitly, publicly (even promote as proposed public policy) honor or denigrate people based on membership of a group. (Jerry has posted on many examples of this.) The Left seems to have thrown away the ideas in King’s dream speech and have instead embraced the tools of their opponents — just with the tools pointed in the opposite direction. The idea that a “person of color” cannot be racist towards white people is a crystalline example of this. bonetired I suppose that it could be seen as an advantage of the Westminster system is that it is almost impossible for an outsider to become head of government without some form of political background since to become PM you must be an MP first which gives you grounding in the political system. Indeed most PM’s, Blair is an exception, have been cabinet ministers first. To come from outside to the top job, like Trump or, potentially, Oprah, could just not happen. You might dislike a party’s politics (as I do the both Tories and Labour) but the people in charge actually know how government works…. “most PM’s, Blair is an exception, have been cabinet ministers first.” And it showed… 😦 FloM As the NYT editorial put it: “If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete. The Oprah bandwagon betrays the extent to which social causes and identities — and the tribal feelings they inspire — have come to eclipse anything resembling philosophical worldviews. American politics has become just another team sport, and if suiting up a heavy hitter like Ms. Winfrey is what it takes to get the championship ring, so be it.” Hempenstein Just noting that Waldman uses “nincompoop” in his piece. A wonderful word, and one that always seemed to be somewhat of a term of endearment to me, I also assumed it originated in the ’20s/30s, probably from hearing it used in Depression-era comedies. But wait! Etymology: a contraction of the Latin, non compos mentis, that dates to 1680! laingholm non compos mentis I was looking for a something to describe American politics… something to put me at ease with the Bach i’m listening to and help digest my breakfast. That will do it ably, thanks. Thinking of the esteemed leader, ‘dis compos mentis’ comes to mind. That would make it ‘discompoop’.It would make a great verb: “The Potus has discompooped on Twitter again” There is an italian verb, ‘compostare’, which means ‘to mulch down to make garden manure’. Seems curiously apt in some way when applied to a person whose mental processes seem ever more entropic. I wonder if the relatively recent word, “numpty” is related. I like that name too but didn’t know nincompoop came from non compos mentis & I can imagine the educated, Latin speaking people using it with glee on the ignorant. These well educated 17th century people are wearing big wigs & thigh high, pointed boots in my mind as well. Also, some have monocles. Are monocles anything like barnacles? I would hate to wake up one morning covered in monocles! “Latin speaking people using it with glee on the ignorant.” We have one of these as Foreign Secretary: Boris Johnson. Prone to calculated nincompoopery himself (oftimes in Latin or Greek): gives populist appeal with the hoipoloi to an Eton educated twit, don’t you know! Tipped for the next PM. Wizard wheeze. Tally ho for North Korea. He also has funny hair. I have seen many positive initial reactions on social media to “Oprah for President” meme. I and many others have taken on the task of reminding people what Oprah really stands for. For example, take a look at Oprah.com. She really would be a sort of left-wing Trump. She would hug us rather than stab us but we would still end up hating it. Oprah is a good interpreter of literature, actress, and film/stage producer. But a president needs to be scientifically literate, as well as humanities-literate, and here I don’t think OW makes the cut. Rosa Parks gets mentioned a lot because she is both black and female and fairly early figure in the civil rights movement predating Martin Luther King, and catalyst of the Montgomery bus boycott. I had (HAD) high hopes for Eliot Spitzer. But then he imploded. Spitzer is the face of most politicians. Unfortunately, any presidential candidate belonging to a minority group will have a hard time avoiding the “identity politics” label and stigma. (Women are included here as we haven’t had a female president.) Obama did his best to avoid running as “the first black president”. Of course his voters and the press made that case for him. Obama was all about the job itself and his ability to do it well. Clinton did a much worse job in this respect, running too much under the “first woman president” banner. Clearly, slogans like “I’m with her” say nothing but to point out her gender. Oprah would fail in this regard. Her Golden Globes speech and much of what she’s done have been riddled with identity politics. Her lack of political experience make it impossible to run on anything else. I think that Oprah has great presidential timbre. On another Oprah issue, I am not so sure that encouraging people to “speak your truth”, as she said at the Golden Globes, would in any way establish the veracity of a proposition. In the context of sexual bullying, and rape, the “truth” of an accusation would be simply countered by a statement of “truth” from the accused denying the offense. Language. It changes, I know. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” In fact, yes, the veracity of a proposition is established by speaking truth. “He said, she said,” and she loses, but “She said, she said, she said, she said, she said….” is kicking ass now. Speak your truth. It’s true…it works. Ullrich Fischer Nina Turner checks all the boxes: Black, Female, progressive, lots of government experience. She would be a great candidate for the DEMs but probably won’t be chosen because the plutocrats buying up both parties these days would see her as a threat to their continued plundering of the wealth of the world. Oprah would win. She would generate some enthusiasm and most importantly, few people hate her. Until a more experienced Dem comes along who could also win, Oprah should be the front-runner. Obviously Hillary would have made a way better president than Oprah could ever be, but Hillary was the most misogyny-soaked woman in America. 2020 is going to be all about finding someone with an enthusiastic base who is not hated. Even racists like Oprah because she made it possible for them to say, “I can’t be a racist–I watch Oprah!” “Oprah would win” This statement can’t be the result of any careful analysis. You have no idea how she would even campaign or whether she’s cut out for it, not to mention what people will think once talk of her various business ventures (Dr. Oz medical quackery, Deepak Chopra and The Secret BS spirituality, Dr. Phil crap pop-psych, Jenny McCarthy anti-vaccination loony tunes) and other things begins if she decides to throw her hate in the ring. Moreover, her cult of personality may reach even extend to ten million people, but it’s probably not as widespread as you think, and I imagine it’s almost exclusively among Democrats (I’m sure some people not in the Dem base like her, but not to the worshipful extent I’m talking about). She has no policy positions and you have no idea what will happen if and when she trots some out. Nobody knows if she’ll be any good at debating or having rallies or answering tough interviews. We basically know nothing about her and how she would actually fare as a candidate, nor whether she has significant dirty laundry waiting to come out. Oh, and it seems many liberals here (including me) are very unenthusiastic about her and, while they don’t hate her, hate the idea of her becoming President. Angelo Devlin It is unconscionable that after the mess we are in any part of the collective thinks a “famous” person can fix it. Anyone looking to lead and manage a complex situation ought become an outlier in that realm. If people really want to take her seriously, a city council would be a good place to start. “Because if it’s really just the fault of these politicians then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, inteligent americans ready to step in and save the Nation and lead the way?” – George Carlin I don’t know. At this point I’m so sick of incompetent celebrity candidates, I’m ready to vote for any old “just plain Joe.” I would vote for Grumpy Cat. (She already has a competent staff working with her.) Maybe plain old John, as in Hickenlooper. Are there things worse than Trump or Oprah? Sarah Palin comes to mind. Remember her? Oprah vs Sarah Palin. One cunning and full of woo, the other demonstrably full of – well, not a lot, actually. I don’t know why I thought of that except, back then, everyone heaved a sigh of relief and figured they’d dodged a bullet… Sarah Palin? The young ambitious know-nothing picked as VP by the very old guy… what could have gone wrong had they won. In America, we seem to be lowering the bar (and expectations) each time. markew2013 Both the D and the R parties are dying off. Both are authoritarian nightmares. They are the real plunderers of our nations wealth, with out of control spending and corporatism. Oprah would be the next natural evolution. A progressive anti-science fool with no experience, who would govern with big ‘ol hugs. “A progressive anti-science fool with no experience, who would govern with big ‘ol hugs.” I would prefer being hugged to being strangled. And Oprah can learn. And the entire world will “pay the tuition” of Oprah learning new tricks. Please, dear Americans, do not cause this to us! By 2020, there may be so little left working, not even celebrities will want the job. On the poll, I went with Mildly Enthusiastic. I would want to take a wait-and-see approach to any policy ideas that Oprah might want to float before making a decision. At this point, I can’t come down strongly against Oprah as a presidential candidate for one reason… Some of the comments I’ve seen about her bring to mind the extreme bashing Hillary received. I think a lot of that was purely gender-based. I would hope that, if Oprah chooses to run, we would try to listen to what she actually has to say, versus bashing her right out of the gate. I’m well disposed to the general idea of a woman President. Michelle Obama would be great (and in saying that, I don’t claim to know a vast amount about Michelle, that’s just my general impression). Oprah, on the other hand, unfortunately has a history of promoting woo, as many commenters have noted. That’s not a gender thing, it would apply just as strongly to Deepak for example… I voted mildly unenthusiastic. The only reason I didn’t say “Hell no!” is that I’d take ANY Dem instead of der Drumpfenführer. At least on this site, I haven’t seen a single comment regarding why Oprah shouldn’t be a serious candidate that took her gender into account. I hope you’re not suggesting that the extreme distrust of an ignorance-promoting celebrity we’re seeing is somehow the result of her being a woman. It’s an easy and convenient way to dismiss criticism, but it isn’t right. I wasn’t referring specifically to comments on this site; I was referring to comments I’ve seen on Twitter and elsewhere. There’s just something about the strident tone of some of the comments I’ve seen that reminded me of the way people talked about Hillary. As others here have said, no one knows what Oprah’s policies are. I’m just saying that I’m willing to wait to hear them before dismissing them (and her) out of hand. I share your distrust of the “woo” things Oprah has promoted; that’s why I gave her only a “Mildly Enthusiastic” rating. I think that Clinton deserved much of the bashing, and would receive it even if she were male. Other things aside, after Bush Jr., Americans seem to have learned their lesson not to elect a president with the same family name as a previous president. Jeb Bush was discarded early in the campaign. I do not understand why Michelle Obama is mentioned time and again as a suitable candidate. Unless you want more Republican presidency, she should stay out. Jonathan Wallace “She has a weakness for woo, and that doesn’t bode well for a President.” That’s true but unfortunately it seems not to be an impediment to becoming president. Oprah gets the “at least she’s not crazy” vote. Smokedpaprika I hope she doesn’t run. She should continue her charitable works, unimpeded. Also, reports say that she’s been fairly chummy with Harvey the predator. How could she, given her stature and connections in the entertainment industry, not have known that there was something awfully fishy about the man? http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/awards/golden-globes/oprahs-relationship-with-weinstein-highlighted-amid-presidential-rumours/news-story/3e03b57ff6bcb7caf2415655deaa34b6 Surely the US needs a president who’s well-versed in the law, has experience in politics, and is above reproach. gluonspring God, I hope Democrats reject this idea. We need at least one party vaguely committed to competence. All this speculation- but who are you seeing as Oprah’s opposition in 2020? Oprah v Donald Trump? Or, a stronger race: Oprah v Ivanka Trump. Don’t think it couldn’t happen. If you need someone charismatic like Oprah, then why not Neil degrasse Tyson? deGrasse…..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1987
__label__wiki	0.804599	0.804599	A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds. Philly refiner’s push to maintain ban on U.S. crude oil exports goes against trend Katie Colaneri The largest oil refinery complex on the eastern sea board (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks) In early 2012, the refining business in Southeast Pennsylvania was on life support until a glut of cheap American oil and natural gas revived the industry. Now, oil producers want to sell to higher bidders overseas and some lawmakers are pushing to lift a longstanding ban on crude oil exports. The ban dates back to December 1975 when Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo. The law forbids exports of crude oil, but gives the president power to grant exceptions if it would benefit the country. “It was a period of tumult in energy,” said Philip Verleger, an energy economist based in Colorado. “The whole theory was U.S. oil for U.S. consumers.” Forty years later, as domestic production surges, the conversation is changing. But Phil Rinaldi, CEO of Philadelphia Energy Solutions, is among those who want to keep things status quo, as far as the ban on oil exports is concerned. Once slated for closure in August 2012, PES has become the single largest consumer of crude oil from North Dakota, where the Bakken Shale is producing less than 1 million barrels a day. “That’s the America that I like,” Rinaldi said. “The one where we are treated like a colony and we take our natural resource and we ship that overseas, allow someone overseas to add value to it and then sell us back higher-priced products, that doesn’t sound like that’s progress for the country.” Rinaldi admits it’s also good for his bottom line. Reuters reported earlier this month that Rinaldi participated in a call led by New Jersey-based refiner PBF Energy to garner interest in a lobbying effort against lifting the ban. Delta Air Lines, which now owns a refinery in Delaware County to make its own jet fuel, was also reported by Reuters to be on the call. Rinaldi won’t say whether he participated in the call or whether he intends to pursue a formal lobbying campaign, but he told StateImpact Pennsylvania he is “never going to be shy” as the debate heats up in Washington. However, it’s clear he and other refiners will be in the minority, as most of the oil industry wants to lift the export ban. Casting it as economic vs. political issue “We fundamentally believe that it’s the markets that should make these decisions, not political decisions that were made 40 years ago,” said John Felmy, chief economist with the industry trade group, the American Petroleum Institute. Domestic crude oil production is approaching historical highs of less than 10 million barrels per day, levels not seen since 1970, according to the Energy Information Administration’s annual Energy Outlook. Many American refineries aren’t designed to process the kind of light, sweet crude oil that’s coming out of North Dakota, the kind at the heart of Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ business plan. Refiners in Europe are thirsty for it and willing to pay more. “We need to go back and rethink what it’s like today,” Felmy said. “We’re no longer in a period of energy scarcity. We’re moving into an area of energy abundance.” Much of the debate in Washington will center on what’s going to happen to oil prices. Refiners such as Rinaldi argue lifting the ban will make crude oil more expensive, ultimately raising prices at the gas pump. The American Petroleum Institute says if oil prices go up, it will stabilize the market and encourage domestic producers to keep drilling. “It’s more like moving money from one industry to another industry,” said Verleger. “It’s just a standard economic battle or elbow wrestling match.” Oil producers see an opportunity to make more money and they’re going for it — at the expense of certain refiners. Verleger doesn’t think it will pay off, but consumers might win out in the end. “There’s almost in this a ‘be careful what you wish for, you may get it’ element and if they lift the ban on exports, crude prices could drop down and consumers could see lower gasoline prices,” Verleger said. With a divided Congress facing midterm elections, the battle is bound to be long. Having the debate at all shows just how much about America’s energy situation has changed in 40 years. This story was originally published on StateImpact Pennsylvania, a joint energy and environmental reporting project by WITF and WHYY. Trump tariffs could squash Pa.’s new wine scene A recent change in Pennsylvania's liquor law has helped expand the wine scene in the Philly region. Could retaliatory tariffs against the EU squash it? Mack Trucks to lay off 300 at Pa. assembly plant The company is blaming the layoffs at its Lower Macungie Township plant on a downturn in the heavy-duty truck market. Underfunded IRS struggles to send refunds, answer calls Burdened with years of budget cuts and a recent increase in workload to implement new tax law, the IRS is struggling to deliver on its mission. About Katie Colaneri @katiecolaneri kcolaneri@whyy.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1988
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__label__cc	0.675126	0.324874	Difference between revisions of "Schulze method" From Electowiki (→‎Software: +Modern Ballots) Homunq (talk \| contribs) === General === * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/propstat.pdf Proposed Statutory Rules for the Schulze Single-Winner Election Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/propstat.pdf Proposed Statutory Rules for the Schulze Single-Winner Election Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/resources/submissions/csharman-10_0409201706-143.pdf A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method] by Markus Schulze (mirrors: [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/demexp-dev/2003-09/pdflQW7IlpAfC.pdf] [http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE17/I17P3.PDF]) * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf A New Monotonic, Clone-Independent, Reversal Symmetric, and Condorcet-Consistent Single-Winner Election Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/schulze1.pdf A New Monotonic, Clone-Independent, Reversal Symmetric, and Condorcet-Consistent Single-Winner Election Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze2.pdf Free Riding and Vote Management under Proportional Representation by the Single Transferable Vote] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/schulze2.pdf Free Riding and Vote Management under Proportional Representation by the Single Transferable Vote] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze3.zip Implementing the Schulze STV Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/schulze3.zip Implementing the Schulze STV Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze4.pdf A New MMP Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/schulze4.pdf A New MMP Method] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze5.pdf A New MMP Method (Part 2)] by Markus Schulze * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/schulze5.pdf A New MMP Method (Part 2)] by Markus Schulze === Tutorials === * [http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ki/teaching/ss09/gametheory/spieltheorie.pdf Spieltheorie] by Bernhard Nebel * [http://m-schulze.webhop.net/serie3_9-10.pdf Schulze-Methode] by the University of Stuttgart * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/serie3_9-10.pdf Schulze-Methode] by the University of Stuttgart === Advocacy === <!-- this section contains a lot of links; please try to keep it organized by the author's last name. --> * [http://www.condorcet.org/emr/methods.shtml Election Methods Resource] by Blake Cretney * [http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/vm/survey.htm#beatpath Voting Methods Survey] by James Green-Armytage * [http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~legrand/rbvote/desc.html Descriptions of ranked-ballot voting methods] by Rob LeGrand * [http://www.math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/votedesc.pdf Descriptions of voting systems] by Warren D. Smith * [http://home.earthlink.net/~peter.a.taylor/swuusi.pdf Election Systems] by Peter A. Taylor * [http://m-schulze-2.webhop.net/wilke.pdf Personalisierung der VerhÃ¤ltniswahl durch Varianten der Single Transferable Vote] by Martin Wilke * [http://m-schulze.9mail.de/wilke.pdf Personalisierung der VerhÃ¤ltniswahl durch Varianten der Single Transferable Vote] by Martin Wilke * [http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/10161/1278/1/Wright_Barry.pdf Objective Measures of Preferential Ballot Voting Systems] by Barry Wright * [http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~W.Liu/ecsqaru-paper-46.pdf Approaches to Constructing a Stratified Merged Knowledge Base] by Anbu Yue, Weiru Liu, and Anthony Hunter * ''Understanding Modern Mathematics'' by Saul Stahl and Paul E. Johnson (ISBN 0-7637-3401-2) * Christoph BÃ¶rgers (2009), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dccBaphP1G4C&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=&f=false Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division]'', SIAM, ISBN 0-8987-1695-0 * ''Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice'' [http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Collective_Decisions_and_Voting_Index.pdf] by Nicolaus Tideman (ISBN 0-7546-4717-X) * Saul Stahl and Paul E. Johnson (2006), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=CMLL9sVGLb8C&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q=&f=false Understanding Modern Mathematics]'', Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 0-7637-3401-2 * Nicolaus Tideman (2006), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RN5q_LuByUoC&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q=&f=false Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice]'' [http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Collective_Decisions_and_Voting_Index.pdf], Burlington: Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-4717-X === Newspaper articles === * [http://selectricity.org/ Selectricity] and [http://rubyvote.rubyforge.org/ RubyVote] by Benjamin Mako Hill [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/voting-tt0312.html] [http://labcast.media.mit.edu/?p=56] * [http://relet.net/frog/archives/52 Java implementation of the Schulze method] by Thomas Hirsch * [https://bitbucket.org/capitol/schulze schulze implementation] implementation in c++ with python bindings by Alexander KjÃ¤ll * [http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Electowidget Electowidget] by Rob Lanphier * [http://www.votator.com Votator.com] by Louis Philippe Lessard [http://www.votator.com/howitworks.html] * [http://www.votator.com Votator.com] by Louis Philippe Lessard [http://www.votator.com/howitworks/] * [http://www.livejournal.com/community/evan_tech/124253.html Haskell Condorcet Module] by Evan Martin * [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html Condorcet Internet Voting Service (CIVS)] by Andrew Myers * [http://betterpolls.com/ BetterPolls.com] by Brian Olson * [http://www.openstv.org/ OpenSTV] by Jeffrey O'Neill * [http://github.com/bradbeattie/Election-Web-Service Election Web Service] implements both the Schulze method and Schulze STV, with an associated interface at [http://www.modernballots.com Modern Ballots] * [http://github.com/bradbeattie/Election-Web-Service Election Web Service] implements both the Schulze method and Schulze STV, with an associated interface at [http://www.modernballots.com Modern Ballots] === Legislative project === {{fromwikipedia}} [[Category:Single-winner voting methods]] [[Category:Condorcet method]] The Schulze method is a voting system developed by Markus Schulze that selects a single winner using votes that express preferences. The Schulze method can also be used to create a sorted list of winners. The Schulze method is also known as "Schwartz sequential dropping" (SSD), "cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping" (CSSD), "beatpath method", "beatpath winner", "path voting", and "path winner". If there is a candidate who is preferred over the other candidates, when compared in turn with each of the others, the Schulze method guarantees that that candidate will win. Because of this property, the Schulze method is (by definition) a Condorcet method. Note that this is different from some other preference voting systems such as Borda and Instant-runoff voting, which do not make this guarantee. Many different heuristics for the Schulze method have been proposed. The most important heuristics are the path heuristic and the Schwartz set heuristic. 1 The path heuristic 1.1 Procedure 1.2 Remark 1.3 Implementation 1.4 Examples 1.4.1 Example 1 2 The Schwartz set heuristic 2.1 The Schwartz Set 2.3 An Example 2.3.1 The Situation 2.3.2 Pairwise Winners 2.3.3 Dropping 2.3.4 Ambiguity Resolution Example 3 Satisfied Criteria 4 History of the Schulze method 5 Use of the Schulze method 5.1 Wikimedia Foundation, 2008 6.2 Tutorials 6.3 Advocacy 6.4 Research papers 6.5 Books 6.6 Newspaper articles 6.8 Legislative project The path heuristic Each ballot contains a complete list of all candidates. Each voter ranks these candidates in order of preference. The individual voter may give the same preference to more than one candidate and he may keep candidates unranked. When a given voter does not rank all candidates, then it is presumed that this voter strictly prefers all ranked candidates to all not ranked candidates and that this voter is indifferent between all not ranked candidates. Suppose d[V,W] is the number of voters who strictly prefer candidate V to candidate W. A path from candidate X to candidate Y of strength p is a sequence of candidates C(1),...,C(n) with the following five properties: C(1) is identical to X. C(n) is identical to Y. For all i = 1,...,(n-1): d[C(i),C(i+1)] > d[C(i+1),C(i)]. For all i = 1,...,(n-1): d[C(i),C(i+1)] ≥ p. p[A,B], the strength of the strongest path from candidate A to candidate B, is the maximum value such that there is a path from candidate A to candidate B of that strength. If there is no path from candidate A to candidate B at all, then p[A,B] : = 0. Candidate D is better than candidate E if and only if p[D,E] > p[E,D]. Candidate D is a potential winner if and only if p[D,E] ≥ p[E,D] for every other candidate E. It is possible to prove that p[X,Y] > p[Y,X] and p[Y,Z] > p[Z,Y] together imply p[X,Z] > p[Z,X]. Therefore, it is guaranteed (1) that the above definition of "better" really defines a transitive relation and (2) that there is always at least one candidate D with p[D,E] ≥ p[E,D] for every other candidate E. Suppose C is the number of candidates. Then the strengths of the strongest paths can be calculated with the Floydâ€“Warshall algorithm. Input: d[i,j] is the number of voters who strictly prefer candidate i to candidate j. Output: Candidate i is a potential winner if and only if "winner[i] = true". 1 for i : = 1 to C 2 begin 3 for j : = 1 to C 4 begin 5 if ( i â‰ j ) then 6 begin 7 if ( d[i,j] > d[j,i] ) then 8 begin 9 p[i,j] : = d[i,j] 10 end 11 else 12 begin 13 p[i,j] : = 0 15 end 16 end 19 for i : = 1 to C 20 begin 21 for j : = 1 to C 22 begin 23 if ( i â‰ j ) then 24 begin 25 for k : = 1 to C 27 if ( i â‰ k ) then 28 begin 29 if ( j â‰ k ) then 30 begin 31 p[j,k] : = max { p[j,k]; min { p[j,i]; p[i,k] } } 32 end 33 end 41 winner[i] : = true 50 if ( p[j,i] > p[i,j] ) then 52 winner[i] : = false Example (45 voters; 5 candidates): 5 ACBED 5 ADECB 8 BEDAC 3 CABED 7 CAEBD 2 CBADE 7 DCEBA 8 EBADC d[,A] d[,B] d[,C] d[,D] d[,E] d[A,] d[B,] d[C,] d[D,] d[E,] The matrix of pairwise defeats looks as follows: The critical defeats of the strongest paths are underlined. ... to A ... to B ... to C ... to D ... to E from A ... A-(30)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B A-(30)-D-(28)-C A-(30)-D A-(30)-D-(28)-C-(24)-E from B ... B-(25)-A B-(33)-D-(28)-C B-(33)-D B-(33)-D-(28)-C-(24)-E from C ... C-(29)-B-(25)-A C-(29)-B C-(29)-B-(33)-D C-(24)-E from D ... D-(28)-C-(29)-B-(25)-A D-(28)-C-(29)-B D-(28)-C D-(28)-C-(24)-E from E ... E-(31)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B-(25)-A E-(31)-D-(28)-C-(29)-B E-(31)-D-(28)-C E-(31)-D The strongest paths are: p[,A] p[,B] p[,C] p[,D] p[,E] p[A,] p[B,] p[C,] p[D,] p[E,] The strengths of the strongest paths are: Candidate E is a potential winner, because p[E,X] ≥ p[X,E] for every other candidate X. As 25 = p[E,A] > p[A,E] = 24, candidate E is better than candidate A. As 28 = p[E,B] > p[B,E] = 24, candidate E is better than candidate B. As 28 = p[E,C] > p[C,E] = 24, candidate E is better than candidate C. As 31 = p[E,D] > p[D,E] = 24, candidate E is better than candidate D. As 28 = p[A,B] > p[B,A] = 25, candidate A is better than candidate B. As 28 = p[A,C] > p[C,A] = 25, candidate A is better than candidate C. As 30 = p[A,D] > p[D,A] = 25, candidate A is better than candidate D. As 29 = p[C,B] > p[B,C] = 28, candidate C is better than candidate B. As 29 = p[C,D] > p[D,C] = 28, candidate C is better than candidate D. As 33 = p[B,D] > p[D,B] = 28, candidate B is better than candidate D. Therefore, the Schulze ranking is E > A > C > B > D. 5 ACBD 2 ACDB 3 ADCB 4 BACD 3 CBDA 3 CDBA 1 DACB 5 DBAC 4 DCBA A-(20)-C-(21)-B A-(20)-C A-(20)-C-(17)-D B-(19)-A B-(19)-A-(20)-C B-(19)-A-(20)-C-(17)-D C-(21)-B-(19)-A C-(21)-B C-(17)-D D-(18)-B-(19)-A D-(18)-B D-(18)-B-(19)-A-(20)-C Candidate D is a potential winner, because p[D,X] ≥ p[X,D] for every other candidate X. As 18 = p[D,A] > p[A,D] = 17, candidate D is better than candidate A. As 18 = p[D,B] > p[B,D] = 17, candidate D is better than candidate B. As 18 = p[D,C] > p[C,D] = 17, candidate D is better than candidate C. Therefore, the Schulze ranking is D > A > C > B. 3 ABDEC 5 ADEBC 2 BADEC 2 BDECA 4 CABDE 2 DBECA 5 DECAB A-(18)-B A-(21)-D-(20)-C A-(21)-D A-(21)-E B-(19)-E-(20)-C-(19)-A B-(19)-E-(20)-C B-(19)-E-(20)-C-(19)-A-(21)-D B-(19)-E C-(19)-A C-(19)-A-(18)-B C-(19)-A-(21)-D C-(19)-A-(21)-E D-(20)-C-(19)-A D-(20)-C-(19)-A-(18)-B D-(20)-C D-(30)-E E-(20)-C-(19)-A E-(20)-C-(19)-A-(18)-B E-(20)-C E-(20)-C-(19)-A-(21)-D Candidate B is a potential winner, because p[B,X] ≥ p[X,B] for every other candidate X. As 19 = p[B,A] > p[A,B] = 18, candidate B is better than candidate A. As 19 = p[B,C] > p[C,B] = 18, candidate B is better than candidate C. As 19 = p[B,E] > p[E,B] = 18, candidate B is better than candidate E. As 21 = p[A,E] > p[E,A] = 19, candidate A is better than candidate E. As 30 = p[D,E] > p[E,D] = 19, candidate D is better than candidate E. Therefore, the Schulze ranking is B > A > D > E > C. Example (9 voters; 4 candidates): 3 ABCD 2 DABC 2 DBCA A-(5)-B A-(5)-C A-(5)-C-(5)-D B-(5)-D-(6)-A B-(7)-C B-(5)-D C-(5)-D-(6)-A C-(5)-D-(6)-A-(5)-B C-(5)-D D-(6)-A D-(6)-A-(5)-B D-(6)-A-(5)-C Candidate B and candidate D are potential winners, because p[B,X] ≥ p[X,B] for every other candidate X and p[D,Y] ≥ p[Y,D] for every other candidate Y. As 7 = p[B,C] > p[C,B] = 5, candidate B is better than candidate C. As 6 = p[D,A] > p[A,D] = 5, candidate D is better than candidate A. Possible Schulze rankings are B > C > D > A, B > D > A > C, B > D > C > A, D > A > B > C, D > B > A > C, and D > B > C > A. The Schwartz set heuristic The Schwartz Set The definition of a Schwartz set, as used in the Schulze method, is as follows: An unbeaten set is a set of candidates of whom none is beaten by anyone outside that set. An innermost unbeaten set is an unbeaten set that doesn't contain a smaller unbeaten set. The Schwartz set is the set of candidates who are in innermost unbeaten sets. The voters cast their ballots by ranking the candidates according to their preferences, just like for any other Condorcet election. The Schulze method uses Condorcet pairwise matchups between the candidates and a winner is chosen in each of the matchups. From there, the Schulze method operates as follows to select a winner (or create a ranked list): Calculate the Schwartz set based only on undropped defeats. If there are no defeats among the members of that set then they (plural in the case of a tie) win and the count ends. Otherwise, drop the weakest defeat among the candidates of that set. Go to 1. Imagine an election for the capital of Tennessee, a state in the United States that is over 500 miles east-to-west, and only 110 miles north-to-south. Let's say the candidates for the capital are Memphis (on the far west end), Nashville (in the center), Chattanooga (129 miles southeast of Nashville), and Knoxville (on the far east side, 114 northeast of Chattanooga). Here's the population breakdown by metro area (surrounding county): Memphis (Shelby County): 826,330 Nashville (Davidson County): 510,784 Chattanooga (Hamilton County): 285,536 Knoxville (Knox County): 335,749 Let's say that in the vote, the voters vote based on geographic proximity. Assuming that the population distribution of the rest of Tennessee follows from those population centers, one could easily envision an election where the percentages of votes would be as follows: 42% of voters (close to Memphis) 2. Nashville 3. Chattanooga 4. Knoxville 26% of voters (close to Nashville) 15% of voters (close to Chattanooga) 17% of voters (close to Knoxville) The results would be tabulated as follows: Pairwise Election Results Memphis [A] 58% [B] 42% [A] 58% Nashville [A] 42% Chattanooga [A] 42% Knoxville [A] 42% Pairwise election results (won-lost-tied): 0-3-0 3-0-0 2-1-0 1-2-0 Votes against in worst pairwise defeat: 58% N/A 68% 83% [A] indicates voters who preferred the candidate listed in the column caption to the candidate listed in the row caption [B] indicates voters who preferred the candidate listed in the row caption to the candidate listed in the column caption [NP] indicates voters who expressed no preference between either candidate Pairwise Winners First, list every pair, and determine the winner: Memphis (42%) vs. Nashville (58%) Nashville 58% Memphis (42%) vs. Chattanooga (58%) Chattanooga 58% Memphis (42%) vs. Knoxville (58%) Knoxville 58% Nashville (68%) vs. Chattanooga (32%) Nashville 68% Nashville (68%) vs. Knoxville (32%) Nashville 68% Chattanooga (83%) vs. Knoxville (17%) Chattanooga: 83% Note that absolute counts of votes can be used, or percentages of the total number of votes; it makes no difference. Next we start with our list of cities and their matchup wins/defeats Nashville 3-0 Chattanooga 2-1 Knoxville 1-2 Memphis 0-3 Technically, the Schwartz set is simply Nashville as it beat all others 3 to 0. Therefore, Nashville is the winner. Ambiguity Resolution Example Let's say there was an ambiguity. For a simple situation involving candidates A, B, and C. A > B 72% B > C 68% C > A 52% In this situation the Schwartz set is A, B, and C as they all beat someone. The Schulze method then says to drop the weakest defeat, so we drop C > A and are left with A > B 72% (as C has been removed) Therefore, A is the winner. (It may be more accessible to phrase that as "drop the weakest win", though purists may complain.) In the (first) example election, the winner is Nashville. This would be true for any Condorcet method. Using the first-past-the-post system and some other systems, Memphis would have won the election by having the most people, even though Nashville won every simulated pairwise election outright. Using Instant-runoff voting in this example would result in Knoxville winning, even though more people preferred Nashville over Knoxville. Satisfied Criteria The Schulze method satisfies the following criteria: Mutual majority criterion Monotonicity criterion Pareto criterion Condorcet criterion Smith criterion (a.k.a. Generalized Condorcet criterion) local independence from irrelevant alternatives Schwartz criterion Plurality criterion the winner is always chosen from the Immune set the winner is always chosen from the CDTT set Minimal Defense criterion Strategy-Free criterion Generalized Strategy-Free criterion Strong Defensive Strategy criterion Weak Defensive Strategy criterion Summability criterion Independence of clones Neutrality of Spoiled Ballots The Schulze method violates the following criteria: Participation criterion Consistency criterion invulnerability to compromising invulnerability to burying Favorite Betrayal criterion Later-no-harm criterion History of the Schulze method The Schulze method was developed by Markus Schulze in 1997. The first time that the Schulze method was discussed in a public mailing list was in 1998 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. In the following years, the Schulze method has been adopted e.g. by "Software in the Public Interest" (2003), Debian (2003), Gentoo (2005), TopCoder (2005), and "Sender Policy Framework" (2005). The first books on the Schulze method were written by Tideman (2006) and by Stahl and Johnson (2007). Use of the Schulze method The Schulze method is not currently used in government elections. However, it is starting to receive support in some public organizations. Organizations which currently use the Schulze method are: Annodex Association [6] Blitzed [7] BoardGameGeek [8] [9] [10] [11] Cassandra [12] Cinelerra [13] Codex Alpe Adria [14] College of Marine Science [15] Computer Science Departmental Society for York University (HackSoc) [16] County Highpointers [17] Debian [18] [19] [20] Digital Freedom in Education and Youth [21] EnMasse Forums EuroBillTracker [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] European Democratic Education Conference [27] Fair Trade Northwest (see article XI section 2 of their bylaws) Free Hardware Foundation of Italy [28] [29] Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) (see article 6 section 3 of the constitution) Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) [30] [31] Gentoo Foundation [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) [38] Gothenburg Hacker Space (GHS) (see Â§14 of the bylaws) Graduate Student Organization at the State University of New York: Computer Science (GSOCS) [39] Haskell [40] Kanawha Valley Scrabble Club [41] KDE e.V. (see section 3.4.1 of the Rules of Procedures for Online Voting) Kingman Hall [42] [43] Knight Foundation [44] Kumoricon [45] [46] [47] [48] League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (see article 8.3 of the bylaws) Libre-Entreprise [49] [50] Mason Apollonic Society (see article 5 of the constitution) Mathematical Knowledge Management Interest Group (MKM-IG) (The MKM-IG uses Condorcet with dual dropping. That means: The Schulze ranking and the ranked pairs ranking are calculated and the winner is the top-ranked candidate of that of these two rankings that has the better Kemeny score.) [51] [52] [53] [54] Metalab [55] Music Television (MTV) [56] netznetz [57] [58] Noisebridge [59] North Shore Cyclists (NSC) [60] [61] OpenCouchSurfing [62] Park Alumni Society (PAS) [63] Pirate Party of Sweden [64] [65] Pittsburgh Ultimate [66] RPMrepo [67] Sender Policy Framework (SPF) [68] [69] [70] Software in the Public Interest (SPI) [71] Students for Free Culture [72] [73] Sugar Labs [74] TopCoder [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] Ubuntu [85] Wikimedia Foundation [86] [87] [88] [89] Wikipedia in French (The Schulze method is one of three methods recommended for decision-making.) [90] Wikipedia in Hebrew ×˜&oldid=7014412#.D7.94.D7.A7.D7.93.D7.9E.D7.94 Wikipedia in Hungarian [91] [92] Wikipedia in Russian [93] [94] [95] Wikipedia in Spanish [96] Wikimedia Foundation, 2008 In June 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation used the Schulze method for the election to its Board of Trustees: One vacant seat had to be filled. There were 15 candidates, about 26,000 eligible voters, and 3,019 valid ballots. As Chen was a clear Condorcet winner, he won the vacant seat. However, there was a tie for sixth to ninth position between Heiskanen, Postlethwaite, Smith, and Saintonge. Heiskanen beat Postlethwaite; Postlethwaite beat Smith; Smith beat Saintonge; Saintonge beat Heiskanen. Ting Chen Alex Bakharev 844 932 984 950 983 1052 1028 990 1054 1073 1109 1134 1173 1236 Samuel Klein 836 910 911 924 983 980 971 941 967 1019 1069 1099 1126 1183 Harel Cain Ad Huikeshoven 674 781 764 806 832 901 868 848 920 934 987 1022 1030 1115 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 621 720 712 755 714 841 798 737 827 850 912 970 943 1057 Ryan Postlethwaite Ray Saintonge Dan Rosenthal Craig Spurrier Matthew Bisanz Kurt M. Weber Gregory Kohs elections to Wikimedia's Board of Trustees in 2008: Each figure represents the number of voters who ranked the candidate at the left better than the candidate at the top. A figure in green represents a victory in that pairwise comparison by the candidate at the left. A figure in red represents a defeat in that pairwise comparison by the candidate at the left. Proposed Statutory Rules for the Schulze Single-Winner Election Method by Markus Schulze A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method by Markus Schulze (mirrors: [97] [98]) A New Monotonic, Clone-Independent, Reversal Symmetric, and Condorcet-Consistent Single-Winner Election Method by Markus Schulze Free Riding and Vote Management under Proportional Representation by the Single Transferable Vote by Markus Schulze Implementing the Schulze STV Method by Markus Schulze A New MMP Method by Markus Schulze A New MMP Method (Part 2) by Markus Schulze Spieltheorie by Bernhard Nebel Schulze-Methode by the University of Stuttgart Voting Methods Survey by James Green-Armytage Descriptions of ranked-ballot voting methods by Rob LeGrand Accurate Democracy by Rob Loring Schulze beatpaths method by Warren D. Smith Election Methods and Criteria by Kevin Venzke The Debian Voting System by Jochen Voss election-methods: a mailing list containing technical discussions about election methods A Continuous Rating Method for Preferential Voting by Rosa Camps, Xavier Mora, and Laia Saumell Voting Systems by Paul E. Johnson Test Run: Group Determination in Software Testing by James D. McCaffrey Distance from Consensus: a Theme and Variations by Tommi Meskanen and Hannu Nurmi Descriptions of voting systems by Warren D. Smith Election Systems by Peter A. Taylor Personalisierung der VerhÃ¤ltniswahl durch Varianten der Single Transferable Vote by Martin Wilke Objective Measures of Preferential Ballot Voting Systems by Barry Wright Approaches to Constructing a Stratified Merged Knowledge Base by Anbu Yue, Weiru Liu, and Anthony Hunter Christoph BÃ¶rgers (2009), Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division, SIAM, ISBN 0-8987-1695-0 Saul Stahl and Paul E. Johnson (2006), Understanding Modern Mathematics, Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 0-7637-3401-2 Nicolaus Tideman (2006), Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice [99], Burlington: Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-4717-X Entscheidungsfindung via Software by Peter MÃ¼hlbauer (January 2010) Voting Software Project by Blake Cretney Condorcet with Dual Dropping Perl Scripts by Mathew Goldstein Condorcet Voting Calculator by Eric Gorr Selectricity and RubyVote by Benjamin Mako Hill [100] [101] Java implementation of the Schulze method by Thomas Hirsch schulze implementation implementation in c++ with python bindings by Alexander KjÃ¤ll Electowidget by Rob Lanphier Votator.com by Louis Philippe Lessard [102] Haskell Condorcet Module by Evan Martin Condorcet Internet Voting Service (CIVS) by Andrew Myers BetterPolls.com by Brian Olson OpenSTV by Jeffrey O'Neill Election Web Service implements both the Schulze method and Schulze STV, with an associated interface at Modern Ballots Legislative project Condorcet Policy "Think Tank" moderated by Jeffry R. Fisher Arizonans for Condorcet Ranked Voting [103] [104] [105] Retrieved from "http://wiki.electorama.com/w/index.php?title=Schulze_method&oldid=70012" Single-winner voting methods Condorcet method About Electowiki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1990
__label__cc	0.533916	0.466084	These McCarthyite Accusations Benefit No One And Harm Everyone by Caitlin Johnstone 5 February 2019 — Caitlin Johnstone In response to the reprehensible NBC hit piece we discussed the other day in which Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was smeared as a darling of the Russian government, journalist Glenn Greenwald published an article documenting the astonishing amount of journalistic malpractice which went into the piece’s formation. In the article, Greenwald wrote the following: “That’s because the playbook used by the axis of the Democratic Party, NBC,MSNBC, neocons, and the intelligence community has been, is, and will continue to be a very simple one: to smear any adversary of the establishment wing of the Democratic Party — whether on the left or the right — as a stooge or asset of the Kremlin.” Displaying a remarkable lack of self-awareness, Democratic establishment pundit and professional Russiagater Caroline Orr responded to Gabbard’s share of this article on Twitter as follows: “And here, Tulsi Gabbard cites a Kremlin propagandist to deny claims that Kremlin propagandists support her campaign.” And here, @TulsiGabbard cites a Kremlin propagandist to deny claims that Kremlin propagandists support her campaign. https://t.co/TPUmIGNIfH — Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) February 4, 2019 This demented McCarthyite mind virus was exemplified even more egregiously in a recent attack on comedian and progressive commentator Jimmy Dore, in which fellow comedian and former Daily Show producer Jena Friedman publicly accused him of being a Kremlin agent just for disagreeing with her. After Dore’s fan base reacted to this deranged smear as any sane person would expect them to, Friedman claimed that this was evidence of a coordinated campaign against her by Russian trolls and bots. “I wouldn’t doubt it if Jimmy Dore was a Russian asset,” Friedman tweeted in response to Dore’s having criticized her crazed Louise Mensch-esque rantings. “Why else would he drag my name in the mud and misquote me when I said that Russian trolls are fueling the fire and radicalizing people online, which has been in Washington Post. It’s all so insidious. Be careful, friends.” “The real tell of who the paid assets are is that they all seem to be so coordinated,” Friedman added. “Do you know which of the 999 Dem contenders you are voting for yet? I don’t but if RT and Jimmy Dore and everyone who seems sketchy are pushing for Tusli [sic] Gabbard, it’s hard not to question why?” “If I question whether someone is on Putin’s payroll and then immediately receive 100+ tweets harassing me as a result, that only proves my point,” Friedman posted in response to the wave of responses her behavior elicited on Twitter, later adding, “There are progressive people fighting with me on here who I am sure are kind (ish) and also bots and assholes using their platforms to troll me in ways that feel oddly suspect. Sorry to question if some guy is paid by Putin but people actually are so why not just say no and move on?” “I blocked Jimmy Dore because he’s a PizzaGate Putin propaganda valve,” Friedman also said. “Comedians, we need to do a better job at policing our own. Check out his stuff if you don’t believe me & be careful. There are dark forces at play trying to undermine us all & it feels like they‘re winning.” Gosh. I’m old enough to remember when being a comedian had something to do with comedy. I blocked Jimmy Dore because he’s a PizzaGate Putin propaganda valve. Comedians, we need to do a better job at policing our own. Check out his stuff if you don’t believe me & be careful. There are dark forces at play trying to undermine us all & it feels like they‘re winning. — Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) February 3, 2019 The fact that Friedman believed her freakish McCarthyite slander was perfectly healthy, and that her suggestion that a fellow comedian she’d just accused of conducting psyops for a foreign government agency should just “say no and move on” and have that be the end of it, says so much about how pervasively cancerous political discourse has gotten over the last two years. So let’s talk about that for a minute. Why exactly isn’t it perfectly healthy to accuse everyone who disagrees with you of conducting psyops for a foreign government agency? Why specifically shouldn’t it be standard procedure to level that accusation willy nilly and expect them to just “say no and move on” if it isn’t true? What is it about these McCarthyite accusations that is so destructive and toxic, anyway? Well, for starters it completely kills political discourse. Absolutely murders it stone dead. If you’re having a political debate with someone, you can disagree very strongly with one another, even get hostile and uncivil at times, and still continue dialoguing and sharing ideas and information with each other. But as soon as one party suggests that the other party is only advancing the ideas and information they’re advancing because they’ve been covertly paid to do so by a foreign government agency, where can the conversation go from there? You’ve slammed the door shut on any further dialogue by preemptively rejecting anything the other party could possibly say, just because you got overwhelmed by the experience of someone having different opinions from your own. Political discourse is happening all over the world all the time every single day, and far too often it’s cut off from ever getting anywhere because one side can’t resist regurgitating an obnoxious McCarthyite smear they’ve been trained to believe is normal by the Palmer Report and MSNBC. But political discourse is not the only thing that’s harmed by these McCarthyite smears, which seem to be enjoying their biggest resurgence yet as the 2020 presidential race kicks off. The Trump administration is currently pursuing the arrest of Julian Assange, a move which if carried out will constitute a mortal wound for press freedoms around the world, and yet the self-described liberals who claim to support the free press and oppose the Trump administration aren’t saying a peep about it because Assange has been falsely smeared as a Kremlin agent so much it’s now taken as an established fact. Meanwhile political dissidents like Greenwald, Jill Stein, Ron Paul, Abby Martin, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore and so very many others have had the influence of their voices wedged out from mainstream consciousness because so many people have been indoctrinated to reflexively reject their words with a nonsensical accusation of Kremlin fealty. And that of course is the idea. The normalization of smearing any voice which differs from the orthodoxy of the unipolar world order in any way as a Russian agent has allowed dissenting narratives to be isolated away from the mainstream herd, where they are unable to influence a critical mass of individuals. They aren’t smearing Tulsi Gabbard as a Kremlin asset because they don’t want her to be president; the Democratic Party is still legally capable and structurally willing to rig its primaries to keep her out if need be. The real thing they fear is allowing her anti-interventionist ideas to take hold within the mainstream consciousness of a nation whose nonstop military interventionism is the glue that holds the empire together. Even if you fully agree with all CIA/CNN talking points and think Joe Biden would be the best president ever, surely you can see that quashing dissent is a bad and undesirable thing? Surely you can see that allowing people free access to ideas and information is the absolutely indispensable foundation that anything resembling democracy must necessarily be built upon? Surely you can recognize that cutting off ideas and information that haven’t been authorized by the current political establishment by smearing dissident voices as agents of a foreign government is already a form of totalitarianism? Surely? Uhhhhhh can we not? Can we just not do this? Can we not have this be the new normal? Please? https://t.co/3MdfyBsN2c — Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) February 4, 2019 Meanwhile what benefit comes from accusing someone of being a Kremlin agent? How does that help anything? Even in the extremely unlikely event that you are interacting with someone online who does indeed secretly work for the Russian government, you are still perfectly capable of debating their ideas. Being a secret propagandist doesn’t give someone super powers. It doesn’t give them the ability to control your mind or turn you into a newt. There is no reason whatsoever why you can’t just debate their ideas as you would anyone else’s instead of slamming on the brakes of the conversation to take a pointless million-to-one gamble on a McCarthyite accusation which benefits nobody in any way. Let’s stop allowing the mass psychosis of these paranoid cold war feeding frenzies to be the new normal, please. If we keep going this way it’s only going to get worse for everyone. Posted in: Propaganda, USA \| Tagged: kremlim agent, McCarthyism, smears Venezuela Blitz – Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections Leftist Debunks John Oliver’s Venezuela Episode	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1993
__label__wiki	0.566966	0.566966	Dallas Calls For Garbutt Posted by Stephen Meserve on February 17, 2012 Following the injury of Jamie Benn last night, Dallas announced today that they have recalled Ryan Garbutt from the Texas Stars to fill his roster spot. Garbutt is fourth on the team in points but also first in PIMs. He needs to be disciplined in his time in Dallas. If he isn't careful, he could spend more time in the box than on the ice. He needs to fly low in terms of penalties but finish his checks and play the physical game he is known for here in Texas. This leaves Texas with exactly twelve forwards in Cedar Park. Lines would shake out something like this: Sceviour-Glennie-Wathier Fraser-Morin-Hedden Schultz-Tousignant-Esposito Gazdic-Hauswirth-Godard The Dallas Stars announced on Friday that the club has recalled forward Ryan Garbutt from the Texas Stars, Dallas’ primary affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL). Garbutt, 26, has played in 50 games for Texas this season, scoring 16 goals and 17 assists totaling 33 points. He ranks fourth in overall scoring for Texas and first with 96 penalty minutes. The 6-1, 195-pound forward from Winnipeg, MB was signed by Dallas as a free agent on Sept. 18, 2009. dallas stars roster moves	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1994
__label__cc	0.697452	0.302548	San Diego among worst U.S. cities for termites, report claims Posted: 1:38 PM, Mar 04, 2019 By: Zac Self National Pest Management Association SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- San Diego is among the top cities for termites, according to a new ranking from Orkin . San Diego placed 11th among 50 other cities around the U.S., but America's Finest City wasn't alone. Los Angeles was ranked 2nd on the list. The company says all areas of the U.S. are prone to subterranean termites, but Pacific U.S. and coastal regions of the Southeast also have the threat of drywood termites. RELATED: Water rupture causes millions of dollars in damages to La Jolla home Termites generally swarm based on favorable weather conditions, Orkin says, but different types of termites swarm at different times. Subterranean termites swarm in the spring and summer while drywood termites usually swam in the late summer and fall. Orkin says termites find their way into homes because urbanization leaves fewer dead trees laying around. "U.S. residents spend an estimated $5 billion annually to control termites and repair termite damage – which occurs in approximately 600,000 homes each year,” said Glen Ramsey, an Orkin entomologist. RELATED: Devastating 'ARk' storm envisioned for California by U.S. Geological Survey Orkin says the list is based on data from metro areas where the company performed the most first-time customer termite treatments from February 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019. Check out the list below for the 15 worst cities in the U.S. for termites: Raleigh, N.C. According to Orkin, termites can get into homes through things like wooden structures like porches or decks, stacks of firewood leaning afainst a home and damp soil near foundations. Trees and shrubs close to homes can also pose a risk. Check out the lists below for what to look for if you're concerned you may have termites: Signs of a termite infestation include: A temporary swarm of winged insects in your home or from the soil around your home Any cracked or bubbling paint or frass (termite droppings) Wood that sounds hollow when tapped Mud tubes on exterior walls, wooden beams or in crawl spaces Discarded wings from swarmers Proactive tips that Orkin recommends for homeowners: Check water drainage sites to ensure they remain cleared and effective. Monitor the collection of moisture by fixing pipes, gutters, downspouts, A/C units and other fixtures susceptible to leaking. Caulk around utility lines or pipes. Get rid of rotting wood and debris near the home. Place screens on outside vents. Check wooden structures for damage. So, if you do find termites, do you need to tent your home? According to Orkin, structural fumigation is a treatment technique used to control drywood termite infestations. This type of treatment method should only be used when the infestation is extensive, hard to locate or difficult to access, the company says. Other types of treatment include termidor liquid termite treatments, dry foam and sentricon bait and monitoring. Click here for more information.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1995
__label__cc	0.546067	0.453933	EU PolicyAudit policyUpdatesAudit Policy Updates Cannot read this email? Open in your browser. May 2019 Audit Policy Update Sign up to our updates! Get the latest news on SME, tax, technology, audit and sustainable finance GDPR one year on: its impact on auditors and accountants? Our latest blog clarifies what the GDPR means for auditors and accountants in their daily work. IAASB conference and discussion paper on audit of less complex entities Accountancy Europe’s recent work on SME audit European Commission formally adopts ESEF, becomes a statutory requirement New IAASB chair announced PwC to split its audit practice IAASB: Responding to Challenges Related to Less Complex Entities Paris conference The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) held a conference Responding to Challenges Related to Less Complex Entities (LCE) on 16-17 May in Paris, following up on its 2017 conference. The first day focused on audit of LCEs while the second day was dedicated to ethics and quality management. When it comes to LCE audit, topics discussed were in particular related to: the value of audit national initiatives in certain countries aiming to deal with SME/LCE audit root causes of challenges linked with the use of the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) in LCE audits and possible IAASB actions Call for views At the conference, the IAASB also introduced its recent discussion paper on this matter. The IAASB is seeking views on the way forward on LCE audits – the deadline for submission of responses is 12 September 2019. Accountancy Europe will respond with the support of experts who helped us develop our publication Simplifying auditing standards for small or non-complex entities in 2018, which was followed by this launch event. Watch an interview with Kai Morten Hagen, Chair on SME audit within Accountancy Europe, who will lead our work on the response. In addition, the IAASB plans to shortly issue a survey in parallel to the consultation. Its aim is to gather feedback from those stakeholders who are not the usual respondents to the IAASB consultations. Conclusion on the way forward There is a commitment from the IAASB to be open-minded in finding a way to deal with LCE audits. Seeing that countries are coming up with different solutions at national level, the IAASB became aware of the urgency to act. Therefore, there is also a commitment to be back in Paris in two years’ time with a solution. Our recent work on SME Audit Audit exemption thresholds in Europe: 2019 update This publication follows up on our 2016 factsheet and presents the current audit exemption thresholds in Europe and how several countries have recently amended them. Our survey results show that four EU countries have lowered their audit exemption thresholds while two countries have increased them between mid-2016 and early 2019. Overall, there was no clear upward/downward trend in the development of the thresholds in this period. We also found diverging national policies and views on auditing smaller entities. Read more Evolution of SME audit in Europe from the perspective of the legislation and auditing standards In this article, we analysed the evolution of SME audit in a long-term perspective. We found that over the last decade, the audit exemption thresholds have increased in 20 European countries. Read more EU Developments European Parliament elections take place On 26 May, the European Parliament elections took place with 751 MEPs elected to represent European citizens. With 179 MEPs (37 less than previous term), Christian Democrats remain the largest group but they will have to seek more than one ally in the future to get their policies through. Socialists came in second with 153 MEPs (-32), followed by the big winner liberal ALDE group with 110 seats (+36). Greens can also be considered winners, as they are now the fourth largest group with 74 MEPs (+22). The far-Left GUE-NGL registered significant losses, and now stands at 38 MEPs (-14). On the far-Right side, several new MEPs from Italy and France contributed to a predicted surge in strength. Whether or not the various far-Right factions can rally behind a common political grouping will determine their eventual strength. For audit, it is particularly relevant that the Greens emerged strong from the elections, since they consider the review of the Audit Reform to be one of their priorities for the upcoming term. Read more European Commission has formally adopted the technical regulatory standards developed by ESMA on a European Single Electronic Format (ESEF), under the Transparency Directive. No objections were raised from either the European Parliament or the Council. The Commission also published a legally non-binding Q&A document to help guide relevant stakeholders through the new requirements. The Q&A document clarifies that ESEF will be a statutory requirement as defined in the Audit Directive, and thus means it will have to be audited. The Q&A also confirms that the Commission is coordinating with the Committee of European Auditing Oversight Bodies (CEAOB) in order to possibly provide further guidance on ESEF auditing. Moreover, the Commission will assess whether the audit of ESEF would warrant changes to the Transparency Directive. For further information on ESEF, see our recent publication. An Empirical Analysis of Key Audit Matters in the Financial Industry The European Banking Institute issued a publication analysing Key Audit Matters (KAMs) based on 2017 audit reports of supervised European banks. This year marks the first year in which KAMs for all European public interest entities (PIEs) can be observed. Read more Accountancy Europe also carried out work in this area – you can check our analysis and good practice examples of KAMs reported in the banking sector here. Currently, we are working on a 2018 update which will be issued in September 2019. IFIAR Annual Inspection Findings Survey In May 2019, the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) issued its 2018 inspection findings arising from inspections of audit firms affiliated with the six largest global audit firm networks. Read more IAASB consultation on strategy and work plan Accountancy Europe submitted its response to the IAASB’s proposed strategy for 2020-2023 and work plan for 2020-2021. Read more New IAASB chair Thomas Seidenstein will become the new chair of the IAASB for a three-year term starting July 1, 2019. He succeeds Prof. Arnold Schilder, who has led the IAASB since 2009. Read more National Developments Audit debate emerging in Italy? Following the UK and Dutch reviews of their audit markets, a debate might be emerging in another European country. In an interview, Professor Giulio Tremonti, a former Socialist Finance Minister, outlines potential competition and independence issues in Italy’s audit sector. Read more (available only in Italian) US PCAOB staff guidance on the communication of critical audit matters The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) published a staff guidance, A Deeper Dive on the Communication of CAMs, developed to support implementation of the new critical audit matter requirements. Read more UK: Mazars wins Goldman Sachs audit Due to a combination of mandatory auditor rotation and a lack of competition, Goldman Sachs had to look outside of the Big Four for its new auditor. Three Big Four firms all provide non-audit services to Goldman Sachs, which left PwC as the only Big Four not conflicted. However, PwC itself needs to be rotated out by 2022, which forced the European branch of the US bank to look to the mid-tier firms for audit services. Mazars will become the European auditor for Goldman Sachs International, which encompasses the bank’s London and Frankfurt businesses, from 2021. The bank will retain PwC as its group auditor. Read more UK: PwC to split its audit practice On 5 June, PwC announced its plan to split audit practice in two in response to rising criticism of the accountancy industry from politicians and regulators. One business would focus on ‘external’ audits and a separate business would carry out ‘internal’ audits for management, alongside cyber security and technology risk reviews. In addition, PwC announced its plans to strengthen audits, including hiring an additional 500 experienced audit professionals. Read more This curated content was brought to you by Júlia Bodnárová, Accountancy Europe senior advisor since 2017. 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__label__cc	0.669861	0.330139	Are Cryptocurrencies A Solution Publishers Have Been Waiting For? by AdExchanger // Friday, August 10th, 2018 – 12:05 am “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ted Dhanik, CEO at engage:BDR. If you are not part of the duopoly, it is a tough time to be a publisher. Reputable media brands are struggling, so you can imagine where that leaves the long tail of publishing. A big and expensive issue is float. Typically, brands and agencies do not pay for their ad buys until 90 to 180 days after the impressions run. Publishers are forced to use factoring or borrow money to manage their cash flow. Cryptocurrencies could be a way to get publishers paid immediately, at the moment the ad is served. Publishers could then either trade that currency on various exchanges to advertise themselves, invest it or, perhaps, trade it in for good, old-fashioned money. Eliminating the need for float would reduce overall costs for publishers and drive efficiencies. These benefits would be coupled with the advantages of a transparent payment ledger, which allows everyone to see where the money is really going and whether or not third parties are involved. IBM iX teamed up with Mediaocean to create one of these blockchain networks to increase transparency in media deals. This transparency should reduce some ad fraud and give advertisers and publishers more confidence in the digital advertising ecosystem. This is a twofold approach that has the potential to also solve many of the transparency issues currently plaguing the marketplace. Buyers would see all actors involved in the supply chain and receive trustworthy bid data directly from publishers, reducing occurrences of fraud. Publishers stand to gain access to actual bid prices from buyers. This kind of access gives publishers a better understanding of margins taken from middlemen, the ability to understand who is serving ads on their inventory and, lastly, a fully transparent ledger that allows for immediate reconciliation of delivery. There are some cryptocurrencies already on the market that are designed with elements of this in mind, but whether they can scale remains to be seen. For example, AdCoin launched its AdCoin crypto advertising platform on May 1. To help increase adoption, it created plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce, two systems widely used by website developers. AdCoin is designed, in part, to help publishers profit from microtransactions without paying credit card transaction costs, which can be prohibitively high. The idea appears solid, although its success depends on the right people and companies adopting it. Steemit, a social media platform that launched in 2016, allows people to reward content creators with a cryptocurrency token that can be traded on the crypto market. Steem, the blockchain-based rewards platform that powers Steemit, announced last fall that it wants to let publishers in on the action. The idea is that publishers big and small can create their own smart media tokens (SMTs) and use them as an alternative to paywalls and subscriptions to monetize their content. Steem describes SMTs as “like Ethereum's ERC-20 tokens, but with certain built-in ‘Proof-of-Brain’ properties and a token distribution reward system designed specifically for digital content businesses.” Proof-of-Brain is a type of rewards algorithm that encourages people to create and curate content. Steem also positions its currency as being easy to set up, even for non-cryptocurrency experts. SMTs will launch sometime in 2018, according to the website. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) attempts to address consumers’ concerns about advertising and improve advertising for marketers and publishers. The concept was created by Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript and Brave Browser, an ad-blocking browser. BATs integrate with the Brave platform. Users can allocate BATs to publishers and YouTube creators, but relying on the kindness of their audience might not strike publishers as a sound monetization strategy. I think the cryptocurrencies with the most potential to change digital advertising will be ones that are designed to integrate with a wider number of browsers. Successful models will probably also shy away from all-or-nothing approaches, meaning that publishers won’t have to forsake traditional payment methods to use them. The need is there. The technology is there. Now, all we need is a cryptocurrency that both the supply and demand sides will feel comfortable adopting – and quickly. Follow Ted Dhanik (@teddhanik), engage:BDR (@engageBDR) and AdExchanger (@adexchanger) on Twitter. Steve Latham August 13, 2018 Good article on what is possible - but scale and economics are issues. While BAT is intriguing, it's scale is limited until a large % of users change browsers (no easy feat). The idea of verifying every impression and supply chain interaction (via consensus algorithm) is interesting, but prohibitively expensive. Even if IBM subsidizes the cost of BC infrastructure, it will be very costly in the near future. That said, smart contracts and reliance on 3rd parties as the oracle for verifying events could help bridge the gaps with needed transparency and efficiency, while reducing float and G&A expense. I believe in blockchain but we need to crawl before we run. Let's start by solving specific problems with replicable, economically feasible use cases. With smart adoption and reasonable expectations, Ad-tech Blockchain will hopefully avoid the fate of the QR code. Krag Klages August 13, 2018 In addition to AdCoin, SteemIt, and BAT, I'd throw in MetaX, Kochava's Xchng, Amino Payments, Lucidity, Viuly, and Narrative into the mix here as well. Lots of players trying to help solve the transparency, payments, and middleman problem. It will be a very interesting space to watch over the coming years.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2012
__label__wiki	0.977099	0.977099	Image : Virgin Atlantic Airbus steals the show with 118 orders on first day Half a day after the opening of the Paris Air Show, Airbus already accumulates three orders for its aircraft, including the launch customer for its newly-launched A321XLR, the long-range version of its best-selling A321neo. Air Lease Corporation reiterates its commitment to Airbus Air Lease Corporation signed a letter of intent to purchase 100 Airbus aircraft during the Paris Air Show, on June 17, 2019. This order includes 50 A220-300s and 27 of the newly-launched A321XLRs as well as an incremental order for an additional 23 A321neos. The aircraft should be delivered between 2021 and 2026. This contract brings cumulative orders of Air Lease Corporation to 387 planes, making it Airbus’ third largest lessor customer. At list price, the order amounts to more than $10 billion. Airbus launches longest range single-aisle jet: the A321XLR It‘s official: Airbus has launched the longest-range narrow-body jetliner, the A321XLR, on the first day of the Paris Air Show 2019, Monday, June 17. While the launch itself comes as no surprise, the European plane maker is now set to break records at the airshow in a major blow to its U.S. rival Boeing when it comes to mid-market aircraft. Virgin Atlantic selects Airbus to renew its wide-body fleet Virgin Atlantic has selected 14 A330-900s to replace its A330ceos from 2021, with options to further expand its fleet of wide-body aircraft. The firm order for eight aircraft and six additional on lease from Air Lease Corporation was signed at the Paris Air Show. Virgin Atlantic currently operates a fleet of 40 wide-body aircraft and will soon take delivery of its first of 12 A350-1000s. We’re so pleased to announce we’ve ordered 14 @Airbus A330neos, so we’re on our way to our cleanest and youngest fleet ever. ✈️❤️ pic.twitter.com/nAaqGMjBqm — Virgin Atlantic (@VirginAtlantic) June 17, 2019 Airbus could expect more than 200 orders for its A321XLR this week, including from Norwegian and JetBlue Airways. The A321XLR found its launch customer: Middle East Airlines Middle East Airlines (MEA), the flag carrier of Lebanon, has signed a firm order for four A321XLRs, thus becoming the launch airline customer of Airbus latest evolution of the A321neo family. The agreement takes Middle East Airlines’ cumulative single-aisle orders with Airbus to 15 A321neo family aircraft, including 11 A321neos and 4 A321XLRs with deliveries starting in 2020. MEA will use the A321XLR to strengthen its network in Africa and Asia. Airbus Air Lease Corporation Virgin Atlantic	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2015
__label__wiki	0.650549	0.650549	What are these central banks up to? What checks and balances will apply to Philip Lowe's RBA if it starts to roll out 'extreme unconventional policy measures'? John RoskamColumnist Aug 16, 2019 — 12.00am It’s funny how in such a supposedly egalitarian country as Australia we pay so much deference to public servants. We pay them a lot (much more than their overseas counterparts), we give them a lot of power, and perhaps most important of all, we hardly ever question what they do. The attitude of politicians, the business community, and most of the media to Philip Lowe, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, proves the point. You could make a good argument that Lowe is the most powerful person in the country. The Reserve Bank board of which he’s the chairman sets the most important price in the economy – the price of money, his independence is enshrined in law, and while his decisions are scrutinised they’re seldom questioned or criticised. Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr, left, and Australian Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe hold positions of substantial power but who they remain accountable to is unclear. Stuff/AAP Heretical questions that no one dare ask these days such as why so many economists think it’s a bad idea if the government decided the price of pencils but they happily accept a government committee setting the price of money, and why should there even be a central bank in the first place can be left to one side for the moment. The question for the next few years ahead will be what checks and balances will apply to Lowe and the Reserve Bank as they contemplate what in Lowe’s recent words to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics are “extreme unconventional policy measures”. It’s understandable that if you are going to have a central bank and if you are going to give it a mandate to ensure financial stability the bank should be independent of politics. But very few people, at least in this country – compared to America where the actions of the Federal Reserve are the subject of regular Twitter commentary by the President – have asked what happens if the Reserve Bank was ever to adopt “extreme unconventional policy measures”. Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr shocked many with his lowering of the official cash rate. Dominion Post While Lowe hasn’t ruled out “extreme unconventional policy measures” at least he hasn’t yet embraced them as his counterpart across the Tasman Sea appears to have. Last week the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut interest rates by 50 basis points to a record low of 1.0 per cent in a move described as “Shock and awe Kiwi style”. The decision prompted the production of a research paper from New Zealand’s leading think thank, the New Zealand Initiative, entitled The Unreserved Bank of New Zealand – Why unorthodox monetary policy needs boundaries. While there are differences between the responsibilities of the two countries’ central banks, nearly everything the paper says about the Reserve Bank of New Zealand applies to Australia. It should be compulsory reading, not just for every member of Parliament, but also for all nine members of the Reserve Bank Board. A key argument of the paper is that such policy could result in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand undertaking essentially political functions. “Under quantitative easing, the RBNZ could become an alternative to Inland Revenue [ATO] and the Treasury as it would provide (indirect) funding to the government by purchasing government bonds. If it went beyond that and started purchasing corporate assets, it could also morph into something resembling a sovereign wealth fund. If it chose to fund projects of a certain nature (say bonds with an infrastructure background or related to specific policy areas), it would again be more akin to Treasury.” Lowe’s remark that in the face of persistently weak economic and wages growth, “We [the RBA] would need to look at all monetary options, fiscal options and structural options”, has passed with barely a murmur. Maybe it’s because in Australia we think that producing helicopter money or implementing quantitative easing is what other countries do. When self-funded retirees are getting less than 2 per cent interest on their term deposits because of the decisions of the Reserve Bank they’ve got no one to complain to. In 2009 when the Rudd government handed out $900 in cash to taxpayers to stave off the global financial crisis it was the decision of a democratically-elected government ultimately accountable to the electorate. If ever the Reserve Bank does implement “extreme unconventional policy measures”, to whom Lowe will be accountable for his success or failure is unclear. Philip Lowe John Roskam writes on News specialising in Economy, Industrial Relations, Politics. John is executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter. Most Viewed In Policy Revising the inflation target is futile Young Henrys fights beer emissions with algae	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2016
__label__cc	0.566239	0.433761	Only on 8: Handmade signs urge drivers to slow down near Windmill & Warm Springs by: Shakala Alvaranga LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — “There’s one 35 mph speed limit there. There’s one on Robindale. That’s it. By the time you come across Windmill, you miss that little sign,” said Glen Peterson. That’s why Peterson put up his own handmade signs near Bermuda Road between Windmill Lane and Warm Springs Road. “If this becomes an expressway, the value of our property goes down. I’ve got an investment here. I built this out of my pocket so yeah, I want to protect my investment,” said Peterson. Peterson even added orange speed flags to another sign. “I think they’re awesome. I was driving past them, and I was like oh… hit the break real quick,” said Jacob Neek. Metro Police say residents can request extra enforcement in their neighborhood at their area command. “They come through here a lot, and once in a while, they’ll pick somebody up, but they can’t even begin to police this small little area,” said Peterson. Until then, the people who live here hope their homemade signs will serve as a reminder to slow down before it’s too late. “When you see the signs, you’re like oh yeah. What is my speed? I get into the bad habit of driving without looking at the speedometer, and when you’re the only one on the road, that really helps,” said Neek.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2018
__label__wiki	0.74995	0.74995	Player  Toni Katić  Toni Katić download profile photo tkatic6 Toni Katić Makarska, Croatia 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 - Split 2013/14, 2014/15 - Široki Primorka 2015-19 - Cedevita 2019/20 - Cibona Most PointsMP Most ReboundsMR Most AssistsMA Mega Bemax : Cibona 72:76, Season 2019/20 - ABA liga overall FG2 FG3 FT Rebs Blck Foul Min Pts % M A % M A % M A % D O Ass St To Fv Ag Cm Rv Val 29:34 22 60 5 6 83.3 1 4 25 9 10 90 1 0 3 1 2 1 0 3 7 25 MZT Skopje Aerodrom : Cedevita 79:100, Season 2016/17 - ABA liga 15:00 8 100 4 4 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 15 Cibona : Cedevita Olimpija 82:84, Season 2019/20 - ABA liga 25:06 6 33.3 3 6 50 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 1 8 0 2 0 0 4 2 9 Player Game Statistics Show Data for Season 2019/20 - ABA liga Season 2018/19 - ABA liga Season 2017/18 - ABA liga Season 2017/18 - Supercup Season 2016/17 - ABA liga Season 2015/16 - ABA liga 3 Cibona-FMP 14:35 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 100 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 3 7 4 Zadar-Cibona 21:35 7 66.7 2 2 100 0 1 0 3 4 75 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 4 2 4 5 Cibona-C. zvezda 14:01 3 33.3 0 1 0 1 2 50 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 -2 6 Budućnost-Cibona 20:18 2 25 1 4 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 7 Cibona-Krka 26:32 3 100 1 1 100 0 0 0 1 4 25 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 5 7 8 Mega-Cibona 29:34 22 60 5 6 83.3 1 4 25 9 10 90 1 0 3 1 2 1 0 3 7 25 9 Cibona-Koper Primorska 18:10 11 55.6 5 8 62.5 0 1 0 1 1 100 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 5 17 10 Cibona-Igokea 25:43 10 66.7 4 5 80 0 1 0 2 2 100 0 1 6 2 1 0 0 3 2 15 11 Partizan-Cibona 07:49 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 12 Mornar-Cibona 26:42 10 75 1 2 50 2 2 100 2 3 66.7 3 0 3 3 4 0 1 2 5 15 13 Cibona-C. Olimpija 25:06 6 33.3 3 6 50 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 1 8 0 2 0 0 4 2 9 14 FMP-Cibona 04:08 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 50 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 12 Total 229 77 50 22 38 57.9 4 14 28.6 21 28 75 12 4 34 12 21 1 2 23 37 98 Average 19.1 6.4 50 1.8 3.2 57.9 0.3 1.2 28.6 1.8 2.3 75 1 0.3 2.8 1 1.8 0.1 0.2 1.9 3.1 8.2 FG2, FG3 - Field Goals M - Made Ag - Against Rebs - Rebounds St - Steals FT - Free Throws A - Attempted Foul - Foul D - Defensive To - Turnover Min - Minutes Blck - Blocks Cm - Committed O - Offensive Val - rank Value Pts - Points Fv - in Favoure of Rv - Received Ass - Assists Legal notice: ABA League, in cooperation with its clubs, grants access to a number of photos from ABA League games, as well as some additional events, linked to the competition. These images are high resolution and downloadable directly from the the photo galleries. They are free to use for editorial purposes. Please, make sure to credit the authors of the photos with the source, signed beneath each photo in order to avoid undesirable legal consequences. Toni Katic (Photo: Cibona/Zeljko Baksaj & Gordan Lausic & Domagoj Vranar) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Cibona/Zeljko Baksaj & Domagoj Vranar & Gordan Lausic) Toni Katic (Photo: Mega Bemax/Ivica Veselinov) Toni Katic (Photo: Cibona/Ivan Santro) Toni Katic (Photo: Buducnost VOLI) Toni Katic (Photo: Buducnost VOLI) Toni Katic (Photo: Zadar/Zvonko Kucelin) Toni Katic (Photo: Buducnost VOLI) Toni Katic (Petrol Olimpija/Ales Fevzer) Toni Katic (Petrol Olimpija/Ales Fevzer) Toni Katic (Petrol Olimpija/Ales Fevzer) Toni Katic (Photo: Krka/Robi Verbajs) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Igokea/Nenad Vuruna) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Mega Bemax/Ivica Veselinov) Toni Katic (Photo: Mega Bemax/Ivica Veselinov) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Crvena zvezda mts) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Buducnost VOLI) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Mornar/Media Pro) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Crvena zvezda mts) Toni Katic & Mirza Begic (Photo: Crvena zvezda mts) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cibona/Zeljko Baksaj & Gordan Lausic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Buducnost VOLI) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Mega Leks/Ivica Veselinov) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Sušić) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Sušić) Toni Katic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Sušić)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2021
__label__cc	0.511686	0.488314	Our Lady Peace and I Mother Earth announced for Abbotsford Centre Concert on Saturday, Oct. 15 kicks off their cross-country tour Our Lady Peace comes to Abbotford in October with I Mother Earth featuring Edwin. Two of Canada’s most beloved and best-selling bands, Our Lady Peace and I Mother Earth featuring Edwin, will kick off their cross-country tour in Abbotsford on Saturday, Oct. 15. The concert takes place at 7 p.m. at Abbotsford Centre. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, June 24 at 10 a.m. The tour also includes special guests The Standstills. Having toured together in the mid-‘90s for their breakthrough albums, Naveed (OLP) and Dig (IME), both bands are excited to reunite 20 years later to perform for their fans across the country. Tickets are available online at abbotsford.ca, through Ticketmaster outlets and by phone at 1-855-985-5000. CBC to broadcast final concert of the Tragically Hip Home improvement show pilot episode to be re-aired	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2023
__label__wiki	0.975396	0.975396	Ryan weighs changes to avoid House floor chaos Copyright Associated Press J. Scott Applewhite <p>Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and the House Republican leadership face reporters after a closed-door caucus at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. On the cusp of the Memorial Day weekend, Speaker Ryan called the recent remarks of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald as “disgusting” after comparing wait times to receive VA health care to the lines people wait in for rides at Disney theme parks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</p> WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Paul Ryan is taking steps to bring greater order to the House floor after a Democrat-authored gay rights amendment caused chaos last week. Ryan told House Republicans Tuesday that in the future, such amendments will have to be printed ahead of time. Current rules can allow amendments to be written and voted on in real time when spending bills are up for debate. It's a procedural change that could allow the GOP majority to better manage politically problematic votes. "You don't like to have surprises," said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., as he exited the closed-door GOP meeting where Ryan announced the planned change. "If you want to play tricks and games that's fine. If you're interested in doing legislation you ought to have thought it through." Last week Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney offered a gay rights amendment that was about to pass, before seven Republicans changed their votes under pressure from House GOP leaders, and the amendment failed. Outraged Democrats chanted "Shame! Shame!" as Republicans switched their votes. GOP lawmakers and aides said Maloney's amendment caught them by surprise and they had to take quick action against it in order to salvage the underlying legislation, a spending bill to pay for popular veterans and military construction projects. But the result was a messy scene the GOP wants to avoid repeating. A similar scenario flaired last year on an amendment related to the Confederate flag, and Democrats had already made clear that they would be bringing Maloney's amendment back up on other spending bills. A Ryan aide said that the pre-printing requirement was being discussed but had not yet been finalized. The issue has emerged as a test for Ryan, who has committed himself to more openness and inclusion in how the House operates. One result of an open process can be tough votes and Ryan has committed himself to confronting those head-on. In calling for amendments to be printed in advance he appears to be trying to strike a balance between openness and chaos. "If we're going to have open rules in appropriations, which we have, which is regular order, people are going to have to take tough votes. And I think people are acknowledging this," Ryan said last week. Associated Press 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2024
__label__wiki	0.799885	0.799885	Boeing delivers the first South Carolina-built 787-9 Dreamliner to United Airlines Boeing (Chicago, Seattle and Charleston) has delivered the first 787-9 Dreamliner assembled at its North Charleston, South Carolina, facility to United Airlines (Chicago). The airplane also marks a milestone for the 787 program as the 250th Dreamliner to be delivered. In the first quarter of 2013, Boeing South Carolina teammates began fabrication, assembly and integration of the aft and mid fuselage sections for the first Boeing 787-9 and delivered them to Everett Final Assembly. In November 2014, work began on the first South Carolina-built 787-9 when the first aft and mid sections were delivered to Boeing South Carolina Final Assembly. The airplane rolled out to the flight line in January 2015 and completed its first flight last month. “Our customers have told us they love flying on the Dreamliner, and we’re excited to mark yet another first for the aircraft with this delivery from Boeing South Carolina,” said United’s Vice President of Fleet Ron Baur. “We were the first North American carrier to fly the 787-8 in September 2012 and the first to fly 787-9s in September 2014. The Dreamliners have allowed us to fly longer distances with greater fuel efficiency and open new direct routes such as Los Angeles to Melbourne, while providing our customers and employees with a more comfortable flying experience.” This is the fourth 787-9 for United Airlines, in addition to the 12 787-8s the airline already has in service. The 787-9 complements and extends the 787 family. With the fuselage stretched by 20 feet (6 meters) over the 787-8, the 787-9 is designed to fly up more passengers and cargo farther with the same exceptional fuel and environmental performance: 20 percent less fuel use and emissions than the airplanes they replace. Photo: Boeing. The pictured Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner N35953 (msn 36404) was handed over to United today (March 17). United Airlines aircraft slide show (current livery only): This entry was posted in United Airlines and tagged 1787, 36404, 787, 787-9, Boeing, Boeing 787, Boeing 787-9, Boeing South Carolina, CHA, Charleston, N35953, South Carolina, United Airlines on March 17, 2015 by Bruce Drum. Royal Air Maroc to introduce the new Boeing 787 on the New York route on Sunday Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca), the national airline of Morocco, marks a milestone with the launch of its first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. The airline continues: The new, super efficient 274-seat aircraft will depart on its inaugural 6.5-hour flight from Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca (CMN) to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on February 22. This launch marks the first of two 787-8s that will be dedicated to trans-Atlantic flights between the U.S. and Morocco. Royal Air Maroc’s new planes feature 18 Business Class seats in a 2-2 layout, and 256 Economy Class seats in a 3-3-3 layout. Copyright Photo: Jacques Guillem/AirlinersGallery.com. The first Boeing 787-8, the pictured CN-RGB (msn 43817) was handed over to the carrier on December 31, 2014 and had been operating to Paris (Orly). Royal Air Maroc aircraft slide show: This entry was posted in Royal Air Maroc and tagged 1787, 43817, 787, 787-8, Boeing, Boeing 787, Boeing 787-8, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Casablanca, CN-RGB, Dreamliner, JFK, john f kennedy international airport, Mohammed V International Airport, Morocco, New York, Paris, Royal Air Maroc on February 20, 2015 by Bruce Drum. Thomas Cook Airlines introduces its “Air Flair” logojet Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels) loves logojets and the additional advertising revenue its brings in. Following on the new Ice-Watch logojet, the airline has also introduced this new “Air Flair” logojet on the pictured Airbus A320-214 OO-TCJ (msn 1787). The logojet promotes the local Belgian magazine Flair, which is read mainly by women. Copyright Photo: Karl Cornil/AirlinersGallery.com. OO-TCJ prepares to land at the Brussels base. Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium): This entry was posted in Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) and tagged 1787, A320, A320200, A320214, Air Flair, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, aviation, BRU, Brussels, OOTCJ, Thomas Cook, thomas cook airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium), transportation on July 11, 2013 by Bruce Drum.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2034
__label__cc	0.734401	0.265599	A colonial thing 5 Dec 2019 — 30 Jun 2020 at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria A colonial thing. Courtesy of Weltmuseum Wien The question of how ethnographic museums should deal with their colonial pasts has been discussed even among the general public in recent years. Guidelines and recommendations have been developed that take into account the following aspects: who needs to, should, or can restitute artefacts? To whom should material culture be returned? The exhibition shows how these guidelines relate to twelve specific objects. This opens up a discursive space for visitors that reveals diverse and surprising facets to the question of the “colonial object” and its future. Simple answers are not to be expected, but all the more impulses for reflection and debate. Exhibitions provide ethnological museums with an opportunity to display their collections to the general public. The treasures they preserve are dedicated to the better understanding of individual cultures or regions of the world, or offer a comparative approach to the entire spectrum of cultural diversity. More from Weltmuseum Wien Metamorphosis. Brazil 1998 5 Dec 2019 — 24 Mar 2020 The Majlis 17 Sep 2019 — 21 Apr 2020 Lisl Ponger Nepal Art Now 11 Apr — 24 Nov 2019 More in Vienna, Austria Wilhelm Leibl 31 Jan — 10 May 2020 at Albertina Museum Herbert Brandl 31 Jan — 24 May 2020 at Belvedere 21 The Master of Mondsee 7 Feb — 17 May 2020 at Upper Belvedere Museum The Renaissance of Etching 12 Feb — 10 May 2020 at Albertina Museum More in Austria 14 Feb — 1 Jun 2020 at Lower Belvedere in Vienna 20 Feb — 30 Aug 2020 at Upper Belvedere Museum in Vienna Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler 22 Feb — 24 May 2020 at Albertina Museum in Vienna 30 Apr — 27 Sep 2020 at Belvedere 21 in Vienna	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2041
__label__wiki	0.702752	0.702752	SSRL \| Highlights Archive \| Headlines \| Publications \| User Resources \| SLAC \| Stanford University (click on image for larger view) Scientific Highlight Nilsson Research Hydrogenation of Carbon Nanotubes Provides Step toward Hydrogen Vehicles summary written by Heather Rock Woods, SLAC Communication Office Researchers at SSRL and Stanford have taken a step closer to hydrogen-run cars by adding hydrogen to tiny cylinders made entirely out of carbon. Recent experiments at SSRL and the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley have shown that carbon nanotubes, 50,000 times narrower than a human hair, are a promising material for storing hydrogen safely, efficiently and compactly. To attempt to store hydrogen, the researchers bombarded a film of carbon nanotubes with a hydrogen beam. Then they studied the film with different x-ray spectroscopy techniques to see if any hydrogen atoms had formed chemical bonds with the carbon. They found that about 65 percent of the carbon atoms had bonded to hydrogen atoms. In carbon nanotubes, the carbon atoms have double bonds between each other. The incoming hydrogens break the double bonds, allowing a hydrogen atom to attach to a carbon atom while the carbon atoms renew their attachment to each other with single bonds. The carbon nanotubes offer safe storage because the hydrogen atoms are bonded to other atoms, rather than freely floating as a gas, which is potentially explosive. The researchers estimated that five percent of the total weight of the hydrogenated nanotubes came from the hydrogen atoms, and they are already working to boost that number. For its FreedomCAR program, the Department of Energy has set the goal of developing a material that can hold six percent of the total weight in hydrogen by the year 2010. A. Nikitin, H. Ogasawara, D. Mann, R. Denecke, Z. Zhang, H. Dai, K. Cho, and A. Nilsson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225507 (2005)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2042
__label__cc	0.570724	0.429276	Beef Focus Beef focus: Finishing ability and easy calving top of the list in Co. Wexford Niall Claffey Jan 19, 2018, 6:00am The Barron family has been farming in Adamstown, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, for generations. John and his wife Ann, along with their daughters Emma and Daire, run a medium-sized herd of 30 Aubrac cows. The farm stretches across 75ac and compromises of 50ac of grassland and 25ac of tillage. In addition to the beef enterprise, the Barron family are also involved in a company called Biogreen, which is an oil-pressing plant on the site. Speaking about Biogreen, John stated: “We buy oilseed rape, press it and sell the oil. It is used for coating oils in animal feed and for human consumption. We started operations in 2004 and press about 4,000t/year. “The by-product is rape cake, which we use to make feed rations that we finish our own cattle on and sell across the country.” Prior to the oil-pressing business, both John and Ann milked a herd of predominately British Friesian cows under a spring-calving system. However, as this business grew, the family’s workload was increasing by the day. John said: “We simply hadn’t enough hands. Biogreen was very busy, so we got out of dairy and went more into tillage. Getting back into cows After approximately four years developing Biogreen, the Barrons decided it was time to get back to livestock farming. The decision was made to go down the Aubrac route and it is safe to say that they are delighted with the decision. “Originally, we had students here from the Aubrac region in France. We had seen the cattle on numerous occasions and it was my sister who had got into them first. “When we got the feed business settled down, and got everything running the way we wanted to, we bought some Aubrac heifers. “Basically it went from there. What really stood out was the finishing ability of the Aubrac bulls,” John said. He continued: “We classify Biogreen as our day job and devote our evenings and weekends to the cattle, although they basically look after themselves. The cattle keep us; we don’t keep the cattle. A low-maintenance breed With the thriving feed and oil-pressing enterprise, the family need a breed that is low maintenance and easy to manage. And, with the Aubrac, this is exactly what they have. John, who is on the council of the Irish Aubrac Cattle Society, said: “They are a very hardy and an easily-managed breed. They also have a good temperament; a short-gestation period (283 days); and work very well on Holstein cows. “The biggest problem we have with the cows is keeping the condition off. At the minute, they are fed silage, straw and hay on three alternating days. We would never have thin cows. “All cattle get treated for IBR and that’s it – nothing else. After that, they are left to their own devices. They have a mineral bucket in the field and some rock salt,” he explained. On the day that AgriLand visited the farm, it was plain to see how easy calving the breed is. While there, one cow calved unassisted in a matter of minutes. Newborn calves weigh approximately 35-40kg. All heifers are kept for breeding on the farm. They are bred at 15 months and there is no problem meeting targets. John also explained that there are never any fertility issues. “It is very important for us to calve heifers down at 24-26 months. If we don’t, we will run into serious trouble; they would weigh approximately 600-700kg and there would be a lot of difficulties come calving,” he added. Continuing, he said: “Our goal here is to sell pedigree bulls and to finish the crossbred bulls. If we sell a pedigree bull to a farmer, we will buy back the crossbred bull weanlings and finish them here on the farm. “We sell the pedigree bulls from 16 months. We find that people are looking for older bulls. We recommend that the young bulls are put with some heifers starting off, as you can’t give a chap a man’s job,” he joked. Finishing and animal performance Offspring are weaned at nine months. The crossbred bulls are then fed a ‘grower’ ration for approximately two months. On this, the weanlings have an average daily gain (ADG) of 1.7/kg/day. Cattle are weighed every three weeks to record progression. The eye can tell a lot, but the weighing scales will tell everything. The finishing ration is made up of straw (7%); rape cake (13%); maize meal (28%); barley (25%); soya hulls (11%); molasses (10%); sugar (6%); and minerals. Bulls normally achieve an ADG of 1.9-2.2kg/day on this ration. The ‘grower’ ration contains approximately 33% less maize meal than the finisher ration. Silage and hay are fed along with the ‘grower’ meal as a source of roughage. “The Aubrac breed have an excellent feed conversion rate. From the age of 16-17 months, that’s when the cattle really come into their own. “The rape cake is the only source of protein we use and the sugar content is increased as they get older,” he added. The finishing stock are assessed by both John and Ann as they come close to slaughter. This is done by handling and weighing the animals. “When they start to get a hard cover, we give them another month and then they go to the factory. “We try and get them up into the 2+ or 3= score for fat. If you have that score on the cattle you can talk to them (factories). If you have cattle with a fat score of 1+ or 2-, nobody wants them.” Tackling future obstacles “Aubracs will deliver more cattle and more beef at lower costs. There are also opportunities to use Aubrac bulls in the dairy herd. “Dairy farmers looking for a beef breed for crossing on dairy cows – not needed for producing replacements – should look no further,” John explained. Ann commented on the breed’s milk potential, stating: “If you just depend on the dam to bring the milk, that’s no good. It needs to come from both sides.” Brexit issues In relation to Brexit, John said: “It has thrown the cat among the pigeons. There is a market for the pedigree bulls, particularly with the Kiwi-cross and Holstein-cross cows in the dairy herd and that is only going to get better.” “It is the beef end of it that is all up in the air. It could be disastrous not only for our beef business, but also for our seed pressing business. We buy some seed from the UK. “The tariffs they are talking about for beef are just bananas. Everybody is talking about the North and the border being a problem. “Our main business is not south-north, it is south-east [Ireland and UK]. This is the border we need to be looking at,” he said. In relation to Mercosur, he said: “I think Brexit is a far bigger problem. It’s right beside us and the UK is our easiest roadway to all our markets in Europe. You deal with your neighbours first and that is what happens all over the world.” Looking at beef prices in Ireland, John said: “For spring killing cattle, the bull price needs to be at base of €4.35/kg. That’s where it’s at. That’s the money we need to make a decent profit. “Killing bulls under 16 months just doesn’t work for us. The bulls are just too light and they don’t come into money. But, this is what the factories want. “But yet, they turn around and say that they are not getting the meat yield from the cattle,” he concluded. Beef focus: Breeding the best of both worlds in Co. Meath Beef focus: Wagyu leads the way on a Co. Kildare beef enterprise Aubrac Beef Focus Biogreen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2043
__label__wiki	0.76552	0.76552	History of Kerrygold – the story of Irish dairy farming Agriland Team Kerrygold is Ireland’s much loved global food brand. The brand was created by Sir Anthony O’Reilly in 1962, CEO of, what was then called, An Bord Bainne. His vision for the brand was to establish it as a premium brand, befitting the rich quality of Irish milk. Its story is, to a large degree, the story of Irish dairy farming. Known and loved by consumers around the world, the brand is associated with images of cows grazing in lush green pastures. Irish diaspora spot the familiar golden foil packaging in shops around the world and it is an immediate link to home. Kerrygold advertising campaigns became viral at a time when YouTube did not exist, and to this day people of a certain age still ask the question “Who is Taking the Horse to France?”. Today, the brand enjoys leading positions in many of its markets. It is the number one branded butter in Germany. In the United States, it is the number one imported butter brand and the number three overall butter brand. Timeline – A History of Kerrygold 1961 May 17, 1961, An Bord Bainne (Irish for The Irish Milk Board) is established to “promote, facilitate, encourage, assist, co-ordinate and develop the exportation of milk and milk products”. 1962 The Kerrygold brand name is chosen from a total of 60 suggestions and the brand is launched, not in Ireland, but in the UK. 1964 It starts exporting to many more markets overseas, such as Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Middle East, Gulf States, Canary Islands, the Caribbean and Asia. 1973 The brand is exported to EEC member states including Germany. Today, Kerrygold is the No. 1 butter brand in Germany. 1973 Some 11 years after launching in the UK and around the globe, the brand goes on sale in Ireland. 1979 Kerrygold Regato Classic launches in Greece. Today nearly 4,000 metric tonnes of Regato are sold in Greece each year. 1980 A new logo is unveiled. 1984 Kerrygold Regato Classic airs its very own TV advert on Greek TV. 1989 The brand becomes a proud title sponsor of the Dublin Horse Show. 1991 The range of Kerrygold expands into cheese and butter products in the US. 1994 Adverts for the brand become as legendary as the butter. One of the much-loved classics ‘Who’s taking the horse to France?’ aired in 1994. 1995 Kerrygold launches milk powder in South Africa. 1998 Dubliner cheese launches in the US. 2000 Kerrygold milk powder launches in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 2005 The brand gets very own German street, renamed Kerrygoldstrasse. 2009 The iconic TV ad, ‘The Sod’ airs in 2009. 2010 Launch of the new logo that you see today. 2013 Kerrygold becomes the title sponsor of the Ballymaloe Lit Fest. 2013 The Brand celebrates 40 years in Germany. 2014 Kerrygold receives planning approval for a new home a butter manufacturing and packing plant in County Cork. 2014 It breaks into a new category, launching an Irish Cream Liqueur in the US. 2015 Ornua becomes the new name of The Irish Dairy Board. 2015 It opens a new milk powder packing facility in Nigeria. 2016 Yogurts are launched in Germany. 2016 Kerrygold Park opens – the new global home for the manufacturing and packaging of Kerrygold butter products. New plant in Mitchelstown Co. Cork How the global attack on agricultural emissions began; meet Dr. Frank Mitloehner…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2044
__label__cc	0.725685	0.274315	https://aircharterservice-globalcontent-live.cphostaccess.com/images/blog-images/cs_thumb_tcm36-37790.jpg Euros on Strike When a major airline went on strike during the UEFA European Championship, it was up to us to ensure a group of prize-winners made it to the game on time. To ensure the global management company were able to transfer the passengers in a way that adhered to the guidelines, to avoid disappointment or possible legal fees, ACS knew time was of the essence. As we have 24 hour operations we were able to respond within an hour of receiving the initial request with an option and a possible solution to the problem. However, our team of professionals didn’t stop there, and kept liaising with all our industry connections to find multiple options for our client to select from, factoring in both cost and seating capacity. In the end an EMB145 was chosen due to its comfortable surroundings, ensuring all 45 passengers could travel together. Furthermore, arrangements were made with ground handling agents at both airports to ensure priority check-in and baggage checks were carried out seamlessly before departure, saving time spent in the airport. CATERING: Bespoke catering was provided, including local French delicacies. FLIGHT REPRESENTATION: In order to ensure a smooth flight an ACS representative was placed on board the flight, any last minute requests could therefore be handled as quickly as possible. THE EXTRA MILE: ACS was able to source headrest covers, coasters and check-in screens with the client’s logo on them to make the experience truly memorable.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2047
__label__cc	0.616817	0.383183	Southwest to Add More Service to Two Major East Coast Cities Ricky Radka - April 24, 2018 Travelers can expect to see more Southwest Airlines flight options from the East Coast opening up over the next few years. The DOT has granted approval for Alaska Airlines to lease 20 of its slots to Southwest for the next ten years, in a deal running through 2028. The slots will be allocated at New York LaGuardia (LGA) in which Southwest will lease 12 of the slots and at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) where they will have eight. Acquired during the 2016 purchase of Virgin America, Alaska Airlines wants to offload these slots in order to focus on its presence on the West Coast. This move will allow Alaska to re-purpose many of the aircraft serving these routes to more profitable ones out of its focus airports like Seattle (SEA), Portland (PDX), and Anchorage (ANC); all while still monetizing these highly valuable slots through the new lease. During the company's first-quarter earnings conference call Alaska Airlines chief executive Brad Tilden said: "Flying from Dallas Love Field to both LaGuardia and Washington Reagan, at this point in the company's history, was not strategic." The lease will begin in October 2018 and Southwest has already confirmed it plans on providing additional flights but has yet to disclose any potential routes or service increases. Stay tuned here on the Airfarewatchblog as we'll make sure to post all the information on newly announced routes when it becomes available. Southwest To Lease 20 Slots at DC National and LaGuardia Airports This move will allow Alaska to re-purpose many of the aircraft serving these routes to more profitable ones out of its hub Seattle (SEA), and focus airports like Portland (PDX) and Anchorage (ANC). All while still monetizing these highly valuable slots through the new lease. The lease will begin in October 2018 and Southwest Airlines has already confirmed it plans on providing additional flights but has yet to disclose any potential routes or service increases. Stay tuned here on the Airfarewatchblog as we'll make sure to post all the information on newly announced routes when it becomes available.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2049
__label__cc	0.739666	0.260334	Effective Date: December 1, 2019 This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we, Reckitt Benckiser LLC (“we”), collect, use, and disclose information we obtain about visitors to our websites, our social media pages that we control, and other on-line or mobile services, applications, or advertisements (“Our Sites”), including use of the services available through our Site (“Services”). Unless otherwise provided for in this Policy, this Policy does not pertain to other information that is collected offline. Some of Our Sites include Sites for Air Wick®, d-CON®, Dimensions, Easy-Off®, Easy On®, Finish®, Lime-A-Way®, Lysol®, Old English®, Resolve®, RID-X®, Spray ’N Wash®, VEO, and Woolite®. BY USING OUR SITES, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE REVIEWED THIS PRIVACY POLICY EXPLANATION IN ITS ENTIRETY AND YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE POLICY AND TO OUR HANDLING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS STATED BELOW AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, INCLUDING ITS APPLICABLE LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES AND THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR SITES. A. Personal Information Collected B. Sharing and Disclosure of Information C. Collection and Use of Information from Children Under the Age of 13 D. Access To and Choices About Your Personal Information E. Product Review Boards, Chat Rooms, Forums, and Other Posting Areas F. Promotions with Third Parties G. Third Party Web Sites H. International Transfers I. Cookies J. Do-Not-Track K. Do Not Sell L. Your California Privacy Rights M. Security N. EU - U.S. Privacy Shield/Swiss-US Privacy Shield O. Contacting Us P. Rights to Your Data and Deletion of Your Data Q. Changes to this Policy We may collect personal information about you in a variety of ways, including directly from you as well as automatically through your use of Our Sites or Services. (1) Information We Collect Directly From You. We may collect the following personal information directly from you: · If you create an account with us (which may be required to access certain features of Our Site and Services), we may collect your first and last name, email address, preferred password, and if you agree to receive promotional/marketing emails from us; · In connection with your account and, at your option, we may collect your date of birth, gender, interests, mailing address, and answers to survey questions regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you; · If you purchase a product or service via Our Sites, we may collect your first and last name, email address, mailing address, and billing information; · If you contact us with a question related to our products or services, we may collect your first and last name, email address or phone number, and product or service details; · If you choose to participate in a contest or sweepstakes, we may collect your first and last name, date of birth, and email address; and/or · If you apply for a job, we may collect your first and last name, email address, mailing address, and your education and work history, and other information you may provide to us when applying. (2) Information We Collect Automatically. We may automatically collect the following personal information about your use of Our Sites or Services through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies: · your domain name; · your device ID; · your browser type and operating system; · web pages of Our Sites you view as well as sites you may visit directly before arriving or on leaving Our Sites; · links you click; · your Internet Protocol (IP) address; · location information of your device; · the length of time you visit Our Sites and/or use our Services; · and the referring Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and the webpage that led you to Our Sites. We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you. Please see the section “Cookies” below for more information. (3) Use of Information Collected Via Our Sites We may use your information, including your personal information, for the following purposes: · To provide our Services to you, to communicate with you about your use of our Services, to respond to your inquiries, to fulfill your orders, and for other customer service purposes. · To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using Our Sites or Services. · For marketing and promotional purposes. For example, we may use your personal information, such as your email address, to send you newsletters, marketing emails, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you. We also may use the personal information that we collect to assist us in advertising our Services on third party websites. · To better understand how users access and use Our Sites and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve Our Sites and Services and respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes. · To protect us and others, including as necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or potential threats to the safety of any person or as necessary to comply with law · To administer contests, petitions, and sweepstakes. · To administer our rewards program. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. From time to time, we may share your information, including personal information, as follows: · Affiliates. We may disclose the personal information we collect from you to our affiliates or subsidiaries (see www.rbnainfo.com); however, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information will be subject to this Policy. · Service Providers and Vendors. We may disclose the information we collect from you to third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf, such as order processing and fulfillment, customer service, research, administration of contests and sweepstakes, sending communications, and performing data analytics. · Business Transfers. If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company. · In Response to Legal Process. We also may disclose the information we collect from you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena. · To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. · Aggregate, Anonymized, and De-Identified Information. We may share aggregate, anonymized, or de-identified information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research, or similar purposes. We will require these third parties to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information. If you are a California resident, we will not authorize these third parties to use the personal information we provide for their direct marketing purposes (as such term is defined in the California “Shine the Light” Law, California Civil Code §§ 1798.83), unless we have explicitly given you the option to opt-in or opt-out of such disclosure. We do not authorize these third parties to use your personal information for purposes other than for which it has been provided, and do not authorize these third parties to disclose that information to unauthorized parties or use that information for their direct marketing purposes. Our Site and Services are not intended or directed to children. You may not use Our Site and Our Services if you are under the age of 13, and we request that these individuals not provide personal information through the Service. If your child has submitted Personal Information and you would like to request that such Personal Information be removed, please contact us as explained below under CONTACTING US. D. Access to and Choices About My Personal Information You may modify your personal information that you have submitted by logging into your account on Our Site and updating your profile information. In other cases, you can contact us at consumer.relations@rb.com. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified, or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site for a period of time. We may communicate with you via email if you purchase products or services from us. For example, we may email you to confirm and otherwise facilitate your purchase, send you information about changes to our products and/or services, and, if applicable, send you notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, you cannot opt-out of these informational communications. We may also send you marketing or promotional emails. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving these marketing or promotional emails please note that, as described above, we may still send you emails in certain circumstances. We may offer public interactive forums and review boards through Our Sites, like discussion boards, product reviews, chat rooms, community forums, wikis, social networking platforms and blogs. When you participate in such offerings, your username, postings and other personal information you choose to provide or communicate in these public spaces may be seen by others, and you should exercise caution when disclosing such information and realize that information you post could remain viewable in cached or archived webpages or copied and stored by other users even after you remove it. We cannot control the actions of other users of Our Sites, and we are not responsible for the results of your postings. Furthermore, when you participate in these interactive features, you may be agreeing to terms of use that, among other things, allow us to use your name and other information in our marketing and advertising. Your personal information may also be disclosed to your friends associated with your social media account, to other website users and to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity. By connecting an account that you create on Our Site and your social media account, you authorize us to share information with your social media account provider, and you understand that the use of the information we share on social media platforms will be governed by such social media provider’s privacy policy. From time to time, we may work with other companies to offer a joint promotion or a special offers to you with a third party. Please note that when you provide information for these promotions, it will be indicated whether you are providing your information directly to us or to the third party to use for their own marketing purposes. When you do provide your information for their purposes, their use of your information will be governed by that party’s own privacy policy. This Policy applies solely to information collected on this Site. The Site may contain links to other websites, and any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites. We are a global company, with offices located in many countries. As such, your personal information may be stored in a country other than the United States in servers or in locations where we have a global office or where a global service provider is situated. For example, Our Site services are located in Poland and Amsterdam, whose data privacy and security rules may be different from those found in your own country. We and our third party service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of Our Site or Services. For more information, please visit our Cookie Notice. Currently, our systems do not recognize browser “do-not-track” requests. You may, however, disable certain tracking by disabling cookies or opting-out of targeted advertising as noted below. (1) Cookies Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site and Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities at our Site and Service. There are two types of cookies: session and persistent cookies. · Session Cookies. Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser or turn off your computer. We use session cookies to allow our systems to uniquely identify you during a session or while you are logged into the Site. This allows us to process your online transactions and requests and verify your identity, after you have logged in, as you move through our Site. · Persistent Cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you have closed your browser or turned off your computer. We use persistent cookies to track aggregate and statistical information about user activity. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of the Site, but some features may not function. (2) Local Storage Objects We may use Flash Local Storage Objects (“Flash LSOs”) to store your Site preferences and to personalize your visit. Flash LSOs are different from browser cookies because of the amount and type of personal information stored. Typically, you cannot control, delete, or disable the acceptance of Flash LSOs through your web browser. For more information on Flash LSOs, or to learn how to manage your settings for Flash LSOs, go to the Adobe Flash Player Help Page, choose “Global Storage Settings Panel” and follow the instructions. To see the Flash LSOs currently on your computer, choose “Website Storage Settings Panel” and follow the instructions to review and, if you choose, to delete any specific Flash LSO. (3) Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags and Other Technologies Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Site to, among other things, track the activities of Site visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Site usage. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our e-mails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded. (4) Third Party Analytics We use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate usage of our Site. We also may use other analytic means to evaluate our Site. We use these tools to help us improve our Site’s performance and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your personal information from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Cross-Device Use. We and our third party service providers, including Google, may use the information that we collect about you (whether directly from our Site, through your device(s), or from a third party) to help us and our third party service providers identify other devices that you use (e.g., a mobile phone, tablet, other computer, etc.). We, and our third party service providers also may use the cross-device use and other information we learn about you to serve targeted advertising on your devices and to send you emails. To opt-out of cross-device advertising, you may follow the instructions set forth in the Third-Party Ad Networks section below. Please note: if you opt-out of these targeted advertising cookies, your opt-out will be specific to the web browser or device from which you accessed the opt-out. If you use multiple devices or web browsers, you will need to opt-out each browser or device that you use. (5) Third-Party Ad Networks We use third parties such as network advertisers to display advertisements on our Sites, to assist us in displaying advertisements on third party websites, and to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to our Site as well as other websites. This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements by displaying ads for products and services in which you might be interested. Third party ad network providers, advertisers, sponsors, and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs, and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These third party cookies and other technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. We may provide these third-party advertisers with information about your usage of our Site and our services, as well as aggregate or de-identified information about visitors to our Site and users of our Services. You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). For more information regarding this practice by NAI members and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp (NAI) and www.aboutads.info/choices (DAA). Opting out of one or more NAI member or DAA member networks (many of which will be the same) only means that those members no longer will deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content or ads on our Site or other websites. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing. Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI or DAA opt-out may no longer be effective. Additional information is available on NAI’s and DAA’s websites accessible by the above links. This Site contains a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” page here. We do not sell any of your personal information for any purpose to any third parties. Any unintentional or incidental information exchanges with our third-party partners are not intended to be for consideration. L. Your California Privacy Rights (as provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83) If you are a resident of California, you may have the right to request and receive certain information about a company’s disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing use, and your choices with respect to such disclosures. Because we do not share your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing use unless you elected that we do so, we are exempt from this requirement. For any further information about how we comply with this requirement, please contact us as outlined below. No method of data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us. We do incorporate commercially reasonable technical and administrative means intended to provide security on our systems from corruption, loss, unauthorized access, or misuse. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity. If you feel that the security of any information or any account that you have with us may have been compromised, please contact us immediately as outlined below. N. EU-U.S. Privacy Shield/Swiss-US Privacy Shield We comply with the requirements of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce (the "Privacy Shield Principles"). We adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information transferred from the European Economic Area (EEA) (which includes the member states of the European Union plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), the United Kingdom and Switzerland to the United States. In doing so, we have certified that, in respect of all personal information we receive from the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we will adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfers, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. If there is any conflict between the terms in this policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to find details of our certification, please visit www.privacyshield.gov/list. The following entities are covered by our Privacy Shield certification: Reckitt Benckiser LLC and RB Manufacturing LLC. Our participation in the Privacy Shield applies to all personal information that is subject to this privacy policy and is transferred from the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland to the United States. We will comply with the Privacy Shield Principles in respect of such personal information. Where we transfer personal information from the EEA or Switzerland to our third-party agents and service providers, we will require such third parties to process the information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and to provide the same level of protection for the information as required by the Privacy Shield Principles. We remain responsible and liable for onward transfers under the Privacy Shield Principles if third-party agents that we engage to process the personal information on our behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Shield Principles, unless we prove that we is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. To request to limit the use and disclosure of your personal information, please submit a written request to consumer.relations@rb.com. With respect to personal information received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, we are subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including as required to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We do not offer an opportunity to opt out from this category of disclosure. We will provide an individual opt-out choice before we share your data with third parties other than our agents, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized. In the event that we ever collect, use, or share sensitive data, we will provide appropriate opt-in choice. In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, we are committed to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. If you believe that we are processing your personal information within the scope of its Privacy Shield certification, you may direct any inquiries or complaints concerning our Privacy Shield compliance in the following ways: (1) You should first direct any questions or complaints to consumer.relations@rb.com or you can write to us at the following mailing address: Reckitt Benckiser LLC 399 Interpace Parkway Parsippany, NJ 07054-0225 Attn: Consumer Relations We will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints or disputes regarding the use or disclosure of your personal information within 45 days of receiving your complaint. (2) If you are not satisfied with our response, or for complaints that cannot be resolved with us directly, we have committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield via the American Arbitration Association – International Centre for Dispute Resolution ("AAA"), an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. If you do not receive a timely acknowledgement of your complaint, or if you believe that your complaint has not been satisfactorily addressed by us, please visit the website http://go.adr.org/privacyshield.html for more information on how to file a complaint directly with the AAA. (3) Further, your complaint can be made or referred to the US Department of Commerce or the Federal Trade Commission for further investigation. (4) If you do not resolve your complaint via one of the above routes, a binding arbitration option will also be made available to you to address such residual complaints under certain conditions. To find out more about the Privacy Shield's binding arbitration scheme, please see http://privacyshield.gov/article/My-Rights-under-Privacy-Shield. Our commitments under the Privacy Shield are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the United States Federal Trade Commission. If you have any questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at consumer.relations@rb.com or 800-228-4722 or write to us at: All information you provide in any written communication will also be covered by this Policy. As a consumer, in certain states and under certain instances, you are permitted to discover what information We have collected from you and to request deletion of that information from us. Please see our Data Subject Access Request page here. This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on our Site. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Site.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2051
__label__cc	0.705121	0.294879	Inside the Mind of Michael Loeb of Loeb.nyc by Reza Chowdhury Today, we shift gears from our normal programming and get inside the Mind of a NYC Venture Builder! In the hot seat today is Michael Loeb, who founded Loeb Enterprises in 2006 and has recently launched Loeb.nyc, which Michael calls a “venture collective.” Loeb.nyc develops both internally and externally-generated ideas, surrounding founding teams with the domain experts, operational support, resources, and capital needed to successfully execute, de-risk, and scale a business – all under one roof. Names in the portfolio include Fetch Rewards, SummitSync, PopWallet, Payoneer, Penrose Hill, and Mercato. Deeply entrenched in the NYC entrepreneurial ecosystem since the 1990s, Loeb founded Synapse Group which was sold to Time Inc., his former employer, for $800M in 2006. Loeb was also an early funder of Priceline with Synapse cofounder Jay Walker – Priceline today trades at an $80B+ market cap. We joined Michael at the impressive Loeb.nyc headquarters in Midtown East for an engaging and candid discussion that covered the state of venture capital today, the need for a new model in building and supporting startups, how companies are developed within Loeb.nyc, and much more… If you are a NYC-based VC interested in participating in this series, please send us an email. We’d love to chat. If you are interested in sponsoring this series that showcases the leading minds in venture in NYC, we’d also love to chat. Send us a note Reza Chowdhury, AlleyWatch: We all know incubators and we all know VCs. What exactly does Loeb.nyc do? Michael Loeb, Loeb NYC: We combine ideation, entrepreneuring, executional know-how, management, talent and, of course, capital. I should say ‘our capital,” nobody else’s. I have been told that we may have just invented something brand new. It’s a venture collective. A “venture collective?” Can you unpack that a bit? We aren’t in the business of giving millions of dollars to kids in their early 20s. We pair capital with guidance and provide our startups with the support of experienced minds across various business disciplines. Loeb.nyc companies are not simply funded and left on their own. Everyone works together toward the same goal. This is what we mean when we call our shop a venture collective. What do you look for in an entrepreneur? We’re a people-first company and we look for a specific kind of entrepreneur. To use the word ‘passionate’ sounds cliché, so I’ll put it like this: the best type of founder is the person who believes in their product so much that they’d chop their arm of and hit you over the head with it if you’re in their way. The right founder will work tirelessly to find the path that gets them to their goal – they’ll crawl over the hurdle, run around it, dig underneath it, whatever it takes for success. What is the State of Play at Loeb.nyc? We are building 20 or so companies today, half are outside ideas or early-stage companies we brought in and half are our start-ups which sprung organically from internal inspiration. The bulk of our ventures are located in NYC; the others all around the country, and located based on the needs of the specialized talents that run them. Do you have a particular investment focus? We are situational, not sector-focused. We have businesses in healthtech, retailtech, beautytech, fintech and more. We like disruptive platforms and the first mover advantage that comes with innovation. We are also theory-based and have many examples of pursuing a thesis through many years and many millions and two or three executional pivots — including management team swaps — until we were ultimately successful. You offer a significant amount of resources and expertise to your portfolio companies. Can you tell us about that please? I often refer to the Loeb.nyc “tool shed” which consists of proven experts within the various skill sets that a growing company needs or will eventually need. In-house, Loeb.nyc offers everything from back-office accounting and structural support, to branding, marketing, technology, and legal services. I often refer to the Loeb.nyc “tool shed” which consists of proven experts within the various skill sets that a growing company needs or will eventually need. In house, Loeb.nyc offers everything from back-office accounting and structural support, to branding, marketing, technology, and legal services. Is the traditional venture model broken? Those that keep score claim that only 2 in 10 start-ups succeed. Some would cut that number in half. That has all sorts of implications on the cost of venture capital and the availability of talent. When we started our company, we asked: “why all the fail?” And we concluded that much of the casualties are self-inflicted and avoidable. We attacked the cause of failure with the goal to have a dramatically higher success rate. Please give us an example. Let’s take capital. First, if the rare winner has to pay for all the losers, as it does with the venture model, it necessarily comes with strings and at a high cost, reinforcing the fail-rate and igniting a vicious cycle. And then there is the business cycle. In good times, optimism reigns supreme and capital is plentiful. Come a recession and it is drier than the Mojave Desert. With us, we fund our companies irrespective of current economic conditions. What are the keys to the Loeb.nyc model? I will list three. First, everything – the ideas, talent, capital – is under one conceptual roof. This allows us to compress decisions and cycle times. Second, we make it safe; we’re the founders’ friend. Our entrepreneurs bring in projects as they conceived and we build them out together. What others call failure, we call learning. Third is our shared services, the tool shed I spoke of earlier – a comprehensive and always-on set of world-class quality tools that every company needs to launch and scale, from tech to marketing to finance. You spend a significant amount of time involved with philanthropy and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs. Can you tell us more about that and why this is important to you? At Loeb.nyc we have established an internship program designed specifically for college students who want the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship from actual entrepreneurs. This spring we received more than 1,000 applications from students throughout the U.S. and we have selected 40 students and placed them in paid internships. Some students are matched with Loeb.nyc companies and others are matched with various startups in the city. These students aren’t fetching coffee, they are experiencing an immersive work experience and we conduct weekly progress reports to ensure this. 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__label__wiki	0.789611	0.789611	2018: Winter/Spring New Works in the Mead The Mead Art Museum sent 10 students to find new works for its permanent collection. Here’s what they chose, and how. College Row Amherst Creates His Black History Start Them Up In Them, We See Our Heart Beat Contest: Physics Test March 13, 2018 by Mary Elizabeth Strunk Share: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Self Portrait. Shivangi Ladha; A screenprint with masking tape on Japanese paper How do you know if an artwork is museum-worthy? Who decides, and how do they do it? Ten students from the Interterm course “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead” pondered these questions in January, during a whirlwind trip to New York City. Their mission: to think like museum curators and to choose potential new works for the Mead’s permanent collection. Most of the students had no formal background in art. The course deliberately does not require one—it’s a crash course in art-world terminology, the vagaries of the art market, and how museums manage and expand their collections. As part of the course, the students also received training and support from Amherst’s Center for Community Engagement and Writing Center. Palimpsest. William Villalongo; The artist is known for reframing familiar images and themes. Credit: Graphicstudio/University of South Florida The trip began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, where students explored the question of what makes an artwork both innovative and timeless. With guidance from Mead staff members Miloslava Waldman, a European-print specialist, and Danielle Amodeo ’13, who coordinates public programs, the students then shopped for contemporary art prints at six galleries in Chelsea and two studios in Brooklyn. They also attended an exhibition opening at International Print Center New York (IPCNY) and met the show’s artists. By the time they returned to Amherst, the students had divided themselves into four teams. Each team prepared an acquisition proposal, explaining why the Mead should buy a particular print. The winning print would have to fit with the museum’s existing collection and teaching needs, while also bringing something fresh to the collection. I Exist Between Every Line. Cedar Kirwin; This lithograph detail is a self-portrait. Credit for photo: Stephen Fisher/Mead Art Museum On Feb. 13, some 50 students, staff and community members crowded into the Mead’s William Green Study Room, where each work was on display. The artwork selection event is open to the public, and every person who attends gets a vote. Jake Montes-Adams ’21, Cosmo Brossy ’19 and Mount Holyoke College student Zahin Islam advocated for a pair of self-portraits—Shivangi Ladha’s Self Portrait (2017) and Cedar Kirwin’s I Exist Between Every Line (2017)—which together explore what unites humans across differences. Jacob Gendelman ’20 spoke for William Villalongo’s Palimpsest (2017), a screenprint that comments on recent and historical racism in the United States. Skylhur Tranqille ’18, Camilo Ortiz ’20 and Mount Holyoke’s Daphne Schneewind hoped the Mead would acquire Emma Amos’ Stars and Stripes (1995), and Davis Brown ’19, Matthew Ezersky ’21 and Stephen Johnson ’19 favored acquiring Reigning Queen (2017), a print by Diana Al-Hadid. After tallying the votes, Waldman announced that the pair of self-portraits by Ladha and Kirwin had won, closely followed by Villalongo’s Palimpsest. Waldman then announced that, because benefactor H. Nichols B. Clark had increased the acquisitions budget, the Mead could acquire all three of those prints. Gendelman was all smiles. “I’m just so incredibly grateful,” he said. “I would never have been able to do anything like this anywhere else in my own life after Amherst. I’m glad Mr. Clark decided to bring [Palimpsest] to Amherst. I think a lot of people will enjoy it.” The class allowed students such as Gendelman to impact the canon of art history, says Amodeo: “Buying this art supports the artists. More important, the works will be taught. They’re going to be written into history.” The annual student-driven art purchase is made possible by the Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund, named in honor of the former Mead curator who died in 2006. Nick Clark is her widower. A decade ago, he underwrote the fund, which has now allowed the Mead to acquire 33 new works by American and international artists. He attends the selection event every year. The day after this year’s event, Clark reflected on the experience. “I applaud all the students for their poise and passion,” he said. “That is the beginning of a true love affair with art.” Student Acquisitions Since 2009 Untitled (2008), by Ahmed Alsoudani Rainbow 6: Relayer, by Aaron Noble, 2007 Untitled from ‘Daughters of the East’ series, by Ambreen Butt, 2008 Landscape (with two statues), by Gillian Pederson-Krag, 1979 Landscape (with statue), by Gillian Pederson-Krag, 2001 Statue of Persephone, by Gillian Pederson-Krag, 2002 A Murder of Crows 5 (perched), by Lynn Peterfreund, 2011 A Murder of Crows 6 (pecking), by Lynn Peterfreund, 2011 A Murder of Crows 7 (talking), by Lynn Peterfreund, 2011 A Murder of Crows 8 (crazed), by Lynn Peterfreund, 2011 Shallow Waters I, by Linda Post, 2005 Shallow Waters II, by Linda Post, 2005 Trapping, by Rachel Gross, 2011 Tablet, by Rachel Gross, 2010 Circular Ruins, by Lillianna Pereira, 2009 The New World (Circular Ruins), by Lillianna Pereira, 2011 American Visitor (Circular Ruins), by Lillianna Pereira, 2011 Firebird (Circular Ruins), by Lillianna Pereira, 2011 Sight Lines 1: Tracking Shot, by Peter Winslow Milton, 2008 April Evening at Fenway Park, by Matt Brown, 2011 Cog Railway, by Matt Brown, 2011 Moon Over Mt. Desert Island, by Matt Brown, 2010 Conversation Two, by Alice O’Neill, 2010 Frontispiece: Study for The Sleep, from ‘The Caprichos’, by Emily Lombardo, 2014 No One Has Seen Us, plate 79 from ‘The Caprichos’, by Emily Lombardo, 2014 There Was No Cure, plate 24 from ‘The Caprichos’, by Emily Lombardo, 2014 They Carried Her Off, plate 8 from ‘The Caprichos’, by Emily Lombardo, 2014 Nobody Knows Themself, plate 6 from ‘The Caprichos’, by Emily Lombardo, 2014 Sweeping Beauty, by Alison Saar, 1997 Ei in Tokyo (July), 2012, by Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2012 Fingerprint, by Analia Saban, 2016 Wingate Studios with Aldo’s Press #2, No Sleep till Hinsdale, by Gideon Bok, 2008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2062
__label__wiki	0.934348	0.934348	Morgan Family History Gordon Morgan Bios Gordon P Morgan (1932 - 2008) Gordon P Morgan Gordon P Morgan was born on March 11, 1932. He died on February 7, 2008 at 75 years old. Find records of Gordon Morgan Find records of Gordon Gordon P Morgan Biography With today's technology we are able to write and share our own history which lasts forever online. Our ancestors never had a chance to document their lives. This biography is dedicated to memorialize the life of Gordon Morgan, honor his ancestry & genealogy, and his immediate Morgan family. Gordon Morgan was born on March 11, 1932 Gordon Morgan died on February 7, 2008 There is no cause of death listed for Gordon. Burial / Funeral Do you know the final resting place - gravesite in a cemetery or location of cremation - of Gordon P Morgan? What is Gordon's ethnicity and where did his parents, grandparents & great-grandparents come from? Unknown. Was Gordon a religious man? Unknown. Did Gordon move a lot? 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Source(s): Social Security Death Index Other Records of Gordon P Morgan 1932 - 2008 World Events Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Gordon's lifetime In 1932, in the year that Gordon P Morgan was born, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours. In 1944, by the time he was just 12 years old, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced. In 1952, at the age of 20 years old, Gordon was alive when on February 6th, George VI of England died from a coronary thrombosis and complications due to lung cancer. His eldest daughter, age 25, immediately ascended the throne as Elizabeth II and her coronation was on June 2 1953. In 1971, at the age of 39 years old, Gordon was alive when in March, Intel shipped the first microprocessor to Busicom, a Japanese manufacturer of calculators. The microprocessor has since allowed computers to become smaller and faster, leading to smaller and more versatile handheld devices, home computers, and supercomputers. In 1999, when he was 67 years old, the fear that Y2K (year 2000) would cause the failure of computers worldwide when clocks didn't properly update to January 1st, 2000 became near panic. While some computer systems and software did have problems, the panic was unfounded and computer life went on. Other Gordon Morgans Gordon William Morgan around 1928 - Nov 30, 1940 Gordon Russell Morgan around 1920 - Feb 11, 1942 Gordon James Morgan Died: Mar 26, 1941 Gordon Eric Morgan Died: Sep 1, 1941 Gordon Bennett Morgan Mar 10, 1896 - Apr 9, 1917 Gordon Morgan Gordon F Morgan Kentucky, United States Gordon H Morgan West Virginia, United States Gordon G Morgan North Carolina, United States Gordon M Morgan Rhode Island, United States Gordon E Morgan Gordon N Morgan Missouri, United States Gordon C Morgan U.s. At Large, United States Gordon Harold Vincent Morgan Gordon Harol Morgan Heidelberg, Australia Geelong, Australia Other Morgans Ronald D Morgan Jul 31, 1941 - Feb 1, 2009 Bland, VA Martha B Morgan Nov 3, 1906 - May 17, 1995 Judith Morgan Jun 23, 1941 - Dec 30, 2005 Fort White, FL Dec 29, 1891 - May 1969 Mary v Morgan Dec 22, 1914 - Oct 20, 1988 Roy Morgan Feb 21, 1943 - September 1977 James O Morgan Aug 4, 1943 - Aug 18, 2004 Mary R Morgan Aug 9, 1914 - September 1989 John W Morgan May 21, 1945 - Aug 17, 2000 Winfield S Morgan May 13, 1945 - Dec 13, 2008 Randall R Morgan Feb 23, 1948 - Apr 24, 2009 Smithfield, NC Laura A Morgan Betty A Morgan Jun 2, 1948 - Dec 30, 1996 Ada B Morgan Dec 27, 1899 - May 20, 1989 Mark E Morgan Nov 8, 1953 - Aug 7, 2008 New Milford, PA Barbara A Morgan Aug 3, 1951 - Apr 10, 2004 William E Morgan Oct 21, 1950 - May 9, 1995 Carolyn S Morgan Carrie L Morgan Apr 28, 1930 - Dec 13, 2003 Catherine Morgan Aug 18, 1909 - December 1980 Mechanicsville, Maryland Claude Goupil Charles Friedman Mar 15, 1888 - February 1977 Geraldine Clark Apr 8, 1937 - Aug 6, 1999 Mary A Hubbard Jan 14, 1939 - Dec 15, 2008 Felton, DE Elsi M Walker Dec 24, 1896 - Jun 9, 1988 Lillian Wohl Dec 15, 1907 - April 1984 Bernardine E Yost Apr 5, 1900 - Feb 9, 1998 Melvin Day May 31, 1936 - January 1980 William H Ridgley Lancaster, VA Robert M Carney Dec 18, 1939 - May 4, 2000 Stella E Steiner Oct 11, 1906 - June 1993 Elmer A Seidel Nov 21, 1939 - Oct 8, 2008 Enedina S Nido Nov 10, 1904 - Aug 9, 2000 E Dorsey Jun 13, 1939 - November 1989 Alice O Williams Dec 25, 1913 - Sep 18, 2002 Alvin C Plank Daniel B Johnson Mar 8, 1927 - Jun 2, 2004 Diana Oloughlin Jun 10, 1940 - Nov 27, 2003 Leslie H Jefferies Nov 18, 1892 - Sep 8, 1987 Mary Dennis Oct 28, 1889 - March 1974 Havre de Grace, Maryland Jackie Kennedy - First Lady of Fashion Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis, born 7/28/1929, grew up to become First Lady of the United States in January 1961 at the young age of 31. 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__label__wiki	0.980334	0.980334	The Kootenay Patricks will represent Nelson at the Jan. 23 charity game against Montreal Canadiens alumni. Photo: Tyler Harper VIDEO: Kootenay Patricks assemble for first practice ahead of charity game The group of locals will play Montreal Canadiens alumni next week Tyler Harper David Hornby gingerly skated off the ice for a breather in the locker room. It had been some time since he’d played hockey even casually, and his body was letting him know it. “I have legs but they don’t last so long, so I have to be careful and have the shorter shifts,” said Hornby. “Use my head instead of my heart. I’m not 25 anymore, that’s for sure.” Hornby, who grew up and played minor hockey in Nelson, was among those who took part Tuesday evening in the Kootenay Patricks’ first practice ahead of the Jan. 23 charity game at the Nelson and District Community Complex against a team of Montreal Canadiens alumni that will include Stanley Cup winners Mathieu Dandenault and Patrice Brisebois. The Patricks are comprised of former NHL players such as Matt Walker and Simon Wheeldon, players with junior experience including Pat Severyn and Justin Pickerell, and several other longtime hockey fans who signed up for the experience of representing Nelson against the Habs. Hornby is among the latter. He is currently working as a principal at a school in Guangzhou, China, but returned during a holiday break to play in memory of his father and former Nelson Maple Leafs player Howie Hornby. The elder Hornby played for the Senior Leafs from 1958 to 1969 and won the 1962 world championship with the Trail Smoke Eaters in Sweden. He passed away in 2014, but his son hopes Howie’s legacy will be alive and well next week when the puck drops. “If I can get one for No. 10 that would be icing on the cake,” said David. Hornby wasn’t the only Patrick smiling through sweat Tuesday. Derek Diener, a local mortgage broker, was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in 1994, played four seasons in the WHL and two more in the American Hockey League. Diener said he was looking forward to the experience of people watching him play, something he hasn’t had for two decades. “It’s going to be fun to see a lot of people in the building and playing in front of a crowd again, playing against some of the legends with Montreal and just getting to be with the boys and having a good time and being part of a team again,” he said. Among those in the crowd will be the family of Aaron Shrieves. Shrieves, who coaches a Nelson Minor Hockey peewee team, said he’s excited to have his two kids watch him on the ice — even though, he said with a grin, they will be wearing Canadiens jerseys. “That’s neat,” he said. “They don’t get to see me play hockey very often, especially when there’s other people watching.” Shrieves was born and raised in Nelson, and is a true fan of the city’s hockey history. He was still young when locals including Wheeldon and Danny Gare were in the NHL, and when he played Shrieves always wore the No. 8 of his favourite player Greg Adams. “I had that growing up. I got to skate with Gordie Howe when he came here. I’m proud to say I’m from Nelson [and] proud to represent. Hopefully for the game we can do a little bit out there.” The game is a fundraiser for Make A Change Canada. The Nelson charity provides online employment, self-employment and skills training to people who have difficulty entering the work force. Tickets can be purchased online at makeachangecanada.com/charity-hockey-game, at Mallard’s Source For Sports in Nelson and Castlegar, Stuart’s News at the Chahko-Mika Mall and at Second Look Used Books in Castlegar. • Hall of Famer, Stanley Cup winners among Montreal Canadiens to visit in Nelson • Nelson player to celebrate a milestone with the Montreal Canadiens • Kootenay Patricks assemble to take on Montreal Canadiens alumni tyler.harper@nelsonstar.com Former NHL player Mike Laughton will coach the Patricks at the game alongside current Nelson Leafs coach Mario DiBella. Photo: Tyler Harper Players with the Kootenay Patricks look on during their first scrimmage Tuesday at the Nelson and District Community Complex. Photo: Tyler Harper Jets’ Mathieu Perreault lashes out at NHL for not punishing Canucks’ Virtanen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2070
__label__cc	0.522233	0.477767	Yale Launches Product Line for Professional Installers BERLIN, Conn.(Sept.23,2019)—Yale today introduced its new Pro Series product line designed for professional installers with the launch of the Yale Pro SL, a key-free smart lock with built-in Z-Wave Plus (500 Series) technology.The lock offers seamless integration with popular Z- Wave Plus smart home and alarm systems, such as ADT, Resideo by Honeywell, Alarm.com, Qolsys, AT&T, Ring Alarm, and more.The introduction of the Yale Pro SL and its product line signals the company’s commitment to build more tailored offerings for the Pro community. “The Yale Pro SL was developed as a direct response to feedback from our professional customers,”said Andrew DaSilva, product manager at Yale Residential. “By merging the sleek form of our highly popular Yale Assure Lock SL with the professional functionalityof theT1L product, the Yale Pro SL delivers a highly aesthetic slim design, small bore hole support, and upgraded functionality of Z-Wave Plus built-in—the most commonly used wireless protocol in the pro-installed security marketplace. We’re excited to release more products specifically designed for our professional audience moving forward.” Created with intuitive control in mind, the Yale Pro SL’s keypad wakes by simply touching the Yale logo, and locks with another quick touch of the logo. To unlock, homeowners enter their custom entry code or provide trusted guests and visitors with unique codes, and then rescind access by deleting the code. If the lock is integrated in to a smarthome or alarm system, users are also able to remotely lock/unlock and manage access from their smarthome or alarm system’s mobile app. In addition to providing convenient access, high-level security is built into the smartlock. Unlike standard deadbolts, their is no cylinder to pick, and the key pad design eliminates the need to worry about physical keys being lost or stolen. Homeowners don’t need to worry about getting locked out due to dead batteries because the lock features a 9V battery back-up charger, located below the keypad, which can be used to temporarily power the lock. Installation takes just a few minutes with a screwdriver, and Pros can easily integrate it with compatible smarthome devices and alarm systems through a one-touch Z-Wave enrollment process. The Yale Pro SL comes in three finishes designed to match popular door hardware:bronze, brass and satin nickel. It is available for purchase now at popular security wholesale centers, including ADI, Anixter and other regional wholesalers. Yale protects millions of homes and businesses world wide and is the brand behind locks of every design and function in over 125 countries. Our doorlocks, digitallocks, digital door viewers, padlocks, and more help people to secure their favorite belongings. As one of the oldest international brands, Yale is among the best-known and most respected names in the lock industry.The company is a proud supporter of Habitat for Humanity, and has provided more than 700,000 locks to Habitat for Humanity homes. Yale is part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in door opening solutions. About ASSA ABLOY ASSA ABLOY is the world’s largest lock company and a recognized global leader in door opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user demands for security, safety and convenience. For more information visit www.assaabloy.com/en/com/ .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2075
__label__wiki	0.873301	0.873301	Wed 6 Jan 2016 11:32 AM Qatar-backed VW sued by US Justice Dpt for up to $48bn German carmaker admitted in September to installing devices to cheat emissions tests in several diesel vehicle models The US Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $48 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke. Although such US lawsuits are typically settled at a fraction of the theoretical maximum penalty, analysts said the size of the claim meant Volkswagen (VW) could face a larger bill than previously anticipated. "The announcement serves as a reminder/reality check of VW's still unresolved emissions issues," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a note, maintaining their "sell" recommendation on the stock. VW, which is 17 percent owned by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), shares fell as much as 6 percent to a six-week low on Tuesday, the biggest drop on Germany's blue-chip DAX index. The civil lawsuit, announced on Monday, reflects the growing number of allegations against VW since the German company admitted in September to installing devices to cheat emissions tests in several 2.0 litre diesel vehicle models. According to a Reuters review of the US complaint, VW could in theory face fines of as much as $37,500 per vehicle for each of two violations of the law; up to $3,750 per "defeat device"; and another $37,500 for each day of violation. The complaint says illegal devices to impair emission control systems were installed in nearly 600,000 vehicles in the United States. In September, US regulators initially said Europe's biggest carmaker could face fines in excess of $18 billion. The lawsuit had been expected, and analysts believe any fine will be far below the theoretical maximum. Although US authorities sued Toyota for up to $58 billion for environmental violations around the turn of the century, they agreed a settlement that cost the Japanese carmaker about $34 million. "We have not enumerated a maximum possible penalty, and will decline to speculate on what the court may ultimately choose to do," said US Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle. Equinet analyst Holger Schmidt cut his rating on VW shares to "reduce" from "neutral". "We continue to believe that no one is able to make anything else than a wild guess on potential fines," he said. During December, VW's shares had been recovering as the carmaker announced incrementally positive news such as simple fixes for about 8.5 million affected cars in Europe. The stock fell on Tuesday 22 percent below pre-scandal levels, with analysts particularly concerned about the impact on VW in the United States, where the firm has long struggled to make inroads and tougher regulations mean it faces bigger potential fines. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), accuses VW of four counts of violating the US Clean Air Act, including tampering with the emissions control system and failing to report violations. "The United States will pursue all appropriate remedies against Volkswagen to redress the violations of our nation's clean air laws," said Assistant Attorney General John Cruden, head of the Justice Department's environment and natural resources division. The lawsuit is being filed in the Eastern District of Michigan and then transferred to northern California, where class-action lawsuits against VW are pending. "We're alleging that they knew what they were doing, they intentionally violated the law and that the consequences were significant to health," said a senior Justice Department official. VW's cheating of diesel emissions tests allowed it to avoid a costly revamp of engines to meet new US standards. The Justice Department has also been investigating criminal fraud allegations against VW for misleading U.S. consumers and regulators. Criminal charges would require a higher burden of proof than the civil lawsuit. The US lawsuit also alleges VW gamed emissions controls in many of its 3.0 litre diesel models, including the Audi Q7, and the Porsche Cayenne. VW's earlier admissions eliminate almost any possibility that the automaker could defend itself in court, Daniel Riesel of Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C, who defends companies accused of environmental crimes, said. To win the civil case, the government does not need to prove the degree of intentional deception at VW – just that the cheating occurred, Riesel said. "I don't think there is any defense in a civil suit," he said. Instead, the automaker will seek to negotiate a lower penalty by arguing that the maximum would be "crippling to the company and lead to massive layoffs", Riesel said. Even after VW first admitted to using cheat devices in certain models, the automaker "failed to come forward and reveal" that other vehicles contained such devices, the government said. To cheat the emissions controls, VW installed software that allowed the vehicles to detect when they were being tested on a flatbed. When the vehicles detected they were actually on the road, the software caused the emissions control systems to underperform or shutdown, the government said, allowing the cars to emit dangerous levels of air pollution. The civil lawsuit does not preclude the Justice Department from pursuing criminal charges against VW, said the Justice Department official. VW said in a statement: "Volkswagen will continue to work cooperatively with the EPA on developing remedies." "We will continue to cooperate with all government agencies investigating these matters." British MPs to debate banning Donald Trump from entering the UK Saudi halts 150 flights carrying pilgrims from Iran, as crisis widens Gulf states set to hold extraordinary meeting on Iran British PM Cameron said to delay trip to Saudi Arabia Saudi and Iran tussle won't dent Gulf bond plans Abu Dhabi port worker denies spying charge	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2076
__label__wiki	0.870767	0.870767	You are here:Today London Schools Part One: Royal College of Art by Haworth Tompkins 27 February, 2013 By Will Hunter Show Fullscreen The first article in the London schools series, Will Hunter reports on the social and pedagogical agendas shaping the RCA’s latest changes The Royal College of Art styles itself as ‘the world’s oldest art school in continuous operation’, a proud boast that slightly falters on its technicality, setting the mind wonderingly off onto some intermittent older rival. But the point is that the RCA is very old (established 1837), and where it is surely unrivalled is in its alumni. The headline names are glittering enough − Henry Moore, David Hockney, Edwin Lutyens, James Dyson − but there is little diminuendo in the ‘second tier’ (David Adjaye, Frank Auerbach, Christopher Bailey, Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Ossie Clark, Robin Day, Thomas Heatherwick, Barbara Hepworth … the roll call goes on). The Dyson Building is set one block back from the Thames, where there is retail at the ground level of the main road At the end of last year, the college attempted to condense this breadth of achievement into its Kensington galleries for The Perfect Place to Grow, an exhibition to celebrate its 175th anniversary. The show title is doubly ironic − knowingly so when it borrows its name from a work of art by Tracey Emin, who famously hated her time there and smashed her paintings with a hammer in its courtyard; and then surely inadvertently, as a wry comment about a college that rapidly outgrew the Darwin Building, the home completed by HT Cadbury-Brown in 1962. ‘For so long the RCA has existed on slightly substandard accommodation,’ says Graham Haworth of Haworth Tompkins, the architect of the college’s recent expansion, ‘and because you have to charge more fees now, people want proper facilities’. The practice won a competition in 2007 to create a Battersea campus around the lonely sculpture department which had decamped there, to a converted industrial building, in 1991. Satisfying the urgent need for fine art studios, the first completed addition was the Sackler Building (2009), essentially a new building inside the brick shell of an old factory. The next two phases are the Dyson Building and the Woo Building, which have been split for funding reasons but were conceived as one. The first − named after inventive alumnus and sponsor James Dyson − opened in 2012; the second will complete next year. The triple-height machine hall, looking back into the gallery entrance. The space is overlooked by the different studio spaces; hot desks for visitors from Kensington and elsewhere are on the mezzanine on the left By the middle of this decade, when all three of the Battersea buildings are in use, the college plans to have grown student numbers by just under 50 per cent, expanding its physical space by a third. A third of the students will be in Battersea, and − after a planned further phase − around half will be by the start of the next decade. While the student experience may well be affected by this numerical growth, it will perhaps be more influenced by this splitting of the college in two. For an institution that has flourished on the intensity of interactions intimately staged in a single place, this is potentially risky. Isn’t there a danger that the outpost south of the river will undermine the main camp? Or, to quote Philip Larkin (from another context): ‘Why did he think adding meant increase? To me it was dilution.’ RCA Rector Paul Thompson is quick to quash this line of thought: ‘We don’t want two separate centres. We want to encourage the people who are based in Battersea to come up to Kensington, either for social events, or lectures in the evening, or the library.’ There is an hourly shuttle bus, which on a very good day takes a mere 11 minutes. But, of course, at an institutional level the character of this transformation is critical. RCA Ground Floor Plan ‘It has been the most debated part of the development,’ says Haworth who instinctively saw the two campuses as both different and the same, whole in their own right but also partial − a paradoxical position he expressed succinctly with a photograph of the artists Gilbert and George. For Thompson, it is a great opportunity to update the RCA’s identity. ‘Everyone has always thought of us as being “Kensington”, “The Royal Borough”,’ he says. ‘Battersea does cast us in a different light. It is becoming more and more a centre of activity in London with the American Embassy, the development of Battersea Power Station, and in design terms it’s already got Vivienne Westwood, Norman Foster and Will Alsop, literally on our street.’ Coming over Battersea Bridge, the new campus is one block back from the River Thames, behind a bloated apartment building by Norman Foster, practically dumped on his own doorstep (against the conventional wisdom), on the site next to his office. ‘It’s a part of the city that we work in quite a lot − like the Young Vic at the Cut − in that second layer of London set back from the river, where it becomes more visceral and workaday,’ says Haworth. ‘That has generated the physical appearance. So it’s got a very direct functional message as an aesthetic.’ One of the new studios, where Haworth Tompkins have sought to make a very quiet backdrop to the production of art; this first glimpse of student inhabitation shows the strategy’s success The effect is quiet, unassuming, even reticent. The sawtooth roofs evoke the industrial architecture that is typical of this area historically, the pared-back materials emphasising this point. It works very well for the functional parts, but the more public areas that line Battersea Bridge Road required greater transparency, and the gear change between these two conditions has not, for me, been completely successfully resolved. Moving along the perimeter, the building quickly has to shift between mute studios, welcoming gallery (though currently only open when a show is on as the main student entrance is at the rear), and culminate in the commercial reality of retail. It is a bumpy transition to make in a short space, and a difficult one for a practice whose architecture is as polygraphically honest as Haworth Tompkins’; externally, straying from the literal might have been more beguiling. Inside, however, the honesty of the architecture is absolutely spot on. The building, at its simplest, is split into three strips. The closest to the main road contains the more outward-facing amenities, such as the gallery, the café, a 220-seat lecture theatre and start-up spaces for recent graduates; in the middle is a triple-height workshop called the ‘machine hall’; and in the strip farthest back is the studio space for the different programmes. The Dyson Building contains photography and printmaking, and when the Woo Building is completed, it will extrude this section, doubling the length of the machine hall and creating studio space for ceramics, glass, metalwork and jewellery. Though notionally you can read the three bands underlying the building’s organisation, this is not an inhabited diagram, and the spatial experience is both subtle and complex. ‘The college does have an idea that there is fluidity between programmes, and, depending on who you talk to, you get a positive sense that that is happening or not,’ explains Haworth. ‘Within our building we’ve tried to open it up with a lot of horizontal drift and views through the building. It’s quite open visually, with a lot of glass screens.’ RCA Short Section The unifying space is the machine hall, which can be seen into from the entrance gallery, on the way up to public lectures, but also, more informally, from studio spaces or the circulation across it. ‘You can see printmaking on one side, and people playing with clay on the other, and we think that interchange will be different to the Darwin Building at the moment, which is a series of stacked factory floors,’ continues Haworth. Unlike many academic institutions, which are now encouraging their flocks off campus, the RCA wants its students to work in the college. ‘Part of the deal is that you get a desk space,’ says Haworth, ‘and then the particular programmes we’re dealing with have a lot of very specific technical components too. Printmaking, for instance, has a whole floor just of equipment, from high-end digital to screen printing.’ It is typically, he estimates, a 50/50 split between studio space and workshop for each programme. The Darwin Building’s studios, shown here in the 1960s, were also a reference point. They are now being ‘desilted’ for contemporary use But alongside this requirement for specificity, Haworth Tompkins has also been mindful of future change. ‘We kept the building very flexible in terms of its spatial arrangement,’ says the architect. ‘The floors are very open plan, so if they did want to change them in 10 years’ time they could do. The spaces could be appropriated quite easily. For instance, we kept the sawtooth roofs at the top for photography in case they were later used as painting studios. But we designed a system for them to be blacked out.’ The practice has taken a utilitarian approach to the interior, making an architecture that is keen to express the way it’s made. Inspiration has come from Functionalist precedents such as the Boots Pharmaceutical Factory (1931) by Owen Williams, the Ulm School of Design (1957) by Max Bill, and Erco Studios and Technical Centre (1988) by Uwe Kiessler. But there are also very clear parallels to be made to Cadbury-Brown, who asserted that, ‘Money should be spent on space rather than finishes − as a place where art is in a continual process of being made, the interior especially should be plain … its principal functions should be to act as a background to art and not assert itself as an “art thing”. Battersea’s new social centre is a café in the sculpture school designed by architecture graduates Joseph Deane, Tom Surman and Percy Weston As a description of how Haworth Tompkins has operated, this statement resonates six decades on and can’t really be bettered. In their underlying approach, the Battersea buildings bear the genetic imprint of their stately Royal forebear. And, of course, this senior architectural relation is also in a process of change. ‘Every time there is a move down to Battersea it gives us the opportunity to reassess what goes on in Kensington,’ says Thompson, who commissioned Haworth Tompkins to do a masterplan for the whole college midway through the thrust south of the river. RCA Long Section The main moves will be to sort out the skip-strewn rear entrance, creating a proper loading bay, while opening up and giving more status to this primary arrival sequence. The rectorate will move from the ground floor up to the top, which will sensibly clear the gallery space. And there will be a lot of what Haworth calls ‘desilting’: removing the layers of entrenchment that have built up over time, and restoring the factory-style studio spaces to their original open plan with views out on all sides. This has already happened on the sixth floor, where architecture and fashion cohabit, an odd disciplinary marriage, perhaps, but one that adds to the gaiety of the college’s social (if not creative) life. And what of life in Battersea? ‘It’s still very early days, and the inhabitants there are trying to figure out how they want to use the space,’ says Thompson. However, an auspicious start has been made with the café in the sculpture building, designed and built by three of last year’s architecture graduates with the sculpture school’s Richard Wentworth acting not so much as client, but guru impresario. The students moved it from the originally earmarked space to a room that opens onto a little courtyard, and it has already become Battersea’s social centre. Furthermore, as a project that unites both sides of the river, and where students rub along with faculty, it’s a positive augury for the continuation of the creative collisions the college has been so reputed for in its past. Architect: Haworth Tompkins Photographs: All by Philip Vile except 4 Next month’s article will conclude with Central St Martins and London Metropolitan University RCA Building Plans RCA Building Sections RCA Exploded Axonometric FABRICATE 2020 at The Bartlett Tickets now available for international, peer-reviewed conference and publication FABRICATE 2020 at The Bartlett Reputations Live: Catherine Slessor on Charlotte Perriand at the Soane Museum The Reputations Live series continues at the Soane Museum on Wednesday 20 November, presenting architecture’s biggest influencers and agitators as featured in AR’s Reputations Imagined Ireland: Tom de Paor in conversation with The Architectural Review Join us at the Architectural Assocation in London on 14 November to experience Tom de Paor’s imagined Ireland About the W partnership programme	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2077
__label__wiki	0.939822	0.939822	Currently viewing the tag: "Tyr" Mongrel’s Cross – Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court Review On August 9, 2018 By Mark Z. "We’ve all been there. We’ve all strived to transcend weakness, to beat back the forces of oppression, to rip the fucking heart from the proverbial lion. Deströyer 666 use the motif of a wolf to convey this sense of power; fellow Australians Mongrel’s Cross use a dragon. Their 2012 debut The Sins of Aquarius was rife with such smoldering imagery, taking the Australian black thrash tapestry and soaking it in the grandiose swagger of Bathory’s Blood Fire Death. The result was both a personal favorite and one of the style’s most potent albums in recent years." Dragons, Bathory and battles, oh my! Khemmis – Desolation Review On June 19, 2018 By Steel Druhm "Perspective. It's something even the most seasoned music fan and reviewer can lose sight of at times. Case in point, Colorado doom champions, Khemmis. They hit the scene like a ton of bricks in 2015 with their Absolution debut, awash in massive riffs, emotional vocals and a big dose of that X factor that makes a band stand out. Within a year they'd followed up with the massive Hunted, which showed an evolution and maturation as well as some new tricks. With such rapid fire successes, it's easy to forget that Khemmis is still a young band." Young and trve. Vallendusk – Fortress of Primal Grace Review On April 11, 2018 By Eldritch Elitist "I like to think that I'm one of the more omnivorous consumers of metal on the AMG staff, but sometimes while perusing the promo sump, I'm overcome with a strong urge to say “fuck it” and dump nothing but atmospheric black metal onto my upcoming review schedule. There are so many submissions to choose from in this style, and I've had such consistent luck in reviewing the genre, that I would probably be content with pigeonholing myself as the blog’s go-to atmo-black guy for an extended tenure. Of course, “atmospheric black metal” is an especially broad classification in today's metal climate, and perhaps no other album I've encountered plays with the term as loosely as Vallendusk’s third LP, Fortress of Primal Grace." Emo the masses. Armored Dawn – Barbarians in Black Review On February 22, 2018 By Swordborn "Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a beefy-sounding Brazilian power metal act with no prior label releases appearing on a label as prominent as AFM. Armored Dawn is a sextet of South Americans who sound and write more like they hail from Germany or Scandinavia. With a certain preoccupation for Viking “lore” — just like half of all of metal — the band’s theme is nothing to write home about, but the album trailer sounded promising enough that I was eager to get my hands on this." Viking lore or bore? Heidevolk – Vuur van Verzet Review On January 23, 2018 By Dr. Wvrm "I'm a bit of a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to folk. I occupied the Ensiferum / Finntroll bandwagon for a decade, but the Viking folk of Heidevolk came to me as a recent and pleasant surprise. They are not Bathory, not Korpiklaani, not Týr or Vintersorg, but the Dutchmen blend the aesthetics and strengths of each into one cohesive package." Go folk yourself. Urn – The Burning Review On July 28, 2017 By Mark Z. "From Beethoven to Brian Eno, mankind has toiled for centuries to compose the greatest music human minds can fathom. Alas it was not until the mid-90s that music finally attained its supreme form, when two metal genres miraculously fused in the unholy union known as ‘blackened thrash.’" It was the best of times, it was the the blast of times. Ereb Altor – Ulfven Review On July 19, 2017 By Steel Druhm Ereb Altor is a band I've reviewed more than almost any other since joining the AMG metal collective in 2010. They're a prolific bunch and stick to a regular release schedule despite also releasing albums under the moniker Isole, and their material is consistently good if not great. Ulfven is their newest release, following 2016s Blot Ilt Taut which was a series of Bathory covers. This was appropriate as Quorthon has always been the wellspring from which the band draws their inspiration." Reforge the sword. Kobra and the Lotus – Prevail I Review On June 5, 2017 By Angry Metal Guy "Kobra and the Lotus is a Canadian melodic power band that first came onto my radar in 2012 with their self-titled debut. Fronted by the actually-legally-named Kobra Paige, the band's third LP, Prevail I, is on Napalm Records, after releasing the debut on Spinefarm, and 2014's High Priestess on Titan Music. Prevail I is, apparently, the first of two albums which will be released in quick succession, and it's being marketed as produced by the guy who produced Amaranthe's records, with a debut single squarely marketed at people who like Delain. Since the band's debut was a solid power metal album, this strategy raises a question for me: three full-lengths (and three labels) into this whole experiment of being named Kobra, how's the whole thing going?" That's a very personal question. 70,000 Tons of Metal Live Review On February 13, 2016 By Mark Z. "I don't agree with my dad on everything, but there's one thing we do agree about: cruises are the best way to vacation. Free all-you-can-eat buffets, breezy tropical weather, alcohol and entertainment available everywhere, and - most importantly - you’re always within walking distance of your room, so you never have to worry about getting a DUI or throwing up in an Uber on your ride back to the Red Roof Inn. But a cruise with 60 metal bands and over 3,000 fans from all over the world, making a four day round-trip to Jamaica with bars that never close? That’s a whole different beast entirely!" In the Navy, you can rock the seven seas! Heidevolk – Velua Review On April 3, 2015 By Dr. A.N. Grier "Talk about coming full circle. I remember visiting the pages of Angry Metal Guy for the first time in 2010 and reading the review for Heidevolk’s Uit oude grond by our esteemed Mr. Angry Metal Guy. I bought that album and the two previous ones that fucking day (so don’t lose too much sleep over spending money on AMG recommendations; it’s been happening for years)." We review, you buy. That's just how it folking works, sheeples!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2084
__label__wiki	0.53864	0.53864	NEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, February 12-18 st_owly You go, Story of Saiunkoku! Still dreaming of the light novels... Tratious Location: Savannah, GA Well damn Viz Always happy to see Urasawa crack the top ten list, especially 20th Century Boys. malvarez1 And this is why Viz isn't in trouble in terms of manga sales. Almost all of their series sell. Bleach, Naruto, Vampire Knight, One Piece, Kamisama Kiss, anything by Arina Tanemura, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, etc. baadaku12345 No surprises here, but it's great to see Viz and Kodansha doing well. I really hope the North American manga industry doesn't go under. Sheleigha ...yet another Pokemon volume makes it on the top 10, and Viz still has no word if they are going to fill the gaps in Pokemon Adventure/Special :/ It makes no sense... Stark700 Well, not too surprising although kinda disappointed that Black Bird isn't on that list. TitanXL Sheleigha wrote: Sure it does. Little kids don't care, they'll buy anything with Pokemon slapped on it even if it's out of order and skipping over lots of stuff. tuxedocat st_owly wrote: You and me both. --though I don't think Viz will ever do it. Somebody else might... and I would love to see someone, anyone, license the second season of the anime. That would be great! Always get this big grin on my face when I see 20th Century Boys on the bestseller list. TitanXL wrote: If that's the case, then how come Black and White haven't made the list too often? Still, wouldn't Viz WANT to look into publishing the other arcs to sell more Pokemon? I know it's a "wait and see for Platinum to end" though, since it could be that they didn't want to be publishing 3 seperate Pokemon series at once. sainta It's a bit sad, considering what I liked about Adventures the most was how the author managed to connect every single story arc despite each being mostly independent I AM THE VAST UNIVERSE Bleach is king once again! Kosaka Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:40 am I suspect NYT Best Seller 6 has a one digit typo in the title, and should be 1 week on the list instead of 2. I'm guessing Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum #3 #4 is currently listed with the "NEW RELEASES" on VIZ's home page at http://www.viz.com with a release date of Feb. 7. Previously, #3 was on the October 2-8 NYT best seller list. New York Times Manga Best Seller List, October 2-8: animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-14/new-york-times-manga-best-seller-list-october-2-8 Still, wouldn't Viz WANT to look into publishing the other arcs to sell more Pokemon? I know it's a "wait and see for Platinum to end" though, since it could be that they didn't want to be publishing 3 seperate Pokemon series at once. If I had to guess, it's the reason why they feel like splitting everything into different series despite all being the same manga series in Japan, they don't want to waste time with 'old stuff' and move ahead. "Ruby and Sapphire? Fire Red and Leaf Green? Emerald? Those are all old news, who cares about those? Kids are playing Black and White! We got hurry up and focus on that!" So they figure kids wont bother with the older stuff more than likely. Same reason why 4Kids doesn't bother finishing their Yu-Gi-Oh dubs. By the time their dub reaches the last 40 episodes of the current series, the next series is already at 30+ episodes in Japan, so they figured "Who cares about the last 40 episodes of this old series? Let's focus on dubbing the next series and drop the old one" Sadly, these kinds of series are seen as 'cash cows' first and foremost by the dubbing companies, and they'll gladly sacrifice endings, story, and etcetera if they feel they can boost sales. Viz more than likely said 'Black and White will sell more than the ones based on the antique Gameboy Advanced games' It's in their VizKids line, so they probably won't treat it like they do their normal stuff like Naruto or One Piece. (Platinum probably has a grandfather clause excuse.. it was already being published so they figured they might as well finish it)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2085
__label__cc	0.612699	0.387301	Talent Watch – Henry Dakak Jr. After pursuing a degree in History of Art and Heritage Management at the University of Buckingham, Henry Dakak Jr. retuned to Lebanon to work alongside his parents and manage the family business. He launched his design house, HHD Henry Dakak Jr., in 2010 and has since been designing furniture that brings to mind pieces of jewelry with refined details, bronze metal, delicate carvings. “It was obvious that I would end up creating my own jewelry line,” he says. Nevertheless, taught by mentors, it took him a couple of years to learn the process and different techniques of jewelry making and to differentiate the various stones. “Harmony and proportion are the two crucial criteria needed to create and design a piece of jewelry…and then you let your imagination evolve,” says the designer, whose debut collection features jewelry crafted in 21k gold and set with precious stones such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pink sapphires. Drawing inspirations from old elements and transforming an 18th century buckle belt into earrings, roman nails into rings and earrings, this young talent employs his skills, creativity, attention to detail and innate sense of refinement to craft unique pieces that transcend time. View some of his creations in the Photo Gallery below. CHANEL Launches their New “Over the Moon” Campaign Van Cleef & Arpel’s’ “Romeo and Juliet” Finally at Dubai Opera Boutique Stylish with These Jewelry Trends	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2092
__label__wiki	0.521525	0.521525	Weed Man 420 News and views from around the world about cannabis, hemp and drug law reform activism. Drug law reform Tag Archives: Milo Yung Big Buddha trade mark ‘The Buddha’ Posted on May 2, 2016 by ankitajelly Buddhists in Tibet and throughout the world have been told they may no longer call themselves Buddhists following a cease and desists letter sent from Big Buddha Seeds. The UK based cannabis seed-bank, Big Buddha Seeds, had previously caused outrage in the stoner community by trademarking the names of cannabis seed strains they had copied, such as Cheese, despite the fact their seeds are a poor imitation of a strain that was originally developed by the Exodus crew in Luton, England, many years ago. Numerous seed-banks received threatening letters telling them Big Buddha had trademarked “Cheese” along with other well-known strains and informed them legal action would be taken if they continued to use the name “Cheese”. However, they have now gone one step further and announced they have trademarked “The Buddha” and informed monasteries and buddhist retreats throughout the world they face legal action if they continue to refer to themselves as buddhists. Milo Yung, proprietor of Big Buddha Seeds. Milo Yung, proprietor of Big Big Buddha seeds informed Weedman420 he has also trademarked “Big Phat Cunt” and “Smelly Knob Cheese”. “I’m the biggest fat cunt and smelly knob cheese in the cannabis industry, therefore I have a duty and obligation to protect my intellectual property. “Eric Pickles will face the full force of the law should he continue to promote himself as the biggest fat cunt in Britain. That is my title,” said Mr Yung. Some legal trade mark experts have said Mr Yung may have difficulty enforcing his trade marks, because if an organisation can prove prior usage then a trade mark can be challenged and since Gautama Buddha on whose teachings Buddhism was founded is believed to have lived around 1,500 years ago, it is uncertain whether BBSCO’s trade marks have any validity. Despite that, some monasteries and new agers have bowed down to Mr Yung’s threats and have already changed their names. The Sharpham Buddhist Centre, just outside the Devon town of Totnes, has said it will be now be known as the Sharpham Barn Bugger Meditation Centre. The Dalai Lama was unavailable for comment. Letter sent from Big Buddha Seeds to his Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. Posted in Cannabis news \| Tagged Big Buddha, cannabis, cannabis seeds, cheese, Milo Yung, trade marks \| 2 Replies 20,000 fake oxycodone tablets end up at the wrong address. The Psychoactive Substances Act 1, Scene 2: “An Utter Failure” McDonald’s to open weed friendly smoking areas? I started a Government petition to ban alcohol How Long do the Impa… on The Psychoactive Substances Ac… Legaliseren cannabis… on Catnip to be banned in legal h… J_H on The Psychoactive Substances Ac… pereatcultura on Catnip to be banned in legal h… Rocky on I started a Government petitio…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2099
__label__wiki	0.79502	0.79502	New Black Widow Leak May Reveal Taskmaster's True Identity Black Widow Trailer May Connect Taskmaster To Captain Americ... Home / movies Palpatine Gets The Final Word In New Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker TV Spot By David Pountain 1 month ago Marking five days until the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a new TV spot teases the mayhem to come as the decades-spanning Skywalker Saga comes to a close. The promo offers a barrage of footage filled with flames and wreckage, along with some massive space battles and another glimpse of the red Sith Troopers who are about to enter the fray. Meanwhile, an off-screen Palpatine hypes up the climax to come, ominously declaring that this will be “the final word in the story of Skywalker.” As it stands, official footage of Ian McDiarmid’s character is still in short supply, but his distinctive voice has lent the villain a threatening presence in much of the marketing. For example, it’s probably fair to say that no moment in all the promotion for The Rise of Skywalker has managed to stir up more conversation than the closing seconds of the first trailer, in which the sound of Sheev’s laughter confirms his long-awaited comeback. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Gallery More recently, a clip emerged online in which Palpatine feeds menacing words into the mind of Kylo Ren, telling the young Ben Solo that he’s been the voice in his head this whole time. It’s certainly one way of incorporating the character into the events of the Sequel Trilogy, even if some fans still aren’t entirely sold on his return. In a recent interview with io9, producer Michelle Rejwan defended the decision to bring the Sith Lord back, claiming there was “a feeling of inevitability that Palpatine had been a part of all three trilogies,” and that his comeback “feels as though it is in the DNA” of the nine episodes. Regardless, you can decide for yourself if Palpatine’s return has more going for it than easy nostalgia points when Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters on December 20th. Tags: Movie Trailers, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker The Suicide Squad Star Reportedly Being Eyed To Play MCU’s Ironheart Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Featured Hidden Mandalorian Ships Obi-Wan TV Show Reportedly In Trouble With Drama Between McGregor And Disney	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2100
__label__cc	0.591829	0.408171	Tag Archives: Mitford sisters Whatever \| January 2009 Posted on June 22, 2015 by Andrew Collins Whatever \| Animal racism Is the gun-toting “management” of the grey squirrel class war? This year I have mostly become obsessed by the Mitford sisters, those intrepid darlings of the decadent Vile Bodies era who dallied at both poles of political extremism, Unity befriending Hitler, Jessica running away to fight Franco, while Pamela, a lesbian, became an expert in rearing chickens. Their collected correspondence, Letters Between Six Sisters, spans virtually the entire 20th century, touching on everything from appeasement to the Kennedy assassination. I should by rights be nauseated by the privileged, ball-going, cousin-marrying exploits of these tweedy scions of the gentry. Instead, they have captivated me. I like to think they represent the last of a doomed uberclass, their extinction predicted by Orwell in The Lion and The Unicorn and memorialised in 1954 by linguist Professor Alan Ross: “A member of the upper class is no longer necessarily better educated, cleaner, or richer than someone not of this class.” But don’t be hoodwinked by John Prescott’s claim that we are all middle class now. I recently opened the Observer magazine and staring back at me was the objectionable 6th Baron Redesdale, a congenitally balding 41-year-old in checked shirt and hacking jacket, standing in one of his several hundred rural Northumberland acres and toothily guffawing for the camera as he held out a dead grey squirrel by its lifeless tail. Redesdale, a Liberal peer, really hates grey squirrels. He and his all-weather army of volunteers have killed 19,500 of them in 18 months, ethnically cleansing England’s northernmost county. They are the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership, whose patriotic, conservationist aim is to restore the native red to rightful prominence by trapping and shooting greys “just behind the ear – if you hit them in the middle of the skull you can miss the brain”. Britain’s greys carry a strain of parapoxvirus that kills their shy, russet cousin, outnumbering them by around two million to 140,000. Thus, the population must be “managed.” Now, I’m a townie. I’m typically squeamish about talk of genocidal culls. Worse, I’m one of those animal lovers who actually thinks the world would be a better place if it was run by cats. (Well, we’d certainly get more holiday.) I’m also a Darwinist, and if one breed of squirrel does better than another, who am I to arrogantly step in and redress the balance? Sorry to namedrop, but as the vegetarian Paul McCartney once said to me, “A fox’ll kill a sheep. It’s nature. I understand that a hawk kills something. It’s his gig.” Equally, it’s the grey squirrel’s gig to be hardy and predator-free. Don’t start waving the blunderbuss around like you own the place – even if, due to some hereditary accident, the paperwork says you do. It’s like those simpletons who coo at a nice robin on their fencepost at Christmas but say they hate pigeons. The pigeon’s most heinous crime is to thrive. Why? Because we stuff muffins and croissants into our mouths while we walk along the street and strew crumbs everywhere. To favour one bird or squirrel species over another, particularly on the basis of fur colour, is surely a form of racism. Listen to the braying Lord Redesdale: “Dipton woods: we took 2,000 out. If you clear a woodland you suck all the surrounding population to it. Then you hit ’em again. Suck ’em in, hit ’em.” Sorry, is he reading from Beatrix Potter or Andy McNab? “In the winter there’s no cover. They all get together in the cold. You can get eight or nine with a couple of shots. All huddled together. We annihilated them.” At a decisive House of Lords debate in March 2006, one Lord Chorley warned of the grey menace, even now scurrying across Europe: “There are three colonies in Italy, at least one in the process of crossing the Alps. If they get to Germany there will be a complete invasion.” It’s an unsavoury mixture of incipient island paranoia (“They come over here, they take our dreys”), nostalgia for a lost, Baden-Powell era (It was the Scouts founder’s inaugural camp in 1907 on Dorset’s red squirrel stronghold Brownsea Island, which helped popularise Nutkin as a symbol of English heritage) and a macho trigger-happy bloodlust redolent of tiger shooting in the Raj. It could make class warriors of us all, even in a post-Obama utopia. The killing joke is, it was the colonial toffs who brought grey squirrels over from America in the first place, as pets. And a pair escaped. Oh, and Baron Redesdale’s name is Rupert Mitford: he’s the great nephew of my six favourite aristocrats. Well, Unity’s pal would have been proud of him. Published in Word magazine, January 2009 Posted in magazines \| Tagged animals, class, controversy, House of Lords, Journalism, Mitford sisters, Mitfords, Observer, The Word, town, war, wildlife, Word \| Leave a reply The Nazi things in life Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Collins This can be of almost zero interest to anyone lacking my own Mitford sisters obsession, but I’m going to forge on and go public with it anyway, as I’ve mentioned this anomaly a couple of times before, but never got round to scanning in the evidence. Anyway … Above is the cover of the 1978 Star paperback edition of Unity Mitford: A Quest by David Pryce-Jones, first published in 1976. Take a look at the black and white head shot of Unity, between the Union and Nazi flags. Here it is in close-up. Unity Mitford, right? Wrong. Here is the same photo, uncropped, as it appears inside the book. Read the caption. “The mysterious Erich, nominally a photographer, who perhaps had a watching brief on Unity, waiting with Diana at Nuremberg airport.” So, had the publishers captioned the photo incorrectly? I think not. This is indeed a photo of Unity’s elder sister Diana Mitford (later Diana Mosley, after she married the British Union of Fascists leader, Oswald). Unity and Diana were the Nazi Mitfords, and often seen and photographed together. Both went to Munich before the war to hang out with Hitler, and attended the first Nuremberg rally, but it was Unity who actually stayed on until war was declared. (That said, Diana and Oswald were married in 1936 the house of the Goebbels, Joseph and Magda, with Hitler in attendance, so they were no slouches in the Nazi department.) Above is another photo, also featured in this edition, which shows Unity on the left, with her squarer jaw; Diana in the centre, with those piercing eyes; and their oldest sister Nancy, who has a completely different shaped face and didn’t hang around in Germany at all. Unity and Diana do look alike, and do have similarly bobbed hair. But I think the evidence is clear. Look at the picture of Diana above and then compare with the picture of “Unity” on the cover. I say: when you’re publishing a book about one Mitford sister, it’s as well to double check you’ve got the right one on the cover before you send it to the printers. By the way, this howling error make this book even more dear to me. It’s a forensically fascinating account of the life of the shortest-lived Mitford sister, although Decca is skeptical about some of the author’s conclusions about she and Unity’s poles-apart political destinations because, as she notes, he was born in 1936 and can’t possibly know as they did what a crazy decade the 1930s was. The publishers changed the cover, anyway, presumably realising their little cock-up. Or perhaps not? This is how the book looks now, and this is definitely Unity, at a Nazi Youth camp in Hesselberg. Posted in Mitfords \| Tagged Books, Diana, Mitford sisters, Mitfords, Nazis, Unity \| 3 Replies Having expressed my lack of excitement about the discovery of the Higgs Boson on Twitter on Wednesday – a semi-principled, partly caricatured indifference predicated upon my own dimwit’s grasp of physics, a year-round allergy to hype and a more specific aversion to the sneering nature of the nickname “the God Particle” – I was informed by a couple of defenders of science that if so, I was therefore unqualified to get excited about anything else that I get excited about, including films, music, TV and, specifically, the Mitford Sisters. (I was also called an “intellectual pygmy” by someone who I will never hear from again, which I’m pretty sure is sizeist.) I was on that day particularly excited by the Mitford Sisters, the world’s most interesting aristocratic sibling sextet, as I had tickets to see two – that’s two – great lost TV documentaries about them at the BFI on London’s South Bank. As part of what looked like a generally if typically excellent season, The Aristocracy on TV, they’d forged a Mitfords double-bill out of Nancy Mitford 1904-1973: A Portrait By Her Sisters (1980) and Jessica Mitford: The Honorable Rebel (1977), both made for the BBC, the latter under the umbrella The Lively Arts. Having been officially and continually besotted by Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Debo Mitford since 2008, when Letters Between Six Sisters came out in paperback, my thirst for new material to ingest waxes and wanes. I went on an early rampage after Letters and Martin Bright’s C4 documentary alleging that Unity had been pregnant with Hitler’s child when she shot herself in 1939, shown around the same time. And from this first flush of enthusiasm for six literate women who were not only the subject of many books, they wrote plenty too (as well as seemingly endless correspondence), I created my own small library of new and secondhand volumes. (I am particularly fond of the yellowing paperback copy of Unity Mitford: A Quest, which erroneously displays a picture of Diana on the cover.) I have added to this intermittently when new reprints come round, or when Debo, the surviving Mitford, publishes another, but by and large, it’s kind of done. Which is why I jumped at the chance of viewing these two documentaries, which are unlikely to be shown on TV now. I was delighted that the screening sold out, early on. It was a thrill to be among fellow Mitford groupies in NFT2, with not a spare seat in the house. Mitford fans do tend to be female, and not generally young, but this is by no means a rule. After all, five out of six of the Mitfords are dead – indeed, long dead; only Diana and Debo saw the Millennium in – and as such, loving them is not about remembering them, necessarily. I wasn’t aware of them, growing up, and I’m sure I heard about Nancy, the novelist, first. I don’t yearn to live in the tumultuous and deadly 1920s and 1930s that were their heyday, although I do find that era endlessly fascinating, with the aristocracy experiencing their first taste of decline, and losing their men in both world wars. (A life lost in action is a life lost regardless of breeding or money.) Produced by Michael Barnes in 1977, when Jessica, or Decca, was a sprightly 60, the Melvyn Bragg-narrated portrait An Honorable Rebel was a real insight into Communist Spice’s life in Oakland, California. (She eloped to fight with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War with her sweetheart Esmond Romilly – who was, sadly, killed in the Second World War, when he joined the Canadian Air Force – and ended up in the United States, where she married Civil Rights lawyer Bob Treuhaft.) By this time, she was in demand as a lecturer and speaker, and the documentary is topped and tailed by a talk given to students at a university. She had not developed an American accent, and retained the much-derided “Mitford accent”, which must have been impenetrable to outside influence. What a curiosity she must have seemed when she threw herself into protecting the rights of black people on the frontline of unrest in the 40s and 50s. She and Bob – a lovely soul whose eyes almost disappear into slits when he smiles or laughs, which is often – are seen with compatriots from the Civil Rights years, when Decca was stamped a “subversive” by the authorities and the FBI started a long file that she reads from, having obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act. (It is, unsurprisingly, redacted; it also states that she and Bob were both earmarked for possible internment in camps that were always previously denied by the US government.) What a fiercely dedicated freedom fighter she appears. From a privileged upbringing, she confounded all by coming out and then going away, and none of it was a “gap year” pose. She and Romilly lived in an East End slum when they first returned from Spain, and the pair of them tended bar in Florida when they first arrived there. During the McCarthy years in America, she was not exactly blacklisted, but she refused to incriminate herself or fellow members of the Civil Rights Congress at the HUAC hearings – an episode she illuminates beautifully in the re-telling, with a comic twist about mishearing a question about her alleged membership of a “tenants’ association” which turned out to be a “tennis association.” Here’s a thing: I have hardly ever seen the Mitford sisters moving about, or talking. There’s a marvellous late interview with Decca by Christopher Hitchens on iTunes, but very little footage exists of the sisters in their debutante days. Photos, yes, and portraits, and newspaper cuttings (such as when Decca eloped and her father, Lord Redesdale, sent out a search party), but moving pictures? Very scarce. Which is why both of these docs were such delights. Honorable Rebel – named after her first memoir, Hons and Rebels, one of my faves – is packed with Decca and her lovely, plummy voice, her sentences peppered with “you know”. But Nancy Mitford, made seven years after the eldest sister’s death by Julian Jebb, was arguably all the more valuable, as it featured brand new interviews with Pamela, Jessica, Debo and Diana, an icily elegant lady who was only 70 at the time, but could have been 90, with her white hair in a bun. Still beautiful, of course. Oh, and still defiantly claiming that the British Union of Fascists, led by her second hubby Oswald Mosley, were not anti-semitic. (Diana and Mosley were interned during the war, and did not live the life of luxury in there, other than being brought Stilton and Port by visitors, so it must have etched a few years into her, although she lived to the ripe old age of 93.) There’s also some plum footage of Nancy from 1966, filmed for ABC. She is, if anything, the most Mitfordy of all the Mitfords, fluting, “I enjoyed the war very much … it was very lively in London.” Pamela, whose lack of strident political affiliations left her without a handy nickname, and who might have been a lesbian, is a smashing old stick, feeding her hens and letting her pony off for a run, cheerily reading from Nancy’s novels and chuckling away at her favourite bits, the very image of a Countryside Alliance stalwart. She is least known of the sisters, but comes alive in this film. Debo we are used to seeing in her active dotage, such a fixture has she become at Chatsworth and on the book-signing circuit, but it’s sweet to catch her, aged 60, when she was still the Duchess of Devonshire. I love the way she admits to her older siblings’ stereotype as a bit of a dunce (“I can hardly read – I hate it, books”), and it’s amazing to think that 32 years later, she’d still be going strong. There’s a bit of Diana’s son Jonathan Guinness in the Nancy film (he co-authored 1984’s solid House Of Mitford with daughter Catherine), but it’s all about the sisters. These films have reignited my passion for them. I could literally recite their shared biography to you, with accompanying amazing facts and trivia, and part of me wishes I really had worked up a one-man show about them for Edinburgh, as I had once fantasised about doing. I’m happy enough spreading the word. Quite clearly, you don’t have to agree with hereditary peerage and the old class system like David Cameron and George Osborne do, in order to find these people fascinating. From a feminist perspective, the sisters weren’t schooled as their father feared they would develop “fat calves” from all the hockey and as such, effectively educated and motivated themselves. Only Pamela and Unity did not write books (and Unity may have, had she lived). Nancy wrote eight highly-regarded novels and, later, a clutch of tolerated historical biographies. Decca wrote a dozen books including memoirs and, more importantly, investigative journalism; she changed the way Americans saw their own funeral industry with The American Way Of Death. (She is seen testifying against the sharp practices of the funeral industry at a hearing in Honorable Rebel.) Diana wrote three memoirs and was a book reviewer for Books & Bookmen and the Standard. That two of them turned out to be fascists, and one of them a card-carrying Communist is what makes them so unique. I love them. Anyway, my tried-and-tested guide to the best of Mitfords literature – Mit Lit – is here, although I may have to add Jessica’s memoir of her time in the Communist Party, A Fine Old Conflict, to this, having now seen An Honorable Rebel, which has re-piqued my interest. I know it’s in London, but the BFI is such an amazing place to go to, even if it’s just for a pricey drink in the bar. Have a look what’s on there now and in the near future. Altogether now, for Decca: ‘Tis the final conflict Let each stand in his place The Internationale Shall be the human race Posted in Mitfords \| Tagged BBC, BFI, documentary, Mitford sisters, Mitfords, NFT \| 3 Replies This is my blog. Without me it is useless. Without it I am useless. Actually, that's not true. I’ve been pressed! 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__label__wiki	0.997649	0.997649	Home › News › World Trump encourages Russia in Clinton emails row July 27 2016 0:36 AM Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump has encouraged Russia to meddle in American politics with a stunning recommendation to uncover and make public hacked emails that might damage his opponent, Hillary Clinton. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/trump-encourages-russia-in-clinton-emails-row-34915860.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/ab732/34915859.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews%20BT_P-e3a5132f-f038-414b-b64a-6e35e3374421_I1.jpg Shortly after Mr Trump's remarks, his running mate, Indiana governor Mike Pence, took a different tack and warned of "serious consequences" if Russia interfered in the election. The developments came as Democrats met on the third day of their presidential convention in Philadelphia, where Mrs Clinton will claim the party's nomination on Thursday night. Mr Trump's extraordinary comments raised the spectre of whether he was condoning foreign government hacking of US computers and the public release of information stolen from political adversaries - actions that are at least publicly frowned upon across the globe. "I will tell you this. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Mr Trump said. He was referring to emails on Mrs Clinton's private email server that she deleted because she said they were private before she turned other messages over to the US state department. The FBI declined to prosecute Mrs Clinton over her email practices but its director said she had been "extremely careless" handling classified materials. The Clinton campaign called Mr Trump's statement the "first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against a political opponent". At a press conference in Doral, Florida, after Mr Trump's initial remarks, he was asked whether he had any pause about asking a foreign government to hack into computers in the United States. Mr Trump did not directly respond, except to say: "That's up to the president. Let the president talk to them." He later added: "If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean, to be honest with you, I'd love to see them." Later, Mr Pence said in a statement there should be "serious consequences" if Russia is found to be interfering in the US electoral process. The exchange occurred after US president Barack Obama identified Russia as almost certainly responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC). WikiLeaks published on its website last week more than 19,000 internal emails stolen from the DNC earlier this year. The emails showed DNC staffers actively supporting Mrs Clinton when they were publicly promising to remain neutral during the primary elections between Mrs Clinton and rival candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. The head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned over the disclosures, which disrupted this week's convention. Mr Trump cast doubt on whether Russia was behind that hack. He said blaming Russia was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails. "Russia has no respect for our country, if it is Russia," Mr Trump said. "It could be China. It could be someone sitting in his bedroom. It's probably not Russia. Nobody knows if it's Russia." Mr Obama traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations, but he told NBC News on Tuesday that outside experts have blamed Russia for the leak. Mr Obama also appeared to embrace the notion that President Vladimir Putin might have been responsible because of what he described as Mr Trump's affinity for Mr Putin. Mr Trump said he has no relationship to Mr Putin. In Moscow on Wednesday, Mr Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia would never interfere in another country's election. "What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that, I can't say directly," Mr Obama said. "What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin." Mr Obama said he was basing his assessment on Mr Trump's own comments and the fact that Mr Trump has "gotten pretty favourable coverage back in Russia". He added that the US knows that "Russians hack our systems - not just government systems, but private systems". WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his organisation would not disclose who provided it with the stolen material. WikiLeaks said on Twitter that it timed its publication of the emails - days before the Democratic convention was starting - "when our verification, research and formatting process was complete and on a day likely to generate interest". On Tuesday, Mr Assange said on CNN that "a lot more" material was coming but provided no details. By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Advocates for and against US President Donald Trump gave no ground on Sunday over his impeachment trial, digging in on whether a crime is required for his conviction and removal, and whether... By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Elon Musk’s SpaceX has completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in as little as two months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after lift-off on Sunday. By Associated Press reporters The bodies of the 11 Ukrainians who died when an Iranian missile shot down a passenger plane have arrived in Ukraine for a farewell ceremony. By Associated Press reporters The Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard has appeared to backtrack on plans to send the flight recorders...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2109
__label__wiki	0.77266	0.77266	Early goals scupper plans as Green lose to Edgware Leverstock Green 2017/18. Leverstock Green suffered a setback in their quest for a top-three place when they were beaten 3-1 at Edgware Town in Saturday’s SSML Premier Division game. It was an evenly-contested game, but eighth-placed hosts Edgware made the most of their chances while the Green side didn’t. There was almost a great start to the game for Leverstock as Jack Waldren curled in a cross to the far post for Matt Bateman, whose header hit the post with just 30 seconds on the clock. Green dominated the early stages of the game but it was Edgware who took the lead from their first real attack in the ninth minute, when a Dan Pett shot beat Levy keeper Matt Evans and went in off the underside of the bar. A stray pass on the halfway line led to Edgware’s second goal in the 21st minute when Steven Benevides intercepted and broke forward before laying off to set-up Ryan Carruthers for a shot past Evans. Things got worse for the visitors in the 34th minute as a missed challenge on the halfway line allowed Rio Beech to thread the ball through to Omololu Onabolu, whose shot seemed to take a deflection as Evans was wrong-footed as it went into the net for a 3-0 Edgware lead. Leverstock needed a goal back quickly, and they got it three minutes later through a mistake at the other end. A poorly-taken Edgware free-kick led to a Leverstock break and a foul on Bateman on the left edge of the Edgware box. Curtis Donaldson curled in the resulting free-kick and Ross Adams headed home to reduce the arrears to 3-1. The second-half was all Leverstock as Edgware were content to sit back on their lead, but the Green side were not able to create enough chances to get back into the game, and in the end the home side held out comfortably for the win. The defeat see Green remain in fourth place in the league standings. Leverstock now face two games in five days against the same side – Colney Heath – firstly, at home last night (Tuesday) , and then away this Saturday. National League South side Hemel Hempstead Town has two games called off - because of international call-ups?!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2114
__label__cc	0.512285	0.487715	3 Mediterranean Diet Myths, Busted The Mediterranean diet is recognized for its health benefits-including reducing risks of heart disease and cancer and extending a healthy life-but it's widely misunderstood, says Steven Gundry, MD, cardiologist and author of The Plant Paradox. Myth #1: Pasta is a key food Time and again, Gundry has been told by locals: "The purpose of food is to get olive oil into your mouth." Small amounts of bread are soaked in the oil (extra virgin, of course), or liberal amounts are poured onto small servings of pasta. "People don't realize the monstrous amount of olive oil that's used," says Gundry, while grain servings are very small. Rosemary and garlic deliver additional benefits. Myth #2: Fruits and vegetables are staples Only vegetables, especially leafy greens, are staples. A small amount of seasonal fruit is an occasional treat. Other traditional veggies include tubers such as yams, sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes), turnips, and rutabagas. Myth #3: Whole tomatoes are beneficial The seeds and skins of tomatoes contain lectins, hard-to-digest, toxic proteins designed to discourage predators from eating them. In traditional Mediterranean salads and sauces, tomatoes are peeled and deseeded. The same should be done with peppers and other seeded veggies. Small fish such as sardines and anchovies, seafood, balsamic vinegar, and tree nuts in moderation are other traditional Mediterranean foods. Beans and quinoa, which are seeds, are also high in lectins and should be pressure cooked, says Gundry, to destroy the lectins and improve digestion. Tomato peeling tip Blanch or briefly roast tomatoes-peppers, too-for quick and easy peeling. Contributing editor Vera Tweed has been researching and writing about supplements, holistic nutrition, fitness, and other aspects of healthy living since 1997. She is the author of several books, including Hormone Harmony: How to Balance Insulin, Cortisol, Thyroid, Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone to Live Your Best Life. Busting the Multivitamin Myth Government surveys show that most Americans who don't take multivitamins lack vitamins A, D, and E, folate, calcium, and magnesium 10 Simple Ways to Follow the Mediterranean Diet Studies show that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and early death; it's also linked with increased brain health in older adults and lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Longevity Diet Why do some people look 40 when they’re 60 and vice versa? We interviewed a pioneer in “regenerative medicine” and were surprised by what we uncovered. The Lakers Diet Take your eating tips from the pros-basketball pros, that is-with the official nutrition program of the Los Angeles Lakers. Is the Low-FODMAP Diet Right for You? FODMAPs are present in many foods and food additives (including sugar-free sweeteners ending in “-ol”), but levels and individual reactions vary. Is the Keto Diet Right for You? The lowest-carb diet of all, the keto diet is surging in popularity for weight loss, drug-free treatment of type 2 diabetes, better athletic performance and recovery, improved alertness and mental function, and overall health. Popular Diets Demystified A Woman's Best Diet Listen to your body to develop your own personalized way of eating-and feel your best. 10 Multivitamin Myths Busted We cut through the misinformation surrounding this dietary supplement staple.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2115
__label__wiki	0.67275	0.67275	After Steve Bruce’s Appointment and the Sports Direct Debacle, Are Newcastle United Heading for Implosion? Image Credit: Ben Sutherland, flickr (cropped) It’s been a long time since being a Newcastle United fan has been a joyful experience. The gloomy atmosphere in the North East has – coincidentally or not – occurred almost simultaneously with the time that Mike Ashley has controlled the purse-strings at the club. Since the businessman took over the club prior to the 2007/08, they have finished inside the Premier League’s top eight on just one occasion, with two relegations and a pair of tenth place finishes the best the Magpies have mustered. The architect of their over-achievement lately has been Rafa Benitez, who has since left the club after Ashley failed to tie the Spaniard down to a lucrative long-term deal despite being treated as a demi-god by the fans – once again, the owner’s unwillingness to open up his chequebook has proven costly. And what about those fans, of whom 51,000 on average piled into St James’s Park on a weekly basis. That’s just 2,000 less than Liverpool, some 10,000 more than Chelsea and considerably more than the likes of Everton and Leicester City. When they say Newcastle United is a big club, that’s exactly what they mean. But with a underwhelming new manager, and rumours that Ashley’s financial empire isn’t built on as solid ground as it might seem, is it any wonder that there has been a surge in the amount of bets on Newcastle United to be relegated from the Premier League in 2019/20, more than any other club. Is there any hope for the Magpies? No Welcome Mat for Bruce’s Homecoming Image Credit: Ardfern, Wikimedia Commons Benítez’s successor will be Steve Bruce, a man without about as much loyalty as Ryan Giggs on heat. Here’s a bloke that has managed Birmingham City and Aston Villa, Sheffield United and Wednesday, and now Sunderland, Hull City and Newcastle United. He left the Owls after a couple of months in charge, despite the club allowing him a lengthy compassionate leave and offering him a way back into the game. As a Geordie, you would have thought Bruce would have been welcomed with open arms to the club, but an uninspiring managerial record – and with memories of that to-year tenure at Sunderland still fresh in the mind – means that the former Manchester United defender has been cast as something of a pariah already. In over 20 years of management Bruce is still to win a trophy, and his best achievements have come in guiding teams to success in the Championship – that does not bode well. He got sacked by the Black Cats after winning less than one-in-three games while in charge, took Hull City up….and then down again, and has walked away from numerous jobs when the chips were down. But it’s not all doom-and-gloom, having kept Wigan and Birmingham City up when few gave them a real chance of survival. The question right now is where are Newcastle United at? Having finished thirteenth last term, shouldn’t they be looking to kick on and finish in the top half of the Premier League? Perhaps, but that would hinge on Bruce delivering the best work of his managerial career, and Mike Ashley supporting him in the transfer market to revitalise what is a pretty ordinary squad of players. Pessimism & Problems at Sports Direct Image Credit: Sdmvaradha, Wikimedia Commons You sense that Mike Ashley is the kind of chap who likes to keep his band statements close to hand. And so the latest financial forecasting for his firm Sports Direct might just be keeping him up at night – and that might have implications for the amount of cash Bruce is given to spend on new recruits. Ashley himself has called trading conditions ‘unbelievably bad’, and with poor forecast results for his brand House of Fraser the share price of Sports Direct has also taken a battering – at one point down 15% to a seven-year low at the end of last week. The British Retail Consortium has also intimated that high street conditions in the UK will continue to worsen amid Brexit uncertainty, which again will have a knock-on effect for Ashley’s Sports Direct concern. He has a huge high street empire, which also includes House of Fraser, Evans Cycles and Agent Provocateur. Regardless of all those issues, Sky Sports is reporting that Ashley will hand Bruce a £90m war chest to spend this summer, with £10m left over from the January window supplemented by £50m of his own coffers and £30m from the sale of Ayoze Perez to Leicester. And the new manager will have to use all of his nous to bring in fresh blood that bolsters the Magpies’ quality – judging by their pre-season results so far, anyway. Reinventing the Wheel Image Credit: Ben Sutherland, flickr When Tom Allen scored an own goal to consign Newcastle to a 0-4 defeat against Wolves in the Premier League Asia Cup on Thursday, you could almost sense the discontent amongst the club’s fans rising. The starting lie-up they fielded was well below-par for top-level football, and that gave an indication of the near miracle that Benitez performed in keeping them up last season. They were well-organised and drilled, with a defence-first approach that saw them concede just 48 goals – fewer than Arsenal and Manchester United. It meant that their own goal threat was stilted – something Bruce will have to address if he wants to take the Magpies forward. Somehow, Bruce needs to bring in new faces quickly, get them integrated into the squad and not defer too far from the basic tactical quirks that saw Benitez over-achieve rather markedly at the club. 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__label__wiki	0.769109	0.769109	Reckless Guide \| Boreham Wood Tony Hammond - Reckless The Reckless Guide to... The Vanarama National League Kick Off: 1.00 pm Meadow Park, Broughinge Road, Borehamwood Hertfordshire WD6 5AL Telephone: Club Colours: The Wood Key Personnel: The current Gaffer is Luke Garrard who has been at the club as Manager since October 2014. He started as a Youth at Tottenham before spells with Swindon Town, Wimbledon and Borehamwood (where he made over 150 appearances). I do believe he is the youngest manager in the top five Pyramid? Brief Directions by Road: From the A1 north or southbound exit at the A5135 Elstree Way signposted Borehamwood town centre. Carry straight on at the two mini roundabouts and you should see the Police, Fire, and Ambulance stations on the left. On the right, you will pass the Venue Leisure Complex. At the next roundabout take the second exit (Brook Road) which is also signposted Borehamwood FC. Just after the pay and display car park on your right turn right into Broughinge Road and follow the road around to the right and the club’s main entrance will be on your right. The Car Park at the ground is for Officials only but the aforementioned Brook Road pay and display is behind the South Terrace. £2.20 for three hours or £5.20 for the day. The immediate surrounding streets are residents only and there are many restrictions locally but there is parking available. Directions by Train and Bus: The nearest station is Elstree and Borehamwood. Turn right out of the station and continue through Borehamwood High Street (Shenley Road). After about a mile you will pass one of the unmentionable Scottish sounding burger joints before turning left into Brook Road at the roundabout and then follow the directions above. The 107 bus route from Barnet Church stops outside Elstree Studios which is a 5-minute walk to the ground Eating and Drinking Locally: The Three Lions bar at the club is for home fans only. The club recommends the town centre Hart and Spool Wetherspoons which is 10 minutes walk from the ground or the Wishing Well. There are numerous pubs and eats locally. Ground Description: The club moved from their Eldon Avenue ground to Broughinge Road in 1963. Arsene Wenger officially opened the West Stand in 2014 which replaced the old covered terrace. It is a smart structure with room for around 1,200. It has quite a steep rake from its eight steps and therefore good viewing lines. The Main Stand opposite has been in existence since 1999 and holds around 500. Both ends are shallow uncovered terraces and our home for the afternoon will be the South Terrace and some seating in the West Stand but this is to be confirmed. Admission Prices: Tickets are now on sale from Boreham Wood online ticket office. There is a £2 price rise on the day Advance: Adults £18.00 - Concession £13.00 - Under 18 £8.00 Please note there will be a £1.00 booking fee added to these prices. Our Last Meeting & Memories: In 2012 we met in a pre-season friendly but competitively... Distress at the Herts Senior Cup Semi Final in February 2004. An early goal from Soloman Henry and a Tony Taggart effort put Barnet in control but Wood pulled the tie back to 2-2 for good old extra time. Guess who lost 3-2 with a goal in injury time? In fact, we have only faced The Wood in Herts Senior Cup ties over the years apart from a meeting in the world famous Studio Cup in October 1973. Barnet easily won the first leg 4-1 at Underhill thanks to goals from Les Eason (2), Tony Turley and Dickie Plume. The competition was held in such high esteem that the second leg was never played! I always thought that the reason was that we had a pressing top of the table Southern Premier clash at Grantham the following week or that Barry Silkman's hair hadn't dried in time (a really silly joke for us real oldies – sorry). Overnight Stay Factor: You are kidding, aren't you? Celebrity Watch: This should be more like ‘Soap Watch’ as the area is littered with fake Cockney’s who star in BBC1’s EastEnders which is filmed locally. The ground has been used as a scene backdrop on numerous occasions. Barnet legend of the 1980’s John Margerrison was born in the Wood, spread it Marge! The list of world-famous celebrities who have been spotted in the Wood is mind-boggling - Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Kevin Costner, Raquel Welch, Reg Varney, Christopher Lee, Jack Nicholson, Bob Hoskins, Sean Connery, Gregory Peck, Christopher Reed, Carrie Fisher, and Nina Baden-Semper. It is rather spooky that they have all been seen in the same small area i.e. the vicinity in and around the world famous Elstree Film Studios which has produced numerous blockbusting films over the years. The old studios are just an Eddie Stein corner kick from the ground. Boreham Wood vs Barnet on 26 Dec 18 Reckless Guide Reckless guide \| Potters Bar Town Reckless provides Bees fans with all they need to know about our hosts ahead of Saturday's FA Cup clash. Reckless Guide \| Havant & Waterlooville Reckless Guide \| AFC Fylde	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2121
__label__cc	0.671312	0.328688	Multi-Genre Songwriter who Walked Grammy Red Carpet Offers Sound Advice for Aspiring Singer/Songwriters Ashley Jude Collie 26/02/2019 31 Multi-genre singer/songwriter Natalie Jean attended the recent Grammy awards in Los Angeles as a voting member of NARAS, the record industry’s governing body, and she was singularly impressed by the female empowerment that highlighted the all-day award show event. That empowerment included: former first lady Michelle Obama appearing with four female stars (Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Jennifer Lopez) to talk about how important music has been in their lives; then, Keys leading the outstanding musical performances that also saw legends like Dolly Parton and Diana Ross and then Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Janelle Monae bringing down the house. Jean, who herself has released 5 albums in different languages and earned 70 various award nominations, says, “The female empowerment at this year’s show was fantastic. It was obviously time that they put women at the forefront. Women have been working in the music industry for decades, as engineers, producers, vocalists, songwriters, and musicians. This is a great time for women and music. Overall, women have had to fight for their rights to positions in many male dominated industries. I think that in the past two years, we have made our voices heard.” Affable and lovely Jean was inspired by her Haitian-born songwriter father Guy Robert and is working on a new Americana album that’s named after its first single, “What Would You Do For Love?” While she applauded the female empowerment, there was another Grammy speech by hip-hop artist Drake that she feels spoke to indie songwriters and musicians everywhere. Drake had suggested, “My point is you've already won if you have people singing your songs word for word, if you're a hero in your hometown. Look, if there's people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don't need this right here (award). I promise you, you already won." Indeed, the statistics against making it in the music industry, whomever you are, are staggering. It’s estimated there are 1 billion aspiring musicians/songwriters worldwide, spending over $45 billion annually to advance their careers — yet, it’s estimated that 91-97% of all musicians are unknown. So, as an indie artist herself, Jean says of Drake’s words: “His message is truly important for independent artists. It’s extremely hard to be seen and heard as an indie artist, when you’re competing against mainstream artists and their deep pockets. When I say indie artists, I mean the artist that does everything themselves, they’re the booking agent, manager, website developer, touring manager, artist, marketing director, etc. But there’s always hope. For example, a few of my fellow indie artists won Grammies, including Kalani Pe’a for Regional Roots Album and Lucy Kalantari for Children’s Album.” As a member of the Indie Collaborative, a group of more than 2000 independent musicians and industry professionals, Natalie Jean cares truly for their passions and offers some "Do’s and Don'ts" about getting into the music business. •Be true to yourself as an artist –Don’t allow someone to change who you are as an artist. You have to go with your gut feeling and whatever moves your soul. •Write from your heart –Write something real. Write something that people can relate too. •Love your own music –If you don’t love your music, no one else. I am all about energy. I think the energy that you put in, is what you will get out of it. Not everyone is going to like what you do, as music is extremely subjective. If you have reached one person, you have already won (as Drake suggests). •Be versatile –I am extremely versatile, as I perform and write for many genres and sing in different languages. But, if you have that one genre you love, make it special. •Enter Songwriting Contests and Award Shows –What’s the purpose of entering these shows? Well, if you’re nominated, or even a winner, it looks good on your resume. Entering allows other people to listen to your music. You can also get great collaborations out of entering. I was contacted several times, through some award shows and contests to collaborate. It’s also another way to market your music. •Join Associations –I am part of the Indie Collaborative where I’ve met some incredible artists. We perform together, attend each others shows, and network. And, we’ve formed collaborations. I met Michael Peloso through the Indie Collaborative. We collaborated on “Please Don’t,” “Alive,” and “The Letting Go” a duet with Levi Moore, written by Michael and I, that’s become one of my most successful songs. One show that anyone who is anyone should attend, would be the Josie Music Awards — truly dedicated to indie artists and created by Tinamarie Passantino and Josie Passantino. They put on a very professional show and I’ve had the honor to win a couple of awards. •Get reviews of your music –This is a great way to get a different perspective about your music. •Music Videos –Videos play an important message in getting your music out. Most people like a visual. It doesn’t have to be over the top. You can also create a lyric video •Perform –Make sure you are seen and heard. Whether it’s on social media or at a venue, it’s important for people to see you. •Get your music played on radio –Internet radio is the big thing right now. There are plenty of places for your music to be played on the internet. If you have the money, hire a radio promoter to get you on the main radio stations. •It’s not always about charts and sales –Try to get your music into film, television, documentaries, etc. •Don’t Get Upset –If you don’t get nominated and if someone doesn’t like your music. Music is subjective and all based on someone’s perspective. Someone out there will like your music, as long as you love it. •Don’t believe everyone who contacts you -It’s sad but true that the music industry can be extremely shady. If anyone tries to offer something to you, make sure you do your research, to ensure they’re legitimate. •Performing –This is a personal preference. I refuse to play anywhere there are television sets. If someone comes to see me, they should be coming to see and hear a performance. It takes a lot of time to songwrite, rehearse, and put everything together. Show your worth. Now, if you are just starting out and need to experience of performing, by all means try to get that gig, wherever you can get it. •Don’t try to imitate another artist -You should be yourself. I have been to many music conferences and they all say the same thing — don’t act like Rihanna, they have already seen that. Give them something they have not seen before. Sing from your soul. LESSONS I’VE LEARNED •Research everyone that contacts you. •Nothing is as it seems. •Be true to yourself as an artist. •Don’t let anyone change who you are. •Fight the good the fight. •Believe in yourself: “Yes, I can do it!” Trip on Natalie Jean’s new singles “What Would You Do For Love?” and “You Don’t Know Me” and drop in on Natalie Jean’s website, along with her Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Soundcloud pages. Tasha Smith I felt everything she was saying ...no matter where you are or where you grew up ..money no money ..you can be great ..working hard and not focusing on no one outside of yourself...don't worry about what everyone else is doing worry about how you can be better !! Words to live by !!!!! ashley collie In reply to: Tasha Smith Tasha, well said, are you an artist, too? Drop Natalie a line if you wish on her Twitter or other social media. Or look into the Indie Collaborative. Cheers! In reply to: ashley collie Yes I am.... So nice...Thank you Ashley... Megan Wilson This motivated me to get out of bed today after surgery, put makeup on and sing. Rosie Bennett In reply to: Megan Wilson Get up when you feel down. Get well soon. In reply to: Rosie Bennett Rosie, true enough, get up when you're down...walk, run, swim, sing, whatever, smile at someone else! Thanks for commenting! That's fantastic, Megan, sing to your heart's content, just getting up and doing it is important! Thanks for commenting! Sean Dooley Excellent. Success does not come overnight. You have to keep crafting your skill. In reply to: Sean Dooley Sean, are you an artist, too? And, living here in Hollywood, you sure have to love your art, work, as Natalie the singer suggests! No I am not but I love listening to music. Julie Cosslett Work hard and don't complain...Don't give up on your goals. In reply to: Julie Cosslett Very true, Julie, don't ever give up...even if it seems you're heading down like the Titanic! Thanks for commenting. Felipe Sánchez Amazing article. Thank you. In reply to: Felipe Sánchez Felipe, thanks for commenting, reach out on Twitter to Natalie Jean, if you wish. And thanks for your compliment! Ellie Houghton THIS IS SO MOTIVATIONAL! In reply to: Ellie Houghton Ellie, are you a songwriter, too? Thanks for commenting! Yes I am. You're welcome Cynthia Haring What a wonderful article about our talented Grammy colleague Natalie Jean! Katia and I will share this with group members The Sue Sue Sisters at next rehearsal, as well as some of the teens we work with in our World Nation music group. So inspiring... and we agree 100 percent about the super creative, overwhelming presence of women in this year's Grammys - making it the best ever! In reply to: Cynthia Haring Thanks, Cynthia, and please share around as Natalie's words are motivational and insightful. And I loved the female empowerment at the Grammies and even the Oscars. Keep up the great work! Jesi Terrell I love Natalie Jean, she not only a talented singer, songwriter, producers. She's a beautiful person inside and out. She will help you with anything in the music business. She is one artist who don't mind sharing what she know. In reply to: Jesi Terrell Jesi, thanks for commenting, and for shouting out for Natalie, I met her during Grammy weekend, and was impressed with passion for her art and her sense of humor! Cheers! Charles DJ POP It's A Wonderful Article, "Natalie Jean" is a very good Artist. Her Diversity Makes her An Artist with Vision and Everything in any Genre Sounds Good. I Love That Voice. Wishing You Complete Success, Natalie Jean In reply to: Charles DJ POP Cheers, Charles, thanks for commenting. Drop her note on Twitter or FB, and if you're a songwriter, she's got a lot of good advice! Josie Passantino Fantastic article! Natalie Jean is such a wonderful artists and person. Everything she does is with passion. Proud of you girl! In reply to: Josie Passantino Josie, thanks for commenting, how do you know Natalie, and drop her a note on Twitter. Cheers! Georgia Paris I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Natalie on an Animal project cd release, in which I was the Project Coordinator, vocalist and co-writer. I am honored to work with the most Amazing Indie label as one of their Directors-Dr. John’s Rock Surgery Records. I am also involved in 2 movie projects. All I can say is that I an humbled to be involved in the music industry. It’s a tough field, but it’s in our blood. It’s all about our journey. Natalie Jean is amazing and I am thrilled for all of her accolades and successes! Wonderful article here! In reply to: Georgia Paris Thanks for the comment, Georgia, hit me up on my EM, [email protected] Marie-Louise Jean These are truly sound advice given by Natalie Jean, especially to those who are just starting in the music business. In reply to: Marie-Louise Jean Marie-Louise, thanks for the comment, are you related and also a songwriter? Kevin Farkas Great read and sound advice. Thank you. Ashley Jude Collie Entertainment Expert Ashley is an award-winning journalist/author/blogger who has written for Playboy, Toronto Star, Movie Entertainment, Sports Illustrated, Maclean's and others. He's interviewed various "leaders" in their fields, including: Oscar winners (Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, Alicia Vikander, Jane Fonda, Mira Sorvino, Geena Davis, Anthony Hopkins); Grammy winners (Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Ice Cube, Pete Townshend); MVPs in sports (Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Kobe Bryant); and, business leaders (Amazon's Jeff Bezos). He has an upcoming novel, REJEX, coming out on Pulp Hero Press. And he has written several episodic TV shows, appeared on CNN, and blogged for Mademan, Medium, GritDaily and HuffPost. Karen Gross 4 Vartika Kashyap 6 Ashley Jude Collie 14	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2124
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__label__wiki	0.633999	0.633999	Home » Lung cancer treatment options much-improved, but resistance remains Lung cancer treatment options much-improved, but resistance remains SAN DIEGO – It is equally fair to say that lung cancer treatment has come a long way, and that it has a long way to go. Speaking at a joint conference by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the American Association for Cancer Research on lung cancer translational research, William Pao remembered the stark realities of being an oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center just 20 years ago, when the main lung cancer “procedure” done by trainees was to get a DNR, or do-not-resuscitate order, from their patients. However, the advent of targeted therapy options – along with smokers kicking the habit by the millions – is one reason that lung cancer rates are not just dropping, but dropping at increasing rates, and driving an overall decrease in cancer mortality, according to a report released last week by the American Cancer Society. Emendo $61M series B for gene-editing efforts led by Japanese firm Anges New York-based Emendo Biotherapeutics Inc. pulled down $61 million for its work with next-generation gene editing. The series B round was led by Anges Inc., of Osaka, Japan, which has an interest in working with Emendo’s approach. Other investors include Orbimed Advisors, Orbimed Israel Partners and Takeda Ventures. Emendo is developing Omni, an allele-specific strategy that uses synthetic biology. Last year, the firm granted an option to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., of Tokyo, to use the Omni for a pair of R&D targets. Newco news: Kyverna Therapeutics has a $25M series A and a $587M Gilead agreement Not only did newly emergent Kyverna Therapeutics Inc. burst out of the gate with a $25 million series A but it enhanced its entrance with a deal from Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the company’s initial funders, potentially worth $587.5 million. The company plans to use the series A to develop T-cell therapies for suppressing and eliminating autoreactive immune cells that cause inflammatory disease. The target is the same in the Gilead deal, a collaboration and license agreement with Kyverna conducting research and clinical studies through proof of concept. Gilead has an option to take on the remaining clinical development plus the commercialization. Berkeley, Calif.-based Kyverna gets an up-front fee of $17.5 million and $570 million in development and commercialization milestones. In addition to Gilead, Kyverna’s series A backers are Vida Ventures and Westlake Village Biopartners. Shanghai Miracogen expands deal with Synaffix for a second ADC candidate HONG KONG – In less than a year, China-based Shanghai Miracogen Inc. has extended its partnership with Oss, the Netherlands based Synaffix BV for a second antibody-drug conjugate (ADCs) candidate. The new deal is similar to one signed last year in that it gives Miracogen nonexclusive rights to Synaffix’s Glycoconnect and Hydraspace ADC technologies for use in a second clinical candidate. Once again, Synaffix is eligible to receive up-front, milestone and royalty payments tied to the new program. Guardant embraces biopharma research, screening to maintain momentum SAN FRANCISCO - Guardant Health Inc. has set the standard for liquid biopsy. That success has catapulted the Redwood City, Calif., company from an IPO in the fall of 2018 to a current valuation in excess of $7 billion. It has made its name – and much of its revenue – with its Guardant360 test, a molecular diagnostic test that assesses 74 cancer-related genes from the circulating tumor DNA to aid in designing the best treatment for advanced cancer patients with solid tumors. Use of Guardant360 remains in the single-digits for most solid tumors, except for in lung cancer where adoption is about 10% in the U.S., but Guardant is working to move beyond that first foray into working more elaborately with biopharmaceutical companies to support their clinical research via its Guardantomni test, which is a broader 500-gene panel that includes genes associated with homologous recombination repair deficiency as well as immuno-oncology biomarkers such as tumor mutational burden and microsatellite instability. Acurx, Akili, Aptinyx, Arpeggio, Artisan, Astellas, Aum, Biograil, Bloom, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardax, Clovis, Cyclica, Dermavant, Eisai, Fibrocor, Galapagos, Hemogenyx, Hoth, Intelgenx, Iovance, Janssen, Kala, Kempharm, Mirati, Nektar, Novavax, Numedii, Personal Genome, Rockwell, Schrödinger, Sun, Takeda, Tmunity, Tolero, Twist Lung cancer treatment options much improved, but resistance remains Pfizer tracking lung cancer resistance profile using Inivata's liquid biopsy tool	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2127
__label__wiki	0.847121	0.847121	Bluedoor Connect Bluedoor Health Bluedoor Labs Bluedoor Media Bluedoor Life collaborate@bluedoor.us AI tech from self-driving cars is now coming to healthcare Home/Uncategorized/AI tech from self-driving cars is now coming to healthcare By GE Healthcare \| Nov 26, 2017 The company that made its name in gaming and driverless cars is expanding its footprint in healthcare, with a partnership announced today The average hospital creates 50 petabytes of data per year. For context, that’s equivalent to 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text or 13.3 years of HD-TV video.[1] It’s a lot of information, and more than 97 percent of it goes unanalyzed or unused. But healthcare’s big data challenge may soon meet its match. Artificial Intelligence – the technology that mimics the human brain – has proven that it has the potential to see the unseen, answer questions that had never even been asked, and consume information previously impossible for clinicians to digest. That’s why GE Healthcare and NVIDIA say they are deepening their 10-year partnership to bring the most sophisticated AI to GE Healthcare’s 500,000 imaging devices globally and accelerate the speed at which healthcare data can be processed. NVIDIA, which has helped pioneer the spread of AI across a growing range of fields, including self-driving cars, robotics and video analytics, is working with GE Healthcare to spread its application in healthcare. GPU-accelerated deep learning solutions can be used to design more sophisticated neural networks for healthcare and medical applications—from real-time medical condition assessment to point-of-care interventions to predictive analytics for clinical decision-making. For patients, the partnership aims to drive lower radiation doses, faster exam times and higher quality medical imaging. “Our partnership with GE Healthcare brings together great expertise in medical instruments and AI to create a new generation of intelligent instruments that can dramatically improve patient care,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. Among the devices to first be embedded with the latest AI technology is GE Healthcare’s new CT system in the Revolution Family. The Revolution Frontier CT is two times faster in imaging processing than its predecessor, due to its use of NVIDIA’s AI computing platform. It also is expected to deliver better clinical outcomes in liver lesion detection and kidney lesion characterization because of its speed – potentially reducing the need for unnecessary follow-ups, benefitting patients with compromised renal function, and reducing non-interpretable scans with Gemstone Spectral Imaging Metal Artefact Reduction (GSI MAR). An image from a Revolution CT GE Healthcare’s Vivid E95 4D Ultrasound System also uses NVIDIA GPUs to provide fast, accurate visualization and quantification while streamlining workflows across the cSound™ imaging platform. NVIDIA GPUs accelerate reconstruction and visualization of blood flow and improve 2D and 4D imaging for Echo Lab and Interventional deployments. Finally, modules of GE Healthcare’s new analytics platform will use NVIDIA GPUs, the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing platform and the NVIDIA GPU Cloud container registry to accelerate the creation, deployment and consumption of deep learning algorithms in new healthcare analytic applications that will be seamlessly integrated into clinical and operational workflows and equipment. “Healthcare is changing at remarkable speed, and the technologies that will transform the industry should reflect that pace,” said Kieran Murphy, President and CEO of GE Healthcare. “By partnering with NVIDIA, GE Healthcare will be able to deliver devices of the future – intelligent machines capable of empowering providers to improve the speed and accuracy of diagnoses for patients around the world.” By Bluedoor\|2017-11-30T21:11:19+00:00November 30th, 2017\|Uncategorized\| Are Soft Skills in Today’s Workforce on Life Support? Bluedoor Awarded Top 50 Healthcare Companies by IFAH FDA clears first medical device accessory for Apple Watch Rx Savings Solutions raises $18.4M to further goal of helping people save money on prescriptions Apple Heart Study launches to identify irregular heart rhythms Optum Announces $250 Million Fund to Invest in Next Generation of Health Care Innovation Carrot Health is keeping consumers at the center of the healthcare conversation Chinese robot becomes world’s first machine to pass medical exam © Copyright Bluedoor Group \| All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2131
__label__wiki	0.673133	0.673133	Go to January 2020 schedule 2020 \| Saturday Giuseppe Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera" (opera in 3 acts) Opera in 3 acts Artists Credits Anton Grishanin Anna Nechaeva Nina Minasyan Svetlana Shilova Oleg Dolgov Ivan Maximeyko Elchin Azizov Maxim Aniskin Aleksei Dedov Alexander Borodin Opera company Bolshoi Opera Francesco Maria Piave, Author libretto Antonio Somma, Author libretto Performed in Italian (with synchronised Russian supertitles) World premiere: Bolshoi theatre, Moscow, Russia Premiere of this production: 20 Apr 2018 The performance has 2 intermissions Running time: 3 hours 10 minutes Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugene Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. The subject was well known and had been used by other composers, including Daniel Auber, for his 1833 opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masque and later by Saverio Mercadante for his Il reggente in 1843. In 1792, the King of Sweden, Gustav III, was killed, the result of a political conspiracy against him. He was shot while attending a masked ball and died 13 days later from his wounds. For the libretto, Scribe retained the names of some of the historical figures involved, the conspiracy, and the killing at the masked ball. The rest of the play – the characterizations, the romance, the fortune-telling, etc. – is Scribe’s invention and the opera is not historically accurate. However, in order to become the Un ballo in maschera which we know today, Verdi's opera (and his libretto) was forced to undergo a series of transformations, caused by a combination of censorship regulations in both Naples and Rome, as well as the political situation in France in January 1858. Place, Sweden or Boston, Massachusetts. Time, Sweden: 1792, or Boston: the end of the 17th century. Scene 1: A public audience at Riccardo's palace, attended by his supporters, but also by his enemies who hope for his downfall Riccardo (Gustavo) reviews the list of guests who will attend an upcoming masked ball. He is elated to see on the list the name of the woman he loves – Amelia, the wife of his friend and advisor, Renato (Count Anckarström). (Aria: La rivedrà nell'estasi / "With rapture I shall look upon her"). When Renato arrives, he tries to warn Riccardo about the growing conspiracy against him (aria: Alla vita che t'arride / "To the life with which you are favoured"), but Riccardo refuses to listen to his words. Next, Riccardo is presented with a complaint against a fortune-teller named Ulrica (Madame Arvidson), accused of witchcraft. A magistrate calls for her banishment, but Oscar the page defends her (Aria: Volta la terrea / "That tense countenance"). Riccardo resolves to investigate for himself and tells the members of the court to disguise themselves and to meet him at Ulrica's lodging later that day. Scene 2: At Ulrica's dwelling Ulrica summons her magical powers: Re dell'abisso, affrettati / "King of the abyss make haste". Disguised as a fisherman, Riccardo arrives before the others. He makes the fortune of a sailor named Silvano come true by spiriting a document of promotion into his pouch, convincing the crowd of the truth of Ulrica's powers. When he realizes that Amelia is coming to see Ulrica, he hides and watches. Alone with Ulrica, Amelia confesses that she is tormented by her love for Riccardo, and asks for a means to bring peace to her heart. Ulrica tells her to gather a certain herb with magical powers; Riccardo resolves to be there when she does so. Amelia leaves. Now Riccardo presents himself again, along with all of the courtiers, and asks to have his fortune told. (Aria: Di' tu se fedele / "Say whether the sea Awaits me faithfully"). Ulrica reveals that he will be killed by the next man who shakes his hand. He laughingly dismisses her prophecy and offers his hand to the courtiers, who refuse to take it. Renato arrives and shakes Riccardo's hand in greeting. Riccardo's true identity is now revealed and he is acclaimed by the people. On the outskirts of the town, at the gallows-place. Midnight Amelia, conquering her fears, has come here alone to pick the herb of which Ulrica told her (Aria: Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa / " If through the arid stalks"). She is surprised by Riccardo, who has come to meet her, and the two finally declare their love for each other. Unexpectedly, Renato arrives, and Amelia covers her face with her veil before he can recognize her. Renato explains to Riccardo that the conspirators are pursuing him, and his life is in danger. Riccardo leaves, making Renato promise to escort the veiled woman safely back to town, not asking her identity. When the conspirators arrive, they confront Renato; in the struggle, Amelia's veil drops. Renato assumes that Amelia and Riccardo have been involved in an adulterous love affair. He asks the two leaders of the conspiracy, Samuel and Tom, to meet him the next day. Scene 1: Renato's house Renato has resolved to kill Amelia for the dishonor she has brought on him. She protests her innocence and begs to see her son one last time. (Aria: Morrò, ma prima in grazia / "I shall die - but one last wish"). Renato relents, and declares that it is Riccardo, not Amelia, who deserves to die (Aria: Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima / "It was you who stained this soul"). Samuel (Count Ribbing) and Tom (Count Horn) arrive, and Renato asks to join their plot, pledging the life of his son as proof of his sincerity. They agree to draw lots to decide who will kill Riccardo. Amelia is forced to draw the winning name – Renato. Oscar, the page, arrives with invitations to the masked ball; Samuel, Tom and Renato agree that this is where the assassination will take place. Scene 2: The ball Riccardo, torn between love and duty, has resolved to renounce his love for Amelia and send her and Renato back to England (Aria: Ma se m'è forza perderti / "But if I am forced to lose you"). At the ball, Renato tries to learn from Oscar what costume Riccardo is wearing. Oscar at first refuses to tell (Aria: Saper vorreste / "You want to know How he is dressed"), but finally answers: a black cloak and a red ribbon. Riccardo manages to identify Amelia and tells her of the decision he has made. As they say goodbye, Renato stabs Riccardo. The wounded Riccardo discloses that though he loved Amelia, she never broke her marriage vows. He pardons all the conspirators, bidding farewell to his friends and his country as he dies. 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__label__cc	0.605167	0.394833	Children's General Story Books 3.88 (138,117 ratings by Goodreads) Fallen (Delacourte) By (author) Lauren Kate Paperback US$8.94 Sweeping across centuries, PASSION is the third novel in the unforgettably epic and worldwide bestselling FALLEN series. A New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller More than 3 million series copies in print! Luce would die for Daniel. And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn't need to be that way. . . . Luce is certain that something--or someone--in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime . . . going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel . . . and finally unlock the key to making their love last. Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history. Because their romance for the ages could go up in flames . . . forever. "Sexy and fascinating and scary . . . I loved loved loved it!" --P. C. Cast, New York Times bestselling author on Fallen Publication date 14 Jun 2011 Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Imprint Image Books Publication City/Country New York, United States Fallen in Love PRAISE FOR FALLEN, THE BESTSELLING SERIES BY LAUREN KATE "Bloodsuckers are about to have some competition for the hearts of YA readers." --The Daily Beast "This emotional roller coaster will have you turning the pages nonstop!" --Seventeen.com "This series has delivered glorious settings, fast-paced action and a love that transcends death." --Justine magazine "Readers will pine right alongside Luce." --Publishers Weekly "This epic romance is a perfect blend of mystery, intrigue, and celestial imagery with a beautiful, bittersweet ending." --SLJ "Twilight-style success could be in the cards for the fallen-angel saga." --The Bookseller "Compellingly readable . . . readers will be hooked on Luce's story." --VOYA "The Southern Gothic atmosphere . . . is so well crafted that readers can easily picture Luce walking among the marshes and crumbling buildings." --Kirkus Reviews "A tantalizing, atmospheric Gothic romance, Fallen is well worth picking up." --New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr About Lauren Kate LAUREN KATE is the internationally bestselling author of the FALLEN series, comprised of Fallen, Torment, Passion, Rapture, Fallen in Love, and Unforgiven; and The Orphan's Song. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit Lauren online at laurenkatenovels.com. 138,117 ratings 5 37% (51,471) 2 8% (11,399) 1 3% (4,080) When I started to read this book, I jumped right back into the story like no time had passed between novels at all, which I like, it makes it easier to follow along. The characters are still quite likable but the story sort of faltered for me. I'm glad that the reader could see into their past lives (mainly Luce's) and what got them to where Daniel and Luce are today, but the "time jumping" was not fun to follow. Luce was far more stubborn in her quest for the truth and didn't care if she altered time to achieve what she set out to do. It made me want to reach into the book and strangle her or slap the crap out of her. As for Daniel, he was valiant as always, but always a day late, a dollar short. I kept hoping he would have gotten to her over and over again just to get the time jumping over with. What I really wanted to know is what happened with the other travelers. We saw briefly what happened to Shelby and Miles and a few seconds of Cam, but what happened when they traveled through time? Overall, it was, as always, a great novel by an amazing writer. I will be buying her fourth installment in the Fallen series to see where everything ends up. http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=jumintboo-20show more by Erin Nation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2138
__label__wiki	0.531651	0.531651	Alle Suchergebnisse „Robert Browning“ Es wurden 186 Ergebnisse für den Suchbegriff „Robert Browning“ gefunden. Daniel Coenn Robert Browning Biografie/Autobiografie This book is a collection of 128 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Robert Browning: “It is the glory and good of Art that Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth,—to mouths like mine, at least.” “I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.” “I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.” “Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” “It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: it's fitter being sane than mad.” “We find great things are made of little things, and little things go lessening till at last comes God behind them.” “Make no more giants, God! But elevate the race at once!” [mehr][weniger] Stichwörter: Robert Browning, quotes G. K. Chesterton Robert Browning 2 Wörter Keine Altersempfehlung 59893 Wörter Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer,[1] lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."[2] Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[3] Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[4] and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[3][5] Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."[6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."[3] Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and John Ruskin.[7] [mehr][weniger] William Sharp Life Of Robert Browning It Must, To Admirers Of Browning's Writings, Appear Singularly Appropriate That So Cosmopolitan A Poet Was Born In London. It Would Seem As Though Something Of That Mighty Complex Life, So Confusedly Petty To The Narrow Vision, So Grandiose And Even Majestic To The Larger Ken, Had Blent With His Being From The First. What Fitter Birthplace For The Poet Whom A Comrade Has Called The "Subtlest Assertor Of The Soul In Song", The Poet Whose Writings Are Indeed A Mirror Of The Age? [mehr][weniger]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2139
__label__cc	0.612387	0.387613	Home Cast iron cookware Learn the benefits of cooking with cast iron. What are the benefits of cooking with cast iron cookware? Let’s find out. Are you thinking about replacing your old non-stick pan? Why not consider cast iron cookware. I think they are great kitchen all rounders because the same pot can be used on the stovetop or in the oven. But if you’re new to cast iron you may want to know the benefits of cast iron cooking. There’s good reason cast iron cookware has been the favorite in so many households over the years. But like all cookware, cast iron has a few pros and cons which you can discover by clicking the link. However, in this article I have the lucky job of introducing some of the benefits of cast iron cookware. In this article will focus on the benefits of cooking with the material in this case cast-iron. Table: what are the benefits of cooking with cast iron? Natural cooking surface Cast iron has one of the most natural cooking surfaces. It is made of of just two materials, iron and a little carbon for added strength. More eco-friendly Most foundries use recycled iron to manufacture ironware. Cast iron cookware can last for decades. Some vintage pans are over 100 years old and still usable today. Suitable for many cooking methods I’ll cover this topic in a separate article but safe to say you can use cast iron for almost any type of cooking. Almost unbreakable You’re more likely to break your kitchen tiles than your cast iron pans. Semi nonstick Cast iron is a lot more nonstick than stainless steel. And food releases easily. Thermal density If your want to keep food warm on the table then use cast iron. Even cooking Yes, cast iron is a lot more forgiving than flimsy pans. Many choices available Almost all major cooking brands have cast iron cookware available. The key benefit of using cast iron cookware is the simplicity of the material The above mentioned benefits are a result of the material used, in cast iron. Basically cast iron is simply that, iron poured into a mold. Because of this the cookware is strong and easy to manufacture. Cast-iron is also a proven cooking surface and probably most our forefathers used iron cookware. You’ll also find many old antique cast iron from the 19th still in usable condition. More on this later. Here’s an unusual benefit, cast-iron cookware will bring out your inner hippy It may not be the first benefit that comes to mind but using cast iron is going green. From an environmental point of view cast iron is one of the most natural products on the market. It has other environmental benefits such as: iron is a natural material not synthetic pre-seasoned cast-iron uses no chemicals or dyes no plastic is used, well in the good makers. I would avoid cast-iron with plastic handles foundries recycle defective pans cast iron cookware uses iron from other recycled sources using a cast iron cookware can last many decades Have you considered used antique cast iron cookware? Vintage cast iron is considered better than newer pieces because the manufacture was slightly different. And a major benefit is older cookware has a smoother cooking surface to what is mostly available today. So if you have inherited cast iron from your parents or grandparents, make sure that you hold onto them. If by any chance you happen to come across antique cast-iron at a garage sale have a quick check of the maker. Some of the older American pans are amazing quality and are true collectors items. But take care there’s lots of pans out, there’s no need to rush. Table: Boonie Hicks educational articles on vintage cast iron Griswold Manufacturing Co. Learn the history of Griswold Manufacturing Extremely collectable cast iron and one of the biggest players in the 19th and 20th century. Wagner Manufacturing Co. Click to learn how to identify Wagner Ware. Wagner is one of most successful foundries of the 20th century. And like Griswold was one of Americas biggest casting works. Wapak Hollow Ware Co. Click to learn about the history Wapak made one the most iconic logos called the “Indian head.” Favorite Stove and Range Co. Learn about this lesser known foundry This company had a huge foundry and made some of the finest cast iron hollowware. Vintage cast iron category page Click to check out all the vintage cast-iron articles If you want to learn more about vintage cast iron then be sure to check out the full list of interesting articles. Vintage cast iron is great but it requires a little research. There’s also some great new pans and they’re sold everywhere Bare or pre-seasoned is usually a lot cheaper than enameled cast iron and some the vintage pieces. You can also pick up new cast iron cookware pretty much at any home center and department store. However, I wouldn’t go too cheap, I’ve seen unseasoned pans for sale and they have a really rough cooking surface. If you are looking for a trusted brand at a lower price point then consider a Lodge. I kinda have a soft spot Lodge. They make pre-seasoned cast iron cookware and they’re great quality. I really don’t think you can go wrong with them. What are the benefits of cooking with cast iron cookware? Lets have a look at the most used piece of equipment in the kitchen. The cast iron skillet It is really hard to find anything more useful in the kitchen. Lets take a look at what you can you do with your cast-iron frying pan? Pretty much anything you want, these include: sautéing You already know how useful they are but if you get into cooking you may want to try cooking these in your skillet: I’m first to admit I’m not a professional chef, however, a skillet it a great piece of equipment to have in your kitchen. Better still, you don’t need to be a professional chef either, cast iron cookware is easy to use and you can do so much with them. It’s little wonder why so many people love their cast-iron skillets. Another benefit of cast iron is the material has huge thermal density. People often confuse this with thermal conductivity. With thermal density the cast iron remains hotter for longer. Perfect for Mac and Cheese that would otherwise go cold on the table after five minutes. Some more benefits of using a cast iron skillet They are potentially safer to use than most modern cookware Cast iron has been around for a long time, we are talking more than 2,000 years. Historians suggest that people have been using cast iron as early back as the 3rd Century in China. Since then people from all over the world still use cast iron as their cookware of choice. Here’s a nice little article on the evolution of cookware. Cast-iron is sturdy and extremely durable Cast iron pans are heavy, but the cookware material is extremly durable. Although cast-iron pots and pans tend to rust when they are not well cared for. It should last many years if properly cared for. Additionally, most cast iron, the high-quality ones at least, are cast in one piece. Because of this the cookware is unlikely to be damaged easily. Use less oil If you are health conscious or adopting a healthier lifestyle, you may want to consider cooking with a cast iron skillet or Dutch Oven. If you want to know “why use a cast iron skillet?” there’s so many reasons for one, cast iron naturally allows you to cut down on your oil use. This is because it is more non-stick and releases food better than stainless steel. When using cast iron, all you have to do is preheat your pan and add a small amount of oil. A small thin layer of oil on the surface is all that you may need. Stainless steel often holds into food more so more oil is required to avoid hard scrubbing later. This of course cancels out if you’re deep frying. Remember I’m not a medical practitioner we just love our cast iron. Please contact a nutritionist or medical doctor for trained advice on healthy cooking and nutrition. Another benefit of cast iron cookware is that it’s more non-stick than stainless steel and enamel cast-iron. Well-seasoned cast iron has a natural non-stick surface. Unlike other non-stick cookware, cast iron pots and pans are not coated with synthetic components. However, pre-seasoned cookware is no where near non-stick as Teflon. But cast iron cookware from my experience is a lot easier to clean and releases food better than stainless steel. If your’e new to cast iron cook then here’s an article you may find interesting “Why cook with cast iron?” The seasoning on the cooking surface gives your pots and pans the non-stick surface. Well, at least more non-stick than stainless steel. You can easily season a piece of cast-iron cookware. It sounds difficult but it really isn’t. They’re some great videos on the internet on how to season cast-iron. Some are quite funny but there’s many great videos out there. If you buy vintage cast iron I recommend putting on a new seasoning. You never know what has been cooked in your cookware perviously. So I think it’s best to take off the old seasoning back to bare metal. Then put a nice new layer of seasoning onto your vintage cast-iron. If you do not want to season cast iron cookware yourself, you can buy a pre-seasoned cast iron skillet or Dutch Oven from reliable brands like Lodge. Lodge have the benefit of putting on a seasoning at a much higher temperature than we can using home ovens. They can withstand high heat Cast-iron’s ability to withstand high heat is one of the primary reasons why cast iron cookware is the best to use for all types of cooking. Another benefit of cast iron is that the material can withstand high heat and the cookware can be used outside on open flame. You can even put hot coals on a Dutch Oven without any fear of damage. The capacity to withstand high temperature also means that cast iron skillets can be used for searing, sautéing veggies, as well as for deep and shallow frying. The high heat leaves a crispy layer on the outside without making the food mushy or dry in the center. Cast iron ensures that your food is cooked evenly. Just preheat your cookware first. People are usually advised to preheat cast iron cookware before cooking. If you were to start cooking with your cast iron immediately without pre-heating the pan, there’s a high chance you will burn your food the center. The conductivity of cast iron is poor compared to other materials such as copper or aluminum and will take time for heat to transfer thoughtout the pan. Even stainless steal is a poor conductor that’s why aluminum often sandwiched between two or three layers of steel. These pans come at a much higher cost than regular stainless pots and pans. Cast iron cooks evenly however, it needs preheating first. You can avoid hot spots and cook your food evenly, if you pre-heat your cast-iron cookware on a lower temperature before cooking. It’s slower to bring to temperature, however, cast iron has amazing thermal density. It is a key benefit of cooking in cast iron cookware. Thermal density is also what helps to ensure that your food cooks evenly and remains hot. Unlike other cookware that has been constructed with other materials such as stainless steel, heated cast iron allows food to cook evenly throughout. With thin pans, food is just a few millimeters from the heat source and meals can burn quickly. Cast iron more foregiving than other cookware. This is why chicken that has been cooked in a cast iron is usually cooked evenly and often more tender. Cast iron cookware is relatively easy to maintain Cast iron can survive years of continued use without cracking or rusting. Just remember to keep a layer of seasoning on your cookware and avoid the dishwasher at all costs. Some of these old vintage pots and pans have been found in barns and under houses and after a bit TLC many of fine old timers are ready to cook with again. They really are made to last. Cast iron cookware is often inexpensive and there’s lots of choice. A great benefit of cast iron cookware is you are not restricted to a couple of leading brands. There is a wide range to choose from. I would still go with a company you’re familiar with. My advice would be to make sure the cookware is seasoned. Without seasoning, the cookware could be rough to handle. Seasoning also gives a protective layer to the cookware and will prevent rust. I’ve seen some great Dutch ovens sold by camping brands that look top-notch. Of course one of my favorite is Lodge. We have Lodge products and they are simply fantastic and offer great value. What are the benefits to cooking with cast iron cookware? I think we have covered some of the main benefits of cast iron cookware. If you use cast iron cookware we hope you get as much joy from it as I do. 10 Myths About Cast Iron Cookware, Busted (www.lodgemfg.com) The Irreplaceable Cast Iron Pans (https://whatscookingamerica.net) Previous articleWhy use a cast iron skillet? With fun alternative reasons. 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__label__cc	0.688156	0.311844	Recording and performing artist "Brigitte" is a Canadian singer/songwriter/keyboardist. Her musical genres include hot AC, pop, classical instrumental, country, classic rock, and film/tv. Brigitte's latest recording, "Barren", was inspired driving along a dry, deserted stretch of highway after her dad passed away. "No matter how lonely or empty you feel inside, there is always something beautiful to be found, you just have to be patient and look for it. You can visit her video pitch page by clicking the pic! I'm Not Lame Anymore Brigitte was commissioned to write an 80s inspired song for the "Fools for Hire" webseries highlighting a montage. They needed a spoof version of their temp track "Fame". This particular episode has been accepted into the Vancouver Webfest in March and has been nominated for Best Comedy Webseries and Best Original Score! Here is a clip of the song "I'm Not Lame Anymore" Video will be posted as soon as it's available. Recording, Vocals, Keyboards- Brigitte Guitar tracking- Chuck Davies Mastering (and a lot of help)- Jeff Long Christmas CD "Icicles" Tracy and Brigitte are excited that their EP "Icicles" is now available worldwide on all major download sites! "Icicles" is a sweet, heartwarming collection of 5 original songs filled with angelic harmonies and light arrangements centred around the piano- just like good times at Christmas with family and friends! Click the music player to listen and skip through songs!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2158
__label__wiki	0.621792	0.621792	Executive Degrees CBS research profile CBS Publications CBS research projects Danish National Research Foundation - Centre of Excellence Velux Endowed Professor of Sustainability Mærsk McKinney Møller Chair in Entrepreneurship Research in Blended Learning (RiBL) Independent Research Fund Denmark - Sapere Aude MADE Manufacturing Academy of Denmark DRDS Danish Research Data for the Social Sciences European Research Council Grants Another FRIC article wins a distinguished paper prize at the AFA Conference Christian Wagner, associate member of the FRIC Center, has won a Journal of Finance Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize 2019 for the paper What Is the Expected Return on a Stock? which he co-authored with Ian W. R. Martin. This is the second year in a row that a FRIC member receives a distinguished paper prize at the AFA Conference. Award to CBS MSc Thesis Students Independent Research Fund Denmark funds specific research activities within all scientific areas that are based on the researchers' own initiatives and that improve the quality and internationalisation of Danish research. Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grants are targeted at excellent, younger researchers who intend to gather a group of researchers in order to carry out a research project at a high international level. Independent Research Fund Denmark Prof. Morten Sørensen, Department of Finance, Starting Grant Financial and Non-financial Performance of Privately-Held Businesses This project studies private (“non-listed”) businesses. Most economic activity takes place in such private businesses, yet their behavior and performance are poorly understood, due to data and methodological limitations. To address these limitations, Danish register data offer a unique source of comprehensive and detailed information, including employment, investments, and innovative activities of all Danish private businesses. These data also enable us to construct cash flows earned by these businesses to assess their financial risks and returns. The results of this study can inform public policies that aim to stimulate employment, investments, and innovations by private businesses and portfolio allocations to these businesses by institutional investors, such as pension funds. Prof. Steffen Andersen, Department of Economics, Starting Grant Revealing Economic Behaviour - Register Based Experiments An important advance in economic theory has been the formulation of the life-cycle model, which is a unified model of consumption, savings and investment decisions over the lifetime of the decision maker. We propose using a combination of natural experiments to examine predictions of the lifecycle model and controlled field experiments to characterize the underlying preference structure of the model. The model makes some stark predictions about naturally occurring behavior, and field experiments allow us to identify what aspects of the theory require relaxation in order to explain economic behavior in naturally occurring environments. Our research strategy is to use register data to recruit specific groups for experiments. Register based experimentation is necessary, simply because the group of interest is a small part of the population and these individuals are not easily identified through questionnaires of the general population. Knowledge about individual savings and investment behavior has importance for policies that influence the allocation of resources over time. Prof. Christian Borch, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Starting Grant Crowd Dynamics in Financial Markets The aim of this project is to examine links between crowd thinking and financial markets. This is done in a series of subprojects focusing in particular on automated trading and the links between popular (literary) representations of crowds and financial markets, on the one hand, and scholarly accounts of markets, on the other. The project contributes to existing research within social studies of finance and the sociology of crowds, but it also invites market professionals, scholars and observers of financial markets to reflect on the use of crowd psychology and its possible performative effects. Associate Professor Martin Skrydstrup, Department of Management, Society and Communication, Starting Grant Sustainability's Infrastructure: A novel ethnographic approach to the global value chain of certified tea SUSTEIN will focus on localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe to advance our understanding of the global value chain of certified tea. Our theoretical aim is to go beyond the idea of global value chain by way of deploying the novel concept of infrastructure. This will allow us to better comprehend the recursive loops and contingent causes and effects in global value chains. 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__label__cc	0.675015	0.324985	Nosocomial Burkholderia cepacia Infection and Colonization Associated with Intrinsically Contaminated Mouthwash -- Arizona, 199 During August 1996-June 1998, 74 patients at two hospitals in Arizona had cultures positive for Burkholderia cepacia. Most isolates were from the respiratory tracts of patients in intensive-care units (ICUs). Because of the large number of B. cepacia isolates, personnel at both hospitals requested the Arizona Department of Health Ser-vices assist in an investigation. This report summarizes the results of the investigation. A case of infection or colonization was defined as a positive culture for B. cepacia from the respiratory tract of any ICU patient at these hospitals during August 31, 1996-June 12, 1998 (epidemic period). Hospital microbiology records were reviewed to identify all isolates of B. cepacia during the pre-epidemic (January 1, 1994-August 30, 1996) and epidemic periods. Case-patient medical records, respiratory therapy procedures, and ICU nursing procedures were reviewed. A total of 69 patients had positive cultures and had illness that met the case definition, compared with one ICU patient during the pre-epidemic period. Case-patients ranged in age from 17 to 87 years (median: 73 years), and 36 (52%) were male. Case-patients were admitted to the ICU with various diagnoses. None had medical conditions associated with infection with B. cepacia (e.g., cystic fibrosis or chronic granulomatous disease). Hospital clinicians identified 33 (48%) case-patients as having infections and 36 case-patients as having B. cepacia respiratory tract colonization. All case-patients had been intubated and mechanically ventilated during their ICU stay. All mechanically ventilated patients had received routine oral care that included swabbing with an alcohol-free mouthwash (Kentron Alcohol Free Mouthwash and GargleTM, product #711-04, manufactured for Kentron Health Care, Inc., Phoenix Cosmetics, Holbrook, New York). The active ingredient in this product is cetyl pyridium chloride; the formulation does not contain alcohol. This product was produced only during 1994-1995 and was distributed throughout the United States. The extent of use of this product in ICU patients at other hospitals is unknown. Cultures of unopened 4-oz. bottles of the mouthwash grew B. cepacia, Alcaligenes xylosoxidans, and Pseudomonas fluorescens putida group. B. cepacia isolates from case-patients and mouthwash were similar by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Other potential reservoirs (e.g., lotion, povidone-iodine solution, water supplies, and a name-brand mouthwash) were culture-negative for B. cepacia. On June 12, the two hospitals discontinued use of the product, and no further respiratory isolates of B. cepacia have occurred in their ICU patients. On June 16, the Kentron company initiated a voluntary recall of this product. Reported by: L Matrician, G Ange, S Burns, L Fanning; C Kioski, G Cage, G Harter, D Reese, D McFall, K Komatsu, R Englund, State Epidemiologist, Arizona Dept of Health Svcs. Investigation Br, Phoenix Resident Post, Food and Drug Administration. Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases; and an EIS Officer, CDC. Editorial Note: B. cepacia (formerly Pseudomonas cepacia) is a motile aerobic gram-negative bacillus commonly found in liquid reservoirs and moist environments. B. cepacia is a well-known nosocomial pathogen that is intrinsically resistant to aminoglycosides and first- and second-generation cephalosporins; it is responsible for 0.6% of all ventilator-associated pneumonias (1; CDC, unpublished data, 1994). Numerous outbreaks of B. cepacia infection have been reported among cystic fibrosis patients (1-3). In December 1995, a similar outbreak involving B. cepacia in respiratory cultures from patients without cystic fibrosis was traced to intrinsically contaminated alcohol-free mouthwash prepared by a different manufacturer (4). An investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggested an association with the deionization procedure of the water used to prepare the product (R. Johnson, FDA, personal communication, 1998). Potential pathogens may be present in low numbers in many nonsterile products used in hospitals. Mechanically ventilated patients are vulnerable to pathogens in their mouths and upper airways because of their inability to maintain the mucociliary and cough mechanisms that normally protect the lower respiratory tract (5). These outbreaks of B. cepacia related to mouthwash highlight the increased risk for respiratory colonization and infection among patients on ventilators. Hospital surveillance and investigation of unusual clusters are crucial to promptly identifying unexpected sources of these pathogens and protecting patients at risk. Clinicians who detect ventilator-associated pneumonia or respiratory colonization with B. cepacia associated with the use of nonalcohol containing mouthwash are encouraged to report such episodes through local and state health departments to CDC's Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, telephone (404) 639-6413; fax (404) 639-6459; and to MedWatch, the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program, telephone (800) 332-1088. Mangram A, Jarvis WR. Nosocomial Burkholderia cepacia outbreaks and pseudo-outbreaks. Infect Control Hospital Epidemiol 1996;17:718-20. Ederer GM, Matsen JM. Colonization and infection with Pseudomonas cepacia. J Infect Dis 1972;125:613-8. Tablan OC, Martone WJ, Jarvis WR. The epidemiology of Pseudomonas cepacia in patients with cystic fibrosis. European J Epidemiol 1987;3:336-42. Bernstein B, Dineen T, Kehl S, Wilson P, Sohnle P. Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia colonization and infection related to contaminated oral mouthwash {Abstract}. In: Program and abstracts of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1996. Beck-Sague CM, Sinkowitz RL, Chinn RY, Vargo J, Kaler W, Jarvis WR. Risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia in surgical intensive care unit patients. Infect Control Hospital Epidemiol 1996;17:374-6. Disclaimer All MMWR HTML versions of articles are electronic conversions from ASCII text into HTML. This conversion may have resulted in character translation or format errors in the HTML version. 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__label__cc	0.70434	0.29566	CDPH Public Portal > pages > accessibility CDPH Configuration CDPH Document Library CDPH Left Navigation MetaData CDPH Resource Metadata Content and Structure Reports DiseaseTaggedPages DiseaseTaggedPagesSecondary Home Page General Health Home Page Health Topics Home Page Hero Home Page Protecting Health Homepage Audiences Homepage Key Messages Homepage Topics NaloxoneStandingOrder QueryPropertiesTemplate Site Assets Site Collection Documents TaggedPages TimelineContent Workflow Tasks Welcome to the California Department of Public Health's website. In the interest of serving California's diverse communities, we are providing a copy of our Website Accessibility Certification. 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__label__wiki	0.750834	0.750834	Board index ‹ Hardware ‹ Hard Drives and Solid State Drives (SSD) In House Review - Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 120GB SSD In depth discussions on hard drives, SSDs, RAID setups and network storage systems. by Ian on Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:58 am In addition to our review of Samsung's new 850 EVO M.2 SSD, CDRLabs has taken an in depth look at the 850 EVO mSATA. Designed for ultra-thin laptop PCs, this new addition to the 850 EVO family is available with up to 1TB of Samsung's 3-bit 3D V-NAND and, depending on the capacity, is powered by one of two different controllers. To compensate for the slow write speeds typically associated with 3-bit NAND, the 850 EVO mSATA is equipped with Samsung's TurboWrite write acceleration technology, which creates a high-performance write buffer in the SSD. The drive also offers support for Device Sleep (DEVSLP), hardware-based full disk encryption and Samsung's RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O Data) technology. By using free PC memory as a cache, RAPID can push the performance of the SSD beyond the limits of the current SATA specification. Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA 120GB Solid State Drive "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt." - Steve Jobs Grand Poobah Re: In House Review - Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 120GB SSD by Ian on Mon May 04, 2015 3:49 pm Samsung (finally) released version 4.6 of their Magician software so the review has been updated to include RAPID benchmarks. Return to Hard Drives and Solid State Drives (SSD) Jump to: Select a forum ------------------ CDRLabs Info News and Announcements Forum Rules Feedback and Help FAQ's Hardware DVD Writers Blu-ray Disc Drives CD-R/CD-RW Drives CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives DVD and Blu-ray Disc Players/Recorders Hard Drives and Solid State Drives (SSD) General Hardware Discussion Media Recordable Media Discussion Writing Quality Results Software Nero (Formerly Ahead Software) Sonic Solutions and Roxio Other CD, DVD and Blu-ray Burning Software DVD and Blu-ray Disc Authoring Video Editing General Software Questions Other The Beer Garden Hot Deals Rants n' Raves Buy & Sell All Content is Copyright (c) 2001-2020 CDRLabs Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2169
__label__wiki	0.875351	0.875351	COMCAST CORP. ADL-.01 42.675 EUR (+2.34%) 15 min delay - Germany Stocks Open: 42.750 Change: +0.975 High: 42.750 High / Low range: 0.075 Ticker: CTP2 COMCAST CORP. ADL-.01 overview COMCAST CORP. ADL-.01 42.675 EUR +2.34% > News Business Wire published a news. NBCUniversal Unveils Peacock, A Free Premium Ad-Supported Streaming Service With Subscription Tiers • • Business Wire • Stocks • More COMCAST CORP. ADL-.01 news... At a Comcast investor presentation held in the iconic Studio 8H of 30 Rock, NBCUniversal unveiled Peacock, a free premium ad-supported streaming service with subscription tiers offering more than 600 movies and 400 series, as well as compelling live and on-demand content across news, sports, late night, and reality. From world-class originals and treasured hits, to blockbuster films and streaming channels, Peacock will offer consumers everything fans love to watch, all in one place. Taking a... 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__label__cc	0.501277	0.498723	NYT Report Pushes Credit Card Companies To Monitor Gun Buyers By Walter Olson To some of its advocates, the cause of gun control is precious enough to be worth jettisoning not just the rights protected by the Second Amendment but many other individual liberties, including — as recent New York controversies suggest — First Amendment rights of speech and association and Fourth Amendment rights against search and seizure. Now, if a New York Times article is any indication, comes the turn of financial privacy. In an advocacy piece imperfectly dressed up as a news story, New York Times financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin observes that some perpetrators of mass public shootings have bought guns and ammo using credit cards, and asks why credit card companies and banks should not be made to stop this. How? Well, they could “create systems to track gun purchases that would allow them to report suspicious patterns” and “prevent [customers] from buying multiple guns in a short period of time.” Invoking the Patriot Act — you knew that was coming, didn’t you? — the piece goes on to ask why the sweeping financial‐snooping powers bestowed on the feds by that act should not be deployed against everyday civilians who purchase more guns than would seem fit for them to buy. The piece notes with apparent approval that “several payment systems — including PayPal, Square and Apple Pay — already [have] established rules that ban the sale of guns and gun‐related items using their systems” but says no banks have done so. (Following an earlier Sorkin report, Bank of America and Citibank announced that they would discontinue relationships with gun companies — all part of the burgeoning movement that has been called financial no‐platforming, in which payments providers like Patreon and PayPal, following pressure groups’ demands, refuse to serve lawful but disapproved clients and causes.) While credit card companies have developed sophisticated real‐time measures to prevent fraud, Sorkin notes, they have shown little interest in preventing customers from purchasing lawful products or reporting them to law enforcers for doing so. I feel I can speak confidently for millions of customers in saying that’s exactly how I would like them to handle things. Sorkin’s report leans heavily on such sources as Kevin Sullivan, “a former New York Police fraud investigator who consults with banks as president of the Anti‐Money Laundering Training Academy” — not exactly what I would deem a disinterested source, since the higher the stack of suspicious activity reports mounts toward the skies, the more business for him. The piece mentions one reason gun dealers are reluctant to pass on to banks information about what products their customers buy: someone else might come into possession of the list and know to pitch guns to those names. It doesn’t spell out nearly as clearly what might seem a bigger fear about a who‐bought‐guns data file, namely that it would go a long way toward identifying owners once confiscation of existing weaponry gets on the table as a proposal. The ACLU may not care about gun rights, but as Sorkin concedes, one of its policy analysts gets to much the same point by a different route: “The implication of expecting the government to detect and prevent every mass shooting is believing the government should play an enormously intrusive role in American life.” David French at National Review has gone deeper into the problems with the proposal, and rather than duplicate his points I will instead close by adding one more. Besides working directly on the willingness of some big companies to bend to progressive opinion, and inspiring new laws and regulations, there is a third mechanism: trial lawyers, who already sue multiple parties after mass shooting events, might pursue legal claims against credit card providers for facilitating the atrocities. Through the magic of confidential litigation settlement, image‐sensitive big companies might then make big policy concessions to get out from under the resulting litigation risk and bad publicity — without anyone having had to enact a new law or regulation. Arm‐twisting payments handlers into monitoring and reporting on private citizens’ gun purchases? The time to say no is now. Criminal Law and Civil Liberties Cato Publications Constitution, the Law, and the Courts Education and Child Policy Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy Foreign Policy and National Security International Economics, Development & Immigration Poverty & Social Welfare Regulatory Studies Tax and Budget Policy Telecom, Internet & Information Policy Sign up to have Cato At Liberty posts delivered straight to your inbox!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2177
__label__wiki	0.762639	0.762639	Home Local Homeless get free phones Homeless get free phones As Government seeks private sector assistance on housing, Cingular Wireless has jumped ahead with a pledge for free phone service to the homeless for a year. Members of the Cayman Islands Recovery Operation recently revealed that it is asking locally registered corporations to chip in with the housing recovery effort, and had been aiming for financial support in the purchase of trailer homes. But Manager of Cingular Wireless, formerly AT&T Wireless, Raul Nicholson-Coe said his company thought it best to give of its product in trade. ‘What better way to give than to give what we are good at,’ he said to the Caymanian Compass yesterday. Having heard of CIRO’s need, Mr. Nicholson-Coe made a proposal to Recovery Manager Orrett Connor and the sub-committee heads last week. ‘We agreed to give everyone that is on the official Government [homeless] list a free phone,’ Mr. Nicholson-Coe said. The unit cost per phone is $119, and Cingular Wireless will be giving each recipient a $50 voucher each month for calls for 12 months. This equates to $600 in phone calls per person, and based on an approximate figure of 887 persons listed as homeless, it is estimated that total value of the phone unit handouts would be over $105, 000. ‘They don’t have to actually be in a shelter, if they are someone on the homeless list, we would give them a free phone,’ Mr. Nicholson-Coe said. He explained that such affected persons could be living with friends or family. Pointing out that his company can be found in many markets internationally, he said, ‘One of Cingular Wireless’ main objectives is to maintain a good relationship where it operates’. It is this general feeling of corporate giving to the community that CIRO is hoping will spur the private sector into throwing its support behind the temporary housing thrust. ‘This is an ideal opportunity for some of the companies that do business here to demonstrate a corporate community spirit,’ said Mr. Colin Ross who is a member of the CIRO sub-committee on housing. ‘It is, after all, said that they make a lot of money but it does not trickle down.’ What Mr. Ross and colleagues are hoping for are donations at $15,000 each, which is the landed cost of one of the trailer homes. In instances of persons receiving a trailer home but having no land or not enough space to hold it, that unit will be placed on crown land, forming temporary trailer communities. This would go a long way in supporting many destitute and sick persons, some of whom Mr. Ross said are living in cramped conditions almost literally on top of each other. Cabinet has approved CIRO’s importation of 75 trailer homes, 10 of which are due by mid-January, and Mr. Ross said if the private sector contributes money that number could be increased. EDITORIAL – No harm in an independent opposition EDITORIAL – Disabilities study should be public information EDITORIAL – What Bermuda can learn from Cayman … and vice versa Caymanian businesswoman starts new organic sanitary line Air conditioning entrepreneur opens filter manufacturing plant Fighting crime in the digital age	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2179
__label__cc	0.673525	0.326475	Christmas Every Day Emma George \| VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3 An isolated jewel in the Indian Ocean, Christmas Island boasts uniquely diverse wildlife, colourful history and natural splendour. Booby birds screeched and crabs scuttled through the darkness as we woke the rainforest at 3:30am with our bright torches and over-excited chatter. Birds swooped overhead as we dodged clawed robber crabs the size of basketballs and creatures rustled the nearby branches. This was no ordinary night walk – we were on our way to a once-in-a-lifetime event, one which Sir David Attenborough ranks among his top-10 most amazing experiences. Christmas Island, some 2600km northwest of Perth, is famous for its millions of red crabs, amazing snorkelling, diving, fishing, bird watching, dense rainforests and stunning coastline. My husband, Ashley, and I had first visited the island 15 years ago – this time we hoped to see the red crab migration and were taking our three children on a holiday they would hopefully never forget. We promised them adventure and incredible natural experiences and our trip was certainly starting on a high. The planets had aligned. It was the right moon and tide, and we were about to see masses of red crabs release their eggs into the ocean – an event that happens over a two-day period only once a year. The gentle sound of the ocean became clearer as we picked up our walking pace, hoping to be on the beach by 4am. The kids counted robber crabs – we were up to 22 and growing in confidence as we grew accustomed to the dark and to the eerie birdcalls from deep within the forest. We negotiated the crabs on the stairs to Ethel Beach and, as I looked towards the ocean, I gasped in shock, totally unprepared for what lay beneath. NATURE’S GIFT The beach was a shifting carpet of red as thousands upon thousands of crabs scurried to release their precious cargo. We could barely find a patch of sand to stand on as crabs bravely soldiered on, oblivious to our presence. They crawled over our shoes toward the water, where they held their claws high to do their special shimmy-shake as the ocean became increasingly black, stained with billions of eggs. Crabs hung off cliff faces and clustered on small rocky outcrops in their thousands in a race to spawn before the tide changed and daylight approached. The kids sat on a patch of empty sand and giggled as crabs on their way back to the rainforest clambered over their legs and hands. Sharing this incredible event with my children was like a gift from nature and something we will treasure forever. Flying Fish Cove is a wonderful protected bay and the ocean hub of Christmas Island. The jetty, boat ramp and loading dock for the island’s phosphate mining activities are located here, but we were more interested in what was underwater. We couldn’t wait to take the kids snorkelling in the calm, clear, 30-degree waters and were on a mission to reach the 150m drop-off. The boys were scared and excited in equal parts, but as soon as they put their heads in the water, a real-life screening of Nemo unfolded. Dory, Gill and Turtle all made appearances, but it was Bruce (reef shark variety) weaving his way among the stunning plate corals that brought a huge smile to their faces. Bailey, our intrepid five-year-old, kicked his little fins vigorously to keep up with Bruce when the reefy bottom fell away into an abyss of darkness just 100m from shore. We watched predators patrol the drop-off zone but, no matter how hard we searched for the bottom, all we could see were the sun’s rays penetrating the deep blue. The boys soon headed back to shallower water, where they were immersed in colourful corals, anemone fish, lionfish, pipefish and swift reef sharks. While the snorkelling is incredible, scuba diving with anemone fish, exploring the drop-offs and getting up close to unspoilt corals and tropical fish is spectacular. GIANTS OF THE DEEP Ashley and I joined Wet and Dry Adventures for a dive around the western side of the island, while a babysitter looked after the kids for the morning. We descended to the magical drop-off zone, but it was difficult to know where to look. Big pelagics, such as giant trevally, sharks and mackerel, cruised along the deep blue, while in the other direction a stunning array of tropical fish, corals and sponges were waiting to be explored. With the massive amount of fresh crab eggs in the water, visibility was a little down from the average 30m. However, some whale sharks were in town for the Christmas seafood bonanza and I was hopeful to see one. Christmas Island is a boating paradise but, since it’s in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the weather can get rough every now and again, and the island’s towering cliffs are pummelled by huge swells. When we visited in January, the weather was incredible – the bay was glassy and calm, and we were able to fish, snorkel and swim to our heart’s content. My only complaint was that it was rather steamy due to the high humidity and lack of breeze. From March to October, the regular southeast trade winds bring a steady stream of yachties, who seek shelter in the calm waters of Flying Fish Cove. With courtesy moorings available in the cove, it is the perfect place for some downtime, to restock supplies or to undertake repairs. And every September, Christmas Island is a stopover for the World ARC Round the World Rally. Most of Christmas Island is accessible – no matter where the wind is coming from, there is generally a sheltered spot. There are two boat ramps – one at Flying Fish Cove and another at Ethel Beach, where boats can fish in 300m of water within a few hundred metres of the shore. Keen to discover some of the island’s great sportsfishing, I booked with Mark from Shorefire Fishing, the island’s only charter and commercial fishing operator. I was lucky that the weather was calm, but apparently the fishing had fallen flat only a week earlier. I knew it wasn’t the peak fishing period, but I was looking forward to a day out on the water while the kids stayed on the island with Ashley. We left early in the morning to escape the heat and the lines were in the water before we had even left Flying Fish Cove. I marvelled at the frigate birds circling overhead and how the rainforest grew right to the edge of the steep cliffs, which cascaded into the clear water below. I was absorbed by the island’s beauty when two big yellowfin tuna brought me back to reality as the reels screamed under the strain of these hefty fighters. Mark had warned me about the shark problem and it wasn’t long before my tuna was downsized by an unwelcome predator. WHALE SHARK AHOY We spent the day trolling and casting lures for sportsfish, catching a mix of species, but the highlight had nothing to do with fishing. On our way home, I glanced at what I thought was a massive clump of weed, only to remember there is no seaweed at Christmas … and it was moving. I leapt to my feet yelling “whale shark!” and panicked to get my snorkel and fins on while Mark wound in the rods. I jumped into the water to immediately find myself face-to-face with a massive whale shark about 7m long, bigger than Mark’s charter boat. I paddled backwards to move out of its way as it slowly meandered along. Seeing the red crab migration and now swimming solo with one of the world’s gentle giants made me feel like one very lucky visitor, indeed. Christmas Island is 135sq km in size and a national park covers almost two thirds of it. The park shares its border with the phosphate mine, which is the cornerstone of the island’s commercial activates. Phosphate mining began in 1888 and saw many Chinese, Malays and Sikhs migrate to the island for work. In 1958, Christmas Island became an Australian Territory, but it has retained the cultural diversity from its colourful past. There are many temples and places of worship, while a variety of cultural events and festivals make Christmas an interesting and socially significant place to visit. The island was formed by volcanic activity and exposed basalt can be seen at beautiful Dolly Beach and Hugh’s Dale Waterfall. The Dales is one of two wetlands on the island and the 1.5km walk through the forest is a definite must. On the short walk, we admired the rainforest, birds, insects and some of the 20 crab species found on the island. It wasn’t long before we arrived at the iconic waterfall and were pleased to have our own private viewing. The cool water pummelled our shoulders as we stood beneath, taking care not to tread on the red crabs that were also finding relief from the humid conditions. The island’s dense tropical rainforest is home to more than 240 native plant species not found anywhere else in Australia, with 16 endemic species only located on Christmas Island. The towering trees, sheer cliffs and stunning scenery feels like Australia’s answer to Jurassic Park … minus the dinosaurs. LIGHT-FINGERED GIANT There is, however, one distinct creature which could rightly star in the dinosaur thriller – the intimidating coconut crab. Also known as robber crabs, these giant crustaceans can grow to a metre in width, with the world’s largest population at Christmas. Their claws can crack coconuts, they climb trees, and they’re known to be very ‘light fingered’, stealing anything they can get their claws on. Shovels, drills and cooking pots, to name a few, have been found in the forest and urban legend has it that a rifle was stolen from defence personnel many years ago. However, these creatures are actually rather demure and, due to the large number of road deaths, great care has been taken to protect them. Warning signs have been erected and motorists are encouraged to stop so robber crabs can cross safely, while those game enough will pick up the huge crabs and carry them to safety. Crab fatalities are recorded, with pink spray paint on the road a reminder to take care. The rainforest is home to thousands of birds, including frigatebirds, red-footed booby seabirds, tropicbirds and many more species. Bird watchers flock to the island, as this is the only place in the world where the Abbott’s booby, Christmas Island frigatebird and the golden bosunbird (a golden form of the white-tailed tropicbird) nest. We loved spotting the bosuns, with their magnificent tails, as they soared above the trees. We also visited the ranger’s station to help feed some birds they were nursing back to health and were lucky to see a rare juvenile Abbott’s booby. While visiting Ethel Beach, the boys discovered a red-footed booby on the ground. We took the weak bird to the ranger’s station, where it was fed a rehydrating formula through a gastric tube. The boys visited every day to check on ‘Flash’ and two weeks later we were happy to hear that he had returned to the rainforest. Christmas Island is more than a travel destination – it is an experience. It’s a place you can bond with … even though it took us a few days to adjust to the local custom of leaving the house unlocked, car keys in the ignition and wallet on the dash. As a tourist, it is refreshing to visit a place where you feel safe, welcome and embraced as part of the community. Christmas really is a jewel in the Indian Ocean, isolated in its location, and unique in its diversity, culture, wildlife and natural splendour.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2182
__label__cc	0.651775	0.348225	+ Co-Op Modes Nazi Zombies are Coming Out of the Ground! News 3/20/2009 at 3:10 PM by Jim McLaughlin 0 Yesterday, Map Pack 1 for Call of Duty: World at War went live, and Nazi Zombies burst from their graves around the world. Fortunately for us Xbox 360 zombie slayers, an immunity spread through the Live billing system, so we were completely unaffected by the invasion. Today, the virus has overcome our temporary immunity, and we must now join PC and Playstation 3 gamers in the fight to defend from Nazi Zombies! All night they have scratched their way to the surface and shattered walls to get to us...we are outnumbered, but we will spend our last bullet sending the undead back to their coffins. We have received word from another band of survivors that this new wave of flesh-eating fascists are the most intimidating yet! We have strategically placed resources in your vicinity to help you stay alive as long as possible. Click "Read More" to see the latest official broadcast, and excerpts from the survivor's letter... Up to four players are dropped in an abandoned hospital/asylum on Verrückt, two in each wing of the first floor. A power outage seals the electronic door between the two teams of players and suddenly zombies start crawling out of the ground in and around the hospital. Both teams have to shoot the undead Nazis down before they get to the barricaded doors and windows. Shooting Nazi zombies earns each team points which they can spend to repair barricades, buy weapons or open up blocked passages in the hospital. The goal is to get to the top floor, turn the power back on and join up with the other team to kill all the zombies. The thrill of the level increases as you move up floors because you can no longer babysit the barricades on the first floor. Each new wave of zombies gets increasingly aggressive, even if there aren't necessarily more of them per wave. Eventually, zombies will work their way into the building and then it becomes Left4Dead – but with Nazis. You've got to stick with your teammates and constantly revive them if you want to stay alive. You can meet up with more survivors here. We'll reserve a shotgun for you. Source: Marketplace.xbox.com 4 player co-op Call of Duty: World at War GameStop Pre-orders Available Today World at War Map Pack 3 On the Way for PC World at War is Getting "Unusual" Downloadable Content in 2009 Shi No Numa Features Ten New Trophies and Achievements Call of Duty: World at War Beta FAQ Call of Duty World at War Wii Co-op Explained Buy This Game! Amazon.com - $9.49 Amazon.com - $14.21 Amazon.ca - $28.73	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2183
__label__cc	0.699658	0.300342	A Cancer-causing Gene May Benefit Patients During Chemotherapy Published on Apr 24, 2019 in CHOP News , Cancer Connections New Patients, Referrals and 2nd Opinions Existing Patients or Family Members A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) oncology research team reports that a well-known gene that normally drives cancer could potentially benefit cancer patients if used in combination with chemotherapy. The laboratory team found this seeming paradox in both human cancer cells and in mouse models. “This study is a reminder of the complexity of cancer,” said study leader Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD. “Many cancer researchers have focused on silencing the oncogene MYC, but we found that the Myc protein produced by this gene makes chemotherapy drugs more efficient in killing cancer cells.” Thomas-Tikhonenko and colleagues published their research online March 26, 2019, in the journal Leukemia. The team investigated Burkitt lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that occurs in both children and adults. Because the MYC oncogene is active in about half of human cancers, the finding could be relevant to other MYC-driven cancers in addition to Burkitt lymphoma, said first author Colleen T. Harrington, who started working on this project in close collaboration with Elena Sotillo, PhD. The research implicates MYC as a master regulator of chemosensitivity — making cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy. The study team increased levels of the Myc protein by inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase 3b (GSK-3b), an enzyme that normally marks Myc for degradation. The GSK-3 inhibitors elevated Myc levels and in doing so activated the death receptor pathway, enabling chemotherapy drugs to better kill Burkitt lymphoma cells. One familiar GSK inhibitor is lithium chloride, an FDA-approved, inexpensive drug long established as a treatment for bipolar disorder. “If lithium can be repurposed as part of combination therapy for Burkitt lymphoma and other cancers, the path to a translational treatment could be short,” said Harrington, a graduate student in Penn’s Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group. Before these results could become an approved therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory cancers, considerable work would need to occur, said Thomas-Tikhonenko, who added that the current study reinforces the importance of investigating cancer cell biology in the context of combination treatments. In addition to his CHOP position, Thomas-Tikhonenko is on the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Read the full study. Multiple grants, from the National Institutes of Health, the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Institut National du Cancer and several European organizations, supported this research. Colleen T. Harrington et al, “Transient stabilization, rather than inhibition, of MYC amplifies extrinsic apoptosis and therapeutic responses in refractory B-cell lymphoma,” Leukemia, published online March 26, 2019. Contact: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Our experts are here to review your child’s diagnosis and treatment plan, and work with primary oncologists as needed. Patient-Family Education Review educational information for individuals and families facing childhood cancer. Interior Menu General Page Cancer Center Home	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2206
__label__wiki	0.653432	0.653432	At the United Methodist General Conference, every delegate and church leader received a set of prayer beads made especially for 2016 in Portland. The United Methodist artist who helped craft the design says Protestant prayer beads are an idea that is catching on. Kristen Vincent is a United Methodist who says her calling to introduce people to prayer beads grew out of her own difficulties with prayer and not knowing how to go about it. Vincent says prayer beads solved that problem and they can help anyone find focus and improve their prayer life. This video was produced by United Methodist Communications in Nashville, TN. Wednesdays 9:00 am Joint Coloma & Riverside UMC Prayer Group at Riverside UMC. Please join us at Riverside UMC anytime! This dedicated group of 3 to 5 persons meets weekly to pray for any requests voiced in church, and requests from anyone anywhere who lets the prayer group know that prayers are needed. Sometimes prayers are slipped under the office doors, or are submitted anonymously through the Contact Us form on this website. Requests are also mailed, relayed through neighbors or friends, any form of communication will do! These prayer warriors are ready and more than able to pray for anyone who asks, whatever the communication method. Names and details not required. We are all God's children and worthy of God's love and grace.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2214
__label__wiki	0.948693	0.948693	AeroVironment to launch innovation center in Boston The New England Innovation Center will bring new robotics and UAS engineering development to the company’s first office outside of California. Source \| AeroVironment Inc. Tom Vaneck, vice president and managing director of AeroVironment’s New England Innovation Center Edited by Hannah Mason Assistant Editor, CompositesWorld AeroVironment assembles first HAWK30 solar-powered aircraft Composites 2020: A multitude of markets Demand for longer sprayer boom arms enables composites in agricultural equipment AeroVironment Inc. (Monrovia, Calif, U.S.) has announced the creation of its New England Innovation Center (NEIC) in Boston, Mass., U.S. The new office, the company’s first engineering operation outside of California, will lead development of new advanced solutions including robotics, to complement the company’s small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). AeroVironment says it is actively seeking top talent for its New England and Simi Valley operations, with more than 70 open positions. “We are expanding our capabilities, our team and our footprint to achieve our growth objectives,” says Wahid Nawabi, AeroVironment president and CEO.“The greater Boston region is a dynamic center of advanced development and talent in technologies key to the future of our customers’ operations, including robotics and artificial intelligence. Our latest Innovation Center will expand AeroVironment’s capabilities so that we may translate advances in key technologies into ever more valuable solutions that support our customers across the globe.” Tom Vaneck has been named vice president and managing director of the NEIC. Vaneck served as vice president of InstantEye Robotics, a division of Physical Sciences, Inc. He also previously served as general manager of Aurora Flight Sciences’ Cambridge Research and Development Center. He earned a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Master of Arts in Mathematics and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Penn State University. “I’m excited to be part of the team at AeroVironment, the leader in unmanned systems technologies for those on the front-line, and a company I have watched and admired for many years,” says Vaneck. “Our New England Innovation Center will develop new robotic platforms to expand our family of systems, advance our autonomous capabilities and build on AeroVironment’s history of delivering innovative solutions that help customers proceed with certainty.” Out-of-autoclave prepregs: Hype or revolution? Oven-cured, vacuum-bagged prepregs show promise in production primary structures. Thermoplastic composites: Primary structure? Yes, advanced forms are in development, but has the technology progressed enough to make the business case? Boeing 787 Update Approaching rollout and first flight, the 787 relies on innovations in composite materials and processes to hit its targets Aerospace Composites Listen to CW Talks - the CompositesWorld Podcast Find the latest composites industry news Read the latest issue of CompositesWorld Subscribe to CompositesWorld Magazine Search more than 2,500 composites industry suppliers Special Edition: Next Generation Aerospace - Advanced Materials and Processes Download the Thermoplastic Composites Content Collection Register now for the ACMA Thermoplastic Composites Conference	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2218
__label__wiki	0.755472	0.755472	Microsoft tries to appease Windows 10 data collection critics Reveals more about what the OS scoops up Adam Patrick Murray Microsoft today revealed more about what information Windows 10 collects from users, the latest attempt to quell long-simmering resistance to the operating system's data gathering and reporting practices. "Our hope is this information will help you be more informed about the data we collect and use, enabling you to make informed choices," said Terry Myerson, Microsoft's top Windows executive, in a post to a company blog Wednesday. In a pair of pieces published to TechNet, Microsoft laid out what Windows 10 hoovers up under its two telemetric settings: Basic and Full. [ Got a spare hour? Take this online course and learn how to install and configure Windows 10 with the options you need. ] Much of the long list for Basic was effectively incomprehensible to anyone but a Microsoft engineer, and thus of little or no use to most customers. In places, however, the descriptions were in English, more or less. "This event sends data about crashes for both native and managed applications, to help keep Windows up to date," read the explanation of Microsoft.Windows.FaultReporting.AppCrashEvent. Full's to-do was easier going, but daunting nonetheless, for it detailed everything from data on what apps were installed and when they were installed to "Incoming and Outgoing calls and Voicemail usage statistics on primary or secondary line." Microsoft also revised its overarching privacy statement, Myerson said, to reflect Creators Update. A "what's-changed" list -- the "March 2017" section -- can be found on the company's site. Myerson even addressed the most elemental of the complaints lodged against Windows 10, that it scoops up a sweeping array of information on every user. "We have reduced the number of events collected and reduced, by about half, the volume of data we collect at the Basic level," Myerson said. He did not mention the Full level, describe what is now not gathered that had been before, or explain why Microsoft feels what it had once collected is now not worth the trouble. [ Related: Windows 10 Redstone: A guide to the builds ] Previously, when it claimed it was going to reduce what Basic collected, Microsoft had been just as coy about what it would drop. At the time, it acknowledged only that application usage data would not be swept up under the Basic setting. Yet neither Myerson nor a colleague -- Marisa Rogers, the privacy officer of the Windows group -- who added to her boss's commentary in the post, offered a way to completely disable Windows 10's telemetry, the fundamental demand of many critics. That demand stemmed from Microsoft's move to make data collection compulsory, not just that it ramped up the quantity of data it suctioned up. In earlier Windows editions, telemetry was voluntary. (And even though Windows 7 and 8.1's revised data collection has been modeled on 10's, it has retained its opt-in approach.) In January, Myerson announced changes to Windows 10 collection practices, including the dispensing of a third telemetric level, dubbed Enhanced. It also introduced a new screen where those upgrading to Creators will be asked to review their privacy settings. Previous settings will be retained unless the user explicitly changes them by, say, toggling the earlier "Full" to "Basic." Full will also remain the default telemetry setting for anyone setting up a new Windows 10 device or doing a clean install of Creators on an existing Windows 10 system. Nor has Microsoft opened up about whether the setting that collects the least amount of information -- called "Security" -- will still be available only to commercial customers running Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education. There may be more changes down the line, though Myerson and Rogers did not specify any. "We will continue to refine our approach and implement your feedback about data collection and privacy control," Rogers pledged. "The Windows 10 Creators Update is a significant step forward, but by no means the end of our journey."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2219
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__label__wiki	0.954787	0.954787	Retired Oakland Cop Faces Solicitation Charge November 4, 2016 HELEN CHRISTOPHI MARTINEZ, Calif. (CN) — Prosecutors said Friday that a retired Oakland police captain will be charged in an ongoing sex scandal that rocked the city’s police department this summer and implicated law-enforcement agencies in the Bay Area. The 81-year-old former captain, who has not yet been named, will be charged with one misdemeanor count of solicitation in a scandal involving a teenaged former prostitute named Jasmine Abuslin, according to Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson. The impending charge was announced at a news conference Friday morning. Peterson said both the retired captain and Abuslin, who also went by the name Celeste Guap, admitted to the solicitation during an investigation that spanned 19 interviews by six law-enforcement agencies. Prosecutors declined to name the captain because the charge has not yet been filed. Peterson said his office expects to file the charge next week. No other officers will be charged for alleged crimes that occurred in Contra Costa County, including officers with the San Francisco and Richmond police departments, in part because Abuslin stated that those sexual encounters occurred after she turned 18, were consensual and did not involve prostitution. “According to Ms. Abuslin’s own statements, there were no crimes,” Peterson said. “Lest someone think our office doesn’t want to file [charges] against police officers, we file against police officers when it warrants it.” He added that Abuslin’s statements would make it difficult to convince a jury that a crime had occurred. Peterson’s announcement comes two months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley announced charges against seven Bay Area officers for alleged crimes that occurred in Alameda County involving Abuslin. The allegations that Bay Area officers trafficked the underage girl came to light in a suicide note written by Oakland Police Officer Brendan O’Brien. Once they became public in June, Oakland saw three police chiefs toppled in nine days as Mayor Libby Schaff strained to bring the lurching department under control. Peterson said Friday that former Contra Costa Sheriff’s Deputy Ricardo Perez will not face charges because it is “impossible to determine” whether his sexual encounter with Abuslin in Contra Costa County occurred before she turned 18. Oakland Police Officer Terryl Smith will also not face charges in Contra Costa for having sex with Abuslin because the encounters didn’t constitute a crime, Peterson said. Allegations that Smith gave Abuslin a bag of Cheetos in exchange for sex – which would constitute an act of prostitution – could not be substantiated, he said. Alameda County prosecutors charged Smith on Thursday with five misdemeanor counts of accessing private information on law enforcement databases between January and April and giving it to Abuslin. Smith is set to be arraigned on Nov. 18 On Friday, Peterson denied that his office helped send Abuslin to a Florida drug rehab facility to obstruct investigations in the Bay Area. “I think I’ve outlined very clearly that Ms. Abuslin went to Florida of her own volition,” he said. “There was no objection or protest from any law enforcement agency or DA’s office to…her travel to Florida. It was well known since July 2016 she wanted to go to Florida.” DA O’Malley had expressed disappointment in Abuslin’s trip to Florida at a September news conference, and critics accused Peterson’s office and the Richmond Police Department of witness tampering. “I think there was some motivation on her part to get away from all this media attention and go somewhere else,” Peterson said. ← DOJ Hounded for Records in Lead-Up to Election Montana Could Elect First Native American US Rep →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2230
__label__wiki	0.571241	0.571241	Head2Head Racing Madalin Cars Multiplayer Motor Wars 2 Moto X3M 6: Spooky Land Surviv.io (Survivio) Paper Racer is a fantastic and unusual racing game in which you must ride a motorbike through a series of different tracks and challenges. What makes this game unusual is that the graphics are all hand drawn and appear as if you are racing through a coloring book. To start with, you can enter the career mode and take the tutorials to get used to the game mechanics – the tutorials will show you how to control the bike, and the different elemental affects you will encounter such as gravity changes, guns, bombs and loops. Once you have completed the tutorial, you can continue with the career mode and try to complete each level. The gameplay is fantastic but challenging, and the different obstacles and gameplay variety is superb. Aside from the career mode, you can also go head to head against other players, design your own tracks and purchase different vehicles and avatars from the store. Jump into the world of paper racing today! Lots of tracks to play Each track has unique hand-drawing design and vehicle Level editor to create your own track Paper Racer is developed by Nikita Shimin from Ukraine. Web browser (desktop and mobile). Up arrow to move forward Left and right arrow to tilt Z or space bar to turn around Paper Racer is a splendid driving game that you can enjoy on CrazyGames, free of charge. This highly addictive driving game is built with HTML5 to work without trouble in modern browsers. One of the many advantages about playing Paper Racer here is that it is available in full-screen. Nikita Shimin made Paper Racer. It has been played 116,197 times and has received a rating of 8.8 out of 10 with 689 votes. Did you like playing this driving game? Then check out our other driving or Madalin Stunt Cars 2 and Bullet Force.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2233
__label__wiki	0.972664	0.972664	Henry, Rudock among Wolverines still waiting in draft 837267Graham Glasgow is the lone former Michigan player to have been selected in the NFL draft with one day remaining.50 Henry, Rudock among Wolverines still waiting in draft 837267Graham Glasgow is the lone former Michigan player to have been selected in the NFL draft with one day remaining.50 Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/1TBp6jY Angelique S. Chengelis, The Detroit News Published 12:02 a.m. ET April 30, 2016 Willie Henry(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News) Graham Glasgow is the lone former Michigan player to have been selected in the NFL draft with one day remaining. Glasgow was selected by the Lions in the third round, leaving a handful of former Wolverines waiting to hear their names called in the final four rounds on Saturday. Michigan’s last first-round selection was Taylor Lewan in 2014, and before that it was Brandon Graham in 2010. Last season, receiver Devin Funchess and defensive end Frank Clark were taken in the second round. Among the former Wolverines hoping to be drafted are quarterback Jake Rudock, who led the Wolverines to a 10-3 record last season and had an MVP performance in the Citrus Bowl. Rudock spent his graduate season playing at Michigan after starting two seasons at Iowa. Lions take Michigan's Graham Glasgow in third round Willie Henry, who left Michigan with a season of eligibility remaining, last month after Michigan’s Pro Day touted himself as the best defensive lineman in the draft “hands down,” but is still waiting to be drafted. He also participated in the NFL combine. Last week, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper said he believes defensive lineman Mario Ojemudia could be a Day 3 selection. Former linebackers Joe Bolden, Desmond Morgan and James Ross also are hoping to be picked up in free agency if not drafted, as are fullbacks Joe Kerridge and Sione Houma, and safety Jarrod Wilson. Glasgow, during an interview last week in Ann Arbor, joked about how he came from being a zero-rated player in high school, to a walk-on at Michigan, to a starting offensive lineman with the versatility play guard or center and now an NFL player. “I’m ready to go start the next chapter of my life,” Glasgow said. “I think it will be a good chapter. A long chapter.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2235
__label__wiki	0.625328	0.625328	Devenir Blog Employer Contributions to HSAs Jump in 2018 Health savings accounts received record-breaking contributions in 2018 with accountholders and employers pouring $33.7 billion into HSAs, up 22% from 2017. Employer contributions grew to their highest level, totaling over $8 billion in 2018. The record contributions have also led to a new record carry-forward balance of $8 billion in 2018 showing that in aggregate, HSA accountholders may be recognizing the long-term savings potential of the account. We have also seen an uptick in the portion of accounts receiving employer and employee contributions in tandem with a decline in the portion of accounts flagged as receiving contributions from an individual. This trend may continue as HSA eligible health plans continue to grow in popularity among employer groups and HSAs are increasingly sought after by employees as a valuable workplace benefit. We remain interested in contribution trends in HSAs and we look forward to continuing to offer insights into the marketplace. Thanks for reading and as always, let us know your feedback! Investments are not FDIC Insured and may lose value. The information above is intended to be used for educational purposes only and is not to be construed as investment or tax advice, or as tailored to any specific investor. Consult a financial advisor or tax professional for more information. Data used may be estimates and may not reflect actual observed data. Devenir Launches New HSA Investment Portal Devenir Releases Viewpoints White Paper – Best Practices: HSA Investment Menu Design Devenir HSA Newsletter: January 2020 Monthly HSA Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and stay up to date with the latest HSA news! Sign Up for HSA Newsletter 8500 Normandale Lake Boulevard Email: hsa@devenir.com © Copyright 2020 Devenir Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Disclosure \| Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2236
__label__wiki	0.983847	0.983847	All Bangladesh entry points alerted on China’s unknown virus Section 144 imposed in Lucknow as anti-CAA protests continue across India 177km of deadly rail tracks on the Akhaura-Sylhet route Mohammed Serajul Islam, Sylhet Published at 12:33 am August 23rd, 2019 The photo shows bamboos used to strengthen the damaged rail tracks in Akhaura-Sylhet route Dhaka Tribune The 177-kilometre-long Akhaura-Sylhet track crosses about 250 large and small bridges built in the British colonial era, according to the engineering department of Bangladesh Railway (BR) The decades-old railway bridges on the Akhaura-Sylhet route are in poor condition with repeated derailments, leading to fatal accidents at least seven times in the last three months. The 177-kilometre-long Akhaura-Sylhet track crosses about 250 large and small bridges built in the British colonial era, according to the engineering department of Bangladesh Railway (BR). The poor condition of the route is the result of decades long poor maintenance of level crossings and railway bridges. Among other issues, safety, uncertainty of arrival, delay on the route and the constant fear of an accident is leaving passengers hesitant to travel on the route and contributing to a huge loss for the railway. The safety issue of train passengers has come to the forefront following several accidents recently, including a fatal one on June 23 at Baramchal in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar, which left five people dead and over a hundred others injured. Recently, a Dhaka-bound Upaban Express compartment went off the tracks near Maijgaon Railway Station in Fenchuganj of Sylhet, around 11pm on Friday. With an unsuccessful attempt at repairing the lines and a delay of almost four hours, the train left the station, leaving the derailed compartment behind at around 3pm, confirmed Station Master Samanta Das. Regular passengers on this route expressed their frustration with the poor condition of the route and said that despite the 'Dead Stop' signs on 13 bridges, which instruct trains to stop completely before crossing, trains head for Dhaka and Chittagong without stopping at all. Journalist Jahangir Alam, of Dakshin Surma upazila, says that thousands of train passengers face a high risk journey on this hazardous route. He observed: "Parirchak and Maijgaon, these two areas between Sylhet and Mogla Bazar are most prone to rail accidents." Sources said, five days after the infamous Upaban Express accident in Baramchal, Chittagong bound intercity Paharika Express was delayed for two hours due to a sudden landslide on the Baramchal Bridge. On July 7, the Dhaka bound intercity Jayantika was disrupted when it ran into cattle on the tracks. On July 19, two compartments of the same train service went off-track at Kulaura rail station, and the next day, the Dhaka bound Kalni Express went off-track at the same place. Asked, Ataur Rahman, Manager of Sylhet railway station, couldn't confirm the accidents and said the probe committee investigating the Baramchal accident might be able to provide a better perspective. According to the railway schedule, six intercity trains -- Parabat, Jayantika, Paharika, Udayan, Upaban, and the Kalni Express -- operate on the hazardous Dhaka-Sylhet-Chattogram railway track twelve times a day. About 25,000 to 30,000 passengers use the rail route daily. Please read our Comment Policy before posting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2241
__label__cc	0.522045	0.477955	End the Weaponisation of Water in Central Asia Commentary / Europe & Central Asia Four Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – have argued over their water resources since the collapse of the Soviet Union. At times these disputes have seemed to threaten war. The forthcoming presidential summit in Astana can help banish that spectre. Rivals for Authority in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Briefing / Europe & Central Asia Also available in Русский Opportunities and Challenges Await Kyrgyzstan’s Incoming President Today’s Uzbekistan and Manhattan’s Deadly Truck Attack CrisisWatch Central Asia December 2019 The prevailing calm in Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan's remote east does not rule out the prospect of a clash between local powerbrokers and Dushanbe authorities. To mitigate the risks of a local flare-up and regional power rivalry, China and Russia should communicate with each other and nudge President Rahmon toward a smooth transition of power. The Rising Risks of Misrule in Tajikistan With his seven-year term set to end in 2020, uncertainty is growing over whether Tajikistan’s long-time ruler President Rahmon will handpick a successor or continue his reign. Growing troubles at home and abroad ensure both scenarios are fraught with risk and must be managed prudently, lest the country become another source of regional disorder. Central Asia’s Silk Road Rivalries China and Russia’s separate visions for Central Asia could transform the region’s political and economic landscape as well as relations between the two Eurasian giants. To the smaller, embryonic Central Asian nation states, the new geopolitical realities could offer both economic prosperity as well as worsening instability and conflict. Also available in Русский, 简体中文 Uzbekistan: The Hundred Days Uzbekistan’s first new president in more than a quarter century has taken some positive steps in the early days of his administration. In order to encourage more sustained progress, western partners and regional powers will need to balance conditional support with tactical pressure. Also available in 简体中文 Uzbekistan: Reform or Repeat? After 25 years of authoritarian rule, Uzbekistan faces unpredictable neighbours, a jihadi threat and deep socio-economic challenges. New President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has taken small steps toward vital domestic and foreign policy reform, and outside partners should push him to do more to avert real dangers ahead. Kyrgyzstan: State Fragility and Radicalisation The rapid rise of alternative interpretations of Islam, often at odds with the state’s concept of traditional identity, are being fueled in part by endemic corruption and perceptions of incompetency. The government must end economic marginalisation and improve inadequate institutions, or risk not just threats to internal security but also the resurfacing of ethnic tensions. Also available in Кыргызча, Русский, 简体中文 and other languages The new Kazakh military doctrine is a clear reference to Ukraine. The Kazakh doctrine is very similar to the doctrine Belarus adopted in 2016, but Minsk was more explicit about learning lessons from Ukraine. EurasiaNet Deirdre Tynan Former Project Director, Central Asia If mishandled, [Kyrgyzstan's] election could shatter [the country's] facade of democracy. A fragile stability is at stake. AFP If the succession process [in Uzbekistan] is less than smooth, there is potential for this to create regional instability, particularly if we look to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Financial Times If the transition [in Uzbekistan] turns to political chaos, the risk of violent conflict is high; and in a region as fragile as Central Asia, the risk of that spreading is also high. Voice of America Op-Ed / Europe & Central Asia 8 December 2017 What Does Kazakhstan’s New Military Doctrine Reveal about Its Relations with Russia? Originally published in Eurasianet Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 10 October 2017 The Domestic Challenge to Kyrgyzstan’s Milestone Election While Kyrgyzstan’s 15 October elections are a rare milestone for Central Asian democracy, the campaign is exposing dangerous fault lines. In the largest city of Osh, the new president will have to face down robust local power brokers, defuse Uzbek-Kyrgyz tensions and re-introduce the rule of law. Briefing / Europe & Central Asia 9 October 2017 Commentary / Asia 2 October 2017 The Twists and Turns along China’s Belt and Road China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative could potentially transform relations with over 60 countries across Eurasia, Africa and beyond. But to bring the concept to fruition, Beijing must overcome mammoth logistical obstacles, navigate fragile political situations and placate growing regional apprehension surrounding its ambitions. Report / Europe & Central Asia 27 July 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2242
__label__cc	0.637451	0.362549	Citizens Fighting Coal Pollution in Downtown Colorado Springs by Sam Masias, Jim Riggins, and Jacqueline Ostrom Lawyers: Law Office of Robert Ukeiley Colorado, United States of America Sam Masias, Jim Riggins, and Jacqueline Ostrom Colorado Springs citizens are requesting the EPA to crack down on high levels of lung damaging sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution from a coal fired power plant in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs. on 22nd May 2017 pledged of $3,000 stretch target from 30 pledges Latest: May 10, 2017 Support is building to protect citizen's lungs from burning coal! Thanks so much to all who have contributed to our fight against burning coal and helping us crack down on high levels of lung damaging Sulfur dioxide emissions! We hope you can spread the word … The pollution from this coal fired power plant, located in the center of Colorado Springs, affects all citizens who live in the path of its plume. Several hundred thousand that is, including 41 schools within a 5 mile radius of the polluting source. Citizens learned of three separate and independent pollution modeling studies, in which all three showed egregious violations of SO2 levels in the air we breathe. The legal limit of 75 parts per billion can damage lungs after just 5 minutes, especially those of young children and the elderly. Yet the models showed levels of 112 to 525 ppb at ground level where people live, or 1.5 to 7 times the legal limit. We reported these studies to the EPA, and over 500 community members signed a petition to the EPA calling for strong action. But instead the EPA designated the pollution as "Unclassifiable" even though all three studies showed Non-compliance with the 2010 National Ambient Air Quality Standards. We are asking the DC Court of Appeals to force the EPA to revisit this air quality designation ruling so that closer oversight is required to reign in the polluting source -- the urban coal fired power plant. Our goal is that Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) shut down the plant whenever the new scrubbers are not running. With the scrubbers, the plant is legal. The scrubbers are not always running, yet CSU continues to run the plant, polluting and damaging our lungs. WE MUST have oversight to prevent this. We have a superb environmental lawyer, who has performed all of his research and preparation work pro-bono, but we need funds for the hard costs to file documents in court, for a plane ticket to DC, hotel, food and expenses for just a couple of days while he presents the case in court. Your help takes us the final step to seek justice and end this pollution affecting citizens' lungs. Get updates about this case Subscribe to receive email updates from the case owner on the latest news about the case. I want to receive updates about this case and other similar cases on the CrowdJustice platform. allan pledged $10 Match allan's pledge of $10 SECRES pledged $200 Match SECRES's pledge of $200 Megan pledged $10 Match Megan's pledge of $10 I will pledge $25 I will pledge $50 I will pledge $75 I will pledge $100 I will pledge $250 I will pledge $500 Your share on Facebook could raise $26 for the case Thanks so much to all who have contributed to our fight against burning coal and helping us crack down on high levels of lung damaging Sulfur dioxide emissions! We hope you can spread the word to others to help us with the hard costs of our legal fees. If we can win our appeal then there will be strict oversight on these damaging emissions. Right now there is no oversight on SO2 emissions, and models have shown levels 7 times the limit! Help us get the oversight we should rightfully have to protect citizens! Make a donation today! This case is currently not accepting new pledges.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2244
__label__wiki	0.929903	0.929903	Turkey shoots down Russian fighter plane near Syria border The fate of the two pilots who ejected from the downed plane is unclear. Turkey had objected last week that Russia was bombing Turkmen rebels in Syria. Haberturk/Reuters TV A combination photo taken from video shows a war plane crashing in flames in a mountainous area in northern Syria after it was shot down by Turkish fighter jets near the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday, November 24, 2015. By Arthur Bright Staff writer @NominallyBright Turkey said it had shot down a Russian jetfighter after it entered Turkish airspace, an incident that realizes one of the major concerns raised over Russia's military intervention in Syria's civil war. Details of the incident are still murky, though both Turkish and Russian officials agree that a Russian Su-24 fighter was indeed shot down over the Turkmen mountains in northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border. The New York Times reports that two Turkish television channels broadcast video showing "a warplane exploding in the air and tumbling down in flames in a wooded area" in Syria. Turkey's army said the Russian fighter entered Turkish airspace several times over a 5 minute period, ignoring multiple warnings, writes Agence France-Presse. In response, Turkish F-16s shot down the fighter. Russian President Vladimir Putin said there would be serious consequences for Russia-Turkish relations. He called it a "stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists." Earlier, Russia's Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the Su-24 was shot down by forces on the ground in Syria. The ministry claimed that the warplane was flying only within Syrian airspace. Regardless of the cause, video of the incident indicates that both pilots parachuted from the jet. Early reports say that one of the two pilots was killed, and his body likely in the hands of anti-Assad rebels, according to the Guardian's live blog on the incident. The status and location of the second pilot remains unclear. NATO has called an extraordinary council meeting at Turkey's request to discuss the incident. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to make a statement later today. The downing of the plane opens a political can of worms that could have major implications for Russia and NATO, of which Turkey is a member. As BBC defense correspondent Jonathan Marcus writes: This is exactly the kind of incident that many have feared since Russia launched its air operations in Syria. The dangers of operating near to the Turkish border have been all too apparent. Turkish planes have already shot down at least one Syrian air force jet and possibly a helicopter as well. Russia insists that its warplane did not violate Turkish air space. So, was the Russian pilot's navigation wrong? Questions will also be asked about the readiness of the Turks to open fire. The New York Times notes that Turkey last week summoned the Russian ambassador to complain about Russia's alleged bombardment of Turkmen villages in the region of Syria where the fighter was shot down. “It was stressed that the Russian side’s actions were not a fight against terror, but they bombed civilian Turkmen villages and this could lead to serious consequences,” a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said. Russia also may have miscalculated, Turkey researcher Aaron Stein told the Guardian. "This is the fourth Russian violation of Turkish airspace since they began airstrikes. Turkey’s rules of engagement are clear and well known. Moscow miscalculated. This is obviously a very serious incident." On the other hand, notes former British ambassador Craig Murray on his blog, the alleged "violations" of Turkish airspace were only seconds long and inconsequential. Referring to a CNNTurk tweet of a screenshot of Turkish radar that allegedly shows the flight of the Russian jet over Turkish territory, Mr. Murray writes that: [The Russian jet] briefly transited a tiny neck of Turkish land – less than two miles across where the Russian jet passed – twice. I calculate that each “incursion” over Turkish territory would have lasted about 10 seconds, assuming the plane was flying slowly at 600mph. That Turkey shot down the plane for this is madness, and absolutely indefensible. It is fairly obvious from the track that the plane was operating against Turkish sponsored Turkmen rebels inside Syria, and that is why the Turks shot it down. Test your knowledge Think you know Turkey? Take our country quiz. Is Russia's intervention in Syria a 'holy war'? Russian Orthodox Church: 'yes' Sinai plane bomb puts Russia in familiar situation: in terrorists' sights Will Islamic State attacks bolster prospects for political solution in Syria?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2252
__label__cc	0.615957	0.384043	About AC Cugini Italian Soccer Academy Virginia (Ages 5-18) Programs in Italy & International Opportunities Training & Coaching Services - US Based Clubs/Teams Italian Soccer Academy Additional Recognition from the Italian National Olympic Committee In 2013, the Italian National Olympic Committee - Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (CONI appointed AC Cugini President Fabio Diletti as international representative of the newly created CONI Servizi division. This rare distinction allows AC Cugini to bring its youth athletes (as well as athletes in other sports) to train and stay at the Italian Olympic Athletes Training Center in Rome. As before, all Cugini members will have the opportunity to participate in exceptional international programming in Italy including tournament play against Italian teams. Development of RES Roma USA Girls Soccer Academy In 2012, Italian professional club RES Roma Calcio Femminile (www.romafemminile.it), the women’s side of powerhouse AS Roma, approached AC Cugini President Fabio Diletti to develop an all girls soccer academy in the United States and serve as its Technical Director. In 2013, AC Cugini launched RES Roma USA, the first organization in America to be affiliated with a professional Italian women’s soccer club. The objective of the all girls academy is to strengthen female player development to prepare athletes for high school play, college level play, or play at the professional level in the United States or Italy. RES Roma USA members ages 17 and older have the opportunity to live and play professional soccer in Italy and, if they choose, also attend the University of Roma, at ½ the cost of U.S. colleges and universities. All players will receive guidance on retaining U.S. college/university athletic scholarship status. The AC Cugini Story AC Cugini is an official Italian soccer academy (scuola calcio) based in Northern Virginia (with facilities in Rome, Italy), committed to providing the BEST soccer training for young soccer players, recreational or travel, in a fun and stimulating environment. AC Cugini believes that excellent training and coaching is THE source for not only bringing out the best soccer skills in each child but for enhancing fine character as well. AC Cugini offers a unique program compared to all other soccer clubs in the Washington DC area and throughout the United States. Our uniqueness stems from being an academy/school first and then a club; being an official ITALIAN soccer acadeny, a rarity in the United States; and having the distinction of being the first and only youth soccer academy in North America sanctioned by the Italian National Olympic Committee (Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano - CONI) and the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC). In addiiton, our coed house league players (ages 6-9) receive training from professional instructors (not parent volunteers) at EVERY practice while our SFL recreational players receive training from professional instructors once a week. As AC Cugini is an academy first and foremost, all AC Cugini coaches and trainers closely follow the same world renowned and successful Italian National Olympic Committee sanctioned player development program, designed to follow a player from age 6 to age 18. So even if a coach or trainer leaves AC Cugini, the training remains consistent and the player’s skills progress without interruption. AC Cugini offers a full complement of licensed coaches and trainers in Virginia and at our training academy in Rome that allows us to bring additional UEFA licensed coaches from Italy to the United States; take teams to Italy for tournaments; offer training for coaches and players year round in Italy; and arrange tryouts for talented players - both male and female - with professional Italian clubs. Commitment to Making Soccer Possible for All While AC Cugini training is unsurpassed, fees are kept low so that this unique soccer opportunity is affordable for all. Also, AC Cugini does not believe that travel teams should only be for those players who can afford the high expense of travel soccer. Therefore, we offer scholarships to residents of Fairfax County with financial need, whether for recreational or travel team membership. We do not leave scholarship decisions to parents on travel teams, the school sets asides funds to be distributed to children with financial need. Cugini officials also worrk with every family who may not qualify for a scholarship yet still needs some from of assistance or special payment arrangemements so no qualified child is ever turned away from particpating on a Cugini travel team. To further the growth of a “soccer academy” environment throughout the United States, AC Cugini opens its training programs in Virginia and Italy to non-member coaches and players. This sharing of knowledge with other U.S. soccer organizations is a strong component of AC Cugini’s philosophy that everyone in the soccer community can benefit from a soccer academy model, which, in turn, strengthens American soccer players, whether they choose to play in the United States or overseas. After coaching youth soccer in Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia, Cugini Founder and President Fabio Diletti, an Italian native who played goalkeeper for professional Italian club Ascoli Calcio (founded in 1898), started his own summer soccer training program in 1999 in Great Falls, VA, that was followed by a winter program. The success of those programs and continued interest from players and their parents led him to create an Italian soccer academy and club modeled after the soccer academies he grew up with and trained at in Italy. In 2000, AC Cugini became a member of the Virginia Youth Soccer Association, U.S. Youth Soccer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, the Old Dominion Soccer League (ODSL) and the Suburban Friendship League (SFL). In 2002, AC Cugini affiliated with professional Italian club AC Perugia - at the time an Italian premier league Serie A club. During Summer 2003, AC Cugini offered its first guest trainer from Italy program with an instructor from AC Perugia. In 2005, the National Capital Soccer League (NCSL) and Washington Area Girls Soccer (WAGS) accepted AC Cugini as a member. Italian National Olympic Committee Award AC Cugini conducted its 1st annual Play Soccer in Italy training and tournament play in June 2001 as part of the academy’s growing international programming. While conducting the 4th annual Play Soccer in Italy program in June 2004, AC Cugini received special recognition from the Italian National Olympic Committee for excellence in international programming and for advancing Italian player development and the scuola calcio program in the United States. During Summer 2003, AC Cugini offered its first annual guest trainer from Italy program in Virginia with an AC Perugia talent scout, who selected 3 Cugini players to try out for AC Perugia in Italy, 2 of whom were selected for AC Perugia’s U13 youth team. In 2004, AC Cugini conducted its 2nd guest trainer program in Virginia with Armando Ciarrocchi, a UEFA-licensed instructor from Rome and professional scout. After the training, 4 Cugini players, whom Ciarrocchi had previously reviewed in Italy, were selected to try out with professional clubs in Rome. One player was invited to join Italian club Cisco Lodigiani’s youth program. Continued Growth & Success During Cugini’s 5th annual Play Soccer in Italy program, AC Cugini’s U10 boys team (with 3 female players) came away tournament champions in their division playing against all Italian teams. In 2005, 2 AC Cugini female players were accepted by professional Italian women’s’ teams. During AC Cugini’s 2007 Play Soccer in Italy tournament, an AC Cugini U16 female player received the tournament’s Most Valuable Player Award - out of all players on 8 boys teams in the division. In 2009, a male Cugini Play Soccer in Italy participant was selected by FC Esperia Viareggio, Italy, where he went to live and play for the club. In 2006, AC Cugini affiliated with ASD-COR 2005 of Rome, Italy, to add to its facilities and enhance training opportunities overseas. In February 2008, Cugini President Fabio Diletti travelled to Florence, Italy, to sign a formal affiliation with Italian premier league club ACF Fiorentina. In June 2008, AC Cugini players participated in their first ACF Fiorentina training camp in Italy. Programs in Italy - International Opportunities Play Soccer n Italy 2019 - Ages 21 & Older Team Coaching/Training / Player Development Consulting AC Cugini History Copyright AC Cugini 2000-2019 AC Cugini Scuola Calcio Great Falls, Virginia 22066	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2253
__label__wiki	0.628684	0.628684	Leaked Apple memo details efforts to stop leaks By Buster Hein • 12:37 pm, April 13, 2018 Apple is cracking down on leaks. Photo: Duncan Sinfield Apple issued a stern warning to employees this week about leaking confidential information to the media. In a leaked memo detailing Apple’s efforts to stop leaks, the company says it caught 29 leakers in 2017. Of those caught, 12 were arrested. Apple told employees they are “getting played” by journalists and bloggers that approach them with flattery in exchange for information. Apple had one of its worst leaks ever in 2017 after an employee sent out a link to the gold master copy of iOS 11 before it was released. The software contained a number of details about the iPhone X and HomePod before they came out. The memo obtained by Bloomberg reveals the employee was quickly discovered and fired. Not only could employees be fired for leaking info, Apple says it could make it very hard for them to get hired by other companies. The memo, posted to Apple’s internal site, says that leaks can hurt sales and give competitors a head start on matching features. Here’s the full Apple leaks memo: Last month, Apple caught and fired the employee responsible for leaking details from an internal, confidential meeting about Apple’s software roadmap. Hundreds of software engineers were in attendance, and thousands more within the organization received details of its proceedings. One person betrayed their trust. The employee who leaked the meeting to a reporter later told Apple investigators that he did it because he thought he wouldn’t be discovered. But people who leak — whether they’re Apple employees, contractors or suppliers — do get caught and they’re getting caught faster than ever. In many cases, leakers don’t set out to leak. Instead, people who work for Apple are often targeted by press, analysts and bloggers who befriend them on professional and social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and begin to pry for information. While it may seem flattering to be approached, it’s important to remember that you’re getting played. The success of these outsiders is measured by obtaining Apple’s secrets from you and making them public. A scoop about an unreleased Apple product can generate massive traffic for a publication and financially benefit the blogger or reporter who broke it. But the Apple employee who leaks has everything to lose. The impact of a leak goes far beyond the people who work on a project. Leaking Apple’s work undermines everyone at Apple and the years they’ve invested in creating Apple products. “Thousands of people work tirelessly for months to deliver each major software release,” says UIKit lead Josh Shaffer, whose team’s work was part of the iOS 11 leak last fall. “Seeing it leak is devastating for all of us.” The impact of a leak goes beyond the people who work on a particular project — it’s felt throughout the company. Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of the current model; give rival companies more time to begin on a competitive response; and lead to fewer sales of that new product when it arrives. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” says Greg Joswiak of Product Marketing. Investments by Apple have had an enormous impact on the company’s ability to identify and catch leakers. Just before last September’s special event, an employee leaked a link to the gold master of iOS 11 to the press, again believing he wouldn’t be caught. The unreleased OS detailed soon-to-be-announced software and hardware including iPhone X. Within days, the leaker was identified through an internal investigation and fired. Global Security’s digital forensics also helped catch several employees who were feeding confidential details about new products including iPhone X, iPad Pro and AirPods to a blogger at 9to5Mac. Leakers in the supply chain are getting caught, too. Global Security has worked hand-in-hand with suppliers to prevent theft of Apple’s intellectual property as well as to identify individuals who try to exceed their access. They’ve also partnered with suppliers to identify vulnerabilities — both physical and technological — and ensure their security levels meet or exceed Apple’s expectations. These programs have nearly eliminated the theft of prototypes and products from factories, caught leakers and prevented many others from leaking in the first place. Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested. Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple’s supply chain. These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere. “The potential criminal consequences of leaking are real,” says Tom Moyer of Global Security, “and that can become part of your personal and professional identity forever.” While they carry serious consequences, leaks are completely avoidable. They are the result of a decision by someone who may not have considered the impact of their actions. “Everyone comes to Apple to do the best work of their lives — work that matters and contributes to what all 135,000 people in this company are doing together,” says Joswiak. “The best way to honor those contributions is by not leaking.” Posted in: News, Top stories Tagged: Apple leaks, Facebook, iOS 11, iPhone X, LinkedIn, Tim Cook, Twitter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2255
__label__cc	0.65537	0.34463	enquirycentre@cumbria.ac.uk Types Of Study CPD & short courses Health CPD Find a course Book an open day Student finance Request a prospectus Accommodation by campus Stanwix Theatre Disability and SpLD Find a course Book an open day Request a prospectus Student Stories Collaborative provision Find a job News search Events Ten Year Anniversary Our PhD programme Funded PhD opportunities PhD Case studies Guidelines for current students Public lectures and seminars Funded PhD opportunities Prospective students Current research students The EDGE Project Developing your business Knowledge and expertise Events and networks Eco-innovation Cumbria Information for apprentices Find a course CPD training Project Management Conferences Choose your level Undergraduate PGCE Postgraduate CPD and short courses Subject Area Art and Design Business Children Families and Community Work Conservation Education Forestry Geography Health and Wellbeing Law Media Arts Midwifery Nursing Outdoor Studies Performing Arts Policing Science Social Science Sport Or type your course here How to turn your passion for sports into a career by Stephen Rowell Our Senior Lecturer, Stephen Rowell, talks about his experience working as a Sports Physiotherapist in Rugby League and Union after a career in the NHS and how his passion for sports drives him in his career. Before joining the University of Cumbria, I worked full-time as a Sports Physiotherapist in professional Rugby League and Union. I am now a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the University of Cumbria. How my love of sports led to a new job After three and a half years working in the NHS, I knew I needed a change and had always thought of a move into sport, particularly rugby as I used to play. I had started a Sports Physiotherapy postgraduate qualification and was doing a lot of voluntary work to try to build my experience before I was successful in getting a full-time role with Hull FC in the Super League. I did receive other offers but chose to go to Hull because I felt I could learn from the staff that worked there. Looking back I think this was important as I learnt so much from the people I was lucky enough to work with. One of the primary things my experience at Hull FC taught me was how my role at the club was completely different from what I had been doing in the NHS. Making the move from the NHS to the Sports industry Moving into the sports industry was a culture shock for me, within 4 weeks I had gone from an Outpatients department in my local hospital to standing pitch-side at the then Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. I loved working in rugby on a full-time basis. I know it wouldn't be for everyone but I enjoyed that you were in a positive environment (except perhaps after a bad loss), working with motivated athletes and other professionals. Also, getting to meet and spend time with other specialists such as surgeons and doctors who were at the top of their game. Another bonus to working in rugby is that the injuries you get to see and manage can be both weird and wonderful! A day in the life of a Sports Physiotherapist I would be lying if I said no two days were the same as there were some patterns of working (at Hull FC and my subsequent role at Newcastle Falcons) depending on what part of the season we were in, but it would be fair to say the challenges you faced could vary on a daily basis. These challenges might be managing players, ensuring they have the right scan or see the best specialist at the most appropriate time and making sure all of the performance and medical teams are reading form the same page. The priority of these challenges could change through different times of the year or different times of the week depending on the fixture list. I think the role of a physiotherapist working in elite sport also brings a lot of pressure, both internally from yourself and externally from athletes and coaches to make the right decisions; but I found working under this pressure only made me better at my job. I would encourage anyone with an interest in sport to pursue this area of Physiotherapy as a career and the opportunities to do so only seem to be growing. Want to explore the campus and meet the Physiotherapy lecturers? Register for one of our upcoming Open Days and delve into life at the University of Cumbria. Everything you need to know about becoming a Paramedic Paramedics have a highly responsible role, regularly being the senior ambulance service healthcare professional in a range of emergency and non-emergency situations. Paramedics are often the first healthcare professional on the scene to aid and assist patients when they are in their most vulnerable need of care provision. Top 5 tips to get into Social Work Deciding to train in a new profession can be daunting. Whether it is your first job, a career change or a logical next step, it can be difficult to know if you're making the best decision. 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__label__cc	0.722045	0.277955	1st domestically developed aircraft wristband keychaincarrier commissioned Personalized Photo Gifts: Are Photos Good Gifts? It"s not hard to see other people with similar content as you do. I feel so well and it appears to me that the thing is definitely overvalued. The best example with regards to a product is a promotional logo mug. Another not so cool thing about the traditional design will be difficult to distinguish you from others, especially to tell the truth in the same office. On the internet rid of the typical successful a cup that you commonly seen in the market and creating your glasses. One thing that there"s always something good want to handle is to be able to custmo gifts. Merely giving a framed photo but this one step better with beautiful engravings, etched details, or a personalised message written on a back corner will make all for this difference. 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President Xi Jinping boards the aircraft carrier Shandong and reviews the guards of honor at a naval port in Sanya, South China"s Hainan province, Dec 17, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] China commissioned CNS Shandong — its second aircraft carrier and the first such ship wholly designed and built in the country — in Sanya, Hainan province, on Tuesday afternoon. President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, took part in the commissioning ceremony for the colossal ship, named after the eastern province of Shandong, at a naval base in the coastal city and personally handed the military flag to Senior Captain Lai Yijun, its commanding officer. The move saw China enter an elite club of world powers that operate multiple carriers. There were previously only three countries with more than one carrier in active service — the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. Before Tuesday, the People"s Liberation Army Navy had a sole carrier — CNS Liaoning — which was originally a Soviet-era vessel and was extensively refitted at the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning province. It went into service in September 2012 and has executed several long-range operations with other warships in its carrier battle group. During the delivery ceremony on Tuesday, Xi also inspected CNS Shandong, which had several J-15 fighter jets on its flight deck. The deployment of the fighter jets on the new carrier was a stark contrast to the first service days of CNS Liaoning, that did not feature any combat aircraft. It also indicates CNS Shandong has likely gained initial operational capability. President Xi Jinping meets with representatives of the aircraft carrier unit and the manufacturer at a naval port in Sanya, South China"s Hainan province, Dec 17, 2019. 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__label__wiki	0.608846	0.608846	Curtis Franklin Jr. Researchers Finds Thousands of iOS Apps Ignoring Security A critical data encryption tool, included by default in iOS, is being turned off in more than two-thirds of popular apps. When a computing platform has a security feature built in, why would a developer decide not to use it? A better question might be, why would more than 20,000 iOS apps be published without an Apple encryption feature that's turned on by default? Those are among the questions researchers at Wandera sought to answer when they analyzed more than 30,000 commonly used iOS apps found in the App Store. They found that App Transport Security (ATS), a set of rules and app extensions Apple provides as part of the Swift development platform, is turned off and not used by a majority of the app developers they saw. Michael Covington, vice president at Wandera, says researchers began looking for answers when they saw critical information being passed in the clear. The company has traditionally looked for any personally identifiable information (PII) going across the network without encryption, he says. "Apple has this framework in place that essentially should be forcing developers to encrypt anything that they sent out on the network, let alone user names, passwords, and credit card numbers," he says. So when Wandera researchers saw information flowing without encryption, they asked, "How were these things making it through?" Covington says. "And that's what led us to ATS." Covington says he believes many developers disable ATS because they feel it will impact app performance. Those concerns, he says, come from legacy servers and mobile devices that had very limited CPUs, but today's systems can easily handle "HTTPS everywhere." Other developers disable ATS because they depend on ad networks for revenue from free apps. Many of those ad networks, including those from Facebook, rely on unencrypted connections. In early versions of ATS, developers could only control the service by turning it on or off. Since iOS 10, though, developers have had the ability to turn it on and off for specific functions within the app. Still, as Wandera researchers point out in their report on the issue, many developers have never changed their practices to use the more granular control available for ATS. While the original research focused on consumer apps, Covington says he's concerned about enterprise apps developed by — or for — large corporations. "One of our customers in pharmaceuticals has about 500 mobile apps that they build and maintain annually," he explains. "Those are the apps that are either being outsourced to third-party developers or are being built in-house where security is not the primary focus." And yet those apps carry very sensitive data on a regular basis. Covington says he expects to see more examples of security events that take advantage of these unencrypted apps. Until Apple or customers force developers to enable encryption for sensitive data transmission in all of their apps, it seems VPNs may be the only way corporations and consumers can be sure their PII remains private. Adware Hidden in Android Apps Downloaded More Than 440 Million Times Focusing on Endpoints: 5 Steps to Fight Cybercrime Commercial Spyware Uses WhatsApp Flaw to Infect Phones Digital Ad-Fraud Losses Decline 'Exodus' iOS Surveillance Software Masqueraded as Legit Apps Curtis Franklin Jr. is Senior Editor at Dark Reading. In this role he focuses on product and technology coverage for the publication. In addition he works on audio and video programming for Dark Reading and contributes to activities at Interop ITX, Black Hat, INsecurity, and ... View Full Bio tonada1962, How to Tell if No ATS So how does a person determine if they have an app that does not use ATS?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2262
__label__wiki	0.996408	0.996408	Jodie Foster was terrified working with Anthony Hopkins on Silence of the Lambs "I never wanted to talk to him." By Ben Lee Daniel Leal-Olivas / PA WirePA Images Jodie Foster has admitted that she was terrified of Anthony Hopkins while she was shooting Silence of the Lambs. Foster and Hopkins both won Academy Awards for the movie, which also won Best Picture, but they rarely spoke on set. "I never spoke to him because he was so scary," she explains on tonight's Graham Norton Show. "The first day, we had a read-through, and by the end of it I never wanted to talk to him again. I was petrified. "We got to the end of the movie and really had never had a conversation. Everett CollectionELLEMEN "I actually avoided him, but on the last day, he came up to me and I said, with tears in my eyes, how scared I was of him. And he said, 'But I was scared of you!'" Foster also admitted that she was jaded by acting at a young age before she worked with Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver. "I'd done a lot of it, and I guess I thought acting was a dumb job because all I ever did was say lines that someone else wrote," she said. "I thought that was a terrible way to make a living, and I couldn't imagine I would do that when I grew up. "But [Scorsese] took me under his wing and taught me how to improvise, and I realised there was more to acting than just saying lines." The Graham Norton Show airs tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One. More From Movies The New Mutants director talks X-Men connection Marvel star talks playing real person in new movie 1917 writer opens up about "blackout" moment New Mutants star didn't want accent to be "cringe" Oscar Isaac for another comic book adaptation Birds of Prey had a TV show you forgot about Why that dark 1917 twist had to happen Tarantino plans Once Upon a Time spin-off TV show Kevin Smith responds to fan complaint Hopkins: 'Blunt is as good as Jodie Foster' 'Silence Of The Lambs' tops thriller poll 'Silence of the Lambs' prequel in works Anthony Hopkins to reprise Lecter role Anthony Hopkins: 'Acting is easy' Anthony Hopkins to star in 'The Rite'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2268
__label__wiki	0.925278	0.925278	Grand Salaam! Eurofighter Flies Off With Saudi Contract Jul 13, 2014 16:32 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff Latest update [?] Malta ferry flight Fleet hits 10,000 flight hours; BAE restructures its Saudi businesses. July 9/14: 10,000 hours. The RSAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon fleet reaches 10,000 flight hours. That’s for the total fleet since 2009, of course, not for each aircraft. Fighters generally have between 6,000 – 10,000 flight hours in them, before replacement is needed. Sources: BAE, “10,000 hrs for Typhoon in Saudi Arabia”. June 30/14: Industrial. BAE and its major Saudi partner Riyadh Wings restructure their local business activities into a single joint venture firm, OMC. BAE will retain 51% of OMC, with more to start, while Riyadh wings share will progressively acquire their way to 49%. The partnership will then control: 96% of Saudi Development and Training (SDT), a technical training outfit that sub-contracts to BAE. 90.6% of International Systems Engineering (ISE), which performs systems engineering development, I.T., and related activities. Just 50% of Advanced Electronics Company (AEC), which performs electronics manufacturing, systems integration and repair and maintenance. AEC works for clients in the defense, telecom, and manufacturing sectors. Saudi businesses account for about $3 billion in BAE’s revenue per year. The new structure is expected to improve efficiencies, while deepening BAE’s local presence. Sources: BAE, “BAE Systems announces enhanced partnership with Riyadh Wings” \| The Telegraph, “BAE restructures its businesses in Saudi Arabia”. Keep reading for the whole story with recent events put in context RSAF Eurofighter (click to view full) In 2005 talks were underway for a Saudi purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 2 advanced air superiority and strike aircraft from Britain’s BAE Systems – with an important (albeit denied) set of conditions on the Saudi side. December 2005 saw confirmation that Saudi Arabia had ordered Eurofighter Typhoons, but the 72-plane deal started sinking into the tar sands shortly thereafter. Investigations from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office swirled around a GBP 43 billion oil-for-planes deal from the 1980s called Al-Yamamah (see Appendix A); in return, the Saudis played some hardball of their own. The investigation was eventually called off at the highest levels of government, and later confirmed by the House of Lords. After a period of uncertainty, a contract was finally signed on Sept 11/07. Ironies aside, the price was a bit lower than many expected; even so, it comes with support arrangements that are likely to push the final value quite a bit higher. This DID Spotlight article covers the Saudi Eurofighter deal, its associated controversies, and related developments. Typhoons Incoming: Contracts and Key Events Final assembly, Warton As an August 2006 BBC article notes, the plan was for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 2 planes to be assembled by BAE in Warton, UK from parts made by all the partners in the Eurofighter consortium. BAE itself makes the front and rear fuselage, while the European defence consortium EADS and Italy’s Alenia build the wings. Other British industrial winners will include jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce (stake in the Eurojet Turbo GmbH consortium), Smiths Group, and Dowty. Saudi companies are also slated to benefit from the contract, as BAE Systems has committed to invest in local Saudi companies, develop an industrial technology transfer plan, and train “thousands” of Saudi nationals to help provide through-life support. BAE currently employs about 4,600 personnel in Saudi Arabia. This new UK-Saudi cooperation program, known as “Project Salaam” involves BAE Systems investment in local Saudi companies, development of an industrial technology plan, logistics support and suitable training for thousands of Saudi nationals who will provide through-life support for the fleet. Overall support will also include substantial logistical and training packages, including the opportunity for RAF and Royal Saudi Air Force aircrews and ground technicians to train alongside each other in the UK. The UK MoD release makes it clear that “Project Salaam” is an expansion of the Al-Yamamah accords (q.v. Appendix A), and The Guardian places its 20-year value at about GBP 20 billion. That rose slightly, as the Saudi signed an addendum in 2014 to upgrade or build their aircraft to the latest Tranche 3 multi-role standard, and set up a local maintenance & spares facility. Upgrade costs resolved at long last. March 25/14: Paveway IV. Saudi Arabia is reportedly buying 500 pound Paveway IV bombs, with dual GPS and laser guidance, to equip its Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon fleets. The GBP 150 million / $250 million purchase comes after long delays, created by American attempts to use its ITAR weapons export procedures for protectionist purposes. The 2010 request was reportedly cleared in February 2014. Deliveries are expected between 2015 – 2017. It’s a timely order, as Britain’s replenishment buys are finishing up after about 4,000 total deliveries to the RAF. Elsewhere in the Gulf, Oman should begin receiving their Eurofighters soon, creating another potential export customer now that there’s a precedent for ITAR clearance. See also “DID’s Paveway-IV coverage“. Feb 19/14: Finalized, finally. Saudi Arabia finalizes their contract for 72 fighters, agreeing on price escalation terms to upgrade their fighters toward Tranche 3 standard (q.v. April 3/12, Feb 21/13, Aug 1/13, Dec 19/13). BAE was very involved in the process, but because the underlying agreement is actually with the British government, the amendment must also be negotiated between the governments involved. BAE had continued Eurofighter deliveries during the long negotiations, which meant rising amounts of cash committed without booking any profits. Clearing this issue up frees BAE to deploy its cash reserves more freely, while also removing a source of uncertainty for potential Gulf Cooperation Council customers. The firm describes the settlement as “broadly consistent with the Group’s prior trading outlook for 2013.” That outlook (q.v. Dec 19/13) estimated a 6-7 pence earnings per share drop without any agreement, or about GBP 250 million (~ $410 million) maximum, based on total shares revealed in a recent transaction. That’s on top of the original GBP 4.43 billion pounds/ $7.4 billion. Sources: BAE Systems, “Agreement on Salam Price Escalation” and “Feb 20/14 Transaction in Own Shares” \| Reuters, “UPDATE 2-BAE Systems agrees pricing on Saudi Eurofighter deal”. Saudi finalization Saudis want upgrades, BAE wants more money for that. no resolution yet; Support deal extended; RSAF deployment update. Zeltweg Air Show, Dec 19/13: A BAE investors release suggests that negotiations with the Saudis over Tranche 3 upgrades may be deadlocked: “BAE Systems and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are actively engaged in negotiations regarding settlement of contractual pricing obligations under the Government to Government Salam Typhoon agreement. Whilst good progress has been made, a definitive agreement has yet to be reached. A timely agreement in the new-year would be reflected in trading for 2013. The Group’s focus in these negotiations continues to be on agreeing appropriate terms and not the timing of such an agreement. As previously announced in October 2013, the Group’s earnings per share guidance for 2013 would be impacted by approximately 6 to 7 pence as a result of these discussions not being concluded in the near term.” That 6-7% adds up to about GBP 250 million off operating profits. The Saudis haven’t been pleased with Britain’s failure to support the Syrian rebels. They were even less pleased when Britain’s government pushed hard for an Iranian nuclear deal that the Saudis regard as both catastrophically stupid and directly threatening. Sources: BAE, “BAE Systems – Status of prospective business in the UAE and Salam pricing discussions” \| The Telegraph, “David Cameron’s Typhoon debacle a sign of Britain’s declining Arabian influence”. Nov 27/13: Testing. Flight tests of the Storm Shadow missile (q.v. Nov 20/13) begin from Alenia Aermacchi’s Flight Test Centre at Decimomannu Air Base, in Sardinia, Italy. Sources: Eurofighter, “Eurofighter Typhoon: Flight tests with Storm Shadow missile started”. Aug 1/13: Mid-2013 Update. BAE’s 2013 Half-Year Results says that deliveries have resumed, with the Saudi fleet up to 28 fighters, construction beginning on new facilities, and pilot training in-country progressing: “Four Typhoon aircraft were delivered in the first half, adding to the initial phase of 24 Typhoon aircraft deliveries between 2009 and the end of 2011…. A [GBP] 0.3bn contract was signed in March for the construction of airfield facilities at King Fahd Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Discussions on the provision of maintenance and upgrade facilities in-Kingdom, and further capability enhancement of the Typhoon aircraft remain ongoing. Under an order received at the end of 2012 to deliver training to the RSAF, the first graduation ceremony of cadets from the King Faisal Air Academy was held in May [2013].” With respect to finalizing terms for Tranche 3 upgrades, BAE’s accompanying presentation cites “good progress,” and says “Significant trading bias to second half anticipated.” Translation: we expect a deal before the end of the year. That will need to be taken care of before BAE can talk about further sales, though they do cite a “KSA B2” opportunity as one of their top prospects. Half-Year Results statement [PDF] and presentation [PDF] \| Daily Mail. June 2013: Support. Saudi Arabia signs an extension to the Salam Typhoon program, and will pay up to GBP 1.8 billion (about $2.771 billion) for support to “through to 2017”. The original agreement was signed as part of the original 2007 deal, but the initial period had lapsed, and it was kept in place through a number of short-term extensions (q.v. Feb 21/13). Source: BAE [PDF]. Support deal extended Feb 21/13: BAE 2012 review. BAE’s end of year investor presentation [PDF] discusses changes in Saudi Arabia, including a contract amendment that formally abandons Saudi plans for a final assembly line in-country. That insistence had been holding up deliveries, and the remaining 48 aircraft will begin arriving in 2013. Meanwhile, work to “expand the multi-role capabilities” of Saudi Typhoons continues. Pricing remains an issue several years after the contract, and the next stage of support contracts is also in long negotiations: “Under the Saudi British Defence Co-operation Programme (SBDCP), orders totalling £3.4bn were awarded for support through to 2016, including the provision of manpower, logistics and training to the RSAF…. The initial three-year Typhoon support contract finished at the end of June and two subsequent six-month extensions have been secured. Discussions continue with the customer on the next five years of support. Discussions on Typhoon price escalation with the Saudi Arabian government remain ongoing. Negotiations are also ongoing for the provision of maintenance and upgrade facilities in-Kingdom, and further capability enhancement of the aircraft.” All 72 assembled in Britain now April 3/12: Amendments? Reuters reports that BAE has signed an agreement in principle to amend the Saudi Eurofighter contract, but is still finalizing some of the key details. As noted in the firm’s 2011 annual report, changes involve Tranche 3 upgrades for the last 48 planes, retrofits of the existing 24 planes, and the creation of a maintenance & upgrade facility. Reuters adds that: “The Saudi royal decree, which was signed off at the end of 2011, releases some 1.5 billion pounds ($2.40 billion) on top of the existing Salam programme commitment for a series of enhancements, BAE said.” March 27/12: BAE’s Chairman of the Board Dick Olver, along with other “company leaders” and Members of the Board, visits King Fahd Air Base in Taif, Saudi Arabia. They were received by air base commander Major General Fayyad Al-Roweily, and a number other senior Royal Saudi Air Force officers. All their release would say is that: “During the visit discussions took place on ways to enhance the prospects for future cooperation in various areas.” March 26/12: BAE 2011 review. BAE systems releases its 2011 Financial Report. The Chief Executive’s Review includes some discussion of the Saudi Typhoon sale: “In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where defence spending remains a high priority and is growing… established core business, including support to Tornado aircraft in service with the Royal Saudi Air Force under the Saudi British Defence Co-operation Programme (SBDCP), continues to deliver good performance, and 24 Typhoon aircraft have been successfully introduced into service under the first phase of the Salam programme. BAE Systems has been in discussions with its customer regarding changes to the Salam programme. The proposed changes relate to final assembly of the last 48 of the 72 Typhoon aircraft, the creation of a maintenance and upgrade facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, initial provisioning for subsequent insertion of Tranche 3 capability in respect of the last 24 aircraft of this order and formalisation of price escalation. Good progress on these discussions has been made in 2011, with budgets approved in the Kingdom in December on all items other than the price escalation where negotiations will now continue into 2012. Budgets have also been established for the next five years of support on the core SBDCP, including an upgrade of the training environment. Formal contracts under these budgets are being progressed.” Feb 1/11: Arabian Aerospace’s “Phoon a friend?” looks at the Typhoon’s initial assessment, the behind the scenes negotiations as the type enters service, and what happened to that rumored follow-on order. RSAF picks IRIS-T SRAAM missiles; Support deals for planes, engines; Handovers begin; A final assembly plant in Saudi Arabia? RSAF rollout Aug 16/10: Saudi Arabia’s Arab News quotes BAE Systems managing director international Guy Griffiths, who says the firm will establish a military aircraft final assembly plant in Saudi Arabia: “We have started training Saudis on Typhoon aircraft assembling at our plant in Warton in order to establish an assembling plant in the Kingdom shortly.” It is inferred that this plant would work on the Eurofighter, but not explicitly stated. By 2013, however, the Saudis had formally backed away from final assembly in-country. Dec 15/09: Engine support. Rolls-Royce announces a pair of 3-year deals with BAE Systems to support the RSAF Typhoon fleet’s EJ200 engines. The contracts will become part of the Salam Support Solution, and Rolls-Royce Defence Aerospace Managing Director Martin Fausset said that: “we have designed this solution using the experience gained supporting the UK’s EJ200 fleet…” Under the terms of the contracts, whose value was not announced, Rolls-Royce and its subsidiary Rolls-Royce Saudi Arabia Limited will lead engine support on behalf of the EUROJET consortium. The Saudis have pushed to maximize in-country work, A key element of the new contracts is that initial in-country support activity on the EJ200 engines will be conducted in Saudi Arabia. This will involve conducting some repairs onsite, but deeper maintenance will still involve preparing engines and modules for transport back to Europe. Oct 12/09: Support. With 4 of 72 Typhoons delivered to the Royal Saudi Air Force, and flying operations commencing, BAE systems announces a detailed 3-year contract for “The Salam Support Solution.” This is a full availability-based service contract, which also includes Saudi pilot training in the UK and training for RSAF maintenance technicians. Britain is already implementing the Typhoon Availability Service (TAS) for its Eurofighter fleet. The deal’s value was not disclosed, but Saudi support contracts tend to be very large due to the wide range of contractor services they request. A 2013 disclosure by BAE placed the value of all their support contracts under the Saudi-British framework at GBP 3.4 billion through 2016. The Typhoon contract ran until 2012, but a pair of 6-month extensions have served as a bridge while BAE negotiates the next 5-year support contract. 3-year support deal Sept 7/09: IRIS-T missiles. Diehl BGT receives an interesting spin-off order for its 5th generation IRIS-T (InfraRed Imaging System – Tail/thrust vector controlled) short range air-air missiles, which will equip Saudi Arabia’s Eurofighter Typhoons and its Tornado strike aircraft. The size of the order was not announced. The Saudis have ordered comparable American AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles for their F-15 fleet, but IRIS-T is a comparable missile that has already been integrated with Tornado and Typhoon aircraft belonging to Germany and Italy, removing the need for that additional work. The Saudis could also have chosen MBDA UK’s AIM-132 ASRAAM, which is integrated on RAF Eurofighters. IRIS-T emerged after Germany pulled out of the joint US-UK-German ASRAAM program. Testing with their “new” East German MiG-29s and AA-11/R-73 Archer SRAAMs led them to believe that ASRAAM’s entire philosophy was wrong, and so they sought to develop their own missile based on the AA-11’s lessons. IRIS-T is being developed by a multinational European consortium, and the missile has now been ordered by Germany, Denmark, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, and Spain among consortium countries; plus small export orders to Austria and South Africa. Saudi Arabia appears to be the first sizable export order beyond the consortium. IRIS-T missiles for Saudi Typhoons June 25/09: Link 16. Data Link Solutions in Cedar Rapids, IA receives a $28.9 million firm-fixed-price delivery order for MIDS-LVT Link 16 terminals. It combines purchases for the USA (45%), Saudi Arabia (15%), Canada (10%), South Korea (8%), Switzerland (6%), Finland (6%), Poland (5%), Japan (4%), and Norway (1%). See Sept 26/08 entry, re: Saudi Arabia’s official DSCA request to equip its new Eurofighter Typhoons. Work will be performed in Wayne, NJ (50%), and Cedar Rapids, IA (50%), and is expected to be complete by December 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $425,983 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This delivery order was competitively procured, with 2 proposals solicited and 2 offers received via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems E-commerce web site, after the synopsis was released via the Federal Business Opportunities web site (N00039-00-D-2100). June 11/09: 1st handover. Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Defense and Aviation Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan formally receives 2 Eurofighter Typhoon jets at a ceremony at BAE Systems’s facility in Warton, UK. Saudi Arabia’s Arab News \| Agence France Presse. 1st Delivery Contracts for planes & engines; Britain stops bribery inquiry; 1st flight. EJ200 cutaway Oct 20/08: 1st flight. BAE Systems flies the first aircraft destined for Saudi Arabia, with a second Saudi aircraft due for completion “in the next few weeks.” A Defense News report adds that: “…the British have yet to secure export approval from Washington for American equipment used in the combat aircraft. The approval remains blocked by U.S. Justice Department investigations into alleged corruption by the British in an earlier aircraft deal with the Saudis.” See: Defense News report \| BAE release. 1st flight Sept 26/08: Link-16 request. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces [PDF] Saudi Arabia’s request for 80 MIDS/LVT-1 terminals for its Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, along with data transfer devices, installation, testing, spare and repair parts, support equipment, personnel training, training equipment, contractor engineering and technical support, and other related elements of program support. The estimated cost is $31 million. The prime contractor will be Data Link Solutions, LLC of Cedar Rapids, IA. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale, and implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any additional U.S. Government or contractor representatives to Saudi Arabia. Aug 10/08: More? Reports are surfacing in the media that the Saudis may be looking for up to 48-72 more Eurofighters from Britain, to add to the 72 already under contract. If true, this would probably add about GBP 4.5-7 billion to the existing contract, along with increased support costs down the road. BAE has called the reports ‘speculative,’ which is true, but it has not denied them. It turned out not to be true, but would have resolved a key issue for Britain. The MoD was already wondering whether it could afford its commitment to buy 88 Eurofighter Tranche 3 aircraft, which offer full multi-role capabilities as well as other enhancements. Selling 48 of these aircraft to the Saudis would go a long way toward resolving its budgetary difficulties. In the end, Britain negotiated its “Tranche 3A” deal with Eurofighter to effectively transfer 48 of those planes to the Saudis anyway. The Times \| Thomson Financial News. July 30/08: Inquiry stopped. Under the British system, the House of Lords is more than just the upper chamber of Parliament – it is also the country’s highest court. The House of Lords unanimously overturned a London High Court decision that said the SFO had acted “unlawfully” in halting its inquiry. In an unusually strong comment, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, the senior peer on the panel, said: “The director’s decision was one he was lawfully entitled to make. It may indeed be doubted whether a responsible decision maker could, on the facts before the director, have decided otherwise.” The ruling renders the British investigation dead for all practical purposes, though there is still a nominal case before the US Department of Justice. The international stakes involved in continuing that investigation have just become immensely higher, however, as it would become a direct, high-level international clash with the British government. That outcome can be considered unlikely. The Times \| The Guardian \| The Independent \| Telegraph op-ed (supportive) \| Guardian op-ed (critical) \| Al Jazeera \| AP \| Agence France Presse \| Bloomberg \| The Hindu. Jan 27/08: The Saudi Arabian Arab News quotes Deputy Minister of Defense and Aviation for Military Affairs Prince Khaled ibn Sultan as saying that the kingdom will receive the first of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 2 aircraft in 2009. Dec 7/07: Engines. Rolls-Royce announces that the Salam Project will be worth up to GBP 1 billion ($2.06 billion) for EJ200 turbofan engines and support. The European EUROJET consortium (owned Rolls Royce 33%, Avio 21%, Industria de Turbo Propulsores 13%, MTU Aero Engines 33%, slightly differing work shares) has overall responsibility for the EJ200, and each Eurofighter Typhoon carries 2 engines. The twin-shaft EJ200 turbofan produces 13,500 pounds thrust, or 20,000 pounds with afterburner. This is not an exceptional thrust rating, but that was not the design objective. Rolls Royce says that the Eurojet EJ200 was designed to be both smaller and simpler in layout than current powerplants of a similar thrust class (esp. PW F100, GE F110), with lower fuel consumption and an exceptional power-to-weight ratio. Rolls Royce produces major components for the EJ200 at sites at Ansty, Derby, Hucknall and Sunderland. Nov 5/07: The latest Typhoon test aircraft IPA6 has made its maiden flight from BAE Systems flight test facility at Warton Aerodrome in Lancashire. The purpose of the New Instrumented Production Aircraft is to prove out the Tranche 2 system design. This will underpin the Type Acceptance process in 2008, leading to the delivery of the first Tranche 2 production aircraft. Later software releases will introduce enhanced capabilities on an incremental basis. The Tranche 2 airframe has been strengthened to carry heavier air to surface weapons and features enhanced main mission computers and upgraded electronics, increasing the aircraft’s multi-role versatility and making it compatible with the next generation of air-air and air-ground weapons. BAE Systems’ release confirms that the 4 Eurofighter partner nations (Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain) and Saudi Arabia will all receive new Eurofighters at the Tranche 2 standard. Oct 28/07: France’s Minister for Defense Herve Morin effectively concedes that the Dassault Rafale sale to Saudi Arabia is dead, derailed by the Eurofighter sale. See “Saudi Rumors of Rafale: Stalled?” for full details, and see “Saudis May Go Russian As France Loses Out” for indications that the biggest problem may have actually been the French approach to the deal. Sept 17/07: Contract announced. All parties formally announce the signing of a contract for 72 Eurofighters. The actual contract was signed on Sept 11/07: “In line with the approval of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and with reference to what was earlier announced about signing an understanding document by the governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom on 7/7/1427 AH, for the development of the Saudi Armed Forces within the framework of the existing close defense relations between the two countries and which include the purchase of 72 Typhoon planes in addition to transference of technology and investment in the field of defense industries in Saudi Arabia as well as training of Saudi citizens in the field of aviation, a contract was signed by the two governments on Tuesday, 29/8/1428 AH for purchase of the mentioned planes at a cost of 4,430 million sterling pound [DID: about $8.86 billion/ EUR 6.5 billion]. It is worth mentioning that the price of one plane is similar to the price of the plane when it is sold to the Royal British Air forces.” A figure that would place the Eurofighter’s per-plane flyaway cost for the RAF at about GBP 61.5 million, or $123.5 million. This is less than the GBP 6 billion deal many were expecting, but maintenance of the Saudi fleet over the next 20 years will raise the deal’s value considerably, and localized maintenance partnerships tend to attract very little scrutiny. Saudi Press Agency \| UK MoD \| Bloomberg \| Financial Times \| The Guardian \| Jerusalem Post \| Finmeccanica (estimates a EUR 2 billion \| $2.77 billion share) \| Society of British Aerospace Companies. Tornado maintenance Sept 11/07: BAE announces that a new training program to produce the first multi-skilled Tornado aircraft technicians for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) is up and running at BAE Systems Warton. The first batch of RSAF students has arrived at BAE Systems’ Technical Training Academy for the final stage of the training program before they return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this program is very likely to serve as a model for the Typhoon effort as well. The idea is to reduce the numerous single-skill vocations currently used to maintain the RSAF Tornado fleet to a set of multi-skilled trades, in line with the RAF’s current approach. A period spent at the Technical Studies Institute in Dhahran is followed by 6 months of English language training; an intensive year at the RAF’s Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering in Cosford, Shropshire; and then the final element of the program at Warton involving a mixture of classroom-based theory and specific on-the-job training, using the academy’s own aircraft. This first batch of students will be equipped with the skills in one of 4 trades – airframe, propulsion, avionics, or electrical; then they return to Saudi Arabia for deployment to an RSAF squadron. The relationship does not end at that point, however, as the student will have an experienced multi-skilled BAE Systems technician trainer on hand to perform consolidation training before he can become a fully qualified, multi-skilled technician. BAE Systems release. The Long Road to the Deal While both BAE and the UK Ministry of Defence kept mum about the precise number of Eurofighters in December 2005, The Financial Times reported that the agreement was understood to be for 48 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, with an option for a further 24 (total: 72). The BBC added that the deal is rumored to be worth more than GBP 6 billion (about $11.7 billion). Government to government “understandings” were signed in August 2006 that appeared to clear the way, but BAE’s recent admission that the deal has stalled, a significant fraud investigation by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office alleging GBP 1 billion in bribes, major public revelations about details of the GBP 40+ billion Al-Yamamah accords, and rumors that the Saudis may be about to buy French Rafale fighters were keeping things very interesting. Eventually, the British formally abandoned all fraud investigations related to Al-Yamamah. They took intense criticism for that decision on many fronts, ranging from the OECD to the USA who opened a Justice Department investigation. The British government has held firm on the matter, however, with no change once Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair to become Britain’s Prime Minister in June 2007. In September 2007, the wait ended, and the deal for 72 aircraft was done. In August 2008, thre House of Lords ended the remaining legal wrangling by ruling that the Serious Fraud Office had the authority to call the investigation off. What follows is a partial timeline whose entries contain additional information of interest. More details and links may be found in Appendix A: Sept 11/07: A deal for 72 Eurofighter Typhoons, and their support arrangements, is concluded. See previous section. July 17/07: The Guardian: “Diplomatic clash looms with US over BAE arms sale investigation.” That American investigation is still technically ongoing, though progress seems very slow. June 27/07: Tony Blair tenders his resignation as Britain’s Prime Minister, per an agreement announced a year earlier. Gordon Brown assumes the job because he is the new leader of the Labour Party, which holds a majority in the House of Commons. June 26/07: The US Justice Department begins its own investigations into the corruption allegations. See: BAE’s position \| Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia and others comment (videos) \| The Guardian \| MarketWatch \| The Times. Dec 15/06: British officials have dropped their fraud investigations related to the Al-Yamamah deal on two grounds. The first set of grounds is that some of the allegations predate the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which extended the pre-existing law of corruption to the bribery of overseas officials. With respect to allegations covering conduct after 2001, the UK Attorney General had this to say: “I have, as is normal practice in any sensitive case, obtained the views of the Prime Minister and the Foreign and Defence Secretaries as to the public interest considerations raised by this investigation. They have expressed the clear view that continuation of the investigation would cause serious damage to UK/Saudi security, intelligence and diplomatic cooperation, which is likely to have seriously negative consequences for the UK public interest in terms of both national security and our highest priority foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. The heads of our security and intelligence agencies and HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia share this assessment…” See Defense Aerospace. French Rafale Dec 6/06: The Business online reports that the Saudi government is in talks to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from the French regardless of how ongoing issues with Eurofighter Typhoon contract are resolved. The Rafale contract would reportedly be in addition to the Eurofighter, not an either-or deal. With support and weapons added in, this could easily be additional $5-15 billion transaction all its own. Nov 30/06: Jane’s Defence Weekly notes that: “BAE Systems has conceded that negotiations regarding the sale of the Eurofighter Typhoon multirole combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia have “not exactly moved apace” in recent weeks. The comment came in response to speculation concerning the future of the agreement – reputedly worth up to GBP36 billion (USD69.3 billion) – which pushed down the UK group’s shares on the London Stock Exchange from GBP414.5 pence on 22 November to GBP386.75 pence at the close of trading on 28 November. Continuing UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigations into BAE, including those relating to contracts for services in connection with defence contracts with the Saudi government, prompted media speculation that the Kingdom might withdraw altogether from talks on the Eurofighter deal.” Nov 19/06 Articles like the Sunday Times “Blair hit by Saudi ‘bribery’ threat” appear in British papers. The reports say the Saudis have threatened to cancel the Al Yamamah contract unless the fraud investigation into Al-Yamamah bribes to Saudi officials is stopped, and notes steps taken in that investigation including legal action to access Swiss bank account information. In general, however, analysts interviewed for other media coverage at this stage tended to doubt that the Al Yamamah orders would be canceled, given BAE’s massive support infrastructure which the Saudis need and could not easily replace. Nonetheless, this certainly reflects increasing tensions. Aug 17/06: A series of announcements are made re: the signing of an “Understanding Document” between the Saudi & UK governments. This is not a contract, but it does set out agreements in principle re: the structure of the program, industrial benefits in Saudi Arabia, etc. A Saudi Government news outlet puts the deal at 72 aircraft. See releases. BAE Systems shares climbed 6% shortly after the news of the contract was released in December 2005, and according to The Independent, the August 17, 2006 news sent their shares up by 3% when it was announced. Dec 21/05: The Saudi and UK governments sign an Understanding Document, which is intended to establish a greater partnership in modernising the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces and developing close service-to-service contacts especially through joint training and exercises. “Under the terms of the signed document Typhoon aircraft will replace Tornado Air Defence Variant aircraft and others currently in service with the RSAF. The details of these arrangements are confidential between the two Governments.” UK MoD Press release (via Eurofighter GmbH) \| BAE Investors Report: Dec 2005 \| China’s Xinhua News covers it. Autumn 2005: BAE refuses to comply when the Serious Fraud Office serves compulsory production notices on the company to obtain details of its secret offshore payments to the Middle East. Source: December 2006 Guardian report. Sept 28/05: The Guardian newspaper reports that Britain has been in secret discussions with Saudi Arabia over a major arms deal that includes the Eurofighter Typhoon, and is said to be worth up to GBP 40 billion (USD $71 billion, EUR 59 billion). Talks are said to be stalling, however, after Riyadh asked for three “tricky” favors. Read “Eurofighters for Saudis? Only with Eurofavours.” November 2004: BAE Systems confirms it is being investigated over the Al-Yamamah deal by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), but strenuously denies any wrongdoing. Appendix A: From Al-Yamamah to Project Salam Tornado F3 ADV Back in December 2005, Britain’s Independent newspaper added more specifics, calling the deal the third phase of the Al-Yamamah oil-for-planes arrangement, which had previously sold the RSAF 48 Tornado IDS/GR1 strike aircraft and 24 Tornado F3 air defense variants in 1989, and another 48 Tornado IDS aircraft in the 1990s: “The Saudis are understood to have ordered a total of 72 Eurofighters to replace older aircraft, including Tornado jets bought in the 1980s and 1990s from BAE under the Al Yamamah arms-for-oil deal. The Eurofighter order in effect amounts to the third phase of the Al Yamamah programme, and marks the first time the aircraft has been bought by any country outside Europe… the deal includes a full package of training, through life support, spares and technology transfer, which will at least double the value of the deal and perhaps increase its value by 150 per cent.” Al-Yamamah added understandings regarding the RSAF’s trainer aircraft fleet, which would include BAE Hawk trainer/ light strike aircraft and PC-9 turboprop trainers and aerobatic aircraft. Those potential orders have yet to be filled, and represent additional potential spinouts from this deal. The controversy around alleged bribes to key Saudi figures in exchange for the Eurofighter deal shone a bright light on Al-Yamamah, which may explain the decision to continue that framework via an updated protocol called “Project Salam” instead. From the Sept 17/07 UK Ministry of Defense release: “As per the 1986 MOU the UK MOD will continue for Project Salam to ensure that all equipment, spares, training and technical work supplied by the main contractor (BAE Systems) are in accordance with Saudi requirements.” In other words, the UK MoD maintains its oversight role, BAE remains to prime contractor, payment remains oil for jets, and the agreement features continued development of the ‘Saudi’ workforce and industrial offsets, as well as long-term maintenance contracts. One is tempted to ask in what meaningful respect “Project Salaam” differs from the Al-Yamamah framework, and whether it would even exist if recent controversies hadn’t turned “Al-Yamamah” into a term both sides wished to bury – even as they seek to keep the relationship alive. Al Yamamah was always far more than an agreement with a defense contractor. It was a bilateral national agreement made at the highest levels of the British and Saudi governments, with BAE Systems serving as the contracted executor. To the Saudis, it was a strategic relationship that would allow them to cultivate two foreign sources for its air force, just as it had done by having American-equipped and French-equipped formations in its army. The agreement wasn’t as strategic to the British, but it did have a national security dimension by cementing cooperation against the Soviet threat. Its huge economic impact on one of the country’s biggest and most important defense firms was more obvious; Britain had sold fighters to the Saudis in the 1960s, but American firms had taken the subsequent contracts in the 1970s and early 1980s (F-5s, F-15C/Ds). These large contracts for BAE would make it far easier for Britain to maintain its own aerospace industrial base. Tornado IDS GR4 Though the foreign policy landscape has undergone a radical shift since the agreement’s inception in the mid-1980s, national security issues are still playing a role in British-Saudi defense agreements. From the Sept 17/07 UK MoD release: “The Governments share key objectives on national security and actions to combat global terrorism.” In the post 9/11 era, Saudi intelligence cooperation on terrorism is cited as a key strategic reason for maintaining special agreements to cement British-Saudi relations. This is somewhat dubious. On the one hand, Saudi intelligence is indeed in position to provide useful information about Al-Qaeda, and may well be doing so. On the other hand, the kingdom and its members are also known for playing both sides. In some cases, this stems from the beliefs of different individuals within a divided oligarchy. There is also a strong belief that the Saudis have pursued a policy designed to export potential trouble, and therefore serve as protection against local attacks. Additional constraints include internal tribal politics, and by the integral role of Salafist Islamic clergy as the second founding pillar of the Saudi state. To this day, significant funding and support for al-Qaeda continues to come from prominent “golden chain” members in Saudi Arabia; and Saudi financing remains vital for many radical Salafist mosques, who act as al-Qaeda’s key global clearing houses and are active recruiters in countries like Pakistan. While the unspoken truce between the Saudi state and its radical ‘enemies’ has frayed considerably over the last couple of years, the term “frenemies” from the popular American TV show “Sex in the City” may well be an apt description of the situation from both al-Qaeda’s perspective and the West’s. “Saudi Arabia continues as an important strategic ally for the United Kingdom in the Middle East, playing a moderating leadership role in promoting regional stability.” Saudi efforts to finance local counterforces to Iran’s proxy warfare in the Mideast region and beyond are rarely mentioned explicitly, and this excerpt from the UK MoD release is a good example. Nevertheless, they have become a defining feature of the current Mideast environment, and from a British perspective they are a clearer-cut and more obvious form of mutual modern interests on the national security front. All of these considerations find themselves inextricably intertwined with British-Saudi defense aerospace deals, alongside a Saudi environment that is widely reported to feature bribes as a matter of course if one wishes to conclude key deals. BAE continues to be a target for investigation in the USA, but the question does arise: if BAE is the executor of a government to government deal in which payoffs were contemplated at the outset, how high does the investigation need to go? Given the reported business culture in Saudi Arabia and the extent of American defense activities there, one may also wonder what the results would be if Britain decided to open an investigation of its own, asking the same questions of the US government and its firms? With BAE Systems’ acquisition of US firm Armor Holdings complete and official, and the sale of 72 Typhoon fighters to Saudi Arabia concluded with a contract, the US Justice Department finds itself sailing into a highly combustible situation with very little ability to make a difference. Its ability to harm America’s relations with both Britain and Saudi Arabia, however, remains intact and considerable. Bloomberg’s Sept 17/07 report features predictions that BAE’s most serious outcome may now be a substantial fine, but adds that even this outcome may be unlikely. The Guardian (Oct 28/06) – The secret Whitehall telegram that reveals truth behind controversial Saudi arms deal. The article asserts that “The MoD documents reveal that the price of each Tornado was inflated by 32%, from GBP 16.3m to GBP 21.5m. It is common in arms deals for the prices of weapons to be raised so that commissions can be skimmed off the top. The GBP 600m involved is the same amount that it was alleged at the time in Arab publications was exacted in secret commissions paid to Saudi royals and their circle of intermediaries in London and Riyadh, as the price of the deal.” Includes original documents mistakenly revealed in a Freedom of Information request: Initial “Al-Yamamah” agreement [PDF] signed by Britain and Saudi Arabia in September 1985 (known formally as a memorandum of understanding). Telegram from Sir Colin Chandler [PDF], the then head of MOD’s arms sales unit, in January 1986. Briefing prepared by the Ministry of Defence for Margaret Thatcher for the Al-Yamamah deal [PDF], September 1985, containing descriptions of key Saudis. Minutes of meeting between then defence secretary Michael Heseltine and Prince Sultan [PDF], in September 1985. BAE Systems – Project AY. Al-Yamamah page, now defunct. 2007 snapshot. BBC (June 26/07) – Timeline: BAE corruption probe. The Guardian (Dec 16/06) – Brutal politics lesson for corruption investigators. Sunday Times (Nov 19/06) – Blair hit by Saudi ‘bribery’ threat. The report says the Saudis threatened to cancel the Al Yamamah contract unless this investigation stopped, and notes steps taken in that investigation including legal action to access Swiss bank account information. In general analysts interviewed for other media coverage at this stage tended to doubt that the Al Yamamah orders would be canceled, given BAE’s massive support infrastructure which the Saudis need and could not easily replace. Nevertheless, this certainly reflects increasing tensions. The Sunday Times (Aug 20/06) – BAE cashes in on GBP 40bn Arab jet deal. “Mike Turner, the plain-speaking chief executive of BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest defence group, let the cat out of the bag at a dinner on the eve of last year’s Paris Air Show. “The objective is to get Typhoon in Saudi Arabia. We have GBP 43 billion from Al-Yamamah over the past 20 years and there could be GBP 40 billion more…” The article pegs the sale at GBP 5.5 billion, with up to GBP 25 billion more for support to 2030. Appendix B: Saudi Arabia: Dependence & Deployment Options (updated) Saudi F-15 refueling This purchase gives Saudi Arabia the most capable air superiority aircraft in its region. It also dovetails with The Saudi Kingdom’s objectives of moving away from its dependence on American weapons. Their “special relationship” has soured somewhat, due to increased scrutiny from both sides of the American political spectrum of the kingdom’s internal practices, and of its role in funding the worldwide spread of violent Salafist Islamism. From a Saudi perspective, the Al-Yamamah agreements have represented an important step toward that goal of reduced dependence. The Independent notes that the Al-Yamamah deal has been worth at least GBP 20 billion since its inception (a figure placed as high as GBP 43 billion by other reports), and has included both types of Tornado aircraft. When the Eurofighter deal was signed, Saudi Arabia operated about 120 Tornado aircraft, including both the strike-optimized Tornado IDS (96 aircraft, Scramble places them within 7, 66, 75 & 83 Squadrons at Dhahran on the east coast), and Tornado F3 ADV long-range interceptors (24 planes in 29 Squadron at Tabuk near Jordan). Given the Eurofighter’s current optimization for an air-air role and the continued usefulness of Saudi Arabia’s Tornado IDS strike aircraft, observers are urged to be cautious about assuming that all Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados will be withdrawn from service as the Eurofighters arrive, as some media reports were suggesting. The December 2005 UK Ministry of Defence release said simply: “Under the terms of the signed document Typhoon aircraft will replace Tornado Air Defence Variant aircraft and others currently in service with the RSAF.” Note the lack of specificity beyond the Tornado F3s. The Eurofighters could serve at least as well as replacements for the 24 Tornado ADVs of 29 Squadron, but those planes have just finished an important set of upgrades. They now carry long-range, stealthy Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which the Eurofighters can’t use until 2015 or later. Until that changes, the Tornado ADVs aren’t going anywhere. Initial Eurofighter deployment has been with 3 Squadron at Taif, slightly inland from Jeddah. 10 Squadron will be activated there as more Eurofighters arrive. Scramble now reports that Taif’s elderly American-built F-5/RF-5 Tiger IIs of 17 Squadron aren’t considered to be operational, which makes 17sq the logical destination for the 3rd Eurofighter squadron set. The RSAF’s 62 Boeing F-15 C/D Eagle air superiority fighters acquired during the 1980s are due for a replacement, and the March 2012 order for 84 F-15SA Strike Eagles will provide a strong strike capability as well. The F-15SAs will be the world’s most advanced F-15s when they’re fielded, though their reign may be short if South Korea decides to field the stealth-enhanced F-15SE Silent Eagle. Saudi Arabia also has 72 F-15S downgraded Strike Eagle variants delivered under the Peace Sun IX contracts, but a December 2011 contract has begun upgrading them to become F-15SAs as well. Appendix C: Analysis – Effects on the Eurofighter’s Export Prospects (updated) SU-30MKI, Typhoon, F3 Although it has not been completely shut out on the export front like the French Rafale, the Eurofighter has also lost its share of potential export orders beyond its initial consortium partners: Australia (F-35 JSF), Czech Republic (JAS-39 Gripen), Greece ( F-16 block 52), The Netherlands (F-35A or JAS-39NG), Norway (F-35A or JAS-39NG), Poland (F-16 block 52), Singapore (F-15SG), and South Korea (F-15K). Austria’s order had been small and inconsequential, so the Saudi order thus provided an important boost for the Eurofighter on the export front. Even so, the length of Saudi coat-tails remains uncertain, given the segmentation of the global fighter market described in DID’s analysis of the Singapore contract decision. As one example, Switzerland picked the medium-cost JAS-39E Gripen NG over the high-cost Rafale or Eurofighter. Western abandonment of the low-end fighter segment has left several major vendors competing for a smaller slice of the global market, which means more intense competition at the market’s high end. Since the Saudi buy, India has picked the Rafale over Eurofighter as its preferred bidder for the MMRCA contract. Brazil didn’t even shortlist the Eurofighter in its (now delayed) F-X2 competition, though the Rafale, Super Hornet, and Gripen all made the cut. Japan has signed a contract to begin replacing its F-4J Phantoms with the F-35A, instead of buying Eurofighters. Phase 3 of South Korea’s F-X competition is still alive, and the Eurofighter is touted as the main competitor against Boeing’s stealth-enhanced F-15SE Silent Eagle. The ROKAF already has a fleet of 60 Strike Eagles, and the prospect of upgrades to an all-SE force make the Eurofighter a dark horse competitor. The Saudi buy is more helpful in the Middle East. Oman took awhile, but 2012 saw them continue their long defense relationship with Britain and buy 12 Eurofighters. BAE’s foothold in Oman and Saudi Arabia gives them a stronger regional attraction within the Gulf Cooperation Council. The Typhoon moved in to become the Rafale’s main competitor for a 60-fighter buy in the UAE, and a win there could have tipped the scales in a number of other local buys. Even without that win, the Eurofighter will remain competitive in Qatar (currently Dassault Mirage 2000-5s) and Kuwait (currently Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornets). Bahrain’s 22 F-16C/Ds were bought in 1987 and 1998, and they have also begun talks concerning a potential buy. Additional Readings Readers with corrections or information to contribute are encouraged to contact editor Joe Katzman. We understand the industry – you will only be publicly recognized if you tell us that it’s OK to do so. Thanks to readers Guy Cramer and Eric for their update tips. Eurofighter Typhoons, & the RSAF DID – Eurofighter: Tranche 3, and Beyond. Explains the Eurofighter’s production arrangements and history, and where the Saudi orders fit in. DID – Saudi TSP: Tornado Upgrades, incl. Storm Shadow’s Stealth Strike. Via a $4.66 billion deal. It’s part of the same overarching relationship with Britain. DID – The Saudis’ American Shopping Spree: F-15s, Helicopters & More. Are the proposed 84 new F-15SAs just price pressure for more Typhoons, or a serious F-15 fleet expansion? Very serious, as it happens, and other Saudi buys will also affect the Typhoon fleet’s operating and training environment. Arabian Aerospace (Jan 21/12) – Bahrain 2012: RSAF driving Typhoon forward. “…Both are ex F-15 Eagle pilots, and though both point out that the F-15 remains an impressive and capable fighter, the Typhoon enjoys a significant and decisive edge.” Arabian Aerospace (Feb 1/11) – Phoon a friend? 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__label__wiki	0.857045	0.857045	Rawls College News RCOBA Home Texas Tech CFO Discusses Keeping Magic in Business November 1, 2018 \| By: Megan Childers As the Rawls Business Leadership Program (RBLP) celebrates its fifth year, the organization has invited leaders from a wide array of backgrounds to campus to speak to students about leadership. Their most recent guest was Noel Sloan, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Administration and Finance at Texas Tech University. In 2014, Sloan stepped into the role of CFO and developed a vision statement with her team to inspire innovative solutions for the Texas Tech University System. She has managed the university's $974.7 million operating budget and successfully contributed to the innovation and growth of the institution. Over the past 5 years, Texas Tech enrollment has increased by 13%, the operating budget has increased by 19.6%, and the endowments have increased by 11%. During her visit with RBLP students, Sloan used Disney quotes to illustrate her personal experiences and guide her discussion about leadership development. "Venture outside your comfort zone, the rewards are worth it"- Rapunzel from Tangled Sloan used Rapunzel's quote to describe her own leap of faith as she moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lubbock, Texas. Initially the decision pushed Sloan outside of her comfort zone, but she describes her time at Texas Tech as very rewarding. She spends her time as a CFO trying to convey these ideas to her team and encourages them to be open with their feedback. Sloan believes every member of the team should feel valuable and important. Sloan invites her team members to lunch on their birthday month and asks what more she can do to support them in both their personal life and their professional career. "I like to continuously learn new things from other people and work in a very approachable, collaborative environment," Sloan said. "It is what motivates me in a job and highlights my core values of what I want in my career." "All it takes is faith and trust"-Peter Pan Sloan reminded students to celebrate other people's success, even if they are experiencing failures. She explained her understanding of how hard it is to have that mentality when you get your first rejection letter while you are hearing your peers get job offers, but she said it is important to remain positive and celebrate other people's successes. "You have a great network here at the Rawls College of Business and the majority of you will end up with great careers," Sloan said. "If you focus on developing relationships with your peers now, it will lead to new opportunities and they could help you in the long-term." "A little consideration, a little thought for others makes all the difference" –Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh Sloan explained that through the stages of your career your mindset will change, what is important is knowing your own strengths and weaknesses in order to build an effective team. She recommends building a team with those who are different from you and have those skills that you are poor at. "As I have progressed in my career I know the importance of working in teams and identifying what everyone has bring to the table," she said. Sloan also believes what you do when no one is watching, knowing your core values, and helping others along are what makes the difference in a true leader. "Change is good"- Rafiki from Lion King Sloan believes the most important relationship you need to solidify is the relationship with your colleagues. She explained that many people only work on the vertical work relationships, and do not spend enough time on the relationships with their direct level colleagues who could help with transitions along the way in your career. "We have to accept that there is never a comfortable place we can grow," said Sloan. "You should always be innovatively thinking, no matter what role you currently have, to lead your team and it is important to find mentors to help guide you." Retired TTU System Chief Financial Offer, Jim Brunjes, mentored Sloan during her early days at Texas Tech. Brunjes told her anyone can be CFO for three years, it is what you do after that makes a difference. "Around the fourth year in your job, you need to show change," Sloan said. "To be a good leader you need to continuously look for change and bring your ideas forward." "The only predictable thing about life is its unpredictability" – Remy, Ratatouille Sloan believes that every step in your career will teach you something new about yourself to get you to your next goal. She reminded students that we never know what opportunities will come along, so it is important to always be open to new things. "My career path has not been as a straight trajectory," said Sloan. "Being a CFO was never on my radar, but I can't say enough how much I love the job and being involved with great people." "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."- Walt Disney As she wrapped up her visit, Sloan reminded students to measure success by their level of happiness, rather than their salary. "I believe if you love what you're doing, work-family balance will come naturally in that role," said Sloan. "If you don't love what you're doing, you will always feel a conflict between your work and personal life." About Noel Sloan: Noel Sloan was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin. After graduating from Baylor University with a bachelor's degree in accounting and completing a juris doctorate degree from Baylor Law School, Sloan moved back to Wisconsin to work at a small law firm. Sloan then went on to work for Arthur Anderson and eventually moved to a large 300 lawyer law firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After her husband received a job offer in Lubbock, Texas, Sloan and her family decided to move to west Texas and she began working at Texas Tech University in 2006 as the Managing Director for Financial Services & Tax. In January of 2014, Sloan took over the CFO role. 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__label__cc	0.568536	0.431464	info@descartes.com \| Contact Us Logistics Technology Platform Routing, Mobile & Telematics Route Execution Telematics & Compliance Carrier Compliance & Rate Management Freight Audit & Settlement Visibility, Tracking & Performance Management Dock Scheduling & Yard Management Retail Distribution Transportation Planning & Execution Logistics Flow Control Customs & Regulatory Compliance Cargo Security Compliance (Security Filings) Declaration and Fiscal Compliance Customs Warehouse Management Ocean Regulatory Services Industry Program Support: CSA, C-TPAT, EU Green Lanes Global Trade Content Global Logistics Network Services Broker & Forwarder Enterprise Systems Forwarder Back Office Brokerage and Declaration Services Transportation & Logistics Services Uniting Logistics-intensive Businesses in Commerce Why Become a Descartes Partner United By Design Partner Program Partner Listing Annual Shareholder Meeting Materials Descartes in the News Customer Service Desk Descartes Education and Training Global User Group Descartes Evolution Logistics and Supply Chain Glossary Return to Job Listings Montreal – QC Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Descartes has over 200,000 parties using its cloud-based services. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; research and perform trade tariff and duty calculations and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multi-modal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com. Reporting to the Director, Software Development working out of our Montreal, Quebec location, the successful incumbent will be a key member of the core Software Development team creating and supporting (internally and externally) the SaaS Platform of software products and services. You will have technical ownership for your functional areas and understanding of customer problems and how they can be turned into solutions, and will be engaged in the research, development, delivery, 3rd line support and systems maintenance processes. The incumbent will also play a key role in assisting other areas of the organization in the successful configuration of message exchanges between its customers. Your responsibilities will be situated in the following domains: Design, develop & test large-scale ETL application for data warehouse application. Key member of the core Software Development team creating and supporting platform of software products and services (Federated Applications Suite and Fully Managed Web Services). Design and build innovative solutions that can solve complex problems in a real-time, high volume transactional multi-tenant SOA/SaaS environment. Work with cross-product, cross-functional teams in a cutting-edge technical environment, constantly pushing the envelope. Technical ownership for your functional areas and understanding of customer problems and how they can be turned into solutions. Ensure accuracy and integrity of data applications through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution. Research, development, delivery, 3rd line support and systems maintenance. Analyze requirements, design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, deploy and document software components using scrum and other agile development methodologies. Perform testing tasks requiring planning, scheduling, developing and testing to ensure that developed products meet design specifications. University degree in Computer Science/Engineering, and 3-5 years of progressive IT experience. Experience in real-time, high volume transactional systems/services and multi-threaded programming. Strong hands-on technical proficiency in the following: Visual Studio, C# .Net, ASP.NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, AJAX, Web Services, HTML, EDI, XML, SOAP. SOA/SaaS software architecture and services design in a multi-tenant environment. Development experience in any of: Infragistics/Telerik .NET controls, VB6, ASP, JavaScript or Crystal Reporting would be considered an asset. Experience in Web Services and applications, object-oriented design, development and database technologies. Passionate and innovative, with a strong sense of accountability and ownership. Commitment to good “clean code” development practices, including source control, bug tracking, object-oriented design, and developer-driven testing. Strong customer satisfaction orientation and understanding of SLAs covering execution, delivery and 3rd line support and maintenance. Fit into an entrepreneurial culture that in a fast-paced and proactive environment. Strong focus on quality, reliability, sustainability and scalability. 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__label__wiki	0.622269	0.622269	Rogers Park & Edgewater 100 Men Found Gambling Around 10 Tables At Unlicensed Casino, Police Say By Mark Schipper \|&nbspSeptember 20, 2016 5:24am @MyTimesProse Isam Solaka, 45, of West Ridge, is accused of having an unlicensed place of amusement, among other charges. DNAinfo/Mark Schipper; Chicago Police WEST RIDGE — Chicago Police checking out a nondescript storefront in West Ridge walked in on an unlicensed, makeshift casino with 100 men playing cards around 10 tables loaded with casino chips, according to a police report. There were also video gambling machines without tax stickers, and food and beer being sold without licenses, the report said. The setup was found at 10 p.m. Sept. 11 behind a mirrored entrance at 5801 N. Lincoln Avenue, police said. The storefront sits in a strip mall between a spa and a tailor shop. Officers walked through the store’s open doors and found the temporary gambling floor. There were piles of chips stacked in front of players or pushed into the middle of the tables, dealers flipping cards across the baize-covered tops, and men playing cards, according to the report. Officers noted a bar with opened beer bottles and signs advertising the sale of alcohol and food. Behind the bar, a cash register rested atop an ice-filled cooler that held bottles of beer for sale, according to the report. Isam Solaka, 45, identified himself as the manager of the storefront, police said. According to officers, he told them the licenses for the store were kept in back, but when he walked them to the back of the shop, police found three video gaming devices offering payouts without either a state or city tax sticker affixed to the machines. Police said Solaka could not produce state or city licenses to sell food or beverages, or proof of charter for a city social club, and was taken into custody for violating the city’s liquor laws. Solaka’s charges were upgraded later to include failing to meet food licensing requirements, failing to license a public place of amusement, and three individual charges for operating unlicensed automatic amusement devices, according to the Police Department. Officers documented the scene in photographs for detectives, according to the report. The store’s front entrance, four days after the incident, was little more than a glass facade with the address painted in stark white lettering above the door. A vestibule inside the entrance was closed in by mirrored glass, reflecting Lincoln Avenue in front of it and allowing no view of the space behind. A sign with "BYOB" in bold lettering hung on the vestibule door. A sheet of paper with black lettering identifying the spot as “Chicago Palm” was taped inside the main door. Another sign indicates the spot was open seven days a week from 5 p.m to 2 a.m. Next in Rogers Park & Edgewater Teen Refugee Fled To Chicago, Got Shot Here For Not Joining Gang: Alderman Chance, Gloria Estefan, Aziz Ansari, Nas Close Out Obama Summit Brace Yourself: Chicago's 'Hawk' Winter Wind Turns 50 'Army Of Moms' Will Form A Group In Rogers Park Sample Craft Cocktails While Making Arts And Crafts In Edgewater Pot Sandwich Smuggling Brings 3-Year Sentence For Ex-County Jail Inmate City Still Epically Failing At Recycling, But Officials Vow To Do Better North Side State Sen. Ira Silverstein Accused of Sexual Harassment Roseland » Bronzeville » Top Cop Eddie Johnson Spins Tall Tales While Trying To Earn Chicago's Trust Brighton Park » When Is Spring Break For Chicago Public Schools? Portage Park » Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital Sold, Will Remain Open, CEO Says	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2282
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We've won multiple eLearning awards year-after-year. See how we've helped customers succeed. Here's the latest things happening at dominKnow. We partner with many of the best eLearning providers globally. How to Create eLearning Content Efficiently Paul Schneider, PhD There’s more than one way to skin a cat and there’s more than one way to create eLearning. As most organizations look to automate and improve efficiencies in all aspects of their business, many neglect the importance of doing the same with their learning programs. Keep reading to learn about the benefits and best practices that high-performing L&D teams use to optimize and automate the way they build eLearning to drive business value, build high performing teams, and deliver great learning experiences. Delivering Business Value The value of creating eLearning content efficiently stretches beyond the training department and is critical to business and employee success. Efficient content creation will improve the overall effectiveness of the entire organization by: Developing Business Agility Having an efficient learning program means that your business is well-positioned to quickly make any necessary adjustments as a result of market conditions or changes in the business. This can come in the form of improving support to customers, changes to processes, and any other important factors that require immediate knowledge transfer to improve business outcomes. Enabling Learners It's no surprise that enabling learners is a key benefit since this is the main goal of most learning programs. However, doing so efficiently with the most up-to-date, relevant and personalized training can mean your learners achieve a greater level of understanding and improved productivity so they can spend more time doing their jobs effectively. Cutting Costs (Saving Money) Like most companies, you’re always under pressure to cut costs and ultimately save money for the business. An efficient learning program and development process will accelerate projects and require fewer resources. Benefits of Creating eLearning Content Efficiently Automating Development and Delivery We’re currently at the beginning of the age of automation. Everything we do is being automated, from buying groceries to driving a car. To be successful with automation, every piece of information needs to be organized in an understandable and standardized format so that all your content works together as one. In the world of eLearning, this means organizing your content in one central location. Sometimes referred to as a Learning Content Management System or cloud-based authoring tools that utilize a central library, most often cloud-based as a public, private, or hybrid solution. It’s important to understand that when you make the decision to automate and manage content development and delivery, you’re undertaking what could be a substantial shift in the way you develop content. And while great technology and tools can go a long way, it will take more than technology to make a successful transition. This may require but not be limited to, creating new processes for developing eLearning, training and applying a change management strategy to ensure a successful transition and take advantage of the technology. Managing Content Centrally Many organizations still have content creators and teams that lock content away on servers or on their own hard drives. Content that sits in desktop folders and shared drives rely on people to follow proper processes to ensure content is up-to-date, accessible, backed up, and secure. In this scenario, applying permissions, managing access to content, tracking versions, ensuring files are properly backed up, and making updates can be a nightmare. Organizations have much more flexibility and greater control over their content when authors store all learning assets to a central location. When content is stored centrally and integrated with a content management system, these problems are easily prevented, provided each team member understands the value of placing content at the center of your learning strategy. Protecting Company Assets and Retaining Knowledge You won't find a salesperson that doesn't use a CRM System (Customer Relationship Management) to gather and store all prospect and customer information. Companies pay salespeople well to collect this intelligence. If a salesperson were to move to another company without this crucial information stored in a CRM, years of work can walk out the door along with them. The same can be said for training assets and expert knowledge that can be found within your training content. What happens if an employee leaves the company or their computer crashes? Could this employee leave with the information or delete it? Is there a backup strategy in place? If you've ever had a consultant or outside subject matter expert (SME) work on an eLearning project or ever plan to, then this is something that needs to be considered. Companies need to ensure that these assets are protected and stay with the company. You can’t build content efficiently if you can’t find it. Storing content centrally solves this problem by ensuring all your content is developed using one system that is accessible and easily found. Security, Permissions and Roles Learning content like most content can contain sensitive information that needs to be limited to the right people. It’s equally important that the right roles are provided to the right people when the content is being created so that someone can’t inadvertently make a mistake. Mistakes like these cost time and money and produce headaches, not efficiencies. Most modern systems will provide a robust set of permissions and roles by projects that ensure the right people are working on the right content. Many will also allow you to manage versions so that in the event that individual pages of content are overwritten, changed, or deleted, you will be able to undelete and roll back to a previous version. eLearning Standards Any company that's creating eLearning, and has a lot of learners is most certainly using a Learning Management System (LMS) for administration, tracking, documentation, and reporting. Not to be confused with a Learning Content Management System (LCMS), which is generally reserved for creating and managing learning content. Once content is created it is generally launched from within the LMS. In order for the LMS and content to communicate, they follow an eLearning standard or specification such as SCORM, xAPI, or AICC. The content is packaged and sent to the LMS for delivery. By following a consistent set of standards when communicating with your LMS, you can alleviate any deliverability and tracking issues that could arise. Updating Content and Managing Versions Today’s learning organizations must adjust to the rapidly changing content requirements of their audiences. Whether it’s evolving regulations, product updates, or changing business drivers, training departments must deliver content that is relevant and useful — with little or no delay. With content managed centrally, you can update a content element once, and that content then replicates on each and every ‘page’ in which is it presented. Compare this to the task of updating a logo on the “master slide” in PowerPoint and having it replicate on the header of each slide versus having to go into each slide and make the change. Now imagine the productivity benefits of having that power to manage all course content. On the other side, imagine having to manually edit in hundreds or thousands of places. Leveraging Better Data Understanding how your learners use and interact with training is a modern and often overlooked way to create content efficiently. Imagine you invested the time and money in a series of 10-minute videos and created 100s of these videos and only later learned that 80% of them were never viewed past the first 30 seconds. This would mean a lot of time and money wasted for no real value. That's the power of data and understanding how to better create the right content for the right moment of need. Without this data, you may never know. Having a lot of data about your users and how they interact with your content is great but only if you can make sense of the data. By storing your content in a central location you'll ensure that each piece of content was created, stored, and provides consistent data that can be leveraged to gain a better understanding about your learners and how best to improve knowledge transfer. Something every organization should consider planning for is the inevitability that your business and learning program will grow. As you grow, so to will: The amount of content that needs to be managed, including courses, job-aids, images, audio, video, and much more. The number of authors, subject manager experts (SMEs), reviewers, and other stakeholders. The number of regions and languages where your content will be delivered Additional requirements for other types of content. The need to continually revise and update content across hundreds or even thousands of courses. While some tools will be great and work well in the beginning, they simply won't scale as your company and learning program grows. Getting Started Creating Efficiently Questions to Ask Before Beginning a New Project: There are many things that should be considered before a new project begins and proper planning in advance of any new project can save substantial time and money down the road. Here are some things to consider at the start of a new project: Do we have any existing materials that we can leverage in our new project within our own department or other departments within our organization? How can we create new content that can be applied to future projects? How can we create content to accelerate knowledge transfer? Can we apply assessments to understand existing knowledge or make some content optional? Can or will this content be used for other training applications such as partner and customer training? Can content be used for different delivery formats such as instructor-led training, product guides, presentations, course manuals, or print materials? If content was packaged in a different way could it be used by Sales, Marketing or other departments and create additional efficiencies across the organization? Audit Existing Content If you’ve already gone eLearning and have content have content hiding in different parts of your organization, then you’re going to want to do an audit to see where things stand. This may include, but no be limited to: Understanding what eLearning courses or other types of digital learning content, are actively being used or in production. Understanding the purpose of each piece of content. Understanding what group is responsible for each piece of content. Understanding what outside consultants were involved in projects. Understanding the audience for each piece of content. Understanding what region or language each piece of content is being used for. With all these factors considered, you’ll be in a better position to organize the content going forward. Taking special care to do this audit and organize the content properly will pay dividends down the road when you’re scaling your learning. Project Management and Managing the Lifecycle of your Content As with any project, an eLearning project should be well defined with processes, deliverables, budgets, assignments, and timelines in place to ensure your projects stay on task and on time. You may already have existing methodologies in place that you can leverage with some authoring systems that have built-in tools to help you manage people and projects in the same system. Some common steps in the lifecycle of eLearning development can include: Content Gathering Alpha build and review Beta build and review Revision cycle Final review To really optimize the way you create content, understanding which phase of the lifecycle a course is in, how long it takes to move between lifecycles, managing when to update content, and how content reuse is leveraged, are all important factors to improving the development process, reducing duplication, and eliminating bottlenecks. Many systems will track and report on these areas, and allow teams to continually improve the way they develop content. When done properly, management integrated with your authoring system can lead to dramatic improvements in efficiency. Collaboration and Review Almost every eLearning project involves multiple team members, and while there are still content developers that work alone, team-based development models have become the norm because they can leverage the collective skills and expertise of many team members. Many organizations struggle to produce rapid learning, due largely to the time needed to gather content from SMEs and manage review cycles. By adopting a collaborative, cloud-based workspace where all writing, editing and reviewer comments are input and available in one place, a content production team can greatly reduce the time needed for production. Imagine eliminating the need for amalgamating multiple versions of tracked changes in a word processing document, or worse, having each reviewer try to describe their edits in an e-mail. More advanced workflow functionality comes complete with the ability to automatically notify team members of assigned tasks. To make the most of the time and dollars spent on learning programs, all learning stakeholders (authors, subject matter experts, sponsors) need to be able to easily engage in the development process. Without effective collaboration and review workflows, it's common to experience prolonged projects, unnecessary meetings, uncertain tasks, and confusion over versions. Built-in collaborative workflow and reviews can: Reduce or eliminate confusion having everything organized in one place. Accelerate the development process. Easily identify all feedback in one place Allows multiple authors/contributors to work on a project at the same time. Provide project workflow to allow for collaborative content authoring and controlled review, edits, and publishing cycles. Allows the project manager to assign roles, assign tasks, send notifications, set deadlines, track changes and provide reporting on the status of a project. Easily add new reviewers that can provide feedback through a simple interface that doesn't require any experience with the tool. Like any project, an eLearning project's success and speed of development can be greatly affected by collaboration. And while there is no replacement for proper project management methodologies and processes, a good tool will enable your team to work effectively and efficiently together. Leveraging Single-Source, Multi-Purpose Content Stuck in inflexible pages, much of today’s learning content remains trapped in traditional formal vehicles like eLearning courses or presentations. As a result, learning content and the time and effort that goes into it is often poorly leveraged. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Organizations are understanding the importance content plays as a competitive differentiator and are using tools and processes that allow them to gather, create, organize, disperse, and re-use learning content in multiple ways, across multiple learning vehicles, and devices. These tools leverage the central management of content, learning objects and other assets to support the creation of single-source, multi-purpose content for both formal and informal learning experiences for different moments of need: Web content and information oriented materials available anytime anywhere on demand Presentation-oriented content used to facilitate instructor-led events Printable versions of content for quick guides and use in areas where electronic devices aren't appropriate Supporting materials for before, after and during instructor-led events Performance support portals for searchable access to content on demand Formal learning content in an LMS Mobile ready content for offline access Micro learning exercises, with content broken into smaller chunks enabling on the job learning programs Content that takes advantage of content managed centrally, resides in a database. Each content object is tagged and stored as a unit of information that can be pulled into different themes and templates to create these different learning experiences. This is one of the most powerful ways to gain efficiency while creating different types of content for different moments of learner needs. Reusing and Updating Content Reusing content is a fast way to create new content or use existing content for a different purpose. No matter how new a course may be, there's often elements of another piece of content that can be reused from another pre-existing source. It’s relatively easy if there are only a few content developers who share files, but it can be quite complex with numerous developers and courses. Especially if this content resides on a network, PC, or in an unknown location. Content often changes over time, requiring manual re-entry. Something as simple as a logo update or a policy change can affect hundreds or more versions of a course, requiring hours of manual updates. With a system that manages all of your content together, this can mean minutes instead of hours. Manually locating and updating content defeats the point of reuse. Saving time, reducing rework, and sharing learning content across all projects are pivotal to efficiency and the pillar of cloud-based systems. Asset libraries promote flexible keyword tags and categorization, ensuring that content is consistent, logical, and easily searchable. Updating content one time results in automatic updates in every location. With this content-centered approach, learning objects exist in a central repository where authors can reuse, repurpose, and share content to quickly create new content and eliminate duplication of work. Asset reuse generally involves: Centralizing storage of media files Simplifying update processes Content is created and stored as reusable learning object components: Learning content Images, Video, and Audio Disclaimers, etc... You'll need your training team to completely buy into the strategic value of content reuse and once your strategy is in place, you need to educate the rest of the organization on the possibilities that exist. To illustrate, in most organizations the training department or decentralized training group has little influence to create a new product offering. They may not see the opportunity to create new content by converting learning content for internal staff to content for customers/partners. You may need to be the champion for change in your organization. Serving Multiple Audience Needs If you're already creating content for global audiences, you know the challenges this can present when creating, managing, and updating content for different regions and different languages. And, if you're planning to expand your training program as your business grows, then you'll want to plan for it. Choosing the right system that takes advantage of centrally managed content will allow you to organize your content, manage versions, and enable your translation team to easily work together as part of the content development process. Content is organized hierarchically based on master versions and localized versions enabling for easier management of your overall program and the ability to reuse elements (ex: graphics) that don't need to be localized. If you want to create a new version, you'll still be able to manage the core content and easily make updates to images, logos, buttons etc, without having to make changes to individual courses. Building Modularized Training Creating modularized training means creating content in smaller bite-sized chunks that can function independently, or by taking existing longer form content and chopping it into individual chunks. Whereas traditional long-form content can take a scaffolded approach as one piece of content is dependant on the other. The idea of modularized training has been around for years as is another model often used to explain how the majority of learning comes from on-the-job experience, known as the 70-20-10 model. The 70-20-10 model is the reality that most learning (70%) comes from on the job experience, (20%) from developmental or social learning, and (10%) from informal training that has been organized. On the job experiences and social learning benefit greatly from having the appropriate information and content to support these experiences, but traditional designs and deployments don't typically meet this need. The modularized approach can help authors tap into this additional 90% of learning that happens through the creation of informal learning that is smaller, just-in-time learning which can be deployed in an on-demand searchable format that doesn't disrupt the normal flow of work like formal training can. There are several reasons why this approach is more efficient and effective: Flexibility to use content for formal or informal training. Ability to adapt training to different audiences and groups. Smaller chunks of content can be easily assembled and deployed quickly without having to start from scratch. Smaller chunks of content are digestible and more suited for solving a specific problem versus detailed objectives and information, making it easier to create multiple types of informal training. Content is easier to share when it's in a smaller format. Modularized content can allow users to pick and choose from more specific areas of focus without being forced through more content than required. Content can be updated and revised without pulling existing content offline. Again, it's important to plan in advance and take a wider view of other existing or future requirements that could take advantage of this approach. Creating Responsive Content With more and more learners using mobile devices or switching between different devices for learning, the need for authors to design responsively isn't just a trend, it's a must. Not only does content created responsively improve learning experiences across all device types and screen sizes, but also means that authors only need to create content once. This can improve efficiency and the time it takes to design content since responsive content adapts seamlessly across different devices like smartphones, tablets, and desktops. Whereas, a traditional formal course may only be optimized for desktop screens. Further, responsive design opens up countless new ways of designing content that better fits the needs of informal learning situations and micro learning. Of course, when it comes to designing responsive content, designers are dealing with a different set of rules compared to the traditional course or slides-based approach. Here are some factors to consider: Pages work as a fluid grid (not exact positioning, as there are no traditional layering designs). Design for the smallest size screen first. Use flexible images that are appropriate for different device widths. Optimize images for quicker loading time. Only include essential information and simplified navigation. Ensure buttons are large enough to click. Making sure interactions can be easily performed on the smallest device. Open yourself to designing longer content pages, searchable topic-oriented designs, and leveraging new possibilities for content approaches responsive design offers. Using Standardized Themes/Templates Creating standardized themes and templates is another way to create efficiencies as well as keeping content consistent and following brand guidelines. Companies can create different templates for different purposes so that there is more than one design depending on how the content is to be used. Standardized themes and templates allow authors to quickly get started while keeping a consistent look and feel with branding associated with their organization. Organizations can create baselines of templates and themes and target them towards different teams so they get a jump start on their content development and retain the consistent approach preferred by the organization. Be careful your content doesn't get stale and be sure revisit your templates at least 1-2 times per year. Final Thoughts: It’s About Creating Great Learning Experiences How your organization gathers, creates, organizes and disperses content to support its business, training, and individual goals can mean the difference between market leadership and failure. Keep in mind that it’s not just about creating great eLearning, it’s about building and sharing great learning experiences and maximizing your content use and value throughout the organization and across departments. No matter what method you use to create your training or how efficiently you create it, it’s all about creating great learning experiences. So, at the end of the day if the learning experience is poor or incorrectly targeted, then no amount of efficiencies will help. 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__label__wiki	0.852104	0.852104	CHIPS Articles: Researchers develop technique to locate robots, Soldiers in GPS-challenged environments Researchers develop technique to locate robots, Soldiers in GPS-challenged environments By ARL Public Affairs - October 18, 2018 ADELPHI, Md. -- Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a novel algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where GPS is unavailable. According to ARL researchers Gunjan Verma and Dr. Fikadu Dagefu, the Army needs to be able to localize agents operating in physically complex, unknown and infrastructure-poor environments. "This capability is critical to help find dismounted Soldiers and for humans and robotic agents to team together effectively," Verma said. "In most civilian applications, solutions such as GPS work well for this task, and help us, for example, navigate to a destination via our car." However, such solutions are not suitable for the military environment, the researchers noted. "For example, an adversary may destroy the infrastructure (e.g. satellites) needed for GPS; alternatively, complex environments (e.g. inside a building) are hard for the GPS signal to penetrate," Dagefu said. "This is because complex and cluttered environments impede the straight-line propagation of wireless signals." Dagefu said that obstacles inside the building, especially when their size is much larger than the wavelength of the wireless signal, weaken the power of the signal (attenuation) and re-direct its flow (called multipath), making a wireless signal very unreliable for communicating information about location. According to the researchers, typical approaches to localization, which use a wireless signal's power or delay (i.e. how long it takes to reach a target from a source), work well in outdoor scenes with minimal obstacles; however, they perform poorly in obstacle-rich scenes. The team of ARL scientists, including Dagefu and Verma, developed a novel technique for determining the direction of arrival, or DoA, of a radio frequency signal source, which is a fundamental enabler of localization. "The proposed technique is robust to multiple scattering effects, unlike existing methods such as those that rely on the phase or time of arrival of the signal to estimate the DoA," Verma said. "This means even in the presence of occluders that scatter the signal in different directions before it is received by the receiver, the proposed approach can accurately estimate the direction of the source." The underlying idea is that the gradient of the spatially sampled received signal strength, or RSS, carries information about the source direction. "Extracting the DoA requires a theoretically grounded analysis to obtain a robust estimator in the presence of undesirable propagation phenomena," Verma said. "For example, large obstacles cause the RSS samples nearby to become highly correlated (so-called 'correlated shadowing'). If left uncorrected, this correlation can seriously bias the DoA estimate." The key invention, according to the researchers, is an algorithm that statistically models the RSS gradient and controls for spatial outliers and correlations. Importantly, when the signal is extremely noisy, the estimator correctly outputs that no DoA is present, rather than incorrectly estimating an arbitrary direction. The output is an estimated DoA and associated uncertainty. The researchers have validated the approach with several publicly available, as well as in-house collected measurement datasets, at 40MHz and 2.4GHz bands, and data from high fidelity simulations. The technique works in conditions of heavy multipath in which classical phase- or time of arrival-based estimates would fail. In addition to not requiring any fixed infrastructure, the proposed technique also does not rely on any prior training data, knowledge about the environment, multiple antennas, or prior calibration between nodes. A journal paper documenting the research has been accepted for publication in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Vehicular Technology. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to ensure decisive overmatch for unified land operations to empower the Army, the joint warfighter and our nation. RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. • Army Research Lab • RDECOM • Army News Service • ARCYBER TAGS: InfoSharing, Spectrum, Telecommunications, Wireless A team of Army scientists found a technique for determining the direction of arrival of a radio frequency signal source, which is a fundamental enabler of localization. U.S. Army illustration U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists Dr. Fikadu Dagefu (left) and Gunjan Verma (right) pose with one of the robots used to validate a new algorithm they developed, which enables localization of humans and robots indoors or in areas with many obstacles where GPS signals are likely to be unavailable. 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__label__wiki	0.773249	0.773249	Update of a comparative analysis of cost minimization following the introduction of newly available intravenous iron therapies in hospital practice Authors Bhandari S Published 12 December 2011 Volume 2011:7 Pages 501—509 Sunil Bhandari Department of Renal Medicine, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Hull York Medical School, Kingston upon Hull, UK Background: The clinical need to be able to administer high doses of intravenous iron conveniently as a rapid infusion has been addressed by the recent introduction of ferric carboxymaltose and subsequently iron isomaltoside 1000. Neither requires a test dose. The maximum dose of ferric carboxymaltose is 1000 mg. The maximum dose of iron isomaltoside 1000 is based on 20 mg/kg body weight without a specified ceiling dose, thereby increasing the scope of being able to achieve total iron repletion with a single infusion. This ability to give high doses of iron is important in the context of managing iron deficiency anemia, which is associated with a number of clinical conditions where demands for iron are high. It is also an important component of the strategy as an alternative to blood transfusion. Affordability is a key issue for health services. Recent price changes affecting iron sucrose and ferric carboxymaltose, plus modifications to the manufacturers’ prescribing information, have provoked this update. Methods: This study is a comparative analysis of the costs of acquiring and administering the newly available intravenous iron formulations against standard treatments in the hospital setting. The costs include the medication, nursing costs, equipment, and patient transportation. Three dosage levels (600 mg, 1000 mg, and 1600 mg) are considered. Results and conclusion: The traditional standard treatments, blood and iron sucrose, cost more than the alternative intravenous iron preparations across the dose spectrum and sensitivities. Low molecular weight iron dextran is the least expensive option at the 1600 mg dose level but has the caveat of a prolonged administration time and requirement for a test dose. At 600 mg and 1000 mg dose levels, both iron isomaltoside 1000 and ferric carboxymaltose are more economical than low molecular weight iron dextran. Iron isomaltoside 1000 is less expensive than ferric carboxymaltose at all dose levels. Newly available iron preparations appear to be clinically promising, cost effective, and practical alternatives to current standards of iron repletion. Keywords: iron isomaltoside 1000, ferric carboxymaltose, iron deficiency anemia, single high dose, IV iron, cost minimization	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2288
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__label__cc	0.514006	0.485994	Career Expos / Job Fairs Job Hunting in Arkansas Registered Apprenticeship for Job Seekers Arkansas New Hire Registry UI Employer Services Employer UI Information Registered Apprenticeship for Employers How to File a UI Claim UI Claimant Forms Trade Readjustment Allowances Disaster UI Assistance ADWS DUA News Release Reporting UI Fraud EZARC ARKNET Career Readiness Certification Dislocated Worker Taskforce Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Workforce Innovation (WIOA) WIOA Local Connections Local Workforce Development Board Meeting Dates Arkansas Workforce Development Board Meeting Dates WIOA Partners and Programs WIOA Public Notice WIOA Partners Meetings Workforce Service Regulations ADWS Workforce Services Regulations ADWS Workforce Services Regulations ADWS News Release Archive ADWS Annual Report Archive ADWS Public Notice News Release Arkansas Workforce Challenge Scholarship In-Demand Occupations Report for 2020 Apprenticeship News About ADWS Report UI Fraud ADWS Workforce Services Regulations < Previous Regulations STATE OF ARKANSAS WORKFORCE SERVICES REGULATIONS AS AMENDED WITH REVISED STATUTES ANNOTATED Regulation No. 11 CONTRIBUTION RATES, VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS AND ELECTION OF ANNUAL PAYROLL This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-218 and 219; and 11-10-704, 705, 707 and 708 to read as follows: (A) Pending a redetermination of the rate of contribution payable by an employer where an application for a review and redetermination has been filed, the employer shall be liable for the payment of contributions at the rate as determined by the Division of Workforce Services. If the contribution rate is changed by reason of this review and redetermination, the Division of Workforce Services shall, without application by the employer, make an adjustment thereof in connection with subsequent contribution payments. (B) All voluntary payments to the Fund made by an employer under Arkansas Code 11-10-705 shall be so identified by the employer when the payment is made. (C) Any employer who has been subject to three (3) or more years of benefit risk immediately preceding the computation date, and who voluntarily elects to use as his average annual payroll the total taxable wages paid by him during the preceding calendar year, shall for each rate year give written notice of such election to the Division of Workforce Services not later than July 31 immediately preceding the rate year. This regulation shall take effect and be in full force on and after January 1, 1988. EMPLOYING UNIT RECORDS This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-318 to read as follows: (A) Each employing unit shall keep payroll records regarding any individual employed by it so that from an inspection thereof it shall be possible to determine with respect to each worker in his employ: (1) The pay period covered by any payroll. (2) The Social Security number of each worker employed during any pay period. (3) The full name of each worker employed during any pay period. (4) The place of employment. (5) The date each worker was hired, rehired, or returned to work after a temporary lay-off. (6) All remuneration including commissions and bonuses paid to each worker for personal services with respect to any day of work, in each case showing separately: (a) Cash remuneration; (b) The reasonable value of a remuneration in any medium other than cash; and (c) Special payments, such as bonuses, gifts, prizes, etc., showing separately those paid in cash and those paid in any medium other than cash. (7) Amounts paid the worker as allowance or reimbursement for traveling or other business expenses, dates of payment, and the amounts of such expenditures actually incurred and accounted for by him. (8) With respect to pay periods in which he performs both employment and non-subject work, the number of: (a) Hours spent in employment; and/or (b) Hours spent in non-subject work. (B) The place of employment of any worker shall be the county within Arkansas: (1) In which he performs his work; or (2) In which he has his base of operations, if he performs his work in more than one (1) county in Arkansas; or (3) From which he received his principal or immediate direction or control, if he has no base of operations in Arkansas; or (4) In which he resides, if the place from which he received his principal direction or control is outside of Arkansas. (C) It shall be the responsibility of the employing unit to make such records available for inspection at a specified location in the state of Arkansas. If the location is not at the employer’s principal place of business, it shall be subject to approval by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services. (D) All employer records designated in this regulation shall be preserved and made available for purposes of inspection for a period of not less than five (5) years from the end of the month next following the end of the calendar quarter to which such records pertain. This amended regulation shall take effect and be in full force on and after January 1, 1988. Information requested in report forms provided by the Division of Workforce Services shall be provided by the employing unit in accordance with instructions accompanying the forms. Every individual or legal entity which becomes an employing unit as defined in Arkansas Code 11-10-208 shall, on or before the last day of the month next following the month during which it became an employing unit, file with the Division of Workforce Services an initial Report To Determine Liability form and such additional reports as the Director may require for the purpose of determining whether it is an employer as defined in Arkansas Code 11-10-209. Any employing unit that employs workers during any calendar year which considers that it is not an employer as defined in Arkansas Code 11-10-209 must establish such proof by submitting contracts, reports, and/or other documents with the Report To Determine Liability form. Any employer: Who terminates his business for any reason whatsoever, or transfers or sells all or a substantial part of the assets of his organization, trade, or business to another or changes the trade name of such business or address shall, within ten (10) days after such termination, transfer, or change of name or address, give notice in writing to the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services of that fact. He shall set forth in such notice the former name and address of the business, the new name and address of the business, the name of any new owner, and his own name and present address. Shall immediately notify the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services of the commencement of any receivership or similar proceedings, or of any assignment for benefit of creditors or any order of court under the laws of Arkansas with respect to the foregoing or of the filing of any voluntary or involuntary petition in bankruptcy or other proceedings under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Regulation No. 14(a) WEEK OF UNEMPLOYMENT WITHIN A BENEFIT YEAR This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-203 and 11-10-214 to read as follows: A week shall be deemed to be within that benefit year which includes four (4) or more days of such week. Regulation No. 14(b) CLAIM FILING The following regulation is hereby promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-507 of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services Law: (A) All claims for benefits shall be filed either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, by mail, or in person, except as may otherwise be provided herein, at a local employment office of the Division of Workforce Services (Agency) on standard claim forms prescribed by the Agency. (B) All claims must be completed with the individual’s social security number(s) and all other items of information requested on the standard form prescribed by the Agency. In addition, each claim shall bear the individual’s signed certification that the information entered on the form is true, complete and correct. Provided however, when filing by telephone, Internet or other electronic means a claimant’s assigned “pin number” or electronic signature satisfies the requirement for a signature. The claimant must comply with the telephone, Internet and other electronic filing procedures determined by the Division. If an individual submits an incomplete claim form, the Agency may either require the individual to report to the local employment office to complete the claim form or may return the claim form to him by mail or electronic means for completion. An individual shall report to, or complete and submit the claim form to, the local employment office, as directed, within 10 days following the date the Agency mails the notice to report or returns the incomplete claim form to the individual unless good cause for failing to do so is shown by the individual. An individual may be required to present his social security card to verify his social security number. (C) To establish a benefit year and to obtain a determination of his monetary entitlement to benefits, an individual shall file an initial claim either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or by mail with a local employment office on the standard initial claim form prescribed by the Agency. A new benefit year may not be established by the filing of an initial claim unless and until any current benefit year which an individual may have established has expired. (D) To reestablish his claim when intervening employment causes a break of one week or more in an individual’s claim series during an existing benefit year or other period of eligibility, he shall file, either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or by mail, an additional claim for benefits with a local office of the Agency on the standard additional claim form prescribed by the Agency in order to reactivate his claim. (E) To reestablish (reopen) his claim when a break of one week or more in an individual’s claim series occurs during an existing benefit year or other period of eligibility but not as a result of intervening employment, he shall complete another standard initial claim form and file it either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or by mail with a local office of the Agency. (F) To claim a waiting week, a compensable week, or a noncompensable week of unemployment, an individual who has established or has filed an initial claim to establish a current benefit year shall file either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or by mail, a continued claim on the standard continued claim form prescribed by the Agency. All continued claims shall be filed either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or if filed by mail, postmarked not later than the seventh day following the last day of the calendar week for which benefits are claimed. A valid non-compensable week of unemployment, when properly claimed, may be used by an individual in partial satisfaction of a disqualification. (G) An initial, additional, reopened or continued claim, if filed either by telephone, electronically via the Internet or, in person, shall be considered to have been filed on the date it is received by the Agency. If mailed, such claim shall be considered to be been filed on the date of its postmark. Except that, if it is determined by the Agency that a delay in the filing of any claim was due to good cause, it may be considered to have been filed on a date no earlier than fourteen (14) days prior to the date the claim, if filed in person or, by telephone, or electronically via the Internet, was received by the Agency or, if filed by mail, was postmarked. Provided however, the Director, at his discretion, may waive the restrictions in this Paragraph (G) if he finds that extraordinary circumstances exist and equity and justice require such waiver. All such waivers shall be reported to the Division of Workforce Services Advisory Council. Provided further, upon determination by the Agency that a delay in the filing of a claim at an Agency local office which provides services to claimants only on a periodic or intermittent basis was due to good cause, such claim may be considered to have been filed on a date no earlier than seven (7) days from the date of the most previous regularly scheduled day such office was open for service. If a claimant files an initial claim for unemployment compensation against another state and fails to establish a valid claim, is faced with an indefinite postponement of benefits, or withdraws from a wage combining arrangement, his subsequent Arkansas initial claim for benefits shall be considered to have been filed on the date his original initial claim was filed against the other state. (H) An initial or additional claim (except a shared work claim) for less than total unemployment, which is based on partial unemployment, shall be filed either by telephone, electronically via the Internet, in person, or by mail on the form prescribed by the Agency and shall be considered to have been filed on a date which will permit the claimant to claim a week of partial unemployment within fourteen (14) days of the date wages were paid for such partial unemployment. An individual shall be considered partially unemployed when he is working less than full-time and wages payable to him are less than one hundred forty percent (140%) of his weekly benefit amount. (I) A continued claim for a week of partial unemployment as defined in the Division of Workforce Services Law Arkansas Code 11-10-214 may be considered to be timely if it is filed within fourteen (14) days of the date wages were paid for such week of partial unemployment. (J) For the purpose of this Regulation 14(b), an individual shall be considered to be working less than full-time, or partially unemployed, if he is working fewer than forty (40) hours in a calendar week. (K) Subject to the implementation of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or telephone claims system, the requirements of this Regulation 14(b) are to be interpreted consistent with the Division’s telephone claims taking procedure. This amended regulation shall take effect and be in full force on and after July 1, 2003. Regulation No. 14(c) This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated, and adopted by the Director, Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-507 to read as follows: (A) An individual shall be ineligible to receive benefits, waiting period credit or noncompensable week credit under Arkansas Code 11-10-507 of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services Law for any week in which he fails to report to a Division of Workforce Services office in person, by telephone, or by other means on the assigned date and time as directed by the Division of Workforce Services unless it is determined by said Agency that he had good cause for failing to so report. (B) The filing of an initial, additional or reopened claim for unemployment benefits either by telephone, electronically via the Internet or, on the standard claim form prescribed by the Division of Workforce Services shall constitute registration for work for any and all individuals EXCEPT: (1) Those claimants who are entered into the Eligibility Review and Reemployment Assistance Program because they are having, or may have, difficulty in obtaining employment and who live within commuting distance of the nearest local office of the Division of Workforce Services, and, (2) Those who are claiming any form of extended benefits. (3) Those who are required to search for work pursuant to Regulation 14(d). Such individuals shall be required to complete an application with the employment service at the nearest local office of the Division of Workforce Services. This amended regulation shall take effect and be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2003. Regulation No. 14(d) The following regulation is hereby promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-507: (A) The Division of Workforce Services (Agency) shall advise each claimant who establishes a benefit year or who files an additional or reopened claim what he must do to meet the work search requirements of Arkansas Code 11-10-507. In so advising the claimant, the Agency shall take into consideration the claimant’s knowledge, skills and abilities, his past work experience and the condition of the labor market in which the claimant is seeking employment. To each such claimant, the Agency shall provide the number of job search contacts (contacts with potential employers for the purpose of securing work) he must make during each week that he claims benefits in order to be considered to be doing those things which a reasonably prudent person would be expected to do to secure work. At the claimant’s request, or upon its own motion, the Agency may provide written and/or oral information and assistance to the claimant on how, when, where and in what manner to look for and apply for work. (B) In order to meet the job search requirements of Arkansas Code 11-10-507, claimants who live in a metropolitan statistical area, as the term is defined by the U.S. Divisionof Commerce, Bureau of the Census, shall be required to make at least three (3), but no more than five (5), job contacts during each week that he claims unemployment benefits. Claimants residing in other labor market areas shall be required to make at least two (2), but no more than four (4), job contacts during each week for which they claim benefits in order to meet this job search requirement. Provided that if, for good cause shown, a claimant fails to make the number of job contacts required by this Paragraph, he shall not be disqualified for that reason. (C) Except as elsewhere provided in this Regulation 14(d), each claimant who claims benefits for a week of unemployment must show that he has made, at least, the number of job contacts set forth for him by the Agency in order to fulfill the work search requirements of Arkansas Code 11-10-507. In order for a job contact to be considered bona fide, beginning with the thirteenth compensable week of unemployment the claimant must submit in writing the name of each employer contacted, the date of each contact, the kind of work sought or applied for, the method of his contact, and the results of the contact. The Agency shall provide a form for the claimant’s use in providing such evidence. Provided that if, for good cause shown, a claimant fails to obtain any item of information required by this Paragraph (C), he shall not be disqualified for that reason. (D) The claimant must make at least one of the required job contacts in person unless he normally gets his jobs by telephone or through correspondence, or unless his job contacts were made to employers outside the labor market area of his place of residence. Other efforts to secure work shall count as a job contact if done for the purposes of securing employment. Such efforts other than those enumerated in Paragraph (C) and in this Paragraph (D) shall count, collectively for no more than one bona fide job contact per week. (E) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (B), above, the Agency shall periodically review the claimant’s job search efforts and may change the minimum number of weekly job contacts required as the claimant’s length of unemployment increases or as labor market conditions change or warrant. An intrastate claimant shall not be required to submit written documentation of his job contacts until his nineteenth compensable week of unemployment if he is residing in a county or he last worked in a county which had an average unemployment rate, as computed by the Agency, equal to or greater than eight and one-half percent (8 ½%) during the preceding six-month period of June through November for benefit years established during the six-month period beginning on January 1 and during the preceding six-months period of December through May for benefit years established during the six-month period beginning on July 1. For purposes of applying this provision, the average unemployment rate for the appropriate six-month period for the Arkansas county in which the claim was filed or for the Arkansas county in which he last worked shall be used for out-of-state residents filing claims in an Agency office. Interstate claimants shall not be required to provide written documentation of job search contacts until their nineteenth compensable week of unemployment when the Arkansas, state-wide, average unemployment rate is equal to or greater than eight and one-half percent (8 ½%) during the appropriate six-month period. All claimants, however, must continue to do those things a reasonably prudent individual would be expected to do under the circumstances to secure work. (F) A union member claimant’s authorized union hiring hall representative may make such claimant’s job contacts for him as his agent. In such instances, the claimant shall provide the Agency with the name, address and local number of the union of which he is a member and with evidence that he is a union member, that his union dues are currently paid, that his union local maintains a full-time hiring hall, the name and address of such hiring hall, and the name and address of the union hiring hall official who will act as his agent. The claimant shall remain responsible for the timely provision of evidence, as required by the Agency, of job contacts made by the union hiring hall official acting as his agent for such purpose. The Agency shall provide the claimant with a form for use in providing such evidence of work search efforts. (G) For the purpose of fulfilling the job search requirements of Arkansas Code 11-10-507 as prescribed in Paragraph (B), above, the following types of job contacts shall be treated in the manner specified for each: (1) Contacts with the Agency’s job placement service. (a) An initial registration for work or the renewal of a registration for work shall be counted one (1) time for each continuous period of unemployment. (b) Each instance of reporting to the employment office in response to a call-in by the job service shall be counted as a job contact. (c) Any and all other contacts with the job service during any month shall be counted but only as one job contact during each calendar month. (2) Contacts with Exclusive Hiring Agreement Employers. Job contacts with employers whose names appear on a list, provided by the Agency to the individual claimant, of employers who hire exclusively through the Agency shall not be counted as a job contact. (3) Contacts with Private Employment Agencies. Registration with a private employment agency shall be counted as one job contact for each such agency but shall be counted only one time in any one continuous period of unemployment. Each job contact made as a result of a referral by a private employment agency shall be counted as a job contact for purposes of Paragraph C. For the purpose of this Paragraph (G), a continuous period of unemployment shall begin when an individual files an initial, additional, or reopened claim for benefits and shall continue thereafter for as long as he files weekly claims for benefits on a continued week basis. (H) A claimant shall be presumed to be available for work as required by Arkansas Code 11-10-507 and shall not be required to make any further search for work when any of the following circumstances prevail: (1) The claimant’s hours of work have been reduced from full-time to part-time by this employer who has given the claimant an assurance that he will be returned to full-time employment within ten (10) weeks after his last week of full-time employment. (2) The claimant’s hours of work have been reduced by his employer from full-time to part-time and he works at least eight (8) hours for that employer during the week for which he claims benefits. (3) The claimant has a definite promise of employment to begin within ten (10) weeks after the date of receipt of such promise of employment, provided, at the time he files his claim for unemployment benefits, he provides a written statement from his prospective employer evidencing such promise of employment. (I) A claimant’s work search efforts shall be subject to verification which may include, but not be limited to, obtaining relevant information from potential employers reported as having been contacted by the claimant. (J) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other paragraph of this Regulation 14(d), the Director of the Division of Workforce Services may reduce or eliminate any of the requirements of said Regulation 14(d) if such change would be warranted by labor market conditions and would not be contrary to the work search provisions contained in Arkansas Code 11-10-507. (K) This Regulation 14(d) shall not be applicable with respect to individuals claiming extended benefits. (L) Subject to implementation of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or telephone claims system, the requirements of this Regulation 14(d) are to be interpreted consistent with the Department’s telephone claims taking procedure. The work search requirements for telephone claims are to report the number of job contacts as required by Paragraphs (B), (C) and (E). Documentation of such job contacts shall be maintained by a claimant for the appropriate weeks claimed (i.e., beginning the 13th or 19th week for possible eligibility or verification purposes). NOTICE OF CLAIMS FILED AND BENEFITS CHARGED, EMPLOYER RESPONSE, AND NONCHARGE RIGHTS This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated and adopted by the Director of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-703 to read as follows: (A) Notice of an initial or additional claim filed shall be mailed or otherwise provided by the Division of Workforce Services to the employing unit known to the claimant as his last employer. This notice shall request that the employer immediately furnish pertinent information to the Division of Workforce Services. The last employer shall have ten (10) days from the date the notice was mailed or otherwise provided by the Department of Workkforce Services to file his response. If mailed, a response shall be considered to have been filed as of the date of the postmark on the envelope. Provided that if it is determined by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services that the response was not filed within the ten-day period as a result of circumstances beyond the last employer’s control, such response may be considered as having been timely filed. (B) Notice to base period employer of an initial claim filed shall be mailed or otherwise provided to each affected base period employer who is not also a last employer. This notice shall request that the employer furnish the Division of Workforce Services pertinent information. The requested information shall be filed with the Agency immediately but no later than fifteen (15) days after the date the notice was originally mailed or otherwise provided by the Division of Workforce Services. If mailed, the response shall be considered to have been filed as of the date of the postmark on the envelope. Provided that if it is determined by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services that the response was not filed within the fifteen (15) day period as a result of circumstances beyond the employer’s control, such response may be considered as having been timely filed. (C) Requests for separation information shall be mailed or otherwise provided by the Division of Workforce Services to the employing unit known to the claimant as his last employer. This request shall notify the last employer of the deadline for providing the requested information to the Division of Workforce Services.Â If mailed, a response shall be considered to have been filed as of the date of the postmark on the envelope. Provided that if it is determined by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services that the response was not filed within the specified time in the request for separation information as a result of circumstances beyond the last employer’s control, such response may be considered as having been timely filed. (D) Upon commencement of a labor dispute, the affected employer shall, upon request, promptly furnish the nearest Division of Workforce Services office a list, in duplicate, showing the names and Social Security numbers of the unemployed workers, and the last day of employment for each worker, with the further information that the unemployment is due to a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises where the workers were last employed. (E) An employer, upon request, shall furnish to the Division of Workforce Services wage information for workers filing claims in another state under an approved Interstate Wage-Combining Plan when such wages are in the base period of the paying state but have not yet been reported on a quarterly wage report. An employer shall furnish such information within ten (10) days from the date the request is mailed. Whenever an employer fails to provide wage information as requested for an Interstate Wage-Combining claim within the required ten (10) days from the time the request is mailed, the Division of Workforce Services will establish the claimant’s wage credits on the basis of the claimant’s written statement of wages received for such employment with said employer supplemented by such other evidence as may be available and satisfactory to the Division of Workforce Services. Except, as provided under Arkansas Code 11-10-106 of the Division of Workforce Services Law, if it is determined that the wage information supplied by the claimant is erroneous, no penalty shall be imposed on the claimant. A report of wages made on the basis of the claimant’s written statement shall be adjusted, if necessary, upon receipt of information from an employer and such adjusted report will be delivered to the paying state for the appropriate adjustment of further benefits, if any, payable to the claimant under the approved Interstate Wage-Combining Plan on the basis of such wage credits. (F) Except as hereinafter provided, a last employer shall not be eligible for the noncharge provisions authorized in subsection 11-10-703 of the Division of Workforce Services Law unless he has timely responded in compliance with paragraph (A) of this regulation. It shall be assumed that any last employer that fails to respond in compliance with paragraph (A) of this regulation agrees that the reason for separation as given by the claimant is correct; his failure to respond shall not affect his noncharge rights if the reason for separation given by the claimant would have otherwise resulted in the non-charging of benefits to the employer’s account. His failure to timely respond, however, shall constitute a waiver of any right he may have to protest charges to his experience rating account of benefits paid as a result of such nonmonetary determination. (G) (1) No employer’s account shall be relieved of charges arising from an overpayment of benefits as provided in subsection 11-10-703 of the Division of Workforce Services Law if the overpayment of benefits is the result of the failure of the employer or the employer’s agent to respond timely or adequately to a request for information from the Division of Workforce Services and the employer’s agent has established a pattern of failing to respond to such requests.Â As used in this regulation: (i.) “Timely” means the employer or the employer’s agent responded to the Division of Workforce Services written requests for information as specified on the form. Provided that if it is determined by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services that the response was not timely as a result of circumstances beyond the employer’s control, such response may be considered as having been timely filed. (ii.) “Adequately” means the employer or the employer’s agent substantially and accurately completed the Division of Workforce Services forms with sufficient factual information necessary to render an accurate determination of eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits. (iii.) “Pattern” means, in the preceding calendar quarter, the employer or the employer’s agent failed to timely or adequately respond to at least 51% of requests for information sent to it by the Division of Workforce Services related to the establishment of an unemployment insurance claim.Â However, an employer that is party to five or fewer potentially disqualifying determinations during the preceding calendar quarter shall not be deemed to have a pattern of failing to timely or adequately respond unless it has failed to respond to at least three requests for information in the preceding calendar quarter. (2) At the end of each calendar quarter, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Division of Workforce Services shall notify an employer or its agent of the intent to place the employer on a list of employers that have been determined to have established a pattern of failing to timely or adequately respond to requests for information from the Division of Workforce Services. (i.) The notification shall become conclusive and binding upon the employer unless within fifteen (15) days after the mailing of the notice the employer requests an administrative review of the notice issued by the Division of Workforce Services. Provided that if it is determined by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services that the response was not filed within the fifteen (15) day period as a result of circumstances beyond the employer’s control, such response may be considered as having been timely filed. (ii.) An employer that is determined to have established a pattern of failing to timely or adequately respond to requests for information shall continue remain on the list of employers ineligible to be provided relief from charges pursuant to 11-10-703(a)(6) until the employer has responded timely or adequately to requests for information forÂ two consecutive calendar quarters. (3) Determinations by the Division of Workforce Services prohibiting the relief of charges pursuant paragraph G of this regulation shall be subject to protest or appeal as set forth in subsection 11-10-707 of the Division of Workforce Services law. (H) An affected base period employer not also a last employer shall not be eligible for the noncharge provisions authorized in Arkansas Code 11-10-703 of the Division of Workforce Services Law unless he has timely responded in accordance with paragraph (B) of this regulation. In addition, any employer seeking to qualify for noncharging under the Part Time Proviso of Arkansas Code 11-10-703 of the Division of Workforce Services Law shall provide such information on wages and hours of work as the Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall request. This amended regulation shall take effect and be in full force on and after March 1, 2014. EXTENDED BENEFITS This regulation is hereby amended, promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-534 and 535 to read as follows: (A) If a claimant who has been paid extended benefits for week(s) of unemployment is determined eligible for additional regular benefits for those same weeks of unemployment as a result of a redetermination or an appeal, the extended benefits already paid shall be considered to be regular benefits up to the amount paid. The Division of Workforce Services shall make the necessary adjustments between the Federal and State accounts. (B) The following provisions of the Law relating to regular benefits are inconsistent with the extended benefit provisions and, therefore, are not applicable to extended benefits: (1) Waiting period week. (2) Monetary qualifying and requalifying requirements. (3) Computation of weekly and maximum benefit amounts. (4) Charging of benefits paid as applicable to any tax paying employer. (5) Notice to last employer of claim filed, except when there has been intervening employment since exhaustion of regular benefits and the last employer has not been notified of a claim filed. MONETARY DETERMINATION NOTICE Each Monetary Benefit Determination issued to a claimant by the Division of Workforce Services shall include a notice of the claimant’s right to request a redetermination or to appeal the determination. The notice shall clearly state the place and manner for making an appeal and the period within which such appeal must be made. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO INTERSTATE CLAIMANTS (A) As used in this regulation, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) “Interstate benefit payment plan” means the plan approved by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies under which benefits shall be payable to unemployed individuals absent from the state (or states) in which benefit credits have been accumulated. An interstate claim shall be serviced in accordance with the law of the paying state. (2) “Interstate claimant” means an individual who claims benefits under the unemployment insurance law of one or more liable states through the facilities of an agent state. The term “interstate claimant” shall not include any individual who customarily commutes from a residence in an agent state to work in a liable state unless the liable state finds that this exclusion would create undue hardship on such claimants in specified areas. (3) “State” includes, in addition to the states of the United States of America, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. (4) “Paying State” means either (i) the state in which a claimant files a claim after qualifying in that state on the basis of combined employment and wages; or, (ii) if a claimant files a claim in a state that is not the paying state under the criterion set forth in (i) or files a claim in Canada, then the paying state shall be that state in which the Combined-Wage claimant was last employed in covered employment among the states in which the claimant qualifies for unemployment benefits on the basis of combined employment and wages. (5) “Agent state” means any state in which an individual files a claim for benefits from another state. (6) “Liable state” means any state against which an individual files, through another state, a claim for benefits. (7) “Interstate benefits” means the compensation payable to an individual with respect to his unemployment under the unemployment insurance law of any state. (8) “Week of unemployment” includes any week of unemployment as defined in the law of the liable state from which benefits with respect to such week are claimed. (B) (1) Each interstate claimant shall be registered for work, through any public employment office in the agent state when and as required by the law, regulations and procedures of the agent state. Such registration shall be accepted as meeting the registration requirements of the liable state. (2) Each agent state shall duly report to the liable state in question, whether each interstate claimant meets the registration requirements of the agent state. (C) (1) If a claimant files a claim against any state, and it is determined by such state that the claimant has available benefit credits in such state, then claims shall be filed only against such state as long as benefit credits are available in that state. Thereafter, the claimant may file claims against any other state in which there are available benefit credits. (2) For the purpose of this regulation, benefit credits shall be deemed to be unavailable whenever benefits have been exhausted, terminated, or postponed for an indefinite period or for the entire period in which benefits would otherwise be payable, or whenever benefits are affected by the application of a seasonal restriction. (D) (1) Claims for benefits or waiting period credit shall be filed by interstate claimants on uniform interstate claim forms, electronically via the Internet or by telephone and in accordance with uniform procedures developed pursuant to the Interstate Benefit Payment Plan. Claims shall be filed in accordance with the type of week in use in the agent state. Any adjustments required to fit the type of week used by the liable state shall be made by the liable state on the basis of consecutive claims filed. (2) Claims shall be filed in accordance with agent state regulations for interstate claims in local employment offices, electronically via the Internet, by telephone, or at an itinerant point, or by mail. (i) With respect to claims for weeks of unemployment in which an individual was not working for his regular employer, the liable state shall, under circumstances which it considers good cause, accept a continued claim filed up to one (1) week, or one (1) reporting period late. If a claimant files more than one (1) reporting period late, an initial claim must be used to begin a claim series and no continued claim for a past period shall be accepted. (ii) With respect to weeks of unemployment during which an individual is attached to his regular employer, the liable state shall accept any claim which is filed within the time limit applicable to such claims under the law of the agent state. (E) (1) The agent state shall, in connection with each claim filed by an interstate claimant, ascertain and report to the liable state in question such facts relating to the claimant’s availability for work and eligibility for benefits as are readily determinable in and by the agent state. (2) The agent state’s responsibility and authority in connection with the determination of interstate claims shall be limited to investigation and reporting of relevant facts. The agent state shall not refuse to take an interstate claim. (F) (1) The agent state shall afford all reasonable cooperation in the taking of evidence and the holding of hearings in connection with appealed interstate benefit claims. (2) With respect to the time limits imposed by the law of a liable state upon the filing of an appeal in connection with a disputed benefit claim, an appeal made by an interstate claimant shall be deemed to have been made and communicated to the liable state on the date when it is received by any qualified officer of the agent state. (G) This regulation shall apply in all its provisions to claims taken in and for Canada. DISQUALIFICATION UNDER SUBSECTION 5(a) AND UNDER SUBSECTION 5(d) Arkansas Division of Workforce Services Regulation No. 19 is hereby rescinded. This recision shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1988. LESSOR EMPLOYING UNITS The following regulation is hereby promulgated and adopted by the Director, Arkansas Division of Workforce Services pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e): (1) Any lessor employing unit desiring to post a bond with the Division of Workforce Services (Agency) in accordance with Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e), shall also execute a Security Bond prepared, or approved, by the Agency and shall provide the Agency with any information necessary to prepare this bond. Any bond not prepared by the Agency shall be submitted to the Agency for approval prior to its being executed. (2) Any lessor employing unit depositing cash or securities with the Division of Workforce Services in accordance with said Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e) shall also execute an Assignment and Escrow Agreement prepared by the Division of Workforce Services and shall provide the Division of Workforce Services with any information necessary to prepare the agreement. This agreement shall contain a provision which the lessor employing unit consents to an audit of its records prior to the release or cancellation of the securities tendered with the agreement. (3) Any securities deposited with the Division of Workforce Services pursuant to said Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e) shall be accompanied by the signed statement of a licensed broker identifying each security and setting forth its current market value. Thereafter, on or before the tenth day of each month, the lessor employing unit shall submit: (1) a statement signed by a licensed broker setting forth the market value on the first business day of that month of each security so deposited and (2) an attestation by said broker stating that he has no interest in and is not affiliated in any way with the lessor employer or the corporations that issued the stocks included in the said market value statement. Should the combined value of those deposited securities be less than the required amount, the lessor employing unit shall immediately deposit additional securities to raise the value to the required amount. (4) By the end of February each year, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall notify any lessor employing unit who has posted a corporate surety bond or deposited marketable securities with the Division of Workforce Services of the dollar amount required for that year to comply with the provisions of said Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e). (5) The obligation for payment, and/or the bond securing payment, of unemployment contributions pursuant to Arkansas Code 11-10-717(e) shall not be released until the Division of Workforce Services is satisfied, either by audit or otherwise, that all contributions liability on account of the bond has been paid. This paragraph of this regulation shall not be construed to increase the liability of the surety in excess of the face amount of the bond regardless of the period of time the bond remains in effect, nor shall it be construed to affect the right of any surety to terminate the bond in accordance with the terms of the bond. This regulation shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1998. Read More Regulations > DWS Publications DWS Regulations DWS Law Code Job Central U.S. Gvernment Departments & Agencies Résumé Information The focus of the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services is to provide individuals the tools they need to enhance and sustain their employability. And, through the education and skills training offered to jobseekers, employers are reducing hidden costs associated with lost production time and turnover rates by hiring qualified workers. Products and services can be categorized into three main groups: Unemployment Insurance, Employment Assistance (Jobseeker services and Employer services), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. ADWS offers these services at Arkansas Workforce Centers located throughout the state. ADWS continues to build effective partnerships with other organizations to better serve customers. Through these partnerships, ADWS and its partners are able to leverage each other’s core competencies and resources. Because the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services is a state agency, it does not earn a profit and does not measure success by business growth and expansion. The agency is unique from other Arkansas state agencies in that it is 99 percent federally funded with taxpayer dollars. 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__label__cc	0.540573	0.459427	Research Collections (3) The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology Edited by Han Somsen This book will make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the effective regulation of biotechnology. The contributing authors assess how regulatory regimes can accommodate the many different and often conflicting issues to which biotechnology is giving rise to (including a very tainted public image). The book’s ultimate aim is to explore ways of designing a regulatory regime that takes heed of these different demands whilst, at the same time, answering to the imperatives of effectiveness and efficiency. Learn More The Economics of Biotechnology Edited by Maureen McKelvey, Luigi Orsenigo This authoritative collection covers the economics and business side of the social scientific debate about the economics of ‘modern biotechnology’ or ‘the biotechnology industry’. Biotechnology has attracted an enormous interest. Research has spawned work on a variety of theoretical issues about economic dynamics, about innovation systems and about what might be called – in the current jargon – the modern ‘learning economy’. Learn More Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology, An International Perspective Damian Hine, John Kapeleris The biotechnology industry across the globe is growing dramatically in line with rapidly emerging scientific and technological developments. This book explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of entrepreneurship in the biotechnology industry, focusing on the innovation processes underpinning success for new biotechnology firms (NBFs). It argues that biotechnology is at a crossroads: to date the science has been solid, yet commercial success remains elusive, and that it will be the commercial success of NBFs which will dictate the long term viability of this crucial industry. Learn More 2008 Paperback Price: $ 74.00 Web: $ 59.20 The Economic Dynamics of Modern Biotechnology Edited by Maureen McKelvey, Annika Rickne, Jens Laage-Hellman This book offers a novel insight into the economic dynamics of modern biotechnology, using examples from Europe to reflect global trends. The authors apply theoretical insight to a fundamental enigma of the modern learning society, namely, how and why the development of knowledge and ideas interact with market processes and the formation of industries and firms. Learn More HardbackPaperback Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World Edited by Timothy M. Swanson How will the industrial changes implicit within new biotechnologies affect modern agriculture? This book investigates these changes and provides an economic analysis of the industrial and distributional impacts of new biotechnologies, addressing in detail the significant consequences for developing countries. Learn More James D. Gaisford, Jill E. Hobbs, William A. Kerr, Nicholas Perdikis, Marni D. Plunkett The Economics of Biotechnology is a highly accessible book dealing with some of the most crucial issues to arise in this area. Special attention is paid to consumer, ethical and environmental concerns as well as questions relating to trade policy, intellectual property, who will receive the benefits, international development and the role of international institutions such as the WTO Learn More The Emergence and Growth of Biotechnology Rohini Acharya This innovative book examines the development and evolution of biotechnology in industrialised and developing countries. Learn More Biotechnology and Competitive Advantage Edited by Jacqueline Senker Biotechnology and Competitive Advantage investigates the development of biotechnology in Europe and the United States. It examines why Europe has fallen behind in applying biotechnology, when its scientific capabilities are largely comparable to those in the US. In addition it sheds new light on the wider context of the theory of growth of new technologies. Learn More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2308
__label__cc	0.651014	0.348986	The EAIE uses cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to browse our site or by clicking OK, we assume you consent to our use of cookies. Learn more European Association for International Education Menu Search About EAIE My EAIE × Login Expert Communities Projects and Advocacy Marina Malgina Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), Norway Admissions & accreditation Course portfolio Qualifications recognition for refugees Marina is a higher education professional with more than 10 years’ experience. Marina is Head of Section for Recognition of Refugees' Qualifications at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), the Norwegian ENIC-NARIC. She graduated from the University of Oslo, Norway with a Master’s degree in Comparative and International Education. Since 2010, Marina has been leading NOKUT’s work in developing and implementing recognition procedures to support refugees in accessing further studies and employment. She has been involved in the development of the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees scheme since 2015 and is a content coordinator in the pilot project ‘Recognition of Qualifications held by Refugees’ led by the Council of Europe. Marina was awarded the EAIE's Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice in 2017. She is a Steering group member in the EAIE Expert Community Cooperation for Development and shares her experience as an EAIE mentor. We're happy to answer your questions info@eaie.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2309
__label__cc	0.544441	0.455559	USD/JPY Reached 105.50. What Is Up Next? AUD/CAD May Be Up for a Correction Targeting 0.9100 Chinese Yuan Stabilizes As Tensions With US Remain High August 6, 2019 at 18:30 Chinese Yuan by Andrew Moran The Chinese yuan is stabilizing Tuesday after it cratered 2% against the US dollar to kick off the trading week. But the pause in yuan’s collapse might be temporary because the White House continues to apply pressure to the world’s second-largest economy, particularly as officials discuss labeling Beijing a currency manipulator. Investors will now look to China’s trade numbers on Wednesday. On Tuesday, China issued its first public address to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs that applied 10% levies on the remaining $300 billion in goods. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said that should Washington name the country a currency manipulator, then it would “severely damage international financial order and cause chaos in financial markets.” PBOC officials added that elevated trade and currency tensions would “prevent a global economic and trade recovery.” It reiterated that it has not and will not utilize the exchange as a tool to negotiate trade agreements. China advised the United States to rein in its horse before the precipice, and be aware of its errors, and turn back from the wrong path. In May, the Treasury Department refused to label China as a currency manipulator, opting to monitor the situation instead. However, after the yuan plunged below the important seven threshold, President Trump tweeted: “Are you listening Federal Reserve?” China dropped the price of their currency to an almost a historic low. It’s called ‘currency manipulation.’ Are you listening Federal Reserve? This is a major violation which will greatly weaken China over time! Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers weighed in, positing that there is not “much justification” for the label. When you are propping up your currency, not running a trade surplus, you’re not manipulating the currency on any definition that is understood and accepted in the financial community. Nevertheless, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow believes China’s economy is crumbling and that the US will win the trade war, noting that its gross domestic product is diminishing every month. Meanwhile, Kudlow confirmed to CNBC that Trump wants to continue trade negotiations and plans to host a Chinese delegation in September. He would like to make a deal. He would like to continue negotiations. We’re willing to negotiate. Movement towards a good deal would be very positive and might change the tariff situation. But then again, it might not. China will have important coming out on Wednesday for July: foreign exchange reserves, balance of trade, exports, and imports. Beijing is projected to record a $51 billion surplus with imports contracting 8.3% and exports sliding 2%. The USD/CNY currency pair tumbled 0.34% to 7.0264, from an opening of 7.0507, at 18:19 GMT on Tuesday. The EUR/CNY fell 0.43% to 7.8643, from an opening of 7.8993. If you have any questions, comments, or opinions regarding the Chinese Yuan, feel free to post them using the commentary form below. Tags: China, Dollar, Donald Trump, Exports, Federal Reserve, GDP, Imports, Larry Kudlow, Larry Summers, PBoC, Tariffs, Yuan Earlier News About the Chinese Yuan: Chinese Yuan Crashes Below Crucial USD Level Amid Trump Tariffs (2019-08-05) Chinese Yuan Weakens As Trade Talk Hopes Fade (2019-07-29) Chinese Yuan Edges Higher As Beijing Slaps Anti-Dumping Duties on Steel Imports (2019-07-24) Chinese Yuan Tries to Find Direction on Slowing GDP, Strong Data (2019-07-15) Chinese Yuan Rallies Despite Bad Inflation, Auto Sales Data (2019-07-10)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2311
__label__cc	0.673744	0.326256	"How Are Middle School Climate and Academic Performance Related Across Schools and Over Time?" Middle schoolers' math and reading performance rose and fell with their belief that their school had a welcoming climate, says a new study by the Regional Educational Lab at WestEd. Researchers looked at 7th graders' reports of school climate—including feelings of safety and connection, caring relationships with adults, meaningful student participation, and low rates of bullying, drug use, delinquency, and discrimination at school—at 1,000 California middle schools, from 2004-05 through 2010-11. Researchers compared school climate data to students' test performance in reading and math during that time. There wasn't a strong relationship between students' academic performance and differences in climate among various schools in the same year. Schools with high overall school climate, however, had higher average reading and math scores, and student performance was strongly related to changes in the social climate within the same school from year to year. By Sarah D. Sparks Published in Print: February 8, 2017, as School Climate Read more Report Roundups. 2019-2020 School Psychologist Newport News Public Schools, Newport News, VA, US	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2313
__label__wiki	0.519912	0.519912	← 1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT — snippet 28 1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT — snippet 29 → STORM FROM THE SHADOWS — snippet 34 Posted on September 5, 2008 by Eric Flint STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 34: He took a document viewer from his desk drawer and passed it across to her. She keyed it and pursed her lips thoughtfully as she scanned the information. She didn't recognize many of the names, but she did recognize some of them. "Captain Lecter became available almost as unexpectedly as you did, Milady," Cortez said. "At least a half-dozen flag officers requested her services, but I felt she'd fit best as your chief of staff." Michelle nodded in mingled understanding and gratitude. Captain Cynthia Lecter — only she'd been Commander Cynthia Lecter, at the time — had been the best executive officer Michelle had ever had. She was delighted Cynthia's promotion had come through, and she had no qualms at all about her suitability for the chief of the squadron command staff she'd had no idea she was about to inherit. "I don't believe you've ever served with Commander Adenauer," Cortez continued, "but she's compiled a very impressive record." Michelle nodded again. As far as she was aware, she'd never even met Commander Dominica Adenauer, much less served with her, but the bare synopsis of her combat record appended to the file Cortez had handed her was impressive. Not every skilled tactical officer worked out well as a squadron operations officer, but at first glance, at least, Adenauer looked promising. And Cortez did have that knack for putting the right officer into the right slot. "I think you'll be pleased with Commander Casterlin and Lieutenant Commander Edwards, as well," Cortez told her. "I know Commander Casterlin," Michelle said, looking up from the document. "Not as well as I'd like to, under the circumstances, but what I do know about him, I like. I don't know anything about Edwards, though." "He's young," Cortez replied. "In fact, he just made lieutenant commander about two months ago, but I was impressed when I interviewed him. And he's just finished a stint with BuWeaps as one of Admiral Hemphill's assistants. He's too junior to hold down the ops officer's slot, and even if he wasn't, he's a communications specialist, not a tac officer. That's why Adenauer got Operations and Edwards got Communications. But he's been hands-on with both laser head development and the new command and control systems, and I think you — and Commander Adenauer — will find his familiarity with the Admiral's newest toys very useful." "I'm sure we will," Michelle agreed. "I'm still trying to find you a good Logistics officer, and I still need a staff EW expert for you. Edwards' experience could probably be helpful in that area, as well, but, again, it's not something he's really trained for. Hopefully, I'll have both Logistics and Electronic Warfare covered by the end of the day. Obviously, all of these are suggestions at this point, and if you do have any serious reservations or objections to my suggestions, we'll do everything we can to accommodate you. I'm afraid, however, that time's so short we may not have a lot of flex." "Understood, My Lord," Michelle said in a voice that sounded more cheerful than she actually felt. The Manticoran tradition had always been that BuPers tried hard to meet any flag officer's reasonable requests for staffers, and no squadron or task force commander was ever happy to find herself stuck with someone else's choices for her own staff officers. She couldn't pretend she was exactly delighted to find herself in that position, but she suspected that quite a few other flag officers were finding themselves in very similar positions at the moment. With Cindy to ride herd on them, we should be all right, she told herself. I wish I'd ever at least met Adenauer, though. Her record looks good, from what I've been able to see of it so far, at least, but that's all on paper as far as I'm concerned. And Edwards looks like he'd be happier as a research weanie somewhere. God, I hope appearances are deceiving in that respect, anyway! But Casterlin's a good, solid choice for astrogator. Between them, he and Cindy should at least be able to keep things running on an even keel. And if there are any problems, it'll just be my job to make sure they . . . go away. "I understand, My Lord," she said again, a bit more firmly. "I do have one additional question, however." "Of course, Milady." "From everything you've said, I assume you're planning on deploying the squadron as soon as possible." "Actually, Milady, I'm planning on deploying the squadron even sooner than that," Cortez said with a tight smile. "That's what I meant when I said you might even be pulling out for Talbott before all of your ships have completed their acceptance trials. You do remember what I said about the shipyards cutting corners to streamline production, don't you? Well, one of the things we've dispensed with is the full spectrum of acceptance trials and pre-trial testing." Michelle's eyes widened in the first real alarm she'd felt since entering Cortez's office, and he shrugged. "Milady, we're between the proverbial rock and the hard place, and we've simply had no choice but to make some . . . accommodations. I won't pretend anyone's delighted by it, but we've tried to compensate by putting even more emphasis on quality control in the construction process. So far, we haven't had any major component failures, but I'd be misleading you if I didn't admit we have had some minor to even moderately severe problems which had to be worked out using onboard resources after a ship left the yard. I hope that won't be the case where your squadron is concerned, but I can't guarantee it. And if we have to deploy you with builder's reps still on board, we will. So, in answer to the question I'm sure you were about to ask, your deployment date is one T-week from today." Despite herself, Michelle's lips tightened. Cortez saw it, and shook his head. "I'm genuinely sorry, Milady. I fully realize one week isn't even long enough for you to complete straightening out the details of your personal affairs, far less long enough to develop any feel for your ship commanders, or even the members of your own staff. If we could give you longer, we would. But whatever may be happening where Haven is concerned, the Talbott Cluster is still a powder keg waiting for a single spark in the wrong place. A powder keg someone's already tried their damnedest to touch off for reasons we're still only guessing at. We need a powerful, sustained presence there, and we need it in place before any Solarian redeployments in response to events in Monica shift the balance. God knows there are enough arrogant Solly COs and squadron commanders out there, even without the little matter of the fact that we're still trying to figure out exactly who — besides Manpower — was doing what to whom until Terekhov spoked their wheel. I hope we'll all breathe a sigh of relief when we do figure that out, but I'm not planning on putting down any bets on that outcome. And one thing we don't need while we work on that little problem is for some Solly commodore or admiral to decide he has a big enough advantage in combat power to do something stupid that we'll all regret." "I understand, Sir," Michelle said yet again. "I can't say I expected any of this when I walked into your office, but I understand. About Eric Flint View all posts by Eric Flint → 18 Responses to STORM FROM THE SHADOWS — snippet 34 Ian Darley says: The first historical parallel I can think of is HMS Prince of Wales going out to meet the Bismark with her builder’s reps on board. Henke’s ship may survive the experience but I wouldn’t want to be on the Manticoran equivalent of the HMS Hood… PW came out of that “trial” better than Hood did. Ken Valentine says: True, but during the action one of PW’s turrets (I think it was ‘A’ turret–40%of her main-battery firepower)jammed in train before it fired its first shot and the jam wasn’t cleared until after the action. That’s why PW had to break off as soon as Hood went up. Given that PW was technologically inferior to Bismarck in the first place, losing 40% of your main battery to an engineering casualty before opening fire is BAD NEWS. Only because the Bismark’s orders were to avoid encounters with capitol ships if possible. With less restrictive OP orders Bismark would have chased the PoW down and finished her wihout difficulty. Robert Krawitz says: Urk…as an engineer (even of the software variety), this leaves me scared even though it’s fiction! At least these things don’t have lots of explosive propellant and warhead materials on board, like “wet navy” battleships. I think I read somewhere that a 16 inch naval gun uses something like 300 kg of propellant per shot — plus whatever the warhead contains. Blackmane says: You’re right. Thank goodness they only use fusion-bomb-pumped laser warheads on their missiles, which themselves mount impeller drives. There has only been one example each in the series of one of those going off inside a warship so the odds are admittedly slim that either of those will happen, but technology only makes potential disasters worse, just as your example is worse than dropping a round of hot shot on a wooden battleship. Worst case scenario? A missile launcher fails to actually launch and the missile goes active inside the tube. Bright side is that no one would have time to realize that they’re dead. There’s a difference — chemical explosives are unstable (pretty much by definition); one they start to ignite, nothing can stop them. Expose them to sufficient heat or shock, and they’ll go. Fusion bombs (at least the OTL version) contain relatively small amounts of chemical explosive, which must be detonated in a precise timing sequence to trigger the fission primary. If the sequencing is off, there won’t be a nuclear explosion. With impeller wedges, there also needs to be a sequence of events to bring them up that would be very difficult to happen accidentally. Horace Harkness had to override an awfully large number of safeties in order to bring up that wedge. Yes, there are chemical explosives in OTL fusion bombs, but not in sufficient amount nor sufficiently closely packed together that if the explosives in a single bomb go off that they will trigger a chain reaction, as will happen with large quantities of conventional explosives in a small enough volume. The only difference between HMS Hood and a wooden ship is that the former has more armor around its magazine — but if that magazine is penetrated, or someone is careless inside, there isn’t much difference. The magazines of Henke’s ships simply aren’t as unstable. Missile launch failures are going to be a fact of life on any ship, new or old. The missiles themselves (and presumably they’re getting standard issue missiles) are going to have lots of interlocks to prevent activation before it has cleared the ship and (one would hope, at any rate) are designed to fail safe — if the electronics in the missile fail, or the missile itself does not determine that it’s far enough from the ship, the impeller won’t be brought up. The magazines might not be unstable, but the ships contain a large amount of hydrogen as fuel. Of course that’s not explosive by itself, but when mixed with the correct proportion of oxygen it can be bad news. Wyrm says: And if you are worried about what could go wrong … … remember what Sir HorrissHarkness did to Cordelia Ransom (and her ship) Sir Horace was a highly 31337 h4x0r who had to use all of his skillz to accomplish that. Then again, look at what Manpower & fiends almost did to Honor… On the use of fission and fusion powerplants, has anyone done the math, and seen if Weber’s assumptions on fission even hold up? I personally can’t see something as power hungry as a LAC having fission cells that don’t need refueling for years. The amount of plutonium, uranium, thorium or whatnot should be prohibitive in comparison to hydrogen slush volume, even with fast breeder reactors. Consider the graser, it’d need a bomb pumped energizer to work, or equivalent amount of delivered power in a short interval. A boosted fission nuke delivers quite alot more output than a plain fission device, and that involves not so much lithium deuteride, in comparison to the plutonium pit. If only the Bismarck actually engaged the RN aggressively… it could have taken out half the available cap ships, and the carrier. And if it had a bit more luck with the Swordfishes… Ofcourse if Hitler had just built U-boats instead, England would have sunk. MadMcAl says: @adis You sound as if you are disapointed that the nazis lost! I am a german and I am glad about that. Of course Hitler and the nazis lost only through Hitlers Orders. Many times. Also we all know that the 18 years life-time of the LAC-fission-reactors where an typo. MMW wanted to let them run 18 month. But the even so, I think you overestimate the energy-requirements of the LAC’s. Much of the energy comes from the superconductor-rings, wich can be loaded before the battle from the mother-ship. Another big part comes from the Beta²-emitters, that, as we know are direct descendants from the missile-impeller-systems, and actually syphon a bit of energy. Of course much will also generated by the pile. So what? Actual modern fission piles have an ELECTRICAL power-output of more than 1 GW. At the same time they have 3 times the additional thermal power-output. We can assume that the extremely sophisticated energy-conversion-system used to convert the thermal output of the fusion reactors can also be used to convert much more of this power to electric. And the 41th century radiation-shielding would reduce the overall-mass extremely. A 1440 MW-Pile of today-technology (actually 1975-technology, but who counts this few years) has an actual heavy metal mass of 103 tons (with an thermal output of 3900 MW). If we asume that the honorverse-technology can provide radiation-shielding with a 3-1 ratio of mass and an efficiency of 80% for the conversion, than tha LAC’s can have an 15 GW-pile with a mass of a bit under 1500t. On a 20000t-LAC that is not so very much. Also we know that for example the reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier have a live-time of arround 23 years, so the 18 years aren’t so extreme inprobable. Of course we don’t know the average output of an DD-size fusion reactor, or the requirements of an LAC-size impeller. But I think that 15 GW would be enough. I was just commenting that the Nazis could have had a more effective battle strategy. jamesx says: Adis. First remember before 1900 Germany wasn’t a great Naval power like the British and French were They had no long tradition to fall back on like Lord Nelson With the British—- The Hood had holy stoned wooden decks on top for god sake!!!! Can you now understand why she went down so fast!! The British Admirality with there stiff upper lip thought battleships Didn’t need metal armor on deck, just the sides– But with the long British tradition– the British Admirality understood A ships purpose is to go down fighting— All Hitler saw was the Bismarks Propaganda value. And no one Was going to tell a mad man that she was sunk by the British– So the German high command gave the Oder to scuttle her– What a wastefull end to a ship ahead of her time Brom says: MadMcAl, Two additional points – DW did make the “18 year fission life is a typo, should be 18 months” in 1998, but IIRC, he later – in 2004 – went back to keeping the fission pile life at 18 years. Not that it seemed to make much difference as the combat life expectancy was akin to the 8th AF B-17s doing daylight bombing in WWII. Also, the capacitor rings were trickle charged from the LAC fission piles. IDSTR any mention of being charged up from the CLAC fusactors prior to launch, although that might have been a later development. Either way, the LACs only have a limited number of full power shots from the spinal grasers. There was to my knowledge never mentioned that the capacitor rings where charged from the mother ship. But please, that should be a no-brainer. If you have a ship servicing the LAC’s that has actually at least one (more propably 3, considering the size of the CLAC’s) unused fusion reactors, everyone of them propably powerfull enough to power an complete battlecruiser on one hand, and the barely adequate power-output of the fission pile on the other hand, and you wouldn’t even think about using this unused fusion reactors to supplement the fission piles rather meager charge… well, I for one would question your sanity. Remember, we know that an DD-fusion reactor is many times stronger than an LAC needs. It is just the smallest an graviton-fusion-reactor is buildable. We also can only asume the power-output an DN-sized fusion reactor would generate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more than 100 times the output of an Shrike-fission-pile (considering that an DN is arround 200-300 times the mass of an Shrike). So it would make every sense to have the capacitors of the LAC’s topped of prior to the launch from the mother-ships fusion reactors. Also I know that the typo has been made canon by DW. But it was originaly a typo. Re the capacitor rings, that would seem a logical practice – but I’ve learned to be wary of ‘no brainer’ ideas if MWW has not mentioned something along that line. He is very likely to have a compelling reason why the no-brainer idea is a ‘bad thing’. On the typo, if you knew it had been re-verified by MWW, why push the incorrect data? FWIW, even David had doubts if it was typo or not-a-typo, and went with typo because it differed from hit tech bible. This came up at Balticon 33 where a number of fans pointed out the 18 year figure not only was more logical, given our current knowledge of fission physics, but that an 18 month life would impose a truly massive logisitics and maintenance burden onto the RMN, given the numbers of fission-powered LACs being built and put into service. Leave a Reply to jamesx Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2319
__label__cc	0.631621	0.368379	The Greatest Escape Games Contact The Greatest Escape Games 801 South Tejon Street The Greatest Escapes Games is a challenge like no other. Requiring no exceptional physical strength or exertion you must use of the strongest muscle in your body – Your Mind! If you are looking for a safe, fun activity suitable for people of all ages from 5-99 where everyone “gets to play” and contribute to the overall accomplishment of the goal – to get out in 60 minutes – then The Greatest Escapes Games are for you. Cabin Fever - (10 years and above) Cabin Fever Escape RoomLocked in a cabin and you need to get out establish ownership of claim at the town’s assay office before the noon deadline! You and your friends are partners with Sourdough Joe in a gold mine but he dies before telling you where it is or registering the claim at the Assay Office. You must find the map in his cabin that leads to the gold mine and register it at the Assay Office before closing time today or you lose your rights to the claim as partners. But once inside the cabin you are locked in by another Claim Jumper who wants to have the deadline pass so that he can stake the claim for himself! Scandal - (8 years and above) J.J. Carey is at a fund raising dinner in town where he intends to announce his candidacy to run in the next election. Coincidently, J.J. is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of his young and beautiful intern, Lucy Longlegs. A source close to the politician may have information about how she disappeared and has requested that you and your group meet them at the politician’s house to help look for clues that may solve the case. J.J. and his wife, Polly will be returning from dinner within the hour so there isn’t much time to find out what may have happened to Lucy! Share your review for The Greatest Escape Games	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2321
__label__cc	0.617131	0.382869	abstract (adj.) late 14c., originally in grammar (in reference to certain nouns that do not name concrete things), from Latin abstractus "drawn away," past participle of abstrahere "to drag away, detach, pull away, divert;" also figuratively, from assimilated form of ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + trahere "to draw," from PIE root *tragh- "to draw, drag, move" (see tract (n.1)). The meaning in philosophy, "withdrawn or separated from material objects or practical matters" (opposed to concrete) is from mid-15c. That of "difficult to understand, abstruse" is from c. 1400. In the fine arts, "characterized by lack of representational qualities" by 1914; it had been a term in music at least since 1877. Abstract expressionism as an American-based uninhibited approach to art exemplified by Jackson Pollock is from 1952, but the term itself had been used in the 1920s of Kandinsky and others. Oswald Herzog, in an article on "Der Abstrakte Expressionismus" (Sturm, heft 50, 1919) gives us a statement which with equal felicity may be applied to the artistic attitude of the Dadaists. "Abstract Expressionism is perfect Expressionism," he writes. "It is pure creation. It casts spiritual processes into a corporeal mould. It does not borrow objects from the real world; it creates its own objects .... The abstract reveals the will of the artist; it becomes expression. ..." [William A. Drake, "The Life and Deeds of Dada," 1922] Then, that art we have called "abstract" for want of any possible descriptive term, with which we have been patient, and, even, appreciative, getting high stimulation by the new Guggenheim "non-objective" Art Museum, is reflected in our examples of "surrealism," "dadaism," and what-not, to assert our acquaintance in every art, fine or other. [Report of the Art Reference Department of Pratt Institute Free Library for year ending June 30, 1937] abstract (n.) "abridgment or summary of a document," mid-15c., from abstract (adj.). abstract (v.) 1540s, "to draw away, withdraw, remove" (transitive), from Latin abstractus or else from abstract (adj.). From 1610s in the philosophical sense "consider as a general object or idea without regard to matter." Related: Abstracted; abstracting. abstracted abstractly abstainer abstemious abstinent abstruse	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2322
__label__wiki	0.862828	0.862828	Lights, Camera, Gatsby: Analyzing Cinematic Influence in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Greatest Work Anne Marie Hawley Anne Marie Hawley is a senior at Georgetown University. She is majoring in English with a minor in film and media studies. While it was not until later in his career that F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, his 1925 magnum opus, The Great Gatsby, bears the distinct influence of the silver screen. At the time when he penned the novel, celebrity culture was rapidly emerging, and film actors and actresses ascended to American royalty. This was accompanied by an explosion in advertising which marketed every product imaginable to help viewers emulate their favorite idols. The era was obsessed with appearance and display—and both were fundamental ingredients in selling the escapism offered by the movies. But as time progressed, the film industry contributed to a growing disparity between external representation and internal reality, a theme which pervades The Great Gatsby. Through his allusions to film, Fitzgerald warns readers against the hollowness of Hollywood’s glittering promises and shiny facades, and he raises questions about spectatorship, cautioning against holding so tightly to our dreams that we forget to live. The most explicit references to Hollywood cinema in Gatsby come through Myrtle Wilson, whose extramarital affair with the posh Tom Buchanan leads her to pose as the debutante she is not. When she and Tom go into the city, she stops at a news-stand to buy “a copy of Town Tattle and a moving-picture magazine” (27). These gossip “glossies” give Myrtle a source of inspiration, imbuing her with romantic archetypes that she strives—and fails—to emulate. Like almost everyone in Gatsby, Myrtle is preoccupied with outer appearance and playing a character. With her stage partner Tom, she masquerades as her alter ego. To complete the transformation, she relies upon a classic theatrical technique: the costume change. Myrtle trusts that all she needs are fancy clothes to transcend her middle-class status and fashion her into a proper New York socialite. The narrator Nick Carraway describes: Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and now was attired in an elaborate dress of cream-colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room. With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air (30). Fitzgerald’s language comments on the exhibitionism of Myrtle’s act, accentuating her “to-be-looked-at-ness[1].” But we see through her pageantry. Lying through her teeth, Myrtle brushes off Mrs. McKee’s compliment, “This crazy old thing? I just slip it on when I don’t care what I look like” (31). Myrtle tries to feign Daisy’s and Jordan’s East Egg mystique by imitating the carelessness that has won them both a cult following, but there is no mistaking Myrtle for the real thing. Fitzgerald seems to invite us to laugh at Myrtle, recognizing her for what she is: a bored, working-class housewife playing dress-up. Unfortunately for Myrtle, the costume fails to change her interior reality, and the same pernicious truth seems to lie at fault for the Wilsons’ crumbling marriage. Myrtle mistook George’s costume for his true self; she moans to Nick, “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman” (34). Only after the wedding does she realize she has been fooled: “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out” (35). George played the part of suitor like a Hollywood actor, and Myrtle’s discovery of his charade signals a slippage between reality and performance. The ambiguity between truth and disguise—a fundamental ingredient in any silver screen spectacle—destabilizes our understanding of the characters and even their understanding of one another. But the distinction between show and actuality is difficult to make, and distorted vision and misperception underlie the thematic elements of the novel. With advancements in photography—and later, cinema—people gained the ability to both record and manipulate reality. Mr. McKee alludes to this power when he appraises Myrtle. “I should change the light,” he decides. “I’d like to bring out the modeling of the features. And I’d try to get a hold of all the back hair” (31). In a novel obsessed with light and shadow, McKee draws our attention to how lighting influences our perception. Here, he is likely referring to the classic 3-point lighting system in which a bright key light and dimmer fill light are angled towards a subject while a diffused backlight stands behind the subject. “What Mr. McKee is saying,” scholar Paul Douglas McCormick infers, “is that by increasing the backlighting, he can create a softened and slightly blurry image of Myrtle Wilson to make her look glamorous…and match her affected movie-star hauteur” (24). With his lens, Mr. McKee can create an artful representation of a drab truth. Sustaining style and appeal thus becomes more than a one-person job; Myrtle uses clothing to create an aura of elegance, but to further the illusion, she submits to the manipulating effects of Mr. McKee’s photographic equipment. When the film develops, Myrtle’s image will look as vague and hazy as the glamorous illusions to which she subscribes. But sacrificing clear sight for allure proves disastrous in the end; when Myrtle runs out into the road, it’s because she misrecognizes the driver of Gatsby’s car. Through the dusty gloom, she falsely believes Tom is at the wheel. Irrationally, Myrtle thinks Tom will stop to save her from her loveless marriage to Wilson, and together they will live happily ever after out West. It is a romantic fantasy—exactly the kind which Hollywood perpetuates. Her gruesome death serves as a grim caution: “Myrtle lives and dies for the glamour that Hollywood implicitly promises but never delivers to her, for the serious and consequentialist acts of misperception caused by the Hollywood version of the American dream” (McCormick 30). Myrtle’s body is discovered with her mouth “wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long” (Fitzgerald 137). Fitzgerald warns us of the dire consequences of holding stubbornly to one’s illusions; “breath[e] dreams like air” for too long and soon one suffocates (161). But Myrtle isn’t the only one whose distorted vision conflates reality and illusion. Advertisements, in their 1920s ubiquity, are perverted into the moral center of the novel. George Wilson, deranged upon learning of his wife’s violent death, gazes into the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, murmuring, “You may fool me, but you can’t fool God” (159). Michaelis seems immune to Wilson’s confusion, and he assures him, “That’s an advertisement” (160). Literary critic Laura Barrett observes that throughout Gatsby, advertisements and photographs serve to distort the relationship between original and representation (Barrett 541). When Jimmy Gatz’s father shows up for his son’s funeral at the novel’s close, he anchors his pride in pictorial evidence of Gatsby’s wealth. Nick observes, “It was a photograph of the house…He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself…He seemed reluctant to the put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes” (172). In favoring the photo over the physical place, Mr. Gatz exemplifies the same romanticization of the image that leads Myrtle to buy glossy magazines and pose for Mr. McKee. All three characters – George, Myrtle, and Mr. Gatz – latch their imaginations onto images, producing an idealization that is juxtaposed against photography’s documentary purpose. In the face of this distortion, we must question whether photographs’ truth value has been overstated. When Gatsby explains his backstory, Nick doesn’t believe a word of it and fights “to restrain [his] incredulous laughter” (66). That changes as soon as Gatsby pulls out pictorial evidence: “It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby looking a little, not much, younger—with a cricket bat in his hand. Then it was all true” (67). The immediacy with which Nick revises his assessment of Gatsby’s credibility raises questions about Nick’s gullibility. Has he, like many before him, been fooled by a manipulated image, a creative representation of the original? Given the novel’s heightened awareness of its own filtered, mediated story, we have grounds to wonder. Part of the difficulty of identifying what’s “real” lies in the concerted efforts of characters to embody illusion. In another distinctly cinematic reference, Nick recounts seeing a film producer and his star at one of Gatsby’s parties, noting, “Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies” (105). The actress seems “scarcely human,” just an outward façade without substance (104). Her hollowness attracts Daisy, who perhaps recognizes the star as a fellow plaything who exists to be projected upon and manipulated by the world around her. Women exist for artifice and others’ use in Daisy’s imagination—after all, Daisy believes that “the best thing a girl can be in this world [is] a beautiful little fool” (17). “The rest offended [Daisy],” Nick writes, “and inarguably, because it wasn’t a gesture but an emotion” (107). Daisy rejects depth and feeling, essentially functioning as Myrtle’s diametric opposite. Where Myrtle is sensual and full of vitality, Daisy is light, dreamy, and airy—almost without corporeality. She and the star boast the same blank artificiality that Daisy also admires in Gatsby. Like moth to flame, Gatsby’s glittering front entices her. “You always look so cool,” Daisy tells him. “You resemble the advertisement of the man” (119). She flattens him to two-dimensions, and Gatsby, for his part, is more than happy to play along. Jay Gatsby never stops performing. In his famous opening description of the mysterious tycoon, Nick writes, “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” (2). Gatsby belongs onscreen, and scholar Joss Lutz Marsh notes how Gatsby’s exaggerated movements typify the “stylized mimetic gestures of silent film” (Marsh 6). Gatsby is a master of nonverbal communication; the first time we glimpse him he is “stretch[ing] out his arms toward the dark water” and “trembling,” a physical expression of his yearning (Fitzgerald 20; 21). The magic (and advantage) of the film medium is its ability to capture movement, and Gatsby makes sure he will stand out on screen. “He was never quite still,” Nick recalls. “There was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand” (64). The motion symbolizes how Gatsby is grasping for something more. Despite his great wealth, Gatsby feels insecure in his position and betrays the anxiety that his rags-to-riches story may deliver him to rags once again. He is like the prominent actor who questions whether the Hollywood roles will keep coming. Everything about Gatsby, from his dynamism to his opulent fashion, suggests his camera-readiness, but his true desire is to direct the onscreen action. He stages everything, attempting to woo Daisy with his lavish mansion. Like a film set, the house is beautiful but not functional; room are unused, and books stand uncut in the library (Marsh 10). Artificiality bleeds through, “as though in [Daisy’s] actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real” (Fitzgerald 91). Despite the radiance of outward appearances, Gatsby resembles the vacuity of the film Star. At the end of one of Jay’s infamous parties, Nick describes, “A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell” (55). Fitzgerald aligns Gatsby’s stylized poses with emptiness and isolation; like Myrtle, Gatsby “paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” (161). He fails to actualize his fantasy into something material; in the end, it leaves him a shell of man—all skeleton, no substance. Gatsby focuses on the projection of himself to the exclusion of inhabiting his own corporeality. He participates in his own objectification, content to reduce himself to a glossy image. Like an actor in a movie, Gatsby belongs to a fantasy world of sound stages and scripted lines—a world where the past can be repeated with a second take or a simple rewind. The actor analogy proves apt since Gatsby plays a role of his own invention, “just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (98). He looms mythically large over the novel, inspiring the kind of gossip that would earn him a feature in one of Myrtle’s Town Tattle magazines. Marsh explains, “In Gatsby, Fitzgerald had deliberately constructed not a protagonist or even a character of fiction subject to the conditions of “development,” “roundness,” “individuality” and “interiority,” but a “star”” (Marsh 5). Readers get remarkably little information about the novel’s title character, and he remains shrouded in mystery. For all the romantic speculation Gatsby inspired, Nick writes, “To my disappointment, he had little to say” (Fitzgerald 64). Nevertheless, Gatsby’s pageantry arouses a cult of fascination. Our imagination easily attaches to Gatsby and his extravagant world of champagne bubbles, sequined dresses, and a mansion full of “people who do interesting things. Celebrated people” (90). In an era that deified advertising and lauded consumption as the highest good, Gatsby represents the perfect star in Marsh’s conception: “[a] figure of leisure, depicted not as producing but as enjoying the fruits of the world” (8). Indeed, we never see Gatsby at work. While the novel features several allusions to Gatsby’s bootlegging business, Gatsby’s screen time portrays him entertaining himself with his many possessions: his hydroplane, Rolls Royce, swimming pool, piano, et cetera. His world is depicted in almost paradisaical terms: “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold” (40). To step into Gatsby’s party is to step into a living daydream—and the idyllically too posed, too perfect world of advertisement. Every element is perfectly curated and calibrated to inspire the envy of all. Nick finds himself drawn to Gatsby, at once attracted and repelled by Jay’s polish and to-be-looked-at-ness. For Nick, Gatsby embodies film theory’s conception of “spectacle.” According to the University of Chicago’s “Theories of Media” glossary, “While the affective response to spectacle may vary from spectator to spectator, much of the spectacle's appeal (or repugnance) derives from its visual power and ability to hold the gaze of the viewer” (Kan). Gatsby certainly holds Nick’s gaze. While some scholars have inferred a homoerotic attraction, we can also read their relationship as an imbalance between fan (Nick) and star (Gatsby). “My incredulity was submerged in fascination now,” Nick remembers, “it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines” (Fitzgerald 66). Nick buys into Gatsby’s theatrical performance with same blinded enthrallment as pedestrians who avidly discuss the latest celebrity gossip. This solidifies Gatsby’s position as leading actor and relegates Nick to a front row seat in the theater. In this dynamic, Nick willingly becomes a spectator, and since Gatsby is so laconic, Nick also assumes the role of our primary interpreter. Gatsby, meanwhile, acts as a “passive signifier, whose function is not to do or to act but to be and to “mean” only in the sense of offering a focus for meanings—meanings which we as identifying and assimilating audience read into and map on to him” (Marsh 9). Nick engages in this identification, projecting himself onto Gatsby and letting his romantic imagination run wild. “Since Nick permits himself to interpret events and attitudes,” scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon concludes, “these events and attitudes may be partially his own creation…and his view becomes our own” (28). But this doesn’t happen unknowingly; Fitzgerald consciously draws our attention to how Nick filters the information we receive. He is at once part of the scene and an invisible, camera-like observer. Nick’s cinematic storytelling—with its voice-over commentary, ellipses fades, and jump cuts—consistently reminds us of Nick’s subjective point of view. When it comes to Gatsby, Nick has a tendency to wax poetic. He will slip into soft-focus by becoming increasingly verbose and romantic, “perceiv[ing] Gatsby the way a camera lens might perceive a romantic movie star” (McCormick 39). Nick’s saturated prose leaves no question that the retelling has been exaggerated by his imagination—unsurprising, given Nick’s self-description as “a guide, a pathfinder” and “rather literary in college” (Fitzgerald 4). In addition, Nick’s “deep insight into the workings of Gatsby’s inner self goes beyond what a character with limited perspective could possibly discern” (Dixon 28). When recounting Gatsby’s past, Nick likely takes liberties and makes up dialogue, quickly getting caught up in imaginative reveries. Just as Michaelis stresses to Wilson that Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is just an advertisement, Jordan must remind an overly-romanticizing Nick that his neighbor is “just a man named Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 48). Ultimately, Nick’s imagination eclipses his own place in the story; there is something sad, almost pitiful, about Nick’s obsession with Gatsby. He never moves on from the summer of 1922, and he moves back West because “after Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for [him]” (Fitzgerald 176). Through Nick, Fitzgerald subtly reveals the lingering consequences of spectatorship and over-identification. Joss Lutz Marsh writes: To evoke the movie ethos and star model in his novel was to dramatize a problem Fitzgerald worried at throughout his career - modern man's removal from his direct experience into a half- world of dangerous dreams; the deadening of sensation and perception, and the fracturing of relationships, that is fostered by indulgence in such vicarious emotion as that, pre-eminently, which the movies offer their audiences. (102) Nick perceptively diagnoses Gatsby with holding too tightly to the “colossal vitality of his illusion,” but Nick fails to cure himself of the same disease (Fitzgerald 95). Just as Gatsby attaches his dreams to Daisy, Nick projects his grand imagination onto Gatsby, “throw[ing] himself into it with a creative passion” (95). Gatsby’s death proves Gatsby was made for a larger-than-life, celluloid world, and Nick similarly struggles to live confined within the mortal one. As Marsh alludes, the traits which lead Nick to fixate on Gatsby also disrupt his ability to enjoy authentic human connection. Throughout the novel, we see Nick isolate himself. His relationship with Jordan seems to have little emotional depth or genuine closeness. While Nick is tight-lipped on his past, we know Nick left Chicago because he refused to be pressured to propose to his girlfriend, and he only mentions in passing his “short affair with a girl who worked in the accounting department” (56). For all his romanticism, actual intimacy evades Nick. And yet, there are moments when Nick breaks free of his fetishizing gaze as spectator. His idealism flickers, undercutting Gatsby’s apparent stardom. Nick’s assessment upon first meeting Gatsby reveals the periodic ambivalence that makes him such an interesting and perceptive narrator. He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished—and I was looking at an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. (48) It is in moments like these where we see Nick shrink the fabled Gatsby back down to size. While Nick is the camera through which we enter Gatsby’s world, he seems uncertain what genre he is recording. Part-romance, part-film noir, Nick’s conflicted narrative style deconstructs itself. He builds up illusion then lets it fade away; “My first impression, that [Gatsby] was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door” (64). Scholar Laura Barret analyzes his duality, writing, “Nick is more interested in representing truth than realism, and his schizophrenic narrative which hovers between and ultimately conflates reality and illusion, is the vexing attempt to record a reality more real than reality. Nick is torn between two types of vision and expression: straightforward reporting of a specific moment and space versus a romanticized account of a universal, timeless image” (546). If we look at the cinematography of Nick’s storytelling, who as narrator decides what we get to see, the “camera” shifts between point-of-view shots from Nick’s perspective and angles which pull back to reveal a more complete picture. He alternates between depicting Gatsby as the knight in shining armor of an overblown fairy tale and painting Gatsby as a tragic hero, trapped in the past and deluded by the “promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing” (Fitzgerald 99). Through Nick’s vacillation, Fitzgerald points to a broader truth about our relationship to cinema, poignantly highlighting our intense desire to idealize “star” figures and pin our dreams on the silver screen. But glamour, sparkle, and shine all distort our vision, distracting us from the hollowness of unrealizable fantasy. Quietly, subtly, Fitzgerald ushers us off the set and out of the theater, hoping to save us from the miserable fate of Myrtle, Gatsby, and Nick. For Fitzgerald, living through an era saturated with glamorous movie stars and glossy advertisements, his message cuts deep. The plethora of cinematic influences in Gatsby—including celebrity gossip magazines, photography, costumes, gesturing, the cult of the “star,” and spectatorship—reveals the shallowness beneath the glitter, the idealism that romantically disguises the artificiality and emptiness which no amount of dreaming can make real. Barrett, Laura. "'Material without Being Real': Photography and the End of Reality in The Great Gatsby." Studies in the Novel, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 1998, pp. 540-57. ProQuest Central. Accessed 9 Dec. 2017. Dixon, Wheeler Winston. The Cinematic Vision of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1986. Studies in Modern Literature 62. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. Scribner, 2004. Kan, Leslie. "Spectacle." Theories of Media: Keywords Glossary, U of Chicago, csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/spectacle.htm. Accessed 10 Dec. 2017. Marsh, Joss Lutz. "Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and The Last Tycoon: The 'American Dream' and the Hollywood Dream Factory." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1992, pp. 3-13. JSTOR. Accessed 9 Dec. 2017. ---. "Fitzgerald, Gatsby, and The Last Tycoon: The 'American Dream' and the Hollywood Dream Factory-Part Two." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, 1992, pp. 102-08. JSTOR. Accessed 9 Dec. 2017. McCormick, Paul Douglas. American Cinematic Novels and Their Media Environments, 1925–2000. 2012. The Ohio State University, PhD dissertation. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Accessed 9 Dec. 2017. [1] Here I borrow Laura Mulvey’s phrase from her highly influential essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” as she describes spectators’ scopophilic instinct, or the pleasure experienced when looking at another person as an erotic object. Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, vol. 16, no. 3, Oct. 1975, pp. 6-18.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2323
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Does anyone know anything about this version? I can't even be sure who the translator is, but the introduction says that the Creech version was "many years ago" and this one is supposed to be more literal. Unfortunately it has the old "f" for "s" font style, but the eye adjusts to that pretty quickly, and the arrangement of the text does a pretty good job lining up the respective Latin and translated English. I've downloaded the PDF and I expect screen shots of this version will be helpful in the future. This provides the Latin and at least a starting point for translation, and then other translators (such as Smith) can be used to fill out the meaning. Thanks to Eoghan or I would not have found this! Note: We really need the best public domian side-by-side Lucretius we can find for teasing out the meaning. I continue to look for an out-of-copyright version of the LOEB side by side edition from the 1920s, but I've not been able to find one on Archive.org or anywhere else. I watch this site (http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html) but they can't seem to find one either. If anyone has access to a library with an old collection of Loebs from which a PDF can be made of a public domain edition (not the more recent one which is copyrighted) then please post about it! https://archive.org/stream/tlu…so00lucr#page/n9/mode/2up Here is the original entry page at Archive.org, but it doesn't seem to list an author, so I don't even now how to cite this edition - https://archive.org/details/tlucretiuscaruso00lucr To me this is very impressive. It is essentially a line-by-line version, with an effort apparently made to translate each sentence - and even each word in each sentence, to a degree - from Latin into English, and at least somewhat literally. With this arrangement it is much easier to check the Latin to see if the translator has added or omitted or massaged the original words. This is exactly the way I would set up a reference edition myself. It's not clear to me whether the original text had clear sentence breaks, so maybe we are relying on someone's interpretation of where they break, but as long as the original latin words are left in order, that also can be crosschecked. I am thinking that Daniel Browne must be the publisher rather than the translator? I have never seen these assertions that Lucretius was educated in Athens, or those who were his teachers, or the reference to Cornelius Nepos talking about him. Is this correct or speculation? Ah this is good too, that Lucretius did not commit suicide, but was given the "filtre" by his wife or his mistress to make him more passionate! Presumably more speculation, but maybe no less well grounded than the accusation of suicide? Here is at least one instance in which I find this version superior to Bailey. Given the tension between Epicurus and dialectical logic, I have always thought Bailey's version of the following passage is misleading when he says that "all such power belongs to reason alone." "Reason alone" being a dangerous formulation. Whoever this translator is, he didn't go that way, and simply says "all this stuff is want of sense..." I think this version is much more accurate to the general tone of the philosophy. Here are the two versions - First Bailey Then the "anonymous" translator, which I think is better for not implying a false estimation of "reason alone" - Poster: we are looking at “rationis egestas.” Egestas is “poverty, lack, need.” Ratio is what the brain does... so “poverty of thinking... lack of thought.. in need of reason.” I agree “Reason alone” is bad philosophically, and happily that is not what the Latin says. So Bailey added “alone” from his head, and the “sense” in the second translation is “mental sense/thinking” not the sensations/senses. Cassius: I think someone in tune with Epicurean philosophy would likely have the same reservation about "all such power belongs to reason alone" (Bailey) or "Why do you hesitate, why doubt that reason Alone has absolute power? " (Humphries) so that implies that our anonymous author (1) understands Epicurus very well, (2) is very good with Latin and his doing his best to be literal, or (3) both of the above. I am hoping this translation is going to be very valuable for another good perspective in English. I've continued to Google and found nothing as to the translator - even in WORLDCAT there is no reference to the author, as it seems highly unlikely that Daniel Browne is the author. I have a friend near London who may be able to find something - this is something that needs to be corrected. Scanning through it so far, it seems to me the work is very high quality and the author deserves recognition. Probably there is mention of this by Bailey or Munro in their discussion of prior editions, and it will just be a matter of slewthing around to figure it out. https://www.worldcat.org/.../t-lucretius.../oclc/642617537 Explanation for the Temple Bar reference: OK - according to John Mason Good in 1805, the TRANSLATOR (with colleagues) IS Guernier! Unless Good too is confused by the title page, but that would seem to be unlikely. SO WHO WAS GUERNIER!?? Next page ..... with the insufferable Good claiming that it is impossible to do justice to Lucretius except in poem form. Maybe so, but Good's version is now consigned to the dustbin it deserves, along with his footnotes that overwhelm the text itself. The prose edition by Guernier is worth 100 times Good's attempt at poetry. Maybe Good IS wrong? In the 1871 Dictionary of Biographical Reference there is only one Guernier, and he is Renee, a French Engraver Opening of Lucretius Book 1, from 1743 Edition of unknown author. Everyone has their own taste in writing style, but I've always found this opening one of the most difficult-to-read passages. If the rest of the book lives up to the standard set here, this might be one of the most understandable English versions available. Two takeaways: (1) If this translator is correct, "Venus" is pretty clearly not identical with "Nature." Whatever we conclude Lucretius considered Venus to be, whether it is "pleasure" or some other "force," it probably isn't a simple personification of Nature. (2) There's still significant interpretation going on, for example in the last sentence quoted here, does "Caelo" mean "sky," or "heavens," or can it mean "Gods"? MOTHER of Rome, Delight of Men and Gods, Sweet Venus; who with vital Power dost fill the Sea bearing the Ships, the fruitful Earth, all Things beneath the rolling Signs of Heaven; for ‘tis by Thee Creatures of every kind conceive, rise into Life, and view the Sun’s bright Beams. Thee Goddess, Thee the Winds avoid; the Clouds fly Thee, and thy Approach; with various Art the Earth for Thee affords her sweetest Flowers; for Thee the Sea’s rough Waves put on their Smiles, and the smooth Sky shines with diffused Light. For when the buxom Spring leads on the Year, and genial Gales of Western Winds blow fresh, unlock’d from Winter’s Cold, the airy Birds first feel Thee Goddess, and express thy Power; thy active Flame strikes though their very Souls. And then the savage Beasts, with wanton Play, frisk o’er the cheerful Fields, and swim the rapid Streams. So pleased with thy Sweetness, so transported by thy soft Charms, all living Nature strives, with sharp Desire, to follow thee her Guide, where Thou art pleas’d to lead. In short, thy Power inspiring every Breast with tender Love, drives every Creature on with eager Heat, in Seas, in Mountains, and in swiftest Floods, in leafy Forests, and in verdant Plains, to propagate their Kind from Age to Age. Since Thou alone dost govern Nature’s Laws, and nothing without Thee can rise to Light, without Thee nothing can look gay or lovely; I beg Thee a Companion to my Lays, which, now I sing of Nature, I devote to my dear Memmius, whom Thou art ever pleased, sweet Goddess, to adorn with every Grace; for him, kind Deity, inspire my song, and give immortal Beauty to my Verse. Mean time, the bloody Tumults of the War by Sea and Land compose, and lay asleep. For Thou alone Mankind with quiet Peace canst bless; because ‘tis Mars Armipotent that rules the bloody Tumults of the War, and He by everlasting Pains of Love bound fast, tastes in thy Lap most sweet Repose, turns back his smooth long Neck, and views thy Charms, and greedily sucks Love at both his Eyes. Supinely as he rests his very Soul hangs on thy Lips; this God dissolv’d in Ease, in the soft Moments when thy heavenly Limbs cling round him, melting with Eloquence caress, great Goddess, and implore a Peace for Rome. For neither can I write with chearful Strains, in Times so sad, nor can the noble House of Memmius desert the common Good in such Distress of Things. The Hours you spare apply with close Attention to my Verse, and free from Care receive true Reason’s Rules; nor these my Gifts, prepared with faithful Pains, reject with Scorn before they are understood. For I begin to write of lofty Themes, of Gods, and of the Motions of the Sky, the Rise of Things, how all Things Nature forms, and how they grow, and to Perfection rise, and into what, by the same Nature’s Laws, those Things resolve and die; which as I write I call by various Names; sometimes ‘tis Matter, or the first Principles or Seeds of Things, or first of Bodies, whence all else proceed. For the whole Nature of the Gods must spend an Immortality in softest Peace, removed from our Affairs, and separated by Distance infinite; from Sorrow free; secure from Danger; in its own Happiness sufficient, and nought of ours can want, is neither pleased with Good, nor vexed with Ill. Indeed Mankind, in wretched Bondage held, lay groveling on the ground, galled with the Yoke of what is called Religion; from the Sky this Tyrant shewed her Head, and with grim Looks hung over us poor Mortals here below; until a Man of Greece with steady Eyes dared look her in the Face, and first opposed her Power. Him not the Fame of Gods nor Thunder’s Roar kept back, nor threatening Tumults of the Sky; but still the more they roused the active Virtue of his aspiring Soul, as he pressed forward first to break thro’ Natures scanty Bounds. His Mind’s quick Force prevailed; and so he passed by far the flaming Limits of this World, and wander’d with his comprehensive Soul o’er all the mighty Space; from thence returned triumphant; told us what Things may have a Being, and what cannot; and how a finite Power is fixed to each; a Bound it cannot break; and so Religion, which we feared before, by him subdued, we tread upon in turn; his Conquest makes us equal to the Gods. Poster: Lucretius uses “Venus” usually to refer to sexual desire, by which “nothing can rise to light” etc. The more literal occurrence when Venus kisses Mars may be an illusion to a statue, well known at the time but lost now. I’d say the same play is occurring with caelum, “heavens” as in the sky... ...unless the godly imagery is just too tempting. We are talking about a poet, after all! He let himself play here more than usual. Cassius: Nocks, as you glance through this edition you know I am interested in any comment you have, as I know Lucretius is one of your favorite topics. The Latin text should not be anything new, but the choice of a translator is always interesting (at least to me) because I think the degree someone has immersed himself in Latin will tell the tale on how well the translation follows the meaning. This author is fast becoming one of my favorites, as I see from later in book one that he pushes away from using "accidents" to describe the non-essential attributes of bodies, and instead calls them "events" -- a choice dear to my heart (As you know I've always considered "accidents" to be misleading, as implying "randomness," which I don't think is acceptable at all - "event" in my view is much better, implying only that it is a happening that occurs due to the particular context, but not at "random.") And how about THIS as to "time" -- Right or wrong, he's clear as a bell - time has no meaning apart from things at rest or in motion: Even THIS one seems more clear to me - the Trojan War - or any action, does not have an independent existence like a body does - an event, no matter how stupendous, is just something that occurs to the bodies in the space where the event is carried on. The continuing mystery to me is "Who says that events DO have a separate existence?" Did the Platonists or Pythagoreans give some mystical significance to certain events? Were they asserting something like the later Christians assert about the crucifixion, that it was some supernatural mystical event for the ages? Or were they somehow just saying that events have a "third nature" that is neither body nor space? And is here is one of what I would contend is one of the most important sections of Lucretius - from Book 4 - "So the Reason of Things must of necessity be wrong and false, which is founded upon false Representation of the Senses." Maybe not quite clear as a bell, but superior to many versions of this I have seen. The remainder of this thread will be used to coordinate the transcription of the 1743 edition so that it is more accessible to new readers. The transcription will be posted here: http://epicureanfriends.com/wiki/doku.php?id=browne_1 At present all of the Munro and Bailey versions are complete (though they need proofreading) and Book 1 of the Browne translation is complete. The next step to be undertaken is to complete the remaining books of the Browne translation, and then cross-reference all books against the Latin text line numbers (taken from the Browne side-by-side Latin/English edition. Anyone who is so inclined to contribute, please let me know and paste your suggested text here in the thread. The transcription should be kept as close to the original as possible, but with certain necessary changes, especially in Browne, to modify archaic spellings, the font style in which "f" is used for "s", and mid-sentence capitalization. Once we have all three editions cross-referenced by passage, it will then be possible to prepare a "plain English" version against which the three original translations can serve as a check. 4 - Guide / Moderator Bangkok (Ayutthaya and Cologne, too) I am fine to proofread English texts for this project. We may need to figure out how to do this efficiently, e.g. by exchanging WORD documents. thank you Martin! What I am doing so far is working directly on the wiki pages. I have book 1 finished and have opened pages for the other 5, and I am working as I can to transcribe them. Typing new sections or just proofing what is typed already would be helpful. Probably the best way to communicate for the time being is that anyone who has contributions can just post it to this thread. For the time being I am using this thread to mark progress on organizing the three English public-domain translations of Lucretius (Browne, Munro, and Bailey). I have today completed the reformatting and numbering of the three versions of book one, which means that line numbers are now available in each of the three versions of book one by which it is easier to find the corresponding line in the other two translations. At some point it will probably be desirable to either hyperlink these or set them up in a side-by-side table of three columns, but now at least the fundamental work of setting out each corresponding passage from each translation is complete (for book one). There were a few sections where it appears the Latin text used by the translators differed and sections were left out, but that did not occur frequently. The next step is to move forward and transcribe the next five books as we've done for book one. This question isn't chargeable to Epicurus or Lucretius, certainly, because the engraving in this photo is only a couple of hundred years old. But I wonder why, in this portrayal made for the opening of Lucretius Book One, the artist decided to feature a map of CYPRUS at the bottom left of the drawing. And specifically - it says Cyprus - in case anyone didn't recognize the shape. Is Cyprus a particularly delightful place, or something? Or thought to be so in old England? Or is there in fact a connection I am missing? Elli: Because according to Myth Cyprus is the birthplace of Venus/Aphrodite. Cassius: I never knew that! Venus was born in Cyprus? Why Cyprus? Is there some mountain or temple or some other feature that connected her or her parents with Cyprus? https://visitworldheritage.com/.../d4a87816-4a22-44d0... visitworldheritage.com Birthplace of Aphrodite \| World Heritage Journeys of Europe Birthplace of Aphrodite \| World Heritage Journeys of Europe 3d view! Is one of these rocks the important one? https://www.360cities.net/.../the-birthplace-of-venus-cyprus 360cities.net The birthplace of Venus, Cyprus 360 Panorama \| 360Cities Lucretius Today Podcast Epicurus Today Podcast Online Events: DeWitt Book Review OnLine Events: EpicureanFriends Open Discussion Personal Outlines Local Epicurean Groups Cassius (13) Style: Nexus by cls-design	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2326
__label__cc	0.575991	0.424009	Bioenergy emissions, just counting isn’t enough Posted on 23rd July 2016 30th November 2016 EUbioenergyteamPosted in Opinion By Sini Eräjää, Policy Officer EU Bioenergy, Birdlife Europe and Central Asia and the European Environmental Bureau As the European Commission published its new climate policy this week to address emissions from land and forests (LULUCF), the Commission also stated that the new proposal will cover and record emissions from bioenergy. Seems that they are desperate to find ways to deal with the problematic carbon emissions from bioenergy, but unfortunately the proposal put forward won’t solve anything. When rules for international accounting of greenhouse gas emissions were designed, bioenergy was never assumed to have zero carbon emissions by the international scientific community. The idea was that countries would not count these emissions – or other emissions from agriculture, forestry and land use – in the energy sector, i.e., at the smokestack. Emissions from biomass harvesting for energy were meant to be counted in the land sector as soon as a tree is cut or crop harvested. It’s worth bearing in mind that these rules were designed for book keeping of emissions – which is obviously important – but not necessarily for policy design. One thing is to account for the emissions, another is to take action to ensure we reduce them. European policies have so far both failed to actually account for the emissions from bioenergy and ensure that bioenergy really reduces them significantly. Following the new policy proposal on the inclusion of the land sector in the 2030 climate policy framework, it appears that the Commission is claiming the accounting at least has been taken care of. Unfortunately this is not the case. The new proposal still fails to capture all bioenergy emissions. But even more so, it doesn’t provide strong incentives to ensure countries only support low-carbon bioenergy. A group of 11 environmental organizations across Europe just released a briefing to explain why this is the case. The Commission’s proposal on how to account for emissions in the LULUCF sector still maintains the peculiar accounting rules, especially for forests which don’t really capture carbon removals or emissions from forests. Even the Commission itself admits that the accounting for emissions from forests is so unreliable that it allows countries to take those removals (or emissions) into account only in a very limited way. More importantly, measures are still needed to address the issue. The LULUCF proposal doesn’t provide real incentives to make sure carbon removals from forests and their carbon stocks are maintained. It only requires that net sinks of carbon such as forests don’t turn into net emissions. This is a loose requirement that would allow the release of hundreds of megatonnes of additional CO2 into the atmosphere and won’t be enough to outweigh the strong incentives that energy policies have to cut more wood and crops for energy. If energy policies are not changed and the unconstrained push for increased bioenergy use continues, emissions won’t really be reduced – or at best, just shifted to the land sector. The zero rating of bioenergy emissions in energy policies means that bioenergy producers get credits and subsidies for “reducing emissions” without having to provide any sort of proof this is actually the case. NGOs therefore argue that certain conditions are needed for energy policies so that support is limited to sources of bioenergy that really deliver GHG savings. This means sources with high risk of emissions from direct or indirect land use change or from decrease in nature’s carbon should be phased out and not allowed. Biomass from food and other crops grown on agricultural land and round wood from forests are particularly risky sources from a carbon perspective. While a new policy to address the emissions from land and forests has been much awaited for and needed, and while NGOs will continue working intensively to make it as robust as possible, it in itself is not a sufficient policy tool to ensure that bioenergy use delivers robust and verifiable greenhouse gas savings. Banner photo: Pines (c) Elvis Kennedy, Flickr Creative Commons bioenergy, EU Policy, european commission, GHG emissions, LULUCF European Court of Auditors slams Commission’s scheme for sustainability of biofuels Is the EC taking bad biofuels out of the picture? 2 thoughts on “Bioenergy emissions, just counting isn’t enough” Pingback: A Dirty Day for the Commission’s Clean Dream – EUbioenergy Pingback: http://www.acc.eu.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line2330
__label__wiki	0.891675	0.891675	Digital Foundry vs Skyrim Special Edition Console frame-rates analysed, plus a look at the game's key visual upgrades. Article by Richard Leadbetter, Technology Editor, Digital Foundry It's early days with our analysis of the new Skyrim Remastered, with work only beginning proper on the day of release. Our initial objectives here were pretty straightforward - we wanted to get a grip on PS4 and Xbox One performance metrics after the various issues that have befallen Fallout 4, not to mention the profound problems encountered in the last-gen PS3 release. Secondly, after the release of only the most limited of comparison shots pre-launch, we really wanted to get to grips with the quality of the remaster itself. To what extent does Skyrim Remastered offer an actual improvement over the original release maxed out on PC? The good news is that in virtually every regard, Bethesda has managed to bring the top-tier PC experience to the current generation of consoles and has indeed delivered the range of enhancements promised, but there are some limitations. To begin with, in terms of artwork quality, the remaster appears to retains the core ultra quality texture seen in the original release, but enhancements beyond that seem non-existent. Indeed, modders aren't too impressed at all with Bethesda's approach to the art, suggesting that the original top-end assets have simply been put through an upscaling filter. Beyond the texture work, the actual enhancements come from tweaks to the Creation Engine that affect both level of detail and the post-processing pipeline. As the adventure begins and our hero is on the path to his execution, what's immediately clear is that Bethesda has been lavish with its utilisation of both volumetric light and god rays, as sunlight punches through the forest canopy. It's a nice-looking feature that appears to have been ported over from Fallout 4. Also evident is the inclusion of a tasteful depth of field effect, giving a slightly more realistic look to the field of view. It's interesting to note that these additions to the renderer can actually serve to give the game a somewhat softer look compared to the original presentation, which often resolves more detail in the artwork. But there's no downgrade here - it's simply a new spin on Skyrim's aesthetic. It's as though Bethesda is veering away from the often-harsh, more CG look of the original game when you consider some of the other changes made to the presentation. In-game shadow work receives a substantial alteration, for example, with a far more diffuse appearance - more in line with how shadows actually look in real-life. And this extends to the shader work too, where snow and ice surfaces glisten more realistically, and where water more accurately reflects the surrounding world - not to mention flowing more realistically around bends in the stream, also reacting with changes in velocity in and around obstructing objects. The sense of additional depth added to the world is emphasised via the inclusion of an ambient occlusion system not seen in the original, bestowing subtle shade in the nooks and crannies. What's the best way to get a grip on the enhancements made to Skyrim? Our solution was to play the PS4 remaster and the maxed-out PC original simultaneously with the same controller. Skyrim was originally released in 2011, and it's fair to say that PC technology has moved on significantly since then, while the fixed platform architecture in PS4 and Xbox One also compares favourable with the kind of rig that the game would have originally been run on. With this in mind - and with a 30fps cap set in stone on the consoles - Bethesda has felt confident enough to ramp up the visual quality via more ambition in the Creation Engine's level of detail and procedural generation systems. In the original release, even pushing out all the view distance sliders to the max could see a somewhat sparse level of detail in the mid to far distance, giving a somewhat barren appearance. Now we see that rocks and debris stretch out much further into the distance, while the overall detail level is boosted significantly by a lavish improvement in the amount of foliage added procedurally by the game engine. We wouldn't go so far as to say that it's a game-changing revamp, but what's clear is that the developer has felt confident enough to push more out of the engine. In essence, it has redefined ultra settings, and it'll be interesting to see if the PC version pushes things still further. However, in addition to the upgrades, there are actually some downgrades too - the Xbox One and PC versions of the Special Edition actually feature heavily compressed audio, and actually sound worse than the original release of the game - an unfortunate situation we also witnessed recently with 2K's BioShock remasters. The good news is that the PS4 version actually has enhanced audio compared to the original release, and Bethesda is aware of the issues on the other platforms, suggesting that a fix is in the pipeline. The Skyrim remaster on PS4 takes on PC at max settings. The game is as you remember it, but now with more plantlife, added volumetric lighting, and post-process effects like depth of field - and more. Foliage detail is increased, and rocks draw in at a far greater range on this remaster when stood at the same spot. Water shaders are replaced, producing a softer ripple pattern that reflects the nearby Riverwood village more clearly. Volumetric lighting means we have light shafts fall around objects that occlude the sun in the remaster. This opening scene gives us one example, and we see it again with our first sighting of a dragon, as it obscures the sun. Core texture detail is broadly the same as PC's max settings. However, the remaster (at least in its PS4 release) uses softer, more diffused shadow outlines. Ambient occlusion is added, meaning shade fills out the underside of grass tufts across the game - and all the other corners of the game are shaded in a more natural way. Textures for rocks, ground and armour use the same resolution maps as PC's best setting. The difference we're seeing in colour comes about as a result of the change in post-processing filters used in the remaster. Just one more shot to show - yes - more plants! The original Skyrim had a vast array of bugs, issues and glitches - many of which were fixed with mods - but one of the fundamental improvements made to the engine for the Special Edition is the port of the codebase to a 64-bit environment. This is essential for making Skyrim work on the current-gen consoles, but it also reaps dividends for PC users in that it allows mods to scale into much higher memory space than the original game allowed. Of course, mod support is integrated for console users too, although there are limitations and they vary significantly between PS4 and Xbox One. But what of the actual performance level of the console versions? The 'Rimlag' issues with the PlayStation 3 version are legendary and while the memory management issues were eventually fixed, baseline performance just wasn't particularly great to begin with. On top of that, the Creation Engine's current-gen debut wasn't exactly smooth, with often crippling levels of performance. So from one perspective, there's a huge improvement with Skyrim Special Edition: the game does an excellent job of hitting its 30fps target and proper frame-pacing is enforced for a consistent experience. Stutter can momentarily intrude, but it's not overly impactful on the experience and it does seem to be more noticeable on the Xbox One version of the game - and we note that the Creation Engine actually appears to be storage-bound on the Microsoft platform in some scenarios, based on prior Fallout 4 testing showing that faster hard drives can actually iron out some intrusive performance issues. After Fallout 4's somewhat wobbly performance, we were eager to see how frame-rates hold up on the console Skyrim remaster. Overall, it's a pretty solid 30fps with just minor stutter - we suspect that storage and streaming may well be the issue here, more noticeable on Xbox One. In terms of the rendering basics, Skyrim Special Edition runs at a native 1080p on both platforms with what looks like the same temporal anti-aliasing solution utilised in Fallout 4 - but we're still filtering through Xbox One results in the wake of the revelation that Fallout 4 actually employed a dynamic scaling buffer on the Microsoft platform, adjusting horizontal resolution on the fly according to GPU load. It's something we missed at the time, but came to light via user pixel-counting further on down the line. Assassin's Creed Origins guide, walkthrough and tips Everything you need to know about stealthing and stabbing your way along the Nile. Thus far, Xbox One has held firm at its 1080p pixel-count during our tests, and we suspect that there may well be some degree of overhead left over - but almost certainly not enough to sustain 60fps frame-rates, necessitating the 30fps cap. So far, both consoles appear remarkably like-for-like in terms of their presentation, while Bethesda has confirmed that the PS4 Pro version of the game renders at a native 4K resolution. Bearing in mind that this is a 4x resolution boost over the base PS4 version, using a GPU with around 2.3x the processing power (plus other enhancements), there is the suggestion that the standard PlayStation 4 hardware may be somewhat under-utilised here. Thus far, Skyrim Special Edition looks pretty solid - it can be viewed as an enhanced PC port for the current-gen platforms and in comparison to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, there's a night and day improvement in terms of performance and stability, not to mention resolution, art quality and overall levels of detail. We'll report back soon with a look at the PC version, but based on what we've seen so far, it's perhaps fair to say that the improvements there will be more muted - especially for those who've already tapped into the wealth of available mods, which can transform the game. And of course, with PS4 Pro due imminently, we'll be looking into the game's native 4K credentials as soon as we can. Buy The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition from Amazon [?] Jump to comments (153) More about The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition Richard Leadbetter Technology Editor, Digital Foundry Rich has been a games journalist since the days of 16-bit and specialises in technical analysis. He's commonly known around Eurogamer as the Blacksmith of the Future. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore review - stylish crossover that misses its potential Cyberpunk 2077 dev will continue crunch "to some degree" through five month delay Developers told "minutes" before official announce. 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