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__label__cc	0.697846	0.302154	Human Echoes Site Tournament 2016 Final Round: JUDGEMENT! By tsouthcotte • December 14, 2016 Judgement Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. It’s been a year in the making, but today we crown a new Writer’s Arena Champion. Today’s international bout is a rematch of our first tournament. Our fighters, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt and David Webb have clawed, scratched, and flown their way into this final story battle on the wings of birds. This avian activity has brought out the best in our writers, who both delivered amazing stories. After what the 2016 tournament has already put them through, it’s amazing they had anything left in the tank to deliver such incredible work. Before we determine a winner, be sure to check out the stories here: Donald Jacob Uitvlugt defends his crown with “Cloudcukooland.” David Webb looks to swoop down and steal a victory with “Of a Feather.” Just a recap for our new friends: We have two judges who will give their judgement. If they are in agreement, the win goes to the story they picked. If they are not, it goes to our popular vote which you can view at the bottom of this post or in the battle thread. Rich Alix is our first judge. He is a patron of The Human Echoes Podcast, and an all-around awesome guy. He is the voice of the common man in this contest, and here are his thoughts: Birds. Sources of inspiration, disease carrying pests, or something in between? We have given meaning to birds in many stories, movies, fables, and sayings. What did our authors think about our feathered friends? Let’s see: “Cloudcuckooland” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt – I like the tone that this story adopts early on. From the very beginning with “Once upon a time”, this story has a very fairy tale, magical feel to it which works perfectly with the subject matter. I’ll admit, I cringed a little when I read “sick child” we’ve been down that path a few times and those stories always seem to be powerfully emotional. Not sure I wanted another one of those, but luckily I didn’t get one. Not exactly anyways. I enjoyed the idea of bird songs having words and that Victor has somehow figured them out. What he hears was not what he (or we as readers) quite expected. The tale of Don Caravaggio de la Palma is one that has been told before but not quite like this. The tale of true love, sacrifice, and loss transcends species and speaks to everyone. My favorite part of the story is the end. Just as we think that Don Caravaggio is free and off to find his Dulcinea we see that might not be the case. Victor’s Mom tells him that his canary has died despite all the vet tried. Victor thinks that Don Caravaggio was just playing dead to escape his parents. We are left to choose which we want to believe. Is this a tale of magic and bird-princes or is this a tale of the hope of a sick child and the product of his feverish dreams? When offered another bird, Victor shows compassion and wisdom and says he would rather go see them outside. Here, Mr Uitvlugt manages to sneak in one more twist, one more layer to this story that I still am not sure how I feel about. The line, “And he wondered what he might do, if freed too.” casts a number of things in a different light. Comparing himself to a bird in a cage made me wonder who is keeping him there? His illness? His parents? Is he, maybe, not as sick as we are lead to believe and maybe his parents are taking over-protectiveness to the extreme? We don’t know. I may be overthinking this all but given Mr Uitvlugt’s propensity for making a few words say quite a bit I might not be. Well done, sir, well done. “Of a Feather” by David Webb – I’ll admit it right now, I read this story the first time without any idea it was based on a true story(even though Mr Webb tells us plainly that it is, i just assumed that was a little artistic license). It rides that groove between hyper-realistic fiction and fantasical truth perfectly. I googled a bit after and was a little surprised to find where the truth was but that didn’t take away from this story one bit. We start with the kernel of truth that a girl was feeding some birds and they began to bring her odds and ends, shiny things and trinkets. The brilliance of this story is where it breaks from reality and we are treated to the birds side of things. Crows and ravens are known to be intelligent and great scavengers so the discussions we see in this story fit right in. From the crows seeing her off in the morning, to the discussions on economic theory (which I genuinely laughed out loud at and then had to explain it to everyone within earshot), to the conversation the girl ultimately has with them; it all seems to fit in. The way that the conversations with the raven were handled was very well done. The whole “dream” sequence that never quite works and the way that eventually Chloe just accepts that they can talk seemed really natural in a completely unnatural way. I enjoyed the rise and fall of celebrity as it applied to the little girl and her birds. I also liked the idea of the raven not wanting to go back to the way things were and wanting to be more than “small time”. The scene with the candidate at the end was funny but maybe a little too much and a little too abrupt of an jump. Another fantastic entry to Battle Bird. This is always the toughest job of the year. It all comes down to this. Mr Uitvlugt and Mr Webb have battled their way back to the finals in a rematch of last years Butter Battle. We have seen a number of new stories from each of them this year and have gotten to know them both rather well. That should make it harder for them to impress me as I should know what to expect but happily that is not the case. This years final featured two fantastic stories that I could very easily recommend to anyone who reads. Whichever story (and author) wins will be truly worthy of the title and the glory of Arena Champion. I am required to pick one, however, and have gone back and forth a few times. Ultimately, though, there was one story that I felt stood out just a tiny bit more. My vote for this years winner is “Of a Feather” by David Webb. There is one vote for David Webb. He can end it if Christina Durner sides with him. Our first judge is Christina Durner, and she is a freelance writer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and websites including Creepypasta, The Gunpowder Review, The Foodie Bugle, Examiner, and Fine Print. She also works independently as an editor. Christina loves to chat with readers and can be reached at https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaDurnerAuthor/. There are 9,956 different species of birds. Each one is unique in appearance, habit, and temperament. Whether we are talking about a pod of pelicans or a band of blue jays, birds are infamous for their absolute freedom and their abilities as scavengers. That’s what our stories in the TWA Championship final round focuses on. Let’s start with Donald Jacob Uitvlugt and a bird that comes from a group known as an opera: the canary. “Cloudcuckooland” tells the tale of Victor, an ailing child who befriends a pet canary. But this is no ordinary canary; it’s one who only speaks to him. The bird’s beautiful songs help to cheer the little boy up. But when he stops singing the little boy is concerned. No one ever thought to ask the bird why he stopped singing, no one except Victor. We learn that Victor’s canary has lost his song because he is a prisoner on the day that should be his wedding. This story gives an explicit backstory for the little yellow bird, whose real name is Don Caravaggio de la Palma, Prince of the Canary Islands. We learn of his fiancé who made a promise to meet and marry him in two years’ time, the parliament of birds that results in violence, and of Don Caravaggio’s capture resulting in his gilded cage in Victor’s room. Victor sets the bird free to meet his true love. However, the next morning his parents inform him that his bird died in the night. “Cloudcuckooland” is a touching story that examines a sick child’s way of coping with death and the fear of death. It has a fairytale quality to it that adds charm and heartfelt sentiment to the story. The backstory of Don Caravaggio de la Palma is imaginative and compelling. This story is incredibly well written and enjoyable to read. Now we move on to our second story, “Of a Feather” by David Webb. This story focuses on a group of crows (which is known as a murder of crows) and a lone raven (who comes from a group referred to as an unkindness of ravens.) After receiving a chicken nugget that was accidentally dropped by a small girl, the crows begin to sit outside her house daily in hopes of obtaining a new treat. But when the little girl ignores them, a sly raven joins their troupe and devises a plan that leads to more treats. Eventually, the group of birds brings the little girl, Chloe, gifts in the hopes that they will continue to receive nourishment from her and in turn, she becomes famous with the local newspapers. This was a very clever story. Very well-written with a grand sense of humor and wit. I enjoyed reading this but felt the ending could have been a little more finely tuned. But overall this was an enjoyable read for me. Both stories were unique and captured captivating exchanges between feather friends and humans. Both were enthralling and well-written. But a decision must be made, and a vote must be cast. Therefore, I cast my vote for the story that I feel is slightly more honed and detailed. That story is “Cloudcuckooland” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt. A split decision! Our championship will come down to you, our dear reader. Let’s see who won. Your new champion is David Webb! The title of Writer’s Arena Champion heads across the pond to Mr. Webb and his wonderful clone. Donald, you fought valiantly once again. You made it to the finish and should be incredibly proud of your work. Thank you so much, friends. This year has been loaded with so many amazing stories, pitched battles, and talented authors. We’ve seen so many of our friends grow as authors, and found many new ones who entered the arena for the first time. It’s been an incredible 2016, and a tournament to remember. One final congratulations to our friend David Webb, Arena Champion. Until next time, we bid you a fond farewell. « 2016 Tournament Final Round An Announcement from the Arena » dococcupant I don’t do acceptance speeches, so here is one: Rich and Christina, thank you for your comments and judgement. I couldn’t have called this. Fellow tournament participants: thank you for all of your stories. It has been a really entertaining contest. As ever, the readers are the real winners here. Joe, Al, Tony: Thank you, gentlemen, for your continued Arena presence and encouragement. Long may it continue. Donald: You’re buying. Dude, wanna be on a podcast? 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__label__cc	0.515991	0.484009	The ups and downs of UKIP When a party goes up or down in the polls there is inevitably speculation as to why. Sadly it’s not normally very good speculation… there is always a temptation for people to follow the logic of I think issue X is very important therefore issue X is the cause of the recent shift in the polls. Inferences from polls are not always much better than that – people who are supporting party Y are more likely to think X, therefore X has caused the increased support for that party. It sounds okay, but what about issues A, B and C which weren’t asked in the poll? Daily polling does at least give us an idea of when movements in public opinion have happened, and therefore make inferences about what events may have caused them. The graph below shows a five day rolling average of UKIP’s support in YouGov’s daily poll since the end of 2011. You can see there are two big increases – the first was the Budget in 2012, nothing to do with immigration or Europe or any of those issues we associate with UKIP, the thing that co-incided with an increase in UKIP support more than anything else was the budget. My guess, given the demographic make up of UKIP’s vote, that the granny tax and the messages it sent out were the most important factor there. UKIP’s support then faded away a bit, had a couple of lumps and bumps during the autumn and then shot up again during November when there was an almost perfect storm for them – the run up to the EU budget summit, a decent performance in the police elections, the Rotherham fostering row, the speculation over a Con-UKIP pact and finally the solid by-election performance at the end of the month, all combining to produce far more news coverage than the party could normally dream of. It is possible that the gay marriage issue since then has helped keep their support up. All of this is still a far cry from proving what causes the ups and downs in UKIP support, after all, correlation does not prove causality. There could have been other events at the same time that got less attention, but it is normally a fairly good pointer. Note also the biggest drop in UKIP support, back at the end of 2011 at the time of David Cameron’s veto in Europe. As I wrote the other day, Europe isn’t actually the main driver of UKIP support, so if the Conservatives suddenly became more anti-European UKIP would not vanish like magic… but it is an issue that plays to the sort of values that drive UKIP voters, so neither is it irrelevant. 223 Responses to “The ups and downs of UKIP” Very interesting piece by David Herdson on pb, setting out why nothing will change-despite Obama’s fine words. paulcroft The end of the word has begun up t’norf with forty days of rain. I have moved my guitars to the loft. December 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 am statgeek Must be 45 days of it here. Non-stop all week. When is the last poll of the year – tomorrow? And how long until we get our next fix. There’s going to be cold turkey until the new year, in more ways than one. Phil Haines The Ashcroft poll by Populus is big enough (sub sample 1700+) and has enough detail to allow the broad picture of Scottish Westminster VI to be gleaned. VI, weighted to 2010 vote shares across GB rather than Scotland (Table 4), is: Con 17%, Lab 37%, LD 5%, SNP 34%. However, that’s on the basis of recalled Scottish past vote in 2010 as follows (Table 7) Con 19%, Lab 35%, LD 15%, SNP 29%, with no attempt made to take into account the actual vote shares in weighting. That matters as the actual margin of Labour over the SNP in 2010 was 22%, not 6%. There may well be a bit of false recall going on to explain away some of the difference, but even so it’s difficult to resist the conclusion that a properly weighted sample would uplift the Labour share and reduce the SNP share by enough to produce a double-digit Labour lead. Of course all of that matters not if Amber is right in her view that polls are so volatile as to count for next to nothing in Scotland. December 22nd, 2012 at 12:02 pm richard in norway Don’t you have a microwave??? KeithP On UKIP, I wonder if the current high (increasing?) %support, and attendant publicity will act as a magnet for more support? In that case Labour might not have to worry about retaining borrowed LD support. On Guns, I wonder where to draw the line about how much weaponry is needed to keep someone “bearing arms” safe? Assuming that that does actually do so, more than running away/hiding. Does the “right to bear arms” imply that anything (eg tactical nukes) could be carried if required for “safety”? Is that freedom more important than preventing “unfortunate accidents”? grhinports @ Phil Haines Perhaps a bit of false recall with the LDs too. Not surprising really with the unpopularity of the decision in Scotland in particualar to go into coalition with the Tories in. Its interesting to note that even though the LDs can probably expect to be slaughtered in Scotland next time around according to the UKPR advanced swingometre they would hold 6 seats on just 8% of the vote. I actually would not be surprised if they did hold those 6 too simply because of the vagaries of FPTP. And that false recall maybe feeding into a Scottish polling scenario which is a smidge more dire than the desperate situation it undoubtedly is. oldnat The two latest Ashcroft polls have produced somewhat different results in the Scottish sample. October – SNP 39% : Lab 33% : Con 16% : LD 6% : UKIP 4% : Green 2%. November – Lab 37% : SNP 34% : Con 17% :LDs 5% : Greens and UKIP both on 3%. It could be that they were differently biased samples, though Statgeek noted the higher recalled SNP vote in the October poll, and the same phenomenon occurs in the November poll. Amber’s analysis seems to be backed up by these polls. As to “false” recall – “confused” recall might be a better term for Scotland (and perhaps Wales). In the November Ashcroft poll, The English figures match pretty well with the 2010 results, but the Scots ones don’t. The recalled Labour vote is 5% down on what actually happened in 2010 : Lib-Dems down 14% : SNP up 14% – with only 1-2% changes for other parties. Now it is possible that these Scottish samples happen to have asked a load of extra folk who happened to be SNP voters in 2010. However, it seems more likely that a fair number of Scots remember 2011 as the last GE that they voted in. That doesn’t discredit their current voting intention – just that polling designed for England can have problems here. In any case, speculation about will happen in Scotland in 2015, is as about as useful as haruspicy. What happens in 2014 (not just the result, but the balance of the Yes and No votes) will have a significant effect on voting in the UK GE the next year. @Oldnat / Phil The cross-breaks is the main reason I don’t spend too much time talking about the changes one way or another. Also because Scotland has been Labour-dominated for so long, there’s no news. The SNP getting some parity would be news though. Just for you, here’s a comparison between the UK and Scotland for how the min values and max values over thirty polls differ: http://www.statgeek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/perm/uk_v_sco.png Scaled the UK chart to highlight the difference. Given the size of Ashcroft’s polls, it would be possible to weight the geographic samples to the local demographics. The recall question (if used for weighting) would probably still cause problems in Scotland and Wales, though. As it is, they do tell us little more than samples of 40 or 100. “they do tell us little more” “they do tell us a little more” Missing out a single letter totally changes the meaning! MANINTHEMIDDLE Oldnat interesting question there. If Scotland votes Yes to independence in 2014 which I hope they do, will they be allowed to vote in the UK election in 2015? Does anyone know the timeframe between having the referendum and actually declaring independence as it won’t be instant. In the event of a Yes vote, I think the UK and Scottish Parliaments would be free to make appropriate transitional arrangements for UK citizens in Scotland to be democratically represented at UK level – as long as human rights legislation wasn’t broken. If by “allowed”, you mean that the UK Parliament could unilaterally legislate to deny voting rights to those in Scotland, that would probably be in breach of Article 3 of Protocol No1 of the ECHR. The timeframe, would also be a matter of agreement between the two Governments. That is what the Edinburgh Agreement is designed to facilitate. 18 months to two years seems a likely timescale to allow for the main issues to be negotiated. I don’t think it fair that the Scots might vote for a government they won’t get, so unless Independence will be 2020 and beyond (five years to make the transition), I would say they should not. Other than a transitional period it would be pointless anyway. Once separated, the Scottish MPs would not be part of the rUK government. But your suggestion would probably disenfranchise the likes of Amber(?), who might wish to retain her rUK citizenship, and would want to cast her vote in whatever constituency rUK created to cover her new ex-pat status (which current legislation doesn’t cover for those who haven’t been on an rUK electoral register in the last 15 years). PeterCairns well If I was Cameron looking at current polls I would try to postpone the UK election until after 2016 and formal Independence and go for it on new Uk boundaries. Labour would fight it tooth and nail, but I think like the Tories the LibdDems would want all the time they could get to try to turn the economy around. Apart from anything else the LibDems would automatically be eleven seats down and the tories only one. Another attractive prospect for Cameron would be a late October early November election in 2014, just after a “Yes” vote. In that scenario nomininally the Tories woulds start 1 seat down, the LibDems 11 lower, but Labour…. 41 down. Triming the seat gap with Labour by 40 seats would be hard for any tory to resist! I wonder what would happen to their vote if UKIP backed Independence? John Pilgrim “On UKIP, I wonder if the current high (increasing?) %support, and attendant publicity will act as a magnet for more support? In that case Labour might not have to worry about retaining borrowed LD support” IMO this is where we need to look for a policy basis rat her than a party loyalty basis of VI, pace AW, who says poll responses and VI do not reflect poliicies. My view the development of LD supporf has, particularly since the SDP defectiosn, been based on social democratic beliefs and principles, thus within the poltical spectrum left of centre, in quite specific areas of policy, since 2010 located in the Labour Party, and ceasing to exist in LD. Thus these are not borrowed, but achieved through the provision of managed political space and policies located in an electable party and in an effective oppoosition to a governing party which has policies not acceptable to l of c voters. Time and process are involved in turning a collection of specific policies which do not particularly or discernibly affect VI, into a coherent or coherently perceived policy framework which meet the aspirations and needs of voters.. nickp Latest YouGov / The Sunday Times results 21st – 23rd December – CON 33%, LAB 43%, LD 10%, UKIP 8%; APP -32 SoCalLiberal @ Old Nat This article demonstrates why I choose to not own a gun and generally to stay away from them. Rage issues. http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2012/12/19/29747/la-mayoral-candidate-eric-garcetti-looks-to-connec/ Or rather articles like this one that absolutely send me into a blinding rage and fit of pure anger. Do you ever read an article and just want to reach into the pages and rip the heads off of the people quoted in them? I mean, it’s 2012! Almost 2013. When are people going to get over these god damn race issues and grow up already? Ozwald Interesting cross-breaks about who is trusted. Hardly anybody by the looks of it! Politicians score badly. Also interesting that senior police officers are trusted less than beat officers. leftylampton There’s an Mori poll from 77 or 78 somewhere in their archives (I’ll dig it out later) on the public’s trust in politicians. The figures were off the scale on questions such as whether the politicians were basically honest. To my mind, the loss of public trust in politicians is THE most important and frightening development in my adult lifetime. I do wonder, if things got really tough here, how strong our democracy really would be now. And I wonder what has caused this change in attitude. Is it that politicians a really have become more dishonest and less trustworthy? On one hand, you could argue that the dismantling of the post-War consensus left the public feeling that we weren’t all in it together. And of course actions like Iraq drain away the public’s faith in the honesty of politicians. But then. Was Iraq a fundamentally more mendacious action than Suez? Was the misleading of the country by the Executive over the dodgy dossier more conniving than how Chevaline was kept secret by Wilson and Heath? So is it the media that has brought about a change to a more cynical public? Private Eye, Spitting Image and the tabloid revolution have left us all less deferential. But the worry is that we, the electorate, have developed a nose for can’t and dissembling, but no willingness to address the complexities of political reality. So we want our politicians to deal with really tough real world problems AND be moral saints. And if they fail on either count, we will despise them. @Lefty I think the ‘less deferential’ angle is part of it. My own judgement is highly coloured at the moment, having spent a lot of time and energy over two years in defending a family where the mum had dared to complain about her social worker. The sw paid her back ruthlessly and had her in court umpteen times on trumped up charges and wrote many negative reports which were pure fiction. We won in the end by using the Data Protection Act to force disclosure of material which turned the tables and the sw was disciplined (but not sacked needless to say). For good measure I have been fighting a stitchup case for 5 years – of an innocent guy who was framed for ‘crimes and misdeeds’ by a certain public official. That guy is me and I am suing. I expect to win. My faith in some ‘public servants’ was destroyed a long time ago. 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__label__cc	0.555835	0.444165	Home World Cup 2018 World Cup 2018: Tunisia vs England – Predictions World Cup 2018: Tunisia vs England – Predictions England’s 2018 FIFA World Cup campaign gets underway on Monday night with a clash with Tunisia at the Volgograd Arena, a game that they’re heavy favourites to come out on top in. Gareth Southgate’s men make the trip to Eastern Europe following a productive warm-up schedule and optimism is high amongst his group of players. The expectation level isn’t the highest it’s been from the nation but Southgate really appears to have built a positive team spirit, so it will be interesting to see how they fare tonight. But standing in their way of three points are Tunisia, who can be a difficult side to play against. They come into the World Cup on the back of just 1 defeat in their last 10 internationals so should be stern opposition for the Three Lions. All the pre-match talk for this encounter has been around England, but Tunisia are certainly a side that aren’t just here to make up the numbers. Coached by Nabil Maaloul, they’re a team that have improved considerably over the last few years and they’ll be quietly confident that they can upset the odds in Volgograd. Tunisia come into match day one on a run which has seen them lose just once in their previous 10 games – coincidentally coming in their final warm-up game against Spain (1-0). There’s no shame in being beaten by the 2010 World Cup winners and they were made to work incredibly hard for it, so we’re not expecting anything different against the Three Lions. Tunisia vs England @ 19:00 GMT Prediction: England to win against Tunisia at odds 1.49 For this particular game to record a win then it is the England national team that has to be seen in that angle. They have the good and qualities players in terms of play and they may also not understand rate any side in this particular tournament so therefore they will come into this game very tough and determine. They will pay a very good football and they will win this game they have recorded good performance over the opponent team and they will keep that in touch. Both teams scoring in this particular game is very open and possible. Prediction: England to win against Tunisia in 1st half at odds 2.14 This is an International world cup match and in this fixture Tunisia will be playing against England Tunisia are ranked With points On the league table while England are ranked with points after they both played rounds of matches respectively in the current league season. I think there will be a lot of highlights in this match as both teams go head to the head for the maximum points available in this fixture which will go a long way in determining their stands on the league log at the end of the day. However, I am tipping England win this match at halftime. NOTE that we DO NOT CLAIM these tips as 100% secure, NOR you SHOULD EXPECT the same outcome. Gamble responsibly. These predictions and analysis are written from different tipsters. Tunisia vs England 2018 Tunisia vs England World cup 2018 WBT 2018 Winning Betting Tip 2018 Previous articleWorld Cup 2018: Belgium vs Panama – Predictions World Cup 2018: Belgium vs Panama – Predictions World Cup 2018: Sweden vs South Korea – Predictions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line396
__label__wiki	0.970366	0.970366	Home Training > Athlete Profiles Training > Athlete Profiles Male triathletes: the 10 greatest ever Just who is the greatest male triathlete of all time, long-course and short-course? We have discussed, debated and argued, and finally come up with these 10. Do you agree? by Matt Baird 10. Simon Whitfield Proof that nice guys don’t always finish last is Simon Whitfield, one of the most popular performers ever to step onto a triathlon race track. Yet behind the smiles and affability was one of the most dedicated trainers in triathlon, famous for his relentless pursuit of sporting excellence (so much so that the term would become his catchphrase). The Canadian would become famous for his tactical knowhow and big race ability, with his achievements including 11 ITU World Cup victories, nine Pan American Cup wins, a record four Olympic appearances and becoming triathlon’s first-ever male Commonwealth Games champion. But it’s his Olympic Games exploits that make Whitfield a fixture on this list. At Sydney 2000 in triathlon’s debut men’s Olympic Games race, Whitfield came out of the Sydney Harbour waters 30secs behind the favourites, Simon Lessing and the Kiwi Hamish Carter, and would exit T2 in 25th place after a bike collision nearly wiped him out. With Lessing overcooking it on the bike, Whitfield charged out of transition to leave a host of world-beaters in his wake. With 2km to go, Germany’s Stefan Vuckovic had control of the race, at one point opening a 20m gap between himself and the chasing Canadian.With the Opera House finish line in sight, Whitfield’s sprint reps reaped the rewards and he passed the German to win by 13secs and enter triathlon immortality. Forever a forward thinker, Whitfield was behind triathlon’s most famous use of a domestique at the 2008 Olympics when his fellow Canadian, Colin Jenkins, acted as his pace man and protector on the bike. The tactic took Whitfield to within 200m of his second Olympic gold before Germany’s Jan Frodeno, in the race of his life, edged the Canadian on the home straight to win by 5secs. Olympic Games gold medal, 2000 Olympic Games silver medal, 2008 Commonwealth Games champion, 2002 Continue reading our guide to the 10 greatest male triathletes of all time (2/10) Some of the copy here comes from Matthew Baird's 'Triathlon: A tribute to the world's greatest triathletes, courses and gear' from Aurum Press and available here Tim Don talks Kona and his future in tri Next page	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line408
__label__cc	0.696557	0.303443	Andrea at the Australian Open: I must not underestimate it! The first Grand Slam of the season is here. The best result of Andrea Hlavackova at the Australian Open was in 2011, when she played in the 2nd round. What will happen this year? How do you spend the last hour before the first Grand Slam of the season? My coach Tomas Petera trains me in Melbourne. I like this surrounding, so I really enjoy it and look forward to entry into tournament. You will play against unknown Croatian Donna Vekic. What do you think about it? The draw could be probably even more difficult, but I must not underestimate her. She is young player, playing just a while, but she has interesting results. Being in sixteen years there where she is, that´s saying something. Together with Lucie Hradecka you played last year in doubles semifinals in Melbourne. How do you want to end up this year? We will see. (laughs) In Sydney we were warming up and we hope it will be good. In the first round we will play against Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) and Christina McHale (USA) and like the second seeded pair we have to fulfill the role of the favorites. Will you play in the mix? Yes, my partner will be Italian Daniele Bracciali. He defeated me twice in the mix. So I will try it with him. (laughs)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line422
__label__wiki	0.50722	0.50722	Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way Joff Sharpe The skills of the men of the SAS are legendary because they are expected to beat overwhelming odds again and again. Attributes such as speed, purpose, surprise and simplicity are second nature to these top notch recruits and thanks to them the unique Special Forces unit has repeatedly succeeded in extremely challenging tasks, often against vastly superior forces. They are frequently asked to achieve the impossible and most of the time they do just that. Are the principles which form the foundation of this elite unit only applicable in special circumstances though? Surely, if a team can consistently work at peak performance and pull off dramatic feats in the field of combat, there must be using some essential techniques that can be put to use elsewhere? Former SAS man Joff Sharpe argues that they can. Indeed, he says the methods of the Special Forces can and should be used by businesses to give companies a crucial edge in the vastly competitive corporate world. Sharpe is well qualified to judge. Following a successful ten-year career in the army, he spent twenty years as a human resources professional working for blue chip companies such as Mars, PepsiCo, News International and Vodafone. He uses this wealth of experience to identify ten principles followed by the SAS that can lead any company to peak performance. Doing business the SAS way isn’t easy, but being the best never is. If you want to win though, this is how. Author: Joff Sharpe On Submission UK: Thistle China: Peking University Press Joff Sharpe is one of Britain's more colourful businessmen. Unusual entries on his CV include: a year living amongst the Iban headhunters of Borneo, a stint as an SAS officer, running an Internet company for Rupert Murdoch and being Piers Morgan's HR Director! Over the last 23 years he has helped a huge range of international companies improve their performance, mainly in the TMT (Telecommunications, Media, technology) sector. Beginning his business career in Blue Chip companies like Mars and PepsiCo, he switched focus more recently to the world of private equity where his re... More about Joff Sharpe Recent Foreign Rights sales 14 Nov 2016 Korean rights have been sold in Joe Fuhrmann’s Rasputin: The Untold Story. Hebrew rights have been sold in Danny Orbach’s The Plots Against Hitler. Chinese rights have been sold in Joff Sharpe’s Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way On the road with Joff Sharpe 25 Aug 2015 The trailer for Joff Sharpe’s Citywire events is now online here. Joff Sharpe on BBC Surrey 24 Aug 2015 Joff Sharpe, author of Who Dares Wins in Business, has been interviewed on the Danny Pike show on BBC Surrey. Audio (interview begins around 2:20:00) Has the SAS Gone Soft? 24 Aug 2015 Joff Sharpe has written an intriguing new piece for the Huffington Post. Has the SAS Gone Soft?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line423
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__label__wiki	0.748561	0.748561	Category: Terrorism Conspiracy Theory Review-Analysis; Did Selim I Destroy the Turks? Investigative Analyses @ Cabal Times / Islam / Middle East / Politics / Religion / Reviews / Terrorism / World War History A wildly popular thread posted on a popular Turkish language forum in November 2019 posits a rather perplexing theory that Ottoman Sultan Selim I was a destroyer of the Turkic people. Since this is familiar territory, we review this newly emerging theory. Burnt Book Review: Tom Juby’s Full Disclosure of the Swissair 111 Crash Investigation Yields a Surprising Connection to 9/11 Plane Crashes / Reviews / Terrorism / Unreported News A lot of what we know about anomalies in the Swissair 111 Crash and contradictions in the official story would probably never come to light were it not for the efforts conscience of RCMP Forensic Investigator Tom Juby (Thomas C. Juby). 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__label__cc	0.511709	0.488291	MALAT1 and BACH1 are prognostic biomarkers for triple-negative breast cancer Xueqi Ou, Guanfeng Gao, Meiheban Bazhabayi, Kaiming Zhang, Feng Liu, Xiangsheng Xiao Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Dr. Feng Liu Hengyang Medical School of University of South China Dr. Xiangsheng Xiao Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential correlation between metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) and the transcription factor BTB and CNC homology 1 (BACH1) and their clinicopathological significance in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Subjects and Methods: MALAT1 and BACH1 were detected by immunohistochemistry using TNBC tissue microarrays of 240 patients. The association between MALAT1 and BACH1 expression levels was statistically analyzed. Moreover, the prognostic roles as well as clinical and pathological significance of MALAT1 and BACH1 expression in TNBC were determined. Statistical Analysis Used: Two-tailed Pearson correlation was used to examine the correlation of BACH1 and MALA1 expression. Comparisons of clinicopathological variables between different BACH1 and MALA1 expression groups were performed using χ2 tests. Overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) curves were plotted with the Kaplan-Meier method and the differences in OS and DFS between three groups were compared by the log-rank test. Multiple comparisons were performed using χ2 tests for subsequent individual group comparisons. Results: MALAT1 and BACH1 expression was significantly correlated with tumor-node-metastasis stage, distant metastasis, pathological stage, and survival outcomes of patients. Patients with high MALAT1 and BACH1 expression exhibited shorter overall survival and disease-free survival. Conclusions: These findings provide further insight into the expression pattern of MALAT1 and BACH1 in TNBC and suggest them as prognostic biomarkers for TNBC. Keywords: BTB and CNC homology 1, metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1, prognosis, triple-negative breast cancer Ou X, Gao G, Bazhabayi M, Zhang K, Liu F, Xiao X. MALAT1 and BACH1 are prognostic biomarkers for triple-negative breast cancer. J Can Res Ther 2019;15:1597-602 Ou X, Gao G, Bazhabayi M, Zhang K, Liu F, Xiao X. MALAT1 and BACH1 are prognostic biomarkers for triple-negative breast cancer. J Can Res Ther [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 21];15:1597-602. Available from: http://www.cancerjournal.net/text.asp?2019/15/7/1597/275550 Among females, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. A status report on the global burden of cancer estimated 2,088,849 (11.6%) new cases of breast cancer and 626,679 (6.6%) breast cancer deaths among women in 2018.[1] Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) tumors lack estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 expression [2] and are found in 10%–20% of patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer. Patients with TNBC exhibit a dismal prognosis.[3] Moreover, effective diagnostic and prognostic markers for TNBC are lacking. Metabolic activity can regulate tumor growth.[4] BTB and CNC homology1 (BACH1) is a heme-binding transcription factor and a member of the Cap 'n' Collar/basic region leucine zipper factor (CNC-bZip) family.[5] BACH1 can reprogram metabolic pathways by targeting mitochondrial metabolism.[4],[6] In addition, BACH1 expression was upregulated in the tumors of patients with TNBC.[7],[8] Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can regulate survival, proliferation, invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis of cancer cells.[9] Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), also known as nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 2, is the most abundant (~3000 copies/cell) nuclear-retained lncRNA.[10],[11] Previously, MALAT1 was considered an important marker for metastatic lung cancer. However, several studies have demonstrated that MALAT1 is associated with progression and metastasis of various cancers, including breast cancer.[12] Moreover, it has been demonstrated that lysine-specific demethylase 5B (KDM5B) can upregulate MALAT1 expression in TNBC cells, and subsequently increase tumor invasion and clonogenic potential.[13] Furthermore, high MALAT1 expression has been shown to correlate with poor prognosis in patients with breast cancer.[14],[15] In this study, we have investigated the correlation between the expression of BACH1 and MALAT1 and their clinicopathological significance in TNBC. We have also investigated the prognostic roles of BACH1 and MALAT1 in patients with breast cancer. Our study provides evidence that BACH1 and MALAT1 can serve as prognostic factors and potential therapeutic targets in TNBC. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were approved by the Ethics Committee of Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center and were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Written informed consent about the researchable use of the clinical data was obtained from each participant patient. All patient data were anonymous and deidentified prior to analysis. This study was conceived and presented according to the reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies guidelines. Patients and specimens for tissue microarray A total of 240 female patients who were histopathologically diagnosed with TNBC at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center were included in this study. TNBC tissue specimens were collected by surgery, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded using standard techniques, and preserved at the Department of Specimen and Resource in Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center. Only those patients who underwent therapeutic surgical treatment (conservative or radical surgery with axillary evaluation or mastectomy) were recruited in this study. The exclusion criteria included: male patients, inflammatory breast cancer, bilateral carcinoma, and history of malignant tumor. In addition, all of the patients included in this study had not received chemotherapy or radiation therapy previously; their complete clinical and pathological information, including age, menopause status, tumor size, lymph node status, stage, and distant metastasis, were available and can be reviewed. The histological grade of the tumor was classified based on the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system (American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification). Follow-up data were obtained by reviewing clinical records and by contacting the patient by telephone. The dates of death and relapse were used to estimate overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS), respectively. Tissue microarrays (TMAs) were constructed as follows: briefly, histological slides were retrieved and reviewed, and representative tumor areas were selected for TMA construction. The presence of carcinoma in the tumor core was used as an inclusion criterion. We compared both hematoxylin and eosin-stained and immunostained TMA sections with the corresponding full-section slides to assess representativeness and heterogeneity of staining. Immunohistochemical analysis Immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed on the 240 paraffin-embedded TNBC tissue sections. Briefly, the slides were deparafinized, rehydrated, and treated with a 90% methanol/3% H2O2 solution for 10 min at room temperature to block endogenous peroxidase. Thereafter, the slides were soaked in sodium citrate buffer (10 mM sodium citrate; 0.05% Tween 20, pH 6.0) at 96°C for 5 min for antigen retrieval. The slides were incubated overnight at 4°C with the following antibodies after blocking with BSA: anti-BACH1 antibody (dilution 1:100, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Europe) and anti-MALAT1 antibody (dilution 1:500, Caiyou, Shanghai, China). The slides were subsequently incubated at room temperature with a biotinylated secondary antibody for 10 min, and finally with Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP)-streptavidin for 10 min. The results were identified as positive and negative after DAB staining. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 25.0 statistical package (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). A two-tailed Pearson correlation was used to examine the correlation between BACH1 expression and MALA1 expression. The clinicopathological variables between different BACH1 and MALA1 expression groups were compared using Chi-square tests. OS and DFS curves were plotted using the Kaplan–Meier method and the differences in OS and DFS between these groups were compared using the log-rank test. Multiple comparisons were performed using Chi-square tests for subsequent individual group comparisons. All results were statistically significant at P < 0.05. Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 expression is upregulated in triple-negative breast cancer The mRNA expression of MALAT1 and BACH1 was assessed by IHC using TNBC TMAs of 240 patients [Figure 1]. MALAT1 and BACH1 were both overexpressed in TNBC tissues. The characteristics of the patients with overexpressed MALAT1 and BACH1 are summarized in [Table 1]. This result further indicates that LDHA and AMPK were expressed synchronously in TNBC tissues. Figure 1: The expression of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 was detected by immunohistochemistry using breast cancer tissue microarrays of 240 patients. Representative Immunohistochemistry images of two staining outcomes (negative and positive) of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 expression under two multiples of the microscope (×400 and ×100) were showed Table 1: Patient characteristics (n=240) Coexpression of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 is correlated with clinicopathological parameters Next, we explored the potential clinicopathological implications of altered MALAT1 and BACH1 expression. The clinical tissue specimens of 240 breast cancer patients were divided into multiple groups based on the expression scores of MALAT1 and BACH1. Of these, 65 (27%) overexpressed MALAT1 and BACH1 [Table 2]. The results showed that MALAT1 and BACH1 expression is correlated with tumor size, Lymph node metastasis (LNMET), and TNM stage [P = 0.001, 0.000, and 0.002, respectively; [Table 2]. Multiple comparisons were performed to further investigate the differences. The results showed that compared with both negative groups, coexpression of MALAT1 and BACH1 was correlated with tumor size, LNMET, and TNM stage [P = 0.000, 0.000, and 0.001, respectively; [Table 3]. Patients overexpressing MALAT1 and BACH1 exhibited large tumor size, lymph node metastasis, and advanced TNM stage, suggesting that MALAT1 and BACH1 may play critical roles in carcinogenesis and progression of TNBC. Table 2: Clinicopathological variables and LDHA and AMPK expression in 240 breast cancer patients Table 3: Multiple comparisons of clinicopathological variables between different expression groups Coexpression of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 is correlated with poor clinical outcome of patients with breast cancer To analyze the significance of MALAT1 and BACH1 expression for the clinical prognosis of TNBC, Kaplan–Meier survival analysis was performed using OS [Figure 2]a and DFS [Figure 2]b. The results showed that patients overexpressing MALAT1 and BACH1 exhibit shorter OS and DFS than those with downregulated expression of MALAT1 and BACH1 [P < 0.0001 for both OS and DFS; [Figure 2]a and [Figure 2]b. These results indicated that coexpression of LDHA and AMPK is significantly associated with shorter survival of TNBC patients. Figure 2: Coexpression of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 and BTB and CNC homology 1 were correlated with poor clinical outcomes of breast cancer. (a) Overall survival curves for 240 studied patients. (b) Disease-free survival curves for 240 studied patients LncRNAs are a class of noncoding RNAs of more than 200 nucleotides but lack protein-coding potential. They are emerging as a new class of indispensable molecules for the development and promotion of malignant diseases.[16] Therefore, it is reasonable that abnormal expression of lncRNAs results in dysregulation of normal biological and pathological processes of disease.[17] From a clinical perspective, lncRNA can serve as a potential therapeutic target, especially for TNBC because of the constant failure of chemotherapy and other conventional treatment options.[2],[18] MALAT1 is one of the earliest identified lncRNAs. Several studies have shown that MALAT1 plays a pivotal role in the development and progression of various cancers [10],[19] and promotes proliferation, migration, metastasis, and blood-tumor-barrier permeability of tumor cells.[20] High expression of MALAT1 is associated with increased tumor size and advanced stage of breast cancer,[21] as well as poor outcome,[22] especially in TNBC, suggesting that MALAT1 could be an important prognostic factor and a therapeutic target in TNBC. BACH1 is a transcriptional factor that forms a heterodimer with the small Maf family proteins. BACH1 can repress Maf recognition element expression in vivo.[5],[23] According to recent studies, BACH1 is primarily involved in the physiological regulation of oxidative stress, heme oxidation, and senescence.[24] Alvarez et al. (2011) have predicted that BACH1 might be a regulator of the prostate cancer marker ACPP; although, this hypothesis has not been experimentally verified. Furthermore, Han et al. (2019) found that BACH1 could promote EMT gene expression by recruiting HMGA2 in epithelial ovarian cancer cells. HMGA2 plays a role in BACH1-induced EMT of epithelial ovarian tumor cells.[8] Yun et al. have indicated that BACH1 can upregulate metastatic genes such as CXCR4 and MMP1 and promote bone metastasis of breast cancer.[25],[26] These evidence indicate that BACH1 could function as cancer development and migration factor and is often associated with poor outcomes.[26],[27] Hence, in this study, we attempted to explore the feasibility of BACH1 as a prognostic factor for TNBC. In this study, we investigated the expression pattern of BACH1 and MALAT1 in TNBC. We found that BACH1 and MALAT1 expression was synchronously upregulated in TNBC tissues. These results indicated that BACH1 and MALAT1 could be used as biomarkers for TNBC. Next, we explored the potential clinicopathological implications of altered LDHA and AMPK expression. We found that patients with upregulated BACH1 and MALAT1 expression exhibited large tumors, lymph node metastasis, and advanced TNM stage. Moreover, the patients with upregulated BACH1 and MALAT1 expression were associated with shorter OS and DFS. Our results are consistent with those reported previously, suggesting that BACH1 and MALAT1 together play critical roles in breast cancer. Hence, BACH1 and MALAT1 could be important prognostic factors and promising therapeutic targets in TNBC. In summary, this study demonstrated that BACH1 and MALAT1 are upregulated synchronously in patients with TNBC who had poor clinical outcomes. Our results indicate that BACH1 and MALAT1 could be important prognostic factors and potential therapeutic targets in TNBC. The simultaneous detection and targeting of BACH1 and MALAT1 should be performed in the clinical management of TNBC. > Conclusion In summary, this study demonstrated that BACH1 and MALAT1 were up-regulated synchronously in TNBC, which was associated with poor clinical outcomes. Our findings provide significant evidence that BACH1 and MALAT1 could be prognostic factors and potential therapeutic targets in TNBC. Detecting and targeting BACH1 and MALAT1 at the same time should be recommended in clinical management of TNBC. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81372133) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (2019JJ40258). Bray F, Ferlay J, Soerjomataram I, Siegel RL, Torre LA, Jemal A, et al. Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin 2018;68:394-424. Jia H, Truica CI, Wang B, Wang Y, Ren X, Harvey HA, et al. 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BTB and CNC homology 1 (Bach1) promotes human ovarian cancer cell metastasis by HMGA2-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Cancer Lett 2019;445:45-56. Rodríguez Bautista R, Ortega Gómez A, Hidalgo Miranda A, Zentella Dehesa A, Villarreal-Garza C, Ávila-Moreno F, et al. Long non-coding RNAs: Implications in targeted diagnoses, prognosis, and improved therapeutic strategies in human non- and triple-negative breast cancer. Clin Epigenetics 2018;10:88. Amodio N, Raimondi L, Juli G, Stamato MA, Caracciolo D, Tagliaferri P, et al. MALAT1: A druggable long non-coding RNA for targeted anti-cancer approaches. J Hematol Oncol 2018;11:63. Sun Q, Hao Q, Prasanth KV. Nuclear long noncoding RNAs: Key regulators of gene expression. Trends Genet 2018;34:142-57. Zhang X, Hamblin MH, Yin KJ. The long noncoding RNA malat1: Its physiological and pathophysiological functions. RNA Biol 2017;14:1705-14. Bamodu OA, Huang WC, Lee WH, Wu A, Wang LS, Hsiao M, et al. Aberrant KDM5B expression promotes aggressive breast cancer through MALAT1 overexpression and downregulation of hsa-miR-448. BMC Cancer 2016;16:160. Chen W, Xu XK, Li JL, Kong KK, Li H, Chen C, et al. MALAT1 is a prognostic factor in glioblastoma multiforme and induces chemoresistance to temozolomide through suppressing miR-203 and promoting thymidylate synthase expression. Oncotarget 2017;8:22783-99. Jadaliha M, Zong X, Malakar P, Ray T, Singh DK, Freier SM, et al. Functional and prognostic significance of long non-coding RNA MALAT1 as a metastasis driver in ER negative lymph node negative breast cancer. Oncotarget 2016;7:40418-36. Shi X, Liu Z, Liu Z, Feng X, Hua F, Hu X, et al. Long noncoding RNA PCAT6 functions as an oncogene by binding to EZH2 and suppressing LATS2 in non-small-cell lung cancer. EBioMedicine 2018;37:177-87. Chandra Gupta S, Nandan Tripathi Y. Potential of long non-coding RNAs in cancer patients: From biomarkers to therapeutic targets. 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Iron-heme-bach1 axis is involved in erythroblast adaptation to iron deficiency. Haematologica 2017;102:454-65. Alam J, Igarashi K, Immenschuh S, Shibahara S, Tyrrell RM. Regulation of heme oxygenase-1 gene transcription: Recent advances and highlights from the international conference (Uppsala, 2003) on heme oxygenase. Antioxid Redox Signal 2004;6:924-33. Liang Y, Wu H, Lei R, Chong RA, Wei Y, Lu X, et al. Transcriptional network analysis identifies BACH1 as a master regulator of breast cancer bone metastasis. J Biol Chem 2012;287:33533-44. Yun J, Frankenberger CA, Kuo WL, Boelens MC, Eves EM, Cheng N, et al. Signalling pathway for RKIP and let-7 regulates and predicts metastatic breast cancer. EMBO J 2011;30:4500-14. Dangi-Garimella S, Yun J, Eves EM, Newman M, Erkeland SJ, Hammond SM, et al. Raf kinase inhibitory protein suppresses a metastasis signalling cascade involving LIN28 and let-7. EMBO J 2009;28:347-58. 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__label__wiki	0.829793	0.829793	World Food Championships Lastly the Soling World Championships shall be held again within the Netherlands !!!! She made her pro wrestling debut in 1979 and through her profession held the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, the WWWA World Tag Crew Championships (with Yukari Ohmori), and the All Pacific Ladies’s Wrestling Championship. This was the yr when team Canada faced a dominating international hockey crew from the Soviet Union. Baseball’s reputation has declined steadily over… Men’s World Handball Championships Winners Since 1938. The history of the Guerrero Household is advanced, largely as a result of most contemporary wrestling followers consider it to be Eddie and a bunch of people who weren’t pretty much as good as Eddie. We need fixed action and stimulation, and baseball fails to deliver in that division. The common season lasts from early April to late September, followed by divisional and championship playoffs and the World Sequence through… Frank Gotch World Catch Championships In Humboldt, Iowa 2016! Within the final match of the World Championship in Tehran Tan Zhongyi defeated Anna Muzychuk on tie-break with 1,5 – zero,5. Fleming, the then junior skater who was thought-about by many as the one hope for U.S. women determine skating, rapidly rose to her personal legacy by profitable five U.S. titles and three world titles along with her decisive victory within the 1968 Winter Olympics. She has labored for Shimmer…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line449
__label__cc	0.538738	0.461262	welcome to boonachepresents boona presents > boona the artist boona the activist boona the writer boona's musings janny presents > janny's musings bcupo multi-media > boonachepresents on youtube boombin and lama vibrational freedom housing_is_a_human_right.pdf HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT PREVENTION IS A STRATEGY SAFE HABITAT A NECESSITY boona cheema Daniel Barth Dire Circumstances Homelessness is a humanitarian disaster. Residents of our communities. our neighbors, brothers and sisters, our seniors and our children are increasingly sleeping on the pavement, hidden under bushes, in our parks, in their cars, in doorways, under blankets and when lucky under the cover of a tent. These harsh living conditions lead to quick deterioration of physical health, exacerbate existing mental health crises, increase social isolation, create hunger, and encourage drug and alcohol use as self-medication. Many are already addicted to drugs or alcohol or both, are people living with HIV/AIDS, people preyed upon by predators, and/or victims of rape and forced prostitution. Children and youth are traumatized by this experience and our seniors are neglected. More and more people are leaving our prisons without an exit strategy for housing, while evictions of the economically poor are on the rise, increasing the number of people whose needs become more complex, within a system not prepared for the deluge. While progress has been made towards ending homelessness for our veteran population, nationwide we are experiencing even greater rationing of care, dedicating existing resources for those who are experiencing chronic homelessness with co-occurring illnesses, and/or poor health and persistent mental illness. Significant dollars have been targeted and complex systems designed to decide who qualifies for, and who is placed in, housing. This works for about 20 percent of the homeless population. We are dedicating few resources and minimal funds for prevention, in comparison to funds for building permanent housing. We are providing even less for the 80 percent who may “qualify” for services but are not prioritized for permanent housing. Everyone has a fundamental right to safe, decent affordable housing. People who live without this protection nonetheless have the right to respite and sleep, dignity of habitat, health care, meaningful work, further education, community, and freedom from criminalization for their homeless status. Quality of life for homeless people continues to suffer while resources are wasted on writing citations and tickets, encampment abatement. Tactics like these provide no progress towards ending homelessness. Negative health outcomes and mortality rates are highly correlated with homelessness. Until recently, Bay Area cities have doubled down on status quo actions by choosing to enact “quality-of-life” laws that restrict unsheltered people’s right to sleep, to sit, be sheltered from rain and cold, receive food, congregate, or hold onto possessions not on their person. Jurisdictions continue to expend significant resources on homeless camp abatement as their most immediately feasible remedy for short-term amelioration of business and community fears regarding encampments. Strategies for Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Homeless prevention programs still receive only about 10% of the total funds dedicated to homelessness. Prevention efforts have not slowed the increase in numbers of people who become homeless for the first time and are forced to live on the streets. Every East Bay resident is affected by the housing crisis and its effect in decreasing quality of life. Most unhoused people are displaced local residents, formerly incarcerated, and/or lack mental health treatment. In California, a 10% increase in rent correlates with 6.5% increase in homelessness. Citizens and jurisdictions must commit to improve the health and lives of people experiencing homelessness and help get unsheltered people off the streets, and give them access to health care and housing. The task is daunting, and the paucity of existing local resources does not meet the most basic of the emergent needs. Federal, state and local agencies must organize resources together. Policies that govern existing prevention services can allow for greater flexibility within multiple systems for cross-agency approaches, and addresses administrative barriers. Collaboration possibilities include agencies such as: Social Services Agency, Children and Family Services, Office of Education, First 5, Senior Services, Health Services, Public Health, Mental Health, Probation, Community Development, Consumer and Business Affairs. At the local level, a comprehensive strategy needs to effectively identify and asses households in danger of homelessness, and prevent the worst from happening, especially by diverting families in housing crises. Prevention resources should be prioritized for populations and individuals most vulnerable to evictions. Outreach workers should dedicate themselves to connecting vulnerable populations with legal assistance that can help prevent evictions. The stock of housing that has historically supported people who are housing-insecure, by providing rapid re-housing, is largely unavailable today. Affordable and stable housing support must also address people’s health and employment needs. Work support programs are disappearing. Greater income support and housing subsidies are needed for people without access to meaningful and stable employment at income levels sufficient to afford housing. People with serious health mental health conditions, youth aging out of foster care or juvenile justice systems, and adults with frequent contact with hospitals and criminal justice need access to service partnership providers in or near their housing. Solutions focused on prevention for all vulnerable populations must ensure that people are better connected to help before losing their housing. This includes effective prison and institutional discharge planning to prevent post-release homelessness. Focused on displacement, legal services seek to preserve safe and decent housing for low-income tenants and avert evictions, especially when tenants are forced to move due to landlord foreclosure or tenants face escalating rental costs. Preventing illegal evictions is far more effective and humane than reversing the personal and financial costs once people become homeless. People leaving foster care systems and juvenile probation, and formerly incarcerated individuals must be provided with resources and supportive services to ensure successful re-integration into their family and community of origin when possible. This may include re-integration with Section 8 families. Wraparound support, especially for former foster youth, needs to be provided to the individual for 6 months prior to discharge and to families after discharge, including access to community college or vocational training, access to public benefits, and supportive services for long-term self-sufficiency and homelessness prevention. Prevention is most effective when provided as housing subsidies. Indeed, most people who are homeless indicate the support they need to obtain permanent housing is assistance paying rent. Rapid Rehousing services are more available for the 20 percent who “qualify,: for non-chronically homeless single adults, and families. Rapid Rehousing strives to ensure that homelessness is a rare, brief and one-time experience. For people who live with serious mental illness, permanent supportive housing is most effective. Housing Court, a specialty court for matters involving residential housing, and similar legal interventions for tenancy preservation, offers mediation with landlords to prevent eviction. Similarly, Mental Health Court prevents people living with serious mental illness from cycling through jails and shelters. Interagency collaborations (local and/or state) can build community-wide approaches, enable funding, and host data sharing. Prevention activities are most effective when the intervention is well-targeted and delivered with efficiency. Communities most commonly focus on targeting interventions to promote rapid exit from shelters and supporting people with disabilities as they leave psychiatric or correctional institutions. Effective homeless prevention requires ongoing commitment by public agencies to these strategies, strong leadership and alliance-building, and adequate resources. Facing Reality While all of the above programs, policies and strategies will keep some people housed, many more will become homeless each year as long as the current economic forces promote gentrification and economic inequality. This forces us to a full discussion of creating alternative habitats/dwellings where people can live with dignity and support while they wait for placement in permanent housing which might be built in the next decade. Creating Safe Habitat Enabling Legislation. Several East Bay cities have access to funds provided by California statute, AB 932 "Shelter Crisis: Homeless Shelters". Low-cost, community-engaged solutions are challenging to implement but have proven to be cost-effective. Enabling legislation allows cities to fight the fight to bring immediate solutions into action. Short of permitting Safe Organized Sites (“SOS”) as described below, basic human rights of homeless people must be met by supporting access to hygiene facilities (bathrooms, wash stations, showers, laundry) and sanitation, adequate food and potable water, cooking facilities, access to medicine, access to additional safe places such as Warming Centers during inclement weather. To mitigate conditions of illness that are symptomatic of poverty and homelessness, unsheltered people require access to social workers, health workers, nurses and doctors, substance and mental health treatment, opportunities for education and employment. The right to shelter on demand, when pathways to more permanent housing are also available, shortens the duration that people must live outdoors. Safe Haven, Safe Park, Rest Area, Sanctuary Camp. Sanctioned camp models are located on publicly-controlled or private land (blighted commercial, nonprofit, faith-based) used by a group to manage a supported encampment with little or no jurisdictional involvement. Models range along a spectrum from charitable (help is handed from provider to client, with institutional funding required) to self-managed (rules created by residents, staff facilitate, public agencies deliver support, partnership with neighborhood). Most Bay Area examples lean heavily toward charitable models. Levels of permanence range from temporary (provides safe shelter until people are adequately housed; the current standard is 4 months to fills a gap in existing housing system). “Temporary” is a revolving door as only the luckiest get housed in 4 months in the current situation of less than 1 percent housing availability in the Bay Area. A Rest Area is distinct in accommodating a lower threshold of community engagement by a short-term camper. It is provided, sometimes at the front-end of a self-organized Sanctuary Camp, for a night’s respite and an opportunity to experience the camaraderie and sense of purpose that a Sanctuary Camp can provide, and offers a step-up to that commitment level. Iterations of San Francisco’s Navigation Center and Oakland’s Safe Haven do not use a self-organizing organizational structure. Instead, instead they offer safety for a time-limited basis in an externally-reinforced 24-hour staffed structure, operating under the obligation to provide intensified services to stabilize campers, connect to mainstream resources and County Coordinated Entry. They support housing “document readiness” to secure more permanent housing. These approaches are at least 7 times more expensive than self-organized versions. Self-Organized Camp. Self-organizing seeks to increase the degree of safety, support, stability, and predictability in a camp. Residents who self-organize are inherently seeking to prove that they are capable of conducting themselves as a community that can successfully interact with and integrate as neighbors in a larger community. Self-managed camps provide a more tangible sense of belonging, resident ownership of a safe place to call home, increased safety in the neighborhood surrounding the camp, purposeful and reciprocal roles and relationships. The model includes a well-established code of conduct (sobriety, safety/nonviolence, non-harassment, cooperation, participation). With an ethos of mutual support, participation evolves into expectations for voluntary contributions that formalize into operational duties, including for security. The organization is led by a horizontal leadership team for day-to-day decision-making, in between weekly camp meetings where everyone’s attendance and voice is required and due process is maintained. Transformative, Self-Evolving Village. These emerge along a continuum – from unsupported encampment to more permanent housing – as an organic response by unsheltered residents themselves, usually in partnership with community advocates and stakeholders. The effort organizes by itself or with nonprofit support, as it builds a model that demonstrates social, environmental, and economic sustainability as a low-impact, low-cost, collectively-driven initiative. In addition to small sleeping units and on-site shared amenities, educational and vocational activities may be located in the camp. Developing safe sites for sleeping outdoors is a public health requirement, even where it is not accepted as a public policy option. Providing for sleep is not a permanent solution to homelessness. But given the health and housing emergency, measures must be taken to secure safe spaces where safe and dignified sleep can occur. Any citizen possesses the sacrosanct right to self-determination and autonomy to determine what is appropriate for their circumstances. Time-limited interventions for safe sleeping violate this right. Self-governance upholds this right. Varying levels of peer and professional oversight can support locations where unsheltered people are not expressly ready for autonomous, self-organized, and participatory solutions.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line450
__label__wiki	0.540017	0.540017	Radio Nowhere: Does Cleveland need more sports talk? Posted by Doug at 10:38 PM 92.3 FM flipped the switch Monday morning from modern rock to sports talk in becoming Cleveland's only FM sports station. "Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan," owned and operated by CBS radio, offers a mix of North Coast-centric sports speak as well as NFL and college football play-by-play coverage. The new station will go up against WKNR, previously the market's only dedicated sport-talk source, while WTAM 1100 will remain the flagship home of the Browns, Cavs and Indians. 92.3 arrives with an eclectic if somewhat locally unknown lineup to battle WKNR's mix of local and national shows. For a city that loves its sports, you'd think breaking up WKNR's veritable monopoly would be a good thing. The question is, Does Cleveland really need an FM sports station? The answer would seem to be "Hell yes," as over the last few years WKNR has degenerated into an odd grab bag of local programming that doesn't know if its wants to entertain or inform. Labels: Browns, Cavs, Indians, Media Thome comes back to the Indians, but the sun is setting It's going to be a weird sight when Jim Thome steps back into the batters box at Jacobs--whoops, now Progressive--Field for the first time in almost a decade. #25 would have been on a statue and a banner in right field had Thome decided to stick to his word and not let his uniform be "ripped off his back" back in 2002. But he made his choices, and I'm sure, while he will get his cheers, there are a number of true-blue Indians fans who will find it very hard to root fully for Thome. Not to mention our very own Ryan. Jim Thome is no longer out of the box new. That being said, I don't know how to feel. The Thome defection was a true stomach punch. I had taken him at his word, and truly felt, like many Indians fans, that Thome was a true Tribe legend. The brass thought so too, as they never offered a statue to Dion James, after all. But I never bought into the pure hostileness that many fans did. I guess I saved that for TGiM. Regardless, this Indians season has turned into one of disbelief-slash-unbridled-joy into one of disbelief-slash-injuries-and-losing-streaks. The Indians have somehow gone from being 15 games over .500 in May to one game under, as of this morning. Ridiculous. Much of that has to do with injuries. Travis Hafner's first trip to the DL coincides almost directly with the losing ways, and between then there was Shin-Soo Choo, Grady Sizemore, Carlos Carrasco, and now Jason Kipnis. Among others. It's getting to be a joke. Labels: Indians Thome to the Tribe? You're kidding, right? Cleveland, how quickly we forget. Do we not remember what Carlos Boozer, I mean Art Modell, I mean Lebron James, I mean Jim Thome did to us? He told us he loved us, he said we were his rock (or maybe he said that about his wife), that we would have to "Rip the jersey off (his) back". Or grease it with a little cash, I guess. Jim Thome lied to us. DO WE NOT REMEMBER?! Would any of you take Lebron James back? Jim Thome did the same thing! (Minus that little TV show on ESPN) You always knew Lebron might jump ship, he wanted/wants to be a global icon and he never gave a damn about Cleveland, and never really even pretended to. "The Thomenator" flat out told us he wouldn't leave, said it wasn't about the money, and then left for the biggest pot of gold he could find. I'm told time heals all wounds, well...not for this guy. I don't fault Manny for leaving. Or Albert Belle. Or even Cliff Lee. (Yes, I know he was traded--but he was going to be leaving), I would even have taken them back on the Tribe. They never lied to me. They never pretended to be something they weren't. They never pretended to love me. So if the Tribe does add Thome you won't see me cheering about it. I would much rather win with guys I can respect. I am now reading rumors on Twitter how he might veto a trade to the Tribe because he wants to go to Philly. That's funny. And not the least bit surprising. As the earth shook, Shin-Soo Choo still crushed As the earthquake, centered in Virginia, made its way across the country, sending people out of buildings and walking confusedly in the streets, the Indians were playing the Seattle Mariners in Cleveland. And at 1:51 PM, in the bottom of the third inning, the earthquake started shaking the stadium all the way in Ohio during Shin-Soo Choo's at bat. I took a rough video of what was going on--you can see the center field camera start to shake after the 2-1 pitch. Then Choo hammers a foul into the third base seats, and it really starts shaking, and Tom Hamilton comments on it from the press box. Presumably, as he showed in the ninth inning, Choo don't have time to mess around! He's got a one-day-old daughter at home and ignored the earthquake, raking a double to the wall in right center. Later, in the ninth inning, his eagerness to visit his family had him hammer the first pitch he saw for a three-run home run into the bleachers, giving the Indians the win after blowing it in the top of the ninth. Indians are now 1-0 with a little rumbling during their games. Hopefully the Angels and Giants line up as opponents should the Indians right their ship and end up in the playoffs. Because they will be right at home with a little swaying. Joe Thomas gets his I hadn't remembered that Joe Thomas announced, when he was drafted, that his "primary goal" was to make it to the football Hall of fame**. If I had, I don't think I'd have liked it. Sure, it's not like he said he was "on the hunt to get this money YA DIGG!!" as Phil Taylor so eloquently put it in April. But still, seems unlike Joe Thomas to put himself first like that--not wanting a Super Bowl Ring more than anything--wanting a yellow jacket. Now that he plays here, it seems ludicrous to think that he could have said that. And Browns fans get their man / Joshua Gunter/PD What I do remember is a guy who would rather be out fishing with his dad than in the lights of Manhattan when his name was called. And I remembered thinking, that's gonna fit right in, in Cleveland. Sure enough, four standout, Pro Bowl, never-missed-a-game seasons later, he is the perfect fit. And he could have walked after next year, looking for greener pastures. (Figuratively in two senses--wins and dollars.) But it turns out he never wanted to. Even though he must have been hankerin' for a new contract, he never peeped to the press about it. He never took to Twitter to complain about the front office. He never pointed out that he could never commit to an organization that couldn't keep a coach more than two years. He did (apparently) make his case quietly and effectively, for a raise. And the Browns gave it to him. Labels: Browns In tough loss, Perez owns it Twitter is a strange animal at times. Perez was bad tonight and he knows it. Before I grudgingly signed up for the crazy-popular social media service I found it to be a bastion for spelling-challenged navel gazers who gleefully mix stupid hash tags with ass-hatted non-sequiturs. Now that I'm part of the six-zillion person Twitter revolution, I still find the service to be all those things as well as an undoubtedly addicting news-and amusing bullshit-gathering tool. On rare occasions Twitter can even offer insight into someone's character. Consider the Tribe's gut-wrenching loss tonight to the lowly Mariners, a game Cleveland desperately needed to stay within hailing distance of division leading Detroit. Fiery closer Chris Perez came in during his most important outing of the season and essentially does the pitching version of a comic pratfall. Two hit batsmen in a row - a feat I have never seen in two-plus decades of watching the sport - and an error and just like that the Indians are 5.5 games out of first with the Tigers beating Tampa Bay. What does Perez do after this debacle? In this weird new world of oversharing where social media can make people's lives a human peepshow, Perez (@ChrisPerez54) sent this tweet out into the electronic stratosphere: "Positives from that outing: no balks, everything else I did sucked." Perez's message came maybe 30 minutes after the game was over. It's rare for anyone, much less a pro athlete, to own catastrophic failure. The Tribe closer's candor is refreshing, even if it's cold comfort as the 2011 Indians season slips slowly into oblivion. It's just hard to be mad at a guy who unabashedly admits to screwing the proverbial pooch at the worst possible moment. 15 groundouts and Fausto was a beautiful sight tonight And I get to catch up on some much needed sleep. No foul ball drama tonight, nor drama of any kind. Fausto was brilliant, making the White Sox pound the ball into the ground time after time. Slipped through our fingers Posted by Brian at 9:57 AM Early this morning, somewhere after 12:10/1:10 in the morning, in the top of the 14th inning, Travis Hafner fouled a 3-1 pitch high and back. It started off a bit more toward third, but then curved back toward home, directly toward where I was sitting in the first row of the 500-level. I reached over and down, mindful of the 12-inch fence that would hardly have kept my 6-3” self from plummeting to a painful end. But the ball hit the cement facing, skimming my fingertips. Rick Manning commented on STO that it bounded to the lower deck, landing in a long-abandoned (but not fully finished) cup of beer. DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune What a waste. Of beer. Of my closest chance ever, through hundreds of baseball games, of catching a foul ball. (Some doofus in the lower deck caught his second of the game shortly after my near miss.) And of course, for the Indians, whose impotence at the plate when it counted late in the game cost a game in the standings looking up and back. It probably never should have gone that far. The Tribe looked hapless early, and the White Sox were smacking the ball around off Ubaldo Jimenez and nearly anybody who followed him. But the Sox could never capitalize as much as they should have, and their pitchers proved unable to hit the strike zone. Plus a couple costly mishaps ("Boot it Like Beckham"--classic) let the Tribe back in it. But as great (interesting?) a comeback it was in regulation, the extra innings were just as frustrating. Bases loaded, men on third, no matter what, the Indians couldn’t bring a runner across the plate when it counted. Sure, the crowd was getting drowsy, but don't they brew extra strong coffee in MLB clubhouses? This is a game that the Indians had to win. It was right there for them to snatch away, and they couldn't come through. Hitting medium-deep fly balls with men on third base should be on the practice agenda today. Whenever the Indians wake up. Me, for one, I’m grabbing another cup of coffee. Interesting side note: sure, this was the Sox game (on the south side), and it was northbound train after the game, but the Red Line at 1AM was about 55% Indians fans, 35% White Sox fans, and 10% high-as-hell Phish fans who were coming from the show. I'm not sure what to think of this picture AP Photo/Amy Sancetta Sure, it's nice to see Jim Tressel up and about. I've never been one of the staunch defenders of Coach Tressel; something always stuck at me, maybe it's the battered-wife-syndrome of being a Cleveland fan, but so much of Tressel's empty quotes struck me as utter bullcrap. Never did I think he was a rulebreaker though. I just didn't think he was ever candid. And that, at the end, is what finished him as a big-time college coach. He definitely broke the rules, and the rule here was to be candid and report everything you know, as is clearly written in the rules and your signed contracts and agreeements. That being said, Jim Tressel visited the Browns' camp today. I've long wondered if Jim Tressel would be an interesting pro coach. I'm not sure his style would translate cleanly to the pro game, but I'm willing to bet he can wring the best out of an undertalented but highly devoted group of players. That kind of coaching would never work in the NBA (because those players don't exist), but football players, who are often very aware of their longevity, may have eaten it up. What I don't understand is--palling around with Lloyd Carr? Speaking of beaten-wife-syndrome... Labels: Browns, Ohio State Jim Thome, Indians fans, and hoping for a clean 600 Congratulations, Jim Thome. That's the sentiment tonight from the baseball world, as Jim Thome finally hit his 600th home run, only one at bat after hitting his 599th. Fortunately, it came against the Tigers, and in a Twins win. So unless the Twins make a miraculous turnaround and overtake three teams in the division, Thome's home runs and anything else he contributes to the Twins have twice as much chance to help the Indians than to hurt them for the rest of the year. Thome hits his 600th. Getty Images I, for one, wouldn't mind him hitting a few more versus the Tigers this week. The fawning of most commentators for Jim Thome is the kind of manual pleasure usually reserved for the likes of Yankees or Orioles shortstops. Terms like "blue collar worker", "great teammate", "cares about people", "best guy you're ever going to meet", "as genuine as they come," are all commonly heard in the effusive praise. But not from everyone. Certainly some Clevelanders will never forgive Jimmy for how he left the Indians after the 2002 season. One particular rarely-seen contributor to this blog, I'm pretty sure, ranks Thome's defection only under Modell's and LeBron's in the Cleveland Hall of Free Agent Infamy, and above Carlos Boozer, Albert Belle, and miles above Manny Ramirez. I gotta say, I was convinced Jim would sign with the Indians. I remember arguing the point in the Muni Lot before that week's Browns game, thinking there's no way, with what the Indians were offering (a statue in right field??), the adoration of the Indians, and his obvious affinity for Jacobs Field (I was there when he put that one 460 feet or whatever, which might be the longest home run in Jacobs Field history.) (Some would disagree.) But mostly, his words about his love for the Indians were what convinced me he would stay. How firm thy friendship, indeed. Now if only Republicans and Democrats could remember we're all Americans, like Browns and Packers remember that they are still Buckeyes... AJ Hawk, Ryan Pickett, Brian Robiskie, and Brandon Saine represent after the Browns preseason victory over the Packers on Friday night. Quiet offseason a risky business for Browns' front office Posted by Doug at 8:00 AM Heckert, Shurmur and Holmgren...Cleveland's new hope. The Browns' workmanlike performance during the first quarter Saturday night was nice to see, even if the preseason is a dull and virtually meaningless exercise that the NFL has the gall to charge good money for. But if you were looking for progress I guess we saw some in the small sample size of a couple of possessions. The offense, led by Colt McCoy and his much-maligned receiving corps, looked crisp in scoring two touchdowns, albeit against a vanilla Packers' defense without the services of cornerback Charles Woodson. The Browns' defensive first-team, meanwhile, forced a punt on one possession and got burned by Aaron Rodgers on another. There were unsurprisingly no clear answers to be gleaned from this first bit of post-lockout competitive football. It was fun seeing the guys on the field again. Even the predictable tedium of the preseason has a certain feeling of well-worn comfort to it. After all, people don't watch practice games to get stressed out. We save our sweaty palms and rapid heartbeats for the regular season, and hopefully for heights far beyond anything this town has seen since about 1989. What is Ubaldo wearing on his head and how do I get one? As Ubaldo deals with the 'pressure' of his first home start, all I have to ask is--what is on his hat? Hope the adoring fans and gorgeous ballpark help him deal with it! UPDATE: The lack of sleep has gone to my brain, and apparently to my eyesight. Those are sunglasses, which now I can see clear as day. What a stupid post. My fault. From mlb.com homepage Here's a link to the accompanying article by Anthony Castrovince (@castrovince), including some interesting chatter on whether Ubaldo's presence could be a spark for Fausto Carmona. Bleary eyes, sore elbows, can't lose for the Indians this morning Thomas Ondrey/ Plain Dealer What a morning. What an evening? I don't even know, because waking up this morning after about 4.5 hours sleep was pretty tough. I actually had a dream in which I thought that I had dreamed that the Indians won, since I almost went to bed after the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth inning. But no, this is real life. But I didn't go to sleep. Like many of the Indians faithful in the seats and on their couches (and on Twitter, it seems), I stayed up and watched the Indians pull off the antithesis of an exciting walkoff, scoring on a Fukudome bases-loaded hit-by-pitch. in the bottom of the fourteenth inning. Whatever! Looked like it hurt for sure, and even though Kosuke had done nothing but strike out four times before the fourteenth, the last thing the Tribe needs is another subtraction from their income. Either way, Tuesday and Wednesday were going to be big games because of the daunting prospect of Justin Verlander on Thursday. The rain delay took our ace Masterson out of the game, but the Bullpen Mafia lived up to their name, pitching an amazing twelve scoreless innings. Even though a few hits were scattered throughout, there was no serious Detroit threat to score. What I won't dwell on is the botched suicide squeeze in the eighth inning. All I'll say is that if it had worked--and it easily could have--Manny Acta would have been seen as ballsy and smart. So with the Indians' bats virtually silent for six innings, let's not criticize him trying to manufacture a run. Time for another cup of coffee. If someone in my office left an empty pot there will be hell to pay. What if last week was a bad dream? What if dreams where something is just out of reach are worse than total nightmares? What if the Indians had won six or seven of the games where they were tied or ahead in the eighth or ninth inning? What if their August Monday off sets them in the right direction? What if they realize that neither the Tigers nor the White Sox are a team to fear? What if the Indians could put it together over the next two months of almost solid AL Central games? What if twenty-two games versus Detroit and Chicago are plenty to make a statement? What if I mean that those twenty-two games are a fine way to make a GOOD statement? What if the Indians do what they should and dominate the lesser teams still remaining on their schedule? What if Ubaldo Jiminez continues to hit 97-98 MPG and his spots? What if it's not 150 degrees every time he pitches? What if Justin Masterson and Josh Tomlin are the real Tribe studs for the next two three months? What if Carlos Carrasco is on the DL under false pretenses? What if he comes back in a bullpen role to make the team even stronger? What if Shin Soo Choo's reengineered thumb makes him stronger? What if we have to start calling him a "six-tool" player because of that thumb? What if our bullpen cosa nostra figures out that they are made men, and play like it? What if they let morons on Twitter just go unanswered? What if the two rookies in the lineup keep getting better? What if "We are all Kipnesses" becomes a trendy slogan? What if Fukudome is indeed getting comfortable in a new league? What if the Indians can just put it together again, at a level even close to the beginning of the season? A huge stretch of games starts tonight versus the Tigers. But it's not just three games this week that are "make or break." It's not far from that--being down four games is a lot better than being down eight games come Friday morning. Being down two is even better. But the Tribe plays the AL Central so much in the next month that a sweep either way vs. Detroit wouldn't be the end of the world--or a cause for Champagne. What if this Indians season didn't resemble the stock market? What if investors and Tribe fans didn't need a cabinet full of Pepto Bismol? Because it's Cleveland and there's no other way. Curious start to the trip for the Indians. Plus Kenny Powers and Ubaldo. This week opened unusually for the Indians. Obviously an important road trip was starting, with visits to first place Boston and Arlington. The Indians had looked like a joke for a number of weeks, with the third worst record in the American League over that time. A feeling of "here we go again" was rampant for Tribe fans. For every thrilling walk-off win, there were a couple games of Indians hitters looking like they were straight out of double-A. Jim Rogash/ Getty Images So what the the team do? At the trade deadline, they made a huge wager on the future of Ubaldo Jiminez, and that did send a bit of excitement through the team, although didn't seem to solve the Indians biggest problem areas. But Ubaldo isn't pitching until tonight, and the Tribe had four games versus the bloody hose to worry about first. Ohio State players sport silly bands This story had escaped my attention until just now but seems like a few Buckeye football players (freshman, it seems) were wearing "JT" wristbands to support departed coach Jim Tressel. Then today Ohio State University made them stop wearing them, and reimbursed them the money they apparently paid a staffer for them. A couple things: -This loyalty is understandable, as Tressel (and his staff) recruited these players, sometimes for years -These kids (hopefully) don't understand that wearing something like that pokes a finger into the eye of the university and NCAA in some sort of misguided show of support for a discredited coach who will never coach at a high level again -But it's no big deal. It's not a huge poke in the eye--it's basically on the same level as Terrelle Pryor wearing eye black supporting Michael Vick. Distasteful maybe, unwise certainly, important not at all. Labels: Ohio State Stephen Colbert taking over @MLB Twitter feed now... Stephen Colbert has wrested control of the MLB Twitter Feed for today, until midnight on Friday. Not sure if this gives him ability to sneak a hitter through waivers for the Indians. 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__label__wiki	0.506874	0.506874	next Scientism character > < previous Scientism character The Religious Affiliation of Monica Rappaccini Religion: Scientism Name: Monica Rappaccini Other Names: Monica Rappacini Classification: villain scientist First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy (vol. 2) #7 (June 2005): "Worst. Homecoming. Ever." Creators: Fred Van Lente, Leonard Kirk, Jonathan Glapion, Kevin Conrad Super? (Has Super Powers/Special Abilities/Technology): Yes Number of Appearances: 17 Teams/Affiliations: A.I.M. Enemy of: The Hulk, Scorpion Ally: Scorpion (Carmilla Black) Employer: Black Orchestra Ally: Bruce Banner Occupation: chemist, criminal Nation: Italy Note: mother of Scorpion (Carmilla Black) After graduating with a PhD in chemistry from the University of Padua, Rappaccini became a radical. She became affiliated with a shadowy organization known as Black Orchestra, for which she developed poisons. This character is in the following 8 stories which have been indexed by this website: Amazing Fantasy (vol. 2) #7 (June 2005): "Worst. Homecoming. Ever." Amazing Fantasy (vol. 2) #11 (Nov. 2005): "Poison Tomorrow, Chapter Five: Wakers" Captain Universe / Hulk #1 (Jan. 2006): "Secrets and Origins" Hulk Family: Green Genes #1 (Feb. 2009): "Hulk Family Tree" Ms. Marvel (vol. 2) #40 (Aug. 2009) Ms. Marvel (vol. 2) #41 (Sep. 2009) (5-panel cameo) Ms. Marvel (vol. 2) #42 (Sep. 2009): "War of the Marvels, Chapter One: First Engagement" (mentioned) Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 #1 (Sep. 2007): "Mistaken for Happiness" Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation: - http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Monica_Rappaccini_(Earth-616) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Rappaccini - http://www.comicvine.com/monica-rappaccini/29-41566/ - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/raorau.htm - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/ahai.htm - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/black0nv.htm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line456
__label__cc	0.507361	0.492639	Modern Box Revels, 1984 - 1994 Alan Payne Photos courtesy Box villagers Box Revels was revived in 1984 to fundraise for Box Primary School. It was part of an initiative to raise £13,000 to modernise the old Victorian school. It was an immediate success and appealed to children and adults who were young at heart. Revolting villagers in 1989 French anniversary The first year had a Medieval Revels theme and was held in a packed Market Place. It featured Lady Godiva chaperoned by Bill Peters in a splendid horse carriage; Box Rovers put on a medieval handball display because there was no room for football; and Margaret Woodland brought Hoggy the hedgehog and Sixpence the hen to delight children. The event raised £2,500 and showed off the community of Box, so it was decided to repeat the event. The first two years were held in the Market Place. It was an easy place to set up but became so full with visitors that it became impossible to see the events. Perhaps not The Greatest Show on Earth but it certainly was immensely popular and by year 3 the event moved to Box Rec, at first just the upper field and later taking over the football pitch too.. Did You Really Look Like THAT? Dressing up became an instant success. In 1985 the village celebrated 150 years since the start of work on Box Tunnel. The event stretched out throughout the village with a ghost-sit for two brave souls in the Blind House and Box schoolchildren performing maypole dancing in the Market Place carpark. This was the first year of a Saturday night banquet which had a Victorian Music Hall theme, featuring a striptease rendition of Jerusalem. And the Revels helped to pay off the loan raised for the school rebuilding. The banquet allowed people to demonstrate attributes. Above left, back to basics in the Wild West of 1992 and above right cheerleaders show off their pompoms Parades of adults and children featured regularly. Above left strong girls and above right the infamous cowpie parade. Who Do You Think You Were? Many famous celebrities have graced the Revels with their presence over the years. Many were look-alikees but there were some real ones, including John Blashford-Snell at the Jungle Revels at Stonar School, John Hartog director of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School presented plays on Sunday nights every year from 1988 to 1993, Phillippe Roy put on a banquet at Box House, and the Wimereux Hotair Balloon group flew over to sing three renditions of La Marseillaise in banquet of 1989. Dr Livingstone in 1988 Dr Burke and Miss Hair didn't amuse Queen Victoria in the Victorian Revels of 1985. There was quite a lot of jolly hockey sticks and misbehaviour in the 1993 Dennis the Menace Revels. Orgies, the Way We Partied Then In case our children and grandchildren think they invented bad behaviour, here is the proof that Bacchanalian excesses existed a generation ago. The glory that was Box and probably led to the fall of the Roman Empire in 1987. Distinguished Visitors A number of celebrities have graced the events with their presence, including Gus the Gorilla, a number of budding Picassos (I wonder if that's Tracey Emin?) and quite a lot of the French nation having another go at Conquest in 1989. And, of course, there were many important organisers, helpers and workers who laboured so hard to make the events successful. The World Dropped in Too We got front page promotion in the local press, thanks mostly to Trevor Porter (seen in brown leather jacket below). In fact, in 1989 we hit the regional press when the famous cartoonist Jack Pennington illustrated the Revels and brought us to wider recognition. Marcus Pennington Added Dad used to live at the top of Box Hill, in No-Notion Lane, and went to Box School during WWII. Sadly he died in May 2006. Marcus and his twin brother Darren are continuing their father's design and cartoon work and you can see some of their wonderfully funny and slightly anarchaic designs at http://www.penningtondesign.co.uk/pages/cartoon-gallery.html Extracts courtesy Western Daily Press and Pennington family Above all, Box Revels has put on family fun for all generations, particularly focussing on children. After ten years the event had taken on a life of its own with Banquet on Saturday night, tea and village walk on Sunday afternoon, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School play on Sunday evening, children's fun run on Monday morning, Revels Fair on Monday afternoon and Teenage Disco on Sunday evening. But Mis-Behaviour at the Banquet The outcome of a boys knobbly-knees competition brought out the very worst behaviour from our parish elders and responsible adults. Ah, those were the days!! The original line-up ... ... until the ladies got involved ... ... bringing out the worst in mankind ... ... a lot of agony ... ... and eventually taking over. Where Have They Gone? Well, of course these times were a generation ago when we were all much younger. But the memories burn very brightly of the people of Box enjoying themselves as a community and raising money for local causes. May the Revels long continue ! Medieval Revels Victorian Revels Box-on-Sea Revels Roman Revels Jungle Revels French Revels-ution Sports Revels King Arthur's Revels USA Revels Dennis the Menace Revels Channel Tunnel Revels Box Rec Selwyn Hall Stonar School Bristol Old Vic Plays The Beggar's Opera The Recruiting Officer We would love to hear from you if you have any memories or photos of the Revels, especially the years that you recall best. And we welcome any comments from children and grandchildren who are shocked and amazed at the behaviour of their relatives !!! 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__label__wiki	0.850289	0.850289	Browse: Home / 2010 / December / The Glamorous Life The Glamorous Life By jenjo on December 1, 2010 Michael Osborn & the Drivers Checkerboard Records -2010 Bravo to Michael Osborn & The Drivers on delivering the goods in a big way! The Cascade Blues Association Michael Osborn was John Lee Hooker’s guitarist for 13 years (I do remember seeing him with The Boogie Man at London’s Hammersmith Odeon) and he has a respectable discography himself, with three albums for Blue Rock’It between 1988 and 1996, and now releases on his own Checkerboard label. It certainly shows on this release, which is definitely modern blues but without any of the vacant posturing that term sometimes implies. He began his blues career working with the Ford Brothers and in 1970 was a founding member of the famed Charles Ford Band (who recorded for Arhoolie). That he has got the chops is in no doubt from this straightforward blues set. There are echoes of Hooker’s spikey guitar style (most notably on ‘Needles And Pins’), but for the most part the playing recalls the likes of BB King and Alberts King and Collins, though usually with a little more down-home ambience, thanks to the stripped-down accompaniment of just bass, drums and harp. Lead vocals are shared between Dave Jackson on four songs, KG Jackson on three numbers, and Michael himself on just one, and the occasional use of harmonised lead vocals adds a fine individual sound. Most of the songs are originals but there are a couple of nice surprises. Whilst the opener is best-known from The Fabulous Thunderbirds and is a fine, slightly New Orleans-ish rocking piece, ‘Lollipop Mama’ is an excellent cover of Clarence Samuels’ 1947 Aristocrat recording. I enjoyed this CD a lot – it is pleasing and unpretentious. Mike recalls in his notes that Hooker told him: “You can play a lot of notes and think you’re dazzling them… give them melody and feeling…” On this evidence Mike took note. Norman Darwen, Blues and Rhythm Magazine, UK Boy, this CD was a long time in coming. After Michael Osborn put together The Drivers more than a year ago with such a talented line-up, I was heavy in anticipation awaiting the release of new material. Well, I have to say the wait was well worth it. Osborn’s third disc on his own Checkerboard label, The Glamorous Life proves that the band’s name is aptly titled. Because this album just drives the blues home. The Drivers of course are made up of Osborn’s searing guitar work, local harp great Dave Mathis doing his usual blowing the tin off the instrument, K.G. Jackson handling bass superbly and John Moore hitting the skins with the perfect rhythm. Michael, K.G. and Dave alternate between one another on vocals. It’s a traditional blues gem, as they work from covers to originals, all with equal attention that rings true every time. K.G. Jackson has long been an overlooked talent in the Northwest. We’ve seen him front bands of his own in the past, most often playing guitar. But he relents the guitar duties to Michael, rightly so considering Osborn’s past work with such people as Charlie Musselwhite, Sista Monica, The Ford Blues Band and more than a decade leading one John Lee Hooker’s band. But Jackson is more than capable at bass and what’s even more his forte, he’s a great songwriter, contributing three tracks to the album. The only other original being Osborn’s title track. The CD opens with a very nice cover of the song “Why Get Up,” best known for The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ take and this new version holds up well compared to theirs. Also familiar tunes include “Lollipop Mama,” a staple of William Clarke’s songbook that has become an outstanding piece yet again in the hands of Dave Mathis, and the Jimmy Reed classic “Bright Lights, Big City” with the unmistakable harmonica riff handled nicely by Mathis while Osborn provides some tasty guitar additions. The Glamorous Life is a very satisfying CD, with only one problem I can note. At just under 31 minutes in length, it leaves you wishing for more. But what a fantastic 31 minutes it is. Bravo to Michael Osborn & The Drivers on delivering the goods in a big way! Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association, Portland, OR My secret weight loss program? “Sleep Your Weight Away.” It is based on the fact that even a sleeping person is burning calories, and, most importantly, one is not eating while asleep. Feeling hungry? Take a nap instead of having a snack! “I went to the doctor he said lose some weight / And, if you don’t do it quick we got to operate …. Why Get Up?,” sings Dave Mathis, harmonicist and vocalist for Michael Osborn and the Drivers on Osborn’s latest CD. In the opening track, Mathis makes a convincing case for just sleeping the troubles away as he nails the vocals on this cover of the memorable Fabulous Thunderbirds song, written by Bill Carter and wife Ruth Ellsworth. Mathis, in addition to listing six more reasons to just stay in bed, adds a killer harmonica solo at mid song just after Osborn’s tasty guitar-break licks. And, thus, we have the beginning of another standout set of Blues from Michael Osborn and crew. Thirty minutes is way too short for this CD, but I love the stripped down, real-deal approach of this veteran Bluesman’s quartet: guitar, bass, harp, drums — and no horns! Osborn’s guitar playing is a real highlight. With pleasing tone, he is tasteful in his note spacing, stretching, fills, and runs. Anything but over the top, he is, thankfully, not a string shredder. Osborn’s sixth release is purist pleasing electric Blues across four originals and three covers. My favorite original, “Needles and Pins,” is written by bassist and vocalist K.G. Jackson. This mid-tempo shuffle opens with ear catching single notes from Osborn’s guitar. The rhythm joins, founded by John Moore’s pocket drumming, and then three part harmony vocals cement this song enjoyable and memorable. Melody is what makes this song joyously swing, a trait of the classics one remembers most. I also liked Osborn’s multi-tracked rhythm guitar alongside his lead guitar punctuations at the end of each vocal line. “The Glamorous Life” is a humorous shuffle giving us our first listen to Osborn’s serviceable vocals. After listing a litany of road woes for a touring musician, Osborn sardonically sings, but “…it’s the glamorous life.” This song was also included in Osborn’s previous release, 2008’s “What Goes Around.” Michael Osborn is well known and respected, especially in his home, the West Coast. Michael grew up in Ukiah CA with the Ford brothers, including the great Robben Ford. In 1970, he was one of the founding members of the Charles Ford Band. In 1981, Michael became the lead guitarist and band leader for Blues legend John Lee Hooker. For the next 13 years, Michael toured the world with John Lee. Since then, Osborn has played with Sista Monica, toured Europe with his own band, recorded three CDs on the Blue Rock’it label and three more on his own Checkerboard label. For seven years he’s been an outstanding contribution to Bill Rhoades and the Party Kings in his current home near Portland OR. These four cats are just killer: three part harmonies plus all but Moore take a turn at lead vocals, Mathis deft on diatonic and chromatic harps, Jackson writing in classic style, Osborn playing ripping guitar (even channeling Albert King at one point), and John Moore’s veteran stick work being the band’s heartbeat. Electric Blues fans – this one is a delight! James “Skyy Dobro” Walker, Blues Blast, IL Bright juicy album by blues singer and guitar player Michael Osborn and The Drivers. Michael’s first album is a collaboration of four high class musicians, intense, passionate, colorful and in love with the most classic genuine blues, who are Dave Mathis on vocals and harmonica, KG Jackson on bass and vocals and John Moore on drums. Three excellent singers who take leading turns along the album, as they are gifted with a great powerful voice which make them shine like twinkling stars. But as instrumentalist they are also impressive and all them have a fine tasteful technique, which makes them give a personal intense feeling to all songs included. The four musicians have individually won some Cascade Blues Association Muddy Awards in different categories. Michael was also the right hand of the great John Lee Hooker and the rest of musicians were also members of the bands of artists like Albert Collins, William Clarke, Willie Dixon and Robben Ford, among others. Welcome to this big blues party where these musicians are the best possible hosts and actors. GREAT. Vincente Zumel,” La Hora del Blues”, Barcelona, Spain Posted in CD Review, News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line465
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As the true giants of popular music continue to age, their passings are only going to accelerate over the coming years, but it still feels like 2016 has been inordinately unfair when it comes to the artists we’ve lost this year. To think that it isn’t going to get any easier in the coming years is almost too much to bear. I was fortunate to see Stanley perform as part of the Down from the Mountain tour in support of the runaway success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. I’ll admit that, for me, the highlight of the show was Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, and Patty Loveless performing “Nobody But the Baby” followed by Loveless’ jaw-dropping delivery of “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive,” but that’s a story for a different post. What I remember about Stanley’s performance of his Grammy-winning “O Death” was how tiny he looked on stage… And how a crowd of more than 10,000 fell completely silent with the first syllable he sang in that not-of-this-Earth voice of his. However great he may have sounded on record, in a live setting, Stanley’s voice could insinuate into your marrow. Elsewhere this week, we’re playing catch-up from taking off for last Sunday’s holiday. There are a ton of new releases worth checking out– up-and-comers Luke Bell and Jon Pardi have drawn notices from the traditionalist-leaning crowds, while Elizabeth Cook, Sarah Jarosz, and case/lang/veirs all take a progressive approach to the genre– and country radio continues to be kind-of depressing, despite some encouraging inroads by Pardi and Eric Church. There are must-read interviews with Keith Urban, Neko Case, and Vince Gill, and new music from Sara Watkins and LeAnn Rimes, among others. New Releases & Reissues, 6/17/2016 Luke Bell, Luke Bell. (Thirty Tigers) Jake Bugg, On My One. (Island) case/lang/veirs, case/lang/veirs. (ANTI / Epitaph) Elizabeth Cook, Exodus of Venus. (Agent Love / Thirty Tigers) Anthony D’Amato, Cold Snap. (New West) Sarah Jarosz, Undercurrents. (Sugar Hill) Irene Kelley, These Hills. (Mountain Fever) Kris Kristofferson, The Cedar Creek Sessions. (Legacy) LoCash, The Fighters. (Reviver) Michael McDermott, Willow Springs. (Pauper Sky) Mumford & Sons, Johannesburg EP. (Glassnote) Jon Pardi, California Sunrise. (Capitol Nashville) The Avett Brothers, True Sadness. (American / Republic) Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley, Just Good Ol’ Boys (1979), Hey Joe! Hey Moe! (1981), The Ultimate Moe & Joe. (Columbia / Legacy) Brand 307, Brand 307. (self-released) Sam Bush, Storyman. (Sugar Hill) Jerry Castle, Not So Soft Landing. (My World) John Denver, John Denver’s Greatest Hits Volume 2. (Friday Music) The Felice Brothers, Life in the Dark. (Yep Roc) Jake Worthington, Jake Worthington EP. (W3) Charted Territory Billboard Country National Airplay: #1: Luke Bryan, “Huntin’, Fishin’, & Lovin’ Every Day” Most Increased Audience: Jason Aldean, “Lights Come On” Debuts: Thomas Rhett, “Vacation” (#45), Runaway June, “Lipstick” (re-entry, #55) Most Added: Blake Shelton, “She’s Got a Way with Words” (38); Dierks Bentley f Elle King, “Different for Girls” (27); Thomas Rhett, “Vacation” (22); Brandy Clark, “Girl Next Door” (17); Maddie & Tae, “Sierra” (15) Notes: Clark’s “Girl Next Door” continues to hover right at the cusp of the top 40, moving back up from #41 to #40 in its 19th chart week; Cam’s “Mayday” looks to be finished off a #36 peak, as the song lost a not insubstantial chunk of its audience for the third straight week; Jon Pardi continues to inch toward the top 10 with “Head Over Boots,” which moves from #12 to #11; Eric Church’s “Record Year,” arguably the best single currently at radio, stays just ahead of Pardi, cracking the top 10 after 20 weeks. Elsewhere on Billboard‘s radio charts: Both Tim McGraw and Trisha Yearwood rebound on the Adult Contemporary chart, as McGraw moves from #21 to #19 and Yearwood re-gains her bullet at #24; The Avett Brothers score a #1 hit at AAA radio with “Ain’t No Man,” while the Lumineers’ “Ophelia” and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats’ “I Need Never Grow Old” hold steady at #4 and #5 on that chart; The Lumineers’ hit spends its 4th straight week at #1 at Modern Rock radio; Hillary Scott & The Scott Family’s “Thy Will” is the most added single at Christian AC. “Singing was as natural as breathing for Ralph Edmund Stanley, who was born Feb. 25, 1927, on Big Spraddle Creek in Dickenson County, Virginia. His first public performance was in church, and when he was 11 years old, his mother said he could either have a pig or a banjo. Luckily for music fans everywhere, he chose the latter. His style of banjo picking — which, like the man himself, had no frills — would go on to influence countless musicians.” — Juli Thanki of The Tennessean wrote with her usual insight and eloquence about the passing of “Doctor” Ralph Stanley. (LMW) “This is Ms. Musgraves’s rebellion: polite, knowing, exuding a we’ve-all-been-there embrace. As country’s mainstream has become more distanced from its heritage, Ms. Musgraves has somehow become both the keeper of the genre’s old rules and also its leading internal dissenter.” — The New York Times‘ Jon Caramanica considered the differing positions occupied by Kacey Musgraves and The Dixie Chicks at their current points in their respective careers in “Two Sides of Country Rebels.” (TS) Maddie & Tae gave a heartfelt performance of their song “After the Storm Blows Through,” one of the highlights of their debut album, Start Here, at the Country Strong benefit for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Other artists who performed at the benefit included Billy Currington, Easton Corbin, and Jerrod Niemann. (JK) Hayes Carll has been overlooked far too often in the midst of breakthroughs by Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson; the music video for his single “The Magic Kid,” which he co-wrote with Darrell Scott, is a reminder that he remains a vital artist. His latest album, Lovers and Leavers, is one of the year’s best and most slept-on releases. (JK) “I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of being creative, of coming up with new songs… I’m a better singer, songwriter, and musician that I was 10, 20, 30 years ago. And, I’m still having fun playing music. The only reason I wanted to play music in the first place was that it made me emotional.” — Vince Gill, in an interview with Henry Carrigan for No Depression, insisted that his skill set is as sharp as ever. (JK) The late singer-songwriter Guy Clark will be honored with a tribute concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on August 16th. Performers will include Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, and Steve Earle, among others. (LMW) Rory Feek has announced that he is making a full-length documentary, titled To Joey With Love, that will feature footage from the past two years of his and Joey’s life together. The film will run in theaters nationwide for one night. You can view the film’s trailer and read Rory’s wonderful accompanying blog post at This Life I Live. (LMW) He’s released a whole lot of material that is beneath his talent since Neon, but Chris Young can still bring the goods when he’s sufficiently moved to do so. At a fan club party at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Young delivered a stunning cover of Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All.” (TS / JK) “This is something that is not talked about very often… I also feel like there’s this pressure that you’re just supposed to be able to snap your fingers and continue to walk through life like it never happened.” — Hillary Scott revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that “Thy Will,” the lead single from her forthcoming gospel album with her family, was written after she had a miscarriage last fall. (LMW) LeAnn Rimes covering Brandi Carlile? Yes and please. (JK) “I had to clean out the pigsties and shovel shit out of the chicken coops… But even after our house burned down and we had to live in our tin tractor shed for 18 months, my older brother, Shane, and I sleeping in a single bed on one side of a big workbench, my parents on the other, and it looked like a squatter’s residence – all that, for me, is a great memory.” — Keith Urban recalled his hardscrabble upbringing in an interview with Erik Hedegaard of Rolling Stone. Full disclosure: We don’t always think of Rolling Stone as a source for in-depth insights in the contemporary music writing world, but Hedegaard’s profile of Urban here is a must-read. It’s candid and revealing and exceptionally well-written. (JK) The always-cool Shovels & Rope announced that they will be releasing a new album, Little Seeds, on October 7th. You can listen to the first single, “I Know” (sadly, not a Kim Richey cover, because that would have been amazing) at The Wall Street Journal. (LMW) “We really wanted to push ourselves and go through the challenge of actually contributing ideas and actually being a democratic community. ‘Yes, no, maybe, that works.’ So you have to kind of check your ego at the door… It’s funny because there are things you really feel attached to at the time and then when it doesn’t happen your way after a little bit, you’re like, ‘You know, that actually sounds fine that way.’ You don’t really obsess with what isn’t there.” — The incomparable Neko Case talked with Emilee Lindner about the role of ego in the creation of case/lang/veirs, her collaboration with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. The trio’s self-titled debut is a real stunner, full of exceptional singing and off-kilter poetry. (JK) The music video for “Atomic Number,” the first single from the case/lang/veirs collaboration, boasts some nifty animation to go along with its lush vocal harmonies. (JK) Exciting news: Pam Tillis is working on a seventies-influenced album that she hopes will be released later this year. (LMW) “It was like every six months there was somebody dying… I was pretty present for most of them. (I) basically was hospice. It was hard to know what to do with all of that emotionally.” — Country Universe favorite Elizabeth Cook reflected on the origins of her stunning new album, Exodus of Venus, in an interview with yes-we’re-linking-to-her-again-because-she’s-the-best Juli Thanki. Thanki wrote about the triumph and tragedy that fueled Cook’s latest. (LMW) “By now, Watkins has been in the spotlight for half her life. Never before has she made her voice heard quite this clearly.” — The always on-point Jewly Hight gave a rave review to Sara Watkins’ upcoming album, Young in All the Wrong Ways. The album is available to stream in advance of its July 1st release date at NPR’s First Listen. (LMW) Watkins also debuted the music video for the album’s title track and first single, and we agree with Hight’s assessment that she’s in career-best voice here. (JK) That will do it for this week! As always, let us know in the comments what we may have overlooked. We’re working on new content for this week, too! Anthony D'Amato Avett Brothers case/lang/veirs Elizabeth Cook Guy Clark Hillary Scott & The Scott Family Irene Kelley Jake Worthington Jerry Castle Joe Stampley Joey Martin Feek Laura Veirs Luke Bell Michael McDermott Ralph Stanley Rory Feek Sam Bush Say What? – Cam on the Unifying Power of Music Ooh yay! Nice to see Runaway June making chart progress. You guys should review “Lipstick” I promise you guys won’t be disappointed as it has a sound reminiscent of the early 2000s. Erik North With respect to Ralph Stanley–you kind of have to wonder how much more we can stand of seeing such important figures as him departing this world, even for a better one, with the kind of frequency we’ve seen this year. It’s especially grim, in my opinion, because there just seem to be so few artists any more who are striving to make marks in the world the way that folks like Dr. Stanley, and Merle Haggard (to name just two), managed to do; it’s almost all about making a lot of money and getting media attention. That isn’t how even merely good art, let alone great art, has ever been made (IMHO). When George Jones once sang the proverbial question “Who’s gonna fill their soes?”, he would also have been right in asking whether anyone even wants to merely try. Among the other albums just coming out is an album by Houston-born Americana artist Libby Koch called Just Move On on Berkalin Records. 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__label__cc	0.57951	0.42049	>> About >> Stories >> Photography >> Photo Portfolio >> DESIGN >> DADKNITS >> STORIES << an occasional blog of people + places \| eats + things a new brewery 'teas' up in athens Kombucha, a probiotic fermented tea, has a distinctively tart taste. It contains a negligible amount of alcohol, and can be enjoyed alone or in cocktails and mocktails. The beverage isn’t new, but it’s only beginning to gain traction in the Classic City thanks to Erika Galloway and Jason Dean, co-founders of Figment. “Budweiser is not like a pastry stout, and there’s that much variety in kombucha, too. Some are really crazy vinegary, some are super-carbonated, some are light, some are heavily flavored,” Dean said. Figment kombucha is available by the glass or in growlers, which are a glass jug-style vessel. Unlike beer in growlers, live-cultured kombucha will continue to naturally carbonate inside the container, allowing it to stay crisp and drinkable longer. The brewery’s core flavors are ginger, lemongrass and turmeric; rosé; and blueberry-lavender. Seasonal flavors this year included mango-chile-lime and jasmine mojito, and upcoming flavors for fall and winter will play with apples, spruce tips, cinnamon and barrel aging. It was the blueberry-lavender that first came together and gave Dean the vision for what his bottle shop kombucha program could grow into. Dean and Galloway met working at a local bottle and homebrew shop. A manager there had been making kombucha, and Dean was approached about taking over the project. “We saw the clientele in the business kind of grow and we thought, you know what, there’s no kombucha brewery in Athens. It’s ridiculous and we should have one,” he said. Eventually the partnership broke away from the bottle shop and became its own entity, named Figment co-founder Erika Galloway pours a cup of mango-chile-lime kombucha at the Baxter Street taproom. after the beer brewery Dean originally planned to start. “It costs a lot less to get into kombucha. There’s a lot less barrier in entry into market. There’s a lot of potential there, so I thought it’d be better to go that direction than spend $2 million on a brewery that may or may not make it,” he said. “I just liked the fact that [Figment] is a name that’s kind of strange and doesn’t mean a whole lot to anyone specifically, and it’s kind of an ethereal word that anyone could bring their own meaning to.” >> from figment of imagination to reality Kombucha is fermented by a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast — also known as a SCOBY. SCOBYs tend to look like flat discs or mushrooms that take hold at the top of a container as the bacteria and yeast huddle together and create a physical form. The SCOBY, along with additional “starter liquid” that contains the bacteria and yeast, is added to water, sugar and tea to get the process going. When Galloway first became interested in kombucha, she read online that it was possible to purchase a container of GT’s plain kombucha, and as long as it had a small piece of SCOBY in the bottom, it could be cultivated into a larger colony. SCOBYs, or symbiotic colonies of bacteria and yeast, and starter liquid are what ferment tea into Figment kombucha. Here, SCOBYs sit and wait to be utilized in the fermenting process. Galloway and Dean have produced starter liquid so strong that they no longer add the physical SCOBY to their brews. It takes anywhere from 10 to 30 days to finish a batch of kombucha, depending on the amount being produced. After a period of primary fermentation, where the unflavored tea reaches the appropriate sourness and yeast turns the sugar to alcohol, the SCOBY and starter are removed, and what’s left is flavored and undergoes a secondary fermentation process. During secondary fermentation, kombucha naturally carbonates itself as the bacteria digest the alcohol. Figment’s owners also chose to add additional carbonation at the end to ensure product consistency. All in all, brewing kombucha isn’t much different from brewing beer. “It’s still the same principle and it’s based off of that because both [Dean] and I were into beer,” she said. “All the equipment that you use is the same as if you were brewing beer. We have to use a hot water pot, which is the hot liquor tank for boiling water. We steep, which is the same thing as using your mash tun with your grains. Then we add the additional sugar once you take the tea out and we cool it down, so you’re still chilling it like you would with beer, and then we go into fermentation.” Figment’s owners prefer to use a blend of black and green teas for their kombucha. Galloway said white tea also works well, but the main thing is to ensure the tea is caffeinated: “Your bacteria need the caffeine for an energy source.” Enjoying a spicy version of mango-chile-lime kombucha at the taproom. A glimpse inside the Baxter Street taproom where Figment is brewed and served. Co-founder Erika Galloway holds a handful of tea — the heart of kombucha, if you will. >> farm-fresh focus Dean said Figment’s focus is on taking advantage of the seasons and fresh, local ingredients as often as possible. “It’s going to be a little more time-intensive and expensive to use seasonal, local ingredients, but I think it’s better for the economy. It’s better for the farmers,” Dean said. “It’s going to taste better; it’s going to be more interesting. There’s a story behind it.” Farmers markets play an integral role in Figment’s business model. Not only are they a way to source raw materials, but the exposure there has been unparalleled. Co-founder Jason Dean serves up a cup of kombucha at the Saturday morning Athens Farmers Market at Bishop Park. “The market’s been awesome,” Dean said. “It’s a great way to be able to sell without having to pay a distributor, pay a retailer. It’s all just whatever you bring yourself, you make yourself, you get all the money and get it in front of everyone who shows up there, which is a lot of people.” He said originally the Athens Farmers Market was supposed to serve as supplemental income and be an exposure point, but the two quickly realized it was a vital part of their business plan. “It’s kind of a thing we can count on to make rent every month,” Dean said. “There’s still a lot of people who’ve never even heard of [kombucha], surprisingly. I think we’re getting there and part of our job is just, at these markets, is to educate people and let them taste it." He wants to look at kombucha brewing more from a restaurant focus. “I’m very influenced by kind of culinary things,” Dean said. “I like to think of brewing, even beer brewing, as it cooking. You’re thinking of ingredients and how those ingredients go together and not necessarily like, what’s going to sell or what are kind of popular flavors that everybody else is doing. I want to think of different things you don’t see on the shelf.” The two found out the hard way that there are some flavors harder to capture than others. Ambrosia — coconut, pineapple and cherry — didn’t turn out so well, and neither did root beer. “We thought we’d make a full-on natural one using the roots and trying to duplicate the flavor of root beer, but it just tasted like roots,” Dean said. Galloway agreed, saying it was one of those things you might taste and ask if there are supposed to be health benefits from. There are some purported probiotic benefits from kombucha, but it doesn’t have to taste funky for that to be the case. Probiotics are “live microorganisms that are intended to have health benefits,” per the National Institutes of Health. Yogurt, supplements and fermented foods — like kombucha! — are ways to add probiotics such as Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium bacteria and Saccharomyces boulardii yeast to the diet. According to an August 2018 piece from Harvard Medical School, clinical studies suggest that “probiotic therapy” can aid in gastrointestinal issues, Kombucha batches "cook" in the back area of Figment's taproom. allergies and treating vaginal and urinary tract infections. However, NIH cautions, “benefits have not been conclusively demonstrated, and not all probiotics have the same effects.” “There’s a lot of argument as to what exactly is probiotic and what these things are really doing inside your body and how they really work,” Dean said. “It’s just now, surprisingly, starting to be studied. This thing that has been done for thousands of years is still not fully scientifically understood, like, what does happen to kombucha in the actual gut and what’s specifically going on here? Right now we’re just still kind of going on anecdotal evidence that people feel better.” The NIH piece goes on to say that “strong scientific evidence” to support probiotic use for most health conditions is lacking, and the US Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved any probiotics for preventing or treating health problems. Cocktails made with blueberry-lavender kombucha, photographed at The Old Pal in Athens, Georgia. A cocktail made with ginger-lemongrass-turmeric kombucha, photographed at Trappeze Pub in Athens, Georgia. >> brewing the kombucha culture Figment’s owners hope to see their reach — and perhaps health benefits — expand to bottles or cans by the end of this fiscal year. Both said the most challenging part of their brewery is that they are its only two employees: they brainstorm and brew; they clean; they work the two market days each week, plus other area events; they run the taproom on Baxter Street. And that’s not even going into the bookkeeping, paperwork and other day-to-day business tasks. They’re up to the task, and though lacking in sleep at the moment, are excited for the opportunities they have coming up. Figment was given a coveted spot at music, arts and rustic lifestyle weekend Wildwood Revival this September. “Oh, it’s huge,” Galloway said of being part of Wildwood. “It’s our demographic of customers that actually go there because they’re interested in those small, handcrafted artisan products.” Recently Figment partnered with Georgia-based beverage distributor Modern Hops, meaning even more Peach State foodies will have access to the drink this year. “My goal, anyway, is to market the best kombucha in the world. It seems crazy in a place that’s on Baxter Street in a little plaza building, but we’ll get there,” Dean said. “Whether we grow into the big brewery or not remains to be seen, but I think that follows just being the best product rather than growing and putting something out that I’m not necessarily proud of. The growth will happen naturally if the product is sought after and good.” << drink up >> Figment kombucha is available for purchase by the glass or in growlers at its Baxter Street taproom, at the Saturday morning Athens Farmers Market and the Wednesday afternoon farmers market at Creature Comforts. It is also available in select breweries and restaurants in the Athens, Greensboro and metro Atlanta areas. Follow the brewery on Facebook + Instagram. Disclosure: The cocktail photos in this piece were part of a separate, paid project. This story and other images were of my own volition. Georgia’s full of locally owned businesses. Which one should be featured next? an accidental lesson in selfishness The first thing I saw on Instagram this morning was an on-point quote from fellow University of Georgia graduate Olori Swank, now a celebrity fashion stylist and entrepreneur: “Achieving your goals is a slow process; but quitting won’t speed it up.” Yes. Let’s talk about that. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time these past seven months, you may remember that in January, my skincare + cosmetics company announced an opportunity for consultants and directors to earn an all-expenses paid trip to Miami and Bahamas cruise. You may also recall that I really wanted to earn it. But on June 30, the last day to finish qualifications and get myself on the boat … I fell short. And I fell short because I learned a really, really powerful lesson the hard way. one of my progress markers for the cruise. as you can see, i made much more headway on sales than sharing by early may! To earn the cruise, we had to do a combination of reaching a sales goal, welcoming new consultants and building consultants into leaders. I reached the sales goal about a month before the qualification deadline, but I resisted and hesitated on sharing my company’s opportunity. I didn’t want to be pushy. I didn’t want anyone to think I was begging them. I didn’t want to be “that girl” who people defriend and block because I asked them to get together for a facial, a makeover or watch a video about my company. Long story short, I didn’t earn the cruise because I didn’t do the necessary work to share about my company. Let’s dig a little deeper into that. Into my fear and hesitance. Into me knowing that the only way I would ever achieve the goals I set was by doing the very thing I was refusing to do. I didn’t quit, exactly, but I definitely closed myself off to this side of the business. That was … selfish. “Selfish? How is it selfish?” you may ask. It’s selfish because of what I am able to do and accomplish with this as my full-time job. Yes, I knit and photograph and do some freelance storytelling work. But I have the flexibility to do those things because of what I have in my company. Most people who have full-time or side-jobs within the realm of direct sales (which is what my company is) or network marketing are the same way. They are able to have lives outside of the cubicles they are/were once chained to 40-plus hours a week because they took a chance on something crazy that they probably rolled their eyes about (like me!) and actually worked that opportunity until it paid them back tenfold. It’s selfish because when I quit/was fired from (still not sure) the job I had at a brewery, I was able to quickly cover my bills and rent by getting over myself and holding appointments. Again, there are actually quite a large number of people in companies with similar structures to mine that are doing this daily because they are working. It’s selfish because I became so singularly focused on not being pushy, but needing to have the finances to pay my bills, that I chose to only make money instead of share the wealth. At the end of the six-month qualification period to earn this cruise, I sold more than $10,000 retail value in skincare and makeup. Bills paid; rent paid; even able to stick some in savings and that kinda thing. Let me tell ya, that’s a load off my back and my mind! My customers who use our skincare look and feel fabulous and don’t have to wear makeup. My customers who use our makeup love their colors and are digging our new foundation especially. Oh, and lipstick. Always lipstick. But imagine if I’d taken the time to focus on sharing more about my company with those customers. My customers who are on payment plans with me for their skincare … could have started their own business and gotten their skincare at a steep, 50 percent discount, not to mention they could have begun building a customer base of their own and started making profits. Those profits could go toward things like rent and bills, or a vacation for their family. One of my customers — who has the dang cutest house in Lexington! — dreams of owning a bakery one day. Even as a hobby consultant, I could have helped her strategize and make that happen. Another customer, who runs a daycare center in Athens, expressed to me once that she’d love to own a campground. my director ashley and i at career conference in duluth, georgia, in march. we'd just crossed the stage for being on-target to earn the cruise. Imagine if I’d shared with them! Where they could be now on achieving those dreams! I have so many customers, so many friends, so many family members, with talents and passions that have absolutely nothing to do with my company, who feel dissatisfied somehow with the job they’re in. For most, leaving to go invest in an entrepreneurial avenue like I am in is a terrifying step they’re not ready for … but if I could show them — heck, if I could show you! — how even one hour a week can be maximized to earn supplemental income; income to use for a bakery or trip to Disney or a campground or that sudden hospital bill or bumping down debt; wouldn’t that be a crazy thing for me to keep to myself?! It is crazy. But I did. I have. Team-building has been my biggest desire and biggest self-imposed struggle because I was too selfish to share. Too selfish to recognize potential in people and then tell them, “Hey Lisa, did you see my post last night about how my business covered my rent last month, and I did that by holding x-number of appointments in x-number of hours? I would love to help you and your husband buy that rental property on the lake by showing you how to do what I do.” Maybe it’s not makeup or skincare you’re jazzed about, in which case my company may not be right for you. Perhaps it’s health and wellness; or fashion; or jewelry; or cleaning supplies. The Direct Sellers Association has a plethora of members and you can pull up any of their compensation plans and business models to find out more. It’s not for everyone, but I feel like a shabby friend and consultant for hiding my opportunity for so long. In full transparency, the time is nigh for me to enter what we call “director in qualification,” or DIQ (pronounced dee-eye-queue, not like Dick Cheney) on Aug. 1. Selfishness in sharing stops here. I’m looking for at least five future consultants to work with me, whether it’s for that deep discount on their own skincare and makeup or for something bigger. I let the cruise sail on by because I ignored the process. I’m not letting anything else do that again. Meatetarian Eats Nashville >> line dancing, sort of. For this week and next, we’re going a few miles north of the Classic City for Meatetarian Eats: Nashville edition. At the end of March, for my 30th birthday, I was given the gift of a trip to Nashville, Tennessee! Upon finding out where I were going, my mother inundated me with a list of places to go and eat and do. We made it to most of them, actually, but there were a few that will require a return visit. Which I am totally OK with. Being the planner that I am, I took my mom’s list of must-eats to map out our itinerary. Like for real. We had this on a color-coded, numbered Google map. After a failed attempt at visiting Loveless Café, which is so dang popular there was more than an hour’s wait, and Burger King for supper at the Opry Mills mall, I was determined not to miss out on any more food souvenirs! We were GOING to make it to the rest on my list. the loveless cafe also did not have a vacancy at the restaurant. The next morning, we were up and at ‘em with the intention to drive near Belmont University for the famed Pancake Pantry breakfast. This is another Mom recommendation. I was positive that getting there before 9 a.m. we wouldn’t have a long wait! I was positively wrong! The line at Pancake Pantry was wrapped around the corner. Apparently this is part of the ambiance and tradition: the paintings inside the lobby feature the building with a line of hungry people down the street next to it. This was no hidden gem. It was a very well-known sparkling topaz gem and every non-Nashvillian in Nashville was on that sidewalk. My stomach was growling, but I was not giving in. We were waiting this out. Standing in a line like that made me wonder what I was in for. What did the place look like inside?! How tall are these stacks of pancakes?! What is cinnamon cream sauce and why do I want a bottle of it?? Can I get a latte? The anticipation was insane! I, truth be told, still do not know what it is about Pancake Pantry that has it as a must-eat place! Is this what it is like to be a sheeple?? To blindly go stand in a line for a restaurant that your mother said was good, without doing any further research about the restaurant, its history or barely glance at the menu before plugging the address into the GPS?? Forty-seven minutes after our arrival, we were finally swept inside. I’ve heard my mother talk this place up since I was a kid, and I was … a little let down. It’s kind of plain. It’s kind of homey. It’s a big open room with tables and (thank goodness) booths with cream-colored tabletops and wood accents. I would hazard a guess that nothing much changed since it opened in 1961. Our waitress did not seem to care that it was our first time. In case y’all can’t tell by the usual length of these posts, I can chatter a. lot. She was not having it, and I felt a little judged for asking if they had iced coffee drinks: “It’s coffee and it has ice in it.” Pro-tip, don’t ask. Pro-tip two, look at the menu beforehand. Pancake Pantry is, for all intents and purposes, a diner-style restaurant geared toward making simple but flavorful food and turning tables over to accommodate the ever-growing line out the door. Taking your syrup-sweet time to decide between your top three pancakes is not encouraged. I finally settled on the Santa Fe Cornmeal Pancakes, firstly because, have y’all ever heard of a cornmeal pancake? And second, green chiles. If you’ve never been in the Southwest US, you may not know that green chiles are a staple in just about every dish there, and I am here for it. I adore green chiles and couldn’t wait to have them in my pancakes. photo taken after about 35 minutes in line. When my stack arrived, it was bittersweet. I’m not talking about how my tastebuds reacted to the Santa Fe pancakes, but rather, how my eyes reacted. Call me a snob, but I got it in my head that all of these ingredients (the green chiles, bacon, cheese) would be chopped up and blended into the batter, then tossed on the griddle. Not so: it looked more as though the cornmeal batter was put on the griddle, flipped once, then big strips of bacon, some cheese and a few chiles were sprinkled on top. What the pancakes lacked in good looks they made up for with great taste. The cornmeal cakes themselves were lightly sweetened and had a grainy texture. Think of a corn muffin, subtract some sugar and you’re there. I poured the salsa on top and discovered the perfect bite was one that had some chile, bacon and a dip in the salsa and sour santa fe cornmeal pancakes at pancake pantry at the forefront. cream. I normally don’t like sour cream, but WOW! With these, sour cream made the cornmeal cakes melt in my mouth and it became a very smooth bite. Our waitress did recommend adding, believe it or not, the cinnamon cream and syrup to these pancakes. Y’all know I am all about mixing sweet and savory anyway, so I dove right in. When your pancakes arrive, the syrup arrives in a hot bottle and the cinnamon cream chilled. That one is less viscous than syrup and neither are as sweet as say, a Crackerbarrel maple syrup. They work together to minimize the kick from the chiles. Blame it on my dancing at the Opry the night before, but I was so hungry I ate all three of these. And they are not small pancakes! Pancake Pantry is one I’ll wait in line again for. And also possibly show up at 5 a.m. for. I say this entirely because I want to try the buckwheat pancakes. Or maybe the Georgia peach pancakes. There's also a stack called Chocolate Sin ... Anyone up for joining me on my return trip? :D They let you take bottles of cinnamon cream home. Meatetarian Eats is my way of showcasing some of my favorite foods and foodie finds at home and on my travels. To visit the OG #MeatetarianEats site, birthed before this website was conceived, click here. To see the places I ate starting in 2019, here's the category for this platform. scattered, smothered and covered Sounds like how any good Southerner would order her hashbrowns at WaHo, doesn’t it? Well sheesh, now I’m hungry and it’s not even a #MeatetarianEats post! Tonight I’m not writing about food. Instead, what I mean by scattered, smothered and covered is — and y’all get ready, because I don’t think I saw this one coming either — spiritually scattered, smothered and covered by the grace of a higher power. Now before y’all go and scatter yourselves because I’m writing a little church-y today, let me assure you I’m not going to try to convert you to anything. OK? OK. I did recently start attending Cornerstone Church in Athens, Georgia, and though my reasons for doing so are mine alone, I will share that it’s been a really good experience thus far. I am a firm believer that an individual’s relationship with the higher power they believe in, if they believe in a higher power, doesn’t necessarily need to take place within the confines of a specific building with a steeple. That being said, it is nice to be in that environment once or twice a week. I relate that back to my skincare + cosmetics business, and perhaps that’s why I needed it. In my company, we have two large business events and smaller weekly or bi-weekly local business meetings. Your success as a beauty consultant doesn’t require you to attend any of those, but when everyone is sobusy and there are so many distractions, it’s easy to re-enter life after the big events and forget everything you were so driven to do. Those more regular, smaller meetings to me are just as important as the big ones, because they remind me what I am working for. They keep me in the zone, so to speak. Right now my unit doesn’t have weekly meetings, and it is very easy to allow myself to get off-track. When I get off-track, I get moody and anxious and stressed and snappy. Combined with a season of life in which I am responsible for every penny I earn, it’s even more stressful when I am off-track! I feel this is why I was led to seeking an environment where I am reminded of what my purpose is. This Sunday the lead pastor at Cornerstone discussed the Biblical book of Hosea, who was a minor prophet. At the time Hosea reportedly lived, the region known as Israel was in a bit of disrepair: people were worshipping idols, leading lives that were pretty shady, and God reached out to Hosea and told him that Hosea will now lead a life metaphoric of that of the process he’s about to undertake with Israel to wake them up. You’ll have to read the book and draw your own conclusions, but here’s what was spoken to me through the service and the subsequent reading in my own time afterward. Step 1: Scatter. Yep. You see where this is going already, doncha! Before there’s any kind of spiritual awakening … I needed a reason to have a spiritual awakening. My life had to go all sorts of kerfluffle. Looking back, there’s been quite a few times of “scatter” since I began to realize what I ultimately desire and am ultimately appointed to do. There were breakups of relationships. There were difficulties in job settings. There were opportunities for me to seek better, higher, more! But I managed to um, usually not do any of those things. I would start to do them, then be tempted or distracted away. Step 2: Smother. So your life’s a shambles. You are THE definition of hot mess express and someone can just go ahead and order tickets to your sh*tshow, right? I definitely feel that way a lot, especially recently. One step forward, two steps back. I had (thankfully I can now use the past tense here!) a number of days where I was smothered in those feelings of anxiety and stress and lack that I mentioned before, because I was so scattered and all over the place. And so far from what I know I am supposed to be doing! Step 3: Cover. This step is interactive. It requires you to pull your weight. Pastor Scott, talking on Sunday, mentioned that God’s love is forever if you choose to seek it. We do have free choice, but DANG if those first couple steps aren’t encouraging me to change my course! If you’re cool hanging out in step two, feeling a little woeful and sorry for yourself and victimhood-y, hoping someone or something will come into your path and lift you out of your misery, that is your choice. Or say, maybe you’re not feeling like a victim, but perhaps you work your tail to the bone and are fiercely independent and think you can do it all by yourself, so you shut everything else out and become so caught up in busyness you forget why you’re busy in the first place … and then get overwhelmed and start questioning what the heck is happening. (Hi, hello, it’s me.) But if you decide to sit down and have a little meeting with yourself about all those feelings and stress, and if you do believe in a higher power, there’s a chance you’ll be inclined to do what I did, which is finally accept that ol’ saying “I’m doing this FOR myself, but not BY myself.” When you do that, God does a little happy dance and suddenly he’s hanging out as your new partner. Covering you in love, in acceptance, in guidance. Like a therapist, but always there and it doesn’t matter whether or not your insurance covers it. Which is great, because mine does not! Y’all. It took me a LOOONG time to get here, and “here” is not the end point. I’ve got a lot more ground to cover. My smother phase lasted entirely too long because I rejected and resisted the concept that I needed a God-filled environment like Cornerstone. But the more weighty all the negativity got, and the more I seemed to dig myself deeper into a mental hole, the more I realized what I needed was a BIG change. A shock to my system. I’m as shocked as anyone that I decided to peep into a church setting. I’m grateful I listened to those little guiding whispers though, telling me to stop being stubborn and do what is right for my mental health, spiritual health and business health. Are you also feeling scattered or smothered? Overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and depressed? Then perhaps it’s time you explored options to shock your system, too. meatetarian eats the masters >> an illusion of simplicity For 30 years, nearly every time I introduced myself as Dallas, I was asked if I was from Dallas or Texas. “Nope, I’m from around Augusta, Georgia.” “Oh! Augusta! That’s where the Masters is, right? Do you golf?” I do not. I barely Putt-Putt, and I never found myself caught up in the hubbub of the golf tournament that calls my hometown its own. Growing up, Masters Week was also our spring break, so though I’d occasionally watch the final hole with my family, it’s never been the sport I drop everything I’m doing to put on TV {read: Georgia games}. But when you grow up surrounded by something like that, that even non-golf fans know about and think is a big deal, it’s hard to escape the lore of the course. Even our local baseball team is called the Augusta Greenjackets — a play on the prestigious green jackets that winners of the Masters earn and that are also worn by members of the Augusta National. No one but members know how to become members, and most of the membership list is hush-hush (although I did find this 2015 one on Bloomberg), so it’s kind of like the Masons … except with significantly fewer really cool movies, books, History Channel documentaries and an order to protect the Holy Grail. my personal favorite (and now retired) logo for the augusta greenjackets, found via google. But there are some pretty legendary things associated with the Augusta National: the beauty of the course, particularly when all the azaleas are blooming; its awesome history as a peach orchard; the amount of exclusivity and experience given to patrons, even we peasants who aren’t members; and, of course, the food. I would be 100 percent surprised if this is the first time you’ve ever read anything about the food at Masters Week tournaments. More than anything, given that golf is not my favorite sport, I wanted to go to the course for the crème de la crème of US sporting events cuisine. This year, I was lucky enough to be able to, thanks to my parents winning the coveted ticket lottery for the first-ever Augusta National Women’s Amateur tournament. The first few days of the tournament were held at another area golf course, Champion’s Retreat, but the final was held at the Augusta National. JE and I were given the tickets as part of my 30thbirthday present, and I could not wait to get my hands on a pin for my collection … and my mouth on pimento cheese and egg salad sandwiches. The recipes for these, especially the pimento cheese, remain 1) an actual mystery and 2) a closely guarded secret. A man named Nick Rangos created the recipes for these two sandwiches and made the pimento cheese mixture himself. In the early 2000s, Augusta National executives decided to have the local restaurant Wife Saver {personal note: I promise I’ll write about this place too; it’s a hometown favorite} make the sandwiches. Well … Wife Saver makes some damn good fried chicken and sides, but its initial pimento cheese sandwich was not up to par — hey look! A golf pun! -- with Rangos’ original recipe. Rangos wasn’t tellin’ nobody his secret recipe, especially the owner of the business that now had his business, so the Wife Saver folks spent a hot minute getting things right. Rangos passed away, and his original pimento cheese recipe died with him. According to Newsweek, the National eventually moved all concession-creation in-house, so I cannot be sure how accurate this year’s sandwich was to the one Nick Rangos developed more than 40 years ago. But I am very accurate when I say it was good. Like, went back and got seconds good. Rivals my Nanny’s pimento cheese good. stacks on stacks of souvenir sandwiches, pimento cheese and egg salad, from the augusta national. note the impeccable and on-trend modern branding on the sandwich bags. yes y'all, i brought sandwiches home for photos since cameras are not allowed on the course during tournament days. There was a tense moment when JE claimed he liked a particular brand of store-bought pimento cheese better, but I think that’s sacrilege. Personally, I think I have more expertise than he does in this situation, because I have tried numerous pimento cheeses over my 30 years and this is top three, for absolute certain. No. 1 is my Nanny’s, the No. 2 spot belongs to Proper Pepper out of Sandersville, Georgia. Pimento cheese, for all intents and purposes, is a blend of mayonnaise, cheeses, pimiento peppers and seasonings. Fun fact though, a lot of commercially made pimento cheeses use red bell peppers, not pimiento peppers, in their mixtures because it’s cheaper. Lame sauce, y’all. You gotta have the real thing. Improperly made pimento cheese can also be overly creamy and mushy, so having the right ratio of mayonnaise-to-cheese is muy importante. Especially when enjoyed in sandwich form, a soppy and liquid-y pimento cheese mixture can seep into the bread and cause it to be as great as that PB&J that got squished at the bottom of your lunch box that one day in first grade. The other way improper way pimento cheese can be made is too dry, either because there wasn’t enough mayonnaise to balance the cheese, or the cheese itself was poor quality and winds up with a mealy texture. Gross. Whether it was Rangos’, Wife Saver’s or some sweetheart in the Augusta National kitchen’s recipe that was lovingly spread between two slices of soft white bread this Saturday, it was the perfect balance of all ingredients. There was texture from the cheeses — definitely some type of cheddar involved, and possibly a white cheese as well; my palate is sadly not that distinctive yet — but it was still creamy and light. The peppers themselves had a nice bite to them too, and the flavor wasn’t exactly spicy, but you could tell there was seasoning added other than salt. Oh, and did I mention these bad boys are like, less than two bucks each? Yeah. Not a joke. That’s less than half the price of a bottle of water at a Georgia football game. james edward and i at the founders circle photo op during the augusta national women's amateur this weekend. The egg salad sandwiches, of which I may or may not have had three {stop giving me that judge-y look!}, were equally satisfying. Egg salad is a mixture of chopped or diced hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, seasoning and in some cases, spices or pickle relish. Maybe some mustard, too. There wasn’t any pickle relish in the egg salad sandwich at the Augusta National, and the egg salad was seasoned very lightly. What impressed me most about the mixture here was the texture. It almost seemed whipped, it was so airy! Neither sandwich seeped too far into the bread slices, and I swear whoever they had quality-controlling the bread here deserves a trophy too. The most magnificent part of these sandwiches is their simplicity: only a few ingredients, reminiscent of things most Southern mamas and cooks make on the reg; and there’s nothing pretentious about them, even though they’re sold at one of the most exclusive sporting event in the world. But the simplicity is almost an illusion. Think about it. Pimento cheese and egg salad are two very Southern things that you can find in a gazillion places and a basquillion different forms anywhere below the Mason-Dixon. The Augusta National could have hired the freakin’ Kroger across the street to commercially produce enough egg salad and pimento cheese to spread on enough Wonderbread slices for a cheap-enough price for multiple thousands of people to enjoy. Instead, they found a local man, then a local restauranteur, then their own staff to create, re-create and re-re-create Southern classics using ingredients so pristine and perfectly balanced that it adds to the grandeur of the experience of being one of the Chosen Ones to attend an event during Masters Week. I bet there’s not a stale piece of bread within three miles of Washington Road the week leading up to and the week of Masters. The food is about where the simplicity ends at the Augusta National. Outside of the concession shops, where the most expensive thing is a souvenir cup of beer at five whole dollars, you’re in a different world. Perhaps you’ve been year after year, but this being my first time (and also, this being my website, lol) I’d like to indulge those who’ve never had the opportunity. You do not have to like golf to be part of the tournament. Golf on TV? B O R I N G. Golf when you’re there, when Anna Redding’s ball lands in the spectator area behind you in Amen Corner so you’re like five feet from one of the most amazing collegiate athletes, is definitely not boring. You get caught up in the tenseness of a shot. The hush of the crowd, the whistle of a ball flying through the air. The shock of the woman next to you hissing, “She marked it!” and you have no idea what that means, but apparently it’s important to what happened mom's post-tournament photo of us with our souvenirs, and of course my fur-sister ami dale. behind us are my parents' azaleas, similar to those we saw on the course. between Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi, the two leaders going into the tournament final. And you get caught up in the beauty of the course, the pinks and magentas and fuchsias of the azalaeas contrasting with the taupe sand-traps and perfect shades of green grass. Even, as my daddy pointed out, the pinestraw is manicured. You get caught up in clapping when everyone else does and gasping when everyone else does, and you wonder to yourself, “Is this what a football game is like for non-football fans and way too many freshman girls?” If you have the chance to go, go. Don’t scalp your tickets, those coveted passes that grant you entrance through the heavily guarded gates. Do eat the sandwiches, and the peach ice cream sandwiches they ran out of, and maybe the barbecue too. And if you think about it, make a dumb nerd joke about whether or not there are sarlaccs at the bottom of those pesky sand traps. meatetarian eats >> A Homemade Supper Remember how when I wrote about Chops & Hops I said it was something I’d been meaning to do for ages, just didn’t prioritize? WELL. Here we are again, this time a few miles away at a little place called home.made. I’d been meaning to go in here for absolute ages, and if you don’t follow them on Instagram, you’re missing out on some seriously good food photos. It says a lot about a place’s social media when that’s what entices a complete stranger so much to come in and check it out, so props to whoever runs that. My chance to dine here came about a week ago when I was invited to join an exclusive outing and celebration for my skincare + cosmetics business. After a jaunt through the new Children’s Garden at the Botanical Garden of Georgia — which is really fun even if you are not a “children” — we traipsed to home.made for supper. There are a few things that the word “supper” brings to mind. Supper is when your whole family is gathered around the table, you say the blessing together and you enjoy a home-cooked meal. I was fortunate to grow up with a mama who loves to cook, so it was rare that our supper wasn’t actually home-cooked in some form or fashion, and for the most part what we ate was influenced by our Southern roots. Ingredients are fresh. They’re local {we do lots of farmers market shopping in our family}. They’re hearty and filling and … truth be told … not always the healthiest thing on the planet, but Southern food is the envy of chefs everywhere. home.made meets every single one of these expectations when I think about the word “supper.” the new orleans style hot chicken at home.made comes with fried chicken, pickled okra and beignets. The atmosphere is low-light and rustic. I adored the shutters decorating the far side wall. The décor is tasteful and simple. Some restaurants that have the caliber of plating that home.made does have a tendency to be pretentious about what’s on your plate, but not this place. I ordered the New Orleans Hot Chicken Beignets, along with a side of tomato pie, and whoa Betty y’all, I was enamored. The presentation of the dishes are thoughtful and beautiful without being ostentatious. I will say that I kind of expected my beignets to be stuffed with the hot chicken, but other than that minor hiccup I wanted an entrée size of this meal after I scarfed it down. Now, y’all probably heard of Nashville hot chicken, so before I wrote this post I did a little bit of research into what the difference is … because I hadn’t had either of them. I know, shame on me, I went to Nashville last weekend and didn’t have hot chicken. Guess I’ll have to make a return trip, OK? Per the ONE non-Wikipedia page I found that wasn’t a rating site or some obscure travel recommendation where the “best restaurants” are the ones that paid for ad placement … there are some key components to make a traditional hot chicken. Really salty, spicy, tender fried chicken, preferably seasoned to have a slow, lingering burn Pickles — dill pickles, specifically, if we’re talking Nashville-style I do not know this to be true, but upon this investigation I’m inclined to think that home.made called this dish “New Orleans” because of what constitutes the pickles and the bread here. Let me explain. Hot chicken is to Nashville as beignets are to Nawlins. The most famous beignets are found at Café Du Monde in the French Quarter. Introduced to the state of Louisiana by the Acadians, these delicacies are square pieces of choux pastry dough fried to the perfect light golden brown and covered with powdered sugar. I have never had these beignets, but my mama has, and she raves about them to this day and also gets mail-order coffee from the shop. We have the fried chicken — strips curled up in the fryer, dredged in a spicy breading and coated with a buffalo-style sauce. We have the bread component: two delicate beignets with a heavy hand of powdered sugar. Last, but certainly not least, we have the pickles. Another what-I-infer-to-be-homage to New Orleans, the pickles here are pickled okra. Okra originated in Africa, and according to documents from the University of Arizona, it came to the Americas by way of the slave trade in Brazil, Dutch Guinea and New Orleans beginning in the 1600s. Okra was a staple of the diet of many enslaved Africans in the South, and became a staple in Louisiana gumbo and other dishes because of it. Y’all, I LOVE okra in its fried and pickled forms, and I do not know what on earth kind magic happened at home.made, but this is the best pickled okra I’ve eaten in my life. It was crisp, it was vinegar-y, it had tang and brine. The gelatinous feel that stewed okra can get (fun fact, it’s called “mucilage”) wasn’t there. There was zero mama's photo of authentic beignets at cafe du monde in new orleans, 2018. used with her permission, kind of. (hi mom!) a bite of tomato pie at home.made. stringiness and even the seeds were pickled. I need a jar of these, stat. My side dish of tomato pie wasn’t as picturesque, but it was everything good and homey that I needed it to be. I expected a slice and loved that it came instead in an individually-sized ramekin! I have one regret, and it’s that I didn’t get the fried green tomato dessert. Yep, dessert. I mean, I’d already eaten some form of buffalo chicken with powdered sugar, so this sounded like the most logical next course, right? I promise I’ll go back for that one though and do a revisit! In fact, I already have a plan for my edibles on my next visit. If you’re not already sick of me using the word “supper” in this post … home.made has a SUPPER CLUB Tuesdays through Saturdays from 5 to 6, and again Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 to 9! It differs week-to-week and includes a choice of starter and entrée. Which means clearly I’ll just have to finish things off with that fried green tomato crisp, right? of showers and sudoku As a child, I assumed this had some obscure reference to the Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock. Like, these people escaped religious persecution, got on a boat called the Mayflower and in the month of April they weathered a lot of storms to land in North America. Not quite. I then figured the adage prophesized the month of April as the rainiest of the year, and thus all the flowers would bloom in May. This is probably closer to the actual origin of the saying. Now at the ripe ol’ age of 30, I find “April showers bring May flowers” to have a different meaning. I was able to spend some time recently centering myself, which I am sure sounds hippie-dippie-trippy, but I’m being serious. March was, for whatever reason, not my best month in a lot of ways, particularly when it came to achieving some pretty lofty {but hear me, completely doable} goals in my skincare + cosmetics business. I had quite a few wins and high moments, but when March 31 rolled over to April 1 at midnight, I realized what Cinderella must have felt like as her glitter carriage morphed back into a pumpkin. On the plus side, I still had both shoes on my feet. One of the things I started doing to break my super-fun stress level is focus on something that isn’t related to working in any sense of the word. For a while I tried reading, but I discovered I was easily able to use reading as a distraction rather than a refocusing tool {“Just one more chapter, self! Then I promise I’ll go do XYZ. … Oh no, now it’s too late at night; guess I will have to wait until tomorrow.”} It’s sudoku, of all things. Unfamiliar with sudoku? {thanks google for this image} Let me explain. You’ll typically be able to find a weekly or daily sudoku puzzle in your local newspaper. There are nine big squares of nine little squares each, and the goal is for each of your nine big squares, each row and each column to contain the numbers one through nine once each. For most of my life I never bothered to try because I told myself the story that “I am bad with numbers.” Granted, math is not my strong suit, especially in the realm of a classroom, but I didn’t know what I was talking about. I also, fun fact, spent about 15 years calling it “soduku,” pronounced like Count Dooku. So I extra was telling myself a story here. Tonight as I did my “focus practice” as I’ve been calling it, I pulled out a recent puzzle from the local Athens independent newspaper, Flagpole. My method is to examine each square in detail and see, based on the numbers that are already put there, which numbers could be in that square. I do this for every open square. Then I go back through: Is there any square that could onlybe one number? Over and over again, then crossing out possibilities in other squares. I’m sure someone out there has a different way to do sudoku, but this is my way and I’m cool with it, so calm yourselves. I fill one square in — yes! A win! Then spend a few minutes going back over the entire puzzle, looking for the next one. Crossing out the ones that won’t work. Back and forth, up and down, over and over until suddenly, YAAAS! All the pieces start coming together. One number goes in that clears four squares that clear six more and it keeps going and going until the puzzle is completed. Such a feeling of accomplishment! Isn’t it interesting how momentum builds, and then all of a sudden everything just comes together? I could have easily put the puzzle away when it was frustrating. And trust me, when I have gone over rows and columns and squares and can’t seem to find either my error or the next clue, I want to ball the dang paper up and hurl it across the bathroom and open up a book. But because I focused, because I didn’t even let my very cute cats distract me, because I did the work to set the things up and I didn’t stop following up on my work until the thing was done, the thing got done. Y’all, I spent two straight days in March at a conference for my company and heard about a dozen entrepreneurs talk about building momentum, and it took a dang sudoku puzzle and a silly old wives tale to hit my mindshift. The teacher appears when the student is ready, amirite? Last May through this March I was planting seeds. I wasn’t particularly focused about it all the time {hello, last August, October and this January and kind of March}, but I still trudged forward. And now that I’m aware of what a truly focused mindset looks like, I’m going to make it rain all over those seeds in April. That’s called momentum. And those showers? They’re going to bring May flowers. knitting out of the comparison trap During the early months of 2018, I started following Trysten Molina on Instagram. Molina owns the independent (indie) yarn dyeing and knitwear design brand Dragon Hoard Yarn Co. I was enamored with her yarn from the get-go — lots of speckles, and color themes that played right into my fantasy fiction-loving heart! I bought her “Christmas at Hogwarts” yarn advent for myself last Christmas and delighted each day in December as I opened a tiny new skein of yarn. I was gifted a gift certificate to use in her shop by one of my closest friends, and within a few days of 2019 I knew precisely what color I wanted. Necromancy is a mottle of greens and grays that bring to mind lying down on a moss-coated forest floor next to a bubbling brook, listening for the faint sounds of Tom Bombadil’s singing to come over a hillside. Or perhaps that’s just my mind. Regardless, I fell in absolute lust with the colorway! There are lime greens and emerald, Kelly and hunter and nearly hidden flecks of bright red. It’s part of Molina’s yarns inspired by the Netflix original show “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” which is an excellent show, although far more macabre than the Melissa Joan Hart version of my childhood. necromancy yarn from dragon hoard yarn co., and the knitting accessories i used for the spellman pullover. Despite my strong temptation to invest in the yarn, I held out for a bit, because I didn’t have a project for it yet. And then, lo! A call to test knit Molina’s Sabrina-inspired sweater, and I was selected. Little ol’ me, who rather likes to bend the rules and not follow patterns to begin with, was chosen to test knit a pattern. If you’re reading this and you’ve never picked up a knitting needle in your life, test knitting is copy editing for a pattern. Except not only are you checking grammar and math, you’re knitting the pattern as you go along. The Spellman Pullover is a cropped sweater with cables and bobbles (think little knitted balls) on the shoulders and sleeves. I had an excuse to get my Necromancy! >> falling short of the cohort As excited as I was to cast on my sweater {knit in a mohair and fingering weight yarn, both in Necromancy}, I was already way behind. I committed to starting the sweater Jan. 11 and finishing it by Feb. 11, and I ordered my yarn on Jan. 9. Then the USPS held it hostage for an extra day or two, and due to some other things going on I didn’t prioritize casting on right away when I got a moment. Being in a group chat with all the other test knitters, that was hard. I was constantly getting notifications on Facebook Messenger with other knitters speeding along: showing off their yarn a week before I’d even ordered mine; two sets of bobbles done on the shoulders the day I sat down to review the pattern; tossing out edits and suggestions about design terms that were completely new to me. I almost didn’t start. I saw all these knitters doing so much better and so much faster and yada yada yada than me and I was embarrassed. There was actually no way on God’s green Earth that I was going to finish a sweater in the given timeframe with how much else I had happening. I was ashamed that I didn’t know some of these terms and I’d never knit a bobble before in my life, and truth be told that I didn’t have much to offer in test knitting this pattern other than helping confirm stitch counts. I sat on my yarn once it came for at least a week going through all this in my mind, continuing to watch the group chat and sitting quietly. I knew I had the skills to knit this. Like y’all, I design my own patterns all the time and don’t think a second thought about it. It takes me less than a week to knit an entire pair of socks. This is not actually hard to someone who’s got 11 years’ experience putting yarn to needle. I knew I wantedto knit this. These two yarns held together are so squishy and soft and I already planned out the outfit I would wear in my post-bind-off photo shoot. I had skills. I had vision. I had passion. Heck, y’all, I even had a deadline! All of the key things one allegedly requires to reach a goal! So what was my hold-up? The comparison trap. >> stitching through What’s the comparison trap? It’s a thing that a lot of people today find themselves falling into, or digging themselves out of, usually thanks to social media. For whatever reason, we have this idea of what we should look like or should be, or the level we should be at, and we beat ourselves up for not being “that.” In my case with the Spellman Pullover, I was comparing my skeins of yarn to the half-completed sweaters on the group chat; and comparing myself to the knitters with said half-completed sweaters. While stuck in this delightful life-sucking trap, I heard a training from Audrey MacDowell, who is a top director in my skincare + cosmetics business. Now, Audrey MacDowell doesn’t know me from Adam, and I doubt she knits, so this had nothing to do with anything … and yet wham! It had everything to do with everything. In this training she says that comparison is the thief of joy. And while we’re out here comparing ourselves … the people we’re comparing ourselves to are out w-e-r-k-i-n-g. No wonder these women had half-finished sweaters. They weren’t sitting on the group chat lamenting how they hadn’t started yet. They picked up their dang needles, cast on and worked every spare second they had. After that gut-punch, I intentionally made a few changes in quite a few places in my life and business, and of course, my progress on the Spellman Pullover. What mattered wasn’t how fast I knit or how much I knew about negative vs. positive ease . Who cares what these complete strangers thought about my knitting skills? We were all knitting the exact same pattern. It wasn't any kind of competition. What matters is that I enjoyed what was being worked on and was pleased with the direction in which it went. What matters is that every day I could I picked up my yarn and needles and worked a few rows. >> weaving in the ends By changing a couple habits — namely not checking the group chat every time I pulled up Facebook and choosing to knit nearly every night — I did finish the Spellman Pullover in about a month’s time. Molina extended the deadline to March 1, and at about 2 a.m. the next morning I bound off my last stitch on the final sleeve. I missed the deadline to be featured in her pattern and on the Ravelry pattern page. That kind of stunk. But it taught me an important lesson: if I’d spent the time I spent comparing knitting, I’d already be finished and wearing the sweater instead of wondering how many musicals it would take to finish the second sleeve. In case you were wondering, it took me the entirety of the TV versions of “Grease” and “Footloose.” I love how the sweater turned out, and the first day it was sunny enough to get photos, my boyfriend and I went in the woods and he got some great shots that show off the color variation in Necromancy and the details in the Spellman Pullover sleeves. I felt so accomplished and like I could conquer the world — er, OK, maybe more like conquer my goals for the rest of March. It’s a great feeling, and I know that feeling came about because of the action I took! Whether I’m knitting a sweater actually or metaphorically, these things I learned through this process will be so instrumental, and I hope they are for you, too: Avoid the comparison trap! Instead, look how far you’ve come. Eleven years ago I could barely pull of a wonky-arse scarf, and here I am making bobbles like I’ve done it all my life. Remember what Audrey MacDowell said — those people you’re comparing yourself to are working while you’re not. So whatever it is you’re not doing to get to where those folks are, do it. And if you’re working, you won’t have time to compare {see above J}. Daily consistent habits are more valuable than a burst of sudden action that’s never backed up. If your goal is to finish a sweater, set aside some time to knit each night or morning or lunch break daily instead of working for 16 hours straight on it, then putting it aside for something else, and suddenly it’s 2020 and you realized you never finished it. Empower yourself! If you don’t understand something, don’t sit there and complain about how you don’t get it. Ask someone. Research. Watch 17 tutorials on bobble knitting. You can do anything you set your mind to, ladies and gents. But first, you have to set your mind to it. And second … you have to do it. serving cheer ... with a side of coffee joyristas megan mccutcheon and nathan nelms inside the java joy coffee truck. Considering how prolific the coffee chain Starbucks is, it’s a fair assumption most Americans are familiar with the term “barista.” The term “joyrista,” however, might be a new one. Joyristas serve much more than cups of coffee. They serve businesses, the Athens community and everyone they encounter with welcome arms, big hugs and — as the job title might imply — a whole latte joy. “The first thing, I got hired, they needed help, so I wanted to help,” said Megan McCutcheon, who was one of the first four Joyristas to join Java Joy after it was founded in 2016. The nonprofit is a program of Watkinsville, Georgia-based Extra Special People, which provides special needs-centered activities and programming for children and adults of all abilities, as well as their families. Nathan Nelms came on board in 2017 after Jake Sapp, coordinator of program operations for ESP, contacted his parents about Nelms working with Java Joy. “We did like a practice,” Nelms said. “We would like, fill the coffee filter thing an then we’ll have to pour the coffee powder stuff and then we’ll have to shake it a little bit and put it in the thing, and we’ll have to turn the coffee thing on and wait ‘til it says ‘ready to go.’” Going on two years later, Nelms and McCutcheon are experts at running the coffee maker and the coffee cart. >> beverages for businesses Laura Graben, Java Joy’s development coordinator, initially started at ESP as a volunteer and as demand for the coffee cart grew, so did its staff. “It was an opportunity for our adults here at ESP in particular, but also an opportunity in our community to become more engaged,” Graben said. “Now we have three Americorps members, we have Jake who is the top manager of Java Joy, me as the development coordinator and we have 14 joyristas now. … It’s just basically really blossomed here in Athens. I think people really enjoy their coffee and their experience with us and it’s a different take on their morning cup.” When a company or event books with Java Joy, the the java joy trailer and van outside an event at voya in atlanta, georgia. \| courtesy photo joyristas bring their coffee cart or coffee trailer to the business and serve complimentary cups of Jittery Joe’s, and plenty of complimentary hugs. Though many Athens-area businesses have hired Java Joy since 2016, the word is spreading. “The coolest place is the downtown in Atlanta,” McCutcheon said of a recent event at Colony Square in Midtown. “We helped to do 500 muffins.” Joyristas made about $100 each in tips that day, and celebrated a job well-done with lunch at Cracker Barrel. “It’s better than [previous jobs] because you get to go out in the community and serve coffee and hang out with your friends,” Nelms said. Graben said most of the time, the cart is wheeled into a business’ lobby, lounge or meeting room, but for this event, the trailer was on the street food truck style. She said this will be the first of several bookings at this locale as part of Java Joy’s new subscription program: companies that book at least four times in one year can receive a discounted rate. “We’re really great at grand openings or holidays, parties where businesses are celebrating certain big events,” Graben said. “At the same time, we’re plugged into businesses on a weekly, monthly basis that just want us there simply for their staff.” >> bold coffee for a bold future ESP decided early on to partner with Jittery Joe’s when Java Joy launched. Graben said the Athens coffee roastery already head the name recognition, and might be a way to lessen the barrier to companies interested in booking the coffee cart. Perhaps it’s the coffee — there’s a custom Java Joy blend available now in stores — or perhaps it’s the people, but whatever it is, the demand for Java Joy continues to grow. “We’re in straight-up North Carolina soon for a wedding,” Nelms said. joyristas megan and colin help at the jittery joe's roastery. \| courtesy photo In the Classic City, Java Joy launched a new partnership with the YMCA on weekends inviting businesses to sponsor coffee, and joyristas now have the chance to work directly at the Jittery Joe’s roastery on Monday a month. “YMCA is like, we do events with basketball games. People play games, and we serve coffee for them,” McCutcheon said. Her work with Java Joy inspired McCutcheon to create her own business — Meg’s Mess. She said the name in part comes from the mess she tends to leave in the kitchen, like red velvet on her mom’s mixer after making a cake. As for Nelms, he gets the most out of being hands-on. “Nathan really enjoys the kind of behind-the-scenes aspect of it,” Graben said. “You don’t tell him what needs to be loaded, he just grabs the cambros and takes them to the van.” The other barrier Java Joy’s staff hopes to lessen is interacting with adults of different abilities. “That’s an amazing thing to witness. Some people have hesitancies with interacting with people with disabilities, and they don’t know how to get past it,” Graben said. “You see someone taken aback at first … by the end of it they leave with the biggest smile on their face. That’s what’s so special about our brand. We meet you where you are and you end up having this experience you didn’t’ expect, and a lot of people’s lives are changed because of it.” above: joyristas set up the coffee cart at an athens, georgia event. below, from left: the java joy blend of jittery joe's coffee; joyristas colin and nicky at an event; muffins and cups, ready to go. \| courtesy photos >> spread the joy << addressing racism, one skein at a time Karida Collins, owner and founder of Neighborhood Fiber Co., said she was shocked that the conversation was happening, but added that it was inevitable. “The first trade show I went to was in 2007 and from what I could tell I was the only black person there. I was also one of the youngest people there,” Collins said. “It was definitely a space that was older and whiter than my life normally included.” She attributes it to people being more comfortable with expressing their political opinions in public spaces. “I might have a black friend and we might say something about a shop, like, ‘Oh yeah, I went in there and the person ignored me, of course.’ But we wouldn’t necessarily share that information with a white person who asked about that store,” Collins said. “It’s like Pandora’s Box. All of a sudden all of these feelings and experiences that have been there for years, it’s not new. It’s not like just now people started being a little racist. Now I think the main difference is that … knitting has a much younger constituency. Younger in their 20s and 30s. These are people who statistically are much more progressive than the group that preceded them. So this is a group of people who has grown up with the idea that they are the ones who challenge the status quo.” Another thing that makes it easier is that there are more women of color visible as knitters, designers and dyers, Collins included. “It’s easier to raise your voice when you know that you’re not the only one,” she said. “I definitely feel like it’s not my responsibility to educate white people about racism. White people created it; white people can fix it.” << challenging the status quo >> When the discourse on racism in the knitting world began, Collins said she at first wanted to sit back and observe. “Then I realized that my name was going to be in this conversation whether I put it there or not because I am, of the small business yarn dyers that are out there and active right now, I’m probably the oldest one,” she said. “I’ve been doing this for more than 10 years. This idea of addressing racism and challenging people to think about it has always been part of my work. In subtle ways like some of the [colorway names] — Roland Park is our undyed yarn and it’s named for a neighborhood in Baltimore that was founded specifically to keep out blacks and Jews. It was a planned community … a neighborhood with yards and single-family homes and really specific styles of houses and specific rules on shrubbery and stuff like that and specific rules about who could live there.” Today, that neighborhood is still largely white. karida collins, owner and founder of neighborhood fiber co. \| courtesy photo the penn north colorway's name comes from an inside joke, based on the neighborhood where a friend of collins' lives. \| courtesy photo sandtown-winchester is a limited edition yarn named for the neighborhood in which freddie gray lived. \| courtesy photo “It’s bananas, and no one would really know about that unless they wanted to research the colors. It’s sort of this nod towards my own blackness and my own awareness of the fact that my presence in the knitting world is unwelcome to some people. The nod to that has always been a part of my work,” she said. Like the company name suggests, Collins draws color name inspiration from communities in areas she’s lived. “I felt like it was upsetting the status quo a little bit … because the knitting community, especially when I was living in DC, the knitting community was almost entirely white. So I felt like just being who I was, was entirely unexpected,” she said. “I wanted to convey a distinctly urban aesthetic and idea — urban meaning ‘city’ and also meaning that like, with the connotation of being black.” Sometimes the color names are based on aspects of a neighborhood, like the aforementioned Roland Park. And Canton is a Baltimore neighborhood with a lot of waterfront property, so the name fit a blue-green colorway. Other times they’re based on inside jokes, like a friend of Collins’ who suggested they needed a bright yellow — so they named their yellow after the neighborhood that friend lived in. “My favorite is one that we’ve actually discontinued. It was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and I came up with it sort of inspired by Michelle Obama,” Collins said. “In the beginning of the Obama presidency everyone was really excited and hopeful. I was really kind of amped up of the idea of reaching across the aisle and collaborating to make America better for everyone. That color is a purple — it’s kind of an eggplant — but it’s got spots of red and spots of blue. There’s a lot of feeling in that yarn.” Collins said she doesn’t expect every knitter or designer of color to take part in the discussion. “Everyone has to act at their own comfort level, because it is emotional labor to engage in conversations and educate people about diversity and being inclusive and not even about overt racism, this is just about things that most people don’t notice or think about,” she said. “I would encourage everyone to own or embrace their identity, but whether or not you want to make your voice heard, that’s your business.” << dyeing for a cause >> I originally learned about Neighborhood Fiber Co. a few years ago after the company released one of its limited-edition colorways. “The first time we did it was after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. The city was exploding: it was like nothing I’d ever seen or nothing I’d ever expected to be living through and it just felt like everyone was hurting,” Collins said. She had experience working as a fundraiser, a dye pot in the production area of neighborhood fiber co. \| courtesy photo and felt called to do something in the wake of Gray’s death. So they created a color and donated all of the money collected from the sale of those skeins. “We were able to raise $10,000. It was the first time we did it and it far exceeded my expectation,” Collins said. “We donated it to a Baltimore charity foundation. I felt like it was something that no matter your politics, you could get behind rebuilding a city. … I was very careful to pick a fund that would be palatable to everyone. I didn’t donate the money to Black Lives Matter … and then eventually as time went on, our voice got a little louder. I started letting more of my own politics show through and it’s just part of who I am and it’s part of the ethos of this company.” They’ve donated to causes of all sizes, but it’s the smaller or local ones where she feels the most good has been done. “I really want to focus on helping the community in a really tangible way. When we donated $10,000 to Doctors Without Borders, that was amazing, but they’re a huge organization. Whereas we donated $10,000 to one of these gun safety advocate organizations and … they sent us the most gushing email that said, ‘Thank you so much! We can now hire this person we’ve been trying to find the money for.’ It was just really overwhelming,” Collins said. She said for a while the company would design a cause-based colorway as a reactionary thing, but for 2019 she aims to be more intentional with their craftivism. Neighborhood Fiber Co. will work with Baltimore Youth Arts this year to teach dyeing skills and entrepreneurship. In part, this choice stems from what she said was a transformative moment in her knitting career. Collins used to teach dyeing skills in an after-school program, and loved seeing the students’ reactions. “Watching them watch the yarn change from pink to white … and watching the water change from pink to clear, watching them get excited about that was awesome. It’s like watching magic happen,” she said. With this latest project, Neighborhood Fiber Co.’s staff will have a direct effect in the community, reaching lower income black students in an authentic and personal way. “That said, something terrible will probably happen and we’ll probably decide to raise money for it because I can’t help myself, but hopefully we won’t have any tragic mass shootings or horrible health crises on an international level,” Collins said. << welcome to the neighborhood >> One of the tenets of this website is providing knitspiration, as well as business inspiration. 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__label__wiki	0.782474	0.782474	Classic Rock Here And Now INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS THAT SET US FREE ABOUT CLASSIC ROCK HERE AND NOW'S RAY SHASHO THIS SITE IS SPONSORED BY 'The Publicity Works Agency' Representing Authors and Musicians Worldwide -visit us at www.publicityworksagency.com or call 941-877-1552 Michael Des Barres: Silverhead Rocker & TV Villain ‘Murdoc’ Chats with Ray Shasho By Ray Shasho Michael Des Barres is a perfect example of how perseverance, hard work, and a positive outlook, can achieve many of life’s yearnings. Michael is an incredible story; he embraced his passion for the arts and has never looked backed. Acting lessons at the Corona Stage School led to a supporting cast member role as “Williams,” a London East End pupil on the 1967 British drama, To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier. Besides acting, Michael loved music, especially American blues and rock ‘n’ roll. He formed his first band called the Orange Illusion in his teen years. In 1972, Michael Des Barres became frontman for British glam rockers and cult icons Silverhead. The band eventually signed with Purple Records (owned by Deep Purple) and released two essential albums, Silverhead (1972) and 16 and Savaged (1973). Silverhead became a significant role model for future generations of glam rock groups. After the premature disbanding of Silverhead, Michael Des Barres formed Detective. The band was signed to Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label by legendary guitarist Jimmy Page in 1975. Detective featured guitarist Michael Monarch (Steppenwolf) and Tony Kaye (Yes). The group recorded three studio albums, Detective (1977), It Takes One to Know One (1978), and their third album was recorded on Atlantic Records but never released. (Michael remains friends with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant). During this time Michael Des Barres appeared on the WKRP in Cincinnati television episode “Hoodlum Rock” as the infamous Sir Charles 'Dog' Weatherbee of the band Scum of the Earth. (Rob Zombie released a song called “Scum of the Earth” in 2000, and a heavy metal band by the name of Scum of the Earth was formed in 2003). After the break-up of Detective, Michael Des Barres teamed up with Ex-Sex Pistol guitarist Steve Jones to form Chequered Past. The line-up also included bassist Nigel Harrison and drummer Clem Burke from Blondie, and guitarist Tony Sales formerly of Utopia. (The band recorded one album together called Chequered Past). Des Barres also became the lead singer of the touring and Live Aid version of The Power Station, a Duran Duran spin-off band. Michael Des Barres penned the world-wide hit “Obsession” with Holly Knight, which became a huge hit for the LA new wave group Animation in 1985. Des Barres states that he loves performing in front of a live audience in a rock ‘n’ roll band, but he’s also in love with all the arts, and in many shapes and forms. He’s also an accomplished actor and probably best known for playing the infamous villain ‘Murdoc’ on the popular TV series MacGyver and ‘Alex’ in the movie Pink Cadillac. Michael has appeared in countless film, television, voice-over and stage roles and his credits are awe-inspiring. Visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220735/ for a complete listing of his credits. At 64, Michael Des Barres continues to amaze, mystify and diversify. In April of 2012, Des Barres reunited with Silverhead and all his old mates for the first time in 38 years. The band performed to standing room only audiences in Japan. He’s also recently appeared on the television series The Finder, Suits, and the motion picture California Solo. More impressively, Michael Des Barres returns to his mid- 1960’s roots with an incredible hard-driving rock ‘n’ roll band initiated by old school elation. The new CD is entitled Carnaby Street and will be officially released on July 10th. Des Barres indicated, “I feel I’m part of a movement that is slipping away, I have something to bring to the table that is endangered of being swept under the carpet.” After listening to Carnaby Street, two things became certain …rock ‘n’ roll needs Michael Des Barres and we need more Michael Des Barres. The band is incredibly tight and Des Barres’ vocals are majestic. Des Barres embellishes the essence of a ‘British rocker’ by epitomizing Rod Stewart, Noddy Holder and Steve Marriott all in one voice. It’s an incredible musical journey back to the swinging rock ‘n’ roll days of London. Carnaby Street is a natural flow of raw rock energy reminiscent to the days when rock was king. The Brits are back and ready to rock! I had a chance to chat with Michael last week about the new CD, his inspiring music and acting career, his rock and roll mates, and creating opportunities in life. I found Michael to be brilliant, receptive, spiritual, charming, and a bloody rocker to the end! Here’s my interview with the iconic British glam rocker, singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor… Michael Des Barres, as he takes us back to the “Garden of Eden for rock ‘n’roll.” Ray Shasho: Hello Michael, how are you? Michael Des Barres: “I’m good man, how are you?” Ray Shasho: It’s great to be chatting with the original frontman for Scum of the Earth. Michael Des Barres: “(All Laughing!) I get stopped for many reasons but that was definitely one of the top five. It seemed to define some sort of a Spinal Tap moment for the punk generation. It had an amazing penetration in the media … and it stayed there. That show was so much fun to do.” Ray Shasho: Michael, I want to say congrats on such an awesome and inspiring career. I’ve heard you talk about how you’ve obtained one of your first acting roles on “To Sir With Love” but it seems you’ve created so many great opportunities for yourself in the entertainment business, how was that possible for you? Michael Des Barres: “I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of creating opportunities. I think the way you create opportunity is to believe … it wasn’t a choice to be an artist it was something that I never ever questioned. I really knew deep within that what I wanted to do most was express myself in whatever form. I could have done a sculpture, been a painter, taken photographs or whatever, there was something inside that I wanted to get out and the universe provided these wonderful ways of doing it. I never really gave it that much thought, right now I’m sounding too metaphysical for my own good. But I do believe that if you really have faith, and you trust that you have something to offer the world, you will be given that opportunity.” “But I did work very hard … I was in boarding school for eight years and spent a lot of time reading, because I didn’t have parents, and I spent a lot of time alone. So I took advantage of my education and read everything that I could get my hands on. By the time I was 15 or 16, I knew kind of where I wanted to go. I loved the blues and I loved Shakespeare. Loved Oscar Wilde and loved Elvis, and there was this strange hybrid of influences. I wanted to act and went to drama school. Within months we were given the opportunity to work on To Sir with Love in 1967, which was a huge international success, and I tasted it, and saw what it was like, and saw how Sidney handled himself. Connery was doing Bond at the same time, so I was exposed to great charismatic actors very early on and knew the parameters of what could happen and how it could be done, so I watched and studied them. After the movie I did a lot of theater which gave me a defining discipline, which when I got addicted to everything you could become addicted to, I still had that skeleton of discipline.” Ray Shasho: Blues and Shakespeare, Michael you are a genuine renaissance man. Michael Des Barres: “Yea, you know … Muddy Waters and Hamlet that about sums it up. Art is both inspired and inspiring and that’s all ever wanted to do.” Ray Shasho: I want to chat about your new CD Carnaby Street. Your voice sounds amazing man; it’s a great album, stick to being a rocker for awhile because today’s music scene really needs you. Michael Des Barres: “You’re so incredibly kind to say that. You know what I do … I’ve been killing people on TV for years (laughing) and “Murdoc” was very good to me and I love my career as an actor… however… really what I want to do is stand on the stage of a club anywhere and plug my guitar in and sing the f-ing blues. And it’s really all I want to do. The words and feel of Carnaby Street is freedom through music… liberation with three chords. You can liberate yourself in the most simplistic way. My music is no way ironic, sarcastic, aggressive, sentimental or apologetic … it’s below the waist music. Rock ‘n’ roll is a euphemism for f-ing and dancing. And by saying that I don’t mean to be crude, I’m just saying perhaps that has been lost on a generation raised on Wellbutrin and Prozac.” “Jack White and the Stripes, The Black Keyes, Alabama Shakes, there are innumerable bands that play authentic and genuine rock ‘n’ roll music. And I don’t mean I’m the head of an army of authenticity because I believe there are many people doing it. But I just want to add my take on it since I was there. I mean there were very few people singing rock ‘n’ roll music in 1967 at many nightclubs, and are still doing that. I am a rare breed by that definition.” Ray Shasho: 'Carnaby Street' is just a natural flow of raw rock ‘n’ roll energy and reminiscent to the days when rock was king. Michael Des Barres: “I recorded and mixed it in 10 days. Everything you hear on that record was done in the moment. There were perhaps backup vocals but no overdubs on the album. That album was done because my band is so extraordinary and so in love with that music. You don’t THINK when you’re playing that music. Everything you hear is one take. I wrote all the tunes and collaborated with the very talented country artist Jesse Dayton. I stayed in Austin, Texas for a month writing this album and met Jesse, and he was all about the music and very inspiring. And the rest of the record I wrote with Paul Hill, who is my bass player, and unbelievably talented. He’s Linda Perry’s bass player for all her productions, Tina Turner, James Blunt … the list is endless. And he has the same DNA as I do, as does the rest of the band. I’m very proud of the album and you’re the first person who I’ve spoken to who has heard it. It hasn’t even been sent out particularly yet, so I do appreciate your diligence.” Ray Shasho: I’ve always been a huge fan of British rock … another reason why I love this CD. Michael Des Barres: “Well that’s what it is … that’s why it’s got a Union Jack on the cover, and why I called it Carnaby Street. When I was a kid … 15, 16, 17, I would go and see Georgie Fame, Alexis Korner, Long John Baldry … Rod, Terry Reid, Beck, and then Hendrix and so on and so on. So when I was acting my little ass off, I was listening and so taken by the revolution that was happening every minute. Can you imagine what it was like in London in 1967? It was everything you think it was. Every ten feet was a gorgeous girl, with a gorgeous boy, in gorgeous clothes, listening to stunning music. It was the Garden of Eden for rock ‘n’roll.” Ray Shasho: You’re kind of a cult figure because of the TV character ‘Murdoc’ on MacGyver, but you also have cult status for being the frontman in the bands Silverhead and Detective. Why were those incredible bands short-lived? Michael Des Barres: “Well one word and you’ve heard it before, it begins with D and ends with S. And that’s the reason. I look back at those days and don’t regret the fact that we didn’t sell 25- million albums, for me they were some of the best rock and roll bands ever. I’m so proud of being a member of those bands and what we were capable of… even in those circumstances.” “We were 19 in Silverhead and never experienced about going to Japan or the states, and the temptations were so incredible and we succumbed to them. In Detective we were sponsored by Led Zeppelin at the height of their decadence, so the fact that we even put an album out is a miracle. We were very indulgent and addictive and we succumbed to those things. But even given those circumstances, we made some great records and people have enjoyed them. But all I know is that I’m happy. I’m happy it happened because I’ve learned a lot about what life is.” “The fact that I’m doing this now …money is not the issue, it’s not like I’m hungry to pay my rent, I’m doing this for the fact… I feel I’m part of a movement that is slipping away. I feel I have something to bring to the table that is endangered of being swept under the carpet.” Ray Shasho: I heard Rod Stewart, Steve Marriott and Noddy Holder on Carnaby Street. Michael Des Barres: “I think Noddy Holder was the best of them all. Noddy Holder had the greatest, humorous, bluesy voice of any of them. I have the deepest respect for Noddy, we came up at the same time and I adored him. His voice was like Steve’s … so big. Silverhead opened for Humble Pie a couple of times and I would just sit there and be astonished at this little tiny fellow and this incredible voice. Recently, I did a gig with Jerry Shirley and a tribute to Humble Pie. Steve was an actor, he went to drama school and played the Artful Dodger, we’d all go on auditions before the world changed and everyone was in high heels and eye makeup.” Ray Shasho: I think you’re one of the only singers around that can hit the same notes like they could. Michael Des Barres: “I find it really easy for some reason. (Laughing) I’m 64, and a few years ago when I decided I was going to make a record, I played every nightclub that would let me play and my voice came back, still stronger than ever.” “It’s interesting, Robert Plant has remained a really good friend, and I love him and Jimmy you know, and there’s a reason he doesn’t want to sing those songs anymore. He turned to me one day and said, “I just can’t sing about lemon juice down my leg anymore …I just can’t do it, it would be like a 15 year old playing Romeo.” And he’s the one that has been incredibly creative with his career.” Ray Shasho: I enjoyed the interview you did on You Tube with Pete Townshend and Gene Simmons. Did you have your own radio show too? Michael Des Barres: “I was asked once but didn’t enjoy it very much. I love Gene, and Pete is a God you know, and love to interview people as you do, it’s a wonderful conversation to have but I don’t want to do it every day. I love to work and I have to work … it’s a compulsion.” Ray Shasho: The Silverhead reunion this year in Japan had to be a blast. Michael Des Barres: “Thirty-eight years I haven’t seen these guys… accept for Nigel. We all live in different countries so we had to regroup in Tokyo. Picture this… walking into a room in Tokyo with all the gear there and all these glam kids outside screaming and yelling, and we walk in there and I see these guys that I haven’t seen in 38 years, and the first half an hour is … I’m so sorry that I slept with your girlfriend … and it’s all very intimate, but within a half an hour its turn the f*** down I can’t hear myself! We only rehearsed for three days and to grasp it all in that short time frame was not an easy thing.” “With Silverhead, we were always the band that was trying to seduce the audience; we were touring with Uriah Heep, Deep Purple etc. Always trying to win the audience over … skinny little bastards with makeup on in Mobile, Alabama in 1972 … we were a target for the boys and a different kind of target for the girls. We had a big bulls-eye on our ass!” “When we went to Japan a few months ago and we played, everybody new every syllable to every song and for the first time in our lives, they knew who we were. It was a phenomenon and shocking to us. After that first gig, Robbie was in a corner literally with tears flowing down his cheeks. It was a very emotional closure for the band. We would have never experienced the closure if we would have gone on to make multiple albums in that one band …it would have been a different life.” Ray Shasho: You’re the second rock star that I’ve interviewed who played a part in Seinfeld. Joe Lala of (Blues Image, Stephen Stills and Manassas), was in “The Face Painter” episode. He’s the only rocker who I know that became a veteran actor besides you. I know David Bowie and Mick Jagger played some parts but not to the extent of you and Joe. Michael Des Barres: “I worked with Mick … I did The Man from Elysian Fields with him and Andy Garcia, James Coburn… and he was fantastic in it … great movie!” Ray Shasho: I hope Mick and the Stones can do one more tour … maybe a goodbye tour of some sorts. Michael Des Barres: “I don’t think it will be a tour per se, they’ll probably do 10-12 cities, 2 or 3 nights in those cities and call it a day. Maybe not even a tour, they might do a satellite thing. I can’t imagine Keith, Charlie is 71 now; I just don’t see them doing a year and a half of vigorous touring. I imagine they’ll do selective cities or a satellite show.” Ray Shasho: You’re still good friends with Jimmy Page, how’s he doing? Michael Des Barres: “Great… unbelievably well. Joyous, doesn’t live in the past, lives in the moment and does his thing. I would love to make an album with Jimmy. I’ve said many times to him let’s do it. But right now this record Carnaby Street is terribly important to me and I think people are going to be shocked about how I’m singing, what the songs are, and a bit of a revelation for people who didn’t get it the first time.” Ray Shasho: Did you actually turn down singing the role for Judas on the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar? Michael Des Barres: “I did yea. The last thing I wanted to do back then was to go into a studio at 3:20 and sing “What’s the buzz tell me what’s a happening.” There was no way that I had the discipline at that time, because I was learning about life, sex, love and how to go fing wild. I didn’t want to have to show up at a particular time and do someone else’s work. I wanted to create my own work.” Ray Shasho: Michael a final question, you are incredibly fit, how do you do it man? Michael Des Barres: “It’s very simple … I get up very early and drink a gallon of black coffee, then read about myself on the internet(laughing), then go to the gym and do my cardio … don’t have a trainer I know exactly what I’m doing. An hour and fifteen minutes in the gym, come home and shower, sit-down with a guitar around my neck or some lines to learn and get on with the work. In terms of food … I don’t eat sugar, potatoes or bread. I eat lean fish, no red meat, eat a lot of vegetables and fruit, and drink a lot of water. But I strongly suggest that sugar is the worst thing you could do. I just love being able to walk down the street with my head held high, my shoulders back, Buddy Guy in my iPod, and the love of a good woman.” Ray Shasho: Michael, thank you so much for spending time with me today and more importantly for all the great rock ‘n’ roll music you continue to bring to us all. Michael Des Barres: “Thank you so much Ray and have a GREAT day!” The new release from The Michael Des Barres Band Carnaby Street will be officially released on July 10th and is available for pre-order at amazon.com or www.desbarres.com Michael Des Barres official website www.desbarres.com Special thanks to the great Billy James at Glass Onyon PR Official website http://glassonyonpublicity.wordpress.com/ Contact Classic Rock Music Reporter Ray Shasho at rockraymond.shasho@gmail.com Buy Ray’s very special memoir called ‘CHECK THE Gs’ -The True Story of an Eclectic American Family and Their Wacky Family Business… You’ll LIVE IT! 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The most interesting cult figure in rock history Yardbirds Exalted Drummer and Songwriter Jim McCarty Speaks with Ray Shasho Classic Rock Music Archives By Ray Shasho ‘Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest’ -A Tribute to Johnny Winter is ‘Triumphant’ in Clearwater ‘Mark Farner’ Electrifies Huge ‘Blast Friday’ Crowd in Downtown Clearwater Joe Lala: The Silent- Giant of The Music Industry Dead at 66 2013 Year in Review: Classic Rock Music Journalist Ray Shasho Rates ‘Best of the Best’ John Mayall Dazzles Sarasota Audience on his 80th Birthday Concerts and Music Festivals around Tampa Bay! ‘Spock’s Beard’ Album Review: ‘Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep Jeff Berlin Interview: Perhaps the finest electric bass player in the world. “Renaissance: Grandine il Vento” album review: Fantastico! Alvin Lee legendary British blues guitarist dead at 68 Year in review: Classic rock music journalist Ray Shasho reflects on 2012 Ribfest 2012 headlines Buddy Guy, Heart, Santana’s Gregg Rolie …and more The Zombies are brilliant for sold-out Largo Cultural Center Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band superlative for sold out Clearwater audience Happy Together Tour draws another packed house at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater Summer concerts and rock and roll on the high seas NEWS FLASH: RONNIE MONTROSE Dead at 64 BLONDIE to Perform at Fundraiser in Bradenton for Forty Carrots Family Center ‘Dangerous Dan’ Toler BENEFIT headlines Dickey Betts-Bonnie Bramlett- Blackhawk Review: MONTROSE Masterful and Powerful at Largo Cultural Center Review: FOGHAT quick boogie at Jannus Live Rocks the House Review: Frampton Comes Alive! incredible performance for sold out Ruth Eckerd HIPPIEFEST: A resurgence of the flower children and the music that mattered The Happy Together Tour at Ruth Eckerd Hall was Far Out,Man! George Thorogood And The Destroyers & Queensryche Invade Clearwater This Fall The Beach Boys Brian Wilson surfs into Clearwater STYX returning to Ribfest at Vinoy Park in St Petersburg Cheap Trick and Tampa Bay Lightning rock the St Pete Times Forum Jeff Beck shares a day in the life at Ruth Eckerd Hall Kansas and the Little River Band rock out at Fun ‘N Sun Fest U2 continues to sellout stadiums despite music industry failures KISS Army largest social network on the planet “Giving Hunger The Blues” Block Party Rocks Sarasota Kid Rock, ZZ Top and The Beach Boys are Cruisin' in 2011 KISS Guitarist Ace Frehley Rocks the Forum in Tampa Phil Collins an entangled farewell Pat Travers …Boom, Boom, turn those lights back on I want to rock! Joan Jett and the Blackhearts rock huge crowd In Tampa Johnny Winter Live at the Capitol Theatre Golden Earring celebrates 50 years of rock and roll Jethro Tull celebrates 40th anniversary of Aqualung with USA tour News Flash Buffalo Springfield plans to Reunite and Tour this Fall Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Bob Seger to begin 2011- tour in March Allman Brothers Band guitar legend Dickey Betts plays benefit in Sarasota Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks open their co-headlined tour in Florida Peter Rivera is Rare Earth Lady Gaga reinvented by local heavy metal guitar wizard Robin Trower coming to Jannus Live Keeping cool around your favorite rock stars 'Classic rockers' in my backyard Tweets by @SaveRockNow Keith Emerson Interview: ELP Legendary Keyboard & Moog Synthesizer Wiz Releases Live CD with Greg Lake By Ray Shasho -Interviewed July 22nd 2014 KEITH EMERSON is an accomplished pianist, keyboardist, and master of the moog synthes... PATRICK MORAZ: An Extraordinary Keyboardist & Composer/ Prior Member of ‘YES’ & ‘The Moody Blues’ -Interview By Ray Shasho -Interviewed June 24th 2014 Swiss native Patrick Moraz is the extraordinary keyboardist and composer for no les... By Ray Shasho Steve Hackett Interview: British virtuoso guitarist, singer and songwriter Steve Hackett is a musician’s musician... INTERVIEW: HEART Original Guitarist Roger Fisher "Getting Voted Out Saved My Life!" By Ray Shasho Seattle, Washington native Roger Fisher was the hard driving electric fury that established HEART as a rock and roll po... GREG X. VOLZ LEGENDARY CHRISTIAN ROCKER WITH 'PETRA' SPECIAL GUEST ON 'INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS' G R E G X. V O L Z LEGENDARY CHRISTIAN ROCKER WITH P E T R A BACK ON TOUR WITH THE CPR BAND EXCLUSIVE INTERVI... By Ray Shasho In-depth interview with The Bangles -Susanna Hoffs: Susanna Hoffs is the beautiful, talented & iconic vocalist fo... An Unplugged Interview With The Silent- Giant Of The Music Industry -Joe Lala Joe Lala(second from left) with Stephen Stills Manassas By Ray Shasho Tampa native Joe Lala has had a truly amazing music and acting... Interview: GREG LAKE of Emerson Lake & Palmer Reveals:" I Really Am A Lucky Man" By Ray Shasho Greg Lake was the voice and guitar for two of the most recognizable progressive rock bands in music history. King Cri... Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas By Ray Shasho Black Oak Arkansas (population 286 as of the 2000 census) was the hometown of Jim “Dandy” Mangrum, one of the most... By Ray Shasho When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that’s the best When I lay me down to die Goin’up to the spi... Follow Ray Shasho on Facebook Ray Shasho LEGACY LIVE BY THE OUTLAWS WERE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE Spectrum 40 Live LITTLE BY LITTLE-People I've Known and Been By Rich Little 'THE BABYS' I'll Have Some of That! JANET ROBBINS I Hear Crow: Solo Piano Improvisation & Composition RADIO EXILE Debut Release New Segment: Classic Rock Meets Classic TV -Ray Shasho Interviews Classic TV Icons An Interview with Suzi Quatro, Leather Tuscadero of TV's Happy Days Barry Livingston chats with Ray Shasho about ‘The Importance of Being Ernie’ Classic TV: A Chat with (Chip) Stanley Livingston of 'My Three Sons' Marty Ingels Interview: A Brooklyn wisecracker with hutzpah who became a TV Icon Michael Des Barres Interview: MacGyver TV villain ‘Murdoc’ chats with Ray Shasho DAVE EDMUNDS NEW ALBUM! 'RAGS AND CLASSICS' TITS 'N ASS -Latest from Golden Earring INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS NEW DATE AND TIME! 'Check the Gs' by Ray Shasho The True Story of an Eclectic American Family and Their Wacky Family Business (5) STAR REVIEWS FOR 'CHECK THE GS' BY RAY SHASHO -By Yankeelin on March 14, 2014 “If I could do some time traveling I’d step back to the 60's and be a family member/co-worker at the Chin Lung Art Gallery. Nothing Chinese about it...I'd wanna be a "Cubyrian Cathojew" ! I'd wanna saff those G's to get the best PR. (laughing my butt off as I write this) Shasho has written a family memoir about his Syrian/ Cuban Catholic/Jewish mum and dad and close relatives .The work ethic, the laughter, their ways of dealing with the customers who came into their Washington DC store. It was a hoot and actually brought back memories of life from back in the day.” “Business Deals and Rock N Roll” -By Drew Stiles on October 20, 2013 “Shasho definitely grips his readers from the very beginning. Growing up amid the DC business wasn't easy, but it was never dull--and neither is this memoir. This book is full of stories that many can relate to from their own childhood misadventures. Ultimately, it shows the inside world of what it means to be a Shasho. Also a great read for anyone that has ever felt a personal connection to music. Check it out :)” “Check the Gs is just a really cool story and it’s real" -By Ben Stiller on October 17, 2013 Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase “Check the Gs is just a really cool story ... and it’s real. I’d like to see the kid on the front cover telling his story in a motion picture, TV sitcom or animated series. The characters in the story definitely jump out of the book and come to life. Very funny and scary moments throughout the story and I just love the way Ray timeline’s historical events during his lifetime. Ray’s love of rock music was evident throughout the book and it generates extra enthusiasm when I read his on-line classic rock music column on examiner.com. It’s a wonderful read for everyone!” “Excellent reflection of the childhood we all grew up with” -By William G Wallin on August 25, 2013 “This autobiography shows us an amazing story of what it means to be a self-made person. Through all of life's struggles we experience and how it leads to opportunity and meeting the love of a lifetime. This is the definition of living the American Dream and exceeds the meaning for our pursuit for happiness as we journey through life. I recommend everyone to read this for you will find through our diversity we all share the challenges and struggles that make us into the people we are today. The author does an excellent job showing us how lucky we are and that hope always lies in our perseverance for finding happiness.” AVAILABLE NOW AT AMAZON.COM MORE GREAT MUSIC SITES Dead and Gone - STABBING WESTWARD - Illinois's STABBING WESTWARD* was a mainstay on terrestrial rock radio at the turn of the century due to memorable hits like "Save Yourself". The indust... The Classic Rock Music Reporter MAGNUM FRONTMAN BOB CATLEY CHATS ABOUT 'THE SERPENT RINGS' AND LENGTHY TOUR ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS W/RAY SHASHO BBS RADIO - B O B C A T L E Y ORIGINAL SINGER with BRITISH ROCK'S M A G N U M TALKS NEW ALBUM entitled 'THE SERPENT RINGS' and TOUR EXCLUSIVE! Magnu... The Morton Report/Al Kooper's column Album Reviews: Honeycombs - Have I the Right: The Complete 60s Albums & Singles, Plus Wild Rabbit Salad, Lil Smokies, Bobby Hatfield - A three-CD anthology showcases the Honeycombs, a British Invasion group. Plus, Wild Rabbit Salad, the Lil Smokies, and previously unheard work from the Rig... Keys and Chords - HOME Chris Murphy: Hard Bargain - #element-84ca0c97-f90c-4142-8eea-ce6b1066b274 .colored-box-content { clear: both; float: left; width: 100%; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing... MUSIC LEGENDS 'HERE AND NOW' Music Journalist Ray Shasho has been on a rock and roll pilgrimage to help promote and save the greatest music the world has ever known. Before the internet and Napster, virtuoso musicians traditionally introduced their music by way of mainstream radio stations while anxious music enthusiasts hurried to their favorite record stores and purchased a copy of the artist’s latest release. Talk radio wasn’t popular because there was way too much great music to play over the airwaves. Advertisers didn’t rule the airwaves, the music did. Rock legends toured the world to promote their latest albums and prices of concert tickets were extremely affordable. Proficient musicians, singers and songwriters are what made the music so great! © Copyright classicrockhereandnow.com. All Rights Reserved. Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line488
__label__cc	0.724398	0.275602	To: cusa_pres@carleton.ca Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 Subject: New Political Party, the Égalité Party of Canada Hi Jay (Mr. Nordenstrom), Thanks for making that copy of my News Communiqué for me: that very nice + very gentlemanly of you. As requested, I'm sending it to you the News Communiqués as an attach- ment. What is exciting is the Egalité Party of Canada platform that advocates 1. a "guaranteed annual revenue" so people like students in financial need can at least pay their rent and buy food; 2. FREE post-secondary education; 3. forgiveness of student loans. I believe that post-secondary students and those in financial need are used as "scape-goats" by the those in the System who (mis) spend like drunken sailors + bilk the System 4 their personal pleasure and profit as testified by the annual provincial + federal Auditor's Report. A letter of mine was published in the high-tech magazine, "Info Systems Executive", April 2001 edition, page 7, "The waiting game is over", in which I suggest that the Gov't only keep those 5% of their 1,600 programmes that figure already on the Net + get rid of the rest, the dead wood. Canadians have choice to make as to where Gov't dollars should be directed or redirected. Should the Gov't keep "crooked" public servants? Should the Gov't allow outdated programmes to continue? The SAVINGS generated from a "CLEAN GOV'T" whose programmes are FEW BUT EFFECTIVE could easily be redirected into FREE post- secondary education + a guaranteed annual revenue program which would be a real boon for the economy as people in financial need spend rather than save. Why FREE post-secondary education? The jobs are NO LONGER there for university graduates as in the past. In the '60's + early '70's "a" university degree guaranteed "anyone" a GOOD PAYING job. Today, that is NOT so. I have FIVE university degrees and almost FIVE others and yet, it's very difficult for me to get a job. Should university students come out of university BURDENED with a HEAVY DEBT and have to postpone getting married and perhaps have to declare "personal bankruptcy" and RISK depression and ner- vous breakdown by a System that is acting "criminally". I should point out to U that the current social assistance programme whereby an individual is ONLY entitled to a MAXIMUM of $520 a month to live on is according to Article 228 of the Criminal Code "criminal negligence" described as "the killing of the mind" or "contributory negligence" the equivalent to an "intentional act of homicide" espe- cially when one takes into account the fact that the Gov't has a "fiduciary responsibility" to take care of its citizens. The insufficient amount contra- venes Article 7 of the Charter of Rights whereby the Gov't is respon- sible for the "safety" of its citizens and Article 12 whereby the Gov't is obliged to protect its citizens from "cruel and unusual punish- ment". In short, the Gov't is NOT respecting the Rule of Law and is acting in a criminal capacity. Is that serious? What do U think? Should post-secondary students be DRAINED by a criminally bound public System? The ONLY ONES that benefit from the current System are those who are "WELL OFF ALREADY" and have ALREADY a job upon graduation thanks to the connections of their families. As for the others, it is almost a game of roulette IF they'll be able to get a good enough paying job to be able to EVENTUALLY pay off their student debt. THE GOOD NEWS is that it does NOT have to be this way. It's all a matter of SOCIAL PRIORITIES. Should Society treat its BRIGHTEST as FOOLS and PENALIZE THEM for being more intelligent that the majority? Does that make sense? As an aside, I suspect at Carleton University there is "heavy electronic sur- veillance" of the student population. At least that was the impression when I was there. It is just something to be aware of and what is worst, I don't think the students are told: SNEAKY, if that is the case. I hope get a chance to read the Égalité Party of Canada platform: I believe it's a GOOD READ. Perhaps, Carleton University will have Canada's first Égalité Party student club. (Ha! Ha!) http://www.eh-ok.ca P.S.: I singlehandedly got the Union in on Parliament Hill after working nine (9) years at the Senate of Canada. P.P.S.: Where there is financial abuse by the Gov't, there is, (in my opinion), the "sexual exploitation" of women from what I can see and I believe the number one group responsible for the abuse have been the Freemasons since the inception of Canada and I suspect these are the guys also running Carleton University into the ground. Interestingly, my wife was a victime of sexually ex- ploitation at the Rebab here in Ottawa. When I told her to lay criminal charges, her boss, the Royal Ottawa, had me incar- cerated for a 30-day psychiatric evaluation. It's unfortunate that she had to choose between keeping her job and keeping her marriage. Needless to say, her boss had her make the right choice as she could easily see to it in my opinion have half a dozen Rehab employees placed behind bars for sexual ex- ploitation. By the way, there was a strip tease joint nearby, the Den, within a 15 minute walk from there. Guess who went to the Den at noon? Ottawa Hospital and Rehab employees. The Den has since moved a bit further away. <grin> Did you know that the most decorated Viet Nam veteran ran a brothel and never saw action in the field and he was a reporter during the Desert Storm War back in 1991. Let's have "CLEAN" Gov't + a HEALTHY society where everyone is safe and does NOT have to fear DESTITUTION. P.P.P.S.: you and I both have Scandinavian names: congrats!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line491
__label__wiki	0.997148	0.997148	Axovant appoints Medivation founder David Hung as CEO; shares jump By Joe Barber Created 04/10/2017 - 11:17 Axovant Sciences on Monday announced that former Medivation chief executive and founder David Hung has been selected as its next CEO effective April 7, sending the company's shares up as much as 28 percent. Axovant noted that current CEO Vivek Ramaswamy will remain on its board of directors and serve as chief executive of its parent company Roivant Sciences. Ramaswamy remarked "we were not searching for a new CEO at Axovant, but following the acquisition of Medivation I approached [Hung] about taking a role with us after the MINDSET study," referring to late-stage trials of intepirdine. Hung overlooked the sale [1] of Medivation last year to Pfizer for $14 billion. FirstWord Reports: Providing insight, analysis and expert opinion on important Pharma trends and challenging issues <Click here> [2] Meanwhile, Axovant also named former Medivation chief operating officer, Marion McCourt, as its president and chief operating officer. Axovant additionally expanded its board of directors to include former Medivation directors Kathryn Falberg and Anthony Vernon as independent directors. The news comes after Axovant recently completed [3] enrolment in the Phase III MINDSET study of intepirdine in the treatment of patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. The drugmaker, which acquired rights to the therapy from GlaxoSmithKline in 2014 for $5 million plus royalties, anticipates top-line results from the trial in September. For related analysis, see ViewPoints: Death knell for Lundbeck's idalopirdine unlikely to trouble Axovant [4]. FirstWord Pharma is a reliable news service providing an efficient and timely global overview of the news and events impacting the pharmaceutical industry. To access additional articles of interest, please visit www.firstwordpharma.com. © 2020 Doctor's Guide Publishing Limited. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line498
__label__cc	0.53962	0.46038	After reading the hard copy of your hometown newspaper, please consider becoming a site fan on Facebook and following us on Twitter. Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Rick Scott's "perpetual campaign" "Florida’s governor is still collecting donations from special interests with a stake in legislation, even though he’s term-limited from running for governor again." "The perpetual campaign of Gov. Rick Scott." Desperate for a story Desperate for a story, the New York Times gives us this claptrap: "They use words like 'historic' and 'charismatic,' phrases like 'great potential' and 'million-dollar smile.' They notice audience members moved to tears by an American-dream-come-true success story. When they look at the cold, hard political math, they get uneasy." "A Hillary Clinton Match-Up With Marco Rubio Is a Scary Thought for Democrats." And then there's this: "GOP has tough road appealing to Florida Jewish voters." "Tale of Two Justices" Scott Maxwell: "In March, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she had nailed someone for Medicaid fraud." The culprit was a 49-year-old home-health worker from dirt-poor Gadsden County, accused of bilking the state out of $13,000. For her crime, Melissa Letica Simmons was ordered to spend six months behind bars — and repay all the money she stole from taxpayers. Six months. For $13,000. "A few years earlier, the state accused three hospitals of bilking the Medicaid system as well … only this time, it involved millions." Yet no one was criminally prosecuted. Or even ordered to repay all the money. Instead the hospitals settled — without admitting wrongdoing — and repay taxpayers pennies on the dollars. . . . This, my friends, is the Tale of Two Justices. The small-time thieves get prison sentences. The big-time thieves get deals. "Health-care fraud: Little guys get jail; big guys get deals." "Weekly Roundup: Feds Give the Word on LIP." Propping up the FlaGOP's Tally flop The Tampa Trib does its best to prop up the FlaGOPs nevervending Tallahassee flop. They write, "Here is what you usually read about the Florida Legislature’s dispute over Medicaid:" The House leadership refuses to expand Medicaid as called for under the Affordable Care Act while Senate leaders want to comply with Obamacare. That interpretation does not do justice to the Senate’s position, which by no means is meekly going along with Washington’s dictates. The Senate is trying to protect Florida taxpayers while also addressing the needs of the working poor. It offers a plan that is more fiscally responsible — and conservative — than doing nothing. "A conservative plan to help the uninsured." Non-traditional public sector candidates "Non-traditional candidates sought in public sector." Marijuana scares Florida lawmakers Bill Cotterell: "Usually, if 58 percent of the voters say they want something done, Florida legislators will do it." And if they see something coming at them, the politically smart thing for legislators is to hurry up and do it themselves before the issue runs over them. Even if it’s something they don’t want to do, they’ll usually work out some half measure before the public imposes its undiluted will at the polls. And when the issue is something that’s proved beneficial in about half of the states, Florida usually gets on board in a few years. There’s safety in numbers. But there must be Usually, if 58 percent of the voters say they want something done, Florida legislators will do it. "Marijuana, even medical, still scares Florida lawmakers."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line499
__label__wiki	0.938567	0.938567	HOT TOPICS: Kim Kardashian Lindsay Lohan Justin Bieber Poll: Did Lady Gaga Copy Madonna? Lady Gaga, Madonna By now you’ve all heard Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” (click through to listen) and you’ve also probably heard that tons of people are up in arms over the fact that it appears to sound awful lot like Madonna’s classic hit “Express Yourself” (click through to listen.) The songs have similar messages, similar beats and a similar overall sound, but can’t that be said of almost all pop music? I remember my mom telling me when I was growing up that nearly everything I listened to sounded repetitive, so maybe that’s just how our ears start to work when we get older. I’ve listened to both songs back-to-back and while there’s no doubt that certain parts sound almost exactly the same to me, I’m not sure I look at this as stealing. More like borrowing with a dash of reinterpretation. And that’s allowed, right? Let me know what you think about this in the comments and by voting in the poll. Do you think "Born This Way" sounds too much like "Express Yourself"? Yes! Lady Gaga totally ripped off Madonna It's a little similar, but that's bound to happen with any sort of art. They sound nothing alike. Previous postJessica Simpson Rocks Big Hair and No Pants in ‘New York’ Next postCharlie Sheen Says He’s Fine, The Flakey ‘Two and a Half Men’ Crew is The Real Problem Simon Jadis says: The people who are so upset about this should remember Madonna’s “Hung Up” (a wonderful song), and it’s musical similarity to Abba’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme.” evilbeetdouche says: Yeah, Justin Bieber’s Baby sounds like Chop Sticks. Barbara Botox says: I Beliebe Bobo says: Not at all the same thing! Madonna sampled “Gimme Gimme Gimme” and got permission from the songwriters to use it in “Hung Up”. Madonna even sent a letter to the writers in Sweden begging them to let her use the song. They were credited. I don’t mind sampling when it’s done the right way and everyone receives proper credit. mireee says: Thank you for clarifying, Bobo. I was starting to bring my palm closer to my face. Madonna got permission from ABBA because she used the exact riff ABBA used back in the day. that’s slightly different in that Madonna in ‘Hung Up’ was openly sampling the exact same piece of music used by Abba. Lady Gaga has produced a song that is basically the same but it is a new recording, not sampling any of Express Yourself. it’s unorginal, but that’s just because it’s pop music. priss says: you’d have to be pretty stupid to think she ripped her off. I mean saying she ripped that song off is like saying all techno and house music artists rip each other off- alot of the times they have similar beats and music. You people just don’t know anything about that sort of thing. It’s similar but not a rip off.A rip off would have identical beats and almost identical lyrics. The dance beats are similar but that is because certain rhythms will have mass appeal[sometimes only because of familiarity] and I suspect that is trying to get a message about sexual and social tolerance to as many people as possible and that is not a bad thing. And as Madonna tore through the 80’s and early 90’s she set the standard for many sounds and looks for female singers that exist. It’s hard to be original, it can only happen once for each look or sound so comparisons will always occur even if things are unique but similar to what has come previously. And as Sir Isaac Newton once said “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Gaga is just doing the same. Inching forwards rather than leaping. That is no way if she’s going to rip Madonna. She has her own style, her own songs and of course her own idea……….about life. wha.... says: well if we are talking about ripping rythms and beats of classic songs, watch out with Rihanna, most of her songs are based on lots of classic songs Yes Gaga ripped Madonna. Hung up by Madonna had Benny and Bjorn down as songwriters. It’s not the only song Gaga has ripped.You hear lots of other people songs inher music. Inuko Arashi says: This is a ripoff, you can see from other places saying you can sing the original over this one – Frankly, shock pop like Madonna can’t be reinvented, she was the Queen of it, even Britney didnt “REINVENT IT” – Brit did her own thing, she wasn’t out to shock EVERYONE … no she worked WITH Madonna :) – GaGa? …. Her name’s a ripoff, her style is … shockingly odd, tho sometimes fashionable i think she’s about to get caught with her “tail” between her legs. lady gaga is way different to madonna gaga writes her own songs and she is obsessed with madonna but that doesnt mean that she copies her. lady gaga found out that other artists were making songs about the gay community so she decided that she should make one but she wasnt copying Hot on Evil Beet Gossip Ferris Bueller's "Ferrari" is going to auction Globes already begging Tina Fey & Amy Poehler to host next year George Lopez angers secret service with Trump bounty joke Russian Oligarch buys insane mansion Nicki Minaj's wax figure unveiled... people ain't happy Copyright © 2007-2015 Evil Beet Gossip AACG, LLC. All rights reserved. Contact \| Privacy Policy \| RSS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line503
__label__wiki	0.607903	0.607903	Direct to consumer testing can potentially be quite dangerous without appropriate regulations and support to fully understand the implications of the information a consumer receives. Catalyzing Implementation of NGS-Based Tests A Four-Part Series Including Clinical Genomics Best Practices & Case Studies. Sequencing All 24 Human Chromosomes Uncovers Rare Disorders Extending noninvasive prenatal screening to all 24 human chromosomes can detect genetic disorders that may explain miscarriage & abnormalities during pregnancy. NIH to Fund Development of HIV Self-Testing Assays The NIH have announced that they will commit $2.6M to a projects aimed at developing effective, inexpensive self-testing diagnostic assays for HIV Test Reveals Potential Treatments for MeCP2 Disorders A team of researchers have developed a strategy that enables them to identify potential treatments of MECP2 duplication syndrome. Blocked Drug Has Been Found to Improve the Quality of Life for MS Patients New study shows that the drug cladribine leads to improved quality of life in MS patients, but the drug is blocked by EU regulators. Could Genomics be Used to Predict the Next Michael Jordan? Scientists have tapped into the microbiome of elite runners and rowers, and have identified particular bacteria that may aid athletic performance. Drug-Like Molecule Spurs Cell Death in Tumours A drug-like molecule developed by Duke Health researchers appears to intercede in an inflammatory response that is at the centre of a variety of diseases. Boys With Muscular Dystrophy Prepare for Gene Therapy Test An unusual medical case in the 1990s has provided a clue for how to treat a fatal muscle disease as doctors prepare to carry out a bold test. Smartphone Technology Offers Cheaper Diagnostic Tests Researchers have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests as a cheaper alternative. New Blood Test Could Transform Cancer Scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA released from cancer cells into the blood. Not the CRISPR Rival We Hoped For Nature Biotechnology announced that they were officially retracting a paper published in May 2016 last week, which claimed to demonstrate how a novel technique could perform gene editing in mammalian cells. Mutant Ants Created for the First Time Scientists have successfully genetically engineered mutant ants, in order to better understand their behaviour through their genes. Fertility Start-Up Offers Home Testing Former UberHEALTH and 23AndMe executives launch Modern Fertility, to allow women to discover how many years of fertility they have left with home test. Scientists Develop Cost-Effective Method to Make RNA Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a new method for producing ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in the laboratory. Success of Liquid Biopsies for Cancer Screening The first major field study of a new type of blood test to detect cancer early shows the technique can probably save lives. © Front Line Genomics, 2020. Front Line Genomics Limited is registered in England and Wales. Company Number 104 217 16. Registered Office: J202, The Biscuit Factory, Drummond Road, London, SE16 4DG, United Kingdom.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line512
__label__cc	0.672916	0.327084	From exploration to production +7 800 234-15-67 Anticorruption +7 495 780-49-95 GV Gold Corporate +7 800 234-15-67Anticorruption +7 495 780-49-95GV Gold Corporate “GV Gold has been sustainably holding high positions in the list of the TOP Russian gold mining enterprises. Owing to implementation of the large-scale investment program on launching of the new mines, the Company has demonstrated impressive results having practically doubled its gold production to 304 koz of gold. Today we are establishing the foothold for further growth, based on successful completion of the exploration program and further improvement of the operating efficiency. The key objective is to ramp-up the gold production by 30% in 2021 already.” CEO Vladislav Barshinov We are working on improvement of the operational efficiency in all business units. Our strategic projects commissioned last year — the Taryn Mine and the Ugakhan Mine, as well as our flagship asset — the Golets Vysochaishy Mine, act as the engine of our growth. Deputy CEO for Operations Mikhail Nartov Irkutsk Business Unit Aldan Business Unit Taryn Business Unit Payments to Governance GV Gold supports social and economic development of the regions where it operates. The relevant cooperation agreements are signed every year; this document determines the main trends of cooperation in the area of the social programs implementation. Head of the Environment, Health and Safety Department Vladimir Polyakov Modern business is becoming akin to a blogger — less and less of internal information about the Company’s activity remains non-public. While forming the news agenda, we are more focused on the change of external context around the business, as the dynamic demand for information serves as the catalyst for the PR-service work. Deputy CEO for Public Relations Tatiana Demyanova News and Press-releases Successful commissioning of the new enterprises serves as a proof of employees’ high competence, each of them makes a contribution into the result achievement. Today the Company staff totals 2,500 people. We provide the best conditions for work and accommodation. Modern and comfortable mine camps with the Internet access and cell phone coverage are constructed at all our production facilities. Since 2017, business units of the Company transited to the rotational work schedule. Deputy CEO for Human Resources Andrey Zaikin About Work I am convinced, that high production results are ensured with the quality control of the Company’s own processes, but to a high extent the result depends on a transparent and efficient chain of supplies established with our partners. Perhaps, we impose quite strict requirements to our suppliers, but we do it consciously. For us, ensuring a responsible attitude to the terms of the agreement and execution of all delivery terms is the key to maintenance of the core production cycle at the required level. Deputy CEO for Procurement Sergey Gorbachev Conflict Commissions Contacts and Feedback © 2020 ПАО «Высочайший» GV Gold will pay RUB 1.9 billion of dividends for 9M 2018 For the first time, GV Gold (Vysochaishy, PJSC) will pay its shareholders the interim dividends for 9m 2018 totalling RUB 1.9 billion. This resolution was made at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the GV Gold (Vysochaishy, PJSC) Shareholders which took place on December 28, 2018. GV Gold (Vysochaishy, PJSC) is one of largest and fastest growing Russian gold mining companies. It develops open pit deposits and washes gold at the country’s largest alluvial deposit. In 2017, the Company produced 225 koz of gold, becoming the 7th largest gold miner in Russia. In 2018, the Company expects to produce 280-300 koz. Its key operating assets are located in the Irkutsk Region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The Company operates four mines with a total capacity of 8 Mtpa of ore and holds 20 mining and exploration licenses. GV Gold boasts an extensive resource base, with JORC reserves and resources estimated at 4.4 Moz and 7.0 Moz, respectively. The Company adheres to high corporate governance standards and has a transparent ownership structure, with BlackRock among its shareholders (17.99%). For further information, please visit http://gvgold.ru © 2020 GV Gold	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line514
__label__cc	0.748992	0.251008	This website uses cookies to ensure that it gives you the best experience. If you continue without agreeing to our cookie policy, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website. Digital Futures Mgt Board Latest Stories & Updates Cross-cutting Capabilities Institutional Challenges FinTech North Manchester Conference 2019 Venue: Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester Sorry, this event has now ended. The FinTech North Manchester conference will take place on Wednesday 17th April at the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Hall. Over 300 delegates from across Greater Manchester and The Northern Powerhouse will meet for a day of keynote speeches, panel sessions and a showcase of Manchester FinTech. Speakers and panellists will be discussing the opportunities and challenges for the national and regional FinTech economy, the future of key sub sectors such as payments and lending and will also be networking throughout the day to build the relationships that will help support the growth of FinTech in Manchester. The agenda is available to view here and includes speakers from The University of Manchester, Innovate Finance, Equiniti Credit Services, The Northern Powerhouse Partnership. Kilburn Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL digitalfutures@manchester.ac.uk © Digital Futures 2020. All Rights Reserved Web Design by Ph.Creative	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line516
__label__cc	0.604062	0.395938	DIVERSITY CHAMPION AWARD AND INTERNATIONAL INCLUSION AWARD 2020 Is your Organisation a Diversity Champion? The Diversity Champion Award is the leading International Diversity Mark which recognises and promotes organisational excellence and achievement in Diversity. It is the most comprehensive Award as it covers ALL aspects of Equality and Diversity - including age, race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, etc. The Awards highlight those organisations who actively promote diversity in ways that benefit all employees, the organisation’s clients and the wider community. The Diversity Champion Awards are open to all organisations - irrespective of size, geographical location or sector. Awards are made in one of 5 categories - Corporate, Public Sector, Community, Not for Profit and S.M.E. These prestigious and highly regarded Awards are recognised locally and internationally. Award winners can include the Diversity Champion logo on their website, letterhead and signage to promote their achievements in the field of Diversity. The Diversity Champion Awards seek to acknowledge and reward those organisations who are outstanding in PROMOTING RESPECT SUPPORTING INCLUSION CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL STAFF VALUING THE UNIQUENESS OF INDIVIDUALS Awards are made on an annual basis. Organisations may apply at any time. Remember, there is no fee payable for submitting an application to see if your organisation is eligible for the Diversity Champion Award. You will receive feedback and advice from our Independent Verifier. If your organisation is successful an administrative fee will apply. Apply now - Award winners can place the International Inclusion Award AND the Diversity Champion logo on their website & organisation materials. Online Diversity Calendar On-Line Application Form Administered by Diversiton Ltd. 8 Osborne Promenade Warrenpoint Co Down. BT34 3NQ United Kingdom +44 (0) 28 4175 4777 COPYRIGHT © Diversiton 2013 -20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line517
__label__cc	0.740163	0.259837	Fuurin Kazan Furin Kazan, Fūrin Kazan, Samurai Banners, 風林火山 The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen’s concubine Yu from his selfless affection fo… more The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen’s concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke’s strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age. less Category: Japanese Drama Rating: 10 (3 Votes) Rate it! Genres: Action, Period Drama Chiba Shinichi Ichikawa Kamejiro Sasano Takashi Uchino Masaaki Watch Fuurin Kazan: Fuurin Kazan Episode 50 Oct 11, 2011 Fuurin Kazan Episode 9 Oct 11, 2011	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line521
__label__cc	0.543378	0.456622	< Back Page 8 of 9 Next > Opening files saved in a foreign file format enables you to access the information stored in those files. If you want to work with the information, taking full advantage of the StarOffice features, you have to complete the file conversion process by saving the imported information in the new native StarOffice XML file format. Introducing the New StarOffice XML File Format In response to customer demands for content stability, performance, and the flexibility to create, manage, and access complex documents and Web pages, StarOffice engineering has replaced the previous binary file format with a new, XML-based file format. XML provides a platform- and application-independent environment for defining document markup that enables you to output and exchange content of StarOffice documents for years to come. The new StarOffice XML-based file format saves the content, layout, and formatting information of each StarOffice document as a set of XML streams or subdocuments. To make it easier for users to manage and share files, these XML streams—alongside binary data for embedded bitmap graphics and objects, if any—are saved in one compressed package using the popular zip format. The default file extensions for the documents, however, are different for each document type. Table 3.2 provides an overview of the new file extensions for native StarOffice documents and templates. Table 3.2 StarOffice File Extension by Document Type Document Application Template Extension .sxw .stw .sxc .stc .sxd .std .sxi .sti .sxm Master document .sxg Using a zip archive utility (such as PKZip or WinZip), you can easily view and unpack the streams that make up the full StarOffice document, as shown in Figure 3.7. Some zip utilities—such as StuffIt—that identify archives based on extensions rather than the archive's entry header will not recognize a StarOffice XML file as a compressed archive. In this case, you must rename the default file extension to .zip to unpack the XML subdocuments. Also, the document type definition (DTD) files you need to open the XML files are part of the product and are located in the <StarOffice>\shared\office60\share\dtd\officedocument\1_0 directory. (A DTD file is a specification that accompanies a document and identifies the markup that separates paragraphs, topic headings, and so forth and how each is to be processed.) Figure 3.7 The new StarOffice XML file format enables you to work with files in new ways. A typical StarOffice document that does not contain macros, pictures, or embedded objects consists of five streams: content.xml, as the name suggests, stores the main content of the document, including text, tables, and graphical elements. Embedded bitmap graphics and objects, if any, are stored in the Pictures and Objects directory, respectively (refer to Figure 3.7). Depending on the type, embedded graphics are stored in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format or their original binary format. StarOffice objects are saved as XML representations, with each object having its own directory; all other objects are stored in their native binary format. Storing embedded bitmap graphics and objects in their own directories allows for easy searching and extracting of the files. The content.xml stream contains only references to these files. styles.xml stores the properties and attributes of all character, paragraph, page, object, and numbering styles that have been used to provide a consistent look to the contents of the current document. For example, the attribute-value pairs in the following snippet (taken from the styles.xml stream of a text document) map to the attributes defined on the Organizer tab page of the Paragraph Style: Text Body dialog box, shown in Figure 3.8. The name attribute maps to the Name text box; the family attribute indicates that this style is a paragraph style (as opposed to a page style, for example); the parent-style-name attribute maps to the Linked With text box; and the auto-update parameter maps to the AutoUpdate check box. Figure 3.8 The properties for the Text body paragraph style. meta.xlm stores general information about the current document—including title, type, location, user, time of last save, and more. The contents of this file map to the information defined in the File, Properties dialog box. settings.xml stores application-specific document and view settings for the document, such as selected printer properties and print options, zoom level, and window size. manifest.xml provides additional information about the XML files such as MIME type and encryption method. Like graphic files and objects, the manifest.xml stream is stored in its own directory. If the document contains macros, the compressed package will contain additional XML streams and directories. For example, StarOffice Basic macros are stored as separate XML streams in the Basic directory. In Figure 3.7, you also see a version stream, which indicates that another version of the same file is stored with this document. The advantages of the new StarOffice XML file format over binary file formats are three-fold: It ensures better long-term compatibility because user data is stored independently from the source application that created it in a human readable format; it facilitates open information publishing because of better indexing and hyperlinking support and the option to apply templates during publication rather than document creation; and it encourages third-party development because developers can use widely available tools to open, modify, and share StarOffice content. All this will become critical as enterprises move their data and information from networks and hard disks to Web-based content stores (such as Microsoft Exchange or WebDAV-enabled Web servers) and as users begin to publish documents to these online content stores rather than distributing them as email attachments. Developers who want to build applications that can exchange documents with StarOffice can find the file specifications on the OpenOffice.org Web site. For more information about the StarOffice XML format, go to http://xml.openoffice.org/. For more information about the zip file format, go to http://xml.openoffice.org/package.html. Converting Files Individually Converting individual files is as easy as opening the file in question in StarOffice and then saving it in the StarOffice format. Follow these steps: Select File, Open; locate and select the document you want to convert in the Open dialog box and then choose Open. Based on the file's extension, StarOffice opens the file using the application that has the appropriate conversion filter. Select File, Save As to display the Save As dialog box, and then select the new StarOffice 6.0 document description in the File Type drop-down list (for example, StarOffice 6.0 Text Document). Remove the document extension (for example, .doc) from the file's name in the File Name box and click Save to save the document with the same name but a different extension. What Makes Documents Simple or Complex? In general, the current StarOffice conversion filters handle basic documents quite well. In the case of complex documents, however, some layout features and formatting attributes implemented in Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP remain unsupported or are handled differently in StarOffice 6.0. Especially complex document features that are proprietary implementations of the application in question cannot be expected to convert with 100% accuracy. So what exactly are simple or complex documents? Simple documents do not contain macros, proprietary graphics (such as Microsoft WordArt), vector graphics, complex formatting, or advanced elements such as footnotes, end notes, tables, or indexes. You can typically convert simple documents in batches with the built-in StarOffice conversion utility (File, AutoPilot, Document Converter) or by opening the original file in StarOffice and then saving it in the StarOffice format. However, you may still be required to evaluate and clean up the converted documents manually, depending on the content and formatting of the source. Complex documents contain macros, shared components, proprietary or vector graphics, multiple links or cross-references, OLE objects, frames, text boxes, footnotes, end notes, active content, form fields, form controls, formulas, tables, or a wealth of character, paragraph, or page formatting. Some of these elements may not convert easily because equivalent functions have not yet been implemented in the existing StarOffice conversion filters or because a feature is either handled differently or not supported in StarOffice. In general, complex documents do not convert as easily as simple documents. They typically require post-conversion formatting or layout cleanup. In some cases (such as document-based macros or custom solutions), complex documents may even have to be reengineered to provide the same functionality and look as the original document. Simple templates consist of generic text and formatting that serve as a starting point or rough draft for new documents. Good examples of simple templates include boilerplate text for form letters, basic reports, memos, proposals, or fax cover sheets. In this case, you have the same conversion options as with simple documents. Complex templates contain form fields and automation features that may not convert easily and may have to be re-created in the appropriate StarOffice module, or as in the case of complex document-based scripting solutions, reengineered by an experienced StarOffice developer. Converting Files in Batches Needless to say, opening and saving each file you want to convert to the new StarOffice file format individually gets old fast if you are stuck with a batch of files that needs converting. If this batch of files consists of documents and templates that have been created in StarOffice 5.2 or earlier, or of Microsoft Office documents and templates created in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you can rely on the built-in StarOffice conversion utility to convert these files for you. Although convenient, using the StarOffice conversion utility does have its drawbacks. Due to the number of processes the program has to run to compare and convert the existing content and structure of files, the time it takes to convert documents and templates depends on processing power and increases exponentially with the number (and complexity) of files you are trying to convert. Using Document Converter also interferes with your productivity, because the process taxes valuable processor resources. For these reasons, you should convert no more than 50 documents and templates at once—preferably fewer. For larger conversion jobs, you should plan to start the conversion process after hours or at a time when you don't have to work on your computer. Depending on the number of files you want to convert, it can take hours. Also, because you are creating copies of all templates and documents you want to convert, be sure that you have enough free space on the disk or partition where you want to save your files. You can safely assume that the converted files together will take up about as much space as the source documents. To convert your files in batches, follow these steps: Place the source documents you want to convert in one location. (The documents can be located in the same folder or in separate subfolders within the same parent folder.) Choose File, AutoPilot, Document Converter to open the first pane of the StarOffice conversion utility (see Figure 3.9). Figure 3.9 Use the Document Converter to batch-convert binary StarOffice 5.2 or Microsoft Office documents and templates to the StarOffice 6.0 XML file format. Select the document types you want to convert. By default, the program assumes you want to convert binary StarOffice documents. If you want to convert Microsoft Office documents, you must first select the Microsoft Office option and then select the document types you want to convert. (Note that you can select multiple document types.) The program also gives you the option to generate a log file of the entire conversion process. The finished log consists of a two-column table, listing the name of the source file on the left and the target file on the right—nothing special if it weren't that the names are text-based hyperlinks that give you one-click access to your files. To generate this log, select the Create Log File check box, and then choose Next to advance to the second window. For each document type you selected in step 3, you must specify, in consecutive windows, the location of the source templates and documents as well as the location of the converted files (see Figure 3.10). By default, StarOffice saves templates in the <StarOffice6.0>\user\template\ (StarOffice documents) and <StarOffice6.0>\user\template\Imported_Templates (Microsoft Office documents) directories. Although you can specify a different path for your templates, if you accept the default setting for templates, StarOffice automatically registers the converted templates with its template-management system, so you can access the templates via the Templates and Documents dialog box without having to import them first. Converted documents by default are saved to the work directory, but you can save them anywhere you like. When specifying paths, you don't have to type the new path information in the respective boxes; you can click the push buttons to the right of each path box and then navigate to and select the appropriate parent folder in the Select Path dialog box that opens (see Figure 3.10). Also by default, StarOffice earmarks files located in subfolders of the currently specified Import path for conversion. If you want to convert only those templates and files located in the current parent folder, clear the Include Subdirectories check box. When you're all set, choose Next to specify the path information for the next document type you selected in step 3 and so on. After you've finished setting up the import information for all selected document types and choose Next, StarOffice provides you with a list that summarizes your selections. Figure 3.10 Specify the location of the StarOffice 5.2 and Microsoft Office files. Review the summary list to verify that you've specified the proper paths. (At this point, you can still choose Back at the bottom of the dialog box to return to a previous window and make any necessary changes.) When everything is set, choose Convert to start the process. This may take a while, depending on the number and complexity of the documents and templates the program has to convert. If you selected the Create Log File option in step 3, the program creates a new text document called Logfile.sxw and inserts a two-column table. During conversion, the file doubles as a progress indicator. When the conversion of a file has been completed, the program inserts a new row for the source file and target file. If you didn't select the Create Log File option, you can trace your progress by the numbers on the final window of the Document Converter. When the process is completed, choose Finished to exit the Document Converter. Want to see just what the Document Converter AutoPilot did? Open the URL Locator history list on the function bar immediately after the AutoPilot completes its work. You can see a list of the last 100 templates and/or documents that were imported. Customizing Your Microsoft Office Conversion Options All necessary Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP import and export filters are automatically installed during StarOffice setup, regardless of the setup method (Standard, Custom, Minimum) you choose—so no additional action is required on your part. In addition to conversion filters, however, StarOffice 6.0 provides a number of Microsoft Office compatibility settings options that give you a certain degree of control over the import and export of files in the Microsoft Office formats. To access these features, select Tools, Options from within any StarOffice document window. The options you may want to set can be accessed through the Load/Save, Text Document, and Presentation portions of the Options dialog box. This is where you define general settings for opening and saving documents in external formats. Using the following options, you can control the behavior of macros or OLE objects in Microsoft Office documents (as well as define settings for HTML documents): General. Select various default settings for saving documents as well as the default file format. VBA Properties. Specify the general properties for loading and saving Microsoft Office documents that contain macros. For each document type (text, spreadsheet, and presentation), your options include Load Basic Code To Edit. Use this if you plan to convert macros from a Microsoft Office to a StarOffice environment. Check this box to load and save the source code of the document-based Visual Basic macro as a special StarOffice Basic module with the document. Using the StarOffice Basic IDE, you can then edit the source code. When you save the document to the StarOffice format, the source code is saved as well. When you save to another format, however, the source code from the StarOffice Basic IDE is lost. Save Original Basic Code Again. This option is recommended in co-existence scenarios, when exchanging documents with Microsoft Office users. Select this option if you want to protect the source code of document-based Microsoft Visual Basic macros. With this option selected, the source code is placed in a special internal memory location until the user decides to save the document. When you save the document in a Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP format, the source code of the macro is saved as well, unchanged, so it can still be used by the Microsoft Office user. When you save the document in any other format, the source code is lost. To prevent users from accidental losses, you get an alert informing you that the existing Microsoft Visual Basic code will not be saved. The Save Original Basic Code Again option takes precedence over the Load Basic Code to Edit option. If both boxes are marked and you edit the macro source code in the StarOffice Basic IDE, the original Microsoft Basic code is saved when you save in the Microsoft format. You see a message to that effect when you save the document. Figure 3.11 StarOffice enables you to coexist with Microsoft Office users. To remove any possible Visual Basic macro viruses from the Microsoft document, deselect the Save Original Basic Code Again check box and save the document in Microsoft format. The document is saved without the macro. Microsoft Office. Here you can specify the settings for importing and exporting Microsoft Office OLE objects. In the list box, you find entries for the pairs of OLE objects that can be converted when you load a Microsoft Office document into StarOffice or save a StarOffice document in a Microsoft Office format. For example, if a Microsoft Word document contains a Microsoft Excel table as an embedded OLE object, a StarOffice user who loads this text document can edit the spreadsheet table in StarOffice Calc if the respective option is selected. Mark the box in the [L] column in front of the entry if a Microsoft OLE object is to be converted into the specified StarOffice OLE object each time a Microsoft document is imported into StarOffice. Mark the box in the [S] column in front of the entry if a StarOffice OLE object is to be converted into the specified Microsoft OLE object when a document is saved in a Microsoft file format. These settings are also valid when no Microsoft OLE server exists (in a Unix environment, for example). Specifying Compatibility Settings (Writer and Impress) Formatting definitions are not always the same in all word-processing and presentation programs. Fortunately, Writer and Impress provide Microsoft Office compatibility settings that you can turn on or off in the Compatibility group of the Options Text Document General and Options Presentation General dialog boxes. Using these options enables you to mimic certain behaviors of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents in the current StarOffice Writer or Impress document: Add Spacing Between Paragraphs and Tables in the Current Document. Writer and Impress documents use different definitions for paragraph spacing than Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint documents. For example, if between paragraphs you have defined spacing above and below each paragraph, then the actual spacing between paragraphs in a Word document is the sum total of the spacing above and below each paragraph. By contrast, Writer uses only the larger of the two definitions. If you want Writer and Impress to mimic the Microsoft Word and PowerPoint behaviors, respectively, then select this check box. Add Paragraph and Table Spacing to Start of Pages. If this box is checked in the Text Documents General settings, the paragraph spacing to the top is also effective at the beginning of a page or column if the paragraph is positioned on the document's first page. The same applies for a page break. When you import a Word document, the spaces are automatically added during the conversion. Aligning Tab Positions. If this check box is selected, centered and right-aligned paragraphs containing tabs are formatted as a whole in the center or aligned to the right. If this field is not marked, only the text to the right of the last tab, for example, is aligned to the right, while the text to the left remains where it is. Reviewing Converted Documents As a rule, review the converted documents carefully to verify document fidelity. More specifically, keep an eye on the following elements: Character size Margins, tabs, and indentations Line length (how much text fits on a line) Line spacing (space between lines within a paragraph) Paragraph spacing (space between paragraphs) To verify the proper appearance of elements and document fidelity, do the following: Review documents onscreen to ensure the converted document looks and functions the same onscreen as in the original document. For example, you can open the original document in the source application and the converted document in StarOffice 6.0, arranging the windows side by side or one on top of the other and then scrolling through the documents. Print and compare documents to ensure formatting and layout are correct. If you notice any strange formatting or layout changes in text documents, turn on the Non-printing Characters feature and look for tab stops, extra returns, or spaces. Also compare the styles in the original document to the styles in the converted document.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line528
__label__cc	0.593544	0.406456	Sign up using Google Continue with Google IAP Home Statements Statements Statements Overview News and e-Bulletin Forgot Your Login Information Academy Reports Related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The InterAcademy Partnership has more than 130 national and regional member academies, representing the best and brightest scientific minds in their countries. This searchable database provides examples of published academy output (national, regional and global) since 2014 that is either directly or indirectly relevant to the SDGs. The reports included here have either been submitted by the academies or collected from their websites. Academies are invited to update the database as they produce relevant materials using the green “Add SDG Resource” button (below). 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You must be afﬁliated with an academy and logged in to upload a resource. IAP Communique on Tropical Forests SDG 13: Climate ActionSDG 15: Land and Environment Achieving universal health coverage in LMICs: The role of quality of care research Academy of Medical Sciences, UK The Academy of Medical Sciences published the report “Achieving universal health coverage in LMICs: The role of quality of care research”, from their workshop with the InterAcademy Partnership in May 2019. SDG 3: Good Health Harnessing Science, Engineering and Medicine to Address Africa's Challenges: The Role of African National Academies Harnessing Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SEM) to Address Africa's Challenges makes the case for strengthening the science-policy interface in Africa to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union’s (AU) STI Strategy for ... Cross-Cutting Reports Sustainable development of the health system PostedJuly 11, 2019 Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences Organization: Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC) © German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Opportunities for adaptation to reduce the impacts, and for mitigation to capitalise on the benefits of decarbonisation SDG 13: Climate Action Report on International Forum on Women and Sustainable Development in Africa PostedMay 24, 2019 http://nasaconline.org/index.php/2018/10/23/report-on-international-forum-on-wom... The International Forum on Women and Sustainable Development in Africa was organized by NASAC in collaboration with the Tanzania Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the French Development Agency, the French Institute for Development Research, the Sanofi Espoir Foundation and the Inter Academy Partnership. This forum provided a platform for scientists to dialogue with and, provide evidence- informed advice to policy makers on the value of women’s participation and inclusion in national frameworks for realization of the SDGs; in particular, SDG 5 on ‘Gender Equality’. Organization: Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) SDG 5: Gender Equality Toward a New Theory of Sustainable Development: Drawing on Insights from Developments in Modern Legal Theory http://cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-3/issue-2/toward-new-theory-sustainable-... Organization: World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution” http://cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-3/issue-2/greening-capitalism-quietly Socioecologically informed use of remote sensing data to predict rural household poverty https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1213 Understanding relationships between poverty and environment is crucial for sustainable development and ecological conservation. Annual monitoring of socioeconomic changes using household surveys is prohibitively expensive. Here, we demonstrate that satellite data predicted the poorest households in a landscape in Kenya with 62% accuracy. A multilevel socioecological treatment of satellite data accounting for the complex ways in which households interact with the environment provided better prediction than the standard single-buffer approach. The increasing availability of high-resolution satellite data and volunteered geographic data means this method could be modified and upscaled in the future to help monitor the sustainable development goals. Organization: US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Aligning research with policy and practice for sustainable agricultural land systems in Europe https://www.pnas.org/content/116/11/4911 Research, policy, and practice should be integrated to understand, guide, and implement the changes necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, from an analysis of research literature, policy indicators, and assessment tools for agriculture in Europe, we find that more than half of the 239 variables identified are currently used by only one of these perspectives. We identify a limited set of 32 variables that all three perspectives share and suggest these can be a starting point for designing future research to more comprehensively analyze trade-offs and identify opportunities for achieving the SDGs. Our method for assessing differences among perspectives in research, policy, and practice is a way to balance and implement sustainability goals for sectors and regions. Seeking natural capital projects: Forest fires, haze, and early-life exposure in Indonesia Effect of deforestation on access to clean drinking water In the existing literature on forest science and hydrology, the consensus is that deforestation increases water yield. In this study, instead of focusing on water yield, we directly examine the effect of deforestation on households’ access to clean drinking water in Malawi while controlling various other factors. Our empirical results show that a 1.0-percentage-point increase in deforestation decreases access to clean drinking water by 0.93 percentage points. With this estimated impact, deforestation in the last decade in Malawi (14%) has had the same magnitude of effect on access to clean drinking water as that of a 9% decrease in rainfall. This suggests that the effect of deforestation on access to clean drinking water is not trivial. SDG 6: Clean WaterSDG 15: Land and Environment Climate change and educational attainment in the global tropics This paper investigates the linkages between extreme temperature and precipitation in early life and educational attainment among children throughout the global tropics. We find that experiencing higher-than-average temperatures is associated with fewer years of schooling in Southeast Asia, and that early-life rainfall is positively associated with attainment in West and Central Africa and Southeast Asia and negatively associated with education in Central America and the Caribbean. While we expected that children from the most educated households would be buffered from these effects, we discover that they tend to experience the greatest educational penalties when exposed to hotter early-life conditions. These results suggest that climate change could undermine gains in socioeconomic development, particularly among the world’s most vulnerable populations. SDG 4: Quality EducationSDG 13: Climate Action Fine resolution mapping of population age-structures for health and development applications https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2015.0073 Organization: The Royal Society Zoonoses, One Health and complexity: wicked problems and constructive conflict https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.0171 Infectious zoonoses emerge from complex interactions among social and ecological systems. Understanding this complexity requires the accommodation of multiple, often conflicting, perspectives and narratives, rooted in different value systems and temporal–spatial scales. Therefore, to be adaptive, successful and sustainable, One Health approaches necessarily entail conflicts among observers, practitioners and scholars. Nevertheless, these integrative approaches have, both implicitly and explicitly, tended to marginalize some perspectives and prioritize others, resulting in a kind of technocratic tyranny. An important function of One Health approaches should be to facilitate and manage those conflicts, rather than to impose solutions. 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__label__cc	0.521553	0.478447	Home Enterprise Chip Sales Up Almost 10% Chip Sales Up Almost 10% May was a good month for semiconductor chip sales. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported chip sales of $19.7 billion for May, a 9.4 percent hike from the $18.1 billion tallied for the same month a year ago. The increase from April of this year, when sales were $19.6 billion, was only 0.7 percent. But the SIA sees strong chip growth ahead. The San Jose, Calif.-based trade organization said it expects global chip sales to continue to run nine to 10 percent ahead of last year's pace for the next several months. "As consumer products drive an increasing proportion of microchip sales, the growth of the semiconductor industry more closely reflects overall economic growth," said SIA President George Scalise in a statement. "Sales of cell phones and other consumer electronics products once again were the principal contributors to growth in semiconductor sales." Sales of analog and DSP chips, both important components of cell phones, grew by 21.5 and 13.7 percent, respectively. "Strong growth in sales of NOR flash memory products and optoelectronic devices are indicators of continued growth in sales of digital cameras and cell phones," said Scalise. Personal computers and flash memory products have also buttressed the growth in chip sales. The SIA noted that even though PC microprocessor sales declined by two percent from May 2005, unit sales of PCs ran ahead of expectations, supporting a 13.7 percent year-to-year growth in DRAM memory chips. The SIA also said the strong rise in notebook PC sales has been helped by falling prices. This year, for the first time ever, the average selling price for a notebook fell below $1,000.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line531
__label__wiki	0.893914	0.893914	Home Security Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers By Ryan Naraine \| June 25, 2004 The SANS Internet Storm Center, which tracks malicious Internet activity, reported that a large number of popular Web sites were compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious code that targets a known bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer. "The attacker uploaded a small file with JavaScript to infected Web sites, and altered the web server configuration to append the script to all files served by the web server," the center alert warned. If a user visited an infected site, the JavaScript delivered by the site would instruct the user's browser to download an executable from a Russian Web site and install it, the alert added. "These Trojan horse programs include keystroke loggers, proxy servers and other back doors providing full access to the infected system." The center believes the attack is the work of a sophisticated international spam ring. "There is quite a bit of evidence that what we are seeing is yet another technique for spreading and installing 'spamware' to create proxies to relay and send spam. We don't see any evidence that this attack is related to the construction of a DDoS network." Early Friday morning, Microsoft issued a "critical" notice for the Download.Ject malware. The software giant said it was investigating reports of the malware targeting customers using Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS) and the IE browser. There is conflicting information on whether a patch is available to protect against the hacker attack. Microsoft's alert said Web servers running Windows 2000 Server and IIS that have not applied a patch issued in its MS04-011 advisory "are possibly being compromised and being used to attempt to infect users of Internet Explorer with malicious code." However, The center said several server administrators reported that they were fully patched. "We do not know at this point how the affected servers have been compromised," the center's alert said. "The SSL-PCT exploit is at the top of our list of suspects. If you find a compromised server, we strongly recommend a complete rebuild. You may be able to get your Web site back into business by changing the footer setting and removing the JavaScript file. But this is likely a very sophisticated attack and you should expect other stealthy backdoors." Once the hackers break into the Web site, files have been modified, and a Trojan downloader called "Scob" or "Download.Ject" is appended to the files causing IE to execute it. "No warning will be displayed. The user does not have to click on any links. Just visiting an infected site will trigger the exploit." The center said log files from a compromised server will show no alteration to existing files on the server. "The JavaScript is included as a global footer and appended by the server as they are delivered to the browser. You will find that the global footer is set to a new file," the center said in a note to server administrators. Advisories and disinfection instructions are available from Symantec, F-Secure and Computer Associates. Microsoft first reported the exploited IE vulnerability as extremely critical on June 10, but the company has yet to issue a security fix. "Microsoft is actively investigating these reports to determine the appropriate course of action to protect our customers. This might include providing a fix through our monthly release process or an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs," Microsoft said in a statement. Since then, malicious hackers have unleashed "zero day exploits" to load adware or spyware programs and browser toolbars on vulnerable machines.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line532
__label__wiki	0.801314	0.801314	Home Illinois Constitution Page 315 Record of proceedings, Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention, v. 1 SIXTH ILLINOIS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 315 HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OLD STATE CAPITOL, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970,9:00 A.M. The Convention met pursuant to adjournment, President Witwer in the chair. Prayer by Fr. Francis X. Lawlor. By direction of President Witwer, a roll call was taken by Secretary Nicholson to ascertain the attendance of the Convention, as follows: Alexander Friedrich Leon Raby Anderson Garrison Linn Rachunas Armstrong Gertz Lyons Reum Arrigo Gierach Macdonald Rigney Borek Green Madigan Scott Bottino Hendren Marolda Sharpe Brannen Howard Martin Shuman Brown Hunter Mathias Smith, E. Buford Hutmacher McCracken Smith, R. Butler Jaskula Meek Sommerschield Canfield Jenison Miller Stahl Carey Johnsen Miska Stemberk Cicero Johnson Mullen Strunck Coleman Kamin Netsch Tecson Connor Karns Nicholson Thompson Cooper Keegan Nudelman Tomei Daley Kelleghan Orlando Tuchow Davis Kelley Ozinga Weisberg Dove Kemp Pappas Wenum Downen Kenney Parker, C. Whalen Dunn Kinney Parker, J. Wilier Durr Klaus Parkhurst Wilson Dvorak Knuppel Patch Witwer Elward Ladd Peccarelli Woods Evans Laurino Pechous Wymore Fay Lawlor Perona Yordy Fennoy Leahy Peterson Young Fogal Lennon, A. Pughsley Zeglis Foster Lennon, W. Answering present—114 Absent: Lewis, Rosewell. Mr. Borek, seconded by Mr. Mathias, moved to dispense with the reading of Journal 61, dated June 3, 1970. And the motion prevailed by acclamation. Mrs. Howard, seconded by Mr. Thompson, moved that the Convention not stand adjourned this week until the consideration of Bill of Rights proposal no. 1, which presents a revision of the preamble, the confirmation without change of a number of sections of the present bill of rights, changes in other sections of the present bill of rights, and several additional sections to the bill of rights; and of Bill of Rights minority proposals, has been completed. And the motion was decided in the affirmative by the following division vote: ayes 48, nays 32. Mr. Scott, seconded by Mr. Martin, moved to suspend the rules for the immediate consideration of resolution no. 55. And the motion prevailed by acclamation. Mr. Scott, seconded by Mr. Martin, moved the adoption of the following resolution. Resolution No. 55 Whereas, Delegate Joseph T. Meek, also affectionately known as "Mr. Retailer of Illinois," is serving the people of the state of Illinois in an exceptional manner by actively and constructively participating in the work of the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention; and Whereas, Joseph T. Meek has the distinction of being a charter member of the Football Hall of Fame of Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, which institution awarded him a degree in 1924 and also awarded our esteemed president, Samuel W. Witwer, an honorary degree a few years ago; and Whereas, Delegate Joseph T. Meek was recently honored on May 30, 1970, by his beloved Simpson College when this great institution awarded him the distinguished 1970 Alumnus Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in civic responsibility to the political and legislative fields; therefore, be it Resolved, that the delegates to the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention warmly congratulate their colleague, Delegate Joseph T. Meek of Western Springs, Illinois, for being chosen recipient of the 1970 Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award from Simpson College, and be it further Resolved, that a suitable copy of this resolution be signed by the president and secretary of the Convention and given to the Meek family. And the resolution was adopted by acclamation. General Orders of the Day At the hour of 9:36 a.m. Mr. Gertz, seconded by Mr. Foster, moved that the Convention resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole for further consideration of Bill of Rights proposal no. 1 which presents a revision of the preamble, the confirmation without change of a number of sections of the present bill of rights, changes in other sections of the present bill of rights, and several additional sections to the bill of rights; and Bill of Rights minority proposals no. 1A through 1H. And the motion prevailed. Discussion and Questions on Section 2 of Bill of Rights Proposal No. 1 Mr. A. Lennon presented section 2 of Bill of Rights proposal no. 1 to the Committee of the Whole and entertained questions. Title Record of proceedings, Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention, v. 1 Creator Illinois. Constitutional Convention (1969-1970) Subject [LCSH] Illinois--Constitution Illinois--Constitutional law Description Volume 1 contains daily journals, December 8, 1969-September 3, 1970. [Note: Blank pages in this document were not scanned. Pages that were not scanned: 8, 12, 42, 46, 66, 90, 114, 136, 144, 166, 174, 210, 218, 222, 228, 240, 244, 252, 264, 270, 292, 304, 314, 322, 334, 348, 352, 360, 366, 398, 404, 420, 450, 492, 496, 502, 522, 526, 532, 558, 572, 642, 674, 728, 744, 768, 780, 820, 834, 840, 852, 914.] Relation.IsPartOf Record of Proceedings, Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention Geographic Coverage United States--Illinois Contributing Institution Illinois State Library Rights Materials in this collection are made available by the Illinois State Library. To request reproductions or inquire about permissions, contact: islimg@ilsos.net. Please cite the item title and collection name. Identifier ilconconv1 Collection Name Illinois Constitution Transcript SIXTH ILLINOIS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 315 HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OLD STATE CAPITOL, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970,9:00 A.M. NO. 62 The Convention met pursuant to adjournment, President Witwer in the chair. Prayer by Fr. Francis X. Lawlor. By direction of President Witwer, a roll call was taken by Secretary Nicholson to ascertain the attendance of the Convention, as follows: Alexander Friedrich Leon Raby Anderson Garrison Linn Rachunas Armstrong Gertz Lyons Reum Arrigo Gierach Macdonald Rigney Borek Green Madigan Scott Bottino Hendren Marolda Sharpe Brannen Howard Martin Shuman Brown Hunter Mathias Smith, E. Buford Hutmacher McCracken Smith, R. Butler Jaskula Meek Sommerschield Canfield Jenison Miller Stahl Carey Johnsen Miska Stemberk Cicero Johnson Mullen Strunck Coleman Kamin Netsch Tecson Connor Karns Nicholson Thompson Cooper Keegan Nudelman Tomei Daley Kelleghan Orlando Tuchow Davis Kelley Ozinga Weisberg Dove Kemp Pappas Wenum Downen Kenney Parker, C. Whalen Dunn Kinney Parker, J. Wilier Durr Klaus Parkhurst Wilson Dvorak Knuppel Patch Witwer Elward Ladd Peccarelli Woods Evans Laurino Pechous Wymore Fay Lawlor Perona Yordy Fennoy Leahy Peterson Young Fogal Lennon, A. Pughsley Zeglis Foster Lennon, W. Answering present—114 Absent: Lewis, Rosewell. Mr. Borek, seconded by Mr. Mathias, moved to dispense with the reading of Journal 61, dated June 3, 1970. And the motion prevailed by acclamation. Mrs. Howard, seconded by Mr. Thompson, moved that the Convention not stand adjourned this week until the consideration of Bill of Rights proposal no. 1, which presents a revision of the preamble, the confirmation without change of a number of sections of the present bill of rights, changes in other sections of the present bill of rights, and several additional sections to the bill of rights; and of Bill of Rights minority proposals, has been completed. And the motion was decided in the affirmative by the following division vote: ayes 48, nays 32. Mr. Scott, seconded by Mr. Martin, moved to suspend the rules for the immediate consideration of resolution no. 55. And the motion prevailed by acclamation. Mr. Scott, seconded by Mr. Martin, moved the adoption of the following resolution. Resolution No. 55 Whereas, Delegate Joseph T. Meek, also affectionately known as "Mr. Retailer of Illinois," is serving the people of the state of Illinois in an exceptional manner by actively and constructively participating in the work of the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention; and Whereas, Joseph T. Meek has the distinction of being a charter member of the Football Hall of Fame of Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, which institution awarded him a degree in 1924 and also awarded our esteemed president, Samuel W. Witwer, an honorary degree a few years ago; and Whereas, Delegate Joseph T. Meek was recently honored on May 30, 1970, by his beloved Simpson College when this great institution awarded him the distinguished 1970 Alumnus Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in civic responsibility to the political and legislative fields; therefore, be it Resolved, that the delegates to the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention warmly congratulate their colleague, Delegate Joseph T. Meek of Western Springs, Illinois, for being chosen recipient of the 1970 Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award from Simpson College, and be it further Resolved, that a suitable copy of this resolution be signed by the president and secretary of the Convention and given to the Meek family. And the resolution was adopted by acclamation. General Orders of the Day At the hour of 9:36 a.m. Mr. Gertz, seconded by Mr. Foster, moved that the Convention resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole for further consideration of Bill of Rights proposal no. 1 which presents a revision of the preamble, the confirmation without change of a number of sections of the present bill of rights, changes in other sections of the present bill of rights, and several additional sections to the bill of rights; and Bill of Rights minority proposals no. 1A through 1H. And the motion prevailed. Discussion and Questions on Section 2 of Bill of Rights Proposal No. 1 Mr. A. 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__label__wiki	0.5197	0.5197	Medline Search CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PEARLS A puzzling case of brain disease following cutaneous lesions in childhood: A spectrum of disease or induced by therapy? Khaldoon Aljerian1, Latifa Alanazi1, Waleed Al Rajban1, Mohammed Mubarak1, Mohammed Khalifah2, Abdulrahman Alsultan2 1 Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Date of Submission 11-Feb-2019 Date of Decision 23-Apr-2019 Date of Acceptance 11-Jul-2019 Khaldoon Aljerian Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P. O. Box: 11472, Riyadh 7805 DOI: 10.4103/JNSM.JNSM_7_19 Aljerian K, Alanazi L, Al Rajban W, Mubarak M, Khalifah M, Alsultan A. A puzzling case of brain disease following cutaneous lesions in childhood: A spectrum of disease or induced by therapy?. J Nat Sci Med 2020;3:71-3 Aljerian K, Alanazi L, Al Rajban W, Mubarak M, Khalifah M, Alsultan A. A puzzling case of brain disease following cutaneous lesions in childhood: A spectrum of disease or induced by therapy?. J Nat Sci Med [serial online] 2020 [cited 2020 Jan 21];3:71-3. Available from: http://www.jnsmonline.org/text.asp?2020/3/1/71/266076 Our patient was a 20-year-old male, diagnosed at the age of 3 years with multiple skin plaques. The cutaneous lesions were biopsied, and immunohistochemistry was positive for CD207 (langerin), CD1a, and S100. We also found bean-shaped nuclei and Birbeck granules under electron microscopy [Figure 1]. Our center did not have the capability to conduct an analysis for gene mutations. Figure 1: Histopathology of the cutaneous lesion and electron microscopy images. Lesion cells were positive for (a) CD1a and (b) S100. Under electron microscopy, lesions cells showed (c) Birbeck granules and (d) grooved bean-shaped nuclei The patient was treated with vinblastine and prednisolone and at first had a complete response to therapy. However, he had recurrence of the skin disease 1 year after starting therapy. He was switched to etoposide and responded well, with no evidence of disease afterward. He completed therapy at the age of 6 years. Then, 2 years later, at the age of 8 years, the patient presented with a seizure. A brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed bilateral enlarged choroid plexus as a result of intraventricular lesions; the patient was followed up frequently for signs of progression [Figure 2]. A follow-up brain MRI 2 years later showed progression of intraventricular lesions; the patient underwent surgical resection followed by radiotherapy at the age of 10 years. Figure 2: Serial brain magnetic resonance imaging. (a) Age 8 years: bilateral enlarged choroid plexus with strong enhancement, in addition to mild thickening of pituitary stalk. (b) Age 10 years: further enlargement of choroid plexus with enlargement of temporal horns bilaterally, right more than left. (c) Age 12 years: postsurgical resection of intraventricular lesion with new enhancing lesion along the frontoparietal convexity. (d) Age 14 years: enlargement of the lesions in right trigone, along tentorium cerebelli and right frontoparietal convexity Subsequent follow-up brain MRIs showed new progressive lesions [Figure 2]. The patient was managed conservatively, but he presented with intractable seizures at the age of 18 years that required intensive care admission, and he subsequently underwent surgical resection of the frontoparietal lesions. The brain was biopsied again and revealed similar histopathology to the brain lesion resected when he was 10 years old [Figure 3]. Figure 3: Hematoxylin. and eosin-stained biopsies. (a) Diffuse dermal infiltrate of the lesion cells. (b) Foamy macrophages with some plasmacells and rare eosinophils. Some of the foamy macrophages were formed of multinucleated cells and contained several nuclei in a ring formation. (c and d) Brain tumor cells were positive for factor XIIIa and CD68 The lesion was formed of sheets of foamy macrophages with some plasma cells and rare eosinophils. Some of the foamy macrophages were formed of multinucleated cells and contained several nuclei in a ring formation surrounding a central homogeneous eosinophilic cytoplasm with a surrounding foamy cytoplasm around the nuclei. The lesion cells were positive for expression of CD68 and factor XIIIa, as well as CD163 and fascin, and they were negative for CD207 (langerin), CD1a, and S100. At age 20, the patient still has stable residual lesions in the right frontal lobe and right lateral ventricle. What Is the Diagnosis? Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) show a complex overlap at both clinical and histopathological levels, especially in children.[1] Most cases of JXG present as solitary cutaneous lesions.[2] Extracutaneous or systemic involvement is exceedingly rare,[3] and lesions of the nervous system account for only 1%–2.3% of JXG.[2] Both LCH and JXG have a chronic course and a tendency to affect the skin; both may also involve the soft tissues, internal organs, and bone.[1] Some pathologists consider LCH and JXG to be dendritic cell disorders.[4] However, it is debatable whether JXG originates from macrophages or dendritic cells.[5] Some authors prefer to consider JXG under the monocyte/macrophage line,[1],[4] and JXG has a macrophage phenotype.[5] However, JXG has been documented to consist of dermal dendrocytes,[2] and like dermal/interstitial dendritic cell disorders, it shares factor XIIIa and fascin immunostaining.[5] LCH is so named because the morphology and immunophenotype of these abnormal cells are similar to that of Langerhans cells – specialized dendritic cells found in the skin and mucosa.[4] Although it has been proposed that Langerhans cells are the cell of origin of LCH, gene expression arrays and other molecular investigations have shown that this is not the case.[4],[6] Rather, LCH is a myeloid dendritic cell[6] that expresses the same antigens (CD1a, CD207) as the skin Langerhans cell.[4] As well, advances in immunology and molecular biology have enhanced our ability to compare differences at the molecular level. We now know that LCH cells express CD1a, CD207 (langerin), and S100 but fail to express markers typical of a more mature dendritic cell, such as CD83.[7] JXG is characterized by the presence of histiocytes, foam cells, and Touton giant cells; immunohistochemistry expression of factor XIIIa and fascin; and negative staining for CD1a and S100.[2] LCH cells are identified by the expression of CD1a, S100, and CD207 (langerin) and confirmed ultrastructurally by the presence of Birbeck granules.[8] The development of LCH and non-LCH in the same patient is rare, either concurrently or in sequence, and the pathogenesis of this phenomenon is still unclear.[1] Non-LCH histiocyte disorders such as JXG are known to occur as a reactive lesion.[1] It is known that LCH lesions produce enormous amounts of different cytokines, referred to as a “cytokine storm.” Chemotherapy itself could also play a role in changes to the cytokine microenvironment.[1] It is possible that the inflammatory reaction associated with LCH or chemotherapy precipitated the development of JXG.[1] On the other hand, the association could be due to a common histogenetic precursor of the cell types involved. Some authors have suggested that JXG subsequent to LCH may represent a further transformation or “maturation” of LCH cells under the influence of modified cytokine production caused by chemotherapy, adding that this modification of cutaneous LCH lesions could be a favorable prognostic factor.[9] An association between LCH and Erdheim–Chester disease has been reported, coexisting in the same lesion (mixed histiocytosis).[10] It has also been suggested that this association might involve BRAF V600E mutation.[10],[11],[12] Histiocytic disorders are being recognized more and more often as our understanding of their molecular pathogenesis results in novel diagnostic tests and targeted drug development. In the present case, JXG likely arose as a reaction to the chemotherapy, because it developed 1 year after systemic chemotherapy, although we cannot be sure. Increased understanding of this phenomenon will expand our knowledge of the pathogenesis of both LCH and JXG, providing opportunities for more effective and personalized therapy in the future. We encourage further reports and research on this matter, with a view to improving treatment and diagnostic methods. Final diagnosis LCH, involving skin, bone, and bone marrow, was treated with chemotherapy. Several years later, the patient developed JXG. LCH is characterized by Birbeck granules on electron microscopy JXG may follow cases of LCH Treatment effects may lead to the development of JXG. Declaration of patient consent The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form the patient(s) has/have given his/her/their consent for his/her/their images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patients understand that their names and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal their identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed. We acknowledge the College of Medicine Research Center for their support. Strehl JD, Stachel KD, Hartmann A, Agaimy A. Juvenile xanthogranuloma developing after treatment of langerhans cell histiocytosis: Case report and literature review. Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2012;5:720-5. Deisch JK, Patel R, Koral K, Cope-Yokoyama SD. Juvenile xanthogranulomas of the nervous system: A report of two cases and review of the literature. Neuropathology 2013;33:39-46. Püttgen K. Juvenile Xanthogranuloma; 2016. Available from: http://www.uptodate.com/contents/juvenile-xanthogranuloma-jxg?source=see_link. [Last cited on 2016 Jun 04]. McClain K. Clinical Manifestations, Pathologic Features, and Diagnosis of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis; 2015. 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__label__wiki	0.636494	0.636494	Telecoms Package Net Neutrality EU rifts over how far to push new telecoms rules - DG Comp attacks Kroes EU rifts over how far to push new telecoms rules - DG Comp attacks Kroes If you care about the Internet, you should care about this. The leaked draft of the new Telecoms Regulation is the Telecoms Package ‘MkII’. But unlike its predecessor, it contains legal twists that create some mega- horrors. Whoever wins this argument in the Commission will determine who runs the networks and how for the next decade. EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, has taken a lashing from rival DG Competition over her proposed shake-up of the telecoms market . The attack on Mrs Kroes draft policy suggess an internal fight over the aims and scope of the Regulation, which was leaked last month by European Digital Rights. But an investigation of Commission documents suggests that she has not yet firmed up her plans and is exposed to rival demands from other Commissioners . The possibility of splits in the Commission over the Regulation came to light in the Financial Times (FT) earlier this week. The FT uncovered an attack on Neelie Kroes’ proposals by DG Competition, which is alleged to have criticised Mrs Kroes for ‘lacking ambition’. The attack appears to been made in some written feedback to Mrs Kroes and her team from DG comp. The feedback was given as part of the inter-stitial consultation processes whereby the Commission finalises its draft legislation. This is the Regulation laying down measures to complete the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve for a Connected Continent. According to the FT, DG Comp considers that Mrs Kroes draft text is ‘suboptimal’ and should include more far reaching changes. In particular, DG Comp is said to be demanding a pan-European telecoms regulator. That is, a single entity which would be responsible for regulating telecoms in all 28 Member States. It would erode the role of the national regulators, such as Ofcom, or even disband them completely. That latter demand would until now have put fear in the hearts of many, and it is politically highly controversial. In 2009, a Commission proposal for regulatory oversight by the Commission was rejected in the European Parliament negotiations over the Telecoms Package (Del Castillo report). The 2009 proposals did not go anywhere near as far as this new draft Telecoms Regulation (see EU midsummer horror: leaked draft of new Telecoms Regulation). The FT article has helpfully illuminated an internal discussion among European Commissioners and their respective Directorates. Other sources suggest that Mrs Kroes has been uncertain as to how radical the changes should be. The language of ‘ambition’ stems from a Commissioners’ meeting in June when Mrs Kroes is understood to have led a discussion on the ‘appropriate level of ambition’ for the draft Telecoms Regulation. This suggests that there is either uncetainty in Mrs Kroes DG Connect, or that there are more bullish demands coming from other DGs. Mrs Kroes suggested that the 2009 Package is merely the legal ‘backdrop’ for the new law, only there to ‘preserve a desgree of predictability for investors’, indicating that it has been her intention to alter the legal structures that govern telecoms in Europe. The broad aim of the new Telecoms Regulation is to create a single market for telecoms services. In principle, this would mean that services could be offered by any operator across the whole of Europe, with national boundaries and jurisidictional differences losing their significance. But it seems that Mrs Kroes has been unsure how far she could go in eradicating national regulatory and tariff differences. Certainly, the leaked draft of the Regulation as seen already indicates sweeping changes. It is arguable that it is not intended merely as an amendment or update of the 2009 Telecoms Package, but to bring in something new. What is not clear is how far the changes could go. We should also look carefully at what DG Comp would mean by lack of ambition. Seeping through the sub-text of the Telecoms Regulation is the matter of industrial consolidation, which appears to be one the policy aims. That should concern DG Comp, since consolidation implies a reduction in competition. and changes in the market structure that threatens the competitive framework. 'Ambition' could suggest that the Commission wants to promote greater consolidation. From DG Comp's viewpoint, support for market consolidation would seem to be a little puzzling. On the other hand, it could explain why DG Comp wants a strong pan-european regulator that could maintain some level of competition. Consolidation of the Telecoms Market is unlikely to be good news for Internet users. It stands to create a pan-European oligopoly of Internet providers, increasing their power over the user community and what we can and cannot do on the networks. The provisions in the Regulation will ultimately determine which of these companies lives and dies. A statement from Mrs Kroes’ press office issued in response to the FT article says that there was ‘strong support’ for Mrs Kroes from the other Commissioners. But other sources suggest only that there was broad support for the guidelines of the new Regulation, which may engender a slightly different interpretation. Support for the guidelines is not the same as strong support for all the measures. So it is really uncertain at this stage which way the Commission will swing. Will it go the whole way to disbanding or dis-empowering national regulators and empowering the multi-national operators? Or will it hold back and proceed more cautiously, retaining some discretion for member states? Is Mrs Kroes being disingenuous when she claims to be "fighting like hell for a EU you can believe in"? To read the history of the 2009 Telecoms Package, see my book The Copyright Enforcement Enigma - Internet Politics and the Telecoms Package (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). There is more analysis of the new Telecoms Regulation from PolicyTracker on the spectrum issues, and from Out-Law.com on the DG Comp controversy. The leaked draft of the Regulation laying down measures to complete the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent can be downloaded from European Digital Rights (EDRi) If you are working on analysis of the Telecoms Regulation, please get in touch or send me links. If anyone at DG Connect or DG Comp would like to clarify 'ambition' , please get in touch too. This is an original article from Iptegrity.com and reflects research that I have carried out. If you refer to it or to its content, please cite my name as the author, and provide a link back to iptegrity.com. Media and Academics – please cite as Monica Horten, 2013, EU rifts over how far to push new telecoms rules - DG Comp attacks Kroes, 17 August 2013. Commercial users - please contact me.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line546
__label__wiki	0.809132	0.809132	The Latin American Review of Books Empowered bastards by admin • October 1, 2009 Michael Caylo-Baradi analyses how Los bastardos by Mexican director Amat Escalante reverses the power dynamic for California’s undocumented labourers Image courtesy of Kino International Amat Escalante 2008, Mantarraya/Tres Tunas/No Dream/Foprocine/Le Pacte/Ticoman 90 minutes (English and Spanish) LATAMROB rating: **** AMAT ESCALANTE’S Los Bastardos is a film about two undocumented, migrant workers, from Mexico named Jesús and Fausto, played by non-professional Mexican actors Jesús Moises Rodriguez and Rubén Sosa, and traces their life as day-labourers within a 24-hour period through a narrative set in the vast collage of cities and suburbs of Los Angeles County. [1] The film opens with the two workers walking on a dry and wide river canal on their way to join other labourers waiting at a street corner for work. Together with four others, somebody hires them for a construction project. Then, after a full-day’s work, they get paid, go “home” to a section of a public park, and try to rest. But their need for night-time diversion takes them to a quiet neighbourhood near the park where they follow their instincts. Something, after sundown, tells them they must rob a house. Director Amat Escalante does not show us how they choose which house to rob; we just see them enter through a window. When the homeowner, Karen – played by professional actress Nina Zavarin – sees Jesús holding a shotgun, she screams. But she is able to control her panic and, shortly, she feeds them dinner, spends time at the pool with them, has sex with Jesús, then gets high with them before Fausto accidentally blows her head off. When the homeowner’s son arrives home, he kills Jesús using their shotgun. Fortunately, since it was the last bullet, Fausto’s life is saved – he runs from the neighbourhood as fast as he can. Now alone, Fausto finds employment picking strawberries and, as he does so, the camera zooms in on his face, slowly letting it dominate the screen. In this final shot, Escalante tries to capture or construct a quiet collision of chaos, alienation, and memories of violence from his life in southern California as Fausto scans something in the field not framed on-screen. In 2008, Los Bastardos was an official selection for the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard award. [2] Escalante’s first film, Sangre, had also been entered for the award in 2005. [3] Since its Cannes premiere, Escalante’s second film continues to gain critical attention that often stresses its quiet visual-texture and unexpected, violent ending. In many ways, its unapologetic use of violence stimulates perceptions about its Mexican director’s political views. Certainly, US-Mexico border relations, immigration and race are elements that can all be readily implicated in the film’s uneasy ending. There are many instances of Jesús’ and Fausto’s marginal status in southern California that can be explored. Indeed, their determination to survive in that savage world reveal the strength of their characters. But that strength must deal with their sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The development of this ineluctable collision weakens these characters, impacts the moral dimension of their behavior, and contributes to or empowers Jesús’ and Fausto’s reckless disregard for the world around them. And so, Escalante succeeds in calling his protagonists bastards, thus aptly giving his film its title: Los Bastardos. Californios Escalante’s initial image of southern California is a steady shot of a wide river canal, part of a drainage system that often saves the region’s vast assemblage of suburban areas from catastrophic hydraulic asphyxiations during the rainy season. This shot is held for so long that, for a while, we suspect the two slow-moving objects in the middle of the screen are animals heading towards the camera. Eventually though, we recognise an older adult male, in his thirties, and another who appears stuck in the twilight of adolescence and adulthood: Jesús and Fausto, respectively. Showing the small-ness of these two moving objects before we recognise they are people de-emphasises the humanity of the workers, and underlines the dominance of the concrete structure they are walking on – a vast structure built on the complex and calculated union of technology, ideas, manpower, politics, and funds. Jesús and Fausto seem to disappear in this structure, immersed in its vastness, swallowed by the obviousness of its spaciousness – cold, inert, waiting, brutal. Certainly, this same calculated union provides a synonymous foundation for the kind of social and cultural milieu these two workers are about to penetrate: the civilisation of glamour, fame, and the good life beneath the Hollywood sign – Los Angeles. But our initial image of their entrance into these spaces is striking because it is as if they had been washed out on that river canal much earlier, before the film began – (perhaps) in the unwritten imagination of and outside the script – and now, they emerge in the script, still breathing, ready to conquer what can still be had in their power, because, indeed, they are survivors. Although undocumented workers, Jesús and Fausto appear to be long-time residents in southern California’s boiling cauldron of ethnic and cultural diversity; but there are hints in their body language and facial expressions that suggest they are only visitors to the US. In appearance, they look homeless, penniless, and wear clothing that, we assume, has not been changed or washed for weeks. On the other hand, they also appear to exude a wealth of pride and dignity about who they are and where they are from, in the character of their faces and the way they carry their bodies through space and time. Their image offers reminders of layered historical narratives about California field-workers who used to come from China, the Philippines or Mexico in the early part of the twentieth century, a time when the US began asserting its status as a rising global empire. However, at the dawn of the 21st century, especially after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a large number of Californian rural workers came not from across the Pacific but from south of the border. Escalante clarifies that Jesús and Fausto are from Mexico, as they join other day-labourers from the country at a street corner across from the large hardware store Home Depot. The labourers are hanging out, waiting for probable employers to hire them. On that street corner, Escalante takes us into the tones, textures, and rhythms of day-labourer conversations and chit-chat, down-time in which they share experiences from previous jobs, especially those not easily classifiable as regular employment. One of the laborers even suggests that some interested parties who pick them up use labourers for sexual satisfaction. Now, besides being viewed as “waiting stations” for employment, many street corners in southern California have become signature locations for labourers to assemble at, usually at busy intersections, or near strip-malls, where a large hardware store is a popular destination for residents, contractors or construction managers who might need hired hands. On these corners, a sense of community develops rapidly before the labourers deploy themselves into the unknowns of a culture they may not be familiar with and are, therefore, exposed to abuse and injustice. The feeling of belonging they derive from that assembly renews their energies and can be seen as a temporary home away from home. There is a moment after Jesús, Fausto and their co-workers are paid, when Fausto notices their gringo employer wearing the same black Nike Cortez sneakers he is wearing. Escalante’s inclusion of this shoe in the script underlines his insider knowledge of Los Angeles street culture, and finds a way to give that prop some subtle relevance. A pop-culture icon, the Nike Cortez’s street-cred has strong affiliations with the gritty turfs of Los Angeles, where clothing determines gang affiliation and street survival. [4] But apart from the shoe itself, the term “Cortez” has strong ties with LA, because of its large Mexican American and Chicano population. Use of the term Cortez evokes Hernán Cortés, the first European “conqueror” of Tenochtitlan, the raped Aztec city where Mexico City now stands. Through Nike Cortez, history becomes brand, a commodity with high pop-culture consumer value. The Nike Cortez unites the consumer tastes of Fausto and his employer, and somehow blurs not only the economic boundary that separates employer and employee, but also their cultural and racial differences. Here, commodity becomes negotiator and mediator of cultural difference. But labour, too, is a commodity, although a commodity that, in the film, does not blur boundaries of difference between employer and employee but rather emphasises difference through economic inequality. Jesús and Fausto will take almost any job offered to them because the process of getting that job (often) does not involve the hassle of paperwork. This undocumented employment saves employers money and time by not having to deal with government regulations that attempt to protect the prime instrument used in employment: the worker. That is why California is a haven for many illegal immigrants seeking employment, because many companies in the state depend on the highly affordable commodity of undocumented labour. The US astronaut Jose Hernandez – who as a child used to harvest crops with his family in California – understood the value of undocumented labour when he expressed opinions on Mexican television about legalising the status of millions of undocumented immigrants, because “the American economy needs them.” [5] But then commodities have a shelf life – after a while, they can be discarded. Here, Hernandez’s remarks become controversial, because legalising undocumented immigrant workers qualifies them for retirement compensation and benefits, which certainly honours their employment in California; naturally, legalisation is not appealing to many policymakers because of the cost. In the film, an example of how labour as commodity can easily be discarded happens after Jesús and Fausto’s employer pays them: even though he promises to drive his workers back to the street corner where he had picked them up, he tries to break his promise and tells them to take the bus. The workers are mad and cannot control themselves from hurling “Damn Gringo!” phrases in the air after their employer is forced to comply with his promise and drops them back. This reaction indicates that these labourers or bodies of labor are commodities that breathe: human beings. The workers are insulted that their employer just wants to discard them after working for him. Jesús and Fausto internalise this insult; Escalante uses this to elevate their sense of being excluded, marginalised, and alienated in southern California, emotions that help propel the plot. Ciudadanos de la frontera After work, Jesús and Fausto take their usual route to a public park, into the bushes and trees of a section where they can spend the night. Their peaceful walk goes through inviting landscaping, but the bucolic surroundings are shattered when Jesús and Fausto pass a group of young people having fun by a park bench. One of them throws an uncooked burger that hits Fausto’s back. He attempts to retaliate, but Jesús holds his friend back and insists they continue walking. Fausto is enraged, insulted, disrespected. That is why, while both are trying to rest, Escalante uses Fausto to reveal the contents of the bag Jesús cannot seem to put down. Fausto takes out a shotgun then aims at something ahead, as though practising and imagining he is blowing away the head of the guy who had harassed him earlier. Does Fausto see death in that aim? The inevitabilities in his future? His freedom? While Fausto is playing with the gun, Jesús flips through the pages of glossy Lowrider magazine, a car periodical devoted to lowriders, classic North American cars or trucks with modified suspension systems. Mexican-American car enthusiasts in Los Angeles originated the concept and street-cool sensibilities implied in the car’s lowered body. But Jesús is not as interested in the 1958 Impala on the page he is looking at but rather a picture of a beautiful, long-legged model wearing a two-piece bathing suit standing beside it. He looks horny, but Escalante is not interested in letting us see Jesús masturbate on the picture. At this point in the movie, Escalante is already aware about trivial questions viewers might be asking: what about dinner, and a bathroom to wash up? The director will eventually deal with these concerns. But for now, we are given a picture of day-labourers who appear to have nothing in their minds, not even plans for the future or maybe for a night of drinking at a bar. We would like to assume Jesús and Fausto are not stereotypical labourers who, in this movie, take refuge in the trees and bushes of a public park after work. But Escalante, through convincing documentary texture and style in this film, appears to assume or even convince us that day-labourers, in general, are like Jesús and Fausto. Yes, the pair have used creative energies to survive their long, hard journey from Mexico to Los Angeles; and that journey can, no doubt, be viewed as a journey with layered dimensions, physically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally. Thus, their arrival in LA is already a form of achievement. But being in Los Angeles is not enough; they must journey into the city, into the dense and restrictive mentality of being in its culture, through assimilation. Here, Jesús’ and Fausto’s road into southern Californian culture is language: fluency in English, the ability to understand and use it the way they are fluent in Spanish in Mexico. While both can understand some English, the film does not allow them to express themselves through that language. Its quiet texture can be viewed as an approximation of the silence of English in the imagination of Jesús and Fausto. Unable to speak English, they lack valuable access to steady and better jobs that can offer them some financial stability, including money to send to relatives in Mexico. However, the silence is not an exclusive silence of English – it is also an approximate silence of Spanish as a public language which they do not use, in the context of the film, to improve their lives. In Los Angeles, Spanish competes with English as an official language used in business and cultural transactions; Jesús and Fausto’s undocumented status hinders them from being involved in programmes and services that cater to the city’s Spanish-speaking population. These two forms of silences collide in their lives and give them a sense of identity anchored in the cultural borders of Mexico and North America. This identity is channelled into their body language, one that has not yet assimilated into the cultural landscape of southern California. Escalante highlights their unassimilated immigrant bodies when Fausto is harassed. As Jesús and Fausto walk away from their tormentors, someone in the group shouts: “You’re on the wrong side of the border mother-fuckers.” The harasser appears to say, on behalf of the US, that Jesús and Fausto belong somewhere else, despite the fact that the group is ethnically mixed. These overlapping silences of English and Spanish produce a space of alienation in the imagination of Jesús and Fausto, a vacuum which Escalante bursts when the workers invade a household that roughly represents middle-class North America. Escalante’s dominant and convenient image of middle-class North America is the inability of mother and son to have a decent dinner conversation. The son does not stay longer than five minutes to eat with his mother then leaves. Escalante appears to offer us an image of a Californian single-parent family. Caught by feelings of loneliness, the mother, Karen, smokes her own pot pipe, stashed in one of her kitchen cabinets. She is already high when she sees the intruders and their gun. Jesús’ and Fausto’s invasion of Karen’s house is creepy because of the casual way the intruders make themselves at home. The casualness of their physical presence makes them look harmless and friendly, even though they are burglars and have a loaded weapon. They watch television with her as though they have always been part of her life. When Jesús performs cunnilingus on Karen, Escalante mutes any hint of violence and rape in the act, which is why Karen does not feel like she has to push Jesús away. In fact, the sex act can also be interpreted as something that saves her from boredom and loneliness that night because, to use a popular phrase: Jesus saves. Furthermore, Jesús and Fausto’s casual physical movements in the house underlines the totality of their power there, not nervous but self-assured power, as though it knows what it wants to do with that house because it owns it. Their instant ownership of and power over this space are acts of injecting their bodies specifically into a North American household – a place where its Californian native (Karen) was born and raised. Jesús and Fausto’s invasion of that home, therefore, is what can be called forced physical presence as cultural assimilation and imposition, the way acts of colonialism are achieved in which foreign bodies and power, trying to dominate a place, use strength of physical presence to absorb the culture of it while simultaneously imposing a new culture upon it. After being told by gringos in the park that they are not welcome in the United States, Jesus and Fausto welcome themselves to the United States in Karen’s household. By doing things with her in her home, they officially and instantly become assimilated North Americans. After Fausto accidentally fires the shotgun and blows Karen’s head off, the pair do not try to escape quickly from the crime scene. Instead, we see them wash themselves in the bathroom and even look reluctant to leave the house. Indeed, the film can also be assessed as a story about two really stupid criminals, truly bastards, and its quiet texture is that of the bastard imagination of Jesús and Fausto: dreamy, cold, and brutal, where moral concerns have become anaemic, or dead. But the film does present some irony when it comes to women: the mutilated female subject is used to heighten the movie’s value as cultural product, as a portrait of southern Californian nihilism and anomie. On the other hand, Escalante also uses women as sacred beings, messengers of the divine. Here, divinity is not associated with female bodies and sexuality, but rather with religious figures. Before Jesús and Fausto find work, Jesús phones his Aunt Lidia in Mexico, because he has not talked to her for three months. After their conversation, Jesús says: “Aren’t you going to give me God’s blessing?” His moral conscience seems intact and healthy in that request; however, Escalante’s calculated erosion of that conscience is final. Interviewed in Dailymotion, Amat Escalante mentions the image of day-labourers in southern California as victims – a powerless group that is exploited and pushed around. [6] Escalante wants to empower that image and attempts to assign a menacing identity to undocumented migrant workers, turning them into victimisers, agents of death and destruction. However, the kind of power he gives his undocumented workers is meant to be limited; their brutality easily makes them agents of criminal behaviour but, if tracked down by agents of law and order, future residents of a prison system. But then the alienating cultural landscape of southern California already feels like a space of incarceration to them, and within those walls of alienation they are free to do whatever they want to divert themselves from being crushed. Their resistance to alienation empowers them and, for a while, makes them feel like they are in absolute control. There is a more specific act of resistance still that is celebrated in the imagination of Jesús and Fausto on the night they invade Karen’s house. While walking towards it, Jesús reminds Fausto that it is the eve of El Grito de Independencia, Mexico’s Independence Day [7]. Consciously or accidentally, Escalante’s script strategically makes this celebration coincide with the night the undocumented workers are on their way to Karen’s house, to somehow align Jesús and Fausto’s restless, intense bodies with the excited, intense bodies of Mexicans celebrating El Grito in Mexico that night. By making the workers remember their homeland’s most important national celebration, Escalante reunites them with Mexico through the spectre of national affiliation, in their memory – reminding them who they are and where they are from. 1 Los bastardos at IMDB 2 Cannes Film Festival link 3 Short article about director on Cannes Film Festival website 4 History of Nike Cortez 5 LA Times article on this 6 Dailymotion.com interview 7 About El Grito Michael Caylo-Baradi read English at UC-Berkeley, and is currently employed at an information centre in Los Angeles Tags:Film Reviews Latino ← Virtual dreams and nightmares LatAmRoB, Volume 3, Number 10 → Select Category Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Europe Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico United States Uruguay Venezuela Your gift helps us continue our work Traces of Home by Gavin O'Toole • December 17, 2018 Film-maker Colette Ghunim is half Palestinian, half Mexican, and a documentary project exploring her roots finds striking similarities in her parents’ homelands Latin America in the era of Trump by Mickey Brady • December 6, 2018 Sinn Féin MP Mickey Brady knows better than most the damage caused by foreign intervention The Latin American Review of Books has been publishing online since 2007. 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__label__wiki	0.867211	0.867211	Maccabi TV Maccabist Only Private Ticket Area Arena Seat Map Club Statements Youth Archive Community Archive The Future Generation HE Maccabist Accessibility on site דלג לתוכן העמוד(מקש קיצור 1) דלג לתפריט תחתון(מקש קיצור 2) דלג לצור קשר(מקש קיצור 3) דלג לנגישות באתר (מקש קיצור 4) Wilbekin Caloiaro Casspi Avdija Aharoni DiBartolomeo Harel Rinski Yonatan Atias Zoosman Sfairopoulos Geragotelis Veljko Vs Bayern Munchen Vs Hapoel Tel Aviv Menora Mivtachim 1. Anadolu Efes 3-17 2. Real Madrid 5-15 3. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv 6-14 4. CSKA Moscow 6-14 5. Barcelona 6-14 6. Panathinaikos 8-12 7. Valencia 10-10 8. Olimpia Milano 10-10 Maccabi's stretch continues with an 91:77 win over Haifa "We hope to keep the same mentality" "One of the biggest wins this season" Tichon Hadash High School won the world championship EuroLeague Academy Launched in Tel Aviv "It's not just basketball, its bringing happiness" "It's important to us to be a part of this project" Maccabi visits "Schneider" hospital, Spahija: "This is the game of life" Birthday of Champions Sub Sponsors HOME · Fixtures · Winner League · Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv - Ironi Nes Ziona Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv - Ironi Nes Ziona Winner League \| Round 32 \| 17/05/2018 \| 21:00 \| 5SPORT \| Menora Mivtachim Leading scorers Michael Roll Norris Cole Alex Tyus Ironi Nes Ziona Talib Zanna Khalif Wyatt Gary Browne Ramirez Tal Dunne Quarter Ending Thursday at 21:00: Ness Ziona arrives to the Menora The yellows will host Ness Ziona in the 32nd round of the domestic league. Art Jackson and Kane will not be registered for this game. The game will be broadcasted live on Sport5 HOME · News Archive · Thursday at 21:00: Ness Ziona arrives to the Menora Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv will host Ness Ziona (Thursday, 21:00) for the last home game of the domestic league regular season. Jackson Kane and Art will sit this one out. Ness Ziona's Owen Yates will not be registered for the game. Maccabi's Coach Spahija said: "The loss to Ness Ziona was a long time ago, we don't have to think about that game. We respect Ness Ziona's players they are playing great as of late. We're working hard both defensively and offensively, and we will try to get another win. Kane who's not registered for this game is injured". "It's too early to think about who we will play against in the playoffs, we have to wait until the end of the regular season and prepare the best way we can for the team that we're going to play against. My experience helped numerous times as well as Norris' experience, and DeShaun, Jake and Jeremy are also contributing" Coach Spahija added. For the first time since the domestic league reached its halfway mark in the second round, the yellows have started a winning streak, in which they manage to comeback from a double digit deficit to take the win thanks to a crushing fourth quarter against Naharya (32:20) and a 29:16 third quarter against Rishon Lezion. Maccabi's previous winning streak came to an end against Ness Ziona (76:85), where the yellows held the 43:35 lead at halftime. In the last two games John-Di has put up a shooting clinic from down town hitting 7/13, In Maccabi's loss to Eilat he shot 1/6 from distance. The guard who's leading the league in the +/- rating has climbed to the fourth place on the three point shooting list with an impressive 46.2%. In his two previous games against Ness Ziona he averaged a remarkable 19PPG, 23.5PIR and an amazing 8/10 from down town. Maccabi gets the 98:95 win over Ness Ziona at home The yellows are firing on all cylinders just before the domestic playoffs as they win third game in a row. Pargo was on fire with 26P, 20 of which scored in the fourth quarter. Roll added 21 HOME · News Archive · Maccabi gets the 98:95 win over Ness Ziona at home Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv were down 12 points in the fourth quarter, but then Jeremy Pargo exploded with 20 points (out of his 26), as he led Maccabi to the 98:95 win over Ness Ziona. Michael Roll added 21, Cole finished the game with 17P and 7A. On Monday Maccabi will play against Herzelia for the final game of the domestic regular season. Coach Spahija's starting five: Pargo, John-Di, Roll, Tyus and Bolden. The game was close at the beginning as the teams were tied (7:7) with Alex Tyus connecting three times for thunderous dunks. The visitors started making shots from distance as they took the 9:19 lead. Cohen and Cole reacted taking the visitors' lead down to four points, but Ness Ziona reacted with Zana to finish the first quarter strong with the 19:30 lead. The visitors' momentum continued into the second quarter as they increased their lead to 22:38, Cole and Zoosman reacted for Maccabi who trimmed Ness Ziona's lead to 31:40 with the second quarter reaching its halfway mark. Thomas, Pargo and Zoosman completed the comeback for Maccabi with the yellows finishing the first half ahead 48:46. Maccabi struggled to score at the beginning of the third quarter. The visitors capitalized as they took the 48:51 lead three minutes into the third quarter. Cohen scored for the yellows but Ness Ziona continued their momentum as they took the 50:59 lead, Roll and Cole's damage control brought Maccabi back into the game (57:61) but Zana and Got finished the third quarter strong as they had the 61:70 lead. Two minutes into the fourth quarter Pargo and Tyus trimmed the visitors' lead to 66:73, the visitors increased their lead again (69:81), but then came along Pargo who scored 14 points to complete a yellow comeback (85:84) with a minute and a half remaining in the game, Roll and Tyus increased Maccabi's lead to four points Cook scored a three pointer to keep Ness Ziona in the game with 15.1 seconds remaining in the game, but Pargo kept his composure as he scored both of his free throws to secure the 98:95 win for the yellows who are now 22:10 in the domestic standings. M/A % DR OR TR FF FA ST TO AS BKF BKA J. DiBartolomeo Jake Cohen Itay Segev Jonah Bolden Yovel Zoosman G. 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__label__cc	0.600536	0.399464	Lyrics and tablature Merchandise gallery Browse eras Manson ‡ Wiki The Marilyn Manson Encyclopedia From MansonWiki, the Marilyn Manson encyclopedia Video by Marilyn Manson Nothing, Interscope Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy A preview of this album is currently not available Marilyn Manson video chronology God Is in the T.V. (1999) "Autopsy" (2001) Guns, God and Government World Tour "Autopsy" is a short, surrealist film by Marilyn Manson. In 2004, the film was re-released as an easter egg on the Lest We Forget – The Best Of bonus DVD, which can be viewed by highlighting Manson's crotch on the Special Features menu. 3.2 Crew "Autopsy" is a two minute short film directed by Marilyn Manson and D. Sardy, released online on November 14, 2000 by Interscope Records. It features an instrumental loop of "GodEatGod", from Marilyn Manson's fourth studio album, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), which "Autopsy"'s release coincided with. The short film was hosted by Interscope's official website, and was accessed through running the "START.exe" file included on the Holy Wood album, on a personal computer. "Autopsy" is no longer hosted online and as such, this START.exe file leads to a broken link when accessed. The video features Manson on an autopsy table, having his cranium opened, from which a fetus is extracted. This could be reference to the birth of the Greek goddess Athena, whom had been the result of a tryst that Zeus had with Metis. Out of fear of Metis conceiving children more powerful than he, Zeus swallowed her. His actions were too late however, as Metis had already conceived Athena from within him. Another interpretation of the short film could be the recurring theme of emotionally neglected children throughout Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), and this could be the child theoretically hiding within himself. Video[edit] Personnel[edit] Cast[edit] Marilyn Manson – Himself Crew[edit] Marilyn Manson – director, producer, score D. Sardy – director, producer John 5 – score Twiggy Ramirez – score Madonna Wayne Gacy – score Bon Harris – score Marilyn Manson videography Get Your Gunn • Lunchbox • Dope Hat • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) • The Beautiful People • Tourniquet • Man That You Fear • Cryptorchid • Long Hard Road Out of Hell • Apple of Sodom • The Dope Show • I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) • Rock Is Dead • Coma White • Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes • Disposable Teens • The Fight Song • The Nobodies • Tainted Love • mOBSCENE • This Is the New Shit • Thrift • (s)AINT • Personal Jesus • Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) • Putting Holes in Happiness • Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon • Running to the Edge of the World • WOW • No Reflection • Slo-Mo-Tion • Hey, Cruel World... • Deep Six • The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles • Third Day of a Seven Day Binge • WE KNOW WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE • SAY10 • KILL4ME • Tattooed in Reverse • Cry Little Sister Dead to the World • God Is in the T.V. • "Autopsy" • Guns, God and Government World Tour (The Death Parade) • The Mechanism of Desire • Doppelherz • Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows (Bonus DVD) • Lest We Forget – The Best Of (Bonus DVD) • (s)AINT Video (Uncut, Unrated, Banned by Label) • Eat Me, Drink Me (Bonus DVD) • Guns, God, and Government – Live in L.A. • Fifth video album Retrieved from "http://www.mansonwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Autopsy&oldid=103631" Holy Wood era Marilyn Manson discography About The Marilyn Manson Wiki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line556
__label__cc	0.636476	0.363524	Mark and Lynn Are Famished "I Love This Site!" Dalia Jurgensen Author of Spiced Jaime Wyeth's retrospective at the MFA in Boston renews Mark's appreciation for that piece of Folk Art Arnold Schwarzenegger.... Portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger Jamie Wyeth (American, born in 1946) * The Collection of Arnold Schwarzenegger. © Jamie Wyeth. * Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Lynn and I have always enjoyed the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston during our frequent trips there. They always have interesting and sometimes provocative exhibits, they have multiple great restaurants and the space manages to be stately without being intimidating or overwhelming. Recently, Lynn and I had the chance to check out one of the high profile exhibits in the US for the season: The Jamie Wyeth retrospective. Wyeth's work has always intrigued me on its own and in the way it connects to the work of his father and especially his grandfather. Wyeth's retrospective shows an artist whose interests and experimental tendencies surpassed both his father and grandfather. Wyeth's work reflects some of the rustic, supernatural(ism) of his father Andrew but it also connects to some of the brawny and poetic men of action that NC painted in his illustrations for Children's Classics like Last of the Mohicans. Wyeth's 1977 portrait of a bare chested Arnold Schwarzenegger in his late 70's prime reminded me of NC's work on the print version of The Return of Tarzan from 1913 which depicts a brawny Tarzan in repose. This portrait in particular made me realize that Jamie Wyeth merged the notion of fine art with popular culture and even pulp in a way that his grandfather did which is why I love his work so much and why he is the most enjoyable major American artist at present in my opinion.... Posted by markandlynnarefamished at 1:49 PM Mark and Lynn visit Paul, Mark and Donnie's place in Hingham.... There is a part of us (mainly me) that really has a weakness for quality commercial restaurants and products that really deliver good value, minimum pretension and good quality and variety in their food, wine and/or spirits. This impulse led us (mainly me) to seek out Wahlburgers the high end burger outpost in Hingham owned by Chef Paul Wahlberg and his brothers Hollywood superstar Mark Wahlberg and Donnie who has had a noteworthy career as a music, film and television performer. The restaurant has also generated a reality show of the same name on A & E featuring the behind the scenes operations of the Hingham restaurant. Lynn likes excitement and novelty which the crowded, bustling restaurant had in spades. What was unexpected was the high quality and general variety of the food. Lynn had a Haddock sandwich which she said had great flavor and was lightly fried with panko. Our grand kids enjoyed the Chicken Fingers and "Alma's Macaroni" (Alma is Mother Wahlberg). The restaurant had some great offbeat offerings for vegetarians such as the Portabello Capped Mushroom Burger which I had and found juicy and savory. If you are watching your carbs you can get the burgers with lettuce wraps instead of the bread. An artful homage to the Wahlberg's film and television work hovers overhead It is also worthy of note that the staff is friendly and unflappable. The manner in which they handled the bustling lunch crowd with wait lines going out into the street was impressive. Despite the long lines we were seated in a surprisingly timely fashion and managed to get our food quickly and with a minimum of fuss. The place has a family friendly vibe but there is a separate part of the restaurant with a bar section which makes it a good place to go and watch "the game." (The Red Sox were playing an afternoon game which generated a lot of interest during our time there). Jackson at Wahlburgers The drive from South Boston to Hingham is about an hour but the trip was well worth it and though we love Boston the parking can be kind of a headache if you are not up for it. The area where Wahlburgers was busy but parking was not a hassle. Posted by markandlynnarefamished at 7:46 AM Contest!: Mark and Lynn give away a copy of Kathleen Flinn's latest... We are giving away a copy of Kathleen Flinn's funny and poignant memoir of her childhood Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good. Ms. Flinn has also graciously agreed to contribute a one of a kind item to our givaway: An autographed jar of her own homemade blueberry jam made from her grandfather's own recipe. To enter simply tell us in 50 words or less your most memorable dish growing up (and why). Email your entry to markandlynnarefamished@yahoo.com. Lynn and I will choose the winner and will publish the winning entry as on of our posts. Contest ends midnight September 20. Thanks much and good luck! M&L Author Kathleen Flinn turns family history into storytelling gold... Kathleen Flinn's author of The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry is back with a memoir of her youth called Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family. Ms. Flinn's memoir appropriately arrives late in the summer as it is a book as bittersweet and poignant as the end of the season and the onset of Autumn. The book is a chronology of her upbringing and covers three generations of her family. Ms. Flinn's adventurous streak and zest for life was a theme of some of her earlier works and here we see some of this in her own family history such as when her family decides fairly abruptly to pack up their Michigan home and move to California to help a relative run a pizza restaurant. Other highlights include chronicling her family's attempt at raising chickens and her family's abrupt move from Michigan to Florida. Ms. Flinn offers up serious retro comfort food recipes such as Lemon Meringue Pie, Bread and Butter Pickles, and Hot German Potato Salad to punctuate her chapters and underline some of her early experiences with food and cooking. Our favorite of these recipes is her Pan Fried Steak a la Julia Child. The author (photo credit Irene Flinn) This work, is in effect Ms. Flinn's third memoir and exhibits her exquistie story telling ability. She manages to weave a fascinating tale out of both the considerable drama and impulsiveness of her parents but also manages to get a lot of mileage out of the ordinariness of her youth such as chronicling the prodigous canning practices of her Grandparents or how her Father loved fishing. Ms. Flinn's work here manages to balance the sweetness and the ache of family history with the wizened perspective of adulthood. Mark and Lynn at the I Go Inn.... The end of summer tends to have us in a reflective mood and the end of this summer is no exception. One of the most memorable experiences of the summer of 2014 was a jaunt to the rakish I Go Inn Upstate in Edinburg, NY. The afternoon we visited the I Go Inn was one of the first hot summer days we experienced and many of the patrons of the IGI were literally just off of the boat from motoring on the Great Sacandage Lake as the Inn has a dock at the bottom of its property. Many of the patrons were floating around with beach coverups, flip flops and sunscreen liberally applied on their face and torso. The food was the best kind of beach food: Generous portions of fried seafood (such as the coconut shrimp), beer battered shrimp and chips mixed in with more high end and/or healthy options such as the Ahi Tuna Salad and Turkey Burgers. Mainly though, the I Go Inn is a great place to people watch. The place was packed the day we were there so it took awhile for our food to get served but our attentive waitress managed to re-assure us and the restaurant "comped" a couple of our appetizers even though our wait wasn't that bad considering. Again, the raucous but somehow well behaved clientele helped keep us entertained until we got our food. Mark and Lynn try A Taste of the North Fork Lynn and I had discovered much of the North Fork's culinary offerings this summer starting with the cHarissa that Lynn had found at a Farmer's Market in Mattituck early in the summer. The eventual need to replenish our cHarissa supply led us to the charming A Taste of the North Fork storefront. The Taste of the North Fork storefront in Southold had a wide variety of locally made culinary delights such as the sesame scallion dipping sauce which we found worked great as a marinade and provided nice flavor to such bland fare as tofu. Thankfully, we found our cHarissa in ample quantities. There were plenty of items that we didn't get to try just yet but the Taste of the North Fork store is a great showcase for the rich and evolving creative food scene on the North Fork of Long Island. Mark and Lynn take stock of Belle Isle Seafood's new home... Lynn and I just got back from Boston and one of our favorite places Belle Isle Seafood has been moved into an expansive new location. The expansion included a short move across the small bridge going into Winthrop. The seafood remains sublime and though the old, cramped location had a rustic charm the new location's size and comfort is a welcome change. Jaime Wyeth's retrospective at the MFA in Boston r... Mark and Lynn visit Paul, Mark and Donnie's place ... Contest!: Mark and Lynn give away a copy of Kathl... Author Kathleen Flinn turns family history into st... Mark and Lynn take stock of Belle Isle Seafood's n... Links of note from M & L... Hotel Indigo near Boston Isabella Gardner's amazing residence... Itsi-Bitsi cupcakes Jamie Oliver's Official Site Joe Beef Natalie McLean's official site North Fork Table & Inn Pullmans in Montreal Rowdy Hall Tate's Bake Shop Tilar Mazzeo author site salsa salsa markandlynnarefamished I (Mark) have written for The Christian Science Monitor, Clear Magazine, Picture Magazine, Film Score Monthly, Dan's Papers, Rue Morgue, In Flight USA and a lot more publications that I can't remember.... My wife Lynn was a model with the Ford Agency and her photography has been featured in most of the publications I have written for... Follow Mark and Lynn on Twitter Follow @themarkandlynn	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line557
__label__cc	0.626376	0.373624	Woodland Restoration Savanna Restoration Wetland Restoration Ecological Consulting Natural Resources Management Plan Prescribed Burning Herbicide Application PrairieSeedSource.com Buy Native Seed Habitat Restoration/Savanna Restoration A savanna looks like “trees in a prairie” or “prairie openings in a woodland.” A savanna has tree cover ranging from 1 to 20 or so trees per acre and allows at least 50% of sunlight to hit the ground. The dominant tree is bur oak, which has a corky bark that protects it from fire. Other trees, such as black oak, shagbark hickory, and white oak, may also be found. The easiest way to identify a remnant savanna is to look for broad-crowned bur and white oak trees. Mature trees that grew up in a savanna have a mushroom shaped crown with a diameter that is wider than the tree is tall. In woodlands, the same tree species will grow taller and vase shaped due to competition for sunlight with their neighbors. Throughout southern Wisconsin today, you will find these broad-crowned trees in forests surrounded by smaller trees and brush that are growing up into the limbs of these ancient giants. Many of these remnant savanna trees are several hundred years old. Southern Wisconsin historically had savanna cover of 20-40% depending on how you define a savanna. Generally, savannas occur in uplands, but lowland savannas can be found. In the original land surveys they might be identified as “barrens” or “scrub-oak” or “oak openings.” (see Resources) The savannas of Wisconsin have deteriorated so profoundly and rapidly in the past fifty years that they have become one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet. Most savannas today are thick with brush and younger trees. In most cases, the brush is European buckthorn and species of honeysuckle. But native trees such as cherry, elm, ash and boxelder can also be considered invasive in a savanna because they shade out young oaks and grow up through the branches of mature oaks, eventually killing them. A healthy Midwestern savanna is extraordinarily diverse. Because of the variation of shade and sun, a significant number of species of both prairie and woodland ecosystems may be found in savannas in addition to a few species that are found only in savannas. However, the invasive species of buckthorn and honeysuckle combined with the onslaught of native trees “released” due to lack of herbivory and fire have pushed today’s savannas to the brink of collapse. At the time of settlement, savannas were scattered throughout the region. Here is a quote from a traveler in the mid 1800’s upon his first encounter: Lost as I was, I could not help pausing frequently when I struck the first oak-opening I had ever seen, to admire its novel beauty. It looked more like a pear orchard than anything else to which I assimilate it – the trees being somewhat of the shape and size of pear trees, and standing at regular intervals apart from each other on the firm level soil…Here too, I first saw deer in herds; and half- frozen and weary though I was, the sight of these spirited creatures, sweeping in troops through interminable groves, where any eye could follow them for miles over the smooth snowy plain, actually warmed and invigorated me, and I could hardly refrain from putting my rowls to my tired horse and launching after the noble game. This condition was maintained by periodic fire and herbivory by bison, elk and deer. Today, former savannas are currently either trashy woodlands or crop fields. Restoring a savanna by starting with a pasture or corn field is a process that will take a least twenty years and starts simply by restoring a prairie and planting trees and shrubs in a fashion that they can be protected from fire in the early years. As trees grow and produce shade, savanna species are introduced bit by bit. The process involved in taking a trashed-out woodland that was once a savanna to one that resembles the healthy state at the time of settlement is also a long one. In fact, it should not be considered a process with an end goal in mind, but rather a change in behavior that will last the lifetime of the land owner and hopefully beyond. The early stages of oak savanna restoration involve removal of invasive woody species. Primarily this is done with mechanical means. The progress and quality of the restoration can be enhanced by careful reintroduction of herbivores – usually that means cattle or goats in today’s world, but bison and elk would be even better. In virtually any scenario, a degree of mechanical removal is necessary. Unlike a remnant woodland, it is almost impossible to bring a savanna back to healthy state simply by removing woody invasives. In virtually all cases, only a few native ground covers are likely to come back on their own. More often than not, removing woody invasives will allow herbaceous invasives like Canada thistle, spotted knapweed and giant ragweed to come in. Therefore, we begin by seeding grasses so that we can control broadleaf weeds with herbicide. Once the grasses have become established and broadleaf weeds are under control, seeding of forbs and sedges can occur. Once native ground covers become established it is time to reintroduce fire. 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__label__cc	0.513077	0.486923	Living in LoganLand 611 (Drama Unnies) = Living in LoganLand + AjaVilla Blog Kdrama Reviews & Memes Kdrama Wins Chingus In Dramaland Goblin: Episodes 3-4 Recap Hello friends! How's life? I'm fresh off of finishing this week's episodes and I must say this drama is by far exceeding my expectations-which were high to begin with. Nothing bad has happened yet, but I can tell it's going to be one of those dramas that has the potential to break my heart. Later this week, you'll get to hear more of my opinions on the drama as I collaborate with Tiara and June and we bring you the first post from our new project: Chingus in Dramaland. It should be a lot of fun and I hope you'll join us. But for now, let me bring you up to speed on Goblin. You can follow along with all my Goblin related posts here on the drama homepage. So when we last left off Eun Tak had been kidnapped and The Goblin and the Grim Reaper showed up. The Goblin ended up taking out his sword and cutting the kidnapper's car straight in half and then he and the Grim Reaper took Eun Tak away. She tells the Goblin she doesn't hate him anymore after she found out it's thanks to him that she was even born, although it certainly seems like she still is a little bitter at the way he treated her. The Goblin is still preparing to go over seas, but isn't happy about it. Eun Tak seems pretty bummed about his leaving as well. The Grim Reaper says he's looking forward to it, but you can tell that he'll be lonely without his new roommate. But before he leaves, he wants to help Eun Tak out in one final way by getting her horrible family out of her hair. He hides gold bars in the house for them to find. Sunny, Eun Tak's boss at the chicken restaurant, finds out that Eun Tak has been staying there and allows her to continue to do so showing what a cool person she truly is. Later Eun Tak accidentally summons the Goblin which gives them to say some last things to each other before the Goblin leaves and he explains his powers/what he's capable of to her. The Grim Reaper ends up showing up at the cafe they're meeting at, but he tells Eun Tak that he's actually on her side now. What he doesn't reveal is that he wants her to be the Goblin's bride so she can remove the Goblin's sword and he can leave this earth for good finally (and be out of the Reaper's hair). The night the Goblin and Grim Reaper bond a little when, after accidentally offending him by bringing up that he could have been evil in his previous life, the Goblin tells him he doesn't judge his prior life- he'll hate him either way. The Reaper has some woman issues of his own surmounting as a (not so) chance encounter with Sunny leaves him shook as they both try to buy the same ring from a familiar-looking street vendor (Eun Tak's neighborhood granny who isn't a granny anymore) Both are immediately drawn to each other and have a feeling there's fate between them. Sunny leaves him with her number and the promise that he has to call her. The Goblin is longing to be called by Eun Tak one more time and she doesn't summon him, but he ends up seeking her out anyway. When he arrives where she's sitting watching the ocean it's raining and he tells her that's because he's sad. It soon stop and he reveals it's because his mood has improved (upon seeing her). But as they realize it's their last goodbye before he leaves it begins to rain again. That night the Goblin and Grim Reaper are unnerved when there doorbell rings revealing a vistor-when there's never been one before. It's Eun Tak who found out where the Goblin lived from the ghosts. She's surprised to see that the Grim Reaper lives with him, but she also has something important to tell the Goblin. It turns out she could see the sword all along. Even though the Goblin has been waiting for his bride to come along for centuries and has gotten sick of watching his loved ones die, he is still shocked that Eun Tak is in fact his bride and has so many mixed feelings about the fact that his time alive is coming to an end so abruptly. He puts off talking to her until he can sort his thoughts. The Grim Reaper promises to be the one to escort him when it finally is his time to go. Eun Tak's evil aunt has sold there house and so Eun Tak now has nowhere to live. The Goblin puts her up in the hotel owned by his follower's family even though she begs to live with him. He keeps his distance from her for the next couple things as he deals with the range of emotions that he's feelings. She doesn't like being kept at a distance-assuming that he isn't happy because he's disappointed that it's her that it's his bride and not somebody better. In the meantime the Goblin's nephew "Duk Hwa" is charged with taking care of Eun Tak and he realizes the connection -that she is the Goblin's bride. The evil aunt and horrible cousin of Eun Tak's get in trouble with the law after trying to cash in the gold they found in Eun Tak's drawer. Turns out it's from America and the fact that they admitted they took it from Eun Tak labels them as even bigger thieves than they were already suspected of being. Meanwhile, Eun Tak has had enough of being ignored and summons the Goblin with a whole bunch of candles. He still can't handle the emotions and tries to use alcohol as a means to do so and ends up getting drunk and telling her about the fact that she's the only one who can remove the sword (a fact he had been trying to hide from her up until now). The next day he's mortified and trying to do recon he goes and picks her up from school and then takes her to Canada for dinner. He still doesn't reveal to her what will happen when she removes the sword, but they agree not to do it yet. She suggests they remove the sword during the first snowfall. While watching Eun Tak running around and being her vibrant happy self, he realizes that he has fallen in love for the first time...and with her. And that's where our drama concludes this week. Instead of adding my thoughts to the recap, I'll be discussing all my reaction in my Chingus in Dramaland post. Hope you join me next week to find out what happens next, for more memes, or to join the conversation with Chingus in Dramaland. 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__label__wiki	0.501034	0.501034	Home WELLNESS MIND & BODY Mind & Body: March 2015 March 1, 2015 Lianna Patch 0 Mind & Body: March 2015 Morning Motivation: Replace your morning coffee with a different kind of blend. Here at New Orleans Living, we’re always on the lookout for the perfect green smoothie recipe — and we’ve tried more than a few. So when we saw locally based actress and photographer Nicky Phillips’ perfectly luscious Green Shake on Instagram, we had to get the recipe. Phillips, who is mostly vegan, aims to drink this bright-green concoction daily. “I love making smoothies because it’s such a great start to your day,” she says. “The typical way Americans believe they should eat is [thinking that] breakfast is the most important meal — and it is pretty important — but that doesn’t mean it should be full of protein, carbs and refined sugars. Green shakes and fruit smoothies are the perfect breakfast, because you’re getting proper nutrients into your body to start your day, and you can absolutely feel the difference in mood and energy level.” Nicky’s Gorgeous Green Shake 1 head of Romaine lettuce Large handful of baby spinach Large handful of curly kale 1 peeled, chopped mango (or frozen equivalent) 2 pitted dates (for sweetness; can be omitted) 15 ounces coconut water 2 Tbs. flaxseed 2 Tbs. hemp seed Blend ingredients together until all lumps disappear. Serve and enjoy! Better Together: The New Orleans Food Co-op says cooperation is key. In 2005, the New Orleans Food Co-op was poised to open a 2,300-square-foot space on Elysian Fields Avenue. But Hurricane Katrina did away with those plans — and the storm also did away with many of the grocery stores in New Orleans, creating what came to be known as food deserts throughout the city. The co-op pressed on without a physical space for several years — running a monthly buying club, and partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank and Market Umbrella to operate a mobile market. Finally, in the fall of 2011, it opened its first permanent location inside the New Orleans Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue. For more than a decade, the co-op’s main mission has stayed the same: to offer healthy food at reasonable prices to the New Orleans community. Residents can become co-owners by investing in the co-op; while most investments start at $100, those on a limited income only pay $25. By allowing community members to take a financial stake in their own food supply, the co-op both ensures its longevity and creates ambassadors for its cause. While it does occasionally carry conventional produce when neither local nor organic options are available, the New Orleans Food Co-op prioritizes organic and/or sustainably raised, fair-trade crops. Because it’s more expensive to raise, this type of produce can cost more than conventionally grown produce, but, on the other hand, items raised locally may cost less. The co-op sources as many items as it can from local producers — cutting down on the carbon footprint of food transport, and supporting area farmers and fishers. Products originating within 250 miles of New Orleans are classified as Locally Grown or Locally Produced, while products marked with Crescent’s Pride are grown or produced right here in town. nolafood.coop Maria’s Pick: Crescent Park Plan a run or pack a picnic, and head to New Orleans’ newest park. By now, most locals know about Crescent Park. But if you haven’t yet taken an afternoon to stroll around this riverfront space, you’re missing out! The park spans 1.4-miles from Mazant Street in the Bywater to Elysian Fields Avenue in the Marigny. It’s crisscrossed with running and biking paths, and almost every vantage point offers a fabulous view of the Mississippi River. Those familiar with The High Line in New York City will likely notice the two parks’ visual similarities. Crescent Park’s landscape design is spare and almost geometric, offering a counterpoint to the lush green spaces of Audubon and City parks. There’s also a dog run here, where well-behaved pups can play. Though it’s been open since last spring, Crescent Park is by no means finished. It can be tough to get over the steep, arched Piety Street bridge, and Yelpers note that the dog run lacks a double gate — so be careful when coming and going! The New Orleans Building Corporation, which spearheaded the park, plans to expand it by adding more trails, picnic areas and other amenities “as funding becomes available,” according to reinventingthecrescent.org. Hopefully, the park will be 100 percent complete in time for New Orleans’ tricentennial celebration in 2018! nola.gov/city/crescent-park previous Mega Omegas next Festival Food	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line573
__label__wiki	0.624433	0.624433	LLIFLE > Encyclopedias > Cacti > Family > Cactaceae > Cereus > Cereus imbricatus Cereus imbricatus Haw. Revis. Pl. Succ. 70. 1821 Accepted Scientific Name: Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth Kaktus-ABC [Backeb. & Knuth] [Backeb. & Knuth] 125. 1936 [12 Feb 1936] Backeb., F.M.Knuth Cereus imbricatus (Cylindropuntia imbricata) Photo by: Diego Armentano Blooming habit at: Traslasierra - Cordoba, Argentina. Origin and Habitat: Cylindropuntia imbricata is a cactus found in the South-western United States and northern Mexico (Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí ), including some cooler regions in comparison to many other cacti. It occurs primarily in the arid regions of the Southwestern United States in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. The species is naturalised in arid regions and along watercourses in South America, South Africa, Mediterranean basin and Australia. Altitude range: It occurs at altitudes from 1,200 to 2,400 metres above sea level. Habitat and ecology: The species is widely distributed and common in the Chihuahua Desert Region in sandy or gravelly areas in the arid plains. Cylindropuntia imbricata occurs in xerophyllous scrub. In parts of its range, often just below the pinyon-juniper belt, it can be abundant, surrounded by low grasses and forbs that are brown most of the year; in such places chollas are conspicuous as the only tall green plant. It sometimes grows at impressively high altitudes in the western part of its range. Cylindropuntias spread via movement of detached segments which are capable of forming roots when they come into contact with the ground. The fruits are also eaten by various wild birds and mammals, including pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, and deer. The thorny plants provide escape for cover for many small animals. The leafcutter bee Lithurgus apicalis has been observed to pollinate the flowers. There are no major threats to the species and it can tolerate habitat modification. Cylindropuntia imbricata, is a declared noxious weed in New South Wales and also occurs in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. A biological control program against it commenced in 1925 with the release of the cochineal insect Dactylopius tomentosus. This agent has been found to damage additional species of Cylindropuntia in Australia. Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth Cactus imbricatus (Haw.) Lem. Grusonia imbricata (Haw.) G.D.Rowley Opuntia imbricata (Haw.) DC. See all synonyms of Cylindropuntia imbricata Kaktus-ABC [Backeb. & Knuth] [Backeb. & Knuth] 125. 1936 [12 Feb 1936] Cylindropuntia imbricata var. arborescens (Engelm.) Opuntia arborescens Engelm. in Wisliz. Opuntia imbricata var. arborescens (Engelm.) A.D.Zimmerman Cylindropuntia imbricata var. argentea (M.S.Anthony) Backeb. Cylindropuntia imbricata subs. argentea (M.S.Anthony) U.Guzmán Opuntia imbricata var. argentea M.S.Anthony Cylindropuntia imbricata subs. cardenche (Griffiths) U.Guzmán Cylindropuntia cardenche (Griffiths) Backeb. & F.M.Knuth Opuntia cardenche Griffiths Opuntia imbricata var. cardenche (Griffiths) Bravo Cylindropuntia imbricata subs. lloydii (Rose) U.Guzmán Opuntia imbricata var. lloydii (Rose) Bravo Cylindropuntia imbricata var. ramosior (Salm-Dyck) Opuntia imbricata var. ramosior Salm-Dyck Cylindropuntia imbricata var. spinotecta (Griffiths) M.A.Baker Opuntia spinotecta Griffiths Cylindropuntia imbricata var. tenuior (Salm-Dyck) Opuntia imbricata var. tenuior Salm-Dyck Cylindropuntia imbricata var. vexans (Griffiths) Opuntia imbricata var. vexans (Griffiths) D.Weniger Opuntia vexans Griffiths Cylindropuntia lloydii (Rose) F.M.Knuth in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth Opuntia lloydii Rose ENGLISH: Devil's rope pear, Devil's rope cactus, , Rosea cactus, Hudson pear, Rope pear, Tree cactus, Walkingstick cholla, Cane cactus, Candelabrum cactus, Chain-link cactus, Cane cholla, Coyote candles, Tree Cholla FRENCH (Français): Cactus rustique HUNGARIAN (Magyar): Kötélkaktusz LITHUANIAN (Lietuvių): Medelinė opuncija NAHUATL (Nāhuatl): Tenohpalli SPANISH (Español): Abrojo, Cardenche, Cardon, Coyonostyle, Joconostili, Tesajo, Tesajo Macho, Vela de Coyote, Xoconostle Description: The cane cholla or tree cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata) is often conspicuous because of its shrubby or even tree-like size, its silhouette, and its long-lasting yellowish fruits. The above-ground part consists of of a number of succulent, cylindrical segments (joints) about 2-3 cm in diameter. These segments grow mostly end to end and possess areoles which contain glochids (very small, detachable barbed bristles) adjacent to the longer spines. Long spines possess papery detachable sheath. Leaves occur at the base of are-oles and are usually not seen on mature segments as they are shed early. A typical height is about 1 m, but exceptionally it can grow to 4.6 m with a "trunk" diameter of 25 cm. Flowers and fruit form within or near areoles on upper stem segments. Flowers vary through shades or dark pink and purple with a boss of yellow stamens and bright white stigmas, and is said to be a shy bloomer until it reaches 60 cm tall. This plant may live 20 years or more when well pleased with its environment. In addition to the typical species (var. imbricata), two varieties are recognized from West Texas: var. argentea with silvery spines, and var. arborescens, which is taller. Derivation of specific name: Latin verb 'imbricere', to tile a roof. In botanical Latin refers to any regularly overlapping structure, and here refers to the overlapping tubercles of the joints. Imbricated (-stemmed) opuntia. Stems: Branched with a more or less definite cylindrical woody trunk up to 25 cm in diameter. Ultimate segments cylindrical, rope-like or somewhat club shaped, 8-40 cm long and 2 to 3.5(-5) cm in diameter, dark- to grey-green, strongly tuberculate; tubercles 2 to 2.5 cm long, flattened laterally lengthwise. The joints, unlike those of some other chollas, are hard to detach. They are plagiotropic, that is to say, that they grow in a star- or crown-like pattern at all angles to the upright (orthotropic) branches. They will droop in winter but recover quickly in spring. Areoles: Elliptical, subtended by a leaf in the depressions above the tubercles, with yellow to tan wool, ageing to back, containg small bristles (glochids) and spines. Glochids: About 1 mm long that can detach and stick in the skin. Leaves: 8 to 24 mm long, terete. Spines: Present on most areoles, 8 to 30 not obscuring the stems, needle-like, some almost hairlike, silver to yellow, brown, or pink, 2 to 3 cm long, rounded or sometimes flattened in cross section basally, spreading, straight or curved, very sharp, with the skin separating into a tan paper-like sheath during the first year of development. Flowers: The flowers are bowl-shaped, diurnal, purple or magenta, rarely rose-pink, borne at ends of branches, about 4 to 6 cm long, sometimes 8 to 9 cm broad. Ovary tuberculate, spineless, occasionally bearing a few bristles from some of the upper areoles. Perianth purple. Anthers yellow on purple filaments. Stigma pale yellow. Blooming season: Flowers late spring and summer. Fruits: Naked, egg-shaped with a hollow at the wide end where the flower fell off, green to yellow, 2.5 to 4.4 cm long, 2-4 cm in diameter, strongly tuberculate like the stems or, when long persistent, smooth. Seeds: Pale brown,2.5 to 3.5(-4) mm in diameter. Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Cylindropuntia imbricata group Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth in Backeb. & F.M.Knuth: often becomes a tree to 3 m high but has small stem segments. Distribution: its range is wide. Cylindropuntia imbricata var. arborescens (Engelm.): is taller tree-like. Distribution: West Texas Cylindropuntia imbricata var. argentea (M.S.Anthony) Backeb.: is only shrubby but has large stem segments with silvery spines. Distribution: Big Bend region of Texas. Notes: The Cylindropuntia (the cylindrical Opuntias of North-America) can easily be distinguished from Austrocylindropuntia (the cylindrical Opuntias of South-America) Austrocylindropuntia by their spines having a papery sheaths (Austrocylindropuntia spines lack them). Moreover Austrocylindropuntia have cylindrical stems that grow indeterminately, while Cylindropuntia has stems that grow in a single season. The seeds are different too. Bibliography: Major references and further lectures 1) N. L. Britton, J. N. Rose: “The Cactaceae. Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family.” Vol I, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington 1919 2) Curt Backeberg “Die Cactaceae: Handbuch der Kakteenkunde”, Volume 6 G. Fischer, 1962 5) Anderson, E. F. “The cactus family” 2001 6) Royce H Holtkamp “Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M. Knuth — rope pear Cylindropuntia rosea (DC.) Backeb.— Hudson pear” in Jim Cullen, Mic Julien, Rachel McFadyen “Biological Control of Weeds in Australia” Csiro Publishing, 05 March 2012 7) Wikipedia contributors. "Cylindropuntia imbricata." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 13 Aug. 2015. Web. 29 Mar. 2016. 8) Cylindropuntia imbricata in: “Bradleya: Yearbook of the British Cactus and Succulent Society”, Volumes 17-19 The Society, 1999 9) Gwen Moore Kelaidis “Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate” Storey Publishing, 01 March 2012 10) Leo J. Chance “Cacti and Succulents for Cold Climates: 274 Outstanding Species for Challenging Conditions” Timber Press, 19 June 2012 11) “Devil's Rope Cactus - Cylindropuntia imbricata” Australian Weeds Committee, retrieved 28 March 2016 from <http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&state=&s=&ibra=all&card=S52> 12) J. Hosking et al., “Plant Protection Quarterly.” Vol. 3, pages 115–123. 1988. 13) Samuel H. Lamb “Woody Plants of the Southwest: A Field Guide with Descriptive Text, Drawings, Range Maps, and Photographs” Sunstone Press, 1975 14) Goettsch, B. “Distribution modelling, macroecology and conservation: cacti of the Chihuahuan Desert Region.” Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield. 2007. 15) Goettsch, B. and Hernández, H.M. “Beta diversity and similarity among cactus assemblages in the Chihuahuan Desert.” Journal of Arid Environments Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Cactáceas y otras Suculentas 65: 513-528. 2006. 16) Hernández, H.M., Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. and Goettsch, B. “Checklist of Chihuahuan Desert Cactaceae.” Harvard Papers in Botany 9(1): 51-68. 2004. 17) Elmore, Francis H. “Trees and Shrubs of the Southwest Uplands”. Western National Parks Association. 1978 18) Martínez-Ávalos, J.G. and Jurado, E. “Geographic distribution and conservation of Cactaceae from Tamaulipas Mexico.” Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 2483-2506. 2005. 19) New South West Flora Online “Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth” text by G.J. Harden (1990) retrieved 28 March 2016 from <http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cylindropuntia~imbricata> 20) Oklahoma Biological Survey “Opuntia imbricata (Haw.) DC.” retrieved 28 March 2016 from <http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/opim.htm> 21) Verne Grant, Paul D. Hurd “Pollination of the southwestern Opuntias” Plant Systematics and Evolution March 1979, Volume 133, Issue 1, pp 15-28 22) Stevenson, Matilda Coxe “Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians.” SI-BAE Annual Report 1915 23) Hernández, H.M., Cházaro, M. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. 2013. Cylindropuntia imbricata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T152144A602262. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T152144A602262.en. Downloaded on 29 March 2016. Send a photo of this plant. The gallery now contains thousands of pictures, however it is possible to do even more. We are, of course, seeking photos of species not yet shown in the gallery but not only that, we are also looking for better pictures than those already present. Read More... Cultivation and Propagation: Cylindropuntia imbricata is a summer grower cactus that offers no cultivation difficulties. The plants are sometimes grown as ornamentals. Plants may form thickets or be spaced at a few times their width in "gardens". Soil: Use a very a particularly draining substratum, as it is sensitive to rottenness when in presence of humidity and low temperatures and let the soil dry out between waterings, since it's natural habitat is in sandy or gravelly, well draining soils. Repotting: Repot in the spring, when their roots become cramped. Generally, they should be repotted every other year in order to provide fresh soil. After repotting, do not water for a week or more. Water: In summer, during the vegetative period, it must be regularly watered, but allowing the substratum to completely dry up before irrigating again (but do not overwater ); in winter, it’s to be kept dry. Preferable not to water on overcast days, humid days or cold winter days. Hardiness: It is very hardy for a cactus.USDA Zone 5A 8(-20°F or -28°C)). It can handle extremely high temperatures in summer. Exposure: Outside full sun or afternoon shade, inside needs bright light, and some direct sun. Use: It is suitable for “desert” gardens, in association with other xerophytes. Where the open air cultivation is not possible due to the climate, it is to be cultivated in pot in order to shelter it in winter. This species was historically used as a food source by the local people. Traditional uses: Dead stems decay to leave a hollow wooden tube with a pattern of lengthwise slits. These are sometimes used as canes or to make curios. The Roman Catholic Penitentes of New Mexico formerly tied fresh stems to their bare backs in Holy Week processions. The Zuni people use the imbricata variety ceremonially. Warning: It is armed with treacherous spines that are sharp enough to easily penetrate leather gardening gloves. Glochids and spines readily attach to skin and are difficult to remove. (This is one of the most dangerous of all cactus). Handle it with extreme caution, and keep it away from gangways and areas frequented by children and animals. Spines must be meticulously removed with tweezers. Propagation: Stem division. Prickly pear joints root easily and grow rapidly when placed in loose, well-draining soil. 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__label__wiki	0.546412	0.546412	Minister Santia Bradshaw shares breast cancer diagnosis Loop News Created : 19 August 2018 Barbados News After a mere three months after settling into her portfolio as Minister of Education, Santia Bradshaw has been hit with a major blow to her health and political career. This evening at a constituency meeting in St. Michael South East, Minister Bradshaw, in the presence of Prime Minister Mia Mottley and party supporters announced that she had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The 42-year-old opened up to her constituents in a candid speech where she emphasized the need for public figures to be transparent when communicating with those who elected them into office. "I come to you tonight in the spirit of openness... a few weeks ago I discovered a lump in my breast... the good news is that it is treatable because they have found it early.” Bradshaw said she chose to tell her constituents, and by extension the rest of Barbados, so she can be a “vehicle to spread a message to both men and women” who may be going through a similar diagnosis. “In public life you have to go to the people and explain your condition. Cancer does not mean a death sentence.” Bradshaw said she remains confident the cancer diagnosis will not overcome her. “We took on a whole Democratic Labour Party and had a landslide and Santia Bradshaw ain’t letting cancer get the better of her.” She further explained her openness about the diagnosis was done so Barbadians would be informed as to her prolonged absences from the House of Assembly and her constituency office. Bradshaw stated clearly that sympathy was not what she desired and she will remain in good spirits as “half the battle is won by being positive”. She will be leaving the island tomorrow, August 20 to travel overseas for more tests. Download the Loop News Caribbean app on Google Play Store: http://bit.ly/GetALoop Download the Loop News Caribbean app on the App Store: http://bit.ly/GetiLoop Santia Bradshaw Ministry of Education Technological and Vocational Training Jury awards $289M to man who blames Roundup for cancer Colon cancer screening should start at 45, not 50 - US doctors Science Says: What we know about cancer risk and coffee NIFCA awardees recognized for contributions to festival AG: Be patient as judicial changes take effect	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line575
__label__cc	0.552564	0.447436	Audi RS Moments of Truth - 2001: TFSI Video of the day: Audi RS Moments of Truth - 2001: TFSI Audi RS "Moments of Truth" is a series of highly stylized, dynamic short-form documentaries that capture a moment in time -- visual, visceral proof of the impact that technological innovation and risk-taking has had on performance in a highly competitive world. This film tells the story of how FSI technology led to the Audi Joest R8 victory at the 2001 24 Hours of LeMans. Tom Kristensen tells the story from the driver's perspective and Jo Hausner tells the story from the race engineer's perspective. Through their dramatic stories the films conveys how the team went into the 2001 race knowing FSI technology would give them significant fuel efficiencies and performance advantages that ultimately helped them overcome the grueling elements and torrential rain of the 2001 24 Hours of LeMans. The story then links the motor sports moment of truth to a story of modern-day FSI implementation and refinement in the RS 5. Through engineer Christian Brinkmann the piece brings to life visual, technological proof of TFSI (combustion chamber, V8 engine, etc.) at quattro GmbH, and through specific track footage of the RS 5. Follow the link to learn more about how performance has evolved http://audiusa.com/performance Dishonored - Chapter 1 MIT Architecture Listen to the heart of Tuscany MicMac Lane Everything is Incredible SAMBATOWN Cine Rincão: Spray Filmes: Colors Magazine Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car Hu's Game The Art of Animation and Motion Graphics Pogue's Proposal World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Cinematic Tra... Tom Hanks' Electric City - Illumination Night Tom Hanks' Electric City - Such Beauty From a Box	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line581
__label__wiki	0.626615	0.626615	Mindwars Official Website (May 27th 2019) 4th album pre-production almost done….stay tuned for updates!!! (March 27th 2019) Writing process of the 4th album at Number 8 Studio (Santa Ana, CA) is still in progress. Stay tuned… (February 3rd 2019) We are currently working on the preproduction of our 4th album at Number 8 Studio in Santa Ana, CALIFORNIA (January 1st 2019) We are excited to announce that on January 25th 2019 we’ll be performing at the Schecter Guitars Annual NAMM Indie Party in Anaheim (CA). Check “Tour” sections for details. (November 13th 2018) “Conspiracy” Videoclip out now. Check it out on “Media/Video” section (July 20th 2018) “Do Unto Others” released in North America on July 20 2018. “Do Unto Other”s DeLuxe Vinyl Edition out NOW on Back On Black Records! (July 7th 2018) We are excited to announce the first show of the “Do Unto Others” Fall 2018 US South West Mini-tour: October 23rd, The Viper Room, Hollywood (with hardcore legends D.R.I.) (June 22nd 2018) We are planning the “DO UNTO OTHERS” Fall 2018 US Tour, stay tuned for details. (June 5th 2018) “Do Unto Others” LP (coloured vinyl), coming soon on Back On Black Records. (April 13th 2018) Our third album “Do Unto Others” out today world-wide through Dissonance Productions! (January 14th 2018) “Do Unto Others” release date is set for April Friday the 13th 2018 through Dissonance Productions. (November 5th 2017) “Do Unto Others” mastering complete. Stay tuned for album release info… (October 15th 2017) “Do Unto Others” mixing complete. (September 10th 2017) “Do Unto Others” mixing underway in Los Angeles. (August 2nd 2017) We are honored to announce our signing with Dissonance Productions for the release of our third album “Do Unto Others” slated to hit the streets in early 2018. “Do Unto Others” recordings complete! (June 27th 2017) #3 recordings are underway between Turin and Los Angeles. Drums and bass done, currently working on guitars and vocals. Important announcement soon to be announced. (May 1st 2017) 3 is the perfect number and today we start tracking drums for our third album. We are ready and excited…. stay tuned for upcoming studio reports! \m/ (April 9th 2017) Working on record #3 Stay tuned for more info… (March 1st 2017) Third album pre-production underway “Sworn To Secrecy” US Tour soon just announced! Check Tour section for details (December 26th, 2016) 2017 US Tour soon to be announced! (October 6th, 2016) Scalp Bounty (videoclip) available now! The video features hand drawing artistry by MisterNatMan. Check Media/Video section (September 9th, 2016) “Sworn To Secrecy” European Tour just announced! Check Tour section (August 22nd, 2016) Cradle To Grave (videoclip) available now! (June 28th, 2016) No Voice (videoclip) available now! (May 16th, 2016) Sworn To Secrecy (videoclip) available now! (April 14th, 2016) Twisted (lyric video) and streaming available now! Check Media section (April 3rd, 2016) New show added: April 28th in Tucson, Arizona. Check “Tour” section of this site for more details. (April 1st, 2016) Pre-orders of our second release “Sworn to Secrecy” are available now! Special $10 pre-order price in the Store section of this site until April 29th. Get yours now! (March 9th, 2016) According to clickitticket.com we are among the top 25 indie metal bands! http://www.clickitticket.com/best-indie-metal-bands/ (February 26th, 2016) Finally announcing “SWORN TO SECRECY” Spring 2016 California shows! Wednesday April 20th: NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Skinny’s Lounge in NOHO (w/Cliff ‘Em All) Saturday April 23rd: LOS ANGELES, Long Live The Loud Festival (w/Exciter, Atrophy, Merciless Death, Warbringer Fueled by Fire and Dismantle) Friday April 29th: SAN DIEGO, Brick By Brick (w/Media Solution) (February 22nd, 2016) Here’s the full “Sworn To Secrecy” track list. Almost 40 minutes of pure mayhem!!! CD out April 2016 through Punishment 18 Records. 01. Sworn to Secrecy 02. Cradle to Grave 04. Twisted 05. Helpless 06. Scalp Bounty 07. Rest Now (for Tomorrow Comes) 08. No Voice 09. Prophecy 10. Release Me 11. Transporting (February 8th, 2016) We had the pleasure of Mario Lopez creating the Sworn to Secrecy cover for our second release. Check out his amazing artwork below! (January 19th, 2016) “Sworn To Secrecy” is complete and ready for pressing! Cheers to Bill Metoyer for a tremendous job! (December 31st, 2015) As the news of Lemmy dulls our spirits at the end of 2015, we wish all of you a Happy, Safe, and Prosperous New Year! Raise a glass for Lemmy, Phil, Dean, and all of our metal family who have moved on this past year! “Sworn to Secrecy” is nearing completion! Bill Metoyer has finished mixing and is in the process of mastering the final tracks at Skull Seven Studio in North Hollywood. (December 22nd, 2015) “Sworn to Secrecy” is nearing completion. Bill Metoyer has finished mixing and is in the process of mastering the final tracks at Skull Seven Studio in North Hollywood. (December 2nd, 2015) Bill Metoyer is working his magic at Skull Seven Studio mixing “Sworn to Secrecy”. More details coming soon… (October 27th, 2015) One year ago today, Mindwars released it first record…”The Enemy Within”…we would like to thank everyone for their support and we look forward to our second release “Sworn to Secrecy” coming spring 2016! MINDWARS and legendary metal producer Bill Metoyer are teaming up to mix and master their second release “Sworn to Secrecy”, slated to hit the streets spring 2016 through Punishment 18 Records. Bill Metoyer who has worked with such greats as (Agent steel, Armored Saint, COC, DRI, Dark Angel, Fates Warning, Flotsam And Jetsam, Sacred Reich, Slayer, WASP and many more…) will be handling mixing and mastering duties at his Skull Seven Studio in North Hollywood, Los Angeles this October and November. Vocals recordings done! Next stop: Skull Seven Studio, Los Angeles. (September 22nd, 2015) We have titled our upcoming second release “Sworn to Secrecy”. Album production should be complete by early Fall 2015 with a release date slated for Spring 2016. Look for more announcements in the coming weeks. (September 16th, 2015) T minus 5 days and counting until guitar tracks are laid down for our second release. More details coming soon! Two weeks and counting until we lay down the final guitar and vocal tracks for our second album… (August 25th, 2015) Silent Sound Studios, Los Angeles/California booked for Guitars and Vox from Sept 21th! (July 15th, 2015) Today is the last day for tracking bass guitar! After a brief holiday, we will return to the studio for guitars and vocals in September. (July 6th, 2015) Catch us on Periscope on Monday July 7th at 11am PDT/8pm CET for live studio footage broadcast! Here and see the thundering bass! Sunday June 14th at 8pm CET/11AM PDT we will be broadcasting in the studio live! Check us out using “Periscope”. If you don’t have the app, download it for free through the iOS and Android App Stores. (June 8th, 2015) We are happy to announce the release of The Enemy Within on vinyl. We are honored to have Night of the Vinyl Dead press 250 copies of our debut release on vinyl. Get yours now through the “Store” section of this website or directly through www.nightofthevinyldead.com We are currently working on pre-production for the follow up to “The Enemy Within”! This album will be packed with 45 minutes of pure adrenaline. Stay tuned for updates, sneak peaks, and news! (March 30th, 2015) “The Enemy Within” is being released on vinyl through Night Of The Vinyl Dead Records (limited edition, 250 numbered copies). They look amazing and will be released on April 30th. Pre-order yours now for $30 (includes shipping) in the store section of this site! Stay tuned for “The Enemy Within” vinyl edition, out Spring 2015 on “Night Of The Vinyl Dead” Records. Thanks for all the support Mindwarriors worldwide…we hope you enjoy the new “Final Battle” lyric video in “Media/Video” section, spread the word!!! Check “Media/Video” section for Brutally Delicious Episode #76 “Vegan Pasta Carbonara” with Mindwars (January 22nd, 2015) Check “Media/Video” section for a sneak peak at some footage of the first ever live performance of Mindwars in Los Angeles, CA. Stayed tuned for much more… Happy New Year to ALL! We hope to see you somewhere around the globe in 2015! Peace! Happy Holidays to all…and especially all Mindwarriors across the globe. Check out our entire album “The Enemy Within” under “Media/Music”. “Are you ready for the Final Battle!” (Check for “Final Battle” under “Media/Music” section) (December 8th, 2014) When you Walk Alone you will only hear the voices in your head. (Check for “Walking Alone” under “Media/Music” section) (December 1st, 2014) A little “retro” music for our supporters! Listen to “Retrobution” in “Media/Music” section. (November 24th, 2014) It’s “Time” for one more song to stream. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season (and Thanksgiving to those in the States). Check “Time in the Machine” in “Media/Music” section. In continuing our thanks for all the support we have received, check our next streaming song from our debut release. Our version of the great Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” for streaming under “Media/Music” sections of this site. Another song from our debut album “The Enemy Within” for streaming. Check “Chaos” under “Media/Music” (November 3rd, 2014) In recognition of all the support of Mindwars fans throughout the globe, we will be streaming one song a week from “The Enemy Within” for the next several weeks (Media/Music section). We thank you! Today “The Enemy Within” hits the streets! Thank you for all the support to the Mindwarrior Family! It is available on iTunes, Amazon, and all other digital music stores. Hard copies can be ordered directly through our website! “The Enemy Within” is out two weeks from today. Pre-order it now from iTunes, Amazon and other music digital stores For now you can stream “Crash” from Soundcloud (under this site Media/Music section). (October 2nd 2014) “The Enemy Within” album teaser. Check for “The Enemy Within” album teaser in “Media” page (Video submenu). (September 16th 2014) Album artwork and new logo!!! Below the amazing “The Enemy Within” cover artwork and MW logo by Mario E.López M. (August 1st 2014) Here is the full track list for our forthcoming album “The Enemy Within”: Speed Kills Retrobution Time in the Machine Masters of War* Death Comes Twice (July 18th 2014) We have decided to title our forthcoming debut album “The Enemy Within”. Signed by Punishment 18, “The Enemy Within” is slated to hit the streets October 2014. (June 26th 2014) We are very excited to be able to release our music through Punishment 18, signing this deal with them is a great first step which will hopefully lead to greater things in the future. P18 gives us the opportunity to express Thrash Metal as we see fit! (June 19th 2014) Welcome to MINDWARS Official Website, MINDWARS is currently working on the final production of their debut release which is set to hit the streets in fall of 2014. by roby Copyright © 2020 · All Rights Reserved · Mindwars Official Website powered by cybernetica	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line599
__label__wiki	0.805277	0.805277	Home>Movie Reviews>Yennai Arindhaal Movie Review Yennai Arindhaal Movie Review The Ajith Factor Screenplay and Direction Technical Aspects and Music A Solid, Gratifying Thriller! Thala Ajith's performance in Yennai Arindhaal is nothing less than fantastic. Present in almost every scene of the film, he swoops into the skin of the characters and literally lives the role of Sathyadev. GVM completes his cop trilogy in style. Its just the beginning, of good things to come. Cast: Ajith Kumar, Trisha, Anushka, Arun Vijay, Parvathy Nair, Baby Anikha, Vivek, Daniel Balaji and Others Cinematography: Dan MacArthur Music: Harris Jayaraj Editing: Anthony PRO: Suresh Chandra Written by: Gautham Menon, Sridhar Raghavan, Thiagarajan Kumararaja Directed by: Gautham Menon Produced by: AM Ratnam & Aishwarya Banner: Shri Sai Raam Creations Run Time: 02:48:00 The wait is over. After tons of conclusions and postponements, Yennai Arindhaal finally hits the screens today, with expectations at the zenith. This is a film where Gautham Vasudev Menon finishes his cop trilogy with a man who he had originally planned to start it with, Thala Ajith. Does the film manage to fulfil the expectations of the innumerous cinephiles worldwide? Lets find out in our Yennai Arindhaal movie review. Yennai Arindhaal traverses through the life of a man named Sathyadev. The film dwells into his dreams and ambitions, love angles, friends, enemies, frenemies and much more. Walking through this film with the central character and Gautham Menon’s narration, the viewer tastes a little bit of all the joy, sorrow and challenges that are thrown at Sathyadev. The director has taken immense care in carving out an action thriller which satisfies all sections of the audience. After getting off to a slow start, the proceedings accelerate and halt at a likable interval block. Post the interval, breakneck is the word for the pace at which the screenplay flies. Gautham Menon throws in one surprise after another with a strong emotional connect. Albeit the film being devoid of a mindwhacking twist, it never goes off track or tries too hard. Thala Ajith’s performance in Yennai Arindhaal is nothing less than fantastic. Present in almost every scene of the film, he swoops into the skin of the characters and literally lives the role of Sathyadev. Be it the young and local character or the matured man with the salt and pepper hairdo, Ajith’s acting is near perfect and easily helps you connect with the cloak. Frankly speaking, Yennai Arindhaal is one of Thala’s best, coming at a great point in his career. While Ajith scores on one side, it is Arun Vijay who equally complements him on the other. To grab some attention while standing with a man like Ajith is a herculean task in itself, and that will definitely take Arun Vijay’s career upwards from here on. Gautham Menon’s films have strong feminine characters, and Yennai Arindhaal is no less. Be it Trisha, Anushka or the petite Parvathy Nair, all of them have made their mark in the film. While Trisha leaves an impact with her performance, Anushka takes the cake in a light role. Vivek has been aptly used with the right amount of one liners at the right places. Finally, it is Baby Anikha who is a heartwarming addition to the cast. Touchy, from the little one. Yennai Arindhaal is good on the technical side too. Dan Macarthur’s cinematography is on par with Hollywood films in the action sequences, and he skillfully brings in a dreamy flavour to the song montages. Watch out for the action sequences in the second half. The guerrilla run surely deserves a pat on the back of the cinematographer, in addition to GVM. But Yennai Arindhaal surely deserved some better editing for the flow is affected with some sloppy jump cuts at many places. Music by Harris Jayaraj is just over the line. While the songs work well thanks to the visuals, the BGM is loud, noisy and electronic. Probably the pressure to finish the film has taken an adverse effect in these two departments. Without forgetting, we have to give it to Silva for the raw and realistic stunts which prevent the film from going over the top. Gautham Menon’s homework for Yennai Arindhaal is the key to the good result. By keeping the script strong, the director stands up to his reputation of directing solid action films. There are a handful of beautifully executed scenes in the second half. Some get you teary-eyed, some push you from your seat, but not one will make you squirm. I’m not sure if your respect for GVM will rise after Yennai Arindhaal, but I can guarantee that it will stay intact. Yennai Arindhaal is not a flawless film. There are blips here and there like an unwanted song or a clichéd scene. But they are negligible keeping the fact in mind that this is a honest attempt from the director. GVM completes his cop trilogy in style. Its just the beginning, of good things to come. Yennai Arindhaal Movie Review Rating: 3.75/5 Written By: Siddarth Srinivas Follow @SidhuWrites Purampokku Trailer Purampokku joins Komban, Nannbenda	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line606
__label__cc	0.647973	0.352027	PonyFans.com SMU Fan Site http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB3/ Allie Thornton scores four in 4-0 SMU win http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=87381 by PonyPride From SMUMustangs.com: Thornton Nets All Four Goals In SMU's Win Over Northern Colorado DALLAS (SMU) – Senior Allie Thornton led the Mustang offense, scoring all four goals in SMU's 4-0 win over Northern Colorado on Friday night. SMU (4-1-0) put on an offensive show against the Bears (1-4-0) with 32 total shots and 11 on goal, holding possession throughout approximately 70 percent of the match. Thornton put four of her seven shots into the back of the net throughout the match to reach a total of 30 career goals. The last time that a Mustang scored four or more goals was Sept. 20, 1987 when Patti Brown scored five versus Trinity. Juniors Hannah Allred and Katia Novi and sophomore Celiana Torres all gained points for one assist each over the four SMU goals. Freshman Tatum Sutherland and redshirt freshman Kierstin Flint split time in the goal, to combine for four saves and the shutout. Next up, the Mustangs will host Rice on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. CT at Westcott Field before the last match of their homestand against Long Beach State on Sunday, Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. CT.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line617
__label__cc	0.703746	0.296254	© 2019 by SAPREF Terms and Conditions \| Privacy Policy \| Fraud and Scam Alert \| Tip-offs Anonymous CORPORATE SOCIAL INVESTMENT (CSI) Sapref_ScienceLabs_2016-1058 SAPREF contributes to the development of neighbouring communities through a range of sustainable projects in education, health, welfare and the environment. Our social investment programme is mainly focused on communities in close proximity to SAPREF's operations, namely Austerville, Wentworth, Merebank, Isipingo, Umlazi, Lamontville, Athlon park Bluff and Fynnland. In addition to a range of flagship projects, SAPREF also allows NGOs to apply for funding for the implementation of sustainable community projects in the communities above. This is usually in March/April of each year. SAPREF does not accept funding application outside of this period. SAPREF believes that education is one of the best ways of mitigating against poverty. As a result, a major portion of SAPREF's social investment budget is focused on educational initiatives, especially mathematics, science and technology education. SAPREF continues to establish fully equipped science centers in neighbouring schools. As at the end of 2017, SAPREF had established 19 science laboratories at schools. Heath And Welfare SAPREF funds social investment programmes that are aimed at uplifting social services and improving the quality of life for SAPREF’s neighbours. Like many South African communities, the South Durban Basin faces a number of health and welfare challenges. These include high levels of TB and HIV infections, drug use, teenage pregnancies and unemployment. We support community based organizations (and the community they serve) through undertaking a number of health and welfare projects each year. So far the biggest project in this programme are as follows: Homes for Orphans and vulnerable children: Donation of three fully furnished 3-bedroom houses to be used as family units for orphaned and vulnerable children. The houses are occupied by beneficiaries of Mzamo Child Guidance and SOS Children’s Village NGOs. Each house has up to six children with two housemothers who look after them. KZN Children's Hospital – A contribution of R3million in support of the facility being established for the children of the province. Other projects in this program have included a new roof for the Blue Roof AIDS Clinic in Wentworth; vehicles for organizations that undertake home-based care and TB patient tracking programs; establishing resource centers in Isipingo, Bluff, Umlazi and Lamontville and the training of NGOs in Project Management to help them run community projects more effectively. ABOUT SAPREF SAPREF CARES	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line620
__label__wiki	0.623503	0.623503	Haq's Musings Riaz Haq writes this data-driven blog to provide information, express his opinions and make comments on many topics. Subjects include personal activities, education, South Asia, South Asian community, regional and international affairs and US politics to financial markets. For investors interested in South Asia, Riaz has another blog called South Asia Investor at http://www.southasiainvestor.com and a YouTube video channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkrIDyFbC9N9evXYb9cA_gQ Jakarta Diary Guest Post by Athar Javaid Concluding a fairly involved and busy schedule at a trade conference and Green Technology show in Seoul South Korea, Jakarta some 3,200 miles south west of Seoul hardly seemed like a detour of choice on my way back home. But my fascination with this huge archipelago of 17508 islands that has long been simmering took over. Besides its fascinating geography and world’s second largest collection of plant species, Indonesia is world’s largest Muslim country (230m) sharing land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. More importantly Indonesia is a republic with an elected legislature and president – A democratic society that has a history of having successfully integrated a host of human races with diverse ethnicity, cultures and religious beliefs. Given the three and a half centuries of Dutch colonial rule followed by Independence after World War II and three decades of authoritarian rule by Suharto ending in 1998, Indonesians have come a long way in attaining a careful political balance between sociopolitical norms and emerging forces in Indonesian society. Balancing is some what iconic to Indonesian way of life. Balancing Culture and Religion, Islamism and Secularism, Regional autonomy and Centralized rule, Capitalism and Welfare state, all seem second nature to the Indonesians. Despite its distinct ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, Indonesia has developed a shared identity defined by its national motto,” Bhenneka Tunggal Ika” meaning “Many Yet One” or Unity in Diversity. The Arabs notably Arabs of Yemeni origin played a dominant role in South East Asian trade and Islamization since the fifteenth century. As I sat in a Jakarta city tour bus listening to the guide and wondering about this monumental accomplishment of early Yemeni settlers in Indonesia and slow peaceful penetration of Islam over centuries that ultimately resulted in World’s largest Muslim state and pondering over the fact that from the 14th century to the end of the 19th century the region saw almost no organized Muslim missionary activity, it was easy to see that the key element of this grandeur accomplishment was the posture of the settler’s accommodating to and integrating with local beliefs and customs. This combined with the less rigid structure of Indonesian traditional society, including the active role of women in public life made it even more conducive. The resulting Indonesian Islam is tolerant, inclusive and inherently compatible with democratic ideals. Despite their traditional role of the Yemenis as money sharks, these early settlers while earning money and economic clout in an alien society and culture nevertheless stimulated wide spread acceptance for Islam. Yemeni settlers whole heatedly respected and embraced the culture of the locale they lived in and adapted many cultural practices while subtly propagating the richness of thought and ideology fostered by Islam. This was further evidenced by several museum artifacts dating back to 17th century that represented their holistic approach to life striking a well carved balance within the boundaries of culture and religion. The early Yemeni settlers in Indonesia have been an oasis of soft change without use of force or their economic clout. Yemeni hospitality, an icon of Yemeni culture must have been a definite plus in shaping their behavior in an alien society. However, at home, this hospitality is often “amiably armed” as evident by its deep expression in the 16th century in rescuing, feeding, housing and forcibly circumcising British soldiers when their naval ship wrecked off the Yemeni coast of Red Sea. Today Indonesia continues to soft paddle the cultural differences sustaining and reinforcing the social fabric with an all inclusive approach to its diverse ethnicity. A recent example is the expression of inclusively towards Indonesians of Chinese descent. Since 1960 the Indonesians have removed a ban on Chinese characters in publications, and advertisements, a ban on celebrating the Chinese New Year, Chinese Cultural events and even declared Chinese New Year a public holiday. Mohamed Cheng Hoo Mosque – first mosque in Indonesia with Chinese architecture is indeed a clear statement of Islam’s compatibility with cultural diversity and a display of its dynamism – Dynamic enough to appeal to 17,508 islands – each one with its own character, culture and artistic ancestry. Though grappling with day to day mundane issues ranging from land slides to typhoons, earthquakes, traffic jams and capsized ferries to political rivalries, Indonesia is finally on the right track. On the economic and social front Indonesia continues its path to emancipation combined with spiritual flamboyancy. Indonesia is world’s largest producer of palm oil, manufacturer of cars including automotive parts and one hundred percent use of bio fuel while exporting diesel fuel. A recent move to scrap duties on imports of machinery and raw material for seven vital industries is a welcome boost for business and commerce. On the political front Indonesia appears to have mustered the capacity to deal with issues as diverse as corruption to ethnic discrimination and violence. Barely one month into his second term, President Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono appeared to meet the test of his credibility facing a serious challenge created by a conflict between National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). That said, even a country like Indonesia with such a strong track record of social, cultural and religious harmony and stable political system of governance is not immune to the wrath of radical Islam. July 09 bombing of the Ritz Carleton Hotels in Jakarta, the 2003 Marriott hotel bombing and 2002 Bali night club bombings are all perhaps indicative of more terror attacks waiting in the wings to unfold on the slightest trigger of religious or sectarian conflicts. It remains to be seen whether Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country is likely to experience its own process of religious extremism and radicalization. Some uprising of armed paramilitaries after Suharto’s overthrow and with recent bombings seemed to suggest that Muslim politics even in this tolerant society is being radicalized. However Giora Eliraz, Robert, W. Hefner and many western scholars have provided a more thoughtful and ultimately hopeful prognosis showing the main stream of the Muslim community remains unswervingly moderate. The elections of June 1999 showed that most voters favored secular or moderate Islamist political parties, in fact by a larger majority than in the only other free and open general elections, held in 1955, when about 16 percent of the vote went to parties advocating conservative Islamic programs as opposed to more than 40 percent in 1955. Be that as it may! These self proclaimed soldiers of God and Mujahideens, hell bent on enforcing their brand of Islam through terror tactics could perhaps just look back and be thankful to those responsible for wide spread acceptance of Islam over 17,508 islands following the basic tenets of Islam and cultivating a good will culminating in integration of diverse cultures and communities that will remain exemplary for many centuries to come. Indonesia with its solid balancing approach to resolve conflicting and debilitating issues is likely to lead the way for the rest of the Muslim world in combating and abating Islamic radicalism and ultimately upholding the basic Islamic values of “ Moderation” and Huqooq Al Ibad” denouncing radicalism and terror tactics in forcing piety. “Bhenneka Tunggal Ika” “Many Yet One” or Unity in Diversity. Athar Javaid is an NEDian currently serving as a Vice President of an IT Consulting Firm in Washington DC area. ASEAN Architect Suharto Passes On Pakistan's NRO and Corrupt Democracy Posted by Riaz Haq at 11:33 PM Labels: Arabs, East Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Muslims Riaz Haq said... Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), intellectual and former president of Indonesia, died on December 30th, aged 69. Here are some excerpts from his obituary carried by the Economist: WHATEVER the time or place, Abdurrahman Wahid—Gus Dur, as everyone fondly called him—had a joke to tell. About his predecessors as Indonesia’s president: “Sukarno was mad about sex, Suharto was mad about money, Habibie was mad about technology, but me? I’m just mad!” About his removal from the presidency in 2001, when he was almost blind: “I need help to step up, let alone step down.” About losing power: “It’s nothing. I regret more that I lost 27 recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.” Visiting Tokyo, he was delighted when the prime minister congratulated him on his “erection”. For a Muslim ulama, or priest-scholar, his appetite for smut was remarkable. He had naughty jokes on his website, and was once reported to the police by conservative clerics for emphasising the raunchier bits of the Koran. Joking was essential, he said, for a healthy mind. Villagers in Jombang in East Java remembered him, as a boy, tied to the flagpole in the front yard for some jest that had gone too far. Visitors to the house would find their shoelaces surreptitiously knotted together. Later on, it was sometimes hard to tell whether he was larking round or serious: as a narcoleptic, he would often lull journalists into a snooze and then snap to, razor-sharp, with the answer to their questions. Joking got him through the rigours of pesantren, rural Muslim boarding school, and certainly through the turmoil of his 21 months as president from 1999 to 2001. At the end, when his aides tried to restrain him, “It has affected me,” he complained. “Starting tomorrow, I will start telling jokes again.” The drunken master His eccentricity could be infuriating. But it usually hid a serious purpose. In sprawling Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, cramped under authoritarian rule for most of its existence, Mr Wahid was committed to pluralism, liberalism, democracy and tolerance. He promoted these principles in his columns in Prisma, Tempo and Kompas. More remarkably, he believed that they were also fundamental to his religion. “All too many Muslims”, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2005, “fail to grasp Islam.” “Right Islam” was not fanatical. It was tolerant, open and fair. To some of his co-religionists, he went too far. But Mr Wahid had imbibed the gentle, Hindu-flavoured Islam of Java and the café-table cut-and-thrust of Baghdad’s student circles, as well as the doctrinaire rote-learning of al-Azhar University in Cairo, and had plumped for free expression every time. He had also been brought up in a house that was both devout and cosmopolitan: encouraged to read European magazines, to devour Dickens and Dostoyevsky, to listen to Mozart and Janis Joplin, as well as to get involved in Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world’s largest Muslim organisation, heavily rural and steeped in animist Javanese tradition, which his grandfather had founded and his father had run. In time the NU, with its 40m members, became his own power base. He reformed it, as well as removing it, in 1984, from party politics, in order to focus its energies on raising the pesantren to the level of secular schools. Though a deep believer in mysticism and the spirit world, secularism never offended him. Selamat pagi, “Good morning”, did as well for him as the believer’s assalamu alaykum; both, as he pointed out, meant “Peace be to you”. He accepted the constitution’s doctrine of pancasila—national unity and social justice with freedom of religion—as a useful creed for fissiparous Indonesia. More surprisingly, he kept on cordial terms with Suharto, despite pushing against the strongman both as the hugely popular head of the NU and, from 1998, as leader of his own non-sectarian National Awakening party. 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__label__cc	0.583561	0.416439	ROBERT BRZENCHEK Robert’s career as a law enforcement officer, military member in the intelligence community, emergency management specialist at both the state and federal levels, UAV instructor, and higher education administrator affords him a unique perspective in the development of policy and procedure. In the public sector, Mr. Brzenchek worked with dozens of national agencies, governments, and international organizations in the use of advanced technologies and information sharing to detect violations of international laws. In the private sector, Mr. Brzenchek has worked with organizations as diverse as DHS, DOD, major corporations, ports, and public utilities on security matters, risk management, policy, and technologies. There are very few individuals in the U.S. that can conduct ISO 27k risk assessments that Mr. Brzenchek has performed . Customer satisfaction and resolution. Robert Brzenchek PhD Candidate, MS Robert is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Public Service Leadership and Criminal Justice and holds a Masters in Strategic Intelligence and Terrorism. Robert has held academic positions and has taught courses in criminal justice, emergency management, unmanned aerial vehicles, and areas within the intelligence community. He has conducted research for varied public and private sectors for over a decade. He pioneered with Michael Penders the International ISO 27k standard development and use of innovative techniques and alternatives to traditional risk assessments. In addition, Robert also is a part of IADLEST’s National Certification Program Training Reviewer process; a program for course certification. E-449 Train the Trainer Hostile Surveillance for Law Enforcement Professionals OPVAL MGMT 336 - Threat Assessments ICS 100 to 800 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Justice Quarterly Proposed Book: Shifting Paradigms for Behavioral Health: Changing Law Enforcement Attitudes, Culture and Behaviors From a Reactive to Proactive Approach (Dr.Kocher and Frank Mielke) International Law Enforcement Educator and Trainers Association International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training Virginia Gang Investigators Association OSS Society Alpha Phi Sigma Past Presentations: National Defense University (Washington, DC) Great Lakes - Marines Civil Affairs Unit Academic Forum (Baltimore, MD and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico) Union League of Philadelphia West Point Society of Philadelphia Ministry of Defence Jamaica Philadelphia Prison System Community College Criminal Justice Educators of Texas (Texas) American Society of Criminology (Washington, DC and Philadelphia, Pa) ASIS International (Los Angeles, California) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (New Orleans, LA, Orlando, FL, and Philadelphia, Pa) Gov Sec West (Dallas, Texas), Gov Sec (Washington, DC) Leadership Wilkes-Barre (WB) Center for Strategic Analysis (Las Vegas, NV) Square and Shield (Philadelphia, Pa) Congreso High School (Philadelphia, Pa) Peirce College (Philadelphia, Pa) Neumann University (Philadelphia, Pa) Published book: The Gang Life Laugh Now Cry Later: Suppression and Prevention Published articles: Prognosis for Jamaica's Gangs Dire Gangs as a Public Health Issue Gangs and drones H2S Suicide TV: On-Air Security Analysis NBC 10 Philadelphia TV Series: Homeland (season 6, episode 12) The Upside (Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston) I'm Here for You 24/7	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line636
__label__cc	0.736791	0.263209	L.A. Kitchen CForward The Power of Food On March 16th, 1968, I was 9 years old and living in Southern California. I was not only anticipating my upcoming 10th birthday in June, I was also slowly coming to see the world as it was. It was at that pivotal moment that Sen. Robert Kennedy arrived in California to meet with Caesar Chavez, who had been on a 25 day fast to draw attention to the reality of the squalor in which migrant farm workers and their families lived, so that others could enjoy the bounty of the Central Valley. I was reminded of this moment today, when I went to Homeboy Industries in downtown L.A. to unveil the vision for the L.A. Kitchen. I was invited by friends at the AARP Foundation (my dynamic partners) and Latino Magazine, which has a proven record of drawing attention to issues that are germane to the Chicano/Latino/SW community (where hunger is a not-so-hidden foe) to introduce my new venture to the LA community. I wanted to speak not so much about “hunger”, but to the power of food….which is why I used this image of Robert Kennedy giving Caesar Chavez a small morsel of bread to break his fast, an image imprinted on my brain 44 years ago, to show the difference between using food to feed the poor, versus using it to liberate fellow citizens. THAT is the power of food…and it is at the very heart of my work. Food can nourish, empower and strengthen to be sure, but it can also show commitment and solidarity…and it can reveal courage….the courage we in the nonprofit world must now embrace if we are to move beyond merely meeting need, and push society to meet its obligations. Robert Kennedy was planning to announce that he was running for the Presidency the next week…and EVERY adviser told him to stay away from Chavez. Not only did he go to be with Cesar, he fed him. At that moment of communion, Robert Kennedy showed me the power of food. THIS is why I am launching The L.A. Kitchen….to keep faith the this tradition….to humbly seek to show this level of commitment to doing what is right, and to stand–side x side–with fellow citizens….young and old…saints and sinners…those with less and those with more….to work together to show how great our country can be if we embrace our common destiny. I’ll see you there. ALL VIDEO BLOG POSTS A 19th Amendment for Nonprofits 12 “IFs” for EVERY Nonprofit TEDx Venice Beach, Surfing the Silver Tsunami Three Ways Hungry Seniors Can Help Build a New Food System Welcome Aboard, Theresa Robert Egger on Coming Soon–A Social Investment Bank Gary G Szabo on Coming Soon–A Social Investment Bank 10 Great Social Innovation Reads: January 2017 \| Social Velocity on 12 “IFs” for EVERY Nonprofit Philanthropy Friday: Robert Egger Disrupts Hunger on Press Kit Nonprofit Entrepreneur @RobertEgger to Speak @BaldwinWallace \| CoolCleveland on ABOUT robert@robertegger.org lakitchen.org dccentralkitchen.org cforward.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line637
__label__cc	0.513609	0.486391	Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi Supplied for review by Hachette New Zealand Reviewed By: Simon Litten Paolo Bacigalupi is an author whom I hold in high regard: firstly for the novel The Windup Girl and secondly the short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories. So it was with much interest that I approached his latest (and second non-juvenile) novel The Water Knife. That interest was amply rewarded. The Water Knife is set approximately 30 years from now in Phoenix, Arizona in an environment where climate change has reduced the rainfall into the Colorado River catchment (the water source for Phoenix) enough to make the seniority of water draw rights of paramount importance for the life of communities along the river. The States of Nevada and California are playing a very rough game for those rights, employing water knifes to cut others’ water rights, resulting in everybody else further up the river suffering the unhappy consequences. Angel is a water knife working for the South Nevada Water Authority and whose latest assignment is to go Arizona to discover why his sometime partner Julio has gone off grid. In the process Angel stumbles into a water war skirmish with his opposite numbers from California. There is a rumour that someone has uncovered some very significant and very, very senior water rights – large enough and senior enough to unsettle both Nevada and California. Now Angel has to deliver those rights to Nevada if he wants to live. I found The Water Knife to be both a tense science fiction thriller and a disturbing vision of the future. The characters were well drawn and credible, and their motivations realistic. Access to potable water is not just a third world problem. Mr Bacigalupi has shown a believable world where for a lot of Americans that access will become a first world problem too and written a novel well worth reading. Yes, I really enjoyed this book. That may show a bit in the review. SFFANZ Home Page SFFANZ is a non-profit organisation and registered charity designed to bring together fans of the fantastic in New Zealand Contact us by email at: enquiries@sffanz.org.nz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line639
__label__cc	0.622625	0.377375	Rules & Timeline Be a Judge Apply to Judge What to Expect as a Judge AM&P Annual Meeting 40th Annual EXCEL Awards Gala National Housing Center, Washington, DC The EXCEL Awards recognize excellence and leadership in association media, publishing, marketing and communications. The competition is open to nonprofit and for-profit and associations and industry service partners submitting on behalf of association clients, regardless of whether they are members of Association Media & Publishing to enter. Winners are announced in June, featured in the August/September issue of Signature magazine, and honored during our Annual EXCEL Awards Gala, a dinner and celebration that kicks off the Association Media & Publishing Annual Meeting. For two years in a row, a sold-out audience of more than 300 have celebrated excellence in association publishing and communications at the Annual EXCEL Awards Gala in Washington, DC. The Emerging Leader Awards, honoring rising stars in our industry, as well the Mitch Mohanna Lifetime Achievement Awards are also given out. The best thing about the EXCEL Awards? That we are able to share and celebrate this success with our peers – friends and colleagues from the associations community in the USA – at a lovely dinner and event during the AM&P annual meeting at the end of June. I can’t wait!" Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo Editor in Chief, C&EN, and VP of the C&EN Media Group, American Chemical Society The EXCEL Awards recognize excellence and leadership in association media, publishing, marketing and communications. The competition is open to nonprofit and for-profit associations, as well as industry service partners submitting on behalf of association clients, regardless of whether they are members of AM&P. Contact Allison Bostrom at awards@associationmediaandpublishing.org 2020 EXCEL Award Copyright 2020 by Association Media & Publishing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line641
__label__wiki	0.775276	0.775276	The Drums, London Shepherds Bush Empire Sam Lambeth Jonny Pierce seems introspective, perhaps even a little rattled. What should be a gig has instead turned into some sort of improvised Shepherd’s Bush therapy session. “I was on the cover of NME, I got constant airplay and yet I was never fully happy,” Pierce laments. You almost expect him to then open up the floor to any questions and initiate some trust exercises. For any other band, this feeling of emptiness would seem like shallow pandering, but The Drums were attuned to melancholy way before they graced any magazine. Their new album, with the typically sorrowful sobriquet Abysmal Thoughts, is a surprisingly consistent collection from a band now four records, and three exiled members, in. Opening with the pulsating ‘I’ll Fight For Your Life’, Pierce frolics from one end of the stage to the other, throwing his arms to the heavens like a drunk matinee idol on the roughed-up, energetic ‘Best Friend’ and the wistful ‘Book of Stories’. The packed London audience are a mix of those in their mid-twenties yearning for noughties nostalgia and a much older cohort who consider The Drums to be natural successors to The Smiths. When Pierce is on top form, that comparison seems entirely justified – the songs plucked from Portamento, their 2011 high water mark, mix morose melodies with kitchen-sink despair brilliantly. The breezy, bass-driven ‘Days’ gets one of the biggest cheers, ‘Money’ has a Morrissey-esque brand of morbid humour, and ‘I Need A Doctor’ is propelled by a jaunty jangle, despite its sample motif sounding unnervingly like a frog. Pierce is far from a spent force, though, and the songs from Abysmal Thoughts stand up on their own terms. ‘Heart Basel’ and its bittersweet guitar coda is matched by Pierce’s theatrical falsetto, while the soaring ‘Blood Under My Belt’ has an adolescent ache that is just as potent as their other hits. And on the subject of hits, ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ is dispatched early, its earworm whistle ricocheting around the room like a lost bird. But on the whole, that song is something of an anomaly in The Drums’ back catalogue – the rest of the setlist is devoted to their moodier works, the chugging kiss-off ‘What You Were’ and the yearning ‘How It Ended’. The bizarre encore sees Pierce, who had hitherto devoted his stage presence to dancing, launch into a long speech regarding the band’s current position, also touching upon the exit of long-term synth player and co-founder Jacob Graham. Despite that, though, it’s perhaps telling that the next song they play is ‘The Future’. They leave a Shepherd’s Bush audience awash with sombre delight, the gothic charm of ‘If He Likes It Let Him Do It’ serving as the finale. On this evidence, Pierce seems to like it a lot more now than he ever did before.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line643
__label__wiki	0.862471	0.862471	Research & Reviews in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences e-ISSN:2320-1215 p-ISSN: 2322-0112 Reach Us +447482878454 Comparative of Three Titrimetric Determinations of Cefazolin Sodium Rechelo BS, Fernandes FHA, Kogawa AC, Pedroso TM and Salgado HRN São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Campus Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil Kogawa AC São Paulo State University (UNESP) School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Campus Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil E-mail: ac_kogawa@yahoo.com.br Received Date: August 29, 2017 Accepted Date: October 06, 2017 Published Date: October 10, 2017 Visit for more related articles at Research & Reviews in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 3 titration methods for quality evaluation of cefazolin sodium pharmaceutical product were developed and compared between them: acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods. The titrimetric methods consist of the measured volume of a solution, concentration of knowledge and need to completely react with a species to be quantified. A great advantage is measured without, in most analyzes, the analytical reference standard. Moreover, the smaller volume of solvent and high-end products. The developed methods meets the requirements of Brazilian Pharmacopeia and International Conference on Harmonisation, being fast, suitable, low cost, simple, accurate and can be used as an alternative for analysis of cefazolin sodium pharmaceutical product in laboratories and industry, contributing to improve the quality control of marketed drug. Cefazolin sodium, Analytical methods, Titrimetry. Cefazolin sodium (CFZ), a β-lactam antimicrobial of the first generation, is commercially available as powder for injection solution. It has high antibacterial activity, demonstrates activity against some species of Enterobacter and can be administered less frequently because of its longer half-life [1-5]. Its efficacy as a therapeutic agent is well recognized, which makes it preferred among this group cephalosporins. Its mechanism of action stems from the inhibition of cell wall synthesis in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, similar to penicillin, since they have structural similarities [6-10]. Some advantages of CFZ (Figure 1) include: (i) efficient penetration of the bacterial cell wall, (ii) a broad spectrum of activity, (iii) extensive tissue penetration, (iv) a high intrinsic activity against the bacterial cell targets, (v) resistance to bacterial enzyme degradation, (vi) very low toxicity, (vii) low degree of serum protein binding and (viii) metabolic stability [11-14]. Figure 1: Cefazolin sodium chemical structure. Cefazolin sodium has some analytical methodologies described in official compendia such as British Pharmacopeia [15], European Pharmacopeia [16], Japanese Pharmacopeia [17], Portuguese Pharmacopeia [18] and US Pharmacopeia [19]. Some analytical methods in the literature for analysis of cephalosporins include spectrophotometry [20-36], high performance liquid chromatography [37-50], capillary electrophoresis [51], fluorimetry [52-56], polarography [57-61] and titrimetry [62]. CFZ is highly researched and researched in the area of antimicrobial activity, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. However, it has few studies about analytical methods. Thus, researches involving methods of analysis are very important and relevant to ensure the quality of the marketed product [48]. This paper aims to validate and evaluate the equivalence of three methods by titration for quantification of CFZ in pharmaceutical product. The reagents used were analytical grade and it were prepared according to literature [19]. CFZ reference substance was a secondary standard with a declared purity of 98.2%, obtained from Sigma Aldrich® (St. Louis, USA). CFZ samples were packed in vials, each vial containing 1 g CFZ and they were kindly supplied by ABL Antibioticos do Brasil (São Paulo, Brasil). a) 0.1 M hydrochloric acid: 8.5 mL of hydrochloric acid (MerckTM) were diluted with water to 1000 mL. This solution was standardized using 1.5 g of sodium carbonate (Merck TM) dried at 270°C for 1 hour dissolved in 100 mL of water. 2 Drops of methyl red solution is added as an indicator and titrated with hydrochloric solution to the production of permanent pink color. Each 52.99 mg of sodium carbonate is equivalent to 1 mL of 0.1 M hydrochloric acid. b) 1 M hydrochloric acid: 85.0 mL of hydrochloric acid (MerckTM) were diluted with water to 1000 mL. c) 0.01 M iodine: 14.0 g of iodine were dissolved in aqueous potassium iodide solution (36%, w/v) and 3 drops of hydrochloric acid was added. This solution was diluted with water to 1000 mL and standardized according to United States Pharmacopeia [19]. An aliquot of 50 mL of this solution was diluted with water to 1000 mL. d) 0.1 M perchloric acid: 8.5 mL of Perchloric acid (MerckTM) is mixed with 500 mL of glacial acetic acid (MerckTM) and 21 mL of acetic anhydride (MerckTM). After this solution cooled, glacial acetic acid was added to 1000 mL. This solution was standardized using 700 mg of potassium biphthalate, previously dried at 120°C for 2 h, dissolved in 50 mL of glacial acetic acid. 2 Drops of crystal violet solution is added as an indicator and titrated with perchloric acid solution until it turns to blue-green color. Each 20.42 mg of potassium biphthalate is equivalent to 1 mL of 0.1 N perchloric acid. e) 0.1 M sodium hydroxide: 4.0 g of sodium hydroxide (MerckTM) is dissolved in 150 mL of carbon dioxide-free water. After this solution cooled, it was diluted with carbon dioxide- free water to 1000 mL. This solution was standardized using 5 g of potassium biphthalate, previously dried at 120°C for 2 h, dissolved in 75 mL of carbon dioxide-free water. 2 Drops of phenolphthalein solution is added as an indicator and titrated with the sodium hydroxide solution to the production of permanent pink color. Each 20.42 mg of potassium biphthalate is equivalent to 1 mL of 0.1 M sodium hydroxide. f) 1 M sodium hydroxide: 40.0 g of sodium hydroxide (MerckTM) was dissolved in water to 1000 mL. g) 0.01 M sodium thiosulphate: 26 g of sodium thiosulphate (MerckTM) was dissolved in water to 1000 mL. An aliquot of 50 mL of this solution was diluted in water to 1000 mL. h) Acetate buffer solution: 5.44 g of sodium acetate (MerckTM) and 2.40 g of glacial acetic acid were dissolved in water to 100 mL. i) Crystal violet 1% (w/w): 100 mg of crystal violet (MerckTM) is dissolved in 10 mL of glacial acetic acid. j) Methyl red 0.1% (w/w): 100 mg of methyl red (MerckTM) was dissolved in 100 mL of alcohol. After this process, the solution was filtered. k) Phenolphthalein 1% (w/w): 100 mg of phenolphthalein (MerckTM) was dissolved in 100 mL of alcohol. After this process, the solution was filtered. l) Starch mucilage: 1 g of starch was mixed with 10 mg of red mercuric iodide and cold water to make a thin paste. 200 mL of boiling water was added with continuous stirring. After cooling, the clear solution was used. 20 flasks of CFZ were individually weighed to determine the average weight. After that, the powder was mixed. The quantity of CFZ was 21.156 g. a) Acidimetric method: Amount equivalent to 500.0 mg of CFZ was dissolved in 25 ml of purified water free from carbon dioxide was added two drops of phenolphthalein indicator solution and neutralized with 0.1 M HCl. To the above solution, 25 ml of 0.1 M NaOH was added and it was heated on a water bath for 20 minutes at 80°C, taking precaution to avoid carbon dioxide absorption. It was cooled and the excess of 0.1 M NaOH was titrated with using 0.1 M HCl and phenolphthalein is used as an indicator solution. Repeated operation without the drug, as the difference between two titrations represents the amount of NaOH used, and 1 mol of 0.1 M NaOH corresponds to 47.65 mg of CFZ (measured as C14H13N8NaO4S3). b) Non-aqueous method: Dissolved exactly an amount equivalent to 250.0 mg of CFZ sample in 30 mL of glacial acetic acid; 2 drops of indicator solution crystal violet is added and stirred till to complete dissolution and titrated with 0.1 M HClO4 solution and the same titration repeated without drug. c) Iodometric method: 100.0 mg of the CFZ was weighed and dissolved in water and transferred to 100 mL volumetric flask (1000 μg/mL). (i) An aliquot of 10 mL was transferred to a flask, and 5 mL of 1 M sodium hydroxide is added and after twenty minutes 20 mL of acetate buffer solution, 5 mL of 1 M hydrochloric acid and 25 mL of 0.01 M iodine were added to the flask. The solution is protected from light, after 20 minutes the excess of iodine was titrated with 0.01 M sodium thiosulphate using starch mucilage, added towards the end of the titration, as an indicator. (ii) In the other aliquot of 10 mL of CFZ (1000 μg/mL) was added to the 20 mL of the acetate buffer solution and 25 mL of 0.01 M iodine. After twenty minutes it was titrated with 0.02 M sodium thiosulphate using starch mucilage as indicator, added towards the end of the titration. A blank titration was performed. The difference between titrations represents the volume of 0.01 M iodine equivalent to the CFZ present. Each mL of 0.01 M iodine is equivalent to 4.675 mg of CFZ (measured as C14H13N8NaO4S3). Three titrimetric methods, acidimetric, non-aqueous and iodometric, were developed according to precision and accuracy. The content percentage of CFZ was calculated using the equation proposed by AOAC [63]. a) Precision: Repeatability (intraday) and intermediate precision (interday) were evaluated. Repeatability was studied by the assay of independent samples, during the same day under the same experimental conditions. Intermediate precision was evaluated by comparing the results obtained on 3 different days. b) Accuracy: This parameter was determined by the recovery study, comparing the theoretical and calculated concentrations of known amounts of CFZ reference added to the sample. The percentage recovery (R%) was calculated according to AOAC [63], which is demonstrated by Equation 2. R%=(Cf-Cu/CA) 100 Cf=Concentration of reference + concentration of sample Cu=Concentration of sample CA=Concentration of the reference added to sample For the acidimetric method, the equivalent to 1000 mg of CFZ reference was dissolved in 100 mL volumetric flask using water as the diluent to produce concentration solution of 10 mg/mL. Amounts of CFZ sample (equivalent to 500 mg of CFZ) were transferred to 250 mL flasks (R1, R2 and R3) and dissolved in 25 mL of carbon dioxide-free water (neutralized with 0.1 M hydrochloric acid). Portions of 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 mL of CFZ reference (10.0 mg/mL) were added to flasks R1, R2 and R3, respectively. Aliquots of 25.0 mL of 0.1 M sodium hydroxide were added and heated on a water bath at 80°C for 20 minutes. After the solutions were cooled, 2 drops of phenolphthalein solution were added in each flask and the excess of sodium hydroxide was titrated with 0.1 M hydrochloric acid. A blank was performed and the difference between the titrations represented the volume of 0.1 M sodium hydroxide equivalent to CFZ present. This procedure was performed in triplicate. Each mL of 0.1 M sodium hydroxide is equivalent to 47.65 mg of CFZ (as anhydrous base). For non-aqueous method, the equivalent to 1250.0 mg of CFZ reference was dissolved in glacial acetic acid to produce 100 mL (12.5 mg/mL). Amounts of CFZ sample (equivalent to 250.0 mg of CFZ) were transferred to 250 mL flasks (R1, R2 and R3) and dissolved with 30 mL of glacial acetic acid. Portions of 1, 2 and 4 mL of CFZ reference (12.5 mg/mL) were added to flasks R1, R2 and R3, respectively. After, 2 drops of crystal violet solution were added in each flask and the solutions were titrated with 0.1 N perchloric acid until the blue-green color. A blank was made. This procedure was performed in triplicate. Each mL of 0.1 N perchloric acid is equivalent to 47.65 mg of CFZ (as anhydrous base). For iodometric method, recoveries were determined by adding known amounts of CFZ reference (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mg) to the samples. The equivalent of 500.0 mg CFZ reference was dissolved in water to produce 100 mL (5000 μg/mL). Amounts of 1, 2 and 4 mL of this solution were added to the sample, (i) aliquot of 10 mL, and transferred to a flask and added 5 mL of 1 M sodium hydroxide. After 20 minutes, 20 mL of acetate buffer solution, 5 mL of 1 M hydrochloric acid and 25 mL of 0.01 M iodine were added and the flask closed. After 20 minutes, protected from light, excess of iodine was titrated with 0.02 M sodium thiosul-phate, using starch mucilage, added towards the end of the titration, as indicator. (ii) In the other aliquot of 10 mL of CFZ (1000 μg/mL) was added 20 mL of the acetate buffer solution and 25 mL of 0.01 M iodine. After twenty minutes it was titrated with 0.02 M sodium thiosulphate using starch mucilage as indicator, added towards the end of the titration. The difference between titrations represents the volume of 0.01 M iodine equivalent to the CFZ present. c) Method comparison: Results obtained in this study were compared between of them. The methods used water as solvent. It is environmentally friendly, low cost and easy to handle. Comparison of methodologies is important to verify equivalence between them, within a given range and whether the variability of procedures differ significantly. USP37 [19] recommends evaluating the accuracy and precision parameters to prove the equivalence of the methodologies. Table 1 shows the experimental values obtained in the precision parameter for quantification of CFZ using acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods. CFZ content (%) Acidimetry Iodometry Non-aqueous Day 1 100.04 100.5 100.64 Day 2 100.18 100.21 100.7 Day 3 100.61 100.49 100.32 Mean (intra-day) 100.28 100.4 100.55 R.S.D (%) 0.59 0.31 0.4 R.S.D.=Relative standard deviation Table 1. Values of precision for the determination of CFZ by the three titration methods. Figure 2 shows the relationship between the levels obtained in the assay CFZ lyophilized powder and their respective standard deviations over the six tests for the methods proposed in this work. Results obtained in the acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods showed R.S.D. less than 2%, confirming the precision, according Table 1. Figure 2: Relationship between the concentrations obtained in the assay CFZ lyophilized powder and their respective standard deviations over the six tests for the methods of acidimetry, iodometry and volume in a non-aqueous medium. The mean recovery of acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods are shown in the Table 2. Found (mg) Recovery (%) Added (mg) Acidimetry 25 525.06 100.76 50 550.07 100.14 Iodometry 100 600.28 100.28 5 105.03 100.2 10 110.08 100.5 12.5 262.57 100.56 Table 2. Values obtained in the recovery test for CFZ by acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods. Pharmacopeias does not recommend acidimetric, iodometric and non-aqueous methods for cephalosporins analysis, in the case CFZ. But, the proposed methods showed be simple, low cost, fast, easy execution and they did not require of a sophisticated equipment, only glassworks. The methods can be considered satisfactory because, in comparison, the RSD (%) values for accuracy are less than 5% and close to 100%. Another way to prove the equivalence of the methods is to compare the dosing data using Fisher's F-Test and Student's t-Test for parametric data [64]. These data are shown in Table 3. Ftab Fcal Acidimetry 19 3.26 2.78 -0.63 Iodometry 19 1.54 2.78 1.01 Volumetry in non-aqueous medium 19 2.11 2.78 -1.33 *Significant at p<0.05 Table 3. Values of Test-F and t-Test for the determination of CFZ sample by acidimetry, iodometry and volumetry in non-aqueous medium. 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__label__cc	0.720399	0.279601	AN EXPLANATION OF THE FACTIONS [ DONATE TO RMN ] [ View Thread ] [ Archive Search Page ] [ RMN Reading Room ] [ CGI Media News Room ] [ SUBSCRIBE TO RMN ] Rumor Mill News Reading Room, Current Archive How DEEP It Is...SARA CARTER: FBI Informant on Uranium One Breaks His Silence in EXPLOSIVE Testimony to Congressional Committees Posted By: Watchman Date: Friday, 22-Nov-2019 20:10:21 www.rumormill.news/93144 The one obozo threatened to imprison gives a one finger salute in return... William D. Campbell, the FBI informant on the Uranium One scandal broke his silence Wednesday in an explosive testimony. Campbell gave over 4 hours of testimony and answered every question from three Congressional committees; the Senate Judiciary, House Oversight and House Intelligence committees, according to attorney Victoria Toensing. In the testimony, obtained by investigative reporter Sara Carter, Campbell reveals for several years he had a relationship with the CIA which then evolved into working as an FBI informant due to close connections he developed with Kazakhstan and Russia in their nuclear energy industries. Investigate reporter Sara Carter reported: He [Campbell] gave explosive testimony on his years as an undercover informant providing information to the FBI on Russian criminal networks operating in the United States. He also contends in his testimony, and written briefs, to the FBI that Russia attempted to hide its ongoing aid to help sustain Iran’s nuclear industry, at the time the Obama administration approved the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium mining rights to Russia. Senior members of the FBI, Department of Treasury, Department of Energy and Department of Justice were also briefed on Campbell’s information and were apprised of the various facets pertaining to Russia’s acquisition of the Canadian company. In fact, Campbell had been told by his FBI handlers that his work had made it at least twice into President Obama’s classified presidential daily briefings. “The Russians expressed a sense of urgency to secure new U.S. uranium business because they knew that the two-decades-old “Megatons to Megawatts” program would cease in 2013,” Campbell said. “Then Russia would no longer be guaranteed a market to sell recycled nuclear warhead materials as peaceful reactor fuel in the United States. I gathered evidence for the FBI by moving closer and closer to the Russians’ key nuclear industry players, including those inside the United States and high-ranking Russian officials who would visit.” Despite the insurmountable evidence collected by Campbell, the Obama administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved Russia’s purchase of Uranium One in the fall of 2010. That approval by the Obama administration gave Moscow extensive rights to buy and sell more atomic fuels. “I was speechless and angry in October 2010 when CFIUS approved the Uranium One sale to Rosatom. I was deeply worried that TLI continued to transport sensitive uranium despite the fact that it had been compromised by the bribery scheme,” stated Campbell in his testimony to lawmakers. “I expressed these concerns repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The response I got was that “politics” was somehow involved. I remember one response I got from an agent when I asked how it was possible CFIUS would approve the Uranium One sale when the FBI could prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal conduct. His answer: “Ask your politics.” Campbell also said in a statement that Putin wanted to dominate the world’s Uranium supply: “Putin wanted Russia to dominate the world’s uranium supply, a goal of crucial interest to the U.S. government. At the same time, the Russian companies – Rosatom and Tenex – were engaged in racketeering,” his testimony stated. Also, attorney Victoria Toensing said her client William Campbell recounted NUMEROUS times the Russians bragged the Clintons’ influence would push the Uranium One deal through: He recounted numerous times that the Russians bragged that the Clintons’ influence in the Obama administration would insure CIFIUS approval for Uranium One. And he was right.” As previously reported, not only was the FBI informant working on the Russian bribery case threatened by the Obama administration, he was blocked by the DOJ under then-AG Loretta Lynch from testifying to Congress. The FBI informant started providing information in 2009. It wasn’t until the 2016 presidential election that Obama’s DOJ threatened him with prosecution. All Russian roads lead to Hillary Clinton. Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval. From and October report by John Solomon, we also found out that the investigation was supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who is now President Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is now the deputy FBI director under Trump. Rod Rosenstein is now in charge of dirty cop Mueller’s witch hunt against President Trump. Unbelievable. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/sara-carter-fbi-informant-uranium-one-breaks-silence-explosive-testimony-congressional-committees/ Articles In This Thread Watchman -- Friday, 22-Nov-2019 20:10:21 BOOM! More Than 100 Trump Campaign Associates Were Unmasked And Surveilled...Media Skewered Bigtime Rumor Mill News Reading Room, Current Archive is maintained by Forum Admin with WebBBS 5.12. If you can't find what you're looking for using our RMN search, try the Google or ixquick searches below: Web www.rumormillnews.com www.bringemon.org Web This Site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line646
__label__wiki	0.588945	0.588945	Reading & Reviewing \| KUREISHI hanif archive,tag,tag-kureishi-hanif,tag-87,eltd-core-1.0.3,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,borderland child-child-ver-1.0.0,borderland-ver-1.5.1, vertical_menu_with_scroll,smooth_scroll,side_menu_slide_with_content,width_470,paspartu_enabled,paspartu_on_bottom_fixed,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-4.6.2,vc_responsive R&R 110 \| Gabriel's Gift Gabriel's Gift This edition: Faber and Faber, 2002 Genre: coming of age, family Cover: design by Pentagram; cover photography by Walter Bibikow (Photonica) GABRIEL'S GIFT is the very first book by Hanif Kureishi that I've read; SOMETHING TO TELL YOU awaits on my ever-so-huge To-Be-Read-pile. GABRIEL'S GIFT is a thin book, and slightly obscure, but I figured it would serve as a nice introduction to Kureishi's writing. I was not wrong; GIFT, while not without its downsides, is beautifully written and it has enthused me with regards to Kureishi. GABRIEL GIFT, set in England, is a witty novel focusing on 15 year-old Gabriel and his fallen-apart family consisting of his loving, but at times selfish mother, a Russian au pair named Hannah, a deceased twin named Archie (who's still very much present in Gabriel's mind) and his father Rex – a musician who's somehow just missed the train to Fameville, and has been mentally stuck in the past ever since, perpetually comparing his entire life to that one moment when he could be found on stage, playing alongside the now legendary rock star Lester Jones. When his mother kicks his father out (and hires Hannah to help her take care of her son), Gabriel turns to his artwork – a young man with a definite talent and passion (he wants to be a filmmaker), the visual arts are about as important to him as music is to his father. Gabriel's wise in that sense – he does understand his father better than anyone; it is the father-son relationship that makes the heart that is this novel beat. Rex, forever stuck in the days of glitter suits and platform shoes, remains hopeful for another chance at fame, so when Lester Jones rings him up, Gabriel gets to meet him as well. Connecting with Lester through their shared love of art, Lester bestows upon Gabriel one of his own art works, a drawing, which immediately threatens to cause a further rift between Gabriel's parents: his dad wants to sell it, his mom wants to keep it safe. As any kid who'd rather not see his parents be apart, he has to find a way to keep them both happy in order for them to find happiness together again. Having finished this book now, I must say that I'm very pleased with Kureishi as an author – and will scope out some of his other work besides the one still residing in my book case. I just haven't been as taken with this book, which I'll explain soon. The protagonist has been one of the most sympathetic characters I've run into in a while; Gabriel's sensitive yet dry in wit, talented but unpretentious, sexually ambiguous and slightly devious as any rebellious adolescent with a weird au pair would be. I've really liked to read about him, his thoughts and realizations. He's a rich character, and genuinely interesting. The more I read, the more I realized that this book is a coming of age story, but it isn't Gabriel who needs to grow up: his parents both do. Rex I feel is a selfish man, stuck with his head in the clouds, talented for sure, but unwilling to get off his ass and do something about his life as it is now. Christine, the mother, ah. She isn't as well developed as the other characters, but she also needs to have a serious look at herself. Both of them are just stuck in their rock-and-roll lifestyle, a life lived several decades ago, not realizing very well that they are older now, washed out even, with a son to feed. Rex and Christine, finally, come of age, with the help of their teen-aged soon. So I do appreciate the idea behind the story, but it's the way this all comes about, with a drawing from Lester as the device, that doesn't really float my boat. Gabriel's character made up for enough for me to continue and finish the book, but I must say the story in itself became a chore to get through, a little dull even at some point – and the book's only 178 pages. And it had such potential. Kureishi offers up several vague ideas, but doesn't do anything with them. At first I thought the book would veer off into a more supernatural area: Gabriel would be drawing objects and see them materialize in his bedroom when he'd finished the drawing. Only to have them vanish from sight after crumpling up the pages. Gabriel, however, quickly insists they must be hallucinations from the pot he occasionally smokes. Hmm. Okay. So that's a dead end (and that's how the reader actually feels about it: huh, okay, guess we're not going in that direction after all). Add to that his conversations with his dead twin Archie, and you're kind of inclined to think something more is going on with Gabriel's mind. But Kureishi never gets into that – it must be a cute little Gabriel-thing Kureishi wanted to add to his character. It wasn't about having a supernatural gift, and it also wasn't about psychosis. What these details were about then, I'm not sure. But these elusive "teasers" that went nowhere did contribute to my feeling that the eventual plot wasn't too exciting. I'm well aware that Kureishi is a very good writer, but this book and its ideas are a little like an incomplete experiment. GABRIEL'S GIFT has a beginning, middle and ending, so there is a properly developed plot. But I've never had a book with a clear ending feel so open-ended.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line647
__label__wiki	0.773351	0.773351	Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on July 17, 2018 (go to class or lectures) Utopia, Versailles, disease, global, armies, Kansas, die, 100, influenza, Spartacist, barriers, Tragica, winters, Mahatma, strike, health, durable, first, upheaval, infected, second, goverments, common leaders of the world discussed world peace in Versailles one of the coldest winters in recorded history millions of people froze to death in 1918 and 1919 the real killer was disease pathogens shaped world history germs and viruses don't respect national, ethnic and class barriers left 100 million people dead this plague was more devastating than the war itself 675,000 Americans died in the influenza epidemic 10 times the war casualties people found themselves living in a global age helped to spread the disease more quickly one fifth of the world's population was infected followed trade and shipping lanes aggravated by the vast movements of armies the first epidemic in the United States was in army camps in Kansas around the world, the Armistice celebrations were the most cataclysmic day for the spread of the influenza in the festivities, the kissing and the hugging in the streets were perfect vectors for spreading the disease people would celebrate, go home, and die the health systems were already maxed out because of the war wounded some silver linings we learned a great deal about first world war had left 9 million soldiers and 7 million civilians dead, but far more casualties from the disease aggrevated tensions within goverments among the victors and defeated 1919 was a year not just of disease, but of great upheaval and in surgency 1919 - The Spartacist Uprising communists' efforts trying to take over the government Winnepeg first large strike Semana Tragica took over editing of the Young India Magazine preached open resistance began planning his own general strikes added to the urgencies of rebuilding societies this was common at the end of wars having to discuss how to effect a durable peace started the second great age of revolutions the first were e.g. those of France and America and Latin America here we have a different kind of search for Utopia Forgotten human catastrophes, via tonight's World History Since 1300 course: "In 1918, while world leaders of the world's countries discussed world peace in Versailles, one of the coldest winters in recorded history, the real killer, disease, ravished throughout the world. Pathogens having a way of shaping world history, germs and viruses not respecting national, ethnic and class barriers, the influenza of 1918 left 100 million people dead. This plague was more devastating than the war itself:675,000 Americans died in the influenza epidemic, ten times the number of war casualties. People found themselves living in a global age, which aided the disease to spread more quickly. One fifth of the world's population was infected, the disease followed trade and shipping lanes, aggravated by the vast movements of armies returning home. The first epidemic in the United States was in army camps in Kansas. Around the world, armistice celebrations were the most cataclysmic day for the spread of the influenza. During the festivities, people kissed and hugged in the streets, perfect vectors for spreading the disease. People would celebrate, go home, and die."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line659
__label__wiki	0.709478	0.709478	STL – Enfield and Harlow – memories by Colin Marr The following sections are my own personal reminiscences of STL, from the mid 1950s when I first experienced the labs at Progress Way, Enfield, through to the early days in the 1960s at the new labs in Harlow. It is a deliberately anecdotal and a relatively trivial account – in no way do I attempt to convey a complete picture of those times or the people involved. It was a privilege for me to have been at STL both at Progress Way, Enfield and in the early days at London Road, Harlow. My first experience of the Enfield labs was in the mid 1950s. My elder brother Alan (almost ten years older than me) had been working at the labs for some time and I used to accompany him to STL cricket matches when I would act as scorer, and sometimes to the photographic dark-room to process films and prints. I also worked at the labs during school holidays. In this way as a teenager I first became familiar with the place and met the likes of Joe Evans, Don Weir, Albert Langton, Arthur Brown and Al Jenkins. When I left school in 1958 bristling with A levels it was necessary for me to supplement the family income and university wasn’t then an option. It was a natural thing for me to go straight into full time employment at STL and I worked there for two years as a lab assistant before studying full-time for a degree in physics. My memories of the labs at Progress Way and the characters that filled it are rich and various. My brother Alan was a popular figure at the labs and he made an easy entry for me. Alan was in the STL cricket team, which played on Saturdays and I became the official scorer, faithfully recording each and every ball marking the results in code in a huge green ledger. Mostly we played at a pitch out near Whitewebbs Park and after the matches we usually went to the Rose and Crown, where I had to be content with a pineapple juice sitting in a car outside, but feeling very grown up to be in the company of such men. Progress Way – the building The building itself was unexceptional – it was a conventional single storey north-light utility building typical of small factory units from what I guess was the 1930s. The individual labs formed the core of the building, each area being defined and separated by steel and glass partitions, which were mostly open to the north-light roof space. In consequence, the noise levels were high and it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter. There was one corridor that ran round each side of the core. The offices for more senior staff, admin and the library were along the southern side facing Progress way and these had roofs and were relatively quiet. Some of the interior ‘secrets’ lab spaces were screened off and this gave them a sense of mystery. The chemical lab and ‘hard science’ activities, where lab coats were the norm, were in the north east corner. Progress Way – photos The following three photos with Joe Evans and Pat Russen with Jill Fowler were taken in the old Measurements Lab at Progress Way, which was under Bill Kerr and Gordon Heighington. What on earth was Joe doing with that ancient telephone? Photo 1. Joe Evans doing something with an ancient phone and batteries! Note signal generator, spot-galvanometer in the background and drawing-curves on the table. Photo 2. Joe Evans, back view, with Pat Russen and Jill Fowler. Door to screened room beyond. Photo 3. Pat Russen. Note Tektronix oscilloscope (ultra modern!), standard issue wooden toolbox and rickety stool. The next two were in the lab next door with Derek Tibbetts at his desk. And the work bench was one that I was working at doing an experiment for Derek that involved making pn alloy junction diodes. What a dump it looks! Derek went on to work at Ultra Electronics. Photo 4. Derek Tibbetts at his desk. Note glass screening goes up to open roof and north-light. Photo 5. Same spot as previous, but turned round to see my work-bench. Note crowded apparatus, asbestos-cord lagged vessel, reagent/ solvent bottle (trichloroethylene?) and Variac. STL wasn’t the only company in Progress Way and one notable neighbour was Polak and Schwartz, a manufacturer of flavours and essences, and they were on the western side, which was mostly upwind of STL. In consequence, the labs often experienced interesting wafts of aromas, mostly of strong coffee. Sometimes this was in welcome contrast to the sickly sweet metallic smell near the chemi-lab where excess silane gas was bubbled off through tanks of water that stood by the exit. Concerns about health and safety weren’t much in evidence in those days! The canteen/ restaurant at Progress Way The STL canteen was in a separate building between the main block and Polak & Schwartz storage yard and as I remember it was a substantial wooden clad structure. It was a bit classier than a canteen and I think we referred to it as a restaurant, with waitress service and table cloths. Important to say that it was more than a canteen and was also used as a social venue. My earlier reminiscences to Vi Maile included the following. I have been musing over a number of things including the restaurant/ canteen. My memory is that it was more of a waitress service restaurant with white table cloths, etc. I remember joking with Albert Langton about the lucky-draw of crockery, most of which must have come from some bulk purchase of old bankrupt stock, possibly sourced by Arthur Malcouronne (more about Arthur later on!). It was thought to be a lucky omen if you landed with a plate with the insignia “Granada Hotel Umtata”, which I understand is a town in South Africa from which the Granada Hotel has long gone. A more rare and prized find would have been a plate marked “Pilatus-Kulm”. I have recently looked it up; the Pilatus-Kulm hotel still exists as a mountain hotel near Luzern. Innocent days! Vi also asked me if I remembered the ‘trolley girls’ who toured the labs with tea, coffee and snacks, to which I said yes, but not by name. My memory is more of the eagerness of waiting for them to come round. Cheese and onion rolls perhaps. I also remember the waitresses in the Progress Way restaurant. I doubt if I witnessed it, but I recall Albert Langton telling a story of how one enterprising waitress devised a quick method for serving cheese & biscuits at the end of the meal. As soon as the order was requested she whipped out biscuits from one front-pocket of her pinny/overalls and pieces of cheddar from the other. My only other memory of the restaurant (we did call it that, rather than a canteen didn’t we?) was going to a STL Photographic Club “slide battle” with my brother Alan, which took place there one evening. It sounds very contrived now, but each entrant had their chosen 35mm slides projected onto a big screen to be scrutinised and rated by club members. The high spot of the evening that I attended was Arthur Brewster demonstrating his new home-made projector, which was truly impressive. It was made of cast aluminium pieces and Arthur explained how he had built a small aluminium foundry in his back garden to cast these things. I think the air was thick with smoke from his and others’ pipes and cigarettes, which was illuminated by the projector beam. Hey ho for formative times! People, sociability and events Joe Evans was an engaging and popular figure – when I first worked for him in about 1959 he once related to a group of us about post graduate research he had been involved in to do with cosmic rays. Joe explained that in order to track these highenergy particles the experiments had to be conducted deep underground in a South Wales coal mine. The photographic plates used to detect cosmic rays would have been ‘fogged’ if exposed at the surface and all the chemicals used to make the photosensitive emulsion had to be taken down the mine and made up in dustbin sized quantities at deep level underground. I don’t know if Joe’s PhD was based on this work but it seemed a million miles from his later and more highly recognised work on transistors and other semi-conductor devices. A then recently published book, “Transistors and other crystal valves” confirmed that STL was at the leading edge in this exciting field. The named author is T R Scott, STL MD, but I think much of the writing was by Joe Evans. There were other memorable people who come to mind from the Enfield days. Rene Rhodes was one of the researchers and I recall him publishing a research paper that included some amazing microscope images of etch-pits around defects on silicon crystals, which I found particularly inspiring. I think Ken Batsford was also involved in this work. Other names to be revered include Brian Claussen, Doc Foord and Henley Sterling. Albert Langton worked for Henley and was doing pioneering work on Gallium Arsenide. George King was another lofty figure at Enfield, but I can’t recall what his role was then. At Harlow I think he was designated as Chief Scientist and I recall one of his projects was to have some plant seeds irradiated at the newly installed Van de Graaff generator with the hope that mutated plants would produce new and giant fruits. I never heard the results! Senior people, and those on the systems side of STL included T R Scott (Scottie), E P G Wright, Don Weir, Don Hunter, Leonard Lewin and Harry Rantzen. Alec Reeves was known, but I don’t think he had much of a presence at Progress Way, although he was certainly a presence at Harlow. The relaxed culture An agreeable aspect of life at Progress Way and later on at Harlow was the relatively relaxed attitude to, for want of a better word, discipline, with an easy going culture with regard to time-keeping and home working. In the late 1950s transistor radios were popular and it was common to see self-made radios built into plastic boxes from Woolworths made up from components readily available in the labs, including ferrite rod aerials. I recall Joe Evans commenting on the directional nature of radio reception using a ferrite rod, which meant that the null point was more sharply defined than the peak. One idea was that tractor driving ploughmen might use their transistor radios to help steer a straight line – Joe commented that this would only work if they chose to follow a quiet line, which was unlikely! Similarly, home-build TV sets were not uncommon, for which the services of one Arthur Malcouronne were invaluable. Arthur was a sort of cross between Arthur Daley and Del-Boy – he had contacts outside the labs and could source almost anything. Lisle Street in Soho, with its rabbit warren of old shops was then the centre of military surplus and cut price electronics kit and Arthur could get anything from CRTs to half-finished wooden cabinets. Our first TV at home in 1955 came via Arthur, which he delivered in parts in his huge battered shooting-brake car. And he wore a trilby hat just to complete the image. The easy-going nature of life at the labs included longish lunch-hour trips to the pub. The most vivid in my memory were at the Pied Bull on Bullsmoor Lane on summer days in the garden at the front of what was then like a country pub. It would be mixed junior and more senior staff and often up to six of us would pile into Joe Evans’s huge Jaguar Mk VII saloon. I bought my first car, in 1958, (a 1936 Morris 8) from a fellow Progress Way colleague Clive Vernon for £25.00, which was the going rate for such cars. The deal was struck in Henekey’s pub (long gone) in Enfield Town and I drove the car back to the labs on L plates, with Clive as my instructor. It did well for about six months during which I leant a lot about car maintenance until, despite my good efforts the engine was beyond repair. By this time the move to Harlow had taken place and I was quick to discover an amazing car breakers yard almost hidden in a rookery at Thornwood Common. During lunch breaks I managed to get another engine out of a similar car, which was on the top of a stack of three creaking in the wind with squawking rooks, and then to get Joe Fox from the STL garage to collect it and bring to the labs. To get the dead car from my home at New Southgate to Harlow, I persuaded Joe Fox to tow me, which he did using the labs’ Landrover. The journey was epic – a short steel cable was used for the towing – I had no electrics for horn, indicators or windscreen wipers and it snowed! The journey up the old A11 was fast, almost blind and terrifying – and I got out as a freezing nervous wreck, much to the amusement of Joe Fox and others at the garage! The ‘new’ engine was duly fitted in the labs car park and all was well again for another year. (If you are interested, a YouTube search for “New Southgate 1958” yields a short film clip of me with the Morris 8.) My first job at Enfield was in the Measurements Lab, working for Bill Kerr and Gordon Heighington along with Pat Russen, all under Joe Evans. We had some quite sophisticated high precision equipment, some of which was used in a screened room. One of my tasks was using a four-probe jig to measure the resistivity along bars of zone-refined Silicon. Later, working for Derek Tibbetts we made alloy junction diodes and did countless plots of their performance. Some of the equipment was new and state-of-the-art, including Tektronics oscilloscopes, which looked really modern compared to our old Cossor scopes. When it came to sorting stuff out for the move to Harlow, some of the older kit was redundant and I managed to get a Cossor scope and a signal generator for donation to my old school. I had the pleasure of returning to the school science lab and setting it up to show a sine wave. This was impressive stuff in 1959 and I was bursting with pride when I left as local hero! I can remember very little about the preparations for the move from Progress way to Harlow, but I recall the feeling being a positive one, if only because the old premises were cramped and run down. Despite the distance of the move, which would present a problem for some, the idea of new and bigger labs in a New Town was attractive. Forays out to visit the new site and work in progress were exciting. There was no M11 then and the favoured routes were either on the old A11 through Epping, which was sometimes slow, or cross country from Waltham Abbey. At that time the lanes across Nazeing Common were wisting and narrow, with a very narrow and hazardous bridge, since widened. One dramatic incident that I remember was to do with moving the library. Tea-chests of books and journals were loaded onto removal vans with insufficient thought to the total weight. One van couldn’t make up the narrow hill at Nazeing and blocked the road until relief could get through. Public transport between Enfield and Harlow was difficult and without the free coach service provided by the labs it would have been a difficult time for many of the staff. At the beginning there may have been more than one coach, each taking about fifty people. The Enfield start and drop off point was the Cecil Road car park (long gone) by Enfield Town centre. I forget the start time, it may have been 7:30, or possibly 8:00, but there was often a flurry of cars parking to drop off people just in time to get on. The usual route was up the A10, Carterhatch Lane, Waltham Abbey, Wake Arms and then the old A11 through Epping, picking up some staff on the way. The novelty of the journey didn’t last long and I think I often slept through it. On one occasion it had snowed and the coach took an alternative route to avoid one of the hills, but we still got stuck somewhere conveniently close to a pub, which provided refuge until somehow we got going again. The coach left from the front entrance of the labs, promptly on time (5:00 pm?) and there was a big incentive not to miss it – hence the rush. When I rejoined the labs after college in 1964 I was relieved to find the coach service still running. I was living in Highgate then and my routine was to drive (in my 1939 Lancia Aprilia – a car that stayed with me through the ‘60s) to Enfield collecting Dave Thomas from Muswell Hill on the way, when the conversation in the car was sometimes animated and often political. First impressions of Harlow From the utilitarian dinginess of Progress Way the Harlow labs were a modern delight. The floor-to-ceiling glass entrance foyer was compete with state of design Mies van der Rohe ‘Barcelona’ leather seats, and the whole feeling was of light, airy and contemporary in style. The lab spaces were mostly unfinished when we moved in and there was some improvisation to get work started. I recall work-bench island units fitted with rows of 13 amp sockets but still devoid of live power. And then to my alarm seeing that someone keen to get on with work had made fat power cables complete with 13 amp plugs at both ends to jump power to some of the units! The relative remoteness of the London Road site was eased by discovering the pleasant walk through the woods to the shops and pub, the ‘Essex Skipper’ at The Stow. Pub lunch options then didn’t extend much beyond a cold pork pie and a bag of crisps! The phenomenon of Harlow being a New Town was also of interest, with newness and planning being somehow consistent with technological progress, which was what the labs were all about. The New Town had been built on what had been open farm land and the labs were on what had been New Hall Farm, owned by William Soper, whose farmhouse was visible in the fields across London Road. The story was that the compulsory purchase of his land led Soper to commit suicide. The once rural nature of the site was evidenced on one occasion by the Essex Hunt tallyho-ing on horse-back in full costume into the field south of the labs in pursuit of a fox. Some of us went out and jeered – and cheered in support of the fox! Photo 6. STL publicity photo taken in ~1960. This photo was sent to me by Vi Maile, who had thought that the figure on the right might have been me. I could see the similarity, but I recognised it as Dick Swann. Posting this photo on the STLQCC website recently led to an exchange of messages which identified almost all of the individuals. In the foreground, left to right – Jill Fowler, Mike Yeo, (?) and Richard Swann. In the background are Geoff Walker and Stan Shephard. I seem to think that lab was on the north side of the building, one floor up, just along from the restaurant, but others have different thoughts. The scene looks highly posed and set-up with equipment as if it’s laid out to impress, rather than do a job. At the end of the lab is a vacuum system, with a bell-jar fitted with a metal mesh cover. I remember having a significant explosion in a system like this, when I had failed to flush out all the hydrogen from an experiment and letting air in at the end causing the whole thing to blow up, with shattered glass everywhere and my ears ringing with the blast. Fortunately, nobody was hurt! Another thing in the photo to comment in is the wood-block floor. The Harlow labs had under-floor electric heating and we were all very blasé when mercury was spilled, sometimes in kilogram quantities, when it all disappeared down the gaps in the blocks. When the heating came on, the mercury vaporised and we were all unwittingly subjected to mercury vapour poisoning. I think it was Henry Wolfson who spotted this hazard and had the bright idea of sprinkling sulphur powder on the floor and brushing it down the gaps. I doubt it did any good. Symptoms of mercury poisoning include hair loss and loose teeth – I wonder? Such was the feeling of community at STL that any difference in status between PhDs and others didn’t matter at all. In fact, in those days some of the most eminent and highly regarded people at the labs, such as Cyril Drake, Henley Sterling, Harry (HB) Rantzen, and even the esteemed Alec Reeves seemed to be without rank or title. In my junior position I had little to do with Harry Rantzen, but I was aware that he was somewhat special. In the late 1960s, just prior to my departure to ITTE Brussels, by coincidence I was asked by a friend who worked in publishing to review a newly printed book – the title was “Uncertainty in nature and communications” by Henry Barnato Rantzen. As I recall, it wasn’t an easy read with some obscure maths and a proposed new fundamental physical constant derived from the curvature of the Earth – the ‘Curth’, I think. I concluded that it was all a bit fanciful and I declined to write a review, good or bad. I have just looked it up on Amazon – copies are still available! In one of her many radio interviews, Esther Rantzen described her father as “one of the back-room boys at the BBC” – oh dear! The memories in the foregoing sections only cover the early days at Harlow. I have also written about my impressions of the labs later in the 1960s and my later experiences after I left the labs in 1969 to work in the technical directorate at ITTE in Brussels. These later memories are available on the STLQCC website. Colin Marr – March 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line662
__label__wiki	0.666021	0.666021	Candy ornamental bowl Candy ornamental bowl (mark) This item is not for sale, but you will find many that are in our Candy ornamental bowl - 9" (228 mm) long, 4¼" (107 mm) high. Candy and Co Frank Candy set up his pottery, Candy & Co, in 1850 at Newton Abbot, Devon. It remained in his hands until 1880 when it was taken over by J Howard Fox. Originally a tile works, production of an art pottery line began after the First World War and was marketed under the brand name 'Wescontree Ware'. The pots were slip cast, and decorated with glaze effects. The 'Wescontree' name was changed to 'Candy Ware' and in 1936 a thrower, Sidney Dart, took over the making of the hollow wares which was continued until 1960. Meanwhile, production of tiles went on and in the 1980s the firm produced a range based on the designs of William de Morgan. The company closed in 1991, but in 1998 the premises were bought by British Ceramic Tiles Ltd who are still manufacturing tiles. Further Reading: Candy Art Pottery by Ian Turner You can buy this book on line Please support our sponsors and help offset the cost of maintaining this site by clicking on the banner links. Home Pots Potters Potteries Saleroom News Search The Pottery Studio is a knowledge base for lovers of studio pottery, art pottery, craft pottery, and just about any other kind of pottery. Help keep the site alive and growing by telling others about us and supporting our sponsors. Leauger elephant © Copyright 2000-2020 The Pottery Studio. All rights reserved. Web pages by	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line663
__label__wiki	0.828416	0.828416	Tom Waits “Glitter & Doom” Out Today! (pic by Vincos) Tom Waits much anticipated two disc live album “Glitter & Doom” is officially out today! The record offers a riveting musical document of Waits’ sold out, highly acclaimed Glitter and Doom tour of the US and Europe in the summer of 2008. Disc One is designed to sound like an evening’s performance, even though the 17 tracks are selected from 10 cities, from Paris to Birmingham; Tulsa to Milan; and Atlanta to Dublin. Disc Two is a bonus compendium called TOM TALES, which is a selection of the comic bromides, strange musings, and unusual facts that Tom traditionally shares with his audience during the piano set. Purchase at Amazon by clicking here. “Every storyteller needs an audience, but Waits is a master fabulist whose diabolic razzle dazzle looms particularly great and grand in front of a crowd, as this 17-track feast of live performances demonstrates.” - Guardian UK “A double-disc album that documents the crackling energy and force of various performances from Waits’ 2008 tour… if this is as close as you get to hearing Waits live, it’s an illuminating snapshot of an artist whose concerts are increasingly rare and compelling.” - Boston Globe Read More Preview Tom Waits’ Glitter & Doom on KCRW (pic by billielolasorcha) Tom Wait’s incredible new live album“Glitter & Doom” will be featured starting tonight on KCRW’s Album Preview! Hear the CD streaming start-to-finish care of this new feature from the influential Santa Monica radio station which will showcase new releases selected by the ever tasteful KCRW DJ’s. Every Monday night a new album will debut on KCRW’s online music channel Eclectic24 at 8pm (PT) and on-demand at KCRW.com/AlbumPreview. So check out Waits’ “Glitter & Doom” tonight starting at 8pm PST!!! To do so, just click here. Read More New N.A.S.A Video featuring Tom Waits Boing Boing is hosting the above new N.A.S.A video for their song “Spacious Thoughts” from “Spirit of Apollo.” The song incredibly features vocals from both futuristic rapper Kool Keith and legendary crooner Tom Waits. The stunning animation was created by Montreal-based Fluorescent Hill. You can read an interview with them at Boing Boing here. Read More Norah Jones Cites Tom Waits as Key Influence (pic billielolasorcha) The singer Norah Jones appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition today discussing her new album. In the interview, Jones cites Tom Waits and his groundbreaking record “Mule Variations” as such a favorite that she looked at the liner notes to find its engineer, Jacquire King, who she then used to produce her new album. They even play and then discuss Waits’ song “Cold Water.” You can listen to the interview here. Read More “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards” on Vinyl Tom Waits triple-disc masterpiece “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards” will be reinvented on December 8 as a limited edition vinyl set, complete with a deluxe 12″ booklet and six new bonus cuts. The collection totals 62 tracks over seven full length LPs. An assemblage of rare, new and mostly unheard tracks, Orphans includes irreverent–or, rather, remarkably relevant-covers of songs by artists as disparate as The Ramones and Leadbelly, along with Waits compositions originally recorded by other artists. Mr. Waits explains, “Orphans are rough and tender tunes. Rhumbas about mermaids, shuffles about train wrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigrals about drowning. Scared, mean, orphaned songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don’t bite, they just need attention.” And on Christmas Day, Waits hits the big screen alongside Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and the late Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” He can also be seen in the Hughes Brothers’ “Book of Eli” with Denzel Washington in January. Read More 1 ... 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line666
__label__wiki	0.518904	0.518904	Sisters of the Irish Ursuline Union Ursuline Commissions in Ireland St. Angela Merici St Catherine of Alexandria Nano Nagle Ursuline Family Company of St Ursula Companions & Associates Ursuline Resources Safeguarding Policy St Angela’s Academy of Music Safeguarding Policy Ursuline Boarding School Ursuline Sisters of the Irish Union is made up of sisters who live in Ireland, Kenya, and Wales. To find out more about us follow the links At present our Congregational Leader is Sr Anne Harte Barry who was elected at our 2016 General Chapter and will serve for five years. Anne is assisted by her Leadership team of Sr Anne Marie Dixon, Sr Marianne O’Connor, Sr Maureen Boland and Sr Mairead O’Regan. A company set up by the Ursuline Sisters to make provision for the care needs of the sisters into the future – especially the elderly and infirm. A company limited by guarantee without having a share capital. Registered in Ireland. Company number: 525167. Registered Office: Ursuline Generalate, 17, Trimleston Drive, Booterstown, Co. Dublin. Directors: A. Harte Barry; A.M. Dixon; M. O’Connor. The Congregation’s Policy Statement on Child Safeguarding As a constituent member of the Catholic Church in Ireland, we recognise and uphold the dignity and rights of all children, are committed to ensuring their safety and well-being, and will work in partnership with parents/guardians to do this. We recognise each child as a gift from God, and we value and encourage the participation of children in all activities that enhance their spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual and social development. All Church personnel (including clergy, religious, staff and volunteers) have a responsibility to safeguard children through promoting their welfare, health and development in a safe and caring environment that supports their best interests and prevents abuse. Designated Liaison Delegate for Congregation: Sr. Anne Marie Dixon. 086 264 3700 Home \| About us \| Join us \| Our Roots \| Ursuline Family \| Prayer Requests \| Ursuline Resources \| Contact us \| Members' Area Copyright Irish Ursuline Union © 2020. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line681
__label__cc	0.724211	0.275789	VALOR FIGHT LEAGUE - Tickets - Fighter Inquiry Brazos Throwdown II - Kenndall Lewis College Station's own Kenndall Lewis (2-0) will take on Brice Bell as he makes his debut. Lewis, fighting out of Windy Sport & Fitness will go head to head with Bell, who is fighting out of Bell Combat Sports in Centerville, TX. Don't miss this match up! Read below to learn more about Lewis and his passion for MMA. Click here to buy your tickets to Brazos Throwdown II. Why are you a fighter? I am a fighter because I love sports and I love competition. I fight for my family and friends – without them this wouldn’t be possible. What makes someone a fighter? I feel what makes someone a fighter is determination and the will to not give up on anything in life and to follow their dreams. What are you goals in fighting? I have big dreams as a fighter I would love to win an amateur belt and go pro and fight for legacy or even the UFC. What's your favorite thing about fighting? My favorite thing about fighting is the different fighting styles that I come across amazes me how athletic and skilled people are in the fight world. How did you get started in fighting? I was big on watching the UFC and boxing when I was younger and I started fighting with my friend Chris after high school he trained with Bobby powers and Jermaine at windy sport he did a smoker event at the gym called spar wars and ever since then I wanted to get in the ring/cage. What do you like to do outside of fighting? Outside of fighting, I like to hang out with my wife and daughter, go to parks, and hang out with friends. I also help my church with Journey, which is an organization that helps kids in the community get closer to Jesus. What is your life motto? Love everyone. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Who has been the most inspirational person in your life and why? My daughter has been the most inspirational person in my life. She brings me joy and she is the reason I do what I do. Because of her, I go to work everyday and I grind so she can have things that I never had. What's something people should know about you? I love God and my family. I think if we all can come together and love, we will make the world a better place. Is there anyone you would like to thank? First off I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I would like to thank my mom, wife, daughter, friends and family. I also want to thank a few of my Sponsors Brazos Valley Bail Bonds, All American Turf Grass, Melanie Woytek, Summerlin Masonry, JCody Construction, 9Rounds, Triple Barrel Ranch, and Summer Babies Recording Studio. Brazos Throwdown II Brazos Throwdown IV Fighter Interviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line683
__label__wiki	0.602659	0.602659	The Launch of Denla British School DBS celebrates official launch at the British Embassy, Bangkok Working Together for Quality Education General Press Releases Monday March 20, 2017 09:42 Bangkok--20 Mar--Denla British School Mr. Brian Davidson, British Ambassador, congratulates Mr. Arn Pandejpong, Chairman of Denla British School and DBS executives for the official launch of Denla British School at the British Embassy. DBS aims to be one of the world's leading international schools offering an enhanced English National Curriculum whilst respecting and preserving Thai culture and language. The curriculum will be tailored to meet the needs of children who wish to continue their studies at universities either in Thailand or abroad. Denla Schools will open Denla British School, a British curriculum school modeled on the best practices from the UK private school sector for children aged 3 – 18 years old, in May 2017. Located northwest of Bangkok, DBS aims to nurture future leaders of the world by providing an enhanced English National Curriculum that is tailored to meet the needs of children. Developing skills for life and a love of learning is at the heart of the DBS philosophy. Denla British School will be among Thailand's first premium international schools to offer an all-inclusive education with an extended day in the style of independent schools in the UK. The school is part of the prestigious Denla School Group. The school will be led by Mr. Arn Pandejpong (Chairman of the Board, Denla British School), Dr. Toryos Pandejpong (Board Member, Denla British School), Dr. Temyos Pandejpong (Board Member, Denla British School) and Mrs. Alison Turner (Principal, Denla British School). With the vision to provide educational excellence, the Denla School Group has over 38 years of experience in education Parents can rest assured that the DBS team will do their very best to nurture all children to reach their unique individual potential within a supportive and caring environment. The Roads Traffic Expo Thailand 2020 to Gather Over 2,000 Attendees Supporting the sustainable development of the nation's transport infrastructure is a key focus of Thailand's Ministry of Transport. In line with the Thailand 4.0 vision, the 20-year National Transport Infrastructure Investment Plan 2017-2036 is geared... Seafood Lover at the Emerald Coffee Shop The Emerald Coffee Shop of the Emerald Hotel holds the international buffet and seafood (both of on ice and steamed) such as Alaskan king crab, rock lobster, New Zealand mussel, river prawn, oyster…..etc. only 690 baht net/person (from normal... Honda LPGA Thailand 2020 and the Sports Authority of Thailand Jointly Organized the Young Ambassadors Program to Inspire the Next Generation of Youths #hondalpgathailand Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., Ltd., in collaboration with IMG and the Sports Authority of Thailand, jointly hosted the second edition of the "Young Ambassadors Program" to provide extensive knowledge about golf and tournaments as well as to inspire a... Boat Lagoon Yachting celebrates the Premiere of Princess Y85 at Thailand Yacht Show 2020 Boat Lagoon Yachting, Asia's premier provider of a luxury yachting experience, celebrated the launch of the all-new Flagship Flybridge Motor Yacht Princess Yachts Y85 at Thailand Yacht Show. VIP guests and members of the media witnessed and experienced... กรุงเทพฯ--21 ม.ค.--โรงแรมพูลแมน ขอนแก่น ราชา ออคิด Treat your sweetheart to an intimate dinner with our Valentine's Day blissful buffet You'll find seafood on ice in our lover ocean, cheese vs salad lover carving: roasted beef wellington, pork belly... British Embassy Bangkok Denla British School British Ambassador INTERNATIONAL Ambassador Education The World?s CELEBRATE National The World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line694
__label__wiki	0.768716	0.768716	Davidoff Cigars teamed up with six international chefs to create its first ever Limited Chefs Edition Pinellas Park, March 2017. Davidoff Cigars unveiled its new Limited Chefs Edition in a spectacular white gourmet night on February 20th, 2016 at Minitas Beach, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. The event was highlighted by the global launch of the Limited Chefs Edition, a special cigar line, created exclusively by six international chefs. The Chefs Edition will be available again in the United States in limited quantities beginning in April 2017. “The Davidoff Chefs Edition offers fine dining and an exceptional cigar for connoisseurs to enjoy after a culinary tour de force. This unique partnership with some of the world's greatest chefs has inspired Davidoff master blenders to blend this truly memorable cigar,” explained Charles Awad, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing & Innovation at Oettinger Davidoff AG. “When I first met with my colleagues and the Davidoff team to discuss the blend of Davidoff’s first Chefs Edition, it was important to me that every connoisseur would have fun with the fine cigar. As a chef, my key aim is to deliver new delights and to make people happy, and that’s why I love my job and the Davidoff Chefs Edition project,” said the famed Swiss chef, Peter Knogl, from the Cheval Blanc of Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel/Switzerland. Apart from Peter Knogl, the chefs who applied their refined palates in influencing this unique cigar were Renato Wüst of Bad Ragaz Grand Resort in Switzerland, TV Chef Ali Güngörmüs, of Le Canard HH Pageou, Münich in Germany, TV Chef Léa Linster of Restaurant Léa Linster in Luxembourg, Michel Trama of Relais & Chateau, Puymirol in France and Maria Marte of Club Allard, Madrid in Spain. Between them the six chefs boast nine Michelin stars and the two Swiss chefs, Knogl and Wüst have 19 and 15 GaultMillau points respectively Wüst also bears the honour of being GaultMillau CigarMan of the Year 2016. The Cigar: FILLER: San Vicente Mejorado Seco, San Vicente Mejorado Visus, Piloto Visus, and San Vicente Visus BINDER: Ecuador Connecticut WRAPPER: Habano 2000 The Davidoff Chefs Edition is the equivalent to a culinary masterpiece. Just like the perfect meal, it begins gently with complex layers of subtle flavors and builds up to a sublime and unforgettable crescendo. The wrapper is oily and smooth and everything about it, from its flawless composition to its elegant color, whets the appetite for the cigar’s initial aromas, both nutty and sweet. The flavors become richer and more uplifting in the second third, with hints of citrus, bloomy fruit, sweet corn and a refined aftertaste that is both oily and creamy. In the last third, the cigar’s beauty and vitality erupt into an intense, peppery yet meltingly sweet and gratifying Grand Finale, just as a gastronomic experience is crowned by a superb dessert. To complement its robust and complex elegance, the Davidoff Chefs Edition pairs perfectly with an aged Cognac, Amarone, or Sauternes. Launch and availability 3,000 boxes will be available in the United States beginning in April 2017. Labels: Davidoff, press release Cigar legend and talented music composer, Avo Uvezian, has passed away Press release from Davidoff Cigars: Avo Uvezian 22 March 1926 to 24 March 2017 March 24, 2017 - It is with great sadness that we share the news that our beloved friend, cigar legend and talented music composer, Avo Uvezian, has peacefully passed away earlier today. This sad news comes almost immediately after celebrating his 91st Birthday this past Wednesday, March 22nd. We recognize that Avo’s passing is a tremendous loss to our industry – he was enormously appreciated by all who had the pleasure to come into contact with him – consumers, retailers, manufacturers and acquaintances. Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, CEO of Oettinger Davidoff, commented “Avo has been a huge personality across the globe and was part of the Davidoff family for over 30 years and we will sorely miss his passion, his personality and his wonderful talents as a cigar man and as a music man.” Jim Young, President Davidoff North America adds “Avo was incredibly energized by his engagement with the business and was constantly bringing new ideas to think about. An evening with Avo was always an unforgettable evening of great conversation, laughter and warmth. We shall miss him deeply.” Scott Kolesaire, who manages the marketing program for Avo and knows him extremely well, added: “up until the end, the daily phone calls and free-flowing ideas were part of our everyday conversations. Avo was my friend, a life mentor, and a person unlike any other. I will miss him dearly.” On behalf of all of Oettinger Davidoff and Avo’s friends across the premium cigar industry, we extend our sincere condolences to Avo’s family – his wife Nivia, daughter Karyn, sons Jeffrey, Robert and Ronny and their families. The Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary Cigar Available now at Famous Smoke Shop EASTON, PA – Famous Smoke Shop, the leading online distributor of discounted premium cigars, specializing in offering the web’s widest selection of cigars at the lowest prices has just announced the arrival of the Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary cigar. Blended exclusively for Famous Smoke Shop, this limited edition cigar, of which only 500 boxes were produced, is offered in one size, a 6" x 50 Toro format with a secondary band that reads: "75 Years of Famous Smoke Shop," and is sure to become a collector's item. The Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary cigar is one of several special editions made for Famous Smoke Shop by some of the world's leading cigar manufacturers to honor the retailer's 75th year in business, including Romeo y Julieta, and Padrón cigars, with more in the works. "Everything about this cigar is special," said Jim Charnley, Famous Smoke Shop's Director of Purchasing & Merchandising. "Davidoff and Famous have always stood for offering cigar smokers the very best in quality and selection, and being a Davidoff Appointed Merchant, we're proud to have a limited edition Davidoff cigar we can now call our own." The cigar offers a full-flavored blend of specially-aged long-fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua embraced by a Mexican San Andrés Negro binder, and finished in a flawless, dark-natural Habano wrapper grown in Ecuador. The smoke, itself, issues notes of earthy berries, cocoa, cedar, and spice on a long and luxuriously creamy finish. Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary cigars are presented in varnished boxes of 10 cigars with specially designed interiors that pay recognition to Famous Smoke Shop. "Smooth, with a mellow bite – right in my wheelhouse," said John Pullo, Managing Editor for CigarAdvisor.com. "The chance to sit and enjoy a smoke like this Davidoff comes along once in a lifetime – glad this 75th Anniversary happened during mine." "I want to thank everyone at Davidoff for the great job on this 75th Anniversary presentation," added Famous Smoke Shop CEO, Arthur Zaretsky. "My parents, David and Rose, who opened Famous Smoke Shop in 1939, would have been very honored." Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary Cigar Strength: Full Size: 6" x 50 Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Filler: Dominican Republic / Nicaragua Binder: Mexican San Andres Negro Prices (MSRP): $220.00/box of 10, $110.00/5-pack, $22.00/cigar See more information on Davidoff Famous 75th Anniversary cigars here. 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__label__cc	0.525704	0.474296	Reaching the Emissions Goal Submitted by Lisa Ruffman-Weiss on June 2, 2016 - 13:18 Low-Carbon Fuels and Vehicle Efficiency Will Cut Road Transport CO2 Emissions 29% in 2030 Biofuels and natural gas vehicles together will account for 45% of potential fossil fuel displacement as nations look for new technologies to cut emissions, Lux Research says Global road transportation accounts for a sixth of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – and its share is rising, making it a key target for emission cuts to fight climate change. A new analysis from Lux Research finds that the emergence of low-carbon fuels and vehicle efficiency will cut emissions by 29% in 2030. The sharp cut – exceeding the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) target of 24% set by 188 nations at the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP21) in 2015 – will be realized from a combination of low-carbon fuels, alternative fuel vehicles, and improved fuel efficiencies. “Global warming remains at center stage, and significant strides need to be made in road transportation technologies to achieve the goal set for 2030,” said Yuan-Sheng Yu, Lux Research Analyst and lead author of the report titled, “Driving Down Emissions: Achieving CO2 Emissions Reduction Goals through Biofuels and Alternative Fuel Vehicles.” “Low-carbon biofuels like cellulosic ethanol, renewable diesel, and biomethane have lower well-to-wheel carbon intensities compared to their first-generation counterparts and play a pivotal role in cutting emissions, as does renewable electricity,” he added. Lux Research evaluated measures needed to meet emission targets set at COP21. Among their findings: Biofuels are key. First-generation biofuels, low-carbon fuels, and natural gas vehicles will together account for at least 45.4% of the potential fossil fuel displacement in road transportation in 2030, when global road transportation demand is projected to reach 911 billion gallons. Carbon intensity matters. First-generation biofuels have made incremental reductions in road transportation emissions over the years. But low-carbon biofuels will be the key driver in achieving 2030 emissions reduction goals with an average three to four times lower well-to-wheel carbon intensity profile. Fuel efficiency counts. Without improved fuel efficiencies, emissions reduction falls short of the INDC target in 2030 by nearly 5%. Automobile makers will have a range of lightweight materials available as multinationals and start-ups develop the next-generations of steel, aluminum and composite technologies. The report, titled “Driving Down Emissions: Achieving CO2 Emissions Reduction Goals through Biofuels and Alternative Fuel Vehicles,” is part of the Lux Research Alternative Fuels Intelligence service. Lux Research provides strategic advice and ongoing intelligence for emerging technologies. Leaders in business, finance and government rely on us to help them make informed strategic decisions. Through our unique research approach focused on primary research and our extensive global network, we deliver insight, connections and competitive advantage to our clients. Yuan-Sheng Yu Be a TGEink Leader 2x Monthly Newsletter Get the TGEink APP!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line698
__label__wiki	0.791777	0.791777	GE sells entire stake to exit Hyundai Card PUBLISHED :February 02, 2017 - 17:13 UPDATED :February 02, 2017 - 17:13 [THE INVESTOR] General Electric announced Feb. 1 (local time) that it has signed a deal to sell its entire 43 percent stake in South Korean credit card firm Hyundai Card as part of the US industrial giant’s restructuring strategy to exit financial services sector globally. General Electric will divest its 69 million shares of Hyundai Card to four firms, including Hyundai Commercial, Hong Kong-based private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Amsterdam-based private equity firm AlpInvest. The entire deal value, however, has not been disclosed. In a regulatory filing, Hyundai Commercial, the auto financing arm of Hyundai Motor Group, said it will buy 30.5 million Hyundai Card shares from GE, or approximately 19 percent stake, for 298 billion won (US$258.59 million) for “management purposes.” This means the rest of 24 percent stake will be split between the three firms. Once the deal is completed, Hyundai Commercial’s stake in Hyundai Card will increase to 24.54 percent, becoming the second largest shareholder after Hyundai Motor, which owns 37 percent. Kia Motors own approximately 11.5 percent of Hyundai Card. The agreement puts an end to the 12-year-old business partnership between South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group and GE -- which was established in 2004 by the formation of two joint ventures, Hyundai Card and Hyundai Capital. Last year, GE completed selling its entire 43 percent stake in Hyundai Capital, the auto conglomerate’s financial service arm, to Hyundai Motor Group. The sale is in line with GE’s restructuring efforts to focus on large industrial products by slimming down its consumer finance sector globally. By Ahn Sung-mi (sahn@heraldcorp.com)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line706
__label__wiki	0.6292	0.6292	Sony’s E3 2018 Conference Recap Day 3 of E3 2018 has wrapped up its announcements and thankfully, for the sake of our bank accounts, it’s been a rather modest run. Unlike last year where they released a metric ton of powerhouse announcements, Sony this year had more of an…update conference, though there were certainly some confirmations for new titles as well. Let’s get to them. 1. The Last of Us Part II No surprise here as Naughty Dog revealed more behind their highly anticipated game – The Last of Us 2. While it may not have been hot news, what was shown was still something that many have been clamoring for. Additional story beats were revealed in this trailer alongside some actual in-engine game play and we got to see Ellie now grown up and fighting through some truly brutal odds while also getting some gay action mixed in there as well. Certainly some good insight into a potentially great game. 2. God of War is getting New Game Plus Long requested and now confirmed, Sony’s latest God of War has just confirmed it will be getting a New Game Plus mode for players eager to jump back in. What will carry over hasn’t been mentioned and neither has the update’s release date, but I guess knowing it’s in the works officially is good enough for now. 3. Call of Duty Black Ops Bonuses.. Some great boons are to be had for those who are into Call of Duty and playing on the PS4. Sony has confirmed that pre-ordering Call of Duty Black Ops 4 on the PS Store will yield a bonus map pack and if you’re still clinging to the old game, expect to see a lot more new players as Black Ops 3 will be free on PSPlus effective today. 4. Destiny 2 Forsaken DLC Teaser A new teaser trailer for Destiny 2’s upcoming Forsaken DLC was shown. A pretty grim one at that. 5. Ghost of Tsushima Gameplay Trailer Without a doubt one of the highlights of this conference, Ghost of Tsushima gets a new gameplay trailer showing off its amazing combat and stunning visuals. This is probably the closest we’re gonna get to a Samurai Jack video game so I’m all on board for it. 6. Control A new game at last! This time a teaser for Control, a new game developed by the folks behind the Max Payne series. Not much details for now however, though it definitely looks cool. 7. Resident Evil 2 Remake Leon is back baby! That’s right the rumors have been proven true, Resident Evil 2 is getting a remake and while no gameplay has been shown just yet, it’s looking pretty promising. With a gory and sinister trailer, we got a good glimpse at this higher definition Raccoon City alongside protagonists Leon and Claire. The recent Resident Evil remakes have all been well received and this should certainly continue the trend. Resident Evil 2 Remake comes out on January 25th 2019. 8. Trover Saves the Universe A unique and unexpected new game comes in the form of Trover Saves the Universe, a game by Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and his studio Squanch Games. Looking sort of like a mix between Yooka Laylee’s platforming gameplay alongside Rick & Morty’s humor, one can only speculate as to what this game’s going to be like as very little was shown off. 9. New Kingdom Hearts III Trailer For whatever reason, Square Enix decided to provide one of their best trailers to Sony instead of showing it during their own conference. But hey we’re not complaining, as long as we get to see it! And what a treat it was indeed as this trailer showed off a lot more things; mostly the confirmation of the return of Port Royal as well as more amazing footage of the combat. Sony also confirmed the production of a limited edition Kingdom Hearts III PS4 Pro as well as a Kingdom Hearts all in one bundle for PS4. That’s right, one purchase for ALL Kingdom Hearts games on the PS4 up to Kingdom Hearts III. While we don’t know the price nor the release date, we can safely assume it will cost quite a bit and come out at the same time as KH3. It truly is a great time to be a fan of Kingdom Hearts. 10. New Death Stranding Trailer More info regarding Death Stranding is out but this time adding more questions than answers! Hooray? But seriously though, while not much information regarding the plot was shown, we finally got to see some in-engine gameplay… which was mostly just walking. I guess it’s hard to create hype for a narrative-focused game without any prior history to work off of but I think we’re all going to try this game anyway. Either purely to support Hideo Kojima or merely to spite Konami. 11. Nioh 2 Team Ninja’s smash hit Nioh gets a sequel! And it seems you can turn into a demon yourself this game? With Nioh proving itself to be more than just a ripoff of Dark Souls, improving and polishing upon the example From Software has set, it’s great that Team Ninja got the resources and confidence it needed to make a sequel. 12. New Spider-Man Trailer While Sony’s conference has mostly been teasers and trailers to things we already knew about, Spider-Man brought a huge chunk to the table with not just a preview of its cool and fluid game play but also very interesting story reveals. The trailer starts out with Spider-Man dealing with the likes of Electro before eventually coming across Rhino, Vulture and Scorpion. For those who know the history of the wall crawler, this is big news as it potentially means that the Sinister 6 will be making a full team debut. No signs of Doc Ock though but hey, they could be saving him for later. Whatever the case may be, Spider-Man is looking more and more amazing with every bit of info revealed to us. 13. Déraciné In a surprising reveal, From Software has revealed one of their latest games will be one for the PlayStation VR known only as Déraciné. Certainly a departure from their normal developmental niche but an interesting one nonetheless. Not much is known about this title as of yet, so we’ll have to wait for more in the future. As you might have been able to tell from this article, Sony revealed many titles during E3 but not a lot of substantial information regarding them. Significant details were scarce and surface level stuff was revealed at most. While most definitely not a terrible conference, it was quite a lackluster one from Sony this year as it was more of a conference for updates than one for making announcements. Despite that however, what IS in the pipeline for Sony looks really, really good and we’d be amiss not to look forward to them. Nicholas Yap Previous Post Ubisoft’s E3 2018 Conference Recap Next PostMy Hero Academia: Every Opening’s A Foreshadow? 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__label__cc	0.682801	0.317199	Thai One On at Saigon Cuisine in Conway (or Little Rock). This restaurant has closed. There’s been a lot of pitter patter on Twitter and other social media about the need for good, reasonably priced Thai in our area. So I’ve been on the lookout. And hey, I found some. It’s in Conway at Saigon Cuisine. Saigon Cuisine opened a few months ago in the former KFC on Oak Street, just off the interstate. Don’t let the exterior delude you; inside you’ll find an almost elegant atmosphere and some pretty darn good food, too. I’ve dropped by a few times lately, having been in the area and knowing I needed to try it out. I thought what I wanted was a traditional Pad Thai. I was wrong. Thank goodness I had a good waiter who sorted me out. While wading through the extensive lunch menu my waiter came over and asked what I was looking for. I told him I was interested in something with a peanut flavor, was in the mood for chicken and wanted something substantial. He directed me away from the Panang I had considered and steered me towards the Massaman Curry ($9.95), and I decided to trust him on it. I also ordered up Chicken Sate ($5.95) to make sure my peanut craving was satisfied. I listened to a table nearby open their fortune cookies and laugh over their results. It was after the lunch rush but lunchtime specials were still in effect (lunch runs through 2:30 p.m.) and foreign language chatter beyond that. I sipped on my tea and enjoyed the soft booth and the warmth of the early afternoon sun streaming through the window. The Chicken Sate was delivered, two hand-sized flat chicken breast slices colored yellow all the way through. The chicken had a lovely flavor of pineapple-induced sweetness and turmeric-infused scent that permeated every morsel. I did find the big portions a bit too much for the thin skewers they came on but happily munched away with the help of a fork, dunking the pieces into the creamy peanut sauce that came with the dish. The Massaman Curry came out on a huge square plate, accompanied by a covered dish of steamed rice. Hunks of chicken, onion and green bell pepper were piled on with bits of well-stewed tomatoes, small ovoid potatoes and bamboo shoots. The fragrance was sweet and meaty all at the same time. I liked the balance of coconut milk against the tomatoes, which had absorbed a whole lot of that spice. The dish had a good deal of heat to it, but it wasn’t so much to make me sweat. I was thankful for being directed towards it. So I had to take friends back to try Sai Gon Cuisine. The four of us dropped by Sunday with a hearty appetite built up, ready to scarf some good eating. My companions indulged in Bubble Tea ($3.75), two of them in the coconut flavor and one a tea flavor. I enjoyed watching their reactions to the tapioca “bubbles” and flavors. One of my dining companions went with the beef version of the Massaman Curry and agreed to its tastiness, being the only one of the four of us able to eat everything in one sitting. Another chose the Combination Seafood ($15.25), a gorgeous presentation of various seafood in another one of those fine sauces. The Thai seasoned dish was full of shrimp, scallops, squid and these gorgeous green tinted shelled mussels along with red and green bell pepper, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and a whole heck of a lot of onion. The only complaint about the dish were those onions, which weren’t quite cooked through. Another chose the similar Lemon Grass Combination Seafood ($15.25), what appeared on the menu to be the same combination of items with a different sauce. The dish came out with a lot more crab and a lot less onion, with a creamy light sauce and large chunks of bell pepper. For what appeared to be so similar, the dishes were apparently quite different. I wanted noodles, so I found some on the menu. The Thai Street Noodles ($9.95) were a more than ample heap of steaming extra wide noodles cooked in a brown and spicy Thai sauce with lots of carrots and broccoli. I’d chosen beef as my protein this time, and was thrilled with the soft chunks of beef, which were coming apart on the plate. The savory flavor had permeated both meat and noodles. It was a bit old plate of comfort. I have no idea what the desserts are like, because on both visits I’ve been way too full to even contemplate them. But there’s a good variety of traditional desserts, like lychees in jelly and Che Ba Mau (three types of beans in syrup, jelly and coconut milk). There’s also vanilla ice cream. And the drink list deserves a special mention… with not only the bubble tea and stuff we’re used to like soda and tea but also Soda Xi Muoi (pickled lemon soda), Vietnamese coffee and Aloe Vera drink. And I didn’t even cover the Vietnamese and Chinese entries on the menu. Which, I gotta tell ya, really is a big book, even at lunch. My suggestion is to figure out one of those cool drinks first and then buy some times with an appetizer while you determine your course of action. You’ll find Sai Gon Cuisine at 305 Oak Street, next to the Taco Bell. (501) 327-6200. UPDATE 6/22/10. Went back with the hubster for dinner at the Little Rock location and enjoyed a nice evening meal together. The appetizer plate with chicken satay, beef on skewers, cheese wontons and spring rolls with peanut sauce was rather excellent. He chose the beef with broccoli from the Chinese menu at the back and was well pleased with his choice. But it was nothing compared to the marvelous Pad Thai I experienced. UPDATE 11/3/17. A new restaurant. The Dive, has moved into the Conway location. A Dunkin Donuts now lives in the Little Rock location. Click to enlargen the menu. Told by Kat Robinson at 2:57:00 PM Labels: Arkansas food, Asian food, Conway, Conway restaurants, Saigon Cuisine, Thai food Trying Out Bravo Cucina Italiana. Ice Cold Creamy Treats, An Arkansas Tradition. A little good Texas. Fuzzy Memories and a Short Stack. Thai One On at Saigon Cuisine in Conway (or Little... Hang Ten at The Hangout. Beach Escape. What in the world is all this travel for? Seafood Dive in Gulf Shores - King Neptune's. Well, it's meat on a bun.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line713
__label__cc	0.601641	0.398359	News / Notices RM Office Willow Bunch has several local and nearby attractions. Use the menu on the left to explore these tourism opportunities. Jean-Louis Legare Regional Park St. Victor Petroglyphs - One of Saskatchewan's mysteries The St. Victor Petroglyphs, one of Saskatchewan's mysteries, is located just a short drive from Willow Bunch 2 kilometers south of St Victor. For more details on these Images Carved in Stone approximately 1000 years old visit the Friends of the Petroglyphs web site. McGillis House - A typical metis house built in 1890 by the Catchoo McGillis family. The McGillis house, located at St Victor (18 km from Bunch Willow), is typical of the Metis homes of that era. It was built by the family of Alexandre "Catchoo" McGillis in 1890, several years after the arrival of the colony from the Red River. It is built from poplar poles, willow stakes, clay plaster, and prairie grasses. In those days the windows were scraped antelope skins and the doors, the shaved hides of the buffalo. The museum vividly recalls the past. Hanging on rusty pegs on the exterior are saddles and bridles of an earlier era, kerosene lanterns, traps, and a badger skin on a stretcher board. Above the door is a feathered buffalo skull, with horns intact. Inside are many pioneer relics, hand-made furniture, an ancient spinning wheel, and old photos of pioneer times. Outside stands a wooden-tubbed, hand-operated washing machine, a grindstone, and a buckboard. Castle Butte Castle Butte is a 70-metre high (200 ft) sandstone and clay formation located in the heart of the Big Muddy Badlands. Its prominent position on the flat valley floor made it a landmark that was used for navigation by Indians, early surveyors, North-West Mounted Police patrols, outlaws and settlers. Castle Butte and the Big Muddy Badlands are located a short drive to the south east of Willow Bunch. For more details visit the Virtual Saskatchewan web site. Bengough Big Beaver Coronach Wood Mountain Town & RM of Willow Bunch 16 Edouard Beaupré Street Willow Bunch, SK S0H 4K0 7:00am - 12:00pm, 12:45pm - 4:30pm * Closed statutory holidays Town of Willow Bunch: willowbunch.town@sasktel.net R.M. of Willow Bunch #42: rm.42@sasktel.net Community Development Officer: wbcdo@sasktel.net © 2014 Town & RM of Willowbunch -- Web Design by M.R. Website Development Studio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line718
__label__wiki	0.826488	0.826488	Order Sons of Italy in America The Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge # 2183 meets on the fourth Thursday of every month at St. Thomas' Villanova Hall 126 Middlesex Ave - Wilmington, MA. The Lodge is committed to community service, charitable giving, and promoting and preserving Italian culture. Over the past year we've donated over $58.000.00 to our town's Sports and organizations - Basketball, Special Olympics, Track, Band, Strings Attached, Little League, Baseball, Tennis, Eagle Scouts, School PACs, Football, March-a-Pella, Soccer, Hockey, Wrestling, WOW, Library, Gifts of Love, SEEM Collaborative, Rotary, drug addiction recover, IPODs for Wounded Vets, St. Thomas Women's Club, . We've also contributed to Charitable walks and road races - Alzheimers, Heart Disease, New England Pediatric care and our Outreach Committee helps needy families for the holiday. About the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge # 2183 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge # 2183 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge #2183 On March 12, 1967, the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge #2183 of Wilmington, Massachusetts, was founded. The designated founders of the lodge were Laura Caira, Frances Gray, and George Murray. The new lodge emanated from a series of house meetings culminated by a meeting at the Wilmington Skating Club. The meeting was attended by Joseph Gorrassi, Former Supreme and Grand Venerable; Sophie Gorrassi, Grand Recording Secretary; and Mary Benullo, Grand Deputy. At this meeting, a slate of officers was formulated and after a number of names submitted for the lodge, the name Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) was determined at the suggestion of sister Anna Visconti. The first Council of the Wilmington Lodge included: Venerable Charles Ingalls; Assistant Venerable Donald Ugolini; Ex-Venerable George Murray; Orator Vincent Capozzi; Recording Secretary Laura Caira; Financial Secretary Frances Gray; Treasurer Anthony Fortunata; Trustees Gus Cuoco, Marguerite Ingalls, Alfred Powers, Nicholas Casaletto, and Cynthia Esposito; Mistresses of Ceremonies Sylvia Fantasia and Anna Visconti; and Sentinel William Wolley. We had 94 members at the formation of our lodge. The installation and institution ceremonies were held at the Tewksbury Knights of Columbus Hall and conducted by Grand Venerable John Guarino and Grand Orator Aldo Caira. After meeting for many years at the Grange Hall, the dream of owning our own lodge became a reality in 1976. Through the efforts of members of our Building Trust: Rico Calano, Vincent Puma, Bob Dicey, Aldo Caira, Michael Caira, Jim Capozzi, Rocco DePasquale, Chris S. DiCecca, Fred Miller, and Jim Rando, a state-of-the-art lodge home was built on Ballardvale Street. After many years of enjoying memorable events, the lodge was sold in 1996. Now monthly meetings are held at Villanova Hall on 126 Middlesex Avenue in Wilmington, every fourth Thursday at 7:30 p.m. A social hour, including a light dinner and dessert, is enjoyed by members an hour before the meeting begins. Our lodge has been blessed with committed and dedicated leadership since its inception: Charles Ingalls (67-68); Don Ugolini (68-69); Al Powers (69-71); Eileen Wolley (71); Rico Catalano (71-73); Fred Miller (73-75, 77-79); Chris S. DiCecca (75-77); Bob Dicey (79-81); Fortune Carlino (81-83); Chris A. DiCecca (83-85); Peg Dicey (85-86); Jerry Pupa (86-88, 03-05); Kevin Caira (88-92, 96-98); Charlie DeStefano (92-96, 02-03, 07-10, 15-17); Michele Caira Nortonen (98-02); Aldo Caira Jr. (05-07, 10-15); President John Romano (17- ). We are very proud that several of our members have attained leadership positions at the State and/or National levels: Aldo A. Caira: Grand Trustee, Grand Orator, Grand Venerable, National 2nd Vice President, National 1st Vice President, National President. Michael A. Caira: Grand Trustee, Chairman National Deputies, National Executive Director. Kevin A. Caira: Chairman Membership Commission, Chairman State Deputies, State Trustee, State Treasurer, State 2nd Vice President, State 1st Vice President, State President, National 2nd Vice President, President National Commission for Social Justice. Michele Caira Nortonen: State Deputy, State Trustee, State 2nd Vice President. Charles DeStefano: State Trustee, President Junior Division. Aldo A. Caira, Jr.: President Junior Division, Chairman Sports Commission. Patricia Provenzano: Chairman Scholarship Commission. John DiFava: Chairman Commission for Social Justice. Angela Caira: President Junior Division. Robert “Ted” Tomasone: Chairman Commission for Social Justice. The Wilmington Sons of Italy Lodge has been lauded by the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee for its community service, involvement, and generosity. Though it has been a major contributor to charities since 1967, since the sale of our building in 1996, we can account for 1.6 million dollars in contributions to various charities and community activities and fundraisers. Little could our founders have imagined fifty years ago that their lodge would become one of the most respected charitable and fraternal organizations in the state. Noteworthy accomplishments include: Scholarships awarded annually to children of lodge members; Significant annual donations to pet charities of The Order Sons of Italy in America, Massachusetts Grand Lodge: Alzheimer’s, Cooley’s Anemia, Autism, Madonna Queen National Shrine, Don Orione Home for the Aged, Italian Home for Children, Boys Town of Italy, March of Dimes, United Cerebral Palsy, Jimmy Fund, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Disaster Relief Fund, Statue of Liberty Foundation, Catholic Charities, OSIA Foundation, 911 Memorial Fund, Garibaldi Meucci Museum, and Commission for Social Justice; Local donations include: Local Heroes, iPods for Wounded Veterans, Wilmington Memorial Library, Wilmington Recreation Department, Wilmington Community Fund and Food Pantry, Wilmington Athletic Alumni & Friends, Wilmington Band Parents, Wilmington Senior Citizens, Wilmington Kiwanis, Wilmington Fourth of July Committee, Wilmington Lions Club, Wilmington Rotary, Wilmington Knights of Columbus, Wilmington Minutemen, Wilmington Police and Fire Departments, Tewksbury Hospital, A.I.M., Aleppo Temple Charities, St. Thomas Women’s Club, the Catholic Community of Wilmington and South Tewksbury, Boy Scout Troop 126, and school PACs; Support to Wilmington youth and high school athletics: Little League, Youth Hockey, Pop Warner, Tops Soccer, Youth Soccer, Youth Lacrosse, Wilmington High School Holiday Wrestling Tournament (30 plus years), AAU Basketball/Junior Olympics, electronic scoreboards for WHS football, baseball, and lacrosse fields, indoor batting cage for WHS baseball and softball teams, batting helmets and baseball bats for WHS baseball, uniforms purchased for all varsity high school teams; $30,000-$50,000 is also donated annually to the Town of Wilmington for purchases such as: a DARE police car, senior citizens handicapped-accessible van and a BINGO board for their senior center, two thermal imaging devices, a fire chief’s SUV and a pickup truck for the Wilmington Fire Department, new playgrounds for the North Intermediate School and the Woburn Street School, stadium jackets, replacement parade uniforms and hats for Wilmington High School Marching Band and uniforms for the color guard, a donation to repair the gazebo at the Town Common, a Welcome to Wilmington sign at the Town Common, and the pavilion for Yentile Recreational Facility. The Wilmington Sons of Italy Lodge sponsors for its members a bowling league (est. 1977), a summer bocce league (est. 2009), a Junior Lodge (est. 2009), and a softball team (est. 2010). Socials are held to benefit our charitable work and can be found on the calendar section of our website: http://www.wilmingtonsoi.org. New members are always welcomed and need not be of Italian heritage. Contact us at (978) 657-7734 or (978) 658-8284. The Wilmington Sons of Italy has been an ardent supporter of charitable and educational causes since its inception 50 years ago. Their generosity has assisted individuals, families, and community groups. Whether supporting a local youth group or contributing to international earthquake relief efforts, members of the Wilmington Sons of Italy have always opened their hearts and pocketbooks in the spirit of brotherhood. The charitable and service organizations mentioned above are just a few that the Wilmington Sons of Italy has supported over the past 50 years. With the help of an increasingly strong membership, the Wilmington Sons of Italy will continue to address the needs of our community for years to come. Copyright © Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge # 2183.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line719
__label__cc	0.636235	0.363765	Health & Wellness Lifestyle Women ExceedingHealth & Wellness LifestyleBeast At Play’s All Star Weekend Fit Party Beast At Play’s All Star Weekend Fit Party Written by Christina Danielle Cornelius Published in Health & Wellness, Lifestyle A weekend that was expected to be dominated by men was hijacked by a room full of powerful women. Beast At Play hosted a fit party in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The energy in the room was empowering. Beast At Play is the brainchild of fitness guru, Jackie Brooks. Jackie travels across the country cultivating events similar to the All-Star Event. As I walked in the room, I was captured by the music being played by DJ Demi Lobo. It was a bright opened space with plenty of sunlight. As I walked deeper into the room, to my left was a salad bar prepared by the vegan chef, Lauren Von Der Pool. Next to the salad bar, a vendor table featuring the boutique, House of Pari created by Paris Clayton. Across the room, another vendor table, featuring a vegan lipstick created by Senegence. Basically, #GirlPower captivated the room! The day began with networking and opportunities to shop with the vendors while enjoying the music provided by DJ Demi Lobo. The first segment of workouts began on a positive note with a warm-up matched with affirmations. Eventually, the ladies were split into pairs, with a partner they had not yet met. Having an odd number of participants, I jumped in. Believing that I had not done that much work, only participating in one segment, I was greatly surprised the days following the event when my body was feeling the effects of the workout. The last segment was 90 seconds of intense cardio with music that made you feel fired up. After the workout, the ladies were invited over to the salad bar. We connected, related, took pictures, and encouraged each other. It was all around good vibes and no power trips. Jackie was able to bring together women from different walks of life, all with one thing in common…They were ALL Bosses. More importantly, they were all welcoming with a motivating spirit. The host of the event was comedian and internet sensation Jasmin Brown. Jasmin is from West Palm Beach, Florida and raised to fame through social media. This past fall she starred on the comedy series 50 Central which was presented by 50 Cent. Most recently, she was a finalist for the Social Hustle Award through BET’s Social Awards ’18. Jasmin brings a energy through her videos on social media which is both uplifting and relatable. This same energy was present at the Fit Party. Sisters, Adaeze Angel Henry and Chitom ChiChi Henry are familiar faces on Jasmin’s social media stories and posts. It was a pleasure to interact with these powerhouses in person. Angel is a manager and consultant in the entertainment industry with Mod Vue and Chi Chi is DJ that goes by the name Hollywood Chi Chi. Also in attendance was Ariel Tinsey Enabosi. You all may remember Ariel as our #WomanCrushWednesday in May of 2015. Ariel is originally from Chicago, Illinois, but later moved to Los Angeles where she graduated from Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). She is a fashion maven, having conquered both the Los Angeles and Amsterdam fashion scene. After spending a few years in the Netherlands expanding both her brand and her family, she has recently returned to Los Angeles getting straight to work. Ariel is the “go to” for event, show, and shoot styling. Her most important role, wife and mother. Ariel designed a weekend full of All-Star Events. At the Fit Party, she walked in and got straight to work, helping vendors set up. Assisting with organizing volunteers. Supporting friend and fellow #Boss Jackie. I was fortunate to spend some time with sisters Miriah and Marissa Lopez. Native Texans, Miriah, and Marissa moved to LA with their younger sister, Makenna who they vocal about being proud of. Miriah and Marissa are all things fitness! They both play on the Los Angeles Temptations Football Team. In addition to their unbelievable fitness ability, their passion for community really resonated with me. Chicago really represented at this event. In attendance was Event Curator, Brooke Mackie , DJ Gerc Glover , and Singer/Songwriter Aleya James, who also was one of the original inspirations of the birth of Women Exceeding. Also in attendance was Chicago resident, Star McKinney. Star is a Fashion Stylist, who travels all across the country to service her clients. Star had an energy that was captivating. As I lazily observed the ladies working out, I noticed Star’s positive push through mentality. This led me to have a conversation with her after the final work out session. Star naturally has a positive and encouraging aura that is bound to lead her to great success. The overall theme of the event was health & wellness, empowerment, and collaboration. Each of the ladies in attendance contributed to these themes in some way. It was an honor to be among so many welcoming women who were all game changers in their own rights! Being in that room reminded me why Women Exceeding was created, to encourage women through other women’s journeys, struggles, and success. If you have an opportunity to attend a Just Jackie B production, I highly recommend taking advantage. Christina Danielle Cornelius Christina is a program manager for Operation HOPE and is pursuing her Masters in Public Administration & Policy at American University. She holds a Certificate in General Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2012, she started her career with JPMorgan Chase. She was involved in the firm’s Volunteer Leadership Group and Business Resource Groups, serving as Communications/Marketing Co-Chair of the Women’s Interactive Network. She moved on to spend two years as a project manager for Heritage Finance Holdings. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a B.A. in Communication, Christina Danielle Cornelius is committed to “saving the world, one entrepreneurial venture at a time.” Website: https://www.christinadaniellecornelius.com Tagged under all star weekend at athletics bap beast beast at play bet bootcamp boutique Chicago featured Fitness football health health and fitness justjackieb la Los Angeles Mod Vue play Social Awards Social Hustle Award spirit watchjazzy wellness	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line722
__label__cc	0.680379	0.319621	Hey You! Write For Us! January 18, 2020 in Features: Unleashed From The Vaults – The Workhorse Movement – Sons Of The Pioneers January 18, 2020 in News: Enter the Experimental World of the BOGWYCH! January 17, 2020 in Reviews: Garganjua – Toward the Sun – Album Review January 17, 2020 in Reviews: Haunt – Mind Freeze – Album Review January 17, 2020 in Reviews: Odious Mortem – Synesthesia – Album Review January 16, 2020 in Reviews: Gorevent – Fate – Album Review January 16, 2020 in Reviews: Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon – Album Review January 16, 2020 in News: POWERWOLF To Release ‘Best Of The Blessed’ Album! January 16, 2020 in Album of the Week: Worship Metal Album Of The Week – The River – Vessels Into White Tides January 15, 2020 in Reviews: Holycide – Fist To Face – Album Review Home » Reviews » Ripper – Sensory Stagnation – EP Review Ripper – Sensory Stagnation – EP Review Totally bonkers, classic-sounding, South American thrash! Posted on September 11, 2019 by Darren Robb in Reviews Here at Worship Metal, we pride ourselves on the fact that we listen to metal in all its many guises and enjoy most, if not all, of it. So, when a new release from a South American thrash metal band drops, we tend to get a little bit excited (understandably). After all, this fine continent has played a big role in the metal world and has an impressive heritage in the thrash and death metal genres (Sepultura, Ratos De Porao, Sarcofago and Chakal, to name but a few). Which brings us to Sensory Stagnation, the new EP from Chilean thrashers, Ripper a band who’ve been on the go since 2007, releasing a few demos, a couple of EPs and 2 full length albums. So, they have a little experience behind them then. Looking at the EP cover, it’s like a tick-box of all things thrash – weird sort of mystical drawing which probably has a message in it? Check. Symmetrical logo that can be just about read? Check. Four scruffy, hairy dudes on the back looking moody? Check. It’s all there. Ripper have the thrash look sorted, but what about the sounds. Well, if you like Schizophrenia-era Sepultura and Pleasure To Kill-era Kreator, then you’re in for a treat (for the record, Worship Metal LOVES this era). Sensory Stagnation really does take you back to the mid-1980’s with a raw, almost under produced sound, and a vocal style that swings between Max Cavalera and Mille Petrozza. There are 5 tracks on the EP….well, 4 and a bit as the first track is a rather grandiose intro promising great things to follow. Do Ripper deliver? Yes, is the answer. After the intro, “Dissociation”, is done being all ‘epic’, “The Unreal” kicks in. Initially, its a mid-tempo number but it soon launches into top gear when the chorus arrives, classic South American thrash style! The rest of the track flits between the mid-tempo in the verses and the bonkers, bars out thrash in the chorus. It’s a good start. Next is the title track, Sensory Stagnation. It starts off at breakneck pace and doesn’t really let up. There’s a bit of a breakdown in the middle, but even here, the bassist and drummer are working very hard. Overall, it’s a proper old school thrash metal track, almost verging on death metal. “Like A Sacrilege” is probably the slowest track on the EP but it’s no less heavy for it, and the aural assault continues apace. This is a well constructed piece of music, though, and it’s probably the strongest track on the EP. So, we come to the final track, “Terror Streets”. Finish with a flourish, they say, and Ripper certainly do. This track is pretty frenzied from start to finish and is a great way to end this journey. Overall, Sensory Stagnation receives two thumbs up from Worship Metal. While there’s nothing particularly new here, thrash metal as a genre has been knocking on nearly 40 years now so there’s not much left to discover! However, what these four fine fellows have done is tap into that classic, underground, mid-80’s thrash/death sound and executed it rather damn well. It’s a grower this one, and sounds better with each and every play. 7/10 Unleashed From The Vaults – The Workhorse Movement – Sons Of The Pioneers Enter the Experimental World of the BOGWYCH! Garganjua – Toward the Sun – Album Review About Darren Robb (6 Articles) Petrolhead, metalhead, dunderhead. Lucky enough to have experienced Thrash Metal from the beginning. Still nostalgic for the 1980's. Having a love affair with Stout, although I am open to other beers. Old enough to know better. Contact: FacebookTwitter Accu§er Announce New Album + Video For New Single “Mission Missile”! Masters of THRASH! Worship Metal Album Of The Week – Flotsam And Jetsam – The End Of Chaos The perfect way to kick-start 2019! ANTHRAX: The East Coast Legends Greatest Albums The Be All And End All Of Thrash Metal Celebrating 30 Years Of Slayer’s South Of Heaven! 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__label__wiki	0.541163	0.541163	The Rising Sun (1) Int. Scene News Int. Scene Blogs Int. Scene Articles Int. Scene Reviews Int. Scene Profiles TRS: Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jumbo Tsuruta by Robert Heard on 12 November 2009 The following question was asked on the forum: I have a question about the Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jumbo Tsuruta match on June 8th, 1990. Basically does anyone know what the background was? Was there a storyline in place, was there defined roles, ie was Misawa the heel and Jumbo the face? Was it more like a newer force (Misawa) was being put over by a veteran (Jumbo)? The background is like this… Back in the 1970’s through to the mid 1980’s all of the feuds where basically Native v Gaijan so you had Baba v The Destroyer, Jumbo v Brody etc, etc. All Japan was also part of the NWA which meant it had licensed titles (two of which would go on to make the Triple Crown) as well as the visits of the actual NWA World Champion of the time, which in this era meant the likes of Harley Race and Ric Flair. Matches where fought under best of three fall finishes and would often finish in 1-1 all draws with most of the falls coming by countout and the final fall by double count out so as to keep unbeaten runs and therefore reputations strong. This all changed when Choshu and his group ‘invaded’ from NJPW in late 1983-84 and provided the first real native v native feud and it made big business, however there were still non-finishes. This would start to change from 1988 onwards due to the Shoot-Style boom that came about when the UWF started. Baba became convinced he needed to form a central title (as well as central tag belts) and so set about bringing them together with a title v titles match between Jumbo and Hansen in 1988 which lead to the shock of everyone a clean finish and the first Triple Crown champion in Jumbo. Jumbo’s partner at this time was Tenryu and Baba had him turn on Jumbo and defeat him using the hottest move at the time – the Powerbomb – to win the 3-Crown. Jumbo’s stable of talent (which included Tiger Mask II) then feud with Tenryu’s stable of talent (which included the very young Ogawa and Kawada) until in 1990 Tenryu found outside backing to break off and form his own promotion based around ’sports entertainment’ called SWS – a move that created a vacuum at the top of the card when it came to native wrestlers which Baba needed to fill. To this end he started to pair up the once feuding pair of Kawada and Tiger Mask II and during a tag team match Mask motioned to Kawada to remove his mask revealing underneath Misawa who then told the world he was through hiding behind the mask and that he, under his name would go to the top and that the only way to do it was to aim high, leading to him challenging Jumbo to a match. Jumbo from this point was a ring veteran, having been wrestling since the mid-70’s and a top liner since the 1980’s off the back of the Choshu feud. As the youngsters (Misawa, Kawada and Kobashi) started to band together it made him more aggressive, grumpy and it seemed that he wanted to make then prove they were good enough for what they wanted. Whilst it was not ‘full’ heel it still gave Misawa even more sympathy with the crowd and the crowd where white hot for him as Jumbo, who was bigger and stronger, roughed him up and Misawa made spirited comebacks with flasher, faster paced offense. This carried on in six man and tag matches up until the fateful night in June 1990 when Misawa and Jumbo met one on one and Misawa scored the huge upset win that proved he should be at the top and launched his career onto the path which would lead to his first Triple Crown win, two years later. Robert Heard Posted in The Rising Sun \| Comments Off	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line724
__label__cc	0.630324	0.369676	It is 1942, America has entered World War II, and sickly but determined Steve Rogers is frustrated at being rejected yet again for military service. ... Actor: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Kenneth Choi, JJ Feild, Bruno Ricci The Devil&#39s Double Baghdad, the playground for the rich and infamous, where anything can be bought - but for a price. This is Uday Hussein's world and with ... Country: Belgium, Netherlands Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller Actor: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Philip Quast, Mimoun OaÃ¯ssa, Khalid Laith, Dar Salim, Nasser Memarzia, Mem Ferda, Pano Masti, Akin Gazi, Stewart Scudamore, Amrita Acharia, Elektra Anastasi, Amber Rose Revah At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. 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Actor: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Frances Barber, Marthe Keller, Montserrat Lombard, Jalil Lespert, Laura Donoughue After a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire to find God. Actor: Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Ian Colletti, Graham McTavish Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie learns about her mother's past while pregnant herself. Genre: Musical, Comedy Actor: Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Dominic Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Colin Firth, Cher, Julie Walters, Jeremy Irvine, Andy Garcia, Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Celia Imrie Preacher is a TV series starring Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, and Ruth Negga. After a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help ... Actor: Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Ian Colletti	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line727
__label__cc	0.641566	0.358434	HS Select Overview The HS Select league is an advanced league for players who want to have a competitive volleyball experience without the Club or HS Travel commitment. During its successful inaugeral season in 2019 over 70 girls with HS team and club experience played on 8 different teams. All matches were extremely competititve. For the spring 2020 season, HS Select will continue to follow the BYOT / BYOC format where a group of friends and aquaintences registers as a team and identifies its own coach (optional). The commitment is one 90-minute practice during the week (also optional) and one 60 or 90-minute match on Saturdays. The league follows standard HS volleyball rules without special exceptions. There is a limit of 8 teams. Active club players and HS Travel players can no longer participate in HS Select. Singles interested in playing in the HS Select league may be picked up by a BYOT team looking for additional players. If the maximum of 8 teams has not been reached by the March 1 deadline, singles can attend the HS Travel tryout on Saturday, March 7 from 4pm to 6pm to be evaluated for a league-formed HS Select team. What is BYOT? – Bring Your Own Team Similar to adult volleyball leagues, BYOT means a group playing HS Select signs up as a complete team – could be friends, classmates, former teammates, etc. The team must commit to fielding enough girls to play throughout the season – see below for guidelines on substitutes, forfeits and bye-weeks What is BYOC? – Bring Your Own Coach Each HS Select team identifies its own adult coach(es) -- could be a parent, former coach, etc. Adult coaches are actually optional, but highly recommended Practices and Matches During registration, HS Select teams have the option to forgo a weekly practice or identify a day of week for a 90-minute practice that works for the entire group HS Select matches are on Saturdays for 60 or 90-minutes following standard HS volleyball rules including unlimited service wins and positional substitution (continuous substitution is also allowed). Registration Basics The deadline for registering a HS Select team is March 1. Girls planning to play HS Select must first register as an individual with either MYA Volleyball or VYI Volleyball and pay the league fee. Note, there is no extra charge for HS Select. The group then submits a separate team registration including a roster of 8 to 12 girlsby the March 1 deadline. Only registered girls can be added to a team roster. No active club players, MS Select or HS Select players can be on the roster. During team registration, teams also identify a team name, two captains, optional adult coach(es), a preferred practice day and proposed bye-weeks (up to 2). Singles should indicate their interest in playing HS Select and may be picked up by a team looking for additional players. Otherwise, singles must attend the HS Travel tryout to be considered for a league-formed HS Select team (if room exists). Forfeits, Substitutions, and Bye-Weeks Forfeits: Teams must have a minimum of 5 players per match. Less than 5 players could lead to a match forfeit. Substitutions: To avoid a possible forfeit, teams captains are allowed to bring in subs not on their roster. The sub must already be registered in the MYV or VYV and can come from any MYV or VYV team from any league including MS Select and HS Travel. However, no substitutes are permitted during playoffs. Bye-Weeks: To avoid a possible forfeit, teams can select 1 or 2 bye-weeks during the season (for beach weekend, prom, graduation activities, etc.) where they won’t be scheduled to play a match. These dates must be identified by the team registration deadline of March 1. If a team forfeits more than one time, it will not be permitted to participate in playoffs If you have questions, please contact us at	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line728
__label__wiki	0.910863	0.910863	Sutton United Football Club Haddon Electrical L & R Scaffolding Cheam Park and Cheam Recreation Ground Cheam Park originated as the grounds to Cheam Park House and was also known locally as Bethell House, after the family who lived in it until 1937. The house was then bought by the council and used to assemble gas masks in 1939-40. It was very badly damaged by a flying bomb during the Second World War and was demolished soon after. The house stood at the top of the path which still wends its way through the ornamental grounds. The lodge to the house survives. It is Grade II listed. Cheam Park and Recreation Grounds have a large range of amenities. For the sports enthusiasts it has a bowling green and pavilion, tennis courts and football pitches. There is a children’s playground with nearby cafe, and allotments with car park and disabled toilets. Cheam Recreation Ground, Tudor Close, Cheam, Surrey Area: 13 hectares Bowls Green Football pitches – Senior & Little League Toilet and shower The Cheam Park Pavilion Cafe is run by Adriana Stringer and her friendly team of staff. The Cafe historically has very close links with WSLL since the league?moved to Cheam Recreation Park. Adriana is now the Social Secretary for the League and so works very closely with it. Adriana knows that the Cafe provides an essential amentity to not only the kids and families of WSLL but the rest of the community who use the play park and surrounding areas. The cafe is situated within The Pavilion in Cheam Park Recreation Ground. The green Pavilion building is next to the Tennis Courts approx 25metres from the childrens play area. The cafe is always open on Saturday mornings?come rain or shine when WSLL play and on these days the internal lobby is open which faces the pitches. The cafe serves the whole community who use the Park. The opening hours:- Saturdays and Sundays from March through till October 10-5. Saturdays Sept-April open at 8am Mon-Sunday during the school Holidays from March 10-5 Transport to Cheam Park Bike: The Sutton Cycle Network runs?north to south on the east side of the park and?west to east on the south side of the park on a purpose made track Bus:151, 213, X26, 470 Train: Cheam Station (5 minutes) Car: Car Park accessed through Tudor Drive (including disabled bay)?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line730
__label__cc	0.519951	0.480049	"The NY Times Explains Why There Is So Much "Confusion" About Its "Trump Wiretapping" Story". This is probably the single most amazing incident in the recent history of the Lügenpresse. This turns on the distinction between the results of the Panopticon NSA surveillance, which we have to assume Barry got at least a summary of, and the parallel product of a FISA warrant, which the 'journalists'/liars are making a big deal of, claiming Barry didn't see that, which makes everything kosher. This is some high level obfuscation! Summary of the surveillance justifications makes a joke out of the FISA court: "Intercepts - Help me count the ways ..." "CIA's Dirty Cyber Tricks Exposed: "UMBRAGE" & Potential False Flag Attacks"". E-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y important, so the Lügenpresse will attempt to hide/downplay it, as it puts the final nail in the coffin of any possible respectable argument that anyone can know that the Russians or any other non-American actor was involved in a hacking attack. Anyone who claims otherwise is simply a liar. "Commentary: Wikileaks' CIA dump looks like a dud for now". Vital background sentence: "“Nemtsov was on every list of traitors published on the Internet and aired on state TV,” the Russian-Jewish journalist Leonid Bershidsky wrote on Bloomberg View after the murder." "CIA-Funded Washington Post Doesn’t Think You Should Pay Attention To The CIA Leaks"! Note the same attempt as in TPM to turn it into a double Russian conspiracy, with Kremlin asset Assange implicating the patriotic CIA in Russian skulduggery! "Fresh Doubts about Russian ‘Hacking’" (Parry). Repeats the definitive argument based on common sense strategizing (arguments about Russian interference depend entirely on perfect foreknowledge of a Trump win, while even well into election night the big media was calling for a certainly of a Clinton win): ". . . while it is true that many Russian officials, including President Putin, considered Clinton to be a threat to worsen the already frayed relationship between the two nuclear superpowers, the report ignores the downside for Russia trying to interfere with the U.S. election campaign and then failing to stop Clinton, which looked like the most likely outcome until Election Night. If Russia had accessed the DNC and Podesta emails and slipped them to WikiLeaks for publication, Putin would have to think that the National Security Agency, with its exceptional ability to track electronic communications around the world, might well have detected the maneuver and would have informed Clinton. So, on top of Clinton’s well-known hawkishness, Putin would have risked handing the expected incoming president a personal reason to take revenge on him and his country. Historically, Russia has been very careful in such situations, holding its intelligence collections for internal purposes only and not sharing them with the public." CloudStrike has an invitation to the Russia-bashing party! Superb background: "From Russia, with Panic". "The Russian Scare" (Shamir). "An editor at the Washington Post wants a resumption of the Cold War". If you let Traditional Enemies Of Peace run your media, you will pay for it, dearly. Quaint reminder of how once, as difficult as it may be to believe, U.S. foreign policy was "shaped by (and for) multinational corporate interests": "Remembering the Harken Money". "‘The time to invest in Iran is now’". The purest and most classic example of the beshekeling denying Americans the chance at wealth. It is not that investment won't happen, somebody will reap the billions, it just won't be Americans, and it all utterly due to the Jews and their corrupted and controlled politicians. "Blaming Assange". "Canada’s Fake Posturing About Islamophobia": "When the Canadian government presents itself as opposing Islamophobia, it is being willfully duplicitous, since Canada supports and nurtures the Saudi Arabian-style “Wahhabism” and sectarianism in Syria and beyond. And it is this toxic ideology that creates fertile ground for Islamophobia, not the genuine Islam as taught and practiced in Syria." "Muslim Brotherhood; CIA, Mossad, MI6; Sweden". Evil: "How the Jewish National Fund lobbies for war". "The liberal roots of Islamophobia". This is incomprehensible without knowing there is a huge and very expensive Zionist/Christian Zionist PR campaign going on to allow Jews to slaughter people and steal their land. Another sign of Trump's underlying seriousness: "Jon Huntsman to Be Trump’s Ambassador to Russia". "Trump’s America “Kicked to the Curb,” Russia Takes Over World Leadership". The supplicants now head for Moscow. "“[Northern] Syrian War Report - March 8, 2017” - TTG". "Lynne Stewart, Lawyer Imprisoned in Terrorism Case, Dies at 77". Note all the shade cast in this obituary! "But if you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I’m not sure who would have the better life." Deaton sounds awfully smart for an economist.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line732
__label__wiki	0.612783	0.612783	Low free triiodothyronineis predicts worsen neurological outcome of patients with acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective study with bioinformatics analysis Shanchao Zhang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5543-45301, Xia Zhao1, Shan Xu1, Jing Yuan1, Zhihua Si1, Yang Yang1, Shan Qiao1, Xuxu Xu1 & Aihua Wang1 Backgroud Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) often experience low serum free triiodothyronine (FT3), but the association of low FT3 with stroke severity, subtype and prognosis has not yet been thoroughly studied, and the molecular events underlying these clinical observation were also unclear. We retrospectively collected 221 cases of AIS and 182 non-AIS cases with detailed clinical data from our department. FT3 concentrations were measured on admission to predict functional outcome within 3 months using multivariable models adjusted for other risk factors. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were calculated to define the best cutoff value of FT3 of stroke severity, subtypes and neurological outcome. Gene set enrichment, pathway mapping and network analyses of deferentially expressed genes (DEGs) were performed. FT3 was significantly decreased in AIS patients with National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) > 3 and 3-months modified Rankin Scale (mRS) > 2. The cut-off value of FT3 for NIHSS on admission was 4.30 pmol/L. Also, FT3 level was significantly lower in large artery atherosclerosis (LAA) group and cardioembolism (CE) group than that in small vessel occlusion (SVO). FT3 value served as an independent predictor for neurological outcomes for which the cut-off value of FT3 was 4.38 pmol/l. Gene ontology (GO) analysis showed that the biological function of DEGs was mainly enriched in multicellur organism, neuron differentiation and cellular response to hypoxia. The cellular components were involved in extracelluar region, exosome and matrix, and the molecular functions were transcriptional activator activity, DNA binding and nuclear hormone receptor binding. Signal pathways analysis was indicative of neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction, thyroid hormone signaling pathway, and protein digestion and absorption these DEGs were involved in. Six related gene were identified as hubs from the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. Three modules were selected from PPI, of which MMP4, ADRA2C and EIF3E were recognized as the seed genes. Low FT3 value on admission was associated with stroke severity, subtype and prognosis. In addition, DEGs identified from bioinformatics analysis are likely to be candidates for elucidating clinical outcomes with low FT3, and provide us with therapeutic targets for improving stroke prognosis. Neuroendocrine system could be significantly altered in acute stroke status. Most of the clinical studies related to neuroendocrine findings in AIS focus on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis and related stress mechanism [1, 2]. It also has reported that during diverse cardiovascular critical statuses, thyroid gland metabolism also changed [3]. This problem was defined as non-thyroidal illnesssyndrome (NTIS), also called low T3 syndrome, in which abnormalities of thyroid hormones occur due to non-thyroidal system disorder [4]. A growing number of studies indicate that the low T3 syndrome is a common complication in the patients with AIS that correlated with greater neurological impairment upon presentation, and greater disability and mortality among stroke patients [5,6,7]. Moreover, the role of low T3 in the prognosis of stroke patients is independent from well-established clinical prognostic indicators, suggesting that the low T3 syndrome can exert prognostic value above and beyond currently used stroke prediction models [8]. In contrast, some studies have represented conflicting results that displayed a protective association between subclinical hypothyroidism and better outcomes following stroke [9, 10]. In addition to the inconsistent conclusion, It is not well recognized whether there is any association between FT3, the bioactive form of T3, and subtypes of stroke on admission. Thus, one of our study goals is to analyze the role of low FT3 on stroke prognosis and the association between low FT3 and clinical types of AIS. Thyroid hormones (THs), including triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), are essential for brain development, morphogenesis and maturation processes [11]. Studies in animal stroke model have shown that T3 has therapeutic effects on cerebral ischemic stroke by increasing the neurotrophic factors and in vitro reduction of inflammation and restoration of neurotrophin expression, which lead to better neurological function [12, 13]. Despite the mechanisms depicted by the above studies, the detailed signaling pathways by which T3 affects functional outcome of stroke patients remain to be elucidated. Therefore, it is crucial to uncover these signaling pathways that may play an important role in clinical outcome of stroke patients with low T3. In the present study, we obtained DEGs between T3-treated neuron and control from one microarray dataset in GEO. Subsequently, GO and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) were performed followed by PPI network analysis on the basis of these DEGs. By using the bioinformatic method, further investigation on mechanism involved in clinical outcomes of low T3 syndrome was lighted, and it might provide some clues on potential biomarkers for clinical use and drug targets discovery. This study retrospectively enrolled 800 patients admitted to the department of neurology at the First Hospital Affiliated with Shandong First Medical University from December 2016 to June 2018 by random sampling. The Patients were diagnosed with AIS according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guideline [14]. Four hundred twelve patients were recruited to AIS group according to inclusion criteria as follows: (1) age between 18 and 85 years; (2) stroke onset within 7 days before admission; (3) ischemic stroke confirmed by computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging at the time of admission. To avoid any confounding effects, 191 AIS patients were excluded according to the exclusion criteria including (a) no examination of diffusion-weighted image (DWI), inability to confirm the new characteristics of cerebral infarction (n = 78); (b) patients with haemorrhagic stroke, tumor, infection, inflammatory conditions, hematological diseases, and severe renal, liver or cardiopulmonary failure (n = 62); (c) patients with hyper- or hypothyroidism and treated with drugs known to interact with the thyroid gland (e.g. amiodarone, dopamine, β-blockers, corticosteroids, lithium, or phenytoin) (n = 51). Three hundred ten subjects at the age 18 to 85 years were recurtied to non-AIS group. One hundred twenty-eight subjects were excluded from non-AIS group based on the same exclusion criteria as described above: (a) n = 47, (b) n = 57 and (c) n = 24. Finally, 221 cases of AIS and 182 non-AIS control were included in our present study after inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. All the patients had not been treated by thrombolysis or in the intensive care unit. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital. Assessment of variables Hypertension was defined as blood pressure levels ≥140/90 mmHg or by the use of anti- hypertensive drugs according to the diagnostic criteria of the European Society of Hypertension [15]. All patients were drew venous blood for routine laboratory after overnight fast within the first 24 h of the admission to hospital, including serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and fasting plasma glucose, etc. The serum FT3, free thyroxine (FT4), and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) levels were determined using the chemiluminometric assay (Cobas E610; Roche, Basel, Switzerland): the thyroid biochemistry intervals for referred laboratory were: FT3, 3.1–6.8 pmol/L; FT4, 12–22 pmol/L; and TSH, 0.27–4.0 mIU/L according to the American Thyroid Association criteria [16]. Diabetes was defined as a fasting blood glucose level ≥ 7.0 mmol/L, a random blood glucose level ≥ 11.0 mmol/L, or by the use of oral medication of glucose lowering drugs according to the diagnostic criteria of the American Diabetes Association [17]. Hyperlipidemia was defined as low density lipoprotein > 160 mg/dL, total cholesterol of > 240 mg/dL, triglycerides of > 150 mg/dL, or a history of oral medication with lipid-lowering drugs, which is in accordance with the diagnostic criteria of American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association [18]. Atrial fibrillation was diagnosed using electrocardiography upon admission and/or by the occurrence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation during hospitalization. Stroke history was defined as a previous diagnosis of and treatment for stroke. Severe smoking was defined as smoking more than 6 months with ≥1 cigarette per day or daily smoking more than 20 cigarettes [19]. Excessive drinking is defined as drinking alcohol more than 25 g/day for adult males and more than 15 g/day for adult females according to Chinese Dietary Guidelines [20]. Stroke severity was gauged using the NIHSS on admission. The functional outcome was evaluated by the mRS at 3 months after stroke onset. The patients were classified into 2 outcome groups: poor (mRS > 2) and good (mRS ≤2) outcome. According to the subtyping criteria of the Trial of Org 10,172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST), the etiology of stroke was subtyped in each patient as follows: LAA, SVO, CE, stroke of other determined etiology (SOE),and stroke of undetermined etiology (SUE) [21]. All of patients were subjected to a cerebral MRI examination with conventional MRI sequences (including sequenceT1, T2, T2 FLAIR, and DWI) within 72 h after official admission to clinical administration. Acute cerebral infarction was defined as a focal hyperintense lesion of ≥3 mm in diameter in the DWI. In this study, we addressed lacunar infarcts (≤15 mm in diameter) located in the subcortical white matter, basal ganglia, or thalamus. Periventricular white matter hyperintensity (PWMH) and subcortical white matter hyperintensity (SWMH) were evaluated based on their distinct subcortical distributions on the FLAIR image. Assessments of PWMH and SWMH were performed using the Fazekas rating scale (0–3, PWMH, 0–3, SWMH). Lacunes were defined as subcortical, fluid-filled (similar signal as cerebrospinal fluid) cavities (< 15 mm in diameter) thought to be present in the region of a previous acute small deep brain infarct or hemorrhage in the territory of a perforating arteriole. All the MRI findings were read and determined separately by an experienced neurologist and neuroradiologist who were blinded to the patients’ profiles. The gene expression profiles of GSE24793 were downloaded from GEO. The GSE24793 is performed on GPL1261, [Mouse430_2] Aymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array. The GSE24793 data set contained 8 samples, including 6 h, 16 h, 24 h, 48 h and those untreated control. Data preprocessing and DEG screening The downloaded platform and series of matrix files were converted using the R language software and annotation package. The ID corresponding to the probe name was converted into an international standard name for genes (gene symbol). Gene differential expression was performed using the limma package in R, with treated samples verse untreated ones. Multiple testing correction was done to control the overall error rate using the Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate (FDR). An FDR < 0.05 and a \|log2 Fold Change (FC)\| > 2 were used as the cut-off criterion to identify the final DEGs. Functional annotation and pathway analysis of DEGs The DAVID database (https://david.ncifcrf.gov/) is an essential foundation for the success of any high-throughput gene function analysis. The functional and pathway enrichment of the proteins encoded by candidate genes were analyzed, and these genes were annotated using the DAVID database. GO annotations and KEGG pathways were performed using a DAVID online tool on the screened DEGs. In this study, we analyzed the DEGs that were significantly up- and downregulated as determined from those microarray data, and a P-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analysis of protein interaction networks The online Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes (STRING) database was used to construct PPI network of the DEGs. An interaction score of > 0.4 (medium confidence score) was considered significant and the PPI was visualized. Subsequently, the hub genes were selected according to connection degree by Cytoscape software. Moreover, Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE) was applied to find clusters of genes in the PPI network. ‘degree cutoff = 2’, ‘node score cutoff = 0.2’, ‘k-core = 2’ and ‘max. depth = 100’ were set as the cut-off criteria. Statistical analyses were conducted using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 20.0) for windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) and GraphPad Prism 6 software package (GraphPad software, SanDiego, CA). Continuous data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) or median (interquartile range). Differences in continuous variables between 2 groups were determined by Student’s t test. Non-normally distributed data were compared using Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test. Noncontinuous and categorical data were compared with the chi-square test or Fisher exact test. To adjust for the traditional risk factors, multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed by binary logistic regression analysis, which allows adjust for confounding factors. One-way analysis of variance was carried out to analyze the difference in the serum FT3 levels for each TOAST subtype. A receiver-operating characteristic curve was used to determine the sensitivity and specificity of FT3. Optimal cut-off value of FT3 in the receiver-operating characteristic curve was determined at the level with the highest Youden index (sensitivity+specificity-1). The accuracy of the test was assessed measuring the area under the ROC curve (AUROC). A P value of less than 0.05 indicates statistical significance. The demographic and baseline characteristics The demographic and baseline characteristics are shown in Table 1. According to univariate analysis exploring each variable separately in these data, the number of patients diagnosed as hypertension (P = 0.003), diabetes mellitus (P = 0.001), hyperlipidemia (P = 0.011) and hyperhomocysteinemia (P < 0.0001) in AIS group was significantly higher than those in non-AIS group. In addition, there existed significant differences in atrial fibrillation (P = 0.022), smoking (P < 0.001), drinking (P < 0.0001), stroke history (P < 0.0001), cerebral small vessel-related lesions [PWMH (P = 0.006), SWMH (P = 0.012) and lacuna (P < 0.0001) between AIS group and non-AIS control. While recruited subjects in AIS group had lower FT3 levels (P = 0 .002) and the ratio of FT3 to FT4 (P = 0 .004) compared with patients without AIS, there were no significant differences in the FT4 and TSH levels between them. Table 1 Demographic and baseline characteristics The relationship between serum level of FT3 and clinical factors of AIS patients On analysis of association between FT3 and stroke risky factors, it was found that the lower level of FT3 was more likely to be detected in the AIS patients with NIHSS on admission > 3 (P = 0.013) and 3-month mRS > 2 (P = 0.002). There were no significant association between FT3 level and other factors including TIA history, recurrence, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, smoke, drinking, atrial fibrillation, stroke history and cerebral small vessel-related lesions (Table 2). In addition, the ROC curve analysis of FT3 predicting stroke severity on admission (NIHSS score) indicated that the cut-off value of FT3 was 4.30 pmol/L with sensitivity of 74%, specificity of 77% and area under the curve (AUC) of 0.78 (Fig. 1). Table 2 Serum level of FT3 and clinical characteristics in AIS patients Receiver-operating characteristic analysis (ROC) of FT3 for the severity of ischemic stroke. AUC = area under the curve Comparison of serum level of FT3 in the different stroke subtypes according to TOAST As shown at Table 3, it was found that significant difference of level of FT3 existed among the stroke subtypes (F = 20.120, P < 0.001), and FT3 level in LAA subtype and CE subtype was moderately lower that in SVO subtype. In Table 4, it was indicated that the patients with LAA and CE had less FT3 value compared with those in SVO (P < 0.001), whereas no significant differences between LAA and CE were found (P = 0.685). ROC curves for FT3 distinguishing 3 subtypes of ischemic stroke are shown in Fig. 2. The best predictive value for FT3 was found in LAA group, in which the cut-off value of FT3 was 4.18 pmol/L (sensitivity 71%; specificity 72%; AUC 0.78). In CE group, it was 4.31 pmol/L (sensitivity 52%; specificity 83%; AUC 0.63). In SVO group, it was 4.68 pmol/L (sensitivity 42%; specificity 81%; AUC 0.58). Table 3 Comparison of serum FT3 levels in different clinical subtype of AIS Table 4 Results of the LSD test for serum FT3 levels in each group Receiver-operating characteristic analysis (ROC) of FT3 for 3 subtypes of ischemic stroke. AUC = area under the curve Unadjusted association of FT3, FT4 and TSH with mRS at 3 months after stroke The unadjusted comparison of FT3, FT4 and TSH level in clinical outcomes after AIS is presented in Table 5. We found that AIS patients who presented as worsen prognosis (mRS > 2 at 3 months after stroke) showed lower FT3 level compared with those with 3-month mRS ≤ 2 (4.17 ± 0.35 vs 4.97 ± 0.32, P = 0.002), while there were no significant differences in FT4 (P = 0.446) and TSH (P = 0.548) level for clinical prognosis, which suggested that FT3 had potential function for prognostic prediction of stroke. Table 5 Unadjusted comparison of FT3, FT4 and TSH in clinical outcomes Relationship between FT3 and clinical outcome As presented in Table 6, univariate logistic regression analyses revealed that adverse clinical outcome was significantly associated with lower FT3 concentration (OR 0.370, 95%CI 0.22–0.54, P = 0.013), higher NIHSS score (OR 1.742, 95%CI 1.12–2.34, P = 0.008) and age (OR 1.251, 95%CI 1.01–1.71, P = 0.031). Furthermore, binary logistic regression analyses revealed that poor outcome was associated with lower FT3 level on admission (OR 0.348, 95%CI 0.18–0.72, P = 0.007). In addition, age (OR 1.471, 95%CI 1.22–1.78, P = 0.015) and NIHSS on admission (OR 1.410, 95%CI 1.17–1.85; P < 0.001) also served as significant outcome predictors. Conversely, some other risky factors, including hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, etc., were barely considered to be remarkably predictive factors of poor neurological prognosis (all P > 0.05). Accordingly, our data drawn a preliminary conclusion that FT3 emerged as an independent and significant predictor for 3-month neurological outcome. Additionally, the ROC curve analysis (Fig. 3) revealed that serum level of FT3 < 4.38 pmol/L in AIS patients was a powerful predictor of neurological outcomes (sensitivity 78%; specificity 73%; AUC 0.77). Table 6 Multiple logistic regression analysis of poor functional outcome predictors Receiver-operating characteristic analysis (ROC) of FT3 for the prediction of 3-month neurological function after stroke Data preprocessing and identification of DEGs The expressive distribution characteristics of the dataset GSE24793 prior to and following data pretreatment are shown in Fig. 4a. Their median values were almost on a straight line, indicating that the raw data were normalized successfully. When the GSE24793 dataset was screened by the limma package (corrected P-value < 0.05, logFC > 2), 146 DEGs were obtained. Among them, 33 downregulated genes and 113 upregulated genes were identified and shown in Fig. 4b. The cluster heatmap of these DEGs is shown in Fig. 4c. Differences in gene expression profiles between neuron treated by T3 and sham groups. a. Standardization of GSE data. The blue bar represents the data before normalization, and the red bar represents the normalized data. Black lines in the boxes represent medians. b. Volcano plots show the distributions of gene expression between the treated and sham groups. The horizontal line corresponds to a 2-fold change up or down, and the vertical line represents a P-value< 0.05. The red points represent upregulated genes on the basis of \|fold change\| > 2.0 and P value < 0.05. The green points represent downregulated genes screened on the basis of \|fold change\| > 2.0 and a corrected P-value < 0.05. The black points represent genes with no significant difference. FC, fold change. c. Hierarchical clustering heatmap of DEGs screened on the basis of \|fold change\| > 2.0 and a corrected P-value < 0.05.The left vertical axis shows clusters of DEGs, and the above horizontal axis shows clusters of samples. Red represents up-regulated genes and green represents down-regulated genes, and black indicates no significant changes in gene expression; gray indicates that the signal strength of genes was not high enough to be detected. DEGs, differentially expressed genes Function and pathway enrichment analysis Biological annotation of 146 DEGs was performed using the DAVID online analysis tool, and GO functional enrichments and KEGG pathway of up-and downregulated genes with a P-value of 0.05 were obtained (Fig. 5a). GO analysis of DEGs was divided into three functional groups, including biological processes (BP), molecular function (MF) and cell composition (CC). As for BP group, the top 5 BP of the upregulated genes were mainly involved in multicellular organism development, antibiotic metabolic process, positive regulation of neuron differentiation, release of sequestered calcium ion into cytosol by sarcoplasm icreticulum and determination of adult lifespan while the top 5 BP derived from the downregulated genes were concentrated in cellular response to hypoxia, regulation of thymocyte apoptotic process, positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter in response to hypoxia, extracellular matrix organization and G-protein coupled glutamate receptor signaling pathway (Fig. 5b). In the MF group, the top 5 MF from upregulated genes were mainly enriched in RNA polymerase II transcription factor activity, transcription factor activity, protein heterodimerization activity, myosin light chainbinding and transcriptional activator activity, RNA polymerase II corepromoter proximalregion sequence-specific binding (Fig. 5c), whereas the downregulated genes were mainly enriched in histone deacetylase regulator activity, kainate selective glutamate receptor activity, histone deacetylase binding, glutamate receptor activity and extra cellular-glutamate-gated ion channel activity (Fig. 5c). In the CC group, the upregulated genes were mainly enriched into extracellular region, extracellular exosome, extracellular space and cell-cell junction (Fig. 5d). The top 5 CC from downregulated genes were enriched in construction of postsynaptic density, integral component of plasma membrane, transcription factorcomplex, cell junction and proteinaceous extracellularmatrix (Fig. 5d). KEGG pathways enrichment analysis indicated that the upregulated genes were enriched into protein digestion and absorption (Fig. 5e). The downregulated genes were enriched in thyroidhormone signaling pathway, glutamatergic synapse, neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction and central carbon metabolism in cancer (Fig. 5e). GO and KEGG enrichment analysis of DEGs in Purkinje cells treated by T3 and sham control. a. GO and KEGG enrichment significance items of DEGs in different functional groups. The horizontal axis represents the enrichment score of DEGs. The vertical axis represents the GO categories. b. The top 5 significantly downregulated and upregulated BP enrichment from DEGs. The horizontal axis represents the BP items. The vertical axis represents the enrichment score of DEGs. c. The top 5 significantly dwnregulated and the 4 upregulated CC enrichment from DEGs. The horizontal axis represents the CC items. The vertical axis represents the enrichment score of DEGs. d. The top 5 significantly downregulated and upregulated MF enrichment from DEGs. The horizontal axis represents the MF items. The vertical axis represents the enrichment score of DEGs. e. The downregulated and upregulated KEGG pathways analysis from DEGs. The horizontal axis represents the KEGG items. The vertical axis represents the enrichment score of DEGs. GO, gene ontology; KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes; DEGs, differentially expressed genes; BP, biological process; CC, cellular component; MF, molecular function PPI network construction and module analysis PPI networks were constructed on the basis of the STRING database. After removing the isolated and partially connected nodes, a complex network of DEGs is displayed in Fig. 6a. When ‘Degree ≥4’ was set as the cut-off criterion, a total of 6 genes were selected as hub genes from DEGs, and the full names, abbreviations and functions for these hub genes are shown in Table 7. It was found that the biological functions of 6 hub genes are mainly referred to cell cycle, DNA repair and DNA synthesis. The functional annotation of these hub genes is shown in Fig. 6b. MCODE analysis of PPI networks was indicative of a total of 3 modules. Module A, the most significant module, included 5 nodes (MMP4, RRM2, RRM2B, RRM1 and VCP) and 9 edges, of which MPP4 was identified as the seed gene (Fig. 6c). Module B represented 3 nodes (ADRA2C, CCR9 and CCR5) and 3 edges of which ADRA2C was considered as the seed gene (Fig. 6d). Module C contained 3 nodes (EIF3E, EIF3M and EIF3H) and 3 edges, and EIF3E was the seed gene (Fig. 6e). The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, the most significant module and functional analysis of DEGs. a and b. The PPI network of DEGs and six hub genes constructed by Cytoscape. c. GO and KEGG pathway analysis of hub genes. d, e and f. The modules obtained from PPI network. The nodes represented the genes, and the edges represented the corresponding PPI pairs. The color depth and size of nodes refer to the ‘degree’ calculated by Cytoscape. The size of edges refers to the combined-score calculated by Cytoscape. Low value of degree is homologous to small size and bright color of nodes. Small size of edges stands for low value of combined-score Table 7 Functional roles of hub genes T3 has an ability to induce hypothermia, anti-edema, anti-apoptotic, anti-inflammation and vasodilatation activates [22, 23]. Specially, FT3, the bioactive form of T3, also plays an important role in neurogenesis in the all stages of brain development [24]. Our results have indicated that the lower FT3 in patients with AIS was associated with greater baseline severity of ischemic stroke on admission (as defined by the NIHSS scores) and worse prognosis (as defined by the mRS). Additionally, it may be more likely to occur in patients with LAA and CE subtypes. In order to illustrate the possible mechanism underlying clinical outcome with low FT3, a bioinformatics analysis was performed to show that the worsen prognosis of AIS patients was associated with the disregulation of neurogenesis low FT3 induced, including multicellular organism development, extracellular matrix organization, glutamatergic synapse, etc. Previous studies have reported that serum concentrations of FT3 are altered in the acute phase of stroke [5, 25], which are consistent with our study. It should be noted that while there exists an association between alteration of serum FT3 and stroke onset, it implies no causation. In fact, low FT3 is a phenomenon observed in several acute conditions, not only following stroke. It has been proposed that the acute development of low FT3 levels following severe illnesses, including patients with acute cardiac events; after brain tumor surgery and patients with respiratory failure [26,27,28], occurs due to the induction of decreased peripheral conversion of FT4 to FT3 and aberrant thyroid hormone metabolism in CNS [29, 30]. These changes may occur for various reasons, including damage to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) following AIS, accumulation of proinflammatory cytokines as well as metabolic changes related to free fatty acid and bilirubin levels [31,32,33]. It was reported that the increased levels of IL-6 may lead to increased CRP as well as inhibition of the HPA, which subsequently depresses thyroid stimulation [34]. Thus, the acute stress following stroke may lead to the low FT3 levels versus low FT3 causing occurrence of stroke [5]. As for the diversified subtypes of AIS, our data showed that the level of serum FT3 in LAA and CE was significantly lower than that in the SVO group, and yet no significant difference was found between LAA and CE. Similar findings have been reported by Guan Wu et al., who found that low FT3 level is prone to occur in patients with LAA cerebral infarction [35]. Of interest, our study revealed that most of patients within LAA and CE had more severe neurological deficits compared with those in SVO. Several studies also collectively addressed that low FT3, in the setting of a normal TSH level, was correlated with worse stroke severity upon presentation [5, 25, 36]. Thus, it may suggest that the stimulus of acute neurological impairment either directly or indirectly triggered the occurrence of lower serum FT3, but the precise mechanism through our speculation remains to be unveiled. A previous study pointed out higher expression of hsCRP, IL-6 and ferritin in serum of LAA and CE patients [37], which may be one of factors that contributed to the decrease of serum FT3. Low FT3 level on admission was also reported to be an important predictor for neurological disability valued by 3-month mRS score [25, 34]. These results were consistent with the results of our study that the patients with lower T3 represented higher baseline stroke severity and worse functional outcome. However, some other studies revealed that subclinical hypothyroidism may in fact be a crucial factor of better prognosis following stroke [9, 10]. These studies depicted the associations between stroke outcome and TSH (not T3) levels, but the patients involved in these studies were not overtly hypothyroid, in fact they had the value of serum T3 within the reference range [9]. Interestingly, the patients with elevated TSH in this study who did better than those with normal TSH also had higher average T3 levels [9]. Therefore, even though the researchers divided patients based on TSH status and not serum T3 levels, their results were also in accord with the results of our study. The precise mechanisms underlying low FT3 acting as a predictor of worsen prognosis remain to fully established. T3 is especially required for the generation and maturation of neurons and axonal myelination partly owing to its higher affinity for thyroid receptors (TRs) than T4 which is more abundant [38, 39]. Several studies documented neurotropic actions of T3 that can be potentially neuroprotective under stroke, including reduction of developmental neuronal apoptosis, decreased glutamate transfer into brain cell and increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) [40,41,42,43]. In the one side, microarray technology and bioinformatic analysis have been widely used to screen genetic alterations at the genome level. To the best of our knowledge, there was no report that provided the gene expression profile of cerebral neuron w/wo stimulus of T3 for 3 months. Therefore, instead we analyzed gene expression changes of Purkinje cells exposed to T3 that, to some extent, uncover molecular mechanisms through which low FT3 on admission was indicative of worsen prognosis after 3 months. As indicated by bioinformatic analysis, BP analysis of upregulated genes were mainly enriched in multicellular organism development and positive regulation of neuron differentiation. Recent study pointed that the periinfarct zone mimics early stages of development in the brain with increased plasticity and a permissive microenvironment for remodeling [44]. Hence, it was supposed that low serum FT3 may act as an anti-agonist of neuron development and plasticity in the periinfarct against clinical recover of AIS patients. Besides, BP of downregulated genes were mainly attributed to cellular response to hypoxia, positive regulation of transcription in response to hypoxia and extracellular matrix organization. It was reported that earlier T3-treatment could promote the expression of hypoxia-mediated genes (VEGF, HIF2α, c-Jun) and KLF9, which may trigger cellular growth that is important for FT3-mediated neuronal protection and recovery [23]. Also, FT3 was reported to alter the production and organization of the extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and proteoglycans, producing a high-quality substrate for neuronal differentiation [45]. In addition, the most significant KEGG pathway was enriched into neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction in which the DEGs consisted of GRM5, GRIK1, GRIK3, GABRA3, ADRA2C and VIPR2. As for GRM5, Its activation in astrocyte endfeet has been reported to worsen brain edema in a rat model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion [46]. Both GRIK1 and GRIK3, as members of the glutamate kainate receptor family, play a critical role in synaptic potentiation important for neurogenesis and neurotransmission [47]. GABRA3, as a regulator of excitatory and inhibitory neurochemical expressions, has an ability of mediating development of the subcortical cerebellar structures [48]. ADRA2C dysregulation during embryonic development has an inhibitory capacity of the migration of cortical Interneurons involved in the formation of cortical circuits [49]. VIPR2 is responsible for reduction in proinflammatory cytokine release and increase in GM-CSF transcripts in CD4(+) T cells, and the use of VIPR2-selective agonists as neuroprotective agents is beneficial to PD treatment [50]. Thus, a deep understanding of these pathways and related molecules may provide us with the potential targets for prevention and therapy of stroke with low FT3, and further experiments are required to validate their function in stroke. In addition, the PPI network provided an overview of DEGs functional connections, in which six hub genes with degrees ≥4 were selected. TRP53, as one of hub genes, was found to be upregulated in the ischemic region in neuronal cells of WT mice, and plays a significant role in hippocampal neuron death through autophagy and apoptosis following cerebral ischemia-reperfusion [51]. However, literature retrieval results showed little evidences that other hub genes MPP4, RRM2, RRM2B, RRM1 and VCP contributed to the molecular mechanism of stroke prognosis. Interestingly, module analysis of the PPI network revealed that these five genes above were also enriched into the same module, suggesting that their biological functions were analogical to some extent. KEGG analysis for these hub genes disclosed glutathione metabolism, pyrimidine metabolism, purine metabolism, p53 signaling pathways and metabolic pathways involved, indicating these genes were responsible for DNA synthesis, DNA repair, apoptosis and autophagy of neuron. Accordingly, we speculate that these hub genes may act as potential candidates for molecular mechanism underlying stroke prognosis, and further research is needed to confirm our hypothesis. However, there are some limitations to our study. Our study merely recruited Han Chinese patients from the central and northern parts of China. The constitute of recruited patients, therefore, was unable to represent all AIS patients. In addition, there existed no more than 3-months follow-up in our study. Hence, multicenter clinical observation trials with larger sample sizes are needed to clarify whether measurement of FT3 helps predict the clinical prognosis of AIS. Another limitation showed that no gene expression profile was found to present the dynamic change of pathogenic genes in cerebral neuron exposed to FT3, and hence the genetic changes of Purkinje cells exposed to FT3 within 48 h could only give us some clues on molecular mechanism through which low FT3 could retard recovery of AIS patients, and further investigation is required to confirm the biological function of the identified genes in our study. Our study showed that the lower FT3 value was not only associated with great severity of AIS, but it serves as a predictor of 3-month worsen neurological outcomes after AIS. To get access to the molecular mechanism underlying the clinical prognosis, a comprehensive bioinformatics analysis was performed to reveal a range of genes which are involved in neuron development, plasticity and neurite outgrowth, and potentially serve as the promising candidates for alleviating neurological outcomes lower FT3 induces. Those identified genes and signaling pathways drive us for further clinical investigation and application. The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. 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This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No.ZR2016HP04, No.ZR2019MH062) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81601020). Department of Neurology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, the First Hospital Affiliated with Shandong First Medical University, NO.16766 JingShi Road, Jinan, 250014, Shandong, China Shanchao Zhang , Xia Zhao , Shan Xu , Jing Yuan , Zhihua Si , Yang Yang , Shan Qiao , Xuxu Xu & Aihua Wang Search for Shanchao Zhang in: Search for Xia Zhao in: Search for Shan Xu in: Search for Jing Yuan in: Search for Zhihua Si in: Search for Yang Yang in: Search for Shan Qiao in: Search for Xuxu Xu in: Search for Aihua Wang in: SZ and XZ performed the study, wrote the manuscript, and designed the research. SX, ZS and JY performed the statistical analysis. YY, SQ and XX collected the data. AW performed the manuscript revision. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Shanchao Zhang. This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, the First Hospital Affiliated with Shandong First Medical University, and written informed consent was accepted by all the patients and controls. Zhang, S., Zhao, X., Xu, S. et al. Low free triiodothyronineis predicts worsen neurological outcome of patients with acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective study with bioinformatics analysis. BMC Neurol 19, 272 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12883-019-1509-x DOI: https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12883-019-1509-x Triiodothyronineis Bioinformatics analysis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line735
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__label__wiki	0.754389	0.754389	See Greta Van Fleet’s ‘Highway Tune’ Featured in Bose NFL Commercial Michael Christopher Travis Shinn Next week (Oct. 19) will see the long-awaited release of Greta Van Fleet's debut LP, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, but the band are still seeing the spotlight shone on their smash single "Highway Tune," which came out last year. The track is being used now in a commercial by Bose in collaboration with the National Football League. The ad, which can be viewed above, features NFL quarterback Carson Wentz of the Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles, trying to concentrate on his playbook in a bustling diner. Unfortunately, the noise is making it impossible, so he powers up a pair of Experience Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones, which are engineered with powerful noise canceling technology. Wentz pops them on and "Highway Tune" kicks in, transforming the restaurant into a live-action playbook beginning with his waitress serving up a football under a silver cloche. The rest of the patrons morph into fully-padded players either in Eagles uniforms or those of hated division rival the Dallas Cowboys. When the waitress shows up in reality, Wentz removes the headphones, tells her he is all set, and gets back to studying the playbook. Greta Van Fleet's Anthem of the Peaceful Army was produced by The Rust Brothers (Marlon Young, Al Sutton and Herschel Boone) and was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and Rustbelt Studios in Royal Oak, Michigan. The band is currently on tour in Europe, but return to the States in November for a string of dates, including a three-night stand at Terminal 5 in New York. The full list of shows can be found here. Greta Van Fleet Talk New Album, Robert Plant + More 2018's Most Anticipated Hard Rock + Metal Albums Source: See Greta Van Fleet’s ‘Highway Tune’ Featured in Bose NFL Commercial Filed Under: Greta Van Fleet Categories: Rock News, Videos	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line737
__label__wiki	0.606111	0.606111	Innovation scientifique, technologique, commerciale ou sociale élaborée dans votre établissement ou en partenariat avec lui, ou facilitée par une programmation/des incubateurs mis en place dans votre établissement etc. Un total de 87 soumissions. Aidez-nous à réaliser notre objectif de mettre en vedette 150 histoires inspirantes des collèges et instituts de partout au Canada. Camosun College alum Ben Costin applied his engineering skills in new Camosun Innovates lab Camosun College’s Camosun Innovates department receives funding from national bodies including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Western Economic Diversification Canada (WED). Working with local industry, Camosun Innovates provides research services including industrial prototyping, innovations for athletes of diverse abilities, environmental protection, and technology to streamline business processes—all helping local industry prosper. The… Un enseignant-chercheur en Gestion et technologies d’entreprise agricole du Cégep à Joliette se rend en Écosse pour présenter les résultats de ses travaux Jean-Marc Larivière, enseignant-chercheur en Gestion et technologies d’entreprise agricole au Cégep régional de Lanaudière à Joliette, a présenté les résultats de ses travaux à la 17e édition du European Symposium on the Quality of Eggs and Egg Products en Écosse, qui s’est tenu à Édimbourg du 3 au 5 septembre dernier. Intitulée « Evaluation of egg quality parameters… Le Cégep de Lanaudière rayonne au colloque Des racines et des ailes pour la recherche au collégial Le Cégep de Lanaudière s’est démarqué lors du colloque Des racines et des ailes pour la recherche au collégial qui s’est tenu les 8 et 9 mai 2017 à l’Université McGill. Organisé par l’Association pour la recherche au collégial et s’inscrivant dans le cadre du congrès de l’ACFAS, ce colloque portait sur les multiples facettes… Camosun celebrates the Babcock Canada Interaction Lab opening Camosun College and Babcock Canada joined forces today for an exciting virtual reality ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the new Babcock Canada Interaction Lab at the college’s Interurban campus. “Babcock Canada relies on skilled technicians and tradespeople to design, build, and maintain complex technology which plays an important role in Canada and BC’s marine industry… Camosun faculty & students lead unique pilot safety monitoring project Pilots battling forest fires across the province endure unique stresses and challenges, explains Rich Burman, Interaction Lead for the Camosun Innovates team. “They’ll fly right into a smoke column and they say it’s like turning the lights off in a room, pitch black and all you can see are embers,” he says. “Their heart rates go up… Students find success at WorldSkills Competition Two students put their skills to the test and showed the world that an education from Sask Polytech cultivates success at the WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi earlier this month. Kyla Henry, from Regina, tied for 6th and brought home a Medallion of Excellence in the Graphic Design Technology competition against 28 competitors. Daniel Nelson, also… From COGS to NASA: NSCC grad a world-wide expert and advocate for free and open geospatial sharing When a business gets a call from NASA, it’s a big deal. When that business is being asked to teach some of NASA’s brightest minds, it’s galactic. That’s exactly what happened to Jeff McKenna, a 2003 graduate of NSCC’s Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). In the fall of 2012, NASA reached out to Gateway Geomatics, the company Jeff owns,… Technology Fair reveals bright student ideas Centennial College vaulted into the Top 10 Canadian Research Colleges ranking for 2016, the first time in the college’s history. There is no finer way to showcase the next generation of innovators at Centennial than with the Technology Fair put on by the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science (SETAS). The college’s 7thannual fair was… Testing photovoltaic reliability for a brighter future Centennial College has been working on a solar module reliability project in tandem with electronics manufacturing giant Celestica, giving students a chance to get a more robust understanding of photovoltaic (PV) panel reliability. The initiative, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), involves collecting real-time data to build models that… A recipe for realism High-tech mannequins and healthcare technologies beeping at different intervals are an integral part of Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s simulation labs, where health sciences and nursing students learn and study. The one thing missing from these applied learning, high-tech labs were materials and substances that simulate the bodily fluids and textures of practicing health care on a real… Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production: Seeking Solutions with Livestock Producers In September 2016, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced the development of a series of state-of-the-art research facilities to be established across Canada. One of these research centres, the Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production, has been awarded to Olds College. The new centre will help livestock producers by enhancing… NBCCD Textile Design Alumna Emily Blair Weaves a Poem Featured on CreatedHere: Weaving is a code that transcends mediums. Known by an exclusive group of highly skilled craftspeople, this code empowers the weavers who use it to create something incredible from nearly nothing: from string into cloth, and sometimes beyond. Emily Blair is an up-and-coming weaver on the verge of graduating with her Diploma in… Innovative ideas spark imaginations An innovative tactic that Capilano University business students devised to get young adults to interact with eBay helped them win second place at the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) 39th Annual International Collegiate Conference in March. Tasked with attracting 18-35-year-olds to the online platform, CapU’s AMA case team mashed together the concept of a large digital… Selkirk College partners with local businesses to enhance innovation The Selkirk College-SME Applied Research & Technology Solutions (SMARTS) project drew to a close at the end of February. This multi-year project saw Selkirk College staff and students working with businesses around the region to tackle applied research questions aimed at helping partners use innovative approaches and technologies to enhance their operations. “One of the goals of… Virtual Reality 3D Modeling Software Created by Student Researchers at the Algonquin College Office of Applied Research & Innovation Masterpiece VR is a Virtual Reality application used to create stunning 3D art, including sculptures, paintings, and even whole scenes. This is all achieved through a combination of PhD level mathematics, cutting-edge technology and professional grade software/UI design. The technology also makes it possible for multiple users to collaborate seamlessly in real time across the globe… Le CCNB-CPTB joue un rôle important au Nouveau-Brunswick! Le Centre pré-commercial de technologies en bioprocédés du CCNB (CCNB-CPTB) offre des services de recherche et de développement pour l’industrie des biotechnologies et du développement de bioproduits. Très flexible dans son approche, le CCNB-CPTB offre son appui et son expertise à des entreprises de toutes tailles pour des projets de durée variable. Ses employés s’intéressent… New simulator puts paramedic students in the driver’s seat A generous in-kind donation will give students in the Paramedic Academy at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) the opportunity to safely practice important driving skills at the New Westminster campus. The new driving simulator generously provided by Alberto Montoto of MONCAR Simulators Ltd. incorporates one of the most advanced simulation systems available to… JIBC research shows resiliency training program could help reduce incidences of post-traumatic stress Training people to build personal resilience before experiencing a potentially traumatic situation could help reduce incidences of post-traumatic stress among first responders, concludes a recent research project by the Justice Institute of British Columbia. The study, “Building Personal Resilience in Paramedic Students,” involved 81 paramedic students who completed a survey measuring personal resilience before completing… JIBC develops fentanyl safety resource for first responders With overdoses and fatalities stemming from fentanyl use reaching epidemic proportions, the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) has launched a fentanyl website for first responders. “First responders are currently adapting to the danger that fentanyl presents to their personal safety,” said Steve Schnitzer, director of the JIBC Police Academy. “The first step is improving our… Portage College awarded Innovation of the Year Award Portage College Portage College been awarded the Innovation of the Year Award for its 360 virtual tour recruitment tool by The League for Innovation in the Community College. Portage College, Canada, has static 360 virtual tours for students. We have shifted to using this technology as a strategic marketing and recruitment tool. Our recruitment team will travel… Fleming College joins Peterborough’s Innovation Cluster, will create space for use by business & tech students from the Peterborough Examiner: Fleming College will be part of the Greater Peterborough Innovation Cluster’s new VentureNorth incubator project. The organization announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Fleming College. The deal will see Fleming occupy 1,000 square feet of dedicated space for use by business and technology students. The Applied Project space… NSCC receives $15.2 million to construct a Trades Innovation Centre at the college’s Pictou campus Nova Scotia youth will benefit from a $15.2 million investment that will help construct a Trades Innovation Centre at the Nova Scotia Community College Pictou Campus. “This is an example of government creating opportunities for young Nova Scotians. A career in the skilled trades is a smart choice,” said Ms. Regan. “A new educational Trades… Niagara College to expand services with new Tech Access Centre for the Canadian Food & Wine Institute Innovation Centre Niagara College will continue to expand its services and equipment for Niagara’s food and beverage innovators as a result of today’s announcement of $1.75 million over five years from the federal government to create a Technology Access Centre (TAC) for the Canadian Food and Wine Institute Innovation Centre. The Hon. MaryAnn Mihychuk, minister of Employment,… Lethbridge College Applied Research & Innovation Centre invites community to take part in hands-on learning and entrepreneurship training Lethbridge College Lethbridge College’s Centre for Applied Research and Innovation and its partners are inviting the community to campus for a host of different hands-on learning opportunities and entrepreneurship training programs. Two of the programs are focused on aquaponics, a growing academic discipline which combines aquaculture (farming fish or other aquatic species such as shrimp, lobster, mussels… Okanagan College professors among the recipients of the Trico Social EnterPrize award for innovation in social enterprise A team consisting of two Okanagan College professors and one student researcher are among only five teams across the country to be awarded prestigious research grants from the Trico Charitable Foundation. Dr. Kyleen Myrah and Kerry Rempel of the Okanagan College School of Business, along with Cassandra McColman, a third-year business student, recently received a… Canada invests $35 million in NAIT for new productivity and innovation building Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) from the Edmonton Sun: Post-secondary polytechnic education is getting a boost in Edmonton thanks to a nearly $35-million federal grant announced Wednesday. The funding is earmarked for a new productivity and innovation building at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology that is expected to partner with industry to solve problems and create jobs. “The building… Fanshawe College receives $6.2M from Canada and Ontario to establish Centre for Advanced Research and Innovation in Biotech from the London Free Press: Fanshawe College is setting up a biotechnology research centre with the help of $6.2 million in federal and provincial funding. Fanshawe will establish the Centre for Advanced Research and Innovation in Biotechnology in renovated space in the D block of the school’s main campus in London. Dave Machacek, chairperson of Fanshawe’s… Algonquin College forms new partnership with The Ottawa Hospital in health research, innovation and training Algonquin College and The Ottawa Hospital are embarking on a unique partnership in health research, innovation and training. The College has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hospital’s research institute to “encourage and facilitate the development of mutually beneficial linkages” in areas such as digital health, clinical trials and biotherapeutics manufacturing. “I am very… Lakeland College launches “The Way Forward,” a free online resource for military members and their families After a successful pilot period, The Way Forward – Transitional Life Skills for Military Members and their Families is now available as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for anyone to access. “We launched the resource on Monday, Oct. 17,” says Dale Pearce, an accessibility advisor in The Learning Commons at Lakeland College. The Way… Olds College student uses beer production waste to feed livestock from Maclean’s: Before he could legally drink in Canada, Alex Villeneuve brewed his first beer. Growing the herbs and roots on the greenhouse rooftop of his high school, Villeneuve fermented a prize-winning rosemary ginger beer and was declared a first-place winner of Edmonton’s First Official Winter Drink contest, run by the city. Lucky enough to… Saskatchewan Polytechnic to launch new Innovative Manufacturing program Saskatchewan Polytechnic is offering 12 seats in its new Innovative Manufacturing program. Beginning September 2017 the two-year diploma program will be delivered at the Regina campus. Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sector identified the need for multi-skilled workers. The cross-discipline design of the proposed program provides students with a breadth of knowledge and skills, ranging from mechanical and… Vancouver duo working to send 3D printer to the moon with support from BCIT BCIT from the Globe and Mail: For Alex and Sergei Dobrianski, the building blocks of an upcoming revolution in the space industry are found in moon dust. Over the past five years, the father-and-son team has been developing the technology to send a 3D printer to the moon that can extract and use the various fine-grained… Niagara College launches “Makerspace” exploratory digital lab aimed at inspiring innovation from NiagaraThisWeek.com: The library at Niagara College is continuing to evolve with the times. The ncLibraries and Learning Commons has added another list to its roster of services, and this one goes beyond the traditional thought of what a library may offer. On Jan. 25, ncLibraries celebrated the launch of its new Exploratory Digital Media… College of the North Atlantic establishes new Workforce Innovation Centre with support from provincial government The Provincial Government is establishing a new Workforce Innovation Centre at College of the North Atlantic’s Corner Brook campus. The centre will support and fund activities, research, designs and projects that demonstrate innovation and identify methods to better assists individuals prepare for, find, return to, or maintain sustainable employment. “By using progressive research and leading-edge… Collège Boréal hosts Third Annual Entrepreneurship content, “The Next Big Innovation is Mine” Collège Boréal Collège Boréal hosted its third annual entrepreneurship contest La prochaine innovation, c’est la mienne! (The Next Big Innovation is Mine). Each year, Boréal students are invited to pitch a business concept or prototype that may become the next big thing to a panel of local business partners and business development representatives. As part of the experience, students… Centennial College and the University of Toronto partner to make clean energy out of wood waste from the Globe and Mail: Talk about making a silk purse out a sow’s ear, or as is the case in a collaboration between Centennial College and the University of Toronto, making clean energy out of wood waste from the forest industry. According to Gus Wright, faculty member and principal investigator at Centennial’s School of… Okanagan College students win Inventathon prize with innovative ideas to tackle food security Three Okanagan College business students battled their way to first place at UBC Okanagan’s inaugural Inventathon and took home $600 in prize money for their innovative and socially conscious business idea, Refresh. Cameron Starcheski, Cooper Simpson and Darren Gillespie, all members of Okanagan College’s Enactus team, were joined by Jaren Larsen and Pablo Doskoch from… Lethbridge College partnership helps brings new “poultryponics” approach to vegetable and egg production to life from Blackburn News: A revolutionary new approach to combine vegetable and egg production is being set up in the Northwest Territories. Treena Hein of Farm Credit Canada reports that a Hay River facility may be the first of its kind in the world to employ “Poultryponics”. Polar Egg and AgriArctic have combined efforts with staff… Red Deer College brings skills training to Montana First Nation through virtual-reality welding program Red Deer College Red Deer College was excited to host a partnership event today, celebrating the launch of the innovative Virtual Reality and Co-operative Trades – The Next Generation program. The program, which is possible thanks to a partnership between RDC, Montana First Nation and Worley Parsons Cord, offers Aboriginal learners the opportunity to develop the practical skills,… Le Cégep de Trois-Rivières lance un nouveau programme en Écodéveloppement et bioproduits dans l’usine pilote d’Innofibre Le Cégep de Trois-Rivières proposera, dès l’automne prochain, un programme complètement revu afin de relancer le département de technologies des pâtes et papiers, qui est sans étudiant depuis le printemps 2011. La direction de la maison d’enseignement trifluvienne espère d’ailleurs que cette nouvelle formation mieux adaptée à l’industrie d’aujourd’hui permettra d’attirer une vingtaine de nouveaux… Vancouver Island University grad develops Cree-language app to help preserve Indigenous languages from Global News: The Athabasca Tribal Council wants to make sure indigenous languages are not lost. So it took matters into its own hands — to put language back into the hands of youth. A free app, called ATC Cree, provides hundreds of words with their Cree translation. “It has categories of words,” developer Byron Bates explained.… Olds College and Red Deer College partner on entrepreneurship and innovation workshops Olds College, Red Deer College Olds College and Red Deer College have teamed up to present Start Up Saturdays Central Alberta, a program for students and recent grads focused on entrepreneurship and innovation. Launched March 11, Start Up Saturdays Central Alberta, encourages young entrepreneurs to create a start-up company, and offers training through a series of five workshops that help… Red River College unveils new malt miso made from beer-brewing byproduct Red River College partnered with two local microbreweries today to unveil a new culinary invention — miso made from spent grain — at an event showcasing the College’s growing Culinary Research and Innovation program, and its impact on food creation in Manitoba. Partners from the province, federal government and industry were among the special guests at… Okanagan College, UBC Okanagan collaborate on project to find housing for low-income populations from Global News: Housing for people with low-income or no income in Kelowna has proven to be a challenge but with the launch of a new website it may become easier to access. Ricky Lee has been homeless in Kelowna since November it hasn’t been an easy task looking for a place to call home.… Finalists announced for Yukon Innovation Prize from Cold Climate Innovation Centre at Yukon College from CBC news: Four projects from low-tech to high-tech, but all related to health and well-being, are the finalists for this year’s Yukon Innovation Prize. The annual award is geared each year to a specific area of innovation. Last year, it was northern food security; this year it was wellness. Sharon Katz, one of this year’s finalists, is working… Cross-country skier develops new “ski claw” device with help from Cold Climate Innovation program at Yukon College from CBC news: Whitehorse cross-country skier Doug Hitch is pitching a new device he says is a big step forward for the winter pastime. Hitch has invented what he’s named “ski claws”. They are metal claws permanently attached to skis. They’re engaged with a little kick, and give a skier more grip when climbing hills. On a level,… Medicine Hat College grad invents horizontal-axis wind turbine to power homes Medicine Hat College From Medicine Hat News: A way to generate wind energy on the roof of someone’s home or on a commercial scale has propelled the design of an affordable horizontal axis wind turbine by a Medicine Hat native. A unit about as long as the average couch could produce 1,500 watts, which would be enough for… Des étudiants en architecture du Cégep de Rimouski créent des œuvres architecturales qui intègrent de la culture aquaponique de Radio-Canada: Les étudiants en architecture du Cégep de Rimouski seront appelés à utiliser la culture aquaponique qui y est développée pour embellir l’établissement. Une somme de 15 000 dollars sera mise à leur disposition pour créer, l’automne prochain, des œuvres architecturales qui intègrent la culture aquaponique. Le professeur en géographie, Jérôme Bossé, souhaite que ce projet… Innovative neck-pain treatment device to enter next phase of development at Nova Scotia Community College’s Dartmouth campus from CBC news: A Bridgewater, N.S., startup is hoping its pioneering Neck Tronics invention will put an end to chronic neck issues and make rehab and assessment easier. The idea of a machine to treat neck pain comes from chiropractor Bill Smith, who was working on a patient one day at his office and thought there… Loyalist College student receives $4,000 prize for innovative solutions for individuals with mobility limitations Loyalist College Loyalist College is pleased to announce that Brett Lyons, a post-graduate Entrepreneurial Studies – Business Launch (ESBL) student, received $4,000 for Your Mobility Innovations, a start-up pitch he delivered at the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre (DDQIC) Regional Pitch Competition on March 15. Brett is an inventor who has a passion for developing innovative solutions for… Humber College launches new online space for current and prospective students to find the information they need from the Toronto Star: As part of its effort to support both the professional and personal enrichment of learners of all ages, the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University facilitates a range of unique offerings, says the School’s dean. Among these are its summer intensives and Programs for 50+ series. “These… Push for Change’s co-creator highlights his road to success through Loyalist College from Metro News: When he was 19 years old, Joe Roberts was homeless, addicted to heroin and pushing a shopping cart around Vancouver’s East Side. When he returns this fall at age 50, it’ll be by choice with a custom-built shopping cart he pushed all the way across Canada. Roberts co-created the Push for Change campaign to… College of the Rockies instructor pilots innovative gamified calculus course College of the Rockies calculus instructor, Leslie Molnar, is teaching Differential Calculus in a fun new way. While fun and calculus are not words that most of us think go together, Molnar has found the means to make it a reality – through gamification. The Winter 2017 Differential Calculus (MATH 103) online course had two… Red River College celebrates opening of ACE Project Space and North Forge Technology Exchange in “Innovation Alley” Red River College’s ACE Project Space and North Forge Technology Exchange celebrated the grand opening of their new Innovation Alley locations, by officially launching several new initiatives aimed at helping startup businesses innovate and grow. In RRC’s ACE Project Space — part of the College’s thriving Exchange District Campus — Business Information Technology and Business Technology Management students work with entrepreneurs-in-residence on new… Okanagan College launches innovative apprenticeship program to reduce time away from home & work for electricians from the Penticton Herald: An innovative apprenticeship program piloting at Okanagan College aims to help Electricians reduce time away from work and home while training. The Electrician Apprenticeship Level I Blended Program is a new 17-week program that will deliver training through a combination of on-campus and online learning. The online component will cut in-class… City of Barrie hosts Manufacturing Innovation Summit in partnership with Georgian College and ventureLAB Georgian College from The Barrie Examiner: Robots are taking over the world and Barrie is welcoming them in with open arms. Robotic arms, that is. The City of Barrie is hosting a Manufacturing Innovation Summit on April 20 that will bring together industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies in manufacturing for advanced robotics, the Internet of things… College of New Caledonia launches new dual Medical Imaging and Sonography program College of New Caledonia from My Prince George Now: In Prince George, a new medical sonography – also known as ultrasound – diploma program will take in its first batch of students in the fall of 2018. It will be linked with the school’s existing medical radiography diploma and will train 16 students per year. “We’ve always had more… Sask Polytech announces new Innovative Manufacturing program As of this month Saskatchewan Polytechnic is offering 12 seats in its new Innovative Manufacturing program. Beginning September 2017 the two-year diploma program will be delivered at the Regina campus. Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sector identified the need for multi-skilled workers. The cross-discipline design of the proposed program provides students with a breadth of knowledge and skills,… Sask Polytech is changing lives through applied-learning opportunities Building five houses over five years for Habitat for Humanity, Prince Albert, may seem like a big commitment, but it’s something Saskatchewan Polytechnic was eager to agree to. Now work has begun on the second house, it’s clear Sask Polytech carpentry faculty and students are committed to providing families with homes. “Our carpentry students work… Ground-breaking Social Finance Pilot assists unemployed Canadians Canada has achieved an important milestone in its commitment to social financing for public good. The Government of Canada, private investors, and colleges and institutes are pushing the boundaries of social innovation and impact investing by implementing the first social finance project of its kind in Canada. As the key project intermediary Colleges and Institutes… Uncovering the mysteries off Nova Scotia’s shoreline from Maclean’s: Soaring over Nova Scotia’s rugged coastline, researcher Dr. Tim Webster and his team map the white ribbon—the near-shore sea bed between the land and deep ocean—helping to unlock the mysteries long-hidden there. As the only academic institution in Canada to own a topo-bathymetric Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) system, Webster’s work with Nova Scotia Community… Translating ABE Curriculum to Essential Skills for Business North West College Adult Basic Education comprises approximately 60% of students at North West College. In 2015-16 alone, NWC graduated 141 students from Level 3 (Adult 10) and Level 4 (Adult 12), more than almost all high schools in our predominantly rural catchment area. Skills development is critical to the long term success of adult learners returning for… Work Integrated Learning (WIL) for Aboriginal Plumbing and Pipefitting students Since 2014, North West College has been offering the 17-week, applied-certificate, in plumbing and pipefitting to Aboriginal students in and around Meadow Lake, SK. What makes this program unique is that it is delivered in the heart of a plumbing and pipefitting operation. RobWel Constructors Limited Partnership and Northern Career Quest have welcomed North West… Niagara College restaurant teams up with Research & Innovation to launch product for retail sale The Smokin’ Buddha is a local Niagara-based restaurant focused on serving global comfort foods, craft beers and wines. Their restaurant, take-out, farmers market and catering offerings are so popular that they have the need to create products to-go for retail sales that offer great quality, packaging, consistency and shelf-life. They do not have the in-house… Niagara College Advanced Manufacturing team utilizes 3-D Printing to improve cleaning system Master Systems (Floorcare Buddy) a floor-care company in Dunnville, Ont. invented the Floorcare Buddy, a safer way to apply floor care products (they even appeared on Dragon’s Den). The owner needed help refining key design components and needed a full set of manufacturing drawings. The R & I team at Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre… Farm of the Future: Interactive web tool for farmers Led by Mike Duncan, PhD, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) industrial research chair in Precision Agriculture and Environmental Technologies at NC, the team of researchers, students and recent graduates demonstrated developments they have made in helping mitigate the effects of oncoming weather threats. Six micrometeorological/weather measurement stations were installed in… A ‘crackling’ prototype Niagara College won’t go breaking any ‘hearts’ this Valentine’s Day. That’s because its Research & Innovation team has discovered a way to automate the process of cracking delicious heartnuts without breaking their heart-shaped shells or kernels! After a 20-year search for a mechanized ‘heartnut sheller,’ local industry partner Grimo Nut Nursery has found new hope… NBCCD Digital Media Diploma: Explore Cutting Edge Virtual Reality Technology Imagine you are standing in front of a patient on the operating table. You hear the beep of the heart monitor. Now imagine cutting into the patient’s chest. Suddenly, you can see their beating heart, even reach down and touch it… Of course, you can’t actually do this – or can you? “We are living… Mohawk uses 3-D Printing to bring campus to life for visually-impaired students Mohawk College Getting around a college campus- or any institution with a lot of different buildings is difficult even if you have full vision. So imagine how challenging it is for the visual impaired. On a chance tour of Mohawk College’s Additive Manufacturing Resource Centre, visually impaired student Stephanie Leach realized there was an opportunity to make… Neighbourhood Policing Program Evaluation Humber and TPS are collaborating to evaluate the effectiveness of the Neigbourhood Policing Program (NPP), a program implemented by TPS in May 2013 to reduce crime and increase public safety and public trust in police. Through the program, neighbourhood policing teams were assigned to selected Toronto neighbourhoods to increase police presence and address identified community… 416 Automation works with Humber to create the SeatBOT Through a collaboration with industry partner 416 Automation Inc., Electromechanical Engineering Technology students Theodor Willert and Joshua Donnelly-Robertson took on an innovative project that let them do just that. The students worked with 416 Automation and Humber faculty members Neal Mohammed and Mohammad Al-Rady to design and build an automated, robotic technology that can test… Applied Research at Holland College The Applied Research department at Holland College supports economic development in Prince Edward Island by solving technical and business problems for industry and community clients using the college’s expertise, equipment and facilities. Applied Research projects enhance the quality of college programs and services and provide unique hands-on learning opportunities for students. Holland College provides subject… Laurentian and Cambrian collaborate to boost research and innovation in Northern Ontario Cambrian College Laurentian University and Cambrian College have formalized an agreement that facilitates the creation of collaborative partnerships and enables faculty, students, and staff at both institutions to pursue large-scale research projects – sharing professional expertise, facilities, equipment, and administrative services in order to boost innovation, productivity, and results. The aim is to harness the resources and… BCIT goes global with prosthetics innovations 3D printing has the potential to transform industries, create synergies and open up new opportunities. At the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s MAKE+ facility, we’re looking into how 3D printing can revolutionize prosthetics. Our researchers hope to create novel prosthetic designs that will provide beauty and function to the users. As part of this vision, BCIT MAKE+… Micro Grid, Macro Change Working with industry, government, and utility partners, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has built a leading-edge, smart microgrid system on its Burnaby Campus that allows it to test the renewable energy solutions that will form the future of energy. Smart microgrid systems can power remote communities using renewable energy sources such as sun… BCIT asks, “How do you make hockey skates ‘smarter’?” How do you make hockey skates “smarter”? That was the question BLUR Hockey owner Scott McMillan posed to the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). After having worked for six years with the Adidas Innovation Team, Scott wanted to pursue his own innovative idea—a hockey skate that would track player stride, gait, timing, and balance.… UFV’s BioPods grow sustainable food and Agtech careers in the community The City of Surrey, the John Volken Academy (JVA), the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), and educational partners have unveiled twin high-tech greenhouses known as BioPods, a City of Surrey vision and a signature made-in-BC agricultural initiative designed as a catalyst for agricultural research and innovation in British Columbia. As the global population marches… Algonquin College Research Assistant Hired as Microsoft Student Evangelist Under the tutelage of Algonquin’s Office of Applied Research and Innovation and working with industry partner Contextere, students Adesh Shah and Jack Garrard developed a ground breaking application targeted towards industrial work crews. Adesh Shah and Jack Garrard, who are enrolled in the Mobile Application Design & Development and Interactive Media & Design programs respectively,… Going global—a BCIT prosthetic and orthotic team in India Recently, two BCIT Prosthetics and Orthotics Diploma program students travelled to Koppal, India, to complete their clinical placements with the Samuha Overseas Development Association (SODA), a local NGO. One of SODA’s missions is to address the needs of people living with disabilities in the villages of South India. The students, Malena Rapaport and Shane Bates,… Lethbridge College adds new way of designing to its Interior Design Technology program Lethbridge College Interior Design Technology program launches virtual-reality component to help both students and clients better visual projects. from the Lethbridge Herald: “There’s a new way of designing, and students at Lethbridge College are getting the chance to explore it firsthand. 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__label__wiki	0.777498	0.777498	Best of VT Obits+Celebrations MORE BLOGS: Bite Club (Food & Drink) \| Live Culture (Arts) \| Stuck in Vermont (Videos) « The Week Ahead: December 17 - 23, 2012 \| Main \| Zuckerman, Other Lawmakers to Introduce Marijuana Legalization Bill » After Inouye's Death, Leahy Named Senate President Pro Tem, In Line to Chair Appropriations Posted by Paul Heintz on December 17, 2012 at 09:25 PM in News \| Permalink By voice vote Monday night, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) was elected President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate, becoming third-in-line for the nation's presidency. The solemn occasion followed the death of 88-year-old Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), whose 49 years in the Senate made him its second-longest-serving member in history. The Pro Tem's mostly ceremonial baton is now passed to Leahy, who's served a mere 37 years in office. As one anonymous Twitter user with the handle "@SrWHOfficial" tweeted shortly after Inouye's death, "A Grateful Dead fan will become President Pro Tempore." So long as President Obama, Vice President Biden and Speaker Boehner stay out of trouble, the real import of Inouye's passing — at least for Vermont — is this: Leahy now becomes the most senior member of the all-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and, quite likely, its next chairman. Leahy served for eight years as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Since 2001, he's served as either chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — depending on the party in power. But the real golden ring for Leahy has always been the chairmanship of Appropriations, which has tremendous influence over the nation's spending priorities. For the Green Mountain State, that means even more pork from St. Patrick. Leahy's spokesman declined to comment Monday night on whether he'd trade Judiciary for Appropriations (senators can chair just one full committee), but Politico reported that Vermont's senior senator "is widely expected" to make the switch. The Wall Street Journal was a little more cautious, noting that Leahy "thoroughly enjoy[s]" heading Judiciary and could decline the promotion. As we noted last week, the other two members of Vermont's congressional delegation recently got their own promotions. File photo of Leahy by Andy Bromage. Search Off Message Email the news team... Subscribe to the Daily 7 Essex Junction Considers New Land-Use Code to Prevent Unscrupulous Massage Parlors Video: Shumlin Talks Heroin on ABC's 'This Week' The Weekly 7: This Week in Vermont News On Trip to Vegas, Shumlin Met With Potential DGA Donors Morning Read: Newsweek Skewers Vermont Health Connect (Updated) To Simulate a Shooting, Vermont State Police Occupy Burlington Town Center Media Note: With Campaign Finance Database, VTDigger Puts the State to Shame Barre Drug Witness Gets Extra Six Months for Refusing to Testify This Week's Issue: A Neighborly Noise Feud in Burlington, 'Border' Security and Maple Saplings Rural Vermont: Farmers Sold 53,000 Gallons of Raw Milk Morning Read Statehouse The Scoreboard Bite Club (FOOD + DRINK) Tour Date (MUSIC PODCAST)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line743
__label__wiki	0.901996	0.901996	The Daily Edition Mon - Fri 2:00 pm Episodesxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"External Link How Olympian Brooke Hanson coped with the grief of losing her premature baby Sarah Carson and Jenny Ky Friday, 25 October 2019 1:56 pm Brooke Hanson on her son's legacy Golden girl of the pool Brooke Hanson is one of Australia's most recognised athletes. Having broken Australian and world records, the swimming champion represented her country over 25 times, taking home silver and gold at the Olympic Games. Watch the full story above. In 2011, Brooke and her husband Jared welcomed a new addition to their family. More on 7NEWS.com.au Andrew O'Keefe admits he wasn't prepared for his mental health struggles Why gut health is the secret to transforming your wellbeing How to help your child overcome shyness Get more lifestyle stories here The couple's second child, Jack, was born 12 weeks premature, and sadly, after a nine-month battle in the neo-natal unit, they were forced to say their farewells when Jack passed away. "I really didn't even know if I was going to survive, let alone him," Hanson said. "And it was one of the most terrifying moments of my life when they said the blood flows and the placenta were reversing and it might kill me and I might kill the baby. "They had to get Jack out as quickly as possible. He was born at 28 weeks and five days, and he only weighed 663 grams. "I guess now, every time I go and get 500 grams of butter out of the fridge, I think, my premmie baby only weight that much just after he was born." Coping with the grief "The more that I've shared it, the more people have come forward," Hanson said. "It's been rewarding and empowering for me as a mum and also with my husband as well, for both of us to talk about it. "The research has been done by the Murdoch Institute and 50 per cent of couples end up with depression - and a lot of couples divorce. "So it was a priority for us to make Jack a huge memory in our life, and to really fight through those tough days together. "I remember waking up in tears one morning, just wanting that final hug. You hold that precious soul for his last breath and you really just want to make sure that for the rest of your life you are making a difference. "There are so many mums and dads who have come forward to say thank you, Brooke - we are now sharing our story as well. "He is part of our family forever. I always say I have four children - I have three with me, and I have a beautiful angel who guides us through." Jack's legacy Keeping her son's spirit and legacy alive, Brooke continues to bring awareness and support for the 48,000 premature or sick babies born in Australia every year. And the support was crucial for Brooke and her family through their experience. "Jack lived for nine months in intensive care, and during that time I found this special foundation, Life's Little Treasures, and they took care of myself and my family during that time to give us the support that we needed," Hanson said. "I know my heart will always have that scar, but it's nice to know that there's support around me and Jack will always be with me." Find out more about Walk for Prems here and Life's Little Treasures here. The Daily EditionLifestyleParentingStory Info Bottle caps are being turned into prosthetic hands for kids in need Blanche d'Alpuget reflects on her marriage to Bob Hawke The new podcast searching for answers in the disappearance of Theo Hayez Vanessa Amorosi is back with new music and a new attitude on life Legendary journalist Mike Munro reveals his family's dark secret Connect with The Daily Edition Follow The Daily Edition on TwitterFollow The Daily Edition on FacebookFollow The Daily Edition on InstagramEmail The Daily Edition	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line744
__label__wiki	0.58961	0.58961	5 Problems With Windows 10 and How To Solve Them Part 01 By admin / April 30, 2019 May 4, 2019 / 1 Comment Now that Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 7 as the most popular operating system, it’s bigger than ever. The sequel to Windows 8.1 has been out for more than three years now and has given users plenty of time to figure it out. Luckily, most Windows 10 problems have been patched out by Microsoft over the last few years. There are still some security exploits and other bugbears that have either lingered or have been caused by recent Windows updates. This is in part because Windows 10 updates are still kind of a mess, the most recent of which, the October 2018 Update, caused all kinds of issues, including Blue Screen errors on Microsoft’s own Surface devices. That could be why the adoption of that update is only now starting to take off, just in time for the next one. 1- Checking you have a powerful enough PC your PC will have to be capable of running Windows 10. This means that it must reach certain minimum system requirements. The requirements for running Windows 10 are relatively low: A processor of 1GHz or faster; 1GB (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit) of RAM; 16GB of free drive space; Microsoft DirectX 9 graphic device; and a Microsoft account combined with internet access. To find out your PC’s spec, go to Control Panel and select System and Security, then System. However, keep in mind that these are the minimum requirements, and you should shoot for higher specs to have a smooth and enjoyable experience. 2- Avoiding inconvenient software update reboots Windows 10 is, in many ways, a truly internet-based operating system. Mostly, this is a bonus but there are times when it isn’t – and Microsoft’s attitude towards operating system updates is one such time. The most annoying part of automatic updates is the restarting, which can seemingly come at random (and inconvenient times). The simplest way to counteract this is to head to Windows Update (in Settings > Update & Security), click on Advanced Options and then Notify to Schedule Restart, which means the OS will request a reboot instead of interrupting everything you’re working on. 3- Updating old software to work with Windows 10 Each version of a new operating system comes with its own set of backwards compatibility issues and Windows 10 is no exception. The transition from Windows 8.1 to 10 is far less jarring than the move from Windows 7 to 8 was, but there are still certain applications that can become broken and, in some cases, cease to work at all. If a program isn’t working with Windows 10, try looking in the Windows Store for an update and, if that doesn’t work, delete and reinstall it. Now that Windows 10 has been out for a few years, most programs should be compatible with the operating system. If they aren’t, then they likely never will be. Consider moving to a newer version of the software, or if it’s stopped being developed, it may be time to look for alternatives. 4- Changing privacy and Wi-Fi Sense settings Data security is incredibly important, especially as hackers become increasingly sophisticated and the number of cyber-attacks is on the up. Windows 10 comes with a decent set of built-in protection measures, but you can never be too careful. One such feature that should be disabled by privacy-minded individuals is Wi-Fi Sense, which automatically shares the Wi-Fi password across Windows 10 devices on the same account. Microsoft updated Wi-Fi Sense to share less data, but switching it off is the ideal way of preventing anything you don’t want happening. To turn it off, go to the Start Menu, select Settings and click on Network & Internet, then Wi-Fi, and head to Manage Wi-Fi Settings – turn off all the options in here. Also in Settings, it’s possible to get an overview of everything else happening on Windows 10 in terms of privacy – unsurprisingly, under the Privacy section. In here, you’ll be presented with a bunch of toggles that adjust some privacy options to help keep everything under control. 5- Setting up Windows Hello Windows Hello is one of the most innovative features that Microsoft has built into Windows 10. Essentially, it lets a user login just by using facial recognition (or a fingerprint) virtually instantly. The software, which is available to all Windows 10 users, does require special hardware (and most likely won’t work on older computers). Assuming you have the necessary hardware, how do you set up Windows Hello? You need to go to the Start menu, click on Account, and select Change Account Settings. Select Sign-in Options and set a PIN. Once you’ve done this, there will be an option to Setup under Face. 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__label__cc	0.574745	0.425255	Posted on September 28, 2019 by David L. Smith Maya Creation Myths The events of creation are recorded on monuments throughout the Maya region. At larger cities such as Tikal, Uaxactun, Copan, Palenque, El Mirador and Caracol the more detailed inscriptions name the involved deities and provide dates. The information varies somewhat from place to place and across time, but there are commonalities that closely match the creation myth described in the Popol Vuh, a written account of creation, and other stories derived from K’iche’ oral traditions, such that scholars tend to agree in principle, if not in the details of the ancient Maya view of creation. In Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock, the writer(s) provided this succinct overview: And then the earth arose because of them (the sky deities). It was simply their word That brought it forth. For the forming of earth they said ‘Earth.” It arose suddenly, just like a cloud, Like a mist, now forming and unfolding. Then the mountains were separated From the water, all at once the great mountains Came forth. Given the limitations of space of a blog and variations in scholarly interpretation, I offer the following as a condensed but representative sampling of the key players and places in the ancient Maya creation story. Creation Date: Time for the ancients was cyclical, spiraling in eras. There were three before the current one, which began in 3114 B.C.. Scholars still debate the precise date, but this began the “Long Count.” Every day in the future was referenced to it, literally by counting the days forward. There’s some indication that the days were counted using stones and that these were bound into bundles to represent periods. For instance, a t’un or one year “bundle” or “binding” consisted of 360 days or stones. Five more were added to make a complete year. A “binding of the k’atun” referenced a bundle of 20 years or 7200 stones. Why the date in 3114 B.C. was chosen is not known, Creation Deities: The names of creation deities differ between the Popol Vuh and inscriptions on monuments, but their attributes as diviners, healers, and makers is nearly identical. As the story goes, two creator “grandparents”—First Father and First Mother—had twin sons, identified by scholars as “The Hero Twins.” In addition, there were three sky gods. At Palenque, scholars refer to them as GI, GII, GIII. The Popol Vuh gives their names: Hurricane Thunderbolt, Youngest Thunderbolt and Sudden Thunderbolt. According to iconographer Karen Bassie-Sweet, these gods paralled the “Heart Of Sky” deities, and the thunderbolt brothers were manifestations of the Maize God. Creation Events: According to art historian Julia Guernsey on August 13, 3114 B.C. the gods established three hearthstones in the sky as thrones. They named them “Jaguar,” Snake” and “Water.” We know them as the stars Rigel, Saiph and Ainitak in the Orion nebula. And what astronomers refer to as M42 Nebula, they saw as the fire in the cosmic hearth. Creation of the Earth itself was credited to the Maize God—Hunal Ye “First Father.” He “entered the sky and made proper” the raising of “Raised-Up-Sky-Place, the eight-house-partitions, house of the north on February 5, 3112 B.C.” That happened 542 days after the 3114 B.C. creation event. To make proper is to circumambulate, so this refers to the act of setting the constellations in motion around the North Star. Cosmic Order: The cosmos was seen as a gigantic ceiba (kapok) tree growing at the center of the universe. Its branches reach to the Upper World; its trunk is the Middle World and the roots extend into the Underworld. As sap travels up from the roots of a maize stalk, souls travel up and down this sacred tree. At the top, where the three stones were set in the sky, sits Itzam Yeh, a bird deity who fancies himself greater than the sun. And from his perch, referred to as Heart Of Sky (the North Star region), he dispensed the life force. Creation Locations: In the fourth creation, before human beings, Chahk, the lightning and rain god, went to the mountain that first rose above the water. There, he raised his gigantic axe and split the mountain, allowing Huun Ixim, the Maize God, to ascend and bring life-sustaining abundance to the Earth. That mountain was referred to as Yax Hal Witz “First True Mountain.” Archaeologically, many temples—such as Mundo Perdido (Structure 5C-54) at Tikal—and other structures—Uaxactun’s Group H—were replicas of the Yax Hal Witz. Previous Creations: Eras before the present creation, First Father and First Mother attempted to create beings who would pay them respect and praise their names. The first world was inhabited by dwarf beings who resembled animals and couldn’t speak. In the second world they were made of mud, and in the third they were made of wood. These not being satisfactory, the creators said “The dawn has approached and morning has come for humankind—born in the light, begotten in the light.” So, from the maize that came forth at First True Mountain, First Mother fashioned the first human beings from maize dough and water. Grinding it nine times, it became human flesh. And when she washed her hands, the grease became human fat. These humans were perfect and knowledgable. They were able to see as well as they gods, so they blurred their vision. In that way, they could only see what was close to them. Philosopher David Hume said we would be utterly incapable of making sense of the world around us were it not for the process of cause and effect. Every civilization attempts to explain how things are, how the universe, the world and we came to be. The sustained nightly dedication of the ancient Maya in observing the sky over centuries is beyond remarkable, a testiment to how determined they were to understand the workings of the visible universe and world. Equally remarkable, were the many and unique ways they attempted to replicate and invigorate the stories they told about creation and its perceived creators. In our era, the emphasis has shifted. Instead of naked-eye observation to understand the mysteries of the universe and life, we use sophisticated technologies. And there appears to be little interest in modeling—“clothing”—ourselves and our environments in either the creation story inherited from the East, or the Universe story that’s emerging from science. Hopefully, somewhere ahead, that connection will be restored. Author Willis Harman tells the story of talking with a Native American leader about how white people have difficulty understanding the Indian way of looking at the world. The Indian replied: “It’s easy. You only have to remember two things. One is, everything in the universe is alive. The other is, we’re all relatives.” First True Mountain Excerpt from Jaguar Rising (p. 254) My brother went across the courtyard and stood on the steps above Red Paw and Pech. Dragonfly continued to translate. “What did the Makers do? They invoked Grandmother of Glory! And their thoughts came clear. Fox, Coyote, Parrot and Crow brought ears of yellow maize and white maize from the split place, from First True Mountain, Flowering Mountain Earth where Grandmother Of Glory ground the maize nine times. The water she used in rinsing her hands made fat—human fat. And with it Sovereign Plumed Serpent made the first humans, our Mother-Fathers.” With a swish of his robe, Comb Pace came down the steps and went to center. “The humans made from fat were different,” he said. “They made words! They praised the directions and they listened. They walked and they used their muscles. They offered their sweat, blood and smoke to the Makers and Modelers. Such was the making by First Grandfather and First Grandmother.” Comb Paca approached the dais, turned his back on us and spoke with his hands at his side. “Let it be said, let it be known. In our k’in, the making and modeling continues. As at the split place, First True Mountain, Flowering Mountain Place, so here at Kaminaljuyu. We see the making in the ground, in the trees, in the animals. We see the modeling in the lake. It comes clear to us what has been done when we honor the sky bearers and keep the count of k’inob. It comes clear when we celebrate the rounds of the wanderers and the turnings of the sun. It comes clear to us when we make our circuits at the sowing and the dawning, planting and harvesting. It also comes clear when Our Bounty stands before us as the Center of All That Is, as Great Tree, as Lord One Maize.” Calendar Fixed To The Creation Date Excerpt from Jaguar Rising (p. 45) The shaman’s assistant took the bloodied cloths and put them into a ceramic jar with a lid. Meanwhile, a daykeeper dictated the time periods to a scribe—3,082 years and 242 days since the beginning of the fourth creation of the world. He said the gods who carried the burden of the day were Chan Ik’, Laju’n Pax. After this, it was recorded that “Lord Jaguar Tooth Macaw, Great Tree of Kaminaljuyu and his son, Lord Flint Axe Macaw, underlord at Ahktuunal, took Thunder Flute Rabbit, master merchant at Cerros, in regard as their brother. Later, the cloths would be fed into the conjuring house censer but for now the shaman’s assistants applied “takes-away” to their wounds, a sticky pink substance that stopped the bleeding and eased the pain. With his arm now cleaned, Lord Macaw pointed to the warlord who had the largest spray of quetzal plumage streaming from his helmet. Holding up a blue-and yellow-feathered shield, the hulking warrior led a procession of warriors carrying bundles and baskets from the side of the pyramid to the front, where they set them down on a long bed of fresh pine needles. The Three Stones Of Creation Under the influence of six cups of chih, Lord Smoking Mirror praised the work of my uncles at the House of the Maize God. And judging from his wife’s expression, he told us something we were not supposed to know—that he was going to halt the construction on his brother’s temple in favor of a more modest but equally powerful snake mountain named for the place where the maize god set the three stones of creation in the sky. “It will be like the Three Stone Mountain at Mirador,” he said, “Just not as tall. Next to it will be a compound for warriors with a proper lodge, patios and a larger training field…” As he spoke, Thunder Flute’s glance told me that Smoking Mirror, like his brother, was desperately trying to win favor with his father. Had Laughing Falcon heard what his brother was planning he would have been furious. Category: Beliefs, Creation Myths, Gods and Goddesses, World View Tags: Caracol, ceiba, Chahk, constellations, Copan, David Hume, Dennis Tedlock, El Mirador, Hero Twins, Jaguar Rising, Julia Guernsey, K'iché, kapok, Karen Bassie-Sweet, Long Count, Maize god, Maya Calendar, Native American, North Star, Palenque, Popol Vuh, Tikal, Uaxactun, Universe Story, Willis Harman ← The Dancing Maize God Sacred Spaces →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line760
__label__wiki	0.869145	0.869145	Category Archives: San Francisco by dunderbeck1980 \| July 20, 2016 · 12:02 pm Anatomy of THE Groove: “Tell Me Are You Tired” by Santana Carlos Santana’s recording career has now spanned 46 years. From his upbringing in Mexico to being the band leader of Santana,his 69th birthday today is an excellent to point out one of the qualities that likely led to his longevity as a musician. One that’s not related to him having one of the most distinctive guitar tones of the last four decades. Like many jazz musicians,Santana’s music has evolved across a number of distinct periods. His percussion heavy Latin sound has remained intact for all of them. Yet the framework’s that sound settles into are always expanding with new developments in recorded music. During the transition from the early to mid 1970’s,the Santana band itself was was going through one such transition. Starting out as major players on the Bay Area psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco,Carlos was doing more playing with musicians such as John McLaughlin and Alice Coltrane. His interest in jazz extended into funk,always an aspect of Santana’s sound too. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the bands album Amigos, which emphasized their new jazz funk sound most prominently. One such song of this style that keeps growing on me all the time is called “Tell me Are You Tired”. A processed Fender Rhodes two note scale,separated by a cymbal crash,begin the song. David Brown’s bass then leads the congas and percussion along with the same two note Rhodes solo through the remainder of the refrain. The upcoming chorus has two parts. One contains a massively funky drum with an equally funky Clavinet solo. The second part is built around a lively Afro Brazilian rhythm and female choir vocals. After a second refrain and chorus,an increasingly intense improvisational Rhodes solo takes over the song even as the female choir vocal end of the refrain fades out the song. Written by the songs drummer and Leon Ndugu Chancler and it’s keyboardist Tom Coster,this song really showcases Carlos Santana’s presence as a bandleader and inspiration more than a soloing instrumentalist. Coster really takes off on this song-both on Fender Rhodes and Clavinet electric pianos accompanying Greg Walker’s lead vocals. Santana’s funkiness seems to come from him always favoring a highly collective style of instrumental band style. And the funk genre made that ethic it’s strongest emphasis. And this unsung album cut is a shining light for Santana’s funkier grooves. Filed under 1970's, Carlos Santana, clavinet, David Brown, drums, Fender Rhodes, Funk Bass, Greg Walker, jazz funk, Leon Ndugu Chancler, percussion, San Francisco, Santana, Tom Coster Tagged as 1970's, Carlos Santana, Clavinet, David Brown, drums, Fender Rhodes, funk bass, Greg Walker, jazz funk, Leon Ndugu Chancler, percussion, San Francisco, Santana, Tom Coster Anatomy of THE Groove: “The Twilight Clone” by Herbie Hancock (1981) Herbie Hancock’s four pre Future Shock albums in the early 80’s albums have always been very special to me personally. They may not have been massively successful commercially, but were some of his most potent jazz/funk masterpieces of his electric period. One of my favorite albums of this period was his third released from the 1981’s entitled Magic Windows. The album was by and large a heavy funk set including heavy participation from Ray Parker Jr.,who’d been working with Hancock for six years and for whom Hancock composed the song “Tonight’s The Night” for his Raydio project a year before-during which Hancock released two albums of his own in Monster and Mr.Hands. This album was recorded at David Rubinson’s Automat studio’s in San Francisco,a studio known for it’s early embrace of automatic mixing technology as well as some of the biggest producers and musicians who recorded there. Perhaps realizing how his using synthesizers to play horn charts was influences the oncoming 80’s boogie/electro funk sound,Hancock touted this album as having no strings,brass or other orchestral elements on this album outside his electronics. Having been inspired by Talking Head’s electronic Afro-Funk explosions on their Remain In Light album,Hancock bought in Adrian Belew from their band for the his new albums finale entitled “The Twilight Clone”. The song builds from the funky shuffle of Hancock’s drums and Paulinho da Costa’s percussion (along with a host of others) accents. Louis Johnson chimes in with one of his thickest slap bass lines before Hancock comes back in with a brittle LinnDrum beat and bubbling,mechanical and percussive synths. George Johnson joins in for chugging rhythm guitar,and all of this is accented by Hancock’s own synth bass line. Belew’s trademark “zoo guitar” sound plays the lead line with a very Arabic style melody. Shortly after the song goes up in pitch melodically,the bridge showcases a guitar/percussive breakdown between Da Costa, Johnson and Belew before fading out on it’s own main chorus. On many levels,this is my favorite Herbie Hancock song of the 1980’s. It’s a perfect example of the electro funk process functioning strongly on the rhythm of the one. Hancock sets the pass as the drummer on this song,as well as providing his synthesizers as a percussive element in much the same way as he had on “Nobu” eight years earlier. He brings in the Arabic melodic tones of Adrian Belew’s horn-like guitar into the Afrocentric percussion Paulinho Da Costa brings to it. Of course the heavy funk element is locked down tight by the Brothers Johnson. So this song essentially acts as the total nucleus of what Hancock’s mid/late 80’s sound would be on a technological and structural level. Filed under 1980's, Adrian Belew, Boogie Funk, Brothers Johnson, David Rubinson, drums, elecro funk, George Johnson, guitar, Herbie Hancock, Linn Drum, Louis Johnson, Paulinho Da Costa, percussion, rhythm guitar, San Francisco, synth bass, synth brass, Synth Pop, synthesizer, The Automat, Uncategorized Tagged as 1980's, Adrian Belew, Afro Funk, David Rubinson, drums, electro funk, Funk, George Johnson, Herbie Hancock, lead guitar, Linn Drum, Louis Johnson, Paulinho Da Costa, percussion, rhythm guitar, San Francisco, slap bass, synth bass, synth brass, Synth Funk, synthesizer, The Automat by dunderbeck1980 \| March 21, 2016 · 1:00 pm Anatomy Of THE Groove For The Brothers And Sisters Who Aren’t Here: “Butter” by Richard Dimples Fields Richard Fields,who apparently got the nickname Dimples by a female admirer who noted his ever-present smile,started his career as the owner of the Cold Duck Lounge in San Francisco. He released a couple of albums locally in 1975 and 1977. In 1981 he signed with Neil Bogart’s Boardwalk Records. His best known song was a remake of a song from his debut album called “If It Ain’t One Thing,It’s Another”, a message song of sorts that he was encouraged to re-do by an old high school friend he ran into at a used car lot. He had a good handful of hits in the 80’s that slowed over the years until he finally passed away in 2000 in the Bay Area city of Oakland. During my childhood,a 45 of his hit “If It Ain’t One Thing It’s Another” was in rotation in the family home. It was the B-side to this entitled “Mr.Look So Good”,an uptempo disco/funk number that was the title song to his 1982 album,which got my attention most. Something about his soulfullness and conversational lyric style was always appealing. One day I came across another one of his albums while crate digging entitled Give Everybody Some!,also released in 1982. It’s the only full album by him I presently own. And it has a lot of excellent songs on it. The song that always stands out in my mind however is entitled “Butter”. A pounding,deep bass Clavinet opens the song along with an uptempo,percussion laden drum beat. Two grooving rhythm guitar’s accompany this-one of which plays a more liquid line while horn fanfares call out on each break. A phat slap bass line brings in the main body of the song. It’s a very bluesy melody on the refrain and chorus. And once the intro is over,a brittle bass and higher pitched melodic synthesizer provide the man rhythmic hump whereas the horns and upfront bass carry the melody Dimple’s is singing more. Just before the song fades out,the synthesizers take a back seat to the drum,guitar and horn line that opened up the song on the intro. This song is a touch post disco/boogie classic that actually focuses on a lot of harder 70’s funk elements,such as horns and a thick slap bass. But the synthesizers and sleek beat are still very much present. Especially on the JB’s style rhythm guitar and stripped down dynamics,this also brings out an early 80’s Minneapolis Sound flavor about it as well. Fields’ vocal style is very interesting one to me. It has the idiosyncratic nasal drawl of Michael Jackson,but also the quiet groan of Ray Parker Jr. There is surely a distinctive vibe to this funk. And a lot of that has to do with how strongly it straddles two generations of the music: the one of the present and that of the immediate past. Filed under 1980's, bass synthesizer, Bay Area, Boardwalk Records, Boogie Funk, clavinet, disco funk, drums, horns, Neil Bogart, Oakland California, percussion, post disco, rhythm guitar, Richard Dimples Fields, San Francisco, slap bass, synthesizers, Uncategorized Tagged as 1980's, Bay Area, Boardwalk Records, boogie funk, Clavinet, DIsco Funk, drums, Minneapolis, Neil Bogart, Oakland, percussion, post disco, rhythm guitar, Richard Dimples Fields, San Francisco, slap bass, synth bass, synthesizers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line762
__label__cc	0.68546	0.31454	Tag Archives: Letting Go Hygge Feature #29 Grandparents lost Following on from yesterday’s post about grandparents, here are two of my own poems about my maternal grandparents. I never met them because they both died of cancer long before I was born, nursed tenderly by my mum. But I was told many beautiful stories about them, and they lived for me through those stories. I even felt my grandmother wished me into being, because mum told me she was watching my big sister playing with the handles of the dressing table, pre-school age, and from her sick bed she said to my mum ‘have another little girl, because little girls are lovely’. My mum was an only child. Her parents longed for a houseful of kids, but they only had the one. This photo is of my mum as a little girl, with her parents. Her father was Peter Coyne, her mother Margaret (known by some as Annie, nee Lawler) If your children never met your parents, as mine never did, at least give them stories and show them photographs. Thankfully, for me the cycle of loss is broken and I have my delightful granddaughter. Granny Coyne My granny’s a whispering woman, her stories follow me down the hall; hang, half-told, in the corners of the kitchen above a tut-tut of metal knitting pins. My granny’s a soothing woman, smoother of brows with a cool palm; polisher of brasses; igniter of fires; she picks up babies before they cry. My granny’s a loving woman, shoes clucking on tiles when I call. her eyes laugh at me in photographs. She’d have loved you, my mother says. Little Dishwasher You wanted a houseful of children, sons. When your only daughter made a polite appearance, you said a little dishwasher. You didn’t mean any disrespect; a boy would have carried the family name, been a modest pride for you. Through two world wars – you serious in your uniform, did the thought of her sustain you? And when you lay dying, cancer robbing you of all your fight, you said to her as she washed you how glad I am of my little dishwasher. She who could shape a story gave me this memory, a gift passed down like a brassoed medal, to me, your granddaughter, the one you never met. Both poems appeared in Letting Go (Mother’s Milk Books 2013) Tagged as Angela Topping, Grandparents lost, Letting Go, Margaret Coyne, Mother's Milk Books, Peter Coyne How to put together your poetry collection There are as many ways to do this as there are to do anything worthwhile. I have done it different ways in different books, because the material one has often dictates the structure. Just as, in the writing of a poem, one has to listen to the poem itself, then with a book, one has to listen to the poems and allow them some say in choosing their own order. Like a lot of other poets, I think it’s vital to print off the poems one hopes to include. It’s a good idea anyway, to have a hard copy of each completed poem; that’s the best way, other than having them published in book form, to guard against computer crashes and lost discs. I’m not always the best at taking my own advice here, I must confess. My latest collection, The Five Petals of Elderflower, takes both its name and its structure from the title poem, which won first prize in the 2013 Buzzwords national competition. It is a poem in five parts, which can be read as the five stages of life. I divided the poems up into five sections according to the themes of each petal. I am indebted to my editor for this book, Elizabeth Rimmer, who saw at once the structure I was going for, and helped me cut down the manuscript I originally submitted, which was bursting with far too many poems. She had a very good eye for what worked well with those themes; some poems were cut because they will fit better in a later book. When working with an editor, one does fight one’s corner for the poems one loves, so there was some negotiation between us. I am enormously grateful for her acute sensitivity to what I was up to. The Five Petals of Elderflower is now available from my publisher, Red Squirrel Press. My previous collection, Letting Go, has a different thrust. Because it is a selection of poems, some from out of print collections and some new, but all on the theme of childhood and parenthood, It is divided up into sections and runs chronologically, so it reads like a narrative, if taken in order, which people don’t always do with poetry. They dip, or start at the back, which I often do myself. But the narrative is there if people want to find it. The book doesn’t include every poem I have on those themes. With this one, I worked with Teika Bellamy of Mother’s Milk Books. She knows my previous collections very well and made suggestions as to what she would like to see included. Making the book at all was her idea in the first place, and it was her idea to use named sections, titled by quotations from the poems, which I had also done in an earlier book, The Fiddle (Stride 1999) Paper Patterns, published by Dennis Greig of Lapwing Press, was structured more thematically, without editorial help. It includes two sequences which I separated by half the book, because readers need space and shorter poems after such lengthy ones. Themes include travel and curiosities, places, elegies, food, the brevity of life, seasonal poems, flower poems, literary references and responses, politics and ageing. Each poem speaks to its companions. This 2012 collection is still available. I Sing of Bricks (Salt 2011) was a set of poems which were put together as a sample of my work, following my return to full time poetry. It was my first adult publication for four years, and I was asked to send my best poems at the time. What I hadn’t realised, but was pointed out by a very perceptive reviewer, James Roderick Burns, that it was all about work. “For this is a book about work—actual work, be it drudgery or stimulation; the work of starting and sustaining relationships; the dreadful work of mourning, remembering the (many) people who have died, and moving with their memory into something new; the work, in short, of life. “ It’s a very smart reviewer who tells you something you didn’t know about your own work. The point I am making here is that your own obsessions and themes will show themselves wherever your work accumulates. In summary, here are my tips for putting your own collections together. Print off all the poems you want to include. Re-read them as you do. Spread them individually on a surface like a floor or large table to begin to assess them. Discard any you feel uneasy about or which need more work. Or do the work on them needed. From your re-reading you will have some idea of how they work together. Start to look now for themes, common topics or contrasts. Find a really strong poem to start and end with. From that starting poem, find another one that speaks to it, either by contrast, similarity, different angle on the same topic, or any small link like a word in common, or a place. Repeat until you have picked up all the poems, and making sure the run of poems up to the last one lead nicely to it. Listen to the work. Your order might be chronological like some of my books, grouped in themes like others of mine. There should be some kind of internal logic that facilitates flow for the reader. Pile the poems up in your chosen order, slide on one of those plastic binders to hold together. Go and have a cup of tea, a walk outside, a sleep. Then come back to it and read from start to finish. If it feels right, you are nearly there. If you are not lucky enough to have an editor, and not all collections do, show it to a few people whose judgement you really trust. Listen to what they say. Make necessary adjustments. Filed under Poetry Collections, Writing challenges Tagged as bluechrome, Buzzwords, Elizabeth Rimmer, How to put your poetry collection together, I Sing of Bricks, James Roderick Burns, Lapwing Press, Letting Go, Mother's Milk Books, Red Squirrel Press, Salt Publishing, The Five Petals of Elderflower, Tips	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line763
__label__wiki	0.933421	0.933421	REVIEWSINTERVIEWSFEATURESABOUT USCALENDARFORUM All ReviewsHome VideoFilmTelevisionBookMusicReview Index All InterviewsDirectorsArtistsComposersFilmmakers All FeaturesRetrospectivesEvent CoverageYearbooksBlogs ContactAnniversary FeaturesBrowse ArchivesReview Index Contest Corner / November 14, 2008 Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E: 3-Disc – Winner! Ben Simon Disney/Pixar’s latest, instant classic WALL-E comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 18, but we have a copy for one lucky winner to grab thanks to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment! The contest is now closed. Our winning name is: • Christian Minchillo of Vallejo CA Congratulations! Your three-disc Special Edition is on its way! About WALL-E The year’s most acclaimed and original film, WALL-E transports viewers to another galaxy; an out-of-this-world action-adventure filled with heart and humor that follows an extraordinary cast of characters on a fantastic journey across the universe. Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton’s beautiful story is a love letter to the Golden Age of sci-fi films. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE, who comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans, who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home… On DVD, WALL-E‘s bonus features include Presto, Pixar Animation Studios original theatrical short about a star magician’s ego that provokes some clever revenge from his neglected rabbit co-star, multiple behind the scenes featurettes, audio commentary with director Andrew Stanton, deleted scenes, Easter Eggs, Buy n Large shorts, development footage, and the DVD premiere of The Pixar Story, a documentary by Leslie Iwerks. The first in-depth look at the most influential animation studio of its time, The Pixar Story goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking company that pioneered a new generation of animated feature films to chronicle the remarkable company that revolutionized an industry. The 3-Disc DVD includes a Digital Copy of the movie, allowing viewers to enjoy WALL-E portably in their choice of iTunes or Windows Media formats. Read our full review of the DVD here, and check out these official clips direct from the disc! Treasures & Trinkets Elbows (Bonus) Reason For Bots (Bonus) Building The Worlds From The Sound Up (Bonus) Eve’s Entrance WALL-E is available to buy from Amazon.com THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This information will be kept confidential and deleted after the contest has closed, although Animated News & Views withholds the right to publish winning names and location area only. One entry per household. Disc prize is a Region 1 edition, but the contest is open to US and non-US international readers. Prizes is non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate prize descriptions provided to us at the time we go to press. The administrator’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Associates of Animated News & Views and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment are unfortunately ineligible to enter. The contest closes on November 18 2008 at 11:59 ET. Original content © 2003-2020 Animated Views. All other copyrights belong to their respective owners.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line765
__label__wiki	0.733748	0.733748	Tag Archives: Steve Mitchell “The Rotten Egg” storyboards batch 6 Sorry for the delay! Back to blogging! Thanks to all the visitors who clicked here while I wasn’t posting. Pages [1-5] [6-7C] [7D-10] [11-15] [16-19] [20-24] [24A-28] More storyboards from writers Steve Mitchell and Barbara Petty’s “The Rotten Egg,” this time pages 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24. Sorry, I don’t know who boarded these, but when I do I’ll update this sentence. Things will get a little more interesting with batch 7 when the final animation deviates a little from the storyboard. Filed under Animation, G.I. Joe Behind the Scenes Tagged as Barbara Petty, G.I. Joe cartoon, G.I. Joe storyboards, Leatherneck, Steve Mitchell More storyboards. This time it’s pages 16, 16A, 17, 18, and 19. Tagged as Barbara Petty, G.I. Joe storyboards, Leatherneck, Steve Mitchell, The Rotten Egg Pages [1-5] [6-7C] [7D-10] [11-15] [16-19] Something that simultaneously delighted and bothered me as a kid watching G.I. Joe was how obvious certain traps were that the Joes walked headlong into. Whereas in Larry Hama’s comic-verse, a Cobra military academy in the next state over would have felt right at home with Broca (note the anagram!) Beach and the Cobra Consulate Building. But here CEC was trying to have it both ways — secret and yet in plain sight. So it bothered me then, though amuses me now, that Leatherneck tools over on the Silver Mirage, outnumbered a thousand to one, and is actually surprised when what are clearly bad guy cadets turn out to be bad guys. But Barbara Petty and Steve Mitchell crafted a strong script with great characterization, that delivers something new for the series — a rivalry begun in the past — and manages to be filled with tension and action — mostly sans weapons, while eschewing the “regular” Cobra Command. No small feat. Clunky animation, yes? (See still above, YIKES) But great boards, of which here are five more pages: Tagged as Barbara Petty, G.I. Joe storyboards, Leatherneck, Mike Vosburg, Steve Mitchell, The Rotten Egg Back to the storyboards for the Season 2 episode, “The Rotten Egg.” These pages below are drawn by two or three artists, unusual for a Joe board as one artist tended to handle each act. There may have been deadline trouble, or a change from the director (or Hasbro) necessitated altering shots, and perhaps whoever originated these had already moved on to the next episode. What is certain is that Mike Vosburg drew some of what’s below — everything but the Wet-Suit close-up on the first page, the top tier of the second page, all of the third page, the first two panels of the fourth page, and probably none of the final page. Vosburg’s figure work (see big panel above) is angular, and he spots blacks — no sketchy pencil lines, no rounded or bulbous anatomy. Vosburg is a tremendously talented artist, a post for another day, but for fun trivia I’ll point out he was the only artist who both drew the monthly Marvel comic and also storyboarded for the daily cartoon. Coincidentally, to boot. Pages 7D, 8, 9, 9A, and 10: Next five pages! The Other Half of the Battle: “The Funhouse” Continuing our look at key episodes of G.I. Joe (1983), G.I. Joe (1989), and GI Joe Extreme (1995)… “The Funhouse” original airdate 10/01/85 Written by Steve Mitchell and Barbara Petty The plot in one sentence: Cobra kidnaps scientists and makes six Joes run the gauntlet of a deathtrap-filled funhouse. Personal Trivia: I own a production animation cel and background from this episode. They’ll be in the book. G.I. Joe Trivia: Steve Mitchell, co-writer of this episode, inked the covers to three issues of Marvel’s monthly G.I. Joe comic book. Before he got into writing and producing, Mitchell was an inker seen on many a Marvel and DC title, notably Norm Breyfogle’s Batman and Detective Comics runs. Best thing about this episode: Dusty pops a balloon filled with gas and hallucinates. His reaction, and the character animation on this scene are great: Worst thing about this episode that’s also kind of the best thing about this episode: This carnival barker Cobra Commander robot. Best line: Cobra Commander (from an overhead monitor): “Despite your rudeness, I offer you a sporting chance. Three doors, three choices. Two of them lead to dead ends.” Flint: “What about the third one?” Cobra Commander: “It leads to me.” Alpine: “Then all the doors are losers.” Worst example of one character finishing another’s sentence: Lady Jaye: “I don’t know where we’re going–” Air-Tight: “–But anywhere’s an improvement.” Does it hold up? This episode is a strange one. It’s straightforward – Cobra, scientists, Joes, deathtraps – until you look carefully. It’s best not to think too hard about where and how Cobra comes up with its deathtraps, but the ones in “Funhouse” really beg some questions. Who built an indoor roller coaster in a Latin American step pyramid? Would Cobra Commander have been upset if all six Joes had taken one door and the other deathtraps had gone to waste? On the positive side, the character animation is so great, year one character (and discontinued action figure) Zap makes an appearance, the pacing is tight and the banter snappy, and there’s an explosion that looks suspiciously like a mushroom cloud. Not a good representation of the show at its most grounded, but definitely the pinnacle of the show’s balance of cool and zany. I give it 5 out of 5 MacGuffins. Filed under The Other Half of the Battle (Episode Reviews) Tagged as G.I. Joe cartoon, Steve Mitchell, The Funhouse Sorry for the late post. Monday’s supposed to be art day, with Tuesday a reserve should Monday get swamped. Anyway, happy Wednesday! Today we look at the first few pages of storyboards from the Steve Mitchell and Barbara Petty-written season 2 G.I. Joe episode “The Rotten Egg.” This episode has a great premise, that Leatherneck’s old rival is now running a military academy, and invites him to graduation ceremonies, but the two have a long-standing grudge that comes to a head. Also, Cobra’s peripherally involved. The emotional through-line — that grudge — is tight, and not that you’d know if from this art but voice actor Chuck McCann gives an Emmy-worthy performance as Leatherneck. Dick Gautier, elsewhere heard as Serpentor, is similarly stellar as antagonist Buck McCann — a play on the other actor’s name. I should know who drew these Act I boards, but I don’t. If I find out, I’ll update this post later. Pages [1-5] [6-7C] [7D-10] [11-15] Tagged as G.I. Joe cartoon, G.I. Joe storyboards, Steve Mitchell, The Rotten Egg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line771
__label__cc	0.639769	0.360231	46% off New: Continuous-Time Finance by Robert C. Merton (Paperback, Revised) Format: Paperback Language: English Merton provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis. He covers individual financial choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance. The volume is based around Merton’s most significant essays, which he has brought up to date with postscripts, and new chapters on recent developments in portfolio theory, option and other derivative security pricing, financial intermediation, capital asset pricing, and general equilibrium analysis. Robert C. Merton’s widely-used text provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis. It covers individual finance choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance. Author Robert C. Merton Edition Description Revised Weight 38 Oz Length 9 In. Group Scholarly & Professional LC Classification Number HB172 Dewey Decimal 338.5 Dewey Edition 12A Foreword by Paul Anthony Samuelson Foreward: Paul SamuelsonPart I: Introduction to Finance and the Mathematics of Continuous-time Models:1. Modern Finance.2. Introduction to Portfolio Selection and Capital Market Theory: Static Analysis.3. On the Mathematics and Economic Assumptions of Continuous-time Financial Models.Part II: Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Selection in Continuous-time Models:4. Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-time Case.5. Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model.6. Further Developments in Theory of Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Selection.Part III: Warrant and Option Pricing Theory:7. A Complete Model of Warrant Pricing that Maximizes Utility.8. Theory of Rational Option Pricing.9. Option Pricing when Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous.10. Further Developments in Option Pricing Theory.Part IV: Contingent-Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation:11. A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the Firm.12. On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates.13. On the Pricing of Contingent Claims and the Modigliani-Miller Theorem.14. Contingent Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation.Part V: An Intertemporal-Equilibrium Theory of Finance:15. An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model.16. A General Equilibrium Theory of Finance in Continuous Time.Part VI: Applications of the Continuous-Time Model to Selected Issues in Public Finance:17. An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty.18. On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans.19. An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Loan Guarantees and Deposit Insurance.20. On the Cost of Deposit Insurance when there are Surveillance Costs. Foreward: Paul Samuelsonart I: Introduction to Finance and the Mathematics of Continuous-time Models:. Modern Finance.Introduction to Portfolio Selection and Capital Market Theory: Static Analysis.On the Mathematics and Economic Assumptions of Continuous-time Financial Models.art II: Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Selection in Continuous-time Models:. Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-time Case.Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model.Further Developments in Theory of Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Selection.art III: Warrant and Option Pricing Theory:. A Complete Model of Warrant Pricing that Maximizes Utility.Theory of Rational Option Pricing.Option Pricing when Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous.0. Further Developments in Option Pricing Theory.art IV: Contingent-Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation:1. A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the Firm.2. On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates.3. On the Pricing of Contingent Claims and the Modigliani-Miller Theorem.4. Contingent Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation.art V: An Intertemporal-Equilibrium Theory of Finance:5. An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model.6. A General Equilibrium Theory of Finance in Continuous Time.art VI: Applications of the Continuous-Time Model to Selected Issues in Public Finance:7. An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty.8. On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans.9. An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Loan Guarantees and Deposit Insurance.0. On the Cost of Deposit Insurance when there are Surveillance Costs. Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson.Preface..Part I: Introduction to Finance and the Mathematics of Continuous-time Models:.1. Modern Finance.2. Introduction to Portfolio Selection and Capital Market Theory: Static Analysis.3. On the Mathematics and Economic Assumptions of Continuous-time Financial Models.Part II: Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Selection in Continuous-time Models:.4. Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-time Case.5. Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-time Model.6. Further Developments in Theory of Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Selection.Part III: Warrant and Option Pricing Theory:.7. A Complete Model of Warrant Pricing that Maximizes Utility.8. Theory of Rational Option Pricing.9. Option Pricing when Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous.10. Further Developments in Option Pricing Theory.Part IV: Contingent-Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation:.11. A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the Firm.12. On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates.13. On the Pricing of Contingent Claims and the Modigliani-Miller Theorem.14. Contingent Claims Analysis in the Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation.Part V: An Intertemporal-Equilibrium Theory of Finance:.15. An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model.16. A General Equilibrium Theory of Finance in Continuous Time.Part VI: Applications of the Continuous-Time Model to Selected Issues in Public Finance:.17. An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty.18. On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans.19. An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Loan Guarantees and Deposit Insurance.20. On the Cost of Deposit Insurance when there are Surveillance Costs.21. Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds.Bibliography.Author Index.Subject Index. “The thoughtful way in which the book is organized, the connective sections, and the fullness of this remarkable scholars accomplishments, succeed in making this collection into a watershed event in finance. It is a testament to how much of modern finance he has formulated, advanced, and, in a meaningful sense, brought to a satisfactory completeness. Modern finance has much to do, but it can do no better than to add to what Merton has already done, and I recommend this book to all who wish to learn what finance has been up to for the past two decades.” Stephen Ross, Journal of Finance “I do not see how one can undertake research in intertemporal asset-pricing under uncertainty without studying very carefully the past and present work of Robert C. Merton. Accordingly, Basil Blackwell has done the academic and non-academic finance community a great service by publishing this book.” Michael Selby, The Economic Journal “A coherent text that represents a bible on continuous-time finance. Anyone with an interest in financial economics will be aware of the outstanding achievements of Robert C. Merton. To these individuals the book will come as no disappointment. It will undoubtedly be a classic reference on continuous-time finance for many years to come.” The Manchester School “John Maynard Keynes alludes to economics in the following terms …the delightful paths of our own most agreeable branch of moral sciences, in which theory and fact, intuitive imagination and practical judgment, are blended in a manner comfortable to the human intellect. Robert C. Mertons Continuous-time Finance, which comes to us more than 20 years after his first paper appeared, squarely fits this description.” Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia University, The Review of Financial Studies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line775
__label__cc	0.541943	0.458057	Minotaur Books Pre-Order the Audio Version Amazon CD Click on any book cover to learn more Praise for The Outsider “THE OUTSIDER is as authentic and suspenseful as any John Grisham novel—and I like Grisham a lot.” —JAMES PATTERSON “It’s like a mix of John Grisham and Scott Turow alongside the inner workings of the court system. Toss it all together and the end result is this winning novel.” —WASHINGTON POST/AP “Crafty and clever! Franze’s insider knowledge of the Supreme Court sets this twisty legal thriller apart. The sympathetic plight of the outsider hero, Grayson Hernandez, will keep you glued to the pages; the explosive plot will leave you breathless.” —LISA GARDNER, #1 New York Times bestselling author “There is so much to like about ‘The Outsider’, I don’t know where to start. Anthony Franze has fashioned a potboiler of a tale that channels John Grisham, David Baldacci and Thomas Harris all at the same time . . . . ‘The Outsider’ moves at a blistering clip, never letting up or letting us down for a moment, as it realizes every bit of its considerable ambition.” “Franze has earned a seat at the table of legal thriller masters, and his latest book is compelling proof of that.”—STRAND MAGAZINE “Truth, justice, and the American way, Franze-style. From the first page to the last, The Outsider is a stellar look inside the Supreme Court, and a killer thriller to boot. Franze has cemented himself as a top-notch legal thriller writer. If you like Grisham, you will love this book.”—J.T. ELLISON, New York Times bestselling author “Franze raises the ante and with an astute piece of misdirection that keeps the reader guessing. A lawyer in a prominent Washington firm and an expert on the Supreme Court, he uses his experience and knowledge to create an authoritative, taut tale of power and revenge that focuses on a justice-minded, admirable protagonist.”—RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH Praise for The Advocate’s Daughter “Smart, sophisticated, suspenseful, and written with real insider authenticity. A winner.” —LEE CHILD, #1 New York Times bestselling author “This fast-paced thriller will appeal to fans of Brad Meltzer, Joseph Finder, and Scott Turow.” “A taut, twisting thriller” “Franze has more close-up experience with the U.S. Supreme Court than probably any other crime novelist. He puts his insider position to enlightening work . . . . The mystery grows thick and dark, but the book’s major appeal lies in sorting out the read stuff about the court from the hectic fiction.” “Lawyers by trade are storytellers, and good lawyers tell good stories — Franze’s book is a case in point . . . . The Advocate’s Daughter will do quite well in your beach bag for a good summer read.” —LA REVIEW OF BOOKS “[Franze] gives readers an inside peek at the world of the Supreme Court, and tossing in an intriguing mystery only adds to the thrills . . . . Legal thriller fans should definitely find this appealing.” “[T]he ‘best of the best’ when it comes to suspense.” “Franze’s writing style reminds me of both John Grisham and James Patterson . . . . He not only tells a good story, he also provides some insight into how the process of picking a new judge actually works . . . . quite impressive, and I look forward to seeing what he has in store for us next.” “[A] smart, suspenseful, nail-biter of a whodunit . . . . this clever story draws you in, wrings you out, and holds you tight, until the very last word.”—AUDIOFILE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line782
__label__wiki	0.974293	0.974293	Parramatta Eels forward Shaun Lane ready to resolve future New space comedy from Veep writer, Avenue 5, is sharp satire Chris Goulding reflects as he reaches 300 NBL games December 5, 2019 Marcus Taylor On Saturday, Goulding, 31, will become the 102nd NBL player to reach 300 games when he runs out at Melbourne Arena as captain of Melbourne United against Wright’s Adelaide 36ers. “My first day I shot some shots with CJ in the morning. Sam was there, Bradtke was there; all Australian greats and the list goes on,” Goulding recalled on Wednesday. “I was so lucky to be thrown into that environment and learn from guys like that at 17, 18 years of age.” Wright saw something in the way Goulding could light up as a shooter and knew the brash youngster could become something special. Good training form led to a development spot and some games for the Bullets in 2006. “I reckon Joey probably got called crazy a few times after he invited me to training but he stuck his neck out for me and I’m thankful,” Goulding said. “So it’s cool that on Saturday I’ll be playing against his team for my 300th.” Goulding will play game 300 against Adelaide this weekend. Credit:Getty Images While he often comes across as cocky, Goulding has always had respect for those who came before him, even as he started matching the achievements of those he looked up to. The 300-game milestone in the NBL isn’t as rare as the AFL or NRL, but it does move a player into some special company, including the likes of Bruton, Bradtke and Mackinnon. Goulding feels fit and motivated so he doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon, especially as shooters can usually hold a roster spot even as they slow down. Tony Ronaldson is the NBL’s games record holder with 665 games ahead of Andrew Gaze on 612. Among active players, Mika Vukona’s 460 games and Adam Gibson’s 424 lead the way. While Melbourne United will bring Goulding’s parents to Saturday’s game along with his wife Molly and some good friends, who will be courtside, the player himself is trying not to get too preoccupied as this game could prove a pivotal one. Melbourne (7-6 on the season) and Adelaide (6-6) are in fourth and fifth place on the ladder. United won six straight games before losses to Cairns and Sydney last round, and perhaps Goulding was channelling some of his early mentors when he said the team needed the reality check. “When you get on a run of six wins you think ‘this is great, we are really good,’ but it only takes a weekend or a team to bring you back down to earth,” Goulding said. “It was probably a positive that we can have a little reset. “We are in the process of doing that, the proof will be in the pudding on Saturday.” Melbourne United play the Adelaide 36ers at Melbourne Arena on Saturday at 5.30pm. Roy Ward is a Sports writer for The Age. Wall Street gains on hopes that US-China trade deal still on track Masssive hole in map of Australia December 22, 2019 Marcus Taylor 0 Manchester City hit back to sink Leicester, as Arsenal fire blanks against Everton Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers have continued their surprising pursuits of the English Premier League top... Australia ready to challenge India, says Michael Hussey Loading It’s unclear if success against India would be enough for Australia to reclaim the No.1... Phoenix on fire but Sydney escape from Wellington with a draw “That’s part of football. I’m sure he wanted to score,” said Wellington coach Ufuk Talay. Sydney’s...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line795
__label__wiki	0.934535	0.934535	Larry Canning Denis Dale Chris Vogt Veteran Golf A Guide To Veteran Golf Around Australia Veteran Golf News & Events AVGU: A Proud History AUSOOM PGA Legends Tour Golf Rules Travel & Courses Australian Senior Golfer Home Events Solid field assembled for inaugural Heritage Classic Solid field assembled for inaugural Heritage Classic Brian O'Hare Daniel Popovic won a lot of new fans at the 2012 Australian PGA Championship AUSSIE golfing veterans Brad Hughes, Peter O’Malley and Craig Parry will be taking on some of the younger guns including reigning Australian PGA Champion Daniel Popovic at the inaugural Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic this week. With more than 36 tournament victories between them, Hughes, O’Malley and Parry certainly know what it takes to win a golf tournament. “It’s always the aim to win, I just want to play well and then things happen, sometimes you can have the week of your life and someone else does better. Then other times you don’t think you’re on your game and you’re up there,” said Hughes. “You just have to take advantage of what comes and play within yourself, that’s the big trick when you haven’t played a lot, not to try and push yourself outside what you can do.” Hughes has returned to Australia after a long sting in the US and says he will focus on the PGA Tour of Australasia this year. “I lived in America for 17 years and I just got stale over there and so I wanted to come back and play, I actually got the bug to play again so I am looking forward to it,” he said. “I am just keen again to play so I think that is going to be an advantage for me and hopefully each week I can keep getting better and better and feature.” The event tees off at the Heritage Golf and Country Club in Melbourne from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th. Playing at his home course and after his emotional Australian PGA Tour win at Coolum late last year, Popovic should bring in some extra golf fans to the free entry event. Also competing for the $130,000 prize are current Victorian PGA Champion David McKenzie and former PGA TOUR winner Andre Stolz. The highest ranked contender is Kurt Barnes, who will be playing his first event of the year before heading off to play in the Japan Golf Tour. “Winning any tournament is great, that’s why we play golf, it’s not the money side of things it’s the tournaments and the trophies in the trophy cabinet. It’s always special to win a tournament in its first year,” Barnes said. Also playing here before heading overseas are Queenslander Adam Crawford, off to South America for his first tournament on the Web.com Tour and Victorian Open champion Scott Arnold, who will tee it up this week before jetting off for his season on the European Tour. 2013 Lexus of Blackburn Heritage Classic Leaaderboard 2013 Heritage Classic Leaderboard pga tour of australasia Previous articleCook wins 2013 Champions Tour opener, Elkington 9th Next article2013 Qatar Masters: Leaderboard Brian is an award winning golf writer and is the founder and editor of Australian Senior Golfer. He is a former Sydney journalist who had little interest in golf till he hit his first ball at the age of 49 (and a half). Since then golf has just about overtaken his life. Brian founded ASG in April 2008 and has since covered every Australian Open, Presidents Cups, World Cups and numerous other big men’s and women’s tournaments, spending days inside the ropes with the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Tom Watson, Fred Couples, Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Karrie Webb, and many others. He has also played in, and reported on, numerous amateur tournaments, particularly senior and veteran events, around the country. Brian is a member of the Australian Golf Media Association and won the award for Best News Report for 2016 - 2017 New fund to help golf clubs hardest hit by bushfire crisis When was golf first played in Australia? Golf historian Dr Michael Sheret presents the evidence Cameron Smith: golf swing analysis of our latest US PGA Tour winner ASG Newsletter Sign up to receive our free newsletters. Follow ASG on Twitter Tweets by asgolfer1 When was golf first played in Australia? Golf historian Dr Michael... Cameron Smith: golf swing analysis of our latest US PGA Tour... A perfect swing for older inflexible golfers? Peter Senior’s ‘Swan Song’ Season MGI introduces a “new age of motorised golf buggies” with new... Latest Golf News2560 Columnists162 AUSOOM160 Veteran Golf136 PGA Legends Tour130 Equipment82 News, information, entertainment and resources for golfers aged 45 plus. Contact us: editor@australianseniorgolfer.com.au © Copyright Australian Senior Golfer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line796
__label__wiki	0.852526	0.852526	Mattis’ Resignation Shocks European Allies Countries were counting on the former Marine Corps general to protect them from the whims of President Donald Trump. NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg speaks with Defense Secretary James Mattis and Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison of the United States going into a North Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels, February 14 (NATO) The resignation of American defense secretary James Mattis has shocked European allies, who were counting on the former Marine Corps general to protect them from the whims of President Donald Trump. Disagreements with Trump Mattis stepped down when Trump unexpectedly ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and Syria, where they act as a buffer between American-allied Turkey and American-backed Kurdish militants. But in his resignation letter, Mattis pointed to wider disagreements with the president — on the need to maintain strong alliances and to be “resolute and unambiguous” toward China and Russia, which “want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model.” My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues. We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity, and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances. Trump, by contrast, has consistently disparaged NATO allies, called America’s security commitment to Europe into question, squandered America’s moral leadership and aligned himself with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Reactions from Europe Peter Altmaier, German economy minister: “This is deeply sad.” Carl Bildt, former Swedish foreign minister and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations: “A morning of alarm in Europe. Sec Def Mattis is the remaining strong bond across the Atlantic in the Trump Administration. All the others are fragile at best or broken at worst.” Ank Bijleveld, Dutch defense minister: “Terrible.” Tobias Ellwood, British veterans ministers: “Our world will be less safe.” Alan Posener, British-German political analyst: “Trump betrays everyone: the Israelis, the Kurds, the Europeans.” Libération (France): “In disagreement with Trump, Pentagon chief slams the door” Der Spiegel (Germany): “Trump makes the chaos complete” Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany): “The last bastion of reason falls” NRC (Netherlands): “Mattis wipes the floor with Trump’s foreign policy” El País (Spain): “Pentagon chief resigns in public public controversy with Trump over Syria” The Independent (United Kingdom): “Mattis resignation over Trump foreign policies sparks panic” Transatlantic Relations	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line811

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