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__label__cc	0.500738	0.499262	So You Want To Be a Flagler County Judge: Nominating Commission Is Fielding Applicants July 23, 2019 \| FlaglerLive \| 2 Comments Flagler County will have a new judge before the end of the year. (© FlaglerLive) Would you like to be a Flagler County judge? If you’re a lawyer and have been a member of the bar for the past five years, if you live in the area, if you think you have the right temperament, if you want the certainty of a $152,000-a-year salary (not including benefits), if you want your own personal body guard and you can deal with the politics of the appointment process and an election sooner than you think, then here’s your chance–if you apply by Aug. 9. Flagler County has one county judge, a seat held by Melissa Distler since 2012. officials have been lobbying the Legislature for an additional county judge for the past several years to relieve Distler of a uniquely heavy docket. The Legislature approved the addition in the last session after Palm Coast’s Paul Renner, the Republican rising through the House’s leadership ranks, shepherded a bill that got the governor’s signature. The position is now funded. But it must be filled by appointment until the next general election. Pretenses of impartiality aside, the process is highly politicized, thanks to changes instituted by the Legislature at then Gov. Jeb Bush’s urging not long after he took office in 1999. Until then, Florida’s judicial-selection process outside of elections was a national model of balance and objectivity thanks to reforms under Gov. Reuben Askew. Three members of judicial nominating commissions were chosen by the Florida Bar, three by the governor, and the remaining three were chosen by the six appointees, thus minimizing the role of politics in favor of community service, professional reputation, experience and ultimately, quality. That changed in 2001 when the governor with the Legislature’s help abrogated the process and made all appointments to nominating commissions himself. The Bar still has a voice, but it only recommends its choices for four of the nine seats. The governor appoints all, thus giving him more room to stack panels his way. Flagler County is in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which also includes Volusia, Putnam and St., Johns. Only one of the nine members of its Judicial Nominating Commission, attorney Raven Sword, is a Flagler resident. The chairman, Katherine Hurst Miller, is based in New Smyrna Beach. (The previous chairman, Christopher Green, was based in Jacksonville.) Miller’s office is coordinating the nominating process, issuing guidelines and setting up the interview schedule. Here’s how it goes: Applicants must have been a member of The Florida Bar for the preceding five years, a registered voter, and must be a resident of Flagler at the time he or she assumes office. You can apply here, or at the Florida Bar, or download the application at the foot of this article. Send an original completed paper version of the application and attachments to: Katherine Hurst Miller, Chair Seventh Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission Wright & Casey, P.A. 340 North Causeway A PDF version of the completed application and attachments, including the executed Florida Department of Law Enforcement form; with a color photograph either in .jpg or .gif format; and A redacted PDF version of the application excluding all exempt information under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes, and other applicable public records law. The PDF files should be submitted on either a flash drive or CD-R and should be named so that the applicant’s name and “redacted” or “original” is readily apparent in the name of the attachment. All questions in the application must be answered fully and completely. Applications should include current and accurate contact information for judges, co-counsel, opposing counsel, and references because those individuals will likely be contacted. The deadline for submission of the application is August 9, 2019 at 5 p.m. Incomplete or non-functioning electronic copies of the applications and applications received after the deadline may not be considered. Interviews are tentatively scheduled for Aug. 28 and 29 at a time and location yet to be determined. The commission will then deliberate and shortlist applicants, sending that list to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will then make the appointment. That can take weeks or months. A judicial appointee must serve at least a full year before he or she faces an election, and that election must be in a general cycle, or an even year. Assuming DeSantis makes the appointment before Nov. 1, the new county judge will get that first year on the bench but then will have to run in the 2020 general election, when the seat will be open for all qualified candidates. DeSantis could play politics and delay the appointment until later in November, thus ensuring that his appointee serves on the bench through 2022 before facing election, thus building more incumbent immunity. The new judge is unknown but the position is already causing political ripples locally. A new judge means the addition of a bailiff dedicated to him or her, as a bodyguard–a position the sheriff requested from the county commission, and will be granted. It means the addition of about four support positions at the courthouse, two of them funded locally, two of them funded by the state, according to Clerk of Court Tom Bexley. It also means re-configuring space allotments at the courthouse to accommodate the new judge and his or her new courtroom (there are several courtrooms available, the building having been designed for growth over decades). And it means re-configuring some space in light of current space allotments involving the sheriff’s personnel, temporarily exiled from an operations center of its own and occupying several thousand square feet at the courthouse. Bexley is expected to deliver a proposed space plan regarding the sheriff’s needs, to be in effect for the next few years, to the county administration Wednesday. Maybe we can get a new judge who will be stricter on sentencing. I understand that the DA and SA reccomend a lot of these pleas. However at the end of the day it’s the Judge who accepts it. And some of these sentences on serious crimes have been laughable at best. Likewise our Judges need to take a hard look at the bond schecule in Flagler County. It too is laughable at best. Think I’m joking? Why is a DV perp who just beat the hell out of someone able to bond on 5K and a GPS monitor? Why are repeat felony offenders able to bond out on 25 and 30K bonds? Those numbers might seem high but most bonds only need a percentage to bond out. And before someone says it it’s not the communities issue that the jails and prisons are full. Stop these nonsense please on serious and violent crimes, as well as repeat offenders. Probation and please are for first time offenders who show they want to turn things around from poor choices made. I know that our law Enforcement Community works as hard as they can to try and enforce the laws. I worked it for 6 years before I made the change to Fire Rescue. Catch and release is not an effective program at all. What our Law Enforcement community needs is a judiciary system that will back them up. Not one that is afraid to do their damn jobs we appoint them to. Change the course says Maybe we can get a judge that will get cases off the docket the first time rather than carry cases on and on and have so many delays. CB from PC on For Seven Days, Flagler Sees Florida’s Broken Death Penalty Machinery in Action Cappy on Sheriff Seeking DeVantell Cooper, ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Felon Wanted in Shooting at U.S. 1 Roundabout Really on Sheriff Seeking DeVantell Cooper, ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Felon Wanted in Shooting at U.S. 1 Roundabout hawkeye on Palm Coast’s Ryan Centofanti, 35, Accused of Drunkenly Driving Down A1A and Repeatedly Firing AR-15-Type Rifle Who's this guy on Buddy Taylor’s Michelle Coolican and Plant Services’ Lynn Mellow Take Top Honors in School District’s Annual Gala ASF on Palm Coast’s Ryan Centofanti, 35, Accused of Drunkenly Driving Down A1A and Repeatedly Firing AR-15-Type Rifle Agkistrodon on Palm Coast’s Ryan Centofanti, 35, Accused of Drunkenly Driving Down A1A and Repeatedly Firing AR-15-Type Rifle Land of no turn signals says on Sheriff Seeking DeVantell Cooper, ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Felon Wanted in Shooting at U.S. 1 Roundabout Jackie on Jeffrey ‘Rocco’ Paffumi, 47, Teacher at Buddy Taylor Middle, Arrested for Battery on a Student, 14	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1239
__label__cc	0.749963	0.250037	Foley Hoag Wins Class Action Dismissal in Delaware Chancery Court Foley Hoag LLP recently won dismissal of a putative class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court against Acadian Asset Management LLC and some of its officers alleging breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and waste. Shareholders of two U.S.-based mutual funds alleged that Acadian and some of its officers led the funds to purchase shares in certain publicly traded European corporations operating online gambling businesses that were illegal in the United States, causing the funds to become “owners” of a betting enterprise in violation of federal law. The plaintiffs claimed they suffered harm because stock prices fell when the U.S. government increased enforcement efforts, which depressed the funds’ value. The Foley Hoag team, which included partner Brandon White and associates Jeff Bone and Katie Perry, moved to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over the officers, who worked in Boston; all the claims were derivative in nature; and the complaint failed to state a claim against any of the Acadian defendants because they did not owe any duties to the plaintiffs, since they were advisers to the funds. The Chancery Court granted the motion and dismissed the action. The plaintiffs have appealed the decision to the Delaware Supreme Court. Business & Commercial Disputes » Litigation »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1241
__label__wiki	0.624375	0.624375	Foodservice News & Trends Foodservice Issues Foodservice Opinions E&S Extra Foodservice by Design This Week In Foodservice FESFlix Special Series: Waste Management Chain News & Profiles Segment Spotlight DSR of the Month Facility Design Project of the Month E&S Directory Foodservice Equipment Repair & Maintenance NAFEM Showcase Product Knowledge Guide Sanitation & Safety Equipment Serving Equipment Tabletop & Smallwares Furnishings and Fixtures Industry Forecast Distribution Giants Best in Class Reports Operator Purchasing Study Tour the Trends FED Summit DSR of the Year Tabletop Awards Facility Design Project of the Year FE&S Dealer of the year and Industry Awards Gala Kitchen Storage Makeover Subscribe to our eNewsletters Restaurant Delivery Analysis, Baskin Robbins’ New Store Design and Illinois Considers Allowing Restaurants to Accept Food Stamps Written by Jerry Stiegler Everyone in the restaurant business knows delivery represents the wave of the future. One industry guru says offering delivery is an absolute necessity for a restaurant to grow or maybe even to survive. (An exception to this wave is Texas Roadhouse, which feels delivery will create quality issues for the restaurant chain’s menu items.) The number one problem with delivery seems to be making money. Take, for example, Panera Bread. A Wall Street Journal article figures each delivery costs $5.00 for labor, gas and packaging but the company charges just $3.00 because it figures that’s the most a lot of customers will pay. The article goes on to state flatly that “Most delivery orders are unprofitable.” Another cost question requires foodservice operators to choose between setting up their own delivery system vs. using a third-party firm like Grubhub. Most restaurants cringe at developing the necessary technology and hiring delivery staff. But having third-party delivery people, who the foodservice operator has no control over, become the face of their restaurants with their customers is an unappealing prospect. Technological advances may solve some of the problems, but a lot of questions continue to surround the future of delivery, including robots, drones and driverless cars. Are they realistic? And, how soon before they are actually available? Consumers desire delivery service and foodservice executives feel they must meet their customers’ needs. McDonald’s says 70 percent of delivery orders come from people who don’t come into the chain’s restaurants to eat and the check average for delivery orders is roughly twice that of in-store orders. Given data points like these, there’s no denying delivery will remain a center-of-the-plate issue for operators for a the foreseeable future. Economic News This Week The Producer Price Index edged up 0.1 percent in February after falling by 0.1 percent in both December and January. The producer Price Index has risen 1.9 percent in the last 12 months. The index for final demand goods grew by 0.4 percent in February while the index for final demand services was flat for the month. Producer prices for food fell 0.3 percent in February. Initial-jobless claim increased 6,000 to a level of 229,000 for the week ending March 9. The 4-week moving average fell by 2,500 claims to a level of 223,750. The February Consumer Price Index increased 0.2 percent. In the last 12 months the index is up 1.5 percent. The “core” index, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.1 percent in February and is up 2.1 percent in the last 12 months. This indicates that inflation is not a major problem and the Federal Reserve will move slowly to raise interest rates. Sales of new single family homes were soft in January. The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report new home sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 607,000, down 6.9 percent from December and 4.1 percent less than January 2018. Industrial production increased 0.1 percent in February, per the Federal Reserve. Manufacturing production fell 0.4 percent, the index for production utilization rose 3.7 percent and the index for mining production was up 0.3 percent. Capacity utilization in industrial production was down 0.1 percent in February for a reading of 78.2 percent. This rate is 1.6 percent below its long-run (1972-2018) average. New orders for manufactured durable goods increased 0.4 percent in January, according to the Census Bureau’s advance report for the month. Excluding transportation, equipment new orders were down 0.1 percent. Shipments of manufactured durable goods were down 0.5 percent, driven by transportation shipments which were down 1.4 percent. The New York Federal Reserve’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed slower growth in March. The Index hit 3.7, a decline of 5.1 points. (Any number greater than zero shows increasing activity.) The New Orders Index was 3.0, a decline of 4.5 points from February. The Shipments Index totaled 7.7, a decline of 2.7 points. The Unfilled Orders Index rose 2.9 points which put the Index back in positive territory at 2.2. The Number of Employees Index jumped 9.7 points to a reading of 13.8. Private construction spending increased 0.2 percent in January, compared to December. Residential construction spending decreased 0.3 percent. The University of Michigan’s Preliminary March Index of Consumer Sentiment was 97.8, which was up from 93.8 in February. The Current Economic Conditions Index stood at 111.2 , up from 108.5 in February while the Index of Consumer Expectations increased to 89.2 from 84.4 in February. A university spokesperson stated that the economy’s expansion will set a new record length by mid-year. Foodservice News This Week The Consumer Price Index for food increased 0.4 percent in February. In the last 12 months food prices are up 2.0. percent. February food-at-home prices increased 0.4 percent as did food-away-from-home prices. In the last 12 months food-at-home-prices rose 1.2 percent while food-away-from-home prices are up 2.9 percent. Baskin Robins opened a second location featuring its new store design. Called “Moments,” the new store design features bright colors, flexible and comfortable seating, upgraded menu boards and a drive-thru window. The new stores will have a modernized menu as well. A bill introduced in the Illinois legislature would allow the use of food stamps at restaurants. Currently the participants in the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) can only use food stamps to buy groceries. If the bill becomes law, only recipients who are unable to cook (the homeless, disabled, elderly, etc.) will be covered and restaurants that wish to accept food stamps must be certified to participate. Just One More Restaurant, the company that licenses the Palm name, filed for Chapter 11. There are 20 plus Palm restaurants in the U.S. and Mexico. A month ago, a New York judge entered a judgement of $120 million in favor of minority stockholders who had sued majority owners claiming they had been cheated out of royalties for 40 years. Starbucks is challenged in China. A new Chinese coffee shop named Luckin is pursuing customers by offering fast delivery. Starbucks’ strategy was to attract customers by offering upscale locations where they can linger over expensive drinks. Now Starbucks is attempting to set up delivery service. McDonald’s is also setting up a delivery system, which includes coffee. DoorDash takes the lead in food delivery. According to the Wall Street Journal, Uber Eats and Grubhub each have more customer orders, but DoorDash serves more restaurants as well as more high-end operations, which results in more expensive orders. A restaurant chain claims Grubhub charges operators for phone calls regardless of whether the customer places an order. In their lawsuit, two restaurants in the Philadelphia-based Tiffin Indian chain said Grubhub “stole” millions from restaurants by charging for sham phone orders. Grubhub is attempting to move the suit from court to arbitration. Growth Chains: Barbecue chain Pork & Mindy’s will open quick-service versions in 28 Chicago Mariano’s supermarkets. Pork & Mindy’s will replace Todd’s BBQ in all the locations. Primanti Brothers will open two locations in Pennsylvania. Comparable Store Sales Reports: Casey’s General Store up 1.5 percent, Del Frisco Restaurant Group (Total up 0.1 percent, Double Eagle down 0.1 percent, Barcelona up 1.9 percent, Bartaco up 1.6 percent and Del Frisco’s Grille down 0.9. J. Alexander’s Holdings (J. Alexander’s up 0.3 percent and Stony River Steakhouse up 2.4 percent), Noodles & Company (System up 4.0 percent, company owned up 3.7 percent and franchised up 5.3 percent) Steak N Shake down 5.1 percent. For details and same store sales of other chains, please click here for the latest Green Sheet. FE&S' Dealer of the Year and Industry Awards Gala About FE&S iPad Application Copyright © 2020 Foodservice Equipment & Supplies. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1243
__label__cc	0.664993	0.335007	“The Land” Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (10/21/18) "Whenever we enter the land, sooner or later we pick up the scent of our own histories." - William Least Heat-Moon “Bearing Witness” Kristen Psaki (10/14/18) "We are called to bear witness to so much pain—and to make room in our bodies and our spirits to hold so much of our own pain." - Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray "Are you willing to be transformed in the service of the work?" - Mary Hooks “Past as Prologue” Rev. Gretchen Haley (10/7/18) "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell "We inherit covenant before we create covenant." - Rebecca Parker “The Lure of the Local” Rev. Gretchen Haley (9/30/18) "Whatever the future may have in store, one thing is certain; unless local communal life can be restored, the public cannot adequately solve its most urgent problems - to find and identify itself." - John Dewey, 1927 "The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?"- Sandra Cisneros	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.64383	0.35617	About Hannah Hannah replied to AmyNicholson's topic in The Canon I am also sad at news of the hiatus. Devin has great wit and insight and made me look at movies in new ways. As someone who loves movies almost as much as I love anything, getting to listen to the discussions on this podcast has been so wonderful. I have to say my favorite part of the podcast has been Amy's knowledge and notes. I hope the show will go on! Homework: Labyrinth (1986) Hannah replied to nickperkins's topic in The Canon I saw this as a kid and then later as a teen. Loosely based on the Maurice Sendak story I think, who as a kid was haunted by the story of the Lindbergh baby. What engaged me was that it's kind of particularly dark for a kids movie. As a teen I realized some parts were pretty rough ("c'mon feet") but liked it for um, other reasons. Interestingly, I read an earlier draft of the script once and it skewed way more adult particularly in the Sarah/Goblin King relationship. Apparently David Bowie had them tone it down for being too creepy for him. Great movie! Episode 2 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Hannah replied to Shannon's topic in The Canon "Fun racism" - ouch. Amy is right on this one Hannah posted a topic in Bad Movie Recommendations I know that the show generally doesn't do movies in theaters anymore, but I just watched the trailer for the upcoming Rings movie and I thought it was a parody at first! Vincent D'Onofrio popping up in it was just sad. Episode 69 — Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles Hannah replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made? How did he not know what a skunk is Episode 169 — Too Young To Have Kids Hannah replied to JulyDiaz's topic in Yo, Is This Racist? I disagree, in my "group" or whatever it's kind of different to get married before you're 30, let alone have kids... Not that it's inherently bad but my friends who are married/engaged have gotten "you're too young" from their families and I know my family would think that too. It's not like anyone is thinking 27 is like a child as much as that your 20s are for personal and professional development and a marriage and especially kids at that age is more likely interrupt career progression and also to end in divorce (I'm not saying that's true, just the perception)- and most of all that in your 20s you do not have the same financial security/savings for raising the child as you will in your 30s. I'm 23 and when people ask me if I'm married/have kids I kind of have the same reaction as the teacher does but most of the people I work with are from more working class backgrounds and it's just different. But I agree that it is not a race thing I don't know why that guy would think that it is. Bad Summer Movies! Hannah replied to CarolineEAnd's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations One from the Jaws franchise! 3 or 4 are pretty equally amazing... the shark breaking into Sea World vs the shark stalking the family to the Bahamas, cockblocking the mom from getting with Michael Caine...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1258
__label__cc	0.685908	0.314092	The Thread For Stuff That Happens During The Season Previous 1 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 72 template Next Stergios Re: The Thread For Stuff That Happens During The Season Show was a guy who was consistently around 90-91 with the fastball. 5.3 SO/9. 1.29 career WHiP. Solid numbers. Back then, 90-91 was considered good, no? And a 1.29 WHIP is solid. Plus, he would throw 200 innings a year. Drug overdose ... speedball, heroin and alcohol. Tom Friend wrote the whole story a few years back. http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=5543839 Was he in fact a member of the John birch society? (I'm really not looking to malign anyone or entrap you... I'm genuinely curious about him as a person) Yeah but if you transported Eric Show to modern day, 90-91 wouldn't project as slightly above-average like it did then. Golden Spikes 19 holy jeez, I never read that, wow that story should be a movie....where is the tissue 2013, 2014 WAR is stupid Champ!!!! He, Dravecky and Thurmond handed out leaflets at the Del Mar Fair. That's all I know. Politically he was very much right wing. He used to tell me we should get out of the U.N. Harped on it a lot. Originally posted by Golden Spikes 19 View Post Yeah. I know. He revealed very little about his relationship with his father. I know this ... if Eric had his druthers he'd rather play guitar for a jazz ensemble than play baseball. It was a means to an end. And believe me, he was one helluva guitarist. his dad reminds me of that one movie think it was called Frailty? basically the way it turned out is he could have just as easily been raising a serial killer Back in SD Padres save almost a million bucks with Lyles and Ross getting picked up. I mean, it's blah, but it's still $1M. Oakland got Fiers. They've been sneaking up towards the playoffs. bolts4knob pretty he went to a Cal Poly school as like an engineer or scientist and though his name was for most of his career pronounced "Show" - soft Sh - I swear when he first came up it was pronounced "Chow" - or maybe that was just Chandler or Leitner sad ending - got some flack for sitting on the mount when Rose got 4,192 or whatever that number was but I think he said he didn't have anywhere else to go Originally posted by bolts4knob View Post Friend wrote about the Rose thing extensively. It was so typical Eric ... Baseball America yesterday - I don't have access to look but saw the tweet and headline: Padres have their highest ranked farm system. So, even though right now picking 4th (sigh, another top pick) - hopefully this thing turns around and from 2019 - 2029: this team is playing meaningful games up too the first of October and deep into October Thats the run I want. I know about the Yankees of the 90's winning those titles; and the Braves won 14 straight NL East. And of course would love either of those. But Gammons once talked about the Giants during the Bonds years and over a 7 year period - played like 12 meaningless games. Which means they were in a playoff picture until games 159, 160, or the last game. That whats I want Preller to build. Yeah, we'd all love that. The last time we were competitive for multiple consecutive seasons was 2004 through 2007, although in 2005 we ended up with only 82 wins and won the division. Haha I’d settle for competitive baseball into September at this point HollywoodLeo That'd kind of come with the territory of being competitive in general. http://www.rachelschallenge.org/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1264
__label__wiki	0.912686	0.912686	Anthony Joshua wins rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia ‘Clash on the Dunes’ Posted 5:58 AM, December 9, 2019, by CNN Wire DIRIYAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 07: Anthony Joshua punches Andy Ruiz Jr during the IBF, WBA, WBO & IBO World Heavyweight Title Fight between Andy Ruiz Jr and Anthony Joshua during the Matchroom Boxing 'Clash on the Dunes' show at the Diriyah Season on December 07, 2019 in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) Anthony Joshua reclaimed the WBO, IBF and WBA heavyweight titles from Mexican-American Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia’s “Clash on the Dunes” on Saturday night. Britain’s Joshua won a unanimous decision from the judges in Diriyah, near Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh. He avoided trading big blows with Ruiz the entire fight, instead dancing around the ring and landing jabs and hooks when he found the opportunity. But with the venue for the promotion heavily criticized by human rights groups, Joshua sported further controversy with remarks he made post-fight, using the term “decapitate” in an interview with American broadcaster DAZN. “I know that my fans like to see me knock people out and I can do that but sometimes with certain fighters you have to box smarter,” said Joshua. People are blaming Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight boxing upset on the Drake curse “I understand what Andy brought to the table so I had to decapitate him in a different way.” The build-up to the bout had seen accusations of “sportswashing” — a practice whereby the staging of high profile sports events is used to improve the reputation of a country with a poor record for human rights. Diriyah, a UNESCO heritage site, has recently hosted the opening two rounds of the Formula E season, and a big tennis tournament will follow the Joshua-Ruiz rematch. Pre-fight both Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn had shrugged off concerns raised by Amnesty International over the issue. “I just came here for the boxing opportunity. I look around and everyone seems pretty happy and chilled. I’ve not seen anyone in a negative light out here, everyone seems to be having a good time,” Joshua told the BBC. ‘Too much partying’ The well-beaten Ruiz admitted he didn’t prepare like he should have, enjoying the fruits of his shock victory over Joshua back in June too much before getting down to serious training for the rematch. Andy Ruiz Jr. becomes the heavyweight world champion after stunning TKO upset “The three months of partying affected me. I should have trained harder. I gained too much weight and I wasn’t able to throw my combinations. “But I don’t want to give no excuses. I believe I hurt him a few times but he was boxing his life out.” he said. Saturday’s bout was the first for the two heavyweights since Ruiz won a technical knockout during the seventh round in New York in June. That fight was considered one of the biggest shocks in boxing history, with Ruiz a heavy underdog. Tyson Fury announces rematch with Deontay Wilder Joshua had been one of three undefeated world heavyweight champion contenders but after his revenge victory can now look forward to a possible unification bout with WBC champion Deontay Wilder, who is set to fight Britain’s Tyson Fury in their eagerly-awaited rematch in February. The New York defeat was the first of Joshua’s career, meaning he surrendered all of the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles. In reclaiming them, Joshua joins boxing greats Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali and Lennox Lewis in winning a world heavyweight title back in an immediate direct rematch. 2012 Olympic champion Joshua was improving his career record to 23-1 and handed Ruiz just the second loss of his 35-bout career. Topics: Andy Ruiz Jr., Anthony Joshua, Boxing Singer/songwriter David Olney dies on stage while performing at age 71 Defense Department reviewing screening of foreign students after Saudi national kills 3 people at Pensacola naval base Charges dropped against freed Taliban hostage Joshua Boyle Each year, 13 boxers on average die in the ring 3 US Navy sailors killed in the Pensacola Navy base saved lives when they ran toward gunman, officials say Grandmother of missing Idaho boy is praying for him and his sister. Here’s what we know so far Police say time is running out in case of missing siblings At least one Saudi national filmed Pensacola attack, US Defense Secretary Esper says ‘Peloton wife’ actress Monica Ruiz blames her face for the ad backlash American weapons ended up in the wrong hands in Yemen. Now they’re being turned on the US-backed government North Carolina paramedic accused of killing wife by poisoning her with eye drops An Alabama county is preserving a jail cell where Martin Luther King Jr. was held months before his assassination 3 dead and several injured in shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola Tied-up toddler with plastic bag over his head rescued from burning home; mom arrested	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1267
__label__cc	0.746995	0.253005	Home Activity Trackers Tile Partners with HP to Make Laptops Findable Tile is the World’s leading smart location company, known for its products that notify users when they leave items like their keys or wallets in specific locations. Just announced at CES, a new partnership with HP might make an expensive device that we all carry easier to keep track of and find. Activ5’s Portable Workout Device — Hit or Miss? The Activ5 was first announced way back at CES 2017 as the “tiny gym in your pocket.” While the slogan is fantastic, there’s only one question I really have — can it actually work? TrackR Announced Three New Products Ahead of CES 2017 TrackR one of the leaders in personal item finders released two products ahead of CES 2017 n Las Vegas. Lets check them out. Unveiled on Monday were two products, the TrackR pixel, and the TrackR Wallet 2.0. The TrackR pixel, which is a smaller, lighter version of the the TrackR Bravo, with the difference being that it comes in nine colors, is cheaper, costing $24.99, and at just 5mm thick,… Never Forget Your Personals with TrackR Bravo I’m always losing things. My mind on Mondays, My motor skills during Happy Hour, but there’s certainly two things I rather never lose: My wallet, and my keys. Luckily, TrackR, the pioneers of Bluetooth tracking products announced that their TrackR Bravo tracking devices are now available. Jawbone Rolls Out the UP2 and UP4 Fitness Trackers Jawbone is quite busy these days. In addition to finally launching the UP3 Fitness Tracker that’s been delayed for months, they decided to get ahead of themselves and release two more trackers at the same time: a fairly simple UP2 device, and a high-end UP4 that tracks your fitness AND acts as a mobile payment device! News, Yum Log The Orange Chef Countertop System May Be the Kitchen’s Operating System A new and exciting kitchen device coming out this fall, is the Orange Chef Countertop. It syncs with your everyday kitchen appliances as well as your activity tracker to provide personalized recipe recommendations, helping you cook step-by-step, as well as keep track of your nutritional intake. It is now available for preorder at $99.95, 50% off future retail price. 5 Reasons Why Pebble Makes a Fantastic “Jack of all Trades” Fitness Device I adore my Pebble Smartwatch. When I take it off for a few hours to charge my wrist feels lonely! It’s quickly become an integral part of my daily life, and a big part of that is how I use it to keep myself accountable to fitness goals. It’s not perfect, but what it does do, it does quite well! The TrackR Bravo Makes Sure You Never Lose Anything Again The TrackR Bravo is not one of those little monkey leashes that you see parents have on their child while at the mall, but it’s something like it. CubeSensors Are One Activity Monitor You Need in Your Home One thing that I have trouble with the most is sleep. I tend to never get enough of it, and even when I try to “oversleep” on the weekends, I still feel like groggy. I purchased a Jawbone Up to help monitor my sleep as a result and even though it does a good job, I’ve always longed to know more about my poor sleeping habits. Fitbit Update Will Help Track Your Bike Rides Fitness tracker company Fitbit announced today that their popular Fitbit Surge would be receiving outdoor bike tracking. The multi-sport mode allows users to record their running, cross training, cardio and now their biking workouts, all while automatically syncing wirelessly to the Android & iOS device that you use. The Basic Fitness Tracker Market Is Fitbit’s to Lose My wife, Sarah, recently decided to get a fitness tracker. She’s been going to the gym more, and heading out walking, and wanted a way to view her activity on a daily basis. I showed her various fitness tracker options, ranging from Misfit to Jawbone to Fitbit, and she specifically chose a Fitbit Flex, almost purely on the Fitbit name. How the Pebble Smartwatch Became My New Fitness Tracker I posted recently about my quest for a new fitness tracker, and I found one that (so far) I love. It’s only been 24 hours but it seems to check off all my boxes…and it wasn’t any of the ones on my initial list! It isn’t even that new, but my new Pebble is exactly what I was looking for! The Atlas Wristband Is What Dick Tracy Would Wear to Work Out One thing I told myself on New Years Eve was “if I make a resolution, I’m going to keep it”. That resolution was to not “get fit” but rather “be as healthy as possible”. The checklist was simple “hit the gym at least four times a week.” Now, that I do this I want to see the progress I make. What’s the Future of Outside Companies and Apple’s HealthKit? Late last year, Apple gave Fitbit the boot from Apple retail stores. There was a lot of speculation as to why Fitbit was kicked out, but most people assumed it was due to Fitbit pulling out of Apple’s Healthkit initiative. Competitors (and Healthkit partners) like Jawbone, Mio and Nike remained in the stores. Until this week, when everyone was booted! Ahead of Apple Watch release, Nike Fuelband and Jawbone UP Removed Many expected this already, but Apple plans to do away with some of their competitors by removing them from some of their brick and mortar Apple Stores. On Apple 24th, Apple will be releasing the Apple Watch, and one of the highlighting features will be its fitness tracking capabilities. How Up to Date Is “Goodnight iPad”? My son loves (LOVES) the book “Goodnight iPad“. I’ve read it so many times I have it memorized, so I usually “read” it to him once it is lights-out. Half the time he’s asleep before I finish. Last night I realized some of the book’s technology references are already outdated, and it’s only four years old! My Quest for a New Fitness Tracker; Which Will It Be? I tested the fitness tracker waters with the Pivotal Living 1 and stuck with it despite the bugs. Unfortunately, I forgot it wasn’t waterproof, and a dip in the pool brought on the death of the PL1. It’s time to replace it, and I’ve narrowed my choices down to the Fitbit Charge HR, Withings Activité Pop, or Garmin Vivosmart. HTC Announces the HTC RE Grip GPS Fitness Tracker HTC is busy at MWC this year; first they announced the One M9, and now they have a companion fitness product, the HTC RE Grip. It’s a fitness tracker with GPS, and it syncs with Under Armour (which means it will work with My Fitness Pal as well as the MapMyFitness products). Do YOU Use a Wearable Device? There’s been a huge debate lately about wearable devices like Fitbit, Jawbone UP, smartwatches, etc. First, wareable.com pointed out most buyers of fitness trackers are ALREADY fit (and well-off), and then a study came out indicating wearables were no more accurate than the pedometer in your existing smartphone. So who’s using them and are they helping anyone? Is Under Armour the Dark Horse to Win in Wearables? Even before Apple announced their Apple Watch, much of the tech world was looking to wearables to be the next big thing. Everyone is looking to established technology companies, but there’s someone coming in from outside the tech world positioning themselves to dominate, especially with their latest acquisitions: Under Armour. Pivotal Life 1 Fitness Tracker Review If you’ve been looking for a fitness tracker, your budget is probably in the $50 to $150 range. That’s reasonable for a connected pedometer/fitness data collector, but Pivotal Living disagrees. They see the value of fitness tracking in the service, not the hardware, so they sell a subscription model instead. $12 gets you one year of service and one Pivotal Life 1 band!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1272
__label__cc	0.530556	0.469444	Home » Uncategorized » Sennheiser Creates $55,000 Pair of Headphones Sennheiser Creates $55,000 Pair of Headphones You read that headline right, a pair of headphones and a custom amp that costs more than the median annual family income in the U.S. However, it’s not just the materials that these are made from; Carrara marble, gold-vaporized ceramic electrodes, and platinum vaporized diaphragms. This version of the Orpheus HE90 is an upgrade to the original Orpheus HE90 (same name), created with the specific intention to be the best pair of headphones in the world. In fact, even after all these years, these “legendary headphones still remain the ultimate benchmark for audiophile listening and for all high-end models.” They continue to top the “best headphone” lists online, and truly embody the extreme limits of what technology makes possible in audio innovation. Sennheiser basically set out to create the best set of headphones possible, irrespective of cost. All the precious materials they use are not just for decoration, each one serves a specific purpose based on the properties necessary for that component. From the weight of the marble knobs, to the chrome plated single piece of brass that comprises the amplifier controls, to the eight quartz-encased vacuum tubes. The set is so good, that today’s smart phones cannot produce the sound quality necessary to enjoy its full range. Watch the tubes rise from the base and glow to see the difference in how they work compared to cough peasant cough headphones. The Sennheiser HE90 are electrostatic, meaning they create sound by running a static charge on a delicate film that sits between two metal plates. This film, that weighs less than the air around it, then oscillates and creates the incredible range and clarity of sound unparalleled in the world today. For the audiophiles out there; the ESS SABRE ES9018 chip and 8 internal DACs have a sampling rate of 384 kHz. The range on the HE90 is 8 Hz to more than 100 kHz (that’s more than a human can hear) and it comes in at 0.01% at a bone rattling 1 kHz and 100 decibels. The Sennheiser Orpheus HE90 headphones will launch mid 2016 with an expected 6000 pairs, compared to 300 of the original. They are hand-crafted in Germany and will set you back the black market price of a kidney and liver – uh, I mean, who knows what that would cost… Anyway, start saving now.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1273
__label__wiki	0.663111	0.663111	Death Road To Canada Review By AJ Small on May 9, 2018 in Reviews Running Out Of Gas, But Never Out Of Class HIGH Surviving the first siege. LOW The parting words of a beloved friend. WTF Those parting words are usually ‘WHAT-ever’ When I told a friend I was reviewing Death Road to Canada and liking it, their first reaction was surprise. They had immediately written off the game due to the all-too-common pixel-art style and the fact that it’s a roguelike. Neither aspect inspires the intrigue they once did, and to be honest, I had been quick to judge it before playing as well. It’s good to be wrong sometimes. In DRtC, The US has been overrun with zombies and the player is given two randomly generated friends that decide the only safe place is Canada. They jump in their car starting in Florida and head north. The game is divided between two styles. The first is comprised of text-based scenarios with multiple choices based on what the personalities of the crew are. The choices can range from things like who should fix the car, whether someone should be allowed to join the journey, should supplies be stolen from other survivors, or what area of an abandoned city should be explored. The second style usually occurs after choosing a place to loot. Once a location is selected, DRtC becomes to a top-down, 2D exploration game. Each area is randomly generated, so available resources (food, ammo, medicine, etc.) and how fierce the zombies are is never certain. What is clear, however, is that being quick and efficient is the best way to survive. The undead that players come across are attracted to the sight and sounds of the living. Understanding how to control crowds and how to manage each team member’s fitness levels is key to scavenging and getting away with the loot. Fail to keep an escape route open and it can be brutal because — as with most roguelikes — death is permanent. The slightly loose controls and iffy collision sometimes left me feeling robbed when I lost a member of the team, but it’s a minor quibble since zombie fiction needs death to feel meaningful. The crux of Death Road to Canada is balancing the risk/reward loop of knowing when to go for supplies and when to keep on driving, while also trying to keep the car running until the group can reach America’s northern border. However, there’s more to it than killing zombies and robbing pantries. The randomly-generated characters at the beginning are more than cosmetic swaps — each has ten stats including things like Loyalty and Shooting. These tend to affect what choices are available in the text-based sections, and they’re key because a bad choice can reduce a party member’s health or morale. Health is important for obvious reasons, and low morale can cause a team member to leave, or worse, depress the rest of the group. Even more hooks come in the form of an upgradeable perk system and the ability to customize characters. Perks give special stat bonuses like extra starting weapons or a better car, and can be upgraded by collecting points during a run. As such, every attempt (yes, even the failures) inches players closer to victory as any points collected can be funneled into improving future chances of survival. The customizable characters allowed for me to make mock-ups of each of my friends and then have them randomly generated as NPCs which can join my team. This added drama and a sentimental attachment to them, especially when hilarious things happened like when one partner’s avatar fended off a gang of bandits by beating them at a flex-off contest, or when my best friend’s stand-in failed to help a screaming old man because their Wits rating was too low, and they didn’t even realize the old man was there! Death Road to Canada has eaten up all of my free time — my lunch breaks and evenings have been dedicated to playing just a little more and going on just one more run. While I can understand that the pixel-art style may not be eye-catching and not everyone is a fan of the roguelike genre, it’s such a strong experience that I’d recommend people even vaguely interested get past their first impressions and jump in — that car to Canada isn’t going to drive itself. Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Disclosures: This game is developed by Madgarden & Rocketcat Games and published by Ukiyo Publishing. It is currently available on Switch, PS4, PC, iOS, and XBO. This copy of the game was obtained via publisher and reviewed on the Xbox One. Approximately 14 hours of play were devoted to the single-player mode, and the game was completed multiple times. There are no multiplayer modes. Parents: According to the ESRB, this game is rated T for Violence, Blood and Crude Humor. Despite the game avoiding swear words and generally being upbeat in terms of humor and outlook, the deaths of protagonists can be pretty grim and the game has moments that younger audiences might find scary. Colorblind Modes: There no colorblind modes available in the options. Deaf & Hard of Hearing Gamers: Most of the game is accessible, as the story is almost entirely text based. However, there is a sound effect for when a teammate dies, and if this occurs offscreen, this is not communicated via any visual means. The text is not able to be resized. Remappable Controls: Yes, this game offers fully remappable controls. AJ Small AJ Small is a games industry veteran with over 12 years of experience. He started his gaming on the BBC Microcomputer and switched to being a devout SEGA fan from then on. He currently walks the earth in search of the tastiest/seediest drinking holes as part of his attempt to tell every single person on the planet that Speedball 2 and The Chaos Engine are the greatest games ever made. He can be found on twitter, where he welcomes screenshots of Dreamcast games and talk about Mindjack, just don’t mention that one time he was in Canada. Latest posts by AJ Small (see all) Trine 4 Review - January 18, 2020 AJ’s Top 10 of 2019 - December 29, 2019 Decay of Logos Review - December 10, 2019 Tags: AJ Small Death Road to Canada indie Madgarden pixel art review Rocketcat Games Roguelike survival	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1279
__label__wiki	0.755868	0.755868	Just Cause 2 Review By Brad Gallaway on April 23, 2010 in Reviews A Nice Place to Visit, but… HIGH Insane chopper-to-chopper grappling hook action. LOW The sheer number of missions to finish before credits roll. WTF Falling 10,000 feet and grappling towards the ground for safety. A perfect example of a title that starts with a bang and ends with a tired, worn-out groan of exhaustion, Just Cause 2 from Avalanche Studios should have everything it needs to be a top-tier blockbuster—plenty of action, great looks, and lots of opportunity for players to get crazy. A valiant effort was certainly made here, but thanks to a few misguided decisions in key areas, its full potential ends up sabotaged. Coming four years after the first, Just Cause 2 sends special operative Rico Rodriguez to the fictional island of Panau to do… something. The plot tries to tell the story of a dictator and three factions trying to wrest control from him, but none of it amounts to much. In fact, I found it difficult to remember the story at all since Rico barely has a personality, and the other characters don't fare any better. The scripted action is about as memorable as the characters. From a design perspective, the game is built on the standard open-world formula that's been in use since it came barreling to the forefront with Grand Theft Auto III. Players choose from a variety of available missions to progress the campaign, and when not occupied with those, the game's world is open to exploration, free-form havoc-wreaking, and icon collecting. It all feels extremely familiar and wouldn't be noteworthy except for three things that define the Just Cause 2 experience: Rico's grappling hook, his parachute, and the island itself. Starting with the biggest element, the work Avalanche has done in creating Panau is jaw-dropping. It's stupefying. It's absolutely amazing. It's not often that graphics can make me stop and stare dumbly in wonder, but the artists responsible for the island's snowy, mist-covered peaks, its stinging sunset deserts, its lush jungles, and the thousands of small touches that bring it all to life should pat themselves on the back and take the next year off —I can say with confidence that I've never seen anything quite like it. Every few minutes, I found myself surprised by the incredibly beautiful environmental work and obvious attention to minutiae that must have been absolutely painstaking to realize. It's simply stunning. On the other hand, as wondrous as it is, there's precious little rationale for making the territory so enormously, ridiculously large. Massive to the point of requiring several minutes of flight to get to some places, once the "wow" factor dims, it's hard to miss that there's not much happening in the too-vast expanses between missions. As someone not prone to exploring every inch of territory for trivial collectibles, the only thing the actual size of Panau added for me was too much travel time. Getting back to the good, Just Cause 2 can boast the best grappling hook I've ever seen. Better than Bionic Commando's wire (both original and revamped), better than the hook in Lost Planet, eclipsing Spider-Man's web ability and achieving something several orders of magnitude more potent than Link's Hookshot, the grapple in Just Cause 2 is both incredibly versatile and incredibly entertaining. Able to attach to any surface with a range and accuracy that's perfectly absurd, players can accomplish just about anything that they can imagine with it —whether it's pulling snipers down from perches, dragging enemies behind moving vehicles, or catapulting up to a helicopter in flight and tossing the pilot out, this handy tool does it all. The hook is a license for madness, but in conjunction with Rico's magic parachute, the formula becomes truly golden. Able to deploy at a moment's notice and infinitely re-usable, the chute gives the player license to commit ludicrous acts without fear of any repercussions. Aside from simply slowing falls after jumping out of planes, this bit of silk also acts as a makeshift mode of transportation—by "slingshotting" himself forward with the grapple, Rico can take to the skies and glide (or climb) over terrain at will. He's also free to base jump off of absolutely anything, and raining death from above is possible in nearly any situation. After the things I've just described, my previous statement about "forgettable action" may seem contradictory. However, I'm sad to say that the objectives and missions in Just Cause 2 fail to take advantage of its best qualities. In essence, nearly all of the missions could easily fit into any other open-world game without much difficulty. Things like driving a VIP from one point to another, blowing something up, or hijacking a vehicle and hustling to a specific location are all tasks that don't require the special talents of Rico Rodriguez. The player may have a character that's unusually mobile and able to capitalize on vertical elements, but it feels like there's very little imagination at work here. The mediocre action is bad enough, but making things worse is the fact that the game brutally overstays its welcome. While putting Rico through his paces and exploring the environment is engaging for a while, those who just want to finish the campaign will have to go through much blandness before the end. Mission after mission after mission after mission for Panau's three factions will need to be completed in order to generate enough "chaos" to unlock the central campaign stages, and just when it seems like the game is about to be over, there are still more. The kinetic thrill of the grapple/parachute combo sustained me for quite a while, but there was simply too much game to get through. By the time credits rolled, I had racked up fifteen hours, but Just Cause 2 had started feeling stale somewhere around eight or ten. Although it's hard not to fall in love with the landscape, the grappling hook, and the parachute, their combined appeal just isn't strong enough to override the bloated playtime, the dull cast of characters, and missions that are only mediocre at best. Like many exotic locales frequented by tourists, Panau is a great place to visit, but I doubt many players will want to live there. Rating: 6.5 out of 10. &amp;lt;A href=&amp;quot;http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fgamecriticscom%2F8010%2F43b8210e-8e9e-4020-84d5-3776f080e0cb&amp;amp;Operation=NoScript&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Amazon.com Widgets&amp;lt;/A&amp;gt; Disclosures: This game was obtained via publisher and reviewed on the Xbox 360. Approximately 15 hours of play were devoted to the single-player mode, and the game was completed. There are no multiplayer modes. Parents: According to the ESRB, this game contains blood, violence, drug references, language and sexual themes. Although there are times when I feel as though games get a rating that's too high, in this case, the "M" is well-deserved. Rather than go into detail, I'll just say that this is a game that's definitely not appropriate for children under any circumstances, and would strongly recommend parents steer their young ones to play something else. Deaf & Hard of Hearing: You shouldn't have any problems. All dialogue is accompanied by text subtitles, and the developers do a good job of including on-screen indicators for incoming fire, and so on. I didn't notice any issues that might be barriers to hearing-impaired gamers at all. Brad Gallaway Brad Gallaway has been playing games since arcades were a thing and Atari was the new hotness. He's been at GameCritics since 2000. Currently, he's juggling editing duties, being a homeschooling dad, a devoted husband, and he does try to play a game once in a while. Brad still loves Transformers, he's on Marvel Puzzle Quest when nobody's looking, and his favorite game of all time is a toss-up between the first Mass Effect and The Witcher 3. You can catch his written work here at GameCritics and you can hear him weekly on the @SoVideogames Podcast. Follow Brad on Twitter and Instagram at @BradGallaway, or contact him via email: bradgallaway a t gmail dot com Latest posts by Brad Gallaway (see all) Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix – Review - January 20, 2020 So… Videogames! Ep. 161 - January 13, 2020 Brad’s Top 10 (okay, 12) of the Decade - January 9, 2020 Tags: Avalanche Studios Game Reviews Just Cause Mature (17+) Open World PC PS3 Square Enix Xbox 360 I think with this game it comes down to trying out the demo. If playing the demo left you wanting more, then you should get this game- the full game is pretty much exactly the same as the demo, except more, LOTS more. InfinityDevil Far Cry 2’s environments were definitely grittier and harsher, and the African environment much more brutal. I’m having a hard time motivating myself to go back to Far Cry 2 even though as I trudge through the attractive environments, eyes open for enemy troops, waiting for that last malaria pill to wear off, it’s a more intense experience. Just Cause 2, however, will be giving me many hours of fun in the weeks ahead. They just made it fun to play, and dialed the AI down just far enough to not be a terrible pain in the neck when you… Read more » abfackeln Nice comment aesquire. That is how I felt about Far Cry 2. I spent more time exploring the environment than playing the actual game. aesquire I can see how a professional reviewer would be less than enamored with Just Cause 2. When your job duties demand that you complete a many games as possible, an immense, leisurely paced time-killer Like Just Cause 2 probably seem like a massive pain in the ass. But for patient fans of sandbox action games, it doesn’t get any better. Brad’s praise for the game’s grappling/parachuting mechanics is on the mark. Even without a vehicle, getting around the Panau is fun and engaging. While the island is huge, fast travel is unlocked very early in the game, and the wide… Read more » @abfackeln: I think what you don’t like about the game is why it has been getting high ratings. The purpose is the over-the-top stuff. It’s a giant sandbox of destruction, though sometimes the game gets in the way, not allowing you to just have fun. The story isn’t really the point; tethering things together with the grapple and base jumping and blowing things up is the point. It’s not a perfect game by any means, but it’s a lot of fun if you like the sandbox style. I had a 5 day rental with Just Cause 2 and only played it twice. There wasn’t a sense of purpose that drove me back to the game. Once you get past the gimmicky over-the-topness of the game it is a very generic third person shooter. Very forgettable. Why this game has been getting 9s on other sites is beyond me.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1280
__label__cc	0.619002	0.380998	Published: Apr 11th, 2011 Category: College Football, NFL Football Monday on NNR Doug Upstone and a replay of the Kelly Holcomb interview. Tags: A, and, Browns, cleveland browns, doug, Eastern Time Zone, holcomb, interview, kelly, Kelly Holcomb, monday, National Basketball Association, National Nature Reserves in the United Kingdom, NBA, nnr, of, on, replay, sport, Sports radio, Sports Talk, the, upstone Monday on the Radio version of NNR Doug Upstone of Statfox.com joins me at 6:15 to talk about the odds for the NBA and NHL Playoffs as well as the chances of the Indians and Browns in 2011. Because of the great interview with Ken Becks of 1stdownscouting.com we did not get to the replay of the Holcomb interview. At 7:15 I will replay the interview with former Browns QB Kelly Holcomb. That plus your calls and the winner of the call of the week prize starts at 6 PM EDT on http://mooheadradio.com/2.0/. Bill Smith is a former coach of several semi-pro teams, has officiated both football and basketball, done color on radio for college football and basketball and has scouted talent. He is a senior writer for and edits https://fryingpansports.com. He has also published several novels on and a non-fiction work at http://www.merriam-press.com/. He edits . Also listen to the best Sports Talk anywhere on the Internet and hear his sports show Monday-Friday 6-8 PM EST on https://fryingpansports.com/radio-show/ or http://mooheadradio.com/2.0/. Wednesday on News Notes and Rumors. (fryingpansports.com) Tuesday’s News, Notes and Rumors show (fryingpansports.com) Wednesday’s News, Notes and Rumors show (fryingpansports.com) Monday on NNR Doug Upstone and a replay of the Kelly Holcomb interview. by Bill Smith	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1286
__label__wiki	0.650081	0.650081	Where Should You Eat? Chloe Zhang This infographic is a map of restaurants recommended by Friends Select students, based on an online survey completed by 31 students in grades 9-12. The recommended restaurants’ locations are restricted to the area south of Vine street, north of Locust street, east of 21st street, and west of 9th street. This in... 37 Years in Blauvelt Theater Yannick Haynes This infographic illustrates 37 years of productions in the Blauvelt Theater. Information was found in the Friends Select Archives with help from Dick Hoffman. The infographic was designed in Adobe Photoshop using images from the FSS Archives.... Review: Jesus is King by Kanye West Matt D'Annunzio Very few names are as simultaneously loved and derided as “Kanye West.” Last year was a watershed moment in Kanye’s career. As part of his “Wyoming Sessions”, he worked on two of the year’s most critically acclaimed albums: Pusha T’s Daytona, which he produced, and KIDS SEE GHOSTS, a collabo... Meet the New 9th Grade Student Gov Reps AJ Caldwell About one month ago, four members of the class of 2023 were elected as representatives to the Friends Select Student Government. Chosen by their classmates, these representatives hope to raise their peers’ questions, spark change, and help the school run smoothly and comfortably. These represe... Cast and Crew Optimistic About Fall Play Gabe Tarini The final stretch of any theatre production is always stressful, but the cast and crew of Metamorphoses are comparatively at ease, despite the rapidly approaching opening night (November 15th). "I think we're right on track for where we should be," says senior Michaela Fineman. The students attr... How to Stay Healthy in Flu Season Karolina Vainshtein As many of our peers are getting sick, it’s important to stay healthy. This infographic illustrates the ways one can stay healthy during flu season. The information in this infographic describes the symptoms of the flu season, the ways to resist the flu, and advice from our school nurse. This infographic was designed... Freeman Rabb Composes Soundtrack for Fall Play Freeman Rabb, a junior at Friends Select, has been composing music digitally since freshman year. He has since become known for it, and can often be heard experimenting in the halls before school or during free periods. “If you’re in the upper school, you’ve probably heard my music at some point,�...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1287
__label__cc	0.597751	0.402249	Just After a Memo to Send Guns to Syria, Obama Now Sending More Special Forces By: Jim Carey (GPA) Washington – Following the liberation of Aleppo by the Syrian military, president Obama first decided to send weapons to terrorist and now he is sending a new batch of US special forces to aid “rebel” groups. Just after the Syrian army freed the majority of East Aleppo, the Obama administration has made multiple moves to step up the war in Syria and continue the bloodshed that they say they so oppose. The first move by the Obama administration was in the form of a presidential memorandum that called to waive sections of the legal code that concern sending weapons to Syria. With the stroke of a pen, Obama set in motion a new flood of weapons into Syria including to areas occupied by “known terrorists” for the sake of “national security.” Now over the weekend, the president made plans to send an additional 200 US personnel including special forces advisers, trainers and bomb disposal units to the area outside of Raqqa. According to the Pentagon, the new US personnel will be going to assist the group known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in retaking the de facto capital of the Islamic State. This is in addition to about 300 other US special forces already fighting in Syria alongside the SDF and some Kurdish militant groups. Image Credit: Flickr – Creative Commons – Global Panorama This comes after US defense officials have already admitted that they aren’t really “in perfect control” of the situation where they’re involved on the ground in Syria. On top of that is the fact that several groups that are a part of the SDF (including the Free Syrian Army) have cooperated with other terror organizations in Syria in offensives against IS in the past. The move was announced by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at a security conference in Bahrain over the weekend. Carter also used to opportunity to slam other allies in the region for not participating more in the efforts to combat terrorism despite proof that countries like the UAE and Qatar have funded groups that evolved into IS in the past and may continue to do so. Carter of course went on to blame a large portion of the bloodshed in Syria on Russia, saying Bashar Assad’s ally had “only inflamed the civil war and prolonged suffering.” It’s hard to imagine how Carter sees the case as being so black and white with all of the American equipment being used on the ground from Aleppo in Syria all the way to Mosul in Iraq. Even if the SDF didn’t contain known terrorist collaborators it still consists of several large Kurdish groups who will be placed at odds with NATO member Turkey, who is also looking to assist in toppling and occupying Raqqa. This is another country who has also recently been exposed as an ally (or at least a customer) of IS. The Western nations have continued to cry for the humanitarian costs of the war in Syria but also insist on taking the lead in every major operation instead of defaulting to the wishes of the Syrian government or their Russian allies who were invited to assist in the war. Adding more weapons and soldiers to the conflict sure looks like a way to escalate the casualties in a way similar to what the US says Russia is doing. The US can not continue to lead unilaterally and in bolstering groups know to affiliate with terrorists, the real question that needs to be asked is, what happens when IS leaves these cities and these “moderate rebels” need to decide the future of the regions now under their control. The groups have already been in conflict with each other before and only started to cooperate once IS appeared on the scene. The US may be removing the Caliphate’s capital but it remains to be seen how the former adversaries will govern the city once it is “free.” After Liberation of Aleppo, Obama Green-Lights More Arms to Syria US and Turkey Work Out Plan for Occupying Raqqa Despite Liberation, Western Media Still Lies About Situation in Aleppo Confirmed: US Army Deployed to Help Kurds Crush ISIS in Raqqa Deployment of US Troops to Worsen Situation in Syria: US Analyst Turks Continue to Bomb Kurds Fighting to Liberate Aleppo Erdogan Says He Has Proof of US Aiding Terrorists in Syria Syrian Soldiers Allegedly Find Saudi Chemical Weapons in East Aleppo Previous Post: Hands Off Syria Coalition Slams US Policy, Corporate Media Lies Next Post: Despite Liberation, Western Media Still Lies About Situation in Aleppo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1289
__label__cc	0.506864	0.493136	The Swan Motel The Swan Motel - Bar "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." W.C FIELDS As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies... We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. The Cookies We Set In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you. From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; facebook, twitter, instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then please feel free to contact our website management company. Email: info@tiagrace.co.uk 01502 470005 Available 24 Hours A Day enquiries@theswanmotelgillingham.co.uk Loddon Road, Gillingham, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 0LD Swan Motel © 2018 TiaGrace	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1293
__label__wiki	0.601917	0.601917	I'm the guy saying Prepare To Die at all of you trusting in money and latex condoms to secure your futures. In crooked banksters and outright immoral and lying political and church leaders telling you what you want to hear. "Tickling your ears" says the prophecy. Omg I forgot to mention War Mongers and War Profiteers. Omg look at the men who become billionaires thanks to people killing each other. Contrare. When one brings up the words of Jesus one is bringing up the words of Jesus. Duh. Not some religious dogma, tradition, doctrine or words of modern-day church leaders. Life has a 100% fatality rate. We are all going to die. There is no cure. Big news you've imparted there, Captain Obvious. Hope that pussy doesn't keep you awake, lol. Millions of people living right now will never die, so says The Word. They will be preserved alive and live forever on a warming paradise earth. As those trusting in money and latex condoms all die. Just as surely as there have been increased earthquakes and increased reports oy wars, one day soon people will be throwing their worthless money out on the street. And those stubbornly refusing to submit to God's authority will soon be no more. And God will wipe away every tear, and death will be no more. So says The Word. But you want to die instead. Weird. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[a] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” – The happy book, Revelations 21:3,4 The earth is not going to end. This old order of things will end. This old system of governance is in it's last days. Every one that has been born, died. I did not being up religious beliefs because they have nothing to do with life having a 100% fatality rate. Because, unless one is extremely stupid, one must be aware that everything born eventually dies. That's reality, not belief. "But you want to die instead. Weird." I invite you to point out in my above post where you got that idea; I said nothing of the sort. Please focus on what is said, and refrain from putting your words in other people's mouths metaphorically...it's a very bad habit you have. I did not bring up religious beliefs either. Rather, the simple teachings of Jesus Christ that even young children can understand. Teachings hidden from demons and stubborn old goats though. The meek shall inherit the earth and find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace, so says Jesus Christ. The earth will continue to naturally warm into a global paradise. Nothing can stop it from happening for it is written. When one brings up The Word and Jesus Christ, one is bringing up religious beliefs. Sorry. They are mutually exclusive. Rrrrr. That freaking cat in heat in my alley is still howling. Like Miley Crus is now. Rrrrr :::60% or 420 million men in India think that raiping and burning wife alive for dowry by spraying kerosene and lighting her up is acceptable :::20% or 140 million women have been gang raiped in India :::There is a raipe every 2 seconds in India :::95% of hindus don't have toilets in India Statistics 101.1 Millions of American's enjoy watching movies depicting women being raiped or just getting naked and spreading their legs for who knows who. America's fastest-growing and recession-proofed industry is the adult video industry. Not bible sales. So where do these people in India s hit? In the streets? Rail tracks? @banasy pls elaborate. Bunch of Hindu raypists from India. The plebiscite in Kashmir is 70 years overdue. Stop the genocide! Modi is very bad. Yes, you should know better as we all are raypists from India on this forum. We invented gang raypes. chrissy, banasy and ruperts in different shades. We are one with different IDs. Got it. I'm #2014 post. I win!!!! My name is Shankar and I am ashamed to be an Indian. My mama calls me Shanku the Skunku because of body odor issues. You can call me Beef Shanks. My partner calls me Hank. My name is Shankar and I am ashamed to be an Indian. My mama sent me a tiffin box . When I opened it there was a p@nis floating in the chicken curry. It was her neighbor's who raiped her. She cut it off A plebiscite is needed in Kashmir. This shall take place. Hey Fareed. Why don't u become a real journalist and report on the atrocities in Kashmir. Btw. How is the weather in Bombay? U poser in blue. How dare u steal my name. U Hindu raypist from India. Be gone with u. Go back to Bombay. My duplicate from India has gone bonkers. It happens when you raipe too much in India. Modi is sooooo bad. He does illegalities. Bad things. The other day he signed a bill denouncing a plebiscite. Modi! Shame on u. Bad man. Pinching, squeezing and scratching their balls in public is national characteristic of typical Indian Hindu males. While doing so they make an ecstatic slurping sound and roll their eyes up. The mannerisms are similar to monkeys who the Indians relate to the most. Modi from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible." Doctor says, "go home, get a bucket, p iss and s hit in it for a week. Throw in dead rats and rotting fish. Put a towel over your head and sniff the fumes for three days." Week later Modi goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?" Doctor, "you were homesick!" Read my lips..there will be a plebiscite in Kashmir this year or there will be war! What do they do with dead hinddoos in California? Gut them to make wetsuits! Why don't sharks eat hinddoous? They think its whale s hit! What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead hinddoou in the road? The dead dog has skid marks in front of it. U Hindu raypist from India. Stop the genocide in Kashmir. This must stop. Btw. how's the weather in Bombay! Bring Modi to trial. Bad man. We sure had fun rayping in Madras last night. They should offer raype safaris to India dont ya think. I'm off to meet with Obama and Modi. I will insist on a plebiscite before Christmas. This I promise u. If it is not done, there will be war and the next Super Bowl shall be canceled. I'm off to Washington. What is a hinddoou? Proof that skunks p huk monkeys. The above was the conventional wisdom. Since Modi came on the scene it is a proof that baboons p huk do nkeys. Kid you not. Actually I am the original rupert. I am from Madras, India. Did you hear the one about . . . . the baby hinddoou who went to heaven and got his wings? He said, "God! Look! I'm an angel!", and God said, "No you stupid hindoou! You're a bat, now eff off!" I am in Bombay today and going to New Delhi tomorrow. Modi tried to raype me last night. Why all this infatuation with Indians? A medieval Jewish astrologer prophesied to a king that his favorite mistress would soon die. Sure enough, the woman died a short time later. The king was outraged at the astrologer, certain that his prophecy had brought about the woman’s death. He summoned the astrologer and gave him this command: “Prophet, tell me when you will die!” The astrologer realized that the king was planning to kill him, immediately, no matter what answer he gave. So he said, finally, “I do not know when I will die. I only know that whenever I die, you will die three days later.” When Forest Gump died, he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, "Welcome, Forest. We've heard a lot about you." He continued, "Unfortunately, it's getting pretty crowded up here and we find that we now have to give people an entrance examination before we let them in." "Okay," said Forest. "I hope it's not too hard. I've already been through a test. My momma used to say, 'Life is like a final exam. It's hard.' " "Yes, Forest, I know. But this test is only three questions. Here they are." 1) Which two days of the week begin with the letter 'T'?" 2) How many seconds are in a year? 3) What is God's first name? "Well, sir," said Forest, "The first one is easy. Which two days of the week begin with the letter 'T'? Today and Tomorrow." St. Peter looked surprised and said, "Well, that wasn't the answer I was looking for, but you have a point. I give you credit for that answer." "The next question," said Forest, "How many seconds are in a year? Twelve." "Twelve?" said St. Peter, surprised and confused. "Yes, sir. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd …" St. Peter interrupted him. "I see what you mean. I'll have to give you credit for that one, too." "And the last question," said Forest, "What is God's first name? It's Andy." "Andy?" said St. Peter, in shock. "How did you come up with 'Andy'?" "I learned it in church. We used to sing about it." Forest broke into song, "Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am His own." St. Peter opened the gate to heaven and said, "Run, Forest, Run!" The Bible, Through the Eyes of a Child Here's our version of the stories of the Bible if they were to be told by a child. In the beginning, which was close to the start, there wasn't anything except God, darkness and some gas. The Bible says, "The Lord, thy God, is one," but I think He has to be much older than that. Anyway, God made the world and then He said, "Give me some light," and somebody gave it to Him. He split an atom and made Eve. Adam and Eve didn't wear any clothes, but they weren't embarrassed because God hadn't invented mirrors, yet. Adam and Eve sinned by eating one bad apple and they were driven out of the Garden of Eden. I'm not sure what God drove them in because He hadn't invented cars, either. Adam and Eve's son, Cain, hated his brother as long as he was Abel. After a while, all of the first people died, except Methuselah, who lived to be, like, a million years old. The next important person was Noah. He was a really good guy, but one of his kids was a Ham. Noah built a big boat in his back yard and put his family and a lot of animals in it. He asked his neighbors to join them, but they said they would have to take a rain check. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph Next were Abraham, his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Esau was Jacob's brother, but Jacob was more famous because Esau sold him his birthmark for some pot roast. Jacob had a son, Joseph. Joseph wore a really loud sports coat. "Esau sold him his birthmark for some pot roast." Lmao Moses was the next important man. His real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel lights out of Egypt because of the bad Pharaoh. God sent ten plagues on the Egyptians. Some of the plagues were mice, frogs, bugs, lice and no cable. Every day in the desert, God fed the Israel lights some manicotti. He gave them His "Top Ten" commandments. They were things like: don't lie, don't cheat, don't dance, don't smoke, don't covet your neighbor's stuff (whatever that means). He also told them to humor their fathers and mothers. Moses' best helper was Joshua. He was the first person to use spies. He fought the battle of Geritol. That's when the fence fell down on the town. David came after Joshua. They made him king after he killed a giant with a slingshot. One of David's sons was called Solomon. He had, like, 300 wives and 500 porcupines. They told us in Sunday School that he was a really wise man, but that doesn't sound too wise to me. Religious Humor Stories Jonah and Other Prophets After Solomon came a whole lot of major league prophets. Jonah was one of them. He was swallowed by a whale, then barfed up on the beach. There were some other minor league prophets, but they weren't too important. "He had, like, 300 wives and 500 porcupines." Lol..... When the Old Testament was done, they started the New Testament. Jesus was the Star. He was born in a barn in the town of Bethlehem. I wish I had been born in a barn, too, because then, when my mother says to me, "Close the door. Were you born in a barn?" I could say, "As a matter of fact, I was." Jesus argued a lot with the Chief Priests and Democrats. He had twelve opossums. Most of them were good, but Judas Asparagus was not. He was so bad, they named a really yucky vegetable after him. Jesus healed some people and leopards. Then He preached to the Germans on the Mount. But the Chief Priests and Democrats were mad at him and put Him on trial. Pilot was too chicken to stick up for Him, so he just washed his hands. Jesus died for our sins and came back to life again. He went to heaven, but will come back at the end of the aluminum. We can read about this in the Book of the Revolution. Did you hear about the about the Southern Baptist who was in the habit of sneaking to the race track to bet on the horses? Free Christian Jokes One day he was losing badly when he saw a priest step onto the track, walk up to line-up and bless one of the horses on the forehead. The horse was a long shot, but the Southern Baptist thought, "With the priest's blessing, surely this horse will win." He placed a small bet and, sure enough, the horse came in first. At the next race, the priest stepped onto the track and blessed another horse's forehead. Even though this horse was also a long shot, the Southern Baptist was a little bolder this time and placed a larger bet on that horse. Again, it won. A third time, the priest stepped onto the track and blessed a horse on the forehead. Like the others, this horse was also a long shot. The Southern Baptist placed an even larger bet this time and, sure enough the horse won. This pattern continued throughout the day with the priest blessing the forehead of a long shot horse, the Southern Baptist placing larger and larger bets and the horse always winning. At the last race of the day, the Southern Baptist thought, "I have got to go for broke here." With great anticipation, he watched as the priest stepped onto the field one more time, walked up to the line-up and blessed the forehead, eyes, ears and hooves of one of the horses. The Southern Baptist ran to the ticket counter and bet all he had on that horse. The horse came in dead last! As he was walking out, he saw the priest. Walking up to him, he demanded, "What happened? All day long you blessed horses and they won, even though they were long shots. Then at the last race you blessed a horse, I bet everything and the horse lost." "That's the problem with you Protestants," said the priest. "You can't tell the difference between a simple blessing and the Last Rites." After suffering a heart attach and having quadruple bypass surgery, a man woke up to find himself in a Catholic hospital with nuns taking care of him. As they nursed him back to health, one of the nuns asked him if he had health insurance. "No," he replied, "No health insurance." "Do you have any money in the bank?" asked the nun. "No. No money in the bank." The nun asked, "Do you have any relatives you could ask for help?" The man replied, "I only have a spinster sister, who is a nun." At this the nun because irritated. "Nuns are not spinsters. Nuns are married to God!" "OK, then," said the man. "Send the bill to my brother-in-law." After getting all of the Pope's luggage loaded into the limo (and he doesn't travel lightly), the driver notices that the Pope is still standing on the curb. The Pope was still standing on the curb. Related Image "Excuse me, Your Eminence," says the driver, "Would you please take your seat so we can leave?" "Well, to tell you the truth," says the Pope, "they never let me drive at the Vatican, and I'd really like to drive today" "I'm sorry but I cannot let you do that. I'd lose my job! And what if something should happen?" protests the driver, wishing he'd never gone to work that morning. "There might be something extra in it for you," says the Pope. Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope climbs in behind the wheel. The driver quickly regrets his decision when, after exiting the airport, the Supreme Pontiff floors it, accelerating the limo to 105 mph. "Please slow down, Your Holiness!!!" pleads the worried driver, but the Pope keeps the pedal to the metal until they hear sirens. "Oh, dear God, I'm gonna lose my license," moans the driver. Bigger Christian Jokes, Humor The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the cop approaches, but the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle, and gets on the radio. "I need to talk to the Chief," he says to the dispatcher. The Chief gets on the radio and the cop tells him that he's stopped a limo going a hundred and five. "So bust him," said the Chief. "I don't think we want to do that, he's really important," said the cop. Chief exclaimed, "All the more reason!" "No, I mean really important," said the cop. The Chief then asked, "Who ya got there, the Mayor?" Cop: "Bigger." Chief: "Governor?" "Well," said the Chief,"Who is it?" Cop: "I think it's God!" Chief: "What makes you think it's God?" Cop: "He's got the Pope for a limo driver!" Hymns for People Over 50 Give Me the Old Timers Religion Precious Lord, Take My Hand, And Help Me Up Just a Slower Walk with Thee Go Tell It on the Mountain, But Speak Up Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing Guide Me O Thou Great Lord God, I've Forgotten Where I've Parked The Car Count Your Many Birthdays, Count Them One By One Blessed Insurance It Is Well With My Soul, But My Knees Hurt Leave a Reply to bobcat2u	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1301
__label__wiki	0.887539	0.887539	1.5 lakh Wellness Centers by 2022: Govt. Focusing on Cancer Research said Harsh Vardhan Anju Bisht Aug 1, 2019 , News & Research Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, announced in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the government is giving keen attention to research related to cancer through national as well as international collaborations and plans to establish 1.5 lakh health and wellness clinics in the country by 2022 to take a stand against cancer. (People Also Like To Read: E-cigarettes are “Undoubtedly Harmful,” said WHO) There are 482 centers in the country for cancer treatment with 695 teletherapy machines, at present, said the minister. Vardhan replied to a discussion on the need to ensure basic facilities and affordable treatment to cancer patients, raised by Vishmabhar Prasad Nishad, Sukhram Singh Yadav and Chandrapal Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party. He said, “Health and Wellness clinics are other components of Ayushman Bharat scheme. By December 31, 2022, we want to establish 1.5 lakh health and wellness clinics out of which, 19,000-20,000 have already been established and by March 31 (2020) this figure will reach 40,000.” The ‘National Cancer Grid‘ initiative for consistent treatment of cancer patients was being closely monitored by the Prime Minister, with 177 institutions, activists, patients and advocacy groups associated with it said the minister. Vardhan shared, Odisha and Bihar are in the offing, where 8 institutions have already been dedicated towards this objective. Among the 40 nations globally which have established an international cancer genome consortium and are engaged in extensive work in the area through the consortium, India was one of the seven founding member countries in it, pointed Vardhan. He observed that 60-70 percent of the common cancers detected in India are preventable and highlighted the significance of early diagnosis. During the discussion, various parties’ members asked for opening cancer detection and treatment centers in every district of the country to help alleviate the problem of the poor people those suffering from the disease. They also sought an increase in government spending on healthcare and a reduction in the cost of cancer treatment and medicines. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress leader, and former health minister sought the status on various programs of erstwhile UPA government for boosting infrastructure, human resources and awareness in health care sector particularly killer diseases cancer, diabetics, and hypertension. The UPA government had given Rs 5 crore each to 640 districts for early detection of killer diseases and Rs 120 crore per hospital to states for making those as centers for treating such diseases, Azad added. He also suggested the government to provide more funds for creating infrastructure, human resources, and awareness for early detection of these diseases. Initiating the discussion, Vishmabhar Prasad Nishad said the number of cancer cases is rapidly increasing in India. The SP members remarked that rich can get themselves treated abroad but the poor people are the one who has to suffer the most and the government needs to step up its efforts in this regard. More women in India die because of breast and cervical cancer said Jogen Chowdhury (Trinamool Congress). He called for making HPV vaccine part of the immunization program. He asked, “Why is it not a part of the national immunization program.” Everyone cannot afford to go to private hospitals so the government needs to set up cancer-detection institutes in each district where the disease is more rampant said Prasanna Acharya (BJD). Various members including Birendra Prasad Baishya of the AGP, Binoy Viswam from CPI, Narendra Jadhav (Nominated) and Ramdas Athawale from the RPI (A) also spoke on the issue and gave suggestions to improve facilities for cancer treatment. He himself was afflicted by cancer in 2017 said Jadhav. Some members wanted to seek clarification on related issues, once the minister was done with his reply. Although, Deputy Chairman Harivansh turned down the request citing lack of time. The discussion should not be reduced to a “boring monologue” said Congress leaders on protested with P Chidambaram. Party leader Anand Sharma said, “We have a right to ask questions,” (You Might Also Like To Read: Medical Commission Bill: A Major Reform Calls Health Minister) Government does its best for cancer research, Government doing best possible for cancer research, Wellness Centers Written By Anju Bisht The author Anju Bisht is a Content Writer at GoMedii. Here, she is responsible for writing the health-related content based on scientific research. More Posts From: News & Research WHO upholds the Indian scientist developed tech to detect TB New mechanism may help prevent & reverse obesity (Study) Study: Local pollutants contributes majorly to Delhi's air pollution India welcomes 67000 babies this new year, the world highest WHO new report projected a decline in male tobacco users Growing risk of climate change to human health: WHO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1306
__label__cc	0.553989	0.446011	← The Pagan element of Christian tradition: All truth is God’s truth Do our bodies lead us to God or keep us from God? Yes. → Greek philosophers enjoying a good dialectical throwdown In our last post from the “tradition chapter” draft of my forthcoming Medieval Wisdom: An Exploration with C S Lewis, we saw that Lewis and the medievals shared a deep appreciation for the wisdom of the pagan philosophers. Was this some antiquarian hobby for Lewis, like collecting old stamps? Here we dig deeper: what possible use could the old philosophers still have for us today? It is hard to overstate how much Lewis valued pagan knowledge. He had been told as a boy that “Christianity was 100% correct and every other religion, including the pagan myths of ancient Greece and Rome, was 100% wrong.” But because he had already encountered the wisdom of the philosophers, he found that this insistence on the opposition of Christianity to paganism drove him away from, rather than toward, the Christian faith. As it turned out, he abandoned his childhood faith “largely under the influence of classical education.”[1] It was to this experience of valuing philosophy highly and then being told that Christianity must supplant it that Lewis owed his “firm conviction that the only possible basis for Christian apologetics is a proper respect for paganism.” This is a key connection with Boethius: a Christian who believes in the wisdom of classical philosophy and sets out to translate all of Aristotle for his day (Greek to Latin). Lewis, likewise, set himself a “translative” task in his age. Lewis felt a knowledge of pagan classical authors was the essential prerequisite, and in fact much of the substance, of a knowledge of the Middle Ages. He said as much in a letter to his American friend Sister Madeleva, when she asked him for a strategy to familiarize herself with the field.[2] He once said, “If paganism could be shown to have something in common with Christianity, ‘so much the better for paganism,’ not ‘so much the worse for Christianity.” Classical wisdom had always been fair game for Christian teachers. Why cut ourselves off from it now? In this as in so many other ways, Lewis was more medieval than modern. As he wrote to Griffiths: “[I]t is only since I have become a Christian that I have learned really to value the elements of truth in Paganism and Idealism. I wished to value them in the old days; now I really do. Don’t suppose that I ever thought myself that certain elements of pantheism were incompatible with Christianity or with Catholicism.”[3] In a 1944 address to the Socratic Club at Oxford, he made the point more emphatically, in relation to a theme that fascinated him—Pagan foreshadowings of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ: “Theology, while saying that a special illumination has been vouchsafed to Christians and (earlier) to Jews, also says that there is some divine illumination vouchsafed to all men. The Divine light, we are told, ‘lighteneth every man.’ We should, therefore, expect to find in the imagination of great Pagan teachers and myth makers some glimpse of that theme which we believe to be the very plot of the whole cosmic story—the theme of incarnation, death, and rebirth.”[4] Was this just some scholarly antiquarianism on the part of the Oxford don? On the contrary, Lewis rooted his argument about the importance of the Old Wisdom firmly in his sense of the dangers facing his own day. For Lewis, the modern darkness of his “Dark Age” came from its materialism, its utilitarianism, its subjectivism. All of these compounded themselves by cutting modern people off from the wisdom that had made it all the way from the ancients to the time of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. We have said that Lewis warned his Cambridge audience that it now lived in a new Dark Ages. What light, exactly, did he feel was being lost in his day? Not “just” tales and songs, myths and poems, but the very wisdom that, following Barfield, he felt was inextricably embodied in that lost literature. What wisdom? The Christian Gospel? Well, yes, that. But more deeply, the particular complex, perceptive, philosophically sophisticated and morally robust appropriation of the gospel to the Pagan mind that Boethius epitomized. After all, Lewis said, “Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not. . . .” In response to those who argue that the modern world is lapsing into Paganism, Lewis responded, in essence, “If only we would!” For there is wisdom in Pagan culture that we need (a “consolation” of philosophy). But alas, in this new Dark Ages, “The post-Christian is cut off from the Christian past and therefore doubly from the Pagan past.” In the face of this darkness, compounded by two cataclysmic world wars, even Oxford’s students were wondering, Why study philosophy? Lewis responded: “Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.” And where is that good philosophy to be found? “Most of all . . . we need intimate knowledge of the past.” (28) In short, Lewis saw himself as the educator, the popularizer, the traditioner who could become the Boethius for this new Dark Age. Of course he recognized (as had his model Boethius) that there are limits to all merely human philosophy. But its power could be great nonetheless. In his essay “Christianity and Culture,” Lewis reflected: “[C]ulture is a storehouse of the best (sub-Christian) values. These values are in themselves of the soul, not the spirit. But God created the soul. Its values may be expected, therefore, to contain some reflection or antepast of the spiritual values. They will save no man. They resemble the regenerate life only as affection resembles charity, or honour resembles virtue, or the moon the sun. But though ‘like is not the same’, it is better than unlike. Imitation may pass into initiation].”[5] “There is another way,” he wrote, “in which [culture, especially literature] may predispose to conversion. The difficulty of converting an uneducated man nowadays lies in his complacency. Popularized science, the conventions or ‘unconventions’ of his immediate circle, party programmes, etc., enclose him in a tiny windowless universe which he mistakes for the only possible universe. There are no distant horizons, no mysteries. He thinks everything has been settled.” A tiny, windowless universe. I am reminded of Chesterton’s definition of insanity: “The clean, well-lit room of one idea.” Our modern room is well lit by the bare bulb of science. But of what lies beyond, we see nothing. Like the children in the Silver Chair, trapped underground with the witch, we cannot even reason from the light bulb to the sun of heaven. For that, we would need to open the windows of culture. Lewis continues: “A cultured person, on the other hand, is almost compelled to be aware that reality is very odd and that the ultimate truth, whatever it may be, must have the characteristics of strangeness—must be something that would seem remote and fantastic to the uncultured. Thus some obstacles to faith have been removed already.”[6] [1] Michael Ward, “The Good serves the Better and Both the Best: C S Lewis on Imagination and Reason in Apologetics,” in Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition, ed. Andrew Davison, 66; citing letter to the Revd Henry Welbon, 18 September 1936 (unpublished; in the collection of the Marion Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL). [2] Need footnote here, from Letters. [3] Get citation (Letters?): 133 – 4. [4] Lewis, “Is Theology Poetry?” addressed to the Socratic Club at Oxford, 6 Nov 1944. Weight of Glory, 83. [5] Lewis, “Christianity and Literature,” 23. The Pagan element of Christian tradition: All truth is God’s truth (gratefultothedead.wordpress.com) In which C S Lewis meets the “bookish people” of the Middle Ages and shares their love of old books with new readers (gratefultothedead.wordpress.com) C S Lewis and his homeboy Boethius – part II (gratefultothedead.wordpress.com) C S Lewis and chronological snobbery: “Why – damn it – it’s medieval!” (gratefultothedead.wordpress.com) C S Lewis and his homeboy Boethius – two “public intellectual” peas in a pod (gratefultothedead.wordpress.com) This entry was posted in Medieval Wisdom for Modern Protestants and tagged apologetics, Boethius, C S Lewis, classicalism, Classics, evangelism, Middle Ages, paganism, philosophy, Socratic Club, The Silver Chair, Tradition. Bookmark the permalink. 4 responses to “C. S. Lewis on pagan philosophy as a road to Christian faith” Pingback: Heavens to Mergatroid – Planetary Themes in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia \| Welcome to Narnian Frodo Pingback: The Birth of Venus \| G. C. Jeffers Pingback: The Mysterious Presence of Tom Bombadil - The Imaginative Conservative Pingback: Clement, Philosophy and Paganism \| A Pastor's Thoughts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1310
__label__cc	0.726235	0.273765	# Maternity # getting pregnant # Inferlity treatment # fertility treatment # fertility tips How often should you have sex when trying to conceive? And when should you have sex if you want to get pregnant? These are common questions couples have when they decide they want to have a baby. While getting pregnant isn't as easy as you may have been told as a teenager (sex education classes tend to teach teens that you'll conceive just by looking at a boy), it's also not that complicated either. Timing sex to get pregnant is the focus of most couples who are trying to conceive. If you don't have sex during your fertile window, you can't get pregnant. (Your fertile window is the two to three days before you ovulate.) However, if you have sex often enough, timing sex for ovulation may not be necessary. How it's gonna work out your case, read on HappyMom.Life When Is the Best Time to Have Sex to Get Pregnant? The best time to get pregnant is the two to three days right before ovulation. On average, this occurs sometime around days 12 and 13 of your cycle, but it varies from woman to woman. It's possible to have your most fertile window as early as day 8 and 9, or as late as days 19 and 20. While the three days before you ovulate are your most fertile, you're also able to get pregnant if you have sex up to five days before you ovulate. This is because sperm can live up to five days in the female reproductive tract. The egg that ovulates is only able to be fertilized for 12 to 24 hours after it's released from the ovary. But if you've had sex within the past five days, some sperm should be already waiting and ready to fertilize the egg. You've got one week every month when sex can lead to pregnancy. Your high school sex ed teacher lied to you. Sex doesn't lead to pregnancy every time. How Can You Know the Best Time to Get Pregnant? Thankfully, your ovulation day doesn't need to remain a mystery. There are many methods of ovulation detection available, but here are the four most popular. Ovulation predictor tests: These work a lot like pregnancy tests, except they tell you when you're ovulating (and not when you're pregnant.) They come as test sticks (like a pregnancy test) and test strips (where you need to pee into a cup and then dip the test strip into the collected urine.) There are also digital ovulation predictor tests. At-home ovulation tests detect the hormone LH in your urine. LH surges just before you ovulate, so when the test reads positive, this indicates your body is attempting to trigger the egg to be released from the ovary. When LH is surging, this is the best time to get pregnant. Basal body temperature charting: This requires taking your temperature every morning before you get up in the morning. Your basal body temperature is your body's temperature at complete rest. Your hormone levels affect your body temperature.In particular, the hormone progesterone raises your body temperature. Progesterone increases after ovulation, so when your basal body temperature rises and remains high for at least a few days, you know that you ovulated the day before the rise. Tracking your cervical mucus: Your vaginal discharge changes when you're approaching ovulation. It becomes stretchy and more mucus like. When it resembles raw egg whites, you're very, very fertile! Fertility calendar apps: There are many online and smartphone apps that track your cycles. The more accurate ones require you to input your basal body temperature or cervical mucus changes, but even a simple app can help you pinpoint your most fertile days (if your periods are regular.) All you need to do is tell the app when you get your period. Over a few months, the app will learn your cycle, and tell you when you're most likely to be ovulating. Have sex during the indicated days, and as long as everything is healthy fertility wise, you're likely to conceive within a few months. Should You Have Sex Every Day? Some couples will pull out all the stops and try to have sex every day. They just don't want the chance of missing ovulation. While this works for some, if it takes you longer than a month or two to get pregnant, this sex regimen can get tiresome quickly. Plus, it's not necessary. There are two methods for timing sex for pregnancy: there's the "spread the wealth" method, and the "ready, aim, fire" approach. How often you should have sex depends on which method you prefer to use, and whether or not there are any male factor infertility issues, such as sperm count problems. Does How You Have Sex Matter? With all this discussion on when and how often to have sex to get pregnant, you may also be wondering if how you have sex matters. Does sexual pleasure matter? Studies have found that sexual pleasure can improve sperm counts, and there is a theory that female orgasm might help boost the odds of conception. That said, it's not required to get pregnant. You can have terrible sex and still conceive. One thing you should pay attention to is the lubricant you use (if you use any). Be sure to choose a sperm-friendly lube, because many of the regular lubricants can damage sperm. (Not enough to prevent pregnancy, but enough that you wouldn't want to use them if you were trying to conceive.) See more on HappyMom.Life 6 Common Health Issues That May Affect Your Fertility 7 Types Of Food Want-To-be Parents Should Eat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1318
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__label__cc	0.715017	0.284983	You are here: Home / Learning resources for home canning / Ball Blue Book Ball Blue Book The Ball Blue Book is one of the two main books in the accepted American canon of home canning (the other being the USDA Complete Guide.) 1 About the Ball Blue Book 2 New editions supersede old editions 3 Comparing the Ball Blue Book to other canning books published by Newell 4 Criticisms of the Ball Blue Book 5 Mistakes in the Ball Blue Book 6 Metric edition of the Ball Blue Book 7 History of the Ball Blue Book 9 Other Ball home preserving books About the Ball Blue Book The Ball Blue Book provides recipes and procedures for water bathed home preserves, as well as basic procedures and some recipes for pressure canning. All of their recipes are lab-tested for safety. Although a given recipe (say, Mustard Pickle) might appear to violate the general rule of thumb of “no flour in canning recipes”, such a recipe passes muster with flying colours owing to a higher rule: lab-tested by Ball. The goal of the Ball Blue Book likely isn’t for the Blue Book to become a huge profit centre in itself; the goal likely is for it to promote home canning and via that, the Ball products. It’s a sampling of recipes designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. There’s a lot of emphasis on plain foods — which you can then use as “plain ingredients” when you open the jars to make something from combining them all in a recipe. New editions supersede old editions The most recent edition of the Blue Book, as of spring 2016, is the 37th edition of Blue Book (dated 2014 but released spring 2015.) Often, when a new Blue Book is released, Ball will say that it supersedes previous Blue Books and you should cease using them, but with the release of the 37th edition in 2015, Ball said that the previous Blue Book, the 36th edition in 2013, was still valid. [1] Ball Canning: “Hi Randal, the new version is updated with new recipes and additional tips and tricks and can be used in conjunction [with the 2013]” Ball Canning Rep on Facebook to Randal Oulton 9 February 2015. Correspondence on file.” Just because a recipe isn’t in the current Blue Book doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not safe anymore; it could mean that it hasn’t been judged by the Blue Book editors as appealing to enough people at the present time to be fit into their limited space for each production run. Old-timers say that over the years Ball will prune recipes — not necessarily because the recipes are no longer safe, but sometimes just because tastes have changed. If you are wondering about a recipe in an old Blue Book that isn’t in a current one, ask Ball customer service before using the recipe, and they will tell you if it’s still considered safe or not. Comparing the Ball Blue Book to other canning books published by Newell Compared to other publications by the mother ship known as the “Newell Corporation” (previously Jarden) the Ball Blue Book focusses more on ‘standard’ recipes. Other Newell publications such as the Bernardin Guide, the Ball Complete, etc, are considered to offer more “gourmet” approaches to home canning. The Ball Complete Book (labelled the Bernardin Complete Book in Canada) is written in Canada and is a compilation of recipes from Ball, Bernardin and Kerr. It has more recipes than the Blue Book but note: not more pressure canning recipes. The pressure canning recipes are essentially the same as those in the Blue Book. Criticisms of the Ball Blue Book One criticism that a new generation of canners has of the Blue Book is that it continues to give imprecise measures such as “1 quart chopped onion”, and then tell people not to deviate one iota in measurements or they will poison everybody. Ball has attempted to address this somewhat in the 37th edition by being more wordy and attempting in some places to precise exactly what they mean by “coarsely chopped cabbage” in a particular recipe. Many of the new wave of canners also wish that Ball simply just gave weight equivalents for such ingredients as “1 quart medium-coarse chopped cabbage.” Another criticism is that the recipes shock new canners with the huge amounts of salt and refined sugar called for; many people simply choose not to use the book for this reason, and turn to (often untested) Internet sources instead. The recipes are more wordy in the 2014 37th edition, in an attempt to help people understand the measurements more. The book is not strong on canning fish products. The information it gives is reliable, but cursory. For more help, someone home canning fish will want to supplement the information from other reputable sources. Mistakes in the Ball Blue Book The Blue Book compilers do make some editorial mistakes. In the 2013 36th edition, Ball withdrew the Squash Pickles recipe that had been in 2010 Blue Book, without saying why, though leaving a ghost index entry pointing to it on page 57. In the 2014 37th edition, the Hot Rhubarb Grilling Sauce recipe on page 128 was missing the processing time (should be 1/2 US pints for 10 minutes), and the processing directions for mushrooms (on page 114) was omitted from the index. The indexes are frequently not entirely accurate. They may still mention ghost recipes that have been dropped, while failing to mention new recipes that have been added. Metric edition of the Ball Blue Book Ball’s first foray into metric lasted only a brief 12 years. The Blue Book provided metric alternative measures from Edition 30 of the Blue Book (1977) up until and including the first printing of Edition 32 of the Blue Book (1989). But, they dropped metric in the second printing of Edition 32 in 1990, and it was still absent in the 37th Edition of the Blue Book printed in 2014. (It did re-appear, however, in the 2016 edition of the Ball All New.) In 2015, Ball accelerated its push into overseas English-speaking countries. It was already in Australia, and expanded into South Africa and the United Kingdom. It opened in the UK in June 2015. [2] Jarden Corporation Press Release. Preserving the British Summertime. Accessed February 2016 at http://www.jarden.com/latest-news-media/press-releases/preserving-british-summertime. These countries now have close to two generations of people who grew up not knowing the old English-based measurements that Americans still use; they have grown up knowing only metric. (For Australians, Ball had previously attempted to bridge the gap with a measurements conversion chart.) To support this expansion, in 2015 Ball released a metric edition of the Ball Blue Book. Metric edition of the 37 edition of the Ball Blue Book The metric edition provides actual proper metric measurements (measurements for dry items by weight, e.g. 175 g chopped onion), rather than faux metric (measurements for dry items in ml, e.g 250 ml chopped onion.) People outside North America rarely use volume measurements for solids. As of February 2016, the Ball Blue Book Metric Edition appears to only be sold in the UK, particularly through Lakeland stores. We will provide updates on other locales as we learn of them. History of the Ball Blue Book The first Blue Book was issued in 1909. “The idea for today’s Ball Blue Book Home Canning Guide was originally developed in 1909 by George A. Ball and his wife, Frances Woodworth Ball. The earliest-known version was called “The Correct Method for Preserving Fruit.” [3] Jarden Home Brands. Special Jars of the Past. 2007. Accessed March 2015. Here are the subsequent editions we know of (to be clear, the list may not be exhaustive: it’s the editions we are aware of.) Ball Blue Book Edition E – ca 1920s Ball Blue Book Edition K – ca 1920s Ball Blue Book Edition L – ca 1920s Ball Blue Book Edition O – 1930 Ball Blue book Edition P – 1932 Ball Blue book Edition Q – 1933 Ball Blue book Edition R – 1934 Ball Blue book Edition S – 1935 Ball Blue book Edition T – 1936 Ball Blue book Edition U – 1941 Ball Blue Book Edition V – 1943 Ball Blue book Edition X – 1947 Ball Blue Book Edition 26 – A 1953 Ball Blue Book Edition 26 – B 1956 Ball Blue Book Edition 26 – C 1962 Ball Blue Book Edition 27 – 1963 Ball Blue Book Edition 28 – 1969 reprint Ball Blue Book Edition 30 – 1977 (dropped canning advice for broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, eggplant) Ball Blue Book Edition ? – 1995 Ball Blue Book Edition ? – 1995 (1997 reprint) 1946 ad for Ball Blue Book, 10 cents. This would have been Edition V – 1943. Appearing in: Portsmouth Times, Ohio. 29 Aug 1946, page 15. The first ever metric edition was released in 2015 for the UK market. Ball started running its own test kitchen for recipes since 1976. “We’re certainly canning experts — the first official Fresh Preserving Test Kitchen was started in 1976….” [4]Harrold, Judly. Forward. Ball Blue Book, 37th edition, 2014. Many things have been added and taken out of the Blue Book over the decades. One item was, for instance, advice on how to can frog legs, which appeared from 1930 to 1947, and was then withdrawn. Frog legs. Ball Blue Book. Edition O, 1930. Page 19. For historical reference only; do not attempt. See also: Imprecise Measurements; Bernardin’s Home Canning Recipe Books. Other Ball home preserving books Ball All New Ball / Bernardin Complete Overview of Ball’s books JARDEN HOME BRANDS 1440021411 37Th Edition Blue Book, 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches, White brown 1. ↑ Ball Canning: “Hi Randal, the new version is updated with new recipes and additional tips and tricks and can be used in conjunction [with the 2013]” Ball Canning Rep on Facebook to Randal Oulton 9 February 2015. Correspondence on file.” 2. ↑ Jarden Corporation Press Release. Preserving the British Summertime. Accessed February 2016 at http://www.jarden.com/latest-news-media/press-releases/preserving-british-summertime. 3. ↑ Jarden Home Brands. Special Jars of the Past. 2007. Accessed March 2015. 4. ↑ Harrold, Judly. Forward. Ball Blue Book, 37th edition, 2014. Barbara Heller My grandmother used to make a relish using green tomatoes and have been searching for the recipe. Although I can find may recipes that call for green tomatoes, I cannot be certain it will be the same. Recently, I came across an old Ball Blue Book edition 26-B, 1956. On the cover, my grandmother has written her name, and also “green tomato pickle recipe, page 35” . I was so excited, but then so disappointed because the booklet is missing many pages, page 35 included! Is there any chance an edition 26-B, 1956 would still be available? I would absolutely love to try that recipe to see if it is the elusive one I’ve been searching for. Thank you in advance for any assistance. Responding directly by email, Barbara…. “THE preservation of fruits and vegetables by canning is now an exact and known science. Our grandmothers, and even our mothers, were content to lose entirely many quarts of fruit each year; and they were never surprised to find a layer of mold on top of each jar. Science has made wonderful advances, however, and in these days any woman can preserve fruit and vegetables without the loss of a single jar or a trace of mold.” — Ball Blue Book , Edition E. 1920s.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1334
__label__cc	0.577174	0.422826	Business Debt Recovery Shareholder and Partnership Disputes Residential Possession Commercial Possession Relief from forfeiture Using a bailiff Service Charge Disputes Dilapidations Disputes Sales and Ownership Disputes Final Account Recovery Recover Retention in Construction Construction Adjudication Solicitor Construction Dispute Resolution Construction Contract Advice Payment Recovery HR Retainer Employment Tribunal Claims Settlement and Compromise Agreements Employment Redundancy Managing Sick Leave in the UK Damages Based Agreements Agreed Monthly Fee Retainer Residential Possession Fixed Fees How shares should be valued on disposal under pre-emption provisions in a company’s articles business-law By: Helix Law Category: business-law Companies and shareholders should check any pre-emption provisions in their articles to ensure they understand how the shares will be valued if the provisions are to be exercised, following a recent ruling. Many UK companies’ articles of association contain ‘pre-emption’ clauses requiring a shareholder who wants to dispose of their shares to offer them pro-rata to other shareholders before they can be transferred to anyone else, or in any other proportions. In those circumstances it is essential the pre-emption clauses make clear how the price to be paid by the other shareholders will be calculated. For instance, it must be made clear whether the value of shares comprising a minority holding should be discounted on such a valuation, to take account of the fact they are not a controlling stake In this case, two minority shareholders wanted to sell 22 per cent of a company’s shares. Pre-emption rights applied under the articles of association. In relation to valuation of the shares, these said: “The “prescribed price” shall be such sum per share as shall be agreed between the Vendor and the Company failing which it shall be the median price of the prices as determined and certified in writing by two independent chartered accountants as being in their opinion the fair value thereof as between a willing buyer and a willing seller valuing the Company on a going concern basis … the said chartered accountant when determining and certifying the fair value of the Transfer Shares as aforesaid shall act as an expert and not as arbitrator” The sellers argued that the words ‘sum per share’ meant their shares should be valued on a per share basis, rather than as a bloc of shares. No discount should therefore be applied on the valuation of their shares on the basis that the shares, as a block, comprised only a minority stake. The buyer argued that the references to the ‘fair value of the Transfer Shares’, and to valuing them on the basis of a sale between a willing buyer and a willing seller, both implied the shares to be transferred should be valued as a block, so that it would be appropriate to discount them for being a minority stake. The court agreed with the sellers. It said that the words ‘sum per share’ clearly meant shares should be valued simply by dividing the value of the company by the number of shares in issue, and no discount should therefore be applied. The court said that these words: trumped the later wording ‘the fair value of the Transfer Shares’ – the word ‘thereof’ showed that a ‘value per share’ was intended, rather than valuation as a block; overrode the requirement that the shares be valued on the basis the sale was between a willing buyer and a willing seller, which could also carry the implication that they should be valued as a block. Operative date Companies and shareholders should check any pre-emption provisions in their articles and ensure they understand exactly how shares will be valued if a proposed transfer triggers the operation of those provisions. Case ref: Cosmetic Warriors Ltd & Anor v Gerrie & Anor [2015] EWHC 3718 Alex Cook is a Director at Helix. Alex initially trained academically as an unregistered barrister and was a Partner and Head of Civil Litigation at a large firm based in the South East before joining Helix Law. As well as focussing on expanding Helix, Alex specialises in commercial and property related litigation and he has acted for a broad range of clients including offshore property investment funds, small businesses and individual property owners. Helix work with our clients to understand their business and the challenges faced. From partnership disputes to unpaid invoices to problem employees we have it covered. 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__label__wiki	0.541755	0.541755	Provision New Users to Groups You know that you can set up groups to grant application access or special permission rights to many members at once. And, you also know that you can add only registered users to groups. There may be occasions where you want to add unregistered users to groups. For instance, imagine you're onboarding several new users who will be joining your team shortly. You'd like to set up their access to applications across your account so that they're ready to go on the day they start. Quick Base lets you add unregistered users to groups through something called provisioning. If you provision a user to a group, Quick Base adds the user regardless of whether he or she is a registered Quick Base user. Once the user registers, he or she will be able to access applications as specified by the permissions set up for each group. You can only modify groups that you manage unless you are the account admin. Note: If you're not sure whether someone is a registered Quick Base user, don't worry. If you try to provision a user that's already registered, Quick Base adds the user using the existing user account; Quick Base won't create a duplicate account for the user. How does a provisioned user access an application? Provisioning a user to a group sets up access to applications, but you'll still need to help new users find these applications. Quick Base doesn't automatically notify users when they are provisioned or added to groups. Therefore, you need to provide your users with a link to the applications you want them to use. You can email your users the links to your applications. Registered users can simply click the link to access the application; when unregistered users click the link, they will be prompted to register with Quick Base. After completing the registration process, the users will be able to access the apps. After a user has accessed an application once, it will appear on that user's My Apps page, making it easy to find the app again. Provision users You can provision users by either pasting a list of users from the clipboard or importing it from a file (.xlsx, .txt, or .csv). Note that you can import Excel files written by Microsoft 2007 and later -- Quick Base doesn't support importing the .xls files created by prior versions of Excel. Whether you import user data from a file or from the clipboard, you should specify each user on a separate line using the format email address, firstname, lastname. The email address is required, but firstname and lastname are optional. You must use the same delimiter to separate user information on each line. You can choose to use commas, tabs, or semicolons. To avoid performance issues, we recommend provisioning a maximum of 500 new users at a time. To provision users to a group: Access the Manage Billing Account page. Click the Account Summary tab. Click Provision Users. Click IMPORT USERS. Select one of the following options. Import users from a .txt, .csv, or .xlsx file. Import users from the clipboard. Browse to the file or paste in data from the clipboard, depending on which option you selected in the previous step. Modify user information and select a group for the users you're importing. Click Import. The imported users appear in the Provision New Users list on the Summary tab. The users now show up as members of the group you specify. Now they have access to the same applications and roles as the other members in the group. Sharing an application with a user Set up access permissions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1339
__label__cc	0.6572	0.3428	English (other) Deutsch English (US) Español Français 日本語 Nederlands Português Svenska Are You a New Designer? Start here. The Benefits of Zazzle How do I get started creating a Zazzle Store? Vincent van Gogh only sold a single piece of work during his lifetime. If only he had found Zazzle! Whether you're an artist, a photographer, a writer or a graphic designer, whether it's your hobby or your livelihood, you can upload your original work to display for sale on Zazzle products. As a store owner, you may use Zazzle in many ways: Generate royalty income on your original work Display an unlimited number of products where your fans can find you (free!) Promote and advertise your original work Create design templates that others may customise (for birthdays, anniversaries and so on) and on which you earn royalties Manufacture specific products for your own use or to resell (no minimum orders!) Displaying your work at Zazzle is nonexclusive, which means you may continue using your contributed work for any other purpose you want to, including selling it elsewhere. In the meantime, you earn a royalty (that you specify) on anything you sell at Zazzle. You can earn income for years on a single contribution, or from hundreds - it's up to you. It's free and it's easy! Zazzle allows you to present your work to a worldwide audience at no cost to you. That's right: you don't have to buy a URL, design a website or pay inventory and production costs. Zazzle makes it free and easy for you to market your creative work. Follow these simple steps to begin earning money. Register. Create a Member account to get started. You can open and manage multiple stores under one Member account. Store names need to be 6-20 characters and contain no spaces or dashes. Create designs. Create product designs by uploading your images, adding text, and playing with fonts and colours. Your image files will be saved in a private Image Page so you can use them later to create new products. You will be able to choose categories in which you want to display your work. You may also choose whether other Zazzle users can customise your products. Post products for sale. You may keep your products in a your-eyes-only Private Products section or share them with potential customers (and start earning money!) through the Zazzle marketplace. Your Public Store is equipped with powerful tools to showcase your work, invite comments, promote upcoming events, and more. You can even allow your potential customers to further customise your work to create their own unique products. Create a store. After you have created a Member account, you can create one or more stores by clicking "Create a store" under My Account. Once you create a store you can access it by visiting your store's address, which will look similar to this: https://www.zazzle.co.uk/MYSTORENAME. You can also customise your store(s) by visiting the store management page under My Account. Earn money. With Zazzle's "Name Your Royalty" program, you can specify how much you make on every sale of your products on Zazzle. That's right - if you say you want to make 20%, you'll make 20% of the sale. If you want to make 50%, you'll make 50% of the sales price. But the higher the royalty, the higher the sales price. Become an Associate. Take your business to the next level: become an Associate and drive traffic to Zazzle from your own web site. With each purchase from a referred customer, you'll earn a 15% commission. And if that customer buys your products, you'll earn that 15% referral on top of whatever royalty you set! That's a minimum of 25% in earnings! Learn about our newest self-promotion tool, the Zazzle Star. The Zazzle Star helps you share your store, sell more products and earn more money. Every Zazzle can now have their own user-friendly store link that makes it incredibly easy to merchandise and promote their store to friends, family, contacts, and the rest of the world! For more information on earning money, please visit our Earnings/Payments page. Earnings payments to Zazzle Designers Posting Products for Sale How zRank Works Still have questions? Our customer support agents are here to help. Email: UK \| Australia \| Canada \| New Zealand or Call Search Zazzle Help Centre	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1342
__label__wiki	0.511002	0.511002	ENHU The biggest ultrafiltration membrane plant is to be developed in Oroszlány - VIDEO REPORT NEW Jobs 85 EUR 30 million Business Services Hungary 2019: The latest trends of BSCs in the spotlight - VIDEO HIPA Substantial opportunities are awaiting Hungarian suppliers in the field of e-mobility as well A study has just been compiled on the development opportunities of the area of Budapest Airport en_GBen hu_HUhu Budapest Airport, supported by local governments and the metropolitan government of Budapest, have joined forces to accelerate the economic and infrastructural development of the Airport and its surrounding areas. In furtherance of this objective, they have created a designated association with the name of the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport and Neighbourhood Regional Economic and Municipal Development Cluster Association. The objective of the Cluster is to coordinate and harmonize the several concurrent regional logistical, industrial, and technological innovation projects initiated in the area with the participation of private investors, municipal organizations, government agencies and public institutions. A cooperation agreement has been signed at HIPA headquarters Companies, service providers, maintaining close economic ties with the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, contribute a combined value of more than one and a HUF 0.5 billion to the Hungarian economy, which amounts to 5.6% of the gross domestic added value produced. The further development of the Airport certainly carries a decisive impact on the economic growth of the entire region. To sustain this growth, the support and participation of the national government as well as that of the municipal authorities will be required in the form of jointly providing for appropriate infrastructural and institutional conditions as has been pointed out – among a number of other considerations – in the analytical study submitted by Századvég Gazdaságkutató Zrt. on the impact of the Budapest Airport on the economy of the region. The study prepared by Századvég Gazdaságkutató Zrt. provides a detailed analysis on the economic role played by the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in the region (suppliers and service providers catering for the airport employ a joint labour force of more than 155,000 persons) concentrating on the Airport's direct impact on such indices as the gross national added value produced (GVA) as well as on the rate of employment. The expected growth of business to be realized by the Airport in the coming years in terms of the number of flights and passengers can be sustained on the condition that the required infrastructural and institutional support to be offered by the local municipalities and the agencies of the national government will not be withheld. The member organizations of the Cluster – with a view to the findings of the Századvég study – attribute primary significance to the railroad and public road connection of the Airport with the city centre as one of the most pressing of all development issues. The Cluster intends to approach the government requesting it to grant a special economic development area status for the Airport and the region assisting thereby in the implementation of the required infrastructural development projects and providing for the adequate institutional and statutory changes supporting the advancement of the area. In order to ensure its sustained competitive position, over the last decade, Budapest Airport spent more than HUF 100 billion for the capital development and upgrading of its operational assets and facilities while as recently as in the last year, the company announced a further HUF 50 billion modernization programme named BUD 2020 promising to increase the annual passenger handling capacity of the airport to 18 million. The second phase of the Samsung SDI plant going on through a huge investment in Göd - VIDEO REPORT The inauguration of the GS Yuasa plant is a milestone in Hungarian emobility - VIDEO REPORT The foundation stone of the new Infineon plant has been laid in Cegléd - VIDEO REPORT Vaccine manufacturing in Gödöllő has gained strategic importance - VIDEO REPORT Ceva Phylaxia to expand with a second site in Hungary - VIDEO REPORT The most recent expansion of Teva in Debrecen awaits the challenges of the future - VIDEO REPORT The European competence centre of Sanofi is to be established in Budapest - VIDEO REPORT Roche establishes its European medicine safety-related centre in Budaörs - VIDEO REPORT The service centre of BP in Hungary has been a success story for ten years now - VIDEO REPORT Leading contact lens manufacturer US company continues to expand in Hungary - VIDEO REPORT German health care company B. Braun expands in Gyöngyös One of the world's leading medical technology companies has long-term plans in Hungary Leading medical technology company is set to increase capacities in Tatabánya Hungary’s first geothermal power plant to be built in Tura US-based Formlabs establishes its software development centre in Budapest - VIDEO REPORT One of the top software houses in Hungary has started developments in two fields - VIDEO REPORT IT Services Hungary has moved to a new office building in Budapest - VIDEO REPORT Budapest Airport takes the regional lead in cargo as well - VIDEO REPORT PEPCO to construct its regional Distribution Centre in Hungary - VIDEO REPORT Logistics centre to be built in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County for an US company The first phase of Zalaco's green field investment has been completed - VIDEO REPORT Claessens Group is expanding with an innovative feed mill in Hungary - VIDEO REPORT The most modern dairy processing plant of Central-Europe was inaugurated in Debrecen - VIDEO REPORT New era in the history of Opel's Szentgotthárd plant - VIDEO REPORT Schaeffler Savaria is to expand its activity with e-mobility in Hungary - VIDEO REPORT NHK Spring has tripled its Hungarian production unit - VIDEO REPORT About Hungary HIPA Services Press & Publication Copyright © 2020. 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__label__cc	0.688379	0.311621	Lee Eysturlid Lee W. Eysturlid is a history instructor at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. He also serves as an adjunct for Northwestern Universitys School of Continuing Studies program. Dr. Eysturlid earned his PhD in history from Purdue University, where he specialized in Intellectual Military History and the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. He is a member of the Citadel Historical Association and is an ABC-CLIO History Fellow. His published works include Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers (Praeger, 2013) and The Formative Influences, Theories, and Campaigns of the Archduke Carl of Austria (Praeger, 2000).. "Negotiating Peace: Diplomacy during Wwii." History Hub, ABC-CLIO, 2020, historyhub.abc-clio.com/Support/Display/2171547?cid=258. Accessed 20 Jan. 2020. Server: VWEB1 \| Client IP: 18.232.51.247 \| Session ID: ipoz0nc3pa0z5lv2lmlfwqja \| Token: \| Referer: \| Visitor info: Not authenticated	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1354
__label__wiki	0.733486	0.733486	04/20/2019 Playoffs 2019 NBA Playoffs 2019: Oklahoma City Thunder take Game 3 over Portland Trail Blazers behind Russell Westbrook's huge performance Russell Westbrook overcame a rough first two games, exploding for 33 points, 11 assists and five rebounds to lead the Thunder to their first win of the series. By Kyle Irving and Benyam Kidane Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard [NBA Getty Images] https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/NBA_Global_CMS_image_storage/dc/52/westbrook-lillard-ftrjpg_1ewt5cw2kn0z01a9al3xg9n7gl.jpg?t=953027682&w=500 The Oklahoma City Thunder are on the board. After dropping their first two games of the series against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Thunder get their first win in their home playoff debut 120-108. Russell Westbrook bounced back from a rough first two games, scoring 33 points to go with 11 assists and five rebounds. 14 of his 33 points came in the fourth quarter as he closed out the game to assure his team came away with the win. Westbrook got support from the Thunder's role players as Jerami Grant (18 points) and Dennis Schroder (17 points) provided some extra scoring, stepping up for a struggling Paul George who finished with 22 points but shot 3-for-16 from the field. That team effort was enough to overcome a combined 53 points from Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum as OKC now trails by just one game in the series. Here are your takeaways from Game 3... Westbrook's back Russell Westbrook had struggled through Game 1 and Game 2 and he held himself accountable after the two losses, calling his performances 'unacceptable'. He knew he had to step up his play if the Thunder were going to have a chance to dig themselves out of the 0-2 hole and he did just that in Game 3. OKC's All-Star point guard left everything he had on the floor, talking trash back-and-forth with Lillard all the way until the final buzzer. He had responded to Lillard's third-quarter explosion in the best way possible - by putting together a monster fourth quarter to close out the game. Westbrook scored 14 of his 33 points in the game's final frame, making five of his six shot attempts while going 2-for-2 from beyond the arc. Leading by 11 points with just under a minute and a half left in the game, Westbrook pulled up from three with Lillard's hand right in his face. When the 3-pointer dropped in, he let his foe know that he had edged him in this one. Talk your talk, Russ 🤭 pic.twitter.com/OvLlainl0r - SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 20, 2019 Westbrook got the best of his counterpart, scoring 33 points to go with 11 assists and five rebounds. He shot efficiently for the first time this series, going 11-for-22 from the field and 4-for-6 from 3-point range. OKC catch fire from three Through the first two games of the series on the road, OKC were 10-of-61 from deep (16.4%) as they found themselves in a 2-0 hole. Back on their home floor for Game 3, they got their swagger back from beyond the arc, going 15-of-29 and they needed every single one of them. They set the tone early, going 5-of-8 from three in the first quarter, stretching the Blazers defence as five different players all connected from deep. OKC has hit five 3s in the first quarter so far, matching the most they made in a game in the series. - Royce Young (@royceyoung) April 20, 2019 Their 15 three-pointers on the night tied their record for three-pointers made in a playoff game, since they moved to Oklahoma City. Lillard's third quarter Damian Lillard had been tearing up the Thunder so far in this series - you wouldn't have guessed that if you only saw the first half of Game 3. Lillard couldn't buy a bucket, going 2-for-6 from the field and 0-for-3 from long range for a total of just four points as his team went into the half down 10 points. Then, the third quarter happened. The Trail Blazers had cut their 10-point deficit to just four points after a 43-point outburst in the third. Lillard exploded for 25 points in the third quarter alone - he shot 8-for-11 from the field converting three of his four 3-point attempts while getting to the free throw line six times, going 6-for-6. Dame dropped 25 PTS in the 3Q! 🔥⌚️#RipCity \| #NBAPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/hdyyvQ93R3 - NBA TV (@NBATV) April 20, 2019 He willed his team back into the game, keeping the same energy as the first two contests. The effort ended up resulting in a loss, but Lillard still finished with 32 points, six assists, four rebounds and two steals. OKC role players stand up After being virtually non-existent in the first two games, Dennis Schroder, Jerami Grant and Terrance Ferguson all stood tall in Game 3. On a night where Paul George struggled offensively (3-16 FG), the OKC trio helped keep the Thunder offence ticking over, with Grant (18 points), Ferguson (9 points) and Schroder (17 points) combining to shoot 9-for-12 from beyond the arc. Schröder shimmy. 17p\|6a\|5r so far. pic.twitter.com/fSaAn8T7Cg - OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) April 20, 2019 Schroder's aggressiveness in the pick-and-roll, especially against Enes Kanter was particularly devestating down the stetch as he scored eight of his 17 points in the fourth quarter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1373
__label__wiki	0.84237	0.84237	01/23/2019 Basketball and India NBA to host second NBA Academy India women's program in India The NBA Academy India to Host 24 Top Female Prospects from India By Official release (NBA Academy/Instagram) https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/NBA_Global_CMS_image_storage/b6/af/the-nba-academy-india-to-host-24-top-female-prospects-from-india_190dx5vuhnbh41fr00jherdpjw.png?t=2041780656&w=500 MUMBAI - The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that The NBA Academy India will host the second The NBA Academy India Women's Program from January 22-25, 2019. 24 female prospects ages 17 and under from throughout India will participate in the camp. 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member Jennifer Azzi and former college coach Blair Hardiek - the global technical directors for women's programming across the league's seven academies - will oversee this year's camp. The NBA Academies Women's Program is a series of basketball development camps for top female prospects from outside the U.S. The first camp in India was held in 2018 (May 27-29). Sanjana Ramesh, the MVP of the 2018 Camp, recently committed to play Division I basketball at the Northern Arizona University, becoming just the second Indian-born female player ever to receive a basketball scholarship from a D-1 school. List of Campers First Name Last Name DOB Height Position Sunishka Kartik 15/5/2004 5'3 Point Guard Payal 14/10/2005 5'3 Guard Rajvi Desai 24/5/2002 5'4 Guard Diksha Pareek 16/6/2004 5'4 Guard Grishma Niranjan 1/9/2001 5'5 Point Guard Siya Deodhar 28/4/2003 5'5 Point Guard Skruti Bhosale 27/4/2002 5'5 Guard Vaishnavi Yadav 10/10/2001 5'5 Guard Akshaya Philip 16/2/2002 5'6 Forward Gowda Bindushree 23/12/2003 5'6 Forward Kushi Dongre 14/5/2001 5'6 Guard Rashi Khotani 14/5/2003 5'7 Guard Sreekala Rani 19/1/2001 5'7 Guard Haleema Jan 8/11/2002 5'8 Forward Kashvi Khanelwal 9/9/2002 5'8 Forward Sanjana Nanda Kumar 28/12/2003 5'8 Forward Harini Shivakumar 5/7/2003 5'8 Center Jiju Swampna 21/11/2003 5'8 Center Ann Mary Zacariah 8/11/2003 5'9 Center Suzanne Prakash Pinto 11/2/2002 5'10 Forward Asmat Taunque 14/7/2003 5'11 Forward Kavya Singla 28/3/2004 6'0 Center Harsimran Kaur 6/5/2003 6'0 Forward Sanjana Ramesh 12/4/2001 6'0 Forward	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1374
__label__cc	0.725634	0.274366	Mobs and margins The lynchings around rumours of child lifting call for a response from the state, political class and society as a whole By: Editorial \| Published: July 9, 2018 12:06:44 am This newspaper, investigating the circumstances of each incident across nine states, has found a pattern. The lynch mob, fuelled by rumour, fear, ignorance, hate and anger, is certainly a law and order challenge. It is also a symptom and a sign of the lop-sided access to information, of the gap between the fast and vast nature of the internet, where a falsehood about “child lifting” can trigger a mob far quicker than the police response to it. It also points to a social change, a disruption, at the margins of India’s national imagination that requires more than the usual response from the state, administration and political class as a whole. This newspaper, investigating the circumstances of each incident across nine states, has found a pattern. Like the July 1 murder of five people in Dhule, Maharashtra, the victims are often from the margins — migrants or outsiders. A vast majority of the killings — 24 — have occurred in interior villages, and the perpetrators have had little or no education, sometimes been under the influence of alcohol and been whipped up by social media forwards, notably on WhatsApp. In the wake of the Dhule lynching, the Centre has asked WhatsApp to control and monitor mass circulated messages, the social media giant has said it is planning a host of features to that end. This is only a partial, and temporary, solution. The contradictions of a pre-literate society, of communities at the social and economic periphery, being exposed to a world littered with fake news and incendiary rumour, is not going to be dealt with by a Silicon Valley company. Nor is it possible to put the genie back in the bottle and wish for a time when a newspaper read out loud at a chaupal was the only source of information for vast parts of the country. The state governments must, of course, ensure a better, swifter response from the police, and help buttress local intelligence networks so that the police arrives before a mob is formed, not after its work is done. Mass awareness campaigns and outreach is needed in communities which place a high degree of trust in the written word to treat what they receive on their mobile phones with a degree of healthy scepticism. And, in the long run, it is essential that the “interiors” of India find reason to trust in the state, society and its institutions. As the Supreme Court made it clear last week, whatever the motive — a child lifting rumour or hate sentiment — the response cannot be murder or violence. For all the latest Opinion News, download Indian Express App 0 Comment(s) * * The moderation of comments is automated and not cleared manually by indianexpress.com. EXPRESS OPINION OpinionStudents are protesting because of our education, not despite it OpinionCAA: States have an obligation OpinionA farm wish list for the budget BusinessIMF lowers global growth forecast for 2019, cites slowdown in India EntertainmentActors pick the best reality show of the last decade More Explained How IVF is reversing an imminent extinction Why Trump’s impeachment case recalls Clinton’s How India-Pakistan trade nearly collapsed in 2019 IMF lowers India’s growth estimate for 2019 to 4.8% Explained: How destructive are locust attacks, how India tackles them Actors pick the best reality show of the last decade	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1377
__label__cc	0.619	0.381	In Box Review of DML Dragon 1/72nd Arado Ar234P The Arado Ar 234 “Blitz” (Lightning) was the only turbojet-powered bomber to achieve operational status in World War II, and as such was an important milestone in the development of military aviation. The origins of the type can be traced to a 1940 requirement, issued by the German air ministry for a turbojet-powered fast reconnaissance aircraft. An extensive program of design and development resulted in no fewer than 18 prototypes with a powerplant of two Junkers 004 or four BMW 003 turbojets, provision for rocket-assisted take-off units, a cabin with or without pressurization and a pilot’s ejection seat, and a clumsy combination of a drop-away trolley for take-off and extendable skids for landing. The wheeled trolley/skid used on the Ar 234 prototypes for take-off and landing was clearly impractical for an operational airplane. Plans were made for a Ar 234A production derivative of the Ar 234V3, but this was dropped in favor of the Ar 234B model. This aircraft used tricycle landing gear in which all three units retracted into the fuselage, an arrangement that was earlier pioneered on the Ar 234V-9. The Ar 234B was intended for the reconnaissance bomber role with hardpoints under the fuselage and under two of the engine nacelles for bombs up to 1,102lbs. Some 20 of the Ar 234B-0 pre-production aircraft were followed by 210 more Ar 234B-1 reconnaissance aircraft with drop tanks in place of the bombs, and Ar 234B-2 reconnaissance bombers. This type entered service in 1944, and the Ar 234B was further complemented by a production of just 14 examples of the Ar 234C with the revised powerplants of four 1,764lb. BMW 109-003A-1 turbojets. The Arado Ar 234P (subject of this new DML kit) was a proposed design for a two-seat night fighter variant with a variety of different powerplant options and a lengthened nose to accommodate a Berlin centimetric air to air radar unit. None ever went into production. The aircraft was to have a stepped canopy vs the round-nosed types seen on earlier versions and a belly tub that housed two forward-firing 20mm cannon. (Source: Wikipedia.com) THE KIT: DML Dragon is a prolific model company based in China. They make all manner of model subjects in the popular scales The kit comes in a shrink-wrapped tray and lid type box. The box art shows a illustration of a Ar 234P attacking a British Lancaster. This is rather speculative, as the aircraft never got off the drawing board or was built. Except for crosses on the wing tops and the fuselage sides it is not otherwise marked and carries no swastika on the tail. One side panel has 4 small side profiles of the Ar-234P. One is in a splinter pattern of two shades of green, the second one is a speckle pattern of green over grey. the third one is in winter white wash and the 4th is in the speckle pattern over a black under-carriage. This is followed by a color illustration of the decal sheet and PE fret in the kit, next to a statement that the kit is not for children under 3 because of small sharp parts they may accidental swallow. This is in multiple languages including English. It is said that the kit is intended for modelers over 10. There is a caution to not use glue or paint near an open flame and to use them only in a well ventilated room. The copyright of the kit is 2005, above DML's street address in Hong Kong, China and their web address. The other side panel has 2 color photos of the model made up in the 2 green colors splinter pattern and 3 walk around photos of the unpainted model showing the armored nose twice and the landing gear. The kit contains 2 trees of light gray parts, 2 trees of clear parts, a small fret of brass PE parts, the decal sheet, and the instructions. The instructions consist of as single sheet that accordion-folds out into 6 pages in 7" x 10 1/4" page format. Page 1 of the instructions begins with a black and white repeat of the box art above the parts trees illustrations. Some parts are blued-out in these illustrations as being excess and not needed to complete the model. Page 2 begins with CAUTIONS and international assembly symbol explanations in 6 languages including English. Below them is a listing of suggested hobby paints to use to complete the model. Brands mentioned are CSI Creos Corp. Aqueous Hobby Colour, Mr. Color and Model Master Color. The first 3 assembly steps are at the bottom of the page. A balance of a total of 7 assembly steps is on page 3. Page 4 has a 4-view of an Arado 234P in defense of the Reich, 1945. No unit mentioned. It is in a splinter pattern of light green and brown above light blue. It has red cowing noses and the rear-most ends of the cowling are steel colored below. It carries skeletal white crosses above the wings and on the fuselage sides and black crosses outlined in white below the wings. The fuselage code behind the cross is a black GS. A small black F1 is in front of the fuselage cross. A small number 812 is high on the rudder in black. Page 5 has another 4-view of an Arado 234P said to be in a night-fighter scheme. Again, no unit mentioned. It is in a mottle pattern of 2 shades of grey over a dark grey undercarriage. It too has skeletal white crosses above the wings and on the fuselage sides and the black ones outlined in white below the wings. It has a black number 642 high on the rudder above 3 white silhouettes of aircraft. I assume these are kill marks. A black shield with a diving white eagle on it is on the sides of the fuselage just aft of the cockpit. Page 6 has two more 3-views of Ar234P's. One is in the mottle pattern of 2 shades of grey over a grey undercarriage. It has white skeletal crosses above the wings, black crosses outlined in white below the wings and black skeletal fuselage crosses. There are 9 black vertical hash marks on the rudder for kill markings. It is said that this is a Ar-234P based in Berlin in 1945. No outfit is mentioned. The other 3-view is in a splinter pattern of 2 shades of grey. It has white skeletal crosses above the wings, black ones with white border below the wings and a black skeletal cross on the fuselage sides. No other marks are shown. It is a Ar234P from a test field in 1945. Again, no unit is mentioned. No swastika is shown on any of these schemes and none is provided in the kit. The bottom of page 6 has the decal application instructions in the 6 languages. Large letter A parts tree holds: The fuselage halves, horizontal tail pieces, tail skid, main wheel tires, landing gear legs, radar antenna, some cockpit parts etc. (51 parts) Fourteen of these parts are shaded out, in blue color, on the instruction sheet parts drawings, indicating that they are excess or not needed to complete the model. There is no letter B parts tree. Large letter C parts tree holds: the upper and lower wing halves, engine nacelles parts, cockpit tub. Nose wheel, etc. (31 parts) Six of these parts are excess. Tree lettering now jumps to letter H. This clear parts tree holds wing light lenses and a canopy part. It is co-joined to letter J parts tree. Letter J tree is also clear parts. Although there are 3 parts on this tree, only one is used. There is no letter K parts tree. Letter L parts tree is another clear parts tree. It holds: cockpit transparencies, the thimble-like nose cap, dorsal dome piece, and the ventral gun blister parts. (6 parts). The final parts are a fret of brass PE and are marked as tree MA. This tree holds: wing antenna parts, 2 DF antennas, a cockpit gun-sight mounting shelf, and an under-wing pole antenna . (6 parts). The decals, PE fret, and one of the trees of clear parts are packaged with a stiff cardboard insert into a cello bag. Each of the other parts tree has it’s own cello bag also. The decal sheet is by Cartograf. It gives us a variety of various types of crosses and even some speculative kill markings as well as werk numbers for the tail of the aircraft. However, you will have to find swastikas elsewhere as there are none included in the kit. These are missing from the kit in order to keep the kit politically correct in countries where it is sold that ban the swastika. There is a small sheet in the kit that has corrections for the assembly of the cockpit interior details. If you like “WHAT IF” or “Luftwaffe 1946” type German aircraft subjects, this one will be to your liking. The molding is very well detailed and flash free. I purchased my kit at my local hobby shop.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1383
__label__wiki	0.915752	0.915752	EU policy, nuclear energy More news on Hinkley Point C As some of you may know, the UK government plans to finance a huge new nuclear power plant, Hinkley Point C, and it should be build by EDF. However, in signing the deal, EDF demanded substantial financial aids. These financial aids are currently subject to vivid discussions, as they do not conform to EU competition laws and destroy incentives for investments in e.g. alternative energy production. There are now some news from various places that the EU is likely to rule that the UK state aid for Hinkley Point C is illegal. A rejection like this will also again tilt the scale against further developments of nuclear energy in Europe, since the new nuclear power plants cannot anymore be built without precisely those large state aids that are illegal from the EU perspective. The European Commission will almost certainly find that EDF Energy’s funding mechanism for the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear unit in the UK is illegal state aid, an Austrian law professor told Platts. Franz Leidenmuhler, who specializes in EU state aid cases and European competition law, said in an email that he believed “a rejection is nearly unavoidable. The Statement of the Commission in its first findings of December 18, 2013 is too clear. I do not think that some conditions could change that clear result.” The new Hinkley unit will be built based on a funding model in which the UK government guarantees a floor price for future power sales. This floor price, known as a “strike price,” is the reference price below which EDF would receive UK government financial support and above which EDF would pay back money, effectively a guaranteed price for the power. Leidenmuhler indicated he believed EDF’s funding mechanism for Hinkley Point C did not meet these criteria to be granted an exemption for state aid. However, George Borovas, an energy lawyer at Shearman and Sterling in Tokyo, said in an email to Platts that he believed some form of negotiation was likely take place before the EC formally rejected EDF’s proposals. “While the Commission has expressed substantial criticisms and concerns, it would be unusual for a project of this nature to be prohibited outright on State aid grounds,” he said. Borovas said that “instead, there will likely be a negotiation between the UK and the EU, resulting in a settlement of some sort, on issues such as the period of the CfD and the level of the strike price.” The issue of a potential precedent being set was a point emphasized indirectly by Leidenmuhler in his presentation, when he cited the recent decision by the Czech government not to offer aid guarantees for the construction of a new nuclear unit at Temelin that would be similar to the guarantees offered by the UK government for Hinkley Point C. Platts 8th May 2014 http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/london/european-commission-likely-to-find-hinkley-aid-26784747 According to the Westminster-based think tank, CentreForum, the private financing behind the project will cost British consumers £12.4bn more over 35 years than government backed procurement. The think tank said the lack of government investment will result in an additional bill of at least £15 a year per UK household “for a generation, while the taxpayer underwrites double digit returns to French and Chinese nationalised industry”. The report made eight recommendations, which included, setting a new nuclear strike price by auction and building long-term infrastructure to support nuclear growth such as laboratories and research centres. Construction News 8th May 2014 http://m.cnplus.co.uk/8662275.article (Thanks to Paul Dorfman for these news.) EU policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1387
__label__cc	0.646173	0.353827	Public cloud services to drive APAC cloud computing revenue during 2018-23 Shannon Williams Public cloud services will drive cloud computing revenue during 2018-2023, according to new figures from GlobalData. The company says with technologies contributing immensely to the strategic business innovation initiatives and cost-efficiency synergies amongst the enterprises, public cloud services are expected to be the major revenue generator of cloud computing in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. According to GlobalData's Market Opportunity Forecasts Model, the public and the private cloud computing services together will account for approximately 80% of the overall US$256bn cloud computing revenue in 2023. Public cloud services are estimated to witness a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21% during the outlook period, which is the highest amongst the various cloud product/services offerings in the region. "Enterprises are looking to streamline the management of their day-to-day operations and gain differential competitive advantage by adopting cloud computing services for their existing IT infrastructure," says Sunil Kumar Verma, lead ICT analyst at GlobalData. "Smart cities initiatives will be one of the prime catalysts for the adoption of public cloud services, as they are being preferred by the government agencies for transformation of their incumbent IT infrastructure," he explains. Verma says public cloud adoption is also expected to grow, as enterprises continue to leverage it for newer business applications like big data and analytics, asset management, compliance & risk management, and substitute their existing licensed software. GlobalData's model reveals that the adoption of public cloud by the governments for their systems, in addition to increased reliance by industry verticals such as financial services institutions, retailers, media and manufacturing towards a digital native business will act as the key growth drivers during the review period. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will be the prime growth contributor and will account for 51% of the overall public cloud market in 2023, as enterprises focus on cost rationalisation by reducing hardware acquisition costs, provisioning and maintenance expenses and other cost areas related to software licensing, installation and support services. "Cloud services will continue to revolutionise the operational methodology of the enterprises by providing them with an agile business model and scalability along with data accessibility either in a centralised or a distributed remote operating environment," says Verma. Digital technologies change the way APAC consumers manage their health APAC leads the way for 28bn virtual reality market APAC to account for one-third of global server market in 2023 Without automation, you're a sitting duck to cybercriminals. Here's why Seven cybersecurity experts share their insights, strategies, and best practices surrounding security automation and analytics. More The ultimate test: Can these firewalls stand up to malware attacks? With a multitude of solutions on the market, ESG decided to use malware attacks to evaluate market solutions like Juniper Networks’ automated threat detection and remediation.More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1391
__label__wiki	0.530652	0.530652	News and Views from Iran and the World Iran Front Page Home Society Science and Technology Mahathir Mohamad Praises Iran’s Technological Progress IFP Exclusive Mahathir Mohamad Praises Iran’s Technological Progress IFP Editorial Staff Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has hailed Iran’s progress in science and technology, saying Tehran’s “amazing” advancement under the US sanctions makes him happy. The Malaysian prime minister made the remarks in a Friday meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the 18th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Baku. “I always consider myself as Iran’s friend. Iran’s advancements in new technologies and sciences are amazing and at the same time make me happy,” Mahathir said, adding that he admires Iran’s technological and scientific capabilities and the country’s progress. “Malaysia is impressed by the resistance of the Iranian government and nation against US pressure because you were well able to overcome US pressure and this resistance is commendable,” he said. “The US sanctions are not only against Iran but also against other countries, including Malaysia and we should work for the development of cooperation,” Mahathir noted. “Malaysia and Iran, as two Muslim countries, can make great progress by using their scientific and economic capacities and contribute to Muslims’ progress,” he continued. Rouhani, in turn, said Iran is willing to develop its relations with Malaysia in all fields of mutual interest, expressing hope that these relations will develop sooner. President Rouhani stressed Mahathir Mohamad’s efforts for the development of Malaysia has always been praised by elites, including Iranian elites. He stressed that the development of Tehran-Kuala Lumpur economic relations is in the interest of the two nations and governments, adding, “We need to create new mechanisms for the development of more comprehensive cooperation.” The president said that Iran is keen to repeat the successful experience of preferential tariffs for developing common commercial relations with Malaysia, adding, “Mutual investment should also be on the agenda of developing economic relations between the two countries.” Rouhani said that the US pressure must not overwhelm major nations, including Iran and Malaysia, adding, “Iran had some difficulties over the past year due to US pressure, but we have successfully passed this phase with planning and resistance, and economic indices reflect this fact.” The President said, “Our people have shown with their resistance that they do not surrender to America’s pressure.” Referring to Iran’s interest for developing its academic and technological relations with Malaysia, Rouhani said, “The two countries have made good progress in different areas and can help each other by exchanging experience.” “We are all members of the Islamic Ummah and there is no difference between the Islamic branches,” he said, stating that having different branches in the Muslim world should not cause divisions and that we must unite against common enemies.” Hassan Rouhani Iran-Malaysia Relations Iranian Scientists https://ifpnews.com/ifp-editorial-staff The IFP Editorial Staff is composed of dozens of skilled journalists, news-writers, and analysts whose works are edited and published by experienced editors specialized in Iran News. The editor of each IFP Service is responsible for the report published by the Iran Front Page (IFP) news website, and can be contacted through the ways mentioned in the "IFP Editorial Staff" section. Iranian University Launches PhD Program on Satellite Studies President Rouhani Visits Flood-Hit Areas in Iran’s Southeast Iran Unveils Homegrown Simulator for Airbus A320 Distance between War & Peace Only One Bullet: Rouhani Iranian Specialists Do ‘Tooth in Eye’ Surgery at Farabi Hospital US in No Position to Sympathize with Iranians: Rouhani IFP Newsletter A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on January 20 Iran in Pictures Schools Shut Down in Tehran over Heavy Snow Latest Iran News Iran Warns It Will Leave NPT If Its Case Taken to... Ukraine Plane Crash: Cyber Attack Ruled Out, Human Error Confirmed Iran Latest News Iran Newspaper Headlines Iran Politics Iranian Government Iranian Judiciary Iranian Society Iranian Lifestyle Iranian Media Iranian Women Iranian Art Cultural Heritage in Iran Iranian Food Business in Iran Science and Technology in Iran Iranian Economy Agriculture in Iran Iranian Industry Transportation in Iran Iranian Handicrafts Nature and Wildlife in Iran Healthcare in Iran Who We Are ⊥ IFP Editorial Staff Contact us: info@iranfrontpage.com © All Content by IFP News ( Iran Front Page ) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1399
__label__cc	0.615743	0.384257	BLOG TOUR: Guardian: The Sky Road Trilogy Book Two by Sandra Hurst, Genre: Fantasy ~ Available Now! Decisions can haunt you. Five cycles ago Y’keta’s fear of responsibility drove him into exile. Now, settled in a new village, he faces the same choice again. The Utlaak horde is on the move. Destroying village after village in their search for the mysterious Lifebinder Crystal, and Siann, the young shaman who controls it. Soon, they will find his village, and her. On that day Y’keta must decide if he will risk losing everything he has come to love, or will he finally become what he was meant to be? The Guardian. Amazon: https://amzn.to/2C9nRHl A mythmaker at heart, Sandra Hurst has been writing poetry, fantasy and science fiction since her school days in England. Hurst moved to Canada in 1980 and was deeply influenced by the wild lands and the indigenous cultures that surrounded her. Y’keta, her first full-length novel, is set in a mythical land, untouched by science or technology, an ancient world where legends walk and the Sky Road offers a way to the stars. A member of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, and The Mythopoeic Society, Hurst works to build fantasy worlds that allow her readers to join her in exploring the depths of human interaction in a mythical game of ‘what if.’ Her first novel, Exile, was long-listed for the prestigious Aurora Award, for best Canadian fantasy novel (Young Adult) and the American-based RONE award for break out fantasy novel. She now lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband and son, both of whom she loves dearly, and has put up for sale on e-bay when their behaviour demanded it. Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SHurst.Author Twitter: www.twitter.com/_SandraHurst Blog: www.delusionsofliteracy.com Email: sandrahurstauthor@gmail.com Available Now!, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Romance One thought on “BLOG TOUR: Guardian: The Sky Road Trilogy Book Two by Sandra Hurst, Genre: Fantasy ~ Available Now!” Jessica at Booked J This sounds super intriguing. Also, the all blue cover has me swooning soo much. I’m a sucker for blues. Leave a Reply to Jessica at Booked J Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1406
__label__cc	0.714725	0.285275	Home > Latest News JST Statement: on the 25th anniversary of John Smith’s death Central Asian fellows make excellent progress with their Action Plans Central Asian Fellows share their fellowship programme experience back home Fifty new Fellows and a stellar year for the Trust Tribute to Lord McCluskey former Chair of the John Smith Trust New Fellowship Programme for Central Asia New Fellowship Programmes in Russia, the Caucasus, Wider Europe and Central Asia The John Smith Associate Fellowship in Good Governance for GCC countries Fellow’s Story: The John Smith Trust In The Digitalised World Vision and Voice from the Middle East Rt Hon John Smith QC MP 1938-1994: 25th Anniversary On 13th May 1994, the... Nazira Sheraly, is a businesswoman and advocate for gender equality from Kyrgyzstan and started... The Trust’s first ever Central Asian Fellowship Programme finished in December 2017. 26 Fellows... 2017 was one of the most successful years in the history of the John... It is with great sadness that the John Smith Trust recognises the death of... The John Smith Trust is today opening applications for a new Fellowship Programme for... The John Smith Trust is launching new Fellowship Programmes in Russia, the Caucasus, Wider... Building on the successful work done by the Trust and the British Council over... In August 2015, citizens of Ukraine received access to the Civil Society app which... A Networking Conference for John Smith Trust – FCO Rule of Law Fellows to...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1414
__label__wiki	0.547721	0.547721	Pure Love X Insult Complex Complex Chapter 732. Margo And Neis Menace Attack Pure Love X Insult Complex Chapter 732 Pure Love x Insult Complex Chapter 731. The nominated warrior Pure Love x Insult Complex Chapter 733. 14th Floor 「 Hmm, very well. So, do you want to meet up with our boss? 」 Morisawa Mami, a woman with violet hair and Japanese clothes, one of president Oodori’s four Devas “Living four,” asks Margo-san. 「 Why? Our goal was to talk with Takasaki-san about the martial arts industry 」 Margo-san said with a smile. 「 Well, surely there were some accidents that happened along the way, but it was them who were rude to Kinoshita-san in the elevator hall, and I just had a match to have Takasaki-san see my skills, right? 」「 You’re talking about something outrageous, there are more than 50 of our men, and two of the living four on the ground 」「 I said, it was an unfortunate accident 」 The two glare at each other without breaking their smile. 「 Hey, auntie 」 Suddenly, Nei talks to Morisawa Mami while smiling. 「 Look at us, it’s just three weak school girls and one schoolboy, and to think that the adults from the Yakuza were beaten up by those people, what do you think others would say about that? 」 She’s laughing. 「 Kinoshita-san took down over 50 of your men alone, and we didn’t even do anything, see? O’Sullivan right over there fought Margo-oneechan and was defeated under the “Yakuza rule” that he mentioned. Also, it can’t be helped that there would be some who’d want to get in between the fight since it’s a “Yakuza rule” fight, right? These guys are professionals and yet a high school girl, Edie-chan took them down, look 」 In short, this won’t go well with them. The first to move was the Yakuza, and our business with Takasaki-san was genuine, and so we’re not trying to provoke them. 「 Stop, Mami, it’s our loss. For now 」 Takasaki tells Morisawa Mami. 「 I understand your case in the entertainment industry. Allow me to say that promoting you in Japan will not be a problem 」「 Yes, thank you. I’ll guarantee that Takasaki-san will receive profit as well 」 Margo-san replies. 「 Kuh, it’s shocking to have a lass like you led me around by the nose but, I think that it turned out well as I can get along with the American promoters 」「 Yes, I know. We will help you establish a friendship with Don Orsini. There’s nothing lost on our side. Then that’s a deal? 」「 Hmm, that’s a deal 」 Takasaki speaks in a loathsome tone. 「 Either way, it’s our side’s fault this time. This is the result of underestimating women and children 」「 Well that’s inevitable, after all, we’re cute~ 」 Nei jokes around. 「 What about that lady? What’s her job? Round girl? 」 Takasaki asks Margo-san as he looks at Nei’s beauty. 「 Oh, Nei’s my manager 」「 Manager? 」「 You said it earlier, I lack in a selling point as someone who just entered the pro martial arts scene. Especially if we enter the American soil 」「 Therefore, I’ll be her manager! I’ll be with her in the ringside, and anywhere she goes! 」「 I think that Nei and I will create enough impression 」 If Nei’s in the ringside as Margo-san fights, The two do have good teamwork after all, 「 You’ve thought about it a lot 」「 That’s obvious. We’re serious, and so we will go all out. We’ll win in front of the audience, whether it’s a woman or a man 」 Nei smiles. 「 Hmm, I think that kind of development would be famous to them. Though there are feminists, it’s a male-dominated land. Especially in martial arts, they prefer men 」「 Can you really say that to me, someone born in the US? 」 Margo-san’s eyes glitter. 「 I get that. That’s why I’m doing it 」「 That’s right, this is our dream! 」 Takasaki felt something from their smiles. 「 I see. It’s not about money. Your goal is a dream 」「 If we want money, then we can just continue our work on this side 」「 You’re right,, after all, you’re Kyouko Messer’s disciple. Is there a reason why someone from this side wants to go to the other side? 」「 It’s not just us. For example, Edie right here has her origins go back to New Orleans, although I can’t explain that in detail. If that continues, her daily life would be limited 」 Edie’s origin is from an assassination cult in New Orleans. The new leader of the cult hates Edie due to her blood relatives, and so she’s sold to Miss Cordelia. 「 That’s why we have to change her personal history 」「 And so you picked martial arts 」「 Yeah, if she’s famous in the martial arts world, then her former organization has to give up on her. Besides, there won’t be any more organizations from this side scouting her 」 If she becomes a famous martial artist, then she can’t work behind the scenes as everyone can tell who she is. 「 But won’t you be the same? I believe that your agility is much suited for this side’s work than martial arts 」 Takasaki said. 「 But, she and I will have to cross a dangerous bridge soon enough. We have our family. Precious little sisters and brother. We don’t want to accept jobs on this side that would put our family at risk 」 Margo-san. 「 Me too~ 」 Edie said and smiled. 「 Therefore, it has to be the other side. This isn’t just a dream. This is a minimum requirement for us 」 For our sake. 「 Why would you go that far? 」「 Didn’t I say it earlier? I want to have a good relationship with Takasaki-san. I’d like to become famous in America first but, I’ll need to have a match in Japan sooner or later 」 Margo-san smiles. 「 You know it. No, forgive us for what we’ve done. I hope we can still wipe the slate clean. Also, there’s something I want to tell you 」 Takasaki stares into Margo-san’s eyes. 「 Does Kouzuki intend to take down Oyaji? 」 Oyaji, the Yakuza’s term for the boss. In Takasaki’s case, it’s Oodori. 「 I don’t know. I’m not under Kouzuki house’s umbrella. I’m from Kuromori house, a friend of Kouzuki house. I can’t tell what the head of Kouzuki thinks 」「 But, you are serious about requesting a job for me to promote you in Japan. If Kouzuki takes down our boss today, that won’t happen. You have come to talk to me aware that we’re in that critical moment. Won’t that make me think that Kouzuki won’t crush down our boss, am I right? 」 Takasaki asks Margo-san. 「 You’re overthinking it Takasaki-san Margo-san laughs. 「 I have met Kouzuki-san several times, but he’s not someone who prefers genocide. What’s the point in killing everyone? That man is born from an honorable origin, but he’s still a merchant. He values profit than honor. I mean, he won’t do anything that wouldn’t make a profit. Isn’t that right, Yoshinobu-kun? 」 Margo-san turns to me. 「 Yes, I think so too 」 I replied. 「 Indeed, your judgment is erred. To begin with, picking a fight with Kouzuki house and sending in your fighters from Kansai to Tokyo failed. Then, Kouzuki SS’ chief, Yazawa, and his team raided your headquarters in Kansai 」 The Kansai Yakuza misread Jii-chan’s strength. 「 Even so, you guys want to have a 50-50. Actually no. You want to get the better deal with Kouzuki house. I think that’s asking for too much 」「 Yeah, isn’t that why you came here? To attack us? 」 Takasaki replies, bitterly. 「 WHat are you talking about? What can a group of girls and a single boy do? Do we look like a group that would raid you guys? 」 Margo-san looks at us. Nei, Edie, Kinoshita-san, me. The high school group wears a school uniform. Kinoshita-san looks cute. 「 But you took down more than 50 of them! Didn’t you just beat up even the elites! 」 Morisawa Mami replies in anger and glares at Margo-san. 「 Look, do you still not get it, Auntie? 」 Nei looks amazed, then she turned to Kinoshita-san. 「 Kinoshita-san, how long have you been in Kouzuki SS? 」 Kinoshita-san counts her fingers. 「 Err, it’s about four months 」「 That means you’re a new hire, right? 」「 That’s right! 」「 By the way, are you in the stronger group, Kinoshita-san? 」 Kinoshita-san shakes her head. 「 Not at all, We’ve got more people stronger than me. I’m not even worthy of being called strong 」「 Not worthy, she said 」 Nei tells Morisawa Mami while laughing. 「 Seriously, jokes aside, Margo-oneechan wants to talk about martial arts with Takasaki-san, and so we had Kinoshita-san who’s a newcomer take us here. This floor is under Kouzuki SS’ control, and so we can’t just come in without someone from the same company, don’t you think? Then, your boys picked a fight with this girl who says that she’s not even strong enough 」 Morisawa Mami starts to tremble. 「 Think about it. Kouzuki SS is a private army made from Kouzuki-ojiichan’s money and connections. This newcomer is this strong. If he wants to take you all down, then he won’t even bother doing this “deal!” He has enough manpower to destroy the Yakuza in Kansai 」「 Furthermore, Kouzuki house has a lot of connections. No matter how unlawful their methods can get, Kouzuki house won’t be convicted for it 」 Nei and Margo talk alternately. These two are always perfect when it comes to intimidation tactics. 「 Then, is that it? Kouzuki has no intention of taking down our boss? 」 Takasaki says. 「 Huh? Why would you think that way? 」 Nei knits her eyebrows. 「 No, look, if he has that much power, then he could’ve crushed us down right away. Besides, weren’t you the ones who said that Kouzuki doesn’t prefer genocide? 」 Takasaki looks at Margo-san. 「 Yes, Kouzuki-san doesn’t like genocide 」「 Then that’s it! 」「 But, he can crush down the head and let the body and limbs live 」 She smiled. 「 If he can change the head to another one that would follow him, then the body and the limbs would belong to him, doesn’t it? 」「 You mean?! 」 Does Jii-chan plan to take down only Oodori? 「 I guess. I think that Kouzuki-ojiichan’s purpose is the whole Kansai Yakuza! And so, he won’t kill everyone. That would mean the organization dies. If he takes out the head only… 」「 After all, it’s only one head he has to take out 」 Nei and Margo’s combination burst out. 「 Are you telling me to betray my own boss?! 」「 Huh? What? Were we talking about that, Margo-oneechan? 」「 No, I don’t remember saying such a thing. We’re from a different organization than Kouzuki house, and all we’re doing is explaining the current affairs 」 Margo-san and Nei looked at each other. 「 But, have you ever thought of this, Margo-oneechan? 」「 Hmm, I wonder 」「 Nobody else knows what happens in this room, right? 」「 Oh, you’re right. Hmmm 」「 Besides, Margo-oneechan fought O’Sullivan, and now he’s lying down on the floor 」「 Edie did take out some of the guards too 」「 Then, will it look strange if after we left the room, Takasaki-san and everyone says that their stomach hurts, and so they don’t show up in the deal? 」「 Oh! You’re right! More than 50 people are laying on the floor already. Besides, half of the living four are sleeping together with them, if Takasaki retreats here, nobody would think of it as strange 」「 Nobody. Nobody. I mean, if it’s just Takasaki-san and everyone in this room still awake after we left, don’t you think that the boss would be suspicious of that? 」「 You’re right. Maybe he would think that there’s some sort of deal that happened. Well, there really was a promise of him introducing me to the business 」 Nei laughs. 「 Takasaki-san, you thought because you promised Margo-oneechan to promote her in the martial arts industry, Kouzuki house won’t try to take you down, right? 」 He’s thinking that since he made a promise with Margo-san to promote her in the martial arts industry in the future, he won’t be involved in the carnage. That’s why, Takasaki-san. 「 But, how do you think Oodori would see that? 」 Nei said. Takasaki realized. 「 Maybe, Oodori-san sees Takasaki-san promising to work together with us as a betrayal against him as there would be a confrontation later? 」「 Are you screwing with me?! 」 Takasaki shouts, but, 「 Don’t point fingers too fast. All I did was ask Takasaki-san for a job. Don Orsini trusts Takasaki-san after all 」「 That’s right, we’re not screwing anyone here. All we have is a separate case, we’re not threatening you at all~ Takasaki-saaan 」 Nei shows a smile on her face. 「 Kukukuku, hahahahahahaha, ahahahaha!!! 」 Suddenly, Morisawa Mami laughs out loudly. 「 It’s our loss. Our loss. Takasaki-san, we lost to them 」 Then, she sighed. 「 They’re right, we should take out leave. My story would be that I fainted after seeing that O’Sullivan knocked out 」 Morisawa Mami glares at me. 「 What are you looking at!? Are you thinking that I’m such a fat woman to faint from that?! 」「 No, I don’t think so 」 I say while in panic. 「 No, Darling. That’s how she does her stuff 」 Edie stands before me. 「 Auntie, if you want I can make you faint for real, want it? 」 Edie starts shadow boxing. 「 Stupid. Stop that. That was just a little joke. Something to ease things up 」 Morisawa Mami sighs. 「 So, Takasaki-san? If you ar hurt, then Oodori-san won’t think that you’re betraying him. Isn’t this a problem within the Yakuza industry? Well, it may look lame to have a woman knock you out, but you’re not a fighter compared to O’Sullivan. Even Oodori-san’s bodyguards were knocked out, it would be inevitable to have you, a thinker, be knocked out 」 Margo-san says. 「 Okay. But, can I get a guarantee from Kouzuki if I leave here? 」 He’s making a profit to himself to the last moment. This is what a Yakuza is. 「 Isn’t staying alive enough as a profit? 」 Margo-san said with a nonchalant face. 「 Is boss already out? 」 Takasaki glares at Margo-san. 「 Well, I think. It’s about 9/10 probability 」「 I see 」 Takasaki drops his shoulders. 「 Okay, I’ll have to ask you to beat me too. That would be my way to leave. You guys too 」 Takasaki tells the Yakuza near the wall. 「 Sorry, but Oodori-san could drag you along as his guards 」 Margo-san said. Then the Yakuza near the wall; 「 O-Okay 」 They bow their heads, unable to do anything. 「 No, don’t pretend, you need to be knocked out for real 」「 That way, we can defend ourselves. Jou-chan, give me a hit to knock me out. Get yourselves punched too. 」 Eeeeh?! 「 It’s okay. These guys won’t leave any after-effects from their hits. Give Mami a hit as well 」「 Indeed. That’s more reliable 」 As expected of Yakuza, if it’s for their self-protection, they won’t mind getting knocked out. 「 Don’t ask for medical treatment fees later, okay? 」 Margo-san said. 「 I know. I prefer to live than to make money 」「 If it’s money, you can earn a lot in martial arts. Nufufufun~ 」「 Then, do it quick 」「 I’m ready 」 Takasaki and Morisawa closed their eyes. 「 Wait, wait, Margo, I can do that without pain you know? 」 Edie moves forward. Takasaki and everyone else opened their eyes and show a “Huh?” expression, then Edie; 「 Don’t mind it., It’s my skill. ｈａｗｏｏｏｏｏ！！！！」 Edie releases her Qi, then. 「 Awawawawa 」「 Nupupupupu! 」 Takasaki and Morisawa faint on the spot. 「 Okay, you guys are next! 」 Edie knocks out the frightened Yakuza one after another. 「 That was amazing is that what they call “QI?” 」 Kinoshita-san claps her hand. 「 Indeed. I used Qi on them 」 Edie replied brightly. 「 Now then, that’s one of Shou-neechan’s business taken care of 」「 Huh, what? 」 Come to think of it, Margo-san, Shou-neechan, and Minaho-neesan have been making plans since noon. 「 You do remember the participants in the deal today, don’t you? 」 Margo-san turned to me. 「 Yes. Jii-chan, and the two Kansai Yakuza groups. Oodori and Satake. Then, some big names in yakuza as witnesses, right? In the first place, Takakura shrine has a long relationship with the Kansai Yakuza. Oodori has been visiting the Takakura shrine a lot. He is Tsukiko’s true father. However, Satake, the new head of another Kansai Yakuza killed off Tsukiko’s parents, then took over the Takakura shrine. That caused the chain of events. Then Oodori’s side had a dispute with Satake. Then, the Takakura sisters sought Jii-chan’s help. Kouzuki house intervened with pure strength and suppressed the two Yakuza groups in dispute. 「 The deal for today isn’t just about Kouzuki-san and the Yakuza, but also a deal between Oodori and Satake. 」「 And since this is a deal between two Yakuza groups, there have to be other Yakuza groups as a witness. Kouzuki-san isn’t in Yakuza, and so he couldn’t participate in a deal between them 」「 So, Yo-chan. The Yakuza’s arbitration would be conducted by the other big-names in Yakuza, but which do you think they’ll favor? 」 Huh, Nei? 「 Maybe Oodori? 」「 Why? 」「 Well, aren’t most of the leaders old? I think that’s how the bosses of Yakuza should be. If that’s the case, then they’d side with Oodori who is older compared to the new leader, Satake, he should have a long relationship with them, right? 」「 And that’s why Satake-san’s tense at this development. It was Satake’s group who interfered with us in the parking lot, remember? 」 Oh! I see. If the deal goes on, Satake would be at a disadvantage. That’s why he’s going for make or break plans. 「 You get it now after coming here, right? Oodori faction’s floor feels easygoing 」 Nei’s right. These guys have composure. 「 That’s why we have to balance the scales a bit 」「 Is that why Kinoshita-san took down 50 of them in the elevator hall? 」 To scrape off Oodori’s personnel. 「 Huh? I wasn’t thinking of that though? 」 Kinoshita-san smiles wryly. 「 If we’re going that route, we also had 16 knocked out from Satake’s group in the underground parking lot 」 Oh, right. Satake’s group also has casualties. 「 That’s not the purpose. You see, Yakuza has this “Honor” stuff 」 Nei says. 「 Oodori-san made sure to bring his four devas. This is a display of his status that he has reliable followers in his side 」「 That’s the reason he brought the four here! And despite all that, the four of them won’t be showing up because they’re hurt 」「 For a big boss in Yakuza, there’s nothing as shameful as this. You came to a meeting with the Yakuza’s big-names with your followers, and not a single one of them appeared when you need them. In addition to that, they’re knocked out in the hotel!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1421
__label__cc	0.746809	0.253191	May 18, 2019 by Moreland Big Girls Don’t Cry: Austentatious (2015) Sorry Frankie, I am crying: Nooooooooooooooo I have to review another episode of Austentatious! So those of you who might not be aware of what Austentatious is, I’ll do a brief recap. Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse-all coexist in the same city and are friends. They also are friends with Grant Knightley (Mr. Knightley): Elizabeth is trying to sell a agonizingly rude Mr. Darcy a house; and Elinor is trying to deal with Marianne moving in. Thus far…I DO NOT LIKE IT… Ugh, this show! Will I feel the same today? Well: We start off the episode with Emma and Grant (Knightley) are hanging out. Emma brings an announcement for Mr. and Mrs Weston’s child Sam marrying Patricia (who are these people, we don’t know!) Will they play an important role in the series? Probably not and such a shame as Sam (assuming to be Frank Churchill) could have added some spice to what is already looking to be a boring episode. Anyways, Emma takes credit for it. Then Elinor comes to join them, and Emma plans to set her up. Elinor isn’t interested, but needs help getting rid of a date she already made. Why don’t you just tell him the truth? Or need be-say you are sick. Elinor doesn’t want to go out with Collin (Mr. Collins) a guy who lives in her building. Okay-like he isn’t drop dead gorgeous but he wasn’t downright annoying either or creepy. They should have upped that. I mean of all the Collins, he was the lamest. I mean Ricky Collins in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice (1995), and Mr. Collins in P&P (1995) were all just so eye-rollingly annoying. You just wanted them to stop! Seriously calm down This guy is just blah, whatever. Although, he does have a problem taking no for an answer, so that does make him a creep and having their first date be in his apartment-yeah no go! Never, ever go on a first date and be in the person’s home. Major, MAJOR red flag! But you know what she never even agreed to the date. I mean he walked off before she could say yes or no, so really she can just not go and if he says anything tell him she’s not interested. And if he continues to harass her, file a restraining order-or at least threaten to. And you know what, when he asked Elinor if she had plans why didn’t she just say yes. Staying home and reading a book is plans. Not going out with you is plans. And its not lying. Okaaaaaaaaaaay, strike what I said earlier. They up his creep factor as he’s been watching her for weeks. Dateline called-he’s totally giving off the profile of serial killer. (Is Dateline too old of a reference?) Tell him no and get a restraining order. Not going out with you. Elinor agrees to go out as “He’s not too bad”. Hold up, Elinor that’s what I thought too at first, but the man’s been watching you for WEEKS! Serial killer profile right there. On a side note-this guy kind of looks like Monk’s annoying neighbor. It’s not, but how much more awesome a Mr. Collins would he have made? Grant’s advice “At least you get dinner out of it” True, true. Better order something expensive to make up for it. But then again how do you know he doesn’t plan on Elinor being his dinner! Elinor goes home and finds her sister eating cereal even though it is 5:30 pm. Why, you may ask? Because the clock didn’t have batteries in it when Marianne hung it up, so she thought it was 11:45. Oh chuckie darn. Ugh, why do they make Marianne so dumb and empty headed in modern adaptions. Yes, she was a romantic and yes she was not sensible-but that doesn’t mean you have to make her a dunce. A dunce who doesn’t want a job. Geez, why does everyone do that? Why do they think because she is a romantic she is lazy? How does that translate to “I’m lazy?” It DOESN’T! Lizzie is trying to sell houses when she gets a call from ugh, Darcy. This actor makes him such a jerk I’d like to fastfoward any scene with him in it. I know, sacrilege. But don’t blame me-it was the writers! They failed! What an awful show, it actually made me hate on Darcy. No wonder it got canceled. Sorry if I don’t like something, I’m extra cruel. Elizabeth’s not super interested and a shocked that he would call her after their last meeting. But you know sadistic jerks like that kind of thing. Lizzie gives in unlike how she would normally do. Seriously, Elizabeth would be all: Elinor meets up with Marianne and Emma complaining. Marianne tells her just admit she’s not into him, a great idea. Emma cautions her against it as it “will be awkward.” Oh Emma… Lizzie comes running up, not able to stay long as she has to go do her next showing. She tells them about how Darcy called, and she would have turned him down but the is going to be good. But don’t forget Lizzie, there is a big IF there, IF he actually buys a house. And I feel like that’s not happening. Emma tries to warn Lizzie it is going to be hard as Darcy is just, urgh. She encourages Lizzie not to let Darcy make her feel bad or act like she doesn’t know her stuff. Stay strong girl. Be the Lizzie we know and love. Back with Elinor and Marianne, Marianne is doing a job analysis board to try and figure out what she will be good at-and what she wants to do. Marianne is mostly looking for which job will give her acess to hot guys. Okay how did this: To this? One job she is interested in is a bookkeeper for a Construction company as she “will be looking at hot guys” and Elinor is all no they will be ugly, fat, and sweaty. Okay Elinor way to be super cruel. You don’t know that, and not every construction guy is fat. And maybe that’s just their genetics. Way to body shame. And okay this takes place in 2015 and all the jobs she looks at are in the paper. I was job hunting in 2014-15-there was very little in the paper. Online was, and is, where it is at. She should be sitting at a computer sending her resume into LinkedIn, monster, zipdrive, doing online applications, and checking out Craigslist. Lizzie goes to the office to see Darcy, which is a bad idea, but she needs to as she wants to speak to him about her commission and prove that she knows what she is doing. Darcy is a jerk, but finally agrees. Elinor gets home and finds Marianne hanging out on the couch with Grant and Emma, Grant stretched out on her couch on top of Emma. Uh..friends don’t do that-that’s a total relationship thing. Seriously. They are there to help Elinor get rid of Collin and Marianne with her job search. They decide the best thing to do is dress bad, and Elinor does a mini-fashion show. Elinor tries on different outfits, but ultimately puts on the one she originally had and they all declare it to be the one to scare him. Yeah saw that joke coming a mile away. I waited so long for this joke I died… Lizzie and Darcy start looking over houses…and we all know how this will go: Darcy is so annoying… He gives her his specifications of what he wants and expects her to have 20 houses for him to look at. Well hey dude, maybe you could have emailed me what you wanted!!!!! You ever think of that????!!!!!!! If I was Lizzie I would have given him a verbal beatdown- classy and professionally- left, blocked his number, and walked away no looking back. Lizzie brings up she didn’t know and he’s all-you didn’t ask. Well she did in the last episode. So there doofus. Take this list, you jerk! And his final thing of what he wants, it should appeal to one woman, Well if that’s the case why isn’t she looking at the homes? How am I supposed to find a house if I don’t even know this woman. Seriously stop! He is so abusive that I can hardly watch this. I don’t know who wrote him this way, but they obviously have never read the books. Darcy gives one comment in the books-one, and it isn’t even really against Elizabeth! It is more I don’t want to dance and I am going to say this so you will leave me alone. They are making him the biggest jerk ever. And verbally and emotionally abusive putting her down like that and berating her-everything is her fault. It’s awful! Did you even READ the book!!?? Elinor and Collin are on their date, being the only ones at his favorite restaurant, weird. He orders for her which is a major NOOOO! Back at the apartment, Grant and Emma are hanging out with Marianne, waiting for Elinor. I thought this whole interaction and the way that Grant and Emma are just always over and eating Elinor’s food is weird. I have never ever had friends do this unless we lived together. We’ll just wait at your house and eat your food until your date is done? Maybe come over when the date ends or the next day, but just hanging out without you in your home. That seems really strange to me. They must be limited on set, the restaurant took most of their budget. So Marianne and Emma throw darts at Marianne’s job board to decide her next job. But they don’t tell us, means it is supposed to be a “joke”. Back at the restaurant, Elinor is not enjoying her meal. Collin thinks she is trying to “not eat” on a date, as women do. Collin reveals the real reason he took her out. He needs her help. She tries to tell him she’s not interested but he puts his hand up and says “don’t interrupt” OH NO YOU DID NOT. It’s like an explosion of rage. I can’t stand when guys do that-urgh jut makes me furious. He’s into Lizzie and wants Elinor’s help getting her. He thinks Lizzie is shy and thought approaching a friend is better than going straight for her. Elinor is not going to help, but C won’t listen. She has to state it again-NO. Finally he gets it through his skull, and is not happy, but asks her to keep his secret. Even without her help he is going to go after Elizabeth anyway. Oh and he wants her to pay, since it wasn’t a “real date.” Elinor fakes illness and takes off for home. Marianne tries to find an outfit for job interview and her clothes are all behind the times. None if these are what people were wearing at the time. Lizzie comes over to the house and complains about jerkface. Elinor also comes back and says that it was awful but she doesn’t want to talk about it. The next day Marianne stops by to say hi to Emma. She applied as a physical therapist-but she has no degree or experience, so she didn’t get the job. Like why is she so dumb? It ends as she runs off to her interview as an astronomer. That’s it for today, I’m out of her-and I’m not looking forward to the next episode. But as I like to say, “That’s a problem for future Moreland. She can deal with it.” For more Austentatious, go to We Are Family: Austentatious (2015) For more Jane Austen film retellings, go to Mrs. Darcy Wants to Know the Truth!: Death Comes to Pemberley, Episode Three (2013) For more Sense & Sensibility, go to Jane Austen Chinese Zodiac For more Pride & Prejudice, go to Pride, Prejudice, and Personal Statements For more Emma, go to Austen Avengers Assemble! 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__label__wiki	0.580034	0.580034	Reckoning by Magda Szubanski 17 May 2016 · by Janet D Spink · in Reviews. · ‘If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.’ Thus begins Magda’s extraordinary story. Reckoning has forty-two chapters titled like scenes from a play. Magda plunges us into a world of raw experience while navigating the complex terrain of her relationship with her father, her sexuality and her emerging career. These are the central themes and we are invited to share in Magda’s personal struggle, ranging from the depths of loneliness and depression to love and joyful awakening. Her memoir begins with her father’s death, and then we learn about her parent’s origins her own birth, schooling, relationships, travels and employment. Born in England in 1960 to a Polish father and Scottish–Irish mother, the family migrated to Australia in 1965 and settled in conservative Croydon, the backdrop of much of Magda’s story. Magda admired her father’s courage but couldn’t understand his guilt and shame, and became terrified he had collaborated with the enemy in World War 11 ‘We were tugboats in the river of history, my father and I, pulling in opposite directions. He needed to forget. I need to remember.’ In her journey to understand her father’s history and her own second-generation migrant survivor guilt Magda travels to meet her Polish and Scottish–Irish families: only to discover more suffering. She believed her father gave her ‘a master class in dissociation’. Courage and bravery were allowed but weakness and fear were criticised. She says that it took years of therapy to understand how to access and integrate her own feelings and not be afraid of showing weakness or fear. Magda describes herself as a shy, private person who was indoctrinated with a ‘chronic dose of internalised homophobia’ and was terrified of the consequences of identifying as gay. In contrast to this shyness is her joyful discovery and success as an actor and comedian. This memoir has an autobiographical structure including well-researched information, helping the reader deal with the complicated thematic, emotional and factual details that give necessary meaning and texture to the story. Reckoning is a thoughtful, engaging and well-written book, which would appeal to admirers of Magda and lovers of memoir. It provides the reader with an insight into all facets of courage while reminding us how morally ambiguous the world can be. Magda honours her father’s history and we are left thinking about our own family and the complex legacies we inherit. Tags: Family history, Memoir ← Eye in the Sky: ethical and moral questions Visit to the Grave →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1427
__label__cc	0.521381	0.478619	Tag Archives: Scott Robinson GUILTY, AS CHARGED This morning, Connor Cole, a young Facebook friend, someone with good taste, casually asked me to list the recordings that had impressed me in the past year. I’ve stopped composing “ten best” lists because I know that I will hurt the feelings of someone I’ve left off. (I once applied for a job where there were openings for five people, and was told afterwards that I was number six, a memory which still, perhaps absurdly, stings.) But Connor’s request pleased me, so I began thinking of the recordings of 2019. Perhaps it was that I wasn’t fully awake, but I came up with almost nothing, which troubled me. So I began searching through blogposts and came up with these reassuring entities (new issues only) in approximate chronological order, with apologies to those I’ve omitted, those discs which I will write about in 2020: IN THIS MOMENT, Michael Kanan, Greg Ruggiero, Neal Miner NEW ORLEANS PEARLS Benny Amon UNSTUCK IN TIME Candy Jacket Jazz Band NO ONE ELSE BUT YOU Danny Tobias, Mark Shane RAGTIME — NEW ORLEANS STYLE, Volume 2 Kris Tokarski, Hal Smith PICK IT AND PLAY IT Jonathan Stout BUSY TIL’ ELEVEN Chicago Cellar Boys TENORMORE Scott Robinson UPTOWN The Fat Babies COMPLETE MORTON PROJECT Andrew Oliver, David Horniblow A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE, Alex Levin DREAM CITY David Lukacs THE MUSIC OF THE BIRD AND THE BEE Charles Ruggiero, Hilary Gardner LESTER’S BLUES Tom Callens WINTER DAYS Rebecca Kilgore, Echoes of Swing The majority of those discs are musician-produced, funded, and released — which is yet another blogpost about “record companies” and their understandable attrition. Economics, technology, and a changing audience. But that list made me go back in time, decades of trading money for musical joy. In late childhood, I would have walked or bicycled the mile to Times Square Stores and bought Louis’ Decca JAZZ CLASSICS for $2.79 plus tax. A few years later, Monk cutouts on Riverside at Pergament or Mays. E.J. Korvette. Lester Young and Art Tatum Verves at Sam Goody’s. A British enterprise, Tony’s, for exotic foreign discs. In New York City, new Chiaroscuro issues at Dayton’s, Queen-Discs at Happy Tunes. In the CD era, I would have stopped off after work at Borders or the nearby Tower Records for new releases on Arbors, Concord, Pablo, and import labels. Again in the city, J&R near City Hall for Kenneth, French CBS, and more. But record stores gave way to purchasing by mail, and eventually online. Mosaic Records was born, as was Amazon, eventually eBay. So today the times I actually visit “a record store,” it is to browse, to feel nostalgic, to walk away with a disc that I had once coveted — often with a deceased collector’s address sticker on the back — but I am much more likely to click on BUY IT NOW in front of this computer, or, even better, to give the artist twenty dollars for a copy of her new CD. What happened? I offer one simple explanation. A musician I respect, who’s been recordings since 1991, can be relied upon to write me, politely but urgently and at length, how I and people like me have ruined (or “cut into”) his CD sales by using video cameras and broadcasting the product for free to large audiences. So it’s my fault. I killed Decca, Columbia, and Victor — Verve, Prestige, and Riverside, too. Glad to have that question answered, that matter settled. Now I’m off to do more damage elsewhere. Posted in Irreplaceable, It's A Mystery, It's All True, Jazz Titans, Jazz Worth Reading, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, The Real Thing, The Things We Love Tagged Alex Levin, Andrew Oliver, Arbors Records, Benny Amon, CANDY JACKET JAZZ BAND, Charles Ruggiero, Chiaroscuro Records, Chicago Cellar Boys, Complete Morton Project, Connor Cole, Danny Tobias, David Horniblow, David Lukacs, Echoes of Swing, Fat Babies, guilty, Hal Smith, Hilary Gardner, Jazz Lives, Jonathan Stout, Kris Tokarski, Mark Shane, Michael Kanan, Michael Steinman, Mosaic Records, Rebecca Kilgore, record companies, record labels, record stores, Scott Robinson, the bird and the bee MIGHTY PROSPEROUS: MARTY GROSZ and his DIVIDENDS, 2013 and 2016 (ED WISE, DAN BLOCK, DANNY TOBIAS // JON-ERIK KELLSO, BILL ALLRED, DAN LEVINSON, SCOTT ROBINSON, EHUD ASHERIE, JON BURR, HAL SMITH) Posted on December 5, 2019 \| 1 comment I hope this news is true for everyone. Source material, part one: Who knew that finance, 1933-style, could be such fun in this century? It is, when Marty Grosz, guitar and vocal, is setting policy and interest rates. First, at the Mermaid Inn, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, with Ed Wise, string bass; Danny Tobias, cornet; Dan Block, clarinet, on May 17, 2013. Don’t let the apocalyptic color hues scare you: it’s dark in there: Those three videos have been accessible on YouTube. But here’s one you ain’t tuned in yet . . . Marty, with Hal Smith, drums; Jon Burr, string bass; Ehud Asherie, piano; Bill Allred, trombone; Scott Robinson, taragoto, Dan Levinson, tenor saxophone; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet: performed on September 17, 2016, at the Cleveland Classic Jazz Party: Let’s hope that everyone has good reason to sing along. And Marty will celebrate his 90th birthday next year. Talk about wonderful returns on investment. Tagged Al Dubin, Benny Morton, Bill Allred, Cleveland Classic Jazz Party, Dan Block, Dan Levinson, Danny Tobias, Ed Wise, Ehud Asherie, Ginger Rogers, Hal Smith, Harry Warren, Henry "Red" Allen, Jazz Lives, Jon Burr, Jon-Erik Kellso, Marty Grosz, Michael Steinman, Scott Robinson, THE GOLD DIGGERS' SONG, WE'RE IN THE MONEY “I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU”: MARTY GROSZ AND HIS HOT ROMANTICS (ANDY SCHUMM, SCOTT ROBINSON, KERRY LEWIS, PETE SIERS: Jazz at Chautauqua, Sept. 2, 2012) Marty at a 2008 recording session for Arbors Records. Marty Grosz doesn’t necessarily believe in the lyrics of the love songs he chooses (although he can croon most tenderly) but he does return to this one, a swing perennial for bands and singers, and I for one am glad. This song is apparently c0-written by the mysterious Rob Williams, Alex Hill and Claude Hopkins (my money’s on Mr. Hill, whose memorable tunes often had lyrics that told of unfulfilled romantic yearning). It states one wild promise of devotion after another — things imagined only by Edgar Rice Burroughs — but all in the conditional — “I would do,” and some versions have become even more cautious: I WOULD DO MOST ANYTHING FOR YOU. Is this an “if-then” construction, or is it “I’ll do this if YOU do that?” It sounds like uptown seventeenth-century poetry, and perhaps I would feel more confident if its title were I WILL DO. But let us clear our minds and enjoy the frolicsome sounds rather than lingering too long on how we would respond if these tokens of affection were offered to us. Our mellow sermon for today comes from the delightful enterprise known as Jazz at Chautauqua when I first made my way to it in September 2004 — a weekend cornucopia of music where I met many heroes, made new friends, and was eventually accepted as someone doing good things for the music. And what music! The Atehaeum Hotel, where the joys happened. More than many jazz parties, Chautauqua put people onstage who didn’t have the opportunity to perform together, and the results were often magical. As in this case: a little band led by Marty, with Scott Robinson playing, among other instruments, his alto clarinet; Andy Schumm on cornet; Kerry Lewis on string bass and Pete Siers on drums making up a delicately unstoppable rhythm team. Pay particular attention to Mr. Siers — someone who should be acclaimed worldwide as a flawlessly swinging versatile percussionist, a maker of great sounds. They certainly rock, don’t they? More to come from the JAZZ LIVES vaults, I assure you. For the moment, find someone to profess love to, with or without Marty to provide the soundtrack. Tagged Alex Hill, Andy Schumm, Claude Hopkins, I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOU, Jazz At Chautauqua, Jazz Lives, Kerry Lewis, Marty Grosz, Michael Steinman, Pete Siers, Scott Robinson “PICK UP MY PIECES”: GABRIELLE STRAVELLI SINGS WILLIE NELSON Gabrielle Stravelli by Tom Cocotos I confess. I am not a deep Willie Nelson fancier. But I do think Gabrielle Stravelli is one of the great improvising-dramatic singers of my time, and I base that on delighted personal observation. On this CD, she is expansive, resonant, enthusiastic, making each song a sharply realized dramatic vignette with her rich voice splendidly supported by a rollicking big band (splendidly whimsical arrangements by string bassist / cellist / composer Pat O’Leary). These strong performances don’t rely on “acting,” just her soulful emotional scope, the kind of art I associate with Aretha Franklin, even though the two singers don’t sound alike. As a special bonus, the EarRegulars (if you don’t know who they are, check the search bar) — Jon-Erik Kellso, John Allred, and Scott Robinson are vividly in evidence on THREE DAYS, as well as an evocative string quartet and Hammond B3. Gabrielle can be poignantly intimate, as on BUTTERFLY (in duet with Scott’s alto flute). A rollicking MAMMAS DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS (Gabrielle hilariously playing tag with John Allred) would make Sarah Vaughan grin. In the middle of this CD, Gabrielle essays STARDUST — and tenderly explores that song as if ninety years of accretion had never happened, in tandem with Scott’s tenor saxophone. She then turns GOOD HEARTED WOMAN into a crooning poem; what I’ve characterized as Gabrielle’s urban meow comes to the surface during the KARMA MEDLEY — with a too-brief interlude where NOBODY SLIDES, MY FRIEND becomes a New Orleans Second Line, snare drum and Jon-Erik Kellso to the fore. SOMEBODY PICK UP MY PIECES is conceived, magnificently, first as a duet for Gabrielle and Pat O’Leary’s string bass, then growing more expressive, even operatic, as it proceeds. NIGHTLIFE rocks along with what I can only think of as a modern New York City jazz ensemble along for Gabrielle’s ride. ANGEL FLYING TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND — with a magic carpet of strings (real ones, not synthesizer simulacra) is a hymnlike lament imbued with great intensity. ALWAYS ON MY MIND closes the grand tour — a guilt-laden duet with piano — memorably and sorrowfully. Medleys make it possible to include seventeen songs in twelve performances with arresting thematic juxtapositions. You can hear convincing sound samples here. And here are some vibrant performance videos from Birdland — with our heroes in the band (John Allred, Jon-Erik Kellso, Pat O’Leary, John Allred, Scott Robinson, Jay Rattman) as well. However, a small caveat: the videos allow you to see just how Gabrielle captivates an audience. But the sound on the CD is much better, and you will hear nuances not captured by the Birdland sound system. LADY LUCK / IF YOU’VE GOT THE MONEY: THREE DAYS: The very tender BUTTERFLY: DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS, wise advice: KARMA MEDLEY, with echoes of the French Quarter: PICK UP MY PIECES / CRAZY: and finally, NIGHTLIFE: That applause is both real and well-deserved. Gabrielle is both fierce and delicate, and the band follows her every impulse, most eloquently. Posted in "Thanks A Million", Bliss!, Generosities, It's All True, Jazz Titans, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, That Was Fun!, The Heroes Among Us, The Real Thing, The Things We Love Tagged Aretha Franklin, Birdland, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jay Rattman, Jazz Lives, John Allred, Jon-Erik Kellso, Michael Steinman, Pat O'Leary, PICK UP MY PIECES, Sarah Vaughan, Scott Robinson, Willie Nelson “LET MIRTH BE KING”: MARTY GROSZ, FRANK TATE, SCOTT ROBINSON, DUKE HEITGER at JAZZ AT CHAUTAUQUA (September 20, 2013) Unless you were at the Hotel Athenaeum on September 20, 2013, this music will be new to you, and if you were in the audience that day, it might simply be a wistful memory. But here — thanks to the magic of the video camera, the forbearance of the musicians, and the grace of Nancy Hancock Griffith and Kathy Hancock — I can present to you a short set by a Marty Grosz band featuring the leader on guitar, vocal, banter, Frank Tate on string bass, Scott Robinson on reeds, and Duke Heitger, trumpet. I think this was the last year the weekend festival was held in upstate New York before moving to Cleveland, where it resided happily for another few years. I miss it terribly and know that others share my feelings. But now, some vibrant music from a quartet of revelers — all four still happily with us. Intricate jammed counterpoint; irresistible rhythmic bounce; repertoire worth rediscovering . . . it could only be a Grosz small group, with echoes of Condon, Red McKenzie, Fats and others. A small technological note: the first half of IT’S A SIN TO TELL A LIE wasn’t recorded: it’s possible I had to change the camera’s battery. But the second half is too good to ignore. Marty and the Spots, thanks to Eddie Durham and others: and a song I learned from a 1937 Dick Robertson record featuring Bobby Hackett: and Sidney Bechet’s composition: and, the second half: Sharing these performances with you, I think this is why, since 1970, I brought audio recording equipment (cassette recorder, reel-to-reel tape deck, digital recorder) and now pounds of video equipment (Flip, Sony, Panasonic, Rode) wherever I could, to concerts and clubs and gigs. My goal? To make the evanescent become permanent, the players and the sounds immortal. Tagged Athenaeum Hotel, Bobby Hackett, Dick robertson, drumless quartet, Duke Heitger, Eddie Condon, Eddie Durham, Fats Waller, Fifty-Second Street, Frank Tate, hot jazz, Ink Spots, Jazz At Chautauqua, Jazz Lives, Kathy Hancock, Marty Grosz, Michael Steinman, Nancy Hancock Griffith, Red McKenzie, Scott Robinson, Sidney Bechet SWEET CREATIONS: “DREAM CITY”: DAVID LUKÁCS, MALO MAZURIÉ, ATTILA KORB, FÉLIX HUNOT, JOEP LUMEIJ David Lukács dreams in lyrical swing. His most recent CD is evidence that I do not exaggerate. Now, I know that some of my American readers might furrow their brows and say, “Who are these people? I don’t know their names!” but I urge them to listen and watch. To quote the lyrics from SAY IT SIMPLE (I hear Jack Teagarden’s voice in my head as I type), “If that don’t get it, well, forget it right now.” Here you can hear the music, download it, purchase a disc. The sweet-natured magicians are David Lukacs, clarinet, tenor saxophone, arrangements; Malo Mazurie, cornet, trumpet; Attila Korb, bass saxophone, trombone; Felix Hunot, guitar, banjo; Joep Lumeij: string bass. The songs are DREAM CITY / A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND / OLD MAN BLUES / MORE THAN YOU KNOW / THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC / MOONLIGHT ON THE GANGES / I HAD IT BUT IT’S ALL GONE NOW / HALLELUJAH! / BLUE PRELUDE / MANDY, MAKE UP YOUR MIND / THEN SOMEONE’S IN LOVE / LOUISIANA / CLARINET MARMALADE / MANOIR DE MES REVES. The liner notes are by Scott Robinson. David told me that this CD is inspired by his father’s record collection (obviously the Lukacs lineage has taste and discernment) but his vision is even larger: “With this album I created my own city, my Dream City, where there’s Bix and Tram’s music in one club, Duke is playing in the theatre beside, and you might hear Django’s music around the corner.” That transcends the time-machine cliche, and each track is a dreamy vision of a heard past made real for us in 2019. The dreaminess is most charming, because this disc isn’t simply a series of recreations of recordings. Occasionally the band follows the outlines of a famous disc closely — as in A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND — but each song becomes a sweet playground for these (sometimes shoeless) dear geniuses to roam in. Here’s another video tour, with snippets of the title tune, OLD MAN BLUES, MOONLIGHT ON THE GANGES, MANOIR DE MES REVES (and comments from Scott, who knows): Readers who feel this music as I do won’t need any more explanation — but a few lines are in order. I first heard David on record with Menno Daams (check out the latter’s PLAYGROUND) — two musicians who have deep lyrical intelligence, but DREAM CITY is an astonishing combination of the hallowed past and true contemporary liveliness. David told me that he has been inspired not only by the old records, but by the music Marty Grosz and others made, using those sounds as a basis. I hear echoes of the Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet and the small-group sessions that were so prolific and gratifying on the Arbors label. DREAM CITY offers us glorious yet understated solo work and — perhaps even better — delicious ensemble playing and gratifying arrangements. The inspirations are also the Kansas City Six, the Ellington, Basie, and Wilson small bands, and more. You can draw your own family tree with chalk on the sidewalk. The “unusual” instrumentation also allows a great flexibility in voicings — this is no formulaic band that plays each song in the same way, simply varying tempo and key — and this CD is not a series of solos-with-rhythm. Each selection, none longer than a 12″ 78, is a short story in sounds. If you care to, go back to the video of DREAM CITY — which begins, if I am correct, with a line on the chords of BYE BYE BLUES and then changes key into a medium-bounce blues — and admire not only the soloing, so tersely expert, so full of feeling without self-consciousness — but the arrangement itself: the quiet effective way horns hum behind a soloist, the use of stop-time and a Chicago “flare,” the echoes of Bix and Tram without tying the whole endeavor to a 1927 skeleton . . . worth study, deserving of admiration. All of the players impress me tremendously, but Attila gets his own (and that is not the title of a children’s book) because I’d not known of his bass saxophone playing: he is a master of that horn, handling it with elegance and grace, sometimes giving it a limber ease I would associate with the bass clarinet, although he never hurries. (I also discovered Attila’s 2017 TAP ROOM SWING, a tribute to Adrian Rollini, which I hope to write about in future.) I plan to continue blissfully dreaming to DREAM CITY, an ethereal soundtrack, so rewarding. Posted in "Thanks A Million", Bliss!, Generosities, It's All True, Jazz Titans, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, That Was Fun!, The Heroes Among Us, The Real Thing, The Things We Love, Wow! Tagged Adrian Rollini, Arbors Records, Bix Beiderbecke, David Lukacs, Django Reinhardt, DREAM CITY, Duke Ellington, Felix Hunot, George Barnes, Jack Teagarden, Jazz Lives, Joep Lumeij, Kansas City Six, Malo Mazurié, Marty Grosz, Menno Daams, Michael Steinman, Ruby Braff, Scott Robinson, small-band swing, TAP ROOM SWING YOUNGBLOODS FOR LOUIS: GUILLERMO PERATA, FERNANDO MONTARDIT, JON-ERIK KELLSO, SCOTT ROBINSON, NEAL MINER at THE EAR INN (August 4, 2019) A piece of paper says that Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, instead of the July 4, 1900, he always claimed. In this, I take the testimony of his mother, who called him her “firecracker baby,” as prime. And I will argue this point until no more copies of WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD can be found. Of course, he deserves every birthday celebration one can imagine, ideally 365 of them every year. But just yesterday, at the Ear Inn, on 326 Spring Street, there was a little celebration in the proper spirit. Louis loved the South — which he would have defined as his native Louisiana — but he would have been very happy to greet two musicians from that region, more or less (Mexico City and Buenos Aires): cornetist Guillermo Perata and guitarist Fernando Montardit, who sat in with the EarRegulars — Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Scott Robinson, reeds and F-trumpet, and Neal Miner, string bass — on a properly celebratory SWING THAT MUSIC. And they all do: Louis smiles his approval. I hope you do, also. Posted in "Thanks A Million", Bliss!, Generosities, Hotter Than That, Ideal Places, It's All True, Jazz Titans, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, That Was Fun!, The Heroes Among Us, The Real Thing, The Things We Love Tagged Fernando Montardit, Guillermo Perata, Jazz Lives, Jon-Erik Kellso, Michael Steinman, Neal Miner, Scott Robinson, SWING THAT MUSIC, The Ear Inn, The EarRegulars, when was Louis Armstrong born?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1430
__label__cc	0.508783	0.491217	Sax & DJ Tuition & Writing Gig Vlogs Kent Wedding Saxophonist You just can't beat a live band and that's why I play in three! All my bands perform for at least two hours throughout the evening and can also provide a disco in between sets and until the end of the night so there's no need to hire a separate DJ as well. We bring all our own sound and lighting equipment and so there really is nothing else for you to worry about! Fees start from £695 so please get in touch for exact cost and availability. Evening Entertainment Offer Book a live band and a 'Light Entertainment' solo saxophone performance for the same day and benefit from a £100 discount! This offer can also be combined with the Solo Saxophone Offer to add up to a £200 discount! Before Tomorrow: 'The Night Before Tomorrow' is a five piece swing and 'jazzy pop' band which performs a host of popular classics such as Have You Met Miss Jones, Fever and Come Fly With Me, whilst specialising in vintage style 'jazzy' versions of pop songs by the likes of Pharrell Williams, George Michael, Bruno Mars, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Ed Sheeran and many more! www.TheNightBeforeTomorrow.co.uk Liberty Park: 'Liberty Park' are an explosive, high energy, six piece pop/funk band, providing the highest quality in live music. Performing tunes from modern artists such as Bruno Mars, Fleur East and Fifth Harmony to alternative classics by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Kool And The Gang and even Fat Boy Slim, the band deliver a host of hits for all your guests to enjoy. www.LibertyParkBand.com The Soul Monkeys: This seven piece soul and funk influenced function band will have you grooving all night with songs from artists such as Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earth Wind and Fire, The Commitments, Al Green and many more all time classic artists. The Soul Monkeys' interactive and energetic feel will have you on your feet, boogieing and singing along all evening! www.TheSoulMonkeys.com Latest Band Promo: Liberty Park Bellevue Tavern, Pegwell Bay The Soul Monkeys @ Bellevue Tavern, Pegwell Bay Enoteca, Ramsgate Liberty Park @ Enoteca, Ramsgate The Old Kent Barn, Swingfield Solo Sax @ The Old Kent Barn, Swingfield The Monument, Whitstable The Soul Monkeys @ The Monument, Whitstable The Sun Inn, Faversham Liberty Park @ The Sun Inn, Faversham The vast majority of my bookings are for private events but I do a few public shows as well. Please use the arrows (above) to scroll through the calendar, or select an event to read more info. If you do make it along to a gig then don't forget to come and say hi!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1436
__label__wiki	0.97767	0.97767	PNP solid behind Du30—Albayalde Alfred P. Dalizon PNP chief Director General Oscar D. Albayalde stresses that the 190,000-strong police force is solid behind President Duterte and his reform programs. With Gen. Albayalde is PNP Chief Directorial Staff, Director Camilo Pancratius P. Cascolan. Photo by Alfred P. Dalizon PHILIPPINE National Police chief Director General Oscar D. Albayalde yesterday assured the public that they fully support President Duterte’s presidency and will defend it from saboteurs and destabilizers. “We are loyal to the Constitution, the institution and the Filipino people,” the PNP chief said as he rejected anew suggestions to conduct a loyalty check on the police. “I have said it again and again, zero, nil. We have not monitored anybody in the police force who is reportedly undermining the government, thus there is really no need to conduct a loyalty check,” he said. Gen. Albayalde stressed that they have not heard any rumblings in the 190,000-strong police force since, if there is really discontentment with the government among police officers, it would for sure “leak.” He said however that there could be some policemen who may have their “personal opinions” on the present situation but are keeping it to themselves. “But personal discussion does not involve everybody in the PNP,” he added. As a general rule, members of the uniformed service are mandated to always respect and protect the incumbent government. “If you want to take sides, you get out of the service first,” the PNP chief said. Gen. Albayalde also said that the PNP is very thankful to President Duterte for he is the 1st Philippine leader who made true his campaign promise to double the salary of the police. He said that many presidents since the 80s have made the same vow but the promises did not materialize until the former Davao City mayor won the presidency. “This is the reason why President Duterte enjoys the full trust and confidence of the police force,” he said. WILL FOLLOW RULE OF LAW The PNP chief also said that they will just wait for the Makati City court decision on the case of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV before making their move in accordance with the law. He explained that the President had made it clear when he said that the “rule of law will prevail” in Trillanes’ case. “That’s following the law clearly. We will respect what the court will say, klarung-klaro ang sinabi ng Presidente,” he said. Gen. Albayalde also called on other officials and the media not to speculate on the matter so as not to confuse the people. As of yesterday, he said that the PNP Legal Service is preparing its reply on the High Tribunal’s resolution regarding the presidential declaration that voided the amnesty given to Trillanes by former President Benigno Aquino III. He also called on classmates of Trillanes from Philippine Military Academy Class 1995 to respect the law and remember what they have been taught in Fort del Pilar. “It’s very possible when they are desperate,” he said. Albayalde said that the pieces of information spilled by President Duterte are also “serious information” which they need to fully verify because the President has so many sources of information. He said that they are even verifying information regarding supposed terrorist plans to bomb some targets in the country this coming September 21. “But I would tell you na hindi na bago ang mga information na yan. Some are even rehashed, raw and unvalidated information but we have to react, we have to verify those pieces of information and possibly preempt them,” the PNP chief said. With Zaida delos Reyes Oscar D. Albayalde Latest from Nation Bong Go presses pilot program for motorcycle taxis Albayalde probe findings to be sent to Ombudsman Busted traffickers linked with foreign drug rings — Gamboa DRUGS, ROGUE COPS IN GAMBOA’S SIGHTS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1441
__label__wiki	0.779424	0.779424	Sight of a Predator Induces a Corticosterone Stress Response and Generates Fear in an Amphibian Edward J. Narayan , * E-mail: e.narayan@ga.griffith.edu.au Affiliation Environmental Futures Centre, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Southport, Australia John F. Cockrem, Affiliation Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Jean-Marc Hero Edward J. Narayan, Edward J. Narayan John F. Cockrem Jean-Marc Hero Amphibians, like other animals, generate corticosterone or cortisol glucocorticoid responses to stimuli perceived to be threatening. It is generally assumed that the corticosterone response of animals to capture and handling reflects the corticosterone response to stimuli such as the sight of a predator that are thought to be natural stressors. Fijian ground frogs (Platymantis vitiana) are preyed upon by the introduced cane toads (Rhinella marina), and we used ground frogs to test the hypothesis that the sight of a predator will induce a corticosterone stress response in an amphibian. Urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations increased in male ground frogs exposed to the sight of a toad for 1, 3 or 6 h, whereas corticosterone did not change in frogs exposed to another male ground frog, a ball, or when no stimulus was present in the test compartment. The frogs exposed to a toad initially moved towards the stimulus then moved away, whereas frogs exposed to another frog moved towards the test frog and remained closer to the frog than at the start of the test. Tonic immobility (TI) was measured as an index of fearfulness immediately after the test exposure of the frogs to a stimulus. The duration of TI was longer in frogs exposed to a toad than to another frog or to a ball. The results provide novel evidence that the sight of a predator can induce a corticosterone response and lead to increased fearfulness in amphibians. In addition, they show that endemic frogs can recognise an introduced predator as a threat. Citation: Narayan EJ, Cockrem JF, Hero J-M (2013) Sight of a Predator Induces a Corticosterone Stress Response and Generates Fear in an Amphibian. PLoS ONE 8(8): e73564. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073564 Editor: Brian Gratwicke, Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, United States of America Received: April 25, 2013; Accepted: July 20, 2013; Published: August 29, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Narayan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This research was supported through a Griffith University postdoctoral Research Fellowship awarded to E.J.N. and financial support was provided by the Rufford Small Grants Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The hypothalamo-pituitary interrenal (HPI) axis is the central neuroendocrine pathway for physiological stress responses in amphibians. The glucocorticoid hormone corticosterone, the major stress hormone in amphibians (also found in birds, reptiles and many rodents), is secreted by the HPI-axis when individuals respond to a stressor [1–5]. This short-term increase in corticosterone promotes key changes in behaviour and physiology that enable individuals to cope with stress [6–10]. Some of the key behaviours affected by corticosterone in amphibians and also in other vertebrates (small mammals and lizards) include initiation of hiding and defensive behaviours [11–13], increased locomotor activity [14,15], and increased thermoregulatory behaviour [16,17]. The sight of a predator can induce a corticosterone response in birds [18] and exposure to predator odour can induce corticosterone responses in male Sprague–Dawley rats [19]. Thus, corticosterone measures could be used to explore the physiological sensitivity of amphibians to environmental stressors, such as predation and pathogenic infections [20] as well as experimental stressors, such as capture, transportation and toe-clipping [21–23]. Introduced species have had a significant impact on natural ecosystems worldwide, especially through predation [24,25]. Introduced species often cause native animal populations to decline because the native species are oblivious to the possible threat of predation therefore are unable to generate adequate physiological and behavioural responses towards the novel invader [26]. Naturally, prey species should be able to generate physiological and behavioural responses towards a visual predator by increasing stress hormone responses or by hiding, in order to increase its chances of escape and survival [27]. However, some endemic island species are unable to show any such behavioural adjustment due to lack of sufficient evolutionary time in residence with the introduced species [26,28,29]. Currently, there is no empirical evidence to show whether endemic amphibian species are able to recognize novel introduced predatory species as potential physiological stressors. The Fijian ground frog (Platymantis vitiana) is currently listed as Endangered (B1ab (v) ver 3.1) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2008 (see [30]:). The endemic ground frog population on Viwa Island are preyed upon by the cane toad (Rhinella marina) [31–33]. Evidence dating back 20 years highlights that cane toads predate upon froglets and juveniles [34]. The introduced cane toads have also been associated with mortality of native amphibian larvae in Australia [35]. It has also been shown that introduced cane toads have caused rapid alteration of both morphology and physiology of a native Australian species, the red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) [36]. In this study, we investigated whether exposure of Fijian ground frogs to a cane toad induced a corticosterone response in the frogs. The degree of fear experienced by an animal when faced by a stimulus that represents a threat is generally correlated with the magnitude of the associated corticosterone response [37], and tests such as tonic immobility (TI) can be used to measure fearfulness in animals [38] including amphibians [39]. We used TI tests to measure fearfulness in Fijian ground frogs exposed to the sight of cane toads. We tested the hypothesis that the sight of a cane toad will induce a corticosterone stress response and fearfulness in the Fijian ground frog. Furthermore, we also investigated whether the presence of cane toads altered the movement of the ground frogs to provide an insight into the potential effects of toads on the locomotory behaviour of ground frogs. (a) Ethics statement All experiments were conducted according to relevant national and international guidelines. Ethical clearances were obtained from the Department of Environment, Fiji Islands for the collection of the endangered Fijian ground frogs on Viwa Island (18o00´S, 175o00´E), a small (60 ha) island located 900 m off the coast of mainland Viti Levu, Fiji. The traditional owner of the land (Chief of Viwa Island; Ratu Dovi Komaisavai) permitted us to undertake this research on Viwa through a traditional ceremony that was conducted prior to this study. The Griffith University Animal Ethics Committee (ENV/13/11/AEC) that approved the interventions with the amphibians in this study. All frogs were released back on into their natural habitat upon completion of the study in accordance with the Australian health check standards for amphibians [40]. (b) Field sampling and captive housing We used adult male Fijian ground frogs for this study because of their easy accessibility compared to female ground frogs, and to reduce any confounding effects of reproductive condition on subsequent stress and behaviour measurements. Ground frogs and cane toads were caught at night (2000-2200h) on Viwa Island within shared terrestrial habitats in December 2011 during the annual breeding season of the ground frogs. Adult male frogs were identified by their distinct ‘stress call’ upon capture, as described earlier [41] while adult male cane toads were identified based on morphological characteristics [42] and a rough dorsal surface. Adult male ground frogs weighed 33.5 + 2.5 g, and had mean snout-vent length (SVL) of 35 mm (n = 112; 91 experimental frogs and 21 test stimulus frogs). Adult male cane toads weighed 55.0 + 1.5 g, and had mean SVL of 65 mm (n = 21 test stimulus toads). We used a urinary corticosterone metabolite enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) to measure urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations (referred to hereafter as urinary corticosterone concentrations) using our established protocols for anuran amphibians [21,43–46]. Urine samples were collected from individual frogs on the night of capture on Viwa Island. For urine sampling, each frog was gently held above a sterile plastic cup (diameter = 100 mm) and its underbelly abdomen was briefly massaged to promote urination, which occurred always within 1 min. The volume of urine excreted by each frog ranged from 200 µL -3 mL. Labelled urine samples were kept in a freezer prior to assay (no longer than 1 month). Frogs and toads were transported overnight from Viwa Island to a nearby field station (within 5 km from Viwa Island) on mainland Viti Levu, where the experiments were conducted. At the field station, the frogs were housed individually in plastic “home containers” with meshed lids (10 x 35 x 10 cm). Frogs were provided with food (house crickets, Achetus domesticus) every second day and distilled water was sprinkled twice daily into the home container to keep it moist. The arena containing the home containers had a similar photoperiod to Viwa Island. Frogs were adjusted to captivity for 9 days before the experiments began. This adjustment period was selected based on our earlier results on the physiological adjustment of amphibians to captivity [43,45]. Urine samples were collected from each frog after 0.5, 5 and 9 days to ensure that corticosterone concentrations had returned after 9 days to concentrations similar to the time of capture concentrations. (c) Experimental design The responses of adult male ground frogs to three experimental treatments were examined 10 days after capture on Viwa Island. Individual frogs were introduced to either a cane toad, another adult male ground frog or to a ball, or not exposed to any stimulus. The home container, which was also used as the experimental chamber, was divided in half using plastic wire mesh (15 mm x 15 mm) through which frogs could perceive (see and smell) the test stimulus. This was confirmed by placing a live or a dead house cricket in the test compartment and noticing the frog’s movement in the test chamber. Male ground frogs (n = 21) and toads (n = 21) that were used as test stimuli were caught on Viwa Island on the same night in December 2011 as the experimental frogs, and were acclimated in separate home containers away from the arena where the experimental frogs were kept. On the day of the experiment, male frogs that were used as controls (n = 28) were sampled for urine 0, 1, 3 or 6 h (n = 7 frogs per time period) without any stimulus being present in the test compartment. Experimental male ground frogs (n = 63 frogs) were divided into groups and subjected to one of the three treatments (cane toad, another adult male ground frog or a ball), with a single urine sample collected 1, 3 or 6 h (n = 7 frogs sampled per time period for each treatment) after the experiment began. At the start of each experimental session a piece of black cardboard was placed in the middle of the test chamber and then a toad, frog or the ball was placed into the test compartment by the observer. The cardboard was removed so that the male ground frog could then see the test stimulus. The control frogs were also exposed to the placement and then urine was collected upon removal of the cardboard divider. Sampling time periods of 1, 3 or 6 h were used based on our previous works that showed that physiological stress responses of anurans (e.g. ground frogs) appeared in urinary corticosterone metabolites within 6 h after exposure to experimental stressor, such as adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) injection [44]. (d) Behaviour A rectangular sheet of white paper with lines drawn with a permanent marker across the sheet at 20, 40, 60 and 80% of the length of the area of each home container in which the ground frog was present was placed beneath the home container before the tests began so the observer could see the lines from a standard distance of 0.5 m. The lines divided the area in which the male frog was present in five locations which were termed 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with location 1 closest to the test compartment and location 5 furthest away from the test compartment at the start of the treatment. The location of the frog was recorded at the start of each test (0 min location). The location was then recorded 5, 15, 20, 40 and 60 min after the test began for frogs sampled for urine at 1 h; or 5, 15, 20, 40, 60, 120, 180 min after the test began for frogs sampled for urine at 3 h; or 5, 15, 20, 40, 60, 120, 180, 240 and 360 min after the test began for frogs sampled for urine at 6 h. Each frog was picked up for urine collection immediately after the final location observation was made for each treatment. The duration of tonic immobility (TI, also known as the immobility reaction [47]; was measured after urine was collected from each frog. The tonic immobility test is a quantitative measure of fear that has been used in previous amphibian studies [47,48]. Each frog was removed from its home container and placed on its back on the test surface (flat plastic board 15 x 15 x 10 mm) and a timer was started immediately. The frog was gently held by the hands until the hands could be moved away and the frog remained on its back, following the procedure of [39]. The latency time (Sec) was the time when the hands could be moved away while the frog remained on its back. The time taken for the frog to upright was recorded as the duration of immobility. Frogs were returned into their home containers at the end of the test and returned to Viwa Island at the end of the experiment. (e) Corticosterone enzyme-immunoassay A urinary corticosterone enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) that was previously validated for measuring conjugated corticosterone metabolites in frog urine was used for this study [21,43–45]. Urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations in frog urine were determined using a polyclonal anti-corticosterone antiserum (CJM06, UC, Davis California) diluted 1: 45 000, horseradish peroxidise-conjugated corticosterone label diluted 1: 120 000 and corticosterone standards (1.56–400 pgwell-1). Cross reactivity of the CJM06 anti-corticosterone antiserum was reported earlier as 100% with corticosterone, 14.25% with desoxycorticosterone and 0.9% with tetrahydrocorticosterone [44]. Intra- (within) and inter- (between) assay coefficients of variation were determined from high- (~70%) and low- (~30%) binding internal controls run on all assays. Intra assay CVs were 3.9% and 4.4% for low, and high percentage bound controls, and inter-assay CVs were 4.2% and 6.8% for low, and high percentage bound-controls respectively. Assay sensitivity was calculated as the value 2 standard deviations from the mean response of the blank (zero binding) samples. Mean assay sensitivity for the corticosterone EIA was 1.16 + 0.27 pg/well (n = 24). Creatinine (Cr) was measured in each frog urine sample as an index of the urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations because it is excreted at a constant rate and is therefore a good index of the amount of time over which hormones have been metabolized into the urine regardless of the volume of the sample [44]. Urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations were expressed in relation to urinary creatinine concentrations as pg corticosterone metabolites/ug Cr. (f) Statistical analysis Statistical analyses were performed using Prism (GraphPad Software Inc.). Urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations were transformed to logarithms, and D’Agostino & Pearson omnibus test confirmed normality and homogeneity of variances for log-transformed data. Urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations in adult male ground frogs after they were captured from the wild and transferred into captivity were compared between days using one-way Repeated Measures ANOVA. Post-hoc comparisons were done between times (days 0, 0.5, 5 and 9) using Bonferroni’s Multiple Comparison Test. All of the physiological and behavioural data (urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations, mean locations of frogs in the test compartment and mean tonic immobility scores) at times 1, 3 or 6 h since the start of each treatment were compared between groups (control and treatments) using two-way ANOVA followed by post hoc comparisons. Comparisons of the physiological and behavioural data between times (1, 3 or 6 h) within each frog group (control and treatments) were done using two-way ANOVA followed by post-hoc comparisons. Data are presented as individual points or mean + S.E. (a) Urinary corticosterone after capture Urinary corticosterone concentrations in all male frogs (n = 91) had increased from 0.5 days after capture (Figure 1). Corticosterone decreased between 0.5 and 5 days and, in most frogs, decreased further from 5 to 9 days after capture (Figure 1). Mean urinary corticosterone concentrations in the frogs changed significantly after capture (One-way ANOVA, F3,273 = 216.8, p < 0.0001, Figure 1). The mean urinary corticosterone concentration increased between the time of capture and day 0.5 (p < 0.05), decreased on day 5 (p < 0.05), and after 9 days in captivity did not differ from initial concentrations at the time of capture (p > 0.05). Figure 1. Mean (+ S.E) urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations at capture (0 days) and after 0.5, 5 and 9 days in captivity in 91 male Fijian ground frogs. (b) Urinary corticosterone responses to test stimuli A two-way ANOVA of mean urinary corticosterone metabolite concentration at 1, 3, or 6 h after exposure to a test stimulus showed that corticosterone metabolite concentrations varied with time (F3,96 = 29.24, p < 0.001) and treatment (F3,96 = 153.7, p < 0.001), with a significant interaction between time and treatment (F9,96 = 26.04, p < 0.001). There were significant differences in mean urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations between frogs in the control group and frogs that saw the cane toad 1, 3 and 6 h after exposure to the sight of the toad (p < 0.001; Figure 2). There were no significant differences in mean urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations at these times between frogs that saw another frog or a ball compared with the control group (p > 0.05 for all comparisons; Figure 2). The mean urinary corticosterone concentrations were significantly different at times (1, 3 or 6 h) for frogs that saw the toad compared to those that saw the ball or another frog (p < 0.05 for all comparisons). Mean urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations increased in frogs that saw a toad and were significantly higher compared with initial 0 h corticosterone concentrations at times 1, 3 and 6 h (p < 0.001; Figure 2). The highest mean urinary corticosterone metabolite concentration was at 6 h (105.14 + 5.4 pg/µg Cr) for the frogs that were exposed to the cane toad. Corticosterone did not increase from initial concentrations in frogs that saw another frog or a ball or for the control group (Figure 2). Figure 2. Mean (+ S.E.) urinary corticosterone metabolite concentrations in male Fijian ground frogs during exposure to a cane toad, a ball, another male ground frog or control (no stimulus). Sample sizes at each time point were n = 7. Mean urinary corticosterone data for each four group (control and three treatments) were used to obtain the data for time = 0 h. (c) Behaviour Adult male ground frogs were usually sitting in the middle of their home container (location number 3) before being subjected to the test stimulus. The locations of the ground frogs changed when the frogs were exposed to some of the test stimuli. Frogs exposed to cane toads moved towards the test compartment within the first 15-20 min and then moved away and stayed as far away as possible for the remainder of the test period (Figure 3). Frogs exposed to a male ground frog in the test compartment moved towards the compartment within the first 15-20 min and stayed close to the test compartment throughout the remainder of the test period (Figure 3). There was little or no change in the locations of the ground frogs in the control group and in the presence of a ball. There was a significant effect of test stimulus (F3,96 = 94.98, p < 0.0001) and time (F3,96 = 3.22, p = 0.026) on the location of the male ground frogs, and a significant interaction between test stimulus and time (F9,96 = 11.39, p < 0.0001). There was a significant difference in locations of frogs over 1, 3 or 6 h between frogs subjected to the toad or another frog (p < 0.05; Figure 3A–C). There was no significant difference in locations of the frogs between those subjected to a ball or a control group (p > 0.05). Figure 3. Mean (+ S.E.) locations of the Fijian ground frogs during exposure to a cane toad or another frog. Location 1 was closest to the test compartment and location 6 was furthest away from the test compartment. The location of the frog was recorded at 5, 15, 20, 40 and 60 min after the test began (Fig. 3A, frogs sampled up to 60 min) or 5, 20, 40, 60, 120, 180 (Fig. 3B, frogs sampled up to 180 min) or 5, 20, 40, 60, 120, 180, 240 and 360 min (Fig. 3C, frogs sampled up to 360 min). Sample sizes at each time point were n = 7. The mean duration of tonic immobility (TI) of the male ground frogs differed significantly between stimuli (F3,72 = 56.09, p < 0.0001, Figure 4) and time (F3,72 = 11.78, p < 0.0001, Figure 4). There was no significant interaction between treatment and time (F3,72 = 1.97, p = 0.080, Figure 4). The frogs that were subjected to a toad had the longest durations of TI at 1, 3 and 6 h (Figure 4). The highest mean TI duration (75.0 + 13.2 seconds) was recorded at 3 h for the frog group that was subjected to the sight of a toad. There was no significant difference between time in mean TI durations for frogs that saw a frog or ball (Figure 4; p > 0.05 for all time comparisons). There was a significant difference between the times in mean TI durations of the control frogs and frogs that had perceived the cane toad (Figure 4; p < 0.05 for all time comparisons). The mean TI durations of the frogs that saw another frog were significantly shorter than those of frogs that saw a toad, and significantly longer than the mean TI durations of frogs that saw a ball 1, 3 or 6 h (Figure 4; p < 0.05). Figure 4. Histogram showing mean durations of tonic immobility (seconds) of male Fijian ground frogs after exposure to a cane toad, a ball, another frog or no stimulus. Sample sizes at each time point were n = 7. This is the first study to show that amphibians have a corticosterone response to the sight of an invasive predator. Frogs that saw the predator also had greater fearfulness, as measured by the duration of tonic immobility (TI) immediately after exposure to the predator, than frogs that saw another frog or saw a ball. These results show that the Fijian ground frogs perceived the sight of a cane toad to be a threat, and experienced fearfulness at the same time as their hypothalamo-pituitary interrenal (HPI) axis was activated and corticosterone secretion increased. The adult male ground frogs experienced greater fearfulness, as measured by higher durations of TI in the presence of cane toads than in the presence of another frog or a novel object (ball). Tonic immobility has been demonstrated in a wide range of animals, including birds, fish, rabbits and guinea pigs, to reduce the probability of continued attacks by an intruder [49]. Experimental elevation of corticosterone has also been shown to increase the duration of immobility in birds [50]. Furthermore, the male ground frogs altered their behaviour (moved further away from the test chamber) following visual detection of the cane toad in the experimental chamber. Ground frogs are often found in areas of minimal cover, such as open-exposed bare ground and exposed perches on tree trunks at night-time [51]. Cane toad encounters with ground frogs are not uncommon and the frogs usually evade the toads by retreating into terrestrial substrates, such as leaf litter, or moving up into the vegetation [41]. In their study [52], demonstrated that behaviour towards any biological stressor (such a predator) could differ between frog species depending on micro-habitat preferences. For example, more terrestrial dwelling northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) escaped towards land while their aquatic dwelling congener, the green frog (R. clamitans), escaped towards the water when approached by snakes or humans around natural ponds. Seeking refuge following a stressful encounter could be beneficial if the intruder is a visual hunter, but may prove detrimental when the predator is able to enter these substrates. There is empirical evidence that the spatial distributions of the cane toads and Fijian ground frogs on Viwa Island overlap quite significantly [31]. We studied the male ground frogs during breeding thus future studies should investigate whether responses (fearfulness and corticosterone responses) of male frogs are similar outside the breeding season, including their correlation with testosterone [53,54] and body condition [7]. Similar testing could be done on female frogs to test if physiological responsiveness to the cane toad is affected by sex, condition and reproductive stage [55]. Behavioural and physiological stress responses are under some level of genetic control [56], and responsiveness could increase from natural selection pressures, such as that imposed by predation [57]. We have shown that ground frogs perceive cane toads as a threat and move away from toads. On Viwa Island other potential predators of ground frogs, such as the introduced small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) have never been present, while rats (Rattus spp.) and feral cats (Felis catus) have already been eradicated from the island [31]. It could be that there has been selection pressure in the frogs to recognise toads as predators, which is also not known. In future, it would be worthwhile to investigate whether the ground frogs are able to show similar physiological and behavioural responses in the presence of potential native predators such snakes (Candoia sp.) as well as in the presence of invasive species (such as rats and feral cats). Certain native species that have evolved in the absence of any intruders could also display specific behaviours in response to the intruder. A classic example was an earlier study by [58] in which the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) that has been isolated from mainland populations for over 15 million years was tested for behavioural and physiological stress hormone responses to some novel predators. Their study demonstrated that the ‘naïve’ marine iguana were able to generate anti-predator responses (both stress hormonal and behavioural responses) in the presence of novel predators (dogs and cats) [58]. Both this study and another by [36] emphasized that physiological stress and behavioural responses of native species against novel introduced species demonstrate cases of rapid evolution under the influence of strong predatory selection pressure. Earlier [18], found a marked increase in plasma corticosterone in captive great tits (Parus major) that saw an owl, which is a natural predator. In another study [59], studied the stress hormone responses of free-living male pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) that were exposed for 10 min to a stuffed weasel (Mustela sp.) model, a stuffed great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), or a stuffed flycatcher that was placed on or near their nest box to act as a territorial intruder. Exposure to a weasel or to a territorial intruder elevated plasma corticosterone concentrations in flycatchers caught 10-25 min after the beginning of a test stimulus. 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__label__cc	0.702693	0.297307	Tag Archive: community Goddess Odudua Art by Drew Flaherty “Odudua’s themes are kinship, unity, devotion, creativity, community, love and fertility. Her symbols are black items. In the beginning, Odudua created the earth and its people. In Yoruban tradition, She presides over all matter of fertility, love and community. Her sacred color is black. The African American festival of Kwanzaa celebrates family unity and the black culture. It is also a harvest festival whose name means ‘first fruits’. Every day of the celebration focuses on important themes, including Odudua’s harmony, determination, community responsibility, purpose, creativity and faith. One lovely tradition easily adapted is that of candle lighting. Each day of the festival, light one red, green or black candle (the colors of Africa). Name the candle after one of Odudua’s attributes you wish to develop (try to choose the color that most closely corresponds to your goal). Igniting it gives energy and visual manifestation to that principle. Also try to keep one black candle lit (in a safe container) to honor the Goddess’s presence during this time. To inspire Odudua’s peaceful love in your heart and life today, wear something black. This will absorb the negativity around you and put is to rest.” Patricia Monaghan said that this “primary mother Goddess of the Yoruba of Nigeria…is the great orisha (deity) of the earth as well as its creator. Her name means ‘She who exists for Herself and to create others,’ and it was Her energy that caused the primal matter which later formed itself ionto this universe. The spot where She descended from the sky onto the new earth is still pointed out in Yourbaland. Oddudua is called Saint Claire in Santería” (p. 238). On mythologydictionary.com, it states: “A creator-Goddess and war-Goddess of the Yoruba. Wife and sister (or, some, say, daughter) of Olodumare or Obatala. Mother of Aganju, Ogun and Yemoja. Some regard her as the founder of the Yoruba. In some accounts, Oduduwa is regarded as male, son of Lamurudu and brother of Obatala, marrying Aje and fathering Oranyan; in others She is female in which role Her father sent Her to earth to sow seeds and She became the wife of Orishako. In some references, called Oduduwa, Odudua or Odudua. [1] Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Oddudua”. Mythologydictionary.com, “Oduduwa“. MXTODIS123. Reclaimingthedarkgoddess.blogspot.com, “Oduduwa“. Tags: africa, african mythology, aganju, black, community, creativity, devotion, earth, feminine spirituality, fertility, goddess, kinship, kwanzaa, love, nigeria, obatala, oddudua, odua, odudua, oduduwa, ogun, olodumare, orisha, orixá, unity, women's spirituality, yemaja, yemanja, yemojá, yoruba Goddess Pukkeenegak “Pukkeenegak” by Sharon Mcleod “Pukkeenegak’s themes are kinship, community, thankfulness, charity and kindness. Her symbols are tattoos. This Inuit Goddess presides over all household and community affairs. As a mother figure, She watches kindly over Her children, making sure we have clothing and food. Art shows Her with a tattooed face, boots, and a lovely dress befitting the patroness of seamstresses. Among the Inuit, this is a time when youths go door to door gathering foods for a huge community feast [referring to the Aiyaguk or Asking Festival]. Afterward, people petition one another for gifts – exchanging the entire community’s goods in the spirit of thanksgiving. So, orchestrate a gathering of people of a like mind for a potluck dinner at which Pukkeenegak is the guest of honour (leave a place setting for her). Wear special clothing today that reflects the Goddess’s gift with needle and thread. Or organize a clothing drive so people can donate items they no longer need to a charitable cause. This way the Goddess can bless each person who receives one of those garments with her providence! If you’ve found your home or heart tense lately, invoke Pukkeenegak’s unifying, steadying energy by drawing an emblem of peace over your heart chakra or on the back of your hand (use non-toxic markers or body paint). Leave it there until it naturally wears off, by which time the magic should show signs of manifesting.” “Tender Moments” by Dorothy Francis All that I could find on today’s Goddess was that in Inuit mythology, Pukkeenegak (pronounced poo-KEE-neh-gack) was a domestic Goddess. “The Inuit people worship Pukkeenegak as a hearth and home Goddess. She rules all domestic tasks including sewing and cooking. As a deity of childbirth, She rules all stages of pregnancy, including conception and labor” (Auset, p. 65); nothing more in-depth or any detailed mythological stories that I could find. Auset, Brandi. The Goddess Guide: Exploring the Attributes and Correspondences of the Divine Feminine, “The Goddesses: Pukkeenegak“. Freefictionbooks.org, “The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo: The Aiyaguk or Asking Festival“. Goddess-guide.com, “Fertility Goddesses and Goddesses of Pregnancy and Childbrith“. Libraryoftheancients.proboards.com, “Eskimo Mythology“. Monaghan, Patricia. Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines,”Circumpolar” (p. 135 – 150). Wozniak, Edward. Glitternight.com, “Inuit Mythology“. Tags: aiyaguk, aiyaguk festival, asking festival, charity, childbirth, community, eskimo, goddess, hearth, home, inuit, kindness, kinship, labor, mother, native american mythology, pregnancy, pukkeenegak, seamstress, seamstresses, tattoos, thankfulness Goddess Çhicomecoatl “Çhicomecoatl’s themes are fire, providence, energy, community, abundance, fertility and strength. Her symbols are hot spices (especially chili peppers), corn and fire. In Mexico, this Goddess presides over maize and all matters of plenty during this time of harvest. Çhicomecoatl is also the hearth Goddess and provides warmth, energy and fertility in those in need. Her fiery, strong character is depicted vibrantly in artistic renderings in which Çhicomecoatl bears the sun as a shield. Around this time of year, people in New Mexico celebrate The Whole Enchilada Festival in which they enjoy a day of taste-testing a ten-foot-long enchilada in a communal atmosphere, and you might like to follow suit. The hot spices in enchiladas (or other Mexican foods you like) motivate Çhicomecoatl’s fire within for physical and emotional warmth. If you’re sensitive to hot peppers, add corn to your diet today instead. This invokes the Goddess’s strength and fertility. More simply still, Çhicomecoatl abides in any fire source. So, light a candle first thing in the morning to welcome Her into your home today. For portable magic, carry matches or put a lighter in your pocket. Throughout the day, light a match or the lighter when ever you need a boost of energy or vitality, or when you need to improve your communications with those around you. This action also draws Çhicomecoatl’s attention to your financial needs.” “In Aztec mythology, Chicomecōātl (‘Seven snakes’), was the Aztec Goddess of agriculture during the Middle Culture period. She is sometimes called ‘Goddess of nourishment’, a Goddess of plenty and the female aspect of corn. Every September a young girl representing Chicomecōātl was sacrificed. The priests decapitated the girl, collected her blood and poured it over a figurine of the Goddess. The corpse was then flayed and the skin was worn by a priest. She is regarded as the female counterpart of the maize god Centeōtl, their symbol being an ear of corn. She is occasionally called Xilonen, (‘the hairy one’, which referred to the hairs on unshucked maize), who was married also to Tezcatlipoca. She often appeared with attributes of Chalchiuhtlicue, such as Her headdress and the short lines rubbing down Her cheeks. She is usually distinguished by being shown carrying ears of maize.” [1] “CHICOMECOATL” by ~marffi89 “This maize Goddess of the Aztecs had many forms, as many as did the growing corn: She was a maiden decked with water flowers, a young woman whose embrace brought death, a mother carrying the sun as a shield. One of the most popular divinities of ancient Mexico, She was depicted wearing a four-sided headdress and carrying a magic corncob labeled ‘forgiving strength.’ It is possible that Çhicomecoatl was originally worshiped by the residents of central Mexico who preceded the Aztecs, and that Her rites in their era were less bloody than the Aztec sacrifices of young girls in Çhicomecoatl’s name” (Monaghan, p. 85). Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Chicomecoatl”. Wikipedia, “Chicomecoatl“. Key, Anne. Matrifocus.com, “Chicomecóatl: Goddess of Sustenance“. (HIGHLY RECOMMEND! As always is the case with MatriFocus, a great in-depth article) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Maize Deity (Chicomecoatl)“. Tags: abundance, agriculture, aztec, centeōtl, chalchiuhtlicue, chicomecoatl, chili peppers, community, corn, death, energy, fertility, fire, goddess, harvest, hearth, hot spices, maiden, maize, mesoamerica, mother, native american mythology, providence, serpent, snakes, strength, tezcatlipoca, whole enchilada festival, xilonen Goddess Meng Jiangnu “Meng Jiangnu’s themes are the harvest, children, unity, kinship and community. Her symbols are pumpkin and squash. In the true spirit of a global culture, Meng Jiangnu is ‘imported’ for today’s festivities from China, being a pumpkin girl born from the vines of two different households. Her birth united the two families and brought them harmony where strife had once been. Today She continues to offer us unity with those we love, plus a profusion of positive feelings. Around this time of year in France, people gather in central markets looking for the Mother of all Pumpkins, which actually gets enthroned for the festivities! This is later made into a communal soup, so those who eat it are magically partaking of Meng Jiangnu’s energy. Eating this soup reaffirms community spirit and ensures a good pumpkin harvest the next year. So definitely make pumpkin or squash a part of your menu today. Consider pumpkin bread for breakfast with a friend or family member to encourage good feelings toward each other throughout the day. At lunch, a warm buttered squash side dish keeps love warm. Last of all, don’t forget some pie for dessert after dinner to bring sweetness to your relationships! Carve a pumpkin or squash with a symbol of any pressing need you have in a relationship. Put a candle inside and light it up so the pumpkin girl can shine Her energy into that situation and begin the healing process.” In reading the above description given by Patricia Telesco, I truly don’t believe that pumpkins would be a symbol for Meng Jiangnu considering that pumpkins are native to North America and wouldn’t have been found in China when Meng Jiangnu’s story takes place – which was set during the Qin Dynasty (221 BCE-206 BCE). “Extensive documentation [tells us] that pumpkins (Curcubita Pepo) are a New World crop introduced to China along with corn, peppers, potatoes, tobacco etc., durng the late Ming [1368 CE – 1644 CE]/early Qing period [1644 CE – 1912 CE].” [1] Patricia Monaghan tells us that Meng-Jiang Jyu a “Chinese folktale heroine…was born in a miraculous way. Two neighboring families, both of them childless, found a watermelon exactly halfway between their homes. Within it was this magical girl, whom the families decided to raise jointly. Meng-Jiang was a good girl who make both sets of parents happy. When she came to marry, she was lucky enough to find a young man in the village [Fan Qiliang] who cherished her. All went well until one summer day the emperor’s soldiers came and, without giving him a choice, conscripted Meng-Jiang’s husband to build the Great Wall. Months passed and, worried that her husband would be cold without his winter clothes, Meng-Jiang set off to find him. She walked and walked, asking everyone for her lover, but each village sent her further. She almost drowned crossing the Yellow River, but the river god became sympathetic to her cause and saved her. Finally, she reached her destination, only to find that her beloved husband had died; his bones had been interred somewhere in the Wall. She cried out to heaven, and the Wall collapsed – revealing thousands of bones. How could she find her husband’s? Recalling their vow to be blood of each other’s blood, she bit herself and, bleeding, walked among the bones. Those of her husband’s recognized and absorbed her blood, so she was able to give them a proper burial” (p. 215). “Meng’s tragedy was related to the atrocious Emperor Qin Shihuang who came to survey the damage done to the wall. But when he saw Meng Jiang, he was enchanted by her beauty and wanted to marry her. Meng Jiang said she would only marry him on three conditions – first, her former husband was to be given a grand burial; second, the emperor and his court must go into mourning for Qiliang; and third, she wanted to visit the ocean. Although the emperor hated the idea of officially mourning a commoner, he agreed so he could gain her hand in marriage. After Meng Jiang got her third wish, she scolded the Emperor bitterly and committed suicide by casting herself into the ocean. The Emperor sent his men to dredge the ocean but the waves chased them away. The image of Meng represents the kindness of ancient women and the torture brought on the people by war. The story shows the dislike ancient people had towards war. It has been passed down from generation to generation in Bo Shan. the Statue Lady Meng The section of the Great Wall that was toppled by Meng and the sea where she committed suicide are in today’s Zibo City, Shandong Province. The Temple of Lady Meng-Jiang, first established in the Song Dynasty about 1,000 years ago, has been maintained and worshipped at the eastern beginning of the Great Wall till this day in Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province today.” [2] Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Meng-Jiang Jyu”. Wikipedia, “Lady Meng Jiang“. Kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com, “A Chinese Folklore: Tears of Meng Jiang Nu“. Tags: children, chinese mythology, community, feminine spirituality, goddess, harvest, heroine, kinship, lady meng-jiang, meng jiangnu, meng jiangnv, meng-jiang jyu, meng-jiang nyu, pumpkin, squash, tears of meng jiang nu, unity, watermelon Goddess Ichar-Tsirew “Yemaya” (also titled “Water Goddess”) by Qahira Lynn “Ichar-tsirew’s themes are unity, community, justice, spirituality, purification, home, peace and organization. Her symbols are water, orderly items and peace amulets. In Ghana, this water Goddess flies into people’s lives, saturating them with peaceful intentions and tranquility, especially in the home. She reveals in good organization and any matters carried out in an orderly fashion. Among the people of the Gold Coast, this festival, Odwira, is a time to honor their bonds as a nation and revel in the laws, beliefs and customs established in the early 1600’s (many of which are probably far older). One of the neat customs that can invoke Ichar-tsirew’s organized attributes is that of burying a bundle of branches. This puts away any unnecessary negativity and banishes old habits that somehow disrupt the orderly flow of your life. When you find that the people in your living space have reached critical mass and you need to call a truce, Ichar-tsirew’s waters can help. Go through the house (or building, if the ‘war zone’ is in your office) before talking to anyone and sprinkle her peace in every nook possible (just a little us fine). As you go, repeat this incantation, ‘Negativity cease; by peace released!’ Continue until the whole area is done. Now try reapproaching the people with whom tensions have been building and let the Goddess harness harmony.” Well, not too much information on this Goddess today. From what I did find, Ichar-tsirew inhibits a large rounded rock on the beach in Cape Coast in Ghana ” about four hundreds yards to the east of the [Cape Coast] Castle. She is black in colour, and of ordinary human shape and size. No man may intrude on this rock or in its immediate neighborhood, and it is the place to which women resort to wash. New-born children of either sex were formerly carried here to be given names; and when a girl was about to marry, she was taken to the rock, from thence to the husband’s home. An offering of rum was poured into a hole in the rock, and a piece, or pieces, of white cloth laid upon it. This was believed to promote peace in the household of the future wife, and also to guarantee a safe recovery from the dangers of maternity. Ichar-tsirew carries a scourge in Her right hand, with which She drives away intrusive males” (Ellis, p. 45 – 46). Ellis goes onto say that “when a girl arrives at the age of puberty, usually in the eleventh or twelfth year, she is taken to the water-side by others of her sex, and washed. At the same time an offering, consisting of boiled yam, mashed and mixed with palm-oil, is scattered upon the banks of the stream by the members of her family, who call upon the local gods, and inform them that the child has reached a marriageable age. In Cape Coast the girl is taken to the rock of the Goddess Ichar-tsirew, and there washed. After the washing, a bracelet, consisting of one white bead, one black, and one gold, threaded on a white cord, is put on the girl’s wrist. These three beads in conjunction are termed abbum, and their being taken into use is a sign to the Sassur that its protecting care is no longer required. In the interior, on such occasions, girls are streaked white” (p. 234 – 235). Ellis, Alfred Burdon. The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Tags: african mythology, cape coast, community, ghana, goddess, home, ichar-tsirew, justice, odwira, orderly items, organization, peace, peace amulets, puberty, purification, spirituality, unity, water Goddess Mala Laith “Mala Laith’s themes are justice, community, peace, wisdom, knowledge, forgiveness, maturity and unity. Her symbols are the color gray, pigs, deer, the horse and birds. Known often simply by the designation ‘Gray One’, Mala Laith is the ancient Celtic crone Goddess. Mala Laith is said to have made the mountains and formed many stone circles, alluding to Her age and power. She travels in the company of birds, pigs, deer or a gray horse, carrying wisdom, knowledge, understanding, sensibility and preparation to us as gifts that come with maturity. On this day, people on Mann honor Tynwald, the old Norse assembly system instituted over one thousand years ago, by gathering to discuss legal matters and end internal bickering. As they do, Mala Laith stands by, offering good counsel and sagacity. For us this means taking a moment out to make sure things in our life are in order and being properly attended to. Review your checking account, follow up on legal matters, make peace with someone from whom you’ve been estranged and generally spend the day focusing on sound action, wise words and sensible thinking. This invokes Mala Laith’s energy. Wear something gray today to honor the Goddess and watch to see if any of Her sacred animals show up (in logos, on billboards, anywhere) during your day. If they do, pay close attention to their movements and actions. They’re bringing a message to you from Mala Laith, and it’s well worth heeding!” “‘Grey eyebrows’ was the name given to the Cailleach in Ross and Cromarty in Scotland,” Patricia Monaghan tells us. “She was said to tend a herd of pigs, which included the wild boar of Glen Glass” (p. 205). As to be expected, Mala Laith “(pronounced MAH-lah LEE-ah) She is often equated with Cerridwen.” [1] About Cailleach “Cailleach” by Mairin-Taj Caya “‘Cailleach’ (pronounced KAL-y-ach) derives from the old Irish caillech, or ‘the veiled one’. The modern word cailleach means ‘old woman’ or ‘hag’ in Gaelic. The Cailleach is a widespread form of Celtic hag-Goddess tied to the land and the weather who has many variants in the British Isles. The Caillagh ny Groamagh (‘Gloomy Old Woman’, also called the Caillagh ny Gueshag, ‘Old Woman of the Spells’) of the Isle of Man is a winter and storm spirit whose actions on the 1st of February are said to foretell the year’s weather–if it is a nice day, She will come out into the sun, which brings bad luck for the year. The Cailleach Uragaig, of the Isle of Colonsay in Scotland, is also a winter spirit who holds a young woman captive, away from her lover. The theme of winter holding spring captive is also seen in the tale that the Cailleach imprisons the beautiful young goddess Bride inside of a mountain over the winter. At Bride’s release, spring comes to the world. “Cailleach Bhéara” by Max Dashu The Cailleach Bheur (‘genteel old lady’) of Scotland is a blue-faced hag of winter, who ages in reverse–from old and ugly (symbolizing winter) to young and lovely (spring). The Cailleach Bhéirre of Ireland represents sovereignty over the land and is ancestress of many peoples. Like Dame Ragnell of the Arthurian legends, She appears to the hero as an hideous old woman seeking love; if She gets it, She becomes a beautiful young woman. In legends dating from Christian times, She is sometimes said to be a nun, perhaps linked to the meaning of Her name. Alternate names: Cailleach Bheur, Cailleach Uragaig, Cailleach Beinne Bric (‘Old Woman of the Speckled Mountain’), Cailleach Mor (‘Great Old Woman’) (Scotland); Cailleach Bheirre, Cailleach Bolus, Cailleach Corca Duibhe (Ireland); Caillagh ny Groamagh, Caillagh ny Gueshag (Isle of Man).” [2] Joelle. Joelle’s Sacred Grove, “Mala Laith“. Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Mala Laith”. Took, Thalia. A-Muse-ing Grace Gallery, “The Cailleach, Celtic Crone Goddess of Winter“. Forest, Danu. Danuforest.co.uk, “The Cailleach, the old woman of winter“. Mysterious Britain & Ireland, “The Caillech Bheur“. PaganPages.org, “Cailleach“. Metropolitan Films Ltd. Thisisirishfilm.ie, “An Cailleach Bheara (2007)“. Shee-Eire.com, “Cailleach Beara“. Sparrow. Journey Around the Wheel of Life, “Cailleach“. The Suppressed History Archives, “Crone“. Wikipedia, “Cailleach“. WolfWinds, Silver. Order of the White Moon, “Cailleach“. Tags: birds, bride, brighid, cailleach, caillech bheur, celtic mythology, ceridwen, cerridwen, cerridwyn, community, crone, deer, forgiveness, goddess, gray, hag, horses, justice, kerridwyn, knowledge, mala laith, maturity, peace, pigs, unity, wisdom Goddess Antheia “The Oracle” by Howard David Johnson “Antheia’s themes are promises, friendship, trust, honor, community, love and relationships. Her symbols are gold colored items, honey and myrrh. Since 800 B.C.E. Antheia has been known as the Greek Goddess of marriage, companionship and good council. These attributes manifested themselves in a triple Goddess figure who flowered, sought a mate and reached perfection. Today we ask Her to bless our rites by flowering within our souls so we too can obtain spiritual perfection. In ancient Greece, Arretophoria – the festival of trust and friendship, was held sometime between June and July. Each year, two maidens were given a special honey-laden diet and clothed in golden robes to take on a special trust. They delivered a package untouched to a secret place in a local temple, then spent the year in community service, never peeking inside the box. This sounds like a fun activity for couples or friends. Each person picks out a trust gift for the other and gives it to them to put in a special place. The entire time the gift remains there unopened, Antheia will energize it and bless the people in that relationship, so don’t get tempted to peek. Believe me, when I say it’s worth the wait. At the end of the year, don something gold, burn myrrh to create a sacred space in which Antheia dwells and open the gifts, explaining the significance of the items. I guarantee it’s a present you’ll never forget.” “Charites: Spring” by iizzard “Antheia was one of the Charites, or Graces, of Greek mythology and ‘was the Goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths worn at festivals and parties.’ Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek word anthos, meaning flower, and She was depicted on vases as an attendant of Aphrodite with other Charites. She was known to the Romans as Anthea. Her center of worship was on the island of Crete. Antheia is also the Greek name of Ancient Sozopolis in modern Bulgaria, and another Antheia was a village which was later adopted into Patras around 1000 BC. “: : A n t h e i a : :” by Lil-kokoro Antheia was the Goddess of Vegetation, Lowlands, Marshlands, Gardens, Blossoms, the Budding Earth, and Human Love.” [1] Wikipedia, “Antheia“. Her Cyclopedia, “The Goddess Antheia“. Theoi Greek Mythology, “Kharites“. Tags: antheia, aphrodite, blossoms, charites, community, companionship, council, earth, flowers, friendship, gardens, goddess, gold colored items, graces, greek mythology, honey, honor, love, lowlands, marriage, marshlands, myrrh, promises, relationships, trust, vegetation Goddess Awehai This entry is near and dear to me as the Essence or Spirit of this Goddess lives here in my neck of the woods in Upstate New York. “Sky Woman” by Marcine Quenzer “Awehai’s themes are harvest, tradition, growth, longevity and community. Her symbols are turtles and seeds. In Iroquois tradition, this Goddess reigns in the sky and the heavens, watching diligently over family life and the community. Mythology tells us that Awehai grabbed seeds and animals as She fell from heaven, landing on the back of a great turtle. From here, Awehai scattered the seeds and freed the animals, resulting in a growing, fertile earth filled with beauty. The Strawberry Festival was instituted by the Iroquois Indians in Tonawanda, New York. Here, people come to the longhouse to enjoy ritual dancing, chanting and the sounding of turtle-shell rattles, a symbol of Awehai. So, if you know any type of traditional ritual dances or chants consider enacting them outside as you scatter greass seed to the wind. This will nanifest Awehai’s productiviity in your life and in the earth. Another custom is simpler and a lot of fun: consuming starwberries in as many forms as possible. In Iroquois tradition, these pave the road to heaven and eating them ensures you a long life and Awehai’s fertility. Share strawberries witha loved on to inspire Awehai’s community-oriented energy in your home and consume fresh strawberries to harvest Her powers for personal growth.” “Sky Woman” by Mark Kawesoton Light Today’s information comes from Patricia Monaghan on the Iroquois Goddess Ataensic (Sky-Woman). She writes, “once, said the Iroquois and their neighbors, there was no land, just a vast blue lake upon which water birds floated with otters, turtles, and other seadwelling creatures. High above in a heavenly land was the celestial society into which Ataensic was born. Her father died before Her birth – the first death in the universe. He was placed on a burial scaffold where the Girl used to go to converse with his spirit. He instructed Her, when She was grown, to travel a long distance through heaven to Earth-Holding Chief, Her intended mate. Through tempests and danger She traveled; the chief tested Her with torture, but She endured and returned to Her own village, pregnant by him. Her daughter, Gusts-of-Wind, was born, but Her people threw Ataensic down to the earth-lake. (Or was it an accident? – the myths differ.) She fell and fell through the blue air, Her daughter returning to Ataensic’s womb. Below, a loon looking into the water saw a figure rising from the depths. He mentioned this curiosity to the bittern. The puzzled birds slowly realized that Ataensic was falling, not rising from the lake. They had never known that their lake had a bottom, which thus had formed a mirror. The knowledge came just in time, for to save the falling woman, the birds and animals had to build land from the lake mud. Otter and turtle tried, and muskrat and finally Ketq Skwayne (‘Grandmother Toad’) dove deep and returned exhausted, spitting up some of the magical earth just before she died. “Sky Woman” by Bruce King (Oneida) The earth landed on the turtle’s back and instantly began to grow. By the time Ataensic reached the water – Her fall broken by the water birds’ wings – there was enough land for Her to rest on as Gusts-of-Wind was reborn (Some stories say that She fell onto what is now a mountain near Oswego River Falls in New York). Gusts-of-Wind became pregnant and died giving birth to twins; from Her body Ataensic fashioned the sun and the moon, and that is the way the earth and its luminaries came into being” (p. 57 – 58). In another version I read, Her husband, Sky Chief, had a dream, and according to this, he took a young wife. It is said that in time this young wife was soon to become a mother from inhaling the breath of her husband, but this was unknown to him. That from this, he doubted her honesty to him, so much that it caused him so much distress in his mind, that he became ill from his jealousy. He had another dream which called for the Tree of Light to be uprooted creating a great hole in sky world. Into this hole he could push his young and unsuspecting wife. In olden times, dreams were held in high regard in everyday life, so much that destiny was controlled by dreams to a great degree. So, accordingly, in the morning he called his Wife to him. He had Her get Her burden basket and he began to fill it with nut tree roots and berry bushed and many other things. Then he had this Tree of Light uprooted. The opening made by uprooting the Tree allowed light to shine through the opening. Thus, today, comes the light of the Sun. “Sky Woman’s Story Painting” by Owisokon Lahache This chief managed to deceive his unsuspecting Wife to look down through the new opening. In so doing, while She was looking down, he pushed Her down into the opening. It is said that in his anger, he also cast down through the opening all man-beings, such as the Deer, the Wolf, the Bear, the Beaver, and all animals and growing things such as the sunflower and red willow. He transformed them into their forms and size as they now appear. And when his anger had cooled down, he had the Tree of Light replaced. The rest of the story is similar to Patricia Monaghan’s version except that it was muskrat who succeeded in retrieving the earth needed to grow land on turtle’s back before dying of exhaustion. At once, the Sky-Woman began to walk about this tiny earth, which by Her action began to grow in size. She even took handfuls of earth and cast it in all directions, which also caused it to continue to grow, until She could not see the boundary. Thus, this is how North America became to be known as Turtle Island.” [2] I included this video called The Iroquois, Pt. 1 – The Confederacy. In this video, Marion Miller of the Seneca Nation, who has continued the oral tradition as a story teller, tells the Iroquois creation story. Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Ataensic”. Red Jacket. marcinequenzer.com, “Creation Story“. Crystalinks.com, “Iroquois Nation“. Crystalinks.com, “Native American Myths of Creation Woman“. Her Cyclopedia, “Awehai“. Old and Sold, “Iroquoian Cosmogony“. Shenandoah, Johanne & Douglas M. George. Skywoman: Legends of the Iroquois. Yupanqui, Tika. Tika Yupanqui’s Machu Picchu site, “Iroquois Myths and Legends“. Tags: ataensic, ataentsic, athenesic, awehai, breath-of-wind, community, creation, creatrix, goddess, growth, gusts-of-wind, harvest, iroquois, longevity, mother, native american mythology, seeds, sky woman, skywoman, tradition, turtles Goddess Sulis “RiverGenesis” by Jonathon Earl Bowser “Sulis’s themes are water, healing, sun, blessings, wishes, community and offerings. Her symbols are water, wheat cakes and fire. The Celtic Goddess Sulis oversees all sacred wells and springs, which give healing and other blessings to those who pray at them. She also has associations with the sun, which explains the ever-burning fires in Her temples. One hundred miles outside of London, Sulis’s ancient natural springs lie as they did for over seven thousand years until they were discovered by the Romans, who used them for ritual, wish magic, socialization and healing. The Festival at Bath revels in this region’s history, especially Sulis’s hot springs, which continue to bring thousands of visitors here annually, few of whom know that the springs are ten thousand years old and part of Sulis’s spirit. To my mind this equates with enjoying time in a hot tub or sauna (perhaps you can take part of the day at a local spa). If a spa isn’t possible, let your bathroom get really steamy from a hot-water shower, then sit inside for awhile absorbing Sulis’s cleansing power into your pores. Release you tensions and dis-ease to Her. Maybe light a candle to represent Sulis’s presence with you, and meditate as you relax. Remember, the bathroom is one of the few places you can be assured of a private moment with the Goddess, so take advantage of it!” “Sulis” by Thalia Took “The Goddess of the hot springs at Bath, England (the only hot springs in Britain), Sulis’s name come from a root meaning ‘eye’ or ‘gap’, referring both to the spring from where half a million gallons of hot water still well up every day, as well as to Her powers as seeress. Her hot spring has been renowned for its healing powers since ancient times, and when the Romans arrived in Britain they built a bath complex around the spring, and named the place Aquae Sulis (‘the Waters of Sulis’). Pilgrims came from mainland Europe to bathe in the therapeutic waters, and references to Sulis are known from as far away as Germany. The Romans equated Sulis with their Minerva, and so She was known to them as Sulis Minerva–which is somewhat unusual, since the Romans generally used the native Celtic deity name after the Roman name. This is taken as an indication of Her importance and fame. Though famous for healing, Sulis could curse as well as cure, and in Bath many ‘curse tablets’ have been found, asking Her to punish people suspected of wrongdoing. She is shown here with one of the small offering-pans dedicated to Her by worshippers which were found at the site of Bath; they were usually inscribed ‘DSM’, short for the Latin Dea Sulis Minerva, ‘to the Goddess Sulis Minerva’. Her dress is the same milky greeny-grey as the water of the springs, and Her hair is the bright orange of the deposits left by the mineral-rich waters.” [1] “Sulis” by Hrana Janto According to Patricia Monaghan, “the ancient British Goddess of the healing waters had Her special shrine at the spa we call Bath, where Her power was strongest. Some scholars say that She was a solar divinity, deriving Her name from the word that means ‘sun’ and ‘eye’. This interpretation may account for the perpetual fires at Her shrines; in fact that Her springs were hot, rather than cold, is additional evidence in favor of considering Her a sun Goddess. She was honored into historic times; the Roman occupiers called Her Minerva Medica (‘healing Minerva’); occasionally She is called Sulivia. “Minerva” by Simon Vouet In statuary and bas-reliefs, She was shown as a matronly woman in heavy garments with a hat made of a bear’s head and Her foot resting on a fat little owl. In Bath and on the continent, She also appears in multiple form, as the tripartite Suliviae. The latter name is also used of the pan-Celtic divinity Brigid, suggesting a connection between these figures” (p. 286 – 287). Sulis’s name is also seen as Suliviae, Sulivia, Sul, Sulei, and Sulla. Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Sul”. Took, Thalia. The Obscure Goddess Online Directory, “Sulis“. Billington, S. The Concept of the Goddess, “Sulis: Healer and Avenger” (p. 33 – 36). English, Mary. Homeopathy and Astrology to help you Heal with Mary L. English, “The Homeopathic Proving of Aquae-Sulis“. Goddessrealm.com, “Sulis“. Goddessschool.com, “Sulis Minerva“. Nemeton, The Sacred Grove: Home of the Celtic gods, “Sulis“. Roman-Britain.org, “AQUAE SVLIS“. Shaw, Judith. Feminism and Religion, “Sulis, Celtic Sun Goddess of Healing and Prophesy“. Spiritblogger’s Blog, “Spirit Message of the Day – Recharge, Refresh, Renew – THE GODDESS SULIS“. Wikipedia, “Sulis“. Tags: aquae sulis, bath, blessings, brighid, brigid, britain, celtic mythology, community, fire, goddess, healing, minerva, mother, offerings, spa, sul, sulei, sulis, sulivia, suliviae, sulla, sun, water, wheat cakes, wishes Goddess Po Ino Nogar “Dewi Sri 2” by Much “Po Ino Nogar’s themes are growth, harvest, fertility and community. Her symbols are clouds, saltwater, rain and soil. This agricultural Goddess’s name means simply ‘great one’ in Cambodia, likely due to the fact that She brings fertility to the earth and its people. It is Her duty to protect the fields and harvests. Epics sometimes symbolize Po Ino Nogar as a gentle rain, because local myths claim that She was born in the clouds and still controls the water’s generative gift to the land and to our souls. Members of the royal family in Camobida used to plow the fields today to appease Po Ino Nogar and ensure fertility to the crops. For modern purposes, think about tasks that need to be be ‘plowed’ through – paperwork that’s been neglected, communicating with someone with a difficult demeanor, a project put on terminal hold. As you till the metamorphic soils of that situation, you also encourage Po Ino Nogar’s growth-oriented energy in them. If your spirit or humor has seemed a bit ‘dry’ lately, try this Po Ino Nogar visualization: Close you eyes and imagine a blue-white cloud overhead with the face of a smiling woman formed by it creases. As you look , the cloud releases small light-drops that pour softly over you. As they do, your skin absorbs the light, as well as this Goddess’s energy. Continue the visualization until you feel filled to overflowing.” “Among the Charms of Cambodia, the world’s Goddess-ruler, creator of rice, was called Po Ino Nogar (“Great One, Mother of the Kingdom”). Born either from seafoam or from clouds, She had 97 husbands and 38 daughters. One of Her offspring was Po Bya Tikuh (“mouse queen”), a maleficent virgin Goddess; another was the Goddess of disease, Po Yan Dari, who lived in caves and grottoes to which worshipers would bring stones, asking for miraculous cures. Another Charm healing Goddess was the divine priestess Pajau Tan, said to be a thirtyish woman who lived on earth as a healer but who was finally sent to live in the moon because She kept raising all the dead; there She still lives, providing flowers to newly dead to ease their transformation” (Monaghan, p. 255). Monaghan, Patricia. The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, “Po Ino Nogar”. Davis, Kent. Devata.org, “Rice Goddesses of Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand“. Rongsit, Vipp. Content4reprint.com, “Thai Rice and Ceremony of Rice Goddess“. Tate, Karen. Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, “Temples of Angkor” (p. 211) Wikipedia, “Phosop“. Tags: agriculture, cambodia, clouds, community, fertility, goddess, growth, harvest, khmer people, po bya tikuh, po ino nogar, po yan dari, rain, saltwater, soil	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1444
__label__cc	0.701988	0.298012	Tag Archive: hebrew “The Angel of Healing” by Aeoliah “The Holy Spirit’s themes are communication, mediation, universal law, blessings, change, health, purity and truth. Her symbols are light. In both Gnostic and Hebrew writings, the Holy Spirit is a female force. In New Age vernacular, She is seen as white light energy. The Holy Spirt pours upon people to communicate divine missives, including messages of well-being and blessing. She also mediates on our behalf with other facets of the divine, using order, universal law, and wisdom as a force for positive change. Shavuot, or The Feast of Weeks, in Jewish tradition centers around the return of Moses from Mount Sinai bearing the Ten Commandments and the promises made by God for a home ‘flowing with milk and honey.’ Consequently, suitable edibles today include dairy products and anything sweetened with honey to internalize divine promises for your life. To know what those promises might be, ask the Holy Spirit to show you: pray and meditate. Visualize a a sparkling white light pouring over you. Write down any insights, images or phrases that come during this time. Don’t be surprised if you get words in a different language. This is glossolalia (tongues) and may reveal secrets about past lives through the languages represented. If you don’t have time for meditation, at least burn a white candle today to honor the Holy Spirit and Her spiritual gifts.” “Sophia” by Hrana Janto “Among the most ancient Jews and Christians it was understood that the Holy Spirit is female. The earliest gospel, Mark, states that the Holy Spirit descended like a dove. The word for ‘dove’ in Greek is peristera, and it carries the feminine gender. The Hebrew word ruach meaning ‘Spirit’ is also feminine. The Hebrew phrase Ruach Elohim is used throughout the Old Testament for ‘Spirit of God.’ [1] This entry is going to be a little different from the others. There was SO MUCH information on the internet to go through that it was impossible (for the purpose of this blog) to sum it up to put together and write an entry. Instead, I included this very informative video explaining how the original biblical languages (Hebrew and Aramaic) described the Holy Spirit as being female and how today’s popular and widely accepted mistranslated versions of the Bible hide and deny the Truth. As usual, I’ve also included some suggested links (some of which include their own suggested links to aid your own research). Goddessgift.com, “Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom“. The Holy Spirit-Shekinah The Holy Spirit-Shekinah, “Sophia: Lost Goddess of Wisdom“. The Holy Spirit-Shekinah, “The Holy Spirit: the Christian Goddess“. Hurtak, J.J. The Pistis Sophia, “The Holy Spirit: The Feminine Aspect of the Godhead“. The Nazarene Way, “Wisdom of the Goddess“. Romanoff, Katia. Esoteric Theological Seminary, “Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom & God’s Wife“. Spiralotus. The Order of the White Moon, “Shekenah“. Spriritbride.org, “Is There a Christian Goddess?” Spiritual Adventures, “Sophia, Holy Spirit, Wisdom of God“. (This blog has a huge “Lists of Interest” and “Sites I Recommend”…happy researching!) Wikipedia, “Sophia (wisdom)“. Tags: blessings, change, christianity, communication, gnostic, health, hebrew, holy spirit, light, mediation, purity, shekinah, sophia, truth, universal law Goddess Lilith “Lilith” by zummerfish “Lilith’s themes are freedom, courage, playfulness, passion, pleasure and sexuality. Her symbol is an apple. In Hebrew legends, Lilith is a dangerously beautiful Goddess who refused to subordinate Herself to Adam, feeling She was created as an equal. This makes Lilith perhaps the first true liberationist, and She resolves to make modern life similarly equal for all people. She also boldly instructs us to stand up for what we believe in, unbridled and courageous, no matter the cost. According to legend, Lilith was turned away from paradise for Her ‘crime’, and She has been depicted in art as a demon. Leap Year occurs every four years to keep our calendar in sync with the solar year. Customarily, women break loose today, asking men out or proposing marriage. In today’s liberal society, actions like this aren’t overly surprising. Nonetheless, Lilith charges us with the duty of ever seeking after equality, not just for women but for all of earth’s people. If there’s someone you’ve wronged with presupposition or prejudice, make amends today. To internalize Lilith’s fairness, bravery, or exuberant lustiness, eat an apple today. Quite literally take a bite out of life, and enjoy some daring activity to its fullest without fear or guilt. Like Lilith, you are the master of your destiny!” Lilith is depicted on a Babylonian clay plaque from 2000-1600 BCE as beautiful winged woman with bird’s feet and claws. “Lilith dates back to the bird-serpent Goddess of antiquity. In Sumeria, She was portrayed as having both the wings and claws of a bird. Some reliefs show Her lower half as being the body of a serpent or She is shown as a serpent with the head and breasts of a woman. There are many possibilities as to Her early Goddess names: Belil-ili, Belili, Lillake, or Ninlil. She was a Goddess of agriculture as well as the “hand of Inanna”. She was said to dwell in the trunk of the Huluppu-tree: ‘Then a serpent who could not be charmed Made its nest in the roots of the huluppu-tree. The Anzu-bird set his young in the branches of the tree. And the dark maid Lilith built her home in the trunk.’ Lilith also helped women in childbirth and nursed infants. Recent translations of Her name are varied and range from ‘screech owl’, lilah which is darkness or night in Hebrew, to Lilitu which is said to be the Babylonian word for ‘evil night-spirit.’ Her symbols are the crossroad, owl, serpent, tree, and dark moon. The Hebrew Lilith “Lilith” by Notvitruvian When Jewish patriarchy overtook the land, they made Lilith evil in order to stop the people from worshipping Her. In Kabbalistic tradition, Lilith was made the first wife of Adam. Some sources say that Lilith was Adam’s spirit wife. Other sources claim that Lilith was fashioned from the earth at either the same time as Adam or before Adam. This made Lilith Adam’s equal. As Adam’s equal, Lilith refused to lie on Her back while Adam took the dominant position in sex (missionary style). Lilith believed that they should make love as equals (the beast with two backs). Adam was adamantly against this, wanting his wife to be submissive, and Lilith left the Garden of Eden. God then supposedly gave Adam Eve, a docile woman of the flesh. Eventually, Lilith was portrayed as the foe of Eve. It was Lilith in serpent form who seduced Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge. No doubt the first wife wanted the second wife to see what a jerk Adam was and that Lilith also wanted Eve to open her eyes and come into the fulness of herself, her womanhood. When both Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam endured a period of celibacy as penance. During this time, Lilith was said to have caused nocturnal emissions from Adam (night hag). She collected his semen and impregnated Herself with it, giving birth to demons. These children of Lilith were called Lilin or Lilim, ‘night-demons.’ The Goddess who once protected mothers and infants was now portrayed as a demoness who caused abortions and murdered infants in their sleep. The Jewish people believed that when a baby laughed or smiled in its sleep, it was being entertained by Lilith, and the parents would quickly bop the infant on the nose to distract the infant from the Goddess. It was also believed that She came to children in the form of an owl and drank their blood. Despite the Jewish attempts to erradicate this ancient Goddess, She can still be found in Her truer, albeit symbolic, form in their literature: ‘During a protracted and dangerous confinement take earth from the crossroads, write upon it the five first verses of this Psalm, and lay it upon the abdomen of the parturient; allow it to remain until the birth is accomplished, but no longer. . .’ (The Complete Edition of the 6th and 7th Books of Moses: or Moses’ Magical Spirit Art). Lilith and Sexuality “Lilith’s Lair” by LourdesLaVeau Lilith, as ‘hand of Inanna,’ would gather men from the streets and lead them to the temples of the sacred prostitutes. Later, as the first wife of Adam, She refused to lie beneath Adam and be his submissive. Instead She chose to have sex with “evil” spirits and beget more demons. (Who could blame Her?) Lilith was comfortable with Her sexuality, something that frightened the Jewish patriarch who believed that merely having sex for pleasure was a form of abortion. In recent times, Lilith has morphed into the succubus and incubus or the night hag who sits on the chests of men and causes them to have perverse dreams so that they will ejaculate. She could take the form of either a man or a woman: ‘. . .who appear to mankind, to men in the likeness of women, and to women in the likeness of men, and with men they lie by night and by day.’ Men fear Lilith because She knows the power of Her sexuality and She knows that Her sexuality has power over men. Like Circe, She turns men into beasts or pigs by opening the doorways to their deep and primal sexual desires. Such desires are forbidden by the Jewish and Christian cults. Women, who are like the submissive Eve, also fear Lilith because of the power She holds. But, as has been shown in the myth of the garden of Eden, Lilith is not an enemy of womankind. She holds the ancient fruit of knowledge, the secrets of our deepest sexual nature, and She is willing to offer this fruit to us. Lilith as Vampire “Bewitched” by Picked-Jester As the mother of all demons, Lilith has recently been linked to either giving birth to the first vampires or being the first vampire. This fallacy is linked to past Jewish superstitions in that Lilith drank the blood of children while in the form of an owl. In a Rabbinical frenzy to drive Lilith’s worshippers away from the Goddess, they made up lies such as this which contradicted Her earlier functions as a protectress and helper of birthing mothers and infants.” [1] “Lilith” by Valerhon For your listening enjoyment, I had to add this song into this entry that I came across a few days ago. This song is amazing, written by a talented artist named Zefora, and dedicated to Lilith. Yetter, Eliza. Sacred Spiral, “Lilith As Goddess” (When you click on the link, it will bring you to her page where she has posted her citations/selected bibliography.) All Things yOni, “Lilith“ Enkidu, Leah. Shrine, “Return of the Holy Prostitute“. Jewish and Christian Literature, “Lilith“ Kocharyan, Lilith. Lilith’s World, “Goddess Lilith“ Leitch, Aaron. Aaron Leitch Homepage, “Lilith“ Monaghan, Patricia. Goddesses in World Culture, “Lilith: The Primordial Female“. (55 – 67). Saradwyn. Order of the White Moon, “Lilith“. Took, Thalia. A-Musing-Grace Gallery, “Lilith“ Wikipedia, “Lilith“ Tags: apple, courage, crossroads, dark goddess, freedom, goddess, hebrew, inanna, lilit, lilith, lilu, moon, owls, passion, playfulness, pleasure, semitic mythology, sexuality, snakes, sumarian, trees Goddess Asherah “Lioness” by Karl Bang “Asherah’s themes are kindness, love, divination and foresight. Her symbols are lions, lilies, a tree or a pole. Asherah, a Canaanite Goddess of moral strength, offers to lend support and insight when we are faced with inequality or overwhelming odds. In art, She is often depicted simply as an upright post supporting the temple. This is a fitting representation, since Her name means ‘straight’. Traditionally, Asherah is a mother figure often invoked at planting time, embodying a kind of benevolent, fertile energy that can reinforce just efforts and good intentions. Beyond this She is also an oracular Goddess, specifically for predicting the future. In Israel, Ta’anit Ester commemorates Esther‘s strength and compassion in pleading with King Ahasuerus to save her people held captive in Persia. It is a time of prayer when one looks to the divine to instill similar positive attributes within us. For help in this quest, we turn to Asherah with this simple prayer: ‘Lady, make me an instrument of kindness and mercy Let my words be gentle and true My actions motivated by insight and fairness Where there is prejudice Let me share your vision Where there is uncertainty Where there is disharmony Let me show love Plant a tree today to remember Asherah, and tend it often. As you do, you tend attributes in your heart.” “Ashera” by Hrana Janto Asherah was the great Canaanite Mother Goddess since about the 13th century BCE and is arguably the most important Goddess in the Canaanite pantheon. Like Anat, She is a was well-documented Goddess of the northwest Semitic pantheon. We have long known Asherah from the immense library of thirteenth-century cuneiform tablets found in Syria at the site of Ugarit. She is the Shekinah, consort and beloved of Yahweh; God-the-Mother. Her sacred pillars or poles once stood right beside Yahweh’s altar, embracing it. Moses and Aaron both carried one of these Asherah “poles” as a sacred staff of power. The Children of Israel were once dramatically healed simply by gazing at the staff with serpents suspended from it. This symbol, the snakes* and the staff, has become the modern universal symbol for doctors and healers. According to the 13th century cuneiform tablets found in Syria at the site of Ugarit, She is the wife of El in Ugaritic mythology, known as Elat (the feminine form of El; compare Allat); a fertility Goddess and the wooden cult symbol that represented Her. As El’s first wife, She was said to have birthed 70 sons. All gods of the myths were born to Asherah and El, with the exception of Baʿal, whose parentage is uncertain. El had 2 wives but it was Asherah alone who nursed the newly born gods. Seeing as She had birthed so many children it is only normal that She was worshipped as the true fertility Goddess, force of life and nature. She manifests in domestic herds and flocks, in groves of trees and in the nurturing waters. Her powers and her presence were invoked not only during planting time but also during childbirth. She is the Goddess who is also called Athirau-Yammi: “She Who Walks on (or in) the Sea.” She was the chief Goddess of Tyre in the 15th century BCE, and bore the appellation Qudshu, “holiness.” “Asherah” by Sandra M. Stanton “She was often portrayed with a lion or ibex on either side as in the bottom register of the Canaanite ritual stand from Taanach, late 10th century BCE in the tree trunk on the right. A Tree of Life with 3 pairs of branches, an ibex and a lion on either side can be seen two registers above. Later, after patriarchal systems prevailed, Her name came to mean grove or trees. As a Goddess worshipped in Her own right in the ancient Hebrew religion, She was associated with all that was symbolized by the Tree of Life. In making the first Menorah, the ancient Hebrews were instructed to have three branches coming out of either side of a central stand with an almond shaped cup and a flower at the end of each one, resembling an almond tree. Among the trees considered to be the Tree of Life, the almond tree was highly regarded as it was the first to flower in spring, even before leafing out. The progression from Asherah, to the Tree of Life to the Menorah is revealed in the 4th century CE Roman gold glass base in the tree branches depicting a Menorah with a lion on either side. Asherah is wearing a necklace from Deir el-Balah, 14th-13th century BCE with an ibex-headed pendant from Ashod, 4th century BCE.” [1] Food for Thought – “The Hebrew name used for God in Genesis is Elohim, a derivative of El. Many people find the passage in Genesis that says, “Let us make humankind in our own image” a little confusing. If there is only one true God, then who was he talking to? Some have said he was talking to the Holy Spirit, another aspect of Elohim, which is also seen as a male type or at least, as a non-gender. Others have asserted that he was talking to Eloah, the female aspect of Elohim. The world Elohim is actually plural, so that implies there is more than one “Being” involved in Elohim. Since there were only two kinds of people created, male and female, one could probably assume that man was made in the El’s image while woman was made in Eloah’s image. Thus, we were all, male and female, made in Elohim’s image, encompassing both the male and female aspect of God.” [2] “Asherah” by Sami Edelstein “There are more than 40 references to Asherah in the Old Testament. Asherah appears as a Goddess by the side of Baʿal, whose consort She evidently became, at least among the Canaanites of the south. We remember that, according to the Bible itself, in the ninth century BCE Asherah was officially worshipped in Israel; Her cult was matronized by Jezebel who, supposedly, imported it from her native Phoenician homeland. However, most biblical references to the name point obviously to some cult object of wood, which might be cut down and burned, possibly the Goddesses’ image (1 Kings 15:13, 2 King 21:7). Her prophets are mentioned (1 Kings 18:19), and the vessels used in Her service referred to (2 Kings 23:4). The existence of numerous symbols, in each of which the Goddess was believed to be immanent, led to the creation of numerous forms of Her person, which were described as Asherim. In reference to the Tree of Life of which She is associated with, an object called an Asherah was a sacred pole carved out of the terebinth tree and placed next to the altars of Yahweh, thus worshipping both the mother and the father at once. Her own specific places of worship were on hilltops, (called “High Places” in the Bible), and in forests and groves. Through Her association with trees, She was seen as the part of Elohim who brought fertility, new growth, successful crops and watched over nature. Along with life in nature, She was also seen as the Bread of Life for the Hebrew people. Hebrew women would make special loaves of Asherah bread, which would be blessed, then ritually eaten. Some scholars say this is the precursor of the communion wafer. These practices and the cult objects themselves were utterly detestible to faithful worshippers of Yahweh (1 Kings 15:13).” [3] “After Abraham was called by Yahweh and recruited some followers, he had a difficult time cutting out Asherah and the other regional gods. However, as time progressed in the Old Testament, the temptation to worship other gods lessened, while the blatant worship of Asherah along side of Yahweh continued. It was difficult for the religious leaders in early Judaism to suppress Asherah because of a universally desire to recognize a nurturing, compassionate, Mother Goddess. “Come with Me” by HandmaidenPhi Hebrew women had a closer attachment to Her, seeing as how they did not play much of a role in their religion. Of course, there were some great women such as Esther, Deborah, and Rebecca, but women playing a part in early Judaism was definitely the exception instead of the rule. In archaeological sites that date back to Biblical times, small statues of Asherah are found in what would likely be bedrooms and kitchen areas. It is widely accepted that although the religious leaders frowned on the worship of Asherah, the common people, mainly women, would still have small figures of Asherah in their households. This should not come as a surprise, since women of that time had a considerably lower status than they do today, and since there were no priestesses for them to go to for support, they had to find their own faith. What could Yahweh know about childbirth without epidurals? How could they pray to him for relief of menstrual pain in a time before Ibuprofen? What did Yahweh know about being beaten by a husband or raped by a neighbor? There were no Battered Women’s Shelters then, or anti depressants for post-partum depression. It would not make sense for them to pray to a male god for female issues. I’m sure that if there was ever a society that had only one Deity and it was a Goddess, the men might feel strange praying to a Goddess to cure him of impotence or premature ejaculation. It would appear that Hebrew men slightly understood this dilemma that their wives and sisters faced and they were more lenient on Asherah worship than they were of Ba’al worship or other gods. An interesting, but little known fact about the Temple of Jerusalem is that an Asherah statue was housed there for two-thirds of the time that the Temple stood during Biblical times. Apparently, one of the wives of Solomon brought it with her when she married him, and he allowed it to remain in the Temple for quite some time; and he was viewed as the wisest man who ever lived! Also, when Elijah wanted to prove the power of God or Yahweh, he called out the 450 priests of Ba’al and the 400 priestesses of Asherah. Although he was there to disprove both Ba’al and Asherah, he focused on the priests of Ba’al and derided them during their prayers, eventually killing them all, but he does nothing to the priestesses of Asherah.” [4] “Other traces in the Bible either angrily acknowledge Her worship as Goddess (II Kings 14.13, for instance, where another royal lady is involved), or else demote Her from Goddess to a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar (II Kings 13.6, 17.16; Deuteronomy 16.21 and more). The authors of the biblical text attack Asherah relentlessly. They praise Asa, king of Judah (911-870 BCE), for removing his mother Ma’acah from official duties after “she had an abominable image made for Asherah” (I Kings 15.13, II Chronicles 15.6). They condemn the long-reigning Manas’seh of Judah (698-642) for doing “what was evil in the sight of the Lord” in “making an Asherah” (II Kings 21.7). And they trumpet the achievements of Josiah (639-609), including the destruction of offerings made to Asherah at the temple in Jerusalem, the abolition of “the Asherah from the house of the Lord,” and demolition of a shrine there in which women “did weaving for Asherah” (II Kings 23). These passages reflect both the popularity of Asherah’s worship and efforts to stamp out Her cult during in the Iron Age. But it was only in the succeeding Persian period, after the fall of Judah in 586 BCE and the exile in Babylon, that Asherah virtually disappeared. “Tree of Life” by Willow Arlenea Ultimately, the campaign to eliminate the Goddess has failed. “Asherah was buried long ago by the Establishment,” declares respected biblical scholar William H. Dever. “Now, archaeology has excavated her.” Dever is quite certain that he knows who the Asherah of ancient Israel and of the biblical texts is–She is the wife or consort of Yahweh, the one god of Israel. Many of his colleagues would agree.” [5] Pantheon: Canaanite Sphere of Influence: Sex and love Preferred Colors: Green, red Animals Associated With: Lions, serpents Best Day to Work With: Friday Strongest Around: Ostara Associated Planet: Venus [6] *A word about snakes: The Serpent, though a frightening symbol because of its ability to bring death, stood also for ancient wisdom and immortality. (Note that it hung out in the Tree of Knowledge and preached a doctrine of immortality, “ye shall NOT surely die.”) Many early societies revered the snake and used it to symbolize different ideas. In much the same way, today we revere the Lion or other ferocious big-cats even though they’re dangerous. An early American symbol used the snake as a statement of power, a warning, saying, “Don’t tread on me!” Amenahem, Bathia.The Mother Goddess: As She Appears in Cultures Around the World, “Judaism“. Archeology, The Lost Goddess of Israel. A-Muse-ing Grace Gallery, “Athirat“. The Esoteric Seminary, “The Hebrew Goddess“. The Goddess in World Mythology, “Asherah“. Order of the White Moon, “Asherah by Medussa“. PaganNews.com, “Asherah“. Monaghan, Patricia. Goddesses in World Culture, “Asherah: Hidden Goddess of the Bible“. (p. 39 – 54). Tags: akkadian, allat, anu, asherah, ashratu, ashratum, ashtoreth, ashtouth, athirat, baal, baʿal, canaanite, christianity, el, elat, eloah, elohim, goddess, hebrew, inanna, ishtar, Judaism, kabbalah, lilies, lions, mother, pole, queen of heaven, semitic mythology, sumarian, tree of life, trees, ugaritic Binah "Goddess of the Black Moon V1NC" by Roland Burbon “Binah’s themes are peace, cooperation, unity and spirituality. Her symbols are bees, lilies and lead. In Cabalistic tradition, Binah embodies spiritual discernment, love, stability and awareness. As the third sephirah of the Tree of Life, Binah becomes a Divine Mother, guiding Her children toward attainment and comprehension. Her name literally translates as ‘the understanding’, which gives form and function to all other aspects of life. Bees are sacred to Her (as divine messengers), as are lilies (white in purity), and lead (which gives us a foothold in reality). Binah’s energy was present in 1934 when Brotherhood Day began to bring people of diverse faiths together in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect. The thrust of the day is universal brotherhood, accenting our likenesses instead of our differences. So, take time today to learn more about other faiths and foster an open exchange of ideas. Perhaps visit a church or temple and observe quietly, seeing the the Goddess is there too. To promote strong spiritual roots in your own life, as well as the understanding to nature those roots, try this spell: Take a piece of lead (maybe from a pencil) and hold it in your dominant hand, saying: ‘Binah, walk with me; understanding impart Every day be part of my Heart.’ Write this down and put the incantation in your shoe so that Binah will walk with you wherever you may be.” Binah is the Intuitive Self, Understanding, the Foundation of primordial Wisdom. Understanding is the essence of Binah. Wisdom suggests complete and infinite knowledge while Understanding suggests the ability to grasp the unfoldment or use of this wisdom. She is Organization and Form as well as Female Potency. Her Yetziratic title is ‘The Sanctifying Intelligence’ (that which makes consecrates and makes holy) and the three other names for Her signify Binah’s triple aspect – Marah, the Great Sea, The Mother of all Living from which all life has its beginnings (and which is the root for Mary, Mother of all living); Aimah, the Fertile or Light Mother and Ama, the Dark Mother and Crone; all aspects of the Goddess from innocent Persephone to terrifying Cailleache belong to Binah. She is the archetypal womb from which all life sprang into existence. The Hebrew God-name for Binah is Elohim which is a feminine beginning ending with a male pronoun – in other words – the Gods and Goddesses to whom She gives birth. Binah is the Supernal Mother – the Feminine Aspect of God. She is compared to other Goddesses like Shakti, Maya, Anima Mundi and the black Madonna. Keter, Kochma & Binah form a balanced triad: The infinite realized self (Keter), Spiritual will and purpose (Kochma) and Spiritual love and awareness (Binah). Binah is associated with the color black. She is not depicted as a dark woman per se, but the characteristics suggest it. Binah is one of the levels in the Tree of Life system. Each accomplished point is characterized by a color and aspects. Near the top of this tree is a dark sphere called Binah. It is the Third Path. The next two paths are called Kochma (the Second Path) and Keter (the First Path). Binah is linked to the Supernal Mother and the womb. Binah is black because She is veiled, conceiling the brillance that lies underneath. Binah is a disciplind teacher, Her form is Saturn and demands patience and consistency from Her student. She can answer all questions, even those that are most difficult. Binah works slowly because She is powerful. It takes much discipline and understanding to manage the full power found on path of Binah. Because of the special connection to Saturn, many assume Binah is masculine but in essence is feminine. Even with all the demands Binah makes on those in the soul-cultivation process of the Kabbalah, Binah is a dotting mother, nurturing and given to help those influenced by Her to grow and mature strongly. The virtue of Binah is Silence. Silence invites receptivity. If we are silent, we can listen and so learn, but if we are talking the gates of entrance to the mind are closed. It is the resistance and receptivity of Binah which are Her chief powers and what She uses to destroy Her enemies. As one learns and achieves a level of wisdom, the wisdom must be shared not hoarded. Binah is the mark of the scientific and rational thinking. Other characteristics include rational intelligence which is displayed and cultivated in philosophers, scientists and writers. (Matomah Alesha, The First Book of the Black Goddess, p. 249). In Binah you come to understand that true understanding stems from knowing what you must struggle through and what you must let go of to grow. It is here that you learn the whys of the necessity of restrictions, of forms, and of limitations operating within your life. It is here that you touch and understand the mysteries of birth and death for what they really are, the transition of the immortal soul to a higher plane, purpose, and being. [1][2] BINAH – THE GREAT MOTHER God Name – Elohim Archangel – Tzafkiel Virtue – Silence Vice – Avarice Titles – Ama, Aima, Mara, The Sanctifying Intelligence Magickal Image – Mature Woman, Vagina Gods – Saturn, Kronos, Frigg, Kali, Cailleache, Demeter Planet – Saturn Stone – Pearl Animal – Dove, Raven Herbs – Cypress, Lily Poppy Fragrance – Myrrh Experience – the Sorrow of Life which must be transcended Symbols – Vulva, Chalice and Veil CROWN CHAKRA MEDITATION We can invoke Binah to help balance our Crown chakra. Here is a simple Binah Meditation in which Binah’s energy can help you restore inner balance, mental clarity and a connection to spirit back into your life. To invoke the powerful and positive characteristics of Binah, gather together several violet-energy gemstones. Light a violet or white candle (to symbolize the violet or white energy of the Crown chakra) and ask to receive Binah’s energy and abundance. Ask Her to enter your Crown chakra. When you do this, you may feel a tingling sensation – this is normal and just means you have connected with this chakra. Ask Binah to heal your chakra and help restore balance. Sit in this space for a while and when you feel ready, thank Binah and bring your conscious mind back to the room you are in. Hopefully you will feel restored, energized and in balance after this simple meditation. [3] For some further in-depth and detailed information on Binah, please visit Isis Book & Gift, Qabalisitc Magic Article Lesson 10: Binah and WisdomsDoor/Reality Creator Books, Binah: The Tree of Life. Also check out The Internet Sacred Text Archieve, The Kabbalah and Whispering Worlds, The Tree Of Life: The Kabbalah. Tags: anima mundi, bees, black madonna, cabalistic tradition, cailleache, chalice, cooperation, crown chakra, cypress, demeter, divine mother, doves, elohim, feminine spirituality, frigg, hebrew, hebrew mysticism, kabbalah, kali, lead, lilies, maya, myrrh, peace, pearl, qabalah, ravens, saturn, sephirah, shakti, silence, spirituality, tree of life, tzafkiel, unity, veil, wisdom, womb The Earthly Mother "The Body of Light Mantra" by Mitchell Gibson “The Earthly Mother’s themes are are nature and Earth awareness. Her symbols are trees. This Essene Goddess embodies nature and teaches us how to live in harmony with the earth. The Essenes portray her with the elements personified as four angels (earth, air, fire, water) plus two companions named Joy and Life, all helping the Earthly Mother in her work. What a magical blend to bless and energize this first month! In the spirit of making every day Earth Day, why not launch the new year by giving something back to the earth in the tradition of the Israelites? Today (the fifteenth day of Shebat on the Hebrew calendar), plant a tree to rejuvenate the land. If you wish, name the tree after a deceased loved one, as the Israelites do. According to lore, doing so brings that person peace in the afterlife. If your locations or finances do not allow for tree plantings, just water a tree. By so doing you symbolically fees the whole earth. Sit down for a moment or two afterward and meditate. Feel the rich soil beneath you and feel how it nourishes and enriches all living things, including you. Finally, as you are walking around, pick up any stone that catches your eye. Put is in your pocket to carry a piece of the Earthly Mother with you as a gentle reminder that the earth is a sacred, living thing that blesses us daily.” The Essenes, an ancient Jewish sect of which Jesus was reportedly a member, viewed life as a garden from which we harvest the knowledge and understanding that we need to reach the Eternal Garden. “See the eternal garden of wonders, and at its center the Tree of Life, mystery of mysteries, growing everlasting branches for eternal planting, to sink their roots into the stream of life from an eternal source.” Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Four. “Likewise YOU, if you would grow in knowledge and understanding…must go into your garden, where you will be close to all the forces of nature and of the universe – to the sum total of things.” Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Two. [1] The Essenes illustrated their relationship with the spiritual and natural forces with the symbol called the Tree of Life. Each root and branch of the Tree represents a different force or power. The roots represent earthly forces or powers – the Earthly Mother, and Her Angels of Sun, Water, Air, Earth, Life, and Joy. The seven branches represent the cosmic powers – the Heavenly Father, and His Angels of Power, Love, Wisdom, Eternal Life, Creative Work, and Peace. These are the Essene Angels of the visible and invisible worlds. The seven communions of the Earthly Mother refer to our relationship with the physical domain. One of their major benefits is the gradual strengthening and revitalizing of every organ of the body through the conscious direction of the earthly forces. The seven communions of the Heavenly Father are dedicated to the spiritual powers that govern humankind’s higher evolution. A major benefit is the revitalizing of the mind and all the superior forces within the individual. Contact with the angelic forces is the essence of the daily life of those who practice the Essene way. [2] “One of the most striking highlights of Essene Gospel of Peace is Jesus Christ’s teaching of the Earthly Mother. Its not only startling for traditional Christians who inherited present day Christian doctrines that came through filtering out of almost all gnostic teachings, thus stripped off most of the mystical, esoteric teachings of Christ; but as its clear, even the people of his time was also puzzled when Christ was teaching using the term, ‘Earthly Mother’ to the audience (I wonder what was the original Aramaic/Hebrew term for Earthly Mother). In the beginning of the Essene Gospel of Peace, Book One, as Christ was among many sick and maimed, the opening passage records what proceeded from his blessed lips: ‘Happy are you that you hunger for the truth, for I will satisfy you with the bread of wisdom. Happy are you, that you knock, for I will open to you the door of life. Happy are you, that you would cast off the power of Satan, for I will lead you into the Kingdom of our Mother’s angels, where the power of Satan cannot enter.’ And they asked him in amazement: ‘Who is our Mother and which Her angels? And where is Her Kingdom?’ Jesus replies: ‘Your Mother is in you, and you in Her.’ Now in strong Patriarchal Jewish tradition, Divine was not addressed in Feminine term. Its in the East such as ancient Indian tradition Divine Manifestation is naturally addressed as Divine Mother or simply Mother with capital M. From the response of the audience its clear that they were not familiar with the usage of the enigmatic term, Earthly Mother.” Please click here to continue reading this amazing piece entitled, “Earthly Mother: The Extra-Ordinary Teaching of Divine Feminine in Essene Gospel” by Sadiq Alam. 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__label__wiki	0.506936	0.506936	JapanRestaurant.net JapanRestaurant.net is an English-Japanese restaurant search portal for foreign residents in Japan, foreign visitors and internationally minded Japanese. Please click here to start searching. TREND, VOICE J-select ヘッダーボタン DINING, EVENT, 未分類 Summer Breeze at the BEER GARDEN 2019 DINING, TOPIC Wagyu: The Best of Beef DINING, TREND Sanchoku: Farm-fresh Food Straight to the Table Miyakojima: Beaches, Diving, Marine Sports CULTURE, DINING, TRAVEL Ise Jingu and its surroundings BYO-The Joy of Bringing Your Own Take a Click to Zozotown CULTURE, DINING, FEATURE, TOPIC SPORTS, VOICE Domination, Racing for Second, Nobody likes a winner. CULTURE, VOICE Modernizing tradition Formula 1 Exclusive – Kamui Kobayashi – Japan’s best yet? 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__label__cc	0.722719	0.277281	Enchanting nature full of native plants envelopes the mansion, with an exclusive path that leads to the stream: the ideal place to take a quick dip in the summer in the cool and crisp waters of the Cervo. For lovers of hiking and sport, BÜRSCH offers its certified ski instructors and the best Alpine guides for fun and safe excursions. Go fly fishing at just a few meters from the mansion, or go horseback riding down the horse trail that connects the Aosta Valley with the surrounding valleys for unbridled adventure. Some of the more extreme activities possible are Eliski, Canyoning, Downhill, Paragliding and Bungee Jumping. The BÜRSCH whose name means "the house" in the ancient Walser dialect, is a borderland that has always been a crossroads of cultures and traditions. The intense exchanges with the populations of the Lys and Sesia Valleys directed towards the Oropa Sanctuary and the pastures, promoted the transhumance of herds and small local trade: malga cheeses, chestnut flour, beech leaves and the typical scapin, were the first traded products. With the industrial revolution came the first modern "factories" developed here, thanks to the driving force of the streams and to the ability of the local populations in carding and weaving of precious wools: after the Via Francigena, the so-called Via della Lana (Wool Path) also constitutes a historical path made of art and industrial culture. Among the many destinations in the area the village of Rosazza, about 4 km from the mansion, which will win you over with the fascinating mysteries of Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, while Piè di Cavallo, the last town before reaching the Aosta Valley will guide you down forest paths down uncontaminated landscapes, between fairy-tale and reality, up to the magical Pianlin waterfalls. Also, Candelo with its Ricetto Medievale and the renowned nursery gardening event "Candelo in fiore (Candelo in Bloom)" is an event not to be missed. The pride of the territory is the splendid Panoramica Zegna, aesthetic and ecstatic path through the luxuriant nature of the territory, and the well-known City of Art founded by Michelangelo Pistoletto as a point of encounter between pure creativity and industrial design. FOR INFO AND RESERVATION info@labursch.com CAMPIGLIA CERVO (BI) 45° 39’ 30.6504’’ N 8° 0’ 7.8876’’ E	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1452
__label__wiki	0.727031	0.727031	The Book as Devotional Object: Kate Zambreno’s “Appendix Project” By Ruby Brunton And without a mother you have only, I think: a reader. — Kate Zambreno LIKE AN INFLAMED APPENDIX, the dull, ongoing, and incessant pain of grief feels unnecessary, excessive, like something that needs to be cut out of you, but unlike an appendix, it cannot be surgically removed. The bleating pain of grief feels too much to contain: it wants to spill over life’s contents, to be shared, to be halved, to be understood. As grief has no timeline, no end date, there is also no end to the spillover it can produce. Kate Zambreno’s 2017 Book of Mutter was the culmination of a 13-year project to write about the death of her mother. A mixture of memoir, essay, and poetry, the form of the work mimicked the way grief presents — a collection of research and personal recollections, a scrapbook of grief. The fusion of autobiography and research is not new to Zambreno’s work: her 2012 book Heroines she created similarly, and it certainly didn’t release all the thoughts on grief she had. Written in part to house the excess from Book of Mutter, as well as to have something to present at talks where she was asked to read from the previous title when she didn’t wish to, Zambreno’s new work, Appendix Project: Talks and Essays, is a revelatory project of excavation and understanding. As a sequel of sorts to Book of Mutter, Appendix Project extends much of the investigation into grief writing and other kinds of artistic exploration while following a more traditional essay form. The 11 talks are gathered as appendices, labeled A to K, and mixed into Zambreno’s research are events in her current life, predominantly her entrance into motherhood, and themes of aging; creative friendships, such as with writer Sofia Samatar; and her writing and teaching life. Where previously we had a book of “Mutter,” the German for mother, or, a barely audible vocal expression, a pattern of speech that can only be discerned in places, we now have “Project,” a word that lends itself much more to an academic or structured piece of writing. Like the gloss to an old English poem, the appendices provide further insight into Zambreno’s motivations. Appendix Project is dedicated to her daughter, Leonora or Leo, born since Book of Mutter’s publication, and for the returning Zambreno reader, this recalls a particularly poignant line in the previous text: “I had a desire to get pregnant when my mother was dying.” An absence that needed to be filled, there is now a new life to replace the lost one. Zambreno had filled her books with lost mothers before, her 2011 novel Green Girl was a fictionalized account of the desire for escape after a mother’s death, but this is her first experience of motherhood from the other side of the fence. Now charged with the care for another human, she feels her own mortality more strongly. The recklessness and self-destructive nature of Green Girl’s tragic heroine gives way to a need to be present and supportive for this defenseless new human. Leo is as much a part of this project as the mother was of the last, which provides a certain hope within the pain. And yet there is the bittersweetness of having a child after the loss of a parent — Leo will never meet her grandmother. The second appendix, “Appendix B: Withholding,” begins with a meditation on photography and ghosts, and ends with Zambreno reading her daughter Goodnight Moon. Roland Barthes, a fellow writer of mourning who Zambreno discusses at length, wrote also of photography and its ability to produce such intense emotions in the still-living in Camera Lucida. He is particularly fixated on an image of his mother, age five. Zambreno muses: “The ghostliness of such an image — the photographed young have their whole lives ahead of them, and also, they are already dead.” I was recently asked for an image of my mother, as she is being awarded a posthumous prize. I realized I have none; they are all in storage in New Zealand, where I grew up. The organizer was incredulous that I didn’t even have one, however any time I want to be in the presence of ghosts I can Google image search her name. My first poetry chapbook was written after an image of her I had never seen in her lifetime, but found later on Google. “I am interested in thinking of mourning as a period that is potentially rich and verdant. I am also interested in thinking of writing as following after ghosts.” Leo can only access her grandmother through the stories and images of others, as I could only access mine. In Goodnight Moon, Zambreno notices the grandmother bunny is absent until she mysteriously appears, which prompts Zambreno to wonder if this grandmother is too a ghost. Leo’s presence allows a levity and playfulness to what can be emotionally taxing investigations into mourning. “Appendix F: Accumulations” contains a catalog of all the art in front of which Zambreno has breastfed. In a rare moment of humor, Zambreno recalls nursing in front of the Harry Dodge video at the New Museum’s gender show: “I figured if there were so many penises in that room it was okay to have my breast peek out through my leather jacket.” This catalog also provides an account of how adverse society remains to the simple and natural act of feeding our young. “Appendix G: Stills/Faces” begins at Zambreno’s 40th birthday, the one where women are traditionally supposed to enter middle age and be of a lot less interest to society, most especially if they have yet to achieve some pre-approved milestone. Zambreno comforts herself in Marguerite Duras’s Wikipedia page, “I read that she wrote Hiroshima mon Amour and The Ravishing of Lol Stein in her mid-forties, and this makes me feel calmer.” It makes me feel calmer to read this also. Preoccupations with age and productivity mirror the obsessive nature of grief, and there are many artists Zambreno returns to for reassurance throughout her work. The state of grief is not only a state of pain, but also of loneliness. The griever is not only experiencing a loss, but often it feels as though she is alone in the world in this emotion. Grief skews perception, eschews logic. A reminder that others know what you’re experiencing is often an antidote to this loneliness. Hence Zambreno’s return to Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, and the other grief artists scattered through Book of Mutter. Bourgeois’s Cells’s red threads, referencing her mother’s tapestries, weave their way through the remainder of “Appendix F.” “Appendix A: Variations of Morning,” begins with painter On Kawara’s Today series in which he painted nearly 3,000 paintings only displaying the day’s date, reminding his public of his continued existence. A process of obsession, much like gathering the thoughts of loss as in Barthes’s Mourning Diary, which closes the appendix, or Zambreno’s own Mutter. The book “exists as a devotional object,” she writes. The devotion is to preserve the ghost from fading into obscurity, even if such a project matters little to anyone but the griever. Zambreno makes it matter by imbuing as much craft and philosophical thought into her scrapbooks as needed to create a literary work beyond the obsession. In an interview in Brooklyn Rail, Zambreno talks of the unwillingness to let go of the dead loved one: “I published Book of Mutter because I needed it to be finished and because I think it was done, formally, and if I continued to fuck with it because of a desire to still meditate upon its themes I was going to overdo it.” The tone of the book, she feels, is wearied — detached but obsessive. If so, then the tone of Appendix Project is much more measured, the obsessions taking a more explainable form: they link together as topics of talks, rather than random thoughts plaguing the brain. While Appendix Project, like much of Zambreno’s work, defies a swift categorization, it is perhaps best digested as intended, as a gloss, or extension, of her Book of Mutter. “If I understand it right, this is what I’m doing here — performing a copy within a copy, a strange and uncertain essay about a strange or uncertain essay,” Zambreno writes. Like Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, I read both of Zambreno’s devotional objects in a state of grief myself. I cannot imagine the experience of reading these works without that understanding of sentiment, although I would hope the experience would deepen the empathy for what it feels like to lose someone infinitely important to you. While there are moments of such painful intensity in Zambreno’s grief works that I couldn’t continue reading without first pausing to expel my obsessive, pained thoughts on a page, the work of reading them certainly made me feel less lonely. Ruby Brunton is a nomadic poet, performer, and writer from New Zealand. Appendix Project Talks and Essays By Kate Zambreno MEMOIR & ESSAY Please Be Nice to Me: Navigating History, Mystery, and Desire in Chris Kraus’s “After Kathy Acker” By Anna Ioanes Unsolved Problems: Rachel Kushner on Marguerite Duras By Rachel Kushner Shake Forth a Nest: Feminist Ekphrasis and the Example of Louise Bourgeois By B. K. 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__label__cc	0.507229	0.492771	Characterization of adsorbed water layers on Y2O3-doped ZrO2 S. Raz, K. Sasaki, J. Maier, I. Riess Chemisorption and physisorption of water from a humid atmosphere, on the oxide Y2O3-doped ZrO2 (YSZ), were investigated by conductivity measurements and thermogravimetry (TG), in the temperature range 35-700°C. Ionic conduction is indicated to take place in a thin layer of water adsorbed on the oxide. That ionic conduction is most probably proton conduction. At T < 600°C, it can exceed the oxygen ion conduction within the YSZ bulk when the oxide is made of fine powder. The electrical conductivity measurements of YSZ fine powder in humid atmosphere are analyzed in terms of water coverage, defect formation and proton mobility in the water layers. Further analysis of the water coverage is done using TG measurements. The enthalpies of defect formation and migration are determined. Results of preliminary conduction measurements of Al2O3 fine powder in a humid atmosphere reveal considerable similarities to those of YSZ. Solid State Ionics yttria-stabilized zirconia Ionic conduction thermogravimetry Thermogravimetric analysis Chemisorption oxygen ions Raz, S., Sasaki, K., Maier, J., & Riess, I. (2001). Characterization of adsorbed water layers on Y2O3-doped ZrO2. Solid State Ionics, 143(2), 181-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2738(01)00826-8 Characterization of adsorbed water layers on Y2O3-doped ZrO2. / Raz, S.; Sasaki, K.; Maier, J.; Riess, I. In: Solid State Ionics, Vol. 143, No. 2, 02.06.2001, p. 181-204. Raz, S, Sasaki, K, Maier, J & Riess, I 2001, 'Characterization of adsorbed water layers on Y2O3-doped ZrO2', Solid State Ionics, vol. 143, no. 2, pp. 181-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2738(01)00826-8 Raz S, Sasaki K, Maier J, Riess I. Characterization of adsorbed water layers on Y2O3-doped ZrO2. 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__label__wiki	0.502151	0.502151	Attack on JNU students reminded me of 26/11 terror attacks: Maharashtra CM Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Monday condemned JNU violence and said the mob attack reminded him of "26/11 terror attacks". "Students are feeling unsafe...I don't want to politicise the matter. But the faces behind the mask needs to be revealed," Thackeray added. 6th January 2020 \| 04:26 PM (IST) Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday compared JNU campus violence to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Condemning the attack on students on JNU campus, Uddhav Thackeray said, "When I saw the news of JNU attack on TV, it reminded me of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack." The Maharashtra CM criticised the JNU attackers who were masked and armed with rods, sticks and asked: "why did the attackers wear burka over their faces?". "Masked attackers at JNU are cowards, their identity should be revealed," said Uddhav Thackeray. Uddhav Thackeray also assured that the students in Maharashtra are absolutely safe. "Students are feeling unsafe in this country. But the students in Maharashtra are safe. I will not let anything like this happen in my state," CM Thackeray told reporters in Mumbai. "If Delhi Police fail to find out perpetrators of the attack, then they will also be in the dock," he said. Uddhav Thackeray drew the parallel between the JNU violence and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack a day after a masked mob armed with sticks and rods attacked students and teachers and damaged property on the campus. Over 30 people, including JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh, were injured as chaos reigned on the campus for nearly two hours. Eyewitnesses alleged that the attackers entered the premises when a meeting was being held by JNU Teachers' Association over the issue of violence on the campus, and assaulted students and professors. They also barged into three hostels. Video footage aired by some TV channels showed a group of men, who were brandishing hockey sticks and rods, moving around a building. The Left-controlled JNUSU and the RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) blamed each other for the incident. jnu violence 26/11 attack Uddhav Thackeray On JNU Mob attacks Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pak; India condemns 10 infants die within month in hospital in Rajasthan's Bundi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1464
__label__wiki	0.751575	0.751575	Alles-in-één oplossing Maatvoeringstool Laser scanning on the go (2 of 3) Verken Laser Scanning On The Go Laser scanning on the go Chapter 2: Concentrating on scanning rails Concentrating on scanning rails Through a collaborative partnership, Prisma Van Steenis was the first 3D specialist in the Netherlands that produced a 3D scan with the Pegasus:Backpack at the rail tracks of Pernis Rotterdam, Netherlands. Leica Geosystems was approached by Prisma Van Steenis in November 2015 to help with this challenging project. The project came about as it was commissioned by the government for a rail contractor to firstly verify the principles of procurement and then to assess what materials, such as ballasts, sleepers and rails, were present. Prisma Van Steenis were commissioned to carry out the rail project. The project scope entailed the scanning of the position and height of the rail tracks because the contractor was looking to renew his contract and was keen to impose the new alignment of the railway track. Before any measurements could be taken, there was an initial analysis of the project interfaces and overlaps, and the risks carried out with the scan data and the 360-degree shots. The area that was scanned was a yard with numerous tracks and switches, containing 1.5 kilometres of industrial freight, which was in full use by several carriers and companies. The complete 3D scan will be used for reverse engineering, to help with lay-plans, ballast volumes and profiles. The captured 3D data can be used to build a reliable design of a new railway track layout, delivered as a 3D model, and can also be used for BIM and quantity determination. Explore next chapter: Mobility in a difficult space Story: Laser scanning on the go Chapter 3: Mobility in a difficult space	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1465
__label__cc	0.731076	0.268924	NASA Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman From the Series STEM Trailblazer Bios Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5 · Have you ever looked up at the twinkling stars in the night sky? Nancy Grace Roman looked up and never looked back. Roman was fascinated with the stars ever since her mother showed her the constellations. She read every book on astronomy she could find and even started her own neighborhood astronomy club for girls. But many of the people around her didn’t think science was the right field for a woman. Academic advisers in high school and even college tried to dissuade Roman from pursuing astronomy. She worked hard to eventually become NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and, ultimately, the “Mother of Hubble.” Learn how Roman’s passion for astronomy and her tireless work on the Hubble Space Telescope project helped scientists capture breathtaking images of deep space. STEM, STEM: Interdisciplinary Lerner Publications ™, LernerClassroom Reading Counts! Level Text Type Narrative Nonfiction JNF007120, JNF051010, JNF007090 520.92 [B] Full-color illustrations ATOS Reading Level Accelerated Reader® Quiz Accelerated Reader® Points Author/Illustrator biography, Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Glossary words bolded within text, Index, Sidebars, Source notes, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, Timeline, and eSource Author: Heather E. Schwartz When Heather E. Schwartz was thirteen years old, she tracked down several lead orphans from the 1983 movie "Annie" and interviewed them by phone. As an adult, she realized she could apply those same early instincts to a career as a journalist and writer. She is the author of more than 35 nonfiction children's titles, published by Lerner Publishing Group, Capstone Press, Teacher Created Materials, Lucent Books, and Tangerine Press, a Scholastic imprint. She has written articles for National Geographic Kids and Discovery Girls. In addition, she developed the content for KidsGetArthritisToo.org, the juvenile section of the Arthritis Foundation's website. Other credits in the children's market include articles for Teen, Girls' Life, and All About You magazines. Additionally, Ms. Schwartz is a former editor at Bridal Guide magazine, co-author of Bridal Guide Magazine's How to Choose the Perfect Wedding Gown (Warner, 2004), and contributor to The Takeout Cookbook (Knock Knock 2007). Lerner eSource™ offers free digital teaching and learning resources, including Common Core State Standards (CCSS) teaching guides. These guides, created by classroom teachers, offer short lessons and writing exercises that give students specific instruction and practice using Common Core skills and strategies. Lerner eSource also provides additional resources including online activities, downloadable/printable graphic organizers, and additional educational materials that would also support Common Core instruction. Download, share, pin, print, and save as many of these free resources as you like! STEM Trailblazer Bios Read about the life stories and significant contributions of some of today’s most accomplished figures in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Narrative nonfiction text explores key details from each person’s life, often… View available downloads → STEM Trailblazer Bios — eBook Set STEM Trailblazer Bios — Library Bound Set STEM Trailblazer Bios — Paperback Set STEM Trailblazer Bios Spring 2018 New Releases — Library Bound Set	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1467
__label__cc	0.668263	0.331737	Home / Collections Catalog / Reynolds, Mackenzie Oral History Reynolds, Mackenzie Oral History Span Dates: 2017 Bulk Dates: Volume: 1 interview and 1 transcript This oral history interview is a part of the NYC Trans Oral History Project. The interview discusses their involvement in faith communities, beginning with the United Methodist Church in Spokane Washington. They explain how they have simultaneously explored their faith and gender identity throughout their life. Hist/Bio Note Mackenzie Reynolds was born in Spokane, Washington in 1979. Mackenzie Reynolds is a Jewish leader and advocates for the trans community in New York City. In 2017, they were a rabbinic student in Brooklyn, New York. Beginning with their membership in United Methodist Church in Spokane, Washington, Reynolds has explored their faith and gender identity simultaneously. Queer two-step dancing at Appel Ranch and Karen's Queer Country Events; Sylvia Rivera Law Project; and queer bars including Wild Rose, The Gutter, and Twin Peaks have also facilitated their exploration of gender identity. Reynolds advocates for the integration of class issues into the NYC trans community. A description and full recording of the interview is available online. http://oralhistory.nypl.org/interviews/mackenzie-reynolds-fncr9i The interview can be listened to online at the New York Public Library’s website. Jewish (ethnic, Reformed, Reconstructionist, Orthodox) \| Methodist (UMC, United Methodist Church) \| Transgender activism \| Washington	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1478
__label__wiki	0.581696	0.581696	Live as Free People Proclaim liberty throughout the land America’s Founders Biblical Ethics and Policies Short Hot Topics How to Become a Citizen in Earliest Virginia Posted on November 17, 2016 by james malcolm Dateline: 1666 and 1667. One had to take certain steps to become a citizen, including belonging to the right religion and having a trade. A denizen is an alien who is admitted to the right of citizenship. They had to take the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Supremacy. Also, back then and in Old Europe, the Catholic kings of Spain and France and the pope were eager to stamp out Protestantism. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was a free-for-all between Catholics and Protestants and devastated Europe, particularly Germany. So the Protestant colonists were scared to allow Catholics into their fragile start-up. Today Catholics and Protestants no longer fight each other, fortunately. Can anyone guess which religion is the biggest threat? Hint: click on submit. Modernized transcription begins: Whereas John Petit, a Frenchman by birth but an ancient inhabitant of the Country whereof his marriage abode, children, many services and approved fidelity have justly made him reputed a member, have petitioned that he might be admitted into a stricter tie of obedience to his sacred Majesty by being made denizen of this Country—It is by the Governor, Council and Burgesses of this grand Assembly granted and ordered that the said John Petit be made a free denizen of this his Majesty’s Country of Virginia and thereby vested and indulged in all such freedoms, liberties, privileges and immunities whatsoever as any denizen is capable of by law or by his Majesty’s gracious declaration or anything therefrom justly inferred, provided the said Petit take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance to his Majesty before his Majesty’s Commissioners in the Court of that County where he inhabits. Whereas John Martin, a Dane by birth and a boatwright by trade, has long lived in this Country and truly and honestly behaved himself towards his Majesty and all his liege people and having full resolutions to make his constant abode in this Country, has petitioned he might be admitted a denizen, It is by the Governor, Council and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly granted and ordered that the said John Martin be made a free denizen of this Country of Virginia and thereby vested and indulged with all such freedoms, liberties, privileges, and immunities whatsoever as any denizen is capable of by law or by his Majesty’s gracious declaration or anything therefrom justly inferred provided the said John Martin take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance to his Majesty before his Majesty’s Commissioners in the Court of that County where he inhabits. Whereas Andrew Herbert, a Dutchman by birth, long since removed himself, his family, and Estate from Monadas into this Country and here purchased a plantation and thereupon lived and resolved here to live and die his Majesty’s faithful subject, has petitioned he might be admitted a denizen of this Country—It is by the Governor, Council, and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly, granted and Ordered that the said Andrew Herbert be made a free denizen of this Country etc. ut in Aliis. Whereas William Martin, a Dutchman by birth, long since removed himself, his family and estate from Delaware Bay into this Country and here purchased a plantation and has since lived in this Country and truly and honestly behaved himself towards his Majesty and liege people and having full resolution to live and die in this Country, has petitioned he might be admitted a denizen of this Country. It is ordered by etc. Whereas Peter Godson a Frenchman by birth hath long since lived in this Country a servant and a freeman and of the reformed Religion and truly and honestly behaved himself towards his Majesty and his laws and here purchased Land and married an English woman and has here three children by her and having full resolution to make his constant abode in this Country and to live and die his Majesty’s subject has petitioned he might be admitted a Denizen thereof—It is Ordered by etc. Whereas John de Young, by birth a Dutchman, has long since lived in this Country a freeman and servant and of the Reformed Religion and truly and faithfully demeaned [right demeanor or behavior] himself towards his Majesty and laws and here purchased land and married an English woman and had many children by her and having full resolution to make his constant abode in this Country and to live and die his Majesty’s faithful subject, has petitioned he might be admitted a denizen thereof—It is by the Governor, Council, and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly granted and ordered that the said John De Young be made a free denizen, ut in Aliis, etc. Whereas Cornelius Noel has long lived in this Country servant and freeman and of the Reformed Religion and taken up land with a full resolution to make his constant abode in this Country and to demean [live in right demeanor or behavior] himself as a true and faithful servant towards his Majesty and his liege people, has petitioned he might be admitted a denizen of this Country—It is by the Governor, Council, and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly granted and ordered that the said Cornelius Noel be made a free denizen ut in Aliis etc. Whereas Bertrain, a servant alien born, has long lived in this County servant and freeman and of the Reformed Religion, who has a full resolution to make his abode and to demean [live in right demeanor, behave himself] himself as his Majesty’s true and faithful subject has petitioned that he might be admitted a denizen of this Country—It is ordered by the Governor, Council and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly and granted that the said Bertrain, servant, be made a free denizen of this his Majesty’s Country of Virginia and thereby vested and indulged with freedoms, liberties, privileges, and immunities whatsoever any denizen is capable of by law or his Majesty’s gracious declaration or anything therefrom justly inferred provided the said servant take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to his Majesty before his Majesty’s Commanders in the Court of that County where he inhabits. Transcription ends. Those examples show at least five steps to becoming a citizen. (1) They applied to become citizens; (2) They were productive in farming or a trade; (3) They were law-abiding and of good character; (4) They were settled and married though some of the examples show single servants applying and getting citizenship; (5) They had to belong to the right religion (Protestantism). Then the fledgling government accepted them. On that last point, a hundred and twenty years later, the constitutional Founders decided to insert religious freedom in the First Amendment. The Sixth Amendment says that the test act (really aimed at Catholics) is not required to hold public office. Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1619-1776, vol. 2, (1659/60-1693), ed. H. R. MciLwaine, Richmond: 1914, pp. 41-42, 51. This entry was posted in Virginia History and tagged Citizenship in Virginia, Colonial citizenship, Getting citizenship by james malcolm. Bookmark the permalink. 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__label__wiki	0.576363	0.576363	inStyle Blinds on TV BBC DIY SOS DIY SOS THE BIG BUILD is the BBC’s flagship DIY programme that attracts around 6 million viewers in its prime time slot on BBC1. The show is presented by Nick Knowles and is an hour long in which it takes on really ambitious builds to help out truly deserving families. Travelling through Angellsey surveying roof blinds David Harrison the owner of inStyle received a call to action from Rebecca; the BBC researcher and after hearing all about the family’s situation he was delighted to be considered and accepted the invitation to help such a deserving cause. The brief was for white pleated roof and window blinds in the new build conservatory which was kindly donated by a local company. So InStyle Blinds we pulled out all the stops and installed the very latest perfect fit pleated roof and window blind system with a highly thermal and reactive fabric that helps to maintain a constant usable temperature in the conservatory all year round. InStyle were part of a team of suppliers that will feature in the BBC1 series DIY SOS THE BIG BUILD featuring a life changing transformation to the home of a family in Herefordshire. A great few days with amazing camaraderie from all of the trades on site pulling together to get the job done and on time. To our surprise we were invited back to work with the BBC team because they were so impressed with our fast turnaround! This time the build and program was taking place in the North East helping another incredible family. So watch out for the InStyle team on the BBC DIY SOS. The Instyle team helping out on our 6th project with Nick Knowles and the BBC DIY SOS team, supplying 30 blinds for 4 houses on their biggest project to date, walking with the wounded/war veterans 2015 and we loved every second being part of it. Sarah Beeny’s Double Your House For Half The Money The Popular Channel 4 programme – Double your House for Half the Money hosted by Sarah Beeny has proved to be a big hit with the viewing public, pulling in over 2 million viewers each week. Throughout the series Sarah falls on her many years of interior design and building experience to help family’s and couples alike to gain maximum potential and use able space from there extension and building plans typically resulting in homes that not only look fabulous in the end but can often end up with the added bonus of their original house value doubling in price from a fraction of the build cost. Russ and Jen Hunt from Sheffield, were one family who enlisted the advice of Sarah and the Channel 4 programme for their own grand plans to build a large 2 storey extension and it was at the end of the main structural build were inStyle came in. Russ contacted InStyle and explained that he was now at the interior dressing stage and was looking for roller blinds and Perfect Fit Pleated blinds -products that we manufacture and specialise in. Russ and Jen were looking for roller blinds in the main bedroom and a roller blind that had WOW factor going on and that’s exactly what they got with the fabric they choose – Baroque Raven. These 2 roller blinds were the main features of the bedroom, finishing off the room in style with an opulent and stunning look. We also installed a lively Hollywood Pink roller blind in their daughters bedroom and a bold multi striped roller blind in the toy room. In the main kitchen / seating area they had new aluminium Bi fold doors installed with a grey anthracite finish to the frame work and this is were we installed our best selling Perfect Fit Pleated blinds. The fabric chosen was Celeste grey to blend in perfectly with the Bi fold doors and the interior of the room. We matched all the framework and pleated rails in a powder coated finish for a professional and classy look. The end result throughout Russ and Jen’s home was a fabulous extension with a stunning interior finish and one to be proud of. It was a pleasure being approached to take part in the makeover process and being part of Sarah Beeny’s popular Channel 4 Programme.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1501
__label__wiki	0.680696	0.680696	International People Search Free International People Search Free Criminal Background Check International Phone Book International White Pages Israel/Palestine war crimes probe ‘momentous step forward’, says UN rights expert An independent UN human rights expert hailed on Tuesday, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to consider a formal criminal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Palestine as a “momentous step forward in the quest for accountability” in the five-decade-long Israeli occupation. UN News – Human Rights December 31, 2019 at 07:24AM Author chhaymam@chhaymam.comPosted on December 31, 2019 Categories Free International People Search, Free International Public Directory, Free People Finder, International People SearchTags Free International People Search, Free International Public Directory, Free People Finder, International People Search News by UN News – Law and Crime Prevention. 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__label__wiki	0.584951	0.584951	Muller has the right idea as Carolina takes Canadian honeymoon trip With three games and a handful of practices under his belt, Carolina Hurricanes head coach Kirk Muller has the right idea on how to turn the team around. A 3-2 loss on Saturday night to the Pittsburgh Penguins extended the team’s current losing streak to six games – five of which have been played at home. Thus, a four-game road trip may be the necessary tonic for the players and their new coaches, Muller and John MacLean, to get away and bond a little bit while continuing to work on turning lost scoring opportunities into goals and increased goal performances into wins. The art of coaching Understanding the personalities of his players and knowing what they have been through and are currently playing through is part of the challenge and art of coaching that Muller is drawing from in order to get them believing in one another. “It’s a little bit of a fragile team,” Muller said after practice late last week. To hear that statement truly reveals that it’s not just a change in X’s and O’s affecting the team at the moment. It is evident that he is dealing with the human element that is currenlty affecting these young professional athletes – a factor that many who follow the game forget about too easily. Believe it or not, many players are still dealing with the guilt of losing a coach (Paul Maurice) due to their poor performance. The team’s issues are compounded even more so now when considering the fact that they still haven’t gotten a win under Coach Kirk and that they have suffered three straight losses at home in front of their fans who are expecting things to turn around quicker rather than later. Muller is intelligent enough to understand that the statement he made regarding the team’s state of mind also goes along with acknowledging that the players’ success will also come about with the hard work and attitude that they are exhibiting at practice and in games with a different perspective regarding tactical issues. The process continues on the road “It’s there, they’re working hard, they just haven’t got any breaks, but I would say that without the puck, you know, we have to continue to work a bit on our defensive zone coverage in terms of containment,” Muller stated. “As far as other stuff, in fairness to the players, we’ve introduced some new stuff in the neutral zone and all that so it’s usually stuff you learn in training camp, and over four or five days. It’s not gonna’ happen overnight, but there’s some signs that it’s happening, it’s connecting, it will kick in eventually here, and we’ll get a little more consistent on it.” Looking forward to the team’s next four games – the Canadian tour – the Hurricanes will match up against the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, and Toronto Maple Leafs over a period of eight days. In terms of logging miles, it will not be an easy trip for the Hurricanes to make but one that should allow everyone to breathe a little easier – albeit in cooler, crisper Northern air. Canadian honeymoon Who knows? Since many players and coaches will being visiting closer to family and friends throughout the journey, the contact and much needed support and comfort from them may reenergize this youthful and soul-searching bunch. After the hard fought loss to the Penguins, Muller’s upbeat assessment of the team’s progress continued on the same track he started with since he took over last week. “We’re up-tempo, we’re aggressive, we’re pushing and that’s what we want – getting the trust with each other to play that way,” Muller said. “All in all, there were a lot of good things, a lot of good battles, the goaltending was great. Now we just gotta’ keep building – it’s a process right now.” The honeymoon period for Coach Kirk and the Hurricanes continues on and allows them all to get away to futher develop their formula for success. As a bonus, they get to meet the in-laws along the way. The Raleigh Sports Examiner on Facebook Follow the Raleigh Sports Examiner on Twitter @pksport The Raleigh Sports Examiner – Sports with a Local Twist Raleigh Sport Examiner – You Tube channel Get Carolina Hurricanes news from the Raleigh Sports Examiner daily: Just click the Subscribe button Carolina Hurricanes name Kirk Muller as head coach Hurricanes and Muller break streak with 5-3 win over Oilers Good Idea, Bad Idea – Holiday Edition How to save money on your honeymoon, Part 1 Top things to do on your honeymoon at Disney World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1510
__label__cc	0.574322	0.425678	October 14, 2016 · by lsbushey · in Comedy, Drama, Musical. · [This is a review from the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival. La La Land opens nationwide December 16th.] “I’m a phoenix rising from the ashes.” Perhaps the best way to describe the experience of watching La La Land is to borrow a blurb from Plato. “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” Pretentiousness aside in quoting a philosopher, the film is all of these things as well as a masterpiece, a vehicle playing the soundtracks of past musicals while driving off into an uncharted horizon of newness. Odes and homages come with a nod and a wink, somehow maintaining a marital loyalty to the genre’s history whilst courting the fresh young face in the crowd. The affair works because La La Land is such a smooth distillation of inner passion, conveying the love and loneliness of life through the kind of kaleidoscopic daydream you won’t want to be wrestled from. You’re looking at one of 2016’s finest. Part of what makes La La Land so digestible is how traditionally its story is told. For all of the on-screen theatrics and flair, we’re left to watch creative dreamers mightily struggle to succeed in a Los Angeles drenched by primary colors. Seas of deep blues, sunflower yellows, poppy field reds, Amazonian greens. The colors are elemental to the picture’s incremental steps forward in its themes of sadness and joy and love and renewal. We first identify these emotions echoed in the A Star is Born turn from Emma Stone as Mia. She’s equal parts college dropout, barista on the Warner Bros. lot, and failing actress for the last six years. Mia is on the brink of abandon. Then she stumbles into a jazz club, hears a sad man playing a sad tune, and what seems like a series of chance encounters is elevated to pure cinematic serendipity. That jazz pianist is Sebastian (Ryan Gosling). He’s a bit of a hermit, maybe because he likes it that way. Sebastian – a strict traditionalist – believes in the integrity of his dying art form. He explains this to Mia through frenzied opinion. She sits listening like “The Thinker,” fists under her jaw, clearly in disagreement but caught up in the moment. With these two characters, La La Land dwells somewhere in a place of coplanar existence, teetering between Sebastian’s forfeitable goals and Mia’s undefined ambitions. Each person is their own. That said, the film only works because of the obvious affection these two performers have for one another. Gosling’s years as a young Mouseketeer and his recent revelation for comedic timing make him a perfect addition as a man who makes love to his keys while making us laugh through his awkward love. Stone, once again, shows that her talent knows no limits as Mia runs the full gamut of expressible emotions. Both are deserving of being included in their respective Oscar fields. Whether or not that happens, they earned it. And so has director Damien Chazelle, who in only his third feature has made an almost frustratingly off the charts film. Its appeal is rampant yet still harnessed. There are only two faults to be found throughout. The first is a non-issue, specifically because its sporadic use of musical numbers makes it feel more like an actual film than a stage routine. But in one inexcusable shot, La La Land falls for my biggest movie pet peeve. While Mia and Sebastian walk the WB lot, there’s a front facing camera and distanced tracking shot edited together with clashing dialogue hardly ever close to matching the actual mouthed movements. But Chazelle’s film is about kind, honest, compassionate people who have imperfections and allow others to admire their peccadilloes. To critique La La Land is to dig for a needle in a haystack. Scour hard enough and long enough and you’ll find the flaw. Please don’t. Dive in, and if you’re pricked, I assure you the wound is bandaged almost immediately. La La Land will be one of the year’s most awarded films. From the performances to the set design. From Chazelle’s writing and directing to Linus Sandgren’s ambitious cinematography, especially a breathtaking 5 minute pseudo one-shot open, all edited to Tom Cross’ speed and pace. You’ll be whistling Justin Hurwitz’s original compositions and score on your way out. The movie plays right into the Academy’s recent voting trends by being about a Hollywood of then and now, but backs up all of its scope and ambition with grit and caliber. I urge you to see this film on the big screen, in a crowded theater, seated next to a person you want to share the experience with. And then revel in its final sequence. Chazelle chooses to end the film by telling us the entire story in mere minutes. It’s the happy version of life juxtaposed against an unavoidable reality, stylized in the manner of Jacques Demy’s classics while borrowing the warmth of An American in Paris. La La Land just hits so many nails on the head, not least of which is a longing to love. To walk that person you think you might like home even if it’s out of your way. To enjoy their company even if it’s awkward. And to be engrossed by the shared little moments and the nervous quietude without feeling silenced. It’s in all of these drawn out breaks where fondness can be found in possibility. La La Land builds a home there, its foundation steady, doors unlocked, shutters open, a well tread welcome mat and a doorbell broken from years of use. Invite yourself in. Make yourself comfortable. You won’t want to leave. “Here’s to the ones who dream.” Tags: Comedy, Damien Chazelle, Drama, Emma Stone, Film, Finn Wittrock, J.K. Simmons, John Legend, Justin Hurwitz, La La Land, Linus Sandgren, Movies, Musical, Review, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, Tom Cross, Tom Everett Scott ← Queen of Katwe (2016) The Accountant (2016) → 5 responses to “La La Land (2016)” Pingback: Always Shine (2016) \| Log's Line· Pingback: Call Me by Your Name (2017) \| Log's Line· Suzanne Speiss February 3, 2018 at 1:38 pm · · Reply → Pingback: When We First Met (2018) \| Log's Line· Pingback: Cold War (2018) \| Log's Line·	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1511
__label__wiki	0.738171	0.738171	Phages – the answer in the battle to beat superbugs? NHS ‘spends £120m clearing up mess of private IVF clinics’ Does vitamin D help cancer patients? Safer options to mesh surgery? Women surgery victims left behind Painkiller deaths Breast implants – the alarming truth about cancer Breast implants – the hidden cancer scandal Do legal cannabis products really work as well as over-the-counter Ibuprofen? The male infertility injustice: Why does the IVF industry still focus on women? Lois Rogers Journalist and Communicator You are here HomeInfertilityThe male infertility injustice: Why does the IVF industry still focus on women? By Lois Rogers September 10, 2018 Infertility Male fertility in the West is in rapid decline. Data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which regulates infertility treatment in the UK, shows the number of infertile men being treated has doubled in just four years. The biggest ever study of male fertility in the developed world revealed a 59.3 per cent reduction in average sperm count between 1973 and 2011. ‘We have a huge public health problem that, until now, was under the radar. Health authorities should be concerned,’ says Dr Hagai Levine, an expert in environmental health at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who led the study of declining male fertility which was published in the journal Human Reproduction Update. He says his findings should be treated as the ‘canary in the coalmine’, providing a warning for the future of male reproductive health. Poor lifestyle is a recognised factor. As Dr Channa Jayasena, a specialist in diabetes and hormone activity based at Hammersmith Hospital in London, explains: ‘Rising obesity and diabetes are major factors in increasing rates of male infertility. This is because they damage overall fitness. ‘But, inexplicably, many affected men are apparently fit and healthy. Heavily processed foods, environmental pollution and lack of exercise may also be contributors to the problem.’ Other researchers have suggested female hormones in the water supply — from the contraceptive pill — could also be a contributor. Last year the World Health Organisation warned that understanding of male infertility was ‘very low’ and the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK issued a call for research proposals. Whatever the cause, it’s now acknowledged that in more than half of cases, the problems faced by infertile couples originate with the man. And yet the infertility industry — which is led by gynaecologists focusing on female reproduction — continues largely to ignore them, even when it’s the male partner who is infertile. One man Good Health spoke to told us he and his wife spent £20,000 on failed IVF, only to later be told by the clinic that the problem lay not with her but with his sperm quality. ‘There is a lack of recognition that male factor infertility is a problem — and because of this, a lot of IVF is unnecessary,’ Dr Ashok Agarwal, a leading infertility specialist from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, U.S. told Good Health. Jonathan Ramsay, a urologist and male fertility expert at Imperial College London, concurs: ‘It is well known that men are just as likely as women to be the cause of a couple’s inability to conceive. ‘But infertility specialists are invariably gynaecologists who specialise in women’s reproductive health and don’t have a detailed understanding of how to pick up defects in sperm production. There are relatively few of us working in this area.’ Yet instead of a full health check and physical examination of their reproductive system, men are often simply asked to give a sperm sample which is then given only basic assessments to check for the number and movement (i.e. motility) of sperm — rather than, say, investigating why the sperm might be poor quality. As the Mail reported yesterday, the failure to diagnose or treat infertile men leads to the ‘absurd’ situation where women routinely have IVF when there is nothing wrong with their own fertility, according to Sheena Lewis, a professor of reproductive medicine at Queen’s University in Belfast and chair of the British Andrology Society. ‘We are giving an invasive procedure to a person who doesn’t need it in order to treat another person,’ she said. ‘That doesn’t happen in any other branch of medicine.’ Professor Lewis is campaigning for the use of sperm DNA testing and has published numerous studies showing poor sperm will not work in assisted fertility treatment. ‘I think the IVF industry is out of control — it wrecks marriages, leaves people very unhappy and mostly doesn’t work,’ adds Dr Sheryl Homa, formerly one of the world’s pioneering embryologists. She is now the scientific director at the private Andrology Solutions clinic in London, the only infertility centre in Britain focusing on men. ‘IVF is much worse than cosmetic surgery,’ she adds. ‘If, like IVF, your facelift or breast augmentation carried only a maximum 30 per cent chance of working, you wouldn’t do it.’ The experts’ concerns are borne out by the experience of Dan James, 32, a professional cellist from Dartford in Kent, and his wife Gemma, 35, also a cellist. They tried for two years for a baby before seeking help in April 2015. The couple, who’ve been together for ten years, were referred for NHS infertility treatment. Although he was quickly told the results of his sperm samples (which he had to do at home) showed he had very poor motility, meaning he would not be able to naturally father a child, ‘all the focus was on Gemma’, says Dan. ‘We went back to the GP but we were told I should just take multivitamins. He said that before we would be referred for IVF, my wife would still have to undergo at least six months of investigations even though I was the one with the identified fertility problem and she’d already had initial tests that showed she was OK. ‘They were going to put dye into her fallopian tubes to check they weren’t blocked, insert a balloon to check the uterus was all right and make her take clomid, a drug which makes women produce huge numbers of eggs, which in itself is unnatural. ‘Doctors have a tick box mentality that they have to focus on women,’ he adds. Yet when it comes to male fertility, a low-tech approach may actually be much more useful and vastly less stressful for couples. There is increasing interest in boosting sperm quality in subfertile men by giving them antioxidant dietary supplements. The theory is that low antioxidant levels mean sperm DNA may be damaged, affecting swimming capability and the ability of the sperm to break through and fertilise an egg. This summer, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Barcelona gave unprecedented space to the discussion of successful results from studies by Dr Agarwal and others, investigating dietary supplements and other treatments for sperm problems. Dr Agarwal, a world authority on identifying methods of repairing and boosting sperm quality, has already produced a number of studies indicating benefits from antioxidant supplements such as lycopene (see box, below). Dr Albert Salas-Huetos, of the Universitat Rovira i Virgil in Reus, Spain, presented a study on the benefits of diet and eating nuts on sperm health. This is what helped Dan and his wife Gemma finally conceive. Frustrated by the failure of the NHS to help, they used their savings to see Dr Homa, who referred Dan for nutritional therapy with a ‘sperm-boosting’ diet — a Mediterranean regimen with lots of vegetables and fruit, and a personally tailored menu of supplements devised by Melanie Brown, a London nutritionist specialising in improving fertility. Melanie says three out of four of the subfertile men she treats go on to experience greatly improved sperm quality. ‘Demand for this treatment has rocketed,’ she says. ‘Men are much less willing to just accept the diagnosis that their sperm isn’t very good and they need to go for IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection [ICSI, where a single sperm is injected directly into the egg],’ she says. ‘It is a very intrusive dehumanising experience, and I think its use is masking the problem of defective sperm. Apart from anything else, we don’t know how many ICSI babies will themselves be infertile.’ Dan says: ‘After three months on the diet I had another sperm test which showed there was improved sperm quality — enough of a difference to mean I would be fertile.’ At this point, concerned that their age made conceiving naturally a risk, the couple opted for ICSI. ‘It worked straight away,’ says Dan, whose daughter, Phoebe, will be two in November. ‘We were delighted and have no doubt it was as a result of all the preparation to improve my fertility. We’ll now try naturally,’ he says. Jim (not his real name), 39, a retail manager from West London, also credits the sperm-boosting diet and nutrients for his imminent fatherhood. He does not want to be identified because a leading IVF clinic is still supervising the 20-week pregnancy of his 38-year-old wife — even though she conceived naturally following treatment to improve his sperm quality. ‘I was more than a little annoyed to be told at the beginning that sperm quality was not a problem when it clearly was,’ he says. ‘The consultant who saw us after we had spent £20,000 on failed IVF said they needed to work on my sperm. I asked why his colleague had previously told us it wasn’t a problem. He didn’t answer.’ After six years of secret misery and failed fertility treatment, Will Walsh was also beginning to despair. ‘It was very difficult to talk to anyone about this,’ he says. ‘My friends and family didn’t know; I didn’t want the sympathy. ‘Your primary function is as a facilitator of reproduction, and if you can’t do that, you are seen as less of a man and someone who should be pitied.’ Will, 33, is a fit, slim, natural athlete. A freelance commercial interior designer, he lives in Kenton, Devon, with wife Dominique, 35. Will explains that when they first tried for a baby, ‘nothing was happening. So we went to the GP and were referred for specialist help. But they wanted to investigate Dominique rather than me. She had a barrage of tests. We had them done privately just for speed. The results came back saying everything was fine. ‘Then we asked if we could have sperm tests done. ‘My male GP said it would be done under my wife’s name. He said that was normal — all the treatments are done under a female name with the man as an accessory, which says it all really. Two sperm tests showed a low sperm count with poor motility, and the couple were offered IVF on the NHS. The first round failed. ‘At this point, almost two years after the first investigations and although I had undergone sperm tests which showed problems, I had not had a physical test done by anyone and the focus was still on my wife — even though she had no fertility problems. ‘During the consultation with the specialist after the failed IVF, there was still no discussion about whether there might be anything wrong with me. I was just a spare tool. It was all about my wife and what she should be doing. ‘After that we did our own research and discovered that DNA damage to sperm wouldn’t be picked up in a normal sperm test.’ Internet research led the couple to private treatment with Dr Ramsay. A physical examination immediately revealed a potential cause: a varicocele (a varicose vein in the testicle). This can overheat the sperm by reducing healthy circulation of a cooling blood supply. A quick operation under local anaesthetic eliminated the defective blood vessel. Dr Ramsay then referred Will to nutritionist Melanie Brown for a tailored three‑month sperm-boosting diet and supplements. Dr Ramsay says: ‘We are trying out lots of different dietary interventions with some very good results, but often male infertility can be caused by something as simple as a variocele.’ Since Will embarked on the diet and supplements, tests indicate everything is working fine, and he and his medical team are ‘completely confident’ it will soon lead to a naturally conceived baby. TOMATOES COULD HOLD THE KEY Leading researchers are investigating lycopene, the nutrient that makes tomatoes red, as a treatment for poor sperm quality. Lycopene is poorly absorbed from tomatoes, but numerous studies have shown that supplements containing modified forms of this and other nutrients, such as L-carnitine, could improve sperm. Professor Allan Pacey, a male fertility specialist at the University of Sheffield, has just completed a study looking at the effects on sperm production of a lactolycopene formulation called XY Pro. (Lactolycopene mimics the catalyst effect of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet, which allows lycopene to be absorbed. Lack of lycopene absorption in trials involving other supplements has until now inhibited efforts to measure its benefits as a health booster.) While Pacey’s results are yet to be published, he is hoping they will provide a ‘proof of concept’ for other studies. Dr Ashok Agarwal, a world authority on improving sperm quality, has produced a number of studies on lycopene and other nutrients. ‘We have some promising results in terms of improved sperm, but more work is needed,’ he told Good Health. He cautions against self-medicating. ‘I am worried people are being given antioxidants whether they need them or not. If the sperm is normal, supplements can do damage.’ Tags:Allan PaceyDNA damageinfertilitylactolycopenelycopenesperm countvaricoceleXY Pro Written by Lois Rogers Good news! Forget adventurous positions and eating the ‘right’ foods…having sex twice within an hour TRIPLES men’s fertility The cut-price fertility boost that childless couples are not told about: IUI versus IVF ‘comes down to profit margins’, say doctors Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies Age Time Bomb	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1512
__label__wiki	0.626852	0.626852	Toto le héros Thomas Godet Role: Thomas as a child Sandrine Blancke Role: Alice Toto the Hero, Toto Der Held (Germany) Directed: Jaco van Dormael Country: Belgium / France Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance A middle-aged man, suspecting that he was accidentally switched at birth and a poorer man because of it, regains his childhood imagination. With Toto the Hero, aka Toto Le Heros, Belgian newcomer Jaco Van Dormael created a whimsical and disturbing debut that was Belgium's biggest international hit to date. Toto Le Heros is a celebration of the absurd, a meditation on the eternal return, Back to the Future with a European sensibilite. What else can you say about a movie that makes obsessive love for one's sister, fantasies of murdering a rival, a life spent alone, and shoplifting and setting fire to buildings all seem sweet as an afternoon picnic? Toto Le Heros is based on Van Dormael's belief that "we become what we never thought we would become, and we end in a way we never thought we would end." The protagonist, Thomas van Haserbroek, is seen in boyhood (Thomas Godet, whose earnest innocence was a welcome respite after the Culkin vehicles), midlife (Jo De Backer) and old age (Michel Bouquet); he matures but never entirely grows up, he knows true happiness and is cheated out of it. Throughout, Van Dormael's film subtly manipulates the audience, reminding us that fate is a cruel bastard, but the world is still a heckuva place. After the death of their father (which traumatizes their mother), Thomas' intimacy with his beloved, astute older sister Alice (the winning Sandrine Blancke) becomes the focal point of his life, a love that evolves through their lives and alteregos. Following Van Dormael's axiom, the ending is an amalgam of trumpet lessons, livestock, Belgians in foreplay, and other recurring motifs in which van Haserbroek perishes in flames and laughter, his life simultaneously all-important and insignificant as a dust mite. Through it all plays a puerile bathtub chanson about how great it is to be in love. Despite a few obscure plot turns (which are too deeply ingrained in European cinema to avoid), Toto Le Heros shines with dreamlike romanticism and wit. Life is brief and absurd. Love, which rides away in the back of a truck toward the end of the movie, must be seized despite its contradictions: tacky but comforting, everpresent but uncontrollable. Nihilistic but not cynical - tragic and funny - Toto flashes before our eyes life's most memorable feelings, from the playground to the grave. It is fashionable in Europe (and elsewhere) to believe that life signifies nothing; but even as it pokes absurdity and meaninglessness in your face, Toto Le Heros offers plenty of reasons to live. -- Filmcritic.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1514
__label__cc	0.718758	0.281242	Posts Tagged ‘Socialism’ “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.” Napoleon Bonaparte China is sowing the seeds of its own stagnation: President Xi Jinping removing term limits The one child policy induced decline in the workforce The longer-term consequences of its negative return infrastructure led growth. The censorship of thought is creativity crushing, free thinkers will think freely. China has clearly awoken and is moving the world. Unfortunately in doing so it is also ushering in new models of despotism. Ones which enable democracies to transition to tyrannies with minimal fuss: China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year. Twitter, Facebook and Google are already embracing authoritarianism and crushing free speech. Big business and government working hand in hand to steer the masses. What does that remind you of? Fascism is alive and well and its foundations are being built by our technology companies and their academic ideological enablers. Technology enabled fascist national socialism will be as damaging as international socialism has repeatedly proven to be. The benevolent dictator model is great, as long as the dictator is great. Lee Kuan Yew is perhaps the best example, but for every Lee Kuan Yew there are multiple Mugabe’s. Democracies elect incompetents, but they also constrain how much damage they can do. The intensity and duration of the damage done by despots’ dwarfs that of elected leaders. Over the long term democratic systems trump despotic ones. Something the EU ought to have taken into account as it designed its undemocratic governing systems. Deng Xiaoping learned from Lee Kuan Yew’s example in Singapore. He transformed China. China may have another good or even great leader in Xi Jinping. Removing his term limit is, to my mind, an ominous sign. Better to be further embedding a culture of peaceful regular and regulated transition. Better also if the institutions of Western Civilisation propagated an understanding and appreciation of the building blocks its way of life, of progress and prosperity. These act as an immune system to repel destructive ideologies. Political correctness has much to answer for. Clash of civilisations Osama bin Laden predicted the United States would break up. The measures and expense of the “security” state and the eternal war are certainly causing tension. Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order seems to be on the mark. The Western, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, Russian and Hispanic civilizations are all generating friction with their neighbors. “”Ramos took an unusual tack, pivoting from talk of diversity and togetherness into boasts of conquest. Mass immigration, particularly illegal immigration, was a fait accompli. There is nothing the U.S. can do about it, and they must accept that America is “not their” country and that illegal aliens, particularly Latinos, “are not going to leave,”” The US is traditionally a society of citizens living under the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of a king, despot or tyrant. It was not race or religion based, but incorporated a state of mind. The melting pot ensured continuity of their different perspective through time. The ending of assimilation and increased emphasizing of difference have weakened the glue which bound the society. Recent history will have encouraged views like these: “A 2013 poll found that 66 percent of Mexicans believe the U.S. government has no right to limit immigration, while 52 percent said Mexicans have a right to be in the United States. Another 88 percent said it is fine to enter the U.S. illegally if one needs money. Over half, 56 percent, said they had friends or family who tried to immigrate to the U.S. illegally.” Attempts to remake the world order to remove the role of States with the right to enforce their boarders is not without popular appeal. As utopian visions go, it is probably no more far fetched than those of Marx, Hitler or even Charles Fourier. The split between the national and international socialists was heated and bloody. Both had state sponsors. The internationalists Russian state sponsor won the war against the national socialists. Socialists have defined themselves as having an internationalist perspective ever since. Global dominance is nothing, if not international in nature. States, be they socialist or otherwise, cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the inevitable glorious socialist future. I’ve labeled their vision utopian. Like other central communist tenets it contradicts fundamental aspects of human nature. We evolved as tribal creatures. We will form tribes. They can be based on race, religion, ideology, geography, sport, hobby or basically anything which we have in common with some and not others. The internet has greatly expanded the range of possibilities. The current US unrest may prove to be the tip of the iceberg. For the Greater Good Oh, the progressive left and their charnel houses. They’re so sanctimonious with their cry “it’s for the greater good, only a foul heartless monster could oppose it”. After all, what’s an individual or group of individuals worth compared to the good of everyone forever? How can we let the Kulaks or capitalist class stand in the way of equality, of an end to the exploitation of man by man? Jesse nails so much with this post. While it is not for the faint hearted, it should never be forgotten. But it also must be understood. We must see through the Orwellian newspeak of the chattering classes. The left accuses others of its own sins. It calls black white and good evil. Not for nothing have they persuaded many that discrimination and judgement and wrong. Good riddens to good judgement and the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. Better by far if people just do as they are told, by their progressive left masters. Hand in hand with the assaults on reason and the Western civilization way is the jihad against free speech. A willingness to speak out and say what you think is verboten. Doing so could undermine their politically correct nostrums. Better to make it illegal on the grounds it might offend someone or make them feel discriminated against. The left are evil. They advocate ideologies which inevitably lead to mass murder and misery.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1516
__label__cc	0.553453	0.446547	Tag: Ahmed Abu Khattala Are Food Labels that Claim No Sugar Added Safe for Diabetes? How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes & Restore Health by Matt Traverso Making decisions at the grocery store can be challenging when it comes to understanding food labels that read fat-free, no sugar added or sugar-free and hormone-free. There are dozens of misleading claims hiding on our grocery store shelves. Take fat-free creamer. Yes, it’s fat-free, but to compensate for lack of flavour, sugar or sugar substitutes are added. The same for sugar-free items. Fat is added to compensate for lack of sugar like sugar-free Oreos. A regular Oreo has 2 grams of fat, but a sugar-free Oreo has 5 grams of fat. What Toronto Researchers Discover about those No Sugar Added Label Claims “No sugar added” food labels doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no sugar present, University of Toronto researchers say. Do claims of “no sugar added” and “reduced in sugar” on labels on packaged food and beverage products really mean you’re getting a healthier alternative? Not so much, researchers at the University of Toronto say. In fact, they may not actually have “notable reductions” in calories, and some may even contain sugar amounts that are considered “excess” by the World Health Organization (WHO). Why No Sugar Added Labels May Not Be Safe for Diabetic Patients? “Overall, we found that products with sugar claims were healthier and lower in free sugars, but we also saw examples of products with sugar claims that may conflict with what we know of consumer expectations,” Jodi Bernstein, lead author and PhD student in the department of nutritional sciences, says. “For example, products with a reduced in sugar claim may not have similar reductions in calories and ‘no added sugar’ claims may be found on products that are high in sugars – contrary to what consumer may expect.” “Free sugars are the sugars, syrups and fruit juices that have been removed from their naturally occurring sources of whole fruits, vegetables, dairy products and some grains,” Bernstein explained. “And once removed, these sugars are ‘free’ to be consumed in large quantities and added into foods.” That can lead people to eat more of them, which can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes. Upon looking closer, the research team found that almost half of the products examined (48 per cent) had excess free sugar levels. This, Bernstein says, means they had free sugar levels higher than those recommended by WHO – which is a maximum of 10 per cent of calories consumed. “A ‘no sugar added’ claim means that no sugar has been ‘added,’ but that doesn’t mean the product wasn’t high in sugars in the first place,” Bernstein clarifies. “Although fruit juice is considered a free sugar, it doesn’t fall under the Canadian definition of an ‘added sugar.’” According to the Canadian Food and Drug Regulations, labels on food products must “be accurate, truthful and not misleading.” Yet, under these same regulations, fruit juices are commonly considered a fruit ingredient and not a sweetener, researchers say. So in this case, fruit drinks or fruit juice products may still come with a “no sugar added” claim even if they contain excess free sugar. The researchers found excess free sugar in 15 of the 16 fruit preserves and all of the 234 fruit juices and juice drinks they looked at that came with “no sugar added claims.” In total, Bernstein and her team looked at over 3,000 products including puddings, yogurts, cereals, fruit drinks, salad dressings and sweet condiments; 635 of those products had at least one sugar claim. “Canadians are increasingly trying to limit the amount of sugars they eat and only a couple years ago the WHO emerged with guidelines recommending intakes of sugars be limited to reduce the risk of chronic diseases associated with eating too much sugars,” Bernstein says. “It is particularly important that the tools consumers have available to them on the food label, like sugar claims, help guide them to healthier choices that are lower in sugars.” Bernstein hopes that consumers recognize the limitations of these claims when choosing pre-packaged foods and beverages. “Just because a product has a sugar claim doesn’t automatically mean it’s a healthier choice,” she warns. An earlier study published in March by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to similar conclusions with no sugar, low-sodium, non-fat and low-fat claims. According to researchers, these claims rarely match the actual nutritional quality of the food and would often have a worse nutritional profile than those without such claims. Why Consuming Whole foods is a better approach than Having Processed Foods with No Sugar Added Labels Vancouver-based registered dietitian Lindsay Pleskot, who is not affiliated with the research, agreed that claims about “added sugar” and “reduced sugar” can be confusing or misleading for consumers. ‘Just because a product has a sugar claim or fat claim or sodium claim, doesn’t mean it’s automatically a healthier choice,’ says the study’s lead author, registered dietitian and PhD candidate Jodi Bernstein. (Jodi Bernstein) For people struggling to navigate labelling on packaged foods, Pleskot suggested opting for more whole foods — single-ingredient foods like vegetables and fruit — and eating at home more often. “This way they don’t need to worry about being a detective and having to scrutinize packaging,” she said. Pleskot praised the research, saying the findings could be helpful in influencing policy. That’s Bernstein’s hope as well. She said regulations could be improved to ensure the claims are meeting consumers’ perceptions, and to make sure they’re found on foods that are low in sugars and lower in calories and meet overall health criteria. But in the end, it comes down to what happens in the grocery store. “Consumers can try to think critically when they see a no sugar added claim and consider, ‘What is the claim really saying?'” Bernstein said. Watch this Video – How To Read A Food Label- A Guide for People with Diabetes By Matt Traverso – author of Reverse Diabetes Today. The techniques and methods explained in Reverse Diabetes Today are simple to implement. It does not require you to buy and use any expensive medicines and treatments. You don’t need to worry about needles any more. You will find the techniques and methods explained in Reverse Diabetes Today highly effective and they will change your life style. In simple words, your whole body will get cleansed from the harmful toxins and acids. Reverse Diabetes Today carries useful info about the diet, which must be used to cure your pancreas. These methods will significantly affect your pancreas in a positive way and it will start producing insulin again like it used to before you got diabetes. 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__label__wiki	0.861623	0.861623	("Toad" is also a: user.) (thing) by Jargon Sat Apr 29 2000 at 1:27:08 to a zeroth approximation = T = toast toad vt. [MUD] 1. Notionally, to change a MUD player into a toad. 2. To permanently and totally exile a player from the MUD. A very serious action, which can only be done by a MUD wizard; often involves a lot of debate among the other characters first. See also frog, FOD. --Jargon File, autonoded by rescdsk. EDIT ME! The Everyone Project. Log in: "everyone" Password: "everyone" First created by: rescdsk Modified by: (nobody) (thing) by Sour Mon Jan 29 2001 at 0:33:17 Toads: Amphibians are a wonderful species. Amphibian means "double life" which means they spend the first part of their life under water breathing through gills. Amphibians were the first vertebrate (animals with back bones) to leave water and come live on land. They're descendants from fish. The most common amphibians are frogs and toads. Some details about amphibians are: they breathe air through lungs and skin, they're cold blooded, they have scaleless skin, they lay their eggs in moist places and at birth do not look like their parents. Frogs and toads are similar, but not exactly the same. Frogs have small thin bodies with long smooth legs, where as toads have small fat bodies and shorter thick legs. They use these legs to crawl around and only hop when they think they're in danger. They are also scattered with large bumps called warts. But you cannot get warts by touching a toad. Most toads are about three inches long and spend most of their time on dry land. But the oak toad is one inch long, and the giant toad is almost ten inches! The skin comes in many different colors, but their eyes are usually black. These large eyes are very good at seeing on land and in the water. They also have excellent hearing so they can hear your foot steps from very far away. These toads are in danger. Farming and buildings destroy their homes and water and soil pollution make them sick. As toads die, the animals that eat them disappear too. And the insect rate is increased because the toads aren't around to eat them. Toads are predators and eat mostly insects and worms. Toads eat a lot. One toad could eat 100 flies in only ten minutes! The toad only eats its prey when it's alive and moving. They can't really see the creature if it's not moving. Most toads catch their food on the end of their long, sticky tongue. They have no teeth so they're forced to swallow their food whole. Farmers tend to like toads. They eat all those pesky insects that may be harmful to their crops. Habitat and Hibernation: Toads live almost everywhere except for the North and South poles: they enjoy warm, moist places. The Spade foot toad uses its feet to dig a burrow backwards in the soil. The toad stays in its burrow for a few weeks and only comes out if it's wet or rainy. The toad hibernates until warmer weather comes because it's cold blooded and cannot generate its own body heat. Toads don't like the sun to much because it dries out their bodies. If their body loses too much water, they die. Because of this, most toads are nocturnal. Tadpoles: The louder a male sings the most likely he is to attract a mate. To make these sounds the toad puffs air into a huge vocal sac under his chin. The females lay up to 30000 soft, clear eggs. Most toads put their eggs in long strings at the bottom of a lake, or string them around marsh plants. But the Midwife toad carries them on its back, that way they're safe from danger. Fish and other animals like to eat toad eggs. Some eggs hatch in one day, where as others take a few weeks. When it hatches, the tadpole looks like a small fish. After a few weeks the tadpole begins to grow legs and breathe air like its parents. Later its back legs get longer and its tail shrinks. Defenses: Birds and snakes like to eat toads. Because of that most toads have to be equipped with some sort of defense. Most toads use camouflage to avoid getting caught, like the Cameroon Horned toad that lives in Africa. He has a leaf like patch of yellow skin on his back. But there are other ways that toads protect themselves besides blending in with their surroundings. Some puff themselves full of air so they look bigger, others show their brightly colored bellies so they look scarier! Some use poison. The American toad has poison on its back that tastes terrible, and predators will spit it out right away. In fact, many toads are poisonous, that's why you should always wash your hands after touching one. (person) by Feran Mon Jun 10 2002 at 1:27:43 Toad is a Nintendo character whose role is the "loyal mushroom retainer." He likes coffee tables, as one would see if s/he read the Super Mario Bros. comic book series. For most of his video game career, Toad has always been more of a behind-the-scenes kind of guy, telling Mario to go save the Princess from Bowser, selling items (Super Mario RPG), and doing various other menial tasks that may seem small but play a large part in the long run. Toad has only appeared as a playable character in three of Nintendo's video games: Super Mario Bros. 2 for the NES, Super Mario Kart for the SNES, and Mario Tennis for the Virtual Boy. In SMB2 he was a little guy, not capable of anything too special. Toad was more glorified in Super Mario Kart along with the Koopa Troopa's one time playable experience. Being a moderately fast accelerator, having decent speed and good control, Toad was a common choice among video gamers. As for the sport of tennis, Toad remained well-balanced and popular. (person) by Habakkuk Mon Jul 08 2002 at 20:39:28 A villain published by Marvel Comics. The Toad first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #4. The man who would one day be known as the Toad was born Mortimer Toynbee. Because Toynbee's mutation was physical, he was mocked from an early age because of his appearance. Stooped with a greenish tinge to his skin, Toynbee was the butt of most jokes. He eventually ran away from the orphanage in which his parents had placed him. Years later, Toynbee would discover that he and thousands of mutants had been subjects of a group who were tracking human mutation called the Black Womb. Toynbee's early upbringing and traumatic childhood made him extremely needy and starved for attention. For this reason, Toynbee became one of the allies of Magneto and particpated in Magneto's plans for world conquest. Toynbee became Magneto's "yes man," often times abused when plans didn't go right. This is also when Toynbee acquired the code name the Toad. The Toad was a good name for Toynbee because his mutant abilities. Toynbee possesses incredible strength in his legs, allowing him to leap incredible distances. He also has a tongue that acts like a prehensile tail, allowing Toynbee to grasp with it. He also has the ability to exude a sticky substance from his hands that allows him to cling to walls. The Toad was a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in its first incarnation. The Toad followed Magneto believing that he would be rewarded for his help when Magneto eventually won. But, Magneto's constant abuse and neglect caused Toynbee to grow to hate his leader and eventually abandon him. During his time with the Brotherhood, Toynbee became obsessed with Magneto's daughter, the Scarlet Witch. Toynbee began to stalk her and when he learned that the young mutant had married the artificial man known as the Vision, he became enraged. Employing an alien battlesuit, Toynbee attempted to destoy the Vision, but was opposed by the Vision, Magneto, and Quicksilver. Toynbee reformed and sought to become the partner of Spider-Man. He and two other would be heroes, Frog-Man and Spider-Kid nearly drove Spider-Man crazy until the three decided to band together as a team called the Misfits. The group was short-lived. Toynbee returned later as the leader of a new Brotherhood. Joined by former fellow Brotherhood member, The Blob, the Toad lead a new group of mutants, attempting to gain power for himself. He was opposed by the mutant team the X-Force and defeated. Eventually, the Toad resurfaced. He was given shelter by Emma Frost, a member of the Hellfire Club. Frost allowed Toynbee to take up residence in one of her homes in Canada. Toynbee, however, worked with a mutant called the Surgeon to alter a group of toads to make them carniverous. These toads as well as the two mutants threatened Frost and her charges, the team called Generation X. They were defeated with the help of the X-Man, Banshee and Alpha Flight member Sasquatch. Toynbee has recently been part of a group of mutants who opposed a menace from the far future. Toynbee returned a changed mutant, having been mortally wounded and healed by advanced technology in an alien craft. The alien ship caused Toynbee's appearance to change and to be more normal. In the X-Men movie, the Toad gained a prominent part in the film. He was played by Ray Park, the actor who portrayed Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode One. « Comic Book Titles and Characters » (thing) by anthropod Mon Jul 08 2002 at 21:30:52 A toad is an amphibian of the order Anura, a classification which also includes the frog. I always thought the difference between toads and frogs revolved around the presence or absence of warts, but infoplease.com waffles a bit on this one. First it says that there's no clear cut distinction between the two. It says that colloquially, the name toad is used to refer to species with shorter legs, stouter bodies, and thick skins (no warts mentioned), while frogs are longer-legged and have more slender bodies. (Sounds like frogs are the supermodels of the Anura order.) Then they go on to say that there is a family, Bufonidae, which are true toads. (Here come the warts.) True toads have bumpy skins and bulging glands behind their eyes. Unlike frogs, they are more terrestrial than aquatic and have feet that are "only slightly" webbed. I'm finding this all rather hard to grasp; it's just too subtle for me. So I'm just going to pretend toads are the warty guys, and continue on from there. So these "true" toads, the ones in the genus Bufo, live near water in cool dank locales and absorb moisture through their warty skins. They give off a poisonous white fluid from their skins which stings if you touch them, though, contrary to popular belief, won't cause warts. Toads eat creepy crawly grub-like things. The females lay their eggs in strands of jelly in the water and males come and fertilize them. Like frogs, toads go through several stages of development, the tadpole gradually metamorphizing into the adult toad. Some people keep toads as pets, especially the alarmingly-named fire bellied toad, which is however very tiny and not really scary at all. It can't stick its tongue out like other frogs and toads, and has to jump up to catch its prey. Find out about all about care and feeding of these beasties here. Perhaps it's not surprising, given the warts and oozing poison and insect-eating, that toad is also a derogatory term for a really creepy or disgusting person. For more toad-related information, see: American toad A toad can die of light! Colorado river toad Frog and toad Horned toad I have a buddy. My buddy's a toad licking toads Mr. Toad's wild Ride No toad sexing noxious toad sea toad She axed me, so I jus' toad 'er. Surinam toad The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Them Toad Suckers The Old Toad Toadeater toad sexing toad tunnel toady warty bliggins, the toad (person) by Servo5678 Thu Feb 20 2003 at 22:44:02 Toad (aka "Kinopio" in Japan), the loyal mushroom retainer from the Super Mario Brothers universe, is one of those characters whom you may not notice most of the time, but would miss if he weren't around. He's a small, short fellow with a mushroom cap for a hat and a white vest and pants. He serves the Mushroom Kingdom as Princess Toadstool/Princess Peach's highest-ranking servant. His first appearance was in the original Super Mario Brothers, but he didn't really come into his own until Super Mario Brothers 2 (which was his first playable appearance). His skills included quick lifting, fast running, and short jumping height. He returned to nonplayable form in Super Mario Brothers 3 as the resident of Toad's House, a place where Mario could pick up a free item. He was not, however, the mushroom retainer warning Mario that a Koopaling has stolen the magic wand (that mushroomite is Wooster). Subsequent appearances have seen him selling items and playing in sporting events. The Super Mario Brothers comic books published by Valiant in 1991 depicted Toad as a coffee table fanatic and aspiring journalist. In the various Mario cartoons, such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Toad is seen as a cowardly 'shroom with a heart of gold. Toad Game Appearances Playable Appearances ExciteBike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium Mario Kart 64 Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Mario Kart Super Circuit / Mariokart Advance Mario Party-e Mario's Virtual Tennis Super Mario Brothers 2 / Super Mario USA / BS Super Mario USA / Super Mario Advance Wario's Woods Nonplayable Appearances Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour Mario Party Mario Power Tennis Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS Super Mario Brothers / Vs. Super Mario Brothers / Super Mario Brothers Deluxe / Super Mario All-Stars Super Mario Brothers 3 / Super Mario All-Stars / Super Mario Advance 4 / BS Super Mario Brothers 3 Super Mario RPG F-1 Race (idea) by Vulgar Tongue 1811 Fri May 06 2005 at 19:03:28 Toad in a hole ; meat baked or boiled in pye-crust. He or she sits like a toad on a chopping-block ; a saying of any who sits ill on horseback. As much need of it as a toad of a side-pocket ; said of a person who desires any thing for which he has no real occasion. As full of money as a toad is of feathers. toad eater A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standing butt, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a mountebank's servant, on whom all experiments used to be made in public by the doctor, his master; among which was the eating of toads, formerly supposed poisonous. Swallowing toads is here figuratively meant for swallowing or putting up with insults, as disagreeable to a person of feeling as toads to the stomach. The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. (definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:50:06 Toad (?), n. [OE. tode, tade, AS. tadie, tadige; of unknown origin. Cf. Tadpole.] Zool. Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid. ⇒ The common toad (Bufo vulgaris) and the natterjack are familiar European species. The common American toad (B. lentiginosus) is similar to the European toad, but is less warty and is more active, moving chiefly by leaping. Obstetrical toad. Zool. See under Obstetrical. -- Surinam toad. Zool. See Pita. -- Toad lizard Zool., a horned toad. -- Toad pipe Bot., a hollow-stemmed plant (Equisetum limosum) growing in muddy places. Dr. Prior. -- Toad rush Bot., a low-growing kind of rush (Juncus bufonius). -- Toad snatcher Zool., the reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.] -- Toad spittle. Zool. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. -- Tree toad. Zool. See under Tree. © Webster 1913. Toast Game of Life Frog A toad can die of light! The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Princess Toadstool vision oscillator Mario Mario Nintendo Seal of Quality Super Mario Brothers fire-bellied toad Emma Frost Toad in the hole Generation X Toad the Wet Sprocket The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Scarlet Witch Colorado River Toad warty bliggens, the toad Trying to explain Everything to your non-Everythingite friends Luigi Japanese people like to play games goomba This Is Not a Place of Honor Vegas stories: Someone cut his throat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1527
__label__wiki	0.826591	0.826591	The SBDM meeting met around a table so they could observe a presentation from Assistant Principal Klingenfus. Mandala Gupta VerWiebe The School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Council commenced their January meeting in the MAC Lab at 3:05 with more policy decisions on the agenda. With the final reading, the new Parent/Guardian Policy was officially adopted with the added phrase of “respect the school, others and themselves” to each section detailing parent/guardian, teacher and student responsibilities. (See the previous policy here) After that approval, the Principal Selection Policy was on the table due to the newly established verbiage required by the district. SBDM is discussing the principal selection policy and updates as a result of the amendment detailed in SB 250 from the 2019 legislative session. https://t.co/ET2IpSzrSV — Manual RedEye (@manualredeye) January 8, 2020 As Manual recently approved their Principal Selection Policy in April of 2019, it was proposed to add in the exact words that were required for inclusion. (See the original policy here.) However, the verbiage was not in “layman’s terms” because of its usage of “KRS” and “SB 250” and also didn’t make constitutional sense according to parent representative Dr. Robin Weiss. “The way it’s written with ‘amend KRS 160.345’ doesn’t make sense because that’s not in our power,” Weiss said. The council decided to clarify that the policy was under that statute and that it was Senate Bill 250 of 2019 in the revised policy. Then, the SBDM Council moved on to review of the Budget and Spending Policy, which also had district required language added. (See the original policy here.) In the original outline of Manual’s budget committee, administration, department chairs and a parent representative met together to discuss their separate needs, then presented their plan to the SBDM Council. The newly added language included specific deadlines that must be put into the policy, such as one requiring that the SBDM have a full budget plan by March 4 of the previous year, which means that the budget for the 2020-2021 school year must be decided by then. Dr. Weiss questioned how many parents are chosen for the committee and how they are selected, so language was added that set the number of two parents. They will be elected by the PTSA, but the parents’ membership is not required, only recommended. As well, parent representative Marian Vassar brought up the issues with having a lack of minorities on the budget committee. “I would like to make sure this committee is diverse,” Vassar said. After continuous discussion, the council decided on adding the wording “every attempt must be made to ensure minority representation” to the policy. Another district requirement was an added cap for principal flex spending, or the moving around of funds already budgeted to other sectors of the budget, before they must request permission from the SBDM Council. Last year, Manual purchased tables and chairs (and a tarp to protect the floor in the large gym) to be used for ACT and AP testing. Mr. Farmer said these were needed expenses that cost just under $5000, justifying his proposal for that number. Principal Darryl Farmer capped it at $5000 because of previous expenses, such as testing tables that cost $2500 and a tarp for PSAT testing that cost over $5000 guided for what types of expenses would need consideration from the council. “It still gives me flexibility and autonomy over the principalship without allowing me to reach a level of craziness,” Farmer said. Lastly, the district required that schools gave 10% of their gate proceeds from sporting events to the district fund, while the remaining 90% was added to a Fund 22 so that the school could possess those funds to pay staff and carry out upkeep while also rolling over any unused funds to the next year. With the approval of the first reading, the council moved on to the Anti-Bullying Policy. (See the original policy here.) Equality in assessing acts of bullying and the appropriate responses are now being discussed. Mr. Farmer said that it's up to an administrator to follow and interpret the guidelines in the student behavior handbook. He suggested that collaboration among administrators would help. The council changed the language in several sections, such as any use of “she/he” to “they” and the addition of a sentence that recommended parents dissatisfied with the final result of a bullying case, after appeals, to contact the principal with further questions. This could include parents of bullying victims who are unsatisfied with the punishment given to a student or parents of accused students for in school-matters that don't rise to the level of a suspendible offense (conferences, detentions, etc.). The meeting adjourned at 4:54 with an in-depth discussion of expenditures, the Student Assignment Plan and Student Enhancement By-Laws on the horizon for February’s SBDM meeting. Marian Vassar Principal Darryl Farmer Mandala Gupta VerWiebe, Social Media Director Mandala Gupta VerWiebe is a co-Social Media Director for RedEye 2019-2020. You can catch her at one of her after-school clubs every day of the week or taking videos of sunsets. You can contact her at [email protected] Manual counselors move offices due to construction HSU 101 trucks on Manual takes steps to ensure students’ safety BSU hosts annual holiday party Manual students who don’t celebrate Christmas Meet Josh Hartlage, Manual’s newest health/PE teacher	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1531
__label__cc	0.57917	0.42083	Music: System Of A Down - X I have yet to meet a true blue american racist (hates everyone who isn't their own race) who isn't also patriotic as all hell. And I have yet to meet a patriot who can really tell me why (and defend their reasons why) this country is just so god awfully great. There's been a run on american flags. Manufacturers can't keep up. I personally took 32 calls today asking when our shipment of flags would come in.. IT IS A PIECE OF CLOTH. just a piece of cloth. an UGLY piece of cloth. It proves NOTHING .. it says NOTHING... it's a piece of cloth that you people will scurry out and buy so that you can feel some sort of connection to this country that, when it comes right down to it, you don't give a FUCK about. It's pathetic.. and it seems like everyone is all of a sudden born on the fourth of fucking july and happy shiny faced at the waving flags and feeling very yankee doodle dandy. What a crock of bullshit. Be upset. Donate blood. Donate platelets. Offer support to the bereaved. Offer support to the teams still digging through the debris. But covering your house in flags (that last week you didn't give a damn about) in some sort of show of solidarity only makes you out as an idiot. just.... GRRRRRRRRRRRR	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1536
__label__cc	0.644914	0.355086	How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-party State U.S. publisher: Tarcher/Penguin Bookstore price: $11.95 U.S. United Kingdom publisher: Constable & Robinson Bookstore price: £7.99 Ask for it in your local bookstore or order it directly. To order by mail, send $15/book (includes postage & handling) to: CMD, 409 East Main Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI 53703. Book Reviews and Author Interviews "Rampton and Stauber are two of America's bravest, finest journalists. Their work is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how greedy corporations and their allies in government now wield power in the United States." --Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Banana Republicans is the latest book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy. The bestselling authors of Weapons of Mass Deception lay bare how the "right-wing conspiracy," as represented by the national GOP and its functionaries in the media, lobbying establishment and electoral system, is undermining dissent and squelching pluralistic politics in America. For the first time since 1932, the Republican Party controls every major institution of the federal government: the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives - not to mention the "fourth branch of government," the mass media. How did this come to pass? Banana Republicans reveals how the GOP leadership maintains its hold on power through the systemic manipulation of the electoral system, the media, the lobbying establishment, and the political culture at large. The book examines: The legacy of the 2000 Florida ballot scandal, and how it has continued to play out in a nationwide effort at racial gerrymandering and redistricting schemes. How a GOP echo chamber methodically spreads its views through conservative media giants and highly placed columnists, journalists, and opinion makers. How, even within its own environs, the national Republican Party has squelched disagreement and moderation, stripping traditional oversight agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, of mission and influence. How GOP leaders have strong-armed powerful lobbying firms into exclusively hiring Republicans, so that even K Street is political, rather than merely opportunistic. How corporate-funded think tanks and Republican Party pundits have equated disagreement with treason, and the government has used its power to punish dissent. "March of the Banana Republicans" (book excerpt), AlterNet, April 28, 2004. Dave Zweifel, "When Politics Trumps Science," Capital Times (Madison, WI), April 30, 2004: "Rampton and Stauber make no pretense over how they feel about the Bush administration, but they do a convincing job of showing how the radical wing of the Republican Party not only dominates it, but has cleverly built a political 'war machine' capable of destroying its critics. ... The book is a breezy read with elaborate footnotes. It helps explain why, despite all the gaffes and troubles that have beset it, the Bush administration continues to score well in the polls. It also helps to underscore the importance of this fall's presidential election." "The War at Home" (book excerpt), Guerrilla News Network, May 19, 2004. "Pumping Irony" (book excerpt), Counterpunch, May 27, 2004. Interview with Sheldon Rampton, FAIR/Extra!, May 28, 2004. Listen to the show in Real Audio or MP3 format. John Stauber, "Kerry/McCain Anyone?" CommonDreams.org, June 15, 2004. Dustin Bielke, "Local Authors Keep Battling Complacency," Capital Times (Madison, WI), June 17, 2004. "Interview with Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber," Democracy Now! on Pacifica Radio, June 18, 2004. Read the transcript, or listen to the show in Real Audio or MP3 format. Interview with Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, The Hill, June 24, 2004: "The fact that Republicans currently control every branch of the federal government is only part of the reason why the subtitle of our book talks about the right wing 'turning America into a one-party state.' We're also alarmed by the increasingly bellicose tone of right-wing rhetoric. And it's not just empty rhetoric. In our book, we detail cases in which people have been subjected to intimidating FBI visits, fired from their jobs, and even subjected to arrest and physical violence simply for expressing views that the right wing abhors." Jeremy Berg, "Book Review: Banana Republicans," Riverwest Currents, July 1, 2004: "For anyone who has ever wondered how 'liberal' turned into a dirty word, and why the rhetoric of the right is so widely believed, this book is a must-read. ... Though it obviously sides with the left wing, Banana Republicans works in the finest traditions of objective journalism. Rampton and Stauber are interested in facts, pure and simple. Never once do they say 'this is bad' and leave it at that. Everything is backed up by solid reporting." Interview with Sheldon Rampton, Plastic Sugar Press. Book Review, iBrattleboro (Vermont), July 9, 2004: "Ever get the feeling that the government caters to the desires of a small right wing minority and companies they control? Maybe you saw Farenheit 9-11 and want to see how a well-executed plan can get a candidate and an agenda into office. Or perhaps you are the type that watches a magician with a curious eye, always trying to figure out how each trick is done. ... Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber lead the reader through right wing funding, media, talking points, voter suppression, think tanks, politicians, and corporate agendas, explaining how they are all interconnected. They show us the proverbial forest when we have been paying attention to proverbial trees. ... Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State makes a great follow-up to Farenheit 9-11, is an easy read, and might help you sort out who is paying for the opinions you hear and the laws being made." INTRODUCTION: The War at Home CHAPTER 1: The Marketplace of Ideas CHAPTER 2: The Echo Chamber CHAPTER 3: The One-Party State CHAPTER 4: Pumping Irony CHAPTER 5: Block the Vote CHAPTER 6: Traitor Baiters CONCLUSION: The Three-Banana Problem Activism Wisconsin Environment Right Wing Economy Politics War / Peace Journalism Media Secrecy Public Relations Marketing ALEC Exposed Corporations U.S. Government U.S. Congress Propaganda International Iraq Ethics Human Rights Climate Change Health Democracy Lobbying	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1539
__label__cc	0.578383	0.421617	Introductory Guidance to Update a Biographical Record Each part of a person biographical record has a separate editing section. To edit a section, click the little pen image Some fields have drop down boxes Other fields have a series of boxes - one for each type of information Fill-in whatever boxes you have information for. You can always go back to add more information As you fill-in some boxes, you will see little hits to the right of the box As you fill-in boxes with names of people or organisations, you will see any similar names that are already in the database appear below the box. If you select one of these name, a pop-up will give you a chance to double check that it is the right name After completing all your changes for each section, you can select 'save' or, if you are not happy with changes, 'cancel' to keep the data asis Correcting errors If the error can be corrected by typing over with the correct info, just hit 'save' when you are done If the error is quite serious, just hit the relevant 'delete or change' button and enter the correct information If the error is a duplicate name, add a note in the comment box on the right of the screen Two or more records for the same person can happen when there is one reference to a name in, say, a census record and another reference to the same name in a newspaper article and there is not secure why to know that it is the very same person. Unusual Convention for Last Names An individual's last name is either that person's current name or the name the person had at the end of his/her life An individual's spouse/partner is either that person's current spouse/partner or the spouse/partner of the person at the end of her/his life Earlier spouses or partners are listed with other family members Divorced spouses or partners are also listed with other family members using the notes field to record the divorce and date of divorce. Deceased spouses or partners are also listed either as the latest spouse or with other family members, as preferred . Detailed Notes on Individual Fields Person Data : Core Biographic Information Name Related Information middle names, and middle initials can be included in the first name field (e.g. Mary Ellen ) variants of names are included in the first name field separated by the mostly likely normal first name by a backslash (.e.g. Rochel / Rose ) well known nicknames can be included in the first name field separated by from the normal first name by quotation marks(.e.g. Henry "Hank" ) If a woman's name is "Mrs [husband's name], enter the [husband's name] followed by (Mrs). (eg. Maurice (Mrs); this permits better name indexing " If the first name is not known create a temporary first name that reflects what is known and enclose it in square brackets (e.g [MotherOfSamAndSarah]) if this is not possible, create a temporary first name of FirstNameNotKnown and enclose it in square bracets (e.g. [FirstNameNotKnown]) when there a duplicate record is identified , the first name field is modified to contain the first name followed by in paranthesis "now" and the correct personid number (e.g (now 999999) ) alternative spelling of a family name can be recorded in the Last Name field with a backslash ('/') between the spellings OR can be recorded in the Other Family Names field If the last name is not known create a temporary last name that reflects what is known and enclose it in square brackets (e.g for someone who might be called Cohen [Cohen]) if this is not possible, create a temporary last name of LastNameNotKnown and enclose it in square bracets (e.g. [LastNameNotKnown]) Name titles - formal titles (e.g. Rabbi or Dr) (no punctuation); "Mrs" (no punctuation) should be used only where the name of husband is not known (e.g. "Mrs" is only a marker for a marriage) "Miss" (no punctuation) should be used only to signify that at the time of listing there is no knowledge of a marriage (e.g. "Miss" is only a marker that no marriage has occurred ) Source - (Name) Initial source(s) of the name : used to indicate the likely precision and accuracy of the data Other family names - Birth names or earlier Old World names should be recorded in the Other family names field Hebrew Name - transliterated version of the Hebrew name Birth-Related Information Birth dates and location - Hebrew birth dates should be recorded in the notes field. Birth location should use, if possible, current geographical names, particularly for East European places Sources - birth - All sources used for birth dates and place. When information is added to the file, DOMJ adds on-line names as the source of the new material. Parents and Spouse-Related Information Mother's and Father's names - Multiple entries (adoption, re-marriage) should be recorded in the notes field. Spouse's name and date of marriage - Multiple entries (adoption, re-marriage) should be recorded in the notes field. "Never Married" is a valid entry Death-Related Information Date of Death - English date of death, spelling out the month. Information provided by cemetery documents often records the date of internment ,which is generally one or two days after actual death date. If the data of death is not available, the display shows date of internment. Date and Place of Death - English date of death, spelling out the month. Information provided by cemetery documents often records the date of internment ,which is generally one or two days after actual death date. If the data of death is not available, the display shows date of internment. Hebrew Date of Death - Hebrew date of death in translation Sources - death information - All sources used for date dates and place. When information is added to the file, DOMJ adds on-line names as the source of the new material. Place-Related Information Reg1, reg2, and reg3 fields Each person can be assigned to three geographic regions Region codes within Maine Region codes for pre-immigration areas : the old country (TOC) codes start with 'TOC' followed by a dash '-' and the name of the immigrant area if immigrant area is not known, use 'TOC' alone it is preferable to use current names for immigrant areas, not the name at the time of immigration Region codes for areas outside of Maine in North America : from-away places (FW) codes start with 'FW' followed by a dash '-' and the two letter postal code for the state or the Canadian province Notes field - Inconsistencies in the data from different sources have been preserved in the notes field. Please add to the notes field any references or on-line links to other family histories. Person Data : Relationship Table Relationship Table records the normal way one would describe the relationship between the named person and the second person (e.g. "daughter of", "mother of', "wife of"), the relationship between the named person and an organization (e.g. occupation, community service) OR between a named person and a crucial fact in their lives (e.g. 'lived in [city]', 'immigrated in [year] from [place]') Family Relationships (except for parents and spouse) - The relationship recorded should be the normal way one would describe the relationship between the named person and the second person (e.g. "daughter of", "mother of', "wife of"). This removes the ambiguity introduced when someone records simply "mother" followed by a female name. Lived in Maine - If a person doesn't have a Maine reference in the birth or death location, it would be important to indicate their principle place or places of residence (are they "Mainers" or not? ) . Even if the person does have a Maine connection in the birth place or death location fields, it would be helpful to record their principal place or places of residence in Maine. Occupation and History - the person's occupation(s) or relevant historical information (e.g. "immigrated from", "got MD at") Community Service - the name of the organization, the role of the person in this organization (e.g. "early member", "vice-president", "machor" ), the time period (e.g. years or decades) and a comment. Person Data : Cemetery Table Cemetery Information - Place of burial and plot location is generally provided by the cemetery associations or the official death records from the City of Portland. For burials in the small Smith St cemetery, there are no plot numbers. For burials in Beth EI Memorial Park, Mt. Carmel, and Mt. Sinai, the plot numbers were taken from the relevant maps or records. Cemetery Notes - Information from the headstone or about the location of the headstone. Organisational Data : Core Table Name of Organisation - full formal name of organisation Short name of organisation - name(s) as commonly used in the area for the organisation Organisational Data : Relationship Table The relationship table records the 'family tree' information for the organisation (what organisations it is connected with, what were its predecessor organisations, etc) and what is its organisational history (e.g. operated from [location] in [years]). Information on founding and ending dates are in the core organisational table. References : Master Reference Table Although you may not see all the sources, there are references for all the material presented. When information is added on-line , DOMJ adds the name of the registered users as the source of the new material. full name of source - full source reference in standardized footnote format short name of source name used in all reference and source fields for convenience it is also the name used in conjunction with 'Relationship table : source2' to determine a link to a document, photograph, or oral recollection location - physical location of the original hardcopy document or photograph Researcher(s) - names of person(s) who have contributed the data SCode and SCodeNew type of document (e.g. census, photograph) and code for type of document; used principally to organize the display of the data status of work indicates whether source has been reviewed, is partly reviewed or is still pending review url link used to provide url link to external or internal resource internal references are principally to the directories 'pj/images' or 'pj/docs' Last Updated : Aug 25, 2008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1540
__label__cc	0.678765	0.321235	Studio Training / Youth and Children School / Student Exchanges / Visit Eòlia / WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS Fall 2014- Spring 2015 Sing & much more November 2014 - March 2015 Connecting Your Breath to Text and/or Song Fitzmaurice Voicework® Workshop Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 of April 2015 Shiatsu Movement - Living Contact with Cristina Hernando November 2014 -June 2015 Estill Voicecraft Practice November 2014 - May 2015 Eòlia International Apply / Ensemble Projects / Facilities / About Eòlia / Philosophy & Techniques / People / Alumni / Eòlia's i+D Theatre/ Faculty Exchanges / High School Program / Life in Barcelona / Generació X Adapted from the novel by Douglas Coupland. Adaptation and direction: Àlex Mañas February 6th-8th 2015 Friday and Saturday at 20:30h Sunday at 19h 3 tenors Eòlia, Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, is an innovative higher education center for the arts located in the heart of Barcelona.The conservatory is a member of the European Higher Education Area and is officially accredited by the Catalan Government for the training of actors, theater directors and playwrights. Eòlia provides its students with a high quality training in the performing arts that places a strong emphasis on practical experience and the collaboration of actors, playwrights and directors. We seek to help our students further develop their unique artistic selves. Eòlia offers two accredited higher education degrees: - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with a concentration in Acting, with its sub-specializations of Musical Theater and Film and Television for actors. - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with a concentration in Theater Directing and Dramaturgy. Both are four-year degree programs and are officially recognized to be equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. A few words about Eòlia One of our conservatory’s principle development objectives on an international level is to build bridges with other schools, universities, theaters, and cultural institutions to grant our students greater mobility and to make it possible for students from other countries to study in Barcelona within the framework of the Erasmus Program, or through similar exchanges. In addition to student exchanges, Eòlia also seeks to increase faculty exchanges and foster group projects between institutions. We believe that cultural and linguistic immersion allows students to gain perspective about creative expression and see the world from a different angle, which in turn helps them to mature as artists. To learn more about the kinds of exchanges we offer, please click here. Now Playing at Eòlia's Plataforma i+d Theatre Generació X (February 6-8) Opera at Eòlia Feb 17th, March 3rd, April 14th, May 12th and June 30th More info here (in Catalan) The faculty at Eòlia is made up of specialists and active professionals from the fields of dramaturgy, directing, acting, voice and dance, which allows our students to be directly connected to the professional world throughout their training. Our visiting faculty have included Christine Adaire, James de Paul, Javier Daulte, Maureen Scott, Serge Wilfart, Kurt Widmer, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Saul Kotzubei, among others. - NEW PARTNERSHIP - We are excited to announce that has Eòlia has recently signed an agreement with the School of Theatre & Music of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to set up a student exchange beginning in fall 2015 for our undergraduate theatre students. For more information about the School of Theatre & Music, please click here. Our Partners / Nova EÒLIA, S.L. C/Casp 82, baixos eolia@eolia.cat © 2014 by Nova EÒLIA, S.L.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1550
__label__cc	0.74562	0.25438	Home \ Blog \ Is Tesla ahead of the competition after Porsche Taycan revealed Is Tesla ahead of the competition after Porsche Taycan revealed Jesus Veguilla September 8, 2019 12:18 pm Wednesday morning another automaker revealed their new electric vehicle in a fashion way. Seconds after the event, the debate about Tesla being ahead of the competition appeared once again in the social media and electric vehicle market forums. Who really is ahead of the competition Since the Tesla Model S introduction to the market in 2013, only a few brands have stepped up to the battle to bring their best electric vehicle to the market. Companies like Audi, Jaguar, and Porsche have come out with their own formula to challenge the advantages Tesla has established in the electric vehicle industry. But is Tesla really ahead of the competition or there is something else behind the curtain with other car manufacturers that analyst can’t see. Why Tesla is ahead of the competition Is hard to believe that competitors haven’t come yet with an electric vehicle with all of the ingredients to beat Tesla’s vehicles. They have been enjoying free patents given to the world by Tesla. And furthermore, they have spent billions of dollars researching and developing around these patents and have not come up yet with an electric vehicle capable of surpassing the 300 miles range. Also, none of them have developed a technology capable of doing OTA updates or even have a decent autopilot system integrated with the vehicles. Don’t get me wrong most of the Ev’s that have come out to the market are pretty good and exciting cars, but they are not capable of turning around an automotive industry that is resisting the change. This brings me to the following theory. What if Tesla competition don’t want to jump in full into the electric vehicle market just yet. What if they just playing around with customers building EVs with specifications and prices way behind the consumer expectations. I haven’t heard from any news site suggesting this kind of theories. They only tried to explain superficially the advantages Tesla got from the competition but never get deep inside of why is a big gap between Tesla and other automakers. I believe that Tesla competition have the ability to make EV’s with the miles of range acceptable by the consumers at a price similar to the Tesla cars. But it seems that they don’t want. They have their hands full with ICE cars and they don’t feel the necessity to jump into the future just yet. I give you an example, How many years Volkswagen has been showing the ID BUZZ?. I think the answer is since 2017 when it came out as a prototype in the American International Auto Show. Now Volkswagen announced that the ID Buzz will be launched in 2022, that is 5 years playing around with the mind of the consumer without concrete action to bring out the car to the market. What is the solution to obligate Tesla competition step up their game First of all, Tesla needs to keep the good work-stealing market share of every company that has no intention of changing their game plan. They need to improve their Service Center services and have parts available to repair cars at a decent amount of time. They also need to expand their Service Centers and showrooms all over the world. A different strategy to obligate Tesla competition would be to stop selling regulatory credits to those companies not complying with emissions regulations. Selling these credits is like a yin and yang for Tesla. But for now, this option only can be achieved if Tesla gets better in their financials. Jesus Veguilla \| September 8, 2019 12:18 pm 0 Comments Porsche Taycan finalmente disponible para pre ordenar en Puerto Rico Volkswagen ID 4 la nueva Suv eléctrica de Volkswagen para el 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1558
__label__cc	0.643688	0.356312	Sunday, November 27, 2016 [Tweets] [Favorites] Reddit’s CEO Edited User Comments Amelia Tait (via Nick Heer): Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has publicly admitted to editing comments on the pro-Donald Trump subreddit r/the_donald in a move he has described as “trolling the trolls“. Huffman – who goes by “spez” on Reddit – deleted comments from the pro-Trump community on the site, and also altered comments that insulted him. Normally when a comment is edited on Reddit – by a user or a moderator – a small asterisk will appear after the time stamp to indicate that it has been changed. In this instance, no such asterisk appeared, meaning Huffman ostensibly has the ability to edit comments without a trace. This is crucial because two months ago, a Redditor was taken to court for comments he left on the site. Huffman’s editing powers could clearly be abused to cause trouble for individuals. vvdcect: The Reddit admins have had a strained relationship with the moderators and users of The_Donald, for multiple reasons. For a lot of users there, this validates some beliefs about the admin’s treatment towards them, specifically that they make an active effort to censor their content. Other users on the site feel like this sets a dangerous precedent, as it demonstrates the admins can and have edited comments without disclosure. Further users feel like, while Spez made a mistake, he was unfairly treated and harassed by TheDonald and his response was an understandable outburst. Now, people around the site are wondering what the repercussions of this will be. Some question if Spez will be removed from his position over this. Some wonder if the admins will come forward and admit they’ve edited comments in the past. Dan Luu: Makes me wonder if other reddit staff have done the same thing in the past, unnoticed only because most people aren't paranoid enough to chk Keith Lee: Huon sued ATL & Gawker for defamation. ATL settled. At the District Court level, where the lawsuit was originally filed, it was dismissed as to Gawker on the basis of a reporting privilege and under 47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act. Because Gawker’s editors were (anonymously) authoring comments themselves, they were exerting active authorial control over the information on their forum. This led the court to labeling them an “information content provider” and prevents them from claiming Section 230 protection. The lawsuit gets to proceed. Starting to see how relates to Huffman’s actions at Reddit? See also: Hacker News and Slashdot. Lawsuit Legal Reddit The Media Web Stay up-to-date by subscribing to the Comments RSS Feed for this post. @mjtsai RSS / Comments Support this site via Patreon. Try my apps: DropDMG EagleFiler SpamSieve Copyright © 2000–2020 Michael Tsai.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1559
__label__cc	0.68351	0.31649	Dance diary. December 2012 Hannah O’Neill: news from Paris Hannah O’Neill is now half way through her second year with the Paris Opera Ballet, having successfully negotiated another temporary contract at the annual examinations the company conducts each year. In her second year with the company O’Neill has taken particular delight in performing in George Balanchine’s Serenade, part of a program of three Balanchine ballets that began the 2012‒2013 season. Sadly for her Australian admirers however, she is not coming to Sydney for the Paris Opera Ballet’s season of Giselle to be staged in January‒February. She says that, as she is still on a temporary contract, she wasn’t expecting to tour but that the bonus is that she will be performing in Paris in February in Jiri Kylian’s Kaguyahime. With a company of over 150 dancers, the Paris Opera Ballet has the luxury of being able to tour while maintaining a regular program in Paris at the same time. Kaguyahime, a spectacular piece of theatre, will be O’Neill’s first experience dancing a contemporary work since she has been in Paris. Michelle Ryan: new artistic director at Restless Dance Theatre Early in December Michelle Ryan was appointed artistic director of Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide. Many will remember Ryan I am sure from her performance days with Meryl Tankard. She joined the Meryl Tankard Company in Canberra in 1992 and then moved to Adelaide in 1993 remaining with Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre until it disbanded. More recently Ryan has been working as rehearsal director with Dance North. For more about the history of Restless Dance, a contemporary company working with people with and without a disability, the National Library holds an extensive interview with Kat Worth, artistic director of Restless Dance 2001–2006. Meryl Tankard: an original voice Here are some shout-lines from some who have read Meryl Tankard: an original voice: ‘It has a sense of drama but also balance, and it brings Meryl and her work to life’; and ‘The best and most comprehensive study of Tankard I have read’. Order a copy and see for yourself. I am always interested to see which tags are being accessed most frequently by visitors to this site. It usually changes slightly from month to month depending on what has been posted in any particular month. But it is perhaps more telling to look at which tags have been accessed over a full year. In 2012 the Australian Ballet topped the list. Here are the top ten: The Australian Ballet Hannah O’Neill Ty King-Wall Meryl Tankard Madeleine Eastoe Olga Spessivtseva Juliet Burnett Lana Jones Michelle Potter, 28 December 2012 Dance diary Hannah O'Neill KAGUYAHIME Meryl Tankard Paris Opera Ballet SERENADE ← Previous post Liz Lea. More Canberra dance in 2013 Next postBallets Russes: ‘We’re going to Australia’ →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1568
__label__cc	0.516238	0.483762	Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays Abigail S. Caudle, Sarah E. Brier, Benjamin F. Calvo, Jin Kim Hong, Michael O. Meyers, David W. Ollila Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy is an accepted treatment option for primary hyperparathyroidism. The need for intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays (iPTH) to confirm adenoma removal remains controversial. We studied minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MIRP) performed using preoperative sestamibi localization studies, intraoperative gamma detection probe, and the selective use of frozen section pathology without the use of iPTH. This is a single institution review of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism treated with MIRP by surgeons experienced in radio-guided surgery between October 1, 1998 and July 15, 2005. Information was obtained by reviewing computer medical records as well as contacting primary care physicians. Factors evaluated included laboratory values, pathology results, and evidence of recurrence. One hundred forty patients were included with a median preoperative calcium level of 11.3 mg/dL (range, 9.6-17) and a PTH level of 147 pg/mL (range, 19-5042). The median postoperative calcium level was 9.3 mg/dL. All patients were initially eucalcemic postoperatively except for one who had normal parathyroid levels. However, five (4%) patients required reexploration for various reasons. Of the failures, one was secondary to the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism, and therefore would not have benefited from iPTH, one had thyroid tissue removed at the first operation, and three developed evidence of a second adenoma. One of these three patients had a drop in PTH level from 1558 pg/mL preoperatively to 64 pg/mL on postoperative Day 1, indicating that iPTH would not have prevented this failure. Thus, only three (2.1%) patients could have potentially benefited from the use of iPTH. MIRP was successful in 96 per cent of patients using a combination of preoperative sestamibi scans, intraoperative localization with a gamma probe, and the selective use of frozen pathology. This correlates with reported success rates of 95 per cent to 100 per cent using iPTH. We conclude that minimally invasive parathyroidectomy can be successfully performed without using iPTH assays. American Surgeon Parathyroidectomy Parathyroid Hormone Primary Hyperparathyroidism Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Caudle, A. S., Brier, S. E., Calvo, B. F., Hong, J. K., Meyers, M. O., & Ollila, D. W. (2006). Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays. American Surgeon, 72(9), 785-789. Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays. / Caudle, Abigail S.; Brier, Sarah E.; Calvo, Benjamin F.; Hong, Jin Kim; Meyers, Michael O.; Ollila, David W. In: American Surgeon, Vol. 72, No. 9, 01.12.2006, p. 785-789. Caudle, AS, Brier, SE, Calvo, BF, Hong, JK, Meyers, MO & Ollila, DW 2006, 'Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays', American Surgeon, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 785-789. Caudle AS, Brier SE, Calvo BF, Hong JK, Meyers MO, Ollila DW. Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays. American Surgeon. 2006 Dec 1;72(9):785-789. Caudle, Abigail S. ; Brier, Sarah E. ; Calvo, Benjamin F. ; Hong, Jin Kim ; Meyers, Michael O. ; Ollila, David W. / Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays. In: American Surgeon. 2006 ; Vol. 72, No. 9. pp. 785-789. @article{ad82094d1eb640eda1867f58caf86a10, title = "Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays", abstract = "Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy is an accepted treatment option for primary hyperparathyroidism. The need for intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays (iPTH) to confirm adenoma removal remains controversial. We studied minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MIRP) performed using preoperative sestamibi localization studies, intraoperative gamma detection probe, and the selective use of frozen section pathology without the use of iPTH. This is a single institution review of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism treated with MIRP by surgeons experienced in radio-guided surgery between October 1, 1998 and July 15, 2005. Information was obtained by reviewing computer medical records as well as contacting primary care physicians. Factors evaluated included laboratory values, pathology results, and evidence of recurrence. One hundred forty patients were included with a median preoperative calcium level of 11.3 mg/dL (range, 9.6-17) and a PTH level of 147 pg/mL (range, 19-5042). The median postoperative calcium level was 9.3 mg/dL. All patients were initially eucalcemic postoperatively except for one who had normal parathyroid levels. However, five (4{\%}) patients required reexploration for various reasons. Of the failures, one was secondary to the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism, and therefore would not have benefited from iPTH, one had thyroid tissue removed at the first operation, and three developed evidence of a second adenoma. One of these three patients had a drop in PTH level from 1558 pg/mL preoperatively to 64 pg/mL on postoperative Day 1, indicating that iPTH would not have prevented this failure. Thus, only three (2.1{\%}) patients could have potentially benefited from the use of iPTH. MIRP was successful in 96 per cent of patients using a combination of preoperative sestamibi scans, intraoperative localization with a gamma probe, and the selective use of frozen pathology. This correlates with reported success rates of 95 per cent to 100 per cent using iPTH. We conclude that minimally invasive parathyroidectomy can be successfully performed without using iPTH assays.", author = "Caudle, {Abigail S.} and Brier, {Sarah E.} and Calvo, {Benjamin F.} and Hong, {Jin Kim} and Meyers, {Michael O.} and Ollila, {David W.}", journal = "American Surgeon", publisher = "Southeastern Surgical Congress", T1 - Experienced radio-guided surgery teams can successfully perform minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy without intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays AU - Caudle, Abigail S. AU - Brier, Sarah E. AU - Calvo, Benjamin F. AU - Hong, Jin Kim AU - Meyers, Michael O. AU - Ollila, David W. N2 - Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy is an accepted treatment option for primary hyperparathyroidism. The need for intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays (iPTH) to confirm adenoma removal remains controversial. We studied minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MIRP) performed using preoperative sestamibi localization studies, intraoperative gamma detection probe, and the selective use of frozen section pathology without the use of iPTH. This is a single institution review of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism treated with MIRP by surgeons experienced in radio-guided surgery between October 1, 1998 and July 15, 2005. Information was obtained by reviewing computer medical records as well as contacting primary care physicians. Factors evaluated included laboratory values, pathology results, and evidence of recurrence. One hundred forty patients were included with a median preoperative calcium level of 11.3 mg/dL (range, 9.6-17) and a PTH level of 147 pg/mL (range, 19-5042). The median postoperative calcium level was 9.3 mg/dL. All patients were initially eucalcemic postoperatively except for one who had normal parathyroid levels. However, five (4%) patients required reexploration for various reasons. Of the failures, one was secondary to the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism, and therefore would not have benefited from iPTH, one had thyroid tissue removed at the first operation, and three developed evidence of a second adenoma. One of these three patients had a drop in PTH level from 1558 pg/mL preoperatively to 64 pg/mL on postoperative Day 1, indicating that iPTH would not have prevented this failure. Thus, only three (2.1%) patients could have potentially benefited from the use of iPTH. MIRP was successful in 96 per cent of patients using a combination of preoperative sestamibi scans, intraoperative localization with a gamma probe, and the selective use of frozen pathology. This correlates with reported success rates of 95 per cent to 100 per cent using iPTH. We conclude that minimally invasive parathyroidectomy can be successfully performed without using iPTH assays. AB - Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy is an accepted treatment option for primary hyperparathyroidism. The need for intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays (iPTH) to confirm adenoma removal remains controversial. We studied minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MIRP) performed using preoperative sestamibi localization studies, intraoperative gamma detection probe, and the selective use of frozen section pathology without the use of iPTH. This is a single institution review of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism treated with MIRP by surgeons experienced in radio-guided surgery between October 1, 1998 and July 15, 2005. Information was obtained by reviewing computer medical records as well as contacting primary care physicians. Factors evaluated included laboratory values, pathology results, and evidence of recurrence. One hundred forty patients were included with a median preoperative calcium level of 11.3 mg/dL (range, 9.6-17) and a PTH level of 147 pg/mL (range, 19-5042). The median postoperative calcium level was 9.3 mg/dL. All patients were initially eucalcemic postoperatively except for one who had normal parathyroid levels. However, five (4%) patients required reexploration for various reasons. Of the failures, one was secondary to the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism, and therefore would not have benefited from iPTH, one had thyroid tissue removed at the first operation, and three developed evidence of a second adenoma. One of these three patients had a drop in PTH level from 1558 pg/mL preoperatively to 64 pg/mL on postoperative Day 1, indicating that iPTH would not have prevented this failure. Thus, only three (2.1%) patients could have potentially benefited from the use of iPTH. MIRP was successful in 96 per cent of patients using a combination of preoperative sestamibi scans, intraoperative localization with a gamma probe, and the selective use of frozen pathology. This correlates with reported success rates of 95 per cent to 100 per cent using iPTH. We conclude that minimally invasive parathyroidectomy can be successfully performed without using iPTH assays. JO - American Surgeon JF - American Surgeon MD Anderson Cancer Center contact form	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1576
__label__wiki	0.927189	0.927189	Actors, Crew, Stand-Ins, Captain America: The First Avenger Actors Spider-Man: Far From Home Crew Members Crew Members with Roles in Comic Book Adaptations outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe James Payton Fictional Adolf Hitler James Payton portrayed the actor who played the fictional version of Adolf Hitler that appeared in Captain America's USO Shows in Captain America: The First Avenger. He was also a stand-in for Jake Gyllenhaal and Jon Favreau in Spider-Man: Far From Home. James Payton also portrayed the real Adolf Hitler in the 2014 film The Monuments Men. James Payton previously worked with David Bradley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. James Payton previously stood-in for Jake Gyllenhaal in Life. James Payton was also a stand-in in the DC Entertainment production Justice League. James Payton on IMDb Retrieved from "https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/James_Payton?oldid=1040901"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1582
__label__cc	0.567521	0.432479	Homeless man photographed handing out resumes lands job offers By Johnny Lieu 2018-07-30 08:52:30 UTC Over the weekend, a photo of out-of-work web developer went viral, resulting in a flurry of job offers. The photo, which was tweeted by @jaysc0 on Friday, showed David Casarez standing on the side of the road in Mountain View, California, holding a placard telling people that he was homeless. SEE ALSO: Architects are building floating neighborhoods on city canals to create affordable housing for students Despite his circumstances, Casarez didn't ask for money, instead asking people to take copies of his resume. Today I saw this young homeless man asking for people to take a resume rather than asking for money. If anyone in the Silicon Valley could help him out, that would be amazing. Please RT so we can help David out! pic.twitter.com/ewoE3PKFx7 — FullMakeup Alchemist (@jaysc0) July 27, 2018 A college graduate, Casarez told NBC Bay Area that he had moved to Silicon Valley last September with three years' experience as a software developer, with the goal of launching a startup. Those dreams faded when Casarez underestimated the cost of living in the area, and the difficulties of finding work. He stayed in his van, until that was taken in June when he couldn't afford the payments, leaving him sleeping in a park. "All I wanted was for one person to notice, take my resume and give me an opportunity," he told the news outlet. The photo amassed tens of thousands of retweets, resulting in offers of jobs and help. We’ll take care of him if no one else has stepped in yet. Have a nonprofit fund for this kind of thing, or housing, or industry connections, whatever he prefers — Austen Allred (@AustenAllred) July 28, 2018 Hello, I am VP Engineering at AncestryDNA and also an Aggie, class of 93. I would love to interview David Casarez for a Web developer or QA automation position. Can you please put me in touch with David ? — Paddy (@DeshmukhPaddy) July 28, 2018 On Sunday, Casarez thanked everyone for their support. Thank you everyone for the outpouring of support! I am completely floored by how many are interested in my #Hungry4Success story. I have met several who have been or currently are in the same situation tell me their story. I am glad to be an inspiration for you all. — David Casarez (@DavidCasarez17) July 29, 2018 The situation is indicative of the affordable housing crisis which has engulfed Silicon Valley and neighbouring San Francisco. Even family of four earning $117,400 per year in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties is considered "low income," and is eligible for affordable housing programs. It's also why big tech companies like Facebook and Google have looked to building housing for their employees, who too struggle with the cost of living. WATCH: Wait, who owns the moon? We found out Topics: San Francisco-San Jose, bay area, Culture, homeless, san francisco, Silicon Valley	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1585
__label__cc	0.721447	0.278553	Everything you need to know about getting a backpacking permit for national parks Photo: aaronj9/Shutterstock Tim Wenger Backpacking season is here, and it’s time to start planning out your summer backcountry trips. US national parks are among the most beautiful places for backcountry hiking and camping — and also the most popular. To control crowds and properly prepare trekkers for the hazards of the wildlands, the National Park Service requires backcountry permits for camping outside of developed campgrounds. If you’re ready to venture beyond car camping and RV hookup sites, here’s everything you need to know about getting a backcountry permit to camp in US national parks. Why you need backcountry permits for national parks Photo: Vitalii Nesterchuk/Shutterstock The first step to obtaining a backpacking permit, or any other type of permit, for US national parks is to familiarize yourself with the website Recreation.gov. Here you’ll find a detailed map containing permit requirements for national parks, national monuments, and other federally operated public lands that require prior authorization to venture into. Backcountry permits are generally required for camping outside of the drive-in camping lots. Additionally, certain activities like rock climbing and ice climbing almost always necessitate a permit of some kind. This varies by the park, so always check with the specific park you plan to visit in advance to see what their requirements are. Keep your permit with you while in the backcountry, and be prepared to show it if you come across a ranger. A handy trick among veteran backpackers is to pin their permit onto their tent once they’ve set up camp, so as to immediately state their legitimateness and fend off any unnecessary questioning. Also, keep in mind that even though you’re in the backcountry, most parks still have designated camping areas. Don’t plan to throw your tent up on the side of the trail whenever you get tired. There may not be anyone around to enforce this policy, but you’re a total jerk if you don’t follow it. Note that your permit is only valid for the number of people registered at the time of issue. If your crew grows by a person or two before the trip, you’ll have to pay an additional per-person fee to add them to your permit — and there may not be any more space available on the days you have chosen. So plan your trip in advance, get confirmations from everyone who is going, and refrain from sending out that last-minute text to friends who were on the fence when plans were made. They’re either in or they’re out. In winter, permits are still required in most situations where they are in the summer — though you generally don’t need the advance reservations common in summer. You will, in most cases, pick up your winter wilderness permit at the same permit station inside the park you visit. Permits for rock climbing in US national parks Photo: Greg Epperson/Shutterstock Yosemite and Zion national parks are bucket-list destinations for many rock climbers. Because of their popularity and the inherent risks of rock climbing, both parks limit the number of people who can climb in the best-known spots each day. Camping at the Half Dome base requires a general backcountry permit. In Alaska, Denali National Park does the same for its most sought-after climbs, including Mount Foraker. Because of the hordes of climbers Zion sees each year, the Utah park implemented a Zion Wilderness Express membership program for frequent visitors. It’s free, valid for three years, and can be obtained by visiting the Zion Canyon Wilderness Desk inside the park. A permit is not required for day climbs, but is for all overnight bivouacs and costs $5. You can reserve your permit up to three months in advance to ensure your spot, or take a chance on the 33 percent of daily permits made available the day before they’re valid. If you plan to come in the summer, don’t bank on these being available; make your reservation in advance. Permits for backpacking in national parks As noted above, a backcountry permit is required for overnight camping throughout the national park system. Some parks offer permits for specific trails or sections of the park, and you should check the website of the park you want to visit during your planning process for availability on the most hiked routes. If the early season permitting has ended, remember that there are walk-up permits issued at each park. If you are flexible in your plans or willing to take alternate trails, your odds of landing a permit are much higher. Here are the general permitting processes for six of the most-visited national parks. The rest of the parks in the system have similar, often identical, processes to one of these parks. Yosemite National Park and the John Muir Trail Photo: Tobin Akehurst/Shutterstock So many people are following John Muir and answering the call of the mountains that California’s Yosemite National Park was forced to implement an Exit Quota System that limits the number of people on the John Muir Trail and separates them from general backpackers and trekkers in the rest of the park. If you want to hike from the trail’s Northern Terminus and are flexible on dates, you can apply for the lottery system through the Yosemite Conservancy. Permitting for the John Muir Trail requires you submit your application at least 168 days in advance of your trip, and even then, the approval rate hovers around three percent. That said, the trail is accessible via trailheads outside the park managed by other agencies who have their own permitting processes, often not quite as stringent. A general backcountry access permit is required for all backcountry trails inside the park. The park grants 60 percent of these permits through advance applications received 24 weeks before your intended start date, awarded via a lottery system during busy times. Hiking Half Dome requires a separate permit from the John Muir Trail permit and general backcountry permit, despite being doable as a day hike. The preseason lottery is open throughout the month of March for the forthcoming summer season, with an additional 50 individual day permits being granted on a rolling basis to walk-ups. Cost: $5 per person for the John Muir Trail and general backpacking permit, plus a $5 processing fee once confirmed Photo: Sean Pavone/Shutterstock The permitting process for backpacking Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the much-visited park straddling Tennessee and North Carolina, is generally as simple as making a reservation. It’s also among the most affordable backpacking permits in the national park system. Your groups of up to eight people can make reservations in advance for each night you plan to camp, though you can’t spend more than three nights at any campsite and can only stay one consecutive night at each backcountry “shelter.” Because of the nightly reservation process, and in order to help new trekkers become accustomed to the backcountry, the application process requires you to submit start-to-finish plans for your trip. Veer off-route and you’re likely to find yourself up the creek without a paddle because the other groups out there in the backcountry are likely following the itinerary and will have reserved the spaces at forthcoming campgrounds. Part of your trek here is likely to cross the Appalachian Trail, and it’s important to note that the permit for backpacking in the park is separate from the through-hiking permit required for trekking the Appalachian Trail. Cost: $4 per person, per night and $20 max per person Grand Teton National Park and the Teton Crest Trail Grand Teton National Park has a similar setup to Yosemite for its popular Teton Crest Trail. The Wyoming park awards one-third of its total annual summer permits in advance, beginning the first Wednesday in January. The remaining permits are available by walk-up at the permit desk in the park and are available one day in advance. The ranger will sit your group down and play you this fine video about the park, and what you’re getting yourself into, before issuing the permits. To apply for a permit, visit the dedicated page at Recreation.gov. Reservations are taken between mid-February and mid-May for the summer season. Cost: $45 per advanced permit, paid after completion of the reservation, and $35 for a walk-up permit Photo: blazg/Shutterstock Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona is the second-most visited of any in the system, behind only Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As you can imagine, the scenic viewpoints tend to get backed up from spring through fall, and the park attracts a hefty amount of eager backpackers looking to get below the rim. All overnight backpacking and camping, beyond the designated campgrounds, requires a permit obtained from the park’s Backcountry Information Center. The center begins accepting applications 10 days prior to the first of each month, for the four months ahead. Re-read that sentence just to make sure it sticks. You likely won’t get a permit applying for a trip coming up in two weeks. April to May and September to October are the busiest times, and your odds of obtaining a camping permit are greater outside of those times. Fill out a permit request form to get the process started. The park’s popular Phantom Ranch lodge, located at the bottom of the canyon, awards overnight permits via a lottery system. Cost: $10 per permit plus $8 per person, per night below the rim, and $8 per group, per night above the rim Photo: Dan Breckwoldt/Shutterstock Glacier National Park has extensive backcountry trail systems which access a total of 65 different campsites. Reservations for this Montana jewel open on March 15 for trips between June 15 and September 30, though weather conditions tend to allow some campsites at lower elevations to open earlier than others. While the massive amount of trail mileage and high number of campsites can accommodate a lot of people, Glacier sees nearly three million annual visitors and isn’t fond of large groups. It issues only five permits each year for groups with more than eight people. The good news is that the lack of larger groups makes more room for small groups, and applying for a permit is generally a successful endeavor if you get in early because it fills 50 percent of the season’s permitting through its website. The other 50 percent of permits are issued to walk-ups. Once approved, the park will email you a confirmation, which contains info on picking up your permit once you arrive at the park. Unlike some other parks, Glacier does not mail permits out in advance. Cost: $10 application fee per permit and there’s $30 fee once you’re approved, plus a $7 per night camping fee Photo: Sean Xu/Shutterstock Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park is the third-most visited in the system, clocking roughly 4.6 million annual visits. However, the vast majority of these visitors drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road and maybe do a quick day hike, leaving the expansive high country wide open to those willing to work a bit harder. Apply for a permit in advance of your trip and pick it up at either the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center or the Kawuneeche Visitor Center when you arrive. The reservation application allows you to reserve specific campsites, providing backup options in case your first choice is booked on your trip dates. 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__label__wiki	0.508908	0.508908	MaterialDistrict Rotterdam, 17 - 19 March 2020 \|Get Your Free Ticket MaterialDistrict This article is part of the following channel(s) Agar Plasticity: The Exciting Potential of Seaweed-based Packaging New Japanese design studio AMAM (Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani and Akira Muraoka) work with agar, a seaweed-based material to develop new and more eco-friendly ways of packaging goods. Their current ongoing project is called Agar Plasticity and it was one of the four finalists at the 2016 Lexus Design Awards. Today, many of our goods arrive wrapped in synthetic plastics. In 2012, 288 million tonnes of plastics were produced worldwide with more than 36% of these plastics being used for packaging. And as we know, these synthetic plastics are not biodegradable, causing a big problem in terms of ocean pollution and overflowing landfills. Finding a material alternative to synthetic plastic is the motivation behind Agar Plasticity. What is Agar? Agar is traditionally consumed as a food in Japan for making sweets. It is also widely used in the scientific and medical fields. As a raw material, Agar is derived from seaweed – specifically, two different kinds of red algae that grow and are harvested worldwide. Agar is extracted by boiling this red algae. When cooled, the liquid sets like a jelly. It is then frozen and air-dried naturally. Throughout this process, water melts away while the structure of the agar remains. Agar is sold in its dried state in the form of blocks, flakes and powders. Block agar is particularly notable for its porous, feathery structure and is very light weight despite its volume. These features led the team to experiment with agar as a packaging material. Material Experiments: As part of Agar Plasticity, AMAM have to date worked on three different agar-based material experiments: Firstly, using pure agar powder itself, secondly, combining agar powder with extracted red algae fibre and finally, by mixing agar powder with shell ash, which is a waste product from the food industry. #1 Agar Powder In this experiment, the agar powder is dissolved in hot water and poured into a mould. It is then frozen, thawed and air-dried. The freezing process expands the agar, forming a spongy structure which acts as cushioning. Through countless experiments with different agar concentrations and freezing speeds, AMAM have managed to produce a thin transparent film, a loose-fill cushioning material and a box with integrated cushioning. #2 Agar Powder + Extracted Red Algae Fibre Here, AMAM developed a composite material using the same process as the above experiment – dissolving, moulding, freezing and air-drying agar, but with the addition of algae fibre. Using different concentrations of agar and algae fibre, AMAM were able to attain different material hardnesses and thicknesses. The team explain this composite could for instance be used for wrapping flowers, as cushioning, packaging for plant pots and wine bottles, or moulded to make boxes. #3 Agar Powder + Shell Ash For this experiment, AMAM visited Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, located at northern east from Tokyo, in order to investigate the current shell waste situation. Shell waste produced by food industry is another serious environmental issue. Each day, tons of shells are being dumped as waste, resulting in huge disposal costs for farmers. In Japan, ash from shell has traditionally been used for ‘Shikkui’ wall finishing in both exterior and interior designs, but recent trends towards more modern interior finishing materials have decreased the traditional demands for ash. A mixture of water and shell ash alone cannot be formed, however, by adding agar, the composite becomes mouldable. The constituents of Shikkui are shell ash, chopped straw and Funori, which is also a kind of seaweed. The resulting composite is almost the same as the traditional product, however the usage of agar makes it mouldable. It can subsequently be formed into complicated shapes, or it has a potential to be extruded. AMAM imagine that agar and shell ash could potentially even be utilized as a building tile, particularly as shell ash has some intriguing material properties of benefit to the built environment. For instance, shell ash is said to condition humidity and purify the air, absorb toxic substances and deodorize. Furthermore, when burned at over 900°C, shell ash offers anti-bacterial properties. Disposing of Agar After use, agar products can be disposed of in an environmentally-friendly way. In addition to decomposing naturally, these products can be utilised as a material for improving the water retention of soil or fertilizer as agar absorbs and holds watr very well. Should agar packaging end up in the ocean, it is not harmful to the environment or animal life. What else could be made of Agar? So far, AMAM have produced just a selection of products and packaging using the amazing plasticity of agar. Ultimately however, they envision replacing plastic products such as shopping bags, cable ties, toothbrushes, cutlery and ballpoint pens with agar. AMAM are currently looking to collaborate with partners from industry who can offer scientific support in order to uncover the true potential of agar. We look forward to following their journey! 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__label__cc	0.52106	0.47894	Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system C. Barbieri, M. T. Larovere, G. Mariotti, C. Ferrari, R. Caldara We have previously reported that labetalol infusion increases prolactin (PRL) secretion in hypertensive patients. In an attempt to investigate the site where labetalol stimulates PRL, the drug was infused intravenously (100 mg) into healthy subjects, both under basal conditions and after pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa (250 mg and 25 mg respectively every 6 h for 1 day), since this regimen has been reported to blunt the PRL responses to centrally acting stimuli. The effects of oral labetalol administration (100 and 200 mg) on PRL was also evaluated. Serum PRL concentration did not change after oral labetalol, whereas it was increased by intravenous drug administration. This effect was completely abolished by pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa. These findings, though they do not demonstrate the mechanism, suggest that the hyperprolactinaemia induced by labetalol is mediated inside the blood-brain barrier. Clinical Endocrinology Blood-Brain Barrier Intravenous Administration Oral Administration Barbieri, C., Larovere, M. T., Mariotti, G., Ferrari, C., & Caldara, R. (1982). Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system. Clinical Endocrinology, 16(6), 615-619. Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system. / Barbieri, C.; Larovere, M. T.; Mariotti, G.; Ferrari, C.; Caldara, R. In: Clinical Endocrinology, Vol. 16, No. 6, 1982, p. 615-619. Barbieri, C, Larovere, MT, Mariotti, G, Ferrari, C & Caldara, R 1982, 'Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system', Clinical Endocrinology, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 615-619. Barbieri C, Larovere MT, Mariotti G, Ferrari C, Caldara R. Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system. Clinical Endocrinology. 1982;16(6):615-619. Barbieri, C. ; Larovere, M. T. ; Mariotti, G. ; Ferrari, C. ; Caldara, R. / Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system. In: Clinical Endocrinology. 1982 ; Vol. 16, No. 6. pp. 615-619. @article{f41a27be8cb9463cb06a40457a40855e, title = "Prolactin stimulation by intravenous labetalol is mediated inside the central nervous system", abstract = "We have previously reported that labetalol infusion increases prolactin (PRL) secretion in hypertensive patients. In an attempt to investigate the site where labetalol stimulates PRL, the drug was infused intravenously (100 mg) into healthy subjects, both under basal conditions and after pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa (250 mg and 25 mg respectively every 6 h for 1 day), since this regimen has been reported to blunt the PRL responses to centrally acting stimuli. The effects of oral labetalol administration (100 and 200 mg) on PRL was also evaluated. Serum PRL concentration did not change after oral labetalol, whereas it was increased by intravenous drug administration. This effect was completely abolished by pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa. These findings, though they do not demonstrate the mechanism, suggest that the hyperprolactinaemia induced by labetalol is mediated inside the blood-brain barrier.", author = "C. Barbieri and Larovere, {M. T.} and G. Mariotti and C. Ferrari and R. 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This effect was completely abolished by pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa. These findings, though they do not demonstrate the mechanism, suggest that the hyperprolactinaemia induced by labetalol is mediated inside the blood-brain barrier. AB - We have previously reported that labetalol infusion increases prolactin (PRL) secretion in hypertensive patients. In an attempt to investigate the site where labetalol stimulates PRL, the drug was infused intravenously (100 mg) into healthy subjects, both under basal conditions and after pretreatment with L-dopa plus carbidopa (250 mg and 25 mg respectively every 6 h for 1 day), since this regimen has been reported to blunt the PRL responses to centrally acting stimuli. The effects of oral labetalol administration (100 and 200 mg) on PRL was also evaluated. Serum PRL concentration did not change after oral labetalol, whereas it was increased by intravenous drug administration. 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__label__cc	0.648496	0.351504	The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) Aka Big Time Operators. Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers are shocked to find that his great-uncle’s bequest is the Bijou Kinema aka The Fleapit and the neighbouring Grand has a grasping owner who makes them an offer they refuse – they bluff that they’re going to reopen. Unfortunately commissionaire Old Tom (Bernard Miles) – one of three old-timers in the Bijou’s inherited staff including bookkeeper Mrs Fazackalee (Margaret Rutherford) and drunken projectionist Mr Quill (Peter Sellers) – lets slip to a Grand employee that it’s all a show: so then they have to go through with it. Dodgy equipment, low crowds and a constant supply of American B-westerns don’t help. But a sexy ice cream salesgirl (June Cunningham) brings an audience and Old Tom makes up for his mistake and the Grand is burned to the ground … A fun story of English eccentricity but coming from the pen of William Rose (and John Eldridge) we might presume it’s actually an allegory for Keeping Calm and Carrying On. Produced by Launder and Gilliat and Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, in a kind of Ealing Comedy shot by Douglas Slocombe with added Leslie Phillips and Sid James plus a score from William Alwyn. Charming! filed under 1950s, Alcoholism, Allegory, Architecture & Interiors, Atmospheric, Auteur, B&W, British, Business, Cinema, Cinematography, Class, Comedy, Costume, Inheritance, Margaret Rutherford, Marital, Music, Peter Sellers, Pregnancy, Rivalry, Soundtrack, Trains, Twist ending London Road (2015) Splendor (1935)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1595
__label__cc	0.717469	0.282531	Did you see her buried? After an argument with her husband Jay (Michael Craig) about his spending habits when he brings home a TV set on hire purchase, Lucy Church (Muriel Pavlow) storms out of her house and goes to see a film at the local cinema. While coming back from making a phone call, she stumbles across the office where she witnesses the murder of the cinema manager by two criminals Wade (Donald Sinden) and his soft-minded associate Barney (Nigel Stock) who are in the process of robbing the cinema’s safe. When they pursue her, she is hit by a bus and is taken to hospital. Unable to leave the town until they know what has happened to her, the two robbers head to the hospital to observe her. Meanwhile, her husband has grown concerned and scours the town searching for her. An older woman patient’s cries for help each time she sees two men skulking in the hospital garden are ignored while Wade and Barney enter the hospital to make sure Lucy is never able to bear witness … She’s a pretty little thing. Wouldn’t mind claiming her myself. Low on both suspense and thrills, this Sydney Box production is based on the premise that Donald Sinden is a dangerous criminal – surely an in-joke at the expense of the audience and the story. What’s of infinitely more interest is the performance of tragic starlet and socialite Lee as the sexy bleached blonde nurse Penny Marston who has (inevitably) an American airman fiancé (David Knight). The screenplay is by Janet Green, a playwright (including the work that would provide the basis for Doris Day’s Midnight Lace) and screenwriter who had many good films on her resumé like Sapphire and Victim and John Ford’s final film, 7 Women. This is mild stuff indeed, with the opening scene of domestic dissatisfaction soon sliding into an under-dramatised crime outing, enlivened only by the constant put-downs of the eagle-eyed patients by the bitchy nursing staff while Pavlow enjoys a very long beauty sleep. Keen viewers will enjoy appearances by Richard Wattis as an anaesthetist and Nicholas Parsons as a surgeon. Directed by Muriel Box. filed under 1950s, B&W, Belinda Lee, British, Bus, Chase, Church, Cinema, Crime, Deception, Doctors, Drama, Father, Guns, Hospital, Identity, Marital, Medical, Murder, Muriel Box, Nurses, Phone booth, Psychological, Race against time, Robbery, Screenwriters, Soundtrack, Suburbs, Suspense, Telephone, Television, Thriller, Woman director, Woman in jeopardy, Woman writer Dementia 13 (1963)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1596
__label__wiki	0.910225	0.910225	Roku IPO; Trump tax reform; Accenture earnings by CNNMoney Staff @CNNMoneyInvest September 28, 2017: 4:45 AM ET 1. Streaming in: Streaming device company Roku will make its market debut in New York on Thursday. The company intends to sell $219 million worth of shares, priced at $14 each. That would value Roku (ROKU) at $1.3 billion. It will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "ROKU". The company hopes to capitalize on the popularity of streaming content. More than 60% of 18- to 29-year-olds say they watch TV primarily through online streaming, according to a survey released by the Pew Research Center this month. The boom has spurred traditional outlets like Disney (DIS) and tech giants like Amazon (AMZN) to invest heavily in streaming services. 2. Taxes and markets: Investors are considering the tax reform plan unveiled by President Trump on Wednesday, which includes sweeping tax cuts and a simplification of the tax code. "Financial markets have reacted positively, which is not unexpected given the proposed benefits to larger companies," said Paul Donovan, global chief economist at UBS Wealth Management. But he's not confident the proposals will become law. "The president proposes, Congress disposes," Donovan said. U.S. stock futures were soft ahead of the open. The Nasdaq shot up 1.2% on Wednesday after the tax plans were revealed. The S&P 500 hit an all-time record. In Europe, stock markets were mixed in early trading. Asian markets ended the day with modest moves. 3. Stocks to watch -- GoPro, Ryanair: GoPro (GPRO) is set to make new product announcements at around 12:00 p.m. ET. Shares in European budget airline Ryanair (RYAAY) were making another descent after the firm canceled 18,000 more flights because of a pilot shortage. The U.K.'s Civil Aviation Authority has also accused the budget airline of "persistently misleading passengers with inaccurate information regarding their rights in respect of its recent cancellations." Ryanair shares were 1% lower in early trading. 4. Earnings and economics: Accenture (ACN), BlackBerry (BBRY), ConAgra (CAG), McCormick (MKC) and Rite Aid (RAD) will release earnings before the open. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will give an updated estimate of GDP growth in the second quarter. An earlier report showed the economy grew by an annual rate of 3.0% over the period. Thursday -- Earnings from Accenture (ACN) and BlackBerry (BBRY) Friday -- Twitter (TWTR) meets with Senate Intelligence Committee; Brazil unemployment data released; Elon Musk speaks about his Mars plans at a conference in Australia CNNMoney (London) First published September 28, 2017: 4:45 AM ET	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1597
__label__wiki	0.520082	0.520082	MS and Wellness National Education Webinars National News Release73 Announcement32 Saskatchewan20 FILTER BY CHAPTERS Regina Office20 Saskatoon Office20 Newest → Oldest Oldest → Newest Research using Saskatchewan Health Data Shows Impact of DMTs for MS Patients Utilizing health administrative data from Saskatchewan between 1997 to 2016, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Manitoba studied the impacts of disease-modifying therapy (DMT) usage for people with MS on overall healthcare use. The study's findings suggest that while the... Read More Saskatchewan Division's January 2020 eNews In this issue... MS Walk Registration Open Now! Webinars & Research Feedback on Educational Programming MS Bike Registration Only $5 MS Can Be Spotlight: Derek Reflecting on 2019 Saskatoon Blades Event Read more Read More Saskatchewan Division's December 2019 eNews In this issue... 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Read More MS Society Hosts 2019 endMS Conference Largest MS conference in Canada showcases the latest in MS research From December 8-11, the MS Society of Canada is pleased to be hosting the 5 th endMS Conference! The largest multiple sclerosis (MS) conference in Canada, endMS aims to foster knowledge exchange about MS, provide networking opportunities... Read More TD Bank Group Invests $1 Million to Support MS Research Focusing on Artificial Intelligence Technology Donation supports the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada’s Acts of Greatness campaign Toronto, ON – November 27, 2019 – The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of Canada announced today a $1 million donation from TD Bank Group to support research that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to develop clinical... Read More Preliminary Results Show Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis is Safe Ongoing data analysis will look for effects on regeneration and repair October 10, 2019 – Early data from the international clinical trial on the use of ME senchymal S t E m cells for M ultiple S clerosis (MESEMS) as a treatment for MS were presented at the European Committee for Treatment and Research... Read More Uncovering the facts: MS and children Dr. Banwell’s research is uncovering critical information about pediatric MS and moving us closer to understanding MS genetics When Dr. Brenda Banwell and her team launched the Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease study in 2004, most Canadians didn’t even know that multiple sclerosis (MS) could... Read More Siponimod Feedback Survey Have your say on this topic by completing the MS Society of Canada survey below. The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) and the Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) are conducting a drug review for an MS treatment called Mayzent (siponimod), Read More Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Asks Canadians to #MakeMSMatter This Election Toronto, ON – September 4, 2019 – From September 4 to October 21, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada urges you to #MakeMSMatter and have your voice heard in this year’s federal election. As part of our #ActsofGreatness campaign , the MS Society of Canada, with help from voters across the country, Read More Christine Sinclair, A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada Score A Big Win on Burgers to Beat MS Day Raised a record of more than $2 million for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis VANCOUVER, BC, August 28, 2019 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. announces that its 11 th annual Burgers to Beat MS campaign in partnership with the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada , raised more than $2 million... Read More A&W Canada and Christine Sinclair Inspire Canadians to Help Beat Multiple Sclerosis On Thursday, August 22 nd , $2 from every A&W Teen Burger ® sold across Canada will be donated to the MS Society of Canada to help those living with MS VANCOUVER, BC, August 8, 2019 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. has once again teamed up with Christine Sinclair, three-time Olympian and Canadian... Read More MS Society of Canada 2020 – 2021 Annual Research Grants and Awards Competition is now OPEN Announcement,National News Release If you are interested in submitting an application, please visit the following links for more information: 1. endMS Personnel Awards Note: For those who hold an endMS Studentship Award or Postdoctoral Fellowship and are seeking funding for an additional year, the deadline to submit a progress reports... Read More The World Health Organization Rejects Application for MS Treatments on Their Latest Essential Medicines List July 10, 2019 – In December 2018, the MS International Federation (MSIF) applied to the World Health Organization (WHO) to add three MS treatments from various DMT categories to its latest Essential Medicines List (EML) . The WHO has announced that it will not be adding these medicines to the EML. While... Read More Common Supplement Being Tested as Potential Treatment for Progressive MS June 27, 2019 – Lipoic acid (LA), a natural antioxidant, has shown promising results in a small pilot trial in helping people with multiple sclerosis (MS) walk faster and preventing brain atrophy. In early proof of concept studies, researchers at The Portland VA Medical Center (Portland, Oregon) used... Read More Accessible Canada Act Adopted June 21, 2019 – A historical moment for Canadians, “ An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada ” has been adopted by the Senate and House of Commons. Known as the Accessible Canada Act , this is the first piece of federal legislation aimed at improving accessibility for people with disabilities. The Act... Read More MS Society of Canada Awards $1 Million to Support Research on Progression in Multiple Sclerosis New study aims to get a deeper understanding of the factors involved in progression in MS Toronto, ON – June 11, 2019 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada announced today a $1 million grant in support of research to enhance our understanding of the factors involved in disease progression in multiple... Read More Spicers Canada Brings the MS Cause Closer to the Finish Line Cross-Canada cycling tour set to raise $100,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Toronto, ON – June 6, 2019 – On June 8 the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and Spicers Canada are delighted to kick off the Spicers-Jackson-Boyer-Bergeron Ride Across Canada for MS in support of multiple sclerosis... Read More MS Society of Canada’s Acts of Greatness Campaign Celebrates MS Awareness Month Powerful portrayal of life with MS brought to light in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary Toronto, ON – May 23, 2019 – When 5 metres feels like 500 metres. For someone living with multiple sclerosis (MS), every step is an act of greatness. From May 24 to 30, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada shares... Read More MS Society Advocates for Canadians Affected by MS on Parliament Hill Secure income and employment, improved access, and investment in health research among priorities Toronto, ON – April 25, 2019 – From April 29 to May 1, representatives from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada will be on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to meet with parliamentarians to mark the beginning... Read More Roche Canada Invests $2+ million in Canadian Prospective Cohort Study to Understand Progression in Multiple Sclerosis (CanProCo) Toronto, ON – April 3, 2019 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada , Brain Canada Foundation , and Biogen Canada are pleased to announce the addition of Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) and its contribution of $2.125 million to the Canadian Prospective Cohort Study to Understand Progression... Read More MS Society Invests in Cannabis and Multiple Sclerosis Research Toronto, ON – March 21, 2019 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada announced today a partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to provide $1.5 million in funding for cannabis and MS research. The funding will go towards research into the use of cannabis to manage symptoms... Read More Funding Decisions – MS Society of Canada 2019 - 2020 Annual Research Grants and Awards Competitions The MS Society of Canada is pleased to announce the funding decisions for the 2019 - 2020 research grants and awards competitions. To view the funding decision, please refer to the MS Society’s  Funding Announcements web page. Read More Saskatchewan Division’s February eNews In this issue... Sharing the love this February Registration open for Saskatchewan Blue Cross MS Walks Introducing the 2019 Saskatchewan Blue Cross MS Walk Ambassador CPP-D Application Assistance Mood Changes and MS MS Bike invites you to join the fun MS Society thanks K+S Potash Canada for 5 great... Read More Saskatchewan Division’s January eNews In this issue we feature members of the MS community displaying true acts of greatness... Princess the cow moooves donors to action Kudos to our 2018 Caregiver Award recipient Superstar volunteer making a splash SHA recognizes the efforts of MS patient advocate 1:1 Peer Support available MS Connects... Read More Saskatchewan Division’s December eNews In this issue, we look back at an amazing November and forward with hope into the festive season and the New Year... Jana Danielson named first SK Women Against MS Honouree WAMS Gala Luncheon celebrates trailblazers in Saskatchewan MS Connects Conference a big hit with participants and presenters Dinner... Read More Top Canadian Researchers at the Helm of Pioneering Canadian Proactive Cohort Study for People Living with MS (CanProCo) Toronto, ON – December 6, 2018 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and Brain Canada Foundation announced today the selected team to lead the Canadian cohort to study the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). Dr. Jiwon Oh, based at St. Michael’s Hospital, and her team of nearly 50 leading MS... Read More Saskatchewan Division’s November eNews In this issue... MS Connects Conference - Making research accessible WAMS first annual fundraising luncheon coming to Saskatoon New video highlighting Saskatchewan MS research Glitter: Get your Christmas shopping done early on November 20 th Giving Tuesday is November 27 th 30 th Annual CKRM Musical... Read More MS Society of Canada Releases Vitamin D Recommendations for People Living with MS and Those at Risk Toronto, ON – November 14, 2018 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada released today evidence-informed recommendations for vitamin D supplementation and maintenance of vitamin D serum levels to help people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) make informed decisions about their health. Research... Read More Study Demonstrates Exercise Fosters Repair in Mice with MS-like Lesions November 9, 2018 – A recent study led by researchers at the University of Calgary Drs. Samuel K. Jensen and V. Wee Yong shows that exercise can enhance the rate of repair or remyelination following the induction of multiple sclerosis (MS)-like lesions in mice. In MS, the loss of myelin, the protective... Read More Listening to People Affected by MS 2.0 The MS Society of Canada has launched a nationwide survey to gather insight and input from people affected by multiple sclerosis. The results from the Listening to People Affected by MS 2.0 survey hopes to advance our mission to be a leader in finding a cure for MS and enabling people affected by MS... Read More MS Society Launches Inaugural WAMS Gala Luncheon in Saskatoon with special guest Jess Moskaluke MEDIA RELEASE Regina, SK - October 2, 2018 On Thursday, November 8th the Saskatchewan Division of the MS Society of Canada will host the first ever Women Against Multiple Sclerosis (WAMS) event in Saskatoon. Established over a decade ago, WAMS luncheons have successfully raised millions of dollars in... Read More MS Society of Canada Supports International, Multicenter Clinical Trial to Improve Cognition in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis $5 million grant will support global study examining cognitive rehabilitation and aerobic exercise in improving cognition in progressive MS Toronto, ON – September 12, 2018 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada announced today a $5 million grant in support of the first, international, multicenter... Read More Join the MS Society of Canada in Advocating for Support for #LifeWithMS Online campaign asks Canadians to join in solidarity and engage local MPs to fight for improved income and employment, increased access, and investment in health research for people living with multiple sclerosis Toronto, ON – September 7, 2018 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada asks you to... Read More Christine Sinclair Leads the Burgers to Beat MS Team to Victory A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada raise $1.9 million for those affected by multiple sclerosis VANCOUVER, BC, August 27, 2018 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. announces today that its 10 th annual Burgers to Beat MS campaign, in partnership with the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada , raised... Read More Soccer Superstar Christine Sinclair and A&W Canada Team Up to End Multiple Sclerosis in Canada $2 from every A&W Teen Burger ® sold across Canada on Burgers to Beat MS Day on Thursday, August 16 will be donated to the MS Society of Canada to help those living with MS VANCOUVER, BC, August 9, 2018 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. invites Canadians to join the Burgers to Beat MS Team, and help... Read More A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada Kick Off 10th Annual Burgers to Beat MS Campaign Canadians Invited to Join Christine Sinclair on the Burgers to Beat MS Team and Help Take On Multiple Sclerosis VANCOUVER, BC -- July 9, 2018 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. and the MS Society of Canada are teaming up with soccer superstar Christine Sinclair, two-time Olympic bronze medalist and... Read More Senate Committee Report Released – Breaking Down Barriers June 27, 2018 – The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and Technology released the report Breaking Down Barriers: A Critical Analysis of the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan . The report makes 16 recommendations aimed at improving the Disability Tax... Read More Accessible Canada Act Introduced June 20, 2018 – The Minister of Science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, the Hon. Kirsty Duncan, introduced the Bill entitled “ An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada ” in the House of Commons. This is the first piece of federal legislation aimed at improving accessibility for people... Read More Conference Board of Canada Releases Latest Report on Multiple Sclerosis in the Workplace May 2, 2018 - The latest study released by the Conference Board of Canada and supported by the MS Society of Canada finds that improving financial support programs for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) would increase their labour force participation and boost economic activity. The report, Read More MS Society Takes to Parliament Hill Urging Members to Act Now to Improve #LifeWithMS Secure income and employment, improved access, and investment in health research among priorities Toronto, ON -- April 26, 2018 – From April 30 to May 2, 2018 representatives from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada will meet with parliamentarians in Ottawa to launch MS Awareness Month (May). With... Read More The MS Society of Canada is pleased to announce the funding decisions for the 2018 - 2019 research grants and awards competitions. To view the funding decision, please refer to the MS Society’s Funding Announcements web page. Read More Pamela Valentine – Leading Innovation & Change at the MS Society The board of directors of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is pleased to announce that Dr. Pamela (Pam) Valentine has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Pam will be joining the MS Society January 1, 2018. Canada has the highest rate of MS in the world and Pam comes to the... Read More Canadians Come Together to Raise Awareness and Funds to Help Beat MS A&W’s Annual Burgers to Beat MS Campaign Raises $1.85 Million FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver, BC – September 1, 2017 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. is proud to announce its ninth annual Burgers to Beat MS campaign, which ran July 17th to August 24th, has raised a record-high of $1.85 million for... Read More Managing your MS Treatment: MS Society of Canada shares MS Wellness Toolkit Toronto, ON – August 30, 2017 – As we prepare to settle back into the routine of school and work, the MS Society of Canada is reminding Canadians that multiple sclerosis is anything but a routine disease. MS affects each person differently and treatment options can vary drastically from person to person. Read More A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada Team Up with Soccer Superstar Christine Sinclair to Beat MS $2 from every Teen Burger® sold across Canada on August 24th will go towards helping those with MS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver, BC – August 17, 2017 - A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. celebrates Burgers to Beat MS day on Thursday, August 24 to help Canadians living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Read More Soccer Star Christine Sinclair sets her sights on Beating MS through supporting A&W’s Burgers to Beat MS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver, BC – July 18, 2017 – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada are pleased to announce that two-time Olympic bronze medalist and Canadian women’s national soccer team captain, Christine Sinclair , has joined the fight to beat MS through... Read More Common acne medication offers new treatment for multiple sclerosis Study results offer safe and affordable treatment option Calgary, AB – May 31, 2017 – A Canadian clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), shows that minocycline, a common acne medication, can slow the progress... Read More MS Society urges Members of Parliament to act to improve #LifeWithMS Secure income and employment, improved access, and accelerated research among top priorities Toronto, ON – April 27, 2017 – From May 1-3, 2017 representatives from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and members of the MS community will meet with parliamentarians in Ottawa to launch MS Awareness... Read More Breaking News: OCREVUS™ (ocrelizumab) is the first drug approved by the FDA for primary progressive MS Breaking News (March 28, 2017): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Ocrevus™ (ocrelizumab) for the treatment of primary progressive and relapsing (including secondary progressive MS with relapses) forms of MS. The drug is marketed by pharmaceutical company Genentech, Read More $7+ million MS Progression Cohort to change the face of MS in Canada MS Society of Canada, Biogen Canada, and Brain Canada partner to support the first Canadian cohort that will study the progression of multiple sclerosis over time March 28, 2017 – Toronto, ON – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Biogen Canada, and Brain Canada announced the launch of a $7+ million... Read More Ten Years of Service to People Affected by MS We say farewell to a strong advocate for people living with MS after a decade of service with the MS Society of Canada. President & CEO Yves Savoie will be leaving the MS Society of Canada March 31, 2017. A strong advocate for a patient-centered health system and a catalyst for increased involvement... Read More Two of three MS national wellness research grants awarded to U of S For Immediate Release -- NOVEMBER 10, 2016, 8:30 a.m. Saskatoon, SK. Through a new grant competition from the MS Society of Canada and its affiliated MS Scientific Research Foundation, two University of Saskatchewan multiple sclerosis (MS) researchers have each been awarded $40,000 to assess novel approaches... Read More $18 Million Awarded to Three Projects In Global Effort to End Progressive Multiple Sclerosis International Progressive MS Alliance leading global collaboration to find solutions and treatments for progressive MS September 15, 2016, LONDON, UK – In an unprecedented global effort to end MS, the International Progressive MS Alliance has awarded three $6 million Collaborative Network Award grants... Read More $350,000 awarded to next generation of multiple sclerosis researchers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – September 7, 2016 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is proud to announce the 2016 recipients of scholarships for youth affected by multiple sclerosis (MS), providing over $350,000 toward the tuition and expenses of five students across Canada. The John Helou... Read More Serve as a Community Representative on the Research Review Panel Each year the MS Society seeks the necessary scientific expertise required to review applications that are submitted to the Annual Research Competition. These grants provide critical support to researchers who conduct experiments that address important questions related to the cause, progression, diagnosis... Read More A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada join forces for an 8th year to Beat MS $1 from every Teen Burger® sold across Canada will go towards helping those living with MS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER, BC – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. celebrates Burgers to Beat MS day on Thursday, August 25 th to help Canadians living with MS. For an 8 th year, $1 from every Teen Burger®... Read More MS breakthrough: Replacing diseased immune system halts progression and allows repair MS breakthrough: Replacing diseased immune system halts progression and allows repair Clinical trial suggests chemo and blood stem cell combination therapy should be considered for people with early, aggressive MS JUNE 9, 2016 – OTTAWA, CANADA – A clinical trial published in The Lancet, a top medical... Read More Marilyn Lenzen receives prestigious Canada’s Volunteer Award June 9, 2016 – Toronto, ON – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is proud to acknowledge the important work of long-time volunteer Marilyn Lenzen and her recent awarding of the regional Community Leader award as part of Canada’s Volunteer Awards (CVA). As a Community Leader regional award recipient, Read More MS Society of Canada endorses Conference Board of Canada report on labour force participation May 24, 2016 – Toronto, ON – On the eve of World MS Day (May 25), the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada announced its endorsement of a new report by the Conference Board of Canada – Multiple Sclerosis in the Workplace: Supporting Successful Employment Experiences . The report drives home the importance... Read More Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shows support for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis May 4, 2016 – Toronto, ON – Earlier today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with members of the MS community and representatives from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada to mark MS Awareness Month (May) and to demonstrate his support for all Canadians impacted by the disease. The Prime Minister... Read More People living with MS are taking control of their disease Theme of “Independence” centre stage during MS Awareness Month April 28, 2016 – Toronto, ON – Whether it’s sharing experiences online, influencing research, or lobbying government for increased support for those with chronic illness, people with multiple sclerosis are taking control of how they manage... Read More MS Society of Canada takes to Parliament Hill to press for further action in support of Canadians impacted by multiple sclerosis Focus on secure employment and income supports and accelerated investment in MS research Toronto, ON – April 26, 2016 – From May 2-4, 2016 representatives from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and members of the MS community will meet with a range of parliamentarians in Ottawa to launch MS Awareness... Read More MS Society of Canada and The Centre for Drug Research and Development to Accelerate Promising New Therapeutics for Progressive MS Toronto and Vancouver, Canada – February 16, 2016 — National organizations, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (MS Society) and The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) are pleased to announce the launch of two new innovative drug development programs in the fight against multiple sclerosis... Read More MS Society of Canada offers transformational scholarship opportunity for youth affected by multiple sclerosis $25,000 awarded to youth pursuing a post-secondary education in areas of science, technology, engineering or math February 3, 2016 – Toronto – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is proud to announce the John Helou Scholarship – made possible through the generous support of Pfizer and Innovative... Read More 2016 endMS Conference The MS Society of Canada is proud to announce that the 2016 endMS Conference will be held in Toronto, Ontario at the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel from December 6th to 9th . The endMS Conference is a national research conference aimed to foster knowledge exchange on MS-related research, networking... Read More MS Research Year in Review: 2015 Promising announcements & discoveries in the areas of new treatment avenues, progressive MS, wellness & cause January 14, 2016 – Toronto, ON – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and affiliated Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation (MSSRF) are committed to funding research that will... Read More MS Society receives prestigious accreditation under the Imagine Canada Standards program Organization has achieved and demonstrated compliance with more than 70 standards December 14, 2015 – Toronto, ON – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is pleased to announce that it has received accreditation under the Imagine Canada Standards , a program that awards charities and non-profits... Read More MS Society funds research to explore role of gut in pediatric MS MS Society funds new research to explore the role of the gut in pediatric multiple sclerosis November 23, 2015 – Vancouver, BC – As few as five per cent of new cases of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are diagnosed in children, but to better understand the disease, children may be our brightest source of hope. Read More MS research to get major boost from Waugh Family Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Research to get major boost from Waugh Family Foundation $2M gift will build world class research program in Winnipeg November 12, 2015 - Winnipeg, MB - The University of Manitoba and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada are pleased to announce a $2 million investment in multiple... Read More Consultations on Future Legislation re: Medical Assistance in Dying (Updated June 2016) In February 2015, the Supreme Court made a historic decision to lift Canada’s ban on medical assistance in dying. With this decision, the Supreme Court has sent a clear and strong message to legislatures that medical assistance in dying must be permitted for a carefully defined subset... Read More Collaborative Network Planning Awards Granted as Part of €22 Million Global Effort to End Progressive Multiple Sclerosis International Progressive MS Alliance removing barriers and fueling worldwide collaboration to find solutions and treatments for progressive MS September 22, 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The International Progressive MS Alliance has awarded its second round of 11 grants to collaborative teams of scientists, Read More The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is asking an important question this election: Will you #ElectToFight? Toronto, ON – September 10, 2015 – Regardless of what political party you are voting for, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is asking you to #ElectToFight for multiple sclerosis this fall. Building on an earlier awareness campaign , the MS Society of Canada, with help from voters across our... Read More MS Society Peer Support Program - Volunteers wanted The MS Society will be launching an exciting new nation-wide Peer Support Program! This program will match trained volunteers with peers who approach the MS Society looking for support from someone who has ‘been there’. While the MS Society can provide evidence based information, this program will complement... Read More Each year the MS Society seeks the necessary scientific expertise required to review applications that are submitted to the annual research grants and awards competition. In 2012, an initiative was launched to involve people in the MS community – termed Community Representatives – in the review process. Read More Health NGOs endorse premier think tank’s roadmap for economic integration of Canadians with serious illness For Immediate Release Toronto, ON – September 3, 2015 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (MS Society) and Canadian Caregiver Coalition are pleased with the recommendations in the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)’s report, titled “ Leaving Some Behind: What Happens When Workers... Read More A&W Restaurants and Guests across Canada raise $1.5M to End MS A&W Restaurants and Guests across Canada raise $1.5 million to End MS A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada thank restaurants and guests from coast to coast for their support FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER, BC - September 3, 2015 - A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. is proud to announce that its 7th... Read More A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada team up for a 7th year to End MS $1 from every Teen Burger ® sold across Canada will go towards helping those living with MS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER, BC – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. (TSE: AW.UN) celebrates its 7 th annual Cruisin’ to End MS day tomorrow, Thursday, August 27 th , to help Canadians living with MS. On this... Read More Wellness Questionnaire The research department is looking to launch a request for applications focused on wellness, in particular the role of nutrition, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in MS. Part of this effort involves gathering feedback from people affected by MS, to ensure that their voices and personal experiences... Read More Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Network gets boost FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Network gets boost with $3.2 million grant Funding to help expand pediatric multiple sclerosis research and further insight into the disease at any age July 29, 2015 -- Toronto -- The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple... Read More RBC Golf Challenge for MS In 20 years, this unique golf event has raised $353,935 to end multiple sclerosis Montreal, June 30, 2015 – On Monday, the 20 th RBC Golf Challenge for MS was held; 75 golfers took over the greens at the Château Bromont, Royal Bromont and Parcours du Vieux Village golf clubs. The event’s participants played 100 holes or 250 strokes of golf during the day and donated $353,935 to the... Read More MS Sevens Rugby Tournament Raised $5,500 for MS - BC and Yukon DIvision (SURREY, BC) The MS Sevens Rugby Tournament was held at the South Surrey Athletic Park on the Bayside Rugby Club field on May 31. The event raised $5,500 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada BC and Yukon Division. “We chose to fundraise for MS because both Taylor Stogryn’s grandma and my grandma... Read More Thank you to caregivers! A sincere thank you to those caregivers who took the time to participate in the joint survey offered by the Alzheimer Society, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, and Parkinson Society Canada. With your voice, together we can have greater impact. You told us what information and topics are important... Read More Paying Tribute to an Inspiration 99-year-old Jessie Lang fights MS in her daughter’s memory “Forever Wendy” is the name of the MS Walk team that honours Jessie Lang’s daughter Wendy, who lived with MS for 30 years. Through volunteering, advocacy work, philanthropy and many other forms of outreach, Jessie and her daughter, Signy Hansen, Read More An oil change on Mother’s Day weekend can help someone with MS May 6, 2015 – Vancouver, BC – This weekend, Canadians can take the front seat in helping the 100,000 Canadians who live with multiple sclerosis. From May 8 to May 10, Mr. Lube Canada will donate $2 from every oil change performed at any Mr. Lube location across the country as part of “ Mr.Lube Ending... Read More MS Society of Canada challenges Canadians to join #TeamFight during MS Awareness Month For Immediate Release Toronto -- April 30, 2015 -- Earlier this year, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada launched a bold new awareness campaign asking all Canadians whether they would flee or fight when faced with the fact that Canada has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world. In... Read More Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada applauds Federal Government’s support for caregivers and accessibility, presses for further action Toronto, ON -- April 28, 2015 -- The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (MS Society) applauds the recently announced federal budget, noting that several of its provisions will make a significant difference in the lives of those who need support. While congratulating the government on the compassionate... Read More Canada: World leader in hockey, maple syrup and multiple sclerosis MS Society of Canada asks Canadians whether they will flee or fight when it comes to MS Toronto -- March 25, 2015 -- A bold new awareness campaign led by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is asking Canadians whether they will flee or fight when presented with the fact that Canada has the highest... Read More Grand Erie Chapter is Formed The Brant County Chapter and the Simcoe-Norfolk Unit of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada have joined forces! In an effort to improve access and provide more consistent service to all people living with MS in our region, we are pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2015, these two chapters came... Read More Funding Decisions – MS Society of Canada 2015 Annual Research Grants and Awards Competitions The MS Society of Canada is pleased to announce the funding decisions for the October 1, 2014 research grants and awards competitions. To view the funding decision please refer to the MS Society’s Funding Announcements web page. Read More First Canadian clinical trial studying ability of mesenchymal stem cells to treat multiple sclerosis Researchers enrolling participants at sites in Winnipeg and Ottawa January 29, 2015 – Toronto – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation announced today a $4.2 million grant in support of the MEsenchymal Stem cell therapy for CAnadian MS patients... Read More Lizelle Mendoza: Young, Vibrant & Living Life to the Fullest Imagine waking up one day with a large black spot in your eye. For many living with MS, this is a familiar experience. However, for Lizelle Mendoza, it was a little bit different; she was only 11 years old when it happened to her. For years, Lizelle and her family had no idea what was wrong. Her blurry... Read More Remyelination: The next frontier in progressive MS research "Approved therapies for multiple sclerosis work by reducing the initial myelin injury — they do not promote myelin regeneration. My research supported in part by the MS Society of Canada could help find new drug targets to enhance myelin regeneration and help to restore lost function in people with... Read More Reframing a diagnosis: What can be learned from MS Written by guest contributor, Nancy Chamberlayne, M.Ed. I knew I needed a purpose, to contribute and feel stimulated, to always feel like I’m learning. Volunteering allows me to accomplish all these things, but at a pace that lets me manage my MS. Reframing a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis as an opportunity... Read More 2015 MS Calendar of Hope - Saskatchewan Each year, the MS Society of Canada - Saskatchewan Division creates the MS Calendar of Hope to share stories of people whose lives have been affected by MS. Some stories feature those living with MS themselves. Others feature caregivers, volunteers, fundraisers, or community sponsors. These people all... Read More Living Well: Mindfulness meditation for MS Mindfulness is the practice of maintaining moment-to-moment awareness of our experiences, thoughts and feelings. Through meditation, we may train ourselves to be mindful by focusing on our breathing and noting our thoughts without judgment. Mindfulness facilitates a full sensation of the present and... Read More It takes a community When Fred Franklin was having balance and mobility issues three years ago, he thought an old back injury might be to blame. It wasn’t; a specialist told him he had progressive multiple sclerosis, a diagnosis that had eluded his doctors for years. Fred says the news was shocking. He used to run his own... Read More Legacy Giving with Jim and Diane Butlin "It's a chance to give back in a big way." - Jim and Diane Butlin talk about why they support the MS Society “The MS Society helped me understand my disease and continues to help and support both me and my family,” says Jim, explaining why he supports the MS Society both as an active fundraiser and... Read More The Ripple Effect: MS as a family disease "We did everything we could as a family to get answers. My mom’s MS progressed quickly. Not only was walking difficult, but a whole suite of new symptoms appeared. I was terrified ." Written by guest contributor, Cheryl Hickey, host, Entertainment Tonight I feel like I don’t have the right to be mad... Read More MS Society-CDRD collaboration advances promising research targeting progressive multiple sclerosis Work of Dr. Craig Moore (Memorial University) to identify and validate novel drug targets Toronto, ON - Development of new therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is getting a boost this fall as the first project funded through the MS Society of Canada-Centre for Drug Research and Development... Read More Racing to End MS Team Hume, from Hume Media Inc., will participate in Targa Newfoundland 2014 for their sixth consecutive year in September! Over the past five years, Team Hume has raised $115,000 which has gone towards leading edge research for the MS Society of Canada. This year they have currently raised $20,450... Read More Prime Minister Stephen Harper Makes a Stop in Whitehorse for A&W Cruisin' to End MS TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 21, 2014) - Earlier today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ryan Leef, Member of Parliament for Yukon visited the A&W in Whitehorse as part of the Prime Minister's tour of Northern Canada. The Prime Minister applauded the efforts of the A&W team and highlighted... Read More A&W Canada and the MS Society of Canada team up for the 6th Annual Cruisin' to End MS $1 from every Teen Burger® sold across Canada will go towards helping those living with MS VANCOUVER, BC – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. (TSE: AW.UN) celebrates its 6th annual Cruisin’ to End MS day tomorrow to benefit and raise awareness for Canadians living with MS. One dollar from every Teen Burger®... Read More Advances in stem cell research Alex was a 24-year-old medical student when he was diagnosed with an advancing form of multiple sclerosis. “As my disabilities became more permanent, I realized my chosen therapy wasn’t working,” Alex says. “I knew I needed a more aggressive option to slow down my progression.” In the year 2000, the... Read More Multiple sclerosis is Canada’s disease – 100,000 Canadians have MS, and Canada has the highest rate of MS in the world. As the country’s advocate for people with MS, we’re proud to fund some of the best research in the world and programs and services that help people with MS live well. In 2013, we funded... Read More An oil change during Mother's Day weekend helps someone with MS May 7, 2014 – Vancouver, BC – This weekend, Canadians can take the front seat in helping the 100,000 Canadians who live with multiple sclerosis. From May 9 to May 11, Mr. Lube Canada will donate $2 from every oil change performed at any Mr. Lube location across the country as part of “Mr. Lube Ending... Read More Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada receives $50,000 Medtronic Health Access Grant Grant recognizes local organizations committed to expanding access to healthcare for the underserved Brampton, ON - April 22, 2014 - The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and Medtronic of Canada today announced a two-year, $50,000 Health Access Grant from Medtronic Philanthropy to increase the distribution... Read More Accelerating the pace of research to end MS MS Society of Canada and The Centre for Drug Research and Development partner to focus on MS research for future MS therapies Request for Proposals: Developing Drugs for Progressive Multiple Sclerosis February 24, 2014 – Vancouver, BC – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and The Centre for Drug... Read More B cell study may lead to treatment options for progressive MS MS Society of Canada and MS Scientific Research Foundation announce $3.6 million grant to understanding B cells for future MS therapies February 18, 2014 – Toronto – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation announced a $3.6 million grant to investigate... Read More Canada has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world Help turn hope into reality with this year’s matching gift challenge Listen to radio public service announcement on the year-end giving challenge. December 5, 2013 – Toronto, ON – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada invites Canadians to take part in a year-end matching gift challenge for which... Read More A&W's Cruisin' for a Cause Raises $5 Million Over 5 Years A&W Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada thank Canadians for their outstanding support August 29, 2013 – VANCOUVER, BC – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. is proud to announce its 5 th annual Cruisin’ for a Cause , held last week on August 22, raised more than $1.45 million in support... Read More A&W and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada team up to end MS for the 5th Annual Cruisin’ for a Cause $1 from every Teen Burger ® sold across Canada will go towards helping those living with MS August 21, 2013 – VANCOUVER, BC – A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. (TSE: AW.UN) celebrates its 5 th annual Cruisin’ for a Cause tomorrow to benefit and raise awareness for Canadians living with MS. One dollar... Read More Mr. Lube Ending MS…One Drop at a Time Campaign seeks to raise funds to help Canadians living with multiple sclerosis May 9, 2013 – Vancouver, BC – Mr. Lube Canada will host “Mr. Lube Ending MS… One Drop at a Time” to increase awareness of multiple sclerosis and help raise funds for those affected by the disease. From May 10 to May 12, a... Read More 1 Day in May raises awareness about daily realities of multiple sclerosis May 1, 2013 – Toronto, Ontario – Multiple sclerosis is a complex disease. The symptoms of MS vary and often times cannot be seen. This May, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada launches 1 Day in May , a campaign to raise awareness about MS and the lives of Canadians impacted by the disease. Every... Read More Inspiring individuals recognized for work on MS Vancouver glee club and Ontario caregiver among recipients of MS Society National Awards Toronto, ON – April 11, 2013 – The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 National Awards in honour of their dedication to ending MS and supporting people affected... Read More Securing a brighter future for multiple sclerosis research in Canada $60 million raised to drive pace to end MS Read the endMS Impact Report March 6, 2013 – Toronto, Ontario – Through the dedicated efforts of people affected by MS across the country and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, more than $60 million was raised to secure a brighter future for MS research... Read More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1599
__label__wiki	0.520607	0.520607	Archiv: Go! Go! Go! With Iran war powers resolution, Kaine finds new way to push his signature issue He got a major break Wednesday when Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Rand Paul (Ky.) told reporters they’d back his effort. Since then, Kaine said, he has spoken with eight or nine more senators from the 53-member GOP caucus, with more meetings planned. He needs 51 votes for the resolution to pass. A vote could come as soon as Tuesday. Kaine said he has agreed to remove references to President Trump from the resolution — it would, of course, apply to all presidents — and to make other technical changes. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2002 / Iraq Invasion, Constitutions, corporate / zombie democrats, delay tactics / retardation / bureaucratic resistance, Democratic Party (USA), Go! Go! Go!, power struggles, presidents (executive branch), resolutions / motions, the American Left, Tim Kaine, Trump Iran campaign election year 2020 / Soleimani assassination, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber), US Senate (Congress chamber), votes und war powers (act) / Kriegsermächtigung. 11.12.2019 - 10:22 [ Michael ‏/ Twitter ] We need you here in Iowa…not in January, right now! We’re aiming to knock 35,000+ doors this weekend and we need your help. Can you drive here this weekend? Take a bus? Book a train ticket? Go to berniesanders.com/iowa and find an office nearest you. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Bernie Sanders, booting Trump, Democratic Party (USA), Go! Go! Go!, Iowa, primaries / caucuses, the American Left, US presidential election 2020 und who gets Iowa gets the nomination / presidency. 29.08.2019 - 09:01 [ Tamer Nafar / Haaretz ] I Can Barely Feel Israel’s Democracy, but I’m Still Going to Vote in Its Election There are basically two regimes: a democratic regime for Jews and a fascist regime for Arabs; a democratic regime that promises someone like the racist rapper „The Shadow“ unlimited freedom of expression and makes a lawmaker like Hazan into a superstar of incitement. Nor do we see the public or law enforcement get worked up when some Jews shamelessly permit our killing and literally define us as their slaves. Do I really need to explain how the state treats us? Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, booting Netanyahu, favourites, Go! Go! Go!, Israel election September 2019, Joint List, Tamer Nafar und the Israeli Left. Fighting to Get Out the Arab Vote: A Grassroots Movement in Israel Is Gaining Steam According to an internal poll commissioned by Coalition 17/9, were the election held today, 56 percent of eligible Arab voters would cast their ballot. That’s a considerable improvement over the last election but still a long way to go. Swaid believes the reunification of the Joint List is the main factor behind this positive trend. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, booting Netanyahu, Go! Go! Go!, grassroots, Israel election September 2019, Joint List, social movements und the Israeli Left. 26.07.2019 - 10:56 [ Times of Israel ] Third Arab-majority party backs proposal to resuscitate Joint List The Joint List won 13 seats in the 120-member Knesset in 2015. Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am-Balad in April separately won a total of 10 seats. Arab Israeli voters turned out in dramatically lower numbers for April’s vote compared to that of 2015. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, Balad (member of Joint List), disastrous inabilities, Go! Go! Go!, Hadash (member of Joint List), Israel election September 2019, Joint List, Ra’am (United Arab List) (member of Joint List), Ta'al (member of Joint List) und the Israeli Left. 25.06.2019 - 20:01 [ Kommunistische Partei von Israel ] Hadash and Arab Parties Reunite for Upcoming General Elections Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) and three political parties representing the Arab-Palestinian national minority in Israel, Ta’al, Ra’am and Balad, have announced they will reunite for the upcoming Knesset elections. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, Avichai Mandelblit, Balad (member of Joint List), corruption, extreme right-wing crazies, Go! Go! Go!, Hadash (member of Joint List), Israel election September 2019, Joint List, Knesset, Netanyahu, Ra’am (United Arab List) (member of Joint List), state crimes, Ta'al (member of Joint List), the Israeli Left und unbloody bloodbaths. 14.06.2019 - 10:23 [ Channel Brexit / Youtube ] #LeaveMeansLeaveMarch #BrexitMarch #BrexitBetrayal Paul Embery, „We need civil disobedience.“ (Leave Means Leave March) Paul Embery @ Leave Means Leave March, 29th March. Nachrichten Kategorie: Kontinent Europa / Continent Europe. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (pre-)history, dismissals / bootings, EU exit, favourites, Fire Brigades Union (UK), Go! Go! Go!, Großbritannien / United Kingdom (UK), Lexiteers, mainstream left / contras, never shall be slaved, paneuropean ideology, Paul Embery, sovereignty / independence, speeches / remarks / rallies, the British Left, The Intereuropean Left und True Labour. Jew, Arab in Joint Meretz Leadership Bid; Labor Chairman Quits Political Life The joint candidacy will require a change to the party’s constitution to allow two people to run together for chairman. The party leadership primary is scheduled for June 27, and two weeks later there will be elections for the party Knesset slate. “The Israeli left needs hope in the form of a true Jewish-Arab partnership, said Freige. “The Arab public showed confidence in Meretz during the last election and now we must enhance the partnership in the form of a strong and influential Arab-Jewish left.” Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, Esawi Freige, Go! Go! Go!, interfaith / interethnic cooperation, Israel election September 2019, Meretz, Mossi Raz, the better-late-than-nevers und the Israeli Left. New Election in Israel Are the Golden Opportunity for Arab Parties In the April 9 election, voter turnout in the Arab community fell to less than 50 percent, and United Arab List-Balad received only 3.3 percent of all the votes cast, just 0.05 percent above the minimum vote threshold to enter the Knesset. The Arab parties won 10 seats in the present Knesset, compared to 13 in the previous one when they ran together as the Joint List. Moreover, 27 percent of the voters opted for Zionist parties, and Meretz in particular. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, Balad (member of Joint List), dumbasses, extreme right-wing crazies, extreme suckers / cowards, Go! Go! Go!, Hadash (member of Joint List), interfaith / interethnic cooperation, Israel, Israel election September 2019, Joint List, Netanyahu, no collaboration, Ta'al (member of Joint List) und the Israeli Left. 31.05.2019 - 09:09 [ Tulsi 2020 New Hampshire ‏/ Twitter ] New DNC rules came out today for the next round of debates. We will need 130,000 unique donors and 2%+ in 4 qualifying polls. If you have not donated yet and want to see Tulsi’s message of of peace, aloha, and service above self, continue, please donate: Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Aggressive Progressives, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Go! Go! Go!, grassroots donors, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), the American Left, they change the rules when they cannot prevail by the rules, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020. Israeli Arabs Who Refuse to Vote Are Handing Netanyahu Victory on a Silver Platter According to a report on Israeli voters issued last month by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israeli Arabs comprise 16 percent of the total electorate. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, Go! Go! Go! und Israel election April 2019. 09.04.2019 - 12:30 [ Tamer Nafar / Youtube ] Tamer Must Vote – (تامر مجبور يصوت (الفاشي ماشي Lyrics & performance: Tamer Nafar Script: Tamer Nafar & Udi Aloni Special Guest Appearance: Lamis Ammar Producers: Reut Mor, Udi Aloni, Tamer Nafar Director and Editor: Eliav Lilti Line Producer: Ruty Klein Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, arts / artists, Go! Go! Go!, Israel election April 2019, Palestinians und Tamer Nafar. Boycott Israel’s Election? A Palestinian Rapper Says No Frustrated over their choices in the Israeli election, and at Arab politicians whom they describe as ineffective, some Palestinian citizens of Israel have been gathering popular support for a boycott of Tuesday’s ballot. But a well-known Palestinian hip-hop artist released a powerful new video on Thursday pushing back on the boycott, urging Arab citizens not to waste their votes — and expressing hope that a strong turnout on Tuesday could help send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu packing, or even “to prison.” Leftists, Flock to the Polls in Droves Thus, Netanyahu is repeating the same trick he used to great success during the previous election in 2015, when he riled up voters on Election Day by stating, “Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves,” in order to motivate right-wing voters to go out and vote, and save his government. The only difference is that in this campaign, the leftists are filling the Arabs’ role. Instead of being insulted again by the prime minister’s crass style, those who oppose him need to do exactly what the prime minister fears: Vote in droves. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: elections, Go! Go! Go!, Hadash (member of Joint List), Israel, Ta'al (member of Joint List) und the Israeli Left. Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Arab-Israelis, elections, Go! Go! Go!, Israel und Tamer Nafar. 06.04.2019 - 20:09 [ Communist Party of Israel ] Last Polls Cast Uncertain Picture; Hadash-Ta’al to Win 7 to 8 Seats According one poll published by Kan News on Thursday, April 4, the Likud would be the largest party in the 21st Knesset with 31 seats if the elections were held on the same day that the survey was conducted. The Blue and White party would come in second place with 30 seats, and Hadash-Ta’al and the Labor Party would tie for third place, winning eight Knesset seats each.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1602
__label__wiki	0.859099	0.859099	Thendral Radio 91.2 MHz Nalamdana History Nalamdana was registered as a Charitable Trust in 1993 and an office was set up in a small rented flat by April 1994. Uttara Bharath became executive trustee and Nithya Balaji, one of the original trustees, took over from her later in 1996. Jeeva and his core group also joined the Board. Since 1993, this creative collaboration has created street plays on a variety of health issues, and Nalamdana has reached more than half a million people through street theatre, and many more through other media like tele-dramas, interactive media and print. Nalamdana’s performances are targeted at a semi literate and illiterate audience in rural and urban Tamil Nadu. In ten years, we have covered more than 50 villages in Tamil Nadu and about 500 inner city slums in Chennai. Uttara Bharath founded Nalamdana with a seed grant from the Echoing Green Foundation in New York, with the idea of designing innovative communication methods to deliver social messages to illiterate audiences. Uttara was looking to use entertaining methods of creating awareness of health issues and of reaching out to audiences. R.Jeevanandam, a double graduate from Madurai, and his group of friends were already using street plays to create health awareness in and around Madurai. Since their college days they had done plays on health issues: tuberculosis, general health, HIV AIDS: had worked in truck stops through the nights, creating awareness of safe sex. A serendipitous encounter between Uttara and Jeeva while waiting to meet the officials of another NGO led to the first street show on ‘Health and Hygiene” in a Chennai slum in 1994. The response to that first play was so overwhelming that Jeeva and his friends moved permanently from Madurai to Chennai. Reporting & Transparency Nalamdana is a non political, non religious registered charitable trust in India – with tax exemption and permission to receive foreign donations. Friends of Nalamdana is a registered 501(c) 3 charity in the United States. We are listed on Guidestar and Charity Navigator. All local regulatory laws have been observed and audited balance sheets and reports are annually filed. Donations in the US and India are tax-deductible. You may review an interim Annual Report here and examine our 2015 Financial Statement here. Nalamdana uses innovative and entertaining communication methods to empower marginalized and vulnerable individuals, and groups with information, skills and motivation to improve the health and wellbeing and that of their families. Nalamdana believes that the access to correct and complete information is everyone’s basic right and the key to making informed decisions that prevent disease and promote wellness. 4/192 Ellai Amman Kovil Street Neelankarai, Chennai 600 041 Phone: +91-44-2449-3772 or 2449-1422 jeevanandham@nalamdana.in Nalamdana, meaning "Are you well?" in Tamil, is a non-profit organization based in Chennai, South India. Nalamdana explores the full range of communicative possibilities to reach out to people. These include response-driven participatory street theatre, interactive games and puzzles, audio and feature films, television serials and small group workshops (in schools, colleges and workplaces). Nalamdana is a non political, non religious registered charitable trust in India - with tax exemption and permission to receive foreign donations. Friends of Nalamdana is a registered 501(c) 3 charity in the United States. All local regulatory laws have been observed and audited balance sheets and reports are annually filed. Donations in the US and India are tax-deductible. Contact us on info@nalamdana.in Home / Projects / News / About / Privacy Policy / Contact	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1604
__label__wiki	0.682703	0.682703	German Intel Chief Pledges to Spy On ALL Children To 'Prevent Terrorism' Hans-Georg Maassen said children are 'ticking timebombs' By: Daniel Newton \|@NeonNettle on&nbsp31st January 2018 @ 7.15pm Germany's domestic intelligence chief has pledged to put all children under surveillance Germany's domestic intelligence chief has pledged to put all children under surveillance in order to stop them being brainwashed into terrorism. Hans-Georg Maassen said that children growing up around Islamic State ideology could transform them into "ticking timebombs" "We see that children who grew up with Islamic State were brainwashed in the schools and the kindergartens of IS," he said. "They were confronted early with the IS ideology... learned to fight, and were in some cases forced to participate in the abuse of prisoners, or even the killing of prisoners." RT.com reports: A supporter of an ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim group sets up a stand handing out German-language versions of the Koran at the Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin, April 14, 2012. © Tobias SchwarzNumber of violence-prone Islamists in Berlin grew more than four times in 6 years – report Maassen went on to say that "we have to consider that these children could be living time bombs... there is a danger that these children come back brainwashed with a mission to carry out attacks." The intelligence chief said Germany should review laws which currently restrict the surveillance of minors under the age of 14, in order to be prepared for the risk that children returning to the country could potentially plot terrorist attacks. However, Maassen himself stated that only a small number of the 290 children and toddlers who left Germany or were born in Syria or Iraq have so far returned to the country. Overall, nearly 1,000 people are believed to have left Germany to join IS militants abroad. Maassen also stressed that brainwashing isn't confined to areas where Islamic State is strong. He said the group is continuing to target young people in Germany online, often through propaganda aimed to get them to join the jihadist group. "Islamic State uses headhunters who scour the internet for children that can be approached and tries to radicalize these children, or recruit these children for terrorist attacks," he said. It's not the first time that Maassen has warned of the potential threats posted by returning children. In October, he said the situation "could allow a new generation of jihadists to be raised here (Germany)." He encouraged members of the public to "take a very serious look" at the threat, and to call the BfV hotline if they noticed anything suspicious. The radicalization of minors has long been a hot topic in Germany, as three of the five Islamist attacks that occurred in Germany in 2016 were carried out by minors. That same year, a 12-year-old boy was also detained after trying to bomb a Christmas market and city hall. tags: surveillance \| CCTV Leaked Surveillance Cameras Show 'Trapped Children' at Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Disturbing images from Little Saint James in the Caribbean. 11th June 2018 @ 6.15pm Portland Blocks FBI’s Terrorist Surveillance to Protect Left-Wing Activists Liberal Oregon city stops agents keeping tabs on activists suspected of plotting terrorism 14th February 2019 @ 4.00pm Interview: Alec Empire On The NSA, Surveillance & The Future Of Music Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot get political 17th March 2015 @ 4.08pm First EVER CCTV Footage Video Emerges Of Barcelona Attack video taken from museum in Las Ramblas 18th August 2017 @ 6.34pm Edward Snowden Calls on Donald Trump to Veto Key Public Surveillance Tool American whistleblower calls for public release of FISA abuses memo 20th January 2018 @ 11.58am 11th June 2018 @ 6.15PM 14th February 2019 @ 4.00PM 17th March 2015 @ 4.08PM 20th January 2018 @ 11.58AM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1613
__label__wiki	0.647846	0.647846	No Agenda Player There are no notifications. This site requires JavaScript to be enabled in your browser. No Agenda 864: Putin Popularity Poll Executive Producer: Nicholas Nafpliotis -> Sir Nikos of the American Mid West, Elliot Serena, Matthew Eskridge, Matthew Clay Associate Executive Producer: James Flesch, Jayson Wall, Sir Fish-Steve Fisher, Jillian Romagosa, Douwe Andela, David M, Christian Castro Artist: Cesium137 Current Location: [Start of Show] http://naplay.it/864 0:00 [Start of Show] http://naplay.it/864 - 0:55 Commuter Train Crash in New Jersey http://naplay.it/864/0:55 3:29 First 2016 Presidential Debate http://naplay.it/864/3:29 26:43 Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Controversy with Trump http://naplay.it/864/26:43 36:37 Media Coverage of the Presidential Debate http://naplay.it/864/36:37 42:06 Obama: If You Vote for a Third Party Candidate it's a Vote for Trump http://naplay.it/864/42:06 43:58 Gary Johnson Grilled About Foreign Leaders by Chris Matthews http://naplay.it/864/43:58 48:24 More Media Coverage of the Presidential Debate http://naplay.it/864/48:24 1:01:57 [Executive Producer Segment] http://naplay.it/864/1:01:57 1:19:15 Congress Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill http://naplay.it/864/1:19:15 1:50:01 Report: US Weapons Sent to Syrian Rebels End Up With Terrorists http://naplay.it/864/1:50:01 2:01:10 MH17 Report: Plane Downed by Buk Missile from Russia http://naplay.it/864/2:01:10 2:08:50 Hillary Clinton IT Specialist 'Stonetear' Caught Asking How To Destroy Evidence http://naplay.it/864/2:08:50 2:15:40 Sheila Jackson Lee: Ban Automatic Weapons http://naplay.it/864/2:15:40 2:18:50 [Donation Segment] http://naplay.it/864/2:18:50 2:30:30 Supreme Court Allows FBI to Hack Any Computer Anywhere With a Warrant http://naplay.it/864/2:30:30 2:38:50 ISIS Members Arrested Across Europe for Spreading Propaganda http://naplay.it/864/2:38:50 2:40:34 EU Migration Policy Has Only Relocated 5000 People http://naplay.it/864/2:40:34 2:42:33 NATO Secretary General: An EU Defensive Force Makes NATO Stronger http://naplay.it/864/2:42:33 2:43:34 NY and NJ Bomb Suspect’s Dad Contacted FBI in 2014 http://naplay.it/864/2:43:34 2:46:20 [Clip of the Day] http://naplay.it/864/2:46:20 2:48:55 Elon Musk Announces Plan to Populate Mars http://naplay.it/864/2:48:55 2:50:27 South Carolina Playground Shooting http://naplay.it/864/2:50:27 2:53:16 The 'Thoughts and Prayers' App http://naplay.it/864/2:53:16 Tip: Use the spacebar to play/pause audio and the arrow keys to seek forward and backward. You have clicked on a link that starts playing an episode of the No Agenda Show from a specified timestamp. Click Play to start listening.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1615
__label__cc	0.505785	0.494215	Noosa Orchestra where music comes alive “There is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra.” Carmine Coppola – composer/flautist Noosa Orchestra, established in 2010 by Silvi Eckley, has attracted talented players from all over the Sunshine Coast and is now recognised as an important part of Noosa’s musical scene. Under the direction of celebrated conductor, Antoni Bonetti, the ensemble has matured into a well respected classical/pops orchestra, attracting national and international soloists including Simon Tedeschi (piano), and Warwick Adeney (violin) whose recent concerts were sold out in Noosa. The Orchestra has two youth groups - the Noosa String Ensemble and the Noosa Mini Strings who also play at our concerts. Our Performances The Orchestra performs three concerts a year in Noosa usually with a second performance a week later in various venues in the Sunshine Coast hinterland (e.g. Cooroy). We and our audiences have a lot of fun with varied programs from Vivaldi to Led Zeppelin, Bach to Star Wars, and Beethoven to Les Miserables ! Our programs appeal to a wide range of musical tastes! Meet the Soloists At the Noosa Orchestra we are fortunate to welcome and promote the aspiring talents of each of our performers. We are delighted to introduce the soloists for our 2019 performances. At just 15 years, Beatrice is already accomplished on the world stage. Visiting us from London where he is currently studying and performing. A young, accomplished cellist to give a lively performance of Saint Saens Cello Concerto Buy Your Tickets... Tickets : $27.50 Concession: $25.00 Students: $7.50 Copyright © 2020 Noosa Orchestra — Mins WordPress theme by GoDaddy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1617
__label__cc	0.677939	0.322061	Home News Sports What is kaatsen? The kaatsen season begins in Weidum in Friesland this weekend, but what exactly is this idiosyncratic Frisian sporting spectacular? With a pitch that could be from Quidditch, a series of rules that seem straightforward only to those who play Eaton Fives, and a history that stretches more than 100 years, kaatsen is Friesland’s most popular sporting experiences. In essence, it is Frisian handball, but it could easily be mistaken for a lawn tennis tournament or a football camp. The major highlight of the Kaatsen season – the ‘Permanent Committee’ event held in Franeker on the 31st of July – is one of the longest running sports tournaments in the world, having first been held in 1854. There’s even a ‘Royal Dutch Kaats Union’ (KNKB), headquartered in Franeker, which is the world authority on kaatsen. The rules are a little complex, as may be expected of such an old game. Each team has three players, and the aim is to score into a box defended by two people from the opposing team. A player serves with their bare hand and tries to get the ball into the scoring box to score: if a defender blocks the shot, or catches the ball, or the server cannot reach the scoring box then a point is given to the ‘defending’ team. Wherever the ball lands is marked with a small wooden block called a kaats, and the point is held to be ‘undecided’. Play then re-starts from the point marked out by the block. Scoring is similar to tennis, but points take the form of 2-4-6-game. Luckily the KNKB has an explainer, complete with diagrams, on its website. Most kaatsen events are styled like a tournament, with the winning team taking home wreaths (which are traditionally hung on the front of their houses), and the best player is named the ‘King of the Tournament’. International equivalents What is perhaps most interesting about this seemingly idiosyncratic game is that it actually has quite a few international equivalents. Belgium and France call is jeu de peloteis played, whilst Spain, Italy, and Latin America have been playing pelotaor llargues for hundreds of years. In the United Kingdom, Eton Fives uses a similar format, albeit with a different court and scoring system. Omrop Fryslân reports that “with the 68th Edition of the Bangmapartij in Weidum on the 28th of April, the 2019 kaatsenseason will begin”. So, if you fancy watching or trying this curiously Frisian high-octane sporting spectacular, check out the KNKB’s calendar of events and get yourself to a kaatsencompetition to see for yourself. Photo source: Das Nili/Wikipedia Tags: frisianhandballkaatsensport Emmer man cleaning up Holocaust memorial ‘Stumbling Stones’ Russian political-punk band Pussy Riot coming to Leeuwarden Thomas Ansell The TT festival in 2020 will not last three, but nine days Groningen volleyball team Lycurgus, former Eredivisie champions, to face Hungarian opposition in the European Challenge Cup TT Circuit Assen hosted most visited race-day of 2019 Grand Prix season Unexpected problems at FC Groningen with schism in management team Soccer woman Vivianne Miedema from Drenthe nominated for Golden Ball Sportsmen from Groningen win World Rapid Draughts Championship 2019 Special revue to cap 90th edition of National Dressage Competition in Drenthe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1618
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Home Life Entertainment Spoiled and Rotten: Hideous Cases of 'Rich Kid Syndrome' These anecdotes might send researchers looking for an affluenza vaccine. By Doug Whiteman facebook-f-brands twitter-brands envelope-light print-light We adhere to strict standards of editorial integrity to help you make decisions with confidence. Please be aware that some of the products and services linked in this article are from our sponsors. Pop culture is filled with rich and entitled brats, from Veruca Salt in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to those arrogant characters James Spader played in his youth to those little darlings who always seemed to get not one but TWO cars as birthday gifts on MTV's "My Super Sweet 16." But chances are you know people in your real life with way too much money for their own good. "Affluenza" is a fairly common affliction, judging from the responses to this question posed on Reddit: What's the worst case of "rich kid syndrome" you've seen? Here are 26 of the most truly hideous cases, in the words of Reddit readers. 26. Lexus nix-us jejim / Shutterstock A Lexus? Are you kidding? Conversation I witnessed with two "rich" kids in my class last semester: Rich Kid 1: "Dude, lets hit up the rink for some shinny hockey later tonight." Rich Kid 2: "I might be late. My dad made me take the Lexus this morning. I'm not showing up in that." Rich Kid 1: (laughs) "I feel you." \| Slaughterhouse451 25. Having his cake and making it, too VGstockstudio / Shutterstock The dude's parents paid him $600,000 a year to work in a supermarket bakery. (I) worked with a guy at a grocery store who made over $600,000 a year. His grandparents left him a hefty trust fund with the stipulation that he had to have a job, which is why he worked at a grocery store. Dropped out of a nice college, because why do that when you can have an easy job making cakes and still pull in that much money? His parents have multiple rental properties in his name as well. I gave him $20 in cash for his birthday, since he wasn't allowed to have cash because "he would just lose it," and he laughed at my piddly $20. Said, "Wanna see what my mom got me?" and shows me $2,000 in $100 bills because she thought the new design looked funny. $2000 as a gag gift....[bleep]! "Well, what did your dad get you?" "Oh, he paid off my car." \| doo138 24. These grandparents deserve a spoiler alert The grandparents wouldn't stop buying crummy little toys. First world problem: My mother- and father-in-law were buying and gifting endless amounts of junk to my kids. Cheap, impractical useless plastic toys, stuffed animals and Disney junk. I'd spoken with them about it time and again to stop, but they just couldn't pass a Walmart without buying some piece of [bleep], then coming over and giving my kids "presents." ... One day my sister-in-law called to announce that she had the perfect solution to my problems. I should stop complaining to/about her parents because : "You just need to buy a bigger house." \| SomeGuyInOttawa 23. Locked into her rich-kid lifestyle pimpisan02 / Shutterstock The girl didn't know how to unlock a car door on her own. When I was younger and in the car with my buddy's family, his mom accidentally locked the car with us still in it and his sister couldn't figure out how to get out. She never had to manually unlock a car door before. \| Dodgeballrocks 22. The pocket poacher Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock The wealthy woman didn't like to carry her own phone. I once had a client in her late 60s who had been extremely rich her entire life, to the point where she had no concept of doing anything for herself. Example: She NEVER carries her own cellphone. Most of the time her personal assistant carries it for her, but one day we were at an event together without her assistant, so she just reached over and dropped her phone into my suit jacket's pocket. Every time it would ring she would just reach in and grab it, then put it back in MY pocket when she was done. This wasn't even something she thought about. If you were near her, you were working for her and your pockets were hers. \| StudioLife 21. Thinking poverty is just an act Denise LeBlanc/Shutterstock The fictional Oliver Twist. The summer before my senior year of high school, I went to a drama camp. (Think "band camp" for kids really in to theatre and the performing arts). ... I met my roommate. I'll call him Richie McSheltered III. He was a nice kid, really. But, he was completely and utterly clueless about how money worked, and how much of it he really had. On our first night in the dorms, we were each laying in our twin beds and doing some "get to know you" small-talk. He mentioned that his father had just gotten a new car, so he was going to take the "old" one. But, he wasn't sure he wanted it. Why not? Well, Daddy had bought a brand new Mercedes and he didn't think it was fair that he was expected to drive around in a one year old Mercedes. When I told him that my car was 14 years old, had over 150,000 miles, and was probably half made of rust, he thought I was doing some improv skit impersonating a poor person. \| del 20. The parking 'ticket' Konstantin L/Shutterstock The family bought homes near school just so their kids could park in the driveways. The high school my husband went to had limited parking for students so there was a lottery every year to see which seniors would get parking spaces and could drive to school. There was a story in the paper about how families were buying up houses near the school so their kids would have a place to park when they drove to school. They weren't living in these houses, mind you, they were just buying them so their kids could park in the driveways. \| awhq 19. Rich and showerful Roman Stetsyk/Shutterstock Why shower with "city water" when you can douse yourself with bottled? Was an RA in college. One of my residents was a rich freshman from Rhode Island. He lives on an island and takes a ferry into town. Anyways, his first week, he asked if there was fresh water available in the shower. I didn't understand what he meant, but apparently he didn't like showering with city water and didn't realize it was everywhere he went. I was so shocked and didn't know what to say that I suggested he used water bottles to clean him. Yeah, he didn't last long. \| elsani 18. Floor-plan furor Photo by Daniel Barnes on Unsplash It was like a freakin' Mexican standoff — over the layout of a new home. In high school I had an acquaintance classmate — we'll call her 'S' — that I sometimes hung out with. Her family was one of the first to ever get a DVD player (this is the early 1990s) and I was amazed that it was hooked up to a projector that could display movies on a screen at least 10 feet wide. That summer her parents took over another company and decided to build a new house on the edge of town. I hadn't seen S in awhile and she invited me over one day. When I got to the new house it was a huge mansion! Inside it was like a freakin' Mexican standoff. S was standing in the large kitchen, hands on hips, staring down her parents and demanding they "change the layout!" ...apparently the design for the house needed to be changed because her new bathroom was in the wrong side of the sitting room, and the sitting room also had to be made to be bigger than her sisters bathroom and sitting room. \| 7upcurly 17. The roommate who had it maid YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock The maid just wouldn't deal with the roommate's stuff. My mom's college roommate had a French maid who tried to toss out all my mom's stuff on move-in day because she didn't get the concept of roommates. As my mother's French was rather weak, she had to physically block the maid until the roommate decided to turn up and explain (to the maid, who still wasn't happy). \| scolfin 16. Really clearing the plates Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH/Shutterstock The guy was ready to throw out the dishes and didn't understand why you'd wash them. Wife went back to college. New city, didn't know anyone. Started a Movie Night thing to meet some people and build a social circle. ... I knew this one guy was from a rich family, his first night there he's bragging to everyone who'll listen about this $30,000+ truck his parents just bought him and telling everybody how awesome he is. After everything is done, we're collecting dishes in the kitchen and he walks over and following me to the kitchen he walks in and puts his dish and silverware in the trash can. "Hey man, what are you doing?" I'm assuming he brain-blanked for a second, no big deal. "Give me the dishes, don't throw em out." It's a ceramic plate, not a paper one. "Why?" He asks, obviously confused. "... I'm going to wash it." "Why?" He repeats. ...Now I'm confused. "So it'll be clean for next time?" "Oh! Like the dining hall. Oh. OK. Sure." \| Allisade 15. The limo scene ESB Basic/Shutterstock Dude, you're serious? You've never been in a limo before? Fraternity did a pledge event in which we were placed in a limo. Normal Friend: "Wow, this is awesome! I've never been in a limo before!" Rich Kid Syndrome Friend: "Haven't you ever been to the airport??" \| AndTheDrumsGoOn 14. Letting others do their dirty work eurobanks/Shutterstock The rich roommates paid other students to do their laundry for them. My first year of college I was accepted into the "honors program", and lived in the "honors dorm." ... I quickly learned that I was a black sheep in this program, as it was all about status and who your parents knew. The first meeting we had as a group our advisors did an "ice breaker" where everyone was to list what countries they had visited, which was their favorite and why. Most had at least six to pick from. (Me: I visited Canada but I also lived on the border so I don't think it counts.) In my suite most of my roommates had never done their own housework and genuinely seemed uncomfortable without some sort of maid. The solution: They paid other students to do their laundry for them. I quit that program by my second year. \| saltydecay 13. No passport? No problem! Javier Brosch/Shutterstock When the family discovered Dad's passport had expired, they just booked a new trip, whatever the cost. The girl I dated in college. I was planning to come visit her over winter break, on the other side of the country, when a snowstorm cancelled my flight. The airline was slammed and couldn't get me out there for about three days - sucks, but whatever. However, she realized that there were flights available on other airlines the next day, and encouraged me to just buy another ticket. She literally couldn't understand when I told her I couldn't afford to do this and that my parents wouldn't just pay for it either. I later found out that the previous year, her family had a trip scheduled to Costa Rica or somewhere like that (out of the country) but when they got to the airport they realized her dad's passport was expired so he couldn't fly. They simply booked a new trip to Hawaii, without even bothering to try and get a refund for the airfare or hotel for the Costa Rica trip. \| AccusedOak04 12. A wreck when it comes to money By Ollyy/Shutterstock Some rich kids are serial car crashers. A kid in my graduating high school class was very wealthy. His parents bought him a Land Rover when he was 16 and he crashed it into a school bus. They bought him another Land Rover and he lost it street racing. Guess what? They bought him a Mercedes. \| NordyNed 11. This is a bad birthday? Quintanilla/Shutterstock Worst. Birthday. Ever. A girl posted about how it was the worst birthday of her life, followed up by "The only bright side is my dad bought me a brand new Jeep" and continued to complain about her terrible day. \| jdl2468 10. Please fund me! Photo by Ariel Lustre on Unsplash Pretty mind boggling on so many levels. I have a friend I went to art school with and we both studied photo. We both coincidentally live in a large city, where I have been working and making art in my spare time for about a decade. She's also been here about that long, but has been fortunate enough to have her father completely underwrite her life — meaning no need to work, and she even has a full in-home darkroom set up in her apartment. Well, Dad finally pulled the plug on the free art life. So, now she is likely going to have to leave our city. Her response was to set up a GoFundMe — to the tune of $11,000 — asking her friends to pitch in to help her renew her lease and pay rent, etc. \| NYArtFan1 9. Shades of greed LightField Studios/Shutterstock That kid has nicer sunglasses than I do. I worked at SunglassHut in south Florida. One day a family of four came in to buy glasses. Now I am used to people having money and buying stupidly expensive sunglasses. But the dad told the kids, who were probably 6 and 4, to get the glasses they wanted. Both grabbed 4 pairs of sunglasses that cost over $250 each. Then both kids pulled out wads of $100 bills to pay for them. \| Flapadoodle 8. No concept of 'broke' Photo by Daniel Monteiro on Unsplash We did not last long. When I was a broke-as-[bleep] bike messenger, I was dating a woman who was heir to a major restaurant fortune. One evening, she wanted to go to a club downtown, and I said I couldn't go because I didn't have any money. She said I should come on anyway so I figured she's footing the bill. When we got to the club and it's time to pay the cover at the door, she pays for herself and starts to walk in. I'm like, "hey — I don't have any money. I can't get in." She comes back out and tells me to just put it on my credit card, but of course I don't have one. The she tells me she'll drive me to an ATM. But of course I don't have a bank account because I'm broke. I'm standing there in the street with her, trying futilely to explain that I literally do not own any money. She could not grasp the concept. I ended up walking home and she went to the club. \| feckinkidleys 7. Not very neighborly Photo by Nichlas Andersen on Unsplash Castle in the sky. I used to work at a wholesale kitchen appliance distributor. It was a multi-million dollar company. The CEO's daughter was my age (23 at the time) and would often come shoot the [bleep] with us in sales. She had a highrise condo by herself downtown, worth about $300,000. After I left, I bumped into one of my old co-workers, and she came up in our conversation. I asked how she was doing, and my co-worker informed me that Daddy bought her another high-rise condo, which was directly across from her current condo, and the only other condo on that floor. Why did she get two highrise condos? Well, she wanted the floor to herself. \| PrimitiveTeabagger 6. Scu-bah! Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash If you can't clear a mask you can't be cleared to dive. Not me, but my scuba instructor told this story. Some rich family paid him a few thousand dollars to fly down and give private scuba lessons to them in the Bahamas. In Scuba, you have to demonstrate you can handle all the skills in the pool before they let you in the ocean. During the pool part, they got to the skill of clearing the water out of your mask, which is mildly unpleasant but not painful or even hard. They refused to do it. My instructor said if you can't clear a mask you can't be cleared to dive. They spent a few thousand on private Scuba classes, and wasted it all because they refused a pretty simple skill. \| HarrysonTubman 5. Richly rewarded Ivan Kurmyshov/Shutterstock An extravagant reward. My cousin is just graduated from high school last year. His parents are big time real estate agents in our hometown, like they both probably clear $1 million a year easily. So my cousin goes off to college and gets busted for public drunkenness and resisting arrest his first semester. Gets expelled from school, starts bumming off his folks for money. His dad just bought him a brand new Range Rover last weekend as a "reward for learning from his mistakes and staying positive when the law targeted him." \| NCDE336 4. A tough choice Evannovostro/Shutterstock Yeah, I'd rather not go there. "Hey guys please help? Which car should I get, I want a lot but Daddy will only buy me one." This was posted to Facebook by a Tinder match. Yeah I'd rather not go there. \| valtran101 3. The 'lost' laptops Photo by Aidan Hancock on Unsplash How many spare laptops do you have? Friend asked me to help him do some in-home tech support for one of his clients. This client has 24-hour on-premise security. You don't wander around in as much are escorted from place to place. ... Anyway, the first laptop is a brand new fully loaded MacBook Pro (or whatever the top of the line Apple was at the time) and needs to be configured for their home network. No biggie. Got the info I needed and set it up. Me and my shadow proceed to the second room ... Again, I find a brand new laptop, same model as the first. After I am done with it, we are just about to walk out of the room and I catch a glimpse of two other laptops on the floor with with junk piled on top of them. I inquire if I should also take care of them. My inquiry goes from me to security to the client and then back through the guard to me: "Oh, you found them? We thought they were lost so we got new ones for the kids." \| Ajfd 2. Treating an iPhone like a burner Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash My dad will just buy me a new one. Girl in my high school physics class offering her brand new iPhone to be destroyed in an experiment because "my dad will just buy me a new one". She had it for like one week. 1. And the worst of all ... katalinks/Shutterstock Money meant nothing to this guy. I went to a private school for high school, so we had a lot of those "crashed one fancy car and daddy bought them a new one" kind of stories floating around. But I didn't know any of them personally. Then I went to a private college. Suddenly most of my classmates seemed to be these people. The worst by far was this guy my roommate dated for a while: Had a really nice car but had no idea how to take care of it. When it started to have trouble, he dropped it in front of a friend's house and had his parents buy him a new one. Spilled a drink all over someone's computer and when they got upset, he laughed and told them they could just get a new one. Told several professors that he "paid for an A so he damn well better get it." (In poetry class, ... dude, that was the easiest A ever.) Didn't understand why my roommate went home for a weekend to help her dad after surgery. He asked her why she didn't "have people for that." Threw away his text books when he was done with them. (I dug through his trash with his roommate and we split the haul even-stevens.) And so, so much more. He didn't last long as my roommate's boyfriend nor as anyone's friend. I don't think he ever graduated. \| SalemScout Source: Reddit. Doug Whiteman Doug Whiteman is the editor-in-chief of MoneyWise. 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__label__cc	0.638574	0.361426	Morbidology Morbid Curiosities & Oddities Unexplained Deaths Unidentified People Unsolved Disappearances Bizarre and Creepy Places Bizarre and Creepy Events Unsolved Child Murders Home » Mysteries » The Town That Got Away With Murder – Ken Rex McElroy Mysteries True Crime Unsolved Murders Unsolved Murders This post was published on 17th October 2017 1st August 2019 The Town That Got Away With Murder – Ken Rex McElroy Posted By: Emily Thompson 50 Comments Skidmore is a small and modest town in Missouri, situated approximately 80 miles northwest of Kansas City. Consisting of around 440 residents and a number of small family-run businesses, the farming town revolved around work ethic. This was something that the “town bully,” Ken Rex McElroy, staunchly rebelled against. 1 McElroy was never a popular man. Weighing in at approximately 270 pounds with bushy black sideburns, McElroy held the entire town of Skidmore under his thumb. Always armed with a gun, McElroy took whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted and nobody dared asked questions. Born in 1934, he was the 15th out of 16 children born to poor sharecroppers, Tony and Mabel McElroy. Illiterate due to quitting school after just the fifth grade, trouble seemed to follow McElroy wherever he went. When McElroy was a young boy, he fell from a hay wagon on his family farm and as a result, a steel plate was implanted into his head. Many question if this was the catalyst that caused him to become the abominable character that he eventually morphed into. 2 His criminal career started off with petty crimes such as stealing livestock but this soon escalated, predominately in violence. Over the years, McElroy, who was a raging alcoholic and notorious womaniser, was married multiple times. He fathered a total of fifteen children with a hoard of different women, many of them being just teenagers. Not one to care about the law (or quite clearly morals), he met his youngest and last wife, Trena, in 1971 when she was just 12-years-old. She fell pregnant just two years later. Unsurprisingly, McElroy mistreated Trena, who eventually attempted to escape his evil clutches by fleeing to her parents’ house with their new born son. McElroy refused to let her get away that easily; he followed Trena to her parents’ house and once there, he shot their dog and set their house on fire before bringing Trena back home where he physically abused her for her apparent misconduct. Trena revealed the arson and abuse to a local doctor who in turn called a social welfare agency and put her into a foster home. Facing molestation charges due to Trena’s young age when he began a sexual relationship with her, McElroy discovered that if he were to marry Trena then she would be exempt from testifying. He knew all too well that Trena’s testimony against him was very damning. McElroy was granted permission to marry Trena by her panic-stricken parents after he threatened that if they didn’t grant permission, he would burn their new home to the ground. 3 They reluctantly complied and the unlikely couple were married. Throughout McElroy’s tempestuous life, he had been indicted on a range of crimes including child molestation, rape, attempted murder and burglary. However, the citizens of Skidmore were so petrified of his brutality and the revenge that he could potentially exact on them that everybody refused to testify against him. The whole town knew how violent and unpredictable he was. His lawyer, Richard McFadin, would later say that he defended McElroy in at least three or four felonies per year. It almost seemed as though he was exempt from the law… at least until that fateful day when his reign of terror came to an abrupt halt when vigilante justice took over. McElroy’s ultimate downfall commenced in 1980, when one of his children – a daughter he had with Trena – was caught stealing a candy bar from a local grocery store. This grocery store was owned by 70-year-old Bo Bowenkamp and his elderly wife, Lois Bowenkamp. The Kansas City Star reported that Lois called the theft a “misunderstanding” and tried to make peace with the McElroy family. However, with McElroy being the hot-headed aggressor that he was, he refused to let it slide and unleashed a barrage of terror on the elderly couple. First of all, McElroy offered the elderly Lois cash to engage in a fist fight with his much younger and stronger wife before turning to the intimidation tactics that he knew so well. McElroy took to sitting outside the Bowenkamp residence in his truck and every so often, shooting his gun into the air as a warning sign. “Oh, he was intimidating,” Lois Bowenkamp said. “You can’t know how awful it was. My neighbor and I took turns sleeping at night.” 4 The stalking and harassment of the Bowenkamp family took a tragic turn for the worse on a pleasant summer’s night in July of 1980. Bo Bowenkamp was standing outside on the loading dock of his grocery store awaiting an air-conditioning repair man. McElroy drove up to the store, produced his shotgun, and shot the elderly man in the neck. Bo Bowenkamp. Miraculously, Bo survived his wounds but this senseless attempted murder was the straw that broke the camel’s back. This time, the small town of Skidmore would not forgive or forget this mindless attack on a defenceless and well-adored man. McElroy was soon convicted of the attack. However, he was released on bail awaiting appeal, much to the shock of the entire community. Within hours, McElroy was ready to exact his revenge on Bo Bowenkamp and the witnesses that testified against him. The town rallied together and wrote a number of letters to the Missouri authorities, the governor, attorney general, and state legislators, expressing that they were living in fear of McElroy and wanted to finally see some justice but alas, their pleas were ignored. An exasperated McElroy was soon seen in D&G Tavern, his local haunt, brandishing an M-1 rifle with a bayonet attached to the muzzle. This, of course, violated the terms of his bail. Richard McFadin, McElroy’s lawyer, somehow managed to postpone his appeal hearing not once but twice, much to the townsfolks dismay. On the prickly-hot afternoon of 10 July, 1981, the town gathered at Legion Hall to contemplate what to do about McElroy after the second postponement. The D&G Tavern in Skidmore. Credit: Harry N. Maclean. The whole town was at the end of their tether with the barrage of intimidation and harassment that had been inflicted on them. They were also extremely wary as to what McElroy could be planning against them as revenge. Simultaneously, McElroy and Trena were sitting the D&G Tavern having a couple of beers and getting rowdy completely oblivious to the uprising of the town. It’s not exactly known what was being discussed in Legion Hall – some think they were discussing how to keep witnesses safe while others think they were planning the demise of McElroy. Whatever took place inside that hall, when the meeting ended, the townsfolk made their way to the D & G Tavern where they encountered McElroy and Trena climbing into his Chevy Silverado. McElroy was armed with his beloved rifle and a six-pack of beer. Moments later, shots rang out and the town intimidator sat dead in his car, his bloody body riddled with bullets with his wife screaming in the front passenger seat. Ironically, he had been killed with the same sort of violence that he had revelled in over the years. At least 40 people witnessed McElroy being shot and every single one refused to confess who had fired the fateful shots. Nobody saw a thing. Not one person called an ambulance as McElroy lay bleeding to death, surrounded by the wide-eyes of the town he had once held in fear. Locals inspecting the crime scene. Credit: Harry N. Maclean. As Postmaster Jim Hartman said: “I can’t think of anyone who’d seen it (the shooting) feel any different than you would about the people who invented penicillin. Nobody tried to hang them for finding a way to kill a germ.” 5 When police eventually arrived, they discovered shell casings from both a .22-caliber Magnum and an 8mm Mauser. An investigation uncovered that McElroy had been shot by two separate people. One who had been positioned behind the truck while the other was positioned a half block in front of the truck. Regardless of the abundance of witnesses to the murder which took place in broad daylight, nobody was ever charged and the jury concluded that McElroy was killed by a “person or persons unknown.” 6 Trena claimed she knew who one of the shooters was but with nobody to corroborate her claims, he couldn’t be indicted. The town has kept its silence ever since: they feel as though they owe nothing to a man who vandalised and terrorised them for decades. It is a true tale of comeuppance that could have easily been avoided if the law and court had cracked down on McElroy when necessary. “I know why they didn’t talk – they were all glad he was dead. That town got away with murder,” his attorney would later say. 7 Observer-Reporter – Jul 10, 1982 Herald-Journal – Aug 1, 1981 Lawrence Journal-World – Aug 2, 1981 The Courier – Aug 2, 1981 RedditFacebookTwitterWhatsAppPinterestE-mailTelegram 5 Creepy Abandoned Towns Horror in Room 1046 new comments new replies to my comments Mazikeen Lebron Im against violence 😡but he asked for it he had it comin🙄 Like 77Dislike Reply 18th October 2017 2:52 am Jan Jacob Branger Comedy Central had a recent “Drunk History” segment dedicated to this murder. Must see TV! Like 6Dislike Reply 25th June 2019 2:25 am “Brave, fearless and compassionate” sure Jan 20th October 2017 7:15 pm that dirtbag finally got his comeuppance You man THAT ASHOLE 15th June 2019 9:26 pm Hey, now, let’s be fair here. Asholes have a legitimate purpose for existing. This man did not. Wasn’t there a movie made with Brian Dennehey (sp?) story sounds very familiar to a movie I’ve seen. It sounds kinda similar to Gorky Park… Not like, spot on or anything, but it involves a murder no one wants solved for whatever reason. Gary HEATON Gorky park was set in Russia, it was about spies, and trying to smuggle sables out of the country. The main killer in it skinned the faces of his victims so they didn’t know who they were. I see nothing at all in common with this story. Other than someone was killed. Laugh!! Carie Lee Yep. That was the movie. It had a young Marcia Gaye Harden playing his teenage wife. Excellent movie… I think it’s called in broad daylight Yes there was. They had to change his name for the movie, but Dennehy looked exactly like him. 31st December 2019 6:23 pm This was not a murder. This was justice. He got what he deserved. You can only push people so far. The only one to blame for McElroy’s death is McElroy. I salute the good people of Skidmore Missouri for having the courage to execute Justice when no one else would. Like 114Dislike Reply 14th February 2018 3:08 pm The bayonet goes on the muzzle of the rifle, not the butt. 6th July 2018 4:37 pm the last four articles I’ve read on here have taken place in the state I live in– Missouri! wtf… Tara White This story left me smiling. A TRUE tale of karma. The old bastard had it coming. Love it! This also goes to show you how corrupt and greedy lawyers can be. Who in the hell would defend this walking POS? 13th August 2018 2:31 am P.R. I can excuse the lawyer for defending him only because we all have the right to a defense per the constitution, but to say something disparaging about the townspeople makes him an a**hole. Good. I hope nobody is ever held accountable for the murder of this awful man. He deserved it. 22nd September 2018 8:31 am Spruce Deuce I’m reading this book at this very moment (listening to the Audible book). It’s fascinating. I originally saw the movie In Broad Daylight, but thought it was fictional. As a kid I was a shy, nerdy transplant from NY to Texas, and had my share of run-ins with redneck bullies. So I speak from experience when I say that this POS, redneck, illiterate punk got exactly what he deserved. If the legal system had been working as expected he would have been in prison long before that poor 70 year old man got shot and almost died. But the system failed him and failed the entire region of people tormented for decades. There are some people that are just evil, and prison or a grave is the best place for them. Good riddance. Shaaron Denise Evans I read the book as well. It’s a page-turner. This guy is so unbelievable that it almost seems like fiction that the police just let him slide all those years. The town should have gotten rid of him long ago. You can tell they are good people who were just at the end of their rope as they didn’t kill his wife. It seems to me, that although she started out as a victim, she truly grew to love him. Stockholm Syndrome? 1st November 2018 1:57 pm 30th December 2018 8:30 am Come on though, I mean he did start indoctrinating her when she was 12, and nobody stopped him but the doctor that put her in a foster home for awhile. Can’t really blame her. Varkarrus the moral of the story: if the law is unjust, break it. 5th April 2019 8:30 pm As an old grizzled, mountain man client of Gerry Spence’s confided to him: “Some people jus’ need killin!” The justice system is anything but. No one’s rights count but the criminal’s. The town got rid of rabies, that’s all. Ty Rizi This was basically a lynch mob. and for what?? Sounds like this guy, mcleroy had a childhood full of suffering. A steel plate in his head. And yet he was a fighter and took matters into his own hands instead of rolling over and dying quietly. And maybe he had a purpose in life. Ever see the movie “Unforgiven”? with Clint Eastwood? Maybe this guy McElroy saved the town year after year from much worse people like, Gangs, criminals, etc. and when the townspeople had no use for him any more they shot him in cold blood, from behind, in the back. Just because there were a whole lot of them doesnt make them right. And who says if 25 people tell you stories about a guy they shot in cold blood, that their version is the truth. There is nobody to tell his side of the story because he is dead, and nobody pays attention to what his wife is tryihg to say, its in the story. Can anyone believe that one man with a rifle terrorized an entire town in rural MO for Decades? We know at least 2 other people had firearms as well. and in rural MO I’d bet a whole lot of others. So he must have served some purpose during those decades. OK I said my peace playing devils advocate and if the police find me in my truck one day with two kinds of bullets in me and tire marks from MO, you all are gonna know who tracked me down and shot me. Like -25Dislike Reply Ty Rizzi I’d check the ground next to truck where he died if there is a tin star in the dust. (and also in the dust of this blog. Like -6Dislike Reply Frank Duncan You need to read the book! The law was a travesty. The little bit you read above doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. He robbed and stole from everyone with threats of death if they resisted. He was most definitely NOT saving the town from anyone! The town needed saving from him.And yes, he DID terrorize the town for decades. He had enough money from stealing that when he got locked up, he made bail and was back in town the next day. Skidmore was terrorized by this bastard. There comes a time when the law has failed so many times that there is simply no other way to stop him other than kill him. jibal “and for what??” You seem to have a serious reading comprehension problem. GARY L FOOTE I would piss on that grave! Pissin’s too good for the prick. I’d take a dump on it. I would simply leave it alone. Where he is, if he did not repent in his final moments, is far worse torture than that. That is litteraly, a pi.. poor deed and er, comment – warranted as it may be !. 7th July 2019 1:21 am Chuck Lantz This stunning quote says it all. VERY hard-core! … Postmaster Jim Hartman said: “I can’t think of anyone who’d seen it (the shooting) feel any different than you would about the people who invented penicillin. Nobody tried to hang them for finding a way to kill a germ.” … Ouch! Lacey Sheridan Good for them. There are times when the social contract has to be ignored for people’s safety. This was one of them. 22nd June 2019 1:10 am I am just surprised they did not shoot him for interfering with a preteen child, but they shot him when he shot a 70 year old man. How about shooting him for the first crime? In this country, it used to be common for child molesters to suddenly die of mysterious circumstances, with police officers commonly a witness to the event. Now it just happens in prison. At the hands of other inmates. Edwin Clements There was a TV movie about that incident. Ralph Clement No shit! Good riddance ……the fool got what he deserved. Karma sucks. pxxat5 Some things just need killing, its the natural order Some Nobody As always, the winners write the history. I don’t trust it. If he’d really been this monster they describe he would not have been released so easily by the courts again and again. It’s not like he was rich or had any means of intimidating officials that other criminals don’t. Given that, and a life of experience of human behavior, I suspect that it was his courting of young girls that set the town off, and that they’d been the ones out to get him for years. Read the book, ‘In Broad Daylight’. If, after reading the book, you have changed your mind that McElroy wasn’t the monster that he was, I will remove my negative vote. BettyBB I have read the book–it’s just the writer’s opinion. I too have always doubted some of the stuff they say about McElroy. I also live close to there and know how small-minded Missourians are. If they don’t like you, they gang up on you. 10th August 2019 10:52 am Grunthum Not to mention he shot a couple of townfolk and was threatening to kill a person he already shot. As my relatives in the south OFTEN say..”THAT MAN JUST NEEDED KiLLIN!” Looks like he got what he “needed” to me. To me, it was just self defense..plain and simple. He had already Tried to kill that old man once..he would do it again! He got what he deserved!! Taylor Janvier Sometimes it takes a village. 2nd August 2019 9:53 am There’s a new documentary/series about this story starting in August on the Sundance channel, called ‘Nobody Saw A Thing’. 1st episode is really good….interviews with some of the original townspeople. 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__label__cc	0.549989	0.450011	Movie Gazette Movie reviews, news and more About Movie Gazette Past competitions. « The Cabin in the Woods Quartet » Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Experience the fallout Dimitri Diatchenko Ingrid Bolsø Berdal Milos Timotijevic Milutin Milosevic Olivia Dudley Bradley Parker Chernobyl Diaries Reviewed by John Guzdek on Sunday, January 6th, 2013. A good concept that’s failed by its delivery. Unfortunately, now that Parker and Peli have had a half arsed stab at Chernobyl, this interesting horror location has had it’s V-plates disappointingly taken in the back of a Fiat Uno and will never get them back. US Certificate: R UK Certificate: 15 Chernobyl is the catchword for the dangers of nuclear power plants but could it actually become more associated with a well-made, truly shocking horror film by Oren Peli and Bradley Parker? No, no it won’t as I’ve practically forgotten it already and a poor critical reaction made it a-bomb. Honestly, stop it John, you’ll make them wet themselves. An extreme tourism visit to the deserted city of Pripyat at the site of the Chernobyl disaster has become the only reason trendy young gadabouts visit Ukraine whilst on a European interrailing trip and it, being both young and trendy myself, was something that tickled my fancy at one point. It was only time before some wily film Director (rightly or wrongly) made this situation into a horror film starring young, pretty American fodder getting lost and attacked by some kind of terror from the radioactive dark. Chernobyl Diaries has Americans Chris (McCartney) and his girlfriend Natalie (Dudley), Chris’s messed up brother Paul (Sadowski) and two tag-a-longs (Berdal and Phillips) who put their trust in ex-military tour guide Uri (Diatchenko). Things obviously go wrong and nasties appear from the dark and a fight for survival ensues. Chernobyl Diaries is simultaneously well set up and appalling. The morbid scenes as the group explore the ruins of Pripyat (actually filmed in Bulgaria and Serbia as, unsurprisingly, permission wasn’t given to film at Chernobyl itself) whilst distastefully laughing and joking around is nicely captured in an unmelodramatic, eerie fashion but also serves to make the audience want them to die. The characterisation is the big letdown here as the paper-thin characters – especially the two that just appear half way through and have no links to anyone else – are unlikable horror templates who split up way too soon and die randomly with little fanfare. The horror aspect delivers some scares as they venture down to the fallout tunnels but this turns it into a generic horror location plus we never really get to see what is chasing them and even the tiniest of explanations are not offered up. Overall, it hasn’t lived up to the promising premise and has probably stopped anyone else from taking on this situation and doing it better. It's Got: An interesting setting, a few decent scares It Needs: Much better characterisation, more thought to have gone into the scares and who was providing them DVD Extras Some pretty poor extras including one deleted scene, a pointless alternative ending, a fake infomercial for Uri's Extreme Tours and a Chernobyl Conspiracy viral that asks questions but answers nothing. DVD Extras Rating: 4/10 Day Watch, Hostel, Outpost This entry was written by John Guzdek, posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:06 pm, filed under Horror, Movies, Reviews. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. 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__label__wiki	0.673872	0.673872	The Buzzer: Streaks end for Capitals, Avs; Pageau, Islanders still on fire By James O'BrienDec 10, 2019, 12:27 AM EST 1. Anthony Duclair, Ottawa Senators So far during his bumpy NHL career, Duclair has enjoyed one great NHL season. Back in 2015-16 (just his second year in the NHL, and his first full one, as he only played in 18 games in 2014-15), Duclair caught fire with Max Domi on the Coyotes, with Duclair generating by-far career-bests of 20 goals and 44 points. There were red flags that his outburst was misleading (a 19 shooting percentage being the most obvious), yet it’s still been confounding that Duclair hasn’t at least found a permanent NHL spot, bouncing around from team to team and often finding his way to coaches’ doghouses, including that of John Tortorella. When you’re a wayward team like the Senators, you often give players a second or even third chance, and Duclair is running with this opportunity. He’s now on a four-game point streak, with at least one goal in his past three games. With two goals and an assist on Monday, Duclair’s generated five goals and two assists for seven points during the last four contests. Overall, Duclair now has 15 goals and 22 points in 31 games, firing 100 shots on goal for a high-but-not-outrageous 15 shooting percentage. Does Duclair have his warts defensively? Sure, but I’m of the mind that his game is a net positive — especially if team can continue to employ him at a cheap price. Either way, it would be nice to see a speedy, talented player cement his place in the NHL, even if he’s likely to cool off at least a bit going forward. 2. Joonas Korpisalo, Columbus Blue Jackets The Blue Jackets had lost four in a row, and five of their last six, before rolling into what looked like a probable loss against the red-hot Capitals. Columbus has been putting forth decent efforts this season with some strong possession numbers, only for a mix of so-so shooting and sometimes shabby puck-stopping letting them down. The Blue Jackets ended the Capitals’ six-game winning streak on Monday in part because of the efforts of Korpisalo, who stopped 37 out of the 39 shots he faced. If Columbus wants more of a bright side to look on than just one nice performance, they can consider that Korpisalo’s also won six of his last nine. 3. Mark Giordano, Calgary Flames Before Sean Monahan did a nice job finishing on an overtime game-winner that ended the Avalanche’s winning streak at six games,* Giordano broke up a Nathan MacKinnon chance that was looking awfully dangerous. Giordano received credit for a secondary assist on Monahan’s overtime game-winner, and had another assists on Monday, giving him two helpers for the night. It had been an unusually quiet offensive stretch for the reigning Norris Trophy winner. Before Monday, Giordano had zero goals and one assist in his last 11 games. Maybe this could signal the start of a hot stretch for Giordano? It’s certainly a concern to see some slippage since he’s defied age for a while, but is still 36. * – The Flames have now won all five games since Bill Peters left their bench, coincidence or not. Highlight of the Night Here’s that Flames OT-winner, starting with Giordano’s alert play, and ending with Monahan’s goal: Tough one for Braden Holtby to give up, although sometimes those odd angle shots from behind the red line can really befuddle some netminders: The Islanders pasted the Lightning on Monday, and they’re now at 20 wins (20-7-2). By hitting the 20-win mark in just 29 games, the Islanders set a new franchise record for the fastest to that win total, according to NHL PR. NHL PR notes that Jean-Gabriel Pageau‘s 13 goals since Nov. 1 remains tied for the most in the NHL during that span, locking him up with luminaries including Connor McDavid, David Pastrnak, and Sebastian Aho. Yeah, that’s ridiculous. One more from NHL PR: Matthew Tkachuk passed the 200-point mark (he’s now at 201) before his 22nd birthday, which happens on Dec. 11. Tkachuk is the ninth U.S.-born player to reach 200 points before age 22. Looking at the list, only Jeremy Roenick probably gives him serious competition when it comes to agitating people, although I don’t think JR dangled a mouthpiece out of his mouth with such aggravating flair. NYI 5 – TBL 1 CBJ 5 – WSH 2 OTT 5 – BOS 2 CGY 5 – COL 4 (OT) Tags: Anthony Duclair, Boston Bruins, Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Connor McDavid, David Pastrnak, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Jeremy Roenick, Joonas Korpisalo, Mark Giordano, Matthew Tkachuk, Nathan MacKinnon, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Sean Monahan, Sebastian Aho, Tampa Bay Lightning, The Buzzer, Washington Capitals, Anthony Duclair, Braden Holtby, Connor McDavid, David Pastrnak, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Joonas Korpisalo, Mark Giordano, Matthew Tkachuk, Max Domi, Nathan MacKinnon, Sean Monahan, Sebastian Aho • Panthers head coach Joel Quenneville is back in Chicago for the first time since his firing, Tues. Jan. 21, 8:30 p.m. ET. • NHL Skills Competition, Fri. Jan. 24, 8 p.m. ET. (NBCSN) • NHL All-Star Game, Sat. Jan. 25, 8 p.m. ET. (NBC) • Red Wings vs. Wild, Wed. Jan. 22, 8 p.m. ET. (NBCSN)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1629
__label__wiki	0.793961	0.793961	iFundWomen CEO named Montclair State’s first entrepreneur-in-residence Karen Cahn, founder and chief executive officer of iFundWomen, was appointed the inaugural entrepreneur-in-residence at Montclair State University. Cahn will mentor students, including winners of the Startup Montclair 2020 pitch contest, and advise Montclair’s Feliciano School of Business and Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation executive director. The program aims to leverage the experience and expertise of exceptional startup founders, bringing their insights, wisdom, and energy to the center and business school. Cahn “iFundWomen is a full-stack start-up funding platform designed specifically to female entrepreneurs,” Cahn told NJBIZ. “It provides access to capital through crowd-funding and grants, expert business coaching and a private community for our entrepreneurs to collaborate, commiserate and celebrate.” About 98 percent of venture capital goes to men. What do other people do? Go into debt. A start-up founder must be great at pitching to investors. Cahn used to be a digital media executive at Google, YouTube and AOL. She will receive a co-working space at the Feliciano Center plus access to the MIX Lab, a maker space housing more than 60 3-D printers and digital fabrication machines. “Montclair is chock-full of amazing women founders including Bobbi Brown, Geraldine Laybourne, and Mimi Feliciano,” Cahn said. “I’m excited to walk in their shoes and mentor even more women entrepreneurs of Montclair. I am swelling with hometown pride. The Feliciano Center’s commitment to women entrepreneurship makes this a no-brainer for me and iFundWomen. We share the same goals.” The Center’s Executive Director Carley Graham Garcia said that Cahn was a perfect fit to be the first entrepreneur-in-residence. “Karen’s success not only as a media executive but as an entrepreneur now focused exclusively on closing the funding gap for female founders makes her the perfect advisor to our student startups,” Garcia said in a statement. “As an inaugural member of New Jersey’s Golden Seeds Angel investing chapter, Karen is focused on growing our region to be an innovation hub, especially innovation led by women. And as a Montclair resident since 2005, Karen loves and actively supports our vibrant community. She is the perfect addition to our expanding program.” The Feliciano Center offers programming and events for students and the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Center has a special mission to nurture and encourage women entrepreneurs. The Center created and manages Women Entrepreneurship Week (WEW), which was celebrated by more than 240 universities and colleges in 32 countries and 49 states in 2019. Cahn spoke at the 2018 WEW Conference at Montclair State. 2:56 pm Fri, January 10, 2020 NJBIZ	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1635
__label__wiki	0.913798	0.913798	Home Politics of Sports Tables turn: Neymar’s Rape Accuser Charged Tables turn: Neymar’s Rape Accuser Charged Police in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo said on Tuesday they had indicted the woman who accused soccer star Neymar of rape, charging her with fraud, extortion and slander, in what could be a major relief for the Paris Saint Germain striker. The former Brazil captain was accused of raping Najila Trindade in a Paris hotel room in May, but he alleged the encounter was consensual and prosecutors said in August they were dropping the case against him due to a lack of evidence. Sao Paulo state police also said in a statement on Tuesday they were indicting Trindade’s former husband, Estivens Alves, on fraud charges. The BBC reported Trindade’s lawyer as saying the indictment had taken him by surprise and that his client rejected the accusations. The case received worldwide attention and posed sponsorship headaches for Neymar, as well as hurting his international career. The former Barcelona and Santos forward always denied the accusations against him and released private chats and lurid photos he had exchanged with Trindade. Neymar had denied the accusations, saying he had been the victim of an extortion attempt by a lawyer claiming to represent the woman he is alleged to have assaulted. The accusation was the latest blow for the Brazilian, who last month was stripped of the captaincy of the national team and has seen his international reputation suffer amid incidents of indiscipline. The woman alleged that Neymar had drunkenly assaulted her at an upmarket hotel in the French capital, where he plays for the Paris St Germain club. A statement issued by Neymar’s management on his website (www.neymaroficial.com) said the 27-year-old forward completely repudiated the allegations. “Although he was surprised by the news, the facts were already known to the player and his staff,” “Considering that a few days ago he was the victim of an attempted extortion, practiced by a lawyer from Sao Paulo who said he represented the interests of the alleged victim,” read the statement. “The player’s lawyers were immediately notified and have since taken all appropriate steps. “We completely repudiate the unjust accusations and, above all, the exposure in the press of an extremely negative situation. “All evidence of attempted extortion and non-rape will be submitted to the police authorities in a timely manner.” Previous articleCommunity Petition Gov. Ishaku over Alleged Human Rights Abuses by Traditional Ruler Next articleI Was hated, called “Okoro Hausa” Because of APC – Okorocha Australian Open: Coco Gauff beats Venus Williams again to advance “Nigeria Ready To Host 2020 AWCON” World number one Nadal upset by Goffin at ATP Cup Sadio Mene Emerges 2019 Africa’s Best Player Enyinba FC Sacks Head Coach Uhozo welcomes baby boy three × five =	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1637
__label__wiki	0.671973	0.671973	Wow! What a Difference a Summer Intern Makes The Jewish Fund Teen Board Interns go back to school with new skills to share Vivian Henoch, Editor myJewishDetroit “So, tell us how you spent your summer?” For sure, there was real work to be done and plenty to go around for the crop of summer interns recruited from The Jewish Fund Teen Board this year. Planning next year’s retreat for The Jewish Fund Teen Board Coding new pages for the Jewish Family Service ( JFS ) website Evaluating grant proposals focusing on teen mental health Working first-hand with social workers and therapists at Jewish Family Service Implementing the Walk4Friendship for Friendship Circle Learning life-saving skills through suicide prevention programs, Safe TALK and ASIST Launching a 5K/10K run and fundraiser to benefit the South Oakland Shelter An initiative of The Jewish Fund Teen Board, made possible through the generous support of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, the Non-Profit Summer Internship program matched its Teen Board Members and Alumni with paid internships at their grantees and Jewish agencies in the community. “Our goal is to extend the strategic work of our Teen Board by providing the opportunity for our students to follow the results of their grantmaking and to gain practical experience at organizations where they have developed a working knowledge and personal interest,” said Martha Goldberg, Coordinator the Teen Board. “Our teens – self-selected and then carefully vetted to do the intensive year-long work of the Teen Board – all come well equipped for these internships. Each in their own right are rising stars in the Jewish community and, through the curriculum of the Teen Board, they have developed skills as leaders, as philanthropists, as community volunteers and activists.” Now in its fourth year – and in the first summer of its Summer Internship Program – The Jewish Fund Teen Board placed 12 high school and college students at five agencies: Carly Klein at the Jewish Women’s Foundation; Lucie Rosenthal at The Jewish Fund; Dani Silverman and Griffin Kozlow at Jewish Family Service; Ryan Silberg and Brett Gonte at South Oakland Shelter; Paul Schmitz, Julia Abramson and Skylar Raitt at Friendship Circle; and Sarah Kreitman and Jordan Taylor at Judson Center. At summer’s end, myJewishDetroit caught up with three, representing a cross section of the group as whole. Here are their stories: This is Skylar Raitt, Intern at Friendship Circle, UMatter Skylar, 17, is a senior at Bloomfield Hills High School, ready to share that her “dream school” is the University of Michigan, with an interest in going into psychology. “My mom has a degree in psychology,” she said, “And throughout my childhood, she has had the tools to work through most everything that comes her way, and has taught my sister and me the same. I want to provide for my children in that way, and give to other people the resilience my mom has given to me.” A member of The Jewish Fund Teen Board in 2015, Skylar has remained involved with the Board through 2017. She is active with her youth group at Temple Israel and served as President of her BBYO Chapter last year. Additionally, she has been a volunteer with Summer in the City. A current board member of UMatter at Friendship Circle and as an Intern with Friendship Circle this summer, she has participated in both the SafeTALK and ASIST programs. “How I spent my summer” “Over the summer, I interned at Friendship Circle. My supervisor was Rabbi Yarden Blumstein. Working at Friendship Circle has been amazing. From organizing the Walk4Friendship to helping install UMatter Weeks in more than 10 local high schools, my ideas always were heard. Interning at Friendship Circle was like no other internship that I know. I did not sit at a desk all day doing busy work. I was out of the office, attending meetings and speaking my mind. Everyone has something to give at Friendship Circle. I cannot wait until I am able to come back next summer.” “How I first heard about The Jewish Teen Board” “I was called. Literally. I received a text from an unknown number! I was confused, so I Googled “The Jewish Fund Teen Board.” My connection was really through BBYO and a friend who was on the Teen Board in its pilot year. She told me about the program and it seemed to me that learning about the grant making process would be a skill that would be really useful later in life.” Greatest take away for the internship “At Friendship Circle, I had the opportunity to see the flipside of the grant process in action – particularly for the UMatter proposal, which the Teen Board supported this past year. At Friendship Circle, we had so many ideas about going into the schools with a week-long program dedicated to mental wellness and suicide prevention, but they all require money. So, that’s what we worked on, writing grants proposals to support SafeTALK programs and TED Talks. I would never have been able to do that had I not been on the Teen Board.” This is Dani Silverman, Summer Intern at Jewish Family Service Dani, 18, is a graduate of Frankel Jewish Academy and an incoming freshman at the University of Michigan on a pre-med track with an intended major in neuroscience and biopsychology. “I always have been interested in psychology and psychiatry,” she says. “I grew up with a mom who had head injury and memory loss as a consequence. I watched her grow and recover, and she gave me the tools to better myself. We’re really big on transcendental meditation and yoga.” A member of the Jewish Fund Teen Board in its Pilot Year (2014) and the Teen Board Leadership (2015 – 2017), Dani spent what she considers a transformative summer as a participant on Teen Mission 14. She has been active in BBYO and YFTI, the youth group at Temple Israel and spent many past summers at Tamarack Camps. Currently, she is a board member of UMatter, Friendship Circle. During her internship at JFS, she participated in both the SafeTALK and ASIST trainings. “During my internship with Jewish Family Service, I reviewed and evaluated grants for new programs. After evaluating these grants closely with my supervisors, I shared my input on ways to implement the ideas into program development – creating the framework and assessment for the likelihood of their success at JFS. This experience has inspired me to continue to pursue my passion in psychiatry, as I have worked first-hand with many therapists and social workers, and I have discussed real-life cases of mental disorders. The skills that I have gained working at this organization have helped to build a positive learning opportunity, and I would recommend this to any high school student looking for a background in working with issues related to mental health.” “My mom took notice of an ad in The Jewish News and suggested that I apply. I was a sophomore on the Teen Board in its first year, and I was really shy at first. But, as our discussions grew to be more intellectual, I really started to enjoy what I was learning and felt I was gaining a window into a field I had never seen before.” Greatest take away “The Kevin Briggs UMatter event (“Guardian at the Golden Gate”) held in February 2017 has particular meaning for me. I was on the Teen Board the year Friendship Circle applied and received the grant for the event. I have vivid memories of the day we presented the check, and then to see the results of our grant come into fruition in a highly successful event that truly moved the 400 people who attended– that was a thrill for me. For the past two grant cycles, the Teen Board has focused much of their work on mental health issues among teens. There’s a growing interest in the topic in the community, and a real need to talk about mental health in our schools. At my high school, that conversation is something people try to avoid. We’ve been working to change that.” This is Lucie Rosenthal, Intern at The Jewish Fund Lucie, 19, is a graduate of Berkley High School and a sophomore at the University of Michigan. “I haven’t declared a major yet, but have applied for a program called Organizational Studies – a track that’s competitive to get into,” she says. “Last year I was in Michigan Community Scholars – a program based on community service and social justice. If it weren’t for my experience on Teen Board, I would not have known that would be a field of interest for me. I have really enjoyed the opportunities that have opened to me by getting involved in the greater community while being in school.” Lucie was a member of The Jewish Fund Teen Board in its Pilot Year (2014) and Teen Board Leadership 2015-2016. “I didn’t know anything about philanthropy, grant-making or the nonprofit world,” she observed. “The experience exposed me to all of that, and I found it was something that was super interesting to me.” Like Dani, Lucie identifies her experience in Israel on Teen Mission 2014 as her inspiration to forge a deeper connection to the Jewish community and the city of Detroit. As a volunteer, she participated in activities with Summer in the City, Yad Ezra, Friendship Circle and with the Hebrew School at Temple Emanuel. “At The Jewish Fund – with its office in the Max M. Fisher Federation Building – I had exposure and my hand in a wide variety of projects. The first was to help plan the grant celebration for the 2017 Teen Board in June. With the perspective of being a member of Teen Board at its inception, I was called upon to restructure the recruitment and interview process for the incoming board, as well as to help plan next year’s Teen Board Retreat. Working with Martha Goldberg and Margo Pernick, Executive Director of The Jewish Fund, I had the opportunity to shadow them and sit in on numerous Jewish Fund meetings and site visits.” “I saw an ad in the Jewish News. What drew me to the Teen Board was the opportunity to get more involved in Jewish activities in Detroit. I had just come home from Israel with the Federation Teen Mission – two weeks ahead of schedule due to the 2014 outbreak of conflict with Hamas. As hard as it was to leave our Israeli friends, I realized how fortunate I was to live in the Detroit community with the power to give back.” “Working on the Teen Board, then alongside the staff of The Jewish Fund as an intern has been a journey for me. It’s been an opportunity to see the needs of the community, to work with like-minded and talented students and community leaders, and to take action – and philanthropy to a whole next level.” About The Jewish Fund Teen Board Each year, the Jewish Fund engages a diverse group of 25 Jewish high school students in grades 10 through 12 to learn firsthand the many aspects of philanthropy and grant-making in the metro Detroit community. The Teen Board is youth-led. Members work together to determine how they want to engage their Jewish values to make a real difference in the community. Under the auspices of its parent board, the Jewish Fund Teen Board members work together to grant $50,000 to both Jewish and secular charities in metro Detroit. The Jewish Fund Teen Board is proud to be a part of the Foundation Board Incubator, a project of the Jewish Teen Funders Network which is generously funded by Laura Lauder and the Maimonides Fund. Applications from potential Board members are accepted in May of each year. To learn more about teen philanthropy, grant-making and intern opportunities made possible by The Jewish Fund and the Teen Board, please visit online or call Martha Goldberg, 248-642-4741, mgoldberg@jfmd.org. The Jewish Fund Teen Board AgenciesLegacyPhilanthropy September 30, 2015 Jewish Stars of Baseball Shine Bright at the JCC, Thanks to Bob and Sandy Matthews FoodSenior LifeHolidays March 1, 2015 Kosher to Go from Jewish Senior Life Just in Time for Passover FundraisingAgencies March 1, 2015 Cure for the Cold Call A Match for Super Sunday	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1642
__label__wiki	0.54891	0.54891	Judicial Watch Sues To Force Clean Up Of Rolls With More Voters Than Citizens Nancy Oakley All, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Current Events, Oath Keepers Judicial Watch, voter rolls By Rick Wells Judicial Watch is suing to have a federal law requiring the maintenance of clean voter rolls and reporting of their status followed in California. Judicial Watch revealed on Wednesday that they have filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the State of California due to their failure to maintain clean voter rolls and to produce election-related documents which are required under the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The lawsuit was filed jointly by Judicial Watch, Election Integrity Project, Inc, and 4 individuals lawfully registered to vote in Los Angeles County in US District Court. The suit alleges that the State of California and eleven of its 58 counties, including Los Angeles, have more registered voters than they do age-eligible citizens. Los Angeles has a voter registration rate of 112%, clearly there is a problem with their voter rolls. Statewide the percentage is 101%. Judicial Watch notes that a major contributing factor to the over-registration are inactive registrations, with California having the largest percentage of inactive registrations in the nation and Los Angeles County the highest in the state at over 20% of all registrations. While one might think that inactive registrations, which are generally purged from rolls after two general federal elections, are no problem due to their inactive nature, the reality is that they can still be used to vote. California, in keeping with their policy of enabling voter fraud, such as with illegal alien driver’s licenses being part of “motor voter,” is refusing to clean up its rolls. Judicial Watch notes that inactive registrations are “inherently vulnerable to abuse by voters who plan to fraudulently double-vote in two different jurisdictions on the same election day.” Judicial Watch is asking that the court prohibit LA County and California from further violations of the law and order them to “develop and implement a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove from Los Angeles County’s rolls the registrations of ineligible registrants.” Judicial Watch has also asked to inspect and copy the requested voter roll documents. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said, “California may have the dirtiest election rolls in the country. Federal law requires states to take reasonable steps to clean up their voting rolls. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. This lawsuit aims to ensure that citizens of California can have more confidence that their elections are fair and honest.” Judicial Watch is also threatening similar actions in 11 other states with more voters than voting-age citizens, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee. Democrats have to have a way to win elections. Cheating, lying, wealth redistribution and fraud are the only things that work for them. If you believe in the mission of Oath Keepers, to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, please make a donation to support our work. You can donate HERE. nancy.larned Draining The Swamp – Part XXXVI – The Educational SwampBunkerville Trial – Dan Love Now a Whistle Blower?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1651
__label__cc	0.570088	0.429912	#Palestine \| News & Headlines – Aug 31, 2014 آخر الأخبار والتحديثات \| Daily News Overview \| Palestine \| Gaza Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuously updated #WatchIsrael \| Aug 28, 2014 \| Ceasefire violation by Israel IOF shot fired at Palestinian farmers/owners who approached their lands east of Gaza http://wp.me/p16sn9-Glv SLOW DEATH OF GAZA – Report https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/international-report-says-collective-punishment-of-gaza-has-reached-critical-stage-incl-link-to-full-report/ Deprivation kills […] A Daily News Archive, فلسطين, غزة #GazaUnderAttack, #iSupportGaza, 2014, aug 2014, aug-31-2014, beirut, BREAKING NEWS, Filistin, gaza, headlines, live updates, massacre, news, news from palestine, newspapers, occpal, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Palestinian Territories, occupiedpalestine, palaestina, palästina, palestine, palestine news, Phalaistín, photos, pics, pictures, Qassam, resistance, today, Today in Gaza, today in palestine, uncensored, فلسطين‎, في, محمد عساف, یوم القدس العالمی, חדשות, ישראל, آخر, أحداث, إسرائيل صهيونية, خبر, رمضان, رمضان كريم, رام الله #PalestineUnderAttack \| First Scientific Studies Highlight Environmental Catastrophe due to Israeli Occupation By Global Research News \| Global Research, August 31, 2014 \| Bethlehem University Over the last 40 years occupied Palestine has witnessed a catastrophic decline in biodiversity. Loss of habitat, desertification and pollution of water sources have all been linked to the occupation by Israeli forces. This summer scientific research led by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh […] Environmental, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Israel, israeli, Massacres, Palestine, War, Warcrimes, Zionism, غزة #GazaUnderAttack, biodiversity, environment, gaza, Gaza strip, gaza under attack, gaza under fire, genocide, habitat, hamas, IDF, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, legal right of self defense, liberation movement, massacre, Mazin Qumsiyeh, military, occupation, Operation Protective Edge, palestine, professor, resistance, right, self-defense, species, study, فلسطين, vertebrate, war, warcrimes, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة #GazaUnderAttack \| Israel keeping Gaza siege despite deal: Official MEMO \| Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:32 Israel has not begun to implement a lift on a years-long siege on the Gaza Strip, a senior Palestinian border official saidSunday, despite a recent cease-fire agreement that entailed opening all border crossings between Israel and the embattled enclave.“Commercial activity at Kerem Shalom crossing remains the same […] Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Israel, israeli, Massacres, Palestine, War, Warcrimes, Zionism, غزة #GazaUnderAttack, gaza, Gaza strip, gaza under attack, gaza under fire, genocide, hamas, IDF, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, legal right of self defense, liberation movement, massacre, military, occupation, Operation Protective Edge, palestine, resistance, right, self-defense, فلسطين, war, warcrimes, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة Lawyer: 2 minors being held in Israeli prison beaten with rifles Ma’an News Agency \| (updated) 31/08/2014 20:22 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian youths being held in Israel’s Etzion detention center south of Bethlehem have been beaten by Israeli officers, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Sunday. Jacklin Fararja recently visited Badri Abu Zalata, 14, and Kazhim al-Najjar, 16, and said they told her […] Apartheid, Children, Ethnic Cleansing, Israel, israeli, Occupation, Palestine, palestinians, Torture, فلسطين, Violence, west bank, Zionism beaten, children, hit, IDF, illegal occupation, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Prison, military, news, occupation, Occupied Palestine, palestine, palestinians, resistance, rifles, right, self-defense, torture, فلسطين, west bank, youth, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة “Truce Negotiations”? Netanyahu warns of reoccupation of Gaza again – Video Published on Aug 31, 2014 Less than a week after Tel Aviv’s 50-day war on the Gaza Strip came to an end, the Israeli prime minister is once again warning about the occupation of the besieged region. Benjamin Netanyahu has defended Tel Aviv’s devastating war on Gaza, adding that toppling Hamas still tops the agenda. […] Tel Aviv to expropriate 400 hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank – VIDEO Published on Aug 31, 2014 The military says 400 hectares of land at the settlement of Gevaot in the southern city of Bethlehem are declared as Israeli land. The settlement’s council has welcomed the plan, expressing hope that it will pave the way for the expansion of the Gevaot settlement and for […] Annexation, Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Israel, israeli, Occupation, Palestine, palestinians, فلسطين, Video, Violence, west bank, Zionism annexation, IDF, illegal occupation, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, military, news, occupation, Occupied Palestine, palestine, palestinians, resistance, right, self-defense, فلسطين, video, west bank, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة South African medical team arrives in Gaza Ma’an News Agency \| Aug 31, 2014 \| 17:33 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A South African medical team arrived in Gaza on Sunday to assist in the treatment of thousands of Palestinians injured in Israel’s 51-day assault on the Strip. In a news conference at al-Shifa hospital, the director of the Gift of the Givers […] #GazaUnderAttack, africa, gaza, Gaza strip, gaza under attack, gaza under fire, genocide, hamas, IDF, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, legal right of self defense, liberation movement, massacre, medical, military, occupation, Operation Protective Edge, palestine, resistance, right, self-defense, south, surgeons, team, فلسطين, war, warcrimes, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة Israel fiasco in Gaza spurs US sanctions: Iranian MP PressTV \| Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:3PM GMT The failures suffered by the United States and the Israeli regime are the main reason behind a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian lawmaker says. “The US and Israel are trying to make up for their failures by imposing new sanctions [on […] #GazaUnderAttack, gaza, Gaza strip, gaza under attack, gaza under fire, genocide, hamas, IDF, International Law, IOF, iran, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, legal right of self defense, liberation movement, massacre, military, occupation, Operation Protective Edge, palestine, resistance, right, self-defense, US, USA, فلسطين, war, warcrimes, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة Palestinian ex-detainee dies, another suffers serious health problems after deliberate medical neglect by Israel [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:08 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian ex-detainee Sufiyan Iskafi, 31, was proclaimed dead after he lost his battle with cancer, while the health condition of ex-detainee Naim Shawamreh seriously declined, the Palestinian prisoner society said on Saturday. Director of the society in Al-Khalil Amjad Annajar said that Iskafi was jailed by […] died, health, israel, medical neglect, palestine, prisoner, shaheed Ceasefire in Gaza. So Israeli occupation regime confiscates four thousands dunums in West Bank [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:19 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Authoriteis (IOA) decided to confiscate around four thousand dunums of Palestinian lands, which surround the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Yoav Mordechai, told the Israeli Channel 7, on Sunday morning, that the confiscation […] Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Israel, israeli, Occupation, Palestine, palestinians, فلسطين, Violence, west bank, Zionism IDF, illegal occupation, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, military, news, occupation, Occupied Palestine, palestine, palestinians, resistance, right, self-defense, فلسطين, west bank, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة Wheelchair bound Palestinian 24 days in Israeli detention center denied right to lawyer visits and medical check-ups [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been holding disabled Palestinian detainee Shadi Daraghma, who is confined to a wheelchair, in al-Mascoubiya detention center for 24 uninterrupted days, denying him the right to lawyer visits and to urgent medical check-ups , the Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday. […] bound, check, denied, disabled, healthcare, lawyer, medical, palestine, palestinian, right, violation, wheelchair Israeli police bar entry of Palestinian women to Aqsa Mosque, allow in zionist squatters [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:48 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage said that the Israeli occupation police prevented on Sunday morning Palestinian women from entering the Aqsa Mosque and only allowed in Jewish settlers and intelligence officers. In a press release, the Aqsa foundation said that the Israeli police […] Al Aqsa, Al-Quds, Islam, Jerusalem, Muslims, Palestine, Religion, Zionism al quds, al-aqsa, aqsa, aqsa mosque, divided city, division, Ethnic Cleansing, holy site, islam, Islamic, israel, israeli, jerusalem, judaization, muslims, occupied jerusalem, Occupied Palestine, Palestina, palestine, Quds, فلسطين‎, zionism, חדשות, ישראל, أحداث, إسرائيل صهيونية, القدس, المسجد الاقصى, الأقصى،, الضفة الغربية, خبر Haneyya: World stood speechless before our resistance’s achievements [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 10:02 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Deputy Chairman of Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haneyya, and prominent Islamic leader, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, reverberated in statements on Saturday their appreciation of Palestinians’ stand-up fight against the belligerent Israeli offensive on besieged Gaza for over 50 days, dubbing it “a historical battle that holds much […] Ceasefire. So Zionist occupation forces round up more Palestinians. 600 nabbed by IOF since August [ PIC 31/08/2014 – 10:16 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday and at dawn Sunday nabbed two Palestinian youngsters from the West Bank and four other citizens from Occupied Jerusalem, bringing the number of Palestinians detained since mid-June to over 2,000. The IOF nabbed Palestinian youngster Bashar Qadous during a […] Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, Israel, israeli, Kidnap, Occupation, Palestine, palestinians, فلسطين, Violence, west bank, Zionism abductions, IDF, illegal occupation, International Law, IOF, israel, Israeli Defense Forces, kidnap, military, news, occupation, Occupied Palestine, palestine, palestinians, resistance, right, self-defense, فلسطين, west bank, zionism, הטרור, התנגדות, חמאס, ישראל, עזה, פלסטין, פשע מלחמת טרור ישראל, צה"ל, קסאם, إسرائيل, الإرهابية, جريمة, حرب, غزة	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1655
__label__wiki	0.545906	0.545906	Microsoft unveils Story Remix, a multifaceted video creation app By Emily Ferron Microsoft unveils Story Remix,... Story Remix, a video creation tool just unveiled by Microsoft, seems to unite all of the best features of its competitors With access to Remix3D, Story Remix users can add virtual beasts to their creations The video editor in Story Remix Today, during day two of its annual Build conference for engineers and developers, Microsoft unveiled Windows Story Remix, a video editing app that's infused with AI, mixed reality and collaborative tools. The app seems like a grown-up version of Windows Movie Maker, but it also borrows some of the best elements from apps like Google Photos, Apple Clips, Snapchat and more. By combining many features under one umbrella and adding a few of its own, Story Remix looks poised to be more powerful than any of those. When you create a video with Story Remix, you have the option of starting your own from scratch or capitalizing on one of the automatically-generated highlight reels that Story Remix creates with AI. This is similar to what the Assistant feature does in Google Photos, automatically creating animations, montages and edits (Story Remix also seems to replicate Google Photos' excellent searchability). However, Story Remix adds a number of smart features for tweaking videos. For example, you can select a star of the video, and Story Remix will edit clips to focus on your subject of choice. When you change the soundtrack, the app automatically reworks video cuts to match up with the beats of the song. If the automatically generated video doesn't suit your needs, you can open a video editor to manually tweak clips. Story Remix is also tapped into Microsoft's Remix3D community, a searchable library of virtual objects created by contributing artists (who are credited whenever someone uses their work). This allows users to drop virtual objects in your clips: In one example, a soccer ball was turned into a 3D fireball that exploded when it hit the net; another showed real people fleeing from dinosaurs. These mixed reality features take a strong cue from Snapchat's AR lenses. Story Remix also has pen and ink support, so you can write a message or doodle, add it to the video and even anchor it to a person or object. It also contains collaborative features that allow various users to contribute footage to a highlight reel and work on finalizing the project together, even across platforms. Story Remix will be a universal Windows app available in the Windows Store, but perhaps more importantly, it will also be available on iOS and Android. We were impressed with Story Remix's breadth of features during the keynote today. If the app pans out to be as well-rounded and easy to use as it seems, it could represent stiff competition for some of the more established desktop and mobile video editing apps. We expect Windows Story Remix to be released alongside the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which Microsoft also announced today and should roll out around September. Learn more in the video below. Introducing Story Remix in Windows 10 ComputersMicrosoftVideoApplicationsArtificial IntelligenceMixed reality Emily Ferron Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Emily is a lifelong writer with a deep appreciation for human endeavor. She explores mobile technology for New Atlas through this lens. When she's not evaluating gadgets, she's exploring the outdoors. Microsoft launches revamped Edge browser – here's what's new A MacBook user's review of the Dell XPS13 2-in-1 laptop/tablet Samsung debuts blazing fast SSD with built-in fingerprint scanner Dell demoes dual-screen, foldable and Switch-like concept devices	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1670
__label__wiki	0.541261	0.541261	2020 Turning Into A Battle Of Billionaires Posted by Timothy Benton \| Dec 4, 2019 \| featured, Opinion, Political News, Right \| 0 \| With the year almost done, billionaire leftists are moving to unseat the president, who is a billionaire. It doesn’t matter how they do this. People like George Soros, Bloomberg, and others are pumping hundreds of millions to fund campaigns to unseat him, not counting on the current impeachment effort to succeed. Such an effort has been made in the past, but was behind the scene’s, today the hatred for Trump has brought this into the open, liberals from Newscasters to billionaires trying to unseat Trump are acting in the open, admitting what they are doing for all to see. Bloomberg is now under fire for directing his news to ignore anything he has ever done but is in the next breath directing them to do nothing but dig into everything Trump. Trump knew what they were doing, stripped all press passes from Bloomberg, said, due to their bias, they were not welcome at his events. In response, Bloomberg News said it would cover but not investigate its boss, the former New York City mayor, and his Democratic rivals. But Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait said reporters would continue to investigate the Trump administration, as the sitting government. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale called it a troubling decision to “formalize preferential reporting policies.” He said Bloomberg reporters would no longer be credentialed to cover campaign events until the policy is rescinded. “As President Trump’s campaign, we are accustomed to unfair reporting practices, but most news organizations don’t announce their biases so publicly,” Parscale said. Into this is coming George Soros to aid in whatever way he can, he has not only set up a super PAC to aid the democrats, funding it with 5 million of his own money, he is continuing to pump millions into other groups like Planned parenthood. This election looks like we will see record funds pumped into it, much of this will be from the traditional funding sources, but also expect to see with the different billionaires running for personal funds to be channeled in with amounts never seen before. With the third billionaire, Tom Steyer, who himself, as of last week, has put in more than any other candidate of his own money, to date, he has self-funded more than $54 million, and that figure is expected to rise. Compare this with the money Trump put into his war chest in 2016, $66.1 million. He also finished the election with over $7.6 million in campaign funds. The real numbers were closer to $58 million, something that Bloomberg, as a new entry, is already over halfway there, Stein is only $4 million from the Trump figures. Behind all of this sits Soros, he is not able to run but has no issue pumping in billions to get what he wants, thus the battle of billionaires is afoot. Our elections used to be a competition of ideas, with the American people deciding which idea was the best. Today it is something far more, it is a campaign of billionaires set off to remove one of their own while jockeying to see who will replace him. Trump never came in with this intent, but the left has turned it into an election with money at its core. We at this point can do nothing but hope that we, the American voters, are smart enough to see through this, sadly many will not. Is It Time To Bring Charges Against George Soros? PreviousDemocrats – Same Seditious Party As In The Time Of Lincoln. NextDay One Of House Judicial Impeachment Hearings Timothy Benton Student of history, a journalist for the last 2 years. Specialize in Middle East History, more specifically modern history with the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Also, a political commentator has been a lifetime fan of politics. Defining White People And Racism Against Them The Destruction Of The Bush Legacy Could Trump Be The New Reagan? Part 1 The Charade Is Over, Ford Exposed.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1671
__label__cc	0.605051	0.394949	Kylie Minogue isn’t having Kylie Jenner’s attempt to trademark their name Filed to:Music Pictured: the victorious Kylie (Photo: Foc Kan/Getty Images) Kylie Minogue isn’t so busy touring that she can’t keep up with the Kardashians to some extent, though it hardly sounds like the Aussie pop star is a fan. After learning that Kylie Jenner—who’s only Kardashian-adjacent anyway—has been trying to trademark their shared first name for the last two years, Minogue petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office not to forever link (or however long trademarks last) the name “Kylie” with lip injectors and a failed PacSun clothing line. Now, that lame joke is ours; Minogue filed her own scorching burn with her letter, in which she refers to herself as an “internationally-renowned performing artist, humanitarian and breast cancer activist known worldwide simply as ‘Kylie,’” while Jenner is merely a “secondary reality television personality.” We think Minogue can now add “reputation arsonist” to her list of skills. The patent office, perhaps finally having pored over Jenner’s Instagram account, is backing Minogue—for now. The Telegraph reports that Jenner’s trademark application has been denied, though she’s already filed an appeal. It’s too bad Jenner’s mom was bent on the whole “K” thing, because if her first name were Chyleigh, this wouldn’t be an issue. [via Noisey]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1672
__label__cc	0.603116	0.396884	Removing Judges' Bias Is Olympic-Size Challenge (The Wall Street Journal) July 30, 2012 by Office of Communications Preventing national bias from affecting judges’ scores at the Olympics is a challenge, writes Carl Bialik in his Wall Street Journal blog, “The Numbers Guy.” The blog’s analysis of methods designed to prevent bias among judges includes insights from Eric Zitzewitz, an associate professor of economics at Dartmouth. "It's very hard to design a perfect system in a vacuum," Zitzewitz tells The Wall Street Journal. "It depends on the specific form of activity you're trying to prevent." Zitzewitz is among the researchers, The Wall Street Journal notes, who believe that providing transparency about judges’ scores is important in identifying manipulation. "It's naive to think there's a perfect system out there that is robust to manipulation. The great thing about transparency is, it helps you detect any form of manipulation," Zitzewitz says. Read the full story, published 7/27/12 in The Wall Street Journal. Categories: Society & Culture Tags: Department of Economics, Faculty, Olympics, Research	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1675
__label__cc	0.517884	0.482116	There's No Water at Wave Rock Category: Travel in WA Published: Wednesday, 19 October 2011 08:12 Written by Vicki Sly The first thing that you need to know if you are planning to visit Wave Rock in Western Australia is that there is no beach sand or surf involved. A friend of mine tells a great story about meeting four young international tourists when they stopped to refuel at a petrol station he was working at not far from the rock. They had surfboards tied to the roof of their car and when he asked where they were planning to surf so far from the coast they replied “Wave Rock”. He had to set them straight and after they got over their initial shock and embarrassment, he reassured them that it was still well worth the visit despite the lack of swell and beach babes. Wave Rock Photo Credit: Flickr/Don Pugh Wave Rock is actually 350 km east of the coastal city of Perth near the outback town of Hyden and is one of Australia’s most famous landforms. It is an amazing historic granite cliff that stands approximately 15 metres in height and is 110 metres long. It looks like a large wave that is just about to crash onto a reef. It is believed that the rock is about 2700 million years old and has been shaped over that time by water erosion which has left a rounded overhand, just like the lip of a large wave. The multi-coloured stripes are also quite spectacular and are the result of water running down the rock face and dissolving minerals on the way. Around the rock there are plenty of caves to explore, some with historic Aboriginal paintings and one which is named Mulka’s Cave after the Aboriginal legend whose large hand imprints can sill be seen today. There is also another funky rock in the area that is lesser-known but makes for a great photo opportunity. Hippo’s Yawn stands about 12.6 metres tall and resembles the mouth of a large hippopotamus yawning. Let’s hope it is a close as you will ever get to being in a hippo’s mouth. Hippo's Yawn Photo Credit: Flickr/Stephen Edmonds The Wave Rock Wildlife Park that surrounds the area is three hectares of bushland and filled with many native Australian animals that travellers love to see: emus, kangaroos, wallabies and many different varieties of birds. I did lie when I said there is no water around. Only a short distance from Wave Rock is Lake Magic which is popular for sailing, canoeing and putting around in a small dingy. It is based at a resort which has family-style cottages for hire. Other accommodation in the area includes a motel and caravan park that also has cabins so it depends on your budget and preferences. Getting to Wave Rock: From the northern part of Perth it is a four-hour drive through the Jarrah Forest of the Darling Ranges to historic town of York and then on through to Quairading. From the southern part of Perth, you can drive about 3.5 hours along Albany Highway through to the farming town of Corrigin and follow the signs from there. Do you have any photos of yourself “taking a surf” at Wave Rock that you would like to share? 7 Things to Do and See in Margaret River (1 match) A Weekend Getaway to Bunker Bay, Dunsborough (1 match) Albany: A Top Spot by the Sea Set Amidst the Whoosh of the Wind Farm (1 match) Augusta – A Hot Spot Emerging from the Shadow of a Better Known Neighbour (1 match) Bunbury By the Beach (1 match)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line1682

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