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__label__wiki	0.983191	0.983191	/ Live news New-look Bayern out to prove Spurs drubbing was no fluke Issued on: 21/10/2019 - 02:45 Berlin (AFP) Bayern Munich face Olympiakos away in the Champions League on Tuesday with key defender Niklas Suele sidelined as Niko Kovac's side seek to prove their demolition of Tottenham was no fluke. The summer overhaul of Bayern's squad bore spectacular fruit a fortnight ago in a 7-2 thrashing of Spurs as winger Serge Gnabry scored four second-half goals. "The 7-2 was a great match, a statement, but nothing more," insisted Bayern head coach Kovac after last season's finalists were routed. Now Bayern must back up the Spurs trouncing in Athens on the back of below-par performances in the Bundesliga and the loss of Germany centre-back Suele. Bayern suffered their first defeat this season 10 days ago by crashing 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim, then leaked a 91st-minute equaliser in Saturday's 2-2 draw at Augsburg to stay third in the Bundesliga. The point at Augsburg carried a high price as torn knee ligaments means Suele should be sidelined for the next six months. "We didn't pass the character test," admitted Gnabry after the Augsburg draw. "We didn't put our chances away at the end, if we had converted one, it would have been all over. That's how we blew it. "Sometimes you have games like against Tottenham where everything runs smoothly -- then you have days like today or against Hoffenheim. "We simply have to do better with our chances." - Clean out - Gnabry scored in Augsburg as did Robert Lewandowski who equalled the Bundesliga record with goals in each of the first eight games this season. With 16 goals in 12 games in all competitions so far, Lewandowski is in the form of his career, but the 31-year-old is running out of time to win the Champions League trophy with Bayern. His pre-season demands for reinforcements were answered with Ivan Perisic, 30, signed from Juventus and Philippe Countinho, 27, opted for Munich to reboot his career after an unhappy spell at Barcelona. Countinho's silky passing provides Lewandowski with plenty of chances and the pair have forged a key partnership at the heart of Bayern's attack in the wake of Kovac's squad clean out. Senior veterans Franck Ribery, 36, Arjen Robben, 35, and Rafinha, 34, who helped win the 2013 Champions League title, have all been moved on. Despite having only recently turned 30, club stalwart Thomas Mueller has also been deemed surplus to requirements, starting on the bench in Bayern's last seven games as Countinho's back-up. - Boateng's chance - Mats Hummels has been sold back to former club Borussia Dortmund, but now his former centre-back partner Boateng can prove himself after Suele's injury. Having been heavily linked to Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus this year, Boateng could now partner Lucas Hernandez at Olympiakos, where Bayern chase a third straight win to stay top of Group B. Kovac had been using Suele, 24, and Hernandez, 23, as centre-backs, backed up by France's 2018 World Cup winner Benjamin Pavard, 23, who can play in the middle of defence or left-back. Suele had been part of a key quartet of rising Germany stars at Bayern, along with Gnabry, Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka -- all still only 24. Bayern have reached at least the semi-finals of the Champions League in seven of the previous ten seasons, but crashed out in the last 16 to eventual winners Liverpool in 2018/19. However, the effect of bringing in new blood like Countinho was obvious at Tottenham, where the ruthless performance suggested "Bayern are one of the favourites this season," said Sky pundit Didi Hamann. Yet as the Hoffenheim and Augsburg performances showed, Kovac's new-look Bayern is still raw as the club looks to avoid another knock-out phase exit, like in recent years, against such teams as Liverpool, Real Madrid and Barcelona. "A lot needs to go wrong for the other teams and everything must be perfect for Bayern to shorten the gap on the international stage," ex-Germany midfielder Stefan Effenberg told magazine Kicker. "I see Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City and Juventus being ahead of Bayern."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8844
__label__wiki	0.747352	0.747352	Home > Properties > BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia’s tallest building BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia’s tallest building November 26, 2019 Properties 0 Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia’s tallest building. The competition, run by developer Beulah International, to design a £1.1 billion mixed use development in the Australian city of Melbourne has drawn entries from some of the world’s best-known architects. The Lanescraper, designed by BIG and Fender Katsalidis Architects, is two interlocking towers over 300 metres high Six designs for supertall towers have been shortlisted from the following teams: Bjarke Ingels Group with Fender Katsalidis Architects, Coop Himmelb(l)au with Architectus, MAD Architects with Elenberg Fraser, MVRDV with Woods Bagot, OMA with Conrad Gargett, and UNStudio with Cox Architecture. The developer purchased over 560 square metres of land on the Southbank Boulevard last year, and plan to turn it into a new “lifestyle precinct” with a hotel, shops and apartments along with cultural and public spaces. The Urban Tree by MAD Architects and Elenber Fraser would have a light-up cloud shaped hotel near the top Beijing-based MAD Architects and local architecture firm Elenberg Fraser have proposed Urban Tree, a 360-metre-high “mountain village” surrounded by foothills, with a hotel shaped like an illuminated cloud near its summit. LEDs would light up the cloud at night, and renders show the tapering tower would have a glass facade pierced with trees. In the tower itself 43 floors would be residential with 23 given over to the hotel. A children’s playground, public artwork and a water feature would be arranged in the tower’s podium. UNStudio and Australian firm Cox Architecture’s Green Spine would have a public garden at the top Green Spine is the competition entry from Dutch architectural practice UNStudio and Australian firm Cox Architecture. It features two twisting towers with glass facades on their outer edges and terraced gardens on the inner sides. The 356.2-metre-high residential tower would be topped by publicly accessible botanic gardens. A shorter office and hotel tower would be 252.2-metres high. Visitors would enter through the conjoined base of the towers before climbing through stairs and stepped gardens, encountering a food hall, library, shops and a BMW experience centre along the way. BIG and Fender Katsalidis Architect’s Lanescraper would be formed of two interlocking towers Copenhagen and New York-based BIG and Melbourne’s Fender Katsalidis Architects have proposed two 359.6-metre high interlocking blocks. Called the Lanescraper, its stacked shape would provide both stability and natural points of connectivity between the towers. A two-tiered concentric auditorium in one section would be able to hold 3,000 people, while a BMW experience centre would span four floors with a central void filled by a car lift surrounded by a spiral staircase. Coop Himmelb(l)au and Architectus proposed supertall skyscraper is designed to look like a propeller The Beulah Propeller City is the shortlisted entry from Viennese architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au and Melbourne-based Architectus. Shaped like a tri-blade propeller, the 335-metre-high tower would be topped by a penthouse with it’s own private landscape garden and pool. Residential areas would be prioritised, with 46 floors of apartments featuring high ceilings and full length glazing. The hotel would comprise 15 floors and have it’s own winter garden complete with tropical vegetation and a swimming pool. MVRDV and Woods Bagot’s Stack would have a pool with a glass window over the city Dutch firm MVRDV and Australian architects Woods Bagot have proposed Stack, an “interconnected vertical city” that would rise 359 metres above the city. Stacked neighbourhoods in the city would be demarcated by different textures in the facade In the centre of the tower a hotel pool with an underwater glass window would be surrounded by stepped terraces. Elsewhere in the skyscraper visitors could enjoy a tropical garden where residents would be able to job or walk their dog along treetop walkways. OMA and Conrad Gargett’s design would focus on the base of the tower rather than the top Rotterdam-based OMA and Brisbane architecture practice Conrad Gargett’s unnamed proposal for the Southbank is a colourful take on the traditional vaulted markets and arcades found in Melbourne. Emphasising the foot of the tower rather than the top, a “vertical city” would be built between arches supporting a rainbow-coloured facade. All the cultural, commercial and educational functions of the development would be located here, with the hotel, residences and offices placed in the tower above to give them the most light. The winning design will be announced in August. Foster + Partners have revealed reworked designs for Melbourne’s new Apple Storeafter 53,000 people signed a petition against their original plans, which earned the derogatory moniker of the “Pizza Hut Pagoda”. In Adelaide, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot saw off competitions from Adjaye Associates, BIG and David Chipperfield Architects with their winning design for a new art gallery. Fuses Viader Arquitectes converts abandoned hilltop fortress into museum and hotel Heusch revamps Edwin Residence overlooking LA’s Mulholland Drive David Adjaye’s Wakefield Market Hall to be demolished Snark’s House in Nakauchi is half opaque home and half transparent sunroom	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8845
__label__cc	0.502656	0.497344	Tacit Fury - "A Social Berserker" Review If somebody were to ask you, “What are the first things that spring to mind if when you think about Russia?” what would you say? Vodka? Rocky IV? Whatever you pick, I highly doubt your answer would be death metal…but a recently reformed 3-piece band by the name of TACIT FURY hope to add that to your list of go-to answers. With their brand new album; “A Social Berserker”, this Moscow based trio take no prisoners with their relentlessness and sonic savagery. Opening track “Lacerated, Strangled, Impaled” more or less speaks for itself in terms of its brutality, setting the tone for the album as a whole. Meaty riffs, a barrage of drums and some intense, visceral vocals, It’s as though CHIMAIRA got even heavier and added some extra heavy for shits and giggles; impressive stuff. “Run While You Can” continues with the callousness and cold blooded aggression that comes with such fierce, unforgiving metal, pummelling the listener into near submission, while “Release The Lions” is a hard, thrashing, animal of a song. There’s barely a moments respite and it’s clear that this is the Russian’s aim; it’s a hostile takeover of the senses, equally alluring and alarming at the same time. “Ferocity Unleashed” needs little explanation really; it’s hard hitting, heavy and on the verge of bludgeoning the listener, with its near demonic vocal display and unstable blast-beat drumming, before “War Against All Living” ends things accordingly. It’s actually the most accessible the album has been, in places sounding like an angry AMON AMARTH, including some impressive melodic guitar work at the end of the song. It’s out of the blue but more than welcomed. Ultimately, if you’re a fan of your ear drums being tortured (in a good way), and like your music to have little or no remorse for its consequences on your ability to hear, odds on you will appreciate Tacit Fury, especially if you’re already a fan of the likes of DEATH and such. If not, it’s still worth noting that Russia isn't particularly famous for its heavy music scene, so on that basis alone, this three piece deserves maybe more respect than most. Give them a listen; don’t be so anti-social…even if it does mean going berserk. [6.5] You can purchase "A Social Berserker" via this link: http://tacitfury.bandcamp.com/ Tacit Fury on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tacitfury	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8848
__label__cc	0.585019	0.414981	Home News Firm Up that Skin with Loose RNA Young woman during a facial massage with professional tool at the medical center Firm Up that Skin with Loose RNA Cosmetic companies promise to make you look younger, so long as you buy a multitude of their products and continually use them for the rest of your life. Humankind’s quest for the fountain of youth has often come at great expense both financially and morally, yet there has been some modicum of scientific information gleaned from our vanity driven endeavors over the years. Now, investigators at Johns Hopkins University may have just uncovered the mechanisms driving the rejuvenation process that dermatologists have exploited for many years. Interestingly, the researchers discovered that laser treatments and the drug retinoic acid share a common molecular pathway. Moreover, that pathway—which lets skin cells sense loose RNA molecules—is also turned up in mice when they regenerate hair follicles. Findings from the new study were published recently in Nature Communications through an article titled “Noncoding dsRNA induces retinoic acid synthesis to stimulate hair follicle regeneration via TLR3.” “Understanding the biology behind how cellular damage can lead to this type of regeneration can harness a new generation of therapeutics,” explained senior study investigator Luis Garza, MD, PhD, associate professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Researchers have known for decades that mice—unlike humans—can regenerate hair follicles after a deep wound. Recent studies by Garza and others found that loose pieces of RNA, called self-noncoding double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) can spur this regeneration. They hypothesize that this may be because dsRNA is released by damaged cells at the site of a wound. Garza and his colleagues were curious whether dsRNA also played a role in skin rejuvenation treatments such as laser therapy, microneedling, and facial abrasion, which all involve temporary damage to skin cells. Although these treatments are well-established among dermatologists, researchers haven’t been clear why they work. Garza and his colleagues analyzed the expression levels of genes in each sample and discovered that genes involved in sensing dsRNA as well as genes involved in producing the skin’s natural retinoic acid were all expressed at higher levels after the laser treatment. Next, the researchers treated isolated human skin cells with loose dsRNA—mimicking the effect of laser treatment. The amount of retinoic acid inside the cells increased by more than tenfold. Commercially produced retinoic acid is already used to treat acne, wrinkles, and sunspots. “It’s not an accident that laser rejuvenation and retinoic acid have both been successful treatments for premature aging of the skin from sun damage and other forms of exposure,” Garza noted. “They’re actually working in the same molecular pathways and nobody knew that until now.” To further strengthen and understand the connection, the researchers turned back to mice. They knew that in both mice and humans, a protein called toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) senses dsRNA. When Garza’s group engineered mice to lack TLR3, the animals could no longer regenerate hair follicles after a wound. But when the researchers gave these mice retinoic acid, they regained the ability to regenerate the follicles. The results point toward a pathway involving TLR3 that senses double-stranded RNA and turns up the synthesis of retinoic acid. “We show that self-noncoding dsRNA activates the anti-viral receptor TLR3 to induce intrinsic retinoic acid (RA) synthesis in a pattern that predicts new hair follicle formation after wounding in mice,” the authors wrote. “Additionally, in humans, rejuvenation lasers induce gene expression signatures for dsRNA and RA, with measurable increases in intrinsic RA synthesis.” “In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense because retinoic acid is already a mainstay of wrinkle reduction and nobody knew what turned it on,” Garza remarked. “Now we know that damage leads to dsRNA, which leads to TLR3 activation and retinoic acid synthesis.” The findings could lead to novel strategies to reduce wrinkles and sunspots by combining retinoic acid and laser treatments in new ways, Garza says. And they could also lead to ways to regenerate hair follicles, as mice do when there’s an increase in dsRNA after a wound. “After a burn, humans don’t regenerate structures like hair follicles and sweat glands that used to be there,” said Garza. “It’s possible in light of these new findings that double-stranded RNA may be able to improve the appearance of burn scars.” “These results demonstrate a potent stimulus for RA synthesis by non-coding dsRNA, relevant to their broad functions in development and immunity,” the authors concluded. Previous articleAnorexia Partly a Metabolic Disorder, Suggests Genomic Study Next articleAnticancer Immune Cells Identified Using Antigen Receptor Barcode Tracker Verastem Licenses Infinity Cancer Candidate Duvelisib Powrex to Market Microfluidics’ Products in Japan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8851
__label__wiki	0.514483	0.514483	Home News Removing Anthrax Bacterial Armor May Lead to New Therapies Source: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Biodefense/Bioterrorism Removing Anthrax Bacterial Armor May Lead to New Therapies Anthrax bacteria, illustration. [Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] Researchers at the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology report that removing the armor of the bacterium that causes anthrax slows its growth and negatively affects its ability to cause disease. The study (“Structure of S-layer protein Sap reveals a mechanism for therapeutic intervention in anthrax”), which will appear in Nature Microbiology, may lead to new, effective ways of fighting anthrax and various other diseases, according to the scientists. Anthrax is a deadly and highly resilient disease, caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The toughness of the spores and the lethality of an anthrax infection via inhalation spurred its development as a biological weapon in the mid-twentieth century. Although the development and stockpiling of anthrax as a bioweapon has been banned by the international community, these regulations are violated at times. Because treatment options are limited and not effective in most cases, this means anthrax remains a potential bioterrorism threat. As part of its strategy to evade the weapons of the immune system, the anthrax bacterium cloaks itself with a complex, dynamic armor. A poorly understood component of this armor is the Sap S-layer, a single layer of protein that forms a shell around the bacterium. In this study, researchers successfully applied Nanobodies® (small antibody fragments) to control the assembly of the bacterial armor and study its structure. The Nanobodies were not only effective in preventing the armor from forming, but also proved highly efficient in breaking down existing S-layers. When applied to live bacteria, breaking down the armor slowed bacterial growth and led to drastic changes in the surface of the bacterial cell. “At present, anthrax mostly affects wildlife and livestock, although it remains a concern for human public health, primarily for people who handle contaminated animal products and as a bioterrorism threat due to the high resilience of spores, a high fatality rate of cases and the lack of a civilian vaccination program. The cell surface of B. anthracis is covered by a protective paracrystalline monolayer, known as surface layer or S-layer, that is composed of the S-layer proteins Sap or EA1. Here, we generate Nanobodies to inhibit the self-assembly of Sap, determine the structure of the Sap S-layer assembly domain (SapAD) and show that the disintegration of the S-layer attenuates the growth of B. anthracis and the pathology of anthrax in vivo,” write the investigators. “SapAD comprises six β-sandwich domains that fold and support the formation of S-layers independently of calcium. Sap-inhibitory nanobodies prevented the assembly of Sap and depolymerized existing Sap S-layers in vitro. In vivo, nanobody-mediated disruption of the Sap S-layer resulted in severe morphological defects and attenuated bacterial growth. Subcutaneous delivery of Sap inhibitory Nanobodies cleared B. anthracis infection and prevented lethality in a mouse model of anthrax disease. These findings highlight disruption of S-layer integrity as a mechanism that has therapeutic potential in S-layer-carrying pathogens.” Antonella Fioravanti, PhD, who led the research, said that “I created these Nanobodies as a tool to study the Sap S-layer, but that they would also inhibit bacterial growth was an unexpected bonus.” The effects were so striking, she added, that the Nanobodies were tested as a treatment in mice infected with B. anthracis. “The results were amazing, all treated mice recovered from lethal anthrax within days,” said Filip Van Hauwermeiren, PhD, who performed the infection studies. “We had been studying ways to stop the lethality of anthrax but had never seen such striking effects as with these Nanobodies,” added his supervisor Mohamed Lamkanfi, PhD, (previously at the VIB-UGhent Center for Inflammation Research, now at Janssen Pharmaceutica and Ghent University). Therapeutics derived from the Nanobodies discovered in this study may one day fill the currently existing treatment gap, say the scientists. Moreover, targeting the S-layer with nanobodies may be successful in the fight against other bacteria with an S-layer armor. For example, the lab is currently exploring S-layer targeting Nanobodies in Clostridium difficile which causes life-threatening colitis. The success of the experiments in this study have motivated the researchers to look for other vulnerable targets on bacterial cell surfaces. “Proteins on the surface of bacteria are interesting antibacterial targets because they are directly accessible. Targeting these proteins means that we have to worry less about that various ways that bacteria are preventing drugs from getting into the cell,” pointed out Han Remaut, PhD, from VIB-VUB. 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__label__cc	0.715554	0.284446	GROUP CHAIRS Paul S. Devine Brian W. McElhenny CONSTRUCTION LIABILITIES PUBLIC OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENTAL LIABILITY INSURANCE SCHOOL CLAIMS TRANSPORTATION RISKS Our team regularly defends lawsuits brought against cities, towns, counties, police departments, police officers, school districts and teachers, in state and federal courts. These lawsuits often allege violations of constitutional rights (including false arrest, excessive force, illegal search and seizure, etc.), negligence in hiring, training, supervision and retention, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination. In addition, the group defends land use and zoning litigation on behalf of governmental entities.We are a leader in the defense of municipalities. Our successes involve the defense of general negligence claims against municipal corporations involving premises and security liability and accidents stemming from the use of cars, trains, buses, trucks, police, fire vehicles and ambulances. We are well versed in handling high profile civil rights cases including Federal 1983 claims of police excessive force, false arrest and malicious prosecution. Municipal entities often misunderstand their legal obligation to make their premises accessible to individuals and employees with disabilities. Many mistakenly believe that they have no obligation to make buildings accessible to individuals with disabilities as they are “grandfathered” an exemption. Our lawyers are experienced in advising clients on all aspects of the ADA. We also represent clients in suits brought against them for ADA non-compliance. Often, “career plaintiffs” look for violations of ADA in order to seek some form of cash settlement. We fight these claims and win. The appellate outcome of a municipal litigation is equally important to the outcome of a trial or lower court proceeding. Appeals often have precedent setting significance with impact far beyond a single matter. Success at the appellate level requires different skills than those applied at trial. It is important to understand the appellate bench, and the perfection of the record. Our Municipal and Government lawyers work closely with our Appellate Practice Group – teaming together to often parachute into matters handled by separate trial counsel. We are regularly sought in this regard to serve as appellate monitoring counsel during trial. Clients also engage us to write amicus curiae briefs, and to work with other trial counsel to ensure that municipal and government matters are properly postured for appeal. Our team has decades of combined experience handling state and federal constitutional claims and matters. We have achieved favorable results in matters involving freedom of speech, defamation, libel and slander, the right to court access, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, procedural and substantial due process, equal protection, and the right to bear arms. We have defended numerous government agencies, elected officials, police officers, corrections officers, and counties and local governments in civil rights suits in federal and state courts. We have successfully defended free speech claims, allegations of police misconduct, and municipal liability claims. We aggressively litigate a wide range of Second Amendment issues in federal and state courts. In this regard, we are trial and appellate counsel to several national, statewide, and regional organizations devoted to the Second Amendment and shooting sports. We regularly advise and defend business clients on a wide range of issues relating to the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms. We have extensive experience handling the unique challenges presented by the myriad of laws found in state constitutions as well as local ordinances. Our capabilities range from cases involving state-specific human rights laws to the codes impacting project finance, development, and land use. Our vast experience with government and municipal construction losses causes clients to seek our counsel in construction property and liability losses. Our team has decades of experience representing general contractors, prime contractors, sub-contractors, sub-sub-contractors, construction managers, owners, developers, design professional, architects and engineers. Our lawyers assist clients in addressing the legal challenges of engaging in the design, development, mechanic’s liens, interference, collapse, financing, performance and management of major construction and government procurement contracts. Our experience enables us to handle the complete spectrum of issues arising before, during and after project completion. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers who focus on construction issues work closely with team members in our Construction Practice Group. Our Municipal and Government lawyers advise clients in developing pre-litigation policies and procedures. We counsel clients on implementing effective technologies to manage and dispose of data defensibly and consistently with emerging best practices. Our team also advises on preserving documents and data effectively where there is a duty to preserve. We work with clients to explain defensible disposal before a duty to preserve arises. Once a duty to preserve arises, we work hand-in-glove with clients on legal holds and their scope. Our managing partner, John Jablonski, is nationally recognized in this arena. 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Our municipal and governmental lawyers addressing e-discovery issues work closely with team members in our Cyber, Technology and Social Media Practice Group. As counsel for many governmental entities, we guide them in employment structuring and documentation – with the goal of minimizing claims and litigation. We believe in well-crafted and designed employer/employee relationships that are memorialized in clear and fair employment agreements and other employment-related documents. We also counsel in connection with decisions related to disciplining and terminating employees. When an employee alleges of harassment or discrimination, we guard our clients’ interests. When disputes arise, we team with clients on a strategy that resolves the dispute before litigation ensues. However, we recognize that certain cases are especially difficult to resolve and must therefore be aggressively defended. We have a proven record of success in litigation and arbitration. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers who focus on employment and labor issues work closely with team members in our Employment and Labor Practice Group. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers who focus on contract and bid issues work closely with team members in our Construction Practice Group. There are many occurrences that create liability concerns related to the government ownership of property. As an owner, a municipality can expect someone to claim that its property is not reasonably safe. Potential claims include a dangerous condition causing injury, or illegal activities, and security issues. Our lawyers have years of experience defending municipal entities from claims arising from their premises. 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The coverage and exclusions provided in public officials liability insurance policies can vary greatly. Our lawyers work with our clients for early assessment and issuance of appropriate reservations of rights. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers who focus on insurance issues work closely with team members in our Insurance Solutions Practice Group. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers who focus on P3 issues work closely with team members in our Construction Practice Group, as well as our Commercial and Corporate Practice Groups. The educational system continues to be an area of extensive legal scrutiny. Unfortunately, schools face constant challenges to the services that they provide. We handle claims arising from the time a child boards the school bus until long after the child returns home. The claims we handle range from accidents in the classroom, gym class or field trips. These claims often allege negligent supervision or improper practices. The firm has successfully defended school officials across the state both at the trial level and appellate courts. Municipalities are one of the most significant participants in the transportation industry. Public entities supply the public transportation by bus, light rail, airport, ports, subway, etc. Our lawyers have extensive experience in defending claims arising from buses and rail, and their adjoining premises. Our team also guides our clients through commercial litigation, catastrophic personal injury, insurance coverage disputes, as well as negotiating and drafting of independent contractor agreements. Our team is available 24-7-365 ready to respond to accident scenes on short notice in order to document and preserve critical evidence, interview witnesses, communicate with law enforcement and direct the investigation on behalf of public entities involved in accidents. Our lawyers have a network of accident investigators and reconstructionist who also can be on the scene quickly. We understand the importance of maintaining relationships with transportation experts who are able to assist with the scene and inspections. These experts are also available to assist us in making critical determinations on downloading and interpreting event data recording information and other electronic media. Not only do we respond immediately when an accident occurs, our team understands the necessity of an aggressive defense when faced with a large loss or catastrophic claim and will use this expertise throughout the discovery process, alternative dispute resolution, or where appropriate, at trial. Our Municipal and Government Practice Group lawyers work closely with team members in our Transportation Practice Group. Decisions by a zoning officer of a town or city board often impact upon private property owners. The impacted party often raises claims of improper treatment, claiming of the taking of property, or preventing the proper use of property. Unfortunately, these matters often end up in court. These cases require an analysis of the particular facts of each matter. The firm has handled numerous cases in this matter with results that protect the rights of all municipal entities. We have made appellate law in this arena and understand the public reputational issues that can arise in this type of claim.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8854
__label__wiki	0.706324	0.706324	Vegan and eco-friendly toothpaste now on sale for £5 a tube Ethics are not cheap Neil Shaw People who want to make sure everything they use is ethical and environmentally friendly can now buy a totally vegan toothpaste in fully recyclable packaging thanks to Colgate - but it doesn't come cheap. The popular toothpaste brand is now selling a line called Smile For Good made from ingredients that are 99.7 per cent natural. It comes in a tube made from high density polyethylene - the same material milk bottles are made of - which means it is fully recyclable. But the cost of ethics are not cheap as the toothpaste will set you back £5 per 75ml tube - six times the price of a regular tube of the brand's 80p toothpaste, according to The Mirror. Smile For Good is now available at Waitrose and Boots in two versions - Smile for Good Protection, and Smile for Good Whitening. Traditional toothpaste tubes are difficult to recycle as they are made from a mix of plastic and aluminium. Colgate plans to have 100 percent recyclable packaging on all of its products by 2025 and they've promised to share their findings with competitors. Colgate-Palmolive’s chief executive, Noel Wallace, said: "Colgate wants to make tubes a part of the circular economy by keeping this plastic productive and eliminating waste. Instagram is now putting huge warnings on some of your pictures Five free apps that can save you a lot of money and cut debt in 2020 "If we can standardise recyclable tubes among all companies, we all win. We can align on these common standards for tubes and still compete with what’s inside them." He added: "We want all toothpaste tubes - and eventually all kinds of tubes - to meet the same third-party recycling standards that we've achieved. "We can align on these common standards for tubes and still compete with what's inside them." Some other toothpaste will not be suitable for vegans as it can contain glycerin made from animals.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8857
__label__cc	0.616845	0.383155	General News of Monday, 26 August 2019 Source: peacefmonline.com Prof Kwesi Botchwey angry; calls for immediate action from NDC NEC Former Finance Minister, Prof Kwesi Botchwey, is clearly an unhappy man, Peacefmonline.com can confirm. He is said to be extremely riled over reports of his selection as running mate to the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, reliable sources disclosed to Peacefmonline. Last week, social media and some mainstream media outlets claimed that the former President had selected Prof Botchwey as running mate. It, however, turned out to be false. Mr Mahama later reacted to the report via his twitter handle, describing it as "fake news". Prof Kwesi Botchwey, clearly angered by the fake news, reportedly called on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party to take action. This piece of information was confirmed by the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia "Prof Kwesi Botchwey is really angry...," General Mosquito disclosed in an exclusive interview on UTV's "Mpu ne Mpu", Friday Asiedu Nketiah has therefore called on NDC groups behind such rooting campaigns to put a stop to their activities. Watch the full video below: NDC ready to spill blood to win 2020 election - Yamoah Ponkoh Voters register: NDC to hold protests despite intervention by Eminent Advisory Committee NDC launches electronic fund raising platform and encourages members to adopt constituencies Ghanaians fed up with corrupt, dishonest and nepotistic Akufo-Addo’s administration – Mahama Albert Nyarkotey gets ‘green light’ to contest Yilo Krobo NDC parliamentary primaries This article has 37 comment(s), give your comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8860
__label__cc	0.700247	0.299753	投稿案内 robot002800030378 single-rb.php JRM Vol.28 No.3 pp. 378-385 doi: 10.20965/jrm.2016.p0378 Views over last 60 days: 1,043 A Flexible Tactile Sensor Array Based on Pressure Conductive Rubber for Contact Force Measurement and Slip Detection Yancheng Wang,, Kailun Xi, Deqing Mei,, Guanhao Liang, and Zichen Chen** State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, 310027, China *Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University flexible tactile sensor array, pressure conductive rubber, three-axis force, slip detection, discrete wavelet transform A wearable tactile sensor array for three-axis contact force measurement and slip detection in prosthetic hand grasping Using INASTAMOR pressure-conductive rubber as the sensing material, we developed a flexible tactile sensor array to measure three-axis contact force and slip. The sensor array has 9 (3 × 3) sensing units, each consisting of three layers, i.e., a bottom electrode, conductive rubber chips, a top polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) bump. We detailed the array’s structural design, working principle, and fabrication process. We also characterize the array’s three-axis force measurement performance. The full-scale force measurement ranges and sensitivities in x-, y-, and z-axes are characterized as 5, 5, 20 N and 0.675, 0.677, 0.251 V/N, respectively. The array is mounted on a prosthetic hand for detecting contact force and slip occurrence in grasping. Results showed that the array measures three-axis contact force and detects slippage by using discrete wavelet transformation. The tactile sensor array has potential applications in robot-hand grasping that require simultaneous slip detection and three-axis contact force measurement. Y. Wang, K. Xi, D. Mei, G. Liang, and Z. 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__label__wiki	0.794591	0.794591	Land At Laurencekirk Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, AB30 1JJ Lot 1: Land at Thorneylea - 92.59ac (37.47ha) - £500,000 Lot 2: Land at Denside of Davo - 119.70ac (48.44ha) - £580,000 Lot 3: Land at Woodburnden - 150.76ac (61.01ha) - £790,000 Lot 4: Land at Brownieleys - 121.28ac (49.08ha) - £350,000 Lot 5: Land at Nether Tulloch - 287.24ac (116.24ha) - £1,525,000 FOR SALE AS A WHOLE OR IN FIVE LOTS Laurencekirk 7 miles Inverbervie 4 miles Aberdeen 29 miles Dundee 41 miles Lot 1: Land at Thorneylea - 92.59ac (37.47ha) Lot 2: Land at Denside of Davo - 119.70ac (48.44ha) Lot … Lot 3: Land at Woodburnden - 125.04ac (50.60ha) Lot 4: Land at Brownieleys - 121.28ac (49.08ha) Lot 5: Land at Nether Tulloch - 287.24ac (116.24ha) Approx. 746.82ac (302.22ha) of mainly Grade 3 productive arable land Strictly by appointment with the Selling Agents, Galbraith. The land lies to the east of the A90, approximately 7 miles from Laurencekirk in the County of Aberdeenshire and within a desirable agricultural area. The City of Aberdeen lies some 27 miles to the north whilst Dundee is found approximately 40 miles to the south. The land extends to around 746.82 acres (302.22 hectares) in total and comprises an almost contiguous block of predominantly arable land. The land is split into good sized enclosures and is well suited to modern agricultural machinery. The majority of the land is classified as Grade 3.1 and 3.2 by the James Hutton Institute with small amounts of Grade 5.2 found in woodland areas. The land sits between 50m to 200m above sea level at its highest point and has gentle undulations throughout. The average rainfall for the area is 800mm to 1000mm per annum. The land has been farmed as part of a larger arable operation and has been historically cropped with both cereals and legumes in accordance with its Grade 3 land status. More recently some of the land has been laid to pasture or left fallow to satisfy EFA Greening requirements. The land is accessed via unclassified roads leading from the B967 to the north and the B9120 to the south, with private roads and internal tracks providing access thereafter. LOT 1 – Land at Thorneylea: A block of productive arable land extending to around 92.59 acres (37.47 hectares). The land is split into 3 good sized enclosures and is accessed via a well maintained private track. The soil is classified as both Grade 3.1 and 3.2 with a gentle sloping aspect to the north. LOT 2 – Land at Denside of Davo: Lot 2 extends to approximately 119.70 acres (48.44 hectares) comprising 108.90 acres (44.07 hectares) of arable land split into 4 enclosures alongside a block of woodland extending to 9.88 acres (4 hectares). The arable land is classed as Grade 3.1 and has a northeasterly aspect, sitting at between 100m and 150m above sea level. Access is taken directly from the public highway or via a private track leading to Denside of Davo, with internal tracks providing access thereafter. LOT 3 – Land at Woodburnden: Comprising a block of land extending to approximately 125.04 acres (50.60 hectares) of arable and woodland. The arable land is split into 4 enclosures totalling 110.14 acres (44.57 hectares) with 4 further areas of attractive young woodland plantations extending to 13.39 acres (5.42 hectares). The land sits between 120m and 180m above sea level with the arable land classed as both Grade 3.1 and 3.2. Access is taken via a private track of directly from the unclassified road to the west. LOT 4 – Land at Brownieleys: A block of arable, pasture and woodland extending to approximately 121.28 acres (49.08 hectares) in total. Arable land and temporary grassland comprise around 60.46 acres (24.47 hectares) and are split into 4 enclosures, which have a westerly aspect, are classed as Grade 3.2 and sit between 150m to 170m above sea level. The woodland extends to around 59.68 acres (24.15 hectares) with a large young plantation found on the western boundary. Access is taken from the public highway or via the private track leading to Brownieleys. LOT 5 – Land at Nether Tulloch: Extends to circa 287.24 acres (116.24 hecatres) comprising 258.70 acres (104.69 hectares) of arable land and around 22.02 acres (8.91 hectares) of rough grazing alongside a small amount of woodland and permanent pasture. The land is both Grade 3.1 and 3.2 with an undulating, south-westerly aspect sitting between 130m and 200m above sea level. Access is taken from the public highway or by a private track leading to Nether Tulloch. All of the land runs contiguously expect for a single field which is found a short distance to the south-west. Heading south from Aberdeen on A90 towards Laurencekirk, follow the A90 for approximately 27 miles, turning left onto the minor road signposted Johnshaven. After approximately 1.5 miles Lot 1 is found on the left hand side, with the remaining Lots being found by following the minor road south. Heading from Dundee on A90 towards Aberdeen, follow the road for approximately 37 miles, turning right onto the B9120 road signposted St Cyrus. After approximately 3 miles take a sharp left and continue for a further mile before Lot 5 can be seen on the left hand side. The remaining Lots are found by taking a left hand turn and the junction and heading north on the minor road. Lot 1 AB30 1JJ Lot 2 AB30 1JB Lot 3 AB30 1JL Lot 4 AB30 1JN Lot 5 AB30 1JA Peterkins AB10 1QR Kincardine and Mearns Area Office Viewmount Arduthie Road AB39 2DQ perth@galbraithgroup.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8870
__label__wiki	0.528608	0.528608	TemTem Alpha Impressions Zenimax Announces The Dark Heart Of Skyrim And The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor 6.5Fair Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park Review Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory Review Burson Playmate DAC/Headphone Amp Review: Time to Play 6Fair SuperEpic Review for Nintendo Switch Tracks – The Train Set Game Review Shovel Knight Showdown + King of Cards Review Quick Hit Reviews Pascal’s Wager Now Available for iOS Mobile Devices Twin-stick shooter Project AETHER announced Metro Redux Gets Nintendo Switch Release in February World of Warcraft – Get 6 Months Subscription & Receive a New Cute Mount Zombie Army 4: Dead War – 101 Trailer Good User Avg Need for Speed Payback Review Matt Keith November 14, 2017 Comments Closed PS4 Last week I wrote up a first impressions piece on the latest entry to the Need for Speed franchise; a franchise, I might add, that has been in existence for around 23 years. That in and of itself is pretty exciting feat and Payback hoped to capture some of the best elements of the series better titles. After around 10 hours on my PS4 of drifting, jumping and occasionally racing my way through Ghost Game’s latest entry to see just how well this open world racer fairs. So grab that coffee, kick back and enjoy our Need for Speed: Payback review. NFS Payback does a lot of things right. It’s a solid arcade racer with great customization, an impactful upgrade system and several types of racers to customize and drive to your heart’s content. In many ways it has captured some of the glory days of Underground in regards to customization with a wide range of features to tweak and adjust. Both cosmetic and mechanical upgrades feel impactful and worth investing in. In the same way the racing mechanics also hold true to some of the series better titles. Each car handles differently and some are better for situational settings giving you, as the player, plenty of options to try out. As mentioned this is a solid arcade racer, one of the more enjoyable ones I have spent time with over the last couple of years. The open world that is presented in Need For Speed is well developed and looks great. There is a diverse but logical mix of environments and despite my early concerns about open world content, as I have progressed through the game I am finding more and more discoverables, speed traps, shops and other things to do being unlocked. There have definitely been moments of wondering what I should do next and the early game really did feel empty aside from main story missions but the more time spent in game seems to be opening up more content. The story of NFS offers an interesting mix of old tropes but with a new storytelling mechanic. In fact, I greatly appreciated the seamless transition through the various playable characters on your crew during the same mission. One moment I would be playing Ty, a street racer style character, dogging cars, boosting threw streets either racing to a finish line or outrunning police while the next moment I was playing as Mac, the off-road expert or Jess, a runner (or brawler as I preferred to call her). Each character brought with them a different objective and play style all within the context of single mission, each contributing to a common goal. It had a very Fast and Furious vibe to it and is very well executed and it created some great cinematic moments. As exciting as those moments were to watch that was also the problem. I spent a lot of time watching the awesome moments instead of playing them. Most of my mission time was spent racing from point to point, building up to a climactic moment only to see the game take over and show me the sweet move my character was executing. It took away from the overall experience and was a bit disappointing to experience over and over again. The missions really felt like one mission played over and over again. I appreciate the challenge of presenting a developed story in a racing game and Ghost Games has done a solid job at presenting a fresh way to tell story, it just would have been nice to experience more of the epic moments as well as a little variety. Multiplayer is another beast altogether. When jumping into a multiplayer session you first have to choose your car line up to work with for the duration of your online play time. Once selected your are limited to those cars. As there are multiple types of races available it’s important to choose well the cars you want to bring in. Once in session you are greeted to the open world experience that is present in the single player mode, or at least the world itself as none of the open world activities seem to be present.As a result you simply drive around waiting for the current even to finish before joining the other players in a race. It’s essentially a glorified waiting room with little to do but wait. It feels like a missed opportunity and also pigeon holes your playerbase into only racing. There isn’t really a lot of reason for friends to get together and explore the beautiful world that has been created. The races themselves are pretty straightforward but I did note that there doesn’t seem to be any balancing of players based on car, upgrades etc. This seemed odd considering that there is a whole item level like system in place that scores your car based on on the above-mentioned factors. However, as a low-level player I, found myself more than once facing off against people with an item level at least double my own. It quickly became an exercise in futility and was a bit of a turnoff to the multiplayer experience. Need For Speed Payback is a mixed bag. One the one hand it’s a fun arcade racer with great customization, a wide range of cars and race styles and some truly great single player moments. Yet with the other hand holding an underwhelming multiplayer experience, lather, rinse repeat story missions, and some awkward storytelling pacing, NFS never seems to hit top gear in its goal to capture the glory of the old days. Tags: Need for Speed: Payback, ps4, review Great arcade racer So much customization Underwhelming multiplayer Weird story pacing The same mission, over and over again Matt Keith Husband, Father, Gamer, Co-Host of Roll the Level. Here for the hack, slash, loot, repeat! New Screenshots From Final Fantasy VII Remake & Kingdom Hearts 3 MachiaVillain Review – Do the Monster Mash MU Legend Review – Legendary or DOA? Clam Man Review The Crow’s Eye Review Gorogoa Review Need for Speed Payback is a racing video game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. It is the twenty-third game in the Need for Speed series. The game offers a single-player story-driven campaign following Tyler Morgan, Mac and Jess. The former street racer was double crossed and now is looking for a crew to compete in an impossible race to bring down a criminal cartel, The House. The events of the game will take place in the fictional Fortune Valley. Players are able to purchase new vehicles, win or buy parts for them as well as customize cars to their liking. The game offers a variety of missions: race events with Tyler, transporting VIPs and packages with Jess, drifting and off-road events with Mac. Some missions will include all three characters. Genre:Racing Rating:Teen Developed By:Ghost Games Publisher:Electronic Arts Modes:Multiplayer, Single-player Series:Need For Speed Engine:Frostbite 3 Xevrin said Looking forward to the new story content... January 18, 2020 Suzie Ford said As always, this looks great. Elsweyr was... January 16, 2020 Mitchell Gassner said Unreal Tournament was awesome. The annou... January 16, 2020 Scott Jeslis said I was in when first announced. I'm a suc... January 15, 2020 Mitchell Gassner said I love me some ARPG so this is on my rad... January 9, 2020 GameSpace aims to be a one-stop shop for all your gaming news, reviews, videos, streams, opinions, and forums. We aim to cover not only the games and the people who make them, but also the culture and trends around the industry. If there's a hot topic in gaming, chances are we're all here writing about it. 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__label__wiki	0.620458	0.620458	gmp Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners wants to provide you with the best possible service. To do that, we store information about your visit using so-called cookies. By continuing to use this site, you agree to our use of these cookies. Detailed information about the use of cookies on this website can be found by clicking on "More information". There you can also disagree with the use of cookies and adjust your browser settings accordingly. 10/10/2018: Guest professorship at Tongji University Inaugural lecture by Nikolaus Goetze Winter semester 2018/19 Tongji University, Shanghai, The Bell Hall The "Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Guest Professorship" was donated by Alumuni in 2017 and dedicated to a prominent professor-couple : The former students honoured the great commitment of Prof. Li Dehua and Prof. Luo Xiaowei, who had contributed significantly to the development of the Faculty of Architecture at Tongji University. Every year, the chair is headed by a Chinese and an internationally renowned architect. Last year, Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV held the guest professorship. 11/12/2014Tongji University honors gmp founding partner Meinhard von Gerkan appointed Consulting Professor in Shanghai Since 4 December 2014, Meinhard von Gerkan has been Consulting Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the renowned Tongji University in Shanghai. He was handed his certificate of appointment by Prof. Zheng Shiling, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the presence of representatives of the Faculty and numerous students. 01/12/2014First prize and design commission in Hamburg School extension and replacement building for Gyula Trebitsch school The Gyula Trebitsch school at Hamburg will be extended and the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been commissioned to build the extended replacement building to their designs. This was the result of the design commission negotiated under VOF (German procedure for commissioning freelance services) following the competition win. 04/11/2014Completion Theater workshops of Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main With the completion of the transport and landscaped areas, the conversion and extension of the workshops for the scenery and costumes of the Städtische Bühnen were completed on time for the new 2014/2015 season. 16/10/2014“Designing in Dialogue” exhibition in Nanjing Guest professorship for Meinhard von Gerkan at Chinese university Meinhard von Gerkan has been honoured in China with a guest professorship at the well-established Southeast University of Nanjing. The award was presented to him by Wang Jianguo, Dean of the Architecture Faculty at the university, which was founded in 1902, during the opening of the exhibition entitled “Designing in Dialogue. The Architecture of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners”. 07/10/2014Iconic Awards 2014 Highest award – Best of Best – for the Qingdao Grand Theatre and Winner for the Berlin State Ballet School Yesterday, at the awards ceremony of the Iconic Awards 2014 in Munich, the Qingdao Grand Theatre and the Berlin State Ballet School were awarded Best of Best and Winner respectively in the Architecture category. 19/09/2014On Old Foundations Building in a historical context - von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects Building on old foundations: Is there a better place than Venice to stage an exhibition on this subject? Is there any other place that depends to the same degree on its foundations, the millions of oak piles on which the city is founded – or a place similarly at risk? Venice is the epitome of a city which engages with its own architectural past. 15/09/2014Transparent and communicative New Trianel Headquarters completed in Aachen After a construction period of almost two years, Trianel GmbH this summer moved into its company headquarters in Aachen, which had been designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The utility company now has over 300 employees in the new building who previously were spread out over three locations in Aachen. The office block has a floor area of 6,300 square metres and can accommodate up to 430 members of staff. 12/09/2014Exhibitions in Venice "Too good. Two. Be true." Blueprints for the future: The Berlin airports TXL and BER 1914–2014: the period of world history which the 2014 Architecture Biennale revolves around is the century in which the modern world has come about, a technological and globalised world. A central element in this development: the dream of flying has become a reality, for everybody. 29/08/2014aac Workshop Brooklyn Powerhouse. An Architectural Contribution to the Cultural Ecology of the Gowanus District, NYC The name Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse refers to a large coal-fired power station built at the end of the 19th century to generate electricity for Brooklyn’s streetcar system. Built as a steel skeleton construction typical of the time with a representative façade composed of red-brown brick, the building is situated on an extensive site along the branching Gowanus Canal, which until decommissioning was the supply route for the power plant’s coal and water. 29/05/2014Too good. Two. Be true. Blueprints for the future: the airports TXL and BER by the von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects 16/05/2014Award gmp voted “A&W Architect of the Year 2014” Good architecture is created in a dialogue. And it takes social responsibility. An optimal solution for a building project can only be achieved when one asks the right questions. Often these are unusual questions, sometimes simple, and frequently they seem to want to combine what cannot be combined. It is this work process which is used by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners to create architecture. 15/05/2014New commission New construction of rehearsal building for “Ballett am Rhein”, Düsseldorf The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are designing the new rehearsal building for the ballet company of Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In a consortium with HOCHTIEF Solutions, they were commissioned by Düsseldorf City Council in a PPP scheme. The new ballet building will be created on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot “am Steinberg” in Düsseldorf, between the listed tramway depot and the back of the housing development at Kopernikusstrasse. 23/04/2014New commission after winning competition gmp wins competition for three office buildings in an attractive Shanghai location The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been successful in winning the competition for three office towers near the southern railway station in Shanghai, and have been commissioned with the design of the project. Vanke Co., Ltd. is one of the largest real estate companies for housing in China and wants to extend its range of activities into the office building sector; for this purpose, the company has selected a site in a desirable up-and-coming business area. Basketball stadium in Dongguan, China In the southern Chinese city of Dongguan – a city of several million – a basketball stadium has been completed to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The building can be seen from afar and is a landmark that provides identity and orientation to the people in the new district of Liaobu. The stadium has space for nearly 15,000 visitors and can be used for sports and other events; it is the new main competition venue for one of the most successful Chinese basketball teams, the Dongguan Leopards. Office building at Tesdorpfstrasse 8, Hamburg At Tesdorpfstrasse 8 in Hamburg, near the Dammtor railway station, a new office building has been completed to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) which meets top energy conservation standards and is likely to receive the gold certificate under DGNB rules. 14/03/2014Press release Five books on the work, views and approaches of the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been published in recent months. The œuvre of the practice is very diverse, and similarly the authors approach their subjects – which couldn’t be more varied - in very different ways: from building in a historic context via the design and construction of Chinese cultural venues through to a view behind the curtain of large German construction sites, the books illustrate examples of gmp’s work in text and images. 11/03/2014New construction of children’s hospital at Lausanne University Hospital Competition win in Lausanne, Switzerland The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, with JB Ferrari, for a new children’s hospital at the Lausanne University Hospital has won first prize in an international competition. The hospital is to provide 85 beds and an accident and emergency unit for children, and is provisionally scheduled to open in 2019. The design concept includes light-flooded open areas with much greenery, which are intended to make a hospital stay as agreeable as possible for patients and their relatives. Today, the entry will be presented to the public in Lausanne. 26/02/2014National Stadium in Tripoli Groundbreaking ceremony on 26 February 2014 A new football stadium for Tripoli: the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Stadium in the new sports park, which was designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) took place on Wednesday 26 February 2014. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Seidan, the German Ambassador, Christian Much, the football legend Franz Beckenbauer and the gmp Project Manager, Hans-Joachim Paap. gmp has been commissioned with the scheme design for the project as well as the detailed design. 26/02/2014Foshan German Service Center A groundbreaking ceremony for the new construction of the German Service Centre in Foshan, a city in the south of China, will take place on 25 February 2014. In 2013, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners were successful in winning this competition which was open to German architectural practices with a Chinese partner. „Meaning: the Guiding Principle of Architecture“ 03/12/2018Meinhard von Gerkan at Tongji University, Shanghai In his lecture, gmp founding partner Meinhard von Gerkan is providing a look behind the scenes of his architectural project as well as the philosophy that has shaped his work since the beginning. Pfisterer and Gossmann hold lecture at SCHULBAU 23/11/2018"Temporary school campus Frankfurt in wood modular construction" Markus Pfisterer and Bernd Gossmann will present the school campus Miquelallee Frankfurt am Main, designed in modular timber construction, on the second day of SCHULBAU. ARCHITECTOUR through Saxony-Anhalt: Stadthalle Magdeburg 14/11/2018Christian Hellmund at the Kick-Off to the "Grand Tour - 100 Modern Buildings" On the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, Christian Hellmund presents the Magdeburger Stadthalle at the theme evening of Saxony-Anhalt's Chamber of Architects. “Made in Germany - designed by gmp” 08/11/2018Nikolaus Goetze gives lecture at Tongji University In the context of his "Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Guest Professorship" Nikolaus Goetze deals in this lecture with gmp projects in Germany - from door handles to airports. Work reports "Bauen im Kontext“ 07/11/2018Nicolas Pomränke gives lecture at hochschule 21 On 7 November, Nicolas Pomränke, associate partner at gmp, will give a lecture as part of the lecture series "Bauen im Kontext" at hochschule 21 in Buxtehude. "Designing with prefabricated Modules“ 01/11/2018Johann v. Mansberg at FENESTRATION BAU CHINA On November 2, Johann von Mansberg, Director at gmp, will give a lecture at the FENESTRATION BAU China 2018 trade fair workshop in Beijing on the sustainability aspect of prefabricated buildings. “From functional Buildings to Architecture – Creating Working Environments in Industrial Parks” 29/10/2018S. Rewolle at FENESTRATION BAU CHINA On Friday, 2 November, Stephan Rewolle, associat partner at gmp, will give a lecture at the FENESTRATION BAU China 2018 trade fair, adressing the question of how high-quality working environments can be created in industrial areas. "Architecture of Mobility" 24/10/2018Nikolaus Goetze gives a lecture at Harvard University On Wednesday, 24 October, gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze will give a lecture on mobility as part of the Master in Design Engineering program, a collaborative degree program between the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Guest professorship at Tongji University 10/10/2018Inaugural lecture by Nikolaus Goetze In the winter semester 2018/2019 Nikolaus Goetze will take over the "Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Guest Professorship" as the Chair of Architectural Design at Tongji University in Shanghai. In his inaugural lecture on 10 October, he dealt with how museums can be designed in the future. Meet us at Expo Real 2018 08/10/2018gmp at the International Trade Fair for Property and Investment Every year, the international real estate industry meets in Munich: gmp will also be present at Expo Real, which takes place from 8 to 10 October 2018. For a personal appointment, contacts from the Hamburg and Berlin offices will be available in Hall B2, Stand 430 on both days of the fair. Urs Wedekind at the Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern 02/10/2018„Facade design in foreign markets – First double skin facade in Vietnam” When the 13th International Conference on Advanced Building Skins takes place in Bern (Switzerland) on 1 and 2 October, gmp will also be represented: Urs Wedekind, Associate Director at gmp, will talk about "Facade design in foreign markets - First double skin facade in Vietnam" at 10:45 am on 2 October. Stephan Schütz at the Super Tall Building Summit in Shenzhen 27/09/2018“Contraction and Relaxation – New Spatial Concepts for Headquarters Architecture” “Contraction and Relaxation – New Spatial Concepts for Headquarters Architecture” – that is the title of the lecture on 27th September by gmp partner Stephan Schütz on the occasion of the 2nd Super Tall Building Industry International Summit, which is scheduled to be held on 27-28 September in Shenzhen, China. “Modular Building – A Temporary Concert Hall” 20/09/2018Christian Hellmund at DETAIL's lecture series in Munich The sixth edition of DETAIL's lecture series, "The Future of Building", on 20 September in Munich will focus on modular building. In his lecture at the symposium, Dipl.-Ing architect Christian Hellmund, Director at gmp, will talk about the Gasteig Interim, for which gmp has recently been awarded the contract. "Tensile Membrane Structures in Stadion Building" 13/09/2018Sara Taberner Bonastre at the VII Latin American Symposium on Tensile Architecture in Lima On 13. September, Sara Taberner Bonastre (gmp) will be part of at the VII. Latin American Symposium on Tensile Architecture in the capital of Peru. Her presentation will showcase relevant projects from the gmp portfolio. "Energy Efficiency in Transportation Structures - Demands and Reality" 06/09/2018Hans-Joachim Paap at the Stiebel-Eltron Dialogue on the Evolution of Architecture On 6 September, the 10th "Stiebel-Eltron Dialogue on the Evolution of Architecture" will take place in the space of BER Airport, at which Hans-Joachim Paap will give a lecture on the topic “Energy Efficiency in Transportation Structures - Demands and Reality”. „Green Building in Vietnam” 25/08/2018Nikolaus Goetze at the Vietnam Energy Efficiency Building Week 2018 The project Deutsches Haus by gmp in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City is the first DGNB-certified building in Vietnam. In a lecture by gmp partner Nikolaus Geotze next Saturday and a photo exhibition during the Vietnam Energy Efficiency Building Week 2018 taking place from 25 August to 1 September at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi, visitors can learn more about the building. „Building bridges – Brücken bauen“ 27/06/2018Markus Pfisterer at the International Baukultur Days 2018 Under the headline "Building Bridges - Brücken bauen ", experts from all over the world will meet from 26 to 28 June for the International Baukultur Days 2018 in Venice. Markus Pfisterer, Associate Partner at gmp, will be presenting bridge constructions from the gmp portfolio in a Pecha Kucha format as part of closing panel on 27 June. "Museum in Motion" 21/06/2018Nikolaus Goetze at the symposium in the Kunsthalle Mannheim The recently reopened Kunsthalle Mannheim considers itself as a "museum in motion". The new building is conceived as a 'city in the city'. On the occasion of the synposium "The Museum of the Future", gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze will be giving a tour of the house on 21 June, explaining the architecture, together with the team of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. “Architectural Appearance and Acoustic Demands” 14/06/2018Nicolas Pomränke at the “Architecture and Acoustics” Conference in Vilnius On 14 June, Nicolas Pomränke, associate partner of gmp, will be part of the "Architecture and Acoustics" conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. His contribution focuses on the relationship between architectural appearance and the acoustic demands of a building based on the examples of the Kulturpalast Dresden, Neues Tempodrom Berlin and Qingdao Grand Theater (China). Stephan Rewolle at the 2018 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference 30/05/2018SOHO Fuxing Plaza among the award finalists SOHO Fuxing Plaza (Shanghai, China) by gmp was announced recently by CTBUH as a Finalist project for the Tall + Urban Innovation Conference Awards, in the category of Urban Habitat. Stephan Rewolle, associate partner of gmp, will give a presentation together with the director of design from SOHO China, Yang Yicheng, on the conference in Chicago on May 31st. "Building the City of Tomorrow – the Chinese perspective. Challenges and solutions of urban development in China” 14/05/2018Magdalene Weiss in Shanghai Magdalene Weiss, assoziierte Partnerin bei gmp, ist Teil des Panels beim International Forum on Sustainable Urban Development in Shanghai, welches am 15. Mai in den Räumlichkeiten der Tongji Universität in Shanghai stattfindet. New Stadium Krasnodar, Russia 24/04/2018Markus Pfisterer at the World Stadium Congress 2018 in Amsterdam Markus Pfisterer, associate partner at gmp, will be speaking at the World Stadium Congress 2018 in Amsterdam, taking place from 7-9 May. The monumental stadium project by gmp in Krasnodar, Russia will be the focus of various panel discussions with other high profile speakers of the international architecture scene. Healing Architecture 2004-2017 07/05/2018Volkwin Marg at AIT-Architektursalon Hamburg "Can architecture heal?" This question is the subject of a new exhibitionat the AIT-Architektursalon Hamburg from 9 to 31 May 2018, showing buildings from the fields of health, nursing, teaching, and research. The book "Healing Architecture" of the same name will be presented at the vernissage on 8 May, where gmp founding partner Volkwin Marg will be speaking about international projects by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects. "Meaning as Credo of Architecture" 23/04/2018Meinhard von Gerkan at Industrieclub Sachsen, Dresden The reconstruction of the Kulturpalast Dresden will soon be celebrating its first anniversary. In recognition thereof, the Industrieclub Sachsen has invited the gmp founding partner Meinhard von Gerkan to give a lecture on 24th April providing a look behind the scenes of this architectural project as well as the philosophy that has shaped his work since the beginning. gmp at UrbanLab #3 in Berlin 22/04/2018Indo-German Perspectives on Future Cities Smart Cities, innovative forms of mobility and the challenges of city planning in the future – these are the topics of the third edition of IGSI UrbanLab from 23 to 27 April in Berlin, which has extended an invitation to international experts. Once again, gmp is part of this conference, which provides a knowledge transfer and networking opportunities, especially between Germany and India. Wu Wei in Zhuhai 03/04/2018Active House Summit: Architecture and Sustainability In a lecture on 3 April at “The 14th International Conference on Green and Energy-Efficient Building & New Technologies and Products Expo”, Wu Wei talks about Architecture and Sustainability. A number of projects are taken as example for the approach of gmp relating to the subject matter. Volkwin Marg on NDR 30/03/2018Theme of program: “Zurück in die 80er in Hamburg" On Friday, (30 March) the NDR will be broadcasting a new episode of “Nordtour”, including a feature with Volkwin Marg. Theme of the program is “Zurück in die 80er in Hamburg”. Magdalene Weiss in Shanghai 22/03/2018Transparency – translucency – transition: Modern building skins as space between interior and exterior Magdalene Weiss, Associate Partner at gmp, will be speaking at the “2018 complicated façade innovative design and construction“ conference in Shanghai. Other high profile speakers of the international architecture scene participating at the event are, among others, Peng Huijun (Norman Foster) and Zhu Yue (SOM). Stephan Schütz at Bücherbogen Berlin 06/03/2018Day of Action Communicating Architecture As part of the Day of Action Communicating Architecture at Bücherbogen in Berlin on 14 March at 6 pm, the topic of brutalism and post-war modernism will be discussed in a panel debate. Participating in the panel discussion is gmp partner Stephan Schütz, who will be speaking about the Kulturpalast Dresden in a separate lecture beforehand. Volkwin Marg at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin 04/03/2018Symposium on Technical Building Services At the symposium on building technology on 5 March 2018 at 7:30 pm at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, it is all about the exchange of practical experience: By invitation of academy members Stefan Polónyi and Klaus Bolling, gmp’s founding partner Volkwin Marg will report on the construction planning processes during major projects. Architects' Slam with Robert Friedrichs 06/02/2018SCHULBAU 2018 – International Salon and Trade Fair for Educational Building Industry What does a good school building have to fulfill? The participants of the architects‘ slam will be asked about this question on 7 February as part of the trade fair SCHULBAU 2018 at the Hamburg Cruise Center Altona. The gmp architect Robert Friedrichs will illustrate his recent experience in the planning of a new building for the Gyula Trebitsch School in Hamburg-Tonndorf. Lecture by Stephan Schütz 31/01/2018JUNG Architekturgespräche with focus on building culture The term "Baukultur" (building culture) becomes the central concept of the discussion: On 1 February, starting at 6.30 pm, at the 13th edition of the JUNG Architekturgespräche in Munich, well-known speakers from the architecture scene will focus on the question of creating a livable environment. Among them is also Stephan Schütz, partner at gmp. A subsequent get-together invites you to a professional exchange. gmp x ICICLE 25/01/2018Industrial Buildings in an Urban Context In the last two decades a number of industrial architecture projects have been realized by gmp in China. They all are creating a whole new character for landscapes and urban areas. With the title “Industrial Buildings in an Urban Context”, a new publication impressively illustrates this approach. The book launch on 26 January in Shanghai is accompanied by an exhibition, featuring the esthetics and functional design in architecture and fashion. Volkwin Marg at the Forum Politik und Wirtschaft 24/01/2018Choreography of the Masses. Stadiums as sociopolitical instrument As part of a lecture at the NORDAKADEMIE, Hochschule der Wirtschaft in Elmshorn, Volkwin Marg will speak about the "Choreography of the Masses" on 25 January, starting at 5.30 pm. Thus, the gmp founding partner and architect of significant, international stadiums reflects on these from the fields of politics and business. Film and Talk with Meinhard von Gerkan 23/01/2018(Im)Possibilities of City Planning in the Babylonian Berlin since 1990 A review on Berlin after the fall of the wall: On 24 January at 8 pm, the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin presents Hubert Siegert’s documentary film “Berlin Babylon” as a digital premiere. Following the screening, Siegert will host a discussion with the film’s protagonists, and dominant players in Berlin’s urban redevelopment Meinhard von Gerkan and Hans Stimmann. Lecture by Nikolaus Goetze 23/01/2018Vietnam: Tradition meets Modernity Nikolaus Goetze will illuminate contemporary architecture in Vietnam in the mirror of tradition and present on 24 January 2018. The lecture by gmp partner and manager of the offices Hamburg-Elbchaussee, Shanghai and Hanoi is part of a guest lecture for the Institute for Industrial Construction and Constructive Design of the Technical University Braunschweig, and will take place in the Architekturpavillon. Lecture by Volkwin Marg at KAP FORUM Köln 22/01/2018A night about architecture and life. The KAP Forum in Cologne dedicates an "evening about architecture and life" to Volkwin Marg. On 23 January, at 7 pm, the gmp founding partner will speak about his multifaceted oeuvre. Andreas Grosz, curator and director of the KAP Forum, and the journalist Dr. Oliver Herwig will pose the question, which milestones have played a special role in Volkwin Marg’s work. The event is already fully booked. Lecture by Hans-Joachim Paap at ULI Switzerland 16/01/2018Airport development between economy and politics The Roundtable of the Urban Land Institute Switzerland on 16 January at the Zurich airport focuses on the development of AiportCities. Hans-Joachim Paap, associate partner at gmp, will be explaining in this context the challenges of large-scale projects. Using the example of the airport BER project, of which he was in charge for many years, he will be giving insights into the processes behind the scenes. Lecture by Volkwin Marg 08/01/2018Guided tour through Hanseviertel Hamburg The Hamburger Denkmalverein extended an invitation for a discovery tour through the Hanseviertel, Hamburg’s first shopping passage entirely made of brick. The response has been great: The two guided tours on 12th January, followed by a lecture by Volkwin Marg, are fully booked. There, the gmp founding partner and architect of the Hanseviertel will be providing insights into its design history. Declaration on data protection	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8881
__label__wiki	0.725084	0.725084	The Ibanez PIA is here EVH's affordable Frankenstein replica Martin's radical acoustic-electric See Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert and All-Star Cast Shred to Launch Guitar Contest (Image credit: Christie Goodwin/Getty Images) Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Tommy Emmanuel and dozens of other guitarists from around the world have put their shred talents together on behalf of fighting prostate cancer and depression. The players have participated in a new video titled “Don’t Tell Me Not to Play Guitar,” shown below, that promotes guitar practice while raising funds for the EJ Whitten Foundation to combat prostate cancer and depression. The track is available on iTunes, with all proceeds going to EJ Whitten. In addition to the guitarists listed above, the track includes appearances by Steve Morse, Frank Gambale, Guthrie Govan, Rob Chapman, Ola Englund, and many others. The song features the music of Dorian Chiiwahwah Phallic. The video itself is but a kickoff to the Epic Guitar Solo Contest, a competition that will give eight guitarists from around the world a chance to perform with these artists in a second video. One guitarist will be selected each from the U.S./Canada, the U.K., Japan, South America, Asia/India, Europe/Middle East, China, and Australia/New Zealand/Africa/Oceania. The contest is the brainchild of David Loader, a.k.a. Hack Wanger, best known for producing more than 300 episodes of Guitar Gods and Masterpieces show for Australian public TV channel c31. The issues of prostate cancer and depression are personal for him: Loader’s father passed away from prostate cancer seven years ago and his brother died from depression in 2000. “In the name of prostate awareness and depression, we want to give eight guitar players around the world a chance at ‘World Guitar Stardom,’” Loader writes. “These music performances have been delivered by the greatest guitar masters of our time, all in good faith of wanting to perform alongside of each other to make a difference in the world of men’s health and well being. Especially in a year that rock has lost so many of their best.” To enter the Epic Guitar Solo Contest, guitarists will film themselves recording an eight-bar solo over a backing track provided by the contest. Full instructions are provided here. You can also view the contest trailer below at bottom. In addition to purchasing “Don’t Tell Me Not to Play Guitar,” you can support the cause by buying T-shirts or making donations at EJ Whitten Foundation. To follow the contest, visit its Facebook page and Instagram, and use the hash tag #epicguitarsolochallenge. Ola Englund NAMM 2020: Is Line 6's POD Go its best POD guitar processor to date? NAMM 2020: A Standard version of Jimmy Page's Sundragon signature amp is here at last NAMM 2020: The next evolution of the PRS John Mayer Silver Sky has arrived NAMM 2020: Fender debuts Tom Morello Soul Power Stratocaster, Jim Root Jazzmaster V4 and Eric Johnson ‘Virginia’ Stratocaster NAMM 2020: Jackson's 100% shreddable mega-launch sees signature models for Gus G and Rob Caggiano	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8891
__label__wiki	0.890999	0.890999	'Qatar offers opportunities for Filipino medical professionals' Korean PM arrives in Doha QF highlights educational ties for strong Qatar-India bond Dilapidated buildings: A silent threat that demands action British football fan detained in UAE lodges rights complaint Dreama workshop helps create awareness on serving orphans better QATAR Philippine Business Council-Qatar healthcare system Philippine Business Council-Qatar chairman Greg Loayon. PICTURE: Shemeer Rasheed. Peter Alagos The Middle East may compete with Europe in terms of attracting medical professionals in a bid to address the increasing demand for high-quality and world-class healthcare services, according to an official of the Philippine Business Council-Qatar (PBC-Q). PBC-Q chairman Greg Loayon said Qatar has invested heavily in developing the country’s healthcare system, which would require both first-rate facilities and human resources. Similarly, he also noted that “Europe is ramping up demand for medical professionals.” Loayon’s statement reaffirms an earlier statement from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), which reported that Qatar had invested QR22.7bn in healthcare last year, a 4% increase from 2017. The country’s healthcare spending is among the highest in the Middle East, the MoPH said. London-based think tank, Legatum Institute, also corroborated this in a report, which said Qatar’s health system ranked fifth ‘Best in the World’ and the first in the Middle East, the ministry also said. According to Loayon, there is an opportunity for medical professionals worldwide, particularly Filipino doctors and nurses, as well as practitioners of ancillary services, such as laboratory technicians and personnel, physical therapists, and physiotherapists to offer their services amid the burgeoning healthcare sector in Qatar, as well as in other countries. In Qatar, Loayon said Filipino doctors are now able to practise their fields of specialisation after the MoPH granted equivalency to practise as specialists. In 2017, the ministry, through the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) released an updated ‘Approved Specialty Qualifications List for Physicians’ in Qatar. This list, Loayon said, now includes doctors from the Philippines who are diplomates of the Philippine Board. He said these diplomates can get the ‘specialist’ title after three years of work experience from post qualification degree, unless more years of experience is specified. They are not eligible for a ‘consultant’ title unless a higher qualification is obtained. Loayon lauded the ministry and the QCHP for recognising Filipino doctors, saying that this not only reinforces the competency of Filipino medical professionals in the country but will also bolster the number of qualified doctors in Qatar. “Filipino medical professionals are also equally in demand in Europe. I believe that the Middle East will be competing with Europe for medical professionals as a destination…and so we have a real opportunity here. “We have a wealth of medical professionals that can really serve Qatar; when you look at the demographics of the population from a profession perspective, Filipino medical professionals are well-equipped to work with patients of any nationality and from all walks of life, and we have extensive medical experience at par with international standards,” Loayon said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8892
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__label__cc	0.502672	0.497328	What Matthew McConaughey's Epic Beach Runs Can Teach You About Outdoor Workout Style 10 years ago the actor was living his best shirtless life Welcome to TBT, a look back at the epic style moves from decades past. Up today: Ten years ago our favorite southern movie star getting a run in on the sands of Miami Beach. Who: Matthew McConaughey When: 2006 Where: Miami Beach, Florida Why: Whether you've been working on your beach body since February or frantically trying to make up for lost time starting today, every guy could use a little motivation. And there is no man alive more motivating than actor and inspiration to future selves everywhere, Matthew McConaughey. Ten years ago, the chillest human on earth, was as well-known for his movie roles as he was for basically working out all the time. On a beach. Shirtless. (As you may already know, running on the beach is a great workout because the sand has literally no bounce—making each step more of an effort.) McConaughey took full advantage of the sun and sand during his much-photographed workouts, running in the type of gear you'd expect to see on the Airstream-owner: cargo shorts, Oakleys, a bandana cum headband, a gold signet ring, a silver and turquoise cuff, and a Livestrong bracelet (he was running with Lance Armstrong a lot in those days). MIAMI BEACH , FL - AUGUST 9: Matthew McConaughey runs on South Beach August 9, 2006 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)Getty Images To be clear, we can't really encourage you to wear this in 2016. But we can encourage you to take a big old Texas-sized bite out of life just like McConaughey did here. And if you're gonna wear a headband, it's pretty cool to make one out of your favorite bandana. Related Stories for GQBeach	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8897
__label__cc	0.697795	0.302205	Katya Elise Henry is a American fitness model, personal trainer, and social media celebrity. She’s dedicated herself to the fitness lifestyle, creating an awesome physique after years of intense training – inspiring fans around the world to follow in her footsteps. After spending her teenage years as a cheerleader, Katya realized she wasn’t building the muscular body she wanted due to the cardiovascular nature of the sport. She also ate poorly, which forced Katya to look for guidance from her mother, who was a personal trainer – aiming to build her dream beach body. After sticking to a structured workout, and diet plan, Katya began to notice serious changes in her appearance. This is when she started posting images of her improving physique online. She realized how motivational these pictures were for people, which inspired her to become a personal trainer – further improving her skills in the gym. Fast forward to today, and Katya has surpassed all of her goals; she’s created her ideal beach body, become a fitness entrepreneur, and along the way, attracted a large fan base on social media. This is her story: “Wake up. Work out. Look hot. Kick ass”. Full Name: Katya Elise Henry Weight Height Year of Birth Nationality 115 - 125lbs (52.2 - 56.7kg) 5'2" (157.5cm) 1993 American Profession Era Personal trainer, fitness model, social media celebrity 2010 Height 5'2" (157.5cm) Profession Personal trainer, fitness model, social media celebrity Katyas transformation from 17-22 years old. Instagram Celebrity Katya spent her youth training to be a cheerleader, saying she was always “fit and healthy”. However, while she enjoyed this sport, she was never fully happy with the body it gave her – always aspiring to have a toned, and curvy physique. Her cheerleading workouts took up a lot of time, which were heavily focused on cardio. This prevented her from adding any significant muscle in the gym, as she couldn’t maintain a calorie surplus. Because of this, she decided to stop cheerleading altogether. Katya’s Progress When Katya stopped cheerleading, she knew exactly how she wanted to look, but didn’t know where to start. Luckily for Katya, her mother was a personal trainer with years of experience. She took Katya under her wing, teaching her new techniques in the gym. Katya says, “I was blessed with a wonderful mother who is also, luckily, a personal trainer”. The more Katya learnt about proper nutrition, supplementation, and weight-lifting from her mother, the more she “fell in love with it”. She enjoyed the planning that went into creating an effective workout plan, along with the results it gave her as she progressed. Social Media Fame Around this time, Katya also began using social media – uploading photos of her early progress on Instagram. Her toned glutes and abs became popular immediately. Following this rise to fame, she said to her online followers that she hoped to “influence them to be better” through her posts. She loved watching her own progress as she looked back through her photos, understanding the full benefits of training 4-days a week in the gym. Katya enjoyed seeing this progress so much, that it inspired her to train friends and family – improving their bodies in the gym. After hearing positive feedback, she was inspired to follow this passion, seeing personal training as her new career goal. Katya said “seeing progress in others is even more satisfying than seeing my own progress!”. She enjoyed all aspects of the personal trainer lifestyle; staying fit, making new friends, and teaching techniques. While Katya enjoyed being in the gym with clients and friends greatly, she didn’t have enough time to workout everyday. Because of this, she decided to become an online personal trainer. “I dreamed of becoming an online trainer and positively influencing thousands of people from all over the world, but it was a big dream for a small girl from Miami!” “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change!”. Glute focused To maintain Katya’s physique, she trains 4-days a week. As she has called herself “the glute master,” she focuses her routine heavily on this area, but also fits in abdominal workouts and upper body exercises where she can. Typical routine Her weekly split is below: Monday – legs and glutes Tuesday – rest day Wednesday – abs and upper body Thursday – leg and glutes Friday – rest day Saturday – legs and glutes “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror!”. Katya says that during her time cheerleading, she didn’t focus on her diet at all, and ate junk food quite often. After learning from her mother on the importance of nutrition, her diet is now “97% clean,” incorporating healthy, nutritious food. Like most fitness enthusiasts, Katya focuses on her macro-nutrient content in each meal, eating a lot of protein and healthy fat, but avoiding carbs as much as possible when she’s trying to lose weight. Switching To Vegan After many years of eating meat based foods such as chicken, beef stakes, and pork, kataya has since switched to a vegan way of eating. “I started eating differently, after watching my mom and sister. After getting educated on the subject, I decided to make a change myself. I do not regret my decision at all. I am very happy. I wish everyone would change their lifestyle to vegan.” katya says that she doesn’t think complicated “diets” are necessary for her. Instead, she says that eating clean and healthy will always come first. In terms of supplementation, Katya only uses whey protein to help with her muscle building goals. She says that she only uses supplements when she needs to, believing everyone should only use them to support a healthy diet, rather than a meal replacement. Inspired to reach your maximum potential like Katya? Read our comprehensive guide on how fat burning supplements can really up your game! Katya’s motivation comes from the people she trains. She believes that every person who has commented positively and learned something, has in turn, helped her – pushing her to work harder. She says that her motivation in the gym comes from within, saying “There is always room for improvement and learning new things.” What we can learn from Katya Elise Henry In Katya’s early beginnings as a cheerleader, she was unhappy with her physique, so, she decided to make a change. With the help of her mother, who introduced her to the gym – showing her how to lift weights and build muscle, Katya went onto become a world renowned fitness model and social media star. All thanks to her hard work and willingness to follow her dreams. If you’re ever struggling to achieve your fitness goals, just like Katya in the beginning, by taking inspiration from her story, and following her ethos of ‘hard work pays off’ – you too could make your goals into a reality. Rita Johnson She’s a Whoe and a disgrace to young women with her ass all out..mNO MORALES…. She’s a fitness model you silly woman. You can’t even spell right! And you are a sad hater who will most likely never look anything like her ORHAN KIYAK Katya was successful. A scientific example…Beautiful !…Orhan Kıyak Me#B U Im so jealous that her and Austin Mahone are a thing!!! Azman Mee too bro! :/ María Canela She is one of my biggest inspiration, I can picture myself in her and I think that’s her biggest goal. To show women they can achieve the body goal they want if they believe in themselves enough. I love her. #kateeyuh ♥️? She’s a vegetarian so that meal plan is made up… Hi Rose, thank you for your feedback. After a little digging, we’ve found that Katya was once a meat eater, but has since switched to a Vega based diet. Thanks again! Miguel Masters Bankable she looks amazing and is inspiring to see how she changed her body which is not easy to do otherwise we would all look like that 🙂 ! Nothing good comes from hate! lets have some more love!! erigona Ur mom gey Rita Johnson, your IQ obviously is much less than 70% !! Kalamity Quit hating and get to work. Don’t knock the girl because she’s done the work to look absolutely gorgeous and deserves to rock a bathing suit. Instead look at her before and after pics and realize she busted her a$$ to get it then learn from that. Hating is lazy and stupid. If it bothers you so much change pages honey. OMG THAT ASS IS GORGEOUS!! IT’S SO BIG AND ROUND AND CURVY GODDANG! YOU FEEL LIKE YOU JUST WANNA CLAP THOSE HUGE CHEEKS. HOW DOES SHE FIT THAT HUGE BOOTY IN SKINNY JEANS? IT’S SO BIG IT LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD JUST POP RIGHT OUT. THIS RIGHT HERE IS ONE BEAUTIFUL FAT ASS I CAN APPRECIATE. THAT BIG FAT BUTT IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING AND GORGEOUS!!! She looks Great!!! I could definitely learn from her. Great work very inspiring ?? Jamie Eason Meggan Grubb Zanna Van Dijk Lucy Sewell Catia Isabel Alexandra Bring	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8901
__label__cc	0.558195	0.441805	The fans' guide to the 2019 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic All your questions answered about going to the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic in Hobart. The fans' guide to the 2019 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic All your questions answered about going to the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic in Hobart. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2019/07/01/lpga-thornberry-creek-green-bay-we-have-your-guide-to-the-tournament/1524522001/ Benita Mathew, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 6:32 a.m. CT July 1, 2019 Spectators watch the final round of the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic on Sunday, July 8, 2018 in Hobart, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin (Photo: Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin) HOBART - Time to bring out the energy and rattle off all your golf knowledge for this week's Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic. Jon-Paul Genet, the tournament director, expects to see crowds of more than 60,000 people during the weeklong event, which gets underway Monday with practice rounds that are not open to the public. Public access begins with Tuesday's practice round. "We expect to see all of Green Bay and the northeast coast out on the golf course," Genet said. The tournament is coming back to the Oneida Nation-owned Thornberry Creek golf course for the third time after it generated $85,000 for Oneida athletic groups last year. Sei Young Kim hits from the fairway on No. 3 during the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic Sunday, July 8, 2018 in Hobart, Wis. (Photo: Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin) The reigning champion, Sei Young Kim, is also returning to defend her record-breaking 31-under par in 2018. 2017 champion Katherine Kirk will also be one of the 144 golfers. If you're planning on catching some of the action, here's what you need to know: Individuals can purchase single-day tickets before the event for $25 ($30 at the gate) or tickets for the whole week for $65 ($75 at the gate). Both types of tickets include access to the clubhouse. RELATED: Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic is back for its third year. Will there be a fourth? RELATED: Top women's players looking forward to going low again at Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic Military members, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin tribal members, and accompanied children 17 and younger will receive free admission with a valid ID. Tickets for the Sky Woman Suite are $200 ($225 at the gate) for one day and $700 ($750 at the gate) for the entire week. What’s new this year Single-day and weekly tickets now include access to the clubhouse where spectators can go to cool off or use indoor restrooms. Free parking is available at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, 2740 W. Mason St., Green Bay. Shuttles will be available from and to the parking lot. Note: Uber drivers will not be allowed to drop off people at the golf course and must be dropped off at the NWTC parking lot instead. What's not allowed Posters or signs Bags for lawn chairs Cameras during competition rounds Thursday through Saturday Genet recommended people bring their own chairs and urged people to be mindful of the forecast and bring plenty of sunscreen and water. "But most importantly, bring lots of positivity and excitement for LPGA," Genet said. RELATED: Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic final round The course has plenty of space for fans to follow their favorite players, but Genet recommends the 17th green as a prime viewing spot. People can also watch the tournament live on NBC. Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark hits at the 10th tee in the final round of the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic on Sunday, July 8, 2018 in Hobart, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin (Photo: Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin) Food and drink concessions All restaurants in the Clubhouse are open to spectators. Concession stands selling brats, burgers, sandwiches, and other refreshments will also be available around the course. There will be no party deck this year, but $2 beer and brats will go on sale at the 17th green stand when a birdie makes the hole. The practice rounds on Monday will be closed to the public. Gates will open to spectators at 7 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Tuesday: Practice rounds for professionals Wednesday: Pro-am Thursday: First round Friday: Second round Saturday: Third round Sunday: Final championship round More information about the tournament can be found on its website. Read or Share this story: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2019/07/01/lpga-thornberry-creek-green-bay-we-have-your-guide-to-the-tournament/1524522001/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8903
__label__wiki	0.625497	0.625497	The Most U... When one thinks of the best food cities in the United States, a few obvious places come to mind. There's New York City, with its famous pizza and bagels. Los Angeles comes to mind, for its fresh produce and trendy, Instagram-worthy dishes. Calling Austin a destination for barbecue would be a bit of an understatement. And there's San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, and so on. You know their names and their reputations. But what about the culinary destinations you don't think about at first.Yes, those are the under-the-radar food cities. The smaller yet buzzing metropolises and quaint towns that consistently pump out stellar food and drink without the big-name reputation. There's Dallas, which often gets overlooked for its flashier sister cities. There's New Haven, Connecticut, which actually has better pizza than New York or Chicago. And there's Scottsdale, Arizona; Traverse City, Michigan; and Sacramento, California. You know these cities' names, but you don't know their food. Until now. Who knows? You could find your next foodie vacation. Though it's well established as one of the hippest cities in the South, Asheville, North Carolina, is often overlooked for its culinary scene. But it should not be! Not only does this town have more breweries per capita than any other place in the United States, it was on the forefront of the farm-to-table movement with restaurants like The Market Place. And no Southern city would be a culinary destination without solid barbecue, of which Asheville has plenty. There's the Obama-approved 12 Bones and Buxton Hall, which roasts whole hogs over a wood fire. Michael F./Yelp New Orleans dominates the culinary scene in Louisiana, leaving Baton Rouge underappreciated. But indeed, the Creole and Cajun food here is insanely good. Look no further than Baton Rouge staple Parrain's Seafood, which has some of the best crawfish étouffée you'll ever find. In addition to amazing seafood, Baton Rouge has a massively diverse food scene with sushi (UMAMI Japanese Bistro), Mediterranean (Zoroona Mediterranean Grill), and some of the best fried chicken ever at Delpit's Chicken Shack. Seriously, this place is just as worthy of a culinary tour as its more famous sibling. Linda V./Yelp There are a lot of Southern culinary destinations, so it's been easy for Birmingham to be overlooked while giants like Atlanta and New Orleans dominate the conversation. But no longer! This charming Alabama town has Southern staples down pat. Look no further than Café Dupont with their signature buttermilk-fried chicken with a lemon buerre blanc. Birmingham is also home to one of the best restaurants in Alabama: Highlands Bar & Grill. It has a daily rotating menu using seasonal ingredients for its French-inspired Southern menu. While you're eating your way around Birmingham, be sure to stop by The Market at Pepper Place, a farmers market with 100 vendors selling fresh produce and homemade food goods. Leigh C./Yelp While Denver gets all the hype for beer and food in Colorado, don't sleep on Boulder. It's home to the state's very best restaurant, Frasca Food & Wine, which serves simple yet elegant Italian food in a warm and inviting space. They also have a surprisingly diverse food scene with Argentinian food (Rincon Argentino), Japanese cuisine (Izakaya Amu), and German sausages (Bohemian Biergarten). Plus, in a state full of some of the best breweries in the country, Avery Brewing holds its own, anchored by its fabulous Maharaja Double IPA. Zdenek S./Yelp If you find yourself in Vermont, the best food in the state is all in Burlington. Head to this historic town and not only will you find plenty of charm, you'll find some seriously good eats. There's Guild Tavern with its wood-fired steaks, traditional Neapolitan style pizzas at Pizzeria Verita, and fine dining at Trattoria Delia and Hen of the Wood. If you're looking for cheap food, well, Burlington has that too with some fine doughnuts, soup, and one of the best dive bars in the country. Seriously, there's something for everyone here. Verita/Yelp Charleston, West Virginia Another Charleston may get all the glory when it comes to its food scene (we're looking at you, South Carolina), but Charleston, West Virginia, is truly where it's at. Everyone loves pizza, and Lola's has creative twists on that classic dish like a steak and cheese pie. Of course, this Southern town also has world-class barbecue at Dem 2 Brothers And A Grill with some of the most melt-in-your-mouth delicious brisket you could ever have. If you want to class it up, Charleston is also the home to the best steakhouse in West Virginia, The Chop House, which has a surprisingly great beef Wellington. Troy S./Yelp Though best known as the home of Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville is much more than an historic town with a state school. It's also an exciting and burgeoning culinary destination. They have every kind of food you could ever want, like world-class Neapolitan pizzas at Lampo, soul food like perfectly-fried chicken at Mel's Café, and French cuisine at Fleurie Restaurant for a special night out on the town. No trip to Charlottesville would be complete without a stop at Citizen Burger Bar, which is serving up creative burgers cooked just right. Their special, the Citizen Burger, features 100 percent grass-fed beef, Swiss cheese, a black onion garlic aïoli, and a fried pickle. We'll take two. Darnell P./Yelp Once dubbed "the mistake on the lake," Cleveland has emerged as a cultural and culinary powerhouse in recent years, regularly serving up the best food in Ohio. Yes, the town has an incredible theatre scene (making it the perfect weekend getaway), but its food is also a show-stopper. Barrio is the design-your-own taco joint that has all the locals buzzing and hours-long waits on the weekend. Be sure to stop by Melt for some outrageous grilled cheese sandwiches, like The Dude Abides, which comes with meatballs, fried mozzarella, and roasted garlic in addition to its cheeses. Cleveland also has some classy eats, like Pier W, which offers up some stunning seafood and Red, The Steakhouse, which has an amazing (and expensive) menu. Melt Bar and Grill/Yelp Texas is the home of barbecue, and Dallas is no exception. Pecan Lodge is a barbecue joint worth waiting in line for just for the burnt ends and brisket alone. Because Dallas-Fort Worth is a sprawling metropolis (to say the least), its best restaurants are wide-spanning. There's Flora Street Café, with inventive dishes inspired by old-school Texas; Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, which serves a perfect steak; and Tei-An, which has beautiful sushi and Japanese soba noodles. Austin may get all the hype, but Dallas is coming right up on it. Hieu H./Yelp Honolulu, Hawaii, is known as a prime vacation and beach destination, but it's a haven of fresh seafood without any sort of pretension. Indeed, Honolulu has some of the best food in Hawaii, including great dim sum at Fook Lam, solid carne asada tacos at Alejandro's, and beautiful pasta like the spaghetti alla pescatora at Arancino di Mare. Yes, of course, the best food in Honolulu is seafood. Ono Seafood is a hole-in-the-wall poke place the locals flock to in droves for the fresh fish, and Fresh Ahi Off the Boat serves just that (once again in a very casual setting). Ryan T./Yelp Let's get it out of the way: Kansas City has some killer barbecue. Anchored by its ribs, Arthur Bryant's is arguably the most famous barbecue restaurant in America, and Q39 Midtown takes their barbecue to the next level with the Burnt End Burger - that's right, it's a hamburger topped with even more meat. Beyond the barbecue, Kansas City has upscale dining such as Le Fou Frog with elegant entrées such as a Chilean sea bass and an insanely good lobster bisque. Bluestem is also the go-to spot for a night out on the town for locals, with its 10-course dinner defining fine Kansas City dining. Cheap eats, expensive eats - you can find whatever you want here. Dan S./Yelp Often overshadowed by that other L-city in Kentucky (cough cough, Louisville), people from Lexington know this is where the real good food in the state is. While this city is home of the best steakhouse in the state, Malone's, with its infrared broiler-cooked beef, that's not all. It just has some restaurants that do food really, really well. Look no further than Honeywood for fresh takes on Southern cuisine, like a sautéed Gulf white shrimp and grouper over Weisenberger Mill cheese grits and greens. Farm Market promises the "best tamales in town," and delivers well on that promise. Of course, no Kentucky city would be complete without a great bourbon trail, so be sure to hit up Barrel House Distilling, Bluegrass Distillers, James E Pepper Distillery, and more for some proper bourbon. Elvin H./Yelp Do you want the very best pizza in America? Go to New Haven, Connecticut. In addition to being the home of Yale, New Haven is a Neapolitan-style pizza wonderland, led by the clam pie at Frank Pepe. It sounds weird, but stay with us. The combination of littleneck clams with garlic, olive oil, oregano, and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano atop a charcoal-colored crust is truly magical. But that's not all! Sally's Apizza, Modern Apizza, and Bar all serve similarly world-class pies. It's all a matter of personal preference which you choose (or which has the shortest line on any given day). Beyond the pizza, New Haven is home to Louis' Lunch, where the hamburger reportedly originated, and one of the best breweries in the state, New England Brewing Co., isn't too far away. Eating and drinking your way through this town is a true delight that is not to be overlooked. DenisTangneyJr/istockphoto.com Orlando may be best known as the home of Walt Disney World, but move away from the theme parks and head out into the town to experience some amazing food. Like all proper Florida cities, there's no shortage of amazing seafood in Orlando; their outpost of Eddie V's is a local favorite, according to the Orlando Sentinel. You can get any meal of the day here, and it will be mind-blowing. Locals love First Watch and Keke's for breakfast, and Mission BBQ is great for a hearty lunch. And OK, if you must stick with the Mouse, Epcot is full of culinary delights from around the world. First Watch/Yelp Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island is a small state, but the culinary scene in its capital Providence is huge. You can have any kind of experience you want here. Led by Chef Ben Sukle and his ambitious 18-seat restaurant Birch, you can enjoy some serious fine dining here. If you're looking for a quicker bite, you'll find some of the finest eggs and home fries anywhere at local favorite Eddie's Diner and "mobile bistro" Plouf Plouf Gastronomie, one of America's best food trucks. Providence is also home to one of America's best culinary schools at Johnson and Wales University. The best thing about eating your way through Providence is that this city is very, very pedestrian-friendly, so you can have a bite to eat and walk it off on your way to your next meal. aimintang/istockphoto.com The food and drink scene in California is dominated by Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, but Sacramento is coming on hot. Beyond its amazing farm-to-table scene, California's capital has exciting seasonal dining like The Kitchen, with a menu that changes monthly. And Sacramento's food scene is only growing. New arrivals like the fresh seafood Italian fine dining spot Allora, the hip tiki bar with a deviled Scotch egg to die for Ten Ten Room, and German beer hall Oakhaus show this city's food is diverse and delicious. The Kitchen Restaurant/Yelp Southwestern food may be easily found all across the United States, but no one does it quite like Santa Fe. This New Mexico city even has its own slang term for their chiles: Christmas, which means you want both the red and green guys in your dinner. It logically follows the best food in this under-the-radar food town is spicy and surprising. The green chile stew at The Shed is made with made with roasted chiles, potatoes, and chunks of lean pork for a hearty yet healthy lunch. As one could expect, the tacos in Santa Fe are also killer; food truck El Chile Toreado and casual spot Palacio Café lead the way for this favorite street food. If you want a nice night out on the town, we suggest heading to The Anasazi for an expensive yet quintessential New Mexican dining experience. Davel5957/istockphoto.com Scottsdale may be best known for its resorts and spas, but venture outside your hotel for a day of eating out on the town. The gorgeous weather in this Arizona city means that it has diverse and fresh produce available year-round and a vibrant vegetarian restaurant scene. Led by James Beard-nominated chef Charleen Badman, FnB makes even a simple dish like Brussels sprouts, curry, mint, and cashews incredibly exciting. Those looking for a little bit of meat will be best served at Japanese steakhouse Roka Akor for premium fresh sushi and beautifully cooked steaks. Roka Akor-Scottsdale/Yelp Come for the Gateway Arch, stay for the food. Like its fellow Missouri under-the-radar town Kansas City, St. Louis is often overlooked in favor of bigger cities with flashier reputations. But it shouldn't be. Beyond the bustling food truck scene (led by our personal favorite Go Gyro Go), St. Louis has some of the best food in its state, from the insanely crispy fried chicken at Sweetie Pie's to beautiful and colorful plates of pasta at Trattoria Marcella. brians101/istockphoto.com This buzzing summer getaway town is one of our favorite towns for beer and wine. The trio of breweries, Right Brain, North Peak, and Short's, make some of the most inventive beers in the country. Vineyards here, like Chateau Grand Traverse, are among some of America's best wineries as well. You could plan an entire trip around the scrumptious pies at Grand Traverse Pie Company and the five-course dinner menu at The Cooks' House, but you'd be remiss to forego the National Cherry Festival during the first week of July. It's a tart cherry lover's idea of heaven. For more heavenly food towns in America, check out the best cities overall for eating and drinking in the country.More From The Daily Meal:The Best Food and Drink in Every State101 Best Restaurants in AmericaThe Prettiest Town in Every StateThe 50 Happiest Cities in America35 American Towns and Cities Named for Food Grand Traverse Pie Company/Yelp 50 Dinners Under 500 Calories Gallery The best life lessons we learned from our parents How to Marie Kondo Your Spice Drawer: What to Keep and What to Toss The Most Popular Super Bowl Party Foods, Ranked America's 35 Best Seafood Shacks Gallery Flight Attendants Share Tips to Handle Long Travel Delays 33 Slow Cooker Soups and Stews for Winter Recipes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8912
__label__wiki	0.949405	0.949405	Cheryl Cole launches divorce action against her husband Ashley May 26, 2010 - 10:26 BST hellomagazine.com The 26-year-old Girls Aloud beauty has filed papers citing the football star's "unreasonable behaviour" as grounds for ending their marriage Cheryl Cole has begun divorce proceedings against her estranged husband Ashley, it has been revealed. In papers lodged at London's High Court at 2 pm on Tuesday, the 26-year-old singer cited "unreasonable behaviour" on the part of the Chelsea footballer as grounds for ending their four year marriage. Cheryl is not asking for a penny of Ashley's money in an effort to make a clean break, and has told the 29-year-old, who was allegedly unfaithful with a number of women, he can keep their couple's £6 million Surrey home. It is thought the Girls Aloud singer has instructed lawyers to rush through the divorce ahead of England's first World Cup match because she does not want the defender to be distracted by any "emotional turmoil." "Cheryl made a swift decision to put England's World Cup dreams ahead of herself," a source told the Sun. "The divorce should be finalised before England's first touch of the ball in South Africa on June 12." Neither Cheryl nor Ashley - pictured together in November - signed a prenuptial agreement when they wed in July 2006. But the X Factor judge, who will celebrate her 27th birthday next month, doesn't want any wrangling over finances it is thought. The couple are both worth an estimated £10 million with Ashley earning around £6 million a year from his football club and sponsorship deals. Meanwhile, his wife has seen her fortunes rise in recent years with £5 million coming in from her work with Girls Aloud and a new contract with the X Factor worth £1.7 million. Speaking about the divorce proceedings, the source added: "She (Cheryl) has fully accepted there is no going back after Ashley's cheating and their marriage breakdown." "So this divorce will be clean, swift, amicable and smooth. Cheryl has no spite towards Ashley and has been incredibly mature and considered in how she has handled the split." Just recently Cheryl made a very successful debut at the Cannes Film Festival, seen by many as her launch on the international circuit. While there she was joined by Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am who has sparked reports of a possible romance after declaring Cheryl to be "the most beautiful woman in the world." More about cheryl cole Cheryl shocks with four dramatic hair transformations - and one was a bob Cherly Cole stuns in orange as she supports her best friend Kimberly Walsh's musical debut Watch video: Cheryl Cole's style evolution through the years Ashley receives plenty of attention from the California Girls on a guys' holiday in LA Cheryl Cole to remove tribute tattoo as conflicting divorce reports emerge Cheryl Cole looks to the future after announcing her separation from Ashley It's over: Katie Price and Peter Andre granted divorce in the High Court Eva Longoria files for divorce from her husband amid reports of his infidelity Friends concerned that Ashley Cole plans to woo Cheryl back	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8913
__label__wiki	0.73414	0.73414	> Royalty Princess Amalia steals the show as Luxembourg's royals meet the Pope March 21, 2016 - 17:16 GMT Ainhoa Barcelona Monday was a truly grand family affair for the Luxembourg royals, who were out in full force to meet the Pope but it was little Princess Amalia who stole the show Monday was a truly grand family affair for the Luxembourg royals, who were out in full force to meet the Pope. Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa travelled to the Vatican City with their children and grandchildren, but it was the youngest member of the group Princess Amalia who stole the show. The little girl, who is the one-year-old daughter of Prince Felix and Princess Claire, was the picture of cuteness in a white dress with a pink bow. She was as good as gold as she was introduced to Pope Francis and stood next to the 79-year-old Catholic leader during the photocall. After the pictures were taken, Amalia didn't want to leave her grandmother's side and Maria Teresa sweetly scooped her up in her arms. Princess Amalia didn't want to leave her grandmother Maria Teresa's side The family enjoyed a private meeting with the Argentinean, with Cuba-born Maria Teresa greeting Pope Francis in the pair's native Spanish. The Grand Duchess was the only female royal to wear white, adhering to the "privilège du blanc " rule which states that only a Catholic queen or princess, or one married to a Catholic monarch, can wear the colour. The little girl is the one-year-old daughter of Prince Felix and Princess Claire Other royals who are allowed to wear white include Queen Sofia and Queen Letizia of Spain, Queen Mathilde and Queen Paola of the Belgians and Princess Charlene of Monaco. The rest of the group including Maria Teresa's daughters-in-law Princess Stephanie and Princess Claire all wore black. Maria Teresa is celebrating her 60th birthday on Tuesday The Pope presented the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess with a peace medallion and an encyclical on the environment. As they left, the Pope bid the couple – who have been married for 35 years – farewell with a private joke as he laughed and said: "I also congratulate you for the conversation you have had." Meeting the Pope was the perfect excuse for the Luxembourg royals to gather and celebrate together. Maria Teresa is turning 60 on Tuesday and she will no doubt have been thrilled to spend the lead-up of her milestone birthday surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Autumn's here! Check out the 12 reasons we LOVE this golden season Luxembourg Royals Princess Amalia More about luxembourg royals Celebrity daily edit: Luxembourg royals' big winter holiday - video Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg undergoes secret knee operation - details Celebrity daily edit: Prince Louis and Tessy's great post-divorce relationship - video Prince Sébastien graduates from college as Grand Duke Henri is awarded honorary degree Princess Amalia of Luxembourg is the star of new family portraits ahead of first birthday Royals attend services for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo Love in Luxembourg: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa celebrate 35th wedding anniversary Prince Félix and Princess Claire of Luxembourg introduce baby Amalia Prince Félix and Princess Claire of Luxembourg leave hospital with baby Amalia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8914
__label__wiki	0.824882	0.824882	Aldi bans non-detectable black plastic trays from beef products Dave Hanratty The new initiative will save 6.5 million single-use units of non-recyclable waste. Aldi Ireland has become the first supermarket in the country to officially ban the use of non-detectable black plastic trays from its fresh beef range. In their place, new 100% recyclable packaging trays have been introduced across the entire range, saving over 6.5 million single-use units of non-recyclable waste per year. The move comes as part of the supermarket chain's commitment to remove all non-detectable black plastic trays, expanded polystyrene trays and PVC from all own-brand product packaging by 2020. It follows Aldi’s recent cutting of similar packaging from its fruit and vegetables and fresh fish ranges, in line with the commitment to implement long-term plastic reduction throughout its 139 stores. The overall goal is to reduce plastic packaging across Aldi's product range by 25% by the end of 2023. Aldi is also working to ensure that 100% of its own label packaging will be recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022, achieving a 50% reduction - relative to 2015 levels - in packaging across its own-label products by 2025. "We are working to reduce the use of unnecessary and hard to recycle plastic packaging across our own-label ranges," confirmed Group Buying Director John Curtin. "To be the first supermarket in Ireland to remove black plastic trays from its beef products is another positive step towards achieving our long-term goal of removing all black plastic from our own-label products by the end of 2020." aldi, climate emergency, climate action, HSE issues warning after a large increase in mumps cases A homeless woman in her 20s has died in a Dublin hostel Rudi Kinsella Eoghan Murphy "saddened" by serious injuries to homeless man, removes campaign posters from scene A number of flights have been cancelled as Storm Brendan hits Ireland Dublin City Council to erect flood defences as Storm Brendan draws near Leo Varadkar will reportedly call a general election for 7 February	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8916
__label__wiki	0.628527	0.628527	Referral Scheme Online Payment Cloud Accounting mail@hbb.co.uk Testimonials Register Please read our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of business. How long should you keep books and records? At HBB we are often asked by our clients in the Colne area about how long books and records should be kept. Here is an overview... There is no simple answer to this question because different types of record are covered by different types of legislation, as shown by the following summary: By law, VAT records have to be kept for six years unless HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) allows a shorter period. Any request you make to keep records for a shorter period must be accompanied by a full explanation of why it is considered impractical to keep the records. HMRC recommends that pay records be kept for at least three years after the income tax year to which they relate. Taxes generally For periods before the start of self assessment HMRC could issue an assessment at any time up to six years after the end of the chargeable period to which the assessment related. There is no limit in cases of fraud or wilful default. All business records must be retained for a period of (broadly) six years. As a general rule, HMRC can raise an enquiry into a self assessment tax return within 12 months of the date the return was submitted. Where an incomplete return has been made, they can issue an assessment at any time up to four years after the end of the chargeable period to which the assessment related. Where the loss of tax is due to carelessness, the time limit is extended to six years. There is a limit of 20 years in cases of fraud or wilful default. Under normal circumstances, all business records must be retained for a period of (broadly) six years. Under corporation tax self assessment, accounting records must be preserved for six years from the end of the accounting period. With regard to the statutory books, the Companies Act states they must be retained for 10 years. Documents relating to government grants must generally be kept for four years from receipt of the grant. Where grant aid is still being received, no documents should be destroyed without consulting the relevant government department. Employers’ Liability policy certificates The former requirement to keep Employers’ Liability policy certificates for 40 years has been replaced by guidance. Businesses are reminded that their potential liability for illness and injury at work does not end when the policy expires. Records should be retained to ensure that any future claim can be met. Limitation Act 1980 - general periods The 1980 Act allows an action to be brought on a contract for up to six years from the event (e.g. breach) that gave rise to the claim. Where a contract is under seal (or deed), the time limit is twelve years. These periods govern how long invoices and other documents should be retained as evidence in case of a claim by, or against, another party. Taking into account the various requirements outlined above, we recommend that you keep all records for at least six years after the end of the accounting period or tax year. If you are a business in the Colne area and would like more assistance on any aspect of your accounts, the team at HBB can help you. contact us for more help. Bribery Act 2010 Capital allowances Cash basis for the self-employed Charities in England and Wales: trustees' responsibilities Charities in Scotland: trustees' responsibilities Criminal Finances Act 2017 Employed or self employed? Employer supported childcare How long should you keep books and records? How to gain the most from your accounting records Husband and wife businesses Making Tax Digital for Individuals VAT - Making Tax Digital Preventing Late Payments Recent changes to apprenticeships Salary sacrifice Take care to avoid a penalty The Construction Industry Scheme The National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage Making Tax Digital and the rise of online accounting software Analysing the rise in popularity of online accounting. Tweets by HBBaccountants © 2020 Hargreaves Brown & Benson Chartered Accountants. All rights reserved. mail@hbb.co.uk Home \| Contact us \| Accessibility \| Disclaimer \| Help \| Site map \| article2018 \| February \| October2019November Hargreaves Brown & Benson Chartered Accountants, 1 Bond Street, Colne, Lancashire BB8 9DG	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8921
__label__cc	0.704502	0.295498	Home News @ResearchWales on location… The hidden figures making kidney research happen in Wales Year 201520162017201820192020View all Month Jan 2020Dec 2019Nov 2019Oct 2019Sep 2019Aug 2019Jul 2019Jun 2019May 2019Apr 2019Mar 2019Feb 2019Jan 2019Dec 2018Nov 2018Oct 2018Sep 2018Aug 2018Jul 2018Jun 2018May 2018Apr 2018Mar 2018Feb 2018Jan 2018Dec 2017Nov 2017Oct 2017Sep 2017Aug 2017Jul 2017Jun 2017May 2017Apr 2017Mar 2017Feb 2017Jan 2017Dec 2016Nov 2016Oct 2016Sep 2016Aug 2016Jul 2016Jun 2016May 2016Apr 2016Mar 2016Feb 2016Jan 2016Dec 2015Nov 2015Oct 2015Sep 2015Aug 2015Jul 2015Jun 2015May 2015 Support and Delivery Learning and Development Fund 2020 New PhD Health Studentship call now live Nominations are open – Let’s celebrate our research stars! Annual Report showcases ‘extensive partnership and collaboration’ @ResearchWales on location… The hidden figures making kidney research happen in Wales Tucked away at the back of the building on the first floor of the Welsh Blood Service headquarters in Llantrisant. That’s where you’ll find the Welsh Transplantation and Immunogenetics Laboratory – known around the building as WTAIL for short. Don’t let this hidden location give you the impression that what goes on here is of little significance. In fact – it’s quite the opposite. Some of Wales’ most ground breaking renal research takes place here with links to the Wales Kidney Research Unit, one of Health and Care Research Wales’ funded centres. Clinical scientist and researcher, Amy De’Ath, is here to show us around. Amy takes us through the doors, where we find typical white lab benches and various testing devices. “In this lab we perform HLA typing (human leukocyte antigen) and antibody screening,” explained Amy. “If you think about A, B and O blood groups. They’re on your red cells, whereas HLA is on practically every other cell in your body, and it allows your body to tell itself from its ‘non-self’. “So for instance if you had a bacterial infection or viral infection, your white blood cells can’t suddenly check every cell of your body. The HLA is like a key that your white blood cells contact and say ‘yes, you’re me, you’re me’ and then it will come across a bacteria and say ‘oh you’re not me’ and your body will then mount an immune response. “That’s what HLA does, which is great because it allows you to live and function, but it’s not good for a transplant scenario because if we put an organ into you and your immune cells don’t recognise that key, immediately you would get an immune response and in the most drastic settings that’s called hyper acute rejection. “We use the HLA typing and antibody screening tests to compile a profile of a patient. We then register them with a central agency, NHS Blood and Transplant Organ Donation and Transplantation (ODT), which holds all the lists for people needing a transplant of all different organs. “So for kidneys we’ll register them with their HLA type and then what we call their unacceptable antibodies – the ones that if we gave them a kidney with those corresponding HLA on, they would probably reject straightaway. So when the ODT get the offer of a kidney transplant, they’ll run a list to find a suitable patient.” Right now Amy and her team are working on a study that is hoping to reduce a patient’s antibodies to give them a better chance of matching with a donor organ, which their body is more likely to accept. ‘Improving Transplant Opportunities for Patients who are Sensitised’ (ITOPS) is funded by Kidney Research UK and is being led by Dr Siân Griffin, Health and Care Research Wales specialty lead for renal and an investigator affiliated with the Wales Kidney Research Unit. “Some patients don’t have any antibodies, some patients have a lot of antibodies, so it’s the ones that have a lot of antibodies who find it harder to get a transplant,” said Amy. “Those are the ones we’re targeting in the ITOPS trial, to try and reduce their antibodies down, using drug therapy, to hopefully enable them to get a transplant because even if we can only reduce their antibody profile by a little bit, it can make a massive difference to the likelihood of them getting a transplant. “You can get transplants from deceased donors, so that would be someone who died and was willing to give their organs, or you can have it from a live donor, a friend or a relative who is willing to give you a kidney. ITOPS is hoping to open up both options for patients.” There’s a lot of activity as lab staff come and go; hanging up their white coats on the hooks and meticulously washing their hands before they leave through the double doors. “ITOPS is recruiting now,” added Amy. “Some patients are in the control arm, so they’re actually not receiving any treatment, and some are in the intervention arm, so they are receiving study treatment. “It’s a 12 week treatment and then we start monitoring their antibodies to see if they’re going down and then if their antibody profile hasn’t dropped they can opt to have a second round of treatment, in a hope that would then cause a drop. “But hopefully they’ll get a drop in that first block of treatment and then we’ll monitor them over a year, testing their antibodies don’t rebound. “Sometimes you can reduce someone’s antibodies but it doesn’t last. That can be useful because it still gives them a window of opportunity where they could have a live transplant or be offered a deceased donor transplant, but we’re hoping that there will be a longevity of effects so over the course of a year it will bring their antibodies down to a level that gives them access to transplantation.” The Clinical Scientists here in WTAIL, like Amy, undertake years of specialist training, giving them the skills and knowledge to help them make decisions about transplantation. As a result, they’re on standby 24 hours a day to respond to potential organ matches. “If we get an offer of a donated kidney, because somebody locally has donated their organs, we perform the HLA typing and we report that type to ODT,” described Amy. “ODT then run the national lists and if they match the organ with one of our local patients, we’ll come in and do something called a cross match. It’s like a final check that all our antibody screening and our HLA typing is right, and that the organ and the patient are compatible. “That’s what we do on call basically. It’s the last test of ‘yes you can go ahead and transplant the organ and it should be fine’.” The Welsh Blood Service is looking to support more studies like ITOPS in the future, as it increases its research activity. So, this might not be the last time we climb the stairs to the first floor, and make our way to this hidden location at the back of the building, to discover the next big thing happening in renal research.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8923
__label__wiki	0.537738	0.537738	Tag: Womens Matt Ryan Jersey Up arrow icon user icon audio icon tickets iconAdd �?Graduated from Harvard in 2017 with a degree in applied mathematics.Doug Lottes., Knoxville TN DOUG: Thanks for writing in.Apparently, we have known that work and politics don’t mix for a while.He just graduated. He will be in his seventh year on the ballot next year, and he could get very close to the Womens Matt Ryan Jersey 75 percent mark next year.We’ve pretty much become a family since then.Mittelstadt will use up the first year of his contract this season.The 2007 draft pick was used to trade up in the draft, where the Oilers would select Riley Nash . It was made five weeks into his rehab treatments after he had a panic attack on the ice while playing for the Buffalo Sabres against the Detroit Red Wings on March 29.The 1970 team MVPboasted a booming shot and one of the fastest skaters in hockey did pace the club in scoring during his first three full seasons in LA.PT At Tulsa, Okla. I had O. J. Howard Womens Jersey an opportunity to talk to after we had hired Norv , head coach Ron Rivera recalled Thursday at the NFL Scouting Combine. I’m extremely confident with the support I have.Seguin won the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011.Germany lead on 81, with the top six qualifiers completed by the USA, Holland, Sweden and Denmark.Peter Chiarelli gets credit for signings like Alex Chiasson and Mikko Koskinen, but when it comes to in-season deals, the consensus is he’s failed miserably.The next night, Guentzel scored two goals and played 16 in a 6 win against the Ottawa Senators. BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.There were no injuries in the situation that began around 2 p.m.Andre Kennedy topped Alabama A&M with 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting.Amari Goulbourne had 11 points. And his 12 postseason touchdowns are the most for any tight end and tied for second in NFL history among all players, behind only Jerry Rice .12…Played on eight offensive snaps vs.But Skinner was back on the ice when the Sabres emerged for the third period, helping Buffalo pick up a 5 win over the Caps. There’s no place like Enterprise Center during a playoff game, and you could experience it in person!QB Christian Ponder, 12th overall 2011, Vikings: Aside from quarterbacks not named Cam Newton, this was an epic draft.QB Brady Quinn, 22nd overall 2007, Browns: Not only did he add to Cleveland’s litany of quarterback washouts, he cost the Browns a first- and second-round pick in order to trade up for him. He and Delano Hill give Seattle options at safety.He also twice posted an OPS over .950 during years with other teams.We’re excited that he’s on the http://www.buccaneersshopofficialfootball.com/O_J_Howard_Jersey ice right now and he’s making http://www.falconsfootballsofficialonline.com/Matt-Ryan-Jersey.html progress.But with bigger holes to fill, I’m not sure it’s worth using a pick in the early rounds on Greg Olsen ‘s eventual replacement.Darnold finished last year strong, completing 64 percent of his passes at 7 yards per attempt with a 6-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio in his final four games.Marcel Dionne played for the Kings for another three seasons, hitting typical Dionne-like numbers for the first two but falling off somewhat in 1986. I’m sure this week will be a lot of rest and recovery week to see if it calms down and gets better.To search for players who were born on a certain date, for example all players born on December 25, choose the month, day and year with the drop down boxes and then choose the ‘Full Date Search’ option.He was probably 5 but weighed 240 �?like a bowling ball.Backup quarterbacks are underrated.30 football game to protest racial inequality and police brutality. admin August 12, 2019 No Comments Categories: O. J. Howard Jersey Tags: O. J. Howard Womens Jersey Womens Matt Ryan Jersey	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8924
__label__cc	0.701812	0.298188	Journal Articles, Peer Reviewed (Ritrýndar vísindagreinar) English Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed) All of HirslaCommunitiesAuthorsTitleSubjectsSubject (MeSH)Issue DateJournalThis CollectionAuthorsTitleSubjectsSubject (MeSH)Issue DateJournal FAQ - (Icelandic)FAQ - (English)Hirsla LogosAbout LandspitaliLSH Home PageLibrary HomeIcelandic Journals Chitosan leads to downregulation of YKL-40 and inflammasome activation in human macrophages. You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown. Your vote was cast Gudmundsdottir, Steinunn Lieder, Ramona Sigurjonsson, Olafur E Petersen, Petur H J Biomed Mater Res A 2015, 103 (8):2778-85 J Biomed Mater Res A Chitosan, the deacetylated derivative of chitin, is used as biomaterial in diverse settings. It is also found on pathogens and can be proinflammatory. Shorter derivatives of chitosan can be generated chemically or enzymatically, chitosan oligosaccharides (ChOS). There is variation in the chemical composition of ChOS, including size distribution, but in general, they have been described as inert or anti-inflammatory. Active human chitinases can cleave chitin and chitosan, while inactive chitinases bind both but do not cleave. Both active and inactive chitinases have important roles in the immune response. The inactive chitinase YKL-40 is expressed highly during inflammation and has been proposed as a marker of poor prognosis. YKL-40 acts as a negative regulator of the inflammasome and as a positive regulator of angiogenesis. Levels of YKL-40 can therefore regulate levels of inflammation, the extent of angiogenesis, and the process of inflammation resolution. This study shows that chitosan leads to reduced secretion of YKL-40 by primary human macrophages and that this is concomitant with inflammasome activation. This was most pronounced with a highly deacetylated ChOS. No effect on the secretion of the active chitinase Chit-1 was detected. Smaller and more acetylated ChOS did not affect YKL-40 levels nor inflammasome activation. We conclude that this effect on the levels of YKL-40 is a part of the proinflammatory mechanisms of chitosan and its derivatives. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 103A: 2778-2785, 2015. To access publisher's full text version of this article click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the page http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1002/jbm.a.35417 Archived with thanks to Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53 10.1002/jbm.a.35417 Scopus Count	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8928
__label__wiki	0.548635	0.548635	Hivos website Hamburger button Statutes and regulations VISIT OUR REGIONAL WEBSITES Hivos Global Hivos East Africa Hivos Southern Africa Hivos Latin America Hivos Southeast Asia Hivos Middle East & North Africa Hivos Netherlands People Unlimited Hivos > News and Views > Women’s Political Participation as Novelty Women’s Political Participation as Novelty Blog by Nay Al-Rahi, March 28, 2017 Man to woman the evening of March 8: “Your day is over, time to go back to the kitchen”. laughter It’s easy to assume that this type of sexist humour just comes out of typical male cafés in Lebanon. But this joke was used by seasoned Lebanese television host Marcel Ghanem in a tweet to open his weekly political show ‘Kalam Ennas’ – one of the most-watched political talk shows on mainstream Lebanese television – during the week of International Women’s Day (IWD) 2017! Yet this shouldn’t come as a shock if you realize that the State Ministry of Women Affairs created in December 2016 and its male first minister, Jean Oghassapian, were what people considered the epitome of championing women’s rights on International Woman’s Day this year. It would have been acceptable to have a male minister if Lebanon had less institutionalized misogyny and patriarchy enshrined in its legal, social and political structures. Or if Lebanon had more than one female minister in a cabinet of 30, or was a country where the all-time high of women’s representation in parliament was a little more than 6 percent. When the very few spaces where women can voice their concerns and act are led by men, appointing a man to head this Ministry tells Lebanese women that their political elite could not find a single suitable woman in the government capable of leading it. Not one. This clearly signals the imbalanced gender power dynamics within political structures. But the issue is not with the minister, because the establishment of a ministry for women’s affairs was never demanded by feminist or women’s rights groups in Lebanon. The appointment of Jean Oghassapian is emblematic of a larger concern. Only a shameful 3.1 percent of MPs are women, there is well-documented resistance of political parties to women running for municipal elections, and the political class has consistently failed to adopt a women’s quota. Even the new Women’s Ministry has no budget or authority, making it ineffective and almost purely symbolic. At best, incomplete and unimpressive; and at worst complacent and disempowering. It is almost as if this new ministry is a placebo of some sort. Speaking to an audience at an event celebrating International Women’s Day, Minister Oghassabian divulged that it has always been “his dream to become Minister”. He promised that, “Together we can dream to give women their rights” and proceeded to list ‘achievements’ such as hiring ministry staff, launching the ministry’s website and securing funding from the UNDP as examples. Now for a few uncomfortable facts. A ministerial action plan’s purpose is to propose the how, not reiterate the obvious what. Any organization can launch a website and hire staff. The new ministry would have been truly promising if its first actions had included an action plan detailing how the ministry will deliver results. On paper, the ministry’s task is to advocate for new laws and amendments favoring the advancement of women in Lebanese society. Women’s organizations and activists know the ‘what’ of change. The ‘how’ is what is missing. The Women’s Affairs Ministry should not be about the minister fulfilling his dream and “helping” women in the process. The Minister’s dreams of grandeur are of no interest to anyone. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs should be sending messages about how it will address the structural inequalities and challenges women face, their denied right to citizenship and equal pay and benefits, about the fact that custody, divorce and other personal status issues remain in the grip of explicitly discriminatory religious courts. It should be about the ease with which MPs can manipulate the clause that marries criminals to their victims (from rape to abduction of a minor) and then proceed to call this “an achievement for women”. In one televised interview, Minister Oghassabian stated that before being appointed minister, “women’s issues were not his cause”. Indeed. Being well versed in the issues of the respective ministries should be a requirement for the appointed ministers, not an afterthought. But the problematic discourse around women extends well beyond the ministry hype. Inspired by the diverse discussion around International Women’s Day this month, here are some of the common places thrown our way every year on March 8 – and why we’ve had enough of them. Addressing women as an abstract monolithic group Celebrating “the woman” in general. This reduces the nuances and complexities of women’s struggles, roles, and contributions into one category, based on the lazy assumption that all women are the same. This not only alienates them from other marginalized groups in the country, but detaches their struggle(s) from the broader context. It ‘others’ women, erases all the different layers of oppression and challenges different women face in Lebanon and avoids any serious discussion about them. Because women make up 49 percent of the Lebanese population, they are thus entitled to political representation, and should have a 30 percent quota in parliament. Political representation is a fundamental right for women; a right they have regardless of the percentage of the population they represent. They are entitled to this right as human beings and citizens in a state; not a percentage. If we follow the logic of this argument however, women in Lebanon should claim a quota of 50 percent, not 30. Tying the demand for a quota to the fact that women are “half of the population” makes it sound as if we should justify our reasons for demanding representation, when in fact, it’s a basic right. “Women are our sisters, mothers, wives, aunts and daughters.” What about those who aren’t sisters, mothers, wives, aunts and daughters? Do women need to have a relationship to a man to be granted rights? In theory, they shouldn’t, but the collective Lebanese psyche’s need to justify granting women their rights emerges with every attempt to apply a rights-based approach to women. If all this indicates anything, it’s that the political elite is still intent on keeping women out of government because male supremacy is alive and well in their awareness, and most importantly, in their actions. Never has the divorce between women and power in the Lebanese psyche been clearer than today. Politics in Lebanon is mostly misunderstood, still predominantly androcentric, with women still largely perceived as belonging outside power and as needing special paternalistic treatment to access it, even minimally. What all of the above points to is that Lebanese society still considers women in power as having ‘taken something’ to which they are not entitled, or as a novelty, a “pilot project”. Yet all of the above also indicates that our homework after March 8 this year is to re-examine and re-shuffle our own cultural and social assumptions about women in power and find out what is driving our political elite, families, communities, and organizations to disempower women and hold them back from political decision-making positions, despite vigorously claiming the opposite. "This article was originally published on Hivos Middleeast Northafrica Click here to view the original article" Nay Al-Rahi Lebanese journalist, researcher, and gender specialist Women and the road to peace and security in Syria Hivos announces second Colourful Workplaces Conference story / January 9, 2020 Gaby Castillo puts LGBT+ people in the limelight in Guatemala Save the tradition, nurture the earth Opening up Makueni’s procurement systems SEE ALL NEWS AND VIEWS Whistleblowing and Complaints Hivos.org uses cookies exclusively to analyze traffic to and through our website. 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__label__cc	0.671867	0.328133	Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico — The Central Highlands American Photo Supply By J. Makali Bruton, November 29, 2019 1. American Photo Supply Marker English translation: . In this building was the American Photo Supply, where the first cameras that arrived in Mexico were sold. . This historical marker was erected by Ciudad de México. It is in Ciudad de Mexico Mexico En este edificio estuvo la American Photo Supply, donde se comercializaron las primeras cámaras fotográficas que llegaron a México. In this building was the American Photo Supply, where the first cameras that arrived in Mexico were sold. Erected by Ciudad de México. Location. 19° 26.018′ N, 99° 8.217′ W. Marker is in Ciudad de Mexico. Marker is on Avenida Francisco I. Madero just east of Calle de Motolinía, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Avenida Francisco I Madero 42, Ciudad de Mexico 06000, Mexico. Touch for directions. Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. House of the Marquis de Prado Alegre (a few steps from this marker); Temple of the Professed or San José del Real (within shouting distance of this marker); High Water Mark of 1629 (within shouting distance of this marker); Dulcería de Celaya (within shouting distance of this marker); Café La Concordia (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); The marker is located high and to the far left on the building seen here in this view at Madero 42. House of José de Borda (about 90 meters away); The Museum of the Estanquillo (about 90 meters away); Hotel Gillow (about 90 meters away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ciudad de Mexico. Categories. • Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce • More. Search the internet for American Photo Supply. Credits. This page was last revised on December 2, 2019. This page originally submitted on December 2, 2019, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico. This page has been viewed 41 times since then and 3 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 2, 2019, by J. Makali Bruton of Querétaro, Mexico.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8932
__label__wiki	0.769718	0.769718	March 13, 2019 12:15PM EDT Dispatches France Gifts Boats to Abusive Libyan Coast Guard French Assistance Could Lead to Gross Rights Violations Bénédicte Jeannerod Directrice France Screenshot of a Channel 4 video showing the alleged conditions inside migrant camps in Libya, March 2019. © Channel 4/YouTube People shackled, beaten, burned, crushed, hung upside down, threatened, and detained in horrendous conditions: the images broadcast recently by Channel 4 News apparently showing the torture and inhumane conditions suffered by some migrants in Libya are unbearable to watch. They should trigger not only horror but anger too, because they expose France’s cynical and callous attitude on migration. Just days before the broadcast, French Defence Minister Florence Parly announced that France would give six boats to the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG). The Coast Guard will use the boats to intercept migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to safety, and if they catch them, they will place them in arbitrary, indefinite, and abusive detention. Since 2016, the European Union has poured millions of Euros into strengthening the LCG under the Government of National Accord, one of two competing authorities in Libya. Indeed, increase in interceptions by the LCG, including in international waters, combined with the obstruction of volunteer rescue vessels by Italy and Malta, has contributed to overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in Libyan detention centres. While Italy has taken the lead in providing material and technical support to the LCG, unfortunately, France is following in their path. This is deeply hypocritical because in November 2017, President Emmanuel Macron strongly condemned the abuse of migrants in Libya as “crimes against humanity,” when revealed by CNN, and both rights and humanitarian groups have since repeatedly warned the French government about the terrible abuses in detention centers. In January, a Human Rights Watch report exposed how EU programs designed to improve conditions in these centers have had little or no impact. The EU’s efforts to prevent migrants leaving Libya for Europe significantly increase the risk that migrants will be exposed to abusive detention in Libya. Providing material support to the LCG while being fully aware of these consequences implicates France’s responsibility for serious human rights violations. France should suspend delivery of its boats until Libyan authorities end the arbitrary detention and abuse of migrants. And instead of fuelling a relentless cycle of abuse, France should work with other EU Member States to maintain rescue operations at sea and allow disembarkation in a safe port as vulnerable people will continue to flee Libya’s horrors. Europe/Central Asia Refugee Rights Libya: Nightmarish Detention for Migrants, Asylum Seekers November 21, 2018 News Release Libya: Migrants Forced off Ship at Libya Port Russia: Escalating Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Arrests, Prison, Harassment for Peaceful Religious Practice	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8936
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__label__cc	0.534552	0.465448	Relics of the Wasteland: Fallout 4 Highlight and Story Welcome to Live Love Play and this highlight from Fallout 4. In this video I find a campsite littered with bodies and crawling with giant roaches. What happened here? Keep reading as I tell you the tragic tale. A Lovely Campfire “Attention Commonwealth residents. Are you looking for a safe place to settle? Are you tired of living in fear of Raiders, Mutants, and Ferals? Home in on these coordinates. Protected Settlements are being established every day. If you’re willing to work hard, we can make the Commonwealth a better place, together.” “Will you turn that off already?” Duncan moaned from the driver’s seat, “I’m sick of hearing it. Why can’t we listen to Diamond City Radio? Hell, I’d even listen to that Classical station at this point.” Chloe rolled her eyes as she manipulated the radio receiver, narrowing down the location of the signal. “Do you want to find this place or not, rads-for-brains? I need to tune into the signal to track it.” The couple were on the road for over a week, coming from the ruins of Harvard. Not long ago an old apartment building collapsed releasing a pack of ferals trapped beneath it. The town was no longer safe. They scavenged what parts they could to repair a pre-war station wagon, got it running, and hastily packed. To preserve their fragile repairs they kept an easy pace but entropy and decay made the roads to Boston treacherous. “Welcome to the outskirts of The Commonwealth.” Duncan said with the flare of a radio host. Chloe rose an eyebrow and looked quizicaly at her husband.”How can you tell? It all looks the same to me.” “Look to your right, see that heap of broken robots? That’s the old disposal grounds. Its one of the first landmarks on the map. Then there is the old satellite array just ahead. If we see a quarry on the right we’ll know we’re on the right…” He trailed off and brought the car to a slow creaking stop.”uh oh.” “What is it?” Chloe says as she climbs over into the passenger side and looking ahead. “Roadblock, looks like some kind of pre war checkpoint. Just take a look at that vehicle blocking the road.” “Are those guns poking out all over it? she pointed to the multiple barrels jutting out of the rusted APC. The large bulbous transport sat across the right late, blocking transit. Staggered ahead of the APC was a concrete barricade and retractable metal gate. By the look of it it was rusted though and inoperable. “Maybe, I don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Want to get out and look around?” “No, lets keep moving. I’d like to find a place to camp before it gets dark. Further down the road, camped among a collection of wrecked vehicles, three men huddled around afire pit. One, dressed in worn road leathers, stooped over the pit flicking a lighter with growing frustration. “Light damn you, light!” The second, in dirty army fatigues and leather shoulders, chuckled as he lowered himself into a cross legged seat across from the first. “Maybe we should break out the twigs and rub them together instead?” “Screw you Phil.” retorted the first as he flicks again. The third, wearing a flannel shirt and jeans, shook his head at the banter. “Seriously Phil, Reggie. Its going to be dark soon, we need that fire.” “What we need is a real score for a change, Jeff.” says Reggie. “We’ve been picking in the robot junkyard for weeks but that place was cleaned out years ago. We’ve got no caps, and we’re almost out of food and water. At this rate we’ll starve to death before the caravan makes their way back.” He flicked the lighter again, “If we don’t freeze first” Jeff gives Reggie a stern look. “I know what our supplies look like. I just did the inventory. We’ve been in bad spots like this before. We’ll manage like we always do.” Reggie threw his lighter to the ground with a frustrated grunt and stood, pacing to the edge of the camp. “Jimmy was right, there isn’t any caps in scaving anymore. The Commonwealth is dried up. We should have gone off with Joni and Jimmy when we had the chance.” “Really? You think joining up with a raider gang is a better idea? You remember what happened when we got too close to Quincy, the things they did to Nikki? Do you really want to be a part of that?” Jeff ended his statement with a reproaching glare. Reggie didn’t reply, instead he bent over to pick his lighter back up and gave it an experimental flip. It ignited immediately to his chagrin. “Heads up.” Called Phil, “Pair of lights getting closer. I think its a car.” “Is that a campfire up ahead?” asked Chloe. “Might be raiders?” “I don’t know, I don’t see a roadblock or anything like that so maybe not. Keep your hand cannon ready, just in case. I’m pulling over.” As the Highwayman came to a screeching halt Duncan cranked down the window and called out. “Hello out there, you boys friendly? If not this thing has reinforced armor and the glass is bulletproof. I’ll run you down faster than than you can run away. His voice shook slightly as he spoke. He didn’t like fighting, he liked killing even less but he would do what he had to do to to protect himself and Chloe. Jeff stood up, hands raised palms open. “We’re friendly enough, so long as no one’s picking a fight. We’re here scavenging in the junkyard up the road. We haven’t got much but if you want to share the fire, you’re welcome to.” Reggie grabbed Jeff’s arm and gripped tight. “Are you kidding me? We just talked about out supply situation and now you’re inviting a couple strangers into our camp? The could be thieves, or raiders, or Synths!” Jeff shook him off and turned to face him. “I’m not about to turn away a couple travelers, we’re still human beings. Besides, when was the last time you saw a raider in a working car?” He turned back to to the highwayman, “Its starting to get dark, why don’t you camp with us tonight? The fire is warm and there’s plenty of space. What do you say?” Duncan turned to Chloe and spoke quietly, “What do you think?” She glanced over his shoulder and looked over the campsite from the passenger seat. “Its too dark to stay on the road and if these guys were raiders they would be shaking us down by now, that or they’ve be shooting.” Duncan nodded and shut off the engine and stepped out of the car with his hands raised to show he wasn’t a threat. Jeff waved him off. “Need a hand with any bags?” “No thanks,” Duncan replied, “We’ve been living out of the car as we travel, its as safe as it gets out there in the wasteland.” Phil rose and smiles at the strangers, lifting his own hands in greeting. “Don’t we know it. We fought off a small swarm of bloat-flies a couple days ago. They came out of nowhere…” Reggie paced on the edge of the firelight as Jeff told his story, embellishing as usual. He stared at the car for a long moment. It was far from new, no doubt about that, but a working vehicle was a rarity in the commonwealth. He doubted anyone he knew has ever seen one in their lifetimes. The fuel needed to propel that machine would be a good score, alone. But to bring a functioning car in would be the haul of a lifetime. Those rich snobs in Diamond City would pay a small fortune in caps for a car like that. Better yet, what would the Gunners give him for it? They were a tech savvy group, well equipped with pre-war military gear, including robots. Chloe kept the car between her and the strangers as Duncan spoke to them. He was a people person, more so than she at least. She was the paranoid one, the person who kept them alive in tense situations. The scavengers seemed friendly enough, except for the one on the edge of the campsite. He seemed to disagree with their leader. But their weapons were all holstered and none were bigger than a 10mm pistol. Duncan called to her for a second time. “Chloe, do you think we can spare a some rations for these guys? Chloe, hello.” He called with a hint of knowing amusement. She was always looking at the big picture and it sometimes distracted her from the moment. Her face snapped to meet his and her mouth opened to reply but nothing came out and her jaw snapped shit as she wend over their supplies in her head. Reggie made his decision. He was done scraping by, picking though two century old piles of garbage for a handful of of scrap, peddling junk with meager returns, living like a vulture feeding on the skeleton of a long dead world. He drew his pipe pistol and fired, taking Phil in the head. His friend crumpled like a sack of tatos. He fired again and struck Duncan in the chest. He fell back into the open hatch of his car and slit to the ground. Jeff turned, 10mm in his hand. “What the hell are you doing?” He shouted as Reggie fired again and again. The first shot clipped his knee and the leg gave out. He heard a cry from the car as the second shot struck Chloe. The pain in his leg nearly overtook him, but he held it together as she looked up to see Reggie standing over him. He spat at his feet. “So this is how its going to be, huh, You a killer now?” Reggie didn’t reply, he reloaded his pistol and took aim and fired. Chloe coughed up blood. The shot took her in the cheek and neck, leaving them in ruin. She didn’t know how she was still alive. She wouldn’t be for much longer. Rage billowed inside her, giving her focus. She looked up to see the man who shot her husband. He stood in the firelight, weapon smoking. She gurgled, her throat unable to form words, as she raided her .45 revolver and unloaded all six shots into his chest. Reggie staggered as all six bullets tore into his body. He sank to his knees wide eyed and numb as his life drained from his wounds. He murmured to himself softly, “It wasn’t supposed to end like this. I was finally free…guess I am now… in a way…anyway.” He fell on his face with a wet slap, dust rising around the corpse. Chloe crawled over to her Husband’s body. He lay on his back, empty eyes gazing up at the stars. She hugged him tight, taking in his scent and savoring the sensation as her own life ebbed. A tear fell from her eye yet a smile crept across her face. She wouldn’t have to wait long to see him again. Her final breath escaped her body and a cold stillness settles on the campsite. Only the crackling of the campfire could be heard but this too would eventually flicker and fade into silence. I stream regularly on Twitch so come and hang out sometime! LLP on Twitch Highlight library and Past Broadcast Archive I interview Creators of Literature, Film and More! 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__label__wiki	0.518322	0.518322	Illegal Alien Kidnapped, Raped 13-Year-Old Girl March 5, 2018 March 2, 2018 by Dave Gibson RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) – A Wake County man in the country illegally kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Raleigh girl, according to police. This happened around 9:30 p.m. on January 25 in the Schenley Square mobile home park in Southeast Raleigh when the girl was walking near her home. Raleigh police said 52-year-old Seledonio Martinez-Gonzalez threatened the girl with violence to force her to get in his car. They say he then drove 30 miles to his mobile home near the Willow Spring community in southern Wake County. In addition to kidnapping, he is accused of sexually assaulting the girl, and keeping her in sexual servitude even though she was only with him a for few hours. “It’s just crazy. It’s scary to know that that happened here,” one of the suspect’s neighbors told ABC11. The woman said the crime hit close to home because she has a daughter around the girl’s same age. “She’s always outside. She wants to ride her bike,” she said of her daughter. “He could have taken her. That could have been her. So it’s just real scary.” The woman relayed a story she said was told to her about a neighbor who found the girl on her front porch in the very early hours of January 26. “She ran away from his mobile home, ended up at a neighbor’s and he followed her and he was telling her, ‘Get in the car. Get in the car.’ But that the lady called the police and that’s when they came and took her.” She said the neighbor didn’t initially let the girl inside her home because she thought she might have been set up. Police soon arrived and rescued the girl. According to court documents, Martinez-Gonzalez is a native of El Salvador, in the U.S. illegally, and that a deportation order had already been issued. Categories Children, RapeTags Americans Hurt by Illegal Aliens, Child Abuse in North Carolina, Child Exploitatation by Illegal Aliens, Illegal Alien Raped 13-Year-Old Girl, Illegal Aliens Rape Little Girls Post navigation Somali ‘Refugee’ Sentenced On Terrorism Charges Illegal Alien Operating Unlicensed Day Care In Sanctuary City Broke Baby’s Legs 8 thoughts on “Illegal Alien Kidnapped, Raped 13-Year-Old Girl” Spurwing Plover Lets give him this future Democratic Voter a new residence like Federal Prison Should they “neuter” him before sending him home? Let’s see. North Carolina, + trailer park = redneck dad. Give dad 1 hour with the guy before deporting what’s left of the body. Just what we need more illegal immigrants from the south. Mid east refugees? Yea, we need more of them too.lol March 3, 2018 at 11:43 pm \| Reply All those who favor open borders and oppose the Border fence and aiders and abetters of these crinimals that that includes Jerry(Moonbeam)Brown and the rags like TIME or who ever supports illegal imacration Rahm,the shit head mayor from shitcago welcome’s these hard workers,send him there,rahm will turn him loose in chicago,with Benefits,section-8,food stamps,he deserves it,a hard worker,just here for a better life,new prey. kenkoudou thanks for reading and responding, love you sis! Ligaya Fabian aka Ligaya Sibug of 1631 El Camino Real #8 Tustin Ca 92780 submitted fake documents and paid money to obtain a driver’s license but the dmv found out and revoked the license. She jumpshipped her flight from Germany to Canada at lax to get here. She now has a green card.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8952
__label__wiki	0.903247	0.903247	Chess star Soumya Swaminathan winning hearts with anti-hijab statement: Full text and reactions Quite a few Facebook users have lauded Soumya for a taking a brave stand against Iran's compulsory headscarf law. The Grandmaster from India has decided to not travel to the Islamist Republic for a continental tournament next month. By : Akshay Ramesh Representational photo.Streeter Lecka/Getty Images for DAGOC Grandmaster Soumya Swaminathan's decision to not to travel to Iran due to the Islamic Republic's law that makes women athletes wear headscarves during international tournaments has been met with a lot of positive reactions. The 29-year-old, who will be skipping the Asian Team Test Championship in the West Asian country between July 26 and August 4, took to Facebook to slam the Iranian law on headscarf, saying it was in "direct violation" of her "basic human rights". Notably, the world number 97 women's player had agreed to be a part of the Indian team when the chess tournament was initially scheduled to be held in Bangladesh. However, a venue change has forced her to take a decision that she "deeply regrets". The presence of hijab-wearing international athletes is becoming increasingly common at the international level. Even Muslim Americans in the United States, including Rio Olympic bronze medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, have competed at the highest level, wearing hijabs. However, Soumya is of the view that religious dress code cannot be forced upon anyone, especially at such high-profile international events. Notably, the winning team at the continental team championship will get a direct berth to world team championships. Here's the full text of chess star Soumya's statement "I am very sorry to state that I have asked to be excused from the Indian Women's team for the forthcoming Asian Nations Cup ( Asian Team ) Chess Championship 2018, to be held at Iran from 26 July - 4 Aug 2018, as I do not wish to be forced to wear a Headscarf or Burkha "I find the Iranian law of compulsory Headscarf to be in direct violation of my basic Human Rights including my right to freedom of expression, and right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. It seems that under the present circumstances, the only way for me to protect my rights is not to go to Iran," the world number 97 added. "I am very disappointed to see that player's rights and welfare are given such less importance while allotting and/or organising official championships. "I understand the organisers expecting us to wear our National Team Dress or Formals or Sporting attire for our games during official championships, but surely there is no place for an enforceable religious dress code in Sports. "It is a huge honour for me to represent India every time I am selected in the National Team and I deeply regret that I will be unable to participate in such an important championship. While we sportspersons are willing to make several adjustments for the sake of our sport, always giving it top priority in our life, some things simply cannot be compromised." Iran's legal rights do not protect my human rights: Soumya replies to Facebook user's comment Quite a few Facebook users lauded Soumya for exercising her right to refuse even as her post went viral on social media. "You did the right thing.. If any country imposes you to do what is wrong u have the right to refuse.. Iran wants us to wear burka veil why.. Its our right to say No.. I appreciate you.. THEY have to change their mindset.. I am happy you refused to toe their line... Congratulations.. You are a WINNER (sic)," wrote Sanjay Mahara, a Facebook user, replying to Soumya's post. Screengrab of a comment on Soumya Swaminathan's Facebook post. When one of her followers questioned her decision and gave her an alternate idea on how she could have tackled the situation, Soumya was quick to respond by shedding more light on her decision. Screengrab of comment to Soumya Swaminathan's latest post on Facebook. Here's Soumya Swaminathan's reply to one of the Facebook users' comment. Christmas 2018: Fascinating things the world did on the day Christ was born! Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim embararasses Pakistan, refuses to tour country due to safety fears The 2000 cricket betting scandal: Ex-Delhi top cop Neeraj Kumar reveals The most kanjoos Indian bowler ever, Bapu Nadkarni, passes away; Sachin Tendulkar among others pay tribute	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8955
__label__wiki	0.776745	0.776745	Egypt: More Government Resignations Rock Morsi Regime as Army Ultimatum Deadline Looms Spokesmen for Egyptian president quit in face of mass protests demanding end to regime By Gianluca Mezzofiore Updated July 1, 2014 20:53 BST Two spokesmen for Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have resigned in the latest defections from his administration in the face of a nationwide protest against his Islamist rule. Career diplomats Omar Amer and Ihab Fahmy have stepped down after five months of speaking on behalf of Mohamed Morsi. The move came after six cabinet ministers quit and the army gave the president a 48-hour ultimatum to "meet the people's demands". The army warned that differences had to be settled or it would impose its own solution on the country - despite ruling out getting involved in policymaking. The ultimatum expires Wednesday but Morsi has remained defiant. He said: "[Egypt] will not accept under any circumstances to move backward. "The people of Egypt have sacrificed the blood of their children, stability and development to build their new state, and we all choose democratic means as the only solution and peaceful way to manage our differences," he said. US president Barack Obama urged Morsi to respond to opposition demands. "President Obama encouraged President Morsi to take steps to show that he is responsive to their concerns, and underscored that the crisis can only be resolved through a political process," a White House statement said. "Democracy is about more than elections. It is also about ensuring that the voices of all Egyptians are heard and represented by their government, including the many Egyptians demonstrating throughout the country." This article was first published on July 2, 2013 Related topics : Barack Obama White House Elections Egypt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8956
__label__cc	0.688883	0.311117	Dina Najjar Gender Scientist D.Najjar@cgiar.org Dr. Dina Najjar joined ICARDA in 2014 as a social and gender specialist. A socio-cultural anthropologist by training, she focuses on the link between gender equality and policies; agricultural technologies and delivery systems; rural employment and migration; adaption to climate change; and productive assets, including access to land and ownership, in the Middle East and North Africa. Her geographical expertise includes Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Sudan. She has also conducted research in Uzbekistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. Dr. Najjar is fluent in Arabic and proficient in French and Swahili. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dina Najjar's Publications Gender and agricultural extension: why a gender focus matters The long-term success of extension services is dependent upon addressing the underlying causes of gender inequality. However, gender analysis is often not included in the design and implementation of extension services. Our aim with this review is to... Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction This paper employs the concepts of gender norms and agency to advance understanding of inclusive agricultural innovation processes and their contributions to empowerment and poverty reduction at the village level. We present a community typology... What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America What are key characteristics of rural innovators? How are their experiences similar for women and men, and how are they different? To examine these questions, we draw on individual interviews with 336 rural women and men known in their communities... Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali,... Political Economy of the Wheat Sector in Morocco: Seed Systems, Varietal Adoption, and Impacts This book, Political Economy of the Wheat Sector in Morocco: Seed Systems, Varietal Adoption, and Impacts, documents the studies conducted on the wheat sector in general. It also documents the wheat seed system, its adoption and impacts in Morocco,... Women's Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme through Cactus Cultivation and Adjusted Irrigation. This study examines the site-specific, social, political, ecological, and economic contexts that shape agricultural practices and policies in two desert resettlements of Sa’yda and Intilaq, also called the New Lands that form part of the massive...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8957
__label__wiki	0.817829	0.817829	New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! at National Sawdust Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh On January 8, 2018, musicians from the New York Philharmonic traveled to Brooklyn’s National Sawdust for the first CONTACT! concert of the 2017–2018 season. CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, highlights contemporary composers in intimate venues, attempting to cater to the age-old desire for traditional classical institutions to present new music and perhaps engage a younger demographic. Yet the series, now in its ninth season, seems to be suffering from a lack of commitment, perhaps stemming from a less than energetic revival after its near suspension in 2016. Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen served as impromptu host for the evening, guiding us through each of the five pieces, with the composers providing additional commentary. These conversations certainly proved insightful, if a bit forced at times. The program opened with Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Thread and Fray (2006), for viola, bass clarinet, and marimba. Over the course of this brief miniature, a unison melodic idea develops as repeated phrases build upon each other, unraveling and splintering. The muted warmth of this unusual instrumentation, particularly in moments of unison, provided a sense of comfort. This reassurance was unfortunately interrupted when the lack of unity in the performance made it difficult to hold onto the rhythmic pulse. Ashley Fure’s Therefore I Was (2012) followed, where the struggle of living with Parkinson’s disease comes to life through an exploration of the sonic possibilities of the scordatura cello (C string tuned down to an F-sharp). Here, as Salonen described, “sounds become expressive objects themselves” as the cello’s sonorities are expanded in the timbres of the piano and percussion. Soft shrieks (akin to nails on a chalkboard), riotous pulsing, low rumbles, scrapes, and crashes were uttered seemingly without a rhythmically driven purpose, making the listening experience, perhaps intentionally, fraught with anxiety. However, the extremity of this aggression was juxtaposed with moments of quiet poise, where I sat with held breath, imagining the stoicism inherent in a condition that prevents muscular and neural systems from interacting successfully. Fure’s writing requires immense technical precision, which the performers executed with ease, but the musical tension also permeated the performance, which occasionally felt reserved and stiff. Ashley Fure Violinists Quan Ge and Shanshan Yao, violist Rémi Pelletier, and cellist Ru-Pei Yeh, however, delivered an engaging and passionate performance of Du Yun’s Tattooed in Snow (2015), a welcome contrast to the otherwise more distant ones. Du Yun’s work explores the fragility of art, particularly sand or snow sculptures. Out of soft whispers, a Renaissance-like chant emerges and coalesces into a four-voice madrigal. This delicate moment is interrupted as the edges begin to fray, giving way to faster moving passages. Du Yun describes the work as a having a narrative structure, though it sounded more episodic in nature. Insistent strumming coupled with a warm viola solo, and destructive cello scrapes against a high-pitched violin conversation, became chapters within a story that lacked a larger narrative arc. Lu Yang’s video, in a live-action Japanese anime style, accompanied the music, but still no apparent story took form. Nonetheless, Du Yun’s varied textures, layering of sounds, and reference to different styles, created captivating fleeting moments in time. Fernanda Aoki Navarro’s Parthenogenesis (2012) intended to “show material in its fully developed form when it was introduced, eliminating the concept of development all together,” as well as utilizing a “democratic” structure where each performer played for the same amount of time. Despite her compelling description, the result was less than satisfying. This democratic approach led to what seemed like four instrumental solos with accompanying transitional material. The bass clarinet solo was anchored by squeaks and thumps, the piano’s utilized jazz-like runs, the cello’s paired a guitar-like strumming with quick unvoiced figures, and the trombone’s incorporated hushed low rumbles, sputtered wails, and slides. Perhaps due to the democratic design (still somewhat hierarchical given the presence of conductor Jeffrey Milarsky), occasionally all four performers played their own material, seemingly without regard to others, creating disparate overlapping textures where a single voice could not break through. Without any sense of the intimate or collaborative nature of chamber music, the audience felt removed from the experience. Fernanda Aoki Navarro The program concluded with Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ró (2013), where melody was created through texture—ephemeral rather than tonal material. The opening shimmer gave way to sustained strings punctured with feathery flutters, while the low dynamic quality and slow moving harmonic structure evoked an increasingly infinite landscape. As the program notes revealed, Thorvaldsdottir asks the performers to use extreme care and a sense of calm when playing sustained pitches. Individual performers took turns walking this tightrope: gently picking up a compact melodic line, as if coming into view one by one and exploring the desolate landscape. The sense of serenity never faded as we floated above this dormant expanse. The texture thinned until the bass flute sustained the final pitch, the last figure exiting the frame. The performance, though executed technically, felt emotionally withdrawn, and the conducted beat detracted from the sense of stasis. The evening brought the works of five distinct voices to life through technically precise performances. Yet at times it seemed that an apathetic approach hindered the possibility for nuanced interpretation. The Philharmonic musicians are excellent orchestral performers and shine in their presentation of symphonic works for large halls. But for contemporary chamber music to thrive, an audience needs committed and convincing leaders to guide them through unfamiliar terrain. While the performers did not seem averse to tackling new work, they appeared somewhat uncomfortable, which in turn left me feeling uninspired. Venerable new-music ensembles play with a sense of openness, intimacy, and collaborative spirit, which was not evident in this performance. CONTACT! serves a real purpose, but with only two performances in the “series” this season, I wonder if the Philharmonic would be better off focusing their efforts on other ways to engage with contemporary music. Anna ThorvaldsdottirAshley FureCONTACT!Du YunEsa-Pekka SalonenFernanda Aoki Navarronational sawdustNew York PhilharmonicSarah Kirkland Snider Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh is a writer, musician, educator, and maker of tiny pies, based in New York City. She currently works in Digital Content & Engagement at Carnegie Hall and manages the summer camp Sing This Summer. 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__label__cc	0.507481	0.492519	Dogfight (Hardcover) The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse By Calvin Trillin Random House, 9780812993684, 176pp. In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries Desperately to Make Light of a Bad Cough”). With the same barbed wit he displayed in the bestsellers Deciding the Next Decider, Obliviously On He Sails, and A Heckuva Job, America’s deadline poet trains his sights on the Tea Party (“These folks were quick to vocally condemn/All handouts but the ones that went to them”) and the slapstick field of contenders for the Republican nomination (“Though first-tier candidates were mostly out,/Republicans were asking, “What about/The second tier or what about the third?/Has nothing from those other tiers been heard?”). There is an ode to Michele Bachmann, sung to the tune of a Beatles classic (“Michele, our belle/Thinks that gays will all be sent to hell”) and passages on the exit of candidates like Herman Cain (“Although his patter in debates could tickle,/Cain’s pool of knowledge seemed less pool than trickle”) and Rick Santorum (“The race will miss the purity/That you alone endow./We’ll never find another man/Who’s holier than thou.”) On its way to the November 6 finale, Trillin’s narrative takes us through such highlights as the January caucuses in frigid Iowa (“To listen to long speeches is your duty,/And getting there could freeze off your patootie”), the Republican convention (“It seemed like Clint, his chair, and their vignette/Had wandered in from some adjoining set”), and Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded “47 percent” speech, which inspired the “I Got the Mitt Thinks I’m a Moocher, a Taker not a Maker, Blues.” A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation’s deadline poet, at a fee he has been complaining about since 1990. His acclaimed books range from the memoir About Alice to Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. He lives in New York.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8963
__label__cc	0.737101	0.262899	Bonnie & Ben Rhyme Again (Hardcover) By Mem Fox, Judy Horacek (Illustrator) Beach Lane Books, 9781534453524, 32pp. Come along as a pair of rhyme-loving siblings take a walk and are inspired to recite their favorite nursery rhymes to the world around them in this sweet and funny read-aloud. Bonnie and Ben are two rambunctious siblings who love to rhyme. One day, on a walk with their friend Skinny Doug, they recite beloved nursery rhymes for each new thing they encounter. When they reach a hill, they recite “Jack and Jill.” When they see a sheep, they recount the story of “Little Bo Peep.” The nursery rhyme characters join them on their lively walk until, with a last “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” the pair arrive home and snuggle into bed. Mem Fox is an educator and international literacy expert, and her many acclaimed picture books for young children include Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug!; Hello Baby!; Baby Bedtime; I’m an Immigrant Too; the bestselling modern classics Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes and Time for Bed; and, for adults, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever. She lives in Adelaide, Australia. Visit her at MemFox.net. As a popular cartoonist and writer, Judy Horacek’s cartoons have been pinned to doors and walls all over the world. She is the author of the bestselling books Lost in Space and Where is the Green Sheep? She is also the illustrator of Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again by Mem Fox. Judy resides in Toorak, Australia.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8964
__label__wiki	0.513649	0.513649	Bedlam's Door (Paperback) True Tales of Madness and Hope By Mark Rubinstein Thunder Lake Press, 9781941016237 Why would a Hungarian man run down a Manhattan street ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"? What made a physically healthy woman persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? How could a man in a straitjacket commit suicide while in a strictly supervised, locked psychiatric ward? Though these and the other stories in this book read like fiction, each is true. Former practicing psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein takes readers deep into the world of mental illness. From the chaos of a psychiatric ER to the bowels of a maximum security prison, the stories range from bizarre to poignant and the people from noble to callous. Bedlam's Door depicts the challenges mental illness poses for patients, families, and health-care professionals and offers hope for the future. Like the case histories in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, it shows that though every person's story is unique, we are all more alike than different and are linked by our shared human exper.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8965
__label__wiki	0.954897	0.954897	Lawyer: Ex-IU student is horrified by attack Triceten Bickford, Fort Wayne, is scheduled to appear in Monroe Circuit Court to face multiple felony charges including intimidation, strangulation and battery. Lawyer: Ex-IU student is horrified by attack Triceten Bickford, Fort Wayne, is scheduled to appear in Monroe Circuit Court to face multiple felony charges including intimidation, strangulation and battery. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1LRxWI2 AP Published 9:35 a.m. ET Oct. 23, 2015 \| Updated 8:01 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2015 Triceten D. Bickford, 19, a former Indiana University student, faces multiple felony charges including intimidation, strangulation and battery in the Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, attack on a Muslim woman in a cafe in Bloomington.(Photo: Bloomington Police Department via AP) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A former Indiana University student who police say shouted racial slurs and tried to remove a Muslim woman’s headscarf while attacking her was “highly intoxicated” and did not target the woman because of her religion, the man’s attorney said Friday. Defense attorney Katharine Liell said 19-year-old Triceten Bickford was drunk and may have had medical issues when he attacked the woman Oct. 17 as she sat at an outdoor cafe table with her 9-year-old daughter. Liell said the Fort Wayne, Indiana, man is “horrified” by accounts of that attack and is grateful the 47-year-old woman wasn’t badly hurt. “First and foremost he’s absolutely horrified by what people said he did that evening. He was so upset when he was informed of what the witnesses indicated he did that he became physically ill. He’s not that kind of kid,” she said. Muslim woman attacked in Bloomington says suspect could've killed her Bickford has been charged with multiple felony charges, including intimidation, strangulation and battery, in the attack outside a Turkish cafe in Bloomington, about 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis. He was scheduled to appear for an initial hearing Friday in a Monroe County court but Liell waived that hearing on Bickford’s behalf. Not guilty pleas are automatic in Indiana felony cases. Court records show Bickford now faces a Nov. 30 pretrial conference. A probable cause affidavit indicates that a man later identified as Bickford emerged from a nearby alley shouting “white power,” anti-black racial slurs and “kill the police” and then attacked the woman outside the cafe. The man grabbed the woman by the neck and forced her head forward, restricting her breathing as he tried to remove her hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women, the affidavit states. The woman did not seek medical treatment afterward. Bickford, a sophomore, was expelled from IU on Monday and the FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into the incident. FBI hate crime probe launched in IU student attack Liell said her client doesn’t “know the difference between a hoodie and a hijab” and “there’s absolutely no evidence that this was a religious hate crime.” “We believe the evidence will show that she was not targeted, nor chosen. She happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when this drunk kid who may have some other medical issues happened upon her,” she said. Bickford told WTHR-TV in Indianapolis earlier this week that he was sorry for the attack but had no memory of the incident. He said a combination of drinking alcohol and not taking his anti-anxiety medication caused him to snap. Liell said she would be looking into whether Bickford may not have taken medications, or had some medical issues. A probable cause affidavit states that during the attack the woman’s husband and a passer-by dragged Bickford off her and restrained him until police arrived. Bickford spit in the men’s faces, threatened to kill them and arriving officers, tried to kick out the windows of a patrol car and bit an officer on the calf at the Monroe County Jail, the affidavit states. Will Indiana remain one of 5 states without hate crime law? Read or Share this story: http://indy.st/1LRxWI2 Fitness club to move into Fishers Marsh New nonstop flight out of Indy announced Pundits rate Pete Buttigieg's debate performance Franklin College president fired after Wisconsin arrest Ex-Franklin College president arrested in undercover op, lawyer says Docs: Ex-Franklin College president tried to meet 15-year-old	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8967
__label__wiki	0.917157	0.917157	Boys hoops: No. 1 North Central uses second-half surge to topple No. 2 Carmel Just before tipoff Friday night, North Central athletic director Paul Loggan presented Doug Mitchell with a basketball at midcourt to honor the coach’s 400th career victory. Boys hoops: No. 1 North Central uses second-half surge to topple No. 2 Carmel Just before tipoff Friday night, North Central athletic director Paul Loggan presented Doug Mitchell with a basketball at midcourt to honor the coach’s 400th career victory. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/2hYKKRm Kyle Neddenriep, kyle.neddenriep@indystar.com Published 11:10 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2016 \| Updated 11:48 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2016 North Central's #31 Kris Wilkes dunks as Carmel's #4 Eddie Gill comes down during second half action of the Carmel at North Central High School boys basketball game, Friday, December 16, 2016. North Central won 59-45.(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/IndyStar)Buy Photo INDIANAPOLIS — Just before tipoff Friday night, North Central athletic director Paul Loggan presented Doug Mitchell with a basketball at midcourt to honor the coach’s 400th career victory. Mitchell smiled and waved to the crowd of nearly 3,000 in attendance to see Class 4A No. 1 North Central battle No. 2 Carmel. The smiles didn’t last long. Carmel scored the first 12 points of the game and led North Central by four halftime. But for the second time in as many games, the Panthers hit the accelerator in the third quarter to pull away for a 59-45 win. The smiles returned when North Central (5-0 overall, 1-0 Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) was able to speed up the pace of the game. “I went back and looked at a practice plan from six or seven years ago and it was the same thing,” Mitchell said. “(Carmel) is trying to keep their tempo and we’re trying to keep our tempo. But our half-court defense helped us as much as anything. They run a lot of good stuff on offense, but we were able to communicate and switch and a lot of that started with (junior guard) D.J. Johnson.” Carmel (5-1, 1-1) took a 32-28 lead to the locker room, a margin that probably could have been wider if not for 10 first-half turnovers. But the Greyhounds did next to nothing on offense in the third quarter, and missed 17 of their first 20 shots in the second half. After P.J. Baron scored the first basket of the third quarter for Carmel, North Central outscored the Greyhounds 23-3 over the next 10 minutes. “We just couldn’t get going offensively,” Carmel coach Scott Heady said. “When we could get some good looks, we missed them. We didn’t react to what they were doing defensively. They were switching and we didn’t adjust. We just didn’t adjust to their pressure and switching defenses.” North Central senior Kris Wilkes, a frontrunner for IndyStar Indiana Mr. Basketball, scored 15 of his team-high 22 points in the second half and had nine rebounds to lead North Central. Senior Emmanuel Little provided a third-quarter spark with a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 16 points and eight rebounds. Johnson added 11 points in addition to his outstanding defense. Boys hoops: North Central knocks off Carmel Senior guard Sterling Brown led Carmel with 22 points. The rest of the team was just 9-for-29 (31 percent) from the field. Carmel had dominated its five previous opponents by an average margin of 27.6 points per game, none closer than 16 points (Zionsville and Noblesville). North Central presented a new set of challenges, which was expected. Which is the toughest aspect of playing the Panthers? “I think it’s the constant pressure defensively,” Heady said. “You have to pay a lot of attention to Wilkes when he gets the ball and that opens up a lot of good looks for some of their other guys. He gets their guys a lot of good shots. Inside, they are just long and athletic. They’re good. They have a lot of good pieces.” Some of those pieces were expected to play well. Wilkes, Little and Rivera are all experienced seniors. Others, like Johnson, are coming along quickly. Junior guards Davon Bradley and Caleb Pack also came off the bench to give the Panthers a lift. “First half we were talking as much,” Rivera said. “Second half, we were communicating a lot better and we were able to shut them down. You’re not going to start every game how you want to start but you have to finish how you want to finish.” North Central’s business-like approach to closing out games bodes well for March. Rivera, who grew up watching his brother, D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, play guard for North Central in big games, is enjoying these moments. His older brother was in the gym on Friday. “We like these environments,” Rivera said. “When the crowd is like this, those are the best games. Our student section is the best. As long as we have them, we’re confident.” Call IndyStar reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649. Follow him on Twitter: @KyleNeddeinriep. Carmel 14 18 5 8 - 45 North Central 12 16 19 12 - 59 Carmel (5-1, 1-1) – Brown 6 6-6 22, Mulloy 2 1-2 5, Baron 4 0-0 8, Heady 2 0-0 6, Jenkins 1 0-0 2, Beery 0 2-2 2, Whack 0 0-0 0, Falender 0 0-0 0, Gill 0 0-0 0. Totals: 15 9-10 45. North Central (5-0, 1-0) – Rivera 2 2-3 7, D.Johnson 4 1-2 11, Little 6 2-2 16, T.Johnson 0 0-0 0, Wilkes 7 8-10 22, Bradley 1 0-1 3, Lee 0 0-0 0, Pack 0 0-0 0, Loggan 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 13-18 59. 3-point goals: Carmel 6 (Brown 4, Heady 2). North Central 6 (D.Johnson 2, Little 2, Rivera, Bradley). 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__label__wiki	0.903599	0.903599	Investors in Sugru lose up to 90% of their money Maker of revolutionary adhesive sold to German company as it runs out of funds Thu, May 17, 2018, 20:30 Ciara O'Brien Sugru inventor Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh said the sale of the adhesive maker was not the financial outcome anyone had expected. Sugru maker FormFormForm is being sold for about £7.6 million, in a deal that will see investors lose up to 90 per cent of their initial investment. The London-based company, which was founded by Irish inventor Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh, James Carrigan and Roger Ashby in 2004, will be bought by adhesives specialist Tesa in a deal that will save the firm but values shares at 9 pence each. The German-based firm made a formal offer for FormFormForm in March. The offer has been accepted by 51 per cent of the company’s shareholders. The sale is set to complete next week, and Sugru staff, along with Ms Ní Dhulchaointigh, are expected to stay on with the company. The move comes despite sales of Sugru recording double-digit growth in the past few years, with the company last December recording a sales increase of 20 per cent year on year. The company said an expected second tranche of funding from a £4 million debt financing facility with Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank (CYBG) was pulled back last November, causing financial difficulties for the company. Sugru is a mouldable glue that works as a flexible, adhesive repair putty that turns into a durable silicone rubber. The glue was named as one of Time magazine’s top 50 inventions in 2010, and has built up a community of users online. Bricks-and-mortar stores But although the company had some successful launches in bricks-and-mortar stores such as Target in the United States, it found driving awareness and reaching more customers through this channel more difficult than it expected. “It’s been harder and taken longer than anyone imagined,” Ms Ní Dhulchaointigh said. “We came to a critical juncture at the end of last year. The bank pulled back from a £1.5 million debt financing. It left us very exposed.” FormFormForm made the decision because it would need significantly more investment than anticipated to drive awareness of the product. Shareholders were informed of the decision on Thursday. “While the targets in our second crowdfunding raise a little over a year ago, were significantly scaled back in line with slower performance than planned, it is now clear that the scale of the challenge was still not fully understood,” the company said in a note to shareholders. Ms Ní Dhulchaointigh acknowledged it was very disappointing for investors, saying it was not the financial outcome that anyone had expected. FormFormForm is backed by a mixture of traditional investors, bank debt and crowdfunding. In May 2015 the company raised almost £3.4 million in a crowdfunding exercise through CrowdCube. It came back for a second round of funding in 2017 raising £1.6 million. Just under half of those who backed the company in its crowdfunding invested less than £100. However, there were a number of investors who invested bigger sums. The average investment was between £1,000 and £2,000, with some in the £10,000, £20, 000 and £50,000 brackets. “We really saw crowdfunding as something that would be able to help us fund the business and also tackle the awareness challenge,” said Ms Ní Dhulchaointigh. Other investors over the years have included Medra Capital, Antipodean Ventures, LocalGlobe and CYBG, through the debt financing. The company took a number of steps to cut its costs, including two rounds of staff cuts in 2016 and moving assembly operations to Mexico to improve margins. Around the same time it launched with retailers in South Africa and France. Last year, the company launched a “family safe” formulation aimed at children aged eight and older, and began selling Sugru in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. While those launches drove spikes in sales, maintaining the necessary levels of ongoing sales proved harder than expected. In the early months of 2018, several of the company’s largest shareholders provided support, along with the bank, to facilitate the sale and ensure the business’s survival. 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John FitzGerald: The shift from specialist to generalist skills in public service is a mistake 5 Boeing’s 737 Max will fly again in 2020, Avolon predicts 8 ‘The only time I saved money was some coins in my first piggy bank’ 9 Irish billionaires, Hogan goes to Davos, PTSB’s CEO race and Ibec’s election wishlist 10 Ireland ranked second in Europe for data breach notifications Boeing’s 737 Max will fly again in 2020, Avolon predicts 07:59 Search executive jobs on irishtimes.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8971
__label__wiki	0.859655	0.859655	Ex-Islington amateur Gharib ready to keep climbing pro rankings Matthew Bozeat The latest news from the local boxing scene (pic: David Davies/PA) The latest boxing news from Islington Mo Gharib reckons his super featherweight rivals will struggle to lay a glove on him now he’s gone back to using the skills that made him a top amateur. The former Islington amateur is back in action on Costas Evangelou’s show at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre on April 20, seven weeks after he got his career back on track with a six-round points win over Dean Evans. Evans handed Gharib a shock points reverse last November, dropping him twice to win on points over four rounds. Gharib tightened up in the rematch and boxed his way to victory. “If I had lost the rematch, I would have retired,” admitted the 26-year-old. “The first time I boxed him, I wasn’t switched on, I didn’t make the weight properly and I underestimated him. “These British journeymen aren’t fragile like the foreigners. They are hard. “He caught me when I was throwing wide shots and wasn’t expecting him to throw back. “A lot of people wouldn’t have got up. I showed heart and I’ve learned from that fight. “I was much smarter in the rematch. I was more solid, my feet were good and I kept my chin down. “I know I have the skills to outclass the guys with the titles at super featherweight. “I’ve been trying to knock people out, but I can outclass these guys, make them hit fresh air and make them look silly. “I have gone back to boxing the way I boxed when I was an amateur.” As an amateur, Gharib won three Haringey Box Cup golds and was an ABA semi-finalist. The super featherweight turned pro in December 2017 and won his first three bouts before running into Evans, a hard journeyman from Hereford. “When I turned pro, I needed to build a fan base and the crowd want to see knockouts,” he said. “You end up playing to the crowd and going for the knockout, but I have the boxing ability to entertain crowds without going for the knockout. “I’m never in a boring fight.” Gharib will hope that stays true after April 20.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8972
__label__wiki	0.618517	0.618517	Hear from the people at the heart of Inmarsat and see how we are powering global connectivity. Learn about future trends and read views from our industry experts and guest bloggers to discover how our satellite communications help businesses worldwide, aid humanitarian efforts and promote social and cultural change. Subcribe via RSS Ka-band: The best path forward for AISR Steve Gizinski, Chief Technology Officer, Inmarsat Government us-government global-xpress Share the post "Ka-band: The best path forward for AISR" Global intelligence gathering operations are increasingly conducted from airborne platforms. Effectively employing these assets requires globally-portable, fully-connected and efficient beyond line of sight (BLOS) connectivity. As the military is evaluating its future data and communication technology to support these missions, Ka-band has emerged as the preferred path forward for the Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (AISR) community. Inmarsat’s Global Xpress provides a critical and enabling worldwide Ka-band offering that is in-orbit and has been in operation since 2014. Users enjoy global, subscription-based AISR coverage with “all you can eat” connectivity coupled with simple, automatic access wherever they may be in the world. A single subscription provides an AISR user with wideband access anywhere, at any time. Furthermore, AISR fleets benefit from subscriptions that are portable among multiple platforms. This allows an entire fleet to share a modest number of subscriptions in support of active aircraft (as an example, a fleet of 20 aircraft can share five subscriptions that support five simultaneous operations). There are many unique and compelling qualities to Inmarsat’s Global Xpress service, which remains the world’s first and only globally, commercially available, high-speed wideband network. Global and portable mil/commercial bandwidth Global Xpress is the next-generation, fully redundant, global Ka-band advanced mobility solution from Inmarsat…and is available today. It leverages deep experience and lessons learned from Inmarsat’s four decades of operational success supporting mobile satellite traffic and event-driven deployments. As a result, Global Xpress provides uniform worldwide coverage with the flexibility to move bandwidth seamlessly to meet demand – ideal for complex AISR missions with high data rate requirements. The service continues expanding with additional capacity and capability, including additional satellite launches currently planned in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Global Xpress secure network infrastructure provides Ka-band frequencies accessible by both military and civilian users, with terminals easily and seamlessly switching between military SATCOM (MILSATCOM) and commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) services. This is made possible since commercial and military Ka-bands are immediately adjacent to each other in frequency and both of these bands are available on Global Xpress satellites. This architecture allows the best of all worlds: worldwide, uniform coverage (Global Xpress SATCOM as a Service); dedicated, high-throughput Inmarsat mil-Ka service; and government MILSATCOM through the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system when available with no changes to the AISR platform for the transitions. Fully connected – connectivity that is available globally Inmarsat has designed Global Xpress with spot beams that seamlessly provide global coverage – coverage that ensures an AISR platform never loses high-speed connectivity while conducting a mission. Global Xpress is also delivered as an end-to-end service – SATCOM as a Service – a “cloud” Ka-bandwidth model that fully integrates satellites, ground networks and type approved terminals. As such, Global Xpress supports a mission seamlessly anywhere, with solid service level agreements (SLAs) and guaranteed committed information rates (CIRs). Global Xpress also provides military Ka-band connectivity using steerable antennas. These antennas can be used to provide military Ka-band coverage of a theatre (up to 730MHz duplex bandwidth) or to follow an AISR platform and deliver very high EIRP and G/T coverage using channel sizes from 40MHz to 730MHz. This enables assured very high rate connectivity. The AISR community generally prefers smaller apertures to maximize platform range and reduce signature. Global Xpress Ka-band enables an efficient platform installation using a low-size, weight and power (SWaP) user terminal. These terminals provide access to commercial and military Ka-band services worldwide with return link data rates that are very efficiently delivered. This supports user-specified data rates at much lower total cost to operate than other solutions. Using the standard Global Xpress commercial subscription service, small AISR terminals (30cm and 45cm apertures) support return link (platform to gateway) connectivity at rates up to 18Mbps. These same terminals support return link connectivity at rates up to 200Mbps using Inmarsat HCX mil-Ka beams. Secure – designed from the ground up for government use Inmarsat began the Global Xpress program with a special focus on government service needs, especially security. This started with our architecture design by ensuring that Global Xpress traffic only lands in NATO/Five Eyes countries to provide the highest level of mission assurance. These Inmarsat-controlled gateways are outfitted with secure facilities and are highly resilient, offering full hot-backup connectivity to every satellite. Provisions have been made throughout the network to provide improved Operational Security (OPSEC) for sensitive missions. Finally, by choosing Inmarsat’s narrow-beam Ka-band services, customers gain a significant amount of operational security over wide coverage area beams where adversarial user geolocation is readily done today. Cost-efficient turnkey services – available today The high performance, high security and global availability of Global Xpress are of utmost importance. Equally important is the fact that Inmarsat provides a turnkey space and ground segment that underpins its service. The ability of AISR users to have global coverage, while having their demand drive resource allocation “on-the-fly,” significantly reduces total cost of ownership while offering a premium service. There is no waiting for the “next promise” – users can validate the capabilities of Global Xpress today and get critical missions into global service quickly. These are the compelling reasons why users choose Global Xpress Ka-band for their AISR needs. If this sort of enabling connectivity is of interest to you, whether you are an integrator or an end user, please reach out to Inmarsat for a detailed conversation. Steve Gizinski is Chief Technology Officer of Inmarsat Government Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inmarsat plc, and the world’s leading provider of global mobile satellite communications to the United States government.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8976
__label__cc	0.599693	0.400307	Sublimation, not melting: Graphene surprises researchers again Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have used computer modeling to refine the melting curve of graphite that has been studied for over 100 years, with inconsistent findings. They also found that graphene "melting" is in fact sublimation. The results of the study came out in the journal Carbon. Graphite is a material widely used in various industries -- for example in heat shields for spacecraft -- so accurate data on its behavior at ultrahigh temperatures is of paramount importance. Graphite melting has been studied since the early 20th century. Credit: MIPT About 100 experiments have placed the graphite melting point at various temperatures between 3,000 and 7,000 kelvins. With a spread so large, it is unclear which number is true and can be considered the actual melting point of graphite. The values returned by different computer models are also at variance with each other. A team of physicists from MIPT and HPPI RAS compared several computer models to try and find the matching predictions. Yuri Fomin and Vadim Brazhkin used two methods: classical molecular dynamics and ab initio molecular dynamics. »computer models »graphene »graphite »melting point »molecular dynamics »temperature The latter accounts for quantum mechanical effects, making it more accurate. The downside is that it only deals with interactions between a small number of atoms on short time scales. The researchers compared the obtained results with prior experimental and theoretical data. Fomin and Brazhkin found the existing models to be highly inaccurate. But it turned out that comparing the results produced by different theoretical models and finding overlaps can provide an explanation for the experimental data. As far back as 1960s, the graphite melting curve was predicted to have a maximum. Its existence points to complex liquid behavior, meaning that the structure of the liquid rapidly changes on heating or densification. The discovery of the maximum was heavily disputed, with a number of studies confirming and challenging it over and over. Fomin and Brazhkin's results show that the liquid carbon structure undergoes changes above the melting curve of graphene. The maximum therefore has to exist. The second part of the study is dedicated to studying the melting of graphene. No graphene melting experiments have been conducted. Previously, computer models predicted the melting point of graphene at 4,500 or 4,900 K. Two-dimensional carbon was therefore considered to have the highest melting point in the world. "In our study, we observed a strange 'melting' behavior of graphene, which formed linear chains. We showed that what happens is it transitions from a solid directly into a gaseous state. This process is called sublimation," commented Associate Professor Yuri Fomin of the Department of General Physics, MIPT. The findings enable a better understanding of phase transitions in low-dimensional materials, which are considered an important component of many technologies currently in development, in fields from electronics to medicine. The researchers produced a more precise and unified description of how the graphite melting curve behaves, confirming a gradual structural transition in liquid carbon. Their calculations show that the melting temperature of graphene in an argon atmosphere is close to the melting temperature of graphite. The study reported in this story was supported by the Russian Science Foundation and used the computing resources of the Complex for Simulation and Data Processing for Mega-Science Facilities, a federal center of shared research facilities at Kurchatov Institute. Varvara Bogomolova bogomolova@phystech.edu @phystech_en https://mipt.ru/english/ Varvara Bogomolova \| EurekAlert! https://mipt.ru/english/news/sublimation_not_melting_graphene_surprises_researchers_again http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2019.10.065 Further reports about: > computer models > graphene > graphite > melting point > molecular dynamics > temperature	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8977
__label__cc	0.670584	0.329416	Topdanmark 3Shape Timelog Insurance & Pension CASE STUDY \| SEB SEB started its development team with INSCALE in 2009. Originally employing three developers, the team has since grown to 90 IT professionals. They are recruited and facilitated by INSCALE. The team works in a very agile way with SEB colleagues in Europe. Hear VP IT and Offshore Manager Jakob D Nielsen discuss how SEB’s team was built in Malaysia and how it cooperates daily with colleagues in Northern Europe. Seb's team at INSCALE: SEB found it difficult to recruit and retain talented developers at their office in Denmark. Yet software development was becoming increasingly important in order to execute SEB’s business strategy. KEY OUTCOMES Our colleagues in Europe and Malaysia work together daily, as equals. In our very Agile environment, everybody has a “fix it” attitude. Our Malaysian team has launched strategic new products that they built entirely themselves. With the Malaysian team comprising 14 different nationalities, we have truly created an international working environment with the best qualified. JAKOB D NIELSEN Vice President IT & Offshore Manager \| SEB On Mainframe, we have managed to build a capacity in Malaysia that eliminates the “generational threat” we had in Denmark due to an aging Mainframe workforce. A WORD FROM SEB’S SITE MANAGER Over the last seven years, SEB’s site manager in Malaysia has built the SEB team from 3 to more than 90 developers. In this short video, he provides insights on how they structured the team and how it works seemlessly with SEB colleagues in Scandinavia. Kuala Lumpur has a high quality of life and functions as a magnet for other nationalities, thus enabling us to attract talent from the entire Asian region. Currently, 19 nationalities are represented in our very modern offices located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Portugal offers a highly-educated IT workforce with a large pool of developers in web and mobile technologies as well as mainframe and infrastructure. Our Scandinavian style offices are located in a modern part of central Lisbon. Our headquarters are located in Charlottenlund, Denmark. Macedonia offers a highly educated work force within the IT sector, and is one of the most cost effective locations in all of Eastern Europe. The level of English is very high and exceeds most other countries in the region. Our Scandinavian-style offices are located in the center of Skopje. Ukraine is the European destination offering the best combination of cost and abundance of IT human resources. IT outsourcing in Ukraine is a mature and booming market, with more than 1000 IT Service companies employing > 100,000 personnel. According to the Top 100 Global Services ranking, Ukraine is ranked 11th worldwide in terms of IT outsourcing. Our managing partners have more than 30 years of experience in creating software development teams for a wide range of companies. If you wish to build a team that precisely fits your needs, please contact us. One of our partners will get back to you promptly to discuss how we can help and schedule a personal meeting. Get in touch with us at ten.elacsni@selas or call us: +45 26 15 76 38 MANAGING PARTNERS Henrik Mou CEO hmou@inscale.net Bhajan Kaur COO Mark Vedel Managing Partner CONTACT US (+45 26 15 76 38) Do you want to apply for a job? Click here to visit our careers section! Choose topicSchedule a meetingBuild a teamOther I accept that INSCALE stores and manages my information submitted in this form with the purpose of contacting me. Read More INSCALE employees INSCALE USES COOKIES Inscale.net uses cookies for statistical purposes on the use of the website. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of cookies. If you do not wish to enable cookies, you can disable the cookies from inscale.net	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8980
__label__wiki	0.51438	0.51438	Is Wabash National Corporation (WNC) a Good Stock to Buy? Published on December 14, 2016 at 6:41 am by Syed Jawad Haider in Hedge Funds,News Hedge fund managers like David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, or Carl Icahn became billionaires through reaping large profits for their investors, which is why piggybacking their stock picks may provide us with significant returns as well. Many hedge funds, like Paul Singer’s Elliott Management, are pretty secretive, but we can still get some insights by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings. One of the most fertile grounds for large abnormal returns is hedge funds’ most popular small-cap picks, which are not so widely followed and often trade at a discount to their intrinsic value. In this article we will check out hedge fund activity in another small-cap stock: Wabash National Corporation (NYSE:WNC). Wabash National Corporation (NYSE:WNC) was in 18 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2016. WNC has seen a decrease in hedge fund sentiment in recent months. There were 19 hedge funds in our database with WNC holdings at the end of the previous quarter. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as Nevsun Resources (USA) (NYSEMKT:NSU), GMS Inc (NYSE:GMS), and Penn West Petroleum Ltd (USA) (NYSE:PWE) to gather more data points. Follow Wabash National Corp (NYSE:WNC)Follow Wabash National Corp (NYSE:WNC) Trade (NYSE:WNC) Now! We follow over 700 hedge funds and other institutional investors and by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings, we identify stocks that they are collectively bullish on and develop investment strategies based on this data. One strategy that outperformed the market over the last year involves selecting the 100 best-performing funds and identifying the 30 mid-cap stocks that they are collectively most bullish on. Over the past year, this strategy generated returns of 18%, topping the 8% gain registered by S&P 500 ETFs. We launched this strategy 2.5 years ago and it returned more than 39% since then, vs. 22% gain registered by the S&P 500 ETFs. IM_photo/Shutterstock.com Hedge fund activity in Wabash National Corporation (NYSE:WNC) Heading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, down by 5% from the second quarter of 2016. By comparison, 17 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in WNC heading into this year. So, let’s examine which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves. When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Gotham Asset Management, led by Joel Greenblatt, holds the most valuable position in Wabash National Corporation (NYSE:WNC). Gotham Asset Management has a $15.2 million position in the stock. Coming in second is Mike Masters of Masters Capital Management, with a $14.2 million position. Some other members of the smart money with similar optimism consist of Cliff Asness’ AQR Capital Management, Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management. We should note that none of these hedge funds are among our list of the 100 best performing hedge funds which is based on the performance of their 13F long positions in non-microcap stocks. Is BNC Bancorp (BNCN) A Good Stock to Buy? Patriot National Inc (PN): Hedge Funds Are Snapping Up Is United Community Financial Corp (UCFC) A Good Stock to Buy? Here is What Hedge Funds Think About Pendrell Corporation (PCO) Walter Investment Management Corp (WAC): Are Hedge Funds Right About This Stock... Is RadNet Inc. (RDNT) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds? Is WNC A Good Investment Right Now? Is WNC A Good Stock To Buy? NYSE:WNC Yahoo Finance Why Are Investors Selling These Four Stocks Today? Should You Buy Wabash National Corporation (WNC)? Five Top Stock Picks of Quality Growth Stock Investor Weatherbie Capital Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc (HY): Hedge Funds Are Bearish and Insiders Are Undecided, What Should You Do? Hedge Funds Are Selling Wabash National Corporation (WNC) Navistar International Corp (NAV): Insiders Aren’t Crazy About It But Hedge Funds Love It Should You Avoid PACCAR Inc (PCAR)? 11 Best Science YouTube Channels To Watch 10 Most Famous Cubist Paintings 5 Countries That Have the Most Drones	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8981
__label__wiki	0.507409	0.507409	IP Business Opportunities IP Academy About IPeople Our Corporate Logo Our Key Personnel Milestone and Achievement E-Gazette for all intellectual property matters Offering an extensive range of services from trademark to copyright, industrial design to patent, licensing to franchising and IP management to IP academy. Malaysia’s Leading Intellectual Property In order to cater to the various needs of our continuously expanding list of clienteles specifically in Malaysia and Singapore, we have our team of registered trademark agents, patent agents, industrial design agents, branding consultants, franchise consultants, and IP Trainers to cater to our clients’ every need, professionally and skillfully. Our list of reputable clienteles that includes Mah Sing Group, Spritzer Group, City-Link Express and many more is a testament of the trust that some of these firms have in Intellect to help them manage their IP portfolios…. As for table games blackjack online real money paypal is classic if you want to use your experience, not only luck. That's why it's so popular for real money Intellect has professionally helped many companies to attain and maintain the trademarks nationwide. A patent is to provide the exclusive rights of the owner of the original invention to profit from it. Franchising is a big business and it has enabled millions of people all around the world to be employed. The use of Licensing as a marketing and brand extension tool has burgeoned over the last 30 years. We help young companies expand business into new territories. What is Franchising? Franchising is a method of expanding your business by licensing your intellectual property rights such as trademark or trade name to a franchisee who pays you a certain amount of fee to operate the business using your specific business system or know how at a specified period of time. The franchisee shall conduct its business operations in accordance with proven standards and specifications that have been well established. What is a patent? A patent is an award granted by the government to give the patent owner certain exclusive rights in relation to his invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for publication of information about his invention. What is copyright? Copyright basically refers to the exclusive right granted to the copyright owner to have control over his work (for when another person intends to reproduce, publish, perform, etc his work). Copyright only protects the original expression of ideas, not the idea themselves. What is an industrial design? An industrial design means features of shapes, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means which in the finished article appealed to and is judged by the eye. Articles which are commonly registered are containers, bottles furniture, lamp shapes, vases, design packagings, etc. What is a trade mark and a service mark? A trade mark is a distinctive symbol (eg. a word, logo, numerals, device, label and so on) that identifies particular goods of a trader to the general public. A trade mark is also used to indicate the origin of goods and to distinguish the products or services of an individual or enterprise from those of others. Whereas a service mark, is a logo used by service industry (e.g. entertainment, transportation, travel agents, etc.) Intellect Worldwide Services Are Trusted By The client always perceives it is easy to register their trademark, however, the chances of registration is actually slim if the mark is too simple or descriptive. Nevertheless, we have assisted the client to “Successfully Registered” their favorite marks although it’s a bumpy ride. NATURE OF BUSINESS & DESCRIPTIVENESS HOTEL ROYAL Hotel & Accommodation Services Descriptiveness = Very High M.U.L.A E-Hailing Transport Descriptiveness = High JUST BABY Baby Apparel Descriptiveness = Very High Registered LOVE A LOAF Bakery HYPERGUARD Vehicle Beauty & Care Descriptiveness = High Registered SCIENCE EXPLORER Education Services BAWANG GORENG SUCI Fried Onion Provider DELIVER EAT Food Delivery Services Award & Recognization Started off with Intellect Worldwide Sdn Bhd, a consulting firm providing Intellectual Property (IP) services in 1993, the Intellect Group of IP Companies has been expanding rapidly to become one of the leading and fastest growing IP consulting firms in Malaysia now. Application Status Online IPeople House, 7A Clove Hall Road, © Copyright 2019 \| Intellect Worldwide Sdn. Bhd. \| All Rights Reserved \| Website developed by VeecoTech	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8991
__label__wiki	0.516568	0.516568	Los Angeles Century City at Beverly Hills Rate Code: Optional guests: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tomorrow Show with Ron Lynch 11:55 PM - 11:59 PM Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth Share Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google+ Date: December 22, 2018 to December 22, 2018 Where: Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth, 2511 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California, United States Event Type: Arts & Theater Hosted by Ron Lynch, TOMORROW! is the longest-running show of its kind in Los Angeles. Now in its 13th year of acclaimed live late night lunacy! Saturday. Midnight. Only Ten Bucks. Dynasty Typewriter @ The Hayworth2511 Wilshire Blvd, 90057 Special guests, surprises, and formats each week. Sign Up To Unlock Exclusive Offers InterContinental® Los Angeles , CA 90067 Reserve:1-800-327-0200 Trademark Statement © 2018 IHG. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8992
__label__wiki	0.997178	0.997178	Actor to stop voicing Simpsons character Apu Heartbeat and Yes Minister star Derek Fowlds dies, aged 82 The SAGs are seen as a reliable indicator ahead of the Oscars. The Simpsons actor Hank Azaria has said he will no longer be voicing the character of Apu, following accusations of racism. The actor had a long and varied career on stage, TV and the big screen. Sandi Toksvig quits as Great British Bake Off presenter The comedian will not present a forthcoming series, she said in a statement. James Bond will always be male, says franchise producer The next James Bond will be male, according to one of the franchise's most senior producers. Prince Harry carries out first public engagement since royal crisis Prince Harry is hosting the Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw at Buckingham Palace at midday on Thursday. Spotify launches personalised playlists for pets The music streaming site has also introduced a new podcast for lonely dogs. Just Mercy star says Hollywood needs to 'reflect the actual world' The film is paving the way forward for Hollywood as it's one of the first to be made with a so called inclusion rider. Ollie Williams quits Love Island after three days The show has received more than 200 complaints over the inclusion of Ollie Williams as a contestant. Billie Eilish to perform theme song for new James Bond film No Time To Die The past year has seen Eilish secure a number one album in both the UK and the US with We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8995
__label__wiki	0.929073	0.929073	THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, MARCH-JULY 1918 The media for this item are free to reuse for non-commercial purposes under the IWM Non Commercial Licence and can be downloaded or embedded with the code we offer here. By downloading or embedding any media, you agree to the terms and conditions of the IWM Non Commercial Licence, including your use of the attribution statement specified by IWM. For this item, that is: © IWM (Q 70880) <a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205028809" target="_blank"> <img src="https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/332/90/mid_000000.jpg?action=e&cat=Photographs" alt="THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, MARCH-JULY 1918"> </a> <span> THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, MARCH-JULY 1918 <a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright">© IWM (Q 70880)</a> </span> [url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205028809][img]https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/332/90/mid_000000.jpg?action=e&cat=Photographs[/img][/url] [url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205028809]THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, MARCH-JULY 1918. © IWM (Q 70880)[/url] [url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright]IWM Non Commercial License[/url] The Popham panel-system of visual signalling to aircraft at Beauval, 30 July 1918. First World War (production), First World War (content) US official photographer Q 70880 AMERICAN FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL EXCHANGE COLLECTION Associated people and organisations Spring Offensive, German Offensives 1918, Western Front, First World War Beauval, Somme, France US Army 1917-1918 Western Front 1914-1918 © IWM (E(AUS) 2078) How did people share their cultures and traditions during the First World War? © IWM (Art.IWM PST 2734) First World War Recruitment Posters © IWM (CH 19) How has war in the air changed over time?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line8997
__label__wiki	0.875885	0.875885	Jerusalem Post Israel News 7 Jewish visitors removed from Temple Mount amid bolstered Tisha Be'av security Heightened security continues in Old City as thousands make pilgrimage to Jerusalem Holy site for Jewish day of mourning. By DANIEL K. EISENBUD The Temple Mount in Jerusalem (photo credit: JACK BROOK) Amid heightened security to protect thousands of fasting Jewish mourners observing Tisha Be’av at the Western Wall Sunday morning, police removed seven Israeli visitors from the Temple Mount for not adhering to the strict code of conduct at the contested compound. “This morning there were disturbances on the Temple Mount, where over 400 Jewish visitors entered, when seven people did not behave according to how they were supposed to – meaning they did not walk in the direction they were told to, and they were removed from the area,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. “After they were removed, hundreds of more visits continued throughout the morning without further disturbances. Police units were on the Temple Mount to make sure that there were no major incidents.” Rosenfeld said a total of 983 visitors, including 583 non-Jewish tourists, visited the compound on the annual day of mourning, which concludes Sunday evening. He added that hundreds of extra police officers from various units are maintaining security throughout the Old City. No instances of violence were reported, he said. Although the Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site – where the First and Second Temples once stood, before being destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, respectively – the country’s Chief Rabbinate forbids Jewish visitation there due to ancient purity laws. Nonetheless, numerous Temple Mount and rightwing activists who actively promote the construction of a third Temple contend that the purity laws are unnecessary, and that unlimited access and prayer rights should also be granted to Jews. Moreover, the activists cite the Temple Mount’s “status quo” as an egregious example of selective religious segregation. Jewish groups visiting the compound are assigned heavily armed security details due to chronic physical and verbal attacks by Muslim extremists known to stage riots in protest against Jewish visits. There was a brief period of quiet on the Mount after the government banned two Islamic Movement Northern Branch hate groups, the Murabitun (for men) and the Murabitat (for women), from the site last September to stop their chronic attacks against Jewish visitors. The groups’ expulsion led to a campaign of incitement by the Palestinian Authority focusing on the false and deadly accusation that the Jews intend to destroy al-Aksa Mosque, which has largely fueled the last 11 months of terrorist attacks. Many imams, Palestinian political leaders, and even school teachers incite Arab youth to violence against Jews to “defend al-Aksa Mosque,” despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated assurances that the status quo will remain. The mounting violence in Jerusalem has led police to announce a NIS 1 billion initiative to recruit 1,200 more officers, build six police stations in the capital’s Arab neighborhoods, and install nearly 200 more CCTV cameras. Tags Border Police israel temple mount	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9005
__label__wiki	0.803245	0.803245	Urgent Care Holiday Hours In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we will have modified hours for our Urgent Care clinics. Conditions & Care I'm a patient or exploring care I'm visiting a patient I'm a medical professional I'm an educator or student Conditions and Care Patient Bills Visiting Guidelines Concierge Assistance Referring Physicians and Resources Education programs services About the University of Kansas Medical Center Excellence in academics Learning to provide excellent patient care Patient Stories Search Page Innovative Multidisciplinary Care Collaborative Care Restores Sight Reggie Peoples didn't necessarily have moves before his brain surgery, but with Michael Jackson playing on his wife's phone and his kids' hands in his, he found reason to dance in the hospital room after it. An 8-year journey for Reggie, now 34 years old, culminated with the minimally invasive endoscopic removal of a pituitary tumor that had increasingly obstructed his optic nerve. Years in Chicago provided exciting opportunities for the Kansas City, Kansas, native. Reggie studied fashion merchandising at the Art Institute of Chicago and lived in a condo on the iconic Lake Shore Drive. He met Jill, who hailed from Michigan and became his wife. The couple welcomed a son, Roman, nicknamed their "Windy City Baby." In 2009, the young family returned to Reggie's roots in Kansas City. But the Peoples family didn't settle down as easily as Reggie and Jill had envisioned. Instead, Reggie, working in business development for a sign company, began to experience severe vision problems. When tests conducted by his optometrist and 3 different retinal specialists revealed nothing wrong with his eyes, Reggie sought help at The University of Kansas Health System. An MRI and CT scan quickly revealed the source of Reggie's vision problems: He had a pituitary tumor. "It was terrifying," Reggie says. "It was an extremely rapid process. I was sent home to pack a bag and was back for surgery the next day." Neurosurgeon Phillip Hylton, MD, led Reggie's care team and was able to remove about 50% of the tumor. An ongoing journey While relieved to learn the tumor was not cancerous and glad to have the surgery behind him, Reggie faced continued health challenges. The next 6 years included the joy of welcoming daughter Chloé to the family, but also brought continued deterioration in Reggie's eyesight. Eventually, his left eye functioned at just 25% of normal and his right eye at 20%. He could not drive well. He could not do his best work. But he tried to press on. "I felt that I couldn't put my wife under stress," Reggie says. "If I could not work, the financial stability of our home would be jeopardized. That's what was on my mind, as a husband and a father." A professional who relied on a computer, Reggie found he had to close his right eye entirely to see anything at all. This created further strain on his left eye, as it worked to compensate for the closed eye. During this time, Reggie was not under a physician's care. "That was a vital mistake, I know now," Reggie says. "My vision loss became intolerable. My head was cloudy. I was in a constant state of confusion. But, out of ego, I was still driving." Ultimately, it was Reggie's struggle to drive that sent him back for medical help. While behind the wheel one night, he struck a parked vehicle he could not see. "It was the last straw," he says. "We were so thankful that I was alone in the car and no one was hurt. It was the wake-up call I needed." A new treatment option Reggie returned to The University of Kansas Health System, where an MRI revealed the tumor had returned, now larger than a golf ball and larger than it had been at the time of the prior surgery. Reggie again saw Dr. Hylton, who provided encouraging news. "Dr. Hylton told me about a team at the health system using new technology to offer a new procedure," Reggie says. "I was truly impressed that Dr. Hylton was humble enough to refer me to someone else he thought could help me better. I have great admiration for the way he put my best interests first." The procedure Dr. Hylton recommended was an innovative, minimally invasive approach in which Reggie's tumor would be removed through his nostrils via endoscopic surgery. This exemplified the powerful benefits of the multidisciplinary care practiced by The University of Kansas Health System. It would involve the collaboration of neurosurgeon Roukoz Chamoun, MD, and otolaryngologist Ioannis Papagiannis, MD, each bringing specialized skills to an advanced procedure. On March 31, 2017, Reggie had the pituitary adenoma removed. Physicians navigated the endoscope through Reggie's nasal passages to reach the tumor. The approach required minimal incisions and offered faster healing, reduced pain, reduced risk of infection and better functional and cosmetic results. "Dr. Chamoun is extremely knowledgeable," Reggie says. "What he did was an absolute game-changer for me." The day after brain surgery, Reggie was not only walking, but dancing. "I'm really not much of a dancer," Reggie says. "But my wife jokingly asked me if I could, so I grabbed my kids' hands, and I did. That was a defining moment for me. To be up and dancing with my kids the day after a brain operation. What an amazing thing." Following the surgery, Reggie's vision improved rapidly. He continues to see an endocrinologist to regulate his pituitary gland's hormone production. The tumor and surgery can disrupt normal function, resulting in either overproduction or underproduction of the hormones that influence the behavior of other organs in the body. This care requires focus and fine-tuning and adjustments over time. A bright future Reggie is continuing to recuperate, but is again safely behind the wheel and considers himself "99½ percent healed." He was in the right place at the right time to achieve a positive outcome. "This team and this procedure changed my life," he says. "Before, I couldn't see my wife blow me a kiss. I couldn't see my kids' faces when they laughed. Now, I'm living my whole life in high definition. I was cloudy for too long, and now I have awakened." He credits his care team with supporting him through a crucial turnaround. "This procedure changed night into day for me," Reggie says. "This is truly the best hospital in the nation. 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__label__wiki	0.522023	0.522023	Pay It Forward: Surprising a teacher at Lubbock’s Honey Elementary By Julie Castaneda \| January 15, 2020 at 7:59 AM CST - Updated January 15 at 7:59 AM LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Almost every day, KCBD receives Pay It Forward nominations from viewers, like you, letting us know who they want to pay it forward to. This week WesTex Federal Credit Union went to Lubbock ISD’s Honey Elementary to surprise one of their teachers. Taylor Rosales has worked at Honey Elementary for six years now. “I work in a special service- special services program. And so I work with kiddos who have high functioning autism but have some behaviors, and so they need my help in the classroom," Rosales said. “But I also help all the kids that I go out and work with my kids don’t need help, then I help all the kids in the class.” Rosales was nominated for her passion for teaching and her kindness towards her students. Before Christmas break she did something special for her students. “I went through and had them tell me things that they absolutely loved in life. Favorite colors, favorite Disney characters, favorite movies, anything, sports teams," she said. "And then I went and bought fabric for all of them to make them blankets that they could have here,” said Rosales. Her students were overjoyed to see the blankets. “It truly was just like that was one of my best moments of like this year teaching them was just seeing their faces light up and how excited they were and how happy they were to have something that represented them," Rosales said. “And that truly, (was) like somebody heard them and heard what they love and took that and gave them something individualized for them.” The nominator praised Rosales saying, She should be recognized for the “time, effort and sometimes tears she sheds for (the) opportunity to help each child feel accepted and know they are important.” “I’m feeling very surprised and very blessed. Like truly this is a godsend,” said Rosales. “You have no idea how, how just heartwarming it is to know somebody took their time to nominate me and take them into consideration. I really feel very, very blessed just because it’s like you have so often that, like you’re just kind of the one in the shadows, doing everything behind the scenes to help every run smoothly. So, it’s just nice to know somebody saw it.” For those who would like to nominate someone for Pay It Forward, they can fill out the form at KCBD.com. Julie Castaneda Julie grew up in Shallowater, Texas. She joined KCBD in August 2018 after working two years in Midland as a news producer. Dallas Mavericks to hold Texas Tech College Night against Jarrett Culver and the Timberwolves Texas Tech University Museum to open Horn Professor Emeritus James C. Watkins Exhibition Pay It Forward: Lubbock waitress at Logan’s Roadhouse goes above and beyond for a customer Published January 8, 2020 at 7:51 AM Best Of The West 2020 Winners Kembra Gerner Published January 7, 2020 at 11:00 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9017
__label__wiki	0.666334	0.666334	Showing Repository 1-10 of 205 Reports Pembina Pipeline Corp (PPL) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Pembina Pipeline Corp (Pembina) is a midstream oil and gas company. It owns and operates an integrated system of pipelines that transports hydrocarbon liquids such as conventional crude oil, heavy oil, synthetic crude oil, and oil sands products. Learn More Greece Midstream Oil and Gas Industry Outlook to 2024 - Market Outlook for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Oil Storage, Pipelines, Underground Gas Storage and Gas Processing 128 Pages\| August 2019 \| Greece Midstream Oil and Gas Industry Outlook to 2024 - Market Outlook for Liquefied Natural Gas , Oil Storage, Pipelines, Underground Gas Storage and Gas Processing, is a comprehensive report on midstream oil and gas industry in Greece. Learn More GS Caltex Corp - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review 27 Pages\| August 2019 \| GS Caltex Corp (GS Caltex), a subsidiary of GS Energy Corp, is a downstream company that offers petroleum and petrochemical products, base oil, and lubricants. Learn More Puma Energy Holdings Pte Ltd - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Puma Energy Holdings Pte Ltd (Puma Energy) is an integrated energy company. It has operations in both midstream and downstream value chain of oil and gas. Its midstream operations include supply, storage and transportation of petroleum products. Learn More Global Partners LP (GLP) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Global Partners LP (Global Partners) is a midstream logistics and marketing master limited partnership. Learn More Gibson Energy Inc (GEI) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Gibson Energy Inc (Gibson) is a midstream energy companyIt carries out storage, optimization, processing, gathering and marketing of crude oil and refined products. It provides logistic services such as trucking in the Permian and SCOOP/STACK basins Learn More Quarterly Midstream M&A Deals Review - Q2 2019 21 Pages\| July 2019 \| GlobalData's "Quarterly Midstream M&A Deals Review - Q2 2019", report is an essential source of data and trend analysis on M&A (mergers, acquisitions, and asset transactions), in the midstream oil and gas industry. Learn More Quarterly Midstream Capital Raising Review - Q2 2019 GlobalData's "Quarterly Midstream Capital Raising Review - Q2 2019", report is an essential source of data and trend analysis on financings (equity/debt offerings and PE/VC) in the Midstream oil and gas industry. Learn More Global LNG Regasification Industry Outlook to 2023 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Outlook with Details of All Operating and Planned Regasification Terminals 196 Pages\| July 2019 \| Global LNG Regasification Industry Outlook to 2023 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Outlook with Details of All Operating and Planned Regasification Terminals, is a comprehensive report on the global LNG regasification industry. Learn More LNG Liquefaction Industry Outlook in North America to 2023 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Outlook with Details of All Operating and Planned Liquefaction Terminals LNG Liquefaction Industry Outlook in North America to 2023 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Outlook with Details of All Operating and Planned Liquefaction Terminals, is a comprehensive report on the North America LNG liquefaction industry. Learn More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9020
__label__wiki	0.926478	0.926478	Kensa Launches ‘How To’ Guide To Heat Pumps In Tower Blocks A new animation produced by Kensa Heat Pumps aims to educate the owners and developers of the tens of thousands of high rise flats in the UK to the solution posed by retrofitting district ground source heat pumps. With the majority of high rise tower blocks in the UK featuring uncontrollable storage radiators for heating, the short film by Kensa demonstrates the ease of replacing this and other types of electric heating with district ground source heat pumps. Addressing the key stages of a retrofit installation, the film depicts the drilling of shared ground loop borehole arrays, which when connected to individual Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pumps in each flat qualify the upgrade for 20 years of income via the Non Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Dr Matthew Trewhella, of Kensa Contracting, who is currently overseeing a number of tower block upgrades including England’s largest district heating ground source heat pump scheme in the London Borough of Enfield, says: We are frequently asked how our system design – a Kensa Shoebox heat pump fitted inside each flat and fed by pipework connected to a communal borehole array – can maintain pressure and flow in high rises; our clients are amazed when they realise the depths the borehole pipework reach in comparison to the height of the tower block – 120 to 200 meters – and soon appreciate that the height of the high rise is of no real barrier! Our new animation neatly demonstrates this scale of work, and also debunks many myths, including the requirement for lots of exterior space for ground arrays. By bypassing the need for a central plant, the collective power of circulation pumps inside each ground source heat pump in each household move the fluid around the shared ground loop, ensuring sufficient pressure and flow are always maintained throughout the system. Traditionally flats posed particular challenges for the installation of ground source heat pumps including lack of space and access issues, pipework distribution problems, and the potential for noise disruption in a small living space. Dr Trewhella continues: Our solution overcomes the much-publicised drawbacks of conventional district heating schemes in flats featuring large central plant, which require costly insulated pipes to protect the heat as it is circulated away from the source, large billing overhead costs, system operating costs and maintenance for the energy supplier. All of these can result high bills on householders who have no opportunity to select an alternative heat supplier. By contrast, in Kensa’s recommended model where a small and quiet Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pump is fitted inside each property, heat is only generated close to the point of use, the fluid circulating around the distribution pipework is at ambient temperature, reducing the installation cost, and most importantly, householders can source electricity to run their heat pumps from their own preferred energy company, switching as required to secure the most competitive tariff. The animation, ‘District Ground Source Heat Pumps Installation In Tower Blocks’, can be viewed below or click here. Contact Kensa Contracting, a specialist ground source heat pump installation business which focusses on large-scale new build and social housing retrofit programmes. It benefits from unrivalled experience and expertise and has delivered the UK’s largest installations in the residential sector. Videos: Shared Ground Loop Array Ground Source Heat Pumps In Tower Blocks This Kensa Contracting commissioned motion graphic depicts the key stages for the installation of Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pumps into individual flats in tower blocks, connected to shared ground loop array boreholes. For more information on this application click here. Videos: Ground Source Heat Pump Timelapse In Tower Blocks – Phase 2 Kensa Contracting and ENGIE retrofitting Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pumps into eight tower blocks in the London borough of Enfield. This timelapse video shows the borehole drilling for a second tower block, which will form part of the decentralised heat pump system (an individual Kensa ground source heat pump in each flat) fed by… Videos: Ground Source Heat Pump Tower Block – Groundworks Stage This video shows the initial works for a retrofit Kensa Contracting ground source heat pump installation at eight tower blocks in the London borough of Enfield with ENGIE. Follow the project at www.kensaheatpumps.com/enfield Videos: Tower Block Borehole Timelapse (Enfield) – Phase 1 Kensa Contracting & ENGIE retrofitting Kensa Shoebox ground source heat pumps into eight tower blocks in the London borough of Enfield. This timelapse video shows the borehole drilling for one of the eight tower blocks, which will form part of the decentralised heat pump system (an individual Kensa ground source heat pump in each flat)… News: England’s Largest District Ground Source System Breaks New Ground The UK’s pioneer of domestic district ground source heat pump systems, Kensa Contracting, has secured the contract to deliver England’s largest shared ground loop array heat pump system with ENGIE.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9021
__label__cc	0.622761	0.377239	Two God Of War Ghost Of Sparta Stats At a PlayStation event in New York this week, I played the PSP's God of War: Ghost of Sparta and learned some details. 1) A Sony producer said the game will be 25-30 per cent longer than the first PSP God of War, based on the playtests and focus groups now trying the game. (The earlier portable Kratos adventure, God of War Chains of Olympus, took my boss five hours to play through.) 2) Ghost of Sparta will push the PSP's processor hard and may be able render up to nine enemies on the screen at once. The earlier PSP game did three or four. (Bonus non-stat fact: Ghost of Sparta, which takes place prior to God of War II, will use God of War III's system for button-prompt "quick-timer events". This means that during combat the prompts for pulling off killer finishing moves will appear at the periphery of your PSP screen rather than on top of the enemies. The prompts will appear at whichever edge of the screen matches the corresponding action button on the PSP, the Sony producer told me. For example, a prompt at the top means you need to push triangle. As was the case with God of War III, this will let you focus on the central graphics of the game, since you can tell from where the prompt appears in your peripheral vision which button you need to press.) Development studio Ready At Dawn produced a visually impressive and surprisingly epic-feeling God of War on the PSP last time around. The new one appears to be a similarly strong effort. God of War: Ghost of Sparta will be out on the PSP around Christmas. New Xbox, Xbox Series X: Price, Release Date, Specs and Rumours The next generation of gaming consoles launches at the end of this year with the Xbox Series X and PS5. In a sea of leaks and rumours, here's what we know so far about the next gen Xbox.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9025
__label__wiki	0.755612	0.755612	Kimberley Dynamiters Kootenay Ice Kimberley Visitor’s Guide Let’s Build – Contractor’s Director Bank of Montreal, located on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver. (Google Maps) BMO sets up advisory council after Indigenous man, granddaughter handcuffed at B.C. branch The council will provide input on training and policies at the Bank of Montreal Jan. 16, 2020 12:30 p.m. The Bank of Montreal says it has created a special council to help train its employees in wake of nationwide backlash after an Indigenous man and his granddaughter were handcuffed at a Vancouver branch when trying to open an account. Fifty-six-year-old Maxwell Johnson, a member of Heiltsuk Nation, went to open an account for his 12-year-old granddaughter in Vancouver on Dec. 20. But both Johnson and the girl ended up in handcuffs after the bank called police to report what they thought was a fraud in progress. ALSO READ: First Nations leaders slam handcuffing of elder, 12-year-old granddaughter at bank No charges were laid, but the incident has sparked a number of rallies by the public for what the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has deemed as racial profiling, as well as an investigation by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. The financial institution’s CEO, Darryl White, said in a news release Thursday that the new Indigenous Advisory Council will include people from Indigenous communities across the country to provide input on policies and practices in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. ALSO READ: B.C. First Nation calls probe into arrest of Indigenous man at bank ‘woefully inadequate’ “People are disappointed and angry with us, and I don’t blame them. Part of building a truly inclusive culture involves being honest with ourselves when we fall short of those standards,” White said. “An Indigenous customer was not treated with the respect or trust that BMO customers deserve. He entered our branch to open an account for his granddaughter and they were escorted out by police. This is unacceptable.” He added that bank tellers and other banking staff face strict legal requirements and have to make decisions without entire pieces of information. And while “the vast majority of the time we get these decisions right,” he said, “we simply should not have called the police, regardless of the circumstances.” The council includes one First Nations chief from B.C., Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band. Other members include: Regional Chief, Roger Augustine of the Assembly of First Nations in New Brunswick Minister Anita Campbell of the Manitoba Métis Nation Chief Terry Paul of the Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia Chief Darcy Bear of Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan Kevin Chief, Principal of Chief Partnerships Manitoba Inc. Chief Don Maracle of Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte in Ontario Chief Ouray Crowfoot of Siksika Nation in Alberta In addition to the council, the bank will be rolling out a new mandatory training requirement for all senior staff in the company, with a focus on the history and legacy of residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal rights. But in a statement released later in the afternoon, Heiltsuk Nation said the banking institution needs to start speaking more closely with the nation’s leaders. “While today’s announcement would normally be a good first step, it’s hard to put weight on this advisory council because it has been assembled so quickly – it feels very much like a reactive gesture or public relations effort,” the statement read. “BMO and their new IAC need to reach out to Heiltsuk, so that we know there will be concrete actions to implement the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and substantial efforts made to improve relations between Indigenous peoples and financial institutions. Foremost though, they need to stop denying what actually happened. That’s the only way to move forward.” 10 B.C. cities break temperature records in winter storm UPDATE: Supreme Court dismisses B.C.’s appeal in Trans Mountain pipeline case City of Kimberley no longer using electricity to thaw frozen water lines With temperatures dropping, the potential for frozen water lines increases. The City… Continue reading McCormick to deliver ‘State of the City’ address February 5 Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick will present his annual address on the state… Continue reading Kimberley’s Lloyd Steeves and Donna Briggs named Volunteers of the Year with Alpine Canada The duo are the driving force behind ski racing in Kimberley. Kimberley Skating Club hosting East Kootenay Invitational this weekend The competition is underway at the Kimberley Civic Centre until Sunday afternoon. Hwy 3 to close for avalanche control on Jan. 19 The road is expected to be closed from noon to 3 p.m. Explore Kimberley Daily Bulletin Kimberley News Kimberley Weather Kimberley Classifieds © 2020, Kimberley Daily Bulletin and Black Press Group Ltd.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9026
__label__wiki	0.904859	0.904859	Family appeal for return of Superdry coat worn by missing Chorley woman whose body was found in canal Matthew Calderbank Police are appealing for the return of a coat last worn by a woman whose body was pulled from a canal in Chorley. The body of Christine Clark, 51, from Chorley, was recovered from the Leeds Liverpool Canal, close to Frederick's Ice Cream, on Sunday, November 10. Christine Clarke, 51, had been wearing the coat, which has been recovered from the Leeds Liverpool Canal, when she was reported missing in Chorley on Saturday, November 9. Pic: Lancashire Police Mrs Clark had been missing for 24 hours after disappearing on a walk near the A6, where she was last seen at 5.30am on Saturday, November 9. That Saturday (November 9), 24 hours before Mrs Clark's body was discovered, a member of the public had pulled her coat and rucksack from the canal. The recovery of her belongings was reported to police and placed on the canal side, but the coat disappeared before officers arrived to collect it. A police spokesman said: "We are appealing for information to help reunite the family of a woman who sadly died after going missing with her coat. "Following extensive searches officers sadly recovered her body from the Leeds Liverpool Canal close to Frederick’s on Sunday (November 10). The coat is described as an extra small, black Superdry parka-style coat (pictured), with a fur-style hood. Pic: Lancashire Post "Her death is being treated as unexplained, but is not believed to be suspicious. "Police were contacted around 12.20pm on Sunday (November 9) by a member of the public who confirmed they had recovered a coat and rucksack from the canal. "They placed the items by the canal side, but when officers attended the scene, the coat, an extra small black ‘Superdry’ parka style coat (pictured), with a fur-style hood, was missing. "Her family has now asked for the missing coat to be returned." READ MORE: Police searching for missing Chorley woman find a body in canal READ MORE: Urgent appeal to find missing Chorley woman Christine Clarke Christine Clark's body was recovered from the Leeds Liverpool Canal close to Fredericks on Sunday (November 10). Pic: Lancashire Post Det Insp Dan Onions added: "Christine’s family are very keen for the missing coat to be returned. "It holds great sentimental value and if found would offer some comfort at this no doubt difficult and emotional time. "We would encourage anyone who has the coat to return it to their local police station as soon as possible. "This is not being treated as a criminal investigation – we would just ask whoever has taken it do the right thing by Christine’s family." Anyone with information about the coat can contact police on 101 or email 935@lancashire.pnn.police.uk quoting log 0815 of November 9. NOTE: A previous version of this story stated that the coat and rucksack were found in the canal on Sunday (November 10), not Saturday (November 9). This was due to an error on behalf of Lancashire Police, and has since been corrected.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9031
__label__wiki	0.614456	0.614456	Remote IT Services Email: info@level2tech.com Why Google Glass Isn’t Going To Be Part Of Your SMB Posted by level2tech On March 30, 2015 The initial sales pitch for Google Glass, a wearable device that allows the user to search the Internet, make phone calls and take photos and videos, has unofficially been declared dead. The company announced that the device would not be available to the public putting and end to Google Glass in an unceremonious and unexpected way. The company made clear the possibility that the technology would be pursued in the future after further research and testing were done. Nobody knows when that time will come. First issue Google Glass never really caught on with the public because to begin with it was never truly offered to the public. There were some test cases selectively chosen from a group of techies and Google employees. In reality paying $1500 for a technology that was still a work in progress was too risky even if it was, hypothetically, available to the public. Second issue The general response to Google Glass from average customers that value privacy, which in this case means most Americans; users quickly discovered the price they were paying was far more than the initial $1500. People began to express their displeasure, verbally and physically, while interacting with one of the devices. This was because users never truly knew if their privacy was being violated without them knowing. Google Needs To Reassess Its Product Markets Before the Google Glass faux pax the company attempted to take on Facebook with Google Plus, an alternative social media site. Google Plus was a failure, even after forcing existing Gmail users to create a new account to open a Google Plus. This ridiculous policy was withdrawn within months of its launch and though the social media site still exists, it never became the threat it was designed to be for Facebook. Google Glass was intended to enter brand new territory the way Apple, the tech competitor, created new technology markets and products quickly became popular among consumers and businesses alike. The truth is that Google is giant in the technology landscape, but not so much with people. Google Glass is yet another example of the company trying to make a cultural change the way Apple has consistently done with its innovative products. Google hasn’t found its Steve Jobs, who constantly gave people what they wanted. There may be a place for Google Glass down the road, perhaps in corporate environments that have specific uses for the device and where the environment is controlled rather than public. Culture changing technologies require that people can look normal and wear technology as an accessory, not a mandatory wearable for the unit to function. Consider Apple’s new iWatch. It is an accessory piece that people wear daily and now it has become a device. From the iPhone, which was just a phone with more gadgets, to the iWatch, which is just a watch with more gadgets, Apple never tried to change the way that the culture normally uses technology. They just made it cooler and better. Finally, what about the $1500 price tag Google first announced for the Glass? Apple technology is considered to be pricey by many standards. But unless their technology gives its buyers exceptional quality and innovative technology they would never consider $1500 for a wearable device. The best thing about Google technology is that it appeals to people who are less concerned with normal and more concerned with being high tech. A Third Of Former Employees Take Company Information With Them New Phishing Scam Targets Your Amazon Account Have Bots Taken Over The Internet? Microsoft Ending Forum Support For Older Operating Systems Time Out: Which is the Better Smartphone For Your Kids? 356 E. Olive Ave. Suite 111 info@level2tech.com Level 2 Technology $$$ FBI Sheds New Light On Ransomware Tactics Data Breaches Continue With Three New High Profile Cases © Copyright 2020 Level 2 Technology	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9032
__label__wiki	0.59992	0.59992	You Can Track Santa Claus As He Delivers Gifts Across The World Jake Massey Last updated 5:03 PM, Monday December 24 2018 GMT Remember lying in bed, struggling to get to sleep, wondering when Santa Claus would come down your chimney? But maybe you'd be able to put your mind at rest if you could track the bearded bastard's precise location at any given moment. Well, you can. Of course. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD... I have no idea why that isn't NAADC) have actually been providing the service for many years. Credit: NORAD The organisation spends 364 days a year doing mundane stuff like checking for nuclear attacks, but on Christmas Eve, all eyes turn to the big LAD on the sleigh. Around 1,500 volunteers are required on the day to answer more than 140,000 calls enquiring about Santa's whereabouts. Former 'Area 51' Employee Claims FBI Raided House Looking For 'Alien Technology' John Wick 3 Will Have The Highest Death Count Yet Jason Momoa Crashes Couple's Wedding Photos Carrying An Aquaman Trident Directors Say That Avengers: Endgame Is Likely To Be Three Hours Long His route is followed on the NORAD Tracks Santa website by almost nine million unique visitors every year, according to The Telegraph. But how does Santa manage to visit every home in just one day? Well, he ain't got time for any inefficient zig-zagging bullshit; he has a very clearly planned route. He starts off delivering in the South Pacific before heading west over New Zealand and Australia. From there, he dashes across Asia, Africa and Europe, before zooming across to North America and finishing off the job in South America. At the time of writing, Santa was last seen in Macau and was on his way to Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. However, he will obviously be much further along by the time you're reading this, as he has to go at full tit to make sure he gets to everybody in time. And by full tit, I mean full tit. If he's to make it to every house he needs to cover an estimated 510,000,000km. To complete this vast route in such a limited time frame, his space reindeers will need to pull him at a speed of 2,900km per second. Tough shift... No doubt all 10 of the flying present posse spend every other day of the year dreading Christmas Eve like fuck. According to The Telegraph, NORAD have been taking calls from children wanting to trace Santa for more than 60 years, while the online tracking service has been going since 1997. But while Santa was only being watched by a few rich nerdy kids on a big white shoe-box of a computer back then, there will be millions in bed on their smartphones following him this year. Remember though kids, just cos Santa has passed over your house doesn't mean you will have presents under the tree. A watched kettle won't boil and a diligently tracked Santa won't visit. Topics: Christmas, World News Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person. Follow @jakesmassey	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9034
__label__cc	0.69423	0.30577	Home » Maritime Accidents » Shipping Accidents Shipping Accidents and ISM Violations Our Maritime Trial Lawyers Can Help You Recover Ships transporting cargo help make our modern economy possible, but they also are places where harmful accidents can occur. Much of the cargo transported in tankers—oil, liquid natural gas (LNG) and chemicals—is hazardous. Ships of all types, including dry cargo ships, container ships, carriers and tankers, can be the site of injuries and deaths to crewmembers and dockworkers.The maritime and Jones Act lawyers at Latti & Anderson LLP have helped clients injured in all types of shipping accidents, and we have proved that shipping companies do not always follow the regulations in place that are intended to protect the cargo and crew. What are ISM Regulations? The International Safety Management Code (ISM) requires shipping companies and their ships to undergo regular audits to ensure that a safety management system is in place and to maintain certification. Shipping accidents that cause injuries are often due to a failure to obey the ISM regulations, such as: Poorly maintained safety equipment Lack of safety equipment Staff untrained in safety procedures Careless operation of hatches and valves Failure to follow safety procedures and operations Merchant seamen are not the only maritime workers at danger in a shipping accident, however. Dockworkers can suffer injuries during pump and pipeline malfunctions, hazardous spills or loading and unloading dangerous cargo. We Can Help After Container Ship Accidents Accidents while loading and unloading and working on containers ships are tragically common. Our experienced maritime attorneys know that when a container ship accident occurs, the injured victim could suffer serious and lifelong injuries, inhibiting his ability to work and causing financial and emotional distress for the victim and his or her family. The ISM mandates that tankers and container ships must undergo regular audits for safety; however, not all ships are in compliance, and some fail to follow regulations. This can lead to accidents that result in serious injury and even death. Lawyers Who Handle Offshore Accidents In many cases, employers will do everything they can to limit your recovery and will try to blame the accident on the oil tanker or cargo ship worker. Our firm has handled claims against numerous shipping companies throughout the United States, recovering money for past and future wage loss, past and future pain in addition to suffering and mental anguish, medical bills and future medical treatment. We have received numerous multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts for our work in these areas. In a free, no obligation consultation, one of our attorneys can explain the law to you, advise you of your rights as well as discuss the type of compensation you may deserve for your injury to being helping you through this difficult process. If you have suffered an injury on a container ship or other vessel, please do not hesitate to contact the maritime trial lawyers at Latti & Anderson LLP. We represent clients nationwide and can help you or a loved one recover the most for the injury.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9040
__label__wiki	0.848551	0.848551	The Latvian Army Celebrates 100 After World War I, the territory of Latvia was controlled by the German military, but despite this, Latvians managed, on November 18, 1918, to establish their own, independent country. Sadly, the Red Army from Soviet Russia invaded just two days later, and that launched the Latvian War of Independence, which lasted for nearly two years. During this difficult time, on July 10, 1919, the Latvian Army was formed. Latvia's victory in this war is commemorated on November 11, because it was on that that date in 1919 that Latvian forces, with artillery support from French and British ships in the Gulf of Rīga, managed to beat a volunteer army from western Russia and to liberate Rīga. Writing about this fact in the newspaper Jaunākās Ziņas (Latest News), the author Kārlis Skalbe compared the battle to that waged by Lāčplēsis, a legendary hero described in an epos by Andrejs Pumpurs. Lāčplēsis' enemy in the battle was the Black Knight, and Skalbe wrote that soldiers from Latvia's military had "the spirit of Lāčplēsis." The date has been commemorated as Lāčplēsis Day ever since to honour those who fell in battle during the independence war, to present military orders and to symbolically light candles on the walls of the Rīga Castle on the banks of the Daugava River. The Latvian Army was shut down when the Soviet Union occupied the country on June 17, 1940. The structure of the Latvian National Armed Forces could be reinstituted more than 50 years later – on December 24, 1994, when the Defence Forces and the Home Guard were merged. The Home Guard remains the largest part of Latvia's defence system and illustrates the readiness and will of the country's residents to defend their own land. Ten years later, in 2004, Latvia joined NATO. In 2007, the last conscripted soldiers completed their tour of duty. Latvia has had a fully professional military service ever since then. Photo: Ilmārs Znotiņš Als nächstes in "Home" Abschnitt Zurück zur Seite "Entdecken" Entdecken Sie mehr über Lettland Die lettischen Volkstrachten Die Theaterkultur in Lettland Lettische Volkslieder Sänger- und Tanzfest Letten Lettlands Liven Litauer und Esten Weißrussen / Ukrainer Die Russen in Lettland Die Währung in Lettland Economy & Finance Facts Aktuelle Wirtshaftslage IT and communications facts Startup facts Naturattraktionen Tier- und Pflanzenwelt Die Geschichte Lettlands von 1918 bis 1940 4. Mai 1990 - Tag der Wiederherstellung der Unabhängigkeit Gesetzliche Feiertage in Lettland The Story of the Last Latvian Ships in 1940 Cities in Latvia Riga Live Broadcast	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9041
__label__wiki	0.514021	0.514021	FISA Reform The Year in Review: FISA Section 702 By Matthew Kahn Wednesday, December 27, 2017, 8:00 AM (Photo: Wikimedia/NSA) Lawfare carried comprehensive coverage of this year’s developments in the lead up to the Dec. 31, 2017 reauthorization deadline for Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (along with the other provisions of the law’s Title VII). The government bought itself a few more weeks in last week’s continuing resolution to extend government spending, when Congress and the White House pushed the deadline for reauthorization forward to Jan. 19 of next year. Here’s what the Lawfare community had to say about Section 702 in 2017. In February, Mieke Eoyang and Gary Ashcroft argued that Section 702 needed reform because its drafters didn’t anticipate how the statute would be applied by law enforcement or the law’s effect on U.S. companies in foreign jurisdictions. Jake Laperruque wrote that closing the so-called “backdoor loophole” would require other coordinate reforms. In April, Caroline Lynch counseled Congress on how to navigate it’s love-hate relationship with FISA. A few weeks later, when the National Security Agency announced it would end the Section 702 collection of communications not to or from a targeted selector, but whose contents mentioned that selector; Quinta Jurecic posted an excerpt Charlie Savage’s New York Times story on it. Bobby Chesney wrote on whether the agency could really end such collection without undermining to/from collection. Adam Klein shared a few other points on abouts collection. In May, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual transparency report, revealing, among other things, that non-national-security searches of FBI databases only returned Section 702 information one time in 2016. Quinta posted the report and Jordan Brunner summarized it. In June, we got our first legislative proposal to reauthorize the program when Sen. Tom Cotton introduced a bill that would end the law’s sunset provision. Yishai Schwartz and Chris Mirasola summarized 18 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions related to Section 702 that the government released. In July, David Forscey offered his predictions about Senate support for reauthorization. That same month, Susan Hennessey spoke with Jim Baker and Carl Ghattas of the FBI to discuss Section 702 for the Lawfare Podcast: In September, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats called for a clean reauthorization of Title VII, I posted the letter they sent to Congress. Sarah Grant, Shannon Mercer and I summarized 18 documents that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released about the 702 program. In October, Robyn Greene explained a New America report that documented unintentional noncompliance with Section 702 provisions. I posted the House Judiciary Committee’s first draft reauthorization proposal—the USA Liberty Act. Chinny Sharma summarized the bill’s main provisions for Lawfare. And in response to the bill, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes cautioned Congress not to reform Section 702 just for the sake of reform in their Foreign Policy column. Peter Swire and Richard Clarke replied on Lawfare that some of the judiciary committee’s proposals are on the right track. When the committee revised some provisions of the bill in November, Chinny summarized that as well. Later, when the Senate intelligence committee posted their reauthorization proposal, I put the bill text up on the site and Chinny summarized. Shannon Mercer posted the House intelligence committee’s reauthorization proposal, too. Stewart Baker defended that bill’s provisions to require Congressional notification for requests to unmask the identity of a presidential transition team member, much like the so-called “Gates procedures” for unmasking the identities of members of Congress. In the wake of the uproar over allegations of improper revealing of the identities of Trump transition team members, Ned Price warned that the real unmasking scandal could be when the unfounded controversy threatens Section 702 reauthorization. In a comprehensive analysis of its intelligence value, Shreve Arail laid out the stakes of misunderstanding the impact of Section 702 reforms. And last week, Molly Reynolds, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes sat down for an episode of the Lawfare Podcast to discuss where Congress has left Section 702 as the year comes to a close: FISA, FISA Amendments Act, Section 702, Matthew Kahn is a first-year student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017. @matthew_j_kahn FISA Court Order in Response to Inspector General Report Gordon Ahl Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 3:43 PM Summary: The FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 Emma Kohse Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 4:29 PM The Merits of Supporting 702 Reauthorization (Despite Worries About Trump and the Rule of Law) Jack Goldsmith, Susan Hennessey Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 9:20 AM Trump Tweets Against a Key National Security Priority Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 9:47 AM FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Resource Page Sarah Tate Chambers, Matthew Kahn, Chinmayi Sharma Tue, Jan 9, 2018, 1:30 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9045
__label__cc	0.586021	0.413979	Achieving harmony through creative Gospel Song It is said that a vacation or a journey is not about the destination, but rather the trip itself. So too can that be said about art-making and creativity. It's not so much about the finished product, but more about the process of trying to get there. I sing creatively in an interracial gospel choir. We learn our songs in the African-American tradition, by hearing the notes played on a piano and repeating the melody and the words over and over section by section until we know our parts. We rehearse weekly and we perform at various venues at least twice a month. Singing creatively for me and learning the music in this way is meditative and expressive as well as therapeutic. The healing has come in for me by being part of a joyful group that is dedicated to our mission and that is full of people who genuinely care for one another. Through the creative expression of gospel song, we bring a spiritual harmony to our rehearsals and to our audiences. And because we are composed of people from many diverse backgrounds and ethnicity, we show our audiences that harmony can come from the hard working efforts of individuals who come together creatively in song. Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Your Stories. Easy Crafts For Kids Using Grids Intermediate & Advanced Art Video & DVDs Submit Drawings Car Drawings Alien Drawings Sharpie Art Rose Drawings Create a Face: Human Face Proportions and Portrait Drawing Video	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9048
__label__wiki	0.681939	0.681939	Baronial Order of Magna Charta & Military Order of the Crusades BOMC Gateway Ancestors Lincoln Cathedral Baronial Order of Magna Charta King John – The Genesis of a Sinister Reputation King John - The Genesis of a Sinister Reputation The Decendants of Melusine For over fifty years from 1154 to 1216 , England was ruled by a man from Anjou in France and two of his sons. They were King Henry II, King Richard I, and King John. Henry’s claim to the English throne was derived from his mother Matilda. She was the only child of King Henry I to survive him, and after the death of her first husband, Emperor Henry V of Germany, she had been married to Count Geoffrey of Anjou. These Angevin rulers of England had marked characteristics of personality. They were passionate and dynamic, with clever minds and strong wills. They had a hot temper which sometimes prejudiced their calculated schemes. They seemed, even to contemporaries, a little larger than life. Their minds and bodies appeared to work faster than those of normal men. When they conceived anything it was usually on a grand scale; their will matched their conception, and their vast resources were bent to its realization. Henry II was a ‘human chariot’ drawing everything after him. He never seemed to take a moment’s rest: in church even he scribbled or drew pictures; while hearing matters of business he would be mending his hunting gear; in relaxation he would hunt from dawn until sunset, pushing through woods and mountain passes, and even then weary his court after supper by remaining on his feet. To be in his household was to know the fury of Hell, said his courtiers. Richard I, differing from his father in build and coloring and in his zest for war, was like him in a ruthless energy that brooked no opposition: the builders of his castle at Les Andelys were startled one day by a shower of blood, but the King forced them on, ‘and even if an angel had descended from heaven to urge its abandonment he would have sworn at it.’ John defied every man, seeming to challenge his whole world single-handed. For six years he brushed aside the denunciations of the great Pope Innocent III, gathering the Church in England into his fierce hands and squeezing out of it all opposition and nearly all life. ‘He feared not God, nor respected men.’ The violent temper of the Angivins, their vicious reaction being thwarted, was almost pathological in its intensity. A misplaced word of praise for the King’s enemy, William the Lion of Scotland, threw Henry II into a fit of rage one morning in which he fell screaming out of bed, tore up his coverlet, and threshed around the floor cramming his mouth with the stuffing of his mattress. Frequently he would chew the rushes of the floor in his fury. Richard, believing that he had got the worst of a bargain on one occasion, flew into a blind rage, like a wounded boar, it is said, and no one dared come near him. The chronicler Richard of Devizes remembered John as a young prince breaking out in frustrated fury at Chancellor Longchamp: ‘His whole person became so changed as to be hardly recognizable. Rage contorted his brow, his burning eyes glittered, bluish spots discolored the pink of his cheeks, and I know not what would have become of the chancellor if in that moment of frenzy he had fallen like an apple into his hands as they sawed air.’ ‘From the Devil they came’, growled St. Bernard, ‘and to the Devil they will return.’ There were many who agreed with him. Popular gossip told of their descent from a devilish ancestress – it was a convenient explanation of their demonic energy, their ferocious ruthlessness. In the days of long ago, when all fairy stories were credible, a count of Anjou, men said, returned from a distant journey with a strange woman whom he married. She was evidently a lady and very beautiful, but there was much that was odd about her: she had no relatives or friends, she seldom went to church, and when she did always made some excuse to leave before the Consecration. In time her husband became so puzzled by this behavior that he instructed four of his knights to stay close by her when next she entered the church, and prevent her slipping out. Just as the Consecration was beginning she made as if to leave, but the knights trod on the hem of her robe to detain her. As the priest raised the Host above his head she uttered a scream, wrenched apart the fastening of her cloak to escape from it, and still shrieking flew out of the window. She was Melusine, daughter of Satan, and no evil spirit, as it is well known, can look upon the Body of Christ. In her flight she dragged two of her children with her; but two remained and from them were descended the Angevin kings of England. Henry II’s sons, with characteristically profane humor, were prone to joke about the story, and to people who protested against their fighting among themselves they replied: ‘Do not deprive us of our heritage; we cannot help acting like devils.’ The Story of the Magna Carta Magna Carta & the American Constitution Magna Carta Barons Profiles of Magna Carta Sureties and Other Supporters Complete Translation of the Magna Carta Charter of Liberties Battle of Bouvines Legacy of the Magna Carta Feudal Tenure at the Time of the Magna Carta Magna Carta and American Law Magna Carta and the Colonies The Sheriff and Magna Carta Kipling Poem – “What Say the Reeds at Runnymead?” © 2020 BOMC and MOC. A 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9055
__label__wiki	0.960874	0.960874	Knowsley school to have one of “longest names in the world” A NEW school is to have a whopping 12-word name because of a spat over what it should be called. From September pupils face enrolling at Knowsley Park Centre for Learning – serving Prescot, Whiston and the wider community. The far from catchy title – believed to be among the world’s longest school names – will be the name adopted by a new secondary in Prescot. It is to be based on the site of Prescot school which dates back to 1544. The school will be a combination of Prescot school and Whiston’s Higher Side comprehensive, one of seven new multi-million secondaries the council refer to as centres for learning. Governors have confirmed the mouthful name will be used on the school exterior as well as signs, stationery, marketing and letters. The council-backed governing body had plumped for Knowsley Park Centre for Learning because of its Knowsley Park Lane location and the fact the school is “a completely new entity to the previous donating secondary schools”. But this angered Lib-Dem ward councillors who are furious a secondary based in Prescot, and replacing a school which had served a community for more than 550 years, had no mention of Prescot in the title. As a compromise the governors have stretched the name to reflect all the areas it will serve. A Knowsley council spokesman today said the new name was “legally sound” and 150 responses were received after flyers asking for suggestions were sent out when consultation on the name began in October last year. These the council said were distributed to both Prescot and Higher Side school pupils, feeder primary schools and the “wider community”, including community centres and community groups. A spokeswoman confirmed that following Lib-Dem concerns over the original name the governors agreed “to always refer to the Centre as 'Knowsley Park Centre for Learning - serving Prescot, Whiston and the wider community’.” But the new name was today branded “disrespectful” by Cllr Marjorie Sommerfield, shadow education spokeswoman. She told the ECHO: “It is important that Prescot is in the title due to its historic links , we have lost enough of our identity already. “We realise it would probably need to be called Prescot and Whiston, but what they have come up with is patronising and an after thought. When you think of Knowsley Park you think of Lord Derby’s estate.” Today Nick Seaton, chairman of parent body the Campaign for Real Education which presses for higher standards and more parental choice in state education said: “This is probably among the longest school names in the world and definitely among the most ridiculous and impractical. “At least pupils will be able to practise their spelling and grammar every time they refer to their school.” Knowsley Council's full statement >>> Knowsley Council's full statement The statement from Knowsley council in full is: A Knowsley council spokeswoman said: "The Schools Governance (new schools) England Regulations 2007 specify that in order for a new name to be adopted for a school, the temporary governing body (TBG) must make that decision by having the item specified as an agenda item in advance of the meeting, and that all members must vote unanimously or by proxy when unable to attend. The decision reached for Knowsley Park Centre for Learning - serving Prescot, Whiston and the wider community' complied with these requirements and is therefore legally sound. "Consultation began in October 2008 when the principal of the centre, Marion Farrell, prepared a flyer asking pupils and community members for their ideas as to a new name for the centre. This flyer was distributed to the pupils at Prescot and Higher Side secondary schools, as well as the feeder primary schools. "The flyer was then circulated more widely to the community, temporary governing body, Department for Children, Schools and Families Leadership Team, and the chair of governors for each of the feeder primary schools along with the substantive governing body members for both Prescot and Higher Side Secondary Schools. The deadline for responses was November 17. "Following this consultation, 151 responses were received. On February 24, the TGB discussed several options and they all voted in favour of Knowsley Park Centre for Learning. The TGB felt that this name reflected the new identity of the centre; particularly that it is a completely new entity to the previous donating secondary schools. The centre is in Knowsley and is also in Knowsley Park Lane so they felt it was fitting that this name be adopted. "However, as the Liberal Democrat elected members from Prescot are not represented on the TGB, a further meeting took place with the Prescot members on Friday, March 27 and after further consultation it was agreed on Apri 23l by the TGB to always refer to the Centre as 'Knowsley Park Centre for Learning - serving Prescot, Whiston and the wider community'." CourtsJailed this Week: Perverts, drug dealer and cowardly brothers who fled justiceAn overview of some of the most serious cases to conclude this week Merseyside PoliceArmed convoy that put city streets on lockdown cost police £215,000Merseyside Police faced an eye-watering bill for the police convoy in the drug gang trial WaltonVulnerable children excluded from school at risk of greedy 'county lines' drugs gangsPolice also want 'burner' or 'pay-as-you-go' throwaway phones restricted, the essential dealer's tool	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9059
__label__cc	0.683064	0.316936	Locale.one Michael Elias is the founder of Locale.one LLC. A Mexican American born and raised in the Bay Area, Michael has garnered extensive professional experience across the government, legal, and nonprofit sectors. After graduating from New York University with a degree in Philosophy and minor in Politics, Michael served as an aide to a New York State Assembly Member, a Paralegal with the nonprofit, Disability Rights Advocates, a volunteer with a boys' home in Santiago, Chile, through the nonprofit organization, VE Global, and an AmeriCorps volunteer with the nonprofit organization, Mission Graduates. Michael has since gone on to found his own nonprofit, LEAD.Latinoamérica, which coordinates annual service trips for Latino high school student leaders to Latin America. Michael is devoted to ensuring that everyday people feel empowered and motivated to pursue their ideas and passions, a sense of purpose that is integral to Locale.one’s work. Justin Dayhoff CEO, Education & Data Consultant Dayhoff Consulting Services Vanessa Chavez Operations Program Manager UC Irvine Applied Innovation Kelsey Adams Sr. UX Design Consultant IBM Interactive Experience © 2017 Locale.one LLC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9065
__label__wiki	0.962888	0.962888	Phil Reisman: Revealing the power behind the Cuomo throne Larry Schwartz. the governor's fixer, is caught in the glare of the Moreland Commission scandal Phil Reisman: Revealing the power behind the Cuomo throne Larry Schwartz. the governor's fixer, is caught in the glare of the Moreland Commission scandal Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1mGBpYT Phil Reisman, preisman@lohud.com Published 10:36 p.m. ET July 23, 2014 \| Updated 10:41 a.m. ET July 24, 2014 Phil Reisman(Photo: The Journal News)Buy Photo The Mel Brooks comedy classic, "Spaceballs," has a catch line that epitomizes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's dark obsession with power and control — "May the Schwartz be with you." The Schwartz is certainly with Cuomo. Larry Schwartz is the governor's secretary, which does not mean he takes dictation. Far from an ordinary factotum, he is a consummate fixer, an inside guy who vigilantly stands behind the throne, lightsaber at the ready. As such, he is the second most powerful figure in the Cuomo administration — and most people outside of state politics don't know who he is. Crafty figures like Schwartz are not supposed to get public attention. They're supposed to be invisible, skilled in the art of stealth. But now Schwartz is at the center of a growing scandal that has exposed the Machiavellian calculations of his boss. According to a New York Times investigation, the governor allegedly interfered with the Moreland Commission, an independent panel he created last year to root out corruption in Albany. Cuomo promised the commission a free hand, saying they could examine "anything they want to look at — me, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the comptroller, any senator, any assemblyman." From left, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and aide to Gov. Cuomo Larry Schwartz sit on a podium during an event about Tappan Zee Bridge funding in 2012. (Photo: Ricky Flores/The Journal News) Moreland fallout: Cuomo's heavy hand Moreland latest: Politics on the Hudson blog The investigators were rather naïve; they took Cuomo at his word and inadvertently touched on things that might come back to bite him in the rear. For instance, the Times reported that the governor's office got very uncomfortable when the commission subpoenaed Buying Time, a media-buying firm that had placed advertisements for the state Democratic Party. The idea was to check for violations of state campaign laws. What the investigators didn't know was that Cuomo had been a company client when he ran for governor in 2010. The newspaper reported that when Schwartz caught wind of the subpoenas, he personally called one of the commission's co-chairs. "This is wrong," Schwartz allegedly said. "Pull it back." The subpoenas were withdrawn. In April, Cuomo abruptly and mysteriously decommissioned the commission, a decision that was notably criticized by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose métier is prosecuting corrupt politicians. This looks very bad for Cuomo, who is running for re-election and has consistently polled 35 to 40 percentage points ahead of his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. The ongoing Moreland controversy has been one of the few points of vulnerability in the Cuomo campaign, but it remains to be seen how much the average voter cares, or is even paying attention. Astorino obviously hopes the scandal sticks. Early on Wednesday, Astorino called Cuomo "a crook." And then later at a press conference, he said he expected that indictments and criminal charges would follow. He called out Cuomo's surrogate by name, asking, "If Mr. Schwartz is acting on his own, why hasn't he been fired already?" Schwartz, who lives in White Plains, first came into local prominence when he served as Andy Spano's deputy when Spano was county executive. I called him "The Brain" because he did most of the thinking for Spano. Nobody in the administration made a move without his approval. Underlings feared him. Spano relied heavily on his loyal deputy, who never let him down. More than a decade ago when the Spano administration was embarrassed by a bid-rigging deal that benefited Ralph Arred, a contractor and former chairman of the Yonkers Democratic Committee, Schwartz made sure his boss was protected. No one was ever charged in the case, but another Spano deputy (and rival of Schwartz's), Jay Hashmall, took the fall and was forced to resign. At the time it was posited that Hashmall was scapegoated because he violated a non-aggression pact that was supposedly brokered between the Democratic and Republican parties to ensure that three county incumbents — Spano, District Attorney Jeanine Pirro and County Clerk Leonard Spano — would not be seriously challenged in the 2001 election. Hashmall publicly backed the Democratic candidate challenging Pirro. Pirro won re-election, but not before it was leaked that she had convened a grand jury probe into Hashmall's role in the bid-rigging case. The investigation was a sham that went nowhere. A couple of years later, John Spencer, who was then mayor of Yonkers, called on the state attorney general to investigate the non-aggression pact rumors, citing a "pattern of election fraud, public corruption and abuse of power." Spencer's entreaty was ignored by the attorney general, who, by the way, was Eliot Spitzer, whose patronizing of prostitutes as the infamous "Client 9" would lead to his resignation as governor. Corruption in New York is so dizzying in its awful scope that it's hard to get your arms around it. But there's something especially creepy about the Moreland scandal, which isn't about stealing money. That would be easier to grasp.These allegations come down to the theft of the public soul and the death of idealism. It's a tragedy. Reach Phil Reisman at preisman@lohud.com. Twitter: @philreisman. Read or Share this story: http://lohud.us/1mGBpYT Who will train teachers if education schools shut? African-Americans and Jews are bonded together Why I led the impeachment of Donald Trump: Engel Thruway: Cuomo Bridge tolls won't punish residents Keep digging on Hudson Link, writer says After Monsey, solidarity must move us forward	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9068
__label__wiki	0.987954	0.987954	Canadiens at Rangers tonight; Steven McDonald award presentation NEW YORK RANGERS vs. Canadiens at Rangers tonight; Steven McDonald award presentation NEW YORK RANGERS vs. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/2dNwh8X Westchester Published 4:18 a.m. ET March 30, 2012 Pre-game notes courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS vs. MONTREAL CANADIENS Friday, Mar. 30, 7:30 p.m. Madison Square Garden – New York, NYRangers: 49-21-7 (105 pts) : 29-34-14 (72 pts) * All information through NHL games on Mar. 28 TONIGHT'S GAME: The Rangers will face-off against the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden (7:30 p.m.; TV: MSG Plus; Radio: Bloomberg Radio), in an Original Six matchup. The Blueshirts currently sit atop the Eastern Conference standings, and rank first in the league overall, with a record of 49-21-7 (105 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having defeated the Winnipeg Jets, 4-2, on Wednesday at MTS Centre, and have won five of the last six games. The Canadiens enter the contest with a 29-34-14 (72 pts) record to rank 15th in the Eastern Conference, and have lost five of the last six games. Following the contest, the Rangers will face-off against the Boston Bruins on Sunday, Apr. 1, at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), in an Original Six matchup. Prior to the contest, the Rangers will present the winner of the 2011-12 Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award, as voted by the fans, given to the player who "goes above and beyond the call of duty." Following the 1987-88 season, the Rangers established the award dedicated to paralyzed New York City police officer Steven McDonald, who was shot in the line of duty. RANGERS vs. CANADIENS: All-Time: 190-320-94-3 overall (126-122-54-1 at home; 64-198-40-2 on the road) 2011-12: Tonight is the fourth and final meeting this season, and the second at MSG. New York is 1-2-0 (1-0-0 at home; 0-2-0 on the road) following a 4-1 loss on Jan. 15 at Bell Centre. The Rangers have out-scored the Canadiens, 4-2, in first periods this season. Derek Stepan leads the Rangers in scoring with three assists/points. Henrik Lundqvist is 1-1-0 with a 3.52 GAA, and Martin Biron is 0-1-0 with a 4.01 GAA. Last Season: New York was 1-3-0 overall (1-1-0 at home; 0-2-0 on the road). The Rangers out-scored the Canadiens, 7-4, in first periods during the series. Dan Girardi led the team in scoring with four points, including a team-high three assists, and Brian Boyle tallied a team-leading two goals in four games. New York ranks fifth with a 26-10-2 (54 pts) record at home; Montreal ranks 22nd with a 15-19-4 (34 pts) mark on the road The Rangers are 10-7-1 vs. the Northeast Division; the Canadiens are 7-9-3 vs. the Atlantic Division New York lists no former Canadiens on their roster Montreal lists one former Ranger on their roster: Scott Gomez (2007-08 - 2008-09) INDIVIDUAL CAREER LEADERS vs. CANADIENS: Henrik Lundqvist -- 24 GP, 12-9-2, 2.99 GAA, 1 SO Martin Biron -- 29 GP, 14-12-0-1, 2.42 GAA, 2 SO Brad Richards -- 33 GP, 8-11-19 Brandon Dubinsky -- 18 GP, 5-6-11 Marian Gaborik -- 16 GP, 4-6-10 Dan Girardi -- 22 GP, 3-6-9 The Rangers' power play is 7-34 (20.6%) in the last 10 games, while the penalty kill has held opponents scoreless in 11 of the last 15 games (38-43, 88.4%). The Rangers are tied for sixth in the NHL with eight shorthanded goals. The Blueshirts have posted a record of 23-1-4 in games when tallying a power play goal, and are 33-12-3 when not allowing a power play goal. Power Play: The Rangers tallied two goals in five power play attempts (7:27) on Wednesday at Winnipeg. New York ranks 28th overall (38-258, 14.7%) and 23rd at home (21-136, 15.4%). The Rangers are 3-15 (11:31) in five-on-three situations (last – 3/13 vs. CAR), and 2-9 (12:08) when four-on-three (last – 3/11 vs. NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (3): 12/5 vs. TOR (Steckel); 12/8 vs. TBL (Moore); 12/17 at PHX (Korpikoski). Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Jets scoreless in five shorthanded situations (8:01) and tallied a shorthanded goal on Wednesday at Winnipeg. New York ranks fifth overall (210-243, 86.4%) and is tied for seventh at home (94-110, 85.4%). The Rangers are 9-10 (6:17) in three-on-five situations (last – 3/28 at WPG), and 2-3 (2:24) when three-on-four (last – 2/16 vs. CHI). Shorthanded goals for (8): 10/20 at CGY (Prust); 12/8 vs. TBL (Anisimov); 12/10 at BUF (Hagelin); 12/10 at BUF (Callahan); 12/20 at NJD (Hagelin); 1/6 at PIT (Dubinsky); 2/12 vs. WSH (Prust); 3/28 at WPG (Del Zotto). Four-on-Four: New York did not tally/yield a goal in one four-on-four situation (0:16) on Wednesday at Winnipeg. The Rangers are plus-seven in 80 four-on-four situations (145:47), and even in two three-on-three situations (0:38). Four-on-four goals for (10): 10/18 at VAN (Gaborik); 10/20 at CGY (McDonagh); 10/27 vs. TOR (Girardi); 1/2 vs. FLA (Gaborik); 2/9 vs. TBL (Stepan); 2/9 vs. TBL (Richards); 2/14 at BOS (Anisimov); 2/19 vs. CBJ (Stepan); 2/25 vs. BUF (Callahan); 3/21 vs. DET (Callahan). Four-on-four goals allowed (3): 2/9 vs. TBL (Lecavalier); 2/25 vs. BUF (Stafford); 3/2 at TBL (Malone). ORIGINAL SIX SHOWDOWN: The Blueshirts have skated in 13 of 15 scheduled games against Original Six opponents this season (7-6-0) Henrik Lundqvist is 6-4-0 with a 2.57 GAA and one shutout; Martin Biron is 1-2-0 with a 2.70 GAA and one shutout Marian Gaborik leads the Rangers in scoring against Original Six opponents this season with six goals and 11 points Brad Richards has tallied nine points against Original Six opponents this season, including a team-high, six assists Michael Del Zotto leads all team defensemen in scoring with seven points (two goals, five assists) against Original Six opponents this season New York has posted a record of 53-31-12 against Original Six teams since 2005-06, including a 12-12-3 mark vs. Montreal over the span. The Rangers' .615 win% over the span ranks second, trailing Detroit (.660, 44-21-7), and ahead of Montreal (.608, 75-46-13), Chicago (.527, 34-30-11), Boston (.522, 62-56-20), and Toronto (.493, 57-59-19). PLACE IN TEAM HISTORY New York continues to climb the team's all-time single season wins and points lists, currently sitting in a tie for third in wins and fourth in points. The Rangers eclipsed the 100-point mark for the seventh time in franchise history with a 4-3 shootout win at Toronto on Mar. 24. The Blueshirts reached the 40-win mark in 61 games, which is tied as the second fewest games to reach 40 wins in team history. WORKING OVERTIME The Rangers have posted a record of 8-2 in games decided in overtime (excluding shootouts) this season. Their eight overtime wins are tied with Tampa Bay for first in the league this season, and represent a new team record. The Blueshirts broke their previous record of six (1999-00, 2002-03) with a 4-3 overtime win on Mar. 11 vs. NYI. Marian Gaborik leads the team and ranks second in the NHL with a career-high (tied), three overtime goals, while Ryan Callahan ranks second on the Rangers and is tied for third in the league with a career-high, two overtime goals. Brad Richards, Derek Stepan and Ryan McDonagh have also tallied one power play goal apiece. MARCHING INTO THE PLAYOFFS Brad Richards ranks second in the NHL with 19 points (six goals, 13 assists) during the month of March, trailing Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin by one point. Marian Gaborik is tied for third in the league with nine goals and ranks third with 18 points in March. MEASURING UP: The Rangers rank among the NHL leaders in several statistical categories... T-1st in points (105) T-1st in win% (.682) 1st in wins (49) 1st in regulation/overtime wins (45) T-2nd in fewest regulation losses (21) 3rd in fewest goals against (167) 3rd in GAA (2.17) 1st in hits (2,293) 2nd in blocked shots (1,264) 4th in +/- rating (plus-37) 6th in goal differential (plus-41) QUICK HITS: The Rangers became the first Eastern Conference team, and second in the league overall, to clinch a playoff spot with a 4-2 win on Mar. 19 vs. NJD (game #72); The last time the Blueshirts clinched a playoff berth that early was in 1991-92, when New York clinched on Mar. 8 (through game #68) following a Philadelphia defeat to Vancouver This is the latest the Rangers have been in first place of the Eastern Conference standings since the team captured the Presidents' Trophy during the 1993-94 season. *courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau The Rangers have posted a combined record of 19-4-5 in back-to-back games, including a 9-2-3 (3-1-0 at home, 6-1-3 on the road) record in the first game and a 10-2-2 (6-0-0 at home, 4-2-2 on the road) mark in the second New York is 19-2-3 when leading after the first period and 28-0-3 when leading after the second The Rangers rank third in the league with a .238 win% when trailing after two periods (5-15-1), and are tied for ninth in the NHL with five third period comeback wins New York leads the NHL with a .725 win% when out-shooting their opponent (29-10-1) The Rangers rank second in the league when scoring first, posting a 33-4-3 mark (.825 win%) in those contests THE HOT LIST: Henrik Lundqvist -- has held opponents to two or fewer goals in five of the last seven games (5-2-0) Brad Richards -- three-game assist streak (four assists over the span); 21 points (six goals, 15 assists) in the last 18 games; 16 points (six goals, 10 assists) in the last 12 games Marian Gaborik -- three-game point streak (three goals, two assists over the span); 13 points (six goals, seven assists) in the last 11 games Ryan McDonagh -- four assists in the last seven games; three assists in the last two games Michael Del Zotto -- three points (one goal, two assists) in the last five games Brian Boyle -- three goals in the last four games Brandon Dubinsky -- five points (two goals, three assists) in the last six games MILESTONES APPROACHING: Martin Biron -- 1 game from 500 NHL career Ryan Callahan -- 3 points from 200 NHL career Michael Del Zotto -- 1 game from 200 NHL career MILESTONES RECENTLY ACHIEVED: Henrik Lundqvist -- 250th career NHL win (3/28 at WPG) Michael Sauer (concussion, 12/5) -- 53 Steve Eminger (injured, 3/15) -- 7 Mats Zuccarello (injured, 3/23) -- 3 Total Man-Games Lost: 222 Read or Share this story: http://lohud.us/2dNwh8X NY Rangers' Marc Staal reestablishing his role	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9069
__label__cc	0.72377	0.27623	All you need to know about the Lost Loiners. The Lost Loiners sprang from Leeds RLFC. The first Touch Rugby sessions were held on the training pitch at Headingley in the 1980's as part of the Leeds RLFC 'Loiners Guild'. However, during the development of the ground in the 1990's and the ground sharing with the Tykes, we were moved to a local park and then, briefly to the new pitches at Kirkstall. The flooding of the River Aire in the 90's closed the pitches and the Loiners Touch Rugby Squad became officially homeless. We have trained at Abbey Grange High School on an all-weather pitch (not ideal!), at Armley Park, Roundhay Park, a Car Park!, Burley and eventually organised regular facilities at West Leeds Rugby Union Club. One of our members then christened us well and truly 'Lost Loiners!', and the name has stuck and been with us ever since. Over the last few years we have trained at Morley RUFC, Scatcherd Lane, Morley on Monday evenings. We have the use of floodlit pitches for the winter months, changing rooms/showers and the clubhouse bar afterwards, which is convenient!! We made the switch from Touch & Pass to Tag Rugby League around 2008 and the rest is history as they say. The Loiners were involved in the original Intermessage board Tag Rugby League, playing against fans of other rugby clubs through the RLfans network. This then became the Tag Merit League, with a more structured fixture list. In 2010 the leage was run by the RFL and took the guise of regular tornaments in and around Yorkshire. Unfortunatly, due to a lack of RFL backing the Tag League disbanded in 2014. for 2015 we are looking forward to hearing more about Try Tag Rugby, that is venturing North from the London base. In 2011 the ‘Lost Loiners’ embark on the next stage of there history as they take up the mantel of representing Hunslet Hawks RFLC and becoming there Tag Rugby League Team.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9071
__label__wiki	0.686322	0.686322	Sun 9 Feb 2020 7.00pm Shostakovich Ninth Symphony Noseda: Russian Roots Sun 9 Feb 2020 7.00pm - 9.00pm PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 1 MUSSORGSKY Prelude to ‘Khovanshchina’ SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 9 Gianandrea Noseda conductor Roman Simovic violin On sale dates: Online: Tuesday 5 March 2019 10am By Phone: Tuesday 19 March 2019 10am In Person: Tuesday 19 March 2019 10am Part of the 2019/20 season Please note that finish times are approximate and subject to change The past and contemporary, romance and sarcasm, all meet in this concert, as Gianandrea Noseda conducts music by Russian composers who reached back in history to say something new. For his first symphony, Prokofiev – in characteristic style – decided to do the opposite of what was expected of him. Instead of capturing the turbulence of Revolutionary Russia, he made Haydn and Mozart his muses, writing a work that fizzes with wit, light and play. We hear Prokofiev in a more romantic mood in his First Violin Concerto, and step back into Russian history for Mussorgsky’s Prelude to Khovanschina, which evokes a city awakening as dawn breaks over the Moscow River. For Noseda, the Ninth is ‘Shostakovich at his most ‘classical’, but a modern statement nonetheless. ‘Stalin wanted a celebration of the victory of Russia, and Shostakovich came out with a sort of opera buffa symphony,’ he says. ‘Short, witty, lots of sarcasm. I can really feel his wish to go against what was expected of him.’ Related Listening	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9072
__label__wiki	0.916673	0.916673	LET'S GO: CAMBRIDGE PREVIEW Our guide to the Town's trip to the Abbey The Town only have three away games left this season and their next port of call is a relatively short one as they head across the A505 to Cambridge. Where? Abbey Stadium or, if those who pay the naming rights are reading, the R Costings Abbey Stadium. Originally, United were known as Abbey United and moved into their affectionately named Abbey Stadium back in 1932 before changing their name to Cambridge United in 1951 when they turned professional. Quickest route It’s fairly straightforward for those not so road savvy. Cambridge, think the filling between a Stevenage and Newmarket sandwich and you should get the picture. After those directions, I'm not sure why you would but if needed the postcode is CB5 8LN. Time to go Granted it's not too far, so an early start is not essential, but the journey will take you just over an hour. With a heavy influx of travelling Town fans expected, make sure you don't take anything for granted. All-ticket Remember this game is all-ticket for Town supporters at the Abbey Stadium. A small section of terrace tickets at the side of the pitch are available, as are plenty behind the goal in the seats. Tickets go off sale today at the ticket office at 12 noon. Bobbing along If you don’t fancy driving then why not take the Bobbers? The friendly travel club are running coaches to the Abbey Stadium. They are leaving the Maple Road car park at 12 noon and the fare is £15 for adults and £13 for concessions. Call 01234 856542 to book your space. Abbey Records Split evenly. The record reads Cambridge four wins, Luton four wins and five draws from their meetings away from Kenilworth Road. However, overall, in 26 meetings, the Hatters sit two wins ahead on nine. Job swap Richard Money occupies the dugout these days at the Abbey Stadium but he is not the only former Town boss to have graced the touchline at both clubs. Gary Brabin was the United boss back in 2008 before making the switch to become Money's assistant at Kenilworth Road. He then made the step up upon Money’s departure. Paul Carden also spent a brief spell as caretaker boss at United before joining the Hatters’ coaching staff. Recent memories...There is one stand-out fixture that will always rekindle that magical spark amongst Hatters fans from back in September 2009. A horrific first period saw the Hatters head into the dressing room 2-0 down and a man light after Liam Hatch's 44th-minute dismissal. A resurgent miracle returned to the pitch from the Hatters as a brace from Kevin Gallen speared them onto a 4-3 win, with Jake Howells bagging the 61st-minute clincher - the midfielder’s first senior goal. Treble chance This is the third time the sides will meet this campaign as the return league fixture sets sail at the Abbey Stadium. Earlier in the campaign the Hatters recorded an early season double over the U's with a 3-2 home win in the league and a 2-0 away win in the FA Cup. Goals galore The one thing this fixture always conjures up is excitement. In the 26 meetings, both sides have netted over 30 times including seven in the last two games. Player progress Many recent players have been formerly of both sides including current United midfielder Rossi Jarvis. Town also have a former opponent on their squad list with Scott Rendell spending just a solitary season with Cambridge, where he netted 17 times. Team news The Town will continue to be without Alex Lawless, Ronnie Henry, Stuart Fleetwood, Scott Neilson, Danny Spiller and Garry Richards for the trip to the Abbey. Lawless may return in a week’s time from a hamstring injury. Henry, Fleetwood and Neilson are all out with hernias. New signing Scott Griffiths played 90 minutes in a development game on Wednesday but is unlikely to make his debut at the Abbey according to the manager. Still says “We approach two exciting games over the course of the Easter weekend with Saturday’s trip to Cambridge followed by Kidderminster on Monday. Both teams are, like ourselves, former Football League clubs – which further highlights the depth of quality and competitiveness of the division.” Wanna bet? The Town are the 11/8 favourites to beat Cambridge with league sponsors Blue Square Bet. The U’s are 7/4 to get all three points. Betting through Blue Square earns yourself and the club money. Check out www.bluesq.co.uk/fans. Live and direct We’ll have all the news as it happens from the Abbey Stadium. Pre-match build-up, team news, live text and audio commentary, a report, reaction, photographs and interviews. Remember to keep it lutontown.co.uk, Hatters Player and check out our ever-growing Facebook and Twitter feeds #COYH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9073
__label__wiki	0.797216	0.797216	3 Video Games That Actually Made Me Laugh Out Loud [MUO Gaming] Dave LeClair March 27, 2012 27-03-2012 3 minutes Video games have come a long way in terms of telling a story. They have high grade voice actors and cutscenes that occasionally rival at least mid-grade movies. However, the one place video games always seem to lack in is comedy. Humor just never seems to come across as well in a video game as it does in other entertainment mediums. I never really understood why. After all, the interactivity of video games offers the creators an entirely different level to work with their audience. Nonetheless, games still struggle with being funny, and there doesn’t seem to be any sings of that changing. All that aside, there are some exceptions. Every now and then a game comes along and actually makes you laugh out loud. It’s a rare moment that needs to be savored, because it may not happen again for a long while. Looking back in history, there aren’t many of these rare gems. Some games are funny on purpose, some by mistake. Either way, the games on this list made me genuinely laugh, and if you play them, you will agree. The original Resident Evil is a victim of odd translation. I do not speak Japanese, but I would imagine that the lines were not nearly as ridiculous before the translators came in. Throw weird translation on top of terrible voice acting and you have a piece of comedic gold. The interactions between Barry and Jill are hilarious, and they actually help break the tension of the first game I can remember actually scaring me. The very first scene with Jill, Barry and Wesker is filled with laugh out loud moments. Most of them come from the poor delivery of Jill’s lines. Actually, now that I think about it, the funniest in Resident Evil comes mostly from how poorly Jill is portrayed. For making Resident Evil hilarious, I salute you, Una Kavanagh. You truly are the master of unlocking. The stuff that goes on in any Grand Theft Auto game is generally funny in how ridiculous it is. GTA IV takes it to another level. When you meet Niko’s cousin and realize just how insane he is, you can’t help but laugh. He is so over the top in the things he says and does. Even though you feel bad for Niko, it’s impossible to suppress a chuckle at the insane ideas his cousin gets him mixed up in. Aside from Niko’s crazy cousin, where the comedy really comes to the forefront in GTA IV is in the comedy club. They brought in real, high level comedians such as Kat Williams and Ricky Gervais. Their sets in the comedy club are amazing. Normally, I hated doing that dating stuff in GTA, but sitting through their sets was laugh out loud funny and an absolute joy to take part in. The first Portal was very funny, so Valve had to step their game up to bring Portal 2 to another level. Thankfully, they did, because Portal 2 took the humor level and raised it up about 100 notches above the first one. The humor in the first one was more subtle, as you could tell that Valve was testing the waters with how Portal’s sense of humor would be received. With the second one, they knew they could go all out, and that’s exactly what they did. Wheatley really brings the funny to another level in Portal 2. He’s not the smartest robot around but he’s one of the funniest (second only to Boredlands own Claptrap). When you stop moving, Wheatley’s one liners to get you going again can be downright hilarious. What makes Portal 2 so funny is the way they take such a weird and tense situation and find a way to plug in some amazing comic relief. The characters take what could have been a cool puzzle game and turns it into something much greater. There are a few games out there that know how to bring in the funny. For one reason or another, these three really stand as being the games that made me stand up and take notice of their comedy, even though it wasn’t on purpose. Some other ones worth mentioning are any games from the Red Alert Series, Saints Row and anything Tim Shafer gets his hands on. What are some games that made you laugh out loud? Let us know in the comments! The Scrivener Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet for Mac3 Fun Games You Can Play With A Friend On The Same Device [Android] LordDai Try Cthulhu saves the world on steam? Dave LeClair I will check it out. Seppe I'm a big fan of videogames since I was a litte kid, but humour in games just doesn't work for me. When I laugh in games, it's usually in the offline multiplayer mode when someone does something stupid, but the games themselves rarely make me laugh. @Scutterman: I agree. I prefer SA over GTAIV too. In GTA IV everything is an urban enviroment, I missed the deserts, mountains and forests of sa in that game. It is true that most games fail at being funny, but there are some games that do it, and do it well. Scutterman I only played GTA4 for a very short period. I felt rushed everywhere. You finish a mission and your phone rings and you have to be somewhere else in 30 seconds and you have to go there right NOW. I know I can ignore it and go do my own thing, but that feels like it's breaking the narrative. I felt pressured in a way that I didn't when playing San Andreas, so I didn't have fun and stopped playing. That may be true, but that doesn't change the fact that the funny parts are really funny. I'm sure they are, but I'm doubt I'd play through the game to get to them. I guess I could look up a best-of on youtube. SantiagoAntonio my friend's mother-in-law makes $83/hr on the laptop. She has been without a job for 8 months but last month her payment was $20790 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site CashLazy.com she's a stripper Dave LeClair 1224 articles Dave LeClair loves games on console, PC, mobile, handheld, and any electronic device that is capable of playing them! He manages the Deals section, writes articles, and does lots of behind the scenes work at MakeUseOf. SISU Sense Smart Mouthguard Tracks Athlete Head Impacts Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Likely Available for Preorder in April Sony Reveals Information About Its Next-Gen PlayStation 5 Facebook’s Portal Video Chat Devices Are Now Available Roccat Sova Review: This is The PC Gaming Lapboard to Buy Canon Reveals IVY CLIQ+ and CLIQ Instant-Print Cameras You Can Finally Preorder the Google Pixel Slate Tablet Palm Is Back With a Tiny Phone That’ll Keep You Off Your Phone	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9077
__label__cc	0.670021	0.329979	PACK EXPO Coverage: Dairy Industry Looks to Optimize Production Globally, milk production is expected to reach 827 million tons in 2020 —19 percent over 2010 — and dairy product sales are expected to reach $494 billion in 2015. The need for efficiency has been driving that growth, according to a new study. RESTON, Va. (PMMI) — It’s been a bright spot in a sometimes-dismal economy. Globally, milk production is expected to reach 827 million tons in 2020 —19 percent over 2010 — and dairy product sales are expected to reach $494 billion in 2015. The need for efficiency has been driving that growth, according to the 2013 edition of “Dairy Industry — A Market Assessment,” a new study that PACK EXPO owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, will release during PACK EXPO Las Vegas (Sept. 23–25, 2013; Las Vegas Convention Center). The study was last conducted in 2009. “The dairy industry is very interested in optimizing production, and with that comes a willingness to adopt new technologies and doing more with less,” says Jorge Izquierdo, vice president, market development, PMMI. As a result, 80 percent of the processors interviewed for this study reported that they’re evaluating their machine needs, and out of that group, 75 percent plan to purchase equipment in the next 12 to 24 months. Wish lists include robotic controls, greater output, more inspection systems and energy-savers like sleep mode. Technologies like these will be front-and-center at the Center for Trends & Technology (CTT), sponsored by Rockwell Automation and its Partner Network™ Program, at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Izquierdo notes. “Line integrations, wireless configurations and diagnostics, mobile solutions, and safety are few of the areas the displays at CTT will cover,” he adds. “They’re also concentrating on solutions for enhanced productivity.” Dairy manufacturers are also looking at product innovations, including aseptic processing, and changes in packaging shapes and materials, and food safety is always top-of-mind. However, in an industry that is already heavily monitored and regulated, good food safety practices are in place, so dairy processors are focusing more intently on the documentation and record-keeping requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act. “The study found that increasing production is their first priority, and FSMA is second for two-thirds of the manufacturers,” says Izquierdo. “Dairy processors are performing internal audits and acting upon them, implementing or upgrading their track-and-trace programs, creating a compliance manager job function and working on FSMA documentation. Their future machinery needs will center on easy-to-clean features and data collection that facilitates documenting operations,” he says. PACK EXPO’s Food Safety Summit Resource Center (FSSRC) (Booth S-7332), sponsored by BNP Media and GE Intelligent Platforms, will feature a roster of food safety experts who can help address these and other FSMA-related questions, he adds. Education sessions at the FSSRC and at Innovation Stage (Booths C-141, -142, -143) will cover the roles data and machine communications play in food safety. Registration for PACK EXPO is open throughout the show. Register online at Packexpo.com or on site, for $60/person. About PMMI PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, is a trade association representing over 600 packaging and processing supply chain companies that provide a full range of packaging and processing machinery, materials, components and containers. PMMI actively brings buyers and sellers together through programs and events such as The PACK EXPO family of trade shows, packexpo.com, PMT Magazine, PACK EXPO Show Daily, networking events and educational programs. PMMI organizes the PACK EXPO trade shows: PACK EXPO International, PACK EXPO Las Vegas, PACK EXPO East, EXPO PACK México and EXPO PACK Guadalajara, connecting participants in the packaging and processing supply chain with their customers around the world. Coming Up: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013, Sept. 23–25, 2013 (Las Vegas Convention Center); EXPO PACK México 2014 , June 17-20, 2014 (Mexico City, Mexico); PACK EXPO International 2014, Nov. 2-5, 2014 (McCormick Place, Chicago); Pharma EXPO, co-located with PACK EXPO International 2014, presented jointly with the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE); PACK EXPO East, debuting Feb. 2–4, 2015 (Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia); EXPO PACK Guadalajara 2015, March 18-20, 2015 (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico). Learn more about PMMI and the PACK EXPO trade shows at PMMI.org and Packexpo.com.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9080
__label__wiki	0.915026	0.915026	ConAgra's profit rises as sales slip By Dan Burrows Published: June 28, 2006 4:17 p.m. ET DanBurrows NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Packaged-foods maker ConAgra Foods Inc. reported Wednesday an increase in fourth-quarter income as higher selling prices made up for lower sales. ConAgra CAG, +3.19%, whose brands include Chef Boyardee, Hunt's and Butterball, said net income rose to $108.5 million, or 21 cents a share, in the three months ended May 28, up from $101.8 million, or 20 cents, earned in the year-ago fourth quarter. Excluding restructuring charges and other items, net income would have been 32 cents a share, while earnings from continuing operations would have been 27 cents. Quarterly sales decreased to $2.97 billion from $3 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call had, on average, forecast fourth-quarter earnings of 29 cents a share on sales of $3.1 billion. "We had a solid finish to the fiscal year, but more importantly, we finalized key aspects of our organizational restructuring and plant-rationalization initiatives that will result in improved efficiencies," said Gary Rodkin, chief executive of the Omaha-based company, in a news release. Three of ConAgra's segments posted growth in operating profit for the latest quarter. The consumer-foods, ingredients and international businesses recorded profit gains, but its trading and merchandising segment was hurt by a decrease in wholesale fertilizer operations. ConAgra also said first-quarter earnings from continuing operations will be about 4 cents a share below last year's results, primarily because of a carryover of difficult comparisons in its commodity trading and merchandising operations. Fiscal 2007 earnings from continuing operations are seen at $1.12 to $1.17 a share, the company said. "Although we rate ConAgra underweight, we view today's results as better than expected, of good quality, less reliant on commodity trading," said J.P. Morgan analyst Pablo Zuanic in a note to clients. Shares of ConAgra closed down 8 cents at $21.75. Conagra Brands Inc. U.S.: NYSE: CAG	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9083
__label__cc	0.635154	0.364846	Sunny Briggs Custom 68 - Boat Review Briggs knows fishing boats and would be more than happy to build one for you... By Peter B. Wright 0609br_briggs Whenever I sea-trial one of Sunny Briggs' boats, I expect to like it from the outset. Briggs started his career on the water as a fisherman, and he remembers how to build boats with fishing in mind. There's only one real surprise on his new offering: All previous Briggs boats came with a cold-molded wood and fiberglass hull, but this one is all composite, with no wood in the hull whatsoever. Briggs purchased the composite hull from a well-known custom builder who, for commercial reasons, prefers to remain anonymous. The hull consists of two layers of Core-Cell foam on the bottom and one on the sides and was vacuum-bagged with biaxial and mat fiberglass and Kevlar. This high-tech method creates an exceptionally light, stiff, strong and quiet hull. And Briggs couldn't be more pleased with the initial results he obtained from using these materials. With twin C32 ACERT 1,850 hp Caterpillar diesels, the 68 cruises at an impressive 32 knots and hits 40 at wide-open throttle. Briggs knows what a fishing cockpit needs and made sure that this boat came well equipped. The teak deck is functional and gorgeous, hand-laid and not pre-cut. He put in two abovedecks livewells and installed a rack of tuna tubes in the center of the transom - but it doesn't intrude as far forward as a fish box would. This extra space allows the big Release fighting chair, with an offset pedestal, to clear the corners of the transom with a standard rod tip. From any Briggs flybridge, the skipper can see the fighting chair and can tell if the reel is turning or not, which is essential for any serious heavy-tackle pursuits. The helm seat and companion chair at the helm station sit atop a raised platform, which provides an unobstructed view of both the fore deck and the chair. The electronics displays are set at an angle so you can easily see them from both the helm chair and companion seat. And you'll find comfortable seating on the bridge forward of the helm console, with ample rod storage under the seats. The engine room makes it obvious that Randy Ragland, skipper of the new 68, and Briggs himself see eye to eye on what constitutes a well-equipped and well-planned engine space. All aspects of preventative maintenance are close at hand. Dual reversible Oberdorfer pumps, one on each engine, allow easy oil changes, and should either pump fail, one can quickly and easily be moved to the opposite side. All filters both for lubrication and the dual Raycors on each main engine and those on the twin Northern Lights 25 kW generators are easily accessible for routine or emergency changes. You'll also find sight gauges on all fuel tanks, with dual pumps from the main aft tank to twin saddle tanks. During our trials in the Intracoastal Waterway, the Briggs Custom 68 spun well, even with the rudders centered, and she really zipped around with the rudders working with the one engine in forward gear. She steered easily in either direction with only one engine in gear despite a gale force wind blowing against her bow. With the angler and reel easily visible from the helm, this boat makes a great platform for fighting big marlin or tuna on heavy tackle. The only thing I would really miss on this boat is a tower for spotting fish and birds. If I have ignored the hundreds of lovely details the builder incorporated, it is not because I didn't appreciate them, but they were too numerous for the space I am allowed in this report. From a bare-bones charter boat (one is under construction in the Briggs shed right now) to this state-of-the-art, gorgeous boat with all the bells and whistles and superb finish, Briggs knows fishing boats and would be more than happy to build one for you. LOA.......68'9" BEAM.......19'6" DRAFT.......60" WEIGHT.......86,000 pounds FUEL.......2,290 gallons WATER.......325 gallons POWER.......T C32 ACERT 1850 hp Caterpillar diesels PRICE.......On Request Briggs Boatworks / Wanchese, North Carolina / 252-473-2393 / www.briggsboatworks.com More Boat Reviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9085
__label__cc	0.590718	0.409282	Proposal to hold directors liable for GST set to pierce corporate veil The proposed extension of the director penalty regime to GST liabilities could spell the end of the corporate veil for small to medium enterprise directors, says an insolvency specialist. With the reintroduction of Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Bill 2019 last month, the commissioner could soon be allowed to collect estimates of anticipated GST liabilities and make company directors personally liable for their company’s GST liabilities. This follows on from the current director penalty regime which makes directors personally liable for PAYG withholding amounts and SGC obligations. Speaking with Accountants Daily, Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants partner Stephen Hundy said that with many SME directors providing personal guarantees for a company’s obligations, the latest proposal to extend director penalty notices to GST could potentially see the end of the corporate veil. “With a large number of SME companies we deal with, the directors have exposed themselves personally for their company’s debts due to the large number of personal guarantees provided,” Mr Hundy said. “Together with the ATO’s power to issue DPNs in respect of unpaid PAYG withholding tax and superannuation guarantee charge (SGC), this can mean in some cases that an SME director may be personally exposed for a large majority of the debts of their company. “In many cases, the directors have no choice but to provide personal guarantees in order to obtain credit from financiers and suppliers. In a lot of cases, however, we find that directors do not know what they have personally guaranteed and also they are unaware that they are personally liable for PAYG withholding tax and SGC,” he added. “With tax debts, we see the majority of debt owed to the ATO comprising PAYG withholding tax and GST. At present, a DPN cannot be issued in respect of unpaid GST; however, if the director penalty regime is extended as proposed to include GST, this will increase the extent to which directors’ assets may be at risk in the event of an insolvency.” While the bill has not yet passed, Mr Hundy believes accountants should remind their clients of their various obligations and the prospect of having GST added to that list of liabilities. “Advisers and accountants should ensure that their director clients are aware of what they are guaranteeing and also that they are liable for PAYG withholding tax and SGC. In respect of taxation lodgements, it is advisable to lodge these with the ATO even if the associated debt cannot be paid, as this may offer some protection in the future if things go awry,” Mr Hundy said. “New company directors should always conduct some due diligence in respect of a company’s unpaid statutory obligations before consenting to be appointed; otherwise, they may find themselves personally liable for past company debts. Conversely, exiting directors should ensure that they are released from any personal guarantees which they may have provided for a company’s obligations. “As always, seeking advice early is the key when things get tough. This not only applies to directors but to advisers and accountants, who should seek out specialist advice at the earliest opportunity to enhance the prospects of their client avoiding insolvency.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9087
__label__cc	0.544895	0.455105	Family Advisory Council Transfer/Transport a Patient patient-story article 2019-04-11 massgeneral-hospital-for-children Children- Patient StoryApr \| 11 \| 2019 Working Through Challenges to Create Her Future Brain Tumor Survivor, Emily Hayes from Plympton, MA is currently a Junior at Bridgewater State University. Emily is using both her experiences and talents to move herself through school and her future career. Emily is studying Social Work with minors in Art and Psychology so she can become an Art Therapist. She states that when she was in the hospital during and after brain tumor surgery, she found support in painting. A staff member from a camp visited to create an art project with her, and this fond memory remains with her. She is inspired to bring special memories to other patients going through medical treatments. Emily’s experiences at school have been filled with opportunities to explore her strengths and work through her challenges. Being a voice for the brain tumor community is important to Emily. Most recently, she and her coed fraternity, Phi Pi Delta, held an event, Brain Cancer Awareness Week. At the event, Emily was a keynote speaker. Her speech created awareness and opened the opportunity for discussion. Emily states “People who knew very little about the brain tumor community were surprised by the experiences shared and this brought out conversations many people may not have had if not for the awareness week.” Additionally, they held a bake sale and a "penny war" to raise money for Children's Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF)! Brain tumor survivors face both visible and invisible challenges. It is difficult for survivors to express their challenges for the fear of being different or rejected. The challenges impact both their academic and social life. Emily has grown to be a strong advocate for herself and others through her ability to openly discuss challenges and reach outside of her comfort zone academically and socially. She shared her challenges include fatigue and being able to keep up with her peers. She says it is hard to maintain friendships because she is not taking a full course load, so many of the people she meets will graduate before her. Emily faced another challenge this past fall semester when her tumor recurred. She started Proton Radiation at Mass General hospital and was able to take her exams a week early – finishing out her semester. She states, “I wished they could just pass me for the semester. But if brain cancer has taught me anything, it’s that nothing comes easy if it’s worth your time, and that hard work pays off in the end.” Despite these challenges, she feels as if they helped her mature, learn how to problem solve, and become an advocate for herself. In retrospect, she states that “I wish I wasn’t so hard on myself. Even people who didn’t have brain tumors have trouble starting out.” She also says that “CBTF helped me mature and see myself as a young adult and not a child, who is able to do adult things.” Emily is a mentor, role model and advocate for the brain tumor community. CBTF helps young adult survivors reach their full potential through our life and community building programs. For more information, please email info@cbtf.org or call 212-448-9494. Article reprinted with permission. Centers and Departments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9089
__label__cc	0.746652	0.253348	Deals: Get Premium Graphics Training At The Price You Choose To Pay Lifehacker Australia Unleash your inner Steven Spielberg, and learn killer visual effects skills that can be used to make movies, develop video games, and more. With the Pay What You Want: Graphics & FX Mastery Bundle, offered to Lifehacker readers at a can’t-miss price, you’ll be squarely en route to a new and fulfilling career. Learn SilhouetteFX, Vegas Pro 13 plus an introduction to game development in Unity 5, C++ and DirectX. Just pay any amount you want for two awesome courses that will teach you skills in visual effects and video editing. Spend a little more and beat the average price, and you’ll get the entire eight course bundle for that amount. It’s an incredible value for training that can pay dividends and lead to your individual career success. Please note that all deals in the deal store are in US dollars. Additional shipping costs may apply. ➤ Get this deal All deals are carefully vetted to ensure relevance and value to Lifehacker readers. Commerce Content is independent of Allure Media editorial and advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here to learn more. Find more great bargains at Lifehacker Coupons. As Lifehacker editors we write about stuff we like and think you'll like too. Lifehacker often has affiliate partnerships, so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9093
__label__cc	0.715724	0.284276	Welcome to Norwich - A fine music loving city by Richard Shashamane Norwich has always had a healthy and varied music scene for as long as I can remember, John Peel regularly championed our bands on his show back in the 1980s and beyond. Now the music in the city is as healthy and well-supported as ever, probably even healthier and varied than ever. There is a wonderfully diverse, interesting and high quality mix of local music. From punk to funk, indie, reggae, dub, ska, hip-hop, metal, psych, rock, rockabilly, garage, soul, folk, blues, jazz, swing, African, klezmer, electro, experimental, and classical. There are musical acts in our city to suit all tastes and regular nights for most genres. We’re also blessed with an informed, enthusiastic audience to support it all in a number of venues of all sizes from UEA, Open, The Waterfront and Epic to the heart and soul of it all: Norwich Arts Centre. There are also innumerable smaller venues and pubs hosting gigs every day, Sundays sometimes being the busiest of all when one can wander from one music hosting venue from midday until closing time. This is why we call it Norwich: Music City, UK. Currently we have it better than ever with two local duos recently getting BBC 6Music “Album of the Day” recognition in the same week, namely Sink Ya Teeth, and Let’s Eat Grandma. The folk and Americana acts are getting noticed too with the likes of Morganway, Jess Morgan, and Lucy Grubb all getting Radio 2 airplay, the much-loved Vagaband are known far and wide, and brilliant folk singer-songwriter Milly Hirst played a memorable set at Glastonbury a couple of years back, whilst Norwich trio Alden, Patterson and Dashwood have been getting standing ovations at packed festival stages up and down the country and have also received national airplay and widespread acclaim. The jazz flavoured Mammal Hands have toured internationally and are massively respected. The Neutrinos have played Edinburgh Fringe and the South Bank and have regularly been featured for their infamous KlangHaus shows. Look out for these which appear sporadically in unexpected locations, the last being in a derelict shoe factory. Exciting new bands and artists continue to emerge all the time and there’s currently a real buzz around The Wolf Number, HANK, Gladboy, Birds of Hell, Painted Heathers, Hot Raisin, Yve Mary B, and too many others to mention. Increasingly, I notice international acts are stopping off in Norwich, selected as just one of a handful of UK dates. Memorable recent examples have been amazing gigs by Starcrawler, Courtney Marie Andrews, Baluji Shrivastav, PowerSolo, C.W. Stoneking, J.D. McPherson, and The Regrettes, among others. Starcrawler and Courtney Marie Andrews being my picks of the bunch. Music in Norwich is supported by dedicated and passionate people working in radio, magazines, online and in venues and pubs. A number of promoters are specialising in folk, jazz, reggae, psych, punk, blues, alternative, and of course Shane O’Linski, a legendary name on the scene who has given many of the city’s favourites their first gigs and was recently featured by Radio 3’s Late Junction for an Exposure special for his own music. Do check one of his nights for something gloriously different and unexpected. He is also one of a number of curators such as Chad Mason working in rotation at one of this city’s hidden secrets, the lovely undercroft that is Jurnet’s Bar where on a Friday night a number of acts will play to an attentive audience in the Music House Acoustic(ish) Sessions. It also hosts the amazing 60s & 70s psych and garage Cave-In nights once a month. Punk Rock Blues regularly has gigs around the city, there’s Fine City Blues each Thursday at the Murderers, monthly folk nights at Grapevine in the Guildhall, a weekly jazz club, an acoustic unplugged candlelit Louis Marchesi gig happens monthly too. Annual festivals include The Fine City Blues Explosion, Oxjam, Norwich Sound and Vision, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, and the Norwich Lanes Summer Fayre. These are just the tip of the iceberg. Music is everywhere and our fine little city punches well above its weight. There’s always music and a gig to be found in this fine music-loving city. To read and see more of Richard’s excellent gig reviews visit https://norwichblog.com/ NextThe statues of Norwich just won’t keep quietNext	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9094
__label__cc	0.622814	0.377186	Home / Showroom / VIDEO: Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race VIDEO: Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race returns for a fourth instalment. 10 of the world’s best supercars and sports cars line up for the ultimate drag race. The 10 contenders are chosen from Motor Trend’s 2014 Best Driver’s Car contest and include; Alfa Romeo 4C, BMW i8, BMW M4, Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, Ford Fiesta ST, Jaguar F-Type R Coupe, Nissan GT-R Nismo, Porsche 911 Turbo S, Subaru WRX STI, and Volkswagen Golf GTI The cars gathered on an abandoned airstrip at the El Toro Marine Base to do battle. An interesting contender is BMW’s electric I8 sports car, which is capable of a low 12 second 1/4 mile! Who do you think wins? Meguiar’s @ Japshow Santa Pod, July 10th Japanese car culture is BIG news in the UK. Over the past… Uncategorized, Social, Products Throwback Thursday: MK2 Golf Restoration Last July the Meguiar’s team took on a huge challenge, to restore the… Star Cars @ NEC Classic get the Meguiar’s treatment! For classic car enthusiasts from across the UK there’s one show you… GALLERY: Ultimate Dubs show cars, Prepared by Meguiar’s Ultimate Dubs is considered the show season opener for most, and as…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9106
__label__wiki	0.905027	0.905027	49ers health reboot costs long-time trainer his… 49ers health reboot costs long-time trainer his job Jeff Ferguson is out after 13 seasons that saw him serve under six coaches The 49ers have ousted long-time trainer Jeff Ferguson, shown here on the left tending to Jimmy Garoppolo after the quarterback’s season-ending knee injury in Kansas City Sept. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) By Cam Inman \| cinman@bayareanewsgroup.com \| Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 11, 2019 at 2:40 pm \| UPDATED: January 12, 2019 at 2:12 am SANTA CLARA — Long-time athletic trainer Jeff Ferguson is the 49ers’ latest casualty in their New Year’s resolution to get healthier. Ferguson became the 49ers head trainer in 2006 and was a holdover through five coaching changes during a 13-year tenure. Injuries plagued coach Kyle Shanahan’s first two seasons, and partly because of that, the 49ers preceded Ferguson’s dismissal by firing head strength and conditioning coach Ray Wright last week. Head trainer Jeff Ferguson, left, and Dr. Tim McAdams, right, escort injured 49ers defensive lineman Tank Carradine off the field. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group “Following a thorough evaluation, we have determined that now is the right time for a reboot in the structure and protocols of our health and performance areas,” general manager John Lynch said in a statement. “On behalf of our entire team, Kyle and I would like to thank Ferg and Ray for the dedication and passion they brought to the organization.” Those departures, along with secondary coach Jeff Hafley’s exodus to Ohio State, are the only shakeups so far after the 49ers’ 4-12 season. The 49ers, according to ESPN, denied the Denver Broncos request Friday to interview quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello to become offensive coordinator under new coach Vic Fangio, who was the 49ers defensive coordinator 2011-14. Scangarello has had to school up Brian Hoyer, C.J. Beathard, Jimmy Garoppolo and Nick Mullens to run Shanahan’s offense the past two seasons, and his only previous NFL experience was as a low-level assistant with the Atlanta Falcons (2015) and Raiders (2009). San Francisco 49ers starting quarterback C.J. Beathard (3) and San Francisco 49ers’ Nick Mullens (4) sit on the bench with QB coach Rich Scangarello during their game against the Arizona Cardinals in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Whereas Wright’s tenure lasted just two seasons, “Ferg” was a 49ers fixture for 13 years, often the first trainer to rush onto the field when a player got hurt or briefing coaches on players’ conditions during practice. “We would like to specifically recognize the contributions Ferg has made to the 49ers over the last 13 years, as he was always ready to extend a caring hand to our players, staff and their families,” Lynch added. “Both he and Ray are tremendous people whom we respect deeply, and we wish them and their families nothing but the best.” Ferguson held a “vice president” title since 2013, as he oversaw more than just the training staff but also those who deal with players’ nutrition and rehabilitation. Cam Inman Cam Inman joined the Bay Area News Group in 1995, specializing in the 49ers and NFL since 2000. Follow Cam Inman BayAreaNewsGroup.San.Francisco.49ers Follow Cam Inman @CamInman More in San Francisco 49ers 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl LIV tickets in Miami currently cost an average of more than $6,000.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9110
__label__cc	0.634457	0.365543	Our voice / The corporate website story Dario Mezzaqui Tags: corporate communications, corporate website fohl Once upon a time... in the Compliance Era, there were listed companies creating compliant websites. At that time, websites were pale, dull, static and suffering from a widespread disease called “Compliance Syndrome". in the Compliance Era, there were listed companies creating compliant websites. At that time, websites were pale, dull, static and suffering from a widespread disease called “Compliance Syndrome”. Market regulators were forcing companies to publish price-sensitive information and companies were strictly following these rules. Transparency was an obligation and not a spontaneous act. Information was compelled to stay inside the pdf and never allowed out for a breath of fresh air. Investor Relations was a new section added at the very last minute to already existing company websites. It was a new section, this is true, but it was the last to come, so it had to obey the product and business websites who were the kings of the online communication realm. One day there was a big storm, and a series of disasters that would change the behavior of listed companies and their stakeholders forever. In the year 2.000.000 the burst of the dot.com bubble caught everybody by surprise. What was called the “new economy” revealed itself to be only a fantasy, a sandcastle. Stock markets collapsed. The following year Enron, one of the top energy companies at that time, and Arthur Andersen, one of the top five public accounting firms, were caught in a corporate fraud scandal that led to the bankruptcy of Enron and dissolution of Arthur Andersen. That same year there was another tremendous shake: the huge 9/11 terrorist attack, and two years later the War on Terror was launched in the oriental part of the planet. Financial and politic earthquakes, hurricanes and freak waves went on for centuries, up to the year 2.800.000 when a company called Lehman Brothers, who had been investing heavily in mortgage debt, was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The collapse triggered a global financial market meltdown. People began to realize that there was a big gap between what listed companies, through its billionaire managers, were saying and what they were actually doing. Investors were shocked, millions of money savers started running away from stock markets, searching for new territories in which to establish their financial village. However, through this dark and fearful forest, investors were able to glimpse weak beams of light. It was the dawn of the INFORMATIVE ERA. In this era numbers, tables and information began coming out of pdfs and wearing new html clothes. Innovative applications called interactive tools, yet to be seen on this side of the galaxy, were displaying data such as share and economic performance allowing investors to analyze and compare, something they had never done before… Pictures of managers, no longer in hiding, were published on company websites. They had decided to face the camera and yes! They were human beings, just like us, although people had always envisaged them as alien commanders giving orders from interplanetary castles. Strange informative monsters such as Strategies, Remuneration policies, Debt and Investments appeared from faraway lands on the surface of corporate websites. One of them was particularly new and scary. Its name was CSR, and it is still terrorizing the IR and Top Management population now. Companies were now awarded for building complete, transparent and interactive websites. Corporate websites awards, annual report awards, international rankings, digital awards… Listed companies were fighting fiercely to reach the top. Still, there was something unclear and somewhat misleading to it all. After a few centuries, corporate websites were looking all the same: top banner, content in the middle and footer… and, no matter what sectors companies belonged to, identical menus were displayed: About us, Activities, Investor Relations, Media, Careers. Investors were rather confused as all listed companies were saying exactly the same things: that their mission was to create value for their shareholders, that they were leaders in their market segment, that they reached their targets, that they were respecting the environment. What was really missing in the Informative Era? What was it that made corporate websites act like a bunch of monkeys? Companies were publishing but not creating content, information was there but the heart and the life of people working in the company and with the company were elsewhere, like distant stars not bright enough to illuminate the corporate websites. In brief, corporate websites were compliant, complete, transparent, informative, and interactive, but at the same time were like entities lacking a memory, with a story neither behind nor in front of them. It was when companies realized all this that we entered the STORY-TELLING ERA in the middle of which we now find ourselves. Like ancient minstrels, listed companies are now singing their story, their equity story, the stories of their projects and achievements, the stories of employees and clients. Videos, case studies, “news and views” pages, global environment issues sections, social media hubs are now springing from corporate websites, spreading their human perfume across the boundless prairies of the web. After centuries of one-way communication, new digital connecting devices are helping (maybe pushing?) companies to engage in a dialogue with their audience. Listed companies now have an amazing array of tools and channels at their disposal which they can use to make the brand experience a live experience. Creative visual design, photography techniques, info-graphics, web illustrations are rescuing corporate websites from the monotony, dullness and formality of the Compliance Era. Drawing, illustrating, narrating, debating, connecting.…. Isn’t this where history and civilization began? Story-telling is taking investors back to the very essence of corporate communication, to a land where strategies, governance, organization, market environment, economic and social performance are all connected and part of the same tale. Multimedia formats, video stories, online reportages, web articles…..wait a minute….aren’t these the weapons and tools in the hands of TV networks, online magazines, internet newspapers, e-book writers? Are listed companies changing their skins yet again and following the same path as media companies? Where will the Story-telling Era take us next? The new era: marketing takes over digital corporate communication The Marketing Manager’s responsibilities will soon include Investor Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and perhaps even Human Resources activities. A social media election, for better or worse It's an understatement to say social media helped set the tone of this historic election.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9111
__label__cc	0.661585	0.338415	Pulp end uses Botnia pulp is now called Metsä Fibre pulp Pulp services Biochemicals and other bioproducts Pulp stories Pulp production process Joutseno pulp mill Kemi pulp mill Rauma pulp mill Äänekoski bioproduct mill Pulp sales contacts Sawn timber end uses Sawn timber products Sawn timber stories Sawn timber production process Kyrö sawmill Lappeenranta sawmill Merikarvia sawmill Metsä Svir's sawmill Pre-engineering project of Rauma sawmill Renko sawmill Vilppula sawmill Sawn timber sales contacts Owners, organisation and management Key figures and financial reporting The environment and climate Key sustainability figures Subscribe our releases Head office and mills Bioproduct mill Kemi bioproduct mill project Project contact persons Contact form - be a partner at Kemi bioproduct mill project About the bioproduct mill Bioproducts Images and other materials Metsä FibreMetsä Fibre in EnglishMediaStoriesA sustainable circular economy needs efficient utilisation of side streams A sustainable circular economy needs efficient utilisation of side streams A comprehensive circular economy is incomplete without the bioeconomy. The bioeconomy can contribute in several ways to the circular economy, and this includes the utilisation of organic side and waste streams from forestry and the converting of these production side streams into value-adding products. Metsä Fibre has world-leading capabilities in this field. 5/2019 TEXT: DAN RIDER Global population increases and rising prosperity levels are currently responsible for an ever-increasing demand for natural resources like water, minerals, metals, energy and wood. This large-scale production and consumption of resources has led to both higher emissions of greenhouse gases, with its resultant adverse impact on climate change, and to greater resource scarcity. To help mitigate the environmental threat for future generations, improved recycling, for example, is leading to the greater recovery and reuse of resources, which in turn leads to a more sustainable circular economy. Additionally, technological innovations are helping to both advance the production of renewable energy and to further the bio-based economy as a whole. For its part, Metsä Fibre seeing new opportunities for green growth and driven by technological innovations and development – is continuing to set new benchmarks, particularly in the last few years, in terms of its efficient utilisation of side streams from its main raw material, wood. In 2018, around 94% of Metsä Group’s production side streams were utilised, either as material, or in the production of renewable energy. As a Group, side streams contribute to around 5% of the entire production. These side streams that include ash, sludge and lime by-products are valuable and can be used, for example, for making fertilisers, in land construction, and for numerous chemical industry applications. The European Commission defines the circular economy as an economic system in which “...the value of products, materials and resources is maintained in the economy for as long as possible, and the generation of waste minimised.” Likewise, it defines the bioeconomy as “the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy." Metsä Fibre is continuing to set new benchmarks in terms of its efficient utilisation of side streams from its main raw material, wood In recent years, the bio-based sector as a whole has seen a number of benchmark improvements implemented. These advances in bio-based innovations have helped strengthen the circularity of the bio-based sector by enabling the processing of current side streams, residues and wastes, into low and high-value by-products. Metsä Fibre has world-leading capabilities in this field, allowing it to create and to commercialise new bioproducts, as well as to utilise side streams in the production of renewable energy. Certain high-value end-products like cellulose-based textile fibres are not classified as side streams, but rather are new products developed from the pulp itself. This is a rapidly growing area of some considerable importance to the Metsä Group as a whole, and the expertise and energies invested in it have led to the establishing and construction of a pulp-based textile fibre demo plant, the first project of the recently founded Metsä Spring innovation company. Bringing clarity to complexity Begins Timo Kanerva, Environmental Director, Metsä Group, “Side streams are a complicated topic. For the general public, I think the terminology and concepts are not the easiest ones to understand. But, right from the outset, if we want to make things a little clearer, we can take the whole side stream umbrella and then we can divide it into three different sections: bioproducts, by-products and waste.” The term ‘side stream’ is a very wide definition that basically includes everything that comes out of a mill that is not the main product (wood pulp). With the bioproduct mill concept we have learned to realise that some of these side streams, such as tall oil and turpentine, are in fact valuable products themselves and are part of the bioproduct portfolio on the global market. Other side streams are more or less valuable as products, raw materials or in renewable energy production. A very small share of the side streams is currently waste, and its share is constantly decreasing as new end uses are created. Inclusion / exclusion We arrive at the materials that are classified as genuine side streams and waste, substances derived from the production of wood pulp. These are by-products with lower value which are used in the fertiliser industry, for example. Ash from the power plants can be used as a fertiliser or soil improvement agent. Also lime and lime dust are derived from the chemical recycling process of the pulp mill and have some commercial value.” In addition to those previously mentioned materials, there are other notable by-products too. Screening fibre fractions, for example, are certain parts of wood that come from the pulp mill that have been rejected, while sandy bark is from the wood yards where bark is being cleaned and contains sand and impurities within it. De-inking sludge comes from the recycling process of recovered paper. From that process, the fibre itself continues to further uses and the rest, such as kaolin and other coating materials create the de-inking sludge, which in the circular economy can today be utilised in many ways. These are by-products that are no longer defined as waste, but still remain of fairly low commercial value. That said, nearly all of them have ‘real-world uses’ and are able to increasingly contribute to the circular economy, depending on what kind of side streams they are. “We can take the whole side-stream umbrella and then we can divide it into three different sections: bioproducts, by-products and waste.” adds Kanerva, “We are developing the utilisation of these side streams all the time and the market in this respect is very interesting. Furthermore, the value of it is growing as globally there is more interest in using recycled materials as part of circular economy. As a result, we are trying to make it more valuable and high-quality and many things are happening in that area.” A growing market Explains Sanna Pulkkinen, Development Manager, Metsä Group, “With regards to side streams viewed from an economic perspective, on the company level, we are looking at an overall figure in the many tens of millions of euros. This is the magnitude and value of side streams at the moment. Most of the turnover on side streams comes from biochemicals, such as tall oil and turpentine. But, if you are talking about the less valuable side streams, there is a potential for that to grow and to become a real business as well.” Adds Kanerva, “Many of these materials such as ash and lime dust were considered waste ten years ago and were simply taken to the landfill. Now we are talking about large fractions of the material streams that are now no longer considered as waste. They are by-products and they are becoming more and more valuable raw materials, or fertilisers for agriculture to use instead of conventional fertilisers from fossil sources. It is a very big cultural change, as well as a big change in this industry. Within the next 5-10 years this area will develop much further.” Currently, around 94% of Metsä Group’s production side streams are utilised. These side streams fall into five categories: energy utilisation, material utilisation, fertilising and soil improvement, and industrial use. Only 6% of production side streams are today classified as waste. The main waste fraction is green liquor sludge from pulp mills, the non-dissolvable inorganic parts of wood which are hard to utilise. The rest consists of, for example, waste pigments or hazardous waste such as certain lubricating oils, paints and laboratory chemicals. Their future utilisation remains part of the work of research and development teams. Says Pulkkinen, “Lime mud waste is another material coming from the pulp mills. Usually it is being recycled back to the process, but some small percentages turn out as waste and are landfilled. With advances in technical development, and an increased awareness of the multiple benefits of moving towards a circular economy, waste water treatment sludges are nowadays mostly utilised as energy or biogas, so they are not going into the landfills anymore. The fact that 94% is utilised is actually a pretty good number and is a reflection of the ongoing research, development and innovation throughout Metsä Group across recent years.” Future ambitions State-of-the-art facilities like Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill have shown in recent years that they can improve the efficiency of biomass utilisation by increasing the usage of side streams, as well as reducing and /or recovering waste and residues. Furthermore, the most sustainable and innovative developments from the Äänekoski bioproduct mill can also be taken into use in Metsä Fibre’s other mills in the near future, a result that will lead to greater economies of scale, more optimised ‘circular’ production capabilities and higher-value end products. Taken together, the net result will be the setting of new benchmarks in terms of improved resource efficiency and minimising the amount of waste, as well as the creation of greater efficiencies with regards to material recycling and circularity. To that end, the transformation of waste and other side streams into higher added value products will produce increasing economic and resource efficiency benefits for Metsä Fibre, and Metsä Group as a complete entity, as well as for society and the environment as a whole. The most sustainable and innovative developments from the Äänekoski bioproduct mill can also be taken into use in Metsä Fibre’s other mills in the near future. All efforts to date to improve and to advance the circular economy and bioeconomy are simply part of a longer, multi-generational change, as the complexity and research needed is an ongoing process. In the end, nobody really wants to hear the word ‘landfill’ anymore, as it suggests a process or utilisation failure. The future is clearly defined and Metsä Fibre, being a pioneer in the circular economy and the utilisation of side streams, is determined to continue its innovative development path. To that end, further improving resource efficiency and being able to utilise all the production side streams by 2030 is one of Metsä Group’s renewed strategic sustainability objectives. “The ambition is to utilise all side streams. We are getting closer and closer,” concludes Kanerva. 1/2020/ Pulp Pulp lends itself to many things While we've known how to make pulp for over a hundred years now, its versatility keeps on surprising us. 12/2019/ Pulp Accurate pulp refining analysis with Metsä Fibre's renewed FORE tool Proper pulp refining gives paper or paperboard desired properties and often saves costs as well. Metsä Fibre's Pulp Refining Audit service can be used to determine how you can refine pulp for the best result. China's cardboard market is changing Consumers’ demand for the quantity and quality of cardboard will rise as the economy develops. For the Metsä Fibre’s client, Sun Paper Group, this is good news. Sustainable forest management is important to us Sustainability and responsibility play a key role in Metsä Group’s forest management. Specialists help forest owners manage their forests in a way that safeguards biodiversity and allows the forest to grow well. 11/2019/ Sawn timber Metsä Fibre listens to its customers closely Metsä Fibre’s sawmill customers responded to the Radar customer satisfaction survey for the second time now. Customer satisfaction and customer needs are the basis for the development of our sawmill operations and create a good foundation for goal setting in our annual planning. Metsä Fibre participates in the London Pulp Week 2019 Come and visit us on 14 November at Hawkins Wright & BWPA London Pulpweek Symposium The future of the pulp market: these 4 changes are to be expected The consulting and engineering firm ÅF Pöyry estimates that demand for market pulp will grow by approximately 2.5 per cent a year over the next five years. Customer feedback received – There is always room for improvement Metsä Fibre’s customers consider Metsä Fibre as a reliable supplier with even pulp quality. Plastic became a problem – is wood the solution? Plastic was once considered an irreplaceable material. Now plastic has become a problem to which we are frantically trying to find a solution. There is therefore plenty of demand for a biodegradable, bio-based and sustainably produced material. The pre-engineering of the Kemi bioproduct mill is progressing Metsä Fibre kicked off the pre-engineering project for the Kemi bioproduct mill in the spring of 2019. The project is now proceeding in terms of the environmental permit process, among other things. Finnish forest management made an impression Metsä Fibre provides its customers with a service that lets them get to know a Finnish commercial forest up close. A Metsä Day visit is not only entertaining, but also educational, as it affords a glimpse into responsible forest management. 4/2019/ Sawn timber Our products sequester carbon throughout their life-cycles The high-quality and sustainable sawn timber we produce is used to a particularly high degree in end uses where the carbon remains sequestered in the wood for a period spanning decades or even a century. Such end uses include various wood construction solutions and furniture. Finnish sawn timber is a sustainable choice Thanks to sound forest management, Finland’s forests are growing by roughly 20 per cent more than they are being used. This is why Finnish sawn timber is a sustainable and resource-smart solution. We utilize the properties of northern wood Metsä Fibre possess solid and long-standing know-how in the conversion of northern softwood. We know our raw material and the opportunities it offers inside out. Premium sawn timber from northern wood Northern sawn softwood offers extremely advantageous strength qualities in relation to weight, due to which it is well-suited for use in load-bearing structures. In terms of its appearance, northern wood is consistent, and it is easy to process and treat in the preferred manner. Polar King project proceeds as planned If all preconditions are met, a new bioproduct mill will start up in Kemi during the year 2022. So far, the results of the prefeasibility study look promising. This was the encouraging message of a public event organised on December 18 in Kemi, where Metsä Fibre gave an update on the progress of the project to an audience of around 200. C&S presents Metsä Fibre with supplier excellence award in China Metsä Fibre has received a Supplier Excellence Award from C&S, one of China’s major tissue producers, for being the company’s Partner in Excellence. Innovative products from cellulose fibre Established in 2011, Chemarts is a Finnish collaboration between two Aalto University schools, the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM) and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS). At its heart, Chemarts is the study of bio-based materials and its main aim is to inspire young students from design and technical schools to get interested in wood-based fibres and to explore biomaterials together. Chemarts was also conceived to consider how design can be a strategic tool when developing new cellulose-based products or new materials. Combining forces for a sustainable edge As demand for high-quality paper products in China and Asia increases, the partnership between Metsä Fibre and Asia Symbol is set to deepen. Shaping the new textile fibre future Metsä Group’s innovation company, Metsä Spring, and the Japanese Itochu Corporation, have established a joint venture to build and operate a unique test plant. The hope is that this pilot will kick-start a new revolution in future ecological textile fibre production. Fresh fibre to tackle recycling challenge Since mid-2017, China’s government has moved to ban a wide range of imported waste, from scrap metals to scrap paper, upending a recycling industry that had thrived since the mid-80s, transforming the world’s rubbish into usable materials when raw materials have been cost-prohibitive. Metsä Fibre participates in the Shanghai Pulp Week 2019 Come and visit us on 20 March at Shanghai Pulp Week Annual Meeting or on 21 March at Hawkins Wright Shanghai Symposium. In an uncertain world, it can be helpful to prepare for various emerging outcomes. We asked Antti Kiljunen from Metsä Fibre and Risto E.J. Penttilä from the Nordic West Office consultancy firm to discuss business success factors under various scenarios. 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__label__wiki	0.92256	0.92256	Company Repertoire The MCB Mission Miami City Ballet’s mission is to produce and present the highest level of dance performances throughout Florida, the United States and abroad, train young aspiring dancers, and develop Miami City Ballet School into a leader of dance education. Described by The New York Times as “an exceptional troupe, by Balanchine standards, anywhere in the world,” Miami City Ballet (MCB) is led by Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez and is considered a leader in the field – nurturing new choreographic voices, creating innovative collaborations and opening new avenues of inclusivity within classical ballet. Founded in 1985 by Miami philanthropist Toby Lerner Ansin and Founding Artistic Director and ballet legend Edward Villella, MCB is universally admired as one of the world’s preeminent interpreters of the choreography of George Balanchine. Its repertory of more than 100 ballets, including 12 world premieres, was built upon the Balanchine repertory, style and technique and then expanded to include beloved classical works of importance and exciting new choreography by contemporary and ground-breaking artists. MCB maintains annual seasons in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward and Collier Counties, serving more than 132,000 patrons in South Florida through four diverse repertory programs; the treasured Christmas fairytale, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®; and an expansive national touring program. MCB has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and its 2016 debut at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater was hailed by the national press as a resounding success. The New York Times’ Alastair Macaulay wrote, “Of all the ballet troupes who have visited the Koch in recent years, none looks so truly and completely a company.” Miami City Ballet School (MCB School), founded in 1993, is one of the largest dance training programs in the nation, training dancers for careers with MCB and other professional companies throughout the world. MCB School’s expanded national and international audition tours attract more than 1,300 students each season, and MCB School’s scholarship program offers support to children from around the corner and across the globe, providing nearly $500,000 worth of scholarships each year. As one of the most diverse classical ballet companies in the nation, MCB serves as a gateway to the Americas for dancers from Central and South America, resulting in a robust international roster of both dancers and students. MCB’s transformative Share the Dance: Community Outreach and Educational Programs reach deep into the community, touching nearly 23,000 young people, seniors and other traditionally underserved community members annually through a wide array of programming. This expanded portfolio of programs introduces new and underserved audiences to the art form of classical ballet while building strong community relationships and engagement with the arts. Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, joined MCB in 2012. Lopez was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami. She danced with New York City Ballet for 24 years under George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, joining in 1974 at the age of 16, with promotions to soloist in 1981 and principal in 1984. After retiring from the stage, Ms.Lopez went on to become the executive director of The George Balanchine Foundation and co-founded the innovative dance company Morphoses. Prior to Lopez’s tenure, MCB was led by Founding Artistic Director Edward Villella, the first American-born male star of New York City Ballet (1957-1975). The Company’s repertoire has over 100 ballets, including a number of world premieres such as Liam Scarlett’s Viscera and Euphotic, Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphonic Dances and The Fairy’s Kiss, and Justin Peck’s Chutes and Ladders and Heatscape. The dancers of MCB are an international corps. Currently, more than half of the Company are graduates of the Miami City Ballet School. In addition, our dancers also have professional experience with a diverse roster of world-class companies including New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba and American Ballet Theatre; as well as training from renowned facilities such as the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet School and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Domestic Touring Miami City Ballet has toured extensively in the United States, performing in more than 100 U.S. cities. Domestic appearances include: 1996 Olympic Arts Festival Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Chautauqua Festival Chicago Auditorium Theatre Cleveland Playhouse DanceAspen David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Los Angeles Music Center Madison Festival of the Lakes McCarter Theater New Jersey Performing Arts Center New York City Center Orange County Performing Arts Center Ravinia Festival Spoleto Festival SUNY at Purchase Tilles Center University of Minnesota – Northrup Vail International Dance Festival Wolf Trap Farm Park International Touring In 2015, Miami City Ballet toured to Canada with appearances in Vancouver, British Columbia at Ballet BC’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre and in Ottawa, Ontario at the National Arts Centre. The performances mark several firsts – the Company’s Vancouver premiere and its first tour under artistic director Lourdes Lopez. In July 2011, MCB made its Paris debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet as the featured dance company for the annual Les Etés de la Danse Festival. MCB has also performed extensively throughout Europe, South America, Central America and Israel during its 30-year history. International appearances include: TorinoDanza 2000 (Italy) 1994 & 1995 Edinburgh International Festivals (Scotland) 1990 Lyon Biennale Internationale de la Danse (France) Festival Internacionel de Cultura Paiz (Guatemala) In January 2000, MCB took occupancy of its own Miami Beach headquarters, the Ophelia & Juan Js. Roca Center, achieved through a capital campaign which begun in 1997. The 63,000 square foot facility houses eight rehearsal studios (two of which combine to create a 200-seat theater), school facilities, MCB’s wardrobe department and costume shop, a fully equipped therapy room, and administrative space. The building was designed by the award-winning architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia of ARQUITECTONICA. Lourdes Lopez became Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet (MCB) in September 2012, bringing with her a nearly 40-year career in dance, television, teaching and arts management. As a Soloist and Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet, she danced for two legends of the art form, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Lopez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1958 and raised in Miami by her parents along with two sisters. She began taking ballet lessons at the age of 5, on the recommendation of a doctor. At the age of 11 she received a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet, (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, where she continued her ballet training in Miami during the year and then in New York during the summers. At 14, she moved to New York permanently to devote herself to full-time studies at SAB, and shortly after turning 16, she joined the corps de ballet of New York City Ballet. Under the direction of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, her star rose quickly at New York City Ballet where she was soon dancing corps and soloist roles in much of the company’s repertory. She was promoted to Soloist in 1981 and Principal Dancer in 1984, performing countless featured roles including Violin Concerto, Firebird, Serenade, Liebeslieder Walzer, Divertimento No. 15, Symphony in C, Agon, The Four Temperaments, Dances at a Gathering, Glass Pieces, Fancy Free, In the Night, Four Seasons, and Brandenburg. Lopez’s great interest in children also found her writing and contributing to many of the company’s Family Matinee series. Upon retirement, Lopez joined WNBC-TV in New York as a Cultural Arts reporter, writing and producing feature segments on the arts, artists and arts education. She was also a full-time senior faculty member and Director of Student Placement, Student Evaluation and Curriculum Planning at New York’s Ballet Academy East. She served on the dance faculty of Barnard College and guest taught at numerous dance institutions and festivals in the United States. In 2002, Lopez became the Executive Director of The George Balanchine Foundation, which works to educate the public about dance and to further the art of ballet, with a special emphasis on the work and achievements of George Balanchine. In this position, she oversaw the 2004 Balanchine Centennial Celebration, a worldwide festival honoring the choreographer and his legacy. Among the events that year was the symposium “Balanchine: Past, Present and Future,” which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, and which was a collaboration among the Mariinsky Theater, the Hermitage Museum, and The George Balanchine Foundation. Lopez co-founded The Cuban Artists Fund, which supports Cuban and Cuban-American artists in their endeavors. She also co-founded Morphoses with Christopher Wheeldon in 2007 — a New York-based dance company aiming to revitalize dance through innovative collaborations with important artists from the worlds of music, visual arts, design, film and fashion; and by inviting younger and broader audiences to engage in and actively experience dance. In 2014 Lopez was elected to serve on the Ford Foundation’s Board of Trustees, marking the first time an artist was elected to serve on its board. In 2007 she received an award from the American Immigration Law Foundation honoring Cuban Americans for their accomplishments and contributions to American society and in 2011, she received the prestigious Jerome Robbins Award for her years in dance. She has served as a dance panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Lopez is married to investment banker George Skouras. They are the parents of two daughters: Adriel and Calliste. Toby Lerner Ansin Thirty years ago, Toby Lerner Ansin, the founder of Miami City Ballet invited Edward Villella to her home, persuaded him to be the artistic director of a new ballet company, then convinced a group of friends and associates to donate the seminal funds that brought viability to her vision. She then galvanized community and financial support, helped assemble the original Board of Trustees, and laid the foundation for an on-going development program. Then she rolled up her sleeves and without any financial compensation, begin working around the clock, every day of the week, tirelessly focusing her efforts on securing major financial funding for the infant company. Because of her vision, leadership, and unceasing effort, Miami City Ballet today is an internationally acclaimed company with a growing reputation as a cradle of creativity for young dancers and choreographers and a history of excellence in the field of dance. Toby’s extraordinary vision, leadership and accomplishments have been widely recognized: In 1991, she became the recipient of the George Abbott Carbonell Award for Achievement in the Arts. Soon after, she was given the American Jewish Committee’s “American Jewish Achievement” award, becoming part of the Oral History Collections. In 1994 she received the Spectrum Award for Women from the National Red Cross. In 1997 she received the Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations Fundraiser of the Year Award and the 1997 Florida Arts Recognition Award. In 1999 she was named the James W. McLamore Outstanding Volunteer of the Year from the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. In the spring of 2003, Toby received the Arts Hero Award from the Arts & Business Council of Miami. In 2008 she received both the PODER Magazine-Boston Consulting Group Business Award and the Florida International Press Club Imprint Award. In 2009 she received the Woman of Style and Substance Award. But her most memorable and satisfying award was the January evening in 2009 when the company received a standing ovation after performing at the City Center in New York City. Stephanie Ansin, Toby’s daughter, is following in her mother’s footsteps. She is the founder of the Miami Theatre Center. Toby has been an advisor to the Center since its inception in 2004. Edward Villella Founding Artistic Director Edward Villella was born in Bayside, New York in 1936. He entered the School of American Ballet at age ten but interrupted his dance training to complete academic studies. A graduate of the New York Maritime Academy, he obtained a B.S. in marine transportation, lettered in baseball, and was a championship boxer. He returned to SAB following graduation in 1955, and in 1957 was invited to join the New York City Ballet, where he was quickly promoted to Soloist (1958), and then to Principal Dancer (1960). Mr. Villella was the original male lead in many important ballets in the New York City Ballet repertoire, among them Tarantella, the “Rubies” section of Jewels, Harlequinade, Symphony in Three Movements, Dances at a Gathering, Watermill, Bugaku and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon). Perhaps his most famous role was in the 1960 revival of Balanchine’s 1929 masterpiece, Prodigal Son. Mr. Villella was the first American male dancer to perform with the Royal Danish Ballet, and the only American ever to be asked to dance an encore at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. He danced for President Kennedy’s inauguration and for Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. He was producer/director for the PBS series “Dance in America” for one and a-half years, and in 1975 won an Emmy Award for his CBS television production of “Harlequinade.” In recognition of his achievements, President Clinton presented Mr. Villella with the 1997 National Medal of Arts. Also in 1997, he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree, and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. In 2009, he was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the School of American Ballet. In 1998, the University of Pittsburgh Press reissued Villella’s 1992 autobiography, Prodigal Son: Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic, written with Larry Kaplan. Linda Villella Founding Director, Miami City Ballet School Linda Villella created Miami City Ballet School in partnership with her husband Edward Villella in 1993, facilitating greater access to ballet and jazz education for children and the community. Under her tenure, MCB School grew into one of the leading training grounds for dance in the nation. Born in the United States, Ms. Villella grew up all over Europe, including England, France and Germany. As a result of walking at a very young age she was left crippled, and began figure skating to strengthen her leg muscles alongside children who had polio. At 15, due to her exceptional ability, she left home to train in Toronto. Ms. Villella won the National Figure Skating Championships in 1969 and represented Canada in both the 1968 Olympics and in the 1969 World Championships before taking an offer to star in Ice Capades, followed by NBC’s “Ice Capades” specials and the CBS series, “Ice Palace.” Additionally, Ms. Villella starred in numerous television commercials including national spots for Zenith TV, Burger King and Nestlé White Milk Chocolate. Ms. Villella coached World and Olympic competitions and was involved with the first Special Olympics. Ms. Villella established MCB School’s Summer Intensive and Exploring Dance programs, providing complimentary dance classes to public school students in Miami Beach. Ms. Villella also founded the MCB School Summer Intensives and the Ballet for Young People series, giving thousands of children and families the opportunity to view performances by MCB School students. Composer/Choreographer Afternoon of a Faun Debussy / Robbins Agon Stravinsky / Balanchine Allegro Brillante Tchaikovsky / Balanchine A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mendelssohn / Balanchine Apollo Stravinsky / Balanchine Arden Court Boyce / Taylor Aureole Handel / Taylor Aurora’s Wedding Tchaikovsky / Petipa Baker’s Dozen Smith / Tharp Ballet Imperial Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Ballo della Regina Verdi / Balanchine Barber Violin Concerto Barber / Martins Black Swan Pas de Deux Tchaikovsky / Petipa-Ivanov Bournonville Italian Suite Helsted-Paulli / Bournonville Bourrée Fantasque Chabrier / Balanchine Bugaku Mayuzumi / Balanchine Calcium Light Night Ives / Martins Carmen Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite” adapted from Bizet / Alston Carousel Pas de Deux Rodgers / MacMillan Chutes and Ladders* Britten / Peck Company B Various, sung by the Andrews Sisters / Taylor The Concert Chopin / Robbins Concerto Barocco Bach / Balanchine Concerto for Summerdance * Bach / Villella Coppélia Trad., after Delibes / Saint-Leon Le Corsaire Pas de Deux Drigo / Trad., after Petipa Dances at a Gathering Chopin / Robbins Diamonds Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Diana and Actaeon – Pas de Deux Drigo / Balanchine Divertimento Brillante Glinka / Balanchine Divertimento No. 15 Mozart / Balanchine Donizetti Variations Donizetti / Balanchine Don Quixote Minkus / Traditional, after Petipa and Gorsky Don Quixote Pas De Deux Minkus / Petipa Duo Concertante Stravinsky / Balanchine Elégie Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Emeralds Fauré / Balanchine Episodes Webern / Balanchine Euphotic* Liebermann / Scarlett The Fairy’s Kiss* Stravinsky / Ratmansky Fancy Free Bernstein / Robbins Fanfare Britten / Robbins Festival Pas de Deux and Divertissement * Harrell / Villella Flower Festival Pas de Deux Helsted / Bournonville The Four Temperaments Hindemith / Balanchine THE FOX-TROT:Dancing in the Dark * The Neighborhood Ballroom Carmichael, Parish, Ellington / Villella Funny Papers Novelty tunes / Taylor George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker&red; Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Giselle Adam / Traditional after Coralli and Perrot Gismonti Brasil * Gismonti / Villella Glass Pieces Glasss / Robbins Glinka Pas de Trois Glinka / Balanchine The Golden Section Byrne / Tharp Grand Pas Classique Auber / Traditional, after Gsovsky Heatscape* Martinu / Peck In the Night Chopin / Robbins In The Upper Room Glass / Tharp Jardí Tancat del Mar Bonet / Duato Jewels Fauré-Stravinsky-Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Lilac Garden Chausson / Tudor Liturgy Pärt / Wheeldon THE MAMBO: Mambo No. 2 a.m.* The Neighborhood Ballroom Perez-Prado / Villella Mercuric Tidings Schubert / Taylor Minkus Pas de Trois Minkus / Balanchine The Moor’s Pavane Purcell / Limon NIGHTSPOT * Costello / Tharp Nine Sinatra Songs Arlen, Mercer, Cahn, Van Heusen / Tharp Paquita Minkus / after Petipa & Mazilier Pas De Dix Glazounov / Balanchine, after Petipa Les Patineurs Meyerbeer, Lambert / Ashton Piazzolla Caldera Piazzolla / Taylor Polyphonia Ligeti / Wheeldon Prodigal Son Prokofiev / Balanchine Promethean Fire Bach / Taylor Push Comes to Shove Lamb, Haydn / Tharp THE QUICK-STEP: Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! * The Neighborhood Ballroom Ellington, Mack, Kahn, Yellen / Villella Raymonda Variations Glazounov / Balanchine The Reassuring Effects of Form and Poetry Dvorak / McIntyre Romeo and Juliet Prokofiev / Cranko Rubies Capriccio for Piano & Orchestra Stravinsky / Balanchine Scotch Symphony Mendelssohn / Balanchine Serenade Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Rodgers / Balanchine Sonatine Ravel / Balanchine La Sonnambula Rieti / Balanchine La Source Delibes / Balanchine Square Dance Vivaldi, Corelli / Balanchine Stars & Stripes Sousa-Kay / Balanchine The Steadfast Tin Soldier Bizet / Balanchine Stravinsky Violin Concerto Stravinsky / Balanchine Sunset Elgar / Taylor Swan Lake Act II Tchaikovsky / Balanchine Swan Lake Act II Tchaikovsky / Petipa Sweet Fields Billings, Walker, Wood, Ingalls / Tharp Sylvia Pas de Deux Delibes / Balanchine Symphonic Dances * Rachmaninoff / Ratmansky Symphony in C Bizet / Balanchine Symphony in Three Movements Stravinsky / Balanchine Tarantella Gottschalk / Balanchine The Neighborhood Ballroom * Renno, Ellington / Villella Theme & Variations Tchaikovsky / Balanchine 3 Epitaphs Early American Jazz / Taylor Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Tchaikovsky / Balanchine La Valse Ravel / Balanchine Valse Fantaisie 1953 Glinka / Balanchine Viscera * Liebermann / Scarlett Walpurgisnacht Ballet Gounod / Balanchine THE WALTZ: Our Lady of Oblivion * The Neighborhood Ballroom Renno / Villella West Side Story Suite Bernstein, Sondheim / Robbins, Gennaro Western Symphony American Traditional, arr.: Kay / Balanchine Who Cares? complete Gershwin, arr. Kay / Balanchine Year of the Rabbit Stevens / Peck ARTIST'S CIRCLE CONCIERGE Phone: 305.929.7000 x 1504 orene@miamicityballet.org Monday - Friday \| 9am - 5:30pm Your generosity supports MCB’s artistic, educational and community outreach programs. development@miamicityballet.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9114
__label__wiki	0.759631	0.759631	Genesis Crafty creates 35 jobs in expansion plan Genesis Crafty embarking on an exciting new era. Stanley Campbell Published: 08:23 Wednesday 28 August 2019 Magherafelt bakery firm Genesis Crafty is recruiting for 35 new staff and investing over £750,000 in the business as a result of new contracts and expansion. Genesis produces a range of bread and cakes under its own brand and for many of the UK's largest and most prestigious retailers including Marks & Spencer and Waitrose. The company currently employs more than 350 staff in its Magherafelt premises. Paul Allen, executive chairman, Genesis Crafty, took over ownership of the bakery just over a year ago in a rescue deal. He said: “We are thrilled to be launching this recruitment drive as it shows the significant progress that Genesis has made in the last number of months. "We have consolidated our operations, refined our distribution and sought to build upon the strong relationships that we have with premium retailers across the UK and Ireland. “The appeal of The Genesis range, which includes pancakes, scones, cakes and bread, has continued to grow and we have won a number of important new contracts for our all year-round and Christmas products with some of the UK’s most discerning retailers.” Mr Allen added : “This is an exciting new era for the company, and it is great to be looking for new staff to share in our journey. We have a wide range of posts available, from full-time permanent jobs right through to part-time temporary posts. These vacancies range from machine operators to supervisors, project leaders, engineers and skilled bakers.” Paul Allen, executive chairman, Genesis Craft, took over firm just over a year ago. £1.7m to help increase employment rates in socially deprived areas 'Rest in peace Helena' - tributes paid after body found in search for missing NI mother of four Protestors with scripture placards picket official launch of Mid Ulster Pride Parade Clerics oppose NI’s first rural LGBT+ parade Crackdown on Cookstown's 'death trap' vehicles Priest has ‘led the way’ for church by shunning SF over abortion More from Mid Ulster Mail	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9118
__label__wiki	0.580422	0.580422	Home / MONTANA'S FINEST HOMES / Making concrete real Making concrete real A New Approach: Hoyt Homes and EverLog Systems team up to create a contemporary home with a traditional look By David Reese, Montana's Finest Homes The Nine Mile Valley is an idyllic Montana place. A stream meanders through the broad valley and tree-covered mountains stretch into the sky. In this unmatched setting it's here that Hoyt Homes built a unique home that blends contemporary touches with the look of a log home. Driving into the 30-acre property on the west side of the Nine Mile Valley you get your first glimpse of the home, which appears to be made out of logs. But on closer inspection you see that in fact it's not a log home at all; the builder used concrete logs from EverLog Systems in Missoula to give the home the look of log, without the drying, splitting logs to be chinked nor the worry of damage from woodpeckers or mites of a traditional log home. The home was built by Hoyt Homes Inc. of Missoula. Owner Wade Hoyt had never worked with concrete logs before this project, and he liked the way they added to the design of Pat Suppele, an architect with Studio Modera. “We like the uniqueness,'Hoyt said. “As an owner of a log home I know how much upkeep they are. This totally takes the upkeep out of the picture.. EverLog Systems supplied all of the exterior log components and deck support systems, all of which were built out of concrete. With concrete logs, there is no staining, sealing, shifting or settling of the wood. “The owners wanted a worry-free home and a very energy efficient home,'Stewart Hansen, president of EverLog Systems, said. “They understood what they wanted, and they just didn't want any of those maintenance issues with this house.” The owners had lived in a natural log home previous to building this home. With this home they wanted something with a more modern design appeal, along with the look of log. On the interior they used American clay to give the home Southwest design accents. By supplying everything from the concrete deck supports to the concrete logsused in the home, EverLog Systems was able to help Hoyt Homes' client get the home they wanted. â€œThis really showed the diversity of our product,'Hansen said. "It's an amazing house." From a design standpoint, the 4,400-square-foot home represents a contemporary look. Glass and metal are used as design elements throughout the home, which has tall, storefront windows. A glass walkway connects the master bedroom to the library, while a large soapstone fireplace anchors the center of the home. The fireplace, also known as a masonry heater, was built by Tulikivi in Finland and it's an efficient way to heat the home. The heater is a custom design, and was built out of three large soapstone boulders, then disassembled, shipped to the United States and assembled by WarmStone Fireplaces and Designs of Livingston, Montana. The boulder heaters are so unique that only about five of them have been installed in Montana. “There are no two that are alike,” WarmStone owner Ron Pihl said. The 11,000-pound fireplace has channels throughout the structure that heat up the soapstone mass. Soapstone is one of the heaviest, most dense stones in the world, so once it's been brought to full warmth, the fireplace can provide up to 24 hours of continual heat. In addition to wood heat from the soapstone fireplace, energy efficiency is increased by the use of a Ground Source heat pump. Keeping the home well insulated are 12-inch structured insulated panels on the roof. Passive solar heat from the tall windows allow sunlight to help heat the home also. The house is so energy efficient that the owner was actually able to sell power back to the utility in the summer.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9119
__label__cc	0.723294	0.276706	BCAA Flash Zero BCAA Flash Zero 360g Servings: 360g Sugar free No gluten All variants: EU Stock change Availability: Medium amount Working days from the dispatch choose stock default stock for current location alternative stock DE Stock unavaiable stock Short term: Minimum expiration date: For free shipping is missing: 69.00 $ 18.97 $With VAT From 3 units only 18.59 $ /Units. -2% 1 Units. (mon.-fri 900-1700 You have got questions about the product Dosage training days Take one portion (2 scoops) mixed in 300ml of water 15 mins before or during a workout. Dosage non training days Take one portion (2 scoops) mixed in 300ml of water between meals. RECOMMENDATIONS OF MUSCLE-ZONE EXPERTJakub kola It is worth applying BCAA according to individual dietary needs. It may be used with meals with low content of proteins. It is recommended to use BCAA both before workout (e.g. along with a pre-workout preparation) and after training. It allows to fully take advantage of the effectiveness of this supplement. 200 characters left for the review to be rated. Best to combine with Amino IV BCAA Xtra Instant Anabol Amino Hydro BCAA AllDayYouMay Caffeinated Nitro Caps Crz OG Alphamind Apollo's Hegemony NitroBolon Energizer Methyldrene EPH Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine) is soluble in the liquid. It participates in the metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. By reducing the amount of fat in the blood do not enable deposition of the body. It helps the absorption of magnesium and vitamin B12 (cobalamin). It works on the muscle antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory pain in the joints. It acts anti. It provides efficient operation of the brain. It increases energy increasing vigor of a man. The demand for vitamin B6 increases during pregnancy and breast-feeding infants. The natural product is: yeast, eggs, wheat germ, meat (liver), wheat bran, nuts, peanuts peanuts, soybeans. There is a hypothesis that can be synthesized by intestinal bacteria. Deficiency of vitamin B6 causes abnormal metabolism of proteins, decrease in lymphocytes in the blood, causes a feeling of lethargy and fatigue intensifies. Dosage: 1.5-2.5 mg daily (increased demand during pregnancy and lactation). Pyridoxine hydrochloride What is pyridoxine hydrochloride? Pyridoxine hydrochloride is a basic, the most commonly used form of vitamin B6 in supplements and fortified foods. It is a vitamin soluble in water. It converts to the active form of the vitamin - pyridoxal phosphate. Vitamin B6 is a cofactor in many enzymatic reactions. It takes part in the production of many neurotransmitters, such as GABA, serotonin and catecholamines and it takes part in the metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids. It is an important factor for the process of the creation of red cells and hemoglobin and its deficit may be one of the factors causing anemia. This vitamin contributes to maintaining proper energy metabolism and is important for maintaining well-being and good psychological condition. Its presence supports the breakdown of pro-inflammatory homocysteine to cysteine and further metabolites, thanks to which it may decrease the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiological incidents. Pyridoxine hydrochloride may be found in many vitamin B complexes and vitamin-mineral preparations available in the offer of muscle-zone.pl. Leucine is an essential amino acid, one of the three branched chain amino acids, ketogenic, its isomer is isoleucine. It affects the secretion of anabolic hormones (insulin, combined carbohydrates), acts on enzymes (mTOR) starting the process of muscle protein synthesis and controlling its course. Protein synthesis by leucine is affecting the development of bones, muscles and skin. It reduces the fat tissue. Without the availability of leucine, protein synthesis is impossible. It naturally occurs in animal products (such as eggs, meat, dairy and fish), plant origin, and as a post-training supplements, BCAA, EAA, no-boosters, creatine stacks, carbohydrate supplements. Ir is also in the form of mono-preparation supplements. It is one of the most important amino acids for the athlete's body, basically in every sports discipline. Dosage: The demand is 5-10 g / 24h, dosage pre- and post-workout and in the morning after waking up. Isoleucine is an essential branched amino acid (BCAA), leucine-isomer. It has anti-catabolic action ( protects muscle against decay), glucogenic (an alternative energy source when the level of glucose after exercise decreases, helps for the regulation of blood glucose levels, reduces the deficiency of fatty acids), anti-catabolic (muscle protects against decay), reduces stress. It participates in the synthesis of proteins (including the synthesis of hemoglobin). It is an essential part of the regeneration of damaged tissues of the body, and after intense training. It occurs in products containing animal protein (meat and dairy products, eggs, dairy products) and plant (almonds, walnuts) and dietary supplements. Isoleucine is applied with other branched chain amino acids: leucine, valine, and in the supplement complex type of BCAA, in the proportions: leucine: isoleucine: valine = 2: 1: 1. The supplements used in competitive sports requiring increased strength, the bigger share of isoleucine is used. Dosage: No standard daily use. Frequently applied directly after the workout during the decrease of the glucose level of or at fatty acid deficiency. Valine – is a branched essential amino acid, indispensible for the functioning of the nervous system (receiving of sensory information), involved in muscle protein synthesis and energy generation. Administration of additional doses of valine before exercise (or immediately after) has anti-catabolic effect, protecting the proteins and allowing them to rebuild. It is slightly stimulatory (delays symptoms of fatigue during workout), affecting the level and relations of neurotransmitters. It helps to protect the liver. It stimulates an increase in strength and muscle mass, participates in the reduction of body fat. BCAA, EAA, and other mixtures of amino acid supplementation, protein and protein supplements and carbohydrate-stacks, brings positive results in strength and endurance sports. Valine deficiency can occur in case of increased energy needs of the body, as the result of stress and too much stress load. L-glutamine - amino acid building endogenous proteins, glutamic acid amide. In the human body it is responsible for the synthesis of proteins, acid-base balance and removing ammonia outside of the organism. With the shortage of energy taken from the muscle tissue, glutamine with alanine participate in the process of gluconeogenesis, and participate in the production of glucose substrate. L-glutamine has a direct impact on the proper functioning of the digestive system and immunity of the organism. Participates in the synthesis of one of the most powerful antioxidant - glutathione. It has anti-catabolic potential. It is found naturally in foods of animal and vegetable origin and high protein supplements. Used as mono-preparation or multi-component amino-acid supplements and supplements enhancing biological recovery after exercises, often in combination with BCAA. Dosage: 5-20 g per day (portioned during the day, and after training and waking up). The minimum dose used in supplementation is 2-15g per 1 serving.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9131
__label__cc	0.590154	0.409846	Spend a Peaceful Evening in the Redwoods The soul-sweet event helps the Redwood Parks Conservancy By Alysia Gray Painter • Published at 5:09 pm on August 4, 2019 THE HOLIDAY SEASON... will twinkle, gleam, sparkle, glow, and shimmer, though not necessarily in that order. It really depends where you're at, and the nature of the seasonal celebration, and how bright the bulbs (and how many are present, too). But sometimes? It's nice to skip all of that and simply go for the gentlest of flickers, as in the flicker that comes from a candle. Such holiday happenings do occur, but finding a candle-oriented adventure in the outdoors is rather a more unusual pleasure. But it is one that has flickered fancifully in the redwoods for three decades now, as a beautiful fundraiser for the... REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY: That's the organization that puts together the annual Candelight Walk Nights at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, and while the evenings do help to garner support for the redwoods-helping outfit, the walks are also full of gifts for those who buy a ticket. Why? Because you're out among the giants, on a late fall evening, enjoying that fresh forest air, the flicker of the lights lining your path, some birdsong, and the joy that comes from connecting with nature in the most month on the calendar. DEC. 6 AND 7... are the recently announced 2019 dates, and tickets go on sale in November. That's a Friday and Saturday, due note, so you'll want to plan your Prairie Creek jaunt accordingly. The walk itself? It's a pinch under a half mile, "on a level path," and, for sure, have a jacket or wearable items that feel right for the early part of December. Call it a quiet way to enter the hubbub of the end of the year, with a nature-nice element. And call it a tradition that endures, and flickers on, for these glorious, limb-rocking, sky-reaching, bird-housing titans of old.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9133
__label__wiki	0.947296	0.947296	Bad Rap: Miami Artist Brisco Jacked in Barber Shop Range Rover, $35,000 worth of jewelry taken from Miami performer By Brian Hamacher and Todd Wright • Published at 8:29 am on August 6, 2009 Tomada de Twitter Rapper Brisco just wanted a haircut, but he came out of a Miami barbershop with a headache after a group of thugs pistol-whipped him and made off with cash, jewelry and his Range Rover during an afternoon robbery last week. Brisco's "Just Know That" On July 29, four men entered the barbershop at 6301 NW 6 Ave. waving hand guns and demanding the rapper's car keys. They fired their guns, though nobody was hurt, police said. In surveillance video, the four men appear to be gunning for the gawdy rap star. Three of the gunmen go straight for Brisco, who is sitting in the barber's chair getting a haircut. They force him to the floor, take off his chain and watch and dig in his pockets for whatever cash they can find. "This robbery was off the chain," said Miami Police Department spokesman Jeff Giordano. "Taking someone's bling. They might as well have taken his heart." Brisco's Range Rover was recovered a short time later, but the thieves made off with over $35,000 worth of jewelry. Police are still looking for the four robbers, described as black males between 18 and 25 years old. Brisco, 24, whose MySpace page describes him as "The Opa Locka Goon," has worked with Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. His debut album "Street Medicine" is scheduled for release this year. Many of Brisco's lyrics promote violence and "jacking" others to survive in the street. In a sad moment of poetic justice, it looks like these goons gave Brisco a taste of his own music promoting medicine.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9134
__label__cc	0.728302	0.271698	Am J Psychiatry. 2011 Dec;168(12):1303-10. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11030516. Autoimmune diseases and severe infections as risk factors for schizophrenia: a 30-year population-based register study. Benros ME1, Nielsen PR, Nordentoft M, Eaton WW, Dalton SO, Mortensen PB. National Center for Register-Based Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Benros@ncrr.dk Autoimmune diseases have been associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. It has been suggested that brain-reactive autoantibodies are part of the mechanisms behind this association. Furthermore, an increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier has been observed during periods of infection and inflammation. The authors therefore investigated whether autoimmune diseases combined with exposures to severe infections may increase the risk of schizophrenia Nationwide population-based registers in Denmark were linked, and the data were analyzed in a cohort study using survival analysis. All analyses were adjusted for calendar year, age, and sex. Incidence rate ratios and accompanying 95% confidence intervals (CIs) as measures of relative risk were used. A prior autoimmune disease increased the risk of schizophrenia by 29% (incidence rate ratio=1.29; 95% CI=1.18-1.41). Any history of hospitalization with infection increased the risk of schizophrenia by 60% (incidence rate ratio=1.60; 95% CI=1.56-1.64). When the two risk factors were combined, the risk of schizophrenia was increased even further (incidence rate ratio=2.25; 95% CI=2.04-2.46). The risk of schizophrenia was increased in a dose-response relationship, where three or more infections and an autoimmune disease were associated with an incidence rate ratio of 3.40 (95% CI=2.91-3.94). The results remained significant after adjusting for substance use disorders and family history of psychiatric disorders. Hospital contact with infection occurred in nearly 24% of individuals prior to a schizophrenia diagnosis. Autoimmune disease and the number of infections requiring hospitalization are risk factors for schizophrenia. The increased risk is compatible with an immunological hypothesis in subgroups of schizophrenia patients. 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11030516 Autoimmune Diseases/complications* Autoimmune Diseases/epidemiology Denmark/epidemiology Infections/complications* Infections/epidemiology Schizophrenia/diagnosis Schizophrenia/epidemiology* Schizophrenia/etiology* R01 MH053188/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States MH-53188/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States Autoimmune Diseases - Genetic Alliance Schizophrenia - Genetic Alliance Autoimmune Diseases - MedlinePlus Health Information Schizophrenia - MedlinePlus Health Information	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9136
__label__wiki	0.704347	0.704347	Make a gift of a scholarship Advanced Cyber Security Engineering Research Centre ACSRC Research Highlights 2006 Careers in Cyber Security Recent Cyber Threat Reports Master of Cyber Security at UON Cyber Security Labs Visit to Research Centres in Beijing Professor Vijay Varadharajan visited Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing and gave a presentation on "Trust Enhanced Security and Peer to Peer Computing" to researchers on 25th October, 2006. Whilst in Beijing, Prof Varadharajan also visited Hewlett-Packard Labs China, and gave a presentation on "Challenges for Computing and Engineering - Systems Approach and Trust Enhanced Security" on 26th October, 2006. Microsoft Faculty Summit - Beijing, China 23rd - 24th October, 2006 Professor Vijay Varadharajan attended the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Beijing 23rd - 24th October, 2006. He chaired a high level panel discussion with senior academic leaders from various countries from around the world on the issue of fostering high quality research students in computer science and information technology. The panel members included: Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Tsinghua University, China and Turing Award Recipient 2000 Ke Gong, President of Tianjin University, China Myung-Soo Kim, Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea Noriko Kando, Professor, Software Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Pat Hanrahan, CANON USA Professor of Stanford University, USA Wei-Ying Ma, Principal Researcher and Area Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Award for Research in Trustworthy Computing Professor Vijay Varadharajan was given an Award for his research contributions to the Microsoft Privacy Program in Trustworthy Computing. A commemorative plaque was presented to him on 21st July, 2006 at a Forum in Microsoft, Redmond, by Microsoft Privacy Strategist J. C. Cannon. PhD Awarded to Udaya Tupakula Udaya Tupakula graduated on 20th September, 2006, with his PhD thesis entitled "Modeling, design and implementation techniques for counteracting denial of service attacks in networks". It was accepted for the degree of PhD by Macquarie University. IT Security Summit 2006 - 15th June, 2006 Prof. Vijay Varadharajan was one of many speakers at the one day IT Security Summit 2006, 15th June 2006 at Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney. His topic was "It's all about Trust". 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference 7-8 May (VTC 2006) Prof. Vijay Varadharajan gave a presentation at one of the Panel Session at the 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006) in Melbourne, 7-8 May 2006. 2GB Radio Interview Recently Prof. Vijay Varadharajan gave an interview on Sydney radio station 2GB on Identity Theft. He discussed issues of the role and the nature of identities in the digital world and opportunities for stealing and masquerading, and possible countermeasures that could be taken. Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering Congratulations to Udaya Tupakula, INSS Research Assistant, who has been chosen as a candidate for inclusion in the 2006-2007 (9th) edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering, scheduled to be published in September 2006. This is a significant honour, an achievement in itself, that is afforded to very few individuals in the course of a lifetime. INSS Student receives Macquarie University Student Travel Scholarship Venkatesan Balakrishnan, who is a PhD student and a member of the INSS Research Group, received a Macquarie University Student International Travel Scholarship. He presented his accepted paper to the 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Networks Management and Operations Symposium (NOMS 2006) in Vancouver, Canada, 3-7 April, 2006. University Drive, Callaghan Copyright 2020 CRICOS Provider Number 00109J The University of Newcastle, Australia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9143
__label__wiki	0.934562	0.934562	Players need to step up, Hesser says Visiting Lewis too much for Panthers to overcome Players need to step up, Hesser says Visiting Lewis too much for Panthers to overcome Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/2i5Bqy1 For the News-Leader Published 9:27 p.m. CT Jan. 7, 2017 \| Updated 9:28 p.m. CT Jan. 7, 2017 Drury sophomore guard John Williams helped keep the Panthers within striking distance with a career-high 23 points.(Photo: Drury Sports Information) Drury stormed back in the game’s final five minutes but was unable to deny the upset bid of visiting Lewis. Tevin Foster’s game-winning attempt to beat the buzzer was strong off the glass, and the Flyers escaped with a 76-75 win over the No. 12 Panthers on Saturday. It was Drury’s second straight loss and third in four games. “Since we’ve come back from (winter) break, we haven’t made the commitment to give the kind of effort that you need,” coach Steve Hesser said. “In this league, if you’re lazy mentally or physically, it’s going to bite you in the posterior.” The Panthers (10-3, 3-2) trailed by as many as 15 points. A career-high 23 points for sophomore John Williams kept Drury within striking distance. “John plays with such energy, and we need some more guys to step up on the perimeter with the same energy he plays with,” Hesser said. “Then we’ll be a much better basketball team.” While Drury struggled through a lackluster shooting performance for much of the afternoon, Lewis senior Miles Simelton enjoyed his visit to Springfield. Simelton led Lewis (9-5, 4-0) with 21 points. He thumped his chest and laughed out loud, with his whole offensive toolbox on display: step-back jumpers, driving floaters, and a smooth three-point stroke. “I try to take it upon myself to start the game aggressive,” Simelton said. “One of the staples of my game is to try to have as much fun as I can.” Simelton went 7-for-12 from the floor, 3-for-4 from deep. Lewis has won seven of its last eight games after a 1-4 start and remains undefeated in the conference. “It’s always a good thing when you can get a road win in the GLVC,” Simelton said. The Panthers closed on a 19-8 run over the final 4:55, starting with a left-wing trey by Isaac Johnson that cut the Lewis lead to single digits, 68-59. “Young players need to learn is how to handle things when they’re going your way and how to handle things when they don’t,” Hesser said. “This will be a test for our guys. We’ve got to fix some things.” Johnson scored 16 points for Drury. Joshua Palmer had a dozen. Foster finished with 11. Frank Vukaj scored 16 points for Lewis. Cristen Wilson pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds. Simelton was one of three Flyers with multiple treys before intermission. He had 10 points at the break. The Panthers went 11-for-30 before the break, including a chilly 1-for-11 from deep. Lewis entered the locker room with a 38-25 lead. The Panthers face Saint Joseph’s on the road Jan. 12 at 3 p.m.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9147
__label__cc	0.732787	0.267213	Download the My GNP mobile app today! Refill your prescriptions with ease and have them sent directly to your local Good Neighbor Pharmacy. Get the app now! Please enter 10-digit phone number without any spaces or hyphens. Example: 3101234567 The link has been sent successfully. Continue to MyGNP.com Patterson's Drug Store 134 South Queen Street Martinsburg, West Virginia 25401 Closes at 8:00 PM Online Refills 134 South Queen Street Martinsburg, West Virginia 25401 Refill Your Prescription Monday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST Tuesday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST Wednesday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST Thursday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST Friday 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM EST Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST What's New This Month? Good Neighbor Pharmacy is proud to offer timely tips and inspiration for living well on a monthly basis. Monthly Articles Welcome to Patterson's Drug Store, your locally owned community pharmacy. Store Services & Features Compounding Service View Circular Fill out this form to submit your refill request directly to the Patterson's Drug Store. It will be delivered via secure fax, and we will call you when it is ready to pickup. Please call us directly if you wish to transfer a prescription from another pharmacy. 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 January February March April May June July August September October November December Prescriptions to Refill Rx Number 1 * Rx Number 2 HIPAA Notice of Privacy Learn about HIPAA's Notice of Privacy and how it protects you. NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES Effective April 14, 2003 THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. As part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, the pharmacy has created this Notice of Privacy Practices (Notice). This Notice describes the pharmacy's private practices and the rights you, the individual, have as they relate to the privacy of your Protected Health Information (PHI). Your PHI is information about you, or that could be used to identify you, as it relates to your past and present physical and mental health care services. The HIPAA regulations require that the pharmacy protect the privacy of your PHI that the pharmacy has received or created. This pharmacy will abide by the terms presented within this Notice. For any uses or disclosures that are not listed below, the pharmacy will obtain a written authorization from you for that use or disclosure, which you will have the right to revoke at any time, as explained in more detail below. The pharmacy reserves the right to change the pharmacy's privacy practices and this Notice. Revisions to the Notice will be posted in the pharmacy and upon your request, provided to you in a paper format. HOW THE PHARMACY MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PHI The following is an accounting of the ways that the pharmacy is permitted, by law, to use and disclose your PHI. Uses and disclosures of PHI for Treatment: We will use the PHI that we receive from you to fill your prescription and coordinate or manage your health care. Uses and disclosures of PHI for Payment: The pharmacy will disclose your PHI to obtain payment or reimbursement form insurers for your health care services. Uses and disclosures of PHI for Health Care Operations: The pharmacy will use your PHI to conduct quality assessments, improvement activities, and evaluate the pharmacy workforce. The following is an accounting of additional ways in which the pharmacy is permitted or required to use or disclose phi about you without your written authorization: Uses and disclosures as required by law: The pharmacy is required to use and disclose PHI about you as required and as limited by law. Uses and disclosures for public health activities: The pharmacy may use or disclose PHI about you to a public health authority that is authorized by law to collect for the purpose of preventing, controlling disease, injury, or disability. Uses and disclosure about victims of abuse, neglect or domestic violence: The pharmacy may use or disclose PHI about you to a government authority if it is reasonably believed you are a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence. Uses and disclosures for health oversight activities: The pharmacy may use or disclose PHI about you to a health oversight agency for oversight activities that it is authorized by law to conduct. Disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about you in the course of any judicial or administrative proceedings, provided that proper documentation is presented to the pharmacy. Disclosures for law enforcement purposes: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about you to law enforcement officials for authorized purposes. Uses and disclosures about the deceased: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about a deceased, or prior to, and in reasonable anticipation of an individual's death, to coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors. Uses and disclosures for cadaveric organ, eye or tissue donation purposes: The pharmacy may use and disclose PHI for the purpose of procurement, banking, or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for donation purposes. Uses and disclosures for research purposes: The pharmacy may use and disclose PHI about you for research purposes with valid waiver of authorization approved by an institutional review board or a privacy board. Otherwise, the pharmacy will request a signed authorization by the individual for all other research purposes. Uses and disclosures to avert a serious threat to health or safety: The pharmacy may use or disclose PHI about you, if it believed in good faith, and is consistent with any applicable law and standards of ethical conduct, to avert a serious threat to health or safety. Uses and disclosures for specialized government functions: The pharmacy may use or disclose PHI about you for specialized government functions including; military and veteran's activities, national security and intelligence, protective services, department of state functions, and correctional institutions and law enforcement custodial situations. Disclosure for workers' compensation: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about you as authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with workers' compensation laws or programs established by law. Disclosures for disaster relief purposes: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about you as authorized by law to a public or private entity to assist in disaster relief efforts. Disclosures to business associates: The pharmacy may disclose PHI about you to the pharmacy's business associates for services that they may provide to or for the pharmacy. OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES The pharmacy may contact you for the following purposes: Refill reminders: The pharmacy may contact you to remind you of your prescription upon such time they are ready to be refilled. Information about treatment alternatives: The pharmacy may contact you to notify you of alternative treatments and/or products. Health related benefits or services: The pharmacy may use your PHI to notify you of benefits and services the pharmacy provides. Fundraising: If the pharmacy participates in a fundraising activity, the pharmacy may use demographic PHI to send you a fundraising packet, or the pharmacy may disclose demographic PHI about you to its business associate or an institutionally related foundation to send you a fundraising packet. No further disclosure will be allowed by the business associates or an institutionally related foundation without your written authorization. FOR ALL OTHER USES AND DISCLOSURES The pharmacy will obtain a written authorization from you for all other uses and disclosures of PHI, and the pharmacy will only use or disclose pursuant to such an authorization. In addition, you may revoke such an authorization in writing at any time. To revoke a previously authorized use or disclosure, please contact the pharmacy. YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION RIGHTS The following are a list of your rights in respect to your PHI. Request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your PHI: You have the right to request additional restrictions of the pharmacy?s uses and disclosures of your PHI; however, the pharmacy is not required to accommodate a request. If you wish to request additional restrictions, please obtain the form, Request for Restriction of Uses & Disclosures, from the pharmacy and return the completed form to the pharmacy. The right to have your PHI communicated to you by alternate means or locations: You have the right to request that the pharmacy communicate confidentially with you using an address or phone number other than your residence. However, state and federal laws require the pharmacy to have an accurate address and home phone number in case of emergencies. The pharmacy will consider all reasonable requests. If you wish to request a change in your communicating address and/or phone number, please obtain a form, Request for Alternative Arrangements for Confidential Communication, from the pharmacy and return the completed form to the pharmacy. The right to inspect and/or obtain a copy of your PHI: You have the right to request access and/or obtain a copy of your PHI that is contained in the pharmacy for the duration the pharmacy maintains PHI about you. If you wish to inspect or obtain a copy of your PHI, please obtain a form, Request for Access to Records, from the pharmacy and return the completed form to the pharmacy. There may be a reasonable cost-based charge for photocopying documents. You will be notified in advance of incurring such charges, if any. The right to amend your PHI: You have the right to request an amendment of the PHI the pharmacy maintains about you, if you feel that the PHI the pharmacy has maintained about you is incorrect or otherwise incomplete. Under certain circumstances we may deny your request. If we do deny the request, you will have the right to have the denial reviewed by someone we designate who was not involve in the initial review. You may ask to Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services, or their appropriate designee, to review such a denial. If you wish to amend your PHI files, please obtain a form, Request for Amendment of PHI, from the pharmacy and return the completed form to the pharmacy. The right to receive and accounting of disclosures of your PHI: You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures of your PHI made by the pharmacy. If you wish to receive an accounting of disclosures of your PHI, please obtain form, Request for Accounting of Disclosures, from the pharmacy and return the completed form to the pharmacy. You should be aware; however, that such an accounting excludes uses and disclosures made for treatment, payment and health care operations purposes. The right to receive additional copies of the Pharmacy?s Notice of Privacy Practices: you have the right to receive additional paper copies of this Notice, upon request, even if you initially agreed to receive the Notice electronically. If you with to receive a paper copy of this notice, please ask a pharmacy workforce member and they will provide you with a copy. REVISIONS TO THE NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES The pharmacy reserves the right to change and/or revise this Notice and make the new revised version applicable to all PHI received prior to its effective date. The revised Notice will be available, upon request, to all individuals. The pharmacy will also post the revised version of the Notice in the pharmacy. COMPLAINTS If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the pharmacy and/or to the Secretary of HHS, or his designee. If you wish to file a complaint with the pharmacy, please contact the Privacy Officer. If you wish to file a complaint with the Secretary, please write to: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General 200 Independence Ave, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 The pharmacy will not take any adverse action against you as a result of your filing of a complaint. CONTACT INFORMATION If you have any questions on the pharmacy's privacy practices or for clarification on anything contained within the Notice, please contact:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9151
__label__wiki	0.563837	0.563837	Home / Entertainment / Nollywood News / Why Psquare Brothers Couldn’t Perform Together At 30Billion Concert – Davido Reveals Why Psquare Brothers Couldn’t Perform Together At 30Billion Concert – Davido Reveals Naijadopest 1:53 PM Entertainment , Nollywood News In the aftermath of the biggest reconciliation of the year at Wizkid’s concert where he publicly settled a long-term beef with Davido, it appeared that Davido had put in place series of dispute settlement and reunion performances to also happen at his recently held 30Billion Concert. It came as a big surprise of the Night when Davido pulled up reunion of the defunct Mo’hit group on stage at his concert. Fans were delighted at the sight of Don Jazzy D’Banj, Wande Coal, Dr Sid on the same stage peforming many of their major hits. Meanwhile, the prevailing atmosphere of love and unity in the music industry has made Nigerians on social media expressed their wish to see the Psquare brothers perform at the 30Billion Concert. However, Davido revealed through a snapchat post that he made a move to get the Psquare brothers on stage at the concert but one of the brothers, Paul Okoye (Rudeboy) had already been booked for a show on the same day. While Paul Okoye couldn’t make it for the concert, his twin brother, Peter Okoye also known as Mr.P was present at Davido’s 30 Billion Concert. Davido went further to assure fans that the Psquare brothers are lovely twins and there is no beef between them despite their split. Here is what he posted below; “Let us preach unity, Psquare were ready to perform but one of them Paul was not present but Peter Okoye was at the show.“He already had a show which made it impossible for them to perform alongside Mo’hits crew.“Both guys are lovely guys trust me there is no problem.” Source: 360nobs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9152
__label__cc	0.640583	0.359417	WATCH: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters championship with an incredible Sunday comeback Updated Apr 14, 2019; Posted Apr 14, 2019 Tiger Woods hits on the 12th hole during the final round for the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP By Kevin Manahan \| NJ Advance Media for NJ.com All these young golfers on the PGA and European tours who wondered if they’d ever get the chance to experience the old Tiger Woods on a majors Sunday, got their wish -- when Woods stormed through the back nine of Augusta National Golf Club to win his fifth Masters championship in Augusta, Ga. They got it all -- the Sunday red, the mock turtleneck, the amazing shots -- and the guy who two years ago could barely walk, won his 15th major championship with 14 clubs and a collection of hardware in his surgically repaired back. And a few of those young golfers, while watching Woods, faltered. Simply incredible. pic.twitter.com/cWIpdMpfzy — CBS Sports (@CBSSports) April 14, 2019 Woods, two shots off the lead when Sunday’s fourth round of the Masters began Sunday morning, rallied on the back nine as the others stumbled. With the patience of a 14-time major championship, Woods waited for those around him to self-destruct, then he sneaked into the clubhouse with a 2-under 70, which was more than good enough. “I was just trying to plod my way around the gold course, and suddenly I had the lead,” Woods said. “We’ve come full circle. My dad was here in ’97, when I won my first [Masters] and now I’m a dad.” In golf’s Game of Thrones, he retook the crown. Woods finished at 13 under, one shot ahead of Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka, capping one of the great comeback stories in sports history. The 14 years between Masters wins is the longest in the history of the tournament. The major title was Woods’ first since the 2008 U.S. Open. A walk worth waiting for. #themasters pic.twitter.com/49qe2dhLaO — Masters Tournament (@TheMasters) April 14, 2019 Woods’ comeback began on the par-3 No. 12, where Francesco Molinari and Tony Finau hit their tee shots into the water. Woods made par to their bogeys and he grabbed a share of the lead at 11 under par. At 13, he made a birdie to stay tied for the lead with Molinari and Xander Schauffele. At 14, he made par to stay atop the leaderboard, but the tournament swung at No. 15, a par-5, where his two-putt birdie gives him a one-shot lead. When Woods birdied the 16th with an 8-iron to 3 feet, he was 14 under par with a two-shot lead. He cruised in from there. Tiger's family is hoping to see his 5th win at the Masters. pic.twitter.com/aoGK4HdUIb	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9160
__label__wiki	0.993836	0.993836	The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 More The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 - Prize announcement The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 - Press release Share on Facebook: Prize announcement Share this content on Facebook Facebook Tweet: Prize announcement Share this content on Twitter Twitter Share via Email: Prize announcement Share this content via Email Email this page Announcement of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, presented by Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on 11 October 2019. Interview about the awarded work “We identify this as the most significant contribution to peace in the last year” Immediately after the announcement, Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Christian Borch regarding the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. MLA style: Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 20 Jan 2020. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/prize-announcement/>	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9163
__label__wiki	0.868584	0.868584	China’s 70-year parade shows economic and military might Subscribe for News Feed The event marks the anniversary of the Oct. 1, 1949, announcement of the founding of the People’s Republic of China by then-leader Mao Zedong following a civil war. China’s Communist Party celebrated its 70th anniversary in power with a parade on Tuesday showcasing the country’s economic growth and newest weapons. The nationally televised event opened with a military honor guard carrying the Chinese flag through Tiananmen Square, the country’s symbolic political heart, before thousands of spectators who waved flags. Artillery guns fired a salute. President Xi Jinping, wearing a gray Mao jacket, and other Chinese leaders, including former Presidents Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin, watched from atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace at the square’s north end. The parade follows Mr. Xi’s promise to allow Hong Kong to manage its own affairs despite anti-government protests that have embarrassed the ruling party ahead of the year’s highest-profile propaganda event. The parade through central Beijing is due to include 15,000 troops and more than 160 aircraft. Chinese news reports say it might include a new long-range nuclear-armed missile and a supersonic drone aircraft. Military spokespeople have declined to give details. Source : The Hindu #70th anniversary #China #China’s Communist Party #leader Mao Zedong China has developed the world’s first mobile quantum satellite station Centre gears up to place restrictions on non-essential imports China successfully launches largest carrier rocket US, China near modest trade deal that would suspend planned tariffs & de-escalate 17-month trade war IAS Prelims Examination UPSC Mock Test for Prelims Examination English News Jan 13 www.civilserviceindia.com What are the subjects in IAS? What is the Eligibility for IAS? What is the Syllabus for IAS ? Copyright © 2020 www.civilserviceindia.com All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9170
__label__wiki	0.908055	0.908055	Hulu Comedy 'Difficult People' Shows Pence's Vice Presidential Seal as a Swastika By Callista Ring \| August 9, 2017 12:39 AM EDT The first episodes of the third season of Hulu’s Difficult People were comprised almost entirely of liberal tirades against conservative politicians. The show, which revolves around the lives of the self-absorbed Julie (Julie Klausner) and her gay friend Billy (Billy Eichner), had a field day delivering anti-conservative blows in its first three episodes, which were released on August 8. In the episode "Strike Rat," the show creates a villain out of Vice President Mike Pence. Because insults aimed at conservatives don’t actually have to make sense, Billy calls Pence a “failed prototype for one of those Japanese sex robots.” The show fantasizes about Pence creating a new program called Sixpence None the Gayer, a gay conversion therapy program where the government pays gay people $6,000 to become straight through electric shock therapy, which, of course, sets off protests. When Billy and Marilyn (Andrea Martin), Julie’s mom, pretend to take part in the program in order to receive the $6,000, a package arrives in the mail complete with beer, a “Make America Straight Again” hat, and an electric shock therapy kit. Billy notices the new vice-presidential seal, which for the show’s purposes looks exactly like a swastika. Liberals constantly berate Pence with accusations that he tried to divert tax-payer money toward gay conversion therapy, even going so far as to say he supported shock therapy for gay people. However, the accusations have never stuck, so the writers have to attack the Vice President through absurd fabrications. As protocol for any liberal TV show today, jabs were made against President Trump, too. The opening scene of the first episode, “Passover Bump,” has a man ask Julie and Billy for the location of the Trump statue. In response, they empty two trash bags into his car. Later, Julie goes to a Quiznos for healthcare in her search for antidepressant prescriptions. Billy remarks, “Ever since Trump replaced the Department of Health with Jenny McCarthy’s blog, nothing makes sense. Doctors have to do whatever they can to earn a living.” The show also shoehorns swipes at President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan in its third episode, “Code Change.” When an elderly man has trouble using his computer at work, Julie’s boyfriend, Arthur, comments, “I don’t need to watch you fumble around like Ronald Reagan.” Later, Julie’s sobriety sponsor asserts, “Nancy Reagan was an AIDS ignoring monster. According to this article by the San Francisco Chronicle about the new season, “The cast mocks not only President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, but also the mind-set of their supporters.” Because consistently alienating half the country is a great way to heal the political divide in America. Difficult People will be released weekly on Tuesdays on Hulu. <<< Please support MRC's NewsBusters team with a tax-deductible contribution today. >>> MRC Culture on TV Blogs Culture/Society Video Donald Trump Mike Pence Ronald Reagan Nancy Reagan Callista Ring Callista Ring is a contributing writer for MRC Culture.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line9171

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