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__label__cc	0.634509	0.365491	Residency for IMRC at Uferstudios Berlin In the frame of the Creative Crossroad activity, the collective IMRC was selected by Tala Dance Center to receive a 2 years structural support by the LLB network to work on their latest production "Close Up / Displacement, Scar, Re-appropriation." (working title). This support includes a co-production support by Workshop Foundation, residencies at Uferstudios Berlin Veem House in Amsterdam and at Zagreb Dance Center with performance presentations. Residency at Uferstudios Berlin: Artists involved: Helvecia Tomić (performer and Danceability practitioner), Josipa Lukinović (performer and art historian), Tara Ivanišević (performer and new media artist), Silvia Marchig (dancer and choreographer), Iva Nerina Sibila (dancer and artistic director of IMRC), Leon Goličnik(performer) and his personal assistant Jure Slivnik. IMRC - chosen by Tala, Zagreb as Creative Crossroads Artists - used the technical residency slot at Uferstudios to develop first steps of their new production, with the working title Close Up / Displacement, Scar, Re-appropriation. The work is to be developed in 2020 as a full-length evening production. IMRC was offered Uferstudios Studio 14, our stage studio with 450smq in size, with fully equipped theater technique at their full disposal. Although quite self-organized in terms of technical handling, IMRC was also offered a technician for set up and assistance during the working process, seen that their work concentrated to a strong part on video, live-feed, installed monitors. The collective made wide use of the offers, and spend an intensive working and research period that ultimately led to a showing/performance of their research process. IMRC visited Uferstudios at a time, in which a handful of other international residencies are placed at Uferstudios. That gave all artists the opportunity to spend their working time in an environment of concentrated research atmosphere and networking offers. A first organized exchange meeting with lunch put them into contact, allowed them to present their research field and build curiosity and trust to also follow eachothers work during the period given and follow actual proceedings in an mutual exchange within the studios. The other artists present at Uferstudios included Nicole Neidert (Sweden), Geoffrey Watson (Australia), Annick Schadeck & Luc Spada (Luxemburg)., Markéta Stránská (Czech Republic), Caroline Hartmann (Germany). The latter two were chosen resident artists of another partner network Uferstudios is part of, named Making a Difference (MAD). MAD strives towards the active involvement of artists with physical and sensorial disabilities within the professional field of dance, fostering especially the idea of advancing the artists with disabilities into leading, decision making roles as choreographers, teachers etc. Obviously the input and exchange between IMRC – with long time experience as a mixed-abled company – , the extraordinary experience o Markéta Stránská within the field, and the newcomer Carolin Hartman was very fruitful for everybody, and gave full-stage to issues around art with or without disabilities at the feedback talk, without limiting it to its restrictions but showing on the wide ability and perspective shift this allows. All in all it was a great win win for both network projects co-hosted by Uferstudios to synchronize these events and artists. IMRC ended their residency with a collective showing/performance on corporealities, identities, inclusive and subversive performing practices through dance, performance and video, and it was astonishing to see how far they got within this residency period, leading towards an almost 2 hour event of amazing density, depth and diversity. The showing ended with a feedback talk between artists and visitors, some of which also involved in the board and dissemination of the network MAD and thus very experienced in reflecting and accompanying mixed abled performance art. Hosting a big collective with partially special needs is a challenge within a network project of this scale. Although Uferstudios is fully accessible for people with physical disabilities, the organization of travel, accommodation, transports needs an extra effort, which we were willing to give and are also happy to have encountered: it shows how little this segment is still developed and how much more effort the cultural exchange sector still would need to implement if the will of inclusion is truly honest. View the artists' experience report in the upper right column. Residency at Zagreb Dance Center with performance presentations on October 24 and 25, 2019: Along with authors - Silvija Marchig, Iva Nerina Sibila and a new media artist, Tara Ivanišević - eminent dance artists Ognjen Vučinić (that collaborated with us on the Bella Ciaodance performance and was nominated for the Croatian Actor Reward for his role), and Gregor Kamnikar, a recognized expert for improvisation from Slovenia, that signed his work on this project as Urban Kmet, also collaborated with us on this project. Permanent members of the IMRC Dance Collective, Leon Goličnik, Helvecia Tomić, Mia Kevo, Josipa Lukinović, also participated and we are extremely happy that Marina Bura also joined us. She is a handicapped dancer in wheelchairs with great potential. This project is a result of a co-authorship and intermedia approach, with a focus on developing new and experimental strategies where choreography, media and performance are concerned. Furthermore, it explores new formats and manners of presentation to the audience with an emphasis on the project and the inclusive nature of our work. It has been directly built on the methodologies and concepts developed in Berlin. However, here those elements are more crystallized and radicalized. As we are continuing to work on these materials, these performances were announced and staged as “an intermedia performing setting that arises from authorships of various authors”, in order to emphasise the process and experimental format. The duration of this program was 75 minutes. It was well-received and the audience was wide and versatile and the reviews were extremely interesting. Like all other programs of the Inclusive Dance Collective – the IMRC - these programs were also very important for the Croatian performing arts scene and culture in general since it is a unique project dedicated to the inclusion of people with special needs – physical and intellectual – in the dance community. Specifically, since eminent artists like Ognjen Vučinić and Gregor Kamnikar were collaborators on this project, “Otklon / ožiljak: preuzimanje” enriched our artistic and performing competence. A new media video by Tara Ivanišević directed our work towards the format of installations, as well as new media interactions and this is an entirely new aspect of the Croatian inclusive art scene. Our audience is versatile and we take pride in that. Furthermore, we are proud to be gradually developing our audience. People that came to see this performance were the audience from the Zagreb Dance Center, dance students and attendees of dance courses, as well as the public interested in new media and video and visual performances, as well as people that attend the inclusive workshops that we systematically develop. Performance Presentation IMRC at Zagreb Dance Center Zagreb Dance Center (HR) Uferstudios Berlin supported/organized by Uferstudios experience_report_IMRC_US.pdf	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3789
__label__wiki	0.754744	0.754744	Join our community and keep up to date with exclusive offers, blog content, behind the scenes & more. FUGITIVE COLORS Discussion Questions for The Unbreakables: Discussion Questions for Fugitive Colors: News & Other Writings Additional Reviews & News Additional News in Hebrew Girlilla Warfare 1. Is infidelity in marriage fixable? Is it forgivable? In Sophie Bloom’s case, do you think she had any other choice but to flee? 2. Can young love be sustained in the long-haul of marriage? Both Sophie and Gabe’s and Nathalie and Luc’s marriages evolve into a “just press play” relationship, they love and care for each other, but passions have died. Once that flame is extinguished, do you think it can ever truly be reignited? 3. What does “girl code” mean to you? Why do you think is it so important to women? 4. Sophie and her teen daughter Ava have a strong bond and when they are both betrayed, Sophie drops her own pain to be there for her daughter. If you have children, how do you balance being a woman and being a mother? 5. Part of Ava’s journey is discovering the importance of her mother’s own needs and recognizing that their bond is no longer give/take but give and take. For daughters looking to their mothers: are you able to see her desires as a woman, or only her role as “Mom”? 6. Sophie and Ava each have their own forbidden relationship. In what ways do these relationships contribute to their personal growth? 7. Luc remains faithful to a disloyal, albeit sick, wife but emotional infidelity can be more harmful than physical infidelity. Do your feelings about Sophie change as she begins to develop deep feelings for Luc, Nathalie’s husband? 8. When Gabe realizes how much he has lost after betraying Sophie, he wants her back. But for the first time in her life, she decides to put herself first—over her husband’s needs and her daughter’s desires. Why do you think it’s difficult for women and mothers to put themselves first? 9. Sophie tells her daughter: “Love is messy…I don’t think I ever really understood that until now. But no matter what, even if life hurts like hell, sometimes you just have to pick yourself up and build again.” Describe the ways in which Sophie Bloom has reinvented herself. In what ways does Ava follow (or not follow) in her mother’s footsteps? 10. They say that at the end of a relationship, we go through the Five Stages of Grief but Sophie instead opts for “Denial 101”. Do you think a person can skip over grief? Or must one go through the requisite stages to come out the other side? 11. The theme of “closure” threads throughout the novel. In what ways does Sophie give closure to each of her relationships, while opening the door to her passions? Copyright © 2020 Lisa Barr. All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3792
__label__wiki	0.916876	0.916876	Wild Rose rises above star-is-born clichés Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace. Beyonce in Homecoming. Elizabeth Moss in Her Smell. 2019 is proving to be a big year for movies about women standing at the microphone, raising their voices, and transporting audiences. And sometime soon — this year, perhaps, or next — actress Michelle Williams will play Janis Joplin for director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). This could be huge. Major talents have been lining up for years to play what should surely be a demanding and sensational role, but project after project has fallen apart before cameras could roll — even one that was to star Amy Adams. Durkin’s Joplin film, though, seems like it might have some traction. If it happens, an actress whose career has continued to impress and improve looks poised to step into an Oscar-style spotlight. As a fan of Joplin, Durkin, and Williams, I’m hopeful. But I know who I’ll be thinking about when the theater darkens and that movie begins: I’ll be thinking about an unexpected newcomer who has just rocked my world with her lead performance as a Joplin-esque country singer in Wild Rose. When it comes to dream-come-true stories about performers, I’m rarely moved. Case in point: I was more annoyed than impressed with the recent remake of A Star is Born. Bradley Cooper’s big crowdpleaser kindled a few scenes in which characters resembled human beings, and Lady Gaga’s performance was engaging, sure. But the star’s rise seemed too fast, too furious, too easy. The film seemed intoxicated with glamour and money, accepting without question that celebrity status, big stages, and big audiences equal “success.” (And its director seemed awfully eager to style himself as an object of worship.) What’s more, too many of these films take severe dramatic turns merely for the sake of insisting that we feel things — like the embarrassingly contrived onstage humiliation of Cooper’s Jackson, the gobsmackingly severe tragedy that follows, and the way in which these crises conveniently set up Gaga’s major Oscar-hopeful moment. But I’m exercising restraint in praising Wild Rose as one of the best times I’ve spent in the theater this year… with a suspicion that I might enjoy it even more the second time. For all of its formulaic turns, Tom Harper’s fairy tale cut right through all of my skepticism and made me a fan. Rose-Lyn (Jessie Buckley) is released — or, rather, unleashed — from prison. Look out world! (Neon) That has a great deal to do with actress Jessie Buckley, who is everything you’ve heard about and more. She rules the screen as Rose-Lyn Harlan, a Glawegian 23-year-old who, released from prison, immediately launches herself into a mad pursuit of her dream to conquer Nashville as a country music star. Buckley, who apparently took second-place in 2008 on a BBC talent show I’ve never seen (I’d Do Anything), is absolutely convincing in every aspect of this complicated character. Rose-Lyn radiates recklessness, convincing us that she was rightfully incarcerated. She implodes under the pressure of crushing anxiety when she looks at two children she has somehow introduced to the world, children she must raise at the risk of her dreams. She clashes spectacularly with her well-mannered and understandably exasperated mother (Julie Walters, in top form). Susannah (Sophie Okonedo) may have the connections to get Rose-Lyn’s voice on the radio. (Neon) And — most importantly — she burns the house down whenever she sings, the microphone unlocking an irrepressible charisma. Some rising stars wear their hearts on their sleeves, but Rose-Lyn’s is not a mere accessory: Her whole body—from her golden throat to her furrowed brow to her dancing feet in those white cowboy boots—is a heart, red-blooded and passionate and vulnerable. (Buckley might have struck me as too energetic, too supercharged in her performances… but I know better. I know a performer name China Curtiss Kent, lead singer of the band Alright Alright, who could easily have been the inspiration for Rose-Lyn’s onstage persona. Those she doesn’t speak with Buckley’s Scottish brogue, she looks a lot like her, and her friends joke about how it’s almost impossible to snap a picture of her in which she isn’t just a blur of motion.) For Rose-Lyn, housecleaning is rehearsal. (Neon) My admiration for Wild Rose also comes from its smart casting for supporting roles. Sophie Okonedo is outstanding in the role of Susannah, a posh and perceptive woman who takes a chance by employing Rose-Lyn as a housekeeper. Her extravagant home becomes a stage upon which the ankle-tagged singer dances and sings when nobody’s looking: think Patsy Cline playing the role of Mary Poppins, singing her way through her chores. Inevitably, those private performances will be discovered — that’s hardly a spoiler. And Susannah, her sweetness perfectly contrasting with Rose-Lyn’s whiskey sour, will reveal another level of generosity. I mentioned Julie Walters. I need to say more about her. As Marion, Rose-Lyn’s mother, she’s charged with playing this formula’s most familiar (and typically limiting) role: the disapproving parent, the doubter, the nay-sayer — and yet still surprises by creating a convincing, complicated, and ultimately endearing character. How often have these movies been all about brushing aside the one who dares to question and reprove the rising star? How often have they been merely an obstacle, a villain, an example of How Not to Be? As Marion, Walters carries off one of the film’s most satisfying twists: Mother knows a thing or two. And the best possible outcome is for the movie to acknowledge her wisdom. Julie Walters is given a richer role than the disapproving parent usually plays in stories like these. (Neon) But Wild Rose‘s victory over my deep-set skepticism has even more to do with its final act. I was actually nervous, stressed out in my seat, during the the film’s last 40 minutes, fully expecting the spell to be broken, betting that these filmmakers would blow it. Movies about juggernaut talents can go wrong in so many ways. Some kind of deus ex machina will catapult the hero to automatic fame just when all seems lost. The big final number that is meant to be a showstopper will turn out to be mediocre. The screenwriter will steer the protagonist off-road for some cringe-worthy calamity, hoping to send us home in sobs. But Wild Rose doesn’t go wrong in any of these ways. To the credit of writer Nicole Taylor, it demonstrates wisdom far deeper than almost any road-to-stardom story I can think of. It’s more about how a soul is saved than how a star is born. What’s harder than becoming a Nashville star when you’re an ex-con in Glasgow? Parenting two children who barely recognize you when you’re released from the joint. (Neon) And the finale’s big closing number is strong enough to send us out eager to pick up the soundtrack — which features Buckley’s own performances, thank goodness. I’ll be turning up the volume on her voice for the rest of the year, hoping she sings her way to the kind of Oscar-stage moment that Rose-Lyn herself might have dreamed about — not because that would signify success, but because I love this movie and I don’t want it to disappear unnoticed. Frame 2: Another Psalm 12 Trailer of the year?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3794
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__label__cc	0.741372	0.258628	Author Interview: Clay Gordon helps you Discover Chocolate Clay Gordon, as much as anyone, is responsible for the public realization (and acceptance) that Chocolate is a gourmet food worthy of being taken seriously and appreciated as one might appreciate any other gourmet food. In the past fifteen months Clay has been featured in articles on chocolate in The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and The New York Times' Dining In section, among other national and regional publications, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and ESPN2's morning show Cold Pizza. Now, Clay can proudly add the Mark and Lynn Site to this lineup as he was nice enought to conduct an email interviw with us about the past, present and future of chocolate as well as his new work Discover Chocolate (Gotham Books). MLAF: You note in your book you didn't so much become a chocolate critic as sort of invent the idea-Was chocolate really ignored to that extent in food writing? CG: "Back in 1994 when I got the idea "to become the Robert Parker of chocolate" I could find literally no serious discussion of chocolate on par with wine, cigars, scotch, etc. The only specialty publication I could find was Chocolatier magazine but that was (and still is) more about pastry and baking than about chocolate connoisseurship. I don't know if I invented the idea but I think you'd be hard pressed to find real critical discussion about chocolate prior to my beginning to tually the reverse is true: I am an equal-opportunity chocophile. I like any chocolate I think is good. It's all a matter of personal taste and who am I to tell someone that their taste is bad because they don't like the same things I like? It's a lot like wine snobs who look down on people who drink white zinfandel, or people who no longer drink merlot because the movie Sideways influenced them to believe that ALL pinot noirs were superior to ALL merlots. It's nonsense. I don't think that there is any room for snobbery in chocolate and people who are proud of the fact that they "ONLY eat 70% cocoa content or higher chocolate" are, in my opinion, simply revealing the profound depths of their ignorance on the subject." MLAF: What is the best entry point for someone toexplore the finer aspects of chocolate? CG: "I talk about a chocolate tasting pyramid in my book, which is a method for quickly understanding what you like about the chocolate you like to eat. For many people price is certainly an issue, but with the chocolate tasting pyramid concept you can get started using bars that are easily available in the local supermarket or gourmet store." MLAF: You mention that chocolate pairs nicely with wine and some darker spirits-Are there any other pairings with food or drink that might work? (Cheese? Clear Spirits?) CG:"White goods (what you call clear spirits) are really hard to pair well in my experience. Wines and brown goods (bourbon, scotch, etc)are much easier for the simple fact that they have flavors that are complementary to chocolate." "There are enormous possibilities with food pairings. I have done dinners where smoked salmon wrapped hearts of palm were paired with a white chocolate horseradish cream dipping sauce and breakfasts that featured white chocolate hollandaise sauce for eggs Benedict. Another dinner paired liver (in the form of a pate) with a dark chocolate ganache, balsamic vinegar, and toasted hazelnuts in one course and scallops with a dark chocolate beurre blanc in another. At one of my book signing parties I offered shrimp with a cocoa balsamic glaze." "I recently did a chocolate-lovers's getaway weekend at the Swann House, a B&B in Washington, DC. The tasting session on Saturday afternoon included three wines, two cheeses, two balsamic vinegars, two cured meats, and four chocolates. It was a lot of fun and we came up with some amazing taste combinations by not being afraid to make unusual pairings." "I think there are enormous opportunities for working with chocolate in a savory setting and in fact that's where I concentrate my culinary efforts not in desserts." MLAF: What do you think the future of chocolate is as a food that is taken seriously as a gourmet item? CG: "I don't think that there is any question any more that chocolate is a gourmet food, at least among those people who already consider themselves foodies. The challenge that this raises is that the supply of high quality beans is getting tighter and tighter and it takes at least five years before new trees become productive. So, good chocolate (in fact all chocolate) is likely to become more expensive over the next couple of years as the demand for higher quality and higher cocoa content chocolate continues to grow." Explore more of Clay Gordon's life and work at www.chocophile.com & www.discoverchocolate.com Author Interview: Clay Gordon helps you Discover C...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3798
__label__cc	0.568709	0.431291	Beschloss: Examining presidential shortcomings 100 years later Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, is the author of the new book “Presidents of War” and wrote this op-ed for the Washington Post. On the Nov. 11 100th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War I, I’m celebrating the heroism of American warriors in Europe. Perhaps 116,000 of them died in that struggle. Their commander in chief, Woodrow Wilson, did not match the quality of their service. During the conflict, Wilson made serious mistakes as a political leader that should never be forgotten. Wilson’s missteps in wartime were hardly his only defects. His most disgraceful flaw was his racism. Given his high-flown rhetoric as a professor about elevating humankind, Wilson especially stood out in his white supremacy. He was not a man of his time but a throwback. His two predecessors, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, had looked far kindlier on African Americans and their rights. In 1916, Wilson, a Democrat, narrowly won reelection, campaigning under false pretenses with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War.” Privately, however, he knew it was quite possible that he would take the nation into the European struggle soon after starting his second term. As an academic, Wilson had emphasized the need for presidents to explain military setbacks and other complex or mystifying events to Americans. Yet he spent much of 1917, the first year of U.S. engagement in the war, in kingly isolation, rarely using his luminous oratorical gifts to explain to his countrymen why they needed to make severe sacrifices for a conflict that wasn’t an obvious, direct threat to America’s national security. Wilson, who preened as a civil libertarian, persuaded Congress to pass the Espionage Act, giving him extraordinary power to retaliate against Americans who opposed him and his wartime behavior. That same law today enables presidents to harass their political adversaries. Wilson’s Justice Department also convicted almost a thousand people for using “disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language” against the government, the military or the flag. Wilson is an excellent example of how presidents can exploit wars to increase authoritarian power and restrict freedom, some arguing that criticizing the commander in chief amounts to criticizing soldiers in the field. In the 1918 midterms, with the Great War heading to its climax, Wilson shamelessly exploited the military struggle for domestic politics, urging voters to support his party “for the sake of the nation itself” because Republicans were trying to take “the conduct of the war out of my hands.” This cheap maneuver backfired. Roosevelt and Taft charged that Wilson was asking for “unlimited control over the settlement of a peace that will affect them for a century.” Partly out of disgust with Wilson’s presumptuousness, voters switched controlof both the House and Senate to the Republicans. I admire Wilson’s insistence on ending the war with a League of Nations to ensure that such a conflict never happened again, but his plan to achieve it was clumsy political malpractice. He knew the Republican majority in Congress and many other Americans would be troubled by the possibility that if the Senate endorsed U.S. entry into the League of Nations, the new peace organization might have the right to call American troops into battle. Wilson should have immediately made it his central mission to assuage those fears, but he instead decamped to the Paris peace conference for months — certain, in his vanity, that no mere professional diplomat could match his negotiating skills. The domestic debate over the League of Nations was left to its loudest opponents, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. By the time Wilson returned in the summer of 1919, fatal damage had been done. Wilson’s famous failure to persuade Americans to accept his cherished league (he poignantly suffered a strokewhile campaigning for it) had gargantuan consequences. It doomed the League of Nations’ potential to keep the world out of an even more ruinous war, decades later, as Adolf Hitler expanded his brutal reach in Europe and Japan fell under the spell of a militant, imperial regime. In the late 1930s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to awaken Americans to the possibility that they might have to fight to save the world from tyranny, perhaps his biggest obstacle was the bitter public memory of Wilson and World War I. 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__label__cc	0.701614	0.298386	99 Ways to Love Our Military MP Articles Active Duty Vets Auto + Motorcycles Health + Fitness + Beauty Housing + Real Estate Night Life + After Hours Services + Retail Travel + Hotel MP Columns Travels with Hian Chargers Report San Diego Film Festival Publisher’s Point Preaching to the Choir Siegel Sidebar The Veteran Fashionista TAKE ME HOME HUEY Tells the Story of Healing By Jeri Jacquin \| October 2, 2019 The opening film at MOPA in Balboa Park in San Diego this week at the GI Film Festival from directors Alicia Brauns, Christine Steele, PBS SoCal and Light Horse Legacy is the documentary TAKE ME HOME HUEY. In 1969, a medivac helicopter known as Huey #174 was shot down in Binh Long province of Vietnam killing two crew members. In 2013, Dave Barron rescued the helicopter and artist Steve Maloney decides to make it a healing work of art. Beginning with restoring the weakened metal, people began coming in to be a part of the restoration. That led to the task of finding out about the crew that flew Huey #174 and what happened to them since the crash. Artist Steve Maloney literally came on board taking Huey #174 from damaged piece of metal to a way for those who survived the crash and the families of the two crew who died to help heal. Each of the crew came to see Huey #174 but it didn’t happen easily. They had to consider what they went through as young men and what they are still going through to this very day. Each man admitting that they were struggling with PTSD. PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as ‘a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car accident or sexual assault’. Veterans from every war has brought home soldiers that had a difficult time fitting back into the lives they left behind. Not speaking about their experiences brought about drug use, alcoholism, inability to handle family life and so much more. As each of the men came to see their helicopter, the sense of panic slowly faded away watching their craft come to life in a unique way. Maloney covered the craft with imagery that the men clearly understood, and paid homage to the two crew that did not come home. Inside the helicopter in the installation of art Maloney created from the original parts from wires to instruments. Also inside is a time capsule installed that offered an opportunity for each to put in something in that brought their experience with their reimagined helicopter back in a way that brought them something indescribable. Karl Renz, Paul Battaglia, Jerry McNelly and Steve Maloney were on hand when the lights came on in the theater to a round of applause. Each person in the room was clearly moved by the story and thrilled to have the opportunity to hear directly from these men who have made a greater impact for veterans. To learn more about the film please visit www.takemehomehuey.org. The GI Film Festival San Diego opened with TAKE ME HOME HUEY laying the course for the rest of the films that will be showing until Sunday. Until Friday, the films will be at MOPA (Museum of Photographic Arts) in Balboa Park and for Saturday and Sunday the films will be at UltraStar Cinemas at Hazard Center. For the schedule please visit www.gifilmfestivalsd.org. Jeri Jacquin Jeri Jacquin covers film, television, DVD/Bluray releases, celebrity interviews, festivals and all things entertainment. Tweets by @mpnewspaper © 2014 The Military Press \| 858-537-2280	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3802
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__label__wiki	0.620076	0.620076	Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million You are here: Home / Mortgage Brokers / Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million Earnings hit $36.4 million radian group 2013 earnings call Hit $36.4 million signature bank (nasdaq Peerstreet safeguard properties calls $1m Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million A month has gone by since the last earnings report for Radian Group Inc. (RDN – Free Report) .Shares have added about 10% in that time frame. Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to. Radian (RDN) recorded a fourth-quarter net income of $36.4 million, or 19 cents per share, compared to a net loss of $177.3 million, or $1.34 per diluted share, a year ago. This beat Capital IQ. Hillary Clinton says she’d let big banks fail Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had profit of 15 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 16 cents per share. The asset manager posted revenue of $36.4. Some of Hillary Clinton’s most stupid moments. which is now expected to exceed US$ 65 million in value when completed Refurbishment of 4 Global Sante Fe jackups amounting to US$ 36.4 million Fabrication of an FPSO vessel topside module for a new. Radian 4Q earnings hit .4 million radian group Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results – Earnings. – Radian Group (NYSE:RDN) Q4 2013 earnings call February 5, 2014 10:00 AM ET Executives Emily Riley – Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Sanford A. Ibrahim. Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million Lydall, Inc. (NYSE:LDL) Q3 2016 Earnings Conference Call November 2. Sales in the third quarter were $36.4 million, up 2.1% versus the same period in the prior year, with the timing of tooling. Radian (RDN) recorded a fourth-quarter net income of $36.4 million, or 19 cents per share, compared to a net loss of $177.3 million, or $1.34 per diluted share, a year ago. This beat Capital IQ. Looking at deposits, deposits increased $288 million to $36.4 billion this quarter, while average deposits grew by $541 million. Radian 4Q earnings hit $36.4 million At the time, the team agreed to drop a much-reviled "ticket guarantee," in which the city had agreed to pay for unsold home game tickets – an amount that reached $36.4 million between 1995. The Borrower Bailout Fallacy: Why PIMCO’s Bill Gross is Flat-Out Wrong The Borrower Bailout Fallacy: Why PIMCO’s Bill Gross is Flat-Out Wrong By Stam In Home Loans Contents Mortgage business safer global consulting firm mckinsey Significant financial loss Post-wwii business cycle. 2 full-fledged recovery. Radian 4Q earnings hit .4 million signature bank (nasdaq: SBNY) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Jan. 17. Looking at deposits, deposits increased $288 million to $36.4 billion this quarter, while average deposits grew by $541.New home sales drop in August Sales of newly-constructed homes swooned to the lowest since December 2016. September. The article Radian Group Surpasses A Huge Hurdle With Fourth Quarter Earnings originally appeared on Fool.com. Jessica Alling has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends. 2017 HW Vanguard: Kyle Kamrooz Fannie Mae: Home construction jobs still years from recovery 2019 HW Tech100 winner: peerstreet safeguard properties calls m settlement an amicable resolution I just signed a petition to president donald trump, Robert Klein, C.E.O. Safeguard Properties, Governor Matt Bevin, The United States House of Representatives, The united states senate, The Kentucky State House, and The kentucky state senate: Safeguard Properties is the largest privately held mortgage field services company in the country.\| Idunn Wolfe. Bot set to help employees who join Microsoft via acquisition. When it comes to getting off to a fast start at Microsoft, there is a small group of new employees who have a unique set of challenges to overcome. To help them, Microsoft is turning to an equally unique.Yet still the signs proliferate across the land: For Sale! Foreclosed! Other indices are glum. home-buying intentions have slid back, and as of last fall, mortgage applications were down 36 percent.JPMorgan overcharged military families, improperly foreclosed Chase Wrongly Overcharged and Foreclosed on Military Mortgages – A spokesperson for JP Morgan chase told nbc news that "we feel particularly badly about the mistakes we made" referring to 4000 mortgages for troops and foreclosures on 14 military families. The. By EdmundIn Mortgage Brokers Mortgage Broker Rankin TexasMortgage Broker Riverside Texas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3807
__label__wiki	0.543739	0.543739	6 Books with Matt Wallace Matt Wallace is the author of The Next Fix, The Failed Cities, the novella series Slingers, a lucha-libre buddy-cop novella called Rencor: Life in Grudge City, and the absurdly good Sin du Jour novella series from Tor.com Publishing. Today he shares his 6 books with us... 1. What book are you currently reading? I'm in the middle of The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley, which I already think is her best work to-date. It's exciting as hell watching an author fully become themselves in a novel, and that's what Legion is to me. I adore Hurley's Bel Dame Apocrypha series and her Worldbreaker Saga, and she did a lot of striking and original stuff with both, but they're still anchored in the familiar waters of their genres. Legion reads like the next level of all of that, Hurley writing exactly who and how and what she wants to write without any concern for what's come before in the field. It feels free and new and horrifying and I fucking love it. 2. What upcoming book are you really excited about? Tor.com just announced Brooke Bolander's first book, The Only Harmless Great Thing. I'm super stoked for that. I think Brooke is one of the freshest and most unique voices out there right now, but she produces at a very slow pace (a lot of great writers did and do). Every story is a straight-up iconoclastic gem, but you're immediately like, "MORE!" So a whole book of hers, even if it's a short one, is like discovering gold. I can't wait. I'm also eager to read River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey, who is another author coming at SFF like a coked-up spider monkey from angles you've never seen before. The next novella in Cassandra Khaw's Persons Non Grata series, A Song for Quiet. The first novella, Hammers on Bone, was one of my favorites last year. Null States, the sequel to Malka Older's Infomocracy, which I thought was one of the best and smartest novels of 2016. There's just so much amazing shit out there right now in SFF. We should all be making so much more money than we do. 3. Is there a book you're currently itching to re-read? I kind of want to reread Our Town, which is obviously a play, but who the hell has time to go to an actual physical theater. But I've been thinking a lot lately about being present. Time just seems to evaporate. My fiancée and I are both so busy with our careers and what free time we have is spent thinking about and planning for the future that we really have to work to be in the moment and enjoy and experience what's happening right now. And being present is obviously one of the big themes in Our Town. I've also always found something wonderfully sinister about the Stage Manager. I end up writing a lot of weird fanfic about him in my head. 4. How about a book you've changed your mind about - either positively or negatively? When I was a young punk dreaming of becoming a screenwriter I read William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade books religiously. I thought he was the guy that had it all figured out and the screenwriter I wanted to be (after all, he's responsible for one of the definitive statements about the movie business, "Nobody knows nothin'."). When I got older, started actually working in the entertainment industry, and became a little more aware, I reread Goldman's books and realized that while he is clearly a very nice, extremely talented guy, he's also, professionally, an incredibly timid, even cowardly star-fucker and not at all who I want to be. I'm much more a Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas screenwriter now. It's also still one of my favorite all-time novels, but Dune has not aged well. Both its style and a lot of its tropes have become bracingly difficult for me. But it's still an epic novel in which the political, economical, ecological, and spiritual fate of the entire known Universe is decided in a knife fight. I mean, c'mon. 5. What's one book, which you read as a child or a young adult, that has had a lasting influence on your writing? I read Lost Souls by Billy Martin (writing then as Poppy Z. Brite) when I was 13 or 14 and it completely changed my perception of prose writing. I wanted to create sights, sounds, and smells that practically dripped off the page the way he did. I wanted to describe my worlds with the same kind of vivid language. And the characters and their relationships just broke my fucking heart. I think I grew up a lot, as a person and as a writer, when I read that book. 6. And speaking of that, what's your latest book, and why is it awesome? My latest is Idle Ingredients. It's the fourth book in my Sin du Jour novella series about a catering company in Long Island City that plans and executes events for the world of the supernatural co-existing with our own. It's funny, foodie, and fucked up, full of chefs and mercenaries and magic and monsters. Each book is named for and shot through with the theme of a deadly sin, and each story centers around an event the crew is hired to cater. The first book, Envy of Angels, had them tasked with preparing an angel for a demon banquet and having to scramble to avoid killing and serving said angel. The second book saw them planning a royal Goblin wedding that goes horribly awry. There's also a big overarching plot that unfolds throughout the series in true serial fashion that changes all of their lives and the company forever. I'm really proud of the series and I'm really lovin' writing it. We've got three more books coming after Idle Ingredients (seven deadly sins, seven books). The next one, Greedy Pigs, which is probably the most timely and topical of the series, drops May 16th. POSTED BY: Joe Sherry - Writer / Editor at Adventures in Reading since 2004, Nerds of a Feather contributor since 2015, editor since 2016. Minnesotan. Posted by Joe at 12:00:00 AM Labels: 6 Books series, Joe, Matt Wallace DYSTOPIAN VISIONS Get Out/Speak Out: Dystopia, Vio... Microreview [book]: From Ice to Ashes by Rhett C. ... DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: 12 Monkeys DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Parable of the Sower, by Octavi... Nanoreviews: River of Teeth, Feedback, The Autumn ... DYSTOPIAN VISIONS Guest Post: Ian Sales, "The Road... NoaF Nominates: One Fan's Ballot DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: City of Lost Children DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Children of Men DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Microreview [book]: Empire Games, by Charles Stros... DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Road by Cormac McCarthy DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Half-Life 2 by Valve Corporatio... Microreview [book]: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, b... DYSTOPIAN VISIONS Guest Post: Paul Kincaid, "Can't... Microreview [Movie]: Get Out DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Player of Games by Iain M. ... DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: Brave New World by Aldous Huxle... Microreview [video game]: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided... Introducing...DYSTOPIAN VISIONS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3815
__label__cc	0.687979	0.312021	Contest to Change the Name of Democracy Now! Posted on August 4, 2012 by iwilder Democracy Now! has become the Tom Hayden of Independent media. It does enough good-sounding reporting to keep some credibility, but when you come down to it they don’t support democracy. Again and again in this presidential election year Democracy Now! reports on the same stories about the two presumptive corporate presidential candidates that the corporate media has already reported while failing to report at all about the non-corporate candidates. Some suggestions for changing their name are: Democracy Not! Corporatocracy Now! The War and War Report* Please post your suggestions for a more appropriate name for Democracy Now! in the comments section. Some of our readers have been complaining for a long time about our using coverage from DN! since they do not give equal time to non-corporate candidates. It has been especially true during this presidential election. Since I follow the Green Party race I can give those examples, but I dare say the same could be said for the Libertarian Party since I have seen no coverage of them either. DN! didn’t cover: Roseanne Barr vying into the Green Party nomination. Yes, that Rosanne Barr, the famous comedienne. Even the corporate media covered that. The Green Party presumptive nominee Jill Stein being the first Green Party presidential contender to qualify for primary season matching funds. Not even Ralph Nader did that. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and VP candidate Cheri Honkala getting arrested at the Philidelphia Fannie Mae office to demand a stop to foreclosures. According to Google News, 355 media outlets covered that this week including the Democratic Party organ, The Nation. But not DN! The non-coverage of the sit-in and arrest was the last straw. (The Stein/Honkala campaign press release is below) DN! has been told over and over to provide equal time, and they refuse to even respond. It is true that along with the rest of the corporate media that DN! covered the Green Party convention, but then DN! returned to their media black-out of non-corporate candidates. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9k5T3BKf4k] *The subtitle of the Democracy Now! is The War and Peace Report, but since they only report on the two coeporate war candidates the suggestions is more descriptive. Stein and Honkala arrested in protest of foreclosure giant Fannie Mae (PHILADELPHIA) Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her vice presidential running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested today during a protest at the offices of mortgage company Fannie Mae on Banker’s Row in Philadelphia. Among those arrested along with Dr. Stein and Ms. Honkala were labor lawyer James Moran and Sister Margaret McKenna of the Medical Mission Sisters. An attorney who supports civil disobedience cases is providing legal assistance. All of those arrested are expected to come before a judge on Thursday afternoon. At that time bail will either be set or they will be released on their own recognizance. The protest was originally called for by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign to demand that the giant mortgage company halt foreclosure proceedings against two Philadelphia residents in danger of losing their homes. Stein joined the protest after Cheri Honkala joined her as Stein’s vice presidential running mate. Honkala, a former homeless single mother, has been confronting banks and mortgage companies for decades demanding that they adopt policies that will, “keep families in their homes.” At 1pm today about 50 protestors gathered outside of Fannie Mae’s Philadelphia headquarters. They heard from Miss Fran and Rhonda Lancaster, the heads of two families evicted by Fannie Mae in its refusal to negotiate an alternative to foreclosure. Fannie Mae executive Zach Oppenheimer had previously promised in writing to meet with the two women in order to discuss other options. Yet no followup meeting ever took place, and so protestors today entered the Fannie Mae building and vowed to stay until Mr. Oppenheimer’s word was honored. At about 2:30pm, an hour after entering the building and beginning a sitdown protest, lower level Fannie Mae officials agreed to meet with Miss Fran and Ms. Lancaster. These meetings proved inconclusive, ending only with promises of more meetings. With Philadelphia police on hand with six paddy wagons and plainclothesman, a smaller subset of protestors stayed inside the building and risked arrest. Five were arrested, including Dr. Stein and Ms. Honkala. In explaining why she joined the protest, Stein said that almost half of Americans now live in poverty or near poverty, eight million families face eviction from their homes due to foreclosures, and over a third of mortgage holders are “underwater” – meaning that they owe more to the lenders than their properties are worth on the market. Said Stein, “The developers and financiers made trillions of dollars through the housing bubble and the imposition of crushing debt on homeowners. And when homeowners could no longer pay them what they demanded, they went to government and got trillions of dollars of bailouts. Every effort of the Obama Administration has been to prop this system up and keep it going at taxpayer expense. It’s time for this game to end. It’s time for the laws be written to protect the victims and not the perpetrators. It’s time for a new deal for America, and a Green New Deal is what we will deliver on taking office. ” “The laws and the budgets and the procedures are designed to protect the lenders and to extract as much money as possible from the victims,” Honkala explained. “This isn’t the way it would be if we really had a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The first goal of government should be to keep families in their homes, and to provide restitution for the deception and fraud that has robbed millions of Americans of financial security.” Stein laid out a number of steps that will be part of a new deal for homeowners when and where the Green Party wins power. First, as President, Dr. Stein would issue an executive order establishing a moratorium on foreclosures of occupied dwellings. Second, municipalities governed by Greens will get homeowners out of underwater mortgages by seizing mortgages through eminent domain and letting non-profit community development organizations – not Wall Street banks – reissue the mortgages. Noting that the Obama administration has only released 10% of the aid that Congress had promised to homeowners, Stein asserted that “There is much more interest in Washington in protecting the profits of banks than in getting this aid out to the families whose lives are falling apart. President Obama held a big press conference to announce a program that would supposedly help 1.5 million homeowners and so far it has actually helped only 1 per cent of that number. Real help goes to the CEOs who play golf with the President and the people get lip service. This will change only if the people stand up and say we’re not going to put up with it anymore.” Statement from RHONDA LANCASTER (Excerpted from People’s Tribune): My family has lived in this home in Germantown for over 35 years. When my mother got ill and could not afford her health care, a reverse mortgage idea was presented to me. They made it look like it was a great thing. It was going to take care of my mother, and when my mother passed away it would be just fine. The nightmare started after my mom died. I notified the bank she had passed away, and two days later I was getting ready for her funeral. Relatives and friends were coming in from all over the country. The bank told me to stop everything and let them come in and do an appraisal. The bank refused to accept me as the executor of her estate, although the proper papers had been filed at City Hall. From that point on it was a complete nightmare. I could get through to no one and no one could help me. They denied me my legal US rights as heir to my mother’s property. Statement from MISS FRAN (Excerpted from People’s Tribune): I have lived in Philadelphia all my life, and in this house since 1988. Once when I was forced to file for bankruptcy, my mortgage holder, Chase Bank, suddenly came to court and objected to my bankruptcy plan. Although the law requires them to notify me in advance, I had no warning of their action, so I had no lawyer and no time to prepare my evidence. The judge dismissed my file for bankruptcy and Chase began foreclosure proceedings. I participated in Philadelphia’s Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program, so I was able to keep my home off the sheriff sale list. Then they claimed I missed a Conciliation Conference even though they had never notified me about it. When I complained, the court rescheduled the sheriff sale of my home from July 1, 2008, to September. I attended that sale on July 1 and was shocked to hear them put my house up for sale anyway. I was in the back of the auditorium and ran to the front making so much noise the sheriff’s lawyer had to stop the sale. Finally they brought in a letter from the sheriff saying they had obtained a court order that same day to sell the house. They had gone to court without even notifying me. The same judge who postponed the sale in the first place had turned around and vacated his own order, all without telling me. The sale of my home went through on July 1, but my battle was just beginning. Although Chase Bank foreclosed on my home, I found out the sheriff changed the name on the documents to Fannie Mae. There is no bill of sale from Chase to Fannie Mae and no record of any transfer. Fannie Mae has no legal standing to evict me. But that didn’t stop them from trying. They sued to evict me in April 2011. I filed an objection, it was overruled, I answered them, and we were supposed to go to trial in February 2012. Then they filed for a summary judgment against me, which is only supposed to be granted when there is no dispute in the matter. I told them we most definitely do have a dispute: a district court order was ignored and Fannie Mae has no standing. But the judge granted the summary judgment anyway. They obtained a writ of eviction and scheduled my eviction for June 12. Green Party President Candidate Jill Stein & VP Cheri Honkala: “We Represent the 99%” DN!: Dr. Jill Stein Poised to Win Green Party’s Presidential Nomination CODEPink/UFPJ’s Tom Hayden is Shilling for the Warmonger Again. Green Party nominee arrested in Philly bank sit-in Green Party Ticket Jill Stein And Cheri Honkala Arrested For Fannie Mae Sit-In 2012 Hopeful Arrested After Protest Green Party nominees out of jail after Pa. arrests Green Party Presidential Candidate Arrested Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Arrested at Bank Protest Hope for the Greens – Fresh From Jail Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Election 2012, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, independent politics, News, politics, presidential race, progressive politics, radio, Ralph Nader, US Politics Tagged: \| Cheri Honkala, Democracy Now, equal time, Fannie Mae, Jill Stein, libertarian, Philadelphia, Ralph Nader, Roseanne Barr « Save Our Schools: National Convention Aug. 3rd to 5th in DC DN!: Green Party Nominee Arrested at Anti-Foreclosure Rally » Stop Walmart, on August 5, 2012 at 6:55 pm said: Classic false equivalence undergirds this. as the writer admits, “It is true that along with the rest of the corporate media that DN! covered the Green Party convention,” Given that Democracy Now! devoted several hours to the Green Party convention, in addition to having Roseanne Barr on for about an hour in 2011, to compare the coverage as identical as the corporate media is simply not supported. Green Party Nominee Jill Stein & Running Mate, Activist Cheri Honkala: “We Represent the 99 Percent” http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/green_party_nominee_jill_stein_running Green New Deal: Organizer, Physician Jill Stein Poised to Win Green Party’s Presidential Nomination http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/green_new_deal_organizer_physician_jill Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the “Next Great Revolution” http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/16/gar_alperovitzs_green_party_keynote_we Green Party Nominates Physician, Activist Jill Stein http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/16/headlines#7164 Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a “Working-Class Domestic Goddess” http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/25/pioneering_comedian_roseanne_barr_on_her While coverage of the specific protest referenced may not have occurred on Democracy Now!, as the writer notes, it was covered on 355 other outlets. Democracy Now! covers protests and actions otherwise universally ignored, providing unique coverage of grassroots movements, while perhaps not covering ALL protest actions. The writer would agree that 5 hours of news coverage per week is not sufficient to cover ALL PROTESTS across the globe. The Fannie Mae protest referenced occurred on Aug 2, 2012, a Thursday. Since that time, Democracy Now! broadcast ONE program, on Friday, Aug. 3rd. On that day, Democracy Now! reported on the 3 protesters who broke into the Y12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, shutting it down and now facing years in prison. This action was hardly covered in the corporate press, reinforcing the vital reporting of Democracy Now! wilderside, on August 6, 2012 at 9:19 pm said: Hello Mr. Moyihan, I am honored to have a response from the former DN! outreach director and president of Free Speech TV. Thank you for proving my point that DN! does not believe in equal time. You have shown that: Roseanne Barr’s candidacy was never reported on. Only 3 stories on the Green Party presidential race, and all within one week. No stories on the Libertarian presidential race. You seemed to have forgotten to list how many stories about the corporate presidential candidates have been run this year. I bet it averages more than 3 stories PER WEEK. It is nice that you can point to 1 story that the corporate media did not cover that DN!. That’s not the point. Does DN! believe in equal time or not? I remember lots of stories that were covered by DN! that were already completely covered by the corporate media. That time could have been used to give equal time. And some stories that never should have been using up DN!’s precious hour, like the Iranian hikers getting married. I find it amusing that your handle is Stop Walmart. It will never be stopped when the so-called independent news coverage focuses almost exclusively on their friends in the corporate parties. Remember Hillary Clinton was on the Walmart board. DN!: Green Party Nominee Arrested at Anti-Foreclosure Rally - OntheWilderSide \| OntheWilderSide, on August 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm said: […] Since I complained loudly here that Democracy Now! did not give equal time to non-corporate candidat… from last week, I figure I should should echo it when DN! did cover it. […] Green Party demands Independent Citizens' Review Boards for Police - OntheWilderSide \| OntheWilderSide, on August 12, 2012 at 1:11 pm said: […] Contest to Change the Name of Democracy Now! […] Democracy Now! gives the Green Party its Graphic Props - OntheWilderSide \| OntheWilderSide, on August 31, 2012 at 9:10 pm said: […] Now! not treating all presidential candidates equally. I even posted a somewhat tongue in cheek Contest to Change the Name of Democracy Now! for their lack of equal time […] Moyers & Co. preview video of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein 9/7/12 - OntheWilderSide \| OntheWilderSide, on September 7, 2012 at 8:51 am said: […] Contest to Change the Name of Democracy Now! Share this:StumbleUponEmailDiggRedditTwitterPrintFacebookLinkedIn […] Leave a Reply to Green Party demands Independent Citizens' Review Boards for Police - OntheWilderSide \| OntheWilderSide Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3836
__label__wiki	0.829591	0.829591	How Animated Cartoons Are Made: Watch a Short, Charming Primer from 1919 in Animation \| October 6th, 2013 2 Comments Wallace Carlson, a pioneering animator who created films like Dreamy Dud: He Resolves Not to Smoke (1915), joined Bray Studios in 1917, where, among other things, he produced a film called How Animated Cartoons Are Made. According to Cartoon Research, a site dedicated to cartoon history, the film offers perhaps the earliest and truest look at how cartoons were made nearly a century ago. And it's all done with some charm and wit. You can find the nine-minute short added to the Animation section of our collection of 575 Free Movies Online. Meanwhile, if old-time animation fascinates you, you'll want to watch How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made, a 1939 production that takes you inside the making of Snow White (1937). Watch The Amazing 1912 Animation of Stop-Motion Pioneer Ladislas Starevich, Starring Dead Bugs European Cave Art: Was It The Earliest Form of Cinema? The Disney Cartoon That Introduced Mickey Mouse & Animation with Sound (1928) How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made (1939) Columbus Muench says: now I know…nnhttp://historyofcoins.org/ Nalrus says: Charming and funny. The visit to the editors office was Keaton stuff.n	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3837
__label__wiki	0.676299	0.676299	About PACTS Safe System Westminster Lecture Early Day Motions Ministerial Statements Select Committees Transport Safety Commission /Dashboard /Sign-up for PACTS news /Login admin@pacts.org.uk Parliament/ Parliamentary Questions/ Recent Parliamentary Questions on transport safety issues /pacts /Featured, Parliament, Parliamentary Questions Assisted Vehicle Technology Asked by Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon) Asked on: 27 October 2016 Driving: Safety To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses his Department received during the public consultation on advanced driver assistance systems and automated vehicle technologies. Answered by: Mr John Hayes Answered on: 02 November 2016 The consultation “Pathway to driverless cars: proposals to support advanced driver assistance systems and automated vehicle technologies” ran between 11 July and 9 September. It is currently being analysed, and a response will be issued in due course. 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Answered by: Brandon Lewis The number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued to motorists for the use of handheld mobile phones while driving in each of the years from 2010 to 2014 is published in the annual “Police Powers and Procedures” statistical bulletin, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales Air Safety: Drones Asked by Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) Unmanned Air Vehicles To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many meetings (a) Ministers of her Department and (b) officials of HM Prison Service have had with drone manufacturers in each quarter of each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. Details of all ministerial meetings with external companies are published on gov.uk. Information on officials’ meetings is not held centrally. We remain vigilant to all incidents involving drones and take the threat they pose to prison security very seriously. 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__label__wiki	0.695798	0.695798	what's new at protect farmworkers now How false claims about a worker’s death hurt communities Lynden Tribune Guest Editorial by Protect Farmworkers Now project coordinator Dillon Honcoop It’s important to tell the truth, especially when many people’s jobs and livelihoods are on the line. That’s why it’s so troubling to see activists and their sympathizers continue to spread an insidious lie in our community. Last summer, a worker at a Sumas blueberry farm was rushed to the hospital after having run out of his medication days earlier. Honesto Silva Ibarra tragically passed away at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. An exhaustive Washington Department of Labor & Industries investigation reported that the farm was in no way responsible for Mr. Silva Ibarra’s death, but that truth is apparently an inconvenient one for activist labor groups like Bellingham-based Community to Community Development, who wanted to capitalize on news coverage of the tragedy to further their labor organizing efforts. They have falsely claimed that “degraded conditions” and management failure caused Mr. Silva Ibarra’s death, going so far as to label it “corporate murder,” and continuing to do so even after L&I’s investigation proved them wrong. A recent letter to the Lynden Tribune from a concerned citizen perhaps inadvertently continues this pervasive lie. “A young H2A worker died due to poor working conditions and management oversight,” Naomi Murphy wrote in the letter the Tribune printed May 9th. It’s one thing to express genuine concern for the workers, it’s another to continue to make false statements when the truth is out there for all to see. Either Ms. Murphy is entirely ignorant of the facts of the tragedy, or she’s intentionally communicating false and harmful accusations. It’s deeply troubling that activist labor groups continue to claim in interviews, social media, website posts and elsewhere that, among other mistreatment of workers, the Sumas farm caused the worker’s death. Their pressure on the Department of Labor & Industries and the publicity they generated caused the Department to issue a fine 40 times greater than one normally assessed for rest and meal break violations. It is shameful for a Department to punish a farm based on lies communicated about them, especially when they themselves determined the accusations to be lies! The H-2A program, despite activists’ claims that it amounts to “virtual slavery,” provides some of the best worker protections anywhere, including good wages, subsidized meals and free housing and transportation. The employer has to make sure that the worker returns home after completing their work. If a worker can go from one farm to another, the employer can't be expected to pay for transportation and housing, and prevention of illegal immigration becomes impossible. The activists seek to establish farmworker unions. It’s a free country and people can pursue whatever agenda they want. But this agenda hurts workers because it takes away jobs they very much need, hurts consumers by rapidly increasing the amount of food we import, and hurts farmers through their vicious lies and political pressure. Workers are exceptionally well protected as the massive fine against the farm for break violations shows. What other business do you know would be fined $150,000 for a few late rest or meal breaks? It’s time for those who care about these farmworkers to tell Community to Community, the activist group behind this, that enough is enough. False claims on workers’ death persist	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3848
__label__wiki	0.728894	0.728894	Community to Community continues to lie about sumas farm worker's death Judge cuts sumas farm fine in half. Activists respond with more lies. Love berries? The future of berry farming in Whatcom and Skagit counties is dimming. Rapid rise of imports from Mexico, Serbia and other countries is primary reason. Our farmers can't compete with countries that don't have serious food safety and worker protections and who pay $11 per DAY minimum wage, vs. the $20 to $25 per hour in labor costs our farmers pay. The summary facts about the Sumas berry farm and guest workers: - The use of guest workers, not any action of the farm, prompted the union activists to foment worker action against the farm - The tragic death of a worker by natural causes has been cynically and immorally used as a pretext for protests and continued lies about the farm's treatment of workers - Community to Community is a union activist organization working to generate union dues by limiting access to workers through the guest worker program - The numerous lies and false accusations are well documented including on this website - The H2A or guest worker program contains extensive worker protections in addition to the numerous labor laws and regulations that protect all farm workers - Washington farmers are at an increasing competitive disadvantage over their foreign competitors because they already pay 20-30 times or more what foreign farmers pay as well as the high costs of environmental, safety and health regulations Capital Press reports that the record fine the Department of Labor & Industries imposed on the Sumas farm was cut in half by a Whatcom County judge. The fine was for missed or late rest or meal breaks and had nothing to do with the death of the worker. However, the record level of the fine had everything to do with it as the Department's records showed that publicity generated by union activists blaming the farm for the worker's death prompted the fine to go from an expected $4600 to $149,000. The judge cut it in half leaving the farm paying $70,000 in fines and courts costs – likely still a record amount and way beyond what would be expected for such violations. But the union activists led by Rosalinda Guillen of Community to Community continue to lie about the farm and its treatment of guest workers. Despite complete exoneration of the farm by the Department of Labor & Industries, they continue to insist the farm was responsible for the death of the worker. They continue to misrepresent worker conditions and the numerous rules and regulations farmers comply with to protect workers. We ask: what other business would be subject to such penalties for missed rest break? Guillen was quoted as saying in this news report: "For us it's immoral, the fact that the life of a farm worker has been negotiated down to $35,000. And the reason they bring in these H2-A workers is because they are exploitable," she said. "It's like slavery. It's like the value of a worker is actually being calculated. It's disgusting." What is disgusting and immoral is how, in the face of the indisputable facts about the man's tragic death, this activist continues to pursue her agenda of taking union dues from these workers and attempting to destroy the reputation not just of this farm but of all farms in the area. What is even more disgusting to farmers is those people, groups, companies and churches who choose to believe these lies and support the actions that are so harmful to the workers they say they are trying to help. We challenge them: talk to the workers. Get the facts. Learn that the option for these workers is to go to work in Mexican farm fields where the pay is twenty to thirty times less than what they receive here and where the worker protections are far, far less than what they receive on local farms. We encourage everyone in the community who cares about the truth to challenge those who support this damaging, dishonest and immoral activism. Even the workers they induced to protest do not agree with this campaign to stop guest worker jobs Rosalinda Guillen, director of Community to Community, continues to claim the farm caused the tragic death of the worker despite indisputable evidence that this is false. Her campaign to halt guest worker jobs flies in the face of what even the protesting workers say: they want these jobs! statement from sumas farm owner regarding the latest accusations published by Guillen In response to your inquiry, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries undertook several thorough and extensive investigations at Sarbanand Farms, LLC, in connection with Honesto Silva Ibarra’s death last summer. The agency praised the company for its cooperation and found no workplace safety or health violations. It further concurred with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office that the worker’s death was the result of natural causes, and not related to any occupational issues. All of this was confirmed by the L&I release of Feb 1, excerpts of which are set forth below. For any organization to suggest otherwise is simply false and would seem to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to mislead the public. Since the company acquired the farm in Sumas, Sarbanand Farms has made a multi-million investment to create state-of- the-art living quarters and facilities for its workers. These include sleeping, personal hygiene, dining, laundry and outdoor facilities. (link) All the Munger companies take seriously their responsibilities with respect to worker safety and they are committed to the wellbeing of every one of their workers. With an ongoing goal of the companies being to comply with all laws and regulations governing the workplace, they also have comprehensive compliance programs in place. Excerpts from the L&I press release: “Safety and health investigations find no violations “L&I also conducted a simultaneous investigation into safety at the workplace, in connection with Silva Ibarra’s death. The agency understands the concerns when an unexpected death occurs, and strives to find out if it’s work-related. “An autopsy conducted by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the death was from natural causes, and not related to occupational issues. L&I shared information and discussed the case with the medical examiner. “Agency investigators interviewed members of Silva Ibarra’s work crew, a family member who was with him the day he fell ill, roommates, his wife (by telephone), and work supervisors, among others. “Investigators spent three days at the worksite looking into the availability of drinking water, shade, training and restroom facilities. The agency also conducted a third investigation focused solely on pesticide use and exposure to workers. Based on the information gathered during the inspections, no workplace safety or health violations were found.” Rosalinda Guillen is fighting against the expressed desires of the very workers she says she is trying to help. And continuing to promote outrageous lies against the Sumas farm whose hiring of over 600 guest workers drew her union activism. Continued false accusations about the death of the worker Her email sent to supporters on March 10 said: As many of you know Honesto Silva Ibarra died this summer after being denied medical treatment while working under the smoky conditions of wildfires at Sarabanand Farms as an H2A guestworker in Sumas WA. We refer you to the message from the farm owner in reply to this vicious lie. Either the Department of Labor & Industries along with the King County Medical Examiner's Office are lying, or Rosalinda is lying. The farm management was fully exonerated in a detailed investigation. Additional proof comes from the Columbia Legal Services lawsuit against the farm which is focused on a comment made by a California employee, and does not include any mention of the farm's role in the worker's tragic death. Capital Press on March 13 reported in even stronger terms the response of L&I to Guillen's accusations: L&I investigators, responding at least in part to accusations posted on Facebook, exonerated the farm in Ibarra’s death. A spokesman for the agency said workers were provided water, shade and heat-illness training. The investigation did find that workers missed one rest break and were served one meal late in late July. The company was fined a total of $149,800 by the state and Whatcom County. Can anyone imagine Boeing or Starbucks fined $150,000 because of one missed rest break or one late meal? -Espero que todo salga bien, sobre todo, justicia para ese hombre que falleció y que su familia reciba apoyo, y también justicia para todos nosotros aquí sin poder, así que podemos tener la oportunidad de trabajar en otro lugar, tal vez no aquí, sino Algún lugar más. Guillen's goal: stop farms from hiring guest workers The Action Alert email Guillen sent out said: We are launching a campaign to block the expansion of the H2A guest worker program in Whatcom and Skagit county... This is in opposition to the express desires of the 18,000 guest workers in Washington state in 2017 AND even the small group of workers she induced to protest. Want proof? Here is a video interview by the Bellingham Herald with one of the protesting workers with translations by Edgar Franks, one of Guillen's staff. The translation of Franks is not entirely accurate and does not convey, as a more careful translation, that the worker is repeating information about working conditions and the worker's death that was told to him by the activists. His last statement is important. He says: -I hope everything gets worked out, most of all, justice for that man that passed away and that his family gets support, and also justice for all of us here with no so we can have the opportunity to work elsewhere, maybe not here but someplace else. Here is one of Guillen's protesters, reflecting the misinformation he and fellow protesters were provided, but making clear he wants to come back from Mexico and work. The very thing Franks and Guillen are trying to prevent from happening. (Side note: The activists accuse the farm of hindering the workers in securing their visas or work permits: another false accusation. The farm is not responsible for that but the company contracting to provide the guest workers. The company did nothing to hinder the legal status of these workers. Why would they? They hired them to help harvest the crops!) Want to help farm workers get the justice and support they need? Those who support the vicious lies of Community to Community are harming the very workers they say they are trying to help. Guest workers and domestic farm workers are protected by likely the most stringent labor laws in the nation. They are not mistreated, but eager for the jobs their families so desperately need. The 18,000 guest workers hired in Washington state returned over $288 million to their families in 2017. Only about 60 stopped working and protested, hurting their families and possibly permanently damaging their prospects for future work – all because they believed the lies they were told. If you care about what is right for these workers, tell Ms. Guillen to stop lying and start working for the real interests of these workers which is to keep their jobs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3849
__label__wiki	0.88144	0.88144	Brazilian wonderkid Coutinho: I have to improve a lot to earn Iniesta comparisons Philippe Coutinho feels comparisons between himself and “genius” Andres Iniesta are not appropriate as he wants to be known for his own game. Coutinho’s arrival from Liverpool in the January transfer window was widely accepted to place the Brazilian in pole position to be Iniesta’s heir. The long-serving midfielder moved to Vissel Kobe at the end of the season and Coutinho has slotted in to take the former Spain international’s place. Could Pogba really leave Man Utd in January for Barcelona, Juventus or PSG? Which club will Rabiot join on a Bosman transfer? Liverpool, Barcelona, Juventus and possible destinations Watch out, Salah! Chelsea superstar Hazard is coming for your Player of the Year awards Luk who’s talking now! Mourinho & Man Utd players smiling again in impressive Watford win But Coutinho, who like Iniesta has played in both attack and midfield, rejected suggestions he is following in the 34-year-old’s footsteps. “Andres was a genius, comparisons between us are tough,” Coutinho told a news conference ahead of his Champions League bow for Barca against PSV on Tuesday. “I just want to be myself and win as much as I can here. “I try to work hard regardless of my position and I work hard on every aspect of my game, I feel more of an attacking midfielder and I am comfortable on the left as this is where I’ve played the most. “My goal is to improve at everything and if I want to be like Andres Iniesta I have to improve a lot. “My first job is to make plays in the midfield, in the middle it’s more difficult as I have to hold on to the ball and help my team-mates. “In attack I can contribute to more goals, but I will do whatever job the coach asks me to do.” Valverde: “We want to win the Champions League, like all the other teams in the competition. It’s a different competition, it’s short and you can’t afford to slip up” #BarçaPSV pic.twitter.com/BkXyi3wtGr — FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) September 17, 2018 Coutinho could not play for Barcelona in the Champions League last term as he had already featured for Liverpool earlier in the competition. Barca subsequently suffered a shock exit to Roma at the quarter-final stage, surrendering a 4-1 lead from the first leg as they were beaten 3-0 in Italy. “It was tough for me personally and for us as a team because of the way we were eliminated, but this time we are determined,” Coutinho added. “I wanted to help, but I could not. I was watching it on TV, it was very hard. “Last year I couldn’t play and I’m looking forward to getting out there in the Champions League. “Barcelona fight for all the competitions but the Champions League is the biggest and we are going to go for it. “We haven’t won it in a few years but we have the players and we are hungry to go out there and win it. “We have to keep working hard and it all starts right now in the Champions League.” Previous PostPrevious Richarlison hails first Brazil goals as ‘dream come true’ Next PostNext Coutinho can’t explain Messi and Barcelona’s Champions League struggles Luis Suarez Labels Liverpool Fans ‘the Best’ in the World Ousmane Dembele Nears Injury Comeback for Barcelona as He Resumes Training 30 Most Expensive Footballers of All Time – Adjusted for Inflation Barcelona 1-0 Granada: Report, Ratings & Reaction as Lionel Messi Helps Quique Seitén to Debut Win Juventus CEO Discusses Swap Deal With Barcelona Involving Federico Bernardeschi & Ivan Rakitic	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3850
__label__wiki	0.632655	0.632655	A range of polymer coatings are available in the form of lubrications, anti-microbial liquids, water repellent polymers. Each variant is used for different applications. Besides sanitation, the other concerns about coatings are allergenic substances, risk of new infections, FDA compatibility standards, resistance to microbe absorption and transference. Research has seen developments in coatings to enhance performance of devices. For many types of implants, including stents, endotracheal tubes, urinary catheters and vascular grafts, there is a risk of infection. Some present issues with blood clotting as well. Infections from medical implants can pose major problems to public health. Dr. Hitesh Handa, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia in the School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering and his team are developing polymer coatings for medical implants to reduce health risks. These coatings help prevent growth of bacteria clusters, called biofilm, which can form on medical implants and lead to infection. This work involves a lot of different people including collaborators in Michigan, some UGA students and the Veterinary School at UGA. The my group is trying to develop coatings that can release nitric oxide gas, which can mimic what the body does to prevent clotting and infection. Nitric oxide is a gas that is produced in the human body. The gas is released by the veins and arteries in order to prevent platelet activation, which helps prevent blood clotting. Nitric oxide is also released in the sinuses and by white blood cells to fight harmful bacteria. Handa said by “minimally hurting” animals, the research team will be able to find out if the medical coatings are really working. A timeline for when people can expect to have access to these type of treatments on a large scale is largely an estimation at this point. Australian scientists have developed a polymer coating that can test for bladder cancer more simply and much cheaper than current invasive techniques. Professor Krasi Vasilev, from the University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute, told Plastics News that his team was researching antibiotic properties of polyoxazoline-based polymers and discovered a polymeric compound that will bind to cancer-specific antibodies in urine. That enabled the researchers to develop a portable, non-invasive devise to test for bladder cancer. Vasilev said bladder cancer is difficult to diagnose and the probability of recurrence is high — about 75% within five years. Survivors have regular cytoscopies, which involve inserting a thin tube with a camera attached through the urethra to the bladder. This is a very invasive procedure, is expensive, requires hospitalization and can lead to complications. The new test exposes a urine sample to a 20-nanometer-thick polymer coating on a substrate. The compound binds to antibodies when it recognizes a protein on the surface of cancer cell membranes. The device uses biosensors and micro-optics to identify the presence of those cells. The research is led by Adelaide, South Australian-based SMR Technologies, a unit of SMR Automotive Australia Pty. Ltd. Vasilev said the polyoxazoline-based polymer technology, which has been patented, has potential for other medical uses. Its antibacterial properties may be useful for implantable devices. Valisev said almost half of hospital-based infections occur after medical devices, like artificial knees and hips, are implanted. Infections caused by bacterial colonization of medical devices are a substantial problem for patients and the health-care industry but the polyoxazoline coatings are a potential solution. Vasilev is also researching ways to use them in antifouling applications for ships. He said "undesirable biological adhesion" also has detrimental effects in food processing and a wide range of other industries. Using plasma polymerization to form nanoscale coatings on a solid substrate means no prior substrate preparation is required and eliminates use of organic solvents "so it's a greener technology," Vasilev said. A team is working to reduce infections with a smart polymer that changes color and activates natural antimicrobial enzymes when bacterial contamination is detected. Constant exposure to salivary bacteria makes dental tools, such as reusable X-ray imaging plates, ideal environments for virulent biofilms. Associate Professor Niveen Khashab, her Ph.D. student Shahad Alsaiari and colleagues from the University's Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center realized that switching to gold nanoparticles could give antimicrobial coatings detection capabilities—these tiny crystals have sensitive optical properties that can be tuned to spot specific biomolecular interactions. But incorporating them safely into polymers required new types of nanofillers. The team's approach uses gold nano clusters treated with lysozyme enzymes that have innate defenses against pathogens, such as Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli. They attached these colloids to the surface of slightly larger, porous silica nanoparticles stuffed with antibiotic drug molecules. Normally, this gold-silica complex emits glowing, red fluorescent light. But when the lysozyme units encounter bacteria, a strong attraction for cell walls rips the gold nanoclusters from their silica partners—an action that simultaneously switches off fluorescence and releases the antibiotic cargo. Blending experiments revealed the gold-based nanofillers integrated thoroughly into polymer composites and exhibited minimal leaching during trials with E. coli. Khashab attributes these favorable polymer interactions to the sharp exposed edges of gold clusters on the silica spheres. The researchers tested their concept by comparing X-ray dental plates with and without the smart polymer coating. Both samples yielded the same high-resolution images of teeth and bone structure. However, only the coated plate enabled rapid visual assessment of bacterial contamination, simply by illuminating the device with a UV-lamp and looking for color change. Successful release of the antibacterial agent also drastically decreased biofilm buildup. 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__label__wiki	0.826484	0.826484	10 PM NETWORK DECEMBER 2015 WWW.PMI.ORG theEdge IRAN’S HOTEL BOOM With economic sanctions set to lift in 2016, Iran wants to become an international tourist destination. And hoteliers are stepping up with projects to meet a growing number of visitors to the long-isolated country. Iran cracked open its doors to international tourists in 2013, but sanctions still made it difficult for tourists to use credit cards. This year’s international agreement between Iran and Western nations to limit the country’s nuclear program and end the sanctions will make life easier for travelers. Some hotel companies have responded quickly. France’s Accor became the first Western company to manage a hotel in Iran in decades when it opened two hotels near Tehran’s airport in mid-October. Rotana Hotel Management Corp., based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, plans four hotels in Iran by 2018. “Iran hasn’t built proper hotels for the last four decades,” Ramin Rabii, group CEO of investment firm Turquoise Partners, told The Independent in September. “But tourism is a huge opportunity, and almost all the big hotel brands have made a visit recently.” Efforts to expand tourism in Iran began even before the deal was signed in July. President Hassan Rouhani has eased visa requirements for tourists, and his government’s tourism department began working with groups at home and abroad to increase accommodations and access to tourist attractions and promote Iran as a world-class destination. The government is ambitious: It wants to attract 20 million visitors a year by 2025. With just 5 million foreign tour- ists arriving in 2014, hotel companies will need to move into high gear to meet the national goal. —Ben Schaefer goods such as Kleenex, set a goal to procure 100 percent of its wood fiber from certified sources. Achieved in 2014, the initiative involved creating an action plan with specific proj- ects and key performance indicators to measure results, she says. Projects included establishing an audit process to track where raw materials come from and visiting all suppliers to educate them on the sustainability goals and how that would impact sourcing requirements. “Setting clear targets and working with your supply chain is the most important part,” Ms. Cesareo says. Getting Everyone on Board Global construction firm Carillion has been another leader in projects to prevent supply chain deforestation. “From a project management perspective, there are three things we do to meet our sustainable timber sourcing goals,” says David Picton, chief sustainability officer, Carillion, Oakley, England. First, the company established a sourcing policy for all projects that mandates all timber meets standards set by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a not-for-profit that promotes responsible management of the world’s forests. Then Carillion partnered with its key suppliers to educate them about sustainable forestry and how to demonstrate FSC compliance. Mr. Picton notes that it is not enough to communicate the policy to suppliers. “They need to know why sustainable timber sourcing is important to our long-term success,” he says. Finally, the organization added a review step to ensure every project is in compliance. “We audit a number of things on every project, including safety, quality and now sourcing,” Mr. Picton says. This process begins with the project specifications, which lay out the sustainable sourcing requirements, and it includes regular checks of documentation for chain of custody and FSC compliance. “This audit process is how we can be sure our expectations are being met,” he says. Beyond the Trees While most of the corporate projects related to sustainable sourcing focus on supply chain education and sourcing mandates, a few companies are investing in projects that actively promote reforestation. Gourmet kitchen goods retailer Williams-Sonoma Inc., for example, is partnering with suppliers in Indonesia to build a nursery to grow plantation wood for one of its furniture lines. And technology giant Apple is supporting World Wildlife Fund’s work with forest plantation companies on responsible practices. “These are examples of how some companies are being innovative in their efforts to save forests, in addition to changing internal practices,” Ms. Cesareo says. For companies just beginning this journey, experts encourage them to reach out to groups with technical expertise and their own peers for lessons learned on setting realistic commitments and implementing changes that can be measured and sustained. “A lot of organizations have already had a lot of success, and they have valuable lessons to share,” says Lael Goodman, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. As this trend matures, it will become easier to find sustainable resources and to measure and report the impact these changes have on the organization and the environment. “Even three years ago, a lot of these goals seemed out of reach,” she says. “Now I think this movement has the potential to be successful if organizations and companies follow through on their commitments.” —Sarah Fister Gale has to be meaningful to the organization, and it has to policies and practices that will deliver —Kerry Cesareo, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C., USA Tourists at Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3856
__label__cc	0.720518	0.279482	All Jailbreak Tutorials Firmware Files for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Redsn0w Downloads PwnageTool Downloads Absinthe Download Evasi0n Download Pangu Download TaiG Download Apple is Building the Nation's Largest End User Solar Array Apple has announced that to support its data center in Maiden, North Carolina, it is building the nation's largest end user-owned solar array. Our new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, demonstrates our commitment to reducing the environmental impact of our facilities through energy-efficient, green building design. The facility has earned the coveted LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. We know of no other data center of comparable size that has achieved this level of LEED certification. Our goal is to run the Maiden facility with high percentage renewable energy mix, and we have major projects under way to achieve this - including building the nation's largest end user-owned solar array and building the largest nonutility fuel cell installation in the United States. The news comes via a report on Apple's environmental footprint. In October, permits issued by Catawba County show that Apple had been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vacant land it owns on Startown Road, opposite the data center, in preparation of building a solar farm. You can follow Limerain on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS to be notified of any updates. thanks iclarified Send us a story or tip @ TipsForLimerain.com@gmail.com and follow our pages for the latest limera1n, and all tech stories, follow us on Twitter at @iphonepixelpost or @limerain_com And like our Facebook page www.iPodSets.com - Posted using my iPhone 5 Apple is Building the Nation's Largest End User So... Limerain.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3857
__label__wiki	0.513568	0.513568	THE ART OF DENNIS A! Branding • Logos • Product design rock art & gig posters Zombie Toes contact Dennis artist statement. My artwork is a product of popular culture colliding with my own detailed perspective on the world, which I often view from a fantasy standpoint. My work will continue to range from heavy metal posters that chronicle rock and roll history to indulgent fetishistic pin-ups of strange characters and weird monsters. At times, my work will be introspective and esoteric combining realistic anatomy with decidedly surreal, organic thoughts and images. My goal is to never sit still for too long and become stagnant or bored with my own art. I want to experiment with the wonderful array of tools that artists have available to them, expanding my personal horizons and sneaking even more fun details into my work. Enjoy! the story thus far.... Dennis grew up in the magically forested Corn Belt of Northern Indiana during the terms of Edgar Whitcomb through Frank O'Bannon. His father was a famous trucker driver named "Bandit" and often recruited fellow trucker Cletus "Snowman" to travel and share adventures with. His father would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he accused chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. His mother was a line worker at Wellman Plastics along with her sister Jackie and friend Crystal. Soon after Dennis' mother becomes foreman of Wellman Plastics, she leads Jackie, Crystal and other coworkers, along with herself, to quit. Jackie became a police officer and Dennis' mother cycled through a variety of jobs including telemarketer, bartender, cashier and finally sweeping floors at a beauty salon. As a young lad, Dennis' appreciation of art and science flourished when he was asked by his school science teacher, Dr. Jones to accompany him to a small village in India in search of five Sankara stones. They were successful, but Dennis vowed to never again dine on chilled monkey brains, unless they are served in a conventional bowl. Adventures continued for Dennis as his family relocated to Astoria, Oregon only to face foreclosure on their home from the ever expanding local Country Club. During the last fews days in Astoria, Dennis and his new friends Mikey, Mouth, Chunk, Andy, Brand & Stef all ventured into a recently discovered cavern to locate an old pirate ship. Good Times. As a teenager, Dennis' family moved back into a trailer park called Starlight Starbright, where Dennis would immerse himself in a video game outside of the trailer park office. Frustrated that his mutant powers hadn't manifested yet, Dennis became the game's highest scoring player of all time. As a result, Dennis was visited by a gentleman named Centauri who spoke of defending "The Frontier" from the "Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada". Unbeknownst to his friends and family, Dennis ventured to the planet Rylos with the old man Centauri, leaving behind a Dennis clone named Beta. Beta attended Northridge High School and has fond memories of his high school years and the friends he made there. Dennis returned to Earth the summer of 1990. Just in time for college. Dennis attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale thanks to a sweet scholarship that Beta had won for him. It's there that Dennis met vampires and goths and suddenly things began to change. He met their leader, a young man by the name of Brian Warner, a local musician. Warner's music and band The Spooky Kids, would have a dramatic influence on Dennis and his art forever. Already a fan of heavy metal music (his first show ever was Motlëy Crüe with Faster Pussycat), Dennis was spellbound to this new "industrial" sound Warner's group was creating. With influences like Bowie, nine inch nails, Front 242, KMFDM… Spooky Kids soon became Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, and then just Marilyn Manson. From there, the musical debauchery just continued as Dennis attended the shows of countless others, forever feeding his need for loudness, aggression and metal. After college and coming to terms with the fact that no mutant abilities would be manifesting, Dennis headed back north to seek gainful employment. He worked in a few small printing companies, meeting the people who would become close friends and allies for the coming Zombie Apocalypse. It is during this time that Dennis and friend, Derrik would witness a UFO above Eagle Lake, Michigan in March of 1995. It was no coincidence that Dennis would also meet his future wife on that very evening; an angelic curly haired woman named Amy. Dennis would stalk Amy for several weeks before asking Derrik's help in obtaining a date with the elusive angel. And life would never be the same again. Dennis and Amy wed in 1997. Their adventures together took them running in fear from raccoons in Kentucky to running in fear from huge spiders in the Florida Everglades as well as swimming in the shark infested ocean. Spending several meditative and erotic days in those Florida waters (and listening to Lateralus by TOOL) restored the couple's energies, ambitions and goals. Amy went back to school to become the super RN that she is today and Dennis went back to the drawing board. Dennis had spent several years previous working on comic book art, his first creator-owned book Sinister was published through Hall of Heroes. His next comic book effort, Gypsy Company was self-published with his friend Shawn. Sinister was essentially one book that should have been 12, it was a personal story of Darkness and Redemption for Dennis but the only part the public ever got to see was the Darkness. Gypsy Company was definitely more fun, highly influenced by Dennis' interest in some Japanese animation and the subject of fantasy. Dennis became disillusioned with the comic book industry after having it out with the distributors, Diamond Distributing thus ended any drive for Dennis to pursue comic books anymore. Back to the ocean and Lateralus, Dennis decided to simply create Art for the sake of it, for himself and nobody else and started seeking out galleries for his new works. Ben from Black Stone Cherry giving me the ole fist bump. me and Alice. 2013 Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, Indiana me and the master Tom Savini! 2013 i gave Tom a Zombie Toe at Motor City Comic Con, he loved it me and Theory of a Deadman. 2012 Club Fever, South Bend, Indiana me and Chevelle. 2011 Club Fever, South Bend, Indiana me and OTEP, 2013. Cheers Pub, South Bend, Indiana	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3859
__label__wiki	0.601456	0.601456	Fortean Moon / Mars Mysteries Paranormal/Ghosts TV / ROKU Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis PARANOIA PRINT COPIES Paranoia Magazine Downloadable Issues MKZINE Steamshovel Press Publish and Perish: The Mysterious Body Count of UFOLOGY and the Darker Side of Conspiracy Research by Olav Phillips It is said there are two certainties in life, death and taxes. It is a conundrum all people face as we move through life. We are born, we live and inevitably we perish. Some people die of old age, maybe an accident, or in some cases we die by our own hand for whatever reason. Mortality as that certainty which propel many to achieve, knowing they only have a limit time on this here mortal coil. For others that drive to achieve something eventually costs them their lives. For many years there has been a darker side to ufology and conspiracy research which is occasionally discussed and on occasion documented. The first real exploration of the ufology/conspiracy body count came in 1971 when the late Otto Bender, writing for Saga magazine, published an article called “Liquidation of the UFO Investigators.” In that article Bender, who would later meet his own untimely demise, researched the deaths of some 137 researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses who had died in the previous decade under what some might call “mysterious” circumstances. In the article Bender mapped out an odd mixture of heart attacks, hyper aggressive cancers, suicides and other source of death amongst ufology. We need only look towards Phil Schneider’s death as a case in point. Schneider was a self taught geologist who dabbled with explosives who claimed to have worked at 13 separate secret underground facilities. The most famous of which was the much rumored Dulce base in New Mexico, where an apparently a battle broke out between the human inhabitants and the Greys back in 1979. Schneider was one of the first researchers to present this story and supposedly the source of a beam blast to the chest which caused him to later get cancer. The story gets a bit stranger. While in the hospital being treated he apparently was strangled in his sleep by a catheter found wrapped around his neck. That would definitely classify as strange. Did the catheter accidentally strangle him? Or was he murdered because of his controversial research into DUMBs (Deep Underground Military Bunkers)? We will never know but it does seem a little too convenient, especially based on the amount of traction he was gaining and the content of some of his claims. But Schnider was not the only odd death, there are more. How about the case of Ron Rummel? Rummel was a former United States Air Force Intelligence Officer who went on to publish a magazine called Alien Digest. Seven issues into the publishing Rummel apparently committed suicide by placing a handgun into his mouth and pulling he trigger, but here is where the story gets interesting. Witnesses at the scene claim that the handgun had no fingerprints or blood on it, and that the suicide note was written by a left handed person. Rummel was in fact right handed. It is also alleged that the body stank of sodium pentothal which,, although commonly thought to be a truth serum, can be used to render an individual open to suggestion and lower their resistant to actions taken against them. Rummel was also collaborating with Schneider. In the conspiracy realm we have the unfortunate death of Jim Keith. Keith, a very well known conspiracy writer and researcher, had gone to burning man and fallen off the stage there breaking his knee. Upon arriving at the Washoe hospital the doctors decided that he needed surgery to repair his knee. Shortly after the surgery Keith died in the ICU of a blood clot, which had entered his lung. Just before his death he had told several people “I have this feeling that if they put me under I’m not coming back.” In a strange twist of fate, Ron Bonds who had published much of Keith’s work, would die mysteriously after having dinner at a local restaurant in Atlanta. In April , 2001 Bonds and his wife Nancy had decided to eat lunch at a local Mexican restaurant. About 15 hours after enjoying a lukewarm Beef Burrito and Enchilada Bonds would add his name to the fallen. Early on the morning of April 8th, 2001 Ron Bonds passed away from internal bleeding caused by a toxic bacteria caused by contaminated beef. Oddly no one else had any issues that day, only Bonds and he was the first person to die of food poising in decades in Fulton County. The list goes on from there. Ann Livingston, an account and part time MUFON investigator and author of “Electronic Harassment and Alien Abductions” died of fast form of ovarian cancer in 1994. He death came after a 1992 incident where five faceless men dressed in black assaulted her in her home. There is also the strange story of Ron Johnson who died in 1994 while attending a lecture at a Society of Scientific Exploration meeting of an appearnet stroke and allergic reaction. Johnson, who was MUFON’s Deputy Director of Investigations and had formerly worked at Hal Puthoff’s Austin based think tank Earth Tech Inc., died during a slide show. During the slide show several people claim to have heard a gasp. When the lights came on Johnson was slumped over in his chair, blood oozing from his noise and his soda can sat next to him on a chair. Was it a simple allergic reaction or maybe a fast acting neurotoxin? Officially the death was ruled inconclusive. And the list continues, but these specific deaths illustrate the point. The commonality of strange cancers, suicides, heart attacks and odd accidents does make a case for some larger scheme at work but the oddness of deaths amongst the UFO and Conspiracy community are not confined strictly to suicides and the seeming common occurrence of death by fact acting cancer. There are also the coincidences of dates. Legendary Fortean researcher John Keel had notes the strange coincidence of a series of deaths which took place on June 24th. Keel pointed out that author Frank Scully, UFO contactee Arthur Bryant, Richard Church and the rocket scientist Willy Ley all died on June 24th. Oddly Frank Edwards died on June 23rd but his death was announced by James Mosley on, wait for it, June 24th. This list has been expanded by veteran researcher Loren Coleman to include Robert Charroux, a famous French Fortean writer who coincidently is the source for a very interesting story about a secret city in the Andes built by Marconi and powered by Tesla technology. Also included is Jackie Gleason who dies June 24th, 1987. Gleason is interesting not only for his interest in UFOs but also the now mythical story of how, after a chance round of golf with Richard Nixon in which they discussed Gleason’s fascination with UFOs, Richard Nixon came to his house around midnight and spirited Gleason off to Homestead Air Force Base and showed him a dead alien body. During an interview with researcher Larry Warren, Gleason is quoted as saying: “We drove to the very far end of the base in a segregated area, finally stopping near a well-guarded building. The security police saw us coming and just sort of moved back as we passed them and entered the structure. There were a number of labs we passed through first before we entered a section where Nixon pointed out what he said was the wreckage from a flying saucer, enclosed in several large cases. Next, we went into an inner chamber and there were six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers. Inside them were the mangled remains of what I took to be children. Then – upon closer examination – I saw that some of the other figures looked quite old. Most of them were terribly mangled as if they had been in an accident.” Strange story I know but back to the numbers. So who else died on June 24th? Lyle Stuart, publisher of Frank Edwards books died June 24th 2006 as well as James Martin, who was found floating off his private island. Even Alan Myers, the drummer of DEVO and UFO researcher died on, you guessed it, June 24th. It should also be pointed out that it was June 24th, 1947 when Kenneth Arnold had his famous sighting which launched the interest in modern ufology. So at this point we have seen that there is a rather large body count related to ufology and conspiracy research. A body count, which seems to grow larger each year. The question we now need to address is why? Is there a government agency running around knocking people off? The short answer I think is no but there is something going on, that I think is obvious. The types of deaths and the sheer volume of published or famous UFO / Conspiracy investigators who meet untimely and tragic deaths is just too high. I think the money here is on an extra governmental organization and I think ultimately it is related, even the older deaths, to the secret space program. Each of these deaths has two things in common. The first being their direct involvement in UFO research at some capacity and their stature. Many of the people who died are known for their research. Meaning they have the ability to spread the information around. Early in the SR-71 program, back when it was called the A-12 or Archangel, the CIA who sponsored that program used UFO’s as a cover for the testing of the aircraft. People would see a strange silver thing shoot across the sky and proclaim it’s a UFO! The CIA seeing a plausible cover story to obfuscate the true nature of the aircraft fueled this belief by pushing disinformation stories out into the public. It is also known that in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s soviet KGB operatives entered UFO sky watch groups looking for experimental aircraft. They did this on the belief that the sky watch groups would take them to locations where odd things were seen in the sky and those odd things were probably experimental aircraft. From there the KGB operatives would chart altitude, direction and speed to not only take a crack at determine the nature of the aircraft but also the flight path. So it stands to reason that if something like a secret space program exists, and people are seeing the craft enter and exit the atmosphere or see these aircraft during their day to day operation, that organization would see this as a security threat. That coupled with the golden thread of truth would threaten their operations so the fastest easiest way to cover-up your operation would be to remove the source of the information. In each of these circumstances you see research being done on underground bases, abductions, and UFO’s in general. All three of these could be a component of a non aware observer witnessing or encountering, even researching, something that organization does not want revealed. That is the logical extension of the cover-up methodology. It is also consistent with the MIB or Men in Black phenomenon. First you intimidate or play the patriotism card. If that doesn’t work then your get physical and if that doesn’t work then you kill. In every situation the flow of data is stopped. It’s an interesting idea to follow because most UFO or conspiracy researchers have a story to tell. A visit from a MIB, odd phone call, or maybe now an email, but almost every researcher has been approached at one time or another. So what about the June 24th thing? June 24th is actually a very interesting day and is actually the feast day for John the Baptist and the Summer Solstice. The logical question is why is that an important day for people to die because apparently a lot of famous UFO investigators die that day and it is also the day of the Arnold sighting. This is one of those times when conspiracy and ufology cross paths. Many times the intersection of UFOs and conspiracies fall around back engineering or some sort of scientific investigation, but this intersection is tightly bound to concepts of the Illuminti, the global and historical boogieman. The Illuminati could also be the source of that extra governmental organization I spoke of earlier and in the Illuminati realm dates are important as symbolism. You may not believe in it, but they certainly do. June 24th as the feast day for John the Baptist is critically important because of who John the Baptist was. He is actually known as John the Baptist and John the Evangelist and he is venerated in masonic lore because he represents a duality. On one hand he represents passionate religious zeal, he was after all the man that the Archangel Gabriel came to and spoke of the coming birth of the messiah. On the other hand he represents knowledge and education. Each element is independently strong but if you bring both together you form a path to enlightenment or illumination. In the masonic context, each mason is asked to participate in the festival and to strengthen fraternal bonds and to close ranks and renew their commitment to the lodge. To the non-mason it is known as the “Setting of the Watch” where bond fires are lit and illuminate the masses. In some traditions in Europe people are known to jump through the fires for good luck, but the symbolic illumination is also achieved. So it would seem to be a relevant day to pass on from seeing that it represents a duality of commitment, which each of those men had, as well as knowledge, which they possessed as well. The truth is we will never know the ultimate goals of the body count, which has become evident. Did these individuals come across some secret piece of knowledge or witness something they should not have? Most likely the answer is yes, and that would seem to be the most obvious answer for their deaths but knowing exactly what they found is a needle in a haystack. It would also seem that some researchers deaths are symbolically important for the purpose of re-enforcing the illuminated path. Ultimately only time will tell what they deaths mean be it coincidence or murder, but until the end game is revealed two things are obvious. The first is that the odd deaths will continue and ufology / conspiracy research is a dangerous hobby. One thought on “Publish and Perish: The Mysterious Body Count of UFOLOGY and the Darker Side of Conspiracy Research” Pingback: The Mysterious Body Count of UFOLOGY and the Darker Side of Conspiracy Research – Paranoia Magazine - conspiracy-corner.com © 2017 Worldnews Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. PARANOIA Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3860
__label__wiki	0.825935	0.825935	XSEED Games Akiba's Beat Review (PS4) Just beat it Version Reviewed: European review by Jenny Jones Tue, 16 May 2017 15:00:00 +0100 If you're a fan of Japan and its wonderful culture then you'll probably be aware of Akihabara, a district in Tokyo filled with all manner of delights that will get any otaku salivating at the thought of it. It's a haven for geeks with plenty of shops filled with anime, manga, collectable cards and figurines, as well as maid cafés for when you need somewhere to rest your weary feet. Akiba's Beat is set in this vibrant neon filled district and you get to play as Asahi Tachibana, a college drop-out and self-professed NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). He's proud of his NEET status and his idea of a busy day involves reading manga, playing video games, and grabbing lunch in Akiba. Of course the game would be a little dull if it was just about watching Asahi have long lie-ins and wandering around Akihabara, so thankfully there's slightly more to it than that. It's not long into the game before Asahi realises that he's trapped in a time-loop with the same Sunday repeating over and over again. This region of Tokyo is filled with people with really strong passions and desires, and for some unknown reason otaku daydreams and delusions are becoming reality, so it's down to Asahi and his colourful group of teenage friends to nullify these delusions and save Akihabara. Akihabara acts as the game's hub and you'll be wandering around this area trying to track down information about said delusions. Delusionscapes are rifts in reality that only a select few can see, and act as the game's dungeons. To gain entry to these dungeons you'll need to uncover the person responsible for the delusion and rattle them somehow which will make the door to the dungeon appear. Each dungeon looks very different and takes on its appearance based on the person's delusion. There are lots of different themes such as idol, maid, and even audio and electric appliance dungeons. Although the majority of dungeons have quite simple layouts, the very vivid and twisted visual themes of each dungeon helps to keep things interesting. The combat system feels similar to the Tales series but a lot less free flowing. Enemies appear on screen and if you manage to hit them first then you'll gain a pre-emptive strike at the beginning of the battle. Once in combat you have the ability to perform basic attacks and skills. In the early parts of the game you'll only be able to hit an enemy four times until you have to pause and wait for your beat meter to regenerate. This makes the combat feel a bit slow and chunky as you'll constantly just be repeating a cycle of attacking a few times, jumping away, waiting to recharge, and then jumping back into combat. You'll just repeat this cycle over and over until all enemies are destroyed. Combat does pick up a bit once you get your hands on some better gear and you can attack for longer before needing to recharge, but it still tends to feel sluggish. One pretty nifty feature in battle is the Imagination Gauge. While fighting your Imagination Gauge rises, and once it fills to certain points you can power up your character for a brief period of time. If you activate the gauge while it's completely filled then a song will start to play in the background and the stats for your whole party will improve. You can equip different songs and the background and stat changes will vary depending on the song. While the song is active you have an unlimited number of beats, this will make you feel pretty powerful as you'll no longer be constantly ducking away to recharge – instead you can go all out and lay the smack down. Unfortunately, even with the Imagination Gauge, combat is not particularly interesting; most of the time you'll just be button mashing your way through it with ease. Aiding the repetitive feel of combat is the fact that there are a limited number of enemy designs; the colour schemes will change depending on the dungeon you're in, but they are still quite obviously the same enemies just with different stats. Although the combat is a disappointment, the real highlight of the game is its characters and story. There's Saki, a very serious girl who spouts all kinds of video game tropes which Asahi makes fun of, and Pinkun, a cute plushy-like familiar with a very barbed tongue who loves to criticise Asahi and his NEET status – as well as Riyu (an idol wannabe), Kotomi (a gothic lolita), and Yamato (the emo geek). You'll meet plenty of eccentric side characters through your journey and it's hard not to feel attached to them as you watch them become close friends and hunt down all the mysteries surrounding the delusions. Watching all the characters interact is entertaining and the writing is quite funny at times. The game doesn't take itself too seriously and regularly pokes fun at itself as it throws around plenty of pop culture references. It's a good job that the characters are so engaging as you'll spend a lot of your time just watching cutscenes. You'll probably spend more time listening to the characters chat than you will traipsing through dungeons. This is especially true if you spend time completing all of the side-missions, as quests generally involve just running around Akihabara to activate the next cutscene. Fortunately, the character portraits are all beautifully animated with vibrant designs and great voice acting, which really helps to bring the characters to life and make these scenes worth viewing. You'll spend far more of your time watching cutscenes then you will exploring dungeons and defeating enemies, so while the combat system is quite basic, the eclectic mix of characters and twisting storylines will hold your interest through to the end. Thus, if you think of Akiba's Beat as a visual novel with some light gameplay elements instead of thinking of it as an action RPG, then you'll probably enjoy it a whole lot more. Good 7/10 Review copy provided by PQube About Jenny Jones Jenny has single-handedly been responsible for the downfall of many heinous villains and stops the destruction of the world on an almost weekly basis. Some may call her just another geek but others recognise her as the hero they deserve. AlejandroMora Tue 16th May 2017 It looks like that ar tonelico game for the ps3. smythelove This sounds fun on my Amazon wish list! Rob_230 Sounds great. Thanks for the review Jenny. Would you say this plays out a little like Persona then? Certainly it sounds that way from the review (albeit in a less well executed manner). I wil certainly consider picking this up on vita as I love Japan and Akiba. I was interested in Akibas Trip too, but the battle system really put me off. This sounds like it is much less seedy than that game. Jenny_Jones @Rob_230 it's more simplistic both in story and gameplay compared to Persona but I really did love the characters, so I think it's definitely worth picking up! They do seem to have moved away from the seediness of Akibas Trip. @Jenny_Jones Awesome. Thanks for confirming I will check it out in that case. SoulsBourne128 Sounds interesting but looking at the mediocre reviews the game got, I think I'll pass. This just look like a Tales game on a budget, and not a good way. Though It would probably be one of those games where just play for the story and characters than for the gameplay. sonicmeerkat Wed 17th May 2017 Amazon better hurry up and ship this. Tap here to load 7 comments Action, RPG 16th May 2017 (USA) 19th Apr 2017 (UK/EU) Akiba's akibasbeat.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3866
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__label__cc	0.632356	0.367644	Home >> September 2012 Edition >> European Markets Roundtable: Dean Griffler European Markets Roundtable: Dean Griffler Senior V.P. Global Sales, iDirect SatMagazine (SM) Please tell our readers about your Company’s business focus, and history, within the various European market segments. Dean Griffler iDirect’s business model is based on providing technology exclusively for our partners’ satellite networks. We are 100 percent focused on developing the ground infrastructure technology—the iDirect Intelligent Platform—that allows our partners to build the most optimized satellite networks; differentiate their services; seize new revenue opportunities; maintain margins and lower TCO; and expand their businesses. Europe is a mature market for VSAT and iDirect has been working with partners in this region for more than 10 years to provide satellite services for a variety of different end markets, such as oil and gas, government and defense, and more. Many of our European service provider partners maintain a strong focus in Africa and the Middle East, where they offer a range of IP communications services to enterprises and government users. Others, particularly in Northern Europe, focus more on the maritime market. Our role in the European market is to grow the market for satellite communications and that’s why we focus on developing innovative new technologies to address emerging market challenges. What European SATCOM sectors do you believe offer the most potential for Company growth and why? There are several areas where we’re seeing opportunity for growth in Europe, such as the military and government market where we have already had strong success in the United States and in Europe. Another area of growth is the maritime market, particularly as more high-throughput satellites (HTS) become operational. iDirect has always been the market leader in the maritime segment and will continue to be a leader through multiple HTS partnerships, including its role as the ground infrastructure technology partner for Inmarsat’s Global Xpress service. We anticipate a growing demand for our technology in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia where terrestrial technology is insufficient to address communications requirements. The recent release of our new class of low-cost X1 routers will play a big role here, as we see strong growth opportunities in the cellular backhaul, oil and gas, and utility markets. For the cell backhaul market, the rugged X1 Outdoor remote can be paired with small cell technology to provide a cost-effective way for mobile operators to expand their networks in rural and remote areas. How is your Company coping with euro fluctuations? 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How do you plan on overcoming such challenges? Some of the macro-economic issues discussed earlier present a general concern, but we are very optimistic about our growth. We are aligned with the direction of the industry and have invested in the infrastructure to support the push into HTS technology and remain focused on increasing adoption of VSAT in general. What new technologies/products will your Company be working on and/or releasing over the next few months? We just the latest upgrade to SatManage 5.2, which brings deeper levels of integration, scale, and power to the software, giving our partners an important tool to improve network performance and streamline operations. SatManage 5.2 is also now STIG-compliant, which is an important Department of Defense security requirement. Earlier this year we introduced the Evolution X1 satellite router as well as the iDX 3.1 operating software. This release was designed to give our partners a lower-cost solution to support large-scale networks and focus on SCADA applications, while leveraging their existing iDirect infrastructure. The benefit of the iDirect Intelligent Platform is that it gives our partners a complete IP-based satellite communications system that is engineered to deliver quality broadband connectivity wherever and whenever it’s needed. Moving forward, we plan to release updates to our core hardware and operating software that improves efficiency, provides even greater flexibility for our partners, and maximizes the benefits of HTS technology. Dean Griffler is the Senior Vice President for Global Sales at iDirect.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3869
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__label__cc	0.571275	0.428725	Rohingya in Increasingly Hostile Political Climate in Arakan Dr. Aye Maung interacts with media before taken into police custody. Photo: Nyo Ban/ Irrawaddy M.S. Anwar Something unimaginable happened on Thursday (Jan 18) in Arakan state of Myanmar (Burma). Dr. Aye Maung, Chairman of Rakhine ultranationalist party ANP (Arakan National Party, was arrested by the Burmese authorities. According to a statement released by Myanmar's Ministry of Information on Wednesday night, U Aye Maung was booked with 3 charges: Section 17 (1) of the Illegal Associations Act, Section 505 (b) of the Penal Code causing Public Disorder and Section 122 of the Penal Code committing 'High Treason' against the State. Without any reservation (of words), Dr. Aye Maung is one fascist politician who had cooperated with Burmese military regime by playing a direct role in genocidal violence unfolded against Rohingya in June 2012 onward and continued to be complicit in it up until his arrest on Thursday. So, what has led the Burmese military regime to arrest their once partner-in-genocide? It's no secret that the Burmese regime treats common people/political figures including their own proxies as expendables. When they are no more in use or perceived as threats, they are disposed like disposable items. Thus, Aye Maung could be no exception for the regime. The Burmese military have seen using Dr. Aye Maung as a political proxy more benefitting than the threats posed by his long-time associations with Rakhine rebel groups such as Arakan Army (AA) and Arakan Liberation Party (ALP). But no more! He's now perceived as a significant threat by the Burmese Army Generals to their power and the sovereignty of the nation and hence, leading to his arrest. The humanitarian and political situations in Arakan state have significantly deteriorated since the state-sponsored violence against Rohingya in June, 2012. Especially October 2016 onward, under pretext of a Clearance Operation in response to a few sporadic attacks on Police posts conducted by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (known as ARSA, a home-grown but ill-trained Rohingya rebel group mostly armed with sticks and swords), the Burmese military have unfolded a systematic genocidal violence against the Rohingya with active collaborations of Rakhine Buddhist extremists largely followers of Dr. Aye Maung. Since then, we have witnessed the Burmese military, Security Forces and the Rakhine Extremists killing more than 10,000 Rohingya civilians; burning down entire swathes of Rohingya villages in Maungdaw District and Rathedaung Township; and expelling more than half a million of their population into neighboring Bangladesh, triggering one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in human history. On January 16, during the 233rd commemoration ceremony of the Fall of Arakan Kingdom to the Invading Burmese Army, Dr. Aye Maung; U Wai Hun Aung, a Rakhine author and social commentator; and a few others were reported to have said that Burmese treated Rakhies as their Slaves and today's political climate in Arakan state was the perfect time for the Rakhine people to march towards secession of Rakhine state from Myanmar and create a separate independent Rakhine nation. They urged the Rakhine Buddhists in attendance to do civil disobedience to the Burmese government and revolt the Burmese military through joining Arm Struggles, apparently referring Arakan Army (AA). Late Tuesday evening, following Aye Maung's speech in Rathedaung, around 4,000 Rakhine people in Mrauk-U (the State’s Ancient Capital) staged a protest which had been banned by the Government beforehand. The protesters reportedly attacked the police station and robbed Police's guns chanting the slogans of independence. The police responded recklessly by firing into the crowds killing at least 7 protesters and injuring a dozen. That created a perfect pretext for the Burmese regime to arrest Dr. Aye Maung, their one-time ally-turned-foe, and get rid of the threat from their way. And if he’s proven guilty, which is mostly like to happen as the Judiciary in Myanmar has always been subservient to the State’s Military; Aye Maung could face lifetime-imprisonment and even possible death penalty. [Note: punishments and penalties could be decreased through appeals and under the President’s amnesty.] Nevertheless, my questions are "where do Rohingya, a people subjected to Genocide, stand amidst this increasingly hostile political climate in Arakan state? Do they have anything to gain or lose? Can they gain anything out of it and get a breathing space for themselves?" Dr. Aye Maung clearly saw a political opportunity in the current fragile political environment in Arakan state which, if properly taken advantage of, is huge enough to create an Independent State. Thus, he dared urge the public to take up arms and resort to rebellion against the Burmese government knowing that it could risk him his career, his life or to a prolonged prison term. So, does any Rohingya especially from among those leading the community see any opportunities to stop the ongoing violence and secure at least basic rights for the Rohingya out of the widening political gap between Rakhine and Burmese? Or will they still look on with their hands folded; and let Burmese military and others take advantage of the situation as usual? Will any of the Rohingya leaders dare take some risks like Dr. Aye Maung just taken? Very soon, the Burmese military may need the Rohingya community to counterbalance the Rakhine separatist leaders and elements in Arakan state. Therefore, they could start approaching Rohingya leading figures at home and abroad to appease their fellow community members on various topics such as Rohingya refugee repatriations and other political rights etc with refreshed strategies. In their renewed strategies for Arakan state, the Burmese military could even try to conduct dialogues with ARSA, who knows? But as usual, their actions will be divisive and insincere to the core. So, will the Rohingya leading figures and activists subject themselves to the Burmese divisive and exploitative politics yet again or be visionary and thoughtful enough to milk something out of the current political climate for their people? To the Rohingya leading figures and prominent activists at home and abroad, Do not subject yourselves to the divisive politics of the Burmese military for some narrow personal interests; or let others decide your future for you. Establish some careful strategies to achieve something out of the current political climate in Myanmar. Remember you have got another historic opportunity to your advantage. Do not let it go in vain. Be thoughtful, smart, cautious, cooperative and proactive! [About some terms in this article: Burma = Myanmar, Burmese = majority Buddhist people in Myanmar, Arakan = a Geographical Term, the name of the Western State in Myanmar now called Rakhine State, Rakhine = Minority Buddhist People in Arakan State (who also call themselves Arakan in English to imply to the World that the whole Arakan State belongs to them), Rohingya = Minority Muslim People in Arakan State] M.S. Anwar is an activist-journalist and political commentator on Arakan affairs. Opinions expressed here are his. He can be reached at: editor@rohingyablogger.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3876
__label__wiki	0.762902	0.762902	Please set up Legatus menu! Laboratory Equipment News University Investment Research Shows Significant Dairy Beef Carbon Reduction Potential Industrial Revolutionary to Speak at the 2020 National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, Citywest Exhibition Centre, Dublin – 29-30th January Credited with being the originator of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (Industry 4.0) and named by the Financial Times as one of the leading authorities on strategy and competitiveness, Henrik von... NovaUCD Awarded €3 Million For Collaborative Project to Develop an AgTech Connector Innovation Hub in Kildare NovaUCD (UCD Nova DAC), the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin (UCD), has been awarded €3 million in funding to develop an AgTech Connector Innovation Hub... BrightWind Secures €162,000 in SEAI Funding to Develop a New Wind and Solar Data Management Platform BrightWind has secured €162,000 in funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to support the company in building a new wind and solar resource data management platform. The... Science Foundation Ireland Publishes Annual Plan For 2020 Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has published its Annual Plan for 2020. Key priorities are: a continued focus on individual-led research programmes, challenge-based funding initiatives including programmes to address climate action,... ‘Herbal Leys – Milk Production for the Future’ Wins Teagasc Award at BTYSTE 2020 A project which investigated whether agriculture can be both profitable and sustainable for the future was the recipient of the Teagasc Special Award at the BT Young Scientist and Technology... ABP Food Group, which is the largest beef processor in the UK and Ireland, in conjunction with the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) and Teagasc, has announced the latest results from its dairy beef genetic research programme, demonstrating a significant shift in carbon reductions in dairy beef. The findings show the potential to: · Reduce enteric methane emissions by up to 17% within cattle breed. · Reduce enteric methane emissions by up to 28% across cattle breed. · Reduce enteric methane reductions by up to 36% across different farming systems. The leading-edge study, the first of its kind in Ireland, examines the environmental and economic impacts of improved genetics on the dairy beef herd. The results also highlight the potential for improved yields of up to €200 on animal carcass values for beef farmers. Commenting on the announcement, Dean Holroyd, Group Technical and Sustainability Director, ABP said: “These results include 5 years of data and can significantly reduce the carbon impact of the national dairy beef herd without having to reduce its size. It is clear that a carbon reduction opportunity exists through improved genetics and we believe that the application of these findings can have a significant role to play when it comes to agricultural greenhouse gas abatement as set out in the Government’s 2019 Climate Action Plan.” Padraig French, Head of Dairy Research at Teagasc said: “The production of beef from the dairy herd on pasture based systems is the most environmentally and economically efficient beef production systems in the world. This research has demonstrated that it can be made even more efficient by dairy farmers selecting the best bulls to produce these animals which are finished at a younger age with lower feed requirements. As the national dairy herd is now contributing over 60% of the beef animals the impact of dairy farmers selecting suitable beef sires has the potential to have a very significant impact on national livestock carbon emissions. This technology will have an even greater impact when combined with sexed semen which is moving closer to being commercially viable for widespread use.” Adding to these comments, Andrew Cromie, ICBF Technical Director noted that the data collected and results established on the R&D farm, were now forming a critical components of the ICBF’s broader G€N€ IR€LAND Dairy beef program, including its plans for the future. “To date, over 50 beef AI bulls and some 7,000 dairy-beef progeny have been generated through that program with a random selection of these (approximately 600 animals/year across the various sires on test) then going onto the ABP R&D farm for detailed data collection. A further sub-sample of these (about 200/year), then progress to ICBF’s performance test station at Tully, where ICBF collects additional data on the feed intake, feed efficiency and most recently direct GHG output on each animal. This give us great confidence that outcomes from the study to-date are real and repeatable across the dairy beef industry. The challenge for ICBF is now to include these metrics (such as age at slaughter and enteric methane output), into our routine genetic evaluation and herd benchmark systems. We look forward to bringing these to the wider cattle breeding industry in 2020.” The results are a culmination of 5 years research carried out at the ABP R&D Farm in Wexford and the ICBF Performance Centre in Kildare. To date up to 3,000 animals have participated in the scheme. 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__label__cc	0.674729	0.325271	How to Solve Facebook App Battery Drain in Android and iPhone Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world and it is also one of the most downloaded smartphone app in the world is Facebook and due to this, you will find that nearly it comes pre-installed in nearly every smartphone. The benefit of Facebook app is that you get all the updates of your friends instantaneously on your smartphone screen. Facebook app keeps running in the background, keep checking your profile for any new update and provide you the moment you receive it in your account. The downside of this facility is that it consumes lots of battery, Internet data and RAM as well since it is always running in the background. A recent set of tests performed on Android and iOS apps of Facebook revealed that removing the Facebook app improves the battery performance significantly. In Android smartphones, the battery performance improved to provide an addition of 20% battery life. And in iPhones, this stat was 15%. The test was based on the concept to remove the native Facebook app from the smartphone and then access the Facebook using the mobile browser. The test was performed for a week and result were evaluated for the whole period in which it was clear that Facebook app consumes lots of battery. The basic reason behind this result is that When Facebook app is removed, the background process of it is also removed. Due to this the battery being consumed to perform that tasks is saved. Also, the browser loads just a small part of the Facebook feed instead of loading all of the content together. Though we are talking about the Facebook here, same goes with the most of social media app as they run in the background to keep you latest update and the content on them are usually big in size with pictures, videos and GIFs. So uninstalling such apps will improve the battery life in general too. If you are on Android then, a very nice solution of this battery drain issue is to use the Facebook Lite app which consumes very less battery, data and RAM. So would you like to uninstall the native Facebook and use the on the web browser or you would still like to have a better user experience on the cost of battery life? Categories : Android, Facebook, iPhone, News, Social Networking	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3892
__label__wiki	0.754586	0.754586	Branford Chester Clinton Deep River East Haven Essex Guilford Killingworth Madison North Branford North Haven Old Saybrook Westbrook Sports • Published Jan. 20, 2020 04:29 a.m. Hand Girls’ Basketball, Boys’ Hockey Qualify for States Girls’ BasketballThe Hand girls’ basketball squad qualified for the Class L State Tournament by winning two of its three games last week. The Tigers earned... Hand Boys’ Hoops Beats North Haven in Rematch The Hand boys’ basketball team played its best game of the season when the Tigers posted a 52-34 road victory over North Haven on Jan. 16. Head Coach Jimmy Economopoulos is hoping that the... Sports Person of the Week • Published Jan. 16, 2020 04:26 p.m. DeAngelis Lighting the Lamp for the Tigers Joey DeAngelis arrived on the Hand ice hockey scene as a sophomore last year, and he’s been scoring goals in droves ever since. Now a junior, Joey has 11 goals and 13 assists as a first-... Tigers Swim to Victory Versus Sheehan; Fencing Teams See Productive Weeks Boys’ Swimming and DivingThe Hand boys’ swimming and team traveled to Wallingford to take on Sheehan last week. The Tigers improved to 2-1 on the year by... Sports • Published Jan. 12, 2020 08:31 p.m. Hand Girls’ Hoops Notches Two Lopsided Wins The Hand girls’ basketball team has rattled off six wins in its first eight games to begin the 2019-’20 season. As always, there are high expectations for the Tigers, who enter their ... Sports • Published Jan. 10, 2020 03 a.m. Hand Football Alums Help Middlebury Win NESCAC Title Former Hand football players Nick Leone and Macken McDonald were members of the Middlebury College team that won the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) championship by going 9-... Hand Basketball Booster Programs Raise $1,250 for AYA On Jan. 3, Daniel Hand’s boys’ and girls’ basketball teams played home games against rival Guilford. The boys’ team earned a 63-52 win over Guilford, while the Hand... Billings Guided the Tigers to Greatness on the Gridiron Phoenix Billings has one more season left before he concludes what has been a spectacular two-sport career at Daniel Hand High School. One week after guiding the Tigers’ football team to... Hand Boys’ Hockey Off to 5-0 Start; Boys’ Swimming Defeats Hamden Boys’ Ice HockeyThe Hand boys’ ice hockey squad picked up four victories during recent action and is now 5-0 to begin its campaign.The Tigers hosted... Hand Boys’ Soccer Achieves Another Dream Season As the calendar turns from 2019 to 2020, the enormity of winning four-straight Class L state championships still hasn’t quite sunk in for Hand boys’ soccer Head Coach Greg Cumpstone.... Sports • Published Dec. 30, 2019 01:11 a.m. 2019 Madison Sports Year in Review There were a lot of positive headlines to go around in the town of Madison this year. Both of Daniel Hand High School’s tennis teams went undefeated and won SCC titles with the... Sports Person of the Week • Published Dec. 26, 2019 05:04 p.m. Corniello Was a Leader on the Line for the Tigers Ben Corniello loves to chase down quarterbacks as a member of the Hand football team. A starter at offensive and defensive tackle, Ben recently finished a high school career that saw him guide the ... Hand Boys’ Hockey, Girls’ Basketball Start Off with Wins Boys’ Ice HockeyThe Hand boys’ ice hockey squad notched a road victory against Amity in its first game of the season on Dec. 18. The Tigers faced off with... Connors Completes Field Hockey Career with All-State Senior Year Maeve Connors will always have fond memories of her time as a field hockey player at Daniel Hand High School. Maeve recently finished a career that saw her score 16 goals to go with 15 assists for ... Sports • Published Dec. 18, 2019 08:01 p.m. Madison Youth Cheer Takes 2nd Place at Nationals The Madison Youth Cheer competition team continued an incredibly successful 2019 season by finishing in second place at the American Youth Cheer National Championships competition in Kissimmee,... Country School Duo Races to All-American Honors The Country School in Madison was represented by a several runners, including two who earned All-American honors, when the National Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships took place on Dec.... Tigers’ Girls’ Ice Hockey Loses Season Opener The Hand-Coginchaug-Valley Regional-Old Lyme girls' ice hockey team started its season by facing Amity-North Haven-Cheshire for a home game last week. The Tigers took a 6-2 loss to... Hand Takes 17-13 Defeat to St. Joseph in State Final The Hand football team entered last week’s Class L championship game against St. Joseph riding a 36-game winning streak and had designs on bringing home its third-straight state title.... Porte Was Everywhere the Tigers Needed Him Chris Porte did a little bit of everything to help the Hand boys’ soccer team win its fourth-straight state championship this fall. Chris wasn’t just one of the Tigers’ top... Hand Blanks Newington, 52-0, in Class L Quarterfinals The Hand football team just keeps rolling along. In what might have been their most dominant performance of the season so far, the Tigers scored on their first seven possessions on their way to... Country School Runners Advance to National Junior Olympics The Country School in Madison sent a collection of runners to compete at the Region 1 Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships that took place at Sunken Meadow State Park on Long Island on Nov. ... Madison Youth Cheer Team Competing at Nationals in Florida The Madison Youth Cheer competition team has had a very successful season thus far by placing in all of its competitions with one more competition to go. The team is affiliated with both the... Hand Finishes Unbeaten Regular Season by Routing Guilford The Hand football team completed its second-straight undefeated regular season and gave itself a good tune-up for the Class L State Playoffs by posting a 61-6 road win versus Guilford on... Hand Girls’ Swimming Represents at State Open The Hand girls’ swimming and diving team was represented by several athletes when the State Open Championship was held at Yale University on Nov. 24. The Tigers scored a total of 131 points ... Sports • Published Nov. 25, 2019 09:03 a.m. Hand Claims Fourth-Straight State Crown with Double Overtime Victory The Hand boys’ soccer team was vying for its fourth-straight state title when the Tigers squared off against Wilton in the championship game of the Class L State Tournament at Dillon... Trending on Zip06 Increased Coyote Sightings in Branford, North Branford: Pets at Risk Read 1,814 times Branford Paraprofessionals Call for Better Wages, Benefits Branford Land Trust Seeks Proposals to Rehome Historic Pine Orchard Farm Structures Missing Valley Student Kate Konrad Located in Oklahoma	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3893
__label__wiki	0.595622	0.595622	ESRC Seminars Related events & CFPs The last workshop in the Spaces of Evidence series will address the theme ‘Evidence and Organisations in Development’, and will be held at Edinburgh University on 6th & 7th October 2016. The event is hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology and the Centre for African Studies. Organised by Ian Harper, James Smith and Michelle Taylor Tim Allen, LSE; Linsey McGoey, Essex University; Russell Stothard, LSTM; David Torgerson, York University; Rachel Hayman, INTRAC; Lizzy Whitehead, Practical Action; Martin Walsh, Oxfam; Peter Evans, DFID; Address Malata, University of Malawi; Georgina Pearson, LSE; Giulia Zoccatelli, SOAS; Jeevan Sharma, Edinburgh University; Jean-Benoit Falisse, Edinburgh University; Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh University; Deepak Thapa, Social Science Baha (Nepal) Workshop outline What constitutes good evidence for development? The last decade has seen the rise in the idea that development interventions should be driven by relevant evidence. The Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs), in particular, facilitated or at least dovetailed with the drive for the move towards the generation of evidence by focusing on health related issues (in particular MDGs 4, 5 & 6 – child and maternal health, and infectious disease control respectively) and allowed for the narrowing, propagation and forwarding of certain forms of evidence, driven by big data and certain metrics. Ideas of evidence, so prevalent in medicine, were increasingly deemed important, as ideas of evidence bled into the development sector with its assumptions and rationalities. This has served to blur the boundaries between ‘evidence’ and ‘evaluation’. Development interventions are driven by organisations. How do these organisations generate evidence for their interventions, policies and programmes? How do they prove the efficacy and effects of their impact and influence? We seek examples from research that has focused on a range of institutions, including bilaterals like DfID, multilaterals like the World Bank, UN and WHO, philanthropic organisations, Civil Society Organisations and the like. In addition, we ask what are the implications for evidence generation in development with the newly ratified Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and their far broader definitions of what development is? How do these new goals impact on ideas of evidence? Finally, we hope to begin a discussion over what direction the drive to generate evidence is moving. With the means of generating evidence rapidly proliferating (e.g. via twitter and mobile phones), how can the resultant streams of big data be put to meaningful use? Can we create feedback loops in which emerging data can more rapidly inform practice (and more latterly policy)? Can developing countries increasingly make use of this data to determine the course of their own development? And what, if anything, might we be missing if we go down the road of focusing all our energies on measuring only that which is measurable? Participation is by invitation only, however if you do wish to attend or have any queries please email Michelle Taylor at E.M.Taylor@ed.ac.uk Convenors Professor Nancy Cartwright Dr William Davies Dr Ian Harper Dr Ann Kelly Dr Linsey McGoey Dr Salla Sariola Programme Staff Principal Investigator: Dr. Linsey McGoey Program Coordinator: Daniela Boraschi Contact: evidence@essex.ac.uk Spaces of Evidence receives funding from a number of sources, including the University of Essex and the UK Economics and Social Science Research Council, which has funded a three-year series of seminar exploring the ethics, value and politics of randomized controlled trials (October 2013-2016). Download the project brief here. Somatosphere Configuring light No-way to make a living Charisma network Humanosphere Ghwatch MEREAF Anthropologies of African Biosciences CRESI CSISP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3896
__label__cc	0.655324	0.344676	Harry Stephen Peake Peake, Harry Stephen age 85 of Burnsville passed away September 5, 2019. Harry was born August 3, 1934 to Laverne & Helen Peake in Phelps, NY. He graduated from Phelps Central School in 1952 and served in the Marine Corps from 1952-1955 serving in Korea and Japan. Harry worked for Control Data for 35 years. He is preceded in death by parents, La Verne & Helen Peake and brother Paul Peake. Survived by wife, Mary Peake; children: Susan Peake Krogman (Ron), Stephen (Debbie) Peake, Scott (Rana) Peake; grandchildren: Eddy Krogman, Anna Krogman, Colin (Maggie) Peake, Derek Peake, Jacob Peake, Hayden Peake; great grandchild, Zoey Peake; sister, Gloria (Gary); brother, Carl (Kathy) Peake; sister-in-law, Diane Peake; also by many nieces, nephews and friends. A memorial service will be Friday, September 13, 2019 at Presbyterian Church of the Apostles, 701 East 130th Street, Burnsville, MN at 11 AM with visitation at 10AM. Memorials may be directed to: Presbyterian Church of the Apostles, 701 East 130th Street, Burnsville, MN 55337 or Glenn C. Turner VFW Post 5833, 12304 Michelle Circle, Burns- ville, MN 55337 or Alzheimers Association, 7900 West 78th Street, Suite 100, Edina, MN 55439. Condolences: whitefuneralhomes.com Star Tribune reviews all guest book entries to ensure appropriate content. Our staff does not correct grammar or spelling. FAQ Today Last 3 days Last 2 weeks Last 30 days Last 6 months Last year All Time (since 2001) How to submit an obituary How to get help with grief counseling How to deal with finances and more Sign up for obituary alerts View In Memoriams Place an In Memoriam Do you want to include the guest book?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3900
__label__cc	0.733942	0.266058	Stillwater Current (http://www.stillwatercurrent.com/ex-deputy-lou-gehrigs-disease-found-not-guilty-double-homicide-lake-elmo-sisters/) Ex-Deputy with Lou Gehrig’s Disease Found Not Legally Responsible in Double Homicide of Lake Elmo Sisters By: Shawn Hogendorf \| April 23, 2015 A Wisconsin jury found a former sheriff’s deputy with Lou Gehrig’s disease not legally responsible for the murder of Ashlee Steele, and her sister, Kacee Tollefsbol of Lake Elmo. Both Ashlee and Kacee were graduates of Stillwater Area High School. Andrew Steele, 40, will be committed for life to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, according to the Associated Press. Following a predisposition investigation by the Department of Health Services, Judge Nicholas McNamara will decide if Steele will be sent to an institution or released. According to the AP, Steele showed little emotion as a Dane County judge read the verdict early Thursday. Ashlee Steele was strangled with a plastic zip tie and shot in the head at the couple’s home near Madison, according to the criminal complaint. Tollefsbol was shot in the lower abdomen, but called 911 before she died. Steele tried to kill himself with carbon monoxide by lighting charcoal in the laundry room of the home, investigators said. Steele originally pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness to two counts of first-degree intentional murder. He later changed his plea, pleading guilty to the crime, but maintained he was not legally responsible by reason of mental disease. Kacee Tollefsbol is survived by her husband Mark Tollefsbol and four children. Ashlee Steele is survived by her two children. Legal Challenges of BOLD Plan Begin Piling Up for Stillwater Area Public Schools Stillwater Area Public Schools’ legal team is going to be busy in the months following the Board’s decision to approve Superintendent Denise Pontrelli’s BOLD plan. Stillwater parent group 834 VOICE has filed the first of two expected lawsuits against Stillwater Area Public Schools in an attempt to reverse the BOLD plan to close three Marine, Withrow and Oak Park elementary schools. Charges: Stillwater Teen Became Man's Online Sex Slave Stillwater Man Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping, Sexual Assault Charges View all Courts Posts → Patriots Tavern Closes for Repairs After Early Morning Fire View all Public Safety Posts → It Appears that Rev. William T. Boutwell's House Will be Saved Allegation of Workplace Racism Brought Against Contractor for St. Croix River Crossing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3902
__label__cc	0.617112	0.382888	Social studies active learning k-8 simulations through Storypath Purchase Storypath Units Storypath Structure How can we make learning about local government engaging and memorable? Shari Wennik, a fourth grade teacher at Echo Lake Elementary School in Shoreline, Washington, wanted to engage her students in understanding local government and how it addressed issues of affordable housing. She used the Storypath, Democracy in Action: Communities Make Decisions to help students navigate the complexities of local government. For the setting of their story, students created their version of downtown Seattle with iconic buildings and sights. Each student then created a character who lived and worked in the community. Once the setting and characters were established, local government structure and roles were introduced. Students considered which characters would serve as mayor, city council members as well as zoning commissioners. The stage was set for the plot of the story: how to make housing affordable in Seattle. Students research affordable housing and considered where in Seattle affordable housing should be located. Not everyone agreed…. Watch the short Civic Education Summit video to learn how fourth graders navigated this complex and real-life problem. How can we teach about the presidential election when times are so contentious? That is a challenge for teachers who want to teach about the election—any election these days. The Presidential Election Storypath (easily modified for any state elections), creates a narrative where students create their own parties, party platforms, slogans and so forth. They then take on the role of candidates and campaign workers to engage in high quality civic learning. Two classrooms at Echo Lake Elementary School in Shoreline, Washington, engaged in this Storypath unit and elected presidents. The photos highlight their work, but they had the added bonus of traveling to the state capitol to be sworn in by Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst with Governor Jay Inslee observing the proceedings. Watch the short video clip of the oath of office, but most importantly, listen to the two presidential speeches. You’ll be inspired. Many people worked collaboratively to make this all come together. Karen Nicholson and Allan Rand were the fifth grade teachers. The Public Legal Education Board arranged for the event in Olympia as part of the Civic Learning Initiative for Washington State. Su Hickenbottom, teacher extraordinaire and now retired, was the originator of the first Presidential Election Storypath many years ago. For more information or a copy of the Presidential Election Storypath, contact the author, Margit McGuire	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3906
__label__cc	0.738052	0.261948	Candice Fox: Eden Compelling gritty story about evil Last year Candice Fox made a stunning debut with HADES which emotionally flogged me with the pace of the action, the violence, the body count and episodes of pure fear. It is always hard to follow up on such a performance but IMHO she has done this with EDEN - quite a different story but just as gritty, heavily based on savagery but showing some signs of humanity that was missing from her first book. This is not a book for the faint-hearted. It is a story about an imaginary savage underworld that most people cannot envisage - murderers, rapists, peodophiles and even a cannibal. Some even come from respectable society and the police force. This time we hear the story of how Hades Archer became a monster whose main profession is disposing of dead bodies. Once again, as with his "adopted" children, Eric and Eden, he became what he was because he was taken in as a child by a monster. At the end of HADES Candice Fox left us with Detectives Eden Archer and Frank Bennett both under traumatic stress following the death of Eden's brother Eric and Frank's girlfriend Martina. They were taken off active duty until they complete a full psychological program. Frank is still stunned by what happened and uses alcohol and pills to placate his sorrow but Eden's upbringing covers any personal reactions. Eden tries to get Frank back to work to take him out of his misery. She asks him to do some work for father, which he surprisingly accepts and he finds that even Hades has his vulnerabilities. When they are back in the force as homicide partners Eden risks her life by accepting an undercover assignment in the company of with the worst of low-life to uncover a possible serial killer of three missing young women. While Eden's upbringing leaves her emotionally cold and unfeeling, this time we get the feeling that deep down there may be some good among the evil as she takes enormous risks to find the killer. While EDEN lacked the stunning impact of HADES it was still a brilliant work of creative writing about an underworld that begs imagination. Well done Candice Fox, you have shown that you can keep up your creativity and change it sufficiently to keep things absorbing, At the end you left us with a fascinating clue to keep us on tenterhooks until the next book. My thanks to The Reading Room and Random House Australia for providing a copy of this book for review. Labels: Fox Candice Honey Brown: Dark Horse Michael Robotham: Life or Death Susan Howatch: The Rich Are Different Adrian McKinty: In the Morning I'll be Gone: Sean ... Bernard Cornwell: Sharpe's Prey Jeffrey Archer: Prisoner of Birth Peter Watt: And Fire Falls Tony Park: The Hunter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3911
__label__cc	0.70155	0.29845	This site contains some fancy animation, but your computer can't quite handle it so it has been automatically disabled. Hide this message Through the Viewfinderthoughts of a photographer Subscribe to Through the Viewfinder (RSS) Subscribe to comments (RSS) Posts Tagged ‘Robert Downey’ The Avengers (2012) *½ out of ** Author: Tom Grant I’ve never been a fan of the superheroes that populate the Marvel Universe, but this film made me a believer. Vivid, exciting, with witty dialogue and wonderfully conceived action sequences, “The Avengers” is a winner all the way! The action scenes are carefully designed, choreographed and executed. They’re a delight to watch, especially since the camera doesn’t bump, grind and shake like other routine action films. With expert use of CGI, Manhattan receives a thorough trouncing, receiving more damage than anything Godzilla could unleash on Tokyo. (We like to think that it’ll be all repaired in time for the sequel). The Avengers sports a great ensemble, both in conception and casting; Tony Stark/Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr.), Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner / The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner ). They’re a superb team, and their quick, witty repartee further fortifies their relationships. Samuel L. Jackson returns to familiar territory as the fastidious Nick Fury. Tom Hiddleston gives an over-the-top performance as the megalomaniac, Loki. Gwyneth Paltrow and Clark Gregg return in supporting roles. Harry Dean Stanton appears in a nice bit part. An all-time winner for summertime family entertainment (PG-13). Highly recommended. 2 I like This Tags: action, avengers, Black Widow, Captain America, CGI, exciting, hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, Marvel Universe, nick fury, review, Robert Downey, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, Tony Stark Filed under: Movie Reviews Automotive Tips & Tricks TGrant Photo Links TGrant Photo Home Senior Photography Senior Photo Info Web Design & Hosting Buttons, Badges & Pins TGP Online Sales © Copyright 2020 - Through the Viewfinder is proudly powered by WordPress - KillerLight theme by Simon Smith, with some Silk icons.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3915
__label__cc	0.727674	0.272326	How to Escape from the Truck of a Car If you are abducted and trapped inside the trunk of a car, you can easily escape using one of these 3 methods of escaping the trunk of a car. But first, if your hands are bound, you’ll need to free your hands. Look at these posts for more information on how to unbound your hands: How to Escape from Handcuffs in 15 Seconds How to Escape from Zip Ties Once your hands are free, now it’s time to escape. Method 1- Emergency Unlock Handle All cars built after 2002 will have a glow in the dark emergency release handle. Pull this handle and the trunk of the car will open. Method 2- Trick the Car Truck Open By the rear hinge of the car truck there will be a fairly thick black cable. Trace it back to as close to the lock as possible. Then simply pull on the cable and this will force the hinge open. This will act as an emergency release in most cars built before 2002. Method 3- Force the Lock Open Feel around and find the lock of the truck. Once you find the lock, locate the lock cylinder next to the lock. Then push and pull on it until it forces the lock to open. Once trunk is open, be prepared to jump out and run. In a moving vehicle, it may be best to plan your escape when the car stops at a light.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3939
__label__wiki	0.7828	0.7828	You Are Dumb, which is not a blog, posts new columns when it can manage to in these troubled Trumpian times. It is also a Twitter feed, @youaredumb, with content in a similar vein but much shorter. For a take on what a blog by me would be like, check out OLDNERD. YAD On Twitter Send YAD Money OLDNERD Katherine The Mediocre Memo to Katherine Kersten: SEE YA, WOULDNT WANNA BE YA. Monday marked a milestone for both local wingnuttery and You Are Dumb Dot Net. Katherine Kersten, conservative columnist, wrote her farewell column in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. We won't have Kersten to kick around anymore... during those rare occasions where there weren't any interesting people to kick around. Her final column is a bland whitewashing of her record, talking about all the special people she profiled and all the wonderful principles she gently defended. Since that's not what we remember her for, let's take this time to remember some of Kersten's greatest ACTUAL QUOTE TIMES! "The fact is, once you adopt same-sex marriage -- legally changing the standard for marriage from one-man, one-woman to a 'committed relationship' -- there is no principled way to prevent its extension to polygamy or other forms of 'plural marriage' or partnership." - Snake Hatin' Friday, March 2006. "Our kids can easily get their hands on 'Manhunt,' or other M-rated games such as 'Resident Evil: 4', 'God of War' or "Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend.' Games such as these invite kids to set people on fire, urinate on them or disembowel them. Young players can rack up points for raping women." - Colon Blow, August 2006. "I’m not an IRS lawyer, and don’t know how to split that hair. I do know that if anyone but a conservative Christian had made such an appearance, we wouldn’t be hearing this volume of noise." - Burnt Bach 'N' Mac, October 2006. ""Isn't that a good foundation for a cease-fire in the Christmas wars?"" - Christmas Leftovers, December 2006. "But the real bull in the imams' china shop is right here in Minnesota. Like some legal equivalent of Hulk Hogan, Gerry Nolting of Minneapolis law firm Faegre & Benson, came storming out of his corner last week." - Out Like A Monkey, March 2007. "It's hard to imagine the college researching and paying for special modifications to the college to facilitate Christian rituals. And the 'safety' justification? Imagine if a particularly strict group of Christian students found it necessary to sometimes baptize others in the restroom sinks. Would the school build them a baptism basin because a student hit his head on a sink?" - Blame-Shifting: Our National Pastime, May 2008. "Contemporary Americans are not immune from sadistic impulses. The renegade U.S. soldiers who humiliated and maltreated prisoners at Abu Ghraib were reportedly imitating the pornified culture from which they came. Games like GTA IV stimulate and glamorize our dark impulses. They create a taste for the psychological thrill that can come from dominating and degrading others. They encourage us to strip our fellow human beings of their dignity, and view them merely as objects of violence or sexual desire." - Out Like A Monkey, March 2007. "The district passed off the class it was foisting on 11- and 12-year-olds as 'Human Growth and Development.' As a result, neither parents nor self-conscious pre-adolescents suspected that teachers would show a 'picture of a developing girl' to a room of boys and girls sitting side by side." - Can't Be Reasonable Without Reason, June 2008. "Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee-to-be, has called for an end to the Iraq war and otherwise adopted a leftist's dream agenda." - Sleeping Dragons And Lies, July 2008. "In the end, however, we will always struggle with self-absorption, since that is the human condition. Our families will always fall short of the ideal, and will sometimes crumble. Yet we still have reason to hope that a good God will lift our broken hearts and offer us peace that 'passes all understanding.'" - Kersten's final words as a Strib columnist. I can think of no more fitting epitaph for Kersten, whose two main qualities are a boundless well of stupidity and a placid ocean of dullness, than her longing for a "peace that passes all understanding". That's the state everyone who read your columns were left in, Kersten, and no, that's not a good thing, even if it's (presumably) in the Bible. I believe your ass has an urgent appointment with a door on your way out. Main Column Site concept and editorial content Copyright © 2003-2015 Bryan Lambert, who is solely responsible for its content. Hosting provided by Itasca Internet Services. Content management provided by Drupal.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3942
__label__cc	0.659571	0.340429	« Youth in Wilderness Service-Learning Outing with Rustic Pathways – Arroyo Seco Gorge Clean-Up Arroyo Seco Gorge Cleanup » Conservation, Fauna, Flora, Milpitas SIA, Natural History, Outings, Wilderness by Amy Patten We are holding our first-ever BioBlitz to celebrate the biodiversity of our amazing public lands! This event will be held at the Milpitas Special Interest Area on April 15, 2017. What is a BioBlitz? A BioBlitz is a one-day biodiversity survey where members of the public become “citizen scientists” and team up with researchers, naturalists, and land managers to catalog species occurring in an area of interest. We will explore the Milpitas Special Interest Area in small groups guided by naturalists, where we'll identify and document as many different species as possible over the course of the day. What is Citizen Science? In order to track the health and stability of organisms around the world, researchers need to collect an abundance of data on where and when species are observed. However, the amount of data scientists can collect is often limited by funding, staffing constraints, or geographic and political boundaries. That's where you come in: people acting as citizen scientists can help fill in the gaps by recording species observations. Citizen science allows for collection of much larger datasets than a single team of scientists could collect on their own. These observations supply researchers with a multitude of useful data, including information on species distribution, abundance, reproduction and timing of activity patterns and life history cycles. Researchers have also harnessed the power of citizen science to track the spread of wildlife diseases, document new populations of introduced species, and create adaptive plans for pest management. VWA staff and volunteers will help you identify species and enter observations into iNaturalist, a publicly accessible database of natural history observations. After you upload your data, other iNaturalist users will peer-review your observations for accuracy and verify them as research-grade data. Observations from the BioBlitz will provide a valuable snapshot of biodiversity, including information on the spread of invasive plants and locations of species of conservation concern. We plan to use this data to guide management decisions in the wilderness and create natural history curriculum for our Youth in Wilderness program. Anyone can join; no training or experience is necessary to become a citizen scientist! Sign up for the event on Meetup. Space is limited, so please RSVP for all the guests in your party. We will use the Meetup page to update you with details as the event approaches. Create an iNaturalist account. The easiest way to record observations is by downloading the app for your smartphone. There's limited phone reception at the Milpitas Special Interest Area so you'll need to download the app before you arrive. Join our BioBlitz project on iNaturalist. We'll use this project to log our observations. Please tread lightly on this very special piece of wilderness by following Leave No Trace principles! If you are a naturalist and you're interested in leading a group or assisting with species identifications, contact Amy Patten at amy@ventanawild.org. We'd love to have your help! Milpitas Special Interest Area (SIA) - Saturday, April 15, 2017. If heavy rain cancels, we’ll postpone to Saturday, April 22, 2017. We've divided the BioBlitz into four sessions. You are welcome to show up to whichever sessions suit your schedule and natural history interests! 8:30-10am Early Riser Bird Blitz 10am-1pm Morning Session 1-2pm: break for lunch 2pm-5pm Afternoon Session 5-7pm: break for dinner 7-9pm Moths, Owls, Amphibians & Other Nighttime Critters For the day of the event, meet at the Santa Lucia Guard Station at the beginning of a session to join a group and receive maps and instructions. We'll send out maps and directions after you RSVP. Your phone with the iNaturalist app OR a notebook and camera to record observations. There are no potable water sources or food services in this area. Please bring your own water, lunch, and dinner. Binoculars, hand lenses, field guides and any other equipment you need to make observations Camping gear if you plan to stay the night. There are limited, first-come first-serve campsites ($20/night) at Memorial Park Campground. There are opportunities for dispersed camping in the area as well. Although we’ll begin each session near the pavement, much of the BioBlitz will involve travel through federally designated Wilderness Wilderness is defined as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man…affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable” Our primary goal is conservation of species and protection of the wilderness character that makes the Milpitas SIA such a biologically diverse region We will keep groups small and minimize our impact, but it will be essential for all of us to observe LEAVE NO TRACE principles How to make observations on iNaturalist Contribute to our Northern Santa Lucia Range Inventory project Memorial Park Campground Want to see more events like this in the future? Donate to the VWA!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3943
__label__cc	0.67799	0.32201	January 12 - 15, 2018 • Westin Boston Waterfront New England's Largest, Most Diverse Sci-Fi & Fantasy Convention Sauciety Breakfast Menu Food at the Westin Animal-In-Tow Form Hotel Deposit FAQ Party Host Rules Party and Suite Form Masquerade Signup Music Track Signups Classes & Weapons Tiptree Bake Sale Progress Report 1 - August 15 Progress Report 2 - September 11 Progress Report 3 - November 17 Progress Report 4 - December 7 Progress Report 5 - January 4 Art Show Catalog Rules and Fees LARPs at Arisia LARP GM Signup Games at Arisia Gaming GM Signup Anime & Video Anime Theater Video Theater Dealers' Room Dealers Room List How to Apply for a Massachusetts Sales Tax ID Fan Tables Fan Table Signup Teen UnConference (13-19) College Student Writing Contest Student Writing Contest (13-18) SWC Winners Student Art Contest (13-18) Fast Track (6-12) Turtle Track (2-6) Young Fans at the Masquerade & Project Cosplay (12 & under) IndieExpo IndieExpo Participant List Indie*Expo FAQ Indie Expo Signup Get Progress Reports Photographer Contract Arisia on the Web Visit Our New Site Arisia'18 is over. Please visit the new convention site: www.arisia.org. Arisia Code of Conduct and Behavior Policies To help ensure our members' happiness and a successful convention, we have established a Code of Conduct and Behavior Policies for all members and staff. Please read this document and help us have a safe and welcoming convention for all. Arisia reserves the right to revoke, without refund, the membership of anyone for just cause. This may also lead to being banned from future Arisia conventions. Persons violating the law may be turned over to the police or the hotel security force. We will refund the membership fee of anyone who finds the policies contained herein unacceptable prior to accepting their badge. The general principles of this Code of Conduct apply to the Arisia convention and also to all the activities of the convention committee, whether before or after the convention. 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__label__cc	0.667995	0.332005	Network Working Group G. Meyer Request for Comments: 1582 Spider Systems Category: Standards Track February 1994 Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Running routing protocols on connection oriented Public Data Networks, for example X.25 packet switched networks or ISDN, can be expensive if the standard form of periodic broadcasting of routing information is adhered to. The high cost arises because a connection has to all practical intents and purposes be kept open to every destination to which routing information is to be sent, whether or not it is being used to carry user data. Routing information may also fail to be propagated if the number of destinations to which the routing information is to be sent exceeds the number of channels available to the router on the Wide Area Network (WAN). This memo defines a generalized modification which can be applied to Bellman-Ford (or distance vector) algorithm information broadcasting protocols, for example IP RIP, Netware RIP or Netware SAP, which overcomes the limitations of the traditional methods described above. The routing protocols support a purely triggered update mechanism on demand circuits on WANs. The protocols run UNMODIFIED on LANs or fixed point-to-point links. Routing information is sent on the WAN when the routing database is modified by new routing information received from another interface. When this happens a (triggered) update is sent to a list of destinations on other WAN interfaces. Because routing protocols are datagram based they are not guaranteed to be received by the peer router on the WAN. An acknowledgement and retransmission mechanism is provided to ensure that routing updates are received. Meyer [Page 1] RFC 1582 Demand RIP February 1994 The WAN circuit manager advises the routing applications on the reachability and non-reachability of destinations on the WAN. I would like to thank colleagues at Spider, in particular Richard Edmonstone, Tom Daniel and Alam Turland, Yakov Rekhter (IBM), Martha Steenstrup (BBN), and members of the RIP-2 working group of the IETF for stimulating discussions and comments which helped to clarify this memo. The following language conventions are used in the items of specification in this document: o MUST -- the item is an absolute requirement of the specification. MUST is only used where it is actually required for interoperation, not to try to impose a particular method on implementors where not required for interoperability. o SHOULD -- the item should be followed for all but exceptional cir- cumstances. o MAY or optional -- the item is truly optional and may be followed or ignored according to the needs of the implementor. The words "should" and "may" are also used, in lower case, in their more ordinary senses. 1. Introduction ........................................... 3 2. Running a routing Protocol on the WAN .................. 4 2.1. Overview ......................................... 4 2.2. Presumption of Reachability ...................... 6 2.3. WAN Router list .................................. 7 2.4. Triggered Updates and Unreliable Delivery ........ 8 2.5. Guaranteeing delivery of Routing Updates ......... 8 2.6. The Routing Database ............................. 9 2.7. New Packet Types ................................. 10 2.8. Fragmentation .................................... 12 2.9. Preventing Queue Overload ........................ 13 3. IP Routing Information Protocol Version 1 .............. 13 5. Netware Routing Information Protocol ................... 17 6. Netware Service Advertising Protocol ................... 20 7. Timers ................................................. 24 7.1. Database Timer ................................... 24 7.2. Retransmission Timer ............................. 25 7.3. Reassembly Timer ................................. 26 8. Implementation Considerations ...........................27 9. Security Considerations ................................ 27 10. References ............................................. 28 11. Author's Address ....................................... 29 Routers are used on connection oriented networks, such as X.25 packet switched networks and ISDN networks, to allow potential connectivity to a large number of remote destinations. Circuits on the Wide Area Network (WAN) are established on demand and are relinquished when the traffic subsides. Depending on the application, the connection between any two sites for user data might actually be short and relatively infrequent. Practical experience of routing shows that periodic 'broadcasting' of routing updates on the WAN is unsatisfactory on several counts: o Running a routing protocol like RIP is expensive if the standard form of transmitting routing information to every next hop router every 30 seconds is adhered to. The more routers there are wishing to exchange information the worse the problem. If there are N routers on the WAN, N * (N - 1) routing updates are sent over N * (N - 1)/2 connections every broadcast period. The expense arises because a circuit has to be kept open to each destination to which routing information is to be sent. Routing updates are sufficiently frequent that little benefit is obtainable on most networks by attempting to set up a call purely for the duration of the routing update. (There are often minimum call charges, or there is a charge to set up a call irrespective of what data is sent.) The option of reducing the 'broadcast' frequency, while reducing the cost, would make the system less responsive. o The number of networks to be connected (N) on the WAN can easily exceed the number of simultaneous calls (M) which the interface can support. If this happens the routing 'broadcast' will only reach M next hop routers, and (N - M) next hop routers will not receive the routing update. A basic rate ISDN interface can support 2 simultaneous calls, and even the number of logical channels most users subscribe to on an X.25 network is not large. There is no fundamental reason why routing protocols should restrict the user to routing between so few sites. o Since there is no broadcast facility on the WAN, 'broadcasting' of routing information actually consists of sending the updates separately to all known locations. This means that N routing updates are queued for transmission on the WAN link (in addition to any data which might be queued). Routers take a pragmatic view on queuing datagrams for the WAN. If the queue length gets too long, so that datagrams at the end of the queue would take too long be transmitted in a reasonable time (say 1 to 2 seconds) the router may start discarding them. On an X.25 network, with slow line speeds (perhaps 9600 baud), it may not take too many routing updates to fulfill this condition if the link is also actively being used to carry user data. This memo addresses all the above problems. The approach taken is to modify the routing protocols so as to send information on the WAN only when there has been an update to the routing database OR a change in the reachability of a next hop router is indicated by the task which manages connections on the WAN. Because datagrams are not guaranteed to get through on all WAN media, an acknowledgement and retransmission system is required to provide This memo describes the modifications required for Bellman-Ford (or distance vector) algorithm information broadcasting protocols, such as IP RIP [1,2] or Netware RIP and SAP [3] on the WAN. The protocols run unmodified on Local Area Networks (LANs) or fixed point-to-point links, and so interoperate transparently with implementations adhering to the original specifications. 2. Running Routing Protocols on the WAN Multiprotocol routers are used on connection oriented Wide Area Networks (WANs), such as X.25 packet switched networks and ISDN networks, to interconnect LANs. By using the multiplexing properties of the underlying WAN technology, several LANs can be interconnected simultaneously through a single physical interface on the router. A circuit manager provides an interface between the connectionless network layers (IP, IPX, CLNP etc) and the connection oriented WAN (X.25 or ISDN). Figure 1 shows a schematic representative stack showing the relationship between routing protocols, the network layers, the circuit manager and the connection oriented WAN. -------------- --------- --------- \| RIP \| \| RIP \| \| SAP \| -------------- \| \| \| UDP \| \| \| -------------- ---------------- \| IP \| \| IPX \| \| Circuit Manager \| \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| \| Connection Oriented \| \| WAN stack \| A WAN circuit manager will support a variety of network layer protocols, on its upper interface. On its lower interface, it may support one or more subnetworks. A subnetwork may support a number of Virtual Circuits. Figure 1. Representative Multiprotocol Router stack The router has a translation table which relates the network layer address of the next hop router to the physical address used to establish a Virtual Circuit (VC) to it. Datagrams may be encapsulated in a header to distinguish the network layer protocol [5]. The circuit manager takes datagrams from the connectionless network layer protocols and (if one is not currently available) opens a VC to the next hop router. A VC can carry all traffic between two end- point routers for a given network layer protocol (or with appropriate encapsulation all network layer protocols). An idle timer is used to close the VC when the datagrams stop arriving at the circuit manager. Running routing protocols on the WAN has traditionally consisted of making small modifications to the methods used on LANs. Where routing information would be broadcast periodically on a LAN interface, it is converted to a series of periodic updates sent to a list of addresses on the WAN. This memo targets two areas: o Eliminating the overkill inherent in periodic transmission of routing updates. o Overcoming the bandwidth limitations on the WAN: the number of simultaneous VCs to next hop routers and restricted data throughput which the WAN link can support. The first of these is overcome by transmitting routing updates (called routing responses) only when required: o Firstly, when a specific request for a routing update has been o Secondly, when the routing database is modified by new information from another interface. Update information received in this way is not normally propagated on other interfaces immediately, but is delayed for a few seconds to allow information from several updates to be grouped. o Thirdly, when the circuit manager indicates that a destination has changed from an unreachable (circuit down) to a reachable (circuit up) state. Because of the inherent unreliability of a datagram based system, both routing requests and routing responses require acknowledgement, and retransmission in the event of NOT receiving an acknowledgement. To overcome the bandwidth limitations the routing application can perform a form of self-imposed flow control, to spread routing updates out over a period of time. 2.2 Presumption of Reachability If a routing update is received from a next hop router on the WAN, entries in the update are thereafter always considered to be reachable, unless proven otherwise: o If in the normal course of routing datagrams, the circuit manager fails to establish a connection to the next hop router, it notifies the routing application that the next hop router is not reachable through an internal circuit down message. The routing application then goes through a process of timing out database entries to make them unreachable in the routing sense. o If the circuit manager is subsequently able to establish a connec tion to the next hop router, it will notify the routing applica tion that the next hop router is reachable through an internal circuit up message. The routing application will then exchange messages with the next hop router so as to re-prime their respective routing databases with up-to-date information. Handling of circuit up and circuit down messages requires that the circuit manager takes responsibility for establishing (or reestablishing) the connection in the event of a next hop router becoming unreachable. A description of the processes the circuit manager adopts to perform this task is outside the scope of this 2.3 WAN Router list The routing task MAY be provided with a list of routers to send routing updates to on the WAN. It will comprise of the logical addresses of next hop routers for which the router has a logical to physical address mapping. Entries in the list SHOULD be categorized (on a per-peer basis) as follows: o Running the standard routing protocol, namely transmitting updates periodically with the packet formats used in LAN broadcasts. This option is supported to allow interoperability with existing routing implementations, and might also be appropriate if some of the destinations are using Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs) rather than SVCs. o Running the triggered update routing protocol proposed in this Omitting an address from both of these categories is equivalent to not running the routing protocols. If routing packets arrive from a destination not supporting the appropriate variant they MUST be discarded. 2.4 Triggered Updates and Unreliable Delivery If triggered update information is sent to next hop routers on the WAN only once it can fail to arrive for one of the following reasons: o A free VC resource might not be available, because of a restricted number of X.25 logical channels or ISDN B-channels. o The transmit queue might be full - requiring the datagram to be discarded. o The VC might be pre-empted (in favour of establishing a VC to another next hop router) while the datagram is in a queue, resulting in the queue being flushed and the datagram o In cases where the method of transport is not guaranteed, for example with PPP where there is no acknowledgement and retransmission of HDLC frames, a corrupted frame will result in the loss of the datagram. 2.5 Guaranteeing delivery of Routing Updates To guarantee delivery of routing updates on the WAN an acknowledgement and retransmission scheme MUST be used: o Send a routing update to a next hop router on the WAN. o The other router responds with an acknowledgement packet. The original router receives the acknowledgement. o Otherwise the original router retransmits the update until an acknowledgement is received. Retransmission timer values are covered in section 7. In cases where the routing database is modified before an acknowledgement is received a new routing update with an updated sequence number is sent out. If an acknowledgement for the old routing update is received it is ignored. o A router only updates its routing database when it receives a complete update, which may consist of several fragments. Each fragment is individually acknowledged. The above mechanism caters for cases where the datagram is lost because of a frame error or is discarded because of an over-full queue. The routing update and acknowledgement will eventually both get through. In cases where the circuit manager cannot establish a connection, a mechanism is provided to allow the circuit manager to inform the routing task of the failure to make a connection so that it can suppress retransmissions until a circuit becomes available. 2.6 The Routing Database A requirement of using triggered updates for propagating routing information is that NO routing information ever gets LOST or The routing database MUST adopt one of the following strategies: o It must keep ALL alternative routing information it learns from any routing updates from the LAN and the WAN, so that if the best route disappears an alternative route (if available) can replace it as the new best route. o If the amount of memory this consumes is problematic the routing application must keep SOME alternative routing information - say a best route and two alternatives. If the router ever has to discard routing information about a route it should note the fact. If the routes that have been kept disappear because they have become unreachable, the router MUST issue a request on all interfaces to try and obtain discarded alternatives. It is recommended that the request is issued BEFORE all routes to a destination have been lost. Entries in the routing database can either be permanent or temporary. Entries learned from broadcasts on LANs are temporary. They will expire if not periodically refreshed by further broadcasts. Entries learned from a triggered response on the WAN are 'permanent'. They MUST not time out in the normal course of events. The entries state MUST be changed to 'temporary' by the following events: o The arrival of a routing update containing the entry set to unreachable. The normal hold down timer MUST be started, after which the entry disappears from the routing database. o The arrival of a routing update with the entry absent. If the hold down timer is not already running, the entry MUST be set to unreachable and the hold down timer started. o A message sent from the circuit manager, to indicate that it failed to make a connection in normal running. The routing table MUST be scanned for all routes via that next hop router. Aging of these routing entries MUST commence. If the aging timer expires the entry MUST be set to unreachable and the hold down timer started. If the hold down timer expires the o If the interface goes down, the circuit manager should indicate that all circuits on that interface have gone down. Database timer values are covered in section 7. 2.7 New Packet Types To support triggered updates, three new packet types MUST be TRIGGERED REQUEST A request to the responding system to send all appropriate elements in its routing database. A triggered request is retransmitted at periodic intervals until a triggered response is received. Routing requests are transmitted in the following circumstances: o Firstly when the router is powered on. o Secondly when the circuit manager indicates a destination has been in an unreachable (circuit down) state for an extended period and changes to a reachable (circuit up) state. o Thirdly in the event of all routing update fragments failing to arrive within a set period. o It may also send triggered requests at other times to compensate for discarding non-optimal routing Meyer [Page 10] TRIGGERED RESPONSE A message containing all appropriate elements of the routing database. An appropriate element is an entry NOT learned from the interface to which the routing information is being sent out. This is known as "split horizon". Stability is improved by adding "poisoned reverse" on routes learned from a destination. This consists of also including some routes learned from a destination in routing updates sent back to that destination, but setting the routes as unreachable. A route is only poisoned if it is the best route (rather than an inferior alternative route) in the database. A triggered response message may be sent in response to a triggered request, or it may be an update message issued because of a change in the routing database. A triggered response message MUST be sent in response to a triggered request message even if there are no routes to propagate. This would be the case for a host which had a WAN interface only, but which wished to run the triggered update protocol. A triggered response is retransmitted at periodic intervals until a triggered acknowledgement is received. TRIGGERED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT A message sent in response to every triggered response packet received. Triggered response and triggered acknowledgement packets MUST contain additional fields for a sequence number, fragment number and number of fragments. If a triggered request or response is not acknowledged after 10 retransmissions, routes to the destination should be marked as unreachable for the duration of a hold down timer before being deleted. The destination should then be polled at a lower frequency using triggered request packets. When a triggered response is received, the router should prime the next hop router my sending its routing database through triggered response packets. Strictly speaking polling should occur indefinitely to guarantee database integrity. However the administrator MAY wish the router to cease polling after a few attempts believing that the lack of response is due to a mis-configuration of the next hop router. The destination should be marked as NOT supporting the mechanism and no further routing messages should be sent to that destination. Before marking the destination as not supporting the mechanism, at least 5 triggered request polls (without acknowledgement) should be If a destination marked as not supporting the mechanism, subsequently sends a valid 'triggered' message, the destination should be marked as supporting the mechanism once more (to allow for the next hop router's configuration being changed). It should be sent a triggered request and a triggered response to obtain and propagate up-to-date routing information. 2.8 Fragmentation If a routing update is sufficiently large, the information MUST be fragmented over several triggered response packets: o Each fragment MUST be individually acknowledged with a triggered acknowledgement packet. The sender of the routing update MUST periodically retransmit fragments which have not been acknowledged (or until the destination is marked as not supporting the mechanism). o A router receiving fragments MUST re-assemble them before updating its routing database. o If all fragments are not received within four times the retransmit period, they MUST be discarded. A triggered request packet MUST then be sent to the originator of the routing update. On receiving the triggered request packet, the originator of the routing update MUST retransmit ALL fragments. o If a fragment with an updated sequence number is received, ALL fragments with the earlier sequence number MUST be discarded. An updated sequence number is defined as any sequence number that is different. There is no concept of the value of the sequence number conveying its age. Fragmentation timer values are covered in section 7. 2.9 Preventing Queue Overload In order to prevent too many routing messages being queued at a WAN interface, the routing task MAY operate a scheme whereby 'broadcasting' of a triggered request or triggered response to a WAN interface is staggered. All routing requests or routing responses are not sent to ALL next hop routers on the interface in a single o The routing task should limit the number of outstanding triggered request messages for which a triggered response has not been response messages for which a triggered acknowledgement has not been received. As outstanding messages are appropriately acknowledged, further messages can be sent out to other next hop routers, until all next hop routers have been sent the message and have acknowledged it. The maximum number of outstanding messages transmitted without acknowledgement is a function of the link speed and the number of other routing protocols operating the triggered update mechanism. Messages should always be acknowledged immediately (even if it causes the limit to be exceeded), since a connection is almost certainly available. This has the potential benefit of allowing the VC to close sooner (on its idle timer). Sending all triggered request fragments to a destination at once is also beneficial. 3. IP Routing Information Protocol Version 1 This section should be read in conjunction with reference [1]. IP RIP is a UDP-based protocol which generally sends and receives datagrams on UDP port number 520. To support the mechanism outlined in this proposal the packet format for RIP version 1 [1] is modified as shown in Figure 2. Every Routing Information Protocol datagram contains the following: COMMAND Commands supported in RIP Version 1 are: request (1), response (2), traceon (3), traceoff (4), SUN reserved (5). The fields sequence number, fragment number and number of fragments MUST NOT be included in packets with these command values. The following new commands (with values in brackets) are TRIGGERED REQUEST (6) A request for the responding system to send all of its routing database. Only the first 4 octets of the packet format shown in figure 2 are sent, since all routing information is implied by this request type. TRIGGERED RESPONSE (7) A message containing all of the sender's routing database, excluding those entries learned from the interface to which the routing information is being This message may be sent in response to a triggered request, or it may be an update message resulting from a change in the routing database. A triggered response message MUST be sent in response to a triggered request message even if there are no routes to propagate. This would be the case for a host which had a WAN interface only, but which wished to run the triggered update protocol. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ \| command (1) \| version (1) \| must be zero (2) \| +---------------+---------------+-------------------------------+ The following new fields are inserted for some commands \| sequence number (2) \| fragment (1) \|no of frags (1)\| +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ Followed by up to 25 routing entries (each 20 octets) \| address family identifier (2) \| must be zero (2) \| \| IP address (4) \| \| must be zero (4) \| \| metric (4) \| The format of an IP RIP datagram in octets, with each tick mark representing one bit. All fields are in network order. The four octets: sequence number (2), fragment number (1) and number of fragments (1) are not present in the original RIP specification. They are only present if command takes the values 7 or 8. Figure 2. IP Routing Information Protocol packet format TRIGGERED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (8) figure 2 are sent. VERSION In this instance Version 1. This is a new field inserted if command takes the values 7 or 8. The sequence number MUST be incremented every time updated information is sent out on a WAN. The sequence number wraps round at 65535. When a triggered acknowledgement is sent the sequence number is set to the same value as the triggered response packet being acknowledged. The sequence number MUST be identical over fragments. If a fragment is retransmitted the sequence number MUST not FRAGMENT NUMBER The fragment number is one for the first fragment of a routing update, and is incremented for each subsequent fragment. A fragment can contain up to 25 routing entries. When a triggered acknowledgement is sent the fragment In a triggered response packet this indicates the number of packets required to complete the routing update. This field has no relevance for triggered acknowledgement packets so should be set to zero. For triggered response packets the rest of the datagram contains a list of destinations, with information about each. Each entry in this list contains the address family identifier (2 for IP), a destination network or host, and the metric for it. The packet format is intended to allow RIP to carry routing information for several different protocols, identifiable by the family identifier. The IP address is the usual Internet address, stored as 4 octets in network order. The metric field contains a value between 1 and 15 inclusive, specifying the current metric for the destination, or the value 16 (representing 'infinity'), which indicates that the destination is not reachable. Each route sent by a router supersedes any previous route to the same destination from the same router. The maximum datagram size is 508 octets, excluding UDP and IP headers. An enhancement to IP RIP to include subnetting has recently become available [2]. This section only describes differences from that RFC. The triggered update mechanism can be supported by including the triggered request (6), triggered response (7) and triggered acknowledgement (8) commands described in the previous section. The sequence number, fragment number and number of fragments fields are included in triggered response and triggered acknowledgement The triggered request packet should also contain the 4 extra octets corresponding to the sequence number, fragment number and number of fragments fields - but set to zero. Because additional security information is included in RIP Version 2 packets, this MUST be appended to the triggered request and triggered acknowledgement packets, as well as being present in the triggered response packet. The version number becomes 2. Other aspects of packet layout follow reference [2]. 5. Netware Routing Information Protocol This section should be read in conjunction with references [3], since it only describes differences from the specification. Netware [3] is the trade name of Novell Research's protocols for computer communication which are derived and extended from Xerox Network System's (XNS) protocols [4]. Netware supports a mechanism that allows routers on an internetwork to exchange routing information using the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) which runs over the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol using socket number 453h. Netware RIP and IP RIP share a common heritage, in that they are both based on XNS RIP, but there is some divergence, mostly at the packet format level to reflect the differing addressing schemes. The triggered update mechanism can be applied to Netware RIP. To support the mechanism outlined in this proposal the packet format for Netware RIP is modified as shown in Figure 3. Every datagram contains the following: RIP OPERATION Operations supported in standard Netware RIP are: request (1) and response (2). operation values. The following new operations are required (with values chosen to be the same as for IP RIP commands): +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ \| operation (2) \| +---------------+---------------+ The following new fields are inserted for some operations Followed by up to 50 routing entries (each 8 octets) \| network number (4) \| \| number of hops (2) \| number of ticks (2) \| The format of a Netware RIP datagram in octets, with each tick mark representing one bit. All fields are in network order. specification. They are only present if operation takes the Figure 3. Netware Routing Information Protocol packet format A message sent in response to every triggered response packet received. This is a new field inserted if operation takes the The sequence number MUST be incremented every time updated information is sent out on a WAN. The sequence number wraps round at 65535. The sequence number MUST be identical over fragments. If a fragment is retransmitted the sequence number MUST not In a triggered response packet this indicates the number of packets required to complete the routing update. list of networks, with information about each. Each entry in this list contains a destination network, and the number of hops and number of ticks for each. The maximum datagram size is 406 octets, excluding the IPX header (a further 30 octets). 6. Netware Service Advertising Protocol Netware [3] also supports a mechanism that allows servers on an internetwork to advertise their services by name and type using the Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) which runs over the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol using socket number 452h. SAP operates on similar principals to running RIP. Routers act as SAP agents, collecting service information from different networks and relay it to interested parties. To support the triggered update mechanism outlined in this proposal the packet format for Netware SAP is modified as shown in Figure 4. Every Service Advertising Protocol datagram contains the following: SAP OPERATION Operations supported in standard Netware SAP are: general service query (1), general service response (2), nearest service query (3) and nearest service response (4). The following new operations are required: TRIGGERED GENERAL SERVICE QUERY (6) A request for the responding system to send the identities of all servers of all types. figure 4 are sent, since all service types are Followed by up to 8 service entries (each 66 octets) \| Service Type (4) \| \| Service Name (48) \| \| . \| \| Network Address (4) \| \| Node Address (6) \| + +-------------------------------+ \| \| Socket Address (2) \| \| Hops to Server (2) \| +-------------------------------+ The format of a Netware SAP datagram in octets, with each tick number of fragments (1) are not present in the original SAP Figure 4. Netware Service Advertising Protocol packet format TRIGGERED GENERAL SERVICE RESPONSE (7) A message containing all of the sender's services table, excluding those entries learned from the interface to which the service advertising information is being sent out. general service query, or it may be an update message resulting from a change in the service advertising A triggered general service response message MUST be sent in response to a triggered general request message even if there are no services to advertise. This would be the case for a router with a LAN network which had work stations but no servers on it. TRIGGERED GENERAL SERVICE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (8) A message sent in response to every triggered general service response packet received. This is a new field inserted if operation takes the values 7 or 8. When a triggered general service acknowledgement is sent the sequence number is set to the same value as the triggered general service response packet being acknowledged. triggered general service response update, and is incremented for each subsequent fragment. A fragment can contain up to 8 service entries. When a triggered general service acknowledgement is sent, the fragment number is set to the same value as the packets required to complete the service update. For triggered general service response packets the rest of the datagram contains a list of services, with information about each. Each entry in this list contains the service type, service name, full address (network, node and socket), and the number of hops to the server. 7. Timers A number of timers are supported to handle the triggered update o Database timers. o Retransmission timer. o Reassembly timer. In this section appropriate timer values for IP RIP are suggested. For other routing protocols, only the database timer should need to take different values. The database timer values are chosen to match equivalent timer operation for using the protocol on a LAN. The behaviour of a routing entry when a timer is running becomes indistinguishable from a routing entry learned from a broadcast Implementations MAY make timer values configurable - and hence different from the values suggested here - but interoperability requires that all timers on a sub-network should be the same in all routers. 7.1 Database Timers Routes learned by a triggered response command (7) are normally considered to be permanent - that is they do NOT time out unless activated by one of the following events: o If the circuit manager indicates that a next hop router cannot be contacted, all routes learned from that next hop router should start timing out as if they had (just) been learned from a conventional response command (2). Namely each route exists while the database entry timer is running and is advertised on other interfaces as if still present. The route is then advertised as unreachable while a further hold down timer is allowed to expire, at which point the entry is deleted. If the circuit manager indicates that the next hop router can be contacted while the database entry timer is running, the routes are reinstated as permanent entries. If the database entry timer has expired and the circuit manager indicates that the next hop router is reachable, the routing application MUST issue a triggered request. The routes will be reinstated on the basis of any triggered response packet(s) o If a triggered response packet is received in which a route is marked unreachable, the hold down timer MUST be started and the entry is advertised as unreachable on other interfaces. On expiry of the hold down timer the entry is deleted. If a triggered response packet is received in which an existing route is ABSENT, the hold down timer MUST also be started and the entry is advertised as unreachable on other interfaces. On For IP RIP the hold down timer should always run for 120 seconds, to be consistent with RIP usage on broadcast networks. The database entry timer should by default run for 180 seconds. The network can be made more responsive by reducing the database entry timer value. However, making this timer too short can lead to network instabilities. The duration of the database entry timer allows a period of grace in which contention for network resources can be resolved by the circuit manager. 7.2 Retransmission Timer The routing task runs a retransmission timer: o When a triggered request is sent it will be retransmitted periodically while a triggered response packet is not received. o When a triggered response is sent a note of the sequence number and fragment number(s) of the routing update is kept. Fragments will be retransmitted at periodic intervals while a triggered acknowledgement packet is not received for the appropriate fragment. With call set up time on the WAN being of the order of a second, a value of 5 seconds for the retransmission timer is appropriate. If no response is received after 10 retransmissions, routes via the next hop router are marked as unreachable, the hold down timer MUST be started and the entry is advertised as unreachable on other interfaces. On expiry of the hold down timer the entry is deleted. The next hop router is then polled using a triggered request packet at 60 second intervals. If a response is received the routers should exchange routing information using triggered response packets. It may not be desirable to poll indefinitely, since a lack of response (when a circuit is up) is most likely caused by incorrect configuration of the next hop router. An administrator definable number of polls (5 or greater) should be provided. If the circuit manager indicates that the next hop router is unreachable, the retransmission is suppressed until the circuit manager indicates that the next hop router is reachable once more. Counting of the number of retransmissions continues from where it left off prior to the circuit down indication. 7.3 Reassembly Timer When a router receives a triggered response update it MUST acknowledge each fragment. If the routing update is fragmented over more than one packet, the receiving router MUST store the fragments until ALL fragments are received. On receiving the first fragment a timer should be started. If all fragments of the routing update are not received within that period they are discarded - and a triggered request is sent back to the originator (with retransmissions if necessary). The originator MUST then resend ALL triggered response fragments. The reassembly timer should be set to four times the value of the retransmission timer. With a suggested retransmission timer value of 5 seconds, the suggested reassembly timer value SHOULD be 20 seconds. Implementations MAY allow the reassembly timer and retransmission timer to be configurable (in the 1:4 ratio), but interoperability will be compromised on WANs where all participating routers DO NOT support the same values for these timers. Fragments MUST also be discarded if a new fragment with a different sequence number is received. A triggered request MUST not be sent in this instance. 8. Implementation Considerations In the implementation described in this memo, it is assumed that there is a close binding between the circuit manager and the routing applications - that they are in some way the same 'program'. This is not necessarily true of all products which are routers. In particular there are UNIX host implementations in which the routing application is distinct from the kernel, where the circuit manager is likely to be installed. In such systems it is possible to stop (or crash) the routing applications independently of what is happening in the kernel. Other implementations might have the circuit manager on a separate card which again may give the circuit manager a life of its own. In implementations where the applications and circuit manager have independent lives, a keep-alive mechanism MUST be provided between the applications and the circuit manager, so that if the application or network layer dies and is subsequently re-started they can resynchronize their state tables. Ideally, when an application dies, the circuit manager should close all existing VCs appropriate to the application and make no further outgoing calls and reject incoming calls until the application is running again. If the circuit manager is using some form of encapsulation, several applications may be sharing the same VC. If this is the case the circuit manager may wish to filter out datagrams for the appropriate network layer if only one of the applications is affected. But this is not an ideal solution. Conversely if the application believes the circuit manager has died, it should mark all routes via the circuit manager as unreachable and advertise them on other interfaces for the duration of the hold down timer before deleting them. Security is provided my a number of aspects: o The circuit manager is required to be provided with a list of physical addresses to enable it to establish a call to the next hop router on an X.25 SVC or ISDN B-channel. The circuit manager SHOULD only allow incoming calls to be accepted from the same well defined list of routers. Elsewhere in the system there will be a set of logical address and physical address tuples to enable the network protocols to run over the correct circuit. This may be a lookup table, or in some instances there may be an algorithmic conversion between the two addresses. o The routing (or service advertising) task MUST be provided with a list of logical addresses to which triggered updates are to be sent on the WAN. The list MAY be a subset of the list of next hop routers maintained by the circuit manager. There MAY also be a separate list of next hop routers to which traditional broadcasts of routing (or service advertising) updates should be sent. Next hop routers omitted from either list are assumed to be not participating in routing (or service advertising) updates. The list (or lists) doubles as a list of routers from which routing updates are allowed to be received from the WAN. Any routing information received from a router not in the appropriate list MUST be discarded. 10. References [1] Hedrick. C., "Routing Information Protocol", STD 34, RFC 1058, Rutgers University, June 1988. [2] Malkin. G., "RIP Version 2 - Carrying Additional Information", RFC 1388, Xylogics, January 1993. [3] Novell Incorporated., "IPX Router Specification", Version 1.10, [4] Xerox Corporation., "Internet Transport Protocols", Xerox System Integration Standard XSIS 028112, December 1981. [5] Malis. A., Robinson. D., and R. Ullmann, "Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode", RFC 1356, BBN Communications, Computervision Systems Integration, Process Software Corporation, August 1992. 11. Author's Address Gerry Meyer Spider Systems Stanwell Street Edinburgh EH6 5NG Phone: (UK) 31 554 9424 Fax: (UK) 31 554 0649 EMail: gerry@spider.co.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3951
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__label__wiki	0.698441	0.698441	Rubrics » CasusBelleARTE Hyperborean Folklore – The Art of Symbols & Numbers The Art Gallery “Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck” at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies hosted the artistic photography exposition named “Hyperborean Folklore – The Art of Symbols & Numbers” which has the main theme of the reinterpretation of the ancestral and cultural symbolism found in the manufacturing of the national authentic Romanian dress, in a contemporary manner of fashion that brings to the present the artistic dowry that artists inherited from their Romanian origin. More No. 7-8, Sep.-Dec. 2017 2017 Vlad I. Roșca ‘May the force be with you’, and it’s not Anakin Skywalker who possesses it, but it looks like you’d rather find it in old grandma’s cooking book. Dishes seem to have historically had the power not only to feed hungry stomachs and greedy souls, but also to beget monstrous diplomatic disharmonies. Not that it necessarily came to weapon-like conflicts, but still enough on the plate to leaven in a sourdough of cultural schisms. More No. 5-6, May.-Aug. 2017 2017 Music Industry Development – Future Global Trends on the Rise Paul Niculescu-Mizil Gheorghe The music industry has developed at high speed in the last 30 years and it has changed the way music is listened to, purchased and even produced. Global Internet connections made possible the distribution of music in an instant and immaterial form. Daily, millions of people use different tools like Facebook Social Media, Google+, Twitter, Youtube etc., to interact with the music industry and its dedicated platforms like Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Spotify, Digitally Imported, etc. More No. 4, Mar.-Apr. 2017 2017 We no longer cultivate an understanding of history and art. Western democracies are increasingly relentless in denying their ancestors. The present sneers at the past with a sense of superiority that comes from simply being the present, with the ancient dead having no recourse or appeal against judgment rooted in contemporary bias. No other kind of ignorance indulges in current Western levels of self-flattery. More No. 3, Jan.-Feb. 2017 2017 Humours of an Election One would think that, like Nostradamus, William Hogarth was given visions of the future which he could only portray through the filter of his culture and surroundings, in Oxfordshire, England, in the middle of the 18th century. His four paintings, collectively entitled “Humours of an Election”, read like an allegory of present day elections, whose wholesome exteriors are at odds with the vice often coursing underneath, erupting into sight either accidentally or at the instigation of rivals. The first three paintings (“An Election Entertainment”, “Canvassing for Votes” and “The Polling”) illustrate the endemic corruption during the election of a new Member of Parliament, supposedly from the 1754 elections. The last one, “Chairing the Candidate”, shows the Tory candidate victorious and celebrated by his supporters. The paintings are stunning for their detail and their intentional aesthetics of ugliness. Many threads are weaved simultaneously in the same painting. More No. 2, Nov.-Dec. 2016 2016 The European art market, between London and New York Marius Tița When it arrives on the art market, our favourite painting, the sculpture that fascinates us or any object that may be the subject of a collection becomes merchandise. The topic of the day, Brexit, seen as a clash of markets, will have minor consequences for the International art market. The main competitors on this market – the US, China and the UK – are outside the community subject and London, the largest provider of art auctions in the world, operates more in America and Asia. More No. 1, Sep.-Oct. 2016 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3963
__label__wiki	0.825792	0.825792	The TV Ratings Guide cbs NCIS Los Angeles NCISLA review NCIS: Los Angeles S11E09 'Kill Beale Vol 1' Review NCIS: Los Angeles S11E09 'Kill Beale Vol 1' Review A Virtual Scrawl 6:47 AM cbs NCIS Los Angeles NCISLA review When an episode is titled “Kill Beale Vol 1”, it’s clear that everyone’s favourite Technical Operator is going to find himself in some serious trouble. Eric Beale has been missing from LA for most of season 11’s episodes to date. He’s been working for a start up tech company in San Francisco and has been mentioned sporadically, just to keep him in the thoughts of the team and the viewers. This week he finally returns to the fold, and gets an episode that is all his! There were certain expectations going in to this episode, firstly that it will be exciting and secondly that Beale will be - well Beale. There were indeed plenty of intense scenes, albeit not too much in the way of action, and this was offset with a suitably rambling Eric, mainly from a caffeine high to counteract the effects of being drugged. Usually character centred episodes feature the main field agents, and when they haven’t, Nell and Eric have shared the limelight. This meant there was a notably different feel to ‘Kill Beale’. There were two distinct settings; Los Angeles (with Nell, Kensi and Hetty), and San Francisco, where Sam and Callen are searching for Eric. It is not only the new location which is different, but also much of the episode takes place at night which is unusual for the show. And finally, there is no Deeks as he was back with LAPD for the week (in actuality actor Eric Christian Olsen co-wrote next week’s 250th episode and was prepping for this). Kensi was very much a spare part during first half, exemplified by her lounging in the bull pen and staring at Deeks’ desk which prompted her to call his cell (and inconveniently, Callen called her at that moment). On the plus side, this allowed conversations between Kensi and Nell to take place, with Kensi playing the role of the sensible, reassuring older sister. The narrative pace was surprisingly pedestrian. The team were worried about Eric and initially there was little cause for concern; he was the victim of a break-in and then arrested for smashing the rear window of a police patrol car. Yet even when they realised Eric had escaped an attempted kidnapping, been drugged and successfully kidnapped by two fake NCIS agents, there was no real sense of urgency or panic. Sam and Callen were stonewalled by Eric’s employer and that was it. There were no threats given and no further action taken. It almost seemed like an afterthought at the end, when the Chinese were revealed to be behind the criminal enterprise of the start up company. There is little action in San Francisco as Sam and Callen go through their investigative steps, visiting Eric’s apartment twice. Even the scenes between Eric and the fake NCIS agents featured no real action; it was mainly talking (on Eric’s part) and they were never portrayed as an actual threat to Eric’s life. The conversations between Nell and Kensi added to the sense of lethargy. Nell was understandably worried yet there was very little assistance to be offered from the team in LA until half way through the episode. Despite Eric’s goofiness, he had the presence of mind to finally realise the fake agents were actually, well fake. It was their questions around to whom Hetty been talking which alerted him, which is ironic as it was them referencing Hetty and stating that ‘she will have our head on a platter of avocado toast’, that convinced him to accompany them until the agents from LA arrived. Twice Eric attempted to escape the pair and so he clearly utilised some of his agent training. It was Eric’s position in the field that prompted some in depth conversations at different points of the episode, with Hetty, Nell, Callen and Sam. In scenes at Hetty’s desk, an emotional Nell challenged Hetty about her decision to place Eric in such a position. She calls Hetty out, particularly when she refers to him as ‘Mr Beale’. Nell forcefully states his name in Eric and accuses Hetty of already distancing herself emotionally. Key to this is Nell realising she can not be Hetty, a role she has been groomed for since her arrival. Such conversations in LA mirror those in San Francisco, where Sam and Callen discuss whether they rode Eric too hard so he had to prove himself, or gave him false hope of his agent abilities so he believed he had skills he actually lacks. The agents rarely question their actions or discuss repercussions and this aspect belies the fact that even though the episode revolves around Eric, it is actually about Hetty, Nell and Callen. Hetty’s manipulation and decision-making has been challenged in the past by Callen (S4), Kensi (S7) and Deeks (S8) but Eric's situation and Nell's words seem to hit home. Hetty no longer wants her job and seemingly neither does anyone else. Hetty speaks with Callen about her decisions with Eric and ends by suggesting Callen should consider taking her job. There is a lot of foreshadowing here to next week’s 250th, where Hetty is targeted by a former operative she handpicked and trained, a case which will obviously affect Callen and potentially both their futures. This finally looks like the start of the season 11 story arc. Callen has referenced working alone and being a lone wolf more times in the last two episodes than he probably has in the last two seasons. Early season 11 he was happy-go-lucky (maybe forcefully so), enjoying his job and Sam's company. Now he has turned serious and reflective. Is Callen getting itchy feet now he's been settled so long and fearful that those close to him will be hurt, in order to hurt him? Callen: This job used to be a lot easier. Sam: It was never easy. It was just easier because you were working alone. Callen: Yeah, this is what happens when I stay in one place too long. Sam: No, this is what happens when you get connected to other human beings Many of the San Francisco scenes took place at night, in back streets and alleys, makeshift tents for the city's vast homeless population. Images of the Golden Gate Bridge may illustrate the agents are in a different location but there is nothing glamorous about it. The scenes in the mission also take place in the early hours of the morning or late at night. The workplace is quiet, empty and dimly lit, reflective of the shadowy environment of their work and the questioning of their motives. By contrast Kensi's location scenes were during the day, clear blue skies in an affluent property with an outdoor swimming pool, belonging to the rather hapless business owner of the San Francisco think tank. Kensi is the only one who really had any action, holding off a number of shooters. The subsequent interrogation with Kensi and Nell was particularly satisfactory and successful. A formidable force! There were some cracking lines of dialogue, even though Deeks’ quick-witted quips were missed. Kensi described Eric as a born conspiracy theorist, ‘one Area 51 documentary away from wearing a tin foil hat.’ At another point Eric stated to the fake agents that he lives in the shadows - whilst standing flat against a wall with a bright streetlamp shining on him. Eric’s return to Los Angeles and the Mission was very sweet and his best scene was when he was alone in the ops centre, breaking out some cool dance moves, with Nell discretely looking on. This was followed by the long overdue tete-a-tete between Hetty and Callen, discussing decisions and the future, which will feature heavily next week. It will be interesting to understand how much their relationship may be scrutinised when Hetty's manipulation is placed under the spot light.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3967
__label__cc	0.528331	0.471669	Teeming with new monsters, quests, NPCs and loot, with an offering of 15 hours or more of adventuring, Far Harbor is indeed the expansion Fallout 4 fans have been waiting for. Better yet it’s also fantastic. With a radio signal informing you of a new case at Valentine’s Detective Agency, you’re soon heading to the North West coast to jump on a boat and journey to a mysterious island drenched in an eerie, radioactive fog. What starts off as an investigation into a missing person soon develops into a fascinating set of mysteries about the island’s denizens, the fog, and the huge mutated creatures that call it home. Three faction live on the island and soon seek your aid, conversion, or destruction: The Children of Atom, a colony of escaped synths, and the human settlers. It doesn’t take long for you to find yourself in the middle of them, with choices of brokering peaceful existence, annihilation, or something in-between. The options available to you are even broader here than during the main game, allowing you a great deal of flexibility on how you deal with the three factions. Meanwhile, dialogue has seen a significant improvement, helping to develop the characters into people and synths that you can care about and truly get to know. This also makes your decisions more meaningful and interesting, encouraging you to create a few extra saves in order to see the multiple outcomes. The new fog effects, meanwhile, adds a fantastic sense of atmosphere to the island that makes it feel and look very different to the mainland. Moreover, the fog helps conceal enemies, making your adventuring more treacherous and far scarier. Having a bandit jump out from nowhere is enough to send you several feet up from your couch, but having a ghoul of super mutant do it can send you into orbit. However, it’s the new creatures that will really get you flying. Giant frogs, praying mantises, crabs and other sea creatures, all plague the residents of this island, and they are truly a sight to see. Hermit crabs using trucks as shells, and praying mantises that can give a deathclaw a run for their money. These are wonderfully unique, intimidating, and powerful creatures for you engage that test your skills thoroughly. The Far Harbor story alone can take a good 15 hours to complete, however, there’s plenty of island to explore and get caught up in your own adventures. The terrain is also very different from that of the mainland, with a more rugged feel and a terrifyingly eerie mountain path to ascend. New equipment is also strewn across the island for you to find and use, including nautically themed weapons to add to your collection. Unfortunately the new companion is a bit of a let-down; he can help guide you around the island but his fisherman backstory doesn’t yield much interest. However, some new puzzles you come across during the expansion’s story are a welcome break from the norm. Far Harbor’s new and fascinating setting, menacing monsters, more in-depth characters, and well-paced story, all make for a superb expansion. The eerier atmosphere is a welcome change that helps make the new location feel very different to what we’ve encountered before, and the abundance of content finally delivers the expansion we’ve been craving. You’re not going to want to miss this boat. Thanks to Xbox and Bethesda for supporting TiX	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3970
__label__wiki	0.919558	0.919558	Hurricane ShaneHurricane Shane ‘Joker’ Movie Reviews Call It A Serious Reinvention of Superhero Cinema This is no laughing matter: The first reviews of Todd Phillips’ Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix are here. The movie, the first film dedicated to the Clown Prince of Crime without Batman, doesn’t open in theaters until October. But the movie just made its world premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, where critics got their first look at it and filed their reviews. Overall, critics are split. There’s lots of praise for Phoenix’s peformance, and the seriousness of the film. But some critics were left cold by its depiction of Gotham City, and of a terrifying psychopath we’re made to feel sympathy for. Here’s a sampling of the early Joker reviews so far: Germain, Lussier, GIzmodo: “ It’s a solid, well-made film that, ultimately, has a bit of an identity crisis.” Terri White, Empire: “ It’s a sad, chaotic, slow-burn study of someone who isn’t visible; who doesn’t even exist to the world around them.” Tim Grierson, Screen Daily: “An iconic comic-book villain gets an appropriately epic origin story.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety: “The rare comic-book movie that expresses what's happening in the real world.” David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter: “What's so compelling about the title role, both as written and in Phoenix's full-throttle, raw performance, is that we're encouraged to feel sympathy for the Joker even as he's clearly turning into a homicidal maniac.” Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: “The movie is, for a good stretch, a troubling and arresting character study, one done with nervy conviction. Eventually, though, Phillips has to more tightly attach this downward spiral to the larger Gotham mythology, which is where the provocative ambivalence of the film gives way to veneration.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: “Many will find Joker compellingly morbid. A first encounter left me not chilled, or rattled, but cold.” Robbie Collin, The Telegraph: “A part of me found Todd Phillips’s radical rethinking of the Batman villain Joker thrillingly uncompromising and hair-raisingly timely. Another thinks it should be locked in a strongbox then dropped in the ocean and never released.” David Ehrlich, Indiewire: “Unquestionably the boldest reinvention of superhero cinema since The Dark Knight; a true original that’s sure to be remembered as one of the most transgressive studio blockbusters of the 21st Century.” Here’s the movie’s official synopsis: Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study. Joker opens in theaters on October 4. Gallery — The Best Movie Taglines of the 2010s: Get the ScreenCrush Mobile App Source: ‘Joker’ Movie Reviews Call It A Serious Reinvention of Superhero Cinema Filed Under: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3977
__label__wiki	0.911176	0.911176	Amanda Bynes Returns To Instagram, Debuts New Look posted by Peyton Blakemore - Sep 10, 2019 Bring in the dancing lobsters 'cause Amanda Bynes is back... on Instagram that is. After a some time off the social media platform, the 33-year-old Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising graduate announced her return on Twitter. "Hey guys! I'm on instagram now ! Check me out," she wrote along with a link to her IG. For her first picture on the 'gram, Amanda debuted a new look, sporting long pink locks and a septum piercing for her first Instagram mirror selfie. While she's only following nine people at the moment — two of which include Paris and Nicky Hilton — Amanda's followers continue to rise by the minute. As fans know, the former child star's return to Instagram comes two months after she returned to Twitter with her first media post — excluding her post about her Paper cover story in November 2018 — since quitting the platform in February 2018. Amanda's had a tumultuous relationship with Twitter. She infamously went on a Twitter rant in 2014 — she called out a number of celebrities — after she was released from a psychiatric hold. Back in November, Amanda opened up about her drug-fueled past, journey to sobriety those infamous celebrity-targeted tweets. "I'm really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can't turn back time but if I could, I would," she told Paper. "And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible and sick to my stomach and sad. Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter. It's definitely not Twitter's fault — it's my own fault." She added, "I've been sober for almost four years now. [My parents] really [helped] me get back on track." "My advice to anyone who is struggling with substance abuse would be to be really careful because drugs can really take a hold of your life," Amanda continued. "Everybody is different, obviously, but for me, the mixture of marijuana and whatever other drugs and sometimes drinking really messed up my brain. It really made me a completely different person. I actually am a nice person. I would never feel, say or do any of the things that I did and said to the people I hurt on Twitter."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3980
__label__cc	0.67942	0.32058	Scorpion Fish Facts Scorpaeniformes Scorpaenidae The area where the animal first came from Indian and Pacific Oceans Size (L): 14cm - 45cm (6in - 18in) Either freshwater, brakish or salt Optimum pH Level: The perfect acidity conditions for the animal Brown, Black, Yellow, White, Red, Orange Tropical reefs and rocky crevices Average Clutch Size: The average number of eggs laid at once Fish, Crabs, Snails Large Fish, Humans, Sea Lions Venomous sting and camouflaged body Scorpion Fish Location A scorpion fish is a group of predatory, marine fish that are found amongst coral reefs and in shallow waters in the more temperate oceans. The scorpion fish is most closely related to the lionfish and is most commonly found in the Indian and South Pacific oceans. There are more than 200 recognised species of scorpion fish, hiding amongst the ocean reefs and in artificial aquariums around the world. Scorpion fish are kept in tanks by numerous people because of their interesting appearance and behaviour. The body of the scorpion fish is often covered in feathery fins that help the scorpion fish to camouflage itself into the surrounding coral. The colours and markings of the scorpion fish are also used to help the scorpion fish to hide. Scorpion fish are nocturnal predators, and spend the daylight hours resting in a hidden crevice in the coral. Scorpion fish are also able to ambush their prey from this position and often catch small fish by surprise. Scorpion fish are omnivorous fish and hunt small fish, crustaceans and snails on the coral reefs. Scorpion fish are able to stun their prey with their venom before eating it. Scorpion fish also use their venomous sting to fend off unwanted predators. The scorpion fish is a very dominant predator in its environment, and therefore the scorpion fish has very few natural predators. The human catching the scorpion fish to keep in tanks is the biggest threat to the scorpion fish along with habitat loss from the destruction of coral reefs. Large fish and sea lions are also known to hunt scorpion fish. The female scorpion fish releases between 2,000 and 15,000 eggs into the water which are fertilised by the male scorpion fish. The scorpion fish pair then quickly hide so that their eggs can float into the ocean before being spotted by predators that eat the eggs. The scorpion fish eggs hatch in just 2 days and the tiny scorpion fish fry remain near the surface of the water until they are bigger. When the scorpion fish fry reach nearly an inch in length, they swim down into the ocean to join the reef community. View all 61 animals that start with S. Females can release up to 15,000 eggs at a time! Fishing Cats In Cambodia Featured Article: A Beginners Guide To Keeping Fish Fishing For A Sustainable Supper Glow In The Dark Scorpions Swarms Of Immortal Jellyfish View printer friendly version of Scorpion Fish article. Learn how you can use or cite the Scorpion Fish article in your website content, school work and other projects. First Published: 4th November 2009, Last Updated: 8th November 2019 1. David Burnie, Dorling Kindersley (2008) Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Animals [Accessed at: 04 Nov 2009] 3. Dorling Kindersley (2006) Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia Of Animals [Accessed at: 04 Nov 2009] 4. Richard Mackay, University of California Press (2009) The Atlas Of Endangered Species [Accessed at: 04 Nov 2009] 5. Tom Jackson, Lorenz Books (2007) The World Encyclopedia Of Animals [Accessed at: 04 Nov 2009]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3982
__label__wiki	0.733044	0.733044	Genetic Structures at the Origin of Acquisition of the β-Lactamase blaKPC Gene Thierry Naas, Gaelle Cuzon, Maria-Virginia Villegas, Marie-Frédérique Lartigue, John P. Quinn, Patrice Nordmann Thierry Naas Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, INSERM U914: Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre 94275, and Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Paris, France For correspondence: thierry.naas@bct.aphp.fr Gaelle Cuzon Maria-Virginia Villegas CIDEIM (International Center for Medical Research and Training), Cali, Colombia Marie-Frédérique Lartigue John P. Quinn Stroger Hospital of Cook County and Chicago Infectious Disease Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois Patrice Nordmann Genetic structures surrounding the carbapenem-hydrolyzing Ambler class A blaKPC gene were characterized in several KPC-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from the United States, Colombia, and Greece. The blaKPC genes were associated in all cases with transposon-related structures. In the K. pneumoniae YC isolate from the United States, the β-lactamase blaKPC-2 gene was located on a novel Tn3-based transposon, Tn4401. Tn4401 was 10 kb in size, was delimited by two 39-bp imperfect inverted repeat sequences, and harbored, in addition to the β-lactamase blaKPC-2 gene, a transposase gene, a resolvase gene, and two novel insertion sequences, ISKpn6 and ISKpn7. Tn4401 has been identified in all isolates. However, two isoforms of this transposon were found: Tn4401a was found in K. pneumoniae YC and K. pneumoniae GR from the United States and Greece, respectively, and differed by a 100-bp deletion, located just upstream of the blaKPC-2 gene, compared to the sequence of Tn4401b, which was found in the Colombian isolates. In all isolates tested, Tn4401 was flanked by a 5-bp target site duplication, the signature of a recent transposition event, and was inserted in different open reading frames located on plasmids that varied in size and nature. Tn4401 is likely at the origin of carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamase KPC mobilization to plasmids and its further insertion into various-sized plasmids identified in nonclonally related K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa isolates. Carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae is mainly related to acquired carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamases (19). These β-lactamases can be either metallo-β-lactamases (IMP and VIM), expanded-spectrum oxacillinases (OXA-48), or Ambler class A enzymes (NMCA, IMI, SME, GES, and KPC) (1, 4, 11, 14, 19, 22, 24). KPC-type enzymes in carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae strains were first reported in 2001 in North Carolina (33), and until 2005, the geographical distribution of these enzymes in members of the family Enterobacteriaceae in general and in K. pneumoniae in particular was limited to the eastern part of the United States (2, 24, 27, 32), where KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates are now frequently identified among nosocomial pathogens (7). Outside of the United States, KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates have been reported from only a few patients; the first case was reported in 2005 in France and had a U.S. origin (16), and more recently, similar cases have been reported from Colombia, China, and Greece (6, 28, 30). The first outbreak of KPC-producing K. pneumoniae outside of the United States was in Israel and has been described extensively (13). KPC carbapenemases have been observed even more rarely among other gram-negative bacterial species, including Enterobacter spp., Escherichia coli, and Serratia marcescens (3, 8, 14, 34). Outside of the United States, KPC-2 was identified once from an S. marcescens isolate from China (35), from E. coli strains from Israel (17), and in a P. aeruginosa isolate in Columbia (29). Whereas detailed crystallographic data have been obtained (9) and the description of this enzyme in novel locations is increasing worldwide, signaling a very active process of spreading, very little information is known about the genetic elements responsible for this rapid spread. The aim of the present work was to characterize the genetic elements involved in blaKPC gene mobilization and diffusion. Bacterial strains.K. pneumoniae YC (16), K. pneumoniae GR (6), K. pneumoniae KN633 (28), K. pneumoniae KN2303 (28), and P. aeruginosa 2404 (29) were used in this study. Electrocompetent E. coli DH10B (Invitrogen, Eragny, France) and P. aeruginosa KG2505, which does not express the naturally and chromosome-encoded AmpC β-lactamase and is deficient for the multidrug efflux system MexAB-OprM (20), were used as recipients in the electroporation experiments. E. coli J53 Azr, which is resistant to sodium azide, and ciprofloxacin-resistant P. aeruginosa PU21 (15) were used for the conjugation experiments. E. coli 50192 was used as a reference strain for plasmid extraction (21). The plasmid vector pBKCMV, which carries a kanamycin resistance marker, was used for the cloning experiments (21). Antimicrobial agents and MIC determinations.Antibiograms were determined by the disk diffusion method on Mueller-Hinton agar (Bio-Rad, Marnes-La-Coquette, France), and the susceptibility breakpoints were determined as described previously (21) and interpreted as recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (5). All plates were incubated at 37°C for 18 h. The MICs of the β-lactams were determined by the Etest technique (AES, Bruz, France). Plasmid content, mating out, and electroporation experiments.The direct transfer of resistance into azide-resistant strain E. coli J53 and ciprofloxacin-resistant strain P. aeruginosa PU21 was attempted, as reported previously (15). Plasmids were introduced by electroporation into E. coli DH10B (21) and P. aeruginosa KG2505 (20, 26) by using a Gene Pulser II apparatus (Bio-Rad). Recombinant plasmid DNAs were extracted with a Qiagen plasmid DNA maxi kit (Courtaboeuf, France) and were analyzed by restriction endonuclease digestions (Amersham Biosciences) and agarose gel electrophoresis (Invitrogen, Paris, France). Natural plasmids were extracted by the Kieser extraction method (10) or with the Qiagen plasmid DNA maxi kit. Plasmid extracts were subsequently analyzed by electrophoresis on a 0.7% agarose gel. Hybridization.DNA-DNA hybridizations were performed as described by Sambrook et al. (25) with a Southern transfer of an agarose gel containing total DNA extracted by the Kieser extraction method (10). The probe consisted of a 796-bp PCR-generated fragment from recombinant plasmid pRYC-1 and was internal to the blaKPC-2 gene. Labeling of the probe and signal detection were carried out by using the ECL nonradioactive labeling and detection kit, according to the manufacturer's instructions (Amersham Biosciences, Orsay, France). Cloning experiments and analysis of recombinant plasmids.All enzymes for DNA manipulations were used according to the recommendations of the supplier (Amersham Biosciences). Unless specified otherwise, standard molecular techniques were used (25). Whole-cell DNAs were extracted as described previously (21). The cloning procedure consisted of the ligation of either HindIII-, BamHI-, or EcoRI-digested fragments from genomic DNAs from K. pneumoniae YC into the HindIII-, BamHI-, or EcoRI-restricted pBKCMV vector, respectively (21). Recombinant plasmids were transformed by electroporation, and antibiotic-resistant colonies were selected on Trypticase soy agar plates containing amoxicillin (50 μg/ml) and kanamycin (30 μg/ml). Genetic environment of blaKPC-2 gene.Precise determination of the genetic structures surrounding the blaKPC-2 gene in K. pneumoniae YC allowed us to design a series of primers for PCR amplification and mapping of the blaKPC-surrounding sequences and the identification of insertion sequence (IS) elements from the other KPC-positive isolates. PCR experiments were performed as described below on an ABI 2700 thermocycler (Applied Biosystems, Les Ulis, France) by using laboratory-designed primers (Table 1). Two microliters of the supernatant from the whole-cell DNA extract was used as the template. PCR experiments with AmpliTaq Gold DNA polymerase (Roche, Meylan, France) were performed with 35 cycles consisting of 45 s of denaturation at 94°C, 45 s of annealing at 55°C, and variable extension times at 72°C, depending on the expected product size (60 s per 1 kb to be amplified). The PCR products were then analyzed on an agarose gel and sequenced. Primers used in this studya Biochemical properties.Crude β-lactamase extracts, obtained as described previously (21) from 10-ml cultures of clinical isolates and their E. coli transconjugants or electroporants, were subjected to analytical isoelectrofocusing on an ampholine-containing polyacrylamide gel with a pH range of 3.5 to 9.5 (Ampholine PAG plate; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) for 90 min at 1,500 V, 50 mA, and 30 W. The focused β-lactamases were detected by overlaying the gel with 1 mM nitrocefin (Oxoid, Dardilly, France). The pI values were determined and compared to those of known β-lactamases (21). DNA sequencing and protein analysis.Both strands of the PCR products, the cloned DNA fragment of recombinant plasmid pRYC-1, and the natural plasmids were sequenced by using laboratory-designed primers with an automated sequencer (ABI Prism 3100; Applied Biosystems). The nucleotide and the deduced protein sequences were analyzed with software available at the National Center of Biotechnology Information website (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been assigned to the EMBL/GenBank nucleotide database under the accession numbers EU176011 to EU176014. The nucleotide sequences of the ISs reported in this paper have been submitted to the IS Finder website (http://www-is.biotoul.fr). Genetic support of blaKPC in the various clinical isolates.The carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae isolates contained several plasmids of different sizes, ranging from ca. 10 kb to 170 kb (Fig. 1; Table 2). In each strain, at least one plasmid hybridized with an internal probe for the blaKPC-2 gene and ranged from 12 to 80 kb in size (Fig. 1; Table 2). For K. pneumoniae KN2303, two hybridization signals were observed (35 and 75-kb). The plasmid locations of the blaKPC genes were confirmed by electroporation of these plasmids into E. coli DH10B and P. aeruginosa KG2505. Whereas all plasmids replicated into E. coli and yielded electroporants, only plasmid pCOL, isolated from P. aeruginosa 2404, was able to be electroporated into P. aeruginosa KG2505 (Table 2). The E. coli transformants had a β-lactam resistance pattern compatible with the expression of a blaKPC-like gene (Table 3). No other antibiotic resistance marker was cotransferred, as the transformants remained susceptible to nalidixic acid, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, kanamycin, netilmicin, tobramycin, amikacin, chloramphenicol, rifampin, tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and colistin on a disk diffusion antibiogram. Natural plasmid pCOL conferred a high-level-resistance phenotype to all β-lactams in P. aeruginosa KG2505, which is AmpC deficient (Table 3). Similarly, no other resistance marker was phenotypically detected in P. aeruginosa. Plasmid extractions from cultures of the different isolates and their transconjugants or transformants (A) and Southern hybridization carried out with an internal probe for blaKPC-2 (B). Lanes 1, K. pneumoniae YC; lanes 2, E. coli J53 transconjugant harboring plasmid pNYC-1; lanes 3, P. aeruginosa 2404; lanes 4, P. aeruginosa KG2505 transformant harboring plasmid pCOL; lanes 5, E. coli J53 transformant harboring plasmid pCOL; lanes 6, K. pneumoniae KN2303; lanes 7, E. coli J53 transconjugant harboring plasmid pBC2303; lanes 8, K. pneumoniae KPC-negative strain; lanes 9, K. pneumoniae KN633; lanes 10, E. coli J53 electroporant harboring plasmid pBC633; lanes 11, K. pneumoniae GR; lanes 12, E. coli J53 transconjugant harboring plasmid pNGR-1; lanes 13, E. coli 50192 harboring four plasmids (7, 48, 66, and 154 kb); lanes 14, E. coli J53 reference strain (only the chromosomal band is visible). C, chromosome. Strains and plasmid analysis MICs of β-lactams Mating-out assays revealed that the ca. 75- to 80-kb plasmids pBC2303a, pNYC, and pNGR from K. pneumoniae KN2303, K. pneumoniae YC, and K. pneumoniae GR, respectively, were self-transferable to E. coli but not to P. aeruginosa, whereas the 12-kb plasmid of K. pneumoniae KN663 failed to be transferred to E. coli or P. aeruginosa. The 35-kb pBC2303b plasmid from K. pneumoniae KN2303 was transferred to E. coli together with a larger plasmid of 75 kb. The 70-kb plasmid pCOL from P. aeruginosa 2404 was able to replicate into E. coli and P aeruginosa, given its transfer by electroporation, but attempts to transfer the β-lactam resistance marker into E. coli J53 and P. aeruginosa PU21 by mating-out assays failed (Table 2). Southern hybridization of the extracted plasmids revealed strong hybridization signals on plasmids present in both the parents and the transconjugants or transformants. The plasmids harboring blaKPC expressed only this β-lactamase gene when they were tested by isoelectrofocusing, even though the parental strains expressed multiple β-lactamases (data not shown). Cloning of the β-lactamase gene from K. pneumoniae YC.Several E. coli transformants were obtained for each cloning experiment and were selected on medium supplemented with kanamycin and amoxicillin. The largest recombinant plasmid expressing reduced susceptibility to imipenem, pRYC-1, which had a 22-kb EcoRI insert (Fig. 2), was retained for further analysis. Higher β-lactam MICs were observed when the blaKPC gene was expressed from the multicopy cloning vector than when it was expressed from the natural plasmid (data not shown). Schematic representation of blaKPC-positive structures identified in enterobacterial isolates. (a) Salmonella enterica serovar Cubana (Salmonella cubana) (14); (b) Enterobacter cloacae (unpublished data; GenBank accession no. AM774409); (c) K. pneumoniae KN2303 (28); (d) K. pneumoniae pYW (30); (e) recombinant clone pRYC-1 containing the blaKPC-2-coding region from K. pneumoniae YC (16). The vertical dotted lines indicate the largest known structure of the blaKPC genetic environment. Genes and their corresponding transcription orientations are indicated by horizontal arrows. Grey triangles represent IRL and IRR of Tn4401. IRR1 represents another IRR (black triangle) that is disrupted by the ISKpn7 insertion. Small and empty triangles represent the inverted repeats of ISKpn6 and ISKpn7. TSDs are indicated above the sequence. Characterization of genetic environment of the blaKPC-2 gene.The nucleotide sequence of the ca. 22-kb insert of plasmid pRYC-1 was determined and revealed several open reading frames (ORFs) (Fig. 2). Several of these ORFs have previously been associated with the blaKPC-like genes in clinical isolates. Detailed analysis of the ORFs allowed identification and description of two novel ISs, ISKpn6 and ISKpn7 (Fig. 2 and 3). ISKpn6, which belongs to a novel family of ISs, the IS1182 family (M. Chandler, personal communication), was identified immediately downstream of the blaKPC gene. It was 1,540 bp long, and its putative transposase (439 amino acids) shares 54% identity with the sequence of ISMaq from Marinobacter aquaeolei VT8 (GenBank accession no. YP_958264.1). The inverted repeats (IRs) of ISKpn6 are 17 bp long, and its transposition generated a 2-bp TA target site duplication (TSD). Another IS, ISKpn7, a member of the IS21 family, was found upstream of the blaKPC gene. It is 1,956 bp long and encodes two consecutive ORFs: a long upstream frame designated istA and a shorter downstream frame, istB. istA encodes a 341-amino-acid putative transposase that shares 75% amino acid identity with the amino acid sequence of ISAvi from Azotobacter vinelandii AvOP (GenBank accession no. ZP_00415985.1), and istB encodes a 259-amino-acid transposition helper protein which shares 83% amino acid identity with the amino acid sequence of the ISAvi transposase in Azotobacter vinelandii AvOP (GenBank accession no. ZP_00419950.1). The IRs of ISKpn7 were 28 bp long, and transposition of ISKpn7 generated a 3-bp TSD. Schematic representation of Tn4401 structures identified on naturally occurring plasmids pCOL from P. aeruginosa 2404 (29), pBC2303 from K. pneumoniae (28), pBC633 from K. pneumoniae (28), pNGR from K. pneumoniae (6), and pNYC-1 from K. pneumoniae (16). Genes and their corresponding transcription orientations are indicated by horizontal arrows. Tn4401 is delimited by two IR sequences (grey triangles). Small and empty triangles represent the IRs of ISKpn6 and ISKpn7. Tn4401 target site duplications are indicated. The location of a 100-bp deletion in pNGR and pNYC-1 is indicated by vertical lines. The disrupted ORFs resulting from the Tn4401 insertion are indicated. In the case of pBC2303, Tn4401 inserted into an ORF that is located at the left end of another transposon. This ORF was also disrupted by a 220-bp miniature IR element. Small arrowheads with numbers indicate the primers listed in Table 1 and used for PCR mapping. Two additional ORFs, designated tnpA and tnpR, were identified upstream of ISKpn7. TnpA is 3,027 bp long and encodes a transposase of 1,009 amino acids that shares 86% amino acid sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of a transposase of Ralstonia pickettii 12J and 84% identity with the amino acid sequence of a transposase found in Pseudomonas sp. strain ND6 (unpublished data; GenBank accession nos. ZP_01663250 and NP_943128). TnpR, a 1,713-bp-long resolvase gene, encodes a 571-amino-acid protein that shares 69% identity with the site-specific recombinase of Burkholderia mallei, B. vietnamiensis, and B. pseudomallei 305 (GenBank accession no. ZP_01765313.1) (18). A 39-bp sequence with 92% (36/39) identity with the left IR (IRL) of a putative Tn3-type transposon of B. vietnamiensis (18) was identified downstream of the tnpR gene. A similar 39-bp sequence in the opposite orientation could not be identified on recombinant plasmid pRYC-1. Thus, sequencing of the natural plasmid pNYC was conducted to search for the right IR (IRR). Two hundred base pairs after the EcoRI site, which was used for cloning purposes, a similar sequence (87% sequence identity) was identified, thus forming a Tn3-like transposon of 10 kb named Tn4401. Tn4401 was bracketed by two 39-bp imperfect IRs. Upon insertion, Tn4401 generated a 5-bp TSD ATTGA sequence, which is a signature of a transposition process. Tn4401 was surrounded by several ORFs found on plasmids pKPN3, pKPN4, and pKPN5, which have recently been sequenced and identified in K. pneumoniae MGH 78578. The genetic environment of transposon Tn4401 on plasmid pNYC-1 was made of a mosaic of ORFs found on one of these three plasmids (data not shown). Whereas most of these ORFs are of unknown function, some share high degrees of sequence identity with genes involved in plasmid transformation or plasmid replication (traI, traX, and repA). Structure of Tn4401 in clinical isolates of various geographical origins.By using primer pairs (Table 1; Fig. 3) specific for the different genes found on Tn4401, fragments of similar sizes were obtained from all the strains, suggesting similar genetic organizations. For only one primer pair, which hybridized to ISKpn7 and the blaKPC gene, a fragment ca. 100 bp shorter than the fragments from isolates from Colombia or from sequences obtained from nucleotide databases (14) was found upstream of the blaKPC gene (Fig. 4) in K. pneumoniae YC and K. pneumoniae GR, from Paris, France, and Greece, respectively. Sequencing of the entire Tn4401 revealed very high degrees of nucleotide sequence identity (99.9%) and confirmed the presence of a 100-bp deletion. Alignment of the 39-bp Tn4401 IRs. (A) IRL and IRR; (B) IRL with a reconstructed IRR1. The underlined nucleotides correspond to the nucleotides duplicated after ISKpn7 insertion. Identical positions are indicated by asterisks. Tn4401 insertion sites.In order to investigate the flanking sequence of Tn4401, PCR primers that were specific for a location within Tn4401 and in the flanking sequence and derived from K. pneumoniae YC were used. PCR products of the expected size on the basis of the sizes of the fragments from K. pneumoniae YC from Paris were obtained only from K. pneumoniae isolate GR from Greece, thus indicating that the genetic backgrounds of the other strains might be different. The natural plasmids were extracted from the transconjugants and/or from the electroporants and were directly sequenced by using outwards-directed primers specific for locations next to the IRs of Tn4401. Except for Tn4401, found on plasmid pNGR, the genetic environment was different. Thus, Tn4401, found on plasmid pBC2303, was inserted into an ORF of 345 bp encoding a 114-amino-acid putative protein of unknown function. Upon insertion, an ATTAC target site was duplicated (Fig. 3). This ORF belongs to the left end side of Tn5708, a Tn3-based transposon (GenBank accession no. AJ010745). The IRL of Tn5708 was found immediately upstream of the Tn4401 IRL. On the other side of Tn4401, this ORF was itself interrupted by a miniature IR transposable element sequence, which contained two 39-bp IR sequences separated by 180 bp (Fig. 3). On plasmid pBC633, the insertion occurred in an ORF of 291 nucleotides coding for a 97-amino-acid putative membrane protein with 75% identity at the nucleotide sequence level and 81% identity at the amino acid sequence level with the protein of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica SCRI1043 (GenBank accession no. NC_004547). Upon insertion, a 5-bp TTGGT TSD was generated. On plasmid pCOL, the insertion occurred in an ORF of 297 bp, a 99-amino-acid hypothetical protein found on plasmid pRSB105, a plasmid of 57,137 bp found in an uncultured bacterium from a sewage plant in Germany. Upon insertion, Tn4401 generated a 5-bp GCGCT TSD. Previous studies on the genetic environment of blaKPC have identified several ORFs encoding putative transposases located upstream and downstream of the blaKPC genes. In the present work, we have further characterized the genetic environment of the blaKPC gene by detailed analysis of a 22-kb insert derived from the natural plasmid pNYC-1 containing the blaKPC gene from K. pneumoniae isolate YC from Paris but with a U.S. origin (16) and by analysis of blaKPC-containing natural plasmids from isolates from Greece (6) and Colombia (28, 29) and blaKPC-containing sequences available in the GenBank database. We were able to identify a novel Tn3-based transposon, Tn4401, which is at the origin of blaKPC-like gene acquisition and dissemination. In addition to the tnpA transposase, Tn4401 possesses the resolvase tnpR, the blaKPC gene, and two ISs, ISKpn6 and ISkpn7. These ISs must have inserted into the parental transposon, since both ISs are flanked by target site duplications, signaling a recent transposition event of each IS that occurred independently. Thus, blaKPC is likely not part of a composite transposon made of two different ISs, as shown for the blaPER-1 gene (23). In the case of the blaPER-1 gene, it is located on a composite transposon, Tn1213, bracketed by two different ISs, ISPa12 and ISPa13 (23). The identification of this transposon, which was inserted at different loci on different plasmids and which was flanked by different 5-bp target site duplications, indicated a frequent and dynamic process. Tn4401 was present in all the strains tested. Similarly, parts of this transposon have been identified in every sequence of blaKPC-like genes submitted to the GenBank database. The overall structure of Tn4401 seemed to be conserved except in K. pneumoniae GR and K. pneumoniae YC, from Greece and Paris, respectively, for which a 100-bp deletion was observed upstream of the blaKPC gene compared to the sequence found in K. pneumoniae KN2303 and P. aeruginosa 2404 from Colombia. Thus, we have characterized two isoforms of Tn4401 that differ by 100 bp and that are currently spreading in different geographical locations. The 100 bp, which is absent from the Tn4401 transposon found in K. pneumoniae GR and K. pneumoniae YC, are present in most of the blaKPC-containing sequences released to the GenBank database. However, in one sequence recently released to the GenBank database, a 200-bp deletion has been described at the same genetic location (GenBank accession no. DQ989640), suggesting that this region might be highly polymorphic or genetically unstable. Another description of the genetic environment of the blaKPC gene on plasmid pYW in a Chinese K. pneumoniae isolate (30) revealed the presence of another IS 50 bp upstream of blaKPC-2. From the available sequence released to the GenBank database, it was not possible to test whether this IS had inserted into Tn4401 structures or whether the overall sequence located upstream is different. Nevertheless, the sequence located downstream of the blaKPC gene perfectly matched that of Tn4401. ISs may play important roles in the evolution of the Tn4401 backbone, as reported, for example, for vanA-containing transposon Tn1546 (31). The ISKpn6 and ISKpn7 ISs have likely contributed to the genesis of Tn4401. In fact, the genesis of this transposon might be responsible for mobilization of the blaKPC gene, as illustrated in Fig. 5. Detailed analysis of the sequences located on both sides of the ISKpn7 insertion revealed the presence a second 39-bp IR (termed IRR1) that has been interrupted by the ISKpn7 insertion (Fig. 1). The sequence of IRR1 is 80% identical to that of IRL, and the sequences of IRL and IRR are also 80% identical (Fig. 4). Thus, we postulate that a transposon, made of tnpA and tnpR might have been inserted upstream of the blaKPC gene. Subsequently, ISKpn6 and ISKpn7 have inserted downstream and upstream of the blaKPC gene, respectively. The ISKpn7 insertion led to the disruption of the IRR (IRR1) of the transposon, thus forcing the transposase to recognize a second right inverted repeat (IRR) located farther downstream of the blaKPC gene. The novel transposon formed may be able to move the blaKPC gene from its initial position to various plasmid locations. A similar strategy has been demonstrated for ISEcp1 and blaCTX-M gene mobilization (12). Further experiments will be necessary to validate this model. Genesis of Tn4401 and origin of blaKPC mobilization. Three steps might have been necessary for the genesis of Tn4401. (A) Insertion of a Tn3-based transposon delimited by IRL and IRR1, upstream of blaKPC; (B) insertion of ISKpn6 and ISKpn7, which disrupted IRR1; (C) another IRR located just downstream of blaKPC and IRL are recognized by the transposase, leading to the excision of Tn4401, which can then insert into a novel target sequence. In clinical isolates of the family Enterobacteriaceae, as well as in E. coli transconjugants and transformants, the presence of KPC does not always result in frank resistance to carbapenems in vitro. Instead, the MICs, even though they are high, may still remain in the susceptibility range. For P. aeruginosa, the situation is quite different, even in AmpC-deficient strains. Indeed, once the blaKPC gene transferred into reference strain P. aeruginosa KG2505, from which AmpC is deleted, it conferred high levels of resistance to most β-lactam antibiotics. Plasmids from K. pneumoniae could not be transferred to P. aeruginosa, suggesting that horizontal transfer between these species is not so easy. However, given its transposition properties, it is likely that Tn4401 might be found on broad-host-range plasmids that could easily be transferred to P. aeruginosa or even Acinetobacter baumannii. 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__label__wiki	0.687951	0.687951	GentleApril18: Results This has been another fantastic contest! Let’s share a moment of sympathy for those writers who fully intended to participate, and then Life happened to them, as it does. “Mensch tracht, und Gott lacht,” as the saying goes. But there’s always next time, isn’t there, until Nyx actually attains her natural height and obliterates us all from existence. Speaking of, my deepest apologies to Nyx for somehow typo’ing her name in the voting section. How do you spell a three-letter word wrong? By forgetting one of the letters: “Ny.” At least that didn’t factor until guessing who wrote what, so, no damage done to voting on the anonymous stories. As well, apologies to BizyBoy00 for momentarily regressing to BizyBee00. What can I say, but that I don’t have anyone copyediting my own material. Lastly, I achieved a hat-trick by getting RobClassact’s name wrong nearly everywhere, calling him “RobCoolguy” for no apparent reason. I’m very sorry about that, RobClassact. What made this contest different from past events is that more people took advantage of the option to submit two stories! That made for a greater range of material to read, which is awesome, but it also diffused the vote (24 stories in total, 18 evaluators). And that’s not bad, of course, since a diversity of readers will nominate their favorites—someday we’ll attract a larger body of readers/voters, and then we’ll see a serious throw-down—but for now we’ve got a lot of tied positions. And, yeah, some people pointed out to me that a few of these didn’t strictly follow the rules, featuring tiny people rather than giants or giantesses. I didn’t disqualify these, even though I nailed one poor writer to the wall on the word limit. Why didn’t I disqualify them? I guess I left that up to the voting readers. Next time I should really put my foot down, to make it fair for everyone. Are you ready to dive in? Which Gentle story engaged you immediately? The largest winner in this was Nyx’s “Aftermath,” commanding one-third of all votes. “The Giantess that Lives Next Door” by RobClassact took second place with three votes, and third was a tie between “Beauty in This World” by Aborigen and “Damsel” by Nat Edgecomb earning two each. Also placing were “A Kind of Magic” by Ryan the Rebel, “Salty” by Njord, “Tortue” by Grildrig, “The Visitor” by Pixis, and “You Are Not Alone” by Taedis. Four readers successfully pegged Nyx as the author of “Aftermath,” though three people suspected Aborigen wrote it, and two thought it might be CrushedBoyWonder’s. Readers also attributed it to PerspectiveShift and Taedis. “Tortue” was written by Grildrig, which two people guessed, but three thought it sounded like CrushedBoyWonder. Other good guesses included Aborigen, Nostory, PerspectiveShift, and RobClassact. Three people knew Pixis wrote “The Visitor,” two thought Aborigen did, and three others thought it sounded like Nyx, Ryan the Rebel, or Smollfairy. Which Gentle story expanded your concept of gentleness? “Beauty in This World” got this one with 22.2% of the vote. Tied for second place were both of Nyx’s stories, “Aftermath” and “Infinite,” as well as ProphetofGreed’s “A New Friend.” Also placing were “Damsel,” “Death Knight” by PerspectiveShift, “The New Pedi Procedure” by BizyBoy00, “Salty,” “She, Possibly It,” “Tortue,” “An Unconventional Relationship” by Cross1364, and “The Visitor” by Pixis. Only one person guessed Aborigen wrote “Beauty in This World.” Other readers thought it sounded like Cross1364, CrushedBoyWonder, Nyx, Pixis, or Taedis, but most people thought it was Curvy the Fly’s work. Wonder why? Any time you can get more than three people to peg your work, you have a strong writer’s voice. Four people knew “Infinite” was by Nyx, two thought it was Curvy the Fly’s work, and other people supposed Njord, PerspectiveShift, RobClassact, or Taedis might have done it. Similarly, nearly half of those who voted identified ProphetofGreed as the author of “A New Friend,” with one guess each for CrushedBoyWonder, Nat Edgecomb, Nostory, Ryan the Rebel, and Smollfairy. Which Gentle story had the best normal-size lead character? This category saw fierce competition, with a five-way tie for over a week. At the last minute, however, the smitten maintenance worker in “Beauty in This World” and the playful, self-assured boyfriend in “Salty” broke ahead to tie for first, with “A Giant Proposal” by BizyBoy00, “She, Possibly It” and “The Visitor” holding third place. Also placing were “Death Knight,” “The Guest” by Nostory, “Infinite,” “It’s You I Want” by Aborigen, “A New Friend,” and “Tortue.” The identity of who wrote “A Giant Proposal” was a three-way tie between BizyBoy00 (correct), Nostory, and RobClassact. Also supposed were Grildrig, Njord, and Sophia Thornton. As many people thought Nostory wrote “The Guest” as did ProphetofGreed, while a few others attributed it to BizyBoy00, Pixis, Ryan the Rebel, and Taedis. Aborigen wrote “It’s You I Want,” as three people knew; two guesses each went to Nostory, PerspectiveShift, and RobClassact, with one person guessing Taedis as the writer. Which Gentle story had the best macro character? Readers will connect with different themes of stories, and different characters will resonate with them. If anything, it takes an exceptional writer to make someone attach to a character or plot they don’t normally go for, and usually preferences will stand out. In this case, three stories tied for first place with favorite large-size characters: the repentant scientist in “Aftermath,” the aquatic kaiju girlfriend in “Salty,” and the decommissioned robot in “She, Possibly It.” Tied for fourth place were “Damsel,” “An Unconventional Relationship,” and “You Are Not Alone.” Also placing were “It’s You I Want,” “A Kind of Magic,” and Sophia Thornton’s “Swear to Tell the Tooth?” Eight different authors were guessed, with one vote each, to have created “A Kind of Magic”: Aborigen, Grildrig, Njord, PerspectiveShift, RobClassact, Ryan the Rebel (who actually wrote it), and Smollfairy. “She, Possibly It” was Taedis’s craft, as one person guessed, while everyone else thought it could have been done by BizyBoy00, Cross1364, Curvy the Fly (wonder why?), ProphetofGreed, RobClassact, Smollfairy, or Sophia Thornton. Even guesses all around for “An Unconventional Relationship,” shared between Cross1364 (who actually did), Grildrig, Nyx, ProphetofGreed, RobClassact, Ryan the Rebel, Sophia Thornton, and Taedis. Which Gentle story makes you want to read the author’s other work? This is an important category. The anonymity of the writer’s identity opens the reader up to stories they might not look for otherwise, either out of unawareness or sticking to personal tastes. Now, however, the reader gives every story in a pile of submissions a fair chance, and they can be surprised by who surfaces to the top. The correct follow-up action, of course, is to run out and find the rest of their work because you’re bound to find more material to enjoy. Particularly motivated readers should contact the authors they like and let them know how they feel. One reader had a completely acceptable complaint about this category. “I feel the question is unfair: several of the stories in this batch made me want to seek out their writers’ full bibliographies.” Well, don’t let me stop you. Taking first place by one vote was “Aftermath,” with a three-way tie for second place: “Infinite,” “Salty,” and “You Are Not Alone.” If you voted for these, please do seek out other work by Nyx, Njord, and Taedis. Also of interest were “Beauty in This World,” “Damsel,” “The Forest Spirit” by Curvy the Fly, “Hani Stumbled” by Smollfairy, “A New Friend,” “She, Possibly It,” “Tortue,” “An Unconventional Relationship,” and “The Visitor.” Two people recognized Smollfairy’s fingerprint on “Bertha Sara,” and two thought it was Grildrig’s style. Other readers guessed Aborigen, BizyBoy00, Curvy the Fly, Njord, Ryan the Rebel, and Sophia Thornton. Most people thought Smollfairy also wrote “The Forest Spirit,” a few people guessed Nat Edgecomb, Njord, Nostory, and Pixis, but one person thought it sounded like Curvy the Fly, which was correct. Which Gentle story used size differences in an interesting way? What does this category mean? Its qualifications are as disparate as the people reading it. Does it mean the story was interesting? Does it mean size relationships were used or drawn out surprisingly? You’d have to ask every single reader: questions like this are entirely left up to the consumer. And that resulted in a four-way tie (two votes each) for first among “Damsel,” “The Giantess that Lives Next Door,” “Infinite,” and “Swear to Tell the Tooth?” Also placing were “Aftermath,” “Beauty in This World,” “Death Knight,” “A Giant Proposal,” “Hani Stumbled,” “It’s You I Want,” “A New Friend,” “The New Pedi Procedure,” “Salty,” and “You Are Not Alone.” Two people thought “Damsel” was by Nat Edgecomb, two by Gridrig. That’s a good person to get confused with. People also guessed it was written by Cross1364, Njord, Nostory, PerspectiveShift, Smollfairy, and Sophia Thornton. “Hani Stumbled” was written by SmollFairy, as one person identified, but readers also guessed it was by Grildrig, Nyx, Pixis, RobClassact, or Sophia Thornton, though most people thought it was Nat Edgecomb’s style. Three people knew BizyBoy00 wrote “The New Pedi Procedure,” two thought PerspectiveShift might have, and three others guessed Aborigen, Cross1364, and RobClassact. Outside of Gentle and size-fiction, which was the most satisfying story? This is also an important category, because the erotic material, the personal predilections and beloved themes should all rest upon a solid foundation of storytelling. If you asked a dozen people what makes a good story, you’ll likely get several different answers, but I think most of us share a similar feeling when we’re in the middle of a well-crafted story. Most people felt Nyx’s “Aftermath” was a great story in general, earning nearly a third of all votes. In second place came “Salty,” “She, Possibly It,” and “You Are Not Alone.” Also placing were “Beauty in This World,” “Death Knight,” “A Giant Proposal,” “The Giantess that Lives Next Door,” CrushedBoyWonder’s “Ticket,” “Tortue,” and “The Visitor.” Two people identified “Salty” as Njord’s style, while eight others supposed it might be BizyBoy00’s, Curvy the Fly’s, Nat Edgecomb’s, Nostory’s, Nyx’s, PerspectiveShift’s, Ryan the Rebel’s, or Smollfairy’s doing. Two people attributed CrushedBoyWonder to “Ticket,” and others hazarded Cross1364, Nat Edgecomb, PerspectiveShift, Pixis, Sophia Thornton, or Taedis might’ve done it. Which Gentle story was the sexiest? What’s a Gentle size story without an erotic frisson? A well-structured plot and relatable characters are important, but why are we all in this? To experience a special thrill that our current world cannot provide, only hinting at in the best of circumstances. So we rely on size fantasy writers to conjure this realm we dream of, and we remember the writers who do so ably, reliably. In this case that’s Taedis, with “You Are Not Alone,” earning nearly half of all votes and possessing the lead for a couple weeks. Tied for second were “Salty” and “An Unconventional Relationship.” Also arousing were “Better Lake than Never” by Grildrig, “Damsel,” “The Giantess that Lives Next Door,” and “Swear to Tell the Tooth?” Most people thought BizyBoy00 wrote “Better Lake than Never,” though it was actually Grildrig, as one person knew. Readers thought it might be the work of Cross1364, Nyx, Pixis, or Sophia Thornton. Two people thought Aborigen wrote “Swear to Tell the Tooth?” one person knew Sophia Thornton did, and others guessed Cross1364, Grildrig, Pixis, RobClassact, or Ryan the Rebel. Which Gentle story fulfilled this theme the best? This is what it boils down to: the whole contest could be reduced to this one question. Evaluating these stories isn’t an exact science, of course, it’s entirely up to the vagaries of whomever stumbles upon the ballot and feels like answering. There’s no controlling that, all we can do is shout and retweet and share the contest among our audiences and over our various channels, to get as many people reading as possible. The story that readers said most aptly fulfilled the requirements of GentleApril18 was “Aftermath,” by Nyx, with “A Giant Proposal” in second and “Beauty in This World,” “The Giantess that Lives Next Door,” and “You Are Not Alone” sharing third place. Also placing were “Damsel,” “Infinite,” “Salty,” “She, Possibly It.” One-third of voting readers thought “The Giantess that Lives Next Door” sounded like Aborigen’s style, two readers attributed it to Sophia Thornton, and a smattering of others guessed Curvy the Fly, Nat Edgecomb, ProphetofGreed, but of course it was RobClassact’s work, which one person knew. Three people thought Aborigen penned “You Are Not Alone,” two estimated it was Njord’s work, and others guessed Curvy the Fly, Nostory, RobClassact, but one person knew it was Taedis’s story. Finally, out of 18 voters, many people did leave a few notes on some of the stories. I always leave this part optional, but I try to stress to readers how much the writers appreciate feedback. Special thanks to those readers who provided it! “Aftermath” by Nyx Engaged immediately: “The vivid description to start with. It was very good at painting a picture with words and implications.” “The insane intro with people wiping blood and soot off their bodies really made me want to read more. I was hooked, I had to know what it was. An alien planet? Giant monsters? Tiny civilizations? Enrapturing.” “The subtle descriptions.” “I liked jumping into the middle of the quest and the rapid world-building.” Expanded gentleness: “The idea of kindness to smaller beings as a total surrender to their mercy and trapping oneself in their environment was revelatory.” “It didn’t expand my concept of gentleness, as it’s quite broad, but I was pleased to read about gentleness to be found in what seems like a void of horror and utter destruction.” Best macro character: “Her commitment, even at a cost to herself.” Other work: “I absolutely need to know more about this world and I love the way they wrote about the little interactions. Getting light headed from doing minute work, scooting carefully down a street, it was those little moments that really helped me identify with the main protagonist and I would love to read more by the author.” “[I liked] the idea that it’s after a rampage, and the main character was trying to fix their mistake.” Size difference: “It wasn’t a giant person interacting with normal people, and it wasn’t a tiny city: it was kind of a confrontation of physics, which was the most interesting device among the stories.” Satisfying: “It was very descriptive, good at painting a vivid picture.” “It has tension, and it has an ending that encourages additional thought.” “I love the sci-fi setup, the development and build-up held my interest beyond Size stuff.” Theme: “This story gets that the best, with a giantess moving through the ruins of a city, trying to help people.” “Because the best kind of gentle is being aware of the alternatives and choosing to be gentle in the face of them.” “The main character trapped herself in the world her colleagues had ravaged and committed herself to reparations, sacrificing herself.” “Beauty in This World” by Aborigen Engaged immediately: “The description of environment and machinery and maintenance of the building of a giant creature. The human tending to her.” Expanded gentleness: “[I was surprised] with weird fusing.” “Beauty was clearly not the death machine the military had wanted.” Best normal lead: “A good patriot who sacrifices himself to save his love from his country, a perfect arc.” “Mikhail was willing to give every part of his being to the giantess, choosing permanency in a relationship that’s far more beautiful and committed than most conventional unions.” Theme: “A giantess built for the/as a war machine ends up an equation for love. It’s perfect.” “Better Lake than Never” by Grildrig Sexiest: “A nice sexy romp between a master and a pet dynamic with some very detailed descriptions of everything going on. Just good old fashioned giantess body adventure erotica.” “Damsel” by Nat Edgecomb Engaged immediately: “[I liked] the twist on convention.” Best macro character: “She was strong, but kind and beautiful.” Size difference: “That Princess Brayna’s new size not only puts her beyond the control of human politics but makes her large enough to keep a fearsome dragon as a pet (which whom she seems… very, very intimate) gives ‘Damsel’ an automatic novelty advantage. I say novelty rather than originality because a medieval princess growing larger than armies and dragons can handle was so memorably written in 1997 in ‘Tasgeni’ by Scott Grildrig, who I’m confident also wrote ‘Damsel’.” “[I liked the] addition of the dragon.” “[I liked] the use of dialogue.” Sexiest: “I just like confident, strong, yet gentle giantesses.” “Death Knight” by PerspectiveShift Expanded gentleness: “It didn’t have any interaction beyond conversation, and the small old guy died, but it was still very gentle.” Best normal lead: “I liked the exploration of a weary adventurer at the end of his path, how his experience had shaped him.” Satisfying: “[I liked] that it could sit on it’s own as a good fantasy story, outside of giant-related fiction.” “The Forest Spirit” by Curvy the Fly Other work: “I enjoyed the alternating wisdom and playfulness of the characters. The scenes played out very clearly and I wanted to experience more.” “A Giant Proposal” by BizyBoy00 Best normal lead: “A sweet, lovable guy that shows tons of love for his soon to be wife. Shows great personality and care for the person he loves. Just a wonderfully written character to fit the narrative the author was going for.” Other work: “It felt the most real.” Theme: “A nice gentle story narrative between two nicely written characters deciding to get married together, even with a huge size difference between them. Even the ring being one for the foot makes it even sweeter between the characters. ” “It was completely destruction-free.” “The Giantess that Lived Next Door” by RobClassact Engaged immediately: “The idea of a “real-life giantess” written from her perspective that has fun with the idea of anonymity and the mechanics of her growth, and which treats size change as a fun hobby. What a fun little story!” “The sexyness of it.” “The use of first-person, its conversational style.” Size difference: “The way the giantess next door talked about her size changing and how she kept it a secret while still fulfilling a fantasy of hers was interesting to read.” Sexiest: “It’s self-indulgent, restrained, but promises to go further.” Theme: “It’s about how much the woman likes to grow, and it’s all told from her perspective and the sensations she experiences using her power.” “The Guest” by Nostory Best normal lead: “[I liked] that this wasn’t his first encounter with massive creatures, nor his first time being held captive.” “Hani Stumbled” by Smollfairy Other work: “Very well detailed in its story telling, sense of scale, clear narrative and clear personalities of the two main characters. The author clearly knows how to establish a character and how to help visualize a narrative so I’d to see more from them since their writing standard is very good.” Size difference: “[I liked the] drunken giantess unintentionally causing destruction and forgetting the person she had been talking to.” “Infinite” by Nyx Expanded gentleness: “It’s always difficult to write a god like character, especially when you’re going to make that character gentle. Yet the author managed to succeed in making a clear force of nature be gentle but only in its care for the mortal he loves. Even if he is learning how a mortal could see something small in its actions could be shocking to the mortal.” “It was interesting to see gestures of affection from an amoral being with no sense of perspective.” Size difference: “[I liked] that it was just one aspect of his power.” “The giant character being a god-like force of nature was very different and unconventional for a gentle story. Especially when the god-like character can very much manipulate their size in interesting but terrifying ways. Being more like a force of nature instead of a mortal, but big being.” Theme: “The restraint of power on a cosmic scale ordinarily reserved for comic book deities and Lovecraftian monsters for the sake of romantic intimacy with a mere mortal? That is gentleness on a macro scale.” “It’s You I Want” by Aborigen Best normal lead: “They felt so real, especially in the little things like breaking out a whole bottle of vodka to fawn gaily in front of a window. Iconic. Although it may have helped that it was told in first person.” Best macro character: “She is me, in many ways. How can I not love me?” Size differences: “The descriptions of the giantesses appearing in the city, causing utilities disturbances. Friggin’ brilliant.” “A Kind of Magic” by Ryan the Rebel Engaged immediately: “[I liked] the idea of using magic with the fetish.” Best macro character: “A vivacious witch who enjoys her temporary power and celebrity, and has such a good time with being big that she decides not to spoil it by wreaking destruction? What an adorable character turnaround, and a welcome subversion of giantess tropes.” “A New Friend” by ProphetofGreed Expanded gentleness: “Several sizes in one world is pretty cool!” Best normal lead: “His nervousness is relatable.” Other work: “It just flowed the best.” Size differences: “[I liked it] having several sizes.” “Salty” by Njord Best macro character: “[I liked her] showing herself off.” “Very playful and fun personality but clearly a caring person, especially for the man she’s in a relationship with. Well-written dynamic between the two main characters as they tease each other. Even if it’s a man and beast-type of relationship from land and sea.” “She, Possibly It” by Taedis Expanded gentleness: “The use of stylistic repetition.” Best normal lead: “Just based on the character’s actions, and the reveal at the end that they were actually three different characters across generations.” Best macro character: “They were interesting. Their inconsistent perspective, speculating on their own creation using tropes, was an interesting read.” “I love that this character was so far from normal. Like the Golems of Jewish history, they stood the test of time and only responded to commands. It was interesting hearing their point of view.” “The telling was so subtle and poetic, it was a riddle to figure out what was going on. I appreciated the surprise as the character unfolded.” Reading other work: “It was interesting. I’d read other, non-fetish stuff by this author. Or just more stuff about the golem and his friend.” Satisfying: “The pacing and structure was so interesting to read and it really kept me engaged throughout the entire story.” Theme: “I feel like the gentleness of the main character and the purity of the other humans who come to wake him really exemplify the themes of gentle stories.” “Swear to Tell the Tooth?” by Sophia Thornton Use of size difference: “Two words: Tiny Dentist. Never would have thought of that.” “Ticket” by CrushedBoyWonder Satisfying: “It used interesting points of Japanese trivia and created a fascinating context around these. The main character was very real, and the exposition was vivid and compelling.” “Tortue” by Grildrig Engaged immediately: “The narrative starts out simple enough but becomes more nuanced and complicated as the relationship between the characters becomes much more complicated than at first glance. ” Expanded gentleness: “This was an absolutely beautiful read and I honestly wasn’t expecting that sort of story. I really want to know more about the two of them, how she found him and why, what happens now after they’ve mended their relationship? I want more!” Other work: “ ‘Tortue’ (torture?) is my favorite story. I won’t be voting for it because it’s a micro story when all stories are supposed to be about macro characters. Read the rules, writers. That being said, I absolutely loved it. It’s exactly what I love to read.” Satisfying: “Grabbed my attention early and ended wonderfully with a nice turn of events to the narrative with something you have to discern yourself, reading between the lines of the story. It ends in a satisfying way that shows a development for the main character and a new beginning for the two main characters. ” “An Unconventional Relationship” by Cross1364 Best macro character: “She was destructive yet not deadly.” Sexiest: “It had a cute couple in it.” “The Visitor” by Pixis Best macro character: “[I liked] that he rolls with the situation he finds himself in.” Other work: “[I liked the] lighthearted playfulness.” “You Are Not Alone” by Taedis Other work: “I awarded this accolade by default to the story I felt was the best, though I feel the question is unfair: several of the stories in this batch made me want to seek out their writers’ full bibliographies, even if I suspect I’ve already dug through several of them.” Satisfying: “The protagonist’s ceaseless growth as a metaphor for alienation, the musicality of her inner monologue, and the spare efficiency of the prose that unfolds her blossoming romance with her college paramour would see the story do well as a non-realist short story even outside the real of size erotica, give or take a couple polishes.” Sexiest: “It was very descriptive in… other ways.” “The realness of their relationship and the descriptions were so lovely and the guy seemed hot as hell through that description. You don’t usually see such a focus on the smaller male protag but he seemed so suave and hot through this lens even while small, I loved it.” “New love and well-written sex? Doesn’t get much better than that.” “It did a great job of creating and exploring a character within the setting of post-coital pillow talk.” “ALL THE SEX.” Congratulations to all the writers! You’ve done it again, you’ve completed an entire story within a one-month period and can do with it whatever you like: post it on your preferred social media channels, rewrite and expand it, or even submit it for publication in a speculative fiction magazine. Special thanks to all the readers! I hope this was a treat for you, a couple dozen fresh-from-the-oven stories by your favorite authors and some exciting new writers. Doesn’t this feel like a new opportunity? There’s so many people to read and follow up on, to add to your library and encourage as they produce more work you like in the future. Want to join future Size Riot contests? Waiting to read the next batch of original size fantasy flash fiction? Sign up for the Size Riot newsletter here. Posted in Blogging, collaboration, other artists, updates GentleApril18 Size Riot Previous Post April Showers Bring “May I Worship You” Flowers Next Post The Next Contest: ______July18? One Comment on “GentleApril18: Results” Olo January 20, 2019 at 8:09 pm It’s You I Want As much as I appreciate world-building, I didn’t balk at the fact that this story doesn’t even think about trying to explain where these giantesses have come from. Someone who gets passed-out drunk while there’s broken glass on the floor has pretty poor judgment, but Big Frizzy isn’t terribly inhibited, either. The narrator has a rather hindbrain-centered perspective, which results in an accessibility that recommends this story for readers not necessarily predisposed towards size fantasy. The story hinges on that moment at the balcony rail, and it’s well-visualized for us. Giants are mesmerizing, giant boobs even more so. I don’t think we have a good explanation for why the narrator goes over the rail, but neither does the narrator himself. It seems she awoke a need he didn’t know he had and that he still doesn’t understand. She has a need, too, but we aren’t privy to her thoughts. Maybe she was just sent to keep him from drinking himself to death. We should all have such angels. Beauty in this World Great descriptions of the warehouse, her construction, Mikhail’s ministrations. So much of macrophilia is just up-close veneration of bodily processes, and it seems inevitable that someone who spends any extended or regular amount of time in Beauty’s presence would fall in love with her. The sensory details of her size and power are deft and striking. Clever feint towards a vore resolution. I think the conclusion represents a fundamental trope in macrophilia: awe of another person’s presence, devotion to a power greater than oneself, and a longing to disappear within someone else. Endosoma is a literal realization for these desires, and this is made more poignant by the fact that Mikhail is more worldly than Beauty and she will need his guidance to survive. Beauty is truth, and the truth shall set you free.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3988
__label__wiki	0.580976	0.580976	A Vision of an AIDS-free Generation PEPFAR and our partners plan to have [a] spirit of inclusiveness to accomplish our collective goal of achieving an AIDS-free generation. —Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, What is an AIDS-free generation? Virtually no child anywhere will be born with the virus. As children and teenagers become adults, they will be at significantly lower risk of ever becoming infected than they would be today no matter where they are living. If people do acquire HIV, they will have access to treatment that helps prevent them from developing AIDS and passing the virus on to others. HIV may be with us into the future until we finally achieve a cure or a vaccine, but the disease that HIV causes need not be with us. As recently as 10 years ago, it seemed like AIDS would be a death sentence for an entire continent.... Well, the tide has turned. —Secretary of State John Kerry The challenge to achieve an AIDS-free generation had been issued. By virtue of the significant strides made across the HIV continuum in the past decade, it was realizable. But first, PEPFAR needed a strategy that would encourage donors and country governments to stand behind the international effort to end AIDS now that this distant goal was finally attainable. A Blueprint for an At the 19th International Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C., Secretary Clinton signaled the upcoming release of a blueprint: The PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation. Released just before World AIDS Day in 2012, the Blueprint included four roadmaps–for saving lives, for smart investments, for shared responsibility, and for driving results with science–and identified key action steps for each. The Blueprint also underscored the importance of partnering with countries and their communities to achieve this goal. Delivering on the Promise of an In the years following the release of the Blueprint, PEPFAR and USAID initiatives made significant strides toward the goal of an AIDS-free generation. As of February 2017, together, we have supported: people with lifesaving HIV treatment 74,300,000⁺ people with HIV testing services 2,000,000⁺ HIV-positive women with prevention of mother-to-child transmission services resulting in 95 percent of their babies born HIV-free number of voluntary medical male circumcision procedures PEPFAR has performed On World AIDS Day 2014, under the leadership of President Obama and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Deborah Birx, PEPFAR announced the next stage in its vision: PEPFAR 3.0: Delivering on the Promise of an AIDS-free Generation. Now in its third phase (2013 to present), PEPFAR is focusing on accelerating core interventions to control the epidemic and investing resources strategically to reach key high-risk populations with evidence-based programs. PEPFAR 3.0 specifies five action agendas—Impact, Efficiency, Sustainability, Partnership, and Human Rights—as the foundation for achieving an AIDS-free generation. The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation Project (AIDSFree) Announced at the 2014 International Conference on AIDS in Melbourne, Australia, the Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by PEPFAR and managed by USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS. It will run from 2014 to 2019. Building on the momentum of USAID and PEPFAR's investments to bring about an AIDS-free generation, AIDSFree: Disseminates relevant information through knowledge management Identifies opportunities to support scale-up and pilot of new approaches/initiatives in geographic priority areas Develops evidence-based tools, protocols, and standard operating procedures Monitors and evaluates interventions, supporting data collection, analysis, and utilization Facilitates organizational capacity assessments and follow-up Utilizes gender analysis to target appropriate interventions Facilitates south-to-south technical exchanges Engages the private sector to foster and develop public-private partnerships AIDSFree's team of partners brings expertise in the following cross-cutting areas: Gender Analysis and Programming South-to-south Collaboration Faith-Based and Health Systems Strengthening AIDSFree works closely with country governments, civil society, and the private sector to address the critical pillars of HIV and public health. Countries can work with AIDSFree by working with the appropriate USAID Mission. PEPFAR Priority AIDSFree is currently working on the following country initiatives: AIDSFree is led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., together with seven partners that have made significant contributions to the global AIDS response over the past three decades. http://www.jsi.com/JSIInternet/ http://www.abtassociates.com/ http://www.aidsalliance.org/ http://www.pedaids.org/ https://www.encompassworld.com/ https://imaworldhealth.org/ http://www.jhpiego.org/ http://www.path.org/ AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, Task Order 1 (AIDSTAR-One) \| Dec 31, 2007 AIDSTAR-One leveraged the expertise of its diverse partner organizations to support the U.S. Government's commitment to combat HIV through technical assistance and knowledge management. AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, Task Order 1 (AIDSTAR-One) Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) \| Dec 31, 2011 The objective of the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project is to improve the quality and outcomes of health care and other services by enabling host country providers and managers to apply the science of improvement. Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) \| Dec 31, 2011 The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) is a five-year, global project funded by USAID. It is designed to strengthen developing country capacity to implement state-of-the-art social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs. Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) Health Policy Project (HPP) \| Dec 31, 2009 The Health Policy Project (HPP) works to strengthen developing country national and subnational policy, advocacy, governance, and finance for strategic, equitable, and sustainable health programming. Health Policy Project (HPP) Linkages Across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV (LINKAGES) Linkages \| Dec 31, 2013 Linkages aims to strengthen the ability of partner governments, key population (KP) civil society organizations, and private sector providers to effectively deliver comprehensive, high-quality HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for KPs and their partners. Linkages Across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV (LINKAGES) Linkages Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) \| Dec 31, 2007 MCHIP addresses the barriers to accessing and using key evidence-based interventions across the life stages—from pre-pregnancy to age 5—by linking communities, primary health facilities and hospitals. Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) Southern Africa’s Capacity Development & Support Project (CDS) \| Dec 31, 2013 The CDS aims to mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS by increasing local partner capacity and supporting the South African Government. Southern Africa’s Capacity Development & Support Project (CDS) STRIVE \| Dec 31, 2011 STRIVE is a research consortium investigating the social norms and inequalities that drive HIV. STRIVE is funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development. Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) \| Dec 31, 2004 SCMS strengthened and established secure, reliable, cost effective and sustainable supply chains to meet the care and treatment needs of people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR) \| Dec 31, 2013 The Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR) project aims to conduct operational HIV and AIDS research, promote utilization and dissemination of data, and build the capacity of local organizations to conduct operational research. Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR) The Capable Partners Program (CAP) Mozambique \| Dec 31, 2002 The Capable Partners Program (CAP) Mozambique strengthened the organizational and technical capacities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in HIV and AIDS prevention and service delivery and expanded the HIV prevention tools available to local organizations facilitating community discussions about HIV in the provinces of Maputo, Sofala, Zambezia, Nampula and Manica. The Capable Partners Program (CAP) Mozambique The Initiative on Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV (known as the Go Girls! Initiative) \| Dec 31, 2006 Implemented in Mozambique, Botswana, and Malawi, this initiative employed a multi-sectoral, integrated program utilizing the following program elements: community mobilization; improving adult-child communication skills; use of reality radio; school- and community-based life skills; assisting teachers and principals to create a safe school environment; and girls’ economic strengthening activities. The Initiative on Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV (known as the Go Girls! Initiative) The Male Norms Initiative \| Dec 31, 2006 Implemented in Ethiopia, Namibia, and Tanzania, the initiative built the capacity of in-country partners to integrate male engagement (ME) strategies into their HIV programs through training, materials development, network development, and policy review. The Male Norms Initiative The Special Initiative on Sexual Gender-Based Violence \| Dec 31, 2006 Implemented by 10 PEPFAR partners in Rwanda and Uganda, this initiative complemented efforts to expand sexual violence services, improve service quality, increase service demand and uptake, and provides an evidence base for scaling-up such efforts in the future. The Special Initiative on Sexual Gender-Based Violence For USAID Missions AIDSFree can accept funds from any USAID mission. The process is delineated below. 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__label__wiki	0.530619	0.530619	Watch: What Is Inclusion? Watch: Why Include? Watch: Changing Mindsets Watch: How We Include Watch: Teacher Impact Watch: Australian Experience Read: What Is Inclusion? Read: Why Include Read: Changing Mindsets Read: How We Include Read: Teacher Impact Read: Australian Experience Why Inclusive Education? ACCESS TALKS: WHY INCLUDE Jody Carr is a former minister for education from New Brunswick, Canada was a pioneer of Systemic Inclusive Education policy. Jody shares his motivations and reasoning to establish a fully inclusive education system during his time in office. Duration: 4 mins 25 This transcript has been corrected & edited slightly for clarity. Here’s some things I know about inclusive education. Segregation and congregation based on disability label equals abuse, more times than not. Always has been and always will be. The right to education is the right to an inclusive education, and it’s possible. When we learn together in classrooms, we learn to live together in society. Dynamic, inclusive education shouldn’t be simply giving a choice for parents, or only a few who can make it through the barriers. Government often says ‘We need to give parents choice to have segregated options’ but we know segregation harms people with disabilities. History tells us this the current present day tells us this. A family came to me, quite profound disabilities, nonverbal, in a wheelchair and the parents told me about this field trip they were going on. There were two buses to take the kids out to the field trip, and it really hurt them that one bus was for all the other kids–it was overcrowded, it was stuffy, and Neil’s bus was just him on the bus. It was wheelchair-accessible. As Neil was getting loaded on to the special needs bus the other bus left without him. He was supposed to get on the bus and eventually meet the rest of the kids. His mum was telling me about that, and I learnt so much, because she was like, “You know that hurts. I mean why would they leave him? It’s almost as if he wasn’t there,” and then she said, “Why are all the kids crammed on the first bus? If we just split them up a bit we can give everyone more space and use both buses equally.” And that’s where we can have equality, and quality and common frigging sense. These are some of the things not done intentionally, but what we do–as Neil’s mum mentioned to me–sends a message. What we do well also sends a message. What we do not so well, even if it’s not intentional, sends an even harder message to not only Neil and his mum, but to all the other kids. We know segregation and congregation means fewer resources, poorer curriculum, poorer standards, fewer opportunities. When it comes to other harms affecting children, governments don’t give parents the right to choose to allow their children to do things such as buy cigarettes underage, as an example. We don’t allow for the choice of children to buy and drink alcohol underage. That’s harmful to kids and even if parents wanted the ‘choice’ we don’t allow children to drive cars underage. Why? Because these things harm children. Government puts policies, rules and legislation in place to protect children and families. If segregation and isolation is proven to be harmful to children with disabilities why would government not step in and protect them also? Government has a moral obligation to step in and prevent harmful segregation and congregation based on disability. Do what the rest of the world is doing and I’m here to tell you to do what they have committed to doing internationally under the CRPD. Countries like Australia have an international obligation to live up to their commitments to inclusive education. They have signed onto the International Disability Human Rights Convention. Anything less than fully-inclusive education opportunities for all children, regardless of differences, is in breach of international law and international human rights. Inclusive education, as I said, when properly understood and supported is the right thing to do, period. It is better educationally. It is better economically. It is better socially, not just for kids with disabilities, but as we’ve learnt today and heard, and you’ve heard it before, it’s better for all children and better for our entire society. Last updated August 21, 2018 The Value of Inclusive Education, Open Society Foundations [PDF] Choosing Segregated Education “Parental Choice or “Parental Concession” [PDF] Discusses Inclusive education as a human right of people with disability and asks Should parents have the right to choose educational segregation of their child on the basis of their disability? Laying the Foundations for Equality; The Power of Inclusive Education, Senator Jordon Steele-John [Video – opens on external website] – 2018 QUT Inclusive Education Forum; Lessons learned, Actions needed. Inclusion in Education; A rights based approach, Kathy Cologon [PDF] The Impact of Segregation Cecile Sullivan Elder Executive Officer Family Advocacy Individual & Societal Benefits of Inclusive Education Dr Simona D’Alessio, UCL Institute of Education, Italy Why Inclusion? Social Values-Based Theory Dr Carol Quirk, CEO Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education, USA MORE ACCESS TALKS: WHAT IS INCLUSION The promotion, adoption and implementation of inclusive practices, which involves changing policies, practices and attitudes within schools. VIEW THESE TALKS TEACHER IMPACT All classroom teachers have a role in creating schools & learning environments where all children can learn and feel they belong. CHANGING MINDSETS Whole school transformation requires courage, leadership & honest reflection to identify the need for change and set about making it happen. WATCH THESE TALKS AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE Exemplar inclusive educational practices are happening in Australia. See the possibility and potential of inclusion here and now. HOW WE INCLUDE Creating inclusive classrooms & schools starts with vision, policy, systems change, curriculum design and teaching practice. NOW EXPLORE ACCESS READS Inclusive classrooms and schools embrace universal design as the foundation for cultivating inclusive attitudes and practices. Bringing about change one mind at a time is integral to improving the lives of people with disability. WHY INCLUDE All children have the right to be included, to be represented in, to have access to and to receive high-quality education and supports. A FAMILY ADVOCACY INITIATIVE This site is edited and maintained by the Advocacy and Leadership Development team. Image attributions: photos supplied and screenshots from Access Symposium videos. Contact I Privacy Policy I Terms of Use I Site Map © 2020 Access: Symposium	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3993
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__label__wiki	0.588418	0.588418	Tag Archives: rock Image June 19, 2014 by adamlambertradio Tonight’s Radio show – Queenbert: Don’t stop me now!” Log in on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 10:00-11:00PM EST Call in to say what did you like the most? Dial in to speak with the host (917) 932-1825 Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juneauxena/2014/06/19/queenbert–dont-stop-me-now Join DJ Nika to celebrate the music of Queen as interpreted by Adam Lambert. Fans were treated to a sneak preview of some of the new music that will be coming on Queen + Adam Lambert’s worldwide tour, which launches tomorrow in Chicago. The stunner of the preview show, which occurred this Monday at the iHeart Theater in Burbank, California, was “Love Kills”, Freddie Mercury’s first solo single which he wrote as part of the soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s classic film Metropolis. Adam took the disco-inflected original and re-imagined it as a heart-wrenching ballad, and we know no one can top Adam in the heart-wrenching ballad department! Join fellow listeners and fans for an hour of music, discussion and chatroom chat! What was your favorite song from the iHeart Theater show? What Queen songs do you most hope to hear on the tour? What better way to spend the eve of the Queen + Adam world tour than to pump up the anticipation and joy with those who truly can savor this moment in time? Original post on my friends’ blog http://www.onthemeaningofadamlambert.wordpress.com – sign up for a sea of interesting stories about Adam. Tagged adam lambert, best music, glambert, love, queen, queenbert, queenberttour, rock June 15, 2014 by adamlambertradio Sneak Peek: Adam Lambert and Queen Adam Lambert talks to Sunday Night about filling Freddie Mercury’s shoes. The source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/watch/24225995/sneak-peek-adam-lambert-and-queen/ Tagged adam lambert, glambert, music, queen, rock, rock music Radio Show: What color is your aura Adam? Log in on Wednesday May 7, 10-11pm EST for a new live fan radio episode. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juneauxena/2014/05/08/what-color-is-your-aura-adam-lambert Tagged adam lambert, adam lambert radio, art, aura, fan, glambert, glambert radio, inspiration, motivation, music, pop, radio, rainbow, rock Image March 13, 2014 by adamlambertradio Queen + Adam Lambert Flailorama! Log in tonight at 10pm EST! Log on to listen to a new episode tonight. Direct link here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/juneauxena/2014/03/13/adam-lambert-and-queen Art by http://laurelly25.deviantart.com/art/Adam-Lambert-203239715 Tagged adam lambert, best music, fan, fanradio, glam, glambert, lambert, music, pop music, queen, queenbert, radio, rock March 5, 2014 by adamlambertradio Listen to the new episode “Adam Lambert: The Brightest Rock Star of All Times” tonight (March 5) at 10-11pm EST The new Glee “Trio” with Adam Lambert aired on March 4. Join in on March 5 at 10-11pm EST (Toronto time) to hear a live radio episode for Adam Lambert fans this time featuring Adam’s “Glee” songs and discussing a possibility of him becoming the best rock singer in the history!!! Tagged adam lambert, culture, glambert, glee, gleeonfox, music, pop, rock, rockmusic, rockstar Playlist from the Valentine’s Day-themed episode “Love is ON the Air” Tagged adam lambert, american idol, culture, glam, glambert, glamrock, lambert, lgbt, love, music, music video, pop culture. rock music, radio, rock, song, valentines day, youtube, youtube playlist Play List from the previous episode Tagged adam, adam lambert, best, glam, glambert, lambert, live, liveshow, love, music, playlist, pop music, popular music, radio, rock, rock music, youtube	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line3997
__label__cc	0.683102	0.316898	Satan on South Main: When a night of ‘escape entertainment’ turns into a trip to hipster hell Heather King \| The Crux Apr 26, 2018 • 3 Min Read The poster for the newest “Everything Is Terrible!” movie and live show “Everything Is Terrible” [EIT] is the name of a tongue-in-cheek outfit that collates cringe-worthy clips from 1970s and ’80s TV shows and films and cobbles them together into “documentaries” on various themes. Or as they put it, EIT “is the internet sensation video collective responsible for some of this millennium’s most intriguing and mind melting videos.” Recently, one of their shows at downtown LA’s Regent Theater, called “The Great Satan,” caught my eye. The Regent bills itself as a “vintage 1914 cinema recreated as an indie concert hall & performance space with a bar & pizzeria.” “Well, I will just venture out with the hipsters,” I thought. “See what’s what with the DTLA ‘art scene.’ ” The show supposedly started at 8 p.m. The first thing that was terrible was that we had to wait outside for 20 minutes as if we were being granted entrance to hear Maria Callas or Glenn Gould instead of to see a B-documentary in a drafty Skid Row theater. The doors opened at 7:50 p.m. A hulking security guard barked at us and the line shuffled forward.We went through three checkpoints and had two paper bracelets affixed to our wrists, as if being admitted to a hospital. At last we were free to enter the unheated theater and secure a folding metal chair. I selected a spot in the back row, on the aisle for easy egress and because the light from the merch table would allow me to take notes. From the screen a beefy guy with fake horns leered, preened and maniacally cackled. The soundtrack combined creepy asylum music and the roars of a rabid hyena. This loop would run continuously for the next hour. I soon ascertained that the theater patrons were allowed to order and drink large plastic cups of beer — terrible! (as in that I, having been forced to put down the booze years ago, couldn’t have any). I thought that maybe the show would start at 8:15. But when it came and went, I realized with a start that I had not signed on to see a movie. I was at an “event,” the difference between an event and a movie being that an event entails inexplicable waits and extreme discomfort inflicted by people who tend to act like they’re doing you a favor. I seized upon the opportunity to close my eyes and say a rosary. “The Descent of the Holy Ghost Upon the Apostles” … “The Assumption of Mary’s Body and Soul Into Heaven” … “Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.” I figured this would take me through 8:30, when the show would surely begin. But when I finished the “Hail Holy Queen,” I found it was 8:45 and still, that ridiculous actor in a devil costume was leering from the screen! Still the demented hyenas moaned. Still, the show had not launched. I almost got up and went home. But I am nothing if not conscientious, and I didn’t want to charge off 15 bucks in parking to Angelus (or God forbid, pay myself) with nothing to show for it. So I closed my eyes again and began to pray the Stations of the Cross. “Jesus Is Condemned to Death” … “Jesus Meets His Mother” … “Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments.” Jesus had just been laid in the tomb when 9 o’clock struck and the screen, to loud cheers, flickered to new life. By this time we were packed in like sardines and the crowd had become raucous. The film itself was actually pretty funny with cheesy special effects of beheadings, blood-drinking, projectile vomiting, sex gone terribly awry, and suicide. There were several clips of apparently psychotic ex-Satanists and children being brainwashed by creepy televangelists. The audience was clearly having a blast and the people in my row couldn’t have been nicer. I left a little early, thinking that the evening still seemed like a lot of work for a few laughs. Walking back to my car, I realized how out of step I was not to have had a better grip on the culture of LA nightlife. Then again, I always feel a little out of step. But what was truly terrible and sorrowful was seeing the legions of homeless and mentally ill who roamed South Main Street. “The poor you will always have with you,” said Christ. But part of the cross is never knowing whether by a couple of hours of “escape entertainment” you’re fortifying yourself to help carry that sorrow, or deepening the suffering for others. I do know that, as Charles Baudelaire observed, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” So all the way home, I said the “Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel”: “St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.” Heather King is a blogger, speaker and the author of several books. For more, visit heather-king.com. The Crux Heather King is a blogger, speaker, and the author of several books. Visit heather-king.com. Friday night entertainment, Saturday morning reflections in “Bad Times” by Carl Kozlowski October 28, 2018 South LA’s ‘Sister Act’ turns 25 by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil October 24, 2018 Would-be bride turns cancelled reception into feast for homeless by Catholic News Agency July 18, 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4006
__label__wiki	0.679587	0.679587	What Happens to Caterpillars in the Winter? By Rob Harris Most people think of butterflies and moths as part of summer's beauty, but these insects must survive the winter somehow for the species to survive. Different species handle the cold months in various ways, but some spend their winters as caterpillars. They typically enter a form of hibernation to stay alive until spring. Nest to Rest Some butterflies time their egg laying so the caterpillars will be newly hatched as the weather starts to cool. Butterflies such as the common wood-nymph lay eggs in the fall. When the caterpillars hatch, they don't even take time to eat. Instead, they burrow into the soil under the nearest plant to create a nest to help protect them from the harsh weather. They enter a state of hibernation, only digging free when the weather warms enough that the plants are leafing out and ready to eat. Sort of a Coccoon The life cycle of some caterpillars, such as the white admiral, starts earlier in the summer, but they don't quite have time to make it to the adult stage before the cold weather hits. These mid-size caterpillars have started growing, but they aren't finished. They find a protected place to rest and enter a type of hibernation called diapause, where their body functions decrease and their growth pauses until they wake. Many wrap themselves in leaves or other organic matter, holding it in place with silk for extra protection. They don't metamorphose in these wrappings; they aren't actually cocoons or chrysalises, but they sometimes resemble them. Hanging Out as Pupae Caterpillars who hatch in the summer often have time to mature during the warm season. Some have time to pupate and emerge as adult butterflies or moths, but others take advantage of the protection of the cocoon or chrysalis to get them through the cold winters. Species such as the giant swallowtail create their protective coverings just before cold weather hits, usually hanging from a tree branch. When the weather warms in the spring, the adult butterflies and moths emerge as the first ones of the season. Other Survival Methods Not all butterflies and moths spend the winter as caterpillars. Some species, such as the European skipper, lay eggs near or at the base of plants the caterpillars can later use as food. The eggs spend the winter there, hatching only when spring arrives. Other species, such as monarch butterflies, migrate to warmer areas so adults can survive the winter, returning in the spring to lay eggs that hatch into caterpillars. Adult butterflies and moths who don't migrate typically die in the winter, although some species can survive in mild climates. University of Wisconsin Extension: Winter Survival Strategies of Common Wisconsin Butterflies Insect Lore: Butterfly Questions Beautiful Wildlife Garden: Where Do Butterflies Spend the Winter? How to Care for a Caterpillar in a Jar Until It Becomes a Butterfly How to Tell the Difference Between a Pupa and a Cocoon What Type of Bugs Come Out of a Cocoon? Differences Between a Chrysalis and a Cocoon Where Do Moths Nest? Life Span of a Caterpillar Do Caterpillars Reproduce? The Life Span of Katydids The Number of Offspring of Moths What Kind of Butterfly Comes Out of a Green Cocoon? Why Do Caterpillars Spin Silk? How to Find Butterfly Cocoons What Kind of Butterfly Comes From Wooly Caterpillars? The Mating Process of the Stink Bug Different Stages in the Metamorphosis of a Ladybug What Are the Stages of Beetle Development? Do Woolly Caterpillars Hibernate?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4007
__label__wiki	0.742329	0.742329	REVIEWSINTERVIEWSFEATURESABOUT USCALENDARFORUM All ReviewsHome VideoFilmTelevisionBookMusicReview Index All InterviewsDirectorsArtistsComposersFilmmakers All FeaturesRetrospectivesEvent CoverageYearbooksBlogs ContactAnniversary FeaturesBrowse ArchivesReview Index DVD / August 27, 2008 South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Ben Simon South Park Studios/Comedy Central (March 7 – November 14 2007), Paramount (August 12 2008), 3 discs, 308 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Stereo, Not Rated (parental advisory for explicit content: this program is recommended for mature audiences only as it contains adult language and situations), Retail: $49.99 [WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS REFERENCES TO MATERIAL FOR MATURE READERS ONLY] Storyboard: As outrageous and trail blazing as ever, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s boys are back in town, again, for an eleventh season collection of all fourteen episodes from the 2007 run. The Sweatbox Review: After the first few highly inflammatory seasons, South Park seems to have settled down and could even arguably be called – in the right circles – a comedy institution. But let’s not think that the show has lost its greatest strengths: the power to shock and make us question ourselves is still very much in evidence, thanks to creators Parker and Stone, whom I believe to be the most original and uncompromising satirists on the planet today. If can’t find yourselves justifying that statement in any way, it’s probably best to leave this review now: South Park just isn’t for you. If you find yourself agreeing, then strap yourselves in for another walk in the Park… Disc One’s episodes begin With Apologies To Jesse Jackson, in which Stan’s Dad Randy blurts out an inappropriate word live on national TV, causing friction between the little lad and Token, and commenting on the Michael Richards’ incident. Next, Cartman Sucks puts Butters into a compromising position when one of Cartman’s insidious plots backfires, ending up with the poor kid more confused than he usually is. The first of the season’s outstanding episodes, Lice Capades introduces us to a world previously unknown: deep within Clyde Harris’ head lives a fully conscious population of hair lice, who are all about to get the ultimate wash. Knowing this will wipe out his family and friends, louse Travis sets out to save his miniature world. Showing how great South Park’s animation effects can be when needed, the hair effects here are suitably epic, like some kind of demented shampoo commercial, while Travis’ plight plays out in what can only be described as a horrifyingly realistic DreamWorks bug drama! Every now and then, an episode will break out from the confines of the show and make a bit of a wave for itself in the general media, and The Snuke is such an episode. Ostensibly a 24 pastiche, this is the now classic show that welcomes Hillary Clinton to South Park on a leg of her campaign rally around the same time that a new Muslim kid turns up at school. Taking place “between recess and geography class”, this is probably the best of the recent rash of animated 24 spoofs, by far the one that manages to capture the spirit of the show itself, from the electronic score and the “hand held” camera work, to well-worn lines of dialog, the split-screen technique, ticking clock and even the right phone ringtones! With Cartman in the Keifer Sutherland role, this is another well-observed episode, packing in an entire season’s worth of the Jack Bauer Power Hour into just 22 minutes and coming out as probably being more entertaining than that show’s last, admittedly not as hot as usual, season – and we haven’t even gotten to just exactly what the “snuke” is, or where it’s located!! South Park is famous for its many Christmas-themed episodes, but in the Fantastic Easter Special another holiday gets the same kind of skewering, by way of The Da Vinci Code, as Stan discovers the truth behind the link between Jesus and the Easter Bunny. On Disc Two, Ms Garrison, who underwent a sex-change because as a man he couldn’t handle his homosexual desires, now finds herself attracted to women in D-Yikes (“Children, I’m gay”. “Again?”), told in the styled of 300, and in Night Of The Living Homeless, the kids take on the almost zombified down and out epidemic that threatens to take over the town. Cartman hilariously takes advantage of an affliction he comes across in Le Petit Tourette and manages to fake his condition to all but Kyle, until a life without language filters sees the real truth start to emerge… Always a bit of a secondary character, this season really sees Randy Marsh come to the fore, and in More Crap, Stan’s Dad attempts to take the world pooh record from Bono, but finds the U2 frontman isn’t about to give up his status. A three-part highlight of the season heads up Disc Three. Actually titled Kyle Sucks Cartman’s Balls onscreen, but more generally referred to as the Imaginationland Trilogy, these classic episodes come next. Previously released on DVD in a “Director’s Cut” movie edition, the trilogy is correctly presented here as originally aired, as Episodes I, II and III. The premise is that Butters, that questionably behaved young lad who often drifts off into flights of fancy, literally does fly off to the land of our collective imagination, where all the non-existent created characters of folklore, books, films, games – and even corporate branding – live in harmony, with the happy folk living one side of a great wall, and the villains residing on the other. When terrorists attack, the bad guys break through and threaten to destroy Imaginationland and, thereby extension, our own inventive minds as well! Of course, while all this is going on, Eric Cartman has much more important – and highly personal – goals to accomplish and sets out on a mission to relieve himself from his decidedly dry balls. It’s a vastly amusing idea, and often outrageously played, but contrary to some claims of these three episodes being among the best ever put out in the series’ now ten-year history, it seems that, in their attempts to sledgehammer their points home, Parker and Stone, for once and very rarely, forgot to put in their usually very clever humor or jokes, going for regurgitations of other ideas already explored in South Park or aiming at oddly obvious targets for such a usually erudite program. Imaginationland itself is an amazing place, drawn from all areas of popular culture, and populated by carbon copies of characters so blatant that I’m surprised there wasn’t any copyright fallout from these shows. When Ronald McDonald appears on screen trying, Saving Private Ryan-style, to locate his blown-off arm, I’m sorry, but that’s none other than Ronald McDonald looking for his arm on screen, and no-one else. I was continually raising my eyebrows as to just how close – sometimes even as good as using the originals – Matt and Trey dared to tread in their depictions, which is really where Imaginationland hits home, especially with its often extravagant (for South Park!) animated action sequences. There are times of the usual brilliance, including the truly inspired opening that sees Kyle get himself into that sticky spot with Cartman, highlighted by the absolutely classic realisation that Leprechauns do exist – yes, South Park’s comical grasp of the truly random is still greatly in effect. After all, where else can you see Popeye square off against Darth Maul, and Mickey Mouse’s head quite literally being blown off by a Cylon? It’s back to more standard fare – and a commentary on videogames – in Guitar Queer-O, when Stan has a chance to break a million point score on a music game…if he ditches his game pal Kyle. With the two friends broken up, Stan falls into the perilous spiral so many other musicians have fallen before on the road to success. Finally, South Park Elementary’s girls come to the fore when they compile The List, a ranking of the boys in their class from cutest to ugliest. When Cartman manages to grab the list, it has a profound effect on the boys’ young minds, especially Kyle, who finds himself bottom of the roll. Proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same, the season’s final moments find a place for the return of two long-running gags. While other long-running series have seen their creative output and popularity slowly fade, South Park just keeps going and going. That’s not to say it was the force it once was: we now know just what to expect when we tune in, and therefore some of the outrageousness, while still jaw dropping at times, is more accepted as being part of the package as opposed to the edgy feel of the earlier seasons. I have to admit to not following the show when it airs as often as I once did, choosing instead to catch the odd episode or dip in and out of the boxed sets, but whenever I do stumble across it I am still amazed by what they get away with, still highly amused, and still impressed at the questions posed and the points made. As the show continues its assault on everyone and everything, it looks like we’re in for a good few classic episodes yet! Is This Thing Loaded? Being well known for their attitude towards commentary tracks, Matt and Trey do adorn the beginnings of each show with their now infamous “mini-commentaries”, which have the pair speak for around five minutes at the top of the episodes. The guys are always infectious and their discussions always reveal both the huge amount of fun it must be to work on their program as well as why the scripts are so pointed, with the boys honing down every gag and situation, re-working and re-working each one until it’s razor sharp. Highlights are the reaction the real 24 crew gave to Parker and Stone when they saw their spoof episode, and the duo’s honest reaction to the 300 movie. Quite rightly, those expecting the “movie version” of Imaginationland to be included here will have to look to that disc’s stand-alone release to get that edition. Although one might have an argument to include that for completeness sake, the South Park sets have always been pretty straight affairs: the show and little else (apart from an appropriate documentary for Season Two). To their credit too, this makes the Imaginationland release valid in its own right, leaving us the choice of which version to watch, and I’m glad the original television episodes are here in check. Also included are four Comedy Central Quickies, which are essentially skits from some of the channel’s other shows, and full previews for the Jackass-styled torture comedy show Kenny Vs Spenny, which heavily promotes its Parker and Stone executive producer tag, Drawn Together: Season Three Uncensored And Extended and Comedy Central’s TV Funhouse: Uncensored are included. All three feature puking gags, which is either the height of amusement, or just boring. As usual, the three discs come presented in a slipcased five-fold digipack, with episode listings including production number, synopsis and air date for each, surrounded by glossy production art that’s repeated on the discs. The insert featuring Jesus’ ready for action pose is, frankly, hysterical and gets me every time I pull the discs out of the box. The title of the set is, as usual, placed the “wrong way up”, just as intended by its creators, to mess with obsessive collectors’ minds! Ink And Paint: Going from murky composite video based masters to what must now be digital transfers, South Park has looked great in its past few seasons on DVD, and this eleventh season is no different. Keeping its lo-tech values in place, the show is still created 4:3 full-frame (the Imaginationland DVD release was reframed and cropped for a widescreen appearance) and this is how it’s presented. Scratch Tracks: Leave it to Matt and Trey’s big screen movies to blow the stuffings out of your surrounds: the turnaround on South Park is so fast that they just don’t have time to produce anything wider than 2.0 stereo! Nonetheless, any episode of the show has enough pyrotechnics to make a small dent in whatever set-up you have, and the onslaught of audio is well reproduced here. Final Cut: South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season brings us up to date in the broadcast history of the show, and it’s still going just as strong as ever. By the time a show reaches eleven seasons, its audience members already know if they’re going to pick up the eventual DVD collection, so this is likely already lining up on the shelf next to the previous ten volumes if you’re a fan. For those who might be tempted to say ten’s enough, I’d say push for at least one more and go all the way up to eleven, as there are some pure South Park moments included. A show with a big reputation that needs little introduction, those yet to discover the delights of the most depraved program on television could sample the set and come away with a little inspiration, but might be better off starting with an earlier season or the big screen movie. Try to find the set online for a more reasonable cost than the full asking price (it’s going for around $30 or less online) and, whatever else, for those with the right minds, you can’t really go wrong with South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? 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__label__cc	0.581419	0.418581	☰ Main Menu AniRecs: A Brief History March 13th, 2016 in Anime, General Reviews, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU by The Droid I never felt there was a need to have a second season, but I have to assume that it scored so well with others that we had to cash in on the popularity. So, here we are with “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Too” (”Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteir”), subtitled “My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong as Expected” and abbreviated as “Hamachi’ and “OreGairu”. Now, I always have the suspicion if you can’t agree on a title, there are bigger problems afoot. But this show has always been kind of like that. The show starts off in all-too-familiar territory, as Hachiman Hikigaya is still a Class-A grumpy slacker (in the middle, the Class-A grumpy slacker), but we see a kind of evolution as chinks appear in his armor, so the truth comes out. He seems to be getting pushed around by the other members of the Service Club, Yukino Yukinoshita (left) and Yui Yuigahama (right). It starts out with basic help for people with basic problems, but it is done is a rather ‘let’s get it done’ manner, just to get it done and not to resolve things properly. The big drag is that it takes about six episodes for a real plot to finally show up and it is at that point the show not only gets interesting, but starts to pick up, both in vitality and intensity. Until then, it is merely going through the motions, unless that is the intent of things. We also start to see that Hachiman is really to blame for how he feels, as he doesn’t really know how to express himself to others and himself, but lashes out at others for these failures and he makes some doozy failures (the love confession episode). (more…) Tags: Comedy, Romance, School Juan Martinez on Open Your Golden “Gate” Juan Martinez on “Holy” Cow Juan Martinez on Short Run Series XXII – “Border” Crossing Juan Martinez on Rave: One Piece Juan Martinez on Any Given “Sunday” Juan Martinez on Comic Books Vs. Manga Juan Martinez on Short Pull Series IX – What Don’t You “Understand” Juan Martinez on Naruto: Not a lost cause after all Juan Martinez on Short Run Series XX – “Pass” the Time Juan Martinez on One You May Have Missed #3: Near “East”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4009
__label__wiki	0.841915	0.841915	Paramore Retires “Misery Business” Due to Controversial Lyrics Paramore are ending an era by putting one of their biggest hits on the shelf. Paramore Taking A Break From Playing "Misery Business" Live Ever go to a show and wonder if the band or artist ever gets tired from playing the same songs over and over and over again? Does Paul McCartney still enjoy playing Beatles classics in 2018? Does Green Day reallyyyy wanna play songs that are more than 20 years old? Paramore, who have been touring... Gaten Matarazzo of 'Stranger Things' Performs with Paramore Gaten Marazzo of Stranger Things and Paramore linked up for their long-awaited collab of "Misery Business". Watch the performance here! Paramore Shares Wacky “Caught In The Middle” Music Video Paramore just shared a vibrantly wacky music video for their song "Caught in the Middle." WATCH: Paramore Perform “Rose Colored Boy” on ‘Colbert’ Last night (May 1), Paramore hit 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' stage to give “Rose Colored Boy” its debut TV performance. Paramore Play Stephen Curry's 30th Birthday Party NBA All-Star Stephen Curry turns 30 tomorrow (March 14), and last night, he celebrated the milestone with a birthday party in San Francisco. Steph’s wife Ayesha Curry planned the event and recruited Paramore to perform on the main stage. Paramore Announce Summer Tour Dates with Foster the People Hayley Williams and company are coming to give you more. WATCH: Elton John Calls Paramore's 'After Laughter' a "Fabulous" Album Paramore released their latest album, ' After Laughter,' almost a year ago, but it just received some seriously high praise from none other than Elton John. Paramore Become '80s News Anchors For "Rose Colored Boy" Video Boy, that escalated quickly. RELATED: Hayley Williams Invites ‘Stranger Things’ Star to Sing with Paramore Hayley Williams and Paramore become ’80s morning news anchors for the vivid new “Rose Colored Boy” video. The Warren Fu-directed clip juxtaposes the happy, upbeat nature of the show with the... Hayley Williams Invites 'Stranger Things' Star Gaten Matarazzo To Sing With Paramore 'Stranger Things' star Gaten Matarazzo’s real life is about to get a little bit stranger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4024
__label__cc	0.749438	0.250562	amandavictoriasewell Celine p.2 ‘A Broken Wing’ p.4 April 10, 2019 Amanda Victoria Sewell 1 Comment Before my mother bolted, she and several other Foreign Office wives had attempted to set up food kitchens for ‘the starving Germans’. But to no avail. Fraternisation with the enemy was strictly forbidden. Instead, gifts of bottles of whisky, packets of cigarettes, stockings and chocolate from the NAAFI were given to the German staff, to be sold on the thriving black market in exchange for food and fuel. Most of the time, Elsa and Willi lived out in their own house,and possibly only stayed to keep me company overnight sometimes. They took me to their home, once or twice, and I remember that it was freezing cold and drab, with grubby, unpainted walls. My memories of these early years are clear and sharp. I could remember having my first photograph taken when I was only six months’ old. I recall that my father was holding me awkwardly, in front of the camera and that the hand-knitted woollen baby suit I was in was itchy and uncomfortable and tight around my crotch and legs. I also remember being left in my high-sided cot for hours, and crying and hollering for attention that never came. Miserable and lonely, I stood holding on to the bars, with a sodden and full nappy hanging down. Somehow, I managed to wriggle out of the nappy, which was a relief. I was only about a year old. Just beginning to walk. There were happy memories, too. A huge cream cake was provided for my third birthday – with candles on it. And at Christmas, Elsa and Cecilia gave me straw and carrots to put into my shoes at night ‘for the reindeer’. A huge pine tree was brought into the house. I was shown it – bare and green. Then after a few hours, Elsa swept me up into her arms, opened up the double doors to the salon – and there it was – fully dressed in tinsel and covered in tiny, white lit candles. It glistened and glowed and I gasped with joy at its beauty. Truly magical. In our black and white tiled Art Deco kitchen, I watched Elsa cooking and cutting up vegetables. It was a warm place, and she was always so loving and cheerful to be around. Willi brought apples in during the autumn, and we used to store them up in the attic. Finally, a British family moved in to another large house in the opulent avenue that we lived in. They were called Howarth, and their son, Peter, was a year older than me. At last I had a child to play with. But our joyous games didn’t last long. Peter was very enthusiastic to play ‘doctors and nurses’ with me, and would lock the door to their study, while we both took our pants off to ‘examine’ each other. Mrs Howarth became enraged at this game, hammered on the locked door ( which Peter duly opened), to find us both half-naked. She then asked me why I had taken my panties off, to which I answered that I was hot. I was not allowed to play with Peter again. We were both bereft, and would catch glimpses of each other from the backs of our respective family cars, when we were being driven to our schools and back. There was certainly a very febrile atmosphere at home. Maybe I was picking up on it. My father was like a stricken king, surrounded by two female acolytes – Sonia and D – and I presume he was sleeping with one or both of them. The neighbours were probably totally shocked by this immoral and irregular state of affairs. D was a virginal nineteen, ripe for seduction, and utterly besotted with my father. To her, and later, Sonia, I was very much ‘in the way’. Once or twice, D would play this thoroughly frightening game with me. She would put me into a rough army blanket, and tie it up tightly. Absolutely no air could get in. She would then spin me round and round – in the air and on the slippery floor, until I almost passed out . She would then untie me, and I would fall out red-faced and gasping for air. It was terrifying. But what I most remember was the look of insane, evil defiance and triumph in her face. I am convinced that she thought of killing me. I have had lifelong attacks of claustrophobia ever since. Previous Post‘A Broken Wing’ p.3Next Post‘A Broken Wing’ p.5 One thought on “‘A Broken Wing’ p.4” Gabriel Konrad says: Omg it is so vivid. Sounds like a survival of the fittest law of the jungle with the chief savage abusing any female around as it took his fancy! Truly like a kind of prehistoric caveman’s free for all. Apocalyptic warzone to spice it up.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4026
__label__wiki	0.603762	0.603762	All issues Volume 28 / No 8 (October 2000) Analusis, 28 8 (2000) 725-736 Abstract Luminescence spectroscopy: applications and recent trends https://doi.org/10.1051/analusis:2000143 DOI: 10.1051/analusis:2000143 Free-electron lasers sources for scientific applications M.-E. Couprie and J.-M. Ortéga LURE, Bâtiment 209 D, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France (Received April 26, 2000; revised September 26, 2000; accepted October 3, 2000.) The free-electron laser ("FEL") has proven to be an invaluable source of radiation in the UV to far infrared spectral ranges. It is based on the amplification of an optical wave by a high energy electron beam oscillating transversely to its propagation. In the last decade, several FELs have been designed and built as user dedicated facilities. Presently, seven infrared FELs, such as CLIO at Orsay (France), are running more than 1000 hours/year for users performing experiments in various scientific fields. In the UV spectral range, the Super-ACO (Orsay, France) FEL is promoting applications in various fields. The main applications are described and prospects are given. Key words: Lasers -- infrared -- ultraviolet -- free-electron lasers. The super-ACO free electron laser in the UV, first application for time-resolved fluorescence in biology and prospects for soleil Storage ring free electrons laser on super-ACO, ELETTRA and SOLEIL J. Phys. IV France 12, 339-341 (2002) Storage ring free electron laser dynamics in presence of an auxiliary harmonic radio frequency cavity Eur. Phys. J. D 32, 83-93 (2005) Storage ring based FELs in Europe: Perspectives for new UV-VUV coherent sources J. Phys. IV France 11, Pr2-245-Pr2-249 (2001) Chaos in free electron laser oscillators Eur. Phys. J. D 55, 669-677 (2009)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4029
__label__cc	0.600116	0.399884	You are viewing an archived version of the site which is no longer maintained. Go to the current live site or the Adventure Gamers forums Screenshots Blog Previews Interviews Features Underground Games FAQs Latest Comments Home Adventure Forums Gaming Adventure Interesting poll: Do you like "Action" in your adventure games View Poll Results: Do you like "Action" with your adventures No action for me please. 56 58.95% I'd like to see a mix. Let's adventure and kill some bad guys!!! 37 38.95% DOOM 3 is an adventure game. 2 2.11% SoccerDude28 Homer of Kittens Location: San Francisco, Bay Area Interesting poll: Do you like "Action" in your adventure games Ok now here's an interesting poll. Too many debates about how adventure games have not evolved vs adventure games should remain "pure". What do you like? Games I am playing: Jeanne D'Ark (PSP) Firefox rules Bobske Biomechanoid I voted that I would like to see a mix but that isn't exactly true. I really don't like action in adventure games but when it's functional I tend to like it... So I don't prefer action sequences but as long as they are funtional I don't mind. I'm really looking forward to see what they've done or are going to do with Dreamfall... I do think that the future of adventure games lies in an optimal combination of action and adventure. I think Deus Ex was a good attempt! What scares me is the fact that people consider Vice City and the upcoming San Andreas an adventure game. I love Vice City but an adventure game? Hell no! The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX. maladroid self-distracted Location: Groundhog Day I don't like action sequences in an otherwise "pure" adventure. Howver I like games like Beyond Good and Evil where the gameplay is spiced-up with some action/arcade and minigames which are really easy to beat. If this poll had taken place about 2 months ago I would probably say A. After playing this excellent game, though I have to say B all the way and hope for Psychonauts to be similar to BG&E in terms of enjoyment and story development. If Broken Sword 3 is the future of adventure games then I'd rather we'd stay in the past. If BG&E-clones start popping-up to replace adventures (appealing though unlikely thought) I'd say I will surely miss the traditional puzzle-oriented games that I love but I am ready to make that sacrifice in order to avoid any more Cryo-genetic games that have to do with astronauts being abandoned or warped in a new world/dimension. If new ideas and stories can only shell by being delivered as action-oriented games then let it be. I am sick and tired by soulless games which try to convince us that throwing in some lever-pulling and use-fishing-rod-on-old man's pocket puzzles is enough to sate our hunger for a good storyline. I am not saying that I don't like puzzles in my games. I am saying that simply replacing action with puzzle-solving does not make an adventure game. There are many other things an adventure needs to become interesting and keep the player from leaving the game in the middle of his quest. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" Proud supporter of Tex Murphy - Project Fedora Location: Texas, US I voted for B. But actually I like hardcore Adventures. But I like Action-Adventure games too. AFGNCAAP Dungeon Master I think the question is too ambiguous and, therefore, the poll result won't be very informative. I mean, some of the most outstanding achievements in game design, like Deus Ex or Beyond Good & Evil, are so great because their creators didn't worry about genres or target audience and included a variety of gameplay styles. Such examples would almost make me vote for second option. But they're just it: innovative, unclassifiable titles. My definition of adventure title accepts little to no action sequences. Similarly, when I read mystery novel, I don't want the alien invaders to appear on the last page - and it does'nt mean I hate sci-fi as such. So it's number one for me. Well, I actually haven't played BG&E, but from all the comments everywhere I gather it is great. What's happening? Wh... Where am I? If I want action, I'll play an action/adventure or RPG. When I don't, what else is there to play but an adventure? And unfortunately adding action elements to an adventure game usually takes the form of adding timed sequences, which I don't like in any game. So leave the action out of the adventures please. Here's another question - Which usually works out better - adding adventure elements to an action game or adding action elements to an adventure game? And which is more apt to mean a dead end for someone - adding "easy" action elements to an adventure game or adding "easy" puzzles to an action game? 100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja pain is love Location: Zagreb, Croatia I wanna see a mix. If the action part was well done, why not. Of course, I would still like to see only-mouse-advs, so I can just sit and relax, not just mutilate my keyboard A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. - W.C. Fields There are more old drunks then old doctors. - Willie Nelson by_100ja Beyond Delphine A good place to hide Looks close between a and b. That suprises me. Expected the majority of the population here to be more Lucas/sierra, less BG+E/Zelda. Still, we live and learn. I voted A. Natch. Bit set in my ways... How appropriate, you fight like a cow! Location: Linköping, Sweden It really, really depends on what type of Action and how that is handled within the game. Most action-sequences in adventure games are bad because they use a completely unsuitable interface for that kind of thing, i.e. the normal point and click interface that is optimised for slowpaced looking around for objects to add to your inventory. Rem acu tetigisti -- Jeeves Read my adventure game reviews here Blaskan Dragon Go Server Ragnar Ouchterlony ADVENTURE-RAIDER Adventure Collector Location: CYPRUS Originally Posted by ragnar I aggree on that. It always depends on how the action sequence was incorporated and blened in the game and the story. Al;so a very important thing is the lenght of the action sequence in an adventure game. The smaller it is the better it blends in the game. I've played some good adventure games with very good action sequences, the most memorable are the two classics from DYNAMIX: "RISE OF THE DRAGON" and "HEART OF CHINA". I still haven't found what I'm looking for! -- U2 Hopeful skeptic Originally Posted by SoccerDude28 Too many debates about how adventure games have not evolved vs adventure games should remain "pure". The debate is almost never whether adding action is an "evolution" of adventure games. That's actually the argument that purists FEAR, even though it's rarely suggested. I think most "pure" adventures are hurt more than they're helped by adding random action elements, so if that's the standard, better to avoid them. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoy action-adventures. I also absolutely think there's room in the genre for more "action-based" gameplay if its storyline dictates it. It's all about diversity in design, baby. 8-) Rattenmonster I don't mind some action in some games. That doesn't mean I want action in all games. nordic_guy I think all games should be treated differently, meaning that I wouldn't mind some action if it suits the game overall. If I wasn't just spamming this thread, I'd probably have something interesting to say. Kolzig The Reggienator Location: Vaasa, Finland I won't vote on this poll, but I'll say that a little action in some adventure games would be good. It just depends what kind of action are we talking about and how it fits in the game. "The old standby, that never got old in the first place. We come back to them weekly, nightly, for hours at a time--and they always deliver. They are pure, timeless, and often taken for granted." - Nick Breckon - Shacknews My gamesale list updated 26.8.2007 Hey, dear people please buy my games, I need money to conquer Europe! Or do something similar. Originally Posted by Beyond Delphine If you read the posts in this thread, it doesn't look like anyone is advocating action in ALL adventure games. And there are definitely preferences on the type of action and whether it fits the game as opposed to whether its "imposed" on it. So the overall result of the poll is misleading and not as informative as the posts. log p i'm with... <thud> Location: the bowels of sammy davis jr. there is a place for action in any good adventure game...some games do not need it and this doesnt make them any worse for what they are - straight forward point-and-click adventures...but my favorite adventure games (shenmue, BG&E, zelda, etc.) are not REALLY classified as adventure games, so what do i know? Sanjuro2 Movie Buff & Gamer Location: Frisco, TX This is a good poll because I'm in the planning stages for a new adventure game project, and my buddy and I are very concerned about this. A few action segments would really fit well into the story and theme of our game so...we are currently trying to decide. Töre: You see it, God, you see it. The innocent child's death and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand you. Yet now I beg your forgiveness. I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live. -Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960) remixor A search for a crazy man! I said "No action for me please" but that's actually wrong. I would have preferred an option that says "I don't mind action if it's well-implemented but I'm not looking for it" or something like that, because I'm not actually saying "Yes, please add action to my adventures, I want a mix." The choices are too extreme. Chris "News Editor" Remo Some sort of Writer or Editor or Something, Idle Thumbs "Some comparisons are a little less obvious. I always think of Grim Fandango as Casablanca on acid." - Will Wright JHousequake T.J. Hooker's Lovechild Location: Lost Wages Where's the "I don't care" option?? Sheesh. Mieze I voted for the "mix"... though I think it would be important for me that the "adventure" elements outweigh the "action" elements by a large, large margin. Besides I think it is important that the action parts fit well into the story (not just action for action's sake) and are not so difficult as to be frustrating to the action-unexperienced gamer. E.g. that is one of the very few bones I have to pick with "Silver Earring": the Superdog with his unearthly sensory powers almost drove me to distraction... « Adventure History \| Games you wished they had made a sequel to » The Journey Down: Chapter One makes its way out African-themed comic adventure now available for download AG Recruitment Drive: How YOU can help! Read the staff blog! Game Database Random Pick El Enigma de la Abadía In-G-nius Find out what adventure games are all about, and don’t miss our Top 100 adventure games of all time. Got a question? Check out the FAQ or explore the forums! Editorial Policies Scoring System Site History Links Write for Us Newsletter © Copyright 1998-2012, Adventure Gamers®. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4034
__label__cc	0.689163	0.310837	Affluent Christian Investor \| January 21, 2020 About Jerry Bowyer Email Featured Ingratitude: The Destroyer of Nations Jerry Bowyer \| On November 29, 2013 Civic gratitude is not only a virtue, but a nation’s most necessary virtue. History bears that out. Rome was the greatest empire in ancient history, therefore its fall was the greatest fall the world had ever seen. Why did Rome fall? Some people say it was because of its high taxes. Others say it was weakened by its embrace of Christian compassion. It could have been bad luck. But the most common answer is Rome fell because of decadence. Decadence gets closer to the truth than anything else, but it’s a particular kind of decadence that we’re talking about. In the first century, Saint Paul wrote a letter to the church in Rome and he nailed it better than any commentator before or since. He said that Rome ceased to believe in monotheism; ‘neither were they thankful’. Paul observed that at the root of Rome’s decadence was ingratitude. You see, Roman citizens at one point in their history had had more than any other citizens in the world. They had a strong tradition of property rights, low taxes, and a voice in their politics. All of this was guaranteed by a republican form of government which placed an extremely high premium on the rule of law. During the glorious days of the Roman Republic, law was over the king and not the king over the law. That all changed with the coming of the Caesars who promised greater wealth, greater privileges, and eventually bread (welfare) and circuses (violent entertainment). There is only one thing the Romans needed to give up in order to gains these benefits: their republican form of government. That sort of appeal only works against a particular kind of people — ungrateful people. This is what the Romans were in that generation, and this is what Saint Paul saw. (Note to those who have not studied history: just re-rent Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and you’ll get the general flavor of these events.) The appeal of the despot is always the same: give up what you have now and I will create Heaven on Earth. Implicit in this bargain is this premise: ‘You have nothing to lose’. It is only a people who have become severed from the virtue of political gratitude who believe they have nothing to lose. In short, gratefulness is the chief bulwark against the demagogue. The story of the 20th Century, which is the bloodiest century in world history, is largely the story of what happens to the world when gratitude fades and people are wooed into giving up the hard-won liberty of centuries in exchange for racial glory (the Nazis), or economic security (the Communists). Our ancestors knew this and offered something to inoculate us against it: Thanksgiving Day. Let’s honor them and their gift to us. Jerry Bowyer Jerry Bowyer is a Forbes contributor, contributing editor of AffluentInvestor.com, and Senior Fellow in Business Economics at The Center for Cultural Leadership. Jerry has compiled an impressive record as a leading thinker in finance and economics. He worked as an auditor and a tax consultant with Arthur Anderson, as Vice President of the Beechwood Company which is the family office associated with Federated Investors, and has consulted in various privatization efforts for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He founded the influential economic think tank, the Allegheny Institute, and has lectured extensively at universities, businesses and civic groups. Jerry has been a member of three investment committees, among which is Benchmark Financial, Pittsburgh’s largest financial services firm. Jerry had been a regular commentator on Fox Business News and Fox News. He was formerly a CNBC Contributor, has guest-hosted “The Kudlow Report”, and has written for CNBC.com, National Review Online, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as many other publications. He is the author of The Bush Boom and more recently The Free Market Capitalist’s Survival Guide, published by HarperCollins. Jerry is the President of Bowyer Research. Jerry consulted extensively with the Bush White House on matters pertaining to the recent economic crisis. He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, The International Herald Tribune and various local newspapers. He has been a contributing editor of National Review Online, The New York Sun and Townhall Magazine. Jerry has hosted daily radio and TV programs and was one of the founding members of WQED’s On-Q Friday Roundtable. He has guest-hosted the Bill Bennett radio program as well as radio programs in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Jerry is the former host of WorldView, a nationally syndicated Sunday-morning political talk show created on the model of Meet The Press. On WorldView, Jerry interviewed distinguished guests including the Vice President, Treasury Secretary, HUD Secretary, former Secretary of Sate Condoleezza Rice, former Presidential Advisor Carl Rove, former Attorney General Edwin Meese and publisher Steve Forbes. Jerry has taught social ethics at Ottawa Theological Hall, public policy at Saint Vincent’s College, and guest lectured at Carnegie Mellon’s graduate Heinz School of Public Policy. In 1997 Jerry gave the commencement address at his alma mater, Robert Morris University. He was the youngest speaker in the history of the school, and the school received more requests for transcripts of Jerry’s speech than at any other time in its 120-year history. Jerry lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan, and the youngest three of their seven children. 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__label__cc	0.728048	0.271952	Home > Modified Gross Lease – Everything You Need to Know Modified Gross Lease – Everything You Need to Know Real estate investors seeking long-term income rely on leases to earn rent from tenants. Consequently, the contents of a lease directly impact the strength and size of rental cash flows. A poorly written or inappropriate lease can cost a property investor a significant amount of revenue. That’s why it’s important to understand the different types of leases and the problems they address. In this article, we’ll answer the question, “What is a modified gross lease?” and we’ll provide an example. Also, we’ll introduce you to a commercial lease calculator, in this case, a triple net lease calculator. Finally, we’ll end with a few frequently asked questions about a modified gross lease. What is a Modified Gross Lease (MGL)? An MGL is a lease in which the tenant pays rent plus some of the unit’s expenses. It is a compromise between two opposite types of leases: Gross Lease In this type of lease, the landlord pays all property expenses. Unsurprisingly, gross leases specify higher rents because the rent payments must cover the expenses the landlord pays. In commercial real estate, gross leases usually appear in apartment buildings and multi-family properties. Modified Gross Lease vs NNN (Triple-Net Lease) For an NNN-lease, tenants pay for their share of property taxes, insurance and common area maintenance (CAM). Naturally, this type of lease charges less rent than does a gross lease. An MGL combines aspects of a gross lease and net lease. Like a gross lease, the tenant pays a monthly rent to the landlord and receives some free services. However, it resembles a net lease in that the tenant must pay for some expenses. The landlord picks up the costs that tenants don’t pay. In other words, both landlord and tenant must bear some property-related expenses. For example, in a modified gross lease, tenants might cover common area maintenance (CAM) while the landlord handles insurance and property taxes. Video: Commercial Leases: What is a Modified Gross Lease Pros and Cons of Modified Gross Leases A modified gross lease offers pros and cons to both landlords and tenants. Pros to the Landlord Landlords might favor a modified gross lease in order to retain some control over the property. For instance, landlords might pay CAM costs because they want to maintain common areas in a specific way. By paying for the CAM charges, landlords can ensure that they can control the work performance. If they left the CAM to tenants, landlords would have to worry whether the tenants did the job properly. Cons to the Landlord Properties might suffer if landlords underestimate the costs they cover in a modified gross lease. For example, imagine a shopping mall in which a shortsighted landlord underestimates the cost of the CAM charges. Over time, the miserly landlord lets the common areas deteriorate. This causes existing tenants to not renew their leases and drives away new tenants. The vacancy rate soars, leading to net operating losses and possible bankruptcy. In this case, the landlord should employ a triple-net lease and let the tenants maintain the common areas. Pros to the Tenant Tenants might find a modified gross lease attractive because the landlord must cover some building expenses. For instance, landlords that pay for CAM stay involved in their properties. Tenants might have no interest in CAM as long as it is satisfactory. On the other hand, tenants can control some costs and thereby save money. For example, tenants who pay for their own utility usage can economize through conservation and efficiency. Cons to the Tenant Tenants could suffer if a landlord does a poor job. For example, recall the case where a shopping mall landlord is responsible for CAM and shortchanges the work. The mall’s common areas begin to look scruffy, embarrassing tenants and discouraging customers. This can cause tenants to lose business and force them to undertake an expensive relocation. Modified Gross Lease Examples In this example, suppose the landlord owns a 90-unit office building where all tenants sign a modified gross lease. The lease specifies that each tenant must pay its own electrical bills. Two scenarios can unfold: Metered Offices In this scenario, each separate unit has its own electric meter. The most efficient units pay only about $300 a month for electricity. However wasteful offices of the same size spend in excess of $1,200 a month. The landlord is indifferent to these facts because the electric utility separately bills each tenant for its electricity use. As word spreads of the tremendous range in electrical costs, the inefficient units take steps to reduce costs. In this way, the modified gross lease results in a societal benefit by encouraging conservation. Video: Gross Lease vs. Modified Gross Lease Unmetered Offices In this case, the building has only a master meter. The landlord is reluctant to absorb the expense of installing individual submeters for all units. Instead, the landlord adopts a RUBS (Ratio Utility Billing System) to allocate the property’s electricity charges to tenants. The building has three size units: 2,000, 3,000 and 6,000 square feet. There are 30 units of each size. The landlord allocates electrical charges based on square feet. Now, suppose the building’s current monthly electricity bill is $66,000. The landlord works out the following RUBS. There are 30 times (2,000 + 3,000 + 6,000), or 330,000 square feet of office space. This month’s RUBS chargeback per square foot is $0.20. This works out to charges of $400, $600 and $1,200 for the small, medium and large offices, respectively. The landlord bills each office accordingly, as per the terms of the modified gross lease. In this case, offices have less incentive to individually decrease their electricity use. Any efficiencies by one office lowers the bills of all offices rather than just its own. Societal benefits are less likely unless all the tenants band together in a common conservation drive. Commercial Lease Calculator A commercial lease calculator (like this triple net lease calculator) with advanced mode allows tenants to compute base rent and operational expenses. Base rent is simply area x rate. Operational expenses depend on the lease terms. This is useful for a modified gross lease, since only certain expenses belong to tenants. Frequently Asked Questions: Modified Gross Lease What are the different types of leases? The three different types of leases are gross lease, modified gross lease and net lease. In a gross lease, the landlord pays all expenses for the property. In contrast, a modified gross lease, both landlord and tenant pay some expenses. And finally, in a net lease, tenants pay specified expenses. What’s the difference between triple net and modified gross leases? In a triple-net lease (aka NNN lease), tenants pay their own property taxes, insurance and common area maintenance costs. Whereas in a modified gross lease, the landlord pays some of these costs. In addition, other costs might go to the landlord or tenant depending on the specifics of the lease. Are modified gross leases a good idea? Generally, modified gross leases are a good idea. They can give landlords control over certain responsibilities, such as the CAM charges, while letting tenants pay for costs they can control. When the landlord and tenants are conscientious, both sides can benefit from a modified gross lease. What does the landlord pay in a modified gross lease? The terms of a modified gross lease specify what costs the landlord pays. For example, the landlord might pay for common area maintenance and property taxes, but not insurance. 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__label__cc	0.739931	0.260069	ARIIX USA Rick RedfordNorth America General Manager As a seasoned network marketing professional with more than 20 years of experience in the direct selling industry, Rick is exceptionally qualified to lead our North America market towards skyrocketing sales. With a dynamic history of motivational public speaking, cross-cultural relationship-building and influential global market growth, Rick excels in strategy, especially when it comes to sales organizations. Rick is motivated, driven, open and approachable and a key asset to the billion-dollar future of ARIIX. Phil LewisSenior Vice President of Operations With more than 28 years of experience, Phil is a respected influencer in the fields of sales, marketing and operations. He is skilled in building strong business practices that support world-class operations, and is a master developer of lean manufacturing and operation guidelines that improve quality, efficiency, and time and cost savings in almost any business model. A true artist of his trade, Phil is an integral player at ARIIX. Cameron BottPresident of International Cameron has been integral in the advancement of strategic goals at ARIIX since 2013. Throughout his 13 years in the industry, he has led various departments to success, including customer support, international compliance, operations and international expansion. With a proven ability to lead teams, forge partnerships and nurture programs to fruition, he is the perfect individual to implement ARIIX’s international agenda, working diligently to create greater integration amongst international markets and provide the support they need for continued growth. Vivian ChungVice President of Marketing Everything you see or read from ARIIX runs through the incredibly talented mind of the company’s fearless marketing leader, Vivian. An award-winning professional with more than 10 years of industry experience, Vivian oversees all marketing initiatives and brand development. She not only has an uncanny talent for defining and sharing stories that make a difference, but she also deploys an incredible ability to tap into the analytical side with real solutions that are making big waves for ARIIX in direct sales. Brandon JohnExecutive Vice President of Business Strategy With a long-standing history of 12 years as a respected expert in the field of tax, Brandon has resounding experience effectively managing complex tax structures and transactions. With his expertise in lean processes and achieving optimal return on capital, he immediately saw opportunities at ARIIX to make an impactful difference and has been successfully managing a restructuring of our international tax presence. Intelligent and tax savvy, Brandon is a force to be reckoned with, and we’re glad he’s part of the ARIIX family! Scott SchwendimanVice President of Finance A licensed CPA, Scott comes to ARIIX with a varied background in both public and private accounting. As ARIIX’s Vice President of Finance, he is responsible for all aspects of the accounting cycle, including budget, financial analysis and reporting, and KPI tracking. He’s the guy who makes sure the numbers add up. Tyler JonesVice President and General Counsel With a license to practice law in both Utah and Texas, Tyler has a wealth of knowledge in his field. He has practiced in many diverse areas, including corporate law, legal compliance, intellectual property, real estate, creditors’ rights, commercial bankruptcy and commercial litigation. As General Counsel, Tyler oversees all of ARIIX’s legal and compliance interests. Kellee YeDirector of Asia Field Development–North America Kellee spent several years working for the Economy and Trade Department in China, where she was involved in reviewing and approving applications of domestic and foreign investment and establishing joint ventures on Ladrones Islands. In 2011, she joined ARIIX and was instrumental in launching the Taiwan market. She has also acted in several other capacities within the organization, including customer support, operations and field development, with a dedication to supporting the Chinese field. 563 West 500 South, Suite 300 Bountiful, Utah 84010 Toll Free: 855-GO-ARIIX (855-462-7449) Not readable? Change text.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4048
__label__cc	0.718283	0.281717	You are here: Home / Learn / Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany – What You Need to Know Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany – What You Need to Know March 22, 2010 By Army Mom Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is the evacuation and treatment center for injured U.S. Service Members and members of 44 coalition forces serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa Command, Central Command, European Command and Pacific Command. When soldiers are injured while serving in Afghanistan or Iraq, they are first treated at a U.S. Army Combat Hospital at a Forward Operating Base (FOB). If necessary, patients are then transported to a level II military treatment facility (MTF). The closest is Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. LRMC is the largest American hospital outside the U.S. and also provides medical treatments to over 245,000 military personnel and their families within Europe. C-17 Globemasters and C-130 Hercules aircraft are commonly used to medevac patients to the hospital in Germany from places like Afghanistan (7 hours) and Iraq (5 hours). The medevac aircraft has specialized medical equipment on-board and specialized personnel that care for the patients during the flight to LRMC. They land at Ramstein Air Base, Germany and are bused to Landstuhl in specialized medical buses. The medical facilities in Germany are transitional facilities. After a short stay (3 days to 3 weeks), the patients either return to Iraq or Afghanistan or are flown to a medical facility in the US for further treatment. Is Your Passport Up-to-date? We hate to think of our soldier getting wounded in action (WIA), but out in a war zone, that is reality. It’s a good idea to have make sure your passport is current in case your soldier is injured and transported to Landstuhl. You’ll want to be at your soldier’s side quickly. It can take several weeks to get a passport. Passport information: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html Soldiers’ Angels Germany Soldiers’ Angels in Germany supports patients medevac’d to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center from Iraq and Afghanistan. They are an amazing group that has provided comfort at the side of many injured soldiers from war zones. Soldiers’ Angels also provides backpacks with basic necessities like toiletries and clothing. Learn more about Soldiers’ Angels Germany: http://soldiersangelsgermany.blogspot.com Find out more about Soldiers’ Angels: http://soldiersangels.org Find out more about Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. This video shows a C-17 Critical Care transport from Iraq. How to Communicate with your Soldier at Basic Combat… Filed Under: Learn Melissa Allison-Lee says I am working to begin a movement I am referring to as “Operation HeartWings” that would send a special HeartWings pillow to everyone at Landstuhl. I do not know who the appropriate person is to speak to about this. My company’s website is http://www.heartwingslove.com and we feature two different pillows that are perfect for this project. We recently shipped a HeartWings pillow to one of our troops serving in Iraq and he loved it! His name is Walter Haynes and I believe his father is involved at Landstuhl in some way. If there is any information available about getting this going and a contact name that I could correspond with, that would be wonderful. Army says Hi Melissa! Great project! Sounds like you need to contact Solders’ Angels as they are very involved at Landstuhl. Solders’ Angels volunteers provide many much needed items for injured soldiers and lots of TLC. Best always and God Bless, Paula Wiltse says My name is Sharon Hitzman with the Brookings-Harbor Redshirts, in Brookings, Or.. We are a non-profit group of concerned citizens, many who are Veteran’s that want our troops to feel that they are fighting for a true purpose and that they are not forgotten. We have no paid officers or employees’ and all donations go to our troops. We ship packages and special request items to our troops, hospitals and Mash units in harm’s way. This is our 5th year and we have sent over 5,000 packages so far. Our mission is to continue to send packages “Until They All Come Home”. Our organization is working on a cookbook fundraiser. It will be called “While We Were Gone”, recipes most missed by our military, sponsored by The Brookings-Harbor Redshirts. We are collecting recipes from all present military, veterans, moms and wives of our military. Can you direct me to how we can get the word out on your base for recipes? In the book the recipe will include the name of the service member, their rank and the person responsible for the recipe. Pictures can also be submitted. The Redshirts would appreciate any help you can give us. All of our volunteers work really hard to support our troops and want this cookbook to be a great success so we can continue to keep sending packages. If possible we could put an article in your base newspaper, postings on bulletin boards or something on your website. Thank you so much for your time. website: http://www.brookings-harbor-redshirts.org email Sharon: redshirts_5@msn.com E.I.N. 71-102232 Sharon Hitzman, Vice President, Brookings-Harbor Redshirts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4049
__label__wiki	0.739252	0.739252	Egypt could militarily intervene in Libya to counter “Turkish invasion” Dubai: Egypt may resort to “military intervention” to counter Turkey’s potential “invasion” of neighbouring Libya, according to Egypt’s parliament speaker Ali Abu Al Aaal. Libya’s parliament speaker Aguila Saleh was also present during the parliament session where he slammed the international community for "abandoning the Libyan people halfway in their pursuit of a democratic civilian state." Libya PM in Brussels as EU frets over crisis BRUSSELS - EU leaders met the head of Libya's UN-recognised government on Wednesday as they scramble to contain the escalating crisis on their southern flank amid concerns... Middle East Online 2020-01-08 Libya ceasefire call brings lull in heavy fighting TRIPOLI -- A ceasefire in Libya initiated by Turkey and Russia saw a lull in heavy fighting and air strikes on Sunday, though both warring factions accused each other of... 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The African nation’s awe-inspiring temples and pyramids have captured the imagination of travelers for thousands of years. Although most people come to Egypt to view After 30 ancient coffins were unearthed “completely by accident” in Egypt this week, archaeologists are now taking a closer look. Two of the coffins have been opened but what will experts find inside? NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for Weekend TODAY. » Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeTo It`s not easy to find 5 bad things about Egypt, at least not the seriously bad things, or? I did manage to find the things I didn`t like, do you agree or disagree? Any others to add? Music in the video: Free youtube archive - A Typical ride SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGIVIQMY19o First time in Cairo Egypt and visited the Pyramids at Giza. This was something I\'ve been wanting to do forever and it was one of the greatest structures I have ever seen. Also tried Egyptian McDonald\'s in Cairo where the burgers are HUGE! ✸ Check out these awesome shirts: http://bit.ly/2IVM2ts ➔ G Who or what killed King Tut? The magnificent Boy King, ancient Egypt\'s most famous pharaoh. His death, more than 3000 years ago, has always been one of the world\'s most intriguing mysteries. Until now. Now we know exactly how King Tutankhamun died. It\'s a wrap on history\'s most fascinating cold c This informative program takes a look at the more mysterious aspects of ancient Egypt, following historians and archaeologists as they reveal a side to the innovative civilization that includes unexpected sexual behavior, beliefs in mysticism and magic, and more. 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__label__cc	0.557684	0.442316	Artsakh.Org.UK [ԱՐՑԱԽ] Artsakh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic- Russell Pollard – Photography and Journalism Life and People Artsakh Khojaly War and its Legacy Artsakh in the World Self-Determination Cases Being Armenian Home › War and its Legacy › Maragha : Don’t forget the Missing, the Dead, and the Violated Maragha : Don’t forget the Missing, the Dead, and the Violated By Russell Pollard on May 26, 2012 • ( 0 ) In war there are an abundance of stories which involve the killing of people from an individual personal level to the clinical statistics of mass populations. Despite the sensational numbers each one contains a life lost, a history terminated, a grieving family, and life long memories. Whilst no death should be worth more or less than the next one, it is the inevitability of human nature that certain incidences gain a form of notoriety and publicity that outshine others. Buried within those untold stories are events of significance which can provide more insight into the reality of the time, and the true nature of the situation which the mass-media high level reporting of more “popular history” will miss. The massacres at Maragha are an example of this. There is nothing about war which is polite but there are accepted norms about what is proper conduct and, where the law may not cover it, there are common codes of moral acceptability . In April 1992, before Azerbaijan had signed up to the 4th Geneva Convention which covered the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, their conduct in capturing the village of Maragha would not have constituted being morally acceptable. The justification for the scale and nature of atrocity in a small village in the north east of Artsakh, which had no strategic value is beyond understanding. The Azeris would have needed to have passed through Maragha to get to Martakert, and notice to the villagers to flee and move elsewhere would have been a form of proper action. The events which unfolded which resulted in people being decapitated, mutilated, and burnt alive is an atrocity that has no precedence; the state of mind that the perpetrators of this crime were in, is unimaginable. This level of hatred to another people surpasses racism, and touches on a form of evil within someone which is fundamentally disturbing. When confronted by people who are prepared to carry out this sort of action, one’s total fear of the potential for irrational behaviour would be numbing. This atrocity is not about re-establishing a legal position on territorial integrity ; this is simply about hatred by those individuals involved. Baroness Cox, who was in Artsakh at the time, with Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), was one of the first people to witness the scene in the days after, and recorded what she saw. Her graphic recollections are horrific, and the videos on the internet will bear testament to that. In an interview with her she told the following story: “I went to the hospital at Martakert and met the senior nurse. That day her son had had his head sawn off, and 14 of her family had been killed. I wept with her because there are no words at a time like that. When she stopped weeping I thought it would be of comfort to her if she could tell the world what had happened to her family. So I asked her if she wanted to give a message to the world. I expected a message of anger and bitterness, I could have understood hatred. But her face changed from grief to dignity, and she just said these words “ I am a nurse and I have worked in this hospital for many years and I have seen how the medicines that were brought to us (by the CSW) have saved many lives and eased much pain, so all I want to say is ‘Thank you’ to those people who have not forgotten us in these terrible days” I do not think that ‘Thank you’ would have been the first words that would have come to my mind on the day that I had seen many of my family killed but that is the dignity of the people of Armenia” Maragha was a place of terrible suffering and cruelty, with 52 people being massacred, 57 taken hostage and 19 still unaccounted for. Given the circumstances of this event, only 20 years ago, it is not difficult to understand why the people of Artsakh will always fight against Azeri sovereignty. What is concerning is that the politicians and bureaucrats sitting thousands of miles away, holding politically motivated discussions about the future of the Armenians in Artsakh, will not be taking much consideration of the lessons of these events in determining how to shape the lines on the map. That is why these painful memories of those tragic days should never be forgotten. HOME PAGE : www.Artsakh.Org.UK PREVIOUS ARTICLES on ARTSAKH / NAGORNO-KARABAKH / ARMENIA MORE INFORMATION on ARTSAKH / NAGORNO-KARABAKH IMAGES of ARTSAKH / NAGORNO-KARABAKH ‹ Syria: The Armenian Dilemma Armenians in London remember the Genocide › Categories: War and its Legacy Tags: Artsakh, Karabakh, maragha, massacre, Nagorno Nagorno-Karabakh was never part of an independent Azerbaijan Azerbaijani refugees: Exploiting the vulnerable for propaganda. Refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh War: Without the glare of propaganda. 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__label__wiki	0.608838	0.608838	Category: Theatre News (and new jobs) for a new trimester! 10 September 2019 10 September 2019 3 Comments The blog is back after a bit of a hiatus last year! Yesterday we began a new trimester at UCD, and I’ve just begun my new role as Head of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy. After 16 years with the School they’ve finally put me in charge of the place 😉 It’s been a crazy busy last few months as we’ve expanded our staff (with more announcements to come very soon!), and wrapped up the first year of our new MA in Art History: Collections and Curating, as well as another year of the MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management. I’ll be doing my best to keep this site up to date (thanks to some new admin help) – especially the ever-popular jobs & careers page, which has just been updated with lots of new roles. I’m currently accepting new postings again, so feel free to email them to me. A few recent developments and upcoming events to highlight: We were delighted to welcome Dr Annette Clancy as a new Assistant Professor in our School last semester; Annette will be particularly contributing to our MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, focusing on teaching arts management and pursuing her own research on organisational structures and behaviour. This year we’ve a brilliant and international MA cohort in our School: thirty-one new MA Cultural Policy students (the biggest class in a decade), and twelve in the MA Art History. Looking forward to beginning teaching this week, and getting to know all our new folks. Prof. Colin Scott (Principal, College of Social Sciences and Law); Assoc. Prof Nicola Figgis (outgoing Head of School of Art History and Cultural Policy); UCD President Andrew Deeks; Dr Catherine Marshall; Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty; Assoc. Prof Emily Mark-FitzGerald (incoming Head) Last Thursday we were honoured to confer an honorary doctorate on founding IMMA Head of Collections and wide-ranging curator and scholar Catherine Marshall. Catherine’s contributions to the discipline of art history are immense, and it was a wonderful occasion celebrating her scholarship and generosity to the arts over many decade. Dublin Fringe Festival’s now in full swing! Gotta give a shout out to a few current students, colleagues and alumni keeping busy at this year’s Fringe: THISISPOPBABY is supporting a whole range of shows & artists (their POPbasers and POPbabies) – not to mention offering up a pretty sweet picks of the Fringe guide Current MA student Mollie Molumby is producing Alison Spittle’s new play Starlet – a fiercely talented duo! Brokentalkers’ The Examination has returned to Dublin after a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and it’s been picking up superb notices – it’s a collaboration with our School of History colleague Dr Catherine Cox, drawing on her research into prisons and mental health Dublin Theatre Festival is headed our way too in late September – we’re especially pleased to be welcoming its Director Willie White as a contributor to one of our core Cultural Policy modules this semester (hat tip also to Richie O’Sullivan, one of our MA grads who recently started a new role as DTF’s Festival Administrator). Culture Night (Friday 20 September) is also on the horizon: it gets bigger every year, and there’s a nice write-up of it in today’s Irish Times, featuring an interview with its coordinator Aimee von Wylick (another of our MA grads!) Unfortunately all is not well for Dublin and culture: the bad news landed yesterday evening that beloved artsy pub and cultural innovator The Bernard Shaw is set to close. It’s the latest victim in Dublin’s relentless purge of many of its arts spaces and small creative enterprises in the wake of rising property prices and gentrification (the Dublin Flea is another recent casualty). The Bernard Shaw was an indie beacon of experimentation and optimism during the lows of the recession, and it’s a terrible shame to see it go. It’s clear urgent action is needed by the Council to ensure Dublin’s cultural core isn’t hollowed out, and that creative space (studios and venues especially) aren’t squeezed out of our city centre. I’m proud to be a board member of Arts & Disability Ireland, and we have a MAJOR event coming to Dublin from 11-14 May 2020, produced in collaboration with the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts / Very Special Arts in Washington DC – From Access to Inclusion 2020: An Arts & Culture Summit. Our call for proposals is now open, with lots of opportunity to get involved. This will be the biggest arts & disability event ever held on the island, and the ADI team is absolutely brilliant. One to pop in the diary! The first all-island dance conference Co-Motion is taking place from 25-26 October in Belfast, with a great looking programme centred on the artist-as-citizen. I’m co-organising a special session at the American Conference of Irish Studies in Houston TX in April 2020, focused on the intersection between visual culture and Irish Studies! We especially welcome PhDs and ECRS; see all the details here for how to submit. The Irish Journal of Arts Management & Cultural Policy is accepting submissions and proposals for its 2019-20 issue. Contributions are welcome from scholars, students, and arts practitioners to feature in its online publication. Finally – if you’re keen to undertake a PhD with our School in Art History or Arts Management/Cultural Policy: the primary source of funding (the Irish Research Council Postgrad Scholarship Programme) has just opened. Deadline is 31 October, but come speak with us first if you’re interested – we have lots of support for potential applicants here at UCD. I also encourage anyone interested to download my personal guide Thinking of Undertaking a PhD that has loads of helpful info and advice. Phew! Onwards and upwards, y’all. 60+ new Irish arts jobs just added David Shrigley, 2011 A tough last few weeks for folks in the arts, with the ugly spectre of censorship appearing in connection with numerous arts events & artworks connected to the Repeal the 8th campaign. Feels like it’s time to re-visit the arms-length concept of public funding, and how/when it applies to different forms of organizations. Time also to clarify the role and practices of the Charity Regulator, which is playing fast and loose with interpretations of its mandate. Anyhow. In sunnier news, this might be a record: I’ve just updated the blog with more than 60 new jobs & other opportunities in the arts and cultural sector. It’s worth mentioning several new listings are related to a major injection of £1.5 million into Northern Ireland as part of its ‘Making the Future’ multi-institution consortium project, which is funding projects and positions at NMNI, Nerve Centre, PRONI, and the Linen Hall Library. Dublin Theatre Festival is also recruiting for numerous seasonal roles; the new Tenement Museum in Dublin is hiring a Director; Belfast Exposed is hiring a Director; and the National Gallery of Ireland is hiring several collections-related roles. Also offering multiple positions currently are the Irish Film Institute and the Irish Architecture Foundation. All details etc are in the jobs page! In the meantime, dust off the sunglasses and soak up some sunshine this bank holiday weekend… Ho ho ho: 50+ new Irish arts jobs & opportunities Royal Irish Academy Christmas tree Hello friends, I’ve just updated the Jobs, Internships, & Opportunities page with a whopping 50+ new listings! Lots of great roles on offer at UCD, IMMA, National Gallery, National Museums Northern Ireland, Abbey Theatre, Butler Gallery, Children’s Books Ireland, IFTN, Solstice Arts Centre, and many many more! This will likely be my last jobs update before Christmas, but feel free (as always) to get in touch with new listings etc, and I’ll update them when I can. Wishing all of my readers a lovely holiday season (and best of luck to all the students for exams!) Vol. 4 of Irish Journal of Arts Management & Cultural Policy published I’m delighted to announce that our latest issue of the Irish Journal of Arts Management & Cultural Policy has been published! It’s a bumper issue, with four excellent research articles — covering placemaking, precarity in theatre work, cultural property legislation in Ireland, and a review of JobBridge and the cultural sector — as well as four book reviews. We’ll be sharing news soon of the new CFP for the next journal issue, as well as some changes to the format which will be announced shortly! Here are some shortcuts to the various articles, or you can find the entire journal here. Art practice, process, and new urbanism in Dublin: Art Tunnel Smithfield and social practice placemaking in the Irish capital CARA COURAGE ‘Just about coping’: precarity and resilience among applied theatre and community arts workers in Northern Ireland MATT JENNINGS, MARTIN BEIRNE, AND STEPHANIE KNIGHT Exporting Art from Ireland: The Alfred Beit Foundation and the Protection of Cultural Property TED OAKES A view from the bridge: institutional perspectives on the use of a national internship scheme (JobBridge) in Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions GRÁINNE O’HOGAN REVIEW: Communities of Musical Practice (Ailbhe Kenny: Routledge, 2016) FRAN GARRY REVIEW: The Cultural Intermediaries Reader (Jennifer Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews, eds.: Sage, 2014) JANE HUMPHRIES REVIEW: The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space and the Symbolic Landscapes of a ‘New’ Northern Ireland (Bree T. Hocking: Berghahn, 2015) ANDREW MCCLELLAND REVIEW: Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain (Robert Hewison: Verso Books, 2014) CLAIRE POWER Autumn 2016 in Dublin: an arts/cultural primer Apart from all the events on in city centre, don’t forget Drawsoc, UCD’s award-winning visual arts society! Lots of events planned on campus for the first weeks of term… Today we welcomed our new class of MAs in Arts Management and Cultural Policy here at UCD! We’ve another group of diverse and ambitious folks keen to get stuck into study, but also to explore all of the cultural delights of the city 🙂 As promised, here’s a roundup of some highlights in the cultural calendar during the next two months. For folks new to Dublin, you couldn’t land at a better time! Culture Night (Friday, 16 September) – the city will be taken over this Friday with Culture Night, with a massive number arts and cultural events happening around the country (and in NI) as well. My tips: start early, bring your walking shoes, plan your itinerary in advance (queues can be long for the popular venues!), and enjoy the liveliest night of the year in town… it’s not an exaggeration to say that most of city centre is given over to culture vultures. If you’re in UCD on Friday, take advantage of our Culture Night preview, with open studios of our artists in residence from 11-5 pm! Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival (10-25 September) – it’s on, it’s sprawling, it’s hot, it’s crazy. Fringe has already kicked off the autumn arts glut with a smashing programme this year… top venues include the Spiegeltent (in Merrion Square for the first time this year!) You’ve 73 productions and 412 performances to choose from (and here are the recs from the Irish Times), but my money’s on RIOT from Thisisopopbaby (co-produced by MA alumna Jenny Jennings) and Paul Currie’s surreal Release the Baboons. Dublin Theatre Festival (29 Sept. – 16 October 2016) – this is the big one: theatres across town will be stuffed to the gills with the offerings in this year’s festival, with top-notch international and domestic productions a-plenty, and very reasonable ticket prices. I’ve got my eye on Backstage in Biscuit Land and the new staging of a Midsummer Night’s Dream in particular. Open House Dublin (14-16 October 2016) – for the architecture buffs amongst us, this annual mainstay offers 100+ tours of iconic Dublin buildings and little-seen interiors. A fab way to poke your nose in some astonishing and striking buildings sprinkled all over the greater Dublin area. Project Arts Centre – Project 50 Season (from October) – the beloved Project Arts Centre (one of the country’s main multidisciplinary venues) is blowing out 50 candles on its cake this year, and to celebrate they’ve programmed a special season of work. Shows at Project are reliably excellent and provocative, under the steady hand of director Cian O’Brian (a graduate of our course, btw). Ireland 2016 / Decade of Commemorations – over the past year the events calendar has been stuffed with commemorative events of all shades and stripes; there’s still time to catch a number of fantastic arts events over the next few months: Composing the Island: a century of music in Ireland, 1916-2016, National Concert Hall (7-25 September) – for the music buffs, catch any one of a series of 29 concerts — orchestral, choral, instrumental, song and chamber music — by Irish composers written between 1916 and 2016. In the Shadow of the State – The Touching Contract, Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones, the Rotunda (23-25 September) – get booking NOW for this — one of the commissioned centenary works created by artists Browne and Jones, this is an immersive performance work staged in the Rotunda Hospital reflecting on women’s bodies and the state. These Rooms – Anu Productions & CoisCéim Dance Theatre (27 Sept. – 16 Oct.) – another immersive live performance, from the renowned site specific theatre-makers Anu and the highly regarded CoisCéim, revisiting the Rising from the perspective of civilians on North King Street caught in the cross-hairs. Butterflies and Bones: The Casement Project (20-22 October) – Perhaps no figure better encapsulates the conflicts and contradictions of 1916 and its legacy than Roger Casement. Dancer Fearghus Ó Conchúir has been producing a stunning series of events reflecting on Casement’s human rights activism, revolutionary aspirations, his sexuality, trial and conflicted legacy – an unmissable final instalment. Phew. I love Dublin in the autumn! Picasso and Paper: the doodling genius who loved a scrap – review Movin' on up: five dazzling dancers to watch	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4055
__label__cc	0.526419	0.473581	The Collaborators Supraja Chittari Kuchipudi Dancer and Future Physician-in-Training Supraja began training in Kuchipudi from age nine with Ms. Mallika Ramprasad at Bharata Mallika School of Kuchipudi Dance. She received more advanced training with Ms. Anuradha Nehru at Kalanidhi Dance for the past seven years and performed her solo debut recital, or Rangapravesam, in July 2014. Supraja was also fortunate to receive further training with Mr. Kishore Mosalikanti during summer intensives. Supraja considers dance as an exploration of the human experience without the filter of language. Movement and artistry makes invisible any social, racial, or geographic boundaries. Just as a physician strives to understand humanity in a holistic sense, Supraja believes that dance has similar goals. Spurred by the richness of the classical dance idiom, as well as the obligation that dancers share as social activists, she founded and captained the first competitive classical dance team, Aradhya, at the University of Virginia. For this team, Supraja created two solo dance items – Smaranam: Remembering the Fallen (2015), a response to worldwide terrorism, and Ekam: Beyond Divisions (2016), celebrating human vivacity and diversity beyond political boundaries. An interdisciplinary thinker at heart, and trained in Indian classical music from early childhood, she loves to explore the intersection of Indian classical dance with other dance and music forms. Participating in the Mahavidyas project with Shilpa, a close friend of Supraja’s from Kalanidhi Dance, amalgamates so many of her diverse interests. Currently, Supraja attends UVA and majors in chemistry and continues to purse dance and medical science on a daily basis. She hopes to attend graduate school to become a physician scientist – and continue dancing till the end of her days. The Aseemkala Initiative is so excited to have her on board!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4056
__label__cc	0.559877	0.440123	‘Avengers: Endgame’ Cast Singing ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ Is FIRE [Watch] Kelly Plasker The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon via YouTube I usually have to be asleep before any of the late night programming airs on national television, so catching up quickly on YouTube before getting out of bed is something fun to get my brain started. This morning's playlist offered one of the best parodies from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch the cast of Avengers: Endgame singing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire." I promise that it's worth the 2:06 minutes and you can thank me later. Early reviews of the film seem to indicate that this will be an epic watch, leaving fans feeling grateful for waiting over a decade to see the Marvel Universe evolve into what it is today. Get our app, win cool stuff Categories: Funny, Music, Music News, Television, Videos	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4057
__label__wiki	0.521122	0.521122	Aurora, Beyond Wayne’s World SSA Map Incentives and Resources Millennium Plaza Downtown Directory Map Art + Galleries Retail Directory » Art + Galleries Art + Galleries Come In! Downtown Aurora is home to a number of galleries, museums, and festivals for every art lover’s taste. In recent year’s, downtown Aurora has become a burgeoning arts community and an exciting mecca of art resulting in new artist festivals. Aurora hosts a spontaneous art walk on the first Friday of every month at various downtown venues. From February through December, more than two dozen venues in downtown Aurora open their doors to art, music, and more. Alley Art Festival From noon to 5 p.m. on the last Saturday of August, more than 60 artists set up along the pedestrian-friendly Water Street Mall in downtown Aurora. Annual Block Party Party on the street on First Fridays in August as Stolp Avenue closes to vehicular traffic and welcomes live music, family-friendly activities, and live art. ART GALLERIES IN DOWNTOWN AURORA Paramount Theatre’s Grand Gallery 23 E. Galena Blvd. Paramount’s upstairs gallery is grand with large walls full of exquisite works of art. Opens seasonally during First Fridays and features prominent local artists. Open to the public during performances. Aurora Art Studios Aurora Art Studios is a cooperative of area artists featuring water color, pen and ink sketches and mixed media work. The studios also hosts open gallery events, and features local artists. Aurora Art Studios is open by appointment only. They host an open house annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Aurora Public Art David L. Pierce Art & History Center 20 E. Downer Pl. One of the oldest buildings in downtown Aurora is home to both the Aurora Historical Society and Aurora Public Art. The David L. Pierce Art and History Center (lovingly known to locals as “The DLP”) at 20 E. Downer Pl. is a three-story limestone-faced structure that was restored and reopened to the public as a museum in 1996; it was renamed in honor of the former mayor in 2003. The third floor features rotating art exhibits. Hours are Wed through Sat from noon to 4 p.m. It is free to visit. Donations are appreciated. If These Walls Could Talk 32 S. Stolp Ave www.itwct.com If These Walls Could Talk is a new custom frame shop and gallery located on Stolp Island in Aurora. Customers are encouraged to bring their art and memories for framing that will last a lifetime. The shop offers gallery space to display their work, and is open every First Fridays with a new exhibit. Brick Gallery at Endiro Coffee 29 W. New York St. Endiro Coffee’s lower level showcases artwork with opening receptions during First Fridays. Gary Brown Art 7 S. Broadway Enjoy a curated art show and live music during First Fridays at Gary Brown’s art studio off of Water Street Mall in downtown Aurora. Swimming Stones Benton Street (across from SciTech) 20 E. Downer Pl. (next to David L. Pierce Art & History Center) Painted Utility Boxes Public Art Murals Bunnie Reiss :: Fox River Trail/New York Street underpass Ruben Aguirre :: Broadway/Benton overpass Josh Schultz & Rebekah Axtell :: LaSalle/Benton Sam Cervantes :: Wings Business Logo Design January 21, 2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Aurora Public Library, 101 S River St, Aurora, IL 60506, USA Jazz Tuesdays at La Quinta January 21, 2020 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm La Quinta de los Reyes, 36 E New York St, Aurora, IL 60505, USA Boss Babes Photo Shoot January 22, 2020 8:30 am - 10:00 am Society 57 Open Mic @ Tredwell January 22, 2020 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Tredwell Coffee, 14 W Downer Pl #18, Aurora, IL 60506, USA Sing Around January 22, 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Ballydoyle Irish Pub Copyright 2020 © All rights Reserved. Design by Oddlots in downtown Aurora	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4063
__label__wiki	0.543416	0.543416	Femtosecond real-time probing of reactions. II. The dissociation reaction of ICN Dantus, Marcos and Rosker, Mark J. and Zewail, Ahmed H. (1988) Femtosecond real-time probing of reactions. II. The dissociation reaction of ICN. Journal of Chemical Physics, 89 (10). pp. 6128-6140. ISSN 0021-9606. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160902-131819394 Experimental results obtained for the dissociation reaction ICN^→[I⋅⋅⋅CN]^(‡)→I+CN using femtosecond transition‐state spectroscopy (FTS) are presented. The process of the I–CN bond breaking is clocked, and the transition states of the reaction are observed in real time. From the clocking experiments, a "dissociation" time of 205±30 fs was measured and was related to the length scale of the potential. The transition states live for only ∼50 fs or less, and from the observed transients we deduce some characteristics of the relevant potential energy surfaces (PES). These FTS experiments are discussed in relation to both classical and quantum mechanical models of the dynamical motion, including features of the femtosecondcoherence and alignment of fragments during recoil. The observations are related to the radial and angular properties of the PES. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.455428 DOI Article http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/89/10/10.1063/1.455428 Publisher Article © 1988 American Institute of Physics. Received 12 July 1988; accepted 11 August 1988. This work was supported by AFOSR (Grant No. 87-0071). Contribution No. 7814. We wish to thank the referee of this and the previous paper for a thorough and comprehensive review. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) 87-0071 Other Numbering System: Other Numbering System Name Other Numbering System ID Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics 7814 Femtosecond real‐time probing of reactions. II. The dissociation reaction of ICN Marcos Dantus, Mark J. Rosker and Ahmed H. Zewail J. Chem. Phys. 89, 6128 (1988); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.455428	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4069
__label__wiki	0.958655	0.958655	BBC Background BBC Editorial Guidelines BBC Responses to Criticism BBC Editors Middle East Editor – Jeremy Bowen BBC Online Middle East Editor BBC Jerusalem Bureau Editor BBC Commissioned: The Balen Report (2004) Report of the Independent Panel for the BBC Governors on Impartiality of BBC Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Mortimer Report Independent (Trevor Asserson) The BBC and the Middle East: A Critical Study The BBC and the Middle East – An Analysis. The BBC & The War On Iraq – An Analysis (June 2003) The BBC and the Middle East: The Documentary Campaign, 2000 – 2004. Pictures of Prejudice – A Pictorial Analysis of the BBC Website, January 1st – June 30th 2005 The BBC Goes Native: A Study of BBC Arabic. Jeremy Bowen and the Gaza Conflict. ‘Preoccupation with Israel in the British Media‘, 2011, by ‘Just Journalism’ How to Complain to the BBC 2016 BBC Charter Review BBC Watch submission to the DCMS BBC Charter Review consultation UKLFI submission to BBC charter review ← The BBC’s pictorial portrayal of conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip BBC’s Knell continues the Gaza border restrictions PR campaign → BBC R4 promotes unchallenged anti-Israel propaganda and warped histories of Jerusalem On September 3rd BBC Radio 4 aired an edition of a programme called ‘Agree to Differ’ which will be repeated on the evening of September 6th and is available here. The title of the edition is “Jerusalem” and the programme is presented by Matthew Taylor – today the chief executive of the RSA and formerly Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to Tony Blair during his premiership. At the beginning of the programme Taylor informs listeners: “…we’re going to give you a completely new way to understand a controversial issue and to decide where you stand.” “We’re looking at a dispute that’s almost as old as civilization itself. We’re exploring the respective claims of Palestinians and Israelis over the city of Jerusalem.” That historical illiteracy unfortunately continues throughout the programme with Taylor promoting a variety of bizarre and inaccurate interpretations of historic, political and legal issues as we will soon see. Taylor’s guests are Rabbi Barry Marcus of the Central Synagogue in London and Rafeef Ziadah who is introduced only as a “Palestinian performance poet and human rights activist”. Listeners are not informed that Ziadah is a leading anti-Israel campaigner whose day job at ‘War on Want’ is titled “Senior Campaigns Officer (Militarism and Security)“. Neither are they informed that she is a prominent BDS activist who sits on the steering committee of PACBI and campaigns for the dismantling of the Jewish state. So much – once again – for the supposed BBC commitment to “summarizing the standpoint” of interviewees as part of its editorial guidelines on impartiality. Rafeef Ziadah’s political propaganda – which Taylor fails to challenge throughout the entire 42 minute programme – begins early on with her introduction of herself. “My family are refugees, originally from Haifa. They were forced out of Palestine in 1948 and ended up in Lebanon. My grandfather died in a refugee camp still holding the key to his home in Haifa and wanting to go back.” History, however, shows that the Arabs who left Haifa in 1948 were not “forced out” at all. “In early April [1948], an estimated 25,000 Arabs left the Haifa area following an offensive by the irregular forces led by Fawzi alQawukji, and rumors that Arab air forces would soon bomb the Jewish areas around Mt. Carmel. On April 23, the Haganah captured Haifa. A British police report from Haifa, dated April 26, explained that “every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe.” In fact, David Ben-Gurion had sent Golda Meir to Haifa to try to persuade the Arabs to stay, but she was unable to convince them because of their fear of being judged traitors to the Arab cause. By the end of the battle, more than 50,000 Palestinians had left. ‘Tens of thousands of Arab men, women and children fled toward the eastern outskirts of the city in cars, trucks, carts, and afoot in a desperate attempt to reach Arab territory until the Jews captured Rushmiya Bridge toward Samaria and Northern Palestine and cut them off. Thousands rushed every available craft, even rowboats, along the waterfront, to escape by sea toward Acre (New York Times, April 23, 1948).’ In Tiberias and Haifa, the Haganah issued orders that none of the Arabs’ possessions should be touched, and warned that anyone who violated the orders would be severely punished. Despite these efforts, all but about 5,000 or 6,000 Arabs evacuated Haifa, many leaving with the assistance of British military transports. Syria’s UN delegate, Faris el-Khouri, interrupted the UN debate on Palestine to describe the seizure of Haifa as a “massacre” and said this action was “further evidence that the ‘Zionist program’ is to annihilate Arabs within the Jewish state if partition is effected.” The following day, however, the British representative at the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, told the delegates that the fighting in Haifa had been provoked by the continuous attacks by Arabs against Jews a few days before and that reports of massacres and deportations were erroneous. The same day (April 23, 1948), Jamal Husseini, the chairman of the Palestine Higher Committee, told the UN Security Council that instead of accepting the Haganah’s truce offer, the Arabs “preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings, and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town.” “ The propagation of such historical inaccuracies continues throughout the broadcast, with the first question put by Taylor being as follows: “Who has the greater attachment and entitlement to the city and for whom Jerusalem has the greater religious, cultural, historical, political importance.” Initially unable to get a straight answer out of Ziadah regarding Palestinian history in Jerusalem and obviously unwilling throughout to curb her exploitation of any and every question posed to promote baseless political slogans such as “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”, Taylor eventually asks: MT: “Rafeef, to what extent is your argument that there was a de facto Palestinian state before 1948, for example if you take that particular moment; the establishment of the State of Israel?” RZ: “Historically in that part of the world even referring back to Roman times that area was referred to as Palestine. There is a Palestinian nation. I’m a Palestinian person. I know that within Israeli and Zionist mythology they say Palestinians don’t exist but the reality is Palestinians have always existed in that territory.” Taylor then asks his other interviewee: “Do you recognize, Barry, that in the rich history of Jerusalem there certainly was a time when it effectively was part of a Palestinian nation?” Taylor then promotes his own remarkably unrealistic and embarrassingly anachronistic New Labour-style view: “OK, now let me suggest a proposition that you might agree about and see whether you’re happy with this. Jerusalem is a city that experienced many, many different rulers, different peoples in charge; that we must respect different historical and religious claims, but that no one claim can ultimately trump the others.” He further labours the point: “There is a recognition from both of you […] for the diverse history of Jerusalem both politically and religiously. There is a commitment that you both have that this should be a city that respects those traditions.” Of course anyone who is familiar with Jerusalem knows full well that since June 1967 all cultures and religions have free access to their places of worship and sites of cultural importance. Later on, Taylor promotes the following notion: “Since Israel took control in 1967, around 400 Jewish families have moved there [the Jewish Quarter in the Old City] and in 1981 Israel’s High Court ruled that to maintain its character, non-Jews were not allowed to buy property there.” Significantly, at no point does Taylor inform his listeners that in 1948 all Jewish residents of the Old City were expelled by the Jordanians and their property taken over. Although he does not specify the court case to which he refers, Taylor apparently alludes to the Burkan case in which Jordanian citizen Mohammed Said Burkan was refused residency in the Jewish Quarter because he did not meet the requirement of being an Israeli citizen who had served in the IDF or was exempt from service. The court’s main point (p138) was that the State of Israel had an interest in the restoration of the historic Jewish Quarter from which Jews had been expelled by the Jordanians and was therefore entitled to employ positive discrimination to encourage Jews to return to the Jewish Quarter. As is all too often the case in BBC depiction of Israel, Taylor elects to mislead audiences by discounting any history before 1967, failing to note the San Remo declaration and the Mandate for Palestine. Listeners are at no point informed that the city of Jerusalem has had a Jewish majority population since the mid-nineteenth century and furthermore he fails to point out to listeners that Jordan’s 19-year occupation was not recognized by the international community. MT: “Before the Six Day War in 1967 Jerusalem was divided into the east annexed by Jordan and the west controlled by Israel. Since the war, Israel has controlled the whole city and many Jewish settlements have been established on the eastern side. The international community deems the Israeli occupation to be illegal, but how important is international law based on the pre-1967 boundaries?” Listeners are – as usual and in breach of BBC guidelines on impartiality – not informed of the existence of differing legal opinions and the inaccurate myth of “pre-1967 boundaries” which were in fact 1949 Armistice Lines with no legal standing is promoted. Taylor devotes a significant part of his programme to the discussion of “international law” and Jerusalem but revealingly, at no point does he enlighten listeners by informing them to which clause of “international law” in which document he refers or what that supposed “law” actually says. Instead, the entire discussion is based on the unsubstantiated premise that somewhere there is a legal document which rules that Israeli control of parts of a city which was only ever divided by the belligerent actions of Jordan is illegal. But the really interesting part of this programme – and what appears to be its actual aim – is Taylor’s promotion of his own view of the ‘solution’ to the issue which – remarkably or not – dovetails with existing BBC policy. MT: “Take the religious dimension out of it. What about the United Nations proposal after the Second World War that the Old City with its key religious sites be a corpus separatum that is basically an independent city-state governed by the international community. What’s your view on that?” […] “Barry what do you think of that United Nations idea that the Old City be a kind of separate statelet under international supervision? You think that might help things?” Of course Taylor is misrepresenting this issue from two points of view. Firstly, he inaccurately portrays the corpus separatum idea as relating to the Old City alone when in fact it related to a considerably larger area, including parts of the territory today governed by the Palestinian Authority. Taylor also neglects to inform listeners that the plan had a ten-year time limit. Secondly, as has been noted here on previous occasions, that UN proposal formed part of the 1947 Partition Plan (resolution 181) which, as Rabbi Marcus points out in the programme, was rejected by the Arab side outright and has no legal binding whatsoever because its adoption was conditional on the agreement of both parties. The BBC, however, not only stubbornly refuses to recognize the fact that resolution 181 has no significance but also continues to implement an editorial policy of promoting it, as can be seen in some of its Editorial Standards Committee’s distinctly odd decisions. “The [BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards] Committee noted that while there is no expectation that in a two-state solution West Jerusalem would become Palestinian territory, a UN resolution passed in 1947 has not been rescinded. It calls for the whole of Jerusalem to be an international city, a corpus separatum (similar to the Vatican City), and in that context, technically, West Jerusalem is not Israeli sovereign territory. “ Matthew Taylor appears to have taken it upon himself to promote this red herring too in a programme which – far from achieving its stated aim of giving audiences “a completely new way to understand a controversial issue” – can only contribute to their further confusion with its misrepresentation of history and “international law”, its unchallenged promotion of baseless political propaganda such as “ethnic cleansing” or “apartheid” and its advancement of a totally irrelevant ‘solution’ which was rejected almost 70 years ago by the same Arab nations who then invaded Israel – causing people such as Rafeef Ziadah’s grandfather to become refugees and dividing Jerusalem for the first and only time in its history. Had Matthew Taylor chosen to accurately and impartially represent those events as they actually happened, he may actually have succeeded in bringing audiences a “new way” to understand the topic: one which is not based on anti-Israel political propaganda and his own redundant culturally specific beliefs. By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, Impartiality • Tagged 'Agree to Differ', 'settlements', 1947 Partition Plan, 1949 Armistice Agreement, BBC, BBC Radio 4, International Law, Israel, Jerusalem, Matthew Taylor, NGOs, Rafeef Ziadah, Six Day War, War of Independence, War on Want 10 comments on “BBC R4 promotes unchallenged anti-Israel propaganda and warped histories of Jerusalem” arabs and those who support their lies are not only liars but affabulators. Romans called Judea/Samaria Palestine but its inhabitants were Jews not arabs of course! September 6, 2014 @ 12:43 pm Typical illiteracy of yet another Islingtonian clone. Petrossa Reblogged this on Petrossa's Blog and commented: BBC is nowadays a spokesperson for the Islamic State it seems. Their uniquely warped view of reality mostly fits in with the viewpoints professed by the more radical of the ideology Pingback: BBC R4 promotes unchallenged anti-Israel propaganda and warped histories of Jerusalem \| Bydio UN General Assembly resolutions are RECOMMENDATIONS so they have no legal authority. UNGA 181 violated Article 80 of the UN Charter, making an illegal recommendation http://www.facetehran.com Awesome things here. I’m very happy to see your post. Thank you a lot and I’m looking ahead to contact you. Will you please drop me a mail? Davka I didn’t think Barry Marcus did too badly here, except he fell into the trap of using the word ‘indigenous’ to describe the Palestinian Arabs, and talked about Red Indians – this contradicted all he said about the Jews 3,000 -year history in the land. It was refreshing that he mentioned Jews expelled from Arab lands but this was not followed up with the idea that they were indigenous and pre-Islamic. It was notable that every Palestinian interviewed said that his family had lived in Jerusalem for generations; every Jew interviewed had an American accent. There are Jews who lived continuously in Jerusalem for 400 years and in the 19th century Jerusalem had a Jewish majority. But no-one made that point, and we were left confused by the programme’s moral equivalence. Yes, Marcus did as well as he could, but being no expert in international law, he was reduced to the tactic of saying, let’s forget about international law, and employing other arguments. I did like when he said to her what most find too impolite to say: You lost! So deal with it! Yes, that was the best bit Fritz Kohlhaas We have the same problem with the CBC here in Canada. Anti-Israel to the core! 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__label__wiki	0.895844	0.895844	Chinadaily Forum › BBS › News Talk › China Watch › where is justice? Author: chenxin19900311 where is justice? [Copy link] 中文 dostoevskydr dostoevskydr Currently offline This post was edited by dostoevskydr at 2013-5-27 16:12 dostoevskydr Post time: 2013-5-9 13:59 and what is " JUSTICE"? Beijing police has posted a statement on their microblog saying the woman's ... Thirteen arrested for mall rumors After woman's suicide, boyfriend 'tried to incite protests,' police say Thirteen people have been arrested on charges of spreading rumors and disturbing public order in the protests that followed the death of a female migrant worker in Beijing earlier this month, police in the capital's Fengtai district have announced. "Their behavior led to serious social consequences," a statement by the police said on Wednesday. On May 3, 22-year-old Yuan Liya, a migrant worker from Lujiang in Anhui province, died after plunging from the seventh floor of Beijing Jingwen Mall, a wholesale clothing outlet in Fengtai district. Police later said the initial findings pointed to suicide and they had excluded the possibilities of poisoning, murder and sexual assault. Police notified her family members of the investigation's result, and released a short surveillance video to show that Yuan came into the mall alone on the evening of May 2. Her body was found at the exit of the mall's underground car park on May 3, according to police. "Due to discontent with the arrangements made by the mall, Yuan's boyfriend, surnamed Peng, and other suspects fabricated rumors to incite the victim's family members and friends to protest and argue for economic compensation," said Zi Xiangdong, media officer from Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. After the incident, Peng and some of Yuan's classmates and friends from Anhui province used the Internet to distribute rumors, saying "the young girl died mysteriously" and "she was killed by the guards in the mall after they raped her," according to Fengtai public security bureau. Another suspect, one of Yuan's friends surnamed Ma, set up a chat group for 1,000 people on the instant messaging service QQ to incite people to gather outside the Jingwen Mall and call for further investigations into the tragedy, according to the police. On May 8, hundreds of people, including Yuan's family members, fellow migrant workers from Anhui, and shop workers protested outside the mall, said Li Runhua, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Some of them quarreled with police, and assaulted and injured police officers, he said. Police later arrested Peng and another 12 suspects on charges of severely disrupting social order and spreading rumors online. The mall agreed to pay Yuan's family 400,000 yuan ($65,000) as compensation for "negligence" by its management, according to a police statement released on May 12. Gate keepers of the mall did not check whether there were people still on the premises, allowing the woman to stay in the center, government representatives from Yuan's hometown who came to Beijing to help handle the incident later said. Li Runhua said the case is still being investigated and severe punishments will be handed out to those who used the Internet to commit crimes. If people are convicted of stirring up trouble, such as causing serious disorder in public places or preventing law enforcement officers from performing their duty, they may serve jail terms of up to five years, said Li Lin, a lawyer from Beijing Lawyers' Society. zhangyan1@chinadaily.com.cn May's Best Contributor 2013	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4072
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__label__cc	0.645589	0.354411	Home / Lifestyle / Art a force for good Art a force for good - by Marie-Claire Williams July 10, 2019 Marie-Claire Williams It was a full house at the Courtney Blackman Grand Salle of the Central Bank last evening as artists and members of the public turned out for the annual Crop Over Visual Arts Festival. The exhibition will run from July 9 to August 3 at the Central Bank and Queen’s Park, under the theme ‘Crop Over Ah Come From: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Connections of the Crop Over Festival’. Addressing the launch, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Cleviston Haynes highlighted the importance of Crop Over and the arts to the Barbados economy. “The arts energise and unify people, and stimulate economies, and this is exemplified in our national Crop Over celebrations, a festival of creative arts and culture. “Crop Over increases Barbados’ visibility, as the traditional and social media beam the activities to the world. The explosion in fetes, parties and shows has added dynamism to the entertainment sector, and we have created a new export industry as our calypsonians travel to perform. In short, Crop Over boosts economic activity, earns foreign exchange, generates spend, and bolsters tourism, the mainstay of our economy,” Haynes said. Chair of the National Cultural Foundation’s Marketing Committee Muriel Robertson told the audience that it is time for Barbados to capitalise on the creativity of its citizens. “Cultural goods made up more than 16 per cent of Barbados’ total exports in 2016 and showed a trend of steady growth. It is time that we capitalise on the wealth of creativity our island has to offer and develop a greater appreciation for the cultural and commercial value of our local arts. “It is also important that we create a canvas for the export of our art both regionally and internationally. I know that sometimes as creative people, we sit in this design space and the business of exporting our art can feel unattainable and unachievable. But with the power of the internet and social media, the world is your oyster,” Robertson said. She noted that for the past 25 years, the Central Bank Crop Over Visual Arts Festival has been instrumental in pushing local art into public spaces, and according to her, “It helps to connect the bridge between those who understand the finer details of art and those who casually enjoy it”. “It brings into the consciousness of Barbadians and visitors to the island the high quality and variety of work being produced. I believe it is important we recognise the significance of the arts all year round, and I think we’re trying to do that. “Our island is home to a number of indigenous art styles ranging from shell craft, called sailors valentines, to the giant stone painted sculptures using what is called the skin back technique. We must celebrate these works while celebrating the newer artists.” Central Bank Governor Haynes also pointed to the positive impact of the arts on patients suffering from mental illness. “The arts support health and wellbeing, and impact positively on specific health conditions like dementia, depression, and Parkinson’s disease. Our local Alzheimer’s Association exhorts families of dementia patients to treat them to music, and dance, and drawings, to help them cope with their illness,” he said. He also praised local artists for sharing their talents with Barbados, the region and the world. “Our artistes sometimes feel that they receive insufficient recognition and rewards for their labours. The recent accolade bestowed upon the Mighty Grynner and, before him, internationally renowned Rihanna should inspire our artistes to persist, work hard and be patient and one day, they too may join the national pantheon of cultural practitioners saluted by this fair land.” Several artists were recognised for their work last evening, including Cy Hutchinson, who received The Central Bank Governor’s Award and the Central Bank Purchase Award of Excellence. (MCW) Start the discussion. What are your thoughts? Start a conversation. Cancel reply Starting from infancy . . . CIBC FirstCaribbean assists with Books for Babies Research has proven that children who are read and sung to in early infancy become better communicators and readers and are... Diabetes Association’s focus on education, support in 2020 With Barbadian diabetes rates at double the global average, the Diabetes Association of Barbados announced a drive to educate... 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__label__wiki	0.838482	0.838482	Cubs Land Chris Denorfia The Chicago Cubs have reportedly reached an agreement on a one-year deal with Chris Denorfia. Denorfia, 34, spent parts of five seasons with the San Diego Padres, mostly serving in a platoon role in the outfield, before being traded to the Seattle Mariners last season. Tags: Chicago Cubs, Free Agent Rumor, Misc Rumor Rockies Agree To Two-Year Deal With Hundley The Colorado Rockies and Nick Hundley have agreed to terms on a two-year contract. Hundley will earn more than $6 million over the course of the deal. The Baltimore Sun first reported the agreement. Hundley, 31, spent most of his seven-season career with the San Diego Padres before finishing last season with the Baltimore Orioles. Thomas Harding/MLB Tags: Colorado Rockies, Free Agent Rumor, Misc Rumor Reds Acquire Marlon Byrd From Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies have traded Marlon Byrd to the Cincinnati Reds. Byrd will earn $8 million next season on the final year of a two-year deal that includes an $8 million team option for 2016. Philadelphia sent cash to Cincinnati as part of the trade. The Phillies received minor league pitcher Ben Lively in return. Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Misc Rumor, Trade Rumor Bumgarner Named AP's Top Male Athlete Madison Bumgarner has been named The Associated Press 2014 Male Athlete of the Year. Clayton Kershaw finished second and Derek Jeter third as baseball dominated the voting. Bumgarner, who was named the National League Championship Series and World Series MVP, racked up a postseason ERA of 1.03 in 52 2/3 innings in helping the San Francisco Giants win their third World Series championship in the past five seasons. Tags: San Francisco Giants, Misc Rumor Shields Had Career-High Velocity In 2014 James Shields is 33, which may make him a free agent risk in some eyes, but metrics from the 2014 season indicate that he can still pitch at a very high level. Shields had an average fastball velocity of 92.4 mph last season, the highest of his nine seasons. His walks and strikeouts were down slightly. The right-hander has averaged 223 innings over the last eight seasons. Richard Justice/MLB Rangers Liked Similarities Between Banister, Hurdle Michael Young, hired as special assistant to Jon Daniels with the Texas Rangers, was a part of the interview process as the team looked for a new manager. Young saw a lot of similarities between Jeff Banister, who got the job, and Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. Banister worked under Hurdle for the last four seasons. Evan Grant/Dallas Morning News Tags: Texas Rangers, Misc Rumor Mariners Get Seth Smith From Padres The Seattle Mariners have acquired Seth Smith from the San Diego Padres in exchange for right-handed reliever Brandon Maurer. Smith is expected to join Justin Ruggiano in a right-field platoon for the Mariners. "We were in search of adding another outfielder. We've got a player that's a professional hitter, a guy that we think is going to give us really good [at-bats] especially against right-handed pitching," Jack Zduriencik said. Tags: Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Misc Rumor, Official Trade, Trade Rumor Report: Mariners Nearing Deal For Seth Smith The Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres are close to a trade involving Seth Smith, according to multiple reports. San Diego is looking for bullpen depth, which is an area in which Seattle can help. Smith has two years and $12.75 million remaining on a contract extension he signed last July with the Padres. Greg Johns/MLB Tags: Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Misc Rumor, Trade Rumor Dodgers, Sergio Santos Reach Contract The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to sign Sergio Santos to a Minor League contract. Santos has struggled over the past three seasons due largely to injury issues. Jon Heyman/CBS Sports Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Free Agent Rumor, Misc Rumor Alex Gordon Undergoes Wrist Surgery Alex Gordon underwent successful right wrist surgery on Tuesday morning by hand and wrist specialist Dr. Bruce Toby at the University of Kansas Hospital. While no formal timetable is being announced, Gordon is expected to be recovered in plenty of time for the 2015 season opener against the White Sox on April 6 in Kauffman Stadium. RealGM Staff Report Tags: Kansas City Royals, Injury Rays Agree To Sign Asdrubal Cabrera The Rays have agreed to a one-year deal with Asdrubal Cabrera, according to a source. Orioles Looking At Rasmus, Swisher Nelson Cruz and Nick Markakis both departed via free agency. Jon Morosi/FOX Sports Blue Jays Interested In K-Rod, Trade Options For Closer Casey Janssen worked the ninth inning for the Blue Jays the last three seasons but is now a free agent. Ozzie Guillen Ready To Return To Majors Ozzie Guillen, who hasn't managed since he disappointed with the Marlins in 2012, wants to get back in the game. Scott Merkin/MLB Mariners Still Considering Seth Smith The Mariners are still looking to add depth to their Major League outfield. Ryan Divish/San Diego Union-Tribune Yankees Trade Shawn Kelley To Padres The Yankees have traded Shawn Kelley to the Padres in exchange for right-hander Johnny Barbato. Cabrera Drawing Interest From Jays, Rays, Royals, Yankees The 29-year-old infielder hit .241/.307/.387 in 616 plate appearances split between the Indians and Nationals in 2014. Byrd Trade Between Phillies, Reds Fell Through The two teams could re-work the trade in the future. Cubs Interested In Stephen Drew The 31-year-old Drew hit .162/.237/.299 in 300 plate appearances during the 2014 season. Royals, Volquez Finalize $20M Deal The deal includes a mutual option for the 2017 season. Boras Hints 'Personal Issue' Led To Drew's Decline In 2014 The market for Stephen Drew could heat up soon as teams exhaust trade possibilities for a middle infielder. Scherzer's Chances Of Re-Signing With Tigers Tied To Price Max Scherzer remains on the market as January approaches, a surprise to no one given how agent Scott Boras has operated in the past. Furcal Tears Hamstring, Comeback Bid In Jeopardy Rafael Furcal, looking to continue his Major League career, saw his chances of doing so decrease when he suffered a torn hamstring in the Dominican Republic. Austin Laymance/MLBlogs Indians, Manship Agree To Minors Deal The 29-year-old spent time with the Phillies, Twins and Rockies during the 2014 season. 'Decent Chance' Rays Trade Ben Zobrist Ben Zobrist will earn $7.5 million in the final year of his contract. D-Backs, Pennington Agree To One-Year Deal Cliff Pennington is expected to fill a infield utility role for the D-Backs in 2015. Phillies, Wandy Rodriguez Agree To Minor League Deal Veteran pitcher Wandy Rodriguez and the Phillies agreed to a Minor League deal on Saturday. Starlin Castro Questioned By Police Cubs shortstop has been questioned by the Dominican Republic police in connection with a nightclub shooting. Hiroki Kuroda Is Returning To Japan Hiroki Kuroda will pitch for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, his first professional team. Doug Fister Gives Out Free Starbucks On Wednesday, Doug Fister tweeted out a scanable barcode good at any Starbucks for a free beverage, but asked that folks limit themselves to just one purchase. 2020 January 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4081
__label__cc	0.521392	0.478608	GRI Reporting’s Impact on ESG Ratings [fa icon="calendar'] Dec 13, 2018 11:18:19 AM / by Bahar Gidwani Two years ago, the sustainability business community elected me to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council (SC). Thank you, it has been an honor to represent you. I recently traveled to Amsterdam to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Council. I thought our readers might like to hear some of what we discussed and learned. One caveat. There were parts of our discussion that are (and should be) confidential. The SC is tasked with advising GRI’s Board on its strategy. We also select/elect some of GRI’s Board members. Furthermore, these represent my individual views as a GRI SC member, but I am not an official spokesperson and don’t speak on behalf of the Stakeholder Council or of the GRI. These remarks have been reviewed by SC’s GRI liaison to be sure I’m not revealing information I shouldn’t. GRI’s Value Virtually everyone who is involved in sustainability reporting is aware of GRI’s contribution to our field. It is the best known and the most respected approach to reporting—and has been for many years. We have shown that companies who use the GRI method for organizing their reporting receive better sustainability ratings. The table below shows a recent analysis across 4,000 companies. As you can see, companies that report using the GRI approach have consistently higher ratings on CSRHub than those who don’t. Since CSRHub’s scores include input from 565 different rating sources, there is a strong correlation between using GRI’s methods and how positively a company is seen across a wide range of different rating methodologies. Note that reporting only every other year is associated with less improvement. One of the things we discussed at the SC meeting was that some companies seemed to be skipping years in their reports. Our ratings data indicates that those who report every year seem to have a ratings advantage over those who don’t. One of GRI’s focus areas has been the harmonization of different ratings systems. This is in response to a perceived fractured reporting landscape and concerns from stakeholders (especially in the investment community) for simplicity and comparability in ratings. The chart below shows an example of the disconnect those using ratings must cope with. The six companies above are all large and well-studied. The consensus view of (as measured by CSRHub) is that their sustainability performance is pretty similar. However, the four ESG rating systems (and credit score) that we show above show a lot of variation. Even highly experienced users of these data sets are often at a loss to explain these differences. One of GRI’s responses to these concerns has been to participate in the Corporate Reporting Dialog. “The Dialog,” as it is known, is supported by seven ratings and standards-setting groups, including CDP, SASB, and Integrated Reporting. GRI would like to become the “IFRS of ESG.” Take a look at the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) site, if you haven’t before (they are also a supporter of the Dialog) and you will see where GRI is heading. GRI is working on a number of new Standards. These will be released through the Global Sustainability Standard Board (GSSB) process. There is a hope that more Standards can be released over the next year, than over the past. GRI has built up its staff in the area and they are clear on their priorities. Expect a continuation of the working sessions in 2019 for GRI Community members (formerly known as the GRI GOLD community). There will be several meetings on corporate reporting, on integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into reporting, and on how best to organize digital reporting. Please feel free to send me comments, suggestions, and advice that may help GRI continue to be successful. I have one more year in my current term and would like to serve you, my constituents, well. Bahar Gidwani has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and was one of the first people to receive the FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) designation from SASB. Bahar worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. He has founded several technology-based companies and is a co-founder of CSRHub, the world’s broadest source of corporate social responsibility information. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 180M data points from 550+ data sources including 12 leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 18,000 companies in 132 countries across 136 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008. [fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments posted in Bahar Gidwani, ESG ratings, GRI Sustainability at Our Alma Mater, Harvard Business School [fa icon="calendar'] Feb 21, 2017 9:46:22 AM / by Bahar Gidwani Two of CSRHub’s founders went to Harvard Business School. (Cynthia and I were in the same study group!) So we remain interested in the affairs of our alma mater—especially as they relate to sustainability. Colleges and Universities are pretty interesting “entities” from a sustainability perspective. Many of them are huge enterprises—as big or bigger than most major corporations. For instance, Harvard University employs about 16,000 faculty and staff (more staff than the 11,000+ students they serve). The University of Texas at Austin has about the same number of staff, 15,000, watching over its 50,000 students. In contrast, US Steel employs only 21,000 people—not too different! We have 11 sources of information and 158 elements of data available on Harvard University, but can only rate it on 8 of our twelve measures of sustainability. This is a common situation for Colleges and Universities (we have 47 sources for US Steel). We currently offer full ratings on only 9 of the 88 education entities that we cover in CSRHub. This situation should improve as we gather more crowd and government sources. (For instance, the US Department of Education provides an interesting Scorecard that has more than 100 data items per college. (E.g., did you know that Harvard University graduates earn an average of $87,200 ten years after graduation, compared to $52,800 for UT grads?) Colleges and universities face many of the same sustainability-related issues that businesses do. For instance, Harvard has tussled with its host communities (with both Cambridge and Allston), as it has expanded its facilities and grown its “footprint.” The University recently went through a strike with its food workers, narrowly avoided a strike with its janitors, and faces a unionization effort among its graduate student workers. It has also made public commitments to reduce its carbon footprint, waste production, etc. While schools like Harvard may have a “sustainability report,” few educational institutions have generated a GRI report (10 in the past two years out of the 88 entities in this group) and none have done a CDP report. This lack of formal reporting, coupled with public/private governance structures that diffuse responsibility, make it hard to hold educational institutions to the same standard of behavior that we do for business entities. However, the core buyer for education is young and more socially aware than the average consumer of most business products. We expect to see students (and faculty) increase pressure on universities and colleges to both disclose more of their social behavior and to press schools to improve their social performance. Search a company on CSRHub and see their sustainability performance. Bahar Gidwani is CEO and Co-founder of CSRHub. He has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA, worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. Bahar has consulted to a number of major companies and currently serves on the board of several software and Web companies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City. CSRHub provides access to the world’s largest corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information. It covers over 16,800 companies from 135 industries in 133 countries. By aggregating and normalizing the information from 500 data sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links millions of rating elements back to their source. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices, and seek ways to improve corporate sustainability performance. [fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments posted in Harvard Business School, sustainability, GRI CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani elected member of Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council [fa icon="calendar'] Nov 9, 2016 8:00:00 AM / by CSRHub Blogging CSRHub is pleased to announce that our CEO and Cofounder, Bahar Gidwani, has been elected as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Stakeholder Council. His three- year term will start at the beginning of 2017. The Stakeholder Council takes a crucial role within GRI’s governance structure, alongside the GRI Board of Directors. The Stakeholder Council is GRI’s formal multi-stakeholder advisory body, which debates and deliberates key strategic and policy issues with a view towards providing advice to the GRI Board of Directors. The Stakeholder Council comprises a balance of stakeholder and geographic constituencies. [fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments posted in Bahar Gidwani, CSRHub, GRI, Global Reporting Initiative's Stakeholder Council CSRHub and Bloomberg - part 2 Part 2 of a 2-part series The first part of this post described the reasons iCompli and CSRHub decided to create the new ESG Metrics Brief report. We thought it might be helpful to provide a concrete example of the kinds of information—and opportunities for action—that these reports create. At number 8 on the 2014 Fortune list, Ford is a well-studied, multinational with a long history of interest in sustainability. Ford has reported to the GRI since 2007, to CDP since 2006, and has won many awards and recognitions. CSRHub has 139 different sources of information on Ford and 22,501 different ratings points. Ford’s overall CSRHub rating of 60 puts it at the 71% percentile among the 118 motor vehicle manufacturers that CSRHub tracks. The overview The first chart in Ford’s ESG Metrics Brief provides a visual representation of this relative performance: While overall performance is well above average, it is clear that of the four major categories of sustainability performance that CSRHub tracks, Ford is strongest in “employees” and weakest in “governance.” The ESG Metrics Brief has access to CSRHub’s eight years of ratings history and a similar range of history from Bloomberg. This chart shows how Ford’s CSRHub rating has changed over this time period. The ESG Metrics Brief next brings in other ESG sources from Bloomberg’s system. Here is the relative performance for Ford as seen by ISS and by CDP. After a user has reviewed the overall situation for a company, he or she can “drill down” into each of the four main categories that CSRHub covers. For instance, here is the change over time for Ford’s governance rating, compared to those of its peers. The above chart uses CSRHub ratings. Other sources and metrics drawn from Bloomberg help further explain Ford’s loss of competitive advantage compared to its peers in this area. One factor may be a reduction in the amount and quality of Ford’s disclosures. A second factor could be the perception that Ford’s CEO compensation is out of line with that of its peers. Bloomberg tracks a wide array of metrics and policies that give users of the ESG Metrics Brief even more insight into this part of Ford’s sustainability behavior. We believe that an ESG Metrics Brief will be a good starting point for those who want to understand one company’s sustainability performance. The report is easy to obtain. It takes three business days or less to generate each report. The report is inexpensive. Each report costs only $495—much less than the time and energy required for most researchers to generate something comparable, and far less than the cost to license the datasets. The report is broad and comprehensive. You get data on more than 120 indicators across all areas of sustainability. Each report normally compares against between 10 and 30 peers. The report helps inform the stakeholders in a sustainability strategy process. You can share the report internally and help prove your case for new programs, further investments, and shifts in strategy. We have more data than we can ever fit into any single report! We look forward to getting feedback from our users about the ESG Metrics Brief and continuing to fine-tune it to meet their needs. See more now, including a full sample, at http://www.csrhub.com/content/icompli-csrhub-esg-metrics-brief/. [fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments posted in Bahar Gidwani, Bloomberg ESG, EIRIS, ESG, governance, ISS, social, UN Global Compact, Uncategorized, iCompli, sustainability, Transparency.org, MSCI, Thomson, Trucost, CDP, CSRHub, environment, ESG Metrics Brief, GRI Bloomberg ESG and CSRHub Benchmark - part 1 Sustainability professionals spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of time developing and managing their sustainability programs. Most dread the almost inevitable question from their manager or their manager’s manager—”How are we performing relative to our peers? Where are we doing well and where do we need to improve?” The iCompli CSRHub ESG Metrics Brief is designed to make it easy to answer these questions in a fact-based and authoritative way. Why has it been hard to get answers? Sustainability managers know their own programs—and understand the data they generate and report. However, hundreds of outside sources each form their own opinions on a company’s sustainability performance. They use different criteria and come to different conclusions—and both their analysis methods and their viewpoints are not always readily available. For instance, is Wal-Mart more socially responsible than Target? The barriers to answering this question include: Too much information – CSRHub contains 131 sources of sustainability information for Wal-Mart and 118 sources for Target. Gaps in the data - 85 of the above data sources rate both company, but many sources are unique to only one of the two companies. Broad range of comparable companies – CSRHub tracks 274 retail companies worldwide. To fairly compare Wal-Mart and Target, one needs to put them into context against all of these other competitors. Our new solution required combining two components CSRHub’s database system maps, merges, and normalizes sustainability ratings from 425 sources. It includes information from Wall Street firms such as Thomson, MSCI, EIRIS, and Trucost; data from non-governmental organizations such as CDP, GRI, Transparency.org and the UN Global Compact, and information from government databases, publications, and various types of certification and crowd sources. By combining almost 80 million pieces of data, CSRHub can generate objective scores of the perceived sustainability performance for more than 15,000 companies in 132 countries. The end result shows that Target is generally more sustainable than Wal-Mart—although Wal-Mart is seen has having better performance on environmental issues. This perception perspective helps identify where a particular company is weak or strong. But, most corporate managers need to also see comparable sets of facts and figures, before they can invest in new projects or change their strategy. The new ESG Metrics Brief combines CSRHub’s insights with the hard facts contained in Bloomberg’s well-respected ESG (Environment Social Governance) Database. Bloomberg tracks data on more than 30,000 publicly-traded companies, from around the world. Its data set includes information not only hundreds of data items its own staff gathers from public sources and company filings but also data from other major ESG sources such as Sustainalytics and ISS. The result is a set of comprehensive reports on 6,969 companies in 77 countries. Look for part 2 of this series to see a concrete example of the kinds of information—and opportunities for action—that the new ESG Metrics Brief's create. To see more now, including a full sample, go to www.csrhub.com/content/icompli-csrhub-esg-metrics-brief/. 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__label__wiki	0.678009	0.678009	Cinderella Axel Braun Full Movie When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods. Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending! This is the third television version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella; a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.This 1997 television remake was adapted by Robert L. Freedman and directed by Robert Iscove, with choreography by Rob Marshall. It was produced by Whitney Houston and Debra Martin Chase for Walt Disney Television and aired on November 2, 1997. Sixty million viewers watched the broadcast. Several songs were added, including "Falling in Love with Love" from the musical The Boys from Syracuse, sung by the Stepmother; "The Sweetest Sounds" from the musical No Strings, sung by Cinderella and the Prince; and "There's Music in You," written for the 1953 film Main Street to Broadway, sung as the finale by the Fairy Godmother. Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence Wintergarden’s Santa Land. The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state. Another Cinderella Story A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty. An adaptation of the fairy tale, Cinderella traces the misadventures of our heroine, who, via the help of her "fairy" (i.e. gay) godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom until he finds that one, mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball. After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The 1957 premiere had been broadcast before videotape was available, so only one performance could be shown. CBS mounted a new production in 1965, with Richard Rodgers as Executive Producer and written by Joseph Schrank. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and sung in their original settings. Added to the Rogers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific in 1949 but not used in that musical. The 1965 debut had a Nielsen rating of 42.3, making it the highest-rated non-sports special on CBS from the beginning of the Nielsen ratings until 2009, and the 50th highest-rated show of any kind during that period. A Cinderella Christmas Angie works hard to run her uncle’s events business while her cousin Candace takes the credit. When Angie takes a night off to have fun at the Christmasquerade Ball, the mask and gown allow her to let loose, and she quickly catches the eye of Nicholas, a wealthy local bachelor. But then Angie has to go before revealing her identity, leaving Nicholas searching for his mystery woman in this modern take on the classic fairy tale. Sam Montgomery is a tomboyish, unpopular girl at school. She has been text messaging a somebody named Nomad for a few months and he asks her to meet him at the Halloween dance at 11:00 in the middle of the dance floor. The only problem is, she must get back to the diner, ran by her wicked Stepmom Fiona by 12 sharp because she is not supposed to be there. Before Nomad can find out who she is, she must leave with her best friend, Carter driving her back to the diner. After that night, everything in Sam's life goes wacko! A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star. Cinderella II: Dreams Come True As a newly crowned princess, Cinderella quickly learns that life at the Palace - and her royal responsibilities - are more challenging than she had imagined. In three heartwarming tales, Cinderella calls on her animal friends and her Fairy Godmother to help as she brings her own grace and charm to her regal role and discovers that being true to yourself is the best way to make your dreams come true. A modern reimagining of the traditional tale of the orphaned girl with an evil stepmother. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time When Lady Tremaine steals the Fairy Godmother's wand and changes history, it's up to Cinderella to restore the timeline and reclaim her prince. Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale: Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but she is able to go to the Royal Ball with the help of the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella, the beautiful and kind-hearted girl who lives with her greedy stepmother and two selfish stepsisters, charms a handsome prince when her fairy godmother sends her to the royal ball. She must leave the ball by midnight before all the magic is gone, but Cinderella has so much fun that she forgets all about the warning, and when she flees the castle she leaves behind one glass slipper. Cinderella, originally released directly to video in 1994, is a 48-minute animated film adapted from the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault. The movie was produced by Jetlag Productions and was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment as part of their "Collectible Classics" line. A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she can sing her way into his heart. Not Cinderella's Type Indy lives with her aunt and uncle and believes her life is fine until an accident brings a new guy into her life. Bryant Bailey is not Indy's type - she's never been into guys like him. But then again, she's never really known anyone so stubborn and caring that can also help her discover who she is and what she's worth. A modern telling of Cinderella, based on the novel by Jenni James. Trap for Cinderella A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery. Cinderella and the Secret Prince During the Royal Ball, Cinderella and her mice fellows discover a secret that could shake their world: the real prince has turned into a mouse by the evil witch, and the "Prince" from the Royal Ball is in fact a fraud. Now, Cinderella and her friends are going to begin a whole new adventure to save the real Prince, and help him defeat the evil force. Hero Seorang Cinderella Hero Seorang Cinderella tells a story of a woman by the name of Nura Medina. Living with her cunning and malicious stepmother, Puan Sri Mawar, and her stepsister, Puteri, a vile and hateful yet gullible person, Medina has to endure endless verbal abuse and unjust treatment. Things took a turn in her life when she meets Tengku Ian, a charming, cheeky, and helpful young man, whose background and life is a mystery to her. Despite being someone who is careful with her emotions, Medina finds herself attracted to Tengku Ian without her fully realizing it. Eun Ha-Won is a college student. She is a bright girl who wants to be a veterinarian, but at home she is lonely. She is isolated from her family members. Eun Ha-Won lives with father, step-mother and step-sister after her mother died in a car accident. One day, she helps a mysterious old man. The old man suggests to her to live in a mansion and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. Since than, she moves into the mansion and lives with three cousins Kang Ji-Woon, Kang Hyun-Min, Kang Seo-Woo and their bodyguard Lee Yoon-Sung. Cinderella’s Flip Flops Haan (Min) is dowdy a shoes sales associate at BKK Plaza, a department store that Khunchai’s family owns. Bue (Pae) is a newly hired sales associate working in the men’s undergarment department. By chance, Khunchai rescues Haan when she passes out in the restroom. Haan wants to thank him in person but she realizes that she will never get a chance to once she learns that he’s the son of the mall owner. Maprow and Mam, Haan’s coworkers and friends decided to help by giving Haan and makeover so she can attend Khunchai’s party. Haan finally gets to meet Khunchai once again but out of embarrassment, she lies about being a socialite named Honey. But before Haan can explain and thank him, a photographer takes a photo of them together. Out of fear of her secret being exposed, she leaves the party and Khunchai in a rush. As luck would have it, Khunchai has taken a like to Haan and wishes to date her. Haan cannot believe this since it has been her dream of leading a life like Cinderella. So with Bue’s and the rest of her friends’ help, Haan is able to keep pretending to be Honey. But how long can Haan keep living her life as Honey before the truth comes out? And will her dream of becoming Cinderella become a reality? Is a pair of glass slippers something that she wants or just a pair of flipflops? The story is about Meesha who lives with her two step sisters and step mother. She is mistreated by her step mother and does all the house hold work. Meesha meets the rich and dashing Mayer. Meesha, thinking that he is her prince charming, who has come to rescue her and put an end to all her troubles, tries to win his heart. Bukan Cinderella Cinderella Story El-Cinderella Dia Bukan Cinderella Cinderella's Stepsister A modern day adaptation of Cinderella with a twist as our Cinderella, Goo Hyo Sun, is loved by everyone whereas her stepsister, Eun Jo, has a dark past and struggles with the fact that her mother starts to care more for Hyo Sun than her. Cinderella at the Palace Cinderella Rong Tao Tae Cinderella Girls Theatre THE [email protected] Cinderella Girls There are many idols with long-established talent agency 346 Production. And now the company is starting a new program, the Cinderella Project! Girls leading normal lives are chosen to be aspiring idols and see another world for the first time in this Cinderella story. Can they all climb the stairs that lead to the palace? The magic begins now... Cinderella '80 Cik Cinderella dan Encik Tengku When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls' Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls' Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known... Cinderella Boy Cinderella Boy follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again. The Last Cinderella Sakura is a single 39-year-old woman who works as the assistant manager at a beauty salon. She spends her days making her customers look beautiful but doesn’t pay much attention to her own appearance. All of that changes when she goes to a party and meets Hiroto, a much younger man who is a biker. Will Sakura revel in the attention of the handsome but dangerous Hiroto or notice the constant interest of her hard-talking and hard-drinking salon manager, Rintaro? 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__label__cc	0.554235	0.445765	bikz — Do you wanna piece of me? make me tea. Pooka - gone, took my life with him, and there's no chance of me getting it back because he's made it into a pile of bricks. Ben - wasn't even there in the first place, obviously prefers everyone else to me because he actually notices the existence of everyone else. Dan - haven't seen him for months. Bungle - eh!? Rookery House - still don't like it there, but am still going there anyway. Farleigh - still kinda miss it, but it also kinda feels like it was a waste of time and I made better Walsall College material. Either way I know that's something I can't have back. New Zealand - sounds good, found out I'll be at the same uni as Jess and probably at the same time too, but will I be able to cope with it? Doubt it. I can't cope with Somerset, for fuck's sake. "Look forward" - great resolution. But there's nothing to look forward TO. - b.k. x bricks. bombs Pooka's house, bricks go flying everywhere and I take them all notices mean comments about me on each one throws them around randomly FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU. I would feel a lot better now if that was real. Thing is, the only time I heard him really happy is when he broke up with me. Don't you get it? I wanted a fucking BREAK, not a fucking BREAK-UP. I said that then, but you're meant to know me, for fuck's sake. You don't know me at all. What I was after was a while off, not a whole new fucking life as some demented ex which I would rather die than be. FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU. Catster The Rockstar Game	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4096
__label__cc	0.506022	0.493978	Linux Mint 19 named 'Tara' Unfortunately, 2017 was not the much-fabled year of the Linux desktop. Hell, that might not ever happen. With Windows 10 being such a disappointment for many, however, it is definitely a possibility. Maybe 2018 will be the year... One such desktop operating system that consistently delights users is Linux Mint. Today, we get some information about the upcoming version 19. The biggest news is that it will be called "Tara." If you aren’t aware, the operating system is always named after a woman. Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint leader, shares the following information. The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 19.x series will be named "Tara". Tara is a popular name here in Ireland, and the name of someone we really like 😉 The development cycle only just started so it’s a bit early to give details about Linux Mint 19, but here’s what we can say already: Linux Mint 19 is estimated to be released around May/June 2018. Linux Mint 19.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and supported until 2023. Linux Mint 19.x will use GTK 3.22. GTK 3.22 is a major stable release for GTK3. From there on, the theming engine and the APIs are stable. This is a great milestone for GTK3. It also means Linux Mint 19.x (which will become our main development platform) will use the same version of GTK as LMDE 3, and distributions which use components we develop, such as Fedora, Arch..etc. This should ease development and increase the quality of these components outside of Linux Mint. What do you think of the name Tara? Tell me in the comments below. Image credit: Africa Studio / Shutterstock	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4102
__label__cc	0.634081	0.365919	About DCI DCI Cares Client Resources Library DCI Software Support Salary Equity Software: EEOPay The EEO Studio EEO/Affirmative Action Affirmative Action Plans New Contractors AAP Program Launch Custom Availability Reporting and Trending OFCCP Audit Support Back Pay and Settlement Calculations Pay Equity Analysis Title VII and OFCCP Analysis Wage Gap and Custom Analytics State/Local Pay Analyses Remediation and Salary Adjustments General HR Risk Consulting Mock Audits HR Risk Needs Assessment Applicant Tracking Change Management Consulting EEO-1 and VETS-4212 Filings Adverse Impact Analysis RIF Analysis Individual Complaint Investigation(s) State Compliance Reporting State AAPs/Compliance Reports State Equal Pay Laws Diversity Metrics Diversity Gap Analysis & Monitoring Talent Acquisition & Employment Diversity Dashboard Survival Analyses Performance and Promotion Analyses Pipeline Source Identification Custom Developed Metrics System Executive Board Reporting General Consulting and Training Organizational Benefits of a Diverse Workforce and Talent Pool Diverse Candidate Slate Risk Awareness Personnel Selection Selection Procedure Development and Validation Research Formal Validation Research Third Party Review Test Audits Job Analysis Research Selection Tool Development Identify Workforce Competency Gaps Job Similarity Analyses Competency Modeling Litigation/Audit Support Services Testifying Expert Witness Work Consulting Expert Witness Work Post-Litigation Services EEO Analytics Multiple Event and Pattern Consistency Analyses Controlling for Qualifications Barrier Analyses Analyses of Performance Measures DCI Consulting Blog DOL Advises States That America’s Job Bank Will Shut Down in 2007 The Department of Labor plans to phase out America’s Job Bank over the next year, according to notices DOL sent to state officials earlier this year that are posted on the Web site for the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. Rationale for the phase-out DOL’s rationale for discontinuing America’s Job Bank was that the benefits of the national job site no longer outweighed the costs of operating and maintaining the system. DOL also pointed out that since AJB was started over a decade ago, most states have developed or purchased their own Internet-based job banks and the private sector has caught up and produced numerous nationwide job sites and thousands of other specialty sites. Emily Stover DeRocco, Assistant Secretary for DOL’s Employment and Training Administration, said in her letter to the state workforce agencies that ETA is proceeding with plans to phase out AJB by June 30, 2007. Not a Surprise DOL’s decision to terminate America’s Job Bank should not come as a complete surprise. The Administration’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget request for DOL, which was released in February 2006, proposed eliminating the funding for AJB (see page 66 of the linked file) with a complete phase-out of the job board in 2007. DOL stated in this budget proposal that it had been phasing out its support of AJB given the growth of private sector job banks and the continued availability of state-run banks to serve job seekers and employers. What is AJB? America’s Job Bank, which was created in 1995, is considered the “biggest and busiest job market in cyberspace." According to the AJB Web site, the CareerOneStop is a collection of electronic tools managed as a federal-state partnership, and operated through grants to New York and Minnesota, in partnership with the other states and private sector organizations. The free site is said to list approximately two million jobs and more than 680,000 resumes. Alternatives to AJB Because DOL has not formally announced the phase-out of America’s Job Bank to the employer community, it is not certain what alternatives it will ultimately make available or recommend to federal contractors to meet their job posting requirements under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) once AJB has been phased-out in 2007. Proposed Veterans’ Regulation However, given the ETA documents discussed above, it is likely that DOL will expect federal contractors to rely on private job boards on the Internet, as well as online state job banks. This approach is consistent with DOL’s proposed rule to implement amendments by the 2002 Jobs for Veterans Act to the affirmative action provisions of VEVRAA, which would require contractors to list their openings “with the appropriate service delivery system,” or in other words, with individual employment service offices. DOL has not yet finalized these regulations. 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__label__wiki	0.569961	0.569961	Identity Automation Announces Strategic Partnership with Infinigate Norway December 23, 2019 \| By Jill Kressin \| Company News HOUSTON, TX, December 23, 2019 – Identity Automation, provider of RapidIdentity, the most complete Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform on the market, and Infinigate Norway, a premier cyber security value added distributor in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Nordics, today announced their strategic partnership to support organizations in the Nordics. Infinigate Norway will act as a local distributor to bring Identity Automation’s enterprise-class Identity and Access Governance (IGA) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions to the Nordics at large, managing sales, integration, and technical support and streamlining service delivery and customer support for local customers. Not only does this move align with Identity Automation’s 2.0 growth strategy, a targeted initiative to scale the business, but Infinigate Norway also brings a wealth of expertise as a leading value added distributor of IT security solutions in Europe. "We are excited to be the distributor for Identity Automation and to introduce a powerful solution for the cyber security space for our channel partners." said Thomas Hagelid, Regional Manager, Nordics at Infinigate Norway. “Identity Automation’s technology platform and in particular, their capabilities in certain market segments, are unique to Identity Automation and highly relevant in the IAM market place”. "Infinigate is the perfect match for Identity Automation.” said Tim Till, Strategic Account Executive at Identity Automation, adding, “Their channel enablement focus and cyber-security competency were critical considerations for us.” About Identity Automation Identity Automation helps organizations secure the new perimeter, increase business agility, and deliver an enhanced user experience with RapidIdentity, the most complete identity, access, governance, and administration platform available. RapidIdentity addresses fully automated lifecycle management, comprehensive identity governance, multi-factor authentication, secure single sign-on, password management, privileged access management, and more. Identity Automation operates globally with tens of millions of identities managed across on-premises and cloud resources. For more information, visit: www.identityautomation.com. About Infinigate Infinigate was founded in 1996 as the first distributor of Internet solutions in Europe. Since 2002, Infinigate has focused on the deployment of sustainable IT security solutions to protect networks, servers, devices, data, applications, and cloud solutions. As a value-adding distributor, Infinigate focuses on security solutions that require a high level of expertise and knowledge. Infinigate offers its partners and suppliers a complete package and complements their product portfolio with dedicated technical knowledge, marketing, sales and professional services. Following acquisitions in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, as well as its establishment in France, the Infinigate Group currently has about 300 employees and operates in 10 European countries; Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. For more information, visit: https://www.infinigate.com/. Identity Automation’s 2019 Milestones Drive Momentum into 2020 I’m proud to share our latest press release announcing our team achieved numerous, significant... Our 2020 Predictions: What's in the Future for IAM? Another year has passed and we’re now in a new decade. Looking back on our 16 years as a company... Meet Our Team: Mack Bickle, Partner Manager In this Meet Our Team installment, we’re talking about Identity Automation Partner Manager, Mack...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4107
__label__cc	0.669448	0.330552	New Jersey Foundation for Aging Blog Aging is everyone's business Posts Tagged ‘local library’ Reading! In the Feb/March issue of Renaissance we reviewed the Book Still Alice.¬† This lead to a discussion with the NJ State Library about other relevant titles to suggest to you, your friends and family. They were very helpful in developing a list that also includes books for young readers.¬† We thought we’d suggest a community-wide read focusing on these titles and so we have alerted the County Library Systems and the County Offices on Aging and shared these titles with them. Let‚Äôs read, let‚Äôs laugh, let‚Äôs talk amongst ourselves. These books will inspire! Enjoy. I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Norah Ephron. Reading these succinct, razor-sharp essays by veteran humorist (I Feel Bad About My Neck), novelist, and screenwriter-director Ephron is to be reminded that she cut her teeth as a New York Post writer in the 1960s, as she recounts in the most substantial selection here, “Journalism: A Love Story.” Forthright, frequently wickedly backhanded, these essays cover the gamut of later-life observations (she is 69), from the dourly hilarious title essay about losing her memory, which asserts that her ubiquitous senior moment has now become the requisite Google moment, to several flimsy lists, such as “Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again,” e.g., “Movies have no political effect whatsoever.” Shorts such as the several “I Just Want to Say” pieces feature Ephron’s trademark prickly contrariness and are stylistically digestible for the tabloids. Other essays delve into memories of fascinating people she knew, such as the Lillian Hellman of Pentimento, whom she adored until the older woman’s egomania rubbed her the wrong way. Most winning, however, are her priceless reflections on her early life, such as growing up in Beverly Hills with her movie-people parents, and how being divorced shaped the bulk of her life, in “The D Word.” There’s an elegiac quality to many of these pieces, handled with wit and tenderness. (Nov.) (Publishers Weekly) Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age by Susan Jacoby (February 2011) As the older members of the baby boom generation approach 65, marketers are at the ready with an abundance of ‚Äúage defying‚Äù products and services. But is aging as trouble free as marketers tout and aging consumers would like to believe? For her part, journalist Jacoby, herself in her 60s, admits to rage at the efforts to redefine old age without facing up to the unavoidable realities. For example, after age 65, the prevalence of Alzheimer‚Äôs doubles every five years. She focuses on distinctions between the young old (60s and 70s) and the old old (80s, 90s, and the few 100s) as well as the very different prospects for the elderly who are poor or minorities. Jacoby explores social, cultural, economic, and political changes in the concept of old age, from passage of the Social Security Act to extended life expectancy and retirement, from the activism of the Gray Panthers to the ravages of Alzheimer‚Äôs. Drawing on research, personal experience, and anecdotes, she offers an important reality check for Americans enamored of the images of healthy, active seniors featured in advertisements. –Vanessa Bush (Booklist) I‚Äôm Too Young to Be Seventy and Other Delusions by Judith Viorst. The beloved bestselling author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty now tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor. Fans of Judith Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise poems about turning thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty will love this new volume for the woman who deeply believes she is too young to be seventy, “too young in my heart and my soul, if not in my thighs.” Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, “Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?,” when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because “they may be middle aged, but they’re still my children,” and when she graciously — but not too graciously — selects her husband’s next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled “If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here’s the Wife You Next Should Take.” Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider “drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy.” (Amazon.com) Rules of the Road – Joan Bauer. (Teen Fiction) Jenna Boller, 16, has had a lot of practice at being responsible. Her mother is a nurse who works the night shift, and her younger sister yearns for attention. Jenna’s long-divorced, alcoholic father embarrassingly shows up whenever he gets an occasional urge to “make it up” to her. In addition, her wise and beloved grandmother is grappling with Alzheimer’s disease. So the teen’s mother reluctantly agrees to let her accept a summer job driving the elderly Madeline Gladstone, the crusty and demanding president of the shoe chain for which Jenna works, from Chicago to Texas. Jenna is surprised to learn that Mrs. Gladstone has problems, too: an aching hip as well as an aching heart. Her conniving son is maneuvering to take over the company and sell out for a huge short-term gain. Jenna comes to admire and love her boss and eagerly enters into an alliance of loyal employees to save the company. In making this valiant attempt, she finds herself truly transformed. ¬†Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech, grades 4 to 7¬†¬† “Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today. Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along, that’s true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. It’s easier to remember what’s important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup. ” Now, head to your local library, it is a great place to keep cool on hot, humid summer days! 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__label__cc	0.542828	0.457172	All posts by warren kirwan Media and public relations at the disability charity Scope. Blogs about disability and benefits, welfare, social care, public policy, and our campaigns. Changing the world one step or keystroke at a time. Campaigns, News and politics, Real life stories From Nike to Manchester United, brands are listening to disabled people 4 May 2016 warren kirwan There have never been so many different ways to influence decision-making at all levels of society. Social media allows disabled consumers to have a direct conversation with brands and companies. They are taking notice. Martin Emery is a life-long Manchester United fan and a father to three sons. Zac who is five years old, Ethan who is seven and Jordan who is now 18. Jordan has a number of medical conditions, which means he has learning difficulties, has many seizures a day and uses a wheelchair. Martin was initially told by Manchester United that he couldn’t seat his family together, and Jordan could only have one carer with him. Things then got worse before they got better. A club official emailed Martin to say: “there are some clubs that would welcome you with open arms and possibly ask you to bring as many family members as possible, the downside is it wouldn’t be at Old Trafford, most probably Rochdale, Oldham or Stockport”. Undeterred, he set up a campaign and website United Discriminates and kicked it off in a blog a year ago. Read Martin’s blog on the campaign. The good news is that by the end of last season United had constructed a new accessible seating area for disabled fans, families and friends. Consumers speaking out Iconic high-street brand M&S recently launched an online range of bodysuits, sleep suits and vests with poppers in additional larger sizes. That was on the back of a Rita Kutt, the grandmother of a three-year-old Caleb, who has cerebral palsy, contacting the retailer. Read the discussion Rita set up on Scope’s online community. They had difficulty finding clothes to fit him, as he uses nappies and is fed through a tube in his stomach. Caleb’s family then set up a Facebook page called M&S and Me: Special Needs Clothing for Children, which now has more than 4,500 members. When M&S wanted to test their new designs we arranged for parents from our Scope community to trial some sample sizes with their children. Their feedback helped to shape the products. The new range of clothes cost between £3 and £7, cheaper than similar items of clothing for disabled children currently available in the market. The influence of social media is growing Social media allows individual consumers to have a direct conversation with brands. Nike developed an easy grip trainer in response to an open letter from a 16 year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Lego introduced disabled characters after they were contacted by Toy Like Me, a Facebook campaign run by a disabled mum, who realised that there weren’t enough toys representing disabled people and children. A growing number of businesses are taking action in response to the Extra Costs Commission, an independent inquiry that last year found daily life costs more on average for disabled people. In response to the report, ride-sharing app Uber launched UberAssist in the UK, a service that allows disabled passengers to call specially trained drivers. Thinking about what disabled consumers need makes sound commercial sense There are over 11 million disabled people in the UK and their spending power is over £200 billion a year. In February, ticketing agent The Ticket Factory following complaints from disabled customers upgraded its booking system to allow disabled people to buy tickets. Barclays Bank has launched a new portal on its website that supports businesses to make their services and products more accessible to disabled people. What we need now is even more companies to listen to disabled consumers and recognise the power of the purple pound. Let us know in the comments below if you’ve come across any brands going the extra mile for their disabled customers. campaigningdisabilitydisabled childrenManchester UnitedNikepurple poundsocial mediaUber Campaigns, News and politics Disabled families hit hard by extra costs 25 November 2014 warren kirwan Una Summerson, Head of Campaigns at Contact a Family, writes about why urgent action is needed from the Government and energy companies on extra costs for families with disabled children: Contact a Family’s Counting the Costs campaign found a sharp rise in families with disabled children going without heating and food over the last 2 years. This is leading to ill health. With more than 3,500 responses from UK families with disabled children, More than a quarter have extra costs of £300 or more every month relating to their child’s disability. The biggest costs being higher heating and utility bills. Looking ahead, 60% of surveyed families see their financial situation worsening in the next year. Shaped by what thousands of families with disabled children say would help, the Counting the Costs campaign calls for urgent action by the UK government to stop this alarming trend. However, the campaign also recognises it’s not just about making sure the benefits and tax system adequately reflects the extra costs and barriers to work families face. We are calling for energy companies take action to include all disabled children in their eligibility criteria for the Warm Home Discount Scheme. This scheme may lead to a rebate worth up to £140 on electricity bills. You can qualify if your energy provider is part of the scheme and: you’re a pensioner who receives the guarantee credit of pension credit (the core group) you fall into the ‘broader group’ of people that your energy supplier gives the discount to. Each supplier has their own criteria for deciding who fits into the ‘broader group’. Some state that disabled children can be part of this ‘broader group’. Some don’t mention them at all, while others accept them if they also have a low income or child under 5. Confused, yes so are we! Contact a Family’s helpline adviser Marian Gell says “It’s a minefield understanding the different eligible criteria for us let alone busy families. For example, British Gas use Universal Credit to determine eligibility. Since relatively few people are getting universal credit and it seems likely that many families will not be moved onto Universal Credit for several years. A family with a disabled child getting income support and child tax credit would not qualify according to these rules.” The confusing and differing criteria, alongside the limited time families with disabled children means many often miss out on the scheme. We would therefore like to see a standard approach across all suppliers. Eligibility could be simply determined by receipt of child Disability Living Allowance. Ideally, we need disabled children not just to be recognised as part of the ‘broader group’ but to be part of the core group who receive the discount automatically and don’t have to apply. Get involved with the campaign or find out about help with fuel bills on the Contact a Family website. Disability Living Allowancedisabled childrenExtra Costs; disabled familiesGovernmentIndependent livinglife costs morePersonal Independence PaymentPersonal Independence Payment (PIP)policy How disabled people can become savvy consumers 7 November 2014 warren kirwan 1 Comment Why is life more expensive if you are disabled? What can be done to bring this premium down? How we can enable disabled people to become smarter purchasers of goods and services? That’s what the year-long inquiry into disabled people’s extra costs took a close look at their first roundtable debate. Here is Andy Simpson from the Family Fund explaining why life costs more for disabled families. The event kicked off with Dr Roger Wicks director of policy and campaigns at Action on Hearing Loss explains where companies are going wrong and where the main challenges lie. Independent commissioner Martin Coppack explains how many businesses have a ‘mythical consumer’ and very streamlined front-line response teams. Jonathan Stearn from Citizen’s Advice Bureau picked up on the theme that products targeted at targeted at specific groups fail. All consumers are vulnerable at different times, and disabled people are only vulnerable when they denied goods and services by company systems that are not responsive enough. The debate focused on how we change the behaviour of companies, and make it easier for disabled people to be savvier consumers. One great idea was to target accountants for small businesses as a way of introducing new concepts because every small business uses them. Another was the introduction of a ‘gold standard’ for organisations to aim for. However, all too often disabled people aren’t consumers in a market because they can’t afford to get into it in the first place. But there are solutions. We heard how successful Motability is at creating a market in leased cars, scooters and powered wheelchairs for disabled people. All someone needs to take part is exchange their mobility allowance. This gives Motability a massive stake in the market and the leverage and expertise to reduce costs, admin and time to the consumer. Other great examples that were thrown into the mix included SENDirect that brokers information, advice and costs of services to parents of disabled children. The final speaker was Richard Garner from Purple Compare on how he plans to update the concept of comparison websites to give disabled consumers better information, and crucially a better deal. Find out more about Scope’s extra costs work. Extra Costs Disability, employment and the law Guest post from Emma Satyamurti is an employment and discrimination lawyer with the law firm Leigh Day. If asked to list the key ingredients of a good life, I would bet that most of us would rank work pretty high. A decent job provides more than a salary; it provides a role, not just in the narrow sense of the job description but a purposeful connection with other people and of contributing to a shared enterprise. At a basic level, getting a fair wage, is a confirmation that you have value in the world. It is not surprising, then, that long-term unemployment can impose a heavy burden, in terms of financial poverty but also through the pain of social isolation and low self-esteem. Not to mention the economic costs of wasted talent and lower tax revenues. The recent report published by Scope – ‘A million futures: halving the disability employment gap’ – makes important reading. It begins with some striking statistics: The gap between disabled and non-disabled people’s employment is 30%. 10% of unemployed disabled people have been out of work for 5 years or more as compared with 3% of non-disabled people. 220,000 more disabled people left than entered employment last year . More positively, halving the unemployment of disabled people would add £13 billion to the economy. Of course not all disabled people are in a position to work, but for too many people the obstacles are caused not by their disability but by the hostility of the world of work. The political penchant for stigmatising them as benefit scroungers completely misses the point. The law provides disabled people with many protections. It protects from disadvantageous treatment because of their disability. It also places employers under a duty to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to remove barriers faced by disabled people. This obligation is one of the most powerful tools in the disability rights toolkit. It offers a lever for creative partnership between employer and employee that can be a force for real progress. But theory and practice are not always in step. While many employers take a constructive approach to disability issues and want to do the right thing, many do not. As an employment lawyer specialising in discrimination (and as a disabled person myself), I see first-hand how often quite simple, inexpensive adjustments would make all the difference. Yet these are not always forthcoming. I am thinking, for example: The visually impaired client who needed better lighting. Clients whose mental health difficulties mean that a small degree of flexibility in working hours. Clients recovering from medical treatment who, while not yet at full capacity, are keen to return to some form of work and need a non-permanent but intelligent approach to ‘sickness’ absence to do so. Indeed this last point emerges as a key focus of Scope’s report. Their research suggests that employers’ inflexible approach to sickness forces many into long-term sickness absence and ultimately job-loss. Adjustments to (for example) working hours and location could have supported them to remain in productive work. This is a lose-lose situation for both employers and employees, and for the economy. One of the recommendations in Scope’s report is for the introduction of a new type of ‘adjustment’ leave to counter the current all or nothing approach. This caters in particular for periods of crisis or change. This would enable employees to take a limited period of part-time sick leave to deal with the situation, while still being able to work on other days. The current system of GP fit notes, and the duty to make reasonable adjustments would support such an initiative, and it will be interesting to see if the government takes it up. I am optimistic Unemployment is a damaging form of social exclusion which impoverishes those out of work and society as a whole. Disabled people are particularly vulnerable given the prejudice and fear that still surrounds disability. But I am optimistic. In my own work I have dealt with many cases where employers have (albeit with a little help!) found ways to accommodate my clients’ needs. They can turn what could have been a downhill spiral into a temporary glitch in a successful career. Scope’s report provides a reminder of the difficulties faced by disabled people. It also shows how much we have to gain from progress and proposes some thought-provoking steps we might use to get there. Being in control of your own money 16 April 2014 warren kirwan 1 Comment For most of us, it goes without saying that we control our own money. We choose when to spend and save, where to keep it and how to manage it. For many people with a learning disability however this isn’t the case. Meike Beckford is a Financial Advocate with Dosh, a not for profit company that specialises in supporting people with a learning disability to manage their money. Here she explains more about their recent investigation into banks and banking. The importance of support We all need help and support to manage our money, whether it’s a suitable bank account and regular bank statements, or guidance and information about pensions on retirement. This support is even more important for people with a learning disability and many other financially excluded people. The right information and support enables many more people to manage their own money well, avoiding financial hardship and using their money to have a more fulfilling life. This support could involve: accessible, easy-to-understand information on money topics maths and numeracy lessons benefits support suitable and adaptable banking products and services debt management and support The important thing is that the support is personalised. Not too much so that the person loses their independence and control, but enough so that they can manage their money well and use it in the way they want. Dosh believes that everyone should have as much control and independence over their money as possible. We work hard to achieve this in our daily support for people, as well as through extra projects to tackle specific problems. Problems with banking We recently became aware of problems people have when accessing banking. Our financial advocates reported problems opening accounts, assessing mental capacity and giving proof of identity.. We decided to investigate the problem further and talked to many partner organisations, like Scope, as well as members of the banking sector to see what we could do to make things better. Our report showed how damaging poor support can be – a lack of accessible information for example can leave someone unable to understand banking or open an account. This leaves them excluded from managing their finances and ultimately, less in control of their money. Without a bank account, people will struggle to receive benefit payments, make savings on bills through direct debits or put money away for the future. We wanted to improve the situation and empower people to get the support they need, so we recently released the making money easier guide. This guide follows the report and helps people understand how banks should be supporting them, including what the law says they should be doing. Supporting people to manage their money better One of our financial advocates started supporting a gentleman in 2012 who was not receiving all of the benefits he was eligible for and as a result he was struggling to pay his bills or live a fulfilling life. With personalised support, the gentleman now receives all of the benefits and premiums he is eligible for and also has support to make cost savings such as switching to direct debits to pay his bills. Thanks to this support, he now lives a much better life. He has taken control of his money, paying all his bills and still having some money left for the things he enjoys – he is even planning a holiday to America in the future, as long as he saves enough money first! Lack of the right, personalised support with money leaves many people financially disadvantaged and excluded. It increases the risk of financial abuse, mismanagement and debt and stops people making choices about their lives. It is essential that disabled people get the right support and advice to be in control of their money. After all, without money, what could we actually do. More information about Dosh The second in our series of reports in to disabled people’s living standards is – Priced Out: ending the financial penalty of disability by 2020. The report brings together new research and analysis to investigate the extra costs disabled people face and how to tackle them. BankingBanksExtra CostsFinancemoneyPriced Out The Access to Elected Office Fund – changing the world one political appointment at time 3 February 2014 warren kirwan Today Minister for Women and Equalities Helen Grant announced that the fund will continue for another year, and be extended. Helen nailed the central issue and reason it was created in the first place when she said: “Disabled candidates can often be faced with additional costs that make standing for election more difficult than their non-disabled counterparts.” The fund also “creates the space for disabled people to play a key role in these decision-making processes, but can also lead to increased visibility in public life, and ultimately change attitudes towards disability” according to Scope chair Alice Maynard. In the run up to the 2010 election the Conservative party manifesto committed to “introduce a £1 million fund to help disabled people who want to become MPs, councillors or other elected officials with the extra costs they face in running for office”. The fund idea was then reflected in the coalition agreement after the election. Since the fund was launched in July 2012 there have been over sixty applications to the fund, which will now also cover Parish and Town Council elections. The Local Government Association Be a councilor campaign is also being expanded and will now help aspiring disabled candidates by providing coaching, mentoring and training, to help build their confidence, knowledge and skills. Everyone involved deserves a huge amount of credit, for recognising the potential disabled people have, and the benefits they can bring to our communities and political life. Crucially that is being backed up with money, time and commitment, particularly at a time the public purse is under pressure. Disabled people are still massively under-represented in public life, but here’s hoping that more people take the plunge and use to its full potential. In you’re interested you can apply on the Access to Elected Office Fund website. accessfundingGovernmentpolicypolitics What the Conservatives and Labour say about welfare reform and disability Today the Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith gave a speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Centre for Social Justice think-tank about welfare reform. Here is what he had to say about disability: “Of course in the most severe cases of sickness and disability, it is right that welfare should support individuals, but even then, it must be about more than sustainment alone. It should be about helping people to take greater control over their lives. For all those who are able, work should be seen as the route to doing so – for work is about more than just money. It is about what shapes us, lifts our families, delivers security, and helps rebuild our communities. Work has to be at the heart of our welfare reform plan, or all we will do is increase dependency not lessen it.” Read the speech in full on the Spectator website, or with other comments on the Guardian’s politics live blog. On Tuesday Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary laid out her party’s stance on social security at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank, and here is what she said about disability: “Now it’s important to say at the outset that there will always be people who cannot do paid work, because of illness or disability. “And it is part of our responsibility to them to make their rights a reality: rights to dignity and respect, to a decent standard of living, and to the resources and support that can empower them to contribute and participate equally and fully in society.” Read the speech in full on the New Statesman website. Governmentlabourpolicywelfare Your reactions to the suicide storyline in Coronation Street 20 January 2014 warren kirwan 1 Comment (photo by Andrea_44) Tonight the ITV Soap Coronation Street will see Hayley Cropper, a character who has pancreatic cancer, end her life. As the Metro says “stand by your tissues”. If the build-up is anything to go by there is sure to be a strong reaction. Here is a bit of a spoiler on Digital Spy. Over the weekend the debate continued. Former Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson says this storyline may encourage disabled or ill people to take their own lives. While Daily Mail commentator Peter Hitchens’ take on the Corrie’s storyline and the ensuing debate is “the worst thing is that this sort of propaganda by melodrama bypasses wisdom and reason”. We asked people on Facebook and Twitter what they thought “The storyline is about suicide, not assisted suicide. Everyone already has the ‘right’ to kill themselves like Hayley. I agree with Ian Penfold – let’s help the living to live, not the dying to die. 2. It is at least a strange coincidence that the story appears just as Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill is being launched. 3. Telling some people that suicide is fine as their lives are valueless because they fulfill certain physical criteria WILL impact upon disabled people….” But those views aren’t shared by Donna who said: “As a severely disabled person, since birth I think it should be an individual’s choice whether to end their life with dignity. As long as that person is of sound mind. I live with constant pain as my body won’t tolerate painkillers. It is hard to explain to someone how bad the pain is. Most people think they understand pain, but take my word for it, there are many different types of severe pain, and unless you have experienced bone pain for example you can’t possibly know how demoralising it is to live with day in and day out.” Alison’s post was particularly poignant: “I am in the last few weeks/months of my life according to the consultants, I am only 47, I will not allow myself to become a shell of the person I am, I will not and do not want to let my children watch me struggle much more with the pain I am living with. I want the right to a dignified end, an end where my mind is sound and I have been able to have conversations with the people I love.” Christine thinks the storyline has been “very well done” and: “This is a case of a women who is aware of her choices and made them after careful thought. She knows why she wants to do it. It’s not like she had a bad day and then decided to end it on a 5 minute decision. This argument has been around far longer than the coronation street storyline and soaps tend to mirror real life issues. The fact is the character is going to die at some point. People with disabilities may live a long life, but with excruciating pain and loss of quality of life.” Susan added: “Assisted suicide was covered in Emmerdale, in a tragic storyline and the legal ramifications that followed. I can’t recollect any call for a change in the law with that storyline. Corrie’s storyline is the suicide of a person with terminal cancer. I don’t see how the leap can be made. I’m very unsure about assisted suicide. I understand the point of view of helping somebody who wants to die but can’t do it for themselves but I can also see how it can be abused not just by relatives but by officials etc. And the way this country is at the moment I can see such a law I can see disabled people being persuaded to die when they don’t want to.” Michelle said on the Scope blog: “As the mother of three disabled children, two of whom are severe learning disabled this frightens me! I can see some state doctor making the decision to euthanize my children when they are adults as the most economical option, rather than pay the high expense to care for them properly. It’ll be a sad day for society when that happens!” Tonight, the proof of the pudding will be in the watching. We have to wait and see what happens, but the debate will continue, and as this headline in the Western Daily Press says: “From Tony Nicklinson to Hayley Cropper, the right to die debate is not going away”. Assisted Dyingassisted suicideCoronation Street Coronation Street’s controversial suicide storyline 17 January 2014 warren kirwan 5 Comments (photo by Paul Walker) Everyone is talking about Corrie. Next week Hayley Cropper – a long standing character in the soap who has pancreatic cancer and is terminally ill – will take her own life. Every family experiences death, and nobody wants to see or think about their loved ones in pain. It’s no surprise a touch paper has been lit. The issue of how Hayley dies has become a major talking point – from the Sun to the Today Programme. There have been strong reactions. Warnings have been sounded about copycat suicides. THE DAILY MIRROR: CORRIE COPYCAT SUICIDE FEAR #skypapers pic.twitter.com/d88ETCE6Wa — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 13, 2014 Hayley’s husband is against the suicide. We wait to see what he will do. The storyline has restarted the national debate on assisted suicide The Sun backs a change in the law. It’s resident GP gives a heartfelt account of what it’s like to have a relative experience decline and increasing pain…and her wish to be able to end her mother’s suffering. Sun p1: poll backs assisted dying – peg to Coronation St pic.twitter.com/X7OsbHpOmY Biggest Corrie politics story since http://t.co/tcGrF7MF8x — Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) January 14, 2014 Meanwhile in the courts the family of Tony Nicklinson – who had locked-in syndrome – and Paul Lamb who was paralysed after a road accident are campaigning to have the right to ask a doctor to help Paul die. The other side of the debate However, disabled campaigners and charities, such as Care Not Killing and Not Dead Yet oppose any weakening of the law. They are worried that it will ferment negative attitudes to disability and lead to disabled people being put under pressure to kill themselves. As Dr Peter Saunders from Care Not Killing said on the Today Programme “The most concerning thing of all about this is the myth that suicidal thoughts in people who are disabled or sick should be managed differently from similar thoughts in those who are not sick or disabled… It panders to public prejudice in a way that is very, very dangerous.” Scope’s chief executive Richard, explained the concerns in a blog. This all comes ahead of an Assisted Dying Bill which could be heard in the Lords as early as May. Scope has long argued that this is a really important debate, and even more important is that the views of disabled people are heard. Let us know what you think about this storyline and the ‘right-to-die’ debate that it has sparked. assisted suicideCoronation Streettony nicklinson Five reasons why social care is STILL the biggest issue facing disabled people 10 September 2013 warren kirwan 1. The social care system is on its knees. Social care is the support disabled people get from their council to get up, get washed and dressed, and live independently. Cash-strapped councils have been upping the bar for support eligibility, with 83% of councils now setting the threshold at a higher level. According to London School of Economics 69,000 disabled people have been pushed out of the system. And councils are squeezing the support for those that are in the system. A Scope survey found almost 40% of disabled people who continue to receive social care support are not having their basic needs met including eating properly, washing, dressing or being able to get out of the house. ADASS says councils are facing a further 10% cut in their budgets. Have a listen to Angela Murray explain why social care is so important to her. Take away the preventative support and people fall into crisis. A series of experts and politicians made the link between the escalating A&E crisis and social care over the last six months. 2. Britain Cares about social care. Over the last six months the public has been showing it cares about social care. The Stephen Fry-backed Britain Cares campaign has seen over 25,000 people contact their MP about social care for disabled people – a thousand of whom have sent personalised photos to show they care. At the same time Angela launched a petition on Change.org, which has received more than 45,000 signatures. A similar petition on 38 degrees garnered just as much support. Those will passion for craft have worked the words ‘I Care’ on to everyday items and sent them to their MPs to show their support. 3. £3.8billion. The June Spending Review saw the Chancellor make significant cuts across Government departments – to reach a target of saving £11.5bn, including removing automatic pay rises for time served for staff in schools, NHS, prisons and the police. Against that backdrop he announced a £3.8 billion investment – including £2 billion of new money – in social care with the aim “of delivering better, more joined-up services to older and disabled people, to keep them out of hospital and to avoid long hospital stays”. The Government announced this money would be spent through Health and Wellbeing Boards. This is significant as it was the mechanism a Scope-facilitated joint inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Local Government Group and All Party Parliamentary Disability Group recommended in its report Preventing Crisis: Making social care reform work for disabled adults. This should enable the money to be spent on front line services, reacting to local demand. 4. We’ve now got the small print. Some of the cash can go into the main social services kitty (or black hole judging by ADASS’ latest budget survey). But there are conditions attached, that demand councils to spend most of the money on joined-up health and social care. Councils and health services have to agree plans for how it will be spent, which then need to be signed off by Health and Wellbeing Boards. The Government also wants to see joint approaches to assessment and care planning and, where care is joined-up, one accountable professional. Cash should also be targeted at supporting patients being discharged from hospital who need care. Most intriguingly councils only get the extra cash if they retain their eligibility threshold at the current level. This is very much a case of the Government addressing what it sees are the most urgent issues, while it goes about making the case for the Care Bill. 5. The crucial question is who gets care and who doesn’t. The Government will answer this as part of the Care Bill, which has had its first set of debates in the Lords. Under the current plans – reiterated by the Minister in a discussion guide, which also gave a clue as to how eligibility would be worked out. The good news is that some of the detail of how the Government will decide eligibility looks good. The bad news is that the Government intends to set the bar for eligibility to social care at a level which London School of Economics (LSE) says will leave 105,000 disabled people with significant needs outside of the system altogether. The bill also seeks to tackle the crisis in care by introducing a cap on costs, a new means-testing threshold and national eligibility to end the postcode lottery in care. It is due to be debated in the Lords in October and then it’s over to MPs at the end of the year. Scope – like a number of organisations – is arguing that by squeezing people out of the system the government undermines other more positive moves, such as a cap. We’re also expecting a consultation in November which will be a chance for disabled people, carers, families and public to have their say. 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__label__cc	0.531103	0.468897	The Truth of a Fractal World This article draws from my book Chaos: a User’s Guide, chapter “The Collective: a more fractal society, institutions, learning and organizations?” In the second Matrix movie, the heroes Neo, Trinity and Morpheus venture to a restaurant unlike any other. Settled on top of a skyscraper, though seemingly fully enclosed, the upscale eatery is where one must go to meet with a powerful sentient program: the Merovingian. Masterfully played by actor Lambert Wilson, “Merv” acts like a mob chief who negociates vital services at rather hefty prices. He holds another human-like program, the Keymaker, captive. Neo and the others came to see him to negociate the Keymaker’s liberation. Soon their discussion takes a surprisingly philosophical turn. The Merovingian claims that everything has a cause and a reason, an origin and an end. Like Emmanuel Kant would, Morpheus disagrees: “everything begins with a choice.” A sovereign, uncaused, absolutely unconstrained act of choosing. To which the Merovingian answers with a piece of anthology: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without… We struggle against it, we fight to deny it. But it is, of course, pretense. It is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is, we are completely out of control. Causality: there is no escape from it. We are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace, is to understand it, to understand the why. “Why” is what separates us from them, you from me. “Why” is the only real source of power. Without it, you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without why, without power. Another link in the chain! The Matrix series is a truly fascinating one. Fans have been debating the hidden meaning of the movie for years, and while some want to see in the Merovingian a kind of “devil in disguise” or a limited version of the gentle, loving Oracle, others have pointed out that the latter survives Neo just as the demiurgic Architect does, to the point where both chit-chat at the end of the third movie. Neo has been a awesome fighter, believer, and lover for sure. But has he been a pawn all along? Merely “caused” by his love for Trinity and the Oracle’s sugarcoated orders? The movie are all too ambiguous to come up with absolute answers. Which, of course, should delight those who love interpretations with an s. Likewise, the chaotic world we live in is made of both choices and causes. It is first made of potentialities. Nothing is really set in stone. Instead of the mechanic causation the Merovingian has in mind, we have innumerable factors mixing and unmixing as strands, butterfly effects, new equilibriums, mini-cycles and changing needs. Chaos means possibility and, at first glance, it may seem that we are freer than ever. On the other hand, agility is sometimes forced upon us and we may feel like we are rather adapting than choosing. We are navigators on the sea of change, following the mainstream or other streams. Do we “really” choose, or are we adapting, merely sneaking into structures we do not create? Live It First, Understand It After This is the kind of question you ponder when you feel squeezed into a particular action. When said action is not a choice, or when it is a fake choice—this job you take because you badly need it, these studies you keep doing whereas you don’t want to but feel like you would be spoiling years of efforts if you don’t stay until you get that damn diploma, and so on. Some put emphasis on “co-constructing” social structures, negotiating relationships, crafting the most flexible and custom-made ventures so that you don’t get squeezed by others’. Some, like Nassim Taleb, value having options as to be able to truly choose and decide. Others, too, have rediscovered Stoicism and extoll its character-building virtues. By focusing on one’s desires and feelings, then on one’s perceptions, one can learn to see obstacles as opportunities and outsmart the numberless influencers who, all too often, act as subtle manipulators. All these answers have one thing in common: they are practical. You do not need to study complicated theories of the mind—even if it can’t hurt—to become an awesome entrepreneur. To get beyond being dominated by the chaotic streams we swim in, what you have to do is an action. It may be an inner, subtle action first, but it isn’t like writing an essay where you would remove yourself as if you did not have a skin in the game. To know the truth of the world we live in, you have to venture first. Any theorizing will come second. (Perhaps third after intuitions and gut feelings.) A fractal cave Big Names that Were Not Fractal Enough In a linear, stable world, one can look at the track record and make projections. What’s the trend? What level of this or that should it reach? In the 1950s, sociology worked like that. Putting the two world wars aside, a sociologist could work well doing this kind of projections before the 1950s. Now, the world has changed. We do not draw our conclusions from projections but from scenarios. Surveys are valuable tools yet no more than that. In 2016, most surveys predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States, and we know how wrong they were. We can’t afford living in bubbles anymore. But out of the bubble you may live in stand many interrelated worlds, some of them bubbles too, some influencing others in untold ways. More than ever, we need to cross the barriers of academic disciplines and social milieus. Fortunately, even if predicting the future is harder than it has ever been, we have a good idea of what is the most likely to work. To ponder on the same instance: some astute analysts have pointed out that Hillary Clinton focused excessively on her own person and on attacking her rival, to the point that most electors forgot about her presidential project, whereas Donald Trump managed to “sell” his voters a dose of hope. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, avoided Clinton’s mistake: when he could have attacked his far-right rival much more than he did, he preferred to insist on the positive. Instead of flaunting himself as an awesome civil servant standing for the status quo, he captured the minds by telling of French farmers selling their homemade cheese to the world. And he won. In a chaotic world, a “nobody” like Macron—whom no one knew about before president Hollande made him a minister in 2014—can win where a global celebrity like Hillary Clinton can lose. If you ignore the new truth, even a multi-million dollar foundation and the support of almost everyone in upscale milieus will not protect you from failing. On the other hand, acting wisely has its payoffs. Ask Benoît Wojtenka, the creator of Bonne Gueule website, which focused on a rather neglected market share—sartorial advise for men—and is now the leader in its sector. Benoît’s advice helped more men than masculine magazines. The latter keep copying each other, the former made his own research and conclusions. It worked. The Fractal that Rose Thanks to the Everyone Who Shared In a sharing economy, everyone has to function more and more like a cell. Some cells are more specialized than others, of course. Yet most cells are noticeable for consuming and producing. This expands to all areas of life: since the beginning of the 2000s, the microcredit loan industry has been booming. Instead of having to go to the bank, you can ask various small investors to loan you their money, even if your country of origin is known as “poor.” In the same vein, many individuals bought small windmills or solar panels to produce their own electricity. My second home features a windmill which routinely harvests more energy than I even need! We all become both producers and consumers, lenders and borrowers: big names like AirBNB and Uber are but the tip of the iceberg. Many of our processes are more efficient and smaller scaled than before. They are also less supervised, or harder to supervise, than yesterday. Micromanagement cannot stand. We have to learn learning, unlearning, updating ourselves—a metaphor cognitive scientists are fond of. Our processes are less rigid, aim-oriented than before, but agile, flexible and regulative. “Seeing”, feeling, hearing like a world citizen, beyond any borders, has become possible, but if you forget to regulate your own system and environment all of this may as well go to ruin. The truth of a fractal world is not easily explained. It is rather embodied, encapsulated, and intuitioned through dozens of experiences and attempts. As integral philosopher Ken Wilber could say, and as said in my book, what is in line with the new fractal, everything-in-everything chaotic order, ultimately favors what the most ancient philosophers considered Transcendentals: [They] help in the emergence of Beauty: a vision that is shared and enhances creativity permanently. [They] encourage Goodness: common culture, links, interdependence of organizational components and of all concerned parties including those outside the organization (for example, authorities, banks, shareholders, etc. in the case of a company). [They] ensure the maintenance of the search for Truth: the reality of financial aspects, a respect for rules and laws. If the Wachowski brothers made other Matrix movies, I hope they would endow the Merovingian’s restaurant with a colorful ball pit for children, a library, and a place for special wine-tasting sessions. But perhaps, then, “Merv” would stop being a bad guy altogether. To know more about how to be a fractal, resilient manager, on how to implement optimized fractal processes, or to read my musings on Japanese archery, check my book: Chaos, a User’s Guide, available here. The Meaning Of Life: Five Shades Of Meaning Who Are You? Where Do You Stand? 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__label__cc	0.613333	0.386667	The well-prepared superheroes scan the room to determine who cut the cheese. (2018) Superhero (Disney/Marvel) Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peňa, Michael Douglas, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, Bobby Cannavale, Walton Goggins, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Heidecker, Divian Ladwa, Goran Kostic, Rob Archer, Sean Thompson Kleier, Riann Steele. Directed by Peyton Reed Following up Avengers: Infinity War as a Marvel superhero is like being the guy who bats after Babe Ruth; anything you do is going to be anti-climactic. Scott Lang (Rudd) has hung up his Ant-Man mantle and placed under house arrest following the events of Captain America: Civil War and is just days away from getting his freedom back. He’s far more interested in being a better dad to his daughter Cassie (Fortson) and starting up a corporate security firm with his buddies Luis (Peňa), Dave (Harris) and Kurt (Dastmalchian) than resuming his superhero career with the tech he was awarded by crusty Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas). But Pym and his daughter Hope (Lilly) believe they are on the verge of being able to rescue Hank’s wife and Hope’s mom Janet van Dyne (Pfeiffer) – who is also the original Wasp – from the Quantum Realm where she has been trapped for decades. Lang’s successful escape from the Realm makes him Hank’s best friend from a scientific standpoint. However, Hank’s tech is in high demand and after it are corporate espionage maven Sonny Burch (Goggins) and the insubstantial super-villain Ghost (John-Kamen). With a friendly but suspicious federal agent (Park) watching Scott’s every move and with his freedom on the line, can Scott rescue Janet and stay ahead of both the feds and the bad guys? This, like the first Ant-Man film the tone is light and irreverent – not to the same degree as Thor: Ragnarok but more like a 90s sitcom; not a bad thing at all There are some genuinely funny lines and bits and if you don’t think about the physics of the Pym particles too much the plot moves along at a nice clip. The stakes here aren’t very high, compared to other recent Marvel films, but who says every superhero movie has to be about The End of the World As We Know It? Rudd continues to be intensely likable and thankfully they integrate Lilly into the action much more; I wouldn’t mind seeing a Wasp solo movie down the line someday (from my pen to Kevin Feige’s ears). The effects are solid and the cast is awfully strong This isn’t the kind of grand-slam that Marvel has been hitting regularly lately but it certainly is a solid base hit that most Marvel fans should enjoy. REASONS TO SEE: Lilly as the Wasp is integrated better into the story. REASONS TO AVOID: A little bit watered down from the first film. FAMILY VALUES: There is some comic book violence. TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The younger version of Bill Foster in the flashback sequences is played by Langston Fishburne, son of Laurence who plays the older Bill Foster. BEYOND THE THEATER: Amazon, Fandango Now, Google Play, iTunes, Microsoft, Movies Anywhere, Netflix, Redbox, Vudu, YouTube COMPARISON SHOPPING: Fantastic Voyage NEXT: Bathroom Stalls and Parking Lots This entry was posted in VOD Review and tagged Ant-Man and the Wasp, Bobby Cannavale, cinema, Cinema365, corporate espionage, corporate security, David Dastmalchian, Disney/Marvel, drums, electronic monitoring device, Evangeline Lilly, federal agents, Films, Hannah John-Kamen, house arrest, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Michelle Pfeiffer, movies, Paul Rudd, portable headquarters, quantum realm, Randall Park, San Francisco, shrinking, Stan Lee cameo, superhero, Tim Heidecker, Tip "T.I." Harris, VOD Reviews, Walton Goggins by carlosdev. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4131
__label__wiki	0.859917	0.859917	Mapping the European Breton Lai Mapping the European Breton Lai » ‘Celtic mystique’: The geographical settings of lais Elizabeth CDearnley10 September 2013 The real-life places named as settings in French-language lais: click here for link to a full-size map with further information about each place. A sense of place is an essential part of Breton lais. A quick glance through the opening lines of several tales suggests that the storytellers felt it important to reveal not only what happened in their chosen aventure, but where it happened. The fairy-mistress story Guingamor, for instance, opens by declaring that En Bretaingne oi .I. roi jadis, ‘there once lived a king in Brittany’; the delicately macabre Laüstic sets itself En Seint Mallo en la cuntree, ‘in the region of St Malo’, where Ot une vile renumee, ‘there was a famous town’; the tragic Deus Amanz, meanwhile, begins by telling its audience that Verité est ke en Neustrie,/Que nus apelum Normendie,/Ad un haut munt merveilles grant, ‘The truth is that in Neustria, which we call Normandy, there is a marvellously high mountain’. Very often, the warp and weft of landscape and story are closely woven together into the lai narratives. Coast of Brittany A large number of lais are set in the Celtic areas of Britain and northern France: Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and, above all, in Brittany, where (as Marie de France and other lai writers declare) stories of adventures and marvels were transformed into lais for posterity by the ancient Bretons. Whether or not all stories credited as ‘Breton lais‘ were truly taken from old Breton tales, a Celtic background was adaptable for a variety of storytelling purposes, imbuing any stories set in such places with what medievalist Christopher Page has called ‘Celtic mystique’. When told in French by the Anglo-Norman speakers of post-Conquest England, or the courtiers of continental France, beginning a story with ‘In Breteyne bi hold [old] time’ (the word ‘Breteyne’ could stand either for Britain or Brittany) could immediately evoke an atmosphere of a semi-mythical, just-out-of-reach past, set in a northern European landscape of forests, mountains and rocky coasts which was both familiar and – when viewed through the sea-misted lens of Breton stories originally told in ‘hir firste Briton tonge’ – enticingly exotic. La Cote des Deux Amants However, the majority of lais are also set in real places within these Celtic realms, lending them a concrete geographical specificity alongside the fantastical events they describe. Three lais (Chaitivel, Equitan and Tyolet) take place in Nantes, one of the major cities of the historic province of Brittany. Meanwhile, a Normandy-based tale, Marie de France’s Deus Amanz, is set in the city of Pîtres on the Seine. The events of this tale are reflected today in place-names of the area; a hill overlooking the river is named the Côte des Deux Amants, and is said to be the one climbed by the lai‘s unfortunate hero, and a nearby lake (and campsite) takes the same name. Carlisle Castle Of the British locations, a handful are set in Scotland (Doon, Trot, Desiré), with a couple in the northern borderlands of Northumbria and Carlisle. As the story of Lanval opens, King Arthur is holding his court in Carlisle, ‘pur les Escoz e pur les Pis/Ki destruient le païs’ (because of the Scots and Picts who were destroying the country). Founded by the Romans to serve the forts on Hadrian’s Wall, Carlisle’s proximity to the Scottish border made it a strategically important English base throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Reflecting this, Carlisle was a popular location for Arthur’s court of Camelot in medieval tradition, and is used as a setting in several Arthurian romances. The largest number of Britain-based lais, however, are associated with South Wales (Chevrefoil, Cor, Milun, Yonec). The knightly heroes Milun and Tristram are described in the lais as coming from that region. Linguistically and politically separate from England in post-Conquest Britain, Welsh material found its way into French-language works, possibly in part through Welsh-speaking ‘latimers’, or professional interpreters working for the Anglo-Norman government. Medieval scholar Constance Bullock-Davies has raised the possibility that one source of Celtic material for Marie de France may have been from a latimer attached to a noble household. However, as the map shows, a scattering of other locations are referred to, all from the Mediterranean and Middle East. In Les Deus Amanz, the Italian city of Salerno is named as the home of the heroine’s aunt. Wishing to give her beloved the necessary stamina to carry her up a steep hill (the challenge set by her father before they can marry), she urges him to visit her aunt, a skilled practitioner of medicine, for a strengthening potion. Salerno had a strong association with medicine in the Middle Ages, being the site of a famous medical school, and was particularly associated with women healers; the popular compendium of women’s medicine, the Trotula, was traditionally attributed to a woman from this area. Lais with Classical rather than Celtic themes, meanwhile, are set in the locations of their original tales, taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Thebes (Narcisus et Dané) and Babylon (Piramus et Tisbé). The map I’ve created of lai settings allows you to see all the real-world places named in Breton lais. Clicking on each place name will give you more information about each place and the story associated with it. So far, I’ve just added the places named in French-language lais; in time, I’ll make separate maps giving the places named in the lais of different language traditions. The English and Norse translators sometimes altered the settings to suit their audiences (the English version of Fresne, for instance, moves the action from Dol-de-Bretagne to ‘the west cuntré’ of Britain, and the Norse translator of Bisclavret adds a touch of local verisimilitude with the detail that ‘He who translated this book into Norse saw in his childhood a wealthy farmer who shifted his shape’). I hope you enjoy the map – it’s still a work in progress, as I think about different ways of mapping Breton lais, and about the relationship between landscape, the lais themselves, and the journeys made by lais and similar stories across Europe both orally and in manuscripts, so I’d be happy to hear any suggestions or comments! Constance Bullock-Davies, Professional Interpreters and the Matter of Britain: A Lecture delivered at a Colloquium of the Departments of Welsh in the University of Wales at Greg ynog, 26 June, 1965 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966) Christopher Page, Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Instrumental Practice and Songs in France 1100-1300 (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1987) Filed under Maps Tags: Brittany, celtic mystique, data visualisation, geography, mapping, maps, settings, Trotula About the project, About me, What is a lai?, Contact What is a lai? Who wrote lais? Film review: Sir Lanval ‘Does smell make you nostalgic?’ Nostalgias exhibition, Margate Pie Factory New map: Breton lai motifs Lai in focus: Lanval More maps: From mapping the Brut to smellscapes beastliness Beauty and the Beast bestiaries Biclarel Bisclaretz lioð Bisclavret book Breton Brittany Brut catalogue celtic mystique Chagford Filmmaking Group Chaucer clothes curses data visualisation Emilie Mercier Franklin's Tale genre geography Grendel Babies human nature introductions Kate McLean Lanval Lay le Freine mapping maps Melion pop culture prologues settings shape-shifting Sir Launfal Sir Orfeo smellscapes smellwalks story collections Trotula True Blood tube map Twilight Victoria Henshaw werewolves	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4140
__label__cc	0.623835	0.376165	Tag: Maryam Almohammad The Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) – Seminar Author Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research \| Posted on 1 March 2019 1 March 2019 Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) invites you to a lunchtime seminar on Monday, 4th March 2019 — 12noon-1pm — Room 2S603. We are pleased to have Jade Parnell, the Centre for Appearance Research, the University of the West of England, and Dr Maryam Almohammad and Dr Jane Andrews, the Department of Education and Childhood, the University of the West of England. Promoting Acceptance of Socially Stigmatised Appearances in Young Children in Primary School Jade Parnell, the Centre for Appearance Research, the Department of Health and Social Sciences, the University of the West of England In this talk I will discuss my PhD, which aims to promote acceptance towards various socially stigmatised appearances in young children. Appearance-based stereotyping and prejudice emerges in early childhood, and can exist by the age of 4 years. Children from negatively stereotyped or stigmatised groups (e.g., higher weight, visible difference) are at increased risk of experiencing stigmatisation from other children, resulting in negative outcomes such as poorer psychological adjustment and quality of life. The talk will focus on a recent study, where children aged 4-9 years, from various Primary Schools in the South West of England viewed, in a randomised order, five digitally designed, realistic child characters. The images included a character; with no stigmatised appearance, wearing glasses, of higher weight, with a facial burn and in a wheelchair. All characters had similar features (e.g., face shape, height, race and eyes), but varied slightly according to the stigmatised appearance. Children were asked open ended questions and quantitative measures assessing their attitudes and possible subsequent behaviours towards the individual characters. Discussion will consider the possible findings in relation to the literature; along with implications for researchers and education professionals regarding strategies for promoting acceptance of socially stigmatised appearances in young children. Artmaking, Materialism, and Multilingualism in Welcoming Environments for EAL Learners Maryam Almohammad and Jane Andrews, the Department of Education and Childhood, University of the West of England. The Creating Welcoming Learning Environments project, known as CWLE, (AHRC-funded, AH/R004781/1)) is a follow-on project from the large grant Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, the Law and the State (AH/AH/L006936/1). The project involved a “creative collaboration”, using Vera John Steiner’s conceptualisation (2000), between creative artists, school-based teachers and teaching assistants, local authority advisory teachers and university researchers. The project operated on a co-operative development model of teacher development as articulated by Edge (1992) so that, through a series of workshops, teachers participated in arts-based practices, assembled artifacts and interpreted them to reflect on their identities, bodies, languages and cultures. This was prior to teachers engaging in a process of transformation of their first-hand experiences of creative techniques into activities for their own learners in the different school contexts they work in, including primary, secondary and special schools in England. In this paper, we approach the data generated in the workshops and in interviews, using Bennett’s concepts of “thing-power” and “discursive agency” (2010). Bennett (2010) uses the term “thing-power” to describe the qualities that objects have that in many ways are indescribable and intangible. Power is among all material bodies, both human and more-than-human, and therefore does not belong to bodies independently, but rather happens because material bodies are always dependent on one another. This is known as distributive agency (Bennett, 2010). In the CWLE series of workshops, teachers worked with materials: cardboard, maps, colours, stones, textiles, dyes and symbols. Working with art materials teachers engaged with the role of objects in art and meaning-making and reflected on the potential of material transformation in EAL contexts. Materials constructed during our workshops serve as reflective tools on the body experience and materials surrounding the body. Teachers transformed the art practices in their school spaces, such as the use of the identity suitcase box. The artmaking of suitcase/boxes offered teachers and learners an opportunity to engage with the taken for granted value of both human-human and human-non-human relationships. Through a co-creative process and collective action between animate and inanimate things, teachers and learners could be seen to no longer separate human from non-human. In this sense, humans are no more valuable than materials and objects with which they interact. In our paper we analyse one example of educational practice in a specific secondary school in England. Therefore, not only the divide between human and non-human ceases to exist, and new ways for knowing the self and the object as interbeings emerge (Anderson & Guyas, 2012), but also the divide between the ‘us and them’ can be seen to finish. Distributive agency of materials may be seen to help humans cooperate with each other in the art-and-language classrooms. Creating Welcoming Learning Environments: Using Arts-Based Methods with EAL Learners Author Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research \| Posted on 5 November 2018 5 November 2018 What’s the project about? Dr Jane Andrews and Dr Maryam Almohammad at the University of the West of England, Bristol have been working on a 12 month research project since September 2017. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council who have “translating cultures” as one of their current research themes. The project is a collaboration between teachers, local authority and school staff who specialise in supporting children developing English as an additional language, creative artists and the researchers. Together we are aiming to develop and trial some teaching techniques which combine arts-based methods and supportive techniques for celebrating children’s languages and developing their English language skills. The project is working with school-based staff in both primary and secondary schools. Colleagues who work at Integra, South Gloucestershire (Lois Francis and Dominique Moore) are collaborators on the project. Why this topic? The focus for the research comes out of the arts-based methods used in a larger 3-year AHRC-funded research project entitled Researching Multilingually at Borders . In that project researchers from different academic disciplines (global mental health, anthropology, law, modern languages, intercultural communication, education) worked together with creative artists working using drama, poetry, music and textiles. The project explored the role of language in contexts where people experience pain and pressure at times of migration. The sites for the research included the Islamic University Gaza, the Lira district of Uganda, the border state of Arizona, USA, Scotland, the Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria and Ghana. The current project was funded by the AHRC to extend the reach of the 3-year project to explore how arts-based methods can be combined with work celebrating children’s linguistic diversity and supporting their developing English. What has the project done so far? We have developed our way of working which has collaboration firmly at its heart. We have built on the work of Julian Edge who proposed a model of CPD named “co-operative development” which seeks to ensure that all participants are empowered to share their knowledge and expertise while learning with and from others. Using this approach we have offered a series of one day workshops in which participants have i) shared their current approaches to supporting children’s developing English and celebrating their different languages, ii) taken part in a hands-on workshop experiencing one or more creative arts techniques and iii) planned how the techniques experienced could be adapted and transferred into the specific school contexts in which they are working. In our first workshop, the creative arts inputs have been provided by Katja Frimberger (freelance) who demonstrated drama techniques for use in class including singing in different languages and setting up a “Bristol’s got talent” friendly competition. Katja also shared a film she had made in which students and staff at Glasgow University spoke to camera in their different languages as a way of extending exposure to the institution’s shared languages. Maryam Almohammad shared the work of the UNHCR with the use of cartoons to convey refugees’ stories: Film making projects were planned in two schools. One school has audio recorded children and young people making announcements for the school day (for use on the tannoy system) in their own languages other than English. In our second workshop, Lyn Ma (a lecturer at Clyde College, Glasgow) provided input into how crafting techniques such as collage and model making can be used to provide young people with opportunities to express themselves in ways that they choose to their peers and teachers. In the workshop we as participants created our own decorated suitcases and explained how and why we had chosen to decorate them as we did. Jane Andrew created a suitcase in which she included a map of Somalia and the connection with the Somali community in Bristol. Jane has not been to Somalia but feels the connection because the Somali community forms a great part of the British societies. In our third workshop, Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro (University of Glasgow and Pan Africa Arts, Scotland) introduced participants to using musical instruments in an exploratory way to generate a sense of community. Naa Denua and Gameli also shared with us traditional Adinkra symbols from Ghana whose meanings we learned about and discussed. We then chose symbols we wanted to print using silk screen printing techniques. Our fourth workshop was on Poetry and the Spoken Word with professor Allison Phipps and poet Tawon Sithole from the University of Glasgow. Allisson and Tawon did activities which include the use of material object and spoken word through a process of reflection. After reflection and contemplation on objects, teachers wrote a poem about these objects. The whole team got involved in the co-writing of a multilingual poem. Teachers transformed and contextualized the art-based activities in their school environments according to their students backgrounds, needs and practicality. Then we ran a conference for teachers and school-based staff on “Creativity and EAL” where ideas tried and tested in schools was shared on Thursday 12th July at UWE, Bristol. How can I learn more and get involved? There are a range of ways in which you can get involved, contribute and find out more. We have a twitter where we share our activities and events. We launched a website and we will be uploading video clips from the workshops so visitors to the site can find out more. The website is new and we are planning to add resources for teachers on the use of art in language leaning and teaching. We are planning a book gathering together teaching ideas about how to connect creativity, multilingualism and EAL to be published by Multilingual Matters. Please get in touch if you’d be interested in contributing to our book. For more information contact the authors. Authors: Jane Andrews and Maryam Almohammad English as an Additional Language and Creativity Conference 2018 EAL and Creativity – Using Arts-Based Methods for Supporting Learners of English as an Additional Language Thursday 12th July 2018 9.00 – 4:00 pm The University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY CWLE team at the Department of Education and Childhood, the University of West England in collaboration with Integra Schools is pleased to invite practitioners to a one day conference. Professor Alison Phipps, Glasgow University: “The Well in Welcome: Creating Welcoming Environments for All”. Dr Mary Carol Combs, University of Arizona. Learning in the Third Space: Pedagogies of Hope and Resistance Programme Highlights Creative art workshops Adinkra Creative Links – Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro Spoken Word, Broken Silence – Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps Film-making and EAL Learners – Maryam Almohammad Craft-making with EAL Learners – Jane Andrews Teachmeet: Judith Prosser, Cotham School, Bristol Karen Thomas (Portsmouth EMTAS) and Rebecca Reeve The conference is free but please make a booking here so we can organise catering and transport. For inquiries please contact Dr Jane Andrews jane.andrewsedu@uwe.ac.uk and Dr Maryam Almohammad Maryam.Almohammad@uwe.ac.uk Follow us on Tiwtter: @CWLE_EAL	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4143
__label__cc	0.688341	0.311659	Certainty-based marking in a formative assessment improves student course appreciation but not summative examination scores Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-82811, Nicole Bakker1, Helma Pluk2, Arjan de Brouwer3, Bé Wieringa1, Alessandra Cambi1, Mirjam Zegers1, Derick G. Wansink1, Ron Leunissen4 & Peter H. M. Klaren5 BMC Medical Education volume 19, Article number: 178 (2019) Cite this article Study motivation and knowledge retention benefit from regular student self-assessments. Inclusion of certainty-based learning (CBL) in computer-assisted formative tests may further enhance this by enabling students to identify whether they are uninformed or misinformed regarding the topics tested, which may trigger future study actions including instructor consultation. Using a cross-over study design involving two out of thirteen computer-assisted formative assessments (CAFAs) of a first-year cell biology course, we compared student-instructor interactions, student learning experiences and final exam scores between two (bio)medical science student cohorts who worked with different CBL-containing CAFAs. A total of 389 students participated in the study. After completion 159 (41%) filled in a questionnaire on their experience with CBL during supervised CAFAs. In the control group the median duration of student-instructor interactions was 90 s (range 60–140 s), and this increased with 20 s to 110 s (range 60–150 s) in the group working with a CBL-based CAFA. The number of interactions was similar in both groups (0.22 per student per hour, regardless of CBL inclusion). Forty percent of the students expected that CBL would positively influence their study behavior, and 23% also anticipated a positive effect on examination scores. Student examination scores, however, were not affected by CBL. Almost half of the students (43%) were in favor of CBL inclusion in future computer-assisted learning modules, whereas 33% did not see merit in including CBL in CAFAs. Incorporation of CBL in a single formative assessment led to a slight increase in student-instructor interaction times, but had effect neither on the number of student-instructor interactions nor on exam scores. CBL inclusion positively influenced student’s appreciation of the coursework, presumably by helping students to evaluate their mastery level and identify misconceptions. A more extensive enrollment of CBL beyond an individual formative assessment, throughout a course or a curriculum, may possibly reveal positive effects on study efficacy. Educational institutions strive to improve the efficacy of student learning, especially when dealing with large groups of students and limited faculty. Stimulating student’s intrinsic motivation to study is an effective means to do so, and both formative and summative testing have proven their value in this respect [1,2,3,4]. A direct effect of testing, especially when performed repeatedly and with provision of feedback [2], builds on the common notion that rehearsal supports retrieval [5]. But testing improves learning beyond that afforded by repeated study, and this indirect effect is thought to result from altering student’s study behavior towards a performance improvement [6, 7]. Indeed, provision of self-assessment tools, such as computer-based quizzes (computer-assisted formative assessments, CAFAs), contributes to the efficacy and student-appreciation of study programs [1,2,3,4,5, 8,9,10]. Our experience with the use of supervised CAFA modules in cell biology courses for first-year (bio)medical students also pointed to a downside; students may use computer modules that provide interactive learning and training content as digital textbooks rather than as formative tests. Consequently, opportunities to identify knowledge gaps and misconceptions, and to benefit from instructor support during supervised CAFA sessions, are missed. Furthermore, computer-assisted tests address only knowledge content, and individuals who answer confidently and correctly cannot be distinguished from persons who only guessed correctly. We reasoned that student self-assessment will benefit from the inclusion of certainty-based learning (CBL) in CAFAs, by stimulating student-instructor interactions and triggering other actions that enhance study performance. In CBL, as developed over the past decades by Gardner-Medwin and colleagues [11,12,13,14] at University College London as part of the “London Agreed Protocol for Teaching” [15, 16], not only the correctness of a student’s test answer is assessed, but also the student’s confidence in the correctness of that answer is taken into account. CBL, by evaluating the knowledge per se as well as the confidence in the display of that knowledge, has been shown to improve study efficiency and knowledge retention [17,18,19,20] and appears to be well-suited to make students self-reflect on study progress and to provide them with itemized feedback [2, 21,22,23]. CBL is achieved by having students answering a test question first, followed by a second question asking how confident they are about the correctness of the test answer they just provided, which is scored on a three-point scale: “sure”, “partly sure” and “not sure.” Both scores are then combined, turning a binary judgment of the test answer (correct/incorrect) into a more refined measure for knowledge retention and comprehension (Additional file 1). Students can deduce whether they have mastered the subject, whether additional study efforts are required (i.e., when correct test answers are given but not with high confidence), whether they are uninformed (admittedly unknowing) or even misinformed (i.e., when incorrect answers are given with high confidence). This latter option, i.e., to identify students who are misinformed and carry misconceptions, is a unique and powerful asset of CBL. Its standard grading system indeed hands out a 6-point penalty when students entered “confident errors”, providing a strong incentive to students to take appropriate action (e.g., consult available teaching staff). Combined scoring of knowledge and certainty questions in CBL thus informs on study progress. Furthermore, it enables provision of differentiated feedback and study directives, even at the level of individual questions. In our endeavors to aid student self-assessment and to stimulate them to take action relating to obscurities or misconceptions, we tested the potential added value of CBL in a cross-over experiment involving close to four hundred (bio)medical students during a first-year cell biology course. The number and duration of student–instructor interactions during CAFAs, students’ appreciation of formative assessment via this technique, and the ultimate summative exam results were analyzed. We conclude that the implementation of CBL in two of our CAFA modules was appreciated by students and led to a slight increase in the duration of instructor consultations but it remained without measurable effects on exam grades. During a four-week Cell Biology course at the Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), first-year medical (n = 336) and biomedical science (n = 126) students took thirteen subsequent computer-assisted formative assessment (CAFA) modules, usually in teams of two to three persons per computer terminal. Subjects covered in the CAFA series were: 1 - The cell & Research methods; 2 - Cell structure & Function; 3 - Chromatin; 4 - DNA replication; 5 - Gene expression; 6 - Translation & Protein routing; 7 - Signal transduction & Cell cycle; 8 - Epithelia & Glands; 9 - Connective tissue & Cartilage; 10 - Bone; 11 - Muscle; 12 - Nervous tissue; 13 - Histology Quiz. Using a cross-over study design each student encountered twelve conventional CAFAs and one single module in which CBL was applied; either CAFA 3 – Chromatin (on DNA build-up and chromatin structure) or CAFA 4 – Replication (on DNA replication and damage repair). The full course ended in the fourth week with a final examination that consisted of 88 multiple choice questions, of which five and six separate questions addressed the content of these two modules, CAFA 3 – Chromatin and CAFA 4 – Replication, respectively. At the start of the course, all 462 students received information outlining the current study, and written consent (that covered approval for analysis of student-instructor interactions, on-line surveys and summative exam results) was obtained from 392 students prior to participation. The day after completion of module CAFA 4 – Replication, the volunteering students received an invitation by email to participate in an online survey on their CBL experience. At the end, 3 students that provided written consent did not partake in the final exam, leaving 389 participants to be included in the study. All relevant data collected was used anonymized, with prior ethical approval from relevant national and local review committees. All CAFA modules were built using the Lectora Online (Trivantis Corporation Inc.) authoring tool. To enable i) incorporation of certainty-based marking of question scores, ii) display of current and cumulative scores on each module page, and iii) full reporting on per-question and overall performance on a Results page at the end of the module, a customized CBL add-on (The Courseware Company BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands) was applied. For marking we adhered to the standard scoring matrix (+ 3; + 2; + 1; 0; − 2 and − 6 points) used by Gardner-Medwin & Curtin [24] and added a green to red background color scale to highlight the scores on screen (Additional file 1). In addition, total scores reflecting the number of correct and incorrect answers and the corresponding cumulative certainty-based mark were displayed on each question page. The CBL-based CAFAs ended with a final “Results” page displaying a summary of obtained results with generalized feedback and providing an option to inspect, store and print the certainty-based scores per individual questions (Additional file 2). Examples of the CBL add-on coding steps are illustrated in Additional file 3. All CAFAs were published as html packages and uploaded in the appropriate course map in the university’s digital learning environment (Blackboard Inc.), and adaptive release options were applied to direct the student cohorts to the appropriate standard or CBL-based CAFA modules. The study population consisted of 462 students (296 females, 166 males, age 17 to 19 years) reading Medicine or Biomedicine at Radboud University in the 2014–2015 academic year. The Cell Biology course, that set the stage for our study, runs in the third quarter of the first year, and is the sixth course the students take. Using a random number generator, the student administration office assigned the medical and biomedical students to 22 and 8 teams of 15–16 students each, respectively. For CAFAs, these student teams were merged to four fixed groups (of seven or eight teams) to fit the available computer rooms. The course schedule stipulated when each group would use the computer practical room to take a particular CAFA with instructor assistance available. Experienced instructors were present during each CAFA. For CAFA 3 – Chromatin and CAFA 4 – Replication the instructors kept record of the number and duration of any student inquiry during the session. For CAFA 3 - Chromatin (consisting of 30 question pages) two student groups took the conventional module, whereas two other groups took the CBL-based version. The next day, the latter two groups took the conventional version of CAFA 4 – Replication (comprising 37 question pages), and the other groups took the CBL-based variant. CAFAs remained accessible throughout the rest of the course, for student self-assessment outside course hours, and selective admission to the appropriate module was maintained via adaptive release in Blackboard. This cross-over design (Additional file 4) balanced CBL effects for all students on final exam results and also generated two independent measurements of CBL effects on final exam results (using chromatin- and replication-related exam questions separately). Exam score analyses The examination at the end of the four-week Cell Biology course consisted of 88 multiple choice questions. Answer sheets were optically scanned and analyzed automatically, including a correction for guessing. Briefly, questions answered correctly attributed one full point to the candidate, unanswered questions delivered no points, and incorrect answers resulted in penalty points subtracted. The number of points subtracted depends on the number of alternative answers in the pertinent question; 2-choice questions resulted in − 1 point when answered incorrectly, and for questions with 3, 4 or 5 alternatives this was − 0.5, − 0.33 and − 0.25 points, respectively. Final scores for the questions on the subjects covered by CAFA 3 – Chromatin (questions 12–16) and CAFA 4 – Replication (questions 17–22), respectively, were compared between CBL and control groups, using the scores for exam questions 1–11 and 23–88 that were not related to the topics “chromatin” and “replication”, to benchmark both cohorts. Student-instructor interaction times were analyzed with Wilcoxon’s rank sum test using the statistics software R version 3.5.1 [25]. Item analysis of the final examination was performed in Microsoft Excel’s spreadsheet environment. Scores of the individual multiple-choice questions were binary transformed to values of 1 and 0 for correct and incorrect answers, respectively. Item difficulty, p′, was calculated as the fraction of students who answered correctly to that item with a correction for random guessing: $ {p}^{\hbox{'}}=p-\left(\frac{1-p}{k-1}\right). $ Here, p is the fraction of students who answered correctly, k is the number of alternatives in the item. Item discrimination was calculated as Rir, the point-biserial “item – rest” correlation coefficient between an item’s score and the examination’s score after removing the item score from the total examination score [26]. The internal consistency of the examination was estimated using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient [26, 27]. To test whether certainty-based learning would provide an added value to computer-assisted formative assessments we introduced CBL questions in two consecutive -- and from a topic and size point of view comparable -- CAFA modules in our first-year cell biology course for (bio)medical students (Fig. 1). In addition to the scoring matrix [24] we included background color coding to highlight the combined knowledge and certainty scores (Additional file 1). Students could also inspect a results summary with generalized feedback (Fig. 2) and store and print certainty-based markings per question (Additional file 2). CBL display in our computer-assisted formative assessment modules. A representative page (in Dutch) from module CAFA 3 – Chromatin that includes certainty-based learning is shown. Only after answering the knowledge question (bottom part, background field) the certainty question (box in the right upper part) appears, and following its completion the scoring box (lower left) appears. The certainty question translates as “indicate how confident you are about your answer: sure (ticked in the example), partly sure, uncertain”. The scoring box displays in the top row the scoring on the current question (in Dutch: “Huidige vraag”) on the knowledge (here “incorrect”) and the certainty (here “sure” or “zeker”) answers, followed by the combined mark (in this case − 6) displayed on the corresponding background (see Additional file 1). The bottom row in the scoring box displays the cumulative score (in Dutch: “Verzamelscore”) that includes the total number of correctly and incorrectly answered knowledge questions (on a green and red background, respectively) and the sum of all individual certainty-based scores (here “-5”) Cumulative feedback to students based on certainty-based learning as displayed in our two CAFA modules. By navigating to the results (in Dutch: “Resultaat”) page at the end of the CBL-based CAFA module, students receive integral feedback on their results. From top to bottom, on the left side in the large window the following items are displayed: the maximum score possible (the number of questions times 3), the total score by the student (on a blue background), the number of correct answers, the number of incorrect answers, the total number of questions (30), a link to inspect (and print or download) the scores per question (see Additional file 2), the minimum score possible (the number of questions times − 6), and finally a button (“START TOETS OPNIEUW”) to reset all variables and restart the formative test. The table on the right is providing feedback based on the certainty-based marks. Additional file 1 contains an English version of this table During the opening lecture of the course students were informed about our study on the application of CBL in CAFAs. During the first CAFA module students received an information leaflet explaining background, purpose and design of the study as well as a written consent form. The participation rate was 85% (392 out of 462). During the modules CAFA 3 – Chromatin and CAFA 4 – Replication that were central in this study the number of participants was comparable (Additional file 4). Shortly after their participation in CAFA 4 – Replication, students were invited to complete an online survey consisting of 19 questions (Additional file 5) on their experience with the CBL-based CAFA module. The questionnaire was completed by 41% of the participants (159 students). It is of note that the vast majority of students (94%) indicated they had no prior experience with certainty-based marking. Student-instructor interactions At compulsory time slots during the course the students participated in CAFA modules, usually in couples of two and sometimes three students per computer terminal. We anticipated that teams confronted with a maximum negative score of − 6 (signaled by a red background, and with the feedback message “It looks like some misconceptions on this topic exist. Please contact the instructor and discuss the matter.”; Additional file 1) during supervised CBL-based CAFAs would be more inclined to approach available instructors to receive customized feedback, clarifications and explanations compared to peers that took the standard CAFA module. In contrast to our expectation, however, the number of clarification requests per student was not noticeably influenced by the provision of certainty-based marks (Fig. 3). During the four sessions per CAFA module, on average 0.22 consultations per student were recorded, with no significant difference between the control group or CBL-experiencing students during CAFA 3 or 4. The duration of the interactions, however, was on average 20 s longer during CBL-based CAFA sessions when compared to conventional CAFA versions (p < 0.01); median interaction times during CBL sessions were 110 s (range: 60–150 s over 102 interactions) and during the conventional versions this was 90 s (range: 60–140 s over 106 interactions). Duration but not frequency of student-instructor interactions is increased upon inclusion of CBL. Student-instructor interactions were logged during supervised CAFA sessions for modules CAFA 3 – Chromatin and CAFA 4 – Replication. Four sessions were run per module, two of which exploited CBL (light blue boxes), and in total seven different instructors (A-G) were involved. One instructor supervised only CBL-based sessions (D) and another only CAFAs that lacked CBL (E). The number of interactions per instructor for each CAFA type is listed below the box plots. Horizontal black bars indicate median interaction time (in minutes), boxes indicate the interquartile range (IQR), whiskers indicate 1.5 × IQR. Nd = not determined We also anticipated that CBL in CAFA modules would enhance student’s self-reflection about their knowledge levels and that this would result in targeted study activities and, ultimately, improved exam scores. To monitor whether this expectancy matched with the students’ experiences, an online questionnaire on CBL inclusion, with ample space for comments, was sent to all participants (Fig. 4). Of the 159 students that completed the survey, 82 had worked with CBL-based CAFA 3 – Chromatin and 77 with CBL-based CAFA 4 – Replication. Five reported to have previous CBL experience and another five knew the method from hear-say. A quarter of the students indicated they disliked the requirement of additional mouse-clicks to answer each CBL question, and 33% preferred not to work again with CBL-based modules during their studies. Most of these 52 students not looking forward to future CBL-based CAFAs indicated they had no problem with the additional CBL question but rather lacked confidence in the positive effects of CBL on study behavior and efficacy (33 and 36 students, respectively). Around 25% of the 159 students responded neutral but 43%, the largest group, clearly stated that they would favor CBL-inclusion in future CAFA modules (Fig. 4). The majority of students found the information as provided on the CBL Results page (Fig. 2) useful. Only 15% used the option to store or print an overview of their knowledge and certainty scores per question (Additional file 4) and just two students did so multiple times. Remarkably, when asked about the effect of the certainty-based learning on their study behavior, 40% indicated to have experienced a positive contribution to their self-assessment but only 23% expected a positive effect on the exam score (Fig. 4). Student responses from the online anonymous perception survey. The data reflect part of the cumulative result of an 18-question online survey (n = 159; 41% response rate). Concise versions of the survey questions are shown on the left, distribution of choices is displayed on the right. Answers to the questions 1–3 and 12 (in parentheses) are not represented. Bar sizes are proportional to the indicated percentages and corresponding choice options are displayed above the relevant bars. Question 18 represented an open invitation for further remarks. Seventeen of the 159 students had heard of CBL before (question 1), either via contacts (5), high school experience (5) or other means (question 2). Eighty-two students worked on CBL-based CAFA 3 – Chromatin and seventy-seven on CBL-based CAFA 4 – Replication (question 3). In question 12 students were asked how often they used the possibility to save, store or print their test results as provided at the end of the CBL-CAFA (Additional file 2). Only twenty-six students (16.3%) actually used this option, and two of them did so more than once. The text of the online survey, with full description of the questions, is provided as Additional file 5 Summative examination scores The course, involving nine additional conventional CAFA modules, ended around two weeks after the CBL experiences, with an exam consisting of 88 multiple choice questions. Two small subsets, of 5 and 6 questions each, addressed the topics dealt with in CAFA 3 – Chromatin and CAFA 4 – Replication, respectively. In total 389 students who filled out and signed the informed consent document actually participated in the exam; 187 had worked with the CBL version of CAFA 3 (group “Chromatin”) and the other 202 experienced CBL during CAFA 4 (group “Replication”). Performance on questions unrelated to the topics covered in these two CAFAs was used to benchmark the two groups (Fig. 5). The average score for group “Replication” on the 77 control questions was slightly lower than that of group “Chromatin” (52.5 ± 11.8 versus 55.5 ± 9.7 points; p < 0.01). A comparison of scores for both groups on the chromatin- and replication-related questions revealed no statistically significant differences between the groups (Fig. 5a). Item analysis of exam scores provides no evidence for an effect of CBL on summative assessment performance. a Cumulative exam scores corrected for guessing of students taking CBL-based CAFA 3 – Chromatin (red symbols) or CBL-based CAFA 4 – Replication (blue symbols). Control questions are 88 exam questions not specifically related to the topics chromatin and replication, whereas the 5 chromatin- and 6 replication-related questions were designed to specifically interrogate these respective topics. b p’-values for control questions, chromatin-related questions and replication-related questions. c Item-rest correlations of the three question sets. In all panels the horizontal black bars indicate median values, boxes indicate the interquartile range (IQR), and whiskers indicate 1.5 × IQR We analyzed test results for each individual question using conventional psychometric indicators. The reliability of the 88-question exam, as represented in Cronbach’s alpha scores, was 0.77 for group “Chromatin” and 0.87 for group “Replication” (data not shown). Scores higher than 0.70 indicate a good reliability and internal consistency of the test. Due to the ethical consideration for using a crossover study design we cannot compare data to a student cohort that did not experience CBL at all during the CAFA modules. Also, Cronbach’s alpha scores for the five CAFA 3 (chromatin) and six CAFA 4 (replication) related questions in separation cannot reliably be determined because of the small number of questions. When analyzing the p’-values for each question, again the control set questions (1–11 and 23–88) suggested a small underperformance of the group “Replication” (Fig. 5b). For the number of questions addressing CAFA 3 – Chromatin (questions 12–16) or CAFA 4 – Replication (questions 17–22) subjects, the corresponding p’-values are well comparable between both cohorts. Also, the correlation between an individual question score and the remaining exam question scores (item-rest correlation, Rir) does not reveal effects of CBL inclusion (Fig. 5c). During the last two decades the use of certainty-based learning, usually in combination with computer-based multiple choice-questioning, has been explored and its effectiveness been studied in different contexts. Following the pioneering work by Gardner-Medwin and colleagues [11,12,13,14,15, 24, 28, 29], the method has been exploited to support diverse educational goals [18, 19, 21,22,23, 30]. Over the years, evidence has accumulated that the incorporation of CBL during formative tests is well-appreciated [19, 21], feeds the students’ confidence in their knowledge [22], and supports the learning process [19, 21]. No evidence for an effect of high or low risk-taking personalities on CBL-based exam scores has been encountered thus far and in fact CBL may help in raising student awareness about under- or overconfidence [29]. Its use in consecutive tests, where incorrectly answered questions are fed into follow-up tests, effectively invites students to work on their knowledge gaps [20]. Furthermore, CBL provided important indications how to reshape tests and educational courses [22, 23]. Studies mostly analyzed pre/post-module effects on (formative) assessments by individuals that all experienced CBL in the respective course. In the current study we tested whether a computer-assisted formative assessment that exploits CBL provides added value with respect to learning behavior and (summative) exam scores. The use of a cross-over study design on a large cohort of (CBL-naïve) students enabled us to probe, two times in a row, whether groups confronted in the course with CBL during a formative assessment on a certain topic would outperform their peers on exam questions dealing with that topic at the end of the course. All except a few students involved in the study were novice users of CBL. Irrespective of this, many students appreciated CBL, and a considerable percentage expected beneficial effects on exam scores. We expected to observe that CBL inclusion in CAFAs would improve study behavior, having students more actively seeking feedback from instructors and producing better scores during subsequent exams. We found, however, that students who had worked with a CBL-based CAFA only differed from their peers in engaging in interactions with available staff that took around 20% longer. Students mostly performed the CAFAs in pairs, and perhaps ad hoc discussions with neighbors provided peer feedback that may have acted as a surrogate certainty-based test, making it more difficult to detect measurable effects of CBL on student performance. The sensitivity of our study may also be hampered by the fact that only two out of the thirteen formative assessments were transformed into CBL-based CAFAs and, consequently, that just a small subset of questions out of the 88-question final exam would be informative in this respect. On the other hand, the current set-up allowed the remaining exam questions - that cover subjects related to the other, conventional CAFAs - to serve as a calibration tool for cohort differences. Furthermore, the cross-over design eliminated the ethical issue of withholding a potentially powerful study aid from half of the students and a consequent bias in final course grades. A potential downside may be that for group “Chromatin” any effect of their CBL-based experience might influence their subsequent study behavior, also while taking CAFA 4 – Replication, and thus confound detection of any effects. The majority of students in the study were familiar with our CAFA E-tools but encountered CBL for the first time. Our curriculum mainly consists of courses taught with conventional teaching methods, and it can well be envisaged that the efficiency and efficacy of a novel E-tool such as our CBL-implementation is perceived as an isolated event, not embedded in the curriculum. This may negatively affect the results of E-tool usage. Such factors could explain why we did not observe the effects we anticipated. It emphasizes that the implementation of a new tool should be guided carefully and be allowed to evolve over subsequent course iterations [31, 32]. Addition of more CAFAs based on CBL in our course might have increased the sensitivity of our study. This, however, requires a convenient authoring tool to incorporate CBL in existing CAFA modules. The script we used to convert two existing CAFAs into CBL-compliant versions is quite laborious (Additional file 3) as currently full support for CBL is realized only in the LAPT-lite software [16]. As a consequence, multiple certainty-based learning adepts (e.g. [24]) urge for convenient implementation of CBL functionality in e-learning authoring tools such as Blackboard, BrightSpace, Lectora Online, Moodle, Questionmark or WebCT. Customer-friendly CBL embedding in e-learning tools would greatly facilitate research towards its educational applicability. It is of note that such applications are not limited to students’ study performance and outcome; CBL inclusion in formative assessments may impinge on test designs and course evaluations, hence represent an important and useful assessment tool for teaching staff as well. Inclusion of certainty-based learning in computer-assisted formative assessments is well appreciated by students and staff. Our study revealed no overt effects on student-instructor interactions or student study performance. Development of a user-friendly CBL option in e-learning authoring tools will enable more studies towards its added value in (bio)medical educational programs. CAFA: Computer-assisted formative assessment CBL: Certainty-based learning Colthart I, Bagnall G, Evans A, Allbutt H, Haig A, Illing J, McKinstry B. 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Please be aware that many of the underlying original documents, including information leaflets, questionnaires and exam questions, are in Dutch. Department of Cell Biology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 26, 6525, GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks , Nicole Bakker , Bé Wieringa , Alessandra Cambi , Mirjam Zegers & Derick G. Wansink Department of Biochemistry, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Helma Pluk Department of Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Arjan de Brouwer Radboudumc Health Academy, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Ron Leunissen Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Peter H. M. Klaren Search for Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks in: Search for Nicole Bakker in: Search for Helma Pluk in: Search for Arjan de Brouwer in: Search for Bé Wieringa in: Search for Alessandra Cambi in: Search for Mirjam Zegers in: Search for Derick G. Wansink in: Search for Ron Leunissen in: Search for Peter H. M. Klaren in: WJAJH, RL and PHMK contributed to the conception and design of the study. Data collection and analysis was done by WJAJH, NB, HP, AdB, AC, MZ, BW, DGW and PHMK. WJAJH wrote the first draft of this paper, which was subsequently revised by AdB, AC, MZ, BW, DGW and PHMK. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks. The study was approved by the Ethical Review Board of the Dutch Association for Medical Education (NVMO). Formal written permission to execute the study was also obtained from the Biomedical Sciences and Medicine curricula educational management teams. Students were adequately informed, participation was voluntary and students included provided written informed consent. Feedback to students based on certainty-based learning as displayed in Cell Biology computer-assisted formative assessment modules. Both the Dutch version used in the current study (A) and the English equivalent (B) are shown. Scores corresponds to the scheme used at the University College London [24]. An incorrect answer will not lead to a penalty if students indicate to be uncertain (score 0 for “not sure”). Wrong answers that are provided with confidence, however, result in a firm warning through negative points (score = − 6). Students that answer correctly but are not sure will not be able to gain maximal scores (1 or 2 instead of 3 points). Only students that provide a correct answer AND are fully confident about this will get the full bonus; the student knows he/she knows. At the end of a CAFA module one can then provide students with tailored feedback, including study advice, specified for each CBL score category. (PNG 335 kb) CBL results for individual questions are available for on-screen inspection, printing and filing. Upon selecting the link “Klik hier om de scores per vraag te bekijken” on the final results page (Fig. 2) in CBL-based CAFA modules, a full list of results for individual filled-out questions is displayed on the background color assigned to the respective certainty-based learning score (see Additional file 1). The various columns present the question number (VRAAG), the knowledge score (STATUS), the certainty level (ZEKERHEID) and the certainty-based SCORE. Note that only questions that were fully answered will be shown (in this case all 30). (PNG 208 kb) CBL script in Lectora Online. A) Example set-up of a program with 14 questions. B) Detailed look at CBL-module in question 4. C) Upon entering the page “results”, student’s performance is calculated and shown. D) Additional actions required to display student results per question. (PNG 1435 kb) Schematic overview of the applied cross-over study to investigate a possible added value of certainty-based learning in computer-assisted formative assessment modules. A description of the various components and steps in the study is provided in the Methods section. (PNG 74 kb) Questionnaire with 19 questions, including a request for further comments, on CBL use (in Dutch). (PDF 75 kb) Hendriks, W.J.A.J., Bakker, N., Pluk, H. et al. Certainty-based marking in a formative assessment improves student course appreciation but not summative examination scores. BMC Med Educ 19, 178 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12909-019-1610-2 Certainty-based marking Computer-assisted learning Confidence-based learning Undergraduate biomedical education Approaches to teaching and learning	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4146
__label__wiki	0.52867	0.52867	The Wiesel’s declaration about his encounters in The Nazis of Germany rose to power in 1933, and were the executors of a genocide that took six million Jewish lives. This bureaucratic execution was part of a regime that believed the Germans were purebloods, and therefore, racially superior making the Jews inferior and a threat to the supposed German racial community. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, is well known for his memoir, Night, which is a consolidated version of his experiences during this time of terror. Night is the account of a child who survives the death camps, yet it also follows the protagonist, Eliezer’s passionate voyage from a trusting Orthodox Jewish kid to a significantly upset young man who questions the presence of God and, by augmentation, the humanity of man. In his memoir, Wiesel is able to portray the deterioration of one’s self respect in response to injustice through the development of Eliezer, a young boy who loses his innocence when faced with cruelty, as self- preservation becomes his highest virtue. While Night is Elie Wiesel’s declaration about his encounters in the Holocaust, Wiesel is not, unequivocally, the story’s protagonist. He uses the technique of a narrator to somewhat distance himself from his experiences and look in from the outside, while also managing to document the emotional truth alongside the reality of the physical and historical events. Firstly, Wiesel articulates Eliezer’s love and solidarity for the bond between a father and son to be a stronger force than his instinct for self- respect and survival. Eliezer is sickened with the terrible childishness he sees around him, particularly when it includes the crack of familial bonds. On three occasions, he specifies children appallingly abusing fathers: in his concise discourse of the pipel who mishandled his dad; his loathsome decision about the thought processes of Rabbi Eliahou’s child; and his portrayal of the battle for nourishment that he witnesses on the trek to Buchenwald, in which a child pounds the life out of his dad. These snapshots of remorselessness are incited by the conditions the detainees are compelled to persevere. With a specific end goal to spare themselves, these children forfeit their fathers. Regardless of the adoration and care he has shown his father, Eliezer feels that he has by one means or another relinquished his dad for his own security. Eliezer’s portrayals of his conduct toward his dad appear to nullify his liable emotions. He relies upon his dad for help, and his adoration for his dad enables him to persevere. During the long run to Gleiwitz, he says, “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me from allowing myself to die. . . . I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support” (87). This showcases that Eliezer’s father was his rock during the outbreak of all the chaos and as long as his father was alive, Eliezer was able to maintain respect in himself, in God, and in the betterment of humanity. Secondly, Eliezer experiences injustice when him and other undesirables are famished and malnourished as a type of discipline for essentially being themselves; a blow to his self respect and the first cracks the reader witnesses in Eliezer’s resolve. Subsequent to encountering such mercilessness, Eliezer can never again understand his reality. His disappointment comes about because of his difficult involvement with Nazi mistreatment, but also from the brutality he sees fellow detainees dispense on each other. Eliezer further winds up because he is mindful of the brutality of which he himself is capable of. All that he encounters in the constant bloodshed demonstrates to him how frightfully individuals can treat each other—a disclosure that bothers him profoundly. Moreover, Night exhibits that savagery breeds savagery. Rather than supporting each other during trouble, the detainees react to their conditions by betraying each other. Near the end of the account, a Kapo says to Eliezer, “Here, each man needs to battle for himself and not consider any other person. . . . Here, there are no fathers, no siblings, no companions. Everybody lives and passes on for himself alone (110).” It is noteworthy that a Kapo makes this comment to the narrator, in light of the fact that Kapos were themselves detainees put accountable for other detainees. They delighted in a generally better— however still ghastly— personal satisfaction in the camp, yet they helped the Nazi mission and regularly carried on remorselessly toward prisoners in their charge. Toward the start of the fifth segment, Eliezer alludes to them as “functionaries of death.” The Kapos’ position symbolizes the way the Holocaust’s savagery reared pitilessness in its casualties, turning individuals against each other, as self-respect and self preservation became the most noteworthy virtue. Finally, Eliezer’s lack of self respect is accentuated through the deterioration of his belief in God. At the beginning of the book, his faith in God is absolute and allows his self-respect to remain intact; however, as the novel progresses it is clear that Eliezer gradually loses faith in God, shaken from the monstrosities he experiences amidst the Holocaust. “For the first time, he feels anger rising within him”. He questions, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” ( 33). In this quote, Eliezer is brimmed with contempt as the God he was so faithful to surrenders him when he is liable to mercilessness. This forces him to omit religion out of his life, as he cannot acknowledge the silent treatment from God and consequently, opposes his religious childhood. It is questionable whether Elie’s faith in God completely diminishes; however, there is evidence that he changed endlessly from his past highly religious self. Only in the lowest moments of his confidence does he completely turn his back on God. Indeed, when Eliezer says that he has abandoned God totally, Wiesel’s consistent utilization of religious illustrations undermines what Eliezer says he accepts. Eliezer even alludes to scriptural sections when he denies his beliefs. When he fears that he may desert his dad, he appeals to God, and, after his dad’s passing, he expresses regret that there was no religious remembrance. Toward the finish of the book, despite the fact that he has been perpetually changed by his Holocaust encounter, Eliezer emerges with his faith intact. Short glimpses of Eliezer addressing and questioning God are seen, one example of this displayed in the following narration, “I knew that my sins grieved the Almighty and so I pleaded for forgiveness”(68). Here, the reader additionally observes the opposing conduct Eliezer displays by pleading for forgiveness due to the extensive guilt he bears upon his passive actions during the Holocaust. This reminiscence of Elie Wiesel’s experience has been documented for the world to read. After the Holocaust ended, the surviving Jews were somewhat lost and newly acquainted with another world that was not inviting to them until some time recently. It is ironic that Wiesel chooses to call his book, Night because this is symbolic of a world without God yet Eliezer’s faith remains intact even after some instances that make him question his existence. One could say that whenever Eliezer makes a reference to the everlasting night is when his belief in God is at its weakest point. From his struggle to maintain his faith in a benign God to his experiences with injustice and inhumanity towards other humans, Wiesel is able to display the gradual disintegration of Eliezer’s self respect and how this influences his actions for survival. Moreover, the reader is given the privilege to partake in Wiesel’s emotional journey, which ultimately, like his fellow prisoners, left him more dead than alive. 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__label__cc	0.611935	0.388065	Effective Podcast Promotion Strategies Last updated on January 9th, 2020 Subscribe: iTunes \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| Pocketcasts \| Overcast In this our 6th episode of the Audience podcast we dive into the tactics you can use to broaden your listenership through better promoting your podcast. Promoting your podcast comes down to finding new ways to reach prospective listeners outside of your existing audience circle. Effective podcast promotion starts with knowing your ideal listener and the places where you can connect with them, and then building the systems and practices to connect with people in those communities every time you publish a new episode. Audience Persona Worksheet Podcast Promotion blog post Headliner Audiograms Podcasting Directories To Submit Your Show To Email Marketing for Podcasters Speaker 1 00:05 Welcome to audience. I’m your host Craig Hewitt from Castos. Here we uncover it the best tactics, strategies and plans you can use to grow your podcast from zero to a meaningful and impactful marketing asset for your brand. Here with audience, we’re using ourselves as kind of a crash test dummy to build a podcast from scratch, literally zero listeners just a month ago to a meaningful and impactful podcast and marketing tool for our brand Costos and today we’re going to be talking all about promotion of your podcast. We’ve covered a lot of the kind of nuts and bolts in the basis of what constitutes a good podcast here in the first six episodes. Covered a lot about storytelling and creating interesting and meaningful content that’s share worthy with your audience and other. We’ve covered that and the basics of how to get started. Podcasting and some of our first two episodes. We’re going to talk all about podcasts for promotion today. Speaker 1 01:08 If you do a quick search for how to podcast on Google, you’ll find a lot of content out there about how to get started and rightfully so. This is a big barrier for a lot of folks. You know what podcasting microphone to use. What the heck is an RSS feed, where to host your files, how to submit to places like Apple podcast and Spotify. But a lot of the resource out there really stopped there and, and don’t talk about how to promote your podcast and how to grow your audience. And that’s really what this show is all about. A bit of fair warning here. This is a super tactical and practical episode. So, uh, if you’re, if you’re on the go, uh, you’ll probably want to come back and catch the show notes for this episode. We also reference one of our blog posts in here. Speaker 1 01:50 That is a really good resource too. It’s going to give you a checklist of exactly how to, how we like to promote a podcast episode. We’re going to run through some of our favorite tactics and strategies, but first, I think from a very high level, it’s important to think about the two. We call them pillars of what makes a successful podcast. And the first is really high quality content. That’s the reason we spent two of our early interviews talking with subject matter experts in this field. The first talking about effective storytelling and creating that arc of a story that makes your podcast content interesting and people want to follow along with. And then we followed up with somebody who’s really an expert in kind of creating your own voice and creating content that you want to create and following your guiding light as far as the the kind of content you want to create and what it’s gonna do for your brand. Speaker 1 02:39 Those two episodes kind of drew a nice circle around what really good, meaningful and impactful content is for your podcast. And now we’re, we’re sitting back and kind of letting this simmer a little bit. The key now is is time and promotion. I put those two as kind of the, the, the two parts of the second pillar. The first one is really good content and the second is creating that content over and over and over every week like we’re doing in the audience podcast. We will not miss a week of of publishing our podcast, and that really is good for relaying to your audience that you are invested in this, that you are here to stay, that you’re not just a flash in the pan and you’re not going to go away in a couple of weeks. They can subscribe to your podcast feeling good, that you’re going to be there every week, giving them good content, connecting with them and providing value. Speaker 1 03:27 And the second thing is effectively and consistently promoting your podcast to new audiences. So you would hope that the audience you’re already reaching via email list or social media channels are already subscribed your podcasts, that they’re already getting every episode. Now the key is to to promote and share your podcast content with in places where new people can find you. Subscribe and start listening. Now with this in mind, I think one of the important things is is thinking about who your audience really is. We have a an audience persona worksheet that we’ll include in the show notes for this episode. And I encourage everybody, whether you’re a new podcast or you’ve been podcasting for a while, I encourage you to download this and at least take a look at it, maybe print it out or on your computer, fill it out and think about specifically who your audience is, what they’re interested in, what their pains and their kind of desires are. Speaker 1 04:19 And with that, that will focus a lot of the, the content that you create. It will also form a lot of your marketing efforts and your promotional efforts. It will help you think about where do my ideal listeners hang out, what social media channels maybe would be best to reach them on? How can I grow my email list through something like a giveaway or a campaign to, to help engage my podcast audience or my potential podcast audience better? So we’ll include a link for this audience persona document in the show notes. It’s a really great worksheet for you to, to dive in and start giving some real hard numbers around, uh, around kind of who your audiences and how you can best both create good content for them, but as well as as reach them and people like them Speaker 0 05:00 don’t scale. Speaker 1 05:06 Okay. So let’s dive into the tactics that we’re going to use and that we think you could definitely use to promote your content. The first it has to do with the episodes that will release on launch day. Uh, so we definitely like to include a couple of episodes on launch day for the audience podcast. We had four episodes really for launch day. The first was a teaser episode that we launched about a week before our official launch day. This is about a 10 minute episode of me explaining what the podcast is going to be about and why we’re creating it and who it’s for and what people who are listening can expect. That’s a really great way to give a nice frame for the podcast as a whole of of what people can expect, why they should listen and give them a chance to subscribe is also a nice way to build some buzz ahead of the launch of your podcast. Speaker 1 05:51 But when you do go to launch your podcast, you want to launch with at least two episodes. We launched with three because fit kind of the the content structure and strategy that we had, but we definitely encourage you to launch with at least two episodes. If you have the capacity to record more than too easily and you don’t think that you recording content will be a limiting factor in your production ability going forward, then I definitely would consider publishing as many as you can on launch day. The balancing part of this is, you know, say you, you released a hundred episodes on launch day that it’s very unlikely that a new subscriber would listen to all of those at one time, so you might want to save some of those for later. So at least two or three five is probably okay. Probably more than 10 would be would be too many. Speaker 1 06:38 Uh, you have saved those for later. Have a backlog of episodes that are ready to go so you don’t have to worry about keeping up with the content creation as a, as you proceed after launch. The second strategy that we really like is converting your podcast episodes into YouTube videos. So if you’re using a service like Castillo’s that has YouTube republishing built in, then this is automatically done for you every time you publish an episode and cast as this is a one click, one time setup, you connect your cast account to your YouTube channel and playlist, upload a custom cover image that will be applied to the videos. And then every time you publish a new podcast episode automatically gets converted from audio format. Like we listen to podcasts in to a video and then publish to YouTube, to your YouTube channel directly for you automatically every time DOD not to think about it. Speaker 1 07:27 I love these kinds of things because it’s on autopilot. It’s helping me repurpose my podcast content without me doing anything, literally every episode. So it’s on autopilot to no brainer. If you’re not doing this, you should be, uh, it’s just a, it’s a no brainer. YouTube is the second biggest search engine on the internet. And if you’re not there with your podcast content, you’re missing out on something. The third thing we really like is audio grams. So we use a tool called headliner. A headliner will be directly integrated into caseloads as well here shortly. It allows you to create these short video clips that are really great for social media. So these audiograms have the sound wave marching across the top as well as it transcribes the audio into text and has that at as closed captioning in the bottom. And these are great for giving a visual representation of your podcast episode for places like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram even because there are video files. Speaker 1 08:20 So if you’re not using something like headliner, uh, you, you definitely should check it out. It will be, like I said, it will be integrated into cast here very shortly. And so this will just make this content creation so much easier. So it’ll just happen pretty automatically. When you publish a new episode, you just have to select the snippet that you want to create, an audiogram and two and we’ll take it from there. The next one is pretty self evident I think, but just wanted to touch on it and it is to to submit your podcast to the directories where your audience is already listening. So everybody thinks about Apple podcast as kind of the place for everybody to submit their podcast episode to and I would agree it’s still King of these days in most all places, the one that definitely everybody needs to be paying attention to these days as Spotify in some regions and in some countries, Spotify has actually taken over the market share from Apple at this point. Speaker 1 09:10 So if your podcast isn’t on Spotify, you’re missing out on a lot of potential listeners. Definitely get on Spotify as soon as you can. Your podcast hosting providers should have a direct integration to this cast us does. It’s just a one click. Once you’ve created your podcast and your feed in your hosting platform, it’s just a one click submit to Spotify. The others to think about are a Stitcher, Google, play a tune in Deezer, iHeartRadio pod Bay and pod tail. If you have your podcast submitted to all of these directories, uh, I think you have your bases covered really well here. Some of the third party podcasting apps that a lot of people use will crawl directories like Apple podcast and automatically populate your podcast and their directories after a couple of days of your podcast being live in places like Apple podcast. The the third thing that a lot of people think about with with web content, like conventional web content, written written form, is SEO. Speaker 1 10:04 So search engine optimization. This is kind of a fancy term for tools like Google to be able to find your content after somebody searches for a term, and this really should apply to podcast episodes as well. If you’re not creating detailed show notes for your podcast episodes, then you’re missing out on Google. Being able to understand your podcast content in its written form and linking to it when people search for something that’s associated with what your podcast is about. And so this can, this can be really detailed and it can go a way into the weeds, but it doesn’t have to. So I think somebody would think of that about is like what is the title of your episode? What are some of the subheadings that you would have within the article that describes what your podcast is about? And then you just want to make sure that the relative keywords that describe what your podcast is about are in that description as well. Speaker 1 10:52 Of course, you don’t want to do things like keyword stuffing, cause then you’ll get in trouble with Google and then just make sure the content is relevant and describes what your audio content is all about. But the next one is, is a call to action. This typically happens at the end of a podcast episode. Our call to action here is not the typical a subscribe and leave a review, but ours is to share this podcast with someone who you think would like it as well. We like this call to action because I think it, it’s easier, it’s easier to do. Uh, you know, even on the native Apple podcast app, it’s kind of arduous to go leave a review these days and sometimes spilled. Don’t know how to do that, but everybody knows how to say, Hey Bob or Susie, you should go listen to the audience podcast. Speaker 1 11:34 Just go search audience and Apple podcaster and overcast and and check it out. It’s by the dos team and that’s just a really easy thing to do. Everybody can do it on every medium. You don’t have to be kind of tech savvy or anything like sometimes you do to be able to leave a review. A reviews are cool and they give a lot of social proof in the directories, Apple podcasts. But for us a more impactful thing cause we just want to share this message with as many podcasters as we can. Thus the call to action for us is to, is to, if you’re enjoying this show, share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. The next tactic that we use is again, something that you said it once and forget it, is to to add a link to your podcast and your email signature. Speaker 1 12:17 So presumably you have a an email address associated with whatever brand you’re podcasting for, whether that’s your, your hobby, your business, your church group, your special interest and all these tools, Gmail and all these email clients have a way for you to customize what the signature is in your email and just include a link to your podcast right there. And so you would have things like, this is my website and this is me on Twitter and LinkedIn. And then you say, Hey, subscribe or check out my podcast here is a really nice way for you to include a link to your podcast in a place that people might not see at otherwise. Again, really easy one time setup thing. The next one is really about guests and I think that the term is like leveraging a guests audience and encouraging them to share content and share episodes that they’re a part of. Speaker 1 13:01 So if you have a guest who is on your show, contact them as your episode is going out. Give them some resources like an audiogram. If you’ve created one through headliner or if you have a custom image or tweetable quotes or things like that that you have for the episode, contact the guest given these resources, ask them to share it on their social media accounts. Maybe an email as well. Say, Hey, I was on this podcast. I really enjoyed it. You should check it out and this is just a really easy way to, to kind of spread your word and connect with other people’s audiences and kind of get out of the box maybe that that you’re operating in. We talked about email and the the value of email and and it being kind of a unique platform for you to reach your audience members. Speaker 1 13:42 Then in, I think our first episode, and this is a really big one, if you haven’t started an email list yet, I think anyone in the marketing space will tell you that you should start it today. It’s maybe the most important marketing asset that you have reaching your podcast audience via email. Even here in 2020 is the best place to reach them. Most consistent, probably the highest opening engagement rates and uh, there’s a ton of content out there. We have a really great article on the Castillo’s blog about email marketing for podcasting and encourage everybody to check that out. We’ll include a link for that in the show notes as well, but if you haven’t started an email list yet and you’re not announcing your podcast episodes on your email list to your subscribers, you definitely should do that. They’ll thank you. They’ll be able to check out an episode here or there if they haven’t already. Speaker 1 14:29 And it’s a great way to keep people up to date on what you’re doing with your podcast. Social media is something that is a little different for everybody, but I think the, the theme here that you can apply to your specific scenario in your specific case within the social media realm is to add value and be helpful. Uh, and so I think that you want to ask yourself, you know, kind of like what social media channels do I like hanging out on? Where do my potential audience members hang out? Is it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest? And then how can you provide the most value to people in those communities so that they say, wow, you know, Craig really knows what he’s talking about. I should probably check out more of his stuff. Oh, I see. As a podcast all subscribe. I’m sure it’s great. Speaker 1 15:13 Uh, this is kind of the natural link and progression that you want to build in people’s minds. Whether that’s in something like a community, like a Facebook group or a discourse group or a forum or something like that, or on conventional social media. I think the theme here is the same as to be there consistently add value, answer people’s questions, post interesting articles, and then when it’s time for people to want to check out new things, they’ll say, Oh, I remember that. You know, Gary was creating this, this awesome content in our community and OIC has a podcast. I’ll go check it out. We talked about guests being on our podcast as a way to expand our audience and I think the inverse is also true is that you can and should be a guest on other people’s podcasts, so if you’re not already actively and consistently reaching out to other podcasters in your niche or in adjacent niches, this is a great way to, to boost kind of the exposure you have to to you and your brand and your message and your theme, and so I would just kind of create a list of, okay, these are the top 10 or 20 or 50 podcasts I want to get on at some point and start connecting with those people. Speaker 1 16:20 Again, maybe in your communities, maybe on social media, maybe directly via email and start booking those podcasts. We like to do this pretty consistently. I don’t think that doing the conventional kind of podcast tour where you’re going to be on a podcast all at once, all in one month or something, you would appear in 10 podcasts or something. I think that’s too much of a flash in the pan. I would much rather be on a podcast every month for 10 months. Then to do all of it right at once. Uh, the next one is something that we are definitely gonna be exploring once we have a, a bigger base of content is going to be to purchase paid ads for podcasting. Why do I say that? We’re only going to do this once you have a bigger base of content. I think part of it is a bit of social proof. Speaker 1 17:07 We want to be able to say, Hey, we have 20 or 50 episodes. We cover podcasting from a to, you know, where we are of, you know, X number of listeners and now we’re showing how to grow from there with, with paid advertising. So here we’re kind of laying the foundation for what a podcast is really going to be about how we’re building it and how we’re growing it organically at first. And then we’re going to layer on top of that some, some paid acquisition for podcast listeners. We’re going to do this through probably both Facebook, Cora and podcasting apps like overcast. So, uh, those are the, the few places I would look at originally. If you have a lot of content already and you feel like you’ve saturated a lot of the organic and natural acquisition channels, then I think you could look at doing this as a way to, uh, to kind of amplify that. Speaker 1 17:55 Again, you have to have the budget and the resources to do this. If you do, that’s great. If you don’t, then there’s plenty of the, the previous strategies and tactics we use that really don’t cost any money and just take some of your time maybe to, to spread the word there and promote your podcast content. The last one I’ll mentioned that is, is kind of a corollary to, uh, to leveraging other people’s networks is influencer marketing. I think depending on the space that you’re in and the niche that you’re podcasting about, this could be a really big one. Uh, there are things like Instagram influencers that have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. If you know them are able to get in touch with them and they’re able to mention something about your podcast, you will see a huge spike in your downloads because this is the ultimate form of social proof, right? Speaker 1 18:41 A bunch of people follow these influencers and listen to everything they have to say about their topic. And if you can get on your audiences radar via these influencers, then I think this is a really powerful way to boost your, your podcast exposure. This may be very difficult depending on the space that you’re in, but if you can pull this off or if you have an N or a way to do this, I think this is definitely worth exploring. So if there’s an influencer in your space and you know them, you’re able to get in touch with them. This is definitely something I would recommend. So we’ve covered a lot here and I know this has been a really practical and tactical episode, but, but wanted to to run through these to hopefully give you some ideas and a bit of a plan of how you can think about promoting your podcast. Speaker 1 19:25 If you’re not doing all of these today, that’s okay. The good news is we have a lot of kind of room for improvement, right? But I think the goal is to kind of take stock mentally at least of what you’re doing already, what you’re maybe doing well, and then where you have some areas for improvement. If you’re not doing all of these, then you can take a look and say, okay, I’m not connecting with influencers already. I’m not being a guest on other podcasts. I don’t have an active email list. Those are all things I can do. As we’re starting a new year here, we’re all kind of anxious to, to improve ourselves and our podcasts. So this is a really great time to take stock of what you’re doing well. Um, maybe look at places where you could do a bit better and, and kind of grow from there. Speaker 1 20:03 So have you’ve enjoyed this episode talking about podcast promotion strategies. If you have, our ask is to, uh, to share this with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. Whether that’s on social media, on email, in online communities, Facebook communities that you’re a part of. Uh, we would love for you to share the audience podcast with fellow podcasters or people that are looking to get into podcasting if you think they would enjoy it as well. You can check out the show notes for this episode and share it at audience dot dot com thanks so much for listening Speaker 0 20:34 and we’ll see you next month. Today, we released two exciting updates to the Castos platform: enhanced podcast landing pages and an even better onboarding experience. 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__label__wiki	0.819434	0.819434	Egypt presented its response to WGEID, defended position in enforced disappearances allegations - Daily News Egypt Egypt Egypt presented its response to WGEID, defended position in enforced disappearances allegations Egypt presented its response to WGEID, defended position in enforced disappearances allegations UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concluded its 116th session Daily News Egypt September 24, 2018 Be the first to comment Member of state-sponsored National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Hafez Abu Seada said on Monday that an Egyptian delegation has attended the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and defended Egypt’s position on some allegations. Abu Seada said in an interview on state TV that claims of enforced disappearances have been used as a political tool in Egypt. He added that Egypt’s delegation, which he was a part of, provided the working group of official documents from the NCHR citing cases that have been reported as disappeared, but were found to be in detention. The working group concluded its 116th session, which was held in mid-September 2018. He previously said that the NCHR received 227 reports of forced disappearances in the years between 2015 and 2016. He added that some cases were found to have died in action during the Syrian civil war. During the session, the Working Group examined under its urgent action procedure 75 reported cases of enforced disappearances that have occurred in the last few months, concerning Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela- as well as 754 other cases, including newly-reported cases outside the urgent action procedure and updated information on previously accepted ones. The Working Group also reviewed responses from a number of governments to prompt intervention letters, general allegations, and urgent appeals and also adopted new general allegations. Members also discussed their forthcoming and potential country visits, including its next visit to Mali in November 2018. The experts met with family members of disappeared persons and non-governmental organisations. They also held meetings with representatives of the Governments of Angola, Egypt, El Salvador, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine. On 10 September, the Working Group held an expert consultation on standards and public policies for an effective investigation of enforced disappearances, in order to inform its next thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council. According to various reports, there were approximately 1,500 cases of enforced disappearances in 2015. Several international and local human rights organisations have expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in Egypt, nevertheless Egyptian officials have discredited such statistics. Topics: Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances hafez abu seada WGEID More in Egypt Sudan appeals to UN Security Council over Halayeb Triangle border dispute Madbouly chairs SCNW meeting on GERD’s upcoming technical, legal discussions Parliamentary elections to be held in November: Baha Abu Shoqa No pressures imposed on Egypt to accept Washington’s deal on GERD: Irrigation Ministry https://cdn2.dailynewsegypt.com/2018/09/24/egypt-presented-its-response-to-wgeid-defended-position-in-enforced-disappearances-allegations/ Long trade war may benefit China, yet would hurt US’ economy: ECB Pakistan’s planning minister, 25 companies hold fruitful discussions with local partners: embassy Chinese companies likely to invest about $2bn in Egyptian manufacturing sector over 2019 146 cases of 227 received forced disappearance reports wanted on criminal charges: NCHR member Rohingya crisis: One year on, still no justice Foreign interference in country’s politics: more than human rights criticism Human rights organisations urge Syrian government to return remains of 161 dead individuals	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4161
__label__cc	0.572027	0.427973	Sports Interactive Community About AliG Favourite Team Currently Managing Alta de Lisboa The Football Manager Youth Academy Challenge AliG replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments @3rik hopefully Wikstrand can keep that scoring rate going into next season for you! A solid first season with plenty to build on. @Jaketomsett Congratulations! Well done on the league and Europa League double, good luck in the CL next season too! @thomas_e that first league title looks like it should be in the next few years with that youth talent youre bringing through! Good luck! Alta de Lisboa - Season 3 - 2021/22 Competitions Well the season proved as hard as I expected it to be and it was always extremely close. We started well with 7 points in our first 4 games and then reality hit and we picked up just 6 points in the next 4 months. A new year run of 5 games unbeaten (2W, 3D) helped us gain a few points over the bottom two and we somewhat fell over the line to survive relegation and finish 15th. We struggled for goals this year with the aging Sebastien scoring just 5 in the league, we don't really have an up and coming replacement for him either as he retires this summer. We will be splitting time between Mario Oliveira and Goncalo Filipe hoping that one of them or the young Sandro Veloso can develop enough to lead the line for us. The cup was fine until we met top flight opposition in the 3rd round and the new league cup competition proved to be just one more friendly preseason match as we failed to progress past the first phase. All in all, the season was an achievement of consolidation and next year will be the same. Until we can grow and hold onto our talent, the slog continues! Squad - Squad 2 - Squad 3 Stats - Stats 2 - Stats 3 Youth Intake Looks like a good crop of youngsters again, will be interested to see how they develop. Gaspar 22c - should go straight into the team with our midfield losses. Who doesn't love a player who is so good he only has one name? Paulo Silva 22d - will be trying to retrain him as a CD as I don't use a CDM. I've never really paid attention but I'd have thought players should still be growing at age 15 so would like him to gain some height. Paulo Silva 22f - not going to get confusing at all but I finally got my promising RD! Transfers So we've lost four of our top 6 players to pre-contract deals. Both of our centre backs and two of our three central midfielders. They will be very hard to replace and next year is going to be tough. I had to fight to keep the other central midfielder and Tiago Correira too! Transfers - Future Transfers Summary Just had my next intake and managed to get two Paulo Silva's! I really want the two Sagi's to be related! Time for some advice, is there any particular reason why I'm only able to offer players a contract for one year? This means that my excellent youngsters are signing their first deal and then refusing to listen to further offers because they've just signed a deal while negotiating with other teams on a pre-contract deal. I'm going to lose three of my best players already this year to this. Alta de Lisboa - Season 2 - 2020/21 So second season after a successful first one, we were predicted a more difficult time. A couple of useful veterans had left and retired so we were going to have to lean heavily on the youth to provide the spine of the club. The first month of the season was mid-table quality but then we put together a fantastic run on 18 games unbeaten and tore away at the top of the league. We suffered some injuries and tiredness in the squad and really limped over the line in the end. I didn't hold out much hope for the playoffs with our form especially when I was drawn against Vitoria de Guimaraes B but my fear was unfounded as the team won the first leg 4-0 and even won away 1-0. These results sent the morale flying up which I think carried them through a tough semi-final against SP Espinho. We won the first leg 2-1 at home and clung on to lose 1-0 away going through to the final on away goals. With both finalists being promoted, I wasn't too bothered about the final but a trophy would have been lovely. An injury time equaliser denied us the win and then we ultimately lost on penalties but promotion was secured! League Table - QF - SF - Final - Transfers Squad - Squad 2 - Squad 3 Stats - Stats 2 - Stats 3 No transfers in but we lost one of our best performers Diogo Ribeiro on a pre-contract deal during the season so we have to replace him next year. We will be in the same league as him next year too so we will be looking out for those fixtures when they're released. Summary @Fadedaf some quality youngsters there, I'm really in need of a future RB so I'm jealous of Forsnes! Full update to come tomorrow but I've secured two major milestones today. Promotion on away goals after which the board came to me and suggested we changed to a professional club! @Hovis Dexter Good job with Bari there. With the league’s 6th highest attendance and those facilities it’s just a matter of time before you produce some exceptional talent. Being in Serie A already means you’re less likely to lose your talent so quickly too so just stick with it and let those youngsters grow. Alta de Lisboa - 2021 Youth Intake Well this time I remembered to take a screenshot! Youth Intake Some much needed defensive talent in both Bruno Campos 21a and Ivo Jacob 21c along with yet more CM talent. With our best young player that we started with signing a pre contract to leave at the end of the second season, the abundance of talent in the middle of the park is very much necessary. Carlos Tchiaka 21e looks like he could a gap at the Inside Forward role on my LAM and finally Sandro Veloso 21f is next in line for leading the line. The team currently sits 11 points clear of 3rd place with 5 games to go so playoff qualification looks likely. But what team turns up in the playoffs I don't know. I've had some really strange results this year including the last game which was a 7-0 loss at home to Amora who are in the relegation zone. I hope that isn't a downward trend for our form! Thanks, in the 3rd tier in Portugal, it seems that a lot of the clubs are Semi-Pro so it's not too bad but with only 2 teams getting promoted out of 72, I just need that bit of luck to make the jump. Once I get that first promotion, I get the feeling the club will kick on. The finances are ok, we have just under 1M in the bank and lose around 15k per month but prize money was over 500k last year so we made a huge profit on the year. The slog continues. Does anyone have tips for securing professional status? This second season is proving tough and I really need to work towards being a professional club to secure the training sessions to develop these kids. Alta de Lisboa - Season 1 - 2019/20 So I decided to try out the youth challenge this year after conquering Austria (but not Europe) with SV Grodig last year. I tried a few different nations but none of them dragged me in so as a Wolves fan, I thought I'd give Portugal a go. With three playable tiers, the third tier consisting of 4 groups of 18 teams, it seemed like a good challenge. I then realised that 5 teams from each group get relegated so this would be tough. Upon loading, I found a team with a great starting infrastructure in Alta de Lisboa. Starting Profile So the season started fairly well with a couple of wins in the cup and some average results in the league. We managed to beat our board's expectation of 2nd round in the cup and made it through to the 4th round where we were dispatched 4-0 at home by SC Braga. Our focus returned to the league and attempting to claw our way away from the relegation zone and a poor return of 5 points from 5 games in November had me worried. A change of tactics saw us hit our stride and we went 11 games unbeaten rocketing us up the table. At this point in January, there were just 4 points separating the top 7 so it was going to be a long season. We continued our good form but drew some games we really should have been winning and going in to the final day, we sat 2nd just 2 points clear of 3rd placed UD Leiria. We lost away to Vilfranquense but luckily Leiria also lost meaning we qualified for the end of season playoffs. The format is the top 2 teams from each group progress to a knockout with both finalists earning promotion to the second tier. The draw was made, FC Porto B. I didn't have much hope and the bookmakers agreed making me 4-1 outsiders in the home match alone. We proceeded to lose the home game 2-0 followed by a 7-0 demolition away and the season was over. All in all, it was a fantastic season, one where consolidation was replaced by hope. With some of our better players being the veterans, next season will be a real test of the potential of the youth players in the squad. Fixtures 1 - 2 - 3 - Transfers League Table I managed to skip youth intake day and not get a screenshot but needless to say, a large number of them were quality and will be playing their part in season 2. The majority of the intake seem to be good midfielders and attackers, already our strongest area of the team, I could really do with a bumper intake of defenders next season. Thanks for the quick response. 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__label__wiki	0.666179	0.666179	Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part One Posted on December 17, 2018 by J. Hubner I was never the kind of music listener that could sit down at the end of the year and compile lists of records that I loved. I could tell you I loved this record and that record, and that one I listened to a hell of a lot, but to sit down and break it down to top 5, 10, 20, and even 50 records seemed an impossible task to me. I knew some cats that it was an art form; top 50 albums, top 50 films, actors, music producers, MCs, Nike shoes….it was a hobby with these dudes to make everything into a list. At the time it seemed exhausting to me. Christ, I’m struggling to make a grocery list let alone rank albums I listened to. Where do you get the time, let alone the brain capacity to compile this stuff? Well here I am, listing records in order. You know, I think I’ve just finally succumbed to the OCD in me. I find great joy in compiling lists now. And it’s not about what I liked more or less with this list of albums I’ve listened to over the past year, but it’s about “Hey, these 50 albums I’m talking about? Yeah, you need to give them ALL a shot.” Every record on this list had an impact on me in some way or another. That’s why they’re here. That’s why I’m taking a weekend to sit and sip on scotch and type whilst the wife makes Christmas cookies upstairs. I love music and I love discovering worlds within the grooves of the albums here. I’m of a particular music lover. I like music that helps expand my brain a bit. Music that lingers in the background nicely, but also can help me explore and think about things bigger than me and my immediate surroundings. I also love a great pop song, too. If it moves me, I’m in. So here we go. First up, 50-31. 50. Shy Boys – Bell House Sometimes it’s those albums you happen upon randomly on a drive on the information super highway that really get you. Missouri band Shy Boys’ Bell House feels like a shot of ramshackle jangle rock from some far off planet called the early 80s. A mix of Cherry Twister, Feelies, dBs, and Real Estate all rolled together like a massive ball of used bubblegum. Tracks like “Take The Doggie”, “Evil Sin”, “Something Sweet” and “Bell House” exemplify all that is magical in the combination of garage rock abandon and the sweetly melancholy bummer vibes of power pop. It’s an overwhelming feeling when you just let your emotions go; whether you’re in your car driving to work or you’re home in your chair thinking about someone that’s not around anymore. Bell House is a lot like that. 49. Isvisible Isinvisible – Ghosts of New Mills Simon Pott’s Isvisible Isinvisible project is a mad scientist’s stab at building emotional worlds with modular synthesizers. From what I can tell it’s a trial and error game with modular synths; you twist and turn and plug and unplug and hope the circuital beast cooperates. With Ghosts of New Mills Pott has found a beautiful compromise between man and electo-beast as he tells a tale of a time and place lost to the hands of a clock and to fading memories(and storefronts.) Ghosts of New Mills is an exquisite electronic album that works its way into your brain with blips and bleeps and robotic beats. Songs like “Newtown Neurotics”, “There’s Nothing There”, and “Patricia’s” burn with both mechanical stoicism and a desire to connect emotionally. It’s an incredible record to get lost in, and one that feels like a real journey, too. 48. Futuropaco – Futuropaco Justin Pinkerton’s Futorpaco is an espresso shot of funky drums and an Italian-flavored melody machine. Think Ennio Morricone scoring a Bond flick, or some late-60s Giallo with a taste for 60s garage rock. Pinkerton made a debut record filled with exquisite farfisa organ abandon and muscular rhythms that could just as easily be the bottom end of early Detroit rock. Songs like “Fantasma Arancione”, “La Torre Cade”, and the almost Queens of the Stone Age-ish “Seppelire Fascisti” have both a retro vibe and a modern groove. A unique sonic delight. 47. Wild Nothing – Indigo Jack Tatum has proven to be one of the best pop rock songwriters working today over the last 8 years. His Captured Tracks albums have been filled with adventurous sonics, catchy melodies, and forward-thinking pop structures that could even be described as future pop. At first listen albums like Nocturne and Life of Pause seem retro, but when you live with them for a bit they almost seem alien in their concepts and sounds. Indigo feels like Tatum’s push to set Wild Nothing on higher planes and to allow far more ears to enjoy his writing. “Letting Go” and “Oscillation” feel like massive hits in the making, while “The Closest Thing to Living” oozes 80s production vibes and has an unmistakable Talk Talk vibe. One of the most unsung pop albums of the year nobody is talking about. 46. Wooden Shjips – V Wooden Shjips rarely disappoint, though their last record Back To Land was lacking a bit in ear worms and/or druggy contemplation. V makes up for what that record lacked by brightening up their typically biker club psych with more kaleidoscopic technicolor graces. Ripley Johnson and crew get grooves going just right on “Eclipse” and “Already Gone”, while on “Red Line” and “Staring At The Sun” the band sounds almost like a sedated Jesus and Mary Chain. V is the most upbeat and clear-headed Wooden Shjips have sounded. 45. Alone In The Woods – Alone In The Woods Jon Dobyns and Lon Bologna, aka Alone In The Woods, work in the darker corners musically but never get lost in the shadows. They add just enough light and glimmer that allow you to find a good spot to stop and enjoy the world they create. On their Burning Witches Records’ debut they use all of their studio and sonic prowess to make an album that burns with serious vibe and immense groove. It’s a retro-futuristic musical world that feels like lost Depeche Mode b-sides intermingled with Wax Stax remixes. The results, tracks like “Ripples”, “Mother of Deers”, and “New Roots For Old Growth” feel and sound both eerily familiar and alien to your ears simultaneously. It’s an engaging debut that sucks you in as soon as you drop the needle, or hit play. 44. White Denim – Performance There’s something about White Denim I just can’t get enough of. They’re all musical geniuses that play it off that they’re just some dudes playing soulful, funky rock riffs. They’re not showing off, but they’re not dumbing down their music either. Since Corsicana Lemonade they’ve pulled back some of the off-kilter weirdness they displayed on earlier records. They’ve started a less is more policy in their tracks and the results are pretty amazing. Performance is their most sparse record yet, though don’t mistake that for boring. “Fine Slime”, “Double Death” and “It Might Get Dark” are some of the Texas band’s best work, and I think it’s only going to get better from here. Really, I do. 43. Future Museums – Rosewater Ceremony Part II : Guardian of Solidtude Neil Lord’s Future Museums is a meditation of loops, guitar, synth, and contemplation. He released Rosewater Ceremony Part I at the beginning of the year and concluded the story back at the beginning of fall. There’s a heavy Krautrock/Komische vibe on both records, but on Part II tracks like “Cedar Incense” feel very transcendent. You can almost imagine sitting cross-legged in some great hall as the knowledge of the universe washes over you. “Closed Eye” seems to point to something greater and something we can’t yet see, while “Presidio” has the rhythm and pulse of some of the best to come out of Berlin in the early 70s. All in all, Rosewater Ceremony Part II: Guardian of Solitude is a deep and heady musical experience. 42. Miracle – The Strife of Love In A Dream Steve Moore and Daniel O’Sullivan step back from their other gigs in order to make 80s electronic-heavy songs in Miracle. You can hear bits of Moore’s main gig Zombi throughout the synth lines and heavy bass riffs, but it’s a softer version of that. More Depeche Mode and New Order than the heady progressive fare he’s made in the past. O’Sullivan’s vocals sway and yearn as well as anybody named Gahan or Gore. With The Strife of Love In A Dream the electro-pop duo seem to have found a freedom in letting things get a little weird. Opening track “The Parsifal Life” is the darkest and strangest they’ve gotten yet, with the vocals almost sounding robotic and the synths have some common ground with the Zombi bag of vibes. “Light Mind” brings back some of that pop-centric feel from their 2013 album Mercury, and “Dreamours” is beautifully lilting with a touch of Gothic seasoning. 41. Beach House – 7 Beach House’s 7 continues their beautiful brand of melancholy, sun-lit electro pop music, this time adding a bit of mechanical resonance courtesy of producer Sonic Boom. The result is a more synthetic turn in their sound, but one that is equally engaging and emotionally powerful. I still get emotional when I hear Depression Cherry, and it’s one of the few albums that I need to listen to at least twice in a row when I get it out. With 7 it feels like a good friend whom you went through something rough and deep with coming to see you after a long time. Things are kept at an arm’s length, and smiles are awkward and mildly skeptic, but those feelings are still there. After a few spins the awkward melts away and you’re left with longing and appreciation once again. “Dark Spring”, “Pay No Mind”, and the overwhelmingly heavy “Drunk In LA” will remind you why you love Beach House. 40. Earthless – From The West I’m not much of a fan of live records, but Earthless are the exception. Check out their album Live at Roadburn for an example of a live album done right. Or better yet, check out their newest live album From The West. They visit some of the material from their newest studio release Black Heaven, as well as some classic Earthless mind melters and even an incredible cover of Zeppelin’s “Communication Breakdown”. This one is worth your time. 39. Phantom Vs Fire – Swim Phantom Vs Fire’s Swim is really unlike anything you’ve heard. It’s an electronic album that appears out of the ether fully-formed and alien, like OPN, Tim Hecker, SBTRKT. Phantom Vs Fire is both organic and synthetic, combining different sonic worlds to give us a musical experience unlike we’ve ever been given. There’s a ghostly quality to this album that feels very cinematic, as if it’s the score to a haunting or an emotional breakdown. Something like “Breathing” builds to a crescendo of strings and keys that works its way into the baroque and plucked “Swim”. “Nightmares and Dreams” has a catchy groove, while “VHS Hypnosis” wains like classic Boards of Canada and 80s synth scores. File Phantom Vs Fire under: one of a kind. 38. Single Lash – Providence Single Lash’s Providence is one of those time machine kind of records. It elicits those feelings I’d have sitting around on Sunday night watching 120 Minutes on MTV(back when they actually catered to people that liked music) and hearing bands like The Church, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, and The Smiths. Nicolas Nadeau writes songs that appeal to anyone that ever felt disenfranchised by a world that doesn’t quite get them. He’s the sensitive, arty kid that drew incredibly good and dark pictures in 5th period art class and dropped his backpack to reveal Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Cure cassettes. “Come True”, “Frozen Honey”, and “Broken Tongue” mix shoegaze dreaminess with post-punk noise into something that resembles heartache and soul searching, all the while feeling as if everything was going to be okay….maybe. 37. Timothy Fife – Hoichi the Earless Timothy Fife is one of these dudes that’s just connected into the vibes, man. He makes music that pulsates and warbles with the world here and out into the great unknown. Check out Victims and his Death Waltz Originals debut Black Carbon for proof of the man’s ability to elicit crazy vibes in the electronic music realm. Last year he re-scored the “Hoichi the Earless” section of Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan for a Holodeck Records-curated event at SXSW. The results have been captured here courtesy of Lighten Up Sounds, and they are astounding. Jump in and bask in the magnificent world of Timothy Fife. Who better to score a story about ghost samurais? Nobody, that’s who. 36. Landing – Bells In New Towns Landing is one of those bands that has been around for 20 years, putting out music ranging from psych, shoegaze, ambient, to even elements of post-punk. It took a record label from Denmark to point them out to me, as Landing hails from Connecticut. I hail from Indiana. How I never heard this amazing group prior to 2016 is beyond me. On their newest album Bells In New Towns they drop the ambient and psych vibes for more driving 90s alternative. Lush, Dinosaur Jr, and Sonic Youth come to mind while listening to songs like “Nod”, “Bright”, and “Wait Or Hide”, while “Gravitational VII”, “Gravitational VIII”, and “Second Sight” cover the headier side of the Landing vibes. Bells In New Towns is a must-listen for anyone who grew up on things filed under “alternative” or “indie” or “other”. 35. Thomas Ragsdale – Self Zero Thomas Ragsdale has released an immense debut album with Burning Witches Records in Self Zero. If you’re familiar with his work in worriedaboutsatan, as well as his other solo releases, leave those expectations at the door. Self Zero is its own heavy synth beast, a mixture of Komische and Berlin School vibes that bring to mind classic 70s’-era Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, and things yet discovered. Ragsdale builds a sonic world on repetition, atmosphere, and a feeling of self-discovery. Tracks like “Harlow’s Experiment”, “Teeth Upon Teeth And Limbs Dangling Beneath”, and the epic opener “Prophet Knoth” promise an album of epic proportions, and they keep that promise. Self Zero is a masterful display of monolithic ideas and keeping on point with them throughout an album’s length. 34. A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned Listening to A Place To Bury Strangers has always felt like an act of self mutilation to me. Grinding distortion mixed with industrial drums and effected vocals, APTBS works in the sonic realm of Suicide self-imploding to a Wax Trax compilation. Through several albums since 2007, Oliver Ackermann has led APTBS to an almost transcendent form of noise making. He’s turned apocalyptic sonics into an artform, and Pinned might be his pinnacle. With the addition of Lia Simon Braswell on drums and background vocals, Pinned takes APTBS into new territory. Braswell’s backing vocals add a much-needed feminine POV to Ackermann’s dystopian, hard-edged songs. “Never Coming Back” doesn’t lose any of the vitriol and ultra sonic violence of past records, but with a sparse soundscape the song builds heft so when the noise gains, you really feel it. “There’s Only One Of Us” has a more Bauhaus feel, and “Frustrated Operator” goes full Joy Division-meets-Jesus and Mary Chain. A must for any post-punk aficionados. 33. Daniel Davies – Events Score Events Score is a beautifully sculpted, eerie musical world where ghosts and sci-fi mingle and shake into something both haunting and engaging. From “Shadows Alive”, “XXT”, and “Body Obtained”, Davies builds a sonic world where countless film scores live and meander waiting to be recalled for some point of reference. His use of both modern and vintage equipment coalesce into this vintage/modern blur of malaise and melancholy. One of my favorite pieces of music this year comes from this album, the exquisite and haunting “One 60 Clone”. If you haven’t given this one a spin yet, you need to. Daniel Davies is a big part of John Carpenter’s musical comeback since 2015’s Lost Themes. If you dig Carpenter’s vibe, you’ll dig Davies too. 32. Justin Sweatt – Say Your Goodbyes Justin Sweatt has made a musical mark on the world under the nom de plume Xander Harris, but all of that has changed. It started with the release of this beautiful ambient record called Say Your Goodbyes. Where the Xander Harris LPs were more techno, industrial, and heavy synth-based, Sweatt’s Say Your Goodbyes feels like a long embrace. He steps from the shadows on this album to showcase a softer, more open-hearted side of his musical personality. Tracks like “The Girl With The Diamond Tattoo”, “Chasing Paper”, and “Eternal Return” showcase a side of Sweatt not heard on records like Termination Dust and Urban Gothic. Vast soundscapes open to interpretation and letting some ample light into the room. 31. Dorias Baracca – Dorias Baracca Dorias Baracca were a Danish shoegaze band that never got the chance to take off like they should have. Singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Buster Svendsen died suddenly right after they finished recording their debut album in 2011. Thanks to Azure Vista Records we can hear what could have been with their stunning debut album. This self-titled album has all the shimmery glory of classic albums by Ride, Lush, and Catherine Wheel, but with something quite special that only Buster could’ve brought to the table. Thanks to the finishing touches the mastering of Jonas Munk added, this record is a shining bit of what could’ve been. Songs like “Wake Me Up(With a Kiss)”, “Dean & Dane”, and “Goodbye” show an immeasurable talent in Dorias Baracca and that had fate not stepped in, this band could’ve accomplished so much. This self-titled release is an incredible musical statement for a band that never got the opportunity spread their wings the way they should have. Up next, numbers 30-21. Categories: Year End Lists 2 thoughts on “Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part One” Some genuinely brilliant albums in there, JH. Earthless, Futuropaco, Wooden Shjips and Landing are all very high up for me (though I don’t know if I’ve gotten to know 50 albums that well! Looking forward to part 2… J. Hubner says: I know we definitely have done similar favorites this year. Maybe those brain supplements I’m taking are helping with the retaining information. What do you think? Let me know Cancel reply PreviousE.A. Pooman : 2012-2018 NextComplex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part Two	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4169
__label__cc	0.553247	0.446753	Game Time Announced For LSU/Auburn Oct. 26 The LSU Tigers have vaulted to the #2 team in the country after beating Florida last weekend. They hit the road this Saturday to take on Mississippi State in Starkville with a 2:30pm kickoff on CBS. The Tigers are not trying to look past Mississippi State but it was announced that LSU's game against Auburn set for Saturday, October 26th, 2019 in Baton Rouge will have a early start. Rueben Randle Scores (Getty Images) The Southeastern Conference announced yesterday that televison network CBS had decided to pick up the game in Baton Rouge. The game will have a 2:30pm kick off time. LSU fans will not be happy about the early start. Traditionally, LSU games at home in Death Valley start at 7:00pm. This will be the second early start for the Tigers at home this season. A couple weeks ago, LSU played Utah State at 11:00am at home. Filed Under: featured, lsu, LSU Football Categories: Entertainment, Sports, SWLA News, Television	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line4170

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