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__label__wiki	0.981129	0.981129	(photo by Alan Rennie/Action Plus via Getty Images) Mark McNulty's Scotland call-up highlights his rise to prominence Ben Banks Mark McNulty’s form has been nothing short of sensational for Hibs since joining on loan from Reading in January. Scoring six goals and grabbing three assists in just eight games, he has inspired Paul Heckingbottom’s side through a mini renaissance. It’s no coincidence Hibs have lost just twice since his arrival. He’s brought out the best in Florian Kamberi and brings attacking flair to the Easter Road side. Now the former Coventry City and Livingston man has got his first ever Scotland call-up. McNulty in action against Celtic. (photo by Alan Rennie/Action Plus via Getty Images) It’s a terrific achievement for McNulty. He has worked extremely hard to get to this position, given how many obstacles the striker has had to hurdle. McNulty has always known where the net is, but finding a place to call home hasn’t always been as easy. Starting out at Hutchinson Vale, McNulty played for Celtic and current club Hibs as a youngster. He was released from the Easter Road side though in 2009 and made the switch to Livingston at the age of 16, giving him a bigger chance of playing first team football. McNulty’s just reward It was in West Lothian that the forward really began to find his feet. Spending five years at the Lions, the striker made over 100 appearances for the club, with goals becoming a regularity in his time at Livi. McNulty showed his potential at Livi, despite only being 16. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty Images) This form earned him a move to Sheffield United where he again had to try and break into a first team squad. He scored on 10 occasions for the Blades over 40 games. This was in between loan spells at Portsmouth and Bradford City, where the Scotsman had varied success. McNulty’s time at Sheffield was up and again he dropped down the footballing ladder in search of first team football. He linked up with Mark Robins in League Two at Coventry City and he played like a man possessed at times. Scoring 23 times for the Sky Blues, he earned man of the match in the play-off final which sent them back to League One. Whilst his time at the Ricoh Arena was the best of his career in terms of goals, McNulty jumped back into the Championship with Reading, where games again became an irregularity. This prompted him to make the switch to Easter Road. The rest as they say is history. The striker has reached the top, despite facing several obstacles. (photo by Alan Rennie/Action Plus via Getty Images) McNulty has dealt with blow after blow in his time as a professional. He has had varied success at different clubs but his ability to find the net is undeniable. He has reached the top the hard way and the striker will be hoping for his moment on the biggest stage. If McNulty makes his Scotland debut, it will really cap off his rise from rags to riches. He has been at the very bottom. Now he’s in with a chance of making it to the biggest stage a Scotsman can play on. Have something to tell us about this article? Tags: Hibs, Livingston, Reading, Scotland, Scottish football, Scottish Premiership, Sheffield United Ben Banks Journalist Ben is the Content Leader at Not the Old Firm. Past work includes covering Youth Football Scotland and working with the BBC. Ben has a strong knowledge of Scottish football. Can Liverpool do what Hearts did in 1989 and beat Bayern Munich? McInnes thinks Ibrox performance will help Dons star improve SPL News 24/7 Kettlewell sends warning to Ross County players after Scottish Cup upset Hodgson confirms Crystal Palace are ‘on the verge’ of signing Dundee United’s Banks Striker Avdijaj becomes Stendel’s first Hearts signing Hibs let Josh Vela go to Shrewsbury Town for free Partick Thistle confirm loan deal for Rangers starlet Barjonas Fleck stars again as Sheffield United earn credible draw ‘Passion and mentality and power’ coming to Hearts’ dressing room says Stendel McInnes praises McGeouch after good Aberdeen debut Penrice left with mixed emotions after Partick Thistle’s Celtic defeat Dales’ debut delight as Scunthorpe loanee earns Hamilton boss praise © 2019 GRV Media. All Rights Reserved GRV Media, 18 Mulberry Avenue, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 0WN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371706
__label__cc	0.56361	0.43639	The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested on him without changing their expression. "I love you all and have done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!" her look seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and kissed her forehead. "My darling!" he said--a word he had never used to her before. "God is merciful...." She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. "I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!" said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary Bogdanovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke off at every moment. They waited and listened. "Go, dear," said Princess Mary. Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to open it. Someone was holding it shut. "You can't come in! You can't!" said a terrified voice from within. He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek--it could not be hers, she could not scream like that--came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. "What have they taken a baby in there for?" thought Prince Andrew in the first second. "A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or is the baby born?" Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill be began to cry, sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into his wife's room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. "I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?"--said her charming, pathetic, dead face. In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed in Mary Bogdanovna's trembling white hands. Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father's room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise round his son's neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. "Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say, and Prince Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed to say: "Ah, what have you done to me, and why?" And at the sight the old man turned angrily away. Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andreevich was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms. His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that the wax with the baby's hair had not sunk in the font but had floated.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371708
__label__wiki	0.919965	0.919965	PalauGov.pw Your guide to finding and using Palau National Government services REPUBLIC ADDRESS NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE (NEMO) COMMUNITY & CULTURAL AFFAIRS NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRY & COMMERCE COFA TRUST FUND BOARD COUNCIL OF CHIEFS AIMELIIK AIRAI ANGAUR HATOHOBEI KAYANGEL KOROR NGARAARD NGARCHELONG NGARDMAU NGATPANG NGIWAL NGCHESAR NGEREMLENGUI SONSOROL ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PROTECTION BOARD (EQPB) ABOUT PALAU Biography of His Excellency Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. President of the Republic of Palau President Tommy Esang Remengesau, Jr., the ninth President of the Republic of Palau, is the first Palauan to be elected President four times. He was first elected President in 2000 and was re-elected in 2004. Constitutionally limited to two consecutive presidential terms, Remengesau was elected in 2008 as Senator in the Palau National Congress (Olbiil Era Kelulau), where he served until his election as President again in 2012 followed by re-election to his fourth and present term in 2016. His election as President again in 2016 is a mark of his vitality and commitment to his promise to the People of Palau to work hard to “preserve the best, improve the rest” for Palau, today and for generations to come. During his time in public office, Palau has been recognized for its financial stability and good governance. Remengesau has also amplified Palau’s international leadership and emphasized the importance of regional and global partnerships. In 2013, President Remengesau, was the recipient of the inaugural Pacific Champion Award, an honor bestowed as part of the Pacific Islands Environmental Leadership Awards for his numerous achievements as a leader in nature conservation and environmental sustainability. In 2014, the United Nations Environmental Programme, the primary voice for the environment in the United Nations system, awarded Remengesau with its top accolade – The Champion of the Earth award for his visionary leadership in strengthening Palau’s economic resilience by spearheading national initiatives to protect its biodiversity. Also in 2014, the environmental organization Rare presented Remengesau with its first Inspiring Conservation Award for his innovative and inspiring work to preserve Palau’s marine resources. In 2007, TIME magazine named him one of the heroes of the environment for initiatives such as the Micronesia Challenge. 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During his first Senate term, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means and was instrumental in helping to erase Palau’s outstanding budget deficit and bringing about stability and credibility to government. In 1992, Remengesau was elected Vice President of Palau, the youngest Palauan ever to serve as Vice President. He was re-elected as Vice President in 1996. As Vice President, he concurrently held the position of Minister of Administration (now Finance), helping the Republic gain membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. He also helped lead Palau’s transition to an independent country in 1994. President Remengesau was born in Koror, Palau. The eldest of eight children born to Mr. Thomas O. Remengesau, Sr., and Ferista Esang Remengesau, “Tommy” has followed his father’s distinguished career, which included 12 years as Palau’s first District Administrator, the Minister of Justice, Vice President and President. 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__label__cc	0.637879	0.362121	Open Source Hardware Association About OSHWA Discuss List Archives Definition (English) Open Source Hardware Journals Open Source Quick Reference Guide Open Source Hardware Logo OSHWA Branches Kansas City, MO Branch El Salvador Branch Ecuador Branch Mexico Branch OSHW Economics Research Open Hardware Month Certification Directory Author: aileen 2015 Open Hardware Summit Photos and Videos now live! Author : aileen Date : November 10, 2015 Follow the links to see videos and photos from the 2015 Open Hardware Summit! Hope to see you all again next year! 2015 Summit Early Morning Sessions 2015 Summit Late Morning Sessions 2015 Summit Early Afternoon Sessions 2015 Summit Late Afternoon Sessions 2015 Summit Photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/open_hardware_summit Category : Uncategorized Read More Welcome to our new OSHWA Board Members! Author : aileen Date : October 2, 2015 Thank you to our members who voted for OSHWA’s new board members! Your vote is a major contribution as we need to reach quorum (at least 10% of our members) to make anything official in OSHWA. This year, we filled 5 board member seats which will be held for 2 years. Please welcome our new board members Katherine Scott, Jeffrey Warren, Michael Knowles, Joel Murphy, and Dan Grigsby! Thank you to all who participated in nominations! OSHWA is having a Membership Drive! Author : aileen Date : December 15, 2014 We are launching a Membership Campaign to double our members of like-minded individuals and companies between now and January 15, 2015. Help us reach our goal by spreading the word: www.oshwa.org/membership/. We will keep you all updated on our membership drive as things progress. If you have innovative ideas on how we can attract more members, please get in touch with Aileen at info@oshwa.org. We welcome your ideas. Sign up for membership during the drive, and you will get an OSHWA sticker set! *Stickers may be different from shown here. Help us spread the word about OSHWA’s Membership Drive with a Tweet! Author : aileen Date : October 23, 2014 Please welcome our new board members! They are: Toni Klopfenstein, Michael Weinberg, and Rose Swan Meacham You can see the data here. OSHWA Board Nominees This year, we have 10 board nominees for 3 open seats on the OSHWA board. Board members will hold a 2-year position. Once board members have been chosen by the community, the board will appoint a President, VP, and Secretary. As every nominee answered “Yes” to having 5 hours a month to give to the board, we did not include that question in each nominee’s data. Board responsibilities include fundraising, advising on goals and direction, and carrying out compliance of the organization’s purposes and bylaws. The vote will be open on Oct. 20 and Oct 21. Since the post is so long, here is also a .pdf spreadsheet of the nominees. Members will be emailed a link to vote. Here are the nominees in random order: Toni Klopfenstein Why do you want to be on the board? Over the last few years through my work at SparkFun Electronics, I have seen the great benefits and necessity of having a unified Open Hardware community. I would like to be on the board to continue improving and strengthening this community, and to help the community by working towards more common, widely known standards for open source hardware. For myself personally, all OSHWA-hosted events I have attended previously have been of great personal benefit and growth, and have given me the opportunity to meet many people and see many projects from the open source hardware community that I may not otherwise get a chance to work with. Do you currently serve on the boards of other organizations? What qualifies you to be a board member? My current role at SparkFun Electronics includes maintaining and distributing our documentation via tools like GitHub, so I am well aware of many ambiguities the current open hardware definition has. I am passionate about helping the community grow and improve based on what feedback I see from the community in that role, as well as my previous role in tech support, where I was able to see many of the places that users of open hardware run into trouble or get confused. I also am skilled at working with people of many different backgrounds and experience levels with open source hardware, and have the communication skills necessary to enable productive communication between extremely technical open-hardware ‘veterans’ and complete newbies to the field. I also am very self-motivated, and good at prioritizing work that is not necessarily well-defined or clearly driven by others. Do you have an interest in serving as the board President? Tamer Elzayyat To utilize my knowledge and experience. No, but I am a member in many organizations. PhD research now in electronics, and aim in same way. Matt Joyce I need something worthwhile to do. A raison d’tre. OSHW is an amazing organization supported by amazing people. I’d love to help push it forward, pull it up, and let it rest on my shoulder as needed. Of course more likely than not with the community behind it, it would more likely be like riding a jet powered tiger. I’d still love to help out if I can. So I offer my assistance. I believe in the mission deeply. I’m honest. I have no incentives to work against or for anyone. I am surrounded by some of the best hardware folks in NYC. And, I’m generally a pretty good person. I don’t think a board should want more than that out of its members. Michael Weinberg While not as important as actual design and creation of OSHW, legal and licensing issues have the potential to have a huge impact on its development and growth. OSS serves as a guide, but not a perfect analogy, for hardware. I want to be on the board of OSHWA to try and help make sure that legal and policy structures are in place to foster OSHW. I also want to make sure that the OSHWA does everything it can to encourage the development of easy to understand best practices that allow non-lawyers to easily navigate some of these thorny issues. I’ve never been qualified for anything I’ve ever done. That being said, I helped organized the OH/DC event that brought open source hardware to policymakers in Washington, DC, helped OSHWA with some of the legal issues in its FAQ, talked about policy and legal issues surrounding OSHW at a few Open Hardware Summits, and write about OSHW legal issues every once in a while. I am not, however, proficient in KiCad. If that’s a requirement I probably shouldn’t be on the board. Not that I wouldn’t like to be proficient in KiCad or anything. Just that I’m not right now. Nahid Alam (nominated by Addie Wagenknecht) Nahid served as the review chair for this years OHSummit and I [Addie] found her to be dependable, dedicated and easy to work with, she always was available for calls, meetings and was quick to respond to emails. In addition she is a member of the OSH community. She is founder at litehouse.io Nahid served on the board of Chicktech (http://chicktech.org) and helped them with arranging robotic workshop (http://chicktech.org/programs/past-events/chicktech-high-school-2013-psu/) for woc and girls in tech. She also arranges a monthly hardware meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Modular-Electronics-Meetup/) Please see above. I highly recommend her -Addie Lars Zimmermann To push and support open source hardware and help to develop it. With being on the board I hope to get more grip, a network and possibilities to do this beyond the scale I am already doing this. I advocate for open source hardware for years now, as open source economist. I am not an engineer. For that reason I have different motivations and viewpoints on the matter. I like to explore the potential of open source for hardware in other fields than electronics. My current main interests are to make open source hardware work/bring it to the discussion for a circular economy as well as for the future of our freedom and democracy. I initiated and am part of different projects focussing on open source hardware like: The Open It Agency: http://openitagency.eu The IPO Tables: http://ipotables.net (new) Baubus: http://baubus.de (new) OWi: http://owiowi.net I write about open source hardware in my blog, there you can find also more projects: http://bloglz.de I did research and do workshops and consulting on open source hardware business models. I wrote the chapter about business models for an upcoming book about open source hardware “building open source hardware”. Joshua Pearce I want to help legitimize open source hardware as a concept to ease government and investor funding of its development, accelerate commercialization and catalyze mass-scale deployment. I want open source hardware to be the established default rather than the exception. I would also like to help the OSHWA build a centralized database to house all kinds of OSH to make it easier to find, use, adapt and share. I am on the advisory board for the AMSE Additive Manufacturing Challenge (IAM3D) and have agreed to sit on the Advisory Board for Adopting Appropriate Technology (ADAPT) as a Framework for the Technology and Engineering Education Curriculum for the National Science Foundation’s DRK-12 Grant Program. In Canada, I was on the board of advisors for Hearthmakers Energy Cooperative in 2009 and the Advisory Committee of the Sustainable Energy Applied Research Centre from 2011. I have also sat on numerous advisory boards for small stat-up companies and NPOs. I have a well-documented track record as a major advocate of open-source hardware in academia and the popular press. I have published extensively on both the technology of 1) open source appropriate technology (OSH for sustainable development), 2) RepRap 3-D printing (OSH for distributed manufacturing), 3) OSH for scientific equipment development and 4) policy against closed IP. For example, I published the seminal call for OSH scientific equipment in the journal Science (a top journal) and followed up with the book Open Source Lab (2014) published by Elsevier (the top scientific publisher) to help legitimize the now burgeoning field. I also published in Nature (another top journal) a piece challenging both patents as a innovation source and the public funding of closed research. My work is regularly covered by the mainstream media, where I am careful to ensure the meme of “open source hardware is a technically superior method of development” at every opportunity. For example, see the Newsweek article on our open source metal 3D printer for less than <$1200. Theodore Ullrich I was at the very first OSHW meeting at Eyebeam in 2010. Here are some photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/teddesigns/sets/72157623642265534/ I started and run a product design and development consultancy, called Tomorrow Lab (http://tomorrow-lab.com). Since day one, Tomorrow Lab has always looked to uphold and create Open Source Hardware, however it has been difficult to keep commercialization as a priority when you are also trying to stay ‘open’. That being said, I’m interested in pushing to merge the two towards everyone’s benefit. I believe you have to resolve these issues in order for OSHW to flourish. Tomorrow Lab is is on the World2NYC Board with the NYCEDC, and the NextTopMakers Board. Ultimately, I see the role of a Board Member to guide the application of the organization’s goals to current activities and opportunities. Its all about staying relevant. Therefore, a connection to industry is an important qualification. As an engineer, industrial designer, and startup founder, I am familiar with the needs of the hardware community. I meet with new hardware startups in NYC almost daily. My business consults for dozens of them per year. I believe the insights available from a person in my position would offer value for OSHWA. Rose Swan Meacham Ensuring that new technology and hardware is made available to everyone is essential to fostering innovations that will improve the standard of living and education for us all. I strongly believe that anyone (no matter what age, gender, race, or economic background) is capable of contributing to scientific discovery in transformative ways. This is a topic I feel extremely passionate about and I strongly believe that Open Source Hardware can be used by communities world-wide to fill in for failing governmental systems such as clean living standards, STEM education and private healthcare. By unifying innovators with new ideas for creating, improving, or sharing Open Source Hardware I believe we can help individuals make visible impact on their communities worldwide. I would be honored to invest my energy and resources to ensure that Open Source Hardware is made both accessible and easy to work with by people from all backgrounds. OUTREACH & EDUCATION If allowed to serve on the board for OSHWA, I would organize educational events within schools and community spaces for the general public, including STEM topics for young adults (especially girls!), where open source hardware is used as a way to fuel interest and share technical skills. I had the privilege of giving a TEDx Talk last year about Women In Science and through my research learned that while the number of girls in many undergraduate STEM programs outnumbers boys, the number of graduate level female students reversed to the minority. Among women surveyed in PhD level mathematics courses at Columbia, the majority attributed this to feelings of being undervalued and a lack of support from their peers. Creating a common voice and networking space through OSHWA would help disseminate new knowledge about developing Open Source Hardware, but it would also provide the support many minority and underprivileged individuals need to be successful in STEM fields. It is important to take advantage of an online network to help connect OSHWA members with likeminded Makers worldwide. This network could include live streamed panel discussions that we host, video lectures from experts who lead our outreach educational events, and an encyclopedia of source code and data on Open Source Hardware. These entries could reference StackOverflow and resources like Arduino’s Forum to help provide our community with the tools necessary to advance their own hardware projects and share improvements on existing schematics. In a sense, it could become a new user-driven forum for learning about the Open Hardware movement and advancing its progress by supporting those who are working with new designs. The most recent non-profit organization that I worked with was the Imagine Science Film Festival, which organizes an annual film festival in New York, as well as events throughout the year that make science accessible to the general public through film. The events were designed to make accurate, often esoteric scientific concepts more engaging and relatable through panel discussions and interactive activities for all ages. The experience I gained would be extremely valuable to help with fundraising and creating a stronger global network of like-minded Makers. My responsibilities included planning and attending board meetings and developing new strategies that could help bridge the gap between art and science. I managed volunteers and hosted film screenings, panels with scientists and artists, planned educational events, fundraising parties, and started the first overseas outreach program which hosted film events and workshops in Saudi Arabia, Ireland, France, and Ecuador. I worked directly with investors and sponsors, including Nature, Science/AAS, Google, Vimeo, NY Science Exchange, and universities such as NYU, New School, and Rockefeller to maintain the support we needed to bring quality content to the general public for free whenever possible. For example, I worked with Google and the University College Dublin to create the Mobile Science Cinema Truck – a private theater that was designed to bring science-themed activities and films to underprivileged areas throughout Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTt4XfCcHxI Another example includes an educational series that I organized with the New York Hall of Science to teach children about biological sciences and how to create their own animations. The culmination of the event was a screening of their films that was hosted online from our sponsor Vimeo and in theaters throughout New York during the film festival. The mission of OSHWA is very dear to me and I believe that my unique research experience would enable me to make a tangible difference. My experience working for non-profit companies and sitting on boards gives me a pre-established network and resources I could draw from to help develop OSHWA. But perhaps more importantly, as a recent masters graduate from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, I have hands-on experience working with Open Source Hardware. I am currently applying this knowledge as a researcher in a Neuroscience Lab at NYU and developing a new experiment with collaborators in the Psychology and Neuroscience departments at Princeton University. With new efforts being made by researchers to make their experiments available to the general public for free, I can see a huge potential for immense discovery by people outside of academia in the next decade. But a link between access to research and open source hardware and technology needs to be formed. I would like to start new movements among researchers to connect directly with the Open Source Hardware community to make the new technology developed in laboratories available to everyone. For example, Jack Andraka, was in high school when he invented a revolutionary test for pancreatic cancer and attributed his discovery to Aaron Swartz. James “Laen” Neal I believe in open source–software as well as hardware– as a tool for the advancement of technology. I think OSHWA does excellent work promoting the philosophy of open source, and I’d like to lend my skills and resources to helping further its goals. As a maker, I develop open source hardware. As a hobbyist, I use open source hardware. As the owner of a manufacturing service, the main group I want to serve are people making open source hardware. Building Open Hardware in CO Author : aileen Date : April 5, 2014 Follow OSHWA on Twitter © 2020 Open Source Hardware Association \| Designed by: Theme Freesia \| Powered by: WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371713
__label__wiki	0.52255	0.52255	Category - school 7 Things That Can Happen to Your SEO While You’re on Vacation by Paul Steinbrueck Ready for Summer break? Yes, me too. But are you prepared? 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors These survey results show us where to focus our local SEO efforts. Christian School Gets Early Christmas Present! How do you integrate the features of an existing elementary school website into a new website for the high school and... How Did a Christian School Start the New School Year with a Bang? Each new school year brings new and exciting things for parents, students and teachers. This year, the administration... Big Google Local Update – How Will It Affect You? There's been a major update at Google! What did they do and how will it effect you? We'll tell you all about it. If You Have a Local Organization, You Need to Do This There are certain things that are so powerful and have so great an effect, that every local organization should do it. ... What’s the Best Way to Get Traffic to Your Local Website? Survey Says! As a local organization, you have a lot of choices of ways to reach out to people and bring new people to your website... What do you do when you want to get a new website? It’s been said before that breaking up is hard to do. This may be the case in the context of relationships but it... Wanna Know What People Are Saying About You? One of the more difficult aspects of being a local organization is trying to keep track of what people are saying about... 3 New Websites! How Lutheran High of St. Louis did it! How did a high school association and two high schools make their websites better for students, parents, and future...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371714
__label__cc	0.667624	0.332376	List my RV How Outdoorsy Works Listing Your RV Never Idle Journal Maintaining Your RV Destinations & Guides Traveling with an RV Meet our Renters Cool Rigs #NEVERIDLE JOURNAL // Meet Our Owners Owner Of The Week: Nika Shneyder Story by Team Outdoorsy // January 5, 2020 500+ Completed Rentals $300,000 Money Made Owner Rating Nika Shneyder is the very definition of girl power. This amazing, entrepreneurial woman is the owner of Los Angeles-based Chill RV, an RV rental business, and she is killing it. It’s been three and a half years since she started Chill RV and, in that time, her company has scaled from one to eight RVs and she’s completed more than 500 rentals so far. We sat down with Nika to hear more about how she got started with Outdoorsy and the secrets to her business success. Image courtesy of Nika Shneyder. When she purchased her first RV, Nika says, she wasn’t sure what to expect. “We purchased with the intent to rent. We didn’t know how everything was going to work out and figured that, worst case scenario, we will just use it for ourselves,” she explains. “But thankfully it turned out that the RV rented really well and we were able to grow the fleet.” “We listed our RVs on many different websites when we were just getting started. Outdoorsy proved to be the best in terms of the customers we received from it, and also the client support it provided. Anytime we’ve ever had any questions or problems, the Outdoorsy team has been there to help out! They’re phenomenal partners to have in this business.” A mere three and a half years after sending off her first rental, Shneyder now rents RVs full-time and has no plans to slow down anytime soon. “I absolutely love the outdoors,” she says. “We live in an age where we are so dependent on technology and are always interconnected without much of a chance to decompress. When a client rents our RV and goes into nature, they almost always come back rejuvenated and ready to take on the world again.” “I love the idea that what I do for a living helps someone retune and get back into their groove,” Nika says. “It makes them more productive at work and happier in general. What a great impact to have on the world!” Those are all fabulous reasons for Chill RV to keep doing what they do, but they aren’t the only reason Nika keeps at it. “We’re also pretty good at what we do,” she adds. “On Yelp we’re rated as the No. 1 RV rental in Los Angeles, and I am so motivated to grow the business to be able to serve more clients — and also the money is nice too.” Perhaps one of the most inspiring things about Nika’s story is the fact that she has never let being a woman hold her back. In fact, in some cases, she’s used it to her advantage. “It’s so exciting to me to break barriers and stereotypes,” she says. “There are not a lot of women in the RV rental industry, so I love the look on my clients’ faces when I deliver the RV to them. Many are shocked that I could drive these huge cars and know so much about the systems and operations.” “I think it puts clients at ease to know that if I could do it, they could too. Also, I actually think that it’s a great advantage to be a woman in this industry. In general, I think men have a greater affinity for cars and understand them better. Sometimes that may lead them to train their clients with a biased perspective that many things are ‘common sense’.” “Being someone who did not have much knowledge about RVing when I started, I understand what it’s like to be intimidated by it. So I was able to develop systems and training to take the intimidation out of the picture.” All about Nika Shneyder Favorite morning beverage: “Coffee with cinnamon.” Favorite campsite meal: “Tacos! So easy and fun.” Music you like to play on the radio: “Varies from 102.7 to the Zhu Pandora station.” Best game to play on the road or at your campsite: “My favorite outdoor game is called ‘Ninja’. It’s played with two or more players, although more people is better. All the players stand in a close circle and then take one jump out, jumping into a ninja position and holding it. The objective of the game is to be the last ninja standing, and the way you get other players out is by taking turns hitting other players. One player moves at a time, and they get one fluid move to hit another player on their arm. The player that’s being attacked has one fluid move to get out of the way, and whichever position they get into when they move out of the way is the position they have to hold until they are either attacked again by a different player or it’s their turn to attack. The game is won when there is only one ninja remaining. For reference, see ninjaslap.com.” Favorite season: “Summer — for the warm summer nights.” Last photo you took: “My cat cuddled on my bed.” What’s your Outdoorsy spirit animal? “A bird that can go anywhere it wants.” If you could travel anywhere in an RV, where would you go? “I cannot wait to go to Bryce National Park! I’ve been dreaming of that place for months but simply haven’t had the time or the opportunity to make a trip out there yet.” Rent this vehicle Chill RV Rentals Rent this RV Renting your RV Outdoorsy RV owners make up to $32,000 a year renting their RVs. Perfect RV Your next adventure starts here by searching thousands of available RVs for rent. 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__label__wiki	0.529266	0.529266	Can Lenders Legally Discriminate and Limit Access to Credit Based on Applicants' Immigration Status? Michael N. Litrownik, O&G Employment Law Blog, August 15, 2018 How Biometrics in the Workplace Threaten Employee Rights in Illinois and Elsewhere Lori L. Deem, O&G Employment Law Blog, August 8, 2018 Feelings are Fair Game Tammy Marzigliano, O&G Employment Law Blog, July 24, 2018 Protecting Physicians Through Employment Contracts: A Guide to the Basic Terms and Conditions Amy F. Shulman, co-author, 38 NYSBA L&E Newsletter 31, Summer 2013 Understanding the Employment Rights of "Gig Economy" Workers As the economy continues to shift from a culture of full-time employment to an on-demand "gig" marketplace, the landscape of workers' rights is also changing. Working as an independent contractor rather than an employee allows a worker more flexibility and autonomy in their work schedule, among other things, but that may come at the cost of losing certain benefits. It's crucial to understand how the legal rights of workers who are considered "employees" are different from those who are considered independent contractors such as consultants, short-term contract workers, and freelancers. Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Salary Histories Are Off Limits Jennifer Schwartz and Menaka N. Fernando, O&G Employment Law Blog, July 19, 2018 Penalty Flag: Illegal Questioning of Players Plagues NFL Combine Sally J. Abrahamson, O&G Employment Law Blog, June 17, 2018 Overview of Process at the Commission Nina Martinez, co-authored article for presentation: Practice before the New York City Human Rights Commission, NELA/NY Spring 2018 Conference, New York, NY, May 2018 Trump Administration Blinks, Revises Tip-Pooling Legislation Sally J. Abrahamson, O&G Employment Law Blog, May 7, 2018 In late March, the Trump administration backed off from a proposal that would have effectively given restaurants and other employers the legal right to pocket workers' tips. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the proposed rule change last December, saying it would give employers the "freedom to share tips between traditionally tipped and non-tipped workers." It would have rolled back regulations introduced in 2011 by the Obama administration that barred employers from redistributing tips to anyone other than the employees who would normally receive them. Too often, however, tip-pooling with non-tipped workers becomes wage theft when employers use it as a way to redirect tips to themselves. In the case of the DOL proposal, managers, supervisors and even business owners would have been legally entitled to receive a portion of workers' tips. Thankfully, the backlash that erupted in response to the proposed change forced the DOL to reconsider the proposal and, ultimately, put forward amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that better protect tipped workers. Financial Services Professionals: Why FINRA's Public "BrokerCheck" Makes Negotiating Departures Even More Critical Tammy Marzigliano and Nicholas H. Sikon, O&G Employment Law Blog, April 17, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371716
__label__wiki	0.72596	0.72596	Oh hey, Biomutant will also get a $400 Atomic Edition All that and a nifty mousepad. By Cameron Woolsey August 13, 2019 Publisher THQ Nordic seems to have a fix for $400 USD collector editions for its games. Just moments ago, we reported that the Destroy All Humans! remake will receive a $400 Crypto-137 Edition. Now, some may defend that particular expenditure, as it does come with an alien backpack with conspicuously blue buttocks hanging out in the sight of god and all his graces. Apparently, the upcoming Biomutant will also receive two editions, and yes, one of which will set you back $399.99 USD. There is no backpack, much to the chagrin of all, but it will include a statue that does nothing noteworthy. The Biomutant Atomic Edition will include more than the statue, of course. From the official blog post, it will also have the game (whew), a steelbook for said game, a T-shirt (available in large or extra large), an oversized mousepad measuring 80cm/31″ by 35cm/14″, artwork on fabric, a premium box, and the game’s soundtrack. The “high-scale diorama” measures at 60cm/23″ long, 25cm/10″ width, 30cm/12″ height. No doubt those of you looking forward to the game are anxious to get the “high-detail diorama” nestled next to your Crypto backpack to attract eyes and collect dust. You can check out the Amazon page for the edition while pondering if your credit card can take just one more for the team. Less for less If you don’t have the kind of funds for Biomutant‘s Atomic Edition, you can try for the Collector’s Edition. It won’t take you back quite as much, coming in for $119.99 USD. It also comes with a smaller figurine, the game, artwork, premium box, and the soundtrack. THQ Nordic also has a trailer for the Collector’s Edition, which you can watch here. Biomutant will be available on PC sometime in 2020. Experiment 101 Cameron Woolsey Cam has been shooting for high scores since his days playing on the Atari 2600. Proud member of the Blue Team during the first console war, and has more Sonic paraphernalia than he cares to admit. Destroy All Humans! staggering $400 Crypto-137 edition has creepy alien backback Ion Fury review – Maiden heaven for FPS lovers By Logan Broadley 5 hours ago By Robert Workman 6 hours ago By Robert Workman 7 hours ago 0 Fade To Silence Survival Guide: 6 Tips To Keep You Alive	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371717
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__label__wiki	0.553905	0.553905	Home International celebrities Taylor Swift hints mum’s cancer battle is why she’s not touring Lover... Taylor Swift hints mum’s cancer battle is why she’s not touring Lover album Taylor Swift has suggested “change” in her life is the reason she’s not heading out on the road in support of her new album, Lover. Earlier this year, the 29-year-old ME! hitmaker confessed she had no plans to take her new record on tour, and later announced a string of whistle-stop stadium dates as part of various international festivals in 2020. Speaking with host Zane Lowe at Beats 1 radio, the singer hinted her mum’s cancer battle was behind her decision to scale down her touring plans for her latest LP. “Change happens not only in my career, but in my life,” Taylor said. “And I’ve got some pretty intense things happening with my family right now. I can’t go on long tours and not have the ability to go home if I need to. I have priorities that aren’t just touring now, and (the fans) have been really respectful of that in the past.” The You Need To Calm Down star added: “This is where the rubber meets the road and I actually have to make decisions. Where there are question marks in my life and things that are really important to me and my family, I have to be able to have some breathing room in my touring schedule and I think they kind of understand that.” Taylor‘s mum Andrea was first diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and earlier this year the star revealed that she’s currently undergoing a relapse. She penned the song Soon You’ll Get Better, from Lover, about her mum’s heath scare. Previous articleThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actor Brian Tarantina dead at 60 Next articleHarry Styles buys neighbouring homes as he steps up security following stalker ordeal – report	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371721
__label__wiki	0.686441	0.686441	PICKS CONTEST Category Archives: NFL Commentary New England Patriots News 1-19, AFC East Notes Steve Balestrieri January 19, 2020 at 5:00 am ET Follow @SteveB7SFG Good morning, here is your Sunday Patriots news 01-19 and AFC East notes this week. With the latest winter storm rolling through the area, it is a good time to relax and stay home and watch some playoff football, unfortunately, the Patriots aren’t involved in the conference championships for the first time in many years. Quick Hitters For the Pats and the NFL: Tom Brady – It turns out, he didn’t move to Greenwich, and didn’t buy a house there, but wait, he’s moving as soon as his kids finish school now? Ugh, the next almost 60 days are going to be unbearable with this stuff. Stephon Gilmore – Congrats to the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year. Gilmore was outstanding all season long and was very much deserving of the honor. Ben Watson – One of the nicest guys to play the game announced that he played all season on a partially torn Achilles. Unbelievable toughness there. But it does beg the question…Are the Patriots going to get in trouble by not listing Watson on the injury report? We know other teams have seemingly fudged on it as well… but, this is NE. Luke Keuchly – The excellent Panthers and BC linebacker announced his retirement at age 29. He along with Rob Gronkowski, Andrew Luck, and others are finishing their careers before they reach the age of 30. But premature retirement as some say? Keuchly’s eight-year stint is twice as long as the average player. But he’ll be missed. Jimmy Johnson – The former coach had a very emotional moment on the Fox broadcast when he was announced as being selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And then when they cut to Green Bay where Troy Aikman, who played for Johnson in Dallas was clearly moved by the news, it was an incredibly moving moment. Well deserved coach. CBA – Don’t expect much movement on the next Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Players Association and the Owners anytime soon. The league sent out a letter to all 32 teams stating that “[a] number of important issues remain to be resolved and we remain committed to the bargaining positions reviewed with you at the December meeting.” Tre Roberson – The Patriots have brought in yet another ex-QB for a workout. Roberson was on the Vikings PS as a cornerback but has played in the CFL for the past two seasons. With Calgary in 2018, he won the Grey Cup and had 3 INTs. Last season he had seven INTs and returned a fumble 93-yards for a TD. 4th & 2 Podcast – If you’ve haven’t checked out our PatsFans.com podcast, “Patriots 4th & 2” in a bit, Please do check it out. Curious Timing With AH Docuseries or Coincidence: I haven’t watched the Aaron Hernandez docuseries on Netflix yet, but judging from the reactions I’ve seen on social media, it has inflamed many of the same reactions it did when the news first broke about him being arrested for the murder of his friend, Odin Lloyd. Some were still outraged at him throwing away a promising career while others still have sympathy for him, mainly because of who he played for. I just find the timing of the release of this series a bit suspect. If the Patriots had won their last regular-season game, they’d have been playing the Chiefs at home last week, and this week could have been hosting the AFC Championship (a lot of ifs…to be sure). But don’t for a second think that that exact scenario didn’t enter the minds of the folks in charge of Netflix. It seems like every year, there pops up something in the middle of a playoff run…sorry folks. Your miniseries isn’t going to get near the attention it would have gotten if Brady and Co. were playing today. Belichick’s Staff Has Been Raided A Lot: Last week we wrote: “With every passing year, it always seems that Bill Belichick’s coaching staff is getting picked through as many of his coaches, move up and move on. The latest was STs Coordinator/WR coach Joe Judge.” We read a great bit from a good friend on Twitter @Patriots7thRing who posted that in the 20 years that Bill Belichick has been the Patriots coach, he’s had 54 assistants get poached from other teams in that timeframe. That’s nearly three per year. So the next time someone says that the only reason the Patriots win is that they cheat, then ask why the rest of the league is so anxious to hire his staff. This year, they lost ST’s Coordinator Joe Judge, while OC coordinator Josh McDaniels and Head of College Scouting Monti Ossenfort interviewed for open GM positions with the Cleveland Browns. Speaking of Judge, he’s off to a good start. He retained excellent STs coach Thomas McGaughey and then he hired former Patriots assistant and Dolphins DC Patrick Graham to run the defense. On Friday, they signed former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett as their offensive coordinator. Say what you will about Garrett as a head coach. But he’s a very good coordinator and it will be interesting to see what he can with Daniel Jones. Some Interesting Free Agents to Help the Passing Game: The Patriots need some playmakers to help the passing game in 2020. Especially at tight end. The team needs an influx of playmakers to stretch the seams and attack the middle of the field. At wide receiver, they can really use a speedy wide receiver that can turn a 5-yard slant into a 55-yard touchdown. Here’s a look at some of the free-agent tight ends that will be available in March. I’d expect that the team may look at both free agency and the 2020 NFL Draft to restock the position. However, we thought that last year, so this is just spit-balling at this point. But the lack of production in 2019, pretty much concludes that something has to be done at the position. Austin Hooper – 2019 with the Falcons. Hooper is only 25 years old and had a really good year in Atlanta. He had 75 catches for 787 yards with 6 TDs. Hooper is more of a “move” tight end than a traditional in-line tight end. He isn’t a great blocker but for production, he’d be a great fit. Whether Atlanta lets him walk is another story. Hunter Henry – 2019 with the Chargers. Henry is just 25 as well, he’s 6’6 and had 55 catches for 652 yards with 5 TDs. Again, he’s more of a receiving threat than a traditional blocking TE, but he’d be a great fit in the offense. Eric Ebron – 2019 with the Colts. Ebron had modest numbers this year, 31 catches, 375 yards with 3 TDs. But in 2018, he had 66 catches for 750 yards and 13 TDs. GM Chris Ballard made it clear that Indy was probably moving on, believing that the TE had regressed. Would it possible for the Patriots to make another run at O.J. Howard? Maybe, but they’ll have to convince Tampa Bay to let him go. Just a couple of wide receivers to look at right now, I’m sure they’ll have plenty of other targets at wideout. Several people are saying that the team will target A.J. Green in free agency, maybe, but I don’t think they’ll be interested…we’ll see. Robby Anderson – 2019 with the Jets. Anderson had 52 catches for 779 yards and 5 TDs in 2019. He’s just 26 and has that speed that the Patriots wide receivers lack. And he has the ability to put it to use. Emmanuel Sanders – 2019 with Broncos/49ers. Sanders is a player that the Patriots have coveted for some time. They tried to sign him a few years ago but the Steelers matched their offer. Although he’s 32, he’s still very productive. He had a combined 66 catches for 869 yards and 5 TDs this year. As a fit, absolutely. How much will it cost? That may be a show stopper. But definitely worth kicking the tires on. NFL Schedule Conference Championship Weekend, Who Are Your Winners: How are you feeling about the games this week? We have a post on our PatsFans Forum where our readers can predict the slate of games for that week. Here is the link if you’d care to pick your own: https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/picks/ Final Regular Season:162-93-1 Divisional Weekend: 3-1 Conference Championship Round – San Francisco over Green Bay – Aaron Rodgers hasn’t fared well on the road in general and especially against good teams. Facing teams at least six games over .500 on the road, he’s 0-7. Facing the #1 defense on the road…he’s 0-4. The Niners running game and their TE George Kittle should be the difference as well as their defense here. Kansas City over Tennessee – This should be a very interesting matchup. The Titans won an earlier matchup 35-32 in Nashville when Derrick Henry rumbled for 188 yards. But Patrick Mahomes threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns. The Chiefs are at home and should present a tough matchup for the Titans defense. I believe Henry will keep the game close, and maybe close enough to win, but at home, I like the Chiefs to advance to Miami. No AFC East Notes this week, we’ll have those back next week after the Conference Championships. “So, how was your week?” Follow me on Twitter @SteveB7SFG or email me at [email protected] Listen to our Patriots 4th and 2 podcasts on blog talk radio as Russ Goldman, Derek Havens and myself from PatsFans.com discuss the latest Patriots news and game analysis. This entry was posted in 2020 Patriots Offseason, NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots News and tagged AJ Green, Austin Hooper, Bill Belichick, Emmanuel Sanders, Eric Ebron, Hunter Henry, Joe Judge, Josh McDaniels, New England Patriots, NFL, Patriots, Robby Anderson, Tom Brady on January 19, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. Building the 2020 Patriots Roster, Where are the Biggest Needs? The Patriots have a lot of work to do in the offseason and although the new league year doesn’t begin until March, their 2020 season starts now. They have to replace another coordinator (STs/WR coach Joe Judge) and perhaps their college scouting director (Monti Ossenfort) who is being interviewed for the open Cleveland Browns GM position. Then there are a slew of the team’s free agents to decide upon. We’ll get to those in good time as we’ll take a look at where the team needs are. And a lot of what drives the train is always money. The Patriots have about $49 million to spend. It sounds like a lot. It is not. Especially when considering if the Patriots cut ties with Tom Brady is will cost them $13.5 million in dead money and a new contract will not come cheaply. So, let’s take a dive into the roster by position …as currently constructed and see where they’re at. Jarrett Stidham, Cody Kessler Free agent: Tom Brady The Elephant in the room and all of the ridiculous (and it IS as ridiculous as it is maddening) drivel about non-existent homes in Greenwich, his luxury suite at Gillette and the amateur psychologists who became overnight experts at reading body language and hidden meaning in every word of his have gotten out of control. Our feeling here hasn’t changed. We feel that Brady will return given that the Patriots don’t really want to ear $13.5 million bucks. Plus, there isn’t anyone on the roster that is a no-brainer to take over. Stidham may well be that guy, but we don’t know and haven’t seen him take a meaningful snap in months. So until Bill Belichick or Brady comes out and definitely says he’s not returning, we’re going under the assumption he’ll be back. Sony Michel, James White, Rex Burkhead, Brandon Bolden, Damien Harris, Fullbacks James Develin, Jakob Johnson Here is where things can get interesting. The team is set here at running back. In fact they’re a little too deep. They could add $4 million in cap space by releasing Rex Burkhead. However, Burkhead was their most productive back down the stretch, as he was a year ago. But injuries always seem to cut into his season and the team just spent a good draft pick on Damien Harris. Burkhead is a guy to keep an eye on. Develin had a neck injury and those can be tough to come back from. Don’t be shocked if they add another fullback this spring. Julian Edelman, Mohamed Sanu, N’Keal Harry, Jakobi Meyers, Gunner Olszewski, Quincy Adeboyejo (future), Devin Ross (future) Free agent: Phillip Dorsett The need for a speedy, reliable wide receiver here is critical. Edelman is going to be 34, Sanu will get all spring/summer to acclimate into the offense. Meyers and Harry will be fine. A lot of their issues had to do with overthinking things and that will be rectified in Year 2. Look for them to try to sign a fast, veteran outside wide receiver, possibly two and cut their ties with Dorsett. Matt LaCosse Ryan Izzo Free agent: Ben Watson The most critical need of the Patriots, of the offense and the team overall. The offense really lacked a viable target down the seams all season. Look for Ben Watson to retire and the team to double-dip here. Look for the team to sign a veteran free agent (Austin Hooper, Hunter Henry?) or try to swing a trade for an established veteran (O.J. Howard attempt again). And then address the need again with a young guy in the draft. Offensive Line: Isaiah Wynn, David Andrews, Shaq Mason, Marcus Cannon, Korey Cunningham, Yodny Cajuste, Hjalte Froholdt, Najee Toran (future) Free agents: James Ferentz, Ted Karras, Marshall Newhouse, Joe Thuney, Jermaine Eluemunor (RFA) Another area of need. We heard through the grapevine that Marcus Cannon won’t be returning. If he doesn’t it will free up $5.8 million in cap space, despite him signing an extension last summer. Coupled with the unlikely scenario of Joe Thuney returning means the offensive line has a lot of work to do. Yodny Cajuste didn’t take a snap in either a game or practice last year. So, expecting him to just jump in and start is a very long shot. Is Froholdt going to be ready? Doubtful too. Look for the Patriots to bring back Karras and Eluemunor for sure and then address tackle and guard in either free agency or the draft. Defensive Line: Lawrence Guy, Deatrich Wise, John Simon, Byron Cowart, Nick Thurman (future), Tashawn Bower (future) Free agents: Danny Shelton, Adam Butler (RFA), Keionta Davis (ERFA) Look for the team to attempt to bring back Shelton and Butler. But they’d still need at least another big run stuffer and a defensive end that can rush the QB. Linebacker: Dont’a Hightower, Ja’Whaun Bentley, Chase Winovich, Derek Rivers, Brandon King, Terez Hall (future) Free agents: Shilique Calhoun, Jamie Collins, Elandon Roberts, Kyle Van Noy Winovich should be in line for a big uptick in snaps this season. He’s more of a pass rusher than a coverage guy and I’d expect he’ll be tasked with filling the big shoes of Van Noy. I don’t expect Van Noy back this year, he’s in line for a big payday. I do expect them to make a push to bring back both Collins and Roberts. Calhoun may come back and flashed some potential. Rivers is going to have to have a big spring or he may not even be around for training camp. Retooling Hightower’s contract could free up some space. Cornerback: Stephon Gilmore, JC Jackson, Jonathan Jones, Jason McCourty, Joejuan Williams, Justin Bethel, D’Angelo Ross The Patriots are in great shape here. With Gilmore, Jackson, and Jones, they have three starting corners who excel at their position. Williams played sparingly in his rookie season and could be ready for a big uptick in snaps. That could put McCourty on the block. If the team were to release him, they’d save an additional $3.8 million. Also, reworking Gilmore’s contract could free up some cap space Patrick Chung Duron Harmon Terrence Brooks Obi Melifonwu (future) Malik Gant Adarius Pickett (future) Free agent: Devin McCourty Big decisions loom here. McCourty arguably had the best season of his career in 2019 and would normally be ready for a big payday. But he’s 33 and with both he and Chung are getting older, the team needs to begin to address the future. Harmon has ostensibly been a starter for several years. Gant flashed a bit in camp last year while Brooks played well. I’d expect they’ll try to bring back McCourty for one more year, but it is time to bring in some younger players and get them groomed for down the road. K Stephen Gostkowski P Jake Bailey LS Joe Cardona Free agents: Nick Folk, Matthew Slater, Nate Ebner, Justin Bethel I don’t see the team bringing Folk back and I think they’ll bring in another kicker for competition with Gostkowski this summer. Matthew Slater is the gold standard for special teams players. I expect the team to bring him back and to make an effort to bring back both Ebner and Bethel. This entry was posted in 2020 Patriots Offseason, NFL Commentary, Patriots 2020 offseason, Patriots Commentary, Patriots Rumors and tagged Bill Belichick, Devin McCourty, Dont'a Hightower, Jamie Collins, Jason McCourty, Julian Edelman, Kyle Van Noy, New England Patriots, NFL, Patriots edge rushers, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on January 17, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. New England Patriots News 01-12, AFC East Notes With the Patriots out of the playoffs, it is strange without a football game to play in the divisional round. It is a reminder to how blessed we’ve been around here since Belichick and Brady took over the playoff landscape in 2001. There are a lot of variables in play this year and the 2020 team may look quite different. But don’t be throwing dirt on this team just yet. Tom Brady – The Patriots QB (and yes…he still is until we hear different) addressed his Instagram post from earlier this week on the Westwood One radio show with Jim Gray. Brady spoke about his comment that he still has a lot to prove in this league. “Well, it’s always been proving it to myself. and being motivated internally to push myself to the limits,” Brady said. “And sometimes the limits push back, I’ve experienced that, but I also think I’m inspired by so many people who push the limits. You know, I watch a lot of movies, I love watching documentaries of incredible human feats, and they’re inspiring when people climb these mountains and do things… things people never thought were possible,” he added. “And I’m at a certain point in my career where people think what I’m doing is, to a degree, impossible. For me, it’s about continuing to prove to myself that I can lay it all on the line and we can still try to achieve the ultimate goal, which is winning Super Bowls.” Brady added a quote about his contract status with Gray, stating, “The contract things, a week after the season, I would say these things haven’t even started to pick up. It’s really not my concern at this point,” he said. Andy Dalton – Really? Bart Scott started this Dalton to NE narrative, with no real basis but then a few others in print and on the air…say “it is a fit” For whom? And now it is being reported as a possibility. Yeah right, and Bill may hire me as a coach on the special teams too. Julian Edelman – The Patriots WR needs surgery on both his shoulder and knee but we thought that a while ago. But Edelman is (not surprisingly), the Patriots 2019 recipient of the 2019 Ed Block Courage Award. The honor is bestowed annually upon a player who best exemplifies the principles of courage and sportsmanship while also serving as a source of inspiration. Watching him play through those injuries this year, that honor is no surprise… Well deserved. Joe Judge Takes Over the Giants: With every passing year, it always seems that Bill Belichick’s coaching staff is getting picked through as many of his coaches, move up and move on. The latest was STs Coordinator/WR coach Joe Judge. When we heard he was being interviewed for the Giants’ open head coaching position, we put him pretty low on the possibility chart of getting the nod. We were wrong. Judge dazzled the Giants owner John Mara during the interview and got the job. Having worked for both Nick Saban and Bill Belichick, Judge got to learn from some of the best. But while he takes some of the same philosophies from his mentors, he is definitely his own man. Anyone who watched him in the spring/summer workouts would see that. And in his introductory press conference, despite what some hot takez bobos have said, he nailed it. “I want teachers, not presenters,” Judge said of his coaching staff. “I don’t want someone who looks fancy in front of the screen that can say it with a lot of different sales lines. I want teachers, I want old school people who can get to our players and give them the mental image of what it’s supposed to look like. I want them to demonstrate on a daily basis the work ethic of what it’s going to take to do it successfully day in and day out.” Judge has his work cut out for him and although he retained his excellent STs coordinator Thomas McGaughey, he still needs an offensive coordinator that can work with young QB Daniel Jones and a defensive coordinator that will be aggressive. They’ve asked to speak with Dolphins’ DC Patrick Graham. But he’s off to a good start. McDaniels Spends Seven Hours Interviewing for Browns Job: The Cleveland Browns vacant head coaching position is still open as of Saturday evening… but perhaps the Browns saved the best for last. Josh McDaniels was the last candidate to interview and he and his wife spent seven hours at the Browns HQs. The other candidates are Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy, Vikings OC Kevin Stefanski, Bills OC Brian Daboll, 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh and Eagles DC Jim Schwartz. Cleveland is clearly taking their time and doing their due diligence and are willing to take their time. Whoever does get the job will have to work the analytics team of Paul DePodesta closely. They’ll have a say in coaching and personnel decisions. McDaniels is from the area and would no doubt try to bring some more New England people with him. One name being thrown about is Director of Pro Player Personnel Dave Ziegler who may become a candidate for the vacant GM job. McDaniels was a huge fan of Baker Mayfield when he came out in the NFL Draft and visited with him three days before the draft while urging the Patriots to move up and take the QB. It will be intriguing to see if McDaniels gets the job, who the next Offensive Coordinator of the Patriots will be. The Browns are expected to make their decision within the next few days. NFL Schedule Divisional Weekend, Who Are Your Winners: Last Week:8-8 Wild Card Weekend: 1-3 Divisional Round – Saturday – San Francisco over Minnesota Baltimore over Tennessee Sunday – Kansas City over Houston Green Bay over Seattle Eastbound and Down AFC East Notes: Bills Daboll A Browns Coaching Candidate: The Buffalo Bills Offensive Coordinator Brian Daboll is one of the candidates for the vacant Cleveland Browns head coaching position. While Buffalo’s offense remains very much a work in progress, it is easy to see how Daboll is changing the offense from the awful unit that it was a few years ago to one that is definitely on the upswing. Daboll’s good work begins with QB Josh Allen, who made big strides in Year 2 and is trending upward. Buffalo’s offense still has a long way to go, but if they lose Daboll, it may set them back. Also on the Browns’ radar is assistant GM Joe Schoen who is one of the candidates for Cleveland’s vacant GM position. Dolphins DC Graham May Be the Giants Choice for DC: The Miami Dolphins were rebuilding in 2019 but finished strong going 5-4 down the stretch. But now the New York Giants have requested to speak to Miami’s DC Patrick Graham. The Giants new coach Joe Judge would like to add Graham to his staff as the Defensive Coordinator, a lateral transfer. Graham coached with the Giants in 2016-17. Miami has already fired OC Chad O’Shea and if they lose Graham, they will be putting a lot of pressure on Head Coach Brian Flores to rebuild his team and start from scratch with his coordinators. With Flores trying to build a winning culture into the program, losing both coordinators after just one season would not be the best scenario for Flores. Jets Darnold Has Thumb Surgery: The New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold was banged up physically in his sophomore season, and he had some needed surgery to repair the damage the toll of the 2019 season did to him. Darnold underwent a surgical procedure Tuesday to repair a ligament in his left thumb. The surgery was performed by the Jets team doctors, and he should be ready to go when the Jets begin their offseason workouts. Darnold had to deal with this thumb injury for the final two months of the season. He originally injured it in a loss to the Jaguars on Oct. 27. However, he played through it and wore a brace under a glove on his left, non-throwing hand. “Honestly, look, I know it’s out there, just like there’s a lot of other things out there. We could bring up 50 questions just like that one, and I told you what my state is on that. You can ask all 50 of them and it’s going to be the same answer 50 times, Ben. We’ve been working on Tennessee, it’s 12 hours after the game, not going to talk a lot of things about the future because it’s not – I’m not prepared to talk about it.” – Bill Belichick on if he’d like to have some clarity on Tom Brady’s situation. This entry was posted in 2020 Patriots Offseason, NFL Commentary, NFL News, Patriots Commentary, Patriots News and tagged Bill Belichick, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Dont'a Hightower, Julian Edelman, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, Tom Brady on January 12, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. January 5, 2020 at 7:14 am ET With the Patriots eliminated from the playoffs by the Titans, it marks the first time they won’t be in an AFC Championship Game since the 2010 season when the Jets beat them in the divisional round. Richard Seymour – The former Patriot defensive lineman is once again a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Big Sey is more than deserving and he was truly dominant in the middle of the Patriots defense and was an integral part of three Super Bowl championships here in New England. Here’s hoping that he gets the call from Canton and will be wearing a gold jacket this summer. Julian Edelman – ThePatriots wide receiver always has some great video content that he drops on the fans before big games and this week was no exception. The video that he posted this week was one of his best and Patriots fans, if you haven’t seen it yet, should check it out. Earn it. Every down. Every drive. #GottaBelieve pic.twitter.com/4LdGgUesHO — Julian Edelman (@Edelman11) January 4, 2020 Tom Brady – Not to be outdone, Tom Brady had an even better one, narrated by Christopher Walken… the only thing missing was the quote from Man on Fire, “he’s about to paint his masterpiece”…. It’s too late to be scared. pic.twitter.com/Yv6GRDrqtR — Tom Brady (@TomBrady) January 4, 2020 Antonio Brown – Took to Instagram to take a shot at the Patriots and Bill Belichick. With the Patriots losing he tweeted a picture of he and Belichick hugging with the hashtag “What Could Of Been #YouChangedOnMe, #LookAtMeNow, #ABForPresident.” Brady Puts Retirement Speculation At “Pretty Unlikely”: With the game winding down against the Titans, the talk picked up, which had talked about all week ad nauseam “Is this the last game for Tom Brady with the Patriots?” And it took Brady all of about five seconds to be asked that if he was going to return. “Just very grateful for the experience playing this year for the team, this organization, and over the course of my career, too. I appreciate it. I hope I’ve always tried to do the right thing out there. Who knows what the future holds? So I’ll leave it at that.” “I just don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said, “and I’m not going to predict it. And no one needs to make choices at this point. I love playing football. I love playing football for this team. I’ve loved playing for this team for two decades and winning a lot of games. And again, I don’t know what it looks like moving forward, so we’ll just take it day by day.” We won’t really know anything for the next two months because Brady doesn’t become a free agent until March. But at this point, it would make no sense for the Patriots to move on from him unless they feel Jarrett Stidham was ready to be the next Brady. With a better receiving core around him in 2020, there is no reason the Patriots can’t be right back in the mix. But there is a slew of other free agents to make decisions on as well. NFL Releases Non-Statement on Video Taping Flap: Unless you’ve been living under a rock or in Timbuktu, you’ll have noticed the NFL has been once again dragging its collective feet when it comes to an investigation regarding the Patriots. ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to release the NFL statement that they’re continuing this latest flap. “The investigation is ongoing and there has been no discussion of any potential discipline. Any suggestion of potential discipline or a timeline on an announcement is pure speculation.” Last week, it was widely reported that “NFL investigators were frustrated that attempts to link the video crew with football operations”, think about that for a second. Instead of investigating whether there was a link or not. They were frustrated that there wasn’t. While Schefter posted this statement, he also did a 180 and speculated on possible punishment by listing infractions by Cleveland and Atlanta that all had to do with football operations. Hmm, think he knows something? NFL Schedule Wildcard Weekend, Who Are Your Winners: How are you feeling about the games this week? We have a post on our PatsFans Forum where our readers can predict the slate of games for that week. I did it on our weekly Sunday column here and will post it up below. Here is the link if you’d care to pick your own: https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/picks/ Wild Card Weekend: Saturday – Buffalo over Houston Tennessee over New England 1-1 Sunday – New Orleans over Minnesota Philadelphia over Seattle Bills Miss Golden Opportunity to Advance: The Buffalo Bills had dominated their road playoff game against the Houston Texans for better than 40 minutes, where it appeared they were destined to win and move on. But everything changed in an instant and they went home frustrated and still winless in the postseason since 1995. The Bills lost to Houston in overtime 22-19. “We had opportunities to win the game and we came up short,” said coach Sean McDermott. “Not an easy thing, not an easy pill to swallow this time of year. A lot of pain in that locker room.” The Bills had everything going their way until a sack by JJ Watt that forced Buffalo to kick a field goal to go up 16-0 lit a fire in the Houston sideline. If Buffalo goes up 20-0 there it is likely game over. But it woke up the Texans offense who were dead until then but were on fire after that. Still, the chances were there in overtime, they stopped Houston and were moving toward a game-winning field goal when they were stopped by a bad penalty. Then two huge breakdowns by their normally outstanding defense put the Texans in chip shot field goal range. It was a tough, tough loss for a team that is trending upwards. Dolphins #1 Need in 2020? A Franchise QB: The Miami Dolphins started the season 0-7 and were embarrassed early in the season which had some wondering if they would tank the season for Tua. But Brian Flores wasn’t interested in the #1 pick and his players believed in him and what he’s trying to build in South Beach. The Dolphins finished 5-4 down the stretch and are still in decent position in the draft. With plenty of cash under the cap, the Dolphins need to decide if one of these QBs coming out is a guy they feel they can build their team around for the next decade. Josh Rosen obviously isn’t going to be that guy, but veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick has more than showed enough for Flores that he can be the steady veteran presence that can be a bridge until whoever they decide on is ready to go. Free-spending Jets Back to Square One: The New York Jets parted ways with former GM Mike Maccagnan last June, but not before he spent a boatload of money in free agency. Now, GM Joe Douglas is put in the same position the Jets were in for the past several years. They have holes abounding in their roster and have a lot of free agents hitting the market. But the Jets really need help along the offensive line where they could use three new starters, in the secondary, and at edge rusher. Although they have about $60 million in cap space with potentially a third more if they cut some contracts, they have 22 free agents of their own this spring. And two of them are going to command some big money. Safety Jamal Adams won’t come cheaply this spring and although he’s not a free agent yet, the time to resign him is now before he hits the market. He’s slated to make $3.5 million in 2020 and will be looking for a new deal. How much? I think the Jets would begin with how much Landon Collins got (6-year, $84 million, $44.5 million guaranteed) as the starting spot. That won’t be bargain-basement territory. Neither will WR Robby Anderson, who has the speed that all teams are coveting these days. At only 26 and with 52 catches in 2019, he’s a guy who can play, but at what cost? If I’m the Patriots, I’d kick the tires on Anderson if he hits the open market. A 6’3 WR with speed is a good thing to have. “We gave up 14 points tonight but in this game, it was too much. Weren’t able to get the ball back at the end. There were a lot of good things, but just not quite good enough tonight and that’s what it was. I have a ton of respect for this football team, these guys competed all year, everybody, all three units. We played hard and just came up a little bit short tonight. – Bill Belichick on the play of the defense in the second half. It was somewhat telling when Belichick said 14 points was too much. This entry was posted in 2019 Patriots Postseason, NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots Rumors and tagged Bill Belichick, Buffalo Bills, Devin McCourty, Julian Edelman, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Jets, NFL, Tennessee Titans, Tom Brady on January 5, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. Titans, Henry Boot Patriots From Postseason 20-13 at 12:09 am ET The Tennessee Titans behind a crushing running game of Derrick Henry who rushed for 182 yards and a tough defense smothered the Patriots and will move on in the playoffs, knocking off New England 20-13. The Patriots will not play in the AFC Championship Game for the 1st time since the 2010 season when they lost to the Jets in the Divisional Round. The Patriots offense failed them when they needed it the most. After moving the ball well and scoring 10 points early, the offense, as it had done often in the second half of the season sputtered and fell flat. But the Titans behind Henry was the story of the game. Henry had 204 of the Titans 272 yards from scrimmage. And he had 182 of the Titans 201 rushing yards. And the Patriots failure in the red zone was once a big part of the outcome. After taking the opening kickoff and driving the ball down to the Tennessee 18-yard line they stalled and had to settle for a field goal. Tennessee’s first possession featured Henry gashing the Patriots run defense for 44 yards. When Pat Chung injured his ankle, the Titans went right after Terrance Brooks and Ryan Tannehill hit a touchdown pass to tight end Anthony Firsker for 12 yards and put Tennessee up 7-0. Brady then led another nice drive and this time they would finish. Sony Michel had a big 25-yard run. Brady then hit Ben Watson for 11 and they were in business. From the five-yard line, Julian Edelman ran a jet sweep early in the 2nd quarter and scored easily to put New England up 10-7. After stopping the Titans twice, the Patriots had the momentum and a nice …and rare punt return from Mohamad Sanu put the team at the Titans 47. The team moved easily and when Brady hit Rex Burkhead with a screen, it looked like he would score. But the Titans stopped him at the one. That’s when the game turned. Three times the Patriots ran the ball, Michel lost a yard, Burkhead gained a yard and Michel lost a yard again. The Titans regained the initiative and wouldn’t give it back. The field goal made the score 13-7. Once again, bad situational football doomed the team. Henry ran for 29 yards on first down and he gashed the Patriots on the ground and got them to the New England 23. Then he caught a 22-yard screen pass down to the one. He’d power it in to give Tennessee a 14-13 halftime lead. The Patriots were shut out in the 2nd half and as we’ve seen so many times this season, a big gain was wiped out by a penalty. Brady connected with Watson for 38 yards but Shaq Mason was called for being illegally downfield. Tannehill got pressured early in the 4th quarter and throwing off his back foot, had the pass sail and die where Duron Harmon picked it off. With a final chance to move from their 11, with 4:32 to go. Brady hit James White for 20 yards but they would stall and opt to punt with 3:30 to go on 4th and 6. The killer was on 2nd down when Julian Edelman was wide open and dropped a pass that would have moved the sticks. The Titans held the ball and punted with just about 20 seconds to go. Brett Kern hit a beauty and it rolled and died at the Patriots one. And in a fitting way to end the season, Brady’s pass bounced off of a receiver’s hands right to the Logan Ryan who returned it for a pick-six. Ball game 20-13 Titans and they move on to Baltimore. A very disappointing end to what promised to be another special season. The offense, specifically the passing game needs an overhaul. We’ll go over that later but for now, the Patriots season is over and they had plenty of opportunities right in front of them but couldn’t convert. This entry was posted in 2019 Patriots Postseason, NFL Commentary, NFL News, Patriots Commentary and tagged Anthony Firkster, Derrick Henry, James White, Julian Edelman, Logan Ryan, Patriots, Rex Burkhead, Ryan Tannehill, Sony Michel, Tennessee Titans, Tom Brady on January 5, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. Patriots Week 17 Report Card, Crushing Loss to Miami, Bye-Bye Bye Week Patriots Come Out Flat And Lose #2 Seed Happy New Year, from all of us here, we hope that you all had a happy, safe and fun New Year’s Eve and an even better 2020. The Patriots lost out on a big…and needed opportunity to earn themselves a bye week by losing to the Miami Dolphins at home 27-24 in the final regular-season game of 2019. Entering Sunday’s game Tom Brady had a 15-1 record at home against Miami but like last year, they lost a game to the Dolphins in the final seconds. So, check out our grades and we’ll take one more look at the game film before putting the regular season behind us this week. Quarterback: D Tom Brady after one of his best performances against the Bills had one he’d rather forget. Brady was sailing the ball high on many of his incompletions and was wearing different cleats (looked like hightops) which may speak to having an ankle issue which would explain part of it. But both he and the team started slowly against a team that was 28th in pass defense. Brady was 2-4 for 10 yards in the first quarter. His protection overall was outstanding, he had plenty of time to throw for the vast majority of the game. The accuracy and timing just weren’t there. Brady finished 16-29 for 221 yards with 2 TDs and a horrible pick-six to Eric Rowe. Running Backs: B The Patriots running game once again had a pretty solid night rushing for 135 yards with some solid work by Sony Michel (74 yards on 18 carries) and Rex Burkhead (48 yards on six carries). Despite Miami cheating their linebackers up in the box and blitzing on running plays, they consistently gained yardage after contact and have turned it up a notch down the stretch. Elandon Roberts once again provided good blocking in the running game, opening the hole for Michel’s touchdown run. And he caught his first NFL pass, which just happened to go for a 38-yard TD. Wide Receivers: C- The Dolphins bracketed Julian Edelman all game long and dared the Patriots to beat them elsewhere. Edelman, hobbled by shoulder and knee issues, hasn’t been 100 percent for quite some time. On Sunday he was held to just three catches for 26 yards. Phillip Dorsett and Mohamad Sanu once again failed to pickup the slack. Sanu had just three catches for 35 yards, that 2nd round draft pick trade is looking worse and worse. Dorsett meanwhile had just one catch a 50-yard bomb from Brady where he did do a nice job of tracking the ball and kept going for some yards after the catch. But that was it, and it isn’t enough. N’Keal Harry had three catches for 29 yards on seven targets. Brady’s two touchdowns came on passes to Roberts (38 yards) and to James White on a nicely designed screen pass for 11 yards with a great block by Shaq Mason. Tight Ends: C- Are we seeing a trend here on the Patriots skill position players? Matt LaCosse has been much, much better in the run blocking department lately, helping to open some holes for the backs to get to the second level. But with Miami’s linebackers cheating up and blitzing inside in the running game, we kept waiting for the Patriots to attack the seams and make them pay… nothing materialized and LaCosse didn’t have a catch But he wasn’t alone. Ben Watson had just one catch for four yards. This was a disappointing end to what was a disappointing regular season for the tight ends. Offensive Line: B+ The offensive line play was not the reason for the team losing on Sunday, they opened holes for the running backs to run for 135 yards and if the defense had played their normally stellar game, then they’d have run for a lot more. Shaq Mason and Joe Thuney were both excellent. The pass protection for nearly the entire game was terrific, giving Brady oodles of time to throw and look downfield. The only sack given up was by Marcus Cannon on a nice speed rush move by Trent “Toolbox” Harris who may look familiar to Patriots fans. He spent the last two training camps here and was a member of the practice squad in 2018. Defensive Line: B The defensive line once again played very solidly against the run, which wasn’t a big surprise as the Dolphins entered the game as the worst running team in the league averaging just 72.9 yards per game. They only managed 63 here, but their running backs had a combined 37 yards on 16 carries. Lawrence Guy and Danny Shelton were solid as usual. The defensive ends set the edge well but didn’t generate a lot of pressure on Ryan Fitzpatrick. Linebackers: B- The linebackers had some issues with wrapping up and missing tackles which was a small issue but in what has become a concerning trend, the pass rush, while getting pressure has been just short of getting home. Kyle Van Noy, Jamie Collins, and Dont’a Hightower was getting plenty of pressure on Fitzpatrick, but those big drive ending sacks or QB hits resulting in turnovers haven’t been there. Collins had one of their only two sacks and a QB hit, where they generated only four. They are going to need those players to step un next week. Secondary: D The Patriots secondary had, by far, their worst game of the season. Stephon Gilmore had his worst game as a Patriot since perhaps his first month here. DeVante Parker clearly won the matchup against the Patriots top corner as no one has done yet. Parker had eight catches for 137 yards with the vast majority coming against Gilmore. But Gilmore wasn’t alone, J.C. Jackson allowed six receptions while Jonathan Jones still hobbled by a bad groin allowed five catches on five targets. Mike Gesicki got the better of Pat Chung most of the game and beat him for the game-winning touchdown. Special Teams: B The Special Teams had a solid game on Sunday. Brandon Bolden ripped off his longest return of the season for 38 yards which set the team up with excellent field position for a change. Nate Ebner had a couple of good tackles in coverage while Matthew Slater remains the gold standard for gunners in the league. Nick Folk converted all three extra points and his only field goal attempt. A good day for Joe Judge’s troops Coaches: C- The Patriots coaching staff, and it begins with Bill Belichick had some head-scratching moments this week. After preaching like they were treating this as a playoff game, the Patriots came out flat and it was Miami who looked like it was playing for a playoff bye. And the end of the first half time management looked like the team was playing not to lose (Marty ball?) which isn’t the way the Patriots have performed under Belichick. Defensively, the Belichicks (plural) were taken to school to Chad O’Shea, who, interestingly enough was fired after the game. They never found a way to counter what Miami was doing or to stop them…And that isn’t a great offense at all. Offensively, despite all the hand-wringing over Josh McDaniels play calling, this offense is very flawed, especially at wide receiver and while he may have waited a bit too long to adjust the power running game, he’s working with a short deck. We’re on to Tennessee and the Wild Card game… Listen to our Patriots 4th and 2 podcasts as the writers Russ Goldman, Derek Havens and I from PatsFans.com discuss the latest Patriots news and game analysis. This entry was posted in NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots Film Room, Patriots Report Card and tagged Bill Belichick, Brian Flores, Chad O'Shea, Devante Parker, James White, Jamie Collins, Julian Edelman, Kyle Van Noy, Miami Dolphins, Mohamed Sanu, N'Keal Harry, New England Patriots, NFL, Phillip Dorsett, Rex Burkhead, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on January 1, 2020 by Steve Balestrieri. Dolphins Slam the Door on a Patriots Bye and Any Possible SB December 29, 2019 at 8:36 pm ET You can put a fork in ‘em, folks, because the 2019 version of the Patriots are done. There won’t be no coming together and doing self-scouting this week to get healthy and prepped for a deep playoff run. While they’ll live to play again either next Saturday or Sunday, this season is on life support and any hopes of playing in Miami in February are a pipe dream at this point. With a chance to clinch the #2 seed and get that all-important bye week against a 4-11 Dolphins team, the Patriots showed no fire and slept walked through the first quarter while their defense, which has been their rock all season was eviscerated by Ryan Fitzpatrick, who sliced and diced, scattered, covered and smothered them like homes fries at Waffle House. Although the Patriots took the lead with five and a half minutes to go, there was no feeling that they were going to close this one out as they’d done so many times this season. Fitzpatrick picked them apart worse than any QB had done all season long. And he methodically went down the field, (like Brady) and calmly sliced a pass to Mike Gesicki from 5-yards out with just 24 ticks left on the clock. 27-24 Dolphins. Thanks for coming, place your seats in the upright position and please be kind on Route 1. Last year, the Dolphins won on a fluke, a freak play that never should have had any success. This year, there was no fluke. Fitzpatrick turned into Fitzmagic, as we said in our pregame, he’s fully capable of doing. When the Patriots played zone, he picked them apart and when they played man coverage, his wide receivers totally dominated on the field. Fitzpatrick finished the day 28 of 41 for 320 yards and a touchdown, nearly double what the Patriots had been allowing through 15 weeks. The Dolphins got 26 first downs, 19 through the air. Stephon Gilmore had, arguably his worst game in a Patriot uniform and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. DeVante Parker totally dominated his matchup with Gilmore this afternoon, something no one has done in three years. Parker had eight catches for 137 yards on 11 targets and was once again Fitzpatrick’s favorite target. If there was any team that needed the bye it is this one. Julian Edelman has been hobbled by a myriad of injuries all season and the while he’s been out there giving his all, right now he’s a shell of his normal self. Brady has been dealing with an elbow issue and he was wearing different cleats today, which means he maybe has an ankle issue going on? Mohamad Sanu has been dealing with an ankle issue, the offensive has been banged up….we could go on and on. The Patriots needed this bye week, we’ve seen their history. Playing on Wildcard Weekend in the Belichick era they are 3-3. And if this team wins next weekend against Tennessee, they’d have to go on the road to Kansas City and Baltimore to make the Super Bowl. Anyone think this team can go to both and win a big road playoff game? Anyone? Bueller….Bueller? The blame can’t go to the offensive line today, once again the running game showed signs of life and despite getting away from it, they ran the ball for 135 yards and averaged 5.0 yards per rushing attempt. Sony Michel led the way with 74 yards on 18 carries. Rex Burkhead had 48 yards on 6 carries (8.0 yards per rushing attempt. And the OL gave Brady plenty of time to throw, but for much of the game, he was way off target. Brady also threw an awful pick-six between Edelman and Michel and it was difficult to tell who the pass was intended for. Eric Rowe was stuck right between both, not sure who to cover. Brady’s pass went right to him. Michel and Burkhead were bright spots on the offense, as was Elandon Roberts. He caught a 38-yard touchdown when no one followed him out in the pattern. He made a nice catch from Brady and then raced down the sideline for a score. Brady’s other touchdown pass went to James White on a very well developed screen pass with a great block downfield by Shaq Mason. The coaches didn’t get the players ready to go today, despite proclaiming all week that this was a playoff game for them…let’s hope this isn’t what to expect in a playoff game because that effort and the gameplan was not good…at all. And in a move right out of the Andy Reid school of clock management, another head-scratcher. After stopping the Dolphins at the end of the first half with about 1:42 to go and three timeouts in the pocket, the coaches decided to let the clock run out and hand the ball off to Michel. In a tie game that your team needs for a playoff bye. Head-scratcher. So Tennessee is coming here next weekend after the Patriots blew a prime opportunity to get themselves in the bye week. And the worst part of this? They could actually face a short week if they are slated for Saturday. This was an ugly finish to the most dominant decade in NFL history. This is the kind of loss that can stick with a team, it isn’t just going to be business as usual this week. C-ya next weekend in Foxboro…just don’t be booking any flights to Kansas City just yet. This entry was posted in 2019 Patriots Regular season, NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots News and tagged Bill Belichick, Devante Parker, James White, Julian Edelman, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, NFL, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on December 29, 2019 by Steve Balestrieri. at 5:00 am ET With the Patriots wrapping up their 11th straight AFC East title last week, they still have some work to do in the regular season and with a win today against Miami, they clinch the #2 seed and a bye for the first round of the playoffs. It has been a long series dominated by the home teams so it bodes well for a Patriots victory today. The team has stated that they’re treating it like a playoff game. So there’s that.. Tre’Davious White – The Bills talented cornerback took exception to Tom Brady block that helped spring N’Keal Harry for an 18-yard run last week. “Chill Tom, we all know if I hit you, I’ll get fined and suspended not vice versa.” Which led us to one of the bigger myths about Tom Brady, that he is protected by the refs and “gets all the calls.” A great tidbit this week on Twitter from Tucker Boynton that is worth passing along, not that the legion of Brady detractors will pay attention. “In 2019 there were 140 unnecessary roughness penalties, and 127 roughing the QB calls. Tom Brady didn’t receive one of those.” Chandler Jones – The former Patriots defensive end has a shot of breaking Michael Strahan’s record for sacks today and we all here wish him the best in that pursuit. Having met him at Gillette a few years ago, Jones was personable as well as a talented pass rusher. But like everything else around here, there has been a lot of revisionist history surrounding Jones. The Patriots weren’t going to pay him $82.5 million, and as much as I liked Jones, the defense hasn’t missed a beat, going to three straight Super Bowls, winning two. This season, the team can win their 13th game of the season. What Jones is earning this year, the Patriots are paying five of their defenders. And his stellar play rushing the QB (notice we didn’t say setting the edge), hasn’t transformed the Cardinals defense one bit. And without the trade, they’d be no Joe Thuney who has been one of the best guards in football the past three years. It has been a trade that was a win-win. The Patriots got talent that took them to three straight Super Bowls, and Jones got his mammoth payday. NFL Investigators – The league is supposedly growing frustrated with their inability to pin their investigation of the Patriots filming of Cincinnati’s sidelines from the film crew to the Patriots football operations. They’ve confiscated numerous devices and can’t find the smoking gun that links the two entities… Frustrated? Wow, I always thought that an investigation was supposed to find the truth, not just to reinforce a theory of wrongdoing. But as we saw with Tom Brady with the asinine “more probable than not”, that never stopped Park Avenue. I would imagine this thorough “investigation” will finish sometime next week or the week after…timing is everything. Navy Bowl Game: The Navy was stuck without a flight to their bowl game in the Auto Zone Liberty Bowl. They generally fly Southwest Air to their away games but the airline had no planes available at the last minute during the Christmas holiday. Robert Kraft and the Patriots stepped up and the Midshipmen flew in style. Navy’s football team arriving for their bowl game in the Patriots aircraft Farewell 2010s, A Decade of Dominance: With the game today, this will be the Patriots’ final game of the decade. The first playoff game will begin the 2020s decade. It will be hard for the team to match what the past decade has brought. The Patriots, with a win today will end up the decade with an incredible record of 126-34. The next closest team is the Steelers who currently sit at 102-56-1, far behind them. If you factor in the postseason, the Patriots in the 2010s are an amazing 142-40. Of course, when the talk of New England comes up, we always hear about the AFC East. Well, at home against the AFC East, the Patriots are 27-2, which would lend some credence to that…right? Well, against the rest of the AFC at home, the Patriots are 28-2. Hmm, how about ‘dem apples?’ The best record in any decade used to belong to the Dallas Cowboys of the 1970s, who went 119-46. Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and the team have smashed that. NFL Top 100, Fascinating, Must Watch Television: If you haven’t watched the NFL Network’s Top 100, then you’re really missing out. And for Patriots fans, seeing Bill Belichick talking history of the NFL is like manna from heaven. Tom Brady joined Belichick, Rich Eisen, and Cris Collinsworth and the back and forth with the coach was something that we’ve never had many opportunities to see. It had a little bit of everything. Brady spoke his friendship with Peyton Manning and how the two spent a few weeks during the offseason together and how he (Brady) copied some of the Colts’ play calls and how much it factored into Rob Gronkowski’s success. Brady and Belichick had a great moment when he said after the first Super Bowl win, the two shared a limo ride together and Belichick in perfect Bill-speak said to him, “Tom, just wanted to let you know you had a pretty good year.” But Belichick also added a great moment telling Eisen when he believed that Brady was going to be special, and it wasn’t in a game, but in practice before Brady had even began to play. Forget about the lists, like any other list, or poll, it is just an exercise to get people talking and discussing the game. People get too hung up over who is on the list and who isn’t. It is just an opinion folks. Tune in and enjoy some great football talk. “One offseason we got together to talk football for two or three days. Just the two of us.” 🐐🐐@TomBrady talks about his experience working with his #NFL100 All-Time teammate Peyton Manning 👀 📺: NFL 100 All-Time Team on NFL Network pic.twitter.com/l8Ct3Rl3t5 — NFL Network (@nflnetwork) December 28, 2019 “He was clearly a leader on the field.” – Bill Belichick From day one, @TomBrady showed promise. After 20 seasons he’s named to the #NFL100 All-Time Team 🐐 📺: NFL 100 All-Time Team on NFL Network pic.twitter.com/Fi7AhT6mD2 Players to Watch Today: The Patriots put a bow on the 2019 regular season today and here are our Patriots players to watch for the game. Sony Michel – The Pats 2nd-year running back has had a frustrating season but the last two weeks have seen him beginning to turn it on. His 96 yards last week against the Bills were a season-high. Now facing the Dolphins 27th ranked run defense, he has the opportunity to hit the playoffs on a three-week highpoint. With LB/FB Elandon Roberts leading the way, we expect Michel and the running game, in general, to have a big afternoon running the ball today. Stephon Gillmore – The Patriots top cornerback will be going against DeVante Parker who is having a career season this year. Parker is the Dolphins’ go-to guy this year and naturally, Gilmore will be assigned to guard him closely. This should be a great matchup to watch this afternoon. The Patriots have done a good job on Parker in the past, but every week is a new game. Tom Brady – Brady had arguably his best game of the season last Saturday against the Bills #3 ranked defense. Spreading the ball around to nine different receivers, completing almost 80 percent of his passes, Brady looked as good as he has all year. Going against Miami’s 28th ranked pass defense, it should be another big game for Brady and he wants to get the offense and himself in the best possible position before the playoffs begin…Today he’ll be focused and ready to do just that. Jamie Collins, Kyle Van Noy, Dont’a Hightower – The Boogeymen are collectively facing a team with the worst running game (72.9 yards per game) in the NFL. That means there should be plenty of opportunity to rush the QB against a team that has allowed 56 sacks in 2019. We expect that number to rise today. I expect the Patriots to get after Ryan Fitzpatrick early and often this afternoon and the trio of linebackers should be disruptive and active in the Dolphins backfield. NFL Schedule Week 17, Who Are Your Winners: Last Week: 13-3 Season:154-85-1 Cleveland over Cincinnati New England over Miami Minnesota over Chicago Kansas City over LA Chargers Buffalo over NY Jets Green Bay over Detroit New Orleans over Carolina Tampa Bay over Atlanta Philadelphia over NY Giants Houston over Tennessee Dallas over Washington Baltimore over Pittsburgh Indianapolis over Jacksonville Oakland over Denver LA Rams over Arizona SNF San Francisco over Seattle Bye week: No teams Sorry due to the Christmas holiday break, there will be no AFC East notes this week, they’ll be back soon… “Yeah, I don’t think you really know a player until you spend a lot of time with him, day-in and day-out, where you really see what that player and what that person is like. We knew some things about him from Buffalo, but it’s not the same when you spend every day with a player, so we know a lot more about him now. He’s, again, very professional and impressive. He puts a lot into it, he puts a lot into his training, he puts a lot into his preparation and I think everybody has a tremendous amount of respect for him in part because of that..” – Bill Belichick on the preparation of Stephon Gilmore and his work ethic since coming to New England. This entry was posted in 2019 Patriots Regular season, NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots News and tagged Bill Belichick, Dont'a Hightower, James White, Jamie Collins, Julian Edelman, Kyle Van Noy, New England Patriots, Rex Burkhead, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on December 29, 2019 by Steve Balestrieri. Patriots-Dolphins Week 17, Key Matchups, Who Has the Razor’s Edge? December 27, 2019 at 7:30 am ET The Patriots can wrap up the 2nd seed of the 2019 AFC Playoffs with a win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday afternoon at Gillette Stadium. A win or a loss or tie by the Kansas City Chiefs will mean the Patriots are the #2 seed and earn an all-important bye during Wild Card Weekend next weekend. Miami is just playing out the season and is in full rebuilding mode. However, they’ve played much better in the second half of the season. After starting 0-7, the Dolphins are 4-3 in their last seven games. This week’s game will be broadcast by CBS and can be seen locally on WBZ-TV Channel 4. Greg Gumbel will handle play-by-play duties with Trent Green as the color analyst. Melanie Collins will work from the sidelines. The game will also be aired on the Patriots flagship radio station 98.5 The Sports Hub with Bob Socci and Scott Zolak on the call, produced by Marc Capello. The Patriots (12-3) beat the Buffalo Bills 24-17 to clinch their 11th division title in a row. Tom Brady had his best game in several weeks, while the running game got 143 yards keeping the offense balanced. The Dolphins (4-11) beat the Cincinnati Bengals 38-35 in overtime. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 419 yards and four touchdowns. We here at PatsFans.com are continuing our “Razor’s Edge” column in 2019 to give some quick analysis on some of the key matchups of the game and what you can look for in how the game plays out. Series History: The Patriots and Dolphins have been playing each other twice a year since 1966 when Miami entered the league. The Dolphins lead the all-time series 55-53 which includes 3 games in the postseason, where the Patriots lead 2-1. This series has been dominated by the home team. Miami is 38-17 at home while the Patriots are 35-17 in Foxboro. The teams split the series last season. In Week 2 in Miami, the Patriots shut them out 43-0, which happened to be the only game that Antonio Brown suited up for the Patriots this season. Here is a look at some of the key matchups and who holds the Razor’s Edge. First up is the Patriots offense: Patriots RBs vs Dolphins Front Seven – Razor’s Edge New England The Patriots running game shined for the second week in a row, and against a much tougher defense in Buffalo running for 143 yards. Sony Michel had the most productive game of his own going for 96 yards on 21 carries. Rex Burkhead scored the game-winning touchdown, breaking two tackles on his way to the end zone. Miami’s run defense is not good this season. The Dolphins have had equal difficulties stopping the run or the pass. Currently, the Dolphins are 27th against the run, allowing 135.4 yards per game. Look for the Patriots to continue to accentuate the run with Michel this week. The Dolphins linebackers have been hit hard by injury this year. Michel and Burkhead should both see a lot of work in this game. With the offensive line play improving, the Patriots should be able to dictate the pace here and open up play-action passing. Patriots WRs vs Dolphins Secondary – Razor’s Edge New England The Patriots passing game looked better than they have in months against the Bills. Tom Brady completed nearly 80 percent of his passes and threw for 271 yards. He spread the ball around to nine different players. WIth better pass protection, he looked laser-sharp and just what they need heading into the playoffs. Miami’s pass defense is 28th in the league this season, allowing over 265 yards per game. They’re missing their best corner, Xavien Howard and have a former Patriots (Jomal Wiltz, Eric Rowe) and a rookie Nik Needham in the secondary. Miami has only generated 22 sacks this season. Look for Brady to have another solid game and continue to spread the ball around. Julian Edelman is banged up but will no doubt play. Mohamad Sanu has been disappointing but has made noise this week that says he’s feeling better and is ready to be more of a factor. James White and Burkhead out of the backfield should both factor in the passing game. Next up the Dolphins offense: Dolphins RBs vs NE Front Seven – Razor’s Edge New England The Patriots run defense with Lawrence Guy and Danny Shelton have continued to trend upward and they both have been playing excellent football this season. The linebackers are very good at shooting the gaps and stuffing the opponent’s running game, and putting them in must-pass situations. Miami’s running game is dead last in the NFL averaging just 72.9 yards per game. The leading rusher for the Dolphins is their journeyman 37-year old QB Fitzpatrick. Nuff said. Dolphins WRs vs NE Secondary- Razor’s Edge New England The Miami passing game with Ryan Fitzpatrick has been a fairly good bright spot this year. As always, Fitzpatrick can get hot and absolutely tear up opposing defenses. But just as fast he can begin turning the ball over as well. He’s thrown 19 touchdowns but 13 interceptions as well. Turnovers are what hurts the offense. Fitzpatrick has good weapons to work with DeVante Parker is having an excellent year with 64 catches, 1065 yards, and 9 TDs. Tight end Mike Gesicki has 47 catches and is improving every week. Alan Hurns and Albert Wilson round out the receiver core. Stephon Gilmore should be matched up with Parker and that battle should be a good one to watch. I’m looking for the Patriots to get after Fitzpatrick, Miami has allowed 56 sacks this season to force him into being the latter of the two scenarios this week. Special Teams- Razor’s Edge New England The Patriots special teams give them a whitewash of the key matchups this week. The coverage units have been outstanding and they’ve blocked four punts this season. Jake Bailey is having a terrific rookie season and Nick Folk has solidified the kicking with extra points and field goals. Miami has Jason Sanders who has done a good job in the kicking department. Matt Hauck is the punter. Their return game should be held in check this week. Look for the Patriots to go after another punt this week. Next up, who wins and why… The Patriots and Tom Brady have enjoyed excellent success against Miami at home (In Miami is another story) and are looking to continue that trend. Bill Belichick has stated that last week and this week are essentially playoff games. They need this win to get a playoff bye. Miami has played hard all season for Brian Flores but they’re playing only for pride …and jobs next season. Keys to the game from a Patriots perspective: Keep the Running Game Going – The Patriots will attempt to run the ball against a Dolphins defense that has struggled to stop it all season long. The offensive line has played much better the past two weeks and will be looking to make that trend continue. Sony Michel, Rex Burkhead, and James White should all see some snaps in the running game. Also, look for N’Keal Harry to get another shot at a Jet Sweep this week. Brady to Spread the Ball Around – With the running game gaining momentum, this opens up play-action passing and look for them to work the middle of the field as well as the perimeters this week. Last week Brady used nine receivers in the passing game and it kept a very good Bills defense off-balance. Look for him to get everyone involved again and spread the wealth. Get After Fitzy And Force Some Turnovers – The defense didn’t get any turnovers against the Bills, but as we stated above, that is the big problem with Miami’s offense. On the season the Dolphins are -12 in the turnover department while the Patriots are +25. If the pass rush can get home, they can force Fitzpatrick into making a few errant throws that have been the bane of his career. This is a game the Patriots should win easily. They are playing for a bye week while Miami is just playing out the string. While Flores has had the Dolphins playing hard for him all season, a fast start by the Patriots should put them in good position. I look for Brady and the offense to have another big day as New England ends up 13-3 in 2019. Patriots 31-10 The “Knocking on Sevens’ Door” tour gets a week off as the Patriots get a bye week and watch the Wild Card Round resting up before a home game for the Divisional Game. Listen to our Patriots 4th and 2 podcasts on blog talk radio as the writers Russ Goldman, Derek Havens and I from PatsFans.com discuss the latest Patriots news and breakdown game analysis This entry was posted in NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots News and tagged albert wilson, Allen Hurns, Bill Belichick, Brian Flores, Devante Parker, Dont'a Hightower, James White, Jamie Collins, Julian Edelman, Miami Dolphins, Mike Gesicki, Mohamed Sanu, N'Keal Harry, New England Patriots, NFL, predictions, Rex Burkhead, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on December 27, 2019 by Steve Balestrieri. Patriots Week 16 Report Card, Offense Reappears In Big Win Over Buffalo Patriots Win 11th Straight Division Title The Patriots all week leading up to this game stated that this was a playoff game, and judging from their preparation, intensity, and production, they totally bought in. They won their 12th game of the season, a hard-fought 24-17 win over the Buffalo Bills which clinched the AFC East for the 11th year in a row and puts them one step away from a playoff bye and the #2 seed. We’ll get to the grades for the players in just a moment, but first a word about the coaching staff. In any profession, perhaps the hardest thing to do is assess oneself critically and be able to say that something isn’t working, even if that something was your idea. The ability to self-assess, or in Patriots parlance “self-scout” is something they are head and shoulders above everyone else in the league since Bill Belichick took the reins. Everyone says they’re going to “self-scout” and they all will change up their gameplans, and occasionally many teams come up with a brilliant one. But nobody, nobody can morph their teams from one week to the next, depending upon their opponent and put in the time, preparation and commitment than the Patriots have done the past 20 years. And the players have to buy in completely or it doesn’t work. How many times have we heard the past 20 years, “well Team A is more talented across the board” and how many times has Team A looked up at the wrong end of the scoreboard at the end of the day. So at the end of the day, when the votes are in for the Coach du jour, Belichick will get no votes but his team will probably win 13 games, while the naysayers will tell us they can’t win it all again. So, check out our grades and we’ll take one more look at the game film before putting a bow on this week. Quarterback: A- Tom Brady was showing signs of age, decline and his elbow has been bothering him for several weeks. Plus he was facing a team that has increasingly played him tougher and tougher for the past few years and was in the top 3 of most defensive categories. So, how did that work out? Brady had his best game in several weeks, perhaps all season. Brady completed 26-33 for 271 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions. Completing nearly 79 percent of his passes while averaging 8.2 yards per pass attempt against this Bills defense is outstanding work. Brady got everyone involved and mixing things up and hitting nine different receivers kept the Bills defense off-balance all night long. His back-shoulder throw to Matt LaCosse for a touchdown showed perfect touch. This was a vintage Brady performance. Running Backs: B+ The Patriots running game followed up their most productive game of the season in Cincinnati with a game that was arguably more impressive considering the opponent. The team rushed for 143 yards against a tough Bills defense and were running physical, getting yards after contact and following the blocking well. Sony Michel had his best game of the season rushing 21 times for 96 yards. Rex Burkhead, once again turning it on late in the season, rushed 5 times for 20 yards, including the game-winning touchdown run where he was hit in the backfield and broke two tackles to get into the end zone. N’Keal Harry had 18 yards on a reverse, with a lead block by Brady (yes everyone bought in). James White chipped in with 13 yards. Brady picked up a key QB sneak to keep the chains moving. The running backs (Michel, Burkhead, and White) combined for 235 yards rushing and receiving. Solid night? You bet. Wide Receivers: B- The Patriots wide receivers led by #11 (Who else?) had a solid night. Julian Edelman was questionable with knee and shoulder issues. Then he missed a few series that nearly took a quarter going through concussion protocol. But he still led all WRs with 5 catches for 72 yards. And maybe the Bills thought that as hobbled as he was, they didn’t need to double him. That assessment was wrong. He was beating coverage consistently and late in the game…was doubled. In a league where all the players are physically tough, Edelman is one of the toughest. Burkhead led all Patriot receivers with 77 yards on 4 catches, yes he had a fumble on a good defensive play but more than made up for it. He showed excellent vision and followed his blocks well. Jakobi Meyers came off the bench when Edelman was down and collected 3 passes for 25 yards. Harry caught two passes for 25 while Mohamad Sanu caught 3 passes for 24. Sanu was again a disappointment. While he may have gotten a poor spot on a third-down pass short of the sticks, he totally whiffed on a block on a 4th and 1 with Harry getting stopped by his man on a play that could have went for a big gain. Tight Ends: B- Matt LaCosse scored his first touchdown of the season on an 8-yard pass from Brady down the seam. He also had his best game in the run blocking department, the offense put him in motion and he did a good job, even lining up in the backfield. His pass protection was much, much better this week. Ben Watson had three catches on three targets with two going for first downs. He also had a 33-yard touchdown wiped out on an offensive pass interference call on Edelman. This was a much better day for the tight ends than we’ve seen in a while. Offensive Line: A- The offensive line play was outstanding on Saturday. Buffalo didn’t sack Tom Brady and for the vast majority of the game he played with a clean pocket. They also cleared out big chunks of yardage in the running game. It is amazing what the backs can do when they are not getting hit four yards deep in the backfield. Shaq Mason had a very impressive game in the run department, looking like the guy we’re used to seeing blowing people up in the running game. Ted Karras and Joe Thuney were also excellent in the running game. Marcus Cannon hurt an ankle and was replaced by swing tackle Marshall Newhouse who played well, he did a good job in the running game but gave up a pair of QB hurries and a hit. But this unit going against the Bills performed as well as one could hope for. Defensive Line: B+ The defensive line did a tremendous job of bottling up Devin Singletary holding him to just 46 yards on 15 carries (3.1-yard average). And that begins with Lawrence Guy who was outstanding once again. Guy led the team with six tackles, a sack of Josh Allen and two QB hits. Danny Shelton was also solid in the running game. John Simon had a QB sack and 1.5 tackles for a loss. Chase Winovich who is looking like Lucius Malfoy these days with his dyed hair more white than blond, was his normal flying around the field self. The linebackers were led by Dont’a Hightower with 1.5 sacks and a pass breakup while Jamie Collins and Kyle Van Noy weren’t as impactful as they can be and normally are. Ja’Whaun Bentley played his very tough, downhill style in the running game. Elandon Roberts played about 20 snaps as a fullback and seems to be relishing his role. “Same on defense, same on offense. When a linebacker steps into the hole, Imma run through their motherf*n’ face. Period. That’s all I think about, making my block, running through a motherf*r’s face.” How can one argue with that? Secondary: B The Patriots secondary had a good, but not great day against the Bills. While Josh Allen only completed 50 percent of his throws (13 of 26), hit on two long completions, one for a 53-yard touchdown and the other (33 yards to Dawson Knox) set up a 1-yard touchdown pass on a tackle eligible play. Stephon Gilmore got beat on a double move by John Brown and moved to the right. Brown cut left and safety Devin McCourty got caught peeking in the backfield at the pass rush and Brown then blew right by him too. However, it was his only catch of the game. Knox only caught the one big pass over Pat Chung, but was open on a couple of others but was overthrown. Cole Beasley caught 7 passes for 108 yards out of the slot and was finding excellent success all game long. The Patriots missed Jonathan Jones who was out with a groin injury. The Special Teams were led by Nick Folk on Saturday. Folk hit a 51-yarder to give the team the lead and was 3-3 on field goals for the day. You don’t have to hold your breath on kicks for the first time in a while this season. The return game was forgettable and the coverage units were okay but not their usual shutdown selves. Jake Bailey punted twice averaging 46.5 yards but didn’t drop either inside the 20. Coaches: A The Patriots coaching staff gets excellent marks this week. And it begins with Josh McDaniels. McDaniels was extremely creative of trying to get everyone involved in the offense this week and used so many different looks and formations, there were times he had the Buffalo defense thoroughly confused. That doesn’t happen very often. With his play-calling, they were able to put together those long drives in the death-by-1000 cuts mold. Defensively, they had Allen very confused early in the game but give the 2nd year QB credit, he made a few outstanding throws and hung in there. But with the Bills driving late in the game, they brought pressure and got a sack and forced a throw off his back foot to get an incompletion in the end zone to salt the game away. This entry was posted in NFL Commentary, Patriots Commentary, Patriots Film Room, Patriots Report Card and tagged Bill Belichick, Buffalo Bills, Dawson Knox, Devin McCourty, Devin Singletary, Dont'a Hightower, James White, Jamie Collins, John Brown, Josh Allen, Julian Edelman, Kyle Van Noy, Mohamed Sanu, N'Keal Harry, New England Patriots, NFL, Patriots, Rex Burkhead, Sony Michel, Stephon Gilmore, Tom Brady on December 24, 2019 by Steve Balestrieri. Today's Most Viewed: 20 burning questions for Patriots 2020 offseason presented by Paycom Patriots.com - Jan 20th, 2020 Stephen A. 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__label__cc	0.687706	0.312294	Home Travel & Tourism TV Series on Thai Culture & Cuisine Wins Top HSMAI Gold Award TV Series on Thai Culture & Cuisine Wins Top HSMAI Gold Award By TAT New York – 10 March 2014 – A stunning TV series focussing on Thailand’s culinary and cultural delights has won top honours at the Gold Adrian Awards 2013 conferred annually by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI). The series, “Giada in Paradise: Thailand” won the award in the public relations category, making it the third year in a row that an entry from Thailand has taken the top spot in this category. Supported by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) New York and Los Angeles Offices, “Giada in Paradise: Thailand” shows Ms. Giada De Laurentiis, an Italian celebrity chef enjoying a glamorous once-in-a-lifetime adventure across Bangkok, Phuket, Krabi and Chiang Mai. It was first broadcast on Cooking Channel Television on 21 April, 2013, from 15.00-16.00 hrs, with an audience of about 6 million. It was replayed for the entire month of May 2013. Learning fruit & vegetable carving* Thailand received the award the 3rd year in a row The HSMAI’s Adrian Awards Reception and Gala was held on 24 February, 2014, at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel. The Awards recognise inspiring best practices in sales and marketing for the hospitality industry, including lifetime achievement; award-winning approaches to advertising, public relations, and digital marketing. HSMAI received more than 1,200 submissions globally for the 2013 Adrian Awards. From the entries, HSMAI presented 46 Gold Adrian Awards in Advertising, 87 in Digital Marketing and 130 in Public Relations. Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik, TAT Governor, said, “TAT is happy to have backed this extremely high-impact TV series which conveyed a very powerful message about Thainess, especially our unique culture and cuisine to a very top-notch audience in the United States. We are deeply honoured by the award and extend our thanks to the organisers and all those who were involved in the decision-making process.” The TV series covered the following: Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai – Cooking School: Learn the secrets of Thai cooking firsthand at Chiang Mai’s Four Seasons. The resort’s culinary team designed this gorgeous indoor/outdoor kitchen where students created famous dishes; such, as khao soi kai, learned the basic skills of vegetable carving, and toured a local food market with the chef instructor. Learning Thai massage* Learning Thai cooking* Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai – Breakfast in the Rice Fields: A relaxing breakfast surrounded by breathtaking scenery. Enjoy a traditional Thai breakfast for two seated in the Four Seasons Resort rice barn. Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai – Thai Massage: Thai massage also known as yoga massage has been around for centuries and aims to release stress and leave one feeling rejuvenated and relaxed. The massage follows pressure points along the body and involves intense stretching. Elephant Life Experience – Chiang Mai: See nature’s biggest land mammal up close and personal at this beautiful elephant conservation camp outside of Chiang Mai. Guests are given the opportunity to ride the elephant through the camp, see them in their natural environment, and end the day with a picnic lunch or high tea. Sunday Market – Walking Street – Chiang Mai: A trip to Chiang Mai wouldn’t be complete without a visit to one of its many food markets. Enjoy the energy of the city’s bustling nightlife at the Sunday walking street market located in the old walled city. This weekly market features local artisans and food vendors from 4 p.m. to midnight. Thai Feast – Chiang Mai: Experience the cuisine of Northern Thailand at this dramatic resort modelled after the ancient Lanna Kingdom. James Bond island* Beach Dinner – Phuket: Dine under the stars with your feet in the sand at Phuket’s Amanpuri Resort. Dinner by candlelight features traditional Southern Thai dishes like green mango salad, fish in banana leaf, and local lobster grilled on the beach. Fruit Carving – Phuket: Students from around the world have learned Kae Sa Lak (carving) from the Siam Carving Academy based in Bangkok, Thailand. Fruit and vegetable carving has been an art form in Thailand for seven centuries. These beautiful edible arrangements are displayed during festivals and at many Thai restaurants. Buddhist Temple: This Chiang Mai temple welcomes tourists from around the globe. James Bond Island in Phang Nga Bay – Phuket: Before 1974 and the release of the James Bond classic, “The Man with the Golden Gun”, Khao Phing Kan was rarely visited. Today, the island known as James Bond Island is a tourist destination in Phang Nga Bay. The Bay is located in the Andaman Sea between Phuket and the mainland. Its brilliant green waters and giant limestone cliff islands are not to be missed. The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is a global organisation of sales, marketing, and revenue management professionals representing all segments of the hospitality industry. *Images are from the TAT Newsroom Photo Library and area used in this news article as reference only. International Public Relations Division Tel: +66 (0) 2250 5500 ext. 4545-48 Web site: www.tatnews.org Filed in : Media Releases, Media Releases 2014 Tags: Headlines, Latestupdate Previous articleIndia’s leading industrialists recognise Thailand as “The Best International Golfing Destination” Next articleTwo Thai army soldiers arrested with firearms, ammunition Thai International Travel Fair; world tour packages selling well Oxcart racing festivities kicks off in Phetchaburi Vendors resume business on Pattaya Beach Business December 1, 2017 TAT expects 2 trillion baht revenue in 2016 through ‘Discover Thainess’... Travel & Tourism July 18, 2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371728
__label__wiki	0.513628	0.513628	Shrewsbury, NJ Litigation + Dispute Resolution Microsite Menu Post Grant Proceedings + Actions Successful Trial Work for Satisfied Clients Patterson + Sheridan has established a strong track record of performing repeat trial work for satisfied clients. Working in close consultation with our clients, we use strategic motions to maximize opportunities for a favorable settlement. At the same time, we prepare a focused case for trial, if necessary. As a result, we've secured successes for clients as both plaintiffs and defendants – and developed long-lasting relationships with clients who use our services again and again. One of the major players in the smartphone patent wars, for example, hired us to defend it in a patent infringement lawsuit. We have since defended the company in a series of such lawsuits filed across the country. On the plaintiff side, we filed a patent infringement lawsuit on behalf of a Texas company seeking to enforce its patents on mixed-signal devices against a competitor, obtaining a favorable settlement. The client subsequently retained us to file additional suits against other competitors. In each instance we obtained favorable settlements. We later resolved patent infringement claims asserted against the same client by a well-known patent holding company. Jerry R. Selinger Filing Amicus Briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court Lawyers from Patterson + Sheridan have filed amicus briefs on behalf of clients at the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. In Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Techs., Inc., for example, we filed an amicus brief on behalf of a broad spectrum of clients at the Federal Circuit and filed another amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari at the United States Supreme Court. Patterson + Sheridan Team’s Deep ‘Means-Plus-Function’ Knowledge Instrumental in Infringement Suit Dismissal for Large Tech Client Patent law is complex and ever changing, especially in the rapidly growing technology sector. When one of our global clients was sued in federal court along with 14 other defendants for patent infringement, we worked in close collaboration with a joint defense group, taking a strategic approach to resolve a key issue in the case. Leveraging extensive knowledge in means-plus-function claims, our team was instrumental in presenting arguments that asserted the claims were invalid. While means-plus-function is an area of IP law that is in flux (rules have changed multiple times in the past two decades), the statute allows for claims on functionality when complex, technical devices can be better described by the function they perform versus their structure, materials or equivalents. Citing specific sections of the statute, we argued that the patent didn’t adequately describe the structure associated with the functions in this claim, rendering it invalid as indefinite (invalidated due to lacking definiteness). Court-appointed special master validates our argument Initially, the judge decided that the patent adequately described the structure at hand. But the court appointed a special master to review the claim. The special master agreed with our argument, finding insufficient structure described to support the claim and declaring it invalid as indefinite. The judge ultimately adopted the special master’s recommendation and dismissed the case in the defendants’ favor. Our team’s knowledge in this complex, ever-changing area of IP law helped the client win the case before having it go all the way to trial. Working with a joint defense group also provided our client and the other 14 defendants with significant savings in avoiding trial. Trampas A. Kurth , Steven E. Roberts , Preston Kent Using Subject-Matter Eligibility as a Sword and Shield When Protecting Clients’ IP Patent law is constantly evolving, due in large part to subject-matter eligibility. The latest Supreme Court decision on this subject, known as the “Alice” case (Alice Corp v CLS Bank), held that subject-matter eligibility for claims directed to abstract ideas is based on a two-part test: First: determine if the claims are directed to an abstract idea or general principle. Second: if so, evaluate all claim elements individually, and in combination, to determine if the claims include an inventive concept sufficient to ensure that the patent in practice amounts to “significantly more” than a patent upon the abstract idea itself. As this area of patent law remains fluid, patent examiners are actively (and inconsistently) using subject-matter eligibility to examine applications. That’s where our vast experience on both sides of the IP process — preparation and prosecution and litigation — becomes a competitive advantage for our clients in industries ranging from computers, the internet, biotechnology, and oil and gas. Our team has a deep understanding of the level of detail required to ensure a claim is valid when analyzed under the two-part subject-matter eligibility test — even if what we receive from the clients is a high-level description of the invention. We collaborate and dig deep to deliver a more holistic view of our clients’ inventions on the front end, and have developed an arsenal of strategies when drafting applications, including arguments and amendments should a rejection arise. We’ve helped many of our clients address this issue for years, and their continued business is a testament to our track record in drafting patent applications that can withstand stringent and ever-changing subject-matter eligibility requirements. Shutting down a patent troll before a costly trial Building on our experience in drafting solid applications, we also leverage subject-matter eligibility knowledge to defend clients from frivolous infringement claims. For example, our team represented one of the oil industry’s largest players as lead defense counsel in a multi-party infringement suit brought by a patent troll. Working alongside 12 other firms to represent more than 20 defendants, our deep understanding of subject-matter eligibility was brought to bear against the plaintiff’s broad claim related to “controlling a device over a network.” Arguing the broadness of the claim and demonstrating that many everyday activities would infringe the plaintiff’s patent — from printing to a network printer to uploading photos to social media sites — our team successfully leveraged the plaintiff to voluntarily dismiss the case at the pleading stage, saving our client and the other defendants from a costly trial. Kyrie Cameron , Gero G. McClellan , Aaron Perkins How Persistence and Storytelling Helped Secure a Federal Preliminary Injunction to Protect Trade Secrets Facts are paramount in any case, but how they are leveraged is what wins cases. While technology is second nature to us, in litigation, we also craft stories that make judges and juries understand the facts, the technology and care about our clients. That’s exactly what we did when representing The Systems Group. The family-owned company designs, develops and provides equipment for cooling industrial furnaces used for making steel. The Systems Group’s Spray-Cooled™ technology is a safer alternative to traditional pressurized water-cooling. The Systems Group is the only supplier of spray cooling technology for the steel industry, so when an executive and an employee left the company, established a competing business, and attempted to poach The Systems Group’s biggest client, The Systems Group believed the ex-employees had taken and used trade secrets and other proprietary information. Thorough and fast: Leaving no stone unturned After an investigation, we formulated a strategic response and quickly filed suit for trade secret misappropriation and breach of employment contract. In addition to immersing ourselves in the underlying technology and business practices of this industry sector, we quickly determined that the underlying facts didn’t tell the whole story. When the data wasn’t adding up, we didn’t settle for the defendants’ mysterious explanations. By persistently pursuing evidence and calling upon a computer forensic expert, we were able to solve the data “mystery”: the defendants had destroyed evidence. Painting a compelling portrait of injustice We put three witnesses on at the bench trial — The Systems Group CEO, the industry expert, and a forensic computer expert — and cross-examined the defendants. Through these witnesses, we established that: The Systems Group had developed trade secrets and proprietary information that were not generally known The Systems Group protected the trade secrets and proprietary information The trade secrets and proprietary information could not be duplicated without monumental engineering effort and inside knowledge We also established that defendants were in possession of and had used the trade secrets and proprietary information in competing with The Systems Group. Based on our forensic investigation, we obtained from the Court an adverse inference that the defendants had misappropriated The Systems Groups’ trade secrets and proprietary information because of the defendants’ intentional destruction of evidence. In addition to supporting the legal requirements, however, we told our client’s unique story, including the energy and hard work that went into developing the technology and the business. We illustrated how this family’s 50-year-old business was lawfully built on hard work and ingenuity, and how it had been damaged by the ex-employees’ actions. Our efforts culminated when we secured a preliminary injunction — which is rarely granted in federal court. The injunction forced the defendants to stop using Systems’ trade secrets and forbid the defendants from “using design drawings and internal pricing worksheets to design and supply low pressure, spray-cooling equipment for the steel industry.” Securing a rock-solid consent decree Eventually, the defendants agreed to a consent judgment and injunction that barred them from competing using spray-cooled technology for six years, with few exceptions. This agreement was broader than the preliminary injunction and, because it was a public, enforceable court order signed by the judge, it carried more power and authority than a settlement agreement. At Patterson + Sheridan, we believe that you always need to understand the facts and the technology to back everything up, but the way you ultimately win the jury and the judge is with the story. At the end of the day, every case is about people and their stories — that’s our focus. Keith Taboada Defending a Fortune 500 chemical company against multimillion-dollar patent infringement allegations When an international manufacturer and supplier of chemicals was facing claims of patent infringement, they turned to John Barr, Jay Yates and their team to help navigate the litigation process. The company was being sued by a larger competitor for alleged patent infringement of a chemical method patent in a U.S. District Court. The competitor sought a multimillion-dollar award for past damages in addition to a permanent injunction requiring our client to immediately stop manufacturing a successful specialty chemical product. Translating complex subject matter into a compelling argument at trial Effectively addressing complicated technologies to a jury is challenging. At trial, cases are presented through the witnesses and the documentary evidence. Unlike in a classroom, where students can ask questions when learning new and difficult material, juries generally are prohibited from asking any questions. Effective trial lawyers must: ● Tailor their presentation to the courtroom ● Anticipate the questions that the jurors would ask ● Select the most impactful exhibits ● Anticipate the counter-arguments that will be presented by opposing counsel Our litigators know how to explain even the most technical subjects to a jury, and we’ve sharpened those skills through decades of handling significant trial matters. A two-pronged attack on infringement and validity claims This case was challenging. It involved complicated polymer chemistry and the patents to be presented at trial lacked any drawings to help teach the processes involved. Our lawyers decided that the best way to present the case to the jury involved a two-pronged attack on infringement and validity that clearly demonstrated that the client’s process both did not infringe because it worked in a different way than the patented method, and that the asserted patent was invalid based on prior patents from well-known competitors. Overcoming obstacles to secure a litigation victory While the jury ultimately did not find the asserted patent invalid based on the prior patents, the intense debate of the prior processes and the explanatory trial demonstratives that our team created to illustrate the processes to the jury forced the patent owner to adopt a very narrow position to distinguish its patent from prior technologies. The resulting limited infringement position required to escape invalidity made the infringement claim easier to defeat, which resulted in a victory for the client. After a five-day trial, the jury found that the client did not infringe the patent and rejected the plaintiffs’ request for damages and an injunction. The verdict was upheld on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. Today, the company is able to compete in the market and grow its business. John H. Barr, Jr. , Jay Yates , Al Clark Ten Years of Tools: Helping Olympia International develop new products and avoid litigation from competitors For more than a decade, Patterson + Sheridan has helped Olympia grow from a small hand tool company to a major supplier to the largest retailers in the country. Our firm provides strategic counsel to help the company develop new products while mitigating the risk of litigation. Determining the “path of least resistance” for product development When Olympia is exploring new product lines, our attorneys help them identify existing patents and navigate the protected intellectual property of competitors. Through extensive research and analysis, we provide efficient pathways to bring new products to market without infringing on prior utility patents, design patents or trademarks. Over the years, Patterson + Sheridan has helped Olympia bring dozens of new products to market. From lawsuit defendants to selling millions of units annually A major breakthrough for the company was the introduction of a low cost, high volume consumer product at a major big box retailer. After identifying an excess production capacity and significant market demand, Olympia started producing and importing the products. There were no existing design patents for the products in place; however, a competitor ultimately sued for unregistered trade dress infringement. Shortly after the suit was filed, we helped Olympia develop an alternative, more attractive product design that was free of infringement claims and a better product overall. This quick pivot in designs mitigated damages in the lawsuit and impressed Olympia’s customer. To this day, Olympia sells millions of these products each year. Business growth fueled by a strategic partnership Thanks to this ongoing relationship, we have been able to help Olympia grow its business by identifying workarounds to existing products, providing strategic insight into the marketplace and helping the company manufacture new products while avoiding competitors’ intellectual property. Associated attorneys: Bruce Patterson, Jessie Herrera, Aaron Perkins, Jerry Selinger, Susan Powley Associated practices: Litigation + Dispute Resolution W. Bruce Patterson , Jessie D. Herrera, Jr. , Aaron Perkins , Jerry R. Selinger , Susan E. Powley © 2020 Patterson + Sheridan. All Rights Reserved. Attorney Advertising. 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__label__cc	0.519948	0.480052	Ayodhya Verdict: The Lordships hereby direct the following \| Published: Saturday, November 9, 2019, 13:33 [IST] New Delhi, Nov 09: The Supreme Court on Saturday delivered a historic verdict in the Ayodhya Case today. The court took into account several aspects before stating that the Hindus shall get the disputed land at Ayodhya while the Muslim side would be provided with alternate land of 5 acres. Here is what the judges held: (i) Suit 3 instituted by Nirmohi Akhara is held to be barred by limitation and shall accordingly stand dismissed; Ayodhya Verdict: It was always referred to as Janmaasthan (ii) Suit 4 instituted by the Sunni Central Waqf Board and other plaintiffs is held to be within limitation. The judgment of the High Court holding Suit 4 to be barred by limitation is reversed; and (iii) Suit 5 is held to be within limitation. Suit 5 is held to be maintainable at the behest of the first plaintiff who is represented by the third plaintiff. There shall be a decree in terms of prayer clauses (A) and (B) of the suit, subject to the following directions: (i) The Central Government shall, within a period of three months from the date of this judgment, formulate a scheme pursuant to the powers vested in it under Sections 6 and 7 of the Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya Act 1993. The scheme shall envisage the setting up of a trust with a Board of Trustees or any other appropriate body under Section 6. The scheme to be framed by the Central Government shall make necessary provisions in regard to the functioning of the trust or body including on matters relating to the management of the trust, the powers of the trustees including the construction of a temple and all necessary, incidental and supplemental matters; Ayodhya: Title not decided on basis of faith or belief, but on evidence says SC Possession of the inner and outer courtyards shall be handed over to the Board of Trustees of the Trust or to the body so constituted. The Central Government will be at liberty to make suitable provisions in respect of the rest of the acquired land by handing it over to the Trust or body for management and development in terms of the scheme framed in accordance with the above directions; and Possession of the disputed property shall continue to vest in the statutory receiver under the Central Government, until in exercise of its jurisdiction under Section 6 of the Ayodhya Act of 1993, a notification is issued vesting the property in the trust or other body. Simultaneously, with the handing over of the disputed property to the Trust or body under clause 2 above, a suitable plot of land admeasuring 5 acres shall be handed over to the Sunni Central Waqf Board, the plaintiff in Suit Read full 1,045 page Supreme Court judgement on Ayodhya (ii) The land shall be allotted either by: (a) The Central Government out of the land acquired under the Ayodhya Act 1993; or (b) The State Government at a suitable prominent place in Ayodhya; The Central Government and the State Government shall act in consultation with each other to effectuate the above allotment in the period stipulated. Subramanian Swamy says Fundamental rights of Hindus important than Muslims property rights (iii) The Sunni Central Waqf Board would be at liberty, on the allotment of the land to take all necessary steps for the construction of a mosque on the land so allotted together with other associated facilities; (iv) Suit 4 shall stand decreed to this extent in terms of the above directions; and (v) The directions for the allotment of land to the Sunni Central Waqf Board in Suit 4 are issued in pursuance of the powers vested in this Court under Article 142 of the Constitution. In exercise of the powers vested in this Court under Article 142 of the Constitution, we direct that in the scheme to be framed by the Central Government, appropriate representation may be given in the Trust or body, to the Nirmohi Akhara in such manner as the Central Government deems fit. Ayodhya: Sunni Waqf Board failed to establish possessory rights over disputed property says SC The right of the plaintiff in Suit 1 to worship at the disputed property is affirmed subject to any restrictions imposed by the relevant authorities with respect to the maintenance of peace and order and the performance of orderly worship. All the appeals shall stand disposed of in the above terms. Parties are left to bear their own costs. More HINDUS News Religious minority status to be determined pan-India, not state wise: SC Year 2019: When SC restored the right of Ram Lalla The days of hardships will finally be over: Pak Hindus await citizenship bill passage Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: India set to give a home for persecuted Hindus Rape-accused Nithyananda sets up his own 'Nation' called 'Kailaasa' History, archaeology, religion, law: How the SC came to a conclusion on Ayodhya title suit Hindus continued to asset rights to pray inside 3 doomed structure: SC Ayodhya Verdict Explained in 10 points Maintain high state of alert: Home Ministry advisory to all states ahead of Ayodhya verdict Ayodhya Case: What happens if both Hindus and Muslims are unhappy with the verdict Ayodhya: Hindus have no right other than that of prescription, Muslim parties tell SC hindus ayodhya supreme court muslims Story first published: Saturday, November 9, 2019, 13:33 [IST] Other articles published on Nov 9, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371731
__label__wiki	0.934429	0.934429	12 min ago Modi extracts wealth from India's poor, gives it to 'crony capitalist friends': Rahul Gandhi 16 min ago Delhi polls 2020: AAP drops Jitender Singh Tomar, gives ticket to wife World Cup 2018 has helped Putin in many, many ways oi-Shubham \| Updated: Monday, July 2, 2018, 13:49 [IST] Moscow, July 2: The critics will be doing what they always do: criticise with or without a basis. They did their job religiously even after Russia sent former world champions Spain out of the World Cup in a penalty shootout in Moscow on Sunday, July 1, joking that Russian President Vladimir Putin played a part behind his country's victory to reach the quarterfinal. But they are wrong, massively wrong. And even the media in the US, the country known to be a strong opponent to the Russians, has conceded the fact that Putin did not fix the World Cup which Russia is hosting for the first time ever in the tournament's 88-year history. File Photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin kicks the ball during an opening friendly soccer match between two children teams and FIFA legends at a Football Park in Red Square during the 2018 soccer World Cup in Moscow.PTI Photo "Despite the immediate array of social media jokes claiming the Russian president was responsible for his country's dramatic penalty shootout victory over Spain to reach the quarterfinal on Sunday, it wasn't down to Putin. Instead it was a display of extreme resiliency and courage, sprinkled with a touch of fortune, that gave the host nation's new favorite team a 4-3 triumph from the spot after things ended 1-1 following extra time," USA Today reported. WC 2018 has given Russia an opportunity to build bridges with the world This world cup is special for Russia on many counts. At a time when Putin was facing criticism from the international community over him becoming the president of Russia "undemocratically" and over the crises in Syria and Ukraine, the world cup has given the Kremlin a tremendous opportunity to build some crucial bridges with the outer world. Even Putin's biggest critics, the sensible ones, cannot ignore the fact. Putin has used the platform to engage with world leaders The world cup in Russia has helped the country and its leadership in many ways. On the political level, Putin has used the platform to engage with other world leaders. From Saudi Prince Crown Mohammed Bin Salman to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to inviting the leaders of Israel and Palestine - two of the biggest enemies in modern-day history - to also set the stage for the first summit with US President Donald Trump, the Russian leadership has used the limelight which has come with the mega tournament to accomplish some major diplomatic mission. From left, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, and Russian President Vladimir Putin watch the match between Russia and Saudi Arabia which opens the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia.PTI Photo The other parties also have not refused to be a part of the same since it has also gave them an opportunity to engage with a hard power by resorting to a soft diplomacy. One after another Nato member is falling in Russia The tournament is also turning out to be symbolically significant because of the fall of one Nato member to another (Poland, Iceland, Germany, Portugal, Spain already in the list) on the Russian soil and it will be interesting to see if the remaining 'Nato forces' in the tournament can defeat Russia in its den. One of the leading members of the Nato group - the US - haven't qualified for the tournament, besides Italy and the Netherlands. Russia will be taking on Croatia - another Nato member who are playing really well in this tournament -- in the quarterfinal in Sochi on July 7. If Russia, the lowest seeded team of the tournament, can pull off another win there, the Kremlin will be feeling all the more proud and assertive as far as its international reputation is concerned. No hooliganism, no terror attack: It's one of the best WCs The world cup has not seen hooliganism as many in the West had predicted and on the contrary, a lot of western teams have been left in doldrums because of their poor performance in the tournament. The home team's dream run, on the contrary, has sent across the message that despite the challenge and difficulties on other fronts, Russia is capable of delivering as a sporting nation. In fact, the performance of Russia in football has become closely connected with its performance in the diplomatic arena. As long as Russia keeps winning, Putin's vigour towards asserting his country's happy and proud face in the international community will be energetic. The West might envy that but in envy lies the opposition's victory. Russia as a soft power The world cup has also asserted Russia as a terrific soft power. Absence of feel-bad incidents despite warnings by the West; the boost in tourism; Moscow's reputation as a friendly city and the clear weather - all have contributed towards brightening Russia's image as a country which is not as devilish as it is perceived often. The world cup, in a way, has raised the 'iron curtain' and ended Russia's 'isolation' in many ways. Diplomatically and personally, it is a victory for Putin. US rushed Bolton to quickly fix Trump-Putin summit details The fact that the US sent President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton to Russia just when the 'iron is hot' and lay the foundation for the first summit between Washington and Moscow on July 16, a day after the mega event in Russia ends, shows that even the 'enemy state' is eager to bask, even if in a reflected glory. The decision of the Swedes authorities to back down from a diplomatic boycotting of the tournament after their team advanced to the knock-out stage also neutralised Russia's 'untouchability'. Raising pension age while WC fever is on At home, too, the Putin administration pushed the reform to raise of the pension age and since the country is gripped by the football fever, there was not much focus on it. Neither were there talks on Crimea or Russia's dubious human rights record. The free world suddenly extended to the air of Russia and it was all happy and content. Not an event to boycott By staging one of the best world cups in the recent years which was also not boycotted by any team (unlike the 1980 Olympics in the former Soviet Union), Russia has made an emphatic statement on its own success as an international player. Putin's parallel effort to make difficult diplomatic quests possible while the tournament is on (like inviting the leaderships of Israel and Palestine together) is also significant. Donald Trump will be certainly envying his Russian counterpart for making a good use of the opportunity he got. The US, too, has got the hosting rights for the 2026 world cup along with neighbours Canada and Mexico but Trump will no more be in office then and the opportunity will most likely be utilised by his successor to undo whatever he will be doing during his tenure in office. More WORLD CUP 2018 News This couple did something extra-ordinary in stands during a World Cup game in Moscow After World Cup, Helsinki summit with Trump is another winner for Vladimir Putin After World Cup win, France witnesses violence; 2 fans die; many injured Africans, Muslims did it for France in World Cup; will it return back the favour, asks writer After Russian defence minister slammed Nato, its foreign ministry calls bloc ‘useless’ Interview: ‘World Cup 2018 brought Putin, who fears isolation, undoubted PR points’ Nine months after World Cup, will Russia see ‘festival babies’? Anxiety grows… As France take on Belgium in WC semis, French media goes gaga over Asterix vs Tintin 'rivalry' World Cup has broken ‘stereotypes’ about Russia, says Putin; Fifa seconds it Russian art director displays wife’s giant public mural in Moscow for World Cup ‘Bathe in pairs’, Russia city authorities tell residents to save water during World Cup Trump scores same-side goal while cracking joke on Cristiano Ronaldo with Portugal president world cup 2018 russia vladimir putin nato united states diplomacy spain	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371732
__label__cc	0.661574	0.338426	Reno 10x Zoom OPPO adds zing to the Onam festivities Launches exciting offers for Kerala market from 15th August to 20th September National, 16 August 2019: In a bid to add a zing to the festivities World-leading smartphone brand OPPO, today announced Onam Magic Offer. Consumers in Kerala will be able to avail full damage protection guarantee for OPPO’s F series, A series, R series, Find series and Reno series smartphones purchased between 15th August to 20th September. The validity of the damage protection is for 180 days from the date of activation of the product. OPPO will also be launching a special TVC that will be running across key regional television channels during this campaign. The Onam Magic Offer will cover the accidental damage/physical damage/liquid damage and/or such damage to the product creating hindrances in the normal usage of the Products other than manufacturing defect. Consumers will be eligible to avail the offer by visiting the authorized service center along with self-attested copies of valid Government ID’s and device purchase invoice within the 48 hours of the damage. The customer will have to pay only 10% amount of the replaced spare part along with taxes and nominal service charge. Unveiling the offers, Sumit Walia, CMO, OPPO India said “Kerala has been a prime market for OPPO and we are committed towards growing our presence in this region. We have built a strong network of retailers and distributors across the state. Currently, we are present through over 3000 sales points in Kerala out of which 300 are in Kochi alone. To create a unique experience this festival season, we are extremely excited to bring the Onam Magic Offer for our consumers in Kerala." OPPO has tied up with multiple partners for consumers who are looking to avail the products at great deals and interesting offers as under: Offer By Offer Available on Jio Benefits worth Rs. 7,050 A5s, A9, F11 and F11 Pro Benefits worth Rs. 9,100 Reno 10x Zoom Bajaj Finserv and Zero Down Payment F11, F11 Pro and A9 IDFC First Bank Home Credit Zero Down Payment Reno 10x Zoom, F11, F11 Pro and A9 HDB Financials Zero Down Payment Reno 10x Zoom, A5s, A9, F11 and F11 Pro and HDFC Bank OPPO also aims to provide holistic services supported by OPPO Experience Consultants and highly-rated after sales service. Currently, OPPO has 22 exclusive service centres in Kerala which undertake repairs in under an hour with a 90% success rate as per Google reviews. OPPO is a leading global smartphone brand, dedicated to providing products infused with art and innovative technology. Based on the brand elements of young, trend-setting and beauty, OPPO brings consumers superior experience of digital life through internet-optimized products that offer best in class services. The brand started the era of Selfie beautification and has set itself apart by introducing the motorized rotating camera, the Ultra HD feature, 5x Dual Camera Zoom technology. OPPO's Selfie Expert F series launched in 2016 drove a Selfie trend in the smartphone industry. In 2017, OPPO was ranked as the number 4 smartphone brand globally, according to IDC. With more than 200 million consumers, OPPO’s business has covered 40 countries and regions with 400,000 stores and has 4 R&D centers worldwide, providing excellent smartphone photography experience young people around the world. In 2018, with the launch of Find X, OPPO introduced panoramic arc design with a screen ratio of 93.8%, the largest screen-to-body ratio in the mobile phone market today. In addition to this, OPPO recently introduced SuperVOOC flash charging technology with the launch of R17 PRO and strengthened its commitment to India by setting up an R&D center in Hyderabad with a focus on enhancing the smartphone ecosystem in India. OPPO New Visual Identity Stories of OPPO R Series OPPOxSunburn 2019 Straight Up Punjab OPPO 5G Technology Investors Information	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371734
__label__cc	0.746785	0.253215	Sheaffer Admiral Touchdown (Canada) - Evergreen Green, 14k Medium Open Nib (Excellent, Restored) Sheaffer Admiral fountain pen from 1950-2 with a Touchdown filling system. Evergreen green body and cap with gold-plated trim. Medium 14k #33 open nib. It's in excellent condition and working very well. Type Vintage Touchdown fountain pen Product Name Sheaffer Admiral Manufacturer and Year Sheaffer, Canada -- 1950-2 Length 5-1/8" Filling System Touchdown filler. We've replaced the sac and the O-ring. It's fully restored and working very well. Color Solid "evergreen" green cap and barrel with a 1/8" cap band and a viewing window. The trim is gold plated. Nib MEDIUM 14k #33 nib is smooth with nice tipping material, and semi flexible. See writing sample below. Condition Excellent condition with a nice, smooth nib. The pen has handwear and very good trim. The imprint is clear. The pen is fully restored and working well. You're reviewing: Sheaffer Admiral Touchdown (Canada) - Evergreen Green, 14k Medium Open Nib (Excellent, Restored) Returns Policy: No questions asked, money back guarantee. If you have a problem with an item, we will replace/repair it, or refund your money, the choice is up to you. If you decide you don't like the nib after you've inked a new pen, we'll refund 75%. (There will be no such charge for a pen that is pre-owned, provided you return it in the condition received.) Of course, if it's a defect, we'll refund 100%. Payment Policy: Paying via Credit Card or PayPal are the only methods allowed for addresses outside the United States. Customers from the United States also have the option of sending a check, money order or cashier's check. Payment method is selected during checkout. Domestic US Shipping Policy: For the most part, shipping to US addresses is free and is made via first class mail. International Shipping Policy: International shipping is based on weight, and we give you a choice (depending on country) of first class, first class registered, priority mail or express delivery (only Express Mail provides true tracking). Internatonal shipments valued at over $40 come with free insurance, unless that service is not available for your specific country. Most of our customers opt for the very reasonably priced first class mail method, which can take anywhere from one to four weeks. We are happy to discuss alternatives to the options currently offered during the checkout process, so please contact us if you'd like a quote. Most countries charge customs fees on shipments from the United States, but this is not something we can estimate and there is no way to pay these fees in advance. It is the responsibility of the customer to anticipate these costs and pay them when they are assessed by your country or postal system. We have heard that shipments valued at 50 EU or more get assessed fees in EU countries, for example. UK customers please note: Packages valued at over $18 are subjected to both an administrative charge and a tax by UK customs and Royal Mail. Sorry, this is not something we can predict or pay in advance. Promo Codes and Coupons: You need to be registered and logged in in order to use one of our promo codes. They can each only be used once per customer. If you have problems getting a promo code to be accepted, sometimes it helps to log out and log back in again.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371739
__label__wiki	0.524625	0.524625	HomeNews and EventsNews2014-07-23 Fermilab theorist Andreas Kronfeld appointed as TUM-IAS Senior Fellow 2014-07-23 – News from Physics Department Fermilab theorist Dr. Andreas Kronfeld has been appointed as Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at TUM’s Institute for Advanced Study and jointly at the Physik-Department. Dr. Andreas Kronfeld / Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab, USA) has been honored with a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship for a joint research program with Prof. Nora Brambilla on “Interplay of Effective Quantum Field Theory and Numerical Lattice Gauge Theory”. As an IAS Senior Fellow, he will spend nine months of the next three years at Brambilla’s group at Physik-Department of TUM. A position for a Ph.D. student will be offered as well. The research targets innovative ideas in particle and nuclear physics – and envisages spin offs to condensed matter and computational physics. About Andreas Kronfeld Andreas Kronfeld is a senior scientist in Fermilab’s Theoretical Physics Department. He obtained a PhD in 1985 from Cornell University. After a postdoc stay from 1985 to 1988 at DESY in Hamburg he returned to the US and has stayed at Fermilab since then – apart from visiting professorships in Denmark and Japan. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), on the basis of his work connecting lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations to experimental physics. Andreas – who is a fluent speaker of German – is looking forward to spending more time in Munich, both for the science and to visit family members who live close by. Hans Fischer Senior Fellowships Hans Fischer Senior Fellows are outstanding international scientists, who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas together with a TUM research group. The fellowship program is funded by the Excellence Initiative, sponsored by the German federal and state governments. Nora Brambilla and Andreas Kronfeld have already been working together for several years. Recently, they steered an international working group of scientists and edited the resulting publication that highlights the status and challenges of strong-interaction physics. The report addresses current questions like: What are the latest achievements and highlights related to the strong interaction? What important problems remain unsolved? What are the most promising avenues for further investigation? What do experiments need from theory? What does theory need from experiments? This research discusses how strong interaction is closely connected to a broad range of physical problems, in settings ranging from astrophysics and cosmology to strongly-coupled, complex systems in particle and condensed-matter physics, as well as to the investigations for physics beyond the Standard Model. QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives N. Brambilla, S. Eidelman, P. Foka, S. Gardner, A.S. Kronfeld, et al. e-Print: arXiv hep-ph/1404.3723, 248 pp. European Physics Journal C (accepted) Another long-lasting collaboration of Nora Brambilla and Andreas Kronfeld takes place inside the international quarkonium working group (QWG), composed of the leading theorists and experimentalists working on the physics of bound states made by a heavy quark and a heavy antiquark. Such systems are very important as probes of strong interactions, and quarkonium spectroscopy, decays, properties in medium, quarkonium as a source of precise determination of Standard model parameters and as a tool for Beyond the standard model is studied. Andreas is convener of the topical group “Standard Model Parameters” and Nora is convener of the topical group “Spectroscopy” and general QWG convener. In 2005 they collaborated with the other conveners of the group to prepare the large report “Heavy Quarkonium Physics” covering state of the art and perspectives in quarkonium physics: Heavy quarkonium physics Quarkonium Working Group Collaboration (N. Brambilla et al.). FERMILAB-FN-0779, CERN-2005-005, Dec 2004. 521 pp. e-Print: arXiv hep-ph/0412158 This paper is presently quoted 665 times according to the inSPIRE database. Prof. Nora Brambilla Theoretical particle and nuclear physics Physik-Department E-Mail: nora.brambilla@mytum.de Dr. Andreas Samuel Kronfeld Theoretical Physics Department Fermilab Batavia, IL 60510-0500 USA E-Mail: ask@fnal.gov (German:) Neue Publikation zum Stand der Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Starken Wechselwirkung (27.05.2014: News vom Excellenz-Cluster Universe) Announcement on “Fermilab Today“ Research group of Nora Brambilla	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371741
__label__wiki	0.849901	0.849901	Phnom Penh Post - Over 100 tonnes of illegal items destroyed in K Speu Over 100 tonnes of illegal items destroyed in K Speu Soth Koemsoeun \| Publication date 15 June 2018 \| 08:57 ICT Police stand by boxes of seized products before they are destroyed in Kampong Speu province. national police Soth Koemsoeun More than 100 tonnes of fake, expired and illegal products with banned chemical substances were destroyed on Thursday in Kampong Speu province on the orders of Interior Minister Sar Kheng. Kheng said the counterfeit products, which included food and beverages, were imported, mostly from the neighbouring countries. “The Ministry of Interior, and relevant ministries and committees, have worked closely to prevent, halt and crack down on counterfeit goods entering Cambodia,” he said. Kheng was quoted on the National Police’s website as saying: “If we did not take action on time, the products would have been sold to the public. “This not only wastes the national budget but also seriously affects people’s heath as the products are mixed with banned chemical substances,” he said. Kheng urged authorities at all levels to continue their cooperation with national officials to prevent such products from entering the Kingdom. Kampong Speu Provincial Governor Vey Somnang read a report on a raid in November on a small business in Oudong district’s Domnak Raing commune, where the products were discovered and confiscated. The owner of the small business was allegedly Ving Huy, 38. He is said to have escaped after the crackdown. Sixteen types of food and beverages were confiscated as evidence, Somnang said. Authorities had also sent the case to the Kampong Speu Provincial Court, which ordered the Interior Ministry’s Counter-Counterfeit Committee to destroy the products by burning and burying them, he said. “The foods can cause cancer and even death,” Somnang said. Meach Sophana, the Interior Ministry’s undersecretary of state in charge of the Committee, said this is the third time authorities have destroyed food containing illicit substances. Contact author: Soth Koemsoeun Over 60 tonnes of counterfeit, poor-quality goods being tested Counterfeit and pirated goods represent 3.3% of global trade Sar Kheng orders crackdown on counterfeit goods traffickers More than 60 tons of counterfeit products destroyed in Phnom Penh Warning over sex supplement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371742
__label__wiki	0.773278	0.773278	Paper $38.00 ISBN: 9780226565224 Published May 2018 E-book Retailers: Amazon Kindle Apple iBooks B&N Nook Chegg Google Play Kno Kobo Library Vendors: ebrary EBSCO UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online) Cultural Misunderstandings Raymonde Carroll Visualizing American Empire David Brody Colored Property David M. P. Freund The Enigma of Diversity Ellen Berrey After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 Libby Garland 312 pages \| 6 x 9 \| © 2014 In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed to stem the tide of foreigners considered especially inferior and dangerous. However, immigrants continued to come, sailing into the port of New York with fake passports, or from Cuba to Florida, hidden in the holds of boats loaded with contraband liquor. Jews, one of the main targets of the quota laws, figured prominently in the new international underworld of illegal immigration. However, they ultimately managed to escape permanent association with the identity of the “illegal alien” in a way that other groups, such as Mexicans, thus far, have not. In After They Closed the Gates, Libby Garland tells the untold stories of the Jewish migrants and smugglers involved in that underworld, showing how such stories contributed to growing national anxieties about illegal immigration. Garland also helps us understand how Jews were linked to, and then unlinked from, the specter of illegal immigration. By tracing this complex history, Garland offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness. 1. Building the Apparatus of Immigration Control 2. American Law, Jewish Solidarity 3. Smuggling in Jews 4. Illicit Journeys 5. Battling Alien Registration 6. Abolishing the Quotas "Garland has performed a remarkable service in this book, which should be read by historians well beyond the small number who study the history of the Jews in the US. . . . After They Closed the Gates offers much." Journal of American History “Garland offers vivid and intriguing portraits. . . . Thoroughly researched and cogently argued, this compelling book revises the conventional narratives of American and Jewish American immigration history.” “Garland examines here for the first time Jewish illegal immigration to the US following the supposed closing of America's gates in 1924. Tens of thousands of Jews entered the US illegally, she argues, and her most significant chapters uncover the hidden processes through which Jews were smuggled. . . . Recommended.” American Historical Review “After They Closed the Gates is most interesting and most persuasive. . .” American Jewish History “Few Americans today remember the times when Jews constituted part of the undocumented issue. This book therefore makes a major contribution in educating contemporary Americans of various ethnic backgrounds, whose ancestors often faced a label as unassimilable and undesirable, that those now on U.S. borders striving to enter any way possible can also become accepted as beneficial citizens in this country. Garland has opened new and important historical territory for others to explore further..” Eric L. Goldstein \| Emory University “The illegal arrival of Jewish immigrants in the United States after 1924 was a phenomenon that had been erased from both Jewish and American collective memory until Libby Garland’s astounding book brought it back to light. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, After They Closed the Gates offers an engaging view into a world of fake identities and clandestine border crossings, as well as into the complex legal process through which American Jews responded to the regime of immigration restriction. Garland not only challenges the traditional narrative of Jewish arrival in America, but also causes us to look at the entire history of illegal immigration in a new and critical way.” Thomas A. Guglielmo \| George Washington University “In charting the rise and fall of Jewish ‘illegal aliens’ in US history, Libby Garland also explores in absorbing detail the real-life effects of immigration law on the many migrants it targets. After They Closed the Gates is a marvelous, important, and timely book.” Marni Davis \| Georgia State University “Garland’s groundbreaking research upends much of what we think we know about immigration and the American-Jewish experience. After They Closed the Gates brings together a wealth of archival material from an extraordinary range of sources, creating a narrative that offers fresh and profound insight into both the history of both illegal immigration and Jewish responses to immigration restriction. A must-read for anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of American-Jewish history, and a timely contribution to contemporary debates over ‘border security.’” George Sánchez \| University of Southern California “Meticulously researched and provocatively argued, Garland reveals the previously unexplored arena of Jewish illegal immigration to the U.S. after the Quota Acts of the 1920s. She introduces us to the complicated world of Jewish migrant ‘lawbreakers’ traveling under false documents, in circuitous routes, or through surreptitious entry, Jewish and Gentile smugglers trying to make money out of misfortune, and Jewish lawyers and aid organizations walking a fine line between supporting coethnics in need and drawing anti-immigrant ire that questioned their essential Americanness. A masterful, path-breaking work of fine scholarship.” Tony Michels \| University of Wisconsin "Between the two world wars, tens of thousands of Jews entered the United States illegally. After They Closed the Gates brings to light the history of illegal Jewish immigration, a phenomenon hidden from view for decades. With analytical rigor Libby Garland’s breakthrough study presents a fascinating counterhistory of the immigrant saga." American Jewish Archives Journal “Garland shows how illegal Jewish immigrants, experienced in ‘finding ways around restrictive and arbitrary-seeming laws,’ often confounded rigid racial and national categories. . . . This is a fine, densely researched book that is a must-read for anyone examining Jewish understandings of race and citizenship in the postwar United States.” AJS Review “In this well-documented and clearly written book, Garland tells the largely ignored story of Jewish illegal immigration to the United States during the era of immigration quotas from the 1920s to the 1960s. . . . A timely book, and the reader cannot help to draw comparisons between policies, politics, and experiences of the past and those of the present.” Journal of American Studies “Breaking new ground, Garland argues that a historical view of immigration curtailment in the 1920s as a watershed moment has diverted attention from its continuation by other means. . . . [She] usefully expand[s] the discussion of the chronically freighted issue of race in the United States. . . [and] enhances understanding of how American Jews of diverse backgrounds and locales responded to pivotal events in twentieth-century American and European history.” American Historical Association: AHA - Dorothy Rosenberg Prize Jewish Book Council: National Jewish Book Award AJHS: Saul Viener Prize View Recent Awards page for more award winning books. History: American History \| General History Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society Political Science: Race and Politics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371745
__label__wiki	0.752851	0.752851	Paper $31.00 ISBN: 9780226629384 Published June 2012 Cloth $87.00 ISBN: 9780226629377 Published June 2012 E-book $10.00 to $31.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226629391 Published May 2012 Also Available From E-book Retailers: Amazon Kindle Apple iBooks B&N Nook Chegg Google Play Kobo Library Vendors: ebrary EBSCO UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online) Crafting Equality Celeste Michelle Condit Under a Bad Sign Jonathan Munby From Power to Prejudice Leah N. Gordon The Sit-Ins Christopher W. Schmidt The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America Michael O'Malley 272 pages \| 20 halftones \| 6 x 9 \| © 2012 E-book $10.00 to $31.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226629391 Published May 2012 From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God—all the while wondering: is money a symbol of the value of human work and creativity, or a symbol of some natural, intrinsic value? In Face Value, Michael O’Malley provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference. In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a stunning array of historical sources to evaluate the comingling of ideas about monetary value and social distinctions. More than just a history, Face Value offers us a new way of thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism, and economic uncertainty. Chapter 1: This New Black Flesh Coin Chapter 2: Banking on Slavery Chapter 3: Rags, Blacking, and Paper Soldiers Chapter 4: Gold Money and the Constitution of Man Chapter 5: A Bank in Human Form Epilogue: Words and Bonds Adam Rothman, Georgetown University "Michael O’Malley’s witty, insightful Face Value traces the American quest for a stable source of value in a society that prized freedom.Through deft analysis of a wide range of sources, O’Malley shows that arguments over money and arguments over race have had much in common, and indeed, have often intersected in the United States in surprising and disturbing ways—even now. Most important is O’Malley’s contention that the monetary chaos of the nineteenth century, which has bewildered so many students of American history, turned whiteness into a crucial sign of individual worth." Scott A. Sandage, author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America “This is a ‘big idea’ book that no one but Michael O’Malley could even have thought of—much less pulled off with such nuance and clarity. From the wampum that sustained the Pilgrims to the gold fever that accompanied the Obama presidency, this swift-moving, plain-talking book explains how ‘the money question’ and ‘the race question’ are really two sides of the same coin. Grounded in smartly told stories about fascinating historical characters, and written in a conversational style that is wry but never cynical, Face Value is worth its weight in ideas.” Benjamin Reiss, Emory University “O’Malley’s new book is a magnificent piece of scholarship on a topic that is at once timely and surprising. O’Malley shows our twin national obsessions—money and race—dancing together across economic policy reports, the pages of literary fiction, the stage, the screen, and the airwaves. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.” Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia “Face Value is a provocative, imaginative, and gracefully written work of cultural history, one that unearths hitherto unimagined connections between markets, money, and race. In the process, Michael O’Malley manages to show how currency, which historians and economists too often treat as timeless and neutral, has for centuries been entangled with the institution and legacy of American slavery.” Journal of Social History “Face Value extends a powerful tradition of resisting the reduction of economic life to material interest. Stripped of the initial article’s telling invocation of Foucault’s The Order of Things, O’Malley’s long-awaited monograph aspires to do more than explore resemblances between historical discourses.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371746
__label__wiki	0.866406	0.866406	Business / Scotland business Snacks win Scotmid larger slice of the pie by Keith Findlay © Supplied The Scotmid store at Drumnadrochit Scotland’s largest independent co-operative has defied a gloomy retail climate to deliver higher profits and turnover. Scotmid said yesterday trading profits grew by 8% to £2.5 million during the 26 weeks to July 27. Turnover increased by £3m to £190m as the business benefited from growth in food-to-go sales to customers looking for a quick bite to eat. Recent innovations at Scotmid’s convenience stores include a “rib & wing bar”, while new product trials have seen the introduction of self-serve ice-cream, pancakes, flat breads and paninis. First-half figures were also boosted by the co-operative’s property division, which achieved record levels of income. Scotmid is a commercial and residential landlord, with both markets benefiting from new lettings and rental income growth. The Edinburgh-based group, which is celebrating its 160th year, said its 89-strong chain of Semichem health and beauty shops “held its position”, helped by successful cost control. Scotmid’s funerals business registered a weaker first half, compared with a “very strong” result a year ago, with performance affected by “the cyclical pattern of this business”. Boosted by a property sale, pre-tax profits for the latest period came in at £1.87m – up from £937,000 a year ago. Scotmid chief executive John Brodie said the 2019 figures were all the more satisfying as they were achieved without the benefit of last year’s record-breaking sunshine. He added: “It was a strong performance across the society in the first half, particularly given that last year’s figures got such a boost from the good weather. “A lot of hard work and new initiatives have gone into delivering this result.” Mr Brodie said Scotmid’s 177 convenience stores throughout Scotland continued to face “exceptionally tough” trading conditions, with Brexit creating uncertainty for everyone. Scotmid’s commitment to local produce will likely stand the business in good stead, he said, adding: “The biggest challenge we face is not knowing what it is that we should be preparing for. “We are still looking for clarity on what a (Brexit) deal will mean, and equally for what ‘no deal’ will mean. We can only focus on matters within our control.” Scotmid Disgust as 20 drivers a day caught speeding at north-east accident blackspot Aberdeen Science Centre unveils range of events over the coming months Manager of Aberdeen food bank heartbroken at ‘desperate’ theft of essentials	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371747
__label__wiki	0.991892	0.991892	Tight battle in ‘gold coast’ North Down constituency Alex Easton, left, and Stephen Farry are expected to be the front runners in the race to replace outgoing North Down MP Lady Sylvia Hermon (PA) Unionist opposition to an “economic united Ireland” and fears over a steady post-Brexit business decline are defining one of Northern Ireland’s most affluent areas this General Election. Stephen Farry, from the cross-community Alliance Party, is engaged in a tight race with the DUP’s Alex Easton to win the seat vacated by a pro-Remain unionist in North Down. It is branded the gold coast by some because of the grand houses which hug scenic Belfast Lough but also contains significant pockets of deprivation. Mr Easton said many residents were most concerned about safeguarding the Union with Great Britain following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proposed Brexit deal. DUP candidate for North Down Alex Easton, left, meeting constituents on the doorstep with his party leader Arlene Foster, right (Liam McBurney/PA) He said: “It is totally unacceptable to have an economic united Ireland and that is what that would cause. “That is just not acceptable to the people of Northern Ireland.” Irish nationalists want to ensure checks on goods entering the EU single market do not entail physical infrastructure on the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Mr Johnson’s proposed Brexit deal would involve extra administration on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland to avoid a hard frontier on the island of Ireland. Mr Easton said widespread parts of North Down harboured concerns about the Brexit deal. He said: “It is going to affect trade, it is going to cause a border down the Irish Sea and it is quite a serious thing that they have negotiated.” North Down contains a series of dormitory towns and villages for Belfast workers. Lady Sylvia Hermon has stepped down this election, leaving a race between parties to replace her in North Down (PA) It has a reputation for electing independent MPs, most recently Lady Sylvia Hermon, the widow of a former Royal Ulster Constabulary chief constable and a former Ulster Unionist who left the party over its ties with the Conservatives. Over recent elections, the DUP cut Lady Sylvia’s lead considerably and will be hoping for success this time round. Mr Easton sat on Stormont’s health committee when devolution was operating. The NHS in Northern Ireland has experienced significant pressures over recent years, with no powersharing ministers to take decisions on rationalisation of services. Mr Farry is the Alliance Party’s deputy leader and advocates a People’s Vote in a bid to overturn the referendum result. He said: “It is important that we create a deal that protects the Northern Ireland economy as we go forward. Alliance candidate for North Down Stephen Farry signing a pledge to stop Brexit with Doire Finn from Our Future Our Choice (Liam McBurney/PA) “People’s livelihoods are at stake, people’s opportunities. “We want people to stay in Northern Ireland and to build their futures here. “Already Northern Ireland has a sad track record of exporting too much of its talent. “A lot of work has been done to try to build the economy here over the past number of years and to keep people working in our society and building their futures here. “I would fear that with Brexit that would go into reverse and we would end up losing a lot more people and with that we go into steady decline, which is very sad.” The other candidates running in North Down are Alan Chambers of the Ulster Unionist Party and Matthew Robinson of the Conservative Party. Stormont rejects PM’s Brexit Stormont Assembly members ‘to reject Brexit deal’ Nurses suspend strike action over pay dispute Battle lines drawn as Ireland’s General Election date unveiled Scottish ministers rule Shetland Council failed to give Sella Ness applicant ‘complete, precise and relevant reasons for refusal’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371748
__label__wiki	0.743709	0.743709	Top Stories 04/30/17 Interview \| The reclusive recordings of LASER BACKGROUND The psych pop project holed himself in a Georgia lake house to make his new album One of the secrets to making a good album is creating a setting that fosters creation. Just look at Justin Vernon's prolonged sessions in the forests of Wisconsin to make Bon Iver's debut. Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Andy Moholt was listening; his latest release under solo project Laser Background, Dark Nuclear Bogs, was recorded in an isolated Georgia lake house with Carlos Hernandez and Julian Fader of fuzzed-out indie rock band Ava Luna. With a name like that, it would be easy to expect heavy synthesizer; more often than not, the psych pop project edges toward dreamy guitar and indie pop flourishes married with psych rock vocal distortions. Think Tame Impala by way of field trip. Moholt is currently on tour, having just finished a New York City show at Ridgewood venue Trans Pecos. We caught up with Moholt via email to talk about isolating himself to make a record, touring, and the frameworks of life and death that structured Dark Nuclear Bogs. You mentioned in a press release that the album concerns the journey of life, framed by an opening track representing life and a final track representing death. How do you think the album's sound was affected with this framework? I like to structure albums with a loose concept and not focus too hard on it while writing. I do think that we intentionally ended up sequencing the album front-loaded with some more exciting tracks and then putting some darker, more downer tracks towards the end to try to achieve a linear downward slope. I like the idea also of like "everything is fucked and crashing, but also that's totally okay." Pretty much, as soon as we are born, we start dying. I believe very strongly that death is overly-stigmatized in Western culture, especially considering that besides being born it's the only thing that's definitely going to happen to all of us. Unless we live long enough to witness the singularity or upload our consciousness to the cloud, but that's another conversation that you can (and will) have with me if we hang out at 3 AM. The album was recorded mostly in a lake house that you rented. How do you see this hyper-focused retreat into music reflected in the sound? We spent two weeks in March 2016 at my friend Brandon Jones family's lake house in rural Georgia. The primary structure of the record was recorded there, but I did a lot of overdubs later. The lake house session was done on a Tascam 388, and most of the overdubs were done on a 488 mkii. Anyway; making a "destination" record was amazing! I never want to record any other way ever again. I think waking up every day & going to "work" on the task at hand helped us get really lost in the process. Not having much of our regular lives to contend with really allowed us to fully focus on the material, and the mental state that we were in at different times definitely affected the outcome of the songs. For instance, on "Slubberdegullion" we intentionally recorded the song super late at night while we were all very drunk. I wanted the song to be be both sludgy and manic, so we waited until we were in that state to track it. Describe a normal day in the house. Carlos, Julian & I would usually wake up around 10 or 11 AM every day. Julian would often go for a run. We would all binge on a copious amount of coffee each morning, and I'd usually make some kind of eggy breakfast. Then we'd get to work: either listening through whatever we completed the night before, or jumping right into whatever the next song was on our list. At night, we had a favorite shitty faux-Mexican place that we found nearby that we'd get margaritas at. Occasionally we'd have friends pop by, sometimes for a few days, which was nice. I recall that session as a very idyllic two weeks with a few close friends that I really care about. You've just kicked off your tour; how is it going so far? Why start in New York? Tour is great so far. As I write this, we are at a campground chilling and eating snacks, listening to tapes and getting a lil' work done. I got a tiny camper-trailer recently, and it has totally changed my tour life. We started at Bard College because a) I really like playing there, and b) putting a couple college shows at the beginning of a tour can help fund the whole tour sometimes. Really excited because in the next few days we are playing with some amazing bands! What was your favorite track to write for Dark Nuclear Bogs? Favorite track to write specifically was probably "Mostly Water," because that one was written at 6 AM after staying up all night as I was finally falling asleep. If you can't tell, I stay up all night most nights. I was actually really mad, because I was holding the guitar in my hands as I was drifting off and when I realized the riff I wrote was good, then I had to get up and make a demo, meaning I didn't actually fall asleep until 9 AM or so. As a result, the song itself ended up being lyrically informed by staying up all night. What was it like recording with members of Ava Luna? I absolutely LOVE working with Carlos & Julian. They aren't afraid to challenge my ideas, but also understand my sensibility and our opinions usually align quite well. This is the second LP I've made with them, the first being Correct. Will almost certainly be working with them again in the future. The album is soon to be released into the world. Are you excited to finally get this out there? Sure, I'm looking forward to it. I sat on the last record for over a year (it was mastered in November 2014 and I didn't release it until May 2016), so I decided to do the reverse with this one and release it almost instantly. As this project continues to grow, where do you hope to take it? I just want to keep making music that excites me. Follow Lazer Background on Facebook and Twitter. Stream Dark Nuclear Bogs below.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371751
__label__cc	0.736876	0.263124	Special Big Poll: Side game? I was thinking about doing a side hentai game project while making broken hymn since I sometimes like to work on 2 games at once. Broken Hymn will still be my main project, I would just have a 2nd game "on the side". This maybe a tough choice, alot of these are things I've worked on the past but never shown before, and some are probably too big to be called a "side project" I guess, so I may or may not start making the winning game, but I want to see what you guys are interested in. There are 7 games to choose from, I'll keep the poll opened for 4 weeks from now for you guys to vote. Please see below and vote in the poll to the upper left or comment below. 1) Maids - Perfect Sequel? A sequel to the game Maids Perfect. May possibly be called Girls - Perfect. It will include the children of Mimi and Elly, and be less focused on maids. So far I've only done a few CGs for it. I wasn't originally planning to do a sequel but a number of people seem to really like Maids Perfect. 2) Himeji (Yandere RPG) I've posted a demo of this game quite awhile ago(but said I wasn't going to complete it), the current demo is about twice as long as the one i posted. It's about a Yandere girl who slowly falls more and more in love with the main character. She will do ANYTHING to have the main character's love, even things like kill other girls who talk to the main character. I particularly like this game. 3) Emerald DatingSim A dating simulator rpg I did last year where you try to create your ideal girl. In this game, the main character frees a girl who was accused of being a witch. However he gets "caught into her web" in the process. She gives the main character a "blank" girl and says that she can become the girl of your dreams, but first you will have to date others girls and make them fall in love with you to collect their traits. The more a girl falls for you, the more personality traits you'll be able to collect and then you can "imprint" the ones you want into the "blank" girl. The idea of the game is to create your ideal girl by collecting the traits of other girls. (Click here for more details.) 4) Darkness Idol (RTS game) (click on 3rd image for some gameplay details) One of the more recent games I've done, it's a Real-Time Strategy game where you play as succubi and other monster girls(sinners) trying to take over the human world. Originally I was thinking of the games called Team Buddies and Pikmin when I started this game. In the game the you choose an Idol to worship from hell or heaven and take offerings to that Idol's statue. The monster girls go into human settlements to fight, rape humans, turn them into monster girls and take them back as offerings or property. Currently the game has about enough on it for a tech demo. 5) Luca-Sureibu This is one of the first ideas I've had for a hentai game and I created a long while ago. The game is about a schoolgirl name Luca who can literally be called the "slut of the school", who one day meets a pregnant naked girl named Sureibu. Sureibu was brainwashed to be slave and will do whatever Luca says, Luca falls in love with her. Also Sureibu is always pregnant, not with a human child, she is instead a birthing nursery for tentacle-like monsters. The game was made with game maker and is a mixed genre kind of game with different gameplay styles. This game would be completely rebuild and enhanced in game maker studio. Originally this game contained things such as rpg, platforming, puzzle, interactive sex and visual novel. The platforming mini demo I've posted before is actually part of this game. All the styles make this game quite fun and I really like this game. 6) Sakurahime (Rebuild) One of my favorite hentai games I've created, Sakurahime will be completely rebuild at a higher quality using the new game maker studio, which should gravely improve the game's performance, and make it easier to organize resources and the game will be rebuild from the ground up so it won't have the bugs of the current version. If you're wondering what Sakurahime is about, it's about a schoolgirl named O-dobi who gets stuck in a world full of perverted girls who keep the few remaining males there as pets. This game was planned to have both rpg and platforming elements in the original version, and it currently contains live sex animations throughout the game. 7) Desires of Persephone This is an corruption rpg I've done quite alot on(it currently has a number of sex scenes), right before I started making Broken Hymn. This game is was inspired by another game called Village of Nightmare and is very similar yet different and has a real-time battle system. This game is about an evil sorceress named Chandra, she succeeds in summoning a powerful succubi named Persephone to the human world. Chandra is in love with Persephone and wants to corrupt the world by corrupting humans and turning them into Persephone worshipers and succubi. I have more than enough content to release a demo of this game, I guess you can say this game was cancelled before it even began. I like this game but unlike the others here, it must win a poll vote for me to continue making it. That's all 7, please vote for one on the upper-left poll or comment below. Alot of these I've meant to show eventually but never got around to it. Um, that's all for now, happy voting! Posted by pizzacat at 4:52 AM Well you already know my vote from fens forum Desires of Persephone <3 MisterH March 20, 2015 at 4:21 PM Sakurahime!!!!! DO IT! bladestorm91 March 22, 2015 at 7:29 PM Desires of Persephone has my vote, here's to explain on why: >Maids - Perfect Sequel To be honest I didn't really like how the story of Maids - Perfect ended up as. When I played it I was expecting it for me to end up having sex with all the maids and have a harem and not with just two of them. So a sequel to it doesn't really do it for me. >Himeji (Yandere RPG) I like comedic yandere, not the ones who really kill the opposition so this is a pass for me. >Emerald DatingSim Interesting, but it sounds like you steal the traits that the girls you date have and then dump them. It looks like it would leave a bad aftertaste. >Darkness Idol (RTS game) The mechanics sound interesting, but it sounds like too big of a game to make a side-game out of. Also don't see how you can make an interesting story out of this. If the story was from the perspective of a guy caught in the middle of all this it would sound more interesting. >Luca-Sureibu Sounds good mechanically. >Sakurahime It was alright. >Desires of Persephone Now this sounds interesting, I did play Village of Nightmare and I remember the exciting process of corrupting someone in it. I enjoyed seeing how the values of a person changed as you were corrupting them and how their body became sexier and plumper. It's the reason it got my vote. FunkMasterD March 23, 2015 at 2:30 AM Can't we put a gun to your head and tell you to make all of them? Please? Oh well. My vote was on Emerald DatingSim, but I'd also like to see Luca-Sureibu, Himeji, and a completely redone Sakurahime. Hmm... maybe put it all into one? You save the yandere witch, Luca, who will kill any and all you come across, but she has an affinity for her pet, Sureibu, whom you like and wish to release from her tentacle-birthing curse. The problem is, she needs the 'life' of other girls, not their life, but their traits and memories of 'doing the dirty' with you. To do this, you have to DateSim them and sleep with them, but you have to choose carefully and move quickly to bed them, as Luca will kill a girl for every girl you choose, and if you take too long/make the wrong choices, she'll kill the girl before you can bed her... And just to make it interesting, and easier, all the hot babes in town will want a piece of you, like in Sakurahime. This idea has my vote XD pizzacat March 24, 2015 at 4:10 AM oh gosh, lol. I think making 7 or rather 8 games at once would be too much even for me, and very creative idea, though sounds much too complex for a side game. ^^' good luck on the vote! Magic March 24, 2015 at 5:11 PM Well normally i like multiple choice, but in this case its so hard :p first things first: my point goes to Darkness idol even though i´m afraid it wont be the winner in the end. I would love to see a sequel to maids perfect without any doubt. It was a bit simple in my eyes but this wont change the fact that i liked this game very much. This Himeji game sounds very nice and remainds me to an anime --> Mirai Nikki This game would also have my interest cause, i would want to see what this game could turn out. Expectations high from my side :3 Emerald gets the point that i like dating sims and the great idea to "create" the girl of my dreams XD so definitely interested in this too. Darkness idol, maybe i am a bit to hyped for this, i dont know but... i am a big fan of that real time strategic game genre. and i love what i can read so far in your post for this game. even if this game wont win the poll i hope to see this game developed in the future. That luca sureibu is not complettly my thing cause i dont like Tentacles that much. Surely i would give it a try but i would not expect that to be one of my favorites. Sakura hime was long time a reason to visit this blog cause i liked the idea of a female protagonist in a world like this and i still want to see this game in full, so interest in here too. And the last game DoP, well... hard to tell...at the moment i am not convinced from this game. To be honest, i did not play village of nigthmare and therefore i guess it will be like...a chest, maybe full with a treasure or maybe just some coins but either way it will be a smile on face i am sure. long story short, i like the thoughts you put in your games and i hope to see some of these games fully developed in future. pizzacat March 24, 2015 at 11:53 PM Well Darkness Idol suspiciously jumped for last place to first place today, so it's in first place now. Thank you so much, I'm glad you like my ideas. ^^ They are good ideas but sadly that darknes idol won oh well its with succubi cant be that bad after looking at the description& story, i vote for desires of persephone. It looks interesting wow, persephone started to gain vote again! Guys !! you can"t let Sakurahime at the actual state, this wonderful game need to be finish !! Lol! I agree with the Anonymous who commented before me. This wonderful game REALLY needs to be finished. The concept is great, and the player character really needs to realise pervert things are good. I'd vote, but i'm guessing the poll is already closed so... Jarick October 6, 2016 at 4:18 PM My question is which one won the poll? pizzacat November 7, 2016 at 11:06 AM pretty much it was desires of persephone that won this poll. Latest Update: November 12th Immoral Sorceress - Demo 3.1a Conception Maiden Demo 1b Desires of Persephone - First Chapter AmaiSei - Ovulating Orifice v1.0 Broken Hymn v0.2.0 Girls x Lust v1.0 Maids - Perfect v1.0a Sakurahime v0.12 Iwara Toffi's Home Quest Failed Monster Girl Island Kyrieru's Dev Journal Quick update: coming next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371754
__label__cc	0.727956	0.272044	Snapchat app news Snapchat might soon let you add Bitstrips to photos and videos Elyse Betters · 25 March 2016 Re/Code and Bitstrips What is the Pocket-lint daily and how do you get it for free? Snapchat is looking for new ways to spruce up its app. According to Fortune, Snapchat just bought the company behind the Bitmoji app for around $100 million. The app basically lets you create an avatar or comic of yourself, and then you can share that with your friends and family over social media or text. It has customisation features that let you choose different hair styles, clothing, face shapes, and more. The company, called Bitstrips, is four years old and rose to popularity on Facebook, where users commonly shared the cartoon versions of themselves in various situations. You can even insert yourself into comic strip situation and include avatars of any friends also using the service. The mobile app was developed after 2014, when it raised $8 million in funding. It’s not clear why Snapchat purchased Bitstrips, but last year Bitstrips added a feature that allowed users to overlay avatars onto images. We can imagine Snapchat allowing its own users to overlay Bitstrips onto snaps. Currently, Snapchat has filters and emojis and effects that you can put onto any photos and videos. You can even distort your face with different animations. It'll therefore be interesting to see what Snapchat has in mind with Bitstrips. Sections Apps Snapchat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371759
__label__cc	0.567642	0.432358	Starbucks Wants Customers To Order Faster With Mobile App Although using the Starbucks mobile app can get you a grande latte faster, many of the coffee chain’s customers don’t seem to... Starbucks Brews Up New ‘Reserve’ Store To compete with high-end coffee companies such as Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea and Blue Bottle Coffee Co, Starbucks plans to open its... Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Skeptical On Bitcoin, Hopeful For Blockchain Bitcoin has yet another naysayer. This time, it’s Starbucks’ executive chairman and former CEO, Howard Schultz, who doesn’t believe the cryptocurrency is... Howard Schultz Leads Starbucks’ Upscale Push On the heels of the announcement that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will step down in 2017 to take on the role of... Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz To Resign In 2017 Starbucks announced a new leadership structure on Thursday (Dec. 1) that it said will help to usher in a new wave a... Starbucks Plans For 150 South Africa Shops The response to the first Starbucks location in South Africa has compelled the company to scale up its expansion plans — by...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371760
__label__cc	0.634511	0.365489	Research course The University of Manchester · School of Social Sciences A First or Upper Second Class Bachelor's degree (or its international equivalent) in a cognate subject. A relative Master's degree, with a minimum average grade of 65% in both the taught course units and your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or international equivalent). The PhD in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester has a thriving and diverse research community. Combined with Sociology, we had the highest proportion of research rated `world-leading' of any UK university by the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education. The REF 2014 also rated our research environment as one of the top two in the UK. Our research themes include: Census and survey methodology; Statistical methods in the analysis of social data; Social network analysis; Latent variable modelling; Population studies; Ethnic and gender differences; Employment; and The labour market. For example, recent PhD titles include: 'The Role of Privacy and Confidentiality in the Collection and Dissemination of Census and Survey Data'; and 'Race and Population - a Statistical Demographic Approach'. You will be supervised by at least two members of staff who are experts in their areas of research. You also have an array of potential training options available, including places on postgraduate course units and short courses. Similar courses from The University of Manchester Wellcome Trust - Quantitative and Biophysical Biology Social Research Methods and Statistics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371764
__label__wiki	0.969296	0.969296	Home > Maine > Aroostook County Houlton High School 7 Bird Street Houlton, ME 04730 www.rsu29.org Houlton High School serves 353 students in grades 9-12. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Math is 15-19% (which is lower than the Maine state average of 39%) for the 2016-17 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading/Language Arts is 55-59% (which is higher than the Maine state average of 53%) for the 2016-17 school year. The student:teacher ratio of 13:1 is higher than the Maine state level of 12:1. Minority enrollment is 14% of the student body (majority American Indian), which is higher than the Maine state average of 10%. Houlton High School's student population of 353 students has stayed relatively flat over five school years. The teacher population of 27 teachers has grown by 8% over five school years. Grades Offered Grades 9-12 Houlton High School's student:teacher ratio of 13:1 has decreased from 14:1 over five school years. The diversity score of Houlton High School is 0.25, which is more than the diversity score at state average of 0.19. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years. Definition of Terms 2016-2017 School Year Data This School State Level (ME) Overall School Rank #189 out of 525 schools Graduation Rate 85-89% School District Name Rsu 29/msad 29 School District Source: 2016-2017 (latest school year available) NCES, ME Dept. of Education The nearest high school to Houlton High School is Hodgdon Middle/High School (5.4 miles away) The nearest middle school is Houlton Junior High School (0.0 miles away) The nearest elementary school is Houlton Junior High School (0.0 miles away) Houlton Houlton Junior High School Houlton Region Two School Of Applied Technical Vocational School (207)532-9541 0.0 n/a n/a Houlton Houlton Elementary School Houlton Houlton Southside School Houlton Mill Pond School 147 Hodgdon Mills Road See more public schools near to Houlton High School Review Houlton High School. Reviews should be a few sentences in length. Please include any comments on: HOULTON, ME 50 PLEASANT ST 10 RANDALL AVE realtor.com™View Homes Near Houlton High School Graduation Rate: 85-89% Diversity Score: 0.25% (Top 30% in ME) School by Type (ME): Blue Ribbon (24) Charter (9) Special Education (1) Vocational (27) School districts (213) Private schools in Maine Boarding schools in Maine Maine Dept. of Education website Maine school diversity data National school diversity data	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371766
__label__cc	0.66587	0.33413	FDA Issues New 'Counterfeit Drug Task Force' Report The agency will not mandate RFID's use within the pharmaceutical industry, but urges the industry to 'move quickly to implement this technology.' By Beth Bacheldor Tags: Labeling, Logistics, Packaging, Pharmaceutical, Retail Jun 09, 2006—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued today its much-anticipated report on RFID's use in the pharmaceutical industry, calling RFID "the most promising technology for implementing electronic track and trace in the drug supply chain." For several years, the agency has advocated the use of RFID tagging at the item, case and pallet levels to track and trace pharmaceuticals as a means of fighting counterfeit drugs. The report, "FDA Counterfeit Drug Task Force Report: 2006 Update," does not mandate RFID's use within the pharmaceutical industry. However, it does recommend that the industry "move quickly to implement this technology." The Task Force consists of senior staff from the agency's Office of the Commissioner (Office of Policy and Planning, Office of the Chief Counsel), the Office of Regulatory Affairs, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. For more than two years, the agency's Counterfeit Drug Task Force has been investigating RFID technology and the concept of an electronic pedigree (e-pedigree), a procedure that records where a drug is manufactured and how it is distributed. In early 2004, the FDA had hoped that by 2006, the pharmaceutical supply chain would be using RFID tags at the individual item level for all drugs likely to be counterfeited, and be able to tag all drugs at the pallet, case and unit levels the following year (see FDA Endorses RFID Technology). At a public workshop last February, acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach requested that the agency's Counterfeit Drug Task Force file a new report by May 2006. The purpose of that report, issued today, is to provide recommendations on how the agency should move forward to make the pharmaceutical supply chain more secure (see FDA to Update Its RFID Vision). In the report, the task force did not determine whether an RFID tag should be encoded with a drug's National Drug Code (NDC). The NDC is a product identifier, and some parties have expressed concern that if NDCs were encoded onto RFID tags, the practice could jeopardize the privacy of patients and potentially endanger the drug supply chain. Consequently, the FDA has stipulated that should any company opt to record the NDC on the RFID tag, it should also encrypt the NDC. That requirement is likely to sway companies away from encoding tags with the NDCs, according to Paul Chang, IBM's associate partner of business consulting services. Chang, who has spent some time advising the FDA on the opportunity and capabilities of RFID, explains that adding any encrypted data to an RFID tag will likely increase the cost of the tag and slow down processing speeds. GS1 Group Completes Early Phase of E-Pedigree Model Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management RFID News Roundup Is There Anything New in RFID? Everything You Need to Put RFID to Work RFID Journal LIVE! Delivers Value, Guaranteed From Farm to Fork RFID Journal LIVE! 2018 Report, Part 2 10 Presentations From RFID Journal LIVE! 2009 EPC Connection 2008 Report RFID Journal LIVE! Middle East 2009 Report RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2006 Report	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371770
__label__wiki	0.925481	0.925481	Security tapes add detail to Nevada-Utah State incident Two angles show eight minutes of security surveillance footage without audio from the hallway between the Nevada and Utah State locker rooms. Security tapes add detail to Nevada-Utah State incident Two angles show eight minutes of security surveillance footage without audio from the hallway between the Nevada and Utah State locker rooms. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/college/nevada/2019/03/05/security-tapes-add-detail-nevada-utah-state-incident/3069451002/ Brett McGinness, Reno Gazette Journal Published 1:22 p.m. PT March 5, 2019 \| Updated 7:42 a.m. PT March 7, 2019 More: Support local journalism starting at just 99 cents per month! Click for details Security surveillance video from the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah, posted on YouTube, offers additional insight into the incident in the hallway following Nevada's 81-76 loss to Utah State on Saturday. Two angles show eight minutes of security footage without audio from the hallway between the Nevada and Utah State locker rooms. At the 0:45 mark, the game's referees enter the frame and head into a room near the cameras just as Nevada head coach Eric Musselman passes through, followed by other members of the Nevada coaching staff. The first player to enter the frame is David Cunningham at 1:23. Trailing most of the players, coaches and staff is Jordan Caroline, who is first seen at 1:55. He covers his face with his jersey, leans against the wall and crouches down. Rex Walters, special assistant to the head coach, stays with Caroline; Todd Okeson, assistant director of basketball operations, joins the pair and the three walk toward Nevada's locker room. More: Utah State 81, Nevada 76: There's a new MW leader, and it's not the Pack More: Wolf Pack players, staff upset with postgame incidents at Utah State More: Mountain West: Penalties for postgame incidents up to Nevada, Utah State At 3:44, something behind Walters and Okeson catches their attention; they turn and appear to say something in response as they take a few slow steps back down the hall. The opposite angle shows a hallway that’s empty except for one man in a Utah State jacket, but it doesn’t appear that Walters and Okeson are reacting to or talking to him. A few seconds later, the unidentified man casually motions to someone to head down toward the Utah State locker room. Within seconds, other coaches reappear, including Musselman. Caroline charges past everyone. At 3:58, a Nevada coach appears to try to keep the rest of the players within the locker room without success. Trey Porter takes the lead and then tries to restrain his teammates, including Caleb and Cody Martin, but he also is unsuccessful. The last players down the hall are Corey Henson, who walks slowly behind the team, and Cunningham, who emerges from the locker room after the rest of the team. The video captured by Salt Lake City TV station KUTV, initially released on Saturday evening, roughly lines up with the 4:42 mark of the security footage. The KUTV footage shows Caroline breaking a fire extinguisher case. Post by KUTV2News. The initial incident breaks up around 4:55, and Nevada players return to their locker room. Cunningham, Jordan Brown and Nevada staff members Brandon Dunson and Ron Cooper wrap their arms around a still-upset Caroline. Utah State's mascot, Big Blue, briefly makes an appearance at 5:26 before ducking down a side hallway to avoid the situation. Just after the 6-minute mark, police and security officials enter the frame. At 6:08, Tre'Shawn Thurman slaps a picture of Old Main, a Utah State campus building. Caroline, the players and coaches then return to the locker room. Spectrum staffers then clean up the broken glass from the fire extinguisher case. Three other security camera clips show Utah State fans rushing the court following the upset victory. At the 0:29 mark, Corey Henson (standing near the New York Life logo on the court) appears to flinch; he apparently walked into a security rope intended to keep celebrating fans separate from the Nevada coaches and players as they walk off the court. More: As new father, Jordan Caroline embraces new roles on and off court More: How a mother's love propelled Caleb and Cody Martin from humble beginnings to stardom Brett McGinness is the engagement editor for the Reno Gazette Journal. He's also the writer of The Reno Memo — a free newsletter about news in the Biggest Little City. Subscribe to the newsletter right here. 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__label__cc	0.73473	0.26527	Stardew Valley • Stardew Valley's whopping great 1.4 update is here Natalie Clayton 26th November 2019 / 7:17PM Light the fire and gather round, young’uns. Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has stumbled in on this cold November’s eve, bearing gifts to improve the coming year’s harvest. Stardew Valley‘s long-anticipated 1.4 update is finally here, a massive free renovation touching every last plank, grain and villager in the valley. We’ve been teasing out details for ages, so let’s take a complete look at the update that brings “a whole new level of polish” to the cosy crop grower today. Now close that door, you’re letting the heat out. It’s been a long time coming though, hasn’t it? Over the last few months, the scope of 1.4 has expanded as we’ve been drip-fed new features arriving with the update. Among many, many others, today’s update adds fishponds, personal banking in multiplayer and a new four-player Four Corners map. There’s even an arousing new way to spice up married life with a new 14-heart relationship event, plus a nice new hotkey for snapping a pic of your entire farm in one go. Of course, today’s release announcement revealed even more. Shed interiors can now be doubled in size. Jumino Cart, a side-scrolling platformer I didn’t even know existed, has been completely reworked. 60 new items have been added to the game, alongside 24 new hairstyles, 181 new shirts, 35 new hats, 14 new pants (trousers, please), and 2 new boots. Barone wasn’t kidding when he unofficially called this the “everything” update. No part of the farm has been left untouched. There are some lovely new quality-of-life features – simple things like being able to tab through inventory rows, or hovering over items to see if they’re needed in community bundles. You can now track all the letters you’ve been sent via the collections tab. There are plenty of little changes like that, wherever Barone “felt that the game had some holes or weak points that could use a little boost”. It’s a doozy of an update, and I’d be here all day if I went through it all. You can peruse the full changelist over on the Stardew Valley 1.4 patch notes. That got you in a real farmin’ mood? 1.4 went live today, and Stardew Valley is currently 10% off on Steam and GOG for £9.89/€12.59/$13.49. Tagged with ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley. Jump to comments (7) More about Stardew Valley Stardew Valley Review Frequent news rascal and giant robot enthusiast. Please log in to reply. Wot I Think: Stardew Valley Better than Harvest Moon? Games like Minecraft - 16 best games like Minecraft from the past ten years A plethora of games to scratch that same Minecraft itch Get Stardew Valley plus six more games for less than a tenner in the Sweet Farm Humble Bundle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371779
__label__wiki	0.514039	0.514039	This Week in Royalties: Jan. 23 - 27 in Royalty News In this week's news roundup, professor Benom Plumb from the University of Colorado--Denver Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies weighs in on the impact of the new FCC leadership, more battles over radio royalties and streaming payouts among the biggest stories of the week affecting music royalties. FCC Chairman Nominee Is Bad News for Musicians (Chicago Tribune) Benom’s Take: Potentially a major game changer for the music industry. Abolishing net neutrality and utility-like restrictions on ISP’s will very likely create a new “pay to play” system that will restrict and stifle the creative industries. For the music industry and up and coming artists, this could be the new radio “payola” for the digital age - meaning wealthy and powerful corporations will have more control over the dissemination of creative content to the public. Independent and up-and-coming creative talent could be left out in the cold. Radio Royalty Battle Lines Being Drawn In New Congress (Billboard) Speaking of “payola” in radio, why would the radio industry want to start paying a royalty that has NEVER been a cost of doing business for them since the advent of radio? In fact, for decades radio has been accustomed to getting paid “under the table” by the record companies to play certain artists! Nevertheless, the U.S. needs to get in line with the rest of the developed world on this issue. We currently line up with North Korea, China, and Iran by not recognizing a terrestrial radio performance royalty for recording artists. That just doesn’t look good, no matter which way you present it. Report: Apple Music Streaming Rates Higher Than Spotify (Apple Insider) What’s not mentioned in this article is that the approximate half-penny per stream royalty rate is the TOTAL rate split between record labels/artists (for the sound recording) AND music publishers/songwriters (for the musical composition). In streaming, the sound recording generally earns exponentially more than the composition side due to over regulation by the government on music publishers, while the record companies generally enjoy a free-market rate. So while higher rates sound good in the headlines, it is certainly not paid out on an equal and level playing field. Industry Executives Talk Lowering Streaming Prices to Customers (Billboard) The streaming services already pay approximately 50% or more of their revenues to music rights owners and creators. Lowering the monthly subscription price to gain more subscriber numbers would disrupt the market and undoubtedly hurt their bottom line, as well as the music industry at large. Overall streaming consumption is increasing by +/- 10% year over year. Therefore, as the executives all agree in the article, let’s just stay the course. Become A Royalty Exchange Member Royalty News & Insights Royalty News Insights / Opinion Royalty Guides Creator Financing Creator Tips Royalty Investing Investor Guides ← Blog Home Who We Are Who We've Worked With Company News Press Blog Partners Careers How Auctions Work How Royalties Work Create an Account About Auctions Selling Royalties Get a Free Valuation Copyright © 2020 Royalty Exchange All Rights Reserved. 1550 Larimer St. #769 Denver, CO 80202 U.S. Use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. This website (the "Site") is operated by Royalty Exchange. By accessing the Site and any of its pages, you agree to be bound by its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The Site is maintained for the personal use of its visitors and Royalty Exchange cannot guarantee the completeness or accuracy of any information presented on any of its pages. Royalty Exchange does not make investment recommendations or provide legal, tax, or financial advice. No communication should be considered a recommendation of any investment opportunity and there can be no assurance that any investment valuation is accurate or that any investment opportunity is suitable for any particular investor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371784
__label__cc	0.534128	0.465872	2019-03-09 10:32 by Tom Goyer (comments: 0) Ruthmann North America is excited to announce our 2019 Ruthmann North American Drive and Fly Truck Mounted Aerial Demo Tour. Ruthmann builds ANSI A92.2 compliant truck mounted aerials in working heights of 93’ (28.5m) to 295’ (90 m). This year’s tour will focus on our non-CDL products including our T108A, 108’ (33m) and Tu93A, 93’ (28.5m) aerials. According to Ruthmann’s Richard Carr, who will be conducting the tour, “The best way to understand the safety and efficiency benefits of Ruthmann truck mounted aerial work platforms is to operate the units.” The tour will include parking lot demos but also, in some cases, actual job site work. Ruthmann will allow select customers to use the product on their job site for a day to experience the benefits of the Ruthmann aerials in real world work. The T108A and the Tu93A both have gross vehicle weight ratings of less than 26,000 pounds so the driver is not required under US Federal law to possess a Commercial Driver’s license. Ruthmann has been able to achieve this low weight and still provide platform capacities of up to 700 pounds (300 kg) and outreach of up to 69’ (21 m) through the use of high strength to weight ratio steel and an innovative boom design. Contact Richard Carr, Richard.carr@ruthmann.us 813-580-1959 or Tom Goyer Tom.goyer@ruthmann.us 513-678-8101 for information or to set up a demo at your location. Ruthmann North America LP sells and services ANSI A92.2 complaint versions of the European leading Ruthmann GmbH & Co. KG (www.Ruthmann.de ) family of aerial work platforms. Visit us at www.Ruthmann.us Ruthmann North America LP is excited to announce the addition of Richard Carr to our North American sales team. Richard will use his sales background to sell all heights, up to 295’ (90 m), of Ruthmann’s truck mounted aerial platforms in the US, Canada, and Mexico but he will initially focus on expanding the market share of Ruthmann’s 93’ (28.5 m) and 108’ (33m) units. The TU93 and T108A have GVW ratings of less than 26,000 pounds so they provide a non-CDL option for customers who need the speed and flexibility of a truck mounted lift but don’t want to have the administrative burden of commercial driver’s license compliance. Tom Goyer, Vice President of Ruthmann North America LP, said about Richard and his new role, “We are excited to expand our North American sales team with Richard's passion and energy. His consultative sales approach will work well in the market and will help the customers purchase the most appropriate Ruthmann aerial.” You can contact Richard Carr at (813) 580-1959 or via email at richard.carr@ruthmann.us. Ruthmann North America sells and services ANSI A92.2 complaint versions of the European leading Ruthmann GmbH & Co. KG (www.Ruthmann.de ) family of aerial work platforms in heights of 93 feet (24.5 m) To 295' (90 m). Visit us at www.Ruthmann.us . 2018-06-25 08:28 by Alexandra Schawohl (comments: 0) RUTHMANN, the manufacturer of aerial working platforms from Gescher in Münsterland, Germany, has effective June 01, 2018 established its own subsidiary RUTHMANN North America L.P. to further expand its global growth strategy to also include North America. RUTHMANN will with this new activity continue to develop its presence in the North American market along with its two long-standing sales and service partners, Time Manufacturing and ReachMaster, Inc. Uwe Strotmann (General Director of Sales at RUTHMANN GmbH & Co. KG) has been appointed President of the new company with Rolf Kulawik (Managing Director at RUTHMANN GmbH & Co. KG) as Executive Vice President, both based in Germany. Tom Goyer, Vice President, Ruthmann North America L.P. Tom Goyer will take up a new position as Vice President of Sales & Market Development in North America and daily manager of the new company. Tom Goyer is based in Tampa, FL and will conduct his nationwide activities from there. He brings with him an extensive experience in the truck-mounted powered access industry and will be responsible for the strategic development of the Ruthmann truck mounted products in North America. Rolf Kulawik explains the reasons for this new initiative: “With this step we want to provide more support and focus to our sales and service partners by being closer to the customers. Tom knows the North American market for truck mounted aerial working platforms like the back of his hand and is therefore the ideal candidate for this new important position“. Time Manufacturing in Waco, TX has been RUTHMANN’s long-time partner for larger truck mounted aerial work platforms, and together the two companies have developed the US market for the well-known RUTHMANN STEIGER® products. A key element has been the process of adapting the German made lifts to conform with ANSI Standards. The SKYBIRD 215l is a result of these efforts and sets a new bench mark in North America for this category. The SKYBIRD 215 l is a joint development between RUTHMANN and Time Manufacturing. ReachMaster. Inc. in Houston, TX has for the past 8 years successfully been and will remain the exclusive importer and distributor in North America of the Ruthmann Bluelift line of compact track-based lifts from Italy. The RUTHMANN EAGLE T 108 A is a joint development between RUTHMANN and ReachMaster, Inc.. Last year ReachMaster expanded its portfolio of specialty lifts to also include the Ruthmann Eagle T108A, the first truck-mounted 108 ft. lift in the US that can be driven without commercial driver’s license. Ebbe Christensen, President of ReachMaster, Inc.: “The joint development between our companies of the Eagle mid-range truck mounted line has shown there is a niche market for this type of product. We welcome Tom onboard as another great example of RUTHMANN’s commitment to the market. I have known Tom for years, and I know he will be a great asset for us in developing this segment of the truck-mounted market together.” Uwe Strotmann adds that new models are already in the pipe line to expand the Eagle line, which will continue to be both shown on upcoming trade shows as well as promoted on ongoing roadshows. Tom Goyer is looking forward to his new opportunities and concludes: “The RUTHMANN products fit perfectly in the North American market place. Together with our partners we look forward to offering the best of everything in one, coordinated package: High performance, top quality, and superb service & customer support. This is what the North American market has been waiting for and I am very excited to be a part of it”. RUTHMANN T 235 A on a wind turbine in the USA. The first Eagle has landed in New York 2017-08-28 07:50 by Alexandra Schawohl The first RUTHMANN EAGLE T 108 goes to Upgrade Services – the well-known, professional cleaning company based in New York, USA. During a roadshow conducted in eastern USA in June 2017, we were able to explain our innovative concept and many benefits to a large number of interested work platform professionals. Upgrade Services seized the opportunity and purchased the very first EAGLE T 108 A. The EAGLE can be driven to the jobsite by anyone with a valid automobile driver’s license. This saves valuable time and cuts costs compared to articulated/telescopic boom lifts that had been used previously. Staff can now easily move from one job location to another. Depending on the surrounding conditions, they can then quickly stabilize the work platform and safely carry out their cleaning tasks with utmost speed and efficiency. The EAGLE 108 A is now in full operation at Upgrade Service. The first photos of this magnificent boom truck in action are already available. Because this model can be driven by anyone with a valid automobile driver’s license, cleaning assignments can be carried out far more efficiently. The “Revolution” in the USA has officially begun. With their amazing versatility and benefits, our state-of-the-art EAGLE models are destined to take the American work platform industry by storm. The RUTHMANN EAGLE T 108 A is especially designed for the North American market. It is the ideal work platform for professionals requiring a 100+ ft. (> 30 m) working height. The EAGLE T 108 A can be driven by anyone with a valid automobile driver’s license because it weighs just 24,900 lbs. (11,000 kg approx.). A commercial driver’s license (CDL) is therefore not required. This innovative boom truck is the result of a collaborative effort between Reachmaster – our Texas-based business partner – and us. The new EAGLE features a working height of 108 ft. (approx. 33 m), lateral outreach of 69 ft. (approx. 21 m), and 700 lb. (approx. 320 kg) basket load capacity. The work platform, which evolved from RUTHMANN’s popular and prize-winning STEIGER T 330* model, has a telescoping boom with jib (RÜSSEL® ). The STEIGER® platform (base frame, stabilizers, and boom system) is shipped directly from our factory in Germany to Reachmaster in Texas. There, the kit is mounted onto a popular Ford F 650 chassis. The Ford F 650 is powered by a 6.7- liter power-stroke diesel motor and has a 6-gear automatic transmission. Upgrade Services has announced the arrival of its newest addition and lists the EAGLE’s many application possibilities on the company’s website. To learn more, visit www.upgradeserve.com IAPA Award Winner in 2012 Blade Platforms United States relies on HEIGHT performance-model 2016-01-10 19:00 (comments: 0) Our American sales and service partners TIME sold a RUTHMANN T 175 A - mounted on a 4-axle Freightliner - to the American working platform rental company Blade Platforms. The professional truck-mounted platform is used primarily for maintenance works of wind turbines, carried out by Blade's own employees, alongside rental deployment. Ultimately, the Blade employees themselves gained such a positive impression of our working platform of a leased T 175 A during their work assignments, which now led to the purchase. For operations of wind turbines a very high stability, flexibility and maximum performance data are demanded by a truck-mounted platform. These parameters are met with flying colors by the RUTHMANN T 175 A. As with the other models of our HEIGHT performance-series, the largest customer benefit with the T 175 A as well is the long outreach of the upper boom - in a very large working height. Furthermore, this truck-mounted platform scores with a working basket load capacity of up to 600 kg, so that the ‘additional lifting’ of tools and material is no problem for the RUTHMANN T 175 A. And the 3.7 m² large working basket surface offers enough space for one or more craftsmen, the working platform operator and the required working material as well for their tools. These are decisive advantages compared to climbers who can take only very limited tools and materials on the rope. Alternatively, the scaffolding of a wind power plant is often economically inefficient. The RUTHMANN T 175 A is part of a comprehensive short-medium term Blade market strategy as the Rental Division of our partner time has rented another RUTHMANN T 175 A (on 3-axle Freightliner) to Blade Platforms. Blade Platforms provides truck-mounted working platforms with a working height of 54 m to 103 m for rent in throughout North America. More information about Blade Platforms can be found at: www.bladeplatforms.com Safe working on 3.7 square meters - currently the largest working basket in the industry - 3.82 m x 0.97 m - allows craftsmen or technicians comfortable working at dizzy heights. And the 600 kg working basket load can carry even heavy material to the site. The RUTHMANN T 175 A corresponds to our HEIGHT performance-STEIGER ® T 540. Before the mounting works took place, the stage construction had been specially adapted for the North American market. So it fulfills, for example, ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards which are valid in North America. TIME and RUTHMANN provide power Skybird 215I is the innovative sensation at ICUEE 2015 in USA. At this year’s ICUEE (International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition) which took place in Louisville, Kentucky from September 29 – October 1, our collaborative partner – TIME Manufacturing – launched its brand new Skybird 215I. The new truck-mounted aerial work platform, with its 66 m working height, is ideal for assignments on high-voltage power lines. When it comes to fully insulated work platforms, TIME has decades of experience. With the Skybird, TIME relies on the award-winning technology of RUTHMANN’s HEIGHT-performance-series. Skybird 215I A TIME and RUTHMANN creation. The Skybird is the result of a collaborative effort between TIME and RUTHMANN. For its part, RUTHMANN delivered a kit version of the STEIGER ® T 720 (known in North America as the RUTHMANN T 235 A). The special feature: the upper boom of this kit comes with an inner-lying telescoping 1.85 m (6 ft.) section. A highly insulated upper boom (made of fibreglass) and work basket – specially developed in the USA by TIME Manufacturing – were then attached to RUTHMANN’s telescoping upper boom. The prototype of the Skybird 215I is mounted on a 6-axle, Freightliner 114SD Twinsteer chassis. With this truck-mounted aerial lift, specially trained workers are able to carry out assignments on high-voltage power lines of up 500 kV without any degree of difficulty. The Skybird 215I made quite an impression on industry experts at ICUEE 2015. The approx. 66 m (215 ft.) working height and 32 m (105 ft.) lateral outreach (at 100 kg basket load) are two defining characteristics of this fully insulated truck-mounted aerial work platform. Top performance for assignments on high-voltage power lines The Skybird features a working height of approx. 66 m and lateral outreach of 32 m. Its telescoping upper boom has incredible reach capacity when working up high. The Skybird able to manoeuvre a When it comes to working on high-voltage power lines, TIME Manufacturing has years of experience. For this reason, both companies have agreed to market the Skybird globally under TIME’s well known Versalift brand name. Both manufacturers see a huge worldwide potential because regular maintenance and repair work on power lines will minimize electric power disruptions everywhere. Skybird 215I - fully insulated work platform * RUTHMANN delivers kit versions (complete work platforms without trucks) to customers around the world. Kit versions are shipped on transport trucks and then mounted onto typical local trucks upon arrival. RUTHMANN specialists are always on location during the handover and assembly to ensure that all of the safety/technical features function properly. Conversion widens application range of the TTS 1000 in the USA In mid-2010, Our STEIGER® TTS 1000 was sold to Abilene High Lift Aerial in USA. With its impressive 100.4 m working height and 40 m lateral outreach, our STEIGER® TTS 1000 (built in 2001) is still one of the most powerful and capable work platforms in the world. To enhance the application range of this extremely well maintained work platform in the USA, the TTS 1000 has now undergone a "Jeep solution” conversion. With the "Jeep solution”, the weight of the 88 ton work platform is distributed onto two additional axles. This reduces the axle load, which is a major advantage in the USA because axle load weight restrictions vary from state to state. Following the “Jeep” conversion, Steve Roth (owner of Abilene High Lift Aerial) will be able to operate his flagship model in 44 out of 50 states in the USA. The conversion was carried out in close cooperation with our American partner – the TIME Manufacturing Company. The “Jeep solution” conversion allows Steve Roth of Abilene High Lift Aerial to operate his TTS 1000 in 44 states across the USA. The additional small, 2-axle, semi-trailer (behind the truck and in front of the STEIGER® trailer) reduces the axle load significantly. To learn more about Abilene High Lift Aerial and their amazing TTS 1000 work platform, visit www.highliftaerial.com We, at RUTHMANN, continuously strive to satisfy the wants and needs of our customers. We believe in constructive, cooperative dialogue, provide professional engineering and the very best in sales and service. Our goal: total customer satisfaction. Note: Our North American business partner – TIME Manufacturing Company based in Waco, Texas – is one of the largest aerial lift manufacturers in the world. In addition to our truck-mounted aerial work platforms, TIME platforms are also available under the Condor and Versalift brand names. To learn more about TIME in North America, visit www.timemfg.com Now available: Job report - Part 1 2014-11-12 03:03 by Gregor Schlingschröder (comments: 0) ..more job reports will follow to inform you about the performance of our professionell aerial work platforms. Click here to read the Job Report: RUTHMANN “T 235 A” deployed at wind energy facilities ALH Awards shortlist: RUTHMANN/Time Ruthmann/Time is shortlisted in the category: „Product Innovation – Truck-Mounted Units“ with its innovative Height performance-series. Especially nominated is the T 175 A. The T 175 A is a truck-mounted aerial work platform in the internationally acclaimed HEIGHT performance-series designed by RUTHMANN GmbH & Co. KG, the well-known German aerial work platform manufacturer, in cooperation with the TIME Manufacturing Company of Waco Texas. This professional work platform, mounted onto a 4-axle Freightliner truck, scores major points with its exceptional price/performance ratio. The winners will be announced at during the awards ceremony the evening of Nov. 11, following a day-long conference. There will be selected one winner in each category. thank you for visiting us @ ISA International Sign Expo - Orlando, USA - 24th - 26th April 2014 Impression from ISA For further information please go to: www.signexpo.org Two RUTHMANN T 175 A - ready to show Next to a 3-axles chassis a RUTHMANN T 175 A is now ready mounted on a 4-axles to showcase. After the CONEXPO both units will be showcased during a road show provided by TIME Manufactuting company all over the North American territory. Please contact your TIME dealer for more information! thank you for visiting us @ CONEXPO - Las Vegas, USA - 03rd - 08th March 2014 For further information please go to: www.conexpoconagg.com thank you for visiting us @ ICCQUE - Louisville, Kentucky, USA - 01st - 03 rd October 2013 RUTHMANN truck mounts now distributed by use (TIME) in North America We are proud to annonce that we (TIME Manufacturing Company) are the official dealer of RUTHMANN truck mounted aerial platforms in North America. More information will follow soon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371793
__label__cc	0.607066	0.392934	You Are Here: Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Further Training Scholarships and Funding Programs Scholarships Overview Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching and Further Training Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Further Training You Are Here:Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Further Training Erasmus+ funds continuing and further education measures for both academic and non-academic university employees in program countries with the aim to develop and expand internationalization. Advantages of Erasmus+ Staff Mobility: STT – Staff Training A stay based on an approved program Professional exchange and new perspectives Strengthening of one's own skills Expansion and immersion of networks University personnel – academic and non-academic – from all fields can participate in the Erasmus+ program for continuing and further education opportunities and receive financial assistance. Program Countries Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom Program Countries Outside of the EU Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Turkey The program country cannot be the primary residence of the person applying. Target Institution Mobility can occurr at a foreign university with a valid Erasmus-Charter for Higher Education, ECHE an institution located in a program country that is active in the job market or general and professional training or works with youth Continuing Education Formats Participation in a Staff Training Week (see offers below) Sitting in a class Study visits Participation in workshops and seminars Participation in language courses At this point, we would also like to refer you to the RWTH-internal offers for continuing and professional education. If a similar continuing education service to the one you are considering abroad is offered here at RWTH and it is not apparent that the stay abroad offers added value – other than an understandable motivation for you personally – funding via Erasmus+ would not be justifiable. Duration of Stay and Funding ERASMUS staff mobility is possible for at least two consecutive days to a maximum of 60 days. A maximum of ten days are funded. Financial assistance for costs resulting from transportation and accommodations is offered at RWTH Aachen according to the State Travel Costs Act and Cost Reimbursement Ordinance for Abroad. In the event of cancellation, costs incurred cannot be covered by Erasmus funds. Erasmus funds cannot be used for: participation in conferences visits, that serve exclusively to initiate a new university partnership (so-called preparatory visits) participation in Summer/Winter Schools participation fees of any kind Erasmus+ saims to promote equal opportunities and inclusion. For this reason, participants with a disability are granted easier access to the program and offered special funding. Please contact Claudia Hanke for information about the special funding. Staff Training Week offers organized by foreign universities will be regularly published on this platform. If interested, please contact the respective university and inform them. Erasmus+ Mobility for further and continuing education purposes can also be self-organized. You must contact your target institution and inquire whether a working visit is possible. Participants must ensure they have sufficient insurance during the stay abroad as the grant and mobility stipend do not include any insurance. Application and Documents Please submit the Mobility Agreement to Claudia Hanke at least six weeks before your stay begins. The form must be completely filled out and be signed by yourself, by your superior, and by a person responsible at the partner institution. Additional forms and information needed for financial assistance will be sent once the application has been approved. A Note on Safety In view of political tensions in some of the Erasmus countries we advise those who are planning a stay abroad to check the website of the Federal Foreign Office, in particular its travel warnings (de), on a regular basis.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371794
__label__wiki	0.863057	0.863057	REVIEW: Joker is a film that will live long in memory and be dissected for years to come. Paul Steward Joker is showing at Saffron Screen It's undoubtedly Phoenix's film. His slow transition from socially awkward loner into Rabble-rousing crime prince is utterly captivating and a performance that is already creating Oscar buzz ahead of awards season. Staring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro and Zazie Beetz, this origin story, tells the tale of the troubled loner who went on to become Batman's greatest nemesis The Joker. The story focuses on Arthur Fleck, a wannabe stand-up comic who lives with his mother and dresses as a clown for his day job. His mental issues, which involve uncontrollable laughter when nervous, mean Fleck is mistreated and rejected by society. After being brutally beaten and having his regular medication cut off, Arthur's life begins to spiral out of control, leading him to take on a menacing new alter ego. Directed by Todd Phillips the man behind The Hangover trilogy, the film marks a major departure from the filmmaker's usual comedic output. This is a dark and gritty character study and not something that will necessarily appeal to casual comic book fans. The film, which has more in common with Martin Scorsese films like Taxi Driver, has a slow and brooding pace which builds tension towards its inevitably violent conclusion. Joaquin Phoenix, who lost nearly four stone in weight for the film, is utterly mesmerising in the role. His jittery performance is full of nervous energy, while his wiry and skeletal frame gives the character a nightmarish quality. De Niro stars as Gotham City talk show host Murray Franklin, and is well cast for a role that harks back to his 1982 film King of Comedy. Zazie Beetz meanwhile, delivers an endearing performance as Sophie the compassionate single mother who lends Arthur a sympathetic ear. The film has received unfair criticism from some quarters for humanising Fleck and glorifying his violent acts. While it's true that the film makes it easy to sympathise with the character in the early stages, the visceral nature of the violence in the final third results in an unsettling watch and makes it quite clear that Fleck is not a hero to be celebrated. Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir's subtle, string-laden score is haunting and lends itself perfectly to the film's atmosphere, ominously building tension as we head towards the ultra tense finale. The script from Phillips and writing partner Scott Silver lays the groundwork and creates a unique vision of this well known comic book villain. However it's undoubtedly Phoenix's film. His slow transition from socially awkward loner into Rabble-rousing crime prince is utterly captivating and a performance that is already creating Oscar buzz ahead of awards season. Joker is a disturbing and thoroughly unnerving experience, but a film that will live long in memory and undoubtedly be dissected for years to come. Not to be missed.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371799
__label__wiki	0.910222	0.910222	How Our Journalists Work Why Pay for News? © 2020 Salem Reporter News about Salem – In-depth, Accurate, Trusted You have 3 free articles left. Enter your details to start free trial. Sign in Login Subscribe now Donate Gift the news Gov. Brown moves to veto several rural proposals Friday On Sunday, Gov. Kate Brown announced her veto considerations, which would kill money for dam retrofits, wetland deregulation and funds for urban growth boundary adjustments. By Aubrey Wieber and Claire Withycombe - Oregon Capital Bureau August 5, 2019 at 4:36pm Gov. Kate Brown. (Salem Reporter file photo) Gov. Kate Brown announced Sunday that she is considering using her veto power to kill proposals championed by rural lawmakers of both parties. Her staff said the veto threat was no political revenge but over sincere concerns about legislation passed in the 2019 Legislature. Brown is considering axing policies to make it easier to remove and fill ground from wetlands, move forward on the retrofit of two dams in Newport and provide money to help eastern Oregon counties plan larger urban growth boundaries. Some of the proposed action goes against Democrats who opposed her cornerstone environmental policy that would have created a carbon pricing system. When asked if she plans to use veto power for retribution, Brown told a Politico reporter that “revenge is a dish best served cold and slowly.” However, Brown’s spokeswoman said Monday the veto consideration is a policy move, not a political game. [ KEEP YOUR LOCAL NEWS STRONG - SUBSCRIBE ] Brown’s deadline to veto comes Friday, and she has to give five days notice before making the decision. Several people who support proposals Brown is looking to kill said they hope to meet with the governor and overcome her veto threat. Brown has not yet vetoed anything from the 2019 session. House Bill 2437 would increase the amount of material that can removed from an agricultural ditch without a permit by 60 times what is now allowed, going from 50 cubic yards to 3,000. It also would increase the amount of dredged material that can be dumped in a wetland without a permit. Brown’s announcement was cheered by environmental group WaterWatch. Mary Anne Cooper, vice president of the Oregon Farm Bureau, said the state classifies a lot of farm land as wetlands, so to clear an agricultural ditch under current regulation, a farmer needs a permit which can be expensive and complex. Often it includes hiring an environmental consultant, and is a process that can happen every one to five years. Cooper said the state is regulating farmers under a law that’s designed for new development, not existing farms. Rather than fully exempt farms, the bill provided middle ground where the state maintains some oversight. Cooper said she believes the decision to veto the bill is based on misinformation. It passed easily, getting two-thirds support in the Senate and House. But Brown said it goes too far, cutting out the wildlife management community. “Collectively, these changes could have a significant impact on our wildlife populations and wetland habitats, including potentially adverse effects on our native salmon populations,” Brown’s statement said. Cooper said the farm bureau has reached out to Brown’s office and is hoping to meet with her this week to explain the misunderstandings. The proposal was championed by Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, who was an early opponent of the environmental legislation. Johnson did not return a request for comment. Additionally, Brown is considering vetoing money for local projects approved by the Legislature. Brown may cut $4 million designated for the city of Newport to plan for the replacement of two dams on Big Creek. According to the Newport News Times, the city fears the dams could fail in an earthquake, shutting residents off from water and trapping some communities due to flooding. “I intend to line-item veto this project because we need to study all of Oregon’s dams, prioritize them for repair, and develop funding mechanisms before dedicating funds and planning work on any specific dam,” Brown said in her statement. The city wants to rebuild the dams before a breach, and estimates it would cost $60 million to $75 million. If it had all the resources, it could break ground in about two years, with construction taking another three, said Public Works Director Timothy Gross. Gross said he’s worked for nine years to get funding for this project, and during the legislative session was in Salem a couple times per week lobbying lawmakers. But Brown says the appropriation puts the Big Creek dams ahead of other vulnerable dams. According to the governor’s office, 72 state-controlled dams are rated as high hazard. In her proposed budget this fall, Brown asked lawmakers to approve $2 million to study the dams and prioritize repairs. Brown’s proposal would have also created a task force to oversee the state’s assistance to local government working to repair dams. The Legislature didn’t approve her plan. The dams are tiered, Gross said, and hold back up to 381 million gallons of water. If the top dam fails, the bottom one goes with it. He said seepage is already a problem and it’s now a race against the clock, he said. “If they fail before we fix them, our community is gone,” Gross said. Further, Gross was using the $4 million to get federal matching dollars, so the cut is actually twice as deep. Sen. Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay, who represents Newport in the Senate, said he was disappointed by the governor’s announcement. He is seeking a meeting with the governor. Roblan was one of three Senate Democrats who publicly opposed Brown’s cap and trade program. State Rep. David Gomberg, D-Central Coast, who represents Newport in the House, said that the dams have been ranked the second- and third-highest risk dams in the state by the Oregon Water Resources Department. Gomberg doesn’t think the governor is exacting revenge for the fate of House Bill 2020, which Gomberg supported. "I think the governor is above that kind of retribution," Gomberg said. "This is a serious project, and delays could potentially put lives in jeopardy. I want to sit down and chat with her about that. I understand her desire to evaluate priorities, but I think it’s clear that Newport is a priority and we can begin to address it now." Brown was not above that retribution in 2017, when she vetoed about $4 million funding for projects in former Republican Rep. Sal Esquivel’s southern Oregon district after he broke a political deal with her. Brown at the time acknowledged her act was political revenge. Brown is also considering revoking $500,000 appropriated to the Association of Oregon Counties for urban growth boundary planning grants for eastern Oregon counties. The funding was tied to Senate Bill 2, which allowed for new adjustments of urban growth boundaries. The money would fund the planning of such efforts. “We’re very, very disappointed,” said Mike Eliason, interim executive director of the association. “This is kind of another hit to rural Oregon, and we feel like this is an opportunity to support rural economies.” In Brown’s announcement, she said the Department of Land Conservation and Development already oversees the grant process and is must meet contracting standards. The current system gives the state more oversight than the association of counties would, her statement said. The real issue, Eliason said, is the move takes money that was supposed to go directly to counties and instead filters funding for eastern Oregon through a Portland bureaucracy that “can’t pick them out on a map.” “None of that really squares with us,” Eliason said. The bill was sponsored by Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, but Eliason said many lawmakers helped see it through. Finally, the governor is considering stopping a $5 million transfer in fee revenue from the Oregon Medical Board to the general fund. The $5 million makes up 55 % of the board’s reserves, and operates as a rainy day fund. The result, according to Brown’s office, would be large increases in license fees to make up for the lost revenue. “Large fee increases create barriers to practicing medicine in Oregon and foster distrust between the Board and our licensed physicians, physician assistants, and acupuncturists,” Brown’s statement said. “With reduced funds, the board may have to consider eliminating or reducing funding for the Oregon Wellness Program, an independent program promoting the health and well-being of Oregon health care professionals.” The $5 million transfer is part of a bigger bill that moves $171 million from various accounts into the general fund as a way to balance the budget. It was sponsored by Roblan, Rep. David Brock Smith, R-Port Orford and Rep. Caddy McKeown, D-Coos Bay. Reporter Aubrey Wieber: aubrey@salemreporter.com or 503-575-1251. Reporter Claire Withycombe: cwithycombe@eomediagroup.com or 971-304-4148. Follow Salem Reporter on FACEBOOK and on TWITTER. 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A program full of lyrical grace and rhapsodic brilliance. orsymphony.org SALEM AREA EVENTS January 20 Documentary provides glimpse into mental health crisis Tuesday’s screening of “Bedlam” at Salem’s Historic Grand will be followed by a panel of local experts on mental health services. SALEM EVENTS January 20 Salem takes to the streets to remember Martin Luther King Jr. Pastors, educators and at least one three-generation family walked three miles along Lancaster for the annual civil rights march. SALEM PEOPLE AND PLACES January 20 Willamette Valley Vineyards founder tells of history in keynote at Agri-Business dinner The big gathering in Salem honors the area's agriculture industry and Saturday's event saw a full house. FFA students took part, addressing the crowd about the future of agriculture.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371800
__label__wiki	0.812887	0.812887	This is Elvis Gary Kaufman writes about "This is Elvis" for Salon's Personal Best movies. Gary Kaufman "this is Elvis" isn't the best movie I've ever seen. Actually, it's a pretty awful thing, a documentary-docudrama hybrid narrated by the King himself, speaking from beyond the grave (through an Elvis impersonator who doesn't much sound like him). It has actors re-creating moments from Elvis' life in scenes that have all the production values and drama of a "re-enactment" on "Unsolved Mysteries." The only time I ever fell in love in a movie theater, I was watching "This is Elvis." And I didn't fall in love with my date. (Who am I kidding? What date?) I fell in love with Elvis Presley, who had been dead for four years. By the time I came along, Elvis was just another one of those washed-up guys who'd been famous for a long time and had a TV special every once in a while, like Andy Williams or Jonathan Winters. I knew the story -- the lunging crowds, the screaming girls, the anti-rock 'n' roll speechifying. I knew about all the records he'd sold and the endless devotion of his fans. I just never really got it. He'd always seemed, well, sort of tame. You know, let me be your teddy bear. Sitting in a theater as a teenager, I figured I'd see more of what I'd already seen. I sat through the ridiculous early scenes, starting -- as post-1977 Elvis books and movies always do -- with the fateful keeling over in the potty scene, then rushing through his childhood and adolescence, where he's portrayed as sort of a Huck Finn with a guitar, not the pretty, sensitive boy who was much clucked-over by the neighborhood women. Then comes his television debut, on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's "Stage Show." The kinescope clip is a pretty common bit of Elvisianna now. But it wasn't in 1981, and I'd never seen it. Elvis comes out in a dark suit and white tie and launches into "Shake, Rattle and Roll." For most of the song he's in close-up, but at the instrumental break, he and the camera both back up. Now visible head to toe, he does this frenetic, bouncing, standing-in-one spot dance as he furiously strums his guitar. As he walks back to the mike, he turns his gum over in his mouth before singing the next verse, actually a segue into "Flip, Flop and Fly." I felt like I'd taken speed. My heart pounded. I wanted to tear my chair out of the theater floor and throw it. I wanted to head-butt somebody or drive 100 miles an hour. Imagine seeing that performance in early 1956, when singers were gracious, polite and subdued, before people got used to the idea that one might punctuate his performance by, say, biting the head off a chicken. He was just so damn wild. It's downhill from there. Within minutes, he's in tails, singing to a dog on Steve Allen's show. He appears to be stoned on an interview show called "Hy Gardner Calling!" The long, dreary decline that occupied 21 of the 22 years Elvis was famous -- interrupted only for one night, the magnificent 1968 "comeback special" -- is well-documented. And now, Elvis is one of our national jokes. The impersonators and the wedding chapels and I saw him in a supermarket in Kalamazoo ha ha ha. It's his own fault. He lived like a damn fool and squandered a prodigious talent. But it's a shame that he's remembered more for shooting at TVs and eating disgusting sandwiches than for his inimitable singing (sorry, lame impersonators) and his astonishing charisma. I remembered him that way too, until I saw "This is Elvis." It taught me a whole new way to see, and what more can you ask from a night at the movies? DO NOT USE. use king kaufman byline and bio. MORE FROM Gary Kaufman Check out this article! https://www.salon.com1997/03/21/kaufman970321/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371801
__label__wiki	0.557931	0.557931	TV SportsWatch June 4, 2014 4:31PM (UTC) TGC — European PGA Tour, Lyoness Open, first round, part I, at Atzenbrugg, Austria MLB — Seattle at Atlanta ESPN2 — Oakland at N.Y. Yankees WGN — N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs NBC — Playoffs, finals, game 1, N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles ESPN2 — French Open, men's and women's quarterfinals, at Paris From The Wires Check out this article! https://www.salon.com2014/06/04/tv_sportswatch_2-9/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371802
__label__cc	0.646441	0.353559	The Archbishop of York Youth Trust Award Our children have been extremely fortunate to have taken part in the Archbishop of York Trust Key Stage 2 Award for the past 3 years. However, as we are always striving to promote and provide opportunities to develop understanding of the part we can all play in supporting our community and society to flourish, Miss Harkin attended training on 'Developing Leadership and Character through Social Action.' On Thursday 16th January, Miss Harkin attended training delivered by The Archbishop of York Youth Trust on 'Developing Leadership and Character through Social Action.' This explored how, by providing experiences that draw out character from within each child, social action allows children to flourish as individuals (building their team work, confidence, compassion and respect for others), in turn resulting in a flourishing society. It also reiterated the value of the Young Leaders Award, completed by our Year 3 children, in helping to develop young people who are passionate about the world around them, who are considerate to others and who stand up for the injustices they see in the world. In giving the children a deeper understanding of the issues faced by people in our society and how they can help, we teach our children that they have a voice and can be the change that they want to see in the world. Inspired by this training, each Year 3 class will complete a different social action community project this year as part of the award, after considering the local, national and international issues most important to them. We are excited to see what our children will choose to tackle and the impact this will have on the wider community! Click here to find out more information about The Archbishop of York Youth Trust. We are delighted that our Young Leaders work will be showcased at the Young Leaders Awards Conference on 12th October. The Conference will focus upon “The Impact of the YLA in Schools”. Our children have identified in the quotes below the impact being involved in young leaders has had on them. Taking part in this award was fantastic and I would recommend it highly to anyone. The ethos and underlying principles of the award allowed us to explore important and relevant issues in our community and truly develop our children’s sense of care for others. The children were passionate, participated enthusiastically and what’s more, they have continued to show their acts of kindness towards others. The impact of the award on every day teaching has been terrific- the level of in depth discussion spills out across the curriculum and lends a deeper understanding and empathy to a variety of scenarios and areas of study. Our children have a more confident awareness of their role in the community and indeed the wider world and they demonstrate a passionate dedication to improving and bettering our planet for themselves and others. Walking around our school, visitors are struck by the kind and caring attitudes of our children and this award allowed us to channel these wonderful attitudes in to good deeds that actually made a difference in our community. The impact of this award on community links was significant as both parents and our local church played a big part in supporting the children in their project. This made the award more real and the effect of their work more real. The children could see that they were having an impact. I firmly believe that these children will continue to have a positive effect on their community because this award showed them that they can. Before, they knew they wanted to make a difference, now they know it’s possible. Community Awareness Programme (CAP) Year 6 are making their first coat drop today. Thanks to our wonderful community of children, families and staff, Mrs Waddington's car is already full of coats to donate to CAP (Community Awareness Programme) in Wakefield this afternoon and there are many more to be loaded before we set off! As the temperatures drop, the homeless people of Wakefield need as much comfort and warmth as we can offer them- vital for their survival. CAP work with more than 75 people daily and will distribute the coats where needed. As always, we are proud of the generosity and care our school community shows. We will be making a trip as often as is needed to offer our support. CAP Coats Golden Time - Courageous Advocacy For the next three weeks, 6FW’s Golden Time Enrichment is Politics. They will be responding to the World Wildlife Foundation’s report for young people. Here is a snippet: We already know that climate change threatens one in six species with extinction, that plastics could outnumber fish in the sea by 2050, and that an area of forest the same size as a football pitch is lost every two seconds. But WWF’s latest Living Planet Report tells us that wildlife populations globally have declined by 60% in less than 50 years. These are shocking facts, but there is hope: we can reverse the damage and protect our planet for the future if we act now. As part of our work on this, they will be recycling plastic to make models of endangered animals with a view to adopting an animal at the end of our sessions. If you have any plastic needing recycling, please send it in with your child so we can make some fantastic models! Reverse Advent At the start of our Reverse Advent project- join us to track our progress throughout the month. Children across school are donating essential items which will be collected at the end of the month by St Helen’s to give to people in need. As our collection of donations grow, we will post pictures to show our progress. See the letter attached for advice on donations! All support is appreciated! After two weeks, our shelves are overflowing with generosity! Two more weeks to go! St Catherine's Food Bank will benefit from the kindness of our children and families again this year. Year 3 and 4 Archie Bishop Quotes from Children: ‘ I thought it was good to go out and do good deeds for people because it taught me that doing a tiny thing can still be really big somebody’. ‘I have carried on doing good deeds with my mum because it helps the community and it helps people who are in need’. ‘ I thought it was good cleaning our neighbour’s car. We didn’t really know them and now we have made some new friends’. ‘I liked it because we helped other people but also helped ourselves because we benefited from the chores we did too’. ‘It is actually really fun helping people and it made me really proud of myself’. ‘It gives you a really good feeling about yourself and if every school did this, it would be a much better community because we would all be connected’. ‘I thought it was really fun: I went out, and I didn’t just help my mum make dinner, I actually made dinner so it taught me new skills like how to cook properly. I did jobs like the laundry so it taught me how to do new things’. ‘It helped me to become more independent’. ‘I learnt how to cook something new and contribute to my family’. ‘Linking to RE, if everyone did this, it would probably make a really big change to the world. At the minute, there are lots of wars going on. If we had given people good deeds to do earlier before the problems got too big, maybe it would have had an impact’. ‘I found it really fun because we were teaching other people how to take care of our world’. ‘It helps you to become a better person than we normally are’. ‘It prepared me well for helping at home when my mum isn’t well. I found chores hard before but now I know how to do them!’ ‘I like making people happy’. The opportunity to embed the Archbishop of York Trust Award across the whole curriculum gives further opportunities for our school community to connect its ethical and charitable activities to the school’s vision and values. As leaders and practitioners, we provide a range of opportunities for all pupils to engage in social action and to understand how they can challenge injustice. In a number of instances , our children instigate the campaign for social change and are empowered to affect change. Visiting Ashgrove House - 28th June 2018 n Year 5, we explored an important question: Why is there suffering? Are there any solutions? First, we went outside to use a philosophy game- a ‘sufferometer’ where we discussed the impact of certain issues affecting us and the world around us. We had to discuss having our X Boxes confiscated alongside animal cruelty and the refugee crisis and decide where to place them based on impact. We had lots of very mature discussions and then devised questions such as: Why does God let suffering happen? Can religion cause suffering? How did Jesus advise us to deal with suffering? Does God view all suffering as equal? If we do something bad- will we be forgiven? We had the opportunity to ask these questions to our local Vicar; Revd Rupert Martin and had wonderful, in depth discussions as a result. We decided to spread small gestures of goodwill in our local community to make a difference rather than trying to change the world over night. We baked biscuits and visited our local elderly care home where we met with residents, spent time with them over a cuppa and a biscuit and then sang to them. Sylvia's Garden - June 2018 It is with with great sadness that as a school we had to hear the devastating news that our much loved friend and colleague Sylvia (Mrs Pursglove), had passed away suddenly on the 12th April.This was a huge shock to everyone. Sylvia was a much loved and very well respected colleague and a great friend to many. She is greatly missed, both personally and professionally by children, staff, parents and governors. Mick and Sylvia have been an important and integral part of our Sandal school community for over 25 years. Within that time they have supported every aspect of school life. Our school has always been an extension of their home, and their commitment and dedication to our children; caring so deeply and making such a positive impact on all who have had the pleasure of working with them, is recognised by all. Sylvia’s kindness, compassion, empathy, enthusiasm for learning, sense of humour and fun, underpinned by an unwavering support and nurturing for all, has touched the lives of every child past and present at Sandal Endowed/Sandal Castle. We all feel extremely privileged to have had the experience of knowing such a fantastic individual. As a mark of remembrance, the children designed a memorial garden for children at school, Mick and his family to spend quiet, reflective time. The garden is nearing completion and it looks just as the children wanted. The Little Library painted blue with forget me nots, blue hydrangea, solar lighting and blue pots of flowers will provide the finishing touches ready for our official opening in July when our children will sing some of Sylvia's favourite songs - 'Power in Me' and maybe one or two from Ed Sheeran! and we will release blue balloons with messages and our memories of Sylvia. March and April 2018 Successful bun sales have been lead by Y3 children to raise money for African Connection. Here is a picture of Y5 with Sally this morning- she came in to talk to us about what she does on Christmas Day to support our community. As part of the Year 5 RE unit, we have been debating whether the purpose of our lives is to make the world better and to leave it better than we found it. Sally talked to us about how this is possible even in our own community. We are making Christmas cards now to give to the people who join Sally on Christmas Day as part of our work because we have learnt that even small things can go a long way to making a difference. We have also been studying the work of Mother Teresa and we are in the process of writing poems to celebrate the inspirational work she did to help others and lessen the struggles we face in our world. Letter re Christmas Cards Wakefield Hospice Light Up A Life 2017 We are proud to continue to support the wonderful work of Wakefield Hospice who have provided care and a much valued, important service to our families. Living Christmas Tree Planting on Barnsley Road Sandal now has it's own living tree planted today by children from Sandal Castle. Wakefield council, SCA members and Cllr Monica Graham were there to support the children. Cllr Graham said, '' We will have the benefit of the living tree for many years to come. It's wonderful that the children are involved because it will give them a moment they will always remember.'' The children were all photographed adding a spade full of soil. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) This year we are supporting St Helen's and their Christmas Hamper project. Children and staff will bring food items to make exciting hampers for families in the community. The Christmas Hamper Day at St Helen's church will take place on Saturday, 9 December when we will celebrate the generosity and kindness of our children and families. For the 3rd year running our Harvest donations will be received by St Catherine's Church Food Bank. We aim to support this vital community service by helping to keep their store of tinned and dry foods well maintained. The food bank service can be accessed on Monday - Friday from 11:00 to 13:00. St Catherine's rely heavily on private donations to stock their service and always need non perishable items. Download their shopping list for more details of particularly useful items. As part of our Archie Bishop focus this year, we have continued to work with St Helen's Church in supporting our community members. To celebrate the 20 year opening, our children have made placemats for the celebration event held at The Spring. African Connection As part of our Archie Bishop focus we maintain links with Kenya through African Connection and support the work of St Helen's in supporting the education of the children in the Parish of Bunda in Tanzania. We have raised funds for uniform. Here our children celebrating having received their Archbishop of York Youth Trust Awards. Night Shelter Support at Wakefield Baptist Church Kristian in Year 1 highlighted that the night shelter at Wakefield Baptist Church. He requested that we collect desperately needed hats, coats and gloves to keep the homeless in Wakefield warm in the cold weather we have been experiencing. Thank you to everyone who donated these items. They were collected by Mandy Sherrard the Night Shelter Coordinator. Mandy presented the school with a certificate that can be found in reception	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371805
__label__wiki	0.776931	0.776931	Leaky roof replaced for midtown Savannah resident Jan Skutch Anna Covington has lived in her Ott Street home for 41 years while rearing seven children. But a leaking roof needed replacement. Wednesday she had a new roof, courtesy of a city of Savannah partnership with Community Help Inc., a nonprofit that targets such cases. "The new roof makes it comfortable," the spry 81-year-old Covington said. Ronald Bayfield, owner of Bayfield Construction Co., and his assistant, Joseph Sanders, were on site Wednesday doing last minute touchups to a job they started on Tuesday. Also on hand were Luke Gardiner, construction services administrator for the city's Housing Department, and Cynthia Holly, also with city housing, as part of a check presentation. The $6,600 project was funded by the city with a $2,000 contribution from Bernie Polite, president of Community Help Inc. Gardiner said the city's minor repair program assists low-income property owners with repairs they are not able to afford and for which they qualify under federal Housing and Urban Development guidelines. It emphasizes elderly and handicapped residents. Covington and her son, Danny, selected Bayfield for the job, Gardiner said. The city program has been in place for more than 20 years, but it relies on partners such as Community Help to spread the dollars further and assist more residents, he said. This is the first year for Community Help's participation, but Gardiner said the city looks to work with the group "well into the future." Community Help's Polite said seniors and folks living on limited incomes can benefit from safe and secure housing. "One of the ways for us to help is looking at home repairs that allow us to participate with the city to help those who are in trouble," Polite said. The money his group contributes allows the homeowner to complete the work without owing the city, Polite said. This is the second such house the partnership has addressed this year. Community Help also participates in other home repairs absent city participation. To view a video of Wednesday's check presentation to Anna Covington, go to savannahnow.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371809
__label__wiki	0.875043	0.875043	Record Review: Cowbell 'Haunted Heart' Haunted Heart (Damaged Goods) It's a case of if it ain't broken don't fix it as London rock'n'roll duo continue to quietly please third time around. They say third time's a charm. No one knows why, but they do. Proverbial witterings aside, we're back here with Jack Sandham (guitar slinger, organ grinder, smokin' voice) and Wednesday Lyle (barefoot drums, sultry voice) worshipping at the alter of well-crafted, polite-ish rock'n'roll. They've quietly built up a nice following via previous outings 'Beat Stampede' and 'Skeleton Soul' and they continue to refine their art on this latest LP (notice the two word album title thing? More minimal than Kings Of Leon's five syllables anyhow). If you like your garage trashy best look away now. This is soulful rock'n'roll that looks to the blues/gospel/Southern 50s/60s version of rock'n'roll served up by heroes like Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, and Dusty Springfield. In that sense they have more in common with the Black Keys and aforementioned KOL than, say, Royal Blood and the White Stripes. Having said that they definitely know how to testify and kick up the dust on a tight-as-a-nut rhythm once they start revving that engine. The title track does just that, and is destined for a modern Hollywood soundtrack somewhere; with it's slightly distorted organ chugs, insistent handclaps and spiky short melodic guitar solo. 'Downlow' pulls off a similar trick, with Lyle's deadpan vocals doing their best to keep up with the high speed train going on beneath. 'Doom Train' has a loose rockabilly/boogie stop-start base that actually touches on The Cramps rough'n'ready psychobilly, though I suspect it's come to them via the influence of voodoo master Jim Jones. But it's on their delicate, Americana moments that Cowbell are most affecting. It's a lost art for modern rockers to deliver genuinely, whiskey-in-chair-at-midnight tender moments. On 'Neon Blue' the slide guitar is thrust centre stage as the dancing partner to Sandham's whispered urban blues tale, and 'Something's Gotta Give' channels Lou Reed on the VU's sparse-sounding third-album with delightful success. Closing track 'No Trouble' is five minutes of authentic southern soul that could have been presented to Solomon Burke for his final album. It's stirring stuff, and deserves a wider audience. If 'Haunted Heart' falls down anywhere it's that it moves very much in its own comfort zone: it knows what it likes and doesn't deviate from it's prime influences. If you can live with that then you'll be humming this shit 'til the cows come home. And Christ knows in these troubled times you take your comforts where you can. Haunted Heart is out now on LP, CD and for download via Damaged Goods	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371812
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Daniel Soffer photo-22639-1.jpg /usa/california/commerce/office-space/s-eastern-ave-commerce-90040-ref-22639.html + Add to list https://www.searchofficespace.com/ /row2/ OFFICE FEATURES Phone and Internet Points Break Areas Major transport links Mail Collection/Forwarding /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/east-fourth-place-los-angeles-los-ref-28678.html Free filtered water, tea and coffee Printing/Scan Equipment /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/east-fourth-place-los-angeles-90013-ref-28679.html /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/south-alameda-los-angeles-90021-ref-23657.html Power Backup Support Outside Seating Area Access to other centers nationwide and worldwide Inclusive Rents Available /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/e-2nd-avenue-los-angeles-90012-ref-26704.html VoIP Technology Voicemail Services Bespoke fit-out photo-4531-1.jpg /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/west-fifth-street-los-angeles-90071-ref-4531.html Dedicated Fax Number CAT 5/5e/6 Cabling Cafe/Restaurant On-Site Gym and fitness room Fibre Optic Cabling /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/east-eigth-street-los-angeles-90014-ref-27531.html Alarmed Offices Shared Space /usa/california/whittier/office-space/greenleaf-ave-whittier-90601-ref-5559.html /usa/california/los-angeles/office-space/south-spring-street-los-angeles-90015-ref-27547.html Nearest locations to City of Commerce Offices in Commerce 0.5 miles Offices in East Los Angeles 2.1 miles Offices in Montebello 2.4 miles Offices in East Olympic Boulevard 2.6 miles Offices in Boyle Heights 3.9 miles Offices in Pico Park 4.9 miles Offices in El Sereno 5.4 miles Offices in Los Angeles Arts District 5.5 miles Offices in Los Angeles Fashion District 5.7 miles The City of Commerce, or simply Commerce, is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, in the U.S. state of California. Commerce is bordered by Vernon, Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Montebello, Downey, Bell Gardens, and Maywood. A portion of the cities borders are formed by the Los Angeles River and the Rio Hondo. Commerce City offers amenities that include four libraries, a senior center, a teen center, an aquatics center, city-owned camp located in the San Bernardino National Forest, and an indoor marksmanship range for firearms training. Many of the cities amenities are provides by taxes collected from the Commerce Casino. Top employers with office space or other facilities in the City of Commerce include Commerce Casino, County of Los Angeles, Parsec, Smart & Final, Unified Grocers, American International Industries, Mission Foods, Cents Only Stores, Megatoys, Wine Warehouse, Valassis Direct Mail, Gibson Overseas, City of Commerce, AT&T California, and the headquartered Kimlan Foods USA. Entertainment And Dining Out There are many things to see and do in the city of Commerce. Here you will find the Commerce Casino, a large aquatic center, Commerce Aquatics, that is used to train Olympic water polo players, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, and Buffalo Run Golf Course. Dining options in the City of Commerce include Steven’s Steak & Seafood, Tacos El Charro, Ruby’s Diner, Salads 2000, Fish-O-Licious, Aoki Japanese Restaurant, and Green Olive. Waba grill offers an array of Japanese delicacies that are very popular within the area, a favorite amongst diners is the teriyaki chicken. Transportations options in the City of Commerce include Metrolink rail service and a zero-fare bus service for residents. It is located near the Long Beach and Santa Ana freeways. Airports serving the city include Long Beach Airport within 18 miles from the center of Commerce City, Bob Hope Airport located 22 miles from the city, and Los Angeles International Airport, just 23 miles from Commerce. 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__label__wiki	0.562242	0.562242	Germany enforces data sovereignty with Microsoft ban Home / What’s New / Germany enforces data sovereignty with Microsoft ban Windows 10 and Office 365 banned from use in German schools Following growing concerns over data sovereignty and privacy, Germany’s Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI) has made it illegal for schools to use cloud-based software from Microsoft, Google and Apple. As reported by Expert Reviews, this decision highlights the growing significance of data sovereignty as a data security and privacy issue: EXTRACT: “A review conducted by the Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI) concluded that Microsoft Office 365 and Windows 10 are not suitable for use within the German state’s schools. A principal concern is that Microsoft stores its data in a European cloud which is penetrable by the US authorities”. According to the official statement from HBDI, it is now illegal to use Microsoft Office 365 in schools in the state of Hesse, Germany. Under data protection law, public institutions in Germany have a “special responsibility” to protect personal data; particularly with regards to access, admissibility and traceability through third parties. Microsoft had previously been made available to schools under a “data trustee model” provided by Deutsche Telekom via a private Cloud, which prevented data from passing through the public internet. However, Microsoft withdrew from this arrangement last year and thus removed the approved safeguard, meaning that schools’ data, and crucially data concerning children, was potentially accessible to US authorities. This led HBDI to review its use in schools. HBDI was also concerned that Microsoft Windows 10 was gathering substantial amounts of telemetry data but refused to disclose what data was being collected or how it would be used. Google Docs and Apple’s iWork privacy policies are also deemed inadequate and lacking transparency by HBDI, so their use in schools has also been banned. Senetas Opinion While the German HBDI ruling covers the storage of data in schools, it’s worth remembering that these issues could apply to confidential data stored by organisations in any sector. While Microsoft stores its European data in a European Cloud, its accessibility to US authorities is clearly of concern. However, this is not unusual. The situation is the same across many of the leading Cloud services that are commonly used by organisations across the UK and Europe. It’s also important to note that several of the most well-known Cloud SaaS products have suffered notable security breaches; leaving users vulnerable to identity theft and cybercrime. For many organisations including financial institutions, government agencies, professional services organisations, telecommunications service providers and major commercial businesses, such vulnerability to cybercrime could be devastating to business continuity and incur severe legal penalties. Where Cloud and SaaS services are provided by multi-national organisations across the globe, customers are becoming increasingly concerned about where in the world their data is stored. “Where will our data be stored? Can we be certain that our data is only stored in our company’s sovereign state?” The answers may determine service provider selection. So, is it possible to guarantee security and 100% control of data sovereignty while using a Cloud service to store your data? At Senetas, we believe it can be achieved if organisations adopt robust InfoSec processes and choose the right technologies. File-sharing, for example, should leverage end-to-end encryption security to ensure data privacy. Secondly, organisations can safeguard regulatory compliance and address their own data sovereignty concerns and policies by using Cloud services that offer 100% data location control. This means data is only stored according to the data regulations or organisational policy applicable to users in your region. For more information on secure file sharing, visit www.SureDrop.com You might also be interested in: Uncovering the flaws in email security	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371818
__label__cc	0.626076	0.373924	Pages: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Hasegawa AV-8B Night Attack Harrier II 1:48 Feature article by Gary Wickham (SMN August 2012) Here are a few pics of the finished project… Above are some images of Gary’s finished model that we’ve added here so that you can see what he achieved at the end. The story below is all about how he got there… written at the time. This is Gary’s first build for SMN and I’m sure you all join me in welcoming such a talented guy to the SMN Review Team – welcome Gary! Geoff Background introduction I’ve actually been working on and off on this kit for some time, taking photos as I go and now I’ve dumped a summary of the progress thus here for the first update. I’ve got a stack of Hasegawa Harriers to build (it’s my second favourite aircraft) and I’m taking my time with this one (being the first) so I can find out all the shortcuts and shortcomings with the kit. I’ve stocked up on the Aires cockpit sets and as you’ll see, I’ve used one here. I’ll be using the markings from the TwoBobs sheet 48-075 OIF Harriers. The only N/A bird on this sheet is from VMA-231 that was loaned to VMA-223 during OIF. The RCS (Reaction Control Thruster) vents on the tail boom of the Harrier are quite a distinctive and visible feature. Whilst the Hasegawa’s moulding is OK, I decided to see if the effort involved in replacing them with wire mesh was worth it. The jury is out until I finish the model :) An inside view of the tail boom following thinning of the plastic with a Dremmel tool and installation of the wire mesh.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371819
__label__wiki	0.954587	0.954587	Sunny to partly cloudy. High 43F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph.. Clear skies. Low near 25F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. River Flood Warning until 1AM EST FRI ...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * UNTIL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. * AT 7:00 PM SUNDAY THE STAGE WAS 21.80 FEET. * FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO FALL AND GET BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACT...AT 23.0 FEET...FLOODING WILL AFFECT SWAMP AND TIMBERLANDS WHILE ALSO DISRUPTING LOGGING OPERATIONS. OPERATIONS WILL LIKELY CEASE AND EQUIPMENT NOT PREVIOUSLY MOVED WILL REMAIN TRAPPED. SOME FARMLAND WILL HAVE MINOR FLOODING ESPECIALLY AROUND BRITTON NECK. Democrats unveil articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power, obstruction of Congress By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment Tuesday against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — pushing toward historic votes over charges he corrupted the U.S. election process and endangered national security in his dealings with Ukraine. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of the impeachment inquiry committees, stood at the Capitol for what she called a “solemn act.'' Voting is expected in a matter of days in the Judiciary Committee and by Christmas in the full House. Trump insisted he did npthing wrong and his reelection campaign called it “rank partisnaship.” "He endangers our democracy; he endangers our national security," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the Judiciary chairman announcing the charges before a portrait of George Washington. “Our next election is at risk. ... That is why we must act now.” Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later. Trump tweeted ahead of the announcement that impeaching a president with a record like his would be “sheer Political Madness!” The outcome, though, appears increasingly set as the House prepares for voting, as it has only three times in history against a U.S. president. Approval of the charges would send them to the Senate in January, where the Republican majority would be unlikely to convict Trump. Democratic leaders say Trump put his political interests above those of the nation when he asked Ukraine to investigate his rivals, including Democrat Joe Biden, and then withheld $400 million in military aid as the U.S. ally faced an aggressive Russia. They say he then tried obstructed Congress by stonewalling the House investigation. In drafting the articles of impeachment, Pelosi faced a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the Constitution's bar of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Some liberal lawmakers wanted more expansive charges encompassing the findings from former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Centrist Democrats preferred to keep the impeachment articles more focused on Trump's actions toward Ukraine. House Democrats have announced two articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. When asked during a Monday evening event if she had enough votes to impeach the Republican president, Pelosi said she would let House lawmakers vote their conscience. “On an issue like this, we don’t count the votes. People will just make their voices known on it,” Pelosi said at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council. "I haven’t counted votes, nor will I.” Trump, who has declined to mount a defense in the actual House hearings, tweeted Tuesday just as the six Democratic House committee chairmen prepared to make their announcement. “To Impeach a President who has proven through results, including producing perhaps the strongest economy in our country's history, to have one of the most successful presidencies ever, and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong, is sheer Political Madness! #2020Election,” he wrote on Twitter. The House report on the Trump impeachment inquiry, explained By ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press The president also spent part of Monday tweeting against the impeachment proceedings. He and his allies have called the process “absurd.” The next steps emerged in the swiftly moving proceedings as Pelosi convened a meeting of the impeachment committee chairmen at her office in the Capitol late Monday following an acrimonious, nearly 10-hour hearing at the Judiciary Committee, which could vote as soon as this week. “I think there's a lot of agreement,” Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, told reporters as he exited Pelosi's office. “A lot of us believe that what happened with Ukraine especially is not something we can just close our eyes to.” At the Judiciary hearing, Democrats said Trump's push to have Ukraine investigate rival Joe Biden while withholding U.S. military aid ran counter to U.S. policy and benefited Russia as well as himself. “President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security,” said Dan Goldman, the director of investigations at the House Intelligence Committee, presenting the finding of the panel's 300-page report of the inquiry. Republicans rejected not just Goldman's conclusion of the Ukraine matter; they also questioned his very appearance before the Judiciary panel. In a series of heated exchanges, they said Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, should appear rather than sending his lawyer. From the White House, Trump tweeted repeatedly, assailing the “Witch Hunt!” and “Do Nothing Democrats." In drafting the articles of impeachment, Pelosi is facing a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the Constitution's bar of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Some liberal lawmakers wanted more expansive charges encompassing the findings from former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Centrist Democrats preferred to keep the impeachment articles more focused on Trump's actions toward Ukraine. Nadler was blunt as he opened Monday's hearing, saying, “President Trump put himself before country.” Trump's conduct, Nadler said at the end of the daylong hearing, “is clearly impeachable." Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the committee, said Democrats are racing to jam impeachment through on a “clock and a calendar” ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “They can't get over the fact that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and they don’t have a candidate that can beat him," Collins said. In one testy exchange, Republican attorney Stephen Castor dismissed the transcript of Trump's crucial call with Ukraine as “eight ambiguous lines" that did not amount to the president seeking a personal political favor. Democrats argued vigorously that Trump's meaning could not have been clearer in seeking political dirt on Biden, his possible opponent in the 2020 election. The Republicans tried numerous times to halt or slow the proceedings, and the hearing was briefly interrupted early on by a protester shouting, “We voted for Donald Trump!” The protester was escorted from the House hearing room by Capitol Police. The White House is refusing to participate in the impeachment process. Trump and and his allies acknowledge he likely will be impeached in the Democratic-controlled House, but they also expect acquittal next year in the Senate, where Republicans have the majority. The president focused Monday on the long-awaited release of the Justice Department report into the 2016 Russia investigation. The inspector general found that the FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and that the FBI did not act with political bias, despite “serious performance failures” up the bureau’s chain of command. Democrats say Trump abused his power in a July 25 phone call when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a favor in investigating Democrats. That was bribery, they say, since Trump was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid that Ukraine depended on to counter Russian aggression. Pelosi and Democrats point to what they call a pattern of misconduct by Trump in seeking foreign interference in elections from Mueller's inquiry of the Russia probe to Ukraine. In his report, Mueller said he could not determine that Trump's campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia in the 2016 election. But Mueller said he could not exonerate Trump of obstructing justice in the probe and left it for Congress to determine. Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Laurie Kellman, Matthew Daly and Eric Tucker contributed to this report. Subscribe to Daily Headlines Dccar South Dargan Street stolen car crash sends one to Florence hospital	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371823
__label__wiki	0.799577	0.799577	Equitable Estoppel Wendy Hawa contracts law saveSave Equitable Estoppel For Later One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School The Enemy Inside: A Paul Madriani Novel Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret In This Moment: A Novel Seducing Lauren The Associate The Color of Justice Gone Again: A Jack Swyteck Novel Equitable Estoppel A legal principle that bars a party from denying or alleging a certain fact owing to that party's previous conduct, allegation, or denial. The rationale behind estoppel is to prevent injustice owing to inconsistency or Fraud. There are two general types of estoppel: equitable and legal. Equitable Estoppel equitable estoppel, sometimes known as estoppel in pais, protects one party from being harmed by another party's voluntary conduct. Voluntary conduct may be an action, silence, Acquiescence, or concealment of material facts. One example of equitable estoppel due to a party's acquiescence is found in Lambertini v. Lambertini, 655 So. 2d 142 (Fla. 3d Dist. Ct. App. 1995). In the late 1950s, Olga, who was married to another man, and Frank Lambertini met and began living together in Argentina. Olga and Frank hired an attorney in Buenos Aires, who purported to Divorce Olga from her first husband and marry her to Frank pursuant to Mexican law. The Lambertinis began what they thought was a married life together, and soon produced two children. In 1968, they moved to the United States and became Florida residents. In 1992, Olga sought a divorce from Frank. She petitioned the Florida court for sole possession of the marital home and temporary Alimony, which the court granted. Frank sought a rehearing, arguing that the Mexican marriage was not a valid legal marriage and was therefore void. Though Frank won with this argument in the trial court, the appellate court reversed, holding that Frank was equitably estopped from arguing that the Mexican marriage was invalid. According to the appellate court, Frank and Olga had held themselves out as a married couple for more than 30 years, lived together, raised two children, and owned property jointly. Both Frank and Olga apparently believed all along that the Mexican marriage was legal, and it was only when Olga filed for divorce that Frank discovered and chose to rely on its invalidity. The appellate court granted Olga her divorce, the house, and the temporary alimony. Frank's acquiescence for three decadesholding himself out as being married to Olgaprevented him from denying the marriage's existence. There are several specific types of equitable estoppel. Promissory estoppel is a contract law doctrine. It occurs when a party reasonably relies on the promise of another party, and because of the reliance is injured or damaged. For example, suppose a restaurant agrees to pay a bakery to make 50 pies. The bakery has only two employees. It takes them two days to make the pies, and they are unable to bake or sell anything else during that time. Then, the restaurant decides not to buy the pies, leaving the bakery with many more pies than it can sell and a loss of profit from the time spent baking them. A court will likely apply the Promissory Estoppel doctrine and require the restaurant to fulfill its promise and pay for the pies. An estoppel certificate is a written declaration signed by a party who attests, for the benefit of another party, to the accuracy of certain facts described in the declaration. The estoppel certificate prevents the party who signs it from later challenging the validity of those facts. This type of document is perhaps most common in the context of mortgages, or home loans. If one bank seeks to purchase mortgages owned by another bank, the purchasing bank may request the borrowers, or homeowners, to sign an estoppel certificate establishing (1) that the mortgage is valid, (2) the amount of principal and interest due as of the date of the certificate, and (3) that no defenses exist that would affect the value of the mortgage. After signing this certificate, the borrower cannot dispute those facts. Estoppel by laches precludes a party from bringing an action when the party knowingly failed to claim or enforce a legal right at the proper time. This doctrine is closely related to the concept of statutes of limitations, except that statutes of limitations set specific time limits for legal actions, whereas under Laches, generally there is no prescribed time that courts consider "proper." A defendant seeking the protection of laches must demonstrate that the plaintiff's inaction, Misrepresentation, or silence prejudiced the defendant or induced the defendant to change positions for the worse. The court applied the doctrine of laches in People v. Heirens, 648 N.E.2d 260 (Ill. 1st Dist. Ct. App. 1995). William Heirens pleaded guilty, in 1946, to three murders, for which he received three consecutive life terms in prison. Heirens sought court relief numerous times in the ensuing years. In 1989, 43 years after his conviction, Heirens filed his second postconviction petition seeking, among other things, relief from his prison sentence due to ineffective counsel and the denial of due process at the time of his arrest. The court found that all the witnesses and attorneys involved in Heirens's case had since died. Laches precluded Heirens from bringing his action because, according to the court, it would be "difficult to imagine a case where the facts are more remote and where the state might be more prejudiced by the passage of time." Legal Estoppel Legal estoppel consists of estoppel by deed and estoppel by record. Under the doctrine of estoppel by deed, a party to a property deed is precluded from asserting, as against another party to the deed, any right or title in derogation of the deed, or from denying the truth of any material fact asserted in the deed. For example, suppose a father conveys a plot of land to his son by deed. Unbeknownst to the son, the father actually does not own the plot of land at the time of the conveyance; the father acquires title to the property only after the conveyance. Technically, the son is not the legal owner of the property because his father did not own and did not have the right to transfer the real estate at the time of the conveyance. But under the doctrine of estoppel by deed, the court may "make good" the imperfection of the poorly timed conveyance by finding the son to be the rightful owner of the plot of land (Zayka v. Giambro, 32 Mass. App. Ct. 748, 594 N.E.2d 894 [1992]). The doctrine of estoppel by record precludes a party from denying the issues adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction (Collateral Estoppel) or any matter spelled out in a judicial record (judicial estoppel). Collateral estoppel, sometimes known as estoppel by judgment, prevents the reargument of a factual or legal issue that has already been determined by a valid judgment in a prior case involving the same parties. For example, suppose Ms. Jones, who owns a business next to Mr. Smith's, sues Mr. Smith for damage to her property caused by the digging of a hole. Mr. Smith defends by arguing that the hole is on his land. After considering all the evidence, the court determines that Mr. Smith owns the land. Later that year, after a late night at work, Mr. Smith cuts across the back lot, falls into the hole, and is injured. He then sues Ms. Jones for negligent maintenance of her property. In this situation, the court will apply collateral estoppel, preventing Mr. Smith from re-litigating an issue that was already decided between the same parties in the prior proceeding. The related doctrine of judicial estoppel binds a party to his or her judicial declarations, such as allegations contained in a lawsuit complaint or testimony given under oath at a previous trial. Judicial estoppel protects courts from litigants' using opposing theories in the attempt to prevail twice. For instance, a tenant trying to avoid liability to a property owner may not, in the tenant's Bankruptcy case, successfully represent to a court that the property agreement is a lease and then later, when the property owner sues for nonpayment of rent, declare that the agreement is a mortgage rather than a lease (Port Authority v. Harstad, 531 N.W.2d 496 [Minn. Ct. App. 1995]). Estoppel by record is frequently confused with the related doctrine of Res Judicata (a matter adjudged), which bars re-litigation of the same Cause of Action between the same parties once there has been a judgment. For example, if Mr. Chen sues Ms. Lopez for breach of contract and the court returns a decision, Ms. Lopez cannot later sue Mr. Chen for breach of the same contract. Ms. Lopez has the right to appeal the first decision, but she cannot bring a new lawsuit that raises the same claim. Further readings Coale, David S. 1999. "A New Framework for Judicial Estoppel." Review of Litigation 18 (winter): 125. Cooke, Elizabeth. 2000. The Modern Law of Estoppal. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Lundquist, John W. 1997. "'They Knew What We Were Doing': The Evolution of the Criminal Estoppel Defense." William Mitchell Law Review 23 (winter): 84377. Shapiro, David L. 2001. Civil Procedure: Preclusion in Civil Actions. New York: Foundation Press. West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. equitable estoppel n. where a court will not grant a judgment or other legal relief to a party who has not acted fairly; for example, by having made false representations or concealing material facts from the other party. This illustrates the legal maxim: "he who seeks equity, must do equity." Example: Larry Landlord rents space to Dora Dressmaker in his shopping center but falsely tells her a Sears store will be a tenant and will draw customers to the project. He does not tell her a new freeway is going to divert traffic from the center. When she failed to pay her rent due to lack of business, Landlord sues her for breach of lease. Dressmaker may claim he is equitably estopped. (See: estoppel, clean hands doctrine) Collateral Estoppel Laches (Equity) Documents Similar To Equitable Estoppel Drew Whitley v. County of Allegheny, 3rd Cir. (2010) Dr Ti Teow Siew & Ors v Pendaftar Geran-gera Amalina Ahmad Nazeri State Responsibility- Lecture Notes elmin_ibrahimov ferosiac Forcible Entry Cases RP V LACAP Richel Dean Compare and Contrast the Reception of English Law Naqeeb Nexer Common Law Court Manual varg12184315 Nos. 86-5178, 86-5214, 806 F.2d 479, 3rd Cir. (1986) Philo Smith & Co., Inc. And James E. Rutherford v. Uslife Corporation, 554 F.2d 34, 2d Cir. (1977) Equitable Estopel Michael Alinao Equitable Estoppel From Tami - Copy thenjhomebuyer Carothers v. Mayer, 164 U.S. 325 (1896) Jones v. Bolles, 76 U.S. 364 (1870) Maxims of Equity Shuq Faqat al-Fansuri Prescription Annotations Jessa Lo Houston v. 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__label__wiki	0.838386	0.838386	Melinda Janotik saveSave Gyöngyös For Later The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures Elevator Pitch: A Novel The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife Above the Waterfall: A Novel Same Place, More Space: 50 Projects to Maximize Every Room in the House Furniture Makes the Room: Create Special Pieces to Style a Home You Love Build It Yourself: Weekend Projects for the Garden The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican Return to Sullivans Island: A Sullivans Island Sequel SQL All-in-One For Dummies Learn Python in 10 Minutes Construction Calculations Manual 1,001 Old-Time Household Hints: Timeless Bits of Household Wisdom for Today's Home and Garden The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on ¼ Acre Child's History of Art , A: Painting Structural Elements Design Manual Gyngys [] is a town in Heves county in Hungary, 80 km (50 mi) east of Budapest. Situated at the foot of the Sr-hegy and Mtra mountains, it is the home of numerous food production plants, including milk production and sausage factories. It is also the home of many vineyards on the slopes of the Srhegy. The Art-Nouveau and Baroque buildings around the main square were reconstructed after a disastrous fire started in the local hospital in 1917,[1] destroying a number of buildings.[2] The meaning of the town's name is "Made of Pearls"; Croats from Hungary call this city unu (pronounced as "Dyun-dyush"). The 16-17th century historian Mikls Istvnffy wrote that the name of the town comes from the Hungarian word for mistletoe (fagyngyliterally "wood- pearl"), which is abundant in the local woods. The town was built in attractive natural surroundings at the foot of the Mtra mountains. It is the second largest town of Heves county and is situated about 80 kilometres from Budapest. Today it is a cultural and touristic centre of the Mtra Region. In the past it used to be a market town. King Charles Robert gave this status in 1334. Wine production was and is still famous. The Franciscan Order moved into the town in the 14th century. Between 1546 and 1687 Gyngys was under Turkish rule. The towns real development started after the Turks had been banished. Buildings built in baroque style characterised the towns image. At the turn of the century public services were introduced, new roads were built, trees started to be planted and the town was getting prettier. In 1917 a huge fire broke out and set the town in flames. The rebuilding of Gyngys started after the First World War. The result of this is the towns attractive looks today. Those days there were carriages drown by horses today people use modern cars. People wore old fashioned clothes, now they wear fashionable clothes. The buildings were smaller and traditional, now there are a lot of block of flats. Today it is a busy town with lots of entertainment and shopping facilities. The sights worth visiting are the Big church, Main square, The Mtra Museum and The Franciscan church. Students can choose from several schools. Unfortunately, there are traffic jams in the rush hour and the exhaust fumes cause pollution. Most cities face the same problem. Gyngys, the second largest town of Heves county, the Gate of the Mtra is located at the meeting of the Great Hungarian Plain s northern border and the looming Mtras southern slopes covered with woods. The town is the cultural, economic and tourist centre of the region north-east from Budapest. The name of the town is first mentioned as Gungus in 1261 then King Charles Robert granted Gyngys the status of a town in 1334 giving its inhabitants privileges. Owing to winemaking and viniculture, the trade routes crossing the town and the permanent market place, the town began flourishing soon also thanked for the Franciscans settled here. From 1546 to 1687 Gyngys was occupied by the Turks but enjoyed a relatively high degree of protection since it became the private property of the Sultans viniculture and commerce, especially wine trading throve further here. At the beginning of the 17th century industrial guilds appeared. The town played a significant role in the War of Independence led by Ferenc Rkczi II. By that time most houses of the town had already been built in Baroque style. Although viniculture and wine trading of the town and its surroundings were destroyed by phylloxera in the 1880s, supplying with public services started, new roads were built, the whole town was beautified and prospered at the turn of the century. On 21 May 1917 a spark from the hospitals washhouse set fire and the disastrous conflagration enveloped the town destroying 549 houses and 1400 outbuildings.11 people died in the catastrophe and 8000 citizens were made homeless. As there was a lack of water, it was transported from Vmosgyrk by train, the inhabitants tried to douse the flames with wine as well. Two days after the fire King Charles IV and his wife visited the town and made law to rebuild it moreover he gave financial assistance too. The whole country wanted to help Gyngys with donations to reconstruct the town, which began following the plans of Lszl Warga, professor of architecture after the World War I. This reconstruction work offered Gyngys the present-day skyline. After 1945 the town expanded over the centre and new housing estates were built in the greenbelt so the relatively small downtown retained its charming atmosphere. We start our sightseeing at the centre of the town, the Main Square used to be called Market Place for centuries. It had been rebuilt first after the Great Fire of Gyngys in 1917 then the square gained its present appearance in 2000. The previous Town Hall located at the old market place besides the landowners and wealthy citizens houses of middle aged origin . These renovated buildings provide that particular, unified, peaceful townscape nowhere else can be seen in Hungary. The two storey Baroque building of the former Grassalkovich Mansion at 10 Main Square now houses the Town Library. In the gallery upstairs the permanent exhibition of paintings by Hermann Lipt and the Lajos Huszr Coin Collection are on display. Throwing a glance at the gate above we can see the ornamental Baroque coat of arms of Grassalkovich family. On the other side we come to 11 Main Square, the classical building of the Orczy family which conceals particular values. The excavated Gothic hall of it is the oldest secular architectural relic. The neighbouring house at no.13 is the Town Hall .On its facade is the coat of arms of the town. Its relevant motifs the golden Sun, the human faced Moon and the wolf - decorate three of those four fountains placed in the corners of the square. The significant motif of the fourth fountain in the south- east corner is grape referring to the Town of Grapes and Wine title was gained in 1984. The renewed ancient well situated in the south depicts the coat of arms of the twin towns of Gyngys- Ringsted in Denmark, Zeltweg in Austria, Kzdivsrhely in Romania, Pieksamakki in Finland and Sanok in Poland. The fountains as well as the well were made during the renovation in 2000, which was awarded Hild prize. Going along 150 meters in Zsigmond Mricz Street from the square to the south in a little park you can see the statue Hussar Looking at His Sword by Zsigmond Kisfaludy Strbl made in 1932 .It was erected in memory of The Wrtenberg hussars who fought in the eastern battle-line during the World War 1. Names of settlements of Galicia can be read on the pedestal of the statue. Walking along Rzsa then Sndor Krsi Csoma Street to the bank of Gyngys Stream there is the Baroque building designed by Jakab Fellner, which was originally the barracks of Ndor hussars led by Gbor Hertelendy from 1800 is now known as the County Hall. The last residents here were the Wrtenberg hussars earlier mentioned. Its present-day appearance was gained in 1929 when the Ministry of Agriculture bought the building to use as a state stud-farm. This is the reason why it is commonly called Csdrs (Stallion) Barrack . Before continuing walking take a closer look at the facade of the building, the ancient coat of arms of Heves County. Opposite the County Hall on the other side of the stream bank there is the classical building of the old Synagogue built by Kroly Rbl , the son of the town between 1816-1820.It is now occupied by the local television. On the wall of the building a nice commemorative plaque to the memory of Jewish victims of World War II can be seen .The neighbouring new synagogue was constructed by Lipt Baumhorn and Gyrgy Somogyi in 1930. In the centre of the cathedral- like building is the huge dome. The donkey- spined doors and windows, the entablatures and several little cupolas make the building so splendid. Tragically the great majority of 2071 Gyngys Jews- counted in 1941- fell victim to the holocaust in Auschwitz therefore the building has not been used as a synagogue any more . Retracing your steps to the Main Square down rpd Puky Street next to the Town Hall and the Orczy Mansion there is the former Heves County General Bank Cos building at no.9 constructed by Valr Mende in 1911 which was one of the first ferro-concrete buildings of Hungary now houses the Hungarian Army Casino. The building at no.8 was the residence of Jnos Almsy, the sub-prefect of Heves county. As the memorial plaque says the inhabitants of the county gathered here after Almsys summons in October 1703 to join the Rkczi s War of Independence. During the last 200 years the building has been renovated several times but from 1883 the house was owned by Kolos Hank, a supreme court judge who was the freeman of Gyngys. His HK monogram can be seen on the wrought iron railing of the balcony. The former residence of Ferenc Rkczi II stood at no.2 where the prince held peace negotiations with Pl Szchenyi, the son of the town, the archbishop of Kalocsa in 1704.Only a stone door frame of the original building from 1731 was preserved . The house was replaced by the Commercial and Corporate Bank Cos mansion designed by Dezs Frend but the entrance keeps the memory of the prince and the historical events. In the northern part of the square at a four-road crossing stands the impressive two-steepled Saint Bartholomew Parish Church, the Big Church, of which present form is in baroque style. In its place once was a much smaller church in the second half of the 13th century. It was reconstructed first by Tams Szchenyi, a nobleman of the town around 1300 then at the end of the 15th century it was rebuilt as one of the biggest gothic halled churches of Hungary. The only remaining parts of the gothic church are the large twin windows on both sides of the apse and the relic of the former bell tower wall built to the southern aisle. The old gothic church was reconstructed in baroque style between 1746 and 1756. The steeples were added later, the northern one between 1772 and 1773 while the southern one in 1815. During the great fire of 1917 the building was seriously damaged. Although it was partly restored soon but the huge steeples still need restoration. The painting of the baroque main altar shows the martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, the patron saint of the church. The treasured rarity of the church is the gothic bronze baptizing pool from the 15th century standing on the southern side of the shrine. Opposite the western main entrance of Saint Bartholomew Church King Charles Roberts full statue by Pl K stands on a column on a round paved square built in 2000. The towns coat of arms and the starting lines of the certificate granting the town rights to the settlement can be read on the column. The statue was raised by the town for the 650th anniversary of Gyngys being declared a town. The statue of Saint Stephen, the first Hungarian king by Pl K was made for the 1000th anniversary of the state foundation . The lion headed well by Istvn Mt stands behind the statues. Its carvings show the most significant events of the towns history. Right behind the Saint Bartholomew church is the one storey baroque building of the former Jesuit then Fransiscan Grammar School today Jnos Ptzay Music School. The first grammar school of the town was built in the 17th century, the new baroque building was constructed a century later. At 3 Szent Bertalan Street stands the former Almssy mansion which is known today as the House of the Holy Crown. The Holy Crown of Hungary was guarded here three times between 1806 and 1809. The building is today the presbytery of Saint Bartholomew and houses the unique treasury of the church collected for centuries. During the World War II while the Soviet troops were staying in the town three priests hid the treasure under the southern steeple. Then the last living priest told the secret before dying in 1967. This is the third richest and most considerable church exhibition of Hungary where one can see several chasubles, books, statues and goldsmiths work of which twelve pieces are from the medieval period. The so-called pinhead chalices are unique examples of Hungarian goldsmiths art. From the treasury going along the memorial to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 we continue our walking in Lajos Kossuth Street. At the beginning of it is the neo-baroque building of the Fire Station designed by Gyula Walder between 1924-1925 with the statue of Saint Florian. On the corner of Mtrai Street and Kossuth Street stands the former Orczy Mansion today Mtra Museum. The baroque building built in the 18th century gained its present- day classicist facade in 1826 by Lrinc Zofahl. The one- storey building fully renovated in 2005 is surrounded by a beautiful park which is guarded by two lions standing at the entrance. The biggest, nearly 200 years old Turkish hazel of Hungary can be found in the park as well. The museums exhibitions present the history of the town, the flora and fauna of the Mtra and the history of hunting. This is Hungarys second largest natural science museum with its paleontological, geological and zoological collections. Apart from these, it is best known for the completely preserved mammoth skeleton found in 1949. At the crossing of Lajos Kossuth Street and Kohry Street is the Saint Elisabeths church. The medieval building was renovated in 1994 when the crypt under the shrine was excavated. Its material can be seen in the Mtra Museum. To the south from the church is the former hospital of the town where mostly the poor and the ill were cured then it was used by a school for almost one and a half century. In front of the beautiful eclectic building of the Wine Palace stands Sndor Kliegls bronze work ,the Hoers of Gyngys, as a reminder of the vineyard workers of Gyngys. Today this is the largest winery of the town. In the south-east part of the town centre on Bartok Square is the Franciscan Church and Monastery . According to the local traditions the Franciscan monks settled in Gyngys in the 14th century and finished building the gothic construction of the church in 1494.It was demolished several times in the past but the order rebuilt it each time. In the 18th century the church was reconstructed by the famous Italian architect, Giovanni Battista Carlone in baroque style but retained its gothic character with a single nave. The monastery was also built between 1701 and 1727 as one of the largest Franciscan monastery of Hungary. The roof , the two steeples and the monastery itself were damaged by the fire of 1904. The renovation was lead by Frigyes Schulek and Klmn Lux. Inside the building is the 18th century chapel and altar of the Mater Dolorosa under the second window of the nave. Above the altar there is the statue of the Golden Pieta, made in 1680, which has been revered by the locals for centuries. On the southern wall of the shrine is the red marble plaque to the memory of Jnos Vak Bottyn, Prince Ferenc Rkczis most appreciated general since, according to chronicles, he was buried here. Entering the ornamented monastery entrance leading to the southern part one can see the inestimable Franciscan Monastic Library with its 16000 volumes, codices and early printed books. This is one of the oldest and continuously functioning order library of Hungary. On the southern side of Bartok Square stands the Pearls Mtra Cultural Centre built in 1978. In the assembly hall is the huge stained glass window made by Gbor Szinte describing the phoenix rising from the ashes .This represents the whole history of Gyngys and the Mtra as the town has always revived after several fire . 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__label__cc	0.537613	0.462387	Minister Gildernew updates Assembly on Bluetongue and FMD Sinn Féin Agriculture Michelle Gildernew MP MLA today updated the Assembly on the current disease situation in Britain. Her statement follows confirmation by Defra that Bluetongue is circulating in East Anglia. On Friday, following that confirmation the Minister reviewed the precautionary measures in place to minimise the risk of Bluetongue reaching the North. The Minister assured the Assembly that she was taking all necessary precautions to help prevent the disease spreading to the island. These steps include testing cattle and sheep imported from continental Europe and keeping them isolated on farm until negative test results are received. The Minister explained that the steps she has already put in place to prevent the spread of Foot and Mouth disease to the North gives the island dual protection against Bluetongue disease. Ms Gildernew said: "Due to the Foot and Mouth Disease preventive measures that I reintroduced here on 12 September, our ports remain closed to the import of live animals from Britain which gives us dual protection for Bluetongue too." "We cannot however be complacent and if necessary I will not hesitate to take whatever action is required to try to keep the island of Ireland free from Bluetongue disease". She added: "If Bluetongue reaches the North, my Department has a contingency plan in place, which is subject to a continuous process of review and updating." DARD continues to liaise closely with Defra, other Devolved Administrations and with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Dublin to monitor the Bluetongue situation. The Minister also took the opportunity to update the Assembly on the ongoing Foot and Mouth situation in Surrey. Since 3rd August there have been a total of 8 premises affected by the disease, Protection and surveillance zones are still in place in the Surrey area. DARD is reviewing the situation to ensure that the existing precautionary measures that are in place here continue to be appropriate.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371827
__label__cc	0.614864	0.385136	Time for unionist community to accept nationalists are not second class Sinn Féin Assembly member for Upper Bann John O'Dowd has challenged unionist politicians in Lurgan to begin to tackle sectarian attitudes within their community. Mr O'Dowds remarks come after a young teenager was attacked in the Sloan Street area of the town in a sectarian attack. Mr O'Dowd said: " This sectarian attack was carried out in Sloan Street close to the town centre. The young person assaulted was lucky to escape without receiving very serious injuries. Unfortunately unionist politicians in this area continue to ignore the issue of sectarianism and sectarian attacks coming from within their community. " Given that many of these same politicians insist on taking part in coat trailing Orange Order parades through nationalist parts of the town for most of the summer months it is maybe not surprising that young people from within their community act in this fashion. " It is time for unionist political leaders in Luragn and Portadown to wake up to the reality that nationalists will no longer simply lie down and allow our rights and entitlements to be trampled upon. The days of second class citizenship are over and the sectarian attitudes from within unionism which gave rise to it need to be left behind also. That is a challenge for unionism in the time ahead" ENDS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371828
__label__wiki	0.856174	0.856174	Awards Show Announcements (News, Nominees, Winners) SPW Categories (27 Total) Visual Effects and Animation Cinema Advertising Auctions, Used Equipment and Software For Sale Film Commissions, Incentives, Locations News New ScreenWork Releases (commercial, film, TV, online, etc) Stock Library News (video, audio, still images) The Motion Picture Sound Editors tonight presented the 67th MPSE Annual Golden Reel Awards at a black-tie ceremony at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented its coveted Actor® statuettes for the outstanding motion picture and television performances of 2019 at the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, held Sunday, Jan. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) hosted the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on the evening of Saturday, January 18 at the Hollywood Palladium. A full list of winners is below. “Parasite” (edited by Jinmo Yang) and “Jojo Rabbit” (edited by Tom Eagles) won Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) respectively at the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards tonight where trophies were handed out recognizing the best editing of 2019 in 11 ca Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Career Achievement Honoree Cece Hall Shares Her Passion For Sound with Student Filmmakers On January 19th, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will honor Cecelia “Cece” Hall with its Career Achievement Award at the 67th Annual Golden Reel Awards ceremony. Art Directors Guild To Induct Legendary Production Designers Bill Creber and Roland Anderson Into the ADG Hall of Fame Oscar®-nominated Art Director and Production Designers William J. Creber, best known for his work on the Irwin Allen disaster flicks The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno and the first three Planet of the Apes Motion Picture Sound Editors Announces Presenters For The 67th MPSE Golden Reel Awards Presenters for the 67th MPSE Golden Reel Awards will include Grammy Award-winning recording artist Melissa Manchester, All Rise star Nadia Gray, The Climb director Michael Angelo Covino, Dark/Web star Michael Nardelli, Gabby Duran & the Unsittables Chris Franklin of Big Sky Edit Announced as 2020 AICP Post Awards Chair Matt Miller, President and CEO of AICP, announced that Chris Franklin, Owner/Editor at Big Sky Edit, will serve as the Chairperson of the 2020 AICP Post Awards. Final Nominations Announced For The 57th Annual ICG Publicists Awards The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has announced its final list of nominations for the Mobius Awards Announces Best of Show Shortlist Thirteen entries in the 2019 Mobius Awards are nominated for Best of Show (Grand Prix). The entries are in Package Design, Brand Identity, Commercials and Outdoor. The Grand Prix winners will be announced January 21, 2020 Package Design Nominees Imperial Woodpecker Geremy Jasper Danielle Macdonald Lorraine Toussaint Lazer Team Farm League	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371834
__label__wiki	0.949609	0.949609	Ross from 'Friends' predicted a ‘Black Mirror’ episode back in the '90s It's normally Black Mirror doing the predicting By Tom Victor Over the course of three seasons, with a fourth on the way, Black Mirror has developed a reputation for being able to predict the future. From face-mapping technology on phones to headlines involving the Prime Minister and a pig, Charlie Brooker’s show has the knack for inventions which go from fictional future to real life. There’s only one thing more impressive than that, of course: predicting Black Mirror itself. But it would take an absolute genius to do that, surely. Someone like… oh, I don’t know, the smartest sitcom academic ever? There he is In the Friends episode ‘The One Where Phoebe Runs’, which first aired back in November 1999, the world’s most famous fictional palaeontologist, Dr Ross Geller, gave his predictions for the future. “By the year 2030, there’ll be computers that can carry out the same amount of functions as an actual human brain,” Ross says. “So theoretically you could download your thoughts and memories into this computer and live forever as a machine.” Sound familiar? It should do, because the same basic plotline drives ‘San Junipero’, the stand-out episode of Black Mirror’s third season. So, what happened? Is it now Friends canon that Ross travelled into the future and, instead of doing anything meaningful, just laid around watching a bunch of TV? It would make sense, seeing as someone whose entire life revolves around the past might struggle to conceive of what to do if sent in the opposite direction. So yes, we’re going with that. Ross travelled forward to 2017, saw that ’San Junipero’ had won an Emmy, read a bunch of articles about Black Mirror predicting the future and projected a date for Brooker’s fiction becoming reality. Either that or it’s just pure coincidence, but that’s no fun. (Images: Netflix) Best Marvel TV shows, ranked: 10 action-packed series to watch These are the Marvel TV shows you should be watching. Best YouTube channels: 10 must-watch channels Cats, callisthenics or cooking with your dog - there's a YouTube Channel for that The best Netflix TV shows to watch in January 2020 Updated: the best Netflix TV shows you should be watching.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371836
__label__wiki	0.783054	0.783054	The OA has been cancelled There will be no OA season three on Netflix Hit Netflix sci-fi series The OA might have won over fans and critics, but it has still been cancelled. The latest series received an 84% fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. And Netflix has now confirmed it will not get a third season. The show stars Brit Marling as a blind woman transported to a different dimension who regains her sight when she reappears on Earth. She becomes dedicated to rescuing people who have met the same fate. Marling created and co-produced the series with Zal Batmanglij, and Brad Pitt was also in the executive producing chair. “We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of ‘The OA,’ and are grateful to Brit and Zal for sharing their audacious vision and for realizing it through their incredible artistry,” said Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix. “We look forward to working with them again in the future, in this and perhaps many other dimensions.” As you might expect, fans are as disappointed as anything. so I come on twitter to see The OA trending and I thought it was gonna be good NEWS about season 3 but bitch no.... Netflix rlly out here cancelling good shows :(( #TheOApic.twitter.com/IpSlboxSdD — dale ♡ (@daleexr) August 5, 2019 I told my dad they cancelled THE OA pic.twitter.com/KSOoboVpzx — Avishai Weinberger (@avishaiw) August 5, 2019 the OA is seriously one of the most well thought out shows ever. original, mind-blowing, interesting, funny and emotional, it’s diverse and it has amazing acting. there isn’t a show like it. brit and zal deserve to finish their 5 part vision!!#SaveTheOApic.twitter.com/JaDF7BxReD — sam (@spacesansa) August 5, 2019 Fan campaigns have had some success in recent years when it comes to getting shows uncancelled. Lucifer was originally cancelled by Fox, but a vociferous fan campaign saw it quickly picked up by Netflix. And when the show was cancelled again, a similar campaign saw the final series bulked out with more episodes So while it’s bad news for The OA right now – there could, still, be some hope. Catch up with the OA and other brilliant shows with the help of our guide to the best Netflix shows	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371837
__label__wiki	0.962883	0.962883	SILKROAD NEWS M'sia News Immigration Dept: Over 80,000 M'sian passports reported lost last year AllM'sia News Previous 96 / 170 Next PORT DICKSON: The decision to impose up to RM1,000 fine to Malaysians who lose or damage their passports was made following the enormous number of the document reported lost last year. The Immigration Department deputy director-general (management) Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman said a total of 83,617 passports were reported lost last year, a higher figure compared to 2017 and 2016 with 75,600 and 44,528 passports reported lost or damaged, respectively. “This is worrying as passport is a national security document. “Thus, the department has gazetted a fine of RM200 for passport reported lost for the first time, the second time (RM500) and third time (RM1,000),” he said, adding that over 2.1 million passports were issued by the department last year. Abdul Halim said the fine was aimed at ensuring that passport holders were being more responsible and would not take the matter lightly. “However, an exemption is given to holders whose passports lost due to theft, robbery and fire, provided that they lodge a police report on the incident. If the passport is lost due to carelessness, a fine would be imposed on the holder,” he told reporters after launching the Immigration assistant superintendent KP29 graduation ceremony at the Malaysian Immigration Academy (AIM) here today. Also present were National Anti-Financial Crime Centre (NAFCC) chief executive Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali and AIM director Mohamad Fauzi Md Isa. According to department’s statistics, Abdul Halim said 62,044 passports were reported lost while in possession of the holders, 5,022 stolen, 170 surrendered to agencies, 559 due to fire, 7,815 while moving into a different house, 1,203 during natural disaster, 1,949 kept in unsafe places, 4,682 dropped while on the go, and 173 left in vehicles. On a separate matter, Abdul Halim said a total of 14,724 operations and 191,218 checks were conducted nationwide by the department last year. “Following that, a total of 48,372 illegal immigrants were detained and actions taken on 1,468 employers. “In the first 12 days this year alone, we have carried out 313 operations involving 3,476 checks, with actions taken againts 1,397 illegal immigrants and 14 employers,” he added. The new rule, which came into force on Jan 2, falls under the Fees (Passports and Visas) (Amendment) Order 2019 of the Federal Government Gazette. It states that Malaysians who lose or damage their passports for the first time will be fined RM200, RM500 for the second replacement and RM1,000 fine for those who lose or damage their passports for the third time. Previously, Malaysians who applied for a replacement passport after losing or damaging their travel document were not penalised. (Source : New Straits Times, 12 Jan 2019) © 2018 - 2020 SilkRoad Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371839
__label__cc	0.692331	0.307669	Australia India United Kingdom United States The Monstrumologist By Rick Yancey Trade Paperback Hardcover eBook A Different Drummer Books Another Story Bookshop Audreys Books Ltd. Bakka Phoenix Books Banyen Books Biblioasis Blue Heron Books Bolen Books BookLore Bookshelf Café Brome Lake Books Bryan Prince Café Books Chat Noir Books Coho Books Crockett Books Curiosity House Epic Books Fanfare Books Finchers Forster’s Book Garden Galiano Island Books Gulliver's Bookstore Hager Books Ivy's Book Shop La Maison Anglaise Laughing Oyster Books Le James McGill University Let’s Talk Books Librairie Bonder Librairie Clio Librairie Paragraphe Livres Babar Mabel's Fables MacNally Robinson Mill Street Books Millennia Books Misty River Books Mulberry Bush Books Munro's Books Novel Idea Oink! Oink! Otter Books Parent Books Parry Sound Books Roxanne’s Reflections Self-Connection Books Shelf Life Books Simply AudioBooks Tanner's Books The Owl's Nest Books & Gifts The University of Manitoba Bookstore The Village Bookshop Type Books University of Winnipeg Bookstore Words Worth Yellowknife Book Cellar A monster-hunting doctor and his apprentice face off against a plague of monsters in the first book of a terrifying series. Publishers Weekly says “horror lovers will be rapt.” These are the secrets I have kept. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor in nineteenth-century New England, Will has grown accustomed to his late-night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will’s world changes forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus—a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest—and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume the world…before it is too late. The Monstrumologist is the first stunning gothic adventure in a series that combines the terror of HP Lovecraft with the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle. ONE “A Singular Curiosity” These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me. I can’t recall what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember with nightmarish clarity that spring night in 1888 when he roused me roughly from my slumber, his hair unkempt, eyes wide and shining in the lamplight, the excited glow upon his finely chiseled features, one with which I had, unfortunately, become intimately acquainted. “Get up! Get up, Will Henry, and be quick about it!” he said urgently. “We have a caller!” “A caller?” I murmured in reply. “What time is it?” “A little after one. Now get dressed and meet me at the back door. Step lively, Will Henry, and snap to!” He withdrew from my little alcove, taking the light with him. I dressed in the dark and scampered down the ladder in my stocking feet, putting on the last of my garments, a soft felt hat a size too small for my twelve-year-old head. That little hat was all I had left from my life before coming to live with him, and so it was precious to me. He had lit the jets along the hall of the upper floor, though but a single light burned on the main floor, in the kitchen at the rear of the old house where just the two of us lived, without so much as a maid to pick up after us: The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class. When the dust and dirt became intolerable, about every three months or so, he would press a rag and a bucket into my hands and tell me to “snap to” before the tide of filth overwhelmed us. I followed the light into the kitchen, my shoes completely forgotten in my trepidation. This was not the first nocturnal visitor since my coming to live with him the year before. The doctor had numerous visits in the wee hours of the morning, more than I cared to remember, and none were cheerful social calls. His business was dangerous and dark, as I have said, and so, on the whole, were his callers. The one who called on this night was standing just outside the back door, a gangly, skeletal figure, his shadow rising wraithlike from the glistening cobblestones. His face was hidden beneath the broad brim of his straw hat, but I could see his gnarled knuckles protruding from his frayed sleeves, and knobby yellow ankles the size of apples below his tattered trousers. Behind the old man a broken-down nag of a horse stamped and snorted, steam rising from its quivering flanks. Behind the horse, barely visible in the mist, was the cart with its grotesque cargo, wrapped in several layers of burlap. The doctor was speaking quietly to the old man as I came to the door, a comforting hand upon his shoulder, for clearly our caller was nearly mad with panic. He had done the right thing, the doctor was assuring him. He, the doctor, would take the matter from here. All would be well. The poor old soul nodded his large head, which appeared all the larger with its lid of straw as it bobbed on its spindly neck. “ ’Tis a crime. A bloody crime of nature!” he exclaimed at one point. “I shouldn’t have taken it; I should have covered it back up and left it to the mercy of God!” “I take no stances on theology, Erasmus,” said the doctor. “I am a scientist. But is it not said that we are his instruments? If that is the case, then God brought you to her and directed you hence to my door.” “So you won’t report me?” the old man asked, with a sideways glance toward the doctor. “Your secret will be as safe with me as I hope mine will be with you. Ah, here is Will Henry. Will Henry, where are your shoes? No, no,” he said as I turned to fetch them. “I need you to ready the laboratory.” “Yes, doctor,” I responded dutifully, and turned to go a second time. “And put a pot on. It’s going to be a long night.” “Yes, sir,” I said. I turned a third time. “And find my boots, Will Henry.” “Of course, sir.” I hesitated, waiting for a fourth command. The old man called Erasmus was staring at me. “Well, what are you waiting for?” the doctor said. “Snap to, Will Henry!” “Yes, sir,” I said. “Right away, sir!” I left them in the alley, hearing the old man ask as I hurried across the kitchen, “He is your boy?” “He is my assistant,” came the doctor’s reply. I set the water on to boil and then went down to the basement. I lit the lamps, laid out the instruments. (I wasn’t sure which he might need, but had a strong suspicion the old man’s delivery was not alive—I had heard no sounds coming from the old cart, and there didn’t seem to be great urgency to fetch the cargo inside . . . though this may have been more hope than suspicion.) Then I removed a fresh smock from the closet and rummaged under the stairs for the doctor’s rubber boots. They weren’t there, and for a moment I stood by the examination table in mute panic. I had washed them the week before and was certain I had placed them under the stairs. Where were the doctor’s boots? From the kitchen came the clumping of the men’s tread across the wooden floor. He was coming, and I had lost his boots! I spied the boots just as the doctor and Erasmus began to descend the stairs. They were beneath the worktable, where I had placed them. Why had I put them there? I set them by the stool and waited, my heart pounding, my breath coming in short, ragged gasps. The basement was very cold, at least ten degrees colder than the rest of the house, and stayed that way year round. The load, still wrapped tightly in burlap, must have been heavy: The muscles in the men’s necks bulged with the effort, and their descent was painfully slow. Once the old man cried for a halt. They paused five steps from the bottom, and I could see the doctor was annoyed at this delay. He was anxious to unveil his new prize. They eventually heaved their burden onto the examining table. The doctor guided the old man to the stool. Erasmus sank down upon it, removed his straw hat, and wiped his crinkled brow with a filthy rag. He was shaking badly. In the light I could see that nearly all of him was filthy, from his mud-encrusted shoes to his broken fingernails to the fine lines and crevasses of his ancient face. I could smell the rich, loamy aroma of damp earth rising from him. “A crime,” he murmured. “A crime!” “Yes, grave-robbing is a crime,” said the doctor. “A very serious crime, Erasmus. A thousand-dollar fine and five years’ hard labor.” He shrugged into his smock and motioned for his boots. He leaned against the banister to tug them on. “We are coconspirators now. I must trust you, and you in turn must trust me. Will Henry, where is my tea?” I raced up the stairs. Below, the old man was saying, “I have a family to feed. My wife, she’s very ill; she needs medicine. I can’t find work, and what use is gold and jewels to the dead?” They had left the back door ajar. I swung it closed and threw the bolt, but not until I checked the alley. I saw nothing but the fog, which had grown thicker, and the horse, its face dominated by its large eyes that seemed to implore me for help. I could hear the rise and fall of the voices in the basement as I prepared the tea, Erasmus’s with its high-pitched, semi-hysterical edge, the doctor’s measured and low, beneath which lurked an impatient curtness no doubt born of his eagerness to unwrap the old man’s unholy bundle. My unshod feet had grown quite cold, but I tried my best to ignore the discomfort. I dressed the tray with sugar and cream and two cups. Though the doctor hadn’t ordered the second, I thought the old man might need a cup to repair his shattered nerves. “. . . halfway to it, the ground just gave beneath me,” the old grave-robber was saying as I descended with the tray. “As if I struck a hollow or pocket in the earth. I fell face-first upon the top of the casket. Don’t know if my fall cracked the lid or if it was cracked by the . . . cracked before I fell.” “Before, no doubt,” said the doctor. They were as I had left them, the doctor leaning against the banister, the old man shivering upon the stool. I offered him some tea, and he accepted the proffered cup gladly. “Oh, I am chilled to my very bones!” he whimpered. “This has been a cold spring,” the doctor observed. He struck me as at once bored and agitated. “I couldn’t just leave it there,” the old man explained. “Cover it up again and leave it? No, no. I’ve more respect than that. I fear God. I fear the judgment of eternity! A crime, Doctor. An abomination! So once I gathered my wits, I used the horse and a bit of rope to haul them from the hole, wrapped them up . . . brought them here.” “You did the right thing, Erasmus.” “ ‘There’s but one man who’ll know what to do,’ I said to myself. Forgive me, but you must know what they say about you and the curious goings-on in this house. Only the deaf would not know about Pellinore Warthrop and the house on Harrington Lane!” “Then I am fortunate,” said the doctor dryly, “that you are not deaf.” He went to the old man’s side and placed both hands on his shoulders. “You have my confidence, Erasmus Gray. As I’m certain I have yours. I will speak to no one of your involvement in this ‘crime,’ as you call it, as I’m sure you will keep mum regarding mine. Now, for your trouble . . . ” He produced a wad of bills from his pocket and stuffed them into the old man’s hands. “I don’t mean to rush you off, but each moment you stay endangers both you and my work, both of which matter a great deal to me, though one perhaps a bit more than the other,” he added with a tight smile. He turned to me. “Will Henry, show our caller to the door.” Then he turned back to Erasmus Gray. “You have done an invaluable service to the advancement of science, sir.” The old man seemed more interested in the advancement of his fortunes, for he was staring openmouthed at the cash in his still-quivering hands. Dr. Warthrop urged him to his feet and toward the stairs, instructing me not to forget to lock the back door and find my shoes. “And don’t lollygag, Will Henry. We’ve work to last us the rest of the night. Snap to!” Old Erasmus hesitated at the back door, a dirty paw upon my shoulder, the other clutching his tattered straw hat, his rheumy eyes straining against the fog, which had now completely engulfed his horse and cart. Its snorts and stamping against the stones were the only evidence of the beast’s existence. “Why are you here, boy?” he asked suddenly, giving my shoulder a hard squeeze. “This is no business for children.” “My parents died in a fire, sir,” I answered. “The doctor took me in.” “The doctor,” Erasmus echoed. “They call him that—but what exactly is he a doctor of?” The grotesque, I might have answered. The bizarre. The unspeakable. Instead I gave the same answer the doctor had given me when I’d asked him not long after my arrival at the house on Harrington Lane. “Philosophy,” I said with little conviction. “Philosophy!” Erasmus cried softly. “Not what I would call it, that be certain!” He jammed the hat upon his head and plunged into the fog, shuffling forward until it engulfed him. A few minutes later I was descending the stairs to the basement laboratory, having thrown the bolt to the door and having found my shoes, after a moment or two of frantic searching, exactly where I had left them the night before. The doctor was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, impatiently drumming his fingers upon the rail. Apparently he did not think there was enough “snap” in my “to.” As for myself, I was not looking forward to the rest of the evening. This was not the first time someone had called at our back door in the middle of the night bearing macabre packages, though this certainly was the largest since I had come to live with the doctor. “Did you lock the door?” the doctor asked. I noticed again the color high in his cheeks, the slight shortness of breath, the excited quaver in his voice. I answered that I had. He nodded. “If what he says is true, Will Henry, if I have not been taken for a fool—which would not be the first time—then this is an extraordinary find. Come!” We took our positions, he by the table where lay the bundle of muddy burlap, I behind him and to his right, manning the tall rolling tray of instruments, with pencil and notebook at the ready. My hand was shaking slightly as I wrote the date across the top of the page, April 15, 1888. He donned his gloves with a loud pop! against his wrists and stamped his boots on the cold stone floor. He pulled on his mask, leaving just the top of his nose and his intense dark eyes exposed. “Are we ready, Will Henry?” he breathed, his voice muffled by the mask. He drummed his fingers in the empty air. “Ready, sir,” I replied, though I felt anything but. “Scissors!” I slapped the instrument handle-first into his open palm. “No, the big ones, Will Henry. The shears there.” He began at the narrow end of the bundle, where the feet must have been, cutting down the center of the thick material, his shoulders hunched, the muscles of his jaw bunching with the effort. He paused once to stretch and loosen his cramping fingers, then returned to the task. The burlap was wet and caked with mud. “The old man trussed it tighter than a Christmas turkey,” the doctor muttered. After what seemed like hours, he reached the opposite end. The burlap had parted an inch or two along the cut, but no more. The contents remained a mystery and would remain so for a few more seconds. The doctor handed me the shears and leaned against the table, resting before the final, awful climax. At last he straightened, pressing his hands upon the small of his back. He took a deep breath. “Very well, then,” he said softly. “Let’s have it, Will Henry.” He peeled away the material, working it apart in the same direction as he had cut it. The burlap fell back on either side, draping over the table like the petals of a flower opening to welcome the spring sun. Over his bent back I could see them. Not the single corpulent corpse that I had anticipated, but two bodies, one wrapped about the other in an obscene embrace. I choked back the bile that rushed from my empty stomach, and willed my knees to be still. Remember, I was twelve years old. A boy, yes, but a boy who had already seen his fair share of grotesqueries. The laboratory had shelves along the walls that held large jars wherein oddities floated in preserving solution, extremities and organs of creatures that you would not recognize, that you would swear belonged to the world of nightmares, not our waking world of comfortable familiarity. And, as I’ve said, this was not the first time I had assisted the doctor at his table. But nothing had prepared me for what the old man delivered that night. I daresay your average adult would have fled the room in horror, run screaming up the stairs and out of the house, for what lay within that burlap cocoon laid shame to all the platitudes and promises from a thousand pulpits upon the nature of a just and loving God, of a balanced and kind universe, and the dignity of man. A crime, the old grave-robber had called it. Indeed there seemed no better word for it, though a crime requires a criminal . . . and who or what was the criminal in this case? Upon the table lay a young girl, her body partially concealed by the naked form wrapped around her, one massive leg thrown over her torso, an arm draped across her chest. Her white burial gown was stained with the distinctive ochre of dried blood, the source of which was immediately apparent: Half her face was missing, and below it I could see the exposed bones of her neck. The tears along the remaining skin were jagged and triangular in shape, as if someone had hacked at her body with a hatchet. The other corpse was male, at least twice her size, wrapped as I said around her diminutive frame as a mother nestles with her child, the chest a few inches from her ravaged neck, the rest of its body pressed tightly against hers. But the most striking thing was not its size or even the startling fact of its very presence. No, the most remarkable thing about this most remarkable tableau was that her companion had no head. “Anthropophagi,” the doctor murmured, eyes wide and glittering above the mask. “It must be . . . but how could it? This is most curious, Will Henry. That he’s dead is curious enough, but more curious by far is that he’s here in the first place! . . . Specimen is male, approximately twenty-five to thirty years of age, no signs of exterior injury or trauma. . . . Will Henry, are you writing this down?” He was staring at me. I in turn stared back at him. The stench of death had already filled the room, causing my eyes to sting and fill with tears. He pointed at the forgotten notebook in my hand. “Focus upon the task at hand, Will Henry.” I nodded and wiped away the tears with the back of my hand. I pressed the lead point against the paper and began to write beneath the date. “Specimen appears to be of the genus Anthropophagi,” the doctor repeated. “Male, approximately twenty-five to thirty years of age, with no signs of exterior injury or trauma. . . . ” Focusing on the task of reporter helped to steady me, though I could feel the tug of morbid curiosity, like an outgoing tide pulling on a swimmer, urging me to look again. I nibbled on the end of the pencil as I struggled with the spelling of “Anthropophagi.” “Victim is female, approximately seventeen years of age, with evidence of denticulated trauma to the right side of the face and neck. The hyoid bone and lower mandible are completely exposed, exhibiting some scoring from the specimen’s teeth. . . . ” Teeth? But the thing had no head! I looked up from the pad. Dr. Warthrop was bent over their torsos, fortuitously blocking my view. What sort of creature could bite if it lacked the mouth with which to do it? On the heels of that thought came the awful revelation: The thing had been eating her. He moved quickly to the other side of the table, allowing me an unobstructed view of the “specimen” and his pitiful victim. She was a slight girl with dark hair that curled upon the table in a fall of luxurious ringlets. The doctor leaned over and squinted at the chest of the beast pressed against her, peering across the body of the young girl whose eternal rest was broken by this unholy embrace, this death grip of an invader from the world of shadows and nightmare. “Yes!” he called softly. “Most definitely Anthropophagi. Forceps, Will Henry, and a tray, please—No, the small one there, by the skull chisel. That’s the one.” I somehow found the will to move from my spot, though my knees were shaking badly and I literally could not feel my feet. I kept my eyes on the doctor and tried my best to ignore the nearly overwhelming urge to vomit. I handed him the forceps and held the tray toward him, arms shaking, breathing as shallowly as possible, for the reek of decay burned in my mouth and lay like a scorching ember at the back of my throat. Dr. Warthrop reached into the thing’s chest with the forceps. I heard the scraping of the metal against something hard—an exposed rib? Had this creature also been partially consumed? And, if it had, where was the other monster that had done it? “Most curious. Most curious,” the doctor said, the words muffled by the mask. “No outward signs of trauma, clearly in its prime, yet dead as a doornail. . . . What killed you, Anthropophagus, hmmm? How did you meet your fate?” As he spoke, the doctor tapped thin strips of flesh from the forceps into the metal tray, dark and stringy, like half-cured jerky, a piece of white material clinging to one or two of the strands, and I realized he wasn’t peeling off pieces of the monster’s flesh: The flesh belonged to the face and neck of the girl. I looked down between my outstretched arms, to the spot where the doctor worked, and saw he had not been scraping at an exposed rib. He had been cleaning the thing’s teeth. The room began to spin around me. The doctor said, in a calm, quiet voice, “Steady, Will Henry. You’re no good to me unconscious. We have a duty this night. We are students of nature as well as its products, all of us, including this creature. Born of the same divine mind, if you believe in such things, for how could it be otherwise? We are soldiers for science, and we will do our duty. Yes, Will Henry? Yes, Will Henry?” “Yes, Doctor,” I choked out. “Yes, sir.” “Good boy.” He dropped the forceps into the metal tray. Flecks of flesh and bits of blood speckled the fingers of his glove. “Bring me the chisel.” Gladly I returned to the instrument tray. Before I brought him the chisel, however, I paused to steel myself, as a good foot soldier for science, for the next assault. Though it lacked a head, the Anthropophagus was not missing a mouth. Or teeth. The orifice was shaped like a shark’s, and the teeth were equally sharklike: triangular, serrated, and milky white, arranged in rows that marched toward the front of the mouth from the inner, unseen cavity of its throat. The mouth itself lay just below the enormous muscular chest, in the region between the pectorals and the groin. It had no nose that I could see, though it had not been blind in life: Its eyes (of which I confess I had seen only one) were located on the shoulders, lidless and completely black. “Snap to, Will Henry!” the doctor called. I was taking too long to steel myself. “Roll the tray closer to the table; you’ll wear yourself out trotting back and forth.” When the tray and I were in position, he reached out his hand, and I smacked the chisel into his palm. He slipped the instrument a few inches into the monster’s mouth and pushed upward, using the chisel as a pry bar to spread the jaws. “Forceps!” I slapped them into his free hand and watched as they entered the fang-encrusted maw . . . deeper, then deeper still, until the doctor’s entire hand disappeared. The muscles of his forearm bulged as he rotated his wrist, exploring the back of the thing’s throat with the tips of the forceps. Sweat shone on his forehead. I patted it dry with a bit of gauze. “Would have dug a breathing hole—so it didn’t suffocate,” he muttered. “No visible wounds . . . deformities . . . outward sign of trauma. . . . Ah!” His arm became still. His shoulder jerked as he pulled on the forceps. “Stuck tight! I’ll need both hands. Take the chisel and pull back, Will Henry. Use both hands if you must, like this. Don’t let it slip, now, or I shall lose my hands. Yes, that’s it. Good boy. Ahhhh!” He fell away from the table, left hand flailing to regain his balance, in his right the forceps, and in the forceps, a tangled strand of pearls, stained pink with blood. Finding his balance, the monstrumologist held high his hard-won prize. “I knew it!” he cried. “Here is our culprit, Will Henry. He must have torn it off her neck in his frenzy. It lodged in his throat and choked him to death.” I let go the chisel, stepped back from the table, and stared at the crimson strand dangling from the doctor’s hand. Light danced off its coating of blood and gore, and I felt the very air tighten around me, refusing to fully fill my lungs. My knees began to give way. I sank onto the stool, struggling to breathe. The doctor remained oblivious to my condition. He dropped the necklace into a tray and called for the scissors. To the devil with him, I thought. Let him fetch his own scissors. He called again, his back to me, hand outstretched, bloody fingers flexing and curling. I rose from the stool with a shuddering sigh and pressed the scissors into his hand. “A singular curiosity,” he muttered as he cut down the center of the girl’s burial gown. “Anthropophagi are not native to the Americas. Northern and western Africa, the Caroli Islands, but not here. Never here!” Gingerly, almost tenderly, he parted the material, exposing the girl’s perfect alabaster skin. Dr. Warthrop pressed the end of his stethoscope upon her belly and listened intently as he slowly moved the instrument toward her chest, then down again, across her belly button, until, back where he began, he paused, eyes closed, barely breathing. He remained frozen this way for several seconds. The silence was thundering. Finally he tugged the ’scope from his ears. “As I suspected.” He gestured toward the worktable. “An empty jar, Will Henry. One of the big ones.” He directed me to remove the lid and place the open container on the floor beside him. “Hold on to the lid, Will Henry,” he instructed. “We must be quick about this. Scalpel!” He bent to his work. Should I confess that I looked away? That I could not will my eyes to remain upon that glittering blade as it sliced into her flawless flesh? For all my desire to please and impress him with my steely resolve as a good foot soldier in the service of science, nothing could bring me to watch what came next. “They are not natural scavengers,” he said. “Anthropophagi prefer fresh kill, but there are drives even more powerful than hunger, Will Henry. The female can breed, but she cannot bear. She lacks a womb, you see, for that location of her anatomy is given to another, more vital organ: her brain. . . . Here, take the scalpel.” I heard a soft squish as he plunged his fist into the incision. His right shoulder rotated as his fingers explored inside the young girl’s torso. “But nature is ingenious, Will Henry, and marvelously implacable. The fertilized egg is expelled into her mate’s mouth, where it rests in a pouch located along his lower jaw. He has two months to find a host for their offspring, before the fetus bursts from its protective sac and he swallows it or chokes upon it. . . . Ah, this must be it. Ready now with the lid.” His body tensed, and all became still for a moment. Then with a single dramatic flourish, he yanked from the split-open stomach a squirming mass of flesh and teeth, a doll-size version of the beast curled about the girl, encased in a milky white sac that burst open as the thing inside fought against the doctor’s grasp, spewing a foul-smelling liquid that soaked his coat and splattered around his rubber boots. He nearly dropped it, holding it against his chest while it twisted and flailed its tiny arms and legs, its mouth, armed with tiny razor-sharp teeth, snapping and spitting. “The jar!” he cried. I slid it toward his feet. He dropped the thing into the container, and I did not need his urging to slap on the lid. “Screw it tight, Will Henry!” he gasped. He was covered head to toe in the blood-flecked goop, the smell of it more pungent than that of the rotting flesh upon the table. The tiny Anthropophagus flipped and smacked inside the jar, smearing the glass with amniotic fluid, clawing at its prison with needle-size fingernails, mouth working furiously in the middle of its chest, like a landed fish gasping upon the shore. Its mewling cries of shock and pain were loud enough to penetrate the thick glass, a haunting, inhuman sound that I am doomed to remember to my last day. Dr. Warthrop picked up the jar and placed it on the workbench. He soaked some cotton in a mixture of halothane and alcohol, dropped it into the jar, and screwed the lid back on. The infant monster attacked the cotton, stripping the fibers apart with its little teeth and swallowing chunks of it whole. Its aggression hastened the effects of the euthanizing agent: In less than five minutes the unholy spawn was dead. Photograph courtesy of the author Rick Yancey is the author of The Monstrumologist, The Curse of the Wendigo, The Isle of Blood, and The Final Descent. 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__label__wiki	0.543933	0.543933	My Brilliant Friend: The Complete Series (DVD) When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship. She met Raffaella Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila, in the first year of primary school in 1950. Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story begins and goes on to cover over 60 years of their lives as she tries to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena’s brilliant friend and - in a way - her best friend, and her worst enemy. Based on the international best-selling novel by Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense modern masterpiece portraying both the story of a friendship and that of a nation. by Joanna Di Mattia Two young girls stand before the door of the town loan shark, fiercely clasping hands. This image of female solidarity and defiance endures all the way through HBO’s adaptation of the first of Elena Ferrante’s beloved Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend. These girls and their intense bond form the series’ core – Elena ‘Lenù’ Greco, who will grow up to be a writer, and her brilliant friend, Lila Cerullo, whose life will take a series of bleaker turns. Each girl faces the hypocrisies, indignities, and injustices of class and gender in postwar Naples as we follow them as teenagers and young women across eight engrossing episodes. When an acclaimed and adored work of fiction is adapted into a film or television series, it’s often greeted with equal parts anticipation and anxiety. I’m happy to report that My Brilliant Friend is both faithful to Ferrante’s novel – she is one of four screenwriters – and its own special entity. It starts as the novel does, with a distressed phone call to sixty-year-old Lenù from Lila’s son, with the news that his mother has been missing for two weeks. As she sits down to write the story of their lives, the older Lenù provides an intermittent voiceover, offering some essential insights into her perspective on past events. Director Saverio Costanzo vividly captures the heated, frequently violent eruptions that define the impoverished neighbourhood where the girls come of age. The cruelty and oppressiveness of this space is palpable. Thankfully, this American co-production is an Italian affair in the acting credits too – the Neapolitan dialect is retained and the performances have a texture and tone that is authentic to this time and place. I’m always amazed by how radical it feels to see female friendship depicted on screen, especially when it looks like this – shaped by love and compassion, but also deep jealousies and destructive rivalries. There is no sentimentality here. A second season, based on book two, The Story of a New Name, is currently in production. It seems I’ve caught Ferrante fever once again Joanna Di Mattia works as a bookseller at Readings Carlton. More TV shows › Seachange: Season 4 (DVD) The Durrells: Series 4 (DVD) Special price Read review Project Blue Book: Season 1 (DVD) Mr. Mercedes: Season 2 (DVD) American Gods: Season 2 (DVD) Succession: Season 1 (DVD) Jesse Armstrong Utopia: Season 4 (DVD) Literary adaptations More Literary adaptations › Catch-22: Season 1 (DVD) Burning (DVD) Call Me By Your Name (DVD) The Name of the Rose (DVD) Patrick Melrose (DVD) Mr Mercedes: Season 1 (DVD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (DVD) Marielle Heller, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant The top 10 bestselling DVDs of 2019 More The top 10 bestselling DVDs of 2019 › Chernobyl (DVD) Craig Mazin Loving Vincent (DVD) Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Gurrumul (DVD) Paul Damien Williams Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin (DVD) Catherine the Great (DVD) Inspector Montalbano: Volume 10 (DVD)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371858
__label__cc	0.736196	0.263804	Home Forums > Off Topic > Political Views > Climate Change reality Discussion in 'Political Views' started by ehanes7612, Jun 29, 2017. Dec 30, 2017 #501 EU Country Germany Stone said: ↑ Record cold everywhere. It must be global warming-cooling? No, due to political correctness You call it alternate global warming Berthold, Dec 30, 2017 no hatred!! The drought is going to suck the moisture out of our bodies to death if left uncovered outside, lol.. no more public nudity!!!!! troy, Dec 31, 2017 Jan 1, 2018 #503 Tom-DE By now you still don't know what is happening, you must be an idgit! Tom-DE, Jan 1, 2018 I don't care... just making light of an objective topic, it's all theory, there are too many variables for one perspective too be 100 percent correct, so, tom-de entertain yourself by lashing out an insult...hahaha troy, Jan 1, 2018 troy said: ↑ Hey, are you talking to me? I certainly wasn't talking to you, a piece of **! Now that is an insult! emydura Record cold everywhere. It must be global warming-cooling? :rollhappy: What a moronic comment. That's something I would only expect from someone like Donald Trump. Hey wait a minute, I recall Donald said the same thing. Obviously, this is where you are getting a lot of your 'alternative facts'. How do you have an intelligent debate with a person who cannot even understand the difference between weather and climate. emydura, Jan 1, 2018 Tom-DE said: ↑ Sorry, You don't know ether. Are You an idgit also? Berthold, Jan 1, 2018 emydura said: ↑ Yesterday with 16.5° C we had the warmest Silvester in Germany. It was warmer only in 1961 with 17° and in a lot of years in the century before. I am confused, is it weather or is it climate? Is it climate of Germany or of the world? Berthold said: ↑ Compared to a piece of like you, maybe I am! but at least I don't make up and post them here. Don't pretend you are educated or intelligent! Regardless what you stand for in this matter, for someone who doesn't know the differences between climate and weather, you are not much better than a moron! Victoria Australia Well happy new year to you to David. If that's your nasty tone then so be it. I'm actually surprised by this reply from you. (maybe you're still pissed from NYE?) Seems to be the only strategy your side can come up with. Well if it's unprovoked attack to me you can expect it back ten times over. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. It's pretty obvious to any non-moron that I was making a simple joke to illustrate just how stupid this debate has become. So I guess that makes you the moron? Trump! This is me saying this. It seems whatever kind of weather we have it is blamed on global warming by the climate scientologists. Funny, when the weather is very hot it is climate change or global warming and when it's very cold it's JUSTweather but probably caused by climate change. Total crazy, closed minded, ignorant bullshit by science denialists like you. The definition of climate has been deemed by scientists to be the average of weather over a thirty year period. Of course even this is plain stupid made-up nonsense but if that is the framework to work with then let's do that. There was gradual cooling from about 1973 to about the early eighties. So much so that the ''consensus'' among climate scientists at the time was that we were entering a mini ice age. (look it up if you don't believe me) You may remember it. Did it happen? Did the cold continue? Well no. It started to warm again up to the present. During this time were was a period where temperature stabilized for about 20 years. co2 rate rise remained the same or increased. It was and is called ''the pause'' It has been denied and even hidden or erased by the warmists but it is there and will remain there. Forget what you may have heard. That is on record and that is what happened. You can see it in post #494 in this thread.If we take the science definition of ''climate'' we have had no climate change at all. Only weather change. No ''global warming'' Only a very slight warming trend in the weather during part of the eighties and part of the recent period. The cooling in the 70's also cannot be called climate change, only a temporary change in the weather just as this warming period is. Temporary, just like all the weather changes before. Extreme hot days in the US are on the decline. Yes there are fewer today than in the past. There has been no more that between zero and 1.6mm rate of sea level rise globally. That is the closest estimate from the worlds leading expert. As an example, Fort Denison tide gage shows a rock steady 0.6mm per year rise for the past one hundred years. Venice and most of the Indian Ocean shows precisely 0.0mm sea level rise. There is growing evidence we are entering a period of solar minimum starting in the next couple of decades. It's not unreasonable to expect a lot more cold weather, a decline in global temperatures and hopefully this trash global warming pseudo-science junk fad will be finally put to bed. All this as the co2 continues to rise unabated. Oh and by the way, in the mean time the Earth has greened 15%. Equivalent to adding a photosynthetic area the size of Africa to the globe. I can't remember over what period exactly. You can look that up for yourself. And while you are at it maybe check some more facts before you go calling people morons lest you look like one yourself as you trash opposing views while trying to reduce your ''carbon footprint''. Give it up. The co2 driven global warming myth is dead. The hypothesis did not work out. No amount of data tampering or computer modelling will change it. Don't be a climate scientologist zombie. Stone, Jan 2, 2018 Don't pretend you are educated or intelligent! But so it seems compared to You. Is Your probationer informed about Your posts in this forum? Probationer(that is what you call it in German?)? As I would expect it, you are making up more ** again as you go? FYI, I am always on Santa's best list, you goddamn moron/idgit! 1989 from NOAA ehanes7612 :rollhappy: :rollhappy: :rollhappy: :rollhappy: :rollhappy: :rollhappy: oke: ehanes7612, Jan 4, 2018 ehanes7612 said: ↑ What's so funny I find it rather tragic. Dr. Kirby Hanson, the meteorologist who led the study, said in a telephone interview that the findings concerning the United States do not necessarily ''cast doubt'' on previous findings of a worldwide trend toward warmer temperatures, nor do they have a bearing one way or another on the theory that a buildup of pollutants is acting like a greenhouse and causing global warming. He said that the United States occupies only a small percentage of Earth's surface and that the new findings may be the result of regional variations. Now this is hilarious! :rollhappy: Several computer models have projected that the greenhouse effect would cause average global temperatures to rise between 3 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit in the next century. But scientists concede that reactions set off by the warming trend itself could upset these predictions and produce unanticipated changes in climate patterns. Legislative Action Sought Hmmm. So we are now almost 1/5 into the ''next'' century so we should be seeing a temp rise of between 0.6 and 1.6 degrees by now...Ha ha ha.. This is stuff is just gold! Oh maybe the warming has ''upset these predictions and produced unanticipated changes'' ??? You tax dollars at work..... 1989? You must be struggling for evidence. Here is something from this century. If climate change wasn't real, it should be pretty easy to disprove. There has been no shortage of people trying. The fossil fuel industry has poured big money into research in an attempt to prove that the planet is not warming. Here is one such example - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-change-mind You still don't get it David. The word ''Climate'' as it is used in ''climate change'' is made up. It is meaningless. It's just weather. Using a few years (30 or so) to determine if the climate is changing is just plain stupid. Sydney had 47 degrees the other day. It still did not break the 1939 record. Just weather. As for the Guardian....Please! You can't cherry pick where you start your line from. It goes up and down and up again and DOWN AGAIN! Bid deal if it has warmed 1.5 degrees in fifty years. The climate is NOT changing like you think it is. There is NOevidence of continual un-ending global warming. There just isn't. Forget about the warming predictions you see in the popular press. They are wrong. Jan 11, 2018 #519 Earen Try looking back a bit further. https://xkcd.com/1732/ Earen, Jan 11, 2018 g[/img][/url] Mike - the Guardian did not undertake that research. The data analysis was undertaken by Richard Muller, who at the time was a well-known climate skeptic like yourself. The research was funded by the fossil fuel industry. These people were from your side. The point of this study was to prove that human-induced climate change did not exist. Richard Muller was critical of the way climate scientists had analysed the data previously so he applied his own methodology. But in the end his conclusions were the same - the earth is warming and it is caused by humans. Here he writes a piece in the NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html As for that graph you keep using. More rubbish from the climate skeptic blogs you keep reading. This one from Steve Goddard. That guy won't even write under his own name so how can you take him seriously. Go and read real science. emydura, Jan 11, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371863
__label__wiki	0.822579	0.822579	Three companies push ahead with complaints of errors, unfairness in Utah’s selection of cannabis growers (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Marijuana plants growing under special grow lights, at GB Sciences Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. · Published: August 9, 2019 Three companies that lost out on potentially lucrative cannabis growing licenses in Utah are pressing forward with appeals based on allegations of unfairness and inconsistency in the state’s selection process. After considering 81 applications from would-be marijuana farmers, the state last month chose eight companies to receive the cultivation licenses. Six of the companies that lost out — Pure UT, North Star Holdings, Total Health Sciences, Wild West Holding, JLPR and Tintic United Bioscience — protested the decision, but the state’s director of purchasing and general services last week dismissed the complaints. Now, Pure UT, Total Health Sciences and JLPR have decided to take the next step in the appeal process by asking for a review by the state’s Procurement Policy Board. Pure UT has complained about the possibility that some of the eight license awardees have not secured zoning approval for growing cannabis at their proposed locations. "It is my understanding that zoning compliance — which I sought and verified prior to submission — was a requirement for eligibility to receive a license," Jordan Lams, Pure UT manager, wrote in the company's protest letter. "If awardees failed to meet this provision of the solicitation and the procurement unit failed to uphold this requirement, then I contend that the award process was flawed." Companies also complained that the the state’s evaluation committee had made grading errors, with Total Health Sciences arguing that two of the six evaluators deviated significantly from those of their peers in their scoring patterns. The company called for an investigation into whether those two committee members had a bias. JLPR also protested that non-Utah applicants had an edge over local companies in the evaluation process. "Out-of-state applicants who have legally been allowed to cultivate cannabis for several years are going to hold a clear and unfair advantage over the in-state applicants for whom gaining 'experience' would have been illegal," Salt Lake City attorney Steven Tingey wrote on behalf of JLPR. Feds say Utah can dispense medical cannabis without losing grant money. But worries over legal consequences persist. Utah officials dismiss protests by companies denied marijuana growing licenses Here are the 8 companies Utah picked to grow cannabis for state’s medical marijuana program Four of the eight cultivation licenses went to existing Utah businesses, while the other four companies are based out of state but have Utah connections, according to the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. The agency was authorized to award up to 10 licenses but chose to hand out eight to avoid an overabundance of cannabis, the statement said. In an email, Christopher Hughes, the state’s director of purchasing and general services, explained the process that the procurement board will follow in considering the three company protests: After a review to weed out appeals that don’t meet the minimum legal requirements, an appointed panel will consider the merits of the protests and could hold an informal hearing. The panel then will issue its decision, a process that could take more than 50 days, Hughes said. The three companies have each had to post a $20,000 bond to file the appeal and will lose the money if the complaint is dismissed and found to be frivolous or intended to harass or cause delay, said Hughes said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371864
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Yet the Incas, and the civilizations before them, coaxed harvests from the Andes’ sharp slopes and intermittent waterways. They developed resilient breeds of crops such as potatoes, quinoa and corn. They built cisterns and irrigation canals that snaked and angled down and around the mountains. And they cut terraces into the hillsides, progressively steeper, from the valleys up the slopes. At the Incan civilization’s height in the 1400s, the system of terraces covered about a million hectares throughout Peru and fed the vast empire. Over the centuries, cisterns fell into disrepair, canal beds dried up and terraces were abandoned. This process began when the Spanish imposed their own crops and forced people off traditional lands to farm and mine for the conquistadors. The local populations were devastated by war and, more significantly, by disease. Some researchers estimate that as many as half of the Incan population died soon after the Spanish conquest. Much of the traditional farming knowledge and engineering expertise was lost. The ghost of the Incas’ farming achievements still shadows the Andes. The remnants of ancient terraces appear as lines of green on the mountains. Former irrigation canals carve hollows into the land. Today, in a corner of the Andes, people are breathing new life into ancient practices. Inspired by recent archaeological research, they are rebuilding terraces and irrigation systems and reclaiming traditional crops and methods of planting. They do this in part because Incan agricultural techniques are more productive and more efficient in terms of water use. But these modern farmers also believe the Incan ways can offer simple solutions to help protect communities’ food supply in the face of climate change. Archaeologist Ann Kendall began studying terraces in the Cuzco region of Peru in 1968. She intended to focus on Incan architecture and stonework, but she was soon captivated by the dry canal beds and terraces that beckoned from across the valley. “I thought about the problem that local people had no water and didn’t cultivate this [agricultural system],” she says. She remembers thinking, “if only one could study traditional technology and rehabilitate all this in the Andes, wouldn’t it be wonderful.” She decided to study the development and technology of the Incan agricultural systems with the idea of rehabilitating them. Over the years, she learned how the Incan builders employed stones of different heights, widths and angles to create the best structures and water retention and drainage systems, and how they filled the terraces with dirt, gravel and sand. In the 1600s, Garcilaso de la Vega, the child of a conquistador father and an Incan noblewoman, described the Incan terracing system in The Royal Commentaries of the Incas: “In this way the whole hill was gradually brought under cultivation, the platforms being flattened out like stairs in a staircase, and all the cultivable and irrigable land being put to use.” The terraces leveled the planting area, but they also had several unexpected advantages, Kendall discovered. The stone retaining walls heat up during the day and slowly release that heat to the soil as temperatures plunge at night, keeping sensitive plant roots warm during the sometimes frosty nights and expanding the growing season. And the terraces are extremely efficient at conserving scarce water from rain or irrigation canals, says Kendall. “We’ve excavated terraces, for example, six months after they’ve been irrigated, and they’re still damp inside. So if you have drought, they’re the best possible mechanism.” If the soil weren’t mixed with gravel, points out Kendall, “when it rained the water would log inside, and the soil would expand and it would push out the wall.” Kendall says that the Incan terraces are even today probably the most sophisticated in the world, as they build on knowledge developed over about 11,000 years of farming in the region. Over the past three decades, using archaeological details about the construction of terraces and irrigation systems, a development charity called the Cusichaca Trust, which Kendall formed in 1977, rehabilitated and irrigated 160 hectares of terraces and canals in the Patacancha Valley, near Cuzco. The project was a success: it improved water access and agricultural production, and local families maintain the structures today. Lessons from the Patacancha Valley are now being employed to restore Incan agricultural systems in other areas of Peru. The Incan agricultural techniques are more productive and more efficient in terms of water use. Shown here are farmers repairing an ancient canal. (Cynthia Graber) Modern farmers believe the Incan ways can offer simple solutions to help protect communities' food supply in the face of climate change. (Cynthia Graber) After the Spanish conquest, the Incan population was devastated and much of the traditional farming knowledge and engineering expertise was lost. (Cynthia Graber) Focused has been placed on rescuing seeds and varieties that have been in danger of disappearing, such as huaña. This farmer is participating in the huaña harvest. (Cynthia Graber) Plants whose roots attract water and help to keep springs flowing. (Cynthia Graber) At the Incan civilization's height in the 1400s, the system of terraces covered about a million hectares throughout Peru and fed the vast empire. (Cynthia Graber) The remnants of ancient terraces appear as lines of green on the mountains. Former irrigation canals carve hollows into the land. (Cynthia Graber) The thud of hammer on rock reverberates in a remote valley in the Apurímac region. A worker from a nearby village swings a mallet and chips off the edges from a massive stone that has been hauled into the bed of an ancient irrigation channel. That rock will form one wall of the repaired channel. He and a half-dozen workers have been hard at work for a month already, and have rebuilt about a third of the channel. The work is part of a two-year project to mitigate the effects of climate change. Kendall and her local partners in Cusichaca Andina (an independent Peruvian nonprofit formed in 2003) began activities in the remote regions of Apurímac and Ayacucho because they wanted to expand past Cusco. The area is blanketed with terraces, most unused for centuries. It also was the center of power for the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, during the 1980s and early 1990s. Many locals fled from the guerrilla fighters, abandoning farms and leaving the area with little farming expertise. The exact age of this particular channel hasn’t been determined, but Adripino Jayo, the regional director of Cusichaca Andina, which leads the restoration with funding from the World Bank, estimates that it’s been used to funnel water from a nearby spring perhaps since the time of the Wari, whose civilization spread over the Andes for hundreds of years before the Incan empire. Trainers from Cusichaca Andina schooled the community on how to repair the canal using local materials, which are cheaper than concrete and avoid the need to import materials from the city. One worker swings a pickax to carve out dirt and then shovels it aside. Another worker lines up stones evenly on the channel’s sides. They use local clay to fill the gaps between boulders and alongside the earthen banks. When it hardens, the clay is watertight. Yellowing stalks of corn, quinoa and amaranth drape over and obscure the stone walls that have already been repaired. From September through December last year, local workers rehabilitated 54 hectares of terraces. By the spring of 2012, the teams hope to rebuild nearly two miles of irrigation channels. In the few restaurants that can be found in nearby villages, rice trucked in from cities and the coast is on offer more frequently than the local quinoa. Jayo quotes a common city refrain that can keep those in the mountains from celebrating their own bounty: only the poor eat quinoa. In the latter half of the 1900s, as remote mountain towns gained increasing access to radio, television and communication with the cities, local crops fell out of favor. But local grains are more nutritious and better suited to the Andean land and climate. So Cusichaca Andina has conducted educational training campaigns and given away seeds for quinoa, corn and amaranth. The seeds have been planted over 45 hectares, now used as demonstration sites to highlight how traditional farming practices of planting corn, quinoa and squash together, instead of in individual plots, can yield better results, as the crops symbiotically protect and nourish each other. The organization has also focused on rescuing seeds and varieties that have been in danger of disappearing, such as huaña, a bitter potato variety that resists hail, frost, droughts and excess rain. After being soaked for days and frozen outdoors overnight to remove the bitterness, the potato is dried and can be stored for years. Jayo highlights the strength and resistance of this crop: “Now that we’re facing the crisis of climate change, it’s worth recovering crops such as these.” Clemente Utani, the mayor of the nearby town of Pomacocha, focuses on the historic significance of Cusichaca’s work, saying, “We’re recovering what we lost from our ancestors.” Approaches such as these might be crucial for poor Peruvian farmers. Glacial melt and the seasonal rains, the key suppliers of water, are already affected by climate change. Rains have already shown signs of decreasing, temperature swings have become more extreme and Peru’s glaciers have shrunk about 20 percent since the 1970s. The need for water conservation and agricultural development far outstrips the efforts and the available funding, Jayo says. But the idea does seem to be catching on. The Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, in a recent report to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, highlighted the importance of practices such as reclaiming diverse native Andean crops and rebuilding the infrastructure of pre-Hispanic irrigation. “At first people thought I was a bit of a nutter with my terraces,” says Kendall with a laugh, “but now this is the word everywhere it seems in Peru.” And not only in Peru. The Andes stretch from Venezuela and wind down South America as far as Argentina and Chile. Kendall says some countries have terraces that have been maintained, and groups in Bolivia and elsewhere are expressing interest in learning from Cusichaca’s rehabilitation experience. Mountainous regions around the world have a history of terracing. Kendall spoke at a terracing conference in southern China in 2010. She and 50 experts were taken by bus to view the extensive irrigated rice terraces and meet with farmers. 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__label__cc	0.639095	0.360905	In The News & JANUS In response to the SCOTUS ruling for the plaintiff in Janus v. AFSCME, members and fair-share payers at public sector unions across California and the nation have been inundated with misleading and false propaganda regarding union responsibilities – this includes letters and emails that resemble correspondence from the State CTA and NEA offices. Do not believe this fake hyperbole. To be clear, your job is not and was never at risk whether or not you joined the union. But we encourage and advocate for all employees to become union members, because at SMMCTA, we know we are at our strongest when we work together - for our students, our community and for our ourselves. While we all have a passion for education, our profession should not be viewed as an unpaid martyrdom. We believe in a strong voice at the table to bargain for working conditions, wages and benefits. This includes reversing the two-tiered healthcare plan currently in place at our district. This decision is about taking away our freedom and power to stand together in negotiation. Kagen’s dissent is powerful and clear, never more so than in this statement. “The First Amendment was meant for better things. It was meant not to undermine but to protect democratic governance—including over the role of public-sector unions.” CLICK HERE for some answers to questions you might have about the Janus ruling - including how to drop membership. The Digital Gap Between Rich Kids and Poor Kids is NOT What You Think," Nellie Bowles, The New York Times, October 26, 2018 "I Work 3 Jobs and Donate Plasma To Pay The Bills, This is What it's like to be a Teacher in America," Katie Reilly, TIME Magazine, September 13, 2018. California Teachers of the Year Join Torlakson to Oppose Guns in Schools - CA Dept of Education, March 8, 2018 The West Virginia Teachers Strike was Rare, Militant and Victorious - HuffPost, March 7, 2018 Supreme Court Decision on Janus v AFSCME likely to Permanently Weaken Unions - NBC Think, February 26, 2018 America's Gun-Culture Problem - Atlantic Magazine, March 5, 2018 Asking Teachers To Carry Guns Is Just Another Way of Refusing to Respect Them - The Nation, March 6, 2018 A Bogus Free-Speech Argument at the Supreme Court is Union Busting in the Name of the 1st Amendment - LA Times, February 27, 2018 What Unions Do For The American Dream - Center For American Progress, September 9, 2015 Rightwing Alliance Plots Assault to "Defund and Defang" America's Unions - The Guardian, August 30, 2017 Union Declines Lowers Wages For All Workers - Executive Policy Institute, August 30, 2016 Want to Fix Schools? Go to the Principal's Office - New York Times, March 10, 2017 John Adams Middle School Walk in (Photos in the Santa Monica Daily Press) Santa Monica Election Results November 2016 There's a Big Learning Curve in SMMUSD, for Teachers - Santa Monica Daily Press, August 13, 2016 Experts Say Teachers Are Being Taught Bad Science - Hechinger Report, May 13, 2016 Improving Equity in SMMUSD a "Daunting" But Worthy Task - Santa Monica Daily Press, April 11, 2016 Bias Training at SMMUSD - Santa Monica Daily Press, March 16, 2016 Santa Monica High School Making AP Classes More Inclusive - Santa Monica Daily Press, February 5, 2016 Putting California First In Driving Education Reform - Ed Source, February 3, 2016 Villaraigosa on Why He Opposes Friedrichs, His Take on Charter Schools - LA School Report, February 1, 2016 $312,500 Raised by Education Foundation for Santa Monica-Malibu Schools - Santa Monica Lookout, January 12, 2016 Teacher Shortages Spur Nationwide Hiring Scramble (Credentials Optional) - New York Times, August 9, 2015 ADDRESS (MAILING & PHYSICAL): Santa Monica Malibu Classroom Teachers Association PHONE: 310‐829‐5438 (for a speedy reply, please email us) EMAIL: smmctamembers@smmcta.com The Santa Monica Malibu Classroom Teachers Association (SMMCTA) represents the employee groups: Child Development Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, K-12 Teachers, Speech/Language Pathologists, Counselors, Librarians, Adult Education Teachers, Substitute Teachers, Nurses and other non administrative positions within the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School Districts. SITE DESIGN BY CECILY BREEDING CREATIVE COPYRIGHT 2014 SANTA MONICA MALIBU CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371868
__label__cc	0.673568	0.326432	Snouffer Funeral Home Send Flowers for Jack Jack Calvin Bracken June 9, 1938 ~ March 23, 2019 (age 80) Jack Calvin Bracken, 80 passed away peacefully at his home with family by his side on Saturday, March 23, 2019. He was born June 9, 1938 in Akron to the late Don and Lela Jasper Bracken. He was an assistant manager for McGraw Edison and a driver for Darling International. He served our country and protected our freedom as a Corporal in the United States Army. He enjoyed going to car shows with his 1949 Chevrolet show truck. Jack was baptized as a Methodist and his family was his pride and joy. He is survived by his wife Nancy Curry Bracken; a son Daniel (Dixie Starkey) Bracken; a daughter Susan (Doug) Howard; a brother William (Dorothy) Bracken; a sister Dorothy Stotts; six grandchildren: Ryan Bracken, Devoni Bracken, Keith (Megan) Howard, Chase (Bruklynne Slack) Bracken, Kari (Billy) Hoffer and Kaylee (Mark) Wilson; nine great grandchildren: Sabra, Reid, Raelyn, Will, Jackson, Luke, Grant, Wyatt, Abby and one on the way; and a close friend Bob Swingle. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by two brothers: Ron Bracken and Douglas Bracken; a sister Wanda Parsons Per Jack’s wishes, no services will be held at this time and a memorial service for family and friends will be held at a later date. The family would like to thank Interim Hospice for their care. SNOUFFER FUNERAL HOME, 1150 WEST MILITARY ROAD, ZANESVILLE, OHIO has the distinct honor of serving the family. To send a note of condolence to the family, visit our website www.snoufferfuneralhome.com, like us on facebook or contact our locally owned caring staff at 740-450-8000. To send flowers to Jack's family, please visit our floral section. A service summary is not available © 2020 Snouffer Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371871
__label__cc	0.671134	0.328866	Sleek studio apartment for rent in Moncloa 970 €per month Madrid›Studios for rent›Calle de Alberto Aguilera 58 The slick and sleek Because I want modern style in a vibrant spot Will I like it here? It would be hard not to. Looking for something with all the essentials in an unbeatable central spot? It's all right here, inside and out. Really? Tell me more... You will love this functional space. The kitchenette fits snugly beside the bathroom, and there's even a desk for enjoying meals or working. Built-in shelving houses the TV, so you can watch from bed. It's a compact cutie. We think it’s ideal for an on-the-go tenant looking for a lively, central spot. Get around on the Metro with ease, and enjoy being close to the city centre and universities. The vibrant nightlife is a great bonus too. Your top 3 reasons to live here: This studio is stylish and super functional, with all the essentials. The big window lets in heaps of natural light. You're close to parks, shops, bars and restaurants here. But you need to know this... The entrance of this studio opens out to a common living area, which is shared with other apartments on the same floor — it could be a good chance to meet some new people. The kitchenette doesn't have an oven or dishwasher — aspiring chefs, beware. Your Home-checker, Marcos, said: “I loved this property. It’s a convenient, central location close to plenty of Metro stations. It has a nice big window, with lovely street views." Help me make up my mind... This is a sleek 3rd floor, studio apartment on Calle de Alberto Aguilera, Madrid. It boasts a modern living space with a kitchenette and TV, plus a big window that lets in plenty of natural light. This property is ideal for someone looking to experience the best of central Madrid. You're close to the centre, universities, and spots like the beautiful Parque del Oeste. You'll spend hours exploring. Property type: studio apartment Watching TV from bed — get cosy with a snack and relax. Soaking up the sun — throw open the windows and let in the fresh air. Exploring Parque del Oeste — visit the flower gardens, or go for a run and work up a sweat. The deposit must be paid by cash during check-in City registration (empadronamiento): not possible Kids are not allowed Check-in/out: Check-in hours: Monday - Friday from 14:00 to 22:00 Check-out hours: until 11:00 Out of hours check-in: €30 from 22:00 to 01:30 Your landlord speaks: English, Spanish, French, Italian. Your landlord does not live on the property. Price: 970 € per month Type of contract: fortnightly If you move in during the 2nd half of the month, you will only pay half-a-month’s rent for that month. If you move out during the 1st half of the month, you will only pay half-a-month’s rent for that month. Pay invoice to provider Available: June 1, 2020 Minimum stay: 3 months (90 days). The following Metro stations are within a 7-minute walk of this apartment: Argüelles (lines 3, 4 and 6) San Bernardo (lines 2 and 4)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371873
__label__cc	0.648389	0.351611	Movie & TV Scripts Screencaps & Framegrabs Movie Scripts TV Show Episode Scripts TV Show Screencaps Simpsons Framegrabs Family Guy Framegrabs Futurama Framegrabs South Park Framegrabs American Dad Framegrabs Cleveland Show Framegrabs Characters Episode Guide Simpsons Episode Scripts Guest Stars Springfield Simpsons Framegrabs Buddy Icons Images iPhone / iPod Wallpaper PSP Wallpaper Scenes Sounds Chalkboard Web App Privacy Policy Disclaimer Contact TV Show Episode Scripts > Ransom (2017) > Season 1 > Regeneration Ransom (2017) s01e07 Episode Script 1 Eric: How many people do you think are kidnapped in your average year? It's around 300,000, and in 95% of those cases, it's never reported to the police. This is where Crisis Resolution comes into play. We operate in the shadows a dark place where dialing 911 could get your nearest and dearest killed. Our mandate is to save lives without the use of violence. Now, since the people we deal with often don't subscribe to that particular mandate, it is no walk in the park. So how do we do it? Well, it boils down to objective versus stakes. Now, this is really just a fancy way of saying âwant versus need. â Now, you guys are scientists, you're epidemiologists, so your want might be to cure some unpronounceable, incurable disease. [ Laughter .] But your need is to feel like you are making a difference. - [ Cellphone buzzes .] - Now, a kidnapper may say that they want $6 million, but what they need is to provide for some critically ill loved one. Now, if I can identify and satisfy that need, a hostage comes home safely. [ Light music plays .] Beaumont. Quite inspirational. A welcome change from discussing the vectors for Zika and Ebola. Thank you, Dr. Wallace. Happy to provide a diversion from the serious stuff. Well, managing scientists is like herding cats. You gave me some good points. - Can I get you a drink? - Beer would be perfect. So, you hand over money to kidnappers? Sometimes. So, because of you, kidnappers keep kidnapping? I mean, you help them make money, right? Well, not all kidnapping is about money. Sometimes people just want to make a point. Well, if there was no money in it, you know, basically, it would just stop, right? Cameron. No, you may have a point. I mean, if no one paid, if we stopped negotiating altogether, then kidnapping might subside for a while. Problem is, it would take time for the kidnappers to get the message, so you'd have to accept the deaths of thousands just to test your hypothesis. Would you be willing to do that? Sacrifice for the greater good. Sometimes you have to. Anyway, it's all irrelevant. [ Sighs .] I am so sorry, Mr. Oh, don't be. I have a teenager of my own. [ Chuckles .] Alexis Tremblay, research director at the NEC. A pleasure. I can't seem to get through to my son at all these days. My daughter has her moments, too. To be honest, it surprised me when Cameron asked to come. He's never shown any interest in my research. I think I can see why he came. He found a friend. That must be a grad student. I noticed a few of them here. - Your beer. - Thank you, sir. I hate to break up the party, but we've a plane to catch. CEO kidnapped in Tunisia. Okay, well, duty calls. Another time, perhaps. Sorry I had to drag you away from your adoring fans back there. [ Laughs .] You know they loved your talk. Aren't they pretty. Time to change the world. Have you ever, uh used your technique to, um âinfluenceâ a lady? Before you were married, of course. That'd be unethical. That doesn't answer my question. [ Gunshots .] - Was that - Sounds like. Automatic weapons, multiple shooters. All right, return to the mainland. Alert the police. Call Oliver and Zara. Eric, you have no idea what's going on in there. So I'm gonna go find out. I need you to get back and run point. Me? I'm not leaving you. Get to the boat. Wait there. I'll get a situation report. - [ Gunfire .] - Man: Everybody on the ground! On the ground now! - Woman: On the ground now! - Man #2: Get down! [ Indistinct shouting .] Go on, by the window! Woman: Down on the ground, right now! - Get back down! - Stay down! Bad news, people. Bar's closed. Man: Heads down! [ Cellphone chimes .] Get down! How fast can this thing go? [ Engine starts .] [ Police radio chatter .] Am I pleased to see you. What happened? I didn't split on Eric. He made me leave him on the island. We know that, Max. Are you okay? Yeah. Do the hostage takers know you got off the island? They took the building just as we were leaving. It was an unchartered boat, so I'm pretty sure they don't. So as far as they're concerned, no one outside the island even knows there's a hostage-taking. I I spoke to the OPP commander. He's a fan of Eric's, knows what he does. He's agreed to keep it quiet for now. Any indication as to motive? All Eric said was that there was 8 to 10 of them - Mm. - and they're all young. Zara: So, there it is an island. Impossible to approach without being detected. [ Dialing .] Who are you calling? Saunders. We need a negotiator. He can be here in 45 minutes. Eric said I should take the lead on this. He did? She is his second. When do I stop being a newbie? Lead the way. [ Seagulls crying .] We're gonna be passing around some bags. Place your belongings and cellphones inside. Don't be shy. And don't worry. It's not like you'll be needing them. [ People gasping .] I want to be with my son. - Excuse me. - Shut up! We need to stay calm. Your son's okay where he is. The less we antagonize them, the better. I'm okay. These aren't rich people you're stealing from. This is a conference for scientists and researchers. He's boring me. [ People gasp .] Take mine. Everybody do as he asks. You see? His speech wasn't just talk. The art of negotiation actually works. You give me what I want, I'll let you live a short while longer. We have a deal? My drops I need them. This is what you do, right? Handle situations like this? Normally, from the outside. But yeah, it's not my first rodeo. Does that mean you know how to get us out of here? Please tell me you do. I'll find out what they want and give them what they need. Is it money that they want? They've gone to an awful lot of trouble for a robbery. I need to contact my team. But you just gave up your phone. Yeah, that's right. What do they want? Commander Corman? This is Zara Hallam, investigator, and Oliver Yates, psychological profiler. Beaumont's team. Glad you're here. Have you had any contact with the hostage takers? None. And we've kept out of sight while we go over assault scenarios. There's no angle we can approach the island without sending a five-minute warning we're coming. And even if we manage to hit land, the building itself is a rabbit warren. Clearing it room by room, all potentially rigged with traps, it's gonna take some time. Well, all the more reason to attempt negotiations first. I'll have to clear that with the commissioner. Having Eric on the inside could be useful, but no contact from the assailants suggests they're not exactly the negotiating type. What would your first move be? We need to identify and profile the hostage takers. It's essential to understanding who we're negotiating with. We gather the hostage takers were in the audience with Eric. Which means they would've needed conference IDs to get past security. Can you access the conference database? We're looking for 8 to 10 people, all in their early 20s. We'll share our I. I'll check with HQ for anything more. Oliver: I'll get started on the VEB. I'll be right there. You're doing fine, Max. Just don't forget to breathe. Where the hell are you going? I want to help your boss. Sit down. Whoa! Let the negotiator through. I want to see him work his magic on me. [ Sniffs .] My cellphone is in that bag over there. And in four minutes, my team is going to call. This is the part where you identify some common ground to build rapport between us. If I don't answer when it rings, my team will assume something's wrong and take action. What kind of action? Police action. I'm presuming a bunch of cops coming across the water isn't gonna help you achieve whatever it is you're trying to do here. Well, if I let you answer the phone, you might say something stupid. In which case, you'd shoot me, like those guards back there. Your only way of keeping the police away is by letting me answer. [ Scoffs .] You're good. He is very good. All right, bring me the damn phones. You know what, old man? I kind of hope you do say something stupid. Okay, so, we got eight registered attendees between the ages of 19 and 23. All submitted false names, none with any ties to the NEC. So eight hostage takers who got credentialed somehow. Criminal records? Doesn't look like it, but these four all have a history of activism environmental, anti-animal testing, some pretty extreme left politics. The National Epidemic Center is renowned for discovering cures for some of the most dangerous diseases out there. What kind of activist would have a problem with that? Okay, commissioner's patient to a point. She's willing to see if Beaumont can set up a negotiation, but it's got to be fast. Okay, good. Thank you, Commander. We've ID'd some of the hostage takers. Seems they're activists, suggesting an environmental motive. Send everything you've got to my people, and we'll run it through our CPIC database. How long ago did Eric send you that text? 1 hour, 58 minutes ago. T-minus two minutes. Protocol. For when a team member is taken hostage. We make a prearranged call. I'll inform the commander. Saunders is a good first, and he also knows protocol. You really think she's got this? She'd better. Eric's bet his life on it. Lucas: Maybe they're not gonna call. Ring, for God's sakes. Oh, this is fun. [ Cellphone rings .] Speaker. And if I hear any word that I don't like [ Gun cocks .] Eric speaking. Eric, this is Maxine Carlson from the Crisis Resolution head office. Hey, Maxine. I think I was late with my last check-in, wasn't I? That's right you were. We were just about to activate our rescue protocols. Well, the good news is, I'm fine. You don't need to come get me. I know I'm expected on a plane to Tunis, but, uh, the damn traffic en route to the airport is impossible, so I'm gonna need time to find another way. That's enough. [ Cellphone beeps .] [ Dial tone .] Did he just hang up on us? Someone hung up for him. Eric: damn traffic en route to the airport is impossible. What does that mean? âTraffic en route is impossible. â Okay, first port of call is establish decision maker. He's saying negotiating with the leader is gonna be impossible. I'm gonna need time to find another way. âFind another wayâ" Someone else. He needs time to find someone else he can negotiate with. He wants us to keep the police from storming in there. Then let's hope he gets someone talking to us pronto. The OPP won't hold off for long. You see? He is smart. He proved that he's worthy of my trust. Did you listen to the part of my talk where I said I would do anything, say, help anyone if it would save lives? I already knew that. I read about you when I knew you were gonna be here. Pretty impressive. [ Inhales sharply .] Honestly, not that impressive. What I'm saying is, I can help you. It's too late for that, old man. Look at the world around you. Terrorism, poverty, water rising, wildlife dying. Where were you then? Huh? Where have you been? All of you! Finally. Take him. Donald: Take me? - Take Where?! - Don't worry. - It'll be quick and painless. - Let me Let me go in his place. - Don't worry! - Donald: Where are you taking me?! You want to be brave, but what you need to do is shut up. They're going to kill Dr. Why not? The guy in charge wouldn't hesitate to kill in front of us. He's looking for something. Oliver thinks he's identified the leader. Lucas Hansen not your typical hostage taker. Impressive GPA. Graduate degree in poli sci at 22. Donated half his scholarship to a cancer charity. Spent two months de-oiling birds after a tanker broke up in Puget Sound. And if that didn't qualify him for sainthood, he also volunteered at a shelter for runaway youth. De-oiling birds? What a monster. What makes you think he's calling the shots? 12 years ago, a pipeline burst in his hometown. Water supply was contaminated. Both his father and younger brother died of lymphoma within five years. No charges were ever laid. Government deemed the accident âunpreventable. â Personal trauma mixed with an ideological disposition The profile associated with stochastic terrorism. Lone wolves not engaged in organized extremism. The Tsarnaev brothers, the San Bernardino killers. So Eric is right. He's an ideologue who will not negotiate. We got to go in. - No, not not yet, Commander. - Then what? [ Cellphone rings .] It's the commissioner. Saved by the bell. What are you gonna do? - Eric is counterintuitive. - Mm-hmm. He succeeds because he doesn't do the obvious. Maybe I was wrong all along. I just assumed the hostage takers should remain in the dark, but maybe they need to know we're onto them. You were right. He's okay. You're next. Get up! Alexis: What are they doing? Eric: Yeah, I'm gonna see what I can find out. I'm not thirsty. What happened in there? They searched me, emptied my pockets. Took a photograph. Photograph? Close-up of my face some kind of special camera. Special how? Get back to your seats. Hostage-taking 101. Keep your hostages hydrated. I need to know everything your organization does. Leave nothing out. You said remaining out of sight gave us a significant advantage, and now you want to do the complete opposite? Yes sirens, boats, choppers, even. The more visible the police presence, the more pressure it puts on the hostage takers. Eric will use that pressure to force a negotiation. You also said this was an ideologue who won't negotiate. I got to be honest here Your back-and-forthing isn't exactly flooding me with confidence in your ability. Look, we need to buy Eric time so he can negotiate, Commander. Negotiate with whom? That's exactly what he'll be working on as we speak. This show of force will give him leverage. I'll give you your show of force. But I hope you know what you're doing. The National Epidemic Center is about curing infectious diseases. Anything off-book? High-stakes? We handle a lot of Level 4 material. Level 4? What is that? Reserved for the most dangerous aerosol-transmitted, fatal to humans. Any Level 4 samples ever gone missing? A sample was stolen during a break-in at our archive four months ago. A sample of what? No one knows for sure. RCMP, Homeland Security both investigated. Whoever took it covered their tracks. You think it's connected. [ Helicopter blades whirring .] Man: What is that? The police. They're rescuing us. No, that's not what this is. Get them to the basement now. Everybody, downstairs! Let's go! Let's go! [ Indistinct talking, whimpering .] They found us. Check the scanners. Find out what they're planning. [ Indistinct shouting .] Gutsy move. Gutsy or crazy? You bet on Eric. I like those odds. Then where is he? Keri: Let's go! Move, move! Let me talk to your boss. Not happening. The police launch an assault, a lot of people get hurt mainly you and your friends. I can stop this. Let's move! Let's move! Keri: Lucas. Clever man. That phone call you ratted us out. You can't expect to lock down 100 people without someone getting the word out. What's important now is that the police know, and you have to deal with that. I can tell you what to say. What are you gonna do if the police storm the island? Start executing old people. Old people. Now, you know that I will do anything to avert loss of life. If that means convincing the cops to back the hell off, then that's what I'll do. He's calling! [ Telephone rings .] [ Ringing .] - [ Telephone rings .] - Contact. Maxine Carlson speaking. Maxine again. The police have you surrounded. Yeah, well, call them off or I'm gonna start putting bullets in vital organs. If you want me to persuade the police to abort, I'm gonna need to offer them an incentive, Lucas. Let me guess You want me to release some hostages? You don't need all those people. You're asking me to reduce my leverage. How stupid do you think I am, Ms. Carlson? I strongly advise you to comply, Ms. Carlson. If you come breaking in here, you'll spread terror and wind up killing who knows how many. Zara: Eric's sending us another message. Okay, intonation rise and fall was clear enough. Keywords âbreaking in, spread terror. â âWind up killingâ" âSpread. â This conference is about infectious diseases. Infections spread. He's saying they're gonna use a disease as a weapon. Okay, what about âbreaking inâ? Uh, something stolen from the NEC? From the lab? Commander? Are you certain about this? Bryce, what is it we should know about? You need to tell us everything. I need some clearance before I can say anything further. Man: Commander has requested you return to base. River: He did it. They've called off the police. What happened? What about the police? They're gone. River: You you're next. - They still haven't found - Let's go. What they're looking for. When you said you couldn't get through to Cameron, why do you think that is? Not sure. Until a couple years ago, he was my sweet boy engaged, tuned in to the world. He takes it out on you. He still blames me for kicking his dad out. I think he feels like he doesn't fit in anywhere. If you reveal any of the following classified information, you'll be subject to criminal prosecution. The NEC's HQ in Ottawa has been under lockdown since last month, when a trace amount of a viral sample went missing. Tell me more about this archive at the NEC. What are the samples stored in? Titanium containers specially designed. They can only be opened with a retinal scan. Who's authorized? Define âviral sample. â A genetically modified strain of the flu virus known as H1N1. The NEC was working on a cure, but when they modified it, wound up with something more lethal. The transmission vector is aggressive and unpredictable. Best case, it could kill a few hundred. Worst case, a few hundred thousand. Maybe more. Only the highest-level employees have clearance to the most hazardous materials. Alexis are you one of those high level employees? If Lucas broke into the NEC It's stochastic terrorism. Release a deadly virus, cause massive loss of life, unleash chaos. Wallace said that they took his picture on a special camera. What if it has the capacity to bypass or trick a retinal scanner? They could open the container without anyone knowing. Oh, my God. I'm the only one at the conference with clearance. It's me. They're looking for me. Maxine: If Lucas gets hold of that virus, who knows what he could do. As soon as I report this, I will be ordered to launch an assault. You do that, and a lot of those hostages are gonna die. Well, not as many as if they release that virus. Give Eric one more hour. If he tries to leave the island with it, you have the means to stop it. This is above my pay grade and non-negotiable. Soon as my team's prepped, we're we're going in. We have to stop him. We have no jurisdiction here. We have to get Eric more time. Something's still missing. River: Who's next? Ma'am? You asked to keep your drops earlier. That's right. Do you wear contact lenses? Yes. I was hoping you were gonna say that. Can I borrow them? Pardon me? Your contacts. Crazy as it sounds, if you don't give them to me, we're all gonna die. Put these in. Don't let them see. I don't wear contact lenses. I'm hoping it'll distort your retinas enough to fool the camera. The hostage takers used the account of a senior researcher, Alexis Tremblay, to get credentialed for the conference. She's the woman that was flirting with Eric. That's not unusual. She has a son in there, about 19. He was giving Eric a hard time. - Can you find anything on him? - Already did. Cameron Tremblay. Yeah, that's him. Oh, these things hurt. Now! Oliver: Seems Cameron has been hanging out for the past two months in a chat room with one Keri Morel. One of our hostage takers. Their conversations are a mix of misguided idealism and racing hormones. I think she targeted him. That could be it. Cameron used his mother's access to get them credentialed into the conference. So they could have a mole on the inside. Eric will figure this out. More than likely. He'll use it. I'm gonna tell Commander Corman. Oliver. No blinking. [ Beeping .] It's not her. Well, what do you know. River: You. The lenses worked. They're still looking. These things are killing me. Don't take them out just yet. There's no one looking. Hey, Mom? You should go back. We don't want to antagonize the hostage takers. I want to talk to my mom. Just a second, honey. Mom, are you crying? What's wrong with your eyes? I'm okay. You don't wear contacts. It's you they want. You don't have to do this, Cameron. I know they asked you to pretend to be a hostage so you could spy on us. What are you talking about? Don't. Lucas! Lucas? Cameron. What is going on? Whatever he told you this is about, it's not. It's all about him. Lucas: What's up? It's my mom. She used contact lenses to screw with the camera. She's the one who can open it. Isn't this typical? You asked for our trust, and then you betray us. Trust needs to be earned. And then it's rewarded. [ People gasping, murmuring .] Let's try her again, shall we? All right, let's go. I said let's go! No! Baby! Why are you doing this?! [ Crying .] Cameron, please! Why are you doing this?! [ Police radio chatter .] What is it? What's going on? Our explosives detector just picked up a trace signal and located it to this spot. Oliver: What the hell? Bryce: That's ammonium nitrate. This much could destroy the whole building and everyone inside. This is his backup plan in case the police surrounded him. He knew we'd have to base ourselves here. Hey, this thing could go any second. He won't trigger it until he's unlocked that virus. - Can you defuse it? - We're gonna try. All right people, listen up. We're going in hot. You, get BDU here right now. You two, come with me. - Yes, sir. - Roger that. Man: All right, guys, let's get things in motion. You two with me. Commander. Eric has a way to negotiate this. What are you talking about? Cameron. He's the son of one of the scientists. He's working with Lucas, but he's not really one of them. And his mother's present. I know somehow Eric will use that against Lucas. You just have to give him time. And I'll somehow win the Powerball. There's a madman in there with a deadly virus and a detonator. Eric Beaumont hasn't lost a hostage in 17 years. I know he'll come through. I admire your faith in him, I really do. [ Exhales sharply .] You have an hour of daylight left. Give me half that. If we hear nothing, then go in. We have a chance here, however small, for zero casualties. There are two guards down already. I'll give you half an hour. Whatever he's paying you, it's not enough. Zara: Well? Okay. He's giving us half an hour. I have an idea that will help Eric. [ Beep .] [ Door opens .] We have a problem. Chatter on the police radio. They found the explosives. Can you negotiate with these people? Not with their leader. He's too far gone. Then who? Lucas wants you. Careful. Safety's off. So, you got the virus. But I sense something has gone wrong. You're gonna negotiate our way out of here. They discovered your escape plan. So, what was it? Some kind of distraction to divert their attention while you got away? Enough explosive to blow your team sky-high unless you make the phone call. Which is exactly why you're gonna negotiate our way out of here. Well, you could do that even if I agree. Yeah, well, you'll just have to trust me. I thought you were listening. You need to build a rapport in order to earn trust. If they've found your explosives, the police have covered every route out of here. There is no negotiator in the world that can get you off this island. You are stuck, my friend. Yeah, well, what's stopping me from releasing this here and now then? Lucas, that's not what The plan? Let me guess. He told you he's gonna use it as leverage to bring about the change you all so desperately want. 'Course, he'd never actually release it, right? They would die for me. Will you let your team die because of you? [ Breathing shakily .] As much as I love my guys, it's hardly a tough choice if it means saving the lives of hundreds of thousands. Is this what you signed up for? Killing every person you know and love so he can go down in history as the man who changed the world? Hmm? I'm not bluffing. Oh, I know you will. Two more minutes. He'll come through. [ Beeping continues .] Make the call. Where were you? I just Do it! You know, truth is, I agree with you. My generation has screwed up. We wasted natural resources, we polluted the oceans, we tanked the economy, but releasing that virus is not going to bring down the system, if that's what your goal is. - [ Ringing .] - It's just gonna make it worse. Straight to voicemail. Do I Do I leave a message? [ Scoffs .] Let's shoot this smug bastard. You're kidding me, right? Give her a moment. Committing murder can be a life-changing decision. Lucas, you you never said anything about releasing the virus. Sacrifice for the greater good. That is what you meant, isn't it? Well, you know what they say. Want something done right you got to do it yourself. Better he lives. [ Gasping .] [ Gun uncocks .] [ Sirens wailing .] I turn to you whenever I'm hurt And I hang on you and your every word You're rarely wrong I hate to put up a fight You're rarely wrong But this time, you might Every boy in this town Would jump at the chance But no one can love you Like I can And it's you So, how'd it go over here? You miss me? Yeah. You know I did. You just want me to feel needed. I knew you could handle it. You think it's all just a big risk Not wishing to overstep boundaries, but are you out of your mind? Well, that depends on the context, Oliver. Maxine's only been with the team for a few months. You had no way of knowing whether she'd succeed. And what's worse, it's unfair to Maxine. People could've died today, and she would have to deal with that the rest of her life. You, of all people, should understand that. Whose idea was it to broadcast to the hostage takers that the police had found a bomb? Maxine's. She knew that it would force Lucas to come to me. Yeah, pretty smart. Then I guess she was ready. And I guess You - I was right. - Right, yeah. You love to hear that, don't you? It is music to my ears, Oliver. Music to my ears. Ransom (2017) Episode Scripts \| More Television Show Episode Scripts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371874
__label__wiki	0.702982	0.702982	215607_not-searchable /en/befolkning/statistikker/folkemengde/aar-berekna 5 214 900 inhabitants at the turn of the year Population;Population;Immigration and immigrants folkemengde, Population, population, inhabitants, mean population, increase in population, marital status (for example married, single, divorced), age, sexPopulation, Children, families and households, Population count, Population, Immigration and immigrants Population statistics. Estimated population 1 January 2016 Population, 1 January 2016, estimated figures Variants of the statistics: Annually, per 1 january Annually, estimated figures (selected) Share object Statistics home page About the statistics This is an archived release. Go to latest release The projected population growth from January 2015 to January 2016 is estimated to be 49 100, or 0.95 per cent. This is a smaller growth than the preceding year, when the population growth was 56 700. The population of Norway is expected to reach 5 214 900 by 1 January 2016. Estimated population growth and population. The whole country and the ten largest municipalities.Published 17 December 2015 Population 1st January. Final figures Estimated population 31st December Estimated population growth. Per centba The whole country 5 165 802 49 088 5 214 890 1.0 647 676 11 173 658 849 1.7 275 112 2 783 277 895 1.0 132 102 580 132 682 0.4 87 446 928 88 374 1.1 73 624 1 331 74 955 1.8 Source: Statistics Norway Explanation of symbols About 63 per cent of the population growth will be due to a net in-migration surplus from abroad, and 37 per cent of the growth will be due to a birth surplus. The net in-migration from abroad has decreased this year to date, and is a result of lower immigration and higher emigration. Asylum seekers without a residence permit are not included in this estimation. The net migration, which is estimated at 63 per cent of the population growth, will represent a smaller part of the population growth in 2015 than in the years 2007-2014 when the net migration in some years represented over 70 per cent of the population growth. The net migration from abroad is expected to be around 30 900, which is 7 200 lower than 2014. In the peak years 2011 and 2012, the net migration was highest with over 47 000 each year. The estimated 18 100 birth excess will be somewhat lower than the previous year, but will nevertheless represent a bigger part of the total population growth due to the lower net in-migration. About the estimationsOpen and readClose The population is estimated for the country as a whole and at county and municipality level. It is based on information from the population register, using data on births, deaths and migration up to 1 December 2016. The population growth in December is estimated using approximately the same relative growth as in December 2015. If the level of births, deaths and migration changes markedly in December this year compared to last year, the population will vary correspondingly. For some municipalities, estimated figures as of 31 December 2016 may thus seem to break with the trend so far this year, but this is due to the estimation method used. This is especially visible in small municipalities, where the figures must be regarded as a preliminary estimate. This page has been discontinued, see Population, Quarterly and Population, Annually, per 1 january. Find more figures Find detailed figures from Population and population changes Magnus Haug E-mail: magnus.haug@ssb.no tel.: (+47) 40 81 14 91 Espen Andersen E-mail: espen.andersen@ssb.no Kåre Vassenden E-mail: kare.vassenden@ssb.no Oppdrag befolkningsstatistikk E-mail: befolkning@ssb.no Statistics Norway's Information Centre E-mail: informasjon@ssb.no More on ssb.no Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents You have turned off Javascript. You can send us your feedback at informasjon@ssb.no. E-mail SSB Your answer will be used to improve ssb.no. Sorry, something wrong happened. Try again.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371876
__label__cc	0.73032	0.26968	Reviews \| Written by Paul Mount 02/10/2011 Movie Review: Shark Night 3D It looks as if Hollywood’s love/hate relationship with sharks might have just turned to boredom/indifference judging by the waterlogged US Box Office of this latest fiersome fish flick, a tired and at times hilariously-desperate attempt to resuscitate a sub-genre which has been chugging along since ‘Jaws’ and its least-said sequels, the ‘Shark Attack’ straight-to-DVD titles, ‘Deep Blue Sea’ and more recent efforts like ‘The Reef‘. It’s not difficult to imagine the Hollywood bean-counters at work here. “Hey, ‘Piranha 3D’ did boffo business, get some more kids into bikinis… and do sharks again!! In 3D!!! Let’s do lunch!” High-fives all round. In fact, maybe it’s just the 3D that’s turned people away - I’m as happy as I hope you are to read that the latest research indicates people are fed up of jamming those stupid plastic glasses over their noses and struggling to watch sticks and debris looming out of the murk at them. Or maybe it’s just that ‘Shark Night 3D’ isn’t an especially good movie. I reckon it’s a little bit of both… So what do you get if you chose to cough up and spec up for this little gem? Well, the same old same old to be honest. Bunch of teens rush off for some reason I can’t recall to splash’n’ski at isolated Lake Crosby (where they can’t get signals on their cells, would you believe their luck?) but harmless fun in the water turns into ‘armless’ (geddit?) terror as one of them gets shorn of one of his pesky limbs. The gang soon realise there’s something nasty and finny and hungry out there in the water and before long, inevitably, the death list starts getting longer as the shark gets hungrier. But wait! There’s a twist in the tail (sorry) because, in an eye-bogglingly inane plot development, it turns out that the sharks (and there’s more than one of ‘em) haven’t found their way into the lake by accident. Oh no, sir, they’ve been put there by devilish redneck bad guys who are after making a quick killing by filming quick killings and flogging the footage to cable TV subscribers. Honestly, you couldn’t make this stuff up… Just to make sure the audience understands that these guys are like, really bad, one of them has spiky shark’s teeth...he’s as bad as the sharks!! ‘Shark Night 3D’s main problem - apart from the fact it’s a bit dumb - is that it doesn’t even deliver on the blood and gore you might expect from sensationalist stuff like this. ’Jaws’ was way more graphic than ‘Shark Night 3D‘, and that was made over 35 years ago. Here shark victims just thrash about in the water a bit and disappear in pools of (not much) blood or else they get scooped up by sharks which hurl themselves out of the water. Where are the slow dismemberments, the agonised half-chewed bodies trying to heave themselves out of the water? Bah. ‘Shark Night 3D’ wants its cake (and its PG13 rating in the USA) but can’t be bothered to eat it; the film ends up toothless when it should be terrifying. On the plus side - and yes, there are some pluses - director David R Ellis (’Snakes on a Plane’) keeps the action moving well enough, the unknown cast are enthusiastic if little else and some of the 3D sequences (especially the underwater scenes and the odd bit where a shark Comes Right Out At You!) are fairly effective if you like that sort of thing. But ‘Shark Night 3D’ is just too tame and derivative and its script too creaky and predictable for it to linger long in the memory. Without the Unique Selling Point of the buckets of gore which at least made ‘Piranha 3D’ worth a look, this one, like the remains of the shark’s unfortunate victims, is likely to sink without trace. Expected rating: 5 out of 10 Actual rating: 'Shark Knight 3D' is in UK cinemas now Reviews you may like reviews \| 9/01/2020 I SCREAM ON THE BEACH! I SCREAM ON THE BEACH! / CERT: TBC / DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY: ALEXANDER ... I WANT TO EAT YOUR PANCREAS DIRECTOR: SHIN’ICHIRO USHIJIMA / SCREENPLAY: SHIN’ICHIRO ... I SCREAM ON THE BEACH! / CERT: TBC / DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY: ALEXANDER CHURCHYARD, MICHAEL HOLIDAY / STARRING: HANNAH PATERSON, DANI T... DIRECTOR: SHIN'ICHIRO USHIJIMA / SCREENPLAY: SHIN'ICHIRO USHIJIMA / STARRING: LYNN, MAHIRO TAKASUGI, YUKIYO FUJII, YUMA UCHIDA, JUN FUKU...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371878
__label__wiki	0.602733	0.602733	Formation of a salsolinol-like compound, the neurotoxin, 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline, in a cellular model of hyperglycemia and a rat model of diabetes De-Wei Song Nian Xin Bing-Jie Xie Yu-Juan Li Ling-Yan Meng Hong-Mei Li Michael Schläppi Yu-Lin Deng Affiliations: Division of Chemical Metrology and Analytical Science, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100013, P.R. China, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P.R. China, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA Published online on: December 24, 2013 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2013.1604 There are statistical data indicating that diabetes is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD). Methylglyoxal (MG), a biologically reactive byproduct of glucose metabolism, the levels of which have been shown to be increase in diabetes, reacts with dopamine to form 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ); this formation may provide further insight into the connection between PD and diabetes. In this study, we investigated the role of ADTIQ in these two diseases to determine in an aim to enhance our understanding of the link between PD and diabetes. To this end, a cell model of hyperglycemia and a rat model of diabetes were established. In the cell model of hyperglycemia, compared with the control group, the elevated glucose levels promoted free hydroxyl radical formation (p<0.01). An ADTIQ assay was successfully developed and ADTIQ levels were detected and quantified. The levels of its precursors, MG and dopamine (DA), were determined in both the cell model of hyperglycemia and the rat model of diabetes. The proteins related to glucose metabolism were also assayed. Compared with the control group, ADTIQ and MG levels were significantly elevated not only in the cell model of hyperglycemia, but also in the brains of rats with diabetes (p<0.01). Seven key enzymes from the glycolytic pathway were found to be significantly more abundant in the brains of rats with diabetes. Moreover, it was found that adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase and superoxide dismutase (SOD) expression levels were markedly decreased in the rats with diabetes compared with the control group. Therefore, ADTIQ expression levels were found to be elevated under hyperglycemic conditions. The results reported herein demonstrate that ADTIQ, which is derived from MG, the levels of which areincreased in diabetes, may serve as a neurotoxin to dopaminergic neurons, eventually leading to PD. Diabetes mellitus (DM), as a state of chronic hyperglycemia, and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diseases which consist a global health threat. In recent years, there have been increasing data indicating that hyperglycemia is associated with an increased risk of developing PD (1,2). However, the mechanisms underlying the association between hyperglycemia and PD have not yet been elucidated. Deng and Rajput (6) were the first to report, in 2001, that 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ), a salsolinol-like compound, is found at highly concentrated levels in the brains of patients who suffer from PD (3). When the brains of deceased patients with PD were compared to those of normal subjects, it was found that patients with PD presented elevated levels of ADTIQ in all the examined brain areas. This finding indicated that elevated ADTIQ expression levels may be one of the mechanisms involved in the increased risk patients with diabetes have of developing PD (4). ADTIQ is an endogenous product acquired by a reaction between methylglyoxal (MG) and dopamine (DA). The reactive α-keto-aldehyde MG is the most important carbonyl, formed endogenously as a byproduct of the glycolytic pathway and formed either by the degradation of triosephosphates, or non-enzymatically by sugar fragmentation reactions (5). MG is gradually accumulated under hyperglycemic conditions, which may induce oxidative stress (6). The neurotoxin, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), is known to deplete striatal DA and to cause neuronal degeneration of the nigrostriatal pathway when administered to humans. The reason behind this, is that MPTP may induce oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, which can lead to PD (7). Catechol isoquinolines (CIQs) are considered to be naturally occurring MPTP-like neurotoxins. Salsolinol is demonstrated to be formed from DA and acetaldehyde by an (R)-salsolinol synthase-mediated condensation, N-methylated into (R)-N-methylsalsolinol by a neutral (R)-salsolinol N-methyltransferase, and then oxidized into an ion of 6,7-dihydroxy-1,2-dimethyl-isoqiolinium, an analogue of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+). The toxicity of N-methylsalsolinol and its oxidation product for dopaminergic neurons has previously been examined in vivo and in vitro (8,9). The chemical structure of ADTIQ is very similar to that of salsolinol (Fig. 1). Therefore, in the current study, we hypothesize that ADTIQ may be another endogenous neurotoxin with a possibly negative effect on the nervous system, which may cause damage to the peripheral, automatic and central nervous systems, and may ultimately lead to PD. Reactions of methylglyoxal and aldehydes with dopamine (DA). The chemical structure of 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ) is very similar to that of salsolinol. (A) DA reacts with methylglyoxal to produce ADTIQ; (B) DA reacts with aldehyde to produce salsolinol. In the present study, ADTIQ levels and those of its precursor, MG, were examined in a cell model of hyperglycemia and a rat model of diabetes. Proteomics was used to analyze the proteins involved, also analyzing their role in glucose metabolism. The parental SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cell line was provided by Professor Wei-Hong Song (University of British Columbia). The study complied with the ‘Guide for the Care and use of Laboratory Animals’ published by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH publication no. 85-23, revised in 1985) and all animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Research Advisory Committee of the Beijing Institute of Technology. Wistar rats (male, 180–200 g body weight, 6–8 weeks old) and their granular food were provided by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Beijing, China). The animals were maintained under a 12-h light/dark cycle at approximately 24±1ºC and were allowed free access to food and water. Cell culture and establishment of the rat model of diabetes The SH-SY5Y cells were grown under standard conditions in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 2 mM L-glutamine and 10% fetal calf serum at 37ºC (5% CO2). A total of 40 Wistar rats were randomly divided into 2 groups, a control group and a diabetes model group (10 rats in the control group and 30 rats in the model group). Baseline blood glucose levels of all animals were measured after 12 h of fasting. Diabetes was induced by a single intraperitoneal injection of prepared streptozotocin (60 mg/kg body weight; Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) dissolved in sterile saline (0.85% NaCl). The control rats received an equal volume of the vehicle (normal saline). Non-fasting blood glucose levels were quantified a week later with the use of a commercially available glucometer. Streptozotocin-injected rats whose initial blood glucose levels were <300 mg/dl were considered as non-diabetic. Non-fasting blood glucose levels were monitored every 7th day during the course of the study and were examined again right before all the rats were anesthetized. The model group was fed for 18 weeks in order to imitate chronic hyperglycemia induced by long-term injury to the nervous system. Measurement of free hydroxyl radicals in SH-SY5Y cells by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-electrochemical detector (ECD) assay The SH-SY5Y cells were exposed to 60 mM glucose (10). After 48 h, the cells were harvested and 200 μl 10 mM ortho-oxybenzoic were added to the cells. The cells were lysed by sonication (50 cycles of 10 sec), centrifuged at 16,000 × g (4ºC, 10 min) following incubation with 0.4 M PCA (1:2/v:v) for 30 min, and passed through a 0.22-μm filter membrane prior to analysis. All these samples were analyzed by HPLC-ECD using a CoulArray Electrochemical Detector (Model 5600A; ESA, USA) under the following conditions: i) the organic phase consisted of 10% methanol diluted in water (solvent A); ii) the balanced solution contained 35 mM citric acid, 45 mM sodium acetate, 0.13 mM Na2EDTA, 0.2 mM SHS water-solution, pH 4.0 (solvent B); while iii) for the stationary phase, Alltima C18 (4.6×150 mm, 5 μm) analytical column was used. The column had a flow rate of 1 ml/min, it reached a temperature of 30ºC, while its electric potential was: −50, 50, 300, 450, 650, 780, 900 mV. The volume of the sample used was 40 μl. Detection of MG and ADTIQ in hyperglycemic cells and rats with diabetes by liquid chromatography (LC)-mass spectrometry (MS) LC-MS for the detection of MG and ADTIQ was carried out as previously described (11,12). The prepared cells and brain tissues were lysed by sonication (50 cycles of 10 sec) and centrifuged at 16,000 × g (4ºC, 10 min) following incubation with 0.4 M PCA (1:2/v:v) for 30 min. The supernatant was passed through a 0.22-μm filter membrane. O-phenylenediamine (2 mM) was added to the samples followed by incubation for 1 h at 37ºC. As MG cannot be retained on C18 columns, an indirect derivatization method was used to measure MG levels in the rat brains. MG reacted with o-phenylenediamine and the product, 2-methylquinoxaline (2-MQ), was detected as a measure of MG content. Tissue samples were separated into 2 groups, one for derivatization and another for no derivatization. LC was performed with the discovery F5-SH column (4.6×250 mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase consisted of 32% methanol and 68% formic acid (pH 3.49), while the flow rate was 0.7 ml/min and the UV detection wave length 315 nm. The volume of the sample analyzed was 50 μl. Mass spectrum analysis was performed under the following conditions: mode electrospray ionization (ESI), positive ion mode; MS scanning; nebulizer pressure, 28 psi; drying gas flow rate, 8 l/min; scanning range, 135–225 m/z; and extracted ion chromatography (EIC), 145 (2-MQ) and 208 (ADTIQ). Protein extraction and trypsin digestion The control and model rat brain specimens were prepared and lysed by sonication (50 cycles of 10 sec) in 300 μl lysis buffer [8 M urea, 4% 3-((3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonic acid (CHAPS), 10 mM dithiothreitol (DTT) and 0.09 g solid urea]. The homogenates were left at room temperature for 1 h after having been centrifuged at 20,000 × g for 60 min at 4ºC, and the supernatants were then collected as protein extracts. Protein concentration was determined by the Lowry method after dialysis. Proteins (500 μg) were freeze-dried at −56ºC under a vacuum, as previously described (13,14). Desiccated proteins were dissolved in 200 μl buffer solution (8 M urea, 10 mM DTT and 50 mM NH4HCO3) and incubated at 37ºC for 4 h. Subsequently, 5 μl of iodoacetamide (1 M) were added in order for the alkylation reaction to occur in the dark for 1 h. The urea concentration was diluted in 500 μl NH4HCO3 (50 mM). Porcine trypsin (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) was added in a final enzyme to protein ratio of 1:20. Digestion was conducted at 37ºC for 18 h. Peptide detection and quantification by LC-ESI-time-of-flight (TOF) MS The quantification of the peptide mixtures in limited amounts of rat brain tissues was carried out by LC-ESI-TOF-MS (Agilent 6210 Time-of-Flight LC/MS System; Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA). Samples were separated by a C18 column (4.6×250 mm, 5 μm) in acetonitrile-0.1% formic acid (5:95) (mobile phase) with a flow rate of 0.8 μl/min for online enrichment. They were then analyzed by a Zorbax C18 column (0.5×150 mm, 5 μm). The peptides were separated and analyzed completely within 70 min. The ESI positive scanning range was 300–1,800 m/z. Analysis of peptides by LC-MS/MS The peptide mixtures were separated by chromatography and analyzed by ion trap mass spectrometry (Agilent 1100 series LC/MSD mass spectrometer; Agilent Technologies, Inc.) with the reversed-phase (RP) C18 column (4.6×250 mm, 5 μm), at a flow rate of a 0.8 ml/min. Samples of proteolytic digests (80 μl) were injected into the column and run with a linear gradient of 95% solvent A (0.1% formic acid) to 100% solvent B (acetonitrile) for a time period of 70 min and post run for another 10 min (14). Bioinformatics analysis MassHunter and MassProfiler, analysis software provided by Agilent Technologies, Inc. were used in order to analyze the TOF data. Significantly differentially expressed peptides were selected from the mass data. The same samples were analyzed by LC-TOF before they were validated by LC-MS/MS. The m/z value of significantly differentially expressed peptides was preferentially selected for LC-MS/MS analysis. Trypsin cleaves proteins at the C terminus of lysine and arginine residues, thereby generating a peptide mass fingerprint (PMF) that can be used to search databases. The MS/MS data were searched using the MASCOT tool (http://www.matrixscience.com; Matrix Science, London, UK). The threshold parameter values for mass accuracy were 150 ppm and one miscleavage was allowed. The search was performed against rat protein sequences. PMFs from our samples were compared to corresponding fingerprints from NCBInr (http://ncbi.nih.gov/National Center for Biotechnical Information, Bethesda, MD, USA), MSDB (csc-fserve.hh.med.ic.ac.uk/msdb.html/Proteonomics Department, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College, London, UK) and EnsemblC (http://www.ensembl.org/Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK) databases in order to find matches with the virtual tryptic protein masses. Gene Ontology entries were retrieved based on the IPI data files from Swiss-Prot. Gene Ontology terms were mapped to Ontoglyph terms (http://61.50.138.118/GOfact/) to provide a coarse-grained classification of gene function (15). Detection of protein content by western blot analysis Brain homogenate expression levels of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase were determined by western blot analysis. First, the proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, then electrotransferred (electrodes were attached and the power supply was set to 100 V at constant voltage for 1 h at 4ºC). Finally, immunodetection was carried out as follows: the membranes were stained, blocked and washed, and then subjected to first antibody and second antibody and detection for the target protein. SPSS 13.0 software (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) was used for statistical analysis. Values are expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD). Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA, followed by a Student’s two-tailed paired t-test for comparisons between 2 groups. A P-value <0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. Measurement of free hydroxyl radicals in hyperglycemic SH-SY5Y cells Salicylic acid hydroxylation is a specific scavenger for free hydroxyl radicals. Thus, the hydroxylation products, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,3-DHBA) and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,5-DHBA), were measured in order to indirectly evaluate the degree of oxidative stress (16). Free hydroxyl radicals in the SH-SY5Y cells treated with or without glucose were measured by HPLC-ECD assay. No 2,3-DHBA or 2,5-DHBA expression was detected in the control cells. However, there was a large quantity of free hydroxyl radicals in the hyperglycemic cells. Compared with the cells in the control group, an elevated level of glucose markedly promoted free hydroxyl radical formation in the hyperglycemic cells (p<0.01) (Fig. 2). Measurement of free hydroxyl radicals [2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,3-DHBA) and 2,5-DHBA] in cell model of hyperglycemia by HPLC-electrochemical detector (ECD) assay. A large quantity of free hydroxyl radicals was detected in the cells treated with 60 mM glucose, contrary to the control cells where only slight amounts of 2,3-DHBA or 2,5-DHBA were detected. A total of 3×106 cells was used per culture plate. The results from 3 separate experiments are expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD). p<0.01, statistically significant differences in relation to the control group. Measurement of ADTIQ levels in the cell model of hyperglycemia Only minimal amounts of ADTIQ were detected in the control group, contrary to the large amount that was detected in the cells treated with a final concentration of 60 mM glucose for 2 h. Compared with the control group, we observed a significant increase in the expression levels of ADTIQ in the neuronal SH-SY5Y cells cultured under hyperglycemic conditions following a 2-h incubation period (p<0.01) (Fig. 3). LC-MS measurement of 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ) in hyperglycemic SH-SY5Y cells. Quantification of ADTIQ concentration was based on the chromatogram peak area. A total of 3×106 cells was used per culture plate. Results from 3 separate experiments are expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD). p<0.01, statistically significant differences in relation to the control group. Measurement of MG and ADTIQ levels in the brains of rats with diabetes The abundance of MG can be indirectly determined by measuring the levels of 2-MQ (17). LC/MS analysis was conducted to determine whether ADTIQ accumulated in the brains of rats with diabetes. The results indicated that the brains of rats with diabetes rat had significantly higher levels of ADTIQ (p<0.01) compared with the control group (Fig. 4). LC-MS detection of 2-methylquinoxaline (2-MQ) and 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ) levels in the control and brains of rats with diabetes. 2-MQ represented the amount of methylglyoxal. Levels of 2-MQ and ADTIQ in the brains of rats with diabetes were higher than those in the control group. 2-MQ and ADTIQ concentrations were calculated based on chromatogram peak areas. Results from 3 separate experiments are expressed as the means ± standard deviation (SD). **p<0.01, statistically significant differences in relation to the control group Measurement of relative protein levels in rat brains A proteomics approach was used to search for differentially expressed proteins in the brains of rats with diabetes (Materials and methods). The results of this proteomics and bioinformatics analysis revealed that, in comparison to the control group, the expression levels of 7 key enzymes from the glycolytic pathway were significantly increased in the brains of rats with diabetes, while the levels of ATP synthase, an enzyme from the oxidative phosphorylation pathway, and of those superoxide dismutase (SOD) were significantly decreased. Compared with the control group, the diabetes group had a higher rate of glycolysis and a lower rate of oxidative phosphorylation (Table I). Expression profiles of nine proteins in the brains of the control rats and rats with diabetes. Protein annotation Database accession no. Sequence coverage Diabetes group (%) 1 Hexokinase 1BG3A 12 0.21±0.05 0.51±0.03 2 Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase ADRTA 7 0.33±0.01 0.72±0.01 3 Triosephosphate isomerase TPIS_RAT 6 0.27±0.08 0.77±0.02 4 Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase DERTG 16 0.16±0.03 0.54±0.04 5 Phosphoglycerate mutase, brain form PMGB 14 0.14±0.04 0.38±0.04 6 Enolase ENOA 9 0.22±0.02 0.42±0.01 7 Pyruvate kinase KPY1 7 0.25±0.05 0.57±0.01 8 SOD DSRTN 9 0.55±0.02 0.21±0.01 9 ATP synthase ATPB_RAT 9 0.71±0.02 0.27±0.03 [i] Compared with control group, the expression levels of the first seven genes (genes 1–7) were increased, while those of the last two genes (genes 8 and 9) were decreased significantly. Protein expression levels are expresed as the means ± SD of the percentage integrated peak area (%) of peptides. SOD, superoxide dismutase; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; SD, standard deviation. Two proteins, GAPDH and ATP synthase, were selected to be semi-quantified by western blot analysis in order to verify the reliability of the proteomics results. It was shown that, compared with the control group, the GAPDH content in the rats with diabetes was increased while the ATP synthase content was decreased. These results were consistent with the those from proteomics analysis. Thus, the comparative proteomics analysis proved to be a feasible and reliable approach for studying relative protein levels (Fig. 5). Western blot analysis of the expression of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). GAPDH content in the rats with diabetes mellitus (DM) was increased, while the content of ATP synthase was decreased compared with the control group. The results were consistent with the results obtained from proteomics analysis. The pathological process of PD is complex, involving a number of different factors, such as mitochondrial dysfunction, abnormal protein aggregation, familial inheritance and excitotoxicity (18). A previous study demonstrated that CIQs, such as salsolinol and NM-salsolinol are promising endogenous neurotoxins that may lead to the development of PD (19). Thus, a ‘vicious’ cycle may be induced by CIQs. ADTIQ is structurally similar to salsolinol, and has been suggested to be a neurotoxin (20,21). Glycolysis is a crucial process in DM and the most extensively investigated metabolic pathway (22). MG is an important byproduct in this pathway and its production is increased due to hyperglycemia. The formation of dihydroxyacetone phosphate and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by fructose-1, 6-bisphosphate is catalyzed by aldolase. Triosephosphate isomerase catalyzes the aldoketose isomerization of these triosephosphates and eventually only D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate follows the glycolytic pathway, by being converted into 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate in a reaction catalyzed by D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (23). However, triose phosphates are unstable molecules and L-elimination reactions of the phosphoryl group from the common 1,2-enediolate of both trioses may occur, leading to MG formation (24,25). This is a non-enzymatic, parametabolic reaction and therefore MG occurrence is an unavoidable consequence of glycolytic metabolism (26). MG can also be formed from the leakage of the 1,2-enediolate intermediate in the active center of triosephosphate isomerase in a paracatalytic reaction (27). Consequently, ADTIQ is produced when DA reacts with MG (Fig. 6). Formation of the neurotoxin 1-acetyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (ADTIQ) in the abnormal glucose metabolism pathway. In this pathway, dihydroxyacetone phosphate and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate are formed from fructose-1,6-bisphosphate catalyzed by aldolase. Triosephosphate isomerase catalyzes aldoketose isomerization of these triosephosphates. Triose 1,2-enediol-3-phosphate, as an intermediate between dihydroxyacetone phosphate and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, is an unstable molecule which converts into methylglyoxal. Methylglyoxal can also be formed from D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate catalyzed by methylglyoxal synthase. Methylglyoxal is an important byproduct which is increased due to hyperglycaemia in the pathway. ADTIQ is produced when dopamine reacts with methylglyoxal. As previously demonstrated, reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by high glucose levels are involved in vivo in both death receptor- and mitochondrial-dependent apoptosis of the nervous system (28). Antioxidants may be a therapeutic option for preventing cardiovascular damage in patients with DM. ROS has been shown to be involved in collagen-induced platelet activation and aggregation (29). In the SH-SY5Y cell model of hyperglycemia, a large amount of free radicals was generated during the course of treatment with high glucose, consistent with the observation that ROS generation and elimination systems were imbalanced under hyperglycemic conditions. Intracellular ROS and hydroxyl radical accumulation induced lipid peroxidation (LPO) (30); thus, lipid molecules were consumed uninterruptedly, decreasing the amount of unsaturated fatty acid and affecting the fluidity of biological membranes (31). MG and other aldehydes react with proteins and enzymes, which cause them to lose their biological activity and lead to an abnormal metabolism. Specifically, MG reacts with DA to form ADTIQ, which confirms the hypothesis that CIQs induce a ‘vicious’ cycle of oxidative stress. In the present study, compared with the control group, the ADTIQ levels in the brains of rats with diabetes were found to be significantly elevated (p<0.01). We also demonstrated that the levels of 7 key enzymes from the glycolytic pathway were increased significantly in the brains of rats with diabetes. More precisely, the expression levels of fructose-bisphosphate aldolase and triosephosphate isomerase were higher, suggesting that hyperglycemia enhanced the concentration of dihydroxyacetone phosphate and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, thus leading to an increase in MG and ADTIQ levels. When ADTIQ accumulated and reached a critical level, it damaged neurons and induced oxidative stress and apoptosis. Our results also indicated that SOD and ATP synthase protein levels were significantly reduced in the rats with diabetes. SOD is a potent antioxidant enzyme which exerts its effects by scavenging ROS. There are data suggesting that elevated glucose levels serve as a causal link between the mitochondrial hyperglycemia-induced overproduction of superoxide and each of the three major pathways responsible for hyperglycemic vascular damage caused to endothelial cells (32,33). It has previously been demonstrated that the C-peptide has a preventative effect on neuronal hippocampal apoptosis in type 1 diabetes, although it does not have any effect on oxidative stress (34,35). These results indicate that hyperglycemic conditions may reduce the activity of SOD; however, the mechanisms involved remain unclear. The decreased levels of ATP synthase suggest that hyperglycemic conditions may induce mitochondrial dysfunction and thus lead to the apoptosis of neuronal cells. However, it is evident that multiple factors are involved in the progression from diabetes to PD. In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that ADTIQ may be a type of endogenous neurotoxin and is found in the brains of rats with diabetes. We also provide evidence in support of the existence of a ‘vicious’ cycle of oxidative stress. The accumulation of ADTIQ in diabetes be an important factor in the connection between diabetes and PD. The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (grant nos. 2012YQ040140, 2009BAK59B01, 02 and 03) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 81202996). 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__label__wiki	0.76287	0.76287	Chapters 10–12 Chapters 45–46 & Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale Offred The Commander Serena Joy Aunt Lydia Is Offred a rebel? Role of Women Chapters 1-3 Chapters 10-12 Feminism in the 1980s Feminist science fiction Main ideas Motifs Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Rape and Sexual Violence Sexual violence, particularly against women, pervades The Handmaid’s Tale. The prevalence of rape and pornography in the pre-Gilead world justified to the founders their establishment of the new order. The Commander and the Aunts claim that women are better protected in Gilead, that they are treated with respect and kept safe from violence. Certainly, the official penalty for rape is terrible: in one scene, the Handmaids tear apart with their bare hands a supposed rapist (actually a member of the resistance). Yet, while Gilead claims to suppress sexual violence, it actually institutionalizes it, as we see at Jezebel’s, the club that provides the Commanders with a ready stable of prostitutes to service the male elite. Most important, sexual violence is apparent in the central institution of the novel, the Ceremony, which compels Handmaids to have sex with their Commanders. Religious Terms Used for Political Purposes Gilead is a theocracy—a government in which there is no separation between state and religion—and its official vocabulary incorporates religious terminology and biblical references. Domestic servants are called “Marthas” in reference to a domestic character in the New Testament; the local police are “Guardians of the Faith”; soldiers are “Angels”; and the Commanders are officially “Commanders of the Faithful.” All the stores have biblical names: Loaves and Fishes, All Flesh, Milk and Honey. Even the automobiles have biblical names like Behemoth, Whirlwind, and Chariot. Using religious terminology to describe people, ranks, and businesses whitewashes political skullduggery in pious language. It provides an ever-present reminder that the founders of Gilead insist they act on the authority of the Bible itself. Politics and religion sleep in the same bed in Gilead, where the slogan “God is a National Resource” predominates. Similarities between Reactionary and Feminist Ideologies Although The Handmaid’s Tale offers a specifically feminist critique of the reactionary attitudes toward women that hold sway in Gilead, Atwood occasionally draws similarities between the architects of Gilead and radical feminists such as Offred’s mother. Both groups claim to protect women from sexual violence, and both show themselves willing to restrict free speech in order to accomplish this goal. Offred recalls a scene in which her mother and other feminists burn porn magazines. Like the founders of Gilead, these feminists ban some expressions of sexuality. Gilead also uses the feminist rhetoric of female solidarity and “sisterhood” to its own advantage. These points of similarity imply the existence of a dark side of feminist rhetoric. Despite Atwood’s gentle criticism of the feminist left, her real target is the religious right. Previous section Setting Next section Symbols Take the Themes, Motifs & Symbols Quick Quiz The Handmaid’s Tale: Popular pages CHARACTERS Offred: Character Analysis MAIN IDEAS Is Offred a rebel?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371880
__label__wiki	0.794559	0.794559	Study Guide NO FEAR Translation Act I, scenes i–ii Act I, scenes iii–iv Act I, scene v Act II, scenes i–ii Act II, scenes iii–iv Act II, scene v Act III, scenes i–iii Act III, scene iv Act IV, scenes i–iii Act V, scene i Orsino and Olivia Malvolio Sex and Gender in Twelfth Night Desire and Love Fools and Foolishness Disguise/Deception Act I, Scenes i-ii Act I, Scenes iii-iv Act II, Scenes i-ii Act II, Scenes iii-iv Act III, Scene i-ii Act IV, Scene i-iii Orsino What Does “Twelfth Night” Refer To? Act 1, scenes i–ii Act 1, scenes iii–iv Act 1, scene v Act 3, scenes i–iii Act 3, scene iv Act 5, scene i How To Cite No Fear Twelfth Night Viola Quotes Quotes Viola Quotes Though that nature with a beauteous wall / Doth oft close in pollution (1.2.) Viola praises the Captain’s kind and honorable behavior toward her. She notes that people may sometimes be physically attractive but not honorable on the inside. However, she believes that the captain is both handsome and good. The quote is significant because it touches on the theme of appearance versus reality, which will be important for the remainder of the play. Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife (1.4.) Viola reflects on the uncomfortable position she finds herself is. While in disguise, she has been charged with wooing Olivia on behalf of Orsino, but by now Viola is in love with Orsino herself. The line is the first time Viola speaks about her attraction to Orsino, and it reveals to the audience that, by disguising herself, she has put herself in a challenging and precarious situation. Lady, you are the cruel’st she alive / If you will lead these graces to the grave / And leave the world no copy (1.5.) Viola rebukes Olivia for rejecting Orsino, and for insisting on remaining single. Viola says that since Olivia is so beautiful, it would be a shame for her to remain single (and thus, presumably childless). If Olivia never has children, her beauty will die with her, which Viola thinks would be a shame. The quote is important because Viola is actually speaking to Olivia as another woman, and thus her advice about getting married and having children takes on a different tone. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness (2.2.) Viola is alarmed that Olivia, thinking Viola is Cesario, has fallen in love with her. Although Viola initially thought being disguised as a man would make her life easier and help keep her safe, she realizes that the disguise also creates problems for her. In Shakespeare’s original context, the quote would likely have comic implications for the audience, since Viola would have been portrayed by a young man dressed as a woman. O time, thou must untangle this, not I (2.2.) Viola laments the difficult situation she finds herself in. Because she does not want to reveal her true identity and history, there is little she can do to fix all the confusion, or correct the situation. She simply has to sit back and wait, and hope that things work themselves out. The line foreshadows the way that fate and coincidence will end up resolving the conflict of the play without much direct intervention from the characters. My father had a daughter loved a man / As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman / I should your lordship (2.4.) Viola hints to Orsino about her true feelings for him. Orsino does not pick up on the clues because he believes Viola is a man, and that the two of them are speaking man to man. Orsino assumes Viola is talking about a sister but the audience knows Viola is really speaking about herself. However, even by disguising her comment with reference to a woman, Viola comes very close here to admitting her love for Orsino, and therefore the quote has potential homoerotic connotations in that a man seems to be hinting at his love for another man. Oh, if it prove / Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love (3.4.) Viola starts to hope that Sebastian has in fact survived the shipwreck. News about a man who looks just like her makes her wonder if Sebastian could still be alive. Viola reflects that the ocean, which she had previously thought of as cruel and dangerous, might actually have been benevolent in sparing both her and her brother. The quote is important because it shows Viola starting to see a connection to her past life and hope that she might be reunited with her family. Previous section Act V, Scene i Next section Orsino Twelfth Night: Popular pages NO FEAR No Fear Twelfth Night CHARACTERS Viola: Character Analysis MAIN IDEAS Sex and Gender in Twelfth Night	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371881
__label__cc	0.679473	0.320527	A Triumph of Terrorism Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism. Isn’t it pretty to think so. Unfortunately, the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, its military-style execution, the escape of the assassins, and their blazing end in a shootout Friday was a triumph of terrorism not seen since 9/11. Unlike the Boston Marathon bombing where the Tsarnaevs did not know or care whom they maimed or killed, the attack on Charlie Hebdo by the Kouachi brothers was purposeful and targeted terrorism. And like a flash of lightning in the dark, it exposed the moral contradictions and confusion of the West. During the slaughter the Kouachis shouted “Allahu akbar,” said they had “avenged the Prophet,” and spoke of ties to al-Qaida. And the first response of President Francois Hollande? These terrorists “have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.” This is political correctness of a rare order. Perhaps terminal. Linking arms with Hollande in solidarity and unity Sunday was Bibi Netanyahu who declared, “I wish to tell to all French and European Jews — Israel is your home.” Colleagues urged French Jews to flee to Israel. Marching on the other side of Hollande was Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas who seeks to have Netanyahu’s Israel indicted in the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Gaza. Solidarity! In chanting “Je Suis Charlie,” the marchers showed support for a magazine French Muslims rightly believe is racist and anti-Islamic. Yet, Marine Le Pen, leading in the polls for the French presidency, was blacklisted from marching for remarks about Muslim immigration that are benign compared to what Charlie Hebdo regularly publishes. All weekend long, journalists called it an imperative for us all to defend the lewd and lurid blasphemies of the satirical magazine. But as journalist Christopher Dickey points out, Muslims in the banlieues wonder why insulting the Prophet is a protected freedom in France, while denying the Holocaust can get you a prison term. Hypocrisy is indeed the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Moreover, all this chatter about freedom of speech and of the press misses the point. It was not the right to publish that provoked the slaughter, but the content of what was published. When Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel, and killed him, he was not attacking the First Amendment freedom of the press, but rather Hamilton, for defamation of Burr’s character, which had helped to destroy Burr’s career. What the commentators seem to be saying about the assault on Charlie Hebdo is that not only is what is spoken or published protected by the First Amendment, but those who print and publish vile things must never suffer violent consequences. People who believe this is attainable are living in a dream world, and may not be long for this one. Even as children you knew there were words you did not use about someone else’s girlfriend, mother, family, faith or race, if you did not want a thrashing. That same day millions marched in France, Saudi Arabia was administering 50 lashes to blogger Raif Badawi convicted of insulting Saudi clergy, the first of 1,000 lashes over 20 weeks in addition to his 10-year jail sentence. Had Badawi been guilty of apostasy, he would have been executed. Welcome to the new Middle East, same as the old Middle East. And Islam and the Prophet were not the only targets of Charlie Hebdo. Catholicism was also. In one cartoon, Charlie Hebdo depicts the First and Second Persons of the Blessed Trinity in incestuous activity. And we all supposed to march in solidarity with that? A liberal secular West might find this a democratic duty. Not all will. When people are using the First Amendment to assault the somewhat older Second Commandment, “Though shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,” they should not be surprised when devout followers of Abrahamic faiths take a pass. These Islamic terrorists are sending us a message: In the post-Christian West, Christians may turn the other check at insults to their God and faith. We are not turn-the-other cheek people. Insult our faith, mock the Prophet, and we kill you. An awakening and rising Islamic world — a more militant faith than Christianity or secularism — is saying to the West: We want you out of our part of the world, and we are coming to your part of the world, and you cannot stop us. And Francois Hollande’s response? Show solidarity with Islam by ostracizing Marine Le Pen. This is the true heir of Edouard Daladier of Munich fame. The Kouachi brothers sent yet another message. If you are a young Muslim willing to fight and die for Islam, do not waste your life as some suicide bomber in the wilds of Syria or Iraq. Do as we did; shock and awe your enemies right inside the belly of the beast. Labels: Islamic Terrorism, Patrick J. Buchanan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371887
__label__cc	0.514602	0.485398	The Fortune Teller Book Blast: Giveaway for a Tarot Deck and Book Set The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack Paperback Publication Date: June 6, 2017 Paperback; 368 Pages Genre: Fiction/Historical/Mystery FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY PAINTER COMES A SWEEPING AND SUSPENSEFUL TALE OF ROMANCE, FATE, AND FORTUNE. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him? The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere—someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: The manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess. 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It is a gripping and masterfully woven combination of history, mystery, fate, adventure, and family ties: a true page-turner that enthralls from the first sentence with unique characters, fascinating settings, and intriguing artifacts. Womack brilliantly illuminates how there is more at play in the world than logic can explain."—Kelli Estes, USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk "The Fortune Teller takes you on an international thrill ride across centuries—with fascinating research and memorable characters—proving once again that Gwendolyn Womack is a magician, keeping readers turning pages with wonder and awe."—M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author "What a mesmerizing journey. The suspense increases steadily throughout the novel, as Semele realizes her identity is caught up in the mysterious manuscript and that the truth of her own abilities is a secret people will kill for. Readers who enjoy the novels of Katherine Neville, Kate Mosse and Diana Gabaldon will savor this treat."—Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Crown Originally from Houston, Texas, Gwendolyn Womack studied theater at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She holds an MFA in Directing Theatre, Video, and Cinema from California Institute of the Arts. Her first novel, The Memory Painter, was an RWA PRISM award winner in the Time Travel/Steampunk category and a finalist for Best First Novel. She now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and her son. For more information, please visit Gwendolyn Womack's website. You can also connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Goodreads. Literary Chanteuse The Lit Bitch Trisha Jenn Reads Friday, June 9 T's Stuff Persuing Stacie Books of All Kinds Books & Benches The Paperback Princess Laura's Interests Yelena Casale's Blog Creating Herstory Caryn, the Book Whisperer Ageless Pages Reviews A Fold in the Spine During the Book Blast, we will be giving away a Tarot Deck & Book Set! To enter, please enter via the Gleam form below. Description: This deck/book set provides everything you need to understand tarot. The full-size deck is a vibrantly recolored version of the classic Rider-Waite deck, updated with subtle shading that gives depth to the familiar tarot scenes. The 272-page, user-friendly handbook with full-color illustrations is perfect for beginners as well as experienced readers who want to refresh their tarot skills. – Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on June 30th. You must be 18 or older to enter. – Giveaway is open to residents in the US only. 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80 Trayborn Dr 178 Carrington Dr 54 Highgrove Cres 31 Oxford St https://suzygoldstein.blob.core.windows.net/mls-images/N4374126_0.jpg\| 1 Highgrove Cres 147 Oxford St 4 Creekview Ave 31 Baynards Lane N 431 Kerrybrook Dr 1 Willett Cres 7 Waverley Cres 16 Vomano St 96 Arnold Cres 105 Arten Ave	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371892
__label__cc	0.63628	0.36372	CCC Clothing Closet 10 AM The Clothing Closet distributes emergency clothing through the Nutrition, Health, and Clothing Center. Additionally, the program provides appropriate clothing for individuals... Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Highlights Tour 1 PM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 12 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Highlights Tour 1 PM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > I Love NY: Spotlight on the City 10 AM Celebrate New York City and its indomitable spirit with a special tour of the Cathedral. Learn how the Cathedral and City serve as places of diversity, tolerance, and human ac... Buy Tickets > Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 12 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. 4th Annual Harlem Havana Music & Cultural Festival Celebration 2 PM Join us as we kick off 4th Annual Harlem Havana Music & Cultural Celebration featuring Oyu Oro, an Afro-Cuban experimental dance ensemble from Santiago de Cuba and Harlem... Holy Eucharist 8 AM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Holy Eucharist 9 AM The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist, celebrated with a sermon using the Book of Common Prayer. CCC Sunday Soup Kitchen 10 AM Cathedral Community Cares operates a weekly Sunday Soup Kitchen that serves breakfast at 10 am, a hot sit-down lunch at 12:30 pm. With no eligibility restrictions, meal servic... Choral Eucharist 11 AM Our largest service, warm and elegantly formal. The repertoire of our professional Cathedral Choir, volunteer Chorale and Boy and Girl Choristers derives mostly from the class... Choral Evensong 4 PM Choral evening prayer in the tradition of the great Cathedrals of the Anglican Communion. Preces and Responses, Anthems, and Canticles sung by the renowned Cathedral Choir. Vertical Tour 10 AM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Highlights Tour 1 PM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Gateway to the New Jerusalem: Spotlight on the Iconography of the West Front 10:30 AM The Cathedral’s western façade provokes much comment and curiosity as well as the occasional conspiracy theory. This stimulating one-hour tour decodes the themati... Buy Tickets > Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 12 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 12 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Vertical Tour 2 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 8 AM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. Holy Eucharist 9 AM The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist, celebrated with a sermon using the Book of Common Prayer. CCC Sunday Soup Kitchen 10 AM Cathedral Community Cares operates a weekly Sunday Soup Kitchen that serves breakfast at 10 am, a hot sit-down lunch at 12:30 pm. With no eligibility restrictions, meal servic... Choral Eucharist 11 AM Our largest service, warm and elegantly formal. The repertoire of our professional Cathedral Choir, volunteer Chorale and Boy and Girl Choristers derives mostly from the class... Highlights Tour 11 AM Explore the many highlights of the Cathedral’s history, architecture, and artwork, from the Great Bronze Doors to the seven Chapels of the Tongues. Learn about the daily... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 12 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets > Holy Eucharist 12:15 PM A quiet spoken service, using the Book of Common Prayer, with scripture readings, prayers, and a short homily. The Cathedral in Context: Spotlight on Morningside Heights 1 PM The Cathedral spurred the growth of Morningside Heights into becoming one of Manhattan's most unique neighborhoods. Go back in time on an illustrated walking tour of the neigh... Buy Tickets > Vertical Tour 2 PM On this adventurous, “behind-the-scenes” tour, climb more than 124 feet through spiral staircases to the top of the world's largest cathedral. Learn stories throug... Buy Tickets >	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371901
__label__wiki	0.895426	0.895426	Date posted: 30 May 2017Author: STC Production: Dinner Bruce Spence has been a widely acclaimed performer on STC’s stages since 1980 when he made his debut with us in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Of course, Bruce has also enjoyed great success in film and television, having featured in blockbusters Mad Max 2 and 3, The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix along with his AFI Award-winning performance in Stork in 1971. In 2018, Bruce returned to STC stages for two lauded works of Australian theatre, the new epic The Harp in the South, and old classic A Cheery Soul. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (1980) Bruce's debut came as Abraham Slender in William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Bruce Spence and Redmond Phillips in STC’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1980 (Photo: Brian Geach) Two years later, Bruce tackled another Shakespearean text alongside Hugo Weaving, Robyn Nevin and Colin Friels in “The Scottish Play” as The Porter. Bruce Spence in STC’s Macbeth, 1982 (Photo: Brett Hilder) In 1986, Bruce starred as the lonely and paranoid Henry Hackamore in Sam Shepard’s Seduced. Robert Grubb and Bruce Spence in STC’s Seduced, 1986 (Photo: Hugh Hamilton) TOM THUMB THE GREAT (1986) Bruce displayed his versatility in a variety of roles in the comic opera Tom Thumb the Great. Gillian Jones, Bruce Spence and Julie Nihill in STC’s Tom Thumb the Great, 1986 (Photo: Hugh Hamilton) FAMILY FAVOURITES (1986) The same year, Bruce appeared in Family Favourites, directed by Robyn Nevin. Julie Nihill and Bruce Spence in STC’s Family Favourites, 1986 (Photo: Hugh Hamilton) Bruce appeared in Tennessee Williams’ classic Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Michael Jenkins. Gillian Jones and Bruce Spence in STC’s Suddenly Last Summer, 1986 (Photo: Hugh Hamilton) THE DON'S LAST INNINGS (1986) And in his fourth 1986 performance for STC, Bruce performed in this two-person production. Bruce Spence in STC’s The Don’s Last Innings, 1986 (Photo: Hugh Hamilton) AS YOU LIKE IT (1996) After a ten-year break, Bruce returned to the STC stage in Shakespeare's comedy, directed by Simon Phillips. Penny Biggins and Bruce Spence in STC’s As You Like It, 1996 (Photo: Philip le Masurier) THE WHITE DEVIL (2000) Directed by Gale Edwards, Bruce played the role of Camillo in this Jacobean thriller. The following year, he travelled with this production on its tour to New York. Bruce Spence, John Gaden and Matthew Newton in The White Devil (Photo: Robert McFarlane) UNDER MILK WOOD (2012) In this stage adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ poem, Bruce featured as Captain Cat alongside Sandy Gore, Helen Thomson and Paula Arundell. Helen Thomson and Bruce Spence in STC’s Under Milk Wood, 2012 (Photo: Heidrun Löhr) THE SECRET RIVER (2013, 2016, 2017) Bruce was part of the original cast of The Secret River in 2013, playing the role of Loveday. He toured nationally with the production and returned for its encore season in 2016 and its subsequent outdoor remount in an Adelaide quarry as part of the 2017 Adelaide Festival. Nathaniel Dean and Bruce Spence in STC’s The Secret River, 2013 (Photo: Heidrun Lohr) CYRANO DE BERGERAC (2014) One of STC’s most beloved works, this was the third new production of Edmond Rostand's classic. Bruce played both the rebellious Lignière and a nun. Bruce Spence in STC’s Cyrano de Bergerac, 2014 (Photo: Brett Boardman) ENDGAME (2015) In Beckett’s notoriously dark comedy, Endgame, Bruce played the role of Nagg. Bruce Spence in STC’s Endgame, 2015 (Photo: Lisa Tomasetti) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (2016) In 2016 Bruce took on another Shakespearean classic in the roles of Egeus, Tom Snout and the fairy Mustard Seed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Kip Williams. Rahel Romahn, Josh McConville, Jay James-Moody, Bruce Spence and Emma Harvie in STC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2016 (Photo: Brett Boardman) DINNER (2017) Towering and silent, Bruce played the Lurch-esque waiter in Dinner, directed by Imara Savage. Bruce Spence and Aleks Mikić in Dinner (Photo: Brett Boardman) THE HARP IN THE SOUTH, PART ONE & PART TWO From Irish immigrant family patriarch to local eye doctor, Bruce played a variety of roles in the epic 2018 adaptation of Ruth Park's classic Australian novels, The Harp in the South trilogy. Bruce Spence as John Kilker in The Harp in the South, 2018 (Photo: Daniel Boud) A CHEERY SOUL (2018) Bruce dons becoming silver curls as an elderly lady in the chorus of A Cheery Soul, directed by Kip Williams. In the same play he also plays a furtniture removalist, and a grumpy little girl. Jay James-Moody, Anita Hegh, Bruce Spence, Emma Harvie, Anthony Taufa and Monica Sayers in A Cheery Soul (photo: Daniel Boud) A Cheery Soul, 5 Nov – 15 Dec 2018, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371905
__label__wiki	0.924555	0.924555	Úvodní stránka » RECORDS » Alex Bosworth Alex Bosworth Alex Bosworth — Here For You ♠ Beautiful songwriting combined with a captivating voice make this debut album by New Orleans based musician Alex Bosworth, one you have to hear. ♠ “Each song on this album is a world onto itself tied together by Ms. Bosworth's captivating voice. It is an exploration in vulnerability and from the very first note to the very last chord it is wonderfully heartfelt and moving.” — Renee Thomas, CDbaby.com ♠ “The brand new release by Alex Bosworth is at the top of my list for great albums of the year.” — J. Woodstock, WWOZ Radio Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Album release: October 7, 2014 Record Label: Pearl River Records 01. Here For You 3:48 02. Not About You 3:41 03. Leaving You My Heart 3:45 04. Home Again 4:16 06. Smile For Me 4:12 07. Out Loud 4:13 08. Prayer 5:05 09. Prospect 4:16 10. Undone 3:55 11. Sweet Friend 4:33 ℗ 2014 Alex Bosworth © Copyright — Alex Bosworth / Pearl River Records (694751140223) ♠ Alex Bosworth — Vocals, Piano, Phodes, Guitar, Marimba, Percussion ♠ Brian Seeger — Guiter, Pedal Steel, Percussion, Doodads ♠ Chris Adkins — Guitar, Mandolin ♠ Dan Loomis — Bass ♠ Alan Hampton — Background Vocals ♠ Jack Craft — Cello ♠ Neal Cappellino — Organ ♠ Alexei Marti — Percussion ♠ Simon Lott — Drums ♠ Doug Garrison — Drums Reviewed In OffBeat Robert Fontenot (November 2014 Issue) ♠ There’s no reason Alex Bosworth couldn’t go as far as she wants in the music industry. ♠ Her persona is warm and accessible, and her voice follows suit — it combines the sultry languor of Norah Jones with Sarah MacLachlan’s angelic reassurance, a touch of Paula Cole’s lonesome high end coupled with Alison Krauss’ well–water clarity. ♠ That Bosworth’s debut isn’t on the par of her forbears has less to do with her approach than her depth; as much as you might enjoy slipping into the Sunday–morning regret and gentle irony of “Not About You,” it’s not going to invite comparisons to similarly themed classics like, say, Frank Sinatra’s version of “I Get Along Without You Very Well.” ♠ Likewise, when she claims “I love you, what can I say? / I want you, though it sounds cliche” at the opening of “Smile for Me,” she’s smart enough to add the disclaimer “It’s new to me” before setting the scene with a porch, a guitar, and some wine. ♠ That voice, wisely mixed up front and practically into your brain stem, makes such invitations irresistible, but settings — gorgeously appointed as they are with acoustic bass, mandolin, and Bosworth’s own Fender Rhodes and marimba — are often all you get on “Here for You.” ♠ It all makes for perfectly good third–date background music, but Bosworth’s voice is too precious an instrument to get even this close to twee, and she proves it on deeper tracks like “Prayer”: her delivery of a phrase like “Oh no, I can’t handle this,” for once, says more than mere words. ♠ It’s the kind of soul searching she’s going to have to do to find her own songwriter’s voice, one fresher than “Time is fleeting / And tomorrow is a gift.” ♠ But if she does eventually live up to her own throat, she might become new to all of us, as well. :: http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/ ♠ Grammy award winning engineer Neal Cappellino (Alison Krauss) and Grammy winning mastering engineer Richard Dodd (Civil Wars) signed on to be a part of the project and their contribution to the depth and fullness of the sound of the recording is apparent throughout. ♠ The title track "Here For You" is one that encapsulates the undercurrent of love, loss and longing that permeates every song. The beautiful acoustic guitar solo on this track is played by famous New Orleans based Jazz guitarist Brian Seeger, showing off his sensitivity to the song's sentiment. Supported by New York–based bass player Dan Loomis, guitarist Chris Adkins and percussionist Alexey Marti, Alex Bosworth's voice is at its most sweet when joined on the choruses by fellow songwriter Alan Hampton." ♠ Une très jolie voix et de belles ballades folks et parfois jazzy, à dominante acoustique. Transmis et recommandé par mon ami El Céher, merci à lui! ♣ Alex has led her group at many of New Orleans’ finest music venues, including the grand opening of the State of Louisiana Jazz Museum and the New Orleans French Quarter Festival. Alex performs regularly in New York City and abroad. She was a featured artist at the Prague PROMS Jazz Festival, has been part of the Cannon Club Music Series in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has recently played shows in Barcelona, Munich and Rotterdam. She is currently being booked for shows in Europe for summer of 2015. WWOZ Approved ♣ As a native New Orleanian, Alex has been surrounded and influenced by the city's vibrant musical culture all of her life. With her natural warmth, ease and grace on stage, it is no surprise that WWOZ radio said of her: "You're going to be hearing a lot more about Alex Bosworth. If her upcoming album is as good as her live performances are, you're going to be blown away." Website: http://www.alexbosworth.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexbosworthmusic CD Baby: https://www.facebook.com/alexbosworthmusic	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371907
__label__wiki	0.912441	0.912441	Úvodní stránka » RECORDS » Chelsey Green & The Green Project Chelsey Green & The Green Project Chelsey Green & The Green Project — The Green Room ♠ University of Maryland College Park je místo, kde je v současné době doktorandem. ♠ Summary : The Green Project tears down all stereotypes of the violin and viola by fusing traditional classical technique with popular and enticing original songs in various genres. ****½ Location: Houston, Austin, Texas ~ The University of Maryland College Park, Takoma Park, MD Album release: September 23rd, 2014 Record Label: Chelsey Green and The Green Project 01 “Dr. Funk” 2:55 02 “Road Trip” 4:59 03 “Cheryl Ann” 3:59 04 “People Make the World Go Round” 6:42 05 “Autumn Leaves” 6:19 06 “Party Song” 5:12 07 “1am” 5:18 08 “My Favorite Things” 5:37 09 “Pizzicato Part III” 4:50 10 “My Tribute (To God Be the Glory)” 4:38 ℗ 2014 Chelsey Green ♠ Chelsey Green — violin, viola and vocals, ♠ Ignatius Perry, Jr. — keyboards and piano, ♠ Lorenzo Johnson — auxiliary organ, keyboards, and sine pad, ♠ Kevin Powe, Jr. — electric bass and additional production, ♠ Brian “Spyda” Wheatley — drums, ♠ Monique Brooks–Roberts — auxiliary violin, ♠ Marvin Thompson — trombone, ♠ Will Spence — alto saxophone, ♠ Theljon Allen — trumpet, ♠ Steven Walker — guitar, ♠ Mathew Chase — guitar, ♠ Daryl L.A. Hunt — piano, ♠ Joshua Thomas — clavier ♠ Just like her career has taken an unconventional path to the present, so does her second CD, and first full album, The Green Room! Chelsey Green and The Green Project showcase melodically appealing songwriting and arranging abilities honed to a new level, showcasing her unique twist on violin, viola and contemporary jazz. Kicking off the album is the uptempo and funky tune, “Dr. Funk.” An opener that gets you on the edge of your seat, Dr. Funk highlights The Green Project’s unique group sound and unified tightness as it tears through corporate runs and funky syncopated rhythmic patterns from start to finish. ♠ The second track, appropriately named “Road Trip,” was written on the road and first hashed out with hand drums and hums. Grabbing your attention with declamatory opening chords, followed by a laid back, jazz–funk groove, “Road Trip” carries a funky back beat while leaving room for the aggressive melody to breathe in and out of expansive harmonic pillars of sound so elegantly assisted by warm live horns. ♠ “Cheryl Ann” follows with a smooth jazz groove that makes you just want sing. This mellow tune written by Chelsey’s father, for her mother, is an easy going tune full of colorful expression and optimistic character. ♠ Chelsey Green and The Green Project’s interpretation of “People Make The World Go ‘Round” comes next and is sure to be a version that reminds you of The Stylistics and their classic sound. Reminiscent of solid grooves and synthesized sounds of years past, The Green Project sets the stage and delivers a great rendition of this classic tune including subtle improvisatory nuance by the lead violin and supported by rich live strings in the background. ♠ Putting the violin down for a while, Chelsey warms up the record with her voice in the fifth track, “Autumn Leaves.” Chelsey’s calming contralto vocals set the tone on the classic standard that is later interrupted unexpectedly with a rhythmic surprise making this arrangement fresh and catchy. ♠ Illustrating her broad compositional style, “Party Song” is her instrumental interpretation of contemporary dance music. As its title indicates, this song is influenced by Baltimore club and party music showcasing affected violin techniques with a driving kick from beginning to end. ♠ Inspired by R&B and Soul slow jams of past and present, “1am” is a quintessential intimate and soulful instrumental slow jam that speaks volumes through soft and nuanced violin whispers. This track surely sets the mood for a relaxing evening with that special someone. ♠ “My Favorite Things” follows and serves as a direct rhythmic variation to what precedes it. Energetic from the downbeat, The Green Project’s twist on this standard tune will certainly become one your favorite things to listen to. ♠ “Pizzicato Part III” has special significance radiating from Chelsey’s heart as this tune was written in tribute to her family members that have passed on. A third remix to a tune released on her first album, Still Green: The EP, this transformed version speaks to the soul by way of a melody that flows in and out of thick and thin musical textures and ends in a robust vamp full of harmonic twists and turns. ♠ “My Tribute (To God Be the Glory)” serves as a fitting close to this album as Chelsey, strong in her faith, gives all praise and thanks to God for her gift of playing music and speaking through the violin. ♠ Fully embodying the mind, heart, body and soul which they so passionately put into their music, Chelsey Green and The Green Project welcome you into “The Green Room.” By susanfrancesny, BLOGCRITICS.ORG ♠ Published 10:00 pm, Friday, October 3, 2014 ♠ Violinist, viola player, and vocalist Chelsey Green bounces from funky dance tracks with R&B seasonings and bopping grooves to classically–twined silhouettes on her full-length debut album The Green Project. The collaboration of chamber strings and guitars are trellised in the twinkling notes of the piano and keyboards as horns flare vibrantly with a rhythm section that supports the free flowing ruminations. Classic pop tunes like Thom Bell and Linda Creed’s “People Make the World Go Round” are accented by chamber music trimmings, and original numbers like Green’s “Road Trip” are driven by uninhibited strings climaxing with an electric guitar solo that soars with uncharted spontaneity. The chic décor woven by a traipsing violin and nimble horns in the latter track form refined expressions that magnetize audiences. ♠ Green’s violin has a sleek strut in “Party Song” setting the track’s cool dashing stride, displaying influences of melodic pop and ambient electronica. Her move into contemporary dance music is a natural leap and one which shows her flexibility as a violinist and a composer. The smooth jazz gait of “1am” is contoured in fluttering strings and whispering synths that create a serene atmosphere, instantly likeable and succoring. The marching syncopation of the strings which open Richard Rodgers’s “My Favorite Things” fluidly transition into the familiar pirouetting motifs as Green embellishes the track with her stylistic nuances. It’s an interpretation which would impress Rodgers. ♠ “Pizzicato Part III” radiates with elegance and allure as Green’s strings weave majestic patterns taking the listener through imaginative sequences. The melody moves through a maze of sparse calms and robust showers keeping the harmonious flow a constant. The contemplative musings of the violin meandering along “My Tribute (To God Be the Glory)” permeate an ethereal aura as notes reach heavenward and twine gracefully, wrapping the listener in pure solace. ♠ Green gives listeners a taste of her accoutrements as an expressive musician and a gifted composer. She has a multi–faceted discography which includes recordings in various genres with artists such as: Paul Carr (jazz), Ted Garber (Americana), Anthony Walker (gospel jazz), Tyler Sherman (jazz/classical contemporary), Maimouna Youssef (R&B/soul), Lori Williams (jazz), Macheeste (contemporary gospel), Carolyn Malachi (urban contemporary), Femi The DriFish (hip hop/spoken word), The Sweater Set (folk traditional), and Aaron Hardin (jazz). Her debut recording shows influences which can be traced to her experiences as a live performer, having honed her talent as an impressive artist. :: http://blogcritics.org/ :: http://www.seattlepi.com/ By Esther Callens \| Birmingham Times \| October 9, 2014 \| ♠ Violinist extraordinaire Chelsey Green, along with her ensemble, The Green Project has released their sophomore CD. The Green Room (ReservedGreen Project Music) is Chelsey and company’s first full album. Showcasing a wonderful mixture of jazz, gospel, funk and R&B tunes that encompasses the true Chelsey Green style, it is uniquely music par excellence! ♠ The set opens with the lively notes on a tune entitled “Da Funk”. Chelsey makes the strings literally sing on this track. It is exhilarating! “Cheryl Ann” is wrapped in an all–around mellow groove which is way beyond fantastic! An infectious beat takes center stage in “Party Song” — the vibe is smoking on this track. Chelsey lends her beautiful vocals to “Autumn Leaves” which is backed by a marvelous arrangement. The album closes on a magnificent note as honor is given on “My Tribute” which is Chelsey’s version of Andre Crouch’s “To God Be The Glory”. Additionally, included are breathtaking interpretations of “People make The World Go ‘Round” and “My Favorite Things”. Chelsey Green is an innovative artist. She is the consistent go to for fantastic music! ♠ Houston, Texas native Chelsey Green hails from a long line of musicians. By the tender age of 5, she was playing the violin. During her early years, her focus was on classical music. Eventually she received a scholarship to the University of Texas (Austin) to study classical viola. After graduating Summa Cum Laude, she obtained a Master’s degree in Viola performance from the Peabody Conservatory of John Hopkins University. The University of Maryland College Park is where she is currently a Doctoral candidate. Rueben Studdard, MC Lyte, Denyce Graves are just a few of the artists she has shared the stage with. Likewise, Carnegie Hall, Essence Music Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center are just a small listing of the many venues where she has had the privilege of performing . :: http://www.birminghamtimes.com/ Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/greenprojecttgp Booking: info@chelseygreen.com Website: http://www.chelseygreen.com/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371908
__label__wiki	0.979977	0.979977	Notre Dame golfers (17-0) in state of bliss By Jennifer Toland TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF Sophomore Lindsay Sullivan had all 11 of her Notre Dame Academy golf teammates to her Worcester home for a sleepover Friday night. It was a fun, near-the-end-of-the year get-together for the close friends, and in between embarking on a scavenger hunt, eating a fancily frosted cake baked by sophomore Francesca Lorusso, and enjoying a sundae bar set up by sophomore Hillary Murray, the Rebels held their own little pep rally for today's state team championship at Holden Hills CC. “We want to give everyone a good competition,” senior Becky Streeter said. “This year, we feel we have a chance to do really well.” There is a good reason for the Rebels' optimism. They have gone through the regular season unbeaten — 17-0 so far — and with five experienced seniors in No. 4 player Streeter, No. 1 Kristen Bania, No. 3 Ali Wentzell, No. 5 Ashley Bradley and Candace MacKoul, plus a talented group of sophomores led by No. 2 Sullivan, and some promising freshmen, NDA has the depth, it seems, to get the job done. “Our top girls are playing really well,” seventh-year coach Dennis Streeter said. “It's one of those things where we've really put it together. The most important thing is the girls go out and have fun. They play as a group.” The Rebels have one regular-season match remaining, a makeup of a rainout against Wachusett Regional tomorrow at Cyprian Keyes, NDA's home course. “So we can't say we're undefeated just yet,” Wentzell said. Notre Dame beat Wachusett in dramatic fashion earlier this month. The Rebels trailed, 8-4, before No. 5 Bradley and No. 6 Emily Helenious, a sophomore, came up huge in their matches to lead NDA to a 10-8 victory. The Rebels beat Quabbin Regional, 16-2, in their last match almost two weeks ago, and tuned up for today with a couple of practice rounds at Holden Hills last week. Notre Dame Academy of Hingham has won 10 straight state titles. Worcester's NDA finished eighth at last year's state tournament, but returned most of the team for 2012. At the start of the year, the Rebels wrote down their goals, and their three captains — Streeter, Wentzell and Bania — all wrote down the same thing: Beat Westboro. The Rebels and Rangers, two of the top girls' programs in Central Mass., have forged a bit of a rivalry over the years, though Westboro, last year's state runner-up, had held a pretty decisive edge. Until this year. NDA beat Westboro twice, 11.5-6.5 on April 10 and 15-3 on April 26. “We did it,” said Bania, who earned medalist honors six times this season. “Notre Dame hadn't beaten them in five or six years, so it was a big accomplishment. We worked really hard.” Becky Streeter said she didn't really start thinking about the whole “undefeated” thing until the Rebels had won about 11 in a row. “We kept winning,” she said, “but it wasn't about that. It's been about going out and playing our best. It is great, and I'm excited to be part of it.” Wentzell, Bania and Sullivan each shot 94 at last year's state championship, held at Green Harbor GC in Marshfield. NDA's top golfers have averaged rounds in the mid- to high-40s for nine holes this season. “There is going to be good competition,” Wentzell said, “but if we all play really good and put up solid scores, I think we have a pretty good shot of doing well.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371910
__label__wiki	0.968574	0.968574	PATC AD CAMPAIGN TUNED INTO CABLE TV VIZZOLA, Italy-Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp. broadened its advertising efforts for Pirelli-brand tires in May and June with a national campaign using cable television. ``For us, it really represented the first time we've used TV in a major way on a national and local market basis,'' said Kevin Gilhuly, manager of marketing operations. Until now, most of PATC's advertising has been in print. Interviewed at Pirelli S.p.A.'s wet-handling test track in Italy, Mr. Gilhuly said the TV campaign involved two phases: a national effort of several hundred spots, airing primarily on weekends on CNN and ESPN; and a local tie-in with about 80 independent tire dealers in some 50 markets. This year, PATC hiked its ad budget 70 percent over 1993 levels to cover the additional advertising efforts, Mr. Gilhuly said. Dealers participated by committing to buy a certain amount of tires from PATC, Mr. Gilhuly explained. In addition, dealers were given specific sales targets. The company contributed to the effort by providing dealers with national exposure and an additional 50-60 commercials they could use in their local markets. The eight-week campaign resulted in about a 3 percent sales increase for PATC over what the company previously had budgeted for April and May, Mr. Gilhuly said. ``It was positive for us, sales-wise, and from the exposure due to advertising.'' PATC's TV commercial, like a similar print ad campaign it has used, involved two vehicles-a Ferrari and a Ford Taurus. Viewers were shown each vehicle-first one, then the other and so forth-while hearing about how different the cars were in terms of markets and applications. The payoff at the end of the spot, according to Mr. Gilhuly, was a statement that the one thing the two cars have in common is Pirelli tires. He called the commercial an extension of the slogan: ``Pirelli. No matter what you drive.'' That theme, unveiled in January at the company's annual dealer meeting, aims to extend the tire maker's image and ad program beyond the automotive enthusiast. Previously, Pirelli had used the theme: ``Pirelli. Original equipment on the world's finest.'' Mr. Gilhuly said the company's print campaign also reflects this change, both in message and in the placement of ads in such general consumer publications as Life, Time and People, in addition to enthusiast magazines such as AutoWeek and Road and Track. He said PATC intends to conduct a second television campaign, probably early next year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371922
__label__wiki	0.721994	0.721994	Yeovil Town 0 - 3 Everton Half-time: 0 - 2 Friendly, 1997/98 Season Huish Park, Yeovil « Chelsea (h) Ref: ??? West Ham United (a) » 1997-98 Fixtures & Results Other Friendlies this Season Yeovil Town: – EVERTON: Speed (17, 35:pen), Barmby (58) LINEUPS Subs Not Used Yeovil Town: N/A ??? EVERTON: Myhre, Allen, Ball, Bilic (~70 O'Connor), Tiler, Ward, Speed (~55 Lane), Farrelly, Grant, Oster, Barmby (~75 Cadamarteri). Unavailable: Parkinson, Branch, Hinchcliffe, McCann, Williamson, Short, Ferguson (injured); Watson, Phelan (recovering); Southall, Barrett (on loan). Gerrard? or Thomas? Yellow Cards Red Cards Yeovil Town: None? – EVERTON: None? – REPORTS BY EVERTON FANS Debbie Heale West Country Walk in the Park INTERNET REPORTS TEAMTALK Match Report West Country Walk in the Park Debbie Heale We seemed to start in the lowest gear possible, whereas Yeovil were determined to go out and enjoy themselves, and it didn't take them too long to settle into a pattern – which, all credit to them, despite their many subs, (the whole team) they tried to keep. The premiership side were definitely a class apart, as you would expect. (Try telling a Toon fan that). Speed's first goal came after 17 mins. Sorry – don't remember the build up or even who crossed. The second goal was a penalty – on 35 mins. Again this was at the other end of the pitch, and my eyes not being as good as they should be, I don't know who was brought down. Speed took the penalty well. Second half, no subs made at first – then Chris Lane came on for Speed. Chris played on the right wing – effectively and was unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions. From what I saw, I was reasonably impressed – still young but could come good. Barmby's goal came from an Oster cross, must have been one of the easiest goals he's ever scored. Middle of the box, virtually on his own, and slid it past the keeper. O'Connor came on for Bilic, then Cadamarteri replaced Barmby. Not much else of note really. Generally the passing was good, and there were no long balls at all, which isn't really surprising with only Barmby up front. Grant and Farrelly made a few interesting passes in the first half. Most of our players were a class apart, particularly Speed and Barmby. Ball was superb, I spent most of the game watching him. Meant to pay attention to O'Connor when he came on, but most of the action was luckily at the other end of the pitch. There were certainly good few hundred Evertonians there, all in good voice. But the strangest thing about the whole game, was that I never heard one scouse accent whilst in the ground. Heard a few on my way out though – phew, I had been to see Everton! Everton travelled down to the South West of England for a three day trip which included this friendly against Yeovil Town on Friday night. The game was arranged because the Blues have no match this weekend. Howard Kendall selected a near first team against the Vauxhall Conference club, with Mitch Ward returning after being out for a month. There was no place for Craig Short however, as he has a groin strain and Duncan Ferguson was also missing. The start of the match was delayed in order to accommodate the large crowd, which finally numbered 4,014 at the new Huish Park. But when the game got underway Everton were inspired by captain Gary Speed as they gave non league Yeovil a lesson in football. However the Blues were reminded of Yeovil's pedigree when they saw an early Lee Archer free-kick hit the woodwork with Thomas Myhre well beaten. Any jitters that Howard Kendall's men may have had however were soon put to rest shortly after the quarter hour mark when Gary Speed opened the scoring with a well taken goal set up by John Oster after great work from Tony Grant. Grant, who was to have a late shot hit the upright, played a lovely ball to Oster who put Speed clean through to score. Everton's second goal came on 35 minutes when Speed scored from the penalty spot after fit again Mitch Ward was upended in the box. The third goal came just before the hour when Oster was again involved by playing a lovely cross into the box which picked out Nick Barmby and the little striker finished in style. Yeovil should have scored in the second half but when Sam Winston was put clear Myhre foiled him with a great save. At the end of the game all the Everton players were given a great reception and Howard Kendall managed to use all the 14 players he had picked for the trip. [Fixtures] [History] [Current Season] [Club] [Fans] [Home] [Top] © Michael Kenrick 1998	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371925
__label__wiki	0.788754	0.788754	Alberta cannabis stores receive warning from AGLC about advertising violations By Bill Kaufmann Cannabis is legal in Canada as of Oct. 17, 2018. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press Tight limits on advertising have been breached by some cannabis retailers, says the provincial agency regulating them. Operators of those fledgling businesses could face fines if they continue in failing to conform to federal and provincial regulations, said Alberta Government Liquor Cannabis spokeswoman Kaleigh Miller. “The AGLC has been made aware of various stores who are advertising in some fashion — some prior to Oct. 17,” Miller said in an email. “Going forward, should we continue to see issues, fines will be issued by AGLC Regulatory Services.” She said the offenders have been contacted and provincial and federal restrictions are being discussed with retailers, she said. “AGLC is working with retail locations to educate and assist with understanding the new policies and regulations in place,” said Miller. Those regulations prohibit any promotions that appeal to youth or product price and their distribution. Testimonials for specific products are also banned. Miller didn’t say who was cited for the violations but added they centre around billboards spotted in Calgary, social media promotions and mailed flyers. A spokesman for one of the stores operating in Calgary — Nova Cannabis Willow Park — said his chain wasn’t involved. Dave Crapper of Alcanna said it’s not surprising some businesses would run afoul of restrictions. “It’s early days and some of these folks wouldn’t be as up on the rules as others are,” said Crapper. He said the regulations are more in line with that tight advertising rules governing tobacco, adding they can be frustrating. “It is what it is; it’s difficult to work with some of these, but you make it work,” said Crapper, noting retailers must black out their windows to ensure minors can’t see inside. Other store owners said they, too, are abiding by the rules and welcome any crackdown on those who don’t. While those advertising regulations will likely be loosened in the coming years as the legal cannabis trade becomes increasingly normalized, a lawyer specializing in the field said the laws are likely on solid legal ground for now. “I’m not aware of how the current provincial cannabis advertising rules could be attacked by way of a constitutional challenge,” said Alex Kooiman of Quarry Park Law. “The courts will likely give the province wide latitude on attempting to shield minors from cannabis as a justification for such strict advertising rules.” He noted the laws governing alcohol are much looser in comparison. For example, “Cannabis retailers in Alberta cannot advertise cannabis products on roadside signs like liquor stores currently do,” said Kooiman. One of the federal government’s stated reasons for legalizing recreational cannabis was to keep it out of the hands of minors or reduce its use by them, by confining sale of pot to licensed, regulated sources. Recreational cannabis industry players have promoted their brands by sponsoring or organizing events, through trade shows and placing their logos on swag. They’ve also used technology like augmented reality viewed through smart phones. Meanwhile, city police say they’ve received six noise complaints about crowds waiting to enter both Nova Cannabis’ store and the Four20 Premium Market at Southland Crossing, with the most recent ones occurring on Saturday. The stores, which each attracted three complaints, were warned and not ticketed. Four20 temporarily changed its closing hour from 2 a.m. to 10 p.m. due to the complaints. Map below shows stores which have received AGLC licenses to sell cannabis. Not all stores are open. BKaufmann@postmedia.com on Twitter: @BillKaufmannjrn We encourage all readers to share their views on our articles and blog posts. We are committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion, so we ask you to avoid personal attacks, and please keep your comments relevant and respectful. If you encounter a comment that is abusive, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the comment box to report spam or abuse.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371926
__label__wiki	0.91068	0.91068	Park Guides & Reviews Special Offer Watch New Attraction Watch Rehab Watch Top 100 Attractions Confirmed: Alton Towers delays opening date of The Smiler roller coaster until May 2013 Alton Towers has confirmed that The Smiler roller coaster will not be open in time for the start of the 2013 season, with the new addition now set to debut in May. The park revealed the name of its new coaster yesterday, and conceded that its opening date has slipped with the statement: "The Smiler will be our biggest and most thrilling attraction the Resort has ever seen and we can't wait for guests to join us in May and experience it for themselves." The Smiler, which had previously been known by its codename of "SW7", will boast a secretive "world's first" element and is currently under construction at a cost of some £18 million. Its circuit will feature at least 8 inversions and 2 lift hills, and will be located alongside the existing Oblivion roller coaster in the X-Sector area. The plot and theming of The Smiler is designed to tie in with The Sanctuary, the horror maze that debuted at the Scarefest 2012 Halloween events. To compensate for the absence of The Smiler in March and April, the park has confirmed that it will bring back the maze for the start of the new season. In a typically bizarre promotional stunt, Alton Towers has also branded various flocks of sheep around the UK with The Smiler's distinctive "smiley face" logo. The affected sheep can be seen in the official video below: For more details of Alton Towers' new addition for 2013, see Theme Park Tourist's detailed breakdown of The Smiler plans. You can keep up to date with the latest confirmed and rumored opening dates for new attractions through Theme Park Tourist's "New Attraction Watch" section, and by signing up for our weekly newsletter. Nick SimView Profile Founder of Theme Park Tourist and a lifelong fan of everything Disney and Universal. He loved everything about Theme Parks and his goal in starting the site was to create a resource that could help fans make the most of their park trips, and to make visiting theme parks a little more affordable by capturing as many money-saving tricks as possible. Gangsta Granny: The Ride Will Headline The New 'World Of David Walliams' Opening At Alton Towers In Spring 2020 by Natalie Sim Welcome to Theme Park Tourist! The Must Read Site For All Theme Park Fans Thrilling Halloween Events All Over The World by Amanda Kondolojy 12 things we know about Alton Towers' planned Enchanted Village hotel Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:16 by Nick Sim 4 Disney Price Hikes To Watch Out for Right Now SeaWorld Rumored to be Developing ANOTHER Coaster as Park Cuts Continue The 8 BIG Updates from Walt Disney World (And Beyond) This Week (January 13-19, 2020) Click here to save Best Imagineering Tricks at Walt Disney World Top Feature of the week The 9 Best Disney Rides of the 2000s Park Of The Month Disney's Hollywood Studios - Turning Point: Disney Embraces the Force The Legend Library Inside the Best (and Worst) Theme Park Rides Ever Created Read All Features Related Park Guides UK Theme Parks Thorpe Park All Theme Parks Never Miss a Printable Guides Up-to-date Info Sign Up For Your Free Account Download Printable Guides Get the Latest Up-to-date Info About Theme Park Tourist Theme Park Tourist is one of the web’s leading sources of essential information and entertaining articles about theme parks in Orlando and beyond. We are one of the world’s largest theme park guide sites, hosting detailed guides to more than 80 theme parks around the globe. Find Out More About Us... Our theme park guides contain reviews and ratings of rides, restaurants and hotels at more than 80 theme parks worldwide. You can even print them. Start Planning Now... Copyright ©2009-2019 Theme Park Tourist, website by Siruss	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371932
__label__wiki	0.883706	0.883706	The Complete List Of PGA Awards Nominees By TBDO on January 5, 2016 2 - FILM NEWS, 4 - INDUSTRY NEWS, 5 - AWARDS & FESTIVALS NEWS The Producers Guild of America announced the nominees for its annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, with a list that included notable awards-season contenders like The Big Short and Spotlight, as well as some underdogs like Ex Machina and Sicario. Notably absent from the list was Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which has jumped into hyperspace on its way into the box office record books, and Todd Haynes’ festival favorite Carol. In the previously announced TV and documentary categories, perennial favorites Mad Men and Game of Thrones continued to garner critical praise, while programs like Crackle’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and AMC’s Better Call Saul managed to catch the PGA’s attention this year. The awards ceremony will be held on January 23rd, 2016. See the complete list of nominees below: Theatrical Motion Picture Nominees: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger Producers: Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey This film is in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility Producers: Doug Mitchell & George Miller Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam Producers: Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Edward L. McDonnell, Molly Smith Producers: Michael Sugar & Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust Producers: Ice Cube & Matt Alvarez, F. Gary Gray, Dr. Dre, Scott Bernstein Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Producers: Rosa Tran, Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman Producer: Denise Ream Producer: Jonas Rivera Producers: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy Producers: Craig Schulz, Michael J. Travers The Television Nominees: The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television: *The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and miniseries. This show is in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL (Season 5) Producers: Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Brad Buecker, Tim Minear, Jennifer Salt, James Wong, Alexis Martin Woodall, Robert M. Williams Jr. FARGO (Season 2) Producers: Noah Hawley, John Cameron, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Warren Littlefield, Kim Todd TRUE DETECTIVE (Season 2) Producers: Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Stephens, Steve Golin, Aida Rodgers Outstanding Sports Program Back on Board: Greg Louganis Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Houston Texans Kareem: Minority of One Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Outstanding Digital Series: 30 for 30 Shorts Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent This American Life Presents: Videos 4 U PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NOMINATIONS Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: Producer: James Gay-Rees THE HUNTING GROUND Producer: Amy Ziering Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin Producers: Sigrid Dyekjær, Hanna Polak Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama: Producers: Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Melissa Bernstein, Mark Johnson, Stewart A. Lyons, Thomas Schnauz, Gennifer Hutchison, Nina Jack, Diane Mercer, Bob Odenkirk GAME OF THRONES (Season 5) Producers: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, Carolyn Strauss, Bryan Cogman, Lisa McAtackney, Chris Newman, Greg Spence HOMELAND (Season 4) Producers: Alex Gansa, Alexander Cary, Lesli Linka Glatter, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Patrick Harbinson, Michael Klick, Claire Danes, Lauren White Producers: Beau Willimon, Dana Brunetti, John David Coles, Josh Donen, David Fincher, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, John Mankiewicz, Robert Zotnowski, Karen Moore MAD MEN (Season 7B) Producers: Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher, Janet Leahy, Semi Chellas, Erin Levy, Jon Hamm, Blake McCormick, Tom Smuts Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy: INSIDE AMY SCHUMER (Season 3) This show is in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility. MODERN FAMILY (Season 6) Producers: Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Jeff Morton, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Danny Zuker, Vali Chandrasekaran, Megan Ganz, Elaine Ko, Kenny Schwartz, Chuck Tatham, Rick Wiener, Chris Smirnoff, Sally Young SILICON VALLEY (Season 2) Producers: Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Jim Kleverweis, Clay Tarver, Dan O’Keefe, Michael Rotenberg, Tom Lassally TRANSPARENT (Season 1) Producers: Jill Soloway, Andrea Sperling, Victor Hsu, Nisha Ganatra, Rick Rosenthal, Bridget Bedard VEEP (Season 4) Producers: Armando Iannucci, Chris Addison, Simon Blackwell, Christopher Godsick, Stephanie Laing, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Frank Rich, Tony Roche, Kevin Cecil, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Ian Martin, Georgia Pritchett, David Quantick, Andy Riley, Will Smith, Bill Hill Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television: 30 FOR 30 (Season 6) Producers: Connor Schell, John Dahl, Bill Simmons, Erin Leyden, Andrew Billman, Marquis Daisy, Libby Geist ANTHONY BOURDAIN: Parts Unknown (Season 3) Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig THE JINX: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Season 1) Producers: Marc Smerling, Andrew Jarecki, Jason Blum SHARK TANK (Season 6) Producers: Mark Burnett, Clay Newbill, Yun Lingner, Max Swedlow, Jim Roush, Brandon Wallace, Becky Blitz, Laura Roush, Shaun Polakow, Phil Gurin VICE (Season 3) Producers: BJ Levin, Bill Maher, Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith, Jonah Kaplan, Tim Clancy, Ben Anderson, Shawn Killebrew Outstanding Producer of Competition Television: THE AMAZING RACE (Seasons 25 and 26) Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri, Mark Vertullo DANCING WITH THE STARS (Seasons 19 and 20) Producers: Rob Wade, Ashley Edens-Shaffer, Joe Sungkur PROJECT RUNWAY (Season 13) Producers: Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Desiree Gruber, Jane Cha, Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Teri Weideman TOP CHEF (Season 12) Producers: Daniel Cutforth, Tom Colicchio, Chaz Gray, Casey Kriley, Padma Lakshmi, Jane Lipsitz, Doneen Arquines, Erica Ross THE VOICE (Seasons 7 and 8) Producers: Audrey Morrissey, Mark Burnett, John de Mol, Marc Jansen, Lee Metzger, Chad Hines, Jim Roush, Kyra Thompson, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker, Carson Daly Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television: THE COLBERT REPORT (Season 11) Producers: Stephen T. 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__label__cc	0.502019	0.497981	Could action video games help people with dyslexia learn to read? In addition to their trouble with reading, people with dyslexia also have greater difficulty than typical readers do when it comes to managing competing sensory cues, according to a study reported February 13 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The findings suggest that action video games might improve literacy skills in those with dyslexia, which represent five to ten percent of the population. “Imagine you are having a conversation with someone when suddenly you hear your name uttered behind you,” says Vanessa Harrar of the University of Oxford. “Your attention shifts from the person you are talking to—the visual—to the sound behind you. This is an example of a cross-sensory shift of attention. We found that shifting attention from visual to auditory stimuli is particularly difficult for people who have dyslexia compared to good readers.” In fact, researchers already knew that people with dyslexia had some challenges with auditory processing in addition to their visual impairments. New evidence had also begun to link multisensory integration and dyslexia to the same parts of the brain. That evidence, together with Harrar’s own personal challenges with reading and writing, prompted her and her colleagues to conduct one of the first investigations of how people with dyslexia process multisensory stimuli. Participants in the study were asked to push a button as quickly as possible when they heard a sound, saw a dim flash, or experienced both together. The speed with which they pressed the buttons was recorded and analyzed. While everyone was fastest when the same type of stimuli repeated itself, the data showed that people with dyslexia were particularly slow at pressing the button when a sound-only trial followed a visual-only trial. In other words, they showed “sluggish attention shifting,” particularly when asked to shift their attention from a flash of light to a sound. While the researchers say further study is needed, they suggest based on the findings that dyslexia training programs should take this asymmetry into account. “We think that people with dyslexia might learn associations between letters and their sounds faster if they first hear the sound and then see the corresponding letter or word,” Harrar says. Of course, traditional approaches to reading, in which letters are first seen and then heard, do just the opposite. Harrar’s team goes on to propose a unique, nonverbal approach to improve reading and writing with action video games. “We propose that training people with dyslexia to shift attention quickly from visual to auditory stimuli and back—such as with a video game, where attention is constantly shifting focus—might also improve literacy. Action video games have been shown to improve multitasking skills and might also be beneficial in improving the speed with which people with dyslexia shift attention from one task, or sense, to another.” The Multiple Uses of the Wear Plate How to Choose an IT Staff Augmentation Partner Three Reasons You Need A Professional Dust Control Advice PrevPreviousCities support more native biodiversity than previously thought NextNASA moves longest-serving Mars spacecraft for new observationsNext Top 5 Common Mistakes That You Ought to Avoid When Buying a Gaming Laptop 6 Signs That You Need to Cut Someone Out of Your Life	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371947
__label__cc	0.746915	0.253085	IoT Marketplace by Libelium Why an IoT Marketplace? Smart Buildings - Products Libelium-Techedge Smart Factory Solution Kit Libelium-Simfony LoRaWAN Smart Building Solution Kit Libelium-Sparkster Smart Building Solution Kit Libelium-Simfony LoRaWAN Smart Building Solution Kit BS Kerlink Libelium-NEC Smart Building Solution Kit Libelium-Scriptr Smart Facilities Solution Kit Libelium-Techedge Bridge Smart Factory Solution Kit You can also find a wide range of kits for development. Are you looking for our Application Development Kits? Check them here! Smart Libelium: Living IoT Lab to monitor parking, water quality, ambient and environmental conditions. Libelium believes in a world completely connected to gather data from anything located anywhere to enable citizens and organizations to make decisions based on valuable information. With the aim to show customers, partners and visitors the wide range of IoT applications, Libelium has deployed a Living Lab in its headquarters in Zaragoza (Spain). The installation has been carried out during 4th quarter of 2016 by Libelium technical departments. Smart City project in Ljubljana Shopping and Business Centre to follow its Green Mission strategy. Libelium and SmartIS City Ltd have developed a project to improve BTC City environmental and social commitment. It is one of the largest shopping and business centres in Europe located in Ljubljana, the 2016 European Green Capital. BTC Company wants to follow its Green Mission strategy, which is oriented towards sustainable development and creating a better environment for local people, visitors and businesses. . Smart Airport project: monitoring environmental conditions in Santiago de Chile airport. Worlwide airports have become indoor cities where passengers spend so many time before and after taking their flights. 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__label__wiki	0.842181	0.842181	The cycle of youth homelessness – and how to end it A report by Yfoundations found that 1 in 3 homeless people in Australia are under 25. We must address the deeper causes of our youth homelessness issue. By Jason Juretic Philanthropy: When do you start? You have to make money before you can give money, right? Let’s take a look at how to reframe your thinking around philanthropy. By Maria Bellissimo-Magrin What do Atlassian and JB Hi-Fi have in common? Excellent workplace giving A workplace-giving program is one of the easiest and most accessible ways to donate to charity, and its benefits extend beyond the organisations receiving the funds. 5 most impressive charitable donations of 2017 Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest just announced a staggeringly generous $400 million donation to charity. But who else has donated large sums to philanthropic causes this year? By Amanda Smuin How H&M, Coca-Cola, Nike & IKEA are making a universal difference From sustainable innovation to malaria vaccination, these 7 companies are harnessing their skills and resources to make the world a better place. Strong Foundation: IKEA builds better shelters for refugees IKEA, the home furnishings company and the Foundation, both have a shared goal: to create a better everyday life for people around the world. Aussie execs take on 100km Smith Family Challenge Executives from some of Australia’s top companies have taken on this year’s Smith Family Challenge to help provide educational support for nearly 1,000 disadvantaged Australian children. Tech for change: 8 initiatives changing the world These eight inspiring tech innovations are tackling some of the world’s toughest problems. OzHarvest: Cook like a boss A look back at the days leading up to OzHarvest’s 2017 CEO CookOff, and how food-rescue pioneer Ronni Kahn sparked the change that delivered 60 million meals to Australia’s underprivileged. By Bonnie Gardiner	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371953
__label__wiki	0.611413	0.611413	12:00 AM, September 23, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 11:17 AM, September 23, 2018 Green garment factory owners left frustrated A green factory of Viyellatex Group, a leading garment maker based in Gazipur. Star/file Refayet Ullah Mirdha Green garment factory owners, who have spent billions of dollars for setting up the units, are left frustrated as the international retailers are not rewarding them with higher prices for the initiative. The factories cost 20 to 30 percent more to construct than the regular ones for their special design units. “The buyers do not pay even a single cent more for sourcing from a green garment factory,” said KM Rezaul Hasanat, chairman and chief executive officer of Viyellatex Group, a leading garment exporter. Bangladesh has the highest number of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green garment factories certified by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). Currently, 67 green garment factories are in operation and another 300 are in the process of getting the certification. Of the top 10 green garment factories in the world, the first seven are also located in Bangladesh. Had Viyellatex Group not constructed its two green garment factories in Gazipur, it could have employed 30 percent more workers, Hasanat said. “I regret making the green factories,” he said, adding that the buyers pay much lower prices to Bangladeshi garment makers than the Chinese ones. Kutubuddin Ahmed, chairman of Envoy Group, which has constructed the world's first platinum-rated green denim factory, echoed the same. “The buyers do not pay extra prices to us, but the branding gives us a mileage in selling the goods -- they give priority to green factories,” said Ahmed, whose main intent for setting up green factories was to lower the consumption of water and power. Md Fazlul Hoque, managing director of Narayanganj-based Plummy Fashions, the platinum-rated knitwear factory, and Siddiqur Rahman, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, echoed the same. “There is no special privilege for the green garment factories; only the buyers' priority,” Rahman said, adding that the buyers do not even want to quote a higher price for factory remediation as recommended by the Accord and Alliance experts. Although the buyers do not pay additional money for the virtue of sourcing from a green factory, there is a room for bargaining for a little more price per unit due to the green factories, Hoque said. For instance, if the price of a T-shirt from a normal-compliant factory is $3, it is possible for green factories to get 10 cents more. “The buyers though do not pay high prices to green factories out of their own volition,” Haque added. Regardless, the prices of Bangladeshi-made garment items has declined 40 percent over the last 15 years, Rahman said. Green garment factory RMG in Bangladesh What will kill RMG: TPP or Fear? UK high-speed rail project could cost $137b Billionaires richer than 60pc of the world’s population: Oxfam Refined palm oil cargoes stuck at Indian ports after import curbs China confident of stabilising industrial growth in 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371955
__label__wiki	0.625812	0.625812	Can You Drift a Front-Wheel-Drive Car? You can, but it takes some practice and a bit of bravery. By Jonathon KleinMay 8, 2019 Scott Rains Jonathon KleinView Jonathon Klein's Articles twitter.com/@jonathon_klein The best drivers elevate sliding a car into an art form. But more often than not, this tends to intimidate wannabe disciples. And though the vast majority of enthusiasts believe to initiate such feats requires 1,000-plus horsepower engines, rear-wheel drive, and a hydraulic handbrake, truth be told, you can slide like the best of them even in a front-wheel drive car. It takes a little practice, a lot of patience, access to a safe and open space, and to follow our guide below to drift a front-wheel drive car. The proper name for sliding a FWD car is lift-off oversteer and we’ve discussed it before. Yet, we’ve only ever detailed how to eliminate it when something invariably goes horribly wrong on your morning commute. Initiating it on purpose is an all-together separate discussion as the dynamics at play are quite different. To best explain how to slide a FWD car, drivers should understand two forms a loss of tire adhesion; understeer and the aforementioned lift-off oversteer. Understeer is often a dreaded outcome for race car drivers. As when you enter a corner faster than necessarily prudent, the front wheels lose adhesion to the pavement and result in the car pushing toward the outside of the turn’s apex or in the direction of original travel. This normally takes racing drivers off their preferred racing line and they inevitably lose precious seconds. In more pedestrian situations, understeer is a more normal dynamic for FWD cars as a heavy engine sits atop the driven wheels and causes a weight transfer when cornering. This, just like race cars, pushes the car out toward the edges of the corner rather than propels it around. But it’s here, in the moment of understeer, where lift-off oversteer can be initiated and you can drift a FWD car like a pro. As stated, entering a corner faster than necessary—there’s no need for ludicrous speeds—can lead to the car to understeer. However, that only occurs if the driver continues to apply the throttle. If the driver lifts off the accelerator, two things can happen. The first is that the car will return to the necessary line as it reduces the speed of the moving vehicle and regains traction. Lifting can also initiate a slide. By coming into the corner speedily—again, there’s no reason for triple-digit speeds—the driver can lift off the accelerator, shift the momentum of the car forward thereby reducing the rear tire’s grip, and quickly turn the steering wheel, which unsticks the rear wheels and starts the slide. In much more simpler terms; throttle, lift, turn, slide. In a racing setting, lift-off oversteer is used by rally and Sprint Car drivers to more easily get around low-grip corners. In both disciplines, the drivers head toward the corner as hot as they dare, lift, turn, and let the rear of the car slide until they can get onto the gas and blaze their way out of the corner. It’s also a faster way around than say a rear-wheel drive car lighting up its rear wheels mid-corner. Lift-off oversteer isn’t meant for the street. Streets don’t have large run-offs and racing lines aren’t exactly allowed by local law enforcement. Learning the technique, though, has tangible benefits as it could help intercede when something goes wrong in normal driving. With that in mind, we’d suggest ringing up one of the many fabulous racing and driving schools around the country who will teach you the proper technique in a controlled setting. That said, as our fathers and mothers before us have done in the recent past, if you have access to an open parking lot or disused section of wide-open pavement—or build yourself a drift-ready driveway—it’s possible to learn there. Lift-off oversteer isn’t just fun, but learning how to slide a FWD car has the potential to teach you a number of the driving dynamics we’ve discussed here; i.e. oversteer, understeer, lift-off oversteer, and learning how to back off the throttle and properly control your car. Just be safe, be careful, and understand that you’re not Mario Andretti. Start slowly. 2019 Kia Stinger GTS: A Drift-Happy, All-Wheel-Drive, Limited Edition Sports Sedan The GTS's "D-AWD" system boasts a mechanical limited slip differential and a fun-filled drift mode. Why World Rallycross Is Doing Too Little, Too Late With Its New All-Electric Race Series The racing body now lacks big-time manufacturer support, but this wouldn't have been the case had it made the move when it counted. NASCAR Is Terrible and Formula 1 Is Boring. Start Watching WRC. As motorsports audiences continue to shrink, all eyes should turn to World Rally Championship. Learn How to Drive Like a Pro With These 5 Racing Schools Face it, you’re not Mario Andretti. You need to go back to school. Here's How to Actually Jump a Car Team O’Neil Rally School teaches you how to properly jump a car.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371957
__label__cc	0.674902	0.325098	Forex Markets Guided by Central Bank Activity; Nikkei 225 Rallying from 8205 Support By Richard Cox July 25, 2014 Updated: April 23, 2016 In Forex markets, the US Dollar denominated pairs stabilized overnight, with the USD holding on to most of its gains and the Euro, GBP and AUD continuing to trade near their recent lows. Trading volumes remained thin with the UK holiday keeping many investors on the sidelines but the general tone in markets remains cautious at best (strongly negative at worst), and this is only being propelled by economic data which showed that services PMI in Germany dropped to 51.8 for the month of May, and German Factory Orders dropping nearly 2 percent for the same period. Wider Retail Sales figures out of the Eurozone and these also showed declines (down by 1 percent). Of course, recent weeks have shown that market attention is only focused on macro data for about half of the trading sessions but news headlines were generally scarce yesterday even with the latest conference call from the G7. This meeting’s main agenda was to discuss the debt crisis in the Eurozone but there were not major statement headlines to guide sentiment after the meeting. There was some speculation that Germany would be looking to pressure Spain to reverse its stance and acquiesce to new bailout loan requirements for austerity but for the most part, this did not materialize. The next main event risk for the Eurozone continues to be the elections in Greece, which are scheduled for June 17th. For forex markets, the main driver came with the central bank meetings in Canada and Australia. The RBA acted to make its monetary policy more accomodative by lowering its base interest rate by 25 basis points but this activity was not matched by the central bank in Canada (where interest rates were held steady at 1 percent). The Canadian policy statement, however, did maintain a dovish stance, suggesting that future rate reductions might be appropriate if we see any significant deterioration in economic figures. The result was positive for the Canadian Dollar, as some analysts had started to expect a rate reduction in Canada after the results of the meeting in Australia. Looking forward, we will have the quarterly GDP figures out of Australia, and these are expected to rise to 0.7 percent, from 0.4 percent previously but the next market mover will be the policy statement from the next European Central Bank meeting. Technical Analysis: The USD/CHF is caught in a very bullish wave with very little in the way of downside corrections being seen. Long positions can be taken on a retracement back into 0.9360, which is a historical level but is also where moving averages are likely to rest on approach. Long term momentum is clearly upward but we need to see some weakness first to improve risk to reward ratios. The Nikkei 225 is attempting to bounce out of 8205, which is just ahead of critical long term support at 8095. If this bounce is able to continue, the first level of resistance will be seen at 8660, which is where some Fibonacci and historical levels match up. More significant levels are seen at 9000 which is where moving averages and Fibonacci levels come together. Current levels are acceptable for long entries.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371958
__label__wiki	0.80337	0.80337	Matt Roush Find & Remind Michael K. Williams, John Leguizamo & More Cast in Ava DuVernay's 'Central Park Five' Meaghan Darwish July 09, 2018 6:00 pm Netflix & Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle in Time) is setting her sights on a new project with Netflix — the Oscar-nominated director's documentary 13th premiered on the platform in fall of 2016 — with the upcoming scripted limited series Central Park Five. DuVernay is writing and directing the four-episode series, which will tell the famous true story of "five teenagers of color" — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — who were convicted of a rape they didn't commit. What's Coming and Going From Netflix in July 2018 'Orange Is the New Black,' 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,' & more are new this month. Central Park Five will cover the young men's lives from 1989, when the crime they were accused of was committed, to 2014, when they were exonerated by New York City. DuVernay is recruiting accomplished actors and actresses for the project, which is expected for a 2019 premiere, and some of them hail from the Netflix family. Michael K. Williams, who is known for The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and The Night Of will portray Antron McCray's father, Bobby McCray. Vera Farmiga. (Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Bloodline alum and Emmy winner John Leguizamo will portray another teen's father, Raymond Santana Sr., while Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel) will take on the role of Elizabeth Lederer, the Manhattan Assistant District Attorney and lead prosecutor. Oprah Winfrey with Harpo Films, Participant Media's Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, Tribeca Productions' Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh will executive produce alongside DuVernay. Central Park Five, Coming 2019, Netflix Central Park Five Recent Headlinesmore► Keep up with which shows are must-see, all the stories you need to read, sweepstakes and contest opportunities, and much more... all delivered directly to your inbox! What's Worth Watching (See all newsletter options) Copyright © 2020 NTVB Media, Inc., All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371962
__label__wiki	0.971412	0.971412	Miza Modibedi Full / Real Name: Itumeleng Trevor Modibedi Add to Actor Favourites This actor is one of your favourites. Remove Miza Modibedi (also known as DJ Miza) is a South African entrepreneur, actor, presenter, music and television producer and radio and mix DJ best known for his track Superhero featuring Flabba, the iconic member of South African rap supergroup Skwatta Kamp. He is best known to television audiences for his role as the villain Spyker in the SABC2 police drama series Streets of Mangaung, in 2012. Other television series he has acted in include Erfsondes, Generations, eKasi: Our Stories, Binnelanders, the animated children's series Cool Cats and the Mzansi Magic television movie Tooth & Nails. He was also a presenter on Vukuzenzele, Bush Raiders and the SABC3 teen show Real Peeps. Miza got a taste of the music industry in 2008 where he produced house DJ Nutty Nys's album Vintage Love. He also produced a hip-hop show called Battle Stations for Yo-TV on SABC1. He has experience in the live house scene but this is not his only speciality - he was also a radio DJ on VCR 90.6FM hosting the late night show from Monday to Wednesday nights, where he showcased cutting edge new music. He studied at AFDA, graduating in 2004. He was voted one of Cleo's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors in South Africa for 2011/12 and was voted on e.tv's Showbiz Report's Top 10 upcoming entertainers in the world. Miza was also a radio DJ on VCR 90.6FM hosting the late night show from Monday to Wednesday nights, where he focused on showcasing cutting edge new music. In 2012 he released an album with the single Feeling, which features Idols alum Noluthando Meje. The single was nominated for a Metro FM Award for Best Collaboration of the Year. Based in Johannesburg, Miza enjoys travelling. Countries he's been to include Brazil, Mozambique and Scotland. He spent a month in the UK in February 2013 where he performed at various venues including The Plum Tree in London, Bar 78, Custard Factory in Birmingham and Zoo in Manchester. He also featured on various radio shows. He had a starring role in the 2012 television movie Tooth and Nails, which later spun-off into the miniseries Remix in 2013, both of which aired on Mzansi Magic. In March 2013 Miza could be seen headlining the feature film Vampires of the Township on DStv's Mzansi Magic. In 2015 he guest starred as himself (DJ Miza) on the e.tv telenovela Ashes to Ashes. Television Roles Ashes to Ashes (2015-2016) - Season 1 Himself (as DJ Miza) DJ Miza (as Itumeleng Modibedi) eKasi: Our Stories - Season 3 Eksê Zwakala - Season 2 Field Presenter - Himself Erfsondes - Season 2 Journalist (as Tumi Modibedi) Greed & Desire - Season 1 Thabo Journalist Guilt - Season 1 Thapelo Letlaka (as Tumi "Miza" Modibedi) Mzansi Love - Season 2 (Kasi Style) Remix - Season 1 Single Galz - Season 1 Streets of Mangaung - Season 1 Zaziwa - Season 5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371963
__label__wiki	0.538352	0.538352	NINO ROTA: Fellini's Roma (Original Soundtrack) LP Finally on vinyl. One of Nino Rota's most famous soundtracks from Federico Fellini's cult classic ROMA. Mastered from first generation stereo master tapes that were recently discovered. Limited colored vinyl plus gatefold poster 499 Copies Only. Painting by Loa Airaghi (sergio bonelli editore) & Matilde Giudicelli. ROMA is a more personal film project from Federico Fellini, who creates a lively portrayal of the city through several memorable if barely related vignettes. By showing different aspects of the Italian capitol from different eras, Fellini creates an enjoyable mosaic which discusses his first trip to Rome as a child, his discovery of the city at the age of 18 and meta-trip during which he is making a film about Rome. Nino Rota's underscore is a mostly monothematic offering ("Aria di Roma") apart from some of the more colorful musical sequences (such as the 4-part "Ecclesiastical Fashion Show"). This release features the complete score used in the film. When the film was released in US, United Artists Records issued a soundtrack which contained five Rota tracks in addition to suites of source music, such as a selection from the Barafonda Theater's program or various compositions from the piazza episode. These suites contained the occasional ambience to better reflect on the film's aural experience, but this program essentially resulted in a souvenir record rather than an actual score release. Still, you get to hear all the complete Rota score recorded for the film in the best currently possible sound quality restored and mastered by Claudio Fuiano. Marble blue vinyl LTD 499 copies RBL071LP V/A: Nekromantik (Original 1987 Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP V/A: Nekromantik (Original 1987 Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Color Vinyl) LP HILDUR GUONADOTTIR: Chernobyl (Original Soundtrack) LP RUSTBLADE (ITALY) NINO FELLINI: Fellini Satyricon (Original Soundtrack) LP MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS) CLINT MANSELL: Black Swan (Original Soundtrack) LP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371964
__label__cc	0.587788	0.412212	U2Songs.com Joshua Tree Tour 2017: Questions and Answers: Regular Sale Edition Original Story by U2Songs.com Staff (2017-01-14) During the last week we maintained a document listing information for the presales being held through u2.com and Ticketmaster. With those sales now over, we’ve included some questions and answers below that pertain to the regular sales starting next week. For our original article with information about the presales please visit here. Regular sales start on January 16, 2017 for Europe. (Monday) Regular sales start on January 17, 2017 for North America. (Tuesday) U2 is also headlining the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester TN, tickets for that event are already on sale at https://www.bonnaroo.com/tickets/ Sales will be through Ticketmaster in most locations. Ticketone.it was used in Italy for the presale. Ticktackticket.com was used in Spain for the presale. When the regular sale starts, only one show per city will be on sale. It is not unusual in popular markets for a second show to be added while the ticket sales are ongoing. It is not known whether any such added shows will have presales, or if they will go on sale immediately. In the past both has happened. All links for sale sites will be typically listed at http://www.u2.com/tour, after the presales have ended. We are maintaining a calendar of onsale times here. Check to see what time each sale will start in your local time zone. Europe Information The regular sales start on January 16, 2017 for European dates, with public onsale times expected to start at 10am for most cities, but Dublin and London will start at 9am. View those times in your own time zone here. We have compiled a full map of all European Venues here: Age limits have been posted for some European venues restricting access to the GA area on the floor to those over 14, see venue specific information below. In Europe some venues are offering a variety of ticket options including electronic (sent to your handheld, and need to be shown at the door), print at home (you print the tickets off and bring them to the show), ticket delivery, and some venues offered a special collector ticket with a barcode that is scanned when arriving at the venue. Some of our readers are reporting that they have had issues with collectors tickets getting scanned properly in the past, so perhaps something to consider when making your decision. Pricing for Europe varies per venue depending on processing and delivery fees, but most shows have base prices ranging from 35 – 280 Euro for seats (Four Price Levels) with General Admission on the floor being at 70 Euro. North America Information The regular sales start on January 17, 2017 for North American dates, with public onsale times expected at 10am local time for most cities. View those times in your own time zone here. We have compiled a full map of North American Venues here: In North America, all GA floor tickets are paperless, and tied to the credit card you use to purchase. You must swipe the credit card the day of the show to gain entrance to the show. ID may also be required. The exception appears to be Foxborough, which was offering an option for ticket delivery during the presale. Pricing for North America varies per venue, but most shows have base prices ranging from 35 – 280 dollars for seats (Four Price Levels) with general Admission on the floor being at 70 dollars. Venue Specific Notes: Brussels shows that the stage is oriented in a different way than in all other European stadiums. The special limited edition “collectors tickets” were available for Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Dublin. They were not available for London in the presale, but we are told they will be available in the general sale. Is there a ticket Limit for these shows? A Live Nation press release lists that there will be a 6 ticket limit during the public sales. A Live Nation press release lists “There will be a 4 ticket limit for subscriber presales”. If you bought tickets in the pre-sale and want to buy more in the general sale, you could have difficulties if you go over the ticket limit, and using a different means of payment is recommended. Where do I find out more info about the tour? U2.Com should be your first source for information (U2.com help page). The team there will update tour FAQS and dates will be listed there. U2.Com has a list of dates / cities / opening acts at: http://www.u2.com/tour U2.Com has a longer article discussing the tour at: http://www.u2.com/news/title/the-joshua-tree-tour-2017/news/ We will maintain this list of questions throughout the ticket buying and right up to the tour if there is interest. If you have a question email it to us at contact @ u2wanderer.org, or tweet us, or facebook us. You can also check out our Joshua Tree tour news archive. Why The Joshua Tree? There are a number of articles being written about this tour which address some of this: Irish Times article by Brian Boyd Rolling Stone article by Andy Greene with an interview with The Edge Adam Clayton appeared on RTE with Ryan Turbridy this morning to discuss the tour. Audio available at the link. (Look for the Adam Clayton mention) Will they play the entire album? Adam said they want to play every track off of the album. He said until they get it rehearsed they will not know if it is sequential or in pieces. He also said “There will be other material in the show, because The Joshua Tree album was 45 minutes. I would imagine there will be some songs that existed on the Songs of Innocence show which lead us up to the Joshua Tree, and then i think that will be performed at some point in the show, and then there will be something after it to herald the future and where we are going with Songs of Experience.” What is the configuration for the Tour? The tour will have a General Admission floor for Europe and North America. A Live Nation press release states “Tickets will be general admission on the floor and reserved seating in the stands.” A special Red Zone will be to one side of the catwalk. In most venues the seats directly behind the stage are greyed out, and do not appear that they will be sold. This suggests that the view may be blocked from those seats. Listings for Croke Park also list “Gold Hot Tickets”, “Silver Hot Tickets” and “VIP Travel Packages” see below for more information. A seat map for Croke Park in Dublin provides additional information: Some additional info from ticketmaster.ie for the Croke shows: - Pitch standing access is as per assigned entry route on tickets only. - No under 16's will be allowed on the pitch unless accompanied by an adult. Standing tickets only available to persons aged 14 and over. - All under 16's entering the stadium to be accompanied by Parent or Guardian. - Upper Levels are quite High, Please do not purchase these if you suffer from Vertigo. - No queuing will be permitted prior to gates opening. What are these Silver and Gold packages? “Silver and Gold”? Get it? From Ticketmaster Belgium: Gold Hot Ticket Package includes a top priced seated ticket to see U2 live. A commemorative U2 tour laminate and lanyard. Merchandise item designed exclusively for package purchasers and designated check-In with our on-site event staff. For Belgium these are listed at 310.00 EUR. From Ticketmaster: Silver Hot Ticket Package includes a seated ticket in second price level to see U2 live. A commemorative U2 tour laminate and lanyard. Merchandise item designed exclusively for package purchasers and designated check-In with our on-site event staff. For Belgium these are listed at 215.00 EUR. From Ticketmaster: VIP Party Package includes: One top priced seated ticket to see U2 live. Pre-show party in venue close to the stadium. Pre-show dinner in informal setting with complimentary drinks. Cloakroom (pre-show only). Commemorative U2 tour laminate and lanyard. Merchandise item designed exclusively for package purchasers. Designated check-in with our on-site event staff. Private toilet and exclusive bar (pre-show only) and a reserved parking ticket for surrounding parking lots (1 per 2 persons). These packages for Belgium are listed at 465.00 EUR. All pricing is without delivery fees and payment fees according to the Ticketmaster Belgium site. Who are the opening acts? In North America the duties will be shared between Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers and One Republic. Mumford & Sons will open in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco. The Lumineers will open in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto, Boston, and East Rutherford. One Republic will open in Miami, Tampa and Cleveland. There will be one opening act per night in North America as currently listed. In Europe the opening act for all current listed shows is Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. What if I have physical difficulties that limit my access to the shows? In the past we’ve recommended that people facing any sort of issues, from blindness, to insulin pumps to seek information from the venue in advance of the concert. Each venue is likely to have their own individual ways to answer these questions, and different procedures and policies, so in these cases it is always best to talk to the venue direct, and in advance of buying tickets if possible. Can everyone be on the GA Floor? In Brussels, Belgium, the ticketmaster website is listing a limitation on the age of people on the floor. Under 12’s are recommended to buy a seat. Young children are NOT allowed on the standing floor, which also includes the (RED) Zone Package. Under 16’s who prefer the standing floor, including the (RED) Zone Package, MUST be accompanied by an adult in possession of a valid ticket in the same price level. (They do not define “young”) In London the GA floor is limited to persons over the age of 14. In Dublin they list “No under 16’s will be allowed on the pitch unless accompanied by an adult. Standing tickets only available to persons aged 14 and over.” What is this paperless entry in North America? Starting with 2015 U2 has been using a system of paperless entry for the General Admission floor. This system uses your credit card as your entry to the show. You go to the entry point, and they scan your credit card, and you and everyone entering with you have to go in together. If you bought four tickets, and only three of you are there to go in, you must wait for the fourth before being scanned. If your credit card used to buy tickets is lost or stolen you should contact Ticketmaster ASAP to have the tickets moved onto a new credit card. If your card is renewed, you can keep your old card and use that for entry. Some venues would print out hard tickets, but only on the day of the show, not in advance. What is a Collector Ticket? Advertisements are now appearing on Ticketmaster in Ireland advertising a Collector Ticket. This is an add on when you buy your ticket. For an additional 5.95 Euro you can add on a special “Collector Ticket” which will allow you access through the barcode on the ticket. The following image was included with the advertisement but mentions the artwork may change: These collectors tickets have started showing up for the France shows. See one of them here on twitter. What is the full list of shows? At the time of the announcement the following list of shows was announced. Stay tuned to u2.com for further announcements: Is that all the shows? That’s all the shows listed for now. But expect more to be added as tickets go on sale. Most European cities were rumoured to be getting two shows, but at this time only one has been announced for each city. In North America some cities may get single shows, it is expected that Vancouver for instance will be a single show in that city. U2 has also announced they are playing Bonnaroo this year. That date has not been confirmed. 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__label__cc	0.732434	0.267566	Historical Heritage Tours Historical heritage tours are a great school trip for any class studying history as well as geography. School Groups are guided to various locations and venues that use costumed characters and re-enactments to engage and interest the students better than simply reading from a textbook in class. This means that students can really experience what life throughout history was like. We offer a variety of historical tours that are all similarly as interesting and educational, such as The Golden Hinde School Tours, where students can discover what life was like on an Elizabethan Galleon, or The Shakespeare Family Homes, which offer stimulating tours that bring Shakespeare to life. These educational tours will increase students’ historical knowledge and develop their educational skills, as it will provide them with an opportunity to actually understand history, geography and experience first-hand what life was really like. The tours listed are extremely interactive and both pupils and teachers will be encouraged to get involved, making it a fun experience for all. Historical heritage tours are the perfect way for students to have fun while they also further their historical, geographical understanding of different time periods, location and cultures. Pupils & students can cover the curriculum from KS1: Significant historical events, people/places in their own locality to KS4/5: Business, Enterprise and Heritage Management. The services on offer can be tailor made for your group’s needs. Hatton’s School Group Travel North West Hatton’s School Group Travel provides a complete booking service for school trips, where the itinerary can be customized to suit your exact learning objectives. Liverpool City Sights Open Top City & Beatles Tour Liverpool city sights open top tours around Liverpool are designed to show school trips and educational visits the best Liverpool has to offer in and around the city and the beloved home of the Beatles. Shadows of York Ghost Walk Shadows of York Ghost Walk provides you and your students with the opportunity to explore the most haunted city in England. This is a thrilling and more engaging way for students to discover history. Brit Movie Tours London Brit Movie Tours provides educational and fun school tours, where students will have the chance to visit London's most famous landmarks and the settings to some of the biggest TV programmes and films ever, such as Harry Potter and James Bond! The Kia Oval Ground Tours London The Kia Oval Ground Tours provide educational school tours, where students can get a behind-the-scene look at one of the most iconic sporting venues in the world! Shrewsbury Prison Jailhouse Tours Shrewsbury Prison is one of the few prisons that is open to the public and offers educational tours. These Victorian prison tours are led by ex-prison officers, making the experience more realistic and engaging. Insider London Company Visits and Educational Tours Insider London offers company visits and educational walking tours for school and university trips. Themes for our industry specific programmes include business, innovation, marketing, technology, sustainability and more! Middleport Pottery Educational tour Visits Stoke on Trent Middleport Pottery provides an immersive educational experience for all ages and abilities, where students can discover the processes that revolutionized pottery production and how this impacted other aspects of society. Shepton Mallet Prison Jailhouse Tours Shepton Mallet Prison offers educational tours, where students can further their understanding of crime and punishment throughout history. In order to engage the students, these tours are very interactive and include fully immersive prisoner experiences.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371967
__label__wiki	0.533839	0.533839	UltraVillaThe JournalThe JournalAmazing Secret Greek Archaeology Sites to Visit this Summer Amazing Secret Greek Archaeology Sites to Visit this Summer As the cradle of western civilization, many travelers come to Greece with the aim of discovering some of its exceptional cultural heritage. There are a myriad of incredible historic sites and museums to choose from, that said, many of these can be overrun in peak season. The crowds, coupled with the intense summer heat, can make you wish you had stay on the country’s equally spectacular beaches. However, there are places where you can experience the best of both worlds by visiting some lesser-known sites (perhaps in the company of an archaeologist?) then retreat to the peace of your private seaside villa. Our experts at White Key Villas and Five Star Greece reveal their favorite places to explore the secrets of the ancient world below. Sanctuary of Apollo, Despotiko Island. Photo Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture The Sanctuary of Apollo, Despotiko Located on the islet of Despotiko, a few minutes’ boat ride from the chic Cycladic island of Antiparos, is the site of the recently excavated Sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis, a hidden gem recommended by our local Greece experts. According to Ileana von Hirsch of Five Star Greece, Antiparos is the “insider Greek island where the likes of Tom Hanks and low-key jet-setters kick off their shoes and go barefoot here in the summer.” You too can add in some archaeological adventures to your relaxed glamour holiday. Dating from the 6th century BCE, this sanctuary is the largest archaic cult site in the Cyclades, second only to Delos, which is itself the largest of its kind in the world. Starting in 1997, ongoing excavations have brought to light the remains of what was an important centre of worship. The site has more than 20 buildings, including a Doric temple, as well as hundreds of statues, clay vessels, figurines, ivory buckles, swords, vases— coming from across the Mediterranean. “This fabulous excursion combines the joys of private boat ride with the unique opportunity to observe excavation and restoration work and meet the archaeologists responsible for the site,” explains Elena Fotiadi of White Key Villas. “You will have the rare chance to witness the discovery of ancient artefacts while experiencing a pristine Cycladic island with some great beaches, idyllic, bathed in warm sunlight, and surrounded by the sparkling blue waters of the Aegean Sea.” Where to Stay in Antiparos Antiparos 13B Designed by well-known Greek architect Dimitris Rizos, this stunning pair of villas by Five Star Greece lay hidden on a private road at the edge of a sublime south-facing peninsula of Antiparos. Comfortably accommodating up to 20 people, or alternatively, as two completely separate and private villas, each villa has its own adjoining guest house. Built in 2007, the complex is set within gorgeous gardens conceived by eminent French landscape architect Philippe Niez. Guests can relax under the shady pergolas covering lovely outdoor and entertaining spaces which border a large pool shared by both houses. A short 10-minute walk down a path leads to a small secluded sandy beach. The villas are perfect for family holidays and large family reunions. Guests can either take both five-bedroom homes together, or the Pool House on its own with exclusive use of the pool. Enjoy a posh and peaceful holiday in Antiparos with some archaeological adventures with Five Star Greece here. Villa Melissa This vast, recently renovated 11-bedroom Mediterranean-style property is undoubtedly among the island’s few, very exclusive estates and features extreme privacy and exceptional vistas of the sea and islands, available through White Key Villas. Its white-washed silhouette sunbathes on an elevated seafront plot of 12,000 square meters, which grants it a supremely calm setting. Its size and location are complemented by breathtaking views, graceful indoor and outdoor living, a fabulous infinity pool area and access to a semi-private beach with a pergola and sunloungers. The bedrooms, which can accommodate 18 to 21 guests, are ideally spread out over the complex. Most include en-suite baths and private entrances and four are located in an adjacent guest cottage. The large swimming pool area with daybeds and a lounge also includes a bar and external shower. The buildings are surrounded and linked by arched courtyards and beautiful terraces with various seating and dining areas as well as a barbeque. Bring your family or friends together for an laidback luxury getaway to Greece with White Key villas at this link. Antiparos MS This fresh and chic seven-bedroom waterfront home, available through Five Star Greece, is set in a picturesque location facing northeast across to Paros and the colorful kite-surfers of Pounda club. It consists of a main house, with the pool stretching in front of it, and two guest homes to the rear. It can sleep up to 12 in its seven bedrooms, making it an excellent fit for a group of friends or two families traveling together. The interiors are decorated in white and with light primary colour accents and the whole property benefits from A/C and mosquito netting at doors and windows. There is a large, comfortable living room with an open plan kitchen beckoning guests to gather around meals. Lovely Apantima Beach and Beach Club are found at the end of the garden and the sparkling sea is directly in front. There is a path to some steps down to a private sea-entry point. The port is a mere eight minute drive away and other conveniences are within easy reach. Start designing your relaxing Greek culture and beach escape by reaching out to Five Star Greece here. Corinth, Peloponnese White Key Villas offer their guests staying in the Peloponnese and Porto Heli a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at a working excavation with one of the most respected institutions in the field, the Corinth Excavation Tour is a must for archaeology enthusiasts and anyone looking for an extraordinary cultural experience in Greece. Elena Fotiadi tells us more about this unique site and experience: “Inhabited for over 8000 years, Corinth has played a key role in the region over the course of Greek history. One of the great city-states of antiquity and a major center of silk production during the Byzantine Era, it was coveted by various Crusader States and the Ottoman Empire, who fought over it for over four hundred years. As a result of its tumultuous history, Corinth now boasts impressive archaeological sites that yield exquisite cultural artefacts. “More than just a tour, this is an extraordinary opportunity to explore the ruins of Ancient Corinth, visit a working excavation, and experience the wonder of archaeology first-hand! In partnership with the American School of Classical Studies of Athens (ASCSA) this is a unique tour offering unprecedented access to the site and the work of this internationally renowned organization: The Corinth Excavation Tour features a number of ASCSA field experts and archaeologists, who will introduce you to the excavation site and to various key concepts and modern techniques of archaeological excavation, giving you unique insight into the science—and art—of archaeology.” Participation in these excavations tours is available only during specific periods throughout the year and should be prearranged through White Key Villas. Contact them here for further information. Where to Stay near Corinth Villa Yria Your majestic experience discovering Greece’s ancient ruins can be accentuated by staying this splendid villa which appears to have been washed up ashore like a hero in a Greek legend. Bordering quaint coastal fishing villages, you’ll enter another dimension arriving at this spacious beachfront estate. The large 4.5-acre property, available through White Key Villas, includes a main building, a chic aristocratic house from the sixties and three newly built, stylish and fully independent suites. The villa’s pool extends between the front patio and the beach, acting as a natural extension of the sea. Its charming Mediterranean garden further highlights the scenery and provides the estate with privacy, shade and wonderful summery aromas. This villa has a postmodern glamour with the combination of the stylish retro decor of the main building and the contemporary aesthetics of the newly added suites. Floor-to-ceiling windows cast gorgeous natural lighting on its carefully selected furniture, paintings and objets d’art. There is a graceful flow between the interior and exterior living spaces, with the pool area in the front, presided over by an impressive gazebo. Enjoy the pleasures of privacy, direct access to a sandy beach, an amazing pool and a magical garden at the Villa Yria by contacting White Key villas at this link.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371968
__label__cc	0.54195	0.45805	Cheaper technology for paddy cultivation JALANDHAR:In the recently held Startup India Punjab Yatra that concluded at ISB, Mohali, three teams of Lovely Professional University (LPU) excelled by winning positions. Posted: Feb 10, 2019 09:04 AM (IST) Updated : 11 months ago sanjiv@tribunemail.com Ajay joshi Jalandhar, February 9 In the recently held Startup India Punjab Yatra that concluded at ISB, Mohali, three teams of Lovely Professional University (LPU) excelled by winning positions. The teams — Dhaiya Agricultural Tools and Green on Green — bagged the 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively, for their innovations in the agriculture sector and Digantara bagged the 2nd position in the technology category. With an intention to reduce a major chunk of the agricultural cost and the water consumption in the paddy crop cultivation, team Dhaiya Agricultural Tools, led by Mohit Dhaiya and Swarn Kaur presented a machine that would help farmers plant crop through machines, hence reducing the manual cost of planting. Mohit said, their machines were based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) parameters in ‘Rice cultivation’, which was still not applied in the country. The machine though the technology, would also provide better growing conditions for rice plants, particularly in the root zone, overcome the shortage of water in irrigated rice, sends fertilisers into the roots and controls methane gas produced during rice growth. This project is to see 40 per cent increase in the rice production and 30-35 per cent of water saving. Besides, compared to the expensive cost of Rs 2-3 lakhs of the existing machines, their machine would be available at Rs 70,000. Similarly, in the agriculture category, Mitul Bhaskar and his team proposed a start up called, ‘Green on Green’ that helps to establish an electrical vehicle transportation network for carrying small farm produces like vegetables to the marketing places. He said, through this, 80 per cent of their transportation expenses and allied works will certainly be reduced. Therefore it would be of great help for farmers, especially 90 per cent portion of small farmers. In the technology category, four students of computer engineering branch— Anirudh, Rahul, Sikhinder and Sai Ganesh (Team Digantara) showcased their innovative idea, on tracking and analysing space debris in Low Earth Orbits (LEO), that is a Satellite project, through which they are all set to enter ‘Space’, with a mission to secure long-term spaceflight safety. “Therefore they have proposed a solution that navigates the missing data of the unmapped debris using a time-of-flight LASER range finder based on the principle of reflection of an object in a vacuum,” said Anirudh. The main objective was to contribute to the global effort of cataloguing small-sized orbital debris, and to improve safety for future manned and unmanned space missions. Hence, team would send a constellations of nano-satellites in the lower earth orbit that enhances the coverage area to track debris in the Space. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, LPU, congratulated the students and their mentors for proving their entrepreneurial skills and potential in an excelling manner. HC stays CAT order of setting aside Dinkar Gupta’s appointment as Punjab DGP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371970
__label__wiki	0.566096	0.566096	Home USA New York Exploring The Strong Museum in Rochester (NY) Exploring The Strong Museum in Rochester (NY) Facebook/TheStrongMuseum The Strong Museum Museum’s Collections The Strong Museum is an exceptionally intelligent, accumulations based historical center committed to the history and exploration of play. It is one of the biggest history galleries in the United States and one of the main exhibition halls serving families. The Strong houses the world’s biggest and most far-reaching collection of verifiable materials related to play. The Strong’s multifaceted cluster of research, displays, and other interpretive and instructive exercises serve a different group of onlookers of grown-ups, families, kids, understudies, instructors, researchers, authorities, and others around the world. The Strong possesses and thinks about the world’s most far-reaching collection of toys, dolls, board games, computer games, other electronic recreations, books, archives, and other authentic materials identified with play. This phenomenal array offers an interesting interpretive and instructive window into the basic job of play in human physical, social, and scholarly improvement and the manners by which play reflects social history. Toy Collections: Currently numbering more than 75,000 artifacts, The Strong Museum toy collections are recognized as one of the most comprehensive aggregations of toys worldwide. Alphabet and Building Blocks Cast-Iron Vehicles Dollhouses, Furnishings, and Miniature Rooms Mechanical Toys Toy Company Collections: A significant number of toys in The Strong’s collections are organized according to manufacturers because of the history of those toy companies and their association with types of toys. All the types of toys represented here are also represented in other ways under the heading Toy Collections. Fisher-Price Collection GUND, Inc. Collection of Toys, the 1920s–1970s Louis Marx Collection Playskool Collection Ty Beanie Baby Collection Doll Collections: This expansive assemblage of more than 16,000 items ranges from paper dolls to collector dolls. It includes rarities such as Thomas Edison’s Talking Doll (1890) and numerous Bru and Jumeau dolls; many other elegant examples of 19th-century French and German dolls; and thousands of other popular and fashion dolls from the early 20th century to the present. Dolls after 1950 Dolls before 1950 Game Collections: At more than 15,000 items, The Strong’s game collections include, card games board games, puzzles, game prototypes, role-playing games, and more. All-Fair Collection Card Games and Playing Cards McLoughlin Brothers Collection Milton Bradley Collection Parker Brothers Collection Ron Dubren Collection Sid Sackson Prototypes Collection Apart from these amazing collections, museum ahs some other collections too. Q. What are the hours of the visit? A. The hours of the visit to the museum differs with days. The timings are: Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday & Saturday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m. Q. Is there any admission fee for the museum? A. Yes, there is an admission fee. The charges are: General Museum Admission Age 2 and older: $16 Under age 2: Free Members: Free with current membership card and photo ID ACM reciprocal members: 50% general admission discount for up to six people General Museum Admission with Butterfly Garden Members: $4 Note: You can also buy the tickets online from the official website of The Strong Museum. Children of the age 15 yrs and below should be under adult supervision at all times. The museum accepts MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover Card. Discounts may be available for group entries. Q. What is the address to the museum? A. The address is, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, NY 14607 \| 585-263-2700 Q. What are the attractions nearby? A. There are many places that you can visit near the museum, some of which are: Bristol Mountain Rochester Museum & Science Center Roseland Water Park Seabreeze Amusement Park Seneca Park Zoo Stokoe Farms Wickham Farms Q. Does the museum have WiFi? A. Yes, the museum has WiFi. Q. Can I bring my own food? A. Yes, you can bring and eat it in the lunchroom. Back to – Things to do in Rochester NY Previous articleKnoxville Museum of Art – What to Know Before You Go Next articleFrontier Field (NY) – What to Know Before You Go	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371971
__label__cc	0.670875	0.329125	Digital publishing means constant flux: get used to it, hire leaders who can adapt and react Matt D'Cruz 17th March 2016 Advertising, Content marketing, DigitalComments Off on Digital publishing means constant flux: get used to it, hire leaders who can adapt and react Sometimes the pace of change in publishing can be staggering. It seems not a month goes by without the arrival of a technology or platform that causes permanent disruption to how and where content is presented to end-users and forces executives to (again) fundamentally rethink their digital model. The other week we met with a senior figure at a major international online publisher to discuss the changing nature of their business. He flagged up the biggest issue almost immediately: ‘The emphasis,’ he said, ‘has changed from driving traffic to our sites to taking our content out to where people are. That requires quite a change of mindset within the business.’ This description neatly conveys a general trend we’ve watched accelerate over the past year to 18-months. The idea of a destination website that houses all the content of a publishing brand or producer is becoming a thing of the past. Increasingly, it’s the case that editorial content from a single production source can appear in multiple destinations. Through the course of a day, an individual may encounter digital content from one brand or publisher piecemeal through social media feeds, key websites, and other points of distribution and aggregation. Great, no? Lots of engagement, lots of eyeballs seeing your stuff and becoming associated with your brands? Well, yes and no. Spare a thought here for those poor legacy print types who were just getting their heads around existing digital models, only to see the likes of Facebook Instant Articles, Snapchat and Apple News turn the entire business model upside down. For them, and for others, a large part of the concern is that while these new models present opportunities – such as increased reach and more sophisticated revenue generating strategies – they also mean publishers risk losing control of their own distribution systems. For legacy print publishers, the value of their products has traditionally been in safeguarding and controlling their distribution. It would, therefore, take quite a shift in mindset to adapt to this changing reality, and it’s easy to see how some publishers might resist, or otherwise struggle to react. At the same time, it’s more important than ever to have people at the helm of these businesses who can react, and can react quickly to the ever-changing nature of digital publishing. One new distribution platform, one new technology, could change the entire landscape overnight – and because of this it’s critical that publishing firms equip themselves with digital leaders who can demonstrate their ability to react and adapt (and bring others along with them). Flexible and forward-thinking digital heads are going to find themselves in extremely high demand. This isn’t going to happen in the dark and distant future, it has already started and, over the coming year, it’s only going to snowball. The time for businesses to equip themselves with smart, innovative digital leaders is now. « Culture Secretary wades into ad-blocking debate – but what about the customers? More key skills for global sales leaders in the business information sector » Author: Matt D'Cruz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371972
__label__cc	0.600364	0.399636	What to See in Winslow, Arizona United States Arizona All Arizona There’s More to Winslow, Arizona than a Corner Expert in cultural tourism, writing about the southwestern United States; also an award-winning photographer Moment Editorial/Getty Images / Getty Images People who think Winslow AZ is best known for being featured in the lyrics of a classic rock song have a lot to learn about this Arizona town. Winslow is a place worth visiting and not just to stand on that corner from that song. This visitors' guide should get you started if you're planning a trip there. Standin’ on a Corner in Winslow, Arizona So many people come to Winslow to see the famous site of the song lyrics “Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona…” The lyrics from the song "Take It Easy", written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, were made famous by "The Eagles". True, Winslow has a great little corner for you to see complete with a fantastic mural painted on a brick building façade and the statue, “Easy.” You can have your photo taken with “Easy” or close to the painting of the “girl in the flatbed Ford.” But, stop a while and see what is going on in Winslow. You may be surprised. The Corner District Some call the intersection of 2nd Street and Kinsley, The Corner District. There are gift shops across the street from the famous Winslow Corner and a Visitor’s Center. The Visitor’s Center is a great place to start if you want to find out more about Winslow. They’ll tell you about the wonderful park and walking path just a block away along the railroad tracks and about plans to renovate the brick trading post down the block. Stop awhile and pick up a pamphlet or two and enjoy the historic photos on the wall. What some don’t realize is that one of the gift shops offers up some history and architecture that is well worth a visit. Inside this former jewelry shop, is a fascinating high ceiling and intact antique safe. Their Route 66 merchandise is great fun to explore, a very unique experience. Stephen Saks / Getty Images The gem of Winslow is just a short distance down the street. The first time a person drives through Winslow, they can be discouraged as it looks like it is under construction and was closed. The truth is that La Posada is always being worked on and is definitely not closed. The owners, Allan Affeldt and artist Tina Mion, purchased La Posada in 1997 and have been renovating this former Harvey House hotel ever since. La Posada is one of the special works of architect, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, architect for many creative Grand Canyon buildings including Hopi House, Hermit's Rest, the Lookout Studio and the Desert View Watchtower. La Posada was built in 1929 for the Santa Fe Railway. Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was not only the architect that envisioned the unique hotel, she was an interior designer who determined which colors, textiles and china patterns would be used. Affeldt and Mion are remaining true to the feel of Colter’s work if not recreating the hotel’s original décor. Stepping into La Posada is like stepping into a fantasy world. Not only is there the feel of Colter’s early southwest style creation, the whole building is a gallery of Mion’s bright and bold paintings. Two gift shops house wondrous tinwork, textiles, jewelry and pottery from around the world. Guests stay in simple but very nicely decorated rooms with wooden furniture, tin mirrors and original windows overlooking the grounds. While you hear enough of the train traffic to be transported to the Harvey House era, the hotel is fairly quiet. While you are there, be sure and take the self-guided walking tour of the hotel. A pamphlet available in the lobby points out details of interest. The Turquoise Room The Turquoise Room, separately owned by Chef John and Patricia Sharpe, yet a very integral part of La Posada, was another very pleasant surprise. Visitors can smell special food being cooked in the kitchen but few are prepared for how special the dining experience can be. The ingredients for meals are hand selected by the chef who frequents the Farmer’s Market in Flagstaff, purchases from local growers and flies fish in from New Orleans, Boston and Alaska. They call the cuisine Regional Contemporary Southwestern and it certainly does fit. One meal on offer is the Churro Lamb Sampler platter, which is very shareable. Churro lamb is a designated American Heritage breed raised on the Navajo lands for the past 400 years. The Churro Lamb, according to the restaurant's menu, is free-range and raised by Irene Bennally on Navajo Nation land. The meal was fresh, unusual and very savory. The menu makes for interesting reading due to the creativity of Chef Sharpe. It is hard to decide what to select. For those wanting something more familiar, the restaurant also serves Fred Harvey-inspired dinners. The Turquoise Room is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Siqui Sanchez / Getty Images Route 66 Memories Winslow is a great place to get a feel for the old Route 66. Downtown Winslow is right on “the Mother Road,” and shops cater to Route 66 fans. Buildings, from La Posada to a vintage diner remain from the heyday of Route 66. And There is More in Winslow The Old Trails Museum has an interesting collection of memorabilia documenting the history of Winslow and northern Arizona. It is located in downtown Winslow. Enjoy a cup of coffee, peruse the shops and enjoy the murals. Winslow, Arizona is well worth exploring past “The Corner District.” Winslow is also a great place to stay when you are exploring the local sights such as the Meteor Crater, Homolovi Ruins, and even the Petrified Forest. 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__label__cc	0.706307	0.293693	Business Verification Innovations in Identity Regulated ICOs – New Regulations Around the World Last year, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) exploded into the limelight with an estimated 891 ICOs raising over US$6 billion. As the capital raising model was previously unknown, regulators had to start investigating the model and begin their determinations on the various legalities. However, with all that money and hype pouring in and scam artists taking advantage of a new opportunity, regulators around the world are now taking action and either introducing temporary bans, delivering warnings, or creating new rules. While the regulatory framework is still in flux, here’s the latest news about ICO regulations around the world. As witnessed by the volatility of crypto markets, there’s not one standard view of how this entire space will play out — or how to regulate it. In the US, two major regulators who have an interest in the sector are taking very different approaches. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has already permitted two exchanges to offer Bitcoin futures. While Bitcoin is well past the ‘initial’ stage, it does indicate that the CFTC believes that it has jurisdiction over working digital currencies and considers them commodities. As opposed to working digital currencies, theoretical coins (digital currencies) or tokens (utilities) are a different matter and it seems they are coming under the jurisdiction of the SEC (exact rules are still to be determined). As tokens are tradeable on exchanges, aren’t yet commodities, and, in many cases, meet the definition of a security, the SEC is taking the lead on regulating ICOs. To date, no ICO has taken the steps to register with the SEC and ensure a fully compliant ICO. The SEC has issued warnings, filed several law suits, and filed fraud charges against at least one ICO. According to SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, “we have brought cases, and if people don’t change their ways we’re going to be bringing more cases.” In one cease and desist order, described as the “Munchee Order”, the SEC offered a legal analysis: “Tokens, coins or other digital assets issued on a blockchain may be securities under the federal securities laws, and, if they are securities, issuers and others who offer or sell them in the United States must register the offering and sale with the Commission or qualify for an exemption from registration.” South Korea has been a hotbed of cryptomania; according to one report it is the 3rd largest market of Bitcoin trading and accounts for one-third of Ethereum trading. Due to the potential impact on investors, regulators have taken steps to better control and monitor the sector. On September 28, 2017, the Financial Services Commission banned ICOs as a fundraising tool. In 2017, China looked like it was on the path to become the biggest player in all things crypto. It was home to the largest Bitcoin mining pools, the yuan-bitcoin exchange markets had the most trading volume, and numerous ICOs were launched and quickly snapped up by hungry investors. However, that’s all changed with China’s financial regulators taking multiple steps to make an “orderly exit from the market.” On September 5, 2017, China banned ICOs. While some countries are running away from ICOs, others see an opportunity and are making moves to legitimize and regulate the field. On December 14, 2017 Gibraltar set guidelines for operating a blockchain business, enabling it to become the first jurisdiction with a regulated ICO market. Samantha Barrass, chief executive of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, said: “Today’s publication places Gibraltar at the forefront of the regulation of Distributed Ledger Technology businesses and is a wonderful example of what can be achieved through greater collaboration among industry, government and the regulator.” In November 2017, the Monetary Authority of Singapore released A Guide to Digital Token Offerings, providing guidance on how tokens can be offered under existing security laws. Some countries seem to have a positive stance toward developments in the burgeoning field. For example, Japan, Canada, Switzerland and Malaysia are some jurisdictions that either allow ICOs or are taking steps to do so. The critical element for all these jurisdictions to develop the ICO ecosystem is to have clear rules and processes in place. That way all participants — companies, investors, and regulators — know exactly what is permissible and what isn’t. If a defined regulatory model is in place, ICOs will have the opportunity to become another legitimate way for companies to raise money. Regulations will help weed out scams and weak offerings, and make for a stronger, safer market. BY Trulioo Bitcoin cryptocurrency Ethereum ICO token Global Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Survey Enter Trulioo’s #MemeThis Contest to Win a KNOW ID Conference Ticket Disclaimer: Trulioo provides no warranty that the information contained in this document is accurate, up to date or complete and in no circumstance does such information constitute legal advice. Any person who intends to rely upon or use the information contained herein in any way is solely responsible for independently verifying the information and obtaining independent expert advice if required. As opposed to working digital currencies, theoretical coins or tokens are a different matter and it seems they are coming under the jurisdiction of the SEC. 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__label__wiki	0.895554	0.895554	Home / Politics / US News / Viral / Video McCain family to support Biden in 2020 race in bid to defeatTrump. Video McCain family to support Biden in 2020 race in bid to defeatTrump. Mobi Lado May 18, 2019 Politics, US News, Viral The late Sen. John McCain's family intends to help previous Vice President Joe Biden's White House offer, backing the Democrat in his gathering's jam-packed essential race as well as in a general race matchup with President Trump, the Washington Examiner has learned. In an exceptional reprimand to Trump, who scorned McCain's Vietnam War administration and ridiculed him even after his passing last August at age 81, the McCain family is getting ready to break with the Republican Party. McCain spoke to the gathering in Congress for a long time and was picked as its presidential candidate in 2008, losing to Barack Obama. Sources near both Biden's presidential battle and the McCains said that eventually amid the White House race, McCain's widow Cindy, 64, and little girl Meghan, 34, a host on "The View," will offer their open help in the desire for expelling Trump from office in 2020. A previous McCain battle official with close connections to the family said help for Biden was guaranteed, however, they expected to ascertain how they could best help the previous VP. Both Cindy and Meghan McCain remain Republicans, and one thought is in the case of underwriting Biden in the Democratic essential could do him more damage than anything else. "It's certain that Joe Biden and the McCain family have an extremely close, individual relationship. It's about what's beneficial for him [Biden]." Another McCain family source said there had been talks with the Bidens about his 2020 run, which is relied upon to be reported on Thursday. "They talk normally and have been steady of his run," the source said. "The inquiry will be timing and organizing with the Biden crusade. There is a great deal of moving parts there and [Biden's crusade is] not really sorted out. I wouldn't expect formal family support since a portion of McCain's family is still in the military, yet I do anticipate that Cindy should stand up sooner or later." The source said they expected Meghan McCain to stand up for Biden should he get the selection, yet a Cindy McCain support could come sooner. A Biden crusade source said that Biden himself had discussed his help from the McCains and had talked about whether relatives ought to show up with him amid the Democratic essential fight. Biden dropped a dispatch occasion planned for Wednesday in Charlottesville, Va., and is currently due to report his nomination by means of video on Thursday before showing up in Pennsylvania on Monday. Another previous senior McCain assistant pondered whether support from the late congressperson's family would help Biden in a jam-packed Democratic essential with most different applicants racing to one side: "I'm simply not certain how much that helps in an essential where the gathering is always moving towards the left. In case you're a two-term previous VP and essentially tied with Bernie Sanders, that is not a decent sign." The fight between the Trump and McCain factions extends back almost two decades. A while ago when he previously thought about a presidential keep running in 2000, Trump scrutinized McCain's military administration by announcing he was "caught" amid the Vietnam War. Pressures expanded when Trump kept running for the GOP assignment amid the 2016 presidential race, saying McCain was "frail" on movement and suggested he was a "bumbling" congressperson. Trump stays furious about McCain's job in spreading the "dossier" drawn up by previous British government agent Christopher Steele containing dubious claims about an agreement between the Trump battle and Russia in 2016 and Trump watching whores pee on a bed in a Moscow lodging in 2013. McCain avoided the Republican show in 2016 when Trump got their gathering's presidential designation. After the arrival of the notorious "Access Hollywood" tape in October 2016, McCain said it was "difficult to keep on offering even contingent help for his office" and that he could vote in favor of neither Hillary Clinton nor Trump. McCain on Election Day would not say he voted in favor of Trump, while Meghan McCain said she voted in favor of Evan McMullin, a free. Things reached a critical stage after Trump got to work and McCain — to Trump's fierceness — helped fate the Republican endeavor to revoke Obamacare. Trump was not welcome to the congressperson's memorial service, amid which Meghan McCain conveyed pointed hits at the president, saying: "We accumulate here to grieve the death of American enormity. The genuine article, not shoddy talk from men who will never be drawing close to the penance he gave so enthusiastically, nor the deft appointment of the individuals who led lives of solace and benefit." Meghan McCain later pummeled Ivanka Trump, the president's girl, and her better half Jared Kushner, for going to the memorial service, saying: "I felt that my family had made it obvious, or if nothing else I had, that the Trumps are unwelcome around me, and that my dad had been kind of exceptionally clear about the line between the McCains and the Trumps." One statesman who attended the memorial service was Biden. Through tears, Biden praised McCain, stating: "My name's Joe Biden. I'm a Democrat. What's more, I cherished John McCain." He included: "The manner in which I take a gander at it, the manner in which I thought about it, was that I generally thought of John as a sibling," Biden said. "We had one serious part of family battles. We go far." Thinking back about his time in the Senate with McCain, Biden said that in spite of their political contrasts, they shared expectations and objectives: "We were both loaded with dreams and aspirations, and a mind-boggling want to make the time we had there advantageous, to attempt to make the best decision, to consider the amount we could improve things for the nation we cherished to such an extent." The two families have known each other for a considerable length of time, and after Biden left office, they have built up a significantly closer relationship, and Cindy McCain converses with the Bidens consistently. The families were drawn further together when McCain caught mind disease, a similar ailment Biden's child Beau passed on of at 46 years old. Amid an enthusiastic appearance with Meghan McCain on The View, while McCain was sick yet alive, Biden tried to comfort her, saying of him and McCain, "We're similar to two sibling who was by one way or another raised by various dads or something, due to our perspectives." After her dad's passing, Meghan McCain said Biden and his family helped her through her sadness. A few long-term staff members and associates to McCain have left the GOP since Trump's race. Imprint Salter, a nearby partner to the McCain family for almost 30 years, encouraged the general population to vote in favor of Democrats in the 2018 midterm decisions. "Vote in favor of the Democrat (much of the time). That feels odd to compose. Be that as it may, the greater the reprimand of Trump the better for the nation. Oppose," Salter tweeted on Nov. 6, 2018. Steve Schmidt, McCain's previous presidential battle administrator, disavowed the GOP in 2018 too, calling the gathering "degenerate" and "improper." In March, Meghan McCain proposed on her show "The View" that Trump felt frequented by her late dad: "Tune in, he goes through his end of the week, fixating on incredible men since he knows it and I know it and every one of you knows it. He will never be an extraordinary man. Thus, my dad was his kryptonite throughout everyday life. He will be his kryptonite in death."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0040.json.gz/line1371976

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