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__label__cc	0.692833	0.307167	« Obama at Altgeld Gardens The blackness of Bill Clinton » The black brute stereotype Wed Apr 23rd 2008 by abagond The black brute stereotype (1870s – ) is one of the pictures white Americans have in their heads about black men: as savage, violent, amazingly strong and not caring about right and wrong. Black men rape and kill for no reason. They cannot control themselves. Whites do not believe that every black man is like that, but they think plenty of them are. Willie Horton, Emmett Till and Rodney King were all seen in this light. It is why Susan Smith could blame a black man for killing her children and be believed: because black men are like that: they kill for no reason, even children! It is why whites are afraid to walk alone in black neighbourhoods: some black man might jump out of nowhere and rape or kill them. They especially like to rape and kill complete strangers at night. It is why whites cross the street to the other side – just to be safe! As if savage killers cannot cross the street too! When a white man kills someone, white people ask, “Why did he do it?” But when a black man kills someone they do not ask why. They already know: because he is black. As stereotypes go, this one is pretty new: it did not arise till the 1870s, after the black slaves were freed. As slaves they were seen as simple and childlike. Once freed, they were seen as being wild and out of control. So if blacks were not kept in line by terror and lynchings, black men would freely rape white women. What, after all, would stop them? This became the stated excuse for Jim Crow – to protect pure white women against savage black men. When Congress tried to pass a law against lynching, white Southerners blocked it in the Senate for just this reason. As it turns out, of all the blacks who were lynched only about one in seven was guilty of raping a white woman. In the case of Emmett Till all he did was call a white woman “Baby”. That was enough for her husband and her brother to kill him, a 14-year-old boy – and get away with it. The true brutes in Jim Crow times were white men. They raped far more women, black and white – and, in the case of black women, got away with it. They were the ones who carried out the lynchings – which were far more savage and frequent than anything blacks had the power to do. And even today blacks are three times more likely to be physically threatened, harmed or killed because of their race than are whites. So this idea of whites as peaceful and blacks as threatening to whites is not rooted in fact. It is rooted in something else. Yes, there are black men who are violent and savage, who do unspeakable things. But there are white men like that too. In either case, they are hardly common enough to reasonably determine one’s ideas about the ordinary people of either race. Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Bob Dylan: The Death of Emmett Til Posted in America, black men, race, stereotypes, white people \| 176 Comments on Wed Apr 23rd 2008 at 14:35:21 Jazzy Once again Abagond you touch upon a topic that reverberates throughout the black community. The media is an effective tool that has fueled the stereotype of brutish black men, so much too the point that even (yes even) some black people are beginning to fall victim to this belief. I am married to a black man, a man that was raised in the hood, and saw it all growing up. He is not the violent product of, but the product despite his situation. He is the most gentle, kind, slow to angry person that I have every encountered and it is frustrating that people (white people) will still give him a wide berth when we approach. It’s sad and disgusting that those individuals are so very blind to their own indoctrinations. Formerly known as musiq on Wed Apr 23rd 2008 at 17:08:33 BeautyinBaltimore Excellent post Abagond. What is sad or ironic about black men being lynched for raping or sleeping with white women is the fact that there are now so many interacial marriages and relationships between BM&WW. I noticed the way that whites would cross the street when they came across black men when I was a teenager. In Montreal I saw something different. The white people in Montreal did not act as if every black male on the street was going to rob them. Abagond, I saw a special on the History channel about how cocaine was outlawed because it was believed that it turned black men into brutes. BeautyinBaltimore I saw that same exact special! My husband and I watched it together and could only shake our heads in wonderment. To this very day wm are the predominate users and abusers of cocaine. on Thu Apr 24th 2008 at 20:19:30 Stephanie Compared to much older stereotypes of Black women by whites, the black male stereotypes are relatively new and gets far more press attention than any others. Maybe because we live in a male-dominated society or is it something else. I think it is the strongest of the stereotypes and by far the most damaging, not just in Jim Crow times, but even now. It is the strongest because it is based on fear. Deep down whites know that if a black man bashed in their brains it would not be completely undeserved. Even in their blindness, they know the history of this country, they know it was built on a crime and they know that crime has never been made right. Even Pat Buchanan has to know that. All the whitewash in the history books cannot cover over the ugly fact. on Sat Mar 14th 2009 at 22:46:05 jj solari I’m a whitey cracker offay honkee, Abagond Noname. If a Negro bashed my brains in I wouldn’t think I deserved it. Just for the record. I’m pretty sure I speak for all my white associates. Ite. I did not say they would think they deserved it but that they would not think it was completely undeserved. A much weaker statement. Maybe whites are even more profoundly blind to race than I think, but what I am saying is that much of the fear they have of black men comes from their knowing, somewhere in the back of their minds, that America has been built on crimes against black people. on Wed Apr 15th 2009 at 09:02:09 Dave I think the facts on todays race crimes are inacurate. In fact I believe more whites are attacked because of race or otherwise by blacks then the opposite. now alot of these may be general muggings and robbings and not have to do with a hatred for the white victims , but would you rather rob an old weak white person or mike tyson? so it is racially motivated crime to a point. the fact is these things probably went on post civil war as well. now it should have been handled better than jim crow laws. but what do you think hungry freed slaves did to survive? they probably robbed as they do today. in fact they say alot of the cowboys from the old west were in fact black have you ever seen that movie posse. now lynching and hangings shouldn’t have been done but black people today need to stop attacking white people as well. Most crimes done by blacks are against other blacks. This idea that most black men just wait for their chance to kill and rob white people, that they have no morals and that only fear of the law (or lynchings in the old days) is what keeps them in line, is all part of this stereotype. on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 00:40:37 nonserviam It is why whites are afraid to walk alone in black neighbourhoods: some black man might jump out of nowhere and rape or kill them. Yeah, what a wildly implausible scenario. Silly whites, believing their lying racist eyes. on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 13:36:27 Black&German “To this very day wm are the predominate users and abusers of cocaine.” Black people are the predominate users of crack cocaine and white people of the powder kind. That is why the punishment for crack is much more draconian for that of cocaine. “but would you rather rob an old weak white person or mike tyson” The question should be: would you rather rob an old weak white person or an old weak black person. That is the point of the stereotype: not all black men are brutes. The truth is, that a white man walking in a black neighborhood is probably the SAFEST person there. And the one most likely to be stopped and questioned by the police. What is he doing there? Buying or selling drugs, missionary work, social worker, visiting a black girlfriend (okay, that might get him jumped), etc. The person most likely to be killed or raped or robbed in America is a black person. That’s why there is such a shortage of black men: they’re killing each other. White people are pretty safe, except from their own white acquaintances. “They especially like to rape and kill complete strangers at night. It is why whites cross the street to the other side – just to be safe! As if savage killers cannot cross the street too!” ROFL! I always wondered why people do that. It’s so pointless. Besides, why bother crossing the street? If they really wanted to kill you, they’d just shoot you. I’m sure they can get you from the other side of the street. And most violent crimes (except rape) are actually committed in broad daylight. on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 22:04:17 Dave come on abagond, you said in your “article” that whites are still victimizing blacks more than vise versa which is untrue. no one ever said that white people are getting beat up by every black person they walk past. but when it comes to interracial crime more blacks commit it -bottom line. especially the crime against old people and women. that is just dispicable. You even said if a person got thier head bashed -in in comment #5 above me -they would feel like they deserved it somehow. you are a sick individual. on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 22:25:41 racerealist “The truth is, that a white man walking in a black neighborhood is probably the SAFEST person there.” That’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/04/14/news/doc49e3cff8d6d54928171033.txt This is just one example, but I have seen dozens. Note especially the irony: ‘One person yelled, “This is our neighborhood, white boy”’ ‘Police do not know why the group surrounded the car or fought with the three roommates’ Statistics show that there is vastly more black-on-white violent crime than white-on-black. If you don’t think that a white person in an all-black neighborhood is a target, then you’re ignorant of the reality of the situation. Of course I can’t blame you, since the media seriously downplays black-on-white crime. Do you know that recently, a group of four black men severely beat a white man in an attempted robbery ON A PUBLIC BUS in France, the entire incident was captured on video, and the French government forced all French internet providers to take the video off of their sites? I’m not suggesting that blacks are inherently violent or criminal, but it is a fact that black violent crime is a serious problem in urban areas in America and Europe, and much of it is directed at whites. No politically correct media source will admit it, nor will they admit that many of the crimes are probably racially motivated. But when I see a statement like the one you made, I feel the need to correct this widespread ignorance. Let a white man go into an all-black urban neighborhood thinking that he is the safest guy there, and he will learn the hard way that he isn’t. I’d rather we educate to prevent these kinds of incidents than deny the truth to avoid trampling on the delicate sensibilities of the PC crowd. on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 00:22:53 nonserviam According to US Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 (the pdf is online), there were 111,590 white victims and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault in the US in 2005. In the 111,590 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was white, 44.5 percent of the offenders were white, and 33.6 percent of the offenders were black. In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white. (The table explains that 0.0 percent means that there were under 10 incidents nationally.) Quite a disparity, isn’t it. Even before taking into account the fact that blacks are ~12% of the US population, while whites are ~66%. And keep in mind that the US government isn’t exactly in the business of inflaming racial tensions by baseless stereotyping. On the contrary, they try to conceal the inconveneient truths. That’s why, for example, there aren’t separate statistics for Hispanics, but they’re merged with whites instead — in order both to inflate white crime numbers and to cover up high Hispanic criminality. on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 02:34:59 Black&German “Statistics show that there is vastly more black-on-white violent crime than white-on-black.” The rates are 17.2% and 10.4%, respectively. Considering that whites are a much larger portion of the population (75% versus 12.3%), that is actually surprisingly low. “In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white… Quite a disparity, isn’t it.” Here we go with the rape statistics. You found those here, right? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus05.pdf I know those statistics. They are accurate. It doesn’t mean that it proves your point. Let’s parse the statistics in that file. Yes, it is quite a disparity. Don’t you wonder about that? Do you really think that 36,620 black women were raped in America and less than 10 of those cases were attributed to a white assailant? Do you really think that? Really? Did you know that there are 117,000 black woman/white man married couples in 2006? Did you know that those rape statistics include spousal rape? Do you not think that “less than 10” of 117,000 women reporting spousal rape would be a suspiciously low number? Remember: those statistics are based on REPORTED rapes, not on actual crimes. Rape is under-reported (54.8% aren’t reported to the police) and rape of black women is grossly under-reported (only 17.1% reported). And did you know that a white woman is more likely to report a rape if it is committed by a black man? There’s a simple reason for that: most rape is acquaintance rape (friends, family, dates, coworkers, etc.). Most white womens’ acquaintances are also white. Therefore, when a white woman is raped by a black man that man is overwhelmingly a stranger. Rape by a stranger has a very high incidence of reporting (for white women, 42.7% of reported rapes were by strangers, even though 85% of rapes committed are by acquaintances). Contrast that with the reporting of only 5.8% of rapes of black women by strangers. Do you really think that white women are over 7 times more likely to be raped by a stranger than black women are? Really? Or could it be because black women are less likely to report a rape, regardless of the assailant? Here’s another interesting calculation: There were 111,490 white women raped out of an estimated population of 118,927,477 That means that 9.37% of white women reported being raped. For black women (36,620/37,909,341) the rate is 9.66%. In other words, even though black women are a much smaller portion of the population (and therefore less likely to be found in any given location) they are more likely to be raped. This doesn’t even take into account that many of the white victims are Hispanic. And here’s another statistic: For every white woman that reports her rape, at least 5 white women do not report theirs; and yet, for every African-American woman that reports her rape, at least 15 African-American women do not report theirs (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Hart and Rennison. 2003. U.S. Department of Justice). The simple truth is: black women don’t report rape. And if they do report it, it’s less likely to be prosecuted. And if it’s prosecuted, the case is less likely to result in a sentence of guilty. And if the assailant is found guilty the punishment is much lower than if the victim is white. It’s open season on black women, folks… Here’s a prime example of what happens to a black girl that reports being raped by a white man (or in this case, white men). Remember Megan Williams, the black woman who had this done to her: http://whyblackwomenareangry.blogspot.com/2007/10/black-west-virginia-rape-victim-was.html They plea bargain their way out of it. Then she gets charged with writing a $32 hot check to Dominoes. I kid you not. http://www.dailymail.com/News/200802280238?page=1&build=cache on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 04:05:37 Uncle Milton Remember: those statistics are based on REPORTED rapes No, those statistics are based upon an annual DOJ crime victimization survey which I would agree has quite a few issues. It has been used and misused by many people including White Supremacists and Tim Wise. (obviously they are not in agreement..) In my opinion It should only be used as a very rough guideline for crime in the US. What’s clear from the survey at least is that most rape is intraracial so when you say “It’s open season on black women, folks…” statistically speaking black men are very likely to be the perpetrators in regards to rape. Likewise if you were say “it’s open season on white women..” it’s more common for the assailant to be a white. They plea bargain their way out of it. No they didn’t “get out of it” they were sentenced to prison, although I would agree the sentences were too light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case In February 2008, Alisha Burton and George Messer both plead guilty to assault and kidnapping and were sentenced to 10 years each. On March 13, 2008, Karen Burton, one of the women involved in the attack, was given one 10-year sentence for violation of civil rights and two 2-10 year sentences for assault. She was the only person involved that was charged with a hate crime. Frankie Brewster received 10-25 years for second-degree sexual assault. They had both pled guilty in exchange for reduced sentences. Carmen Williams, Megan’s mother, expressed frustration that they had not received life sentences, which is the maximum penalty for kidnapping. Bobby Brewster plead guilty to second-degree sexual assault, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and malicious assault. He was sentenced for 13 to 40 years in prison in July 2008. Danny Combs will stand 20 years for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He plead guilty to sexual assault, assault during the commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping or holding hostage in September 2008. on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 04:41:18 Dave why are you defending these criminals because they share your skin. it is rediculous WE ARE ALL HUMAN. I can’t hold you accountable because some blacks kill some whites unless you’re doing it. just like you can’t hold me accountable for the few whites who were slave masters, traders, etc. because I share the skin of the few oppressors. now if I told you that more whites were killed by blacks since the start of the iraq war than by all iraqis and afgans since 2001 should I be like abagond and say “well if a white man bashed in the head of a black man the black man should feel in the back of his mind that it is somehow justified” because of the violent crimes committed by blacks? you have to know that these views are poisonous. look it really shouldn’t matter but I’ll prove my point this way. I am half irish and half italian. all of my ancestors came through ellis island anywhere from 1880 and 1945 depending on which side of my family. so by abagonds way of thinking me being white I am comdemed by the black militants anyway even though I have no genelogical ties to any slave master. you guys have to see though this poison. he is bringing up old news to stir up new racist thinking against white people. YOU DONT KNOW ALL WHITE PEOPLE so you can’t make the generalizations that abagond does. most black people problably have more of the actual slave masters in thier family trees than most white people . we all need to stop this it breeds hate and thats why all these white people are getting attacked. The only time it is right to bash in someone’s head is to save your own life or those of the people you are protecting. No one “deserves” it. No ancient crime can make it the right thing to do, not even slightly. On the other hand white people in America have an OVERBLOWN fear of black men and, yes, even of poor black neighbourhoods. It is not based on a close reading of the numbers on crime, not mainly. It is based on racist fears and, yes, even racist guilt in a backwards kind of way (the point I tried to make about “not completely undeserved”). Your family may have come to America long after the slaves were freed, but in the process of becoming a white American you picked up the white feelings about black people and some of those feelings do go back to slave days. you just proved my point with those foolish old tired remarks that I have heard a million times. YOU DON’T KNOW ME so there is no way that you could ever know about my views just from the color of my skin and you’re still doing it . you don’t know my mom or dad and the same views that are pressed on me in america are also pressed on you from the media. in fact in recent times hatred of white people are more accepted in my opinion because of the fear of white executives getting sued by civil rights attorneys none of whom see dollar bills in thier eyes if the victim is white. it is only when the victim is black that they feel like they won the fucking lottery. in fact I blame these white greedy lawyers and the greedy white media who care nothing for the poor white people in this country then black people. but your views are helping to build a hatred for white skin that i believe is like a raging forest fire in this country. are there white racists? sure but I believe there are systems in place like the NAACP and other groups to combat against that. I do not blame present-day white people for the slave trade and all that. When I do bring it up it is to explain how white people are now. White people did not fall from the sky: they come from a particular history that has shaped them. Some of what they do only starts to make sense once you look at that history. This stereotype is a good example of that. Dave: I do not know you. When I talk about “white people” I mean in general, not every single one. They are not a race of robots or brainwashed zombies. Each one is different and yet there are some things most have in common. I may watch the same television but I will bring my own experiences and point of view to it. The “sytems in place” are decidedly wanting. I am not trying to build a hatred for white people. I am trying to understand them. I see what you are saying and I apologize if it seems I am coming on a little strong. but this is something I feel very strongly about I think when you say the history has shaped them. who is them- do you mean my Italian grandfather who came to this country when he was eight years old and his dad died while they were on the trip. and he had to get a job at twelve years old to help support the family and worked his fingers to the bone until he was 75 laying bricks. or my irish grandfather who had no hip and walked with a cane who died before I was born so I didn’t know him. but he worked as a machinist in a factory 12 hours a day. I know these people didn’t fall out of the sky and they shaped my personal history. you need to stop generalizing all whites who you know nothing about. white people in America have an OVERBLOWN fear of black men and, yes, even of poor black neighborhoods. It is not based on a close reading of the numbers on crime, not mainly. Abagond I have lived in predominantly black neighborhoods and I have to say based upon my experiences and that and other whites I knew who lived in those neighborhoods.. there is justified fear. It’s not of the 63 year old plumber who used to live next door to me nor of the guy who ran across the street to help me stop a paint scaffolding from falling down, nor the older women I used to see returning from church.. no those were all good people who were also black. It’s from the times I heard things like “Get the fuck out of my neighborhood white motherfucker” or when I had people scream at me when they driving down the street or on occasion when people would throw their trash at me or when I was struck in the face with a block of wood that left a permanent scar. I have other stories I could tell you about or that of friends or acquaintances… There are, of course, bad white people, but when I have lived in black neighborhoods I felt sometimes like there was a target on my back. FWIW murder statistics (and these aren’t from surveys..) indicate blacks commit at a rate 7 times higher than whites. This falls heavily upon other black people but do you think it’s possible that other forms of violent crime might also be higher as well..? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/oracetab.htm Uncle Milton, try being a black person in a majority white neighborhood (or country, for that matter). I spent 5 years in Texas. The fear is justified. “those statistics are based upon an annual DOJ crime victimization survey which I would agree has quite a few issues.” “What’s clear from the survey at least is that most rape is intraracial so when you say “It’s open season on black women, folks…” statistically speaking black men are very likely to be the perpetrators in regards to rape.” The open season was referring to ALL men, black, white, and other. BTW, according to numerous other surveys, the “open season” refers even more to mixed-race, Asian, and Native American women. Rape of white women is the most reported (to police and by the media) and prosecuted of all. Too light? That is the understatement of the century. The maximum sentence for 1st-degree sexual assault in WV is 25 to life. Not a single one of them got that. And they can be paroled. And why in the world were they plea-bargaining when the case was so watertight? I mean, she was discovered by the police, she was nearly beaten to a pulp, and she had to have major surgery to repair her bits, she’d been abused to badly. And they plea-bargained?! If the accused had been black they would have re-instated the death-penalty, extra-special. Some black commentators have accused the public prosecutor of plea-bargaining because he’s racist but I think the truth might be more troubling: he’s pragmatic. He doesn’t think they’ll get a tougher sentences if he goes to court so why waste taxpayer’s money? And the fact that the prosecutor charged her with bouncing a check WHILE SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL awaiting surgery is unspeakably cruel. And a statement in itself. My point about the rape statistics is that I’m tired of hearing about “poor white women” that everybody’s raping: they live in fear, they carry pepper spray in their purses, they cross the street when a black man approaches them, etc. It’s minority women who are the most likely to be raped, not white women. The difference is that nobody CARES. Okay. Now THAT is the understatement of the century. on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 15:49:33 racerealist The fear of what? Not getting invited to a party? Then you should probably do more asking and less telling. Yes, and many of the “white” perpetrators are Hispanic too. Given the rate of poverty among Hispanic “whites” and the correlation of poverty with both criminality and victimization, it seems plausible that a disproportionate amount of both the “white” victims and perpetrators are Hispanic. You also ignore the fact that while black women are much more likely to be victims of rape, statistics show that “white” men are not the ones committing these crimes. on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 16:23:58 A White Guy “When I talk about ‘white people’ I mean in general, not every single one. They are not a race of robots or brainwashed zombies. Each one is different and yet there are some things most have in common.” I think it is a very bad habit. From childhood, it was instilled in me not to make generalizations. It annoys me every time I hear someone speak in monolithic terms. “it seems plausible that a disproportionate amount of both the “white” victims and perpetrators are Hispanic.” Which would mean that the percentage of white women who are raped is even more inflated. I don’t ignore that fact. My beef was with the “In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white.” statement. It’s obviously false. The % of WW raped by BM is inflated and the % of BW raped by WM is under-reported. That doesn’t change the fact that most rape/crime is intra-racial but it does effect the debate about interracial crime. Is it under-reported by 37,000? on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 17:46:51 miker fear of black people, well im not going to lie, i live in Sweden ( quite peacefull country compared to USA ), but if id meet a gang of black males at night id feel more uncomfortable than if i met a gang of whites. To Black&German: There’s no reference to a check to Dominoes in the link above. I can tell you that in several states arresting someone for a bounced check does not require a prosecutor. I did find an article on a blog that referenced it and said the charge had been dropped. You have my deepest sympathies if you were harassed and/or assaulted in Texas as I was when I lived in Oakland. My point to Abagond was that for a white person to have fear while being in a black neighborhood was not irrational. My point about the rape statistics is that I’m tired of hearing about.. You mean you only hear about white women being assaulted and not black women being assaulted..? I have seen multiple articles on the matter…that rape is more common for black women.. and the perpetrators are almost all black men. As we both agree most rape is intraracial. How should this information be brought to the public’s attention..? Too light? That is the understatement of the century. How would you have liked me to phrase it..? I would also say the sentence for Dan White.. the man who murdered a mayor (Moscone) and council member (Harvey Milk) of San Francisco was too light. (He received 7 years..) Frankie Lee Brewster served 5 years previously (another plea bargain) for murdering an 84 year old woman: Mrs. Brewster, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, served five years in the fatal 1994 shooting of an 84-year-old woman who the police now say was her mother-in-law. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/us/13captive.html Deep down whites know that if a black man bashed in their brains it would not be completely undeserved. That’s a stunning statement from you Abagond….so would this give me the right to objectify 20 plus million Americans because and bash in a random black man’s head because a small portion of people who shared the same phenotype were vicious and on a few occasions assaulted me..? I mean in your words it would appear not completely undeserved. To Black & German: Re: The inbreeds from West Virgina My point with this.. since I didn’t follow it up is that this prosecutor’s office seems to dole out plea bargains pretty easily. So.. I guess you’ve never been a victim of a mugging or attempted mugging then. The majority of muggers don’t use a gun…and a fairly common technique is for someone to knock you down as you pass them. IE not crossing the street makes this form of mugging possible. Crossing the street gives you time.. time to think how to respond and react. And by the yes.. I have crossed the street and had someone come after me.. but since I already had a lead on them and I was able to outrun them. Wow. And you wonder why people get upset at the things you say. Your comment about living in a black neighbourhood as a white person (#26) was excellent. Thank you! I wish it was that easy, but most whites are pretty blind when it comes to their own racism. But writing about white people and then reading their comments about it has been an eye-opening education for me. Uncle Milton said: See comment #21 where I said this: The point of this post is not to excuse black crime (I am not – crime is crime) but to explain why whites have an overblown fear of black men, even given the crime numbers, as bad as they are. The point I was trying to get across with my badly stated example of bashing in heads is that part of the fear is based on white guilt about living in an unjust society. on Sun Apr 19th 2009 at 07:56:20 Dave i just want to say this i work with the most friendly black people that are some of the best people white or black that I have ever met. black people have thier bad apples but they also have great human beings all I am trying to prove here is so do white people. I look at it this way I live near philly and obviously i’m a phillies and an eagle fan. our biggest rival is the newyork mets and the newyork giants. now if the mets had a kind person on thier team I wouldn’t care I would concentrate on the mets I didn’t like. I think its the same way with white and black people they talk about the bad apples in both respective races and ignore the good. on Sun Apr 19th 2009 at 16:23:35 nonserviam I wonder if that’s what Eugenia Calle thought in her last moments. And for all I know, she might have. Although a sheltered white liberal, she wasn’t an idiot — she was a prominent cancer epidemiologist. It should have been obvious to her that Shamal Thompson made a very improbable luxury condo buyer. And yet, she invited him to her apartment and refused help from the guard. “I don’t want him to think that we don’t trust him,” she said. Better dead than racist. That is the racial cowardice that is killing us (whites) both physically and civilizationally. on Mon Apr 20th 2009 at 19:05:20 Black&German I’ve never personally been afraid of white people but then I don’t really look black so they tend not to notice me (although I’ve been sexually harassed for being a “senorita” and been told to “go back to Mexico”). My father and my cousin do and they were harassed on a regular basis. There was a KKK outpost near where we lived that would beat the crap out of a random Mexican or black guy every couple of months. Just so we wouldn’t forget about them, I guess. There was also this while we lived there (OMG, just saw that it’s happened AGAIN) http://www.workers.org/2008/us/texas_1106/ I think it depends on the neighborhood. My parents (my mother’s white) live in an upper-class black neighborhood in Maryland. She’s very safe there. Now… South-East Washington DC is another story. But EVERYONE (black, white, brown, etc.) is unsafe there. Even the black people lock their doors when they drive through there. “As we both agree most rape is intraracial. How should this information be brought to the public’s attention..?” I have no idea. I don’t think they want to know about it. Perhaps it’s financial? Maybe they don’t have the money to prosecute the cases? Felony trials cost a small fortune. “I have crossed the street and had someone come after me.. but since I already had a lead on them and I was able to outrun them.” Okay, I didn’t consider muggings. I’ve never been the victim of any crime except interpersonal ones. Okay, those are still crimes but they just don’t seem as bad as something involving a stranger. But maybe that’s what’s wrong with black women? “Better dead than racist.” I’m sorry, but that seems to be very naive of her. I would never let a perfect stranger into my house when I’m home alone. I’m even afraid of plumbers and taxi drivers. But maybe life has made me cynical. on Sat Apr 25th 2009 at 20:55:19 nonserviam I’m sorry, but that seems to be very naive of her. I would never let a perfect stranger into my house when I’m home alone. Yes, exactly. You’re black, so you have no qualms about being wary of a suspicious-looking black person. My point is that neither should whites. on Sat Apr 25th 2009 at 23:54:27 racerealist Allow me to clarify what I think nonserviam meant – black people have no qualms about being wary of suspicious people, but certain brainwashed white liberals feel bad about being wary of suspicious people if those people are black. Correct me if I’m wrong, nonserviam. I just didn’t want someone to take your comment the wrong way and start an unproductive accusatory tangent. Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I wasn’t aware of any ambiguity in my comment, but thank you. My larger point is that white racial guilt over the injustices (real in the past, imaginary in the present day) done to blacks is the poisoned spiritual source of the Western civilizational suicide. Which means that, unless it is confronted and overcome, we are done for. That’s what makes the race realism, even though it’s descriptive rather than normative, so important. on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 19:43:56 BlueLake Ted Bundy rpaed and killed over 30 white women, some he confessed to and others he would not fess up. But when that man was in court, instead of treatng him like the nasty monster he was, there were many white women falling in love with him and many people felt sorry for him! Now if a black man attacks somebody it’s different! Shows you how twisted and nasty the so-called “superior white race” really is. They have told so many lies over and over again, no rational person would believe a word they have to say at all! on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 22:49:41 Uncle Milton Nope… there are many examples of women falling for black men in prison also. It’s a bizarre phenomenon and probably a reflection with America’s obsession with fame and crosses racial lines. In China they make you wear your a sign describing the crimes as you want to your place of execution. There is basically little description of the criminal’s himself but mostly of their deeds and victims. For capital crimes they put a bullet in the back of your head.. up until a few years ago they charged the criminals’ family for the cost of the execution. on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 23:22:28 Requiem I remember the Sherrice Iverson murder. That’s funny, David Duke and the other whites like to say that interracial rape where the white man is the perp NEVER happens. The “superior white people” claim that black women are not raped by white men because black women are unrapeable. If black women are “unrapeable” why did that nasty freak follow that little girl into a public restroom and strangle her over the toilet seat? I’m sure many women get attacked all the time, but because the “superior white people” said that black women are unrapeable, no one believes them. http://www.freewebs.com/sherriceiverson/ on Sun Aug 2nd 2009 at 09:04:23 JonShmaltz Um to the last few people who posted … are you the same person? Because you have an uncanny knack for stereotyping massive groups of people based on a few so-called “members” of said group. What the hell do white serial killers have to do with anything? There’s obviously something wrong with these people and everyone knows it. Despite the depravity of their acts, their stories are so twisted they are hard to ignore. How do they reflect on whites as a whole? Not at all. Seriously, I find race relations to be fascinating and I read a lot of forum boards to get a better perspective on how things are going … and (warning, I have to generalize a bit here) it seems to me that blacks often segregate themselves, and pin all the blame for their troubles on the ambiguous “evil white man”. By the way some people talk about such topics, so sure of their inaccurate views, it makes me think they have been brainwashed. As for other things being discussed, I’m not particularly afraid of black men … but I’m a pretty big guy and through athletics (wrestling, football) I have come to understand they are no more dangerous than anyone else. However, there is such a thing as “mob mentality” that sort of takes over when you’re in a group of peers or even strangers bearing similarity to you. It’s ignorant to fear blacks on sight, but careless to throw caution to the wind, especially when dealing with a group of people who are (obviously) probably going to dislike you the instant they see you. on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:05:23 Raphael WE cannot change what is. Black people male and female have higher levels of testosterone, mature physically faster, reach puberty earlier, have smaller cranial capacity than whites or Asians. Black Africans in America have an average IQ of 85, Caucasians 101, Asians 106. African Americans represent 13% of the U.S population and commit 80% of the violent crime. Blacks throughout the world have more sex partners and fewer black males stay with their childrens mother.Testerone is equated to athletic ability and the rapid rise to rage. Africans south of the Sahara score 70 as an average in IQ tests which would qualify them as handicapped elsewhere in the world. Not all blacks are dull and violent. It is just an observation on the Bell curve. In U.S. Blacks are on average 30% Caucasian which explains the higher than African average IQ. Indeed the Black man is the White mans burden. Sending aid constantly to civil war torn and starving Africa and other unsuccessful nations. There has never been in past or id there in present a successful Black nation. on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:13:55 abagond Please state your sources. on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:24:35 leigh204 I’m not too sure, but I’m positive I’ve seen a similar post somewhere on this blog. on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:25:26 Thad Her sources are that racist schmuck who won the Nobel peace prize for helping discover the structure of DNA back in 1953: James D. Watson. Since then, has had a severe case of nobelitis and thinks it’s his scientific duty to exagerate marginal findings and make ridiculous claims based on thin evidence in order to keep everyone guessing. He’s also a self-proclaimed eugenicist. The concept that blacks have smaller cranial capacity, on average, than whites and that this has something to do with race (instead of, say, nutrition) comes from Morton, IIRC, and was thoroughly debunked back in the 1920s. The “bell curve” hypothesis for the biological root of low black I.Q. scores has been dealt with on this site, ad nauseaum. It is based on tendacious data, poor sampling techniques and shifting definitions of “black” and “white”. Gould has dealt with this point quite conclusively in “The Mismeasure of Man”. Raphael seems to believe that if lies and bad science are repeated often enough, loud enough, people will eventually believe them. on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:58:40 Herneith That James Watson is hilarious. Talk about putting your foot in your mouth! Get a load of this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article3022190.ece According to this article, he had his genes ‘donated’ to the genome project for posterity! Well wonders never cease! It came out that he has 16% African Ancestry, and 9% Asian ancestry. This from a man who made derogatory remarks about his own ancestors! Apparently this signifies that at least a great grandparent was black. Hmm, lets see. According to good old Raphael, he derived his main source of intelligence from his European ancestry, his above average intelligence from his 9% Asian ancestry, and his ‘brutish’ behaviour from his black ancestry! Of course if you subscribe to the ‘one drop rule’, he is one smart black man. From what I have heard Watson’s IQ was not particularly high – maybe like 105 or 110. That is better than most, of course, but not what you would expect for such a famous scientist. LOL! You’re kidding!!! Oh, that’s just too rich! You know what this means, don’t you? The next time some little racist twerp says “Name one famous black scientist”, we can confidently say “Why James D. Watson, of course!” 😀 😀 😀 😀 I love it. This makes my day, Herneith. Thank you very much! Racist fu$#wads have been using Watson for years. I imagine that they’ll now switch course 180 degrees and say that his low IQ was due to his African ancestry… “From what I have heard Watson’s IQ was not particularly high – maybe like 105 or 110.” Maybe his ‘Asian’ blood bumped him up a bit, LOL. Judging from some of his comments, he sure as hell doesn’t strike me as being being ‘politic’ in his public pronouncements whatever his ‘beliefs’, and that is what they are, based upon what other scientists and fellow Nobel Laureates have said in regards to his remarks. One comment from the article particularly stand out: “This weekend his critics savoured the wry twist of fate. Sir John Sulston, the Nobel laureate who helped lead the consortium that decoded the human genome, said the discovery was ironic in view of Watson’s opinions on race. “I never did agree with Watson’s remarks,” he said. “We do not understand enough about intelligence to generalise about race.” No, they will say he wasn’t that smart anyway and it was sheer luck that he stumbled upon his discoveries. on Wed Jun 23rd 2010 at 13:37:52 Alan B'Stard M P he abegond. If blacks beat a white man’s brains in, it is not deserved. You’re a hard gal. You would enjoy seeing a white guy brutalized would you> Is it a sexual thing? Our perception of the negro are based on experience, on the crime stats. It’s damed unfortunate for the good black people out there. They must understand, our exprerinces in life make us react the way we do on Tue Jun 29th 2010 at 16:52:01 bronxtalediver Our perception of the whites are based on experience and crime stats also. Remember a few things called slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, or apartheid. There has never been a time in American history that blacks have tried to subjugate an entire race based on physical features alone. I can’t begin to count the instances that this has been attempted by the white people. You just ask a black man who has met Bull Connor and his German Shepards how they feel about that comment. on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 20:02:07 Blaximus Race discussions always seem to ramble-on and on, but grind to a halt on the same old sticking points. Sad, but interesting. Like a really bad auto accident. sigh Alas, I will have to ” generalize ” for the sake of this conversation. I hope no one will be deeply offended. Whenever I read/listen to white people’s take on race and racism, it’s as if a majority of them exist in some sort of historical vacuum where everyone else on the planet ( whites are a minority worldwide…. ) is less intelligent, has no real historical accomplishments, or is widly uncivilized and brutish. It seems an impossibility to assign the same declarations of savage-ness to, say, witch burnings, inquisitions, crusades, endless/countless wars ( barbarian and all others going forward ), and mass orchestration and execution of worldwide slavery. It’s always ” everyone else’s fault ” and no one had anything to do with anything negative that has every happened. Period. This is why, much to my sadness, there will NEVER be a discussion on race and racism that will ever be more than an exercise that will consistantly degrade into a pitiful morass of negativity and blame shedding. White people want ” credit ” for scientific advances, certain societal structures, governing and politics, space travel…etc. etc, ( even nuclear weapons, which is surprising ) but want to poo-poo the equally numerous Shortcomings and atrocities by distancing themselves from them. This is amazing. ” I never had slaves…”. ” My grandfather came here and worked 90 hour days “… People who’ve existed as ” Americans ” for 1 solid generations just absolving themselves of any of the acts, repercusions and responsibilities of the very same America. That is a very neat trick indeed. And it works. It works well because the majority is pretty much synced up to the same illusion. United States of Disneyland. And to anyone who is afraid of the ” ghettoes ” and ” certain black neighborhoods “, I invite you to take a tour of the nations many, many trailer parks. All this blathering about IQ scores and skull circumfrence and Bell Curves is complete and utter nonsense. But it tilts the argument ( if you but into these premises ) in favor of whites. …. I could easily make up a test that a majority of whites would do poorly on. As a black man who stands 6 ft and weighs in at 239 pounds, I was interested in reading what commenters had to say. I would hope that this conversation can keep going because there is much to learn, even if the same old tired examples and replies surface. And I will leave all of my white breathren with the old, well worn quote : ” The only thing we have to fear is fear itself “. on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 21:12:24 King To me, examples of the most savage behavior, in American history, were the mob lynchings. Those accounts are absolutely bone chilling: Henry Smith Lynching [Wiki] “He was placed upon a scaffold and tortured for fifty minutes by members of the girl’s family, who thrust hot iron brands into his flesh, starting with his feet and legs and working upward to his head. The family members involved included Myrtle’s father, uncles, and twelve-year-old brother. A February 2, 1893 article in The New York Sun stated that, “Every groan from the fiend, every contortion of his body was cheered by the thickly packed crowd.” Eventually, the hot irons were thrust into his eye sockets and down his throat. Afterwards, finding he was still breathing, the crowd poured oil on him and set him on fire. The crowd then fought over the hot ashes to collect his bones and teeth as souvenirs.” Imagine that as a public event, held at the Paris Texas fair grounds with children both present in the crowd and even participating in the torture! I don’t think that I could watch such a thing without being permanently scarred by it. Sam Hose Lynching [Wiki] The mob stopped just north of Newnan and went about their barbaric task. Newspapers reported that Wilkes/Hose’ ears, fingers and genitals were severed. The skin from his face was removed and his body was doused with kerosene. He was tied to a tree and burned alive. Some members of the mob cut off pieces of his dead body as souvenirs… The torture of the victim lasted almost half an hour. It began when a man stepped forward and very matter-of-factly sliced off Hose’s ears. Then several men grabbed Hose’s arms and held them forward so his fingers could be severed one by one and shown to the crowd. Finally, a blade was passed between his thighs, Hose cried in agony, and a moment later his genitals were held aloft. From the crude incisions he’d suffered, the bound, naked man was soon covered with bright crimson blood from head to foot, and must have appeared at last to be the “black devil” the newspapers had made him out to be all along. It was the last clear glimpse the crowd had of him, for with the command “Come on with the oil!” three men lifted the large can of kerosene and dumped its contents over Sam Hose’s head, and the pyre was set ablaze. “Sweet Jesus!” Hose was heard to exclaim, and these were believed to be his last words. I mean, talk about barbaric! But again, much of this treatment was the result of the “Black Brute” stereotype. on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 21:44:08 Femi As always, not as a general rule, but it does – unfortunately – sum it up quite accurately. on Sun May 8th 2011 at 11:17:21 John I think Abagond or whatever your name is.. you are incredibly pretentious .. to think that all white people dont understand that we live in a racist society..I understand that as a white person that there things that are easier for me then a black person to do..like getting a job interview. but with every race there are circumstances where people will prejudge you in becuase of your race.. Like people have said before if you want to know more about white people mabye yo should ask them individually rather than making claims which make you arrogant pretentious person no better than a slave master who thinks he knows better than the people he targets.. I have twin sisters guess what they hate themselves ..their culture and rather be black why is that?? mabye its because its white people in America cant be racist but other races are alowed to say whatever you like.. then you get mad when the white majority doesnt want to hear you.. You as a black person can make these claims this website and not get as much hate mail because your black ..think about it for a second if a white person said the things you said right now ..you would come off as an ignorant ass.. white or black your thought pattern is incredibly pretentious and flawed. and im tired of seeing your stupid blogs everywhere.get over it and live your life stop worrying about us white people. you obviously dont like us and no one going to listen to someone who puts words in their mouth and has no understanding of whats live your life as a white person no matter how much analyze it just like i would never what its like to black in america.. u make me want to become racist with all the crap white people have to tolerate. on Sun May 8th 2011 at 12:59:00 abagond 1. This is a personal blog, not a scholarly journal or holy writ. It is a place where I express my views, however right or wrong they may be. I know I am not always right. I expect people to disagree with me. Thus the comment section. 2. I never ever say “ALL white people” are this or that. But MANY white people get upset at what I say and then put the word “all” in my mouth. I do not talk like that. Some white people are way more racist than what I am saying, some are way less. I am thinking of the broad middle of White America or, depending on context, some part of them, like those who use certain arguments or stereotypes. amband: I accidentally deleted your comment. You can resubmit it. on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 06:26:00 brothawolf If there’s one thing racists love is using statistics (usually exaggerated) and news reports to state their case that black men are more violent and hypersexual. I noticed on our old friends’ blogs, Unamused and Chuck’s, that they post news articles, links, and videos of crimes committed by blacks, and the are in ecstacy when the victim is white. What’s funny is how some racists believe the media is unfair to whites and is too liberal, but they use reports from the same media to state their cases. on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 13:26:04 jas0nburns “I never ever say “ALL white people” are this or that. But MANY white people get upset at what I say and then put the word “all” in my mouth.” so if I were to say “black people are lazy” and someone told me that was racist, I could just say “I didn’t say ALL black people, stop putting words in my mouth.” and they would be like “oh sorry, I misunderstood you, my mistake.” hmmm something tells me that wouldn’t fly here on planet earth. The fact is that the word “all” or at least “most” is directly implied. I don’t know where you got the idea that you could use a general term like WP and somehow have that not be taken as referring to anyone who is white. by your usage rules, you could say just about anything about any group and technically you would be right. I could say blacks are lazy because some blacks are lazy just as some whites and some Asians are lazy. I could say black people love fried chicken because some blacks do love fried chicken, as does a certain number of people who belong to any group. You are generalizing and trying to squeak out of it on a technicality. It’s dishonest. If that is why whites are afraid, why are blacks afraid as well? It seems that blacks also believe this stereotype about black men. on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 14:39:08 jorbia @ jasOnburns– I’ll bet that even the black men who claim this is simply a stereotype are way more afraid of other black men jumping out at them than they are of white men doing that. Instead of admitting that it’s a big problem, too many American blacks try to deny it. You can’t solve a problem if you can’t admit that it is a problem. If they can’t admit this, no one is going to take them seriously about anything. This whole discussion becomes so jumbled and chaotic after a while until it doesn’t make sense anymore. I think the reason for this is that both sides of the debate are trying to obscure half of the truth, the half that doesn’t neatly fit inside their narrative. It’s true that as Abagond says fear of black men is inflated and a result of unfair stereotypes. I know this to be true even as you wouldn’t catch me strolling through a black neighborhood alone, because I know that there is enough dysfunction present as to make it unsafe for me. I think these two things feed on one another. on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 15:51:58 The Cynic @Jorbia “I’ll bet that even the black men who claim this is simply a stereotype are way more afraid of other black men jumping out at them than they are of white men doing that. Instead of admitting that it’s a big problem, too many American blacks try to deny it.” -This is dumb. Being a black man, it’s not hard for me to see the variation w/in my group. Yes, if a man looks like a “thug”, I will put my guard up, but most black males are not thugs! If most of us aren’t thugs why would I feel that I am in danger just by being around another black dude’s presence? Is it really that hard to discern between a Lance Gross/Laz Alonzo type and some TI/Lil Wayne lookin dudes? I understand the need for stereotyping in some instances, but “black man=violent” is kind of vague and just damn lazy. @Jas0nburns “I know this to be true even as you wouldn’t catch me strolling through a black neighborhood alone, because I know that there is enough dysfunction present as to make it unsafe for me” -This is dumb too. Every black neighborhood is not the same. I think it’s hilarious that any white person would be afraid to enter my neighborhood solely bc it is predominantly black.Their are more too many black neighborhoods that are safe & stable for someone to make a judgement based on racial population statistics alone. “The fact is that the word “all” or at least “most” is directly implied. I don’t know where you got the idea that you could use a general term like WP and somehow have that not be taken as referring to anyone who is white.” -Yeah, I realized the hypocrisy behind this a long time ago. I was going to mention it when someone asked if Abagond seemed anti-white in the open thread(to me he often comes off as resentful about white racism, prejudiced, and subjective, but nv hateful), but I didn’t care to comment at the time. -Being objective really isn’t that hard. All you have to do is ask yourself, “if I was ____ would I feel comfortable with this?” and then proceed follow the golden rule. “Yes, if a man looks like a “thug”, I will put my guard up, but most black males are not thugs!” I see your point, and none of the black men I interact with on a daily basis fit into any type of thug catagory at all. So in my experience the great majority of black men are not thugs or brutes, which is why I agree that it is an unfair stereotype. However, It just seems like the thug ratio is higher with black Americans than with other groups in my experience. That’s why I personally would avoid being in even a middle class black neighborhood alone. (emphasis on alone) I know from experience that by the time you get close enough to determine whether someone is a thug or not, it’s too late. Cynic, what’s dumb is to continue trying to convince people to relax when people know that there’s a reason to feel unsafe. You’re claiming that this is just an imaginary threat. You’re not going to be able to sell that. @JasOnburns– That’s why I personally would avoid being in even a middle class black neighborhood alone. (emphasis on alone) I know from experience that by the time you get close enough to determine whether someone is a thug or not, it’s too late. You would be safe in certain middle class black neighborhoods, but not in others because some middle class black neighborhoods have thugs living in them since they are relatives of law abiding residents. Since you’re white, you would most likely not be able to figure out which is which because you can’t read the cues. Even if a black man can’t read the cues, he might be able to talk or fight his way out or go unnoticed if he’s misread the cues. If a black man dresses in a certain way, the chances are that some thugs would not notice or bother him, but there’s no way you could hide your complexion. This is a problem that American black men need to face and handle. @Jorbia & Jas0nburns Black men are not threats. Yea, their is a higher ratio of thugs, but it really isn’t hard to discern between the thugs and regular old black dudes. Their is nothing dumb about not being afraid of some Laz Alonzo looking black guy. You aren’t being any smarter or safer by avoiding him based on race alone. That’s just lazy(ier than normal) stereotyping. I also have no idea why you guys are bringing up middle class black neighborhoods when I nv said I lived in one. In the “7 layers” post I stated that i live in a quasi-burb, which may qualify as a suburb, although some of the residents are poor. Many ppl are lower middle class while others(like me) are legally below the poverty line, there is plenty of yard space, and the houses are like 30, 40yrs old. That being said, I don’t worry about crime at all. My family doesnt panic when the doors aren’t locked, my sister was fine walking 15mins from the bus stop every night. This is the complete opposite of when was living on my downtown campus. At school their IS reason to be afraid bc there ARE robberies left & right. Both of those environments are majority black, but it only makes sense to be afraid in one, whether you are alone or not. Crime rates, and not whether their is a higher # thugs in a racial group, should be the determining factor of whether a neighborhood is safe or not. complete opposite of when I was living on my downtown campus I also want to add that I just saw one of the few white ladies that live in my neighborhood walking her dog peacefully a few days ago… Smh… my blackness does not make me immune to being a victim of crime. If i dont feel unsafe in my own neighborhood than there is no reason for a white person to be afraid. I 100% agree with that, and I didn’t say that my race would make me a target. I know Jorbia did allude to that but that wasn’t something I was concerned with. I think being a stranger/ being alone / looking soft is what makes you a target in a bad neighborhood regardless of race. Jorbia, there will always be people within groups that fit the stereotypes of their respected groups produced by groups with the most privileges.They are the minority within those groups, but most people focus more on them more than the other members. Why? Among other things, to make themselves feel better. It’s become so strong in this society that people within the groups accept stereotypes about themselves. However, there have been discussions on this issue with negative stereotypes within black communities for some time now. What I don’t see often are whites joining in on the discussions seeing as how their people throughout history to today created, benefited, and still believe in stereotypes they have about black people. on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 00:26:52 jorbia However, there have been discussions on this issue with negative stereotypes within black communities for some time now. You guys are making assaults and other crimes in these communities into a figment of peoples imagination. Okay, let’s all agree that it’s just a bunch of stereotypes. That was a very easy problem to solve. on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 00:27:25 Zek J Evets On the flip side, I believe the hardest thing is for me, as a White person, to acknowledge, understand, and try to see the stereotypes people have about Whites — particularly since they are often negative. It’s difficult to look at your group from an outside perspective when you are so used to seeing in the same way, over and over and over again. For instance, my girlfriend when we first started dating made the comment that she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain. At first I thought this was hilarious, mostly because it was so silly and wrong. But now I use it as a way of understand how even the stupidest stereotypes can grow in the absence of experience — real, in your face experience — with people from different groups. understanding* on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 01:42:29 jas0nburns “she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain.” on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 02:15:24 The Cynic When did I ever say that there weren’t any dangerous or crime ridden black neighborhoods? All I said was that not ALL of them are dangerous. In fact, many aren’t. Maybe it’s a different story where you live, but I feel perfectly safe, or as safe as I would in a white place, in most of the areas in my majority black city. Yeah, I haven’t heard about baloney, but I am familiar with the “white ppl smell like wet dogs” stereotype on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 02:30:21 brothawolf Jorbia, by you referring to me or blacks as “you guys” it’s safe to conclude that you are either white or non-African American. In the first place most of us who were victims or have witnessed crimes think less about whether they are stereotype threats or not as opposed to our safety. Black people in this nation are quite aware of crimes occuring within black communities, and there are those who are actively doing something about it. In the second place even if the crime rate in black communities is almost nonexistant, that would not matter to some people outside the communities. The small number of criminals is what’s matter to them, not the people who do not fit that stereotype of the “criminal black man” OR the people who are not seen as capable of crimes in the neighborhoods of those outside that reality. In the third and final place speaking from experience the ones who make crimes into a figment of people’s imagination are mostly whites. When the Columbine shooting occured, white people were shocked as hell that something like that happened in a community like that. They thought something like that happened in communities of color, never in their area. However, did that create the stereotype that young white males are more murderous than any other race including blacks? No. Whites are seemingly more unaware about the possibility of being a victim of a crime by another white person, but they are scared at the thought of being attacked by a black person. Meanwhile, there are white parents physically and sexually abusing their children. There are white ministers sexually assaulting and raping young boys. There are young whites drinking and getting high while driving, and there are white females seducing and having sex with their students. Not to mention the frequent murder-suicides involving mostly white families, and the mostly white serial killers. The bottom line is this; black people are aware of the crimes that are damaging their communities. Some have acknowledged it, and are doing something about it. What is the white community doing to solve its crime problem? Like Cynic said, most black communities are not dangerous, but most people, depending on who they are, are mostly focused on the crime occuring in the ones that are. Some want to step in and fix those communities while others use it for their benefit, mainly to make them and others who are like them feel good about not living there among “those” people. The latter is the very essence of stereotypes, to dehumanize others for their personal enjoyment. on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 04:04:43 King “For instance, my girlfriend when we first started dating made the comment that she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain.” I too was always taught that Whites were full of baloney. Perhaps the smell was psychosomatic. She simply reasoned subconsciously, that with all the rain… In the first place most of us who were victims or have witnessed crimes think less about whether they are stereotype threats or not as opposed to our safety. Much of what some of you all are saying is contradictory and chaotic. This is why you sound like you’re just complaining and trying to blame whites. Is there a quite high physical safety issue in the black community or isn’t there one? You’re now trying to make it seem like it’s as safe in the black community as it is in the white community. I’ve often heard of American blacks complaining about crime in their own communities. They are scared. They feel unsafe and say that the police has abandoned them and left them there unprotected. I’ve heard and read that many times. Some of you here are making it seem like black people are lying about that and saying that the complaints are based on white stereotypes. I wasn’t the one who said it’s about stereotypes.I’m saying that people there feel a real threat to their safety. Maybe some younger black men feel safer because they’re black and male. They may feel they can fight back and outrun potential attackers. You should ask American black women whether they feel safe in most of those communities. Ask Koreans. Ask Pakistanis. Ask black immigrants. It’s not just whites who feel unsafe. We all know that there is no place on earth that is completely safe. if whites have all of the crime you mentioned in their communities and are just as unsafe there, why is it that blacks who can afford it are running to live in predominantly white communities? Why aren’t whites and others running to live in black communities? Wouldn’t it just make more sense to admit that there’s a serious issue with black males committing crimes and then direct your energy toward remedies, instead of denying it’s a serious issue? “Is there a quite high physical safety issue in the black community or isn’t there one?” Not in all of them. Not even in most of them. That’s the point you’re missing. “If whites have all of the crime you mentioned in their communities and are just as unsafe there, why is it that blacks who can afford it are running to live in predominantly white communities?” Not all of them “run” to live in predominantly white communities just because of “safety” issues. “Why aren’t whites and others running to live in black communities?” Why don’t you tell me. Oh, that’s right. Black communities EVERYWHERE are filled with crime committed by black males, right? I thought I just made that point in my last response: “The bottom line is this; black people are aware of the crimes that are damaging their communities. Some have acknowledged it, and are doing something about it.” yeah, i’m leaning more towards this being more about perception than reality. I think Cynic has a point that you should be looking at actual crime rates and not race when determining the safety of a given neighborhood. It is lazy to just assume a black neighborhood is more dangerous. Jorbia, it sounds to me like you’re trying to say that the black brute stereotype holds a lot of merit based on what you’ve heard supposedly by other blacks about not being safe in their own neighborhoods. I also sense of hint of “black males are more criminal minded than white males” in your responses. I could be wrong though. Here’s the points trying to be made: Most black males do not fit this stereotype. Not all black communities are crime ridden by black males. Some, if not many, black communities are safer as opposed to some of their white counterparts. Some black people living in neighborhoods with crime problems are trying to do something about it. They don’t deny it. If they did, they wouldn’t be doing anything at all. Just because the black neighborhoods in your area may not be safe doesn’t mean ALL black neighborhoods are the same way. on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 20:21:00 Demerera In my experience, whenever you venture in to ANY new domain, the current inhabitants will often prove territorial. How this manifests itself can vary i.e. an uncomfortable silence, vocally, or heaven forbid physically, but you would hope that if your intentions are decent and honorouable you will be left to go about your business though perhaps under the watchful eye of an voyeuristic inhabitant (aka nosey neighbour) 🙂 In the U.K, if I were to venture in a pub in a rural area, there would be that uncomfortable/hostile silence and I might just have to wait my turn to get served after the local! On the other hand though, it could be a nice cosy country pub where they might welcome someone who’s ‘different’. Even when you are a kid and you go in to the next ‘neighborhood’ to yours, you can guarantee that the inhabitants of that area will be checking you out to see whats what. Kids usually have less reservations than adults so generally you would find yourself in an all out territory war with x shouting ‘go back to your area, this is ours’. By the same token though kids are generally more open to difference than adults and this lack of reservations enables children to embrace difference without really noticing it. Unfortunately when we become adults much of this innocence is lost and similar fears that haunted our parents now get passed on to us. In my experience this has been brought to the fore where I played with X well enough at school, though aware that their parents had sterotypical views/reservations about other races much to the disgust of said X, only to meet that person 10 years later, chatting and catching up for them to reveal very similar approach to their parents. I guess what I am saying is that these fears of ‘black/white/asian’ neighbourhoods are not inherent – they develop and are influenced by social stigmas the older and less ‘open’ we get. on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 20:23:49 Lookingforanswers @ The Cynic “although some of the residents are poor. Many ppl are lower middle class while others(like me) are legally below the poverty line” I find this hard to believe (and I mean this as a compliment) because people with your level of awareness are usually aware of how to overcome personal challenges like poverty. How can you possibly be below the poverty line? I don’t understand. Something that plays a part in this I think which isn’t being discussed was reflected in a comment made by Tyrone. (who I never thought i’d be quoting): https://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/bell-hooks-talking-race-and-racism/#comment-90105 “The character flaw that I see in a lot of blackmen is “Groupthink.” A lot of us have a tendency to think and act as a group, and not as individuals. ” I think a lot of WP observe this in BP or at least think they have. So when we see blacks engaging in similar behaviors over and over again, we couple that with our idea that blacks tend to do everything as a group, (politics, fashion, music, language,) so if a few BP have been observed doing something, it seems likely to us that most other blacks do this thing as well. (Mind you, every ingroup does this to every outgroup, but the power dynamic inherent in Western society makes it racism imo.) So naturally this extends to criminality, we see all blacks as potential criminals because we know that some blacks are criminals. All any American of any race needs to do is imagine a Muslim woman in a Burka. As far as most of us are concerned, there is absolutely no difference between one Muslim woman in a Burka and another, we imagine that they are all identical carbon copies or clones when in reality they are just as different from one another as we are. So if we saw a woman in a Burka kill someone, we would fear all women in Burka’s. Blacks would be no exception to this stereotyping behavior. If you’re a white high school student and you notice that every single black student is wearing their pants the same way or their hair the same way you start to think this group mentality extends to every aspect of life. Of course, what WP fail to see is how we also conform to one another yet still see ourselves as individuals. I believe the reason we find it so hard to see blacks as individuals is because we don’t spend hardly any time together in real life. It would literally be impossible for WP to hold these views if we were more socially integrated. More people need to just deal with the temporary discomfort and awkwardness and stop isolating. @ jas0nburns This is why I think so many Blacks hold ill will toward Whites in general. It’s because they voluntarily isolate themselves because of stereotypes, form and perpetuate more stereotypes based on lack of exposure, which leads to creating social and legal policies based on those stereotypes, helping making those stereotypes a self fulfilling prophecy and then turn around and say “See? They’re not stereotypes. That’s how they are so why bother. Let’s just isolate ourselves from them.” I think a lot of WP observe this in BP or at least think they have Aha! The ole ‘pack’ mentality theme rears its head again. I don’t know many individuals who at some time in their life doesnt assimilate themselves with another/other groups of likeminded/similar people. I know that I see this in everyday life whether its mothers at the school or co-workers or even people joining a club or exercise class. I remember being in town as a youngster, there were a group of kids from another school, a couple I knew in passing and said hi to. Hi. Thats all. When I got to work the following Monday, the lady receptionist there told me that her son had seen me in town ‘hanging out with a load of black people’. I was mystified – the girl I was with was white, yet her son (who I hadnt even noticed) quickly made the judgement that as I was in the vicinity with the group where I fleetinlgy said hi to a couple of individuals , I must be with them despite everything else about the situation that suggested otherwise. How do we break down these barriers and stereotypes? We all know that there are individuals who purport to these ‘labels’ and that are out there. I think that people convince themselves of something and instead of looking inside themselves and addressing this, they are happy to leave the blame elsewhere. Everybody needs to take individual responsibility if we are to ‘integrate’ cohesively and successfully. Regardless of race etc we are not always going to get on with another individual but, by the same token ‘difference’ shouldnt be what prevents us from finding a common ground. There is a rich, interesting, huge and diverse world out there – if you’re are afraid and only want to experience whats on your doorstep thats fine but, the fact that you are writing on a forum such as this suggests that there is even a smidgen of you who want to broaden your horizens. The only place I can see that this is true is politically. Aside from that, Black people are all over the place. on Thu Jun 30th 2011 at 12:31:10 jorbia Only a small portion of blacks are violent criminals. Since whites avoid being around them, they do the most harm to other blacks. They need to be outted and dealt with and no excuses made. This needs to be done especially for the good of the rest of the great portion of good, law-abiding American black people, but for everyone else too. Blacks who sell drugs to other blacks are also just as bad or even worse since they destroy many lives too by selling drugs to young black people who then harm black people and others. American black criminals do the most harm to other blacks, but still these other blacks will mainly try to make excuses and cover for them, just like some blacks are trying to do here when they try to minimize the physical danger issue by saying it’s not that bad. Right! on Fri May 4th 2012 at 06:03:33 phoebeprunelle Black guys ARE dangerous because IME they: 1. Protect the honor of black girls/women in their communities 2. Historically they have preferred to marry black women 3. Their earning potential almost doubles if they graduate from an HBCU as opposed to a historically white university 4. They were the brains behind most of the thriving black communites of the 20th century You just can’t trust them . . . I believe that they are so dangerous and brutal that I married one. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 13:18:30 Matari This comment qualifies as one of the BEST comments I’ve ever seen on the web!! Thanks Pheobe. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 13:57:16 Aaron These stereotypes are unfortunately somewhat grounded in reality. Currently the most dangerous cities in america all have high densities of black people. Places like Baltimore and Detroit have had 100-200+ murders a year for well over a decade. This is a phenomenon exclusive to black communities. Murder and violent crime happen everywhere but happen at staggering rates in black communities. As far as rape goes, a white woman is far more likely to be raped by a black male than a black woman is to be raped by a white male. White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace. Furthermore rape occurs in black areas and countries at a far higher rate than it does in white areas and countries. The rape capitol of the world is currently South America which is 80% black and rape is very prevalent in many African countries like the Congo Republic, Ivory Coast, Congo and so forth. Rape occurs at much higher rates in African countries than it does in countries with a strong Caucasian majority like Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and etc. Finally its not uncommon for significant sized groups of white people to find themselves living among large groups of blacks, where the vast majority of crime is committed by said blacks. College Campuses are a good example of this. It is not uncommon for universities, attended by mostly white people, to be in areas very close to black neighborhoods and to have the vast majority of assaults, muggings, robberies, and etc., be committed by blacks. The university near me, the University of MD in College Park, is situated in PG county. While the University is largely white and even the city of College Park itself has a significant Caucasian population, almost all reported muggings, assaults, and etc, have had black perpetrators as the described suspects. Whites are victimized by blacks at a much larger rate than blacks are victimized by whites. So while not all blacks are violent thugs and criminals, its not hard to understand why a white person (or any person for that matter) would be more vigilant around a bunch of young black people late at night than they would be around a group of similar aged young white guys or Asian guys. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 14:26:18 satanforce ^^^Bliff may be gone, but the Bliffisms continue. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 14:41:03 truthbetold @ AARON Listen up good….I won’t respond further. No amount of rape done by black men will EVER measure up to the mind-gagging violence done by white men to black/Native women. They obilterated an entire race of people, FOREVER, and created an new race of blacks/ Indians called Mulatto/Mestizco. Get the message, asshole? What did I say that was incorrect? I dont think that has anything to do with this at all. I think this is about the current Black brute stereotype not white people wiping out the Native Americans 200 years ago. What do the actions of dead white people from over a century ago have to do with the black brute stereotype of today? Absolutely nothing. Did white men rape black and Native American women in staggering numbers in the 18th and 19th centuries? Yes they did. Do black men currently rape white women at far greater rates than white men rape black women? Yes they do. That you have to invoke the actions of dead white men from 150 years ago really shows how weak your position is. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:13:26 abagond In that whites are way more affected by white crime than black crime, the overblown white fear of black crime has everything to do with the fear that blacks want revenge for crimes past (slavery, Jim Crow) and present (racism). Deep down whites know that their relationship with blacks is completely fradulent. That is why they must demonize blacks, making them into the bad guys. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:22:06 deedee7789 I would have to say I disagree with several points you made in your comments concerning “black brutes”, “rape”, and “murder”. Black brutes. This was a stereotype originally made in the past to use as an excuse to lynch or jail Black men. It was not based on fact. The time during the use of the term did not have immense amounts of crime committed by Black men. There of course were Black men who were criminals but the numbers were not disproportionate for the population and could not accurately be used for the entire Black male population. Even today, yes there is a disproportionate amount of Black individuals that are in jail but the reasons for that situation is complex and cannot be simply be attributed to a specific “race” which you imply with some of your comments like “This is a phenomenon exclusive to black communities. Murder and violent crime happen everywhere but happen at staggering rates in black communities.” Rape. I will assume that you made your comments based on statistics or news reports. Their are several issues with making a conclusion from statistics. The statistics do not count for all rape reports and generally the sources even mention only having about 44% of all at times (sources lile FBI, etc.). Then there is culture as well. Not to long ago (1950s I believe) WOC could be raped in the US without legal prosecution being taken against the rapist. This was because WOC were assumed to be promiscuous and of low moral standards. So you have WOC whose voices are shunned and their worth devalued. You factor in pass mis-justice as well as shame that is experienced by a woman in her community then you have less rape reports. It is not reasonable to make a statement like “Do black men currently rape white women at far greater rates than white men rape black women? Yes they do” because it is not clear if that is the case with lack of full data. Murder. Very complex and to generalize things to make it appear that it happens “exclusively” in the Black communities is inaccurate. Countries with high inequality have been shown to have high crime. The US is the least developed of the developed countries because of the immensely high level of inequality (which includes factors like lack of proper healthcare, education, etc. [look into HDI for more info]). It is not about race but more so about the availability of resources and rights to people. This will include legislature to ensure something like women rights and you find that in countries with few laws protecting women rights then there are more rapes, assaults on women. There is also a need for a strong and dedicated police force. The US have well trained police but how they uphold the law at times leave less to be desired. There can be abuse of power and that will show up as a part of inequality experienced by various ethnic groups. It really isn’t reasonable to compare countries because they have different sets of laws, police forces, access to resources, hierarchies, illegal activities etc that will skew actual reports of crime. Those are the reason that I disagree with several of your points. You have made several broad generalizations which I feel are not accurate for the reasons mentioned above. on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:33:44 B. R. Aaron, where are your links to the statistics about South America having much more rape? I live in Brazil and I dont feel we are the rape capital of the world. If you just pulled that out of the air, your whole point of veiw is skewed…please clarify And check out the great points people are making to you, you are much more likley to get hurt by another white person than a black person.Better start keeping your eyes open for all people instead of just being paranoid of blacks because of skewed statistics I dont think the fear of black crime has as much to do with the fear that blacks want revenge for past crimes of slavery as much as it has to do with the fact that their is this perception that blacks are generally more prone to criminal behavior and this is a perception largely grounded in reality for whatever reason. Lets look at two large American cities; Boston MA and Baltimore Md. Boston has around 650k people, blacks make up less than 25% of the population. In no single year at least within the last decade has Boston had more than 75 murders. Baltimore also has around 650k people and it is about 65% black. In only one year out of the last decade has Baltimore had less than 200 murders. Over the last decade it has averaged around 250 murders a year while Boston has averaged about 60. Detroit has a population of about 900k and is 75-80% black and has averaged 375 murders a year at least since the turn of the millennium. The white fear of black crime is grounded in the reality that neighborhoods and cities with significant black populations have significantly more violent crime than neighborhoods and cities with small or nonexistent black communities. Violence and crime are also a big reason why educated and upwardly mobile blacks often leave black neighborhoods. So it doesnt do much good to pretend like black crime isnt an issue and black neighborhoods are meccas of safety and prosperity that people flock to. Black neighborhoods do generally have more crime than white neighborhoods. It is far more dangerous to walk late at night in many black neighborhoods than it is to walk at night in many white neighborhoods. To act like there is absolutely zero basis for a white fear of black crime is an act of denial of statistical facts readily available to everyone. Statistics are flawed. Statistics do not account for every single crime every committed because it would be difficult to get those numbers especially when someone knows the offender and chooses not to report the crime. You mention higher levels of crime but not the life chances that are available in a given area. What is the median income for the places you mentioned, the education, level of poverty, insurance, unemployment, law enforcement, policies and laws, etc..If you don’t take in the multiple factors that contribute to crime then your reasoning is flawed. The comparisons are meaningless because they do not explore the “why”. There was a recent study that showed that violent crimes rates have nothing to do with race (I can’t recall the name of the study, I had a link to it in another thread, from a criminology journal). So yes, “white fear of black crime” is not necessary. It should just be a fear of crime and to try to focus on race alone is very dangerous and foolish. @deedee You cannot really argue against statics, or claim statistics to be false with an argument like unreported crimes and such. Currently more white women report being raped by a black man than black women report being raped by a white man. If black women are not reporting being raped by white men, there is really nothing that can be done about that. Black women report being raped by black men so its obviously not an issue with black women just not reporting sexual assault at all. Statistically it is very rare that a black woman reports being raped by a white male. You cant just hand wave statistics away when they dont arent in your favor. Nowhere did I say that murder happens only in the black community. I said it happens at far higher rates in the black community than it does in the white community. This is basically a non-debatable fact from a statistical standpoint. There is nothing complex about it. Murder happens at far higher rates in black communities than it does in white communities. That is as much a fact as saying the sky is blue. Furthermore lack of healthcare does not or at least should not cause anyone to commit criminal activity and I would argue that this country does not have a lack of proper education, you just have people who dont take advantage of it and this is overwhelmingly the case in the black community. The lack of education among blacks is more of a cultural phenomenon than any inherent problem with the education system itself. The education problem within the black community stems more to do with the culture and environment black children are raised in than it does with any failings of the school system. In the past it was indeed true (I assume since I wasnt alive) that blacks were often stigmatized for the actions of a very small few. But this occurred largely in the south and had less to do with blacks being generalize because of the actions of a few and more to do with white southerns having an overwhelmingly strong dislike for blacks in general for no really good reason at all. In other words southern blacks just didnt like black people at all. Today however this stereotype comes from the high levels of violence in black commercials, the way young blacks often dress and act out in public whether it be the rash of flash mobs that have been committed by seemingly only young black kids, fights and shootouts on public beaches, fights in restaurants and other generally buffoonish behavior and then the most popular music of young black people is rap where the vast majority of the songs are about violence, drug dealing and so forth. So the black brute stereotype may have been unfounded in the early part of the 20th century but its not hard to find a basis for it in just about every black community in the country today. All in all you dont really have any solid strong reasons for disagreeing with my points. You basically disagree because you dont like the notion, not because there is anything truly wrong with any point I have made. Deedee if you knew anything about statistics you would knowthat they are not meant to account for every single instance but rather to provide a a good well rounded idea of what is going on. You dont have to have every single murder reported to know that a lot more murders occur in Detroit and Baltimore than occur in Boston. You dont have to have every single rape reported to know that white women are raped by black men at a much higher rate than black women are raped by white men. You would have to propose that there are multitudes of black women getting raped by white men and not reporting it to make the claim that you are making that statistics are flawed. You would have to argue that hundreds of murders go unreported in white communities every year to support your argument that statistics about murder are flawed. Basically my point is that simply saying statistics are flawed is a very weak argument that you would not get away with among any group of reasonably educated people. Im sure the census doesnt get every single White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic person but would you then argue that there are more black people than white people in this country because not every single white and black person was counted?Statistics are not meant to provide a bullet point for every single crime but to argue that statistics dont mirror reality is a flawed, false, uneducated argument based solely on not understanding how statistics work and why they are used. “Nowhere did I say that murder happens only in the black community…..” I mentioned your comment implies “only” due to the usage of the term “exclusive”. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/the-black-brute-stereotype/#comment-127464 You cannot really argue against statics, or claim statistics to be false with an argument like unreported crimes and such… I recall using the term flawed which does not mean false. So your statement about my stance is wrong. Flawed = IMPERFECT, even in basic statistics courses (which I have taken and I did a small study for a course) it is clear that there can be error in statistics so you have to be careful when considering them to make conclusions. I have some reading for you to do since apparently you don’t understand my stance. THE CENTRAL PLACE OF RACE IN CRIME AND JUSTICE—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY’S 2011 SUTHERLAND ADDRESS RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED NEIGHBORHOOD RACIAL COMPOSITION AND WHITES’ PERCEPTIONS OF VICTIMIZATION RISK: DO RACIAL STEREOTYPES MATTER? Global Study On Homicide 2011 (very long but informative) I have the right to disagree just as you do. I feel that you believe that I am ignoring Black crime, I am not and I am aware of the numbers. My issue lies with you implying that the blame can be placed on Black people for being “more likely” to do crimes. Race should be considered but not in the “blaming” manner that I have noticed people using. The US needs solutions and making generalized conclusions isn’t helping. The factors contributing to crime need to be considered and to avoid them will not fix the problem. I have a response to you in moderation. I feel that you made some inaccurate observations. I also have some links in the moderated comment for you to look over whenever you get the chance. You can believe what you want but I feel that you are not taking all factors into consideration which lead to bias and misinformation. Did you read my comment entirely? No you didn’t. I’m assuming you are a BM hater. SMH at the stupidity. Also. According to you the FBI is making a “flawed, false, uneducated argument”. “Historically, the causes and origins of crime have been the subjects of investigation by many disciplines. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are: Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability. Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics. Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness. Effective strength of law enforcement agencies. Administrative and investigative emphases of law enforcement. Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial, correctional, and probational). Citizens’ attitudes toward crime. Crime reporting practices of the citizenry…. The data user is, therefore, cautioned against comparing statistical data of individual reporting units from cities, counties, metropolitan areas, states, or colleges or universities solely on the basis of their population coverage or student enrollment. Until data users examine all the variables that affect crime in a town, city, county, state, region, or other jurisdiction, they can make no meaningful comparisons.” http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/caution-against-ranking I have made my stance based on reviewing the methodologies used by the sources of the statistics as well as on the different organizations on statements on the accuracy of the data. There is nothing “flawed, false, uneducated” about my argument. That was an unfair assessment but yet again that is how you feel and am not here to change how you feel. Well yes I do agree that there are many variables involved in why black neighborhoods have more crime and violence but you didnt say there were variables involved but rather you are arguing that the statistics themselves that indicate this are flawed when that is not what the disclaimer is saying. The disclaimer is saying there are many factors that influence crime so use caution when using stats about crime to make a particular point. You are saying that statistics are flawed because they dont account for all crimes which shows a misunderstanding of how statistics work. You can be robbed, raped, or murdered in Boston or Detroit but statistically it is more likely to happen in Detroit than it is in Boston. There are many variables that influence this statistical likelihood but that is not the same as saying the statistical likelihood is flat out incorrect. BR that was supposed to say South Africa is the rape capitol of the world, not South America. DeeDee when I said “this is a phenomenon exclusive to the black community” I was speaking of the high rates of murder not murder itself. In other words I was saying that having 200+ murders a year is a phenomenon exclusive to the black community not that murder itself only occurs in the black community The trouble with statistics, besides being easy to twist, is that they strip out all the context. They give mile high view, not the ground view. I lived in a part of New York where hundreds were murdered every year – you know, that phenomenon exclusive to the black community. It had nothing to do with the supposedly violent nature of black people but the drug trade and how the police stood back and let the dealers shoot it out. It made it a very dangerous part of the city, of the whole country, but that did not matter because only black and Latinos were dying. So, like, no big deal (/sarcasm). Some black neighbourhoods in America are extremely safe, some extremely dangerous. Again, statistics makes them all seem the same and gives you no other possible “reason” but race because that is all those neighbourhoods have in common. Cool trick, bro. you didnt say there were variables involved… “Even today, yes there is a disproportionate amount of Black individuals that are in jail but the reasons for that situation is complex and cannot be simply be attributed to a specific “race”” “The statistics do not count for all rape reports and generally the sources even mention only having about 44% of all at times (sources lile FBI, etc.). Then there is culture as well… ” “It really isn’t reasonable to compare countries because they have different sets of laws, police forces, access to resources, hierarchies, illegal activities etc that will skew actual reports of crime.” “What is the median income for the places you mentioned, the education, level of poverty, insurance, unemployment, law enforcement, policies and laws, etc..If you don’t take in the multiple factors that contribute to crime then your reasoning is flawed. The comparisons are meaningless because they do not explore the “why”” I have made several mentions that the situation is complex. I believe you may have just glossed over them. I hope you can see that I always understood that multiple variables are involved. Also I was using flawed as in the “imperfect” definition. Statistics are helpful but it is difficult to draw any real conclusions from them. The methods can be difficult to get 100% perfect data (like getting all reports which is practically impossible). I understand statistics and the insight it can bring but the numbers alone will not indicate causation (the “WHY”). That is what I meant so please understand I am not undermining statistics, just mentioning that it is not perfect. phoebe wrote: Ma’am. I did read your entire comment and I meant exactly what I wrote. Would you kindly show me exactly what in my comment you found offensive and stupid? BTW I am a black male that has a very high regard for black people. I took your comment literally … and replied – literally. I meant exactly what I wrote. The more I read white commenters, the happier I am that I distanced myself from them. Pheobe, Matari got everything you said, he is agreeing with you and understood your sarcasm Well allow me to apologize. I thought you were only taking those two statements and isolating them. My. Bad. LoLz Phoebe – no problem.. black marriage rates/long term male-female relationships/intact 2 parent households seem to be heading toward the way of dinosaurs .. so your comment gave me pause .. and a reason to enjoy a mini celebration because we (males and females) don’t SEEM* to lift/hold each other up as much as past generations (parents, grandparents, etc..) once did.I could be incorrect.. Although it appears that we’ve lost some of the ground covered in your four points, your praise of black men caused my response. It’s nice to know that some black women still think well of black men. B.R. Thank you. on Sat May 5th 2012 at 12:19:04 satanforce The problem with Aaron;s comments can be seen immediately in the following quotations, as Abagond pointed out earlier You dont have to have every single rape reported to know that white women are raped by black men at a much higher rate than black women are raped by white men. As far as rape goes, a white woman is far more likely to be raped by a black male than a black woman is to be raped by a white male. White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace. I had coined the term “bliffism” after a (former) commenter who would repeat the very same claim that had been refuted by the post he was commenting on, or make himself example of the very subject that Abagond had posted. In your case: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/reading-while-white-crime-statistics/ https://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/stereotypes-have-some-truth-to-them/ But to go back to the quotations above, the problem with them is not merely the implication that correlation = causation, or that they lack context, but the obvious satanicity that the statements contain. What is the relevance of comparing B on W rape to W on B rape? We could say the same thing about rape regarding Asians and Whites or white collar crime by W vs. B but it would be nothing more than a non–sequitor intended to rationalize a factually and morally unsupportable argument. That argument being, that Afro-American culture is so pathological that it has actually reverted to stereotypes that in hindsight, are a correct representation of modern day Afro-Americans. You cite Afro-American anti-intellectualism, as well as trash culture as one of the main causes of AA deviance. I thought that anti-intellectualism was an American trait – see for example any American news channel, election or summer movie blockbuster, never the perpetual fear of “eggheads”. If you take a look at American history, you will realize that what you are describing is nothing more than a ethnic group that is now becoming urbanized, especially with racism: http://atlantapost.com/2011/07/14/8-political-lies-about-blacks-that-you-shouldn%E2%80%99t-believe/2/ On Wikipedia – Institutional discrimination in the United States housing market , effects on African Americans Blockbusting Routine racism by the NYPD, a admitted by the NYPD – http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/secret-nypd-tapes-document-routine-massive-police-racism.php on Fri May 18th 2012 at 02:10:25 omalone1 another contribution. I liked this alot, and it fits in with Jan Pieterse’s notion on Fri May 25th 2012 at 04:44:02 4socialjusticenow A very old saying: “Statistics are like ladies of the night; you can dress them up any way you want and they’ll tell you whatever you want to hear.” on Fri May 25th 2012 at 05:55:09 Michelle okay I am going to try, and I repeat, try to post as calmly as possible. The comments on this post have reeeeeaaaaallllllyyyyy struck a chord with me. I am sick and tired of little boys with no respect for human beings coming on here and posting nonsense about Black crime statistics and thugs and stereotyping as if you are superior. SHUT THE H@LL UP. I have had so much done to me in my life and guess who did it…come on little boys…take a guess. White boys! I was raped by a white boy, beaten by a different white boy and yet another white boy tried to run over me with his car. Now some of you may think that is too much information but guess what…I don’t give a f@!k!!! Not once has a black man ever tried to harm me!!! So get over yourselves and come down off the pedestal that you put yourselves on!!!!! on Sun Sep 9th 2012 at 22:35:02 Gill on Mon Sep 10th 2012 at 00:01:02 resjan @Gill “White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace” According to USDOJ stats, nearly 80% of all white rape victims identify their offenders as white. That’s somewhat close to the percentage of black rape victims who identify their offenders as black. So how is “black on white rape very commonplace”? White on white rape is what is commonplace. on Mon Sep 10th 2012 at 03:44:46 brothawolf People like Gill are like most people who identify themselves as religious. It’s written in the scriptures. So it must be true. Someone somewhere said that black-on-white rapes are common and he believed it. Forgive me for responding so late, but I’m really sorry that happened to you. on Mon Dec 10th 2012 at 12:58:45 Lynn Wow. This discussion has been going on for four years now. Please allow me to share anecdotal evidence from my own life… RIP James, an African-American librarian who was my friend when I was young. He was racially profiled by the police near his own place of work (in the parking lot.) Within a year he was dead: mugged and murdered by black teenagers in the neighborhood in which he lived. Shot to death. RIP “Buddy”, a gay black man (possibly transgender) living in the downtown zone of Detroit, killed (by a group of black males) with a blunt force object to the back of the head. The time I was standing on a corner across from the courthouse after midnight in downtown detroit (I am a white female) near four or five black guys, each over 6 feet tall (there was quite a crowd) and, to scare me, they started talking about recent drive-by shootings in the area. They wound up scaring themselves silly. I got on the bus, and the black female driver would not accept my transfer! I had to literally shove it into her hands and get her to look at it, she assumed it was expired. The countless times I have walked onto a bus and heard discussions about the history of slavery, “I don’t like/don’t understand white people”, etc., etc., ad nauseum, as soon as an African-American saw a white face, black indigents trying to sit on my leg, etc…. The countless discussions I have had with African-Americans from all walks of life: the elderly unemployed black man who referred to me as “little girl” while explaining his troubles, the black professors (self-identified Muslims) proclaiming black supremacy, the black man with a turban on a bus who said it would be justice if all white people were enslaved and the white women raped, the two gay black men I witnessed molesting their own daughter on a public bus while the mother sat back and did nothing (they lifted her into the air, spread her legs and were kissing between her thighs. I screamed my head off. All the white passengers were silent!) They then tried to push me into moving traffic, but one of the men was subsequently sent to prison (I saw the short guy again after about 6 months… he’s still around). There are many, many more absolutely heartrending stories that I have heard that I don’t have space for. The above are personal anecdotes only. I’d have to agree that many African-Americans suffer from low self-esteem and are afraid of white people. I also wonder what @the cynic thinks a typical “black male thug” looks like- maybe a teenager that likes rap? I have also encountered gang members, and though they are deliberately intimidating, I was never assaulted by one. In my experience, an indigent man is more likely to rob you, and the most dangerous spots are downtown zones, shopping and entertainment districts, and the mall. IOW, if anyone intends to rob a white person, they will deliberately go to an area where they can find rich whites, not a black neighborhood. On the other hand, I have heard reports of purely a hostile nature (assaults/murders, no intent to rob) committed by black people on white people in predominantly black neighborhoods. This would qualify as a hate crime, but never was: apparently, the very definition of a hate crime in America must be white-on-black, never black-on-white. This seems to be based on PC politics. None of the foregoing is meant to deny that white racism is alive and well in America. Any thoughts on this? on Sun Dec 23rd 2012 at 00:23:55 gungaru Love the insight “As if savage killers cannot cross the street too!” because it also reveals how racism uses simplistic spatial organizing. In other words, blacks can just be avoided at any time without much effort because they are animals with no sense of control of their physical selves. They need to be directed in public spaces because they lack a coherent sense of how they impact on the white privilidged spatial lives of whites. Over policing by law enforcing is a sympton of this racial spatial (socio-cultural) organizing. Checkmate! on Fri Feb 8th 2013 at 04:57:34 King of Trouble Best line ever, “you’re a non-threating black guy.” I was flabbergasted. I know it was supposed to be a compliment like all those people who kindly say you’re not really black. I just wondered how many threatening black guys have they really seen. My friends were all punks in the mid to late 80’s and they all had ripped jeans, mohawks, safety pins everywhere, piercings up the wa-whoo, and I wore three piece suits with a fedora all the time. So much that one of my friends mother friends said in all these pictures you look like you are in charge. Now I sat down to try to digest that. I will also say about this whole black crime thing, from my own personal experience lots of white kids get away with things because their dad or mom is a cop, judge, or something or they are friends with said person and they drop the name. In my youth I would go to the mall to buy something my mallrat associates and not friends would follow me. I go into a shop to buy something and they would follow me. They would practically rob the store blind because all the attendants or clerks were following me around. Maybe the suit and fedora was suspicious but those associates or friends of associates were all white. They understood quite easily that if I went into a store they would have free reign. on Fri Feb 8th 2013 at 05:45:02 mary burrell @ King Of Trouble; Them giving you back handed compliments and them and your white friends and their white priviledge at your expense. That totally sucks.Your white friends if they got caught would be released on their recognance. @ King Of Trouble; I meant recognizance. @ King Of Trouble; Did the white women clutch their purses to their chest when they saw you wallking toward them on the street. (?) Sorry about punctuation. King Of trouble. @ Mary, Back handed comments are my life. Like of course you can cook because you’re black. It makes me want to put the bandana on my head and find a broom. Or the greatest of all compliments. I personally put this one up to WTF you stupid ass B! I was doing an training course to teach English overseas and one of the other students had been to Africa. “They were so ugly not then she looked over and remembered that I was there, and said oh not like american blacks because we breed them to look better. She actually thought she was giving a compliment. Now it is very rare that I ever feel like using violence I personally have never wanted to hit a woman but in that moment I found I had to put my hand down. I don’t know how it got up there and there I was smiling like an idiot because we were in the middle of a sea of white people. I know it comes out as wimpy I really wanted to hit her I really couldn’t understand how someone could say such a stupid thing in the middle of a room with hundred people looking on. All I could say was I was pretty sure that my exceptional good looks came from my forefather extremely good taste in women. It was humiliating and all I can say for that is I had a thought of what if I did hit her. What would it look like, another violent black guy beating up on a white woman. Another great compliment, I can trust my kids with you because you are not like those other blacks. What other blacks? I really wanted to ask but as my mother said to me “you’re black you need to know when to bite your words.” I still have problems with biting me words. I hate being pushed in any form. Like the stupid cops after I driven all the way from New Hampshire to Chicago, because I had finished college. I hadn’t made it more than 10 minutes in Chiacgo before some dumb ass cop pulled me over. Why, because a black guy fitting my discription in the same make of car. I stuipidly said, yeah because it was the other black guy with New Hampshire license plates that was here. He knew I didn’t believe him so he told me that since I was in Chicago I should have Illinois license plates and he could write me up for that. Again like a silly person who believed in the law(call it battered wife syndrome), I went to report this idiot but all I got was an insincere apology of how he was trying to do me a favor. As a kid I tried to avoid the hell out of the mall in high school but if my Mom or sister needed something I would go. You would think the most dangerous thing on the earth was a black teenage male. The worst is you know the first thing they are going to say when they caught is we are with him. Kind of like the devil made me do it. The blackie made me do it! That is why they were associates I knew them they went to school with me but no where did I ever really want to hang out with them. Yet, I wasn’t going to fight them on where they went. Sorry about this long post it’s just venting I guess and I should know better. However, if you swim out in the waters if you’re not careful you’ll find out you went too far. I love Japan but I miss seeing hearing a mass of black people’s voices. White women always clutch their purses. I kind of think it is like a nervous tick. I was tiny when I was young I didn’t get into triple digits in weight until I was in my freshman year of College and even then I only weighed 120Ibs. on Sat Feb 9th 2013 at 02:21:30 mary burrell This is 2013, but the same things go on that used to get innocent African Americans lynched 50 years ago. Don’t think things have changed that much. This from the Jim Crow Museum….. “A bad negro is the most horrible creatue upon the earth, the most brutal and merciless….. Charles H. Smith. A writer at the end of the 1890’s. Clifton R. Breckinridge, A contemporary of Charles H. Smith said of the black race. “When it produces a brute, he is the worst and most insatiate brute that exists in human form. @King of Trouble; Yes, I feel for black men. I have fear for my young cousins and all the men in my family. Things can go from 0 to 60. I feel for all the brothers in the United Snakes of America. on Sat Feb 9th 2013 at 03:31:26 Adeen ”Yes, I feel for black men. I have fear for my young cousins and all the men in my family” Yes I do too. My little brother is 14 and I don’t want him to stay out for too long fearing some White racist would take his gun and shoot him just for playing outside and exploring the way the way a teenage boy should! I do worry about Black men in my family too! However more young Black males are killed by Black youth in the urban areas than by Caucasians but we can’t ignore the fact that people want to kill off our Black males! I don’t know why people like to target Black males so much? on Sat Feb 9th 2013 at 07:04:31 King of Trouble. At Adeen, I don’t ignore that fact we do kill off ourselves. When I taught in High School it was the first thing I told my kids. Being popular doesn’t matter the ony thing that does is that you are with friends who are building you up. If you have a friend that isn’t helping you to succeed in life prune them like a bad branch. If you aren’t helping your friends to move up look into why. My favorite thing to do was called a stress house where they would get a buch of popsicle sticks and build a structure; I told them it had to support 50Ibs. They were excited because wow it wasn’t history. The groups all got into it sure enough most stuctures couldn’t do it but some did. I would then explain by showing a picture of those structures that did and didn’t work. How the supports worked each one taking the pressure and allowing for the whole structure to take more stress. Then I’d tell them those sticks are your friends each one of you are the supports if it isn’t done right it leaves you weak. Find the friends who are going to help with the weight this world puts on you. This is what we are looking for through history what support went wrong that things failed what support was there for things to go right. This is how my history class works. @Mary, a 14 year old black boy is in the mist of feeling his manhood which means they need to push against something and experience a grow. I almost put this in white proverbs but the thing I heard a lot growing up with my white friends and adults *Oh, he’s at that time in life where he’s exploring who he is!’ Said to other whites about why that white kid did something like key the car, or leave piss and crap on the teachers chair. (True happening, in which I got blame for by the principal I would have let it slid but they were also incriminating my hispanic friend who was a saint. They were talking about kicking us out and making us pay, I found the two dumb white girls who had been doing it and told them if they didn’t confess I would break my silence. I usually don’t give a crap because if course it was the black boy who did it. Why because everyone has Chocolate envy that is why no kid drinks white milk when their is a choice of chocolate.) on Wed May 8th 2013 at 12:49:35 EthnicKonflict That’s perfectly convenient of white people, who are some of the most violent people ever to set foot on this planet. Thomas Hobbes actually wrote a book claiming that without the State, white people would murder each other like it was the end of Hamlet. on Thu May 23rd 2013 at 22:17:53 jane Most woman are afraid to walk alone at night period.that was a little off-putting the fear is of being attacked period.being attacked by a white person is just as bad as being attack by a black person I say person becuse women attack people to. But most people don’t fear that. I understand were you coming from though I went for a walk with some black men before and a bunch of other white people pulled me in there house and said what’s wrong with you those men could have murdered you I thought in a public street they could murder me but I’m supposed to follow you in your house ok. on Sun Dec 21st 2014 at 17:38:54 Chris Whites do not believe that every black man is like that, but they think plenty of them are. I don’t blame White people for that. I blame the media for highlighting things that racist people like to see and hear for profit. The truth is that we as Black men ARE disproportionately prone to crime because it has been acculturated into a large segment of the population on Fri Mar 25th 2016 at 19:53:25 JOEL Actually this was a war war 1 recruitmeant poster for Americans, the Germans during the 1st world War had the spikes on their helmets. And they portrayed the Germans soldiers as brute killing, raping, pillaging. For the creator of this blog/article you need to brush up on history. @ JOEL on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:03:35 Fillmore No source for the statistics, that was to be expected. For white people, being afraid of blacks is a very sane attitude, it’s called the survival instinct. Here’s the story of what happened to a white liberal when she forgot to be afraid of black men. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/joanna-connors-why-i-tracked-down-my-attacker-after-20-years/ on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:25:46 sharinalr Sane? More like irrational fear supported by confirmation bias. Also @ Fillmore there are no stats used in this post. “blacks are three times more likely to be physically threatened, harmed or killed because of their race than are whites” is a statistic… on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:39:01 Sharina @Fillmore I stand partially correct. You stated “No source for the statistics.” Now please point to the “statistics” as the word is plural. Not to mention that those starts are easily verifiable through a google search. on Mon May 16th 2016 at 01:16:02 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord) Well if this bad experience justifies your belief that all black men are bad people, then by your train of thought anyone who had had good experiences with black men would be able to say that all black men are good people. An argument every bit as silly, but just as logical give your line of reasoning. on Fri Mar 3rd 2017 at 10:37:20 abagond @ P. Lewis Comment deleted for moderated words and referring to people as animals.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line812
__label__cc	0.526252	0.473748	« Kizzy Adonis Barbara Dawson » The 2016 election for US president Thu Jan 14th 2016 by abagond Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection on the eve of the election: Trump, with only one of the three main swing states (Ohio), has only a 30% chance of winning. His likeliest path to victory is to pick up North Carolina, Florida, Nevada and New Hampshire. Last update: November 9th 2016. In 2016 the US chooses a new president. He or she will take office on January 20th 2017. The candidates: A powerful third-party candidate could arise, particularly with Donald Trump in the mix, but as it stands now, a Democrat or Republican will likely win. Here are the Democrats and Republicans who are still running, along with their opinion poll averages (from Real Clear Politics as of January 13th 2016). I used their Twitter avatars as pictures. They link to their Twitter accounts. Those with descriptions in light-grey italics have dropped out as of August 1st: Democrats: 48.3% Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state (2009-2013), senator of New York (2001-2009), First Lady (1993-2001) and Republican campaign worker (1964). She is the wife of Bill Clinton. Currently favoured by Trayvon Martin’s mother and most Black voters. 39.7% Bernie Sanders, senator of Vermont since 2007, former congressman (1991-2007) and mayor of Burlington (1981-1989). Currently favoured by Cornel West, Ralph Nader and me. 2.3% Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland (2007-2015) and mayor of Baltimore (1999-2007). The White mayor in “The Wire” was loosely based on him. Republicans: 35.0% Donald Trump, businessman from New York, former Democrat, television actor (2004-15) and Fox News talking head (2011-2015). A Birther. Openly racist. Wants to keep out Muslims and build a wall between the US and Mexico. Favoured by Ann Coulter. 19.0% Ted Cruz, senator of Texas since 2013. Born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban Canadian father. Tea Party, Christian right. 11.3% Marco Rubio, senator since 2011 of Florida, a swing state. His parents came from Cuba before the revolution. 8.0% Ben Carson, former brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Maryland. Christian right. 4.7% Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida (1999-2007), a swing state. President Bush I (1989-1993) is his father and Bush II (2001-2009) is his brother. His wife is from Mexico. 3.0% Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey since 2010. Best known for the Bridgegate scandal. 2.7% Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard (1999-2005), a California computer company. 2.0% Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas (1996-2007) and Fox News talking head (2008-15). Christian right. 2.0% John Kasich, governor since 2011 of Ohio, a swing state, and former congressman (1983-2001). 2.0% Rand Paul, senator of Kentucky since 2011. Libertarian. 0.0% Rick Santorum, former senator of Pennsylvania (1995-2007). Christian right. 0.0% Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia (1998-2002). Candidates from most liberal to least: 35+: Sanders 30+: Clinton 25+: O’Malley 20+: 15+: Christie 10+: Fiorina, Kasich, Paul 5+: Carson, Bush, Huckabee, Rubio, 0+: Cruz, Santorum ??: Trump, Gilmore By net worth: $1,000,000,000+: Trump $100,000,000+: $10,000,000+: Fiorina, Bush, Clinton $1,000,000+: Kasich, Carson, Huckabee, Cruz, Christie, Paul $100,000+: Santorum, Rubio, O’Malley, Sanders ???: Gilmore By race: White: Clinton, Sanders, Trump, Bush, Christie, Fiorina, O’Malley, Huckabee, Kasich, Paul, Santorum, Gilmore Latino: Rubio, Cruz Black: Carson Asian: Native: By religion: Jewish: Sanders Catholic: Rubio, Bush, Christie, O’Malley, Santorum Anglican/Episcopalian: Fiorina, Kasich Presbyterian: Trump, Paul Methodist: Clinton, Gilmore Baptist: Cruz, Huckabee Seventh Day Adventist: Carson The calendar: February to June: state primaries and caucuses pick delegates for the party conventions. Super Tuesday is March 1st. July: party conventions pick their candidate for president, who in turn picks a candidate for vice president. The Republican convention is from Monday July 18th to Thursday, the 21st in Cleveland, Ohio; the Democrats, the following week, from Monday July 25th to Thursday, the 28th, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September to October: television debates: September 26th – presidential October 4th – vice presidential October 9th – presidential October 19th – presidential November 8th: the election. January 20th 2017: the new president takes office. Update (February 3rd): In the wake of the Iowa caucus on the 1st, three have dropped out: Martin O’Malley, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul. Cruz won the caucus on the Republican side, Hillary Clinton, narrowly, on the Democratic side. Given her advantages over Sanders, it amounts to a loss for her, as The Root notes: “She effectively lost to a 74 year old Vermont senator with no prior national profile; who had openly declared himself a socialist; who had no Super Pac funding or Wall Street money behind him; and who couldn’t call on a veritable Maginot line of endorsements and cronies and ambitious toadies to grease his path.” Update (February 18th): Four more Republicans have dropped out: Santorum, Fiorina, Christie and Gilmore. Still running: Republican: Cruz, Carson, Trump, Bush, Kasich, Rubio. Democrat: Clinton, Sanders. Update (February 21st): Jeb Bush has dropped out. Update (March 9th): Ben Carson dropped out shortly after Super Tuesday (March 1st). Kasich and Rubio disappoint. The Republican side is becoming Trump v Cruz and the Democratic side, Clinton v Sanders. Clinton is strong in the South, Sanders in the North. Trump, in new lows, assured us of his penis size and would not forthrightly condemn the support of David Duke and the Klan, both nakedly racist. Update (March 16th): Rubio has dropped out: he lost his home state of Florida to Trump. It was not even close. Kasich, meanwhile, held off Trump in his home state of Ohio, but it is the only state he has won. That leaves Cruz as Trump’s only serious opponent in the Republican race. Trump rallies are becoming increasingly violent. Update (May 3rd): Ted Cruz has dropped out! He lost the Indiana primary, a do-or-die state for him. Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee. Update (May 4th): John Kasich, Trump’s last remaining Republican opponent, has dropped out. Barring death or grave illness, Trump will be the Republican nominee. Update (June 8th): Hillary Clinton won California, giving her enough elected delegates to win the Democratic nomination in July. Bernie Sanders has not (yet) dropped out. He says “The struggle continues” and will take the fight to DC next week in the primary and to the party convention in Philadelphia in July. He meets with President Obama tomorrow. Update (July 22nd): Last week, Bernie Sanders at long last endorsed Hillary Clinton. This week was the Republican convention. Cruz refused to endorse Trump! Trump chose Mike Pence as his vice president and gave an angry, red-faced, fearmongering acceptance speech full of racist dog whistles and twisted factoids. Next week is the Democratic convention. By then we will know who Clinton’s running mate will be. Update (August 6th): Nate Silver in his polls-plus forecast gives Donald Trump a 25% chance of winning: the way it looks now, Hillary Clinton will most likely win all the states Obama won in 2012 plus North Carolina: Update (September 3rd): Trump has picked up two states over the past month, North Carolina and Iowa, but still needs three or four more. He has a 30.6% chance of winning: Update (September 15th): In the past week Trump has picked up Ohio and Florida in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection. If Trump can pick up Pennsylvania or Virginia, he wins. Here is the map: Update (September 21st): Trump picks up Nevada. He no longer needs Pennsylvania to win. He could do it with Colorado or maybe even with New Hampshire and a congressional district from Maine (Maine votes by congressional district and one of them is leaning towards Trump): Update (October 1st): Since the debate on September 26th, Trump has lost Nevada and Florida in Nate Silver’s polls-plus forecast. His likeliest path to victory is to win back those two states and then Colorado. Update (October 6th): Trump loses yet another state in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection: North Carolina. He is now four states short with a 25% chance of winning: Update (October 9th): And now Ohio is gone too. On the eve of the second presidential debate, but before his hot-mic comments have had a chance to show up in the polls, Trump is no longer projected to win any of the three key swing states: Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. That gives him a 22% chance of winning. By the end of the week we will know if the second debate and the hot-mic scandal have cratered his campaign. This map shows where he stood BEFORE the hot-mic scandal broke: Update (October 12th): And now Iowa is gone too, with Arizona starting to swing. Trump is now projected to win only the Romney states: Update (October 25th): With two weeks to go, Trump has picked up Iowa (just barely) in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection, which gives him a 17% chance of winning. To win he also has to pick up Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania along with either Nevada or North Carolina: Update (November 3rd): With just five days to go, Trump is only one state short of winning in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection. He does not even need Pennsylvania any more – New Hampshire or Colorado will do. He has a 36% chance of winning: Update (November 7th): Trump has lost Florida, North Carolina and Nevada over the past four days – despite not saying anything stupid, despite Hillary getting all the bad headlines. He is no longer closing fast. On the eve of the election, he has a 30% chance of winning: Election Night: Update (7.46pm ET): I voted for Hillary Clinton. I also filled out an exit poll that CNN is taking part in. Update (12.26am): No winner yet. It is way closer than the polls predicted, particularly in the Rust Belt where Trump is currently ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He has already won the big swing states of Ohio and Florida. If he wins Pennsylvania it will be pretty much over. Update (1.56am): Trump has won Pennsylvania. He just needs one more state. Update (2.46am): Trump wins Wisconsin and will be the next president. Sources: insidegov.com (liberal ratings), CBS News (net worth), Real Clear Politics (polls), NNDB and Wikipedia (religion and dates). The 2016 election by county Hillary Clinton for president – my endorsement debates: Clinton-Trump Debate I Kaine-Pence Debate Clinton-Trump Debate II Clinton-Trump Debate III vice president: Tim Kaine vice president: Mike Pence Libertarian: Gary Johnson Green Party: Jill Stein 12 American presidential elections: 1800, 1820, 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2012. on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 13:42:14 gro jo When did “Latino” become a race? Both Rubio and Cruz are white in contrast with their fellow “Latino” Sammy Sosa. on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 14:28:26 raimanet Reblogged this on Raimanet. on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 15:22:59 Black Sci-Fi This Presidential election will be between Sanders,The People’s Candidate and Clinton, Big Bank entitled, Wall Street financed, DLC loving, Republican-Lite Plutocrat. All the republicans are too extreme to be elected. Was Bill “Republican-Lite” Clinton really good for minorities ? We elected Obama because we didn’t “settle” for the so-called “electable” republican-lite, DLC. Big Money backed, Hilary Clinton. Yes, Sanders needs to make a broader outreach to the minority community. But, Clinton, was a member of the old “Law and Order”, cut welfare, increase Charter schools, war hawk) DLC. That means she is really only a slightly liberal “REPUBLICAN” in a dress. IF, Clinton is elected, I fully expect her to have none of the policy problems faced by President Obama because she will fully embrace the conservative Republican “Plutocrats” agenda. She will accommodate the Plutocracy and feign a liberal social agenda to the extent that it helps, first and foremost, white women. Intersectionality, Anyone..?? Let’s face it, she is the very definition of a Plutocrat. Follow her MONEY and It leads right to the doorsteps of the big banks and Wall Street. Sanders, OTOH, has always been a “Rebel with a Cause”. And that cause has been steeped in fairness and universal political participation of Social Democracy. He ain’t no COMMIE, OK..?? * Universal, Single Payer Healthcare will eliminate the cost of corporate and individual private healthcare premiums by slightly raising taxes to cover the cost = net coat reduction for everyone. * Anti-Intervention Foreign policy = America in no longer the “World Police” * Anti-Big Bank and Wall Street Agenda for reviving the middle class and elevating the working poor. * Anti-Clinton DLC backed policies * Pro-Renewable Energy Growth = no more oil wars. * Free College Tuition for everyone. * No compromise with Big Business on any form of discrimination. * Advocate for the full restoration of the Voting Rights Act. Bernie Sanders is the best candidate, period…!!! on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 17:13:20 Herneith This would be hilarious if it weren’t true! I’m not voting but here’s my take: Paul : the only Republican who’s not a war monger, is for a less intrusive government, for personal liberties, and truly understands federal government’s authority under the Constitution. Perfect Republican candidate, terrible campaign strategy. Trump: misunderstood, words minced and treated unfairly by the media. But building a wall to keep out Mexicans and discriminating against Muslim immigrants are not going to beat the Democratic candidate, whoever that is. Cruz: no substance. I’ve never listened to anyone who said so much about so little. Rubio: soft on “illegal” immigrants. Too far left for Republicans. Carson: too soft (personality). He makes Obama look tough. Carly Fiorina: bat sh!t crazy, and was a terrible HP CEO with no record of success on which to stand. Jeb: a nerdy George W. Bush, whom people still despise. Christie: anti personal liberties and shamelessly milks Sandy as if it were an accomplishment rather than a tragedy. Scumbag. Clinton: her campaign rhetoric suggests her administration will make it tougher for business than Obama’s, which this weak economy simply cannot bear. But she’s flip-flopped on almost every issue, so maybe she’ll flip-flop on this one too and be more pro-business like her Slick Willie. Bernie Sanders is making big promises of handouts and doesn’t give any details on how the government could afford it. That rhetoric always works in a weak economy, but it’s disingenuous to say the least. Everyone else: who really cares? on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 18:14:45 Adilah Didi E Jill Stein is running on the Green Party ticket. on Thu Jan 14th 2016 at 21:59:34 michaeljonbarker I don’t think I’d characterize Christie as being more Iiberal then the other republican canidates. He want to revamp the war on drugs and go after States that have decriminalised Marijuana. Rand has a few Libertarian ideas in regards to some civil liberties but he is mainly a Chistian conservative. He’s pro life and against marraige equality. The Libertarian party made same sex marraige part of their platform way back in 1976. @rsw77 I wouldn’t describe Trump as “misunderstood”. Both white and Black Americans know exactly what he means. He’s like a petulant child. The Republican party is afraid of him because he’s not a team player. He won’t do what their party wants he just gonna do what Trump wants. I also think his bigotry extends across party lines The media has the power to make anyone look how they want. For example, Trump accused the Mexican government of sending criminals and rapists to the US, and the media twisted that, and now most Americans believe that he was suggesting Mexicans are criminals and rapists. Yes he could have been more clear, but in full context, it was clearly about the Mexican government, not Mexican people. That’s what I mean by Trump is misunderstood. As to Rand Paul, he doesn’t believe the federal government should fund abortion programs because he believes life starts at conception. Everyone has an opinion. He also leaves it up to the states to come up with their own abortion legislation. That is not the position of most evangelicals, who want the federal government to criminalize abortions. On marriage, he said all Americans have a “right to contract,” which includes gays who want to marry. on Fri Jan 15th 2016 at 00:38:57 michaeljonbarker Keep in mind that the “states rights argument” also acts as a deflection from taking a stand. Personally I don’t think the government should be involved in the marraige business anyway. on Fri Jan 15th 2016 at 01:55:06 Mira Non-American here, so I could use a clarification… Why are there more republicans than democrats? Is this normal, or… ? on Fri Jan 15th 2016 at 04:46:52 Joan I’m not a fan of Sanders, but I definitely don’t want Trump or Hillary to win. on Fri Jan 15th 2016 at 04:47:00 Solitaire Some election cycles it’s the other way around. In 1992, Bill Clinton emerged from a crowded field of Democratic candidates (nine, I think). As far as I know, neither party places a limit on the number of party members who can declare their candidacy for president. I completely agree with you in principle, but at least it gives people the option to move to a neighbouring state with more favourable laws. States wouldn’t need to be in the marriage business if they didn’t grant special tax breaks and benefits to married couples (which I think is unfair to those who are single). on Sun Jan 17th 2016 at 03:07:49 Mira Kiwi and Solitaire, Thanks for the explanation. Makes more sense now. (Well, as much as politics can make sense but that’s another issue 😉 ). on Thu Jan 21st 2016 at 19:55:06 resw77 No thanks. But I kind of hope he wins just to see how foolish you supporters of his look when all those promises he’s made aren’t delivered. Like Hope and Change: the Sequel. But it’s wishful thinking because the Democratic establishment will never let him win. on Fri Jan 22nd 2016 at 18:00:12 Herneith Mirkwood, are you for real? I will admit those cows will someday make some delicious steaks though! Does the president get a makeup and wardrobe allowance? If they do, I’m running! Mercifully, you would be automatically disqualified! What about Tom Cruze? He was born and raised in Canada until he was four. At least, if I were president fun times would be had by all! on Sun Jan 24th 2016 at 03:09:51 michaeljonbarker Here’s a piece by Bill Moyer. He reflects my pessimism and nailed it. http://willmoyer.com/cycle-2016/ On Bernie Sanders, “He wants to use the most powerful, hierarchical, violent, imperial institution on the planet to help those oppressed by said institution. Only in the minds of liberal reformists and state socialists is such a strategy even plausible, let alone desirable. It should be outright laughable to anyone not willfully ignorant of the machinations of power.” “The purpose of Sanders’ campaign is to keep young, progressive-minded people participating in an election they would otherwise dismiss as a perfect example of everything wrong with American electoral politics.” Like Abagond he sees Trump as a fascist. “But here’s the most important point about Trump’s fascism: it isn’t his. It’s built on culture and sentiments that are at the very core of the United States.” “Donald Trump is America.” “The white supremacy, the nationalism, the militarism, the classism, the celebration of global hegemony, it’s all there. He is tapping into the not-so-deeply-hidden cultural forces that drive the American state. And to add the extra seasoning of what makes America America, he’s a self-styled alpha-male billionaire-playboy reality TV star who also courts the Christian right. Come on.” On Hillary Clinton, “If Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump represent different flavors of disillusionment with the system, Hillary represents the system itself.” “She is ruling class through and through. If you use the endorsements of governors, senators, and representatives as a measurement of establishment support — as FiveThirtyEight does — you’ll find that Hillary is the “most establishment-approved candidate on record.” On record, not just in this election.” “Hillary is the system. The Clintons are the epitome of the true political process in the U.S., using power and influence peddling to enrich themselves while the empire deals out mass death and destruction, all while serving the interests of wealthy corporations. Hillary doesn’t represent you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat. Or if you’re a woman. Or if you’re a long-time supporter. Hillary’s constituency is Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.” “A liberal might conclude that these situations are created by loopholes and bad policy. That they signal which areas of the system are in need of reform, which areas are flaws in an otherwise good system designed with our benefit in mind. They are abuses of the system. “But that’s wrong: these abuses are the system. This is what the political and economic structure of the United States is supposed to do. It’s what power is for. A radical critique does not see these deals “as aberrant outcomes of a basically rational system, but as rational outcomes of a system whose central goal is the accumulation of wealth and power for a privileged class.” And Moyer goes deeper, I hit the highlights. P.S. “If you’re wondering just how many bombs the United States dropped on Muslim-majority countries in 2015 alone, the answer is 23,144.” on Wed Feb 3rd 2016 at 15:33:18 abagond http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016/02/sanders_beats_clinton_49_49_the_real_story_behind_the_iowa_numbers.html Update: Four more Republicans have dropped out: Santorum, Fiorina, Christie and Gilmore. on Sun Feb 21st 2016 at 02:49:24 abagond Update: Jeb Bush has dropped out. on Fri Feb 26th 2016 at 18:37:49 Herneith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORZ8F–crY) on Fri Feb 26th 2016 at 21:03:31 Afrofem You are right, Bill Moyer did nail it. (Belated) Thanks for sharing that piece. on Sun Feb 28th 2016 at 07:30:22 Why YOU Shouldn’t Vote For #Hillary2016. No Matter YOUR Skin Color. – The Militant Negro™ […] The 2016 election for US president […] on Thu Mar 10th 2016 at 02:56:55 Mary Burrell Marco Rubio was the one who mentioned Trump’s small hands I can’t believe this campaign it’s a circus this is so embarrassing for the country. The Rethuglicans are clowns. Ben Carson is a weirdo on Wed Mar 16th 2016 at 12:54:38 v8driver Hopefully hillary will get indicted or at least questioned by congress on Wed Mar 16th 2016 at 13:40:06 Herneith http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/02/08/a-marco-rubio-doll-wed-like-to-see Update: Ted Cruz has dropped out! He lost the Indiana primary, a do-or-die state for him. Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee. on Wed May 4th 2016 at 02:40:50 Benjamin I remember back in December that you didn’t think he would get the republican nomination. Frankly, neither did I. And yet, he appears to be just that. Update: John Kasich, Trump’s last remaining Republican opponent, has dropped out. Barring death or grave illness, Trump will be the Republican nominee. @ Benjamin on Wed May 4th 2016 at 19:08:53 Michael Cooper Trump is the dominant White populace’s last “great white hope” in a color-changing country called America. Trump is saying things that the average White person is too afraid to say or simply can’t say in the streets or at the workplace or at an NBA game: 1. Blacks and Browns [that includes Arab Muslims] are “criminals” and “rapists.” 2. Political correctness is “bullshit.” 3. Diversity is “white genocide.” Note that Trump paraphrases those words by saying “Let’s take back our country” [from people of color] and “Let’s make America great again” [because people of color have ruined it]. The code language of Trump has aligned the poorest Whites in Appalachia with the wealthiest Whites in Beverly Hills, California. I’ll end my comment by saying – White people (young and old) are on CODE with their White LEADER Donald Trump. on Wed Jun 8th 2016 at 22:42:41 abagond Update: Hillary Clinton won California, giving her enough elected delegates to win the Democratic nomination in July. Bernie Sanders has not (yet) dropped out. He says “The struggle continues” and will take the fight to DC next week in the primary and to the party convention in Philadelphia in July. He meets with President Obama tomorrow. on Fri Jul 22nd 2016 at 21:22:25 abagond Update: Last week, Bernie Sanders at long last endorsed Hillary Clinton. This week was the Republican convention. Cruz refused to endorse Trump! Trump chose Mike Pence as his vice president and gave an angry, red-faced, fearmongering acceptance speech full of racist dog whistles and twisted factoids. Next week is the Democratic convention. By then we will know who Clinton’s running mate will be. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/mike-pence/ https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/racial-dog-whistle/ on Wed Jul 27th 2016 at 23:37:32 Herneith How about voting for this party as an alternative? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkqSv6fcSw&spfreload=10) http://www.americabutbetter.com/ Here’s their platform: http://www.americabutbetter.com/#!platform/c1flq on Sun Aug 7th 2016 at 04:01:56 abagond Update: Nate Silver gives Donald Trump a 25% chance of winning: the way it looks now, Hillary Clinton will most likely win all the states Obama won in 2012 plus North Carolina: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#plus on Sat Sep 3rd 2016 at 16:08:06 abagond Update: In Nate Silver’s polls-plus forecast, Trump has picked up two states over the past month, North Carolina and Iowa, but still needs three or four more. He has a 30.6% chance of winning: on Thu Sep 15th 2016 at 17:12:02 sharinalr on Thu Sep 15th 2016 at 18:07:56 jefe Did Virginia just turn a lighter shade of blue? on Wed Sep 21st 2016 at 16:36:14 abagond Update: Trump picks up Nevada. He no longer needs Pennsylvania to win. He could do it with Colorado or maybe even with New Hampshire and a congressional district from Maine (Maine votes by congressional district and one of them is leaning towards Trump): Yikes is right! Yes, Virginia is now a lighter blue. That Ohio flipped is a bad sign for Clinton. It makes it more likely that Pennsylvania and Michigan will flip too (the Michael Moore Rust Belt scenario) since neighbouring states tend to act alike. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 20:38:13 abagond Update: Since the debate, Trump has lost Florida and Nevada in Nate Silver’s polls-plus forecast: on Thu Oct 6th 2016 at 21:53:55 abagond Update: Trump loses yet another state in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection: North Carolina. He is now four states short with a 25% chance of winning: on Sun Oct 9th 2016 at 23:24:10 abagond Update: And now Ohio is gone too. On the eve of the second presidential debate, but before his hot-mic comments have had a chance to show up in the polls, Trump is no longer projected to win any of the three key swing states: Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. That gives him a 22% chance of winning. By the end of the week we will know if the second debate and the hot-mic scandal have cratered his campaign. This map shows where he stood BEFORE the hot-mic scandal broke: https://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/nate-silver-polls-plus-2016-10-09.png?w=500&h=328 on Wed Oct 12th 2016 at 20:51:01 abagond Update: And now Iowa is gone too, with Arizona starting to swing. Trump is now projected to win only the Romney states: on Wed Oct 19th 2016 at 23:04:06 Afrofem Just saw this article about a national poll of American Millennials (18-35) that found that nearly a quarter of respondents would, “rather see a giant meteor strike the Earth than see either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the White House, according to the new UMass Lowell/Odyssey Millennials poll released today.[…] The poll found that millennials dislike Trump and have reservations about Clinton. Trump is viewed favorably by only 25 percent of registered voters surveyed, compared to 72 percent who view him unfavorably. […]Majorities of respondents also said they view Trump as dishonest, lacking leadership and someone who would not bring the right kind of change to the country. […] When it came to Clinton, 56 percent of those surveyed said they view her favorably, far less than the approval rating for Bernie Sanders (73 percent) and Barack Obama (71 percent). Clinton’s biggest liability, according to the millennials surveyed, is honesty (only 36 percent say she is honest)….” https://www.uml.edu/News/press-releases/2016/odyssey-poll-10182016.aspx A giant meteor strike to the earth is better than Trump or Clinton for President? Wow! That is some genuine despair. on Wed Oct 19th 2016 at 23:17:35 Mary Burrell @Afrofem: It’s interesting that those young folks would rather see a meteor blow up the earth than have either Clinton or Trump be president. Very interesting indeed. on Thu Oct 20th 2016 at 03:53:32 Afrofem Yeah, shows how unpopular both candidates are. Both are seen as essentially dishonest. The Millennials may be young, but they see some people very clearly. on Tue Oct 25th 2016 at 16:42:02 abagond Update: Trump has picked up Iowa (just barely) in Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection. But to win he has to pick up Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania along with either Nevada or North Carolina. With only two weeks to go, his chances of winning are 17%. Trump loses Iowa but gains Ohio… Trump now has Iowa too. He still needs North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania. His chances are 20.5%. on Fri Oct 28th 2016 at 21:51:34 nomad Not so fast, Hill! http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-congressional-investigation-hillary-clinton-emails-back/story?id=43138105 on Thu Nov 3rd 2016 at 01:56:47 nomad What a difference a week makes. Panic, Hillarites, panic! (https://youtu.be/-fsU1oogBo0) ‘Did law enforcement and intelligence officers stage a counter-coup to Hillary’s criminal enterprise??? A certain someone just found herself not so above the law as she thought she was… but is she still?’ https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/now-theres-a-conspiracy-theory/ Update: Trump is closing fast. The Real Clear Politics’s poll average puts him only 1.7 points behind – close enough for a photo finish. Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection gives him a 36% chance of picking up the one extra state he needs to win: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html Trump has been picking up Gary Johnson voters. It is so close that it all could come down to turnout among Blacks (especially in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio) and the White working-class. North Carolina is an election scandal just waiting to happen. the crook is going to be indicted, barring some lynch or Obama obstruction, because Obama is implicated on Thu Nov 3rd 2016 at 21:28:41 Fan ... “Trump has been picking up Gary Johnson voters. It is so close that it all could come down to turnout among Blacks (especially in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio) and the White working-class. North Carolina is an election scandal just waiting to happen. ” It is so close that it all could come down to … wait for it … how well this (s)election process is RIGGED. Polls/surveys don’t matter. Neither do the ‘exit polls.’ It matters not who votes! What matters is who manipulates and who counts the votes. This is like watching almost the entire nation under the influence of magical enchantments and spells. Future historians will look back at this time with a smidgen of humor, disbelief and melancholy. And, with an understanding that those people were on an unshakable yet speedy trajectory towards their destiny. Amerika might have done much better for itself by choosing two denizens for candidates out of a random zoo. (Or pet store.) No more wars. No genocides. No racism! No background checks or tax-returns required. No more chicanery!! The only technical requirement is that the zoo denizens/candidates were born in Amerika! “NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes with Children, Child Exploitation, Pay to Play, Perjury” Truth or Fiction?? Are the NYC cops really exposing this crime syndicate?? How Hillary fans can still believe in their crooked candidate defies all semblance of sanity. Anyway, it looks like the Clintons are finally running out of JUICE. http://www.blacklistednews.com/NYPD_Blows_Whistle_on_New_Hillary_Emails%3A_Money_Laundering%2C_Sex_Crimes_with_Children%2C_Child_Exploitation%2C_Pay_to_Play%2C_Perjury/55022/0/38/38/Y/M.html on Fri Nov 4th 2016 at 02:54:13 Origin The Dems cynically connived for a terrible candidate to go up against Trump because they thought Trump was unelectable. But everywhere the Clintons go scandals follow so here we are: a major party’s candidate under FBI investigation for national security breaches WHILE running for president. Reality or the plot of a dark comedy? on Fri Nov 4th 2016 at 02:57:41 v8driver omg our busses are still on strike in philly If it is rigged, then whoever is doing the rigging wants to destroy or damage the US, which would suggest the Russians. @ Origin It is appalling that both parties picked such terrible candidates. AT BEST the next four years will be scandal-plagued. on Fri Nov 4th 2016 at 04:26:28 nomad ‘If it is rigged, then whoever is doing the rigging wants to destroy or damage the US, which would suggest the Russians.’ of course. its always the Russians. it has always been the Russians. it will always be the Russians. that’s neomccarthyism. (https://youtu.be/4D92Gc7f6Lk) its a myth. seed planted by clinton on Fri Nov 4th 2016 at 05:45:30 Fan ... Is this the premise for the post you’re going to write someday on Election Fraud, that the Russians are/were likely responsible for rigging the 2016 elections in the USA?? I guess the Russians probably rigged the 2000 election too? What’s next, the Russians conspired with Bin Laden, Quadaffi and Saddam to bring down the Twin Towers (and building 7) on 911 to incite the War on Terror?? How about this — Monica Lewinski, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers were all Russian spies planted in the USA to monkey-wrench Bill Clinton’s efforts at running the country?? Or, that the Russians somehow drew Nixon’s people into committing the Watergate break-in?? Almost everyone knows it was the Russians who put Oswald (and his magic bullets) in place to assassinate JFK in Texas. Should Santa and his reindeer turn up missing on Christmas Eve, surely the Russians will be the primary suspects – coz that’s how Santa rolls… or rather slides, or flies, right?? Is that tin-foil (Russian style) hat of yours getting a little snug around your head of late? You may want to visit a Russian tailor and get your brim adjusted. 🙂 New York Daily News Opinion The case against Hillary Clinton The Daily News last month published an indictment of the character and temperament of Donald Trump that stands as the longest editorial in the 97-year history of the newspaper. When drafting that, we invited a prominent critic of Hillary Clinton to take her best shot at writing an equivalent indictment of the Democratic nominee. That Op-Ed is below. Read both and come to your own conclusions. We welcome letters meant for publication. All submissions must include the writer’s full name and city and/or borough. Send to voicers@nydailynews.com. BY Lisa Schiffren By now, Hillary Clinton is as polished as politicians come. At 69, her hair is perfectly coiffed and colored, her makeup is subtle and her clothes are expensive. A trained debater, educated at Wellesley and Yale Law School, with decades of public life, she speaks well. In an election that she has framed around temperamental fitness for the presidency, her deliberate comments and careful parsing of words suggest that she possesses the steadiness and judgment required. That is the image we saw when she stood on a debate stage with the far less controlled, more hot-tempered Donald Trump. Clinton’s public persona is a façade, though a well designed one, held up by her staff, masters of television illusion and a collaborating national media. With the release of WikiLeaks emails, it has become clear that her senior staff questions that image among themselves. To understand what she is likely to do with the enormous, now largely unchecked power of the American presidency requires seeing the reality behind that façade. Judging by her actions over the past 35 years in Washington and Arkansas, in roles from governor’s wife to First Lady, senator to secretary of state, it is clear that Hillary’s deep character flaws and temperamental shortcomings, while better hidden than Donald Trump’s very visible ones, present a much greater danger to our democracy. Clinton’s character-revealing behavior includes incessant lying to the public; vast personal greed leading to corruption in high office; abuse of power on behalf of herself and against private citizens and political rivals; disregard for the law, and the very idea of the Rule of Law; disdain for the “deplorable” half of her opponent’s supporters, and the confession, made during a private Goldman Sachs speech revealed by WikiLeaks, that she typically offers one position on policy and politics in private and another, often very different one, for public consumption. This admission alone makes it impossible to know whether any policy agenda she has campaigned on reflects her intentions. Or is she actually planning to implement unwelcome policies voters would reject if she were honest about them? Nor is the media helping find the truth. As we have learned lately, some top-tier news organizations have offered her staff questions before interviews and debates, so that she can rehearse, and her staff can veto uncomfortable questions. Reporters have run copy past her campaign staff. The press seems happily complicit in this corruption, but it makes any reporting hard to trust. Given that the Democratic National Committee worked with the Clinton campaign to beat Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primaries, using money, smears and other tools, there is no reason to believe that Clinton will develop sudden respect for democracy and refrain from chicanery against her GOP rival. Her use of operatives like Robert Creamer to foment violence at Trump rallies, as Creamer boasted on a Project Veritas videotape, suggests she will stop at nothing. Finally, her political judgment is terrible from any perspective. Her policy mistakes at home and abroad — from the secretive attempt in the early 1990s to foist government-run health care on the country as the unelected First Lady; to helping fuel the Arab Spring by using the State Department to train young, mostly radical Islamist “revolutionaries” to destabilize their governments; to encouraging the killing of Muammar Khadafy, which unleashed a civil war in Libya — have been costly. Her concrete achievements are hard to name, which is why both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, at her Democratic National Convention, were reduced to describing her as an “agent of change,” and not the author of any particular accomplishment or significant legislation in the Senate. For all her talk of working tirelessly for children, just three bills of hers were passed in eight years in the Senate. They were for name designations of a local post office, a portion of a highway and a historic site. As New Yorkers across the state are aware, her campaign promises to bring jobs and sorely needed economic growth to upstate amounted to nothing. She was not able to get a bill passed to help fund “government investment” in the region. The American people understand much of this. Only 11% of voters find her honest and trustworthy, even if they plan to vote for her. It is puzzling that so many of Clinton’s supporters seem indifferent to her unethical and illegal behavior. Living in denial, they insist that each instance in which she has been accused of lying, breaking laws set up to protect national security, letting large donations bend policy or failing massively with policy can be explained by accusing the imaginary “vast right-wing conspiracy” of persecution. Investigations, accusations and evidence amassed by Congress, and recently by the FBI, are dismissed because she has never been convicted of or charged with a crime. That would mean something, perhaps, had she ever been tried in a court of law. Earlier this summer, we saw what happens when the FBI, a formerly clean, respected agency, undertook an investigation of the Democratic candidate for President for serious breaches of national security that were a consequence of using a private email server in contravention of all government rules concerning the handling of classified information. Revelations of the political pressure brought to bear on FBI Director James Comey to decline to recommend indictment, even in the face of the clear evidence of violation of the Federal Records Act and the Espionage Act and evidence-tampering by destroying 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed, demonstrate Clinton’s willingness to corrupt the FBI and the Justice Department itself, and undermine the rule of law. Clinton supporters now dismiss Comey’s re-opened FBI investigation into newly unearthed emails that Clinton’s close aide Huma Abedin may have failed to turn over previously as an unfair action so close to the election. As always, they show no interest in the substance — including the exposure of secret government information and the selling of U.S. policy. Let’s go to the record. She’s a liar Most politicians are not above small untruths, and occasionally larger ones. Clinton has been known as a bold and frequent liar, under oath and to the media, since her first stint in Washington. Everything from the nature of her marriage, to her health, to any random anecdote she might tell (landing under sniper fire in Bosnia!), to her public stand on any issue at any moment is or could be a lie. While some of this has been apparent, in recent weeks, WikiLeaks has released emails between members of her staff concerned about her health, her ability to articulate a serious rationale for her candidacy and the problems created by emailing back and forth with President Obama on her illegal server. These emails drive home the magnitude of her lies. In a January 1996 column called “Blizzard of Lies” about the then First Lady’s mounting scandals, the late, highly respected New York Times columnist William Safire wrote: “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady … is a congenital liar … she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.” Safire listed the Clinton-era scandals: the $100,000 she claimed to have made trading in the cattle futures market; the abuse of presidential power in which she “induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the F.B.I. and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton’s cronies”; and her decision to hide incriminating records from the Rose Law Firm, which showed she had lied under oath “when she denied actively representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison Guaranty S&L.” Safire concluded, “Therefore, ask not ‘Why didn’t she just come clean at the beginning?’ She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.” Twenty years on, in face of larger scale but similar influence-peddling accusations, she still has never been held accountable. A rotten temperament Behind the cool façade that suggests steadiness under fire, Hillary is a well-known rageaholic, infamous for shrieking nasty imprecations at both professional staff and people who guard her, as leaks from the Secret Service and others have long indicated. For instance, newly released FBI records show that, in her years as secretary of state, the nation’s leading diplomat, Clinton was so rude and nasty to the State Department security agents assigned to guard her that they refused to work with her. “[Redacted] explained that CLINTON’s treatment of DS agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere,” the interview summary says. “Prior to CLINTON’s tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State’s protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON’s tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her.” This behavior occurs frequently, and it undermines any idea that Mrs. Clinton is in control of her emotions, or in any way “steady.” Mrs. Clinton’s sex life is no concern of ours. The nature of the Clinton marriage, however, remains relevant, on two counts. First, Democrats have questioned how conservatives can tolerate a thrice-married man as the GOP candidate. That is a fair question. But when the other choice is a long-term marriage riddled by chronic infidelity, in which, according to sources close to both Clintons, the husband and wife have not lived under the same roof since leaving the White House 16 years ago, a couple of divorces start to seem, if nothing else, honest. Of far graver concern as a marker of character is the role that Hillary Clinton played when her husband was governor and President in suppressing “bimbo eruptions.” We don’t need to rehearse Bill Clinton’s affairs, or even the accusations of rape and harassment lodged against him. Nor does it matter how Hillary felt about that behavior. What matters is that she personally was known to suppress potential scandals and keep the women involved silent, either by intimidating them herself, or allegedly sending one of several men who did such things in Little Rock and D.C. Mrs. Clinton’s current crusade against “bullying” seems ironic given that she personally bullied the women her husband slept with in pursuit of keeping the Clinton, Inc. reputation clean enough to fool most Americans. Many women found it puzzling that such a strong-seeming woman stayed with a husband who humiliated her by constant cheating. But it makes a lot more sense if you consider them a pure partnership, devoted to acquiring power and money. Money, money, money, money Amassing vast amounts of money, by whatever means, has always occupied a significant part of Hillary Clinton’s energy. She has consistently been indifferent to the legal and ethical considerations that apply when a holder of high public office takes large sums from private interests. She has a stunning ability to corrupt people and institutions around her as well, most recently the State Department and the Department of Justice. While all of Hillary’s early scandals were about obtaining money, usually in return for the kind of favors a governor can dispense, former Clinton strategist Dick Morris claims that the current level of greed didn’t begin until shortly before the Clintons left the White House. In the course of Bill’s impeachment after his affair with Monica Lewinsky, his perjury cost him his law license. Morris claims that the Clinton Foundation, a massive influence-peddling operation, was a substitute for a more traditional, honest path to riches, denied them because of lying about an affair. Character is destiny. And this brings us to the great, interlocking personal scandals of Hillary Clinton’s years as secretary of state. Servergate, influence-peddling and worse Let’s start with the most consequential current scandal, which gets bigger by the day. That is the linked set of illegal actions Clinton took as secretary of state, including “Servergate” and the alleged auctioning off of U.S. foreign policy to the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation. Those who followed Servergate were initially led to believe that Clinton had used her own Blackberry, instead of the State Department’s secure email system, for personal convenience. As the magnitude of her evasion of the mandated use of the State Department’s secure email system became clear, the line became that she had merely been careless with national security secrets. Only recently has it become clear that the likely purpose of setting up the private server in the Chappaqua residence and a bathroom in a non-secure office in Denver was to avoid detection of the private business Clinton conducted from her office — namely, directing nations with business before the U.S. State Department to become donors to the Clinton Foundation. spinmachine Even if the Clinton Foundation did some good charitable work in the Third World, the ugly nature of these transactions is clear. The private server was set up before Clinton took office, to avoid any public — or government — scrutiny, and in case of Freedom of Information Act requests. Why? Because she knew in advance that using her position as one of the most powerful officers in the U.S. government to hit up foreign governments and private institutions for cash, in the form of donations to the Clinton Foundation, was unethical and illegal. The magnitude of this self-enriching pay-to-play scheme is stunning. To be sure, it was a highly successful scheme for the Clinton bank balance. In the four years that Hillary served as secretary of state, Bill earned $48 million for speeches given to private companies and foreign governments. Those included many of the world’s most tyrannical, brutal and un-free nations. The Foundation has banked tens of millions of dollars from Arab nations, including those funding ISIS, though, as we recently learned, a $12 million gift from the King of Morocco, solicited by Clinton, didn’t happen because she was about to start her campaign and thought it might look bad. Surely the most egregious triangulation was the one in which a State Department committee agreed to allow the sale of 20% of U.S. strategic uranium reserves held by a company called Uranium One (owned by a big Clinton donor, Frank Giustra) to the Russian company Rosatom, which has close Kremlin ties. It is hard to rationalize that action under any circumstance. As the New York Times reported, “As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.” The seller, “Frank Giustra … a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation…” And, speaking of ties to Russia, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech, part of which is thought to have come from the Russian government. Vladimir Putin showed his thanks by attending the speech. As Peter Schweitzer, author of the expose “Clinton Cash,” noted, WikiLeaks e-mails provide proof that the “Clintons have a long and lucrative history of financial deals with the Russians, particularly with the Russian government.” Are we sure the Clinton Foundation is really that corrupt? The very respectable law firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett was brought in, in 2011 by Chelsea Clinton, fresh from graduate school, to evaluate the disturbing accusations of quid pro quo expectations among foreign donors. The ultimate report concluded that many people who raised money for the foundation reported conflicts over what donors expected in return. Sadly, the Simpson, Thacher recommendations were ignored. Policy and political judgments It is hard to find any actual successes in Hillary Clinton’s four years as secretary of state. But her major failures illustrate the problems with her judgment. The Benghazi debacle has been studied ad nauseam, without any real conclusion as to why the Obama administration declined to send timely help to rescue Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and his men. The one action about which no questions remain is that, though she knew exactly what had happened, how and why, in real time, Clinton chose to spin a farfetched story about the Arab world getting riled up by an anti-Islam video, and lie to the American people, for months to come. coverup The accepted explanation, that President Obama couldn’t afford to take the hit for the gruesome deaths of U.S. officials two months before an election, on the anniversary of 9/11, no less, would be a very cynical political reason for a huge lie. Speaking of cynicism, in his 2014 memoir, Robert Gates — who had served as secretary of defense under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama — wrote that Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the 2007 troop surge had been based on how she thought her own political fortunes would be affected by taking that position. For example, Gates described a “remarkable” exchange that he had witnessed in which Clinton, speaking retrospectively, “told the President that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary” and could not afford to be perceived as pro-war. The record shows, again and again, lies, secrecy and duplicitousness deployed as means to the ends of amassing wealth and power. Despite her well-padded resume and long proximity to power, Hillary Clinton’s illegal actions, abuse of office, secretive, undemocratic instincts and low character render her unfit to serve as President of the United States. Schiffren is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. © Copyright 2016 NYDailyNews.com. All rights reserved. http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/11/op-ed-case-against-hillary-clinton/ Just sitting here waiting for the Friday afternoon bombshell to drop…. It’s a total disaster and it barely matters which of the two wins. A volatile time is coming. If Hillary wins, as is still likely, there will be a president entering the Oval Office with an ongoing FBI investigation into possibly treasonous activity. It’ll be Bill’s impeachment drama all over again no doubt amplified by Trump and his sizeable contingent of supporters who’ll struggle, with his encouragement, to accept the election’s outcome. If Trump wins his presidency will also be incredibly divisive due to some of the things he’s said and the strong feelings many people have about him. Neither can govern an inherently divided country as an inspiring or unifying figurehead because they both have baggage that makes them extremely divisive. So the coming years will be a total disaster. She is dan….. ger ous… Trump too, but not so bad as this. She’s already threatened to attack Russia on the false charge that Russia leaked her emails about stealing the Dem nomination. (Assange says it wasn’t Russia.) A dangerous woman. Willing to start WW3 over her own wicked mechanizations.. What the heck are we voting for? WAR WAR WAR! ^^^That was in reference to your previous post that both candidates are bad, not the 20:17:10 post which I didn’t see until after hitting submit. I agree that it will be bad either way, but I do not agree that “it barely matters which of the two wins”. The US and the world can weather another President Clinton, but it is an open question whether it can weather a President Trump. At the very least, under Trump there will be zero to negative progress on global warming. And the racial climate is bound to become much worse. TBH, given Hillary’s likely very corrupt conduct as SoS under Obama, the thought of her as an executive-order-issuing president scares me no less than Trump. I’m slightly comforted by the possibility that, if she wins, the ongoing FBI investigation and the associated microscope will greatly limit her freedom of action. Can you explain why you think Black people will be safer with Hillary in the oval, than they would be with Trump?? Or point me to something you already wrote … What specifically has she done or said that causes you to believe that Black interests is something she would fight for – or care about????? @Origin ” And the racial climate is bound to become much worse.” The racial climate went from bad to much worse from Bush to Obama! WHO EXPECTED THAT??? Please explain in detail why you are so certain a Trump presidency will be a win-win-win scenario for heavily racist occupied Amerika. Presidents – by themselves certainly don’t have the power to legislate morality, or hate. Yes, I believe to a large degree that if Trump wins, white people at large will likely feel racially energized and back on top. Yet the erosion of Black civil rights laws since their legislation during the 60s isn’t a new or sudden phenomena. That’s been happening for a long time. Trump does have his RACE issues, but what makes you think he’s the reincarnation of George Wallace?? phenomenon on Fri Nov 4th 2016 at 23:59:49 Mary Burrell If Trump wins the inauguration will be filled with NASCAR types and klansmen. on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 10:58:02 nomad ‘If Trump wins the inauguration will be filled with NASCAR types and klansmen.” If Clinton wins it will be Satanists and spirit cookers. on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 13:23:04 munubantu I notice that some commenters spend a lot of effort trying to prove or call others attention to how wicked “Die Frau” (The Woman; Clinton) is. Yet they hesitate to jump to the logical conclusion: call people to vote for Trump instead. I call this cowardice. I see at this point in time (already very close to the elections day!) only 4 candidates and 5 options: The 2 major parties candidates (Clinton and Trump); * Two minor candidates; (Each candidate, big or small, corresponds to an option for the electorate.) * A remaining option is to abstain from vote. I think that people should concentrate their efforts in convincing themselves and others of what to do and not what not to do. Abagond thinks that Trump would be a very bad choice for America and especially for Black people. Based on that premise he concludes that (Black) people should vote for Clinton. He is fully aware of the shortcomings of that candidate, but he thinks that the important thing right now is to avoid a disastrous course of action for America in the next 4 years. I understand his position as logical and coherent. At least one commenter – resw77 – seemed to me to lean for a vote for Donald Trump (See, https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/donald-trump-quotes-about-black-people/#comment-311897), but I’m not sure of that. Anyway, if he is for a vote for Trump, I’ll take it as a logical and coherent position. Not a naive position but one inspired by a calculation of what is better for the country, and arguably for Blacks too, considering the alternatives. In fact, one can argue that the nationalistic positions took by Trump would mean a rise in employment level in the following years, following a possible return of some jobs which went to foreign countries in the last decades. This argumentation makes some sense. Higher employment levels would benefit Blacks too. What I don’t understand are the commenters who relentlessly try to prove that Die Frau is wicked but never show any viable alternative, because they say, if asked, that Trump is bad too. And no, they are not arguing for abstinence of vote either! These attitudes would make more sense if coming for racist White trolls with an explicit purpose of effectively shut out the Black vote by seeding disorientation and indecisiveness in this particular block of the electorate. Or, maybe… just maybe, these are Black minds which become very disappointed with how little the Democratic Party has delivered to the Black population in so many years where said population gave them help to win elections at all levels. Maybe they think it’s time to teach them a lesson showing them the red card! If this is what these commenters have in mind, why don’t they say it explicitly and come to the conclusion that his time voting for Trump instead, would be a way to bring an higher price to Black votes henceforth, votes which remained cheap until now, especially for the Democratic Party, which has used them without almost nothing in return. This position could be argued but I have seen very little in that direction. Maybe be because those commenters are very afraid of appearing as Trump adherents, at a time when this could be seen as a betrayal in some quarters. Therefore they keep arguing only that… Die Frau is wicked,… Die Frau is wicked,… Die Frau is wicked… in a very repetitive tone! Life is about taking decisions. Some of them can be hard because the alternatives remain very close in merit or because some consequences that follow them can be risky. It’s a measure of maturity that one takes a decision despite the risks, if it comes from a well justified and logical thought process. Taking decisions is not like playing God, because only He knows the future with certainty! Correction in my last comment: coming for racist White trolls coming from White trolls “What I don’t understand are the commenters who relentlessly try to prove that Die Frau is wicked but never show any viable alternative,’ Jill Stein. If she’s not viable then the hell with it. Let Trump take the hindmost. from racist White trolls “Trying to prove”? I’m not trying to prove a damn thing. I’m pointing it out. If you’re a passenger in a car being driven off a cliff, at what point do you stop shouting to the driver “you’re heading over a cliff!!!” on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 14:10:18 Herneith Where’s Ross Perot when you need him? @ nomad …Jill Stein. If she’s not viable then the hell with it. Let Trump take the hindmost. This is what I had in mind. Spend more time convincing people why those choices are better and not why… Die Frau is wicked! If you put more effort proving the merit of such alternatives you could end up having more people on the same side as you. Some would like to know more details about such proposals and you would take some time answering them. For example: has Jill Stein not a very tiny bunch of followers? some would ask. And you would develop your explanation of how such a choice would make sense despite that. Or : is Trump not anti-Black? And you would try to explain why he would be better for America and Blacks nevertheless. This would be the basis of constructive, insightful and interesting dialogues between you and other commenters. This would enrich the debates on this blog. The repetitive slogan, Die Frau is wicked! Die Frau is wicked is hardly meaningful! on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 15:16:40 Fan ... Well Nomad, I gleaned at least one (maybe two) thing(s) from our African brother’s dissertation. We are both, apparently, immature cowards, according to our fellow poster. To that I’ll say, truth-tellers have never been popular. People prefer to be left in their own delusions of grandeur. Very few enjoy having their apple carts upset! @ munubantu Don’t be shy! Next time you have something to say to me, you can say my name instead dropping innuendos like “… some commenters spend a lot of effort … ” I’ll appreciate it and respect you more for approaching me directly than some round-about way. It isn’t my mission here to tell anyone who to vote for, or that they shouldn’t vote. Most people here are of reasonable intelligence… Everyone should follow the instructions of their conscience, higher power, God or whatever. I make decisions for myself, alone. It’s not my job to make decisions for others. All I can do is to tell the truth. In honesty, I don’t believe voting matters much, if at all. I see it much like professional sports. It’s a useful distraction that gives the people something to hope for, to root for, while the powers that be go about their business as usual – which has precious little to do with doing good things for the nation’s people. Politicians in Amerika are overwhelmingly about lies and pretense – and self-interest, self-preservation. Things aren’t getting better for the common person, yet hardly anyone says so out-loud. Nonetheless every four years this great PRODUCTION – presidential (s)election – is presented to the people to get behind and believe that wrongs will be made right, things broken will be fixed, wars will cease and change will happen, even with this being the worst offering of candidates in history! One is a crude and vulgar racist, the other is an insatiable super crook plus – AND a racist as well. Little people believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Big people believe in elections, voting and change! The type of change that the entrenched controllers/ruling cartel will never permit. I prefer Cynthia McKinney, or at the very least, Dr. Ron Paul. Favorite McKinney moment: She asked Secretary of Defense D Rumsfeld, et al about the 2.3 TRILLION USD that went missing from the pentagon! on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 17:57:36 Afrofem @munubantu One irony is that the one commenter you noted who is most supportive of Trump is not an American citizen and can’t legally vote in a US election. on Sat Nov 5th 2016 at 20:57:48 v8driver this jill stein person seems to be channeling ross perot, and coming from nowhere in the 11th hour! and i study the occult, and that #spiritcooking mess sure caught me blindsided and somewhat befuddled! that is really down the rabbit hole. Who’d she coup? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/11/5-minute-video-clinton-foundation-5-charity-fraud-obvious-election-fraud-lying-us-military-illegal-empire-wars-white-hat-insider-lawful-revolution-justice.html the pedophile thing is going to be the nail in her coffin. (https://youtu.be/KPiJdATpEaM) v8driver jill stein hashtag real person on Sun Nov 6th 2016 at 05:03:46 Origin Even if it’s a long shot the best possible scenario is that something happens in the next few days that completely wrecks Clinton’s campaign and forces everyone who was going to vote for her (just because she’s considered most likely to beat Trump) to pick someone else as their not-Trump vote. I really cannot stomach the prospect of an obviously corrupt individual being president. I don’t have a real fear of Trump rounding up minorities and sending them to the gas chamber despite his insensitive racial remarks. OTOH, I think that Clinton’s pay-for-play propensities represent a real potential threat to life and limb of Americans and the whole world. Someone like that is unfit to be commander in chief of the world’s best funded military in my opinion. So options are admittedly thin, but she isn’t one from my perspective. She’s quite possibly more of a danger to be stopped [Hillary on Qadaffi being tortured to death: “We came, we saw, he died..ha, ha, ha, ha”]. I don’t even think people who’re voting for Hillary are enthused about her. I get the sense that many are more uncertain about Trump and would rather stick with the evil they know. Yet what I know concerns me a lot. Hillary was a disaster when she had power as Secretary of State and she will have the most power ever as President. But probably the votes don’t matter as many people say and the outcome is already rigged. Certainly some shenanigans took place to get Clinton the Democratic Party nomination so it’s hard to imagine they’ll stop before obtaining the ultimate prize when so much is at stake. on Sun Nov 6th 2016 at 15:33:35 v8driver jill stein makes me think of ralph nader for some reason on Sun Nov 6th 2016 at 16:32:56 Afrofem https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-jill-stein-disturbing-echoes-of-ralph-nader/2016/08/23/513bc40a-696c-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html green party? unsafe at any speed? found this article after i posted the above… on Sun Nov 6th 2016 at 17:13:16 jefe Is it really only meaningful decision in the battleground / swing states? I mean, in the solidly Blue or Red states, do we have to worry about voting against our conscience? I do not recommend abstaining, but maybe we don’t have to vote just to keep the worst one out. Even Noam Chomsky recommended voting for Hillary in the “swing” states against his best conscience. But, specifically in those states. yeah thanks for telling me the libertarian vote is not just a waste but an indirect vote for trump! oi vey on Mon Nov 7th 2016 at 13:08:08 abagond If Clinton leads by more than 3% in your state, it is probably safe to “vote your conscience”. But the trouble is, if enough people do that, Trump will win! It is not that Hillary Clinton will be good for Black people, just that she will be less bad. Both Trump and Clinton have a clearly racist past, but Trump’s current rhetoric and his voter base are far more openly racist. If he wins open racism will become more acceptable, so will policies that are more racist, like nationwide stop and frisk. I do not want to live in a Breitbart world, or even one where Rudy Giuliani heads the DOJ – the current one is bad enough. In my lifetime I have already seen the country lurch right, under Reagan and Bill Clinton. I would much rather have the flawed status quo, which is bad enough, than to lurch yet further right, this time into White nationalism. on Mon Nov 7th 2016 at 14:32:17 jefe I don’t think leading by 3% is a very safe margin. Even in those “leaning blue” states, such as Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, etc., you feel that your vote can matter. In the battle ground, eg, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, then your vote is crucial. But in Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, DC, etc. (or West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming, Arkansas) I might think about the 3rd or 4th party candidates or maybe even an independent, if their platform is closer to what you want. On the eve of the election, Nate Silver’s polls-plus projection gives Trump a 30% of winning. He is no longer projected to win Nevada, North Carolina and Florida like he was last week. But those states, along with Ohio and New Hampshire, are still very close and could easily wind up on either side when the dust clears. The trouble for Trump is that he needs to win all five (or their equivalent in other states where he is farther behind), while Clinton only needs to win one. on Tue Nov 8th 2016 at 03:51:38 Fan ... In my lifetime, I’ve never seen the country lurch as far right (into white nationalism) as it has during Barack Obomber’s time in office. Civil rights gains were rolled back! Firearm sales (via white people) never peaked as high as whites mobilized for … a perceived race war?? Dylan went into a Black church and blew away 9 unarmed people. Cops regularly murder unarmed Black citizens. Obomber faces a regular type of common disrespect and racism that Colin Powell and Condi Rice from W Bush’s prior administration rarely if ever experienced. Obomber has done next to nothing for Black people. It is white nationalism that made sure he played the zero sum gain game on their behalf, effectively tying up his hands on our behalf! They even shut him down on the Skip Gates debacle. White nationalism?? This country is already mired in it! We are effectively in it now! Can’t lurch any further into white nationalism than where we are currently!! In fact, in order for this country to become more white, move in the direction you’re talking about, white birthrates would have to increase dramatically. We all know that’s not happening. on Tue Nov 8th 2016 at 05:21:23 Origin “I’ve never seen the country lurch as far right (into white nationalism) as it has during Barack Obomber’s time in office. Civil rights gains were rolled back! Firearm sales (via white people) never peaked as high” I was just thinking about this yesterday when someone set that the racial climate would probably be worse under Trump. Yet all the hate groups etc. got more active during Obama’s presidency not less. They might well be more militant under Clinton than under Trump who they’d perceive as being “their man”. Anyway, I don’t think that should be a consideration when it comes to one’s vote. Each person can only make a conscientious decision. on Tue Nov 8th 2016 at 10:06:28 abagond “Can’t lurch any further into white nationalism” Yes it can. We know that because it has, like under Jim Crow. Yes, White nationalism has become more open under Obama – Trump did not come out of thin air – but that is hardly a reason to make it yet worse by voting the Klan’s wet dream into power and make him the most powerful man on earth. on Tue Nov 8th 2016 at 11:19:37 v8driver Yay the busses are running in philly today. Apparently, Trump over performed in States which have the highest drug, suicide mortality rates and alcohol. No Wonder he won, the populace was drunk, high on heroin, suicidal. They probably thought they wouldn’t be around to enjoy his presidency: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/09/daily-202-trump-over-performed-the-most-in-counties-with-the-highest-drug-alcohol-and-suicide-mortality-rates/584a2a59e9b69b7e58e45f2e/ on Fri Dec 9th 2016 at 18:25:29 Afrofem Red states and counties tend to be the most dysfunctional and needy. When a local columnist asked why one of the poorest counties in the state went for Trump, their response (in the comment section of the article) was that they “got their self respect back”. That is a loaded comment…and open to several ways of understanding. My personal interpretation is that as long as there was a Black man in the White House they felt diminished. With Trump, they feel restored to their former glory. Fewer services, more prestige. In the article itself, this explanation was offered: “I trace everything to the radiating fear and loathing against Seattle liberals,” is how John Hughes, the former publisher of the Aberdeen Daily World, explained the Trump vote to my colleague Jonathan Martin. That analysis sounds as true as any. The trouble with it, though — for Grays Harbor County — is that loathsome Seattle liberals were not on the ballot. The health insurance of their friends and neighbors was. It turns out Grays Harbor County is one of the places in our state that the dreaded Obamacare has been propping up the most. This issue got barely any attention in the election — though I bet it will now. A few years ago, 19 percent of the people there had no health coverage, one of the higher uninsured rates in the state. Today, only 9 percent remain uninsured. Almost all of that improvement is because Obamacare provided Medicaid coverage, for free or nearly free, for more than 8,000 Grays Harbor adults. An incredible one in five Grays Harbor adults signed up for it. That’s a sign-up rate more than double [Seattle] King County’s. Yet the county that’s relying on it just voted for the candidate who vowed to get rid of it.” http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/counties-in-washington-that-rely-most-on-obamacare-voted-for-trump/ Biting off your nose to spite your face can be painful. on Sat Dec 10th 2016 at 15:56:54 Herneith Yes but you now have your white pride back, so what if it means the security net being pulled out from under you. They will find this out once they come out of their liquor and drug induced fog. they will then proceed to relapse when they realize what they have done! They will then proceed to attempt suicide en masse. The ten most gorgeous East Asian men in the world	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line813
__label__cc	0.60499	0.39501	Charity Hospital Charity Hospital 2018 Charity Hospital was once considered the safety net of New Orleans. It was a place where anyone could go and receive the best healthcare available. The hospital was established in 1736, by a French shipbuilder, whose dying wish was to fund a hospital for the poor. The first hospital building, a small cottage in the French Quarter, opened a year after New Orleans was founded. Charity Hospital quickly outgrew that facility and a handful of temporary hospitals sprung up around New Orleans. The administration was taken over by the Sisters of Charity, a group of Catholic nurses who would run the hospitals along with the Medical College of the University of Louisiana. By the 20th Century, New Orleans was rapidly growing, and indigent care again exceeded Charity’s capacity. Sunrise from the rooftop of Charity Hospital. Today the hallways of Charity Hospital remain dark and empty. In 1939, the Governor commissioned a new Art Deco-style hospital tower on Tulane Ave in the lower Mid-City neighborhood. Charity Hospital became the second-largest hospital in the country with 2,680 beds and encompassing a million square feet. It was known as a teaching hospital, a place where students from LSU and Tulane University could receive medical training. Designed by the same architects that built the Louisiana State Capitol, the building’s cornerstone lists the Public Works Administration as the building’s authority. Charity Hospital served over 100,000 indigent citizens each year before it closed. Charity Hospital was the longest continually running hospital in the country until August 2005. A look at the front entrance to Charity from the rooftop. A communications board at a nurses station reflects the feelings of those caught in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. In the Infectious Disease department, heavy-duty microscopes coupled with the Louisiana humidity slowly bend a wooden table. A cart sits in the Pathology lab full of containers intended to be taken to the Morgue. Hurricane Katrina signs posted in a dark, moldy hallway by the former staff. The levees broke on August 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Rising floodwaters caused Charity Hospital to lose power. The electrical and mechanical equipment was underwater in the basement. The basement morgue flooded as well, sending bodies floating down the basement hallways. Doctors instructed the staff to pull the bodies out of the flooded basement and stack them in the stairwells. The floodwater trapped everyone inside for days with no power, no air conditioning, limited supplies, and food. Patients were hand-pumped oxygen by anyone willing to help, eventually being paddled down the flooded streets by staff to a nearby parking deck. After being carried up to seven flights of stairs, they were taken by helicopter to another nearby hospital for treatment. Several patients died in the parking deck, waiting to be rescued. Finally, a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans; the last patient was evacuated. These plastic buckets were filled with body parts, dry rotting from the heat inside. Trapped inside without food for days, starving patients and employees ate whatever they could find. After the severe flooding, questions loomed regarding Charity’s future. The hospital had never closed, and many thought it would instantly reopen. Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps, along with FEMA volunteers, had Charity Hospital back operational and ready to open. FEMA had generators set to be delivered to restore power however LSU representatives along with then-Governor Kathleen Blanco blocked the delivery multiple times and ordered the power turned off at the grid. Governor Blanco stated Charity Hospital would never reopen as a functioning hospital again. Hospital police forced out volunteers and staff, locking the doors without warning. Over the next ten years, a bitter battle ensued between FEMA and LSU representatives about the amount of damage inside Charity. The disaster damage had to exceed half the cost of rebuilding to qualify for FEMA compensation. LSU wanted out of the impoverished healthcare business, hoping the closure of Charity would allow them to move on. LSU had been working to move towards a more privatized health care operation and wanted a new, state of the art facility outside of the downtown area. The closing of Charity allowed LSU to seek the government funds needed to help build a billion-dollar medical complex outside of the downtown area. The turn-of-the-century autopsy amphitheater in the pitch-black basement. University Medical Center, completed in 2015, cost a total of $1.2 billion. A replacement for Charity that seemed almost too little, too late. The state of the art facility features far fewer psychiatric beds and will not have birthing units. The 70-acre site in lower Mid-City is split off from downtown by the interstate, making it difficult to reach by the impoverished population. Many of the historic homes that outlasted Hurricane Katrina were destroyed or moved to less desirable areas to make way for University Medical Center. The city of New Orleans used the power of eminent domain to take over the land for the new hospital while continuing to pay over $3 million a year to secure the 70-year-old Charity Hospital as it sits dormant. Over the years, ideas for reuse such as a City Hall or medical student apartments were suggested but quickly put to rest. Charity Hospital remains abandoned and locked down under constant police patrol. Hopefully, one day, this Art Deco treasure will be filled again with thousands of people creating miracles and saving lives. Get a more detailed look from inside the walls of Charity Hospital in my book, Abandoned New Orleans Posted in abandoned, abandoned america, abandoned places, Decay, Louisiana, new orleans, photography, ruins, travel, Uncategorized, Urban Exploring, urbexTagged abandon, abandoned, abandoned Charity Hospital, abandoned hospital, abandoned hospital new orleans, abandoned Louisiana, abandoned New Orleans, abandoned Nola, abandoned places, abandoned places new orleans, Big Charity, Big Charity New Orleans, Big Charity New Orleans Louisiana, Charity, charity hospital, Charity Hospital New Orleans, Decay, downtown, explore, explore Nola, forgotten, hospital, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, new orleans, New Orleans abandoned, new orleans louisiana, New Orleans urbex, ruin, southeast, travel, Urban Exploring, urbexBy Abandoned Southeast 104 Replies to “Charity Hospital” Patrick Degan says: The abandonment of Charity Hospital was and is a crime, as was the destruction of an entire neighbourhood to service the corporate demands of LSU. Janet Schex says: Just think – for a second – about trying to modernize a building from the early 20th century for modern needs such as computer wiring and wifi, not to mention patient privacy. The building served its purpose. It was time to modernize. It just wasn’t charming anymore. Buildings are modernized and revitalized all the time. It’s not in the realm of impossible. You obviously don’t understand the profound history of this building and what it meant to New Orleanians. This was a place of charity and hope, people are dying everyday in LA because of the greed in the medical industry. You felt very human when you came to charity hospital because the FIRST thing that was always asked was “what’s wrong” today at University, and other hospitals, the first thing asked is “what insurance do you have?” If you are one of the many in NOLA that doesn’t have insurance, unfortunately you are interrogated about how you intend to pay. Very Sad! Andrew G King says: I worked at Charity as a faculty member in ortho for 25 years. It was an anachronism and a disgrace. Dirty , and unsafe for patients , residents poorly supervised and unaccountable. The storm did a huge favor to the peopkle of New Orleans and medical education by terminating the hospital and allowing a modern facility to replace it. Emily Ann Heine says: I t i s a l o s s f o r N ew O rl ean s p eo p l e It may have been all you say , but this hospital saved my life when I was 9yrs old in 1969… sad to see it this way !! Betty Holsen says: I worked there in the 80’s. The hardest work I ever did as a nurse but the most satisfying. This is so sad. Melody Breyer Grell says: Not sure how to post here, but the fact that there will be less psychiatric beds is the most disturbing part of this whole story. I have known people who, at their wit’s end have tried to get help, with hospitals turning them away into the danger of the night. And I mean that literally. There must be understanding that mental illness is really physical illness, bu tin the brain. psychiatric care IS always at the bottom of the barrel for funding AND THE FIRST to get their budget cut. Regarding in-patient ? the bed shortage is crisis levels nationwide AND THE LOSS CONTINUES AND NO ON CARES or has the common sense to REOPEN THE STATE HOSPITALS THAT STILL ARE WITH A SOUND FOUNDATION etc and OBEY THE OCCUPANCY AND STAFFING LAWS INSTEAD OF THEIR BS WITH SIMPLY CLOSING THEM ALL DOWN. mygawd WHAT DID THEY DO ? AND WHY ? When they are ILL TO THAT POINT THEY NEED TO GET ADMITTED,assessed,treated and then discharged WITH STRICT FOLLOW UP. WHEN THERE ARE NO BEDS , the family and care takrs definitely ARE AT THE RISK OF INJURY and the ill ones might even WIND UP DEAD AT THE HANDS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT. THIS IS A DISGRACE. Thomas Warn-Varnas says: i almost died in that hospital on my 33rd birthday. infact i may have and my father might not have told me. but i have to say, what? 11 years later, after the hurricane all the funds in the world, billions spent, some of it went to roads and this place, was politically abandoned because of loss? imagine if only a fraction of those katrina funds were used for charity. what it would have done. but only a fraction was used for roads, most of which on the northshore and the rest, pocketed away. as usual. unreal, when you see these photos. and i almost died (if i didn’t die and come back) on my 33rd birthday about less than 11 months before katrina) ~peace thomas 🙂 lishadiamond says: The surgical amphitheater is NOT in the basement. It’s on the 9th floor. It’s also not pitch black. Please correct your huge description error. The flood waters did not reach the surgical amphitheater. This is misinformation. Also, a lot of the dummies were placed there by police who use the building since Katrina for urban tactical drills. The amphitheater pictured is located behind the Morgue in the basement. It’s there, I promise! There are other amphitheaters located in the hospital too. I remember seeing one with blue tile on another floor, maybe that’s the one you are referring to! Mona (@Raynewriter) says: I’m most interested in the “Surgeons records” photo. Do you know if there are other ledgers from the 60’s…like the one in the picture? What about old medical records? Thanks! Yes, there were other ledgers and quite a bit of paperwork left behind. Jessica Hyde Meydrich says: When did you visit the hospital to get these pictures? Is there really medical waste and body parts still sitting around? That just seems insane to me. If so, it seems like they would be cleaning the hospital out and removing records, chemicals, and bio hazards… This story makes me sad. Elizabeth Shraberg Hurst says: Yes I just spoke with my father who worked there and he confirmed there were two amphitheaters. One in the basement that adjoined the doctor’s dining rooms and the morgue, and another amphitheater that was on the upper 7 or 8th floor. It had fabulous pictures of old surgeons including the famous New Orleans surgeon Rudolf Matas, one of the founders of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, operating with a cigar in his mouth. The smoke was then believed to clean sounds! There used to be a tunnel to the Tulane medical school. On Fridays next to to the kitchen across from the morgue was a large 4 ft wide and tall cast iron pot where they had gumbo being stirred every Friday. It was shut down after an “expose” in the Times Picayunne! What happened to those patients, doctors, nurses, and staff in the aftermath of Katrina due to government ineptitude was a truly heinous crime. Amazing insight. Thanks for sharing! Agatha L says: The gumbo was good!!! Sarah Kelley says: Is the autopsy amphitheater different than the surgical amphitheater? It said the morgue was in the basement so maybe the autopsy amphitheater is/was different than the surgical amphitheater. I believe the amphitheater behind the morgue was the only one used for autopsies. Rhonda Lefort King says: It says it’s the Autopsy amphitheater not the surgical amphitheater. Angela Armstrong Hebert says: The article said that it was the autopsy amphitheater (NOT the surgical amphitheater). Brenda Tidwell VanDorsten says: Upon a recent trip to NOLA, I was awestruck by the huge white. abandoned building….looking like a large ghost looming over the new hospital across from it…It looked so out of place and SAD…yes, SAD. Abandoned after all it’s years of care and charity for this great city. I was also SAD. Stacy Gerhold-Marvin says: I don’t think LSU wanted out of the indigent healthcare business at the time the new hospital was negotiated and planned. It was Jindal’s vision to privatize. Portions of Charity were already privatized before Katrina. LSU wanted to head in that direction. judyb54 says: With LSU at his back. Judimarie BsnregisteredNurse Boyd says: It is really sad to see such an iconic hospital let go to waste because of politics and not wanting to serve the poorer people of New Orleans. At what point does political clout take precedence over human life. Building another hospital that is not accessible to the poor, is a pure and outrageous jester that the poor has no value as human beings. It also reinforce the concept that the poor people are not worthy of receiving basic health care, which the indigent people (and all) have a right to medical care regardless of their financial or social status. Those people who directly denied the rebuilding of Charity Hospital, who deliberately made sure that the people in all areas, especially the people who reside in the predominately poor area, should be ashamed of themselves. Nothing of good will come to those who did this great injustice….and yet found funds to build a hospital to serve its select few. There is a saying that: “God is a God of mercy” and that He will look over and take care of those who can’t care for themselves ….to those who have political clout and not given one thought of those less fortunate…..shame on you….remember karma is real; and when you look down your nose at those less fortunate, one day you may be in that position…never forget this thought…going up the ladder of success is one thing, but falling down that you will see all those people you insulted with your decisions and heartlessness. IJS Danny Nola says: Why do people claim the new LSU Medical Center is not accessible to the poor? It is very accessible and is utilized by people with and without insurance constantly. As I actually work at the LSUMC, I can tell you we are always busy and are always being accessed by everyone who has a need. Please don’t make statements that are misleading and outright lies. From reading these posts, it sounds like there is this huge, new medical complex sitting empty, surrounded by a moat filled with alligators to keep the poor out and the golden drawbridge is only lowered to allow the Mercedes ambulances in….silly people. It’s accessible. Just not by public transit like Charity. I’m sure indigent people in New Orleans still receive care, but at what cost? This new hospital cost 3 times what it would take to make Charity modernized. Kerry Jordan Clemmensen says: How is it not accessible by public transit?the streetcars and buses have stops there, front, & both sides. It’s incredibly accessible. Especially when you consider the huge indigent population a block away, living under the interstate. As for the lack of psychiatric beds, it’s an incredibly advanced psychiatric ward. The issue I believe had to do with the homeless and indigent walking to the new hospital facility which is divided by an interstate from where Charity is located. Not sure what public transit issue you are talking about? There are fewer psychiatric beds at the new hospital, all advancements aside. Steven Flash Broughton says: Abandoned Southeast, please do not take this in the wrong way, I wanted to help others that may not know the area understand it better. I-10 is elevated through this area. Tulane Ave. (Charity is on Tulane) and Canal St. go underneath it (The new LSUMC is between Tulane and Canal). Claiborne is the city street that runs underneath I-10 in this area. There are plenty of people who walk along Canal and Tulane under I-10. There is a homeless population that lives under I-10. The homeless and poor have access to reach the new LSUMC by foot and by bus, as well as the streetcar if they have the fare for it.There are plenty of bus stops along Canal and Tulane that are in front of the new LSUMC. The new LSUMC is literally on the other side of I-10 from Charity Hospital, we are talking about blocks, not miles. Though I am not a native New Orleanian, the city has been apart of my life the last 8 years, with me living there and being active across the metro area for the later 4 and half years. i took the term accessibility LITERALLY as not being in close proximity to either transit lines or walkable for most of the poverty stricken. cocktailsandhighheels says: This is so sad for me.. I was in New Orleans during Katrina. This is so hard to see, it brings back memories. A great and powerful hospital that kept the New Orleans citizens afloat for decades being brushed off like it is a piece of garbage! Kathleen Blanco was a sorry governor for this. Very good read and powerful read, thank you for this! https://cocktailsandhighheels.com The photo of “Surgeons records from the 1960’s” caught my attention right away. I was a patient at Charity during the early 60’s and have often wondered if there were any medical records remaining from that time period. I also think that there’s a misconception that Charity only serviced the poor when in fact people from all walks of life were patients here simply because the doctors and medical staff at Charity were often on the cutting edge of new surgical procedures and technology. What a shame to allow this hospital waste away. Many a good doctor, nurse, etc. learned here…worked here…taught here. So sad… blueski7487 says: You are absolutely right. The cutting edge doctors here had, gave me a wonderful life. I am so glad that I was given a chance by the doctors here in order for me to live the way I do and to have a chance at getting married and having a family of my own. I was one of their miracles. Martin J. Powers says: point well taken. Brad Blasiar says: This site has some misguided statements. LSU does not want “out of the indigent healthcare business.” They wanted a new facility because Charity was so old, and it’s construction of mostly concrete made modern updates very difficult – they literally had to run internet, power, and cable wiring outside the building. As mentioned above, Jindal was the driving force behind privatizing Louisiana healthcare, but even with privatization, LSU still serves the indigent in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and various other cities. The statement “After Charity’s closure, suicide rates tripled across New Orleans” indicates the closing of charity lead to these suicides. It was clearly the devastation of Katrina itself that lead to the rise in rates, not to mention the use of rates rather than actual suicides may be a bad statistic to use, considering the significant decrease in population, with those left behind more susceptible to suicide and depression. The idea that moving UMC literally less than half a mile away from the original Charity site makes “it difficult to reach by the indigent population” is ludicrous. I get the desire to want to make use of the building, but the aforementioned misdirection and outright lies lead me to question whether or not “Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina the Army (the Army?) had Charity Hospital cleaner than before the storm, fully operational, and ready to open.” As an LSU medical student starting in 2008, I was taught by many people that worked in Old Charity. It was not “fully operational”. One big issue was the very heavy CT and MRI machines. Charity only had the structural strength to hold these large machines on the first floor, making them vulnerable to any recurrent flooding. These were not replaced, and the hospital was far from “fully operational”. I understand the misgivings about the eminent domain, as well as the desire to make use of the building, but this is far from a black and white situation. I agree the issue with Charity is far from black and white. Charity as a whole was not fully operational however the Army Corps of Engineers along with FEMA did clean the hospital well enough for it to be open for all intended purposes. marushkasplace says: Amazing history. Cori Renfroe says: My father, (who was not indigent), spent many a day looking out the window watching the superdome being built as he lay dying of cancer back in the 1970’s. I was very young and vaguely remember the large open wards with many occupied beds in each. If those wall could speak, oh, the stories they could tell…of life and death, happiness and grief. It is a wonderful building and should be restored to continue to help those many in need. It could be filled in a day with just those that need mental health. No major heavy equipment required, just people willing to show love and compassion to those most in need. Katherine Jacobson says: As a graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing, I can honestly say I was provided an education that money can not buy. I was born at Charity Hospital and educated in the School of nursing there. Experienced the best Nursing education to be had in the country. I now teach nursing part time and am very well respected as an instructor by my students because of my experiences in the SICU and NICU of which I have worked at Charity. I am proud to wear the Charity Pin, as it is well recognized by physicians and patients. It is sad to see the the condition of that precious building. What a waste as decided by politicians. What do they truly know? Elina M. Long says: What year did you work in the NICU? gwendolyn hardin says: I am a 1982 graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing and carry the memories of those halls deep within my heart. My class pin has been recognized outside of Louisiana and many doctors have mentioned the excellent education which came out of Charity. I did not see any mention in this publication of the fact that Charity Hospital was shared by LSU and Tulane schools of medicine. We, the nursing students, had to know which school was in charge of our assigned patients. I was devastated when Charity School of Nursing went from a 3 year diploma program to a 2 year associate degree via Delgado. I have interviewed new graduate nurses from “Charity-Delgado” and know for a fact the education changed. The day I walked out of nursing school I went directly into an intensive care unit at a hospital in my home town. This was because of my education, most new grads had to work the floor for a year before entering the ICU. We, the grads of the former Charity Hospital School of Nursing, were blessed to have received such an excellent education. FYI, the charity hospital in Baton Rouge ( Earl K. Long) is another which suffered at the hands of the LSU take over. It is now just a vacant lot. Thank you for reading and contributing. I learn something new every day. the same way the politicians made the decision on the fate of your hospital , they made the destructive decision on the education and TRAINING for entry into professional nursing. And the same way our military is trained on how to REACT AND APPLY KNOWLEDGE, the nursing student was the same. This lack of training, the lack of hours spent as UNPAID BEDSIDE NURSES under the direction of both your “clinical instructor” and the head nurse accounts for their problems with professional adjustment and the knowledge that NURSING IS EXHAUSTING AS IT INVOLVES 100% OF YOUR MIND AND PHYSICAL EXERTION AND WE ARE JACKS OF ALL TRADES AND MASTERS OF THEM ALL. There were no resp techs running around, to set up the vent or arterial line transducers etc etc-we did it all, no disposables for a while after graduation,so we were also soaking,washing,wrapping,autoclaving or gas sterilising.sharpening needles,checking for burrs,counting needles/syringes along with the narcotics on top of direct patient care,charting etc AND WE LOVED IT as nursing was a challenge and those “in it”had found their niche in life and yes we had lives including husbands,kids BUT WHEN ON DUTY, we were solely on duty. mygawd, my 2 year diploma school rotated us through the OR,ICUs, recovery room, ER CCU, we had advanced cardiac care instruction,how to run a code, knowledge of basic LAW regarding malpractice, negligence abandonment,etc and even HOW TO TALK TO THE DOCTOR WHEN THEY BROKE STERILE TECHNIQUE, how to remind them YOU NEED ORDERS, OR THIS ORDER IS CONTRAINDICATED on and on and may gawd help you if not fully prepared to take care of your patients etc. remember YOUR scissors and clamps ? it was on par w/the military inspections preconference and all- then the oral quizzes-“patient presents with…what will you get ready ? what’s contraindicated ? what will you be looking for” THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS BURN OUT as you would have burned out in the first three months due to the heavy academic load and CLINICAL hours on top of it. There was also no such thing as “NOT MY PATIENT”. Now we cannot place the ENTIRE blame on these BSN and assoc grads as they did their best and NURSING AS WE KNEW IT WAS DESTROYED by political bs artists,MSNs in charge of our professional licensure, and they are responsible for the poor standards of care,attitude and shortage. THOUSANDS for that BSN ? over in the UK your education was for free and you received an allowance as well. I had to leave as it became intolerable working with too many arrogant BSNs we had to TRAIN and then hear nonstop “I didn’t go to college for 4 years to take a temp….answer the phones (fill in the blanks), and then be BLOCKED from advancement due to not having the BSN. I am a 1972 grad. and even then the diploma schools were on the way out and I simply walked out one morning in 1997, after pulling a 12 hour shift THAT THEY voted for and finding out THEIR CHOICE for the head nurse for the night shift that same morning– an intolerable,POLITICAL choice and of course, us diploma grads that WERE GOOD ENOUGH to be “charge” for years, could not apply, so you know the rest of the story. I quit nursing entirely. NURSING IS THE ONLY PROFESSION THAT DESTROYED ITSELF. Charles Gras says: For all the hundreds of thousands of people treated at Charity , that could not afford to be treated any where else , The thousands who traveled from all over the world , to be treated by specialists , in this teaching hospital By teams from L.S.U. , Tulane , Delgado and many other disciplines . Charity Hospital operated in the black or in other words made a profit every year that it was open . I find it hard to believe anyone from these dedicated schools and disciplines wanted Charity to die on the vine Ginger Coolidge says: Thank you for these photos and this article. Originally from New Orleans, I returned and got married in May of 2005, just 3 months before everything changed in that city. Many members of my family were treated at Charity over the years and possibly I had some that worked there, not sure, they are are mostly deceased now. Lots of fingers could be pointed but I don’t want to go there. This article makes me sad and seems like a microcosm of what came of the city as a whole. That large structure still there , I wish there was a way it could be restored and used in some way. Evelyn Frey says: There is a difference between surgical and autopsy amphitheaters. The Big C had both and they were in different locations. The autopsy theater was in the basement near the huge morgue . Many memories from my nursing school days in the late 60’s – early 70’s. So sad that it lies in such a state now. The school og nursing is now only an empty shell . Blanche Pelican says: Charity School of Nursing never closed after Katrina, continuing to educate nursing students at other campuses until returning to the Education Building on South Claiborne in 2006. It is far from an empty shell! The Class of December 2015 was the second largest graduating class in the history of the associate degree program, with 158 graduates! For the Fall 2016 semester, the school anticipates approximately 650 students in the RN program, 100 in the PN program and 20 in the CNA program. Charity Hospital School of Nursing became Charity School of Nursing-Delgado Community College in the early 1990s. The school’s dorm was closed by the state and later renovated to provide housing for LSU’s medical students. Charity School of Nursing continued to maintain its ties with Charity Hospital through clinical rotations until Hurricane Katrina. Students now gain their clinical experience at hospitals throughout New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. Although Big Charity still awaits its rebirth, Charity School of Nursing-Delgado Community College continues a proud tradition of service far into the future. Michael Sparks says: My father worked there as an LSU med student in the early 1970s and is now retired. I was once stitched up on a stretcher in the hallway by my dad after I fell and cut myself as a young child. I remember he once told me that “Big Charity” had a very old syphilis clinic and that he had handled records in French dating from the earliest days of that clinic. Amazing, and I wonder what ever happened to those historic records. I’d like to share this page with him, but I’m hesitant because I know it would make him very sad to see the hopsital in such decay. Of course many of us know the story of Charity’s demise, but actually seeing it like this is much different. trower72 says: Reblogged this on My Drop Foot by Matthew Trower and commented: Nothing scarier than an abandoned hospital. These amazing photographs certainly back my theory up! That essay at the end is misguided. The indigent are much more likely to live on the side of the interstate where the new hospital is, rather than between I-10 and the river, like Big Charity. Where are you from, anyway?? I recall the issue with patients reaching the new hospital compared to Charity was public transportation. Marco D Meneghini says: Charity was served by the Tulane streetcar and later by the Tulane trolley bus. The new hospital is served not only by the Tulane motor bus but also the Canal streetcar and the Gálvez bus. Patty Sabatier says: if nothing else, this site should be kept honored and marked as a sacred, like we have done with the 9/11 ground zero. Charity was served by the Tulane streetcar, later the Tulane trolley bus. The new hospital is served not only by the Tulane motor bus, but also the Canal streetcar and the Gálvez bus. There’s really not one issue that can pinpoint why Charity closed. It’s a litany of things besides public transit. That’s just one of many. Thanks for reading. Jim Carrier says: Terrific photos. The hospital’s travail during Katrina is documented in my book, “Charity – The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina,” available in paperback and e-book version from Amazon and other outlets. Jim Carrier, http://www.jimcarrier.com. Having been born in Charity Hospital in 1987, I was a miracle baby. Back at that time they still had no idea really what thyroid disease was or how one got it. They were the first doctors who treated me for my illness. After that they sent my mom to Children’s Hospital in order for those doctors to get a handle on my health. I wish this place would be turned into something instead of sitting there as a reminder of the past and the indignity of people who gave up on a building that once held the only hope some people had. Now at 29, I have come a long way from those beginning days as a child whose parents feared wouldn’t make it or if I did what would I be like. They told my parents that I would never walk or be able to reach childhood milestones or even have children when it came to that time. I showed each doctor as a child, how wrong they were and even to this day I am still a walking true testament to the care that I was given as a newborn baby in the nursery at Charity Hospital. I thank the doctors there for giving me a fighting chance. I am grateful for the chance to live a very happy, healthy and long life because of their care and attention. Great story! Thanks for sharing. Your welcome. My story always inspired me through out my life. Gilly says: Absolutely incredible story with your wonderful images. It’s very interesting, as someone who lives in the UK, to see these amazing places you have rotting away. I know we have many of our own – but these are spectacular examples of decay and change. You are very talented at documenting it. Pingback: Protecting critical access points \| Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved jennifer baxter (@bbstrawb731) says: Charity hospital was once a great place. It had the best doctors and students around. I had my son their and you were considered either an LSU or a Tulane patient. They had great nurses too. They also found my mother’s cancer there and took good care of her. Ke Wilson says: ive got 2 words for you ……. asbestos abatement I’ve got one word for you. Money. Jeffrey Sketchler says: Great Pics. Charity had it’s day. It was an outdated facility in the 80’s when I learned and trained as a med student and subsequent resident surgeon. NOLA has long had a dire need for a more up to date institution for treating patients and training health care professionals. We now have it . Katrina sped up the process. Andy King is right. The Big Charity was historically significant, but NOLA was at risk for becoming historically insignificant in medical education without its replacement. Jeffrey Sketchler, MD Thank you for your insight. I’d like to see the city do something with the building besides leave it shuttered or demolish it. Armin Callo says: Finally, LSU has its medical center. Good, and good riddance to Charity Hospital. My experiences there at Charity during my LSU Medical School days were HORRIBLE because of this building and its deficiencies. Yes, it is a beautiful, historic, art deco structure, maybe as a residential building, not as a fully-functioning, modern hospital. I agree. It is a weird layout for a hospital but a residential building would be a good fit. Buddy Goatcher says: Wow. thank you for sharing, I was not aware Charity was abandoned, Brings back memories! No nightmares. Around day four or five post Katrina I was tasked with directing a SAR mission to extract the daughter of a high federal official who was a nurse trapped in that hospital. They were at great risk at the hospital by being over run by hoodlums and gangs. We were one of two teams that approached from different directions. Our team encountered a fire fight and were delayed in resolving that problem and then ran out of water near the Xavier University. Our other team was able to rescue her. Wow, incredible story. Thanks for sharing! Carol Hayes says: No millionaires in NO who would consider renovating for apartments with maybe the bottom 2 or 3 floors for boutiques and such? I have no head for business and this may have already been looked into. Just a thought as it is downtown and with it being made of concrete, no weather worries there. Mem Shannon says: I was born in this building December 21, 1959. Kellie Voisin Briggs says: I love the Charity Hospital history! I wish I has a chance to see the building in person… myworkexperience says: Hi😀 I’ve recently started a blog where I talk about my work experience, but mainly the experience I am currently gaining at a children’s charity called Tiny Tims that offer free treatments for young people with disabilities. I would really appreciate it if you could follow me🙂 Emily Dardis (@edardi1) says: your statement, “The levees broke August 29th, 2005, a few days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall” implies that the levees broke a few days after the storm hit New Orleans. The storm hit on the 29th and the levees broke the same day. Corrected the error. Thank you for reading. jbkeenanjr says: Reblogged this on KeenLand. Lorri Annette Curto says: I’m reading Five Days at Memorial and the brief account of how well the staff at Charity handled the same time period post-Katrina caused me to find this site. As a RN in the Texas Medical Center I find the photos both intriguing and disturbing. Am I the only one who thinks it is time for this building to be demolished? Griselda Foreman says: Practical analysis . I was fascinated by the insight , Does anyone know if my company could get access to a template Profit & Loss Statement Sample form to fill out ? Payton Martin (@thepaytonmartin) says: Me and 3 of my friends had the opportunity to, let’s say, tour, this 1 million square foot building the other night. After hopping the fence, dodging security, cutting the lock on an exterior door, and unbolting the hinges, we were able to get in. Although the cleaning out of all the debris (which began in January) is already complete, it was still one of the coolest buildings I’ve explored. But let me tell you how sore I was the day after from climbing up 20 flights of stairs… 21 if you count the basement. I do have to say that although there are many arguments about the amphitheaters… I was able to view 2 of them, both housed on the 12th floor near the O.R. suites and anesthesia offices. They were named the Miles Amphitheatre and the Delgado Amphitheatre. While we did spend a fair amount of time in the basement, we did not find the morgue nor did we find another amphitheater… but that does not mean they are not there. One of the coolest things we did was get on the roof of the 13th floor of the west wing, and on the roof of the 20th floor (basketball court beneath us). There are so many areas we didn’t get to explore, and by 3 AM we were too tired to keep looking. We will definitely be back to this historic building. Very interesting! I worked at Charity in the late 60’s, early 70’s as a Medical Technologist, learned so much and enjoyed it. Wish the building could be used for something! Thanks for the pictures and added info! My dad received his training in Psychiatry at Tulane Universiy / Charity Hospital in the late 50’s. I lived in NO in 1989 and often visited the cafeteria during my training for an MPH Degree at Tulane. These photos are compelling and sad…… Too bad to see all that history blown away by Katrina and neglect…… gmail.com says: If some one needs expert view on the topic of blogging after that i advise him/her to go to see this weblog, Keep up the good job. Thank you. I really appreciate the compliment. Just so yall know. She is clean again!! Our company was in there 6 months ago to do a complete gut on all materials not tied down. There is nothing left but the walls and big medical equipment. There is about 30 million dollars in asbestos removal to be done before anything else can be done. Tell you what its a spooky building when your up on the 20th floor and your all alone!! Teresa Long says: Do you know where all of the pictures were taken to when they cleaned? My great-great grandfather was one of the first heart surgeons there and his picture was in the entry way. I am very saddened by the loss of Big Charity Hospital. I prayed for the recovery of this Facilty. It was very important to the people of Louisiana and other States as well. I can still picture in my mind the Hallways, Wooden Floors, Elevators, Entrance and Emergency Room area. When I heard Big Charity Hospital would not reopen I went to New Orleans and took Pictures of the outside and cried. Excellent care was given to my family member from my Great Grandmother (1912), Grandmothers, Aunt( 1930s), and Mother( 1980s). There was Love and Caring shown to Patients and Family which will not be forgotten. Aluminiumstange says: Excellent read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he just bought me lunch because I found it for him smile Therefore let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch! Jean Bannon Breed says: These photos are amazing as is your info about this historic hospital. I lived in New Orleans from 1970 to 1984 ( 20 to 34 years old) and being a broke hippie chick I counted to Charity to take care of me and they certainly did! Had a major surgery there and still have a photo of me in a ward with maybe 10(?) other patients. My girlfriend brought me a carton of cigs!!! I also came in one evening very ill and dehydrated and since they had no rooms they put me on a gurney in a hallway and inserted an IV. Always treated kindly and professionally and during rounds would have a posse of young Tulane and Loyola students discussing my case. After 30 yrs in California I am moved back and it breaks my heart to see that it has sat there for so long and there seem to be no plans to remove or restore. Such a big part of this city’s history. Thanks for the wonderful article and great photos!!! caixa de velocidades de precis?o says: Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your webpage? My website is in the very same area of interest as yours and my visitors would certainly benefit from some of the information you present here. Please let me know if this alright with you. Thanks! Yea, that’s fine with me. An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a co-worker who had been doing a little homework on this. And he actually bought me dinner because I found it for him… But yeah, thanx for spending the time to talk about this topic Charity was like wrestling with some fictional “shit monster” – if you pardon my expression. If you won and beat it – including all the daily surprises and frequent inadequacies e.g. lack of supplies, pharmacy running out of a medication, etc, and you could live with the state worker staff mentality and the abominable racism, etc, you felt quite like the survivor. Sure you got your training but there was a lot of rig this and rig that – sink or swim – and you learned to be happy with it or you got run out even before you got your late paycheck. I am not nostalgic for it at all. I went a few times as a child and waiting for hours like everyone else. I remember once walking from the nursing school to the main building and there were detours on the walkway for concerns of asbestos contamination. The bathrooms were literally hell holes – even the employees ones. When HIV hit in the 1990s they stuck those people down in some basement pit and few wanted to go there. Oh and don’t forget the rat races – literally – out by the snack bar in front. I taught myself a lot about care at Charity – mostly on my own – but it certainly was not the icon some people here seem to fondly remember. It was often like working in some alternate reality as if you were in one of those healthcare miniseries like St Elsewhere or House but a lot less of the happy endings. Pingback: WEEKEND GETAWAY in New Orleans, Louisiana - The Traveling Gals Daylight Thomas says: I worked at Charity Hospital in 1989 as I was a medical student from Europe ! Lived in the French Quarter/Iberville street and had to walk every morning to the hospital ! Was very concerned about the crime and violance in the city. Therfore I decided only to arrive at daylight and to leave the hospital at daylight! The residents called my “Daylight Thomas” and we hat many parties and fun at my apartment in the quarter after work! Maybe some of the doctors remember that time! That’s funny. Thanks for sharing your memories of Charity with us, Daylight Thomas. I also lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Betsy ! Have a wonderful photo with Mayor of New Orleans Victor H. Schiro, Jim Garrison and my parents during a cocktail party at the Roosevelt Hotel, April 28th 1962 ! Best regards from Germany Thomas Anschuetz Previous PostPrevious Marine Hospital Next PostNext Memorial Mound Carrollton Courthouse	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line814
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__label__cc	0.522339	0.477661	Events in April 2019 History Matters presentation - The Many Adventures of Blandina and Justina Westville/LSF/249 1401 US-421, Westville, IN 46391 Westville, IN Map Westville/LSF/249 Dr. Mary Beth Fraser Connolly will give a talk about Digital History, Nuns, Billy the Kid, and Italian immigrants in Cincinnati in LSF 249 from 12:30 to 1:30pm April 9. The archives of Catholic women religious are full of records which are deeply connected to women’s history and American history largely. Charged with preserving their history, religious congregations have moved into the digital age and joined the digital humanities conversation. While scholars can utilize these records for research, they also can bring them into their classrooms to enliven their discussions of the past. This presentation explores one example: Sisters Justina and Blandina Segale, whose missions took them to the American Southwest in the late 1860s, where Sister Blandina encountered and faced down the notorious outlaw, Billy the Kid, and to the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1897 – 1930, where they served Italian immigrants. This event is open to the public. More about History Matters presentation - The Many Adventures of Blandina and Justina Chicago Latino Film Festival: Bernarda Powers 130, Purdue University Northwest Map Powers 130, Purdue University Northwest Based on Federico Garcia Lorca's play "The House of Bernarda Alba" POWERS 130, PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST, HAMMOND FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH DIRECTOR EMILIO RUIZ BARRACHINA AND PRODUCER REBECCA ARROSSE Emilio Ruiz Barrachina (“Yerma”) continues his exploration of Federico García Lorca’s work with this modern day adaptation of “The House of Bernarda Alba” starring Assumpta Serna and Victoria Abril. Bernarda (Serna) runs a brothel from a factory. She has just acquired five women who were kidnapped and sold into sex slavery; she believes that by keeping these women here she is redeeming them and freeing them from the evils of the world. Bernarda also keeps her sister María Josefa prisoner while maintaining a strange relationship with her maid Poncia. Emilio Ruiz Barrachina ("Yerma") continúa su exploración del trabajo de Federico García Lorca con esta adaptación contemporánea de "La casa de Bernarda Alba", protagonizada por Assumpta Serna y Victoria Abril. Bernarda (Serna) dirige un burdel dentro de una fábrica abandonada. Ella acaba de adquirir cinco mujeres que fueron secuestradas y vendidas como esclavas sexuales y cree que al mantenerlas prisioneras las está liberando de los males del mundo. Bernarda también mantiene prisionera a su hermana María Josefa mientras sostiene una relación extraña con su sirvienta Poncia. To request a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at edi@pnw.edu or (219) 989-2163 for the Hammond Campus or (219) 785-5545 for the Westville Campus five days prior to the event. Questions, pnwchess@pnw.edu or (219) 989-2401. More about Chicago Latino Film Festival: Bernarda Human Trafficking: Elevate Awareness, Recovery & Prevention Westville/DSSAC Great Hall 1401 S Hwy 421, Westville Map Westville/DSSAC Great Hall The Social Work program is hosting a day conference, Human Trafficking: Elevating Awareness, Recovery & Prevention. It is open to students, staff/faculty and the community. More about Human Trafficking: Elevate Awareness, Recovery & Prevention 13th Annual Early Childhood Conference DSAC Grand Hall & TECH 1401 S. U.S. 421, Westville, Indiana Map DSAC Grand Hall & TECH PNW'S Center for Early Learning 13th Annual Early Childhood Conference is open to all students, professionals, and those interested in Early Childhood education & development. With 4 break-out sessions and noted keynote speaker Matt de la Pena, this event is sure to be exciting and informative. More about 13th Annual Early Childhood Conference	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line818
__label__cc	0.665854	0.334146	ALT Online Winter Conference 2017 Donate to ALT Tips for participation Guidance for Presenters Guidance for Session Chairs Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra [Cancelled] Moving a large university online in 9 years: laying the foundation for blended learning Public Group active 2 years, 1 month ago Wed, Dec 13 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Jessica Gramp At UCL, we moved from using WebCT in 2008, with a mere 400 courses, to a Moodle environment with over 7,000 courses in 2017, covering every taught module and programme. Such a large environment is impossible for a team of only tens of staff to support single-handedly. Without the support of staff in particular roles, we would not have reached this target. University College London (UCL) is a large, research-intensive UK university, with a diverse and independent department structure. After many years, Moodle is now firmly entrenched in the UCL teaching culture. This is the story of how we got there. In this 30 minute webinar, we’ll discuss the initiatives that led to the acceptance of Moodle by the majority of UCL staff and students, including the policies, guidance, networks and qualifications (including CMALT) that we initiated and supported to help achieve this milestone. We’ll review how particular roles have emerged, as a need for Moodle support has developed within departments. Anyone who is interested in initiating organisational change should hear this story, including learning technologists, teachers and leaders. Participants will leave with an understanding of how one university achieved online teaching spaces for every taught module and made the use of Moodle the norm across a campus with more than 44,000 students and over 4,000 teaching and support staff. While it took time to achieve this, we now have in place a robust system that will carry forward into the future, as we move towards increased use of Moodle for assessments, feedback, communication and collaboration. Show: — Everything — Updates Joined Sessions Session Updates Martin Hawksey posted an update in the session [Cancelled] Moving a large university online in 9 years: laying the foundation for blended learning 2 years, 1 month ago Jessica has provided slides she would have presented which can be accessed here https://www.slideshare.net/jessicagramp/moving-a-large-university-online-in-9-years-laying-the-foundation-for-blended-learning-opportunities-in-every-module-84004477 Martin Hawksey replied 2 years, 1 month ago …this includes Jessica’s contact details on the last slide This session has unfortunately been cancelled Chris Jobling joined the session [Cancelled] Moving a large university online in 9 years: laying the foundation for blended learning 2 years, 1 month ago Dario van Gammeren joined the session [Cancelled] Moving a large university online in 9 years: laying the foundation for blended learning 2 years, 1 month ago Platform Sponsor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line821
__label__wiki	0.59106	0.59106	JBF/1 Sketches, maquettes and writings Material written, drawn and printed by Barry Flanagan including notes on his thoughts and for his correspondence, sketches for works, samples and proofs for prints, sculpture plans and templates and laser and rubber stamp drawings. 124 folders, 76 volumes, 2 PDF files: 573 MB (2 folders) Appointment diaries, year books and monthly planners, the majority of which contain entries and notes on personal and professional matters. Photographic material Photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, scans and print-out images. Barry Flanagan's original files and, where evident, series have been left in tact and categorised, as far as possible, according to function, subject or type. 303 folders, 19 volumes, 13 boxes, 25 PDF files: 2.81 GB (11 CDs, 2 folders) Audio and film recordings. 1 VHS film, MP3 & MP4: 56.26 GB (24 CDs, 7 DVDs, 7 tapes, 2 VHS films, 1 casette tape, 1 film roll) Press and printed material Includes research files, private view cards, posters and postcards with related papers. 63 posters, 36 folders, PDF: 4.9 MB (1 folder), 17 volumes, 3 sheets, 1 calendar Operational papers Includes correspondence and subject files, administrative and business papers. The 'extent' for this series includes sub-series hidden from public view comprising 43 folders. 347 folders, 38 volumes, 4 boxes, PDF & Filemaker pro: 310.5 MB (1 folder, 1 CD) Other interests and research Includes reference material. 20 folders, MP3: 74.9 (1 CD) JBF/5/1 Press and related papers Press-cuttings relating to particular exhibitions can also be found under Exhibition files at JBF/6/2/1. 14 volumes, 15 folders Loose texts and articles Pieces referencing Barry Flanagan and his work, arranged chronologically. Periodicals in full referencing Flanagan and his work are catalogued separately and form part of the library of Barry Flanagan. 3 volumes, 4 folders Pamphlets and brochures Private view cards Files of private view cards for solo and group exhibitions featuring the work of Barry Flanagan and other artists, with related papers. Barry Flanagan's postcard collection. 63 posters, 3 sheets, 2 calendars Digital printed ephemera Originally stored on Barry Flanagan's computer. 1 folder (PDF digital records: 4.9 MB) JBF/5/6/1 Barry Flanagan's work Posters and a calendar featuring the work of, and for exhibitions of, Barry Flanagan, arranged chronologically. Barry Flanagan's work, 1974-1998 JBF/5/6/1.1. 'Barry Flanagan: Object Sculptures', Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (1969) JBF/5/6/1.2. 'Stampe e disegni' Beni Artistici, Naples, Italy (1974) JBF/5/6/1.3. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK calendar (1978) JBF/5/6/1.4. 'Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965 - 1978', Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1978 - 1979) JBF/5/6/1.5. 'The Native Land', Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, UK (1979) JBF/5/6/1.6. 'Sixties and Seventies: Prints and Drawings by Barry Flanagan’, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, UK (1981) JBF/5/6/1.7. 'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century Part II', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, (1981-1982) JBF/5/6/1.8. 'British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale', Venice, Italy (1982) JBF/5/6/1.9. 'British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (1983) JBF/5/6/1.10. 'Question about Sculpture’, Arts Council (1985) JBF/5/6/1.11. 'Jumpin' in July', Virginia Museum, Sculpture Garden, USA (1986) JBF/5/6/1.12. 'Barry Flanagan: prints 1970 - 1983', Tate Gallery, London (1986) JBF/5/6/1.13. 'Barry Flanagan - A Visual Invitation: Sculpture 1967 - 1987', Laing Art Gallery, Newcaste, UK (1987) JBF/5/6/1.14. Homage to Miró JBF/5/6/1.15. 'The Names of the Hare', Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (1992) JBF/5/6/1.16. 'Barry Flanagan and Marcel Floris', Museum of Contemporary Art Ibiza, Spain (1992) JBF/5/6/1.17. 'Dansedanse', Centre de développement chorégraphic, Toulouse, France JBF/5/6/1.18. 'Barry Flanagan', Fundación la Caixa, Madrid, Spain (1993) JBF/5/6/1.19. 'Barry Flanagan', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France (1993 - 1994) JBF/5/6/1.20. 'Barry Flanagan', Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (1994) JBF/5/6/1.21. 'Musica festival des musiques d'aujourd d'hui', Strasbourg (1994) JBF/5/6/1.22. 'Barry Flanagan', New York Park Avenue 54th Street to 59th Street, USA (1995 - 1996) JBF/5/6/1.23. 'Barry Flanagan: Estampes', Biblioteque nationale de France (1996) JBF/5/6/1.24. 'Sculpture in the Close', Jesus College, Cambridge (1996) JBF/5/6/1.25. 'Barry Flanagan: Sculptures, dessins et gravures', Chateau de Simiane a Vaireas, France (1998) JBF/5/6/1.26. 'Open Air', the Hanoke Open Air Museum; the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open-Air Museum JBF/5/6/1.12 'Barry Flanagan: prints 1970 - 1983', Tate Gallery, London (1986) Photography by The Estate of Barry Flanagan courtesy Plubronze Exhibition poster. Barry Flanagan: prints 1970 - 1983, Tate Gallery, London (1986) showing Atlantic Moon, 1977. 1 Related Artwork Entries List Hide Atlantic Moon, 1977 1 Related Exhibition Entries Hide The Tate Gallery, 1986 Barry Flanagan: prints 1970-1983	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line828
__label__wiki	0.967338	0.967338	Roberto Clemente Walker Inducted to the Hall of Fame in: 1973 Primary team: Pittsburgh Pirates Primary position: Right Fielder “He played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before… As if it were a form of punishment for everyone else on the field.” – Roger Angell The numbers he assembled over 18 big league seasons tell the story of a complete ballplayer. The story of Roberto Clemente, however, goes beyond mere numbers. Born Aug. 18, 1934, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Clemente excelled in athletics as a youngster – and at the age of 17 was playing for the Santurce Crabbers of the Puerto Rican Baseball League. The Dodgers signed him the following year, and by 1954 he was playing for their Triple-A team in Montreal. “Well, I said to myself, there’s a boy who can do two things as well as any man who ever lived,” said Dodgers scout Clyde Sukeforth. “Nobody could throw any better than that, and nobody could run any better than that.” Following the 1954 season, however, the Dodgers tried to slip Clemente through the offseason without putting him on the big league roster. He was taken by the Pirates in the Rule 5 draft for $4,000. Clemente worked to find his stride during the next five seasons, battling injuries and a language barrier in a country where he was a citizen but had no home. But in 1960, the Pirates and Clemente came of age as the limber right fielder batted .312 with a team-high 94 RBI to lead the Pirates to the World Series. In the Fall Classic, Clemente hit .310 to help the Pirates defeat the Yankees in seven games. During the next seven years, Clemente won four National League batting titles, the 1966 NL Most Valuable Player Award and began a string of 12 straight Gold Glove Award seasons in right field. In 1971, the 37-year-old Clemente led the Pirates back to the World Series, where Clemente hit .414 to power Pittsburgh to another world title en route to the Series’ Most Valuable Player Award. Clemente recorded his 3,000th career hit late in the 1972 season, becoming just the 11th player to reach the milestone. Clemente and the Pirates won the NL East that year, but lost to the Reds in five games in the National League Championship Series. On Dec. 31, 1972, Clemente boarded a small plane en route from Puerto Rico to Nicaragua to assist with earthquake relief. The heavily loaded plane crashed just off the Puerto Rican coast, and Clemente’s body was never recovered. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973 in a special election that waived the mandatory five-year waiting period. “Baseball survives,” wrote columnist Jimmy Cannon of the New York Journal-American, “because guys like Clemente still play it.” View Plaque in 3D See career statistics From the collection View related content that Roberto Clemente earned 12 consecutive Gold Glove Awards for his excellence in right field? "He gave the term ‘complete’ a new meaning. He made the word ‘superstar’ seem inadequate. He had about him the touch of royalty. " Bowie Kuhn (Former Commissioner) Pirates Gear Pirates Membership Card Relive your cherished baseball memories and favorite moments from your team with your personalized membership card. ESSENTIAL STATS Year Inducted: 1973 See 5 more from 1973 See 12 more from Pittsburgh Pirates Position Played: Right Fielder See 23 more from this position See 172 more right handed batters See 234 more right handed throwers Birth place: Carolina, Puerto Rico See 3 more from Puerto Rico See 5 more born this year Died: 1972, San Juan. Puerto Rico Played for: Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1972) CAREER AT A GLANCE GamesG At BatsAB RunsR HitsH Doubles2B Triples3B Home RunsHR RBIRBI Stolen BasesSB WalksBB Batting AverageBA OPSOPS On Base %OBP Slugging %SLG See more stats on baseball-reference.com Bat used by Roberto Clemente of Pittsburgh Pirates to record his 3000th career hit - B-350-72 (Milo Stewart Jr./National Baseball Hall of Fame) Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates, approaches the plate at Wrigley Field in Chicago, August 21, 1963 - BL-4369-2000 (Don Sparks/National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Videos of interest Roberto Clemente - Baseball Hall of Fame Biographies, 0:44 Puerto Rico's Baseball Heroes - Baseball Hall of Fame, 3:32 Class of ’73 brought Clemente to Cooperstown On Aug. 6, 1973, Roberto Clemente was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame. Roberto Clemente named 1966 NL MVP Pirates right fielder flashed five-tool talent throughout his 18-year big league career. #CardCorner: 1973 Topps Roberto Clemente In 1973, Topps honored Roberto Clemente by keeping his card in circulation after his tragic passing. Roberto Clemente records 3,000th hit in final regular-season at-bat Roberto Clemente recorded his 3,000th career hit in the final regular season game that he started for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Explore more Inductees	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line829
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__label__wiki	0.580334	0.580334	Who did Jon Moxley First Speak to in AEW October 9, 2019 BodySlamNet Staff Leave a Comment AEW stars Jon Moxley, Jungle Boy, Nyla Rose, and AEW Champion Chris Jericho were all apart of a panel for the New York Comic Con recently. Moxley stated that the first person he spoke to was Chris Jericho and Jericho advised him to go to AEW: “For me it was all just crazy timing; I had been planning on leaving where I was before for a few months, and I actually started talking to – the first guy that knew besides my wife, the only other guy that knew was Chris [Jericho],” Moxley revealed. “It was on the phone and this was before any of this other stuff started happening and I said, ‘Dude, I’m out of here. I’m done.’ And he said, ‘Dude, you need to come work with us.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ And then not five minutes later probably, I get call from Cody Rhodes and he started explaining to me all this top secret stuff they had. And I’m like, ‘Woah.’ And here we are.” Jungle Boy stated he didn’t think other companies gave him opportunities because he is of smaller stature: “I weigh about 150 lbs. and every week I get to ride a dinosaur to the ring. And those are two things that, until pretty recently, would not have been acceptable anywhere else,” Jungle Boy said. “I think AEW is really good at instead of looking at those as disadvantages, it’s what makes us special. It’s what makes us different and entertaining, and really the only voice we care about is [the fans].” AEW World Champion Chris Jericho commented on the fact that he enjoys that he doesn’t have to follow a script in All Elite Wrestling and also spoke about AEW’s popularity: “I think that this is something that is very interesting to me, is the fact that there are so many people that can say we weren’t watching wrestling anymore, we kind of drifted away from it and now we’re back watching AEW. I think a lot of our fanbase is kind of the lapsed fan that disappeared over the years because they were bored or they weren’t feeling what was being done inside the ring,” Jericho said. “But now, as we mentioned with no scripts and all that, it gives us the chance to be the artists that we are and use the instincts that we’ve honed after doing this for years, and years, and years, and years to know how to put on a show, to know how to put on a match. Most importantly, how do you get your character across? There’s nobody in the world that can play Chris Jericho better than I do, so don’t give me a f–king script and tell me, ‘This is what Jericho’s going to say.’ “And on top of that, to know that the very first show was a huge success after all the waves that we’ve created in this industry and around the world without having one minute of national television time to our name, there was a lot of speculation. ‘Oh, what’s it going to be? Who’s going to watch? Bloo bloo blee blah blow bloo,’” Jericho imitated in gibberish as he went on. “We saw who’s going to watch – the numbers are huge, the demos are huge, and now we are a viable, major league wrestling company that only has upwards to go.” Credit NerdNews Today and H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcription. You can follow me @PaytonVince on Twitter. Check out our brand new store at PRO WRESTLING TEES, show us your support and buy a shirt. You can visit our store by clicking here. Make sure to follow us on Twitter @BodySlamNet and on Instagram @BodySlamDotNet Also check us out on Facebook and give us a like and share by clicking HERE. Article source: http://www.bodyslam.net Isaiah “Swerve” Scott to battle Roderick Strong Candice LeRae Comments on what Version of her She Wants Fans to See	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line846
__label__cc	0.690864	0.309136	Vegas Show TicketsBest shows in july Best shows in July Without any further introduction, it’s clear that the majority of the people wouldn’t sit indoors as the second month of summer kicks off. To this end, you should surely expect all of the tickets for the major events, shows, and concerts to be easily sold out if not acting beforehand and reserving the places for oneself in advance. Considering the implications and the possibility of facing the scam performances, it’s helpful to have a set of options and criteria when figuring out the Best Show in Las Vegas in July 2019. This ultimately includes seeing the reputation in terms of ratings and reviews and asking the locals for a piece of advice. Thus, it also makes a perfect sense to see the following listing, based on the discussed gauge for judgment. Friends! The Musical Parody Tickets Price: from $50 Showroom, The D Las Vegas The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil LA Comedy Club Tickets Stratosphere, Las Vegas The Magic of Jen Kramer Tickets Online Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino Purple Reign, The Prince Tribute Show Tickets The Comedy Lineup Tickets Online Harrah's, Las Vegas Tape Face Tickets Online House of Tape, Harrah's, Las Vegas Ilusión Mental – El Show En Español Tickets Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas V Card: The Vegas Nightclub Pass Defending The Caveman Tickets Online Showroom, The D, Las Vegas Men Of Sapphire Tickets Online Sapphire Gentleman's Club, Las Vegas For all those feeling a need to educate oneself on the topic of pole dancing, the option of visiting the Stripper 101 would seem appealing. Featuring the high-quality dancers and the atmosphere of the full anonymity, the show has prepared a set of wonders, waiting for every single visitor. Besides, the simple fact that it’s possible to comprehend a sphere so taboo in the nowadays society without having to pay the private tutors is something that deserves the admiration of the visitors. Not to forget to mention that it’s possible to obtain quite a considerable discount (up to twenty percent) if buying the tickets beforehand the show. No one can surely miss such an awesome opportunity to see the critically acclaimed part of the Best Shows in Las Vegas in July 2019. As the visitors regularly claim, Vegas! The Show is unparalleled in terms of content that it offers and the pricing on the tickets. Featuring the old-fashion music and the high-quality theatrical performance, Vegas! exists out there to surprise every single visitor. This seems to be the exact ideology that guides the creators into combining the authentic experience of the circus with the unique storyline, not seen anywhere else in the city. Some of the elements and stunts, frankly speaking, leave the audience speechless and contribute to the fact that Vegas! is among the Best Shows in July Las Vegas. All the while, one should also remember that there is a wide variety of the discount options available to every single visitors with some offering the discounts of thirty percent and more on the single ticket. Improvisation Comedy Club All the people fond of comedy always think of performing on the stage themselves. Haven’t you ever wondered about such a possibility yourself? If so, then seeing the Improvisation Comedy Club show is about to enter your to-do list when visiting the city of Las Vegas during the month of July. It seems that the cherry on the cake of the entire show is its element of interaction with the audience, allowing everyone to experience the art of the stand-up comedy without having to necessarily reveal one’s identity. Without the slightest hesitation, the performance of the comedians is critically acclaimed to be among the Best Shows in Las Vegas July 2019 and justly so. There is no other place in the city where it’s possible to tell all of the hilarious jokes without experiencing a bit of cringe! The month of July is considered to be among the busiest ones of the year in the city of Las Vegas, which is why it’s necessary to have a set planned prepared for the entire vacation. This would ultimately allow to obtain all of the tickets with an ease, have the parking spots available at all times, and lacking the need to pay extra for food and drinks while seeing all of the shows of the focus. After all, everyone desires to come to the city of Las Vegas in May to have a great time and such a pre cautiousness can surely provide you with that. If following such a simple guideline, the flawless experience in the city of Las Vegas is guaranteed as a matter of the fact. Enjoy your visitation to the “city of sins” and don’t forget about the listing of the shows! Best shows JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line853
__label__cc	0.520501	0.479499	Mark Kirk Dangerous and Unadmired Follow the bouncing Crapo: Of all the congressional Republicans who’ve struggled with Donald Trump’s candidacy, arguably no one’s story is funnier than Sen. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.). The Illinois Republican endorsed Trump, then un-endorsed Trump, then endorsed David Petraeus, then endorsed Colin Powell, then un-endorsed Powell, then said he no longer wanted to talk about it. But if Kirk’s story is the most amazing, Sen. Mike Crapo (R) of Idaho is a competitive second .... .... Yes, the Idaho Republican initially endorsed Trump. Then Crapo un-endorsed Trump. Soon after, the incumbent senator, up for re-election this year, said he’s an undecided voter. Yesterday, Crapo came full circle, re-endorsing the presidential candidate he un-endorsed two weeks ago. (Benen) This is important: Of all the unbelievable insanity we have witnessed through the 2016 electoral cycle, just how much of it is unbelievable, and why? Posted in alt-Right, Beltway, Bigotry, Business, Capitalism, Christianity, Congress, Conservative, Corporate/Business Culture, Crime, Culture, Election, Ethics, Feminism, History, Latter-Day Saints, Misogyny, People, Politics, Psychology, Purity/Family Values (culture), racism, Rape Culture, Religion, Republicans, Strange, Stupid, Tea Party, US Senate, White House and tagged 2014 Mississippi GOP U.S. Senate Primary, 2014 Mississippi Republican U.S. Senate Primary, 2016 electoral cycle, 2016 GOP presidential nominee, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, bellyflop, Big Show, blindfold, Brian Snyder/Reuters, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Chris McDaniel, concrete, conservative values, conservative voters, dangerous, derelict, diving, Donald Trump, Donald Trump 2016, Donald Trump voters, dubious expectations, endorse, flaming chainsaws, flip-flop-flip, GOP 2016, Idaho, Idaho voters, Illinois, insanity, Mark Kirk, Mark Mayfield, Mike Crapo, Mississippi GOP, Mississippi Tea Party, Missouri 2016 Republican gubernatorial primary, Missouri GOP, Missouri Republican Party, personal values, platform, plummet, poor behavior, prediction, prognostication, projection, re-endorse, Republican values, Republican voters, Robert 'Spence' Jackson, shared values, Show-Me State, springboard, suicide, Thad Cochran, Tom Schweich, Trump announce candidacy, Trump/Pence 2016, un-endorse, unadmired, unbelievable, vulnerable incumbents on 2016.10.25 by bd. 2 Comments Futility, or, Senator Mark Kirk It was easy enough to feel at least a little badly for Mark Kirk, the incumbent U.S. Senator from Illinois whose seat is among the most vulnerable the GOP must defend this year, when the National Republican Senatorial Committee attacked his opponent, a legless veteran, for “not standing up for veterans”. There is, however, a limit to any sympathy, especially when the embattled Republican manages to do it to himself: Sen. Mark Kirk’s campaign falsely asserted on its website that the Illinois Republican was a veteran of the Iraq war, a misstatement that comes six years after exaggerations over his military record nearly cost him his state’s Senate seat. The Republican, now battling for a second term in a tight race in Illinois, stayed in the United States during the Iraq War when he served in the Navy Reserves. But on a public webpage on his official campaign website touting his record on veterans’ issues, Kirk was listed as a “veteran of the Iraq war.” While Kirk campaign officials said it was a staff error, the issue resembles the controversy that nearly caused his 2010 Senate campaign to implode. Moreover, Kirk is now running for reelection against Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran who lost both of her legs during combat in Iraq. (Raju) This is important: Neither is this the first time Mr. Kirk’s name has circulated in this context during this cycle. Apparently, the Illinois Republican and his team just … what? Couldn’t resist the opportunity to try the lie again? Can’t be expected, in this hectic modern world, to guard against known exposure? Image note: U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), circa 2016, in uncredited photo via campaign website. Raju, Manu. “Mark Kirk campaign site falsely calls senator ‘veteran’ of Iraq war”. CNN. 21 September 2016. Yilek, Caitlin. “GOP tweet accuses double amputee Dem of ‘not standing up for veterans'”. The Hill. 8 March 2016. Posted in Beltway, Congress, Conservative, Culture, Democrats, Election, Ethics, Feminism, Geopolitics, History, International, Internet, People, Politics, Psychology, Republicans, Social Media, Strange, Stupid, US House of Representatives, US Senate, War, White House and tagged attack tweet, Briefing Room (blog), Caitlin Yilek, campain website, CNN, couldn't resist, double amputee, GOP tweet, Illinois, Iraq War, Iraq War veteran, known exposure, liar, lie about military service, Manu Raju, Mark Kirk, Mark Kirk lie military service, Mark Kirk lied, mendacity, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Navy Reserves, NRSC attack tweet, public webpage, re-election campaign, Republican attack tweet, Tammy Duckworth, The Hill, Twitter, veterans, veterans' issues on 2016.09.21 by bd. Leave a comment The Ben Carson Show (The Value of His Values) Warren Rojas of Roll Call makes the obvious point: Whether Ben Carson fudged a bit on that offer of a “full scholarship” to West Point or it’s a question of “semantics,” as he told reporters on Nov. 6, it wouldn’t be the first time a politician misrepresented their military experience. Thus begins a brief review of Missouri congressional candidate Ron Dickey (D), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), former Rep. Wes Cooley (R-OR), and former Rep. Bruce Caputo (R-NY) And in some cases it’s worse than others, but we should note that getting caught making stuff up about military service and honors is not necessarily the end of a politician’s career. And perhaps Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson ought to take a look through these sordid histories. And while it is true the good doctor really does need to work, generally speaking, on how he responds to revelations of exaggeration and fabrication about the telling of his inspiring life story, a candidate who wants us to believe he is “not a politician” faces additional challenges when trying to walk, talk, and play the game like a politician. Posted in Beltway, Christian supremacism, Christianity, Congress, Conservative, Culture, Democrats, Ethics, Family, History, Liberal, People, Politics, Purity/Family Values (culture), Religion, Republicans, Tea Party, US House of Representatives, US Senate, White House and tagged application, appointment, At the Races (blog), Ben Carson, Ben Carson 'not a politician', Ben Carson 2016, Ben Carson biography, Ben Carson golf resort, Ben Carson liar, Ben Carson politician, Ben Carson Show, Ben Carson supremacist, Bruce Caputo, CQ Roll Call, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fabrication, false piety, frontrunner, full scholarship, invitation, Joe Raedle/Getty Images, Kevin Drum, lie about military service, Mark Kirk, military history, military service, Mother Jones, myth, piety, political pitch, primary preseason, Richard Blumenthal, Roll Call, Ron Dickey, semantics, U.S. Military Academy, values candidate, values voter, virtue, Warren Rojas, Wes Cooley, West Point on 2015.11.09 by bd. 2 Comments Just Another Day in Conservative Insanity A brief summary, via Steve Benen: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) looked a little silly when he argued Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) may face criminal charges because he disagrees with the White House on Iranian policy. Yesterday, however, he quickly discovered he had some company among Republicans who were equally eager to appear foolish. Yesterday morning, for example, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested he’s sympathetic to the conspiracy theory, too .... .... By yesterday afternoon, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) went even further .... .... Conservative media figures from Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are on board, too. The point-by-point is actually kind of excruciating, but mainly in the context that someone actually needed to say it. Posted in Beltway, Congress, Conservative, Conspiracy Theory, Crime, Culture, Democrats, Ethics, Justice, People, Politics, Republicans, Stupid, US Senate, White House and tagged Birtherism, Bob Menendez, corruption, crackpottery, cynical politicking, cynicism, Department of Justice, FOX News, fundraising, Iran, Lindsey Graham, Mark Kirk, MSNBC, naïveté, New Jersey, potsherds (political), Senate GOP, Senate Republicans, Steve Benen, Susan Walsh/AP, Ted Cruz, tinfoil, Wall Street Journal, wingnut on 2015.03.10 by bd. Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line856
__label__cc	0.529901	0.470099	Home > Politics > Anti-Capitalism > Scotland 3.0 Scotland 3.0 As the date for the liberation poll is announced the need for clarity is needed. Liberation from what, for what? A replica mini-state is not what we need from this process. We need a new operating system, not a new computer. What social software do we need? What political apps are required? What could Scotland 3.0 look like? Number one on my list – and I suspect the vast majority of us, is a response to the crisis in child poverty outlined recently as figures suggest 13 Scottish councils have wards where more than 30% of children live in pockets of severe poverty. Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland. The ‘worst areas were in Glasgow, the west of Scotland, Edinburgh, Dundee, Fife, Aberdeen and Stirling’, in other words right across the country. The Campaign to End Child Poverty warned inflation, unemployment and cuts could see levels of deprivation spiral. The group has produced a map of child poverty for every ward, council and constituency. It’s not a pretty picture. In fact, it’s a national disgrace. The figures are matched for old people suffering from fuel poverty and the results of this poverty are seen in our disgraceful record of ill-health. This is a union dividend that needs to end. This isn’t going to change with new policies or a new constitution, it’s going to change with a new economics. Second we need to create an open-source politics. This needs to be the new operating system, contrasting with Britain’s closed, elitist, feudal stratification. It needs to be an operating system called Scotland SD. Self-determination is about new emerging forms of democracy. Forms that reflect the kind of society we might want to create, ones that might be inclusive, participative and creative. So let’s build new systems where people want to participate in forming and shaping policy and running their towns and cities and communities. And that process itself has to be open to all. Crowd-sourcing our new constitution should be a key aim of the wider independence movement. Third, we need to download a Peace App. We can start by scrapping the British States Weapons of Mass Destruction, and we can continue by withdrawing our troops from whatever theatre of war they are currently engaged in. Then we can offer a better option to our young men than the ‘adventure’ in Belfast, Helmand or Iraq as has been dangled by recruitment officers for hundreds of years. It’s a sick farce from Tory-Liberal and Labour alike to be opposing the extension of the vote to 16 and 17 year olds whilst young people have died in Blair’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fourth we need to upgrade the anti-virus software that has affected our culture and leaves it marginalised, degraded or abandoned. Finallly, this is like all upgrades need to be part of global network. The network is the thing. It’s not just about us. And there is no doubting that there are geoplitical consequences for what’s going on. Scotland is home to 5 million UK citizens, 5% of UK GDP, Europe’s sixth largest finance sector in Edinburgh, four Trident submarines (with around 200 nuclear warheads and 58 ballistic missiles), four regular British Army garrisons, three frontline RAF bases and six Royal Navy bases. On its North Sea coast lie oil reserves perhaps amounting to 30 billion barrels. So, it’s important not just for us. Scotland has been the military playground, a place where the British elite are educated and where fossil fuel extraction has made oil barons rich and propped up 30 years of neoliberalism from Maggie to Tony to Dave. All that’s got to go too. Install Scotland 3.0 now. Warning this may take 2 years to download. Mike Small Referendum on Independence for Scotland Scottish Democracy David McCallum (@HughTrowsers) says: Very guid. D’ye take Paypal? cynicalhighlander says: This would go a long way to tackle poverty endemic throughout the UK for decades. sign the petition to David Cameron for tax justice please. Why are we concerned about children in poverty, yet ignoring the far larger numbers of adults in deep poverty? Let’s concern ourselves with ALLhumans in poverty in Scotland. Age should not be a barrier to concern and decency. Our should my neighbour in his forties father a child before his poverty is noticed? We’ll run to ensure children of those families who find themselves homeless, yet leave those adults in the same predicament sleeping in the streets. Please see the data from JRF on adult poverty. http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2011 We all matter. Children matter, pensioners matter. But please do not allow heart strings preclude us all from concerning ourselves about the adults who are as much victim of government policy as children are. Because each and every one of those adults suffering deep poverty, a deep poverty that has been ignored by this and the previous government, matter every bit as much as children do. Good point Helen, I agree. I just used that – the latest study – to illustrate the point. You are quite right. Mike – always like your articles – 100% agree with the order of the priorities. 30% in nearly half of Scotland’s local authorities (especially Labour – i.e. perhaps previous – heartlands) not even slightly acceptable in the tiniest degree in a decent society. 300 years of Union + 50 years of Labour party indifference = poverty for these kids… sick Not forgetting – the early mortality rate in Labour ‘heartlands’ is unacceptable. Moreover, the social costs : drugs, crime and the eventual fiscal costs associated with spiralling poverty —– makes one angry. An Duine Gruamach says: Yep, 100% agree (if perhaps not with the dodgy computer metaphors…). There’d be no point in independence if all we get is a smaller version of the UK. I liked the computer metaphors… then again I like metaphors and drawing them out. Still, it was cleared conceptually with the metaphor I feel. no edit button mhairi says: Have you seen what Iceland has been doing with the re-drafting of the constitution? Its a really interesting model, and ultimately one which could work well here. “To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522 adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was written on the internet. The constituent’s meetings are streamed on-line, and citizens can send their comments and suggestions, witnessing the document as it takes shape. The constitution that eventually emerges from this participatory democratic process will be submitted to parliament for approval after the next elections.” http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/728.1 I’ve been thinking about Iceland too. I think we should take a good look at what they are doing there. We could learn so much from them. Are there are good videos from Iceland, by those involved, explaining what they are doing and how they are going about it? Would be a valuable resouce if available. I don’t know of any videos, but this is an informative and inspiring read: http://www.opendemocracy.net/richard-bater/hope-from-below-composing-commons-in-iceland It can be done 🙂 richardcain2 says: Very good article. To continue the computer metaphor, truly open-source politics will negate the need for any anti-virus. Viruses only creep in when people can’t see (or don’t wish to see) what’s going on. allymax says: Between now and 2014, it’s going to be a ‘bumpy ride’ tussling it out with Westminster; for all the reasons you have mentioned in your article, Mike. But exactly for these reasons we must do it. We must go for independence full-front, and whole-hearted; and we must win. The impoverishment of Scotland’s children, (and families if it comes to that), is a result of Westminster’s government for the ‘rich only’. The Westminster government feudal policies are class-divisive; with family tax-breaks for the middle class, and family-breaking taxes for the working class; I mean, how can working class people afford extortionately high rates for fuel etc, on a basic wage? Everything that costs, is determined at prices and costs to impoverish the working class. We were paid only enough what they considered we could barely get by on; no real disposable income unless you were middle class, and even then, the middle class were ‘encouraged’ to spend that money and buy a mortgage. The underclass was the next stage progressed to from being working class, while the petite bourgeois was the ‘perceived’ next step for the middle class. All the while the super-rich Marxist bankers controlled our dire and dreary lives. This is how we’re kept poor, because it is a ‘policy’ by Westminster to keep an ‘underclass’ available to ‘maintain’ the middle class, who pay the taxes for the upper class and super-rich to live their lives of luxury at the taxpayers expense. Everybody ‘in their place’, and the empire functioning properly. Wow, how could we have been so stupid? These horrendous empire policies only worked because of our (general) ignorance to believe what we were being told; I mean, how could we not trust those we just voted for? The Westminster-owned main-stream-media, the t.v. channels, and newspapers helped to keep us neatly tied into our dire lives, stuck in front of the goggle-box watching crap like Eastenders, Coronation Street, and Big Brother; soap operas that stole our purpose to live our own lives out, instead we watched, hypnotised in paranoid fantasy, as year after year drifted away. Our lives were run from the moment we went to bed to the moment we went back to bed a day later; every day, the years just passed away, leaving only a faint memory of that ‘something we should be doing’. That’s how imperial ideology works; control the masses like they are mushrooms; keep them in the dark, and heap as much shoite on them for ‘conditioned’ growth. Westminster is the de’il for sure, but now there’s a new politics on the horizon; a politics that Scotland has never seen before. A politics that draws from the vertical,bringing truth and reconciliation. Scottish independence. The last time Scotland was independent we still had feudal society, but in a less authoritarian empire manner. And now in the 21st century we have a Modern SNP Scottish Government, who actually care about us Scots, (Aye, wid ye believe it!), and the greatest chance there ever has been of putting Scotland on the right tracks. It will be a great place to live for all our children, and their children too. What a beautiful thing to be fighting for; that’s what our ancestors fought for, and we must fight for it too. We’ve never been so close to succeeding; we cannot stop now. We cannot fail. Our children, and their children will either thank us, or deride us. It’s not really a choice; we must make this independence happen in Autumn 2014. If for only a brief moment we can dream of this new Scotland, it would make my heart sing with joy and gladness to see poverty eradicated, brilliant buildings, designed and built by Scots, high employment, everybody on at least a social wage,and an egalitarian society, where there’s no class divide, a fair Scots society exercising its autonomy as we press ahead in veins of strident pride and passion. This is our responsibility now; we must make it happen. The things we must avoid, (that are Westminster ‘sand-traps’), are Postmodern political ethics and ideals; this is what Westminster are, Postmodern. Think Westminster lies, deceit, and subterfuge, think the illegal Iraq war, fat-cat pensions & bankers bonuses, politicians peerages, dishonourable gentlemen, and The City of London plc. Think the radical Left, demanding equality’, human rights, and gay marriages; these are things not of a Modern nation, a Modern collective society and nation, these are things of a disenfranchising, disintegrating and divisive nation; a Postmodern nation just like Westminster controls right now. Where no-one is accountable nor responsible, and nothing is real. Will we get independence, than go backwards in our thinking? Back to Westminster control? These are Postmodern political philosophies. These are Westminster ! As much as there is a lot to do, we must take control of our Scotland; we have the ball in our ‘court’ now, don’t let Westminster get back into the game! We cannot let a radical Left take us back into the clutches of Westminster again. They are waiting for the Postmodern ethics to drive us apart, fracture our identity, and step in and steal our nation again. Don’t let them drive our traditional Scots nation down into Postmodern desires for derelict hearts and decadent fancies. Whatever changes we do make in our new Scotland, we must not change to Postmodern political philosophy ethics and ideals. allymax. There is no reason to think anyone on the left will take us back to the Westminister of bad politics than there is of the right. There is no reason, none for us, to conflate our Independence with left right politics. None! It has to be on the basis of the question ‘Do we want to control our own affairs or not?’ If we decide yes, then we will have periodic elections to decide if for that time period of the next parliament, left or right politics is what suits us. If we decide. I’ve been looking around. The only radicals I see with a Westminster bent at the moment are the London-based Tory party people creating websites for the no campaign.If you check this out and the registrant, you’ll find a lobbyist deeply entwined with big business and the Conservatives in London. That is interference, unwelcome interference in my view. If we are talking radical and suggest this current crop of privateers are not radical, then we are sorry bunch indeed! I don’t want any of them in London involved in this. This is our decision, a Scottish decision to be made by the people of Scotland and who are in Scotland, regardless of their flavour. no Lobbyists, no corporations, no Londonites. We won’t allow the Italians, the Americans or the people of Burundi decide our future and similarly we shouldn’t allow the people of England vote in our referendum. If they want to decide. They can have their own referendum on whether to boot us out of not. If you don’t understand political philosophy then there’s no reason for you to fear what you don’t know. There’s every reason to think Left-ist politics will take us backwards, you just need to look at how America has constrained itself with these similar politics. Ignorance is now not an excuse for Scotland. I think you’ll find when it comes to ‘international support’, Scotland will get that support from the E.U., the U.N., and the United States of America; it’s ‘closed thinking’ (that we don’t need anybody) that is the cringe of Scotland’s progress. When Scotland is independent, Scotland will have very important ‘responsibilities’ in the international arena, and to those aforementioned international support. Now’s not the time for Westminster style bluff and bluster ! Ray Bell says: “There is no reason, none for us, to conflate our Independence with left right politics.” – Plenty of people conflate left-wing politics with unionism, and right wing politics for that matter. Depends which suits the argument at the time. However, you’ve come on to Bella Caledonia, which is avowedly pro-independence and left-wing, so what do you expect? If someone wants to set up a right-wing pro-independence blog, then there’s nothing stopping them. The Unionist Bulls*** Generator sums up the cliched arguments, pretty well: http://members.multimania.co.uk/tm8/UnionistBSGen/ A Marxist says: On the contrary allymax, far be it from me to attempt any subterfuge here, because you’re playing the role of subverting this site’s aim admirably. That is, to create a consensus that an explicitly cultural Scottish nationalism is palatable to cosmopolitan socialists, in spite of the fact that “workers have no country”. You remind me a bit of an antique claymore – blunt, crude, and rather too much for your own side to handle! So does this comment represent a typical SNP activist’s analysis – that gay marriage and human rights are “postmodern ethics” designed to “fracture our identity as a nation”, that bankers are “Marxists”, and that “radical Leftists” drove Scotland into “the clutches of Westminster”? Fascinating stuff ! I’m equally confused by what or who ‘super rich Marxist bankers’ are… ‘Fascinating stuff’ in deed. As you are ‘A Marxist’, you are particular about your arguments that I make about, Marxists; (“that gay marriage and human rights are “postmodern ethics””); yes, of-course they are. These ideals never existed on the political plane until the Postmodern era. There can be no argument about that what-so-ever. Besides, in what way would I find my argument on Marxism agreeable to a Marxist ? I don’t expect you to agree with me; did you lose your premise half way through your post ? Unless you’ve noticed, I’m arguing that Marxism is destructive to society, Scots society and politics in particular. Do you expect me to agree with you that Westminster are good people, and their policies are good policies because they are Marxists ? I think you’ll find Westminster are Marxists, and their policies are horrendously oppressive; their policies have caused the impoverishment of Scots children and families. And, you add in a quote that I didn’t write ! I never wrote “and that “radical Leftists” drove Scotland into the “clutches of Westminster”? Oh dear, are you crony Bliar ? (Proverbs 30;6) ! Regardless of the political philosophy of Westminster, and their oinks, Scotland already has the legal and lawful confines of human rights, equality etc in its parameters of Scots Law; the Megrahi release proves on human rights grounds Scotland already has these facets of ‘compassionate’ ethics built into Scots Law. The real problem comes from those arguing about human rights that don’t understand what human rights actually are, and that Scots Law already incorporates these ethics; there’s no need for a new authoritarian yuk supreme court to try and force its jurisdiction on Scotland only to try and con us all into thinking we have to submit to them because it’s ‘human rights’. That’s rubbish ! There’s no need for Scotland to be ‘adding’ rubbish legislation to appease Postmodern MSP Lefty’s decadent fancies, nor those that are agents of subterfuge; ‘interested’ only in Westminster’s bent to disenfranchise Scots society. Your argument is weak, just as the ‘retort’ comment above you of ‘Lefties’; you really need to brush-up on your arguments; and your subterfuge ! A Marxist, thanks for the platform. allymax. They feature quite widely in certain conspiracy theories. Apparently the Rockefellers and Rothschilds are battling to create international Marxism. John Souter says: Obviously I’ll need to re-read my Marx. If memory serves he was fiercely against unregulated capitalism? I’m also confused by the reference to ‘Post Modern’ when its pretty obvious the ‘modern model’ is in a state of flux and looking fairly dismal. Nor can I see the relevance to a post independent Scotland adopting or advocating homophobic bigotry by returning to pre modern Calvinism. Pingback: Scotland for ourselves: honest debate wanted \| Edinburgh Eye [I have posted this on the last article, but I think that this is an important point, and cannot be overemphasised. Our opponents can and will do the dirty, like they did in ’79.] I have repeatedly asked people in the SNP to guarantee that NEUTRAL INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS will monitor the referendum. However, while I have had positive responses from some people, others do not seem to realise what is at stake here. We need these to ensure that any referendum, is fair, above board, and conducted properly. We really can’t expect the British State to do this, nor trust certain people counting the votes in some areas either. I think we need a decentralisation “app” as well. For too long, have certain people in Scotland thought that Scotland = Glasgow, or Scotland = Edinburgh or Scotland = Central Belt. This creates a dichotomy of “Scot” vs Teuchter. We really need a Scotland, which serves the Galloway, the Borders, and Dumfriesshire, the north east, the Highlands (including Argyll), the Hebrides, Caithness, Orkney, Shetland etc. Scottish TV, whether it be BBC Scotland or STV seems to be very localised. Just about every comedy is set in Glasgow, the political commentary is mostly about Edinburgh, and the crime section is about sectarianism and stabbing in Glasgow. The sports coverage is nearly all about two football teams, with shinty, rugby, Scottish horse racing, Highland League football etc hardly getting a look in. The Scotsman and the Herald barely cover affairs fifty miles north of where they’re based. I remember the Scotsman reporting on youth disturbances in Elgin… no less than two years after the initial “riots” started… Good suggestion. Totally agree. R Louis says: 24th June 2012 at 6:10 am I totally agree with Ray Ball, in his comment regarding international monitors for the referendum. It is not a ‘conspiracy theory’ to suggest that Westminster, if it thinks it will lose, will resort to underhand gerrymandering tactics of the most undemocratic kind. I also agree, that I genuinely believe there are also some in Scotland who simply could not be trusted on a local level to ensure the count is fair. As regards the ‘decentralisation’ concept, I also wholly agree. Compared to the BBC (pro Britannia and Glasgow murder/football obsession), a decentralised Scottish TV and media coverage would be a blessing to Scotland. BBC ALBA, which is under separate control, and has a less centralised philosophy covers events and cultural issues in Scotland which are not even mentioned by either the BBC or STV. For some reason, the BBC think polar bears are more important than say, the plight of the West coast fishing industry. Similarly with sport, the obsession only with Edinburgh/Glasgow, misses the cultural aspects of Scotland, which make the country what it is. Maybe such a philosophy is accidental, but then again, maybe in the case of the BBC it is deliberate. Creating a ‘sanitised’, ‘anglicised’ conformity via our television coverage, helps keep Scots from realising how different we are to those in the ‘chipping norton set’ down south. As for shinty, it needs its own app. as the coverage in Scotland is at present so abysmally poor. It is atrocious, that some school children in Scotland don’t even know what shinty is, or that we get more TV coverage of cricket on Scottish television than we actually do of shinty. If that alone is not a serious inditement regarding the media in Scotland, then I don’t know what is. I agree ‘adult poverty’ is a priority – children are defenceless and as such end up where they do through chance – yet we leave adults out of the conversation -especially single men. All poverty is a war – you either fight it or hold up the white flag. Pingback: #SOPA and #Indyref: Why the Tories are going to fight foul \| Edinburgh Eye	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line858
__label__cc	0.669971	0.330029	Pat HC \| Late submission of non-creamy layer caste certificate – not a ground for rejection of candidature Published on June 15, 2019 June 19, 2019 By Devika Patna High Court: Mohit Kumar Shah, J. allowed a petition seeking consideration of candidature against the Backward Caste category. Petitioner was working as Agriculture Coordinator since the date of his appointment on contractual basis. The contractual service of the petitioner had been extended from time to time and in the meantime, an advertisement was published by the Commission on 29-04-2015 for the purposes of making recruitment to the post of Agriculture Coordinator. It was provided in the said advertisement that the caste certificate issued by the notified Circle Officer regarding certification of the caste of the backward class and extremely backward class which stated about the candidate not belonging to the creamy layer, would be considered valid. It was further provided that at the time of counseling, the candidates belonging to the backward category / extremely backward category had to produce the non-creamy layer certificate and in case, they failed to submit the said certificates, such candidates would be considered under the unreserved category and they would not get the benefit of reservation. On not finding his name in the results, the petitioner filed an objection before the Bihar Staff Selection Commission, Patna (Bihar SSC). The Commission passed an order stating that the candidature of the petitioner had been rejected on the ground that the petitioner had not submitted the non-creamy layer certificate at the time of counseling. Aggrieved thereby, the instant petition was filed. The learned counsel for the petitioner, Nityanand Mishra, submitted that the petitioner had submitted the non-creamy layer certificate, as was evident from the impugned order dated 22-07-2017, but still, the candidature was cancelled. Whereas, learned counsel for the respondent, Ashok Kumar Dubey, submitted that the petitioner had failed to furnish his non-creamy layer certificate during the counseling held on 05-05-2016. The Court observed that the only ground for debarring the candidature of the petitioner under the BC Category and putting him in the general category was that the non-creamy layer certificate has not been submitted at the time of the counseling held by the Commission wherein the petitioner had participated and instead, the petitioner had submitted the same subsequently on 29-05-2017. The Court cited Ram Kumar Gijroya v. Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board, (2016) 4 SCC 754, in which it was held that reservation was provided to the backward classes of society with the objective of removing inequality in public employment, as candidates belonging to these categories were unable to compete with the candidates belonging to the general category as a result of facing centuries of oppression and deprivation of opportunity. Consequently, the Court held that the candidature of the petitioner could not be rejected merely on the account of late submission of the non-creamy layer caste certificate, though the same had been submitted much prior to the publication of the result. In view of the above, the Court allowed the writ petition, set aside the order dated 22-07-2017 passed by the Commission and directed the respondent Bihar SSC to reconsider the application of the petitioner against the backward caste category.[Shashi Bhushan Yadav v. State of Bihar, 2019 SCC OnLine Pat 677, decided on 17-05-2019] Tagged with: Backward Caste category, Bihar Staff Selection Commission Patna, Contractual Basis, Non-Creamy Layer Certificate Written by Devika Previous storyNGT \| Delay in filing an appeal can be condoned on supply of sufficient cause, once the events of intervening period are explained Next storyPak SC \| Non-compliance with elements of Rule 6 of Narcotic Substances Act, diminishes the reliability and evidentiary value of forensic agency’s report Case BriefsSupreme Court Court can’t direct the Government to include history and teachings of all the ten Sikh Gurus in school syllabus By Prachi Bhardwaj Published on April 24, 2017 May 3, 2017 Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies Ministry of External Affairs directed to provide details of travel bills of Prime Minister’s foreign visits for Financial Years 2013-14 to 2016-17 By Saba Published on March 8, 2018 April 16, 2018 Ker HC \| College cannot arbitrarily reject issuance of NOC to students desirous of taking admission into another college/ institute By Devika Published on June 12, 2019 June 14, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line873
__label__cc	0.66062	0.33938	Incorporate the Modern World Into the Software’s World Software needs to evolve. Not only for its users but also underneath. Software must flourish in different soil as the world around it changes. Think about incorporating the capabilities the world now offers and removing custom components and infrastructure that are no longer unique to your business. We build our software in a particular world, a world of technologies that we link together. We choose a programming system (language, runtime, framework), libraries, and environment. We integrate components: databases, logging, and many different services. Perhaps we built it on Java 8 running on VMs in our datacenter, connecting to a proprietary queuing service we bought years ago. We start with what is available and stable at the time. But do we stay there? The outside world moves capabilities toward commodity. At some point, new businesses start building cloud applications instead of racking their servers. An opportunity appears, and our enterprise can get out of the infrastructure business. When we shift our application onto AWS, there are whole areas of expertise we don't need in-house. There are layers of infrastructure that Amazon maintains and upgrades, and we rarely even notice. At some point, we integrate with new systems. They don't speak our proprietary queuing protocol, so we move to Kafka, something that people and programs everywhere can understand. And at some point, new businesses don't run Kafka; they rent it as a service. When we move to SaaS, there's a layer of expertise we don't need to retain, pages we don't have to answer, and upgrades we don't have to manage. Or even better, maybe our needs have changed, or SQS has improved until it's good enough. We get free integration with other AWS services and billing. Is our software simpler? I don't know, but it's thinner. The layer we maintain is closer to the business logic, with integration code to link in SaaS solutions that other companies support. All code is technical debt. Every line of code written is in a context. Those contexts change, and expectations rise. New tools appear, and integrating them gives us unique abilities. Security vulnerabilities go noticed. For the software we operate, we are responsible for upgrades. It is our job to keep libraries up to date, shift to modern infrastructure every few years, and add the features that everyone now expects. What you get for operating custom software — you control the pace of change. What you pay — you are responsible for the pace of change. Maybe it's authorization, or network configuration, or caching, or eventing. You wrote it back when your needs were exceptional, and now it's your baby, and you're changing its diapers. It takes effort to shift to anything else. Incorporate the modern world into our software’s world. When capabilities become commodities, it becomes cheaper to rent than to babysit them. It's probably monetarily less expensive, and indeed, it's less costly in knowledge. People and teams are limited by how much experience we can hold. We can only have current expertise in so many things. On a development team, we can increase our impact by overseeing more and more business capabilities, but we can only operate so much software. If we thin that software by shifting our underpinnings to SaaS offerings, then we can keep up more of the software that matters to our particular business. All code is technical debt. Let it be someone else’s technical debt. Move it off your balance sheet, to a company that specializes in this capability. Rebase on the world In git, sometimes I add some features in a branch, while other people improve the production branch. When I rebase, I put my changes on top of theirs, and remove any duplicate changes. I want to do this with software infrastructure and capabilities. The outside world is the production branch. When I rebase my custom software on top of it, it takes work to reconcile similar capabilities. But it’s worth it. When we rebase our software on the world, we get everything the world has improved since we started, we get integrations into other systems and tools, and we get learnings from experts in those capabilities. SaaS, in particular, has a bonus — we keep getting these things, for no extra work! If we don’t rebase on the world, a startup will. How can a scrappy little company defeat a powerful incumbent? Every piece of software and infrastructure that the big company called a capital investment, that they value because they put money into it, that they keep using because it still technically works -- all of this weight slows them down. A startup builds on the latest that the whole world offers. They write minimum code on top of that to serve their customers. The less code they have, the faster they can change it. In the 1990s, we built a big stack of custom work on top of a solid base. In the 2010s, we build less custom software to get the same business capabilities (with more reliability) because we're building on various AWS services and many other tools and services. This is not the only advantage a startup has, but it is a big one. Software is never “done.” Software is not bought, it is rented. (Regardless of how the accounting works.) It gives us capabilities as long as it keeps running, keeps meeting expectations, keeps fitting in with other elements of the world that need to integrate with it. Keep evolving the software, infrastructure, and architecture. It is never going to be perfect, but we can keep it moving. When I’m coding a feature, I rebase on the production branch every few hours. For software systems, try to rebase on the world every few months, bit by bit. In an enterprise with a lot of code, this is an extra challenge. Change at that scale is always an evolution. If you find yourself thinking, “we have so much code. How could we ever bring it all up to date?” then please check out Atomist’s Drift Management. Get visibility into what you have, and even automatic rebasing (of code, at least). There’s a service for this too. A large amount of this information came out of a conversation with Zack Kanter, CEO of Stedi. Subscribe to Atomist Symmathecist, developer, speaker, mother, crazy nut. Atomist. Learning and growing. she/her Managing a GitOps Flow on Kubernetes Using GitOps on Kubernetes means all your changes are reviewed and recorded, so you can move more quickly because everything is automated & all changes are easy to undo. Exposing your GitOps flow in chat means all the information you need is at your fingertips. Here's how we GitChatOps. David Dooling Exploring the world with Aspects Let's discuss TypeScript projects. How do teams organize theirs? 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__label__wiki	0.922739	0.922739	Bouncing tomatoes Daily update on the latest news, games, movies and lots more from around the world Zimbabwe election: Opposition rejects court ruling on result Image captionMr Chamisa said he had a “legitimate claim” to lead Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has refused to accept a court ruling upholding Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in last month’s presidential elections. Nelson Chamisa said he had a “legitimate claim” to lead the country and would lead peaceful protests. His MDC Alliance party has alleged fraud, but on Friday the constitutional court said it had no evidence. It was Zimbabwe’s first election since long-time leader Robert Mugabe was ousted from power last year. Two days after the vote, at least six people were killed in clashes between the army and MDC Alliance supporters, who alleged that party leader Nelson Chamisa had been robbed of victory. “The court’s decision is not the people’s decision,” Mr Chamisa told reporters in the capital Harare. “The legal door is not the only door to happiness. Using our constitutional right, we have a right to peaceful protests. This is the route we will take. One of them,” he added. Mr Chamisa also said he would not attend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s planned inauguration on Sunday. After the ruling, Mr Mnangagwa, who is from the Zanu-PF party of Mr Mugabe, called for “peace and unity”. “Nelson Chamisa, my door is open and my arms are outstretched, we are one nation, and we must put our nation first,” he tweeted. Mr Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a second-round run-off when he took 50.7% of the vote. The opposition alleged that his vote share – which was just 30,000 more votes than the minimum needed for outright victory – was suspicious. But Chief Justice Luke Malaba called allegations of tampering “bold and unsubstantiated”. After the verdict the EU urged all parties to “call for calm and restraint” while the US called for the parties to respect the “constitution and the rule of law.” International election observers, who were allowed into Zimbabwe for the first time in 16 years, largely praised the conduct of the polls. However, European Union observers were more cautious, stating that all parties should accept the verdict but also suggesting that President Mnangagwa had benefited from an “un-level playing field”. Published by aazogu View all posts by aazogu Apologies from board. Crisis in BouncingTomatoes Categories Select Category Funny videos Games Movies News Psychology and Health Soccer Uncategorized Funny videos Games Movies News Psychology and Health Soccer Uncategorized Tomato Community koech12 on El Clasico: Lionel Messi &… aazogu on Canada surgeon operates on ted… ‘A new bladder made… on ‘A new bladder made from… F-35 fighter jet: Pr… on F-35 fighter jet: Programme su… HIV/Aids: China repo… on HIV/Aids: China reports 14% su… Tomato library	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line887
__label__cc	0.580478	0.419522	Queen’s engineering students develop bicycle for teen with cerebral palsy Janessa Gerhardt has a bicycle that suits her limited range of motion thanks to the work of, from left, students Elizabeth Hoskin, Louise Munro, Andrew Gowthorpe, as well as Claire Davies (Mechanical and Materials Engineering), and physiotherapist Karen Forbes. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Cassandra Littlewood, Queen’s Journal November 3, 2017 Because of her cerebral palsy, Napanee, Ontario teenager Janessa Gerhardt was never able to find a bicycle suited to her limited range of motion. Thanks to engineering professor Claire Davies and a group of her students, Gerhardt now bikes several kilometres everyday. Gerhardt’s physiotherapist at Hotel Dieu Hospital Karen Forbes contacted Davies, who runs a Building and Designing Assistive Technology (BDAT) lab at Queen’s, to develop a bike for Gerhardt’s use. Davies told The Journal that the BDAT lab “is designed around working with people with disabilities in increasing independence. Although accessible bikes is one aspect, there are many other projects that we work on to positively impact the lives of people with different abilities.” The process took approximately 12 months and two teams of students to complete. Comprised of fourth-year engineering students working on their Capstone Project, the first team worked from September 2016 until April 2017. The second team of students took over during the summer months, implementing recommendations put forth by the first group of students to finish the project. Janessa Gerhardt’s new bicycle. Elizabeth Hoskin photo Davies mainly tasked her students with redesigning the crankshaft of a three-wheeled bike previously donated to Gerhardt. Both teams adjusted different aspects of a stationary bicycle such as the height, pedals and crank to make it easy for Gerhardt to ride. One of the students involved in the project, Andrew Gowthorpe, Sci ’18, said, “Janessa was so happy to be able to ride her bike. This bike was donated to her two years ago, so for her to be finally able to ride it was amazing to see.” Elizabeth Hoskin, Sci ’17, also worked on the bike and said the experience was extremely rewarding. “I knew she was happy with it but hearing her talk about the freedom that it granted her [showed] how much it means to her.” Gerhardt told the Queen’s Gazette that the bicycle gives her “exercise and freedom and [her] legs work like they are supposed to.” “[Gerhardt] rides it a few kilometres every day, sometimes even twice a day if she’s feeling good,” Gowthorpe said. “It gives her freedom and independence to be able to get out on her own without relying on her motorized wheelchair.” Dr. Davies says the vision for her multidisciplinary lab at Queen’s, which includes occupational therapists and physical therapists, focuses on designing and building assistive devices to increase the independence of individuals with disabilities. Research includes assistive learning devices for children with visual impairments and Nintendo Wii software to prevent older adults from falling by improving their balance. – Anne Craig, Queen’s University Source Queen’s Journal On the road again in Queen’s Gazette Pink custom trike a dream come true for 12-year-old Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy Bikes for special needs children in Brooklyn Meet the bike designer who changes lives Freedom through mobility – adaptive cycling liberates kids, adults, and veterans My cool, adaptive bike — from Germany, of course 2017 Adapted Bike Program – Cerebral Palsy Kids & Families Adapted bike program gets disabled kids on the move 2016 Adapted bike registration now open Fort McMurray program provides adapted bikes to children with disabilities AFO friendly footplates for pedals Adaptive bikes Cerebral palsy CP Clinics without walls Neuromotor Pedal footplates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line890
__label__wiki	0.926568	0.926568	Motorola joins hands with Flipkart to foray into smart TV segment in India The television sets will be available from September 29 September 17, 2019, 10:28 IST Motorola on Monday said it has partnered Walmart-backed Flipkart to launch smart TVs in the Indian market, marking the smartphone maker's foray into the consumer durables space. With this, Motorola joins players like Samsung, Xiaomi, Micromax and Intex who sell both smartphones and smart TVs. Premium smartphone maker OnePlus is also slated to launch its smart TV later this month. The Motorola Android 9.0 Smart TV will have variants across high definition (HD), Full HD, and Ultra HD (4K), developed in partnership with e-commerce giant Flipkart. These television sets -- available in display sizes ranging from 32-inches to 65-inches -- will be priced Rs 13,999 onwards. The television sets will be available from September 29. "This strategic partnership (with Flipkart) has been in existence for our smartphones and now we have taken it to another level. The Motorola Android TVs, just like our smartphones, are crafted to perfection keeping today's consumers' needs and expectations in mind," Motorola Mobility Country Head and Managing Director Prashanth Mani said. Notably, Flipkart also offers smart TVs under its private label -- MarQ by Flipkart. It offers smart TVs with screen size of 24-inches to 65-inches UHD, priced between Rs 6,999 to Rs 64,999. "This global-first move for the Motorola brand is a strong testament to the power of the Indian consumer and market. We have taken great care to listen to what our customers are looking for and have designed the TV based on their feedback," Flipkart Vice President and Head - Private Labels, Electronics and Furniture Adarsh Menon said. Motorola also launched Moto e6s smartphone on Monday that will sell for Rs 7,999. 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Apparel company Gap spikes plan to spin off Old Navy Gap in February 2019 had announced plans to spin off Old Navy, leaving the Gap, Banana Republic and other brands in a second unnamed "Newco." Facebook not to sell ads on WhatsApp: Report Facebook has reportedly decided not to sell ads on WhatsApp - a controversial plan that forced Brian Acton and Jan Koum, who founded the mobile messaging service, to quit nearly two years ago. MX Player named top streaming app in India in 2019 On Thursday, MX Player was named the top streaming app in India for 2019 by App Annie, a San Francisco-based research firm that specialises in data on the mobile app industry. Here's is Poco brand, Xiaomi’s new plan to take on OnePlus and Realme This strategic move comes days after rumours surfaced about the alleged Poco F2. Poco series has seen only one smartphone launch — in 2018 — in the form of Poco F1. Why Jeff Bezos' billion-dollar pledge hasn't impressed anyone in India Bezos went on to Mumbai where he visited a neighborhood store. It’s these small stores that are up in arms against the retail behemoth. The chief executive then rubbed shoulders with Bollywood personalities.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line892
__label__wiki	0.515863	0.515863	Bauman’s Cider Releases Clyde’s Dry and Loganberry Cider In Bottles D.J. \| February 18, 2018 \| craft cider \| No Comments image of Bauman’s Cider courtesy of IGNITE Beverage Branding Named after her great grandfather’s farm, Christine Walter began Bauman’s Cider in 2016. Now a few year’s later the cidery from Gervais, Oregon has begun bottling two of its offerings – Clyde’s Dry and Loganberry Cider. These new 500mL bottles are now available at Bauman’s Farm and Garden as well as stores, bars and bottle shops through the Portland-Salem metro area. “We wanted to bottle Clyde’s Dry first as a tribute to my Grandpa Clyde who played such a significant role in the richness of Bauman Farms.” said Christine Walter, owner and head cider maker at Bauman’s Cider in a statement. “The demand for our Loganberry cider on draught has been so great that it was a natural choice for this first round of bottling. It has such an interesting flavor, we are excited to bring it to a wider audience with the bottles.” Clyde’s Dry Clyde’s Dry is named after Clyde Bauman, who was born in 1921 on the farm where he would live his entire 92 years. Clyde’s Dry cider is our tribute to his life and his love of the farm. It is a blend of more than a dozen varietals, including sweets and sharps grown on the family farm and loved by Clyde, farming until his very last days. It draws its tannic character from the blend and the addition of some locally-picked Crab apples. 6.9% ABV Loganberry Cider Loganberries are generally one of the first berries of the season and make this a sweet, fruity cider. Logans are a hybrid between a blackberry and a raspberry and aren’t picked with a machine as they are too delicate and soft, and those attributes come out in the cider as a sweetness from start to finish. 6.0% ABV Tags:Bauman’s Cider, Christine Walter, Clyde’s Dry, Craft Cider, Gervais, Hard Cider, Loganberry Cider, Oregon Cider, Stephen Bauman Finnriver Oak & Apple Release Party at Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse 2019 Wassail Cider Fest McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse To Host 2nd Annual Wassail Cider Fest Northwest Cider Association Sponsors Outreach Meetings to Grow Northwest Cider Industry D.J. is a Portland, Oregon based writer that spent his formative years in the Midwest. With over 20 years under his belt of drinking beer at festivals across America and the world, he has developed a strong appreciation and understanding of craft beer and the industry that surrounds it. He can be found in any of the great breweries or beer bars that make Portland the best beer city in the world. His writing can also be found in Northwest Brewing News and can be followed on Twitter at @hopapalooza.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line893
__label__cc	0.67654	0.32346	Bentzen Ball True Crime Fest BYT Radio Upcoming BYT Events Sports(?) & Fitness Advertise with BYT BYT Events Creative Consulting $upport BYT MLK Day of Service Volunteer Guide Weekly Movie Guide: Now Playing In DC Photos: Future Sketches @ ARTECHOUSE Sports (?) & Fitness PHOTOS: NYC Women’s Unity March & Rally – Rise and Roar 2020 The Sound Of People Cutting Steaks Best of: Murder Mysteries to Binge Watch NOW – 2020 Edition Best of: TV Murder Mysteries to Binge Watch NOW – 2018 Edition The Definitive Ranking of the 100 Greatest Bands With Numbers In Their Name NYC Best Weekend Bets Megan Burns December 20, 2018 Metal Yoga, Solstice parties, Carol (UGH) and more... NYC 010 min read Winter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel The Watergate Hotel 2650 Virginia Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20037 21jan4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus. Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! —Fees vary based on day of the week and timing— 90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm If you would like more information please visit here or call us at (855) 868-3062. The Watergate Hotel 2650 Virginia Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20037 Profs & Pints: Reflecting on Narcissists Church Hall 1070 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007 21jan6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Reflecting on Narcissists6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Church Hall Profs and Pints presents: “Reflecting on Narcissists,” a look at the myth, reality, and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder, with Brian A. Sharpless, licensed clinical psychologist, visiting research fellow Profs and Pints presents: “Reflecting on Narcissists,” a look at the myth, reality, and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder, with Brian A. Sharpless, licensed clinical psychologist, visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques. Do narcissists really love themselves? Are they really self-confident? Are celebrities more narcissistic than the rest of us? Does a person’s social media use tell us anything about their narcissism? These are just a few of the fascinating questions that will tackled by Brian Sharpless, a regular on the Profs and Pints stage. He will discuss the idea of narcissism throughout history and across cultures, define what “narcissistic personality disorder” means to psychologists and psychiatrists, and summarize what the field knows about this condition and its treatment. You may be particularly surprised to learn about the different ways that narcissism can manifest. Some of these are far from the “arrogant overconfidence” that we associate with the narcissist stereotype. For example, many people with narcissism live their lives with chronic feelings of inadequacy. In order to avoid feeling humiliated, they closely observe others so that they can figure out how they should behave. In fact, some narcissists may actually look “depressed” to an untrained eye. Finally, Dr. Sharpless will give some practical tips and techniques to help you deal with the narcissists in your life. You’ll walk out with a different perspective on yourself and other people, with new knowledge that may help you maintain healthier relationships. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15. Save $2 with student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please arrive in plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.) 1070 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007 Advance ticket; $12. Door; $15, save $2 with a student ID. Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: Swan Lake The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566 21jan7:30 pm10:00 pmMatthew Bourne's New Adventures: Swan Lake7:30 pm - 10:00 pm The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures“Five stars! The show that changed the dance landscape forever”—The ObserverSwan LakeWith a fresh look for the 21st century, Matthew Bourne brings his breakout international hit Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures “Five stars! The show that changed the dance landscape forever”—The Observer With a fresh look for the 21st century, Matthew Bourne brings his breakout international hit to the Kennedy Center for the first time. Thrilling, audacious, witty, and emotive, this Swan Lake is perhaps still best known for replacing the female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered conventions and took the dance world by storm. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566 The Merry Wives of Windsor Folger Theatre 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 21jan7:30 pmThe Merry Wives of Windsor7:30 pm EST Folger Theatre It’s a great evening to get even! The irrepressible Falstaff hatches a dubious plan to woo the wealthy wives of Windsor, steal their fortunes, and make their husbands It’s a great evening to get even! The irrepressible Falstaff hatches a dubious plan to woo the wealthy wives of Windsor, steal their fortunes, and make their husbands green with jealousy. The scheming plot is met with hilarious retaliation when the ladies devise their own plot to teach Falstaff a lesson he won’t soon forget. Aaron Posner directs Shakespeare’s delightful comedy on love, money, deception, and the power of women. The all-star cast features Regina Aquino, Ami Brabson, Eric Hissom, Cody Nickell, Kate Eastwood Norris, Todd Scofield, and more. (Tuesday) 7:30 pm EST Folger Theatre 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 Yoga in Luce Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004 22jan6:00 pmYoga in Luce6:00 pm Smithsonian American Art Museum Bring your mat and relax with this Vinyasa yoga and art appreciation series. Participants are invited to reflect on an artwork of their choosing in the Luce Foundation Center before Bring your mat and relax with this Vinyasa yoga and art appreciation series. Participants are invited to reflect on an artwork of their choosing in the Luce Foundation Center before unwinding with a one-hour all-levels vinyasa yoga class. Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center Tickets: $10; Tickets available online starting January 8 at noon. Cash is not accepted at the door 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm EST VIEW FULL CALENDAR >> BYT Instagram brightestyoungthings Sign up for Best Weekend Bets: BYT Facebook BYT Twitter Sad Girl Taste Test: The Snoop Dogg Sandwich at Dunkin’ Donuts Your Free Guide to DC: January 20 – 26, 2020 NYC Best Weekday Bets Gotta Pay The Bills: COPYRIGHT 1979 BYT MEDIA INC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line894
__label__wiki	0.735539	0.735539	The Dead Don’t Die – Film Review! by Gumbercules9000 on Jun 12th, 2019 “The Dead Don’t Die is my favorite zombie film of the year.” Just when you thought the zombie genre was indeed dead, Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Only Lovers Left Alive, Coffee and Cigarettes), re-ignites the stale genre with The Dead Don’t Die, including an A-list cast, extreme dry wit, and a ton of fun. This short, but sweet movie feels familiar with its usual genre tropes, but at the same time, its wholly original and burns down the fourth wall so much that it would have Deadpool himself blush. Jarmusch basically got most of his favorite actor friends from his previous films and said, “Hey, let’s make a zombie movie where anything goes.” The result with this cast of deadpanned characters are flawless as they weave through a zombie outbreak in their small, podunk town to the tune of Sturgill Simpson’s song The Dead Don’t Die. ‘Suspiria’ – Blu-ray Review! (Film Review Portion Written by Dan Moran) The general plot of Suspiria is that Suzy, an American ballerina, enrolls in a Berlin dance academy which is actually a front for a coven of witches. Dakota Johnson plays Suzy and is a revelation in the part since my big dumb brain still associates her with her lifeless performance in 50 Shades of Grey. Tilda Swinton (as usual) puts in some great work as Madame Blanc as just caring enough yet always with an ominous undercurrent to all of her lines. Swinton also dons a ton of makeup to play a Doctor who becomes interested in the coven after one of the academy’s dance members tells him of the evil there before she disappears. Fantastic Fest Film Review: ‘Suspiria’ 2018! Fantastic Fest’s Secret Screening this year was the remake of Suspiria starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. Everyone in the theater loved it and the buzz in the Drafthouse afterward was fever pitch. Every review I have seen so far has praised it up and down. Unfortunately, this is not going to be one of those reviews. I recently rewatched the original Suspiria because to say this movie is very hyped in the horror community would be an understatement so I was prepared to see it next month. As the festival got closer and Suspiria wasn’t announced as an opening or closing film it slowly became the odds-on favorite for the secret screening. As I sat down to watch, I was truly excited. Blu-ray Review: ‘Doctor Strange’! The next franchise in the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes with mystical and magical powers in ‘Doctor Strange‘, which is a damn good start to this new character. ‘Doctor Strange‘ was created by Steve Ditko and first appeared in Strange Tales #110 back in 1963. ‘Doctor Strange‘ or Stephen Strange is a highly intelligent surgeon who is in the top of his field. In an accident, he loses the use of his hands, which leads him to seek out alternate methods of healing. This brings him to a mystical and magical place across the globe where he meets ‘The Ancient One’ amongst other sorcerers that help him heal spiritually and physically. Film Review: ‘Doctor Strange’! by Gumbercules9000 on Nov 2nd, 2016 Here’s the New Trailer for ‘Doctor Strange’! by Red Zeppelbon on Jul 24th, 2016 Benedict Cumberbatch is astonishingly perfect for Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange‘. If you have any doubts whatsoever about his qualifications, I invite you to check out the below trailer. Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen and Chiwetel Ejiofor all feature in the movie. Get Ready To Bring Home ‘Hail Caesar!’ On Multiple Formats!!! by Red Zeppelbon on May 9th, 2016 ‘Hail, Caesar!‘ follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when studio star Baird Whitlock disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix. The film has some of the biggest stars in Hollywood today and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD June 7 and on Digital on May 24. ‘Doctor Strange’ Poster and Trailer Debut! Marvel is going to release the first trailer for ‘Doctor Strange‘ tonight for all of us fans, which stars Bendict ‘man-god’ Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange. In anticipation of the trailer, we now have an official poster for the film, which has the good doctor in his Sanctum Sanctorum. Film Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!” by Gumbercules9000 on Feb 3rd, 2016 It’s always a good time when the Coen Bros. have a new movie in theaters. Film after film, the Coen Bros. have not only told bizarre, funny, violent, musical stories, but have conjured up some of the best characters in movie history. Their uncanny talent for telling stories on film is unrivaled with each movie they make. Their latest endeavor tackles the early years of Hollywood, specifically the year 1951, in a film called ‘Hail, Caesar!‘ that has an A-List cast of Coen regulars and newcomers. Even though the posters and trailers show this A-List cast throughout, the film follows one man, and that is Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), based on the real life Mannix who was a big time producer and “fixer” at MGM. Here’s the New Trailer for ‘Hail, Caesar!’ Coen Brothers fans, you can start getting even more excited, because the Coen’s new film ‘Hail Caesar!‘ is coming out next month. We have a new trailer for the film, which is all sorts of funny and takes place during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Instead of the usual quick cuts and one liners in a trailer, we have a nice long clip with Alden Ehrenreich and Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes is trying to teach Alden how to speak with a proper British accent, and is comedy gold. First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as ‘Doctor Strange’!!! Ever since I heard the news that Benedict Cumberbatch was cast in the titular role for ‘Doctor Strange‘, I didn’t really have any trouble picturing him in the robes of the great Strange and now, none of us have to wonder or guess how it will look as we have pictures, now! Who says Christmas comes only one time a year?! Rachel McAdams Announces Casting In ‘Doctor Strange’!!! by Red Zeppelbon on Sep 15th, 2015 More news on Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange‘ front, this time coming in the form of a new cast member. Rachel McAdams has confirmed that she will star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the upcoming comic-to-film adaptation. We’ve known since 2014 that Cumberbatch was set to lead the story of arrogant neurosurgeon, Stephen Vincent Strange, turned magical sorcerer known only as Dr. Strange. Film Review: ‘Trainwreck’! Comedy mastermind Judd Apatow is back this year with a new feature film called ‘Trainwreck‘ and is his best film since ‘Knocked Up‘. That was eight years ago. Sure, Apatow has written and produced dozens of films since then, but has only really directed two other feature films since, being ‘Funny People‘ and ‘This is 40‘. The usual actors are nowhere to be seen in ‘Trainwreck‘ either. There is no Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Martin Starr, or even James Franco to be seen anywhere on screen. Actress and comedienne Amy Schumer wrote the screenplay here for Apatow to direct and the two are a perfect pair. Oscars: Here are My Oscar Predictions for the 87th Academy Awards!! We are only a few days away from the 87th annual Oscar ceremony, which airs live this Sunday. Again, we will be delivering a live commentary full of jokes, trivia, facts, winners, losers, and giving away free gifts throughout the night. So please, keep it right here during the Oscars and use the hashtag #boomstickcomics when posting to social media. But, let’s talk about predictions for a minute. I’m sure some of you have put some money down on Oscar pools at works or with your friends to see who comes out the winner this year. There were some excellent movies this year along with some amazing performances, so needless to say, this year will be extremely difficult to predict. Judd Apatow’s New Film ‘Trainwreck’, Starring Amy Schumer Has Its First Trailer!! The guy who brought us ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin‘, ‘Knocked Up‘, and ‘Funny People‘ has a new film called ‘Trainwreck‘. Yes, Judd Apatow is back in the director’s seat again, this time with the beautiful comedienne Amy Schumer in the lead role. Apatow has really evolved as a filmmaker since ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin‘ in telling better and more personal stories of relationships, but still having those hilarious dick jokes and gross-out gags to make us belly laugh. Charlie Wilson: You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup. 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__label__cc	0.630306	0.369694	The BA Degree: The Faculté Saint-Jean offers a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major subject of concentration and a minor subject of concentration or two major subjects of concentration. This four-year program offers a Liberal Arts education and stresses the general education of students in a francophone setting. Students will acquire the capacities for adaptation, analysis, communication and teamwork that are necessary for today's job market. The BA program includes nine majors: Economics, Canadian Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies; French-language; French-literature (French and French- Canadian); History; Psychology; Political Science; Sociology. It also includes a wide range of minors. The first two years consist of a core program common to all subjects of concentration, while the last two years are normally devoted to the major and minor concentrations. The originality of the BA program at Faculté Saint-Jean lies in its interdisciplinary and pluridisciplinary nature. For the concentration, a certain number of courses from related disciplines are allowed. These courses will enrich and broaden the major concentration. Faculté Saint-Jean offers all the courses necessary to obtain a BA degree. This does not prevent students from taking a certain number of courses in other Faculties at the University of Alberta. The program takes into account Faculté Saint-Jean requirements regarding French courses and provides a variable number of options. The BA Honors Degree: The BA Honors program allows students to study a specific subject in greater depth. It also requires a higher standard of performance. As a result, it is an excellent preparation for graduate studies. The BA Honors program includes four specializations: Canadian Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies; French-language and literature (French and French- Canadian); Socio-political Science. BA Program I. The BA Degree The BA program consists of a major subject of concentration and a minor subject of concentration or two major subjects of concentration with at least one of the major subjects of concentration taken at Faculté Saint-Jean. Students must choose their major and minor concentrations when registering in the second year of their program. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the BA program, certain courses will be allowed both in the major and in the minor concentrations. However, the same course may not be counted twice in the student's program. Normally, the course will be counted with its usual discipline, in other words according to the definition indicated by its abbreviation. (For example, in the case of a student with a major in Canadian Studies and a minor in Political Science, ETCAN 421 would be counted for the major and SC PO 225 and SC PO 226 for the minor.) If the course does not fit within any specific discipline, priority will be given to the major subject of concentration. (For example, in the case of a student with a major in Sociology and a minor in Political Science, SCSOC 225 would be counted for the major.) Major Subject: In any major concentration taken at Faculté Saint-Jean, students must complete a minimum of ★30 at the senior level, including at least ★6 at the 400-level, in one of the following areas: Economics, Canadian Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies; French-language; French-literature (French and French-Canadian); History; Psychology; Political Science; Sociology. A minimum of ★15 must be completed at the Faculté Saint‑Jean. To achieve a double major in the BA, students must complete at least one of the majors and at least ★60 at Faculté Saint-Jean. In addition to the areas listed above and offered at Faculté Saint-Jean, students may choose a second major from the following areas offered by the Faculty of Arts (Note: courses are offered in English): Anthropology, Art and Design, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Film Studies, German, Scandinavian, Human Geography, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Italian, Spanish, Latin American Studies, Russian, Ukrainian, Women's Studies. Within each of these areas, students must meet the requirements of the Faculty of Arts as well as those of Faculté Saint-Jean. Minor Subject: Students may choose a minor concentration either in Arts or in Science. However, the requirements of these routes contain important differences. Arts: For the minor concentration in Arts, students must complete a minimum of ★15 at the senior level, including at least ★6 at the 300- or 400-level, and a maximum of ★24 in one of the following areas: Anthropology and Sociology; Economics; Canadian Studies; Drama; French-language; French-literature (French and French-Canadian); History; Music; Philosophical and Social Thought; Psychology; Political Science; Sociology. For the minor concentration in Music, the student must complete a minimum of ★12 at the senior level, including at least ★6 at the 300- or 400-level, and a maximum of ★24. In addition to the areas listed above and offered at Faculté Saint-Jean, students may choose a minor from those offered by the Faculty of Arts unless there is an equivalent minor offered by Faculté Saint-Jean (Note: Faculty of Arts courses are offered in English). Within each of these minors, students must meet the requirements of the Faculty of Arts as well as those of Faculté Saint-Jean. The requirements of the different departments in the Faculty of Arts are set out in Programs and Certificates to Cooperative Education (Work Experience) Program of the Calendar. Note that the Faculté residence requirements are applicable in this case (see Residence ). Science: For the minor concentration in Science, students must complete a minimum of ★24 and a maximum of ★36 (including no more than ★12 at the junior level and including at least ★6 at the 300- or 400-level) in one of the following subjects or areas: Areas: Biological Sciences; Mathematical Sciences; Physical Sciences. Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology (Science). In addition to the areas and subjects listed above, offered at Faculté Saint-Jean, students may choose a minor from those offered by the Faculty of Science unless there is an equivalent minor offered by Faculté Saint-Jean (Note: Faculty of Science courses are offered in English). Within each of these minors, students must meet the requirements of the Faculty of Science (see BSc General Program ) as well as those of Faculté Saint- Jean. Also the student may choose a minor in Agriculture, Environmental and Conservation Sciences or Human Ecology offered by the Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences (see BSc General–Minor in Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences ). Note that the Faculté residence requirements are applicable in this case (see Residence ). Common Requirements The BA at Faculté Saint-Jean is a four-year program, with ★120. The requirements concerning French courses are those of Faculté Saint‑Jean. Students must complete ★6 in a language course other than French. Students must complete FRANC 235 , normally during the second year of their program. Students registered in a program with concentration must complete ★6 in Fine Arts and Literature ★6 in Science. Students registered in an Honors program must complete either ★6 in Fine Arts and Literature or ★6 in Science. Options may be Arts or Science courses. However, up to ★12 may be taken in areas other than arts and science. Exceptionally, the Associate Dean (Academic) may authorize a student to spend less than or more than four years to meet the requirements of a degree. The student in a program in Social Studies or Philosophical and Social Thought must complete one course in Research methods: SCSOC 225 . PHILE 141 - Introduction à la philosophie occidentale AND PHILE 142 - Introduction aux philosophies non occidentales HISTE 121 - Histoire des mondes connectés: 1500-1815 AND HISTE 122 - Histoire des mondes connectés depuis 1815 Students must complete ★3 by the end of the second year of their program. ECONE 299 - Méthodes quantitatives en économie LINGQ 320 - Phonétique et phonologie du français canadien MUSIQ 100 - Les rudiments de la musique MATHQ 114 - Calcul élémentaire OR MATHQ 113 MATHQ 115 - Calcul élémentaire II MATHQ 125 - Algèbre linéaire I PHILE 125 - Raisonnement et pensée critique SCSOC 322 - Statistiques pour les sciences sociales STATQ 151 - Introduction à la statistique appliquée I OR SCI 151 - InSciTE: Scientific Inquiry and Data Analysis Given the common requirements for the BA program at Faculté Saint-Jean, students are advised to respect the following timetable. However, students wishing to minor in Science may want to defer certain courses (for example, Fine Arts and Literature or Francophonies) to the third year of their program in order to leave room for prerequisite courses in the Science minor. Faculté Saint-Jean Tableau 1: Le tronc commun du programme de BA Année 1 ★6 à ★12 Français langue (Classification of Courses et French Courses )1 ★6 en langue autre que le français2 ★6 Beaux-arts (Classification of Courses )3 ★6 Sciences sociales (Classification of Courses ) ★0 à ★6 Option1 ★0 à ★3 Français langue (Classification of Courses et French Courses )1 FRANC 235 - Survol de la littérature francophone FRANC 322 - Pratique de la dissertation HISTE 121 - Histoire des mondes connectés: 1500-1815 ET PHILE 141 - Introduction à la philosophie occidentale ET ★3 Canadien-français (Classification of Courses ) ★6 Sciences3 ★6 Option ★3 parmi MATHQ 114 - Calcul élémentaire OU MATHQ 113 STATQ 151 - Introduction à la statistique appliquée I 1 L'étudiant qui s'inscrit à la Faculté Saint-Jean est orienté dans les cours de français selon le programme d'études secondaires préalablement suivi (voir French Courses ). 2 ANGL ou ENGL peut satisfaire à cette exigence. 3 L'étudiant inscrit au programme avec spécialisation doit réussir ★6 en beaux-arts ou ★6 en sciences, au choix. Par conséquent, il peut remplacer une de ces exigences par ★6 en options. BA Major/Minor Requirements Minor in Anthropology and Sociology Major and Minor in Economics Major and Minor in Canadian Studies Major in Interdisciplinary Studies Minor in Drama Major and Minor in French–Language Major and Minor in French—Literature Major and Minor in History Minor in Music Minor in Philosophical and Social Thought Major and Minor in Psychology Major and Minor in Political Science Major and Minor in Sociology II. The BA Honors Degree In the BA Honors, students must complete a minimum of ★48 and a maximum of ★60 at the senior level, including at least ★6 at the 400-level, in one of the following areas: Canadian Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies; Frenchlanguage and literature (French and French-Canadian); Socio-political Science. Students will normally complete the BA Honors in four consecutive years of study and take at least ★30 in each academic year. Exceptions to this requirement must be approved by the Associate Dean (Academic). Honors in Canadian Studies Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies Honors in French—Language and Literature Honors in Socio-political Science	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.648374	0.351626	Council budget saves frontline services and freezes Council Tax This evening, Caledonian ward’s Labour Councillors voted for the 2011-12 Council budget which has safeguarded frontline services and cut out waste and inefficiencies. Caledonian Councillors voted to reject an amendment from the Lib Dem opposition to abolish free school meals. Islington faces the biggest cut in London because our community has one of the highest levels of low-income families in the country. The government has cut funding to Islington by £40m this year alone. The cuts came as Tory/Lib Dem Government Minister Grant Shapps personally refused to stop targeting areas with many low-income households, like Islington. Affluent places like Richmond-upon-Thames have had only 2 percent cuts, while Islington has been hit with a 12 percent cut. In setting the budget, Labour Councillors have managed to protect services that the Tory-led Government thinks we should cut. Labour’s priority has been to protect services that support low-income people, the young and the vulnerable: Established a new Citizens Advice Bureau Created a £1m rescue fund to help local voluntary groups deal with Government cuts Kept all our Children’s Centres open Protected universal Free School Meals Doubled the team dealing with dangerous dogs Kept all our Libraries open with no change to opening days or hours Kept all school crossing “lollipop” officers Kept the £100 Council Tax discount for over 65s £400,000 on getting people in poverty into work Committed an extra £2m for people with Learning Disabilities and an extra £2m for child protection Retained Adult Social Services for those with moderate needs – one of the only councils in the country to still do this. Paul Convery says: “This has been the toughest Council budget ever. Islington has suffered the largest government cuts in living memory. We’ve achieved this budget partly by cutting waste and inefficiency inherited from the previous LibDem administration. We’ve made over half the budget savings by doing this. We found £1m of savings just from simple management reorganisations. As a result, more money will be spent on frontline services. The other half of our budget saving has been a lot harder to find and difficult choices have been made. But our priorities have been to protect the services that help the less prosperous in our community.” But this unprecedented financial squeeze is only just beginning. Each year the Government’s cuts will be worse for Islington – more services will close and fewer people will get the support they need. That is why Labour is appealing to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to stop targeting boroughs like Islington in this way. Cally Councillors urge residents to support our campaign to stop the Government pushing through yet further draconian cuts next year … and the year after. The Council has estimated that Islington will experience cuts totalling £335m over the next 3 years – in healthcare, transport and local government services. Sign the petition at www.islingtonlabour.iparl.com/petition/7 from → Council leadership, Council Tax ← Cut to police funding threatens safer neighbourhood team Dispersal zone to cut anti-social behaviour on the Cally →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line916
__label__wiki	0.948083	0.948083	California Voter Foundation CVF in the News Spotlight on CVF CVF-News California Online Voter Guide Contact Your County Election Office Online Voter Tools - Check Your Status Voting FAQ California Map Series Proposition Song Issues and Publications Advocacy and Testimony Voter Engagement Vote-by-Mail Voter Privacy Campaign Disclosure Initiative Process About CVF CVF History, Achievements and Awards » CVF in the News » California ramping up security in advance of presidential primary California ramping up security in advance of presidential primary New voting systems in place for many California counties By Mike Leury, KCRA-TV News, SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) California’s presidential primary is just 11 months away and work is already in progress to make sure the state is ready to count every vote. The California election map is changing thanks to the Voter’s Choice Act, and there are now 11 counties that have replaced neighborhood polling places with voting centers. Voters in Los Angeles County will not automatically be sent a vote by mail ballot, but they will have to request one. In three rural counties – Sierra, Plumas and Alpine – residents can only vote by mail. The bottom line is that how you vote increasingly depends on where you live. \|MORE: Check your voter status here\| On Thursday morning, former Vice President Joe Biden jumped into the presidential race with Senators Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and a smorgasbord of candidates now mining for votes. There are now 20 official candidates running to capture the Democratic Party nomination. “Oh my gosh, it's too many,” said Sacramento voter Nam McElloy. Confusion over the candidates – and potential confusion over voting – because California’s 58 counties will use four different voting models, according to Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “My concern is there will be a fair amount of voter confusion,” Alexander said. “Because neighboring counties are going to be offering different voting models throughout California.” She added that voters in Sacramento and El Dorado counties will be using vote centers to cast their ballots or voting by mail, but in Yolo County, residents will still be voting in person in neighborhood polling places. And, across California, there is growing concern about foreign agents meddling into our elections. “I know the Russians are constantly trying to get into the United States, to hack into our security,” said Robert Bredwell, a Sacramento voter. Deborah Beck of Sacramento added, “You can see what's happening. It's happening. I don't feel like they're really dealing with it.” The California Secretary of State’s office has been busy preparing for any sort of attack. “We certainly have to operate every day like we're going to be a target,” said Sam Mahood, press secretary for Alex Padilla, California’s Secretary of State. And that’s why California is now asking all 58 counties to certify their voting systems, with the goal of having all of them updated to the latest security standards before the presidential primary next March. And California now has a system in place to prevent ballots from being hacked. “No voting system can be connected to the internet,” Mahood said. “Also, every ballot (must) be on paper or have a voter-verifiable audit trail, so that way we can audit the results after the election,” Mahood added. So how are things going? Right now, California has 20 counties with certified voting systems, and 25 more are now in the process of getting new systems, Mahood said. That leaves 13 counties that may have to ask for extensions. “But we know the vast majority of them are using them as a contingency and will also look to replace their system ahead of the 2020 election,” Mahood said. And for California’s 5.6 million people registered with "No Party Preference," the rules for voting in a presidential primary are complicated. Independent voters who want to vote in the Republican Party primary will have to register as Republicans. The Democratic Party allows independent voters to participate, but they will have to request a Democratic ballot from their local county registrar of voters. (full story) Copyright © California Voter Foundation,1996 - 2020, All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line917
__label__cc	0.659073	0.340927	Cat Skiing in Colorado West ABOUT CAT SKIING IN COLORADO WEST Located in Lake County, in Western Colorado, Leadville is the site of some of the most adventurous cat skiing opportunities in the state. It has a population of 2,700 and an elevation of 10,152 feet. It has the highest elevation of any incorporated town in the U.S. Beginning as early as October and continuing as late as April, Leadville can get more than 148 inches of snow each year while other parts of the region enjoy up to 260 inches. The snowiest parts of the year can receive close to 20 inches of snow each month. All of this powder snow makes Leadville a draw for tourists who want to enjoy the thrill and excitement of cat skiing. Cat skiing tours in this town are professionally guided, taking place over 2,000 acres of terrain located in the White River and San Isabel National Forests. The terrain is marked with open bowls, glades, and timber, offering breathtaking scenery of the Continental Divide, and dozens of the state’s highest peaks. The highest peak is 12,850 feet while slopes range from 3,000 to 10,000 feet in length, and have vertical drops of up to 2,000 feet in some areas. Region Name Colorado West Region State Colorado Region City Leadville Closest Resort Grand West Village Resort Optional Resort The Abby Optional Resort Mountain Peaks Inn Cat Skiing Pictures in Colorado West Acres (sq. miles) 2,600 Skill Level Strong Advanced - Expert Mountain Range Sewatch Range/Rocky Runs per Day 8-12 Apprx. Vertical Feet per Day 16,000 ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT CAT SKIING IN COLORADO WEST The snowcat tours are made possible by two Bombadier snowcats, both of which can seat up to 12 passengers in their plush and heated cabins. Two experienced guides go with each cat skiing party to the backcountry. The guides are certified EMTs and trained in snow safety. They are extensively familiar with the layout of the terrain and know how to lead tours in the best snow possible. Their goal, aside from keeping skiers safe, is to provide a unique and thrilling experience for each cat skiing party. Breakfast is early, beginning at 7:30 in the morning while skiers are loading up at 8:30am for the mountains. A hot lunch is served in a heated backcountry yurt, and will resume skiing until 4:00pm. Skiers can expect to average between eight and 12 runs per day. These guided tours are reserved solely for advanced and expert cat skiers. Intermediate skiers are advised to avoid the tours until they become more advanced in cat skiing. A minimum of five skiers is required to reserve a guided tour. Reservations should be made in advance to guarantee seating in the snowcats. Getting to and from Leadville can be done by driving on U.S. Highway 24, which runs east and west through town. State highway 91 also connects to Interstate 70 and is the only way to reach the town from Denver. Tourists can fly by major airline into Denver International Airport and rent a car to drive this route to reach the cat ski resort. A tourist rail service is made available courtesy of Leadville, Colorado & Southern Railroad. The area is also served by the Lake County Airport. However, no scheduled commercial flights come in and out of the airport. It serves only charter and private aircraft. The nearest commercial airports, Eagle County Airport and Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, are both 62 miles away. FULL DAY (8:30AM – 4PM) Includes breakfast and a lunch. HOW TO GET TO COLORADO WEST Eagle County Regional Airport EGE 62 mi Aspen Pitkin County Airport ASE 62 mi Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles CA LAX 903 4h 7m 1 O'Hare International Airport Chicago IL ORD 1125 4h 16m 1 John F. Kennedy International Airport New York NY JFK 1925 10h 18m 2 San Francisco International Airport San Francisco CA SFO 1140 4H 13M 1 Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Seattle/Tacoma WA SEA 1024 4H 32M 1 Newark Liberty International Airport New York/Newark/New Jersey NJ EWR 1901 6h 17m 1 San Diego International Airport San Diego CA SAN 849 4h 12m 1 Portland International Airport Portland OR PDX 1156 4h 17m 1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line921
__label__wiki	0.892581	0.892581	Ezz Steel loses EGP 835.5m in 2014 - Daily News Egypt Business Ezz Steel loses EGP 835.5m in 2014 Ezz Steel loses EGP 835.5m in 2014 Company’s former chairman Ahmed Ezz was released on bail from prison in August 2014 Doaa Farid June 3, 2015 Be the first to comment (Photo courtesy of Ezz Steel) Egyptian steel producer Ezz Steel reported a net loss of EGP 835.5m in 2014, after registering EGP 527.8m in net profits in 2013, the company announced on Wednesday. Ahmed Ezz, the company’s former chairman, the owner of 51% of its shares and former secretary-general of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, has been standing trial for two separate cases over three years since the outbreak of the 25 January Revolution. The first case was for the illegal acquisition of EGP 6.4bn in business deals related to his Ezz El-Dekheila steel plant. In the second case, Ezz was accused of illegal sales of steel licences. All of Ezz’s appeals have been accepted. The business tycoon was reported to have announced his willingness to donate half of his wealth to the Long Live Egypt Fund, after his release from jail on bail in August 2014. Ezz Steel’s board of directors was said to be considering Ezz’s return to the board. Ezz paid at that time the first instalment of an EGP 100m monopoly fine, with the rest to be paid over nine-month instalments. Political reconciliation with the steel magnate was welcomed by a large portion of people at that time, including the one who originally filed the case of illegal sales of steel licences against Ezz, “if only he is going to donate half of his wealth”. Steel production in Egypt is expected to witness a shift after the recent decision by the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade to prepare tools and regulations for issuing operating licences in the steel and cement industry. Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour imposed in April protection fees on imported rebar steel, at a percentage of 8% for one tonne, or no less than EGP 408 per tonne. Topics: Ahmed Ezz Daily Egypt Ezz Steel Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade News Steel production Doaa Farid More in Doaa Farid Negligence of foreign currency resources aggravates ballooning dollar crisis Temporary rice shortage reveals tenuous balance between food security and government’s drive for profit Egypt discusses tax reforms in IMF-World Bank meetings IMF loan negotiations: Will Egypt make it work this time? Sawiris and Tarek Amer fight: flashback to previous battles with the state? Metro ticket price: between a burdened government and frustrated commuters https://cdn2.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/06/03/ezz-steel-loses-egp-835-5m-in-2014/ June 3, 2015 Breaking News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line924
__label__wiki	0.936223	0.936223	Bushwick Daily Logo Bushwick Daily Logo Menu sandwich Loupe Views Comments Comments Location Refresh Star Lock Lock Button Edit Button Socials: Facebook Socials: Twitter Socials: Instagram Socials: Youtube Socials: RSS Socials: E-mail Author Next page Previous page Comment rating up Comment rating down Comment parent Close Community icon Desktop site Subscribe Settings Message Remove Upload s Arts & CultureNewsStoreCalendarCommunityFood & Drink Bushwick Talks Bushwick Bandstand Interview: The Mystery Lights Talk New Album, "Too Much Tension" Plus shows at Elsewhere, El Cortez, C'mon Everybody, and Our Wicked Lady Tom Gallo, 8 May 2019 Tom Gallo tomgallo@radiofreebrooklyn.org @lookatmyrecords_ Tom Gallo is the host of Look At My Records! on Radio Free Brooklyn. Brooklyn’s The Mystery Lights have built a solid following over the course of the last half-dozen years through their bi-coastal sound that incorporates vintage garage rock tones and gritty proto-punk snarl. After a three-year period that saw the group tour relentlessly, including some well-received stints in Europe, they’re primed and ready for the release of their sophomore album, Too Much Tension!. Produced by Wayne Gordon at Daptone Records' House of Soul, the new album finds The Mystery Lights expanding their psychedelic garage rock sound to incorporate some synth-driven, post-punk elements with varied lyrical themes that address inner self-turmoil and the current state of world affairs. Too Much Tension! is set for release this Friday, May 10 on Daptone/Wick Records. Soon thereafter, the band is heading out on U.S./Canadian tour with Future Punx in support of the new record, including a release show on May 18th at Music Hall of Williamsburg. We caught up with Mike Brandon of The Mystery Lights to chat about their new record and their upcoming tour. Tell us about your new record, Too Much Tension!. How’d it come together, and how would you compare it to your first record? We released our first album in 2016 and then basically toured non-stop. We then broke into Europe, and they kept inviting us out, so we were touring more than writing. We’d come home and hit up Wayne Gordon, who produced our first record and owns Our Wicked Lady, about working on our next record, too. On the first record, we were getting to know each other’s style. On this one, we really clicked. We became more experimental as a result. It was more fun and easier to put together. Even though it took us three years, it was three years while we were on the road, so we were spending a lot of time together. We had the record done a year ago, but while we were on tour in Europe, Wayne called us and said he didn’t think it was ready. He encouraged us to write a few more songs. So, we came back, and we recorded the last three once we got back from tour. At that point, we felt it was perfect and ready to go. Does the band write a lot on tour? Did you work on those last three songs while on the road? Yeah, sometimes. I’ll jot down lyrics and melodies on tour. We’ll flesh out song structures sometimes during sound check, but there’s not a ton of time. Last summer, we had a few weeks between tours. The final songs we decided to record and put on the record are actually old songs. One is called, “Can’t Get Through To My Head,” which we originally recorded in 2015. We re-did it properly with Wayne at Daptone Studios. It sounded and felt better. You’re originally from California, but you’ve lived in New York for a while now. Do you feel like you combine influences from the two places? How has New York influenced your sound? Yeah, totally. We grew up on bands like Television, The Velvet Underground, Richard Hell - that scratchy punk sound, but being in California, we also had the influence of the hard-hitting garage rock of the 1960s. We loved the old Nuggets compilations, like that garage rock sound of The Monks and The Remains combined with that New York sound. Now, we’re going pretty deep in using synths like Suicide, which is New York-based. We have a permanent synth player now, Lily Rogers. We use a sampler, too. We’re keeping true to why we started playing music, which is that hard-hitting, nasty garage rock/punk sound, but also experimenting more with weird sounds and trippy stuff. We’ve been listening to a lot of Brian Eno, Can, and NEU!, to incorporate that psychedelic, experimental stuff into our sound. We’re branching out and we want to experiment with different styles while staying true to our original sound. What influenced some of the lyrical themes on the record? It seems like Too Much Tension! can be interpreted in several ways. It’s a combination of a lot of things. There’s some personal stuff like battling your own demons and the tension that comes with that. Also, when we wrote some of the record, it was back in 2017 when tensions were high with North Korea. So, that kind of global tension — everyone was on edge. This for some reason really resonated with us and we felt it, so it made sense. There’s another song on the record called “Watching The News Gives Me The Blues.” It plays off of that same theme. The record cover is kind of the balance between chaos and stability that plays into the whole vibe of tension. It’s also just kind of getting people to relax a little more. Not everything needs to be so serious. How would you describe your live show? What can people expect? Every show definitely feels different. I try to keep the shows real. I don’t like gimmicks. I like to have an interaction with the crowd that doesn’t feel showy. I want the crowd feel like they’re just watching us jamming, like we’re all having a good time. I don’t want a separation between the band and the fans. I want people to feel like, hey, we’re all here and it’s a party. It’s like what the Velvet Underground were doing back in the 60s. It was just one big party and they were the background music. You can pre-order Too Much Tension! on vinyl via Bandcamp. Don't miss the band's tour kickoff and release show with Dirty Fences and Future Punx on Saturday, May 18 at Music Hall Of Williamsburg. Tickets are $15.00 if purchased in advance. You can also catch The Mystery Lights on tour with Future Punx this June. For dates and locations, check out the band's event page on Facebook. Too Much Tension May is underway in Bushwick, which means it's time to get out and enjoy some gigs, including some rooftop ones! Here are some to check out this week: Adeline, DUVV at C’mon Everybody, 8 p.m. We simply can’t get enough of Adeline’s incredible debut solo record, so the second night of her residency at C’mon Everybody is our pick again this week! Her vocals shine throughout the record and her powerful voice filled the intimate C’mon Everybody at her residency kickoff last week. For the second installment, Adeline will be joined by DUVV, a Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter who plays a soothingly smooth blend of alternative hip-hop, R&B, and soul. Ex Hex, Versus, Thick at Elsewhere, 8 p.m. Ex Hex, the Washington D.C. based project of Mary Timony, Betsy Wright, and Laura Harris returned in March with their stellar sophomore album, It’s Real. They’ve been taking their power-pop tunes in the road ever since with a stop coming up at Elsewhere this Thursday. They’ll be joined by Versus, who just released their first EP in almost a decade, and local trio Thick, who just dropped a raucous new EP of their own on Epitaph Records. Cindy Cane’s Haunted House at Our Wicked Lady, 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn’s favorite goth electro-punk, Cindy Cane, is hosting a two-night stand dubbed “Cindy Cane’s Haunted House” on the Our Wicked Lady Rooftop that’ll feature a tremendous cast of local musicians. Cindy Cane will cap off the night with a 12:30 am late night set but arrive early as Friday night’s lineup features performances from DA POP, HNRY FLWR, The Doilies, Toyzanne, Dropper, and Coco Verde. If you can’t make Friday night, pop into OWL for an all-day affair on Saturday. The festivities kick off at 3 p.m. and feature appearances from a who’s who of local acts, including Ghost Funk Orchestra, Material Girls, Stuyedeyed, GESSERIT, The Ferdy Mayne, The Mary Vision, Sugarlife, and more. The Natvral, Little Hustle, Scam Avenue at Coney Island Baby NYC, 7 p.m. Saturday night at Coney Island Baby features The Natvral, the new solo project of Kip Berman of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. Berman released his first EP as The Natvral, the folk-rock Know Me More, in October of last year. Little Hustle, a Bushwick based quartet, are releasing their debut album, Notepasser on May 10th. Sonically, the record is synth-driven and poppy with witty lyrics. Arrive early to catch a set from Scam Avenue, a local experiment pop outfit that describes their sound as “the soundtrack of a John Hughes movie produced by Brian Eno.” The Natvral All images courtesy of bands and mentioned venues. For more news, sign up for Bushwick Daily's newsletter. bushwick bandstandElsewherecmon everybody Bushwick Daily Newsletter Comments are loading to leave comments. Copyright © Bushwick Daily LLC 2019; All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line925
__label__cc	0.690606	0.309394	The change we’d like to see Doing it differently. Aussie businesses owners open up about what needs to change in their sector. By Business View The world’s changing at warp speed and businesses are having to evolve apace. We asked business owners to share the one big development they’d like to see in their industry. A systemic focus on animals The feedlot sector and broader beef industry in Australia should be commended for their commitment to staying ahead of the ethical game but we can’t afford to be complacent. I’d like to see us adopt a truly systemic approach to the issue. We need to be able to demonstrate to customers that we’re actively committed to continual improvement right across the supply chain. That encompasses everything from antimicrobial stewardship to animal handling and welfare, ensuring the fundamental needs of animals within a specific environment are being met. Working in an intensive sector means Lloyd Pastoral is at risk of negative public perception but we too are consumers and we like to think our food is produced to best industry practice. As an industry, we must keep an open mind, be progressive and think outside the box. Katie Lloyd Owner, Lloyd Pastoral Lower excise I’d like to see lower taxes on Australian produce so we can compete better locally and internationally. Craft distilling is an amazing industry that has seen a huge amount of activity since I started Great Southern 15 years ago, and a reduction in the excise duty we pay would make a big difference to our ability to expand. The rate in Australia is around $85 a litre – twice as much as it is in New Zealand and 10 times the US rate. That makes it hard for small distillers to cover their cost bases and compete, at home and internationally. The global whisky market is expected to be worth more than $10 billion by 2023 and sales are growing fastest in the Asia Pacific region so there’s a great export opportunity for small producers. Most distilleries are regionally and remotely based and they create jobs and encourage tourism in those areas. Having more money to reinvest in the business would be a real stimulus for growth in our sector. Cameron Syme Founder, Great Southern Distilling Company Legislation for a new way of working The on-demand economy touches millions of Australians every day but its influence on the world is far greater than that. It’s radically reshaping the future of work and Australia has a massive opportunity to take the lead here. We’d love to see the Australian Government enact employment legislation that recognises the modern work landscape digital platforms like Deliveroo have created. Our more than 6,500 riders here in Australia are all self-employed and they tell us having the flexibility to decide when they’re available to make deliveries is a key attraction of working with us. It enables them to make money by fitting work around life, rather than life around work. Legislation that allows companies like Deliveroo to offer riders benefits, without compromising their self-employed status, would end the current stand-off between flexibility and security. The on-demand economy is here to stay and having it recognised in our industrial relations framework would be a big positive for businesses, workers and the economy. Levi Aron Country Manager, Deliveroo Australia Helping businesses in the cloud Navigating the information technology marketplace has historically been complex and daunting for small and medium businesses. It can be hard for them to know whether they’re going to get a decent return from the hard-earned money they spend on high-tech tools and technologies. I’d like to see the IT industry work hard to change this, as we continue to introduce local companies to cloud computing. Not having to purchase, maintain, house and secure their core business systems offers small enterprises so much flexibility and economy. It’s up to us to really explain the benefits and help make the switch simple. Scott Crawford CEO, Avante Group Change; Agribusiness Business View Connect is NAB’s online source of economic updates, business trends and case studies specifically for small to medium enterprises. We draw on insights from NAB’s economists and a range of Australian business experts so you’re armed with the tips you need to help your business succeed. Regular topics include cash flow, business planning and wealth management. To receive free updates subscribe now. Contact us at business.view@nab.com.au Read Business View's Profile 2020 revealed: NAB’s Chief Economist on next year’s business outlook The changing face of banking technology In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, corporate finance teams have a range of options to improve efficiency, productivity and security with bank communication. Why venture capital is more important than ever for investors Venture capital is too important for investors to ignore as it occupies an increasingly large part of the global economy and provides opportunities not available elsewhere, experts told the 2019 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. The prescription for a healthier health system by Health View Around the world, technology is transforming patient care. So why is Australia slow to follow suit? Emerging lenders on the path to debt capital markets In October 2019, National Australia Bank hosted a Round Table with emerging lenders to share their experiences on the journey to bank securitisation funding and beyond.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line926
__label__cc	0.738828	0.261172	Furry Ring Bearers That Also Played Matchmaker Mary Kathryn + Sam \| Nov 18, 2018 Elegant and timeless wedding with white, gold and blush accents at Macon Terminal Station in Macon, Georgia For Mary Kathryn, a night out for drinks with her girls (and her sweet Dalmatian pup Charlie) turned in to an unexpected romance. While meeting with mutual friends, Sam asked about “the girl with the Dalmatian” and the two immediately hit it off (it was no coincidence that Sam was a firefighter). As the night carried on the two talked, attempted to re-enact the lift scene from Dirty Dancing and the rest is history. Two years later, Sam proposed in the comfort of their home after a morning coffee run. Just days before Christmas, there couldn’t have been a more special and intimate way to ring in the holidays! After almost a year of planning, the couple was ready to tie the knot on a crisp day in November. The bride always knew she wanted a timeless wedding, so she kept it simple with gold accents and heavy greenery. “I made a lot of decisions based on what would complement the venue,” Mary Kathryn said. “It had marble accents, white drapery and an altar that tied it all together.” When the afternoon rolled around, Mary Kathryn slipped into her strapless gown. The dress had an A-line silhouette with buttons along the back of the dress. Although the dress wasn’t originally what the bride had in mind for a November ceremony, it was a perfect fit! “I ended up choosing the same dress I had picked out for one of my bridesmaids a few months prior,” the bride explained. “As soon as I tried it on, I knew it was the one and I bought it from her since we were the same size!” Mary Kathryn kept her beauty look simple with soft makeup and a loosely-curled low bun. Once the final touches were made, she grabbed her bouquet that had a personal touch. “Lilies are my favorite flower, and we trimmed some willow from a tree in our backyard to use,” Mary Kathryn explained. “I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful bouquet!” The cascading bouquet was full of muted grays and green tones. The lush arrangement was full of willow, along with a mixture of peonies, roses and lilies. After she took a few portraits with her bouquet, the bride headed to the top of the venue’s second-story overpass to meet her groom for their intimate first look. As Mary Kathryn approached from behind, the couple could hardly hold back their tears. “The night before, I wrote a letter to Sam and cried tears of joy,” the bride said. “He read it before he turned around to see me, and it was such a special moment.” As the couple finished up some more portraits outside, guests gathered in the center of the station where the ceremony was set to begin. The ceremony backdrop was draped in white linen and had antique gold crown molding, adding an elegant touch to the simple décor. The grand station itself didn’t need much decorating, so the couple added in splashes of greenery to complement the space. At the end of the aisle was a moon gate, lined with lush greenery and florals that mimicked the bride’s bouquet. When the bride found it online, she knew she wanted the frame to be exposed and tie in the color scheme. “I’m not afraid of a little DIY, so we ordered it and I painted it gold in my backyard,” the bride explained. “It was perfect after a few coats of gold paint!” As guests took their seats in gold Chiavari chairs, Sam and his groomsmen made their way down the aisle, looking dapper in their matching tuxedos and black bowties. Mary Kathryn’s bridesmaids took their places in front of the altar in their steel blue chiffon floor-length dresses followed by the cutest ring bearers. Escorted by the bride’s brother, the couple’s pups made their way towards the front with the rings, and it couldn’t have been more special! “Besides the groom, they were the best dressed guys at the wedding in their tuxedo style collars,” the bride said. “They were so well behaved, and it meant the world to both of us to have them with us on our big day!” As Mary Kathryn made her entrance with her father, she locked eyes with her groom. After the heartfelt exchange of vows, the couple shared their first kiss as husband and wife! While the bridal party gathered for pictures outside, the final touches were being put on the reception space on the other side of the station. Along the perimeter of the room were long wooden benches, reminiscent of Grand Central Station. The floor-to ceiling windows brought in lots of natural light, adding to the light and airy feel of the day. Towards the center of the room was a long head table where the buffet style dinner was set up. The table was draped in a white linen and had a silk blush table runner. In the center of the buffet table was a large arrangement full of hydrangeas and eucalyptus, with a few small candles surrounding the centerpiece. Guest found their seats in gold Chivari chairs at the rectangular reception tables that were draped in white linen. Each table had a small table number decorated in gold script. Along with the table number, there were a few small candles and scattered greenery mixed with baby’s breath towards the center of each table. Each placesetting had a white charger with a gold trim and antique gold flatware, tying in the color palette perfectly. On top of each charger there was a delicately folded white napkin. Once dinner was finished, the couple made their way to the open floor for their first dance and bridal party toasts. The love was felt across the room and many tears were shed! After the toasts were complete, it was time for the ceremonial cake cutting. The three-tiered naked cake was decorated with lilies, tying in the floral elements to the dessert perfectly. The remainder of the night was filled with more fun and dancing. When the music died down, the couple headed outside for a grand sparkler exit. Congrats to the happy couple! Still looking for the perfect venue to bring your dream day to life? Check out our vetted options HERE! Gold, Gray, Pink, White, DIY, Industrial, Intimate, Modern, Fall	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line929
__label__wiki	0.640979	0.640979	November 3, 2019 / 5:16 AM / 3 months ago China securities regulator says IPO reform to be expanded to Shenzhen's start-up board - Xinhua SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The registration-based mechanism for initial public offerings (IPOs) that underpins the successful launch of Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style STAR Market will be rolled out on Shenzhen’s start-up board ChiNext, China’s top securities regulator said on Sunday. Yi Huiman, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that regulators will accelerate efforts to reform ChiNext and revamp its IPO system, so as to allow the market to decide which companies should list. He didn’t give a timetable. China in June launched the STAR Market, paired with a U.S.-style IPO system, as Beijing stepped up efforts to foster technology sectors such as chip-making and Artificial Intelligence (AI) amid a debilitating trade war with Washington. Yi said that the registration-based IPO system on the STAR Market is a major breakthrough and will be gradually rolled out, along with other reform measures, across China’s capital markets, according to Xinhua. Under such a system, CSRC no longer vets IPO applicants, slashing the waiting period for listing candidates. The other reform measures include widening the trading band of stocks, improving mechanisms for margin trading and short selling, and making the approval process easier for mergers and acquisitions, according to Xinhua. The STAR Market has been running smoothly for over 100 days, and great technology companies will eventually emerge out of it, Yi told Xinhua. Reporting by Samuel Shen and Brenda Goh; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line931
__label__wiki	0.961609	0.961609	January 2, 2008 / 10:14 AM / 12 years ago Beijing deploys sniffer dogs in subways Passengers crowd into a train inside a station of the new Subway Line Number 5 in Beijing October 7, 2007. Beijing will deploy about 80 sniffer dogs to patrol the subway system to sniff out flammable products such as fireworks before the Chinese New Year next month, state media reported on Wednesday. REUTERS/Jason Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will deploy about 80 sniffer dogs to patrol the subway system to sniff out flammable products such as fireworks before the Chinese New Year next month, state media reported on Wednesday. “The security patrol ahead of the festival will be good practice for the police dogs ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games later this year,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted police officer Wang Ning as saying. Eight dogs have already started patrolling five downtown stations, Xinhua said. The government normally launches campaigns ahead of the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 7 this year, telling people not to bring fireworks or firecrackers onto public transport and often using lurid photos of accidental explosions to drive home the point. The Beijing subway is one of the busiest in the world and set a record daily ridership of 2.89 million passengers on November 16. Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Ben Blanchard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.891684	0.891684	Mayhem over fuel price hikes 14 Jan 2019 at 15:06hrs \| Views MOTORISTS, economists, opposition parties and the commuting public yesterday reacted angrily to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's move to hike fuel prices by 150%, which triggered a wave of price increases on almost all commodities and services, further plunging the populace into poverty. There was chaos in most towns and cities around the country as commuters woke up to astronomically high fares following the price increases announced by Mnangagwa on Saturday night. The increases saw the price of diesel jumping from $1,26 to $3,11 a litre, while petrol now sells at $3,31 up from $1,34 per litre. Renowned economist John Robertson said although the fuel price increase made economic sense, it would bring about some undesired consequences such as increasing the cost of living and pushing up inflation by between 40% and 50%. "There will be steep increases in other costs. Increasing prices of fuel was the right thing to do. We had a wrong exchange rate. Fuel was too cheap and people from other countries were refuelling in Zimbabwe," Robertson said. "This was necessary. Unfortunately, (it) has side effects. This will trigger wage demands, inflation 40% and 50% before long. The companies are not making money already and they will close down. This will lead to serious job losses." He said government's 1:1 exchange rate between the United States dollar and the local surrogate currency, the bond note, was unrealistic. "They want to run the exchange rate as a privilege to other people. This is fuelling corruption," he said. Another economist Emmanuel Mugadza said the increase was a subtle admission by Mnangagwa that the local currency had failed to match the US$, although the Zanu-PF leader cannot openly say so. "This is a step in the right direction, but painful because the rising costs are not corresponding with income. The fuel hike will trigger price increases and ordinary Zimbabweans will suffer," he said. Mugadza said Zimbabwe needed a long-term solution to the fuel crisis, challenging Mnangagwa to move fast in ensuring the country revamps its exports to generate more foreign currency for the economy to be stable. Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) president Sifelani Jabangwe said the hike in fuel prices was a long overdue move that would, however, be painful. "After three years and not a price increase, with the distortions in the market, it was more necessary, but will be painful," Jabangwe said. "Things could have become worse without the increase. Right now, we will enter into discussions or we can go into other costs, including compensation of labour." Most motorists who spoke to NewsDay expressed dismay that the prices would push up other costs. "I have been in the queue since Thursday and was hoping to get fuel today, only to be told the prices have increased. That is insensitive. I now need about $200 to fill up my tank when in the past I needed $80," one angry motorist who refused to be named said. "The percentage increase is just too high. We cannot afford it." Another motorist who only identified himself as Patrick said: "They hiked the prices and yet there is no fuel. I think they created a worse situation to justify increasing the prices, as if the new 2% tax they levied us is not enough." Most commuters said they would not be able to report to work in the wake of new fares today. They said it was mid-month and it was tough to adjust their budgets. Civil servants, who are negotiating for salary increases, have threatened to down tools, claiming they were now incapacitated to go to work. They have rejected a 10% salary hike offer by government. "We won't manage the new fares. Some will go to work on foot, or even sleep at work and go home on Fridays for the weekend. The situation is tough," Cecilia, who works as a shop attendant in the capital's central business district, said. The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC said Mnangagwa's fuel price hike was shocking and misguided. "That the fuel increase will only trigger a wave of price hikes on each and every other item on the shelves is as obvious as the incapacity of Zanu-PF to govern and lead a prosperous Zimbabwe," the opposition party spokesperson Jacob Mafume said. "Instead of accepting its gross failure to turn the economy around, the cartel now basks in the pretence of 'mega deals' in curious corners of the forgotten world such as Uzbekistan, Khazakistan, and other places you may never have heard of. "The Zimbabwean commuter will, starting Sunday (yesterday), fill the pinch of this administration's hopelessness, while Mnangagwa and his scarfed henchmen will be comfortably flying Swiss jets." Mnangagwa was expected to leave last night on an official visit to five Asian and European countries. Obert Gutu, deputy president of the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T, said the increase in the prices of fuel would have a ripple effect across all facets of the economy. "People will have to fork out more money for transport as it is inevitable that kombi and bus fares will rise at least threefold," Gutu said. "Wages and salaries for the few people who are still lucky enough to be in formal employment are still very low compared to the skyrocketing prices of basic goods and services such that there is a complete and total disconnect between people's earnings and their expenditure." Added Gutu: "The hike in the price of fuel will trigger a highly inflationary impact on the prices of basic foodstuffs such as bread, mealie-meal and cooking oil since producers and traders will be paying more for their fuel requirements. "The national economy is in a total mess and now is the time for all concerned Zimbabwean patriots to put our heads together and chart a united way forward as we seek to navigate the treacherous socio-economic terrain. It cannot continue to be business as usual going forward." In Karoi yesterday, farmers who battled for too long to secure fuel suffered double trouble following fuel price hikes. "Service stations say they do not have fuel besides the hike announced by President. This is unbelievable for us as rains are now upon us, but fuel remains a big challenge," a farmer, Dennis Maramba, said. "As it stands, the cash crisis hampered our operations and this hike will affect our projections as we are getting out of budget due to government's lack of better planning." In Gweru, there was chaos at the long-distance bus terminus, Kudzanayi yesterday morning after travellers en-route to Mutare from Kwekwe were introduced to new fares before arriving at their destination. The travellers, who were boarding a local bus, had initially been charged $20 on departure from Mbizo shopping centre in Kwekwe at around 4am. However, upon arrival in Gweru, the bus operator raised the fare to $45 after receiving information of the fuel price hikes. Hordes of commuters in the Midlands capital yesterday walked to the city as they woke up to increased fares as a result of a hike in fuel prices. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, the MDC as well as teachers have threatened mass protests today over the hikes and the deteriorating economic situation in the country. Civic group Tajamuka/Sesijikile's spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi said they would mobilise motorists on fuel queues for a mass action against Mnangagwa's administration. "We will deploy in all places, fuel and bank queues, to mobilise people for action against Mnangagwa. We will roll out the programme tomorrow (today), he said. 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__label__cc	0.732107	0.267893	November 13, 2019 November 15, 2019 Cinema Perspective When the novels of Stephen King are made for the big screen, the reactions are often mixed, even from the author himself. It’s been well publicised that he didn’t like Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying take on horror classic The Shining, so the pressure was always going to be high on whoever would adapt the long-awaited sequel. Taking on the challenge is writer and director Mike Flanagan, basing his continuation of the story on King’s 2013 book, but also as a direct follow-up to the original film. Doctor Sleep follows a now grown-up Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) several decades after the traumatic events at the Overlook hotel as he encounters Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a young girl with similar ‘powers’, and must protect her and himself from a deadly cult known as The True Knot. As one would expect, there are strong elements of reflection as the protagonist struggles to escape the darkness of his past, but the script is refreshingly forward-thinking in its expansion of the predecessor’s concept. A chilling atmosphere is established as the camera mimics the movements of Kubrick, but Flanagan refuses to rest on nostalgic laurels. As Danny learns to come to terms with his otherworldly condition, the various subplots take shape and the strands are skilfully interwoven into a rich narrative of psychological tension. Developing from a scruffy alcoholic into a comforting caregiver, Ewan McGregor gives a rounded depiction of Danny Torrance and his deep-set complexities. His expressive portrayal brings warmth to the tortured soul, and his believable on-screen bonds with the supporting cast allow the plot to grow organically. Curran shines in a breakthrough performance beyond her years, showcasing her potential as the courageous Abra who enjoys a meeting of minds with the villains of the piece. Breaking the tradition of predominantly having male antagonists in the genre, the powerful leader of The True Knot gang is the devious Rose the Hat, played brilliantly by Rebecca Ferguson who immerses herself into the madcap menace. It might be haunted by its iconic origins, but Doctor Sleep pedals down freshly carpeted corridors of Stephen King terror. Flanagan presents a gripping study of Danny Torrance’s psychic abilities but the filmmaker himself pulls off the biggest trick of them all in the way he handles the material; paying homage to the old whilst breathing life into the new. Published by Cinema Perspective View all posts by Cinema Perspective doctor sleep ewan mcgregor mike flanagan rebecca ferguson stephen king Previous Post Film review: Le Mans ’66 Next Post Muscle Interview: Gerard Johnson – ‘There’s a swingers party sequence and my director’s cut is a little more graphic.’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line955
__label__cc	0.678247	0.321753	Bitcoin Exchange QuadrigaCX to Install Bitcoin ATMs in Canada’s Major Cities QuadrigaCX, the current largest bitcoin exchange in Canada has announced their plans to install two-way bitcoin ATMs developed by BitXatm in major cities throughout Canada, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The company has completed an extensive research on all BTM (bitcoin ATMs) manufacturers in Canada. The CEO of QuadrigaCX, Gerald Cotton, stated: “We’ve done our research. We know the owners of every major bitcoin ATM company. We have used many of them and spoken to previous owners. We have conducted extensive due diligence and feel as though our track record with regard to bitcoin ATM distribution across Canada will allow us to continue to provide a superior service.” Mr. Cotten said that the BTMs of BitXatm are the most efficient, reliable and user-friendly bitcoin ATMs currently available on the market. He also highlighted the significance of the 17-inch touch screen and the multiple-layered security system of the machine. Apart from the advantages in the user interface, the bitcoin ATM of BitXatm accepts payments in any cryptocurrency and any fiat currency. Since the BTMs will be installed in the centers of major cities, tourists will greatly benefit from these features, as they wouldn’t need to convert cash to Canadian dollars before purchasing the bitcoin through the BTMs. The Failure of Cavirtex and the Solution of QuadrigaCX QuadrigaCX clearly states that over-complicated bitcoin ATMs with unnecessary features are irrelevant, and explains that this was one of the major factors in the failure and the inevitable bankruptcy of the country’s former largest bitcoin exchange, Cavirtex. Cavitex, the largest bitcoin exchange in 2014, attempted the same project with a different approach. The bitcoin exchange partnered with BitAccess to install paper-wallet generating and multicurrency BTMs in popular tourist spots in Canada, such as Niagara Falls. They also partnered with Gateway Newstands to install the BTMs in franchise stores. However, the BTMs of BitAccess were removed after a few months, and the BTMs were all sold at a substantially low value. According to Cotton, QuadrigaCX understands the reasons and the factors that led Cavirtex to fail, and they know exactly how to maintain the services of BTMs in major cities of Canada in the future. QuadrigaCX, the world’s first publicly traded exchange, has plans to install the BTMs of BitXatm in batches of five in major cities in Canada to first test the machines’ operations and efficiency. Did you enjoy this article? You may also be interested in reading these ones: QuadrigaCX to Become World's First Publicly Traded Bitcoin Exchange Anycoin Direct Makes Bitcoin Available All Over Europe in Under 5 Minutes Bit-Curious? Bank of Canada Flirts with Bitcoin despite ‘New Risks’ to Status Quo #ATM #QuadrigaCX #BitXatm XRP, Libra and Visa to Fight It Out for Cross-Border Remittance Crown Bitcoin Price Ready to Push Above Key Resistance to Hit $10,000 Bitcoin Bull Market Gains Steam, Breaks $9K for the First Time in 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line957
__label__wiki	0.769975	0.769975	Piazza Navona - Colosseum Rome Tickets Home » Rome Attractions » Piazza Navona No other Roman piazza can rival the spectacular Piazza Navona, beloved by both Romans and visitors. The Baroque ensemble of Piazza Navona is always full of life, a moving stage for musicians, magicians, fast portrait artists and souvenir vendors. It has lots of kitsch, drama and a touch of carnival at mosphere, but sometimes also serves as a beautiful scene for concerts or a place for demonstrations. Piazza Navona, at early morning still empty with beautiful lightg. The irresistible chocolate truffle ice cream, tartuffo, from Caffe Tre Scalini is legendary, and film buffs take their aperitifs a few steps further on in La Dolce Vita, surrounded by photos from Fellini’s cult film of the same name. Autumn at Piazza Navona. Rome, Italy. Piazza Navona is one of the most important examples of continuity between ancient and modern Rome, and a fine example of urban design. Its elongated rectangular form, with one of the shorter sides curved, exactly repeats the design of the Stadium of Domitian. This was constructed in about 86 AD for the Greek athletic competitions. Measuring 275 metres long by over 10 in width, it had two tiers of seating which held up to three thousand spectators. Stadium of Domitian is approximated to have actually been amongst the biggest stadium known from Classical times, with a capability of about 30,000 viewers. When the Roman Colosseum was damaged by fire under rule of Macrinus in A.D. 217, the stadium temporarily organized gladiatorial battles. Shops and buildings now occupy the spaces where tiers of stone bleachers once stood. The name of Piazza Navona, is derived from the athletic games, the ‘Agoni Capitolini’ held here after the stadium was inaugurated in AD 86. In the Middle Ages the piazza was called the ‘Campus Agonis’; hence ‘agone’, ‘n’agona’, and ‘navona’. Festivals, jousts, and open-air sports took place here, and it was also used as a market place from 1477 until 1869. In the Baroque period, the square was adorned with magnificent palaces and churches by Borromini, to which Bernini’s imaginative water feature was added. Stadium of Domitian. 90 A.D and now Stadium Entrance – Google Street View Ruins – Stadium of Domitian under Navona Piazza Navona Underground Tour with Audio Guide from €8.50 EUR Validity: 1 Day Piazza Navona: Fountain of the Four Rivers Bernini had actually not even been approved to take part in the competition for the Fountain of the Four Rivers. Nevertheless, he produced a design which the sister-in-law of Innocent X placed where the pope could not avoid seeing it. Italy, Rome Piazza Navona, the fountain of four rivers designed by G.L.Bernini. He was so impressed that the commission was awarded to Bernini, who designed a masterly moving waterscape between 1647 and 1651. Cliffs rise from a large basin and support an obelisk surrounded by animals and plants. Personifications of the Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio de la Plata – the rivers then regarded as the largest on the four known continents – are seated on the four corners, accompanied by the flora and fauna of their continents. Gaspar van Wittel – Piazza Navona, Rome 1699. Photo Credit: Museo Thyssen. Panoramic View of Piazza Navona. The iconic square is one of the most visited landmarks in the world and a top tourism destination in Italy. The fact that the Nile has his head covered is probably a reference to the fact that its source was not yet known. Malicious observers – mindful of the fierce and not always dignified competition between the two star architects Bernini and Borromini. Fontana del Moro (Moor Fountain) The third of Piazza Navona’s fountains, at the piazza’s southern end, the ‘Moor Fountain’ is the work of Giacomo della Porta (1575). The central figure of the so- called Moor (actually a marine divinity) grappling with a dolphin was added by Antonio Mori, from a design by Bernini. The encircling tritons are 19th-century copies of 16th-century originals. Fontana del Moro (the Moor Fountain) Northward view of the Piazza Navona with the Fontana del Moro (the Moor Fountain) and the Sant’Agnese in Agone church at dusk – Rome, Italy Tourists crowd around the The baroque Fontana del Moro or Moor Fountain. Piazza Navona: Via del Corso At some point, every shopping trip in Rome ends up in the magic triangle between Piazza di Spagna, Piazza del Popolo and Via del Corso, where most of the famous shopping streets of the city are located. A huge antique book market has taken over the pedestrian subway between Largo Chigi and Piazza Colonna – browsers can find rarities going back to the 19th century. Casa di Goethe After a long period of neglect, the Roman address of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Via del Corso 18, is open once again. In 1786 the poet stayed in the house of his friend Heinrich Tischbein, where visitors can now learn about Goethe’s happy days in Rome Opening hours: Wed-Mon 10am-6pm, tel. 06 32 65 04 12, www.casadigoethe.it). Andy Warhol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walking from Colosseum: Piazza Navona set in the center of Rome, 2,1 km from (21 min walk) from Colosseum. Coin Image – Description: The stadium of Domitian on a coin minted by Septimius Severus in 202-202 AD to commemorate the return of the emperor and his son Caracalla as well as the latter’s marriage to Plautilla. Games to celebrate the marriage were held in the stadium. British Museum, London. 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__label__cc	0.605062	0.394938	Combination Chemotherapy With or Without PSC 833, Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation, and/or Interleukin-2 in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia First Posted : January 27, 2003 Last Update Posted : June 4, 2013 Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PSC 833 may increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy by making cancer cells more sensitive to the drugs. Combining chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. Interleukin-2 may stimulate a person's white blood cells to kill cancer cells. This randomized phase III trial is studying giving combination chemotherapy together with PSC 833 followed by a peripheral stem cell transplant with or without interleukin-2 to see how well it works compared to combination chemotherapy alone followed by a peripheral stem cell transplant with or without interleukin-2 in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Adult Acute Basophilic Leukemia Adult Acute Eosinophilic Leukemia Adult Acute Erythroid Leukemia (M6) Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7) Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia and Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5) Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22) Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Childhood Acute Basophilic Leukemia Childhood Acute Eosinophilic Leukemia Childhood Acute Erythroleukemia (M6) Childhood Acute Megakaryocytic Leukemia (M7) Childhood Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Childhood Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Childhood Acute Monoblastic Leukemia and Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5) Childhood Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Childhood Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Childhood Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Childhood Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Childhood Myelodysplastic Syndromes de Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes Untreated Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia Untreated Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Other Myeloid Malignancies Drug: cytarabine Drug: daunorubicin hydrochloride Drug: etoposide Drug: valspodar Biological: filgrastim Drug: busulfan Procedure: autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Biological: aldesleukin Other: clinical observation Other: pharmacological study Phase 3 Show detailed description Hide detailed description PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine whether the addition of PSC-833 (valspodar) to induction chemotherapy improves disease-free survival and overall survival for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) < 60 years. II. To determine whether post-consolidation immunotherapy with low-dose continuous/intermittent high-dose bolus subcutaneous recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) (aldesleukin) improves disease-free survival and overall survival in patients with AML < 60 years in first complete remission (CR). SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To continue to evaluate the effectiveness of three courses of high-dose ARA-C (HiDAC) (cytarabine) as curative consolidation chemotherapy in patients with core binding factor (CBF) leukemias. II. To continue to establish the use of intensive post-remission chemotherapy with PSCT or a novel intensification sequence consisting of HiDAC/high-dose etoposide/G-CSF (filgrastim) followed by two cycles of HiDAC in patients in CR with unfavorable cytogenetics. III. To correlate the rate of relapse and toxicity with busulfan pharmacokinetics when busulfan and etoposide are used prior to autologous stem cell transplantation for AML patients in first CR. OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. INDUCTION THERAPY: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. ARM I: Patients receive cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-7 and daunorubicin IV over 5-10 minutes followed by etoposide IV over 2 hours on days 1-3. Patients with 20% or greater bone marrow cellularity and greater than 5% leukemia blasts at the end of the first course receive a second course of cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-5 and daunorubicin IV over 5-10 minutes followed by etoposide IV over 2 hours on days 1 and 2. ARM II: Patients receive PSC 833 IV continuously on days 1-3 and cytarabine, daunorubicin, and etoposide as in arm I. Patients with 20% or greater bone marrow cellularity and greater than 5% leukemia blasts at the end of the first course receive a second course of PSC 833 IV continuously on days 1 and 2 and cytarabine, daunorubicin, and etoposide as in arm I. INTENSIFICATION THERAPY: Patients in complete remission receive intensification therapy. Therapy begins no earlier than 2 weeks and no later than 4 weeks after complete remission is attained. Patients are stratified according to cytogenetics (favorable [t(8;21)(q22;q22) or inv(16)(p13;q22) or t(16;16)(p13;q22)] vs unfavorable [all other karyotypes]). FAVORABLE: Patients receive high-dose cytarabine (HiDAC) IV over 3 hours every 12 hours on days 1, 3, and 5. Treatment repeats no earlier than 28 days after the prior course and no later than 14 days after hematopoietic recovery for two more courses. UNFAVORABLE: Patients are further divided into two groups based on ability to receive peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) (yes vs no). PBSCT GROUP: Patients receive etoposide IV continuously and HiDAC IV over 2 hours every 12 hours on days 1-4. Patients also receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) daily beginning on day 14 and continuing until peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection is completed. Patients who are not able to undergo PBSCT after HiDAC/etoposide continue treatment in the non-PBSCT group. At least 4 weeks after HiDAC/etoposide recovery, patients receive oral busulfan every 6 hours on days -7 to -4 and etoposide IV over 4 hours on day -3 prior to PBSCT. Patients receive autologous PBSC infusion on day 0. Patients also receive G-CSF SC beginning on day 0 and continuing until hematopoietic recovery. NON-PBSCT GROUP: Patients receive etoposide, HiDAC, and G-CSF as in the PBSCT group. After hematopoietic recovery, patients then receive HiDAC IV over 3 hours every 12 hours on days 1, 3, and 5. Treatment repeats no earlier than 28 days after prior course and no later than 14 days after hematopoietic recovery for one more course. IMMUNOTHERAPY: Patients are again randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. ARM I: Patients begin therapy no later than 120 days after the first day of the last course of HiDAC treatment OR day 0 of PBSCT. Patients receive low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) SC on days 1-14, 19-28, 33-42, 47-56, 61-70, and 75-90. In addition, patients receive high-dose IL-2 SC on days 15-17, 29-31, 43-45, 57-59, and 71-73. ARM II: Patients are observed and receive no further therapy. Patients are followed at 1 month, every 2 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually for 6 years. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 720 patients will be accrued for this study within 4 years. Official Title: Phase III Randomized Study of Induction Chemotherapy With or Without MDR-Modulation With PSC-833 (NSC # 648265, IND # 41121) Followed by Cytogenetic Risk-Adapted Intensification Therapy Followed by Immunotherapy With rIL-2 (NSC # 373364, IND # 1969) vs. Observation in Previously Untreated Patients With AML < 60 Years Study Start Date : November 2000 Actual Primary Completion Date : June 2005 Genetics Home Reference related topics: Core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia Cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia Familial acute myeloid leukemia with mutated CEBPA MedlinePlus related topics: Leukemia Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Myeloid Leukemia Acute Myeloid Leukemia Acute Non Lymphoblastic Leukemia Myelodysplastic Syndromes Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia Acute Erythroid Leukemia Di Guglielmo's Syndrome Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia Acute Monoblastic Leukemia Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative Disease Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders Experimental: Induction Arm I Patients receive cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-7 and daunorubicin IV over 5-10 minutes followed by etoposide IV over 2 hours on days 1-3. Patients with 20% or greater bone marrow cellularity and greater than 5% leukemia blasts at the end of the first course receive a second course of cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-5 and daunorubicin IV over 5-10 minutes followed by etoposide IV over 2 hours on days 1 and 2. Drug: cytarabine Given IV ARA-C arabinofuranosylcytosine arabinosylcytosine Cytosar-U cytosine arabinoside Drug: daunorubicin hydrochloride Cerubidin Cerubidine daunomycin hydrochloride daunorubicin Drug: etoposide EPEG VP-16 VP-16-213 Other: pharmacological study Correlative studies Other Name: pharmacological studies Experimental: Induction Arm II Patients receive PSC 833 IV continuously on days 1-3 and cytarabine, daunorubicin, and etoposide as in arm I. Patients with 20% or greater bone marrow cellularity and greater than 5% leukemia blasts at the end of the first course receive a second course of PSC 833 IV continuously on days 1 and 2 and cytarabine, daunorubicin, and etoposide as in arm I. Drug: valspodar Amdray Experimental: Intensification Favorable Patients receive HiDAC IV over 3 hours every 12 hours on days 1, 3, and 5. Treatment repeats no earlier than 28 days after the prior course and no later than 14 days after hematopoietic recovery for two more courses. Experimental: Intensification Unfavorable PBSCT Group Patients receive etoposide IV continuously and HiDAC IV over 2 hours every 12 hours on days 1-4. Patients also receive G-CSF SC daily beginning on day 14 and continuing until PBSC collection is completed. Patients who are not able to undergo PBSCT after HiDAC/etoposide continue treatment in the non-PBSCT group. At least 4 weeks after HiDAC/etoposide recovery, patients receive oral busulfan every 6 hours on days -7 to -4 and etoposide IV over 4 hours on day -3 prior to PBSCT. Patients receive autologous PBSC infusion on day 0. Patients also receive G-CSF SC beginning on day 0 and continuing until hematopoietic recovery. Biological: filgrastim Given SC Neupogen Drug: busulfan Given orally Misulfan Mitosan Myeloleukon Procedure: autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Undergo autologous PBSCT Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation PBPC transplantation PBSC transplantation peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell Experimental: Intensification Unfavorable Non-PBSCT Group Patients receive etoposide, HiDAC, and G-CSF as in the PBSCT group. After hematopoietic recovery, patients then receive HiDAC IV over 3 hours every 12 hours on days 1, 3, and 5. Treatment repeats no earlier than 28 days after prior course and no later than 14 days after hematopoietic recovery for one more course. Experimental: Immunotherapy Arm I Patients begin therapy no later than 120 days after the first day of the last course of HiDAC treatment OR day 0 of PBSCT. Patients receive low-dose IL-2 SC on days 1-14, 19-28, 33-42, 47-56, 61-70, and 75-90. In addition, patients receive high-dose IL-2 SC on days 15-17, 29-31, 43-45, 57-59, and 71-73. Biological: aldesleukin IL-2 Proleukin recombinant human interleukin-2 recombinant interleukin-2 Active Comparator: Immunotherapy Arm II Patients are observed and receive no further therapy. Other: clinical observation Undergo clinical observation Other Name: observation Disease-free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ] An unstratified logrank test for the induction treatment comparison and a stratified logrank test for the post-remission treatment comparison will be the primary statistical methods used for treatment comparisons. Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ] Estimates of disease-free survival curves [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ] Estimates of overall survival curves [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ] Toxicities and adverse events assessed using National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC) [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ] Will be tabulated. Ages Eligible for Study: 15 Years to 59 Years (Child, Adult) Unequivocal histologic diagnosis of AML (> 20% blasts in the bone marrow based on the World Health Organization [WHO] and/or French-American-British Cooperative group [FAB] classifications), excluding M3 (acute promyelocytic leukemia); patients with antecedent myelodysplasia are eligible for treatment on this trial only if there was no bone marrow biopsy showing myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) > 3 months prior to enrollment; patients with therapy-related MDS or therapy-related AML or a chronic myeloproliferative disorder are not eligible No prior treatment for leukemia or myelodysplasia with four permissible exceptions: Emergency leukapheresis Emergency treatment for hyperleukocytosis with hydroxyurea Cranial radiation therapy (RT) for central nervous system (CNS) leukostasis (one dose only) Growth factor/cytokine support United States, Illinois Cancer and Leukemia Group B Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60606 Principal Investigator: Jonathan Kolitz Cancer and Leukemia Group B Kolitz JE, George SL, Marcucci G, Vij R, Powell BL, Allen SL, DeAngelo DJ, Shea TC, Stock W, Baer MR, Hars V, Maharry K, Hoke E, Vardiman JW, Bloomfield CD, Larson RA; Cancer and Leukemia Group B. P-glycoprotein inhibition using valspodar (PSC-833) does not improve outcomes for patients younger than age 60 years with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia: Cancer and Leukemia Group B study 19808. Blood. 2010 Sep 2;116(9):1413-21. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-07-229492. Epub 2010 Jun 3. Responsible Party: National Cancer Institute (NCI) Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2012-02824 CALGB-19808 U10CA031946 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) First Posted: January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates Last Update Posted: June 4, 2013 Last Verified: June 2013 Leukemia, Myeloid Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Preleukemia Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute Leukemia, Basophilic, Acute Leukemia, Eosinophilic, Acute Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Neoplasms by Histologic Type Bone Marrow Diseases Hematologic Diseases Precancerous Conditions Myelodysplastic-Myeloproliferative Diseases Leukocyte Disorders Myeloproliferative Disorders Aldesleukin Etoposide phosphate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line963
__label__wiki	0.629114	0.629114	Smart Sports Analysis Corner Three NBA WAR 2018-2019 NBA TSP 2018-2019 Breaking Down the James Rodriguez Transfer July 22, 2014 February 6, 2019 by RJ Garcia, posted in Champions League, FIFA World Cup, Soccer It is almost certain now that James Rodriguez will be moving from Monaco to Los Blancos, for 60 million pounds, to become the 5th most expensive player of all time, trailing only his teammates Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, and his rivals at Barcelona, Luis Suarez and Neymar. Like both Bale and Neymar, a lot of his value is in his youth and the idea that he may not yet have reached his full potential at the ripe age of 23. Now that the transfer is a done deal, it is time to analyze the ramifications of the transfer for Real Madrid and to attempt to decide if James is money well spent, or a big mistake for Real Madrid. The reason that James Rodriguez is now a top 5 transfer of all time is because of his play in the World Cup. Comparing James’ performance at the World Cup to those of his teammates at Real Madrid who play a similar attacking midfield position, it is clear that he was the best. On a per-minute-played basis, he was the best player at his position for Real Madrid in all of the key Squawka attacking categories, and at WhoScored, he had the 2nd-best overall rating in the tournament, trailing only Lionel Messi – who of course won the Golden Boot, scoring the most goals in the tournament. While his play was especially inspired during these five games, the problem with paying 60 million pounds for a player after a great World Cup run is that he did only play five games. Five games is a remarkably small sample size, and there are many players who have put together phenomenal five-game runs that will not be purchased for anywhere near 60 million pounds. When you dive into James’ World Cup stats a little closer, you find something a little more troubling. Looking at Squawka’s game ratings, while James put up a phenomenal game rating of 106.27 against Japan, in the two games against his toughest competition, Ivory Coast and Brazil, he had game ratings of just 13.11 and 17.42. While those aren’t terrible games by any stretch of the imagination, they are not what you would expect from a player of that expense. A more predictive way to look at how James Rodriguez will do on Real Madrid is by looking at his stats from last season on Monaco. When you compare the same attacking stats that James dominated at the World Cup against his Real Madrid teammates, to what he did in the regular season in those stats, he does not seem to stand out. His attacking ability looks strikingly similar to Angel Di Maria, and his overall score isn’t as good as Luka Modric’s. On a per minute basis, though, the star of the group is Isco, a player who plays the same number ten position that James will likely play for Real Madrid and is even younger than James with potentially more room to grow. On WhoScored, his yearly rating for Monaco was a 7.41, a strong rating that was good for the 3rd best on his club team. However, Angel Di Maria had a higher rating that James and Isco were just behind at 7.39. The reason that the comparision between Isco, Di Maria and James is important is because it is believed that Di Maria is as good as gone for Real Madrid, with him heading to PSG, and Isco is potentially the next man to get the boot from Madrid (to make room for the large James transfer) with Real Madrid losing a key starter to their Champions League Champion squad last year, and their most promising prospect, who was still playing at a high level in his own right. Comparing this transfer to Madrid’s great move for Toni Kroos for less than 20 million pounds, the transfer for James Rodriguez has much better chance to be a big bust for Los Blancos. If he continues his five great games at the World Cup at Real Madrid, then he will be undoubtedly worth the money. However, if the more likely scenario occurs and he plays more toward his form at Monaco, then Real Madrid might regret purchasing him, and losing Di Maria (and potentially Isco) as well. by Robert Garcia, Northwestern University Tagged Angel Di Maria, Argentina, Barcelona, Bayern, Brazil, Colombia, Cristiano Ronaldo, Croatia, Gareth Bale, Germany, Isco, Ivory Coast, James Rodriguez, Japan, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Luka Modric, Monaco, Real Madrid, Toni Kroos Previous postThe Statistical Impact of Neymar and Thiago Silva’s Absence Next postThe Batting Order: Where Managers Cost Their Teams Wins FIBA Basketball Follow Corner Three via Email Follow Corner Three on Twitter Like Corner Three on Facebook! 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__label__cc	0.621761	0.378239	Introducing the Cafe Racer Artist Tickets! About six months ago, on May 30, 2012, the Seattle artistic community was dealt a massive blow. A lone gunman, Ian Stawicki, walked into the University District artist haven Cafe Racer and opened fire, killing two prominent members of the Seattle music scene, Drew Kariakedes and Joseph Albanese (known to most by their stage names Shmootzi the Clod and Meshuguna Joe) as well as Donald Largen and Kimberly Layfield. An employee of the Cafe, Leonard Meuse, was also shot but, miraculously, survived. The shooter then shot and killed Gloria Leonidas, a mother of two, in the Downtown/First Hill neighborhood about 30 minutes later, while stealing her SUV. He then drove the stolen vehicle to West Seattle where he killed himself in front of Seattle Police officers. It was a day of terror and tragedy that many of us in Seattle will never forget. Drew and Joe were good friends of mine as our bands had played together often over the last 15 years. In fact, the last show that their band, God’s Favorite Beefcake had played, had been with my band The Bad Things, the Saturday before the shootings. The loss of these incredible musical talents cast a dark shadow over our tight-knit musical community and six months later, their absence is still felt every day. The shooting struck a chord with Brown Paper Tickets as well. I had first heard of Brown Paper Tickets from Drew and Joe’s previous project, the Circus Contraption and everyone here felt a strong kinship with the folks in the Circus, who had used Brown Paper Tickets when the company was just starting out. Many others in the company had known Drew and Joe, had spent time at the Racer or seen God’s Favorite Beefcake, so this tragedy was something we all felt deeply passionate about. Tags: Artist Ticket program, Baby Gramps, Brown Paper Tickets, Cafe Racer, Circus Contraption, Donald Largen, Drew Kariakedes, Ellen Forney, Gloria Leonidas, God's Favorite Beefcake, Jim Woodring, Joseph Albanese, Kimberly Layfield, Leonard Meuse, Lonesome Shack, Queen Shmooquan, Sylvia O'Stayformore, The Bad Things, Victims of the Cafe Racer Shooting Memorial Fund.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line985
__label__cc	0.71221	0.28779	chemical22 chemical22 reacted to Thernand in Who's Playing Talisman this Weekend? March 27, 2015 chemical22 reacted to talismanisland in Amending cards to reduce "killer combos" March 16, 2015 To be honest, my main focus was to tackle the more dreary cards, rather than the overpowered stuff. When I had a look around though I saw that people had various issues with the City and decided to see what could be done to help, rather than see cards being consigned to the box. I've had my eye on streamlining Dragon too for a while. chemical22 got a reaction from Uvatha in Amending cards to reduce "killer combos" March 15, 2015 I guess I have a bit of a different view on things. Other than the dragon expansion, because it is just way too fiddly, we play with all cards and all rules as provided. I kind of see it like this... 1. All players begin with equal footing. Everyone has a chance to draw a better character or get to a good item first. 2. If a player gets, lets say, the alchemist or assassin - then we instantly know he's going to be a target for the game 3. If a character is pushing to get a flail, well, we go after them or prepare ourselves for it I understand the frusterations of some over-powered cards, but I find if I think in these terms, that the game kind of works itself out. Ultimately, if a player gets very lucky and very stacked in a game - there is always next game for revenge. chemical22 reacted to The_Warlock in Dark Fate Clarification March 6, 2015 I don't think the equations dark fate = evil and light fate = good reflect the nature of the 2 types of fate. They are not something related to alignment, but a way to influence destiny. In the same fashion as Light and Dark Destiny cards, "light" is about self-improvement and personal achievements, while "dark" encourages manipulation of others. Being evil should not prevent you from being selfish and to care for your own good, and being good doesn't imply you won't ever try to influence others if it suits your cause. Even though your house rule might work in game terms, I don't think it's thematically fit for Talisman light and dark fate. It's just my opinion, of course. chemical22 got a reaction from Kamehameornah in Our Storage Solution January 27, 2015 Soon we will have to build wall installations to house all the expansions chemical22 reacted to DomaGB in Future Expansions January 20, 2015 Expansion cards are easily marked, its not a problem to remove them, It may be tiresome to keep doing it. Some people like to change what they play. I like both and want both. New stuff and more of the old stuff. Bring it on! chemical22 reacted to The_Warlock in Future Expansions January 19, 2015 Even though I don't share your idea that more basic content is needed instead of new mechanics and alternative decks, I concur that the complexity of Talisman 4th edition is reaching a level that was never touched by previous versions. FFG is making considerable efforts to improve the quality and complexity of design, instead of revising old-time favourites like they did at the beginning. After the first wrong step with Dragon, they took another pace with Blood Moon and continued throughout City, Firelands, Nether Realm, Woodland and the upcoming Deep Realms. A fantasy world is being created for us to play with, and is varied and complex like any real world. This is a world of options to choose from, not a Leviathan meant to overwhelm you, unless you allow him to do it. I personally think we have a wide choice for these categories. They are infinitely expandable, but you don't need to reach infinity to experience dilution problems. The more I would get of these ones, the happier will I be; but do I need them more than new mechanics and choices to make? Wait, choices? Wasn't Talisman a mindless roll-and-move beer and pretzels luckfest easy to learn and suitable for parties? If you have few occasions to gather friends around a gaming table, as I do, then the worst idea would be to set up an epic game with too many options and mechanics to learn. I did this mistake during the last holidays, trying to impress people that play Talisman once or twice in a year with a 4-corner full board. I succeeded indeed, but in giving a negative impression of the game. My friends didn't know the options and advantages of all the stuff they had before their eyes, so they either played carelessly or with extreme caution, and had a bad experience in both cases. On the contrary I had a good time and a nice game, regardless of the 2 characters that I lost mid-game. If you feel that too much is too much, start chopping the huge beast. Play with only some of the expansions, enjoy them one at a time if needed (except Firelands, unless you want a really challenging game). Use what you can handle, depending on the experience and number of players. I sincerely wish to see a "Miskatonic Horror-style" expansion for Talisman, i.e. an expansion that "builds up" all released material, but that would be the LAST expansion for this edition. I don't want to see it tomorrow, because I hope there's still room for a Sea Expansion, a Timescape revised, an expansion that rebalances Spell abuse a bit (I would call it "The Inquisition", with the inquisitors being mage-hunters), and who knows what else. chemical22 reacted to Rigmaster in Future Expansions January 16, 2015 Many of us I guess. I do do for sure. I think we've enough different game mechanics already. And our gaming group seems to have more and more problem getting together for a game the older we get, so all my friends haven't even tried woodlands yet. I would love to see base game expansions. Or expansions for the other big expansions. The adventure deck is quite large as it is but some new cards for the dungeon, city and/or highland would be awesome indeed. chemical22 got a reaction from DomaGB in I found these really cool Talisman accessories on Kickstarter! December 2, 2014 It's tempted me, but: 1. Too pricey 2. As mentioned, the character card is impractical. Hides player cards and would not have nearly enough room for all the non-object cards you can get now for characters during the course of play. Also, does not support light and dark fate properly. Nice craftsmanship though from what I can see. chemical22 reacted to The_Warlock in The Gremlin October 20, 2014 I was only pointing out that the link on the word "Object" leads to another wiki page where the following words are written: Both Objects and Magic Objects are classed as Objects. During the game, characters usually acquire Objects as the result of encounters. This can be found on the Talisman rulebook, page 12, so it's an official rule of Revised 4th edition. chemical22 got a reaction from Hunter Smith in Questions about "Roc" enemy, "Toadify!" spell and "Alchemist" character August 11, 2014 I've never thought this through very well, but now that I have read through this, I think I may be implementing a house "sportsmanship" rule in order to create a clear rule. 1. Player initiates action. 2. Opponent is allowed a response. 3. Player is allowed to augment or respond. Repeat. In this situation, the player initiates by casting Toadify and could not play the Lucky Charm until his opponent had an opportunity to respond to that action. The initiating player could then apply the lucky charm after his opponent chose to do nothing at all or cast misfortune. This might limit "combos", but it seems like a sure way to keep everyone happy and offers a better process to the turn sequence. Thoughts from the experts? chemical22 reacted to Buckarooo in Newbie: Combat involving multiple creatures June 11, 2014 chemical22 Thanks very much for the explanation. Makes complete sense with the encounter numbers. chemical22 got a reaction from 0beron in Timescape June 9, 2014 I remember having this feeling when Timescape was originally released - even then it felt out of place to me. I have memories of playing Talisman prior to Timescape and doing a "WuH?!" when Timescape came along. At the end of the day, Talisman has a very good formula and any expansion would probably grow on me, providing the rules are not overly complex. And "flavour" was said in a Canadian accent chemical22 got a reaction from Sacrilege83 in Timescape June 7, 2014 I own and have played the old version. Although I always liked expansions to Talisman, there was always something innately wrong feeling about having a Space Marine travel around the board with a chainsword. I'd like a complete severance from Games Workshop and not see this. Like others, I have nothing against other realms - but lets keep it fantasy and original to the Talisman flavour. chemical22 reacted to Nioreh in How do you draw characters and have you put aside any overpowered ones? May 15, 2014 Hm, we drew characters like this a few times a long time ago. I thought it was a great way but I can't really recollect why we stopped. Maybe we'll go back to it. I used to put used characters aside but when we started taking just one the need for it faded, statistically they will all be played sooner or later anyways. If we're reintroducing the "draw a second hidden character which you must play" the used-characters pile will probably come back as well. chemical22 got a reaction from The_Warlock in Forum April 11, 2014 I'm pretty new here, I've been a member of several game forums in the past, and I just wanted to say this is by far the nicest, most helpful and civil forum I've ever been on. Many of the ones I have been part of, are just simply poisonous. Kudo's to the folks here, I've struggled to find a single negative comment in any thread here and eveyone seems to want to go over and above to help people. Just wanted to spread the good words. chemical22 got a reaction from adjogi in Forum April 11, 2014 chemical22 got a reaction from talismanisland in Forum April 10, 2014 chemical22 reacted to bowlwoman in What's the best way to play the Dragon Expansion April 9, 2014 Our 7 year-old is the Dragon Queen, and she's responsible for the Dragon King upkeep, moving tokens, annoucing a new Dragon King, etc. It's a good way to keep her contained to one task, and with her single-mindedness, she's great at keeping track of all the tokens. We got a velvet drawstring bag and put the dragon tokens inside, so it adds to the feel of the game. And, considering that the fate tokens are same size/shape/cardboard weight, we added six fate tokens to the bag. Now, you have a chance to get random fate! (We originally just had one fate token that we named the "Toadken" and if you drew it then you turned into a toad, but people started getting antsy about it, so we changed it to adding more and letting them keep the tokens as fate. I LOVE the Toadken idea, though, and will campaign to add it back to our home rules.) We've had the Dragon expansion for a while now, but we hadn't broken it out due to a lot of the comments I've read on this board about the gameplay. We played it the first time through without using any of the other big expansions (all the smaller ones but the Werewolf one), and it was a huge difference in gameplay. I did like it standalone, but we're in the middle of our first game using all expansions, so it's interesting to see how it affects gameplay once everyone is scattered around and not confined to just the main board. So far, I like it. But then again, my rules-lawyer side of me loves the minutae of the token upkeep.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line986
__label__wiki	0.916896	0.916896	‘Birds Of Prey’ Plans $52M Opening Flight – Early Box Office Projection #1 ‘The Conjuring’ Scares Up $41.5M Weekend But Other New Films Sink Or Soft: ‘R.I.P.D.’, ‘Turbo’, ‘Red 2’, As Sizzling Summer Fizzles By Nikki Finke More Stories By Nikki Deadline Turns 10 And Celebrates Disruptors: Nikki Finke Looks Back ‘Thor 2’ Begins International Rollout: Stronger Starts In UK & France Than First ‘Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire’ Tracking New November Record: Hot $140M-$150M SUNDAY 7:30 AM, 3RD UPDATE: Sizzling Summer 2013 is now fizzling, and $200M total moviegoing this domestic weekend was down -20% from last year. Hollywood was especially glum while the media was annoyingly gleeful over more big-budget movies bombing. Bad news for every new film except Warner Bros/New Line’s low-budget The Conjuring (playing in 2,903 theaters) which opened #1 with a good news $41.5M weekend. It also received from audiences a coveted ‘A-‘ CinemaScore, an unusually good grade for the genre where ‘D’ and ‘F’ have become commonplace from fed-up audiences. Going into Friday, the $20M-cost The Conjuring was Fandango’s top ticket seller among four new releases across online and mobile platforms. Warner Bros early on credited director James Wan with making “both an incredibly scary film but also a very well-made quality movie” that likely becomes a badly needed fresh franchise for New Line. Clearly, Wan (Saw, Insidious) was able to transition from gore to the bizarre and now to the supernatural helped by talented cast Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, and Ron Livingston and credited screenwriters Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. Producers are Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran, and Rob Cowan. The marketing campaign kicked off a month ago at the LA Film Festival. “It was an unusual strategy in that it exposed the film to critical reaction at a very early stage,” Warner Bros Pictures President of Worldwide Marketing and International Distribution Sue Kroll tells me. “But our faith in the film was well placed and the screening netted nothing but positive reaction – from fans and critics alike. The early screenings also provided us with great testimonials, social media fan reactions, and early positive quotes which were all used throughout the TV buy on everything ranging from NBA finals to late night roadblocks.” The campaign leveraged the most hype-worthy moments like the clapping scene at NY Comic-Con that eventually became the teaser trailer. Finally, the ‘true story” aspect of the demonology tale was emphasized. Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s Red 2 (3,016 theaters) received a strong ‘B+’ CinemaScore so Friday’s soft opening went up +11% on Saturday since more adults turned out due to good word of mouth. But the $85M-costing sequel wound up grossing what the studio projected though didn’t beat the 2010 original’s $21.7M opening weekend. The first was a worldwide sleeper hit, of course. Since then there’ve been dozens of older audience-aimed clones so the novelty has worn off. Plus this installment received only 40% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes versus the original’s 72%. And summer may not have been the optimum time to release (last one went wide in October). Once again, Summit targeted the underserved older audience of adults 30-plus. Marketing focused on the ensemble cast (Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Catherine Zeta-Jones) and action/comedy blend (from director Dean Parisot and credited writers Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber based on characters created by Warren Ellis & Cully Hamner). Summit claims sequel is the first film showcased in an integrated marketing campaign with NBCU utilizing their cable networks and digital portfolio. Another first is Summit inaugural studio to utilize Twitter’s new TV ad targeting technology. Producers are Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian. Universal knew full well its Jonah Hex-meets-Men In Black retread R.I.P.D. (2,852 theaters) would rest in agony this weekend. So lousy 11% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and low ‘C+’ CinemaScore were no surprise for what is now one of the summer’s biggest losers critically and financially. This long-delayed pic’s too-big budget came in at an astounding $182.1M for such a cheesy 3D movie. (My sources say the production rebate was $28.1M so the aggregate net negative to Universal is $154M even if the studio is claiming only $130M.) But everything about this result went wrong, from the casting of Jeff Bridges whose Old West shtick has gotten old to Ryan Reynolds who’s recognized as too bland yet again. Adapted from Pete M Lenkov’s Dark Horse comic series by Clash Of The Titans screenwriters Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi, pic’s director Robert Schwentke who did Red and producer-distributor Neal H. Moritz who does the Fast & Furious series have done far, far better. Universal will release this bomb in 10 international territories day-and–date with North America. The remaining international rollout begins July 25. At least the studio has humongous worldwide profits from Despicable Me 2 to console it: that 3D toon crossed $500M worldwide this week and also became the highest grossing animated film of the year domestically. Problem is, DreamWorks Animations’ original non-sequel Turbo (3,806 theaters) is no Despicable Me. After opening weak on Wednesday, it had one of DWA’s worst openings since the company started. Still these 3D animated pics have 4x-5x multiples around the globe so distributor Fox isn’t counting it out yet – not with its coveted ‘A’ CinemaScore. But the $135M-costing snail comedy has been sandwiched between Gru and his minions, Sony’s Smurfs 2 (releasing July 31) and Disney’s Planes (August 9). Rival studios feel producer Lisa Stewart and story scribe/director David Soren who scripted with Darren Lemke and Robert Siegel put together a very watchable toon but it’s aimed at rugrats and plays too young. Even DWA’s The Croods opened to $43.6M in March – and Hollywood thought that was soft. The voice cast though talented and diverse is unexciting what with Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong, Michelle Rodriguez, and Samuel L. Jackson. Pic may or may not make up the lower domestic dollars with foreign grosses after releasing day and date this weekend in 28 markets, including Russia, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina and select Southeast Asia territories. And it’s finally clear that Legendary Pictures’ too-expensive Pacific Rim may only eke out $100M domestic all in – which means it, too, must depend on Warner Bros’ distribution overseas for most of its coin. Here are Top Ten domestic estimates for the weekend. Full analysis later. 1. The Conjuring (New Line/Warner Bros) NEW [Runs 2,903] R Friday $17.0M, Saturday $14.3M, Weekend $39.0M 2. Despicable Me 2 3D (Illumination/Universal) Week 3 [Runs 3,820] PG Friday $7.4M, Saturday $10.2M, Weekend $25.0M (-44%), Cume $276.1M 3. Turbo 3D (DreamWorks Animation/Fox) Week 1 [Runs 3,806] PG Friday $6.5M, Saturday $8.3M, Weekend $21.3M, Cume $31.1M 4. Grown Ups 2 (Columbia/Sony) Week 2 [Runs 3,491] PG13 Friday $6.3M, Saturday $7.9M, Weekend $20.0M (-52%), Cume $79.5M 5. Red 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) NEW [Runs 3,016] PG13 Friday $6.2M, Saturday $7.1M, Weekend $19.0M 6. Pacific Rim 3D (Legendary/Warner Bros) Week 2 [Runs 3,285] PG13 7. R.I.P.D. 3D (Universal) NEW [Runs 2,852] PG13 Friday $4.7M, Saturday $4.9M,Weekend $13.1M 8. The Heat (Twentieth Century Fox) Week 4 [Runs 2,689] R Friday $2.8M, Saturday TK, Weekend $9.2M, Cume $129.1M 9. World War Z (Paramount) Week 5 [Runs 2,066] PG13 10. Monsters University 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 5 [Runs 2,186] G Latest Box Office News How Sony Built 'Bad Boys For Life' Into A Success With $101M+ WW & $73M+ U.S.; 'Dolittle' Poised For $50M+ Loss - Monday Update 'Bad Boys For Life' Takes $39M Offshore Bow; '1917' Races To $139M Global & 'Jumanji: The Next Level' Ups Game Past $700M WW - International Box Office 'Weathering With You' Reigns With Stateside Debut; Oscar Nominees 'Parasite', 'Jojo Rabbit' Hold Strong During Holiday Weekend - Specialty Box Office	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.658402	0.658402	Field Hockey: Putting a bow on the 2012 season By Matt Chandik November 20, 2012 Alana Dumas Carlie Spaeder Casey Oehler Charlotte Posauner Claire Kneizys Emily Faught Gabby Rowe Gianna Pileggi Giulz Antignani Grace Boston. Jess Randazzo Hailey Valerio Lauren DelRomano Lexie Curry Liz Piszker Margaux Paolino Marissa Cicione Moira Putsch Natalie Bova Sophia Tornetta Tess Horan Tori Sarmiento Winter sports practice has already begun. Every fall sports team, save for Interboro’s football team, is done for the year, and many of those athletes have already joined in on the winter fun. Delco will undoubtedly have its fair share of championship-caliber athletes this winter, but before we get to those sports, maybe it’s time to close out the field hockey season. There was a lot for Episcopal Academy to celebrate after a 3-1 win over rival Notre Dame to claim its first PAISAA championship. TIMES STAFF/ERIC HARTLINE Only one team finished its postseason run with a win, and that team is Episcopal Academy. The Churchmen avenged one of their two losses of the year with a convincing 3-1 victory over rival Notre Dame to claim its first PAISAA championship after being knocked off, 2-0, the year before by the Irish. Statistically, ND controlled play. The Irish had a 12-2 edge in corners and generally had better scoring opportunities, but the Churchmen used a goal from All-Delco Alana Dumas 2:30 into the game to get off on the right foot and never look back. Dumas’ goal was kind of weird in the sense that nobody on the ND defense seemed particularly interested in attempting to stop her. I don’t know if the Irish didn’t expect her to shoot, thought she shot from outside the scoring circle or maybe expected a pass, but there was a lot of standing around and watching on an odd play. “I got the ball from midfield and I was just carrying it through,” Dumas said, “and I realized when I stepped into the circle, my front stick was cut off, so I looked to pass reverse and it went in. …I think (the goal) really motivated us and showed us we’re in this, we’re contenders. We can score goals and that we can win. It really got the ball rolling.” It certainly did, as did Lexie Curry‘s tap-in of a Margaux Paolino centering pass, but it was the defensive effort from EA that helped slow down a potent Irish offense that finished with the second most goals in Delco and the best goal differential. More after the jump. The likes of Claire Kneizys and Tori Sarmiento were instrumental in that stalwart defensive effort. It seemed like the Irish had a gameplan to let anyone other than two-time All-Delco Moira Putsch beat them, and it worked. Mind you, everyone seems to have that plan when they play ND, but not everyone has the players to pull it off. Limiting Putsch to one point, an assist on fellow All-Delco Emily Faught‘s goal to spoil Gianna Pileggi‘s shutout bid with 7:52 to go, is pretty much as well as you can expect things to go. Wherever Putsch went, it seemed like there was a wave of EA players following her. The Irish still got their chances, but Pileggi was up to the task with some big saves. “They’re a fast team,” Putsch said. “They have really fast players. We tried our best. I think there are some things that we could have done differently. It’s a learning experience and we’re going to learn from it and come back from it twice as hard as next year. …(It’s) so much motivation. It’s a rivalry that just grows and grows each and every year.” Faught ended up finishing tied for fifth in the county in goals (20) and was sixth in points (32) as a midfielder who might have been even better defensively than she was offensively. Here’s the most impressive part: she played three-fourths of the year with a stress fracture in her foot. If that doesn’t impress you, I suspect that very little will. But against EA, she was frustrated by the Churchmen’s stingy defense. “They had a lot of people in the circle and it was hard for us to capitalize on our corners and our shots that should have gone in,” said Faught, who is headed to Virginia next year. “(Missing chances weighs on our minds) a lot because at times like this, I kind of put a lot of it on myself instead of my teammates, but I wouldn’t have rather ended a season with any other people.” While the two rivals have been the only two teams to make the PAISAA final in the past two years, don’t be surprised if Agnes Irwin eventually crashes the party. The Owls were much improved this year and they should bring back a nice group of players, led by Sophia Tornetta, who had 18 goals this year. Might 2013 be the year where AIS breaks up the EA-ND stranglehold? Marissa Cicione, seen here scoring her 45th and perhaps her prettiest goal of the year, is a big reason why Cardinal O’Hara will be a big PIAA threat next year. Can the Lions win a state title? Cardinal O’Hara — 2013 PIAA champions? It might seem that way, actually. I maintain that the Lions showed up a year earlier than expected, and while they lose Delco assists leader Carlie Spaeder to Rider University, they also bring back nearly everyone to a team that made the state tournament and claimed the District 12 championship. O’Hara was also one of two teams to beat Episcopal Academy – and did it at EA, no less – and it’s hard to imagine them not being at least a contender for the PIAA title. Marissa Cicione and Putsch shattered the previous county record of 37 goals in a season with 45 apiece, and Cicione will have All-Delco and two-time Catholic League MVP Grace Boston, who tied Cicione for the team lead with 55 points, helping out. But as good as those two are, they’ll also have great supporting cast. The more I see Jess Randazzo play, the more I think she’s destined to be a star next year, and midfielder Gabby Rowe and defender Lauren DelRomano are as nice a defensive foundation as anyone. As if coach Marie Murphy didn’t have enough luxuries back next year, throw in goalie Liz Piszker into the mix. You know, the one who finished second in save percentage and third in shutouts in Delco. With three-time defending Catholic League champion Archbishop Carroll being hit hard by graduation for the second straight year, it’s hard to not imagine that O’Hara will be a heavy favorite to win the league next year. The Lions led the county with 121 (!!!) goals this year, which is absurd. What’s even more absurd is the fact that that number will balloon up next year. Might that mean a state title? I already touched base on the rest of the PIAA teams on an earlier post, so feel free to check that out. The All-Delco team is tentatively scheduled to run next Tuesday, Nov. 27. I’ll post an All-Delco schedule as soon as I get an official copy. Until then, though, here are a few different awards to give out. Freshman of the Year: Margaux Paolino, Episcopal Academy. Runner-up: Tess Horan, Haverford. Hard not to go with the Churchmen’s second-leading point-getter. Paolino ranked behind Dumas in goals, assists, and points, but considering she scored 17 goals to go with 13 assists, that’s not too shabby, especially considering the schedule that EA played. Paolino earned All-Inter-Ac honors and she’ll be expected to play a bigger role next year. Horan was tied for second on the Fords with 12 points, including five goals. She had her breakout moment with the overtime marker to beat Strath Haven in district play. With Haverford getting hit hard by graduation, Horan will face bigger expectations next year. Best Game (that I covered): Haverford’s 2-1 win over Strath Haven in the regular season. Good back-and-forth game, and while it didn’t have a ton of scoring opportunities, it had the feel of a playoff game. Natalie Bova ended it when she smacked home a loose ball in overtime. Runner-up: Garnet Valley’s 2-1 overtime loss to Mount St. Joseph in the second round of districts. An unfortunate loss for the Jaguars, but goodness, the entertainment factor was off the charts. The 7-on-7 overtime provided scoring chances for both teams, and Hailey Valerio might have had the save of the season right with an astounding kick save before the Magic ended the game. Best Goal (that I covered): Marissa Cicione, Cardinal O’Hara vs. Wissahickon. Runner-up: Moira Putsch vs. Episcopal Academy in the first game. Wissahickon got the win, but what a goal from Cicione to tie it up with less than 2:30 to go. The speedster weaved her way through the Trojans’ defense, somehow never losing the ball before scoring. Just incredible. Putsch’s goal was similar, and one that left her temporarily airborne as she tapped in her rebound. Most Underrated Player (that I covered): Casey Oehler, Strath Haven. Runner-up: Charlotte Posauner, Radnor. You can make a case for pretty much any defensive player because, well, yeah, that’s the nature of the sport. But when the All-Central team came out and I saw that Oehler made second team, I was flat-out stunned. She’s superb. Rarely out of position, smart, and always makes the right play. I see less games than the coaches do, but I thought Oehler was a lock for first-team All-Central. Shows what I know, right? Posauner got lost in the shuffle for the Red Raiders, again mostly because she’s so good defensively. But she stood out to me every time I saw the Red Raiders play. Like Oehler, Posauner rarely made mistakes and always seemed to be a half-step ahead of everyone else in the mental aspect of the game. Finally, we’re at the end of the season. Stats have been updated. There are goals, assists, points and goalie leaders to go with team stats. If there’s anything wrong with it that needs to be corrected, don’t freak out and call me every name under the sun. A simple email to mchandik@delcotimes.com to let me know what needs to be fixed will do the trick. Again, look for the All-Delco team next week. I’ll be stopping in periodically if players commit to colleges – look for something on Giulz Antignani and Spaeder later this week – but other than that, it’s on to wrestling and hockey for me. I hope you enjoyed the coverage and hope you’ll stop by for all of the other sports. – MATT CHANDIK Posted in Field Hockey 2 thoughts on “Field Hockey: Putting a bow on the 2012 season” Thank you for the Great article. You know more about the players than their own coaches. delcohssports I’m flattered and thank you, but that’s silly to say. I’m just a guy who sees the occasional game. The coaches see every game. Thanks for reading, though!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line996
__label__cc	0.722341	0.277659	Managing and Treating Cystic Fibrosis Exacerbations When a lung infection gets severe, it is called an exacerbation or flare-up. Some people think of exacerbations as a “lung attack” much like a heart attack is a severe problem with the heart. Exacerbations usually require a hospital stay followed by more care at home. Frequency of exacerbations Some people with cystic fibrosis (CF) remain relatively healthy and only experience an exacerbation every few years. Those with more damaged lungs may develop exacerbations two to four times a year. People with regularly scheduled hospital stays aimed at controlling their lung infections sometimes call these hospitalizations a CF tune-up or CF spa. All exacerbations should be treated quickly and aggressively to help keep the lungs as healthy as possible. Exacerbations can be dangerous because up to 25% of people with CF do not recover their baseline lung function within 3 months of treatment.1 Signs of an exacerbation There is no set definition for when a lung infection has become an exacerbation. It may vary widely from person to person. The general signs of an exacerbation are: Increased cough Change in the sputum’s (lung mucus) color or quantity Decreased appetite or weight Decline in FEV1 numbers Increased wheezing or crackling Difficulty exercising, feeling more tired than usual Blood streaked mucus (hemoptysis) Repeated lung infections2 Pregnant women who have CF and those with CF-related diabetes should be monitored closely for early signs of exacerbations.2 Treating cystic fibrosis exacerbations Treatment for an exacerbation requires hospitalization, often for as long as two weeks. Some people with CF may be able to spend a few days in the hospital and then continue their treatments at home. The type of medicines given for an exacerbation depend on the results of blood tests and sputum cultures, which will tell the medical team which specific germs are causing worsening symptoms. Exacerbation treatments include: Round-the-clock antibiotics often delivered through a peripherally inserted central catheter, or PICC line More frequent airway clearance techniques, sometimes concentrated on certain areas of the lungs Other drugs such as mucus thinners and corticosteroids Intensive nutrition, sometimes delivered through a (enteral) feeding tube As much exercise as possible3 This intensive combination of therapies are designed to drive back the infections and inflammation that damage the lungs and improve lung function as much as possible. Managing a hospital stay Long hospital stays can be challenging. According to the CF Foundation’s 2017 Patient Data Registry, people in the U.S. with CF averaged 28.9 days a year receiving exacerbation treatments. On average, 18.3 of those days were in the hospital and 10.6 were home IV treatments. Adults are more likely to complete some of their treatment at home.3 Parents of school children with CF should coordinate lessons and homework during their child’s hospital stay so that the exacerbation does not interfere too much with school. For both children and adults with CF, it is important to arrange for visitors who will cheer them up by providing a break to the monotony of hospital routines. Consider bringing news of family and friends or going for a walk. Preventing exacerbations Most people with CF cannot avoid exacerbations completely, but being diligent about daily treatments, daily drug and enzyme regimes, exercise and good nutrition can help reduce the chances of a lung flare-up.1 To prevent exacerbations, people with CF will often be given what are called prophylactic antibiotics, meaning these drugs are given to prevent an infection from taking hold in the first place or from getting worse. Other recommendations include: Infection prevention and control techniques, such as frequent hand washing Disinfecting equipment and surfaces Keeping a six-foot distance from others with CF Getting all recommended immunizations and flu shots1 Preventing exacerbations is vital to improve or maintain lung function and improve quality of life. Written by: Jessica Johns Pool \| Last reviewed: September 2019 Bhatt, JM. Treatment of pulmonary exacerbations in cystic fibrosis. Eur Respir Rev 2013; 22: 205– 216. Doi: 10.1183/09059180.00006512. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Introduction to Cystic Fibrosis. Available at: https://www.cff.org/Intro-to-CF.pdf. Accessed 5/9/2019. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 2017 Patient Registry Annual Data Report. Available at: https://www.cff.org/Research/Researcher-Resources/Patient-Registry/2017-Patient-Registry-Annual-Data-Report.pdf. Accessed 5/9/2019.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1000
__label__cc	0.726335	0.273665	Daily Bayonet Home Business CEO’s Of Over 200 Companies Reports Shareholder Values Are No Longer One... CEO’s Of Over 200 Companies Reports Shareholder Values Are No Longer One Of Their Main Objectives vikas shrivastava The business roundtable, a gathering of CEOs of about 200major U.S partnerships, issues an announcement with another meaning of the motivation behind an organization. The deep-rooted idea that organizations work above all else to serve their investors and boost benefits was dropped. Investor worth is never again the fundamental goal of top CEOs. The new idea framed was that putting resources into representatives, conveying an incentive to clients, managing providers and supporting outside networks are presently cutting edge of American business objectives. “While every one of our individual organizations fills its own corporate need, we share a basic pledge to the majority of our partners. We resolve to convey an incentive to every one of them, for the future accomplishment of our organizations, our networks, and our nation.” said the announcement marked by CEOs. The announcement had marks of Jamie Dimon, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Brian Moynihan, Dennis A. Muilenburg, and Mary Barra. The business roundtable was established in 1972. It has put out numerous standards on the standards of corporate administration. It has said that the new definition smothered the past proclamations and layouts an advanced standard of corporate duty. Jamie Dimon, director, and CEO of J.P Morgan stated, “The Significant managers are putting resources into their laborers and networks since they realize it is the best way to be effective over the long haul. These modernized the standards mirror the business network’s unfaltering pledge to keep on pushing for an economy that serves all Americans.” The normal perspective on all the CEO was that serving just the investor isn’t the fundamental target. Organizations must pursue a new explanation to have a superior future. Americans merit an economy that enables every single individual to prevail through diligent work and innovativeness to carry on with an existence of significance and pride. Previous articleIslamic Banking Sectors Might Get Addressed With A Little Boost After Beijing’s Belt And Road Plans Next article‘This Is The Most Dangerous Financial Moment Since 2009’ Says Larry Summers Vikas shrivastava is an editor at dailybayonet. Mike Morse chasing accused You Tube sex predator Onision How a Robust CMMS can Earn Your Company R&D Tax Credit How Should Project Management Professionals Select the Project? Lipsense Ingredients Hoverboard Charger When Is Riverdale Season 4 Premiering? Everything You Should Know About The Release Date vikas shrivastava - August 24, 2019 12:00 pm EDT Riverdale Season 4: Everything you should think about it up until this point. 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__label__cc	0.536142	0.463858	The Guardian April 25, 2001 Anti-IMF protests in Turkey Hundreds of thousands of workers and labourers organised protest meetings across the country against the IMF policies that have caused economic crises and collapse in the monetary system. The protesters demanded the implementation of a program presented by trade union leaders and independent scientists which demands an independent economy. It is estimated that 500,000 people took part in the protest actions. In the largest city, Istanbul, 50,000 workers and labourers gathered; in Izmir — 40,000. Demonstrations were banned in the capital Ankara and in 19 provinces. Nevertheless, undeterred by the ban and bad weather about 1000 protestors gathered in Ankara; in "banned" provinces protest actions went ahead as "IMF go home", "Government resign" were the popular slogans. People demanded that the government resign; privatisations be stopped; the plan of "zero rise" in salaries be cancelled and living standards improved. Another demand voiced in some of the Kurdish provinces was the abolition of the martial law in the region. In Istanbul 500 journalists — mostly unemployed — joined the demonstrations. At present, most labour organisations agree that the only way to stop the government is a general strike. This was the most frequently chanted slogan in the demonstrations. The approaching May Day will be another day of protest for the working class and labourers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1012
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__label__cc	0.609833	0.390167	About Michael Reddell’s blog Papers and speeches HomeRecalling Jian Yang’s past: questions for him and his leader Recalling Jian Yang’s past: questions for him and his leader September 16, 2019 September 16, 2019 Michael Reddell China, NZ politics It was two years ago last Friday that Newsroom and the Financial Times jointly broke the story of National list MP Jian Yang’s past, as a Chinese Communist Party member and fifteen years spent as a trainer in the PLA military intelligence system. There was a strong suggestion that he had been removed from Parliament’s foreign affairs committee after the New Zealand security services discovered his past and had drawn it to the attention of the then Prime Minister. Anne-Marie Brady’s Magic Weapons working paper was released at about the same time, highlighting the extent of PRC attempts to influence, or interfere in, affairs in New Zealand. A bit more of Jian Yang’s story seeped out over the following few months, including his residency application documents for New Zealand, in which – so he later acknowledged – he had actively chosen to misrepresent his past, (so he also told us) on the instructions of Beijing. There was also rather more confirmation of just how close to the PRC Embassy in New Zealand Jian Yang is and was – leading one serious government relations type, with a diplomatic background, to go on record stating that he was always very careful what he said around Jian Yang (and Raymond Huo, once again a Labour MP). The implication – never stated directly – was that whatever was said around him might well end up in the hands of the PRC Embassy. At the time, of course, Jian Yang was full member of the government caucus, and although Cabinets often keeps their own caucuses in the dark about some things, caucus members generally know more than you or I do about what the government is up to, or is thinking. But after that brief flurry the issue died down. Labour and the Greens showed no interest in questioning whether someone of that background, never once heard to utter a word of criticism of the PRC, should really be serving in our Parliament. National closed ranks behind Jian Yang – not once in the subsequent two years has a single past or present National MP expressed as much as an iota of concern. And Jian Yang went quiet, simply refusing to talk at all to any English-language media (despite English being the first language of most of National’s voters), but only too happy to talk to quiescent regime-complicit Chinese language outlets. If you can get away with it – and have all the morals that must have accompanied CCP membership and service with PLA military intelligence – I suppose why would you do anything else? People – all of us – respond to incentives and – given his actual background – simply going to ground and staying there must have looked quite the most attractive option. Optimists – naive ones perhaps – wondered if perhaps National, embarrassed to have been caught out, would gradually sideline Jian Yang and he’d eventually quietly step aside by the next election, perhaps to be replaced with another regime-sympathetic, well-connected, good-with-the-donors recent migrant, but one without such an uncomfortable back story. Silly them (well, in my optimistic moments perhaps I was one of them). For Jian Yang is still with us. Still not talking to the English-language media (except a few comments in his rather ineffectual service as National’s spokesman on Statistics), still sharing an office in Auckland with fellow list MP (and now National’s Finance spokesman) Paul Goldsmith, recently promoted to chair the (not overly important) Governance and Administration Committee of Parliament, still in business with National Party president (and regime cheerleader) Peter Goodfellow), and……most recently, accompanying Simon Bridges on his trip to the PRC, including that gruesomely awful fawning interview with CGTN (saying what so much of the rest of the New Zealand establishment only support in practice by their silence) and his meeting with Guo Shengkun, the Politburo member responsible for the entire apparatus of repression (“law and order”) in the PRC, including the concentration camps in Xinjiang. Yes, it was a big week for Jian Yang. If Simon Bridges wasn’t just regurgitating briefing notes from Jian Yang, he might as well have been. The Embassy will have been pleased. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jian Yang was out in the media (Chinese language only) praising his leader for his praise of the CCP (Raymond Huo was also out praising Bridges, at least until he deleted the relevant tweet). And not a peep out of any other political party expressing any concern about Jian Yang (or Bridges). That tawdry episode – Bridges abasing himself before the PRC, aided and abetted by their own (former) man now sitting in his caucus – was a bit much for Daisy Lee, an independent researcher born and raised in the PRC, and now living in Auckland. (There was some background on Daisy and her husband – he’d been a Tiananmen Square protestor in 1989 – in this Sunday Star-Times article.) Daisy has written an article on Jian Yang and his place in the National Party, and asked if I would run it here. I helped her with some of the English, but it is her text, her stories, and her challenges to Jian Yang (and, at least by implication) to the National Party. Of his residency application, she reminds us In this nine-page document, Jian Yang declared that the whole period from 1978 until 1993, the year he departed for Australia was spent solely at one school, Luoyang University. But the facts reveal, and Jian Yang later acknowledged, that the relevant certificates are falsely made to cover up his total 15 years with the two military universities, the PLA Air Force Engineering Institute and Luoyang PLA University of Foreign Language. The notarised document in both Chinese and English declares that Jian Yang enrolled in Luoyang University in 1978. But a simple search – Wikipedia or the Chinese Baidu – indicates that that university wasn’t even founded until 1980. Jian Yang eventually told us that Beijing instructed him to misrepresent his past, but never explained the notarised certificate. It won’t be just anyone who has the authority to instruct a state-owned university to issue a series of false documents just to satisfy a request from an ordinary Chinese citizen. Chinese intelligence authorities perhaps? It is commonly understood among the Chinese community that an active serviceman in China is not allowed to emigrate overseas, and does not even have an ordinary citizen’s passport. The sort of thing that should bother the National Party, you’d once have hoped. Jian Yang seems to spend a great deal of time with regime-sympathetic Chinese in New Zealand. Daisy asks about others from the PRC. In the past two years I have seen Jian Yang’s smiling face on his sign displayed on Auckland’s Great South Road. The same smile I have seen in pictures of a number of occasions including him meeting Politburo member Guo Shengkun on his recent trip to China with Simon Bridges, and his visit to the new PRC consul general in Auckland with the National Party’s president Peter Goodfellow in July. I hope that one day Jian Yang will smile on some other groups from China. Among the Chinese diaspora they include Falun Gong practitioners and human rights activists. They also include the Xinjiang Uyghurs, exiled Tibetans, and members of house churches in China. Most of them fled to New Zealand to escape persecution. Many don’t speak much English and so aren’t easily about to tell their stories to National’s leaders. Meanwhile, these same people see Simon Bridges and Jian Yang meeting with Guo Shengkun. From a regime keen to suggest to Chinese diasporas that they are not beyond Beijing’s reach, what sort of chilling message must that send? Even among those with less immediate reason to fear I could have chosen not to write this article, but the embarrassment of Simon Bridges’ performance in the staged interview with CGTN, the CCP’s English-language mouthpiece, has led me to decide to give Jian Yang a chance. A chance to stop encouraging and assisting New Zealand politicians like Simon Bridges to worship the brutal regime and people like its representative Guo Shengkun, one of the most powerful figures in the CCP who is responsible for all of the religious and political repression apparatus. To stop praising the CCP. And to stop hiding from the local English-language media, or anyone who might ask awkward questions. Over the last two to three decades, there have been significantly increasing numbers of Chinese who have moved overseas and the majority of these immigrants are well educated middle class and business people. The main reason for them to leave China is that they hated the corruption, pollution, and suppression which are all the problems caused by the CCP’s 70 years in power. It is naive to believe pro-CCP politicians can receive more votes from their Chinese constituents for praising Xi and Guo, or for being silent about a brutal regime that continues to corrupt and repress their families and relatives in China. (Daisy might be right about that, although evidence to date suggests it is a rather good values-free fundraising strategy.) She ends The next election is approaching and the public deserve better answers from Jian Yang. The full article is here. One can only agree that there are hard questions that Jian Yang should answer. But personally I reckon Peter Goodfellow and successive National Party leaders (Key, English, and Bridges) are now – fixed with knowledge – just as culpable, if not more so and shouldn’t be allowed off the hook. For the earlier leaders, the questions should be along the lines of “what did you know and when did you know it?” and “what steps did you take to ensure that as an MP Jian Yang is operating only in the interests of New Zealand, not those of the PRC?” For Bridges, why do regard it as appropriate to have a (former?) CCP member, former longserving member of the PLA military intelligence system, who has never said a word of criticism of the PRC or the CCP, and who remains very close to the PRC Embassy as a serving member of your caucus? Would you be willing to have Jian Yang serving as a minister in a future National government (and if not, why not)? And so on. The questions could usefully be extended to all current National MPs, every single one of whom was elected in 2017 (or came in on the list since) knowing they would serve with Jian Yang, and not one of whom has been willing to express even a scintilla of public concern or unease (perhaps someone has had private concerns, but after this amount of time private concerns count for little or nothing – as members of Parliament you have a higher duty than to mere “caucus discipline”). And then, of course, we could extend the questions to the Prime Minister and to the leaders of the Green Party. Why, for example, have you expressed precisely no concern about this individual – with such a questionable background – serving in New Zealand’s Parliament? And, of course, Winston Peters who did once express some concern, but no longer does so. Beijing probably wouldn’t like it if he did – nor, probably, would the Prime Minister. And, of course, there are the agencies – MBIE and DIA – that gave Jian Yang residency and citizenship on the basis of false documents. Is anything ever going to be done. If not, why not? Are there any values that guide our political class around the PRC? Fear and opportunism don’t count. There has been a very robust debate in Australia over the last week or so about the regime affiliations of new Liberal backbencher Gladys Liu (lots of extracts from various perspectives here). Seems to me that although there are legitimate and important questions to ask about Gladys Liu, what has emerged to date raises far fewer questions than Jian Yang’s position should. And yet the media and the political classes passed over in silence the two-year anniversary of learning of Jian Yang’s background, serving one of the most dreadful regimes on the planet, none of it recanted, even as he himself chose to join his leader in print praising the Party. They will be happy in Beijing. Could they have imagined on 1 October 1949 having such a quiescent and compromised dependency in the South Pacific only 70 years later? The rest of us – ethnic Chinese and otherwise – should be alarmed, by Jian Yang himself and by those who continue to make space for him to serve in New Zealand’s Parliament consciously choosing to ignore (or even embrace) how compromised he appears to be. ← Monetary policy and the yield curve slope NZ’s company tax rate: enforcement and investment → 23 thoughts on “Recalling Jian Yang’s past: questions for him and his leader” oldlaker says: It’s impossible to follow the roasting of Gladys Liu in Australia and not compare it with the cavalier approach of our politicians and most of our media towards Jian Yang sitting as an MP in our Parliament. Liu was asked directly by Andrew Bolt on TV if she would call Xi Jinping a dictator (she wouldn’t) and she also wouldn’t back Australia’s official position on the illegality of the islands commandeered in the South China Sea by China. Jian Yang never gets asked these questions because he simply won’t answer questions from English-speaking journalists — and Simon Bridges never tells him to face the cameras (and the voters who put him into Parliament). It’s simply shocking… thanks, Michael, for not letting this issue fall out of sight. hilarytee says: Hear, hear. And I have written more than once to Bridges & Goodfellow, with no response. Big Mac says: I’m deeply ashamed to admit that Goodfellow is a relative of mine. He is bringing shame on his family and country by selling us down the Yangtze Bob Atkinson says: I wrote to my National party MP (who happens to be an exceptionally interesting and promising MP) sadly informing him that I cannot vote for National until this issue is resolved. All it would take is for Jian Yang to say he thinks the current treatment of Uyghurs is excessive or something similar. The public needs to hear him in both English and Chinese answering a few difficult questions. In an ideal world the same questions should be asked on Raymond Huo too. If sufficient voters do the same we may make progress. Is there any chance of Daisy Lee standing for parliament? The National Party in the past decade has wiped its backside on its constitution and it has corrupted itself in the name of money. I agree with you Bob – I cannot vote National while Jian is in Parliament (but it’s also a pretty big challenge to vote for any of the Parties currently in Parliament since they’ve all – possibly with the exception of ACT – corrupted themselves. I don’t believe for a minute that Jian is NOT acting on behalf of the CPC/China. A Party member has no more ability to leave the Party than a Mob Don has to leave the Mafia. If he has good relations with the PRC, then he’s still active. He has two masters and New Zealand’s interests are subordinated to Beijing. We are losing our Independence Day-by-day and our political leaders are facilitating it. It disgusts (and frightens) me. damoyo says: Thanks for publishing that. Getting the perspective of mainland Chinese migrants is critical in these discussions opics – they can show context which NZers cannot, and the first tool of attack by the pro-PRC lapdogs, racisim, does not work. In the case of Jian Yang, although I am not a fan of law intruding into politics (the UK right now is a case in point) the best course of action would be (somehow) to force the Minister of Internal Affairs to strip Jian Yang of his citizenship. There are grounds for stripping citizenship from a citizen “by grant” on the grounds of: fraud, false representation, or information you deliberately concealed when you applied for citizenship. At least one and perhaps all three apply in his case. If this got into court, it would create momentum of its own and bring the topic into the sunshine…. Quite how one achieves this isn’t clear – I suppose one could write to the minister requesting he/she considers the matter and makes a decision. That decision could then be judicially reviewed… I don’t think the court could determine the matter itself… Interesting solution. While I remain a fan of MMP it has to be said that list MPs simply don’t have the authority of those voted by a majority of their electorate. In general I am against any system that has courts overrule the decision of the electorate whatever the sins of the MP. Yes but he sits as an MP because he is a citizen (that is a requirement to be an MP). In my view, someone with his background has no right to be a citizen. And if no longer an citizen, he can no longer be an MP. By his own admission his citizenship application (or was it residency) contained misleading statements, made at the behest of a foreign power… at any level, this person has no moral argument to be a NZ citizen… like many of the other dodgy donor “citizens” identified recently, this status is merely a flag of convenience. Frankly it is bad enough how easily citizenship seems to have been given away in recent years. If a conservative, patriotic party were to form in NZ, I would urge it to tighten citizenship rules (a strict language requirement for English or Maori, renunciation of other citizenships, plus serious vetting for certain “high risk” applicants) but additionally to conduct a retrospective analysis of the grant of citizenship for certain people starting with Jian Yang… John Gilbert says: “There are grounds for stripping citizenship from a citizen “by grant” on the grounds of: fraud, false representation, or information you deliberately concealed when you applied for citizenship” There are…but not if it would render the citizen stateless. The irony of it is Jian Yang by being a NZ citizen, had to cancel his Chinese citizenship, as China does not allow dual citizenship. So if Jian Yang was stripped of NZ citizenship he would be rendered stateless, which is currently unlawful. Many years ago I was told that a country is obliged to reinstate original citizenship. Informant a diplomat in PNG and talking about the handful of Australians who had renounced their citizenship to become Papua new Guinean. Of course China does not have a perfect record at obeying international standards. Minsk says: China claims that all ethnic Chinese are within its purview. He wouldn’t be stateless for long, but that’s the catch-22 Baucent says: That Jian Yang worked at the Luoyang PLA University of Foreign Languages is evidence enough of being part of the Chinese Intelligence network. These positions would only be filled by recruits and officers of the intelligence service. These are not jobs you casually enter and leave later. You are an operative for life. It’s not difficult to find information on the Luoyang PLA University of Foreign Languages; ” China maintains the most extensive SIGINT network of all the countries in the Asia-Pacific region. SIGINT systems include several dozen ground stations, half a dozen ships, truck-mounted systems, and airborne systems. Third Department headquarters is located in the vicinity of the GSD First Department (Operations Department), AMS, and NDU complex in the hills northwest of the Summer Palace. The Third Department (zongcan sanbu) is allegedly manned by approximately 20,000 personnel, with most of their linguists trained at the Luoyang Institute of Foreign Languages. Ever since the 1950’s, the Second and Third Departments of the PLA General Staff Headquarters have established a number of institutions of secondary and higher learning for bringing up “special talents.” The PLA Foreign Language Institute at Luoyang comes under the Third Department of the General Staff Department and is responsible for training foreign language cadres for the monitoring of foreign military intelligence. The Institute was formed from the PLA “793” Foreign Language Institute, which moved from Zhangjiakou after the Cultural Revolution and split into two institutions at Luoyang and Nanjing. Though the distribution order they received upon graduation indicated the “PLA General Staff Headquarters,” many of the graduates of these schools found themselves being sent to all parts of the country, even to remote and uninhabited backward mountain areas. The reason is that the monitoring and control stations under the Third Department of the PLA General Staff Headquarters are scattered in every corner of the country.” Can anyone in the National Party explain why they would not be concerned about any MP who formerly worked or studied at the Luoyang Institiute of Foreign Languages? Any such person must be seen as a having high probability of being an operative of Chinese Intelligence services. Odysseus says: Like others I have made clear to National Party candidates that I cannot support their party while this man remains in Parliament and National continues its supine, meretricious relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. They are a disgrace. It seems the only approach available may be to demand a review of Jian Yang’s citizenship application in light of the fact that he omitted relevant information. How can we pursue this? What does the legislation allow for? The relevant legislation is the Citizenship Act 1977, s. 17(2) and possibly (3). A commentator above pointed out that JY had to renounce his Chinese citizenship to obtain NZ citizenship and to deprive him of his NZ citizenship now would leave him stateless, which is not permitted under the legislation (we can only take his word about this renunciation – it is not required by the NZ DIA so maybe it hasn’t happened). I read s. 17(3) differently – “The Minister may not deprive a person of New Zealand citizenship under subsection (2) if— the citizenship was acquired by mistake; **and** to deprive the person of that citizenship would leave the person stateless. The condition at (a) does not apply, so this would not be a block in JY’s case. If you read s. 17 you will note it is driven by the Minister – there is no scope for citizens to independently raise a challenge. The exericse of discretion may be judicially reviewed – I guess this could either be a review of the original grant of citizenship (but this is some time in the past now), or a review of the current Minister’s refusal to exercise this discretion (assuming the Minister says no, which I think is likely). For the latter scenario, someone would have to make this request – quite how this goes legally is outside my present knowledge. I checked the NZ Herald article where they cite his citizenship application made in 2004 – the problem I see is that it only asks about employment, addresses in the past ten years, which has dates going back to 1994 for Australia. There is a section on education history which is not time limited, and here he hasn’t mentioned either of the non-Australasian academic experience – but arguably this isn’t the point of the section – the preamble seems more concerned with showing academic experience in English speaking institutions… https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4107527-OIA-1718-0098-Nippert-Follow-Up.html#document/p3/a381299 An interesting article in Foreign Affairs this Week (US) Sept 16, by Kristine Lee, on China moving into the UN space the US is vacating. The headline says it all, Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values. As Washington Steps Back, Beijing Will Take Charge Michael Reddell says: Thanks Peter. Interesting and sobering article. As someone who has always been a bit of a UN sceptic (not necessarily about some specialised agencies) it just reinforces my doubts about the body’s purpose/usefulness. Yet what other forum is there that draws the nations together and at least enables them to talk. Denying your present enemy, Iran in this case, the necessary visas to attend, will only hasten its demise. In spite of the UN’s impotence in many areas, Churchill’s encouragement of jaw jaw has a lot to commend it. So it is worth maintaining. If the US withdrawal does become China’s opportunity, the world may reconsider. In which case will Avaaz become the way people make their global wishes known? Maybe, but i wonder if the UN has ever made much difference to (been an important forum for resolving) major crises. Great powers talk when they need to, directly or thru intermediaries, individually or in groups. Wasn’t it ever thus? Maybe – just maybe – the vision made some sense in 1945 (among allies who’d united in a common cause) but even by 1950 the UN was only able to act in Korea because the Soviets were boycotting the UN at the time. sorethumb says: Chinese Flag over police station W.T.F. People’s Republics of Australia & NZ…. I emailed the Immigration Minister last week to ask why Jian Yang is still in the country given the crucial omissions from his immigration application. Did this as an OIA request. Will let you know the response in 20 working days… robglennie000 says: I have been watching China with growing disquiet as well. I am following Professor Anne Marie Brady on Twitter. Her tweets are well worth a look if you want to know more. I also maintain a blog called “Will New Zealand Be Right”, where tomorrow I will be publishing an item noting Professor Brady’s work on China and this article. Decomposing the NZ economy…and Australia’s Wages and the economy Once one of our largest towns Financial literacy: how about schools fix maths etc and governments free up the housing market Slightly less-bad news Reforming the RB: next steps Poor answer, poor economic performance The void where hope might have been The mediocre performer across the Tasman More on Orr Easy to underestimate how far things may go HYEFU thoughts Labour share of income What does bank capital do? 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__label__cc	0.661301	0.338699	XRSUPER6, XR20, AND XR40 FEATURE UPDATE Version 206 Update Effective August 2003, XRSuper6, XR20 and XR40 updates proms are available to be ordered from the factory as version 206 (8/5/03) firmware. This version is an update from the version 205 (6/23/03) firmware and contains new features to the program. The XRSuper6, XR20 and XR40 panel will continue to ship with version 205 (6/23/03) firmware installed until December 1, 2003. Additionally, one of each XRSuper6, XR20, and XR40 version 206 panel update prom automatically ships with every new iCOMSL until December 1, 2003.New Features Remote Panel Programming The XRSuper6, XR20, and XR40 Command Processor panels now accept remote programming over data networks such as the Internet using an iCOMSL version 101 or higher. No additional panel programming is required once the new firmware update prom is installed.Connection InformationType: Select the type of connection you wish to use to communicate with the panel:SCS-1 / SCS-105: Remote Link is going to communicate with the panel through an SCS-1 or SCS-105 Receiver using a dial-up connection.Network: Remote Link is going to communicate with the panel through a data network connection. Connect the panel to the network through an iCOMTM, iCOM-ETM, or an iCOMSL Internet Alarm Router.Direct: Remote Link is going to communicate with the panel through a direct cable connection.IP Address: Enter the IP network address of the network device, such as an iCOM/iCOM-E, or iCOMSL connected to the panel. This field appears when you select Network in the Type field. Do not enter leading zeros when entering the IP address.Ordering the New Firmware New firmware PROMs may be obtained by calling DMP Customer Service at 1-800-641-4282 and ordering the XRSuper6, XR20, or XR40/206/UPDATE. The cost is $3.00 for each firmware update PROM. This version does not ship factory installed in panels until December 1, 2003. XRSuper6, XR20, and XR40 Feature Update August 18, 2003 © 2001 - 2015 Digital Monitoring Products	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1033
__label__wiki	0.812464	0.812464	Ramblings: Zibanejad Another Four Points, Big Save Dave Shutout, Malkin Injured (Oct 6) by Ian Gooding on October 6, 2019 It’s the first Saturday evening of the NHL season, with plenty of notable performers. So we’re starting to get into quick hits as opposed to deep dives in an attempt not to miss anyone, although I won’t hold myself to that standard. The Sabres were powered by two goals from each of Sam Reinhart and Victor Olofsson en route to a 7-2 win over New Jersey, who was playing its second game in back-to-back nights. Olofsson’s two goals were scored on the power play, where he was able to receive first-unit power play minutes. Not only that, but he’s also skating on the top line with Reinhart and Jack Eichel. The season is very early and lines can change, but the Sabres’ rookie (23 percent owned in Yahoo leagues) deserves strong consideration as a waiver-wire pickup. The Devils were delivered another scare in the second period, as Taylor Hall took a hard hit and had to leave the game. Hall returned for the third period, so hopefully he is okay for next week. The Penguins were able to do a number on the Blue Jackets as well to an identical 7-2 score to the game mentioned above. Unfortunately, the victory cost them the services of Evgeni Malkin, who left the game in the second period with an undisclosed injury. The only information provided was that Malkin and Nick Bjugstad, who also left the game with an injury, are currently being re-evaluated. Here’s the play that caused the injury: Here was the awkward play that caused Malkin to go to the locker room btw. pic.twitter.com/xkwu7evlc2 — Mike DeFabo (@MikeDeFabo) October 6, 2019 Jared McCann stepped in to center the second line once Malkin left the game. McCann finished the game with two goals and an assist, so he appears to be in a great spot should Malkin miss any time. The Penguins reorganized their power-play units for the start of this game, moving Alex Galchenyuk onto the first unit in place of Patric Hornqvist. That didn’t seem to faze Hornqvist, who scored two even-strength goals and ended up with the most power-play time of any Pens’ forward. I’ve got Hornqvist as a RW4 on one of my teams, so I’m hoping there’s still something left in the tank. For some reason, it’s news whenever Sidney Crosby gets into a fight. Crosby and Pierre-Luc Dubois squared off in the second period. Elvis Merzlikins was all shook up after his debut. The Jackets’ goalie was torched for seven goals and had to face 40 shots. The Jackets have now allowed 11 goals over their first two games, so their goaltending situation already seems like one to avoid. The Leafs/Habs game was absolutely bananas, complete with the trending topic 4-1 Leafs on Twitter. Kasperi Kapanen wore the goat horns, throwing his broken stick at Jeff Petry. On the resulting penalty shot, Petry scored to tie the game at 4. Kapanen throws his broken stick at Petry. Automatic penalty shot. pic.twitter.com/y6s582DFvQ — Flintor (@TheFlintor) October 6, 2019 Brendan Gallagher scored one of three shorthanded goals while adding two assists and seven shots in the come-from-behind 6-5 shootout win for the Habs. In a losing cause, Auston Matthews scored two more goals, giving him a league-leading five goals on the season. He’s scored goals in all three games for the Leafs. Alexander Kerfoot’s goal and two assists on Saturday were his first points as a Leaf. Mika Zibanejad is en fuego. The Rangers’ center recorded his second consecutive four-point game, this one consisting of a hat trick and an assist against his former team in Ottawa. Zibanejad should receive serious NHL Three Stars consideration on Monday, as he has already racked up four goals and four assists over his first two games (which not surprisingly leads the league). For those of you in PPG/SHG goal leagues, Zibanejad scored on the power play, shorthanded, and at even strength. With this early-season head start and a spot with newly signed Artemi Panarin, Zibanejad has a great shot to surpass his career high of 74 points set last season. By the way, Panarin and the top line’s third man Pavel Buchnevich each had two points in this game. At just 17 percent owned in Yahoo leagues, Buchnevich is worth taking a flier on (again?) if you have the roster space because of his current situation. Mike Hoffman continues to score goals. The Panthers’ winger recorded a hat trick of his own in the Panthers’ 4-3 win over Tampa Bay. Hoffman is already up to four goals after scoring a career high 36 goals last season. It seems as though the trade out of Ottawa was a positive career move. Any worries about him not receiving PP1 time with the Panthers should be dispelled, as Hoffman scored 17 PPG last season and already has 2 PPG this season. It wasn’t the best night for me to bench Tyler Bertuzzi. (I was starting Jonathan Huberdeau, Jeff Skinner, and Rickard Rakell in those three spots, so you tell me if you would have done the same.) The nephew of Todd scored two goals and added two assists with a plus-4 in the Wings’ 5-3 win in Nashville. I targeted Bertuzzi because of the chemistry he formed on the top line with Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha late last season, and in the Wings’ first game of the season he has continued right where he left off. He’s already 37 percent owned in Yahoo leagues, but that number should climb even higher if he stays on the top line. Mantha stuffed the statsheet himself on Saturday, scoring a goal and two assists with a plus-3, 4 PIM, and 5 SOG. Larkin scored a goal and an assist with a plus-4. With another two assists on Saturday, Matt Duchene is now up to five points (all assists) in two games as a Predator. (Sees the Bruins won 1-0 over Arizona… checks team with Tuukka Rask… dammit!) Jaroslav Halak stopped all 35 shots he faced in the Bruins’ 1-0 win over Arizona. Halak established himself as one of the league’s better backups last season, getting into 40 games. If you’re a Rask owner, you have to be cautious about the number of games that Rask will play. The load management strategy the Bruins used last season (Rask played just 46 games) helped the Bruins get all the way to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, so I’d expect them to use a similar strategy again. I rely on the projections in the Fantasy Guide for my own roster decisions, and I would assume that many of you will too. However, there’s nothing wrong with you believing that a player was projected either too high or too low. Opinions will vary. So by saying this, I’m going to pick on one player that I believe that Dobber (or his secret projector) has been too generous with and would rank lower. That player is Cam Talbot, who he projected to play in 53 games with 29 wins, both higher than David Rittich’s projected total. Big Save Dave lived up to his nickname on Saturday, stopping all 34 shots he faced in the Flames’ 3-0 win over Vancouver. Rittich looked particularly strong over the third period, stopping 18 Canucks’ shots while the Flames also had to kill three penalties. I know this is one game, but at the very least I see a timeshare here. With this shutout, Rittich should have the upper hand as the Flames’ goalie to own (at least for the moment). Talbot has something to prove this season, so it will be interesting to see how he fares when he does start. In the win, Johnny Gaudreau scored a goal and added two assists with a plus-3. Johnny Hockey is off to a fast start with five points over his first two games. The Kings/Oilers game was hardly one that the coaches would be proud of. Fantasy owners by and large probably won’t be complaining, unless they started either Mike Smith or Jonathan Quick. In fact, this game was complete with Mike Smith doing Mike Smith things… the bad ones. Don't think that's what Mike Smith had planned for on that play 🥴 pic.twitter.com/BzEZYyMEq9 — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) October 6, 2019 Smith earned the win in spite of allowing five goals. Expect Mikko Koskinen to get into a game or two next week as the Oilers head out on an eastern road trip. Connor McDavid scored a goal and added three assists in the 6-5 win for the Oilers. What knee injury? Our Experts Panel might be on to something by picking him as the Hart Trophy winner. James Neal looked like the real deal again on Saturday. Neal scored two power-play goals from the Oilers’ first unit. After scoring just seven goals all of last season, Neal returning to 20 goals again is definitely not out of the question. Edmonton’s serious lack of depth on the wings is making him fantasy relevant again. Neal is owned in just 24 percent of Yahoo leagues. In the Kings’ first game of the season, Anze Kopitar scored a goal and added two assists in nearly 24 minutes of icetime. After sliding from 92 points to 60 points last season, Kopitar could be due for at least a slight improvement of his own. In fact, I’m floored in how far he fell in fantasy drafts this season (ADP 155 in Yahoo leagues). As a result, I’ve added him to a couple of my teams. For more fantasy hockey information, or to reach out to me directly, you can follow me on Twitter @Ian_Gooding.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1035
__label__cc	0.691291	0.308709	Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Today Starting today, we will extend availability of our current Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM builds to the developer and IT professional communities via MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. The Windows 8.1 RTM Enterprise edition will be available through MSDN and TechNet for businesses later this month. Additionally, today we’re making available the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate which you can download here . We heard from you that our decision to not initially release Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits was a big challenge for our developer partners as they’re readying new Windows 8.1 apps and for IT professionals who are preparing for Windows 8.1 deployments. We’ve listened, we value your partnership, and we are adjusting based on your feedback. As we refine our delivery schedules for a more rapid release cadence, we are working on the best way to support early releases to the various audiences within our ecosystem. In providing the best developer tools to our customers, Visual Studio 2013 RC enables development teams to build, deliver and manage compelling apps that take advantage of today’s devices and services. With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RC, we’ve made available additional features and functionality to enhance developer and development team productivity and agility. For more information of what’s new in Visual Studio 2013 see today’s blog post from S. Somasegar. With these updated platform and tools bits, developers will be able to build and test their Windows 8.1 apps. The RTM versions of tools, services, and platform are required for store submissions which will open up for new Windows 8.1 apps beginning at general availability on October 18. Given the accelerated rate of technological advancement we continue to see in the industry and here at Microsoft, it’s an exciting time to be an app builder. We recognize the critical role developers play—the breadth of our apps ecosystem is a key pillar of the Windows experience. It’s an essential end-to-end relationship – we deliver the tools, services and platform to give developers the flexibility and opportunity to innovate and build experiences for Windows that make all our lives more productive and fun. We also recognize that our commercial customers need time to perform application compatibility and other testing and validation to best plan for their Windows 8.1 deployments following general availability on October 18. The primary purpose of Windows 8.1 RTM and Visual Studio 2013 RC availability is for testing as our engineering teams continue to refine and update the product and tools in preparation for Windows 8.1 general availability on October 18 and the release of Visual Studio 2013 RTW. Third party apps may require final refinement to onboard into the Windows Store at the October 18 GA milestone. However, we’re confident this pre-release will enable developers to ready their Windows 8.1 apps for customers while validating their existing apps function as expected on Windows 8.1 Similarly, we continue to validate the Windows Server 2012 R2 software with our partners and expect to make further updates to the build for general availability on October 18 as well. We are pleased to provide non-production support for Windows Store app development and testing for Windows 8.1, via forums and assisted support channels. For links to those resources, along with existing Windows 8 support options, please visit the Dev Center support options page. We will also provide assisted support for Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM through standard commercial support channels. We are excited about the innovation we are delivering in such a short amount of time, and are pleased to be able to share these pre-releases with the communities. Thanks for your continued support and feedback, you can reach out to me anytime, either using the comments here or on twitter @StevenGuggs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1036
__label__cc	0.642561	0.357439	Everyday Latina Leaders Making a Difference: Meet Susan Jaramillo in culture, ideas, provoke weekly • culture • ideas • provoke weekly by Arianna Santiago – Planning Intern This is part of the Latinas spotlight series, in which Dieste seeks to highlight the positive change and impact everyday Latinas are making in the U.S. In this edition we meet Susan Jaramillo from Canticos World. After visiting Susan Jaramillo’s website CanticosWorld, which features bilingual educational tools aimed at toddlers, we were humming the adorable phrase “Pío Pío” for a good two hours. In my household, I grew up with both the children’s song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” AND the Latino nursery rhyme “Los Pollitos Dicen.” This is true for about 60% U.S. adult Hispanics, who are speaking both Spanish and English in and out of the home (Pew Research 2015). With the U.S. approaching 60 million Hispanics (U.S. Census 2016) and growing, that’s a lot of kids that will be saying Pío Pío! For brands, the increasing number of bilingual Hispanics means that reaching out to consumers with a multicultural strategy is a must. For parents, 95% of Hispanics believe it is important for future generations to speak Spanish (Pew Research 2015). As U.S. children are growing up in an increasingly multicultural America, Latino and non-Latino parents alike are looking to develop resources to increase their children’s language skills. Susan Jaramillo is one of those parents. Known by her friends as Susie, Susie is a Venezuelan-American building the family entertainment company Canticos, which features children stories inspired by Latin American culture. Through apps, books, and videos serving as bilingual educational tools, children are taught Latino nursery rhymes adapted in both Spanish and English. Join us in saying “Pío Pío” as Susan shares with us her passion project. Take a look at Susie’s behind-the-scenes footage to learn more. 1.) How would you summarize “Canticos” to a 6 year-old? Canticos is a world of cute and funny little animal friends who sing catchy songs and make you laugh. You can play with them on your phone or read about them in books! You can also see them come completely to life on our YouTube channel. 2.) What makes your books, videos, and apps stand out? There is a massive white space in the market when it comes to content for kids that leverages Latin American culture, even though 1/4th of U.S. kids under the age of 10 are Hispanic. We stand out with the quality of our production, our mission, and our Latin appeal. 3.) Why is “Canticos” personally important to you? I love providing moms with something to share their language and culture that makes them proud, that is beautifully made and of high quality, and that their kids will love, not because it’s Latin, but because it’s awesome. 4.) How many times did you want to give up on this project? Never. I’m stubborn. I know the last twenty years of my career have been training wheels for exactly this. I know this was what I was meant to do. 5.) What motivates you to keep going? I’ve been lucky enough to receive tremendous validation for what I’m doing and the support of entertainment heavyweights. I now have partners who are media, marketing, and tech experts. I also have a tremendously supportive partner in my husband! He’s my CTO and my best friend. 6.) Words to live by… Do what you came here to do and don’t let the world get in your way. Dieste is continuously seeking to understand America’s multicultural audience. If you know a Latina who is utilizing her Latino/American identity as an edge to get ahead, to give back to the community, or simply as a way to give wings to her creativity, send an email to ggonzalez@dieste.com so we can feature her! Everyday Latina Leaders Making a Difference: Meet Lola Dweck Young Creatives Win Ad Age Cover Contest 2016 Cannes Edition Marketing Mistakes That Will Turn Off Your Bicultural Audience Everyday Latina Leaders Making a Difference: Meet Pamela Torres Dieste Inc gsosa@dieste.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1042
__label__cc	0.547344	0.452656	Disc Golf Shopping Paul McBeth 5x Signature Series Disc Sets Home › Buzzz ESP (2019 Tour Series) Buzzz ESP (2019 Tour Series) #5 177g+ - $18.99 USD #9 177g+ - $18.99 USD #11 177g+ - $18.99 USD #19 177g+ - $18.99 USD #21 177g+ - $18.99 USD #29 177g+ - $18.99 USD #31 177g+ - $18.99 USD #32 177g+ - $18.99 USD #33 177g+ - $18.99 USD #34 177g+ - $18.99 USD #37 177g+ - $18.99 USD #38 177g+ - $18.99 USD #44 177g+ - $18.99 USD #48 177g+ - $18.99 USD #50 177g+ - $18.99 USD #51 Green 177g+ - $18.99 USD #52 177g+ - $18.99 USD #53 177g+ - $18.99 USD #54 177g+ - $18.99 USD #55 177g+ - $18.99 USD #56 177g+ - $18.99 USD #57 177g+ - $18.99 USD #58 177g+ - $18.99 USD #59 177g+ - $18.99 USD #60 177g+ - $18.99 USD #61 177g+ - $18.99 USD #62 177g+ - $18.99 USD #63 177g+ - $18.99 USD #64 177g+ - $18.99 USD #65 177g+ - $18.99 USD #66 177g+ - $18.99 USD #67 177g+ - $18.99 USD #71 177g+ - $18.99 USD #72 177g+ - $18.99 USD #73 177g+ - $18.99 USD #75 177g+ - $18.99 USD #78 177g+ - $18.99 USD Discraft ESP Buzzz (2019 TOUR SERIES) - Nate Doss Nate Doss gets the Discraft ESP Buzzz out of the 2019 ESP Tour Series. It comes in very swirly color themes that are sure to make you want to pick one up. In fact, Nate says he had to have one in his bag from the moment he first threw a Buzzz. The Discraft Tour Series ESP Buzzz is a Mid Range with the following flight ratings: Speed: 5 \| Glide: 4 \| Turn: -1 \| Fade: 1 \| PDGA Approved The Discraft ESP Buzzz (Tour Series) is a stable Mid-Range disc that everyone loves. This disc is for all skill-levels to throw and is one of the most popular discs on the market. It is 100% the highest-selling disc and produced for Discraft. In 2017, Nate Doss hosted an Inside My Bag segment where he gave honest and helpful information about the discs that he carries. Aside from the Buzzz, he also mentioned that he really likes the Challenger for putting and is confident enough in the Challenger to use it as a driver as well. Nate Doss is no newbie to Disc Golf. He is a three-time Disc Golf World Champion. The last time he won was in 2007 so it’s been a few years since his last win. You can bet he’ll be looking to make a move to regain his former glory. Tagged: Discraft Buzzz, Discraft Tour Series Discs All discs will be sent in a Box. (2-5 business days depending on location) If purchased with Priority Mail or UPS they will be sent in a box and utilize the faster shipping method (1-5 business days depending on location) Priority Mail does not guarantee delivery times, but is an estimate upon how long it will take. Bags, Baskets & Carts Most Bags and Baskets are sent directly from the Manufacturer and utilize UPS NO PO BOXES (Usually 3-5 business days) Smaller bags and baskets utilize USPS Buzzz Pro D Buzzz Big Z Mini Buzzz Elite Z Mini Buzzz SuperColor Mini Buzzz Mini SuperColor Halloween (2019) The goals for our Store is to #GrowtheSport and provide Disc Golf Shoppers a reliable, easy and pleasantly surprising experience! Check our return policy here. Explore Flight Charts and compare discs for your needs. If you need to Contact Us, feel free! Keep in Touch - Newsletter © 2020 Disc Golf Shopping	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1057
__label__wiki	0.801845	0.801845	Tag: Amarjeet Sohi Alberta is blue, but what else is new? 6 Comments on Alberta is blue, but what else is new? The results across Canada were a mixed colour of red, orange, green, blue, and bleu as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is returning to Ottawa to form a new Liberal minority government. But the results in Alberta were anything but mixed. The Conservative Party earned 69.2 percent of the total vote in Alberta in Monday’s federal election, which is 3 percent higher than the party’s previous high-water mark of 66.8 in Alberta in the 2011 federal election. It is no surprise that the vast majority of Albertans voted Conservative and that nearly all of the province’s elected Members of Parliament are also Conservative. This has happened in virtually every election since I was born, and about 25 years before that too. Conservative candidates were elected or re-elected in most ridings in ranges from 70 percent to over 80 percent. It appears that Battle River-Crowfoot remains the strongest Conservative voting riding in Canada, with 85 percent of voters in that riding supporting the Conservatives. Conservatives also dominated in Alberta’s two largest cities, earning 69 percent in Calgary, and 63 percent of the vote in Edmonton, which voted overwhelmingly for the Alberta NDP in the recent provincial election. The Conservative Party and its predecessor parties have dominated Alberta for decades, and the Conservative have represented the majority of Alberta’s federal ridings since 1958, and have held all of the province’s seats from 1972 to 1977, 1977 to 1988 and 2006 to 2008. This election has once again reminded Canadians of the regional divides in our country but it should also not be a surprise. Regional division is a feature of Canadian politics and our First Past the Post electoral system exaggerates these divides. NDP hold Strathcona Heather McPherson New Democratic Party candidate Heather McPherson was elected in Edmonton-Strathcona, making her the only non-Conservative MP in Alberta and the only woman elected in the Edmonton area serving in the House of Commons. While the NDP convincingly held off Conservative challenger Conservative Sam Lilly and Liberal Eleanor Olszewski, this election further exposed fractures between the provincial and federal NDP in Alberta. McPherson’s opponents delighted in a decision by Rachel Notley to withhold her endorsement of McPherson until days before election day but it appears to have had no impact on the results in the riding. McPherson finished with 47 percent of the vote, four points ahead of now-former MP Linda Duncan‘s results from 2015. Liberals lost. Liberal MP and Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi was defeated by Conservative Tim Uppal in Edmonton-Mill Woods, Randy Boissonnault was defeated by Conservative James Cumming in Edmonton-Centre, and Kent Hehr was defeated by Greg McLean in Calgary-Centre, leaving the Liberals with no seats in the House of Commons from Alberta, and likely no representation in the new federal cabinet from Alberta. The Liberals saw their province-wide vote total in Alberta cut to 13.7 percent, down from 24.6 percent in 2015. The personal unpopularity of Trudeau in Alberta, fuelled by angst and frustration with the current economic situation and the consistently low international price of oil, made it very unlikely that the Liberals would do well in Alberta in 2019. Despite Sohi’s loss in Monday’s election, the congenial and personally popular politician is frequently named as a potential candidate for Edmonton’s 2021 mayoral election if Don Iveson decides not to seek re-election. What could a Liberal minority government mean for Albertans? The prospect of the Liberal minority government influenced by the NDP and Greens could lead to the introduction of new national programs that will benefit Albertans – including universal pharmacare and dental care, and expanded childcare coverage – and the prospect of real electoral reform that could ease some of the rigid political divides we saw in Monday’s election. Trudeau announced today that his government plans to move ahead with the construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project, despite delays caused by court challenges from First Nations communities. Because the construction of the pipeline project does not require any votes of Parliament, the minority situation is not likely to impact the construction of the project. Oil pipeline aside, the Liberals are expected to push forward on their climate change plans, including the introduction of a federal carbon tax in Alberta next year. In what could be a sign of changing times, New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs announced his plans to create a provincial carbon tax, dropping his opposition the federal carbon tax. Kenney still campaigning… Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is showing no sign he plans to end his campaign against Trudeau, announcing this week that he has sent a letter to the prime minister outlining the Alberta government’s demands, including a plan for a resource corridor and changes to the equalization formula (none of which Trudeau campaigned for ahead of Monday’s election). Kenney has announced plans to hold a series of town hall meetings to gauge voter frustration following the federal election. This could be similar to the MLA Committee on Alberta’s Role in Confederation created by Ralph Klein and chaired by Edmonton MLA Ian McClelland in 2004, which travelled the province to gauge support for the Firewall manifesto (the committee’s final report rejected most of the manifesto’s proposals). The town halls are both a relief valve and a steering wheel that allows people to vent their frustrations while allowing Kenney, as Klein would say, to try to keep ahead of the crowd. Former Alberta MLA defeated in BC Former Alberta MLA Alana DeLong was defeated in Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, finishing second with 25% behind NDP MP Alistair MacGregor. DeLong served as the Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary-Bow from 2001 to 2015. She ran for the BC Liberals in the 2017 provincial election on Vancouver Island as well. Is Alberta separatism on the rise? No. The results in Alberta and bot-driven promotion of the #wexit hashtag on Twitter have fuelled a surge of media interest of Alberta separatism, an idea that has no wide-spread support in this province. Many Albertans are feeling a real sense of frustration with the federal government, as Monday’s election results demonstrate, but there is no evidence that Albertans are flocking en masse to separatism. None. Tags Alana DeLong, Alberta Firewall Manifesto, Alberta NDP, Alberta Separatism, Alistair MacGregor, Amarjeet Sohi, Battle River-Crowfoot, Blaine Higgs, Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Centre, Canada Election 2019, Carbon Tax, Conservative Party of Canada, Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, Don Iveson, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Eleanor Olszewski, Greg McLean, Heather McPherson, Ian McClelland, James Cumming, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Kent Hehr, Liberal Party of Canada, MLA Committee on Alberta’s Role in Confederation, New Democratic Party of Canada, Oil Pipelines, Rachel Notley, Ralph Klein, Randy Boissonnault, Sam Lilly, Tim Uppal, Trans Mountain Pipeline Project, Western Alienation, Western Separation, Wexit Alberta, Wexit Manitoba, Wexit Saskatchewan Alberta Politics Daveberta Podcast Episode 42: What do the federal election results mean for Alberta? No Comments on Episode 42: What do the federal election results mean for Alberta? http://media.blubrry.com/daveberta/p/daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-Pod-42.mp3 Subscribe: Android \| Google Podcasts \| Stitcher \| RSS As the federal election results rolled in, Dave and Adam recorded a special episode of the Daveberta Podcast to talk about the election results in Edmonton and Calgary, what a new Liberal minority government led by Justin Trudeau could mean for Alberta, and how Premier Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party will react. Thanks to the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, for supporting the show. The Alberta Podcast Network includes more than 30 great made-in-Alberta podcasts, You can listen and subscribe to the Daveberta Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you find podcasts online. We always love to feedback from our listeners, so let us know what you think of this episode and leave a review where you download. Send us your feedback, or ask us any questions you have for our next episode. You can get us on Twitter, Instagram, the Daveberta Facebook page, or you can email us at podcast@daveberta.ca. Tags Alberta Podcast, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Politics Podcast, Amarjeet Sohi, Andrew Scheer, Calgary-Centre, Canada Election 2019, Conservative Party of Canada, Daveberta Podcast, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Griesbach, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Eleanor Olszewski, Green Party of Canada, Greg McLean, Heather McPherson, Jagmeet Singh, James Cumming, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, Peter Mackay, Randy Boissonnault, Sam Lilly, Tim Uppal Trudeau coming to Edmonton on the first day of the federal election No Comments on Trudeau coming to Edmonton on the first day of the federal election Photo: Justin Trudeau at a rally to launch Amarjeet Sohi’s re-election campaign in July 2019. The federal election is expected to be called tomorrow and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to be in Edmonton on September 12 for a rally with candidates and supporters at the Westbury Theatre in the heart of Edmonton-Strathcona. The Liberal Party could be hoping to make gains in this riding with the retirement of long-time New Democratic Party MLA Linda Duncan, but, while it is certainly “in play,” it is more likely Liberal resources will be focused on re-electing the party’s two local MPs – Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton-Centre and Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods. As Minister of Natural Resources, the congenial and personally popular Sohi has been tasked with the unfortunate role of being one of the public faces of the federal government-owned Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. Despite spending considerable political and financial capital saving the project from failure, the Trudeau Liberals have faced growing hostility in traditionally Conservative-dominated Alberta. The election will be held on October 21, 2019. Liberals filling out their slate of candidates in Alberta Phones are buzzing across Alberta tonight as the Liberals, NDP and Greens try to fill their slates of candidates in this province before an expected federal election call tomorrow. With around 40-days left until Election Day, these last minute candidates will have a lot of ground to cover in order to catch up with their opponents, and, in reality, many of them will serve as paper candidates carrying their party’s banner. The Liberal Party nominated six additional candidates since last Friday: Calgary-Forest Lawn: Jagdish Anand is an Ophthalmologist and Retina Surgeon with a practice in Sunridge Professional Centre and is also attached with Rockyview General Hospital. He was previously a candidate for the Liberal Party nomination in Calgary-Skyview before Nirmala Naidoo was appointed. Calgary-Heritage: Scott Forsyth is a photographer and family physician who holds both medical and law degrees from the University of Calgary. He was the Liberal candidate in Calgary-Heritage in the 2017 by-election where he earned 21.7 per cent of the vote. Calgary-Nose Hill: Josephine Tsang leads the programming and partnership development in the Energy Transitions section of TELUS Spark. She previously taught at Mount Royal University and holds a Ph.D in Physical Organic Chemistry from Queen’s University. Edmonton-Wetaskiwin: Richard Wong is the vice-chairperson of the Liberal Party association in Edmonton-Riverbend. St. Albert-Edmonton: Gregory Springate is a assistant professor teaching accounting, auditing, tax, finance and information systems at MacEwan University in Edmonton. Springate is the former treasurer and chief financial officer of the Alberta Liberal Party. He briefly sought the Liberal Party nomination in Edmonton-West ahead of the 2015 federal election. Yellowhead: Jeremy Hoefsloot is chairperson of the Young Liberals of Canada in Alberta and until recently was a student of political science and philosophy at the University of Alberta. The NDP have a number of nomination meetings scheduled for this week, including in Calgary-Nose Hill, where Patrick King is expected to be acclaimed on September 11, 2019. Gurmit Bhachu was nominated as his party’s candidate in Calgary-Midnapore and the NDP were also expected to name a candidate in Calgary-Heritage today. The Christian Heritage Party nominated Dawid Pawlowski as its candidate in Calgary-Centre. Pawlowski is the brother of controversial street pastor Art Pawlowski. Also running in Calgary-Centre is Animal Party of Canada candidate Eden Gould. Please contact me at david.cournoyer@gmail.com for additions or updates related to candidate nominations in Alberta and I will add them to the list. Thank you! Tags Alberta Federal Candidate Nomination Update, Amarjeet Sohi, Animal Party of Canada, Art Pawlowski, Calgary Forest Lawn, Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Heritage, Calgary-Midnapore, Calgary-Nose Hill, Calgary-Skyview, Canada Election 2019, Conservative Party of Canada, Dawid Pawlowski, Eden Gould, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, Greg Springate, Gurmit Bhachu, Jagdish Anand, Jeremy Hoefsloot, Josephine Tsang, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, Nirmala Naidoo, Patrick King, Randy Boissonnault, Richard Wong, Scott Forsyth, St. Albert-Edmonton, Yellowhead Trudeau campaigns with Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods, Conservatives fill a full slate of candidates in Alberta 1 Comment on Trudeau campaigns with Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods, Conservatives fill a full slate of candidates in Alberta With less than 100 days until Canada’s federal election, the political parties are continuing to nominate candidates in Alberta ahead of the October 21, 2019 vote. The Conservative Party has now nominated candidates in all of the province’s 34 electoral districts, and other main parties, the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party, and Green Party are slowly beginning to fill their slates. The right-wing People’s Party of Canada has chosen candidates in all of the province’s federal electoral districts. And here are some of the latest updates to this list of candidates nominated and running for nominations ahead of the October 2019 federal election: Battle River-Crowfoot: Damien Kurek defeated former Ontario MP Jeff Watson and teacher Jefferson McClung to win the Conservative Party nomination in the sprawling east central rural Alberta district of Battle River-Crowfoot. Kurek works as a constituency assistant in retiring MP Kevin Sorenson‘s office and previously worked as a researcher for the Saskatchewan Party Caucus in Regina. Previous to this bid, Watson served as the Conservative MP for Essex from 2004 to 2015 before moving to Alberta and running for the United Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Peigan in 2018. Calgary-Confederation: Jordan Stein defeated Todd Kathol and Larry Ottewell to secure the Liberal Party nomination in Calgary-Confederation. Stein was the provincial NDP candidate in Calgary-Glenmore in the recent provincial election where she earned 32 percent of the vote and placed second behind UCP candidate Whitney Issik. Calgary-Confederation was the home of the Liberal Party’s highest vote total in the 2015 federal election, with then-candidate Matt Grant earning 29,083 votes to Conservative candidate Len Webber’s 30,669 votes. Calgary-Forest Lawn: William Carnegie has been nominated as the Green Party candidate in this east Calgary district. Carnegie is the president of the Forest Lawn Community Association and ran for the provincial Green Party in 2019 in Calgary-East, earning 2.3 percent of the vote. Edmonton-Centre: Katherine Swampy is expected to be nominated as the NDP candidate in Edmonton-Centre on July 22, 2019. Swampy is a councillor with the Samson Cree Nation, member of the board of directors for Peace Hills Trust, and previously ran for the NDP in the 2015 provincial election in Drayton Valley-Devon and the 2015 federal election in Battle River-Crowfoot. She endorsed Niki Ashton in the federal NDP’s 2017 leadership race. Edmonton-Greisbach: Well-known youth worker and social advocate Mark Cherrington and business-owner Victoria Stevens are seeking the NDP nomination in this east Edmonton district. The NDP had their second strongest showing in Alberta in this district in 2015, with Janis Irwin earning 34 percent to Conservative candidate Kerry Diotte‘s 39 percent. Irwin was elected as the MLA for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in the 2019 provincial election. Brian Gold has announced his plan to seek the yet to be scheduled Liberal Party nomination in this district. Gold earned 21.6 percent of the vote as the Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton-Greisbach in 2015, and he later earned 12 percent of the vote in the 2017 Sturgeon River-Parkland by-election. Edmonton-Mill Woods: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Edmonton last week to speak at the nomination meeting acclaiming MP Amarjeet Sohi as the Liberal Party candidate in the upcoming election. Sohi was first elected in 2015 and currently serves as Minister of Natural Resources. Before his jump into federal politics, Sohi served on Edmonton City Council from 2007 to 2015. NDP organizer Nigel Logan seeking his party’s in Edmonton-Mill Woods at a meeting expected to be held on July 24, 2019. Logan was a candidate for Edmonton City Council in Ward 12 during the 2017 municipal election, where he earned 11.4 percent of the vote. Logan currently works as a constituency assistant to Edmonton-Strathcona NDP MP Linda Duncan. The previous NDP candidate in this district, Jasvir Deol, was elected as the NDP MLA for Edmonton-Meadows in April 2015. Edmonton-Strathcona: Sam Lilly defeated Julia Bareman to secure the Conservative Party nomination. Lilly was endorsed by Diotte and former Edmonton-Gold Bar MLA David Dorward. Activist and owner of the Earth’s General Store Michael Kalmanovitch has been nominated as the Green Party candidate. This south central Edmonton district has been represented by NDP MP Linda Duncan since 2008. Duncan is not seeking re-election. Lethbridge: Shandi Bleiken defeated Sheldon Krul to win the NDP nomination in this southern Alberta district. Bleiken is a community activist and former president of OUTreach Southern Alberta. The NDP candidate in the 2015 federal election placed second with 20.5 percent of the vote. Banff-Airdrie: Jaro Giesbrecht has announced his intention to seek the Liberal Party nomination in Banff-Airdrie, which has not yet been scheduled. Giesbrecht recently ran for the provincial Liberal Party in Calgary-Peigan, earning 1.9 percent of the vote. Peace River-Westlock: Julie Asterisk and Peter Nygaard are seeking the Green Party nomination in this north west Alberta district, scheduled for August 3. Asterisk works in communications and fund development with the Keepers of the Athabasca organization and was the program coordinator with the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre. She was the Green candidate in Fort McMurray-Athabasca in the 2011 election, where she earned 4.5 percent of the vote. Nygaard is owner and operator of a plumbing and gas fitting business in Joussar. He and his wife, Shahla, wrote the book Decade of Discovery which chronicles their decade-long bike trip through Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. Please contact me at david.cournoyer@gmail.com for additions or updates related to candidate nominations in Alberta and I will add them to the list. Daveberta on the CBC Pollcast I was thrilled to join Eric Grenier on the CBC Pollcast podcast this week to discuss Alberta’s political landscape ahead of the October 2019 federal election, with a specific focus on Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Skyview, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Greisbach, Edmonton-Mill Woods, and Edmonton-Strathcona. Tags Amarjeet Sohi, Banff-Airdrie, Battle River-Crowfoot, Brian Gold, Calgary Forest Lawn, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-East, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-Peigan, Canada Election 2019, CBC Pollcast Podcast, Damien Kurek, David Dorward, Drayton Valley-Devon, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Greisbach, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Eric Grenier, Essex, Fort McMurray-Athabasca, Janis Irwin, Jaro Giesbrecht, Jasvir Deol, Jeff Watson, Jefferson McClung, Jordan Stein, Julie Asterisk, Justin Trudeau, Katherine Swampy, Kerry Diotte, Kevin Sorenson, Larry Ottewell, Len Webber, Lethbridge, Linda Duncan, Mark Cherrington, Matt Grant, Michael Kalmanovitch, Nigel Logan, Niki Ashton, Peace River-Westlock, Peter Nygaard, Sam Lilly, Shandi Bleiken, Sheldon Krul, Sturgeon River-Parkland, Todd Kathol, Victoria Stevens, Whitney Issik, William Carnegie Episode 39: Wet Hot Albertan Summer 2 Comments on Episode 39: Wet Hot Albertan Summer We’re taking a break from our summer vacations to record this special episode of the Daveberta Podcast. In this episode, Dave Cournoyer and guest co-host Michael Janz discuss Bill 8, the contentious Education Act and its impact on Gay-Straight Alliances, and how the political battles over pipelines, climate change, and the conspiracy theories about foreign-funded interests are shaping the upcoming federal election. And we talk about the big issues facing Alberta’s future and why our politicians aren’t talking about them! We also dive into the mailbag to answer some of the great questions our listeners sent us. Thanks to our producer, Adam Rozenhart, for helping us put the show together, and a huge thanks to the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, for supporting the show. We’re going to be taking another bit of a break from the podcast as we continue our vacations with our families this summer. But we’ll be back at it with a regular schedule at the beginning of September. Until then, so long everyone, and thanks for listening! Alberta’s foreign-funded-fossil-fuel defamation inquisition: Stand by for an expensive gong show (David Climenhaga, AlbertaPolitics.ca, July 9, 2019) Edmonton Catholic teachers required to sign contracts agreeing to Catholic ‘lifestyles’ (Janet French, Postmedia, December 10, 2018) Critics say UCP’s promotion of charter schools will weaken public system (Eva Ferguson, Postmedia, June 12, 2019) A substantially different statement’: UCP changes message around GSA rules (Emma Graney, Postmedia, June 17, 2019) Alberta Crown corporation owns about $4.8M in shares in for-profit prison companies (Nicole Brockbank, CBC, July 11, 2019) Better schools won’t fix America (Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, July 2019) Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chirs Hedges, 2009) Tweeting in a tricorne hat: Alberta’s Speaker says being a political ‘nerd’ doesn’t have to be boring (Kieran Leavitt, Star Edmonton, July 9, 2019) Tags Adam Rozenhart, Adriana LaGrange, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Alberta Podcast, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Politics Podcast, Amarjeet Sohi, Bill 8: Education Act, Carbon Tax, Dave Cournoyer, Daveberta Podcast, Doug Ford, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Gay-Straight Alliances, Jason Kenney, Julia Bareman, Justin Trudeau, Linda Duncan, Michael Janz, Randy Boissonnault, Roari Richardson, Sam Lilly, United Conservative Party Federal candidate nominations slow to start in Alberta ahead of October 2019 election No Comments on Federal candidate nominations slow to start in Alberta ahead of October 2019 election Canada's Parliament Building on Feb. 23, 2016. With the October 2019 federal election fast approaching, it is time to turn my attention to federal candidate nominations in Alberta. I have started a list of candidates who are nominated or running for federal party nominations in Alberta, so please feel free to send me any additions to the list. Here is a quick look at the state of federal nominations in Alberta: Julia Bareman The dominant Conservative Party, which elected Members of Parliament in 29 of Alberta’s 34 seats in the House of Commons, has nominated candidates in all but two electoral districts in the province. All of the incumbent Conservative MPs in Alberta were acclaimed for their nominations and there are only two open nominations remaining in the province. The nomination contest between in Battle River-Crowfoot was the topic of my previous post and the other outstanding contest is in Edmonton-Strathcona, where Julia Bareman and Sam Lilly are seeking the Conservative nomination. Edmonton-Strathcona is the only electoral district where the federal New Democratic Party has nominated candidate in Alberta, with Heather McPherson narrowly defeating Paige Gorsak in November 2018. The district has been represented by NDP MP Linda Duncan since 2008 and the party is expected to face a very tough challenge to hold the seat again in 2019. The NDP have scheduled a nomination contest in Lethbridge, with Shandi Bleiken expected to be acclaimed. Two former federal NDP candidates from the 2015 election were elected as MLAs in the recent provincial election. Newly elected Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood MLA Janis Irwin and Edmonton-Meadows MLA Jasvir Deol were both candidates for the federal NDP in the 2015 election. It is believed that the federal NDP, as well as the federal Liberals, held off holding nomination contests in Alberta until after the election due to the divided loyalties of their supporters and activists on the provincial level. Many supporters of the federal Liberals in Alberta openly supported Rachel Notley‘s NDP, with others divided between the Alberta Party and the provincial Liberal Party. At least one former provincial NDP candidate wants to be a federal Liberal candidate in October. Jordan Stein ran for the Alberta NDP in Calgary-Glenmore and is now seeking the federal Liberal nomination in Calgary-Confederation. Stein defeated incumbent MLA Anam Kazim to secure the NDP nomination in the district and earned 32 percent of the vote in the April 2019 election. Jordan Stein In a note on her Facebook page, Stein lists a number of reasons for her decision to seek the federal Liberal nomination, including climate change. “The climate is indifferent to our partisanship, it’s indifferent to our opinions but it’s effects can be mitigated by the action we take today,” Stein wrote. The Liberals did not win Calgary-Confederation in the 2015 election, but their candidate in that year’s vote, Matt Grant, earned the most total votes of any Liberal candidate in Alberta. Stein will face Todd Kathol and Larry Ottewell for the nomination in this district. The Liberals have nominated MP Kent Hehr in Calgary-Centre, MP Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton-Centre, MP Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods, and candidates Eleanor Olszewski in Edmonton-Strathcona, Kerrie Johnston in Edmonton-West, and Amy Bronson in Lethbridge. The Green Party has nominated Austin Mullins in Banff-Airdrie, Grad Murray in Edmonton-Centre, Valerie Kennedy in Edmonton-Riverbend, Thana Boonlert in Calgary-Centre, Natalie Odd in Calgary-Confederation, and Catriona Wright in Calgary-Rocky Ridge. Tags Alberta NDP, Amarjeet Sohi, Amy Bronson, Anam Kazim, Austin Mullins, Banff-Airdrie, Battle River-Crowfoot, Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-Rocky Ridge, Canada Election 2019, Candidate nominations, Catriona Wright, Conservative Party of Canada, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Riverbend, Edmonton-Strathcona, Edmonton-West, Eleanor Olszewski, Federal Election Candidate Nominations, Federal NDP, Grad Murray, Green Party of Canada, Heather McPherson, Janis Irwin, Jasvir Deol, Jordan Stein, Julia Bareman, Kent Hehr, Kerrie Johnson, Larry Ottewell, Lethbridge, Liberal Party of Canada, Linda Duncan, Matt Grant, Natalie Odd, Paige Gorsak, Randy Boissonnault, Sam Lilly, Shandi Bleiken, Thana Boonlert, Todd Kathol, Valerie Kennedy Episode 30: The creepy Prab Gill video, the return of Joe Anglin, and Brian Jean’s revenge 1 Comment on Episode 30: The creepy Prab Gill video, the return of Joe Anglin, and Brian Jean’s revenge With the Speech from the Throne coming on March 18 and Premier Rachel Notley expected to call an election soon afterward, Dave and Ryan discuss how the parties are trying to frame the upcoming election, Brian Jean’s revenge, the creepy Prab Gill video, Joe Anglin’s candidacy, the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the state of the Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta, and more. They also delve into the latest developments in the kamikaze mission investigation and answer questions sent in by listeners. The Daveberta Podcast is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network powered by ATB Financial. You can listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you find podcasts online. We always love to feedback from our listeners, so let us know what you think of this episode and leave a review where you download. You can also comment on the blog, Facebook or Twitter or send us an email at podcast@daveberta.ca. And a huge thanks to our producer, Adam Rozenhart, who keeps us on track and makes each episode of the Daveberta Podcast sound so great. Thank you for listening! Tags Adam Rozenhart, Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Provincial Sales Tax, Amarjeet Sohi, ATB Financial, Calgary-Beddington, Candidate nominations, Dave Cournoyer, Daveberta Podcast, Green Party of Alberta, Jason Kenney, Jason Nixon, Joe Anglin, Justin Trudeau, Prab Gill, Rachel Notley, Randy Boissonnault, Randy Kerr, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Ryan Hastman, SNC-Lavalin, Stephen Mandel, United Conservative Party Jason Kenney fumbles Len Rhodes’ appointment, and NDP MLA loses nomination in Edmonton-Meadows 2 Comments on Jason Kenney fumbles Len Rhodes’ appointment, and NDP MLA loses nomination in Edmonton-Meadows Appointed UCP candidate Len Rhodes and UCP leader Jason Kenney. Photo: Appointed UCP candidate Len Rhodes and UCP leader Jason Kenney (source: YouTube). The fallout from Jason Kenney’s decision to appoint former Edmonton Eskimos President and CEO Len Rhodes as the United Conservative Party candidate in Edmonton-Meadows continues. As mentioned in the latest episode of the Daveberta Podcast, some members of the local UCP board of directors are up in arms about Kenney’s claim that they were consulted with and asked for Rhodes to be appointed as the candidate. Some of the disgruntled board members are said to be collecting signatures for a letter disputing Kenney’s claims, and that more than a dozen local directors have signed the letter. Letter from Arundeep Sandhu to UCP supporters Edmonton Meadows (Click to enlarge) Rhodes’ surprise appointment last week eliminated three candidates – Arundeep Sandhu, Joel Mullen and Sant Sharma – who had been selling party memberships and door-knocking to compete for the UCP nomination for up to twelve months. Arundeep Sandhu released a letter on social media today expressing his disappointment in the decision and thanking his supporters. It was a classy letter, but it certainly did not include the “let’s all get behind the appointed candidate” message that Kenney and Rhodes were likely looking for. Meanwhile, more than 400 New Democratic Party members voted to choose Jasvir Deol as their candidate in Edmonton-Meadows. Deol defeated Chand Gul and MLA Denise Woollard, who had been elected to represent Edmonton-Mill Creek in 2015. Jasvir Deol Deol was the NDP candidate in the 2015 federal election in the Edmonton-Mill Woods district, where he earned 12.7 per cent of the vote in the contest against Liberal Amarjeet Sohi and Conservative Tim Uppal. Woollard is the third NDP MLA to be challenged and defeated in a nomination contest. MLA Trevor Horne was defeated by MLA Marie Renaud in St. Albert and Jordan Stein defeated MLA Anam Kazim in Calgary-Glenmore. Peace River NDP MLA Debbie Jabbour is facing a nomination challenge from Justin Sharpe at a meeting scheduled to take place on February 28, 2019. The NDP also nominated three other candidates this past weekend: MD of Ranchlands Reeve Cameron Gardner has been nominated as the NDP candidate in Livingstone-Macleod. Former Taber town councillor and past president of the Alberta Library Trustees Association Laura Ross-Giroux has been nominated as the NDP candidate in the southern Alberta district of Taber-Warner. Crown prosecutor Moira Vane is the NDP candidate in Strathcona-Sherwood Park. An NDP nomination meeting in West Yellowhead that was originally scheduled for this past weekend appears to have been rescheduled to March 9, 2019. Dr. Esther Tailfeathers is seeking the NDP nomination in Cardston-Siksika. Dr. Tailfeathers is a Physician at the Blood Tribe Clinic at Standoff and a Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. Melissa Langmaid has announced plans to seek the NDP nomination in Chestermere-Strathmore. Langmaid is an Environmental Advisor with AltaLink and a unit coordinator with the United Utility Workers’ Association. Holly Heffernan is seeking the NDP nomination in Drumheller-Stettler. Heffernan is a retired Registered Nurse and long-time NDP activist, having run numerous times for the NDP in both provincial and federal elections in Calgary. UCP set Red Deer-South nomination vote for March 16 Adele Poratto The elusive mystery star candidate is nowhere to be seen, but the UCP has moved ahead with the party’s nomination vote in Red Deer-South anyway. Party members will choose from the Bruce Buruma, Gary Davidson, Adele Poratto, Jason Stephan, and Norman Wiebe on March 16, 2019. Buruma is Director of Community Relations for Red Deer Public School District and Executive Director of the Foundation for Red Deer Public Schools. Davidson is Chief of Emergency Medicine for Alberta Health Services’ Central Zone. Poratto is a decorator and event planner, and ran for the PC Party nomination in the district ahead of the 2008 election. Stephan is a lawyer and president of the Red Deer Taxpayers’ Association. And Wiebe was the Wildrose Party candidate in this district in the 2015 election, earning 24 percent of the vote behind NDP candidate Barb Miller and PC candidate Darcy Mykytyshyn. Davidson’s wife, Pamela Davidson, sought the UCP Central Alberta Director election at the party’s 2018 annual general meeting and previously ran against Christine Moore in the Red Deer County Division 6 election in 2017. Moore ran unsuccessfully for the UCP nomination in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake ahead of the 2018 by-election and as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer-North in the 2015 election. The UCP has also opened nomination contests in Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, and Edmonton-MIll Woods. Rebel Strankman running as Independent Rick Strankman Former UCP MLA Rick Strankman has announced his plans to run for re-election as an Independent candidate in Drumheller-Stettler. Strankman was elected as a Wildrose MLA in 2012 and 2015 and left the UCP caucus on January 15, 2019 following his loss of the party’s nomination to rancher Nate Horner in October 2018. “After nearly seven years as an MLA shackled with Party-first priorities, it is clear that Alberta’s party system of government has stripped effective representation and across-the-board best interests from Alberta’s citizens,” wrote Strankman in a media release posted on this website. “Running for election and winning office as an Independent will enable me to restore the priorities of all Drumheller Stettler citizens to the front lines of the Legislature and advance their priorities for resurrecting Alberta’s prosperity.” he said. Former MLA Ian Donovan is running as an Independent in the new Cardston-Siksika district. Donovan was first elected as a Wildrose MLA in Little Bow in 2012 and crossed the floor to the PC Party in 2014. He was narrowly defeated in the 2015 election, finishing 12 votes behind Wildrose candidate David Schneider. With Schneider declining to seek re-election, Donovan supported past Christian Heritage candidate Marc Slingerland in the UCP nomination contest against eventual winner Joseph Schow. Donovan later announced he was quitting the UCP, citing a dictatorship-like control of the party by Kenney. Mandel awaits fate as 2 Alberta Party candidates back on the ballot The Court of Queen’s Bench has waived the 5-year ban on Alberta Party candidates Moe Rahall in Edmonton-Castle Downs and Diana Ly in Edmonton-Gold Bar, who will now be allowed to run in the 2019 election. Party leader Stephen Mandel and four other Alberta Party candidates still await their fate as the court has yet to remove their bans. Swann staffer runs for the Green Party Janice Fraser is running for the Green Party in Calgary-McCall. Fraser is currently the office manager for Calgary-Mountain View Liberal MLA David Swann, who is retiring after four-terms in the Legislature. Swann’s other constituency office staffer, Joshua Codd, is the nominated Liberal Party candidate in Calgary-Currie. Jane Drummond is running for the Green Party in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. Drummond is the editor of the Nordegg Squeek and has served as an Alberta Hiking Association member representing Terra Firma Nordegg Hiking. Meanwhile, Chris Glassford has been nominated as the Alberta Advantage Party candidate in Sherwood Park and Mark Gregor has been nominated in Drayton Valley-Devon. Tags Adele Poratto, Alberta Advantage Party, Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Alberta PC Party, Amarjeet Sohi, Anam Kazim, Arundeep Sandhu, Barb Miller, Bruce Buruma, Calgary-Currie, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-McCall, Calgary-Mountain View, Cameron Gardner, Candidate nominations, Cardston-Siksika, Chand Gul, Chestermere-Strathmore, Chris Glassford, Christine Moore, Darcy Mykytyshyn, David Schneider, David Swann, Debbie Jabbour, Denise Woollard, Diana Ly, Drayton Valley-Devon, Drumheller-Stettler, Edmonton Eskimos, Edmonton-Castle Downs, Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Esther Tailfeathers, Gary Davidson, Green Party of Alberta, Holly Heffernan, Ian Donovan, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Jane Drummond, Janice Fraser, Jason Kenney, Jason Stephan, Jasvir Deol, Joel Mullen, Jordan Stein, Joseph Schow, Joshua Codd, Justin Sharpe, Laura Ross-Giroux, Len Rhodes, Little Bow, Livingstone-Macleod, Marc Slingerland, Marie Renaud, Mark Gregor, Melissa Langmaid, Moe Rahall, Moira Vane, Nate Horner, Norman Wiebe, Pamela Davidson, Peace River, Red Deer-North, Red Deer-South, Rick Strankman, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Sant Sharma, Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Stephen Mandel, Strathcona-Sherwood Park, Taber-Warner, Tim Uppal, Trevor Horne, United Conservative Party, United Utility Workers’ Association, West Yellowhead, Wildrose Party Episode 29: Alberta is in serious pre-election mode 5 Comments on Episode 29: Alberta is in serious pre-election mode We are in pre-election mode in this episode as Dave and Ryan discuss the health care and education curriculum debate between the New Democratic Party and United Conservative Party, the unsurprising recent Trans Mountain Pipeline report from the National Energy Board, and the latest from the SNC-Lavalin/Justin Trudeau/Jody Wilson-Raybould fiasco. We also delve into the latest nomination news, including the fallout from the Len Rhodes appointment in Edmonton-Meadows, the NDP nomination contest in that district, and Alberta Party leader Stephen Mandel’s candidate ban. We also dive into our mailbag to answer questions sent to us by our listeners. Recommended reading/events/listening: ‘Say carrot’ … UCP phone bot conversations feel creepy, sound creepy, by Elise Stolte (Edmonton Journal, Feb. 19, 2019) Jason Kenney’s prescription for health care relies on false diagnosis, by Keith Gerein (Edmonton Journal, Feb. 20, 2019) #200 My Bloody Lavalin, Canadaland Shortcuts (Feb. 13, 2019) Are these the ‘answers’ of a Prime Minister who’s done nothing wrong, by Andrew McDougall (Maclean’s Magazine, Feb. 18, 2019) Canada, the show, by Paul Wells (Maclean’s Magazine, Feb. 12, 2019) Tags Adam Rozenhart, Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta NDP, Alberta Podcast, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Politics Podcast, Amarjeet Sohi, Arundeep Sandhu, ATB Financial, Candidate nominations, Chand Gul, Dave Cournoyer, Daveberta Podcast, Denise Woollard, Edmonton-McClung, Edmonton-Meadows, Education Curriculum, Health Care, Jason Kenney, Jasvir Deol, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justin Trudeau, Len Rhodes, National Energy Board, Rachel Notley, Randy Boissonnault, Ryan Hastman, SNC-Lavelin, Stephen Mandel, Trans Mountain Pipeline Project, United Conservative Party Who wants to go to Ottawa? Federal nominations underway in Alberta. No Comments on Who wants to go to Ottawa? Federal nominations underway in Alberta. Liberal Party MP Randy Boissonnault has been nominated as his party’s candidate in Edmonton-Centre. Photo: Liberal Party MP Randy Boissonnault has been nominated as his party’s candidate in Edmonton-Centre. (Source: Twitter) With so much nomination activity ahead of next year’s provincial election, it has been easy to overlook the preparation underway in Alberta for next year’s expected federal election. Jagdeep Sahota Most Conservative Party Members of Parliament from Alberta, who represent most of the province’s contingent in Ottawa, were acclaimed as their party’s candidates for the next election, with the exception of Mike Lake, who fended off a nomination challenge in Edmonton-Wetaskiwin. Former Progressive Conservative MLA Moe Amery briefly launched a challenge against Deepak Obhrai for the federal Conservative nomination in Calgary-Forest Lawn but withdrew from the contest months later. Obhrai was then acclaimed. Non-incumbent Conservatives acclaimed for their nominations include Jagdeep Sahota in Calgary-Skyview, James Cumming in Edmonton-Centre, and Tim Uppal in Edmonton-Mill Woods. Sam Lilly is seeking the Conservative Party nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona. If Lilly is nominated in Edmonton-Strathcona, then all eleven Conservative Party candidates in Edmonton and the surrounding area will be men. Liberal Party MP Randy Boissonnault was acclaimed as his party’s candidate in Edmonton-Centre, making him the governing party’s first nominated candidate in Alberta during this election cycle. Liberal MP Kent Hehr is expected to be nominated as his party’s candidate in Calgary-Centre on October 21, 2018 and Edmonton-Mill Woods Liberal MP Amarjeet Sohi has yet to be nominated. Sohi currently serves as Minister of Natural Resources with special responsibilities related to the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. The New Democratic Party is seeking a new candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona, which has been represented by MP Linda Duncan since 2008. Duncan announced recently that she plans to not seek re-election in 2019. Heather McPherson launched her campaign for the NDP nomination in this district last night. McPherson is the executive director of the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation. Former Liberal MP Darshan Kang, who now sits as an Independent MP, has not announced whether he will seek re-election in Calgary-Skyview in 2019. The all-party board of internal economy ordered Kang to go to sexual harassment prevention and awareness training after an investigation found allegations against him constituted sexual harassment. There are two contested nomination races currently underway: Calgary-Centre: Five candidates are seeking the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Centre: T. Lee Humphrey, Karim Jivraj, Greg McLean, Tamara Loiselle, and Hugh Thompson. Yellowhead: With Conservative MP Jim Eglinski not seeking re-election, five candidates have stepped up to seek the party nomination in Yellowhead, including Christian private school principal Robert Duiker, former Drayton Valley mayor Glenn McLean, Yellowhead County Planning and Subdivision Officer Kelly Jensen, past Wildrose Party candidate Kathy Rondeau, and Yellohwead County Mayor Gerald Soroka. Two other candidates, Ryan Ouderkirk and Carolyne Mackellar, withdrew from the contest. Conservative Party members in Yellowhead will be voting to select their candidate in Grande Cache, Hinton, Rocky Mountain House, Drayton Valley, Wabamum and Edson between October 11 and 13, 2018. I expect to soon be tracking federal nominations in Alberta, so stay tuned. If you know any candidates who have announced their intentions to stand for federal party nomination, please send me an email at david.cournoyer@gmail.com. I will add them to the list. Thank you! Tags Amarjeet Sohi, Calgary Forest Lawn, Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Skyview, Canada Election 2019, Carolyne Mackellar, Conservative Party of Canada, Darshan Kang, Deepak Obhrai, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, Federal Election Candidate Nominations, Gerald Soroka, Glenn McLean, Greg McLean, Heather McPherson, Hugh Thompson, Jagdeep Sahota, James Cumming, Jim Eglinski, Karim Jivraj, Kathy Rondeau, Kelly Jensen, Kent Hehr, Liberal Party of Canada, Linda Duncan, Mike Lake, Moe Amery, New Democratic Party of Canada, Randy Boissonnault, Robert Duiker, Ryan Ouderkirk, Sam Lilly, T. Lee Humphrey, Tamara Loiselle, Tim Uppal, Yellowhead Roll up the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner. Federal court halts the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project on the same day Kinder Morgan sells it to the Government of Canada. 4 Comments on Roll up the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner. Federal court halts the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project on the same day Kinder Morgan sells it to the Government of Canada. A train of oil cars parked at the CN yards near Jasper, Alberta. Photo: A train of oil cars sits parked outside Jasper, Alberta, not far from the path of the current Trans Mountain Pipeline. What a day. Rachel Notley This morning, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the federal cabinet orders approving the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline. And this afternoon, the shareholders of Kinder Morgan Canada Limited agreed to sell the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Expansion Project to the Government of Canada, leaving the government as the brand-new owners of a pipeline that it cannot expand, at least for a now. This series of events is the latest twist in the push to expand the 65-year old pipeline that carried oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia. The points included in the court ruling are quite reasonable. The court ruled that the National Energy Board report on which the cabinet based its approval “unjustifiably defined the scope of the project under review not to include project-related tanker traffic” and that the federal government “fell well short of the minimum requirements” to consult with Indigenous communities in the third and phase of the pipeline consultation process. Due diligence is important and the court provided the federal government with a clear path to resolving these issues. Politics aside, all Canadians should expect that their federal government will not cut any corners when approving larger industrial infrastructure projects such as major oil pipelines. Now to the politics. This court decision was not a result of any actions taken by the Alberta government, but it could be a severe setback to Premier Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party government. This summer the NDP cabinet held an outdoor press conference where ministers and NDP MLAs were seen celebrating the start of the project with cheers and high-fives. All that was missing was a flight-suit and a giant ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner. The Alberta NDP have tied the success of this pipeline expansion to justifying the introduction of a carbon tax, their much-praised Climate Leadership Plan, and promised future balanced budgets. Notley has donned the metaphorical Captain Alberta uniform and has become one of Canada’s strongest advocates for oil pipeline expansion, which would be a popular position if she is able to deliver the construction of an actual pipeline. “We built a pipeline!” was going to be a central plank of the NDP’s re-election campaign. The NDP’s path to re-election in 2019 was always going to be narrow and steep, but the latest twist in the Trans Mountain Pipeline saga should convince Notley to aim some significant political pressure on Ottawa to resolve this problem ASAP. As Postmedia columnist Graham Thomson wrote in the Edmonton Journal today, “This might not be the end of the Alberta NDP government — but you can see it from here.” The delay also puts already uncertain Liberal Party fortunes in Alberta at risk. Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi, the Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Mill Woods, is now responsible for the construction of a pipeline that the cannot be built until the issues identified by the court are resolved. Sohi and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be held accountable to their commitment to build a new relationship with Canada’s First Nations communities. The court ruling stated that the issues related to consultation with Indigenous communities are “specific and focussed” and could result in “a short delay,” which is positive for the future of the now Government of Canada-owned project, but not politically expedient. The next federal election is scheduled to take place in October 2019. I am sure I will have more to write about soon, as Premier Notley is expected to make a live televised and Facebook-streamed address to Albertans at 6:00 p.m. today. UPDATE: Notley announced in her address that the Alberta government will withdraw from Ottawa’s climate change plant. Notley is also calling on the federal government to challenge the Federal Court of Appeal ruling at the Supreme Court, call an emergency session of Parliament to fix the National Energy Board,‬ improve consultation and accommodation relating to Indigenous peoples in the way they deserve, and…get construction re-started.‬ Tags Alberta NDP, Amarjeet Sohi, Captain Alberta, Climate Change, Climate Leadership Plan, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Federal Court of Appeal, Graham Thomson, Justin Trudeau, Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline, Mission Accomplished, National Energy Board, Oil Pipelines, Rachel Notley Episode 16: Derek Fildebrandt introduces the Derek Fildebrandt Party 1 Comment on Episode 16: Derek Fildebrandt introduces the Derek Fildebrandt Party In this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman discuss whether Derek Fildebrandt‘s Freedom Conservative Party will be relevant in the next election, Rachel Notley‘s role at the recent Council of the Federation meeting in New Brunswick, the decision by Greyhound to withdraw from western Canada, and Edmonton-Mill Woods MP Amarjeet Sohi‘s new job as Minister of Natural Resources (and pipelines). We also discuss some of the latest political gossip, including the departure of Prab Gill from the United Conservative Party and Stephen Harper’s re-emergence on the political stage (and whether he’s softening the ground for a political comeback). Canada’s Premiers, July 2018 (photo source: Rachel Notley’s twitter) The Daveberta Podcast is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network powered by ATB Financial. The network includes more than 30 podcasts, including The Undad Podcast. You can listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you find podcasts online. We’d love to hear what you think of this episode, so feel free to leave a review where you download, comment on the blog, Facebook or Twitter or send us an email at podcast@daveberta.ca. We are always thankful to our hard working producer, Adam Rozenhart, who helps make each episode of the Daveberta Podcast sound so great. Recommended reading/listening ParityYeg A conversation between Ezra Klein and Arthur Brooks about anger versus contempt and how we can learn to disagree better in politics, The Ezra Klein Show Podcast Ontario Premier Doug Ford ducks from a fight with Rachel Notley, by Graham Thomson (July 20, 2018) The power of authenticity: I took on Tory populist MP Cheryl Gallant and got squashed, by Mike Coates (July 20, 2018) Tags Adam Rozenhart, Alberta NDP, Alberta Patriots, Alberta Podcast, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Politics Podcast, Amarjeet Sohi, Arthur Brooks, ATB Financial, Brian Mulroney, Cheryl Gallant, Chestermere-Strathmore, Council of the Federation, Dave Cournoyer, Daveberta Podcast, Derek Fildebrandt, Doug Ford, Ezra Klein, Ezra Klein Show, Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta, Graham Thomson, Greyhound, Mike Coates, Prab Gill, Rachel Notley, Ryan Hastman, Stephen Harper, United Conservative Party Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: NDPer Stephanie McLean retiring, Mike Nickel runs for UCP nomination, UCP MLAs face challengers 1 Comment on Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: NDPer Stephanie McLean retiring, Mike Nickel runs for UCP nomination, UCP MLAs face challengers Photo: Mike Nickel, Stephanie McLean, Angela Pitt, and Marco Reid The big nomination news since my last update was the announcement by Stephanie McLean that she was withdrawing from the New Democratic Party nomination contest in Calgary-Varsity. McLean is Minister of Status of Women and Minister of Service Alberta and is the second NDP MLA to announced plans not to seek re-election in 2019. In 2016, she became the first first sitting cabinet minister in Alberta’s history to give birth while in office. Calgary-Varsity was the NDP’s third strongest showing in Calgary in the 2015 election, behind Calgary-Fort, represented by Joe Ceci, and Calgary-Klein, represented by Craig Coolahan. Edmonton City Councillor seeks UCP nomination Edmonton City Councillor Mike Nickel is the third candidate to enter the United Conservative Party nomination contest in the new Edmonton-South district. Nickel has represented Ward 11 in southeast Edmonton since 2013 and previously represented southwest Edmonton’s Ward 5 from 2004 until 2007 when he was unseated by rookie candidate Don Iveson. Nickel ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1998 and 2001. Nickel would not need to resign as a City Councillor unless he is elected as an MLA in the expected spring 2019 provincial election. Amarjeet Sohi took a leave of absence from council when he ran as a federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods in 2015 and resigned after he was elected. Councillor Tony Caterina took a leave of absence when he ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview district in the 2015 provincial election. He returned to council following his election defeat. UCP MLAs face nomination challengers The UCP nominated their first five candidates for the next provincial election. Jason Kenney in Calgary-Lougheed, Mike Ellis in Calgary-West, Jason Nixon in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Grant Hunter in Taber-Warner and Nate Glubish in Strathcona-Sherwood Park were acclaimed in their nomination contests. As noted in a previous update, Sportsnet commentator Roger Millions is challenging MLA Angela Pitt for the UCP nomination in the new Airdrie-East district. Pitt was first elected in 2015, earning 35 percent of the vote in a three-way contest with New Democrat Chris Noble, with 29 percent, and Progressive Conservative Peter Brown, with 28 percent. A nomination contest has been scheduled for June 20, 2018. There is trouble in Airdrie-East. Board member Rick Northey resigned citing serious concerns with how “sixteen thousand dollars” left over in the former Wildrose Party association in the district was “given away with no discussion at all.” Northey claims in his letter that he faced “outright intimidation from a sitting MLA.” Patrick Meckelborg is challenging UCP MLA Ric McIver for the UCP nomination in Calgary-Hays at a June 7, 2018 selection meeting. McIver was first elected as MLA for this district in 2012 and served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party following the party’s disastrous defeat in the 2015 election, Carrie Fischer and Dean Leask are challenging UCP MLA Wayne Anderson for the UCP nomination in Highwood. Fischer is a former councillor in the Town of Okotoks who ran against Anderson as the PC candidate in this district in the 2015 election. Greens nominate by-election candidates The Green Party of Alberta has nominated Marco Reid in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake and Brian Deheer in Fort McMurray-Conklin. By-elections are expected to be called in these districts soon. Reid is currently serving as president of the party and was a candidate for the party’s leadership in 2017. The party’s strongest showing in the last election was in Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, where Deheer earned 2.8 percent of the vote. Here are some of the other updates to the list of candidates running for party nominations ahead of Alberta’s 2019 provincial election: Calgary-Bow – Cheryl Durkee is seeking the UCP nomination contest in Calgary-Bow. Calgary-Cross – Emile Gabriel is seeking the UCP nomination contest. Calgary-Falconridge – Deepak Sharma is seeking the Liberal Party nomination. Edmonton-Manning – Kulshan Gill is seeking the UCP nomination. Edmonton-McClung – Steve Thompson is seeking the UCP nomination. Thompson was the Wildrose Party candidate in this district in the 2015 election. Edmonton-Mill Woods – David Fletcher is seeking the UCP nomination. Fletcher was a candidate for Edmonton Public School Board in 1998, a Progressive Conservative candidate in Edmonton-Gold Bar in 2001 and an Independent candidate for Senator Nominee in 2012. Edmonton-Rutherford – Hannah Presakarchuk is seeking the UCP nomination. Edmonton-Whitemud – Ian Crawford is seeking the UCP nomination. Crawford was the Wildrose Party candidate in Edmonton-Whitemud in 2012 and Edmonton-Riverview in 2015 and ran for the federal Conservative nomination in Edmonton-Riverbend in 2015. He also ran for City Council in 1989, 1992, and 2004, for the Capital Health Authority Board in 2001, for the Reform Party nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona in 1993, for the PC nominations in Edmonton-Rutherford and Edmonton-Ellerslie in 1993, for the Canadian Alliance in Edmonton-Southeast nomination in 2000, and for the PC nomination in Edmonton-Meadowlark in 2007. Spruce Grove-Stony Plain – Jerry Semen is seeking the UCP nomination. St. Albert – Brian Horak is seeking the UCP nomination. Tags Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta NDP, Amarjeet Sohi, Brian Deheer, Brian Horak, Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Hays, Calgary-Klein, Calgary-Lougheed, Calgary-Varsity, Calgary-West, Carrie Fischer, Cheryl Durkee, Chestermere-Rockyview, Chestermere-Strathmore, Craig Coolahan, David Campbell, Dean Leask, Derek Fildebrandt, Don Iveson, Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, Edmonton-Rutherford, Edmonton-South, Emile Gabriel, Fort McMurray-Conklin, Fort McMurray-Conklin by-election, Grant Hunter, Green Party of Alberta, Hannah Presakarchuk, Highwood, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake by-election, Jason Kenney, Jason Nixon, Jerry Semen, Joe Ceci, Leela Aheer, Marco Reid, Mike Ellis, Mike Nickel, Nate Glubish, Patrick Meckelborg, Ric McIver, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Spruce Grove-Stony Plain, St. Albert, Stephanie McLean, Strathcona-Sherwood Park, Taber-Warner, Tony Caterina, United Conservative Party, Wayne Anderson Through the Looking Glass – NDP cabinet ministers awkwardly join pro-pipeline, pro-UCP rally 5 Comments on Through the Looking Glass – NDP cabinet ministers awkwardly join pro-pipeline, pro-UCP rally Today’s rally at the Alberta Legislature in support of the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline was one of the strangest rallies in recent memory. Maybe it was because the first speaker introduced himself by bragging about having confronted actor Jane Fonda in a parking lot outside a Moxie’s restaurant. Maybe it was because in the crowd of 600 or so Albertans I was standing between one guy who kept yelling “Free Alberta from Canada!” and another who was yelling “Go back to Ottawa you Commie!” Or maybe it was because as this was happening, there were a dozen New Democratic Party cabinet ministers and MLAs standing beside the podium, with most of the United Conservative Party caucus standing beside them. We are through the looking glass. Organized by the pro-pipeline Rally 4 Resources group, the event was promoted by both the NDP and UCP, and included speakers ranging from NDP cabinet minsters to UCP leader Jason Kenney to Edmonton mayor Don Iveson. Despite the presence of senior NDP cabinet ministers and backbench MLAs, and two mass emails promoting the event sent by the NDP caucus, one from Municipal Affairs Minister Shaye Anderson and one from Calgary-Shaw MLA Graham Sucha, the crowd did not feel like an NDP friendly group. Or at least not any type of NDP-friendly group I would recognize. Cries of “bullshit” could be heard as Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous spoke at the mic. The crowd booed, jeered and heckled federal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a popular former Edmonton city councillor, as he spoke about the Trudeau government’s commitment to the pipeline expansion. A small group can be heard on video trying to begin a chant of “NDP, NDP, NDP” as Kenney spoke, but it didn’t catch on. While the rally was billed as a non-partisan event, it felt like the NDP showed up to a UCP rally, or at the very least an anti-NDP rally. Premier Rachel Notley is on a roll as Alberta’s top pipeline champion, but this rally should give the NDP pause about whether hitching the final year of their first-term as government to the pipeline issue was a smart move. As a government in Alberta, being anything but pro-pipeline is an almost impossible option. Support of the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline in Alberta is likely somewhere near 98 percent (with a 2 percent margin of error) and I suspect many Albertans are becoming increasingly frustrated with pipeline opponents in British Columbia (where opposition to the pipeline is a valid mainstream opinion). Supporting these rallies and escalating the war of words into drastic action against BC may play well with the Chambers of Commerce and certain Postmedia columnists, but it may fall flat among the supporters the NDP will need to activate and energize in the next 12 months. Notley will meet with BC Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa next Sunday to discuss the pipeline dispute. If the meeting can deescalate or even resolve the pipeline dispute to end official political opposition to the pipeline in BC, then perhaps Notley’s gamble will pay off. But it not, then we may witness more pro-pipeline rallies with NDP cabinet ministers standing awkwardly in front of crowds of UCP supporters. Tags Alberta NDP, Amarjeet Sohi, Calgary-Shaw, Deron Bilous, Don Iveson, Graham Sucha, Jane Fonda, Jason Kenney, John Horgan, Justin Trudeau, Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline, Moxie's, Oil Pipelines, Rachel Notley, Shaye Anderson, United Conservative Party The Energy East Blame Game. Who blames who? 6 Comments on The Energy East Blame Game. Who blames who? Today’s announcement by the TransCanada Corporation that it would no longer pursue the construction of the Energy East Pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Saint John, New Brunswick triggered a storm of statements, accusations and criticisms from politicians trying to drive their political narratives. While the reasons for the TransCanada Corporation withdrawing its plans are likely influenced more by economics than by politics, there will certainly be political implications for the politicians – like Premier Rachel Notley – who have tethered their governing agenda to the approval of pipeline projects. So, politics being politics, here is a quick look at who is blaming who for the demise of the Energy East Pipeline: The TransCanada Corporation blames existing and likely future delays caused by the National Energy Board regulatory process, associated costs and challenging “issues and obstacles” facing the project. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley blames “a broad range of factors that any responsible business must consider.” New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant doesn’t blame the TransCanada Corporation, but recognizes “recent changes to world market conditions and the price of oil have negatively impacted the viability of the project.” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall blames Justin Trudeau, the federal government, and Montreal mayor Denis Coderre. Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr blames the decision to cancel the pipeline project as a business decision. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer blames Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Alberta Liberal MPs Randy Boissonnault, Amarjeet Sohi and Kent Hehr blame “current market challenges related to world market conditions and lower commodity prices. Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel blames “Liberal ideological opposition to the wealth and prosperity of western Canada, to the detriment of the nation as a whole.” United Conservative Party interim leader Nathan Cooper blames the Alberta NDP. UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean blames Rachel Notley, Justin Trudeau and Denis Coderre. UCP leadership candidate Jason Kenney blames the Alberta NDP carbon-tax and social license, and the Trudeau Liberals. He later also blames Denis Coderre. UCP leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer blames Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley. Alberta Party leader Greg Clark blames the Alberta NDP. Alberta Liberal leader David Khan blames economic factors, describing the decision as “a business decision by TransCanada based on current economic and political realities.” UCP MLA Drew Barnes blames Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. UCP MLA Prasad Panda blames the Alberta NDP’s carbon tax. 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__label__cc	0.715586	0.284414	Eco Moms On A Mission: Lori Popkewitz Alper Of GroovyGreenLivin Kimberly Button March 11, 2015 No Comments What happens when a mother and lawyer decides to protect her children’s health from everyday toxins and become an eco-activist? Major companies start taking notice. Lori Popkewitz Alper is the founder of GroovyGreenLivin, a website devoted to living a greener, healthier lifestyle, with an emphasis on foods and non-toxic home products. With appearances on ABC World News and The Weather Channel, as well as writing for The Huffington Post and Mom’s Clean Air Force, Alper has been on a mission to spread the word about eco-friendly living for over a decade. Burnt out from the stressful lifestyle of being a lawyer, Alper decided to start focusing on taking care of herself and her family. “I slowly shifted my focus towards creating a green and clean lifestyle and began to educate myself about chemicals and other toxins that were going into and on my body,” Alper said. Her children were the driving force that really fueled Alper’s desire to become an eco-mom on a mission. “A few years later, two of my children developed life threatening food allergies. My commitment to living as toxin-free as possible became even stronger as a way to gain some control over their allergies and our family health in general,” she said. “Blogging offered a venue to share information and connect with others interested in advocating for safer products.” Content not only to share information on what products to buy and which ones to avoid, Alper wants to create a driving change that will have major corporations remove toxins from our everyday products, so that all parents can buy items for their home without worry or fear. She has created two petitions that have gained nationwide support. “The first petition demanded that Procter & Gamble (makers of Tide laundry detergent) strip a harmful cancer-causing chemical out of Tide Free & Gentle®,” Alper said. “Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) released a report, Dirty Secrets: What’s Hiding in Your Cleaning Products?, which revealed high levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane hiding out in Tide® and Tide Free & Gentle®. This toxic chemical didn’t appear on the Tide product label or on the product website, so consumers had no way of knowing it was there.” “The petition went viral. Almost 80,000 people came together demanding that Procter & Gamble remove this cancer-causing chemical from their Tide Free & Gentle® laundry detergent. Finally Procter & Gamble agreed in a California court to reformulate its detergents to reduce levels of 1,4 dioxane to below 25 parts per million,” she said. “The second petition asked Disney to be a leader for children’s health and to stop using dangerous chemicals in their Spiderman and princess lunch boxes. A study from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice found that all the children’s lunch boxes tested contained up to 30 times the amount of toxic dust deemed safe by the federal government. Once the petition launched, over 62,000 people signed,” Alper said. “Although Disney never complied with the request, the petition did raise awareness and consumers spent extra time researching safer lunch box alternatives.” There’s still a lot of work to do to clean up our environment from toxins, but Eco-Moms such as Lori Popkewitz Alper will most definitely be leading the way and creating a greener blueprint for concerned parents to follow to protect their children’s health. Kimberly Button Kimberly Button is the author of The Everything Guide to a Healthy Home and the Editor-in-Chief of GetGreenBeWell , featuring modern, sane ideas for living a non-toxic life. A professional journalist for nearly two decades, Button has written for magazines such as Martha Stewart's Whole Living, American Airlines, AAA, Sierra, National Geographic Traveler, and Vegetarian Times. Visit KimButton.com for more information. Latest posts by Kimberly Button (see all) Cheers: 11 Ways to Reuse Wine Corks - January 1, 2020 Take These 8 Creative Ways to Repurpose Tires out for a Spin - June 13, 2019 Funky Ways to Reuse Old Magazines - January 18, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1068
__label__cc	0.729353	0.270647	CULTURE OF QURAN Dersin Koordinatörü Prof.Dr. ALİCAN DAĞDEVİREN Students will examine the concepts, subjects and works of the Qur´an. Concepts, subjects and works related to the Qur´an. 1 - Recognize the general characteristics of the Qur´an . 1 - 2 - A - C - 2 - Explane the nature of revelation, its forms and the sides related to it. 1 - 2 - 3 - A - C - 3 - Identify the meaning, definition, descending, names and divisions of the Qur´an. 1 - 2 - 3 - A - C - 4 - Evaluate the Qur´an´s recovery process, its reading and the issue of Seven Letters. 1 - 2 - 3 - A - C - 5 - Distinguish the concepts of Tafsir, Ta´vil, Terceme and Meal. 1 - 2 - 3 - A - C - 6 - Describe the concepts, subjects and works belonged to the history of Qur´an. 1 - 2 - 3 - A - C - 1 What is the Quran? What are the differences between the hadith and holy Qur´an? 2 Concepts of the Qur´an Verse, Sura, Juz, Mushaf and so on. 3 Nature of revelation and the beginning and varieties of Revelation-Prophet relationship, the revelation gradualism. 4 The arrival of the Qur´an and complete. 5 Bringing the Qur´an as a book and Propagation. 6 Makki-Madani and the occasions of revelation. 7 The opening parts of the surahs and Qur´anic stories. 8 The uniqueness of the Quran. 9 Difficult passages in the Qur´an. 10 Content of the Qur´an. 11 Main themes of the Qur´an. 12 Holy Qur´an Divine Kalam. 13 Tafsir and Meal of the Qur´an. 14 The virtues of the Qur´an. Paçacı, Mehmet, Introduction to the Qur'an, İSAM yay., İstanbul, 2010. Odev 1 5 PerformansGoreviUygulama 1 1 Performance Task (Application) 2 10 20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1070
__label__cc	0.715537	0.284463	A multidisciplinary perspective of big data in management research Jie Sheng, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Xiaojun Wang International Journal of Production Economics, 2017, vol. 191, issue C, 97-112 Abstract: In recent years, big data has emerged as one of the prominent buzzwords in business and management. In spite of the mounting body of research on big data across the social science disciplines, scholars have offered little synthesis on the current state of knowledge. To take stock of academic research that contributes to the big data revolution, this paper tracks scholarly work's perspectives on big data in the management domain over the past decade. We identify key themes emerging in management studies and develop an integrated framework to link the multiple streams of research in fields of organisation, operations, marketing, information management and other relevant areas. Our analysis uncovers a growing awareness of big data's business values and managerial changes led by data-driven approach. Stemming from the review is the suggestion for research that both structured and unstructured big data should be harnessed to advance understanding of big data value in informing organisational decisions and enhancing firm competitiveness. To discover the full value, firms need to formulate and implement a data-driven strategy. In light of these, the study identifies and outlines the implications and directions for future research. Keywords: Big data; Management research; Literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers) Citations View citations in EconPapers (1) Track citations by RSS feed Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:proeco:v:191:y:2017:i:c:p:97-112 International Journal of Production Economics is currently edited by R. W. GrubbstrÃ¶m More articles in International Journal of Production Economics from Elsevier Series data maintained by Dana Niculescu (). Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:191:y:2017:i:c:p:97-112	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1072
__label__cc	0.716415	0.283585	Predicting Inflation: Does The Quantity Theory Help? Lance Bachmeier () and Norman Swanson () Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics Abstract: Various inflation forecasting models are compared using a simulated out-of-sample forecasting framework. We focus on the question of whether monetary aggregates are useful for forecasting inflation, but unlike previous work we examine a wide range of forecast horizons and allow for estimated as well as theoretically specified cointegrating relationships in some of our models. Our findings indicate that there are forecasting gains from allowing monetary aggregates to enter into prediction models via cointegrating restrictions among money, prices, and output derived from a simple version of the quantity theory, but only when the cointegrating relations are specified a priori based on economic theory. When estimated cointegrating relations are used in a vector error correction (VEC) model, a vector autoregression (VAR) model in differences predicts better. These results hold, even during the 1990s, and evidence is presented suggesting that previous findings of a breakdown in the cointegrating relationship among prices, money, and output is the result of a failure of M2 as a measure of the money stock, and is not due to money demand instabilities. Two Monte Carlo experiments that lend credence to our findings are also reported on. The first shows that cointegration vector parameter estimation error is crucial when using VEC models for forecasting, and helps to explain previous findings of the failure of VEC models to forecast better than VAR models. The second shows that random walk and other atheoretical models routinely forecast better than correctly specified alternative models, due to parameter estimation error, indicating that caution needs to be exercised when interpreting the results of such comparisons, particularly when making statements concerning the usefulness of empirical models for use in policy-setting. Keywords: Inflation; Phillips curve; Forecast evaluation; cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes: E31 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers) New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ets, nep-mac and nep-mon http://www.sas.rutgers.edu/virtual/snde/wp/2003-17.pdf (application/pdf) Journal Article: Predicting Inflation: Does The Quantity Theory Help? (2005) Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rut:rutres:200317 More papers in Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. Handle: RePEc:rut:rutres:200317	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.718496	0.718496	Cooperative Purchasing Overview Commitment to Electrification What is the Collaborative? Managed Fleet Solutions Overview Electric Vehicle Resources Electric Vehicle FAQs Procurement FAQs Contact Us : 800-267-7830 October 21, 2019 \| A Year of Growth and Impact A Year of Growth and Impact When the Collaborative launched, the program had an initial count of 22 cities and counties committed to purchasing 391 EVs. In just one year, this cohort has grown nearly tenfold to include more than 160 cities, counties, public transit agencies, and port authorities that are committed purchasing to more than 2,400 electric vehicles. The Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative (the Collaborative) is a partnership between the Climate Mayors, the Electrification Coalition, and Sourcewell. The Collaborative works to reduce the costs and barriers to electrifying fleets to make it easy for public fleets to go electric. The online portal provides municipalities with equal access to competitively solicited electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, leasing options that can monetize state and federal tax credits, and staff and tools to provide fleet electrification technical support. The Collaborative also provides training, best practices, educational resources, and industry connections, creating a one-stop shop to support electric vehicle transitions for public fleets. This fall, we are celebrating the significant progress that we have made to advance EV fleet transitions since we launched the Collaborative last September. The Collaborative team has spent this year helping public agencies understand the benefits of EVs and making it easier for them to execute and implement their green fleet goals. Local governments throughout the country have been able to access the most popular vehicle models and reduce administrative time across the board by using the Collaborative. A highlight from this year was the major announcement of commitments in June at the Climate Summit in Honolulu with Climate Mayors founder and chair, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (@MayorOfLA); co-chairs Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero (@MayorRogero); and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell (@MayorKirkHNL). Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also received the Mayors’ Climate Protection Award at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting for the transformative work achieved by the Collaborative team. Looking ahead, the Collaborative partners are focused on expanding the offerings through the platform, including (and going beyond) light duty vehicles. An electric school bus procurement will be opening soon to national vendors. The portal is also poised to add transit buses and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that are electric. In the short term, we are working to add equipment such as electric street sweepers to continue to reduce emissions and oil dependence. We will also be focused on expanding the reach of the Collaborative as we continue to gather commitments. Please reach out to EVfleets@electrificationcoalition.org or call 800-267-7830 to find out more and join the cohort of leading cities that are expanding the transformative impact of the Collaborative! June 27, 2019 \| More Than 140 Cities and Counties Have Committed to Purchasing over 2,100 EVs by 2020 Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative Announces More Than 140 Cities and Counties Have Committed to Purchasing Over 2,100 EVs by 2020 The Collaborative also unveiled plans to release a new, competitive bid to add electric school buses to the platform. HONOLULU, HI – JUNE 27, 2019 Today, at the second-annual Climate Mayors Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii, 127 cities and 15 counties from across 38 states joined the Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative, and committed to purchasing more than 2,100 electric vehicles by the end of 2020. The Collaborative also announced plans to place a competitive bid on electric school buses by the end of this year, which will enable all electric school bus manufacturers to offer any public school system in the country access to equal, competitive prices. “The clean transportation revolution is not a distant vision for the far-off future — it’s a reality hitting the streets of Los Angeles and cities around the world,” said Climate Mayors Founder and Co-Chair Eric Garcetti. “By pooling our purchasing power, Climate Mayors are sending a powerful message to the global car market: if you build electric vehicles, we will buy them. In 2018, Mayor Garcetti announced the launch of the Collaborative — an online portal that provides cities with a single, equal price for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure by aggregating the demand from Climate Mayors cities and other public agencies, along with expert policy and planning guidance. The number of cities has more than quintupled since that announcement — growing to more than 127 cities and 15 counties from across 38 states with a total commitment of over 2100 EVs by 2020. Climate Mayors procurement partner, Sourcewell, will be releasing a new national solicitation for electric school buses by the end of the year. With more than 470,000 school buses operating across the country, lower prices and reduced administrative work will help school systems with smaller budgets provide their students with zero-emission transportation. By transitioning city fleets to EVs, cities are leading by example: helping to cut greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, saving taxpayer money, improving public health and reducing our nation’s dependence on oil. By the end of 2020, the EV commitments have the potential to: Cut gas usage by up to 1 million gallons each year; Transition to 25 million electric miles driven each year; and Add more than $75 million in purchasing power to the electric vehicle market. “The electrification of Honolulu’s city and bus fleets will go a long way in making our island more sustainable and resilient in the face of the current climate crisis,” said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. “However, it will also improve the natural environment for our residents and visitors by eliminating smoky exhaust fumes and noise pollution from our communities. By coming together under one umbrella with this EV Collaborative, mayors across the country are increasing the purchasing power of taxpayers while also showing love for Mother Nature.” “Cities across the country are demonstrating critical leadership by committing to transition their fleets to electrification – reducing our dependence on oil, while also improving our nation’s health, and our economic and national security,” said Ben Prochazka, Vice President of the Electrification Coalition. “We hope other mayors around the country will see this as a call to action and plug their fleets into the Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative.” In agreeing to purchase electric vehicles through the Collaborative, cities and counties gain access to competitively-priced electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, as well as reduced-cost leasing options through state and federal tax credits. With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Collaborative is working with the American Cities Climate Challenge, a group of 25 of the largest U.S. cities pursuing ambitious goals to cut emissions and fight climate change from the bottom-up. American Cities Climate Challenge cities represent about 700 vehicles of the commitment. Launched in September 2018, the Collaborative is a partnership between Climate Mayors, the Electrification Coalition, and Sourcewell, a national transit fleet transition program that works with cities and other public agencies to accelerate the electrification of national ground transit fleets. Collaborative Social Media Toolkit We need your help to expand the reach and impact of the announcement on June 27th via various social media platforms. Below, you’ll find sample content for your consideration. Download Social Media Graphic FAQs & Committed Cities Want to know more about the Collaborative? Read through our FAQs and view our list of committed cities. Download FAQs Document Download List of Committed Cities Municipal Fleet Electrification – Chula Vista, CA Download Chula Vista Case Study FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CLIMATE MAYORS: climatemayors.org info@climate-mayors.org FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SOURCEWELL: sourcewell-mn.gov info@sourcewell-mn.gov FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTRIFICATION COALITION: electrificationcoalition.org EVfleets@electrificationcoalition.org © 2018 Sourcewell \| Trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. \| All images on this site are subject to copyright, and may not be used without permission.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1077
__label__cc	0.749992	0.250008	Driven To Write Still The World's Least Influential Motoring Site Driven to Explain The DTW Archive A Longer Read Theme: Values – France It’s time for a bit of sweeping generalisation. Let me sweepingly generalise about French cars. 1984 Renault Espace You’ll have to forgive the broad brushstrokes here. That’s how I like to start before thinking about the curlicues and details that put nuances on a rough outline. France’s automotive values emerged from the soup of French culture. That is itself a richly complex thing which has attracted the attention of the rest of the world for as long as wine, olives, cheese and berets have been cultivated in the mosaic of terroirs that make up the nation. Renault, Citroen and Peugeot are the remaining inheritors of an automotive tradition that included Panhard, Simca, Marot-Gardon, Amilcar, Alcyon and scores of others. In recent decades the specific cultural values of French cars have become muted but they are still there: a certain view of economy and lightness, of artistic expression and democracy. We can see these values more clearly if we wind the clock back to the post-war years where a blend of Modernism and a wish to democratise transport gave rise to the 2CV, a cheap and serviceable vehicle suited to uneven roads and a predominantly agricultural way of life. Renault offered the 4CV which suited the same sorts of customers that bought Morris Minors and Beetles in Britain and Germany respectively. While the 4CV ceased production in 1961, the 2CV carried on into the 90s, embodying low-budget chic. Renault offered the 4 as a more modern alternative. Peugeot, always more bourgeois, addressed the needs of more affluent buyers with their 203 and didn’t really provide a cheap small car until the 104 of the 70s. That part of their values is still alive and quite well. For the most part, French cars have been quite middle class. Bugatti briefly shone but there have been few cars analogous to Jaguar, Ferrari or Porsche or Rolls. The notable exception was the DS which emerged from the same stables as its polar opposite, the 2CV. It did adhere to Citroen’s company values of technical daring and stylistic flair. Renault and Peugeot in contrast tended to offer more restrained designs. And this cleavage is quite interesting because both modesty and flair are characteristic French values even if they appear at different times and among different people. The flair gives us artistically-considered meals, works of artistic merit and landmarks such as the Eifel Tower; in later years I would consider the TGV to be a mix of technical daring and engineering diligence, both making a statement about national capability but also being democratic in its intent. The modesty gives a reserve about ostentation, it gives us the quiet good taste of Charvet and dark, blue Dior suits. Peugeot 504: still good The democtratic ideal has also had a downside. Surely it was wish for a certain equality that legislators exterminated the large-engined car through their tax codes. Good perhaps for the soul of the working man but in the long run this has denied France the capability to match the engineering feats of Italy, Britain and Germany. The astonishing DS laboured with an antediluvian and under-powered four-cylinder engine unworthy of the rest of the car. Our old friend the 604, so close to greatness, made do with a shared V6 of questionable virtue. Renault’s large cars have never had enjoyed the prestige of comparable German and British cars, in part because their engines have never been quite so good. Jaguar engines might have been ropey but when they worked, they were fast. The French taste for modernity and economy has also, in my view, undermined the ability of their firms to provide cars of enduring robustness. It might be practical to say nobody expects a car to endure but the perception of frailty has been gnawing away at customer’s minds for decades. Nothing so much as the whiff of unreliablity really finished the 604 as a competitor in the large-car class which is such a pity as it had so many fine attributes. All those Renault 4s have dissolved while the somewhat leaden and lumbering Beetle is still a common sight. Nobody keeps Lagunas the way people keep Cortinas and 316s. The Renault 30, 25, Safrane and Vel Satis all fell victim to perceptions of unsufficient status. It turns out that the world at large does not want overt modernism of the French sort – and that is not something I applaud. Inadequate. And so we find ourselves in the present day where the Espace is doing service in the role of the taxi in my part of the world; Citroen’s largest car is not fit for Presidential duty (though it was used in such a role, unhappily) and Peugeot’s largest car is in the repmobile class, a long way from even from the sober, seriousness of the 505, 605 and 607. Whither France, one might ask? That is not really a question for automotive thinkers but sociologists, historians and economists. I would argue that France needs a new vision of modernism backed up by the attention to detail that is now expected at all levels of automotive production. Why this has yet to emerge is an open question. Until it is resolved, we may find interesting small cars, and refreshing mid-sizers but the standard-bearers of French automotive culture will not emerge until it is answered. Author: richard herriott I like anchovies. I dislike post-war town planning. View all posts by richard herriott Author richard herriottPosted on 20 May 2016 21 Mar 2017 Categories Car Culture, Monthly Themes, The Industry, Values ThemeTags Citroën, Citroen DS, Peugeot, Peugeot 505, Peugeot 604, Renault Espace, renault safrane 15 thoughts on “Theme: Values – France” Learnt to drive in my mum’s Renault 4 (1986 gtl with the large (by R4 standards) 1.1 litre) . I have never experienced such body roll since but it was nippy and quite fun to drive. The peugeot 205 embodies all that Frenchness also I feel. It still looks great too. I don’t feel so optimistic for their future now as you do Richard. Peugeot’s current tag line “affordable quality” doesn’t convince me, even when uttered in a sexy French accent. richard herriott says: I didn´t mean to sound optimistic. The long-travel suspension was a characteristic required for lumpy roads with smooth surfaces. I had a 205 and it had a super ride quality and was a hoot. It was also dirt cheap. Recently I sat in one and it still feels credible as well. The seating is an aspect of French cars that stood out. Apart from being incredibly bland, the last Xsara I drove had wonderful seats. More recent French cars I have tried have been more Euronormal. Goodness, but what a retrograde step that is. I’ve owned a Xsara for a couple of years (a Coupé – re the 3-door piece) and grew quite fond of it’s overall solidity (sic!), practicality, nice steering, agile drive… But, apart from the underwhelming styling, the seats truly were the worst part. The velours was nice, but on long distance travel the lack of lumbar support and the wobbly and fast-wearing upholstery was just terrible. Markus Neubrand says: French car companies (including Nissan and Dacia) are very successful in building SUV´s. Qashqai, Kadjar, Duster, Juke, 2008 and 3008 are in the right place at the right time. But i am not convinced that this success will last for a long time. As soon as Volkswagen (Seat, Skoda) and Hyundai/Kia will enter the small SUV segment, the party will be over. Because PSA just doesn´t understand the market. They are offering a Mitsubishi ASX with a french badge and a high price-tag. What a nonsense! And at the same time, they already have a car like this in South America – why not in Europe? The small SUV segment is the fastest growing segment in Europe – why not offer a DS in this segment ? Ask PSA. S.V. Robinson says: Marcus, what is in the picture here? Is it a concept, a production model, or some kind of ‘scoop’ illustration? I like the frontal aspect – the integration of the ‘lamps with the grille/ bright work. It is the brasilian C3 Aircross – after the facelift 2015. Sean Patrick says: To repeat something we’ve said several times here, French companies still get the sales, but they’ve lost brand loyalty, and deservedly so. As Markus says, most DS3, 508 and Kadjar owners will just look around at whatever else is hot in the market the next time they change. A perceptive piece, by the way, Richard. Laurent aka Sam the Eagle says: I broadly agree with the analysis, and the sentiment. One thing I would like to rectify though (other than the spelling of Eiffel’s name) is that manufacturers like Delahaye, Delage, Voisin and even Renault would have been competitors of Rolls-Royce in the first half of the twentieth century, which in turn highlights the chastening effect of WWII, and the industrial policy of the post-war era. Certainly even more than Germany and the UK, the Pons Plan changed the French auto industry radically. In some cases manufacturers who had been fatally damaged by the Depression, just stumbled on the the start of the War to, nominally, end their lives shortly after – but it would have happened without Hitler or Pons anyway. But, before the War, France had the most varied and interesting group of luxury cars anywhere. Barry Mark says: Excellent piece Richard. As a previous automotive Francophile I am saddened at the descent in to mass market mediocrity of the french car industry. In the past Car magazine was full of praise for french cars and their innovative design; obviously the DS but also the Renault 16, the Renaults 4 & 5, the Citroën GS and Espace. Peugeot had a reputation of durability with the 504 and 505 and Gordinis and Alpines were at the forefront of rallying. Obviously the great question, to which I have no answer, is “Where did it all go wrong?” We have owned an R4, 104, 305 and 505 estate but I would never think of looking at Renault, Peugeot or Citroën for my next car. I think it is probably the discrepancy between the blandness of the product and the excitement suggested in the advertisng that puts me off. Perhaps they have all become petit bourgeois. In a way Barry, surely they always were bourgeois, but in the most positive way, putting comfort and function before fashion. Now, looking at Renault and DS, certainly, I’d say they were aspirational – actually not even that, they are faux-aspirational if that makes sense. Kris Kubrick says: you lost me at french because I don’t want to hear anything about crap I don’t know anything about! Maybe not only France but modernity itself needs a new vision of modernism… Previous Previous post: Paradise Lost Next Next post: Great Concepts But Don’t Let the Designer Speak About Them, Please. Driven To Write was founded by a group of writers frustrated with the one-dimensional nature of much of today’s motor journalism. Our aim is to have a distinctive voice and to publish a diversity of writing you won’t find anywhere else. We hope you agree. All original content remains the sole copyright of the authors. 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__label__cc	0.697479	0.302521	Natural Sciences > Zoology > Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2245 Title: Malaria Transmission Trends and its Lagged Association with Climatic Factors in the Highlands of Plateau State, Nigeria Authors: Nanvyat, N. Mulambalah, C.S. Barshep, Y. Ajiji, J.A. Dakul, D.A. Tsingalia, H.M. Publisher: Tropical Parasitology Series/Report no.: Vol. 8;No. 1: Pp 18-23 Abstract: Background: Malaria is a serious disease and still remains a public health problem in many parts of Nigeria. Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe malaria transmission trends and analyzed the impact of climatic factors on malaria transmission in the highlands of Plateau State, Central Nigeria. Methods: The study was a retrospective survey which used archival data of climate parameters and medical case records on malaria. Rainfall, relative humidity, and temperature data were obtained from the nearest weather stations to the study locations from 1980 to 2015. Data on reported malaria cases were collected from general hospitals in the selected local government areas (LGAs) from 2003 to 2015. Generalized Additive Models were used to model trends in malaria incidences over time, and it is lagged association with climatic factors. Results: The results show a significant cyclical trend in malaria incidence in all the study areas (P < 0.001). The association between monthly malaria cases and mean monthly temperature, rainfall, and relative humidity show significant association at different time lags and locations. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that climatic factors are among the major determinants of malaria transmission in the highlands of Plateau state except in Jos‑North LGA where the low model deviance explained (35.4%) could mean that there are other important factors driving malaria transmission in the area other than climatic factors. Appears in Collections: Zoology PhD paper 3.pdf 2.44 MB Adobe PDF View/Open	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1085
__label__cc	0.740553	0.259447	Christmas, New Year’s in Texas by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen The Rockville United Methodist Church was canceled today because of the weather. Mt. Zion Home Bible study was held Tuesday evening Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Tom and Beverly Pelkey home with eight in attendance. Mt. Zion Club will meet on Jan 15, in the Marge Zink News from Harwood/ Schell City by Helen Ellerman Madalyn’s Kitchen, south of Schell City, will be open every day of January except for Wednesdays when she is closed anyway. She says the only was she would be closed would be if the weather is bad or if she was sick. Jewell and Helen Ellerman ate at the Senior Center in Welcome back to birthdays in the 90s by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen We apologize for the lack of news items for the past several weeks. I hope things get back to normal. We thank you for your support. Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church by Pastor Larry Sorrells titled New Year, New attitudes, Mew Year. You are always welcome News from Harwood and Schell City areas by Helen Ellerman Bob and Cheryl Ellerman of Edwards, and Jesse and Amy Grant of Richards, spent Friday, Dec. 13, in the home of Jewell and Helen Ellerman for an early Christmas. Then, on Sunday, Dec. 15, Bob and Cheryl and Mike and Kelly Ellerman of Carl Junction, spent Sunday in the home of Hewell Beautiful day for Christmas in the Country by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church by Pastor Larry Sorrells was “Prepare the Way of the Lord” from Matthew 3:1-12. Always welcome to join us for worship at 9 a.m. Sunday. Mt. Zion Home Bible study was held Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Tom and Beverly News from Harwood and Schell City by Helen Ellerman Madalyn’s Kitchen, south of Schell City, will hold her Christmas dinner on Thursday, Dec. 19. She will hold it from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The price will be the same as her Sunday buffet. Madalyn will close at 10 a.m. on Christmas Eve after she serves breakfast. She will be closed Mt. Zion getting ready for Christmas by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church by Pastor Larry Sorrells taken from Isaiah 2:1-5 and John 14:27 titled “Our Hope for Peace.” You are always welcome to join us Sunday at 9 a.m. Mt. Zion Home Bible study met Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Tom and By Helen Ellerman Madalyn’s Kitchen, sought of Schell City, will close at 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. She will be open at her regular time on Dec. 7. Madalyn will close at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10 so she can attend her grandson’s Christmas program at the Northeast Elementary School at Schell City. Sympathy to Ron McEwan family by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at Rockville United Methodist Church by Larry Sorrells was taken from Luke 12:48. Welcome to join us Sunday 9 a.m. for worship. Mt. Zion Home Bible Study met Tuesday 7 p.m. to study the Bible with 17 present. Always room for one more. Mt. Zion area has by Helen Ellerman Sharon Sterling, a friend of Jewel and Helen Ellerman, passed away on Friday Nov. 7. Sharon grew up in Rockville. She was a Shoemaker before she married. She was kin to some of the Shoemakers around El Dorado Springs. Sharon was a member of the Harwood and Schell City United Methodist Women Kenny Long @kenny_w_long Services for Linda Gayle (West) Lumley, 70, will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, in Blan-Hackleman Chapel. Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jn. 22, at the funeral Home. And the correct name is Frances (Hillsman) Budd, wife of Bro. Bobby Budd. Correction: The date of the service for Frances Hillsman is 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20 NOT Jan. 30. Or use the form to email us your message. El Dorado Springs Sun. All Rights Reserved. Designed & Developed by Amplified Digital Agency	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1088
__label__cc	0.585429	0.414571	Edinburgh49 Reviewing Beyond the Fringe! Church Hill Theatre Festival Theatre Pleasance, Potterrow & Teviot Queen’s Hall St Andrew’s and St George’s West Books and Film Performers & Producers Get +3 Interviewed HERE! Tag Archives: Textiles Unexpected Excesses (Edinburgh Drawing School Gallery : 9 -30 Aug : from 11am) Posted in 5, Exhibitions, Other, Plus 3 2015, Rated: Outstanding by Steve Griffin “Prepare to be dazzled” Editorial Rating: 5 Stars: Outstanding Walking through the doorway into Unexpected Excesses (an exhibition of work from Jan Knibbs and Lizz Watts), my immediate impression was a riot of colour, texture and form. However, thankfully Watts was there to guide us through the collection and how it was created. One of the most striking pieces, a framed collage called The Return, juxtaposes broken ceramic teapots with papier mache flowers, which appear to grow from the ground in which the pottery has fallen, representing the circle of life. It was full of vibrancy and energy, and a great example of the vivid style of the work on show. In talking to Watts about her pieces, she revealed that she likes her work to develop organically. She may start off with an idea but at some point it develops a life of its own, and many pieces tell a story. A favorite theme is nature and the changing seasons. A particularly impressive vase with a group of swans’ necks curving from the lip was always intended to be connected to swans thematically, but the final form they took in the piece was completely organic and unplanned. There are certainly no two pieces alike. The clothes, hats, shoes and other gloriously opulent and embroidered textiles by Jan Knibbs were displayed on mannequins and elsewhere scattered through the exhibition, the effect combining gracefully with the ceramics.The philosophy behind both the textile and ceramic creations is concerned with practicality as well as being stunning to look at: the clothes and shoes are wearable, the bowls and vases usable. What really makes this exhibition special is that it is both interactive and experiential. Not only are visitors able to talk to the artists but they are also positively encouraged to handle the pieces, feel them and examine them closely. In doing this it can be a pleasant surprise to find a continuation of the decorative motif on the inside or throughout pieces, as well just on the surface. On top of this, when I visited, a harpist (Bianca Watts) appeared and played for us to give an added layer of decadence, and I was lucky enough to be given a glass of Prosecco to enrich my Sunday afternoon with further “unexpected excess”. If that weren’t enough, visitors are invited to contribute a few lines to a daily poem, started by poet in residence Dawn Gorman, in order to really become part of the work. As one might expect, this exhibition is an extravagant, beautiful and seemingly chaotic collection of work. Yet there was a real cohesion to it – the ceramics complemented the textiles, and all the added extras fit perfectly into the overall theme. On close examination there were many hidden treasures: ribbons at the back of dresses, decoration inside pots, and lots of small details that made me want to keep examining every piece further. The atmosphere in the room was intimate and relaxed without feeling stuffy or overpowering. This exhibition is called Unexpected Excesses, and it’s easy to understand that some visitors may see the room, and indeed some of the pieces in it, as too much, too ornate, a gilded lily. But whether it’s your personal taste or not, it’s definitely worth experiencing. There is a varied programme of guest artists and things going on, from poetry to music, as well the incredible art on display. Check the programme before planning your visit, or just turn up and prepare to be dazzled. Reviewer: Steve Griffin (Seen 16 August) Visit the Other archive. 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__label__wiki	0.504968	0.504968	Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases Richard H. Furneaux, Vern L. Schramm, Peter C. Tyler Protozoan parasites are unable to synthesize purines de novo and must rely on purine salvage pathways for their requirements. Nucleoside hydrolases, which are not found in mammals, function as key enzymes in purine salvage in protozoa. Inhibition of these enzymes may disrupt purine supply and specific inhibitors are potential therapeutic agents for the control of protozoan infections. A series of 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribitols bearing C- bonded aromatic substituents at C-1 have been synthesized, following carbanion additions to the imine 2, and tested as potential nucleoside hydrolase inhibitors. Nucleoside analogues 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 24-26, 28 exhibit K(i) values in the range 0.2-22 μM against two representative isozymes of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. N-Glycosyl Hydrolases Ribitol Protozoan Infections Imines Isoenzymes purine Furneaux, R. H., Schramm, V. L., & Tyler, P. C. (1999). Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 7(11), 2599-2606. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0896(99)00210-2 Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. / Furneaux, Richard H.; Schramm, Vern L.; Tyler, Peter C. In: Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 7, No. 11, 11.1999, p. 2599-2606. Furneaux, RH, Schramm, VL & Tyler, PC 1999, 'Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 2599-2606. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0896(99)00210-2 Furneaux RH, Schramm VL, Tyler PC. Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. 1999 Nov;7(11):2599-2606. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0896(99)00210-2 Furneaux, Richard H. ; Schramm, Vern L. ; Tyler, Peter C. / Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. In: Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. 1999 ; Vol. 7, No. 11. pp. 2599-2606. @article{39ea229cbfe14696b08243bb36c5c391, title = "Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases", abstract = "Protozoan parasites are unable to synthesize purines de novo and must rely on purine salvage pathways for their requirements. Nucleoside hydrolases, which are not found in mammals, function as key enzymes in purine salvage in protozoa. Inhibition of these enzymes may disrupt purine supply and specific inhibitors are potential therapeutic agents for the control of protozoan infections. A series of 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribitols bearing C- bonded aromatic substituents at C-1 have been synthesized, following carbanion additions to the imine 2, and tested as potential nucleoside hydrolase inhibitors. Nucleoside analogues 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 24-26, 28 exhibit K(i) values in the range 0.2-22 μM against two representative isozymes of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.", keywords = "Antibiotics, Antiparasitics, Enzyme inhibitors, Nucleosides", author = "Furneaux, {Richard H.} and Schramm, {Vern L.} and Tyler, {Peter C.}", journal = "Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry", T1 - Transition state analogue inhibitors of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases AU - Furneaux, Richard H. AU - Schramm, Vern L. AU - Tyler, Peter C. N2 - Protozoan parasites are unable to synthesize purines de novo and must rely on purine salvage pathways for their requirements. Nucleoside hydrolases, which are not found in mammals, function as key enzymes in purine salvage in protozoa. Inhibition of these enzymes may disrupt purine supply and specific inhibitors are potential therapeutic agents for the control of protozoan infections. A series of 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribitols bearing C- bonded aromatic substituents at C-1 have been synthesized, following carbanion additions to the imine 2, and tested as potential nucleoside hydrolase inhibitors. Nucleoside analogues 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 24-26, 28 exhibit K(i) values in the range 0.2-22 μM against two representative isozymes of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. AB - Protozoan parasites are unable to synthesize purines de novo and must rely on purine salvage pathways for their requirements. Nucleoside hydrolases, which are not found in mammals, function as key enzymes in purine salvage in protozoa. Inhibition of these enzymes may disrupt purine supply and specific inhibitors are potential therapeutic agents for the control of protozoan infections. A series of 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-ribitols bearing C- bonded aromatic substituents at C-1 have been synthesized, following carbanion additions to the imine 2, and tested as potential nucleoside hydrolase inhibitors. Nucleoside analogues 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 24-26, 28 exhibit K(i) values in the range 0.2-22 μM against two representative isozymes of protozoan nucleoside hydrolases. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. KW - Antibiotics KW - Antiparasitics KW - Nucleosides JO - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry JF - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1097
__label__cc	0.586084	0.413916	ComicsFeaturedInterview The New Comics: Mateo Garcia written by Guest Contributor November 16, 2016 MATEO GARCIA ELIZONDO is an author, journalist and screenwriter of Mexican origin. His short fiction and journalism are available online and in print, and he was co-writer of the 2015 feature film Desierto. He is currently at work on various projects for film, comics and narrative fiction. He can be reached via email, and his collaborator JEFERSON SADZINSKI can be found on Deviantart and Instagram. ON GENRE AND MEDIUM I have been reading comics all my life, but I didn’t consider making them until fairly recently. I started out wanting to write stories, but eventually the medium stopped being important. Nowadays, I don’t mind writing a travel article, a screenplay, a short story, a comic book script, or a novel. Some particular stories may be suited to one medium or another, and there are different rules and limitations in each one. I try to adapt the stories to the medium they are best suited for and have fun with everything. I have always been passionate for genre fiction, particularly horror and sci-fi. I love things which are heavy on the psychological and psychedelic side, and I think comics are a great medium for telling these sorts of stories, something which is not always easy on film. I started out reading The Invisibles and was instantly hooked, then went on to Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, and I knew I belonged here. I always thought—and still do—that comics were primarily an artists’ arena, but these guys have proved once and again that you can use this medium to tell great stories, which is what I want to do, essentially. ON FILM AND SELF-SUFFIENCY A lot of my friends and family members my age are into film, and being an outright film junkie I sort of drifted naturally toward screenwriting, and began to work in collaboration with people around me. A few years ago I started a project with my cousin Jonas, which he eventually made into a feature film called Desierto. I’ve been working on freelance journalism and script development since then, while making time to write my own stories. Speaking as a screenwriter, I think what actually got me into writing comic scripts in the first place was that it was a lot easier to produce than film. It is something that two guys, a writer and an illustrator, can get done with their time and skills to a decently high standard and without having to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. The budget considerations are the same whether you have two people talking in a room or a mothership blasting dinosaurs in a world of chimp-built pyramids. I like this sort of guerrilla self-sufficiency, and as I got into it I discovered many things that I liked about writing comics in particular. Reality is more plastic, I think. ON FOLKLORE AND IDENTITY I was breast-fed on Magical Realism, and I do feel a particular affinity with Latin American folklore, which is in itself an eclectic mix of cultures. Most of the illustrators I’ve worked with, like Jeferson Sadzinski, are from Brazil. I’ve lived in both Mexico and Europe, traveled a bit and read literature from all over the world, so while a lot of my work does deal with Mexican themes and identity I think eventually as a storyteller you end up talking about universal themes, especially when you start telling stories set in space or other worlds, as I often do, or when you start asking yourself what makes people afraid. I could say I am drawing on elements of both worlds, and many others, as well. Want to be considered for future installments of The New Comics? Send your work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions page. The New Comics: Mateo Garcia was last modified: November 16th, 2016 by Guest Contributor graphic novelshorrorjeferson sadzinskimateo garciascience fictionThe New comics How Love Can Still Trump Hate The Birds: Chronesthesia The Surrender: Emma Ramadan Interviews Scott Esposito Indonesia: a Travel Log (Part Two) The Stairs at the Bottom of the Mountain by Tasha LeClair NATALIE EILBERT IN CONVERSATION WITH VI KHI NAO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1112
__label__wiki	0.562031	0.562031	Marvel Anime Yuzo Sato U.S. G4 Australia Sci Fi Channel October 1, 2010 – December 17, 2010 Mitsuyuki Masuhara Kenta Fukasaku Anime and Manga Portal Marvel Anime is a four-part anime project with collaborations from both Marvel Entertainment and Madhouse. The project took famous Marvel characters and reintroduced them for a Japanese audience in a 12-part series.[1] The announcement was confirmed at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. According to former Madhouse President and CEO Jungo Maruta, Marvel gave the anime studio "free reign" [sic] to re-imagine the Marvel superheroes for Japanese audiences. The series was released in Japan since October 2010 and is being be released throughout the world in 2011.[2] It aired in Japan on Animax and is airing in the United States on G4.[3] The series was guided by Warren Ellis.[4] Trailers have been released for Marvel Anime: Iron Man,[5] Marvel Anime: Wolverine,[6] Marvel Anime: X-Men,[7] and Marvel Anime: Blade.[8] “It will create an entire parallel universe for Marvel,” said Simon Philips, president of Marvel International about Marvel Anime.[9] The Marvel Anime series is being aired in Australia on Sci Fi.[10] 1 Iron Man 1.2.1 Japanese cast 1.2.2 English cast 2 Wolverine 3 X-Men Cast of Iron Man, Tony Stark and Dr. Chika Tanaka See also: List of Iron Man episodes Iron Man (アイアンマン, Aian Man?) is the first show of the series with 12[11] episodes. The series was directed by Yuzo Sato with Warren Ellis writing the story. A special preview ran on Animax on September 25, 2010, before the series began airing on October 1, 2010[12], and ended on December 17, 2010. While Iron Man premiered in the US on G4 on July 29, 2011[13], a "sneak peek" of the first episode aired on July 23, 2011 following G4's Comic-Con 2011 Live coverage.[14] Tony Stark goes to Japan to produce a new arc station and showcase the Iron Man Dio, a new prototype armor, that will replace him when he retires. However, the Iron Man Dio goes out of control and it is up to Tony as Iron Man to stop it along with an organization called the Zodiac. Iron Man even gain an ally in JSDF operative Captain Nagato Sakurai piloting the Ramon Zero armor that his military group made for him. Iron Man soon discovers that an old friend that he thought was dead upon his first time as Iron Man is alive and is operating the Iron Man Dio armor for the Zodiac's goals. Japanese cast Keiji Fujiwara - Tony Stark / Iron Man Takako Honda - Dr. Chika Tanaka Shizuka Itō - Nanami Ōta Jin Yamanoi - Captain Nagato Sakurai / Ramon Zero Hiroaki Hirata - Ho Yinsen / Iron Man Dio Unshō Ishizuka - Minister of Defense Kuroda / Rasetsu Hiroe Oka - Pepper Potts Rikiya Koyama - Logan / Wolverine English cast Adrian Pasdar - Tony Stark / Iron Man[15] Laura Bailey - Dr. Chika Tanaka Troy Baker - Professor Ohno J.B. Blanc - Benjamin Diskin - Ichiro Masuda Michael Donovan - Captain Nakai Kyle Hebert - Ho Yinsen / Iron Man Dio Neil Kaplan - Minister of Defense Kuroda / Rasetsu Mary Elizabeth McGlynn - Sandra Vic Mignogna - Daran Norris - Editor Nomura Tony Oliver - Kirsten Potter - Eden Riegel - Nanami Ota Cindy Robinson - Pepper Potts Michael Sinterniklaas - Roger Craig Smith - Kawashima Milo Ventimiglia - Wolverine[15] Travis Willingham - Captain Nagato Sakurai Cast of Wolverine, Logan, Mariko Yashida, Shingen Yashida, Kikyo Mikage, and Yukio. See also: List of Wolverine episodes Wolverine (ウルヴァリン, Uruvarin?) is the second show of the series with 12 episodes. It aired on Animax between January 7, 2011 and March 25, 2011. While Wolverine premiered in the US on G4 on July 29, 2011[16], a "sneak peek" of the first episode aired on July 23, 2011 following the Iron Man "sneak peek" and G4's Comic-Con 2011 Live coverage.[14] Logan learns that his girlfriend Mariko Yashida (who disappeared a year ago) has been taken to Tokyo by her father Shingen (who is the head of a Japanese crime syndicate and a supplier of A.I.M.) in order to be wed to Hideki Kurohagi. Wolverine goes on a quest to rescue Mariko and defeat Shingen and Hideki while encountering some opponents along the way. Fumiko Orikasa - Mariko Yashida Romi Park - Yukio Hidekatsu Shibata - Shingen Yashida Kazuki Yao - Hideki Kurohagi Masato Hagiwara - Kikyo Mikage Masaki Terasoma - Tesshin Asano Hiroshi Tsuchida - Agent Takagi Fumie Mizusawa - Agent Tsukino Kōsuke Takaguchi - Agent Machida, Ang Ryūzaburō Ōtomo - Arkady Rossovich / Omega Red Toshiyuki Morikawa - Scott Summers / Cyclops Iemasa Kayumi - Koh Misato Fukuen - Min Sayuri - Miyuki Sho Hayami - Juō Kurohagi Takanori Hoshino - Vadhaka Tokuyoshi Kawashima - Kai Yuji Ueda - Scarred Man Milo Ventimiglia - Wolverine J.B. Blanc - Omega Red, Koh Steven Blum - Kikyo Mikage Crispin Freeman - Tesshin Asano Kyle Hebert - Kate Higgins - Yukio Danielle Judovits - Min Michael McConnohie - Vic Mignogna - Hideki Kurohagi, Agent Takagi Scott Porter - Cyclops Jamieson Price - Vadhaka Sam Riegel - Stephanie Sheh - Agent Tsukino Keith Silverstein - Roger Craig Smith - Agent Machida Terrence Stone - Fred Tatasciore - Shingen Yashida Travis Willingham - Dave Wittenberg - Gwendoline Yeo - Mariko Yashida See also: List of X-Men episodes Cast of X-Men, Cyclops, Professor X, Wolverine, Storm, Armor, Beast X-Men (エックスメン, Ekkusu Men?) scheduled to air as the third show of the series with 12 episodes. It aired on Animax from April 1, 2011 to June 24, 2011. A preview trailer was released on February 18, 2011, featuring mutants such as Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm and Beast.[17] It will premiere in the United States on G4 on October 21, 2011.[18] Following the death of Jean Grey, the X-Men are called together by Professor X to travel to Japan following the abduction of Armor and face the U-Men who are abducting young mutants in order to harvest their organs.[19] Toshiyuki Morikawa - Cyclops / Scott Summers Rikiya Koyama - Wolverine / Logan Katsunosuke Hori - Professor X / Charles Xavier Aya Hisakawa - Storm / Ororo Munroe Hideyuki Tanaka - Beast / Dr. Hank McCoy Yukari Tamura - Armor / Hisako Ichiki Kaori Yamagata - Emma Frost Yoshiko Sakakibara - Yui Sasaki Yurika Hino - Jean Grey / Phoenix Haruhiko Jō - Mastermind Rintarō Nishi - Jake Wataru Takagi - Todd Manabu Sakamaki - Rat Yuichi Nakamura - Marsh Yutaka Aoyama - Neuron Atsushi Abe - Takeo Sasaki Steven Blum - Wolverine Laura Bailey - Hisako's Mother, Kyoko Troy Baker - Sublime Cam Clarke - Professor X Benjamin Diskin - Jennifer Hale - Jean Grey Ali Hillis - Emma Frost Danielle Nicolet - Storm Stephanie Sheh - Armor Michael Sinterniklaas - Hisako's Father Karen Strassman - Fred Tatasciore - Beast Travis Willingham - Mastermind Dave Wittenberg - Kick NOTE: Steven Blum, Fred Tatasciore, and Jennifer Hale reprise their roles from Wolverine and the X-Men. See also: List of Blade episodes Cast of Blade Blade (ブレイド, Bureido?) is the fourth and final show of the series. Comprising twelve episodes like the others, the story is written by Kenta Fukasaku, son of the late Kinji Fukasaku. It aired on Animax from July 1, 2011 to September 16, 2011. Blade, a "Daywalker" vampire hunter who was born with human and vampire blood in his veins after a vampire attacked his mother, is visiting Japan on a mission. There, he not only confronts Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother, but he also faces up against "Existence", a mysterious organization of vampires.[20] Akio Ohtsuka - Eric Brooks/Blade Maaya Sakamoto - Makoto Tsutomu Isobe - Deacon Frost Osamu Saka - Noah Van Helsing Harold Perrineau - Blade[21] ^ "Iron Man, Wolverine in Marvel, Madhouse's 1st TV Anime (Updated)". Anime News Network. August 25, 2008. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-08-25/iron-man-wolverine-in-marvel-madhouse-1st-tv-anime. Retrieved December 29, 2008. ^ "Marvel to behold". C21 Media. 2010-07-06. http://www.c21media.net/resources/detail.asp?area=79&article=56347. Retrieved 2010-07-06. ^ "Marvel Anime to Run on G4 in the United States". Anime News Network. July 23, 2010. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-23/marvel-anime-to-run-on-g4-in-the-united-states. Retrieved July 24, 2010. ^ "SDCC: G4 Announces New Marvel Anime Series". Superhero Hype!. 2010-07-26. http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/104731-sdcc-g4-announces-new-marvel-anime-series. Retrieved 2010-07-26. ^ "Iron Man Anime Trailer". Youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Q7xgxDJh4. Retrieved 2011-01-08. ^ Wolverine Anime Trailer ^ X-Men Anime Trailer ^ Blade Anime Japanese Teaser ^ Gustines, George (August 24, 2008). "Superheroes to Be Recast for Japan". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/business/media/25marvel.html?_r=2&oref=slogin. Retrieved 1 April 2011. ^ "Iron Man & Wolverine Coming To Sci Fi In August!: SCI FI PI//SCI FI Channel". 'Captain'. http://www.scifitv.com.au/Blog/2011/07/iron-man-wolverine-coming-to-sci-fi-in-august/. Retrieved 2011-08-11. ^ Iron Man Anime comes to G4 ^ Marvel Anime Coming To G4 In 2011 ^ "Anime Iron Man and Wolverine Premiere July 29". SuperheroHype.com. http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167661-anime-iron-man-and-wolverine-premiering-july-29. Retrieved 23 June 2011. ^ a b "G4 TV Schedule; Sat, July 23, 2011". G4 Media. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/60NKTqks6. Retrieved July 22, 2011. ^ a b Toonzone Goes to WonderCon 2011 (UPDATED Apr 7, 9:45 AM) ^ "News: X-Men Anime, Nichijou Promo Videos Streamed". Anime News Network. February 18, 2011. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-18/x-men-anime-nichijou-promo-videos-streamed. Retrieved February 20, 2011. ^ "'X-Men' Anime Debuts In October With Scott Porter As Cyclops". http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/09/15/x-men-anime-scott-porter/. ^ Watch the X-Men Anime Japanese Teaser Trailer ^ "Blade, Fairy Tail, Ro-Kyu-Bu! Promo Videos Streamed". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-06-01/blade-fairy-tail-ro-kyu-bu-promo-videos-streamed. ^ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-14/blade-english-dub-lead-casted Official Marvel Anime website (Japanese) Official website of Iron Man anime series (Japanese) Official website of Wolverine anime series (Japanese) Official website of X-Men anime series (Japanese) Official website of Blade anime series (Japanese) Marvel Anime: Iron Man (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia Marvel Anime: Wolverine (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia Marvel Anime: X-Men (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia Marvel Anime: Blade (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia Marvel Anime: Iron Man at Internet Movie Database Marvel Anime: Wolverine at Internet Movie Database Marvel Anime: X-Men at Internet Movie Database Marvel Anime: Blade at Internet Movie Database v · d · eWorks of Madhouse The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981) • Natsu e no Tobira (1981) • Haguregumo (1982) • Harmagedon (1983) • Unico in the Island of Magic (1983) • Barefoot Gen (1983) • The Dagger of Kamui (1985) • Barefoot Gen 2 (1986) • Wicked City (1987) • Neo Tokyo (1987) • A Wind Named Amnesia (1990) • Ninja Scroll (1993) • Memories (segment Stink Bomb) (1995) • X (1996) • Perfect Blue (1997) • Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999) • Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card (2000) • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) • Metropolis (2001) • Millennium Actress (2001) • Nasu: Summer in Andalusia (2003) • Tokyo Godfathers (2003) • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) • Paprika (2006) • Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007) • Piano no Mori (2007) • Summer Wars (2009) • Mai Mai Miracle (2009) • Redline (2009) • Yona Yona Penguin (2009) • Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010) • The Tibetan Dog (2011) • To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku (2011) Aim for the Ace! (1973-1974) • YAWARA! (1989-1992) • Azuki-chan (1995-1998) • Trigun (1998) • Cardcaptor Sakura (1998-2000) • Master Keaton (1998-1999) • Jubei-chan: The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch (1999) • Boogiepop Phantom (2000) • Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (2000) • Hidamari no Ki (2000) • Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! (2000-2002) • Beyblade (2001) • Galaxy Angel (2001-2004) • Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (2001) • Chance Pop Session (2001) • X (2001-2002) • Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution (2002) • Chobits (2002) • Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002) • Pita-Ten (2002) • Dragon Drive (2002-2003) • Hanada Shōnen Shi (2002-2003) • Ninja Scroll: The Series (2003) • Texhnolyze (2003) • Gungrave (2003-2004) • Gunslinger Girl (2003-2004) • Gokusen (2004) • Jubei-chan: The Counter Attack of Siberia Yagyu (2004) • Paranoia Agent (2004) • Tenjho Tenge (2004) • Monster (2004-2005) • BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004-2005) • Strawberry 100% (2005) • Akagi (2005-2006) • Paradise Kiss (2005) • Kiba (2006-2007) • Strawberry Panic! (2006) • NANA (2006-2007) • The Story of Saiunkoku (2006-2008) • Black Lagoon (2006) • Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin (2006) • Kemonozume (2006) • Death Note (2006-2007) • Claymore (2007) • Oh! Edo Rocket (2007) • Princess Resurrection (2007) • Dennō Coil (2007) • Devil May Cry (2007) • Shigurui (2007) • Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji (2007-2008) • Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro (2007-2008) • Ani*Kuri15 (animated sequence) (2007-2008) • Chi's Sweet Home (2008-2009) • Allison & Lillia (2008) • Kamen no Maid Guy (2008) • Top Secret ~The Revelation~ (2008) • Kaiba (2008) • Ultraviolet: Code 044 (2008) • Casshern Sins (2008) • Kurozuka (2008) • Mōryō no Hako (2008) • One Outs (2008-2009) • Stitch! (2008-2010) • Chaos;Head (2008) • Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (2009) • Rideback (2009) • Sōten Kōro (2009) • Needless (2009) • Kobato. (2009-2010) • Aoi Bungaku (2009) • Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (2010) • The Tatami Galaxy (2010) • Highschool of the Dead (2010) • Marvel Anime (2010-2011) • Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen (2011) • Hunter × Hunter (2011-) • Chihayafuru (2011-2012) Demon City Shinjuku (1988) • Goku Midnight Eye (1989) • Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990-1991) • Record of Lodoss War (1990-1991) • Tokyo Babylon (1992-1994) • Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (1994) • Bio Hunter (1995) • Birdy the Mighty (1996-1997) • Space Pirate Captain Herlock (2002-2003) • Trava: Fist Planet (2003) • The Animatrix (animated sequence) (2003) • Hajime no Ippo: Mashiba vs. Kimura (2003) • Lament of the Lamb (2003-2004) • Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005) • Clamp in Wonderland 2 (2007) • Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase (2007) • Batman: Gotham Knight (animated sequence) (2008) • Hellsing Ultimate V-VII (2008-2009) • Supernatural: The Animation (2011) Solatorobo: Red The Hunter (2010) v · d · eMarvel Comics Multiverse Main universes Earth-616 (Marvel Universe) • MC2 • 2099 • Adventures • Ultimate • Mangaverse • Knights Alternative universes "Real Time" • "Crooked World" • "Age of Apocalypse" • 1602 • Not Brand Echh • Killraven/Guardians of the Galaxy • Femizonia • Earth-A • "Days of Future Past" • X-Men: The End • Mutant X • Crusader X • Marvel Zombies • Knights 2099 • The End • Askani • Noir • Blackworld • Femizonia • Apes • Larval • Nth Man • Last Avengers • Ruins • Earth X • Marvel Nemesis • House of M • Bullet Points • Spider-Man: Reign • Fantastic Four: The End • Old Man Logan • "Age of X" • Zombies Return Filmed: Cinematic • Anime Earth-S/Squadron Supreme • Supreme Power • Paradise X Hyperion Pocket universes Asgard • Avalon • Counter-Earth • Darkforce Dimension • Heliopolis • K'ai • K'un-L'un • Limbo • Microverse • Mojoverse • Negative Zone • Olympus • Otherplace • Therea Megaverse universes Amalgam • New Universe • newuniversal • Razorline • Shadowline • The Transformers • Transformers (UK) • Ultraverse Alternative versions of characters Apocalypse • Beast • Captain America • Colossus • Cyclops • Daredevil • Dr Doom • Dr Strange • Gambit • Green Goblin • Hawkeye • Hulk • Human Torch • Iron Man • Magneto • Mr. Fantastic • Nightcrawler • Phoenix • Punisher • Rogue • Shadowcat • Spider-Man • Storm • Thing • Thor • Venom • Mary Jane Watson • Wolverine • Professor Xavier Captain Britain Corps • Exiles • Infinity Gems • M'Kraan Crystal • Siege Perilous • What If...? • Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions • Edge of Time v · d · eIron Man Don Heck · Stan Lee · Larry Lieber · Jack Kirby Bethany Cabe · Rumiko Fujikawa · Nick Fury · Guardsman · Maria Hill · Happy Hogan · Edwin Jarvis · War Machine · Pepper Potts · Natalia Romanova · Howard Stark · Maria Stark · Ho Yinsen Blizzard (Donnie Gill) · Blacklash/Whiplash · Controller · Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin) · Detroit Steel · Dreadknight · Edwin Cord · Fin Fang Foom · Firebrand · Firepower · Freak · Ghost · Justin Hammer · Justine Hammer · Iron Monger · Kearson DeWitt · Living Laser · Madame Masque · Mandarin · Mauler · Melter · MODOK · Raiders · Sasha Hammer · Spymaster · Sunset Bain · Sunturion · Temugin · Titanium Man · Unicorn · Ultimo · Wong-Chu/Raza · Zeke Stane Howard Stark Sr. · Gregory Stark · Zebediah Stane Iron Man and Sub-Mariner · Enter the Mandarin · The Invincible Iron Man · Iron Man vs. Whiplash "Armor Wars" · "Demon in a Bottle" · "Doomquest" · "Extremis" Ultimate Marvel series Ultimate Iron Man · Ultimate Human · Ultimate Comics: Armor Wars The Invincible Iron Man · Iron Man (soundtrack) · Iron Man 2 (soundtrack) The Marvel Super Heroes · Iron Man (episodes) · Iron Man: Armored Adventures (episodes) · Marvel Anime Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal · The Invincible Iron Man · Iron Man · Iron Man 2 · Iron Man (pinball) Alternative versions (Ultimate Iron Man) · Avengers Mansion · Iron Man's armor · Roxxon · Stark Industries · S.H.I.E.L.D. · Stark Tower v · d · eWolverine Len Wein · John Romita, Sr. Alpha Flight · Avengers · Department H · Fantastic Four · New Avengers · S.H.I.E.L.D. · Team X · X-Force · X-Men Albert · Deadpool · Nick Fury · Tyger Tiger · Itsu · Amiko Kobayashi · Dog Logan · Thomas Logan · Elektra Natchios · David North · Kayla Silverfox · John Wraith · X-23 · Mariko Yashida · Yukio Bloodscream · Chimera · Abraham Cornelius · Cyber · Daken · Genesis · The Gorgon · Lady Deathstrike · Malcolm Colcord · Matsu'o Tsurayaba · Mister X · Mystique · Nitro · Nuke · Ogun · Omega Red · Romulus · Roughouse · Sabretooth · Shiva · Silver Samurai · Taskmaster · William Stryker · Shingen Yashida · Wendigo · Wild Child 5 Ronin · Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine · Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm and Logan · Kitty Pryde and Wolverine · Logan · Marvel Comics Presents ("Weapon X") · "Old Man Logan" · Origin · Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk · Wolverine · Wolverine: Manifest Destiny · Wolverine: Origins · Wolverine: Snikt! · Wolverine: Weapon X Wolverine and the X-Men · X-Men Origins: Wolverine · Hulk vs. Wolverine · Marvel Anime Alternative versions · Weapon X · Weapon Plus · Ultimate Wolverine v · d · eX-Men in other media X-Men • X2 • X-Men: The Last Stand • X-Men Origins: Wolverine • X-Men: First Class Pryde of the X-Men • X-Men: The Animated Series (characters • episodes • X-Men Cartoon Maker) • Spider-Man: The Animated Series • Generation X • X-Men: Evolution (characters • episodes) • Wolverine and the X-Men (episodes) • The Super Hero Squad Show • Marvel Anime Firestar • Spyke • X-23 Questprobe Featuring the X-Men (1985, cancelled) · The Uncanny X-Men (1989) · X-Men: Madness in Murderworld (1989) · X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants (1990) · X-Men (1992) · Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (1992) · X-Men (1993) · X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (1994) · X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994) · X-Men 2: Game Master's Legacy (1994) · X-Men (1994) · X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995) · X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1996) · X-Men 3: Mojo World (1996) · X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (1997) · X-Men: Mutant Academy (2000) · X-Men: Mutant Wars (2000) · X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 (2001) · Reign of Apocalypse (2001) · Next Dimension (2002) · X-Men Legends (2004) · X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (2005) · X-Men: The Official Game (2006) · X-Men: Destiny (2011) Wolverine (1991) · Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994) · Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems (1996) · X-Men: Wolverine's Rage (2001) · X2: Wolverine's Revenge (2003) · X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Marvel Super Heroes (1995) · Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (1997) · Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (1998) · Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000) · Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (2005) · Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) · Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009) · Marvel Super Hero Squad (2009) · Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet (2010) · Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (2011) X-Men characters in other media articles Apocalypse • Beast • Colossus • Cyclops • Gambit • Phoenix • Magneto • Mystique • Nightcrawler • Professor X • Rogue • Storm • Wolverine See also: X-Men · X-Men storylines · X-Men comics v · d · eBlade Marv Wolfman • Gene Colan Blade • Blade II • Blade: Trinity "Blade the Vampire Hunter" • "The Immortal Vampire" • "The Vampire Queen" • Blade: The Series Jamal Afari • Frank Drake • Deacon Frost • Quincy Harker • Harold H. 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__label__cc	0.623577	0.376423	SENTINEL-5P+ INNOVATION – SO2 Layer Height Project DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE) The ESA Sentinel-5p+ Innovation project (S5p+I) has been initiated to develop novel scientific and operational applications, products and retrieval methods that exploit the potential of the Sentinel-5p mission’s capabilities beyond its primary objective. Accurate determination of the location, height and loading of SO2 plumes emitted by volcanic eruptions is essential for aviation safety. The SO2 layer height is furthermore one of the most critical parameters that determine the impact on the climate. The height of volcanic ash columns are often estimated by local observers with mostly unknown accuracy. The plume height can also be determined using aircraft, ground-based radar or LIDAR but such observations are often not available and many volcanic eruptions in remote areas remain not observed. In addition, volcanic plumes containing SO2 but not ash cannot be seen directly. SO2 in the atmosphere has important impacts on chemistry and climate at both local and global levels. Natural sources account for ~30% of SO2 emissions. Next to contributions from volcanic activity, these include emissions from marine phytoplankton and a small contribution from soil and vegetation decay. However, by far the largest contributions in global SO2 production are from anthropogenic sources. These account for the remaining 70% of global emissions and primarily relate to fossil fuel burning, with smaller contributions from smelting and biomass burning. While satellite instruments, in principle, provide global products e.g. from SEVIRI (Second Generation Spin-stabilised Enhanced Visible and Infra-Red Imager) or AIRS (Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder), they have no or little vertical resolution. SO2 height retrievals have been developed for IR sensors like the scanning IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer). This can provide information on the vertical distribution of SO2 in a volcanic plume but only at a horizontal resolution of 12 km. Although retrievals of SO2 plume height have been carried out using satellite UV backscatter measurements from e.g. OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) or GOME-2, until now such algorithms are up to now very time-consuming, since the spectral information content and its characterization require computationally demanding radiative transfer modelling. Due to the high spatial resolution of TROPOMI (Tropospheric Ozone Measurement Instrument) aboard S5p(Sentinel-5p) and consequent large amount of data, an SO2 layer height algorithm has to be very fast. The SO2 Layer Height (SO2LH) theme is dedicated to the generation of an SO2 layer height product for Sentinel-5p taking into account data production timeliness requirements. The S5p+I: SO2LH project is funded by the European Space Agency ESA The coordination of the project is under the responsibility of the German Aerospace Center DLR. The objectives of the SO2 LH project are: • Development of an SO2 layer height product for Sentinel-5p; • Assessment of the performance of the new algorithm specifically with respect to timeliness requirements in operational processing frameworks; • Assessment of the applicability of various algorithms based on e.g. EISF or a LUT approach; • Assessment of the errors in the presence of absorbing and non-absorbing aerosols; • Assessment of retrieval results based on observation conditions, e.g. inhomogeneous scene; • Demonstration of the new retrieval on a number of cases of volcanic eruptions, including intercomparisons to SO2 height levels for volcanic eruptions with available OMI and GOME2 SO2 height level retrievals; • Discussion on how the effect of layer altitude change can be distinguished from a change of vertical column; • Assessment of the contribution of the new LH algorithm to the independent operational SO2 column retrieval • Discussion of mechanisms of adding the LH product to the SO2 operational column product (e.g. inclusion into the existing SO2 total column product), or justification for a standalone product. The S5P+I: SO2LH project had its official kick-off on 3 July 2019 The project duration is 24 month https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/so2-lh/ ARISTOTLE UNIV. OF THESSALONIKI (GR) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (GB) applications atmosphere science Sentinel-5P TROPOMI	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1114
__label__wiki	0.771585	0.771585	Grant maker Trust For London http://www.trustforlondon.org.uk Who they support People or organisations based in London Grant criteria We fund work which tackles poverty and inequality in the capital. We support work providing greater insights into the root causes of London’s social problems and how they can be overcome; activities which help people improve their lives; and work empowering Londoners to influence and change policy, practice and public attitudes. We have seven funding programmes for 2018-2022, details of which can be found in our funding guidelines. Grant details Typically £50-150,000 to well established charities Online application process, three closing dates annually. Over the last five years they've made 267 significant donations totalling £21,447,203 To be used for 10/10/2019 £150,000 Barrow Cadbury Trust The funding is for the general costs of the Fair By Design Campaign, contributing to its salaries and other campaign costs. 10/10/2019 £93,000 Citizens Advice Havering The funding is for continuation of its specialist employment rights advice that supports workers rights, tackles discrimination and, where relevant, preparation for tribunals. Advice staff will also mentor volunteers to build capacity and ensure future service provision. 10/10/2019 £100,000 Institute for the Future of Work The funding is for the further development and application of IFOW’s social policy innovation model, the delivery of policy projects and pilots, and the dissemination of resulting solutions and learnings to make work better and fairer in the retail and transport sectors in London. 10/10/2019 £87,000 Working Well Trust The funding is for a review of the issues preventing career progression for people with mental health and to establish employer models of good practice covering employer engagement, organisational change and client support. 10/10/2019 £32,000 Police Foundation The funding is for research to explore the vulnerability to criminal victimisation of moped-based food delivery drivers in the gig economy in London. The project will look at drivers' experience of criminal victimisation and explore ways to reduce their vulnerability to it. 10/10/2019 £37,200 Community Language Support Services The funding is for a salary of a part time advice worker, who will provide advice and support on social welfare to refugees from Arabic speaking countries to access mainstream services, workshops, group activities and home visits to assist people with disabilities, housebound and the elderly. 10/10/2019 £138,000 Kingston Carers' Network The funding is for the cost of a specialist benefit adviser who will provide comprehensive advice and advocacy to carers and those they care for. The adviser will identify benefit entitlements and help carers/families access these by completing applications and by providing advice and representation throughout the appeal process. 10/10/2019 £67,437 Release Legal Emergency and Drugs Services The funding is for a new enhanced specialist social security legal advice service for people who have a history of drug and/or alcohol dependency, providing casework and representation at the First-tier and Upper Tribunal. 10/10/2019 £97,000 South West London Law Centres The funding is for the continuation of specialist employment advice, casework and representation through a mixture of free and fee paying services. The service will work alongside and supplement the Centre's extensive pro bono clinic service. 10/10/2019 £40,000 Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association The funding is for bilingual benefit, housing, and other general advice work mainly with Bengali, Sylheti, Urdu and Hindi speakers. FNA is the only accredited bilingual advice service with all these languages in central London. 10/10/2019 £48,150 Harrow Association of Somali Voluntary Organisations The funding is for a two days a week advice and advocacy project for Somali and Arabic speakers from across Northwest London. Clients will be supported with crisis assistance, debt, welfare benefits , help into employment, housing advocacy, help with health and training to reduce the cycle of crisis. 10/10/2019 £150,000 Public Law Project The funding is for legal work, both practical and academic, to assist the London sector to take a strategic approach to immigration and welfare rights issues arising in the post Brexit context. It will explore the evolving role of technology in the delivery of justice in these areas. 10/10/2019 £40,000 Horn of Africa Disability and Elderly Association The funding is for continued employment of HADEA's Welfare Rights Advice and Support Worker and the continuation of the drop-in advice service in partnership with Ealing Law Centre and Ealing Centre for Independent Living. 02/10/2019 £58,000 Active Horizons The funding is for work to strengthen the voice and engagement of particularly BME young people living in Bexley through leadership and advocacy sessions. 02/10/2019 £50,000 EdAid Foundation The funding is for the staff and other delivery costs of a pilot offering low-cost loans to families applying for UK Citizenship for their children. It is anticipated that 2/3rds of the families to benefit from the pilot programme will be from London. 02/10/2019 £105,000 ATD Fourth World The funding is for the Giving Poverty A Voice programme which aims to change local systems, structures and policy by promoting and supporting stronger participatory work to address poverty at an institutional level. 02/10/2019 £110,000 Centre 70 The funding is for a new part-time specialist, housing caseworker; training for volunteer advisors and students to increase service capacity; and training for other advice providers in relation to housing. The focus will be on people in housing need particularly in the Private Rented Sector. 02/10/2019 £150,000 Detention Action The funding is for an integrated advocacy programme aimed at achieving a statutory prohibition on indefinite immigration detention in London and nationally; contributing to the establishment of community-based Alternatives to Detention (ATDs), and supporting the development of the London-based Freed Voices network (FV) to lead the campaign for reform. 02/10/2019 £130,000 Doctors of the World UK The funding is for a programme of work which empowers and mobilises NHS professionals, people with lived experience and strategic health bodies to tackle the health inequalities faced by Londoners with insecure immigration status. 02/10/2019 £33,000 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) The funding is for a new project to explore how to redesign the UK's immigration system to encourage better work and more responsible employment practices. The project will set out an ambitious approach to joining up immigration and skills policy within a new post-Brexit system. 02/10/2019 £80,000 We Belong This funding is for the creation of a new post, Youth Parliamentary Officer. This young person will ideally have lived experience of migration and in recognition of their development needs, funding will also be used for a consultant who will be a mentor with experience in policy and public affairs. 02/10/2019 £88,000 Harrow Law Centre The funding is for a part time (three days per week) immigration solicitor. It is a request for continued funding. The worker will give one to one advice on aspects of immigration law, will represent at tribunals where required and initiate judicial review proceedings. 02/10/2019 £150,000 Central England Law Centre The funding is towards two part-time supervising solicitors for Kids in Need of Defense UK, a pro-bono programme supporting thousands of undocumented children achieve settled status. It's a collaboration between not for-profits and law firms to train and supervise commercial lawyers, who in turn provide representation in children's immigration cases. 02/10/2019 £60,000 The Centre for Investigative Journalism The funding is for a community journalism programme in London consisting of training in investigative skills and support for collaborative investigative research projects to produce evidence-based strategic communications and public-interest journalism aimed at addressing poverty and social inequality. 02/10/2019 £60,000 Interlink Foundation The funding is for a project to strengthen the voice of Orthodox Jewish community groups. Funds will pay for staff and consultancy to; organise social activists within & beyond their community, provide training and advice to help groups frame their issues and communicate with the public and policy makers. 02/10/2019 £147,000 Global Action Plan The funding is for in-depth campaigning support to residents living in three boroughs located outside the 2021 boundaries for the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in partnership with citizen-led groups, and for London’s Air Quality Action Network, which empowers polluted neighbourhoods to raise their voices in shaping policy. 09/07/2019 £60,000 Action West London This funding is for a part time Job broker and associated delivery costs for a project to support young black men progress into higher level jobs. It will recruit young black men and engage with employers, to promote progression opportunities as part of Brent MOU Collective Impact Action Plan 13/06/2019 £138,000 Latin American Women’s Rights Services (LAWRS) The funding is for the continuation and improvement of its programme of prevention, advice and evidence-based advocacy work, which seeks to achieve enhanced working conditions, employment rights and enforcement for low paid migrant women workers through specialist support, and the engagement of women with lived experiences in evidence-based advocacy work. 13/06/2019 £108,000 Breaking Barriers The funding is for Breaking Barrier’s new Aspire programme which supports refugees in London who are underemployed, experiencing in-work poverty and/or who want to develop to progress into roles which are better paid, offer longer-term career prospects, are more aligned with their aspirations and/or make better use of their skills. 13/06/2019 £86,000 Shpresa Programme The funding is for holistic services to enable members of the Albanian-speaking community who are in exploitative or precarious employment to move into better work. Services will include: one-to-one support; information about employment rights; over-coming barriers to employment (e.g. flexible childcare); and engaging/working with employers. 13/06/2019 £53,300 Elays Network Ltd The funding is for its advice and advocacy programme, which aims to ensure that disadvantaged members of its local community are able to access information and support on social welfare issues through 1-2-1 guidance in drop-in sessions and monthly presentations and workshops by professionals and advocates. 13/06/2019 £40,000 Dawn (Diwa Asian Women's Network) The funding is for continuing DAWN's multilingual counselling service and social wellbeing programmes for the benefit of the BAME community, especially focused on addressing inequality, poverty and social exclusion of the socially isolated, multi-disadvantaged BAME women living in economically deprived areas and to improve their life-chances and quality of life. 13/06/2019 £84,000 LawWorks (Solicitors Pro Bono Group) The funding is for the expansion of a pilot project which helps clients in insecure work claim unpaid wages from their employers at the Employment Tribunal. Law Centres and legal clinics refer cases to a LawWorks specialist employment solicitor who trains and supports volunteer lawyers to advise and represent clients. 13/06/2019 £38,320 Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation The funding is for the salary of two part-time Advisors in Westminster and Islington to give welfare advice, in community languages, on issues such as benefits and housing in community languages. The funding will enable it to expand the current advice service in order to meet the demand. 13/06/2019 £45,000 Doteveryone The funding is for advocacy to improve access for gig-economy workers to skills and employment support, making progression into better work more achievable in the context of increased automation. It will research workers’ needs and influence changes to practices of agencies involved in skills and employment provision. 13/06/2019 £132,000 Mary Ward Legal Centre The funding is for a full-time, specialist Welfare Benefits Caseworker for three years to provide specialist advice and representation on social security appeals to the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal. They will also help build capacity of other voluntary sector organisations through the provision of welfare benefits training and support. 13/06/2019 £150,000 Children's Society The funding is for a London pilot of the “Coordinated Crisis Support” programme to: Address gaps in emergency support provision through better networking. Prevent financial crisis recurrence by addressing underlying difficulties. 13/06/2019 £85,000 Attend The funding is to help Acquired Brain Injured (ABI) survivors and their employers understand the barriers to progression in employment for this group of low paid disabled workers. It will develop and provide training to both groups, raising awareness and changing employment practices. ABI survivors will also receive motivational coaching. 13/06/2019 £124,000 House of St Barnabas - in - Soho The funding is to pay for the costs of a new Progression Support worker over the next three years, to support a minimum of 36 homeless people with their progression within work into better paid, more secure employment. 13/06/2019 £80,000 Stifford Community Centre The funding is to run a training programme to help low paid workers improve their job prospects, increase their pay and help employers to understand their employee needs more effectively. 05/06/2019 £78,000 IMiX The funding is for media training and support for grassroots organisations to enable better understanding of messaging and communications around migration issues. The fund will enable IMiX to train people with lived experience of migration to have the confidence to speak to the media and advocate on their own behalf. 05/06/2019 £67,000 Wanstead and Woodford Migrant Support The funding is for specialist immigration advice and representation. It will help vulnerable clients with their initial applications and take their cases to first-tier appeals if necessary. WWMS is accredited to deal with judicial review work, but would normally seek to refer clients on in such cases. 05/06/2019 £160,000 Solace Women’s Aid The funding is for the salary and on-costs of Solace's qualified immigration solicitor. It will enable Solace to continue and expand its successful Immigration Legal Advice Service, funded by the Trust since 2015, and deliver OISC-accredited training, ultimately supporting women who have experienced domestic abuse to secure their immigration status. 05/06/2019 £81,000 Winchester Project - Camden The funding is to scale-up a place-based, resident-led systems change programme on three estates in North Camden. Investment will support NCZ to back residents in leading change in their neighbourhoods, convene partners to support resident goals and to disseminate learning around strengthening residents’ collective voice and agency. 05/06/2019 £60,000 Cardinal Hume Centre The funding is for the delivery of free legal advice and representation up to OISC Level 3 for vulnerable migrant families, children and adults and to gather evidence and build a network and referral process to increase the supply of free legal advice service within London. 05/06/2019 £87,000 Paddington Development Trust The funding is for salary and project costs to employ a community development worker to support two existing resident-led neighbourhood forums operating in highly socially deprived wards in Westminster. The forums wish to ensure that their neighbours are supported to be heard during the regeneration of their neighbourhoods. 05/06/2019 £110,000 Ealing Community and Voluntary Service The funding is for a development and campaigns officer to increase the capacity of voluntary sector organisations working with disadvantaged residents (low income, older people, younger people) or Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) residents in Ealing and Hounslow and to strengthen their ability to campaign for better housing. 05/06/2019 £85,000 High Trees Community Development Trust The funding is for the salaries of Community Action Manager and Community Organiser and expenditure to work with residents across Tulse Hill to improve the living environment of social housing and other residents. Funding will also help develop a Community Action quality assurance/good practice framework for engagement of residents. 05/06/2019 £62,800 Hibiscus Initiatives The funding is for new policy work regarding safety, support and integration of foreign national, female victims of trafficking, drawing primarily from the caseload from Hibiscus' Women's Centre, highlighting the practical implications of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) reform and the new victim care contract. 05/06/2019 £128,000 UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group The funding is for the salary of a legal officer and the Executive Director. The legal officer will give specialist advice to LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, help build capacity of lawyers and input into policy work. The Executive Director will manage the project and lead on policy and advocacy work. 05/06/2019 £30,000 Community Action on Dementia - Brent The funding is for the salary and running costs of it's Voice Project Worker. The Worker will help people living with dementia to co-design and co-deliver support services and also help remove societal barriers that prevent their full and active participation in community life. 05/06/2019 £150,000 British Future The funding is for activities that promote integration and put in place an immigration system that works for the economy, is fair to migrants and receiving communities and has greater public support. 05/06/2019 £100,000 Sheila McKechnie Foundation The funding is to increase civil society’s understanding, appetite and capability to involve people with lived experience in social change in London. It will particularly explore what involvement could and should mean, including sharing power, amplifying voices, agenda-setting and people retaining control over their own stories. 05/06/2019 £94,000 Project Seventeen The funding is for a joint project with Southwark Law Centre (SLC), tackling poverty among families with no recourse to public funds covered by Section 17 but who also need immigration legal advice. 05/06/2019 £150,000 Council of Somali Organisations The funding is for the post of the Director to raise voices of the Somali VCOs in the London area and develop networking. It plans to introduce thematic engagement structures for raising the collective voice by providing the expertise in voices, policy, development and training. 05/06/2019 £140,000 Refugee Action The funding is for empowering people seeking asylum and refugees to play a leading role in the design and implementation of the UK’s most successful ever asylum campaign, securing changes to national policies and the asylum system so that it is fair, effective and treats people seeking asylum with humanity. 05/06/2019 £90,000 Freedom From Torture The funding is for continuation of its UK policy and advocacy work, including survivor activism, supporting the rehabilitation of torture survivors and that they receive effective protection. It seeks to ensure decision-makers correctly assess (and are accountable for) claims and that torture survivors are not inhumanely detained. 05/06/2019 £100,000 On Road Limited The funding is for our Talking About Poverty network which aims to train and support London-based groups of people who have experienced poverty. 05/06/2019 £74,500 Here for Good The funding is for the employment of a full-time immigration caseworker, who will be a fully qualified lawyer with EU immigration experience. The caseworker will be seconded to South West London Law Centres (SWLLC) in Croydon. The caseworker will provide free, in-person advice to vulnerable EEA citizens in London. 05/06/2019 £74,000 A New Direction The funding is for an individualised leadership and development programme for young black men, with a focus on the creative and digital sectors. This is as part of the MOU Newham Collective Impact Action Plan. 05/06/2019 £7,500 CARERS UK The funding is for our Helpline for unpaid carers. This provides advice, information and peer support to approximately 1,500 carers from London each year. One third of callers are struggling financially and many are £40 per week better off as a result of speaking to us. 05/06/2019 £10,000 Shift This funding is for a short term project to gather and publish a set of proposals on how London might change if relationships were a central operating principle for the next mayoral administration. We will find and adapt transferable examples from other locations and also seek and create new ideas. 05/06/2019 £7,500 JUST FOR KIDS LAW LIMITED The funding is towards of the costs of the work of our Finance and Resources team including the Director of Finance and Resources and the Finance Officer. Ensuring we have effective infrastructure systems for the operational running of the charity are key as without them we can't fulfill our mission. 05/06/2019 £7,500 MIND IN BARNET The funding is for MiB to strengthen our social group provision. Research shows that socialising improves mental health, which is why our groups are vital. People with mental ill-health are: more likely to be out of work, have financial difficulties and the prevalaence of mental ill-health directly corrolates to inequality. 05/06/2019 £7,500 THE TRIANGLE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION The funding is for staff and materials needed to open every weekday during 3 half terms and Easter holiday; and for the children to prepare, cook and serve their own hot lunch. Parents/carers will be able to continue to work knowing their children are safely engaged in horizon-broadening, positive activities. 05/06/2019 £80,400 East London Business Alliance The funding is for dedicated resource costs that will enable ELBA to; reach out to young black men who are resident in Newham, work directly with employers to identify and tackle recruitment and progression barriers and develop employer-led support to empower young black men to progress in good quality employment. 05/06/2019 £173,000 Action West London The funding is for a Mentoring scheme for unemployed and employed young black men in Brent along with a consortium project where 4 voluntary organisations will work together with the MOU Collective Impact group to undertake strategic and practical work to improve employment outcomes for young black men in Brent. 05/06/2019 £7,500 RESOURCE FOR LONDON The funding is for a specific initiative - the Journey to Justice exhibition and programme that is coming to Resource for London in April, May and June 2019. This celebrates the fight for civil rights both in the US and here in the UK. 05/06/2019 £90,000 West Ham United Foundation The funding is for us to deliver an in-work careers development programme supporting underemployed young black men to secure career progressions. We will deliver a series of bespoke workshops, one-to-one support, facilitate skills development, and the attainment of qualifications, using our unique assets to engage and inspire. 05/06/2019 £7,500 SOFII FOUNDATION The funding is for additional free website content that will be particularly useful to volunteer fundraisers and trustees in small, under-resourced charities. SOFII resources can help such organisations apply for funds and are, therefore, of tangible benefit to all local community organisations working to fight poverty and inequality in London. 05/06/2019 £7,500 HACKNEY MIGRANT CENTRE The funding is for our weekly drop-in advice and support service to refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants in need. This includes: initial immigration and housing advice; destitution and homelessness emergency support and referrals; health advocacy; poverty relief; and ongoing support and casework for destitute visitors. 05/06/2019 £24,714 Hope not Hate Charitable Trust The funding is for the extension of the secondment of Elisabeth Pop as Democratic Engagement Officer to the GLA 05/06/2019 £7,500 EMMAUS GREENWICH The funding is for training its companions in transferrable work-related skills. This will help them find secure employment after they leave Emmaus, give them independence, and increase the chances of them avoiding the cycle of unemployment, poverty and homelessness in the future. 05/06/2019 £7,500 THE SWITCHBACK INITIATIVE The funding is to work intensively with young men leaving prison and in the community, helping them to live stable, rewarding lives as part of society. Nationally 49% of offenders are back in prison within a year. For Switchback Trainees this figure is currently just 8%. 28/02/2019 £25,000 Centre for London The funding is for a research project on Transport and Equity. It will explore how transport shapes the life chances of poorer Londoners. It will consider the cost of travel, degrees of connectivity and the distributional impact of travel externalities (air pollution, road danger) on health and wellbeing. 28/02/2019 £120,000 Creative Society The funding is for the salary of a new Programme Manager to scale up the Creative Job Studio across three boroughs to support low paid workers in the creative sector into better or more secure employment. 28/02/2019 £179,000 Child Poverty Action Group The funding is for a London Campaign Manager for two years to inform London's policymakers about child poverty, influence them to adopt policy solutions to address it, support and practically equip them to take action, and to ensure the voices of low income families are enhanced in policy debates. 28/02/2019 £90,000 Asylum Support Appeals Project The funding is for a contribution towards the running costs of our duty scheme which provides free legal representation for destitute asylum seekers appealing to the First Tier Tribunal (Asylum Support) against a refusal of accommodation or support. The contribution requested reflects the proportion of service users living in London. 28/02/2019 £90,000 Citizens Advice Sutton The funding is for a Universal Credit (UC) project including advice, support with appeals and Research & Advocacy work. Sutton was the first UC full digital service area and has many long term UC claimants. It expects Sutton to be one of the first areas to undergo UC managed migration. 28/02/2019 £40,000 Resolution Foundation The funding is for a major new research project on working hours and time use in London and the UK. It will bring involve quantitative analysis, qualitative research and an expert seminar, and culminate in a research publication and event. The grant would cover half of the total project costs. 28/02/2019 £120,000 Paddington Law Centre The funding is for the salary and overhead costs of a part-time Employment caseworker for three years, providing free, specialist advice, casework and Employment Tribunal advocacy to low paid, marginalised workers, aimed at addressing inequality issues at work, protecting workers' rights, securing correct pay/benefits, and obtaining redress/compensation on wrongful terminations. 28/02/2019 £122,000 Citizens Advice Redbridge The funding is for the continuation of its employment legal advice service providing assistance and representation on all aspects of employment law and practice for people who live and work in Redbridge. This will empower Redbridge residents, especially vulnerable workers, to ensure their employment rights are respected and grievances heard. 28/02/2019 £150,000 Maternity Action The funding is for a policy and campaigning project to reduce pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace, to strengthen legal protections for pregnant women and new mothers in precarious employment, and to increase maternity pay and benefits. 28/02/2019 £10,000 Paddington Development Trust The funding is to test the feasibility of securing a share issue from FTSE 250 companies to build an endowment to invest in London’s most stressed communities, tackling needs identified by those communities. This grant will enable the London Communities Commission to make the business and secure business champions. 28/02/2019 £12,750 Citizens UK The funding is to cover the cost of calculating the Living Wage rates in London and the UK annually, based on the best available evidence for the cost of living pressures facing employees and their families, to ensure the ongoing credibility and independence of the real Living Wage rates. 28/02/2019 £140,000 North Kensington Law Centre The funding is for the salary of the current Senior Employment Caseworker and supporting costs to train and supervise volunteers to continue to meet the high demand of people seeking help in a range of employment matters. This include initial advice, written submissions, advocacy and representation in tribunals. 20/02/2019 £112,000 Haringey Migrant Support Centre The funding is for the continuation of specialist immigration advice delivered by a solicitor from Islington Law Centre (2 days/week) and on costs of delivering the service. 20/02/2019 £90,000 National Aids Trust The funding is for policy work to reframe the narratives on HIV and migration; improve the lives of migrants living with HIV; and to challenge current practice in relation migrants with HIV and their access to welfare and other entitlements. 20/02/2019 £120,000 Camden Community Law Centre The funding is for specialist immigration advice to people living in the London Borough of Camden and surrounding areas. This funding is necessary to maintain access to non-asylum immigration advice due to increased pressure following legal aid cuts and the impact of Brexit on EU nationals in Camden. 20/02/2019 £36,000 The Hoxton Trust The funding is to provide free advice from trained advisors to the most vulnerable residents of Hackney who are economically and socially disadvantaged. 20/02/2019 £89,000 Anti-Tribalism Movement The funding is for empowering and skilling up residents, particularly Somali community members, of White City and South Acton areas to become informed, active stakeholders in regeneration schemes which have a direct and potentially life-changing impact on their housing, livelihood, education, social networks, health and leisure choices. 20/02/2019 £90,000 Southwark Law Centre The funding is for the salary of its Specialist Housing Solicitor who will provide casework and representation for destitute migrants, enabling them to access housing and financial support. It will continue to co-ordinate the Housing and Immigration Group, providing consultancy support to increase capacity of other organisations supporting destitute migrants. 20/02/2019 £60,000 St Paul's Money Advice Centre The funding is to help fund the core running cost including the salary of the Centre Manager, who is the only full-time employee, in order to continue to provide debt and money advice to those in need and provide good support to volunteers. 20/02/2019 £52,128 Project Seventeen The funding is to second a member of staff to the Greater London Authority’s social integration team. The secondee will work on the Citizenship and Integration Initiative, specifically on the Tackling Barriers and inequalities strand of work. 20/02/2019 £50,000 Barnet Lone Parent Centre The funding is for part of the salary and on-costs for the Family Welfare Advisor who runs the Help with Money project. This provides advice to lone parents and local people in need. 20/02/2019 £171,000 Partnership for Young London The funding will build the skills and capacity of youth organisations and young people to conduct their own peer-research, take forward youth-led campaigns and put youth voice at the core of practice and policy. This approach will focus on economic inequality issues for young Londoners, based on their lived experience. 20/02/2019 £150,000 Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants The funding is for continuing the legal helpline for undocumented migrants, outreach work with the Red Cross and to continue to deepen the link between this work and its growing campaigning and advocacy against the Hostile Environment & support for new approaches to regularisation. 20/02/2019 £100,000 Latin American House The funding is for continuation of our specialist level immigration advice service supporting settlement for vulnerable members of the Latin American community in London. 20/02/2019 £100,000 Platform-London The funding is for a community organising project that will ensure City Hall listens to the voices of Londoners with lived experiences of climate injustice and poverty. As a result the social ambition of the Mayor’s climate policy will significantly increase and several key demands will be won. 20/02/2019 £130,000 Kensington and Chelsea Social Council The funding is to enable positive change through increasing the skills and knowledge of civil society organisations based within Kensington and Chelsea through training and development to improve facilitation, input and control over the recovery of North Kensington. TRUST FOR LONDON 4-7 CHISWELL STREET LONDON EC1Y 4UP Giving is Great is an initiative provided by the EQ Foundation Registered charity (number 1161209) Centennium House 100 Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6DL We use cookies to record any favourite charities you may set and give you the best experience on our website.Ok	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1121
__label__wiki	0.878751	0.878751	Protecting Heritage and Biosphere Memory of the World Register Listing documentary heritage in the Registers Eligible documentary heritage come in numerous forms: text items, non-text items, audiovisual items and virtual items. These include, but are not limited to, diaries, letters, manuscripts, posters, published books, wampums, art works, photographs, recordings, films as well as material made for the web (sites, games, online lessons, apps). How to submit a documentary heritage nomination Canada Memory of the World Register The documentary heritage listed in the Canada Memory of the World Register traces important pieces of Canadian’s collective history and reflects the diversity of its peoples’ heritage. Eligible documentary heritage must be authentic, unique and irreplaceable, and must have a Canadian significance. Applicants must respond to CCUNESCO’s Call for Nominations with a Declaration of Interest. Once approved, the nominating entity will be asked to complete and return a Nomination form to CCUNESCO. The Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World evaluates submissions and selects entries for the Register. International Memory of the World Register (Canadian submissions) To be listed in the International Memory of the World Register, inscriptions must trace an important piece in relation to the history of the world and to the heritage of humanity. International register entries are automatically listed in the Canadian Register. Eligible documentary heritage must be authentic, unique and irreplaceable, and must have a World significance. Applicants must respond to UNESCO Secretariat’s Call for Nominations by submitting a Nomination form to CCUNESCO. The Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World evaluates nominations and recommends submissions for inscription to the International Register. The International Advisory Committee evaluates submissions and recommends entries for the International Register to the Director-General, for approval. For more information, contact thierry.ntakirutimana@ccunesco.ca. The Canada Memory of the World Register lists exceptional works and documents that reflect the wealth and diversity of Canada's documentary heritage. Canadian Pacific Railway Company Fonds (Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Exporail) Images of Quebec City and the surrounding area (1860 to1965): Photo archives of the J. E. Livernois Ltée fonds (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) Witnesses of Founding Cultures: Early Books in Aboriginal Languages (1556-1900) (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) The Scrapbook debates (Library of Parliament) Ida Halpern Fonds (Royal British Columbia Museum) The Vancouver Island Treaties (Royal British Columbia Museum) Part of the Canadian register, the following works and documents are also inscribed to the International Memory of the World Register. The Hudson’s Bay Company Archival Records (Archives of Manitoba) The Quebec Seminary Collection, 1623–1800 (Musée de la civilisation du Québec) Norman McLaren's short film Neighbours (National Film Board of Canada) University of Toronto's collection on the Discovery of Insulin and its Worldwide Impact (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto) The documentary heritage of Marshall McLuhan (Library and Archives Canada, and University of Toronto Libraries) The documentary series Le son des Français d'Amérique, by Michel Brault and André Gladu (Cinémathèque québécoise) Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austria, Canada, Netherlands and the United Kingdom) Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World The committee reviews and evaluates submissions to the International and Canadian Memory of the World Registers. Chantal Fortier, Chair (Ontario) Camille L. Callison, Vice-Chair (Tahltan) Derek Cooke (Yukon) Yves Frenette (Manitoba) Lorraine O’Donnell (Quebec) Andrew Horrall, Ex-officio member, Senior Archivist (Library and Archives Canada) Hélène Laverdure, Ex-officio member, Conservatrice et directrice générale des Archives nationales (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, BAnQ)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1138
__label__wiki	0.86071	0.86071	With Israel spying on you, US needs no enemies, Zarif says to Trump TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Following recent reports about Israel's spying on the White House, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif told Donald Trump in a tweet that the US needs no enemies with a spy as its "BFF". "The #B_Team Strikes again," Zarif said in a mocking tweet on Friday, referring to a term coined and popularized by himself to describe an international group of warmongers, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former US National Security Adviser John Bolton. The Iranian diplomat mentioned US President Donald Trump in his tweet, saying "With a BFF in the #B_Team — who empties US coffers and takes US foreign policy hostage — SPYING on the US PRESIDENT, America doesn't need enemies." His tweet included images of a Thursday report by the American political journalism company Politico, in which three informed former senior US officials were quoted as saying that the US government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cell phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington. Following the publication of the report, Trump, who considers himself as a staunch supporter of Israel, told reporters "I don't think the Israelis were spying on us. My relationship with Israel has been great... Anything is possible but I don't believe it." MNA/4717184 Israeli Regime Zarif blames B-team for 9/11 attacks by supporting terrorists Thirst for war should go with warmonger-in-chief, says Zarif in reaction to Bolton's ouster Israel talks on adhering to NPT like mafia talking about respecting law: UN envoy Bolton’s ouster a defeat for Israeli regime: MP Netanyahu fails to form govt., rival Gantz given 28 days to do the job	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1140
__label__wiki	0.884565	0.884565	Legal Magazine Prosecutors Drop Charge Against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens After "unprecedented" Ruling by Judge Rex Burlison, Who Has Ties to Attorneys on the Defense Team Posted on the 15 May 2018 by Rogershuler @RogerShuler Eric Greitens Prosecutors yesterday dropped an invasion-of-privacy charge against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens after an "unprecedented" ruling by a judge with close ties to the governor's defense lawyers. Judge Rex Burlison ruled the defense could call St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner as a witness. The prosecution responded by dropping the charge, which stemmed from Greitens' admitted extramarital affair with his hair stylist, but members of the prosecution team said they intend to refile the charge -- with a special prosecutor or another member of Gardner's team handling the case. From a report at stltoday.com: A spokeswoman for Gardner said the case would be refiled. Gardner left the courtroom just before 5 p.m. She did not answer questions. Circuit Judge Rex Burlison's "unprecedented" order "places the Circuit Attorney in the impossible position of being a witness, subject to cross-examination within the offer of proof by her own subordinates," Gardner spokeswoman Susan Ryan said in a statement. But St. Louis University law Professor John Ammann said Gardner did not have to dismiss the charge. Because she could not be a prosecutor and witness in the same case, she could have simply let other prosecutors take over, he said. The move by Judge Burlison caught many legal analysts off guard, and Greitens hardly is out of the legal woods. From a report at cbsnews.com: Nationally, it's "super, super rare" for a judge to allow a prosecutor to be called as a witness, said Hadar Aviram, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law. Some legal experts said prosecutors would have about a month to decide whether to file charges, because that's about how much time was left in the three-year statute of limitations when the original charge was filed. . . . Greitens also remains charged with a second felony in St. Louis for allegedly disclosing a donor list from a St. Louis-based veterans' charity he founded for use in his political campaign. No trial date has been set for that case. Judge Burlison's credibility might now be questioned in the court of public opinion. In late March, stltoday.com reported that Burlison had eased concerns about his impartiality by denying a defense motion for a bench trial. Those concerns likely will be raised anew after yesterday's unexpected ruling, forcing Greitens' prosecutor to testify. From the March report: St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Rex Burlison went far [recently] in dispelling any public doubts about his impartiality as he presides over Republican Gov. Eric Greitens’ felony invasion of privacy case. Doubts have surfaced because of Burlison’s links to the law firm defending Greitens. Burlison dashed our concerns Monday by refusing a request by Greitens’ lawyers to allow a bench trial, which would have let Burlison judge the governor’s guilt or innocence without a jury trial. This high-profile case is being monitored across the state, if not the country, for its impact on the Republican Party in the November elections. . . . Nevertheless, Burlison has troubling links with the influential Dowd Bennett law firm representing Greitens in the case, which stems from an extramarital affair in 2015. Burlison was a longtime aide to former Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who appointed him to the bench. Nixon also appointed Burlison’s daughter to be a judge in St. Charles County, and Burlison’s wife to the judicial panel that recommends judges for the city of St. Louis. Nixon now is a partner at Dowd Bennett. Three partners in the firm — Edward Dowd Jr., Jim Martin and James Bennett — are on Greitens’ six-member defense team. Burlison’s challenge moving forward will be to maintain strict impartiality regardless of the various political forces tugging at him. Based on his ruling yesterday, Burlison appears to be playing favorites with the Dowd Bennett law firm -- and that benefits a governor who has scandals coming out of every orifice. That does not speak well for justice in Missouri -- or anywhere else. 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__label__wiki	0.700896	0.700896	Vehbi Koç Foundation Encyclopedia use cookies to give you the best experience. If you confirm, you will accept the use of cookies. Click for detailed information on the use of cookies. PREVIOUS Kaleiçi Museum Koç School NEXT Koç Private Primary, Middle and High School see Koç School Koç School, full name VEHBİ KOÇ FOUNDATION KOÇ PRIVATE PRIMARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL, a private school founded by the Vehbi Koç Foundation (VKV). It is located on the Eski Ankara Road, in Tuzla, Istanbul’s Tepeören neighborhood. It is composed of Koç High School, established in 1988, and Koç Primary School, which was opened in 1998 in order to adapt to the K12 mandatory education system from kindergarten to high school. The 4+4+4 regulation introduced in 2012 stipulated that education must include kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school. With a multicultural teaching staff, innovative educational methods and an integrated bilingual education program from kindergarten to 12th grade, the Koç School has a global vision, which aims to “raise well-rounded, confident individuals who are respectful of difference, who can think independently and creatively, are sensitive to social issues and the environment and possess the qualities to be good citizens”. Koç Private School, the foundations of which were laid on the 60th anniversary of the Koç Group in 1986, began by teaching 224 students at pre-high school and pre-middle school levels in the 1988-89 academic year. John C. Chalfant, who was made director of the project in 1987, was also appointed director of the school that same year and continued in this role until the high school produced its first graduates in 1992. Atakan Demirseren, who was an educational consultant during the foundation of the school, served as chief deputy director from 1988 to 1998. From 1992 to 1996, Gerald Shields was director of the school, which had now reached an intake of 753 students. In 1994, the International Baccalaureate was introduced in Turkey for the first time at Koç Private High School. In 1995, the school produced its first batch of graduates, who had joined at middle school level. During the tenure of John R. Chandler, who became the school’s third director in 1996, the eight-year compulsory education system was introduced, precipitating the establishment of Koç Private Primary School in 1998. Chandler’s title changed and he became the school’s first general director that same year. In 2005, when J. Anthony Paulus began serving as the school’s second general director, a 12th grade was added to the High School, taking the school’s total attendees up to 2,000. In 2012, during the time of the school’s third general director, Robert Lennox (2008-13), the 4+4+4 national compulsory education system was introduced. The school could continue within the K12 system by splitting into three entities: primary, middle and high school. Koray Özsaraç took over from Lennox in 2013, becoming the Koç School’s fourth general director. In 2016, it was renamed as the Koç School. After the departure of Özsaraç in 2018, Prof. Murat Günel was appointed as director. Semahat Arsel: ““Individuals who can work anywhere in the world, but never forget where they came from..."” Semahat Arsel: “Individuals who can work anywhere in the world, but never forget where they came from...” My sister, Suna Kıraç, worked extremely hard on the foundation of this school and was deeply committed to this project. She was the one who made it successful. Suna worked very closely with my father because someone in the family was needed to keep track of matters such as acquiring the necessary permissions and forging ties with the teachers. Suna thought that education was so important, a civilizing force in people’s lives. My father also wanted to ensure that everyone received an education, whether they were rich or poor. This made him a wonderful person in my eyes. My father attached as much importance to Turkey as he did to his own work. He tried to solve the country’s problems. Education was one of these. When he realized that our fellow citizens were not receiving a proper education, he began providing scholarships. He later realized that the scholarships were not enough. We established Koç Private High School because he wanted to found his own school. The core aim was to create students who embraced Turkish traditions and customs, and subsequently Turkish culture, and whose education earned them a place as citizens of the world. In other words, we wanted to raise individuals who could work anywhere in the world, but would never forget where they came from. İzzeddin Çalışlar (ed.), VKV Koç Özel İlköğretim Okulu ve Lisesi 1988-2008, VKV Koç Private and High School, Istanbul, 2008, pp. 19-23 Suna Kıraç: “Suna Kıraç: “Our belief in education...”” Throughout his career, my father, Vehbi Koç, believed that the most valuable part of any organization was well-educated staff and maintained that good staff only arose from good education. It was for this reason that our first significant social facility was established in a place where it could contribute to education and in 1951, Maltepe Koç Student Dormitory was established for Ankara University students. In the speech he gave at the dormitory’s opening ceremony in April 15, 1951, Vehbi Koç said: “I believe that any endeavor that helps to better nurture the young people in whose hands Atatürk entrusted the country and Republic is the greatest form of benevolence in the revolution we are living through. This facility arose from that belief.” Nearly 40 years have passed since that day. During this time, along with our father, our belief in education has persisted, growing ever stronger, and we have continued in our efforts to develop numerous educational facilities for Turkey. Our belief in education guided us to found the Vehbi Koç Foundation Koç Private High School project in Kurtköy, Pendik. This project introduced an important innovation: assuming responsibility for the running of the facility... When founding the school, we used the most contemporary education possible as our model. We adopted English-language education at this Turkish private school, though naturally classes on Turkish language and culture are taught in Turkish. Çalışlar, VKV Koç Özel İlköğretim Okulu ve Lisesi 1988-2008, p. 25 The Koç School curriculum provides a comprehensive, consistent education from kindergarten through to the 12th grade. The school’s student-centered curriculum allows for active learning in a multicultural environment, as well as placing emphasis on training students to respond to the needs of the age with interdisciplinary studies, projects and research supported by the use of information technologies. This program aims to develop fundamental knowledge and skills at all levels, familiarize students with cultural and conceptual perspectives, inform and raise student awareness of matters affecting the world and the influence of these on Turkey, lead problem-solving and conflict resolution processes using positive approaches, develop creativity and awareness, and teach students about the importance of being responsible citizens by means of internal and external activities. Koray Özsaraç: ““Nothing is as it used to be...”” Koray Özsaraç: “Nothing is as it used to be...” Nothing is as it used to be, and the kids are quite aware of this fact. Production and consumption models have evolved at an incredible pace and created an environment of deep uncertainty for us educators… The first thing that we do at The Koç School is to accept this environment of uncertainty. Take a look at the prevalent school model: there are boxes that consist of classrooms on the one hand, and classes and recesses on the other, with the assumption that learning takes place inside these spatial and temporal boxes. But when you look at the nature of learning, this is obviously wrong. The things we truly learn, we learn differently. What differentiates us is that we try to break with this idea of learning, and this is something our students connect to. We don’t limit our expectations of our students to exams and essays, but want to ensure that learning connects to the real world. We need to be a school for teachers also. We need to engage them in further study, training and projects to help expand horizons and liberate thinking. Let me give you an example. Recently, some teachers asked for a classroom which did not locate the teacher at the head of the class. So, we found a special paint that turns the walls into a writing surface and painted the whole class room. Now, teachers and students are free to write anywhere they like. The teacher is no longer at the center of the class and there is no hierarchy. Some may find this totally unacceptable, and of course this doesn’t make them bad teachers. We try to give our teachers as much freedom as possible. They enjoy full autonomy as long as they can justify their methods and be held accountable. In fact, we regard autonomy and accountability as the two most important principles to govern all employees and students. We are already seeing some positive results. Recently, for instance, some students and teachers resolved an issue involving classroom allocation among themselves without consulting anyone else. We, as the school administration, were not informed and did not need to be. I cannot say that everything in the school functions like this, but I can say that everyone at school takes these values into consideration. Just like in every community and in each change process, there will always be some front runners, while some will prefer to wait and see, and some will perhaps never want to change. “Conversation with Koray Özsaraç, General Director of Koç School”, VKV 2015 Activity Report, pp. 81-87 Every year, Koç School accepts 40 female and 40 male students into its kindergarten according to a lottery drawn before a notary. These numbers vary from year to year, and students are accepted to the 3rd and 5th grade according to available places. Students who complete their eight years of elementary education can continue on to the High School, which also accepts students following assessment and evaluation exams. English-language education begins in kindergarten and gradually becomes more intensive. Teaching at the school is bilingual; social science classes are taught primarily in Turkish, science classes are taught primarily in English. From 6th grade onwards, students begin learning a second foreign language of their choice (German, French or Spanish) and they continue with it at high school. The aim is for graduates to be able to effectively use their second foreign language. The school has been a leading institution, reforming education in Turkey, since it was founded. Koç High School, where the IB program was implemented in Turkey for the first time in 1996, also ran the implementation process in other schools in the country. It developed a multidisciplinary social studies program to include history, geography and sociology, ensuring that the program could be delivered in Turkish. Turkey’s first national and international university advice offices were also established at Koç School. International Baccalaureate: IB: “International Baccalaureate: IB” The IB program aims to provide an education of sufficient quality and standards to be accepted by universities worldwide. Students who complete the IB program receive a diploma which ensures they can access university at an international level. The program makes a point of helping students to develop critical thinking and encourages personal development and social integration, linking the knowledge that students have developed at school with their skills in the outside world. Its aims include instilling students with common principles and values, encouraging awareness of societies and cultures, and enriching the Ministry of Education’s program of education with international standards. Club-based and extra-curricular pursuits, which aim to encourage students to complement their progress with social activities relating to their interests and abilities, are an important part of the educational practice at Koç School. These take place during and outside lesson times at elementary school, after school at middle school, and in accordance with students’ timetables at high school. Extra-curricular activities include archeology, astronomy, the European Youth Parliament, biology, drama, philosophy, photography, Model UN, model planes, nanotechnology, origami, psychology and chess, in addition to team sports such as basketball, table tennis, volleyball and swimming, etc. At middle and high school level, extracurricular activities can be initiated and managed by students. Following an introduction to the activities at the beginning of the academic year, students can choose to participate in existing activities or begin others if they wish. Events such as the Suna Kıraç Inter-School Short Story Competition, Sevgi Gönül Art Night, Vehbi Koç Memorial Day, Model UN Development Program (MUNDP) Conference, Atakan Demirseren Mathematics Competition, Koç Mathematics Week, Careers Day, Ramfest Jr, Portfolio Presentation Day, and the Talent Show have become time-honored traditions. In 2017, the story and essay writing competition organized by the Koç Middle School Turkish Department was renamed the Mustafa V. Koç Story and Essay Writing Competition in memory of the late Mustafa V. Koç. Student magazines: “Student magazines ” Student magazines BOYUT – High school literary magazine. A magazine distributed to and prepared by students, comprising essays and writings on literary matters. EDGE JR – MATH – Co-edited by the middle school’s mathematics, science, IT and arts departments. An English-language magazine compiled by students on mathematics studies. The magazine is distributed to middle school students. EPIC AUTHORS – Middle School English-language magazine. A magazine featuring essays, writings and other work in English. It is distributed to middle school students. ERA – History magazine, first published in 2014. Comprises writing, essays, reportage and miscellanea written by students in relation to history. FELSEFE – High school philosophy magazine. Magazine distributed to students, featuring essays and writings on philosophical issues produced by students. KOÇİ – Koçi, first published in 2014, is a magazine distributed to elementary school students, which shows the work of elementary school students in both Turkish and English. LUMINOUS PANDEMONIUM (LP) - English-language magazine produced by pre-high school students, distributed to preparatory year students. PLUTO – High school science magazine. English-language magazine featuring students’ scientific studies. TOHUM – Middle school literary magazine comprising student essays and writings, and distributed to students. Koç School: “Some of the Koç School’s traditional activities” Vehbi Koç Memorial Day Model United Nations Development Program Conference (MUNDP) Careers Day Koç Mathematics Week Suna Kıraç Inter-School Short Story Competition Mustafa Koç Story and Essay Writing Competition Sevgi Gönül Art Night Atakan Demirseren Mathematics Competition Portfolio Presentation Day Ramfest Jr Koç Okulu employs over 300 teachers, one in five of whom are foreign. The school provides teachers with constant support in developing their teaching skills. Throughout the year, teachers participate in a number of in-house training programs, seminars, symposiums and conferences both inside and outside of the school, and share the best examples from their experiences with their colleagues. The school also supports teachers in continuing their academic development by improving their language skills, and pursuing educational attainments such as master’s degrees and doctorates. Koç School has a world-class campus, offering students a living space in the heart of nature. The campus covers an area of nearly 650,000 square meters, 620,000 of which is open-air. Seventeen percent of the grounds are landscaped. As well as the high, middle and elementary school buildings on campus, there is also a science building, with a separate branch of the sciences (physics, chemistry and biology) on each floor, dormitories, lodgings for the director and students, a social area for residents, a covered semi-Olympic sized swimming pool (also a covered teaching pool and open-air swimming pool) and open-air sports areas. The buildings cover an area of approximately 30,000 square meters, and have a total usage area of 54,000 square meters. There is an athletics track with an artificial turf football field in the center, which is the largest track belonging to any school or university. In addition to the classrooms, the school buildings also contain laboratories, career training and ceramics studios, events rooms, art and music rooms, a covered sports center with adjustable stands which can host two basketball matches at once, a conference hall seating approximately 1,100 people, three separate medical rooms with full-time doctors and nurses (the high school medical room is open 24/7 and an ambulance is available for emergencies), a dining hall serving onsite home-cooked meals, a cafeteria (Sevgi Gönül Student Center) and numerous libraries. The middle school and the elementary school have their own individual libraries, in addition to the Suna Kıraç Library and the Atatürk Library which contain over 60,000 books. In 2017, Koç School set up a renewable energy plant using solar energy and began producing its own electricity. Today, Koç School has over 2,000 students, with almost half attending the primary and middle schools and half attending the high school; one in five of the high school students (approximately 120 students) are boarders. A large proportion of these students board at the school for seven days a week and the rest for five days—these include students from numerous different Turkish provinces. VKV scholarships are granted to high-achieving students from across Turkey, providing them with the opportunity to study at the school. Approximately 40% of Koç School students receive scholarships of various proportions. Nearly 20% of those given scholarships receive 100% off of their fees. Aiming to give students a solid cultural ground, the school corridors feature exhibitions of works from prestigious museums such as the Sadberk Hanım Museum, the Istanbul Rahmi M. Koç Museum and Pera Museum. In addition, exhibitions of the students’ own works are a different educational mechanism, enabling students to see concrete examples of what they are studying, establishing links between concrete and abstract terms and stimulating creative thought. Koç School was one of the first establishments in Turkey to introduce The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (The International Youth Award until 2013), which aims to support personal development. At the time of writing, over 200 Koç School students have received awards on the program, which is composed of four sections: public service, adventure and discovery, skills development and physical development. A large proportion of Koç School graduates continue their higher education abroad. In 2017, approximately 60% of graduates went abroad, while 51% of those choosing to continue their studies in Turkey took up scholarship places at foundation universities. Koç School, which is a member of the European Council of International Schools and the National Association for College Admission Counseling, features on the Guide to Excellence, compiled by Cambridge University Student Union to promote the best schools worldwide. Kıraç, İpek Director and businesswoman. In addition to her other roles, she is chair of the Koç School Kıraç, Can Director and businessman. In addition to serving in other roles at Koç Holding Koç Family A family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists who played a large role Kıraç, Suna Née KOÇ, a businesswoman and philanthropist. Kıraç, İnan Director and businessman who spent many years as a senior director at Koç Holding companies. Vehbi Koç Foundation A foundation established in Istanbul by Vehbi Koç to provide social and cultural services. Vehbi Koç Award An award given since 2002 to individuals or organizations “who have made an important contribution Abadan Unat, Nermin Political scientist who received the Vehbi Koç Award for education in 2012. RETURN GALLERY ABOUT US CONTACT LEGACY PEOPLE Vehbi Koç Foundation was established by the leading figure of Turkish industry; the late Vehbi Koç as the first private foundation of the Republic of Turkey on January 17, 1969. Since then, it has been working to contribute to the modern development of Turkey, through investments in the fields of education, health and culture. Since its establishment, the Foundation has been committed to setting an example for “the best” in all of its endeavors, producing sustainable and replicable models. The Vehbi Koç Foundation Encyclopedia was created as part of a series of work to commemorate the foundation’s fiftieth year. Its aim was to provide a definitive source of information on the people, organizations, activities, projects, awards, scholarships, places and publications associated with the Vehbi Koç Foundation. This digital version is adopted from the original printed Encyclopedia, in order to keep the content updated and reached by various communities. Arrangement of Entries The names of individuals are listed with the surname first followed by the forename separated by a comma. Within the text, works are written with their original name in italics and publication date in parentheses. The works translated to and published in English appear in italics inside parentheses together with their publication date, otherwise, English translations of the titles are provided in regular inside parentheses. The alphabetical order is arranged by word rather than letter. Words that may consist of one or more letters are separated from the following word by a space; slashes (/) and hyphens (-) qualify as spaces. The headings of entries about individuals, places, concepts and organizations are arranged according to the Turkish alphabet. Letters that do not exist in the Turkish alphabet are in the order of the Latin alphabet; apostrophes, accents or other punctuation marks are ignored. If the only difference between two headings is a punctuation mark, the title without any punctuation mark will be listed first. Hyphenated words (-) are considered as two separate words and listed according to the first word. Headings that begin with numbers are listed alphabetically according to the spelt version of the number. Identical headings are listed in the order of individuals, places, concepts and objects. References have been added to help readers understand the text or direct them towards further information. The symbol (*) is used to indicate words or proper nouns in the text that constitute an entry in their own right. The source of further information is shown within the text or at the end of the entry preceded by see or also see. Different written forms of standard words and proper nouns have also been added as reference headings. AD Anno Domini (After Christ) AO Anonim Ortaklık (Joint Stock Partnership) AŞ Anonim Şirket (Joint Stock Company) b. born BCE Before Common Era Co. Company d. death e.g. exempli gratia (for example) ed. Edited by et al. et alia (and others) etc. et cetera EU European Union Inc. Incorporated Jr Junior Ltd. limited nd no date No. number p. page Prof. Professor pp. pages r. the term of reign TAO Türk Anonim Ortaklığı (Turkish Joint Stock Partnership) TAŞ Türk Anonim Şirketi (Joint Stock Company) TGNA Turkish Grand National Assembly USA United States of America We would greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions. I allow contacting by e-mail or SMS about information and news. VEHBİ KOÇ VAKFI TARAFINDAN KİŞİSEL VERİLERİN İŞLENMESİ AYDINLATMA METNİ a) Veri Sorumlusu ve Temsilcisi 6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu ("6698 sayılı Kanun") uyarınca, kişisel verileriniz; veri sorumlusu olarak Vehbi Koç Vakfı ("Vakıf") tarafından aşağıda açıklanan kapsamda işlenebilecektir. b) Kişisel Verilerin Hangi Amaçla İşleneceği Toplanan kişisel verileriniz, Vakıf tarafından sunulan hizmetlerden fayda sağlanması, yürütülen projelerin bilinilirliğinin ve farkındalığın artırılması, Vakıf tarafından sunulan hizmetlerin kişilerin ihtiyaçlarına göre özelleştirilerek ilgili kişilere önerilmesi ve tanıtılması, pazarlama faaliyetlerinin planlanması ve icrası, kişilerin alışkanlıklarına göre sınıflandırılması için gerekli olan çalışmaların planlanması ve icrası, reklam pazarlama, kampanya gibi amaçlarla analiz edilmesi ve bu amaçlarla hizmet alınan kişiler tarafından işlenebilmesi gibi amaçlarla 6698 sayılı Kanun'un 5. ve 6. maddelerinde belirtilen kişisel veri işleme şartları ve amaçları dâhilinde işlenebilecektir. Kişisel verilerinizin saklanması için sebeplerin ortadan kalkması ve/veya hukuken daha uzun süre tutulmaları imkânının bulunmaması halinde silinmekte veya anonim hale getirilmektedir. c) İşlenen Kişisel Verilerin Kimlere ve Hangi Amaçla Aktarılabileceği Toplanan kişisel verileriniz; yine yukarıda belirtilen amaçların gerçekleştirilmesine yönelik olarak tedarikçilerimizle, iş ortaklarımızla, Koç Topluluğu şirketleri, kamu kurum ve kuruluşları ile ve hizmet aldığımız üçüncü kişilerle paylaşılabilmektedir. Bu kapsamda kişisel verileriniz yurtdışında ve yurtiçinde işlenebilecektir. d) Kişisel Veri Toplamanın Yöntemi ve Hukuki Sebebi Kişisel verileriniz Vakfımız tarafından yürütülen çalışmalar başta olmak üzere çeşitli kanallarla, fiziki veya elektronik ortamda, işbu aydınlatma metninde belirtilen amaçların gerçekleştirilmesi ve buna bağlı yükümlülüklerimizi yerine getirme hukuki sebepleriyle işlenmektedir. e) Kişisel Verilerinizin Güvenliği Vakfımız bilgilerinizin hukuka aykırı işlenmesini önlemek, bilgilerinize hukuka aykırı olarak erişilmesini önlemek ve muhafazasını sağlamak amacıyla uygun güvenlik düzeyini temin etmeye yönelik her türlü teknik ve idari tedbiri almaktadır. f) Kişisel Veri Sahibinin 6698 sayılı Kanun'un 11. maddesinde Sayılan Hakları Vakfımız tarafından kişisel bilgilerinizin işlenip işlenmediğini, işlenmişse buna ilişkin bilgileri, işlenme amacını ve bunların amacına uygun kullanılıp kullanılmadığını, yurtiçinde veya yurtdışında verilerin aktarıldığı üçüncü kişileri öğrenmeyi, eksik veya yanlış olması hâlinde verilerin düzeltilmesini, ilgili mevzuatta öngörülen koşullar çerçevesinde kişisel verilerin silinmesini veya yok edilmesini, düzeltme/silme/yok etme işlemlerinin verilerin aktarıldığı üçüncü kişilere bildirilmesini isteme; işlenen verilerin münhasıran otomatik sistemler vasıtasıyla analiz edilmesi suretiyle aleyhinize bir sonucun ortaya çıkmasına itiraz etme ve verilerinizin kanuna aykırı olarak işlenmesi sebebiyle zarara uğramanız halinde zararın giderilmesini talep etme, ayrıca sizinle iletişime geçilmesine engel olunmasını Vakıf tarafından Nakkaştepe Azizbey Sokak No:1 Üsküdar/İstanbul adresinden talep etme hakkınız bulunmaktadır. Talepte bulunmak için VKV Başvuru Formunu inceleyiniz. İlgili dokumanlar: Vehbi Koç Vakfı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması ve İşlenmesi Politikası Renan Akman Bülent Erkmen Seçil Kınay Gürel Tüzün Publication Concept and Design Consultancy Paula Darwish Copy-editing Defne Karakaya Kerem Yaman, BEK BEK Tasarım Zeynep Otluoğlu Dursun Nazlı Başak Örgüt Seçil Kınay, Vehbi Koç Foundation Ofset Yapımevi ve Matbaacılık Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. Yahya Kemal Mahallesi Şair Sokak 4 Kağıthane İstanbul www.ofset.com Certificate No: 12326 Istanbul, December 2018 Digital Encyclopedia Design Digital Encyclopedia Software and Adaptation Ingage PortalGrup Sign up for our e-Bulletin to receive the latest content.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1143
__label__wiki	0.631996	0.631996	the origin of Marvel’s Limbo? Posted on January 4, 2015 by Nathan Summers Limbo was originally St. Augustine’s solution to the thorny theological problem of where infants go who have been deprived of the sanctifying grace of baptism and yet have committed no personal sins. The dogmas of original sin and the necessity of baptism would seem to close the doors of heaven to them. Yet it seems inconsistent with everything we know about a loving and merciful God that these infants would suffer the usual punishments of hell, especially since they have committed no sins of their own. The only way medieval Catholic theologians could reconcile these truths was to posit the existence a third eternal destination for the unbaptised infants: Limbo. Chris Claremont was the first writer at Marvel to acknowledge Limbo in this way, as an “edge” of Hell into which Colossus’s infant sister plunged… …playing it like a demonic Wonderland with Illyana cast in the role of Alice. While plenty of heroes and villains experienced the existence of Hellish realms firsthand in the Marvel Universe, why would one of them NEED to bring about Limbo? Recalling the theological reason for Limbo’s existence, I’d suggest it was brought about in direct response to concern for the fate of an unbaptised child. Any hero would have this concern if their faith told them this was where a babe would go after death. That narrows it down to a hero who was also a devout Catholic. The most notable practising Catholic in the Marvel Universe is Daredevil, who had a run in with Mephisto and his son Blackheart. However, nowhere during his run was he shown to have fathered a child, nor was he directly associated with parents who lost an infant child. Plus his powers could not bring about another “dimension.” It therefore seems reasonable to rule out Daredevil. So who else? Ever since Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965), in which Reed and Sue are married by a clergyman of an unnamed denomination… …sequences over the years have shown Susan Richards’ belief in God, including particularly for members of her team (i.e. her family)… …or asking his forgiveness (such as in Fantastic Four #391). Mind you Reed was not exactly a shrinking violent when it came to acknowledging his own belief in a higher power either during the Lee & Kirby years (despite writers after that and before Waid assuming he was anything but religious). She tells her son Franklin that around Easter and Christmas she lights a candle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the premier church of the Archdiocese of New York. So her rarely spoken of faith is revealed here as Catholicism. It is this to which Adam Warlock’s emissary alludes in the “Infinity Crusade”. This establishes her knowledge of the theory of Limbo, but what would make her want to create such a realm? The answer I’d suggest is two-fold. In Fantastic Four #276, Mephisto captures Reed and Susan, enraged at having lost his increased power due to the intervention of their son Franklin Richards. In #277 he torments them both, but for some reason seems to take extra delight in doing so to Susan?! Reed is conscious and defiant against Mephisto throughout his torment in this issue… …while Sue is a quivering, screaming mess and depicted as being at the Hell-lord’s mercy (in a manner totally unbecoming of Sue when facing a villain). I would therefore suggest Mephisto singles out Susan due to her Catholic faith. Okay, so what about her faith is Mephisto tormenting Susan for exactly? It is worth noting that only a few issues earlier, in Fantastic Four #267, Susan “lost the child she was carrying”. I would therefore propose that Mephisto, exploiting Susan’s faith, torments her with the thought that since she lost her child before it was baptised it would not go to Heaven. And although Sue was likely taught about Limbo as a young child when her aunt took her to church, the old doctrine was dismissed in the reforms of Vatican II, something Mephisto would eagerly remind her of, reiterating that her wide-ranging travels with the Fantastic Four had not happened upon the version espoused by her faith, so her unborn child would reach no such supposed haven. Once Susan is free of Mephisto’s realm and the immediate terror she experienced, now surrounded by her family, she prays with every fibre of her being for her unborn child… …and unconsciously folds space to create a pocket universe where it has a chance to escape the fate Mephisto has in store for it. But how could the Invisible Woman create a pocket universe when her ability is to render herself wholly or partially invisible, the result of her being able to bend lightwaves away from her? However, with the revelation during Tom DeFalco’s run that her energy seems to originate from a higher dimension of hyperspace… …I’d alternatively suggest Sue’s ability is more complex and what she actually does is to take a piece of hyperspace and fold it onto itself like a pocket and use it as a hiding place (anything inside the pocket is apparently almost invisible to sensors and the naked eye). This ability initially manifests as the ability to render herself wholly or partially invisible, but when the fear that her unborn child will fall into the hands of the demon-lord Mephisto for the first time it shows a hint of its potential when she unconsciously accesses hyperspace as later theorised by Reed’s father, Nathaniel, and takes a piece of it, folding it onto itself to create a “pocket universe” to hide her unborn child in… but leaving an infinite number of access points so she can one day reach them (which manifest as the “stepping discs” which are part of the Limbo dimension). And so, for the first time Susan demonstrates powers later shown by her son, Franklin, when he creates the pocket universe of Counter-Earth shown in the Heroes Reborn event to relocate the Fantastic Four and Avengers there to prevent their deaths at the hands of Onslaught. While Franklin’s power there was previously explained as a result of reality-warping abilities… …I’d instead suggest that as a mutant his latent ability to take a piece of hyperspace and fold it onto itself like a pocket was inherited from his mother, Susan. Post-script: Does Susan then make a deal with the Watcher to relocate his base to Limbo to watch over the child to ensure Mephisto doesn’t get her (where he is operating out of, instead of the Moon, in Strange Tales #134)? But why would Uatu agree to break his oath of non-interference over this particular matter? Well firstly I’d direct readers back to a particular scene in Fantastic Four where Uatu the Watcher becomes the first character in the Marvel Universe to not only refer explicitly to the Christian version of God, but acknowledge him as the most all-powerful being in the Marvel Universe. With Uatu declaring himself a clear-cut Christian monotheist in the above scene, he would understand the gravity of Mephisto’s threat to Susan. That is, he would immediately interpret it as a direct threat against his deity by the Marvel Universe’s version of the Christian Devil. And given Susan is among the group of humans he has watched over more than any other on Earth, this event more than any other is the one he’d be most likely break his oath of non-interference over. As for Mephisto, could all the other versions of Limbo we’ve seen have been the result of him plotting to undermine its integrity so he can abduct the child!? Could this also be what the Celestial Messiah plot was all about? That is, did the Watcher cause a star to appear over the Avengers Mansion (at the end of Avengers #128 as revealed in Captain Marvel #39)… …to put Kang off the trail of who the Celestial Madonna really was? To put the Conqueror off the fact that she was the member of another team… his team… the Fantastic Four! Has the Celestial Madonna been Susan Richards all along? And was the Celestial Messiah not of the human- and plant-world, but two other realms? Now recall the revelation that Susan’s second child was a girl did not occur until years later in Fantastic Four Vol. 3 #22 (during Claremont’s run when we see the birth certificate which says the child was stillborn). However, in Fantastic Four #267 they’re still referring to it as “the unborn child” with no gender being stated for the remainder of Byrne’s run. So what if it’s not Valeria Meghan Richards who was the second, child of Sue whom she had lost years before in Fantastic Four #267? Then who else could she be? Well I think to figure that out we need to consider what her powers were upon being first introduced, “neutralizing Franklin’s” as revealed in Fantastic Four volume 3 #29. What purposes could these powers serve? Who more than Franklin, and more than his parents, is afraid of his power? Why Mephisto of course! Haven’t you been reading;) So what if Mephisto had made a bargain with Doctor Doom to create a clone derived of Sue’s DNA which he promised to release the soul of Victor’s lost love Valeria into? Having a being in Franklin’s constant vicinity, and what better way than through a “big sister”, that could negate his powers so he could finally obtain the boy’s long-sought-after soul! If so, what then of the spirit of Sue’s unborn child?! Have we perhaps seen this “child” before? Well let’s think about it for a moment. That is, recall my positing above that the spirit of Sue’s unborn child was transported to Limbo for its own protection! If so, “the child” is likely still there. So which characters inhabiting Limbo could be likely candidates for this child? Well we can rule out Magik, Illyana Rasputin, given she is the sister of Colossus of the X-Men. It would seem similarly safe to rule out her previous master, demon-lord of Limbo, Belasco who allegedly started out as a sorcerer in 13th Century Florence, Italy. Then there’s of course the self-proclaimed lord of Limbo, Immortus, who while revealed as a Richards, originates from the Fantastic Four’s future, not their present (or recent past). Then of course there’s the Watcher who I noted above as also operating from Limbo in Strange Tales #134 (and earlier threatening to transport the Red Ghost there in Fantastic Four #13). But Uatu can be ruled out as he wasn’t ever trapped there, given he also had as his home the Blue Area of the Moon. So who does that leave us with? Well a character first introduced in Avengers #2 who in fact was the first character to make reference to Limbo in the modern Marvel Universe, Space Phantom! While the character was later revealed, in Thor #281, as being from the planet Phantus and from a species that had mastered the intricacies of time travel long before they had attempted space travel (cf. Thor #281)… …then later again had this retconned to reveal in Avengers Forever #8 that beings who get trapped in Limbo slowly forget their previous existence and turn into Space Phantoms. However, given the story in Thor #281 was revealed to be an illusion generated by Immortus, and the whole conceit of Avengers Forever miniseries being a plot generated by the self-same villain, it’s totally conceivable that the more recent Space Phantom revelation is just another of his manipulated schemes. I’d therefore posit that perhaps there’s more to the Space Phantom’s name than we have previously ascribed. What if he is literally a phantom – the insubstantial remnant of a once-living being? And why a Space Phantom? As opposed to a Time Phantom (particularly when his power is to displace people to a temporal dimension such as Limbo and take their place)? A Relative Dimensions Phantom? So if we establish the Phantom was a once-living being, the next question is why a “Space” Phantom? Well if he is the child Susan was carrying that she lost, which I’m proposing here, I’d posit the “SPACE” part of his name derives from the fact that like his mother, he can generate and control a form of energy from hyperSPACE! And the reason he has to swap places with others is because when Susan unconsciously created Limbo she did so that her child would be “bound” to it in order to protect them from Mephisto (and all the attempted demonic incursions have been about trying to weaken the protective barrier). But over time he comes to learn that his inherited abilities to access hyperspace enable him to fold another’s physical projection around him (as Plok puts it, copying their “hyperspatial imprint”:), causing them to suddenly end up with his form, thereby tricking Limbo and thereby displacing them and enabling him to temporarily escape its protective “prison”. The logical corollary of this being that Limbo doesn’t cause those who get trapped to forget their previous existence and turn into Space Phantoms (as suggested in Avengers Forever #8), but rather Space Phantom’s folding of himself out of Limbo and folding of them there in his place! But how can all this be when Space Phantom in Avengers #2 refers to his “people” invading Earth? Well, there’s nothing to say his “people” are necessarily of his original race! That is, if he is an unborn child that has not had the opportunity at a real life, and Limbo ends up becoming the place for other unborn children (to protect them from Mephisto), these other “ghosts” become his community. And not knowing the reason why they are in Limbo in the first place, they perceive it as a prison from which they most desperately want to escape from… …and see Earth from Limbo… …while at the same time realising Space Phantom has the ability to access hyperspace to temporarily escape… …so task him with becoming the advance scout for their “race”, an invasion force from Limbo intent on conquering Earth. Acknowledgements: Once again there are a series of thank yous I need to make whom without this post would not have been anything more than a pipe-dream: So without further ado, thanks to Richard Bensam of Estoreal for reviewing my initial draft, fnord12 of the Marvel Comics Chronology, Ancient One and thjan of Alvaro’s Comic Book Message Boards for tracking down some hard to obtain images, Chris Tolworthy of zak-site.com and world’s foremost authority on the Fantastic Four and Plok of A Trout in the Milk for their van Vogtian assistance in helping me explain the science fiction implications of theoretical physics:) Filed under: Claremont's X-Men, Fantastic Four, Marvel Horror, Marvel's Avengers, The House that Jack Kirby Built \| Tagged: Adam Warlock, Alice in Wonderland, Ann Nocenti, Archdiocese of New York, Ashema, Avengers #129, Avengers Forever, Belasco, bend light waves, bend lightwaves, Blackheart, Catholic, Catholic Church, Celestial Madonna, Celestial Messiah, Celestials, Chris Claremont, Colossus, Counter-Earth, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four #267, Fantastic Four #277, Fantastic Four #372, Fantastic Four #391, Fantastic Four #400, Fantastic Four #408, Fantastic Four Annual #3, Franklin Richards, Goddess, Hell-lord, Heroes Reborn, Heroes Reborn Counter-Earth, Heroes Reborn: The Return #1, hyperspace, Hyperstorm, Illyana Rasputin, Immortus, Inferno, Infinity Crusade, invisibility, Invisible Girl, Invisible Woman, Jack Kirby, John Byrne, John Romita Jr, Limbo, Magik, Marvel Limbo, Matt Murdock, Mephisto, Mister Fantastic, mutants, nathaniel richards, New Mutants #73, Original Sin, Otherplace, Paul Ryan, Peter David, Rachel Grey, Reed Richards, Salvador Larroca, Silver Surfer, St Augustine, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Stan Lee, stepping disc, Strange Tales #134, Susan Richards, Susan Richards miscarriage, Susan Richards praying, Thor, Tom DeFalco, Valeria Richards, X-Men \| 11 Comments »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1145
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__label__wiki	0.94903	0.94903	Report reveals two Qantas jets almost collided above Sydney Airport due to error Just 152 metres from disaster: Shocking report reveals two Qantas jets almost collided above Sydney Airport due to error by air traffic controller Authorities are investigating a near-collision between two Qantas aircrafts An arriving and a departing plane came within 152m of each other on August 6 The incident was deemed ‘serious’ by Australian Transport and Safety Bureau The completed report is expected to be handed down by mid-to-late 2020 By Australian Associated Press A shocking report has investigated a near-collision between two Qantas aircrafts at Sydney Airport last year. The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau on Thursday issued a preliminary report into the incident on the evening of August 5 when the two planes came ‘very close’ to a mid-air crash. The report says an Airbus A330, which was taking off to Melbourne, and a Boeing 737 coming in from Brisbane, came within 152m vertically and 796m laterally of each other. The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau on Thursday issued a preliminary report into the incident on the evening of August 5 when the two planes came ‘very close’ to a mid-air crash The report says an Airbus A330 (pictured), which was taking off to Melbourne, and a Boeing 737 coming in from Brisbane, came within 152m vertically and 796m laterally of each other It has been deemed a ‘serious incident’ by the ATSB after the Airbus A330’s collision avoidance system issued an alert. ‘The A330 first officer, who was pilot flying, then saw the 737 in close proximity and, in response, reduced the aircraft’s angle of bank to reduce the turn towards the 737,’ the report said. ‘The captain of the A330 radioed to advise the ADC-E controller that their proximity to the 737 was ‘very close’. The controller then issued an instruction to the A330 flight crew to turn left.’ The near miss occurred after the Airbus A330 was cleared for take off and as the Boeing 737 came into land. An ‘otherwise experienced’ trainee controller determined there was insufficient runway space between the two aircraft and instructed the Boeing 737 to to ‘go around’. The trainee was under the supervision of an on-the-job training instructor, and is believed to be experienced in a junior role but was training for the new position. The near miss occurred after the Airbus A330 was cleared for take off and as the Boeing 737 (pictured) came into land The landing craft was told to turn right and during the missed approach the craft came too close. The Airbus A330 went onto Melbourne without incident and the Boeing 737 landed a short time later after a second approach. The investigation will include an examination of controller training, air traffic control procedures and instrument departure systems and the final report is due be handed down mid-to-late 2020. ‘Preliminary reports outline basic factual information established in the early phase of an investigation,’ ATSB director of transport safety Dr Stuart Godley said. ‘They do not contain findings, identify contributing factors or outline safety issues and actions, which will be detailed in an investigation’s final report.’ Maria Sharapova unsure of 2021 Australian Open entry as she crashes out of this year’s tournament Boy, 3, attacked by mountain lion before dad threw backpack at animal in a bid to save the child Chinese company to take 96 million litres of from drought towns makes backflip Australian Open’s spooky illusion makes it seem like there are GHOSTS on court	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1157
__label__cc	0.500898	0.499102	Man Seeks Revenge As Step-daughter Chooses Her "Deadbeat Father" To Walk Her Down The Aisle One step-father who felt unappreciated decided he wasn't about to take the disrespect lying down. But the question is, did he go over the top to get revenge? What it takes to be a good stepfather Being a stepparent is no easy task. There are a lot of murky waters and uncertain aspects when it comes to situations like this. In many cases, many stepparents find themselves trying to balance being there for their stepchildren without making it look like they want to take over the role of the biological parent. According to Fathers, one of the ways to ensure this type of misunderstanding doesn't happen is by vocalizing and communicating your role in the home. Don't just assume your stepchild will read between the lines. Use your words to explain that you aren't seeking to replace their bio parents. If this is understood, another important step is to show your commitment to your partner. Your stepchild may not be super open to this in the beginning and this is why patience is crucial. Don't let up on expressing your love and devotion to your partner until your stepchild comes around. Liderina / Shutterstock.com A study that delved into step-parenthood actually came to the conclusion that this relationship does take time to grow. There will be good and bad days especially in the first couple of years. But in addition to riding it out, another study concluded that it's best for stepparents to act more like friends in the early stages to aid a smoother transition. What happens when you've put in all the work to make your partner and their children happy, and you end up feeling disrespected at the end of the day? Stepdad and step-daughter's wedding drama A stepdad took to Reddit to share how his stepdaughter broke his heart by asking her biological father, who was hardly there for most of her life, to walk her down the aisle. YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV / Shutterstock.com The poster narrated how he paid for his step-daughter's college education and how he had been there for her in the ten years since he began dating her mother. During this time, the step-dad wrote that his step-daughter's biological dad would flitter in and out of her life. From time to time her deadbeat father would pop into her life and she would fawn all over him. Although he has not contributed a cent to her education or paid any child support, she still loves him and wants him in her life. The stepdad went on to narrate how his stepdaughter announced, during a family dinner, that her real father would walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. This news was in addition to not allowing him to invite his close friends to the wedding. Oleg Golovnev / Shutterstock.com The poster felt he has had enough so, during the same dinner, he revealed that he was going to withdraw funding for the wedding. He announced to everyone that since it appeared he was only considered the 'ATM' of his family, he was no longer going "to shell out 40 — 50 grand" for the nuptials. KirylV / Shutterstock.com Another stepdad faced a similar dilemma and also revealed on Reddit that after offering to pay for his step-daughter's destination wedding, she told him she wanted her estranged father to walk her down the aisle. He said this had him considering withdrawing his financial support. Things that can quickly destroy a stepparent-stepchild relationship If you're hoping to have a smooth and happily blended family, you must avoid these mistakes by stepparents that can lead to the opposite. Playing favorite: When both partners already have their respective kids, it's pertinent that neither of them plays favorites by making their own biological children a priority. This can happen subconsciously so you must intentionally watch out for that, Goodmenproject advises. Taking everything personally: According to Stepfamilycenter, try not to take it personally and lash out when your stepchild misbehaves. Kids have to go through a transition before they can embrace a new parent so it's important to be patient. Withdrawing your love as punishment: While you don't need to be a doormat, you also shouldn't withdraw affection because you feel your stepkids don't reciprocate. This will not make things better. Let them know you care and are there for them even when they don't seem to appreciate it. Jack Frog / Shutterstock.com Being a stepparent takes a lot of commitment. It can be very tough sometimes and in many cases, it can make your relationship complicated. But remember that this is also a learning process for the child(ren) involved. And while the transition process may be draining sometimes, when you all keep working at it, it will be one of the most rewarding things ever. As for these stories above, one can understand why these stepdads feel left out especially when they feel they have been there for their stepchild for many years. What would you advise them to do? Family Family Problems 3 Smart Plant Hacks And Decor Ideas To Transform Home 3 Useful Kitchen Hacks To Make Things Simpler 3 Lazy Yet Smart Hacks For A Well-Organized And Clean Home	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1158
__label__wiki	0.588534	0.588534	You will taste the flavor of your own flesh ( freakin_sweet) wrote in fem_metalheads, You will taste the flavor of your own flesh freakin_sweet ::sniffle:: Due to health (vocal) problems in the Slayer camp, the first 2 Jagermeister Tour dates with Killswitch Engage have been cancelled. Two other dates have also been cancelled to avoid the same issue from recurring: 10/29: Springfield, MO 10/30: Des Moines, IA 11/9: Belle Vernon, PA 11/26: Tampa, FL *Updated on October 25th* Official Word on Cancellations EURO DOCTOR RECOMMENDS SLAYER CONCERTS CANCELLED Under doctor's recommendation, SLAYER has had to cancel four dates on its U.S. Jagermeister Music Tour. The cancelled dates are the tour's kick-off, Friday, October 29 in Springfield, MO, Saturday, October 30 in Des Moines, IA, Tuesday, November 9 in Belle Vernon (Pittsburgh), PA, and Friday, November 26 in Tampa, FL. Having just completed co-headlining the 20-date, sold-out "Unholy Alliance" European tour with Slipknot, Slayer's vocalist/bassist Tom Araya was taken to the hospital last Wednesday in Holland immediately following the band's performance. The doctors there diagnosed Araya with vocal fatigue, and directed that he completely rest his voice - no singing, no talking - for at least a week. In addition, the doctors cautioned Araya to not sing more than four consecutive nights, or he could risk doing irreparable damage to his vocal cords. Hence, the cancellation of the Belle Vernon and Tampa dates. Araya and his Slayer bandmates - Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman/guitars and drummer Dave Lombardo - are confident that staying true to the schedule of no more than four consecutive shows will eliminate the possibility of any other dates being cancelled on the Jagermeister tour. The Slayer-headlined Jagermeister Music Tour will now kick off on Halloween, Sunday, October 31 in St. Louis at The Pageant (Mastodon and Killswitch Engage support).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1166
__label__wiki	0.876618	0.876618	S2, Ep. 18: Tanya Aguiñiga 0 Raised in Tijuana, Mexico and educated in the United States, visual artist and designer Tanya Aguiñiga's unique, cross-cultural craft work combines activist and community-based art practices, connecting marginalized communities through creative collaboration and inspiring audiences across the country and beyond its borders to engage in critical conversations about identity, gender, and culture. S2, Ep. 17: Riley Silverman 0 A staple of the Los Angeles alt-comedy scene, transgender comedian Riley Silverman brings the house down by raising consciousness, delivering sharp, silly, and darkly humorous takes (inspired by her own experience) on topics like transitioning, harassment, and #TravelingWhileTrans. 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S2, Ep. 6: Premstar Santana 0 Tired of waiting for permission to screen her own films and desiring a safe space for feminist filmmakers and their movies to shine, indie auteur and actor Premstar Santana founded the Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival, an annual celebration of films that foreground a feminist viewpoint and showcase critical, political, cinematic takes on the many levels of oppression women, queer people, and people of color navigate every day. S2, Ep. 5: Angela Gulner 0 In her new, semi-autobiographical television pilot Binge, actor and series creator Angela Gulner stars as Angela, a bulimic woman who drunkenly enrolls in eating disorder rehab where she must juggle her failing pastry shop, an affair with her therapist, and a cast of bizarre food-abusers, all while trying not to do what she does best: vomit. S2, Ep. 4: Nancy Baker Cahill 0 Inspired by Susan J. Brison's book Aftermath about violent trauma and the body, visual artist and feminist Nancy Baker Cahill's current body of work SURDS features small and large-scale drawings that merge her interpretation of the human body as a complicated abstraction engaged in perpetual struggle with a mathematical concept in order to explore the human "rational" desire for understanding through order and logic, even when faced with a nonsensical act like sexual assault. S2, Ep. 3: Kristina Wong 0 Fiercely intelligent and wildly funny feminist performance artist Kristina Wong takes on Tila Tequila's viral appeal, the highs and lows of trolling Donald Trump and his alt-right acolytes on Twitter, and the challenges of creating political theatre in a world where performance art and "real life" are increasingly becoming one and the same. S2, Ep. 2: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff 0 Co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project and playwright Rachel Kauder Nalebuff's radical work-in-progress play production, The Bumps, probes how we make meaning as we wait, casting pregnant performers at various stages of pregnancy and combining narrative and movement to chart how our understanding of motherhood has evolved. S2, Ep. 1: Anna Bulbrook and Mona Tavakoli 0 By organizing women-led music festivals, devising educational programming in music, and amplifying the voices of women and girls who rock, musicians Anna Bulbrook (GIRLSCHOOL) and Mona Tavakoli (Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls LA) turn up the volume on feminist activism, fostering an empowering and supportive community of women-identified rockers. Ep. 20 - Gina Young 0 Through her exploratory workshop Feminist Acting Class, presented as part of The Hammer Museum's Bureau of Feminism initiative, queer feminist playwright, director, musician, and performer Gina Young hopes to expand the roles for women and non binary people in the theatre by providing a space free from restrictive gender expectations for performers to experiment with roles that would otherwise be off-limits. Ep. 19 - Alexandra Tweten 0 With Instagram account Bye Felipe, feminist journalist-cum-Tinder vigilante Alexandra Tweten calls out dudes online who turn hostile when rejected or ignored by inviting women to screenshot the harassing messages they receive when they tell men they're not interested. Ep. 18 - Skyler Schrempp 0 As artistic director of Chicago's The Viola Project, professional actor and teaching artist Skyler Schrempp cultivates confidence among middle school-aged girls by creating "a brave space" for young women to stand up, advocate for themselves, and demand inclusion through creative exploration of William Shakespeare's classic plays. Ep. 17 - Alicia Swiz 0 Chicago-based storyteller, educator, and sex positivity activist Alicia Swiz takes on takes on rape culture, slut shaming, and media's role in influencing our attitudes about women and sexuality. Ep. 16 - Shadi Petosky 0 Writer, producer, and co-creator of Amazon Prime's new animated series Danger and Eggs Shadi Petosky talks internalized transphobia, intersectional feminism, and the importance of recognizing our biases (and f***ing destroying them!). Ep. 15 - Ellen Fairey and Kimberly Senior 0 For playwright Ellen Fairey and director Kimberly Senior, aging and ageism, the evolution of gender roles, and the need for safe spaces to express our anxieties about an ever-changing world take center stage in the Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival production ofSupport Group for Men. Ep. 14 - Bri Sudia, Lauren Molina, and Mary Zimmerman 0 Actors Bri Sudia and Lauren Molina, in collaboration with Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman, set the scene for sisterhood both on and off stage in the Goodman Theatre's production of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical Wonderful Town.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1167
__label__cc	0.572211	0.427789	I'm Smart & You're Not IndieWire Declares BEST MOVIES OF DECADE Winners Before Competition Ends Gigantic Cahuna These Times Are A Changin’ Ah, 2010! The iPad was released for the first time. Blockbuster was still clinging on. Ke$ha would shortly get Tick Tock to number one. Disney released the “final” third episode in the Toy Story trilogy. Finally, a decade began that would change cinema as we knew it. Streaming was in its infancy. Video-on-demand was largely confined to porn. 3D was the future. Chinese box-office was useful but not essential. Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger were still over a year away and nobody knew if a shared cinematic universe consisting of second-tier characters from DC’s poor relations at Marvel could even work. Wow. How little we knew! One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the shill media and the fascination with lists and inability to resist jumping the gun. First to live down to our expectations is the bearded, plaid fraternity at IndieWire who have declared competition closed for the best movies of the decade. This is despite there still being over a year and five months to go. Shrugging this off and diving into the list doesn’t really improve matters. Honky Be Trippin’! That was my first reaction. As you would expect from an article so clearly written on an Apple Mac in Starbucks that you can practically smell the mocha, it’s so achingly hip that just reading it made my hips ache. It’s a film-school first-year assignment rather than an effective critique. So desperate it is to be seen to be highbrow and important, the virtue is being signaled so hard that I am staggered the virtue didn’t come off in their hands! Predictable too. Of course, it was going to choose Moonlight as the best movie of the decade. As far as black bumming movies go, Black Anal Asses 3 is far superior. However as it doesn’t have something important to say, and make the viewer feel worthy, the big beards at IndieWire went for Moonlight instead. Although to be fair, Black Anal Asses 3 didn’t make me feel worthy either. Just dirty and used. And a little ashamed. Where it does touch on lighter blockbuster fare then it still can’t help itself. Paddington 2 is spun as an anti-Brexit, anti-Trump yarn. Get Out has a write up that makes one wonder if Trump Derangement Syndrome really is real. Black Panther becomes the second coming of Malcolm X, rather than an average to good superhero romp despite it showing black America’s truly horrific racism towards the continent of Africa. The entry for The Last Jedi is an all-time classic. Thinking it appropriate to lecture the reader on the hero’s journey trope it then broadly accuses the audience of not getting it if they didn’t like it. It also states that: “…the saga grew up — and some of its fans couldn’t handle it.” Before ending on the hyperbolic with: “It’s tempting to imagine what the movies would be like if more blockbusters shot for this level of ambition, beauty, and resonance. It’s almost unfathomable that one of this size was able to achieve it.” This is before it tries to paint Mission Impossible: Fallout as some kind of Dante-inspired test of character. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. All these years we have clearly been watching movies all wrong! The complete top ten breakdown is as follows: The Act of Killing Lady Bird. So there you go. The top ten movies of the decade. Consider most of those movies. Really think about them. It’s like all the joy has been sucked out of cinema in one go. Click here for the full list. Now we know our Goblins are going to have A LOT to say about this in the Disqus! Have at it, you magnificent bastards! Gigantic Cahuna is a cynical middle-aged bastard who likes cooking, shooting skeet and movies. He is usually lurking and posting here when he should be working or looking after his newborn baby. Big Brain Time: DISNEY Blocks Out NETFLIX Advertising Big Brain Cinema: CITIZEN KANE Stormtrooper Aim: Is It Really That Bad?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1170
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__label__cc	0.565043	0.434957	MGM Resorts Surpasses Milestone of 1 Million Meals Donated Toward Hunger Relief in Las Vegas Community PR Newswire November 25, 2019 The Company is well on its way to hitting goal of donating 5 million meals by 2025 LAS VEGAS, Nov. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is proud to reach the milestone of donating more than 1 million meals through its Feeding Forward program, which safely recovers unserved food from conventions, mini bars and warehouses to help feed those in Southern Nevada suffering from food insecurity. In addition, the company has donated over 500,000 meals through Restaurant Week and Backpacks for Kids, which are also part of Feeding Forward. The food donation portion of the program started in 2016 and works as a partnership with Three Square food bank. MGM Resorts International (PRNewsfoto/MGM Resorts International) According to Hunger in Nevada, Feeding America, one in eight Nevadans is affected by hunger. In 2007, MGM Resorts was instrumental in founding Three Square food bank in Southern Nevada. Since then MGM Resorts employees have volunteered over 54,000 hours to help Three Square build programs. "For many years we have worked with community organizations like Three Square to provide hunger relief and food resources for those in need. We are proud to continue those efforts through our Feeding Forward program," said Bill Hornbuckle, President and COO of MGM Resorts International. "We are thrilled to be well on our way to achieving our social impact and sustainability goal of donating 5 million meals by the year 2025 and are grateful to our employees for their continued dedication to helping those in need." In 2016, the Company officially partnered with Three Square to initiate an innovative food donations process that simultaneously combats food waste and food insecurity. This new food donations process was first introduced at the ARIA Resort in Las Vegas when unserved food from catered events was rescued, frozen and then safely donated to people in need. Since then, the process has expanded to include unserved food from additional sources including warehouses, kitchens and minibar operations, and now encompasses multiple food types collected from nine MGM Resorts on the Strip. The Feeding Forward program also includes funded meals through other food-related programs nationally. MGM employees will celebrate this momentous occasion on November 26 at Project Homeless Connect where they are the sponsors of the meal. Project Homeless Connect, coordinated by the Nevada Resorts Association, brings together various parts of the community to help serve individuals and families in need. More than 200 MGM Resorts volunteers will be part of the event, greeting guests and serving them a restaurant-style Thanksgiving meal prepared by MGM Resorts chefs. Guests will also have access to volunteer navigators to guide them to service locations and personal shoppers at the Connect Store. For more information about MGM Resorts' social impact and sustainability efforts under Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and Protecting the Planet, visit https://www.mgmresorts.com/focused. ABOUT MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global entertainment company with national and international locations featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 30 unique hotel and destination gaming offerings including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the industry. Expanding throughout the U.S. and around the world, the company recently acquired the operations of Empire City Casino in New York and MGM Northfield Park. In 2018, MGM Resorts opened MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, MGM COTAI in Macau, and the first Bellagio-branded hotel in Shanghai. The 82,000 global employees of MGM Resorts are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. MGM RESORTS CONTACTS: Samantha Cummis Executive Director Communications scummis@mgmresorts.com View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mgm-resorts-surpasses-milestone-of-1-million-meals-donated-toward-hunger-relief-in-las-vegas-community-300964767.html SOURCE MGM Resorts International Super Bowl LIV betting line: Chiefs open as small favorites over 49ers Merck CEO: Stepping down from Trump council was 'not a political issue' Adobe Road Winery CEO on the business of winemaking	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1172
__label__cc	0.567601	0.432399	TXN - Texas Instruments Incorporated NasdaqGS - NasdaqGS Real Time Price. Currency in USD Previous Close 130.16 Bid 0.00 x 1200 Ask 0.00 x 2200 Day's Range 130.44 - 132.04 52 Week Range 94.81 - 132.20 Market Cap 123.11B EPS (TTM) N/A Consumer confidence readings hint China was harder hit than US leading up to 'phase one' trade deal The Conference Board Chief Economist Bart van Ark joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman & Kristin Myers, along with Kindur CEO Rhian Horgan to discuss the phase one U.S.-China trade deal and fourth quarter global consumer confidence numbers released by The Conference Board. Futures: Earnings season is the the next test for the hot stock market rally. Netflix and Texas Instruments earnings are due Tuesday night. Fourth Quarter Earnings Reports in Week Ahead On MLK Day, a Busy Week Expected Q4 earnings season, the World Economic Forum in Davos and President Trump's impeachment trial all get underway beginning tomorrow. Read This Before You Buy Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) Because Of Its P/E Ratio The goal of this article is to teach you how to use price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios). We'll apply a basic P/E... Product Strength to Aid Texas Instruments' (TXN) Q4 Earnings Texas Instruments' (TXN) Q4 performance may have been affected by weakness in overall demand, and increased competition in the auto and industrial space. AT&T, Texas Instruments among companies with most patent activity in 2019, research says Overall, AT&T; has lost some ground since 2016, the last year Sqoop looked at the data, while Texas Instruments showed improvement. Earnings Preview: Texas Instruments (TXN) Q4 Earnings Expected to Decline Texas Instruments (TXN) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations. The hottest housing markets of 2020 are far from the coasts Home buyers next year are expected to flock to smaller, more affordable cities, according to Realtor.com. The Urbem Quality Score A quantitative ranking and backtesting model Continue reading... No Rebound to This Morning’s Selloff Best Dividend Stocks for January 2020 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, The Home Depot, Texas Instruments, and Nike could be strong dividend plays into the new year. The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Texas Instruments, Charter, Lowe's, Caterpillar and Zoetis Top Analyst Reports for Texas Instruments, Charter & Lowe's Insider Monkey How Did Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) Compare Against Top Hedge Fund Stocks in 2019? Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that's not because they are bad at investing. Truth be told, most hedge fund managers and other smaller players within this industry are very smart and skilled investors. Of course, they may also make wrong bets in some instances, but no one knows what the […] INTC vs. TXN: Which Stock Is the Better Value Option? Texas Instruments (TXN) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know Texas Instruments (TXN) closed at $126.35 in the latest trading session, marking a -0.58% move from the prior day. Here's Why I Think Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) Might Deserve Your Attention Today Like a puppy chasing its tail, some new investors often chase 'the next big thing', even if that means buying 'story... Barron’s 2020 Outlook: Stocks Are Headed Higher. Here’s Which Sectors Will Benefit the Most. Strategists see modest gains ahead for stocks in 2020, supported by a stable economy, accommodative monetary policy, and a pickup in manufacturing. 7 of the Decade’s Fastest-Growing Dividend Stocks People generally assume that a dividend stock has to have a high starting yield to generate lots of income. This is a mistaken assumption. In fact, you often earn more income over the long-run buying a fast-growing company with a low starting dividend yield, than one with a large current yield but minimal growth prospects.Think about capital allocation for a second. When a company has many ways to grow its business internally, it generally shouldn't pay a huge dividend. As shareholders, you get more value from the company opening more stores, factories, and whatnot to grow the business. Frequently, by the time a company starts paying a huge dividend, it is a sign of a corporation getting up there in years; the company no longer has tons of vigor to keep expanding. A mature company can pay large dividends for decades, but it won't have jaw-dropping earnings and dividend upside any more. * These 7 S&P 500 Stocks Will Deliver a Repeat Performance in the Next Decade Oftentimes, the best way to get a dividend yield is by buying a company as it is just starting to transition from all-out growth toward stable maturity. You get a company that has started to pay a dividend, but still has plenty of opportunities to reinvest in their business and keep earnings moving sharply higher. Let's start looking at these underappreciated dividend growth machines with arguably the decade's most iconic example.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Apple (AAPL) * Dividend growth since 2009: Dividend payments began in 2012 * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 10.2% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $5,605Source: George Dolgikh / Shutterstock.com Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the decade's most impressive dividend stories. Previously, Apple had last paid a dividend way back in 1995. As the company's fortunes faded, it had to suspend its dividend altogether during the lean years. After the turn of the century, the outlook started to improve with the iPod and subsequent new product launches.For years, Apple piled up more profits and cash as iPhone sales exploded. In 2012, the company realized that it was running out of great new growth opportunities, and the company's treasury was overflowing. So, after a 17-year drought, Apple kicked off paying a healthy sum out to shareholders once again.They launched with a $1.51 per year dividend in 2012, and have steadily hiked it since then. Impressively, despite not starting a dividend payout until 2012, if you had invested $10,000 at the end of 2009, you'd have already gotten back $5,605 in dividends on your starting investment. The yield-on-cost -- that is to say your annual yield on your starting investment -- topped 10% as well. Income investors that skipped AAPL stock a decade ago because it didn't pay a dividend ended up missing one of the 2010's best yield plays. Visa (V) * Dividend growth since 2009: 26.1% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 5.5% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $2,295Source: Shutterstock Credit card network giant Visa (NYSE:V) launched its Initial Public Offering in 2008. Despite the inopportune timing to go public, Visa stock has been a nearly-instantaneous winner for its investors. Despite that, it didn't initially appear to be much of a dividend-paying stock. Visa paid just 11 cents per share in dividends in 2009; that calculated out to just a 0.5% dividend yield based on Visa's then-$22 stock price.Times have changed though. For one, Visa's stock is up almost 10x over the past decade and now trades around $180. Visa's dividend payments are up by a similar amount, with the annual payout jumping from 11 cents a year to a dollar a year per share. * The 10 Worst Dividend Stocks of the Decade The company's success comes from several factors. For one, it only has one true global competitor, Mastercard (NYSE:MA). Other rivals have failed to achieve the necessary scope to really compete. Also, the purchase of Visa Europe a few years ago was a great move that provided more growth runway than investors had expected. Though disruption may eventually come from newer financial payment technologies, for now, Visa remains an unexpected dividend growth stock superstar. Nike (NKE) * Dividend growth since 2009: 13.3% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 6.1% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $3,402Source: TY Lim / Shutterstock.com Just over the past year or so, apparel giant Nike (NYSE:NKE) has started to get some attention as a leading dividend growth stock. The company is well-positioned internationally, as it has grown sales in China and other key emerging markets. This has helped Nike post double-digit EPS growth for years and has led to a sharply rising Nike stock price.Long-time Nike stock owners will know that the company has been increasingly generous with its dividends as well. Like numerous stocks on this list, Nike never looked like much of a dividend payer, as its current annual yield is usually around 1%. That's right in line with where it is now; Nike pays 1.02% at the moment.So how has Nike delivered such compelling dividend growth over the past decade? Simple: it compounds. By growing the dividend at more than 13% per year, a starting 1% yield quickly becomes so much more. In fact, if you bought $10,000 of Nike stock a decade ago, you're now getting $610 per year in income. Additionally, you've earned back more than a third of your starting investment in dividends cumulatively. Let Nike be an example of the power of a fast-growing dividend to pile up plenty of wealth in just one decade. Texas Instruments (TXN) * Dividend growth since 2009: 20.4% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 13.8% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $5,787Source: Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com If you think of superstar tech stocks, Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) probably wouldn't be the first name that comes to mind. But the Dallas-based firm has become a mega-successful semiconductor firm in its own right.TXN stock has surged from less than $25 per share in 2009 to $125 now. And it has managed tremendous dividend growth as well, as it has put up a compounded growth rate of more than 20% per year. It has one of the most impressive dividend stories of America's large-cap stocks, in fact. Had you bought $10,000 worth of Texas Instruments at the end of 2009, you'd have already received back nearly $6,000 today. On top of that, you'd be getting $1,380 dollar a year in dividends going forward off your initial $10,000, which makes for a whopping 14% yield on cost.How has Texas Instruments managed this feat? It's due to three separate mechanisms. For one, the company has matured and slowed down growth, instead ratcheting up its dividend payout ratio. It's a classic example of the process I discussed at the top of this article where a company converts from aggressive expansion to a more balanced approach. Where it has grown, it has done so strategically, focusing on long-life semiconductor chips for applications such as sensors and automobiles where there is less competition than in other categories such as cell phones, CPUs, or memory chips. * 7 Energy Stocks That Are Still Worth Buying In 2020 Finally, Texas Instruments has utilized fantastic capital allocation. The company was quick to take advantage of low interest rates, issuing billions in debt earlier this decade for interest rates of less than 2%. It used this to buy back stock, driving up EPS and allowing it to pay a much larger dividend on its remaining outstanding shares. This combination of smart expansion and crafty financial dealings allowed Texas Instruments to be one of the decade's top growth and income stocks. Estee Lauder (EL) * Dividend growth since 2009: 19.0% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 7.9% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $4,218Source: Shutterstock Luxury cosmetics company Estee Lauder (NYSE:EL) checks a lot of the same boxes as Nike. Like Nike, Estee Lauder has enjoyed unmatched success in China, Hong Kong, and other key Asian markets. Like Nike, EL is benefiting from a huge wave of global prosperity and rising consumer spending in almost every corner of the world. And like Nike, Estee Lauder benefits from international media.Nike has its amazingly effective athlete endorsements to sell product. Meanwhile, Estee Lauder has tapped into Instagram culture to sell more makeup and cosmetics products than ever before.While Nike is more of a household name for many investors, Estee Lauder has managed to top its consumer goods peer in dividend growth. Impressively, Estee Lauder has put up 19%/year dividend growth such that its generally low current dividend yield has exploded into an absolute income machine over the past decade. Shares purchased ten years ago now pay nearly 8% per year, and an initial $10,000 investment has kicked out more than $4,200 in dividends already.And the good times should keep on rolling, as Estee Lauder has numerous tailwinds at its back. The rise of global travel in particular is of great benefit, as Estee Lauder sells a remarkable amount of products in airport shops; turns out people with spending money are eager to buy expensive products during their vacations. And that, in turn, will put even more dividends in Estee Lauder stockowners' pockets in coming years. Hormel Foods (HRL) * Dividend growth since 2009: 16.9% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 8.8% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $5,057Source: Mike Mozart via Flickr (Modified)Income investors tend to love the food and beverages sector. There are plenty of iconic American companies in this category, and many of them have paid rising dividends for decades on end. What's less-known, however, is that the smaller, more dynamic food companies often top the bigger ones.A beverage stock like Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) is widely known and loved. No less a super-investor than Warren Buffett is a huge fan. Yet KO stock delivered a rather ordinary decade of dividends. It grew its dividend at just 7%/year compounded, and offers a yield-on-cost of 6% if you bought in 2009.Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL), the maker of Spam, Skippy peanut butter, Wholly Guacamole, and a wide range of other foods has easily topped staid giants like Coca-Cola. Hormel grew its dividend by nearly 17% per year over the past decade, and investors that bought in 2009 are now getting a 9% annual dividend on their purchase. Impressively, anyone that bought then has now gotten back more than half their starting investment in dividends. * 7 Exciting Biotech Stocks to Buy Now What's the key to Hormel's success? The company has tons of organic growth; it has more than tripled revenues and earnings this decade. That far eclipses most food and beverage rivals. Also, the company's debt-free balance sheet means it doesn't have to pay interest, freeing up more money for dividends. Broadridge Financial (BR) * Dividend growth since 2009: 17.3% per year compounded * Yield-on-cost for Dec. 2009 purchase: 8% * Dividends received this decade if you invested $10,000 in Dec. 2009: $4,671Source: Shutterstock Broadridge Financial (NYSE:BR) is probably the least-known company on this list. Which goes to show that you can get fantastic dividend growth from smaller and less famous companies.While Broadridge isn't a household name, you've almost certainly used its services. That's because the company dominates proxies, which is how corporations communicate with us shareholders. When you get mail or digital communications about annual meetings, shareholders votes, or any other such matter, Broadridge is usually the service provider. The company provides additional financial services such as operating automatic dividend reinvestment plans (DRIP) for shareholders.Maybe not the world's most exciting business, but it is a vital one. Get anything wrong, and investors would be infuriated. So companies and brokerages have little incentive to switch service providers to save a tiny sum of money compared to the potential downside from dissatisfied customers. Meanwhile, the need for these functions continues regardless of how the economy is going; Broadridge's earnings fell less than 5% even during the Great Financial Crisis.The company's indispensable services and strong cash flow have made it a champion dividend payer. It grew dividends more than 17%/year last decade, and is now paying out 8%/year of dividends on an initial 2009 investment. With the company now moving into software for wealth management services, investors should expect Broadridge's latest expansion efforts to lead to even more income growth over the next decade.At the time of this writing, Ian Bezek owned TXN, EL, HRL, and BR shares. You can reach him on Twitter at @irbezek. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * These 7 S&P 500 Stocks Will Deliver a Repeat Performance in the Next Decade * 7 Tech Stocks to Stuff Your Stocking With * 7 Sinfully Good Casino Stocks That Could Win the Jackpot in 2020 The post 7 of the Decade's Fastest-Growing Dividend Stocks appeared first on InvestorPlace. Texas Instruments Sees IBD RS Rating Rise To 75 A Relative Strength Rating upgrade for Texas Instruments shows improving technical performance. Will it continue? 3 Tech Stocks With Generous Yields for 2020 Cisco Systems, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Texas Instruments look like good buys for income-hungry investors, says one money manager. TI CEO signals Richardson plant may be ‘available’ by late 2021 after delay concerns At an investor conference on Tuesday, Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton said, "We’ll get going on the building later in 2020."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1173
__label__wiki	0.85102	0.85102	Venezuelan Woman Shot Dead During Latest Looting A Venezuelan woman died on Monday after being shot in the face when looters raided state food warehouses, her family said, in the latest unrest in the crisis-hit OPEC nation. Relatives of hotel worker Jenny Ortiz, 42, said she died in hospital after being shot during the melee late on Sunday in San Cristobal, a town near the border of Colombia, where looting and antigovernment protests have occurred in recent months, Reuters reported. Family, including her mother-in-law Carmen Rosa, 58, who said she saw the incident, alleged that a policeman shot Ortiz. Authorities did not comment on that accusation, though local police said armed criminals had fired on police and an investigation was underway. “The warehouses were supposedly full of food and the people need food,” Rosa told Reuters at the morgue where her daughter-in-law’s corpse was taken, saying about 500 local residents had descended on the premises. When security forces chased some of the crowd after they broke in, “they jumped down a bank to protect themselves and a policeman who was pursuing them shot her. They shot her in the face,” she added. Lootings on the Rise Looting, lynching and violent protests have been on the rise this year as Venezuela’s economic crisis has deepened. The country of 30 million is plagued by shortages of food and other basics, and inflation is the highest in the world. A local nongovernmental organization said at least 641 protests took place in Venezuela in May. More than a quarter were attributed to shortages of food. There have been more than 250 lootings or intentions of looting this year, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict. While the opposition coalition blames socialist President Nicolas Maduro and is seeking a referendum to recall him, the government says political foes are fanning the crisis with an “economic war” and seeking a coup against him. Vielma Mora, a ruling Socialist Party member who governs the state including San Cristobal, confirmed the woman’s death and said it happened after several days of looting. “These are plans orchestrated by the rightwing,” he said. “We hope to capture the person responsible.” The fall in oil prices has heaped pain on Venezuela, which depends on crude for about 95% of export revenue. Venezuelans’ patience is wearing thin as they skip meals, survive on yucca or mangoes, and grapple with supermarkets unable to provide food for lines that can stretch into the thousands. 200,000 Venezuelans Mark 50 Days of Protest Against Maduro Venezuela’s Key Opposition Leaders Rearrested Venezuelans Protest Economic Crisis Via Currency Art Lootings Soar in Venezuela Brazil Forces Sent to Venezuela Border After Migrant Clashes Venezuela Attorney General to Face Trial	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1174
__label__wiki	0.90372	0.90372	CNN Settles $275M Lawsuit With ‘Punchable’ Teenager Nick Sandmann By finanz.dk \| 8. januar 2020 CNN settled its $250 million lawsuit with Covington High School Student Nicholas Sandmann for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday. Sandmann was viciously attacked by left-leaning news outlets over a deceptively edited video clip from the January, 2019 March for Life rally at the Lincoln Memorial, in which the teenager, seen wearing a MAGA hat, appeared to be mocking a Native American man beating a drum (a known political grifter who lied about the incident, and stole valor). Around a day later, a longer version of the video revealed that Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong – but not until the media had played judge, jury and executioner of Sandmann’s reputation. That included CNN‘s Reza Aslan, who asked over Twitter “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s? pic.twitter.com/jolQ7BZQPD — Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) January 20, 2019 “Contrary to its ‘Facts First’ public relations ploy, CNN ignored the facts and put its anti-Trump agenda first in waging a 7-day media campaign of false, vicious attacks against Nicholas, a young boy who was guilty of little more than wearing a souvenir Make America Great Again cap,” Sandmann claimed in a 58-page lawsuit filed last May, according to the Washington Times. Sandmann’s attorney told Fox News last March that “CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes. It’s broadcast into their homes.” In total, Sandmann has sought $800 million after also suing the Washington Post and NBC Universal. READ ALSO What Japan Inc really thinks about Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s maverick saviour Sandmann claims that the Post – which helped publicize a now infamous photo that helped trigger an Internet mob that swiftly outed the teen and demanded he be punished – led the hate campaign against Sandmann – and failed to practice proper journalistic due diligence – “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap on a school field trip to the January 18 March for Life in Washington, D.C. when he was unexpectedly and suddenly confronted by Nathan Phillips (‘Phillips’), a known Native American activist, who beat a drum and sang loudly within inches of his face (‘the January 18 incident’).” Trial dates have not yet been set in those cases. “This case will be tried not one minute earlier or later than when it is ready,” said Sandmann’s attorney, Lin Wood, who says they also plan to sue the owners of The Enquirer, Gannett, within the next 60 days. Meanwhile, filmmaker and pundit Mike Cernovich compiled a short list of some of CNN‘s more memorable reporting screwups (via Cernovich.com): Jake Tapper reported that fired FBI director James Comey would testify that he never told Trump he was under investigation. After Comey testified, Tapper’s article was updated to include this disclaimer, “The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published. Jim Acosta claimed Trump did not visit Steve Scalise after the tragic mass shooting committed by a far left wing terrorist. CNN had to retract a story about Anthony Scaramucci being under investigation after it was revealed to be fake news. CNN White House Reporter Jeremy Diamond claimed Trump was first President since George H.W. Bush to not take questions at a press conference held in China. Jake Tapper himself RT’ed Diamond. This claim was false. READ ALSO Syrian Jihadists Filmed Jet-Setting To Next Proxy War On Commercial Plane CNN claimed that Trump committed a faux pas during a fish feeding ceremony held in Japan. White House reporter Manu Raju claimed Donald Trump Jr. had advanced knowledge of the Wikileaks release of the Podesta emails. This story was confirmed by two sources, and it was fake news. To this day, Raju refuses to burn the sources who fed him a fake story.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1175
__label__wiki	0.672087	0.672087	Paul Joseph Watson: Man Fired Over ‘Driven by a German’ Sign on Bus A man in Dresden, Germany was fired for displaying a sign on his bus that read “This bus is steered by a German driver.” The controversy began when a passenger took a photograph of the sign and sent it to the Dresden Transport Company (DVB) on social media asking what it was. Thankfully, the bus driver was immediately fired for his thought crimes against diversity and will probably never be employed by a transport company again. “He is no longer on the road and this behaviour will have consequences,” the company responded. @DVBAG was zur Hölle soll das pic.twitter.com/be7QJlwb1f — ❄️ Hero in Winter 🛡️ (@Barldarian) December 16, 2019 DVB spokeswoman Anja Ehrhardt subsequently confirmed that the man’s employment had been terminated over a rule that forbids the sharing of political opinions. “We can under no circumstances tolerate such actions,” Ehrhardt said. Presumably, if the driver had been displaying a “refugees welcome” sign, nothing would have happened to him and he probably would have been praised on social media. The subcontractor’s boss, Matthias Peschke, went further, asserting that the man’s thought crime was an affront to decency. “This is a shocking situation for us. This is a long-term employee of ours. His service has now been discontinued. He won’t be in the plans tomorrow,” said Peschke. It later turned out that the man probably displayed the sign because he was frustrated with DVB’s attempt to attract migrant drivers to fill vacancies that are not being filled by domestic drivers. The company recently hired 19 drivers from Serbia despite them lacking in German language skills. READ ALSO Berlin confronts Germany's colonial past with new initiative As we reported earlier this year, the former director of Germany’s foreign intelligence service accused Angela Merkel of creating a “security crisis” in Germany as a result of her open border refugee policy. SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: Follow on Twitter: Follow @PrisonPlanet My voice is being silenced by free speech-hating Silicon Valley behemoths who want me disappeared forever. It is CRUCIAL that you support me. Please sign up for the free newsletter here. Donate to me on SubscribeStar here. Support my sponsor – Turbo Force – a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown. Via Infowars	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1176
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__label__cc	0.683204	0.316796	Commit 504c5a31 authored Sep 12, 2018 by Michele Carignani Corrected licensing information parent 0f083171 LICENSE LICENSE +25 -503 LICENSE.apache LICENSE.apache +503 -0 README README +8 -105 README.apache README.apache +110 -0 View file @ 504c5a31 LICENSE.apache # MSP-httpd demonstrator This repository contains a HTTP server demonstrator for the mcTLS protocol. The demonstrator is implemented extending the Apache HTTP server. ## Licensing information The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, the developers aim to collaboratively develop and maintain a robust, commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available source code. Contributions to this repositories are licensed according to the ETSI Software License (see LICENSE). The Latest Version Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/. The documentation available as of the date of this release is included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most up-to-date documentation can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/. Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be found in README.platforms. Please see the file called LICENSE. Cryptographic Software Notice This distribution may include software that has been designed for use with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object code and source code. The following provides more details on the included files that may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software: Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under modules/ssl/ for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities. In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface for symmetrical cryptographic functions that make use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as OpenSSL, NSS, or the operating system's platform-specific facilities. This interface is known as the apr_crypto interface, with implementation beneath the /crypto directory. The apr_crypto interface is used by the mod_session_crypto module available under modules/session for optional encryption of session information. Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from <http://www.openssl.org/source/>. The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution. Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl" in the package name have been created without the above files and are therefore not subject to this notice. o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce> o If you want freely available support for running Apache please see the resources at <http://httpd.apache.org/support.html> o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please see the instructions for bug reporting at <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html> o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at <http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev> The original implementation of the Apache server is release under the Apache license (see LICENSE.apache). README.apache	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1187
__label__wiki	0.854323	0.854323	Single-Seaters Normal GT BRDC F3 Asian F3 Home Single-Seaters Page 103 Hitech GP entry in F2 for 2020 confirmed to make it 11 teams Darshan Chokhani - 20/01/2020 Gunther says clever use of Attack Mode helped in Santiago win Formula E: Gunther passes da Costa to maiden win in Santiago ePrix Leclerc joins Ferrari Driver Academy with Beganovic to make it nine names COTA resurfacing track to eradicate bumps after complains during US GP GP2 Series announce teams for 2014-2016 FIA Formula 2 FormulaRapida.net - 15/10/2013 Thirteen teams will compete again in GP2 Series’ fourth three-year cycle GP2 Series organisers are pleased to reveal the name of the thirteen teams entered for the next three seasons. While twelve outfits of the... After a thrilling Second Race, Marciello marks his World Championship FIA F3 FormulaRapida.net - 13/10/2013 Just a few hours after having been forced into retirement in the 26th race of the 2013 FIA Formula 3 European Championship season, Ferrari’s up-and-coming young-gun Raffaele Marciello (Prema Powerteam) was beaming again: at... Sainz will join forces with Carlin in Macau GP FIA F3 David González - 11/10/2013 Carlos Sainz will have another chance to put his name in golden letters in the prestigious race of the Grand Prix of Macau street race held since 1954 in the Asian city of Macao,... Dario Franchitti leaves hospital and will be transported to Indianapolis for evaluation Indycar Òscar Daniel - 11/10/2013 Dario Franchitti (four-time IndyCar champion and three-time Indianapolis 500 winner) was injured in a last-lap collision with Takuma Sato. The Scottish driver had a heavy collision with the wall at high speed, and several... Target Chip Ganassi Racing team announced the signing of Tony Kanaan and change to... Indycar Manel Ferriol Garrido - 07/10/2013 Chip Ganassi, owner of Target Chip Ganassi Racing team has confirmed the signing of Tony Kanaan, who won the 97th edition of the Indianapolis 500 for the 2014 season, the Brazilian driver occupies the... RACE1. Dixon revives the championship Indycar David González - 06/10/2013 Scott Dixon took the victory on the circuit of Houston in the first race this weekend. It was a tough race because the hot weather and high humidity, and seeing how it looked throughout... Dixon takes pole for Race 2 due to the rain The qualifying session was again divided into two groups, and this time with the presence of rain and the message of the organization saying that the start of the race will be normal Indycar... RACE2. Power wins followed by Dixon. Castroneves gets no points Another new race at Houston in this crazy weekend. Upon cancellation of qualifying number two marshalls decided that the starting grid would be determined by the classification of Indycar so Castroneves and Dixon would... Rosenqvist wins again and re-open the championship A great weekend in Zandvoort to Rosenqvist. There was 72.5 points between him and Marciello before this week-end. Now only 9.5! Championship will gives us a champion in a rush. By: Federico Caruso But today it's an... Rosenqvist win for the minium FIA F3 Andreu Rius Riu - 28/09/2013 Rosenqvist has won in this afternoon the second race of the weekend followed by Alex Lynn who makes a secon position in the morning. In the 3rd position finished the russian driver and the... 5th victory for Bird this year in GP2 FIA Formula 2 Arnau Viñals - 22/09/2013 RUSSIAN TIME driver takes fifth victory of the season Sam Bird kept the pressure on Series leader Fabio Leimer scoring another win through a display of mature driving to take a lights to flag victory... Palmer and Nasr discuss their race GP2 Series: Jolyon, congratulations on your win today. You did not make your life easy though with a slow start from pole. What happened? Jolyon Palmer: I don’t think I could have made that race... Unstoppable Palmer in Singapore Joylon Palmer didn’t have any rival to wins the first race of GP2 Series in Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore. The British starts form pole position but at the start of the race, the Carlin... GP2 Singapore post qualifying penalties Following today's qualifying session at Marina Bay, Singapore, both Johnny Cecotto and Julian Leal were penalised. The Stewards found that the Arden driver had impeded Sam Bird while approaching Turn16, and that the Racing Engineering... Palmer fastest in Singapore FIA Formula 2 David González - 20/09/2013 Aggressive GP2 qualyfing where pilots have gone to the limit approaching the walls. Palmer has been the fastest and Nasr was followed confirming the good fit that has the Carlin team in this circuit... Palmer gets the first practice GP2 turn back again this weekend, this time in Singapore. Weather conditions so hard, no more and no less than 32 º C and 35 º C on track with humidity of 57%. Extreme... GP2 and GP3 Series together with Pirelli for upcoming seasons Multi-year deal renewed between Series and Italian tyre manufacturer GP2 Series organisers are pleased to announce that they have renewed a multi-year deal with Pirelli for both GP2 and GP3 Series. The two F1 feeder... Indycar Guillem González Vela - 17/09/2013 Yesterday afternoon appears the news, Juan Pablo Montoya will be back in the top open wheeler competition in USA, the Indycar Series are in luck to welcome back the 1999 CART champion and winner... Productive mid-season test at Hockenheim with new faces This week, the young FIA Formula 3 European Championship drivers travelled to the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg’s 4.574-kilometre GP circuit for the third official tests of the year, held on Wednesday and Thursday. In changeable conditions,... Quaife-Hobb rules the GP2 race 2 in Monza and wins his first GP in... Today will be remembered as the first time of Quaife-Hobb. A great start of the Hilmer Motorsport's driver garanteed first position at the end of the race. Doubt of the rain affected all the race, and... Bird takes pole in Monza FIA Formula 2 Eric Calduch - 06/09/2013 Sam Bird took his second consecutive pole position at the Italian GP. The Briton has four points and will start tomorrow from the first position ahead of Leimer and Palmer in one equalized rating.... Palmer leads the way in Monza Jolyon Palmer set a benchmark for his rivals with a scorching late lap to claim the top spot in this morning's free practice session in Monza, although it was tight at the top: the... Pagenaud wins in Baltimore Simon Pagenaud has won in Baltimore Streets after probably the most eventful race during all championship. He was followed by Newgarden and Sebastian Bourdais Photo Indycar Media Power overtook Dixon at the beggining of the race... WP. Bourdais fastest in the warmup Sebastian Bourdais has had a bad weekend until now, he has been the fastest in the last training session before the race It is expected a difficult race, very important the start where Dixon and... GP2 Series Preview Round 9 2013 – Monza, Italy There is two week, in Spa, it is unwound the eighth round of the season of GP2 series which was not short of action and of suspense. During the session of qualification, it was Sam... Scott Dixon doesn’t give up Groups for the first round were the following: -Group 1: Graham Rahal, Scott Dixon, Will Power, Takuma Sato, Dario Franchitti, Oriol Servia, James Hinchcliffe, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Sebastian Saavedra, James Jakes, Simona de Silvestro and Stefan... FP3. Maximum equality in Baltimore Nothing more and nothing less than nineteen pilots in a second in the streets of Baltimore. The fastest driver of the session was Pagenaud immediately followed by Dixon and Power, both drivers are shown... Will Power starts on top at Baltimore Indycar FormulaRapida.net - 30/08/2013 Will Power keeps his good momentum, he has set the best time on the first practice session, more than two tenths of a second faster than EJ Viso, and almost a half second faster... Vautier fastest in second practice It is not being a easy come back to Baltimore streets for Indycar Series drivers, it is a very tricky street circuit with 3.28 km and is driven clockwise. Surely for circuit driders it... Coletti fastest in practice Welcome to the eighth meeting of GP2 season Today competition has started with the practice before qualifying. Prior to this practice a slight rain turn up towards to the circuit. Track condition was with some... Alonso-McLaren ambassador deal ends with nothing set for 2020 F1 confirms departure of Sean Bratches as he takes up advisory role Latifi opts to use Rosberg’s #6 for his debut F1 season in 2020 WRC drops Chile from 2020 calendar, Argentina date changed Racing Point reckons F1 regs for 2021 ‘incredibly restrictive’ at front-end Verstappen hopes to have Ricciardo-like collaboration with Albon in 2020 Bottas fights back to get a Top 10 result in 2020 Arctic Lapland Rally Choose a language Español Català English Français F1 confirms departure of Sean Bratches as he takes up advisory... Hitech GP entry in F2 for 2020 confirmed to make it... New Williams FW41 passes FIA crash test Do you think that Halo is not aesthetic? These cars may... 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__label__wiki	0.614371	0.614371	What Game/s are You Playing? Daily / Whenever Check :) (GAMEPLAY) Page 4 of 18 First 1234567814 ... Last Thread: What Game/s are You Playing? Daily / Whenever Check :) (GAMEPLAY) Aussie2B We're still doing a lot of setting up over here with the fixed CRT. Both physically setting things up and setting up emulators and such. Oh, and after having it kick around since... I wanna say 2005, our broken spare PC Engine Duo-RX is finally fixed. Via MAME, I played through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, which I had already posted about in the Beaten in 2017 topic. Also played some Super Mario World and Akumajou Dracula XX via SNES emulation. Man, am I rusty at Dracula XX. I used to be pretty damn good at that game. Though I wasn't really playing seriously. I played a tiny bit of Puyo Pop on Neo Geo Pocket Color, thinking I'd maybe play through that for the Game Completion Challenge, but I'm not really feeling Puyo Puyo right now for whatever reason. So I think I'll just put it back on the shelf. In The Charming Empire on Steam, I'm now up to chapter 7 or 8 in Koichiro Sera's route. I like how this route has some chapters that flow from one to another. Kei's route mostly felt like a series of disjointed vignettes. celerystalker celerystalker is a poindexter Been playing some Tempest 2000 on Jaguar the last couple of nights. That game looks so good in S-video. About once a year I go through a love affair with that game for a few days. I love the heck out of it, but I'm pretty mediocre at it. I usually clear about 40 webs on a credit, but I start really getting killed on the yellow frame webs. I'm getting better at them, though. The thing that always pulls me back is that a single credit often lasts upwards of an hour, which really can be exhausting to play more than one or two games when it starts getting intense. Still, like many other people, it's easily my favorite game on the console, and my personal favorite version of Tempest. Niku-Sama ServBot (Level 11) Deadford, OR Donkey kong arcade. no emulation Earlier today, I played two credits of Tempest 2000 on Jaguar. Set a new personal high score at around 780,000, but each credit lasted a good hour, which is a little exhausting for such a chaotic game. Tonight, I decided to take a break and played through Duck Tales Remastered on PS3. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a very easy game, but fun to play all the same, and definity captures a Duck Tales feel. Much better than last week when I needed to be up late and played Wario Ware. Videogamerdaryll RACES MINI MOTORCYCLES TSMMR 47 Originally Posted by celerystalker Duck Tales Remastered on PS3..I need to get that... Pocket Bikes on Motorweek 07 Sandy Hook Speedway MD Playing a bunch of Sega Master System Games,none working so I had to open them up and clean them.. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Game Gear, 1992 Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds on Vita has completely consumed my gaming attention. Which works out fine because I ran into some PC issues, which required a format, and I still haven't set everything back up, which means no Steam for now. I download my Steam games to a portable drive, but I hate how some games store their saves elsewhere. Other than that, we had a friend stay over for a night just to hang out, so we had a ton of emulated gaming going on. I played quite a few rounds of Taisen Puzzle-Dama via MAME, and we had some intense mini-game battles in Kirby Super Star, haha. Originally Posted by Aussie2B How is Hakuoki? I've got it coming this week but I've not read an awful lot about it (good or bad). Anyway, I've taken a week break from Persona 5 (which I've been loving) to play some more Vita games: I managed to platinum PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate (it was good despite some annoying stages that slowed my progress at times) I've restarted Guacamelee, which I have finished before on the PS4, but I wanted to get back and 100% the Vita version as I loved it so much. And its still so good. The exploration is satisfying, the visuals are lovely and the combat is brilliant (your moves combo together so well). Just heading toward Jaguar at the moment, so I'm getting closer to the end of the game. Absolutely worth playing for fans of action/platformer games or someone just looking for a good "Metroidvania" game. I've also started F1 2011. I'm not a Formula 1 fan, but I do enjoy different racing games, and I'm working on clearing every Vita launch game so it seemed like a decent choice. I'm really liking it so far. It feels like a more arcadey feeling racing game which is good, I dislike sim based racers. Plenty of modes to work through as well so I can see it lasting me a very long time. Lastly, I finished Army Corps of Hell this week - another launch Vita title. Its a strange game, basically using a Pikmin style combat system but the game is nowhere near the quality of Nintendo's title. Its a game that kind of forces you to grind after a while, as otherwise the game becomes insanely unfair/difficult. That said, when you hit the point where the Magi class has the best weapon, and is basically the only class you want to use for the late game stuff it actually gets better. The later levels even off difficulty wise, as its more about fighting bosses and huge waves of enemies and less about annoying trap rooms. I actually ended up enjoying the last 25% of the game while the middle part was a mix of frustration and boredom. Definitely glad I persevered though. I'm a newbie to Hakuoki too. Despite that I love otome visual novels, I never bothered to pick it up on PSP or 3DS (I did get the action spin-off on PSP, but that's in my backlog), and while I did get the PS3 version when it launched, I still don't have a PS3 to play it on. I'm really liking it so far. Lots of interesting historical drama and political intrigue, plus some supernatural elements, with a localization that reads nicely, and lovely art and music. The one thing that's kind of disappointing is that it doesn't have the full story in the previous releases. Since they doubled the number of routes and also incorporated fandisc content, the cost for all that added content is that it's split into two releases, and right now, there isn't even a release date for localization of the second part. This first part is almost nothing but common route, so there's barely any romance at all. I guess the second part will be totally focused on the relationships. The Punisher (1990) (Nintendo, 1990) NBA Jam SNES... Last weekend played some Rough Ranger (Arcade). Pretty fun Rolling Thunder clone I've been going on about in Arcade Alley. Played Tekken 2 (Arcade) yesterday. It's the first version of Tekken I've ever owned, as I won it for $10 with a power supply, JAMMA harness, and Namco kick harness. I was never into Tekken, but wanted the kick harness, and can use the other stuff to build someone a supergun. Anyway, it's playable, and I'm sure some friends will dig it, but I far prefer Sega's 3D fighters, and any 2D to boot. Finally playing through Zelda: Link's Awakening on original Game Boy. It's pretty okay so far. I like that the dungeons are small. I played through Noah's Ark on Bible Adventures for NES for the thousandth or so time. I genuinely don't care that it's an objectively bad game; I've always found it somewhat calming and therapeutic to play, just quietly collecting animals with minimal resistance. It's silly, but as a game I grew up with, it's just one that suits me at times. Though I was very much enjoying Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds on Vita, I hate to leave Period Cube barely touched, so I switched back to that. I'm now on Chapter/Quest 4 in Hiroya's route. I also briefly tried out some new Vita acquisitions. I popped in both Mutants Mudds Deluxe and Mutant Mudds: Super Challenge. Neither impressed me much. Even though, generally speaking, I like straightforward platformers more than Metroid-style games, I'd say Xeodrifter is the better game from that developer. Though maybe my mind would change after more time with the Mutant Mudds games. Similarly, Earth Defense Force 2 didn't really grab me. I know that franchise has a cult following, but I wasn't seeing what all the hype was about. I decided recently to pick up a couple GBA games I've been putting off buying for years and years, and the first to show up was Donkey Kong Country 3. I love the SNES original and have played that tons, so the main draw here was to hear the brand new soundtrack. I played till I cleared the first boss (that dumb belching barrel). The new music isn't bad, nor was I ever that crazy about the SNES soundtrack, but man, does it throw me off. I'm just so accustomed to how the game sounds on SNES. The graphical changes don't do much for me (I miss Wrinkly's N64), and the added mini-games are pretty lousy. But nitpicks aside, it's a fun game in any form. It's been kind of a crummy week for me in a lot of ways, but I finally squeezed in a little time today and finished Link's Awakening for Game Boy. Overall, I like it. The later dungeons are very tedious with gimmicks that require a lot of backtracking, and there's little to no challenge in the game. The jumping mechanic and boomerang are totally broken, allowing early access to a lot of stuff to a decent player, making dodging enemies a breeze, and the boomerang mauls everything. That said, it's still a pleasant overall experience, with useful items, piles of secrets, and quick pacing. It's the first Zelda I've enjoyed in years. Played an old board game (Solarquest) with my wife until she was sleepy, then played some A Link to the Past on SNES for the billionth or so time. Went from new file through the fourth palace in the dark world in a couple of hours. Then, to cap it off, I played through Fatal Fury: 1st Contact on NGPC before heading off to bed myself. I have some fun stuff that'll be coming in the mail over the next couple of weeks including a couple of arcade pcbs, so that stuff'll be good. Probably finish Zelda tomorrow evening, then who knows. Great Puma (Level 12) I've been mostly playing handhelds for the past couple years due to convenience. Recently though, I started playing Skyward Sword. I bought it (and a Wii Motion Plus controller) when it was new and figured it was about time. I'm liking it so far, my only issues are with the controls. The swordplay is fine, it just bugs me to no end that they went with the gyroscope for selecting things on screen rather than the sensor bar. I constantly have to center it because my hand is not in the same position or angle each time I need to use the menu or target something. And I've even lost a battle or two because the cursor doesn't go the way I want. And I really wish there was a way to rotate the camera. A GameCube controller option would be great, other than the fact that it would negate the swordplay aspect which was the driving factor in most of the game design. Other than those gripes I'm having fun with it so far. It's a little linear as far as Zelda games go, but at this point in my life I don't mind so much, knowing that I have limited time to put into games. If I know I'm only going to have, say, 40 minutes to play one night I'd rather not waste it just wandering around trying to figure out what to do next. "Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade... Played through A Link to the Past for the god-know-how-many-eth time Sunday and Monday, having been in the mood to play classic Zelda after finishing Link's Awakening. Taito Memories II: Gekan was on the docket today. My son (he's 2 years old) sat on my lap to "help." We played through Night Striker (he was in charge of the shoot button) and beat it. That game, while derivative of Space Harrier, is the shit. Killer Super Scaler-style game that stands up well along the likes of Galaxy Force. We did some Full Throttle next, which is a straight OutRun clone, but a good one at least. Following that, we beat Chase HQ. My son was in charge of the nitros, which we naturally used immediately each stage, costing a couple of credits, but we still finished in four credits. We played some Buggy Challenge next, and I suck at it. Next. We finished off with beating Battle Shark on about fifty credits. My son was in charge of shooting. We died a lot toward the end. Very different playing it emulated on PS2 without the periscope on the cabinet. I played everything else on the disc after he fell asleep, and some more Night Striker. I've really come to love big, beautiful arcade games that use tons of sprite scaling, especially GI Joe, Space Harrier, and Night Striker. I need to hook my GI Joe pcb back up in my Sunset Riders cabinet. Messing around with my Green Xbox Debug Kit Console..I have not had the chance to even play many of the games on the system.. I need to make some videos of what's on it before selling it.. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=efc13440b1 I'm up to Chapter 6 in Period Cube on Vita. Maybe getting somewhat close to the end? Visual novels with longish chapters like these tend to run around 7 chapters or so, from my experience. Without spoiling anything, I think it's kinda dumb how they reveal a character as being another character, not by explicitly saying so in the story but by where the CG appears in the gallery. Talk about anticlimactic if you happen to look through the CGs you've seen and haven't pieced it together yourself already (the characters do share the same voice actor, so it's pretty obvious in that regard, but the performances for each are quite different). I also tried out Risk of Rain on Vita. Pretty meh on it. I think I've had my fill of indies having "roguelike elements". Just make a full-fledged roguelike then. Those I enjoy, but if it's a platformer or some other kind of side-scrolling game, "roguelike elements" seems like code for "we're too lazy/lacking in creativity to actual design stages". I've just never been big on randomly generated areas in most types if games. Same reason Dragon Quest Monsters practically bored me to tears. I'm still on Chapter 6 of Hiroya's route in Period Cube on Vita, though I have played a little more since my last post. But this week, I've more so been playing Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut on Vita, which I started for the Game Completion Challenge but failed to beat in time, despite that I had read it's a short game. I guess I can attribute that to a combination of having a heavy workload this week, not liking the game that much, which made me less inclined to play, and kinda sucking at it. The latter two maybe are a result of me still having minimal experience with survival horror games. Maybe the genre just isn't really for me and I simply haven't played enough to come to that conclusion yet, and maybe Lone Survivor is more designed for experienced survival horror players. The main thing that's been annoying me is that I feel like I'm tending to a frickin' Tamagotchi as I'm playing. On top of the genre staples of having limited ammo and healing items and such, the protagonist is constantly whining about being hungry and sleepy, so you have to worry about food supplies too (which also heal, but you'll have to eat eventually even if you don't take damage). You can sleep as much as you want, but you have to return to the starting room in the game to do so (there are warps at least, but they're quirky and annoying in their own way), and sleeping just means you have to eat again that much sooner. So then you want to avoid sleeping, to minimize eating, but you have to sleep to save your progress. Then there's the fact that the game gets progressively darker overall as you go along (until you get out of the apartment building and into the city streets), to the point that you can barely see anything at all in the basement without turning on your flashlight. But that uses up limited batteries, plus the enemies see you then, so you want to avoid using the flashlight too. So I was basically stumbling around in the dark in the horribly irritating basement area, trying to use the game's garbage, confusing map that does not remotely work with 2D side-scrolling movement (the developer should play some Valkyrie Profile and learn how to properly do a map for a game like this). And on top of that, there was a stupid chase sequence in the basement. So yeah, that particular area really killed my momentum. Now I'm out in the city thankfully, making more consistent progress, and I think I'm nearly done. Besides my Vita playing, I got Steam set up again, so after a month since I last played it, I've resumed The Charming Empire and have gotten up to Episode 14 of Sera's route. Lastly, I played a tiny bit of Sunset Riders via MAME. « The end of the game.com \| Supervision: handheld of the less fortunate » What Game/s are you Playing? Daily/whenever check :) 2016 (GAMEPLAY) By Videogamerdaryll in forum Classic Gaming What Game/s are you Playing? 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__label__wiki	0.851393	0.851393	August Reading List New books out this month, including Appalachian noir, a definitive sports biography, a coastal mystery, and a cookbook that’s quite cheesy by CJ Lotz Arthur Ashe: A Life, by Raymond Arsenault Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943 and grew up to become the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis. At age 49, he died from complications related to AIDS (he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion after heart surgery). This giant, deeply reported tome—by a professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida—is the first comprehensive biography of the athlete and influential civil rights activist. Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia, by Phil Hudgins, Jessica Phillips Say Foxfire! and we’re there. A new volume in the classic series of Appalachian storytelling, outdoors tips, and collected wisdom, this paperback original expands the usual Foxfire stomping grounds of the north Georgia mountains to the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The Carrying: Poems, by Ada Limón Lyrical, tender, and knowing—Kentucky-based author Ada Limón’s poetry connects the personal and the universal: a woman struggling with infertility; a daughter caring for her family. Above it all, hope alights. “Fine then, / I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, by Earl Swift A “low-lying Virginia island, roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, is likely to be America’s first climate-change casualty—‘the first to go,’ as Earl Swift writes in Chesapeake Requiem, a deep dive into the past, present, and narrowing future of Tangier.” Read Jonathan Miles’s entire review here. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, by Beth Macy With both compassion and no-bull reporting, Roanoke, Virginia–based journalist Beth Macy charts America’s current opioid crisis. Dopesick focuses on the I–81 corridor, from East Tennessee through Virginia—the deepest vein of the lethal heroin epidemic that painkillers, “the new moonshine in rural America,” wrought. Louisiana Trail Riders, by Jeremiah Ariaz Through stunning black and white photography, Louisiana lensman Jeremiah Ariaz captures the joy and athleticism of cowboys and cowgirls whose African American Trail Riding Clubs are deeply rooted in Creole history. The Fighters, by C. J. Chivers One of the most heralded living journalists today, Pulitzer Prize winner (and G&G contributor) C. J. Chivers uses his experiences as a Marine Corps veteran and combat reporter to get right to the grit of the lives of six soldiers—a Special Forces sergeant, an infantry officer, a scout helicopter pilot, a corpsman, a fighter pilot, and a grunt. The Line That Held Us, by David Joy Writer, hunter, and fisherman David Joy’s latest novel is a searing page-turner that barrels through a Western North Carolina forest of family-drama darkness. No one distills themes of mountain ruggedness—ginseng poaching, a hunting trip turned whodunit, deep and dangerous loyalties—quite like Joy. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History, by Keith O’Brien The little-known story of female pilots who raced (and won!) the national air races of the 1920s and 30s. Among the five women was Alabama native Ruth Elder, the 1902-born pilot known as the Miss America of Aviation. The Great Grilled Cheese Book, by Eric Greenspan Classic white-bread-and-American-cheese opens this book before it expands into 49 more decadent takes on grilled cheese sandwiches. The L.A.-based chef’s Southern-inspired recipe is a behemoth: grilled pimento-cheese decked out with pickles and fried chicken. Get the recipe: The Most Over-the-Top-Southern Grilled Cheese Ever photo: Colin Price Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, by Anne Boyd Rioux One hundred and fifty years after its publication, Little Women stands as an internationally best-selling classic, although its readership has fallen off in recent years. Now, a professor at the University of New Orleans argues that this book should be considered a coming-of-age titan alongside Tom Sawyer. She shows how generations of women, including J. K. Rowling and Jane Smiley, have been stirred by the story (as writer Anna Quindlen put it, “Little Women changed my life.”) Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories, by Kevin Wilson Novelist Kevin Wilson teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. This imaginative story collection is his first in nearly a decade and mines relationships—especially those between parents and their children—for their charming, funny moments. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens Slow down and let this lush nature-focused story unspool. The central character is “Marsh Girl” who lives off the land in rural North Carolina in the 1950s. A mystery will pull you along, but stay awhile in the descriptions of shifting tides, shell collections, and the mottled light of coastal Carolina. A Southern Family Portrait The acclaimed author of Big Fish often draws inspiration—literally—from his offbeat kin. 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__label__wiki	0.860858	0.860858	Home biography Art Parkinson Art Parkinson Biography Facts of Art Parkinson 2001 , October-19 Lauren Francesca Levy Tran Jo Ann Cifala Fred Siretta Vigilante Diaries AT & T, MTV Drack brown ''I want my Lauren'' Quick Timeline of Art Parkinson 2001 Born in United States 2008 Appeared in Freakdog 2017 Total Net worth Detail Timeline of Art Parkinson October 19 , 2001 Parkinson was born in County Donegal, Ireland. His mother Movania is an actress and he has two older brothers, Pearce and Padhraig. He studied at St. Gabriel's high school. Appeared in Freakdog Art Parkinson began his acting career through Freakdog and played the role of Young Kenneth in the movie. It is a horror movie directed by Paddy Breathnach. The youngest Irish actor Parkison earns a huge amount of money through his acting career. As of 2017, his estimated net worth is around $0.5 million which includes his expensive house and car. Art Parkinson began his acting career through a horror movie, Freakdog as Young Kenneth. This film is directed by Paddy Breathnach. After that, he featured in the Irish horror movie, Dark Touch. Later in July 2014, Parkison starred in an American dark fantasy epic action Dracula Untold, which was directed by Gary Shore. He also appeared in the Hollywood movie San Andreas as Ollie; a ten-year-old boy caught up in a massive earthquake in California. Recently, Art Parkison starred in Zoo, a television series in which he played the role of Tom Hall. This movie is directed by Colin Mclvor. Talking about his personal life, Parkison is the holder of an Irish nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. Parkison is an unmarried man and has no any girlfriend. He is not so far reported to have indulged in any love affair or relationship. The 16-years-old Game of Thrones actor Art Parkinson is also very active on social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram. The young actor earns a tremendous amount of money through his acting career. His lavish lifestyle buys a point that he earns a handsome salary as an actor. As of 2017, his estimated net worth is around $0.5 million which includes his expensive house and car. Related Posts on Art Parkinson Is Australian Twitch Star Loserfruit Dating a Boyfriend Marcus? What About The Gay Rumors? Shree Krishna	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1204
__label__wiki	0.685076	0.685076	Kedah FA Kits 2017/2018 Dream League Soccer Grab the latest “Kedah FA Kits 2017/2018 Dream League Soccer“. Kedah FA is a professional football club in Malaysia. The full name of the club is Persatuan Bola Sepak Kedah Darul Aman. The nickname of the club is The Red Eagle (Helang Merah). The club was founded on 27 April 1924. The total age of the club is 94 years. The club also has a ground for the practice of players. The name of the ground is Darul Aman Stadium. The total capacity of the ground is 32,387. The president of the club is Mukhriz Mahathir. The manager of the club is Aidil Sharin Sahak. The fans of the club are very crazy because there are some star players in the club. The club won many big titles. The club is the most supported club in Kedah. Kedah FA and Penang have a very old rivalry. Dream League Soccer Kedah FA Kits 2018 If you had played dream league soccer game then you are the big fan of Kedah FA because the star forward player Paulo Rangel is in the team. Kedah FA has a beautiful DLS 2018 kits. You can edit the kits. There are three types of kits home, away and the third kit which you can customize. You can also download La Liga kits. Kedah FA Home Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/8fHPwpg.png The home Kedah FA dream league soccer kit is awesome. The color of the home kit is yellow and green. There are green lines on the home kit of Kedah FA. The sponsor of the home kit is Lotto. Lotto is a multinational Sportswear company. The head office of the company is in Trevignano, Italy. The home kit is used when the match is in the country or state. Kedah FA Away Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/kpfq8TY.png The away Kedah FA Kits 2017/2018 Dream League Soccer is excellent. The color of the away kit is red and green. There are green lines on the away kit of Kedah FA. The sponsor of the away kit is Al-ikhsan. Al-ikhsan is a sportswear Manufacturing company. The head office of the company is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Away kit is used when the match is in another country or state. Kedah FA kit 512×512 is a very excellent design. Kedah Third Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/DG7jHA5.png The third kit is very attractive. The color of the third kit is silver and black. There are some zig-zag lines on the third kit of Kedah. Kedah FA Goalkeeper Home Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/dX0b1i8.png The GK home kit is wonderful. The color of the GK home kit is dark sky blue. There are some lines on the GK home kit. GK kit is a different kit from the whole team that is why GK kit is mostly awesome. Kedah FA Goalkeeper Away Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/De5YVPK.png The GK away kit is beautiful. The color of the GK away kit is orange. There are black lines on the GK away kit. There are also some logos of sponsors on the GK away kit of Kedah FA. Kedah GoalKeeper Third Kit: URL: https://i.imgur.com/z28wgAX.png The GK third kit is beautiful. The color of the GK third kit is white. There are black lines on the GK third kit. There are also some logos of sponsors on the GK third kit of Kedah FA. Kedah FA 2019 kits URL is available. Kedah FA Logo: URL: https://i.imgur.com/b2Kpw8U.png Grab the “Kedah FA Dream League Soccer Logo“. Kedah FA DLS logo is awesome. Many colors are used in the club logo. The name of the club is also written on the club logo. There are a bird and a soccer ball on the club logo. Kedah FA is the club of Malaysia Super League. The size of the logo is 512×512. Filed Under: Dream League Soccer Kits 2018, Asian Team Kits	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1205
__label__wiki	0.588586	0.588586	Nicolas Roberge/Flickr Robots & Machines One of China’s Supercomputers Has Nearly Doubled its Power The race to build the first exascale supercomputer is on. Patrick Caughill September 22nd 2017 / Robots & Machines / China / Exascale / Supercomputer /China /Exascale /Supercomputer One of China’s supercomputers, Tianhe-2, just received a major upgrade, nearly doubling its power. An announcement from the head of Matsuoka Lab, Satoshi Matsuoka, was made during the International HPC Forum (IHPCF) via a series of tweets. The upgraded computer now performs at a staggering 94.97 petaflops, or 949.7 trillion calculations per second, compared to its previous peak performance of 54.9 petaflops. Image credit: Sam Churchill/Flickr The upgrade came from replacing coprocessor chips installed in 2013 and replacing them with domestic chips. The 2013 installation used chips developed by Intel, called Knights Corner Xeon Phi coprocessors, and the original plan was to upgrade the system with upgraded Intel chips. However, the United States issued an embargo blocking the export of these chips to specific supercomputing sites, including the home of the Tianhe-2. In response, China was forced to begin building their own chips. They succeeded in matching the power of the Intel chips with the Matrix-2000 GPDSP accelerators. There is a major race for nations to expand their supercomputing power to the exascale (1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second). Right now, China holds a significant lead by being home to the two fastest supercomputers; the United states comes in fourth (behind Switzerland) with its Titan machine. Supercomputers have the potential to transform law enforcement, national defense, scientific research, and even human life expectancy. The first nation to break into the exascale will be far ahead of the rest. Killer Robot Ships The U.S. Navy Wants to Roll out Autonomous Killer Robot Ships Those Mysterious Attacks In Cuba Probably Involved Weaponized Microwaves America Now Has The Fastest Supercomputer In The World. Here’s Why That Actually Matters China’s Hypersonic Plane Travels From Bejing to New York in a Few Hours How the United States Plans to Reclaim Its Supercomputer Dominance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1207
__label__wiki	0.643516	0.643516	News: Alan Wake 2, The Elder Scrolls VI, and Sega Mega Drive Mini are your top gaming stories this week Blimey, would you Adam and Eve it? Yep, that’s another week done and dusted, and with it a whole bunch of (hopefully) exciting video game news to digest. Being an EastEnders fan, I know how important catching up on stuff is, so that’s why I’m here to guide you through the biggest gaming stories of the past week before you bugger off down the pub, play some Fortnite, fire up Netflix, or do whatever it is you do on a Friday night. But first, I’ll get the important stuff out of the way… Blimey O’Riley! Danny ‘I’m fucking Danny Dyer’ Dyer has only got himself into a video game! Yep, the cockney wide boy is lending his unmistakable banter to Rage 2, by way of the Diamond Geezer Cheat Code. This basically means that Dyer will be uttering all manner of lovable filth as you rampage throughout the game. Brilliant, just brilliant. Speaking of Dyer, this week dealt a massive blow to shippers of daughter Dani and Jack – the pair have split up. Yep, the Love Island couple are no more; apparently, some things are simply not to be, says Jack. To be fair, they lasted longer than I thought they would, and broke up at least once since winning the show. Oh, and I saw Mike & the Mechanics live the other week – they were bloody brilliant. Did all the hits and everything. Mike’s still got it. The Elder Scrolls VI and Starfield won’t be at E3 Bethesda has revealed what to expect – or rather, what not to expect – from the company’s E3 shindig in June. In perhaps an unsurprising move, the publisher will not be chatting about The Elder Scrolls VI or Starfield. The former is not a shocker at all; it’s only in pre-production, and isn’t coming out for ages yet. Starfield is a bit further along, so it would have been nice to see something on the game, but oh well. Doom Eternal’s still going to be doing the rounds, and there’s bound to be a couple of surprises in there… right? Sega Mega Drive Mini confirmed for September Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis, to those across the pond) is one of those consoles where you just had to be there to get it. For gamers, it was like the Beatles revolution, or the advent of Punk. I don’t think any console war turned playgrounds into a bloody battlefield like the ruck between Sega and Ninty. Now, in the age of mini consoles, we’re getting a pint-sized version of it – what more could you want? For 70 quid, Sega is offering up 40 games, two controllers, and shiny HD visuals. The full lineup of software hasn’t been confirmed yet, but you’d have to make a lot of effort to bugger this one up. Borderlands 3 info blowout Gearbox has pinned an official release date on Borderlands 3, confirming the loot shooter will indeed launch (as previously leaked) on September 13. That’s not all, either. The game will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store on PC, and is getting a bunch of special editions to boot, so if you feel like shelling out on Borderlands 3, you’ll have plenty of options. To round things off, 2K is also looking at cross-platform play, although nothing has been set in stone yet. Alan Wake 2 ‘didn’t pan out,’ says Remedy Every man and his dog wants a sequel to Alan Wake, but for one reason or another, it’s just never happened. This week, Remedy revealed that it was beavering away on an Alan Wake 2 some years ago, but things just ‘didn’t pan out.’ Make of that what you will. However, there’s a small glimmer of hope: Remedy still owns the Alan Wake IP, so if they wanted to have another crack at a sequel, it could happen. For now though, it’s all about Control. VR support coming to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Labo hasn’t set the world on fire, but it’s about to get a bit more exciting with the introduction of a VR set this month. Not only that, but two of the Switch’s biggest games – Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – are set to receive VR support as a result of the new Labo set. Mazza’s cap-doffing adventure is only going to be a ‘bite-sized’ offering, which sees you taking on various challenges in select Kingdoms. However, Zelda is getting full VR support. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out, as the thought of having Hyrule laid out in front of me is a tantalizing prospect. Fortnite ‘shouldn’t be allowed,’ says Prince Harry Prince Harry has been chatting about addiction with the YMCA in London recently, and aside from making it clear he’s no fan of social media, the Duke of Sussex reckons Fortnite should be banned, too. Apparently, Epic Games’ last-man-standing shooter is ‘irresponsible,’ and is no good for kids. To be honest, I couldn’t give a toss about Fortnite, and I’m kind of glad my 12-year-old niece would rather watch me play Shenmue than spend hours on the battle royale game. TagsGaming News: Konami is releasing a monster-battler only for the Switch News: Bluepoint Games has gone mad with power and this goat proves it News: Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok appears on multiple retailers with “Mjolnir” and “Valhalla” editions News: Borderlands 3 box art leaks, Diamond Loot Chest Collector's Edition outed News: Rejoice, Shenmue III will have forklifts!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1210
__label__cc	0.742221	0.257779	ALICE GROVE » Alice Grove MCDT August 2015 Just who are the bad guys here? Alice - Trying to create an agrican utopia Praeses - Trying to breach the peace agreement and threatening everyting Ardent and Gavia - Only pretending to be clueless Night Walker - Being made up of bits that are normally EVERYWHERE gives you influence Giant Birds - It's always the one you expect the least! The Unknown Shadowy Hand - Because there is always someone hiding behind the curtain Author Topic: Alice Grove MCDT August 2015 (Read 27087 times) « on: 05 Aug 2015, 13:12 » Firstly, New Comic Up early! Well, it's increasingly clear that something is up. Possibly something apocalyptically up. From Alice's rant, it's clear that someone or something is not playing by the rules and either may be using the events of the Blink as an excuse or is trying to subvert/reverse it. I'm strongly feeling another few strips worth of exposition coming up as Alice explains who and why. I'll make a prediction here - The Praeses seem to be the outcome of the Biotech Faction so it's unlikely that they'd be for bootstrapping/uplifting the Anti-Techs. I'm betting that the missing AI Faction are showing their hand and they have subverted both the space kids for their own purposes. "Some kind of bizarre quantum ultrabroom". All I can say, Ardent is that, if it isn't a thing, it needs to be! Method of Madness His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Globe Moderator The Bootysattva Re: Alice Grove MCDT August 2015 « Reply #1 on: 05 Aug 2015, 13:18 » It's the polar opposite of the useless broom made entirely of dicks. Also I'd call this comic less early and more a few days late, but I'll take what I can get They call me Mr. Madness. Quote from: Polonius Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. Quote from: Tova on 26 Jan 2017, 14:13 MR ARCHIVE-FU MADNESS Does anybody really know what time it is? I think we haven't thought of the full implications of this. If he had managed to get it on with the lovely lady at the water pump, what would've happened to the lambskin? Crude jokes apart, this seems like someone wants to hypertechify everything and that might not be the best idea. Quote from: hedgie on 01 Apr 2015, 20:29 Meh, if you have to run fsck, you're already fscked. It would've just become a 100% effective condom, I guess? improvnerd Quote from: osaka on 05 Aug 2015, 14:09 what would've happened to the lambskin? Ribbed, for her pleasure. Kugai CIA Handler of Miss Melody Powers Crazy Kiwi Shoujo-Ai Fan If we see a giant, lidless eye wreathed in flame we'll know James The Kugai You can never have too much Coffee. mustang6172 Citizen First Class Is Alice's house not technology? Is Alice from the Ba'ku? Quote from: Ba'ku Philosophy Thanks for saving us with your technology. By the way, we hate technology. jheartney I guess I'm not seeing why they need Ardent to deliver nanomachines. Couldn't they just seed the sky with them, so they'd float down and do their magic on any device they touch? We know from the Walker that nanomachines can perambulate, too. Once in place they ought to be able to spread wherever unassisted. Or, once they'd "infected" a given area, that area's inhabitants would spread the nanomachines anywhere they went. In any case, if the "Blinker" is still around, it ought to be able to make quick work of any nanomachine infection. I assume that if you tried to "rain them down", the big-ass cloud of them that's around there would absorb the precipitating nanobots. We now know Alice Grove doesn't take place in the QCverse, via the note with the latest QC. « Reply #10 on: 05 Aug 2015, 19:35 » Ehhhh...I dunno if I believe him. cesium133 Has a fucked-up browser history Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Aug 2015, 19:35 "I AM THE LORD THY GOD... and I don't know shit about this universe I just created." The nerdy comic I update on Saturdays: Cesium Comics Unofficial character tag thingy for QC I'm not saying he doesn't know, I'm saying I don't know if he's telling the truth (Also there's really no way of confirming that negative in-comic so as far as I'm concerned it'll always be possible) Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 05 Aug 2015, 19:33 The next question is which of the two takes place in the Tommy Westphall multiverse. Our particular universe does, and Jeph resides in our universe, so I suppose anything he draws is covered under that multiverse as well. FunkyTuba Quote from: BenRG on 05 Aug 2015, 13:12 No Ultrabroom Today. Ultrabroom Tomorrow. Always Ultrabroom Tomorrow hedgie Can't be buggered at all Broom. "Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." -- Nietzsche "Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!" -- The Pythons New comic is up at last here! I'm not sure if I believe Alice's fears are entirely grounded in reality but it definitely is a workable set of assumptions with which to start. Now, Gavia has a lot of hard choices to make. Whose side is she on? More importantly, is she even sure that she knows which side is which? Does she accept Alice's word for it or does she even know for certain that she knows which faction wants what? One thing is certain: Things are going to get ugly for the space kids! I don't know, that seems an awfully subtle and long reaching plan for humans to come up with. If the Praeses really are trees or something akin to them then I could see that sort of long thinking. But Ardent upgraded one or two things to cause an eventual collapse is the kind of thing that would take decades, possibly several human life times to come to fruition. There are much quicker ways to get humanity to try and kill each other. The biggest thing that throws this whole plan off though is how flashy the transformation was. If you want a subtle, long term plan to go into effect, you don't want to start it off with a pyrotechnics show, then a bolt from the blue... Alice removing the pump and replacing it with a new one fixes the problem... So was the pump a triple blind? Give Alice something else to deal with and not pay attention to the real threat, whatever that may be? Or is it just something else entirely and Alice is over-reacting and using this as an excuse to justify her hatred of the Praseses and distrust of the spaceborne? pwhodges I'll only say this once... Yes, but once Ardent's "power" becomes known, he'll get taken everywhere to upgrade their pump and whatever else; Alice's authority will be sidelined, and then what? At present, Alice the Witch is the world's stabiliser; discredit her in that role and the scenario she outlines comes to pass. So now she has to control the children, benevolently by persuasion if possible, but by force if not. « Last Edit: 07 Aug 2015, 12:33 by pwhodges » "Being human, having your health; that's what's important." (from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi ) "As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?" (from: The Eccentric Family ) That's kind of my point though. If whoever sent the sibs down knew enough about Alice to figure she would watch Gavia closer thinking she was more dangerous, then snuck a secret payload of nanomachines onto Ardent because she would think he was harmless. They should know her enough that she would react by isolating the cause of so obvious a transformation. A more subtle effect would be needed here so that Alice did not go into crisis management mode, the way she is now. It's like carefully planning out your evil death machine, then putting the off switch on the outside with a big neon sign pointing to it. I think either Alice is misinterpreting things, or there is something else here and Ardent's upgrade is another red herring. Quote from: Neko_Ali on 07 Aug 2015, 12:25 There are much quicker ways to get humanity to try and kill each other. Hrmmm Ba-ra-roommmm now don't let's be hasty.... Understanding is a three edged sword So humanity's downfall is indoor plumbing? ...Seriously? ReindeerFlotilla All Your Marriage Are Belong to Everyone Earth is a ball (Oblate spheroid) about 6371 kilometers in radius. It's surface is, therefore about 510,072,000 square kilometers or 510,072,000,000,000 square meters. about 70% of that is sea surface, and not going to be considered (though certainly bio-intelligent trees could probably make use of that, we will leave it aside). Alice seems pretty tall, but the Vicissitudes are pretty short. Compared to other people who have appeared in the comic, Alice appears to be of unremarkable height. One can assume approximately 1.65 meters plus or minus .1 meters. Alice's reach is thus about 2.7225 meters squared. Alice, however, is human and, therefore, mobile. She can move around. She is not limited to what is within reach of her arms from any one location. Alice, also, is superhuman. It is not unreasonable to suggest that Alice can move faster than a normal human. We know Alice has a pump. We know Alice has a windmill. We can infer, from Alice's speech, that she does not have transportation technology that she uses regularly. This suggests three possibilities. Option one. Alice is one of a significant number of witches left by the blink to patrol and protect the earth from the depredations of the space trees. Option two. Since Alice lacks any reasonable ability to patrol the entire surface of the Earth, we could infer that Alice Grove is the last bastion of human survivors on the planet Earth. While the population is significant enough to prevent a total crash, it is also small enough that a single vector in the form of one person could potentially create an instability that would break its sustainability cycle. Whatever blinked made it clear that the trees could not have the Earth until all of the people on it were dead. Option three. Insufficient information. Either not enough information to speculate about what's really going on or not enough information was placed in development and the plot makes no sense. If it's option three, that's pretty run-of-the-mill for Science Fiction. If it's option two, Alice is humanity's last best hope for peace. One would hope that she does not go the way of the Babylon Project. If it's option one, logically the space trees would have sent down more than one Trojan horse. All of this is predicated upon the fair level of unlikeliness that the Trojan horse would happen to run into a local protector who was specifically hostile to the aims of the trees if said protector was a rare occurrence in a large population. So either the population is not large or of the protectors are not rare. This has been another mountain manufactured from a garden variety mole hill. Feel free to climb it. A specific note. It's certainly possible to someone else's already mentioned this, since I haven't been paying that much attention to all the comments in this thread. However, the Vicissitudes creepy night journey was interrupted when a cloud of nanomachines reached for them. Alice suggested that the nanomachines were reacting to Gavia's nano bots. Alice also said that the cloud is constant, and protects itself from UV radiation by hiding under leaves during the day. So there's no particular reason that that cloud wouldn't be able to find Gavia whenever it pleased. Alice did not know about Ardent and he is Trojan horse payload. It seems more likely that the now about giant was reaching for him. The question is, why? The easy answer is to assume that the children's assumption is correct and that the cloud was a threat. A mindless threat that has developed rudimentary distributed intelligence and spends that intelligence gazing wistfully at the moon. It's also entirely possible that we are not seeing something formed of nano about evolution into a new class of animal life form but a system waiting for instructions. After all nano bots are high-tech. High-tech seems to be the thematic enemy. The thematic enemy lives in space. The nano bots gaze wistfully into space. Ardent is a vector for upgrading technology by touch. The cloud of nano bots is technology and could be waiting for an upgrade. Assuming that this nano but cloud is a local phenomenon, which it seems to be, upgrading it would be one of the most effective means of distributing an upgrade of vector across a wide area in whatever option scenario exists in the actual Alice Grove plot. Either way, I think that cloud of nanomachines is more important than simply set dressing for the setting. So, I've been meaning to ask for a while now... Do you fight with other people or are we in an exclusive relationship? http://www.singularblues.com So a windmill doesn't cause an energy imbalance, but indoor plumbing does? This is bothering me way too much. Zebediah I'm a bandicoot! There is apparently a limited quantity of potable water available to Alice's community. Use too much of it, and there are problems. But they aren't going to run out of wind no matter how much they use. "It CAN'T be a bad decision, it resulted in CARROT CAKE!" But couldn't wind cause them to over-consume other resources? Not if Alice is the one controlling where the power goes and what can use it. Unlike water, electricity is only really useful by devices that run on it. Since Alice is the only one who can build or maintain electrical devices in the area she can pretty easily control how much of it gets used and for what purpose. That an as said, water for the town is still a limited resource, but that's something the townsfolk don't know and may not understand if explained to them. Over using it would benefit them in the short term, but eventually cause major harm. Quote from: mustang6172 on 09 Aug 2015, 18:50 The pump is nothing; Alice is just saying that it is a bad precedent that led to cultural and social (and, ultimately, economic and political) problems in the past. Specifically that too much technology-enabled wealth and ease can lead to a runaway chain-reaction of greed and acquisition that inevitably leads to a major war. Wimblesaurus Not quite a lurker You know, by all indications the praeses could just send down a few cyborgs right now and easily take over most of the populated earth, no overtures and no bullshitting around with diplomacy. In fact, it seems the only real complicating factor is Alice's presence in this part of the world. So what if Ardent and Gavia are scouts? Unknowingly selected for their curiosity and awful temper respectively, to A) Find Alice, and B) Cause as much collateral damage as possible in the process. I realize everything I've said has probably been said before, but this is where things get crazy: What if Ardent and Gavia aren't the only Ardent and Gavia? They managed to find Alice, confirm she's a witch, and blow up a few buildings in the process almost immediately. If the Praeses knew beforehand that sending these two to the surface would work so well, they might be one of many pairs of clones of the original Gavia and Ardent, sent down to the surface to do basically the same thing in multiple settlements. Of course, this is assuming the Praeses have the goal of taking over the world at all. Ardent and Gavia weren't TP'd back to the moon when Gavia requested it, despite having drawn out Alice. Them living among and becoming acquainted with humans for any length of time makes them a potential complication when the invasion comes, so it seems like it would have been more efficient to bring them back, if maybe only slightly. Assuming the Praeses are as wise and powerful and junk as they're supposed to be, even a minor potential setback, particularly one so easily avoided, would be unacceptable to them. That Ardent and Gavia aren't back on the moon might be an indication that the Praeses have other goals. Back to the moon? It seems pretty clear now that the spaceborne live in orbital habit. Isn't it a basic rule of science fiction that every problem caused by technology gets solved by throwing more technology at it? Is it cold in here? He/him/his pronouns If Ardent is infested with undesirable nanobots, why would Alice think the bots would be affected by killing him? "Ideological grudge"? Alice may be projecting here. "Non-compliance is a social skill" Quote from: an unnamed minister's sermon In your face, darkness! We are the light and we outnumber you! Well, fuck. We could just take Jeph at his word; he's tired of Alice Grove and so he's bringing it all to a halt. I have to agree with other commenters that this plotting doesn't make much sense, at least as presented. If the Praeses want to take over, why send down such an obvious agent? Why not just send someone that looks like another bumpkin from the next village? Alice would not even have noticed. Why have the nanomachines' effect be so obvious, if this is a covert takeover attempt? Why not infiltrate the everywhere first and then have them all attack at once? If nanotech is advanced as presented, why bother with a convoluted plot like this anyway? Just infect everything and kill everybody (including Alice). Assuming Ardent is killed, how does that stop his nanomachines? Can they even be stopped anymore? Etc. Quote from: jheartney on 10 Aug 2015, 20:14 We could just take Jeph at his word That'd be a silly thing to do. The Woodcarver Notorious N.U.R.R. Decided it was time to finally register and stop lurking. My money is on Alice is testing her theory. If Ardent is infected with evil nanobots that can't live without a sapient host, it's logical they'll act to preserve his life, thus showing their hand. I doubt severely that Alice would have any serious intention to kill Ardent, considering that doesn't seem to be her style, plus Ardent isn't a conscious threat. Killing children is not her style? She was going to beat Gavia to death shortly after they first met, for what is actually a lesser danger in her mind. Gavia was only threatening to burn down the town and had already been pretty much neutralized by Alice's anti-nanotech-tech. Right now to Alice Ardent represents a weapon in her long standing grudge against the Praeses and a threat to the future of her town and it's people, as well as possibly much further reaching effects. The fact that she hasn't just killed Ardent and is talking it out with Gavia makes me think that she doesn't actually want to do it, and the talk is more to psych herself up/talk herself into doing it. Not convincing Gavia. Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Aug 2015, 20:01 Actually, there's no knowing if the nanomachines in Ardent are smart enough to know if he's dead or not. Ardent is disposable to his handlers, so they may not have put a lot of thought into preserving his life. Dead ardent doesn't interact with technology. Alice is, essentially, immune to Gavia's nano. She seems to disrupt it. She can probably do the same to Ardent's. Now, if The SpaceTrees are David Xanatos, trying to kill Ardent will activate a different payload that CAN hurt Alice. Because you should always design your plans such that even if you lose, you win. Killing children is not her style? She was going to beat Gavia to death shortly after they first met, for what is actually a lesser danger in her mind. Gavia was only threatening to burn down the town and had already been pretty much neutralized by Alice's anti-nanotech-tech. It's not that she wouldn't kill someone who is attacking her or her charges (child or no), but I find it hard to believe she'd kill an innocent. She didn't kill either of them, even though their existence posed a massive risk to balance and tranquility. She was pounding Gavia's face in because Gavia was attacking first her town, then her. Ardent is dangerous, but he's not belligerent. She only stopped beating Gavia because Ardent said she was his sister. I think Alice is perfectly capable of killing Ardent. I just don't know if she intends to. mikmaxs Question: Why didn't the Praeses send down, like, thirty people? To different towns? Or just send Ardent literally anywhere except where Alice is? Quote from: mikmaxs on 10 Aug 2015, 21:35 How do we know they didn't? plusorminus It's possible they did. There could be "Ardents" in "Peter Grove," "Jamie Grove," "Dana Grove," or other places where there are caretakers like Alice. I think the difference here is that Ardent draws attention because of his body modifications and Gavia went looking for him. I didn't buy into the twin theory until now but that would go a long way toward explaining why the Praeses allowed her to follow him. Her arrival may have mucked up the timeline. I don't doubt that Alice believes what she says and that she will attempt to kill Ardent and will kill Gavia if she tries to interfere. Only sentience by Ardent's rogue nanotech would be able to save him. What I don't get is why Alice is telling Gavia or Ardent any of this other than as an expositional device for readers. She could have played it cool, killed Ardent in his sleep and then dispatched Gavia. Sure the Praeses would have been pissed but it's not like she isn't risking bringing on their wrath by killing Ardent anyway. And does she just expect Gavia to shrug and stand there while she kills her brother? While I don't think that Jeph is necessarily "tired" of this comic, I am wondering if we're headed to a "Most Dangerous Game" sort of solution where a large part of the action takes place off screen and we jump to some unspecified point in the future where things have been resolved and we have to infer just how that happened. It is possible that the next comic will see Alice shoring up her defenses and maybe Jack making a return and asking whatever happened to the blue boy with the tail and Alice giving him a glare and shutting him up. Y'know, Alice, Gavia might be able to believe you if you explained the source of your little hate-match with the Praeses; please start by explaining their alleged motive for wanting to take over the Earth. As matters stand, you seem to be treating them as a random bogeyman without any real cause. I know that 'explaining' isn't something that you like doing but, really, remember how good it felt to tell Gavia your story earlier on? It really might help you sort out your thoughts in your own head if you had someone to review them for you! Seriously, I've been wondering for some time if living for so long without any significant emotional connection has turned Alice psychotic and this seems to be backing that up. Oh, and Ardent...? Run away. I also have to wonder, since this is implied: Is Alice saying that, if they were to be invaded, she and she alone would inflict massive casualties? Gavia is just a random chick with nanobots, not some high level military agent, and she could have leveled a town on her own if not for Alice. Even Ardent, with no micro machines to speak of, has extreme healing powers that render him far more capable than the average soldier. If Alice IS saying that, well... Damn. She's tough. I hope the Praeses don't nuke her from orbit. That's another question, can Alice fly? Or jump real high like Superman did in the early comics? If not, how would she deal with a fighter jet or a helicopter? It's the only way to be sure. The mischief that dwells within Regarding the plans which involve killing Alice: do we have any indication she can be killed? I mean, longevity implies cell regeneration... and possibly a nano-bot enhanced immune system. I may be projecting because Alice reminds me of Jones from Gunnerkrigg Court. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1116 Quote from: Thrillho on 22 Dec 2013, 05:49 The future is a weird place and you never know where it will take you. Quote from: Welu on 08 May 2014, 12:27 the careful illusion of shit-togetherness I'd actually expect she can't be easily killed, if she's not paranoid. That would imply the space trees have been trying to kill her for thousands of years. That's why I said "hurt." Remember. If you can't kill them, cripple them.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1212
__label__cc	0.505142	0.494858	'BOREALIS RISING' - A Subnautica Story V2.0. Bugzapper Australia Join Date: 2015-03-06 Member: 201744Members Posts: 1,093 Advanced user "This seems like a good spot." I said. "Héloise and Enzo, you might as well take a breather while we set up our field lab. By the look of it, it's going to take us a fair while to figure these gadgets out." We dismounted, then began unloading equipment crates and supplies from our ExoSuit cargo pods. As an aside, Héloise and Enzo have been on the bounce for nearly sixteen hours now, and they're definitely starting to look a bit blurry around the edges. Nothing that a hearty feed and a decent rest wouldn't fix. While they ate, DIGBY and I set up a pair of spacer's swags; compact survival shelters that we'd brought along with this particular situation in mind. They're a marvellous piece of kit, although most of their gee-whiz features won't be required here. No excessive levels of heat, cold, atmospheric toxins or radioactivity worth mentioning hereabouts, although a comfortable gel-foam mattress and a 'smart' sleeping bag would be a welcome sight for weary eyes anywhere. One thing is absolutely certain. These display cases are sealed tighter than a fish's arse. The objects they contain might as well be embedded in a zirconium-lattice resin. For a start, you can forget about using a laser cutter. I've already tried it on the empty case, and the beam passed straight through that clear material without the slightest impediment. Purely for analytical purposes, you understand. I was hoping to obtain some specimens to test the physical properties of this material, but that plan has gone straight down the drain. A diamond drill doesn't even scratch the transparent casing. Shattered three bits without leaving a mark. Curiously, our hand-scanners are able to read the internal structure of every item and provide a basic analysis of its overall function, although certain critical design aspects have been deliberately obscured, literally 'pixelating' our data displays to conceal the functions of those components. Can't even guess how the Precursors achieved that. From what we've seen so far, maybe it's all for the best. The first device that I examined is a portable radioactive source, specifically designed to disintegrate all forms of organic matter. The sort of thing you might use to completely decontaminate an enclosed space, with an eye to using it later. Once activated, that small, innocent-looking cube emits an intense burst of neutron radiation, then shuts down automatically. Its effects are apparently instantaneous, non-persistent and extremely localised. Since the device doesn't contain any known isotopic material, it probably generates that surge of radioactivity in much the same manner as an old x-ray tube. Think of this gizmo as the ultimate in pest control technology. Horrific though it may be, this device is relatively benign when it's compared with nearly everything else in here. Take the thermostellar bomb, for instance. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a dud. However, it's still very much alive and raring to go. I discovered this fact as I neared its display case. Like the radiation device, this small, rounded cuboid looked harmless enough, at least until it sprang into life on my approach. Gave me one hell of a spook. Turns out there's a minor but critical flaw in its detonation mechanism. Assuming that I could open its display case, I know better than to start tinkering with an actual doomsday device. Oh yes, indeed. When this fun-sized package of boom detonates, most of the Alpha Hydrae solar system will cease to exist. After completing a hasty (but thorough) examination of this alarmingly twitchy device, a profound calm descended upon me. Apart from not machining that fortuitous sticking-point smooth, the demented genius who designed this dingus also forgot to endow it with the power of speech. I'm extremely grateful for that one small mercy. I'm no expert, but there's something utterly wrong about a sentient thermostellar bomb. Naturally, any talk of phenomenology is verboten. Keep it light. Chat about the weather instead. Heh, heh. A talking thermostellar bomb. That'd make for a fun parody. Sort of like that DS9 episode where they were trying to re-purpose an intelligent bomb, to attack its previous users, succeeded, then later after joining the Federation, had to try to shut it down, but then it actually detected it... Eh. Just looked it up, it's Voyager: Dreadnought, not a DS9 episode. SaltyPete Germany Join Date: 2016-03-10 Member: 214067Members Posts: 3 Fully active user No i think its the wrong link. Think way more back into classic SF films. I call for DARK STAR and a good long talk with a bomb about going off or not... LET THERE BE LIGHT... Kabooom.. SaltyPete wrote: » Nailed it. Good catch. "I want that one." Héloise demanded playfully, pointing at the alien assault rifle. "You probably wouldn't, Dear Heart. As far as I can tell, it's an intrinsic field disruptor." "Let me guess... That's a bad thing, right?" Héloise smirked. "That's one horosho fancy blazer, mate." "Aye, but yon blazer's a right wicked tool. You aim that beast at someone, and they're gone. Boom. A bonny wee mushroom cloud marks their passing. It disrupts the forces that hold matter together. Not much chance of scoring a minor flesh wound with this one. Strictly for outdoor use only." "Oh. I see." Héloise conceded at last. "Isn't there anything useful in here?" I sighed wearily, an open admission of defeat. "No. That ancient Mongol sword is probably the only weapon in here that isn't entirely user-hostile. Look, that 'empty' case over yonder contains a swarm of killer nanites. Unbelievably tiny robotic assassins, controlled by only four core commands: Consume. Replicate. Evolve. Conquer. Someone thought it was a good idea to turn them loose. Unless they were equipped with some sort of friend or foe recognition system, they would mindlessly consume everything in their path. I'm hoping that the Precursors were intelligent enough to realise that. I'll bet those nanites evolved beyond the reach of Precursor control. Just a guess." Héloise frowned. "I'm not buying that idea, dear Captain. There's no evidence that Precursors were fighting the Kharaa on this planet. Where are the signs of war? Where are your tiny killer robots?" "You've got me there, Lass." I admitted. "There would be traces left, surely. I cannae account for it." No further knowledge can be gained by endlessly poring over these exhibits, although the building itself still has significant discoveries to offer. In a way, I feel immensely relieved. Those horrific weapons won't be finding their way into human hands after all, leastways anytime in the immediate future. There's always a possibility that someone will discover their operating principles eventually, but they're well out of humanity's reach for the next couple of millennia or so. That's good enough to soothe my conscience. After packing up our research equipment, we split into pairs and began exploring the Lava Castle's side chambers. Héloise and I discovered a sophisticated water-processing plant, obviously intended to supply filtered, cooled and oxygenated seawater to the Sea Emperor containment facility below. A huge transparent inlet conduit spiralled around a central support column. I estimated the system's flow rate at roughly two megalitres per minute, a figure derived by timing the speed of Peepers as they whooshed through the pipework. Oddly enough, Peepers are also present in the discharge pipe, apparently no worse for their wild ride. On closer examination, I discovered that the Peepers in the discharge pipe have been coated in Enzyme 42 or its natural analogue, and that this elaborate filtration system now serves to distribute a vaccine against the Kharaa pathogen. The Peeper is an ideal delivery system, since it's the preferred prey of most of Manannán's predatory species, man included. I'm fairly certain that the Precursors originally had this in mind, even though they were ultimately unable to procure the enzyme from its natural source, the Sea Emperor Leviathan. Impressive though that treatment plant is, there wasn't much else of interest to be found in there. We chose another doorway entirely at random, walking into a sizeable room full of display cases. Each stasis case held an egg from every sea creature found on Manannán, including one Leviathan-class specimen that I have never seen before. Considering that this pearly, almost opalescent egg case is about the same size as a Sea Emperor's, that's a reasonable cause for concern. We ambled through the egg display, and then headed back to the atrium. As we neared the next doorway, JUNO and DIGBY emerged from the corridor, their expressions grimmer than winter on Pluto. TheCreeperCow Netherlands Join Date: 2016-05-13 Member: 216716Members Posts: 25 Advanced user They found the disected baby "Captain... Don't." JUNO murmured. "I won't." I said flatly. "It's their vivisection lab, right? Knew it had to be somewhere in here." JUNO nodded silently, confirming my suspicion. On one hand, I damned the Precursors for their monumental arrogance, although this seems like a particularly empty gesture. In truth, the Precursors had their backs against the wall, clutching desperately at any technology that would aid them in their struggle against the Kharaa. They were a race fully prepared to destroy their solar system or deploy horrific hand weapons to burn out that deadly infection. Tearing unborn Sea Emperors from their cocoons must have seemed a small moral price to pay at the time. Ironically, the Precursors were on the right track. Emperor Leviathans produce Enzyme 42 naturally, although this process requires a specific set of conditions to be met. In their frantic haste to find an effective solution, the Precursors failed to discover this crucial piece of information. I can't condone the atrocities committed in here. I can't condemn the Precursors for their actions, either. My hands are also covered in blood. People have died as a direct result of me 'doing what was necessary' at the time. Morality must yield in times of dire necessity, yet remain resolute when the final accounting is due. I must live with the consequences of my actions, rather than seek absolution from any poor choices I have made in the past. No. I am unfit to judge the Precursors. "All portals have been activated, Sir. " IANTO reported. "Beacons launched to identify exit points." "Good man. Well, I conjure there's nae more to be gained by sifting through this dour auld pile." I sighed wearily. "Their force-shield technology alone has made this trip worthwhile, and the ion crystals are a wee bonus for our trouble. That's good enough for me. We'll call it a day, then. Mount up." We retraced our path back to the containment facility. I had a notion that the portal in there led to open water, so it seemed like our most logical departure point. Frankly, any place other than the Lava River would be preferable. Not entirely certain we could weasel our way through that one again and remain unscathed. That would be tempting Fate. The containment facility's portal delivered us to a submerged platform directly beneath the Precursor gun platform. As we awaited the arrival of Ulysses and Taranis, a school of Bone Sharks cruised warily around us the whole time, only scattering in panic as soon as our transports arrived. Just as well. I've no stomach for butchering native life forms, even in our defence. Just once, I'd like to set foot someplace that isn't constantly trying to kill us. Héloise stirred in her sleep, murmuring softly to herself. Her fine features were composed, serene and untroubled by the events of the past two days. I gazed fondly at her, taking quiet delight in the way that the light upper sheet had fallen over her sleeping form, like a fine gown on a Grecian statue. Even without using my visual enhancements, I've noticed that the gentle curve of her belly has become more prominent recently. Her pregnancy has just entered its second trimester, and that spells a definite end to further excursions where even fools would fear to tread. At least for now. This isn't chauvinism on my part; not even a clumsy display of chivalry. Her life is tied to the new life she carries inside her. Our unborn daughter. I will not place either of them in such jeopardy again. If I learned anything from exploring the Lava Castle, it would have to be that there are no clever answers to the riddle of Life. For better or for worse, Life exists solely for its own purposes. To live. Kellise UK Join Date: 2016-07-23 Member: 220582Members Posts: 81 Advanced user the_mariner US of A Join Date: 2016-12-29 Member: 225653Members Posts: 132 Advanced user Sorry if I'm sidetracking the story Bugzapper, but I have to ask: In Aurora Falls, what's with the Magellan crew discrepancy? In Aurora Falls, Selkirk clearly notes: Bugzapper wrote: » The PDA belonged to one Vasily Markovich Borodin. He was the survey team's chief geologist. According to his log entries, Alterra had landed a ten-person advance survey team on Manannán in 2169, seven and a half years prior to the Aurora mission. Yet adding up the Magellan surveyors, we get: Vasily Borodin - Geologist Ute Haber - Oceanographer Keith Talbot - Exobiologist Zheng Qiang - Chemical Engineer Didier Joubert - Geneticist Nyala Obeke - Botanist Lucia Silvestri - Biochemist Marcus Sokol - Research Assistant Rhys Powell - Research Assistant At the time, Baat and Paal hadn't been introduced, so what gives? Were there ten team members or nine? If ten, then who was the tenth team member? Once again, sorry if this is sidetracking the story. That's why I put it under a spoiler header. If you don't feel like answering, that's totally cool, but if you're fine with answering then that's also cool. I had drifted o’er seas without ending, Under sinister grey-clouded skies That the many-fork’d lightning is rending, That resound with hysterical cries; With the moans of invisible daemons that out of the green waters rise. - H.P. Lovecraft the_mariner wrote: » Maintenance Technician. His PDA was never recovered. The Tenth Crewman. Only Manannán knows what fate befell him. I gasped in disbelief. "You're joking... I need a flight rating before I can take command of Borealis?" "I'm afraid so, Sir." JUNO grinned. "However, it's something of a minor formality in your case." JUNO is absolutely right, of course. The Interstellar Trade Commission takes a very dim view of amateurs flying capital-class starships through populated space, no matter how talented and dashingly charismatic said amateur might be. Before I can legally set foot on the bridge of Borealis in any command capacity, I must formally qualify as a ship's master. Acquiring the requisite knowledge base is the easy part. Two hours worth of intensive data transfer from JUNO, and I'm sorted. There's a wee catch. Even though JUNO is the only one of us technically qualified to pilot a starship, her flight rating was automatically cancelled when Aurora crashed. There's bound to be an official board of inquiry when we finally return to Terra, and the presiding silks would have a field day with that seemingly harmless snippet of information. There's far too much at stake to bodge our way through this crucial step. Prison terms all round, total forfeiture of the ship and its cargo... And that's just for starters. No, we do this one by the square and completely on the level. I doubt if this has ever been attempted before. There's certainly no record of anyone sitting for a master's rating 175 light-years away from the ITC, so this should be an interesting exercise, to say the least. Captain Halvorsen has agreed to set things up with the ITC, acting as my examiner and professional referee in this matter. This takes 'distance learning' to a whole new level. It's one thing to skip merrily through The Black in a sprightly Hermes-class shuttle, and it's something else again to make the same trip in an Antares-class starship. They're a lumbering beast in any kind of atmosphere. However, I think that I may have found a solution. JUNO will take command of the shuttle's flight characteristics during this exercise, altering the ship's operating parameters to mimic the control responses of a considerably larger vessel. According to Captain Halvorsen, this should satisfy all official examination requirements, particularly in light of our current circumstances. Héloise gave me a rough time over leaving her out of this pleasure cruise. At least she was, until I explained precisely what we'd be doing once the ship broke atmo. Two Hohmann transfer orbits on the way out, and two on the way back. This involves taking orbital slingshots around our closest celestial companions, Damocles and Phryne. Our Hermes isn't particularly fast at 0.5 light speed, so the trip out to Carl Sagan could take the best part of a week, even under a full burn. Those transfer orbits are necessary to put a little steam in our stride, and I tactfully suggested that her stomach probably wouldn't thank her for the experience. Our wee Spacer-in-waiting most certainly won't. What I failed to mention is that I plan to land on Damocles directly after this certification flight. I have spent decades gazing up at Manannán's largest moon, wondering what secrets it might hold. Optical telescopes only tell you so much about a planet, and even a close-up view of Damocles gives absolutely nothing away. Just a pitted, dun-coloured ball looming overhead. Featureless, lifeless and utterly barren, even to my augmented eyes. Even Mars has some measure of visual appeal, albeit only a meagre handful of cosmic pranks played by aeons of geological activity. Olympus Mons, Valles Marineris and the enigmatic Face of Cydonia. Damocles has absolutely nothing at all. Uncanny, to say the very least. There must be some logical explanation for such apparent sterility. If you think I'm going to walk away from a grand mystery like that, you'd best think again. CHAPTER FOURTEEN The past three weeks have been particularly hectic. Aside from the day-to-day business of sticking the remaining bits of Borealis together, I have been diligently racking up some serious flight hours in our deep-space shuttle, Cutty Sark. There's not that much difference between flying and piloting a submersible, save that things tend to happen a damn sight faster and there's a disturbing tendency for gravity to get involved. JUNO has been acting as my instructor, since there's far more to this flying business than a head full of theoretical knowledge can deliver. According to JUNO, I need to develop an innate feel for flight dynamics in order to be a truly effective pilot. Although 'becoming one with the machine' isn't an entirely foreign concept around here, I won't be allowed to cyberlink with any of Cutty Sark's systems during the certification flight. In recognition of my official status as a trans-human, the ITC have stipulated that the flight must be executed without accessing any 'unusual' cybernetic enhancements. Raw skill turns the trick, apparently. I don't know what tortured logic prevailed at the ITC during the application review process, although I'm extremely grateful that Captain Halvorsen was able to plead my case. Looks like I owe him another solid... Or a particularly splendid volatile liquid. Done deal. "Cutty Sark to Carl Sagan Actual. Pre-flight checks are complete. All ship's systems are nominal." "Telemetry received, Cutty Sark" Halvorsen replied. "Your flight corridor is clear of traffic. Proceed." "Thank you, Captain Halvorsen. ETA for RV with Carl Sagan is eight point five hours. Selkirk out." "Godspeed and a smooth flight to you, Cutty Sark. Halvorsen out." Simulating 1.25 million tonnes of starship lifting off is relatively easy. Cutty Sark's launch thrusters have been throttled back to a mere 15 per cent, adding a suitably ponderous feel to our vertical ascent. Upon reaching an altitude of 500 metres, Cutty Sark swung around to the correct launch heading and tilted her bow majestically skyward. Atmospheric reaction drives ignited with a roar, accelerating the shuttle past Mach 1. The scramjets kicked in at Mach 2.5, catapulting her into a Mach 20 low orbital trajectory around Manannán. "You're in the pipe five by five, Captain." JUNO announced. "We have a go for LOI burn in 720 seconds. All flight control and ship support systems are currently operating within nominal limits." "That sounds a wee bit ominous, Lass... You're not about to drop the hammer on me, are ye?" JUNO shrugged noncommittally. "It depends, Sir." From Day One of my training, JUNO has been a stickler for practicing recovery from 'transient flight events'. Dead-stick landings, nav-comp errors, main drive failures, random malfunctions in RCS thrusters and so forth. Truly scary stuff, but absolutely essential skills to master. Naturally, I expect any one of these nightmare scenarios to unfold sometime during this flight. Something tells me I should have spent more time buttering up JUNO before climbing into the pilot's seat. Cutty Sark hurtled around the night side of Manannán, accelerating to escape velocity. Only a thin sliver of Damocles is visible at this point, the countdown timer numerals are flicking off with a steady certainty. Fifteen seconds to lunar orbit insertion burn. Fourteen. Thirteen. The nav-comp HUD suddenly flickers and dies. "Thanks." I muttered sourly. "Switching to Bus B, secondary display. Ten seconds and counting." JUNO nods indulgently, her lips curving into a faint smile. You may plead for mercy now, Dear Captain. This is going to be an interesting flight. Post edited by Bugzapper on January 2018 Five hundred kilometres above Damocles, Cutty Sark rotated ninety degrees, presenting her armoured belly to the monotonous landscape below. Our current velocity is 6.7 km/s, a shade below that required to maintain a standard low Earth orbit. In a few minutes, this situation will change dramatically. Meanwhile, JUNO and I have been scanning the moon's surface. To be perfectly candid, there's precious little to get excited about down there. No significant geographic features, no signs of water, no vegetation and an atmosphere that is best described as sub-optimal. Damocles has a mean radius of 2,688 km, making it somewhat larger than Luna, although slightly smaller than Mars. Its orbital radius of 190,000 km brings it closer to Manannán than Terra's moon, although such proximity does not appreciably increase its tidal influence on the planet. As I conjure it, this might have something to do with its current physical composition. Our sensor readings indicate that Damocles has roughly the same structural integrity as a Malteser with the chocolate licked off. In slightly more scientific terms, its surface density appears to match that of pumice stone. Great news for chiropodists, but for the rest of us, not so much. It's a downright unsettling discovery, in point of fact. There's a surface recon probe prepped and ready for launch. I'm aiming to get some sensible answers before touching down on that miserable rock. "Orbital transfer window in ten seconds, JUNO. New heading is laid in. Throttling up for 25-g burn." "Roger that, Sir. All systems are go." JUNO replied. "You are clear to execute a programmed burn." Cutty Sark surged forward, the low mutter of her fusion drive rising to a subdued roar. As the shuttle shot out of orbit, the final sliver of Damocles disappeared from the forward viewport. "New heading is confirmed. Commencing lateral RCS orientation burn." JUNO raised a quizzical eyebrow, but said nothing. Technically, this manoeuvre isn't even necessary. We could travel between Damocles and Phryne tilted at 90 degrees without any difficulty at all. There's no real 'up' or 'down' in space, unless one's attitude needs to be relative to a specific point. Even so, I'm aware that we are flying on our side, and I simply wish to correct it. For purely aesthetic reasons, if you must know. As it turned out, this was not such a good idea. The starboard lateral RCS thruster fired normally, rotating Cutty Sark back into a 'normal' attitude. "Warning. Starboard lateral RCS unit has malfunctioned. Detecting a pressure surge transient in primary propellant control system. Warning. Take corrective action immediately. Warning." The shuttle began to rotate. Slowly at first, steadily increasing in speed as the 'jammed' valve continues to simulate an uncontrolled full-flow condition. I shot JUNO a particularly pained look. "Now, Lass? Ye're absolutely certain ye could'na picked a better moment?" I growled, calling up schematics for the Reaction Control System on my HUD. The whirling star field outside looks like we're about to dive down the gullet of a black hole, making it almost impossible to interpret the system's layout against that dizzying backdrop. I sighed in resignation, activating the viewport glare filters to remove this distraction. We're now flying without any visual frame of reference at all. Oh goody. JUNO smiled pleasantly, as if entirely comfortable with the knowledge that we're flying blind and barrel-rolling through space under 110 per cent thrust. On the plus side, we appear to be nicely lined up on Phryne for orbital insertion. Unfortunately, I have only 1.5 hours to sort this whole bloody mess out. I'm beginning to suspect that JUNO is enjoying this experience rather more than she should. "Starboard lateral RCS propellant inlet valve is now secured. Initiating portside lateral RCS burn." I deactivated the glare screen on the forward viewport, and began searching for a reference point in the whirl of stars. A brilliant blue-white streak catches my eye. Perfect. A massive Wolf-Rayet star, burning brightly among its lesser stellar companions. My internal HUD tells me it's WR 134, located in the constellation of Cygnus. That will do nicely. By concentrating on the core of that dazzling streak, I'm able to use it as a timing mark to synchronise the firing of the portside RCS thruster. Each time that star hits a certain point in its rotation, I trigger the thruster. Just one quick blip, no more. There's a definite element of risk to this exercise. Cutty Sark is rotating at 0.5 revolutions per second. If I lean too heavily on that thruster, there's a distinct chance that the shuttle will begin to precess in flight, with its nose and tail wobbling about the ship's centre of mass in an increasingly unstable hourglass pattern. That's not a good look for any prospective captain's qualification flight. So far, so good. Our rotation has decreased to a slow roll. WR 134 is a discrete blue-white dot now, making it increasingly easy to correctly time each RCS firing. JUNO is watching my antics with a carefully restrained expression. Maskirovka. Not a devious smirk to be seen, although I'm absolutely certain she's planning something interesting for the next leg of this flight. "Unplanned rotation corrected in six minutes, twenty-five point seven eight seconds." JUNO announced briskly. "Your response time is within acceptable indices for this type of manoeuvre, Sir." "One does one's modest best, Lass." I grinned. "So, what's next on the menu? An Alfa Echo Three-Five unit malfunction, or the trusty old Kobayashi Maru scenario?" "Don't tempt me, Sir." JUNO chuckled. "Frankly, I'm rather partial to using both options." Cutty Sark accelerated around Manannán's second moon, Phryne and coasted toward the next waypoint. Instead of belabouring me with yet another faux-catastrophe, JUNO kept me occupied with a seemingly endless series of routine flight management drills. To break the monotony somewhat, I kept a weather eye on the nav-comp. Carl Sagan should be within visual range in a little under an hour, although the Phase Gate is probably the first thing we'll see. Although the Gate's five kilometres in diameter, there's absolutely no chance of spotting either of them while we're still this far out. Shiny. JUNO has just informed me that Cutty Sark's deceleration thrusters are inoperative. In this case, Cutty Sark has to execute a 180-degree rotation. At 0.75 light-speed. Sounds like fun. Unfortunately, flying bass-ackwards at 75 per cent of light-speed is not fun. Suffice it to say, what I need to do has to be done with an unseemly haste. Mass and velocity are no longer our friends. Cutty Sark's deflector shielding has been reconfigured to provide maximum coverage astern, since any impact to the shuttle's main drive nacelles would add a highly unwelcome level of realism to this particular flight of fantasy. This braking manoeuvre is as old-school as it gets, dating back to the hoary old days of sub-light reaction drives and unmanned probes pottering around in our own solar system. Still, it's the only viable option that will safely slow us down before we reach Carl Sagan's territory. The bow RCS thrusters might decelerate us... Eventually. In reality, it would be like trying to stop a bowling ball by blowing through a drinking straw. The way I conjure it, the folks aboard Carl Sagan might catch a fleeting glimpse of my anguished face as we screech past. Keep it up your story is awesome MediKnight Join Date: 2018-02-01 Member: 236519Members Posts: 2 Fully active user ▬╕τ│╕ ∟ ╬▐▬╤ ∟▐╝╒¬±╟ "Co-pilot, please verify current status of all RCS thrust modules." "Starboard lateral RCS module is offline and remains in a no-go condition. All other manoeuvring thrusters are fully operational and available for use, Sir." JUNO replied calmly. Just as well that I bothered to check. I wouldn't put it past JUNO to simulate a full cascade failure at this point. She's doing her job rather too well, and I have to stay on top of the situation as it evolves. "Firing portside lateral stern thrusters in five... Mark." Rather than rotate Cutty Sark end over end, I conjured the most efficient method would be to swing its stern around in a horizontal plane relative to our flight path. Make the shuttle's mass and current velocity work for us, rather than attempting to cancel out a potentially unstable end over end flip. Either way will work, although the more brutal caber-toss approach uses roughly 25 per cent more thruster reaction mass to execute. You can blame physics for that one. I'm guessing that decisions of this type are one of the factors taken into account in JUNO's final evaluation. Now comes the easy part. Deceleration. No fingers flashing over consoles at inhuman speed here. Apart from the fact that I'm legally obliged to make this check flight entirely as a human, real and actual, this manoeuvre does require a certain degree of delicacy. At this point, slamming on the brakes will not look good on my final grade. Most deep space vehicles require a fairly generous stopping distance anyway. Remember, Cutty Sark's handling characteristics have been altered dramatically, exactly duplicating those of an Antares-class starship. I can almost feel her artificially-increased mass all around me. An uncanny sensation. "Main drives are online. Trajectory is nominal. Deceleration will commence in ten seconds." A steady 1g burn for 600 seconds is sufficient to decelerate Cutty Sark to a more reasonable approach velocity. Carl Sagan and the Phase Gate are clearly visible now, and we are in no danger of slamming into either of them. Not that we ever were, of course. Even so, that was a taxing experience by anyone's standards; a fair approximation of the old Royal Navy's dreaded 'Perisher' SMCC submarine command qualification course. One small difference: If I wash out on this run, there'll be no bottle of whisky to crawl into as a consolation. "All ship's systems have been reset to fully operational conditions, Captain. Please be advised that this phase of the evaluation has concluded. You are now clear to initiate docking manoeuvres." "Thank you, JUNO." I replied. Probably not the time to ask how I'm doing so far. Besides, I'll know soon enough. There's more of the same waiting for me after our courtesy call on the Carl Sagan. "TCS Carl Sagan traffic control to TCS Cutty Sark. We are currently tracking you on a close approach vector, one thousand kilometres from our operational perimeter. Please state your intention. Over." "Cutty Sark to Carl Sagan actual, requesting docking permission. Over." "Permission granted, Cutty Sark. Port docking bay 3 has been made ready for your use. Well done, and welcome aboard, Captain Selkirk. Carl Sagan actual, out." Captain Halvorsen replied. In flight configuration, Carl Sagan is roughly two-thirds the size of Aurora, although she is a completely different class of vessel. Hephaestus-class construction ships are based on an expanding modular hull design, enabling them to convert into deep-space construction yards upon reaching their destination. This means that there's a fair amount of protruding parts, gantries and partially assembled Gate components sticking out at unlikely angles, all poised to make life interesting for any approaching ship. Fortunately, Captain Halvorsen has left the lights on. I'd call that a kindness. No automatic approach systems for our wee Alex. Not this time. Visual flight rules are now in effect. JUNO decided to spring this one on me at the last minute. In keeping with the spirit of the game, I now have only two flight instruments at my disposal. Fortunately, one of them is an accelerometer. I conjure JUNO left me with working proximity sensors as a basic courtesy gesture to Captain Halvorsen, if not entirely out of concern for Carl Sagan's immaculate paintwork. "EXERCISE. EXERCISE. EXERCISE. TCS Cutty Sark on docking approach, portside Bay Three. We have experienced a critical instrumentation failure, requesting clearance for a visual approach landing." "Carl Sagan docking control to Cutty Sark. EXERCISE comms prefix is noted and logged, Cutty Sark. You are cleared to execute a visual approach and landing sequence. All docking bay safety systems are now active. Please proceed at your own discretion." Cutty Sark manoeuvred into alignment and approached Carl Sagan at a prudent 20 metres per second, decelerating gradually as it neared the cavernous docking bay. There's no bonus points awarded for showmanship here, so I'm aiming to make this operation as straightforward as possible. Cutty Sark landed as lightly as thistle-down. As touchdowns go, it wasn't too shabby. I commenced engine shutdown procedures immediately, mindful of the Carl Sagan's refuelling crew already assembling on the flight-deck apron. Docking control has informed me that turnaround will take a couple of hours, placing us entirely at liberty for the duration. A perfect opportunity to make our social rounds at a civilized pace. First things first, though. There's a comprehensive post-flight checklist that needs to be completed before my bahookie leaves the pilot's seat. All by the book. Captain Halvorsen was already waiting for us at the head of the gangway. As the airlock doors slid open, JUNO and I braced to attention, saluting both Halvorsen and the Carl Sagan. Some might consider this an outmoded affectation, particularly those in the Merchant Service, although it struck me that Halvorsen would appreciate this gesture. Over the course of the past few months, I believe that I've gauged my measure of the man well enough. There are still a few who follow the traditional ways, sharing a distant kinship with the mariners of old. Jens Halvorsen is such a man. "Acting Captain Alexander Selkirk reporting, Captain Halvorsen. Permission to come aboard, Sir?" "Granted, Captain Selkirk." Halvorsen smiled warmly, returning our salute. "Welcome aboard." "Thank you, Captain Halvorsen. Allow me to introduce my First Officer, Commander JUNO." We shook hands, then Halvorsen ushered us towards a waiting shuttle tram. Looks like it's time for our fifty-Credit guided tour of Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan's interior layout is significantly different to that of Aurora. We travelled down Broadway, and my head was on a swivel all the while. I've never been aboard a Hephaestus-class ship before, so this is a trip to the sweet-shop, at least as far as I'm concerned. One thing's certain, hull designs have evolved somewhat since my death. There are signs that many core system technologies have also moved on a piece, but there are still reassuring echoes of the old Alterra design philosophy to be found here. Incidentally, since I'm not currently under formal evaluation conditions, I took this opportunity to go completely cyber on Carl Sagan's inner works, accumulating a wealth of engineering data on every system that came within range of my sensors. Technically, it's not classified as industrial espionage, provided that one asks the Captain's permission first. Our arrival coincided with chow time aboard Carl Sagan. Halvorsen tactfully indicated that he wouldn't mind a bite to eat, but he doesn't want to leave us twiddling our thumbs while he feeds the inner man. Naturally, he's fully aware that we're both androids. This admission of humanity must have caused him a bit of anxiety. No problem. Shepherd's Pie for me. JUNO's up for a Philly steak. TenebrousNova England Join Date: 2015-12-23 Member: 210206Members Posts: 641 Advanced user It's been a long time since I last visited these forums. It was worth it just to reread Aurora Falls and catch up with Captain Selkirk's shenanigans in Borealis Rising. Bravo, Bugzapper! I eagerly look forward to the next update. "Orbital correction burn complete. JUNO, commence a synthetic-aperture deep radar scan." "Aye, Sir." JUNO replied. "Still no response from our recon probe. There is a significant probability that it may have been damaged or destroyed during atmospheric entry. I have obtained a clear fix on the probe's entry corridor, but cannot determine its exact landing site by spectroscopic analysis of the heat shield vaporization trail. It has dissipated over too wide an area to provide any meaningful data on the probe's projected LZ... I'm sorry, Sir." "It's not your fault, Lass. How about your best ball-park estimate, then?" I replied cheerfully. JUNO shrugged. "Our probe could be anywhere within a 150 kilometre radius. However, I'm not entirely certain that any useful information would be gained from its recovery. Shall I prepare another probe for launch, Sir?" "Please do. By the by, it might be best to deploy it after we hit atmo. I'll keep us in a holding pattern at ten thousand until the probe checks in dirt-side. That should give us a reasonable safety margin." I'm extremely grateful that Damocles isn't equipped with its own Precursor particle beam weapon. Cutty Sark would make a tempting target as it sinks slowly into the planet's gravity well. JUNO launched the probe ten minutes ago, and we're basically dawdling along in its wake. Our first impressions of Damocles aren't exactly what I'd call promising, unless you have a craving for a thin atmosphere and excruciatingly desolate landscapes. On the positive side, it does have a functioning magnetosphere. If you're unlucky enough to get stranded here, there's no need to worry about solar flares scrambling your DNA. You'll die of boredom long before that becomes an issue. Aside from that one redeeming characteristic, Damocles has the same visual appeal as a tray of cat litter. "The planet's surface is entirely composed of almost pure silicon dioxide, Sir. The probe is detecting infinitesimal traces of iron, magnesium and a small percentage of other heavy metals, although their concentrations are far below any exploitable levels. No detectable evidence of any organic material, metabolic residues or radioactivity in the soil, although trace values were found in the atmosphere." "Looks like this place has been thoroughly strip-mined for resources. At a wild guess, I'd conjure our mystery miners might have used matter transmission to selectively extract minerals from the rock." "An interesting hypothesis, Captain." JUNO replied. "May I ask how you arrived at this conclusion?" I grinned confidently, sensing a faint note of challenge in JUNO's otherwise polite enquiry. "Yon rock matrix is still intact, yet there is almost perfect uniformity in its chemical composition. That's about as far from natural as any planetary surface can get. Furthermore, if this planet was mined using conventional extractive technology, its surface would be all torn up. I'm not seeing that here... No soil disturbances, no processing facilities, and no signs of remediation, either." "Since I am unable to formulate an alternative explanation at this point, I do feel somewhat inclined to agree with your initial observations, Captain." JUNO conceded reluctantly. Pareidolia is the precise word that springs to mind here. I'm seeing vague patterns in the landscape where none should exist. The only explanation that I can offer is that I'm desperate to see something other than that sterile beige monotony crawling below us. I've brought Cutty Sark down to 1000 metres and JUNO is currently scanning the terrain for a safe landing site. This could be a mite problematic, since the planet's surface is even more treacherous than it first seemed. Deep radar scans reveal that Damocles is riddled with hidden subsurface fissures and voids, scarcely covered by a brittle skim of depleted rock. While it might be technically possible to set the ship down practically anywhere, that's not a risk either of us are willing to take. More firma, less terror. TigerTom Join Date: 2018-02-27 Member: 238363Members Posts: 46 Advanced user I, like many others, created an account just to support this. You are doing a wonderful job, and I look foreward to the next ones. Hurry up, and make more! Bugzapper’s Awesome Subnautica Books: Book 1 \| Book 2 My Subnautica Fanfic: LINK Please use the PDA and the Lost River a bit more in the story! (Ignore this if you don’t want to, don’t bother commenting back) TigerTom wrote: » Already have, mate. Unfortunately, Selkirk's mission in the Lost River biome didn't encounter a Ghost Leviathan, mainly because the creature hadn't been implemented in the game at that point. Made a passing reference to Casper the Unfriendly Ghost a bit more recently though. Back in the Sea Emperor's prison complex, actually. PDAs are still being used by the Torgaljin colonists, as Selkirk's android crew don't really have much use for them. Not nearly enough onboard storage capacity. Ok, sorry to disrupt! Calm down selkirks PDA's are heavily encrypted and take time to decode	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1214
__label__cc	0.586985	0.413015	FotoRoom’s 10 Favorite Series of 2019 Again in 2019 emerging photographers around the world have surprised us with their compelling projects and the wide range of stories captured in their images. Before the year ends, FotoRoom would like to highlight 10 of the projects we’ve featured in the last 12 months that we particularly liked: make sure you take a look at these if you’ve missed any of them! (Here you can also find a list of the 10 most seen series on FotoRoom in 2019, and FotoRoom’s 10 favorite series that premiered in FotoFirst). Claude and Lilly by Vince Beeckman Claude and Lilly have been a couple for 23 years, until Lilly passed away in 2018. Belgian photographer Vince Beeckman met them in 2015 while working on a project with homeless people living in Brussels’ train station, and made a series of tender portraits that capture their loving relationship. Ganga Ma by Giulio di Sturco For ten years, Italian photographer Giulio di Sturco has journeyed along the path of the Ganges to document the dramatic impact of climate change and human exploitation on India’s most sacred river. The resulting project, Ganga Ma, is a series of incredible photographs that combine a documentary approach with stunning aesthetics. ENA by Yoshiki Hase Japanese photographer Yoshiki Hase was born and raised in Tokyo’s urbanized outskirts, so when he first visited Ena—a small town in rural Japan—as a still photographer on the set of a film, he was fascinated by the area and later returned to it to work on a personal project. Hiding from Baba Yaga by Nanna Heitmann The Yenisei river is born in Mongolia, runs through all of Siberia and finally flows into the Arctic Ocean. German photographer Nanna Heitmann journeyed along its path and through the territories it crosses, taking poetic photographs of the landscapes and people she came across. N by Iacopo Pasqui Being in your thirties and living in the province can be daunting if you don’t like the small town lifestyle, yet it’s not always possible to pack your stuff and move to the city. Italian photographer Iacopo Pasqui‘s black and white series N explores this condition of feeling stuck. (Iacopo’s project N premiered in FotoFirst). Abendlied by Birthe Piontek German photographer Birthe Piontek started taking the pictures in her series Abendlied when her mother showed early signs of dementia, as a way to document a time of change and to create memories of things that would soon be gone. Still Neighborhood by Vaggelis Tatsis In recent years, Greece was hit by a major economic crisis that has deeply affected the country and the general quality of life of its population. The series Still Neighborhood by Greek photographer Vaggelis Tatsis captures these difficult times through a mix of desolate urban landscapes and gloomy portraits of individuals in their homes. The Hands That Built This City by Polly Tootal Dubai has become the hyper-modern, luxurious city it is today in a relatively short span of time, largely thanks to the underpaid work of thousands of immigrant workers who live in labor camps on the outskirts of Dubai. In The Hands That Built This City, British photographer Polly Tootal documents the laborers’ living conditions in these camps, and the affectionate relationships they develop between each other. (Polly’s project The Hands That Built This City premiered in FotoFirst). Nalini by Arpita Shah Indian photographer Arpita Shah moved to the UK with her parents when she was three years old. Since then, she has reunited with the rest of her family only when she would return to India every few years. Using a mix of portraits, still lifes and photos of interiors, her series Nalini explores her family heritage, focusing in particular on the maternal line. Meeting Sofie by Snezhana von Budigen German photographer Snezhana von Büdigen met Sofie, a girl with Down syndrome, in 2017, and was so fascinated by her that she spent time with and photographed her on the farm where Sofie lives with her family. The result is a series of spellbinding photographs that look like scenes from a children‘s fable. Be sure to also check out our list of 10 most seen series on FotoRoom in 2019, and that of FotoRoom’s 10 favorite series that premiered in FotoFirst. Themes of Family, History and Colonialism Blend in Drew Leventhal’s Series ‘Yosh’ FotoRoom’s 10 Favorite Series That Premiered on FotoFirst in 2019 The 10 Most Seen Series on FotoRoom in 2019 Photo Julien Pebrel Oleksandr Rupeta Captures the Relationships Between Humans and Their Unusual Pets Cole Flynn Quirke’s Diaristic Photographs Document His Life After His Grandmother’s Death FotoFirst — Marcus Glahn Photographs the Last Transylvanian Saxons of Romania Entrance to Our Valley — Jenia Fridlyand Shares Poetic Photos of Family Life on Her Farm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.603713	0.396287	TV Review: Hannibal 3.13 “The Wrath of the Lamb” (Series Finale) By Goodman \| August 30th, 2015 at 11:45 am Season 3 Episode 13 â€œThe Wrath of the Lambâ€ Directed by Michael Rymer Written by Nick Antosca, Bryan Fuller, & Steve Lightfoot Created by Bryan Fuller Starring Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Nina Arianda, Rutina Wesley, Richard Armitage Air date: Saturday, August 29th, 2015, 10pm The beginning of â€œThe Wrath of The Lamb,â€ what is most likely Hannibalâ€™s series finale*, begins with a fire. Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage) convincingly purges himself from the world and lets the oddly restorative power of flames to begin his hunt again. But in the ashes of that fire, thereâ€™s still a spark. You can hear it clicking throughout the episodeâ€™s score, like the burner on a stove waiting to be ignited. The real fire hasnâ€™t been snuffed out. Rather, it was just twitching and clicking, waiting to be sparked. Tags: Aaron Abrams, Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson, Hannibal, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Rymer, NBC, Nick Antosca, Nina Arianda, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Scott Thompson, Steve Lightfoot TV Review: Hannibal 3.12 “The Number Of The Beast Is 666” By Goodman \| August 26th, 2015 at 12:00 pm Season 3 Episode 12 â€œThe Number of the Beast Is 666â€ Directed by Guillermo Navarro Written by Jeff Vlaming & Angela LaManna and Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot Air date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015, 10pm We spend a lot of time in â€œThe Number of the Beast is 666,â€ thinking about or around the idea of religion; specifically around the concept of who is and isnâ€™t the devil. Jack (Laurence Fishburne), and Will (Hugh Dancy) want to believe that they arenâ€™t the executors of damnation, but Hannibal (Mads Mikkelson) knows his place. Hannibal is the Devil this show deserves, but not the one it needs right now. That honor falls to Will Graham. Tags: Aaron Abrams, Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson, Guillermo Navarro, Hannibal, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, NBC, Nina Arianda, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Scott Thompson TV Review: Hannibal 3.11 “…And The Beast From The Sea” By Goodman \| August 18th, 2015 at 7:00 pm Season 3 Episode 11 â€œ…And the Beast from the Seaâ€ Written by Steve Lightfoot The latest episode of Hannibal, titled “…And the Beast from the Sea,” wastes no time in jumping into a signature moment from the Red Dragon novel (I don’t view spoilers from the novels as sacred text, especially considering how fast and loose Fuller and company have played with source material; so I’d ruined this particular twist for myself quite some time ago) and then lets the chips fall where they may as Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen), Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage), and Will (Hugh Dancy) all deal with the consequences. Tags: Aaron Abrams, Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson, Hannibal, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Rymer, NBC, Nina Arianda, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Scott Thompson, Steve Lightfoot TV Review: Hannibal 3.10 “…And The Woman Clothed In Sun” Season 3 Episode 10 â€œAnd the Woman Clothed in Sun…â€ Written by Don Mancini, Bryan Fuller Air date: Saturday, August 8th, 2015, 10pm â€œI want to be recognized by you.â€ One of our most natural desires as humans is the desire to connect. Itâ€™s a special emotion that allows us to form a bond over shared experiences, interests, desires, wants, needs, etc. And itâ€™s something that Hannibal has had baked into its DNA from the very beginning. The very nature of Will Grahamâ€™s (Hugh Dancy) profession is to connect, on some level, with the killers heâ€™s hunting. Itâ€™s that level of empathy that allows insight into the â€˜designâ€™ of these monsters. This is what drove him to thinking he could understand Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen). Empathy, as Bedelia (Gillian Anderson) tells Will, is what nearly killed him before. And what could very much kill him again. Tags: Aaron Abrams, Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Don Mancini, Gillian Anderson, Guillermo Navarro, Hannibal, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, NBC, Nina Arianda, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Scott Thompson TV Review: Hannibal 3.9: “And The Woman Clothed with the Sun…” By Goodman \| August 4th, 2015 at 5:00 pm Season 3 Episode 9 â€œAnd the Woman Clothed with the Sun…â€ Directed by John Dahl Written by Jeff Vlaming, Helen Shang, Bryan Fuller, Steve Lightfoot Air date: Saturday, July 30th, 2015, 10pm Often, most of us look into a mirror without thinking twice. We check our hair or our outfit, and then move along with our day. But for some, mirrors often carry a darker and more menacing tone – reflecting back our insecurities. We see the best of us, followed by the worst of us. For Dr. Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham’s (Hugh Dancy) first meeting in several years, they find themselves balancing the reflection of those two exact aspects: the best and worst of them. They can’t hide from their reflections. All that’s left in the mirror is honesty. Tags: Aaron Abrams, Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson, Hannibal, Helen Shang, Hugh Dancy, Jeff Vlaming, John Dahl, Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen, NBC, Nina Arianda, Richard Armitage, Rutina Wesley, Scott Thompson, Steve Lightfoot	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line1225

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